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The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30
Inherited Memory,

Are there not scientific men (and is not DIR.
Carpenter one of them) who consider that
when we say an event has made "such an i'm
preston on us that we shall never forget it,"
we are not merely using a metaphor, but stat
ing fact? Now, if something analogous to
"making an impression" ON the brain really
takes place whenever we commit anything to
memory, is it not possible that if the impress
sion be deeply fixed, the impressed brain may
be transmitted by the parent to the offspring,
who thus ''inherits'' its ancestors memory?
When we remember that birds take the same
journey year after year, generation after gem
GRAFTON, century after century, nay, even for
ages after ages, think we shall feel that
there are more marvellous things in nature
than what 1 am asking you to consider,
namely, the possibility that the young bird at
least inherits a knowledge of the way and is
capable of performing the journey alone. II
'inherited memory" be accepted as fact
what a flood of light is thrown on many puzzles
which have hitherto been classed as Gin
stincts;' such as the building of birds nests,
the pointing of pointer puppies, the knowledge
possessed by young animals of right and wrong
food, and of friends and enemies; am not
sure that it will not even throw light on some
mysteries in human nature. When was a
child had q dread of wolves, "a very common
thing with children) and find Il dread re-
wolves have been so long extinct in England
that we should probably have to go back many
generations before we met with the nurses who
quieted crying children by threatening to give
them to the wolves. May not this be case OF
"inherited NONCOMPLIANCE.
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30
An American Play at Last.

From the San Francisco Post1
Below is a plot for a five-act play. Boue:-
cault would charge $1,000 for a plot like it.
But all we care for is the regeneration of the
drama. If we have caused even one strug-
Cling soul to beat with purer and higher aspi-
rations; if we have melted even a single per-
son in the gallery to lead better and nobler
life, we are all too well rewarded.
A fascinating young professor of phrenology
has his head shaved and mapped out into two
lots in order to illustrate his lectures with
1--WE model. These squares are picked with
figures and pictures illustrative of the different
passions and motives. Rich miner comes in to
have his bumps felt, and exhibits belt contain
ing several millions in gold dust. Professor
mesmerizes miner, drives tack into his bump
Of memory and fees to foreign lands. The
victim, like all miners, never combs his hair,
and so the tack remains undiscovered while he
wanders around, supposed to be crazy and beg
ging his bread. Meanwhile the phrenolocist
endeavors TO change his appearance, but the
chart on his head being picked out in India
ink it refuses to be obliterated. Hence he let's
his hair grow and starts out to paralyze all Eu-
rope as a sort of American Monte Christie
Meanwhile the heroine, who has been drifting
around during the foregoing scenes with lots of
good clothes ON, marries the miner, and the
very first yank she gives his hair after the
honeymoon out comes the tack, which at once
restores his memory. The couple at once be-
gin their hunt for the villain, who is doing the
bonanza business ON the continent under an
assumed name. After a weary search through
Europe and the third and fourth acts the miner
bethinks him that all shoddy Americans call
on the pope and SO proceeds to Rome and en-
lists in the Swiss guards, who are always ON
duty during receptions at the Vatican. In the
last act the pope enters and begins to 'recep."
'Hats OFF, howls the captain of the guards to
the usual gang of velvet-vested Americans who
are eating peanuts and talking stocks on one
side of the room. All comply but one. The
captain details the new recruit to knock this
one down with his halberd To avoid being
hammered as specified the obstinate individual
reluctantly takes off his hat. He had consider
able hair on his head, however, and the miner
is again disheartened. When the pope passes
by the rude stranger, instead of bowling low
like the rest of the line, simply says, "Howdy,
Pius?" without bending his head. This again
excites the avengers suspicion and he goes out
on tiptoe, returning presently from r. u e. with
a step-ladder, which he softly places against
pillar behind the suspected man, and then
climbs up so as to have bird 's-eye view of the
| top of his head. In small bald spot in the
center he beholds blue square marked 'No
46, combativeness, aud picture of two prize
fighters. cat last!'- shrieks the miner, jump
ing down ON the prisoners head with his
dragged off to execution, while the whole COM
pany dances in front of the footlights as the
curtain goes down, with the calcium on the
miner in the center
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30
Boston Advertiser.l
Maine.

The Republicans of Maine have entered up
on winning campaign. Their convention at
Bangor ON Thursday was one of the most nota-
BILE gatherings the state ever saw. 1t was
great in numbers, weighty in the character of
the men composing it, and imbued with the
spirit which insures victory because deserving
it. The contest over the nomination of a can
didate for governor was entirely amicabe and
not even the keen-scented reporters for the pa
pers in opposition to the Republicans have dis
cerned or affected to discover any signs of bit
terness What has happened great many
times before in national and state conventions,
happened again at Bangor The leading can
didates were strong men with large bodies of
strong partisans. 1t was easier to unite upon
some one outside of the regular list than to
choose between those who had been most prom
inent. Mr.. Davis, who has been selected as the
candidate, is not man widely known through
out the state, but he is not an untried man in
public affairs, and those who do know him are
fully convinced of his fitness to be the candi-
date of the party, and to fill the Office to which
he is to be chosen to the satisfaction of the peo-
pie, We presume there is no doubt he will re-
ceive the cordial support of all Republicans.
An effort is sometimes made to represent the
party in Maine as divided into several cliques.
1t is true all men do not think alike and the
political history of the state has been such as
to create something of the nature of hero-wor-
ship; but we doubt if there is another state in
the Union where there is less division or dis
sension after nominations have been made.
In this case it will be impossible for any sec
ton of the party to feel aggrieved at the re-
suit, and there will accordingly be no opportu-
nifty for division, and nothing to be gained by
it,
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30
THE Boston Troveller gives our candidate

Tue Boston Trdreller gives our candidate
well-merited praise. 1t says: "The nomin-
alton of Hon. Daniel F. Davis, of East Cor
riDth, was surprise; nevertheless, on re-
Election, it should prove an agreeable ore
OF course, the Democratic organs will in
dulge in the trite and well-worn sneers about
an unknown candidate. Mr.. Davis, how
ever, has a record which will bear looking
in'o, and if the Democrats do not know him
now they will have abundant opportunity to
become acquainted as the campaign pro-
ceeds. Mr.. Davis is a young man, and po-
litically, a comparatively new man. So
much the better. Standing utside of old
and discredited co cries, free from embar-
RAISING entanglements, and upon a platform
which to-day commands in Maine, as else
where, the enthusiastic eupport of the whole
party, without reserve or qualification, the
canvass in his behalf opens with all the aus
piciVus auguries that -nsnally- -presage-a
sweeping triumph at the polls"
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30
THE Bath Times thinks ''the Republican

THE Bath Times thinks "the Republican
State Convention has done its work and done
it well. While we confess to a feeling of dis
appointment that one of the old-time favor
ties did not receive the nomination, we are
satisfied that it was wise to go east of the
Kennebec for a candidate, and in Mr.. Davis
the Republicans of Maine will find man of
sterling honesty, of undoubted ability, and
one who will be an honor to the party.
Many Republicans have, for a long time, had
wish to see new men brought out and
their desire, so far as this nomination, has
been most worthily gratified. 1t now only
remains for Republicans to go to work in a
spirit worthy of their cause and its gallant
standard-bearer, and a glorious old-time vic
tory will surely follow"
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30
TO IEE.Is /.
House to Eet at yyoodford's.

A VERY pleasantly located and desirable rent on
N Clifton ST. containing rooms, French Roof
with tower thorough drainage, agood garden, 100
yards from the horse cars. Inquire of
WARREN SPARROW, 191 Middle ST.,
je11tf or at his residence in Deerlng.
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30

THERE is more trouble in the Democratic
camp. The report that E. F. Pillsbury is to
lead a movement at Bangor Tuesday to
throw over Garcelon and endorse Smith has
excited the ire of the Portland Democrats
in crowds. Pillsbury expects to climb into
the Senate on Smiths shoulder. The report
may not be true, but it is certainly plausi-
BILE. The Democrats have an eye out on
the offices in case Democratic President is
elected in 1880, and so want to keep the Or
ganization up.
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30
Balch, the Detective-Reporter.

Balch, the newspaper reporter, who caused
the arrest of the Hull murderer, is man of
about thirty-three years. He is we'll known
on the Boston press, good reporter, quiet,
reserved man, quite genial one when you get
within his SHE'LL and thoroughly posted as to
all Boston notions. He is a fair musical critic,
possessed, as all good Bostonians should be, of
literary tastes, and with an excellent scent for
an item. He looks as if he might have Indian
blood in him, being tall, slender, very straight,
with long, rather narrow face high cheek
bones, dark complexion, and very long, black
hair. His discovery of E. D. Winslow the
Boston forger is quite we'll known. Mr.. Balch
was a reporter, and afterwards night editor, on
the News, Winslow's paper. He has been on
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30

10 ElEIe
A NICE and very pleasant house on Thomas St,
IA conveniently arranged for one or two families.
Apply at LOG Pine st. from 8 to II a. m je5dtf
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30

THE editors and publishers of the Somer-
set Reporter, Messrs. Smith and Mayo, have
issued a very useful and admirably arranged
compilation If the laws of the State relating
TO Intoxicating liquors. The little manual
has the approval of Judges Walton and Vir-
gin d other legal lights.
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30
CITY OF PORTLAND.
NOTICE TO COAL DEALERS

DROPOSALS for the supply of Coal for the Pau
Il per Department for the year ending July 1st,
$780, will be received at the office of the Overseers
of the Poor until TUESDAY, July 1st, at noon. In
making proposals please state prices for Broken and
Stove Coal on the wharf and delivered at the Aims
House or residence of persons receiving aid from
the city. Further information can be obtained by
calling at the Office from IL to II A. NJ. or to P.
M. The right to reject any all bids not consid-
cred for the interest of the city will be reserved
Address all proposals to CHS. D. THOMES,
jne19dtd Chairman Purchasing Committee,
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30
CITY OF PORTLAND.

June "a, 1879
A order passed by the City Council June 23,
N 1879, and approved by the Mayor.
Ordered That the Committee Finance be di-
rected to sell at public auction and the CITY Treas
urer be directed to convey to the highest bidder by
such Instrument as the City Solicitor may approve,
the right title and interest of the City of Portland
in and to the Portland & Rochester Railroad and its
appurtenances and in and to all bonds, stocks, OBJ
legations and mortgages given by the Portland g.
Rochester Railroad Company including all rights,
titles and interests which said city has acquired
or coupons issued in aid of said company excluding
however, from such sale all sinking funds and all
rights in and to sinking funds, and said sale to be
limited to the rights, titles, and interests of the city,
andt be without recourse or warranty, express or
implied.
That said auction take place within two weeks
place and upon such notice as the Committee on Fl
nance may direct, but not less than six insertions in
each daily paper in this city; that Hon. George p
Wescott, the Receiver, be allowed to purchase at
said sale as though not Receiver; that no bid be
ceiyed less than two hundred thousand ($200,000)
dollars, payable twenty-five thousand ($25,000)
dollars at the SALE and the balance at the option of
the city in ten semannual payments, with interest
torily secured.
That the purchaser shall give bond to be ap-
proved by the City Solicitor to protect the city from
all claims by the so-called seven per cent. bond
holders and any litigation that might arise out of
the contract dated October ~, 1870 recorded in
the Cumberland Registry of Deeds, book 3S1, page
By the authority and direction contained and con
veyed by said order the Joint Standing Committee
ON Finance of the City of Portland will sell at pub
lie auction, at the Mayors Office in said City on
Tuesday, July Sth, 1879, mt 40 o'clock A.
subject to the conditions of the aforesaid order
the interest of the City of Portland in the stocks
bonds, mortgages and obligations of the Portland &
Rochester Railroad Company, exclusive of its rights
to any and all sinking funds in connection with said
Road.
GEORGE WALKER, e.,..
WILLIAM T. SMALL, ooiIiU l1 .l.s tolultllis
JAMES CUNNINGHAM, o1nililietee 1i
WM M. MARKS, oh T iiisace oi
GEORGE II. ABBOTT 'no nc Ni.y
JAMES F. flick ETT ol Iortldnu
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30

THE Advertiser and the ArguS have paid
one of our bright Portland authoresses,
''Mary Densel," the compliment of reprint
ing her story ''Going Halves" The omis-
sions to credit it to her were of course acci-
dental. The story was published in the
PRESS with her name attached, some months
cirnn
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30

THE Boston Transcript says ''The Maine
Republicans have thrown themselves into
the canvass with good deal of elan. All
they need for a thorough victory is to con-
duet the campaign in the spirit in which it
has begun
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30
Examination Of Teachers.

FEvHE Committee Examination of Candidates
Il for Teachers of the Public Schools of Portland
will hold session at the High School Building,
the seventh day of July next at A. M. Applicants
for positions as teachers in the public schools must
pass satisfactory examination in all the following
branches, viz: Arithmetic, Elementary Geometry.
Physical ana, nesorirtiwe ocoSraPfly, English Gram
mar including Composition, q. S. History, Phvsiol
ogy, Elements of Music (1ason's), Elementary
Free-Hand Drawing and Theory and Practice OF
Teaching.
THOMAS TASH,
Superintendent of Schools
Portland June IA, 1873. incl 3dtd
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30

''THE hyena Sherman will probably be in
Maine about the middle of July. He comes
to scoff at the evidences of prosperity as
shown in the starting up of our great cotton
manufacturing and leather interests.
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30
CITY OF PORTLAND.

EDPOPOSALS to supply Corned and Fresh Meats
IL for the Almshouse and Greedy Hospital for
three months ending October 1st, will be received
at the office of the Overseers of the Poor until
TUESDAY, July 1st at noon. For information as
to quality and quantity desired please call at the of
flee. The right to reject any and all bids not
sidered for the interest of the city will be reserved
Address all proposals to CHS. D. THONIES
incl 9dtd Chairman Purchasing Cnmmittee
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30

THE Dexter Gazette assures its readers
that the Republicans will carry Pscataquis
county this fall, as many who voted the
Greenback ticket last year will vote the Re
publican this.
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30

all over the State on the Fourth. They will
find this campaign anything but picnic.
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30
CITY of Portland.

CITY MARsHAL's OFFICE
June 26, 1879. I
OWNERS of Hackney Carriages are hereby re-
" quested to present their teams for inspection
and to receive their licenses and inspection cards for
the year commencing July 1, 1879 at the Mar
shafs Office, Monday, July 9TH, from o TO ~
A. W., and from 2 10 p. M.
C. X. BRIDGES, City Marshal
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for pubca
ton but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS


IL School will be held at High School Building,
Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday
afternoons, June. Ssfh, 2sth, 3Oth and
July list, at . O'Clock. All candidates for that
school for year. residents of the city, and not
now attending the public schools, must be present.
THOMAS TASH, Supt of Schools.
Portland June 10, 1879. !e20dtd
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30

The TWO SONS OF Prince Jerome Napoleon,
one of whom may yet be the Emperor of the
French:
elder Pr5aess and mapg Eenths the
Princess of Savoy rather than to the
Bonapartes, as, though there is a general re-
semblance to his father, the Napoleon type of
feature is not SO strongly reproduced. His
figure and bearing recall his grandfather, Vic
tor Emmanuel; he is rather tall, stout and
trifle round-shouldered; his countenance re-
brother, Prince Louis is much gayer, but when
in a thoughtful mood looks like replica of
Guillaumes bust of the school-boy of Brenne,
having the same penetrating eye and thought
full brow, singularly pure nose and chin and
gentle-mannered, polite and modest in society,",
and trained to strict silence and submission,
though en- .fanUe they and their father are ON
the most affectionate and intimate of terms.
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30

THE New York papers who eagerly pressed
the theory that DR.. Hull murdered his wife
are now fiercely condemning the police for
saving the same thing.
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30

MAGNANDfoUs fellows, those New York
policemen; they refuse to take the reward
they have not earned and cannot get.
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30

MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 80.
Election Monday, September /
FOR GOVERNOR,
DANIEL r. DAVIS.

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificatesigned by Stanley T. Pullen,
Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel managers
will confer favor upon usby demanding credentials
of every person claiming to represent our journal.
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30

THE soldiers all over the State are shout
ing for the little corporal
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30

Burlington Hawkeye: The beauty of sum-
mer in the temperate zone is the amount of
physical exercise man can take. He lies
awake and fights mosquitoes all night and
writhes with the flies and prickly heat all day.
They must miss these things in the tropics.
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30

Chicago Tribune; The Worlds obelisk
causes as much amusement in New York as
any of its other fables.
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30
City of Portland.

--s'---'s---=e Cry MARFsMa55tas RFssaMs 81 99gEteRr ~
OWNERS of Trucks, Drays, Wagons, Carts or
~ other vehicles, which shall be used in this city
for the conveyance from place to place within the
city, of wood, coal, lumber, stone, BRICKS sand,
clay, gravel dirt rubbish goods, wares, furniture,
or thing whatsoever, are hereby requested to pre-
sent their teams for inspection and to receive their
licenses and numbers for the year commencing July
l, 1879, at the Marshal's Office, from the 9th to
the 2Ofh of JuIy, 1879. A failure to comply
with this notice will subject the delinquent to a
penalty.
c. X. BRIDGES, City Marshal.
jne27 dtjy20
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30

Uncle Sam: The ten-cent japanese fans will
be decorated this year with highly improbable
fiocks OF red hens refusing to be ''shooed" by a
ridiculous blue woman.
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30
E'O Let.

A FURNISHED LODGING ROOM, fronting
N street on line of horse railroad upper part of
city. For particulars enquire at THIS OFFICE.
je7 dim
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30

Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald: Short dress
es are now all the rage in Paris. This is glori-
GUS news to the American women who have
grown left-handed in the back from STOPPING
over to pick up their trails.
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30

Boston Advertiser: Little Andy has got to
the head of his class at last. 81 hope you will
stay there now," says his father. "Oh no, 1
don't think L will, pa says the thoughtful
boy; 81 might get too proud"
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30
10 Let.
2 COTTAGES no LET

NICE Sunny RENT of seven rooms, with mod
IN ern improvements. Apply s.t 90 Ilseses,t
Street. near High. JeId1
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30
WANTS..
GIRL WANTED
FAMILY HORsE wANTED.

TEyO do general house work. None need apply un-
Il less well recommended. Apply at No. 1 Pine
st. je27d3t
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30
TO LET.

NEAIL in Market Square, over w. W. Whipple &
III Co., and Sawyer's seed store
For an association society lease extensive ac-
commodations can be furnished and rooms will be
fitted up to suit. Apply to j. 2: BAXTER
Office Portland Packing Co.,
ie13eod1m Commercial st.
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30

A French newspaper says that in certain
Irish cathedral there used to be shown three
skulls, one little one and two big ones, which
the guide described to visitors as the skull of
st. Patrick when he was a child, the skull of
St. Patrick grown up, and the skull Of st.
Patrick as an old man.
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30

~ A sound, kind prompt driving good
Tl7t%x size family horse, entirely safe for ladies
%f-YI ITO drive, not high priced Please address
4-ALAe"A. B. c. Press Office with full descrip-
ton, where to be seen and price. je24d1w.
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30

A T Libby's Neck, Scarboro. One containing 4
n rooms furnished, the other containing rooms
furnished Inquire of j. NJ. Allen, Saccarappa, OF
F. M. Ray, Portland, Me. Je27d
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30
To be Let

pENT of five rooms in lower part of house No
HI 81 Alder street.
WILLIAM X. NEAL, Assignee,
incl 0aOdtf 31 EXCHANGE Street.
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30
BOARD.
BOarders Wanted.

VIABLE board alone or board with lodging can bt
Il obtained by applying to
jne16dtf NO. 104 FRANKLIN STREET.
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-30
TO LET.
One Convenient Tenement
10 Let. .

IF YOU want one of the best eleven dollar rents
i you find, call at 1877 Newbury street, and
let me show it to you
jne2Odtf w. W. CARR.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-09-05
Over and Over Again.

Over and over again.,
No matter which way i turn,
l always find in the Book of Life
Some lessons l have TO learn.
L must take my turn at the mill,
must grind out tue golden grain.
l must work at my task with resolute
will
Over and over again.
We cannot measure the need
OF even the tiniest flower,
Nor check the Cow Of the golden sands
That run through single hour.
But the morning dews must fall.
And the sun and the summer raj
Must do their part and perform it all
Over and over again.
Over and over again
The brook through the meadow flows,
And over and over again
The ponderous mill.whcel goes.
Once doing will not suffice,
Though doing be not in vain;
And blessing falling once or twice,
May come, if we try again.
The path that has once been trod
Is never so rough to the feet;
And the lesson we once have learned
Is never so hard TO repeat.
Though sorrowful tears may fall,
And the heart to its depth he rivcn
with storm d tempest, we need them all
To render us meet for heaven.