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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-14
A WASHINGTON despatch to the Philadel
phia Press says:

Notwithstanding the reports to the contra
ry, late advices received at the headquarters of
the Republican Congressional Committee indi-
cate that the Republicans will redeem the State
of Maine without the slightest doubt Senator
Blaine writes to friends in this city that the
Republicans are gradually beginning to realize
that upon the result IN Maine will largely de-
pend the issue in 1880. The disaffected por-
tion of the Republican party, who have been
led away by the financial question and local
antagonisms are now ready to waive all such
differences for the common good. The coali-
ton between the Greenbackers and the Demo-
Gratis is also working out results favorable to
the Republican cause in bringing about the re-
turn of many Republicans who have acted with
the Greenbackers. Two weeks ago, the Sena-
tor says, he felt rather despondent, but now he
feels assured that they will be able to elect
their Governor. OF the $1,000 Republicans
who voted the Greenback ticket at the last
election, at least 10000 will now vote accord
ing to their old convictions"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-14
VounvLadies, Seminary

TUyHE MISSES SYMONDS with MISS CARRIE j.
DREW an accomplished and successful teach
err will reopen their school for young ladies, on
Thursday, Sept. rs. Application may be made
personally, by mail, at No. 22 Pine Street. Port
land aug2dtd
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-14

THE Greenbacker who interrupted Sena-
tor Chandler at Bangor the other evening
felt very sorry for it afterwards He was, it
appears, the editor of Greenback paper in
that city, and he jumped up, and wanted to
know what became of the bank notes after
they were retired and the bonds had gone
into the hands of the stockholders. Senator
Chandler replied that they were destroyed; !;
burned up The Greenbacker then wanted
to know if the bonds could not be destroyed
in the same way. A smile passed over the
Senator's face as he replied 'No, sir" and
the audience burst into guffaw of ridicue
at the absurd question which increased to
roars of laughter. The Greenbac ker was
badly squelched, but insisted on further
display of his ignorance by saying that he
understood that the banks exchanged their
bonds for notes, and that the bonds could be
destroyed when the notes were given up.
This excited further laughter at the exhibit
ton of financial incoherency, and the Sena-
tor kindly informed the man that the bonds
are merely deposited as security and belong
to their owners until they become due and
are paid
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-14

HON. LLEWELLKN POWERS
WILL SPEAK AS FOLLOWS:
DEXTER. Thursday, August Ia.
PLYMOUTH, Friday, August 10.
PITTSFIELD, Saturday, August 16.
NEWPORT, Monday, August Is.
ETNA. Tuesday, August 10.
HAMPDEN, Wednesday, August 20.
ORONO, Thursday, August 21.
OLDTOWN, Friday, August 22.
LINCOLN, Saturday. August 23.
ELLSWORTH, Monday, August 20.
CHERRYFIELD, Tuesday. August 2G.
MACHIAS, Wednesday, August 81.
DENNYSVILLE, Thursday, August 2o.
PEMBROKE. Friday, August 20.
CALAIS, Saturday, August 3D.
GEN. CszAs. III. GsROsyENOR, OF Ohio,
WILL SPEAK AT
FREEPORT, Friday Aug. Is.
CUMBERLAND MILLS, Friday, Aug. 10.
YARMOUTH, Saturday, Aug. 16.
HARRISON, Monday, Aug 1S.
WOODFORDS CORNER, Tuesday, Aug. ID.
HON. o. G. MOORE, of New Hampshire,
WILL SPEAK AT
N. YARMOUTH, Thursday, Aug. 21.
A, G.. BRADSTREET,E Esq,
WILL SPEAK AT
GRAY, Thursday August IA.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-14

THE Rockland Courier has it from good
authority that the subscription list of the
Belfast Journal, instead of suffering loss by
the recent political change of that paper,
has on the contrary been materially in
creased. The Courier also says: ''It may
be impossible to point to any particular spot
where a revival in business makes decided
impression, but the reports of increasing ac
tivity in manufactures and trade generally
with which the local columns of our State
exchanges TEEN, prove beyond question that
a healthier condition of affairs in the indus
tries and mercantile pursuits of ourconlmon-
wealth is existing and daily gaining ground
than has been known for several years. Po-
litical organs for party purposes may affect
to cry this down, but it is a fact with a pyr-
amidal base which cannot be upset by
demagogic sneers or sophistical reasoning,
and will soon demonstrate itself to the salts
faction Of the most skeptical.'
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-14

The editor of the Greenback paper pub
lished at Anson, must have been sleepy
when he allowed correspondent to admin
ister such a dose of common sense to its
readers as this: cat this time when the gen.
eral complaint is that 'money is scarce it
will be an act of kindness to inform the
moneyless how they may reinforce their
pockets. / will acquaint them with the
true secret of money catching-the certain
way to fill empty purses, and how to keep
them always full. Two simple rules, well
observed will do the business. First, Let
honesty and industry be thy constant COM
panions; and secondly, spend one penny
less than thy clear gains. Then will thy
hide-bound pocket-book soon begin to thrive
and it will never again cry with hard
times and for 'Greenbacks;' neither will
creditors insult thee, nor contraction op-
press, nor shrinkage-in steers bite, nor
nakedness freeze thee. The whole country
will shine brighter and pleasure spring up in
every corner of thy heart. Now therefore,
embrace these rules and be happy"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-14

Those Democratic editors who speak of
'Mizzer Chandler really ought to get sober
enough to pronounce Mister" plainly before
they attempt to write.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-14

In 1868 thousand dollar bond cost the pur-
chaser four hundred dollars in gold. Ever
since making this Investment he has been
drawing out of the people interest on six hun
dred dollars which the people never received
and never reaped any benefit Of By way OF
rewarding the bondholder for his magnanimi-
ity, the government exempted his bond from
taxation Taxpayers how do you like it
jamestown (N. W Press
THIS statement, which is downright lie,
is going the rounds of the Greenback press
in this State. In 1868 the average price in
gold of hundred dollars in currency was
TIC, and the price of different issues of
bonds ranged from 11S5 to 1901. That issue
which commanded but 1909 must be the one
meant, for it brought the lowest price; and
that issue was of 10-40's bearing five per
cent. interest. At the stock exchange those
bonds of $1,000 denomination sold, as may
be seen by the figures given, at S722. Fur
thermore the Government was not selling
them then. They were issued in 1854, and
as the coupons for four years had been cut
off, they of course fell in price. They have
all been refunded at per cent. interest or
paid, the entire amount being 1900 900.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-14

SAYS the Utica Herald: ''The Demo-
cratic press of the country continues to
studiously ignore the recent outrage in va
ZOO county, Mississippi. solitary excep-
ton which we have thus far observed, is the
Vicksburg Herald, which frankly acknowl-
edges that this affair is a sample of what has
been going on in the State for four years,
and as frankly says to the Mississippi people
that such things must be stopped, if they
are ever to regain the confidence of the
Northern people and recover their material
prosperity as a community. The most sug-
gestive feature of the outrage is the utter
indifference of the Governor of the State to
the open violation of its laws. Not a whis
per has come from him, although he ought
to have promptly invoked every power OF the
commonwealth to put down such an open
and defiant violation of the laws of the State.
His inertia furnishes the best possible COM
ment upon the discussion of the federal
election laws during the extra session of
Congress- 1t was hundred times repeated
by the Democrats during that discussion
that there was not commonwealth in the
Union where the State authorities were not
ready and able to preserve the absolute free
dom of elections. So soon after those
speeches, Democratic judge of Mississippi
publicly declares that the laws for the pro-
lection of elections can not be enforced in
that State.''
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-14
FOR SALE.

A SHOE STORE, in good location one OF the
n best thoroughfares in Portland, and doing a
good business. Apply at 5G5 Congress street,
ie2tf Portland Ne
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-14
REMOyAL..pORTLAND ACADEMY.

Fall Term begins Sept. 1, 1879, in the new rooms,
MOTLEY BLOCK, 5O5 Congress Street.
The services of Prof. Masses have been secured to
teach French. Private classes in French will be
formed on reasonable terms.
Execution will be taught by our accomplished in
structor.
For further particulars inquire of
MISS f. A. FILES, Principal,
aug9d3m Al Brown Street.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-14
BOATS! R0aT,s:

nRDER your Ships Boats, Sail and Steam Yachts
W Fishing and Row Boats, of c. z. BENNETT,
Iibby's Corner, Portland, Me-, and save money.
E1F- Row Boats constantly on hand.
jyl4 eodIms
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-14
uoN. TuOMAs II. REED
vuoN uLEwELLyN POWERS

WILL SPEAK AS FOLLOWS:
BELFAST, Thursday, Aug. IA.
WINTERPORT, Friday, Aug. To-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-14
FOR SALE.

HORSE, Harness and Phaeton-together or
IL singly. Horse sound, perfectly safe for a
woman or child to drive; very handsome and weighs
about 1850 lbs. Harness almost new. Kimball
Carriage in good repair. viii be sold very cheap
Enquire at
au11dtf 2Sy MIDDLE STREET.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-14
The Treasury Gold.

Our Democratic Greenback friends seem
retary of the Treasury has sold bonds for re-
sumption purposes, claiming that it is an
undue waste for this money to lie idle in the
Treasury; and that instead of remaining
in the Treasury, it ought to be paid out.
Let us look at this moment. 1t is the
duty of the Government TO manage its finan-
cial affairs upon the same principles and
basis that careful business man would do
We think no one will dispute this statement.
Now, when a business man finds himself
heavily in debt his first aim is to reduce his
interest account as much as possible, and
thus what he is able to save in interest he
can apply towards the extinguishment of his
debt This is just what the Secretary of the
Treasury has been doing.
He has refunded since March 1st, 1877, of
the Government indebtedness SS46, ,O22, 900,
on which the Government was paying an
annual interest charge of $4S.S13,057. Since
this indebtedness has been refunded the
annual interest charge is 34,515, $50, max
ing a clear saving to the Government of
S14,297, 1T. Bonds sold for resumption
purposes since March 1, 1877, about which
our Greenback friends are making such
stir, because the proceeds have not been
paid ont, and are retained for the purpose of
enabling the Treasurer to pay coin when de-.
manded, amount to SS7, 100000, on which
the annual interest charge is about $780,
600. Deduct this from the annual saving of
interest arising from the refunding opera
tions since March 1, 1877, viz. S14, ,297, ,177,
and it leaves net annual saving of about
$10,000,000. In these figures we do not
any portion of the Government Indebtedness
previous to March 1, 1877.
Now we would ask, can any candid bust
ness man, we do not care to what party he
belongs, after examining the above state
ment, deny that resumption of specie pay
ments is an actual benefit to the country.
1t would have been utterly impossible for
the Secretary to have refunded this indebt-
edness had not the resumption act been
passed in 1875. Tie passage of the resump-
ton act caused the rates of interest gradual
ly to deprecate and thus the Government
was enabled to refund at lower rate of in
terest. II their refunding operations the
Government was aided materially by the
National Banks, that took many of the bonds
bearing this lower rate of interest, and also
acted as agents in disposing of the bonds
throughout the country; and thus the Ma
tional Banks, about which such hue and
cry have been made throughout the country
have helped us reduce the rate of interest,
and instead of being a curse, as many
would have us believe, have proved bless
ing; instead of being a burden upon the peo-
pie and government. have helped lift the
burden, besides furnishing us the best bank
i1,r in the world
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-08-10

work done and no mistake: But
how! He springs up from the mat
on which he has been squattlng' ne
kicks over the little brass. vessel
which holds his drinking water; he
scatters right and left thread,
needles, thimble ; he stops not to
put on his sandals or to adjust his
ioosened turban and walstcloth.
Scared and bewildered, he runs for
very life into the bazaar, shouting
as he goes along: "Shitan !
shitan (The evil one the evil one }
He do tailor business that Mems
house. I listen. I hear. lie cry.
'cleek, cleek, cleek J Two hours
time he neber stop cry. Den!
Plenty too much true dis work [
tell. Ebery bit true. All work
done finish! I not go back dat
bungalow" And he never did.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-08-10
National Board of Health.

F. Special to the chicago Times.
WASHINGTON, Aug. I "A gentle
man who is thoroughly familiar with
the treatment of yellow fever, and
who is an authority upon the sub
ject, in conversation with the Times
correspondent to>day, showed up
in . very interesting way the impo-
tency and worthlessness of the Ma
tional- Board of Health. In the
first place he says that, with one ex-
ception, DR.. Collins, there is not a
single member Of the board who has
ever had yellow fever, or who knows
anything about it, practically. All
the members of the board should
be required to remain in Washing
ton permanently. AS it is, mem
bers are only paid ten dollars day
when the board is in session, and
This does not pay single member
fer the loss attendant upon leaving
his, practice. The result is, that
practicall y there is no National
Board of Health. DR.. Cabel, the
President, resides in Virginia, and
comes here only occasionally.
He is fine physician, but he is of
such yielding disposition that he
never insists upon his own views.
DR.. Billings, who remains here, is ex-
cellent in one line, that of preparing
regulations and recommendations,
but beyord that he is nothing but
theorist. The result is that the whole
business of the Board is in the hands
of DR.. Turner, a young assistant
in the navy, and disburs-
ing clerk. Turner, this gentleman
says, is a young fellow who is so set
up by the power given him that he
will listen to no suggestion from any
one, however experienced. The
Board has 100000 to disburse
and the discussing clerk has y CON-
plete control of the expenditure of
this sum, subject to the auditing
clerk of the Treasury. What is
betng done with this money nobody
knows beyond the mere appointment
of inspectors and clerks at Wash
ington. Under the law the Board
has no authority over State Boards,
SO it is practically powerless to do
ANYTHING effective.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-08-10
THE SCARED TEXANS.
How the Quarantine Authorities
Seized Lady's Trunk.
New ORLEANS, Aug. 4, '79.
n1., II Mt n MI.

Editor of the ". 0. Times:
Your correspondent at Crystal
Springs, Miss, in his letter of the
30th ult., published to-day, says:
"Quarantines lead to feelings of in
humanity which more become the
rude ages than the enlightened age
of the nineteenth century" and he
wrote the truth. AS case in point,
l beg to state that few days since,
when absent in Texas, learning
that quarantine had been proclaim
ed against our devoted city by her
neighborly sister Galveston, [ has
tened my pace and managed to
reach Houston in time to catch the
last regular steamer, which proved
to be the morgan" under the com
mand of our old friend Capt. Tai
bott. .-..s--.- -
Reaching Galveston about noon
next day, we took on a number Of
passengers who, like myself, were
being hurried out of the State.
Among them was lady, resident
of Memphis, but who had been on
visit to relatives in Texas for sew
eral months-somewhat away up in
the pine and wood region. Her
husband telegraphing her to meet
him in Mobile, she started for Gal
weston at once, checking her trunk
through to that point. En- route
she remained in Houston to say
adieu to friends there, and resumed
her journey the next day. But im>
agine her amazement and distress
on reaching Galveston to find her
trunk non est; and no one able to
give her any information concern
ing it beyond the fact. that
having on it's end the fatal
name of Memphis DR.. Ruth
erford had spirited it away, doubt
less congratulating himself that he
had captured a trunk full of germs.
The lady, being compelled to take
the steamer Sailing in a few hours),
had no time to hunt her trunk, nor
did any one make any inquiry
of her concerning it and whence
she came from. The result was,
she was compelled to come on
without it, and be subjected to the,
great inconvenience and possibly
great loss, just to crafty the great
scare created by the appearance of
the simple name memphis on the
end of a poor innocent trunk!
Well may your correspondent say
"quarantines lead to feelings of in
humanity" which become a barbar-
Gus age. May 1 not ask, has not
reason lost her seat? VS..
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-08-10
A Shabby Umbrella.


Strange how ashamed man will
be of a shabby umbrella-one of
those slouchy, corpulent affairs, with
the bleached out covering divorced
from third of the rib tips, and
shoe-string clasped around its waist
in lieu of the long-vanished elastic!
How he will hide it as far as possi-
bic under his arm, run it up his coat
sleeve, tuck it away beneath the
folds of his coat, keep it between
himself and the wall, and when he
gets in the Car how careful he is to
dispose it in the darkest possible
corner! And ifperchance anybody
spies it out, how quick is he to head
off criticism by explaining that it is
the one he keeps in the ofice-so
convenient to have one there, you
know; one that you know nobody
will steal-ha! ha! Or maybe he will
go step further-the lying rascal
and say he borrowed it, AID if he
didn't return it old Grimshaw would
never forgive him-ha! ha! But when
the clouds lower and the raindrops
began to patter, who so at ease, SO
er.vied, SO proud and happy, as the
man with the shabby umbrella, as
he stalks along between rows of I'M
protected men and women with his
despised umbril dripping its liquid
harvest indiscrimidately on the just
and unjust? Verify, there is nothing
in this life wholly good or wholly
bad.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-08-10
Central Illineis' Enormous Wheat
CrOD

From the Douglas Country Qll9 Democrat.
The enormous yield of wheat in
Central Illinois this year promises
to revolutionize somewhat our sys-
tenn of farming. Certainly it will
not be possible for land producing
forty bushels of wheat to the acre
to long remain at $25 or 80 per
acre. There may be some danger
that, elated by this extraordinary
yield, our farmers may go too heav-
lily into wheat farming. We think
it possible that wheat may be pro-
duced here in paying quantities any
year, but it is the opinion of our
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-08-10
The First Saving Machine In India.


In the days when the sewing ma
chine was in it's earliest infancy, a
lady residing in India imported one,
and for long time kept its mystic
rious working hid from the ken of the
native tailor. This functionary was
the very slowest of his proverbial
slow caste" and wasted no end of
time drawing over hem and stitch.
One day the mistress comes to him
arm-laden with yards upon yards Of
some dress fabric, "Dnzee,1 says
she, chow long will 1t take you to
run these breadths together p" Tree
day, Missis," replies Dirzee.
"Missis, please, plenty too much
work" "Three days? nonsense
Three hours you mean. You are a
very lazy man, and I'll cut your pay.
Give me the stuff I will do it
myself" Then the lady retires to
her boudoir, from the Utmost pence
tralia of which a sharp and contin-
uous click and whir reached the tai
lors ears. He can't make out what
the sound is, and he is much too
lazy to speculate on it. He
continues to "chew betel," and
yaRaiagly odto LIS plyivb needle
and thread. a After an, hour or two
F'Missis comes back, and, throwing
lat Mr.. eDirsee's feet the raw mate,
rial, now fashioned into completed
skirt, says: ''There See! Yor
wanted three days, you sleepy fel
low, to finish this, and l have done
it already" Astonished, Dirzes
turns over the drapery, examines
the seams, scrutinizes the stitch
and satisfies himself that all il
proper and according to tailors
rules He Is confounded 1t passes
! his understanding. There lies th'
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-08-10
"a ,. a. So tsEPtsgB p
sya.oae...se sara.n and Pxsaue. ssarker
kNoxv Liz. Tenn. Aug. 5, ts;,9

EyR0iessase SartAa IN and PrSauee fsRrkea
Iz7s.okIULE 0FEiCE i
kNoxv LIZ, Tenn. Ang. 5, ts,9. ! &.
But little or no change to note in the
wheat market. Oats are coming ia free
", and readily taxed at quotations. Very
little corn offered, and only local demand
to supply. bacon in fair demand at quo
tations.
No demand for field seeds ezceFt for.
German miiiet, worth $3.50 to $500 per
buShel. -F.. --t fa..e..f }E.gs &, 5....s.e. s..
BAcoN-Buying, hog round, 51a6, sides,
Z; shoulders, Al hams, CAT. ~'9@7
Lard, new, buying at gaze selling at-79
WaEAr- Nominal, buying At rs to e5
for whrtt and ani bt-r red. rs 10 80 selling
per car loads at S90al.0 90 per busheLEs g
F., JotN-- New loose, 47a50i sacked So
y s oGU Setter demand: rs ii q sc
0Ars-New crop; buying, loose, 28a30e;
PoTAro Rs-Loose, scarce, s75as9c.
Ag--Bal d 65a76c per lou lbs.
tarED Fsu f1@ 40 piss firm, TO Dr.
per pound; Peach ss; halves, 24a3. ERjsdk-
berf,es nominal 4a44e. e. IS .ssz-xSr rs
FLoUR-Nominsl: country xtra, Guy
ing, q 00a2. Is sailing, ST. 25a2. so, family
buyipg3 $50; selhng, s2-75AS0 per
sack .---e s'<r-r-rs~ -
FEATHERs-Prime 38a4Oc: mixed. acc.
~ GrAs- Active, medium, -lual5c good
to urine, l5al8c. 49,
Eeas-Buylng duh, 84a9c. 4a'Fb ts9ia
ward tendency.
Satisfaction, 1a14c. alH< 81
Sc SswAx-22e penpouud. sE. t 81
4INsENG-Spring, 80a85.
3KHEKA SNAKE- 3D. s-.r3a serzs q
YELLOW RooT- 81 40 ..s,..s sr.rrszz
PINK RooT-18c. ~.
MAY APPLE ROoT-2c. -e ~
HIDEs-Dry l0a11c.; green, &C.
TALLcw-64c. -'s GlE IS "a as /
FLAX 5EED-Per bushel, 70s76c sec
BRAss-8c.; Copper, 10c.
WOoL-Per pound. 20a30. aF
APPLES Green, 75aS1.O0 per b lsbel.