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The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25
Pillsburv and State Issues.

The review of Mr.. E. F. Pillsbury's speech
on State issues republished in the columns
of the PRESS from the Lewiston Journal, and
written by Ex-Governor Dingley, should re-
ceive the careful attention of the voters OF
Maine The plausible misstatements OF Mr..
Pillsbury are taken UP one by one and their
fasity exposed. Ex-Governor Dinglev is as
familiar as any man, more familiar than
most men, with the condition of State af-
fairs, and his high and honorable reputation,
aside from the demonstrations he makes,
gives to his statements consideration that
does not attach to those he reviews and crit
icizes. The review, though moderate and
courteous in tone, is scathing in its facts
and clear and satisfactory refutation of
the most monstrous falsehoods ever uttered
by Democratic stump-speaker in Maine.
In plain words, Governor Dingley convicts
Mr. Pillsbury of eleven lies, told with the
circumstantiality and apparent candor that
Swift and Defoe showed in their celebrated
fctions. But Mr.. Pillsbury's work of imag-
ination will not have the life of Gulliver and
Robinson Crusoe; unless, perchance, Cover
nor Dingley's answer has "pilloried it to
immortal infamy'' He has only succeeded
in making himself the Eli Perkins of current
politics; of establishing himself a name in
the ephemeral literature of falsehood. Mr..
Pillsbury would not deserve to be SO stigma
tized did he sin through ignorance. But
man of his capacity and his chances for OBJ
servation could not but know that he was
making false statements, or when at his
best, telling only half-truths. His expert
ence as a criminal lawyer seems to have
taught him that no expedient was too un-
worthy to be resorted to in order to save the
neck of his client. The tactics he learned
in the criminal court he uses upon that
greater jury, the voters of Maine, and in de-
| tense of greater offender.
We understand that Mr. Pillsbury is to
| speak in Cumberland county this week.
| We hope that every man who listens to his
| fair-seeming but false words will afterwards
| read Governor Dingley's criticism OF them
We have no fear of the result when the two
are read together. Indeed we think the
best service the Republican State Committee
could do the Republican party would be to
bind the two, speech and review, in one
pamphlet, and then put that pamphlet into
the hands of every voter in Maine.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

4 CORRESPONDENT of the Maine Stdn-
dard who complains because Methodists
do not care to hear De La Matyr preach,
says You might as well undertake to
purge a cuttle-fish of its slime as to purge
a Methodist Republican of his bgotry and
intolerance. Ignorant, pig-headed and null
ish, he glories in his own degradation. and
reioices in his own infamy." How do the
Methodists like fusion talk? Do they care
to vote with men who thus denounce themp
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25
FOR SALE

A story and half House with addition,
Stable, Outbuildings and Blacksmith
Shop, all in good repair and nearly new:
Lot contains about one acre, excellent
garden and well Of water. This proper
fy is situated about four miles from Port.
land on the Gray road. A good title and
immediate possession will be given: The
above property will be sold for $4,000,
and is the best bargain in Deering.
INQUIRE on the premises Of z. 0. LAM
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mh25 dNwt
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1t will take $4,000 to IN Ike up the deficiency in
the State Prison appraisal, says Mr.. Pillsbury.
That is, commission recently appointed,
appraises the State Prison property $4,000 less
than an appraisal made under Republican
rule. Supposing they do? Appraisals at diff
ferent periods are very likely to vary, es-
pecially in such times as these through which
we have passed-particularly when it is de-
sirable for new warden to make good show
ing. Mr.. Pillsbury does not charge that War
den Rice has improperly taken any property of
the State 1t is all there. 1t is only three or
four years ago that the Legislature appointed
Hon. j. G. Talbot, prominent Democrat, to
investigate IL State Prison affairs, and he re-
ported them all right.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

The President of the Franklin Demo-
cratic Convention said he was President OF a
small national bank, but the profits were
small. He could make more money outside,
and he thought the banks might well be
abolished. What help he would be to the
argus in demonstrating the immense profits
made by the banks
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

MIR. w. r. SMITH, of Augusta, a we'll
known Democrat, publishes through the col
umns of the Kennebec Journal a letter de-
Tending the national bank system as ''safe,
convenient, almost faultless system of bank
ing" and saying that ''the demagogues of
the hour, who incite the bad cement among
our people, will find an overthrow and obiy-
ion well earned and well merited."
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Wanted Immediately.

| A FIRST-CLASS Dry Goods Salesman and Sales
| N woman wanted No without at least three
years experience need apply RINES BROTHERS,
| aug22-d1w 255 Middle Street.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

imagination play over the taxes OF Oxford
county. To him replies the Oxford Demo
crat who shows that his charge that the
taxes have increased is false, and exposes
his disngenuousness in striving to conceal
from his audiences the fact that criminal
costs were paid by the State in 1856.
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PAY OF COUNCILLORS.

Councillors have received pay for more days than
they have served-says Mr.. Pillsbury.
So they always have, reckoning their COM
pensation at 50 per day The law gives Coun-
cillors $3.50 for the Legislative session, Just as
it does Senators and Representatives, without
regard to length of session or number of days
present All that is required is to keep quo
rum during the Legislative session. Under
the old Democratic rule, when the Legislative
session averaged one hundred days, councillors
received 5000 for doing just the same as they
do now for $50.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

The Rockland Opinion has the manhood
possessed by none of its Democratic allies
to denounce the men who drove Blanton
Duncan out of the State because he con-
demned the Yazoo outrage and others like
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

Fellows Compound Syrup is composed OF
Ingredients identical with those who con-
stitute Healthy Blood, Muscle acd Nerve
and Brain Substance, whilst life itself is
directly dependent upon some of them.
By its union with the blood and its effect
upon the muscles, reestablishing the one
and toning the other. it is capable of effect
ing the following results:
twill displace or wash out tuberculous
matter. and thus cure Consumption.
Bv increasing Nervous and Muscular
Vigor, it will cure Dyspepsia, feeble OF in
terrupted action of the Heart and Palpita-
ton. Weakness Of Intellect caused by grief,
weary, overtax or irregular habits, Bron-
chitis, Acute or Chronic, Congestion OF the
Lungs. even in the most alarming stages.
1t cures Asthma, Loss of Voice, Neural
gia ST. Vitus Dance, Epileptic Fits, Whoop-
inc Cough, Nervousness, and is most Won
derful adjunct to other remedies in sustain
ing life during the process of Dpthefia.
Do not be deceived by remedies pealllS
similar name, no other preparation is a sub
stitute for this under any circumstances.
Look ont for the name and address, j. l.
FELLOWS, ST. John, N. b., on the yellow
wrapper in watermark which is seen by
holding the paper before the light.
Price $1.50 per Bottle, six for $3.50.
Sold by all Druggists.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

A SPRINGvALE correspondent says the
Hon. William P. Frye spoke to large audi
ence in Goodalrs Hall, Sanford Corner, Fri
day evening. The speech was telling and
much enthusiasm was manifested. The
correspondent adds 1t is evident that the
Greenbackers and Democrats will receive a
sorry surprise in September" 1t will not be
much of surprise to many of them, who
have already got ready to have the news
broken gently and purchased their Grape in
anticipation of the increased demand after
the eighth proX.
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promoter ana pcrfcc.or OF Assi.ni

The Promoter mnd Pcrfccior oil Assini
lafion
The Reformer anh Vitalizer of the
Blood.
The Producer and Hnyigorator Of Nerve
and Mnscle.
The Builder and Supporter Of Brain
Power.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

The Nep Religion complains because De
La Matyr was not invited to preach in pull
pits Perhaps its editor is thinking OF that
harl-money sermon he preached from pull
pit not long ago, and wishes to have De La
Matyr cornteract its influence.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

A PIsCATAQUIs correspondent OF the Bos-
ton Adrertiser says the Republicans in that
county are awake, united and confident of
success. He adds that the great Republi-
can meetings are giving warning to the
would-be great leaders of finance, some of
whom were in their mothers arms when
these great financial measures were enacted
to save the nations life, that the people have
discovered the shams in last years state
ments, and mean to vote their humbug out
of the Pine Tree State on the Sth of Septem-
bor
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

WASTE OF PUBLIC LANDS.
Every solitary of land gone for little or moth
ing under Republican State administration, says MIR.
Pisbury.
Most of the State land, and that the best,
went under Democratic State administrations
previous to 1857; and went for prices, too,
much lower than similar land was sold subse-
quently. The grant to the European q North
American r. r. Co., ON condition that they
would build railroad into our northern re-
oions. was favored by nearly all the Democrats
in the Legislature, at the head of whom was
Mr. Dickey of Fort Kent, one of the fusion lead
arc lact winter
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

The Somerset Reporter says: "a promi-
nent member of the Democratic County
Committee in this county says the Green
hackers are brainless set but they have got
good many days work in them and all they
want of the ID fanatics is to beat the
Republicans
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

In the report of the remarks OF the Hon. Lot
NJ Morrill, at Old Orchard, our reporter rep
resented him as saying that ''nine-tenths OF
the medical faculty are agreed that alcohol,
when used for medicinal purposes, is injuri-
ous.' What he really said was that DIR.
Rush had demonstrated in 1903, and he was
sustained by nine-tenths of the medical
faculty, that alcohol was poison, and when
taken into healthy stomach was always in
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25
A F.ARMINGToN correspondent of the Lew

A FARAnNGToN correspondent of the Lew
iston Journal says that in New Vineyard,
strong Democratic town heretofore, in one
locality man and his son who have been
Democrats are going to vote the Republican
ticket, and they report that eight or ten 9th
er Democrats in that vicinity will do like
WISE In Chesterville three men who have
not voted for five or six years will vote this
Fall for Davis. At Pennington Falls sever
al Democrats will vote for Davis.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

The State expenses the present year nave oeeh re-
duced S125 900 from what they were last year, anu
the only reason why the State tax assessed oy tne
last Legislature is quarter of mill more tnSn nan
was assessed by the Republicans in 1876, Is ht tne
last Republican State administration left Il deheieh
cv of S223 276-says Mr.. Pillsbury.
Not so. The so-called deficiency was
caused by mistake of the Legislature in re-
ducing the State tax for 1877 to mills, when
it ought to have been 81 mills, as in 1876. Had
the tax of 1877 been 81 mills, then the receipts
and the deferred railroad tax would have paid
this balance.
Again, even on the assumption that the State
appropriations this year are as large as in 1871
when 81 mills paid everything, there would re-
main S55, 600 q of a mill taxi from the / mil
tax assessed last year and paid this year, and
$4,000 of old railroad tax to apply to the den
ciency-leaving it only Sl1s276 But MT
Pillsbury says the appropriations this year
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

FAI&W&w1y3l
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25
rsoN LLEwELLYN POWERS

WILL SPEAK AS FOLLOWS:
ELLSWORTH, Monday, August 20.
CHERRYFIELD, Tuesday. August 70
MACHIAS, Wednesday, August ~ 40
DENNYSVILLE, Thursday, August 2o
PEMBROKE Friday, August 20.
CALAIS, Saturday, August 30
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The name and address of the writer are III
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for puphca-
ton but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munIcatlons that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

THAT cut of ballot-box pierced by bay
onet which has appeared in the columns of
the Maine Standard may well give way, in
view of the Democratic victory over Dixon
of Yazoo. to ballot-boX pierced by a bullet.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

C. T. BLAIsDELL of Lewiston, a Demo-
crat of thirty-one years standing, an
nounces through the Kennebec Journal,
that he has abandoned the Democracy.
Truck and dicker are too much for him.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25
THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST s5.

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is Iuriilsnou
with Card certificate signed by Stanley L. uiio"'
Editor All railway, steamboat and hotel maiiaeo,s
will confer a favor upon us by demanding credei.N'>
of every person claiming to represent our JOURNAL
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25
For SaIe.-.A Doctors Stand.

pRICK House No. 10 Brown street fhe three
ID lower rooms of which were formerly occu-
pied by DR.. S. III. Tewksbury as an office for 10
years) 5 rooms above. The whole has been put in
Complete order, has all modern conveniences, and
is conveniently and centrally located for rst-class
residence for physician. viii be sold at bargain
and on easy terms. Apply to n. s. GARDINER,
Real Estate Agent, Centennial Block, No. 81 Ex-
change Street. Jly3Oeodow
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REAL ESTATE.
FOR SALE.

TUyHE 2 story Brick House No. 27O Bracket street,
near Neal, former residence of the late Hon.
c. j. Morris, with lot of 5000 feet and stable:
House contains 10 finished rooms good cemented
cellar and furnace bricked in, Sebago and gas,
double parlors frescoed. Cedar hedge and fruit
trees. Will be sold at bargain to close the estate
Apply TO y: ): GAhDINEh,
auo1o d3w
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

The Camden Herald publishes the full
text of the law concerning bribery. While
it is in the business why doesn't it publish
the full text of the law concerning black
msilinop
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

Boston journal: In one town in Cum
berland County, Me-, where thirty-four Re-
publcans voted the Greenback ticket last
year, all but six are reported by the town
committee as expressing purpose to vote
the full Republican ticket next September.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

THE Boston Trdreller thinks the Yazoo
shot will prove the most damaging one for
the Southern Democrats since the opening
gun at Fort Sumter.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

DEXTER Gazette: Eben F. Pillsbury, the
caricat,rrist of one-legged soldiers, and the
slanderer of all who fought in the Union ar
my, is now laboring on the stump in behalf
of the Greenhack cause
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

Now Conkling should make a speech
against the ''shot gun policy. .''-Lewiston Ga
zette.
ISN'T it about time for you to make one;
OF do you mean that your protest against the
murder of Henry Dixon by your fellow Dem
ocrats of the South shall be silent protest?
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

THE San Francisco disturbance has grown
out of the methods preached by Kearney
and his following, and is the fruit of his
teaching. 1t has already resulted in the
shooting of one man, and may result in the
mobbing of another, and in general riot.
While certainly in this State there will be
little personal sympathy for Kalloch there
should be strong condemnation of his muir
derer and of the mob that in turn propose to
murder him. Kalloch's murderer has been
until of late strong Kearneyite, and but
carries out the teachings of that school. Kali
loch was the Kearney candidate for Mayor
of San Francisco, and worthy of the support
of the class of men he championed. The
mob that seeks the life of his murderer is a
Kearney mob, acting now under the orders
of Kearney and inspired by his utterances
in the past The whole business is bad
business, calling for reprobation and the
punishment of the murderer-not by mob
but by process of law.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

THE chairman of the Franklin Democrat
ic convention told the delegatesa story. He
his boys mathematical question:: "a frog
was in well, he jumped up one foot and
fell back two. How long would it take him
to jump out?" The boy figured away, and
the teacher inquired if he had got through.
The boy said he had not and kept on figur-
ing till the teacher closed the school. The
teacher asked if he was through; he replied
that he was not quite. ''Well," said the
teacher, ''where is the frog now?" II have
him almost to HI" replied the boy. The
inference is that the Democratic party has
got so far down into the well that it is call
ing for help from the other end.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

The Camden Herald severely lectures
Walter A. Paine, of Fall River, for his SINS
Paine was defaulter, not blackmailer.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25
HON. EUGENE HALE

sEBAGo LAKE, Monday August 25th, 2 p. m.
GORHAM Monday, Aug. 20.
YARMOUTH, Tuesday, Aug 2e.
BOWDOIN, Wednesday p M, Aug. ~; ;7
BRUNSWICK, Wednesday eve Aug. II.
SKOWHEGAN, Thursday, Aug. 2S.
FAIRFIELD, Friday, Aug. 20
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

GEN. JAMES A. HALL will speak at Cor
nish, Limngton and Limerick as announced.
The citizens of those towns will find it a
pleasure to listen to him.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

THERE will be some more exodus now
the negroes see the Mississippi plan at work
oroip
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

TRoUP writes letter to the argus in
which he does not better the defeat which
he sustained in that discussion on board the
train the other day. He manages to get a
lie aboutthe PRESS into his communication
an old Aryus lie that has seen hard service
in this campaign. We must remind Mr.
Troup also that it is mighty poor butter that
can't command eight cents-the ruling price
is from fifteen to twenty-and that all ex-
cept the butter-makers, including the work
ingmen for whose prosperity he processes so
great an interest, are benefited by the fall
i'm price.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25
CAMPAIGN PRESS.
APPOINTMENTS.
HON. DANIEL f. DAVIS,

Renublcan candidate for Governor, will speak dur
ing the campaign at the following places:
ELLSWORTH, Monday, August 25th ae.,
CHERRYFIELD, Tuesday, August 18TH.
MACHIAS Wednesday, August ~. 90
DENNYSVILLE, Thursday, August n4,,s 2S'
PEMBROKE, Friday, August 29th.
CALAIS Saturday, August 3Oth.
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For Sale.

vUyHE stock and trade of Ship and Grocery Store
Il in this CITY,. A good chance for man with
small capital. Address Box ,502, %.
aup2l-lW#
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

The Boston Globe is favored with correspondents
like some of those in whom the Argus takes delight
men of the family sometimes called Damphool
One of these Senator Blaine of being arSt0-
cratic and bearing himself haughtily toward his
social interiors The man who writes thus must
either have seen Mr.. Blaine and is dull fool or
never have seen him and so is a liar. We are
inclined to think he is good deal of both.-Port-
land Press.
The correspondent above referred to has
lived within stones throw of Mr.. Blaine's
spacious mansion for dozen years, and hap
pens to know that his statements are correct
Mr.. Blaine did refuse to debate the financial
question in the town of Windsor with Mr.
Boynton and other Greenbackers, because
they weren't on the same social footing as
himself. We can prove this "Y orlck, most
contemplate liar that you are.-Mdine Stan
ddrd.
THE Maine STANDARD defends the Boston
Globe correspondent who accused Senator
Blaine of being aristocratic and bearing him
self haughtily towards his social interiors,
by saying that ''the correspondent referred
to lived within stones throw of Mr..
Blaine's spacious mansion for dozen
years. This is defense indeed! Very like
ly Senator Blaine has had bad neighbors.
He certainly has if the Globe correspondent
be one. If, as we suspect from the heat
with which the correspondent is defended,
he be Mr.. E. F. Pillsbury of the STANDARD,
it was his mental inferiority, not his social,
that provoked Mr.. Blaine's contempt. We
certainly know of no man more worthy OF it
in all respects.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

The Somerset county Republicans and
Greenbackers have arranged for joint discus
sions as follows: Coburn Hall, Skowhegan,
Monday evening, Aug. 25, Henry Plummer
against S. j. Walton; Smithfield village,
Tuesday evening, Aug. 26, L. II. Webb
against Henry Plummer; Mercer village.
Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 26; Canaan village,
Friday afternoon, Aug. 20, L. II. Webb and
L. L. Walton against Henry Plummer and
A. S. Burke; North Anson, Saturday eve
ming, Aug. 50; Athens, Friday evening,
Sept. 5; Harmony, Saturday evening, Sept
G. A, S. Burke against L. l.. Walton.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

The Boston Herald thinks there is a little
too much treasurer at Fall River.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25
THOSE ISLANDS.

In 1876 the State sold sixty-six islands, and 1t
cost ,O5O more to get rid of them than they
brought, says Mr.. p
These islands were small and barren, and not
considered of any value. Part of them were
occupied by poor fishermen, and many of them
were anxious to get title. The Legislature
unanimously authorized Gov. Connor and
council to examine into their condition and
ownership, and to sell such of them as the
State owned, at public auction-not as matter
of profit, but simply as favor to deserving
citizens. A committee of the council visited
the islands to examine them, and counsel was
sent to Massachusetts to obtain information as
to disputed titles. The islands were sold by
public auction and brought all anybody would
nav for them.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25
For Sale at a Bargain.

yTyHE three story brick block of two stores,
Il corner of Fore and Franklin streets, suitable
for light manufacturing or wholesale provision
depots, Ocean, Boston and New York steamers.
viii be sold at bargain. Apply to
G. H. WEEKS,
aug7-3w IA Fore Street.
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Wanted.
Wanted.

UNXPERIENCED CLOAK-NAKERS Immediately.
IN SPRINGER BROS,
aug21-1w 13 Summer Street, Boston.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25
WANTS..
Wanted.

A GENTLEMAN of tact and ability who is able
Aand willing to undertake the sale OF hrst-class
serial publication in city and country. Salary anu
three days H. j. johnson, Press Office. au23d3te
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25
crN crgAs. H. CROsVENOR, Of Ohio,
A, G. BRADsTREET, Esq,

KENNEBUNKPORT, Monday, August %.
SPRINGVALE, Tuesday, August rs.
MONMOUTH, Saturday, August 30.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25
REMOYAL..PORTLAND ACADEMY.

Fall Term begins Sept. 1, 1879, in the new rooms,
MOTLEY FsEOCM, 500 Congress Street.
The services of Prof. Masse have been secured to
teach French. Private classes in French will be
formed on reasonable terms.
Elocution will be taught by our accomplished in
structor.
For further particulars inquire of
RsESS e. A. FILES, Principal,
aug9d3m As Brown street.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25
WILL SPEAK AT
r1ON. =. R. HAWLEY,

WILL SPEAK AT
CAPE ELIZABETH, Turner's Island Tuesday
August 26.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-25

THIS is the jocular way in which the Maine
Standard speaks of the murder of Dixon of
Yazoo:-"They 1.-THE Republicans are aban-
doning the money Issue and concentrating
ron the bloody shirt"