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The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04

ATTORNEY-GENERALD DEvENs in letter
to the Republican State Committee of Mas
sachusetts declining to take part in the cam
paign on account of the pressure of public
business, speaks thus of the attempt being
made by Butler to convert the Grand Army
into political organizations:
1t would be subject of deep regret if the
efforts you inform me are making to capture
the Grand Army organization should meet
with any success or if any portion of the veter-
ans of Massachusetts, should be drawn off into
an attack on the honor and dignity of a State
which has stood generously and nobly by its
soldiers from the hour it sent them forth to
battle until now. The Grand Army of the Re-
public was for noble, charitable, and patriotic
objects. in Massachusetts, it has fulfilled them
well, but elsewhere, whenever there has been
a successful attempt to divert it to political
purposes, it has been utterly destroyed or sunk
into insignifcance Such will be its fate with
us if it lends itself to the schemes of parties,
of those who, having no party, would seek to
use it for the qualification of personal ambi-
ton. The men who compose its organization
are wise enough to see this, and they will not
allow it to be thus perverted. Differences of
opinion may exist among them, but they have
offered their lives together in great and holy
cause. They will stand firmly by those who
are striving that the fruits of the victory which
they gained for liberty and free government
shall not be lost by weakness or wrenched
away by violence. They will take no step by
which it can be imperilled. They will pursue
no course which they do not deem for the hon.
or and happiness of all their countrymen, and
they will sustain no man who seeks by detrac-
tion to injure the 1alr lame OF the state whose
soldiers they were, and whose citizens they are,
or to array against each other the various men,
bers of o community whose interests are iden-
tical.
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04

THERE are significant indications of par
tial break in the "solid South in the re-
ports which reach Washington of the prog
ress of the State election in North Carolina.
The North Carolina Gazette, for instance,
one of the most prominent Of the Bourbon
organs, says North Carolina is not at all
safe for the Democratic party i'll the coming
canvass, and adds that she is gone unless
the very best men are put forward. The
Raleigh Observer concurs in this eXplana-
ton of the situation, and adds: "Should
Judge Buxton be nominated for Governor
by the Radicals, North Carolina may be
wrested from us in spite of all we can do,
and with the Gubernatorial candidate will
go the Electoral vote.' There are at least
10000 white Republican voters in North
Carolina, greater number than can be
found in any other Southern State There
are, beside, $4,000 colored Republican votes,
which, with the white Republican votes of a
free election, constitutes an undoubted legal
majority of the State. North Carolina, eX-
cept for fraud and violence, is Republican
State
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04

MARYLAND is one of the States which is
cursed by a thieving Democratic ring; and
nevertheless, the anti-Democratic factions
of Maryland poll les have never been arrayed
in solid body. This year, however, the
alarm created by the continued and reckless
waste of the public funds has brought to-
gether strong organization which the DEM
ocrats watch with undisguised dismay.
There are several reform societies in the
field, and the Republican nominees will un-
doubtedly receive great number Of votes
from men who have hitherto acted with the
Democratic party. 1t is high time that
something was done to save the taxpayers.
Under Democratic rule, the debt OF the
City of Baltimore has been increased "a per
cent, and its rate of taxation has been in
creased 300 per cent. The expenses OF the
State Government are denounced by all
parties as extravagant and excessive.
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04
Books Received.

Sarah DE Berenger. BY Jean Ingelow. Cloth,
AIS pp Boston: Roberts Bros Portland: Loring,
Short & Harmon.
Report of the Commission of Education
for 1877. Cloth, 635 PIP. Bureau of Education,
Department of the Interior, Washington, d. G.
The Adventures of Reuben Davidger. By
James Greenwood. Franklin Square Library. Pa
per, 81 pp., 10 cents. New York. Harper &
Brothers. Portland Loring, Short 4 Harmon.
The Two Miss Flemiugs. By the author of
Rare Pale Margaret. Franklin Square Library.
Paper, ca pp., 10 cents. New York: Harper
Brothers. Portland Loring, Short Harmon
Rose NIeryyn of Vyhifeiaie. By Anne Beale.
Franklin Square Library. Paper, 81 pp., 10 cents.
New York: Harper s. Brothers Portland; Loring,
Short & Harmon.
,Ebe Afclan's Knife. By Robert Armitage
sterndaie. Franklin Square Library. Paper, 81
DID,. 10 cents. New York. Harper & Brothers.
Portland: Lorng, Short & Harmon.
Burning Their Ships. By Barnet Phillips.
Paper, 120 pp 20 cents. Half-Hour Series. New
York: Harper s. Brothers. Portland Lorng, Short
s. Harmon.
What Nr. Darwin saw ia his Trip Round
the World i'm tine Ship Beagle. Cloth, 22S
pp., with illustrations and maps. New York; Iiar-
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04
Color Blindness.

During the past few years much talk has
been made about color-blindness on rail-
roads and at sea. The subject was first ta-
ken up seriously in Sweden, and from there
it has passed all over Europe. No man can
now get employment as fireman, engineer,
brakeman or switcbman ON any rail-
road in Continental Europe Except
ing Russia, Italy and SPAIN who
has defective vision in either eye or a
defect in color-perception. Those in employ
ment at the time of these new edicts, are
retained on some roads, but employed ex-
clusively on day work; on other roads they
are pensioned or even dismissed. The agita-
tion is spreading to England, and in this
country something has been accomplished
in Massachusetts,. As will be seen in an
other place the employees on the Maine Cen
trail railrpad have just been examined for
color-blindness and defective vision by DR.,
James A. Spalding of this city.
The old method of testing for color blind
ness, by asking any one to tell the color Of
lanterns, is of no use whatever. The man
examined can either make lucky guess, or
he will know the red light, as being the
brighter of the two. He judges by the in
tensity of the light. In other words; red
green blind engineer sees bright light, he
knows it to be a danger signal, he stops; he
sees less bright light, he knows it to be a
safety signal, he goes on. The danger of
this judgment by intensity is explained in
the report published elsewhere. A green
blind, or red-blind is more capable of dis
tinguishing between the two; one of the
lanterns at least having decided color.
The test now employed is that of Holm
gren. Three sample skeins are employed,
and smaller knots of worsted, one hundred
or more in number of varying shades. A
striking pale green skein is offered to the
person to be examined, and he is asked to
place by it's side all the knots that he can
find of the same color. If the man processes
not to understand all the shades and tints,
the examiner points out of the window to
the grass, to the dark green pines, to the light
green vines, to the blinds of house, show
ing that they are all of the same color,
though Of a different shade. Ii the man
now has good color-vison he will at once
place the desired pale green and dark green
knots side by side with the pale green skein.
No further examination is required
If, on the contrary the man has defective
color-vision of any sort, he places whites,
drabs, pale grays and pale browns to match
the green slein, and his color-blindness is
diagnosed To diagnose its quality, rose
colored skein is given for matching. If the
man is red-blind he will place blues and pur-
Piles as match to the rose; if green-blind,
dark gray and dark green as match. Still
further tests can be made in doubtful cases.
By Holmgren's test there can be no ques-
tion of confusing the examined, for those
with normal color-vision never fail to match
green; while the color-blind always make
mistakes.
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04

EX-CoLLECToR SIMMONS said the other
day that he had stepped out of his party "for
this occasion only" and that he expected to
be working in the Republican ranks again
next year. His case reminds the Newton
(Mass.) journal of the church member who
got tipsy, and in that condition was met by
his pastor. Being sternly rebuked for his
conduct, he excused himself in this wise:
"You know, parson, that for more than
twenty years I've served the Lord faithfully
and well, and so l thought might as well
take day.'
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04
THE PRESS.
SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 4.

We dc not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for publica-
ton but as guaranty Of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
muncatlons that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate signed by Stanley I. Pullen,
Editor All railway, steamboat and hotel managers
will confer favor upon us by demanding credentials
of every person claiming to represent our journal.
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04
Residence for Sale.

H1HE large two-story House with ell and stable at
J. tached, about twenty acres of tillage land with
young orchard, situated at Oak Hill, Scarborough,
near the Thornton Mansion and belonging to the
estate of the late Emery Moody, deceased. The
above is of the most attractive and desirable To-
cations in this vicinity for Summer Residence,
minutes walk of the p. s. s. P. r. r. depot as also
short drive of either Portland Saco, Old Orchard
Libbys Beach. For terms and particulars enquire of
n. =. LAES SAHEE, Admimistrator,
mh24tf 1919 1-2 Middle Sf.
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04
THE Nelv Era saws:


Like Solon Chase's steers the bulk of every
thing has been increased at the expense of its
value, by resumption 1t increased the crops,
but lessened their aggregated value.
This is something more than has been
claimed for resumption, by any Republican
paper. We had supposed that "them steers"
were increasing in bulk, as natural result
of much eating, having been led to this con-
clusion by some remarks made by their
owner, before he went to ''yoke them up
with the "wild ass of the prairie" in regard
to the hay they were consuming. Still II
the Ne,o Era insists that resumption did it,
we congratulate Solon ON being freed from
the painful necessity of getting up cold win
ter mornings to attend to the work of ''fod-
dering up" The assurance that the boun-
tiful crops of the West, are due to resump-
ton is still more gratifying. We are panied
to say, however, that these temporal benefits
have been secured only at the expense OF
our eternal welfare, for the Neac Era adds
that resumption ''has broadened the road to
perdition, but narrowed the road to glory"
Mr. LANGsTON (colored), the United States
Minister to Hayti, has had a talk about the
Southern exodus with a representative of
the Washington Star. He favors ga reason
able emigration which would not only tend
to improve the condition of the larger body
of the colored people remaining there, but
would tend, by necessity, to superinduce
and establish habits of intelligent industry
among the whites, certainly the poorer
classes of them, and thus general benefit
would be wrought" He thinks that the
situation of the negroes now among the old
surroundings of slavery at the South is pre-
judicial to their advancement, and that they
will not find the Northern climate too severe
for their health. He does not want the
freedmen to concentrate in any particular
State, but to scatter all over the North.
THE Leader says the Governor and Coun-
Gil look over the returns and issue certifi
cate to such as they believe to have received
a plurality of votes. This belief is formed
by looking over the selectmen." We
wish the Leader would explain the process
little more minutely. Are the selectmen
to be gathered at Augusta and there looked
over, or will the Governor and Council
drive round to the different towns and look
them over there. Is the examination to be
physical or mental, or both? And how is
selectman expected to look when the town
has gone Greenback? And how when it
has gone Republican?
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04

FEyHE Offices in Merchants Bank Building vacated
IL by National Traders Bank. Fire proof vault
and heated by steam. se8dtf
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04
TVO Let.

HOUSE corner Centre and Free, suitable for a
III genteel Boarding House. Inquire
aug13dtf 100 CENTRE STREET.
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04

Three more of the Half Hour Series of
Messrs Harper portland: Loring, Short &
Harmony, are, The Origin of the English Ma
ton by Edward,A. Freeman, D. G. L., LID,
fine and picturesque essay; Food and
Feeding, a paper on some hygienic aspects of
cookery, by Sir Henry Thompson. Also
thoroughly delightful story by Barnet Phillips,
entitled Burning Their Ships. 1t is liberal
education to assist at the Lilliput Levee of the
little volumes of this series-whose size is in
such comical disproportion to their variety and
value
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04
To let.
Office to Let.

T OVER half of house, or four connecting rooms,
Il I'd story, very desirable, No: 3o12 High Street
sep3dtf NEW NUMBER 94
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04
TO Let.


IN KNIGHTVILLE. Upper Rent. House in good
Il repair First house ON left near bridges apply on
premises. se12u
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TO Let.

" OUSE to let with or without furniture, terms
IL liberal to the right party. Inquire at the house.
oc1dIw* 164 DANFORTH STREET.
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04
WANTS..
Situation Wanted.

EpY an American woman as housekeeper in a fam
ID ily of one or two widower preferred. Address
or inquire for Housekeeper, 1919 Middle St. up two
flights. oc3d3t*
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04
10 Let.

TEOUSE No. % Chestnut ST., first block below
II the church. Has all modern conveniences.
Possession given Oct. 1. Enquire of
se27d2w G. L. .TUKESBURY, 161 Fore st.
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04
Wanted.

FENWO unfurnshed rooms at moderate price in
IL some private family, for about four months
within minutes walk of Post Office. Address by
letter to W. u. MCCAW, U. S. Hotel. oc3d3t
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04

A VERY fine Rent with rooms, on the corner
"A of Lincoln and Wilmot Street. Also, two nice
front chambers at No. % Wimot Street Enquire at
w. P. HASTINGS, 1441a Exchange Street. or MR.
TRUE, "a Wilmot Street. se29H
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04
JACOBS PATENT LITHOGRAN

A LONG FELT WANT is at last supplied. Law
yers, Bankers, Tradesmen, in fact, all men en-
gagged in business, have long felt the need of some
device, which would be at the same time cheap
simple and practicable whereby copies may be
multiplied sasieExfy and s,insiiy from one orr z
inaI writing, thus saving time, labor and
money, three great desideratums
We confidently assert that for this purpose, the
Jacobs Lthogram is the most practicable method
yet DEVISED in fact it seems to be perfect Its ad
vantages over any similar thing are
Esf-RerfeCt Impressions, giving work al
most equal to photographic engraving.
2d-Efs simplicity. Apparatus consisting of q
tablet, bottle of prepared ink, and sponge-so
simple that child can operate it.
:sd-E3apidity. Impressions can be made from
the original writing in less than two minutes and
thereafter multiplied at the rate of twenty per min
ute.
4ti-Ets Utility is almost boundless Anything
that be made or written with pen and ink can
be transferred to the tablet in minute, and then
fac simile copies reproduced easily and quickly.
gram are) lithographing their own Cards. Circulars,
Letter and Bill Heads, Envelopes, Sc, &c. Hotels
and Restaurants their Bills of Fare. Drawings,
Maps and Sketches can be reproduced by the hun
dred 1t be used to advantage in Schools in set
ting copies, giving out examples &c. Draughts-
men and Architects find it to be a necessity. In
fine its numberlesS.
5fh-Such an article only needs the additional
qualification of Cheapness, to commend itself to
the favor of ALL Prices from $3.50 to $1,000, ac-
cording to size. The Lithogram is now in use in
numerous Banks and Government Offices in Canada
sold to merchants, which should testify to its mer-
its.
Specimens of its work can be had upon appilca-
ton by letter to the General Agent, or by calling at
their office, 176 Middle, corner Exchange St. Port
land, Maine.
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04

inality, Mr.. Browning's Evelyn Hope. Rena
is pretty legend we'll told, of how love taught
a woman in a dream the dreamlike art of lace
making. This Day is imaginative and tune
full My Lovers, pretty conceit of happy
woman with four tall sons to love her, is
charming poem. Weaving the Web is finely
imagined, with genuine lyric tone Unsolved,
Thou knowest, and Twenty-one, are fine in
thought and expression. Several sonnets are
good; and the poem written for the celebration
at Bennington, Vermont, 10 August, 1877, is
fine in imagination and musical quality. AT
her best, Mrs. Julia Dorr is poet both genu-
inc and effective; her work is always refined
and agreeable.
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04
Girl w amfed.

TITO do general housework. Inquire at 800 DAN
Il FORTH STREET, from to P. M.
stp15 dtf
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04

DERBEANENT Employment at Home
4 Day or evening" Male or Female, $50 week
guaranteed. No capital required. Instructions and
valuable package of Goods to start WITH sent Free
by mail, address with &c return stamp A. ID. Young
IS6 Conselyea St. Williamsburgh n. Y. se2Od3m
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04
10 Let.

A l Story House in good repair with Sebago, at
n $3.50, former price $1,000. Also, good rent
for $3.50 with Sebago in center of city. Apply to
jy1Stf w. W. CARR, 1877 Newbury ST.
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04

The Gracchi, Marius and Sulla, by A. ii.
Beesly (New York: Scribners Sons; Portland;
Loring, Short & HARMONY is volume belong
ing to the Epochs of Ancient History Series,
and is written after the manner of the other
volumes of the series; that is to say, it presents
ancient history, not as a bare record of battles,
but with its attendant customs of home life
and the personal interest that gives warmth to
the dry bones of chronology.
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04
BOARD.
TO LET.
For Rent.
House to Let.

Upper half Of house, containing rooms, gas
4 and Sebago water.
oc1dlwr NO. SO MYRTLE ST.
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WGHAtNG.

NNE Book keeper; One Salesman; One Cabinet
" maker; Address MERCHANT, Press Office.
oco 1w
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04

Another volume of Mr.. William j. Rolfe's
admirably useful and convenient edition of
Shakspeare's Plays, contains the comedy of
Twelfth Night. The notes are, as usual, in
structive, and free from the over-verbal and
bewildering quality of much of the current
comment upon Shakespeare. Each fresh vol
ume of the series gives new occasion to speak
of the excellent and practical manner in which
Mr.. Rolfe adapts his edition for school and
family reading as regards text form and ex-
pense. (New York: Harper & Brothers; Port
land Loring, Short & Harmony
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04


mands upon the time and strength of teachers
and children were very much greater than in
former years. The superintendent of the pub
lie schools of Portland at that time was Mr. E.
Hunt a person who greatly esteemed red tape
in education; and while many of the school
regulations made by him tended to render the
school system an apparently complete thing in
the abstract, the working of that system was
hard and impracticable in many cases. One of
the first aims of school boards should be to
avoid unnecessary fatigue to the young minds
of the pupils and tired brains of the teachers.
There are many details of school management
which it would be desirable to attend to were
time and human strength unlimited; and Of
which it is difficult for committees to appre-
ciate the onerousness without actual expert
ence. Many child can study in school hours
who has no physical strength to study addition
ally at home; and among working people the
extra hours cannot often be afforded. A strict
system of education must always be to the ad-
vantage of some and the disadvantage of 9th
ers. And wise grown persons who make the
laws for the little ones should take thought for
their tender bodies; their tiny little wit, tired
with wondering at q world all new to them;
and ponder on the phrase of Cripps the Car
rier- in Mr.. Richard Blackmore's fine novel of
that name: II don't hold much with that
there eddication. A may suit some people,
but not many. They puts it on 'em all alike,
wi'out the trial of constitution. Some goes
better for it, but most volk worse.'
Friar Anselmo and Other Poems, by Mrs.
Julia c. r. Dorr (New York: Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons; Portland: Loring, Short & Har-
mon,) contains many graceful and well written
poems by a writer favorably known by her
contributions to magazine literature. Among
these, Friar Anselmo-the poem from which
the book takes its name, is elevated in feeling
and smooth in verse, containing some fine lines.
A Secret, recalls something too much for orig
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04
WANTED.

TIVE men to sell BERK'S PATENT
IL WEIGHING and MEASURING
SCOOP, in every county and town in Maine, and
New Hampshire. Liberal Terms to Agts. Send
stamp for particulars. f. A.fROBINSON.
se2Oeodlmo Thomaston Me.
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04
CLASS FOR YOUNG LADIES AND GEN
TLEMEN.

MONDAY and THURSDAY EVENINGS, COM
mencing October 9th. All the latest styles of Dane
ing taught. Waiting made speciality. Terms for
twelve lessons: Gents $500; Ladies' $500 One
half the tuition fee to be paid at the time of sub
scrbing and the balance at the sixth lesson.
The Portland daily press., 1879-10-04
PLEASANT ROOMS TO LET.

QUITE of rooms on second floor; plenty of
= light air and water. Heat and gas furnished.
Also one room on third foor References exchanged.
Stable 10 Let.
Situated in the western central part of city. Ad-
dress l.. i. T., Daily Press Office.
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