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The Portland daily press., 1879-05-31

THE Shoe and Leather Reporter thinks
the condition and prospects of trade are in
the highest degree encouraging and says the
activity that has characterized the markets
during the past ten days is SO manifestly the
natural sequent of growing confidence and
increased demand that there is very little
doubt of its continuance. 1t is not attribu-
table in the least to artificial propulsion.
Nothing has been done by interested parties
to accelerate it. There has been a univer-
sal disposition ON the part of all concerned
to wait patiently till normal causes COM
bined to infuse vigor into the business.
There never was movement more replete
with elements of spontaneity and healthful-
ness. So far from being initiated prema-
turely, it has been delayed until the forces
which conspired to energize it became ire
sistible. The long and wearisome period of
letha1gy which preceded it was a season
OF preparation for it-a course of instruc-
ton in the stern lessons of discipline, very
hard to learn, but very salutary in their
influence.
The Portland daily press., 1879-05-31
THE PRESS.
SATURDAY, MONRING, MAY 81.

We do not read anonymous letters and eommuni-
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
munications that are not used
The Portland daily press., 1879-05-31

A STORY good enough to be true is told of
Congressman Morse of Boston Speaker
Randall asked him the other day how the
party stood at Boston. (which party?"
replied Morse. ''Why, the Democratic par
ty, of COURSE" said Randall. ''There isn't
any Democratic party there" exclaimed
Morse, in his quick, business like way.
This Congress has killed it.''
The Portland daily press., 1879-05-31

Mr.. ROBBINS, of North Carolina, is quot
ed by correspondent of the Albany Journal
as saying of Senator Hill: '.When the rest
of us were seeding, Hill wanted to stay in.
He didn't get his fighting blood up till the
war was nearly over; then he wanted to
keep it up after everybody else was ready
to quit. A peace man in war, war man in
peace ''that's what Hill isl
The Portland daily press., 1879-05-31

CHARLES FOSTER, the next Governor of
Ohio was born in Seneca county, in that
State, in 1928, received a good academical
education, and engaged in mercantile and
banking pursuits. His first appearance in
public life was as member of the forty
second Congress. He was reelected to the
forty-third, forty-fourth and forty fifth Con
gresses. In the campaign of 1873 he led a
forlorn hope in the gerrymandered eighth
district, and was defeated, although he re-
duced the Democratic majority by about
5000 votes.
The Portland daily press., 1879-05-31

A FRENCH porter while cutting his to-
bacco the otherday gave himself wound
in the hand. He was soon Frustrated wit h
nicotine poisoning, "and is now in a pre-
carious condition." the current item says.
The moral of this it that men should use
fine-cut,
The Portland daily press., 1879-05-31

The speech Senator Cockrell read from
Senator Wallace's manuscript Thursday is
said to be the best speech the Missouri man
ever delivered. That State should be proud
OF the elocutionary powers of her Senator.
The Portland daily press., 1879-05-31

SoUrHERNERs are proposing to raise a
monument to General N. B. Forrest. There
is no need of it. The country will not for
get the atrocities of Fort Pillow.
The Portland daily press., 1879-05-31

EX-GOVERNOR FENToN, who has just got
back from Europe, says business men there,
and men in public affairs are amazed at he
successful management of our finances by
the Admin istration.
The Portland daily press., 1879-05-31

SENATOR WALLACE's trickery in printing
as the proceedings of his committee papers
that formed no part of its official record re-
calls his exploit with the coffee-pot and the
naturalization papers in Pennsylvania years
n
The Portland daily press., 1879-05-31

DECORATION DAY gives an excuse for
printing these words of Thoreau on John
Brown spoken in 1860: Con the day of his
translation heard to be sure that he was
hung, but did not know what that meant;
felt no sorrow on that account: but not for
day or two did even hear that he was
dead, and not after any number of days shall
believe it. Of all the meu who were said
to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me
that John Brown was the only one who had
not died. 1 never hear of man named
Brown now-and 1 hear of them pretty often
= never hear of any particularly brave and
earnest man, but my first thought is of John
Brown and what relation he may be to him.
meet him at every turn. He is more alive
than ever he was. He has earned immortal
ity He is not confined to North Elba nor
to Kansas. He is no longer working in Sc
cret. He shines in public, and in the clear
est light that shines on this land.'
The Portland daily press., 1879-05-31

IHE Democrats laughed outright when
the veto message was read. 1t is well they
have their laugh now. The Republican bull
will be round next Fall.
The Portland daily press., 1879-05-31

1t is said the ''Tilden wing' of the party
wants Congress to adjourn without making
appropriations. The Tldenites are only
brave at the wrong time.
The Portland daily press., 1879-05-31

GEOGRAPHY is fertile source of wit.
The Alta California whispers word to the
married: Don't dispair.
The Portland daily press., 1879-05-31

Is the rallying cry of the Democrats to be
"A fiat nation and a fiat dollar?" 1t looks
like that.
The Portland daily press., 1879-05-31

WEAVER of Ohio is said to be the favorite
OF the Greenbackers for the Presidency.
The Portland daily press., 1879-05-31

1T really seems as though some one was
getting killed in the South American war.
The Portland daily press., 1879-05-31
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The Portland daily press., 1879-05-31
Yorick's Drawer.

"A correspondent who signs himself
Number Twenty" and writes from Massa-
chusetts, identifies and corrects the sixth
fragment of poetry given in the Drawer of
May 10th. Yorick had it:
Like some gallant bark
Well-built and tall, which angry tides have left
To rot and moulder in the winds and rains of
heaven.
Number Twenty suggests that Yorick is
striving to recall the following lines from
Pollock,-lines meant to apply to Byron:
AS some ill-guided bark, well-built and tall
Which angry tides cast out on desert shore
And then, retiring, left it there to rot
And moulder in the winds of heaven;
So he, cut from the sympathies of life
And cast ashore from pleasures, bosterous sung.
This is a warning to witnesses who conf
IDENTIFY relate things as they remember them
The signature the correspondent assumes
leads Yorick to hope that he purposes to
identify the other extracts in the Drawer of
May 10th. Eight yet await recognition in
that morgue. The fragment from Sidney
DobelFs Roman" is, says 'Number. .Twen-
ty,'' reprinted in Longfellow's Poems of
Places, in the volume Italy.
-''W. A. A. would like to know the
authorship of these lines:
Fair fancy's visions all are fed,
And all those forms that often led
The circling shadowy dance,
Reality usurps the place
OF mystic forms that lent their grace
To dreams of wild romance.
Correspondents who have already done so
much in the way of identifying scraps of
verse that have appeared in the Drawer
may be able to give the authorship of the
above. In doing SO much they have taught
Yorick to expect more.
-"Y. H., "speaks of the dog-Latin quoted
from Moore's Memoirs two weeks since, and
submits the following, which is, he says,
attributed to Swift:
Mollis abuti
Has acuti
No lasso fms
Moli divinis.
A rhyme of this kind that Yorick learned
when he wore jackets Ia garment out of
which boys now-a-day shake themselves as
soon as they drop into trowsers, but which
fifteen years ago was terror to gawky
YOUTH ran this way:
Mus cucurrit plenum sed
Contra meum magnum ad.
A story of this manner of play on Latin is
told by Moore, who says a boy asked to
translate "They ascend by ladders, promptly
answered." Ascendebont par adolescen-
tiores." That is the way the school-teacher
climbs to fame and higher salary.
A more scholarly diversion, though as
useless if not as trifing, is the turning of
English verse into passable and generally
dramatically correct Latin. To those who
enjoy this sort of play, a little book by J. M.
Merrick 'Nugae Inutiles," published at
Boston in 1874, will give entertainment.
In it nursery rhymes are done into Latin
rare-done. Jack Horner appears in this
guise:
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TERMS $500 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE.


body" Jeremy Taylor, ''the Demosthenes of
divines," wrote: 'For so have I seen a lark
rising from his bed of grass, and soaring up
wards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get
to heaven and climb above the clouds; but
the poor bird was beaten back with the loud
sighings of an eastern wind, and his
motion made irregular and incon-
slant, descending more at every breath
of the tempest than it could recover by the
ibration and frequent weighing of his wings;
till the little creature was forced to sit down
and pant and stay till the storm was over; :;
and then it made a prosperous flight, and
did rise and sing as if it had learned music
aud motion from an angel as he passed
here below: so is the prayer of good man."
Ruskin, in the description of st. Marks says !:
"And in the midst of it the solemn forms of
angels, sceptred and robed to the feet and
leaning to each other across the gates, their
figures indistinct among the cleaning of the
golden ground through the leaves beside
them, interrupted and dim like the morning
light as it faded back among the branches of
Eden, when first the gates were angel
guarded long ago." De Quincy, in The
Confessions of an Opium Eater, says: 81
saw, as lay awake in bed, vast professions
that passed along in mournful pomp, freizes
of never-ending stories that, to my feelings,
were as sad and solemn as if they were sto-
c;a Iro,l
Priam, before Tyre, before Memphis. And
at the same time corresponding change
took place in my dreams-a theatre seemed
suddenly opened and lighted up within my
brain, which presented nightly spectacles of
more than earthly splendors." Examples
might be multiplied, were it necessary. But
those given will convince ga Fault-Finder"
that ALTERATION is not in bad repute with
some distinguished writer's of prose. In
deed Yorick opines that his correspondent
does not desire to censure ALTERATION so
much as he wishes to rebuke sneers at it.
The poets offer tempting field for the
discussion of ALTERATION, but too wide one
to be compassed here. They have always
kept fresh the distinguishing feature of An
glo-Saxon verse. One of the latest singers,
Swinburne, uses it with noticeable frequen-
cy. His ''lilies and languors of virtue," and
''raptures and roses of vice. have passed in
to common speech.
''The lisp of leaves and the ripple of rain,'
is scarcely less familiar quotation. The
'Anima Aneeps" has scarcely line free
from ALTERATION. "The Garden of Prosper
inc" contains in its penultimate stanza that
cry of despair:
From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be,
That no life lives forever;
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.
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Novelties in Fashion.

Diamond buttons, so called, are nov
city and very effective on evening dresses.
Each button is composed of several crystal
Rhine pebbles, cut and set like diamonds.
They are made in several Sizes.
Gilded ornaments are all the rage.
Gilded combs, and buckles for the shoes,
are among these. Buckles of Rhine peb-
bles are used for the same purpose.
Many toilets are covered with beads
and embroidery, all in bright colors.
Materials are also used shot with metal
lie threads, and laces have gold and silver
work intermixed. 1t is very difficult
with these snowy trimmings and materi-
ais to have toilet which is in perfect
taste. and not one over trimmed
Save at official dinners, where receptions
are announced TO take place afterward,
lOwneck dresses are not worn. The half
low neck, with short sleeves, is adopted
These have transparent inserted pufflngs,
and triple lace Jabots for trimming
Garnet color, which is now so much worn
in the evening, is used for young ladys
toilet very differently than when en-
ployed for an elderly person, The follow
ing descriptions Of toilets will show the
difference between the two styles. For
the young lady's toilet the body Of the
dress is garnet faillee, with a brig ht pink
satin overdress, plated in lengthwise
plaits. These are fastened up by small
bands Of ruchings made of pink SATIN
bordered with garnet color, These ruch-
ings become larger toward the lower part
of the skirt, terminating in broad, loose
plaits. The panier polonaise is of fancy
garnet velvet. The square pocket is
trimmed with silver and gold and several
shades Of pink embroidery. The polonaise
is also trimmed with this work.
The pink satin vest is embroidered in
Louis XIV. rococo shades. It has 1. very
long basque, reaching nearly to the
knees, and left open about the distance
of four buttons from the lower part. The
buttons are garnets mounted in silver
filigree. Under the basque of the velvet
habit are pink satin draperies forming
the panier. From these drapcries falls a
garnet-colored train, which is plated in
hollow plaits. These are very deep and
open in fan shape on the lower part of
the skirt. The sides are trimmed up
with three draperies placed each above
the other, and forming a "quille" trim
ming, trimmed with chenille fringe in
pink and garnet in several shades. The
inside border Of the vest is trimmed with
a ruching of Brussels lace. The satin
sleeves, which reach to the elbows, have
garnet velvet revers, worked with silver.
A fall of Brussels lace lies over the pale
pink gloves. The hair is dressed in large
ringlets, and adorned with ruby butter
flies and birds.
A toilet suited to an elderly lady is a
polonaise of fancy garnet velvet opening
over body of satin in the same shade.
The apron is draped diagonally, fastened
and raised in the centre and on the sides
under bows. The dress is cut open in
heart-shape over fchu Of white lace.
The skirt has long train.
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The Song of the Stream.

Over the moses and grasses
The white cloud passes,
Silent and soft as dream;
And the earth, in her shy embraces,
Conceals the traces
OF the secret birth Of the stream;
Tall my threads are braided and woven,
And speed through the cloyen
Channels, and gather and sink,
And wind, and sparkle, and daily,
With song in the valley
And shout from the terrible brink!
Then the whirl of the wind divides me,
And the rainbow hides me,
As midway scatter in air;
And l battle with endless showers
The feet OF the flowers,
And the locks of the forests hair;
Till proudly, with waters welded
My strength is bedded
By meadow, and slope, and lea;
And the lands at last deliver
Their tribute river
To the universal sea.
-Bayarr5 Taylor.
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The longer I live, the more do I becou

The longer live, the more do I become
satisfied that nothing is so good for people
who are in deep trouble as real hard work,
work that not only occupies the hands
but the brain; work on which one lavishes
the best part of the heart. I know it re-
quires great deal of resolution to break
away from the apathy ola deep sorrow or
heavy trouble, and resolutely put ones
hand to the new or long disused pillow
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but the effort once made, if there is any
thing in the individual, he or she will
never turn back. And after work, real
work, work with the hands, head, and
heart,-after this will come trust, and
with trust will come peace Ws!liane G..
Eliot.
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a X A1Iason, 81 OF 81 Of Is
zrUSne's Second Add.

S Nancy Irvine. 81 p 6 9 96 IS IS
James NJ Phillips, commencing at a stake
in centre of Main street u chains Of
ne cor of Irvine's Add of Out Lots to
st. Paul; thence e 6.87 chs to stake;
thence 50 deg W 4.15 chs; thence w
$40 chs to stake in the mid Of Main
st; thence by line 211S chs to beg,
subject to easement of said street,
being in ne n of nw1, sec 80, t29, r22 70 20
James NJ Phillips. commencing at point
on side of Main st, at ne cor of Irvines
Add OF Out Lots, aforesaid; thence e 8
chs, thence 715 chs to a post, thence
W 8 chs to a post on e line of Main st,
thence north on said line IL chains
to beginnings being partly in. ne
n of NV Il, and partly in NV Il and
ne Il of sec 80, t29, 70, Us # on W
side reserved for street for the publc)208 rs
Caroline Schurmeier, com at a stake on
Bedford st. at sw cor of ] NJ Phillips
land, and adjoining Irvines Out Lots
to st. Paul on the e line threof, thence
rung 165 ft, thence 165 #. 25 deg,
e1.77 it to Sc cor of said Phillips land,
thence W by, said land 24211a # to beg,
Us # on W side thereof reserved for a
Brunson's add. to st. Paul.
Margaretha Armbuster.. IL 2 At Is
Ada L Mayall. n115........ 1 s l6 IS
Bebb. IL 81 IS
Cynthia Jones, thes a of land COM
mencing at the intersection of line
Of Bedford st with n line of Beaumont
st, thence running to Minnehaha st,
thence W l65 #, thence to Beaumont
st, thence e 165 # to place of beg. SO IL
All in the city of St. Paul, county of Ramsey
and State of Minnesota.
F. A. REM,
IL Citv Treasurer
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Assessment for the So-Called Rice
Street Sewer.
OFFICE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, !
CITY OF ST. PAUL, MIMI, Jan. %. 1919

UFF1CE BOARD OF PUBLIC NORRIS,
CITY OF ST. PAUL, MINI, Jan. %, 1879.
The Board of Public Works, in and for the
corporation of the city of ST. Paul, Mimi, will
meet at their Office in said city at IL NJ. on the
18th day of February, 1879, to make an as
sessment of benefits costs and expenses arising
from the construction of sewer on Tenth,
hlce and Rondo streets, from Fort street to a
point on Rondo street abont 200 feet west eff
Rice street, in said city, on the property on the
line of said sewer, and benefited thereby.
amounting in the aggregate to $3SS40O.
All persons interested are hereby notified to
De present at said time and place of making
SAID assessment, and will be heard.
otnclai: 81. NJ. RICE, President.
r. L. GoRMAN,
Clerk of the Board of Public Works.
16.l7
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Notice is hereby given, that under and by
virtue of Judgment, entered on the 22d day
OF January, 1879, in the District Court, second
judicial district, Ramsey county, State of Min
nesota, against the hereinafter described real
estate, situate, lying and being in said city and
county, on an assessment warrant for
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Chicago, Milwaukee g. st. Pau, Railway.
Passenger Depot foot of jackson street, Ticket ane
Freight Office Southeast Corner of Thir7 and Jack.
son streets. Thompson Petsch, Ticket Agents, St.
Paul.
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CITY NOTICE.
OFFICE OF THE CITY TREASURER,
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, Jan. 80, 1879.
City Treasurers' Sale.

Notice is hereby given, that under and by
virtue OF Judgment entered on the 22d day Of
January, 1879, in the District Court, second
judicial district. Ramsey county, State of Min
nesota, against the hereinafter described real
estate, situate. lying and being in said city and
county: assessment warrant for
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CITY NOTICE.
OFFICE OF THE CRY TREASURER,
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, Jan. 80, 1879.
City Treasurer's Sale.


virtue Of a Judgment entered on the 22a day Of
January, 1879. in the District Court, second
judicial district Ramsey county, State of Min
nesota, against the hereinafter described real
estate, situate, lying and being in said city and
county, on an assessment warrant for
G CONSTRUCTING A SEWER ON ST. PETER
STREET, FROM NINTH TO TENTH
STREET, AND ON TENTH STREET TO
FORT STREET,
in said city of st. Paul, the undersigned will,
on Saturday, the 18th day of February, 1879,
at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. at the front door
of the City Treasurer's Office in the city of St.
Paul, county of Ramsey. offer for sale at pub
lie auction, as provided by law, to the best
bidder for cash, the following described real
estate, to-wit:
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Minneapolis Railroad Time Table.

Trans arrive ana depart rroui TIE st. PAU 4 Pso
hc depot, Minneapolis.
Tickets and sleeping car berths secured At city
ticket Office, No. Washington avenus, Opposite
Ntconet house) W. G. Teller, Ticket Agent, and .
Ihlrd street, st. Paui -Gzo. q. HAzzAHp, Tickle
Agent. CEas f. HATOF G.n h9an
A. ". EnaV. pSas o,+
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City TreaSurer's Sale.

Notice is hereby given that under and by vir-
tue of a judgment entered on the 10Th day of
November, 1878, in the District Court second
judicial district Ramsey county, State of Min
nesota, against the hereinafter described real
estate, situate, lying and being in said city and
county on an assessment warrant for
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-02

Notice is hereby given, that under and by
virtue of a judgment entered on the 22d day
of January, 1879, in the District Court, second
Judicial district, Ramsey county, State of Min
nesota, against the hereinafter described real
estate, situate, lying and being in said city and
county, on an assessment warrant for
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CONSTRUCTING A SEWER ON TENTH
STREET, FROM A POINT SO FEET EAST
OF JACKSON STREET TO BROADWAY,

in said city of st. Paul, the undersigned will,
on Saturday, February 18th, 1S79 at 10 o clock
in the forenoon, at the front door of the City
of Ramsey, offer for sale at public auction, as
provided by law, to the best bidder for cash,
the following described real estate, to-wit:
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GRADING AND BRIDGING EAST JOHN
STREET, FROM OWATONNA ROAD TO
GREENWOOD AVENUE.

In said city of st. Paul, the undersigned will,
on Saturday, February 18th. 1879, at 10 o'clock
in the forenoon, at the front door of the City
Treasurers office, in the city of st. Paul,
county of Ramsey, offer for sale at public auc-
tion as provided by law to the best bidder for
cash, the following described real estate,
to-wit:
Weef O. Dpo,1 D.o,oaa
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TRAINS.

River Division
Through Chicago 4 East
ern Express. ...........
Through Chicago 4 East
ern Express. ..........
Iowa and Minnesota Div.
Prairie du Chen, Milwau-|
kee and Chicago Express
St.Louis l. Kansas City Ex
do do
Owatonna Passenger. :.
st. Paul and MINNEAPOLIS
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. Q Befkman. ........... 9 $l44 IS
Gustave Willius, IS $500. 2 10 IS 81
Gustave Willius, n Is $3.50. 3 10 rs 81
All in the city of St. Paul, Ramsey county
Minnesota.
F. A. REM,
l4-l8 City Treasurer.