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Daily globe., 1879-02-16

states expressly her regimen is designed to oc-
we look for more than the absolute necessaries
OF life. The age is prolific of theories, manv
OF them. happily adapted to the practice.
and in that category the fancies of many an
intellectual maid be harmless, as they are use
less. 1 Those two manuals of cookery present
M one extremes, and in the middle ground there
called applicable to the necessities of the
tlme, and which for practical purpose are
really useful ~
Daily globe., 1879-02-16

"What," asks correspondent, "causes
the hair to fall out?" Before we answer
we must know whether you are married
or single. This is important to true un-
derstanding of the case.-Keohuk Consti-
tuition.
Daily globe., 1879-02-16
How He Cured a Smoky Chimney.

Yesterday, as citizen of Woodward
Avenue was helping tinsmith to elevate
a smoke jack to the roof of an addition
on the windy side of the house, prepa1a
tory to hosting it atop of a smoking
chimney, an old man with a ragged
bundle under his arm came along, halted
and soon became deeply interested.
"That chimbly smokes, don't it?' he
finally inquired.
cts the worst one in town." replied
the citizen.
"And you want to stop the nuisance,
eyes, I do"
"And you think that smoke-jack will
do it?"
~ hope So"
swell, now, I kin stop that smoking
in ten minits, and won't hurt the chin
bly, nor put up any smoke-jacks," con-
tinued the old n an, as he laid down his
bundle.
If you'll do it, I'll give you five
dollars" rejo1ned the citizen, who dis
liked the idea of disfiguring his chimney
with the clumsy jack.
Nlu i udtC luC A4lCucA LUZ 1--we mlu-
utes?" asked the man.
eyes"
The cook was instructed to vacate,
and the old man took possession. Remov-
ing the top of the stove, he poured in
enough water to put out every spark OF
the fire. Then going out, he called to
the citizen on the roof:
"Has she stopped smoking?"
swell, don't see any smoke at all, y
was the reply; .''what have you done?"
While he was coming down the ladder
the old man made of, eating pie be
had taken from the oven. The last half
of it he had to bolt down while on the
run, but at no time in the race did the
citizen, tinsmith or servant-girl gel
within twenty rods of him-Free Press.
Daily globe., 1879-02-16

Little Johnny wanted to go to church
His mother was afraid he would make a
noise, but his father said ~ Johnuy knows
better than to make a noise in church. .
So he went. He kept very still till the
last prayer. By that time he had grown
tired of sitting still, and was standing on
the pew cushion, with his back to the
pulpit. When the lady in the next seat
bowed her head for prayer, Johnny
thought she was crying. He leaned over
and said to the lady, in tone that was
meant for a whisper, but which was only
too plainly heard: "Poor lady! What
ee matter2 Do 90 summit ache?"
Daily globe., 1879-02-16

To clean stair rods, luse wooden cloth
wet with water and dipped in sifted coal
ashes; afterwards rub with dry cloth.
A piece of rag soaked in a solution of
cayenne is capital thing to put into a
rat or mouse hole. They will not attempt
to eat it.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-18
Advice to a Young Man.
burlington Hawkeye.l

And then remember son, that the world is
older than you are, by several years; that for
thousands of years it has been SO full of smarter
and better young men than yourself that their
feet stuck out of the dormer windows that
when they died the old globc went whirling on
and not one man in ten million went to the
funeral or even heard of the death. Be as
smart as you can, of course. Know as much
as you can, without blowing out of your cylin-
der heads; shed the light of your wisdom
abroad in the world, but don't dazzle people
with it, And don't imagine thing is so sim
ply because you say it is. Don't be too sorry
for your father because he knows so much less
than you do; remember the reply of Dr. Way
said it was an easy enough thing to mako PROV
erbs such as Solomon wrote make few"
tersely replied the old man. And we never
heard that the young man made any. Not
more than two or three, anyhow. The world
has great need of young men, but no greater
need than the young men have of it. Your
clothes fit you better than your fathers fit
him; they cost more money, they are more
stylish, your moustache is neater, the cut of
your hair is better, and you are prettier, oh,
far prettier than pa. But, young man, the old
gentleman gets the biggest salary, and his
homely, scrambling signature ON the business
end of a check will drain more money out of
the bank in five minutes than you could get
out with a ream of paper and q copper plate
signature in six months. Young men are use
full, son, and they are ornamental, and we all
love them and we couldn't engineer picnic
successfully without them. But they are not
novelties, son. Oh, no, nothing of the kind.
They have been here before. Don't be so
modest as to shut yourself clear out; but don't
l. l.
cool to keep you from spelling. Don't be afraid
that your merit will not sbe discovered. Peo-
pie all over the world are hunting for you, and
if you are worth finding they wsll find you. A
diamond isn't as easily found as a quartz peb-
Bile, but people search for it all the more in
tently
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-18
A Coalition of Ofice-Seekers.

HlbOSton AuVertlSer.
The Greenback party has for leaders most
inveterate class of office-seekers and ex-office-
holders. They are men who have worked in
the hope of a reward and have been disap-
pointed, or men who have had all the Republi-
can party would give them and now turn else
where for new favors Many of them have
been trained in the school of skilful and sue
cessful cam paigning which Maine has sup
ported for the last twenty years. Among their
followers are hosts Of other men who have
been imbued with the same idea of the desira-
bleness of offices, and who hold to the princi-
pie of rotation. So they revolt not because
they sbeleve particularly in Greenbackism,
nor in all cases because the offices have been
given to men whom they dislike, but because
they desire change in the otfice-holders,
They want all they can get for themselves,
and if they can get nothing they will be salts
fed if the men who are in can only he replaced
by others, no matter whom. In one county of
the State they have nominated for an impor-
tant office notorious gambler; and, from their
highest candidate in the State to the lowest,
they have shown their insincerity by choosing
men who are the mast noteworthy examples
Of the "money power they can persuade, by
the promise of office, to repeat their creed. In
short, office is at the bottom of three-quarters
of the Greenbackism in the State, and, so far
as the Democratic element in the party is con-
cerned, there is scarcely anything but office
coveting as a foundation for it.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-18
boston Journal.l
Shabby Treatment of Union Sol
6iarS

The Secretary of the Democratic Senate,
Colonel Burch has just performed an official
act which the soldiers of the Union will not be
likely to forget. Upon the organization of the
Democratic Senate, when the Republicans OBJ
iected to changes in the rules which would
render it possible for the ex-rebels to discharge
the lagless and armless Union soldiers who
were employed in various capacities about the
Senate, Democratic Senators, notably Senator
Wallace, chairman of the Caucus Committee,
announced that the Democrats had not dis
charged and would not discharge any wounded
Union soldiers. The statement was not true at
the time, and it has been many times falsifed
since. A number of wounded Union soldiers
have been discharged, but the latest removal
is the most heartless and unjustifable. Sidney
L. Wilson of New York, member of New
York regiment, served with signal credit with
the Army of the Potomac, participating in all
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-18
The State of Business,

The Greenbacl1 papers are persistently
endeayoring with the aid of some of the
Democratic papers to cast dscredit upon the
reports that come from all sections of the
revival of business, the increasing volume of
trade, the diminuition in the number of
failures, and decrease in the amount of liabili-
ties. They even go so far as to affect to dis
believe the statements Of reputable mer-
chants who say their business is Better, and
they shut their eyes to the plain indications
of reviving trade afforded by the increase of
manufactures, of railway traffic, of the great
industries of the country like coal and iron,
and by the greater demand for labor
Perhaps they will attach more credit to
the quarterly report Of the Mercantile Agen-
cy, published Wednesday. That shows that
the condition of trade has materially i'm
proved throughout the country. There have
been in the first six months of 1879 nearly
1900 less failures than during the first six
months of 1878, and decrease of over $685.
100000, just one-half, in liabilities. The in
crease in the volume of business transactions
exceeds 20 per cent, over one fifth. The
report gladly remarks that no one can peruse
it's figures 'swithout being convinced that
not only is the dawn of better days upon up
on us, but that country SO blessed with
abundant resources, in the hands of a skilful
and intelligent people to apply them to the
best advantage, must soon, now that the
tide is changed, achieve marked and per-
manent prosperity" And it goes on to
make this suggestive comparison:
"To show how completely reversed is the
condition of trade, so far as indicated by these
statistics, as compared with last year, we quote
sentence contained in our circular issued this
day one year ago, referring to the failures of
the first of 1878: These figures of increase in
failures and liabilities are of very grave i'm
port, Tor never before in an equal period in the
history of the country have business misfor-
tunes been so numerous, or aggregate
amount OF loss by bad debts so great To-day,
in contradistinction to this gloomy picture, it
is our great good fortune to say that never be-
fore IN our experience in the compilation of
these statistics, has the decrease in mercantile
casualties been SO marked; in no previous
period has the comparison of losses by bad
debts been so favorable as at the present
hour"
1t will be noticed that this improvement
in business is coincident with the resump-
ton OF specie payments. 1t is in great part
attributable to that cause. The experience
of the world has shown that return to a
sound currency systems by nation that has
strayed from it is followed by prosperity
This was the ground taken by the advocates
of resumption. The Greenback ora
tors, on the other hlnd, predicted that
resumption would be at once followed
proved false prophets, while the predictions
of the resumptionists have been justified by
the event. Whose forecastings will the peo-
pie henceforth trust, those whose prophecies
have turned out false or those whose proph-
ecies have turned out true?.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-18

The PRESS thinks that we find fault with
the military record of Corporal Davis. Moth
ing OF the sort. The very fact that he enlisted
speaks volumes for him even if he never went
to the front. But we did say that as between
the sworn statement claimed by the Standard,
and the simple denial of the Bangor Whig, the
Standard has made out its case. Don't you
think SO yourself Mr.. PREss?- ?-Leader.
No, we don't. There is something more
than the denial of the IVhigto to be set against
the STANDARD assertion. There is the testi-
mony of Mr.. Davis's commanding officers
and comrades over their own names, and
the record of the company in which he
served. AS for the "sworn statement" we
have only the worthless word of the Stan
ddrd. That paper has been repeatedly asked
to give this ''sworn statement" and has per-
sistently refused. There is absolutely no
case against Mr.. Davis.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-18

Won Ranke, the historian of the popes, now
living at the age of eightv-four, has collected
into volume three essays on the republic OF
Venice, thus completing the forty-second vol
ume of his entire works. The first essay gives
general view of the condition of Venice at
the close of the sixteenth and the beginning of
the seventeenth century. The second relates
to the conspiracy of the Spanish ambassador,
Bedmar, against the republic in 1913. In the
third essay the author treats of the conquest,
administration and final loss of the Morea by
the Venetian State.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-18
County Convention.

The Republicans of the several towns in Cumber
land County are requested to send delegates to a
convention to be held in Reception Hall, City Build
ing, Portland, THURSDAY, July 81, 1879, at 10
o'clock a. M, to nominate candidates for the follow
ing offices, to wit: -Four Senator'S Judge of Probate,
Register of Probate, County Attorney County Treas
urer and County Commissioner and to act on any
other business that may properly come before the
Convention.
The basis of representation will be one delegate
for each city or town in the County and an addition
al delegate for every sixty votes cast for Seden Con-
nor for Governor in 1878. fraction OF thirty-fve
votes will be entitled to delegate.
Under this apportionment each city and town will
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-18

THE Ne,o Era comes out in an article
protesting against coalition with the Demo-
Gratis in this county and saying that at the
morning session of the convention it has
been decided to bring the matter before the
delegates and let them decide it, The Era
thinks large majority of the Greenbackers
are opposed to fusion.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-18

The Pennington Chronicle brings cheer
ing news. 1t says: ''The corrupt trickery of
the Greenback leaders in selling the party to
the Democracy, the success of resumption,
and the general revival of business are effec-
tually taking the starch out Of the Green
hackers in this region"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-18

THE Ellsworth american says "James
Emery, Esq, of Bucksport, one of the old
est and most influential members of the
Democratic party in Hancock County, has
come out squarely against the attempt to
unite the fortunes Of his old party with the
Greenbackers, and will vote for Davis"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-18

many miles away. 1t dares him to say
there are any ''demagogues and tricksters"
in Maine. Judging from the persistent
lodging on the silver question by the ATgus
and its cheap fling at the ''Shylocks'' Thurs
day one would judge it had both trickster
and demagogue in its editorial rooms.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-18

ELSEWHERE will be found another batch
of what the argus sneeringly calls Corporal
Certificates" The argus viii find them
edifving reading
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-18
CUMBERLAND COUNTY
Quarterly Convention Of Reform Clubs
WILL BE HELD AT
Ferry Village, Cape Elizabeth,
Wednesday and Thursday, July 80 6 81.

1t is desirable that every Club in the county
should be fully represented, for the purpose of
arousing more general interest in the good cause
that we represent and are laboring in, to redeem
and reclaim all those that are now cursed by the
evil of intemperance. And cordial invitation is
extended to all who are interested in noble work
to unite with special invitation is extended to
the Ladies' Aid Societies.
Free Entertainment by the citizens to all Dele
gates.
Steam Ferry leaves Custom House Wharf for the
accommodation of the Convention.
ONE FARE on NJ. c.. G. t., P. & o., and p. & r.
R. R. Secretary will furnish Return Tickets P. g.
o. and P. g. R. r. r.
Convention will commence at 10 o'clock Wednes-
day Morning. GEO. w. MURCH, Prest.
c. WOODMAN, Sec'y.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-18
ASSEGNEES' SALE OF
SHIP AT AUCTION.

NOTICE hereby given, that by virtue of my
~ authority as Assignee in Insolvency of the es-
states of William L. Thompson and Joseph Tit
comb, both of Kennebunk, in the County of York
well as pursuant to the order and direction made
by the Hon. Nathaniel Hobbs, Judge of the Court of
Insolvency within and for said County, under date
July I'd. 1879, will sell at Public Auction ON
the oath day OF July, 1879,
at Three o'clock il, the Afternoon, at the
"Emmons Wharf, in said Kennebunk, the new
Ship of about 1881 tons, built by said Thompson
& Iitcomb, and now lying in Kennebunk harbor, at
said wharf The ship has all her spars and standing
rigging in place, also chains, anchors and chain rig
sers and lines wanting however, Sails running rig
ging, &c. For further particulars enquire of Assg
nee: Terms cash; $4,000 required to be paid i'm
mediately on sale. JOS. DANE,
Assignee aforesaid.
Kennebunk, July 7, 1870 jySdtd
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-18

JOHN BULL is on trial in Boston for sub
ornation of perjury in the Paige case. He
is also on trial in South Africa for cowardice
and selfshness in the Bonaparte case.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-18

CHAsTINE's CoX's counsel has gone into
stock raising. He contends that ''Mrs. Hull
was not dead until after the post mortem ex-
animation
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-18

How do those papers define their political
position who carry the name of Garcelon at
the head of their columns and blow for Smith
in their editorials?-Ellsworth American.
Don't know. Ask the argus. That paper
is great on defining its position.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-18
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY MORNING, JULY is.

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card eertifcatesigned by Stanley L. Pullen,
Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel managers
will confer favor upon usby demanding credentials
Of every person claiming to represent our journal
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-18

Wedo not read anonymous letters and commune
cations The name and address Of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for pubca
ton but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-18

THE Rockland Free Press hears 'Eof men
in all directions coming back to our party to
vote for Davis; for a free and fair ballot; for
protection of the constitutional rights of cit
sustain resumption and pay honest debts
honestly; for temperance and for liberal
popular education. There is no mistake
about it, they are coming, as the votes in
September will show. We shall not be con-
tent with less than 10,Oo0majority."
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-18

THE Belfast Journal gives the argus and
its kind hard rap when it says: "What the
Rockland Opinion is doing openly these
'all' ged Garcelon papers are doing in an
underhanded way. They hope by appealing
to the prejudices and hatreds of the past,
and which should have no place in the pres
ent campaign, to induce the hard money
Democrats to stultify themselves on the sole
and vital issue now before the people,"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-18

ALEXANDER TRoUp is to be present at the
Penobscot Greenback Convention. Mr..
Troup is the man who says it is no credit to
have served as private in the Union army.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-18
CAMPAIGN PRESS.

We will furnish the PRESS for the
Campaign, beginning Immediately ON re-
ceipt of subscription price and continuing
until after Election in September, AT the
following rates, postage paid:
KsAEEY PE.ESS. $500.
MAINE STATE PRESS (weeisIy) SO.25.
Weekly 80 CIm5s, Five Copies, $500.
The Cash nausf accompany all orders.
Address
Portland Publishing Company.
Portland, Me.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-18

DR.. DANA can find tramps in saltwater
and Pittsfeld, if they have not fed
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-18

The Leader affects to disbelieve the re-
ports of increasing business published in the
PRESS and again trots out zone of our best
mechanics" to show that there is no i'm
provement. 1t is very careful not to give
the name Of this mechanic. The difference
between the reports published in he PRESS
and those published in the Leader is this: :
The PRESS gives specific instances and the
names of its authorities. Prominent and
reputable merchants tell us that their busi-
ness is improving, their sales larger, their
collections easier. The Leader bases its
assertions on the alleged mechanic" whose
name it is careful not to give. Which class
of reports is most worth y of credence, the
anonymous, or that for which its authors
assume responsibility and to which they
attach their names?
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-18
I'HE HONEST TRUTH,

With the above title, the undersigned will pub
lsh at Augusta, Maine, a campaign paper, beginning
Tuesday, July 29th, and running to the end of the
campaign; devoted to the Honest truth about the
MONEY QUESTION and the SOUTHERN CUES
TIoN.
The Honest Truth Will especially devote its col
ums to the interests of the Laboring man. and will
expose the folly and wickedness Of the Demagogues
and Democrats who are now seeking to array Labor
against Capital and Capital against Labor-thus
taking away all chance for the return of good times
now dawning upon
The Honest Truth will show how the Northern
Democrats and Greeenbackers in Congress have
voted for everything the Southern Rebels have de-
manded. 1t will expose the record of Ladd and
Murch, Greenback Congressman from Maine, and
showthat they voted with the Southern Rebels all
the time.
The Honest Truth will aCvocate the election of
DANIEL L. DAVIS as Governor of Maine. He is
the first PRIVATE SOLDIER ever nominated for
high Office in the United States. He is a man of the
people, from the people, with the people. Let's
give him lift, Boys!
The Honest Truth viii be handsomely printed with
clear type, on good paper, and each number will
contain fourteen full columns of reading natter the
columns to be the same length as the Lewiston Daily
journal. The first number will contain with other
matter, the speech to be delivered by Hon. John
Sherman, Secretary of the Treasury at Portland
July 23d.
Terms Of Honest Truth for the entire campaign.
cash in advance:
copy for the campaign. .............. SO.1O
copies to one address, ss,................o.5O
10 .,,.............1.00
50 200
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-18

THE Republican Club at Auburn numbers
in its ranks thirty-five men who voted the
Greenback ticket last year.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-18

Forward subscriptions as promptly as possible, to
DANIEL L. ALLEN s. CO.,
Augusta Maine.
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