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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

Gas for Tilden," says Secretary Sherman,
"whose friends complain of the electoral
commission, why should he complain? The
commission was clearly Tilden progeny.
was opposed to it. | believed that the
president of the Senate had the right to
decide, by virtue of his position, but Mr..
Tilden's friends and Senator Conkling and
others favored the commission. 1t was be-
lieved that Mr.. Tilden was to be benefited
by the commission. To be sure, he wasn't,
but that's no reason why he and his friends
should decry the bridge they expected to
cross on -
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06
ESTABLISHED JUNE 90, 1s6s.--vOL. II.
WANTS.
Girls Wanted.

FESo work ON woOlen rags. Apply to
Il JAMES WHITE,
aug5d3t* PORTLAND PIER.
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House to Let mt Woodford,s.

TNIvE lots on the same street 60 by 11O feet
IL each. Apply to j. A. Strout, Real Estate
Broker, 4912 Exchange st. aug4d1w
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CAMPAIGN PRESS.

We will furnish the PRESS for she
Campaign, beginning Immediately Oh re-
ceipf Of subscription price and continuing 9
until after Election i'm September, at the
following rates, postage paid:
DAILY PRESS. SO.75.
MAINE STATE PRESS (yveelx.y) $O.15.
Weekly 10 Clubs, Eight Copies, Sl.00.
The Cash must accompany all orders.
Address
Portland Publishing Company.
Portland. We.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

New Haven Register: ''It must be beaut:-
fnl, dreamy kind of a life that you live here in
the country" was the remark of city boarder
to Farmer Robinson as he sat in the shade,
waiting for his dinner "Well not very"
was the reply. "You see, we get up before
daylight and work till after dark and get so
used up and tired that we sleep right through,
soundly. Why, i haven't had respectable
sort of a dream since the planting season be-
gun"
New Haven Register When you see a
young man attired in white flannel shirt, his
face slightly burned with exposure, and hear
him talk knowingly of lib fores'ls'' and run
ming under the wind" and stacking the main
sheet" it doesn't follow that he is much of a
yatchtsman. The chances are that. he would
be seasick on drawbridge.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

THE Argus and other papers are quoting
Corporal Daviss reported remark that ''In
time of peace the Government had no right
to issue money" No doubt what Mr.. Davis
meant to say, perhaps what he did say, was
that in time of peace the Government has
no right to issue legal-tender notes. In that
view he has the support of Mr.. Justice Cliff
ford and other members of the Supreme
Court, and many eminent jurists and states
men. The assertion that he said the Gov
ernment has no right to issue money in time
of peace must have its origin either in a
slip of the tongue or a mistake of the re-
porter, for it means that the Government
cannot issue gold and silver, which are GER
tainly money except in time of war.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

A PARTY that is afraid of publicity must
thing. The Greenback Convention attempt
ed to exclude reporters, and would have
succeeded but for John NJ. Todd's sensible
speech. 1t is gratifying to see that the
Greenbackers still possess the sense of
shame. Their Democratic allies are brazen
and conducted the bargaining without the
slightest attempt at concealment.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

THIS is Honest Truth: There never was
a time since Maine became State when its
products would exchange for SO large por-
ton of the products of the outside world.
There never as a time when bushel of
potatoes or ton of hay would buy so much
corn or so much flour-so much of woolen
goods or cotton goods hats, caps, boots and
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06
APPOINTMENTS.
HON. DANIEL +. DAVIS

nHVINs D1AISHEH IT DzK HS3
Republican candidate for Governor, will speak du
ing the campaign at the following places:
ALFRED, Wednesday, August 9Th.
SKOWHEGAN, Thursday, August 7th.
NORTH ANSON, Friday, August 9Th.
FAIRFIELD, Saturday, August 9th.
LEWISTON, Monday, August 11th.
DANARISCOTTA, Tuesday, August 18th.
CAMDEN, Wednesday, August 18th.
BELFAST, Thursday, August 14th.
WINTERPORT, Friday, August 10Th.
UNITY, Saturday, August 10th.
WATEfVILLE, Monday, August 18th.
SOUTH PARIS, Tuesday, August 10th.
BETHEL, Wednesday, August goth.
MECHANIC FALLS, Thursday, August 2lst.
NORTH BERWICK, Friday, August 22d.
BUCKSPORT, Saturday, August 23d.
ELLSWORTH, Monday, August 25th
CHERRYFIELD, Tuesday, August 26th.
MACHIAS, Wednesday, August 81.
DENNYSVILLE, Thursday, August IS.
PEMBROKE, Friday, August 29th.
CALAIS Saturday, August 3oth.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

TIE people don't seem to favor the eighty
cent dollar. They prefer one of full weight
The Chicago Times says ''The Treasury De-
partment is doing all it can, through the
sub-treasury here, to put the silver dollars
in circulation. There is pile weighing
20 tons now at this point, and anybody who
wants it can have it in exchange for green
backs, or in payment of any sum due him
from the Government"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certifcatesigned by Stanley I. 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, 1879-08-06
HON. HLEwELLYN POWERS

WILL SPEAK AS FOLLOWS:
SPRINGFIELD. Wednesday, August 6.
BRADFORD, Thursday, August Z.
GARLAND, Friday, August 8.
KENDUSKEAG, Saturday, August 0.
BROWNVILLE, Monday, August IL.
GUILFORD, Tuesday, August II.
MONSON. Wednesday. August 13.
DEXTER, Thursday, August IA.
PLYMOUTH, Friday, August 10.
PITTSFiELD, Saturday, August 1G.
ETNA. Tuesday, August 10.
HAMPDEN, Wednesday, August 20.
ORONO, Thursday, August 21.
OLDTOWN, Friday, August %.
LINCOLN, Saturday, August 23.
ELLSWORTH, Monday, August %.
CHERRYFIELD, Tuesday. August 26.
MACHIAS, Wednesday, August 27.
DENNYSVILLE, Thursday, August 2S.
PEMBROKE. Friday, August 20.
CALAIS, Saturday, August 80.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06
Yesterdays Conventions.

The two conventions, Democratic and
Greenback, that met in this city yesterday
and spent nearly the whole day in discussing
the terms of the bargains which had previ-
ously been determined upon, made up their
mongrel ticket, and adjourned. 1t is but
justice to the Democrats to say that the de-
lay was not their fault. They had the arti-
cles of agreement all made out, were salts
fled that the trade was good one for them,
and wished to have the papers signed before
the Greenbackers discovered how badly they
were swindled. The chairman of the Dem
ocratic Convention openly announced that
the party had gone into trade, and one of
the first acts performed was the appoint
ment of statesmen. The names of the cash
boys were not made public. As the Demo
Gratis have cast aside their principles, appar-
emily thinking them shop-worn, all they had
to offer was votes.
The Greenbackers were responsible fort the
delay. The more conscientious of them,
who have gone into the movement because
they are sincerely opposed to the present
currency system, made long and bitter
fight against fusion. But they were beaten
down at last by the majority obtained by an
unfair representation based not on the actual
vote cast last fall, but on desire to effect a
fusion by any means, no matter how foul.
The convention, in fact, was packed in the
interest of the Democratic intriguers and
carried out their behests. The original
''simon-pure'' Greenbackers were sent to
the rear, their council disregarded, and Their
protests unheeded.
As regards the mongrel ticket little need
be said. From Democratic standpoint the
Democratic nominations are satisfactory,
the men representing its interest in the firm
being earnest partisans. The Greenback
nominees are men who left the Republican
party for its good and their profit. They are
men with personal grievances, who have
been disappointed by the distribution OF
official patronage. Mr.. Quimby is a chronic
candidate, not fastidious as to what he gets,
nor, as it seems, how he gets it. His
ambitions were not furthered by the Repnbli-
can party, and he has carried his wares to
an easier market. Mr.. Gibbs wanted to be
postmaster at Bridgton, and failing to get
that position thinks there ought to be a
change of administration. Mr.. Skillings
wants to be County Commissioner, and as
the Republicans will have none of him he
attempts the easier virtue of the new party.
Mr.. Dow has been dismissed from the Post
Office Department.. Mr.. Chaplin was long
standing candidate in Republican conven-
tions. They failed to appreciate his merits.
He wanted to be Judge of Probate. He can
be satisfied with the Registers BERTH This
completes the tale-hungry office-seekers all.
The prospect is that the new firm will &C
into bankruptcy in September In any
event the junior partner will be swindled.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

The Lewiston Gdzette gives the following
Illustration of returning business prosperity:
George p. Rowell & Co. in the american
Newspaper Reporter for July show that the
whole number of newspapers in the United
States has increased since January of the
current year, from S,703 to 9,153. New
papers abound in the Territories. Suspen-
sions have been fewer than in any cores
ponding period for several years.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

UNLESS Col. Harper looks out DIR. Ian
caster will denounce him as gambler. To
oblige the Colonel the PRESS, although its
space is valuable, will publish one of Thad-
deus Stevens's speeches at a dollar a line
Those are the terms we understand Col
Harper to offer.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

THE Kennebcc journal gives the Green
hackers a nut to crack when it tells them
that in Augusta the number of persons
helped by the authorities this year is less
than one-third what it was last year, and
that all through the State there has been a
large decrease in pauperism. How sick this
will make the men whose only political hope
is in ruin and disaster
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

TIE Toledo Blade reasons that the times
must be very hard, ''for the Nationals and
Democrats say So" Still, it cannot help
noticing that Farmers are selling everlast-
ing quantities of wheat at good price. they
get their goods at a very low rate, mechanics
are generally employed at fair wages, and
everybody who will work finds something to
do. Every city in the United States is build
ing rapidly and the country never showed
such marked signs of improvement. Man
ufacturers are running on full time every
where, mills that have been for long time
idle are resuming, and they find ready and
profitable market for all they make. Gen.
Ewing asks us to reverse the policy that has
produced these beneficent results and try his
theories Excuse us. We are doing very
well now, thank you."
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06
HON. EUGENE HALE

WILL SPEAK AS FOLLOWS:
OLDTOWN, Wednesday, Aug. 6.
LINCOLN, Thursday, Aug. Z.
PITTSFIELD, Friday, Ang. s.
NORRIDGEWOCK, Saturday, Aug. 0.
NEW SHARON, Monday, Aug. II.
EAST WILTON, Tuesday, Aug. II.
AUBURN, Wednesday, Aug. ID.
RICHMOND, Thursday, Aug. IA.
WISCASSE,r, Friday, Aug. 10.
GARDINER, Saturday, Aug. 16.
WATERVILLE, Monday, Aug. IS.
so. PARIS, Tuesday, Aug. 10.
BETHEL, Wednesday, Aug. 20.
MECHANIC FALLS, Thursday, Aug. 81.
NO. BERWICK, Friday, Aug. %.
SACO, Saturday, Aug. %.
GORHAM, Monday, Aug. 20.
YARMOUTH, Tuesday, Aug 26.
BRUNSWICK, Wednesday, Aug. 27.
SKOWHEGAN, Thursday, Aug. %.
FAIRFIELD, Friday, Aug. 20.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publica-
ton but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return preserve COM
munlcations that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

One of the entertaining statements made
by Jesse Harper last evening was that ''The
Democratic party has always trotted under
the back axle-tree of the Republican wagon"
That is really a neat way of putting it.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06
KseN. THOMAS nc. EsEED

WILL SPEAK AS FOLLOWS:
CLINTON, Wednesday, Aug. 6.
SI<OWHEGAN, Thursday, Aug. Z.
NO. ANSON, Friday, Aug. 8.
FAIRFIELD, Saturday, Aug 8.
LEWISTON, Monday, Aug. IL.
DAMARISCOTTA, Tuesday, Aug. IL.
CAMDEN, Wednesday, Aug. 13.
BELFAST, Thursday, Aug. IA.
WINTERPORT. Friday. Aug. Is.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

THE announcement that II. NJ Plaisted is
going to address a Greenback convention in
Piscataquis county is unimportant if true.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

TUE Democrats sat down to their dish of
skunk yesterday with apparent relish and
Justify swore it was moose. The Greenback-
ers were little more squeamish. They
never went through the experience of eating
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

Secretary Sherman was the guest Of Col
lector Merritt of New York at Brighton Beach
Sunday. He told reporter he was much
gratifed with both his trip to Maine and
the political prospects there, but if the
Greenback question was out Of the way in
Maine he would feel certain Of Republican
ess.-Ecchange.
SECRETARY SHERMAN may have said this
or may not But he certainly gave the
Grecnback party a blow they are staggering
under yet.
HERE is another of the excerpts the Ne,o
Era keeps in type:
"To take the character of man from history,
he is creature capable of anything; the most
internally cruel and horrid when actuated by
interest or passion, and not in immediate fear
of punishment from his fellow creatures. Who
would trust such a amischievous monkey?"-
Bergh.
This is supposed to refer to the Greenback
orator. The application of the final sem
tence is too obvious to be mistaken.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

WILL SPEAK AS FOLLOWS:
ALFRED, Wednesday, Aug. G.
WINTHROP, Thursday, Aug Z.
AUGUSTA, Friday, Aug. 8.
MT. VERNON, Saturday, Aug. 8.
so. BERWICK, Monday, Aug. IL,
KlTTERY, Tuesday, Aug. II.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06
Sale of Real Estate
RY a @@ EzFg-

ENHE Homestead of VIM. L. Thompson and the
Il Homestead of Joseph Titcomb, each most de-
sirable residences, and situated near the Depot of
the Boston & Maine Railroad in Kennebunk, will be
sold at public auction on THURSDAY, Aug. z,
1879; the first at O'Clock and the second at 5
o'clock in the afternoon.
For particulars as to the nature of the interests
and description of said estates to be sold reference
is made to advertisements in local paper and State
Democrat of Saco and Union and journal of Bidde-
ford. Terms cash. Particulars given on application
to the Assignee. JOS. DANE,
Assignee of the estates of said Thompson and Tit
comb. au2d5t
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

THE greatest living curiosity in existence
yesterday was the double-headed convention.
We have the sad duty this morning of an
nouncing its dissolution.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

EX-CONGREssMAN PAYNE, one of the
foremost of Ohio Democrats, has joined the
Honest-Money League. He prefers moose.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

THE Democrats are reported as feeling
jubilant over their capture of the Green
hackers yesterday In September they will
find it a worse bargain than the Greeley
trade
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

THE Aryus still insists, speaking of
Sherman, that man can't honestly get rich
in twenty-four years. Mutdto nomine de
te .fdbuld ndlrdt,u.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

Saltwater, Mimi, Lumberman: A good
deal of satisfaction is expressed here over the
fate of DR.. Spencer, dentist, recently shot
dead for kissing woman in Mississippi, while
she was under the influence of ether. Women
want to know it when they are kissed and the
fool who does not appreciate the fact ought to
die
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06
FOR SALE

A story and half House with addition,
Stable, Outbuildings and Blacksmith
Shop, all in good repair and nearly new.
Lot contains ab0ut one acre, excellent
garden and well of water. This proper
ty is situated ab0ut 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 S675.0O,
and is the best bargain in Deering.
Inquire ON the premises of Y. O. LAM
BERT, or of JOHN C. COBB, 81 1-2 FIX
change Street, Portland.
All but 5000 can remain on Mortgage
mh25 d&wtf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

Boston Post: He was disgusted boy. He
had exercised great caution and had finally
succeed ed in crawling unobserved, under the
a circus, but a revival meeting in progress.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06
REAL ESTATE.
For Sale.

ANE of the best farms in Falmouth Within two
~ minutes walk of M. c. R. r. station school and
church. Contains sixty of excellent land well
Watered buildings new. For further particulars in
quire of W. r. Anthoine AS Exchange st., Geo. f.
Merrill, Station Agent, West Falmouth, or b. u
SWEET, on the premises. my30diwteod2m
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

Astronomers tell us that it would take l, ,250,-
900 years, provided there was telegraph wire
from the earth to the nebula in Andromeda,
Tor dispatch to reach there. So no wire will
be put up.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

THE National Tribune waited a month
before answering our challenge to make
good its statement concerning the reduction
OF State expenditures. It is now giving the
figures in small nstallments, and repeating
the figures for which we made allowance
when saying the reduction was but $4,000,
AT this rate election will come before it even
gets within sight of the $4,000 reduction it
promised. Very likely that is its object. We
cannot very well answer until we see the
whole of its figures. Then we will expose
its msstatements The PRESS will publish
those lists of State and County offices with
the salaries (although it has already virtually
done so in the sheet containing the "Acts and
Resolves of 1S79'), whenever the Greenback-
Democratic papers shall have made good their
statement that the last Legislature reduced
the State Expenditures for the current year
in the sum of S27S,907. The PREss's figures,
S36, 800, represent those reductions correctly,
as shown by comparison of the appropria-
ton bills for 1879 with the Treasurer's ac-
counts for 1878.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

New Orleans Picayune: Residents of Lead
vile speak proudly of the oldest and best fam
lilies in that place.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

New York Mall How quickly people run
in out of the surf when it begins to rain, for
fear of getting wet!
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

The Grenbackers of Ward nineteen, Bos-
ton, have resolved to support "none but un-
doubted Greenbackers, and that the princl-
pies of the Greenback-Labor party are held
by them to be paramount to all State or 9TH
er issues" Therein they are more honest
than the Greenbackers of Cumberland coun-
ty, who eat out of the same dish with the
Democrats and vote the same ticket
Is it true that John j. Lynch is to be
Assistant County Attorney if Mr.. Moulton
is elected? And was it with that understand
ing that Mr.. Moulton received the support
of the Irish interest?
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

PooR BLErHEN He didn't even get his
thirty pieces of silver.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06
TO LET.
TO LET In DEERING.

DESIDENCE owned and occupied by Geo Hudson
LII on Prospect St., rooms, large stable, fine gaI
den with crops.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

THE Argus doesn't remember about that
member of its staff who was paid for his
editorial services by Democratic Admins
tration. This is not the first instance of its
bad memory. A few weeks ago it couldn't
remember from day to day what its position
was on the silver question, and so got into
ridiculous tangle. We don't know how long
the -Argus has been under its present man
agement, and so cannot say the little incl
dent we mentioned occurred under it. AS
for the business management of the Ar9us
we have no words of condemnation, for we
believe the paper has been ably and economi-
cally conducted. 1t is only its political
course that we condemn. But it can bring
forth its comparative facts in newspaper
management whenever it pleases. We can
meet them with positive facts.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

nNE-HALF of double House No. ITO Congress
~ Street. now completed and 1e. iy for occupan-
cy Said house is first class in every resp Jct. Dining
room sitting room, bath room and kitchen finished
IN W haed woGd. ruaped Ior not ana cola wafer;
cellar and everything first class and will be sold at
very low price. Enquire of A. M. SMITH,
au19eodtf End of Portland Pier.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06
Desirable Real Estate For Sale.

FvNHIS property situated on Chestnut street about
Il 200 feet from Congress with lot 16O by 60
with four story dwelling house and ell recently re-
paired, and water pipes put n splendid yard and one
OF the most desirable houses for genteel boarding
house in the city; five minutes walk from Post Office;
will be sold at sacrifice, the owners are ladies
who don't want the trouble of taking care of it. If
not sold at private sale it will be offered at auction
with the premises, due notice given. Title perfect
and clear of all membranes. The owners were
offered $4,000 for this property few years ago.
Apply to John E. Dow No. 90 Exchange st. Port
tland. aug4dtf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

THERE are not a few weak points in the
skunk ticket.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06

A phonetic rendering: Ounce No. 0rans-
lating fable of La Fontaine) e)-"What does 'Je
pile, ct ne romps pas mean? It's what the
Roseau says to the Chene, you know!" Ounce
No. 2-"Oh, suppose it means Il play, but
do not rolnp'-what mammals always telling us
we ought to do
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06
For Sale AT a Greaf Bargails.
NEW HOUSE FOR SALE.

TENWO-STORY House situated in Knightville, Cape
Il Elizabeth. Apply to w. r. ANTHOINE,
je23eodtf 4S Exchange st.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-08-06
Cap and Bells.

Boston Post: Clubs are, to their members,
meet and drink