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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-11-25

AN Austrian schoolmistress feels I'M
kindly toward Miss Gladstone, the
daughter OF the English premier, and
express es her feelings in letter to the
Vienna Ne,c FIRE. Press Miss Glad
stone teaches a school at Hawarden
because she thinks it good thing fol
a lady to be useful, and the Austrian
teacher finds fault because in doing Sc
she takes bread out of the mouth OF
some poor woman who needs it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-11-25
CAN WAIT.

/ have His promise sure
And ] can wait
SO viii SOW the seed
Nor fret about the need.
1t win be all | need,
Though coming late.
I'd like some riches here.
BIT | can wait
Comforts might be my share;
He will provide with care,
And save me treasures there,
In royal state.
Sometimes | want the key
But / can wait
That opens wide the door
To VISIONS boundless store:
III find it dropped before
The Golden Gate.
| have His promise sure.
And | can wait.
| shall ferg, all wrong.
In the eternal years so long,
And God sh. II hear a song.
The while | wait.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-11-25

THE idea of sending over the furni-
ture that has been manufactured out
of the old Arctic ship Resolute, as Il
present from the Queen Of Great Brit
ain to the president of the United
States, by man-of-war, has been
abandoned, and it will go as an ordi-
nary parcel by mail steamer,and will
be presented to the president without
any fuss by the British Minister.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-11-25

So many tenants on the duke OF
Marlborough's Oxfordshire property
have given up their farms, that he has
over 5000 acres unoccupied and
thrown on his own hands. Many other
large landlords in the country are in =
similar predlcament, and in Warwick
shire, Worcestershire, and Wiltshire
things are even worse. In fact, the
number of acres now unoccupied IN
England is almost incredible
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-11-25

THE Ladies Stock and Mining Ex-
change" in New York, which has just
collapsed, appears to have been CON
Quoted by Mrs Warren on the same
principle of Mrs. Howe's fraudulent
woman's bank in Boston A good
many women who have been foolish
enough to invest in it have lost every
thing. These two have been about the
most cruel swindles ever perpetrated,
and in both cases it is more than
probable that the managing women
were the instruments of male scoundrels
in the background.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-11-25

THE recent failure of the two banks
at Hackensack, n. j., caused by the
embeulement of a specializing cashier,
is the cause of great distress in that
community About every person in
the town and vicinity had deposits in
either the savings bank or the other
one, both of which went down together,
being under one general management.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-11-25

THE bridegroom ola Waukegan we'd
ding was n Baptist and the bride 4
Methodist. They had agreed that i'm
mediately after the ceremony. they
would decide by chance which should
embrace the others religion. The Of
ficiatirg clergyman declined to toss up
a cent, partly because he would not
countenance such a proceeding, and
partly because. being a Metho-
dist. he might be accused of fraud if
the bride won. The bride herself
finally threw the coin, and lost. When
she went to join the Baptists, however,
they rejected her because She did not
believe i'll close communion. This
displeased the husband, and he went
over To the Methodists.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-11-25

THE other day an Englishman went
over to Ireland TO see a friend of his,
who is an Irish landlord. He said h,
should like to meet one of the most
ardent opponents of landlords, and his
friend referred him t. the village black
smith. who, he said, was good enough
fellow. but who. he believed contem-
plated shooting him shortly. To tie
forge he betook himself. and the black
smith explained the wrongs Of Ireland.
Are we not, he said, suffering from
absentees taking from Ireland all the
money that we earn, and do you sup
pose that we mean to continue TO pay
this tribute TO the Saxon?" But, re-
Piled the Englishman, there there are
many resident landlords" You are
mistaken, answered the blacksmith.
Il know the country, and l tell you
that it is full of absentees. "
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-11-25

THE bad times have caused very
serious diminution, in many cases ex-
pected to be permanent, in the income
Of the Oxford and Cambridge colleges.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-11-25
ANNOTATIONS.

TRURO is the first English town which
in 400 years has founded cathedral
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-11-25

THE London balloon society proposes
to fetch down some fog to analyze
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-11-25

Miss Anne Scott, niece of Thomas A.
Scott, the railroad magnate, was mar
ried nj Cedar Rapids, Iowa, recently,
to Willard I. Black, formerly Of Phila-
dclphia.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-11-25

The Rev. Mr.. spurgeon objects to
the 'dandyism" of certain young
Baptist ministers in London.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-11-25

Professor Richard a. Proctor, the dis
tinguished English astronomer, who is
now in Australia, states that he will
return to England by way Of San Fran
cisco and New York, instead Of going
via the Indian Ocean, as was his pre-
yious intention
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-11-25

One Of the most popular medicines
now before the American public, is
Hop Bitters. You see it everywhere.
People take it with good effect. 1t
builds them up. 1t is not as pleasant
to the taste as some other Bitters as it
is not a whiskey drink 1t is more like
tic old fashioned bone set tea that has
done world ofgood lfyou don't feel
idst right try Hop Bitters --Nunda Ne,rs.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-29
Recent Publications.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the
Dean Milman, NJ. Guizot and DIR. William
Smith, is issued by Harper & Bros. in six vol
umes and received through Lorng, Short s,
Harmon, Portland. 1t is printed in large type
in octave volumes of 700 to 500 pages each,
bound in cloth similar to the editions of Macau-
lay, Green, Motley and Geddes recently sent
out by the same publishers, and to readers
who have followed our advice to read those
other works aloud, we can confidently promise
a profitable, entertaining and steady job if
they will undertake this 4500 pages in the
same manner. Dickens's picture of Silas
Wegg plunging through this book for the en-
tertainment of Mr.. Bofin, getting rather
shaken by Hadrian, Trajan and tie Antonines,
stumbling at Polybius, heavily unseated by
Titus Antoninus Plus, galloping smoothly with
Augustus, and getting over the ground well
with Gommodus" may be discouraging 10
some, but it will nevertheless be found de-
lightful reading. The notes are very full and
valuable, and the autobiography of the histori-
an with his portrait, is in the first volume.
Speaking of Mr. Sheridan, he says he asked
shorthand reporter how many words ready and
rapid orator might pronounce in an hour. The
answer was 600 to 900. A practiced reader can
easily and clearly read aloud over 10000 words
an hour and get through 100 pages of this his
tory in an evening session of three hours
Dickens sets Mr.. Weggs first reading as end.
ing at the death OF Commodus, which makes
124 pages in this volume, or about 40, 600 words,
so that Mr.. Boffin got his moneys worth at
sixteen cents an evening" although it was
double his first offer. sB.
Curious Myths of the Middle Ages. BY S
Barring Gould (Bostou: Roberts Brothers;
Portland: Loring, Short & Harmony. The
strange twilight of learning that was the at
mosphere of heli@val times was s;nguarly
favorable to the growth of fantastic legends
which fitted through the shadows like bats
and owls, or not seldom like birds of the night
with dusky wings but exquisite voice. The
author of the present collection of myths, Mr..
Baring-Gould, is very well fitted for his task.
His knowledge and research in comparative
| mythology are evidently extensive and with
| out over-much skepticism or to frequent in-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-29
A Bundle of Letters.

The Democratic leaders in Maine are
deeply interested just now in "a Bundle of
Letters''-not Mr.. Henry James's charming
novelette, bearing that title, but a far more
serious work, the collection of autographs
in the possession of Frank Fogg and his
pals of the late Executive Council. These
letters play as important and dramatic
part in the Fusion councils as the blank
piece Of paper, at which actors glance and
then shrek, does in the conventional melo
drama.
Mr.. Fogg is said to be very proud of his
check-book. The ownership of it has made
him Congressional candidate and by its
means he proposes to name the Fusion can
didate for Governor. Those who claim to
know the nature of the collection, intimate
that it is made up of letters from counted
in Fusion candidates, written before the
canvass of votes had begun, pledging them
selves to stand by the Tabulators and to ac-
cept the offices to which they should be GER
tilted, No wonder the authors of these COM
and are ready to make almost any sacrifice
for the sake of silence. Letters of that ma
ture are strongly suggestive of conspiracy.
the exposure of which would be extra rdi-
narily uncomfortable for the conspirators.
Thus it happens that Fogg finds A Bundle
of Letters mightier than a Bari, and COM
pels the Fusionists to obey his behests In
the latest issue of the Observation-Disclosures
Chronicle he declares that the count-out
was Democratic scheme, that the Demo-
cratic leaders were consulted before it was
determined upon, and that it was adopted
before he ever saw q return and he threat
ems if Democrats oppose him, to let the peo-
pie know who are responsible for the bus-
ness The threat will probably spur the
letter-writers to still more effusive zeal in
his behalf.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-29

THE Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Press says an intimate friend
of Senator Blaine represents him as san
guine of success at Chicago. He takes no
stock in the stories that tho Grant men will
seize the Convention as they seized the Illi-
nois State Convention. Indeed, he does not
believe that they have strength sufficient to
carry through a single Independent PROPOSE
ton; that is, the third termers, when the
test votes are made, will find themselves in
the minority. AS all the State conventions
have been. held, Senator Blaine thinks he
knows exactly where he is to stand on the
first ballot. He counts upon 306 votes, or
only 73 less than are required to nominate.
These he expects to get on the second ballot
as he looks for the Grant force to fall to
pieces after the first ballot and their strength
to scatter. 1t has been said all along that
unless Grant was nominated on the first bal
lot he would not be longer before the Con-
vention. In this view of the case Blaine's
nomination looks probable, and his friends
are very confident. Blaine claims Is votes
from Pennsylvania and Is from New York
on the first ballot. These are incorporated
in the estimate given above. His friends
say that he knows just what he is talking
about as regards these two States, and that
he is positive of these SO votes on the first
ballot. If this is correct it will beat Grant
beyond all question. Even his friends can
not figure out his nomination if SO votes are
lost from New York and Pennsylvania.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-29
SEMI-ANNUAL STATE CONVENTION
OF
REFORM CLUBS OF MAINE
At
Bueksp0rt, Wednesday and Thursday,
June I'd and Sd, 1850.

The semi-annual Convention of the Reform Clubs
of Maine will assemble at Bucksport, June I'd and
3rd, 1880, at 10 O'Clock A. NJ.
1t is earnes, ,ly hoped that club in the State
will be fully represented, and let those clubs who
cannot be represented by delegates send reports by
letter to the Convention 1t is the earnest desire
make this Convention the most profitable ever
held in the State, and to renew our faith and
strengthen each other in this glorious work. and the
upholding of our principles "Non-political. non
sectarian and non-prosecuting,' "Charity for all
and malice towards none.''
The railroads have reduced their rates of fare as
follows:-Nlaine Central, one fare for the round
trip to Bangor; Grand Trunk. one fare for round
trip to connection with Maine Central Portland &
Ogdensburg, one fare-return tickets furnished by
the President of the State Committee; Portland &
Machias Steamboat Co.. one fare to Rockland and
return; fare for round trip Sanford line from
Rockland to Bucksport; one fare from Bangor to
Bucksport and return.
Delegates will call for Convention tickets from
their respective stations exec Portland & Og-
densburg.
GEORG H. LEFAVOR,
President State Committee.
JOHN F. STANLEY, Secretary.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-29

EX-SENATOR Willard Warner of Alabama
writes: alabama is not solid for Grant.
Governor Smith and myself were elected by
our district to the National Convention.
We defied the State Convention to instruct
or remove. The convention voted Us out
and voted in two others, one of whom was
beaten in the District Convention. The
State Convention recognized the right of the
districts to elect by calling ON them for re-
port of the delegates elected. Then it re-
quired pledge to vote for Grant, which be-
ing given, confirmation was voted. Other
delegates will refuse instructions from the
State Convention. Under the unit rule
Alabama may be solid against Grant. The
end is not yet, and it is too soon to count
the votes. Horne of the Washington Grant
bureau was the most influential man at Sell
ma, and was driven from the convention"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-29

Boston Traveller: And this is wha. Mas
sachusetts has come to. 1t is the lore fish
ball of politics. Six-sevenths of the Repub-
lican party has declared for Grant or Blaine.
OF the other one-seventh Mr.. Sherman has
two-thirds. Massachusetts opinion repre-
sents to-day, then, precisely one-third of
one-seventh of the Republican party. She
is the fraction of fraction-a decimal point
simply, in the national sum. 1t was once
written of her by one of her poets:
massachusetts, God forgive her, she's a-kseeling
with the rest,'
but to-day even this line flatters her. She is
not even 'a-kneeling with the rest" for the
rest are not kneeling. She is sprawling all
alone by herself.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-29

ILLUMINATING remarks by Fogg's Chron-
icle apropos of the opposition made to him
by the Lewiston Gazette and the Norway
New Religion:
The New Religion is also worried because it
thinks some one wants to be vindicated The
Religion and Gazette had better look over
their ground before they jump, and even then
not leap wildly. The policy of the count, they
must remember, was decided before Mr.. Fogg
ever saw return. Two additional members
were added to the election committee of which
Mr.. Fogg was member, while he was away
in Massachusetts,, and without his consent.
The returns were placed in the hands of that
committee. and were opened before Mr.. Fogg
had returned or seen them.
The advice of counsel had also been sought
and several elaborate opinions given in writ
ing, before Mr.. Fosg joined the council from
Massachusetts. The returns were not only
opened and partially tabulated, but advice had
been obtained and the party policy worked
out without either the advice or the consent
of Mr. Fogg. That party policy was Demo-
cratic. Nearly every counsel who was con-
suited was Democratic. The leaders of the
Democratic party were also consulted.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-29

DETROIT Post: The New York Times re-
marks of ''the Illinois plan:'' ''The plan of ac-
ton adopted was not according to the best
IDEAL" A lawyer in this state, whose partner
embezzled $4,000 belonging TO one of the
clients Of the firm, also observed some years
ago: 'His conduct cannot be said to be in
the highest sense of the term professional" :"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-29

A WASHINGTON despatch says: The al
lusions in the Tribune to the breaking of
the unit rule by the presen Senator Cam
eron and his friends, in the National Con-
vention of 1868, have led to an investigation
of its proceedings. 1t appears that on the
first ballot there were foui boiling delegates
from Pennsylvania, on the second eight and
on the third, twelve. After the third ballot
Governor Curtin was Withdrawn and the
boilers were victorious"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-29

THE Kennebec Journal calls upon Angus
ia Republicans to keep cool. ''We trust
and believe" it says, ''that the Republican
ranks will be led to victory this year by a
standard bearer from our own State; but
there is no need of man threatening to
swallo himself if Blaine isn't nominated,
as an east side trader has threatened to do"
No; he should swallow the nomination.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-29
National Republican Convention.

National Convention of the Republican party
will meet at Chicago ON Wednesday, the I'd day of
June next, at IL O'Clock noon, for the nomination
of candidates to be supported for President and
Vice-President at the next election. Republicans
and all who will cooperate with them in sup
porting the nominees of the party are invited
to choose two delegates from each Congressional
District four at large from each State, two from
each Territory and two from the District of Column
bia to represent them in the Convention.
j. d. CAMERON
Chairman National Committee
THOMAS b. KEoGH, Secretary.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-29

WHEN that boat gets to Bangor the passen-
gers will form in procession, headed by
Fogg, Chase, the Portland Band, and other
pieces Of brass and wind instruments, and
march to headquarters. 1t is understood
the processionsts will wear badges embla-
zoned with fog-horn based on bundle of
letters. The band viii play The Rogue's
March,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-29

CAP'N CHAsEs friends were anxious for
him to go into the Bangor Convention so he
might offer resolution denouncing ''the
great fraud Of 1876" They thought him
the fittest man to do it, on account of his
experience.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-29

TIE Maine Standard takes pains to deny
in Augusta opposed to fusion and all its
works. There may be a hard-money club
there, but it believes in soft money.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-29

MEMBER of the Republican National
Committee is reported as saying that a can
vass of the committee has shown that thirty
of its forty-seven members are opposed to
Grant, and that the majority is too large TO
be bulldozed. This anti-Grant majority will
insist upon the selection of temporary
chairman who sympathizes with their views,
and that will insure the selection of the
Committees on Permanent Organization,
Credentials, ETC., according to the usual
custom of allowing each delegation to name
its representative. As majority of the
States and Territories are opposed to Grant
the committees will have anti Grant major
tiles. There have been hints that Don Cam
eron. as chairman of the National Commit
tee, might attempt to claim and exercise the
power of appointing Grant chairman him
self, but this colleague of his declared that
the committee would not allow any such
usurpation, and that it would surely be de-
feated if he should be MAD enough to try it.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-29

TILDEN is reported as ''spry as kitten,
lively as colt, and healthy as tomcat."
He has probably just heard how the Port
land Democrats retuked fraud by choosing
Chase delegates.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-29

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate signed by Stanley 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. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-29
PORTLAND PUBLISHING CO.,
PORTLAND, HEE3.
A Republican State Convention
WILL BE HELD IN
GRANITE HALL, AUGUSTA,
Wednesday, June 23, 1880
AtII O'clock A. M.,

for the purpose of nominating candidate for Gov
ernor to be supported at the September election,
and two candidates for Electors of President and
Vice President of the United States, and to trans
act any other business that may properly come be-
ore the Convention.
The basis of representation will be as follows
Each cith town and plantation will be entitled to
one delegate, and for every seventy-fve votes cast
for the Republican candidate for Governor in 1879
an additional delegate, and fraction of forty votes
in excess of seventy-fve will be accorded delegate
The State Committee will be in session in the
anteroom of the Hall at o'clock, on the morning
of the Convention, to receive the credentials of
delegates.
For the first time in the history of Maine the at
tempt was made in 1879 to deprive the people of
the right to choose their officers, and to cor
ruptly continue in power those whom the people
had rejected. The authors, abettors and accom-
plices in this crime against free government are
now seeking to come before the people under some
new party name-availing themselves of an alias,
the common resort of those who seek to escape the
responsibility and punishment of their crimes.
Against these men, under whatever name they
may appear, all those citizens who condemn the
nefarious plot to destroy the right of suffrage
invited to unite, without regard to past party afl
ations, to preserve honest Government for the hon
est people Of Maine.
By order of the Republican State Co nmittee.
G. A. BoUTELLE, } -,
FRED n. Dow, r,u.,4
GEORGE c. WING, oo'iini''oe.
j, o. SMITH, Secretary.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-29

Hrs o'n home refused to send Logan to
the Illinois convention, and he had to ap
pear as proxy for jackson County delegate.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-29
THE! PRESS.
SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 90.

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer in
all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for pubca
ton but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return preserye COM
mun1catIons that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-29

The Biddef6rd journal is laboring under
the erroneous impression that York county
elects county attorney this year.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-05-29

THE ''Iilinois plan' is almost as offensive
to Republicans as the ''Mississippi plan"