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The Portland daily press., 1880-01-24

The returns of the corn crop of Illinois
are fairly bewildering. The land devoted to
this grain amounted to 7,91S,SS asres; the
average yield was nearly 80 bushels to the
acre, giving total yield Of 305, ,S13,377 bush
els, and the value of the crop was $97, 1885,
052. These figures are the highest ever re-
turned, and, with the single exception that
the average value per bushel was slightly
smaller, every item shows an increase. The
acreage was larger, the average production
per acre was the largest ever reported, and
the gross yield and it's value exceeded those
of every former year. The immense growth
of State so old as Illinois in this decade is
shown by the fact tnat the corn grown in
1870 was under 1870 million bushels. 1t may
be added that the production of corn in Hi
nois in 1879 amounted to 40 per cent. as
much as the entire production of the whole
country in 1870.
The Portland daily press., 1880-01-24
The Fusion Statement.

The Fusion statement was received so
late last night that it was impossible to
comment on it at length. A casual glance
at it, however, is sufficient to show that it
is far from an ingenious document. The
facts about the counted in members are
utterly ignored and good care is taken not to
inform the Court that the alleged quorum
on the Gay of the alleged organization was
made up in part of those men whom the
Court has already said had no right to take
part.
The facts concerning the vacancies from
the cities of Bath, Saco. and Lewiston too
are utterly obSured. The Court is not in
formed that those cities were disfranchised
because only three aldermen signed the re-
turns, SIMPLY for the reason that the Court
has already decided that that was no valid
ground for disfranchising those cities.
Portlands s case is misrepresented. The
Court is informed that the Council refused
in this case to correct the returns by an
amended record but it is not informed that
under the decision of the Court these re-
turns needed no correction to make
them legal and entitled to be counted. The
Court is informed that the Governor and
Council never refused to allow cities
and towns to bring their records before
the Council but it is not informed
that the Council refused to allow them to be
substituted for the returns on the ground
that the lawof 1877 making such substitutions
lawful was unconstitutional and void, be-
cause the Court has said that such law was
constitutional and the Council was bound to
enforce it.
The facts which are stated with any
thing approaching frankness are those
which are of little consequence. All the
main ones are either utterly ignored or
stated in way to convey a false impression.
1t reads like the plea of criminal lawyer
who felt that he had no chance to win un-
less he could keep the facts out of sight.
The Portland daily press., 1880-01-24

A cash Grocery store, doing a good
business, location good, and rent low.
Rare opportunity il applied at once.
Reason for selling. n. Ii. BARTON,
Manager for C. L. B., 45 Lowell Street,
Manchester n. I'll. sou
ial3 w"
The Portland daily press., 1880-01-24
To Let.
40 be Let.
House to Let mt yVO0dfOrd's.

TsyiTE Offices Merchants Bank Building vacated
/ by National Traders Bank. Fire proof vault is
and heated by steam. seodl1
The Portland daily press., 1880-01-24
QUARTERLY CONVENTION
Reform Clubs of Cumberland County.
The quarterly Convention of the Reform Clubs OF
Cumberland County will be held at
South vindham, Wednesday and Thurs
day, Jan. SSth and 20tr.

is earnestly hoped that every Club in the coun-
ty will be represented and make this Convention
one of interest and profit.
cordial invitation is extended to all friends in
the good work and also to those who wish to unite
themselves with us.
The usval arrangements will be made with the
Railroads for reduction of fares and free entertain
ment furnished by the citizens to all delegates
w. A. SEABURY, President,
w H. p FILES Secretary.
The Portland daily press., 1880-01-24
WANTED.

Two first.cIass SALESMEN who can
command good trade to sell Groceries
and Flour in Maine.
Address Box 1914, Portland, Me-.
Ia1r
National Republican., 1880-12-27
CELERY.

As with woman, so with the horse. His back
hair Is his main trouble.
why is the discovery of the North Pole like an
Illicit whisky manufactory? Because IL Is secret
still.
A clergyman says: young woman died In my
neighborhoOd yesterday, while was preaching in
a beastly state of intONication. ...
coroners verdict reads thus The deceased
came to his death by excessive drinking produc-
ing apoplcxy In the minds of the jury.
Empty IS the Cradle, Baby's Conc" IS the title
of the latest scriodiotc song. 1t VIII probably be
followed by !" Empty is the Bottle, Papa's Ful.'
steamboat captain, In advertising for an cx.
curson, closes thus: Tickets twenty-five cents,
children half price, to be had at the captains
Office
An ostentatiotis man will rather relate n blunder
or an absurdity he has committed than be dc
barred from talking of his own dear person.
Addison,
woman was drowned the other day while be
ing baptized, and If amy paragrnphcr rings i'll q
hOnry pun about the deceased dying of dip-theory
he should bcsevcrcly talked to.-NOrristOuh Herald
An Iowa editor thus acknowledges present ol
grapes: 1--WE have received II basket OF line grape,
from our friend W., for which he Will accept
thanks, some Of which are nearly two inches II
"a widow OF the West intending TO succeed hel
husband in the management of hotel, advertise
that the hotel will be kept by the widow of the
former landlord, Mr. Brown, who died last sum
mcr on new and improved plan.
There Is great deal of sickness abroad In the
land, and astronomers attribute Y TO the perlhc
VI hOillc VI lllc uuN "
-NOrTiIOim Herald. Some of the stars now on tn
road are enough to make any one sick.
A small boy went to see his grandmother. Aftc
looking eagerly around the handsomely -furnishe,
room where She sat, he exclaimed inquirngly
"Oh grandmamma where is the miserable tabl'
papa says you keep2"--Cincinndi UDglmcTcidi.
A Philadelphia man has perfected an inven
tOn whereby saucr kruut can be boiled in tn
house without any of the inmates smelling II. Th
invention consists of small liver-liko pad of Lin
burger cheese worn under the nosc.-Phadde,phf'
Chronicle. Herald
National Republican., 1880-12-27
"AwruIIy Lovely, i, phiro.opny

few days ago q Boston girl, who had been nt-
tending tie School of Philosophy at Concord, ar
rived in Brooklyn on visit to a seminary chum.
After canvassing thoroughly the fun and gum.
eainns % @ at which their early scholastic I Ss Efforts Is
were made, the Brooklyn girl began 10 inquire into
the nature the Concord entertainment,
g And so yen are taking lessons in philosophy.
"oh, its perfectly lovely. It's about science, you
know, and we all Just dote on science
:" 1t must be nice. What is II about2"
ats about molecules as much as anything else,
and molecules are just too awnily nice for any.
thing, lftherc Is anything really enjoy It's mole
TEL me about them, my dear. What are mole.
"oh molecules! They are little wee things,
and Il takes ever so many of them. TheyaTc splcn.
did things, DO yon know there Amt anything
but what's got molecules in II. And Mr. Cook Is
just as sweet as he can be, and Mr.. Emerson too.
They explain everything SO beautifully"
"How I'd like TO go therep said the Brooklyn
girl, enyously.
You'd enjoy It eyer SO much. They teach pro,
toplasm, too, and II there Is one thing perfectly
heavenly it's proloplasn. l really don't know
which like bcst-prOtoplaSm or molecules"
TEL me about protopiasm, know should
adore IT,"
know It's about how things get started or some
thing Of that kind You ought TO hear Mr., Emer-
son tell about it. II would stir your very soul,
The first time he explained about protopInsln there
wasn't dry eye IN the house We name onr hats
aiter him This is an Emerson hat, You sec the
T66Gn Is drawn SnoG oyer % Gs cwn and caught with
the side with II spray of iorgetiineiints Amt Il
Just TOO sweet? All the girls in the school have
them"
"How ,cxqusitely lovely! Tell me some more
science
"Oh almost forgot about differentiation. ]
am really and truly positively in love with differ.
cntiatioll. It's different from molecules Und proto.
plnsm, but It's every bit as nice, And Mr., Cook
You should hear him go on about j. ] really be
licye he's perfectly bound up in IT, This scarf is
the Cook scarf. All the girls wear them, and We
named them after him Just on account of the inter-
est he takes in differentiation,
What Is IL, anyway"
"This Is null trimmed with Languedoc lace"
u don't mean that--that other"
"Oh! differentiation Amt II swoct2 It's got
something 70 do with species, It's the way you
tell one hat from another, no youll know which Is
becoming, And VIC learn all about ascidians, too
They nTc the diviucst thingsl I'm absolutely ell
mpturcd with nscidianS Ii only had an ascldlal
OF my own! wouldn't ask anything else in Tho
world"
"What do they look like, dcar7 Did You evel
see one2" asked the Brooklyn girl, deeply inter
escd.
"Oh, no! Nobody ever saw one EXCEPT Mr. Cool
and Mr.. Emerson, but they are something like m
oyster With reiiGnlc hung on It's belt. ! think
they are lust hGaVenlyln
"Do you learn anything else besidesH"
"Oh yes We learn about common philosophy
and logic, and those common things like meta
National Republican., 1880-12-27
ycrm0nt.s Senators.

"Gath," In letter 10 the Cincinnati Enquirer,
says: Justin Morrill,, of Vermont Is one of the most
respectable Senators we have had in Washington.
ical but not aggressive in political things and al
ways designing something for the benefit Of large
classes of the people, such farmers students and
authors. He has had charge virtually of the Cap
itol building for years past, and under his innu.
ence the library and the statuary have come out
ways been in state of concord genial to sec, both
ardent men, but both indifferent to oflicalspos, SO
they can carry out final purposes, moral and men,
tai. No State in the union possibly, since our Gov
ernment was founded, has had two better Senators
Jealous without being loud, individual but kind
they are both national men, and only Edmunds
great service in the Senate forbid the general in
dignation that he was not made President of the
United States.
National Republican., 1880-12-27
DIED..

CAsH;-on tho 9th Inst. JULIA F., wife of Major
John q. Cash, q. ). Mo,
Funeral from the residence OF her mother Mrs.
John Ft,rr No 79l Pine ST., Philadelphia, Pa oil Tues.
day, December ~, at II q. m.
DAY..-Decenbcr 25 1850. of Apoplexy, Mrs MARY
NJ. DAY, In the scvcnielh year OF her age,
Friends OF the family are invited 10 attend her
funeral nom the residence OF her daughter Mrs. Il,
j. AndersO, 1891 i ST., ut 1880 u. n Tuesday, Decenl'
ber e.
GALT.--Early ON Sunday morning, edth Instant,
His funeral will take place from the residence of
Tuesday morning 2Sth instant, al II o'clock. The
friends OF the family arc invited TO attend. ~
IIAnnIS-on Christmas morning, HonERT HAR-
RIs, NJ, d., son Of Rev. w. A. Harris, of this city,
aged twcnty-nne years.
Funeral services at No go j. ST. n. W. Monday, at .
o'clock, Internent at Rock Creek Cemetery.
STANFORD,--On Sunday, December 90 at 5:l5
II. M, EIIzARETI J., u, STAMFORD, wife OF William
NJ, stanford, aud eldest child of Isabel " II. and the
late Edward g. Handy, ofthls city.
Relatives and friends are requested TO attend her
funeral from the residence OF her mother, corner OF
Third and sts S. O., on Tuesday, December 2S, At
/ O'Clock p, m.
wHlrE.-on the 29th instant, at q, M, Capt.
JOSEPH WHITE, aged nfly-two years.
Funeral services on tuesday morning, AZ o'clock,
ut ~, DOmlnc's Church, His remains VIII be taken
to baltimore, via h. and o. Railroad, for nteTment.
Friends and hcqualntRnces are inyited TO attend
baltimore papers please coY.I
National Republican., 1880-12-27
A Notorious Mans whereabouts.

Advices Just received in Boston go TO show that
the fugitive ,Rcv. Ezra d. Wnslow, forger who
ran away from Boston with over 100000, Is now
editor OF the Bucnos Ayres HCrOld in South Amer
icn. The evidence shows that afer the English
government refused to surrender him he went TO
South America, where he assumed the name OF
Lowe, and became n great church member and
agent Of The National Bank Note Company Of New
York. By credit he got hold of the Buenos Ayres
Herald and got fat billet as mediator between
the Argentine Confederation and Chill, out Of
which he reaped a good harvest with certain
bankers. a short time since he published long
obituary Of his wife, ut present living in Boston,
and went into mourning, but soon after married
a sixtccn.ycnrold girl, the daughter OF q wealthy
family in Buenos .Ayres. Last month the fact OF
the existence OF the ilrst wife reached Bucnos
Ayres, and there was trouble in his new inmily.
lie smoOthcd matters by claiming that wife NO.
| had been divorced, when the contrary is the
fact, and lie still continues to "roll In clover"
Investigation goes to show that Il few weeks since
he wrote to parties in Bosthn offering to place Sl5,-
600 in the hands of wife No ] If she would get q
divorce from him. She Is almost brokcn-henrted,
q physical wreck, but yet is disposed 70 continue
her burden without complaint athough her
friends and relatives have advised ler to get q
divorce from her notorious husband.
National Republican., 1880-12-27
Long Deferred Reward.

Captain G. W. Nelson, of New Orleans, has just
him In 1870 by the british Admiralty for his brave
conduct in rescung the crew OF the bark Penelope
sinking near the Azores November @, 1859. Cap
which with great labor and risk saved eleven men
from the rigging Of the Penelope. The British
government sent each of the American sailors s25
and ordered silver telescope of the finest make
for Captain Nelson. When finished 1t was sent ia
Secretary Lewis Cass, who deposited II with the
collector of the port of Boston, who in turn sent II
to the collector at New Orleans. The war opened
before Captain Nelson could be found, and moth
ing more was heard of 1t until three weeks age
Captain Nelson saw an advertisement of 1t Rs
awaiting an owner in Boston. He applied for it
and has at last received his long deferred reward
National Republican., 1880-12-27
DISTRICT COURTS.
A.s,au,nent. For To.Doy.

Circuit Court Div. No. l-Jnstce eMcArthur.-No. SO
Thornton Va White; No. as, Resdill w. Nae No.
5s N. Brewer g Co, vs. stafford; No. $751; Husseyord
&c., W., District OF Columbia; No. 553, Gebaucr
5g6, wilson g ny. ". Mhltei No. Ss7, Taylor vs..
Ryan No. 6G9 Weinhnmmer VS.. Burkhnrdt; No GIL,
Hewitt W.. Dainesc; No bT1, Welsh VS. Douglass; No.
5T, Iennomnn, captain, &c., W.. May ct ali No.
VS.. Holiday.
Criminal Court--JastIco James, MARY Hall, per.
Jury; Frank Duiph and John Norris, rape upon Mary
Trout; RcnJnmin :. Counrdman, rape; James Hen
ucsSpy, grand larceny; Albert DodsOn, John Green
aud Alfred Minor burglary and larceny; Hamilton
Voss, larceny; William ii. lslsby, assault with intent
To Kill Policeman Ryan; Alexander Stevenson as
kault OH Onlcer ShankN.
National Republican., 1880-12-27
We arc Prourcs.ing.

The New York Tribune falls into history" and
shows the country that the WeavcrSparks dis
turbance is an evidence of progress. II says: at
was worse in the days'when Henry s. FOote drew
his pistol in the Senate and Benton, catching at
his breast MS If TO tear II OPEN roared out Let the
d---d assassin shootl" II was worse when Ben
Wade could only silence the insoencc of southern
Senators by taking his pistols to the Senate and
laying them in fun view on the top of his desk
worse when II sculc on the floor of the House
sometimes included half dozen membcrs-worse
in u small way when statesman who is still
famous for his captivating manners twitted
another member of the Senate with having a
'cross.eye worse in large way when Brooks
stole on sumner like an assassin, and men whose
pride 1t was that they were gentlemen defended
the act. This is not such depravcd generation,
after al, and If scientific test could be had II
would probably be found that the American Con-
gress Is at least equal In dignity to any other legs
lative body In the world"
National Republican., 1880-12-27
How irish peasants Live.

The dens, misnancd cots, in which the pcasan-
try of Galway and Mayo Counties live are merely
stone shelters. Owing TO the intense Ignorance OF
the people they nre not provided with any facili'
ties for drninagc, and are often inoomparably
find more than one room in hut, and only one
story. Beds and bedding ure luxuries which the
straw are the couches on which the lovely brown
eyed, laTgc-browcd maidens of Connaught repose
The smoke from pcnt-iire In common peasant
cabin spreads through the room, and You narrowly
escape strangulatiOn on your first visit. have
had this experience IN Herzegovina, and conse
qucDtly minded the smoke but little How family
dcccncy Is maintained in these dens Is Il mystery
and how the people manage TO keep clcln-fol
they look ccan-is puzzle. The pigs run in and
out of doors, and such wrctchcd pigs NORTH
Carolina wild hog would be an nristOorat beside
them. In dozens Of these cabins sick people ART
to be fOuud-sick people dependent either on the
charity of their neighborS on friends in AmcTicG
who send them s1nall sums.-D,blin Later.
National Republican., 1880-12-27
A Dreadful Winter.

A curious song preserved in the Harliean Manu-
scripts in the British Museum declares that II was
considered peculiarly lucky when Christmas day
fell OH sunday, and the reverse when IL occurred
on Saturday. Intermediate days are characterized
by happy uniformity of propitious augury Here
is the part Of the poem of special Interest this
year:
"IfCrystmas on the saterday falle,
Tint wynter ys to be dredden allie
Iyt shalbe 80 full of great tempcste,
That hyt shall sic both man and beste,
Frite and corne shal fayle get won,
And olde folkc dyen many one;
The summer then shal trete ryhte vile,
Ifthou awght stele, hyt shall thy spyle;
Thou dyest yf fsecknes take the"
In the same vein of superstition is the beliefin
Devonshre, England, that If the sun shines bright
at noon on Christmas day plentiful crop OF
apples may be expected in the following year
National Republican., 1880-12-27
A so,,ber,, E,,,,or,,l

The patriotic pistol of wilkes Booth went off n
little too late.
We always found that fhult with its trigger.
lift had sent the
Obscene Ogre of the Sangamon swamp
To kingdom come in 1861, 1t would have pre-
vented the
Barbarism
Bloodspilling and
Brutality
That characterized the career OF that satanic
scoundrc from the hour that he first polluted the
White House with his presence till his key-cold
carcass was toted back on u stretcher from the
play.hOuSe-a playhouse whittier he had gone TO
Grin and
Make merry,
While our dead lay rotting on the battle-feds,
and the air was quivering with the cries Of agony
that went mp from our
bleeding and
Bullet-tOrn
Boys In the hospitals South.
National Republican., 1880-12-27
2fuction Sales.
BY Duncanson Brothers,
AUCTIoNEERS.

TINRUSTEES' SALE OF IMPROVED PROPERTY
Il near Uniontown nj auction
by virtue of deed of trust given to us and duly
recorded in liner No 100 folio io one Of the land rec
ords of Washington County, In the District of Column
bia, and at the request Qn writngl Of the party Sc
cured thereby, we Will sell on SATURDAY, sth day
of January, A, ID. 1881, at 4, o'clock p. n, in
front, OF. the premises, all that piece or
parcel of ground lying In the said county
and District aforesaid, and known as lot numbered
thrty-one C3D, In section numbered four %, IN the
subdivision OF the "Barry Farm" as the same a de
scrbcd In the plat recorded In the Office of the Sur
veyor of Washington County, District OF Columbia,
together with all and singular the appurtenanccs,
rights, privileges improvements and other hcrcdita-
menis 10 the same belonging or In any wise apper-
tanning.
This lot Is improved by substantial frame dwelling
and ouibuildinIs.
Terms: Oneihird cash, balance in six, twelve, and
eighteen months: notes to be secured by deed of trust
property sold, and to bear per cent interest. a
deposit ofS5 Will be required at sale. Terms TO be
complied With In seven days, otherwise the trustees
the right to resell the property NJ the risk and
cost OF the detnuting purchaser. Conveyancing and
Ta6EKl ]9s6ST n II TpS9N' bE Trustees.
de2o q, jan1 ,J&ds.
National Republican., 1880-12-27

physics, but the girls don't care anything about
those. We are Just n ccstnsiCs over the dfcrentin
tons and molecules, aud Mr.. Cook and proto.
ploslns, and oscidinns, aud Mr. Emerson and !
really don't sec why they put In those vulgar
branches 1f anybody besides Mr.. Cook and Mr..
Emerson had done It we should have told him to
his face that he was too terribly awiully mean
And the Brooklyn girl went to bed that night In
the dumps bccnuse fortune had not vouchsnfcd
her the advantage enjoyed by her iriond.-Brook-
lam Ed1ic
National Republican., 1880-12-27
inclined by an Eartnaunne.

Four years ago large iron steamer was sunk in
Manila Bay in fifteen fathoms Of water Awreck-
ing company at Singapore purchased the wreck
cargo, which consisted of pearl shell, gum copal,
bar copper, &c, an earthquake occurred which
lifted her nearer the shore into less than three
fathoms, making II n trlhing matter TO secure the
cargo The company have taken out 100000 at
SLIGHT pynpnsp.
National Republican., 1880-12-27

| The Inter. Ocean has discovered that Illinois he's
| in Sparks more astounding ass than Myers, of
\ Indiana. 1t says of Sparks: "Now, in one brief
hitherto been confined 10 the narrow limits Of u
congressional district, scars proudly into promi.
nence, and snatching the blooming chaplet of
glory from the pate of the rejoicing Myers, leaves
him ld,headed, so to speak, in the midst Of his
| brpthrenn
National Republican., 1880-12-27
WIN. NJ. GAIT Il co.
ELPHONZO YOUNGS
ON DECE-
And Don't You Forget IT.!

Candy by the ton, several grades,
fresh; GumdrOps by the ton. pure
and fresh; Shellbarks, New York
State crop, big lot; Nuts by the ton,
all kinds, new; Raisins by the ton,
all kinds, new; CitrOn and Currants
by the ton, new; Florida Oranges,
fine, large supply: Valencia Or
anges, fine large lot, and very cheap;
Lemons, the best i'm Washington,
big lot; Malaga Grapes, the best in
Washington, 80 barrels; and other
Christmas Goods in endless supply
and great variety.
National Republican., 1880-12-27

OFFICE ROOMS In No. ao3 and $40 Tourand.ahalf
street II. W. also In i5S Louisiana avenue n. W.
Call for weekly Rent-I4st.
UNOR SALE-First-class large new house, with mod
IL ern convenlences; IL rooms, two bathrooms
wash-rOOn; dry ccmened cellar superior finish, and
built for owner by days work; location healthy aud
convenient, Address owner or npplynt premises. No
1876 II street. VIII rent TO privnte parties. not2m#
National Republican., 1880-12-27
LIPSCOMB'S

Liquor, Tea, yine,Groccry, and Provision
store,
Southwest corner Fif,h and - streets southeast Cap
tul HILL
A long experience In the buslnest enables the pro-
petor To offer the public superior stock ~ prices de
cidcdly reasonable Patronage respectfully solicited.