davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Smyrna times., 1880-08-18
IMPORTANT 10 FARMERS.
Continued reduced price Of
SHELL LIME
For the Year 1880.

Asan experiment, and tomeetthc necessities of the
times we decided year ago TO lower the price of
our LINE - per cent, making it L cents per bu>hc
instead of Scents, as formerly. The success Of the
plan was such that our sales were MORE THAN
DOUBLED, and We concluded to continue the price
ut
6 Cents per Bushel
During the present year. The superior excellence
and ChcapncSS of Shell Lime for agricultural purposes
can be atcsted by hundreds of the best farmers of
Delaware and Maryland, and the largely-increasing
demand is the best proof of its merits Now is the
time to improve lands Ut small cost
TRY IT! TRY IT! TRY IT!
The principal agricultural papers Of the country
have decided that weight for weight,
Smyrna times., 1880-08-18

tRuns Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Train leaving Harrington 1905 =. NJ, connects at
Lewcs with steamer for New York, Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays. and at Georgetown daily with
train for ChincOteaguc and intermediate points
Train leaving Lcwcs at 20 \. NJ. connects on Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays with Steamer that
leaves New York at 800 r. NJ. the day before.
Passengers taking train that arrive at Harrington at
925 A. NJ and 30 NJ. 90 either North or south
trains on Delaware Railroad. Passengers from
point North of Harrington connect with trains leaV
ing Harrington at 1905 T. NJ and 3.35 Z. NJ. PGSSen-
gers from points South of Harrington connccg with
train leaving Harrington 1905 =. NJ. only.
4. BROWN, Gen. Pass Agt.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-18
The Butternut on Deck

The Democrats of the tenth district of Iowa have
nominated Robert Holloway for Congress The
B Bulhlington, Iowa, hawkeye, publishes statements
% show that he was connected with the knights of
the Golden Circle, was active in trying to promote
their reasonable purposes during the war, and was
deputy supreme Commander. During Vallandjg-
hams Punishment, he was in command of the order
nS hs Uig v =, ~ its nllary council But perhaps all
from him.-Ex. '
no; these facts win not take away any Dem
ocratlc support Of this cowsrdly tory of the
great war of the Union. The Democratic
nominee Tor governor of Vermont was in open
sympathy Withthe party of Vallandigham Voor
nees, Pendleton and Long during the war, and
toe tae chairman OF the Democratic State commit
See was so vepomous copperhead that the
day OF Lincoln's assassination his newspaper
once was mobbed and his windows smashed
Dy the soldiers whom he had incensed by his
insults. Hancock was stainless Union soldier
DoIh stout and brave, but Hancock can't make
Union army out of a following, whose men
OF influence and intelligence, down to the cap
tains OF tfties are all ex-confederates shouting
ior State Sovereignty, and copperheads warm
lhS into life to see the gray on the deck
again. Rutland Globe.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-18
The Argus and State Finances

That versatile jouornal, the Argus, has
temporarily abandoned the heavy task of
defending the State steal, and taken up in
stead the subject of the tax-gatherer: ap-
parently with the idea that it can make
some campaign capital out of that much
abused official. 1t is so much easier to de-.
claim loosely about Radical extravaganza
than to explain the forgery of the Hebron
return; so much easier to misrepresent the
condition of the State finances than to ex-
cuse the action by which thirty-seven Re-
publican Senators and Representatives elect
were deprived of their seats, that the shift
ing of the issue by the Argus is perhaps ex-
cusable though certainly not courageous.
That paper complains that the Republican
administration last winter increased the
State tax by S224,000, while the Fusion
administration which preceded it did great
things in the way of retrenchment.
Ehis is the assertion. What are the facts?
In 1879, under Fusion government, ST.
329,5S5 were appropriated. In 1880 the
Republicans appropriated 81, 1,369,957, an in
crease of S39,366. Of this sum $4,000
goes to pay the expense of the count-out,
an expense for which the Fusion admins
tration is solely and directly responsible.
That sum of 200 belongs in all fairness
to last years account; and if added to that
would make the 1870 appropriations $780,
5s5, and the 1880 appropriations, 81 1888 ,957
Moreover there was an extra appropIia-
ton this year of $1s, 600 for uniforming the
militia, much-needed and too long de-
layed appropriation. Furthermore, an
other necessary appropriation was that of
$4,000 for the Valuation commission. De-
duct these sums and then compare Fusion
and Republican records.
Why, then, is the tax increased? Because
the former assessment was insufficient
The Fusion administration with its four
mill tax, with none of the State debt falling
due, with the advantage it had by the use of
the $4,000 Of deferred railroad tax which be-
longed to previous years, was unable to
meet the expenses of its own administration
by the sum of $S7, ,S43, and left that sum as
a legacy of debt to the Republicans. In
order to pay that sum, to meet the special
Valuation and Militia appropriations, to
defray the expense of the Fusion count-eut,
and to meet what demand may be made by
the State creditors, the tax has been in
creased one MILL That is the whole story
OF the tax-gatherer, so affectingy and in
correctly told by the Argus. On the whole
that journal makes as bad mess of the
discussion of the State finances as it does of
the discussion of the State steal.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-18

NEW YORK Post: The Greenback mis-
sionaries who went South have learned at
least that Southern Democrats take their
politics as they are said to take their whs-
key, straight" Weaver and De La Matyr
have only denunciations to utter of the solid
and uncompromising Democratic spirit
which they found in Alabama, and Mr.
Ramsdell, the editor of the Greenback organ
in Washington, returns from stumping
tour in Mississippi with greater grievance.
He says that he was called yankee
Greenbacker who ought to be killed. and
that he received a note ordering him ''to
pack his duds and get out of town in thirty
five minutes" There is reason for the
difference between the treatment which the
Greenbackers receive from Democrats in
Maine and that which is accorded to them
in the South. Maine is naturally Repub-
lican State and the Democrats are very will
ing to accept Grcenback assistance in draw
ing support from their opponents. But
in the South the Democrats can get along
without such assistance, and hence they
class the Greenbackers with their political
enemies. .
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-18
Responsibility for the Count-Out.

The Boston Post, paper that always dis
cusses political topics with ability and fire.
quently with fairness, and whose opinions
heretofore are entitled to respectful attention
calls upon the Greenbackers of Maine to
vote the Fusion ticket because the agents in
the count-out last winter were denounced in
unspering terms by the Republican press OF
this State. Republican journals have no
reason and no disposition to withdraw or
modify the severe censure they passed upon
the men who sought to steal the State
or those who were ready to profit by
the theft, for they believe it was just and
necessary. But they do not yet hold the
masses of the Democratic or the Greenback
partly in this State responsible for that
great political crime. They earnestly hope
that its perpetrators and abetto-s will be en-
phatically rebuked by the people of Maine,
without distinction of party, at the polls
next September; and they hold no man,
whatever his political antecedents or his po-
litical belief today, responsible for the out
rage attempted by the Tabuators and their
ouppClIClo upoll lice UslllOI dllu u IulE
unless he endorses the mi scount by his'vote
for the candidates who at our State election
stand as apologists for Fusion and Fraud,
and whose election will be everywhere COLI
strued as ''vindication" of Garcelon and
his Council. If men vote to uphold the
count-out they lust be held to be sympa-
thizers with it. But until they do that no
one has the right to put that stigma upon
them.
That many voters will be found in the
State to defend the Tabulators we cannot
believe. We would rather believe that hon
est and well-intentioned Greenbackers and
Democrats will be found in honorable rival
ry as to which shall put the most emphatic
condemnation upon the atte mpted theft of
the State and the endeavor to override the
will of the people. And, unless the present
appearance of the canvass is deceptive, we
shall find just that creditable state of things
in September.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-18

HARPER's Weekly: The party which
claims to be that of constitutional liberty is
the party which has sought, by destroying
the liberty of speech and of the press, to
annihilate the personal liberty of millions of
our fellow-countrymen. The Democratic
party is historically that of slavery, not of
liberty. Its respect for the constitution was
shown from the first shot at Sumter down
to the last shot of Lees army. The lheo-
ries upon which those Democratic shots
were fired were urged by Democrats in the
extra session as plea for starving the gov
ernment. 1t is surely not this party, but
the one that was formed to protect liberty
assailed by the Dem ocrats, which was loyal
to the constitution, and which saved the
Union from Democratic arms, which, as
against the Democratic party, is the party
of liberty, of the Union, and of the consti-
tuition
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-18
READ THIs

Whatever may be thought of the poiiti-
cal campaign elsewhere, every lover of
good government and common honesty
shouid hope for the defeat Of the unholy
political combination in Maine which
brought disgrace upon that reputable State
last year. We have heard prominent Dem
ocsafs express the same sentiment, their
disgust for the folly of the Garcelon crowd
overcoming all party feeling. If the peo-
pie OF MAaine do not rise up and rebuIke she
poiiiicai cut.throats whose infamous rec
ord cansess every son of Maine 10 blush we
snail lose our faith i'm natural Iaw.-BosToN
HERALD QND.) AUG. Z.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-18
Some Figures for the Nation to
Ponder Over. bse

The Democratic orators are trying to make
out that the Republicans have ruined the
country Yes; and this is the way it was
done:
In 1860, after twelve years Of Democratic
rule, government six per cent, bond sold for
eighty-nine cents.
In 1880, after twelve years of Republican
rule, government four per cent bond sells
for one dollar and eight cents.
In 1860, after twelve years of Democratic
rule, loan of S1S,0OO,000 exhausted the mar
ket for six months. lesrI1
At the end of twenty years of Republican
rule, loan of $50, 900 was taken in a.sin-
gle day. s 8ia1T
In twenty years of Republican rule we find:
An increase of population of fifty per cent.
An increase of general agricultural exports
of six hundred per cent,
An increase in exports of bread and bread
stuffs of six hundred and fifty per cent,
An increase Of exports of manufactured ar
ticles of two hundred and twenty-five per cent.
An increase of internal commerce of seven
hundred per cent. ie
An increase of railway mileage of one hun
dred and eighty.seven per cent.
In 1860, after twenty years Of Democratic
rule, Congress authorized a loan of 100000
to pay current expenses.
In 1880, after twenty years Of Republican
rule, the Secretary OF the Treasury pays SS5,
100000 of debt contracted for the war brought
on by solid Democratic South, which now
wants power again so as to stop the waving Of
that bloody shirt the wearing Of which is Han
cocks chief glory and his whole available
stock as candidate for the Presidency.
In 1860, after twenty years of Democratic
rule, the balance Of trade against the country
was over $200O0,00O M
publican rule, the balance Of trade was over
S162, 900, 900 in avor of this country. 70
In 1860, after twenty years of Democratic
rule and teaching, there was very serious
question whether we had any nation. And
the old public functionary in the White House,
whose chief adviser was Jere Black, the man
who now furnishes the craftsmanship for
Gen. Hancock, announced that there was mo
power in the government to coerce the State
leaving the inference that jeff Davis and Alec
Stephens could send the country to the demni-
tion bow-wows for all he could do to prevent
it. After twenty years Of Republican rule
there is no doubt that we have q country, and
Alec Stephens and Jere Black would give all
they are worth to have the people forget that
they ever questioned it. -',lr..- ,..
The kind of ruin which FIVE successive Re-
publican administrations have inflicted upon
the country is Just little striking in view oil
the figures and the people like it and call for
more of the same sort, and are bound to have
it, too.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-18

The renewed energy of the Democratic
parry is but the spasmOdic effort that
presages death. From this national
struggle it will fall back, a defeated, dis
cortant and hopeless minority. The hope
Of federal patronage gone, its local SUI
premacies cannot long be maintained.
This is to be desired, for the way to cur
rency reform lies across the grave of the
Democratic party. To enter its rank. is
to take Its name. To take its name is to
assume the vindication of its evil past
E. III. COVE.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-18

ALBANY Journal If Maine doesn't come
down hard on the Garcelon State-stealers in
September she doesn't deserve place on the
map of New England. Itis a simple mat
ter of honesty. These Democratic pirates
stand convicted before the whole country.
Even the leaders of their own party in 9TH
er localities do not countenance them. They
SHOULD be eliminated from politics.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-18

EN-GOv. WILLIAM III. SMITH of Ala
bama, United States district attorney for
that State, pronounces the recent so-called
election in Alabama an outrageous fraud,
and agrees, if an investigation is ordered, to
prove that in Montgomery county alone 5000
Republican votes were cast which were not
counted. He challenges the Democrats to
agree to All investigation.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-18
soLoN CHAsEoN FUSuoN,

The old BOurbans hnve visions OF Ham
cock and siOry-t,at is, pull at the public
teat, and they have agreed with few
trading GreembacLkers 10 divide the custom
houses snd pOsf-Ofiices. That is the end
and beginning of fusion in Maine. If that
nest OF eggs does hatch ont, il will be a
nOndescript brood.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-18

MR.. JOHN CESSNA, ex-Congressman and
chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican
State Committee, confidently expresses the
opipion that the Republicans will carry the
State by 60,000 majority. Mr.. Cessna says
that in nearly every district from which he
has heard, from forty to fifty Democratic
soldiers have joined the Republican clubs.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-18

will tell You who I think the Republic
cans should nominate, and who consider
their strongest man; he is n true man, "a
man os principle, an honest man, and
would make n good President, for us all.
Personality consider him the best man
You conld nominate. refer to Gen. James
A. Garfield, of OhiO.-THoMAs A. HENDRICKS
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR VICE PRESIDENT IN
1876.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-18

The great meeting at Waterville yesterday
is proof of the intense interest taken in the
campaign by the Republicans on the Ken
nebec. The mass meeting there last year
was one of the largest ever held in Maine.
The gathering this year exceeds that in
numbers and enthusiasm, and ensures an
increased majority in the Third District.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-18

THE Republican mass meeting at Old
Orchard Beach will be largely at
tended. The opportunity to listen to dis
tinguished speakers like Gen. Logan is one
not to be neglected, and the deep interest
felt in Republican success in September and
in administering fitting rebuke to the Tabu-
lators ensures great meeting. The rail
road arrangements are of the best and at
most reasonable rates.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-18
[Kenneb.c Journal1

The Democratic platform declares in favor
of this principle.
Let it become the policy Of the nation and
the result would be disastrous. Even the
British government from which comes the free
trade theory Of the Democratic party, is in
practice opposed to the principle Of the Han
cock party.
England has always fostered and protected
her shipping interests. She has driven from
the seas the vessels of all other nations a. far
as she was able when they confiicted with her
interests She sent forth the Alabama and
other cruisers during the war to cripple or
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-18

THE Troy Press, Democratic, says that
"our people demand that the party press
shall show the skilful abandon of the prize
fighter, but they insist that no demand of
social propriety shall hedge about any can
didate. If to defeat him it is necessary to
tell story of his private life, which in all
other discussions is sacred, it must be told.
AND THE TRUTH NEED NOT PREVAIL. Il
lie weU stuck to is the secret poaver in po-
Hticat discussion" The Troy Press has
struck the keynote for the Fusion organs in
this State.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-18
AN ARGUMENT THAT WEIGHS A

Here is a Republican campaign docu-
ment in a nutshell, that weighs a tom:
Under Republican administration dur
ing fifteen years of pence, $S41,6SO,S56
OF the principal of the National debt has
been paid, while she current annual inter-
est is SsO,OOO,OOO less than at the close
OF the war. The Democratic press and
stump speakers might as well try to tun-
mel through the Rocky Mountains with a
huir-Pin, as 10 break the force of this
magnificent showing.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-18
G. vi. sEIDERs ESQ.

WILL SPEAK AT
FERRY VILLAGE, Thursday Evening" Aug. 10.
WEST BALDWIN, Tuesday Evening, Aug. "a.
SOUTH WINDHAM Thursday Evening, Aug. 26.
STEEP FALLS, Friday Evening" Aug. 27.'
BRIDGTON Saturday Evening, Aug. 2S.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-18
~RY THE SOUTH Is SOLID FOR
HANCOCK

Consider what Lee and jackson would
do were they alive. These are the same
principles for which they fought for four
years Remember the men who poured
forth their life blood Viryinia's soil
and do not abandon them now. Remem-
Der that upon your vote depends the sue
cess of the Democratic ticket.-WADE
HAMPTON, AT THE MEETING IN THE INTEREST
OF DEMOCRATIC HARMONY IN VIRGINIA, AT
STAUNToN, July 26.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-18
THEi PRESS.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST IS.

We do nov read anonymous letters and communl-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for pubtes-
tion but as guaranty OF good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve com
munIcahons thar are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-18

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate signed by Stanley pulleD.
Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel managers
win confer favor upon by demanding credentials
every person claiming to represent our Journal,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-18
FOR SALE.
For Sale.

Farm pleasantly situated. 31a
A5d.Al y miles from Portland in Falmouth,
kHaaH fEazsAM the old Yarmouth road near
@ tstsGsiIAM Graves Hill, 1t contains 65 acres
&llsa3=a11zzs &ls2=1111azzs good two-story house of ID
rooms, hard and soft water i'll house, barn 4Ox5O,
stable 2Ox30. Cuts about 25 tons of hay. For
further particulars enqnire of ALBERT j. AIER-
~RlLL on the premises, or of A. B. HOLDEN 400
Congress Street. marSeodtf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-18

nAI IrrAh, Monuay, Aug 20
BERWICK, Tuesday, Aug. "a.
YARMOUTH, Wednesday. August 25.
So WINDHAM, Thursday, August 26,
STEEP FALLS, Friday, Aug. %.
BRIDGToN, Saturday, Aug. %.
HON. w. f. LUNT
WILL SPEAK AT
FERRY VILLAGE, Thursday Evening" Aug, 19.
SOUTH WATERFORD, Saturday, Aug. 21.
kENNEBUNK DEPOT, Monday, Aug. %.
NORTH BERWICK, Tuesday, Aug. "a.
SANFORD CORNER, Wednesday, Aug. 25.
SOUTH ACTON, Thursday, Aug. 26.
NORTH SHAPLEIGH, Friday, Aug. 27.
NEWFIEI.D, DAMS MILLS, Saturday, Aug. %.
HON. w. r. LUNT
AND
HON. j. A. LOCKE
WILL SPEAK AT
SCOTLAND SCHOOL HOUSE, WINDHAM, We'd
nesday Evening, Aug. Is. r
HON. w. 4. LUNT
.i~H AND
COL. HI. l.. PIPER
of w ashington
WILL SPEAK AT
WEST HARPSwELL, Friday Evening Aug. 20.
HON. t. r.. slMONTON
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-18
TOURISTS AND STRANGERS

Coming to Portland should visit the Observatory ON
Munjoy Hill. From the cupola may be Seen the en-
tire city, the Ocean to the horizon. CascO hay,
with its beautiful islands, Old Orchard Reach
and with the powerful Telescope mounted in the
cupola the hotels on Wts. Washin gtOu. Kear-
sarge and Pleasant NAV be distinctly
The views here said to be unsurpassed for beau
ty and variety by any i'll the world Congress street
cars pass every ten minutes. au1O dit
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-18
III. G.. BRIGGS, ESQ,

slti WILL SPEAK AT
DUCK POND, Monday Evening August 20.
SOUTH BRIDGTON, Tuesday Evening. Aug. "a.
RAYMOND VILLAGE, Wednesday, Aug. rs.
DUNSTAN'S CORNER, Thursday, Aug. 26.
NORTH YARMOUTH, Friday, Aug. 27.
EAST DEERING, Saturday Aug. 2S
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-18

MEANING OF A DEMOCRATIC RES.
TORATHON.
"We would like to engrnve n prophecy
ON stone TO be read of generations in the
future. The negro in these States will be
slave again or cease to be. His sole refuge
from extinction will be in slavery to the
white man.-MERIDIAN (iIss9 MERCURY.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-18
A. G. BRADsTREET Esq. {,

FREEPORT, Wednesday Evening August IS.
HARRISON, Thursday Evening, August 10.
NAPLES, Friday Evening, August 20.
GRAY, Saturday Evening, August 81.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-18
APPOINTMENTS.
HON. THOMAS u. REED
WILL. SPEAK AZ
WILL SPEAK AT

NEwRY CORNER, Wednesday, August IS.
ANDOVER, Wednesday Evening, August 49,
OXFORD TOWN HOUSE, Thursday, August 10.
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THE MAINE STATE PRESS
5 published every THURSDAY MORNING at 81 so a
scar, If paid in advance at $500 year.
kATEs OF ADV GETIsfEG: One inch OF space. The
length of column, constitutes square.
sl.5o per square, daily first week; 70 GEMS 4'ei
ng every other day after first week, so cents.
Halt square. three insertions or less, 75 cents
one week 81 90: so cents per week after.
SPECIAL NOTICES, one-third additional.
Under head of "AMUsEMENTs'' and "AUcTioN
SALES, $500 per square per week; three inser-
tions or less, S1.60.
Advertisements inserted in the MAINE STATE
PRESS" (Which has large circulation in every part
of the State) for 90 per square for first insertion
and so cents per square for each subsequent inser
ton.
Address all communications to
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