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The Portland daily press., 1880-11-13

THERE seems now TO be no doubt that
General Hawley will secure the Connecticut
Senatorship, as the Hartford Evening Post.
in which Chairman Jewell is reported to
have large interest, has come out for the
General, saying: 'The Republicans in the
Legislature, which is to assemble in Janua-
ry, will have but one candidate, so far as we
know, for the position of United States Sem
ator. General Hawfey will be their unani-
nous choice. And the fact that it is so
to be, proves how strong and united the par
ty have become, and how weak have been
the insinuations of the Democratic press
that unpleasant personal issues were to en-
ter into the campaign.
The Portland daily press., 1880-11-13
Books Received

Common Sense i'm the Household. BY Mar
ion Harland. Cloth, SAG pp., S1.75. New York
Charles Scribner's Sons. Portland: Loring, Short
& Harmon.
The Dramatic Works of Bayard Taylor,
with Notes. By Marie Hansen-Taylor. Cloh,
345 pp., S2.25. Boston: Houghton, Miffiin & Co.
Portland: Loring, Short & Harmon.
American Poems. Holiday Edition. Cloth,
Illustrated, 455 PIP, SO. Boston: Houghton,
Mifiin & Co. Portland: Loring, Short & Harmon.
sam Lnwson's OIdtown Fireside Stories.
Cl'th. Illustrated, 2S7 pp., Sl.50. Boston;
Houghton, Mitfiin Co. Portland: Loring, Short
& Harmon.
The Princess OgherOf. A Russian Love Story.
By Henry Greville, Translated by Mrs. Sherwood.
Paper, 326 pp., rs cts. Philadelphia: t. B. Pet
erson q Brothers.
The Portland daily press., 1880-11-13
NATIONAL THANKSGIVING,
by the President of the United States,
A PROCLAMATI

At no period in their history, since the United
States became a nation, has this people had so
abundant and so universal reasons for joy AID
gratitude at the favor of Almighty God or been
subject to profound obligation to give thanks
for His loving kindness and humbly to implore His
continued care and protection. health, wealth and
prosperity throughout all our borders peace honor
and friendship with all the world; firm and faithful
adherence by the great body of our population to
the principles of liberty and justice which has made
our greatness nation and the wise institutions
and strong form of government and society which
will perpetuate t-for all these let the hearts of a
happy and united people, as with voice. ascend
in devout homage to the Giver of All Good. L
therefore recommend that on Thursday, the
twenty-ifth day of November next, the peo-
pie meet in their respective places of worship to
make their acknowledgements to Almighty God for
His bounties and His protection, and to offer to
Him prayers for their continuance.
BY the President. r. B. HAYES.
VIM. NJ. EvARTs.
Secretary of State.
The Portland daily press., 1880-11-13
ChamberIin
AND
Homsted,
Cor. Congress & Elm Sts.,
PORTLAND, MAINE,
nov12 diff

After much persuasion, Prof Edison has been
prevailed upon give the world his truly wonder
III discovery for alevistng pain For years he suffer-
ed from neuralgia palms, unable to find any remedy
among the hundreds which he tried that would give
him permanent ease. Finally he became convinced
that he must become his own physician and seek,
by experiments for the desired relief He bad
taken all the we'll known sedatives which gave only
tempory relief, and produced nervousness, loss of
appetite, &C. lie now sought for combination OF
such remedies would, by oatrard application,
him of his distress and at the time not be
injurious to his system.
Trials and experiments followed this. determina-
tion until he at last produced compound which
by application, entirely subdued all pain and al
lowed his system to orecuperate, and throw off the
disease.
ss+fro his discovery Prof Edison gave the name
The Portland daily press., 1880-11-13

Ii may interest the many friends of the
petulant and ingenious Mr.. Spoopendyke to
know that his family tree <iof which the
bark seems worse than the bite) had its
roots in medieval Florence-if we may
trust the word of George Eliot In her
grand novel; Romola, she makes one of the
characters remark as follows in the true
Spoopendyke vein: 'Tis well you Floren-
tires are blind" he began in high, incsive
voice. 1T appears to me you need nothing
but diet of hay to make cattle of YOU"
The Portland daily press., 1880-11-13
The Morey Fraud.

1t is to be hoped that the Morey investiga-
ton will be vigorously pushed till all the
men who were concerned in the conspiracy
to. defeat Garfield and elect Hancock bv
means of the forged Chinese letter are ex
posed and punished. The public care very
little about such weak and mercenary tools
as the two witnesses who have Just con-
fessed to perjury. The men who instigated
them TO this crime are the men the public
are after. The trail already struck leads ND
to the Democratic National committee
rooms, and it is only necessary TO follow it
with diligence to bag the game The devel-
opments already are sufficient to show that
some of the Democratic managers are guilty
of suborping witnesses to commit perjury.
The tell-tale check of Secretary Smalley
of the National Committee throws flood
of light on the operations of that Commit
tee which was organized to elect Hancock.
$3.50 is pretty large sum to pay pauper.
such as Morey, simply for trip from Lynn
to New York, and for few days board.
and it is an insult TO the intelligence of sensi-
Bile people to claim, as one Of the Democratic
Committee does, that the money was paid
simply for that purpose. Morey says it was
the price of his perjury, and that seems to
be the only reasonable explanation of the
transaction.
1t will be urged on behalf of the impli-
Gated Democrats that O'Brien and Morey
havirg confessed to perjury are unworthy
of belief. To a certain extent this is true.
But on the other hand it must be remem-
bered that men do not jeopardize their lib
erty as these men did without consdera-
ton. If it is true that they committed per-
jury it follows that they did SO from some
motive, and the only conceivable motive is
the hope of gain, for it was nothing to them
whether the Chinese letter was written by
Gen. Garfield or Philip. If they were paid
for their perjury it is impossible to escape
the conclusion that the men who paid them
were the men whose interest it was to es-
tablish the genuineness of the Chinese let
ter. These men were the publishers of
Truth, and the Democratic National Com
mttee.
At this juncture Chairman Barnum would
find good character of immense advantage.
Had he such character the public would
be charitably inclined TO consider him and
his associates simply the victims of the dis
reputable publishers of Truth. Unfortu-
nately Mr.. Barnum's career since he entered
political life has been very crooked one.
Before the campaign just closed he had
gained the sobriquet of ''The Mule Buyer
by his corrupt use of money in elections,
and there is good reason to believe that it
was confidence in his skill in trickery
which secured him the position which he
now occupies. If this were so certainly his
performances in the recent canvass have
shown that this confidence was not mis-
placed. He succeeded in eliminating every
thing from the Democratic campaign but a
forged letter, and finally went to the country
on that alone. If Mr.. Barnum now finds
the country ready to believe that he abetted
that forgery, and that to clear himself of
that crime he has consented to another, he
has nobody to blame but himself.
The Portland daily press., 1880-11-13

Boston Herald: Gen. Garfield's indig-
nant injunction to s'Hunt the rascal down."
appears to be bearing fruit. And, instead
of one rascal, there is evidently precious
lot of them. The confessions of the two
suborned witnesses do not disclose the au-
thor of the forged letter, but they make it
tolerably clear that persons high in the
councils of the Democratic party have been
concerned in plot to support forgery by
perjury. That is the usual course III crime
-one step makes another necessary 1t is a
tax which most people will not feel called
upon to place on their credulity, to suppose
that Mr.. Barnum and his associates in this
business believed honestly in the innocence
of Philip, the disinterestedness of Hart, the
truthfulness of Morey and the trustworthi-
ness of the clumsy liar O'Bren. 1t is a
dirty piece of business throughout, and
those who have touched it have only them
selves to blame that their fingers are de-
filed. Nothing SO disgraceful has marred
the conduct of any Presidential campaign
in the history of the country.
The Portland daily press., 1880-11-13

NEW YORK Nation: As if to give the fin
ishing touch to the absurdity of their late
canvass, the Democrats in this city are now
busy in hunting up evidence of Republican
fraud, which they hope to get in sufficient
quantity to do away with the Republican
majority and induce Congress to throw out
the State vote, or else accept that of the
Hancock electors. When we remember that
the party has been fighting tooth and nail
in Congress for the last ten years in defence
of the theory that all elections are State
elections, not to be either supervised or in
vestigated by any Federal authority except
when Congress passes on the qualifications
of its own members, this attempt to convert
Congress into general Returning Board
must be set down as of a piece with the par
ty advocacy of ''a tariff for revenue only"
There seems to be so little judgment or even
common sense left in the party management
that we cannot, in justice to the large num-
Der of really intelligent men who vote its
ticket, help looking for some immediate eff
fort to break the concern up and try a new
OrSduIZdtlOu. we 40 nOC Know exactly now
party ''disbands," but it is plain that the
hour for disbanding has arrived for our
Democratic brethren. Neither man nor par
ty ought to live after the brains are gone.
J. RANDOLPH TUCKER, Confederate Dem
ocrat, of the Sixth Virginia Congressional
District, claims to be reelected, but not by
honorable methods. A large number of col
ored voters had their votes thrown out on
the pretext that they had paid their taxes to
deputy, whose receipts they held instead
of holding receipts signed by Auditor Mas
sic himself. A judge decided that receipts
signed by deputy are not legal under the
election laws. Yet the State has their mon
ey; their taxes were duly paid; no question
is raised about this. 1t is claimed that it
was physical impossibility for the auditor
to sign the thousands of receipts in person.
If Democrats held these receipts, no such
question would have been raised. 1t was a
bubble necessary to secure Mr.. fuckers
election; but it is not creditable either to
him or his party.
The Portland daily press., 1880-11-13
THE PRESS.
SATURDAY MORNING, NOV. Is.

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address Of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for pubca-
ton but guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve com
munlcatlons tnat are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1880-11-13

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., 1880-11-13
POLYFORM.

Graiifed with the result upon himself, he tested
his discovery upon others who suffered from nerv-
pain, and in every the relief was perfect.
The cures performed by his gifts of Polyfotm be-
came SO celebrated and the demand upon his time
and attention great Prof Edison finally yielded
the solicitation of those who knew the merits of
his preparation and allowed company TO be formed
for the manufacture and sale of Polyform under his
supervision.
The number Of remarkable cures, and the suffer
ing Poyferm has saved attest the wisdom and
phiantrophy of this course.
No higher testimony could be aiduced than the
certificate of Prof Edison, who authorizes the pub
LEGATION of the following:
MENLO PARK, n. j.
/ CERTIFY THAT THE PREPARATION
KNOWN AS EDISON'S POLYFoRM is MADE
ACCORDING TO FORMULA DEVISED AND
USED BY MYSELF.
THOMAS A. EDISON,
For many other complaints beside Neuralgia
such as Rheumat ism. Headaches. Sciafica,
tsOut, tsain in Buck or Side, or wherever pain
exists, without abrasion OF the skin Polyform
will give prompt relief.
Price $l.OO per Bottle.
PREPARED BY
The MenlO Park Manufacturing Co.
NEW YORK CITY.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
oct9 6mSTu&Th
The Portland daily press., 1880-11-13
Gilbert's Assemblies

Every Thursday evening commencing Nov. 4th.
Single admission 7b cents. Tickets for a course of
six assemblies, $500. Season tickets $1,000 La
dies unaccompanied by Gents not admitted unless
holding tickets of admission, which can be obtained
OF the management only.
Class in Waiting the German and Raauet
very Monday evening. oc29dbm
The Portland daily press., 1880-11-13

THE Bangor Commercial has discovered
since electionsthat the Chinese are return
ing home in large numbers.
The Portland daily press., 1880-11-13

The Stage. By ]. e. Murdoch, u. M. Stod-
dart & Co.: Philadelphia) abounds in theatri-
cal "reminiscences collected by the author dur
ing long theatrical career, chapters upon the
great actors of the days "when Siddons played
with Kemble," some critical notes upon the
rendering of Shakespearian characters, and an
appendix, including dissertation on Theatri-
cal Subjects, written in 1859 by Colley Cibber.
Mr.. Murdoch writes easily and agreeably, with
Judgment and taste; and lovers of the drama
will greatly enjoy his volume. A portrait of
the author, etched with delicacy and point by
Mr.. S. j. Ferris deserves commendation.
The Portland daily press., 1880-11-13

Another volume of Mr.. Joseph Cooks Mon
day Lectures Boston: Houghton & Miflin) is
made up of lectures and preludes upon the
subject of Socialism. They are in his usual
style-truths, errors and wide, if not par
ticularly deep, acquaintance with general hiss
tory and literature welded into bolts which
this self-elected son OF thunder hurls at his
audiences, hit or miss.
The Portland daily press., 1880-11-13

A new volume of Mr.. VIM. j. Rolfe's edi
tion of Shakspeare's Plays (New York Har-
pers Portland: Loring. Short & Harmony con-
tains King Lear, and the authors notes upon
this great tragedy are of especial interest.
Each successive volume which Mr. Rolfe gives
to the public deepens their obligation for an
edition wherein the te xt is carefully compared
and revised and the notes are clear and lumi-
nous, with no tendency to the intricate vari-
ties in which Shakspearian commentators are
apt to indulge, to the confusion of readers
The Portland daily press., 1880-11-13

Hints for Home Reading (New York: G.. P.
Putnam's Sons; Portland; Loring, Short &
Harmony is one of the useful series Of Handy
Books of Things Worth Knowing. 1t is made
up of interesting chapters upon the choice of
books, plans of reading, suggestions for house.
hold libraries &C., by such competent writers
as Messrs. Charles Dudley Warner, Mr.. F.
Sweetser, E. E. Hale, G. P. Putnam and 9TH
ers. 1t will be found a very useful and sug-
gestive volume. The lists of standard works
and their prices, appended, will greatly aid
those who wish to form library suited to
their tastes and means.
The Portland daily press., 1880-11-13

Valhalla. The Myths of Northland. By
Julia Clinton Jones (New York: A. Worthing-
ton). The writer of these poems has collected
the strange and mystic legends of the Morse
men, and given them varied poetic forms,
of which the literary execution is praisewor-
thy The depth and the wilc power of the
Morse legends is well conveyed by the terse,
somewhat rough lines of these poems; and the
authors comments and index are valuable and
interesting.
The Portland daily press., 1880-11-13

Historical Studies of Church-Building OF
the Middle Ages. By Charles Eliot Norton,
(New York: Harper & Brothers; Portland;
Loring, Short & Harmony gives fine and ex-
haustive record of the progress of architecture
in Venice, Siena aud Florence during its gold
en- age of the medieval centuries. The pages
shine with great names which recall the
princely splendor and the marvellous art of
those days, and include many valuable notes
of the political and literary, as we'll as the ar
tistic and eccl esastical, conditions of the Mid
die Ages
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-11-26
FRESH MEATS, FISH, dc.

NOTICE-I will have On my st,l! OHOI e
IN BEEF. together with fine assortment of
all kinds Of MEATS, namely. sausage and
Sausage N eat Mlnce NJ eat and Puddngs. all OF
my avn msaufactura. The same articles may
be had at my store. No. GS south Fairfax street.
ALSO choice Leaf Lard, put up expressly
for family use; fresh Butter ard Eggs,
Fruits and Veget.b' es of all kinds 100 blbs Of
Apples Pickles by wholesale AID retail, Gran
berries, Hominy and Beaus, Ca,sup. War wick.
snlre sauce and pure Olive Oil, 100 bills FISH,
consisting of Mackerel Shad and Potomac Her
ring; also foe lot of POULTRY. Consisting Of
TurBies Ducia, GeeEe and Chickens. l re.
spectfuly ask share Of patronage.
loV25 s. j. REED.
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LOCAL BREVITIES.

The city school board will meet to night
There were no Gases at police headquarters &C.
day.
The alarm Of fro about seven O'clock last
night was caused ty q turning chimney on
south Royal street. in the neighborhood known
as "Hsyti."
Rev. Mr.. Pearce delivered on interestir 6
THANKSGIVING discourse in the n. Z. Church
last night, which WAS listened to by large con.
gregstion, notwithstanding the inclemency of
the weather.
The lecture OF Professor Carter, on Psychol-
ogy, delivered at Peabody Hall last night. I'M.
der the auspices of the " uug gentlemen of St.
Johns Academy. was very largely attended.
and the experiments and illustrations sforded
great amusement to the audience.
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TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPH NEWS
The Irish Troubles.

LONDON, Nov. % ,-T1e Tines 10 leading
articls this morning ssyt: I'VE fear that Mr.
Forster was u'sbs Yesterday 10 encourage bis
coleRu:s With rtp,rt that lswlessness is
abatiog il ireland. Il is too pl.io that the
mos. detes'ab!e ou,raees daily fccur aud that
uupsrsl led terrorism has been imposed on the
Irish ctulties. The law is alnos, poweEes, 10
prevent these crimes cr 10 punish the criminals
The authorities have made every ef,r; 10
proec; life and property BY employing the
ordinary fcrc g but the conspiracy is too s!rorg
and subtle 10 be 80 restrained. The utmos: that
can be done effeoiusy at present is to defend
the few persons who are threatened. Some
eighty l.ish gentlemen are under police pro-
tect;o,"
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OYSTERS Oysters have been and continue
to bs clrce 10 this place, ssd the quality OF
those that are brought here has SO far been
generally iof rior. For small bivalves 40 cents
bushel is Paid. while large Norfolk and Bay
oysters sell, ID from 81 to SLIPS bushel. The
Yves: Point Star says: I'VE learn that the
oyster trade in the Rsppahannock river is better
this winter than was ever known te!or.. Vts'
sells seeking oysters are c,owding up the river.
Oysters are plentiful. sud 10 excellent condition.
Prices ere good, and the oyster dealers Of all
classes are having feast of it.
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MOtherS I!
Mothers J.
Mothers q! Z!

Mothers! MOthers!! Mothers
Are you disturbed at high: and broken Of your
rest BY sick child suffering and crying with the
excruciatirg pain of cutting teeth : If so, 60 ut
SOOTHING SYRUP. It will relieve the poor
little sufferer mmediately-depend upon it;
there is no mistake about it. There is not q
mother on earth who has ever used it who will
not tell you at once that it will regulate the
bowels, and give res. TO the mother, and relief
and health TO the child, operating like magic.
1t is perfectly safe to use in all cases, and pleas
ant to the taste, and is the prescription of one of
the Oldest and beet female physicians and nurses
in the United States. Full directions for using
will accompany each bottle. None genuine un.
less the fac-simile of CURTIS & PERKINS
Dealers. Twenty-Five cents bottle Beware Of
imitstons
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-11-26

UNFORTUNATE SKATERS "A number Of
skaers we're on Huu,iug Creek and the c.ual
yesterday. Aucug tics, 90 the canal were
several young lscies accompanied By gentle
men, and right ,5iulY did tiuc and tho s katers
Glide, uctl crash aid scream were heard.
SID 10 oro of the ladies had broken in and suJk
above her waist She was rescued, but not.
however. until the two young gentlemen who
performed tho gallsnt act felt the bling cold of
lhs classic stream. A numbtr of other lovers
Ct the graceful sport broke il" but all es
capped without i1ja!y, excpt suoa IS might
result from an open sic bath 10 loo water 90 Q
winter dgy,
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Nib WINTER WEATHER To-day, with The
-1clfp The Thermometer REGISTERING 90 do
g!s abo7s zero, has pr=soo:Cd eenuiuc uii
HiCler aEpesvarc,. A sro9 storm trcm tho
nor,i. as, hrs prevailed nearly all day and TIE
TACT that The ground, housctoIs and trees a;e
covered With s1oS. acd the river is f lsd vii b
hoa;iug ice 8 considerable distance icom the
sbcro. los secn seized upon by the "Eeatber
wise" as basis FIR piedic ions Ct "a bard
Sa,sr." Kiox Winter tfteo logers 10 the lap
Of SpliDg. but be has rot been knoRn for many
yea:s as; to take bis scat so early 10 the lap Ct
Fall. But here he is in all his glory; to soue
he tr,pgs Joy and to others misery and sCtfeIltg 6,
Ran mocr the pnor.
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The WAY TO FURNISH ITEMs.-The best
ard euras! way to furnish FIST class i,eus tor
ihs neTspapers at this season of the year. 40
ccidirg to the experience of those competent to
Iljga. is for citizens to allow their bydrspts to
tua Gurirg the night jlst long enough to form
: sheet of smooth ice % the sidewsi K IN front
Ct their residences the next morbiBg. Then
coues along 90 old gentleman or an old lady,
all uoconscious ofimpepdipg danger, slips. falls
and breaks 90 srm or color bone, and The
rood people of the city have tie pleasure Of ex
prts:irg their sorrow over the news contained
In 40 it.m headed. "a Sad Accident.
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TCoMMUNICATED.

[CoIMUNICATED.
The POLICY FOR TIE SoUTH.-I have with
great pleasure roIi,sd 10 9 late issue Of your re
liable and stauoch democratic paper a
call upon a prominent Northern journal
for lis. of democratic manufacturers
of the North for the benefit of the
Sou,heru merchants. Now this sentiment has
the ring OF the Simon pure metal in it. which
if it were taken up By The Southern press zen
ma.ss" and made the pith of their every ISSUE
and was perSisteDtly sounded into the ears Of
the mercbantie world of the South, uotil it
became embodied toto their plans of business in
teIcourse With theNortb, there would be 20 more
build zIug Of operatives by republican operators,
for with them politics means money mora than
principle and they would henceforth shape their
adhesion to parry es best suited the securing o
fl! pocketbotk every time.
AGGRESSIVE DEMOCRAT.
Washirgton, D. O., Nov. 24 1881.
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xecuitOn.

SALEM, Va. Nov 26.-The execution Of
Marcus DsLafayste HaweY, who vas convicted
last month 10 tie circuit Court of this county
for the murder of z chariah Hayes 10 June
Of last yesr. took p 40 here TO DAY. Both the
murderer AID is vic i'm were white mep. The
execution was conducted privately, the only
persons present being the officers of the court,
a small guard. minister of the gospel and
representatives Of The press. The weather was
exceedingly disaRreesble, ooId rsio with snow
and sept prevailing, the latter falling steadily
during the hanging.