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The Portland daily press., 1881-11-03
DR.. Holland to the Readers of the
Century Magazine.

The following extract is from the salutatory
which the late DIR. j. G. Holland wrote for the
Century Magazine (the new series OF Scribner).
It appears in the November department OF
"Topics of the Time" We trust our readers
will pardon us if we indulge in little senti-
ment to-day. The men who devise and carry
on the Important enterprises grow weary aiter
a time. and die. We look back upon the work
and achievements of the past eleven years,
that have been so full of interest and so fruit
fnl of good results, and rejoice that our COM
panions have had the privilege OF establishing
an agency so powerful in the molding OF puo-
lie opinion and the elevation of public sentl-
ment as widely circulated magazine. IL mas
been great privilege to meet monthly NIL
lion men and women in these pages, and 10
speak to them of morals, religion, politics, lit,
erature and life, and to present them some OF
tba choicest offerings Of prose and verse that
the genius of the country can produce ror
MANY wears we hope to meet the readers Oh tno
Century in a constantly increasing circle Wltn
better gifts in our hands, but we kho" snaS
the time must come when we must CEASE iion5 i5
labor and relinquish our work 10 other anu
Younger hands. We envy these coming men
their great and interesting future. IL Is nos
likely that this magazine Will ever change us
name again. Its life, which is the producI OF
great multitude of lives, Is hkeiy 10 go on ioI
are now children will both produce and read
the magazine which to-day receives what Will
doubtless be its final name. So we are able 70
give to it persistence of life which we cannot
retain for ourselves. If we fail to do TINS II
will not be for lack of effort to that end. May
The Century Magazine "live long and prosper,
and NAV it be met with the hearty goodwin
with which il greets the public to-day!
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-03
The Treasury Report.

Mr.. Windom's administration of the Trea-
sury closes with brilliant feat. His last
monthly debt tatement, that for October,
shows reduction of over thirteen millions
of dollars in the public debt. The reduction
Of the interest bearing debt was over $780,
100000, of which amount $22,666,000 con-
sisted of bonds redeemed and destroyed, and
$3,7OO,000 we're transferred to the table of
debt, on which interest has ceased. The to-
tai cash in the treasury was reduced nearly
$10,000,000 during the month, and the avail
able cash balance was reduced over $4,000,
900. A reference to the debt statement for
October of last year shows that the cash bal
ance available is over 5000, 600 less than it
was Nov. 1, last year. During the last
twelve months the bonded debt has been re-
duced nearly $116,0OO0OO. Nearly $56,O0O,-
600 OF this reduction has taken place since
the beginning of the current fiscal year.
There is every prospect that the reduction
of the debt during the present fiscal year
will, at least, equal that of 1867, which was
$133,000,000, the largest ever made during
OAO JS"i' ASSOAulAS w bl1O SbdbcLuCuIo VI
assets and liabilities of the treasury, there
are held in the treasury 500, ,576, ,27S in STAN
dard silver dollars, all of which, with the
exception of $25S, ,7OS, are represented by
outstanding silver certificates. During the
last twelve months there has been an in
crease of nearly $40,00O,00O in the amount
of outstanding silver certificates. The Oc-
tober coinage of the silver dollars carried
the total coinage of the new dollar beyond
500, 100000. The gold coin and gold bullion
now in the treasury exceed by over $32.-
100000, the amount hell on Nov. 1, last
year.
At the present rate of reduction the entire
debt, s1,7S5, ,534, ,556.90, will be wiped out
inside of ten years, as the interest payments
will steadily decrease in amount. The in
ter2st on the debt now is about $52, 100000
annually, while at this time last year it was
about SS2,0O0,O00 annually. The pension
list, it is said, will be fully $12,000,000 less
this year than it was last. But the abolition
of the debt will not be effected in that time,
for much of it will not be due for many
more years, and the treasury, in order to
cancel the bonds, must buy them in the
market at a great premium. Nor can we
expect every year of the next decade to be
as prosperous as the present or yield SO
large an income to the government. Nei-
ther is it probable that the present high rate
of taxation will be long maintained. But
the reduction already made is marvellous
and without a parallel in the history of fin
anciering.
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-03
A New story about Gen. Grant.

It has lust leaked out that while Gen. Grant
was travelling in Asia he expressed desire TO
oct a shot at lion. Not wishing to expose
him to any danger, the natives secured a stuffed
lion and set it up iu the jungle, and then took
the illustrious traveller out for hunt. When
the beast was sighted the General was all ex-
citement, and crawling up to favorable posi-
ton, began to blaze away at the animal win
no perceptible effect. After firing ABOUT
twenty shots he began to get mad, and taking
off his coat he settled down for a regular SIEGE
Fearing his wrath when he discovered the sell
the attendants endeavored to induce him to
give up the attempt to kill the beast, telling
him that it bore o charmed life and he could
not possibly injure it. He told them to go TO
thunder; that he was after blood and was go
ing to have it, After vain fusilade OF nan
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-03

WORD comes from Memphis that sheet
iron is likely to find new use on an extern
sive scale in its application to the covering
of cotton bales. The present hemp cover
ing is used solely because of its cheapness,
but as it admits moisture and sand, it
causes considerable waste of cotton. A
number of heavy cotton dealers have there
fore written north for quotations on No. 80
sheet iron. If it is adopted it will have an
enormous sale. Each bale will require a
sheet 76 by A inches and weighing %
pounds, and as the annual crop of cotton is
100000 bales, it would take $4,000 tons Of
sheet iron to cover them.
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-03

THE Army and Navy Register says: Com
modore Shufeldt is cruising on he coast OF
China in the yacht of the Viceroy, Ii Hung,
with two Chinese naval officers, for the pur-
pose of locating naval stations He hopes to
organize an imperial system of naval ad-
ministration to take the place of the present
barbaric methods of governing, equipping
and paying the Chinese naval service. Lieu
tenant Mannix has been made a Mandarin
and is busily engaged in studying the Chi
nese language preparatory to his work as an
instructor in naval science
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-03

THE latest from Arizona is to the effect
that the Chiricahua Indians have been
chased across the border into Mexico, and
our troops are now quietly waiting for the
Mexicans to drive them back again. If con-
tinued attrition has the same effect upon
Indians that it has in the case of water up
that these marauding savages will be entire
ly rubbed out ere long.
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-03

GOVERNOR Alvin Hawkins, says the
Memphis Avalanche, would have been the
choice Of the Southern Republican delega-
ton for Cabinet position, but as his ap-
pointment would make Democratic Gov
ernor for Tennessee in the person of Speak
er Morgan, it was deemed inexpedient to
suggest his name to the President.
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-03

THE Indians, Lieutenant Brown of the
United States army reports, have seen the
results of the training received by Indian
children at Hampton, Virginia, and appre-
ciate them. They are now anxious to have
their boys selected for the school, but they
are not so much in favor of educating the
girls. Their idea is that if the girls were
educated "they would get like the white
women and not do any work at ALL"
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-03
PRICE 8 CENTS.

mischief. The same argument would justify
a burglar who finds no sign on house saying
'No burglars allowed here" A term in Jail
will probably convince him.
If the owners of cottages will unite in offer
ing large rewards for the housebreakers they
will probably break up the habit of raiding
through the dwellings. There can be little
honor among such scoundrels, and the thor
ough punishment of few of them will 30
good lesson in behaviour. 1t seems as If the
city authorities should take some method to
protect property there, since it is within the
city limits. Judicious offers OF rewards would
undoubtedly meet the case.
No doubt the time will come when the aver
age citizen can be trusted to let his neighbor's
property alone, but it is astonishing to SOC how
long it takes to train out the tendency to pira
ey. Three hundred years ago piracy at sea was
winked at by all governments. Now it is little
practiced except in Chinese waters, and China
is still medieval in her ways. But the dispo-
sition still haunts the civilized seas. The
dwellers by the shore still believe all wrecked
property their perquisites as witness the wreck
of the Bohemian on Cape Elizabeth, and the
sailor helps himself freely to anything he can
find unmatched. This Summer large sail
boat was stolen from one of our islands and
carried away to the Provinces.
1t is a comfort to know that the world is
growing better in this respect. The progress
is slow, but comparison with other centuries
shows a decided gain, and each generation
brings an increased number Of converts to the
side of honesty
But the time has come when even the last
Summer resident must leave these beautiful
shores and fit back to town. A few more
weeks and our lovely woodpaths will be shut
in by ice and snow: but we will remember and
dream of them as still bright with the mellow
Autumn sunshine, and with the acorns and
beechnuts pattering down among the yellow
and crimson leaves, with the squirrels scurry-
ing along the branches busily laying in their
Winter stores, their cheeks puffed out with
beechnuts, and one eye warily fixed on the in
truder, and overhead sombre line Of crows
shouting solemn warning like latter-day proph-
cts. And with these pleasant memories to
cheer us in the storms of Winter, we can
cheerfully while away the long months until
the sunny days of June come once more TO
welcome us back to the islands of Casoo Bay.
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-03

THE present acting Lieutenant Governor
of Louisiana is William A. Robertson,
Connecticut man by birth, but resident OF
Louisiana since 1856. He was a medical
director in the rebel army during the war
and since the war he has been lawyer with
large practice.
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-03

- 4
Ia Marechale was not always distinguishe ed by
tact or good taste. At one time she lived next
door in Paris to Paris to Mdlle. Bourgouin, the
famous actress, and once had difference with
her in which she came off decidedly only sec
ond best. The great lady-so the story goes
had favorite cat, which often strayed into
the house of the actress. She made frequent
complaints; and at length (having just received
her title from the Emperorl wrote an indignant
letter of remonstrance and abuse to Mdlle'
Bourgouin, accusing her OF having stolen ner
cat. and signing herself Eugene de Dalma-
tie' Mdlls. Bourgoin was equal to the occa-
sion. She wrote an appropriate letter in re-
ply. and signed herself "Iphigenie en- Aulide,"
one of her favorite parts on the French stage.
The laugh was terribly against the poor Ouch
ess. =,
When Marshal NIaison brought his old moth
ar TO Paris and installed her in the smart hotel
he inhabited in the Faubourg st. Honore, she
pined for the simple provincial lie ana tne
rugged ways and customs she had known i,o wnen
her son still only carried the MarshaIs baton In
the knapsack of the private soldier. she ieit un-
comfortable and ill-at-eaSe in the g1lded salon
and at the sumptuous table, and spent ner Gays,
it is said, in the porters lodge, gosslpplng with
the servants and tradespeople. Her dlindence as
to her ability to express herself in the French OF
polite society usually kept her tongue-tied at her
sons table. On one occasion, however, having
been induced to make one OF great dinner
party, and seeing the luxury with whlcn tne
Marshal was surrounded, and the respect PAID
him by the most distinguished men IN Paris,
she could contain herself no longer and cried
out in a sort of ecstacy, SET moi Je suls sa
merep' OF the great Napoleon's peersges
some few have become extinct, but there Is
still Napoleon Berthier, Prince ct Due de
Wagram, and Prince de Neuchatel, VINO is .
son of Napoleon,s old Marshal, and was mar
ried longer ago than he would care to say to
niece Of Bernadotte. There is Mortier
Due de Trevise, whose name recalls not only
most brilliant period of the Emperor's career,
but also the dastardly attack OF Fieschl on
Iv the old soldier who had survived dozen
fights. There is also Junot Due d'Abrantes,
while Ney Due d'Elchingen, is a General
of Brigade under the present regime.
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-03

EVERY regular sttache Of the PR is furnished
with CtsTd certificate signed by Stanley Pullen,
Editor, All railway steamboat and hotel managers
will confer favor upon us by demanding credentials
Of oyery person claiming to represent our Journal
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-03
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We DO not read anonymous letters and commun
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
sl cases Indispensable not necessarily for pnbica-
ton but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or pres We com
munieatlons that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-03

SENATOR Edmunds will discuss the polit-
cal aspect of Mormonism In Harper's Maga-
zine for January.
The Portland daily press., 1881-11-03

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French Titles and Madame Maison

lLO1uOu
The French Colonel may be Count, and the
capitaine de vaisseau may be M. le Marquis as
well; but the French Army and Navy Lists
take no longer any cognizance of such distinc-
tions The Department of Justice, in the
same way, is very chary of giving their titles
to its judges and procureurs in official commu-
nications and, if the French Foreign Office
still accords to its ambassadors, secretaries, at
tach6s, and even consuls their private rank and
titular designations, that is probably a good
deal owing to the presence of Count Horace de
Choissul at the Quai d'Orsay. But. perhaps,
the most evident sign of the way the wind
blows is the slight that has recently been put
upon French bishops, who are no longer to be
addressed officially as ''Monseigneur," but as
plain Monsieur"
Charles x. showed marked preference for
the old Legitimist families; but when the Duke
Of Orleans turned him out and sat down in his
place, the Maisons, Mortiers, Berthiers and
Soults came well to the front again. The titles
of the Marshals themselves, won as they had
been on famous battlefelds, invariably carried
a certain amount Of respect with them; but the
airs and graces of their wives and kinswomen
often excited the ridicule of the old noblesse.
The stories were legion of the amusing gau-
cherries committed by poor old Madame Mai
son, the Marshals mother, in Paris society,
which she entered for the first time when she
had one leg in the grave; and, although Soult
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-06-08

Joseph Silloway has sold all his rich,
and title to the place on FIRST avenue in
which he gave his sisters a life lease a
year ago. He now gives them a deed of
it for the sum of $3.50
On Friday at IL o'clock, NJ, the roof of
the Montpelier & Wells River railroad
bridge caught fire from a spark from their
engine, but was extinguished with few
pals OF water. A general alarm of fire
was given and ruedly interrupted MANY
as they were just commencing their
dinners.
The wonder of some small boys and a
few bigger ones is, Is this town to have a
celebration of any kind on the 4th of July?
How many years is it since anything more
was done than a few small boys firing off
a cracker and an old gun? Now, whether
we have celebration or not, the place to
get your glassware to drink from, your
crockery for all uses, as we'll as dry goods,
notions, gloves, hosiery, corsets, sackings,
prints, cottons. shirtings, dress trimmings
of all kinds and prices, and last, but not
least, work baskets and fancy goods, is at
Webster's.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-06-08

FATAL ACCIDENT .-AtW est Jamaica,
Thursday morning, little son of AloDzo
P. Clough, about three and half years
old, fell from a loaded OK cart, on which
he was riding and one wheel passed over
his head, killing him instantly.
William Penn has two direct descend
ants in this country-Peter Penn Gaskell
Hall, and Penn Gaskell Skilleou. who still
draws an income from the Penn estates in
Ireland. Two boys, one named Quinn and
the other Coates. also trace their descent
from Penn.
The proposed changes in the Stratford
church where Shakespeare lies buried have
been abandoned " out of deferance to
strong local opposition" says an English
paper. /" Local" is a good word for q
protest which rang over two continents.
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THE ACCIDENT ACCOMMODATED
Morse, aged eight years. son of John
Morse of South Rayalton. was run over
by the cars at that place Monday evening,
cutting off one foot and crushing his leg
badly. But little hopes are entertained Of
his recovery.
A man named Record, living on the
Blake place in Swanton. was leading Mr..
W. Fl. Blake's Jersey bull along the road
to st. Adams, Tuesday morning, where it
was to be sold at auction, when the bull
became enraged, broke the rod by which
he was led and gored the man in a terrible
manner. Dr. Hall of st Adams and two
Swanton physicians were called to attend
the injured man. who is in critical con.
dition, The animal could not be captured
in his frenzy. and was shot before doing
further harm.
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NJ AR R A g ES.

In Chelsea, May d. by Rev. Z Z. Herrick. WAYLAND
L. SARGENT and FANNIE f. ROBBINS. Oldest
daughter Of Freeman Robbins, all Of Chelsea.
In Woodbury., May IL. by Rev J. d. Bailey. Mr. GEO.
BATCHEIDER Of Woodbury., aud Miss HANNAH
STONE of Calais.
In Morristown June l. by Rev J. q. Hale os Stowe
0 W. CHAFFEE aud Miss CLARINDA J. WAKE
FIELD, both of Morristown.
In Granville NAV 30. by Rev. George S GUERNSEY,
EUGENE +. BRIGGS and Miss BERTHA NJ. HUB
BARD, both Of Granville.
In Rochester NAV 30 by Rev. George S Guernsey
GEORGE F. C0HEE and Miss EVA NJ. RICHARDSON,
both of Rochester.
In Spri Rfeld, June |, by Rev. A. L. Cooper, JOHN
field
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Lamoille county court finally adjourned

Lamoille county court finally adjourned
Monday. Woodbury. Tolman was tried for
assault upon Moses Wakefield of Wolcot,
and acquitted on account of insanity. The
jury finding him an unsafe person to be
at large. the court ordered him to be con-
fined in the asylum at Brattleboro, where
he has been removed. In the case of
Lucian Scott VS.. VIM. Nye and L. M.
Knight, clerk. for assault and battery, the
judgment was for the plaintiff for fifty
dollars damages and costs, with certificate
Of wilful and malicious trespass.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-06-08

Letters UncaIled Tor! at Montpelier, VI. Post
Once, June 4, 1881.
sB- To obtain these letters persons must give the
above date.
LADIEs-Cora NJ. Andrews Mrs. Mary L. Bailey
Mrs. Emma Ford.
GESrLENES.-Thom F. Brown. Jr., Cheney Davis
Jesse Clinton Paine, A. l.. Peck.
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In Montpelier, June I, Miss JULIA A. PIERCE, aged
20 years.
In this village on Berlin side June o. EVE daughter
of Henry A Cass, aged II years and months
In Worcester May ~, EDISON s. RICHARDSON,
aged Sd years, months and days.
In Calais June4 LEWIS WOOD, aged IS years ard
months.
In Pomfret June l, Mrs. MARY B. WINSLOW, aged
50 years and months
In Taftsve, June s. at the residence of his SON
Enos, DANIEL DOLE, aged 50 years and months
In Springfield, May 90, ELIZA (Prentiss) wife of
Harry Locke aged IS years and month
In Hyde Park May 20, CARRIE -, daughter of the
late Moses and Julia A. Peck, aged 20 years and 8
months.