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The Portland daily press., 1881-01-19
Congressional Leadership

tGouverneur, N Y. Herald Timesl
The New York Tribune, Utica Herald and
several other leading and influential Republi-
can journals are deploring the less of SO many
able Republican leaders and accomplished par
liamentarians by promotion from the lower to
the upper house of Congress. Especial stress
Is laid upon the assumed fact, which is termed
an almost irreparable loss to the Republicans
of the House by the election of Eugene Hale
of Maine to the U. S. Senate, and the probable
transfer of his able colleague, VIM. P. Frye, to
tho same body to fill the place which Mr..
Blaine must vacate in the almost certain event
of his becoming Secretary of State under Pres
ident Garfield. But as far as the leadership
of the party by Representatives from Maine is
concerned, we have no mental misgiving nor
well grounded fear that the reputation of the
old Pine Tree State will seriously suffer by the
drafting of Hale and Frye into the higher
branch of the National Legislature. For, as
far as breadth of brain, sound Judgment, ripe
scholarship, resdiness in debate, keen wit, cut
ting satire and logical reasoning is concerned,
Thomas b. Reed, who represents the First
Maine District can much more than make
good any loss which the Republicans of the
House will sustain from the absence OF either
of the above named gentlemen. Mr.. Reed is
comparatively new member, put Wnen ne
has become thoroughly schooled in legislative
usages, his robust manliness stalwart ability,
trenchant wit, biting satire, sharp invective
and merciless irony will carry conviction to
the heads and CONSERVATION and dismay to
the hearts of the Southern brigadier or the
Northern doughface who attempts to dispute
with him.
We say this much of "Tom" Reed because
we have been years ago honored by his friend
ship and acquaintance and knew beyond all
question or denial that he is as truly head and
shoulders above the great mass of common
men, Intellectually, as he is really superior to
the great majority in his robust and stalwart
physical manhood.
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-19
A Sample Village.

L write from a country village containing
about 1000 inhabitants. 1t is a lovely little
town, nestled ON side hill to break off the
raw winds of winter and the hurricanes of
summer When arrived this morning it
seemed to me as if there could not be bad
man or scolding woman in the village, but
four hours have passed and am wiser man.
came here to see cid Mrs. Brown about
pension she wants from the government, and
when we had finished our busines said
81 see you have four churches here"
eyes; but we never have any sermons worth
listening to-"
"The men look intelligent and smart"
"Humphl They are regular pokesl There
isn't man in Farmville who knows enough
to ask boot in horse trade"
"But the women look happy" protested.
They look what they amt" she awnsered
81 don't believe there is happy woman in
the whole village. If you knew of the awful
carryings on here you wouldn't look for hap
py wives"
"What awful things do the men do?"
You'd better ask what they don't do! It's
wonder to me that Farmville hasn't shared the
fate of Sodom and Gommorrow"
"Do they drink"
''Do they? didn't see even old Deacon Har-
ris weaving this way and that as he climbed
the hill last evening? It's slippery path of
course, but sober men don't climb hill side
ways"
do they gambler"
Gamble! what did Mrs. Potts tell me that
her brothers wife told Mrs. Davis not a month
ago? Four of the leading men in the place
were caught playing checkers for soda water
That's a nice example, isn't it? ,
rs Mrs. Potts nice?"
"Nicel Why, she's the worst gossip In the
town. It's wonder the men don't duck her
in the mill pondi"
"And Mrs. Davis?"
"Shes hypoorite! She'll talk sweet to
your face, and abuse you behind your back"
"Mrs George is well spoken Of"
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the Oldest member, the Oldest surviving
president, the only one who held the place
three years. have done as much for that
club in days gone by Ito state it moderately as
any man living, and 1 claim that no fair ac-
count of that club in its literary aspect can be
made in which L am not mentioned. So much
for my position when the club has to be re-
ierred to. In passing would say that l be-
heve MIR. Whipple has ceased to be member
My literary work extends over twenty-five
years, during which time have done more
than all those members of the club you have
named, leaving out Whipple. / have pub
IIshed hve volumes oil more or less excellence.
The most successful have been my two hand
books, 700 pages zach, which cost me five years
OF labor, and which have been sold by tens of
thousands, and remain in use in high schools
and editorial sanctums from here to San Fran
cisco. III you say that pacunary success is
vulgar test, then will add to that scores of let
tiers from the most eminent writers of the ma
tion-personal letters, which l have never
Haunted nor shown even to my publishers.
The concurrent testimony is that these books
(whatever their faults) are at least equal to the
best of their class. However may stand with
certain writers | believe my position, such as
it is, is recognized by the acknowledged great
L must go further As a lecturer have had
unsolicited praise in every city where have
appeared. No man, not even Mr.. Fields, has
more solid or more brilliant compliments. In
the cities where my courses have been deliv-
cred, you will hardly make people believe that
am not an humble part Of literary Boston.
They Will rather think it the fashion here for
one set to ignore another. l have the "wel-
come" in leading magazines, and have enough
articles gathered to make readable and sale
able volumes. My articles in the newspapers
1 have seen quoted in all parts of the country,
and some have been specially praised in Eng
lish journals. You see, must dwell on each
point, for when began determined to fling
modesty away; but will conclude by saying
that if there was any other man who was fairly
entitled to make such claims, should think
1t the grossest injustice on your part to pass
him over. suppose you cannot be ignorant;
l am willing to believe you were forgetful. |
take nothing as unfriendly without proof, but
must say that forgetfuness none the less
gives pain. Perhaps 1 am questionable, and
that class you appear to avoid. Is it just? L
would cheerfully submit this to any disinter-
ested tribunal.
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-19

The trustees of the Lick Observatory
have finally closed the contract for the opti-
cal part of their great telescope. There has
been considerable doubt whether refractor
or an enormous reflector would be selected,
but the decision is in favor of the former.
The object glass is to be three feet in diane
ter, and the Clarks are to make it for $780,
600. The mounting for the instrument is
not yet provided for. Proposals will be OBJ
tanned from the principal instrument max
ers of Europe and this country. Probably
the mechanical part of the instrument will
cost abont as much as the optical. 1t may
be three years before the telescope is COM
pleted. If the instrument proves successful
it will be by far the most efficient ever
pointed at the heavens, and, under Califor-
nian skies ought to accomplish great things
for science. Its power will exceed that of
the Pulkowa glass, now constructing, by
forty-four per cent, and it will be almost
twice as powerful as the great telescope at
Washington, which at present holds the SUI
premacy among it's kind.
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-19
THEi PRESS.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN.I9.
The Author of CA Fools Errand. ,


Whoever has read those wonderful sketch
es OF the Reconstruction period ga FOOLS
Errand' and ''Bricks without ,''-and
thousands of people in this city have read
them-has wish to see and hear their auth
Or That wish can be gratified to-right, for
Judge Tonrgee lectures in this city this
evening. His lecture, it is understood, treats
OF the topic to which his widely-read books
are devoted. If he displays on the plat
form the vigor, the good sense, the fairness
of mind and the narrative power he exer-
clses in the study, the lect ure will be as
edlfying and entertaining as any ever de-
livered in Portland
The opportunity to hear Judge Tourgee
is one which no one interested in the work
he has done and the problem to whose So
luton he has so materially contributed,
will willingly miss. He will of course talk
to a great audience.
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$500 ReWard!

WE will pay the above reward for any case of
Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Indi-
with Vests Vegetable Liver Pills, when the Of
rections are strictly complied with They are
purely Vegetable, and never fail to give satsfae-
pills, 26 cents. For sale by all druggists Beware
OF counterfeits and mutations. The genuine manu-
factured only by JOHN G. WEST u CO., "The Pill
Makers" 1S1 & 1S3 W. Madison ST., Chicago.
Free trial package sent by mail prepaid on receipt
OF a cent stamp. sep6deow&weow1y
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-19

NEW York Sun: "We do not consider
that anybody patronizes newspaper when
he buys it, or that the newspaper is under
any obligations to any one who either pur-
chases copy or inserts an advertisement.
II it is wise and sound newspaper, the pur-
chaser or the advertiser gets the full value of
his money, and the account is even between
them.''
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-19

HARTFORD Courant: Our little country
town, which does not hold its own in the
scramble of modern life, and lets it's Jail
aud poor house go 'untenanted, may be a
pleasanter place to live in for rational
human being, better fitting the require
ments of civilization-with its plain living
and high thinking-more agreeable in the
sight of an impartial Providence, to say
nothing of a philosophical observer of the
fuss and fraud of this life, than many a
smart place with its enterprise and its
debt, it's hustle of industry, it's greed of
wealth and position, its vulgarized growing
population
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-19

BOSTON Herald: Perhaps Gov. Plaisted
OF Maine felt called upon to honor the
Greenback party which elected him by in
cooperating in his message some of its stock
ideas. He succeeded in making some very
absurd remarks, which ought to endear
him to party based ON the great principle
that man can lift himself over a fence by
his boot-straps.
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-19

The sporting periodical, Land and Water,
says trough tongue is of great Importance
to the health of the lion." This excellent
paper is hampered in expression and limited
in influence by its slavish devotion to the
lower orders. A rough tongue in the head of
man is even more useful than in the head
of lion-at the Office, not at home.
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-19

GENERAL LONGsTREET writes from Con-
stantinople on the Republican party at the
South: "The only reason why the Repub.
lican party has been put down and kept
down III the South is that no effort has beep
made to build it up except on the colored
man as corner stone, and he in the hands
OF strangers who have not understood him
or his characteristics.
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-19

The gluttonous Robin of nursery rhyme
has been outdone by Virginian who eat at
dinner the other day fifteen pounds of pork,
twelve links of sausage, goose, chicken,
peck OF sweet potatoes, dozen biscuit, a
mince pie, and drank six cups of coffee.
When asked if he would take little liquor
to settle his repast he said he was a tenn
perate man.
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-19

The new administration in Connecticut
has disgusted everybody. Governor Bigelow
forgot to mention God in his message, and
Lieutenant Governor Bulkley forgot to wear
plug hat inauguration day. The condem-
nation of Mr.. Bulkley is intense and vocif-
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-19

The Detroit Post describes Mr.. Fair, Just
chosen Senator from Nevada, as ga conser-
vative Democrat" The Post will confer a
favor on the people of this country by defn-
ing that definition.
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-19

JUDGE ToURGEE believes that Gen. Gar
fields official conduct will justify the high
est expectations, and make ''his election to
the Presidency an incident of a great life
rather than the climax of a weak oneu
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-19

BJoRNsTERNE BJoRNsoN, the Norwegian
author, now in the United States, will not
marry Ole Bulls widow, as was reported
few days ago. One reason why ne will not
do so is that he has wife already
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-19
NO. 3 DEERING PLACE.
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Boston, Dec. 13, 80.


Boston, Jan. &C. 1880.
Mrs. Myers: Dear Madam-Having been afflicted
for several years with piles, and having tried numer
Gus reLedies without avail, was persuaded to try
your drawing and healing save, and am happy say
has met with complete success
EDWARD F. KENNEY,
No. Knapp ST., Boston, Mass.
w. +. Phillips 4 Co., Wholesale Agents.
apps div
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-19
NOTICE.
To the Holders of Policies i'm ii

To the Holders Of Policies i'm the
st. Nicholas Fire Insurance
Company of New York.
The holders Of policies in the st. Mich
Olas Fire Ins. Co. of n. Y. are hereby no.
titled that the said company has REIN
sured all Of its outstanding risks in the
German American Ins. Co. of New York,
and all cancellations, transfers and en-.
dOrsements ON said ''St. Nicholas" poll
cies will be made by us.
DOW, COFFIN & LIBBY,
Agents Of German American Ins. Co.,
42 Exchange Street.
jan12 eod3w
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SECRETARY Evarts is said to have written
In one OF his recent dispatches: ''Ths CORE
spondence will be continued by my sue
cessor, Mr.. Blaine"
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-19
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The Portland daily press., 1881-01-19
Portland Bicycle School & Riding Hall.
l35 MIDDLE sTREET

Over Woodman, True & Coz Open every day and
evening. Hours-8 to IL M; l 10 and 7.3O to
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The Portland daily press., 1881-01-19
OVER STOCKED.
During the month of January, 1891, We
shall offer at cost or less Than cost.

SnalI 0iIef at cost or less than cost,
Mems Eng CIR. Walkingfast Waterproof Balls
Tor. .:............ S3.75
mems Eng Gr Congress ............ 3.75
Double sole Calf Congress ees.......... 200
Extra fine Calf Button Boots. .. 400
Newark Hand sewed French Calf Button 300
Weseott Calf Cloth top Congress Boots. 3.75
Small lot of Newark Congress (larrow). 8 90
LADIES American Button Boots ........... 200
French Goat, very Stylish. ........ 1926
Pebb Goa Button ....-........... 200
Extra quality Newport Ties and Button
Shoes ........ ....... ! 1.25
6 Serge Boots to under Rubbsrs. 80
Fancy slippers from S1.25 to $3.50.
Misses School Button Boots. .........-.. -. 1.15
Am. Kid Button Boots...-,. ......... 1.50
French Kid Button Iancing ........ 25O
Childrens Button and Lace Boots ... SO
Grain Boots School. ol......... LOO
Large lot Ladies' Slippers rs cts to 15O
Mems Best gu .lity Buckle Arctics ,....... 80
Mool Lined Alaska....... ........... 1 90
Heavy Rubber Boots. s................. 2 so
Pure Gums OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 800
Ladies' Int. Sandal Rubbers best quality 40
Ladies' and Gents Canadian Overshoes 80. ESQ
and many other Goods in proportion.
Those who a e acquainted with my stock will ap-
preclate the prices named above.
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-19
Coparsnersh5n Notice.
ANNUAL MEETINGS.

INTERNATIONALLY LsTEARssRIp COM
PANY.
fE1HE Annual meeting of the stockholders of the
International Steamship Company, will be
held at their o6ce, Exchange Street, on WEDNES-
DAY, the 26th day of Januars current, at 3
O'Clock p NJ, for the choice of officers and to SEQ
If the STOCKHOLDERS will increase the Capital Stock
of the Company, and the transaction OF other bus
mess hal may legally come before them
Janloitd III. j. LIBBY, Secretary.
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-19
DIR RoDGERS.
THE NATURAL PHYSICIAN, OF
NO. DEERING PLACE, PORTLAND.
Has Made Some Wonderful Cures, and
the Proof is here:

Mrs. L. of Deering whose arm was paralyzed, and
who had been treated twenty months, and given
up as incurable DR.. Rodgers has treated the Ladys
arm sixty days and she has now full control over
it.
Mrs. G. who has been suffering from Dropsy for
nine months, and has had from ten to fifteen quarts
OF water drawn at one time every twenty -four days.
has been treated by Dr. Rodgers, ninety days. has
been fully restored to health, without the aid of
tapping.
Another lady of Deering, cured of Tumors.
Mrs. B. of Saco, after being treated twenty y-nine
months by her physician was given up as incurable.
Her trouble was Nervous Prostration, and General
Debility. Although this old lady was seventy years
OF age to-day she is feeling strong and well as she
felt twenty years ago.
Names and residences of the above persons can be
had at the office. and hundreds of others.
twill clairvoyantly examine the human frame
giving every ache and pain, for one dollar.
The DR.. can be seen at any time during the day or
evening at
No. 3 DEERING PLACE.
ou1
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-19
Notice.

Notice.
T1HE Annual meeting of the Union Lubricator
Il Mnt'g, Co, will be holden at their Office
in Portland, Jan. 2S, 1881. ian1Sd
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-19

(for which you are not responsble), and there
is no view of Prof. Pierce, the ablest, simplest
and most self-poised of the Radical group.
The portrait of Mr.. Sargent among them was
perhaps necessary as part OF the res gestg" (as
young attorneys say, but for no other reason
am willing, for my part, that you should
forget Joseph Cook; but you know he pro-
foundly stirred up our city ION its northeast
side) and made his sky parlor in the Bellevue
a kind of Pharos. One of the signal omissions
is the name of Trowbridge. 1t is true, you
name him, but that is all. He is not only hon.
est, homely and sincere, he is Yankee Burns,
or very near one. l don't mean that he is
light and tire-a lyrical wonder; but the soul
of New England is in his verse, and his geni-
us is as unmistakable as that of Whittier. IL
am not comparing him to Whittier. l make
no comparisons.) He will be read as long as
the east endures and long after two thirds of
your chosen people are forgotten. His prose,
too though not tricksy, nor sinuous, nor film
sy, like the prevalent "fine writing" is Strong,
picturesque and natural. He surely belongs
with the first score, if not the first dozen, of
Massachusetts authors. write as names come
to mind and must name Thomas William
Parsons, still living, whose eminence as poet
and translator of Dante no one can question. L
have elsewhere said that his compact and vig-
orous lines would have won the approval of the
great Florentine himself. / wonder at your
curt mention of Lowell, whose suppressed
novel you throw up to him as if it were an il
Ilo CcIthiuiy ucS6rNcS d WdrLl-
er word. Prof. f. j. Child is as able
as Norton, whom you notice, and, as you know,
is unrivalled in our time as an editor of Eng
lish classics. Among editors you mention Mr..
j. Boyle OReilly and Mr.. w. A. Hovey, the
first being eminent as poet rather than as an
editor, and the last being no more worthy of
mention than Mr.. Epes Sargent and Mr..
Whipple, formerly connected with the same
paper. Why did it not occur to you to men
tion Mr. Dwight, renowned on both sides of
the water; Mr.. Hazewell, man of superior
ability and learning; Mr.. Godkin of the Ma
ton (who lives in Cambridge); Mr.. Goddard
and Mr.. Allen of the Advertiser, equals of
those you point out surely; and Mr.. Henry
Cabot Lodge? L think here that your title
should be further amended: Your "Notion of
Fashionable Boston," with Notices of Per-
soial Friends" Many people appear to think
the field of letters preserve in which none
but privileged class have any right. 1 have
more than onc5 seen the manifestation of this
feeling.
come to the Papyrus club, and shall saw
my say, indelicate and dreadful as it may
appear. am an original member of that club
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-10-15
Virginia Notes.

Hog cholera is reported as pre-
vailing disastrously in several
parts of the State.
John Albright, aged eighty five
years, a pensioned soldier of the
war of 1872, died on Thursday,
near Harrisonburg.
Last year j. +. Yates, OF Kappa
hammock county, purchased 10
sheep, for which he paid So 50
apiece. The lambs and wool this
year brought him LOO,
In Locust Grove, Floyd County,
few nights ago, Mr.. William T..
Conner and a party, with their
dogs, killed three bears In a few
hours Another was killea toe
next morning.
A shark chased a dog near On
ancock, Accomsceornty, last week,
and got ashore in its eager efforts
to seize its prey. II was CAPTURED
and killed, proving 10 he pine feet
in length.
During recent favorable tides in
the Appomattox sora were sAugh.
tered by tens OF thousands. Some
sportsmen bagged as many as
three hundred each, and found the
birds very fat.
More than three hundred stud
ents have already matriculated ut
the University of Virginia. The
law class is the largest so far, mum
bering one-half of the whole num-
Der of students.
Mr.. William A. Chambliss, of
Greenville county, while driving
to Petersburg with load Of cot.
ton, set the cotton on FIRE with a
match whi.h he had used to light
cigar, and made narrow escape
with his life. He lost 500 worth
Of cotton.
Three men entered the depot at
Leesburg, last Friday night, drew
revolvers on the agent, then tied
him, threatening his life If he
made an alarm, and then opening
the money.drawer and took there
from $35. The robbers did not
get into the safe. No arrests have
been made up TO date.
The exports OF manufactured to.
| bacco from Petersburg the past
week amounted to 166, 900 pounds.
The acknowledgements collections
for the week, were $33, S03.
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A Romantic Runaway.

A FLIGHT BY MOONLIGHT ON THE
PLACID RIVER WITH A PISTOL
FUSILADE TO FURNISH THE MU-
SIC.
LITTLE Rock, October l6.-A
sensational elopement is reported
in Stone county. James Wallace, a
planter living on White River, re-
Gently employed young man named
Gorge Gray, to superintend the
gathering of the cotton crop. Gray
was very handsome, and of pleasant
address, and friendly relationship
was quickly established between him
and Mrs. Wallace, a young and very
beautiful woman. This intimacy
terminated in the flight Of the young
wife from her husbands home, in
company with the facinating over
seer. The couple got into a canoe,
and by the light of the moon rowed
swiftly down the river, intending to
strike the nearest railroad and en-
bark for the East. Wallace armed
himself with a double-barrel shot
gun, sprang into boat and started
in pursuit, coming up with the flu
gitives some miles below. He at
once began firing, but found Gray
not unprepared, and he answered
by sending three or four balls in
close proximity to the enraged hus-
bands head. This singular duel
was kept up for some time, both men
loading and firing as rapidly as pos
sible while the boats floated down
the stream. 1t is said the fleeing
wife guided Gray's boat while he
kept the pursuing husband at bay.
In the melee both boats were disa-
bled, and drifted to opposite banks of
the river. Wallace had lost an oar
and was thesefore, unable to continue
the pursuit. His wife and her lover
abandoned their canoe on the other
side of the stream and disappeared
in the depths of an adjacent wood.
Wallace organized a posse of his
friends and started overland in pur-
suit, declaring his intention to kill
Gray on sight.