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The Portland daily press., 1881-05-28
The Carlyle "reminiscences.

The "reminiscences by Thomas CARLYLE
have brought down storm of criticism and
protest from the friends and admirers of
those whom he has treated so harshly. The
latest remonstrance is by friend OF Caro-
line Bowles, the woman who became the
wife of Southey, and at whose marriage
WIN the poet the Chelsea man sneered. 1t
was habit OF Carlyle to disparage all wives
out his own. He was certainly fortunate: :
put his assumption that all other men were
unfortunate in not winning the love of Jane
welsh is, though ostenslbly tribute to her
worth, really proof of his egotism. He
chose to make it most offensive bv disparap-
ing comments on the wives of men of his
own acquaintance, like Irving, and Mill,
and Southey. They can no longer defend
.~s,r Uwn Du. the lyng T4S kpsE de Aqa
and are prompt in refutation and reply.
This quarrel over a new grave is sadden-
ing. But surely none of the aggrieved
ought to be chided for protesting against
the injustice I'D petulant temper of the
"reminiscences. 1t is harsh to condemn the
dead. That is exactly what Carlyle did;
and his warmest admirers ought not to
complain because the measure he meted out
to Others is meted out to him. He was
man of wonderful talent, of uncertain but
usually disagreeable temper, of vindictive
spirit. In his lifetime his genius was uni
versally acknowledged and his faults were
generally ignored. He chose to perpetuate
his faults, to record them before the echoes
of the burial service had died away. He did
not care TO face the storm, but invoked the
tempest to sweep over his grave.
From man so reputedly strong coward
ly stab like the "reminiscences was unex-
rected. The world was surprised and
shocked His admirers are trying to put
the blame upon his literary executor, Mr..
Froude. The blame is not upo, him who,
in discharge of the trust reposed on him,
publishes those bitter and unjust things, bnt
upon the man who uttered them, deliberate
ly PUT them on paper, and left directions
that they should be printed after his death.
Mr.. Froude has done his task with fidelity
if not with discretion. If this revelation of
the vanity and spleen and injustice of one
of the greatest of English authors has been
made, it is because the will of that author
has been regarded. Mr.. Froude's only fault,
if fault it be, is in faithfully complying
with the wishes of the man whose literary
executor he is
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-28

DETROIT Post: VIM. E. Chandler was
defeated for the solicitorship of the
Treasury by the solid Democratic vote of
the Senate on account of his radical Repu5-
licanism. 1t has been known for some time
past to his friends that if he would even in
innate to several prominen, Democrats who
would have been glad to vote for him that
he was not disposed to be SO aggressive to-
ward the South as his reputation is, the
Democrats would have been glad to take
that intimation as an excuse for voting for
him. But Chandler's managers say that he
declined to lower his flag.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-28

BEFORE the old version goes out of fash
ion, the following statistics are worth re-
cording: The Bible contains 3,5S6,4S9 let
ters, 773, ,692 words, 81 ,173 verses, 1, ,1S9 chap
ters and &C books. The word Lord occurs ,S55
times, the word "and" 1921. The word
reverend is found in Psalms, cxi., 8. TIE
middle verse is Psalm cxviii., s. All the
letters of the alphabet except the letter
are found in Ezra vii. 21. The longest
verse is Esther viii, 9, and the shortest st.
John XII 35
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-28

THE Servian would not be good fellow
to stand on American hotel steps. At a
banquet in Belgrade the other day French
man sat beside a Seryian member of Parlia-
ment. and at the conclusion of the feast the
FIenchman selected a tooth-pick from a
tray near his plate. and passed the tray 10
the Servian. The latter peremptori-
ly declined the offer, saying: ''No, / have
already eaten two of the accursed things,
and want no more"
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-28

GFN. SHERMAN says he has left all the
data for correct history of his military
career thoroughly prepared for the histo-
rian, and will leave it with his children. He
said this in response to a writer who wanted
to do the work now under his personal su-
pervision. and added that so many of the
actors are living that elimination and re-
elimination would follow, and the historian,
however accurate, would soon be engulfed
in criticism, condemnation and abuse.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-28

LOWELL Courier: Let's hold up on this
administration and "anti- administration"
talk, and consider the Republican and
'anti-Republcan" forces for a while. There
is no Republican strength to be frittered
away by any more foolishness.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-28

we do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are In
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publca
tion but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve com
municaions that are not used
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-28
THE PRESS.
SATURDAY MORNING, MAY %.

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate signed by Stanley Pullen,
Eultor' 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., 1881-05-28

MONTGOMERY BLAIR has come to the sur
face again, this time to blow for a contem-
plated homeopathic hospital at Washington.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-28
STATE NEWS.
ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY.

ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY.
A rattlesnake was killed in Lisbon the other
day.
The Auburn shoe shipments this week foot
up 1897 cases. gain Of 40 cases over last week.
and 434 over the corresponding week for 1880.
The house of Isaac G.. Spofford, near Sabst-
tus was struck by lightning and consider ably
injured, on the 11th.
The Bates college faculty have assigned the
parts for commencement, among the gradual
ting class, according to rank in the various de-
partments, as follows: Valedictory, III. Il
Coolidge, Canton; salutatory, o. III. Drake,
New Hampton. N. H.; classical, j. III. Par
sons, Eustis, VIM b. Perkins, Lewiston; met
aphysics, Emma j. Clark, Lewiston, @. A.
Strout, Minot; Science, j. E. Holton, North
Boothbay, w. p. Curtis, Auburn; modern Ian
guages, III. b. Nevens, Auburn, e. ID. Rowell,
Fairfield rhetoric and oratory, E. L. Pitts, T..
Corinth. c. s. Haskell, Auburn; mathematics
c. S. Cooks, Boster's Mills, W. J. Brown. Au-
burn Owing to the absence OF Mr.. Perkins
and Mr. Rowel, the faculty gave the class per-
mission to add two names to the lists of speak
ers w. p. Foster of Weld, and III. e. Foss
of Lewiston, were chosen.
OXFORD COUNTY.
Fifty thousand young salmon have been put
into the Saco river ct Fryeburg.
The body of the man Forest, drowned in the
Cambridge river, Upton, two weeks ago, was
III,
among pile of drft-wood, at the bottom OF
the stream, about twenty rods below where
his hat and pike were found at the time oil the
accident.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
Wm l.. Boyd, the embezzling postmaster of
Houlton, was arraigned before u S. Commis-
sioner Badger, in Augusta, Thursday. He
plead guilty, and, failing to recognize in SUN
of 5000, was committed to await his
appearance at the U. S. Circuit Court at Port
land in September.
The Fairfield Journal says Master Jakey
Gallet of Watervlle, is au infant pheuome-
non. He has the singular faculty of being
able to tell the day of the week upon which
any given given date will fall without stop
ping to reckon. The boy is about seven years
old or thereabouts, and he has been tested
over and over again and always correctly
When asked how he told the day, he replied:
| IL don't know it comes to me-"
YORK COUNTY.
| Nathaniel Martins house and barn at Bux-
ton were burned Monday night. The family
came near perishing in the flames. They were
| all asleep. Two men saw the fire and went "a
| the house aud aroused the family Hardly
anything was saved from the house. Insured
for $500.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-28

WHEN Barnum's show appeared in
Bridgeport, one of the large shirt factories
closed its doors and displayed the placard: ::
"Closcd on account of the greatest interfer-
ence on earth" I"
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-28

The affair of the bark Acacia affords a
grand opportunity for the display of that
spirited foreign policy.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-28

THE Kansas prohibitory law does MT
seem to be a success. A snake eighteen
feet long was seen by a citizen of Topeka,
the other day.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-28

THE extreme silver men are not pleased
to learn that Secretary Window will permit
no increase in the amount of silver dollars
cOined.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-28

ONE set of men in New York are ardently
in favor of a dead-lock--the Albany inn
kppperS
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-28

JEFFERSON DAVIS pays graceful though
tardy compliment to some of his Northern
sympathzers by sloping for Canada,
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-28

JAMES is going through the Star Route
business with a fine-tooth comb.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-28

SEEMS to be a falling away from Malone
all round-except in Virginia.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-28

Pepacton. by john Burroughs Boston;
Houghton, Miffiin and Co.; Portland: Loring,
Short &, Harmony Among the enthusiastic
students,of nature, no one surpasses Mr.. Bur-
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-28

The Father of the Third Century. By Rev.
George A. Jackson New York: d. Appleton
Co.. Portland: Hoyt. Fogg & Donham.) be-
longs to the series of Early Christian Litera-
ture Primers, and contains sketches of the
Christian writers of the third century with ex-
tracts from their doctrinal works 1t is
prefaced by a chronological table of the Ro-
man Emperors. and the Greek, Latin and
Christian authors of the period.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-28

Sir William Hamilton. By w. I'll. S. Monck.
M. A., Professor of Moral Philosophy in the
University of Dublin (New York: G. P. Put
nam's Sors Portland: LorDg, Short & Har.
mon) This is a volume OF the English Phil
osopher SERIES, aud presents the rneofIes OF
Sir William Hamilton without special criti
cism favorable or unfavorable to hi, views. In
summing up his works and their tendencies,
Prof. Monck surveys the reviews already made
of Hamiton's philosophy; and the appendix
directs the reader, should he care for more de-
tailed criticism, to various volumes which will
afford it to him. The plain but elegant style
of binding and good mechanical execution oi
the volume will be appreciated.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-28
CIGARS.

WE INVITE TEHE ATTENTION
selected especial
better
will
this
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-28
I'M PORTED.
DOM ESTIC.
KEY. WEST.


quality.
Cigars
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-28

The Old Testament and the Jewish Church.
By w. Robertson Smith New York: ID. Ap-
pleton 4 Co.; Portland Loring, Short & Har-
mon.) This volume of Biblical comment is
made up of twelve lectures delivered by the
author in E inburgh aud Glasgow, at the invi
tatiou of six hundred gentlemen who desired
tina. the newer criticism of Bible history should
have an opportunity to speak for itself, in
stead of being condemned without hearing,
as the conservative Scotch public was inclined
to PREJUDICE it. Christianity, observes Prof.
Smith, eau never separate itself from the re-
ligion of Israel; and he considers that the his
toricai study of the Old Testament has been
left too much in the hands of those who wished
to use it as an argument against belief. Ii is
in the interest of tho New Testament that he
proposes to examine the old covenant, and
reconcile the truths Of the Jewish history and
faith with those of the latter light. How far
he does so aud the degree of merit OF his work
will be left to theoogies to decide, while those
less versed in Biblical science will at least ac-
cept the fair statement of Prof. Smith s
praiseworthy aims and intentions
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-28

A Question. by George Eber. New York:
William 5. Gottsbergar; Portland: Loring,
Short Harmony This graceful and deli
cately designed story is founded upon the sub
1ect OF one of Alma Tadema's pictures; aud is
not less fortunate in its dainty, artistic and
piquant imagination of antique romance
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-22
swINDLED FARMERS.

1t seems that Missouri trainers are not
the only silly victims of the stroling sharp
ers who 60 through the country with swlnd-
ling devices disguised under the form OF
patent implements. A few days ago an at
torney went into court at Steubenvllle, u,
and obtained an entry OF confession OF
Judgment upon seven notes signed and ex-
ecuted by as many farmers, and varying
in amount from $3.50 to 1915. Some
of the signers are intelligent wealthy
men, owning property worth $2o-
600 to $50 600 but they were
not shrewd enough to keep out OF the trap
set for them by scamp named Williams
This fellow passed through several counties
| in that part of Ohio, representing himself
as PROPRIETOR of an establishment manufac
turing sickle grinders, and persuaded his
victims to take the agency for the machines.
| They were to receive 81 out of So, the price
| of the instrument, and they were foolish
enough to sign their names to writing
which was represented as a mere contract
to act as agents, but which, by trick in
| folding the paper, was converted into
plain note of hand. These notes were
sold to a third party who sued on them
and recovered the money, each farmer be-
ing thus made to pay $3.50 for this mex
cusable ignorance. These sharpers pass
| through Missouri periodically, and every
time they come they have new swindie
The only safe plan is for farmers to refuse
to sign their names to papers presented &c
them by travelling agents whom they know
nothing about.-.St Louis Republican.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-22

The refusal of Arthur to allow Presi'
dent pro tenn OF the Senate to be chosen al
the extra, is now bearing its legitima &c
fruit We have now no Vice President,
and should companion to Guiteau be
found, although it is hard TO believe that
there is another such a wretch in the coun'
try. we would be absolutely without amy
executive officer.
Although this is an emergency not likely
to happen, nevertheless it is a possibility
and should have been guarded against
The omission was due to Mr.. Arthur
anger at the turn affairs had taken, but II
was en- omission which should never have
occurred. When the Senate meets 1t VII
doubtless be at once remedied, but IN the
meantime we are without Nice-Presl'
dent, the first time in the history OF the
Union
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-22

Cannot the citizens of Rock Island meet
together tonight or tomorrow night to
take some action in regard to the death OF
President Garfield? The German citizens
held such meetings aud expressed their
sorrow; the freedmen met last night to
give form to their grief; but there has
been no general meeting of the general
body of our citizens to express in fitting
terms their feelings in regard to the calam-
ity which has fallen upon the nation; to
put in proper words their grief. Such &C
ton is both proper and necessary, and we
will fail of showing q due respect to the
memory Of our dead President If we do
not. While the ARGUS has no au-
thority to call such meeting. it does
strongly urge the propriety, nay, more
than the propriety the necessity OF such
meeting. tits meeting that should be
held, and until some stronger and better
authority takes hold, we would suggest
that it be held tomorrow night at some
suitable hall, There is no necessity OF
arguing about the reason for such
action. The reason commends itself to all
what is necessary is that some few OF oul
citizens get together and issue call. there
is no doubt that it viii be answered Let
us hope that we can print such call to-
morrow if not in to-nights edition.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-22
For q third time in the history of on,

For third time in the history of our
government President has died before
the expiration of his term of Office. Twice
by violence snd once a natural death. For
the third time the man elected as vice pres
ident, chosen to be simply the presiding
officer of the senate has been called to the
executive chair. Chester A. Arthur is now
president He is the chief executive OF
of this Union 1t is not the position to
which he was elected and there is no doubt
that had there seemed any chance of his
becoming what he now is that the votes OF
many men would have been different. he
is the leader of faction of his party which
was in direct conflict with the former adj
ministration, not only were his sympathies
with that faction but he openly aided and
assisted them. He was stalwart That
his future course viii differ from his past
there is no reason to suppose. Why he
should, is not clear to any one but the fac
ton which desires it. n he was honest in
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-22
Ill. nj. CORBETT,

ATTORNEY At LAW. SOLICITOR IN CHAN
~ Gerry and Notary Public, Abstracts, Loans and
Collects. Once and Avenue, Ord door east OF
ngston e Drug Store. Rock leland. IIls
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-22

his support Of Conkling IN the late con-
test, If he believes in the principles
he then advocated, as an
honest and consistent man he can do no
less than follow in the path he has al
ready laid out. Il he does otherwise he
was either dishonest then or he is dishon-
est now. As at the time when he sup
ported the stalwart faction and antagon-
lied the administration he could hope for
no possible personal gain from his actions
while If now he reverses his course, there is
no doubt that he will receive much popu-
lar applause. the presumption IS that In
event of such change he would be DIS
honest now.
There are other matters OF executive
policy whic.i it win be interesting to watch
through to their final outcome. The treat
ment of the South is one, and il bayonet
nile is once more established there, we can
truly say. the stalwarts are in power again
The Malone question in Virginia is also
an interesting conundrum, win or will not
President Arthur support the reputation
party there. The probability is that he
will although the future event is now un-
certain. The Custom House in
New York City is another
question which is yet to be decided. Rob
ertson was appointed in direct opposition
to Arthur, and the Conkling fight grew
out of that appointment; it will be inter
esting whether or not Mr.. Robertson re
mains in his position, and if so
for how long. The star route proseeu-
tons were commenced under the ex-Presl
dents administration, although they were
soon stopped. Will Mr.. Arthur continue
them? 1t has become plain to the coun
try that John Sherman's candle account
needs looking up. viii the President in
vestigate them? These are few OF tht
points which we must look at the rest o.
| of the Presidents term. In the meatime
through Mr. Arthur's action in refusing tt
allow an election of president pro tenn Of
the Senate, we are now without Vice
President, who would succeed in case an
other maniac should kill President Arthur
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-22

The post mortem held over the remains
of President Garfield reveals the fact that
during the entire time of his illness the
surgeons were in total ignorance of the po-
sition of the ball. They had located it
low down in the back stating that 1t had
not touched vital point while all the
time it was back of the heart, in a place
where it must necessarily prove fatal The
wonderful Bell machine which was sup
posed to locate a bullet in this human
anatomy as wand of witch hazel viii a
spring of water, was entirely at fault; and
adiognosis of the case was entirely wrong,
The channel which they supposed was the
course taken by the bali was burrowed out
by pus coming from the real wound, and
this was the channel in which they were
50 industriously inserting the rubber tube.
It was but Monday that the doctors said
his death would result but thai
it would come from blood
poisoning and would take severa
days It came from ciot of blood on the
heart and took fewer hours. No medic a
science could have saved him, that is nov
clear; but it is not too much to ask of sci
ence that it tell us more about a case thar
it did about this one There has been
much complaint because the newspapers
criticized the doctors, in view of the autop
sy the doctors are stopped from eritieizint
the newspapers. Every resource of med
ical skill was exhausted" the dispatche
say, but the result shows that medical skill
has it's limits.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-22

ness of Blood, La,k -
Power OF VIII or Action
Palpitation of the Hear,
Loss of Memory, Loss Of
Confidence, Painting Spells
Hysteria, Epilepsy, Heart
burn, Dyspepsia, Bror chi
dis salt Rheum. Flalulencv
Weak stomach, Diseares
of the Heart and Lupys
Dropsy. Asthma, Pleurisy
Constipation, Jaundice
Catarrh, Sore Throat. De
bility. Piles, Tumors. Sores
Boils, Carbuncles, Fever
and Ague, Liver Complaint
Diabetes, Kidney Com
plants, Gravel, Chills, I'm.
potency, Disordered Con-
ditions OF the Liver. Blood
Kidneys orUrinary Organs
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-22

The Union has taken an apologize tone
lately. It recognizes its own short comings
and is is doing its best to excuse them. 1t
now sees its mistake in not putting on a
mourning dress on Tuesday, and says:
NEARLY all our exchanges comes to US
dressed in mourning for our dead Presl
dent, an outward tribute that the C1tsoTs
could not pay for the reason that the Dot
tom of the column rules of its daily forms
do not afford fiat, level surface
Now it does not take priHter to see
how thin such an excuse is. The rules OF
the Davenport Gazette are in the same con-
dition as those of the Union, but that
paper had energy enough to fill up with
beeswax so as to justify with their type.
If the Union has anything like well ap-
pointed job Office it ought to be able to get
enough column rules from it to put at least
part of their paper in mourning. and finally
there is not carpenter in the city who
could not in half an hour make them set
of wooden rules which would answer every
purpose. The truth of the matter is that
as long as things run in their ordinary
way the Union manages to pull
through, although then in
very slipshod fashion, but the minute any
thing like an emergency occurs they have
not the remotest idea how to meet it. One
thousandth part of the enterprise it took
to get out Tuesday mornings ARGUS would
have enabled them to put on full mourn
ing dress, but they lacked it. 1t took the
smallest amount of grit and go ahead to do
it. but anything of that sort the Union
lacks to lamentable degree II the col
umn rules of the ARGUS had been in the
state the Union says theirs are, they would
have been fixed so that they would ''otfer-
a fat level surfce;;' the thing would
not have been left in that shape. 1t is this
difference between the two papers that has
given the Argus the lead over its sleepy
contemporary that it has. 1t would be
good thing for the Union to profit from ita
example.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-22
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-22

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