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The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1881-03-04

OF nearly az years, We have these
amazing hgnrcc--
fei'l number Of sssehs. delivered ny sharon q
Total nunahef Of minutes coniaue,i ~ Sharon
iner-infy ............
fetal nun,l.sf n rersonal explanation. ........i
Total lime participating IN debate o
Total numbered hills lnirodursd.
Total nurAhff dretiilons prsssnisd .............l
fetal nuailef Of motions - mar rslilious ....t
let NJ now reckon the cost Of Mr..
Sharons services to The country ION
l'usincs principle. a. Senators are
elected in Nevada. Iiis salary i
$4,000 year. In the six years
term, expiring in les than two months
from to-day, he receives from the
Treasury the sum Of $50. 0oo. wheth.
er his conscience has allowed him to
draw mileage fot every session Ne DO
mol know. lie shall have the benefit
Of the doubt. How has Mr.. sharon
canned The $50, Goa paid him by the
peoplel lhc has earned Il sitting in
his arm chair in the Senate mber.
he has bcen paid At The rate OF Eve
hundred and sixty six dollars and four
cents day. IL he has earned il by
presenting petitions from bis ccnstilu.
enis, he has been paid at the rate Of
seven thousand Eve hundred dollars =
petition. If he has carmel Il by his
eloquence in the Senate. he has been
paid for his niierances at the rate Of
one hundred and twenty-five dollars a
second. seven thousand i've hundred
a minute, and four hundred aud iifiy
thousand dollars an hour. IL he has
earned i by the weight and dignity
which his name has lent to the upper
branch Of The National Legislature.
the TACT Is not apparent 70 any ordi-
nary observer.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1881-03-04

women'- heartsand yiolins are very
much alike. IL takes a beau to plsy
on either Of them.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1881-03-04

FfFN w NN|MEa
Sunshine il airen Ne fsr uss TIA
We may require little artificial light
Gas, oil and candles alike viiiste tb
air. Tho fewer hours that are spen
in artificial light the better. and thi
suggests Of itself that within reason
able limits the sooner we 20 to rest At
ter dark the better. We require, IN
the cold season Of winter. when the
nights are long, much more sleep than
We do in the summer. On the long
est day in the year seven hours Of
sleep are sufficient for most men and
women who are not in the prime Of
life. On the shortest day nine hours
Of sleep is not over much, aud for
those who are weak ten or twelve
hours may he taken with real sdysn.
tsge. In winter children should al
ways have ten or twelve hours Of
sleep. Il j. not idleness to in
dulge to that extent, but an actual
saving, storing up Of invigorsted
existence for the future. Such rest
can only be Of tanned by going to bed
very carly, say at halfpast 8 or o
o'clock. II is wrong as il ever can 5e
that our Legislators should often lie
sitting up, as we know they do time
after time, in the dead Of night, try
ing sgainst life 10 legislate for life. It
Is most foolish that public writers,
who hold so many responsibilities in
their hand, should he called upon 10
exercise their craft st a time when all
their nature is calling out 10 them.
"Iest, rest. rest :" There are many
who will disagree with me in saying
these thing, but nature is on my side.
In every man, woman and child there
is, at or about the early time. | have
named, persistent periodical desire for
sleep, which steals on deierminaiely,
which, taken at a flood, leads to a
good sound nights rest, aud which,
resisted never duly returns, but is re.
placed by surreptitious sleep, broken
by weary dreams, restless limbs, and
but partial restoration Of vital power.
Work with the sun as TAR as possible. |
At the Marshall House, Savannah,
Ga, the barkeeper On going to draw
glass Of lager for customer, spied a
large rat on the floor, directly under
The beer tap, standing on his hind
legs with his mouth wide open, catch
ng the dripping beer. The rat re-
NAMED unmoyed and looked wistfully
INTO Tommy's face, as if to say,
''Please give me glass Of beer, am
very dry Tommy laughed at him,
COX a small bar glass. drew it full Of
'eer, and set il before the rat, which
Immediately drank it, after which he
walked Of leisurely, slightly stsgger-
ng. The next day the rat resppesr.
d, and took his place under the tap.
Tommy drew small glass Of beer
md set il before him, together with
mall piece Of cold meat and bread.
The rat leisurely drank the beer. ate
he lunch, and staggered of to his
'ole. For nearly year the rat came
'recisely at II for his beer and lunch.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1881-03-04

Some men are good because good
ness pays best; some are good for
nothing.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1881-03-04

A Wisconsin larme, leeuiy.lhrss
yeafs ago planisl piece Of waste
land, nnll, lar cultivation. NTH black
ralnui trees. fhe Tree. are non Dom
xlten 10 twenty nche. ~ d'&n'' \
have bssn 'old ~ 'vp
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1881-03-04

Az 10 the total results in a parlia.
mcniary way % Mr. slaron's service
Of nearly ak years. we have these
amazing lignrce-
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1881-03-04

Canned Goods. Such as Corn, Tomatoes. Peaches
RES, Beans Peas, Oysters. Salmon, mackersI
mInce Neat Prune8; Pickles, Sauces. Cheese
maccar0ni; Spices; leIIies and Mustard
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1881-03-04

years named
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1881-03-04

Theatrical NanIIlIs anI an lAnlanfi ~ 10
|oImfI IhaI I1I@INIaII1I1I n4N HALL slIOH 81 10
naun1st NJ Ini|'@ 10 10 one niIA4
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-02
Feminine Cvnicisms.

"The ultimate effect of marriage upon man
is to make all women appear lovely except her
he has married."
mo wonder two persons feel abashed when
they stand at the altar and promise to love
each other forever. They know they could
not keep their promise if they would; that
they would not if they could. And while they
make their VOWS they are thinking of some de-
lightful way to break them"
"We may love all our lives without safety
unless we marry. Then we have safety with
out satisfaction"
"The sin Of Adam and Eve was eating Of
the fruit of the tree Of knowledge, by which
they learned for the first time that they were
man and wife. After that they lost all capac-
ity for happiness; the charms OF Eden were in
vain"
"The fact that women who wed once and are
widowed are apt to wed again only proves the
force and the evil of the habit"
"Pity is near akin to love outside Of wedlock
inside of wedlock it is another name for con-
tempt, and soon destroys all hope of sympa-
thy
truer than marry at leisure ana repent forev-
er."
"She who converts her lover into husband
transforms a worshper into an intolerable des-
pot"
"Matrimony is the thorn on the rose of
love-"
"Tophet is place where marriage is eternal.
Wedlock is not determined by the fates but by
the furies -
when we 60 to the priest to be united it IS
clear that we are in danger of spiritual disun-
ion.''
"For the woman who has long been wife,
death has few terrors."
"The couples who want children have al.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-02

PERHAPS the men who were more intent
on the mouthpiece than the sound that
came through it, and condemned Plaisted
for repeating Webster-not for plagiarizing
from him-can profit by the following from
the Hartford Post: "The best course for
the Boston papers who condemned certain
utterance of Governor Plaisted, and then
found it to be repetition of what Daniel
Webster said, is to admit that for once Mr..
Webster was mistaken. 1t was more the
fashion in his time to treat as actual dan
gers certain purely theoretical considera-
tions evolved by men who speculated about
an untried ideal republic when they had
practical knowledge only of monarchical
government, and that without the constitu-
tional aud popular limitations that make
such monarchy as that of Great Britain
merely a republic under another name.
When in the light of later experience, Gov
ernor Plaisted says the same thing, it is
wholly different matter, and smacks more
of the demagogue than the statesman"
Plaisted has only followed the example of
other pigmies. He has climbed upon the
shoulders of a giant, in order to look tall.
But he is pigmy all the same.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-02

laws. The second is just and reasonable; to
pay the policemen as well as the sheriffs, is
fair, If they do the work. The money comes
out OF the convicted rumsellers. The third is
country.
There are about one hundred and thirty low,
secret rumshops in the city. The liquor traffic
was prohibited thirty years ago. Can any rea-
sonable man object to the demand OF the tenn
perance men that now. after all this rebellion
against the law, these men should at last be
emphatically persuaded to obey IL?
The liquor traffic is tremendous curse to
any community wherever or however il is car
ried on. Mr.. Senator Morrill, justly stigma
tized on the floor of the United States Senate,
as "The gigantic crime OF crimes" and no
man, so far as L know, has ever denied that it
IS so greater crime than any other. That
being true man must be far gone in symps-
thy with 1t, to object to a fine of hundred or
two dollars more or less. to suppress it; or to
month or two more or less in jail, or to the
conhscation of "a horse and wagon or two.
Mr.. William Willis, whose house was burned
in 1842 by an incendary FIRE, told me he would
prefer that his son should be burned alive in
It, than to fall among rumsellers and become q
drunkard. "Bill Davis" who at that time
Kept a notorious rumshop-"all according to
aW"-ln Exchange street, told me he would
prefer that his sons throat should be cut rath-
er than he should become drunkard
Ii the proposed Act additional shall be en-
acted, there will be no payment, think, Of
81 LOCO and costs; there will be no confscation
OF horses and wagons; there will be little or
no going to jail for long terms of time, because,
IKE Crockett's coon, the rumsellers will
come down." They say already that if this
Bill passes, they "are gone up"
We have had four sherif's officers at work
IN Portland against the rumsellers for five
years, without reducing their numbers by even
one. Is 1t not time now TO deal with them
not with turf" but with such emphasis as
VIII make them obey the will of the people?
do not think man would lose, who should
bet that there would be no rumshop in Port
land in three months after the enactment into
law of the Bill alluded to. II the rumsellers
don't like it, they have only to forbear yiolat-
ing the law and they will not be harmed. We
want only such penalties as will be sufficient
to protect the community from the dreadful
evils OF the rum traffic. That and nothing
more. Ii five dollar fine would do it, that
would answer our purpose; but in fact, moth
ing but sharp penalties will do it. Who
affirms the contrary? ND.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-02
IT is a long look ahead to our March town.

IT is a long look ahead to our March town.
meetings; but straining of the eyes now
may prevent some weeping next month.
New York holds its charter elections this
week, and the following is the wise advice of
the Albany Journal to the Republican cleo
tors of that State: ga town meeting may
seem small matter just after having passed
through an exciting Presidential contest.
But it must not be forgotten that the ability
of any party to fight successful Presiden-
tial battle depends upon the thoroughness
of its drill at town meetings. No party ever
yet elected President who didn't first
make point on Supervisor. Besides, it
would look bad if any considerable number
of the towns that recorded their vote for
Garfield and Arthur should elect Democrat
ic officers. We trust our friends who did so
well in November will not be derelict now.
Held tha Forsn" Maine Republicans will
do well to heed the words of the New York
paper
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-02
Proposed Amendment to the Lii
quor Law.

NuOI hdW.
To the Editor Of the Press:
In your issue of the 9th, is statement Of
what claims to be the substance Of proposed
addition to our anti-liquor law. AS the matter
seems to be attracting some attention among a
certain class of our people, it may be worth
the trouble to say exactly what the proposed
additional clauses are.
The Massachusetts, law fines an unlicensed
rumseller 500 for single sale the English
law not more than a1OO $500. The fine i'm
posed there is frequently $40, S75 and even
$500. Our present law fixes $50 as the sum- it
is proposed to make it 800.
The present law fines man convicted of
nuisance mot more than S1OO0." or "not more
than one year in jail" In practice, this is
sometimes $500 or 400-but generally it is 500.
1t is proposed to call it $1,000 or one year in
Jail.
The present law in some cases fines the con-
vict S100-"to stand committed until paid";
practically, this is only 30 days. 1t is proposed
to make it six months.
Atpresent, some courts assume the authori-
ty to let off convicted rumsellers with no pun
ishment at all, though the law says he "shalp'
pay 500 and costs and go to Jail three months.
1t is proposed to take that power away from
these courts.
AT present it is a common practice with
rumsellers to smash pitchers and bottles and
spill the liquor when the officers come to seize.
1t is proposed to treat them as If the liquor
was not all spilled, so that the officers could
seize little of it.
At present the casks from which LIQUORS
have just been unlawfully sold, go free of the
law; it is proposed to seize and confscate them
being worth three dollars each; SO much out of
the rumsellers' profits
At present the teams of certain rumsellers
are constantly engaged-on the sy-in the
transportation of liquors for unlawful sale it
is proposed to seize and confscate them as
the United States authorities seize ships,
steamers, teams engaged in transporting
smuggled goods.
1t is proposed to pay to those who furnish in
formation leading to the conviction OF rumsel-
ers half the fines paid in such cases.
1t is proposed to give to policemen, consta-
| bles and coroners for work in hunting down"
| ramsellers and bringing them to justice, the
| legal fees now paid TO sheriffs Tor such SER
{ vices. AT present the fees sthus fairly earned
| by policemen g to the city, while the officers
| wear out their clothes in the hard work of un-
| ea.rt ning the rumseierS and their liquors, the
| latta~ being often buried in the ground or in
| dung heaps
Almost the only thing new in the proposed
| addition to the law, is to pay half the fines to
| persons giving the information; the payment
| TO policemen and the contiscation of the teams.
The first provision is in the law of New Hamp-
! shire and OF other States and in the U. S.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-02
THE following item from the Philadelphia

The following item from the Philadelphia
American, a paper usually candid in state
mant and logical in conclusion, is given for
what it is worth: DR.. Howard Crosby, of
New York. the leader of the vigorous cru
SADIE against the irregular liquor traffic of
that city, took the occasion of a recent invi-
tation to lecture in B)ston, to give his hear
ers his views of the temperance question.
As is well known DR.. Crosby is neither to-
tai abstainer nor believer in measures to
restrain intemperance more efficient than a
vigorous license law, well enforced. His
views and policy were the occasion of more
than one attack from the temperance peo-
pie of New York, but these were quite
eclipsed by the charge along the whole line
which followed his lecture in Boston.
Among others, Mr.. Wendell Phillips, who
is nothing if not extreme, addressed a large
meeting, called for the purpose by the Meth
odist ministers. He seemed to be especially
irritated by DR.. Crosby's references to the
New Testament, and made his appeal to
good deal of autiquated scholarship in de-
fence of the position that the wine drunk by
Christ and His Apostles was the unferment-
ed and unintoxicating juice of the grape.
The latest book he mentioned was that of
DR.. Leeds. who has repudiated his own
work, and declares it series of misrepre-
sentations of scripture from beginning to
end. The truth is that no competent Orien-
talist,-no missionary to Syria for instance
but unites in repudiating such attempts
to explain away the plain mea aning of Scrip
ture texts, in the supposed interests of tenn
perance. Drunkenness was great social
evil in New Testament times, and the Chris
tian Church managed to make fight against
it, without enjoining total abstinence ON its
members, or procuring Prohibitory Laws
from the State.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-02
STATE OF MAINE.

CUMB ERLASD, SIS. January 26th, A. D. 1881.
fE1HIS is to give notice that the twenty day
4 of January, A. d. 1881. Warrant in Insol-
rency was issued out Of the Court of Insolvency for
said County of Cumberland against the estate of
THOMAS A. OAKS, of Portland,
in the county of Cumberland, adjudged to be an
insolyent debtor petition of said debtor, which
petition was filed the twenty fifth day Of Janu-
ary. A. D. 88l, to which date interest claims
Is TO be computed:
That the payment of any debts to or by said debtor,
aud the delivery transfer OF any property by him
are forbidden by law;
That a meeting of the creditors of said debtor, to
rroye their debts and chouse or more assignees
al his estate will be held at Court of Insolvency
to he holden at the Probate Court Room in Port
land. on MONDAY, the Seventh day OF February,
A. D. 1881 at ten o'clock in the forenoon.
Given under my hand the date first above written
GEO. W. PARKER,
Deputy Sheriff as Messenger of the Court of Insol
vency for sal county of Cumberland.
Jan2G& feb2
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-02

DETECTIVE Pinkerton says that man
who embezzles money enough to make it an
object t. pursue him cannot elude final cap
ture, so where he will. That may be true;
but man must be a big thief in order to
make game for Pinkerton ard his me
Their expenses are larger than those of a
commercial runner.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-02
THE PRESS.
WEDNESDAY, MORNING., FEB. 2.

We DO not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of The writer are in
all cases Indispensable necessarily for publiea-
ton but as guaranty of good faith
We cannot undertake to rerurn or preserve com
munications that are not used
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-02

EVERY regular attaehe of the PRESS is furnished
with Cor" certificate signed by Stanley Pullen,
Editor, All railway, steamboat and hotel managers
VIII confer favor upon MS by demanding credentials
OF every person claiming to represent our journal.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-02

FERNANDO WooD has gone to the Hot
Springs, and taken along his rheumatism as
luggage. He will be quite as ornamental
there as in Congress, and far more useful.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-02

The jingle of the bells on Plaisted's FOOLS
cap has struck upon the ears of nearly every
editor in the country. The papers generally
concede his fitness to wear the hood.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-02

THE beat of an average Washington po-
liceman is five miles. The beat of Con-
gresham covers his whole District and
sometimes reaches over the entire country.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-02

THE thing most desired now is break
up of the solid North. The January thaw
has failed us. We must look TO February
for redress. That is our only hope before
Spring
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-02

MoNCURE Conway has said many witty
things, but few wise ones. His declaration
that Phillips Brooks is the leading preacher
of America may be classed with his rari-
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-02

SENATOR BECK says Senator Conkling is
to be the premier of the new administration.
That is worse mistake even than the one
made by Beck in his speech on the shipping
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-02

THERE are 11,S0O,OOO beef cattle slaugh-
tered in the United States. This does not
include the calves who die in dues, in pot
house brawls, and from other natural
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-02

LOUISIANA is sucker. 1t made S12,000,-
900 out of its orange crop last year.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-02
RicYclA School.

open every day and evening. 135 Middle ST.,
" over Woodman, True & Co.'S. LAMSON
BROS. Agents for all the best Bicycles.
ian22 dtf
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-02
COPARTNERSHTP.
COpartnersEip Notice.

w f the undersigned have this day formed a
w copartnership under the style of AMOS. l..
MILL EFT s. CO., for the purpose of carrying on
py our new store, 5s1 and 583 Congress street,
about February 18th. Until then will be found at
the old stand, 5S8 Congress street.
AMOS L. MILLETT.
FRED w. THOMPSON.
Portland, Me-, Feb 1st, 1881. feb1 div
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-02
Gilbert's Assemblies,
Every Thursday Evening.

sY-Class i'm Walizing, the "German''
and Raquet meets every Tuesday Evening.
ian6 diff
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-02

portion it often improves the favor of each for
TX. Mocha a rich, strong Arabian Coffee and Java
of the former to rs of the latter almost universally
re pungent drink than either of the above mix
he different favors. and parties who find it diff
assured of finding something from our large and
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-03-17
A Very Good Reason for His Silence.

The friends of Mr.. Conkling have an
nounced that he will not make any re-
ply to the speech of Senator Butler, in
which Mr.. Conkling's gross misrepre-
sentation of the South Carolina census
was handled as it deserved.
AS reason for the Senator wonder
full forbearance, in this case, it is as
serted that, as he desires to beat some
of Mr.. Hayes nominations. he will not
stir up the feelings of Democratic Sena-
tors.
This is more ingenious than truthful.
The real reason why Mr.. Conkling will
not answer that speech resides in the
stubborn fact that the speech is unan-
swerable. Mr.. Conkling did make false
accusations of gross frauds. He made
them on the stump and in his most in
solent vein. Mr.. Conkling has known
for some months, if he did not know
when he was on the stump, that the
charges he then made were utterly de-
void of truth.
But while Mr.. Conkling has been
fully aware that he made false and Ii
belous charges, while Mr.. Conkling has
been proven by the highest official
authority to have uttered untruths, he
has taken no step to put himself right.
He was thus il position where Mr..
Butler found it easy to expose him to
the country as culumniator.
No reply is possible, for all the facts
areagainst Mr.. Conkling, and he is wise
in deciding to accept his castigation in
submissive spirit. Washington Post.