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Literary Gossip.

n. w. KENNEDY, one Of our old
journalistic friends, is now doing good
work on the Syracuse IN. Y Stan
ddrd.
VIM. B. Sweet, a Nebraska journalist,
has made $4,000 in mining specula-
tions. If a newspaper man wants to
make money, all he has to do is to get
out of the newspaper business.-Ne'c
HaUen Register.
SCRIBNER for July contains paper
Of special and timely interest, " The
Peoples Problem, =" in which the writer
takes the ground that the time has
come for the people of this country to
exercise their right to "alter the gov
eminent" !"
THENAME of the corporation formerly
known as Scribner & Co. publishers Of
Scribner's Monthly, ST. Nicholas, & The
Spiritual Songs Series Of hymn and
tune books, "Songs for the Sanctu-
ary," ETC.. has now been changed to
The Century Co. The title Of Serb
,,er's Monthly will become The Century,
with the next volume. st. Nicholas is
slightly changed as to its subtitle,
being now st. Nicholas, an Illustrated
Magazine for Young Folks. The July
numbers of these magazines are the
first to bear the new corporate imprint.
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CARPETS AND MATTINGS !

We have a large and choice assort-
ment of these goods, to which we ask
especial attention. An Ingram at 6Oc.
very handsome. Our Mattings particu-
larly commend themselves to the atten-
tion of buyers, for pattern, quality and
price. They were bought from New
York importers direct, and we feel justi-
fed in saying that no cheaper or better
line of them was ever offered to our
people.
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SOME Of our Philadelphia subscribers
complain that they do not receive the
TRANSCRIPT until Monday, though it
is invariably put in the post Office here
on Friday evening. This is fast time,
we must say, particularly when it is
understood that so many mail agents
and post Office officials are born tired
and never grow out of the complaint.
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BALLoTING at Albany for U. S. Sena-
tor continues. The last ballot yester-
day resulted as follows: For the short
term, Potter, 50 Z; Wheeler, 80; CoDk-
ling, 80; Lapham, II; scattering, 3.
For the long term, Herman, So; Depew,
81; Platt, 27; Cornell, Z; Crowley, 6 +;
Hoskins, 5; scattering, 4.
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THE ANNOUNCEMENT Of the mys-
terious disappearance of 7. Howard
Peterson, son Of 7. B. Peterson, the
Philadelphia publisher, from his hotel
at Atlantic City, in February last, will
be remembered by many. His body
was found at Latham's beach, near
Cape May, on Tuesday, where it had
been cast up by the waves.
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THE STAR ROUTE business was
brought up in the criminal court at
Washington yesterday, on an applica-
tion by Brady's counsel to have the
Grand Jury examine into the charges
against the ex-Assistant Postmaster
General. The court declined to in.
struct the Grand Jury as requested.
Counsel for the Government said that
a case would be prepared for the Grand
Jury in September.
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DRESS TRIMMINGS /!

Our assortment of these is very choice,
comprising the new styles in Plaids,
Stripes, Brocades, Damasses, Novelties,
&C., in all the popular shades, and at
prices ranging from 25 cts. to 81 so, so
that we can reasonably hope to sdt al
most Everyone.
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THOMAS GARFIELD, uncle of the
President, and a Mrs. Arnold were
killed by train, while driving across
the railroad track, near Cleveland, on
"Wednesday.
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DIR. ALBERT G. MAcKEY, one of
the most prominent Masons in the
United States, and author Of ''Mackey's
Masonic Manual, y died on Monday at
Fortress Monroe. He eresided in Wash
ingtOn.
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BUSINESS was formally opened yes
terday at the summer seat of Govern
ment, Long Branch, by a Cabinet
meeting. Until further notice you will
find the Government at Long Branch
amoozing" itself, as the late A. Ward
used to say.
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FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE "a, 1881.

To CORRESPONDENTS accommodation on
topics of local interest are always welcome,
mt to insure insertion they must be briefand
to the point We do not hold ourselves re-
sponsible for the views of correspondents
ANONYMOUS articles will receive no attent t1on
Address all communications to the Proprle-
tor
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VAssAR COLLEGE commencement
exercises took place on Wednesday,
The sweet graduates, when they 60
home and proceed to wash the dinner
dishes in five languages, will just
astonish the old folks.
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THE MARRIAGE Of Kit Adams, the
genial editor of the Quincy Modern Argo,
and Miss Mary Idella Day known in
literary circles as ''Ralph Douglass') J,
was announced in recent issue Of the
ArgO. Mr.. and Mrs. Adams have the
best wishes Of the TRANSCRIPT.
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THE DESCENDANTS Of General
Lafayette, who are to come as guests
of our Government, to take part in the
Yorktown celebration, will sail for
America about the tenth of September
in the U. S. Steamer Trenton.
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THE VALUE of the interviewer was
never more forcibly illustrated than in
the case of General Grant. Hardly
anybody knew that he was such an
immense humbug until the reporters
got him to talking about ''that Garfield
and Conkling business. Il
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CLOTHS AND CASSIMERES !

Those who prefer to select the goods
and have their clothing made to their
order, can find here as nice an assort-
ment of cloths and cassimeres, perhaps,
as they need wish to choose from, in
many qualities and prices, from SOC. to
$3.50 per yard, which we will make to
order and guarantee a good fit.
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CHICKEN SALAD, which had been
prepared in a brass kettle, broke up a
picnic at Dalton, Georgia, on Tuesday.
All who ate of the salad were poisoned,
but prompt medical treatment pre-.
vented any fatal results.
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sumo 1dea OF rile nature Of our stock,
and we trust our lady friends will come
and see for themselves. We have also
splendid line of Linen de India, Vic
toria Lawns, Dotted Swiss, Linen and
Muslin, LAWNS, DRESS GING-
HAMS, CRETONNES, PERCALES,
PRINTS, &C., in large assortment, and
of choice selection. Send for samples.
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DRESS GOODS.

In this department, our stock is even
larger and fuller than common, compri-
sing an elegant and varied assortment
of staple and fancy goods, in all the
newest and most popular styles and
colors, such as six-quarter Gilbert and
Franklin Sackings and Suitings, all
wool, very fine, very handsome, and al
ways desirable, and never out of style
Z Suitings, all wool, new colors, plain
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w. H. TURNER, one of the chief
clerks in the contract Bureau of the
Post Office Department, and who knows
much about the workings of the Star
routes, was removed on Tuesday.
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THE COUNTRY will pay large re-
ward for even a small piece Of the ''pure
administration of the late President
HAYES. What could have become Oft I
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JOHN GR1scoM, the Chicago starva-
tion man, has completed the twenty
seventh day Of his fast, and is feeling
pretty well. He took a seven-mile walk
Yesterday.
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THOMAS ]. HEATING was yesterday
re-nominated for Comptroller by the
MARYLAND Democratic Slate COnven-
ton. at Baltimore.
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ITs ACTION IS SURF AgB sAFE.-The celebra
ted remedy Kidney-Wort can now be OBJ
tanned in the usual dry vegetable form, or m
liquid form. 1t IS put in the latter way for
especial convenience of those who cannot
readily pFepareit twill be found very con-
centrated aud will act with equal eflcienoy
in either case Be sure and read the TetU adj
vertisempnt for particulars.-SOn and
Hest
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THE GRAND JURY at Albany, on
Wednesday, postponed action on the
bribery case.
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BAILEY
BANKS
Twelfth and Chestnut Sts.,
philadelphia.
SAMUEL LESS,
5, Z & 8 NORTH SECOND ST.,
ESTABLISHED 1854.

3. 5, Z & 8 NORTH SECOND ST,
East Side, above Market,
PHILADELPHIA.
OLD ESTABLISHED DRY GOODS AND
NOTION STORES, Nos. 3, 5, Z & 9 North Sec
ond Street, offers great INDUCEMENTS in DRESS
GOODS, NIUSLINS, GINGHANIS, CHEVIOTS,
TABLE LINENS, NAPKINS, TOWELS,
CRASHES, etc, etc, etc.
WE MAKE BLACK CASHMERE A SPEC
IALTY. OUR NOTION DEPARTMENT
CONTAINS the LARGEST and most COM
PLETE line of Hosiery, Gloves, Hamburgs,
Edging and Underwear, which we offer ten
per cent. cheaper than can be bought elsewhere.
Buying and selling only for cash, and have
four stores to buy for, we are able to buy
larger quantities, and bug atIoagerf figures, and
therefore sell cheaper than any Dry Goods
Notion House in Philadelphia.
SAMUEL LESS,
aprI-ly S,5, & 9 n. SECOND ST.,
Philadelphia.
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Taants.
Wanted!

N ENTLEATEN of some business ability to
U represent us in the sale of fDUYCKINCK'S
CYCLOPE EDIA OF AMERICAN LITERA-
TURE. To such we can guarantee when
they are willing to give us a faithful repre-
sentation, and can place one set per day
from $1,000 to $500 per year.
THE BAXTER PUBLISHING Co,
wv. Cor. 9Th and Chestnut Sts.,
may20St. Philadelphia, Pa.
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THE PRESIDENT is now at Long
Branch. and the Cabinet is moving
down there as fast as it can.
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THE MARKETS.
MIDDLETowN GRAIN MARKET.

MIDDLETOWN GRAIN MARKET
CORRECTED WEEKLY BY ISAAC JONES' JR
WHEAT CORN
Amber, 000GI 20I Old, OO6OOe
Timothy Seed 375 New. OO652c
Glover Seed, p b @llclOats, O0645c
MIDDLETOWN PRODUCE MARKET.
CONNECTED WEEKLY BY S. NJ. REYNOLDS 4 CO.
Eggs, u doz. Qlsc Chickens, live,
Butter, q D .O0914o spli1g, q n I5c
Lard, " b iOglic Potatoes, bus, ali d
PHILADELPHIA MARKETS, 7
WHEAT CORN
Prime red, l 2411 20 Yellow, 5605sc
timothy Seed, 35Ol White, 5665Sc
Glover Seed, y p s@9c Oats (Delaware) )44e5 46c
BALTIMORE MARKETS,
WHEAT 1C0RN-
Good oamb 2T@I 30 White, GOQ62c
OATS Yellow, 5S659c
southern, 4O@45 Rye, 00061 O8
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THE great popularity and gratifying success
i of Congress HAIR last Season have in
duced the Proprietor to increase the capacity
of his Hotel by the addition of a three-story
wing, containing SiTty tUell-LigAted. Large
and Airy Rooms iOith NelO Spring Mattresses
in eUery room. "A change has also been
made by the Rail Road Company, and trains
will set down passengers at the door of the
Hotel.
The Hotel is beautifully situated, being
within one hundred and fifty feet of the break
ers, and commanding an ocean View" from
all parts Of the house.
Unsurpassed "Home Comforts, !" and every
thing to conduce to the pleasure of our
patrons
TernS-S1O and $3.50 per Week, according
to location; Transient Board, $3.50 per day
Children and Nurses halt-price. Special rates
to families.
THOMAS FARLEY, W. B. r.. SELBY,
Manager. Proprietor.
lnay6-3m
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BOOTS AND SHOES j!

Mems Fine Calf and medium weight Xii
Boots. Mems and Boys Congress, Button and
Lace Shoes in Calf, Buff and Kip; Youths and
Childrens Button and Lace Shoes, from 70 cts
to 90. Ladies' Misses and Childrens' Curas
co Kid Button, Lasting, Kid-foxed Button
Pebble Button ana Lace Shoes, at all prices
A womens good shoe button and lace at 81. .25
Cnlld $ Frencn ana Curacoa kid and pebble,
button and lace shoes in great variety, from
% cents upwards; Ladies' and Misses Kid,
Newport Ties, Kid slippers Lasting and Goat
Slippers
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Books and Periodicals.

Every one who is about to build or
repair a house OF barn will find matter
of interest and value in Carpentry and
Building. This is a monthly journal,
published by David Williams, SO Reade
st., New York, at the low price of 81
per year. Almost every issue contains
a full set Of house plans of character
adapted to use under the superintend-
ence of an intelligent carpenter.
TIE SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR JULY
has an abundant supply of highly inter-
esting, edifying and entertaining read
ing matter. Among the particularly
noteworthy and finely illustrated arti-
cles are, 1.-THE Crusades," by Alfred
H. Guernsey (the first of serles) ;
EThe Growth Of Bethany, Philadelphia, y
by Rev. James B. Dunn, D. D. ;
'EThebes and its Ruins,' by Reginald
Stuart Poole; ''Somethingabout Bells, y
"The Ritualists and their Robes, =
"Singing Through India, etc., etc.
The several essays are by the Revs. De
Witt Talmage, J. NJ. Wilton, Leroy
NJ. Lee, and Elizabeth Oakes Smith
and others. Yearly subscription, So
single copy, % cents. Address, Frank
Leslie's Publishing House, ,53, 55 and
81 Park Place, New York.
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Wantad !

GENTLEMEN AND LADIES to represent
u us in the sale of 1.-THE REVISED NEW
TESTAMENT-dltthOr edition. An un-
usual opportunity is here offered for MAKING
MONEY FAST. Send at once for outfit-costing
Sand state the TOWNSHIP you want to can
vass in.
THE BAXTER PUBLISHING Co,
$. w. Cor. 9th and Chestnut SITS.
may20-St. Philadelphia Pa.
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Beach Hotel & Pavilion.

is an Representation
slwflop with
LARGEST PAVILION THIS SIDE OF CAPE MAY 13O by so feet
in htanda
Free
MUSIC UNDER THE DIRECTION OF Prof H. PORTER, of Pha
he service
SPECIAL!
Noritu on premise
making called this fact No charge for grounds or pavilion
TERMs:$8 $175 day; Meals cents
EN-
June} J. C.
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NJ. A. DAUPHIN,
New Orleans, La,
or NJ. A. DAUPHIN, at
No. 2I2 BrORdU way, New York.


Al or Grand Extraordinary Drawings are
undeI. the supervision and management Of
GENERALS G, T. REAUREGARD and JU-
BAL A. EARLY June I7-4t
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8epnolds & Cos gdu.
1881

1881. 1881.
- -
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-31
The Last American Empire.
Panama Star and Herald. /


The general opinion in Brazil is that the
empire will not long outlive the reign of the
present Emperor, the good Dom Pedro. The
imperial form of government does not flourish
on the soil of the American continent, and the
Emperor's personal popularity, which is very
great, has kept in check the democratic ten
denotes of the country, which cannot always
be controlled even by wholesome laws and
wise, liberal, and progressive government
Dom Pedro will probably be the last American
Emperor, and the vast country which he rules
with so much intelligence and moderation
will be numbered for good or i'll among the
Republican experiments of the continent The
transition from the aristocratic to the demo-
cratic form of government need not necessari-
ly be attended with violence or danger to the
public peace. The people are educated to
self-government to a certain extent, and the
change will be one rather of form than of fact
or principle. 1t will be rendered more easy to
the public mind as the successor of Dom Pedro
IS mere child, who has not sufficient follow
ing to control the public sentiment or to keen
him on the throne by force. He is the son of
the Emperors eldest daughter, and Is but six
years OF age. The mother is under the control
Oh the Jesu1ts and is intensely unpopular.
were the Emperor to die during the boys mi
norlty the Constitution makes the mother Re-
gent, an authority she could not long sustain
The Emperor wishes to have the Constitution
changed, SO as to give the crown to his favor
lte grandchlld, the son of his second daughter,
whose husband is German Prince. This how
is twelve years old, and exhibits decided tai
ent. But royalty is unpopular in the country,
notwithstanding the rare excellencies which
nave graced it during the present reign. Re-
publicanism is the breath of American politi-
cal llie Surrounded by Republics on ali sides
the Empire has caught the infection, and lib
eral ideas permeate the entire political fabric.
A constitutional President will soon displace
tne monarch, the simplicities of republican
allsm, and the last American Empire will be
known only in history.
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-31
THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING, JAN. 81.
The Battle Flags.

The resolve given below, passed by the
Legislature of Maine in 1866, is of special
interest just now in view of the proposition
to remove the flags from the cases in which
they have been placed for preservation
The reason for the resolve, as stated, is GER
talnlv worthy of consideration.
The flags some years ago were placed in
large cases in the rotunda of the State
House, and were, at considerable expense,
carefully and artistically arranged. Many
OF them are badly worn and torn, and all
were more or less injured by the dust be-
fore being placed ir the cases. To remove
them from the cases, use them for the pur-
pose contemplated, and replace them, how
ever carefully it might be done, would be
likely to add much to the damage they have
already sustained. 1t is hardly to be pre-
sumed that the Legislature would be will
ing to repeal this resolve which is now law.
and SO open the way to further use and
hnal destruction of the flags The follow
ing is to be found in chapter % of the Acts
and Resolves of 1866
Resolve for the preservation of flags. guild
ons, and war trophies deposited with the
State.
Whereas the regimental battle flags, guidons.
and war trophies deposited in the State House
for preservation and safe keeping are liable to
injury or loss by being removed therefrom,
and as these precious memorials of the sacri,
tees ana gallantry of the soldiers of Maine
should be safely preserved and carefully pro-
tected, be it therefore
Resotoed: That from and after the passage
OF this resolve no national or regimental flag
or hags, guidons or trophies of war therein
deposited, shall be removed upon any pretense
whatever, except in case of fire or other danger
thereto which may render such removal neces-
sary Approved February 10, 1866.
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-31

BEFORE the war great part of the cot
ton crop of this country was exported for
manufacture, the larger portion going to
England. Recent statistics, collected by
Edward Atkinson for the census bureau.
show decided increase in cotton manufac-
lures in the United States during the ten
years just ended. The number of looms
now returned in Mr.. Atkinson's statistics is
23O, ,223 against 157,310 in 1870. The spin
dies are now nearly eleven millions, as com
pared with seven millions ten years ago.
The amount of cotton consumed has risen
from one million to million and half
bales; and the hands employed from 1885,
1863 to 1S1 ,62S. The increase in each item
is, roughly, 30 per cent. Ten years ago the
number oflooms in the five States of Maine,
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Is
land and Connecticut, numbered 114,354.
being almost 73 per cent. of all the country.
In the five New England States named,
there are now 1886 looms, or rather
more than so per cent. of the whole.
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-31
Colonel Forney's Essay on Bern
hardt.
GProgress.l


Why is it that most men pardon the sinners
and doubt the saints? fear it is because the
sinners are generally very handsome, and the
saints very dreary and dry. Our beloved Bern
hardt is most triumphant trial, and now that
she has gone with pocketbook full, want to
say two words for the people that were too poor
to pay and too proud to attack her. Because
belong to both these classes-I want to make
sort OF excuse for them in my own name. All
men and women admire physique. We like
healthy, hearty, whole-souled people of both
sexes.
We have been raised on Fanny Kembles,
Josephine Cliftons and Fanny Davenports, fe-
males OF appetite and passion, with stout con-
tinuations (not contaminations, as poor John s.
Du Sole used to say), and it is too late to be
suddenly turned around with the remark that
the fashion is to have women who are thin!
There was vast deal of prologue for Bern
hardt In the way of anatomy. We were assured
that no woman had any right hereafter to claim
small arm or leg. The sequel became mat
ter OF sequins. She came, and she conquered.
10 be light and airy-sinewy, shadowy and
slight-was the mode. Calvin Edison was the
most skeletony man that ever passed before
the stage, and was the fashion forty years ago;
but we got tired of too much vertebre till
Sarah came, and now we bow down to it. Is
1t Sidney Smith who said that if fat man was
distressed in hot weather, he could take off his
skin and sit in his bones? Sarah is always cool.
Very well, We have obeyed the last order
Sarah comes in all her thinness; but when she
comes we find a new decree. We are com.
pelled to not only excuse her anatomy, to ad-
mlre her spider arms and tiny hands, and
breastless body, but to understand her! What
are to be done with set of Americans in such
a strait? We can talk Irish, Dutch, German
and English, but French and Spanish are be-
yond the philology of the public. The result is
that our politeness is exhausted as entirely as
our pockets. Why ask us to do what no other
nation tolerates? Spain, France, Italy, and
Germany, refuse to go into raptures over En-
glish actors. Why, in heavens name, does
fashion demand us to do what others refuse
to do for our idiom? saw Salvini murduring
my old friend Shakespeare in a very elegant
pantomime. Somebody said, care you not en-
tranced?" l said, "No, am not entranced;'
and the signor, whom saw afterward in Lon
don, laughed loud chorus as said, 81 should
be If Salvini would sing Othello in Italianl"
Music has grammar and syntax but no speech.
Harmony is the angelic and divine tongue No
words are necessary 10 ecstasy. When the soul
speaks its syllables are sighs and its eloquence
the melody of birds.
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-31

A WORKING man writes to the Christian
Register concerning the connection of bad air
and intemperance. He says that working
in large room in shoe factory, with from
htty to hundred others, the fumes of to-
bacco mingling with the sickening smell of
leather, he found it useless to try to ventil-
ate the room by the windows Every morn
ing he lowered them an inch, but in half an
hour all would be closed. The door had
spring which prevented its being left open
minute, and there was no way of securing
fresh air. When he left his work at night,
he felt so faint and lifeless that he longed
for stimulant. Many of the men went at
once to the nearest saloon, when the days
work was ended. The men think ii is hard
work that makes them feel so tired, but in
reality it is the breathing and rebreathing,
hour after hour, air which has been de-
prived OF its oxygen and is loaded with
poison.
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-31

The calm, elegant manners of the unpre-
tending but scholarly Prescott, Motley and
Lowell; the simple, soldierly bearing Of our
last soldier-president and his wife-who does
have seen them; and yet the wife of a promi-
nent clergyman in England asked Mr.. Lowell
If he really did not belong to small minority
OF his countrymen, ."You are not like the
Gen jackson class, for instance" said she.
And yet it took men of 'the Gen. jackson
class" to make us a nation
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-31

SENATOR IsHAM HARRIS of Tennessee
paid high compliment during the last cam
paign to Senator Edmunds. He was asked
by someone why he was State credit man
when SO many of his people were not
"Why?" remarked Mr.. Harris. s'Well, l
would rather give one thousand dollars out
of my own pocket this minute than have
Senator Edmunds make one speech on re-
pudiation. That is one reason that am a
State credit man."