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The Portland daily press., 1882-12-23
The English Slanguage.
AS Talked by the Fools of the Present
Day
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Was there ever more remarkable crea-
ture than the young man of to-day? He is a
study. l do not wonder at him when he
wears his hats so low as to be almost fiat
and shoes so sharp as to be simply tragic,
but it is when he talks that l find myself
most amazed. had the pleasure of sitting
in car on the west side elevated road on
Thursday, when youth fromYale strobe in,
and discovered an acquaintance in the per-
son of young New Yorker who sat oppo-
site me-
swell for charity's sakep' yelled the
youth from Yale. when d. you blow imp
He was tall, was this youth from Yale, with
sharp nose, very tight trousers, micros-
copic mustache. a very short coat and an
English hat. "Some ones left the door
open," he continued, looking around with
broad and comprehensive smile at the pas
sengers, ''and this curiosity has blown in.'
This brilliant sally was received by the
New York young man with grins of delight
He retorted with epigrammatic brilliancy:
The Portland daily press., 1882-12-23
Red Hair.
The LONELINESS of Golden chevelure
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shall be considered unorthodox when l
say that next in loveliness of all the hair |
have ever seen comes chevelure of golden
red. Very red hair is orange, and orange is
far from beautiful; but the abundant tresses
to which l refer were of the color of perfect
ly ripe corn, with that reddish tinge which
makes the waving harvest fields so beauti-
full. Red hair, even if unlovely, has its adj
vantages in practical age, when girl or a
woman dares not be Insignificant Sin
VISIBLE" on penalty of being nobody. The
writer OF little book on the toilet sets forth
The Portland daily press., 1882-12-23
MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK.

fEtHE stockholders OF the Merchants National
Il Bank OF Portland are hereby notified that
their annual meeting for the choice of Directors for
the ensuing year, and the transaction of such other
business as may legally be brought before than will
10 O'Clock A. M.
Dec. 9, 1882. dec9dtd
The Portland daily press., 1882-12-23
NATIONAL TRADERS BANK.

FNIIIE shareholders of The National Traders Bank
IL of Portland. are hereby notified that their an
nual meeting will be held at their Banking Room,
on TUESDAY, the ninth day of January n xt at
II O'Clock A. NJ, to choose five Directors for the
ensuing year, and to act any other business that
may legally come before them.
EDWARD GOULD, Cashier.
Dec. 8, 1882. decsdtd
The Portland daily press., 1882-12-23
OCEAN INSURANCE COMPANY.
ANNUAL mEETTNG.

iEhE Stockholders Of the Ocean Insurance Com
Pany are hereby notified to meet at the office
u sla company on MONDAY the first day of Jan
uary 1888, at o'clock D. m for the purpose Of
crossings ven Directors for the ensuing year. and for
the transac of such other business as then be
legally acted upon Also to de tide they will change
the time OF their annual meeting to the first Wednes-
DAY after the first Monday of Ja uary instead of as
now provided. r. o. CONANT, Secretary.
ueCll
The Portland daily press., 1882-12-23
CANAL NATIONAL BANK.

fENHE annual meeting ofthe Stockholders of 1.-THE
IL Canal National Bank OF Portland" for the
election Of seven directors and for the transaction
of any other business that may legally before
them, viii be held at their banking house ON TUES
DAY, the ninth nay of January, 1888, at eleven
O'Clock, a. M.
Dec, 8. 1882. dec8dtd
The Portland daily press., 1882-12-23
CUMBERLAND NATIONAL BANK.

fGiHE annual meeting Of the Stockholders of the
n Cumberland National Bank of Portland will
be held at their banking rooms on Tuesd " the
ninth day of January 1888 at ten O'Clock A. NJ. for
the choice of Directors and the transaction of any
other business that may legally come before them.
WILLIAM II. SOULE Cashier
Portland, Dec 9Th, 1882. de9dtd
The Portland daily press., 1882-12-23
MEETINGS
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF PORTLAND, ME.

TtNHE annual meeting of the stockholders of this
- Bank will be held at their banking rooms on
TUESDAY, January NINTH 1888, at ten O'Clock in
the stockholders will amend article seventh Of the
articles OF association of the Bank, and to transact
any other business that may legally come before
them. Per order of the Directors
WILLIAM E. GOULD Cashier
Portland, December 8, 1882. decsdtd
The Portland daily press., 1882-12-23
CASCO NATIONAL BANK.

fEthE annual meeting of the Stockholders of .le
Casco National Bank of Portland, for the
coce OIL directors and the transaction OF such 9TH
er business as may legally come before Them will be
mel at their bank ng house, Tuesday the 9Th day
OF January, 1858 at 10 o'clock a. m.
December 8, 1882 dtd
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1882-08-09
THE RUM-sEILER's DREAM.

A runassller, one day when his bar-room
was empty, dozed of into g sound slumber;
an angel appeared unto hmm in his dreams
and brought before him in vivid pictures,
the inevitable result OF his calling. To his
assertion that he Sss 4icensed by the State,
and had a tegatright to sell. the angel, as
depicted il. the Illustration, pointing to
these scenes of crime and woe, says:
Licensed to make the strong mar weak
Licensed to lay tho wise man low;
Licensed q wife's fond heart to break
And make her children's tears to flow.
Licensed to do thy neighbor harm;
Licensedto kindle hate and strife;
Licensed TO nerve the robbers arm;
Licensed to whet the murderer's knife.
Licensed thy neighbor's purse to drain,
~And rob him of his very last;
Licensed to heat his feverish brain,
Till madness crown thy work at last
Licensed, where peace ard quiet dwell;
To bring disease, and want and woe;
Licensed to make this world a hell,
And fit man for a hell below.
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her power, to those whom her hss
band had Wfonggu.

A FLOOD IN KsNrucxY.-CrNc1NSAr1,
August 2: Details from the sudden
food in Mason County, KY, chron-
icle some loss OF life. A negro cabin
on the bank Of Limestone Creek was
washed into the Ohio River and two
women occupying it were drowned.
On Lawrence Greek, near Mayesville,
a family comprising three adults and
Eve children were engulfed. Their
house was torn to pieces and all but
one man were drowned. Near Man.
chester, Ohio, the house of q man
named Barnes was washed away.
Barnes escaped. but his entire family
we're drowned.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1882-08-09
For the Dispatch.
Notes from the Land Of Penn.

Since my last letter I have been
taking additional notes in the land Of
Penn, some of which I trust will be
of as much interest to your readers
as the writing of them has been a
pleasure to your correspondent. The
majority OF your readers. I know, be-
long to the farming profession, most
of the fair lasses who read its love
tales are farmers girls, most of the
staid matrons who look up it cook
ing recipes are farmers wives, and
most of the sturdy hands that open
its pages at the incoming hour are
those who drive the pillow. Therefore
I deem it'worth the space here to jot
a paragraph on Pennsylvania farm
ing.
It is now midsummer, and the
Pennsylvania harvest is at its height.
Everywhere broad fields of golden
grain sway out before the eye, pre-
senting the pleasant sight of peace
and plenty. And as great in number
as the wheat fields are the busy har-
vesters, not harvesters with the old
time Cradles" as we sex them at
home, but seated upon the cunning
reaper drawn by two great horses.
With this wonderful machine the lord
of the fields drives along at o brisk
rate, cutting as much of the heavy
grain in a day as four'good men can
bind. These reapers are universally
used; the old time cradle is almost
entirely abandoned. Pennsylvania
wheat produces, on an average, about
80 bushels to the acre-that is on i'm
proved farms.
This is a capital region for grass.
The spiky-topped Timothy looks over
the fence at you along almost any
road, and the half blush appearance
of this great staple gives a pleasing
variegation to the rural landscapes.
In gathering this also the poetic old
scythe, so often seer in picture books,
has been given ove to rust and dis
use, and it will be supplanted by the
new improved mower, which is more
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1882-08-09
How it Pays to Take a Paper.

The testimony of Bill Arp is:
Some papers are not much account
as to appearances; but I never took
one that didn't pay me, in some way
more than I paid for it. One time
an old friend started a little paper
away down in South Western Gepr.
gia. and sent it to me, and I subscribed
just to encourage him; and SO after
a while it published a notice that an
administrator had an order to sell
several lots OF land at public outcry,
and one of the lots was in my county.
So I inquired about the lot, and
wrote my friend to attend the sale,
and run it to fifty dollars. BE did
20 and bid of the lot for me at thirty
dollars, and I sold it in q month to
the man it joined for enc hundred,
and 80 I made si1ty-eight dollars
clear by taking that paper.
Why, father told me that when be
was a young man he saw a notice in
a paper that a school teacher was
wanted away off in u distant county
and he went there and got the sit
u~stiou, and a little girl was sent to
him, and after a while she grew up
mighty sweet and pretty, and he fell
in love with her and married her.
Now, if be hadn't taken that paper
what do you reckon would have
become of me? Wouldn't I be some
other fellow, or may be not at alp
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1882-08-09

State. Ouly within the Democratic
party and by party action can defec-
tive legislation be remedied without
imperiling the safety and well-being
of the State. Democratic unity is
public safety and private security.
Is. In the State, justice and
equality for all, to insure harmony
and good will between the races. Iu
the Union, no sectionalism in policy
or feeling. An indissoluble Union OF
indestructible States. One flag, one
country, one destiny.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1882-08-09
The Habit Of Saving.

Children who have a little money
ought to practice saving something
Many boys and girls of to-day hardly
know a higher use for money that
comes in their hands than spending
it for some foolish thing as quickly
as possible. To such, a lesson in
self-denial and economy is very i'm
p%ortaut. As goes the boys pennies
and dimes, 80, very likely, will 60 the
mans dollars and hundreds by aud
by. Without having the spirit Of a
miser, the person accustomed to save
has more pleasure in laying up than
a spendthrift ever knows.
The way to Keep money is to earn
it fairly aud honestly. Money 80 OBJ
tanned is pretty sure to abide with its
possessor. But money that is inner
herited, or that in any way comes
without a fair aud just equivalent, is
almost certain to 60 as it came. The
young man who begins by saving a
few dollars a month, aud thriftily in
creases his store-every coin being q
representative Of good, solid work,
honestly and ~manifestly done-stands
a better chance to spend the last half
of his life in affluence and comfort
than he who, in his haste to become
rich, obtains money by dashing spec
ulrtions, or the devious means which
abound i'll the foggy regions lying be-
tween fair dealing and actual fraud.
Among the wisest and most thrifty
men of wealth the current proverb is
money goes as it comes" Let the
young make a note of this, and see
that their money comes fairly, that it
may long abide with them.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1882-08-09
Certainly ne Would.

The other evening as q muscular
citizen was passing a house on Mont
calm street, a lady who stood at the
gate called out to him:
: "Sir! I appeal to you for protec-
ton p
whats the trouble?" be asked as
he stopped short. , o.
"There's q man in the house, and
he won't 60 out doors when I order
ed him to!"
He wouldn't eh? Well see about
thatI" 49,.
Thereupon the man gave the wo-
man his coat to hold and sailed into
the house splitting on his hands. He
found a man sitting down atthe sup
portable, and he took him by the
neck and remarked:
mice style of a brute you are, eh?
Come out O. this or III break every
bone in your body?'
The man fought back and it was
not until q chair was broken and the
table upset that he was hauled out
doors by the legs, and given a fling
through the gate. Then, as the mus
cular citizen placed his boot where it
would do the most huat, he remarked:
Nov, then, you brass-faced old
tramp, you move o or I'll finish you"
Tramp! tramp!" shouted the VIC
tim, as be got up, "Tm no tramp! 1
own this property and live inthis
h0tlSC 1" -
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1882-08-09

The assumption of the Radicals that
every negro is a Republican voter is
a direct insult to our Afro-Americap
citizens. It treats the negroes as
mere machines having no political
rights or volition. This very assump-
ton of their political guardians-if
it we're true-is overwhelming proof
that the negro ought not to be al
lowed to vote at all. Their inca
pscity is most lamentable, but it is a
libel on the race to claim they are no
better than o drove of sheep.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1882-08-09
The design for the long delayed

The design for the long delayed
monument to the illustrious Jefferson
has been completed and. approved.
The memorial of plain granite will be
simple and lasting, like the character
and fame OF the great Virginian. 1t
is d~isgraceful that his resting place
has not long since been fifty marked,
but mortal hands can erect no grander
nor more abiding tributes than he
reared for himself in his ringing ar
raignment of British tyranny, and the
venerated seat Of learning of which
he was the father.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1882-08-09
Paid a Bill.

A Detroit lawyer took in a new boy
the other day, and asAe had suffered
to some extent from the depredations
OF the former one, he decided to try
the new lads honesty at once. He
therefore placed SIS in bills under a
weight on his desk and walked out
without q word. Upon his return,
half an hour later the bills were gone
and se~venty-fve cents in silver had
taken their place.
"Boy! when I stepped out to get a
draft on London I left SIS under the
weight"
Eyes, sir"
"And now I find only seventy-hve
cents!"
"Yes, sir, but you see You hadn't
been gone five minutes when a man
came in with a bill against you OF
SD, Is, and I paid it. I guess the
change is correct"
"You-you paid a billy"
eyes, sir-there it is. all receipted.
The man said it had slipped your
mind for the last four years, and So"
he didn't get any further before be
was rushed for the stair, and be isn't
in the law business any more.-Free
Press,
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great number OF Arabs were shot

A great number OF Arabs we're shot
at Alexandria for lootipg. They do
things differently at Washington.
The Republican Congress has been
looting the National Treasury for
several months. and no one has sug-
eested that the members be shot.
The Robesons, Reeds, Keifers, Hub
bells and Hiscocks rather think they
ought to be rewarded with another
election in honor of their naval, river
and harbor looting jobs.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1882-08-09

Abundant evidence has been aduced
to show that there was an immense
amount of fraud in the Star Route
cases, but the trouble is that the
perpetrators we're Indicted for conspir-
ing, and that conspiring must be
first established before this evidence
can be introduced. On this tech
nicality the Secretary Of the Repub-
lican National Executive Committee
and his pals now mainly rely for
keeping out Of the penitentiary.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1882-08-09

Eyes, and that's my wife holding
your coat!"
Thunder" whispered the victim,
as he gazed from one to the other,
and realized that the wife had got
square through him; and then he
made a grab for his coat and slid in
to the darkness with his shirt bosom
torn open, a finger badly bitten, and
two front teeth ready to drop out
Free Press.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1882-08-09

Sl'e dSo. A1AoSHy 61o"e
height of 3 and 4 feet, and yields an
immense amount of hay. A gentle
man told me a few days ago that four
acres of Timothy yielded him a suff'
cheney of long food for two horses
and several COWS for a whole year.
Why our Southern farmers don't SOW
grass is a mystery. I am sure it
grows we'll in the cotton fields, and
believe it would we'll as a crop.
The old method of blowing corr is
almost entirely abandoned here
Cul,ivators are used which simply
stir the soil about the roots, and bet
ter corn I never saw. Corn is now
about waist high, aud looks very
promising. The Irish potato is a
great crop with Pennsylvahians, and
is planted in great quantities and
eaten all the winter. The sweet po-
tato is rarely seen here.
have not seen much honey, but
this country can certainly flow With
milk, and that OF the richest quality.
Great Jersey and Alderny cows Craze
in the green pastures, and return
heavy profits for their keeping. A
cheese factory is located near the
hotel where I am stopping, and tho
farmers drive by every morning with
from 80 to 50 gallons of milk each.
They sell it, Think, for about two
cents a quart, which seems very low.
Wood land in this part. of the State
is very scarce-most of the land be-
ing under cultivation. The farms are
generally small and landais high.
From any small elevation a great
number of houses a be seen. A
few days since I stood on The side of
a ridge aud counted 60 farm houses
in sight, just on one side OF the road.
Small villages are scattered along the
pixies at every second or third mile.
There is one sound that I miss out
here in the country, and a sound
which every So9therparr would
wzafy INSIST IS the song OF our
knocking bird. Ia 1a:n,y
since the first seginniag of WTSgF
Rave T listened for bis happy notes.
but alas! he sings not here. These
cool summers, where the mag
nolias do not grow, are too uncon-
genial for him, aud he dares not risk
bis health by singing 30 far North.
He loves the tropical South with her
blue skies and green valleys, and has
no sympathy for a land less favored
and beautiful. His friend, MIR. Rob-
bin, summers here, but be has a poor
song and seems generally out OF
practice.
The nights are generally cool here.
Peaches are not ripe yet-blackber-
RES inst turning. HENRY H.
BUCKINGHAM, Pa, July Is, 1882.
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Mrs. JESSE JAMES RESTITUTION
Several years ago the notorious Jesse
james, recently shot in Missouri,
made a raid with a small party on
the Office of q coal mine in one of the
mountain towns of Kentucky, and
took a valuable watch and chain from
Charles Dovey, of Philadelphia, who
was in charge of the mine. A few
days ago MI. Dovey received a pack
age containing his long lost watch,
accompanied by a note from Mrs.
Jesse James, asking him to send her
receipt for the same by return mail
Mrs. James recently expressed q Ae-
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1882-08-09
For the Dispatch.
Why I am a Democrat.

Because there is no highway rob-
berry and murder, as under Radical
rule.
Because there is no robbery, rape,
murder and burning combined.
Because my wife and daughters are
not afraid to remain alone at home
during the night for fear OF being
violated and murdered.
Because all property is valued in
assessing one hundred per cent. less,
and the the tax levy is fifty per cent.
less than under Radical rule.
Because al claims against the State
and County are promptly paid. In
short, because every man, woman and
child feels perfectly secure and safe
in person and property, and the laws
of the land are inpartially admins
tered irrespective of party, color or
condition, and the finances of the
Ste.e and County r all honestly ap-
piled and accounted for.
: Fellow-citizens, al you beat this
for retrenchment, reform and general
good? Now you can crest under
your own vine and fig Tree without
fear. Could you v do SO under
Radical rule? Stop and reason with
yourselves, and see if you think more
for the welfare of an old COW than
you do ofthe woman who gave you
birth, the wife of your bosom, or the
virtue OF your daughters. If you
think more of the former, we don't
want you in our ranks, neither does
the dumb brute wish you; therefore
go where you properly belc og, among
the filth and scum of creation.
Throw your mothers, your wives
and your daughters into the society
of those you honor with your snf-
frage-the rogue, gambler, drunkard,
depraved and vicious, neither afraid
nor ashamed to commit any deed, no
matter how heinous.
Can you and wni-you~under tnese
circumstances go back under Radical
Rule? How have you entirely for
COTTON your cry for d~eliye~nce Tor SO
many years? Ho> Don have You
become forgessaI restless and dlscon-
tainted. vaen prosperous?
~. D. |
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5. The Practice Of nacs.rg~aries
In poiitica. cases il the tinted States
Courts In .his State Is a crimina
violation of the inaliepable right oil
every citizen to a fair trial by a jury
of his peers.
6. The extension of the. franchise,
as a political result of the late war,
has enlarged enormously the number
of present and prospective voters
requiring education in the public
schools. The burden was increased,
while the ability OF the State to bear
it was diminished. The Federal
government, by liberal appropriations
from the Treasury, on the basis OF
illiteracy, should help the Southern
States to cure Tue evil of non-intelli-
gent suffrage. A national danger
calls for national action and national
aid.
7. Civil service reform, appoint
ments to minor Offices under tests
that will indicate the qualifications Of
the applicant, promotion by merit, q
fixed tenure OF Office, and no removals,
except for cause.
s. Blackmailing public servants, un-
der the guise OF political easements,
converts the public treasury, to the
extent Of the contributions called for,
into a campaign fund for the ad-
vancement of a political party, thus
taxing the wholepeople for partisan
purposes.
9. The present. protective tariff
robs the many for the benefit of the
few. Tue duties on imports should
be decreased, and an early repeal OF
the duty on cotton tiesjTon the ma
chinery used in the manufacture OF
cotton and wool, and on tools and ag-
ricultural implements, will stimulate
manufactures and be a welcome relief
to the farmer and laborer.
10. It is most desirable that the
internal revenue taxation be abolished,
80 soon as this can be accomplished
without rendering permanent the ex-
listing protective system. Rigid econ
omy in the conduct ofthe government
will hasten the day when the tariff
shall be as moderate as in the early
days Of the Republic and the army Of
Office holders employed under the
internal revenue laws be disbanded.
II. The public credit-natioual and
State-must be religiously main.
tanned.
II. In the conduct OF affairs in this
State the Democracy have been &C.
tuated by but one DESIRE. and that is
to promote the greatest good of the