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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-12
Pungent Political Paragraphs.

The average voter is accused of being lethar-
gic- that has been the fusion position ever
since the CITY Hall meeting in Portland. 1t is
undeniable that the excessive heat is political
" de pressing and equally sndeniable that all
fusion efforts to hold public meetings have beeu
ntermitted. --Leoiston Journal
LIST US look at Gov Plaisted's record. He is
the great friend of the soldier? He has made a
dead set for every soldier holding office in the
State, Spauldiug, Myrick, House, Gallagher
and ALL To replace them by other soldiers? No!
SpauldiDg by Bert Smith, House by his own
minor son.-DeIter Gazette.
There is broad laughter throughout the State
at the remark in Plaisted's letter of acceptance
that "the united opposition to the Republican
marty are opposed to al banks of issue, wheth-
er State or NATIONAL Will Squire Dane, Pres
ident of the Kenne5unk National Bank and
fusion candidate for Congress, please calm him
selt?-Erchdnge.
B. G. Torsey, esq., of Winthrop, was in town
Thursday. Mr.. Torsey is very popular tenn
perance speaker. He has been invited to take
the stump this fall, by +he Republican State
committee Although Mr.. Torsey is staunch
Republican, warm friend to Colonel Robe,
and will do all in his power to advance the Re
publican cause, his duties as Grand Worthy
Chief Templar of the Grand Lodge, /. o. G. I
of Maine, and his numerous engagements to
speak at lodge and temperance meetings Will
not permit him to accept the invltation.-LeD-
iSton Journal.
Little Boosting is indnlged in by the Repub-
licans of Maine. They do not underestimate
the task they have undertaken of beating a
combination of all the worst elements in the
State. This is interpreted as good sign by
the Boston Advertiser, which says that the
confidence of the Republicans is warranted by
3ba fao f hat THAR accumulation p6rfeCt
than ever, while their reliance is on careful
attention to details and not on Boosting OF the
wonderful victory to come or mere talk of the
wickedness of the Fusionists. ~. I. 1ra6une.
Whatever may happen to the Republican
party, whether it purge itself of evil and re-
sume its former brave stand for progress, for
reform and for human rights, or whether it die
of ipanitiop, like the Wing party, the cause OF
the Democracy is alike hopeless. The party oil
the future will be the Republican party, or
will spring from its ashes.-BostoTo advertiser.
Congressman Dingley has not been absent
from his seat one day since he took the oath
Mr. Dlngley has made splendid record in
Congress, and he ought to be and will be re-
turned by large majority.-BcJaSt journal!
Gov Foster says that it costs Ohio 93,0O0O00
year to support its poor, and that $2,5OOOOo
of that is directly chargeable to the liquor traf-
fc. The entire saloon interest in the State
pays less than 100000 in taxes, leaving the
rest of the taxpayers to foot the balance of the
cost of free trade in intoxicants
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-12
PORTLAND, WE.
PIaisted and the Spoils System


A correspondent of the Kennebec Journal
has the following:
Governor Plaisted in his letter of acceptance,
has much to say about the spois system. Why,
this great reformer, daring his term of office,
has done little else than attempt to remove
competent officers fully acquainted with the
duties of their several positions, wounded and
brave soldiers, and fill their places with his
own party men, wholly unacquainted with the
duties of the places in which he would place
them. He has done his best to remove every
soldier, and that without cause, and because
the Council did not concur with him In his Ell
fort to remove these brave and competent men,
and aid him in placing his own partiZans in
their places he talks about the Council making
war upon him. y Indeed, this civil SER
vice reformer, this enemy of the spoils system,
has done little during his term of office but labor
for the spoils A careful search of the depart
msnts at the State House will confirm this
For such man, with such a record, to attempt
to palm himself off upon an intelligent people,
ae an anti-spoils mana civil service reformer,
amacks not little of the demagogue, especial
~ rs the Democratic party to which he belongs
is the father and owner of the spoils system.
True and to the point. Never was there
more sickly farce than the attempt of
Plaisted to masquerade as FREUD of civil
service reform. Every movement he has
made in his controversy with the Council
has been in the direction of the removal of
worthy and efficient officers to make places
for his personal or political favorites.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-12


"SUBvERTIEG the constitution" is the
term which Governor Plaisted employs to in
form the people that his council had the au-
dacity to respectfully advise His High
Aightiness to reappoint Albion Little to an
Office for which he was especially fitted and
in which he had done the State and the in
stitution good service. But, as the Augusta
journal aptly remarks, this same Governor
thought it perfectly proper for Governor
Garcelon ''to count out thirty-seven men
from seats in the Legislature to which they
had been legally elected by the votes of the
sovereign people, and count in in their stead
BY the blacklist fraud thirty-seven men who
were never elected, thus subyerting the will
Of the people, usurping the State govern
ment, defying the Supreme Court and the
constitution, and rendering the name OF our
State a Kissing and by-word throughout the
whole nationr'
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-12

SOMERSET Reporter: The doube-headed
County Convention in Cumberland last week
succeeded in getting their nominations made
but the Fusion people are not all happy. A
Greenbacker publishes letter in the Port
land PRESS in which it is charged that the
straight-out Democrats controlled both con-
ventions, and that the ninety Portland dele
gates in both conventions acting together
we're able to overslaugh the representatives
Of 'the crossroads and back lots" When
the ticket thus nominated is considered as a
whole, it is found that two of the four can
didates for Senator are residents of Portland
and third are residents of an adjoining
town, and that the candidates for all the
county offices except one Commissioner and
Sheriff resident of Portland or adjoin-
ing towns. Some of the delegates went home
indignant and many of the Irish Democracy
who were not accorded representative on
the ticket although contributing largely to
Its votes are disguised.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-12
The Maine Campaign.

There is more weeping in the Fusion camp.
Recently the Dirgo Rural, paper of Damo-
cratic tendency hitherto, came out for Robbie
for Governor and advised its former supporters
to vote for Robbie. Now the Messenger, a
Greenback paper, which has up to this week
supported the Fusion ticket, has thrown off the
Democratic yoke and declared for Scion Chase
and the entire straight Greenback ticket, call
ing upon Plaisted to withdraw from the Guber-
material contest, in accordance with his prom
Use to bolt If single Democrat was put Oh the
Congressional ticket. The Messenger has a
circulation Of several thousand, and conse-
quently has considerable influence among the
Greenbackers of this city. The editor has been
a "straight" at heart all along, and now that
he has come out boldly for Scion Chase the
straights will be greatly encouraged to bring
out every vote and the Fusion fuglers are cor
respondingly respondent.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-12
Recent Publications.

The illustrated Fryeburg Webster Memoir
al (Fryeburg: A. F. & G. W. Lewis) The
preface of this valuable pamphlet hints at a
curious and interesting story connected with
the finding of Daniel Webster's great Frye
burg grafton: which was luckily rescued from
the dusty oblivion OF Boston junkshop The
papers containing it were noticed by the own
or of the shop, Mr.. John Shea, and perceivirg
their valae he handed them to a lawyer who
gave them to Mr.. A. f. Lewis OF Fryeburg. At
the time when Webster delivered the Grafton,
he was principal of Fryeburg Academy; and
after a lapse of more than half century the
eloauence and power of his speech were we'll
remembered by those who heard him on that
occasion.
The peroration of this Fryeburg grafton was
repeated by Webster as the close of his last
speech in the United States Senate, July 17th
1850 Some OF the letters and poems which he
wrote during his sojourn in Fryeburg, are in
cluded among the contents of this pamphlet.
The poem, supposed to be the first which ap-
peared over Mr. Longfellow's signature was
not SO in point Of fact. He had written for the
Portland papers for two or three years before
the anniversary in 1926 of Lovewell's Fight,
for which the song set to the air OF "Scots VIVA
haze" was prepared. 1t was in 1923, probably,
that the first poem was written by MIR. Long
fellow upon this subject. 1t was signed b.,
and appeared in print upon Thanksgiving Day
which fell that year upon the anniversary of
the battle Perhaps copy may yet exist
among long treasured files of the journals of
that date, but it has not yet been discovered.
Some exquisite and majestic lines, written
last year by Mr. Whittier, and other tributes
to the history and scenery of Fryeburg make
up the rest of this interesting volume.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-12

By the objection of Democratic mem
Der the bill providing for the much-needed
government building at Augusta failed to
become law. Congressman Reed made an
earnest but Intellectual effort to secure &C
ton on the bill. The building asked for is a
public necessitY-not luxury.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-12

CONGRESSMAN MURCH, as fourth of Ju-
ly orator, expresses desire to see the bal
lot in the hands of every human being AS
member of Congress his influence was on
the side of the Democratic attempt to pro-
tect the ballot-bux frauds in the South, and
to nullify the ballot when thrown. His
words at Chicago are meaningless in the
face of his votes in Congress.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-12

Hon. D. N. MoBTLAND, one OF the soma
Republicans of Knox county, in a letter to
the Wing, pronounces as without founda-
ton an alleged interview in the Bangor
Commercial living aid and comfort to the
snemy. The sterling Republican who cleo
trified the State Convention by his eloquent
speech in recording the nomination of Col.
Robbie is the last man in the State to be sus-
pected of coquetting with the enemy and he
was hardly called upon to deny the SOFT i'm
neachment
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-12

BIoN BRADBURY vouches for Plaisted as
"a representative Democrat" And Bion
Bradbury ought to know representative
Democrat. He is very excellent authority.
Republicans who have claimed that Plaisted
was only disaffected Republican, would do
well to make a note of this.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-12

A VETERAN political "slate-maker'' fur
nishes the following to the Lewiston Jour-
nal: GAS to the probable Republican vote
in this State there are various surmises, but
it is doubtful if the total vote of the State
rises to the one hundred and forty four thou
sand of the last Presidential election. Should
the Republican vote rise to 10000, as is like
ly, and Uncle Solon's, to 1000, as. is equally
probable, Plaisted may get 62,000 I believe
Col. ROBBIE VIII have plurality Of 10000. 1t
is conceded that the Republican Congress
sional ticket will be equally strong"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-12

BATH Times: Scan the leopard change
hi. spotsY' yes, he can change from one
.pot TO another. That's the Argus; after
nominations are made it is unionist, fu-
sionist and what-is-it anyway. AS soon
as the election is over it bounces on to It's
old Democratic spot and claims all the votes
1t has gathered in it's wolf in-sheep's cioth-
ing as a solid Democratic aggregate
the Argus does.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-12

LEWISTON Journal: The Fusionists &C
knowledge that the Republicans of Waldo
are very much in earnest and quite busy,
and the Fusion editor is wring1ng his hands
in anguish at the inactivity of the friends OF
that gallant friend of the river and harbol
job, Congressman Murch.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-12

II would be extraordinary, indeed, if the
italian newspapers did not display spirit
of hostility toward England. Italy owes
her first breath of unity to England, and,
like all ingrates, she hates her benefactor.
She hated France just as bitterly, after
thousands of French lives had been laid
down for her on the fields of Solferino and
Magenta. Italy cannot bear to think OF
anything going on in Europe without slice
of territory coming to her-hence her ha-
tired of England and her policy of thwarting
the British designs in Egypt.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-12
BOYS, ATTENTION !

ru,uE Portland Fraternity at its last meeting de-
cded to open a school Of carpentry, to be
under the supervision Of Luther Piogree who nc IL
tla third story of The Fraternity building Free
street and viii be opened July 9th az hafpast
seven in the morning, continuing daily till the The
school will he free to boys in the public Schools and
those wishing to learn the Of tools, will do well
to call at once at the on Free street ana en-
roll their names as but limited number can be ac-
commodated Mr.. Woodhiu is daily in lite ndance
at the rooms and will receive and register the
names of applicants jun13dtf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-12
Books Received.

Eiiane. By Nine. Augustus Craven. Translated
from the French by Lady Georgana Fullerton.
Paper. $40 pp., 90 cents. New York: W. s.
Gottsberger. Portland Loriug, Short & Harmon.
Lady Beauty. By Alan Muir. Paper, 433 pp.,
60 cents. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
Portland: Loring, Short e. Harmon.
Able Constantine. By Ludovie Halevy Trans
lated from the French by Emily II. Hagen. Pa
per, 224 PIP, so cents. New York: G. P. Put
MANS Sons. Portland: Loring Short Harmon.
At the Eleventh Hour. By Annie Edwardes.
Paper, 497 pp., so cents. New York: G. P. Put
MANS Sons. Portland: Loring, Short q Harmon
Army Life Priyates "reminiscences OF the
Civil War. By the Rev. Theodore Gerrlsh, iate
OF the twentieth Maine. Cloth. 372 PIP. PORT
land; Hoyt, Fogg g. Donham.
uodeI r ether. A Novel. By David Chraue
Murray Cloth, "a pp., 10 cents New fork:
HARPER Brothers. Portland Loring, Short q
Harmon.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-12

THE Pennington Chronicle estimates the
loss TO the farmers of Franklin on account
of the failure to restore the twenty per cent.
duty on hay, at thousands of dollars. But
for the opposition of the Democracy in Con-
gress the duty would have been restored.
Farmers will remember this when Gov.
Plaisted and Mr.. Thing perambIlate the
region of the crossroads, claiming that the
party they represent is friendly to the inter-
ests of the agriculturist. The farmer who
raises hay for the market on the Maine
frontier is not very likely to be deceived this
year BY 'Esoft sawder."
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-12

At the Fusion convention at Alfred next
Wednesday, Plaisted, the two-hcrse rider;
simon pure (?) Greenbacker; Ladd and Murch,
the Demo Greenback Congressman. and other
celebrities of lesser note, will endeavor to har-
monte their views on finance and other ques-
tions, so as to please all who may be present.
-Biddeford Union and Journal.
This was the "bill of fare' which was
put out to gather the crowd; but the task
was found to be altogether too difficult
The Governor was not equal to the emer-
gency, and he therefore, la Congress sman
Ladd, begs leave to be allowed to publish
his speech in the Argus in the form of let
ter of acceptance!
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-12

We DO not re sd anonymous letters and comInUn
ssssons. Tho name and address Of the writ are In
all oasss Indispensable not necessarily for ublica
den bat as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve CON-
sasn.eatiohs that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-12

&vGEY regular attache Of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate signed by Stanley Pulen,
azlbsr, All railway, steamboat and hotel managers
Will confer favor upon rs by Demanding credentials
Ct every person claiming to represent our journal.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-12

The Treatment of Common Accidents and
Diseases. Compiled by Dawson W. Turner.
(New York: Macmillan & Co.; Portland: Hoyt,
Fogg & Donham) This is practical and use
full little manual of hygienic rules and the
treatment of ordinary diseases in cases where
it is not convenient to call in a physician. 1t
is especially suited for sea and camp life. DR..
Turner's directions are sensible and he is not
at all of the fussy and theoretical order of hy-
| gienic writers who ride at a hard trot their
| hobbies of graham meal and exercise.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-12

The Reviser's English. By G. Washington
Moon New York: Funk & Wagnalls) This
is a very lively and minute Arrangement Of
the grammar and diction of the new version OF
the Bible It is sometimes just and elective
quite often its structures are of the over-nice
kind that allow nothing for the beauty of ar
chaic speech or the swift motion of feeling that
leaps over grammatical lapses where slower
thought would stumble and fall. Verbal crit
icism is easy to make, but as DIR. Holmes has
said, 9Th re is higher law than Andrews
and Stoddard.'' However, those who enjoy
such criticism will find Mr. Moons very inge-
niously and entertainingly composed.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-12

Natural Religion. By the Author OF Ecce
Homo. Boston: Roberts Brothers; Portland:
Loring, Short & Harmon) This remarkable
work is equally product of and an incentive
to liberal and large consideration of the vital
force of religion. 1t is not an advocate OF this
or that creed but simply asserts that to make
the world more than
An empty room where play
Weeping and laughter of mans little day,
there is and must needs be a higher life to
which delight and sorrow in this one tend to-
gether. 1t points out the fatal paralysis OF
faith and consequently OF action that must re-
suit from nihilsm, and cries out with the poet
for even the ancient fear OF the iend instead
of the hopeless and fearless disbelief in every
thing.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-12

Leone (Beston: j. r. Osgood & Co.; Port
land: Loring, Short & Harmony. This volume
of the Roundabout Series is story of modern
Italy, with its resources of brigandage, monks,
tourists, ard ruins. 1t is curiously old-fash-
toned in tone, as if the writer had not read
many novels since the days when his child
hoods hair raised itself in horror over the TO-
mances of Mrs. Radcliffe. The deliberate des-
criptions, the ornate and serious rhapsodies
have little in common with the novel-writiDg,
alternately humorous and passionate, of our
time.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-12
STATE OF MAINE.
CITY OF PORTLAND.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Joint Stand
~ ing Committee Streets, Sidewalks
and Bridges, will meet at the junction of
Moves and st. John Streets, on TUESDAY, the
10Th inst o'clock p. M, and will then and there
hear all parties interested and fix the gra OF Moves
street from the Saccarappa Road nesr the terminus
of St. John st. to the old County Road.
Per order of Committee.
ALBION LITTLE, Chairman.
August 7th aug9d1w
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-12

Messrs. Chisholm's Guide to the White
Mountains is revised from their guidsbook of
previous years, with the addition OF birds eye
map of the mountain region. (For sale by CHS
holm Brothers, Portland).
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-12

Eliane. Translated by Lady Georgiana
Fullerton from the French of Nine. Augustus
Craven Now York: William S. Gottsberger;
Portland: Loring, Short & Harmony, is a quiet,
agreeable novel of French society, in which
the readers sympathy is much enlisted by the
character of the heroine. The pleasant Gimp
ses of home lie in France are gracefully
sketched, and the plot is smoothly developed
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-12
NOTICE TO BUILDERS.

SEALED PROPOSALS for furnishing material
~ and building block; Stores, halls and offices ac-
cording to plans and specifications, at Saccaradpa
will be received until Aug. 20. Plans and speciica
tons can be seen at G. b. Woodlands. Saecarappa
or Fasssett Stevens, Architects. The committee
factory Proposals to be directed to w. v HAR
MON, Saccarappa, Me- j. g. KNIGHT.
Chairman of Building Com
Saccarapa, Aug. aug7dJws
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-12
]. B. HUDSON, ARTIST,
Home School for Young Ladies.

i. MRS. EVERETT S. THROOP, formerly
Of Cincinnati, will open Home School
for eight or ten young Ladies in Port
land, on the 25th of September next. A
limited number of day scholars will be
received. For circulars address MRS.
THRO0P, No. 81 High Street, Portland,
Me-, after July lst
References: DIR. j. L. Gilman, Portland,
Rev. E. e. Hale, Boston, Prof. Ezra ABB
bot, d. ID. Cambridge, and others.
iun26 MW&F&w till Sep