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The Portland daily press., 1883-04-10

Ar at New York 9th, steamer NIAGARA Havana
Ar at Neville 9TH, steamer Circassian, from Port
land for Liverpool. -
leans. N' ~" -
~ Sid I'm Liverpool 7th inst ship Richard Buck,
The Portland daily press., 1883-04-10
FARMER WANTED.

EARAiER and Wife 70 carry on a small farm.
Wife must be a good butter maker Address
Box No. 1918. Portland P. o. mar6dtf
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lIilIiner Wanted.

A hrst-cess experienced MiIliner, one
who can trim and take orders. Address
or apply to
GEORGE o. WILEY & CO.,
o,,. Haverhill, Mass.
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Farm Fnr SaIa an TnIa,

nNE OF the best farms in tho County Of Ccrafer-
~ land situated in Cape Elizabeth, known as the
L. CARLETON, Atty at Law, Is0 Middle 81. Port
land. Die. rnarSdf
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-07-27
THE NEXT SENATE.

When the long and weary contest in the
New Hampshire Legislature is closed if 1t
ever docs cose-the roll of the next United
States Senate will be complete. Assuming that
New Hampshire will send Republican,
of which there is little doubt-the Senate will
be made up of 80 Republicans, 81 Democrats
and Readjustcr. OF the Democrats, seven
are from Northern States and thirty Count
ing Mahone) from Southern and of the Re-
publicaus. all are from the North. OF the
eleven Republican Senators whose terms
expired ON the 4th of last March only four
Island Hoor of Massachu,ts. FRYE of Maine
and pmmb of Kansas. Eight new men.
therefore will take their seats ON the Repub.
l;can side ncxt December the Marty having
GAINED senator in Illinois and one in Ore.
gon and los, one in Louisiana. If New
uomnsbiro elects n man wi,bout legislative
ox,or;o,oo nc s,o r,o,,o,,,,, n,;,,-on,y t,yo
Of ,,,oso o;rh, no,,, san,,oro hovo orv nroc,;
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,,oiro r,on ,hon, Saoa,ors o,ao, C,,,,on, of
n;no;s ond v;,son NJ Iowa haro sor,od
in ,he Houso If Rcnr.sen,o,iyns Ru, sa,in
80 M;,naao,. M.n1orsou =, Nahra.,,,
po,,o, ~ Co,o,oL, nI,h -, o,ano, ond
po,mor ~ Mi,.h;aan Or. honirnors in ,hn
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mimic on, ,ho Domocra,s will, rs,air ,rose
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-07-27

found nesting In tho northern and central
paris OF Vermont and New Hampshire.
Three nests Of this bird were found In the
Gei9hborhuod OF a swamp OF Hanover, N. II. q,
on June 10Th, which | will describe more
particularly, for the scientific interest they
may possess.
The bird fits about amid the lower
branches Of the alders and hazes, Jumping
from bush to bush, seeking to screen herself
from view, and uttering peculiar harsh
note as, by slow stages, she cautiously ap.
proaches her nest. Tho latter is built he.
tween the branches of bareback shrub
two or three feet from the ground, being
loosely constructed, over two inches wide
by hall as deep, composed without Of rather
coarse grasses and the old whitcned blades
OF the witch-grass, snarled together with
lambs wool and cob-web silk, which are
employed TO fasten the nest in place. Il is
larger and coafser and the walls are thicker
than in the case of the Indigo. bird.
The four light, cream colored eggs are
ilecked about the crown with raw-sienna,
aud have an average dimension of .15x.5S
inches.
second nest was placed upon the hori-
zontal fork of hazel, and is of like
construction, but has thinner walls and con.
tains three eggs, averaging TEX 50 inches.
Another, similar TO the last, contains four
eggs, less boldly marked, some being nearly
Tree from c)loration. The
Olivc-sidcd FIycntchcr (Contopu,
bOrcalis, 3D.,
is similar TO the Wood.pewee, hut larger
and has been found nesting in the State
being more abundant in the northern parts
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-07-27

strike, seems to cover the ground pretty
thoroughly and 1t is being widely quoted
The question was "Can railroad corpora
tions refuse or neglect to perform their
public duties upon a controversy with Their
employees over the cost or expense OF dong
them ?" And the answer of the court was :
ave think the question edmits of but one
answer. The excuse has in law no validity.
The duties imposed must lie discharged, at
whatever cost, They can not be laid dow n
or abandoned or suspended without the legal
ly expressed consent of the State. The trusts
are active, potential and operative, and must
be executed until lawfully surrendered other
wise a public highway of great utility is
closed or INSTRUCTED without any process re-
cognized by law. This is something no pub
lie officer charged with the same trust and
duties in regard to other public highways can
do without subjeclng himself to mandarin:
or indictment"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-07-27
("Gaih" in the Cincinnati Enquirer.


1t seems to me that two more eccentric
men never met on such great occasion than
Tid and Iloaily. Now, if Hoady had
lived in New York city and Tiideu in Cincin
natl, have no doubt that their conditions
would have been entirely the opposite, Then
Tllden would have come to New York with
a gripsack in the Summer time and rung
lloady's bell and come in mcekly, as he
used TO haunt Mr.. Van Buren, to get some
fundamental instruction.
These two men remind me Of an auccdote
may have told before. | asked Mr.. Harvey
when he edited the short lived Democratic
paper at Washington called the Patriot how
he was doing one morning, aud said, IL read
your paper every day."
"Well" said Harvey, "that reminds me of
two old friends who were going past this cor
ner last week, and they passed two such
chaps as YOU and |, one of whom SAID to the
other do you see that little fellow going
past? That's Copernicus Smith
AHA, said the other, that is CopCrncus
Smith let me see, what did he dO?'
hv said the first speaker The wrote
that great treatise on comic sections
Oh, did he, shid the other. Who is
the. man with hlms"
He is the man who read 2"
| think that lloadly's argument in favor of
Cronin must have been read by Tilden. and
that these two are the members of mystic
society resolving by the two great Ideas of
the apprecator and the appreciated.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-07-27
The BOyntOn Family,
from the New York T.mes.l


The Boynton family are to follow the ex.
ample of the Hoyts, Seldens, Palmers, and
other New England tribes and meet in con-
vention in old Newburyport, Mass, on the
14th of next month. The family reunion Isl
so far as we remember purely Yankee fes-
tival. 1t is scarcely possible that such as
semblages can become common for a long
time very far west of the confines of New
England. To be sure, the Smiths have held
family gatherings on various occasions in
| New Jersey and New York State, but in
spite of the large numbers they brought to-
gether, such meetings eau hardly be said to
have established the homOgenciy of the
Smith tribe. The Bull Smiths and the Pea
| pack Smiths can not trace their origin to one
ancestor and the vast and constantly inCreas-
| ing number of Smiths whose names adorn
many pages of the New York directory he
| long to divers other branches, whose con-
mon ancestry can not be satisfactorily prov
| cd by the most astute genealogist. But with
| the New England families above mentioned
| the case is different. The Hoyts who in
1866 flooded the town of Stamford,
Conn, from every nook and corner of
the Union were received with open
arms by the Stamford Hoyts as blood rela-
lions, and the Seldens aud the Palmers trace
their origin, with equal distinctuess to Sell
den and Palmer of colonial days. Like
these families, the Boyntons belong to New
England. They are at this time scattered all
over the country, but they cherish New Eng
land traditions, and it is likely that nine
tenths of the Boyn,on children, whether they
were born in Pennsylvania or Ohio or Ore
gon, use the phrase down in Newburypoit,'
when every sane person not hampered by
Yankee customs knows that Newburyport is
far up the coast and many miles northeast of
Boston. DIR. John Farnham Boynton of >y-
racuse, in this State, is the historian of the
Boynton family, and with the aid of Mr.
Ben; perley Poore he has been trying to sif
from piles of old records the history aud
traditions of his people. There were two
original Boyntons John and William, who
came from England in 1893 and settled at
Rowley Mass There have been distinguish
ed Boyntons in all the professions aud Boyn-
tons have fought in every war that ever &C.
Cured in tins country. Thomas Boynton
fought at Lexington and Bunker Hill, and
his diary is in the Boston Historical Rooms
David and his five sons fought in the Revolu-
ton one Boynton invented trombocelicon,
and another steam wagon, and old Uncle
Jonathan Boynton Of Woodstock, Vt.-he
who married the Widow More-could bend
his left knee both ways.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-07-27
THE TELEGRAPHERs' STRIKE.

An exchange hits il pretty accurately when
it says that as against Jay Gould, c. w.
Field, Russell Sage, A. b. Cornell and other
millionaire operators, the public sympathy
with the $75-a-month operators is almost
universal. The operators are as class ctiic-
lent, faithful, hard working men, and they
are very poorly paid, the character and re
sponsibiity of their work being taken into
consideration. More than that the Western
Union company neither encourages merit nor
recognizes it. AS result, the vast majority
of operators regard their business as merely
temporary, and es an excellent one to get out
of at the first opportunity. We have per-
sonally known great number OF telegraph
operators and we have never found one who
considered himself fairly treated by the CON-
pany and who would not 60 into some other
business when the opportunity offered. The
fact is, the operators are ground down 10 the
finest possible point. Their grievances are
substantial ones, and the men are right in
demanding that they be redressed.
Where the operators lay themselves open
to blame however, is in striking without an
attempt to enforce their demands through an
arbitration. At present the business of the
whole country is to certain extent blocked;
extensive interests are imperilled; and vast
sums of money are being lost by the opera
tors, the company and the general public.
A II This mipht have hppn avoidpd had Tho
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-07-27

In the contest between the telegraph oper.
ators and the Western Union, public symp.
athy is with the former by an overwhelming
majority. Their demands are, first, that the
operators be graded according to their ability
treating men and women, alike and establish.
ing fixed standard of pay. to apply to all
operators regardless of sex second, that the
salaries now paid be increased in the rcspec-
tive grades at least Is per cent third, that
eight hours be made days work, and seven
hours nights work, and, fourth, that no
Sunday work shall be done without extra
compensation. To these demands the CON-
pany's answer is, first, that an operator now
receiving salary Of $50 a month would get
a smaller increase than one getting $50 or
800 month, thus widening the difference
now existing; and second, that women ought
not 10 be paid as much as men. because the
latter can be availed of for greater vari-
ETY. of service than women operators, who
may be equally capable for general duty.
1t seems TO us that this is very inadequate
answer to demand that is upon its face,
quite reasonable.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-07-27
THE TEWKSBrRY BUSINESS.

m nil n Massachusetts
Legislative committee of inouirv in the mat
ter of The Tewksbury almshouse has been
made nm. Its main conclusions are in brief.
that DIR Dixwell could not. according to the
almshouse records, have dissected the large
number of infants to which he made oath ;
that there IS no confederation of Mr.. Dudley's
statement of cruelty to an insane patient in
an attic cell that the removal of the box of
sbility that Capt. Marsh is an honest, up
right man but too far advanced in life for the
position of superintendent, and his wife
should have resigned the matronship years
In taking prominent part in politics and in
refusing to produce his books; that Charles
b, Marsh is liable to ccnsurc for the manner
in which he kept the account Of the inmates
cash and other property and that Chairman
Noursc of the board of trustees did wrong in
paying for the poultry which h. had been re-
cciving for so many years just before the ill.,
| vestigation began. The report, while it states
that there is no evidence Of the sale of human
bodies recommends that n complete record
should be kept of the disposition of the reI
mains of deceased inmates, whether buried o
sent away, and that graves should be marked
in more substantial manner than heretofore.
The system of book keeping should also be
changed.
The committee, therefore, seem practically
agreed that some of the charges against the
management of the almshousc have been slis-
tanned. 1t seems to us, and we think, to
most unpreiudiced people outside of Massa-
chuselts that although the quantity of WOO
shorn bears no sort of relation to the cry
raised preliminary to the shearing, Governor
Butler has done good thing. lie was actu-
ated, undoubtedly, by no mere humanitarian
motives. HIS main interest was not in the
PHYSICAL well-bcing of crowd of paupers
but in the political welfare of BENJAMIN +.
Butler His most serious charges against
the almshouse management have not been
proven. But he has fully shown loose, care
less and incompetent management on the
part of the almshousc people So much has
been proven beyond all reasonable doubt
And indeed the action Of the trustees in re-
moving the Marshes in the midst Of the in
vestigation is equivalent TO a confession on
their part.
The Boston papers are greatly exercised
becousc Governor Butlcr committed SO
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-07-27

EIurrah for the President! He has eifec-
tually extinguished at least one of1ce-secking
bore. 1t seems that one Logan Mckee, a
professional Office seeker, has long been in
Washington endeavoring TO get an appoint
ment as collector of internal revenue in one
of the Kentucky districts. He had tried
various methods, and finally persuaded Phil
Thompson, better known as lIan-killer than
Congressman, to go with him to the White
House. Mr.. Thompson proceeded to intro
duce Mckee, when the President said: 81
have been introduced to MIR. Mckee fifty or
sixty times, and his face is rs familiar to me
as the walls of the White House" 1t is hard
ly necessary to add that the interview was
brought to summary close.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-07-27

The New York Sun raised an awful howl
about the regal style in which the President
is going TO the Yellowstone Park at the pub.
lie cXpcuse-the aforesaid regal style includ-
ing $50 horses TO be provided and paid for
out of the public funds. 1t now appears that
Lieutenant General Sheridan and other army
officers are TO make mn exploration of Wyom-
ing, Idaho and Montana Territories, and the
PIesidunt was invited by General Sheridan
to accompany the party. He would not
consent to 90 until assured that his being
with the explorers would not cost the gov
eminent dollar. The amount of forage
that will be saved during the absence of the
government horses from Their usual stations
will more than pay the entire cost of the
trip. AT The rate the Sun is going on it is
high time for modern Joshua to appear, to
command it to stand still
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-07-27
SENATOR EDMrNDS on GOVERNMENT
TELECRlPHY.

The operators strike has served to direct
public attention anew to the question Of Gov
eminent telegraphy and Senator Edmunds's
remarks on the matter, at the last session Of
Congress arc being widely quoted as full
of significance. What Senator Edmunds
said was thrown out as suggestion in con-
nection with the debate on the Postoillcc bill.
1t attracted much attention at the time, and
derives additional Importance now. Mr.. Ed
munds said this
Il wish to add one word on the subject of
what was said by the Senator from Connec-
| ticut (Nlr. Plato yesterday, and by the Scna-
tor from Ohio (Mr. Sherman to-day, con-
corning II still more important amendment
to the Postoilicc laws, and which might,
Just as well as the reduction of postage, 90
into this bill, and that is to provide for the
transmission of intelligence (and that is all
there is of the Postoiiice Department. by wire
as well as by the steamboat the railroad and
the post-horse.
| "What the United States in regard to It's
postal affairs and the welfare OF its people
needs to do more than anything else is the
construction of postal telegraph beginning
moderately between great points in the coun.
try, and all intermediate points, and then cx.
tending il, Just as we have the mail system
as the needs Of the community and fair eco.
nomy would require, until every postoilict
in the country should have, or b. within i'm.
mediate reach Of postal telegraph. That
is what ought to be done, and what will bt
done, within very few years beyond al
| question.
ELECTRICITY is just as much part OF tn,
| fnrrne ~ aud # tl,ia xxpriI tor Ia,
transmission of intelligence as q locomotive
is, or as the old post-horse was; and it is toe
late at this date TO say because the world Ia:
advanced In the means of disseminating in
tclligcnce the telegraph, under the cJnsti
| tuition of the United States, is not an appro
pirate means of the postal system Just as
much as it is to transmit letters. That is al
| wish to say about it,"
| A brief but comprehensive argument it
favor of Government telegraphy is this: Thu
stock of the Western Union Company nomi
naly represented $50 900, 900 before the alb
sorption OF the Mutual Union. Compcten
telegraph men say that the government coult
duplicate the system to all the principa
points of the country and construct a better
line for Sl5,OO0,000. The government, it
building postal telegraph, would have at
advantage which private corporations do no
have. 1t has right to establish posta
route anywhere, and it probably is not in tn,
power of a town or of any municipal or State
corporation TO prevent this exercise of tn,
right of eminent domain on the part of the
general government. Along any post route
| the government would, unquestionably, have
the right to establish its postal telegraph
This would be an enormous point gained in
| the way of economy over the conditions OF
constructing telegraphs by private companies
1t would not be necessary for the govern
mcnt in building its telegraphs, to buy the
rlrli of way
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-07-27

The New York Herald makes n mild little
contribution to current political sensations in
the shape Of interviews with three we'll
known editors Mr.. Dana of the Sun, Mr..
Reid of the Tribune and Mr.. Hastings of the
Commercial! Advertiser. TIE three gentle
men agree on one point-that the next Presi-
dental conventions should be held at Slrato-
ga. Mr.. Hastings believes that The tariff is
to be the issue. Mr. Dana, on the other
hand thinks that issue "nonsense," and rec
ognizes only one issue for the next Presi
dental campaign, and that is, "Turn the
rascals out" Mr.. Daua is very positive that
Mr.. Tilden will not be candidate for the
Presidency and says emphatically Mr., Til
den "ls positively out; no power can get
him in again." He adds: ~ know that
under no circumstances will Mr.. Tilden nc.
cept the nomination, no matter how unani-
nous or pressing it may be-" Furthermore,
Mr. Dana thinks well of President Arthur,
among the Republican candidates, and
speaks very highly of Postmaster Genea NJ
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-07-27

A funny international episode is the war
now raging between China and Ireland, the
former kingdom being represented by Wong
Chin Foo, editor of the Chinese paper in
New York, and the latter country by the un-
tamable Denis Kearncy. Mr.. Wong chal
lenged Mr.. Kearncy, but the latter merely
remarked, on reading the challenge, that Mr.
Wong wrote like blackguard, and that
when he wrote like a gentleman he (Kear-
ney)would answer him. Mr.. Kearney's I'M
expectedly high criterion of what constitutes
a gentleman somewhat surprised Mr.. Wong
and also added not a little to his fury, and
he cried out for Kearney's gore. 81 am a
small man." said the fiery Mr.. Wong, "but
if meet Kearney his insults to my race will
be atoned for" So the matter rests at
present, with the face of the moon all
covered with blood.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-07-27

The telegraph operators still hold the fort,
and their prospects of ultimate success are
good. The Western Union is badly Grip.
Piled, and can hold out but a short time
longer. The New York Star says that at Its
principal office in that city the company's
usual force of operators on Sunday night is
eighty men, Sunday night being heavier than
Saturday by reason of the crush of CONNER
cial and financial orders for Mondays mar.
kets and exchanges. Last Saturday night
the company had eighty men at the keys,
including managers and dummies; about
one-half Of the number were efficient. AT Il
O'Clock Sunday night there were but twenty
two men in the operating room, and OF these
only three, who manipulated wires to Wash
ington, Boston aud Chicago, were kept
busy
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-07-27

Gresham. Mr.. Hastings thinks MIR. Arthur
is the strongest Republican candidate. "In
fact" he says, "there Is nobody else. If
there is, where is hep Cornell Is dead dog.
Blaine is out. Sherman Is out Conkling is
out and means to keep out. Really, Arthur
seems to have walk over" Mr.. Reid be-
lieves MIR. Randall has the best chance
among the Democrats. He regards Mr..
Blaine as not candidate, and speaks highly
OF President Arthul's administration of ma
tional affairs. He says it is little too early
10 talk about candidates, and that men now
prominently spoken of will hardly be nomi.
mated by either party.
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cratic Senators who begin ne terms Of ser.
vice next December. This system of re-
election is what gave the South a large share
Of its power In Congress iu years before the
war. and 1t is what gives strength to the
Democracy at the present time. The defeat
of such man as Mr.. Window, for instance,
is a real loss to the party and the county |;
and the substitution of new, untried and
inexperienced man weakens the party i'm
mcnsely.