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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-06
Nuts and Raisins.

"Among the Clouds the paper printed on
the summit of Mount Washington, will COM
mence its eighth season about July 7th.
The Boston Grand Army proposes to raise
fund for the erection of a home for confeder-
ate soldiers in Richmond Va.
The ex-King of Naples is the chief heir of
Empress Maria Anne of Austria, who be.
queathed him Il, 000,0 900 forms.
A new training college has been opened at
Saffron Walden, England. Mr.. Bright was in
vited to assist at the opening, but was too i'll to
comply.
Among the guests at the Windsor Hotel,
New York, are Prince Yamashina of Japan
and his suite, who were accompanied to this
country by the Japanese minister.
Among the collection of Leipzig antiquari-
an two unpublished cantatas by Beethoven
have been found. which were composed at the
age of twenty-one.
A magnetic sense called the seventh is be-
leve6, by Sir William Thompson, professor of
mathematics at the University of Glasgow, to
exist.
A petition has been presented to the Berlin
authorities that "the constant and monotonous
practising of scales and exercises by piano pu-
pills. shall be confined to the hours between
II a. m. and IL m. and 8 and II p. IA.
Contributions to the amount of $1,000 are so.
licited by the London newspapers for the pur.
pose OF 6endlng representation OF brltlsn VOL
unteers TO compete in the artillery practice at
Quebec.
The citizens of Bucharest, in accordance
with their usual custom, presented bread and
salt, on silver plates, to the Crown Prince and
Princess of Austria on their recent visit to
Buchara.
A New York correspondent says that the
fashionable young lady wears for her pedestri-
anism what is called walking corset-made
1nch1s Qrpntar in oil nth hon
one in which she incloses herself for ordinary
occasions. She hides this sensible measure
under a loose wrap, but it is there, and to her
credit"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-06
ANYTHING to Beat Blaine.

Nothing is clearer than that the leaders OF
the opposition to Blaine are on the verge of
panic. The Arthur men and the Edmunds
men seem to have entirely abandoned all
hope of electing their own candidates and
are making desperate hunt after man to
beat Blaine. Mr.. Arthur's friends do not
attempt to disguise the fact that he is ont of
the race and that nothing less than a mira
Gle can restore his boom to life. The Ed
munds men never felt much confidence that
they could nominate their candidate, and now
they feel none whatever. All they talk about
now is a combination to beat Blaine, and if
any man could be found for whom it was
sure that the delegates who will not support
Mr.. Blaine on the first ballot would vote,
his record would not be scrutinized very
closely even by the so-called Independents.
Their sole purpose now is to beat Blaine.
All their energies are now turned to the
accomplishment of that purpose. VIII they
succeed That is question which the bal
loting to-day will probably definitely answer.
If a man can be found whom substantially
all the delegates who will throw their first
ballots for Arthur, Edmunds, Sherman and
Hawley will support in preference to Blaine,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-06

they will succeed. But the difficulty is to
find such man and at last accounts the
anything-to-beat Blaine leaders had not dis
covered one. They thought they had one in
Gen. Sherman, but his peremptory declina-
ton made him unavailable. They have
since been canvassing the merits of Harri-
son, Lincoln, Hawley, Senator Sherman and
Gresham but they find defects in all of
them.
The great obstacle in the path of the anti
Blaine leaders is the fact that great many
OF the Arthur delegates are not really hos
tile to Blaine. They prefer Arthur but
Blaine is not repulsive to them and when
they find that Arthur cannot be nominated
they will be more inclined to 90 to Blaine
than to any other of the candidates. The
delegates do not all share the feeling of the
leaders that anybody is preferable TO Blaine.
On the contrary many of them think that
Blaine is preferable to anybody but Arthur.
If the Arthur column is broken the anti
Blaine leaders fear that enough of it will go
to Blaine to nominate him. They fear also
that if they attempt to transfer the strength
of the minor candidates to Arthur that that
too will break up and enough of it go to
Blaine to nominate him. The problem
which they are struggling with is how to
concentrate the strength of Arthur and the
strength of the minor candidates The only
solution lies in the discovery of a man whom
both the Arthur delegates and the Edmunds,
Sherman and Hawley delegates will prefer
to Mr.. Blaine as second choice. 1t is posi-
BILE that they will find one, but it is not
probable.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-06
Tar Smoke for Diphtheria.
IN. Y. Times.1

IN. Y. Tines
Ruth Lockwood, the 9-year old child of
Thomas Lockwood, a compositor in the
Times office, became violently ill with diph-
liberia on Tuesday night. She was so weak
that it was deemed dangerous to try trache-
otomy, or cutting open the windpipe. On
Thursday DR.. Nichols of III West Washing
ton place, who was attending her, received
a copy of the Paris Figaro, which contained
report made to the French academy of
medicine by DR.. Delthil. Dr. Delthil said
that the yapors of liquid tar and turpentine
would dissolve the fibrinous exudations
which choke up the throat in Group and
diphtheria.
DR.. Delthi's process was described. He
pours equal parts of turpentine and liquid
tar into tin pan or cup and sets fire to the
mixture. dense resinous smoke arises,
which obscures the air of the room.
1.-THE patient" DR.. Delthil says, Gimme
diately seems to experience relief, the chok-
ing and rattle stop; the patient falls into
slumber and seems to inhale the smoke with
pleasure. The fbrinous membrane soon be-
comes detached and the patient coughs up
microbcides. These, when caught in
glass, may be seen to dissolve in the smoke.
In the course of three days afterwards the
patient entirely recovers.''
DR.. Nichols tried this treatment with lit
tie Ruth Lockwood. She was lying gaspirg
for breath when he visited her. First pour
ing about two table spoonfuls of liquified
tar on an iron pan, he poured as much tur-
pentine over it and set it on fire. The rich
reslnous smoke which rose to the ceiling
was by no means unpleasant. As it filed
the room the child's breathing became nat
ural, and as the smoke grew dense she fell
aslean
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-06

A California Tilden club which was ac-
cused of secretly working for Justice Field
of the Supreme Court, got together, indig-
nantly denounced the accusation as false,
and passed resolution in which they de.
clare that whereas, the nomination of
Field would result in the overwhelming de-
feat OF the Democratic ticket in this State
and The Union, therefore, the highest court
in the land should be removed from politi-
cal and partisan bias, and no one occupying
the position of justice of the Supreme Court
should engage in a political struggle while
on the bench" This is saying virtually
that it would be all right to nominate a
judge if to do so would result in a Demo-
cratic victory, but it would be very wrong
except on that condition. Evidently the
San Francisco Democrats were more frank
than they intended to be.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-06

The Democratic judges of the Supreme
Court of Ohio are being subjected to great
political pressure to induce them to declare
the Scott liquor law unconstitutional. I'm
der the law over 100000 has been collect
ed in taxes in TIE various cities and villages
of the State, thereby relieving the general
taxation to that extent. If the law is de-
clared unconstitutional this amount will
be lost in the future, and it is the
opinion of some lawyers that taxes
paid under it in the past will have to
be refunded by the State, or at any rate such
portion of them as was paid under protest.
The law is popular with everybody but the
rumsellers, with whom the Democrats made
an alliance last year, the liquor mems allie
glance being bought, it is generally under
stood, by promise to get rid in some way
of the Scott law.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-06

The Belfast Age thinks there is no posi-
bility that Gen. Butler will accept the Green
back nomination, because he cannot cOnsis-
tently do so after having pronounced the
Greenback party dead. One would have
thought that the Belfast Age would not
have appealed to he Greenbackers of Waldo
county to unite with the Democrats on a
county ticket because it would be inconsis-
tent to do after having pronounced them a
''lousy crowd" 1t did all the same, and
there is no reason to believe that the Age is
less fond of consistency than Gen. Butler.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-06

The Washington Star confirms the Wash
ington Posts story that Tiden has written
letter declining in advance the Democrat
ic nomination. The Stars statement is that
Congressman Dorsheimer was told by
Charles A. Dana that he had been shown
such letter by Mr.. Tilden. However, the
Democrats who do not like the idea of nom
mating ''putrid "Reminiscences" will breathe
easier when they themselves see the letter
or hear IL raad
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-06

The signal service is giving especial atten-
ton to cyclones and tornadoes with a view
to the discovery of the atmospheric condi-
tons under which they arise and the laws
that govern their movement. Storms of
this kind are becoming SO frequent at the
West that any means ot knowing when they
are to be expected would save many lives
and oftentimes much property.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-06

The New York city delegation declare that
they will not vote for any dark horse. If
they ever leave Arthur they will 60 to Blaine
There are many other Arthur delegates of
the same mind, and that is what is troubling
the anything-to-beat Blaine leaders.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-06

1t is understood the Democratic candidates
in this Congressional district are keeping
shady until after the Chicago convention.
If Blaine is nominated they will disappear
altogether and the Democracy will have to
rake the district with fine tooth comb to
find candidate.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-06

It's only little over a month before the
Maine Democrats hold their State conven-
ton, yet no Democrat of prominence is
mentioned in connection with the nomina-
ton for Governor. The prospect of being
assessed roundly and getting nothing in re-
turn is not abusing.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-06
Rondeau.


Written for the PRESS
Red breasted bird, that sang to me
This morning from the maple tree
All hail! with thee my heart doth sing,
And memory scars on rosy wing
Back to her early home with thee.
The south wind Tits along the lea,
The mist of growing buds see;
Our orchard haunts are poisoning
Red breasted bird,
And brooks repeat in minor key
The rivers loud convincing plea.
Now let the twilight softly fling
Her veil DER every living thirg,
And vesper hymns thy songs shall be.
Red breasted bird.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-06

Ferdinand Ward is having very COM
Portable time of it, Notwithstanding that he
is supposed to be in prison. The other
night he was drinking champagne and play
ing billiards at hotel with one of the war
dens of the prison until 1.3O a. m.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-06
STATE OF MAINE.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
A vra.xncto hHn.nA q 100

COUNCIL CHAMBER,
Augusta, March 6, 1884.
The undersigned, Committee of the Executive
Council appointed in accordance with the following
Resolve of the Legislature, approved March Ia,
1883, hereby "solicit proposals from cities, towns
and individuals as inducement to the location Of
a new insane hospital
Resolve for the appointment of committee of
the Executive Council to solicit proposals for the
location of a new Insane Hospital.
Whereas The insane hospital is now full and over
flowing with patients, and has been enlarged from
time to time, 30 that it will be necessary to es-
tablish another insane hospital; therefore
Resolved, That the Governor and Council appoint
a committee from their own number to solicit pro-
posals from Cities towns and individuals, as an in
ducement to the location of said hospta to procure
plans of said hospital and estimate Of the cost of
the same; to consider the best method State
to adopt Ia its construction, and any other matter
legtimately connected herewith and submit a re-
port upon the whole matter to the next Legislature
during the first week of its session.
Such Proposals" sealed, and with the nature of
the contents endorsed on envelopes will be received
up to June 20. 1884 by the Secretary of State Au-
gusta, Maine.
NICHOLAS FEssENDEN,) Committee
JOHN p. SWAsEY, of
SILAs G. HATCH, Elk. Council.
mario eod3m
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-06

Some of the oleomargarine manufacturers
in New York refuse to obey the law forbid
ding the manufacture of spurious butter,
and propose to test its constitutionality.
The largest factories, however, have gone
out Of business.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-06

If Butler runs for governor of Massachu-
sets this fall he will not be alluded to as a
salary grabber. The recent feat of salary
grabbing executed by the legislature has fur
nished him with too effective a retort.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-06

Oscar Wilde is married. Now it is to be
hoped bis domestic affairs will give him en-
ployment enough SO he will have no time to
pose as dude on either continent.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-06

Mr.. Flower of New York, who is the pro-
prietor of Presidential boom, is sending
out his photograph mounted on pretty frames
of gilt and plush. The frames are worth
something if the photograph is not.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-06

Good sometimes comes out of evil. Three
murderers were convicted in Cincinnati last
week who would probably have gone free
had it not been for the riot.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-06
TEN CENTS A MONTH.

The campaign opens with a Republican
victory in Oregon which will result in the
gain of a Senator. This is auspicious.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-06

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
sstions. The and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publca
ton but as guarantee of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve com
munications that are not used
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THE PR II S S.
Fer Presidential Electors,

JOHN S. CASE, of Rockland.
FSe WESTON +. MI1LIKEN,of Portland.
First District-OHARLEs NJ. MOSES, of BiddefOrd
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Nhe Many improvements which have been
Wrought-Fhe Hnstitutisn a Model One
-supeFlntendent Sanborn and His Work
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-07-01
The Nominations.

There is very general expression of satisfac-
ton on the part of the Democracy of this sec
ton with the nominations made at Pensacola.
Our delegates went uninstructcd and prepared
to vote for The best men who might be placed in
nomination The result gives evidence of the
good sense and good feeling which prevailed in
the Convention, Three good men were placed
in nomination, each one deserving well of the
country, and highly esteemed. In fact, go nearly
alike was the estimation in which thew were
held thai they received nearly equal nu mt or
of votes. Then, of course, choice had to be
made of one OF the three. 1t was quite evide If
that there was no special antagonisrn felt De-
SOnaly against eth II of the three West Floric
and South Florida have for some time felt that
other things being equal, the candidate sbOul1
come from the Yves or South Middle FlOrida
had held the honor of the gubernatorial office
many times. We have no doubt this feeling
had lis weight in tn. final determination of tn.
Convention in favor of one of West FlOridaI
tavoritc sons-Gcneral Perry. The popularity
Of Mr. Pasco was shown by the very large vote
he received. The esteem in which General
Barnes was held was evidenced by the very re-
spectacle vote he received made up from ma
JOriv OF the counties OF the State; but as both
General Perry and General Barnes were from
the West, and their combined vote embracing a
large majority OF the Convention, very naturally
dsparagement TO either of the other candidates
that General Perry was finally chosen.
We believe that the choice of General Perry
will he handsomely endorsed by the people of
the State
General Perry comes from the ranks of the
people He has held no office, has made no an
tagonismS, has II clean record az n man and as a
citizen, is highly esteemed for his patriotism. his
intelligence and his integrity
Tie is a capable and st 'ong man. and will, we
have every reason To believe make a good Gov
crnor. good, capable, intelligent and upright
Governor is what the people want
The nomination of Mr.. Mabrv as Lieutenant.
Governor will be generally acceptable to the pee
p'" and will be a proper recognition of the zeal
and unity of the South Florida democracy. lie
is n gentleman of legislative experience and high
standing.
The ticket is pronounced good one bv every
one meet
VIII il be elected?
The answer TO this depends not on the number
OF DrinoCrliic VOTES in ia State. but ON the
question whether they will take the trouble 10
vote. The inI"prn,l rnt movement will amount
10 nu'hing, rs AZ inst such a ticket il has no
Ntandpnin Our ticket only bc defeated hv
the Indifference or apathy oi democratic voters
which "" cannol conceive of in Il presidential
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-07-01

The preamble and Platform" adopted
by the conference OF the Independent
party at Live Oak constitute a singular
tissue of clap-trap and falsehood, in warp
and woof. AS a composition the docu-
ment is below mediocrity, and in ideas is
simply concentrated rehash of the alb
surd, silly and malicious editorials of the
Madison Ne'c Era, and, We presume, was
written by the same hand that penned
those paltry productions and pulled its
owner into notoriety preparatory to the
farce of having himself nominated for
Governor. 1t is pititul rubbish, and when
it got cold after the heat of composition
we presume that the author was not proud
enough of it to claim it as his bantlng
and would have written another if he
could have done better in the way OF
6 foam-capped " foolishness. Hear him
crate -"Upon flood tide of promises,
foam-capped with fraud and deception,
the now dominant party came into power
in ls76-its eight years of supremacy
being characterized by the following
abuses" And paragraphs Of alleged
abuses p" follow, containing at least as
many misstatements. But enough as tc
these for the present there are few jour
nalists who would not be ashamed tC
own the thing as an editorial, defective
as it is in fact and dscreditable in spirit
no matter how tenderly they might cling
to that brilliant figure of speech" foam
capped with fraud" That was just toe
nice to kill-its conception dazzled the
author, and he chung to it as the pet gem
of the whole rigmarole and, indeed, not
withstanding it is so ridiculously out OF
place in document purporting to be a
party platform, it is really the best thing
in the whole business. and we are much
obliged to him for not striking it out on
revision of his effort. Amid the surround
ing mess of matter it shines out like tin
can in a mud puddle, and it must be pre-
served in the memorial copy that the
"party" will have framed to hang in
No Hall, Nowhere" which will be Their
headquarters after the first Tuesday in
next November
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-07-01

An apparent editorial in the .Vew Zu.
(Which seems to have about it familiar
crookedness that strongly reminds of
Middle Florida Democrat y talks about
"corn field niggers." We submit that
the personal organ of Mr.. Pope makes a
grave mistake in terming the bulk of his
constituents "corn field niggcrs" While
the candidate is wheedling, caoling and
tlattering the coored brethren in one part
OF the State his organ is spiling his fat
In the fire in another While he shakes
hands with the colored "dear sir " of Es-
Gambia, his editor is saying corn field
niger" in Madison As the candidate
is young campaigner he ought to be in
formed that he needs other ammunition
than the simple supply of cheek and flap
doodle with which he has taken the field :;
he should have some sagacity-at least
enough to select safe leutenants, so that
they will not be giving him away in one
part OF the State while he is whooping
himself up in another. We suppose that
he will learn this after he has been lit
tie longer in the dusky arms Of the Re
publican party which he recently en-
braced and, schooled by it's veteran tacti-
clans, his little gang Of independent dis
ciples will become adopts in the "ways
that are dark and tricks that are vain" and
which enabled their allies to hold Florida
in bonds of humiliation and bankruptcy
until the democratic people burst them
asunder. Now, Hon. Pope, like Hon.
Malone, would replace the shackles on
the freed limbs of his mother State.