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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02
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CURRENT CONNIE
NEW YORK PAPERS PLEASE COPY.

NEW YORK PAPERS PLEASE COPY.
Lowell Courier.
To raise monument first raise your
money.
A POINT FOR THE PRESIDENT.
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
II Mr.. Cleveland is really anxious to carry
Ohio for the Democrats, he might make a
point by substituting Thurman for Bayard
In his Cabinet at very early day.
WHILE FISHING HE Is THINKING.
N. Y. Sun.
Will President Cleveland come out of the
Adirondack woods more of a Jacksonian
and less OF an Eatonian Democrat or more
Eatonlan and less Jacksonian than he was
when he went in?
THE PRIDE oE THE MASSACHUSETTS DE-
MoCRACY.
Boston Traveller
The Democrats should put up their strong
est and best man for governor this year.
Post.
That means Butler of course. He always
gets larger Democratic vote than any other
man OF his party. He is not 50 handsome as
Col. French, perhaps, but the Democrats take
readily the ballots with the familiar Butler
phlZ upon them.
THE BENEFAcTIoN OF OLD AGE.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
am only seyenty-six. Now, when man
gets to be. eighty he is a public benefactor,
for then he is an encouragement to men of
seventy or seventy-fye. A long row of men
eighty years of age form sort of tailboard
fence separating younger men from the chilly
blast. Yes, consider living to great age
the cheapest and easiest benefaction man
can make. Gladstone is, believe, within
four months of my age, and Barnum quite
near it, When men get over Seventy-five all
differences are set aside.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM AND DEMOCRACY.
N. Y. Sun.
There has been as yet no announcement
for pedagogue-made civil service reform in
the Democratic State Conventions of this
year. From none of them has come good
word for it. The Virginia Democrats do not
want it. The Mississippi Democrats do not
want it. The Pennsylvania Democrats do
not want it. The Ohio Democrats do not
want it. 1t was not to be expected that they
should. The Democratic party will have to
undergo greater changes than have ever vet
comelto it, it will have to change, indeed, the
principles upon which it is founded, and
even the elements of which it is composed.
before it can give its sincere adherence to
scheme essentially aristocratic and anti-pop-
ular. 1t will require something more than
slight.interfusion of Independent Republi-
canism to transform the Democracy so.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02

tains that everybody was wrong, that the
former judges are not judges now, that the
new court was not legally organized, that
its officers have drawn their salaries without
right, and that all its proceedings and judg-
ments are void. These astute treasury
lawyers by and by will probably discover that
there were lawyers quite as good as they in
the department before they got there,
and that the points they are quibbling about
were long ago discussed and settled.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02

Mr.. McCue, solicitor of the treasury, is
said to have prepared an opinion to the
effect that the Alabama claims court has no
legal existence, because, when its functions
were extended by an act of Congress last
year, the judges were not Reconnaissance or
new judges appointed Mr.. McCue thinks
that the court expired with the term fixed by
the original act, and its jurisdiction was
gwen to a new court created by the act of
1854 The president and all concerned as
sumed That the judges of the first court were
judges OF the second by virtue of their
original Appointment, but Mr.. McCue main
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02

These mysterious epidemics such as is
raging now in West Virginia, are mysteri-
Gus simply because no one of sufficient
knowledge has carefully investigated them
They all have cause, and the cause is not
very difficult Of discovery when intelligent
search is made for it. The epidemic which
prevailed in West Virginia last year was
caused by poisonous water and probably this
sOne is also
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02

Two years ago Hoadly was elected over
Foraker in Ohio by a small majority. The
Democrats are now reckoning on the same
Result and "a little more so' because the
administration is on their side. They forget
that the fact that Hoadly has in the last ten
years shown himself up, will more than off
set the administrations aid.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02

The outlook in Virginia is very encour-
aglngone to the Republicans, and if free
ballot and fair count were assured it would
be safe to predict a Republican victory. But
the legislature of last winter placed the en-
tire election machinery in the hands of the
Bourbons for the purpose of enabling them
to grind out Democratic victories in spite
of the people, and it is altogether probable
that they will make the most of it.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02

Some of our State contemporaries placed a
cablegram concerning a recent sermon of DR..
Talmage at Belfast, Ireland, under the Maine
dispatches. If the telegraph editor had con-
sidered that Belfast, Maine, cannot turn out
congregations of 5000 to hear any man he
would not have made this mistake
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02

The soldier vote for Whiting, the Demo-
cratic nominee for Governor of Iowa, is moi
likely to be numerous. He is convicted OF
having publicly said, early in the war; that
II any lowan went into the Abolition war he
hoped none of them would live to get back
to Iowa. good many of them did not live
to get back, but enough did to make it I'M
comfortable for Mr.. Whiting this fall.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02

The horrors of hanging were again illus
trated in Arkansas the other day in a very
badly managed execution. The rope as a
means Of enforcing the death penalty is get
Ting to be a disgrace to an age which boasts
of scientific progress.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02

The Toledo postmaster who has an
nounced that he can no longer follow the
Republican party would have impressed the
country more profoundly if he had withheld
that announcement until he ceased to be
postmaster. AS it is the cruel public will be
likely to closely associate his apostacy with
a desire to continue as postmaster at Toledo.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02

Alexander Troup doesn't practice what he
breaches. Though in a recent interview he
declared himself a spokesman, he has appoint
ed to subordinate positions under him two
men who voted for Blaine. The Democrats
are furious in consequence. One of the ap-
pointments is explained by the fact that
the man is a correspondent for Mr. Troup's
neWSnaner
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02

Senator German of Maryland thinks that
neither the Republican nor Democratic plat
forms of 'S8 will contain civil service reform
planks. Present indications support his
theory, as far as the Democrats are con-
cerned
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02
(lltil(l1ra
Endorsed by Physicians, Druggists
and Chemists, as nearly
InfaIIible.

I AM selling more of the CUTIcURA REMEDIES
Il for diseases of the skin and blood than any
other. The CUTICURA SOAP, as its first-class
quality deserves, leads all Of my soaps in demand
Doth as toilet soap and as beautiier and pro-
tector of the skin. DR. w. H. HALL,
Frankfort Nv
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02
THE PRESS.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 2.

we do not read anonymous letters and commun-
cations. The name and address of the writer are
ID all cases indispensable, not necessarily for pub
hcaton but as a guarantee of good faith
we cannot undertake to return or preserve
Communications that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02

Mr. Thurman, the Old Roman, has more
regard for his health than for Hoadly or the
Democracy, and will not stump in Ohio.
There may also be other reasons.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02
sATrsFAcT0RY RESULTS,

Your CUTICURA REMEDIES exceeded both in
sales and good results any skin remedy we ever
handled, and tits with pleasure that we recommend
them to our customers, assured that they will re-
ceiye real benefit and satisfactory results
DIR. ID. BOWMAN g. SON,
Tn
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02

Sold everywhere. Price: CUTIcURA, so cents !;
CUTIcURA SOAP, % cents; CUTIcURA REsoI.-
VENT, $1.00. POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL
Co., Boston.
Send for Chow 10 Cure Skin Diseases,
EBEWEPLES Blackheads, Skin Blemisbes and
IL A1sM Baby Humors use CUTICURA SOAP.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02
sCIsOFuLA CuREn.

prescribed your CUTICURA REMEDIES, effect
ing thorough cure, in chronic case of scrofula
upon child OF one of my patrons after the case
had baffied the skill of two eminent physicians
during period of eleven months. made a COM
plete cure in four months
A. G. PATTERSON
Druggist, Brookville XIV
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02
PORTLAND RAILROAD COMPANY,
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING

A SPECIAL MEETING of the stockbo,dor. of
"A the Portland Railroad Company will he held ID
in the s Library Room, Mechanics Hail, Portland
on WEDNESDAY Sept 9th, at 80 o'clock D. M
cured by mortgage on the property of The com
pany TO pay tae Indebtedness Of the company
GROWING d 9a y % Ine renewal and extension Of its
sue of the same. 'AVA iA0 'iio 70
po.,,ona oant Z. A. NEWMAN, Secretary.
AoAu'Ai'' oop'' ~ 1000. sep1dtd
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02

The Argus is apparently preparing to
oppose Col. Morton's aspirations for the
Augusta post Office That would be treason.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02

The Chicago Current, literary weekly of
very excellent sort, is in its grave. 1t died
from a lack of financial support 1t was not
long ago that the Nation, journal of the
same kind, was, for the lsame reason.
merged in the New York Evening Post thus
losing its distinctive character. Such occur
rences give rise to a very pointed question:
Do such publications lack in this country an
audience of cultivated readers great enough
to appreciate their literary merriam audi
ence endowed with purely literary tastes
large enough to afford them proper financial
support? Circumstantial evidence is decid
eddy against us. Still, there are those who
argue that it is not because they-lack cult
waited readers that such journals die, but be-
cause those same readers are supplied by the
daily newspapers with literature of high
order, mixed iudiciously with lot of popu-
lar everyday trash. If people can buy every
thing every day for two or three cents, they
will refuse to subscribe for weekly which
contains only re-hash of what they have
already read.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02
NEVER FAILING.

do not know of an instance in which the Gu
TICURA REMEDIES have failed to produce sat
lSfactory results. believe have sold more of
them than OF any other skin remedies | have ever
fence as a druggist. A. D. TRYON, Druggist
Batavia n Y
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02

They say now that Butler is only playing a
game of bluff on the President.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02

that seem to cut through you like knife" are
~ instantly relieved by placing a CUTIcU-
TSkERA PLASTER over the spot where the
AAHpain originates, No other plaster or
FNC% liniment or appliance can be compared
~ an ns% sh GdFfqa 70 pa eega and and
fflamatIon Warranted the best plaster ever
compounded. At druggists, 20 cts five for 81 90
mailed free. POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL Co.,
BOSTON, sep2WS&w2w
Haie's Honey the great Cough cure, 25c., 300
ana 81. Glenn's Sulphur Soap heals & beau
tlnes, Zoe. German Corn Remover kills Corns
ana Bunlons. HIPS Hair and Whisker Dye,
BLACK and Brown, SOC. Pixies Toothacke
Dfops cure In one minute, 25c. Deans Rheu-
ian16 - eodod ,,,1 ,,rr,,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02

The New York Sun is as we have often re-
marked, the Democrat of the Democrats. Its
columns may always be taken as able Demo-
cratic authority. 1t always represents the
true Democatic feeling. The Sun, in a recent
issue, takes great pleasure in noting the
number of country Democratic editors who
have lately received postoffices as a reward
for offensive partisanship displayed in the
columns of their papers in days gone by. 1t
hopes that they will still stick by the Democ-
racy in the same manner, that they twill
keep on working for the Democratic party,
and that their postofices, like their journals,
will be centres of Democratic activity in
their districts" viii the Mugwump and the
civil service reform President please take
notice?
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02
NOTICE.

A LII persons having demands against Plymouth
payment on or before the fifth day of September.
A. d. 1885 as said Parish is about to close up its
affairs and dissolve. GEORGE f. JUNK1NS,
Treasurer, 80 Exchange aug5d1ms
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02

All the Republican platforms and speeches
so lar this year command the disapproyal of
the Democrats and the Mugwumps. To men
ton the fact that the Southern whites have
much larger representation in Congress,
than they are entitled to, by reason of the
suppression of the colored vote, and protest
against it is Haunting the bloody shirt and
reviying the antipathies of war times. It
never seems to occur to these gentlemen that
the men who habitually suppress the colored
vote, not the men who protest against
it, are the ones upon whom the responsibility
for what they call the waving of the bloody
shirt rests. The South can consign to OBJ
liyion the bloodysshirt by obeying the con-
stitution and the laws.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02

1t is proposed to close the season at Cot
tage City next Sunday by sermon from the
Rev. Mr.. Downs of the Bowdoin Square
church of Boston. Mr.. Downs has accepted
an invitation ito preach, and the chances are
that he will speak to an immense audience,
not because he is a brilliant preacher, but be-
cause he is the hero of scandal. A game of
base ball or polo would be altogether more
creditable method of closing the season and
indicate quite as much regard for the sanctity
of the Sabbath.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02

Secretary Russell, of the Massachusetts,
Board of Agriculture, has written letter de-
Ginning to preside over the State Democratic
convention. Any other course would have
been grossly inconsistent with Mr.. RusselHs
civil service reform professions, and exposed
him to removal from office for offensive par
tlsanship. Nevertheless Mr.. RusselPs decis-
ion is greatly to his credit and his letter CON
tains many sentiments that will command
general approval.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02

A lifelong Maine Democrat informs the
Boston Journal that the new recruits the
Maine Democrats have been getting of late
years ARE bad lot; that they are after the
spoils and nothing else; and that the old line
Democrats propose to get rid of them next
year" The new recruits have got a pretty
flrm grip on the machine, however, and it is
not going to be easy to compel them to let go
as this lifelong Democrat" imagines. The
head Of the State committee is a new recruit
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-02

On and after Monday, June go,
the new steamer
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-10-22
CASTLE 81 COOKIE
SALE.
Elk. "MENDOTA." and Other Late Arrivals
NewYo and san Franbc
echandse suit
Plantations, Country Stores and Families,

IN
and Electric
Cylinder OIL Albany Compound
Wrought Nni Galvanized
Plain Perforated Sheet Zc
Rubber Springs
Packing round and fat all
Breaking Pows
Breaking Plow all Cutvors,
Neck Lanes
quality; Mowers Road
Hahes.
AK Machine Bolts, all
superior Builders line.
Mahnist5 tools
and
Boiled OIL Valentines Vnishes,
Oils Chandeliers Glass
and Hollow ware Medicine
DENNIS, 8, 9and1O or at b to pm rates
SALMON, in
BENICIA Family
andG SUGAR in hal barrels
GIANT POWDER GEI4ATINE POWDER,
NewGO Goods Expec perS amshir lame
BOILER FEED,
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80 1rar'~ Floral Novelty.
E,raFonu,a

The greatest novelty In flowers this
year is a tea rose Of the most dazzling
Scarlet hue 1t was originally grown in
England, and has only Just appeared In
this country 1t Is attracting much at
tantion among fiorista
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-10-22
lamp shades and the Eyes.

Professor n L Cohn describes long
series of determinations of the relative
values of various forms of lamp shades.
The method pursued was to measure the
brightness of white paper lying on table
over which the source of artificial light
was suspended at a given distance by
meas of Weber photometeE AS one
would anticipate, the general effect of
ahade is TO increase very greatly the illu-
mination Immediately under thu light,
and not modify it notably at an angular
distance greater than forty five de-
grees from this region. The last
section of the pamphlet, which
deals with the illumination requisite for
easiest use of the eyes. is of the most
general interest. Taking as measure of
the value of the illumination in this sense
the number of lines which can be read
from a newspaper in a minute, and as the
unit of Illumination that of normal can
die at q perpendicular distance of meter
from the paper, he finds that the best illu-
mination Is not less than fifty such units.
Since even a fifth of this illumination is
very rarely secured, except Immediately
under lamp provided with a good shade.
the author emphasizes the conclusion that
few school children work In satisfactory
Hgl4t
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eIsdsea aAd I1einSsss la LApIand.
fSophus Tronlh n 3 Travels

The only means of conveyance afforded
by the country was the reindeer sledges,
and The author gives graphic picture of
the manner in which the reindeer is pre-
pared for duty.
First, two symmetrical bits of wood
are laid above and below the neck of the
deer and fastened together From the
middle of these band runs down on
each side to a wooden block under the
stomach Immediately behind the fore legs.
To this block the single trace is attached,
generally made of reindeer skin. From
the end of the wooden block again
broad belt runs over the back of the ami
NAL. while around the neck rope is
placed to which the rein is fastened. This
Is the whole harness. 1t is loose and
primative but doubtless best adopted to
reindeer drivers
."The sleigh seems from its cOnstTuc
ton to be better adapted to water than to
land travelling. Cut a low boat in halves,
take the stem part and close it behind
with perpendicular piece of wood, and
you have pulk. 1t is about the length
of q man; without any covering what
ever, aud completely empty, the driver
sitting down on the bottom. AS il is
provided with a keel, it will be pretty
clear that il is about as easily managed as
8 boat on terra firma. The pulk is built
of brentwood, but the keel Is of fir
w nat IS most annoying 10 the un1nltiated
Is that the pulk does not as the sleigh,
travel on runners, but On little keel, and
capsizeS in consequence at the slightest
bump or want of balance on the part of
the driver, and that it is drawn by a sin
gle trace and not by shafts, from which
1t follows that the reindeer can not hold
It back down hill, which often causes the
traveller to come down rather more pre-
cipitately than he might wish, and finally
that two reins are not used
There is. however, good reason why
the Laps prefer the single to the double
system, and each one has advantages of
its particular kind in reference to the ma
ture of the road A sleigh would, for
instance, sink fer deeper into the loose
snow, and be knocked to pieces over
rough ground, where the road is INSTRUCTED
with logs and stones, and the pulk has
often to shoot down a declivity of a
couple Of yards The sleigh would cap
size quicker than the pulk, strange as it
may seem, as the latter capsiZes only in
the hands of an inexperienced driver.
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A scie ntific authority wishes to know
Why the bodies of elephants and wild
animals generally are so rarely found after
death
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The Age of the Mounds.

tNofftSboWn Herald
DR.. Cyrus Thomas, who Is in charge of
the division on mound exploration of the
Bureau of Ethnology, has in the last three
the bandiwork of the mound builders. the
study of which. with the sur 5ey of the
mounds themselves and their surround
ings, Is gradually leading to solution of
certain archeologic riddles which a few
years ago seemed insolvable
While some of the mounds are doubt
less very ancient, others similar in character
and equally interesting have certainly been
built up since the advent of Europeans.
a string Of sleigh bells much corroded
bat still capable of tinkling, was found
among the flint and bone implements in
mound in Tennessee, while in Mississippi,
at the point where De Soto Is supposed to
have tarTied, q Spanish coat of arms in
silver, one blade Of pair of scissors and
other articles of European manufacture
were found in positions which indicated
that they were buried by the original
builders of the mounds
In Georgia mound two copper plates
were found, upon which were stamped
figures resembling the sculptures upon
the Central American ruins The
workmanship is vastly superior to-
that displayed on the articles of pottery,
stone and bone found in the mounds and
t1eH origin ana purpose are not YET eX-
plainable Aside from these plates moth
Ing has been found to indicate a connec-
ton between the mound builders and the
Aztscs or the Pueblos, while on the other
hand, there appears many reasons for not
going beyond the Cherokees and their fell
low red men of the Ohio and Mississippi
valley to find the origin of these curious
erections.
The purpose of the mounds still re-
mains in some cases a mystery, but in
others they are known to have been made
sometimes for burial places, and some
times as foundations for Indian villages
secure from the floods to which the low
lands were periodically subjected.
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STEAMER LIKELIKE.

(Lorenzen, Commander,
Leaves Honolulu every Monday at ) p. NJ. Tor
EKSunakakai, KahuIui, every week: HuelO, Hama
and Kipahulu. Keanae, Mokulan and Nun every
other week. Returning, will stop at the above
ports, arriving back Saturday mornings.
For mails and passengers only.