The Portland daily press., 1885-02-24

~on out as guarantee of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
nunications that are not used.
The story that Lord Wolseley had com
mitted suicide comes from Turkish sources.
That is enough to discredit it.
Mr.. Hendricks is going to the Inaugural
ton in the late President CARROTS parlor
car. There isn't much Jeffersonian SIMPLE
ity about that
The poor old Cardiff giant persisted in a
fire in the Huron, Dakota, opera house Sat
urday night-that is to say all the perisha-
Bile part of him did. The iron framework
on which he was built remains; and on this
no doubt another giant can be constructed.
The New York World reports that, Cleve-
land is good deal irritated because the
Democratic newspapers persist in booming
men for his cabinet. IT he is irritated al
ready what will be his state of mind when
the Democratic press brings its batteries to
bear upon his civil service policy?
Wisconsin is trying the plan of session
of the legislature every other year, and the
State likes the change. One of the Wiseon-
sin papers says that the number of bills in
troduced is far from being double what it
would be If the sessions were held annually,
while the expense of the additional session
Is avoided.
The attendance at the Republican caucus
es last night was unusually large. Good
feeling prevailed and the nominations for
the various ward officers were iudicious.
The delegates chosen to select a candidate
for mayor were in most of the wards left
uninstrncted and unpledged. It is impossi-
Bile to predict with certainty who will
be nominated at the convention this after
noon.
So far six candidates for the Bath collec-
torship have made their appearance. They
are Francis B. Torrey of Bath, member Of
the Democratic State committee: Edwin M.
Fuller, of Bath, chairman of the Democratic
city committee; Charles w. Larrabee of
Bath; Edmund Wilson of Thomaston, men,
Der of the Democratic National committee :;
Biop, his son, who is now practicing law in
Augusta; and Benjamin Bunker, editor of
the Fairfield journal, the terror to the Moss
backs.
The philanthropic legislator who thinks the
chief object of government is to make men
happy and contented, see that the boys get a
good start In life and that the girls do rot in
dulge in more roller skating than is good for
them has struck the Pacific slope. His hearts
desire now is apparently that all the boys
shall learn trade and he wants the Cali
foTnia legislature assist him to realize it by
passing bill to present every young man un-
der twentS-six years of age who serves an APP
premiership of three years and bears good
moral character with $3.50.
A Language Club is in process of forma-
ton in New York, which has laid out an
amount OF work likely to last some time.
Besides reform of English pronunciation
and crthography, it is to secure the uniform
adoption of the Roman way of speaking
Latin, the substitution of Roman for native
letters In German, and the tuition of leading
public speakers. When 1t is remembered
that Wendell Phillips, in his famous lecture
LOST Arts" made fifteen mistakes in pro-
nunciation, the task of reforming lesser
lights becomes formidable.
very extraordinary story comes from
Wisconsin in illustration of the manner in
which justice s sometimes defeated by the
abuse of the privilege of appeals. A Mrs.
Mack had been convicted of numbering her
husband and sentenced to imprisonment for
life, but somehow the Supreme Court grant
ed her new trial, and she was released on
bail. She has improved the delay by marry
ing the principal witness against her, and
thus rendering him incompetent to testify.
Now ii is intimated that the case will not be
called up again, and there is no talk of
lynchipg, either.
The railroad committee has promptly
amended the Portland & Ogdensburg bill in
accordance with the suggestion of the meet
ing of Saturday night. If the bill in its
present form becomes law two-thirds of
the citizens of Portland must consent to a
sale or lease of the road before it can be.
come operative while one more than one
third of the citizens can defeat a sale or
lease. 1t seems to us that this will put al
together too much power into the hands of
the minority, but if the people of Portland
want it SO of course they have right to have
1t 80, and nobody will be inclined to dispute
it.
There 10 movement in Rhode Island to
stiffen up the divorce laws of the State. A
bill now before the House OF Representatives
takes away from the Supreme court jurisdic-
ton In suits for divorce unless the petitioner
shall have resided within the State for at
least two years Immediately before the filing
Of the petition, and permits each party to
the cause to testify, Notwithstanding the re-
lationship of husband and wife. Rhode
Islands divorce laws are said to be much
more lax than those of any other New Eng
land State, and of late she has been getting
an unpleasant notoriety on that ACCOUNT
A clause suspending tho silver coinage law
has been attached to the sundry civil appro-
priatlon bill, and Randall will make an at
tempt to pass the bill on Wednesday under
suspension of the rules. To suspend the
rules two-thirds vote is necessary. The
silver men feel confident that it cannot be
secured. If 1t be not when the bill comes
up in the regular way the silver men avow
that they will filibuster even to the extent of
rendering an extra session necessary, unless
the silver clause is dropped. They feel conf
dent that the advocates of the clause will
suffer it to be stricken out rather than allow