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The Portland daily press., 1885-05-23

The board of health, now that it has got
to work, seems to have no trouble in finding
plenty to do. The city, as we suspected
would be the case, has been found good
deal dirtier than was anticipated. It has
been long time since it has had a
thorough sanitary overhaulng, and the re-
suit has been that people have grown care
less and Indifferent. 1t is matter for the
deepest gratitude that their awakening has
come in the shape of notifications from the
board of health, and not, as in the case Of
the town of Plymouth, in the form of
malignant and fatal epidemic. We sus
pect that it will be found before the
board get through that considerable per-
centage of the noxioug odors which residents
of the city complain of come from foul
drains and filthy vaults close to their own
houses, aud that Back Cove has had to bear
more than it's share of the responsibility.
There is no doubt, however, that the Cove is
responsible for good deal, and work there
ought not to be retarded by the discovery
that it has been accused of too much. Ac-
cording to correspondent whose communi-
cation is published elsewhere, the police
have been very remiss in their duty in al
lowing the deposit of filth along the shores
Of the Cove in violation of law.
The Portland daily press., 1885-05-23

1t is announced that Mr.. Glads tone will
retire from the leadership of the Liberal
party at the close of the present session of
Parliament, though he will assist in fighting
the Liberal battle at the general elections in
the fall. Fifty-three years have passed since
Gladstone made his first appearance in pub
lie life. He became the Liberal leader after
the death of Lord Palmerston and has been
facile princeps ever since. His retirement
will leave the Liberal party in much the
same condition that Lord Beaconsfeld's
death left the Conservative. It is doubt
full if there is man in its ranks that can
hold its conservative and radical wings to-
gether as Gladstone has done. Since the
death of Disraeli the Tories have been torn
with discussions, broken up into factions,
without leader whom all of them would
follow. 1t would not be surprising if Glad
stones retirement left the Liberals in very
much the same condition. The ablest men
in the Liberal ranks are among the Radicals,
but they are too far in advance of English
political sentiment as yet to command a
large following. The Marquis of Harrington
who will attempt to wear the mantle of the
great premier belongs to the Wing or con-
sentative wing of the Liberals.
The Portland daily press., 1885-05-23
Current Comment.
BACKWARD EVOLUTION.
NJ W rnshn


AS a confirmation of the theory of evolu-
ton, MIR. Beecher holds that he is not what
he was fifty years ago. We cannot deny the
fact, but it furnishes the first intimation we
have had that evolution moved backward.
LIKE A GOOD MANY OTHER PEOPLE.
(Pittsburg Chronicle)
The Prince of Wales has been given a
copy of the revised Bible. he says he does
not notice any difference between it and the
old one.
BUSINESS BEFORE PLEASURE AND NON
SENSE.
(Pittsburg Dispatch.)
Perhaps it will now occur to the brilliant
mind OF the postmaster general that the du-
ties of his Office will be more satisfactorily
discharged if he gives his attention in the
future to the carrying of letters and abiures
writing them.
WHICH MR.. Villas INTENDS TO CONTROL.
Washington Post.
However uninfuential the ordinary fourth
class postmaster may seem to be, 1t is well
understood by every politician that the men
who hold these offices are in the aggregate
an important political force.
KU KLUx TO THE FRONT.
Boston Herald.
IL iAob vi clSAb OOu6uAI1 appointments
made recently found the names of seven in
the reports of the Ku Kiux Investigating
Committee, as identified with that organize
tion for suppressing free suffrage and terror
izing the negro population, says CONNER
cial Gazette correspondent. The last man
appointed in North Carolina was the chief
of the Ku Klax clan of that State
NOT THE CAT BUT THE coAIPesIToR.
N. Y. Sun.
We do not often pay attention to typo
graphical errors, but when we saw in the
Sun yesterday that a heading which was
written to read fsThe Revised Bible'' had
got changed into "The Ruined Bible," it
seemed to be an accident worthy of notice;
and we take this occasion TO declare that we
don't think the Sacred Book is injured nv
this revision, but the contrary Whatever
makes the translation more near the original
must be an improvement and not an iuinrv
The Portland daily press., 1885-05-23

vided between the two parties There is,
therefore, nothing in the character OF con-
duct of the Republican members of the COM
mission that justifies this demand on the
part of the Western Democrats. The reason
for it must be sought elsewhere.
We get clue to it perhaps in the fact that
Western Democrats, especially the Demo
Gratis of Ohio, have always been hostile to
the law, and have never let slip an oppor-
tunity to discredit it or to punish any Demo
crat who was in any degree responsible for
its existence. Nothing would better please
Mclean and his crowd than to see the law
fail TO accomplish its intended object The
strict impartiality of the Republican mem
bers of the present board and their fidelity
to the spirit as well as to the letter of the law
have convinced its enemies that as long as the
law is administered by the present board 1t
is not likely to DO brought into disrepute.
Hence their desire fer change. 1t is easy
to see that two INSCRIPTIONS commissioners
might make the competitive examinations
grind out only Democrats with the highest
rank, and thereby secure the appointment
of Democrats to vacancies almost invari-
ably. The effect of such a course could not
fail to be to bring the Law into discredit and
render its friends very Indifferent in regard
to its existence.
1t may be argued that the President would
never accede to the proposed change, and
even if be did would not appoint the kind of
men needed to make the scheme Of these
Western Democrats work. But it must be
borne in mind that the President has already
consented to change in the pension boards
quite as unreasonable, and that he has de-
veloped remarkable proneness to be de-
ceived by wicked and designing Democratic
congressman in regard to the character of
men recommended for Office.
If the mugwumps are wise, they will keep
q sharp watch on these Western Democratic
politicians.
The Portland daily press., 1885-05-23

1t is hopeful sign when half the dele
gates from the South to commercial con-
vention vote against the continued coinage
of silver. 1t must be remembered, however,
that these delegates are business men who
have some special knowledge. The South.
ern masses are still welded to the silver
craze, and Southern congressman who have
to rely upon the masses for their votes, we
fear, will still continue to represent senti-
ments of the masses on this question, and
not the sentiment of the comparatively few
business men.
The Portland daily press., 1885-05-23
Steamer for snIn

CTEAMER "MAY FIELD, of Vinal Haven; capa
y city 200 passengers; length 80 feet, draft 6
feet has spacious cabins both forward and aft also
cook room; large passenger deck runs very econom-
icay speed miles an hour steady; boiler in perfect
condition having been rebuilt the past year, the hull
was improved in 1884, at an expense of $1,000, in
GLIDING new shaft Wheel &C.; suit of Sails we'll
equipped, and is exception from steamers usually
offered for sale, being in first class condition every
way; is favorite boat wherever known, and offered
for sale from the fact that the present business
the route is not sufficient to require two boats For
further information inquire of E. P. WALKER, vi
nal Haven. my20d1m
The Portland daily press., 1885-05-23

The Boston Journal has the best authorI-
ty for the statement that the allegation
made by the Democratic and Mugwump
press that Mr.. Blaine either directly or in
directly had asked the President not to ap
point Mr.. Morton to the Augusta post Office
is untrue. Equally untrue is the story that
the Maine Senators had threatened to defeat
Mr.. Morton if nominated. No Mugwump
or Democratic paper will, however, pay the
slightest attention to these corrections.
The Portland daily press., 1885-05-23

The Brooklyn Eagle thinks that the course
OF the Old Testament reviewers in substi-
tuting in some places the word "sheol'' for
shell" was timely and fortunate. The
Mugwump can now express himself on the
Presidents appointments without going out
behind the barn.
The Portland daily press., 1885-05-23

The law which it is hoped may be made to
fit the case of the men who assisted Odlum
in his foolish and fatal leap is the following
provision in the New York Penal Code, the
penalty provided being from five to twenty
years:
"a person who willfnlly, in any manner, advises,
encourages, abets, or assists another person in TAX
ing the latter's life is guilty of manslaughter in
the first degree
The Portland daily press., 1885-05-23
DRESS

And those who wish to do their own cutting should
examine Mrs. d. A. Browns Scientific Method for
cutting dresses and outside garments perfected by
her from practical knowledge of fitting different
forms. Silver medal was awarded in Mechanics
investig sted its merits Bostons best dressmakers
can be referred to who have used many systems of
cutting, and acknowledge, after taking my nstruc-
tons, nothing has been SO perfect; as they now
try garments on without making change. Parties
visiting Boston can call at 517 fremont street,
and see the business L have established With my
rules for cutting. To-day, dress cutting is great
art, and every person must have thorough knowl-
edge of the business to fill good positions. Each
leaving. 1t is by special request shall be in Port
land after May 1Sth and be pleased for all to nves-
tigate my rules for cutting.
MRS. II. A. BROWN,
may19dlw 561 Congress st.
The Portland daily press., 1885-05-23

The Massachusetts Senate has passed the
bill exempting soldiers and sailors from
civil service examinations. Under the law
as it exists soldiers and sailors who have sue
cessfuly passed the examination are entitled
to precedence. That is all the preference
that soldiers and sailors should ask, and all,
we believe, that the great majority of them
do ask. We observe that one of the Sena-
tors who has been strong advocate of the
exemption clause yesterday offered resolu-
ton repeating the whole civil service law.
That let's in flood of light on the mo.
tive which animates him and many of his
associates. The real purpose is not to benes
fit the soldiers, but to undermine the civil
service law.
The Portland daily press., 1885-05-23

Probably the people of Boston would like
to see their police force exercise the same
vigilance in breaking up gambling dens and
unlicensed rum shops that it displays in
putting stop to unlicensed religious meet
ings on the Common.
The Portland daily press., 1885-05-23
ECZEMA ON A CHTLD.

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done my child so much good that feel like SAVING
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ANTON BOSSMIER. EpiNRIRGH I'm
The Portland daily press., 1885-05-23

1t seems there was an avenue of escape
open to the girls who persisted in the Gin
einnati fire which they could have readily
availed themselves of if presence of mind
had not failed them. The lesson which
this teaches is that persons employed in
high buildings should be thoroughly famil-
iarized with all the fire escapes or other
means of egress from buildings, SO that
when crisis comes they can instantly avail
themselves Of them. The panic stricken op-
srative who has to hunt for ways of escape
will frequently fail to find them, though they
be almost in plain sight.
The Portland daily press., 1885-05-23
TETTER 0R 1,rnn snarn

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WHITEsBoRO'. TEXAS
The Portland daily press., 1885-05-23
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FREDERICK MAITRE.
The Portland daily press., 1885-05-23

I am an old man. For % years l suffered with
ulcers on my right leg the aesult of typhoid fever
Amputation was suggested the only means of
preserving life. The doctors conld do nothing for
me, and thought 1 must die. For three years 1
never had a shoe on. Swifts Specific has made
permanent cure and added ten years to my life.
VIM. r. REED Hall Co., Ga.
have taken Swift's Specific for blood poison con-
tracted at medical college at dissection while /
was medical student. L am grateful to say that it
gave me speedy and thorough cure after my par
ents had spent hundreds of dollars for treatment.
AUGUSTUS wendell, NJ. D.. Newark, N. j.
My wife from early girlhood has been suffering
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and must frankly say has derived more benefit
from Switts Specific than from all the Others after
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REV. JAS. L. PIERCE, oxford, Ga.
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The Portland daily press., 1885-05-23
ECZEMA TWENTY YEARs

My gratitude to God is unbounded for the relief T
have obtained from the use of the CUTICURA REM
EDIEs have been troubled with Eczema on INV
legs for twenty years. l had not a Comfortable
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tense. Now, am happy to say have no trouble.
Only the iver-colored patches on my limbs remain
as token of my former misery,
HENRY L. SMITH,
1873 WEST AVENUE ROCHESTER, N v
The Portland daily press., 1885-05-23

Not content with honoring the Hon. Eben
F. Pilsbury by making him internal revenue
collector the administration has honored
him still further by making him custodian of
the Boston post Office and sub treasury
buildings, an Office which according to the
Boston Post gives him control of the employ
es of the buildings and the expenditure of
100000 year. "The position" says the
Post, "comes unsought by him and does not
indicate any great degree of want of conf
dence in him on the part of the administra-
tion." The Post is right. What it does in
dictate is that the President has been feeling
the Boston Mugwumps.
The Portland daily press., 1885-05-23

The advantage of special cable service was
well illustrated by one of the New York pa
pers the other morning. 1t published the
death of Victor Hugo while the other papers
were only able to say that be was i'll.
The Portland daily press., 1885-05-23

SATURDAY MORNING. MAY 20.

The town Of Onsow, Ia, is the latest to
be visited by a dangerous and uncontrolla-
BILE disease. The doctors all agree that they
know nothing about it.
The Portland daily press., 1885-05-23
A WORD TO WORKINGMEN /!

Special called the that all goods
ured the MECHANICS OF NEW ENGLAND not "OUT VEST
competitors advertise theirs We believe in pat
rOnzng MECHANICS who WE THINK AND KNOW
to make GOOD WORK the much talked of SKILL
MECHANICS Of THE WEST Therefore motto IO LIVE
and give NEW ENGLAND MECHANICS a CHANCE to LIVE
ALSO other words "LeaVe Our Money with those Mechanics
from Whom Get IT."
The Portland daily press., 1885-05-23
IVY POISONING.

For all cases of poisoning by ivy or dogwood, can
warrant CUTICURA to cure every time. l have sold
it for five years and it never fails.
.. ID. MORSE, Druggist, HoLLIsToN, MASS.
Sold everywhere. Price: CUTIoURA. SOC; SOAP,
zoe REsoLyENT, $1.0O. Prepared by the POTTER
DRUG AND CHEMICAL Co., Boston, Mass.
Send for SHE 0w TO Cure Skin Diseases.,'
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The Portland daily press., 1885-05-23

six patterns OF pieces
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80 of w.
chairs Rocker and
Rae
Black
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color of cOiors parties
Chair Chair,
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eEIartO
Arches or
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The Portland daily press., 1885-05-23
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The Portland daily press., 1885-05-23
DIRIGO MINERAL WATER.

Iced water ruins digestion; Dirigo Water improves
it; is always palatabie, refreshing and healthful
Delivered daily, cool and refreshing from the spring.
Our improved cans viii keep the water cool from
36 to as hours use of cans tree: water per gallon
10 cents.
RUNDEEGE REsOS.,
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The Portland daily press., 1885-05-23

GENTLEMEN, ask your dealer for these shoes
in the market In Button Congress and lace
broad and narrow toe, best of material, perfectly
finished, every pair guaranteed. The $3.50
SHOES for BOYS are same styles and material,
warranted the best school or working shoe in the
market for the price. If your dealer does not
keep them take other, but send address on postal
card for full directions for measurement and how
to obtain them. see that my name and war;
rnntee lis stamped ON bottom of each shoe.
w. L.. DOUGLAS, RrOckton, Mass.
mario eod3m
The Portland daily press., 1885-05-23
BOSTON AND RETURN.

And parties purchasing $4,000 worth we will in
addition to paving Fares Both Ways and the free
delivery Portland take $40. 90 down and give One
Years time to pay the balance.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-12

Notwithstanding her brilliant vic
tories in January. England supreme
CIV in the Soudan has received a terrible
blow in the fall Of KhartOum, the OBJ
iective point of Lord Wolseley's mill
tary movement. 1t was supposed that
the place was held by Gen. GORDON,
and the news Of its fall and the COM
plete ignorance of the fate Of GORDON
have occasioned a ministerial crisis in
England. GLADSTONE and his foreign
policy are bitterly denounced by the
English press, and public indignation
is high. The people demand immediate
and effective work in the SOudan, and
the valor Of British soldiers must be
aided by the hearty cooperation of the
Cabinet until the national disgrace is
wiped out by the complete restoration
OF English supremacy. Italy, seeing
a chance Of settlement, as she did in
her alliances with France and Germany,
has offered to send a strong force to
England's aid. The Arabs, stimulated
and encouraged by the fall of Khar-
toum, viii flock around the MAHDI's
standards, and unless some kind of
mediation is successful the SOudan war
may be said to have just begun. And
while the blood and treasure Of Eng
land are being poured out upon the sands
of the desert, the people of this cOun-
try will ask the cause, and no satisfac-
tory answer can be given to them. Eng
land has no rights in the SOudan to pro-
tect, and her scheme of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,
which includes the sole control Of Egypt
and the whole country of the Upper
Nile, will be resisted by other European
powers. No good can come out of the
present struggle, and England should
extricate herself from it as gracefully
as possible and with as little bloodshed
as possible.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-12
Oklahoma and the Treaty Of 1866.

When Oklahoma was acquired from
the Creeks and Seminoles in 1866 it
embraced 5,429,6 $40 acres, costing the
Government S1,3OS, $50. Upon this
land the Seminoles, the Sacs and Foxes,
the Pottawatomies, the Kickapoos and
Iowas, the CheyenneS and ArapahOes,
have been placed. OF the original
domain only about 1,250,0 acres are
left unoccupied.
The provision III the treaty made be-
tween the Indians and the United States,
when the latter acquired the Oklahoma
lands, which the Government urges as
an excuse for its action in eXpelling
Couch and his followers, reads as fol
lows:
''In compliance with the desire Of the
United States to locate other Indians
. and freedmen thereon, the Creeks
hereby cede and convey to the United
States, to be sold to and used as homes
for such other civilized Indians as the
United States may choose to settle
thereon, the west half of their entire
domain, to be divided by line running
north and south.
This provision is made to stand in
the way of the settlement of the Okla
homa domain by white settlers. 1t is
not operative when rich cattle corpora
lions wish to use the land for grazing
purposes. Oklahoma should not only
be given to actual white settlers. but
the system of Indian reservations should
be wholly broken up. 1t is an outrage
that few squalid Indians should be
allowed millions of of acres the best land
of the continent. Allot land to the Indi-
ans in severalty and then throw open the
residue of land in the Indian territory
to homestead rights. 1t must come to
this sooner or later. The aggressive
Anglo-Saxon will not much longer toler-
ate the sight of beggarly Indians hold
ing the best land of the country. They
must be made to enter into the COM
petition of life. and the law of 1.-THE
survival of the fittest' must relate to
Indians as well as other people.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-12

The Wamego Reporter, in discuss
ing the causes of Mr.. BUTTONS de-
feat for speaker of the House, says
that chad the Gazette and Chronicle
been true to the interests of Dickinson
county, Mr.. BURTON might have been
speaker But we are afraid that the
Reporter was in a humorous mood when
it made that statement. Bless the Re
pOrter'S heart, the attitude of the two
republican papers here on the matter in
hand was of no consequence either way.
They couldn't hurt Mr.. BURTON, Meth
er could they do him any good. One of
them, because the REFLECTOR adyocat
ed Mr.. BUTTONS election, is even
ill-natured enough to say that Dickin-
son county's distinguished representa-
tive has made this paper his personal
organ. Well, if there is any truth in
the statement, it displays in very
striking manner Mr.. BUTTONS good
sense and intellectual appreciation. We
do not, of course, speak authOritatively,
but we believe that we are correct when
we say that Mr.. BURTON would rather
have the support of strong, reliable,
well-edited democratic paper, like the
REFLECTOR, for instance, than the
support of our protoplasmic republican
contemporaries of this city.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-12

Hon. A. a. CARNAHAN, of COncOrdla
writes an interesting account of his eX-
periences at the Denver Silver COnyen-
ton, concluding as follows. "a Ma
tional Silver Convention Will be held III
May or June, at which time the silver
men will begin to show the gold men,
as well as the bOndhOlders, their teeth,
unless they desist in their unwise fight
against silver. Kansas was represented
by fifty men, now and formally of Kan
sas. Capt. II. c. SNYDER of Clyde
county, taking a very prominent part.
The writer of this was chairman Of the
Kansas delegation, and on the COM
mittee On permanent organization.
Capt. SNYDER was on credentials and
resolutions. When the chairman Of
the Kansas delegation was first recoG-
nized by the chair, Kansas was loudly
applauded, and we highly appreciated
the compliment