The Portland daily press., 1885-08-20
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THE PRESS.
THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 20.
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Now that the small pox is well established
in Montreal the people have begun to wake
up to the necessity of vaccination.
Geronimo's band seems to be thoroughly
broken up. But unfortunately Geronimo
himself has succeeded in escaping, though in
crippled condition.
Precisely where the fault lies we do not
know, but there is obviously fault some
where when the cellar of a school house is
left in such condition that to go into it a
man has to put on rubber boots.
Judging from the way the Democrats are
now performing the President will need all
the strength he accumulates in the Adron-
dacks and more too to successfully resist their
demand for clean sweep when he gets back
ITO Washington.
Gen. Butler has taken the trouble to let it
be known to the President that he has very
exalted opinion of the administration and
thinks Mr.. Cleveland is destined to be one of
the biggest and best Presidents the country
has ever had. The President should write
directly and ask him what he wants.
The Governor General of Canada has mott
fed the state department that Mr. Whelan,
recently appointed consul at Fort Erie, will
not be received. The ground of refusal is
the fact that Whelan was concerned in the
Fenian raid into Canada in 1865. 1t is good
substantial lground, too. Whelan should be
promptly withdrawn.
The Boston Posts Washington despatch
says the administration has determined that
hereafter whenever persons unitnesS for
office is discovered after his appointment 1.-THE
names of all the persons who recommended
him shall be published. That is an excellent
idea, and if it had been put in practice some
time ago the President would not have been
deceived so often.
An associated press dispatch from Plym-
outh, N. H., says:
"The accounts of the last freshet as printed in
Boston and New York papers, were extremely
sensational, with little truth The damage was
comparatively trfing here; In Thornton there
was slight land Slide on Mill Brook, which badly
swept and buried up few farms.
Land is getting very loose up in New
Hampshire. A sldethat only buries up
few farms nowadays is only a slight one
lin fact, hardly worth mentioning.
The Democrats of Montgomery county,
Pennsylvania, have the courage of their con-
yictions. They are opposed to the Civil Ser
vice law and in convention assembled have
adopted resolution demanding its abolish
ment. They also insist that Cleveland shall
fill all the offices Immediately with Demo-
Gratis This way of attacking the Civil Ser
vice law is much more manly than the mode
adopted in the New York custom house
The gentleman the Massachusetts Demo-
Gratis have selected to preside in their State
convention is Secretary of the State Board of
Agriculture, that is, an officer under Repub-
lican administration. Suppose the situation
had been reversed, and Republican conven-
ton had selected Republican holding office
under Democratic administration to preside?
Would the Democracy have interpreted his ac-
ceptanee of the position as offensive parti
sanship" and demanded his removal?
If the weather is fair to-day the Puritan
and Priscilla will sail another race. The win
ner will probably compete the first of next
month with the English cutter Genesta,
which came over with the intention of car
rying back the famous cup now in the pos
session of Gen. Buffers American Each
yacht is anxious to be allowed this honor, and
their utmost speed will be shown. Boston
and New York anxiously await the result
A correspondent sends a communication
on the overlooking of horses in which he is
inclined to make complaint against the agent
for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals for not putting stop to it. The
agent is human and has but two eyes of the
ordinary kind. He cannot possibly see all
the cruel acts practiced by ayaricious owners
of public conyeyances. If persons who
know of cases of the kind will place the
facts in his possession we feel certain that