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The Portland daily press., 1886-06-04
AmUsEnIENTs.
Portland Centennial Chorus p!
SINGERS OF PORTLAND,
Please Respond to the Call.

DY order of the proper committee, 1t has been
ID decided that at the Centennial services IN
City Hail, on Sunday Evening, July 4th, the
music shall be led by large chorus, and the UNI
dersigned has been appointed 70 organize and
conduct the same. Being DESTROYS Of securing a
full and effective chorus, most cordially invite
all members OF ehOirs not engaged on that even.
ing. Also all past members Of the Portland
Chorus Choir and "MaranoeOOk Festival ChO-
rus" and any other good readers of music who
would be pleased to join, TO be present at the or
ganiZation which will be In Reception Hall, City
Building on Thursday Evening, June Sd.
Music will be provided for the chorus by the
committee.
Please make a special effort to be present at
the above time and place. and thus confer a favor
on Yours Respectfully,
may2SG1w w. L. FITCH.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-04

Our esteemed morning contemporary
learns that it was business considerations"
that induced Mr.. Redman to withdraw. 1t
took about twenty-four hours Of solid work
to sufficiently impress those business consid-
erations upon him.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-04

Had the Bangor Commercials portraits OF
the distinguished members of the Democratic
convention been published before instead OF
after the convention the citizens Of Bangor
would have taken steps to organize vigi-
lance committee
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-04
rrHH, PRESS.
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 4.

We do not read anonymous letters ana conlihun-
Gallons. The uame and address 81 the writer are
all cases indispensable, not necessarily LUZ pun
lication bnt as a guarantee Of good iaith'
We cannot undertake to return OF preserve
communications that are not USED.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-04

Panama is an unlucky region. Revolutions
and yellow fever have depopulated it, and
now an unlimited issue of paper money
threatens to despOil it.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-04

Probably it was not his intention, but Mr..
Bass really did Mr.. Brown great kind
ness by emitting his portrait from the gallery
in the Bangor Commercial.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-04

Milwaukee is diScouraging boycotting as
promptly as she discouraged socialism.
Fourteen boycotters have been arrested in
one night, and not one of them is allowed to
go on bail of less than one thousand dollars
They will learn that conspiracy is costly
vnntIIra
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-04

Gladstone has selected Monday as the day
for the vote on the home rule bill. If the
Premier is defeated it will be blue Monday
for England as well as Ireland. Until the
question is finally settled on the lines indi-
Gated by Mr.. Gladstone one country will be
tormented by conflicting passions, the other
by deferred hopes.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-04

Queen Victoria, of all the potentates OF
Europe, sent congratulations to President
Cleveland. Greyy is a Frenchman, and the
other rulers think little of marriage that
DOCS not cemant a throne.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-04
CURRENT COMMENT.
THE DENOMINATION OF MR.. REED
Piddifnrd TO,,yna1

BIduIIOTu JOufnaI.
The action Of the District convention held
in Portland to-day was not in the nature of a
surprise, but the unanimity and heartiness
with which it renominated Hon. Thomas b.
Reed was none the less acceptable and graft
flying The eminent abilities of Mr.. Reed and
his commanding position as leader of his par
ty in the national House of Representatives
pointed to him, as they have for the past ten
years,as pre-eminently the man for the place; ,
indeed, with his years of experience and his
ample knowledge of the varied interests
which centre in this congressional district,
his removal from the nations councils. at
this time would be little less than a public
calamity. Happily, the Republican party do
not propose to remove him, and it doesn't lie
in the power of our friends the enemy to
perform that feat, ardently as they may de-
ci-a 10 do ca
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-04

The New Age says the nomination found
Col. Edwards at the plow. Evidently the
Colonel has got behind hand in his farming.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-04

The Democrats of the Fourth District con-
cluded to renominate Mr.. John f. Lynch,
notwithstanding the very serious charge
made against him some time ago, of inefi-
cheney in securing offices for his constituents.
Perhaps he has promised to be more active
in the futIlre
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-04

An inhabitant of ST. Louis writes to the
London Times that there are not five thou
sand citizens of this country who ever con-
tributed cent to the Irish parliamentary
fund But the money with which Parnell
has waged his tremendous fight for home
rule has come almost entirely from America.
1t has taken thousands of dollars, probably
millions, and all this sum has not been con-
tributed by nameless wanderers. The men
and women who have given it have made
their homes here, and to say that they do not
number more than five thousand may tickle
the ears of an English Tory. but will not be
believed in this country, not even in St.
Louis.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-04
n 1886.

I - = wv
| | belieY Grant meant
to be g6eri and upright.
If he had ! cen a Demo-
cratic President, as all
his life he had been a
Democratic man, the
history of his Presiden-
cy would have been far
different, for he was a
man of the people, and
would have, under prop
er influences, worked
out the peoples cause:
But the corruption OF
his party overwhelmed
him. Without corrupt
ing him as l believe,
they swept him aside.
His party impaired its
corrupt character to his
administration, and pre-
vented him from impart-
ling to it his own.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-04

The Hon. William HI. Clifford in his new
born zeal for the soldier deemed it advisable
to except Gen. Grant from the sweeping con-
demnation that he passed upon Republican
Presidents. 1t is unfortunate for Mr.. Cliff
ford that he has expressed his opinion of
Grant before. In 1872 he was candi-
date for Congress, and in an address to the
convention which nominated him carefully
prepared beforehand, he had something to
say about Gen. Grant. That the public may
see what different view Mr.. Clifford took
of the great soldier when he was not cater
--iag for the soldier vote from that which he
now processes to entertain, we print in par
allel columns his words in 1872 and his words
in 1886:
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-04

The French government has no use for
princes, but fears that the princes may have
some use for the government.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-04
CITY OF PORTLAND.

OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH
April IT, 1886.
NOTICE is hereby given to all house-holders,
IN that all applications for cleaning privy-
vaults, should be made as early as possible, that
the delay which usually occurs later in the season
may be avoided. All applications for emptying
privy vaults left at the Office of the Deputy Mar
shals City Building will have immediate attention.
BY order Of the Board Of Health.
apr17dtf GEO. G. BURGESS, Secretary.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-04
Bangor Wing.

Brown, Bunker & Co. now have a firm grip
on the crank Of the machine and will grind
the grist to suit themselves. The selection
of candidate so generally unknown to the
people as is Col. Clark Edwards, of Bethel,
is only another evidence that the Democrats
appreciate the desperation of their cause.
Knowing that the record of the party is such
as to repel the voters they seek to come into
power on the reputation of their candidate,
who, we understand was good soldier, but
the scheme will not work. Colonel Edwards
may be all right, but he is unfortunate in be-
ing the representative of a party which the
people of this State have every reason to dis
trust. The platform adopted by the conyen-
ton follows the lead of Chairman Clifford in
bidding for the labor vote, which, by the
way, is not to be caught by Democratic chaff
as in years past It practically indorses II the
protective tariff, but whacks the Democratic
majority in the House by denouncing its ex-
travagance in general and the River and
Harbor bill in particular. This simply af-
fords an Illustration of the difference be-
tween Democrats when out of power and
Democrats when afforded an opportunity to
get their fingers in the public treasury.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-04
THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.
Il.r4 A 1Irro,.4 icn

satisfaction, the Maine Democrats yesterday
kept their feelings in check, thought of the
offices still to be filed, and Endorsed the
President. But they could not refrain from
expressing their honest opinion of Congress,
force and with much truth. The weight of
their condemnation fell on the Democratic
House. The Democrats know that they
cannot carry Maine this year, and so could
afford to be facetious in the convention. 1t
certainly was funny for W. II. Clifford Of
licans with stirring up the present tariff agi-
tation, and ascribing to them the labor
troubles. Yet the delegates do not seem to
have appreciated Mr.. Clifford's humor, and
SO failed properly to enjoy the best feature
of their gathering.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-04
In 1872.

III 10 -
Our government was
formed to be one of law,
Grant has made it the
government of a person,
Row such a distortion
may result either from
ignorance or unscrupu-
I0us ambition. With
Grant it results from
ignorance. The reform
ers seek to rescue the
government from the
, dltU and logged Sgll0-
vance of an tntedeltGbtt
President. y n y We
attack only the sordid,
corrupt, personal dd-
ministrdtion of Grant.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-04

AOHbSbOS OOuAAdl.
Tho neIn ooratic State convention mot

The Democratic State convention met at
Bangor yesterday, and besides nominating a
candidate for governor demonstrated that
Chairman Brown is the autocrat of his party
in Maine. He cracked his whip over the
convention and it complacently yielded to
his bidding. Redman, who two years ago
bore the brunt of the battle, was mercilessly
slaughtered by the convention because he
was not the friend of Brown, and the empty
honor of a nomination given Col. Edwards.
consigned to the shelf, where they will be
kept if possible, unless willing to tag after
the Waterville chief. 1t was to be expected
that the convention would eat crow and en-
derse Cleyeland's administration, but had
not policy dictated this course, the President
would have received castigation, and DEM
ocrats went to the convention prepared to
open against him.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-04
CITY ADyERTIsEMENTs.
TO the Board of HarbOF Commits
-aGAxn

SEOmeFSs
A the owner of a wharf on the westerly side OF
IA Long Island, about one hundred 600 feet IN
length, ask permission of your Board to extend
said wharf about fifty feet. maintaining the pre-
sent width, so as to reach deeper water.
[Signed1 ERNESTO PONCE.
Portland, June 2, 1886.
QN the foregoing petition it ordered: That
W hearing be appointed for Friday, June
18th, at 3 O'clock pm, at the wharf above named
on Long Island, and that notice Of the above petit
tiop together with this or order thereon, be given
by publication in two Of the daily papers publish
ed in Portland for seven days previous to the hear
ing
fSigned1 JACOB MCCLELLAN, Harbor
CHARLES MERRILL, Commits
G. III. FARLEY, sioners
Portland, June Q, 1885. Je3d7t
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-04
SToR AGE

First-class storage for Flour, Fish,
Cotton and other merchandise in the
Portland Sugar House. Warehouse re-
fss g rass Of Yas Breeel Apply
]. s. DOUGLASS, Agent,
iy14dtf No. 29S Commercial Street.
The Portland daily press., 1886-06-04
MISCELLANEOUS.
EsASr.IEsF ~
DECORATIVE GOODS !
IN - IN TT VIE
II n ID q III - - e

Lamp Shades and durable So cts each
Bambo Scrolls, for wall decorations 20 cts. each
BrightC olored Parasals % cts EACH
Lot Damaged Parasos, 9cs. each
Bright Folding Fans, 2es' each
I4o Fancy Fans 5cs each
Three Bamboo Stick
picked of the Fourteen Cent Lot
ordec
Hundred 6cts each-6O cts. doz
Five Hundred large handsome Lanterns bright cts
sell at 25 cts be closed out
of Saucer desirable for Dat
meal and Ferries to he sold at each
Five Hundred Real japanese Vases 9cs' each
9cts. each
Fifty nieces more of the Damaged
The Turkish which showing upstairs
desirable Tor
hmalso at the Ldk Rugs which we
selling $500 each.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-10-18

WHY THE YOUTH BLUsHED.
"Charley" said fond sister, "there
is batch of white powder on your
coat collar. How did it get there ?"
"White powder, where?'
"Why, there, and here's some more
on your sleeve y
"Oh, yes, ! know. just came
from the barber shop, and he must
have done it.
.sBut here's long yellow hair. Do
BARRIERS have such long hair as that,
Charley?"
s'Pshaw, no, of course they don't.
Probably some young lady had been
getting her bangs clipped and sat in
the same chair I did,"
swell, but Charley" continued
his tormentor, "there's the corner of
handkerchief sticking out of your
pocket and some writing on it. Let
me see, says, ELLA SIN
"Oh, get out, you pest, that's only
one Jim Floyd gave me to carry to
the owner"
"There's a hairpin sticking out OF
your vest pocket, Charley; does that
belong to Jim Floyd or the barber
And there e's-''
But the enemy had retreated.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-10-18
From My Window.

I'm looking down the river,
With mountains either side,
And summer trees low bending,
To reach the cooling tide;
The sunbeams dance and glimmer,
Night gives silver sheet,
And o'er the gurgling ripples
The white clouds love to meet.
Thus ON and on forever
The gentle stream hath sped,
While many once beholding,
Lie numbered with the dead.
Their lives were jnst as busy,
Were lull of care as we,
But now beside the river,
They rest so quietly!
o, lovely, lovely water,
Within thy banks how mild;
Yet we have seen thee raging,
A maddened torrent wild.
The hidden powers of Nature
God holdeth in His hand;
How little of His workings,
We, children, understand!
Pleasant the voice of waters,
Pleasant the green-fringed tide,
As those refreshing pastures
The Psalmist walked beside;
But changefulness is written
On all things here below
The rock based hills and man himself,-
AS years come i'll and go!
We're passing down Life's river,
The waters roll more fast
Toward the sea like jasper,
Which we shall reach at last;
There, Zion's hills resplendent,
There trees forever green,
And there such bliss and glory
AS earth hath never seen!
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-10-18

He was sick for three months, and
the whole of that time mother nurs-
ed him faithfully. That illness was
turning point in his life. He lived
for saveral years a quiet humble,
Christian life, respected and beloved.
At his death he willed everything
that he possessed to me, in gratitude,
he SAID, for my saving him from
crime by locking him in the cupboard,
as he was fully resolved, if he could
not obtain the papers, to burn the
dwelling. He said also that his i'm
prisonment. in the cupboard broke his
stubborn will, but mothers patience
and kindness in his long illness soft
ened his hard heart"
"The girl did do something in that
story said Margaret, going across
the room to give Aunt Hannah hug
and kiss, and then going to peep into
the cupboard. ooh, Grandpa, isn't
it pity you can't remember it p
81 supposed all through my child
hood that l did remember it," said
Grandpa. 81 heard it told of so Of
ten; j; but Uncle Pingree and | were
| great friends, and / once coaxed the
funny little man to get into the cup
board and show me just how he lay
there that long day when Hannah
and were his jailers."
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-10-18
Old Comrades.

Together we have tramped through life,
And onward still are tralnping;
Old Time has stamped upon our brows
Those lines he's always stamping.
We step to cloves Grand March" to day.
The same as when we started
On our campaign so long ago
1t makes us stouter hearted.
Our battles we have fought and won
By marching close together;
There is no coward in our camp
To show the dread "white feather"
There have been no courts martial yet
For trials ofdesertions-
OF course the spies outside our camp
Have ventured some aspersions.
We have left comrades by the way,
Mates parted-both seceders;
And others stricken by the loss
OF faithful, brave file-leaders.
We have left comrades by the way,
With hearts so firmly phghted,
That all thro' life they kept their step,
And marched to death united.
"Attention company" we hear,
1t is our captains warning,
We know not what the summons brings
Between night and morning;
But grid our sword and breast-plate on,
And helmet-all His armor,
And stir our little campfire up,
And feel our hearts grow warmer.
We know not what command will come
Until we hear 1t spoken;
We know that human hearts are frail,
And even vows are broken.
My mate and / are human, too,
But may our hopes of glory
Perish, and we, before our vows,
And never hear that story.
o, comrades! could We know the bliss
Ofmarching on together,
With hopeful hearts and shielding arms,
Through every phase of weather,
Ye never could desert your mates,
The weaker, nor the stronger;
For man and wife-comrades in arms
The campaign should be no longer.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-10-18
THE WORTH OF LIFE.

Life is no commonplace matter.
1t may seem so when we are dlsap-
pointed, when we are wearied with
labor, or are disgusted with mean
ness, and then we may say with the
preacher, ssVanity of vanities, all is
vanity!" But for myself, often in
my more cheerful moments, and at
those thoughtful seasons, when my
awakened faculties have made me
most truly man, have been awe
struck and breathless, while the great
mystery of life has occurred to mind
in sudden vividness. In such mo-
ments what miracle have l felt my
self. Excepting God himself, what
is there more woLdrous than this
birth of feeling, thinking and active
life in our bosoms, which a short
time since were inanimate, insensate
dust? What thought is there more
wondrous than this, that we are all
living souls, abroad and active on
the face of the world which was once
without form and void! Well might
the son of God shout for JOY when
the first man Of our race stood up
erect amid the trees of Eden 1t was
the birth of rational spirit, and
that paradisal wonder is repeated in
the growth of every infan. and
throughout the life of every man.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-10-18

The torturing disease neuralgia is instantly
lieved and rapidly cured by Salvation Oil.
Rev. VIM. IL. Chapman, Pastor af NJ. e. Church.
Georgetown, D. c., wsose us Having had an OPP
portpnity to test the excellent qualities of Dr. Bulls
Cough Syrup. hesitate not to say, it is the best
remedy have used in my family" For Group
and whooping cough It is sure cure,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-10-18

"What is wanted in this country" said
the bride, as she examined the wedding
presents, sis not civil service reform, but
silver service reform. This set is plated"
Mrs. Dusenberry-Now, just look at
those fiannels! If anything will shrink
more from washing, I'd like to know what
it is? Mr.. Dusenberry-A boy WILL my
dear.
Angelina-Oh, mamma, Algernon
squeezed my hand so tonight that 1 al
most cried Mamma-What. my child,
from pain? Angelina-No, mamma, from
joy.
Small Boy-Mother, please give me
another lump of sugar for my coffee. I've
dropped the one you gave me. Mother
Where have you dropped it? Small Boy
In the coffee.
A lady who had quarrelled with her
bald-headed lover, said in dismissing him,
"What is delightful about you, my friend,
is that I have not the trouble of sending
you back any locks of hair"
What an inveterate talker Charley is,
remarks Brown; I never saw his like.
Fogg replies: Nor 1, either; 'pon my
word, believe he would even talk to his
wife rather than keep his tongue still.
''Now then," said busy lawyer to a
number of waiting clients ,"you are next,
SIR" 81 am what?" "Next." ''No you
DON'T" said the client, moving toward the
door. 81 didn't come in here to get shaw
| ed"
One of the cruelest retorts made by any
musical audience, is reported from Cali
fornia. A vocalist was warbling to her
| own satisfaction. so, would l were a
Bird rough miner replied. go, would
I were gun
'Just throw me half dozen Of the big.
| gest Of those trout" said citizen to q
| fish dealer. stThrow them?" queried the
dealer. eyes, and then I'll go home and
tell my wife that I caught them. I may
be poor fisherman, but I'm no liar.'
ssOh, DEAR" sighed Widow Jones, ssii
John had only made will, there wouldn',
be all this trouble about the property.
''Do the lawyers bother your" s'Bothel
me? They almost worry me to death.
declare, sometimes wish John hadn't
died.
''They are making door with five key
holes,' said Mrs. Augur. 'sWhat's the
use of so many?" asked Mr.. Augur. 81
will be much easier to unlock You car
find it much more easily when you come
home late" replied the kind lady. Grub
bish!" responded Mr.. Augur. "Idiocy
When come home late one key-hole is
about all 1 care to find''
A little child was besieging her father
to take her to visit her grandmother, wht
lived at distance. To get rid of her, b,
said: cit costs $40 every time we go t,
see grandma, Florence, and $40 dom
grow on every BUSH" 'Neither do grand
mas grow on every bush," answered tn,
little girl, promptly, and her logic wa
convincing. They went.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-10-18

JUST THREE THINGs.-ssI once
met thoughtful Scholar" says Bish-
op Whipple, "who told me that for
years he had read every book he
could find which assailed the religion
of Jesus Christ, and he said he
should have become an infidel but
for three things.
''First. | am man. I am going
somewhere. To night I am a day
nearer the grave than l was last
night. / have read all such books
can tell me. They shed not one SOL
itary ray of hope or light upon the
darkness. They shall not take away
the guide and leave me stone blind.
Second. / had mother. /
saw her 60 down into the dark valley
where am going, and she leaned
upon an unseen arm as calmly as
child goes to sleep on the breast of
its mother. / know that was not
dream.
Third. / have three motherless
daug ghters, (and he said it with tears
In his eyes.) They have no protect
or but myself. / would rather kill
| them than leave them in this sinful
world if you blot ont from it all the
teachings of the gospel"