The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-02-01

THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY /.
Senator Vance vehemently denies that ne
ever owned a cents worth of stock III the
Pan-Electric Telephone Company.
IF tbe Greeks attack the Turks, the English
Admiral has been ordered to attack the
Greeks. The Greeks viii probably take Mr.
Gladstone's advice and pause.
Secretaries Bayard and Lamar were in
favor of furnishing the Senate with the pa
pers in the Dustin case, but Messrs. Villas,
Whitney and Manning opposed it.
Two mines in Nevada are named Beck and
Eyarts. The inference is that the former
has silver in it, and that what is in the latter
nobody has yet been able to find out
The Queen has summoned Mr.. Gladstone,
but apparently with reluctance. The logl-
cal result of the overthrow of Lord Sails
bury's cabinet was cabinet headed by MI
Gladstone, and the Queen has had to accept
it in spite of her distaste for the Liberal
leader.
Mr.. Parnell says CURLY that he would not
accept a seat in Mr.. Gladstone's Cabinet
His place is at the head of the Nationalist.
He alone can control them. Take him away
and they will inevitably split up into fac
tions and their energies be expended in fight
ing among themselves
The arrangement fixed up between the Re
publicans and Democrats Of the Ohio Senate
is more like a truce than permanent cessa-
ton of hostilities. Neither party has
changed its attitude on the main issue which
is whether eonfederates of men on trial shall
sit ON the jury, The Democrats still insist
that they shall while the Republicans are
just as determined that they shall not.
Brother Bass and Brother Bunker are still
at it, Brother Bunker accuses Brother Bass
of exchanging his influence with the admin
stration for subscriptions to the Bangor
Commercial Brother Bass pronounces
Brother Bunker's allegation falsehood and
says that his refusal to help Brother Bunker
get the Bath relationship is the secret of the
latter's personal attacks upon him.
The Bangor Commercial dominates Judge
Cleaves as Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor and says it will give him its cordial
and hearty support Let us see. Wasn't it
Judge Cleaves that while ago the CONNER
cial alleged was supported by all the trad
ers and dickerers in politics, all the men
who were ready to sell their official influence
for money!"
Bismarck bluntly explains that he Danish
ed the Poles and confiscated their lands be-
cause their representatives in the ReleIstag
had not been sufficiently pliable 1t IS an
open secret that he would like to drive the
French out of Alsace and Lorraine and the
Danes out of Schleswig-Holstein, and If he
lives he probably will. 1t is altogether for
tunate for freedom that the iron Chancellor
is not immortal.
The discovery of large quantities of alum.
mum in Piseataqnis county is not of start
ling moment Aluminium is common enough,
but the cost Of separating it from the ele-
utuJS Will Which, IL Is COluDiutu. lUI IL 10
never found in the free state, has rendered
it practically useless. If Prof. Ellsworth
has really discovered cheap method OF
separating it, and has sold his secret to the
Monson company, then there may be millions
in the Monsoon mine.
The Boston Post publishes an interview
on the fisheries question with Hon. Peter
Mitchell, M. p, of Montreal, member OF
the Canadian Privy Council and ex-Minister
of Marine and Fisheries Mr.. Mitchell
thinks the United States made more out Of
the fishery clauses of the Washington treaty
than the Dominion, and that $5,500,000 was
inadequate compensation for what the
Canadians surrendered. AS the Post sug
gests, the anxiety of the Province fishermen
to renew the arrangement of the Washing
ton treaty tends very strongly to discredit
Mr.. Mitchelrs assertions.
When Julian HaWthorne's Nathaniel
Hawthorne and his Wife, was issued the
omission of the name of James I. Fields, the
intimate friend and publisher Of the novelist
was conspicuous, and occasioned much COM
ment. Mr.. Hawthorne now rises to explain
that although his father wrote the greatest
romances Of the century he never received
over $4,000 from Fields, his publisher; and
that while Nathaniel Hawthorne created the
most wonderful line of romances of this cen
fury his children inherit no income worth
mentioning and have to make their own
way in the world
There are two Mississippi postmasters
whose fate in the Senate ought to be already
determined One of them is J. J. Shannon,
the editor Of the Meridian Mercury, which
has in every way endeavored to excite the
bull dozers to theirlatrocities. The other is
William Groome, the editor of the Vicksbure
Herald, who in April, 1885, said in his pa
per: "rThe white Democrats should direct
their attacks against the white Republican
bosses and kill them when it becomes neces
sary. SO far as our knowledge goes, the ne
gro will be treated with fairness, but this
will be bad year for white Republican
BOSSES"
There is intense excitement near Walhalla
SC. over the open preaching of polygamy
by two Mormon elders, who have recently
made their headquarters around there. The!
keep shy of the officers, holding their meet
ings at night in lonely places They go tx
the poorer people, and by sympathizing witt
their condition obtain an influence over then
keeping their real purpose secret until ~tht
end. The young men have recently organ
lied and served warnings upon the elders
that they will be roughly dealt with. Dan
vile seems to be their chief PROSECUTING
point. 1t is alleged that fifty converts are
ready to go to Utah
We publish elsewhere statement from
the coopers setting forth the reasons why thu
cooperage business has declined until it
total extinction has become imminent unless
Congress takes some action in the matter
The industry gives employment to a large
number of laboring men and indi
rectly assists the shipping interests, 81
that its extinction is a matter of goot
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