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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-05
THE oLEoMARcARlNE BILL.

The manufacturers and dealers in oleomar-
garine will be entitled to no sympathy if their
business is taxed out of existence. IRE
speetiye of the question of the wholesome
ness or Embellishments of the product, their
business has been a crooked one from the
beginning. Very little oleomargarine has
been sold for what it is, preparation of
animal fats resembling butter, but almost all
of it has been disposed of as the yerltable
product of the dairy. That is to say,
people have been habitually deluded and
made-to believe that they were purchasing
dairy butter, when in fact they were getting
nothing but counterfeit, and frequently
very vile counterfeit The business mas been
exceedingly profitable, because while the
cost of oleomargarine is very small compared
with that of dairy butter, it has been SOLD at
prices close up to that obtained for the gen.
uine article. Against business conducteu
as this has been the farmers had good reason
to demand protection, and men VINO were
not farmers even better, for the latter were
liable to eat the spurious butter while the
former were safe from This danger and SUI
fered only in their pockets.
Had it been proved to the satisfaction OF
the committee that oleomargarine was posi-
lively unwholesome doubtless its manutac-
ture would have been prohibited, but author
tiles differed on that point and there was not
sufncient foundation for such stringent en-
actment. 1t was clear enough, however, that
the business as at present conducted was
iraudnlent,and that something should be don
70 correct it. Whether the best course has
peen pursued is doubtful. The trouble with
'ne Dill seem to be that it practically recog
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-05

The heart of the Bourbon will thrill to hear
what Samuel J. Randall has done. The civ
il service commission now occupies room
in the building of the agricultural bureau.
Commissioner Coleman notified Messrs Edg-
erly and Oberly some time ago that he need
ed the room, and that they must move by
July 1. Secretary Lamar secured quarters
for the commission, selecting the old Chinese
legation. But Mr. Randall, as chairman of
the appropriation committee of the House,
refuses to allow the appropriation for the rent
of the new quarters. The civil service com
missioners protested against decision which
would turn them out of doors; but Mr.. Ran
dali was obdurate. But the reform which
Mr.. Randalps abilities have not been able to
thwart in open fight, will hardly suffer by
his insOlence.
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A REPUBLICAN, STATE CONVENTION
WILL BE HELD IN
CITY HALL, LEWISTON,
woa.oea.. lupa Q 1886. al II O'Clock a. m.


For the purpose of nominating canalaate 10, ior
governor to be supported at the net ,
tion and transactng any other pusiios' 'iiae may
properly come before II. will be az follows.
The basis of representation VIII 9o 20 ,iti o.
Fach civ town and plantation VIII pc entltied 10
one dee9ate and for each sevehty-nve xo.es edss
for the Repnblican candidate tor ToSeTnor n 1904
an ADDITIONAL delegate and for iractoh q ii9rty
Votes IN excess Of seyenty-iye yotes' an aadlton-
a. The State Committee will be IN session ION. IN me
paoanton Room of the Hall at nine o'clock on the
nornfn@ If fhe convention, for the purpose OF re-
naiyino The credentials Of delegates.
Al e1ectors ~ Maine who are IN favor or maln-
aini Protectjye Tariff who will join in re-
sssting the aftemnt now being made in Demo-
sisllg Iv aetyi Mathematics to injure many
Of the leading industrial interests q Name; VINO
are in favor Of eleyating and dlgnifylng human la
hns nv securing TO the laborer ms Just reward;
Who demand freedom of suffrage throughout the
ranuhlic and an honest counting OF the ballots;
wl,o nnhoId ali iudicous measures for the encour-
agemant of American shipbuildlng; who believe
% !, hnnesf and responsible CIVIL service and IN
an economical administration OF the Government;
who anproye the Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic
and tie promotion of the cause of Temperance,
are cordially invited without regard to past polit
iesl differences, to unite with the Republicans in
HE selection Of delegates to this Convention.
~ Per ~ ordey Renubcan State Committee.
= - JOSEPH H. MANLEY, Chairman.
WILLIS II. WING, secretary.
Augusta, Me-, April To- looo'
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-05

Mr. Morley's remarks in the House of
Commons Thursday indicate that the gov
eminent has practically abandoned all hope
of getting the home rule bill through Sec
ond reading. Nevertheless it is not discour-
aged, but proposes to fight it out on this
line if it takes all summer and the fall in
the bargain.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-05

The committee of the Massachusetts. Leg
lslature, after most tedious hearing, has
decided that Governor Robinson did right,
and Cyrus w. Field no wrong in the affair OF
the New York g. New England bonds. The
committee is to be congratulated on escaping
both ScyIla and Charybdis by so simple an
expedient.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-05
New York Evening Post.

He made himself power in national poll
tics, preserved his good standing in the
church, and even developed into a religious
lecturer, on the scantiest stock of education.
He got reputation for what is called rug
ged honesty" while surrounding himself
with thieves and peculators, promoting their
fortunes, riveting their hold on the city. CIV
ing them the latest offices, and frustrating
ali attempts to make the offices less fat, or to
purify municipal politics in any degree. And
it ought not to be forgotten, considering that
Kelly was public man, that somehow he
managed to get rich without pursuing any
open and recognized and regular business.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-05

1t is now said that it was not aversion to
wearing dress coat thatprevented Attorney
General Garland from attending the Presi-
dents wedding, but strained relations" be-
tween him and the Chief Magistrate grow
ing out of the Pan Electric affair.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-05

At a meeting in Glasgow, Thursday eve
ming, the Highland reform club adopted a
resolution favoring home rule and the estab-
lishment of a separate legislature. This
will give the Tories another spasm Of anxiety
for the unity of their imperial agglomera-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-05

jay Gould's son says that his father adj
mires Powderly very much. Here seems to
be conspiracy to discredit the Grand Mas
ter Workman.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-05

The centre of yachting interest this sum
mer promises to be, not the course Of the
New York yacht club, but the coast of Nova
Scotia, where the Canadian cruisers are rae
ing with the Yankee fishermen. The Queens
cod is the prize.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-05
CONGRESSMAN REED,
Boston journal.

The Republican Convention of the First
Congressional District of Maine rendered the
country and the party good service yesterday
by nominating Hon. Thomas B. Reed for re-
election to the next Congress. Mr.. Reed was
first elected in 1876, and has received three
been in the House, he has, by his industry,
ability and fitness for Congressional work,
achieved a national reputation. To-day none
of the able Republicans in the House rank as
his superior, and by all he is recognized as
a leader. He is not only brilliant contro-
versialist, but he is master of the art of
close, clear and effective statement Selling
the salient points in debate and presenting
them in the most effective manner The en-
thusiastic unanimity with which the conven-
ton placed Mr.. Reed denomination indicates
his election by receiving full Republican
vafa
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-05
THEI PRESS.
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 5.

We do not read anonymous letters and commuh-
cations. The name and address of the writer are
all cases Indispensable, not necessarily Tor pup
lication but as a guarantee Of good faith
We cannot undertake to return or preserve
communications that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-05

The New Age is strong advocate OF a ten
hour law, but appears to think the men in
Col. Elias Milliken's saw mill ought to work
eleven hours. Col Milliken's saw mill is a
Darooratic saw mill
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-05
A CLEAN SWEEP!
FIGURES THAT TALK


thousands thousands and the public getting
the
the suit stock al
Suits Odd Pants.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-05

Ex-President Arthur has received a piece
of the wedding cake. Mrs. Cleveland should
have remembered that the ex-President is
very sick man.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-05

Collector Chase and all his Democratic
deputies were at Bangor quietly and unob-
trusiyely exercising their political rights by
urging Mr.. Redman to yield to business
considerationsn and withdraw.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-05

Brother Bass in his paper says the Demo-
cratic convention was zone of the best gath
erings of representative Democrats which
has been held in the State for long time. y
This is magnanimous considering how the
convention treated Brother Bass and his
friends But then after those wood cuts he
could afford to be magnanimous.
INC Dr1dgJUn NEWS says that Col. Ed
wards was Republican until a compare
lively recent date. He got disgruntled DUR
ing some sort of municipal contest in which
he thought he was misused, and went over
to the Democracy. The ex-Republicans
manage to gather in most of the honors, SUBJ
stantial and otherwise, that the Democracy
have to give.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-05
Springfield Union.

The Maine Democrats at their State con-
vention, yesterday, Endorsed the admistra-
ton, of course, for the men who have been
appointed to collectorships and post Office in
spectorships were there in force, as were al
so the men who hoped to be called upon to
fill the few federal offices in Maine that have
not yet been turned over to the Democracy.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-05
MEMS YOUTHS
CLOTHING :!

MY stock is all new, and select
ed from the best manufactures,
and perfect fit and well made
garments are always to be found
ON my counter. Also all the late
styles in NECK WEAR, COLLARS
and CUFFS, HOSIERY, GLOVES,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-05

of so.called society novels, and while IL has
no marked merit it is still rather amusing,
but improbable story. (New York: Harper
g. Brothers; Portland: Loring, Short &c
HARMONY
The Familiar Letters of Peppermint Per-
kins will be found vastly entertaining to a
large class of readers, and will be greatly
liked by the young people for whose amuse-
ment they are especially written. They con-
tain much good-natured satire on society
girls" the popular fads of fashionable Bos-
tonians. The style is bright and slangy and
only fatigues one little by the constant
italicizing of words, which, though distinctly
a copy of the conversation of the ''girl of the
period" is even more disagreeable in print
than to the ear. Boston: Ticknor 81 Co;
Portland Loring, Short & Harmony
Miss Woolson's charming story of East
Angels having run its course in Harper's
Magazine, appears in convenient volume
The Southern atmosphere of the book is de-
lcious, and the characters, individually and
collectively are most interesting and of inf
mite variety. The pathos, the humor and the
reality of the story are really exquisite, and
there is about it rare charm which is
distinctly its own 1t is refreshing to find
a novel of to-day so harmonious, artistic
and satisfactory. New York: Harper &
Brothers; Portland: Loring, Short & Har-
mon
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-05

The Knights of Labor have adjourned
finally. The latest reports seem 70 show
that at the last moment the danger which
seemed imminent, that the Order would fall
into the hands of the radical wing was
averted, and that Mr. Powderly's views will
still exercise controlling influence over the
Order. The convention has done something
to prevent reckless strikes and boycottS,
which is good. 1t has mapped out ALSO a
financial programme and requested Congress
to follow it, which is not good. However
desirable it may be that the poor man
should be able to hire money when he
wants it on easy terms, il is not practicable
for the government TO go into the banking
business with view to accomplishing sucha
result. The government is not the rich miser
with its pockets stuffed with dollars which
it does not need, that the Knights appear
to think. On the contrary it is a pauper de-
pendant upon charity for support. If it
should go into the banking business on any
thing like the scale the Knights suggest the
currency of the coudtry would soon be on q
fiat basis, calamity which would affect
the laboring men more than anybody
else. However, as the establishment of
proposed banks would create great num-
Der Of fat jobs, it would not be surprising if
some Democratic convention in the near fu-
ture recommended it.
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=. oo.orlno. manv Of the monuments in

He describes many of the monuments in
the cemeteries, and his description VIII be OF
great value when time shall have brought
them To decay. The stately" monument to
William Tying, Of which he speaks SO highly,
has been kept in repair by Ancient Land
mark Lodge Of Masons, of which that wor-
thy was first Master.
Mr., Goold makes an earnest protest against
the removal Of the remains of the old lnhaDl-
tantS from the Eastern cemetery, protest
In which most people will unite. One pelnt
which he makes is very strong, namely, tnat
very little of the remains are found TO re-
moye-little beside the headstone Gull one
cannot but sympathize with the Tears Oh
those who know that old cemeteries are ire
ouently pared away, and, knowing that they
cannot always remain to watch the sacred
graves of their fathers, wish to make them
as secure as human foresight can.
Mr.. Goold makes very valuable sugges-
ton regarding the name ''quack," which
Levett said the Indians applied to Hog
Island Roads. He says Kellogg's vocabula-
nv gives s.nacqudck" as the Indian word for
red, and suggests that ''the steep lodges on
the shore of the neck may have been more
stained red by iron than now, which caused
the Indians to call the shores and harDor
Macquock. Anyone who has admired the
beautiful coloring on the lofty south front
of Little Hog Island will at once agree that
the Indians might well have applied mat
name to that place; and then the derivation
of Hog will appear very reasonable, (slnce
sshauck" and 'shaug'' are interchangeable IN
Indian terminations) much more reasonable
than from Quohaug a bivalve which never
did abound there. His derivation of the
name of House Island from Howes, sup
posed former occupant seems very reasona-
Bile.
A full and we'll arranged index is given,
which contributes largely to the value OF the
work in the eyes of all historical students.
A list of subscribers is added, from which
we find that 511 volumes We're subscribed
for in Portland, and Sc elsewhere, total of
567. These, with the sales which he may
reasonably expect should encourage him to
go on with his work, and give continue
ton of the history from 1872 to the present
time, period which his personal recollec-
lions will cover, and of which no one is so
competent to speak as himself. This work
cannot be undertaken too 500 nor pros
ecuted too rapidly. Direct testimony is
more valuable than hearsay evidence in his
tory as in law, and although the historian
may linger more lovingly over themes of the
remoter past, it is in the recountal of the
scenes of his own time that his greatest fame
will be obtained. Copies may be obtained at
the store of William Senter & Co.
ADAM NEwBEGIN.
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CHILDREN'S
L0TH|NG !! !

/ am now showing some very
handsome Suitings in this depart
ment, both in Fancy Checks and
Plain Mixtures, Whipc0rds and
Diag0nals. Also a very fine line
of SPRING OVERCOATS at low
est prices to be found in the city
4.r.. az, -, q &c r.nndc
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-05

While our esteemed morning contemporary
alleges that Mr.. Redman withdrew on ac-
count business considerations the Bangor
Commercial says he withdrew because the
convention wanted him to. While we hate
to say anything that tends to reflect in the
slightest degree upon the credibility of our
esteemed morning contemporary we are
obliged to confess that the Commercials
statement impresses US as the more truthful.
The sudden and unfav0rable change which
threatens to defeat the home rule bill for
the present dates from the night of the debate
in which Mr.. Gladstone in an unguarded mo-
ment lost his temper and declared that the
bill which he should introduce in the fall
would be identical with the present bill with
the exception of one clause. TIE Harrington
Wings saw their opportunity and speedily
improved it. The dissidents who had con
cluded to stife their objections and vote for
the second reading had done so under the
impression that Gladstone would recast the
bill, retaining the principle but altering the
methods. When they found that the methods
were to be retained as well as the principle
they changed their minds.