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Year: 1879

The Republicans of this State have ample
reason for the confidence they now feel that
Maine will be redeemed and Daniel F. Da-
Wis elected Governor by the people. What
ever doubts were entertained at the opening
of the campaign or during its first weeks
have vanished The only question now is,
as intelligent observers concede, one OF the
size of the majority; and if the zeal and ar
dor and wisdom with which the canvass has
been conducted up to this moment charac-
terize its remaining week, that majority will
mount far up into the thousands.


With this prospect ahead, let no Republi-
can relax in zeal, but let all fight to the end
with the vigor with which they went into
the campaign. The number of converts is
already large, but can be increased. Above
all, let no Republican absent himself from
the polls. For behind Governor Davis we
want as large Legislative majority as ever
held up the hands of Republican party in
this State We want popular majority
large enough to crush forever the shameless,
unprincipled, office-seeking coalition against
WlouI VIC diC WdSiDS ouSCOooioi HOho'
We want a majority so great that it will car
Nv courag and aid to those who through
out the Union are battling for honest mon
ey and an honest ballot. This we can have
if we but work for it.


We have it in our power TO send five Re-
publican Representatives from this city to
the Legislature. Let us exercise that pow
er. The canvass is of the most encourag-
ing nature. All we have to do is to get out
the vote. Let that be done. If all Repub-
licans do their duty the city of Portland will
go on the record with rousing majority for
Governor, and for County and Representa-
tive tickets. Only neglect of duty can pre-
vent that, and this is not a time when any
believer in the issues on which We are wag-
ing this fight can without shame neglect to
support his opinions by his vote.
Year: 1879

Whenever the soldiers wife uses sugar the
bondholder gets from her some Of the money
paid 10 her husband for his services i'll the
army.-Ledder.


WHY don't you tell your readers that the
soldiers wife gets her sugar now at a lower
price than at any time since her husband
went into the army? That is the fact.
Year: 1879

gan of this city brags of great gains, but
says nothing about Calais This city is a
fair sample of the State at large, and the
Times knows the Republicans will double
last years majority this year. Reports from
the county and State indicate similar con-
dition of things. There is no need to brag,
for every man knows the feeling in his own
locality
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publica-
ton but as guaranty of good faith


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
muncatlons that are not used.
Year: 1879

THIS time the Campaign STANDARD only
makes mistake Of S1S, 100000 in giving the
interest-charge on the public debt. That is
doing we'll for the Standard. If it perse-
veres it may reach the truth one of these
DAYS.
Year: 1879

THE Bddeford Journal says: ''The up
per part of York county is booming. Repub-
ican gains are reported from every town
daily. The Republicans who have been car
ried away by the Greenback glamour are get
ting their eyes wide open, and decline to
march any further towards the Democratic
camp. They see clear through the trick
that is being played to secure them for the
Presidential campaign next year, and are
leaving the old bunker crew.
Year: 1879

THE remarkable Argus leader which
concur letter stated the following as one of
the points ON which the Democrats and
Greenbackers agree:


We agree that the general government pos
sesses the power under the constitution to
issue paper currency for the people-that
this is one of its high prerogatives.


Do they agree that the paper currency so
issued shall be legal-tender? Or did Gov
ernor Garcelon misrepresent his party when
he declared that the only constitutional
legal-tender currency was gold and silver?
The Argus suppressed that part OF his
speech.
Year: 1879

The Greenback-LdbOr Chronicle is getting
mad. 1t says:


The Lewiston Gazette that did everything in
its power last year to defeat the success of
Greenback principles and the Greenback cause
is now soliciting Greenback support in all parts
of Androscoggin County, and the pseudo
Greenback-Democratic fusionists who were
professed Greenback last year are now having
all their printing done at the Journal and Ga
zette offices. They refuse to give their patron
age to the Chronicle because it is uncompro-
missing Greenback. We don't mourn much,
however, if these fellows don't pay the Journal
and Gazette better than they did us. We
should be happy to have the former secretaries
of the State and county committees trot in the
little sum of ninety dollars, which they are
owing the Chronicle. Then they could with
better grace support their adopted organs.
However, the Chronicle rejoices that it is no
longer an organ. But rather defender of the
peoples cause. Last year the Gazette refused
to publish Belcher's resignation, that it might
defeat Chase, preferring Frye to Greenback-
er. Now Chase and his crowd prsfer the Ga
zette to the paper which has always supported
them and to-day stands on positive Greenback
ground.
Year: 1879

SAYS the Cincinnati Gazette: ''In our
adversity we have learned to manufacture
for ourselves. Under the reign of initiation
we were powerless to compete with foreign
nations, but in those years of depression we
have moved forward with wonderful rapid
ity, until we are now almost to the fore
front with England. In 1873 we imported
near $60,0O0,000 in iron and steel. The
time is not likely to come when we shall do
that again. In that year we imported of
iron rails alone $20,000,0O0. Hereafter we
shall be exporters of iron rails and not inn
porters. Consider the import of this A few
comparative figures in this connection are
instructive:
Year: 1879

The Green5acker, published at Bangor, is
a paper with which the PRESS does not en-
joy the advantage of an exchange. Its issue.
of August 21 has, however, come to our no
tice, and in it we find, under the head of
''What Greenbackers Mean," the following
words:


Greenbackism means the complete and utter
annihilation of the intereSt-bearing bond SyS-
tenn, National, State, municipal, county, or
township, where the demand for money is for
pose whatever, especially where the investment
is expected to yield an income.


This extract is copied by the Greenbacker,
with tacit approval, from an Ohio paper, and
accepted by it as an expression of Greenback
principles. Thus we find representative
Greenback organ in this State declaring for
the complete and utter annihilation'' OF all
debts, National, State, municipal and town.
1t calls for the reputation of the State of
Maine bonds, of the city of Portland bonds,
of all the town scrip, issued for ''any pur-
pose whatever" This is the baldest kind
of reputation. 1t is not proposed to ''an-
nihilate" these debts by paying them. They
can only be swept away by disavowing them;
for they have years to run, and no issue can
be made by honest men concerning their
payment as they become due.


This is the sort of thing that the honest
people of Maine are called upon by the
Greenbackers to support by their votes. Are
they prepared to do it? Are they prepared
to repudiate the debts they have in city
council and town meeting voted to contract?
Are they prepared to record themselves as
wholesale swindlers, whose note no man will
take, and whose word no man will believe?
If they are not so prepared let them by voice
and vote condemn the swindle they are in
vited to perpetrate. Let them reject the men
who make these base proposals and reject
their allies and supporters. Let them for
the honor and self-respect of the State of
Maine emphatically rebuke at the polls the
intimation that the people of this State are
willing to set themselves down as rogues
and swindlers.
Year: 1879

It has been said that the Cashmere is as essential to the wardrobe of a we'll dressed la dy as shoes to the feet. Messrs. W. B. Hall & Co. the leaders in the Dry Goods business in Bridgeport are distributing make of Cash worthy of mention. They are known as sthe Blooming Black Cashmere" and the wool from which they are made is grown where the at- mosphere is moist and temperate, and where the sky is almost always overcast. For the reason the soft elastic and glossy qualities are retained in the flores of the wool. Consumers of these goods all remark upon the uniformity, brilliancy and beauty. of color and the distin- gushing feature about them is that every thread of the warp and filling is spun to uni form fineness and always woven with the same number of threads to the inch. These goods well to send for samples of Nthesa soods W. I understand this firm do large order business in silks as we'll as cashmeres.
Year: 1879

There is good deal of feeling in business circles usually favoring protection, in favor of thorough revision of the tariff For instance, steel blooms are admitted on payment of a duty of but cent per pound, while the same blooms rolled into rails have to pay over cts. per pound
Year: 1879

In recent case tried in a Massachusetts court, one Joseph Parker, liveryman, recover ed judgment against a Catholic priest for sa43s for damages done Parker in his business under' the following circumstances: Parker went to hear the lecture of Catholict. convert to Professionalism. His priest at once excom. municated him, which he had legal right to do, odious as such an exercise of priestly pow el unquestionably seems But the priest went further; he forbid his flock hiring horses of Parker, and ruined his business This the court holds to have been an unlawful act, and judgment for the above heavy amount is ren- dered in redress of the injury Parker has suf- fered.

 Another case of prestly interference is caus- ing much excitement in Boston. This is the case of Father Scully who has taken it upon himself to excommunicate all parents of his congregation who send their children to the public schools, instead of to his own parish school. He pleads the express approbation of the Pope for this act of intolerance, and there is much feeling aroused agalnst the Catholic clergy in consequence. The result of all this may be to stir up the old fire of Native Amer icanism which has been smouldering very low for many years past.

 The rector of Baltimore church recently asked for contribution of gold, silver and jewelry, for new communion service. The congregation gave half bushel of plate, jew- ery, etc., among them diamond ring worth $1, 100. The plan looks pretty, and reads well in the papers, but it "won't wash" The property will not prove worth to the church more than third of what it cost the givers Then the latter buy anew, and the jewelry stores net about twice as much as the church bY the transaction
Year: 1879

To the Editor of the Globe.


SIR: My attention has been called to an ar
ticle which recently appeared in your valuable
journal rejecting both on my husband and my
self. As neither of us have ever been in st.
Paul, l will beg you to give these few lines
highly sensational story, and to denounce the
person who has made use of my name as BARE
FACED 1MPosToR. At the time of the desertion
of my ALLEGED child, both my husbsnd and
were playing at the Lyceum theatre in this city.


Yours truly, MAUDE BRANsCoMBE
Year: 1879

Milwaukee newspaper published a story about a dark-haired girl and a light-haired girl, room-mates in a boarding school, who dressed one morning in the dark, and each braid ed the others switch in with her own hair, so that their heads at the brcak-fasttable looked like confused checker boards The mprobabiIify of the narrative has been noted by several journals, one of which thus expressed its incredulity: This is the very first time any newspaper writer has dared to suggest that a couple of young women ever dressed themselves in the dark and without the services of a mirror, and it is to be hoped this ridiculous kind of liter aturc will be discountenanced at the outset"
Year: 1879

John Skae, Or Johnny Skae as he is moro familiarity called, who has lately brought himself into pronin- ence by trying to perform an Atlas feat with the Sierra Nevada mine is perfect sample of the San Fran cisco stock gambler. He was born about thirty eight years ago in Windsor, Ont, small town opposite Detroit, Mich., having studied tclc- graphy he came to San Francisco in search of employment and obtained a position in the Western Union of flee, where, by keeping his wits about him and his tongue tied, he soon learned to profit by the scraps of knowledge picked up about the office. Having made considerable money in stock speculations he invested large lyin the Virginia City Water Con- pany. and in 1867 was able to travel in Europe with his two sisters, hay ing an insured income of s16,OOOa year. He was always famous for his good lkuc, and while at Baden Baden and Weisbaden, echpsed the brother ot the sultan in his heavy winning at rouge ct noir and roulette. It was actually sad to sec the poor men lose their last sou on the turn of a card while this rich young man won at every play. He always has had a penchant for frappe wine and pretty actresses, but his love for the latter has somewhat subsided since his marriage and hls payment of S10,0O0, to compromise breach of promise suit with one of two sis tcrs known years ago upon the Cal fornia stage. His never failing good fortune made him reckless, and his recklessness made him a millionaire He had worked" with the Flood X OBrien clique for a long time, and it is said, was looked upon by them  as infall!ble in his predictions regard ing the rise and fall of the mining stock barometer. He made a mis- take, like Caesar, and has been all most slain fer his ambition. He tried to "go it alone" in his light canoe, unaccustomed to the great ocean of big schemes, and paradox cal as it may sound, would have been swamped had not a Flood came to his assistanc. Help me, c Cassius, ere I sink" and forthwith Flood patronisingly "took him in out of the wet"

 Johnny Skae is not an educated man, in the usual acceptation of the term, but is sharp-witted, pleasant companion, and as bright as 8 new dollar in all business affairs. He is rathe1"loud" in dress, but refined at heart, retiring in disposition, gen erous to his friends. perfect father to his sisters. He makes up his mind in a dash, and like the light ming, all the electricity at his con- mand, goes with the blow. The young stock speculators in San Francisco look upon him as their leader, and we can safely say, know ing his quick perception and nerve" that if Jim Fisk ever had a rival on this coast as a keen-eyed eagle to closely watch the market and then swoop down from his broker office and bear off millions, that man will be our friend Johnny SLae
Year: 1879

The Brennan Banner wants the
whipping post, and charges the legisla-
ture with being tender hearted, because
the amendment to the code was voted
down by that body. The Banner must
be stout-hearted and exceeding brave.
A pinioned, helpless victim, bound to
the whipping post, his flesh quiverIng,
his counteDance distorted, bis whole
frame writhing under the bartarous
lash welded by the hand of q brutal
official, in the presence ofa rabble.
crowd, may be a pleasant spectacle for
a stout. hearted brave man; if so, we
are tender hearted, and compliment
ourfegislature upon its wisdom and
humanity in keeping with the age, in
thus promptly giving the death blow to
such a barbarous law. Victoria AdvO-
cate.
Year: 1879

Of each. He had q goodly number Of
copies of each printed which hc has
on sale. lie has also another chart as
yet unpublished of more abstruse
character. All of them display con.
siderable ability aud research. He
has taken out a copyright for them
and we hope may be literally rewarded
for his lab0rs.
Year: 1879




Prof. q. S. DOggett was elected
Secretary of the Ohio State Teach
ers Association, and appointed Vice
President of the Ungraded Section
for this Congressional District. We
have no objections, but hope he will
do better in the latter position than
the late incumbent.


Miss Emma Woodmansee returned
home from the Normal on the 18th,
on account of her health. She hopes
to recover sufficiently to return to
Commencement on the Both.


Penn Township Board of Educa-
ton are preparing for a survey OF
the township, with a view of settling
forever the mania which has arisen
to divide some of the school dis
triots. We have not heard that
they have employed q Surveyor as
yet.


Prof. o. K. Kinsey, of Lebanon,
will be at the Ross County Institute
the first week in August. We are
sorry that he was not secured for
Highland also, but there is this con-
ISOLATION, that insomuch as it is our
loss it Will be a gain to some other
county, as Prot. Kinsey's time is
fully occupied.
Year: 1879

Rev. W. J. Smith is a muscular Chris
tan who goes beaT-shOOting every fail
in California. In a letter to The Pres5J-
ierian Banner from Nisalia, he describes
one of his adventures on the last
evening in camp. He had walked toward
the river and reached the head Of a
ravine, when he saw an enormous bear,
eight feet long and weighing 800 pounds,
living in the clover. The ministerial
NimrOd CraWled on hands and knees and
got within a hundred yards Of the bear;
and then the rife was aimed and a ball
lodged in Bruins fore shoulder. There
was a steep rocky gulch between them.
A second bullet was planted IN the bears
shoulder and then a third, until he
stopped, and roaring fearfully, tore up
the ground in his rage, sat down on his
great launches, took up his hind foot
with his fore paws, and with his tusk
tore it and gashed it like a knife. He
had reached the edge Of the gulCh, and
was clambering the last ledge of rock to
descend. AS he straightened up his
neck the sportsman aimed full at it and
gave him the fourth round. In mo-
ment, he lOssened his clutch, and came
tumbling like a young avalanche to the
bottom Of the gulCh, believing IN the
agOnies of death. Il thought" writes
the minister, "I had broken his neck,
and aftera while walked down near him.
but when within eight or ten feet, to my
utter CONSERVATION, saw him rise to his
feet, and I think Providence guided the
bullet that crashed through his brain,
and he dropped dead at my feet. Of
course it was a trophy, but I do not
think I care about being present when
there's another scrspe like that q 5rtiB,
where your bullets fatten out like
waters, for it certainly was a bear escape
from a fate similar to that Of the hood
iums in Elijah's day who cried, go up
thou bald head"
Year: 1879

tifc stage. All the professions have
passed through this, except teaching.
The clergymen, of all denomina-
tiOns, the lawyers, the physicians,
insist on professional study as pre-
liminary to any attempt at affirming
their services to the public. The
same is the case with engineers and
others. But teaching, the funda
mental profession, remains in its
rudimental stage yet. Anybody
will answer for a teacher, should be
the motto Of the Department Of
Public Education of every State and
territory for such is the practice.


Against the continuance of this
state of things we protest. And it
is beginning to be apparent to many
that time has come for a change.
Those who hold Office under an adj
ministration are not the ones to find
fault with It, because it involves loss
of place and salary. But the cases
are not parallel. 1t is the duty Of
every teacher to take hold of this
muddle, and put it on a scientific
basis Teachers Institute.
Year: 1879

The past brings US many valuable
things, and some not so good. For
example, Just because there was no
other persons to be found to teach
the children when the foundations
of this system were laid, young per
sons of both sexes were permitted
to oficiate-the name "teacher" was
bestowed on them. The plan was
never supposed to be any bnt a tenn
porary one, and yet it is in full blast
to-day.


There is a rudimental stage for
all systems, but the effort of wise
men is to supplant this at the earli-
est moment possible with the scien-
Year: 1879

Something for Young Folks to Think OF.


EDITOR TEACHERS COLUMN Think
it might be interesting to some Of
the young people to know how we
"old folks" had to get our Educa-
ton, I will give them something OF
my own experience in getting what
little education I have, which is very
little.


I am an old man now, and my
hand is very shaky, too much so to
write much. I will briefly describe
the kind Of school house I went to
school in. The house was 16 feet
by 90, built Of round logs; the fire
place 8 feet wide; wooden mantle
floor of split puncheOns, jointed with
the broad-axe; upper floor of split
timber, laid on round poles, then
leaves laid on top of that, then dirt
laid on them to keep out the cold,
The cracks were stopped with clay
mortar. The roof was made of 4
foot clapboards, held on by weight
poles. The seats were made Of
small logs, split in two, then holes
bored in them and legs or pins
driven in, so as to make benches.


Our writing desks were made by
boring holes in the side logs, putting
in wooden pins and laying on plank
Our windows were made Of the old,
fashioned paper, large size sheets,
log being cut out and small uprights
put in to paste the paper fast to
Then the paper was oiled, so thai
the light would show through.


Ihad something near two miles tC
90 to school sometimes through
snow from 10 to u inches deep.
often think, if our young folks would
only reflect how much better the
school advantages are now than they
were in my early days, they would
not wonder why old folks have no
a better education.


AN OLD SUBSCRIBER.
Year: 1879

-Stilson Hutchins, Of the Washington
Foat, remarked in a personal para
graph that Senator COnOver ought to
shoot his hat, Ia terrible old white SOM
brerO with q disreputable black band
adding that the bill for a new hat
ought to be sent to the Post Mr.. Como
yer thereupOn selected a So soft hat and
sent in the bill, which was paid. The
undismayed editor chronicles the fact
and adds: If any body can be found In
the city who is dealing In new heads we
viii pay for one dozen for theuse Of the
Senate.n
Year: 1879

A San Francisco correspondent Of the
Baltimore Sun writes: "Nules are much
used here packing goods over mountains
impracticable for wheels. They are
driven loose, often twenty in lot. To
prevent straying, a white horse with a
bell is put in the lead. The herd accepts
his lead; they listen for his bell and
never stray. But put a cOlOred horse in
his place and he is not noticed. Put any
kind of a fellOw-mule there and they
treat him with contempt. This dOgged
superstition seems founded on some
dogma to which all mules are welded.
If your team passed on q dark night, a
white horse at pasture, they are sure to
see a ghost, snort, tremble and be OIL"


The relationship Of man and woman
in rainy weather is easily discovered. II
they are lovers, the woman viii have all
Of the umbrella, and the man won't care
a fig how wet he gets. But if they are
married, it is Just the opposite. Marriage
uakes the difference, that IS all
Year: 1879

lose their standing in the commu-
nifty.


Every action, every word of a
business man thould be guarded.
There is no excuse for carelessness
regarding matters of every day life.
They all exert an influence upon the
character and credit. Not only is it
duty we owe ourselves, but society
demands that we should regard the
claims Of our neighbor.
Year: 1879

Evergreen is the name of a new mining district about twenty miles northwest of Tucson and but four or five miles south Of the line of the railway. It embraces the low mountains about Point of Noun. tain and the westward. There is no limit to the ore in the district, and its nearness to the railway must make it valuable, even if not of nigh grade Not much in the way of development has yet been done, but some work has been going on for couple of months past with an en- couraging showing. Judge J. Neugass, John w. Davis and some others Have been expending money and labor out there, and they are quite content with the prospects. and feel sure that on the completion of the railway no trouble will be found in getting men of neans to aid in operating the tnines.-Cdisea.