PORTLAND DAILY PRESS. ESTABLISHED JUNE 23, 1862—YOL. 18. _PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 9, 1881. PRICE 3 CENTS. —i- i tit rumtAJSM.jiiAiLy PRESS, Mr. MISCELLANEOUS Blaine and the Electoral Count worth while now to discuss. If an we that to God alone is Published every the __MISCELLANEOUS. evil, obedience due arbitrarily, day (Sundays excepted,) by THE PRESS. are in the on that vote, on negative the right from creatures who are alike individually re- Mr. Blaine's talk on the electoral PORTLAND PUBLISHING CO., count, side of the record. No matter, it was a make- sponsible for their acts. STATEMENT made in the Senate the other is shift; it was purely and a make-shift, As a At 100 FEB. 9. day, report- entirely literary worker, Mr. Carlyle's place is Exchange St., Portland. WEDNESDAY MORNING, it settled and unsettled ed in another column of this The nothing everything, among the great essayists and not alone because Terms: -OF THE paper. and in the Eight Dollars a Year. To mail subscrib most important crisis that can con- a large part of his literary work is in the form era Seven Dollars a in advance. string is one which the Press has been front or Year, if paid Every regular attach^ of the Press is furnished upon any people any government—the law of essays, but because even when he adopted of succession—the of tiie United other with a Card certificate signed by Stanley Pullen, harpi g for four years. We supported the people States forms his work partook of the essential THE PRESS are without law. There no uature MAINE’sTATE All steamboat and hotel to-day is rule by of the essay. His “French Revolution" Editor, railway, managors constitutio of the electoral commission iu which is a this system is settled. The chairmau of is not a and even his “Frederick the published every Thursday Morning at $2.50 Mutual will confer a favor upon us by demanding credentials history Life the us Insurance 1877 because we saw Committee tells it looks to Great” is if in advance at a of that the ac- Judiciary that. One needs to be year, $2.00 year. lew fa- paid York. of dangers scarcely to our Co., every person claiming represent journal. him like an that we can a miliar with impossibility get the of which Mr. companying a disputed count were great history Carlyle Rater of Advertising: One inch of space, the law on this subject. writes in those works if he wonld read constitutes a ESTABLISHED IN 1843. and ength of column, “square.” imminent. At that time most Republi- I do not know what may possibly be the po- tiiem The “French $1.50 daily first week; 75 cents understanding^. per square, per Woman’s Christian Union. can in the litical complex ion of Congress for the next Revolution1' is a series of brilliant week after; three insertions or less, continu F. S. Temperance papers State wrere opposed to the pic- ^gm $1.06; WINSTON, President. four VVe are to start out with in other day after first 50 cents. years. going a tures, chiefly black and white, great ing every week, The Annual of the Maine Woman's Chris- Commission. Senator Blaine was Half pquare, three insertions or 75 Meeting opposed Republican House, but if anybody can tell me masses of light and shade bandied less, cents; For the Year ending December tian to it. one week, $1.00; 50 cents per week after. 31st, 1880. Temperance Union will be held in We think that time has justified the what the Senate will be after the 4th of witb uncommon power and startling results. Special Notices, one-third additional. March he is a wiser man than I am. are F«b. 15th and Press in the it then did How- They frequently false in tbeir effect and Under head of “Amusements” and “Auction Augii*ta9 16th, position took. We I ASSETS ever, hope there will be at least a show of teaching, but their vigor, their graudeur of as- Sales,” $2.00 per three inser- at not. to be the square per week; $91,735,780.02 the rooms of the W. C. T. U., on Water Street, sure, get right kind of man divided power which will not the as- is never tions or less. $1.50. give pect, wanting. Carlyle worshipped Advertisements where a reception will be given to delegates and for President, but we did avoid a surance to either party that they force in the French Revolution as inserted in the “Maine State Dr. REVENUE ACCOUNT. quarrel political elsewhere, Press a Cr Feb. will have the sway iu or and the heroes whom be are (which has large circulation in every part visitors Monday Eve’g, 14, Members of auxil that would have been undisputed 18&4, recognizes there of the certainly bitter and in over State), for $1.00 per square for firRt inser- C. T. Unions will address Mrs. C. L any subsequent year, the electoral only those who represent that principle. It To Balance from last iary W, please would tion, and 50 cents per square for each subsequent account.§85,705,515.68 By paid Death 01 aims =.i a ,-, <>■> probably have been votes, and that the patriotism of both was his of force that him to received. for of free entertainment. bloody. parties worship prompted insertion. Premiums 12,275 Matured Hooper, Augusta, places will come to see that taxation 5^.16 JsSdOTOMtt.'.'..'! 1.013,7«A 1 The danger that was imminent then is and tariff and make Cromwell the theme of one of his most Address all communications to Interest and Rents. 4,865,105.45 (Total claims Half fare be on railroads. may expected funding bill and public debt are all of a notable works, and his “Hero is a On probable hereafter. The election of 1880 Worship'' PORTLAND PUBLISHING CO. §5,938,188.97) Tuesday evening, Feb. 15, Mrs. J. Ellen Fos- ibordinate character compared with this passionate, almost an insane, of the Annuities. 23,993.88 apotheosis ter, the eminent Iowa lawyer, will deliver an ad- gave Ge. eral Garfield so decisive a great question, which involve a civil rev- of force. It is as an Dividends. 3,299,734.00 majority may principle embodiment of dress in olution at any moment. the that principle too, that he is attracted to Fred- Surrendered Policies and Granite Hall. in the electoral college that his title will not Fortunately pres- ent election was settled iu erick the and as Additions. 3,898,777.01 MRS. L. M. N. STEVENS, Pres. conclusively the Great, here, in "The French _ENTERTAINMENTS. — be But a (Total paid Policy-holders questioned. whenever close elec- electoral college, but I ask, without Revolution,” he is a writer of es- Mrs. C. C. HUNT, Cor. Sec’y. intending picturesque §13,160,694.46.) tion and the of its the slightest offense, what chance would Gen- says rather than the of au histori- of comes, declaration result biographer Commissions, (payment eral Garfield have of being inaugurated on cal personage. His love of the ABYSSINIAN NEWBURY STREET Current and rests the votes of three or four picturesque CHURCH, extinguish- upon electors the 4th of March if there was a doubtful elec- was a and its indulgence There will be an ment of future). passion, In the histo- 077,2»5.70 Reform the of toral vote which came which of Contingent Guarantee Ac’ct Club Meeting’. quarrel 1877 will be renewed,—and it up here, counted ry “Frederick the Great" threw things sad- 949,512.43 one would elect and .. way Hancock, aud counted tbe out of That Old. Folk’s Concert Taxes Assessments 247,832.69 is that we shall ly proportion. provoking work is The Quarterly Cumberland County Convention of entirely improbable ever other would elect Garfield? and Expenses. 742,673.71 way filled witu episodes in which events of small Antiquarian Supper, in Ancient Costumes, Balance to New Account.. Reform Clubs will be bolden at North Gorham on again have so a settlement. We es- Mr. Has tbe Senator 87,128,241.30 happy Farley. come to that importance to the subject are narrated with a WEDNESDAY FEB.9th. Saturday and Feb. 12 and 1881. conclusion from tbe action of the Bepublicans of minuteness and at a EVENING, §102,906,210.29 Sunday, 13, caped great disturbance and a possible civil degree length wholly §102,906,210.29 Cases more than of It is in 1876? out of to the Admission 10 Three Tickets 25 cents. Being 34,387 any earnestly hoped each Club will be represent- war a proportion care and space given cents, by “scratch.” We cannot Mr. Blaine. I have other brand, and the ed with a full reasonably come to that conclusion to larger matters belonging more with- Supper served the feb7d3t* KALUVCIlXiUEET. largest importation dclegaiion. strictly during Evening. Cr. hope for that good fortune from things I have seen here and from the in the domain of the historian. ever reached by any house in the United States. Free entertainment to all. again. Carlyle wrote It is of common frailties and common instincts of hu- of them in this way because miuistered To L. W. WELCH, Soc’y. because this that they GENTLEMAN’S FAIR AND FESTIVAL. Reserve at four per cent.§86,642,571.30 I Bonds Secured on frequent danger man nature. I have come to the to his love of By by Mortgages of conclusion the picturesque, because The Gentlemen connected Claims by death not yet due.