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August 14,1879 PORTLAND DAILY PRESS. AUGUST 14, W.DO FEB ANNUM, IN ADVANCE. ESTABLISHED JUNE 28, I86S.-Y0L. 17. PORTLAND, THURSDAY MORNING, 1879._TERMS The Campaign Argus. The Treasury Gold. The editor of the Greenback paper pub- the Greenback heifer into a common pasture, THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS, must have and then both out of the same dish. MISCELLANEOUS.__ THE PRESS. The Argils kindly informed us the other Our Democratic Greenback friends seem lished at Anson, been sleepy spoon the Published every day (Sundays excepted) by when he allowed a to admin- Amid this gaunt, uproarious crew, day that it had sent us a copy of Gen. Ew- to find a great deal of fault because the Sec- correspondent hungry, CO. AUGUST 14. of common sense to its manfully stood up Messrs. Todd, Chase, Eaton, PORTLAND PUBLISHING THURSDAY MORNING, ing’s The copy furnished was of the has sold bonds for re- ister such a dose speech. retary Treasury and others time when the Clark, null and solemnly protested At 109 Exchange St., Portland. printed in a sheet we had not had till then that it is an readers as Ibis: “At this gen- sumption purposes, claiming against being sold out to the old To mail subscrib Ar- eral is that is scarce” it pro-slavery Terms : Eight Dollars a Year. 8. the pleasure of seeing,—the Campaign undue waste for this to lie idle in the complaint “money in advance. Election Monday, September money rum-ridden Democracy. They declared ere Seven Dollars a Year, if paid LIEBIG to inform the they COMPANY’S^ we the of it as will be an act of kindness gus; and construed sending and that instead of Treasury; remaining had no desire to go Into partnership with a par. PRESS a that a review was ex- reinforce their THE MAINE STATE FOB GOVERNOR, delicate intimation in the Treasury, it ought to be paid out. moneyless how they may tyofold, spavined, half-hipped, gone-to-seed at EXTRACT the ritF.ss will now I them with the s published every Thursday Morning $2.50 pected. That review Let us look at this a moment. It is the pockets. will acquaint politicians. if in advance at $2.00 a year. DAVIS. But it was no use. A of that con- year, paid DANIEL F. make. It does not as a custom reviews its finan- true secret of certain majority print duty of the Government to manage money catching—the vention had their coat-tails labelled, “Hunker of Advertising : One inch of space, tin its between news- to fill how to Kates OF MEAT in editorial columns, but cial affairs upon the same principles and way empty purses, and keep Democracy.” They gave a tremendous “rebel length of column, constitutes a “square.” Senators. 75 and it is do" them full. Two well veil”, accompanied by the stamping of cow- $1.50 per square, daily first week; cents pe Androscoggiu.JERE DINGLE Y, Jr., Auburn. paper newspaper eminently proper basis that a careful business man would always simple rules, insertions or contlnu FINEST AND CHEAPEST hide boots and the waving of hats, and coa- week after; three less, $1.00; GEORGE PARCHER, Leeds. an be made to this observed will do the business. Let 50 that exception should We think no one will this statement. First, lition was and Greenbacker in ing every other day after first week, cents. Cumberland.,JOSEPH A. I.OOKE, Portland. dispute carried, every or MEAT-FLAVOURING be constant com- that convention who iu- Half square, three insertions less, 75 cents HENRY C. BREWER, Freeport. rule. Now, when a business man finds himself honesty and industry thy wore the “blue” went : 50 cents per week after. Casco. down before one week, $1.00 I)AVII) DURAN, are one gloriously the storm of battle. one-third additional. “ Is a success and boon for which Nations should feel STOCK FOR Five columns of the Campaign Argun in debt his first aim is to reduce his panions; and secondly, spend penny Special Notices, SOUPS, ANDREW HAWES, Deeriug. heavily Then came tiro “trade and dicker” opera- “Amusements” “Auctioi Brit. Mid. Ac. uinr Under head of and Medical Press, Lancet, Jour., O, Fraul!in.GEORGE R. FERNALD. Wilton. to the of Gen. who lias interest account as much as and less than clear gains. Then will thy tions conference committees. The Boss of Inser grateful.”—See niPUfO 0QAilPFS AUUtO. given speech Ewing, possible, thy by Sales,” $2.00 per square per week; three « tenfold in ten M AUt UI&I16C Kennebec.... COLBY C. CORNISH, Winslow. Consumption in England increased years.” for soon to thrive the Democratic committee was a little, tions or less, $1.50. ONLY With JOSEPH S. BERRY', Wayne. been accused of doctoring his speeches thus what he is able to save in interest he hide-bound pocket-book begin sly, of all Grocers and Chemists. CAUTION.—Genuine a Advertisements inserted in the “Maine Stati To be had Storekeepers, Knox .GEORGE VInalbaven. ’l-afty, oily politician, wearing white hat, fac-simile of Baron s Signs- ROBERTS, Eastern deleting and interpolating can towards the of his and it will never again cry with ‘hard Press” (which has a large circulation in every par Solo Agents for the United States (wholesale only), Liebig Oxford.FRANCIS W. REDLON, Porter. readers, apply extinguishment who was the chief engineer of the old Whig of the for for first insertion England. ture in Blue Ink across Labels—- WILLIAM W. Dlxfield. him. But we will assume and for neither will machine until it went to and who then State), $1.00 per square C j- U & Co 43 Mark I.m". London. WAIT, where it pleased debt. This is just what the Secretary of the times,’ ‘Greenbacks;’ Hinash, and 50 cents per square for each subsequent inser Penobscot... .EDWARD B. NEALI.EY, Bangor. turned hunker and has since grown gray in Bradford. the report to be correct, Ewing’s arithmetic has been creditors insult thee, nor ‘contraction’ op- tion. THOS. H. WENTWORTH, Treasury doing. Undying schemes and plans to got his old ad- all to W. ‘steers’ nor Address communications \ LLOYD DRAKE, Springfield. is perfectly amazing. He repeats the old lie has refunded since March of press, nor shrinkage—in —bite, versaries out of the “slough of He SAMUEL YV. MATTHEW'S, Hampden. 1st, 1877, despond.” CO- was the man to swallow the and PORTLAND PUBLISHING J. S. Somerset .LEYVIS YY'Y'MAN, Palmyra. of the of $10,000,000 which the Government indebtedness nakedness freeze thee. The whole country Grecnbackers, PALMER, story saving $846,022,000, it witli such of lo grace and adroitness that CHANDLER BAKER, Btngliam. substitution of will shine and up in they would follow the greenbacks on which the Government was paying an brighter pleasure spring jould tell whether the whale was swal- Insurance York .J. YV. DEARBORN, Parsonsfleld. hardly ENTERTAINMENTS. Agency, GKO. H. YVAKEFIELD, So. Berwick. for national bank notes. He misrepresents annual interest of Since every corner of thy heart. Now therefore, Jonah, or Jonah swallowing the whale. Biddeford. charge §48.813,057. lowing CHARLES P. EMERY, And so the high contracting jarties HARRIS. the reduction of the debt and the interest this indebtedness has been refunded the embrace these rules and be happy.” began Washington.AUSTIN ;o make tlieir moves upon the eheck- 29 EXCHANGE STREET, ALDEN BRADFORD. political the old quibble that has annual interest is mak- ;r The Colonel with the “white hat” Lincoln.ANDltEYV E. G. SMITH, Whltcfield. charge, repeating charge §34,515,880, A Washington to the Philadel- board. Portland & R. R, Greenbaeker in the despatch "'Tis truo” said he, Ogdenskrg Represents the Following,Companies: Commissioners, passed tlili lips of every ing a clear saving to the Government of jeganthe “dickering”. County phia Press says: ‘that the office of Judgo of Probate, has more YV. Livermore. He and caricatures Bonds sold for Androscoggin.11. BRIGGS, country. misrepresents §14,297,177. resumption noney and more dignity tliad any other office; EXCURSIONS! Cumberland..YVM. L. PRINCE, Cumberland. “Notwithstanding the reports to the contra- North British & Mercantile Ins. Co. the He charges Sher- since March about which jut it is non partisan. It is now filled Franklin.FRANKLIN W. PATTERSON, Indus- refunding operations. purposes 1, 1877, ry, late advices received at the headquarters of entirely interest jy our amiable Nathan, and if you poke There arc probably a majority of the hu- OE LONDON & EDINBURGH. try. man with that payment of double our Greenback friends are such a tiie Republican Congressional Committee indi- Monmouth. making iticks at him, we kick.” man race from kidney complaints. They Kennebec... .GEORGE H. ANDREYY'S, and which cate that the Republicans will redeem tiie State suffering and Assets. Rockland. for which Congress is responsible because the have not been “I would like that office Basket drove Meeting show themselves in almost protean shapes, but al- Cnpitnl $17,000,000.00* Knox.YV. H.TITCOMB, stir, proceeds of Maine without the doubt. Senator “But,” says Caleb, to the of the They cause inde- ASSETS IN UNITED STATES: Y'. BRADLEY, Fryeburg. Sherman in tried to induce it to do are of slightest nyself. I tried to get it four years ago, but —OF— ways injury patient. Oxford.FRANK vain paid out, and retained for the purpose Blaine writes to friends in this city that the scribable The experience of thirty years Penobscot... ,II(A D. FISH, Patten. he bad no proper appreciation of agony. U. S. Stocks and Bonds.$1,440,090 00 the are gradually beginning to realize Republicans shows that the nest for this class of disease Somerset.OMAR CLARK, Carratunk.
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