MAJOR, JOHN R. 



MARTINEAU, HARRIET. 601 



Resolved, That the Republicans of Maine give their 



I'tiii'iiaiio upi'rowil to [in- nomination of Rutherford 

 B. Iluyes tor the presidency, and of William A. 

 ;or, of New York, for the vice-presidency, and 

 will s|mr<: no honorable efforts to give them a rous- 

 ing maiority in November. 



Ktiatlced, That tliis convention offers its sincere 

 tlumks to the Republicans of various Status of the 

 Union who gave their enthusiastic support to Hon. 

 Jsimes G. Blaine in the recent National Convention 

 in Cincinnati, and thus attest his commanding abil- 

 ities, uii'l his value to the Union as a statesman. 



Jiesolotd, That wo reaffirm tlie principles hereto- 

 fore enunciated by our State Conventions in refer- 

 ence to prohibition and the development of the re- 

 ources of the State. 



Unsolved, That Governor Selden Connor is entitled 

 to the earnest thanks of his fellow-citizens for the 

 ability, firmness, and fidelity with which he has per- 

 formed his official duties since his occupancy of the 

 Executive cliuir, imd that the Republicans of Maine 

 hereby express their determination to elect him in 

 September by a largely-increased majority. 



The State election took place on the llth of 

 September. The whole number of votes cast 

 for Governor was 186,823, of which Selden 

 Connor received 75,867 ; John C. Talbot, 60,- 

 423 ; Almon Gage, " Greenback " candidate, 

 620 ; and 13 were scattering. Connor's plu- 

 rality over Talbot was 15,444 ; his majority 

 pver all, 14,911. Republicans were elected to 

 Congress in all of the five congressional dis- 

 tricts. In the Fourth District, where there 

 was a division among the Republicans, the vote 

 was .-is follows : Llewellyn Powers, regular 

 Republican, 12,866 ; Lyndon Oak, independent 

 Republican, 11,968 ; and J. P. Don worth, 

 Democrat, 10,069. In the Second District 550 

 votes were cast for a " Greenback " candidate. 

 At the presidential election in November the 

 whole number of votes cast was 116,786. Of 

 these the Republican candidates received 66,- 

 800 ; the Democratic, 49,823 ; and the " Green- 

 back " ticket, 663 ; Republican plurality over 

 Democratic vote, 16,477 ; majority over all, 

 15,814. 



The appointment of Senator Lot M. Merrill 

 as Secretary of the Treasury of the United 

 States, in the hitter part of June, caused a va- 

 cancy in the senatorial representation of the 

 State for the term ending March 4, 1877. The 

 Legislature not being in session, the Governor 

 appointed James G. Blaine to the place. On 

 the meeting of the Legislature in January, 

 .1877, Mr. Blaine was promptly chosen, not 

 only for the remainder of the unexpired term, 

 but for the full term ending March 4, 1883. 



MAJOR, Rev. JOHN RICHARDSON, D. I)., a 

 British clergyman, teacher, and author, born 

 fn 1797; died March 7, 1876. He was edu- 

 cated at Reading School and Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, where he graduated B. A. in 1819. 

 In 1830 he was appointed head-master of the 

 Grammar-School at King's College, London, 

 which position he resigned in 1866. He was 

 for a time Vicar of Warbling, Sussex, and in 

 1871 was appointed Vicar of Arrington, Cam- 

 bridgeshire. . He was the author of a " Latin 

 Grammar and Exercises," "Latin Reader," 



" Hints for Latin Composition," " Initia 

 Graeca," "Initia Homerica," and "GuiiK- to 

 the Reading of the Greek Tragedians/' He 

 also edited five of the plays of Euripides, 

 Stephens's "Greek Thesaurus," the lexicons 

 of Scapula, Schrevelius, Parkhurst, and others, 

 and in 1870 published "The Gospel of St. 

 Mark in the Original Greek," with a digest 

 of notes from various commentaries. 



MALDEN, HENRY, a British scholar, born in 

 1800 ; died July 4, 1876. He was educated at 

 Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was 

 elected to a Craven scholarship with his friend 

 Lord Macaulay, with whom he was also one of 

 the earliest contributors to the Quarterly Maga- 

 zine, established by Charles Knight. He was 

 elected to a fellowship in his college in 1824, 

 and in 1831 was appointed Professor of Greek 

 in the University of London, now University 

 College, which position he held up to his 

 death. He was the author of " Origin of Uni- 

 versities and Academical Degrees" (1836). He 

 also contributed a number of valuable papers 

 to the " Proceedings and Transactions" of the 

 Philological Society, the Philological Museum, 

 and to the Classical Museum, edited by Dr. L. 

 Schmitz from 1843 to 1850. 



MARTINEAU, HARRIET, an English author- 

 ess, born June 12, 1802 ; died June 27, 1876. 

 She was the daughter of a manufacturer in Nor- 

 wich, and received an excellent education, tak- 

 ing part in the studies of her brotner James, 

 afterward Unitarian minister in Liverpool. 

 She made her first literary effort when but 

 nineteen years old, and in this followed at 

 first only her inclination; but, owing to seri- 

 ous pecuniary losses in her family, she was 

 compelled to rely upon her pen for a living. 

 The peculiar feature of her numerous works 

 was her advocacy of social reforms, in which 

 she based herself on her thorough knowledge. 

 Her works, " Illustrations of Political Econo- 

 my " (9 vols., 1832-'34) and " Poor-Laws and 

 Paupers " (1834), have a decided practical ten- 

 dency and a scientific basis. In 1836 she un- 

 dertook a trip to America, as the results of 

 which she published "Society in America" 

 (3 vols., 1837) and "Retrospect of Western 

 Travel" (3 vols., 1838). Among her other 

 works are : the novels " Deerbrook " (1839) 

 and "The Hour and the Man" (1840); the 

 " Forest and Game-Law Tales " (3 vols., 1846) ; 

 " Life in the Sick-Room ; or, Essay by an In- 

 valid " (1844) ; and " Traditions of Palestine " 

 (1881). " Eastern Life, Present and Past " (8 

 vols., 1848) is the result of a journey to Egypt, 

 Arabia, and Palestine, undertaken for the salte 

 of her health. Her " History of England dur- 

 ing the Thirty Years' Peace " (2 vols., 1859) 

 is a work of considerable excellence, which is 

 also the case with her " Positive Philosophy ' 1 

 (2 vols., 1853), in which she attempted to pop- 

 ularize the views of Comte in England. To- 

 gether with Atkinson she published " Letters 

 on the Laws of Man's Nature and Develop- 

 ment " (1851), and " Letters from Ireland,' 1 



