Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-08-21

Semi WeekIy gdaho Worl'
JAMES o'MEARA !: !: -: =: EDIToE
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUG. II, 1867
WHYq-Itis strange thatwhile the extrern
Radicals denounce Horace Greeley for havin
gone on jeff Davis bail bond, they have n
words of condemnation for Joseph Mcfarland
editor of Forney's Washington Chronicle, who
at the Press, banquet in Richmond, just afte
Davis release, proposed "the health of Jefer
son Davis as a soldier and man.''
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On MARRIAGE.--A Court in Cincinnati has
decided that marriage is q purely civil con-
tract, and that living together as man and wl1e
Constitutes marriage, whether the compact has
been formally made or not. Perhaps the same q
Court would decide that the issue OF such6sclYy-
il contracts are common property. to De APP
piled on payment of the debts Of. the contract
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ing parties, or entered up as SO much "proft
and loss account" .Hsn. o83 s1t 4sl1gm 30
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Lively PLACE. New J.ulesburg, Colorado,
did not contain a single house, one year ago.
Itnow contains $500 inhabitants, and, q cor
respondent says of it--Here are three of the
1argestd gambling houses west Of New York.
One honse has, nine different games going on
every leveninga The proprietor of another
pays $500 a day rent for his establishment,
and it is said he is making an independent for
tune ten Bod Ed 6shs4a4 stsa5ved siel
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BE- INDIcATIvE.-The Police Report for July
10Th, il Mobile, Ala, appears in the Advertiser
of the 18th, and it presents a sufficient COM
lnentary upon the condition Of. things in that
city ldnder the new Radical reconstruction
process, with negroes in the ascendant, Of
eleven persons convicted, Of misdemeanors and
crimes, nine were g colored, 7 and grand and
petty larcenies were the offences in majority
of the cases. ~ $500 q ..s
20 NICE CANDIDATES VIM. Highly, Radical
candidate for Congress in California, declared
that he considered "three negroes equal to five
Irishmen, land McC uIlough the Radical can
,didate iii that State for Attorney General, said
that '.even big-footed, thick Tipped, lat-nosed
negro, was better than Cepperhead or an
Irishnan.'' Irishmen who win vote with a
party which places men Of these sentiments Id 4
candidacy for high Offices are not to be pitied
fIthey are placed below the negro politically
and socially. baa aai1U 20 89eo9l nae ta3%l
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AaGeoDtA Judge Beatty, of The Supreme Court
OfNeyada, lately brought suit against the State
TO. have his salary paid in coinipstead of green
backs at par The Court decided against him.
His associates on the Bench, in their dec1slon
gave the Identical argument put forth by judge
Beatty Il himself in q decision he pronounced
froms the same Bench year or two ago,
wherein be decided that legal tender note
was the equivalent of the sum which itrepre-
scented, in coip and must. be received as the
equivalent. This is "a good case ofthe poison
cd chalice being returned to the prisoners own
lips. We don't like the decision, but we do
hkethe application itainithis instance.
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9 NEWSPAPER CHANGE Tho Owyhee 4ca-
l0nche Of Aug 18th contains the announce
meht of a changeaof ownership and manage
ment Messrs. John and Joseph WATSON have
disposed Of the concern, and Messrs. w, J.
Hill and Fl, W. Millard are proprietors and
publishers. Under the management of the
late proprietors the S4pazGncte was one of the
best papers fol, mining country that we ever
read, and it deseryedly prospefed. We can
wish its new owners no better fortune than
that they shall be equally able in its manage
meht and equally prosperous in a business
point of view. The .Ava1anche is useful To-
cal organ, it, merits abundant support, and we
heartily wish that it may meet with frstrate
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CROPS IN THE LOWER CoUNTRY.-By. ev-
cry channel Of communication from the Val
here and the Columbia river, as
we'll as from the Willamette, the intelligence
comes that the grain crops of this year are I'M
commonly Short Mr,IJ, r. Wilkinson, Of this
city, has shown TO ilIs letter from his business