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Third District Court.

SEATTLE, Aug. 16, 1878.
Thos. McDonough and James Hard
en-, petit jurors were this day excused
from further attendance at the present
term.
The following Grand Jurors were se-
leoted and retired in charge of sworn
bailiff to deliberate as should be brought
before them: John Webster, M. r.
Maddocks, A. Macintosh, G.. Hack
shaw, D. T. Wheeler, j. T. Kenworthy,
Beriah Brown, F. M. Guye, R. J.
Moore, F. Slotter, L. G. Harmon, S. P.
Andrews, L. Schwabacher. Gardner
Kellogg, D. K. Baxter, j. r. Robbins.
Russell, Shorey and Andrews v. F.
V. Snyder. Motion filed Aug. 16, to
strike the second amended complaint
from the files duly considered by the
Court and motion overuled. Exceptions
allowed,
Schmeig & Brown v. Frost & Fowler.
Cause dismissed by consent of parties.
Angus Macintosh v, Dexter Horton.
Motion to strike out portion of Plain
tif's replication duly considered by the
Court and motion sustained. Excep-
tions allowed.
A true bill of Indictment found against
VIM. Hathaway for assault with dead
ly weapon on the high seas.
Grand Jury were discharged.
volney Douthitt, Samuel Whipple,
George Sines, o. T. Albu and James
McCarty were this day excused from
further attendance at the present term.
United Statesv. VIM. Hathaway. In
dictment, assault with dangerous
weapon on the high seas. Defendant
took time to consider his defense.
John J. Curley V. Milton H. Lee.
Final decree in Equity. Defendant not
appearing, taken pro confesso.
Henry Adams, Erasmus Smithers,
and Dexter Horton ct ai.v. King County
Ruel Robinson ct al. Defendant were
perpetually enjoined and restrained
from apprepriating and paying 81 900
for work ordered by County Commission
ers at May term 1878 on the Hays and
Stewart cuts on White River, and 500
for work ordered for the extension of
Cedar River bridge ordered same time.
Monday, August Is.
F. NJ. Guye V. Nichels Il Fansick.
In Equity. Motion to strike out por-
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CLOSING OUT 9
GOING TO THE TERMINUS!

TOMBSTONE BROTHERS HAVING MOVED
- their place of business to Tacoma, they
baye left all their unsettled accounts with the
undersigned for settlement. They revuest all
having unsettled accounts with them to call at
his office in Yesler's new building opposite the
Telegraph Office, on Front ST.. and settle the
same without Delay. JOHN WEBSTER, J.P.
SEATTLE, July %, 1873.
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Has been before the American public
OVER THIRTY years. It has never vet
failed to give perfect satisfaction, and has
Justly been styled the panaceafor all ex-
ternal Wounds, Cuts, Burns, Swellings,
Sprains, Bruises, &C., &C., for Man and
Beast. No family should he single day
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Valuable Contributions to History.

The Fincastle Herald publishes an ad-
dress delivered recently before the Fincastle
High School by Judge Thos. D. Houston,
which contains much interesting local history,
relating to various distinguished men and
prominent families of Botetourt county
These local reminis cences are not only inter-
esting but important. When collected by
men of intelligence and accuracy, who put
themselves to the trouble of embodying them
in a permanent form, they constitute the
materials out of which, at some future time,
comprehensive history of Virginia may be
written. If some intelligent, pains taking
gentleman in every county would put him
self to the trouble to search up and collate
all interesting facts relating to his county,
its history, traditions, customs, prominent
and useful men who have figured, and the
important movements which from time to
time have occurred, mass of valuable ma
terials would be collected. The manuscripts,
when prepared, should be delivered to the
Secretary of the Commonwealth, and by him
preserved among the archives of the State,
where they would be available for reference
and ready for use by persons interested in
the history of the State, or by authors de-
string to profit by them.
Much that should have been written and
preserved has passed away forever, which
makes it all the more desirable that what
remains should be gathered and embodied in
permanent form. Many of the manuscripts
illustrating the history of the Commonwealth
have been lost. The most valuable were
purloined after the war by curiosity hunters
or others, who had free access to the Library
and the papers of the State, when they were
in the custody of the petty and irresponsible
officials appointed over us. They can never
be recovered. The remaining manuscripts
are now being assorted and put in form and
order by competent and pains-taking gen
tleman Or. W. P. Palmer appointed for
that purpose by the Legislature. This work
has occupied him for year or more, and it
will require some time to complete it. He
has to read all of these manuscripts, making
on each an endorsement in brief of its con-
tents.
Everything that throws any light on the
history of the State or of any of its counties
should find its way to the manuscript room
at the Capitol.-Enqusrer.
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Health Hints.

What will cure melancholia? Go to bed
and sleep it of, then get up and keep it of
by work.-Herald Of Health.
Snake poison is used for medicinal pur-
poses in these days under the name of
- Crotalus Horridus." The poison of the
rattle-snake is utilized in homeopathic
pharmacy.
"What can 1 do to become stout? am
seventeen years of age, stand six feet and
one inch in my stockings, but weigh only
155 pounds" Work at carpenters bench,
saw wood, chop down trees, swing the Indian
clubs, work at hfting-machine, play at
moving or grading, dig bitches, make stone
walls, hoe corn, rake hay. Carrying brick
and mortar with bod to the top of high
building is excellent. Mining coal is not
bad.-Herald of Health.
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Cultivation of Corn.

One C the principle causes of poor crops
of corn is neglect or delay in giving it the first
workings. The hurry and anxiety to put in
che cotton. frequently causes the corn to be
neglected until it receives an injury from
which it never recovers When the third and
fourth blades appear, the pillow should run
arou 1t, running as close as possible to the
plants without covering them, and running
as deeply as possible. The middles, too,
should not be neglected. They should be
plowed deeply, so that the lateral roots,
which extend very rapidly. may fad loose
and fine bed to feed in. As the plants grow.
and the roots extend, the plowiog should be
come shallower and shallower, until sweep
should be the only implement used. The
hoe-force should Immediately follow the
plows, thinning to a stand and drawing soft
earth to the young plants, not leaving a
single weed, blade of grass, or Superfaous
plant, to rob the crop of particle of the
nutriment which belongs to the crop. Moth
ing should interfere with its thorough per
Torrance. If this was properly attended to,
we should hear of few crops of five or six
bushels to the acre, even on what we call
our poor lands.-Southern Farm Home
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A Teaching Pastor.

Two or three months ago, the Rockville
Presbyterian Church, in Maryland, was con-
sumed by fire, since which time the con-
gregatioL have been actively employed in
procuring funds fl cebuilding, and, SO far,
have met with marked success. AS it has
been suggested by the present pastor, Rev.
E. II. CumpstOn, tc place tablet in the new
church concentrating the first pastor, the
late Rev. John Mines, D. D., who died some
twenty years ago, it occurred to the writer
of this that a short biography would not be
inappropriate at this time.
Some fifty years ago, the late Rev. John
Mines, D. D., then about forty years of age,
removed from Virginia to take charge of the
Rockville Academy, and the only Presby-
terian church wiz, Cabin john in Mont
gomory county, Nd. Locating his residence
on beautiful farm of about one hundred
acres, called Rose Hill, within a mile of the
Academy and about FIVE miles of his church,
he entered on his labors. Five days in the
week, from nine A. NJ, to four P. NJ, in
the Academy, and until the evening shades,
he would devote to his garden and farm.
After tea, he would devote his time to his
large family and preparations for two Sab
bath serviees-holding or conducting week
ly prayer meeting in or near the village
some evening of the Eve days. On Satur-
day mornings, he would get on his horse,
and during the day would visit the families
of his congregation, closing the day with an
afternoon or evening prayer meeting gen.
orally remaining at the house, as rule,
Saturday night. and led the carryall, con-
tanning all the members of the household,
(as he told them pleasantly he wished them
to use the carryalD on their way to the house
of God, and then fed them with food gathered
during the preceding week, which was not
withered and tasteless. Such was his life
for twenty years-and so methodical he was
never seen in hurry. During this time his
love for souls was such that he encompassed
an area of about twenty miles square, build
ing three churches, viz; Rockville, Bethesda
and Nealsville, and sometimes preaching in
an Episcopal church at Middlebrook. And
all his ministerial work was cheerfully and
gladly performed. He received not more
than FIVE hundred dollars in all, though he
preached to large country congregations.
The last ten years of his life he had an
efficient assistant to aid him in his pastoral
work. As he became advanced in life, he
resigned Ito the regret of alD the principal
ship of the Academy, and devoted his time
principally to visiting his flock over the large
domain, where all, young and old, (and Of
all denominations wed in having him as a
guest.
This brief history of the man of God
loved, and l write this that when our chill
dren ask, Whose tablet was this ? and Who
was DR.. Mines they may honor him and
know what it is to labor in the cause of the
Master Christian Observer.
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Habits If Ants

Mr.. Darwin publishes in Mar, a letter
received by MIN from Mr. JANIS D. Hague,
of San francisco, giving some new and in
terestiIg observations on the habits of ants.
Mr.. Hague, while confined to his room by
sickness, was annoyedrLy the presence of a
colony of very small red ants which, issuing
from hole in the wall aear the ceiling,
formed an almost unb', oxen procession to a
vase of flowers on the mantel shelf He
frequently brushed them in great numbers
off the wall down to the. floor; but this course
had the effect only Of dividing the colony,
and now new settlenAnt was made at the
base of the mantel. 0 day he killed some
of the marauders on the shelf at the foot OF
the vase of flowers, an'Adisabled others. In
half an hour the wall above the shelf was
cleared of ants, the procession retreatiDg
from the scene of carnage via all possible
haste. For an hour or Two, the lower col
ony continued to ascend, until reaching the
lower beveled edge of the shelf; here, the
more timid individuals We're aware of trouble
ahead and turned back, while the more dar-
ing ones advanced hesitatingly just to the
upper edge, peeping cautiously out to survey
the field. Then, they too turned back, and
IN short time no more ants were to be seen.
"A curious and invariable feature of their
behavior" writes Mr.. Hague, "was that
when an ant, returning in fright, met another
approaching, the two would always commu-
nicate, but each would pursue it's own way,
the second ant continuing its journey to the
spot. where the first had turned about, and
then following that example. No ants
were visible for several days after the disas
ter, but at length few from the lower col
ony made their appearance. They carefully
avoided the vase, which had been to their
race SO fruitful of misfortune, and attacked
some volets, in tumbler in the middle of
the shelf. The same experiment was re-
peated here, and with the same results as
before. Occasionally" says the writer,
San ant would advance toward the tumbler
until it found itself among the dead and dy
ing; then it seemed to lose all self posses
sion, running hither and thither, making wide
circuits about the scene of the trouble, stop
ping at times and elevating the attenne with
movement suggestive of wringng them in
despair, and finally taking fight GALAXY
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To Cure a Drunkard.

The power of alcohol over its victim is al
fearful as it is sad And yet it can be over
come by persistence in the observance of thu
following simple rules without medicine:
l. Eat comfortable meals at regular hours
partaking especially of farinaceous food
vegetables and fruits, three times day.
2. Exercise regularly, but so as not to in
duCe fatigue.
3. Have regular and long sleep, going tc
bed and rising at particular hours, and take
long sleep about noon.
4. Keep the mind as much interested and
amused as possible by harmless games
sports, etc.
5. Take warm bath daily about II AM,
if convenient.
S. Break up all old associations.
7. Keep away from all resorts.
8. Quit chewing and smoking tobacco, for
this blunts the moral sense, and makes the
imagination dull. Liquor makes the ideal
faculty wild and unsettled, while tobacco
makes it obtuse.
g. Never forget that if you are to be a
new man you must have new ideas, and these
must be such as to make you discard the use
of alcoholic drinks in every form.
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CHOODHOUSE & PARHAM'S
Wv ESTABLISHMENT.
No. 1905 Main Street, Richmond, Va.

First Floor-Is stored their retail stock of BOOKS,
STATIONERY. PIANO-FOkTES. MUSIC, b.
BLES, PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMS, DC.
Second Floor Is their Wholesale partment,
which includes FLAT PAPERS for the manufac-
ture of BLANK BOOKS, and for Printers use;
also SCHOOL BOOKS used in the Public Schools
OF the State in quantities.
Third and Fourth Floors-Are devoted to the
manufacture of BLANK BOOKS and PAPER
BOXES, and includes their BOOK BINDERY,
with the best stock they have had since the war.
WHOLESALE BUYERS
may rest assured that they can obtain everything
needed in their line satsia tory prices.
RETAIL BUYERS
will find beautiful stock of the choicest BOOKS,
STATIONERY (both Staple and Fancy,) and the
best PIAN0-FORTES.
EaS- Orders by mail receive faithful and prompt
attention Oc 2-3m
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AoMsehnld Afuta5.
From the Missionary.
A Letter to the Sabbath School Children.

SPENCER ACADEMY, C. N, May 18th, '78.
Ny DEAR LITTLE FRIENDS IL suppose
some Of you, if not all, have heard of Spen-
Ger Academy, the Mission School of our
Church for the education of the little Chloe
taw boys. Snail l tell you something more
about it and the little Indians attending
school now? The buildings, FIVE in number,
are in a fine oak grove, and now that the
trees are in fall leaf, Spencer forms quite
a pretty picture. The birds seem fond of
perehing amongst the branches of the trees
around our houses, and we can listen to their
sweet songs the Eve-lOng day. The boys do
not seem inclined to disturb them, so they
live unmOlested in their leafy homes. Have
any of you seen an Indian boy or girl?
expect not, for very few Indians remain in
the States now, and they are fast passing
away. The boys and girls are unlike white
children in appearance, and their peculiar
style Of dress makes them look very dissim-
lar TO our little boys and girls at home
The girls all wear dresses as long as grown
ladies, and usually have handkerchief of
some bright color, tied crossways over the
head and under the chin. This makes them
look ike little old women. The boys gen
orally have coats of calico, very gaudy in
color and pattern, and they have so many
rufles that you would think that they were
ladies sacks. They are extremely fond
Of bright cOlors, red especially, and rib
bon Of that color would be as much priced as
hat band by an Indian boy, as the most
beautiful toy by one four boys in the States.
Some Of the boys here are very bright and
intelligent, and most of them are learning
fast to speak the English language. How
their black eyes sparkle when then happen
TO catch the sound of a new English word.
They are just as fond of play as other chill
dren; ana now hear their merry laughter
coating in through the open door.
On Saturdays they take long walks in the
woods, and return with bouquets of beauti,
full wild flowers, which they have gathered.
They keep our mantles supplied with flowers.
The purple verbena grows wild in this coun-
try, and 1 understand the red is sometimes
found also. There is a delicate lilac fox
growing in the woods in abundance, and
many varieties of purple and yellow flowers,
whose names do not know Yesterday l
saw cluster of lovely pink wild roses
They were very fragrant and resembled the
daily rose in shape.
This is a beautiful country with many
tokens of the love and goodness of God, yet
my little friends, few of the Choctaw people
are true Christians. They need preachers
and teachers to show them what true reh-
giOn is. They are not heather, for there
are very few iadeed who have not heard Of
8 dying SayiOurs love. They know just
enough to make their condemnation greater.
There are many precious souls among this
people that must be saved. Good-by, my lit
tie friends; may God keep safely the lambs
of his flock. Yours most truly,
ELLA CALDWELL
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Physiology of Preaching.

Husband all your strength for the deliv-
cry of the sermon. Take not step, speak
not word unnecessarily, for we rise in the
morning with a certain amount of physical
power, and acquire but little power during
the day from other sources. 1t is the recu-
peratiOn which it gives, and if that force can
be expended in long walk or ride to church,
or in any muscular effort whatever, you have
Just that much less for the sermon; and
every clergyman must know that the more
physical vigor he has the easier he can preach.
Be more of a man than to be the slave of
a sip of water, a lozenge, or lump of su-
gar, before or during preaching; the neces-
city of these grows upon man with great
rapidity, and detracts from his independence
and self-reliance.
Avoid conversation from the time of rising
in the morning until the sermon is delivered,
for the more your subject absorbs your whole
being, the greater will be the JUNCTION with
which the message is delivered. Begin in a
low tone, but with the utmost distinctness of
utterance; and as the lungs grow warm and
the vocal organs more piable, throw in more
voice gradually, until the end of the discourse,
otherwise you will break down before you
are half through.
Never study gesture or an information;
this involves mental diversion from the sub
ject, and impairs your voice. Vermont
Chronicle.
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Fox TIE CENTRAL PREBYTERIAN.
Golden Thoughts.

Selected from Lange's Commentaries.
Divine operation waits upon human co,
operation. God will do, in answer to prayer,
what will not be done without prayer. Slow
faith in the church produces slow develop
ment Of the work of salvation.
An very true as far as it goes, but one
sided only. 1t is equally true that human
cO-Operation-prayer and faith included
would have no existence without divine
operation. eve love Him because He first
loved US without me ye can do moth
ing" But the two are not inconsistent
Cen. Prss.l
The labOrers of Christ shall neither want
a field nor blessing till the Lord comes,
The missionary work of the church will not
cease till the second coming of Christ.
He that would enter into the kingdom of
heaven must with heart and soul forsake the
kingdom of the world.
If the devil ventured to approach the
Son of God, how can the most advanced
among US expect to be secure from his as
saults!
1t is sad when teaching ceases to be
preaching; more sad when preaching ceases
to be teaching; most sad when preaching
ceases to be the Gospel of the Kingdom;
not less sad when destitute of the power of
life.
He who repOses in eternal mercy may well
surrender all and be pure in heart.
If Christ does not Immediately come to
our help We are prone to imagine that He is
asleep; but He never Oversleeps the hour of
our deliveranee.
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What the Leaf Does.

1t pumps water from the ground, through
the thousands of tubes in the stem of the
tree, and sends it into the atmosphere in the
form of unseen mist, to be condensed and
fall in showers the very water that, were il
not for the leaf, would sink in the earth
and find Its way, perchance, through subter-
ranean channels, to the sea. And thus It is
that we see that it works to give us the
"early and the latter rain. 1t works to
send the rills and streams, like lines of silver,
down the mountain and across the plain. II
works to pour down the large books, which
turn the wheels that energize the machinery
which gives employment to millions-com-
merce stimulated and wealth accumulated,
and intelligence disseminated through the
agency of this wealth.
The leaf does it all. 1t has been demon
strated that every square inch of leaf lifts
0,035 of an ounce every twenty-foUr hours.
Now, large foreSt-tree has about five acres
of foliage, or 6,295,62O square inches.
This being multiplied by 0,035 (the amount
pumped by every inch) gives the result
1852 ounces or eight barrels.
The trees on an acre gives 800 barrels in
twenty-four hours. An acre of grass, or
clover, or grain, would yield about the
same result. The leaf is worker, too, in
another field of labor, where we seldom
look-where it works for the good of man
in most wonderful manner. 1t carries i'm
mense quantities of electricity from the
earth. Rather dangerous business, trans
porting lightning; but it is particularly
fitted for this work. Did you ever see a
leaf entire as to its edges? 1t is always
pointed, and these points, whether they be
large or small, are just fitted to handle this
dangerous agent. These tiny fingers seize
upon and carry it away with ease and won
derful dispatch. There must be no delay;
it is slime freight" True, sometimes it
gathers up more than the trunk can carry,
and in the attempt to crowd and pack the
baggage, the trunk gets terribly shattered,
and we say that lightning struck the tree;
but it has been struck thousand times
before. This time it was over-worked.-
american EntOmologist.
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Queen Victoria's Habits.

When free from the cares of State, moth
ing can be simpler than the daily routine of
life Queen Victoria leads at Bamoral Castle.
She manages her household on very strict
principles, servants according to meri:-pro-
motion always being held out. For stu
pid act, one member of the royal household
had to wait ten years for promotion. Her
majesty rises at seven, takes breakfast at
nine, and then attends to dispatches and pri-
vate correspondence; lunches at two, then
drives out in her carriage. During meals a
piper plays in front of the window. She
has dinner at half past eight in the library,
not having used the large dining,hall since
the death of her husband. There is no dis
play in the library-the arrangements are
of the simplest character. She spends much
of her time in Prince Albert's room. She
comes quietly in to her dinner, with her knit
ting in her hand, and retires early. She
is woman of great method. In all weather
she is seen abroad. A rainy day does not
keep her in; with water proof and umbrella,
she defes the elements. 1t is quite CON-
mon thing to see her walking in the grounds
under drizzling rain. She is hearty wo-
man, having no " fine lady" fancies. She
dresses consistently with the climate and the
weather, and fresh, comely, sensible look
ing lady she is, in her comfortable, plain
jacket and broad brmmed hat.