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Ordinance Nc. 81.

An Ordinance concerning Vehicles.
The City OF Seattle does ordain as
follows:
SEC. l. That no person or persons
shall hire ont, or keep, or use for hire,
or cause to be kept or used for hire. for
the carrying Or conveying of persons, or
any article or thing whatever, within
the city of Seattle, any hackney coach,
cab. omnibus, dray, cart, wagon or 9TH
er vehicle or vehicles, carriage or car
riages, of an, description or name what
ever, without a license so to do; aud the
City Clerk is hereby authorized to Ii
cense any person or persons, residents
OF said city, and being the owner or
owners Of any or either of said vehicles
or Carriages, to keep and use for hire,
and the conveyance Of persons or any
article or thing as aforesaid, any or Ell
ther of the said carriages or vehi les.
upon his or their paying to the said city
the sum of tw I've dollars :, ear for Il
single team, and twenty dollars year
for double team. Provided, That the
keeper or keepers of livery stables shall
have the right to do the ordinary busi-
ness of such stables without obtaining
such license.
SEC. 2, The Clerk shall be entitled to
fifty cents for granting the license, and
the sum of fifty cents upon each trans
fer from the person receiving the trans
fer; and it shall be the duty of the Clerk
to keep register Of the names Of per-
sons to whom each license is granted or
tral sferred, aud the number of the IL
cense. All Licenses, unless revoked,
shall continue for the period Of one
year.
SEC. 8. Every person or persons so
licensed, shall forthwith cause the num-
ber of their license to be plainly painted
in letters. in a conspicuous place on the
outside of such vehicle, and shall keep
the same plain and distinct at all times
when used during the continuance of
such license; but upon the expiration of
said license, (unless renewed) such per-
son shall Immediately cause the sal
number to be erased from the said veLi-
Gle, and shall not allow said vehicle to
be used with said number thereon.
SEC. 4. my person or persons vlolat-
ing any of the provisions Of this ordi-
nance sha be fined in any sum not less
than five nor more than twenty dollars.
SEC. 5. This ordinance to be in force
and effect ten days after Its publication.
Passed May 2, 1873.
JOHN T. JORDAN, Mayor.
G. n. McCoNAHA, CLERK.
Published May 8, 1873.
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Ordinance No. SO.

An Ordinance in relatlan TO Side Walks.
The City Of Seattle does ordain as
follows:
SEC. 1. That the owners of property
on the moth side of Spring street, from
Fourth to Sixth streets, shall build a
good and substantial side walk. six feet
wide, with planks not less than one
inch and half thick
SEC. 2. In case any person or persons
shall fail to build such side walk within
twenty days after the publication of this
ordinance, the Street Commissioner is
hereby authorized to build such side
walk, and the expense incurred in bRild-
ing the same are to be collected of the
owners Of the property as fines and pen
alties are recovered in other cases.
Passed May 2, 1873.
JOHN T. JORDAN, Mayor.
G.. N. McCoNAHA, Clerk.
Published May 8. 1878.
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Notice..

In accordance with the provisions Of
the School Law, I will be at Seattle on
the third Friday and Saturday Of the
present month, for the purpose of ex-
am.ning teachers, and for the transaction
of ether business pertaining TO the Com
mon Schools Of the county of King.
Any business pertaining to formation
of new districts, where due notice has
been given, or the adjusting OF the
boundaries OF the districts now in ex-
istence, will be attended to ON Friday,
the 10th inst, and the examination of
teachers on Saturday, the 18th, begin
ming each day at 10 O'Clock, NJ.
All persons engaged in teaching, or
who wish to become teachers in the
District Schools of this county, it Is
hoped will be present.
GEO. F. WHITWORTH,
Supt. Com. Schools, King Co.
Seattle, May 6, 1873.
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y Ask for Crichton's Lager Beer.
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VIRTUous An exchange says: "The
most virtuous man, SIS related to the back
pay business. was Farnsworth of Him
ois, who drew the money and divided it
among the counties of his district, and
who declares that Grant deserves i'm
peachment for signing the law"
1t shows sad stare Of public morals
when official virtue is measured by the
manner in which public stealings are
applied. If the act authorizing this
back pay was such fraud upon the
people, that, ia the view of General
Farnsworth, the President deserves im-
peachment for approving it. upon what
principle of honesty and fair ,iealing
does he justify his own uss of the mon
ey fraudulently obtained in the corrup-
ton of his own constituents? Every man
who drew this money from the treasury
for any purpose, fully endorsed the act;
and by all the fair rules of constituting
motives, the man who drew the money,
acknowledging it to be fraudulent, and
then applied it to such purposes as
would magnify his own popularity. added
neanness and corruption 20 his crime.
He who took the money aud applied
it to his own use, could reasonably
plead in justification that he was entl-
tied to it according to law. We can
hardly expect Official standard Of virtue
to be higher than its source-the virtue
of the people.
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T Ask for Crichton's Ale.
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The KLIKITAT INDIANs.-Capt. Mar
shall Blinn informs us that he has recelv-
ed late dispatch from Burnham Hunt
ington, saying in substance. that the
indian. east of the Cascades in Wash
ington Territory are Now quiet and ap-
parently peaceably disposed. and that
the late panic among the settlers has
en,irely subsidized. They have probably
learned that the ''Peace Policy which
has heretofore been the chief inducement
to depYedations upon the whites-has
been abandoned by the Government.
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D1ED.--iIn San Francisco, May 6,
1873, Jared S. Hrrd, in his 10th year.
The deceased was born in Niagara
County, New York. educated to the bu-
siness of civil engineer; came to this
Territory in 1854. and has been en-
ployed principally since in the Surveyor
Generals office, and in railroad surveys.
He was highly respected and his deeth
will be generally regretted by all who
knew him.
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COUNTY REvENCE.-Tt is estimated
that the revenue accruing to this county
from liqnor licenses during the present
year will exceed $1,000, and that the
current expenses of the county will not
much exceed $4,000; leaving only
about $4,000 to be raised bv direct taxa
tion TO pay the expenses Of the county
government for the year.
We never believed in or advocated the
license system, and never conld under
stand upon what recognized principle Of
morality or social economy it can be
sustained. But We do believe, from the
best means Of information we have had
access to, that it is preferable. in NOR
al and social aspect, to prohibitory Ii
quor laws, which establish in every
community where they have been tried.
two classes about equally repngnant to
peace and good order, the one engaged
in clandestine violations of the law, and
the other acting in the degrading capa-
city of spies and inforAers upon their
neighbors, thus largely increasing the
records of crime without materially di-
minlshing the evils resulting from the
use of intoxicating drinks. Men cannot
be reformed by law, or made better
members Of society by outlawing them.
Until public opinion IS educated to ac-
cept ss dogma the proposition that the
manufacture, sale or use of intoxicating
liquors is crime, the best thing that
ally community can do with persons
engaged in this traffic, is TO hold them
amenabIe to the laws for their lawless
acts, the same as all other citizens are
held. When they turn their places of
business into dens of infamy and crime,
deal with them under thc laws which all
good citizens recognize as necessary to
for the protection of society; and see to
it that such peace and police officers are
elected whowIll enforce the laws without
fear or favor.
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PICKED UP FISH. Our late fellow
citizen, Col. B. S. Pardee, was lately
arrested in Washington. D. G., under
the alias of 'Rev. j. Hale Barney,
charged IN general with using the malls
for frau lulent purposes; obtaining mo-
ney under false pretences, and forgery.
The specifications are numesous. max
ing long chapter in the police jour-
nails.
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We ARE Nor IN.-We have been re-
auested from two adverse quarters to
pitch in" to the County Commission
ers. The grievance ON one side is, that
the Commissioners, without even a re-
spectful consideration, promptly rejected
the petition of large and influential por
tion of the citizens of SEATTLE. asking
for reduction of the rates for liquor
licenses. The other side complain, that
a license was issued to reopen a saloon
which was closed at the last term of the
District Court. by sending the proprietor
to the penitentiary for selling whiskey
to Indians. This fgbt does not belong
to US, but exclusively to the men who
make 1.-THE 'whiskey ring" on one
side, and the Temperance ring on the
uthei which elected the present Board
of County Commissioners by uniting
their forces almost to Il man. The TEN
perance ring" votcd for them because
they were on the ''regular Republican
ticket, "andthc "whiskey ring voted for
them to defeat Smithers aud Maddocks.
who were running on the Reform Tick
et.' If both have been deceived in their
men, it is none of our business. We
are in the interest ofno ring, party or COM
binatlon OF any kind; but go in distincly
for the correction of public abuses. the
maintenance of public order. and the
enforcement of the laws, regardless of
party, cliques or rings. In our course
as a journalist, we have no friends to
reward or enemies to punish.
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MEAcHAM CoNvALEsANT The Salem
Statesman of 9th inst. says Mr.. A. b.
Meacham and wife arrived at home yes
erday. Mr.. NJ. is considerably bruised
and mutilated, but ne Is entirely out 0.
danger.
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Proceedings Of Probate Court
REGULAR SESSION. W. n. YORK, JUDGE.
Thursday. May 3. 1879.

Thursday. May 3, 1879.
In the matter of the final account OF
G.. N. McConaha. administrator OF tho
estate of L. W. Lampe, hearing had. ae-
c. unit allowed, payment of debts order
ed an the balance of estate to be paid
to the County Treasurer for the use OF
said county, if no heirs are found before
August 90, 1873.
Adjourned sine die.
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SODA EoUNrA1N Kelly & Carney's
Drug Store. Soda Water served up
with all kinds Of syrups and cream
just the drink for this warm weather.
Call and see them.
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Mnrtin FemaIe ColIege.

We call attention to the advertisement of
ihe Martin Female Institute, Pulaski. Ihe
Board of Trustees have elected Prof. w. h.
Jones as the President for the ensuing year.
The school is on a firm basis. The late Thomas
Martin, beqeuathed thirty-fve thousand dol
lars, and the citizens ofthe place have sub
scribed twelve thousand dollars to be devoted
to the use of the school. Governor Brown,
the Pres ident of the Board, in a card just pub
ished, says:
'sTne Board of Trustees beg leave to say to
the public that at an adjourned meeting on the
Ath inst, IL was resolved after careful consld-
Grafton, to inaugurate the College, under their
charter of incorporation, in advance OF the
completion of their College buildings. The
Trustees have also elected Prof. W. h. Jones
as Principal of the College for the first schol-
astic wear, and haved placed in his hands the
organization of the school, and they feel that
they have been fortunate in securing the ser
vices of so eminent Teacher, thus earl y at the
BEGINNING. Prof. J Zones comes among with
the most flattering antecedents and the high
est character as a teacher and Professor in the
education of females. He has already secured
suitable houses, and a corps of teachers Will
be provided commensurate with the require
ments of the school.
LAS matter of course, a systematic classlh~
cation of the pupils will be attended with more
or less difficulty as in the case of all nswly es~
tabIished schools. Perfect organization can
not be attained in day, We think, hOwev-
er, we may safely say to the community and
the general public that at the beginning of
the second schastic year Of "Martin Female
College" we shall present them on the Coll
lege grounds in West Pulaski, a magnificent
school edlice, adapted in all points to the
ends in view, whose outfit and general ap~
pOintments shall be commensurate with the
demands Ofthe highest, broadcast literary cul-
ture.'
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MARSHALL COUNTY ITEMS
From the Gazette, Aug. 7th.l

from the UaZ6Gte, aug. lCns
There was large crowd in town Monday.
Criminal Court opened this week with IS
cases on the docket.
There was one death from cholera in Peters.
burg last Sunday night.
Modrall Glenn, near Belfast, died from an
attack of cholera last Saturday night.
Cholera made its appearance the second
time IN Shelbyville last week, in very fatal
form.
Mr.. J. B. Barnes has commenced painting
his new house onIthe north side of the Square.
There have been few watermelons, (ehole
ramelons) in the market, but few buyers.
Mrs Kerchival sent the Gazette cabbage
which had ten distinct aud well formed heads.
1t is fair representative of this "big-headed''
age,
DR.. Hardison is having his Office on the
north side of the Square, remodeled. We hope
that the improvement on that side will ex-
tend far enough to include that old cabinet
shop.
Marshall county school children throw
1t is thought that criminal court will last
but two weeks from the beginning.
Quite panic was created the other day, by
the report that one of our citizens had
been attacked very suddenly with cholera. 1t
proved to be a stubborn attack of cramp
cholic, but finally it yielded under the pressure
of four ounces of lobelia, half an ounce of
ipecac, and a mammoth mustard plaster.
"T." writing from Fishing Ford, informs
the Gazette that the bridge over the river at
that place is undergoing repairs and will be
completed in short time. There is little
sickness in that locality; the corn crop is very
promising and an abundance of hay has been
housed. The farmers are discouraged on &C.
count of the partial failure of the cotton crop.
Our railroad directors report that the con-
tractors are ready to go to work, and that as
soon as the bonds to the amount of $4,000 are
sold the work will begin on the part between
Columbia and this place.
Mr.. Riley Hatton, formerly connected with
the school at this place, and who has been
teaching for lsome time near Spring Hill, in
Maury county, is visiting his friends in Lew
isburg. He looks well.
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school Commissioners .

But little interest was taken in the
election of School Commissioners on
Thursday of last week. The follow
ing gentlemen were elected for the
several districts:
1st District. Robert Sewell. j. NJ.
Truett, p. B. Ladd.
3D. Thos. G. Hardison, Col. w. j.
Sowell, r. w. Tindell.
4th. A. w. Denham, j. A. Beckett,
j. J. Bryant.
9th. F. A. Burke, T. NJ. Galloway,
Alfred Fleming.
9th. Thos. White and j. A. Dug
ger.
7tb. Thos. j. Perry, d. G. Scott,
w. NJ. McKissack.
Sth. J. N. Alexander, W M. Sui
livan, G. ID. Matthew's.
9th. T. B. Rains, III. Il. Titcomb,
Frank III. Smith.
10th. &. N. McKenncn, A. L.
Gray, Sam. T. Brown.
18th. A. A. Morrow, W, A. Scott,
j. NJ. Frierson.
18th. 1hos. A. Harris, II. White.
J. w. Stone.
18th. Leon Frierson, A. Williams,
j. T. Walker.
18th. G. WHIT. Kinzer, j. f. Gray,
w. A. Reese.
18th. j. M. Gardner, and John &.
Cook.
18th. J. II. Cowley, J. d. Rags
dale, E. T. Church.
10Th. r. A. Rountree, Robert Nc
Kee.
both. W. E, B. Green, S. C. WISE
ner, II. M. Hughes.
Dist. FL. b. Daimwood, f. j. Ew-
ing, FL. Tankersley.
22d. j. II. Reams, Mai. T. E. Jam
isOn, J. w. McKissack.
23d. J. G. Park, John Glenn, John
f. Derry berry.
oath. Rufus Lisepby, j. H. Mich
olson, III. j. Hardison.
18th. j. NJ. Ellington, w. A. Will
liams.
1t is thought that there was no
election in the I'd, 18th and 10th dis
tricts, as no reports have been receiv-
ed from them.
The meeting of the Commissioners
last Monday was for the purpose of
advising with the Superintendent.
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ASHWOOD ITEMS.

Col. Willis Jones, in company with Capt.
Brent, of the house of Tolle, Holton & Co., of
Cincinnati, passed through our village few
days ago. Capt. Brent is a drummer for his
house, and agent for the sale of the Laurel
Hill Jeans. He has met with fine success in
the county and throughout the State. Hur-
rah for Laurel Hill.
Col. J. W. B. Thomas and lady passed
through our village with pack of hounds, on
his way to Mr.. j. X. Buggs, who runs the old
Foust place, for the purpose Of fox-hunting
and drinking freestone water. He proposes
to be one of any number to build Summer
town.
We have had few showers in this section,
but fear it has been rather lats to do the crops
any good.
it is a fine time to dig wells, and we have
plenty of water wizards in this part of the
county if any one wants a well witched. 1t
is also good time TO cut wagon tires.
A most remarkable accident happened at
this place last Sunday night. At the old toll
gate, kept by Col. Kerr, there is an old well,
about twenty-five feet deep, and which has
been dry 10 these many years. Col. Kerr had
1t covered over with plank. On last Sunday
his horse was standing Oh the plank reaching
up in tree for leaves, when suddenly the
plank gave way, and the horse fell through,
but caught with its head and hind parts on the
sides of the well. The Colonel saw the mare
when she fell through and has tened to her as
sistance, and grabbed her by the ears she
tried to come out, but losing her balance,
down she went TO the bottom. The most re-
markable part is, that after standing in the
well all nighttill morning, full fifteen hours,
block and tackle was procured, and with the
aid and assistance of many friends and neigh
bors, she was lifted out of the we'll unscathed
and unhurt. We reckon she felt grand
gloomy and peculiar when she touched on ter
"a frma, and will hereafter take particular
heed how she stands, lest she fall.
Cotton is opening finely, and in short time
the farmers will commence picking,
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One Of the most important things
to DO considered here is the question
of health. Now it is we'll known
fact that Columbia is, and has always
been, remarkable for its salubrity /;
this was very evident in the past two
months when ali sections of our
country were afflicted with disease,
from which our city was exempt.
1t is the received opinion of a
number of the most eminent medical
men, that no case of cholera was
ever produced in Columbia, and the
same may be said of several other
very fatal dise9Gea,
Those persons who have wards or
daughters to be educated should col
lect the facts and figures in the case,
from which they will be convinced
that there is probably no place i'll the
whole world that is more healthy
than Columbia, Tennessee.
1t is fact for which we are pro-
foundly thankful to Almighty God
that during the past thirteen years
there has not peen a death among the
large number of girls and young la.
dies who have been assembled FROM
all parts of our country at ;he Athen.
eum; and in the whole of this time
we have had to contend with a ~
markably few cases Of ssNt'-- -,
ness on the contrary . ,.us III
ly happaue.s .,Chas frequent
ssrg mat young ladies il
ueIicate health have entered tn
/ Atheneum as pupils, and, i'll a few
months, have found their health +
be wonderfully improved. Guardian
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The B ig Eater,

To the Editors Of the Columbia Herald:
We sometimes haye events to happen in
this section that we think would prove inter-
eSting to your numerous readers. Sometimes
they take one form, sometimes another. We
wilt give an instance we have IN mind, and
each one can decide for himself to which
form it belongs, The item of which write
occurred at A. }. Whitwells one day while
his wheat was being threshed. During the
morning the question of how much man
could eat arose among the hands, and all pres
ent being anxious to know the amount in
pounds healthy man could eat and not ex-
plode, decided TO weigh j. 7. Hutson, ne be-
log anxious to try the experiment. The
hands were called to dinner but before 60
ing to the table, J. I. Hutson was carefully
weighed, and weighed one hundred and sixty
nine pounds Esq. Whitwell was very par
ticular to see that the weight was exactly cor
rect. The dinner was eaten. All, as we'll as
our distinguished eater, wished to do justice
to ESQ. Whitwells table, As sooL as dinner
was over, all hands, (still in the interest Of
science adjourned to the balances 70 ascer-
tain how much r. i. pounds Mr.. Hutson had
weighed, and to the surprise of all present he
weighed one hundred and seventy nine
aVoirdupcige pounds. Esq. Whitweu 20. -.
satisfied, but continued to wall until ho as h noI
weighed Mr.. Hutson four times, the baiana @e
never Vssssylng, but still holding me cain NJ
ten pounds. Mr.. HutsoE thought he conId
eat two pounds uore, as be lid not feel at all
full from what be had already eaten. He
| went az once to the diningroom to eat them.
when, alas, his wife, who was not as much in
| terested in the cause of science as she was in
| the cause of her children, Set her "mater-fa-
milia" foot down, and said "he should not eat
another bite" Hence, ate only ten pounds.
when he might have eaten twelve, or even
fifteen pounds, at one sitting, Of Esq Whit
wells nFOVISlnn flUF 0h.r
| alive and doing vel. He has not lost any
time on account of the experiment, and our
section is satisfied about how much Q man can
eat and not burst. RUsTTCUs.
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SunlnertOWn.

Summertown has many advantages to the
people Of this section as a public watering
place over other springs in adjoining counties.
1t is located on the Columbia and Waynesboro
turnpike, ten miles from Mt. Pleasant and
twenty-one miles from Columbia. Its alti-
tude is considerably above the lowlands of
Maury, The town once stood on the summit
of beautiful eminence some what higher than
the surrounding country. At its base, or al
most on the very top of the eminence itself,
rises the spring of the coolest and purest free
stone water that ever run out of the bowels of
the earth. At the foot Of the hill proper, on
which the town was once situated, is another
spring of pure chalybeate water, on the
banks of Terrapin branch. Summertown is
water, and on the other by the Columbia d
WaynesborO pike, on level, slightly undu-
lating, plateau, a healthy and desirable To-
cahty, as susceptible of being as beautiful as
ever graced the dream of dying saint. At
one time its streets and boulverards were re-
sOnant with merry laughter, Happy counte
nances were seen on every hand, and joy
reiguet supreme. We used to go there when
we were boys. Alas! those were halcyon
days. No house nor building now mark the
spot where the town once stood nothing save
the trees and flowers planted by the hand of
God himself. The demon of thei fire king has
made sad havoc of our once happy homes.
We wish to redeem, and rebuild it. Any one
desiring to take stock in it. we would be glad to
have them do so, as we wish to lay il Of into
lots for beauty and convenience to suit the
number of families that may wish 10 take an
interest in It. w.