davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1874-03-05

HOMICIDE AT PoRT TowNsEND.-Ad dis
patch received from Port Townsend this
wednesday, morning, says Henry
Quayle, alias "Poker jack" was NOR
tally stabbed by John Martin, alias
"Brick Top" A later dispatch to Fred
Dyer, says: "Poker Jack was stabbed
in the stomach, by John Martin, this
morning, in Hunts saloon. Said 20
have been on account of an old grsdge
between them, though the cutting was
unprovoked at the time. Martin was
arrested and will be examined this after
noon. No hopes of Jacks recovery"
Both of these men were gamblers, and
well known in every town upon the
Sound. There has long been deadly
feud between them, and their acquaint-
anees have all anticipated tragical re-
suit. Quayle was tried for murlsr at
Port Townsend year ago and acquitted
not he ground that the killing was done
in self-defence.
, 1874-03-05

hear that the bark Chris. Mitchell is
ashore on the spit at New Dungeness.
The bark was on the return trip from
San Francisco, and portion of the car
go was goods for this place. No further
particulars received.
LArzn.-We have just received the
news by telegraph that three men were
drowned, and the vessel is total loss.
, 1874-03-05
r. ABRAMS
LIVERY STABLE.

Cor. Commercial and Washington SITS
SEATTLE. W. T.
Nlhis Livery Stable is in the centre
i the city, ard to persons desirous o
having Buggies, Carriages, and spirited
saddle animals, can find them at this
stable.
Horses boarded bv the day or week.
X. ABRAMS.
, 1874-03-05
WOOD and BARK !!
For. sale.
ANDERSON q HARDEE,
DEALERS IN WOOD,

DEALERS IN WOOD,
A RE NOW PREPAREDT TO DELIVER WOOD
N and Bark to any part Of Seattle at the fol
lowing reasonable rates:
"a inch Wood, split coarse. s. so per cord;
"a, Is. Ii and IL inch Wood, split fine, s. 75per
cord.
Bark per cord. 81 90.
N. B.-Ordef Boz at Malson's Butcher Shop
corner Mill and Front streets. Wood Yard, cor
uer Ninth and Cherry streets. d31-.
, 1874-03-05
Sale OF Stock
PUGET SOUND TELEGRAPH CO.

I'M HE TRUSTEES OF THE PUGET SOUND
u Telegraph Company offer fer sale to stock
holders the shares now remaining on hand, at
the following rates:
For 80 days from date, Stockholders will be
entitled to shares pro rata at $40 per Share.
After so days, Stockholders will be entitled to
procure such shares as they may require at $40
per share.
After 60 days, all remaining shares will be
placed on the market for any purchaser at $40
per share.
Bv vote Of Stockholders. January 5th, and by
order of Trustees.
JAMES G.. SWAN,
an. IA 3n Secretary.
, 1874-03-05

D1ED--At Port Gamble, February 90,
1874, Timothy Mccarthy. native Of
County Cork, Ireland, aged 35 years.
, 1874-03-05

FRESH CREAM CAKES Every Wednes-
day and Saturday, at the Confectionery
on Front street. e+f+
, 1874-03-05
DENTISTRY.

- DIR. J. G. GRASSE, DEN
TIST. Office in Stone &
o1IIf1OBurnett's new building on
Commercial street. All work warran.
ed. oct. ~,
, 1874-03-05
guoet Soana gispateA.

Seattle. w T. March 5 1874.
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ADVERTISING BATES
Washington Notes.

The House Committee on Military
Affairs expect to cut down the army
establishment so as to save about
81 ,000, ,000 annually. -
Among other reforms in the navy ii
is proposed TO abolish the grade OF COM
mOdore, which will effect consider
able saving. At present there are
TWENTY-FIVE commodores on the list.
The Legislative, Executive and Ju-
dicial Appropriation bill reported to
to the House yesterday cuts down the
estimates to the extent of three or four
millions. A number of cierkships
have been abolished. Ea-I
The Hon.. Alex. III. Stephens is quite
sick at his rooms with neuralgia OF the
kidneys. Night before last several
physicians were in consultation rela'
tive to his cage, and agreed that his
condition was sEriOus. lie was some
what easier yesterday,
The President has ordered that the
Court of Inquiry in the case OF Gen.
Howard be composed of Gems. Sher-
man, Mcdowell, Pope, Meiggs, and
Colt, Major A. b. Gardner, Judge Adj
vocate. The court will meet ip Wash
ington oR the 81 of Msrch next.
The HoUsa Committee on Accounts
are giving their attention to the cor
rection of numerous Irregularities con-
cerning payments of money, and to the
curtailmelt of unnecessary expenses,
They have recently required the dis
charge of twenty-five persons employed
IN the folding room as one Of their
measures of retrencinent.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-02-26
WOman's Resentment.

Junius Henri Browne. in Galaxy.
Entire reconciliation is difficult with
woman. When she has once parted
from you in spirit she will hardly re-
turn. Though she seems to she does
not. She gives her hand again
perhaps her lips; but the heart is no
longer in one nor the soul in the other.
Kiss her you have once roundly quar-
relied with-if it be not mere lovers
quarrel-and you will find the statue
under the crimson curve, the chill of
the marble through the bounding
blood. A keen observer may deter
mine in society whether you have had
discord with the woman you meet,
However perfect the breeding, howev-
er disciplined the manners, the past
discord leaves shadow that will not
be lifted. The old wound may be
closed; it is not healed, nor can 1t be by
| the highest skill in spiritual surgery.
Frequently men like one another bet
ter after fighting; women never, be the
foe of either sex. With these the
bloom of favor II taken of. not to be re.
stored. They feel, though they may
not say or even think 1t, that slight OF
injury admits of no atonement. Wo
man reads the proverb: To err Il
feminine, to forgive impossible.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-02-26

THE prevalence of Oh.oahs in high
places has become so remarkable AZ to
excite general attention, and the New
York Sun makes out this list of our of.
firp-holders of high degree:
U. S. Grant. President.
w. T. Sherman, General of the Army.
Philip H. Sheridan, Lieut.. General.
Irwin Mcdowell, Major General.
NJ. r. Waite, Chief JSstice. late Con-
sri to Geneva Arbitration.
Noah II. Swayne, Associate Justice.
ID. K. Carter, Chief Justice District
of Columbia.
Columbus Dclano, Secretary of the
Interior.
Benz. r. Cowep, Assistant Secretary
of the Interior.
w. H. Smith, Assistant Attorney
General for the Interior.
r. C. Schenck, Minister to England.
John A. Bingham. Minister to Japan.
IS. Mattoon, Consul at Honolulu.
d. H. Bailey, Consul at Hong Kong.
w. III. Eavns, Consul at Maranham.
f. T. Sheppard, Consul at Tien-Tsin.
J. NJ. Wilson, Consul at Bremen.
E. Klauprecht, Consul at Stuttgart.
NJ. Chance, Consul at Nassau.
C.. Mueller, Consul at Amsterdam.
F. W. Ames. Consul at San Domingo.
Samuel ShclIabareer. Civil Service
Commissioner.
r. w. Taylor, First Comptroller OF
the Treasury.
The Sun adds:
These are only some of the chief dig
mites which Ohio enjoys. The Blue
Book furnishes an enviable list of no.
liabilities in the second degree.
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: Philip Phillips.

The Editor of the Ohio State Journal
has been writing some letters from
Washington, recently, that are decid-
edly spicy. He hits off a piece of cant
handsomely in the following:
Philips Phillips, who sings for Jesus
at one hundred dollars night, has an
unpleasantness pending with the con-
cert committee cf one of the churches
here. 1t seems that this church, on
some of those occasions where it is
necessary to clOthe charity in the garb
of the carnal enjoyment, employ Phil
lips to assist at an entertainment for
the purpose of raising money. Phillips
would not agree to sing unless they
would place the whole programme un-
der his control. AS consequence the
whole programme was. devoted to
Phillips. There WAS 80 much Phillips
that the bulk of the audience stomped-
ed at the end of the first part. And now
the brethren publish card about Phil
lips, stating the facts IS above, in which
they call him this pig headed Pilgrim
and beseech the Good Lord to believe
that the rest of their concerts will 're-
tain the exeellency' which had distin-
guished them and (which has been only
n,afred, 50 lar, by this pious fraud As
brother Phillips sometimes sings for
Jesus in Columbus, l have thought
you might like to know about this. 1
like to go about doing good, in this
way, saying pleasant and enjoyable
things about people. -.
Ihave fendish rapture In announ-
cling that Private Dalzell is writing to
the Washington Star. The Star is fill
ing up the Pneumatic Tube with his
compositions. If the Private would
only write for the Capital now, I should
sing n,aac di,nittus.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-02-26
Al. s. Foote'S Duels with s. s.
From the Paris Kentuckfan


A friend of the late s. s. Prentiss of
Mississippi was at The point of death
from an attack of Iaalia a potu. For a
week his physicians fad essayed every
known remedy to put their patient to
sleep, but in vain. Prentiss knsw that
Foote had made a visit to Texas. He
was nursing his sick friend when "A
consultation of the doctors was held,
and they announced the case was hope
less Unless the patient could be put to
sleep, but that they would exhaust all
the means known to the profession.
PreDtiss sprang from his seat and
said to the d0c.ors, damn it, give him
Foote'S book ON Texas to read, and /
will INSURE its soporific effect" The
remark VI Prentiss was too good joke
to be kept, and it reached the ears of
Foote, who challenged, and Prentiss
was too much of Southern cavalier to
decline, and they met. and Foote was
wounded and the parties made friends.
1t happened that the meeting was so
notorious that very large collection
crossed the river at Vicksburg to wit
ness it, and among them a number of
boys, who were SO anxious to get full
sight that they climbed up many trees
about the grounds. When the seconds
had planted the parties. Prentiss look
ed around and saw the boys in the
trees, and jestingly remarked, "Boys,
you had better take care; Foote shoots
mighty Wild" This remark was pub
lished i'm the papers, and annoyed
Foote to such degree that he again
challenged PrentiSs, who met him a
second time. At the meeting Foote
fired and missed. and Prentiss fired
his pistol in the air, and the parties
were again reconeiIed.
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Agassiz' Belief In the EmmOrtali-
ty-Of Animals.

1t would be idle to multiply in
stances of the thorough humanity and
geniality of Aga>Siz. Everybody who
knew him can tell hundreds of anec-
doles illustrative of his sympathy with
ali forms of life, whether in the jelly
fish, the human child, the developing
boy or girl, the mature man or woman.
Still his conviction of the immateriali-
ty and personality of mind was some
thing wonderful i'm so aHstere natural
ist. We happened once to please him
by defining a jeliy-fsh as organized
water. ''NOw look at it through the
microscope" he said. "But, Agassiz,
the play of organization is SO wonder
full that it seems to me that nothing
but mind can account for it." lyon
are right" was his answer; Sin some
incomprehensible way, God Almighty
has created these beings, and can not
doubt of their immortality any more
than doubt of my own" His fealty
to the right of animals exceeded that
of any great naturalist who ever pre-
ceded him. Incompetent as we are to
give him his due rank among the great
naturalists of the world, we think he
excelled every naturalist who has gGRc
before him i'm striking at the soul and
individuality of all animals below man,
1t isimpossible is to convey in words the
peculiar feeling which Agassiz had on
this matter. Doubtless this large and
genial genius is now satisfied. We can
not penetrate beyond the vail.-Boston
Globe,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-02-26
THE NATIONAL FINANCES.
General Garfield About 10 Make a
Speech on the Great Problem
Some of MIR. DaWes's
Statements Corrected.

Telegraph Ia the N. y. Tribune.
! WASHINGTON, Feb. I5.-As soon a;
the next Appropriation bill is taken
up, General Garfield will make q
speech upon the finances, in which he
: will take issue with Mr. Dawes'S state
! nient of the amount OF appropriations
! made for the present fiscal year. Mr..
: Dawes'S figures showed remarkable
/ increase in the expenditures for 1873
; over those of 1872, and a still more re-
markable Increase in the arpropria-
tiOns for 1874 over the expenditures of
1873. The appropriations for the pres
ent year he gave as Ovor S3l9, ZOO, 600.
Mr.. Garfield will show that he made
the serious mistake of including the
permanent appropriation for the sink
ing fund in the total for 1874, while
emitting it from the total for the pre-
ceding years. Deducting the amount
of the sinking fund, the appropriations
made at the last session of Congress for
the expenses of the present fiscal year
were less than 1921, 900, 900. Included
i'm that sum was over 81 900. 600 of def
ciencies for the year 1873. Gen. Gar
field does not think that this sum will
NC oAAO NCh7
cheney appropriation of the present
session, together with the amounts
called for by claims, pensions, jadg-
ments of the Court of Claims and
Southern Claims Commission, aud
other demands that Congress must
provide for, and which will be imme-
diate dIafts upon the Treasury, and
should properly be counted among the
expenditures of the current fiscal year.
Still, it is impossible to say definitely
what these demands will aggregate,
because the deficiency estimates are
not yet made out. Ii they are esti-
mated fully to Offset the deficiencies of
last year, included by Mr.. Dawes in
the appropriation for this year, Mr..
Dawes's statement of Government ex-
pen1itures, as corrected by Dir. Gar
field, would be as follows: 1869. S322,-
coo, 600; 1870, S3O9, 100000; 1871, s292,-
O0O,0O0; 1872, S277 900, 600; 1873, $780,
GOO, 600; 1874, 500, ,461 200.
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Some of BismaFck-s Maxims.
TAKEN FROM HIS PARLIAMENTARY
SPEECH ES.

When pushed to extremes L prefer
my shirt to my coat Jan. p. 1924.
A question of right can be settled
only with the bayonetin in our European,
quarrels = Jan. -, 1864.
Parties and castles are mutable-they
perish, and new ones arise.-L Jan. Z2,
1864.
The Kings of Prussia have never been
pre-eminently the kings of the rich.-
Feb. 10, 1865.
Whoever makes the most promises
is apt 10 carry the eieciion.-lJune L,
1865.
AlrcIasses DO little smuggling, es-
pecially the women.-[June /, 1865.
A great country can not be governed
by partisans.- Jan. Is, 1867.
Put Germany in the saddle and you
will find that she knows how to ride
March IL, 1867.
Governments are like women
the youngest please the most Dec.
9, 1868.
1t is not possible to hasten the ripen-
ing Of fruit by holding lamp under
neath.-[April l6, 1869.
Capitalization is tyranny, more or
less.--CApril 16, 1869.
Whoever carries the money bag is
the peoples master.-[April 26, 1862,
Every country knows that peace and
security rest in the sword.-[-May Y,
1869.
Liberty is a luxury which not every
one can aiford.-[ May y, 1869.
People are great deal more lavish
when they pay out of "a common treas
ury than when they pay out OF their
own pockets.-[ June 2, 1871.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-02-26
New Agricultural Machine

The English Mechanic says, Messrs
McDonne and Leuchan, of Dublin
have invented machine which per.
1orms the operations of rolling, sowing,
and narrowing simultaneously. The
roller Is of wrought iron, riyeted on
cast-iron wheels, forming a cylinder
six feet in length by three feet in diam
eter, Immediately above the roller is
sowing apparatus, by which the seed
Is rapidly delivered, a star wheel of
four points keeping the conductors in
constant motion. As the seed is strewn
harrow of four rows of ohliqua teeth
set in central axis turns up the earti,
over the seed. The harrow is kept in
motion by an endless chain or belt
which passes round the extreme end of
the large cylinder, and fits the groove
OF small wheel at the corresponding
end Of the harrow. Every time the
large roller turns over, the circular har-I
row turns nearly five times, causing!
the teeth to tear up the soil about twen.i
ty times at this of tie revolutions.
Meantime the seed-conduct0r and dis
tributOr rises and falls twelve times
during each of these revolutions. and
there Is a cOntrivanee by which the
quantity required to be sOwn can be
regulated. A lever is also connected
with the supports of the harrow, and
rest upon tuicrum placed at suitable
part of the frame of the machine. By
means OF this lever the harrow portion
OF the machine can be raised off the
ground and the roller only used, and
the distributor or sOwer may be- worked
simultaneously by means of the chain
band, which can be closed and the fowl
OF seed stopped. The machines can bel
easily made to suit either the purposes
OF sowing corn or grass for pasturage. 1
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SCIENTIFIC MEMORANDA.

A series of experiments made -by
Professor Vile, in France, show that
the diseases that attack the potato are
in part the result of deficiency in tie
supply of potash in the soil. For five
years in succession the Professor plant
ed potatoes In the same soil without
any fertilizer, to Other..plots of ground
he added fertilizers that did not con-
tain potash. In all these cases the fruit
became diseased in the month Of MAY.
while on the otter plots where potash
was supplied in sufficient quantity, the
plants were healthy and yielded an ex-
cellent product.
The absolute absence of aay atmos.
phere on the moon has never yet been
demonstrated, but only the fact that il
does not exceed certain limits, gener-
ally supposed to 0e much more re-
strieted than Is actually the case.-E
Nelson.
Regarding the Use of electricity in
the treatment of skin diseases, Beard
and Rockwell say: 'During the past
two years we have treated a number
of cases of eczna, acne and prurigO, by
central galvanization alone, without
making any application whatever to
the diseased surface; and under this
method of treatment the results have,
in some instances, been more satisfac-
tory than under any other method OF
using electricity in these affections. +"
The negative pole was placed on the
epigastrium and the positive on the
back, moving it by turns along the
whole length of the spine.
In paper presented to the Academy
of Medicine of Paris, NJ. Lecorche ad-
vances the opinion that diabetes is a
secondary disease, attending upon im-
perfect assimilation of nitrogeniZed
bodies. The large quantity of urea
daily voided by the patient, consuming
in its production the oxygen which
should have been employed in the OK
idatioD of sugar. The latter body con-
sequently finds its way out of the sys-
tenn by the kidneys. The proper treat
ment, he thinks, is to endeavor to
diminish the production of urea by the
use of opium, arsenic, valerian, and in
some cases bromide of potassium.
The Italian section of the Vienna Ex-
hibition contained a tabletop composed
of portions OF human muscles, fat, sim
ews, and glands; all petritied into a
single block by Mazini's process, and
polished until its surface resembled
marble.
--IScy96,ler's for March
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The Time to be Pleasant.

Mothers eross,' said Maggie, COM
ing out into the kitchen with q pous
on her lips. Her aunt was busy IRON
ing; but she looked up, and answered
Maggie:
'Then 1t is the very time for you to
be pleasant and helpful. Mother was
was awake a great deal in the night
with the poor baby
Maggie made no reply. She put on
her hat, and walked off into the gar
den. But new idea went with her.
The very time to be helpful and pleas
ant is when other people are cross.
Sure enough thought she; that wo'd
be the time when it would do the most
good. / remember when l was sick
last year, l was so nervous, that, IL
anybody spoke to me, L could hardly
help being cross; and mother never
got angry or out OF patience, but was
lust as gentle with mel / ought to pay
it hack now; and l will.' Ard shs
sprang up from the grass where she
had thrown herself, and turned faee
full of cheerful resolution toward the
room where her mother sat soothing
and tending q fretful, teething baby.
Maggie brought out the pretty ivory
balls, and begon to jingle them for the
little one. He stopped fretting, and
smile dimpled the corners of his lips.
Couldn't take him out to ride in his
carriage, mother? it is such nice
morning. she asked.
Il should be so glad If you wouid''
said her mother.
The little hat and sack were brought,
and baby was soon ready for his ride.
sPll keep him as long as he is good
said Maggie; and you must lie on the
sofa and get nap while / am gone.
You are looking dreadfully tired
The kind words, and the kiss that
accompanied them, were almost too
much ior the mother. The tears rose
to her eyes, and the voice trembled as
she answered, Thank you, dearies II
will do me world Of good If you can
keep him out an hour; and the air viii
do him good too. My head aches bad
ly this morning
What happy heart beat IN Mag
pie's bosom as she truudled the little
Carriage up and down on the walk.
She had done real good. She had CIV
on hack a little of the help and forbear-
snce that had so often been bestowed
nnon her. She bad made her mother
happier. and given her time to rest.
She resolved always to remember and
act upon her aunt's good words; The
yery time to be helpful and pleasant Is
when every body is tired and cross.
The Wsll-Spring.
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Pauperism grows as the census
grows, and the soup house, with its
demoraliziug tendencies, seems likely
to become fixture in this country.
Some wheat. There is field in CAL
ifornia seventeen miles long, and when
the owner plOws it he starts on one
iurrow and goes all day, camps out all
night, and plows back the next day.
The necessity of extending and
widening Boston streets has suggested
the proposition to cut archways through
interfering buildings, instead of wholly
destroying the property.
The New York Chamber of Com
merce, aftercareful computation, says
that the immigration arriving In that
city since the formation of the Emigra-
tion Commission added six thousand
millions to the wealth of the country.
Chief Justice Allen, of the Sandwich
Islands, has arrived at Washington for
the purpose of negotiating reciprocity
| treaty between our government and
that Of the Lunalillos.
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ORIGIN OF THE "PRINTER's DEVIL.

ORIGIN OF THE "PRINTER's DEVIL"
When Aldns Manutius set up in bu-
siness as a prinetr in Venice, he came
in possession of little negro boy.
This boy was soon known all over the
city as the little black DEVIL for, at
that time, negroes wero not often seen
in Venice, and some of the most igno-
rant people believed him to be either
an embodiment or an emissary of Sa-
tan, who aided Aldus in the work Of
his profession. One day Manutius, de-
sirous to dispel this strange and spread.
ing opinion, displayed the young imp
publicly to the poorer classes, making
this short but Characteristic speech;
BE 1t known to you, and all Venice
that /, Aldus Manutius, printer to the
Holy Church and the Doge, have this
day made exposure to ell Of the print
er's devii. And If any think he Is no,
like US, flesh and blood, they may come
and pinch him, and they viii find that
though he is black, he Is human