Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-01-31

QUEER ENovGH. In the Charleston
Convention, over which Caleb Gushing
presided, there were twice as many
delegates ms there were electoral votes,
and thus it happened that vely often
half votes were given. Ben Butler,
the people have never forgotten, cast
his vote over sixty times for JEFF. Davis.
He WAS the chairman Of the Massachu-
sets delegation, and invariably, in
announcing the vote of his State, closed
with the defiant statement in his most
raspiny tones, and the State of Mas
sachusetts casts one vote for jefferson
Davis, of Mississippi" The other half
of the vote that Ben thus made con-
spicious was that of the President of
the Convention, Mr.. Cushing. 1t is not
the least curious of the impossible
things that are always happening, that
Butler is now the foremost man in the
House, while Cushing has Just been
appointed Minister to Spain. and that
the President of the United States was,
ut the time the Charleston Convention
was held an obscure and retired army
officer, laboring fora small salary in II
leather store in Galena, Illinois, known
to his friends as an ardent Douglas man.
!V A Clinton (Mo.) Farmers Mass
Meeting recently adopted the following
sentiments:
Down with high frcights; up with
cheap transportion.
Down with II President at $50 900; up
with one at S25 ,OO0 reryear.
Down with distractions in western
rivers; up with free and cheap naviga-
ton.
Down with the traitor in the great
fight; up with the man that is sure to do
right.
Down with the demagogue for Office !:
up with the honest and intelligent far
mer.
Down with whatever stands in our
way; up with such things as will hon
esty pay.
Down with the miller that takes too
much toll ;up with good mills that grind
at fair rates.
Down with the back pay grab and sal
airy steal; UP with the honest representa-
tlves III Congress and elsewhere.
sE Livingstone county, New York,
boasts of remarkable case of catalepsy
Miss Bonncy, lady well known in the
community, and n believer in modern
Spiritualism, had been predicting for a
long time that sooner or later she was
to enter the trance state. One evening
about five weeks ago, she robed herself
for the night, and told the family that
the event she had so long predicted had
arrived. She laid herself upon bed
and in four hours she breathed no
more, the heart stopped beating, the
pulse ceased throbbing, and she has
laid in that condition UP to the present
time without food or water. She occupies
a sleeping apartment adjoining a sit
tlng-room, in which a fire is kept night
and day. There are no signs of de-
composition. Previous to going into
this state she designated the persons
who were to have exclusive charge of
her inanimate form, and all others
even her parents, were to keep out of
the rOom.--N Y Times,
"~@ nh Io"' euitor says: 'lIaSC season
we could Ge' live bushels of good po-
tatoes for one years subscription. This
year we consider ourselves lucky if we
get two bushels for the same equivalent.
Now we ask what encouragement is
this for man with growing family?"
The brick chimneys of the new San
Francisco Mint are turning beautiful
green. The peculiar color is occasioned
by using saltwater brick, or brick
made of clay taken from salt marshes,
which the acids used in the laboratory
thus discolor.
eas- A man may be great by chance,
but never wise and good without tax
ing pains for it.
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