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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-10-07
TWO LEGAL GIANTS IN COURT.

Old Squire Gerrish, of Newburyport,
Mass, is good soul, who has host
of legal "reminiscences. An intimate
friend of Webster, Edward Everett and
Rufus Choate, and a law partner OF
Caleb Gushing, he had rare oppor-
tunity of collecting anecdotes and de-
tails that are very interesting now.
While connected with Gushing, time
came when those Two Ttans, Gushing
and Choate. we're on opposite sides in an
important suit. On the day when the
case was called the courtroom was
crowded. A battle between such men
was a novelty, even in that epoch Of
brains. To the amusement OF Judge.
jury, and spectators, both Cushing and
Choate were somewhat anxious for a
" continuance" other words, for a
postponement of the trial. As usual
thing both gentlemen were always anz-
ious to force a case 20 t:ial, being in q
state of "chronic preparation, as Web
ster once said, speaking of Choate. "In
going out of court, " says Mr.. Gerrish,
I met Choate and said:"
How is it you were ready for a con-
tinuance to-day? It is little odd Of
you"
Choase replied, "Oh, I am little
pressed with business, and can afford 70
let this case stand over"
Said I, "Choate, this is sheer non
sense. I'll tell you what the matter
was. You are afraid of Cushing"
$50 I am," was the reply, "and I
am not ashamed to own it, either"
"Well, WE'LL" said I, q" this is pretty
good. The idea of Rufus Choate be-
ing frightened. What on earth do
you fear in Cushing?
"Mr. Garrish, I will tell you. I am
afraid of his overwhelming knowledge
of law"
In the afternoon Cushing came into
Office. Invent for him at once.
"Caleb, what was the matter to-day ?
why didn't you insist on trying that
case?
"Ohr he replied, &C. the weather is
warm, and we have much 10 attend
to, and I didn't care to hurry matters. +"
CHOW, Gushing, to be honest; were
you not little afraid Of Choate ?"
Well, Gerrish, to be candid about it.,
I was. Are you satisfied now?'
I then inquired what he feared
Choate for. DO you think" said l,
"tbat he knows any more law than you
doY'
"No, sir, I DON'T" was the answer,
+" but I'm afraid of the rascal's influence
with jury, right or wrong"
The two men had been so often as
sociated together that each knew the
others strong points, and felt timid.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-10-07

CuR.Na Hay IN The CocK.-As I have
never seen q method like mine for cut
ting and curing hay mentioned in your
most valuable Journal, I thought I
would write it out, hoping thereby to
help some beginner in the business.
As it is an established and admitted
fact that we must cut hay early, how
shall we best preserve it in its purely is
the question. Now, those who are
lucky enough 10 have The " wherewith'
to purchase hsy-caps, tedders, ETC., will
tell US that single day will cure it
quite enough to have it keep we'll. Bot
what shall others do who do not have
these helps? For more than fifteen
years I have endeavored 10 begin 10
cut the clover as soon as it was in full
bloom, bot more recently have come to
the conclusion that il the weather
promises we'll. il is not best 10 wait for
few blossoms to come out. Cut it
when the dew is all of, letting it lie
one night; open next day, and improve
all the sunshine. Now, if fairly wilted,
make the cocks larger, and let them
stand one or Two DAYS, and If they are
not dry enough 80 as not to sour in the
NOW, you must open it again; but if
otherwise, let them Stand, only do this,
commence and cock them over, letting
them cure in the cock rather than by
the sun. Persons using this kind of
feed for their cattle, will make as much
butter in December as in June, provid-
ed the cows are in fresh milking con-
ditiou. Clear timothy, managed in this
wsy, is worth fifty per cent. more than
that which has been cut and put into
the barn, and allowed to become hot
and burnt in the NOV. I have often
seen hay that had an ash-colored ap-
pearance. aud very dusty, that was not
much better than bright straw.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-10-07

Tns PAINLESS DrArH.-Prof. Tyndall,
in a recent holiday lecture at the Royal
institution, speaks thus Of the painless
death by electricity:
Franklin was twice struck ssnseless
by the shock. He afterward sent the
discharge of two large jars through six
robust men; they fell to the ground
and got up again, without knowing what
had happsned; they neither heard nor
felt the discharge. Prisstly, who made
many valuable contributions to electric
ity, received the discharge Of two jars.
but did not find it painful.
"This experience agrees with mine.
In the theatre Of the Royal Institu-
lion, and in the presence Of an audience,
I once received the discharge Of . bat
terry Of fifteen Leyden iars. Unlike
Franklin's nix men, / did not fall, but
like them, I felt nothing. I was sim
ply extinguished for . sensible interval.
"This may b regarded - IN sxpsr-
mental proof that people killed by
lightning suffer no pain"
The measured velocity of electricity
| is many thousand times greater than
the measured vslocisy Of sensation
in the nerves. Hence, the electrical
concussiou reaches the center Of life,
without any possible announcement By
the ear or eye or sense Of feeling.
There is abundant evidence that death
BY . rife ball traversing the brain, u
for the same reason, entirely without
consciousness or pain. But ride hall
is tortise compared with the electrical
fash.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-10-07

Sc The New York Dispatch sAys that
when . Boston girl gets mihed at hez
husband she says Base tyrant, I shall
leave the and fey to my parental
home." When q Western girl becomes
similarly affected she simply remarks:
" Old man, I'm going to git up and git;
and If you don't like It, Just climb upon
your eyebrows and zee Il you can stop
me
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-10-07
WHERE T HE LEA DING 1NREPENOENTs
STAND.

We extract the following list of Til
den men taken from the N. Y. World
which comprises the names not only ot
those who have lately been classed AZ
Liberal Republicans and Independents
but of a number of gentlemen who have
until the present canvas been actively
identified with the Republican party:
Charles Francis Adams of Massa-
chusetts.
Andrew G.. Curtis, Pensylvania's wal
Governor.
Ex-senator Trumbull of Illinois.
David A. Wells of Connecticut.
William Cullen Bryant of New York
Parke Goodwin of New York.
Gideon Well, President Lincoln's
secretary of the navy.
Justice David Davis of the supreme
court, United States.
Ex-Governor Austin Blair, the wal
Governor of Michigan.
Ex-Governor B. Gratz Brown oi
Missouri.
George w. Julian, candidate fol
Vice President on the Free Soil ticket
1852.
Cassius M. Clay of Kentucky.
General John M. Palmer, ex-Gover.
nor of Illinois.
General William F. Bartlett of Mas.
sachusetts.
Professor w. G.. Summer of Yale
College, who wrote the Republican
State platform of 1874, and who now
has written the strongest letter of the
kind yet published in behalf of Tilden.
Professor A L. Perry of Williams
College, the distinguished political
economist.
Colonel Augustus Fl. Fem, the Re-
publican candidate for lieutenant COVER
of Connecticut last year.
Frank w. Bird of Massachusetts, the
founder of the Republican party.
Ex-Congressman John F. Farms
worth of Illinois.
Charles Francis Adams, jr., of Mas
sachusetts.
Henry Brooks Adams of Massachu-
sets.
Colonel Nicholas Smith, represent
ing the Greeley family.
George w. Fenton of Chautauqua,
brother of Senator Fenton.
Colonel Fred A. Conkling of New
York, brother of Senator Conkling.
Fighting Joe" Hooker.
Charles A. Dana, editor of the New
York Sun.
Colonel Alex. K. Mcclure, editor of
the Philadelphia Times.
Judge Henry r. Selden of New
York.
Howard Potter of New York.
Charles G.. Davis of Massachusetts.
Ex-senator Ross of Kansas.
Ex-senator Upton of Nebraska.
Ex-senator Cowan of Pennsylvania.
E. s. Cleveland, late Republican
Postmaster of Hartford, Conn.
D. D. s. Brown of Monroe county.
Gen. e. Jones of Broome county.
Judge Edwin A. Reynolds of Or
leans county.
Col. Charles James of Orleans coun-
ty.
Porter Sheldon Of Chatauqua county.
Ex-Gov. David p. Lewis, the last
Republican Governor of Alabama.
Judge Daniel s. Gooding, Lincoln
Elector at large in Indiana, 1864.
Ex-Congressman James M. Ashley of
Ohio.
Gen. Jacob Brinkerhoff of Ohio.
Judge Hoardley of the supreme
court of Ohio; supported Hayes for
Governor last year.
Charles Reemelin of Cincinnati, who
supported Hayes last year.
Emil Hoffman of Cincinnati who
supported Hayes last year.
Ex-ieutenant Governor Jacob Muel-
lar of Ohio, elected on the Republi-
can ticket in 1871, who supported
Hayes last year.
Judge j. B. Stallo of Cincinnati
who supported Hayes last year.
Frederick Hassaurek, late editor of
the Cincinnati Volksblad, who supported
Hayes last year.
Colonel Edward Jussen of Chicago,
brother-in-law of Carl Schurz.
Ex-Governor Koerner of Illinois.
General Franz Sigel of New York.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-10-07
Cincinnati, August "a, 1876.

H The new prison for women at
Sohth Harrington, Mass. will be ready
for occupancy next year. All the offi-
GERS and employees, except the engin-
eer and fireman, are to be women.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-10-07

E Wit is the boomerang that
strikes and grrcious.y returns to the
hand. Sarcasm is the envenomed
shaft that sticks in the victims gizzard.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-10-07

@ A Long Branch letter says: A
widow of my acquaintance at the ocean
was emphatic on the horrible figure
that the lovliest woman must cut while
bathing. I remarked that the Queen
of Love and Beauty was tabled to have
sprung from the foam of the sea, and
that she must have been charming, "Oh
YES; but she had nothing on. l should
look charming" Here her speech
came to sudden halt and observing
roses blooming all over her face, I said
81 have no doubt Of it. and walked
away.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-10-07

E Mean souls, like mean pictures,
are sometimes found in good looking
frames.
Le Louisianais. [volume] (Convent, La.) 1865-1883, 1876-01-01

Merci done a Madame We. p. Boucry.
Ce ne sont pas les felnmes qui man
quent d'energie ct de cgur en- Louisiana;
ct 81 phonme, lei, Gtait au niveau de la
femme, les chooses men iraient que mieux.
Observation-Disclosures 1873 est finie; il
y deja 3 ou 9 mois que NJ. j. Kerrigan
nest plus collecteur de cette paroisse;
t0utes les collections Il faire ont etc fai.
tes, ct le juri de police a donn6 4 M:
Kerrigan assez de temps pour regler
vingt fois avec la paroisse, SC.
Comme le Jury de police est assem-.
ble a cette heure, OH nous met
tons sous presse, ,-comme il ne peut plus
ct ne doit plus attendre, CONNIE liza fait
~ -1ar,4nl II
Le Louisianais. [volume] (Convent, La.) 1865-1883, 1876-01-01
gne. C'est dun niauvais fils ct dun bon
mi YSnhal1n n II ,r,ooJx

gne. C'est dun niauvais fi1s ct dun bon
roi. Isabelle la rougeols.
Henry Bolhen, centenaire, lie plus
yieux prGclleur de l'Eglise methodiste,
Went de motlrir q Staten Island.-IIO Or
DIRE de rUni0n Americaine public ses
principles: La bible-Gcoles publiques ct
gratuites-pas de gonsbo politico .reli.
gieux-Les sectes a lEglise; &c.-Les
Chevaliers du Temple, des boutiquiers
ct tdes 6piciers, paraderontauCe Centenaire.
fait une lecture 4 Baltimore
sur le probleme de Ia vie ct rutilite des
.cOrnes sacerdotales. Noise en- await.
P. Kellogg remplace laudi-
seur g. Clinton par NJ. George b. john
sC9.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-04-27
EXTENSION OF TIME.

The proposition to extend the time
for building the Texas Pacific Rail-
road, offered by LUTTRELL and agreed
to by WIGGINToN, gives Colonel SCOTT
and party an opportunity of showing
their earnestness in the work they
profess a desire to carry out. They
can now commence building a road
at San Diego and push ahead with all
the means and energy at their COM
mand, or they can do as they did
once before-make a pretense of do
ing thing they never intended to do,
and wait for a three hundred and
fifty million dollar subsidy. 1t does
not require much of prophet to tell
which of the two propositions they
will adopt. They will not build the
road now on the same terms which
they refused some years ago, and as
they can obtain no other terms they
will not build the road at all, and
once more the land will revert to the
Government. 1t is admitted on all
sides, and by all parties, that the
Texas Pacific Railroad company, of
which Colonel SCOTT is the head, have
not now and never had the slightest
intention of building the road out of
their own means. Their sole purpose
has been to obtain an enormous SUBJ
sidy from. the Government, and as
they have not and never will obtain
the amount asked for, the conclusion
is inevitable that the right to the
land granted through the extension
of time will be forfeited again. The
hope of the people for southern
overland road is in the Southern Pa
cific Railroad company, and that COM
pany is giving the most satisfactory
evidence that the hope is wellfounded.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-04-27

State at heart, deprecate the existence
OF a treaty that allows such detri-
mental influence to exist. A remedy
will be found in time, but the ques-
ton is one that demands cool, calm
deliberation. Public sentiment is
warm and all classes participate in
the spirit of indignation at the state
of things that exist in this regard. A
spirit that will produce effects similar
to those of Communism in France is
to be deprecated, and should it be
manifested, the strongest arm of the
Government must and will be exer-
cised in its suppression. A violent
effort to right such social wrong will
be productive of immense damage to
innocent parties through destruction
of life and property, and a stain will
be placed upon the fame of our State
that can never be effaced. We be-
lieve that the people of California
have too much of sound discretion TO
disregard the rules of propriety that
insure proper regard for the dignity
of the law. The Chinese problem is a
knotty ones but there is firmness and
wisdom enough among those upon
whom the solution of the question de-
wolves to work out satisfactory re-
suit without overstepping the bounds
of strict legal propriety. In the name
of all that is just we trust that this
ebullition of a spirit of violence will
cease, and that the evil we condemn
will be speedily removed by the legal.
ly constituted authorities.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-04-27
OUR KNOTTY PROBLEM.

When reason is not the guide, and
passion is allowed to obtain control
of the conduct of the masses, dam
aging results invariably ensue; and it
becomes the people of California, in
view of the excited state of public
feeling on the Chinese question, to be
rational rather tnan impetuous. VII
olence unwarranted, even though the
motive that prompts decisive action
may be just and fully called for on
general principles, always produces
retroactive results that are more in
furious to the body polite than the
evil sought to be corrected. Late in.
telligence from San Francisco brings
the news that some of the Anti-Chi-
nese organizations have entertained
the idea of assuming military form,
and that one of these societies has al
ready obtained equipments in anticl-
patton OF use. This is wholly wrong,
aud such spirit of violence should
b. discouraged by all good citizens.
There il not a sane man in our State
who does not appreciate the untold
calamities that hang upon the
presence of the Chinese in our
midst. All who have the moral
social and mercantile welfare of our
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-04-27
gos Sassles Asrald.
NEWS OF THE MORNING.

The delegates to the Republican Conven-
tion In Sacramento are still quarrelling over
a line of policy and list of delegates. The
radical and independent element do not
seem to harmonize. No final arrangement
has as yet been made.
In the Simonton- Alta libel suit in San Fran
cisco yesterday. D. o. Mills, Michael Reese
and George 0. Howard testified concerning
the causes ofthe failure OF the Bank of Cali
fornia.
Dom Pedro still refuses to receive ovations,
preferring TO act like a gentleman,
Goldclose at 1925 yesterday in New York.
The stock market in San Francisco contin-
ues weak and unsteady.
In the U. s. House of representatives the
Committee on Pacific Railroads have agreed
on the Senate bill giving eight years addi-
tional time 10 the Northern Pacific railroad
An amendment to the Texas Pacific bill
will be introduced before the Committee on
Pacific Railroads, extending the time Tor the
completion of the Texas Pacific Railroad
rom San Diego Eastward until 1890. Also
another amendment allowing settlers to buy
land at So 25 per acre. The road is TO be COM
pleted in six years or lands granted to be for
feited.
The annual Convention of the National
Board of Underwriters was held in New York
yesterday. The increase in the amount Of
risks taken during 1879 was s29O, O,000,O00
Blaine thinks the recent attacks upon him
have strengthened his chances for the Presi-
Dental nomination.
The Massachusetts nepubiicau State Con-
vention yesterday refused to pledge the party
to any candidate for the Presidency, and
fatty snubbed Blaine and Brstow.
In the case Of Mckee, of st. Louis whisky
fraud fame, Judge Dillon, of the U. s. Circuit
Court, overruled the motion in arrest of judg-
nent and sentenced Mckee to imprisonment
for two years and imposed a $4,000 fine. Stay
Of fproceedings granted for two weeks.
Seizrer, Democrat from Louisiana, will re-
ceve the support of the majority of the Com
mittee on Elections.
The French troops in Algeria are surround
ed and are on short rations. Surrender is
their fate.
The French Atlantic cable is broken again.
Chavez and Cruz Lopez with band OF
robbers are reported near Campo.
"Blg Mitch" VINO robbed the Sonora stage
near san Andreas some time since was con-
victed yesterday.
A train on the Canada Southern Railway
ran into the Welland canal, near Welland,
Ont, and the engineer and fireman were
killed. The engineer was asleep and the
bridge was open.
A fire at Mount Vernon Ohio, destroyed a
large amount of valuable property.
The Tu carawas Valley, Ohio, mining trou-
blas are nearly over.
mob OF Union moulders in Troy New
York, on Tuesday, attacked the boarding
houses in which the non-union men boarded
and four of the latter were badly wounded as
well as one of the former
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-04-27
THAT BURIED TREASURE.
A Man Turns up who COrrObOrates
the STORY and Knows Where TO Find
the Money.

Something more than a month ago
there appeared sketch in the HER.
AID, giving form and local habitation
to floating legend concerging box
of gold said to have been buried in the
Arroyo Seco by old Don Tiburcio Ia
pa, thirty years ago. OF course the
account was considerably colored, to
present it in a readable shape, and as
it was only myth at the outstart we
did not think that even the most cred
ulous reader would believe it. But it
transpires that the story f1oated about
in the press of the country and was
finally copied into the New York Sun,
where it met the gaze of a man who
swallowed it OH the half shell land the
result is the following letter. We pre-
sent it entire for its original simplici-
ty, merely anglicizing it in grammar
and orthography:
TO the Editor of the Herald:
SIR. L have seen in tO.day's New
York Sun, newspaper, an account of
hidden treasure. L am laboring
man. l have been in California.
went there after the war. 1 worked
at Santa Cruz on the railroad for a
few months. There were then good
many emigrants to Los Angeles to
settle on Governor Downey's land in
Lower California. / wanted my COM
rade to come down by land or water,
but he backed out and would not go
with me, so l returned to the States.
Now, Sir, while / was working at
Santa Cruz for fuse factory, in the
employ of man by the name of
Lynch,
DREAMED A DREAM
of such treasure. in my dream, the
box was iron, the money was doub-
looms, and some smaller pieces of coin.
This account sprung my old dream.
Now, Mr.. Editor, if there is any
truth in dreams, [ saw the old
man Tiburcio Tapia. If this man Ra-
man is his genuine son, L would go to
California and find the treasure for
him if he would pay my way. there
and back to New York in case of fail
ure.- In case it came out right 1 claim
0ne-half, and will pay my own way
back to New York. Mr.. Editor,
please give this note fnll considera-
ton before you consign it to the
waste basket. L remain your obedi-
ent servant, JAMES BRADY.
Direct your letter to Flat Bush
Postoffice, Long Island, State of New
York, in care of John Brady, Milk
man. J. B.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-04-27
A QUEER PROCEDURE.

1t is a we'll Established fact that
men when in desperate circumstan-
ces, in an insane effort to retrieve
their failing fortunes, are guilty of
acts ill-timed and injudicious in the
extreme. In correspondence with
this feature in individual life, the Re-
publican party of this State has been
guilty of a variety of stupid blunders,
that while they must be acknowledged
as errors, can but he regarded as acts
of the most bare-faced effrontery and
impudence. While the air is filled
with the exhalations of impurity with
every movement of the party, and a
shameful surrounding that should
bring the blush to the cheek of every
honest American, the present pos
SCISSORS of party and political power
have the boldness to demand of the
people renewal of confidence, with
the air of a conqueror rather than the
submissiveness of one guilty, suing
for mercy. Confident as they seem to
be in their ability to draw upon the
Secret Service and other funds, rely
ing as they have ever done upon the
use and value of money in elections,
they now assume with bare-faced
brazenness to ask the people Of our
State to endorse some of the very men
upon whose skirts there are stains of
apparent criminality, if not absolute
guilt. The Republicans of Sacramen.
to, in the election of their delegates to
the State Convention, have demon
monstrated the truth of the pre-
ceding statements. Among their
foremost representatives for this
end is one ROBERT GARDNER, whose
official career has been investigated
by committee of the Legislature
with no satisfactory results tending to
remove suspicion concerning his
conduct while in office. The late Sur
veyor General may possibly be not
guilty of absolute theft; but in re-
sponse to the late legislative investi-
cation there was a woful failure on
his part to clear his skirts of the orig
inal stain. At this procedure the mass
of the people and taxpayers can but
feel indignant. But it is an evil
dence that the Radicals propose in
the coming campaign to do whole
sale business in whitewashing, and
endeavor to force upon popular accept
ance and reelection men whose career
should consign them to San Quentin
rather than to any position of trust or
honor. The conduct of the Radicals
of Sacramento is simply characteris-
tic, and gives the keynote to the pro-
posed manner of their conducting the
campaign at hand. The calcimining
operation will not work. /.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-04-27

THE amended City Charter, we un-
derstand, does away with the election
of City Marshal and places the ap-
pointment of that officer in the hands
of the Council. Here is another out
rage perpetrated on that over worked
and much-abused body. The men,
bers frequently complained of the
enormous labor imposed on them un-
der the old regime, and now the peo-
pie have added to the great load the
task of watching the Board of Public
Works and of appointing Chief of
Police or City Marshal. When will
these outrages upon an innocent, inof-
fensive, hard-worked poorly paid mu-
nicipal body cease? Citizens, friends,
countrymen, ,forbear; for the Councils
sake forbear. Remember it was the
last straw that squelched the camel.