, 1876-11-11
JoGGLEs, AGAIN.
THE DARKROOM STATESMAN
ON POPULAR ISSUES.
THE LAST GUN IN TaEcAn? AlGN.

Quite large turnout assembled al
Snohomish City. last Friday night, 20
hear our distinguished townsman. Hon.
Jnsuriha Jocs'es. discuss the issues
pending b. fore the people. At al early
hour the band began to play and sa-
lutte was fred b. the .Spohomish Light
Artillery in full uniform, consisting nf
Sam Sc,usgs' boy in his shit tail,
touching uif fire crackers. The process
sion formed and escorted the distin-
suished speaker to Liberty Hall. on the
corner. of Ciebbeppicum and Eeilebi-
cum streets. where the meeting was
called to order and Barnabas Bilnkin-
sop, Esq, called to the chair. Mr.
Jogg'es WAS then introduced to the au-
dience and said:
MIR. PRESIDENT: 1t affords me great
pleasure to meet my friends here in the
rural districts, where the tall corn waves
on the sand beach and the song of the
blackbird carols through the the UNI
braseous foliage of the soft-shell clam
tree. l have always been devoted ad.
mirer Of agriculture and have just pur-
chased valuable tract OF land on the
Skagit bottom. that will yield a hun
dred bushels to the acre-in bull frogs
From the time Of Adam to the present
hour, agriculture has been tha great
standard industry of the world. Oh!
those We're delightful days III Paradise.
when Cain kept Durham bull and his
father in fact. 1 may say all onr fathers.
MIR. President he kept the books"
AN ANTIDoTE TO GRIEF.
Il was announced to speak here to-
night, Mr.. President, aud for the first
time in my life came near disappoint-
ing NY audience. just as had packed
ny valise with four bottles of old Moore
whiskey and one shirt. and had wrap
ped the shirt around the bottles to avoid
breakage, l received telegram inform
ing me that my mother inlaw was
dead, and inviting me at once to the
funeral. But came along. neverthe>
less. for my motto always has neen
Business before pleasure. So / ap-
ear before y, II toi I'll hs and should tbs
vagabond cohorts of Democracy IL" 'de
the sanctity of this little gathering, they
will find that
IAN HERE"
staunch and true-!ike pigs foot. I
come here to>night. Mr.. President, to
arraign the Democratic party OF nation
al nisdeeds aud m!sdemeanors. l am
fully prepared to meet every material
point, for in he language of our worthy
Chief Jacobite, 4 never fo-get anything
that recollect TO reluemhrr" We can
not dodge the responsibility nor resort
to base snbterfuse in a mighty struggle.
As for me l believe that the sunlis bit Of
success never dawns upon towards. so
I shall boldly throw down the gauntlet
and "toot nay own horn ii don't sell
clam" Here the eloquent speaker
paused fer n moment aud uplifted his
har d as slight fail of rain began. He
resumed:l
POLITICAL GESESIs.
II feel drop of rain. Mr.. President.
and I say God bless the rain. This cold.
binding shower that seems to chill the
very marrow in your bones. is but new
substance to the parched earth. 1t il
new grass in the meadow, new milk in
your coffee. new butter on your bread.
new blood in your veins and new life
in your heart. Glide not the beautiful
rain, for it makes the corn grow; corn
makes whisky and whisky makes Re
publicans. At least th ats the case where
come from, in St. Lonis. If YOU don't
believe me. ask Babcock. Here rev.
trend old devil dodger got up and walk
ed out on his stnrboard auricular
WE'LL POSTED MAN.
Il don't claim to be highly educated
man, fellow citizens. hut l keep we'll
posted: ard well posed man will
often get living where a well educated
man would stalve to death. | read all
the papers aud Pat Mt Office reports,
including the Beecher trial. 1 am snme-
thing like the Lord Mayor Of Victoria,
whom met the other day and who said
10 me. Hold boy, you carn't fool me.
you know. What l know, you know,
know. you know" And speaking of
he far-tamsd
BEECHER TRIAL, ,
Reminds me Of the stormy and tempest
lons passage | made from Seattle to
his place on tho steamer Nancy Ba-
,ana. We were scarcely abreast of PORT
b 6 pardon, mean Muck
!teo-when a violent storm arose and .
t seemed as if the devoted craft must
'ink beneath the yeas'y waves. 1t was
EN- o'clock this morning. when little.
imid cabin boy approached Captain
and asked him what he ,
vc uld have for breakfast. Now I rev
,ret to say that the Captain is the most
orofane man in proportion to the size !
# his vessel, of any man who sails out
# Seattle. So he rudely answered,
Never mind what I'll have for break. {