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, 1877-03-16

NARROW EscAPE.---Last Friday night,
between nine and ten O'Clock, fire
caught In the upper story Of the house Oc-
cupied by Vim. H.. II. Learned. ESQ.,,
which came near being very serious at
fair A girl working In the family had
been to the room with a lamp in her
hand and accidentally set fire to a curtain
and without noticing it departed, but
happily leaving the door ajar so that
another member OF the family on passing
saw the blaze and gave the alarm. Mr..
Learned Immediately repaired to the
scene to find that not only the curtain but
the woodwork was ablaze. Grasping a
vessel containing water he managed to
control the flames until receiving a sup
Ply he extinguished 1t without caus-
ing general alarm. The oppOrtune dis
eoyery and presence of mind displayed by
Mr.. Learned made trivial affair Of what
otherwise would have been most deplOra-
pie In Its, consequences. situated as the
building Is in the midst Of range OF
wooden houses.
, 1877-03-16

PERILs OF FUR SEAL HUNTING.-By q
Makah Indian who arrived on Sunday
last from Neah Bay, we learn that some
ten days previous six Makah canoes start
ed out for seals. Each canoe had three
indians In her. powerful, stalwart fellows,
Wno feared ne danger, and who had for
many seasons been out on seal-hunting
expeditions. They went out to sea some
nfleen miles from land and were quite
successful. At last southeast wind COM
lnenced to blow and soon increased to a
fearful gale. All the canoes put out then
Tor the Vancouver Island shore. Three
arrived safely aud three were lost with all
tne Indians they contained. Thus nine OF
the strongest and best men Of the tribe
nave lost their lives In their attempts TO
procure furs with which to decorate ladies'
dresses and to make garments for the
fashionable world, As Eugene Sue would
say" Mho;caresS--God. IL sa
, 1877-03-16

For the best California wines and BRAN
dies 90 to the wholesale house OF Hunt Il
Learned, who have just received By, the
Dakota Z large and welf-selected stock
to be sold at San Francisco prices. ''
SIX men who recently came to the
Sound on the Dakota, have taken up farms
on Pisht river, near Pillow Point, in
Glallam Co., and are busy clearing them.
THE passengers by the Dakota were
II. E. Blown and wife, S. Hadlock, Mrs.
Clifford, c. f. p. Wood, 7. NJ. Hammond,
r. Ram, and four in the steerage.
Mr. WILSON, the tide observer at this
port, received orders from Washington
last week to sell the tide house, box up
the material and send it to San Francisco.
THE Nicaraguan bark Valparaiso, Capt
Hans Poulson, from Valparaiso, consign-
ed to Rothschild & Co., arrived on Tues
day.
The ship james Cheston and barks Os-
myn and David Hoadley arrived here on
the 10Th. 'la "a '''"
CAPT. BAKER, Of the steamer Colfax,
has our thanks ior past favors.
The ship Annie Fish is loaded and get
ting ready for sea. nv
THE ship Syren, from Callao, il daily
expected TO load with lumber at Port Dis
coYery. ~ ~ .f... sf
, 1877-03-16

CHMACUM PIGS TAKE THE PRIZE BAN
NER.--A few days since a SOW belonging
to Mr.. VIM. Bishop Of Chimacum gave
birth to litter Of twenty pigs, and all
are doing we'll. This sRews the wonder
ful effects Of feeding pigs ON buttermilk
and other nutricious food for which the
Chimacum farmers are 30 famous. We
are not informed of the particular breed,
but judge 1t must be from the celebrated
stock of full blooded Berkshire whites, i'm
ported a few years since by c. E. p.
Wood, ESQ, Of Port Discovery.
, 1877-03-16

THE steamship Dakota, from San Fran
cisco, arrived here on Wednesday morn
Ing. NShe brought large quantity OF
merchandise consigned to our merchants
and business men, viz: Waterman & Katz,
&C Bartlett, C Bill, Dodd & Pugh, e
Eisenbeis, John Fitzpatrick, Peter Tor
gusen, Hunt & Learned, Jas Jones. T.
.Iackman & Co, w James, B S Miller.
N d Hill, I NJ Hammond, OF Gerrish,
Rev Rea, w L Seavey. After discharg-
ing, and on backing out from the wharf,
her anchor caught the piles, and although
they were iron bound, beside Icing firmly
implanted In the earth, three OF them
were carried completely away and seven
broken of. She will probably return from
up Sound OH Monday. ..-...
, 1877-03-16

VINO KILLED THE PAxIHERP has BE-
come a leading question among certain
habitues Of Port Discovery. The origin
Of the inquiry.as We are told. 4 A. follows:
A party of hunters Were encampei q week
Or two ago not far from Dungeness, aud
during the night their dogs tfce,l PAN
ther. soon the party was cut. zach with
hls rife 10 asertaln what they had AZ hay.
They had not 10 20 far 20 reach tAe scene,
when TO- high ahove the dogs. on dmas-,
slve limb. repo-el q panther. TIE men
were all good shots. bat the QUESTION arose
~ 30 who should Kill the animal. Finally
u was settled that two Of them shOud
shout when three had heen counted by the
third party. The rifles were brought 20
the shoulder, aud sighted. '.One-two"
,and the sharp click Of F.'s rife told that
the missive had sped on It, errand. but
the discharge was premature and wide Of
the mark "three" and the cool. sure aim
OF W. hal lodged ball Ia the breast OF the
beast. He fell to the ground, aud now
with the dogs OH either side Of him COM
menced the fearful struggle for life until,
In consideration OF the value Of time. the
contents Of Mes rifle were lodged In the
animals head, and the war ended. But
the question, "WhO killed the panther"
like BanquO's ghost, will not down. The
animal was a splendid specimen Of his
kind, measuring over nine feet In length.
, 1877-03-16

Mr.. II. L. MARRIOTT. of Oak Harbor.
Island County, favored us with call re-
Gently, and in the course of conversation
detailed his method of breaking colts,
which as it may be Of service to our pat
rons We give it. as follows 1t consists In
taking cord or small rope, double IL,
make knot In il sufficient to allow 1t to
go over the hind parts, extending as low
down as the breeching. or little lower,
the knot coming on its back. and the 9TH
er end fastened to the rope tied around his
meek, which forms a breeching that he
will not pull back upon when tied. and
on being led will help to move him for
ward, as he will not resist the pressure
thus brought to bear upon his hind parts.
This accomplished, tie up one of his legs,
for short time while handling or rub
bing him. He has never. in his expert
ence, known this method to fail In break
ing the widest colt In three or four days
trial. The above, OF course, includes the
use OF a halter to keep him in check while
being led.
, 1877-03-16

THE concert OF Camilla Urso, on Fri
day evening last, at the Good Templars'
Hall, was attended by the largest audi
ence that ever WAS gathered IN this town
to musical performance, persons being
present from the Folt. Port Discov-
ery and " hubby Island, beside the large
representation by our own citizens. The
worldwide taIne of Camilla Urso makes 1t
unnecessary for us to bestOw a word of
praise, but we will simply remark that
her playing was magnificent, while the
singing and accompaniment ou the piano,
proclaimed the actors to be vocalists and
musicians Of high grade. But the con-
cert would have been better appreciated
BY the audience If NADIA me Urso, in her
programme had substituted ballads, or se-
lections from English operas insIead Of Sc
lections from French aud Italian. There
are songs from Norma, La Somnambula
and 0, h r. English operas which have been
arranged for the piano and are familiar to
most people, and they woulL have enabled
the artists to have displayed their talents
quite as well as In the music they did sing
Jenny Lind's great popularity consisted
In the songs she sang which were under
stood by and touched the hearts of the peo-
pie. We understand that the receipts of
the house were over 5000. On Satur1ay
Madam Urso and Miss Wandesiord, with
some of the gentlemen Of the troupe took
drive on the hill to have look at the
town, aud expressed the conviction that
Port Townsend has the most beautiful
location OF any place they had seen on the
Pacific coast.
, 1877-03-16

Mr.. R. E. RYAN opened the public
school in Chimacum, District No A, on
the 18th inst. His place in Port Discov-
cry, school district No. 3, is to be filled by
one OF his former pupils, Miss Virginia
Hancock. who has been attending school
in Portland, Oregon, during the past
year. This speaks well for our public
schools which are beginning to supply
our own teachers. We are advised that
the above change was arranged to the mu-
tual satisfaction of all parties concerned.
, 1877-03-16

kEV. P. E. HYLAND, writing from Bel
mont Ontario, Canada, to gentleman In
this town-formerly one Of his parish
loners-says Of that country as follows:
Though 1t is cold here for so many
months In the year, yet It Is fine coun-
7e,y andgood soil. Fifty acres Of land Is
Aoout the usual amount each farmer
works. Land is worth from $50 to 800
per acre. Cattle are housed and stalled
uuring the winter months, the only exer-
clse they have Is when they are wafered4-
Ihey eat up In winter all that Is raised
uqrlng the summer. Servants wages.are
very low, we pay for house servant who
ee eoes all the work in first-class manner,
70 MONTH and to the man who takes
1are OF the horse, only "a month. Hard
, Wood epsts $3.50 per cord, and to have it
o out alli split so cents. Living costs about
ole nai what 1t does in Port Townsend" l."
M, Hylqnd expresses himself as well
Pleased with his situation.
, 1877-03-16
LOCAL NEWS.

ITNrrED STATES CoMMIssIoNER.-W.H II.
N I,earnel. Esq.. having fled his resig-
nation OF the ofilce Of U. :. Commissioner
With tle Clerk Of the District Court. and
Jnlse Lewis having made no appoiut-
n,-nt to lll the Vacancy, this town b lrft
without Commissioner. This 4 20 beNne-
Vrrttssl. ~ nine-tenths Of all marine caaes
Brought before 4 Commissioner here, arr
from ctn~s arising on board ves.els com
ing In from sea, aud this being not only
tn port Of entry but the first port a ves-
ri rracbrstrOm the ocean. the presence OF
4 Commissioner hrre seems 90 he lmpera-
tiVely demand,sl. The duty Of q COmmls-
slOaer l. simply Ia hear tie preliminary
cDmPlaint, AID II In his Judgment there
l. Just cstuae for action. 20 bind the parties
over TO the next court, or TO dismiss the
caze II found frivolous. As the matter
now stands, any preliminary hearing will
have 10 be taken 10 Seattle, thereby entail
ing unnecessary expense and delay. Now
as we have no idea that Judge Lewis IA
yors Seattle more than Port Townsend, or
that he cares one straw In which place
these sailor cases have preliminary hear
ing We simply look upon the non-appOint-
ment Of a Commissioner as an inadyer-
tence, and q subject which undoubtedly
has slipped his mind, and we would re-
spectiully suggest 70 His Honor that If he
can find in this town any one who would
be willing to take the appointment to an
office which brings but little money tc the
incumbent, he would confer favor on
our citizens by appointing a Commission
er as soon as his business will permit.
, 1877-03-16

NnRANG. A. rntun CITY. na-oa Go. VT,
Marrh sih-. r. 4. hornng. agcd 81 anatise %
Maine.
NEwToN. fhis town. Marrh nth.
Jams- Nevton. ared iiyears-
, 1877-03-16
Notice TO Creditors.
Estate OfPeter Ladebauehe, deceased.

Estate OfPeter Ladebauehe, deceased
THE UNDERSIGNED HAVING BEEN
4 duly appointed Administrator by the Pro-
minister the estate Of PETRE LADEBAUCHE,
deceased, notice is hereby given to the cred
the said deceased, to present them with the
necessary vouchers, within one year after the
date of this notice to me at my residence on
Orcas Island, or be forever barred.
JOSEPH LADEBAUCHE
Administrator of the Estate of Peter Lade-
bauche, deceased.
1871. 3-4w ,
, 1877-03-16

LHE Port Discovery mill closed fopgen-
erai repairs last Saturday. Operations
WI Dc resumed in asweek or two.
, 1877-03-16
Marine Intelligence.

Port Townsend.
ENTERED.
March s. Schr Gen Harney, from VictOri1
.. Str. North Pacific, Victoria.
l3. BktI.e Victor. HilO.
l3, Schr COurser, San Francisco.
II. Bk Valparaiso, Valparaiso.
II, Str Dakota, Victoria.
IA, Schr Mary Paker, Victoria.
10, Schr Letitia. Nsnaime.
CLEARED.
March s. Str North Pacific, Victoria.
IL, Str Tacoma, NanaimO.
IL, Str North Pacific. Victoria.
10, Schr Alfred. Victoria.
, 1877-03-16
FOR SALI,
10000 BRICK!
BY
HUNT 4 LEARNED.
Seed Potatoes.

DARTIEs WISHING TO SECURE A GOOD
Il article of seed potatoes for early planting
can be accommodated by sending their sacks
and orders to me. have Early Rose, good
quality and pure, and White +. Kidney. Any
one taking SO bushels viii be charged 70 cents
per bushel smallerlots so cents per bushel.
Also late potato seed at IS cents per bushel.
Address E. B. EBEY,
Ebey's Landing.
Care Campbell's Express. S-tf
, 1877-03-16

OFFtcr 90 stNaHu MANrTAcTrHfSa Go.
eofurr Fifsi and Namhin ~ts.,
Purtiand. Orerun, February ,. III.
eFFrtAL NoTtrE-Ne would RESPECTFULLY
call the aftentiun ofour furIner cu-tunlgra. and
an rrratns Who dgNirr 10 purrhlen our esll-
brnied eeuinr Machines. that NJ. John Y.
Peter~uu. uf rurt TuNuecnd. - our rNrular
authoriEuf agent and enilurfor. and all ofsicrs
left with him uill hu nllcd pfuuIptl1s and all
marhinc- uild fully guaranteed " this euin-
rany. Machincs auld un the in-tnllIncnt Iian
and liileral disrouut made fur cash
singer Manufacturing COMPANY,
MILrON W. PARsoNS. Manager.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-03
Anti-Republiean or Democratic.

Every county, all townships have
laws that provide for the mainte-
nance of people, who through the
misfortunes of III health, etc, cannot
maintain themselves Yet with that
provision for the unfortunate, there
are men found in every county, iii
every township. who are willing to
ask Congress to pass general law
TO provide for the settlement of every
man out OF employment, on the pub
lie lands. There has been no we'll
defined plan as yet proposed, but
enough of the mind of certain citi-
zens is known to make it clear that
they would gladly receive their main
tenance from the government. The
rules and regulations, or laws that
were in force during Feudal days,
were nothing more than such a cen
tralization of power that certain men
maintained all the people
who lived on their estates. To be
sure, no one proposes return to the
government of Feuddl days, but it
were best to look well into all pro
posed legislation with scrutinizing
look, so that the government be not
turned in it's motion toward princi
pies that are anti .iRepublican or anti
Democratic.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-03
Spiritualism Dethroned by Nc
Clure,

McClure's Times has done splen-
did work in Philadelphia, in exposing
the fraudulent work that underlies
the action of Spiritualists. Thou
sands have been duped by the mani
festations of mediums, and the late
materiaiieafions, SO called, have been
swelling the number of converts to "a
vast multitude The dethronement
of the fraud, on the consciences OF
men and women came at the oppor-
tune time, Just when it seemed about
TO roll a wave of trickery, jugglery,
over the country that would have
made spiritual slares of tens of thou
sands If Col Mcclure has done no
other good in this life, it is enough
that he has dethroned Spiritalism for
the period, at least, of a generation
of time The jugglers are making
war on the Colonel in the courts.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-03

the many are and always have beer
improsident, or lazy, or worse.
1t is uo more possible to reach equal
ity of estate through legislation than 1t
Is possible to make .Ien intellectual,
morally and physically equal by the
same means. The story OF the man Of
shoddy who wanted his daughter educa-
ted to the highest notch, applies to this
case. The teacher to whom the young
woman was assigned did not have much
success. "Anything that money can
buys" said the ambitious parent, +" the
gal can have" 81 think" replied the
teacher, "that she lacks capacity +"
"Then buy her a capacity" replIed the
father. But neither money nor Law
can purchase capacity.
Law cannot put fool in business af-
fairs IN the way of making his fortune.
1t cannot give a man habits Of thrift
1t can secure a title to any one who
wants 1t TO the soil; but it cannot pre-
vent the same person from wasting his
substance or alternating his title.
There are men who would run a
splendid farm inte bankruptcy in six
months, and no amount Of law can keep
such man on his feet. There are
cthec a.en who can accumulate even on
the poorest ten acres. Such a man
does not want any legislation, for he is
a law unto himself
Legislation, cannot remedy defects
OF nature, IT can only interpose to save
men from the worst consequences of
their weakness, incapacity or folly.
And that is ALL Law does that when
it exempts certain amount of proper
ty from levy, and when it interposes be-
tween rapacious creditor and a man
in trouble with an inquisitiou and ap-
praisement.
Were poverty to the many really the
effect of law, then in society where there
is no written law equality of property
ought to be found. Is it necessary to
say that the few only are comparatively
rich in savage society," 1t is an IRE
futable fact. The bulk of savage soci-
efy are poor, because they are improvi-
dent for one thing, and because in such
society the shrewd and the avaricious
gather in the spoils. The natural law
controls such matters.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-03
News Items.
Goldsmith Maid is % years old.

Goldsmith Maid Is 20 years old.
Look out for counterfeit $5 notes on
the FIRST National Bank of Tapaqua,
Pa.
There's an oak in Jackson, Iowa, on
which the vigilants have hung seven
men.
The business of cattle raising on our
western plains is growing enormously.
Perry county soldiers hold their
fourth annual reunion October IS.
A vein of silver bearing rock, seven
feet wide, has been discovered IN On
tonsgoo county, Michigan.
Texas is larger than France by
more than 10000 square miles.
Six thousand Reading school chill
dren were vaccluated the past year.
Gen M'Clcllan's opinion is that for
ty thousand men is the proper numer-
ical strength of the Uuited States army.
A strange story comes from OIL City
to the effect that in lonely part of the
road from Titusviile to Pieasentville,
Harmon Levy, it is alleged, was hang
by Leopold Leob, we'll known busi-
ness man of Titusville, and another man
unknown at this time. Heretofore
Ieoh has borne a good reputation, and
when the story was bruited about that ne
had, with the help of desperate, hung
Levy to the limb Of tree and left him
hanging there until compelled by a
traveller, who happened along, to cut
him down. there was intense excite
ment. The alleged cause for the afro
city is that Leob wanted to compel Le-
w to give up some papers he was sup
posed to have.
How is this for enterprise A young
gentlemen called last Saturday at the
residence of his sweetheart IN Shoemak
ersville, Berks county, with a fine rig,
consisting of fast horse and piano
box buggy, for the purpose Of taking
her to a picnic at Windsor Castle. y
younger brother was desirous of ac-
companying his sister to the pic mic, but
not having been invited he secIeted
himself in the buggy box where he re
mained, overhearing the conversation
of the young lovers, until the pic mic
grounds were reached, when he surpris-
ed them by crawling out from his place
of concealment The Shoemakersville
gentleman treated the "little brother
to a plate of ice cream for his enter
prise.
A special from Leavenworih says
private letter received at For. Ellis,
Kansas, gives an account of fght be
tween cattle thieves and a party of
pursuers in Cheyenne county, Kansas,
some days ago. 1t seems that large
number of cattle have been stolen
during the past summer, and 1t was
finally determined by the herders and
owners to put stop to it and make an
example Of the thieves. In this instance
it is said some seven thousand cattle
were run off from western Kansas and
Colorado by twelve robbers, who start
ed north with them. A party of fifteen
rangers, splendidly armed and mounted
started in pursuit, and after hard
ride OF five days came upOu the thieves
in the extreme northwestern part %
kensas; surrounded them while at sup
per; killed seven Of them; hung another
to tree and recovered all the cattle.
None of the rangers were hurt.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-03

color, Irith the gloss and freshness Of
yoHth. Thin hair is thickened, fall
ing hair checked, and badness often.
though not always, cured by its
use. Nothing can restore the haie
where the follicles are destroyed, or
the glands atrophied and decayed;
but such rs remain can be saved by
this application, and stimulated into
activity, so that 4 new growth of
hair is produced. Instead of fouling
the hair with pasty sediment, it
will keep it clean and vigorous. Its
occasional use will present the hair
from turning gray or falling of,
and consequently prevent badness.
The restoration of vitality it gives
TO the scalp arrests and prevents
the formation of dandruff, which il
often so uncleanly and offensive.
Free from those deleterious sub
stances which make Some prepara-
tions dangerous, and injurious to the
hair, the Vigor can only benefit, but
hot harm it. IF wanted merely for
a HAIR DRESSING, nothing else
can be found so desirable. Contain
ing neither oil nor dye, it does not
soil white cambria, and yet lasts
long on the hair, giving it a rich,
glossy lustre, and grateful perfume.
Prepared by Or. ]. c. Aver & Co.,
Practical and Analytical Chemists,
LOWELL. MASS.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-03
Law as a Preventive,

The North .fmerican says; The
voice of the turtle and of the demagog-
ue in this favored Ian are usually heard
together. Whoever cares to listen can
hear the voices of these twins now.
The turtle woos its mate, and the dem
agogue woos the soft headed and the
unthinking. The language of the one
Is attuned to stratus of love; that of the
other to the harsher Giscords OF selfish
ambition. But the soft headed and
the unthinking are not musical experts,
and il matters little If few discords
creep in, if only the wOoer fatters their
self love- The demagogue was in bad
case prior to the Communistic demon
stration. That was his opportunity,
and be pounced upon it with as much
avidIty as cat pounces upon mouse.
1t was delecta5ie sight to see him
circulating among the "poor working
men," as be called them, though it was
a noticeable sight that he depended
more npon firing the hearts of the che
valiers d'industry than upon appeals to
the reason of the real workers.
The first suggestion of the dema-
gogue is that there must be a law IN
the interest of labor Legislation, he
says in effect, has been shaped to en-
rich the few and impoverish the many.
And now, says he, the labOring masses
must band together, and strike together
and strike together, in order that they
may effect a release from bondage.
1t waulSYie this insolent meddler
and misehief-maker good TO take him
him by the ear aud lead him somewhere
where he can look at the facts. lie
would not, probably, know fact from
turnip: but it might educate him a
little to contemplate truth. In the
first place there has never been coun-
try where equality of opportunity exis-
ted IN so large degree as in this.
There are literallyno legal hindrances
tG proprietorship as regards and citizen.
Any Toan is free to accumulate, to
gain proprietary right in the soil, tC
buy and sell, and to embark in any
branch of business for which he may
cherish liking. There has never been
sny legislation intended to hinder, OF
that did really hinder any man from
doing any of these things. Land mon
opoly is unknown.
A good deal is said about ISLAND
sharks" but then any man can be a
land shark il be has the desire to be
one, and the pluck and perseverance to
press his snit.
The truth is that in all countries
climes and ages the many have been
comparatively poor. Only the few
haze been comparatively Or actually rich
The reason why the many have al
ways been comparatively poor is that