, 1877-03-31
EDITORIAL BREvlTlEs.

that Theodore Winters promising three
year-eld colt Ralsson. by Norfolk. out
of the dam Of Mollie McCarty. broke
do xn while be was taking his exercise in
company with Mollie last week. RAlston
was a light hay horse. bearing great
resemblance to his renowned sire. but
larger horse every way. For this rea'
son he should not have been trained
till be was three years old. but last year
they sent him flying like q whirlwind.
for he was the fastest two year old we
ever saw. At the State Fair he won the
mile dash with ridiculous Ease from a
field of Eve horses. carrying 100 pounds
and winning in l 1:46. Three weeks
later he was paid 5000 out Of the purse
Mt Oakland not to start, SO after the
race was won. Ralston was stripped and
sent around in 144A with 80 pounds
up. This started the sprain in his leg
which has finally given way. He was
entered in stakes at Louisville and
Lexington, hence it will be great dis
appointment to the Californians. Mr..
Winters subsequently sold him for
5000 to an agent of the Japanese
Government together with the gray
stallion Bradley and six others, the en-
tire purchase amounting to $4,000.
Leigh r. Freeman. of the Ogden.
tUiah) Freeman, who was here about
six weeks ago. is doing the whole north
west coast between Sitks and Port
Townsend. In a recent letter to his
paper from Fort Wrangel. he gives the
Hutchinson & Kohl outfit a terrible co-
ing-over for employing Russian priests
to incite the Aleuts to murder rival fur
traders. He says: There is bitter
complaint against the fur and ssAl mon
opoiies chartered by the United States
Government. These pirates buy up the
Russian priests who put Indiana on the
trail of any independent traders and
have them massacred in the straits OF
Aleutian Islands," II is high time that
exclusive privileges of this sort we're
put stop to by our Government. The
place. If tho Democratic House does
its duty. it will repeal i. and throw the
islands open to all sorts of commerce.
The Constitution makes no distinction
as to who shall navigate certain waters,
provided they are citizens; nor inhabit
any islands within the federal domain.
Young men should always love their
mothers and q young man who loves
his mother, is always an object of ire
spect. 1t is for this reason that We re-
spect Stephen Anderson. colored youth
who is now under sen tence of death for
the crime of murder, at Aiken. S. c..
Being aware of his fathers age and in
trinity (for the old man is Just seventy
tbree) and his inability to support the
mother. this generous youth has kindly
invited his father to be hanged in his
stead. so be can survive and be COM
fort to his maternal parent in her de-
clining days. He was evidently in earn
est about the matter for he offered the
old man a hundred dollars and q good
mule to act as his substitute. But alas
for human perversity! The author of
that generous young mans existence
couldn't see it in those lamps" and
broke for the woods, singing
'Sister Mary, SO contrary.
She'll needer lend nor borrow.
Hpect I'd lend . kulered man . boss
To rideall day to. morrow 2?
1t turns out that the charges made
against Senator Grover, OF Oregon,
which were referred to the Committee
on Elections and Privileges. are pre-
ferred by one W. B. Highly. of CorvaI-
lis. At the last election in Oregon, Hig-
by ran for Prosecuting Attorney of the
Second Judicial District. but even his
Republican friends did mt like the cut
of his jib and SO voted for that honest
little gentleman, S. II. Hazard of Coos.
Highly, it seems. was once . preacher
but concluded that soul-saving wasn't
his forte. SO he came to Oregon and be-
came pettifogge, and he does not like
to be called reverend now. He is about
such a man as Don Piatt described Sen
ator Harlan of Iowa (who WAS the ''Dil
worthy" of Mark Twain's book) "a
man who will desert God for the service
of Mammon and then not serve Mann
mon with decency."
Alarming advices from the Sacra-
mento valley denote an almost total
failure of the wheat crop in that re-
gion from mildew. Yet the crops
from all the reclaimed swamp lands
are looking well and promise to yield
abundantly. Let those who are en-
gagged in reclaiming swamp lands on
the tributaries of Puget Sound, take
fresh courage from this fact.
How very uniot proc;dort Hovoc