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Harry Nidal Of Is yonne l. weil-kuown ath-
lcte who has conquered many adNeistes IN collar aud
how wrestling Mis-. tmma 'ore hi, lar cousin,
IT tz BETH visited ann last wees and the conycrst
ton tuning on wrestling, she challenged him. NJ IS
Moore Is 81 * r.urd!ndrl' hrANy uuld, aud syin.
mDtrlraI torn. CA " antsdV afternoon the con
ustiits appeared IA hmal ma 90 Avenue A. Mics
Moore Nn, dressed ia hsntnttug alpaca waist and
snort snri OF some material wan Wrd -huvs. \ rel
.fY OF the c1ht siNni+ wlr Hpp lnirl referee, ana
Inc match h,.au N oNlItk. For ifttpn minutes
nutnrr -noa ial aud al IN eud OF that tiuc Nldll
va tlrI Nu lhe second bout followed Tea llluu r4
htitrWufl, au4 Was ut Diirf Qurat.uu, Miss Moore
infUWlns Acr autaguu' Il by sheer strength,
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Transactions yesterday at the Exchange COM
priscd foreclosure sales by
r. V, Harnett-One twostoty brick stable, with lot
2Ox5O "a Lexington avenue side 100 feet sot tn
Of Twenty fourth street, sG3j0, TO plaintiff
Iiy Il. \. Lawrence o. Co --One house. with lot 21x
a. g. the vest side Of Ludlow street, 80 feet enuih
Of brand stree $4,000, to plaintii one plot Of land
l2nN1 Ox5uXluOx7bx2nO. on the west side Of Her "a
venue. 100 feet south OF John street T. rdham. t75n.
ny u. NJ Scaman-OHe nvc-strry brick tenement
house. wth lot 2ixg6 on the north SIDE Oi Madison.
100 fcet east OF scanned street. tl254o 49,
nv Lcspinasse n trcdman-Onc blot Of lind. LOOK
442 o. on the side Of Tenth avenue north OF 10th
street, $1,000. to pla mum
by a. j. ecker d sOn--One two-storv frame house,
WIN lot 25NlVV ON the north side OF seventy eighn
street, 175 feet west Of First avenue. IS $50.
Foreclosure sales to-day AZ the Exchange an
nounccd by V. K Stevenson. Jr II. n. Camp aud Il. a.
Ludlow q Co.
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OYerpuwcriug the Messenger and baggage
man aud Robbing the safe.

man aud Robbing the safe.
CHICAGO, Jan. ls.-As an outgoing train
on the Chicago, Alton aud -. Louis Il ilroad
last night stopped at the lurlington crossing
inside the city limits thfee masked men entered
the oXpress car. Il. stily oyerpowered the express
messenger and gsAgeman. ans lroke open the
sale. Which q It.ltAei anuut S'luul worth Of
Viluahlcs. lllt in their hurry tnrs performed
Tho woIk $50 nuueiuAh ih l. lucy itli hrhlnd "ll
EXCEPT lIackase tor springfield. H., containiu.
atuut SIi{ and some ufait, lnr collection. lhry
lrttthe tram after 90 had proceeded about eight
tlIrh- Three men nave been crested charged
with the ruubery. Detectives had been Oh thelr
fr r
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CHRISTENSEN -TIlOMAs.-ln Grace Church. Ruth
crfurl PArS, On Weducsa y, Jan. o., D. IAe H. g Y.
Jer-ty assisted hs TIE kry. j.. k'dcir nAsclgnr' Z
Sew lN4a, the Rev g. ArAIi ttrht .ustu OF To Ni1,
ohi1, TO- Mary iuhcrford. DAUGHTER ot uc nte col.
Francis =. luln.as a. lftt,rt county. Mary aud.
POTTER HAl.nli. Ga TUESDAY, itr ~ i-f-, To- ne
First Presii tHnu nrcn fnit bulS' \. ,ny 10
Rev. \. pu.hlry -. 70, Mr. II irry 4. l. uNr % l'r-
a, barber ut Pa t.uurf
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Suslncss tlotltes.
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To THF TRADE;
We beg e. inform you that We have TINS day been
appointed General Agents, IN the United states and
Canada for
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES" CHAMPAGNE
ami
II PIPER q co : "CAl.rE ri ANCuE. SEC
Soliciting continuance OF YOUR cs ecIcd tayors
Weremtiu.
Your obodl,nt servants,
John Osborn, SON q co.
January p 1877. New YORK aud Montreal.
Rain and snow Va. Rails mud Puriics.-
Ladies' misefs', GENT AMI noyr' boots, shoes tli
gitvrr. Tor hll-, pnftc-. weddings a-p India tuJ-
Der boots aud shoes tursnoN ana ram. htrHnlHe
MlLLkl, a. o., Union square.
Nature gives n hnrmoniIing coinr 10 the hnil
WIN unl cNurss turn 90 gray. iAAhL4. $ l4AIh
BALsAM g,nvHs the color ami liie.
Pomcroy'- Trns-cs are nv fu the hosf IN nse.
Asa your physician. roWeroy Truss Goa "a Br1livty
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rnE rLor AGIiN>r NIX. DINA.


WAsuINGToN, Jan. ls.-Detectlvo j. w.
Cnrvoe testified before The House Con mittce ON
the Police Commissioners to-day, oIerlng ineu-
deuce aicttor he received from Detective Josh
Iaagart Of PAhadch hia, dated March "A, 49,.
mo Ut or rnAhl Ms fnllnMai
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wll lextu- steer ran from herd ln Joreo'
Di} yesterday, anI VAS pursued hy ohcer Wci"r.
,pmnNcu. rne Hnmd tors 10 llr fee ON tne nohokcn
NIX 49, All ..lA 4 uf lls rl4sfl to- Nurrr
.fY.lIl fur ,Y II &. u4t lc srNrrll tmts, Camp 't
n4 ll- NHYri 1t fur steer. lit Zee "ls 50 h perry
i4Ith lIltr cULNt .4lu iu L-, nud i.ru Attfn4tr
ru. niN .ttr uiiltttt4 nNn ,liu"r. ihe ssc-I
ha. b. ! r- .sulHa %, a IHll, aAl MAO euus.
Reduced prices on furniture AMI cnlpets.
& .N .rll Nnt-, loj auI lJi LnAtnAm s'rssI. Pay
mOAthiY,- Ide.
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40 rhr1uiH 4rulge+'l1n. cure ihe n'ludN, thcu'
~. A.-l II. u Al-.m- ~ An.
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Pomcroy'- Trns-c- are nv fir tho hos' IN nae.
Az A-ur .c-An. romerny IrA.s Oo ~ Bro LlNly
, 1877-10-27
Eighteen Dollars.

Special terms and extra Inducements to maze
and female agents, storekeepers, &c. county
rights gwen to smart agents free. samples oi
sewing. descriptive circulars containing terms
testimonials, engravins, &c; sent free All
money sent In Postoffice Orders. Drafts. or Ex-
press. are perfectly secure. Safe delivery guar
anteed,
All Orders, communications, etc, must be
addressed to the
, 1877-10-27
SATURDAY. OCT. 27, 1877
The Example.

One short month has not pass
ed since John Thompson suffered
the death penalty in this city
for the crime of murder-the
first white man ever executed in
the Territory by judicial author
ity-under circumstances which
impressed a very large majority
with the belief that the man
suffered the penalty Of a crime
of which he was not guilty; but
it was hoped that the death of
this man would be compensated
by the awful example it furnish
ed to deter others from like Of
fences. Its example and the
warning it was intended to i'm
part has been illustrated during
the short period which has since
elapsed, by two deliberate at
tempts at murder-one success
full and the other not-in the
immediate vicinity Of the hang
ing; a coincidence of crime so
rare as to impress upon a super
stitious mind the idea that it is
a Providential visitation to pun
ish the community for blood
guiltiness.' In a practical view,
it furnishes a very poor argu-
ment in favor Of the barbarous
death penalty as a means OF re-
srraining crime by the force of
an horrible example of its con-
sequences. The experience of
the world, in all ages, prove the
fact that unjust or unusual pun
ishments beget contempt for
law, and penalties disproportion-
ed to the offences uniform
ly inclte a disposition to violate
the laws. An unjust conviction
gives an awful latitude to crime.
Such is human nature. Parents
recognize it in the treatment Of
their children; the makers as
well as the administrators of the
laws should recognize it in the
treatment of citizens.
, 1877-10-27
CoYonerS.

Council Bill No. 25 was intro
duced by Hon. J. A. Kuhn, Of
Jefferson, to abolish the office of
Coroner and Coroner's Juries.
and referred to the Committee
on Elections, and is substantially
in accordance with an article
which appeared in our columns
on the 9Th of September last,
entitled Notes on Coroners,"
which was written by J. G.
Swan, Esq, of Port Townsend,
late Probate Judge of Jefferson
county, and was fully endorsed
by every lawyer and common
sense man in the entire commu-
nifty.
The question of abolishing the
office Of Coroner has received
much attention in England, as
we'll as in the Eastern States,
and those persons who may have
filed copies of the DISPATCH con-
tanning Judge Swans article can
understand the nature of the bill
introduced into the Council by
Judge Kuhn. This much dis
cussed question has secured a
satisfactory solution SO far as
Massachusetts is concerned, at
the last session of the Legislature
of that State (Acts of 1877, ch.
2OO.) The act embodies the fol-
lowing changes, which are the
bases of the act now before our
Legislature, viz:
l. The abolition of the Coro-
ner's jury.
2. The abolition of the office
of Coroner, and the division Of
his functions between-"a med
ical officer to make the physical
examination and testify as to its
, 1877-10-27

The soil and climate of this
country is much better adapted
to the dairy business than that
of California. Alfalfa now takes
precedence of all other fodder
for cattle in California. Much
of our river bottoms and reclaim
ed tide-lands will produce from
three to four tons an acre of
timothy; alfalfa is estimated in
California to produce three crops
a year, each crop being equal to
the annual crop of timothy from
the same character OF SOIL
Another important advantage of
alfalfa is, that it takes strong
root, working out and extermi-
mating fern, tar-weed and other
vegetable productions which
mingle with grasses, giving to
milk and butter a strong and dis
agreeable flavor.
This climate is ldentically that
of Ireland, which produces the
finest flax in the world. Our
marine soil and humid atmos-
phere are pre- -eminently adapted
to the culture and curing of flax.
This will eventually become one
of the most profitable products
of the country. When our i'm
mense iron and coal resources
are utilized by manufactures, the
women and children of the oper-
atives in the forges and machine
shops will find profitable employ
ment in the factories established
for the manufacture of our flax
products. Our hilly and timber
ed lands, which had sufficient
native vitality to produce some
of the finest forest trees in the
world, can easily be made the
finest fruit-producing lands by
the fertilizing offal of our fisher
les. S.e
Before Washington Territory
has been a State as long as Cali
fornia has, the farming lands on
and around Puget Sound will be
intrinsically Of more value per
acre than the lands on and
around the bay of San Francisco
and its tributaries.
, 1877-10-27
A Big Steal.

An exchange says: 1.-The n.
P. Railroad Co. is doing an i'm
mense land Office business. The
land sales of this company for
the month Of August last were
76,67S acres; for which was re-
ceived s339,717. The total sales
Of this company in Minnesota
and Dakota amount to 1925, ,460
acres, for S4,754, 400"
The average per acre, it will
be seen, is little over 81 40 per
acre. The grant to the company
was 40 sections, amounting to
25, 600 acres per mile through the
Territories, which, at 5! 40,
would be at the rate of
s112,896 per mile. The reason
able cost Of the portion Of the
road already completed would
not exceed $4,000 a mile, thus
leaving margin of profit to the
managers of S72,S96a mile from
the Government subsidy alone,
to say nothing of the profits aris-
ing from the sales of millions of
dollars of bonds to innocent par
ties and buying them in at bank
ruptcy rates. Notwithstanding
all this, those managers threw
the company into bankruptcy
and now clamorously demand of
Congress q new lease Of power
to depredate. further upon the
people and the Government.
, 1877-10-27

We had the pleasure of seeing a
refrigerator car arrive at Chicago
filed with crates of eggs of the
California salmon taken from the
McCloud river by the United States
Fish Commissioner and containing
5000, 900 eggs. Each crate consist
ed of two boxes holding SO, 900 eggs
each, carefully packed in layers be-
tween fold of mosquito netting,
which kept the eggs from mixing
with the alternate layers of living
moss. So regular in size are these
eggs that their careful measurement
will always prove to contain the
number so estimated within a mar
gin too small for serious note
Chicago Field.
, 1877-10-27
Territorial University.

Under the management of Pro-
fessor Anderson, assisted by Mrs.
Anderson, our Territorial Uni
versity gives better promise of q
successful future than at any
previous time in it's history
1t is now, for the first time, un-
der the entire practical control
ofprofessional teachers who have
heretofore devoted themselves
exclusively to learning how to
teach and teaching, with no 9th
or purpose in life, acquiring and
conscientially applying all the
modern improvements in the art,
and having achieved eminence in
their calling. No attempt is
made at superficial display, by
representing grammar school
as a University-though it bears
that title by its charter-but the
teachers have gone to work ear
nestly, diligently and intelligent
ly, to build upon sure founda-
ton the superstructure of an
University which will be cred
it to the future State of Wash
ington. The Legislative COM
mittee who recently visited this
institution were we'll pleased
with it's present, and all that it
is needed to make it the pride
and honor of the State in the
near future, is the sympathy and
support of the citizens to which
- is entitled.
, 1877-10-27

results; and a judicial officer to
hear the testimony and apply
the law"
3. Che appointment of perma-
nent medical officers for the for
mer duty.
4. The transfer Of this duty to
the courts of the first instance.
One very important feature OF
this bill now before the Council
is, that it is made the duty Of
the medical officer to keep an ac-
curate record Of the causes of all
deaths, whether by sickness, ac-
cident or violence, and also to
keep a record of all the births in
his county, and in July and De-
cember of each year to file with
the County Auditor a full report
of such record. And the County
Auditor is required once in each
year to make out and file with
the Secretary a full and COM
plete report of all the births and
deaths in the Territory for the
year, which he prepares from
the returns of the County Aud
itors, to be preserved as a means
Of ascertaining the sanitary con-
dition of the Territory.
The Importance of this bill
cannot be over-estimated, and
we expect to hear of its passage
by unanimous vote.
, 1877-10-27
a Howling Shame.

A singular piece Of injustice
is about to be perpetrated in this
country. It has been determin-
ed to place the portraits of some
of the most famous Americans
upon the new stamps for lager
beer kegs. The stamp for tho
eighth of a barrel is blue, with
a vignette of Washington for a
centre-piece; the sixth of a bar
rel, brown, with a vignette of
Thomas Corwin; one-fourth bar
rel, green, with vignette Of
Thomas Fl. Benton; one-third
barrel, purple, with a vignette
of Gen. Thomas; one-half bar
rel, buff, with vignette of JEFF
ferson; barrel, pink, with Wig
nette of Andrew johnson; hogs
head, black, with a vignette of ST.
las Wright. There is company
of good souls for you! 1t is howl
ing shame. The Latin maxim, De
naort4is nil misi 6onuna. ought to rise
up in the embodiment of C@sar's
war horse and kick the revenue de-
partment across the Balkans. Those
men are dead, and should be al
lowed to rest in peace, but not the
centre piece of any beer keg stamp.
The monument horror was enough;
but Just think of the Father of his
Country rolling around on keg of
that kind; Tom Corwin welcoming
the nation with bloody hands to hos
pitable beer; tho long-winded Mis-
sourian in green threatening one
every time he drops a nickle for a
small glass of the beverage, with an
other Thirty Years; brave old An
dy, in pink, swinging round the cir
Gle on full barrel, when his policy
we believe was to put his imprint
upon something strong and straight.
1t will never do. The comets are
not all dead yet; and some of these
days one of them that has been off
picnicking somewhere for several
thousand years, will come along and
see these kegs, and then get mad
and sit down on this little orb and
call for shot Scotch. Telegram.
, 1877-10-27
An Opportunity fer the Afflicted.

DR.. ]. H. Hinkle. Of the National
ou. gical Institute, with competent
corps of assistants, will visit Portland,
Oregon. Rooms at st. Charles Hotel,
October 22d, to November 1st, 1877, in-
elusive. No other institution in the
world has successfully treated so many
cases of Spiral Curvature. Diseases of
the Joints, Paralysis, Club Feet. Piles,
Fistula in ano, Scrofula, Nasal Catarrh,
etc. Patients from almost every coun-
ty in the United States have applied to
1t for relief, either at the home Insti-
tute at Indianapolis. Indiana, or to one
Of its Grand Divisions at Philadelphia,
Pa, Atlanta. Ga. or San Francisco,
Cal. The afflicted cannot afford to miss
:his opportunity of being cured at
home. The Doctor makes no charge
tor cons lltation and examination, and
bis terms for treatment al within the
reach of every one.
, 1877-10-27

The New York Herald pub
fishes a. story of the sale Of a
woman for a few bushels of corn
by one brother to another, at
Waterford, Pa. Subsequently
the people of the neighborhood
became so incensed at the bar
barous TRANSACTION that they
broke into the house where the
couple lived, took the woman,
tarred and feathered her, and
rode her on a rail. The man es-
capped, but they are after him.
He is out in the woods at present
in his night clothes. %
, 1877-10-27
WARRANTED FOR FIVE YEARS.
C. Au ITO NJ!

AL persons are cautioned not to make, deal,
sell, or use any sewing machines that sew with
our needle, and make the Elastic stitch, or that
have the new Patent self-feed attachment un-
less the same are purchased from this company
or their agen. 8 OF licenses, and stamped under
our patent. Beware of worthl, ss limitations
and unscrupulous parties who ha>e copied our
circulars, advertisements, &c, aud buy only the
machine manufactured by US.
"The wonder is how SO good q machine can
be sold at SO low price.-[Globe
We havs seen the machine and consider It
frst-class in every respect.
We can recommend it to our readers Chris
tian Index, N. Y.
The machine arrived safely; we are more than
pleased; it does more than you claim for 1t.
We shall call the attention Of our readers to 1t.
-(St. Louis Christian.
thoroughly responsible company, prompt
in all their dealings, and one that we can COM
mend to our reaGers.-[Age, N. Y.
Sample machines with table and treadle f'r
warded to any part of the world on receipt Oh
, 1877-10-27
Railroad Matters.

LOhAAAND,OSA.s wv. A~u, Ao'''
To THE EDITOR OF THE DISPATCH:
Last April, in communication to
the DISPATCH from this city, I stat
ed that 81 found the people of Port
land jealous of Puget Sound enter
prises, and that movement was on
foot in this State to have the land
grant of the Northern Pacific Rail
road Company, on their branch line
in our Territory transferred to the
Portland. Dalles and Salt Lake Rail
road" The Bee, of this city, took
exceptions to my findings in an item
published shortly after Neverthe
less, nearly every article, iu refer
ence to these two roads which have
been published In Oregon papers
from that day to this. have more
than substantiatcd my findings
And now the Bee comes to the front
in its daily issue of the Goth inst,
in a communication headed "Rail-
ads.--The resources of the North
ern Pacific" from which 1 take
the following extracf: Yesterday
I traced the modus operaada of the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
till I established the fact that they
have only the value of the lands
granted to them upon which to rely
for monetary support in furtherance
of their projects; and such is the
backing that the Northern Pacific
Railroad have to build fifteen hun
dred miles of road with, and such
is the backing that some men have
the temerity to ask the people of the
Pacific Northwest to place their sole
reliance on for railroad connection
with the East. l maintain, and it
is reasonable conclusion from the
above facts. that even with its time
extended fifty years the Northern
Pacific cannot be built on its present
route. It is utterly impracticable;
the route is too long. That the
money could not be obtained to
build it with has been known for a
long time. Pretences have been
made lately considerable revenue by
the Northern Pacific from it's route
already built. This is to show, if
possible, some value attached to the
road. Without paying any interest
at all, and no repairing, I venture to
say the company have not realized
any but a very small sum from their
railroads, over and above running
expenses. The Oregon Steam Navi-
cation Company doubtless yields a
handsome revenue. .fourths
of which goes to the Northern Pa
cific by virtue of its ownership of
three-fourths of the Oregon Steam
Navigation Compsny's stocks, and
this is heralded to those who are
silly enough to believe it, as revenue
AAOAA eAO OOAPnhy AoAiIOduS. "A
transfer to the Portland Dalles and
Salt Lake railroad of one of the
branch grants which the Northern
Pacific Company had, the same as
has been done in other parts of the
United States, would insure a rail
road being built at an early date on
that route" If the finding of the
Bee correspondent are correct land
what reasons have we for doubling
them?) why should cur Legislators.
now in session at the Capital, hest
tate to pass the memorial row pend
ing before them for a transfer of the
lands on one of these branch lines
to the Seattle and Walla Walla Rail
road Company? Would it not in
sure the building of that road (Which
is of quite as much importance to
our people) at an early date?
Very respectfully submitted.
NJ S. BOOTH.
, 1877-10-27
Comparative Price of Lands.

The price Of tide lands, re-
claimed by dyking, on the river
bottoms about the bay of San
Francisco, are valued at from
$500 to $500 an acre. Farming
lands in the counties within so
to 100 miles of the city, all the
way from $1,000 to 500 an acre,
there being little, if any, good
farming lands within that area
which can be had for less than
the latter Fl gure. In the south
ern portion of California the val
ue of lands depends upon the ia
cilities for irrigation, without
which the lands are practically
worthless, and with which lands
covered with bearing fruit trees
are held at enormous prices;
small plantation being equal to a
princes ransom, or more def
nitely, an independent fortune to
an ordinary family. In the Sa-
cramento Valley, according to
the Bulletin, "a gentleman valued
the orchards at between $500
and $1,000 the acre. Be this as
it may, the orchard owners de-
cline to sell at any price, feeling
that they have sure income for
themselves and families from
land yearly increasing IN value.
Some short time since ranch Of
80 acres, IS in bearing orchard,
brought $4,000; and for anoth-
er of 240 acres, II in fruit and
vegetables, $40, 900 was refused"
These prices, it will be borne in
mind, are for farms subject to
the devastations of not unfre-
quent overflow Of the Mukelum-
ne river and other mountain
streams.
The reclaimed lands on and
about Puget Sound are fully as
productive as any of those men,
toned above, and as we'll adapt
ed to the same products, without
being exposed to dreuth or food,
and practically nearly as conven-
lent to market. Our farmers
upon the reclaimed tide-lands
can ship their products from
their own landings upon the
largest class of sea-going ships
for any market in the world
The high-prced farms in the
nothern portion of California are
mainly devoted to fruit culture
and dairy products. The fruits
of the temperate zone, which are
the principal fruits of commerce
in dried and preserved state:
apples, pears, plums, cherries,
prunes, currants, strawberries,
blackberries, raspberries and the
like, may be produced here in
greater abundance and perfec-
tion than in any portion of Cali
fornia. Prunes are especia ly
adapted to this soil and climate,
and no dried fruit has a more
general market at profitable pri-
ces.