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, 1877-02-10
A FEW DAYS.

A few days more will settle the PEN
ding question Of who shall be the Presi
dent of these United States after the
fourth day of March. The high and
august tribunal. whose existence ia born
of a greet political emergency unthought
of by the trainers of our great and glori-
ous Constitution. is progressing favora-
bly, with its labors and unravelling the
tangled skein of circumstances surround
ing the Southern elections. The evidence
thus far sdduced. proves that intimida-
ton has been practiced by both parties
% limited extent, but only by the
colored adherents of those parties. The
white men, the intelligent voters within
the party ranks of either side, have
deprecated violence and used every
available effort to have the election con-
Quoted in peace
The spectacle put forth for the gaze
of the nation shows a just and inflexible
leader to have received nearly a half
million more popular votes than his adj
versary. 1t shows him to have been
overwhelmingly the popular choice,
even while base copspirators like Casa
move, Wells and Kenner, sat ready to
executs the behests of their masters.
Morton, Chandler and Sherman. 1t
shows these three arch conspirators en-
deavoring to set aside, by the basest of
frauds, the verdict Of forty millions of
tricked and justly indignant people. A
few days more will bring order out OF
chaos. light ont Of darkness. justice ont
of fraud and reason out of prejudice.
Be calm and trust to the great tribunal
now defending the popular liberties.
The oppressors' days are numbered.
, 1877-02-10

The Grand Jury which just adjourn
ed found considerable evidence that
certain parties in town are habitually
selling liquors to minors. They very
prndently refrained from presenting in
dictments in the cases which came TO
their knowledge. because the evidence
WAS insufficient to insure conviction.
But we trust that when yer sufficient
evidence can be had, that prosecutions
will be made. 1t Is a poor saloon
keeper who can't get living by selling
grog to grown people and no man wants
to pstronize any place where gang of
hoodlum boys are hanging around.
, 1877-02-10
THE FORBES CASE.

We mentioned, some Gays since, that
contract for work of building bridges
and cuiverts on the Puyallup coal road
had been let to P. D. Forbes. of Victo-
ria. That gentleman has been impris
oned for contempt in refusing to deliver
up, III the suit of Charles Morton and
J P. Davies. certain papers connected
with the artificial stone case in which
James H. Thorp and L. L Leathers
were the principals Mr.. Justice Creese,
III delivering the opinion of the court,
said:
However rigidly the secrecy of private
and privileged communications may be
kel t-and it is a right which in all law
full matters will be jealously protected by
the courts 1T must still be Understood
that apublic institution -minently secret
in its workings projected as it is by the
law--so that to touch even post to in
jure it is penal .canno, be allowed to be-
come the instrument. however innocent
ly. of contravening the laws of the coun-
try which protects it, or to conceal
frauds perpetrated under its authorized
secrecy.
And the point I think necessary to
call attention to is the extraordinary
powers of an order of the Court by way
of injunction, ana the necessity there is
of obeying it first. and complaining of
it, if there be subject of complaint. at
the time or Immediately afterwards, to
the court whence it issues, when the
wrong or evil can at once be rIghted.
In this matter, having satisfied myself
of the breach, am of opinion that on
consideration of the facts disclosed, that
the defendant, Peter Dewar Forbes. has
been guilty of contempt of this Court,
by breach OF the said injunction of the
18th January last. and do order that
the said Peter Dewar Forbes do staEd
committed to the Queens prison at Vic
toris. for his said contempt. and that
the said defendant do pay the costs of
and consequent on this order as between
solicitor and client, to be taxed by the
proper officer.
How the arrest and imprisonment of
MIR. Forbes will affect his contracts in
this Territory remains to be seen. There
are many people here expecting to get
work under him. who would like to see
the outcome of the transaction.
, 1877-02-10
THE PARDONING POWER.

The public had hardly recovered from
the announcement of DR.. Glass pardon
for q henious and revolving crime. ere
we hear that Acting Governor Chad
wick. of that State, has also pardoned
Mrs Caroline Briggs, wife Of Govern
or" Briggs. of Josephine county. 1t
<yill be remembered that she caused a
son of hers. boy below the years O.
discretion, to shoot schoOimaster OF
Kerbyville for the seduction of her
daughter, who was one of his pupils.
The subsequent trial revealed nothing
to Justify the shooting. but on the con-
trary developed the fact that the glrj
was troubled with nynphomania and
had been intimate with almost every
boy in the school. To screen herself
she had sworn her seduction upon AL
Innocent MN and murder was the
consequence.
Now We should like to know if Mrs.
Briggs is to Sc; up another pistol gal
lery and who Is to be her next victim ?
We do not doubt that she is afflicted
with the symptoms of inc pient demen-
tia. as set forth in the body of the par
don granted her. But we ask Governor
Chadwick if he has allowed her to go
home to start another holocaust at
Kerbyville, or whether he has provided
for commitment to an insane asylum
where she will be properly cared for !?
This thing of acquittlng people on the
ground of emotional Insanity, or turn
ing them out of prison to do more mur>
der, is no good course of procedure. We
don't question the propriety OF letting
Mrs. Briggs out of the State Prison, but
any one who knows anything of he cir
cumstances. knows that an asylum is
the only tit place for her. Somebody
will get killed. within year, ii she is
suffered to remain At large.
, 1877-02-10

A volunteer contributor to the IltelH-
gencer of Monday, would try and have
people believe that nobody but Repub-
icaus fought in the Union army during
the war. Why, bless yonr unsophisti-
Gated soul. the war was kept up and
maintained for the first two years. by
men VIII voted for Douglas in 1860. 1t
was not till they had got killed off. that
a draft became ut ceSsary and caught
what few Of your LincolH-ites that
hadn't skedadIed into Canada.
, 1877-02-10

After being reported dead twice with
in the past year. the repentant telegraph
now announces that Alexander H.
Stephens cannot live. The poor old
man is very weak and death would pro-
badly be great relief to him. Obitu-
aries will not be in order, however. till
his death is confirmed by more reliable
authority than Simonton's dispatches to
the Associated Press.
, 1877-02-10
Summons.
TERRITORY OF WARRINGTON,
County of King, !

In Justicess Court, D. W. Selye, Justice.
To Frank p. HOlr:
You are hereby notified that sohn Collins
and John .. Condin, doing business und.r the
firm name OF John Collins Il 20. has fled q
claim against you in said Court, which will
come on to be heard Ut my Office at Seattle, in
King county. W T.. on the 9th day of Febru-
ary, 1877. ut the hour Of ten O'Clock A N and
unless you appear. and then and there answer,
the same will be taken as conf> ssed and the de-
mand Of the p.ainritf granted. The object of
the claim is to nave and recover the sum of
$57 37-100. as Lalance of Hotel Bill due from
vol to the said John Collins and John S Con-
din doing business under the firm name of
John Collins h Co.
Claim filed January 21st, A. D., 1877
D. W. SELYE, J.P.
Ordered that the above summons he publish
ed in the Puao Sound DISPATCH, q weekly
newspiper published ut Seattle. King County.
w. T. for thrre Successive wesks commencing
on January 9th, A. D., 1877.
D. W. SRLYE, J.P.
, 1877-02-10
Notice..

4 LII PERSONS are eau u'ioned against nego-
"A tiating certain promissory notes for three
thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars f$3 :
15O) each. dated Victoria. b. c.. December 14th,
1875. given to L. L, Leathers by Charles Nor
ton, william Sterling and Robert Lipsett.
C. MORTON.
VIM. STERLING.
P. P. r. LIPSETT.
JOSHUA DAVIES.
Also certain prcmissory note Of same date.
given to l.. l.. Leathers for the sum Of two
thousand five hundred dollars iS2, ,500), given
by w. p. Sayward. W. p. SAYWARD.
J. P. DAVIES. -ja17-dlw-w2m
, 1877-02-10

The mysterious Owings has been con-
frmed as Secretary of Washington Ter
ritory and will probably make Olympia
his place of residence fol the next six
weeks.
, 1877-02-10

Hon. Isbam G.. Harris, former Cow
ernor of Tennessee has been elected to
the United States Senate from that
State for the short term. He is Dem
orrat in pollrics and q man OF good
abilities.
, 1877-02-10

A man named Nelson Tower has been
arrested in San Francisco for striking
his sis'er-in- law over the head with q
porcelain washbowl. She can thank
the Lord that things are no worse than
they are Suppose his name had been
Washbowl and he'd hit her over the
cocoanut with a porcelain tower-what
then
, 1877-02-10

An appalling homicide has been COM
mitted near Eugene City. by young
man named Kanoff, who shot and kill
ed another man named Osburn, former
ly colonel in the Confederate army.
kanotf then came to Eugene and sur
rendered himself to the officers of the
law. claiming that he acted in self de-
fence. The difficulty occurred over a
disputed piece of land.
, 1877-02-10

The dally issue of the Olympia Echo
has become thing of the past. The
httuIent concern is 10 comic its windy
efforts to two weekly papers, in
fact We may Say very weakly papers.
one at Olympia and the other at Taco
ma. dated at Zach place and containing
the same matter.
, 1877-02-10

TURBINE WHEEL.-We noticed a
large iron turbine in the warehouse
on Yesler's wharf the other day,
destined for the Snohomish country.
1t was brought mp from San Fran
cisco on the bark Montana.
, 1877-02-10

In seventeen years. experience as an
editor, we have yet the first man to
shield from merited justice. But when
well-read judge decides that law is in
operative and conviction cannot be
had under it, we do not see the sense of
bnrdeniDg taxpayers with the expense
Of prosecution under that law.
, 1877-02-10

James Madison Wells, the hireling
trickster of Grant anu brother IN law
Casey, is getting good roasting before
the Electoral Commission at Washing
ton. He VIII 60 bone to Louisiana. the
biggest lener III tho tatch. Such son
to have come from good old Uncle
JEFF
, 1877-02-10

So it seems that James Gordon Ben
nett has gone TO Europe on one of the
Inman steamers Let him stay there;
let hlm pull down his vest; let him re-
beautiful rest and (as friend Falnham
would have lt) I'VE will go home and
eat apples"
, 1877-02-10

The Territorial Treasurer, Hon. Frank
Tarbell. is paying all warrants upon the
Treasury bearing date up to the LIST day
of December. This speaks we'll for our
old friends efficiency.
, 1877-02-10

kilograms of last night indicate
crumbs OF comfort for the Republicans.
by the Electoral COMMISSIONS giving
Florida to the Hayes electors. That
does not c lrry with it Louisiana and
South Carolina by good deal.
, 1877-02-10

A Hebrew named Michael Kofsky has
been sent to Jail at Virginia Ci'y. for
larrnping his wife. If he would come
to Puget Sound. Wa would teach him
better manners; and if he will come to
Port Madison, they will endeavor to
convert him in polite Kofsky.
, 1877-02-10
To Lease.

new House and building lots to lease on
Front street, between Union and Pike streets,
cattle. ne 1t DIOR to Mr.. Crockett's new resi-.
euce. T erms easy. Inquire OF
A. j. kRUNN,
On the premises, or at the Occidental Hotel
, 1877-02-10

Spring must be opening again. The
commercial travellers are beginning to
put in appearances once more.
, 1877-02-10
N E w TOD A Y.


TWO BOOKS "Ollendorffs Method of
Teaching French" and Key" The find
er will be rewarded and receive the thanks of
the owner. by returning the books to Room NO.
7, fremont House. Seattle. fe92
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-09-20
An Honorable Record.

The New York Eoening Mail, edited
By Major BUNDY, at one time editor Of
the Mil. Sentinel, in referring TO Senator
HowE's devotion TO the interests Of
the Republican party in refusing at
different times the appointment of
Minister to England, Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court. Attorney General
and Associate Justice Of the Supreme
Court, rather than have his seat in the
Senate occupied by Democrat, adds
the following te She record:
This action, On his part, was in per
feel keeping with his previous career.
He could have been elected Senator Ia
1851, had be been willing to write a
non committal letter, avoiding the
estate Rights issues, on which Wis
eonsin Republicans were then running
Wild. A large majority of the Iegis-
iature wanted him TO make this con
cessioa 10 popular fauaticism. but he
was quietly 1nfezible, and after the
attack on Fort Sgmpter interpreted
the significance of Estate Rights, y
the Republicans recovered their senses
and elected Judge HeHe to she Senate,
almost by aeclamat1en. He gould not
'4stoop to eenquer,' and has been
three times ekosea TO the Senate, with
out such sacrifice of self respect
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-09-20

TIE SENTINEL has this to say OF
she appointment Of Hon. Horace Rub
lee to the Craftsmanship of the kepub-
hcan State Central Committee.
The Republicans Of Wisconsin are
especially Eoctuna1e in having Tor
chairman Of the State Central Commit
tee gentleman Of the ability, expert
encs and eai1uue 81 Mr. Rublee. His
keen intelligence 2nd ripe Judgment
qualify HIM thoroughly for she work
which viii fall 70 his lot in that posi-
ton. While his courteous manner viii
stropg civ reoomznepd the party Of which
be IS the agent The Republican par
IL has shown Its appreciation OF the
exeelleat qualities Of Mr.. Rublee be
flze aow aad in every Instance he has
rss3se1ed credit on 1t His conduct Of
tie campaign will be marked by the
absence Of offensive diet4tIon and we
believe migi result with satisfaction Ii
himself and rhs Republican party
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-09-20
--.-zz- sSzs -E-

"sLINcoLN RAGS, as the green
backs were called by the enemies OF
the President during the war, have
become very popular with those who
denounced them. The hard times
have caused them to clutch at every
straw like a drowning man. Hence,
the popular feeling which cannot be
overlooked or denied, is the tallacy
that the mere printing Of greenbacks
is going to give prosperity to the
country and employment and big wag-
cs to the workingman, Surprising the
Government sets its presses at work
and turns out S1,000.000, 900 or ~
900 OOO, 900 more of greenbacks
What would they be good for? And,
again. how would you. Mr.. Working
man. get hold of them? 1t is the rich,
not tie poor, who would mako money
bv speculating in them. Gold gamb-
limo would revive with greater indus
try than ever. Prices Of everything
hut labor would go up. For men may
theorlza much as they please, yet they
cannot alter facts. Prices the world
over will continue In the future as II
the mast. to be regulated by the world
standard of value OSHKOSH NORTH
toeSfer1-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-09-20
Mr.. Keely'S Machine.

From the PhiEadolphia Press. Ang. %
Last night, at No 1, 422 North
Twentieth street, in the presence of a
number af scientific gentlemen, includ-
ing r. II, De Burg, engineer Col.
Bell, of New York Prof Wise, the
aronaut; Mr. Smyser, Mr. Bickel,
and Mr. John W. Keely's assistants,
Messrs. Moore and Chaunce, and the
officers of the company, there was a
test given Of the machine which has
become known as the "Keely motor
All the tests given were successful,
the last being slightly married by a
split in one of the service pipes, not at
all initiating against the experiment
as a fact.
The operation of the machine is so
simple that those who have laughed at
the telegraph and the locomotive will
cease to DO the same as they did with
those wonderful inventions. \ rubber
hose, five eighths Of an inch, is attach
to the hydrant, and water-ahout two
or three gallons-is passed into the
machine. The guages, with graduated
scales, indicate the height of the Wa
ter column, the result varying. as it
does, so far as power is concerned.
Air is forced into the upright column
on the left with a pump, the pressure
applied being usually about five
pounds, sometimes as much as ten
pounds. BY application of more air,
or by bleeding the euages, the
pressure is regulated at will. and the
machine is what is technically called
,'set." Tho operation merely consists,
then, in motion of the lever already
described and certainly last night its
results were wonderful, and demon
strated that the power is made from
hvdrant water aud ordinary air, no
chemicals about it, and it will drive
an engine and transmit power. The
vapor passes from the machine into a
steel shell and into a condensing APP
paratus, whence it goes into small
| tube and thence to the engine.
The valves were all opened to show
the machine was clear, air introduced,
and the lever was lifted, the first move
showing 1850 pounds pressure on
the guage to the square inch. and
though the chamber for condening
was open the current did not blow out
match held over it, With 6 10
pounds air pressure, the guage indica-
cd 5000 pounds to the inch. and then
600 on a third trial On the fourth
it lifted large lever (weighed) regis.
tering 5000 pounds dead weight
the vapor was turned into an expul
sion chamber, and the cap few of
with a report like rife, frightening
half those present; and lastly, a FIVE
horse power engine, with three-fourths
inch stroke ana twenty-four-inch fly
wheel, was driven at ESQ revolutions
10 the minute. The skeptical engin
GERS were convinced that the power
was there, and that it could be ap
: Piled. The present machine cost $50
! 900. One Of the engineers said they
had produced fourteen and half vac.
vum on one experiment. and fifteen il
perfect, as ali engineers know. 4
public test will be given shortly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-09-20
DEMOCRACY is in trouble again. S,

DEMOCRACY is in trouble again. Sc
long as the party of the unsavorl
smell is not obliged to call its members
together in convention, it gets on fine
ly. But when ''the boys are wanted
for business" then comes the one
great trouble /; it has no name, or rath
er SO many names that ,'the boys are
a little off in recognizing the call. The
several Democratic papers in tie state
speak of the Democratic Convention,
the Reform Convention, the Peoples
Reform Convention, the Democratic
Reform Convention, the Reform Dem
pcratic Convention, the Peoples Re-
orm Democratic Convention &c. &c.
and how can 1.-THE boys know who's
calling them ? We are reminded OF
the old lady who stuck her head out of
the attic window and called: -''Moll,"
"Mary, "Mooley," "Polly," Bet
s2y, p" till her throat was as red and as
raw as tomato. and still MolI didn't
put in an appearance.
When our Democratic brothers mix
the wvrd Il Roforn,' with tho s,Dnnn-
cratic" leaven, then comes that peculiar
political aroma which in politics is
equivalent to a species of "salt-rising''
and full as fragrant, and then comes a
contraction of the facial muscles, and
one can hardly tell whether they be
smiling to think how the average dem
ocrat is dupe3, or angry with them
selves because their necessity compels |
hem to make blanket of the hateful
word in order to F'gather 'em in"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-09-20

BECAUSE EkTBxa GrogaR bounced
a prosesfauG Bible, aaa siaug It out Of
. Rasssug ar car wizdev 90 the Illinois
gcnf~aI & II Gas6 wesx Wednesday,,
pS.ea vas engy aaetlaer way Of spFeas-
ias she gospel. Il deesn'& follow that
eAs tstse Is set . very good beck, nor
t5lat Easaser Ggsogaa Is aasst very gsed
suza-
Father 6cegsn deu't Ike King
.Sanses versiou Of the Scriptures. aad
Asng James. oauId be speak IN the
nesEs. would andoabfedly ask Father
Coogans pardou bor giving protestant
ism vsrs5ou of a,oly Writ, 50 at vari-
zmcs with Father Grogau's ideas Of
w6zs a uersioa shoald be.-a1d per
bays ERs voatdu't. It's sinap'y : gsens
uf perhaps
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-09-20
It was not 50 much that Father

1t was not so much that Father
Grogan distilled the bible Of the prot
cstants, as, that some bald bad man
had dared to write and draw pictures
upon its fly leaf, nothing but what was
proper and upon which the most fcs-
tidioas could look without moral or
spiritual detriment, but then the book
had been handled by un-religious
hands, so Father Grogan must needs
shy it out of the car window. As we
have said the act doesn't show conclu
sively that Father Grogan is not very
good man, but it does show that he Is
a very big ass. and his bigotry. had II
suitable ground for action, woulc
roast a man at the stake with as much
as Bridget would haste a
little porkel in Father Grogan's kitch-
en- on Thursday or a Saturday |
If Father Grogan don't like our Bible, |
let him let it severely alone How
does Father Grogan know but that
some honest humble member of his
Church may not pick that bible up up
on the broad prairie and be eternally
damned from perusing it. Just think,
Father Grogan how much you may
have to answer for. Be little care
full in the future how you sling bibles
around, unless they be your own.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-09-20
dust Register.

Under the new reg stry law, voters
residin, IN cities must be registered to
enable them to vote, unless they be-
come voters of the ward in which they
live after the registry has been made,
Attorney General SLOAN also holds,
correctly, no doubt, that voters living
IN towns which contain an Incorporated
village must also be registered. Fol
lowing is Gen. SLoAN's opinion;
MADISON, Aug. 81, 1877,
4, j. Turner, Esq.
DEAR SIR " ours OF yesterday
received. The act Of last winter relat-
ing TO registry Of voters, Oh. 264, IS
somewhat ambiguous, | thlnk the
better construction is that in cases
where the incorporated village and the
town in which it is situated vote to-
Gather the inspectors of election Of
the town constitute the board of regis
try. and are to register all persons
oEalifed to vote in the election DIS
trtct of which they are inspectors. as
the election district in such case com
prises both the village and the town,
All voters must be registered, whether
Gvino within or without the village
limits. Yours truly
4. SCOTT SLOAN.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-09-20

FATHER GRoGAN now claims, We
understand, that he threw that bible
out the car window because there were
obscene pictures and writing upon its
fly leaves. If the Reverend Father
could only have thought far enough
to have tore out the fly leaves, be
cause a man has cancer on his arm
is it necessary to kill him?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-09-20
The bOnd-,der demands gold
for his nd; the soldier
muStke greenbackS
f0ES pension.

A greeuba organ publishes the
above as ulitical point" If it
has any point is against the green
back delusior The bondholder is
paid in gold, .ause that is the law.
The soldier is id his pension IN green
backs, also accordance with law.
But. under tpolicy pursued by the
Republican pay, the greenback dollar
now lacks onl about three cents of
being equal iralue 30 the gold dollar.
and will very on be at par. Under
the policy a1pated by the greenback-
ers. the greenck dollar would rapid
ly depreciate,nd the pensioner would
receive his pain paper that would be
worthless or ,arly so. We take it
that the perner will prefer the Re-
publican poll State Journal.
Get youaxhibits ready for the