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Richland beacon., 1877-06-30
II CONTOE COQUETTE AND ACOKEY
SW.AIN

She was eighteen, fair and serenely sweet,
and lived in Conetoe.
He was young, strong, earnest, and deeply
adoring-d farmer in Cokey Township.
She leaned against the gate post and he
kneeled at her feet clasping her hand-time,
twilight.
He-"Say, dearest. woulds, thou have mo
paint the home TO which, could love fulfill its
prayers, Id lead thee Listen"
She-"Go slow. Have You mortgaged
your farm for this years supplies-just eating
up your LIVING
He@"Dearest, well, /"
She-"Have you plowed up the rotten con-
ton seed and planted corn, to be ready for the
Eastern war?"
He-"No, darling j"
She-"Have you got pigs to raise for home
consumption, thereby saving your means at
home?"
He Love, time enoueh="
She-"There. Let 90 my hand and go
swing on Suke TaIbot's gate. You won't do
for Conetoe. ."-Tdrboro SoMhernr.
Richland beacon., 1877-06-30
The Kansas City Times generously con>
tributes the following lesson in natural history:

The Kansas City Times generously COM
tributes the following lesson in natural history:
The bobwhite, which is found only in
America, and which is neither a quail nor
partridge, is enormously called quail in some
States and as erroneously called a partrdgein
others. In the Middle and Southern States,
where they generally call him a partridge. they
misnane the RULED grouse pheasant, and in
the Northern and Western States, where they
call the same ruiied grouse a partridge, they
call the bObwhte a quail. The country
school children OF both sections who know
him only as they know the whippoorwiIl, by
the sound he makes, call him iobwhiic, and
thai is realty the only name that has ever
been applied TO him which amounts TO a
designation. The orni,holo.ists say that neither
the name quail, partridge nor pheasant is
properly given to any American bird.
Richland beacon., 1877-06-30

The value Of chastity CAMPO, be computed
Richland beacon., 1877-06-30

Be ,ruihiul IN al! you siarement=.
Richland beacon., 1877-06-30
N6R SALE ON GOODTERMS.

A Steam SAW MILL, complete in all IT'S
parts, together with superior PLANtR,
SASH and DOOR MACHINE and TURNING
LATHE. APplyto or address
Mrs. P. A. KEEL, Delhi, La.
Rayville, La, April Is, lo76.-u
Richland beacon., 1877-06-30

4 bust Of Chades Francs Adams has beer
male BY his son. John Adam.
, 1877-02-17

The steamer Nellie, Capt. David Hill,
arrived here Wednesday. at PM This
steamer will hereafter run tri-weckly be.
tween this place and Seattle, touching at
intermediate ports. This certainly shows
q degree Of improvement and settlement
almost unparalleled, Less than year
ago the Fanny Lake made one trip per
week, provided she could get load. and
now the Nellie finds it necessary to make
three regular trips per week to meet the
rapidly increasing passenger trve! and
accnmulating frcights. There is nothing
like printers ink, when properly spread
on.
, 1877-02-17
heretofore

"a fashionable church." says Brother Tai
mage, sis place where, after careful to-
let, a few people come in, sit down, and, what
time they can get their minds off OF their stores,
or away from the new style Of hat in the seat
before them, listen in silence to the minister
warranted to hit no mans sins--and TO the
choir, who are agreed to sing tunes that no.
body knows and, having passed an hour in
dreamy languiohing, 30 home refreshed"
Impcrtinent dandy "a stangcrE-"May /
have the honor to accompany YOU, miss ?'
in your proper place. discharged my last foot
man for impcrtincncG,"
, 1877-02-17

SoLD.--Thc Pill Chuck boom, former
ly owned by Frank Dolan, was this week
sold for $1,000. The purchaser, Mr. H.
Mills, contemplates the erection Of a
shire boom at the entrance of Ebey
Slough, which, in connection with the
one on Pill Chuck. will be of incalcula-
BILE benefit to lumbermen, and effectualIy
check the heavy losses incurred by them
heretofore.
, 1877-02-17

THE RENTON MURDER. the Sc
attic papers We learn of the particulars
of shocking murder which occurred at
Rcnton on Sunday last. The name of
the murdered man was Solomon Baxter,
a native of Yorkshire, England. He
Ind been q resident ON the Sound about
two years, and had acquired homestead
which he was improving, with view to
bring his family from the old country
and make this his permanent home. Hc
was stabbed to death while attempting
10 separate two rufiians who were en-,
gagged in n deadly conflict. The Grand
Jury, now in session at Seattle, will no
doubt find a bill against the murderer,
so that his triul and punishment will be
speedy.
, 1877-02-17

GOOD TEMrLARs. AT q regular meet
ing OF Olive Leaf Lodge, l. .. G. T., No.
ll'of this place, on Saturday hight, Feb.
10, 1877, the following officers were IN
stalled: H. Ross, W. C. T.; p. A. Get
chell, W. V. T.; Gen. Plumb. the ex W.
g. T., took the position of p. W. C. T.;
L. E. Beach, w. s.; Millie Woods, W.
A. B.; Fannie Low, W. F. s.; Clayton
Packard, w. Treas; Charles Morgan, W,
g.; Mrs. NJ. Ward, W. l. G.; L. Hanson
W'S. g.; j. Hood, W. NJ; Ida Davis,
w. d. NJ; c, Haskell, w. r. s.; E, FL.
'"elI' W, L. s., pro tenn. The Lodge a,
present numbers fifty active members
and is in flourishing condition.
, 1877-02-17

THEATRICAL.-The celebrated drama
tist, John Mcguire, who has been per-
forming to delighted audiences all along
the coast, will give one of his inimitabe
performances at the Riverside, on Tues.
day evening next. The flatteling notices
given him by the coast press are suffi-
cient evidences of his merit without an
extended notice from US.
, 1877-02-17

TIE Oldest inhahitnnt IL unable to de
tcrminc the precise time when we had
lust such another winter as this" Ever
since November the conversation has ran
in this wise: "Good morning: lovely
weather" Yes, never saw ANYTHING to
compare with it" etc.
, 1877-02-17

NorIcE.-The Ladies' Sewing Society
will give n "ncrktie" party on next Thurs.
day night, February 22d, Mt tie River
side Hotel All are invited. Tickets.
including lunch and music, 81. Pro-
crcds to 90 to the fund of the Society.
, 1877-02-17

THE Seattlcitcs are iublant over The
expected advent in that place of Camilla
Urso, the celebrated primo DONNA. We
would suggest that, after filling her en-.
gagcment there, Camilla should take n
run up the Snohomish, where she is sure
10 receive the attention due her merit.
, 1877-02-17

THE man Mcdonald, who it will be
remembered was up here ON fearful
iamhoree during Court week, from the
effects Of which he lay PROSTATE for two
weeks, has since then been confined in
the Insane Asylum at SteiIacoom. Mac
has history. His connections reside in
Michigan, and are comparatively rich
at least we judge so from the fact that
on his departure from that State one of
his female relatives furnished him With
tTenty-one fine linen shirts, But poor
Mac is hopeless inebriatc He no longer
sports fine linen, but is the sport of fate
sud fate at that
, 1877-02-17

ONE of the mythoiogical stories of the
Greeks relates that when Mount Hricon
rose heavenward with delight at the
singing of the MUSES., the winged herse
Pegasus stopped its ascent with kick
Some OF the St. Valentine MUSES. herca.
bonts ought to be kicked by govern
mcnt mule end over end into Hadrs.
, 1877-02-17

Is He Guns This week there arrived
from Seattle young man who formerly
worked in logging camp on this river
While so engaged he was stricken with
paralysis, losing the use of bis entire
right side, and last October went to Sc
attic, where he placed himself under the
medical care of DR.. Weed. His means
becoming exhausted, he sought relief
from the authorities OF that county,
which was denied on the ground of non
residence. He now returns here, and
prays tor the relief denied him In King
county. The man is helpless, and is GER.
tainly entitled to protection from either
King or Snohomish county, and it is
little singular, with statute AS plain
MS the nose on n mans filce, that the pro
per authorities should higgle about such
matter, and thus subject fellow NOR
tai to unnecessary travail. The man l'e-
longs to King county, and if the com
missioners there can read they must be
cognizant of the fact.
, 1877-02-17

THE COMING PREss.-- Mcssrs. II. l..
Pike and w. L. Webster have been for
the last five months experimenting on
press, designed for pressing hay, cotton,
wool, or any other product that needs
COMPRISING before transporting to mar
kct. They have at last accomplished
their object, and have invented press.
on principles never before attempted,
that will eventually supercedc all other
presses now in use The new press is
very simple in its construction, so simple
that any one, even if possessed of but
little mechanical knowledge, can operate
it successfully. 1t is very light, and calls
for but little space in which to operate.
This is great advantage when bailing
hay, or any other substance, on small
farms, that require frequent moving of
the apparatus. One of the advantages
claimed is, that twice the amount of ma
tcrlhl can be compressed into the space
usually occupied by II single bail pressed
by any machine now in use. The power
is II knee joint power combined with the
ordinary wheel and axle, endless chain,
or wire rope, the common shieve block,
and web, composed of wood and wire
or Il thin sheet Of steel, or any other fex
ible metallic substanCe--the web being
ingenously attached TO the knee-joint
power in such way as to envelope the
hay in the web in the form OF solid
cylinder, perfectly round. four feet in
length by two and half in diameter. 1t
must be remembered that bule OF this
size, or even smaller, holds at least one
third or one-half more than any pressed
ty any machine now in use, and occupies
but little more than one-half the ordi
nary space. We are informed by the
gentlemen themselves that this is the
tenth experimental machine they have
built and abandoned on account of some
defect in applying the power, or some
deficiency in the strength of materials
used in the construction of the machine.
These gentlemen have wisely secured
themselves from any danger OF Others
protising by their time, labor and study,
by forwarding models, drawings and an
application to the proper AUTHORITIES tor
patent. We see no reason why this
machine, built of stronger materials, and
coIrcspondlngly increased power, cannot
he utilized in pressing hay, cotton, flax,
tow, hemp, jute, or any raw material that
requires compression before it is mar
keiabIe, right on the farm or plantation
where raised ; thus saving space in trans
portation to II seaport and depressing by
hydraulic power after reaching the
wharves, before it can be reshipped to
-rnukrt. Mcssrs. Pike ava Webster IN
form us that they do not intend to dis.
pose OF pat Mt rights, but will leave for
Seattle the last Of this week. tor the pur-
pose Of commencing at once the manu-.
iacture OF these machines. The materials
used, together with its simplicity of con
struction, will enable the proprietors to
place this machine on the market for less
than any other now in use, and at such
a figure that every farmer can not only
afford to own one, but cannot afford to
be without one.
10 Hp 0rDs TbiS ,uank thora orr;yod
, 1877-02-17

HOTELS are generally taken as an in.
dcX of the prosperity and thrift of IA
town. Nothing so pleases "A traveller or
resident than to meet with comfortable
accommodations and when the former
is slowed away on spring mattress in II
clean, weIl-ventiated apartment, and has
his palate tckled with well cooked and
substantial meals, he carries away with
him pleasant memories, and always has n
good word for the place where he re-
ceives such treatment. SnohOmish City
is peculiarly blest in this particular She
has two crack hotcls--the Exchange and
Riverside, the former run by Isaac Cath
cart, and the latter by Shone Brothers.
The Riverside is the oldest established
hotel on the river, is sumptuously fur
nished, containing all the madcrn i'm
prov"mcnts, and has the largest hall north
of Seattle. The gentlemnnly propriet0rs
exert themselves 10 make their guests
comfortable, and are generally successful.
Mr., Cathcart has about completed an ex-
tension to the Exchange, which he toun,I
necessary to accommodate the rapidly
increasing volume of transient travel
He has introduced bath rooms and such
other convcniences ms the times demand.
and will soon he in condition to enter
tain his guests in San Francisco style.
, 1877-02-17

ST. VALENTINES DAY. The once
beautiful custom OF sending messages of
love and affection to friends on the 14th
of February, had its origin with the
Valentine Brothers, of London, who
flourished about the sixteenth century.
They were the first persons who estab-
lished the stationery business in that
city, on an exclusive basis, and by the
sale of rare and fancy articles in their
line, soon attained great celebrity, They
had manufactured a beautiful quality OF
note paper, for the use of their lady pa.
irons, and which secured for them vast
run of custom. 1t was at this time that
George, the Younger member Of the firm,
who was much of beau and had a
keen eye to business, conceived the hap
py idea to have coUplets, expressive of
the tender emotions, printed on note pa.
per, which being done, he sent to each
Of his many fair patrons. 1t so hap.
pened that he made his first issue OF
these missivcs on the 14th OF February,
and continued the custom on each re.
curing anniversary of that day until
death put an end to the firm. The chill
dren of those who had been recipients
OF such favors continued the beautiful
custom, and cannonized its founder, and
it has been transmitted to our time. VIZ
are sorry to see so innocent q diversion
prostituted to the ends Of malice oI
lampoonry, such as ."Spooney on a
String" "The Darling Baby" "Waitine
for Beau" "The Domestic Tyrant,
"The Old Beau" THE HenpeCked Hus-
band, THE Landlord" etc; but so goes
the world.
, 1877-02-17

TIE new bridge crossing the gulch
on Main street, is completed and open
tor travel. This structure is of the mos,
suhstanti character, and will I've last.
ing monument to the engineering skill
of its projectors. The trestlc work on
which the bridge rests is at least sixty
feet high in the centre, and is so Sc
rurely braccd that the heaviest loads can
he taken over the floor without causing
the slightest jar OF ,remble in any part
IMPROVEMENTS. AS spring approaches
every one who has a house to build yari
to fence or sidewalk to lay, is actively
engaged in such work. Mr.. John Pike
is laying the foundation for new build.
ing on Main street, Mr.. Robert Hughes
has completed his building on c avenue,
and is preparing to lay down sidewalk
to connect with Main street; Dr. Wilbur
has completed another section of his
sidewalk on the south side of Main street,
and there are many other enterprises in
contemplation which we will refer to
hereafter. Work on the immense struc.
ture known as the Athrneum Building.
which &as suspended during the rainy
season, will soon he recommended, and
we may expect lively and profitable
season for all concerned
, 1877-02-17

DAVIS GRAN
construction adapted of " TX,
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-11-25
DIED.

AGAH-On Tuesday November 20. at the yir-
ginia Military Institute, lexington Va. William
J, Agar, son of Mr.. william Agar. Of this city,
in the seventeenth year of his age.
His funeral will take place This Sunday
Evening at o'clock from the residence Of his
parents. No. LAG Prytania street. The friends Of
the family are respectfully in vited TO attend.
DEVOE-On Saturday, November "a. 1877. at
1:20 q. m. Richard i. Devoe. aged II years, o
native of Brooklyn N. Y, and u resident Of this
State for the last forty years.
His funeral will take place from the residence
OF his son, r. p. Devoe, 1913 Ursuines street.
between Rampant and Burgundy, on Sunday.
November %. at 10 o'clock a. III.
New York papers will please copy.
20. 1877, in This city. Mrs Janet Scott West. aged
81 years, reliet of the lac G. O. West, Of Wood
vile. Miss
MCQUADE-On Monday November 10, 1877. ut
| 80 D. M. Henry 81 win, aged 10 years, young
est son OF James and Rose McQuade.
SCHWECKE-On Sunday, Nov. 10. 1877. at 4 a
m. Alexander schwecke, n native Of New Or
leans La. aged twenty eight years.
AGAH-At the Virginia Military Institute,
Lexington. Virginia. on Tuesday, November 30,
William J. Agar, son Of Mr.. William Agar. Of
this city.
VREDENBURGH-On Wednesday. November
D. 1877 at ocloek y. m, at the ago of 81 years,
VIM. H Vredenburgh. Jr.
FORTIER-On Wednesday, November II, at
II o'clock y. m. Polyoarpe Fortier aged 80
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-11-25
THE PUBLIC PRINTING.

Even the Times seems to be anxious about
the public printing. The reason why the old
law was odious it says, twas because 1t was
a job which shut out competition and used
the public revenue to support at unnecessary
and exorbitant rates a mere political organ
The new law reduced the rates, but under the
practice proposed by Mr.. Wilt is precisely
as much of a job as the old one.
The old lao ras q job, but the only paper
in New Orleans that ever aggressively fought
the party which imposed that Infamous law
upon the taxpayers of Louisiana was the
DEMOCRAT. When this paper was fighting
to the best of its ability, the usurpation that
was robbing the people through that law
and denouncing all compromises with the
public enemy, the Times and Picayatne
were hand and glove with the robbers.
Then it was difficult for those journals to find
terms which were soft enough to please
Kellogg and vigorous enough to bamboozle
the people. For all the pluck either Of those
journals ever displayed in the thick of the
real fight, Warmoth and Kellogg and their
allies to-day might be ruling the destinies of
Louisiana and plundering her people.
The Times, of course, is hostile to the ''prac-
tice proposed by Mr. Wiltz;" but when it
charges that that practice Is as much Of a
job as the old system, it utters palpable
falsehood. The view of the printing law
taken by Lieut.. Gov. Wilt is unless we are
very much mistaken, entertained substan-
TALLY by the Governor and nearly all the
members of the board. The public printing,
under the old law, cost the State an ex-
horbitant amount of money-the PIC
ayaose says half million dollars a
year. The Legislature elected by the people
effected great reform in the passage of the
printing act which las reduced the cost Of the
printing to $4,000 or Ss5, 900, less, we believe,
than it has ever cost the State before tsasa HE
DEMOCRAT aDas the first and only paper that
ADVOCATED this reform.
| The assault Of the Times upon Lieut. Gov
Wilt might have been as justly made upon
majority of the members of the Printing
Board, since majority, If not all, of them
take his view of tle law.
| So far as the DEMOCRAT is concerned, its
proprietors have no fight to make through
it's columns for the printing contract. If we
can obtain the contract at the present rates,
we shall accept it. But if the rates are
materially reduced, we cannot afford to do it.
! The Times, we are very sure, could afford to
lose very considerable sum to get the public
printing, because there are parties adverse to
the Democratic party who would cheerfully
make up the deficit. The Picayune, upon
the other hand, fondly, but illusively, inn
AGNES that the loss of the printing would
swamp the DEMOCRAT and to accomplish
| that end it could afford to take the public
printing at loss of several thousand dol
lars, This is the whole secret OF the great
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-11-25
TIE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT SUNDAY NOVEMBER 20 1877.

economical movement Of these two journals
for the lowest bidder plan Of letting out the
printing.
The question then with the board Ia SUBJ
stantially this Can the people Of Louisiana
afford to give this contract to either the
Pieayme or Times at figures which, though
involving loss to either Of those journals,
would enable them. as they think, to cripple
tha DINfprtRAT2
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-11-25
MARRIED j.

ANIEL-HAHBOUR-At the residence Of
Jesse 7. Fielder, Livingston parish, La. by J. 4.
Kent. Esd, Prof y. X. Daniel. OF Tullahoma.
Tenn, to Miss Alice L. Harbour. of East Baton
Rouge. La. Nov. 10. 1877.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-11-25

our command only extend back 10 the crop
Of 1901. The table Immediately fol-
lowing shows the receipts Of cotton at New
Orleans by this road for the various years
named, with the per oentage which these re-
cepts bear to the total movement at this
point for the corresponding year.
The daily gazette., 1877-09-29
REFERRED TO THE WATER COM.
MITTEE,

For several days past there has been q
conference between the Water Committee
of City Council, Chief Engineer Gallagher,
Mayor Whiteley and Joseph Hyde, the
contractor for laying the water main across
the Brandywine. Mr.. Hyde, when doing
the work, used a patent flexible joint, of
his own invention, but, by direction OF the
Water Committee, only placed the joint at
every third section.
The sections were each twelve feet in
length and on account OF only having a
Joint for every other 36 feet, the pipe was
unable to accommodate Itself tothe irregulari-
ties OF the bottom of the creek, and during
last winter it broke in one or two places.
Mr.. Hyde's contract guaranteed the wosk
for one year, and so he repaired the dam
age, but presented a claim for the extra
work, on the ground that the accident was
produced by causes over which he had no
control on account of the manner IN which
the pipe was jointed.
Alter several consultations the whole
subject was referred to Mayor Whiteley for
settlement, and at u conference OF all the
parties interested, held last evening, 1t w's
agreed to refer the question to the Water
Committee. The members OF the committee
il is understood, are in favor of allowing
Mr.. Hyde the amount OF his claim, sow,
and paying him tle balance due On his
original contract.
The daily gazette., 1877-09-29
the MiIIard club In EIkton.

The Elkton, Nd, Whig, has the fol-
lowing complimentary notice of the con-
cert given IN that town on Tuesday even
ing last, by the Mlllard Club, of this
city:
The concert was under the direction of
Prof. q. b. Rhoads, and the following
gentlemen took part: Tenors-W. W.
Lobdell, W. 81. Sencox, P. Allen, l.. Cur
ran, @. j. Stesckle, j. Hess, j. L. Robe
son, w. D. Kavanagh, N. B. Danforth.
Bassos-F. Fullmer, A. b. Mitchell, Geo.
W. Stone, j. IL: Lewis, j. J. Kavanagh,
C. T. Howell,H o. Ogle, w. II. Coward,
W. Martin, j. II. Jones. Six choruses
were rendered, namely, "Wandereis
NV H." Comrades in arms rms
finale of the "Two Roses" and "How Can
l Leave Thee" j.- ,g "t
We have never listened to. chorus
even upon the operatic boards more ar
tistically rendered than were all of the
above. They appeared to our ear the
very perfection of training.
The daily gazette., 1877-09-29

A YOUTHFUL TRAvELLER.-Last
evening, upon the arrival of the 5.36
New York and Washington express
north, on the P. W. & B. r. R., at the
depot in this city, a little boy about 10
wears of age stepped forth from one of the
cars. and as he had the appearance OF be
ing without friends, special officer Will
liam Lerg, took charge Of him and con-
Quoted him to his residence where here
NAMED over night
Upon being interrogated as to who he
was, and where he was going. he stated
that his name was Thomas Laver, and
that he was on his way from Baltimore
| to bis home in Bridgeport, Conn. About
month ago he went to Baltimore with
his brother, since which time he has
been residing with his aunt. Yesterday
she informed him that she was going
away to stay for some time, and that he
would have to go home, and in order thai
he should reach there she gave him VI
cents towards paying his fare. Mr.. Legs
gave him his supper and breakfast and
also a sum of money. He was put OF
hoard the 9.47 train north this morning
for New York, He is a very bright Ill
HE fellow and when asked il he was no
afraid of getting lost, he replied that h'
| was not and that he'Yopld be at hom'
This afternoon,