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SNOEAOMaSaI DIRECTORY,
TERMS OF COURT.


District Court, Third Tuesday Of March and
second Tuesday Of November Of racn year.
Probate Court, Fourth Monday of January,
April. July and ictober Of each year.
County Commissioners Court, First Monday
OF FEBRUARY, May, August and November
Of each year.
LIST or PUBLTC LNSTl TUTlONS
Masonic, Centennial Lodge, L. d, Regular
communications first and third saturdays Of
each month
%. g. 7. Olive Leaf Lodge, No II, first and
fourth Saturdays Of each month.
iSnohomish Atheneum.
Snohomish Free Religious Association.
Union Presbyterian church and Congregation
of Snahomish City.
Sn0hOnish County Agricultural Society.
Snohomlsh Riic, Militia Company.
SnohOmish Telegraph Company.
snohonsh Cemetery Association.
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL MEN
OF SNOH0HISH CITY.
LIwYERs.--W. NJ Tirtlot aud Eldridge
Morse.
DoCToR A. G. Folsom.
MERonANrs- G. Ferguson. Packard &
Jackson,
DgUGGIsr-L. Wilbur.
iloTELs-I. Cathcart, Exchange, and H. W..
Light, Riverside.
Cosmopolitan, ". B. Stevens.
BEER HALT. =. Marks.
BLACRsMiTus-W. II, Ward and l., Hanson
SIIoEMAKER--Wm. Edwards.
CABINET MAKERs--Geuc and Son.
, 1877-09-15

CoNGRATULAToRY After very hand.
some preamble on the marriage Of NJ.
Spencer Of this city, and Miss Mary
Crockett, Of Washington Territory, the
Yamhill Reporter says: Spencer, we OF
your old home, arc all glad that you have
gone and gotten yourself 10 this predic-
ament, for you know you deserved it
long ago, sir; and, with compliments Of
the Yamhiil County Reporter, on behalf
Of your many friends, we bespeak for
you and yours long and useful life
time, and q fresi6e as void OF the ills and
misfortunes that are inevitable tr the
lot Of makind, as it 10 consistent to in
woke from an all-wise and immI.nble
Providence.
, 1877-09-15

The heavy rains the last two days have
raised the snoqualmie and Skykomish
both. The logs up the SnOqualmic have
either all come down or are on the way.
The Pill Chuck boom broke this morn
ing early letting loose about a million
feet 10 the river. The sheer boom at the
head of Ebey Slough was put in working
order end the logs turned into the slough
and caught about five miles down. A.
lsss accounts the prospect WAS tina: not =
log would belost.
, 1877-09-15

B. a
The Dipatc6 and Iatsliigsncsy are hsv
ing quite a pro and con affair about
matters and things that pertain to Seat.
tie more particularly than any other
place. From indications now the duel
promises to become spirited as well as
protracted, with no chance for sticking
plaster, as pen wounds are never danger
ous, the aow Of ink never producing
syncope like that of blood letting. Cut
and thrust away, gentlemen, no doubt
facts interesting to the public will bs
brought out ON BOTH sides.
, 1877-09-15
PACIFIC COAST.

NEVADA, Sept. 9.-The Democrats
elected the entire legislative ticket and
ell county officers with the exception Of
district attorney, recorder, and probably
superintendent of schools.
BAN FRANcIsco, Sept 9.-Latest eleee
tion returns indicate that the Democrats
have elected 10 senators and 81 assembly.
men. The Republicans elect 10 senators
and 90 nsscmblymen. Including hold
overs the Democrats will lave 80 majosi.
ty on joint ballot.
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EASTERN STATES.

New YORK, Sept. S.--The assignment
Of Frank Leslie, newspaper publisher. to
Isaac w. England. was filed in the ofiice
of the county clerk to. day. arrangements
have been made whereby his publications
will be continued.
Sept. 10.-The World this morning has
long story exclusively, giving details of
the confession Of ex- Treasurer Parker, Of
South Carolina. That officer declares
that Chamberlain, Patterson and others
were guilty of the grossest frauds The
Legislature was bribed and the entire
government entered upon $ reign OF un-
paralleled corruption. Even the worst
developments OF the Tweed ring in New
York are cast in the shade by the South
Carolina plunderers.
The SUMS Washington special sNys the
astonishing discovery is made that South
Carolina has already received An advance
o. all arms to which il Is entitled for
forty years to come. It is also discovered
that this extraordinary issue of arms
came through Don Cameron. who ut the
Instance OF John Patterson ran this load
of arms into South Carolina tur the use
Of the negroes only.
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way OF Simnitza, where | fOund cOntir-
nation of these uDwelcome tidings and
also the fact that the Czarenwich, who
has been at Kopribea, on Beiretzkalom,
whilst he had retired from Kopace when
il became impossible to hnld Prolomarks,
and Gambrova was expected ut Biclva'
This afternoon, Saturday, the town is
full OF troops. The supply trains are all
crossing the bridge and some are rerir.
ing as far rs Pavola. The army OF the
Czaroewich will hold the line of the
Yantro, near Biela, with the thirteenth
corps The eleventh corps apparently
still holds It's position cast OF Tiernova,
and the twelfth corps has retreated
across the Biela and Rustbhuk roads,
holding Terslink and Wetolki. The
camp at Terslink has been formed with
In the past few days and is situated on
a hill overlooking the Danube.
LONDON, Sept. 12.- The following par
ticulars of the collision in the Channel,
are received: The Forest struck the
Avalanche between the main and mizzen
masts, nearly cutting her in two. The
latter sank Immediately. The Forest,
though total wreck, kept afoat an
hour or two. Three boats were LAUGHED
from her, only one of which has yet been
saved. It contained twelve persons,
already mentioned as saved. One boat
washe d ashore, and several bodies. The
other boat, it is feared, is lost. The
Avalanche hsd SO passengers, 90 snloon,
n second class, and 20 third cIsss,S most.
ly colOnists. The disaster occurred at
half past nine o'clock last night, seven
miles off Portland.
PARIS, Sept. ia telegram from
Constantinople reports the whole Of Sui
.ieman Pasfa's army has passed 70 the
| north Of the D,sikans. '17pS
A London special from Adrianople
says. large forces nre passing here to
take up position between Sophia and
the Servian frontier.
CoNsrASTrNorLE, Sept. l1.--Thc Ger
man and French Ambassadors have pre-
sented rsmonstrances to the Porte, against
the release Of persons condemned to Ave
year penal servitude for the murder of
German and French Consuls at Salonica.
The French note demands that the SEN
tence be carried out, while the German
note declares that continuance OF the
present aspect of this affair might force
Germany to have recourse to other meas
ures. The Porte has sent q note to the
Khedive respecting the article Of slave
trade convention with England, giving
the latter the right to search. The Porte
contests the Khedive's authority to grant
such privilege to foreign powers, particu
larly in Ottoman waters Of the Red Sea.
, 1877-09-15

The Pacific Rural has put in its usual
appearance and is paper worthy the
patronage of every friend Of agriculture
oil the Sound It is without a rival in
its chosen field OF labor and no friend Of
Washington Territory can wish it any
thing but success.
, 1877-09-15

The last number of the Adrocdte con
tains choice reading matter highly credit
able to its publisher. There is no dan
ger of brother Utter rusting ont, ii he
perscvers in carrying out the programme
he has marked out for himself.
, 1877-09-15
NOTICED

MI persons indebted 10 W. B. Stevens will
please call and SETTLE on or before the Ist day
ni CctoDer or their accounts will be placed IN
the hands ~ an Attorney for collection
n'' ~ W Is STEVENS.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-01-18

A correspondent of the UniUersatist, on
a visit to Holland, has been exploring
one of the Dutch wind-mills, by which
the Hollanders maintain their supremacy
over the sea. He writes:
We had no conception of the magni-
tude of these labor-saving devices. We
counted not less than six stories in the
tower of the one we were permitted to
examine. 1t must have been as high as
an average church steeple. The arms,
or fans, were of enormous length, and
carried three thousand feet of canvas.
And this is the machine that literally
makes Holland. Itpumps out the ocean,
when the ocean gets in. 1t saws and
grinds. 1t does the lifting and the low
ing. A family lives in the mill. In
Holland there are full ten thousand OF
these mammoth structures. In London
and Liverpool and New York there is q
forest of masts. In Holland there is
everywhere forest of wind-mills. Some
are built of brick, Others of stone, many
of woOd-of course we mean the toweI
part. They turn slowly, yet with great
power; and we learn that, so fiat is the
country, that there is seldom serious Of
long.continued lack of wind.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-01-18
GOING HOME.N


Where are you going so fast old man?
Where are you going 50 fastf
There's a valley to cross and river to ford,
There's clasp of the hand and parting word,
And tremulous sigh for the past, old man;
The beautiful, vanished past.
The road has been rugged and rough, old man;
To your feet it's rugged and rough;
But you see dear being with gentle eyes
Has shared your labor and sacrifice.
Ahi that has been sunshine enough, old man;
For you and me, sunshine enough.
How long since you passed Ger the hill, old man,
of life? Ger the top of the hillf
Were there beautiful wales on the other side?
Were there flowers and trees, with their branches
wide,
To shut off the heat of the sun, old man;
The heat of the fervid sun?
And how did you cross the waves, old man?
OF sorrow the fearful waves?
Did you lay your dear treasures by, one by one,
With an aching heart, and Gods will be DONE"
Under the wayside dust, old man;
In the grave meath the wayside dust?
There is sorrow and labor for all, old man;
Alasi there is sorrow for all;
And you, peradventure, have had your share,
For eighty long winters have whitened your hair
And they've whitened your heart as well, old
man; 4@,r (
Thank God, your heart as well.
You're now at the foot of the hill, old man;
At last at the foot of the hill.
The sun has gone down in golden glow,
And the heavenly city lies just below,
Go through the pearly gate, old man
The beautiful pearly gate. -te- -sT
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-01-18

history of the country and incapable of
harmonious action with the other Re
publican machinery of the State; whose
organization is legally defective and
invalid, and whose action is fraudulent,
and null and void?
Entertaining these views, we resolve:
That it is the imperative duty of Con-
gress to provide by law plan for count
ing the electoral vote, which by its
reasonableness and justice will commend
itself to the judgment of the people
and command their acquiescence in the
result of the count, and that this should
he done at the earliest day consistent
with due deliberation, to the end that
the disquiet which now pervades the
people may be allayed.
That, according to the plain meaning
of the Constitution, and according to
all past political usage, the power of
counting the vote resides in the two
Houses of Congress.
That we denounce the proposition that
the President of the Senate has the
power, not only to open but to count the
vote, as an innovation which the senti-
ment of the people will not tolerate. If
such power shall be assumed, and its ex-
ercise attempted, we call upon the two
Houses of Congress to take prompt and
efectual measures for the assertion of
their Constitutional prerogative in that
regard.
That if Congress shall provide by law
just plan for counting the electoral
vote, one which will be fair not only in
the present emergency, but for all future
elections as well, we pledge our acquies-
cence in the result, whatever it may be.
That if the Senate shall claim that its
presiding officer, like the Returning
Boards of Florida and Louisiana, has
the absolute power to designate the
President and Vice-President, we call
upon the House of Representatives to
exert all its Constitutional powers to de-
feat the usurpation, and we pledge it our
support with all the resources which a
people whose fundamental liberties are
threatened can Constitutionally COM
mand,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-01-18

The London Daily Telegraph has the
following note on the decadence of Shef-
field: The Oldest and most celebrated
irm Cf steel manufactures have recently
announced that in consequence of the
sharp competition of American rivals
and the protective tariffs impos upon
foreign steel by the United States Gov
ernments, they are under the necessity of
removing their establishment across the
Atlantic. The immense establishment
of John Brown & Co. Qimited) at Swim
ton are about to be closed. Nor is it
simply in America that the men of Hal
lamshire wage an unequaled contes
with the steel and cutlery manufacturers
of Pennsylvania. South American and
Colonial markets are invaded by COM
petitions from the United States, who in
the finish and price of their productions
are inficting grave injury upon the
trade of Sheffield. Out of the depths Of
their commercial gloom deputation
from the manufactures of that great town
lately appealed to Lord Derby to inter.
pose, and, by a lea talionis, punish the
prohibitory fiscal restrictions raised W
against the introduction of British good,
into America by adopting system O.
protective reprisals against American
articles imported into England. But thu
Foreign Secretary judiciously pointed
out to his depressed audience that tn,
law of supply and demand could not b,
interfered with by diplomacy or legisla
tive enactment without violating tn,
fundamental principles of political econ
omy.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-01-18
Gath's First Interview ,Uith Young
Bennett.
New York Cor. Philadelphia Times.I

oCItNCLCs
New York Cor. Philadelphia Times.I
recall one occasion, and the only one,
when l wrote editorial for the Herald or
talked with Mr.. Bennett. Several times
1 had been requested to call on him, but
being also shy had postponed the time
until once, when dropping in the Herald
Office, they brought me plump into the
presence of that supreme being. Hewas
sitting at table, in sort of alcove, or
side room, and appeared as bashful as
myself. He was a youngsman, Of about
one hundred and twenty-five pounds
weight, or less, wearing a gray suit of
clothes on rather slim limbs, and all
about him was neat-ring, studs, collar
button, linen. He had light gray eye,
light sandy hair, clean, lean features, no
great forehead, but shrewd, ooservant
one, and very good manners, though no
plausibility or decided address. 1t was
at the time of the Greeley campaign,
Just before the Baltimore Convention
met. He spoke with little hesitation,
bearing out my preconception that he
sees thing more clearly than he ex-
presses it.
81 heard you were here" he said,
"and 1 have just thought ofan editorial.
You know that when the deluge began
to come and the ark was built, the peo-
pie exclaimed that there would be no
rain. 1t did rain, though. Then they
said it was only shower. But as it
rained more and more, the little animals
began to get ino out of the wet. The big
ger animals also got alarmed. and came
in. At last the giraffe and the elephant,
the rhinoceros and the grizzly bear
came in. very sullen, but afraid to stay
out any more. That's the way with the
! Democrats recognizing Greeley" con-
cluded Mr.. Bennett. "The little fellows
came in a good while ago now Thur
man and Hendricks and Bayard are lag
ging in to get out of the rain. Can you
write thatW
1 had an engagement of most imper.
ative character, which he forgot to in
quire about. 1t was to meet my wife
and go out to dine. But galloped those
animals into that ark with a precipita
tion never equaled except when they got
loose about two years afterward. In hal
an hour the whole story of the deluge
was told.
Stanley says that Mr.. Bennett put hii
head out of chamber door one morning
ia Paris and told him to 60 and find Liy
ingstone, as composedly as if he had said
$50 West, young manT
The Scotch element in Bennett is con
vivial, and his companions are general,
men retired from business or without avo
cation-men of fortune, with no sucl
sensitive property as his, and oftene
with more capacity to stand heavy din
ners. Like all men who indulge, hi
temper is uncertain, his repentanc
deep,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-01-18
which broke it and forced ruin upon

which broke it and forced ruin upon
you"
"And what would you, now that am
ruined" inquired the other, with the
deadly calmness of desperation.
"Now that have my revenge, 1 want
you to know that myself am the man
you attempted to murder and did rob. 1
ana Philip Sydney. Behold the scar
where the ball struck and glanced" and
he lifted his hat and showed it.
"God be praisedp calculated the
other. "Ged be praised that you are
still ivingP' and unable to restrain his
emoton he burst into tears. "Oh, sir,"
he continued, "you have taken a load
off my conscience-a weight from my
soul. Though poverty, beggary, disgrace
and death are staring me in the face, l
am happy in the knowledge that am
not guilty of murder-happier than 1
have been for twenty years with all the
luxurious surroundings of wealth. 1t
was my first and last crime. And 1 have
never been able to tell how l was tempted
on that fearful occasion. Now, sir, do
with me as you will-only, pray you,
be merciful with lny innocent family"
81 forgive you." returned the other,
extending his hand. 81 forgive you.
You have been fearfully punished al
ready. And as God has seen proper to
preserve us both together, let us hope it
is for our salvation, and let us endeavor
so to live as to deserve ,the blessings we
receive. I will restore you enough to
place you and your family above want /;
and for the rest, trust we shall soon
have to render an account of our stew
ardship in another world"
Philip Sydney kept his word, and with
fresh start in the world, and now an
easy conscience, the still enterprising
Stepen Edwards accumulated another
respectable fortune, much of (which he
spent in charity.
Philip Sydney died in 1S4s, and
Stephen Edwards in 1851.
Is not truth indeed strange-stranger
than fiction?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-01-18
The other side Of the Picture
New York Graph


Great catastrophes like those of the
Brooklyn Theater and Ashtabula bridge
are very painful and terrible to contem-
plate, dragging hundreds of human be-
iDgs down to instant death by fire and
suffocation, and there seems to be no al
deviation of the horror, unless possibly
in the reflection that the increased facili-
ties of modern life have, after all, dimin-
ished the number of violent deaths. 1t
is inexpressibly shocking to see great
masses thrust down to death in an in
slant by a tragedy more sudden than any
battle; but it is gratifying to be assured
that, Notwithstanding these sporadic hoI-
rors, the average of human life is length
ening every century, and that as enlight-
ment increases mortality diminishes.
Considering the amount of travel, fewer
persons are killed to-day on railroads
than were formerly killed on stage
coaches; fewer passengers on steamships
are drowned than on sailing craft; and
relatively fewer theater-goers are burned
than those who are sleeping quietly in
their houses. 1t is more dangerous to
ride in wagon or carriage than on an
express train, and larger relative mum,
Der of people are killed riding in the
former vehicles than the latter. Perhaps
Mark Twain's startling theory, that a.
most people die in bed, therefore the
bed is the most dangerous place in the
world, and should be avoided by the
timid, is not entirely sound; but it Ger
tainly is true that our cars are safe
than the old stage-coaches. Highwa.
robbery has almost ceased. Less thai
two hundred years ago stage-coache
went through the suburbs of London lik,
rumbling arsenals, defended by footmel
with blunderbusses, and even thus the,
were sometimes attacked, captured, ant
plundered. As we must still travel, ant
as theater-going and church-going ar
not likely to be discontinued, it is some
thing of qualification to knew that
even with an occasional holocaust tha
shocks the world, life is safer in the audi
torium than in the home, and behind tn
iron horse than behind the less manage
able team of the highway.
!
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-01-18
GoId Mfnta0 Destroying the CaIffor.
MIA Rivers.

At the meeting of the Royal Physical
Society at Edinburgh, in a note on the
" shoaling" of the California rivers,
communicated by Mr.. Trowbridge, it
was stated that gold mining operations
were completely changing the physical
features of California, and especially
since the diggers had taken to what WAS
described as hydraulic mining" If a
hill was to be attacked, strong jets of
water are applied to the base, and under
the influence of this powerful disinte-
grating agent the whole mass soon
crumbles away. Accidents are of fire.
quent occurrence from avalanches, but
if a miner does happen to get buried
the water is applied to wash him out.
The effect of this system of mining on
the rivers has been most marked clear
and limpid at one time, they now run
foul and turbid, and so great is the
quantity of earth carried down in sus.
pension that old pilots declare that on
the lower reaches of the Sacramento the
bottom is twenty-five feet higher than il
was twenty years ago. Sacramento Bay
is also getting silted up, The larger
steamers have already been withdrawn
from the river, and it is calculated thai
if the " shoaling" goes on at the SAINT
rate as at present, and if dredging is not
resorted to, the Sacramento will become
unnavigable in ten years.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-01-18
Resolutions of Ohio Eighth of Jan
uary Convention.

Resolued, l. That the Government of
the United States is Republican in spirit
as well as in form it is a Government of
law, not of arbitrary force; it is founded
on universal suffrage, lawfully exercised,
and its existence depends on good faith
and sincere obedience to the laws.
2. That the votes cast on the 7th of
November, and duly certified at the close
of the election on that day by the officers
authorized to receive and record them,
alone determine the result of the cleo
tion held in any precinct, county or
State, and that whatever may be the re-
turns then duly and properly certified,
they cannot lawfully be changed by any
announce the result.
8. That while clear in the conviction
that Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A.
Hendricks kave received not only large
majority of the popular vote, but ma
jority of the electoral vote, and are
therefore elected President and Vice
President, we yet declare that any de-
cision made by the Senate and House
of Representatives, will be cheerfully
acquiesced in by the whole people, and
that any attempt to inaugurate Presi
dent simply upon the proclamation
the President of the Senate will be an
act of usurpation that will be resisted by
the people to the last extremity, ever
should that extremity be an appeal tt
arms.
4. That the impudent and unfeundet
charge that those who protest agains
the exercise of illegal and arbitrary
power desire to foment stsife and incit,
civil war, is made by conspi1ators t.
withdraw the public mind from thei
own evil design to frustrate the sovereign
will of the people as expressed through
the ballot-box ON the 9TH of Novembe
last.
5. That we denounce' the action O
President Grant in following the example
of the military chieftains of Mexico, il
interfering by armed forcein the election
of the people, in preventing the Lawful
organization of State Legislatures, and il
massing troops at Washington, with tn
apparent purpose of preventing the fire.
action of Cor gress respecting the Presi
Dental election. 1t evinces a purpos
to render the military independent o.
and superior to, the civil power, an
calls for outspoken condemnation b
every fair friend OF republican govern
ment.
6. That the Inauguration as Presiden
of a candidate rejected by the peopl
and counted in by fraud is revolution
and, if acquiesced in, fatal to Republica
government.
Z. That the National Democrat
Committee be requested to call a Nations
Democratic Convention, to meet 8
Washington City, February u, 1877.
The resolutions were adopted unan
mOusly.