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, 1878-02-02

has only used the office as .
source Of revenue and to promote
the circulation of his paper, farm
ing it out to another who does
all the work and pays him all
the profits.
We are we'll assured that IT
these facts were known to the
head of the department, the evil
would be speedily remedled.-
We have only been restrained
from protesting against this no.
torious outrage and disgrace to
our city heretofore, by the re-
pugnance which every man OF
decent sensibillties feels 10 med
ding with any affair in which a
business rival, however contemp-
tible, is concerned; but Prosch
knows nothing Of such senti-
ments, and his ignorance and in
science has made further for
bearance unjustlfiable.
, 1878-02-02

years ago, and no intelligent
man acquainted with the facts
can reasonably doubt that by
this time Eastern Washington
would have so, 900 more inhabit-
ants than at present, that the
lumber trade and tic population
of Puget Sound would have been
more than doubled, that Seattle
would to-day have a population
of at least $4,000, and the COM
pany would have tic best pay
ing line Of railroad on the CONT
nent. Who can have any conf
dence in men who sacrificed
sach manifest opportunities to
petty private speculation?
In the mean time the people
of Seattle at one end of this line
have built twenty miles, and the
people Of Walla Walla, at the
other end, thirty miles Of road,
and this, too, without a dollar of
Government subsidy OF outside
aid. These two towns have more
than ten times as much popu-
lation and business as the two
towns at either end of the COM
pleted section of the N. p. r. r.
and the increase since the COM
pletion of that road has been ten
to one of the former over the
latter. These facts show con-
clusively where the natural Gen.
tres of commerce are, and as the
laws of trade are inevitable,
speculative projects, backed by
Government subsidies, may de-
lay, but cannot defeat, the ulti-
mate railroad connection which
we aim at.
, 1878-02-02

Do You HEAR THAT?-A New
Orleans paper tells us Of a print
or who, when his fellow work
men went out to drink beer, put
in the bank the exact amount he
would have spent if he had gone
with them to drink. He did
this for five years. He then
looked up his bank account, and
found that he had laid up five
hundred and twenty-one dollars
and eighty-six cents. Think
about the afflicted. In five years
he had not lost a day on account
of sickness. Three out of five of
his fellow workmen had in the
mean time become drunkards.
The water drinker then bought
out the printing Office, and twen-
ty years from that time he began
to put up his money; he laid
aside a good many thousand dol
lars. The story teaches a les
son which every little boy should
lay to heart Youths Companion,
, 1878-02-02

about the matter, and the inven-
ton of the charge he makes on
that foundation is more coward
ly, because less dangerous, and
not q whit less infamous, than
deliberate forgery or perjury;
by all honorable men it will be SO
regarded, and to the general
contempt in which he is held as
cowardly sneak and imperti-
nent meddler in other peoples
affairs, Thomas w. Prosch adds
the unenviable character of a
malicious slanderer, who seeks
to blacken the reputation of a
citizen by deliberate lying.
From the same source comes
the charge by the sneaking de-
vice of inuendo, connecting us
with monstrous crime Of forging
Judge Lewis name to resigna-
ton. The forgery itself was not
actuated by a meaner or baser
spirit than that which dictated
this charge, or insinuatien, with
out a single incident connected
with the fact or with our charac-
ter to justify the lmputatlon. We
do not allude to 1T because we
have any fear that any man who
ever knew us would give it the
least credence, but to show the
reckless and unprincipled char
acter Of the assault, and to place
the brand of infamy upon Thom-
as W. Prosch as common liar
and malicious caluminator.
, 1878-02-02

RAILROAD SUBSIDIES. The two
thirds vote in the House of Rep
resentatives, as reported by tel
egraph, against subsidies, makes
a rather gloomy prospect for the
N. P. Co. We had hoped for
passage Of a bill granting the
proceeds of sales to the exJen-
sion of the road; but we believe
that it would be better for our
Territory to have no grant than
to have the pail of land monop-
oily spread over us for another
ten years, without any guarantee
for a railroad then.
, 1878-02-02

The gambling fraternity is par
ticularly interested in a decision
just made by the New York Court
of Appeals, as it indicates the
course likely to be pursued in COM
plants against them hereafter. Two
professional gamblers inveigled q
stranger into gambling den in
New York, not long since, and
feeced him out of his money. Fol-
lowing their arrest, the district at
torney having found it almost i'm
possible to convict gamblers upon q
specific charge of swindling in the
practice OF their pefarious profes-
sion, tried the experiment of indict-
ing the prisoners for larceny. Up
on their trial in the Court of Gen
eral Sessions their counsel contend
ed that their offense was not larceny.
the money having been voluntarily
surrendered, and it mattered not
how fraudulent may have been the
intent, SO long as there was no tres
pass. The district attorney took o
contrary ground. The judge then
charged for conviction, which fol-
lowed. The case then went to the
Court of Appeals, which tribunal
affirmed the decision of the Court
below, Judge Miller writing the
opinion and all the judges cencur-
ring.
, 1878-02-02
Pecuiation and Forgery.

There appears to be no limit
to the dastardly RIGHTEOUSNESS of
a portion of the newspaper press
of this Territory under the con-
troll of men either ignorant of
the proprieties Of decent social
intercourse, or reckless Of their
own character and the rights of
others. So long as these vehi-
cles Of defamation are not only
tolerated but patronlzed by peo-
pie of decent social position, the
character of no man or woman
in community is safe from their
ribald attacks if they chance to
incur their venomous spite.
One of that kind Of newspa-
pers, which bears the same rela-
ton to legitimate journalism that
a common prostitute does to So
ciety, without shadow Of truth,
specifically charges the senior
editor of this paper with having
robbed the county treasury, in
the following words: cit would
be a worthy start in that diree-
ton Tcivil service reform1 for
him TO pay back to King county
fifteen dollars that he collected
for a certain voluminous piece of
writing supposed to be done in
the Thompson murder case, but
on which not a stroke Of the pen
has yet been made. Money OBJ
tanned as this was is looked up
on by respectable people as mo-
ney stolen"
This criminal charge is mali
ciously invented out of the fol
lowing facts: Before the final
records in the Thompson case
were closed or could be properly
entered it became necessary to
make up bill Of costs to the
Territory, in which our fees for
final record were estimated and
allowed by the County Commits
sioners at SIS, which we received
in county warrants and credited
to the county. Before the case
was terminated our successor
came in, and we have since paid
HIM in m oney the amount which
we received in county orders
worth so cents on the dollar
We entered up records for our
predecessor and we have paid
our successor for entering up
our unfinished records; and there
is no way in which the county
could be defrauded out of cent
by that transaction unless the
Commissioners should undertake
to pay the second time fees with
which the county stood credited.
The editor of the Tribune knew
these facts, if he knew anything
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In a shop window I'm London.

In a shop window I'm London.
belonging to a suffer Of birds and
animals, is exposed human
skull, beautifully cleansed and
bleached, with holes bored in
it to receive cigars, and matches
to light them, as an ornament for
some ones smoking-room.
There have been thirty five
changes Of administration since
Mexico became a republic, and
twenty of these have been by
revolutionary means.
, 1878-02-02
An Outlet Wanted.

The Walla Walla TTatchman
saws: " We have no faith in the
N. P. R. r. Of course the day
will come when it will be CON-
pleted, but the present company
won't do it. They build $1,000
worth of railroad and sell S10,-
900 worth Of Government land.
They desire ten years more time,
not to build the road, but to
make all the money they can
and then sbust' or sell out, and
where is your road ? We are
frequently told that the 0. S. N.
Co. is virtually the N. P. R. r.
Co. on this coast, and if that is
the case, they desire no road
The Columbia river is all the
railroad they want, but they will
'dilly daily with that Tacoma
road just enough to retard the
construction and perhaps kill
the Seattle and Walla Walla
road. That's business; they all
do it; but it is often binding to
be sealed up like a book for two
or three months, unable to ship
pound Of freight, unless by ex-
press at the rate of 16cts. per
pound. Let there be light"
The predictions in regard to
the future action of the n. P.
Co., all must admit, are fully JUS
tilted by the history of the past.
The 1876 miles of railroad built
by the company upon this coast,
at a cost of not less than S5,000,-
600, has opened no new line of
trade or added materially to the
prosperity of the country. 1t
has simply shortened the dis
tance between two ocean ports
without at all increasing the
commercial facilities of either,
any more than railroad from
Coos Bay to Astoria. The line
was located and this vast sum of
money expended with the sole
purpose Of building up towns in
the special interest of private
speculation, without advancing
the road a mile between the east
ern and western terminal points.
One hundred miles Of this road
was built to make towns upon
wild lands at points on Puget
Sound and the Columbia River
severally, which having no ad-
vantages not derived from the
railroad. have proved miserable
failures. Over thirty miles was
built in a south-easterly direc-
ton for the purpose OF utilizing
what was supposed to be a coal
mine, and the coal vein was ex-
hausted before the road was fin
ished, and now all that remains
to make that section of road
available for any purpose is a
prospect of finding a coal mine
contiguous thereto.
For the building Of the first
mentioned section, the company
has already received from the
Government 100000 acres of
land, valued at S6,667, 900, and
are claiming for their coal road
100000 acres Of land, valued at
81, $685. making in all SS,572,-
900, which would have been am
ply sufficient to build a road from
Seattle 200 miles east over the
Cascade Mountains. With the
means then at their disposal,
this might have been done four
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Civil Service Reform.

our knowledge, in which the
public interests and convenience
so imperatively demand reform,
as in the Post Office in this
this city. The Office, under its
present management, is held in
a narrow, dark, and inconven-
lent room, with a passage to the
boxes and delivery window on
ly the width of a door way,
through which two persons can
not pass without crowding, and
only extending beyond the box
es, the floor of the same being
covered with dirt, making it an
unfit place for a lady TO enter at
any time, and especially when
there is any crowd waiting for
the delivery Of mails. These
inconveniences could be better
tolerated if the public could de-
pend upon prompt delivery as
soon after the arrival Of the
mails as practicable. Instead Of
that, the daily mails arriving
here from the south and east
at 10 o'clock in the evening, are
very rarely all distributed and
ready for delivery before eleven
o'clock Of the following day; SO
that persons taking daily papers
from abroad for the purpose Of
getting the latest news must ne
glect other matters during busi-
ness hours to go or send to the
Office, or wait till evening for
the mail they were entitled to
receive in the morning. This is
in utter disregard not only of
public rights and convenience,
but of the rules and instructions
of the department. No blame
TOR this state of things attaches
to Mr.. Carr, the deputy, who is
faithful, courteous and pains-tak-
ing, but is the inevitable result
of allowing one man to hold an
Office to be farmed out to another
for the special interest of the in
cumbent, regardless of the rights
of others, which prevailed under
the spoils system.
On the resignation of Mr.. Gill
liam, Delegate Jacobs recon-
mended and procured the ap-
pointment Of Mr.. Pumphrey,
who soon found that he could
not do justice to the Office with
out neglecting his own private
business, and scorning the device
of deriving a revenue from the
Government for labor which he
did not perform, like an honora-
BILE man he resigned; whereupon
Capt. E. A. Starr, sub-contract-
or for carrying the mails, with
out consulting any prominent
citizen of Seattle, procured the
appointment to that Office of I.
W. Prosch, a newspaper publish
er who had recently removed to
this town after spending his best
energies for a year or two pre-
vious in misrepresenting and vii
llfying Seattle under subsidy to
an adverse interest; thus secur-
ing to himself a Postmaster who
would not report to the depart
ment anything adverse to his
patron and an editor whose pa
per has ever since been devoted
t o his defence. Nothing is bet
ter for a mail carrier than to
own the Postmasters on his route,
and so successful have the STAIRS
been in this that not a report of
failure or delinquency has ever
been made against them from
this office, though the occasion
for such reports have been of al
most weekly occurrence. Prosch
, 1878-02-02
EQu N D.

A Large Memorandum Book, on Yesler's
wharf. about three weeks since. The book con-
tains number of papers of value to the owner
md can be recovered by applying to this Office
and paying for this advertisement.
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Some of the London papers are discussing
$ the origin of the telephone" which has
been traced back to some experiments given a
quarter of century ago at the British Insti-
tuition. The telephone then used however,
sounding-board attached, which conveyed the
sound of musical instruments from one room
to another-a familiar experiment described
in every book Of popular science and having
no more relation except in name, to the mag.
netic telephone than a speaking tube to tel
egraph.
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On GUARD hour after midnight the
other night policeman discovered resident
of Watson street sitting on his front door step
witt big club across his knees. Puzzled at
the situation, the officer made some inquir-
les, and the citizen answered My dog died
to-day, and it's my opinion that burglars put
him out of the way so as to make q raid on
the house tonight.
Why, you haven't anything for 'em to
steal,'' said the officer who knew that the fam
lily had been supported by the poormaster all
winter.
Haven't ell " replied the man in an in
jured voice" didn't l bring home hull
cod fish and two tea store chromos this FORE
noon?''
He still continued on guard as the officer
passed along.
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"Don't despise your poor relations. They
might get rich sometime, and then it would
be SO hard to explain the thing"
The reputation man gets from his an
cestors wants about as much altering to fit
him as their clothes would"
Love is like the measles you can't get
them but once, and, the later in lite we have
it, the tougher it goes with us"
+" Great thinkers are not apt to be great
whistlers. When man can't think of any
thing he begins to whistle. Josh Billings
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Electric Belts and Bands,
THE BEST KNOWN CURATIVE AGENT.

ue highly perfected Curative Appliances the body mild continuous
influence
himself ghout
S the
thus promotes Digestion Excet Nutrition
Their invaluable qualities anb
They combine
onc Functional Diseases
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No, can't pay you !" exclaimed he I;
"sure's | stand here, haven't got a cent
of money to my name" And bringing down
his hand on the side of his leg by way of en-
phasis, he all unintentionally awoke to echo
the slumbering dimes, quarters and half dol
lars in his trowsers pocket. Then as his cred
itor gazed into his eye, he wildly fled, while
he gasped, "SilYer will be the ruin of this
country yet'
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Natures tones, we are told, are largely in
the minor key. How sad, notwithstanding
its majesty, the mournful booming, the funer-
cal minute-guns, of the great surging sea =
Did you ever hear more melancholy cadence
than the wind of God as it sweeps through
the sere foliage of Autumn, or as it sets in
weird tremors telegraph wires spanning DESC
hate regionsp So, too, the whine and howl of
the animal worlds are in the minor key Board
man
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"How can leave theeq" he was singing
in very tender tone. He wasn't very pop
ular with her parents and it was verging on
twelve when the old man dropped in and
showed him how he could leave her.
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briggs Catarrh Eradcator will Catarrh, II
I'D arises from disorganized condition of the stomach
Initiated secretion of the glandular system, and mpuri
ty of the blood, 1t is constitutional well as local
diseased. The symptoms partial or complete OBJ
BILE feeling in the head coggng up Of the throat in the
night with thick obnoxious matter, having when ex-
PEELED scabby appearance occasionally streaked with
blood Briggs Catarrh Eradicator is sent by mail
press receipt of price. quarts
for use. Warranted cheapest and most effeetua Adj
dress Dr. j. Briggs and Co. Newark N j. Sold by G. NJ.
Shamalia Moore's Drug Store, Lambertve, N. j.
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Hygiene of the Nervous System.
Progressive Medic Electric Science.
Franklin Experiment.
Bathing as Hygienic Measure.
Sir Henry Holland, Portrait and Biography.
Sir William FERGUSON, Portrait and Biogra-
ply.
Facimile of Diploma of Award Granted by
the Centennial Commission at Philadel-
phia.
Paracelsus, the Prince of Empires.
Slandering Doctors.
Galvanism: its Origin, Perfection, and Abuse
Sleep.
Advice to Consumptive Invalids.
Climate.
Health and Pleasure Observation-Disclosures
Scenery.
Marriage Guides, Bogus Medical Institutes,
Etc.
Humbugs.
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We saw young man with two heads on
his shoulder, the other day. 1t wasn't much
of curiosity. One belonged to his girl.
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CHILDREN's PLAIN TALK.-The Rev. j..
Hyatt Smith says that he was once trying to
illustrate the difference between Christs joy
at the conversion of sinner and the JOY the
converted one experienced. He didn't know
how he was going to get through, when sud
denly story crept into his mind. His broth
er, Natty, when a child, was blind. A cloudy
film had spread over his eyes, cutting off his
sight One day he and his brother were play
ing on the nursery floor, using large onion
for ball. They rolled and tossed it back and
forth, until it became bruised and juicy. Nat
ty, in handling it, got his fingers wet with the
Juice, and when he rubbed his eyes with his
hand he uttered sharp cry of pain. Then he
jumped to his feet, and screaming with joy
exclaimed "Oh, | see! | see !" The deli
cate surgery Of the onion had cut through
and removed the film that blinded him. lie
leaped into his mothers arms, quiyering with
delight, while she clasped him to her breast
and uttered words of joy. The happiness of
the child was one the happiness of the moth
or was another. When returned home after
church that Sunday" said Mr.. Smith, "my
little blue eyes climbed into my lap and said,
Hyatt "-she has no respect for the cloth ;
it's her mothers training Hyatt, she said,
was that story about the onion truo storyp'
Yes, my pet" said. "oh,p she said, "
thought you were only preaching" He was
trying one day to give his class an object les
son. He took out his watch and holding it up
said, "Now look at my watch.e Taint
your WATCH" said one. "It's your wife's
watch ,,
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ELECTRIC QUARTERLY contains valua
who suffer from Nervous Exhaustn
Painful Diseases the laws hoene and physical culture,
how perfect bodily health and energy be fully reganed by
of
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THE NATIONAL STANDARD ?
IAN 9TH 1885,.
+" TRENTON HOUSE"
P. IA EzENBACH, Proprietor.

Cor HANOVER and WARREN STREETS, TRENTON, N. j
Bath Rooms Barber Shop &C., connected with this
Hotel Special rates to Commercial Travellers. Street
Cars pass near the House to and from the Depot.
oNoTE.-This is the leading hotel in Trenton with
apacity of 800 rooms single or en- suite
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DESCRIPTION OF JESUS BY BuBLIUs LENro-
LUs, PRESIDENT OF JUDEA IN THE REIGN
OF TIBERIUs CESAR.
There lives, at this time, in Judea, man
of singular virtue, whose name is Jesus
Christ, whom the barbarians esteem as a
prophet, but his followers love and adore
him as the offspring of the immortal Cod
He calls back the dead from their graves, and
heals all sorts of diseases with word, or a
touch lie is a tall man, and weli-shaped OF
an amiable and reverend aspect his hair OF
color that can hardly be matched, falling into
graceful curls, waving about, and very agree
ably couched upon his shoulders, parted on
the crown of his head, running as a stream to
the front after the fashion of the Nazarites,
his forehead high, large and imposing his
cheeks without spot or wrinkle, beautiful with
a lovely red his nose and mouth formed with
exquisite symmetry his beard thick and OF
a color suitable to his hair, reaching below
his chin, and parting in the middle like a
fork his eyes bright blue, clear and serene
look, innocent dignified manly and mature
in proportion of body, most perfect and cap
tiyating his hands and arms most delectable
to behold. He rebukes with majesty and
counseIs with mildness, his whole address,
whether in word or deed, being eloquent and
grave. No man has seen him laugh, yet his
manners are exceedingly pleasant but he has
wept frequently in the presence of men. lie
is temperate, modest and wise man, for his
extraordinary beauty and divine projections
surprising the children of men in every sense.
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Vanilla, Rosa, Neotarina, Lemon, Orange,
Peach, Bitter Almond, Cinnamon, Cloves,
Nutmeg, iiaoe, Gineey, Celery, Banana, Fear,
Allspics, Strawberry, fin3 Apple, Rasp-
berry aaa sagsapsl5Ila,
inereasng popularity and alao5t universal use
Of thcso Extracts in sections q the country wnefe
they been introduced s foofo their superiority
over all others made Theire 1oeence consists IN
their purity and atrenuth Ice Cream hannfactuTers,
Hotel and HougekceperG certify that in actual use they
nifty per CT cheaper than the compounds solo unuer
the assumed Of naYors These facts are worthy
Of the attention OF housekeepers and all havors
80 SOLD BY DaU6GIsFs AND GRoeEBs EVERYWHERE
DAVIS q ExEEAEsg, gsH0PREETQRS,
Ne. 1e n. HOWARD ST. BALTIMORE, MD
Dec. 10Th, 1877.
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Note the Contents.

Nervous Debility.
Pulvermacher's Belt and Suspensory Appli'
ance Illustrated.
Dependence of Health Upon Circulation.
Medical Electricity.
Mind and Health.
Drugs.
Pulvermacher Galvanic Establishment Illus,
trated.
Editorial Comments-Notes upon HYGIENE
and Physical Culture-Congratulat
Bogus Belts, Bands, Etc. Travelling i'm
postors-Perpetual injunction--G ymnas-
tim Exercises-Specialists and Mounte-
banks--Exhibition Notes--Importanc
of Exercise-A New onder-Pleasures
without Moderation and other Miscel.
lany.