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The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-07-27
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At TACOMA with PaciAc Nail Steamships for
Victoria and San FrLncisco. aud with Sound
Steamers tor Seattle. SteilAcOom, Olympia and
ell points on Puget Sound.
At Lake View. with Stage for Steilacoom.
AtTenino, with Stages for Olympia.
At Kalana with o. 8. -. Cc.'s boats for Port
land aud all points on the Columbia river.
At Portland, on Wednesday and Saturday at &
A. II. with steamers for Port Townsend. Victoria,
NAnaimo. New Westminster and Fraser River.
Through Tickets for sale at Principal Offices OF
the Company. and 81 the Office Of the o. =. y. Co.
II. Portland Oregon. 20 Victoria and Seattle. and
via p. VI. 8. s. Co.'S steamships from Tacoma,
and o. 8. 8. Co. and =. {. s. y Co.'S steamships
from Portland TO San Francisco.
Through Tickets 10 Portland, Oregon, for sale
at Victoria, Seattle, Tacoma and Tenino.
5. A. BLACK.
General Superintendent.
W WAYNE yOGDES.
General Ticket Agent.
W. Il. HUMPHREY. Ticket Agent at Seattle.
W.T.. oct3i
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-07-27

AN enthusiastic Indiana editor wrote
The battle is now opened But, alas
the intelligent compositor spelled bat.
tie with an %, and his readers say
they have suspected it all along.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-07-27

Good nature is the best feature ID
the tirest face. Wit may raise admira'
ton, judgment may command respect
and knowledge attention. Beauty may
infiame the heart with love. but good
nature has more powerful etfect-it
adds a thousand attractions to the
charms of beauty. and gives an air OF
beneficence to the most homely face.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-07-27

1t was the proprieto. of an American
lunch counter who said: i care not
who makes the laws of the country, If
| NAV make its sandwiches And he
finished hsmmering out the bottom of
one, welded the upper crust down to it,
brazed the edges. tempered 1t and laid
it in the sun. and filled out blank
hurial hermit while he waited for the
next customer. -Hdsekege.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-23

compromise with the railroad com.
pany that leaves our section at the
mercy of that corporation.
Two matters are essential to our
interest: The abrogatil n on the part
of the company of the present charge
of commissions collected by their
agents at their second class stations
Oakland included) in this State. The
hardship of this to our people will he
noticed when it is known that NO
such charge is tolerated at stations in
other states. The discrimination
against the people of Garrett county,
when all commissions are collected
that their agents claim the right to
collect, will amount to over three
thousand dollars per annum. Let
our representatives act at once and
settle the right of the company to
make this onerous charge by passing
a law prohibiting any such charge.
And let every member there assist
our representatives in securing the
enactment Of some law that shall pro
tect our interest in the matter of
freights. There is no justice in our
paying as much on a car load of
slaves, shook or potatoes from Oak
land to Baltimore, as is paid on a
car load of grain from Chicago. There
can be no peace till the railroad com
pany deals justly with our people in
this matter. This week we merely
call attention to the two points of
vital interest, and ask Messrs. Will
son, Blocher and Welfley not to rest
till they have secured for the people
they represent, something like an
equitable rate of freight and the en-
tire abrogation of the commission
nuisance.
We shall have something more to
say upon this subject next week.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-23

I We learn that there is in the hands
of some of our best citizens an enter.
prise which will benefit Oakland and
which has promised much success
from the very incipiency of the I'M
dertaking. We have reference to the
opening of an Academy here. Moth
ing now would benefit Oakland so
much as a school of high grade,
wherein the boys and girls of our
town could obtain an education equal
to that of any Academy, Normal
4 School or Seminary, and be, at the
same time, under parental care, away
from the vices and excuses into
which, boys especially, unrestrained
by the vigilance of their parents, are
so apt to plunge. All our citizens
have enthusiasm in educational
matters, and would give high grade
school good support. Moreover no
better site for a school can be found
than in Oakland. We'are surround
ed by minerals of various kinds,
which would afford an element easily
obtained for instruction in the nat
ural sciences: we have a beautiful
climate, beautiful scenery and good
society; we are easy of access, being
costly situated among the hills Of
western Maryland, on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, the great trunk
lir e connecting the East and West.
Such school as has been mention
toned, established under the general
law relating to such schools, or by
special act, and having a faculty of
experienced teachers, would, we are
prepared to say, be a success from
the start.
Prof. Van Horn has been mention
ed in connection with this enterprise.
He is scholar and thorough teach
err; and, if his services could be OBJ
tanned, the school would have at its
head an experienced teacher. He is
thorough French scholar, and our
young ladies would then have at
home all the advantages which are
offered by our best seminaries.
Our citizens should join in this en-.
terprise and give it all the support
they can.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-23

The amendment to Mr.. McCosker's
bill reported from the Senate Com
mite on Finance represents the pres
ent shape of the new tax assessment
law and the shape in which it is most
likely to pass.
Section $50 provides that the
County Commissioners and Appeal
Tax Court are directed annually to
correct the assessment of the proper
ty in their respective counties, and
the city of Baltimore, and to alter and
correct the valuation of any property
which may have been Improperly
valued, and to assess the same at its
true value, and to alter and correct
the account ofany person whose prop.
erty, or any part thereof may have
been omitted in the former assess
ment, or may have since been acquir.
ed and if any real estate or other
property shall from any cause have
increased or diminished largely and
materially in value since the last levy,
they shall correct, alter and amend
the assessment Of the same, as afore-
said, so rs to conform to It's present
value they shall also, at any time
when so directed by the State Tax
Commissioner, with the concurrence
of the Attorney General (signified by
his opinion in writingl, correct the
assessment of the property in the re
spective counties. and in the city of
Baltimore, by striking therefr0m any
property which they shall be instruc-
ted by the said Tax Commissioner
and Attorney General is not subject
to taxation under the laws of this
State, or Of the United States.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-23

habitants.- And yet 1 love Annapo-
lis it must be an easy place to live ;
l don't see any body do anything
and still they are fat, ragged and
saucy.
The population are engaged in
catching and eating oysters. That
appears to- be the object of their Inv.
ing and having fulfilled their des.
tiny / presume they die; of this,
however, cannot speak positively
There are some noble exceptions TO
the above, as believe most of the
ladies do not eat oysters.
There is not a smoke stack in Nm.
napolis. There is no visible means
of sustenance except the dr. g.net
and the oyster rake. Agriculture is
neglected. The surrounding country
is barren and uninviting. General
diIapidation and decay presents it.
self on every hand.
In view of all this feel proud that
my county has a possible future
With all of its SHOWS and ice, and
hills and rocks and mountains, it has
life blood in its veins, and in two or
three decades will be among the
wealthiest, as well as the most popu.
lous counties of the State.
l have wandered from my subject,
but for this hope to be pardoned
and, in my next will have more &c
say of Annapolis.
TRAVELLER.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-23
MACARTHUR, OHIO, Feb. 10th, 1878.

MACARTHUR, OHIO, Feb. 10th, 1878.
Mr.. EDITORIALS you do not often
hear from Vinton county, l thought
| would write a few lines for your
excellent paper, which is a welcome
weekly visitor at our house, AM: as
| expect to move to your place in the
spring it makes it more So. consider
The REPUBLICAN a greater acquisi-
ton to Oakland than the big hotel;
and may it long live to battle for the
right
We are having a very changeable
winter; rain, snow, sunshine and
mud ; the coolest % below zero, and
warmest co. above, and the average
for the last three months $50. Wheat
is looking fine; stock of all kinds
looking well with large surplus of
feed to carry over. Everything is
low in price, especially hogs and
hay hogs from 2 to 8 cents, and hay
from So to SIS per ION.
We are having a new railroad
built through our county, from Gal,
lipolis to Columbus. 1t is to be fin.
ished to Vinton station, on the NJ. &
G, R. r., by the middle of March,
and we are living in hopes that it
will raise the price of our land, so
Shat those who want to sell can get
out. We fear there will be no fruit
next year, for the warm winter has
swollen the buds so they will be easi-
ly killed, and our old stock of green
apples is about gone. Fruit rotted
this winter worse than ever before.
Green apples and taxes are the only
two things that are high here; and
as to the latter it is easily accounted
for, as we are ruled by Democracy,
and the old book says "when the
wicked rule, the people mourn"
This county is, and always will be
Democratic, from the fact that we
have ineXhauStable beds of ore and
coal, and this brings in a floating
population of foreigners to work the
mines and furnaces, and yon know
they like whisky, and whisky makes
Democrats.
More anon,
SYNTAX.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-23
Montgomery Blair's Big Gun.

The venerable politician, who is
one of the delegates from M0ntgnm
cry c0urty in the House of Delegates,
AWARDED himself of the unfaVOrabie
report on his resolutions last THURS
day to make IL tedious and bitter
Spee"h. 1t was largely composed of
bold assertions and fulsome e,tlogy
on the character of Samuel J.. TMden.
This political tramp, who has tried
all parties, stopping with each until
his departure became a subject of
earnest longing or the part of his
companions, has shouted fraud so
long and so v0'iferously that. to use
the words of The Trijune, he has
been converted into an incaynate
fraud himself. The speech in the
main was an arraignment of that
portion Of his present party, which
recognizes the decision of the Flee
toral Commission as final, and glor-
ificatiOn of the one man i'm the Uni
ted States who might possibly give
its author an executive appointment,
in case chance placed him in the
White House.
While every patriot is striving to
Danish the Old feud that separated
our people so long from each other,
while II en- who fOu9M during The war
are clasping hands and working side
by side for the honor and prosperity
of the country, the spectacle of Blair
striving to stir up disc 'rd and frater-
nal strife once IN re, fifty shows how
little of a political stateman there is
in his composition, and how much of
the tricky politician. The country
needs the former. and would be ex-
ceedingIy happy if Montgomery
Blair were the only living iilustra-
ton of the latter. Frederick E:r-
dnliRer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-23

fast as purchased, into such dollars
And At sum sufficient tOcarry out the
foregoing provision of this act is here
by appropriated out ofany money in
the Treasury not otherwise appro--
priated.- And any gain or seignior-
age arising from this coinage shall
be accounted for and paid into the
Treasury, as provided under existing
laws relative to the subsidiary COIN
age; provided that the amount of
money at any one time invested in
such silver bullion, exclusive Of such
resulting coin, shall not exceed five
million dollars; and provided turtheF,'
that nothing i'm the act shall be con-
S:ructed to authorize the payment in'
silver Of certificates of deposit Issued.
under the provision of section 254 Of
the Revised Statutes.
Section 2. All acts and parts of
acts inconsistent with the PROVISIONS
of this act are hereby repealed.
Section 3. That Immediately after
the passage Of this act the President
shall invite the Governments of the
Countries composing the Latin
Union, sO-called, and of such other
European nations as he may DEEM
advisable, to join the United States
in conference to adopt a common
ratio between gold and silver. fer the
purpose of establish, internationally,
the use of bi.meiallic money, and Sc
curing fixity of relative value be-
tween those metals, such conference
to be held at .s1ch place, in Europe
or in the United States, at such time
within six month, as may he mutu-
ally agreed upon by the executives
of the governments joining in the
same, wi enever the governments so
invited, or any three of them, shall
have signified their willingness to-
unite in the same. The President
shall, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, appoint three
Commissioners, who shall attend
such conference on behalf oft the Uni
ted States, and shall report the doings
thereof to the President, who shall
transmit the same to Congress. Said
J Commissioners shall each receive the
sum of $4,000 and their reasonable
expenses, to be approved ty the Sec
rotary of State, and the amount ne
cesSary to pay such compensation
and expenses is hereby appropriated
out of any money in the Treasury
not otherwise appropriated.
Section 4. That any holder of the
coin authorized by this act may de
post the same with the Treasurer or
any Assistant Treasurer of the United
States in sums not less than ten dol,
lars and receive therefor certificates
of not less than ten dollars each,
corresponding with the denomina.
| ton of the United States notes. The
coin deposited for or representing
the certificates shall be retain, d in
tie Treasury for the payment of the
same on demand. Said certificates
shall be receivable for customs, taxes
and all public dues, and when SO re-
ceived may be reiSSued.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-23
The Silver Bill.
The following is the full text of
the Silver bill ~ it passed

The following is the full text of
the Silver bill ~ it passed
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Con-
gress assembled. That there shall be
coined at the several minis of the
United States silver dollars of the
weight of Aba grains troy of stand.
ard silver, AS provided in the act of
January 18th, 1887, on which shall
be the DEVICES and superscripliOns
provided by said act, which coins,
together with all silver dollars here
totore coined by the United States,
of like weight and fineness, shall be
Il legal tender, lat their nominal value,
for all debts and dues. public and
private, except where otherwise ex-
pressly stipulated in the contract.
And the Secretary of the Treasury is
authorized and directed to purchase
from time to time silver bullion at
the market price thereof, not less
than two million dollars worth per
month, nor more than foar million
dollars worth p, r month, and cause
the same to be coined monthly, as
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-23

The testimony taken IN the inves-
disaster is startling. Two witnesses
swear that tlH. Captain said in their
preSenre': ''Weii, l did as the own, rs
requested me, for they saitk, IF yen
have To make Il wreck, make it Il,
good wreck " The fireman for the
AlpS5rS. Collins heard this language,
and like others to whose ears it came,
believed that the ship waS pUrposely
cast away. And the Philadelphia
Bulletin says that lit is hardly nee
esSAry to comment upon this terrible.
evidence. 1t is one of the revelations.
which point directly to the fact that
the men who went down to snd,len
and awful DEATH in the Metropolis
were sent to Stp:il. a fate deliberately
by the owners Ofthe vessel. with the
guilty knowledge of the Captain,
The solitary thing in the Captain y.
favor, so far developed, i, that he
was willing torisk, hislifp in vessel
that he knew to be ~ rotten hulk.
The interests CT justice SEEM to de-
mand his speedy ARREST and the an:
rest of the owners. Pttriic' npi,l io,f
will not he satisfied until me mem
who are responsible for the wreck are
held to IA stern accountability. All
of the inspectors who passed the YES
sci should be visited with wha tever'
penalties their gross negligence de-
serves. Inspection which does not
inspect, hut permits hundred mem
AMI women to be swallowed up by
the ocean, is murderous.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-23

1t is a surprise to people on both
sides of the Atlantic that the pre-
MUM on gold has decreased since
the passage of the silver bill by the
Senate; and that United States bonds
have improved both in the London
and New York markets.. The silver
bill, as passed by the Senate, is So
much less Objectionable than the
original Bland bill, that it is, a griev-
Gus disappointment to- the silver
men. The fact that they are disap-
pointed is what hasimproved Ameri.
can bonds. If they were to be utterly
disappointed by the defeat of the
silver billr the premium on gold
would disappear in few weeks.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-23

The London Times states on I'M
doubted authority that seventy mil
lions of human beings are starving
in the famine stricken provinces of
Northera China. The same paper
predicts that as soon as the way is
open for them the population of the
northern provinces will pour forth in
myriads as emigrants to the United
States, and that the Chinese difficulty
will become greater menace to the
future Of the Uuited States than was,
the slavery trouble.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-23

subserve. According to his state.
ments the Committee on Accounts
was fully informed of his violation of
law, and tacitly, at least, approved
them by the members holding their
tongues. The names of several Re.
form members of the House, if not Of
the Senate have been already men
toned in discreditable connection.
with Folks shameful operations; and
it is believed that every influence
will be brought to bear to prevent
further revelations in that direction.
The first requisite step appears to be
Folks specification" 10y members of
his party in the House. Let us wait
and see.
Since the free fight last Wednes-
day in the House INDUCED in by
Democratic Representatives from the
the different sections discreet silence
has been observed by the participa
in that melee, only broken by the
mutual explanations and apologies
offered each by the other. 1t was
certainly most indiscreet acknowl-
edgement of the heartburnings
threatening disruption and ruin, in
the presence of the enemy. The hope
of plumber can, however, be made to
cover multitude of personal ami
nfosities. The disgracefully enebl j.
ated condition of 4 score, more or
less, of Senators, is the incident con-
nected with the closing hours of the
silver bill debate. heard oftenest dis
cussed this morning. One of them is
said to haYe been so fuddled by corn
juice or so overpowered by his feel.
hgs otherwise induced as to have
offered the same amendment three
times in succeSsiOn.
The failure of the Commission ap-
pointed totrace the 81 800 lost under
Mr.. News administration of the Of
Hce of U. S. Treasurer, has suggest.
ed the propriety of another to ascer.
tain what became of a fund raised, it
is said by his order, in this way: Ev-
cry 5000 female employee of the Re-
demption Division, U. S. Treasury,
except a neice Of Mr.. Ned, is alleged
to haye been forced to sign an appli
cation for seven days leave of absence
without ply, under pain of dismissal.
They protested but signed, and fear
ed to ever take any step to recover
the money, more than $4,000 thus OBJ
tanned by bull-dozing. Making good
rumored loss that happened to Mr..
News nephew, appointed to carry
money from desk to place of deposit
and rice versa, is the use made of it
most generally assigned by the vie
ii" of this arbitrary regime.
UNDINE.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-23
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Feb. 18th, 1877
SYNTAX

ED. Republican, Since my
sojourn in Annapolis l have been
waiting for something to turn up
whereof to write. The daily papers
keep you apprised of the daily doing,
here, and Of Legisl ation | need moi
write. l did expect yesterday, that
Montgomery Blair's speech on his
resolution to reopen the Presidential
question, and at this late day, tuin
Hayes down and induct Tilden into
the chair of State, would, by way OF
variety, be worth listening to. and al
the beginning my interest Was awak
ened to the extent of taking notes.
But his e-hash of tie oft served
drivel soon grew m0nOtonous, and |
turned Is 4 welcome relief from Blair
to my newspaper and lost utterly the
closing of his melancholy wall. Poor
old man, his bid for a place in Til
dCn's cabinet will never be answered.
The heart of even the Maryland De
m0cracy does not respond to his IN.
patriotic propO SaIs. In response to
his speech, Mr. Johnson, a Denncrat,
OF Baltimore county, characterized
his statements as unjust and untrue.
Mr.. Merrick, OF Prince Georges, also
replied to him in a short hut cutting
speech. The day was wasted, and
next Thursday is appointed to be
fooled away in similar manner.
AS the papers keep you well in.
formed as to the proceedings OF the
Assembly am undecided as to what
other topic would most interest your
readers.
| propose to say something about
Annapolis. The original seat of gov
eminent was held at st Mary's, in st.
Mary's county. In 1894 the govern
ment was removed to the present
site, then called "Proctoris," or the
clown land of Severn" 1t was af.
forwards called "Anne Arundle
Town )" then the Port of Annapo.
lis" and finally, in 1904 Annapolis
City," In McMahon's History of
Maryland, he quotes person writing
from Annapolis about 100: "There
are about 40 dwellings, seven or eight
of which afford good lodging pla ce
for strangers. There is also a State
House, and free school house, built
of brick, which makes great show
among the wooden houses, and the
foundation of IA church is laid, the
only brick church in Maryland"
The State House is situated on an
elevation, and the streets radiate from
it like the spokes of a wheel. Annap
oils is place of sharp angles and tri-
angles, and altogether is one of the
worst laid out towns that exists.
There are now several hotels and
taverns and private boarding places,
some very good, but all having an
eye to the "main thing" While Or
binary people can ger boarding and
lodging at reasonable figures, il one
is suspected of being delegate or an
officer in the House or Senate, he is
marked as a "victim," and bled
accordingly.
Annapolis is as ole as a place can
be and live. The buildings have an
old delapidated appearance generally,
and is not without the accompani-
ment of all decaying towns, niggers
and dogs. Looking out at back
windows discloses the shiftlessness
and uncleanliness of most of its in.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-23
SATURDAY, FEB. %, 1878.
The new silver dollar will contain
412! grains troy of standard silver.

Mr.. Wilson obtained leave, in the
House of Delegates, to introduce a
bill for the appointment of commits
sioners for the settlement Of the
y paedafry line between West Vir.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-23

The funeral of Rev. Dabney Ball.
q presiding elder in the Methodist
Church South, took place on Sunday
in Baltimore.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-23

Correspondents must enclose full name and
address, not necessarily for publication, but
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ed communications will not be returned