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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-24
The War i'm the East.

The Sultan is calling his forces into
Constantinople as rapidly as possible.
Suleiman Pasha has $4,000 men in
his command, and is trying to reach
the Turkish capital. The inveterate
Russian is after him in hot haste. The
Russians have taken Adrianople, and
the people are fleeing amidst great suf-
fering. Three hundred thousand refugese
are enroute to Constantinople.
The Danube is bridged by ice.
LONDON, Jan. 21.-The Daily Tele-
graph prints the following under date
of Constantinople, yesterday:
Mr. Master, agent of the English re-
lief fund, has just arrived here with a
train full of refugees from Adrianople
These unhappy people have been in
open cattle trucks three days. Many
persisted from cold weather last night.
Fifteen were found dead in the trucks.
The suffering of all is described as aw-
full. Mothers are reported in their
frenzy to have thrown away their liv-
ing babies rather than see them die in
their arms. AS the train moved from
Adrianople, numbers of people tried to
cling to the outside and framework of
the carriages, and many attempted to
ride on the buffers. At one station
where hundreds of people had congre-
gated without food for two days, men
threatened Mr. Master with violence
if bread was not given them. Yester-
day there were 5000 women and chill
dren out on the snow at Charlou. Three
trains full are hourly expected to ar
rive at Constantinople 1t is not
known where they will find shelter.
The snow is seven inches deep and is
still falling. The cold is intense All
that can possibly be done is being eff
fected by the administrators of the re-
lief fund, but many lives are being sac
rificed.
A Pera special also says Izzed Pasha will
convey to the plenipotentiaries full power,
likely to 60 to war. Another correspondent
at Pera says the negotiations have COM
menced. 1t is stated the Turkish plenipo-
tentiaries have been instructed that they
may offer to make Batoum a free port cede
territory on the Asian frontier nearly as far
as kars and dismantle the Notifications of
kars and Erzeroum. They may also pro-
pose the following programme for discussion
by the European conference: The Balkans
to be considered the southern limit of Bull
garia; Roumania to BE independent; the
Dardanelles to be open to men-of-war of all
nations, and the settlement of the AIontegrih
and Servian question to be temporarily de-
ferred. Difficulties have already arisen. 1t
is reported Russia had demanded that Adr-
anople be included in Bulgaria; also the ces-
sion of Batoum and opening of the Darda-
nelles to Russian and Turkish men-of-war
only.
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A GOOD CHANCE.

Oh Acres three miles northeast of Vancou-
w yer; 40 acres of best swale land, ~ acres
under fence, 20 acres under cultivation. Two
hundred and fifty bearing fruit trees, good well
of water, log dwelling, and barn 2Ox6O feet,
with sheds. Price $1,000.
20 Acres adjoining the above, 10 acres
w swale, acres in cultivation, good run
ming SPRING large amount of oak and cedar
timber. Price 5000.
The above tracts will be sold together II de.
sired. For further information, apply to
W. BYRON DANIELS,
Vancouver, W. T.
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NOTICE..
U. s. LAND OFFICE,

US LAND OFFICE, ..
Vancouver, W. T., January 5th, 1873
Complaint having been entered at this Office
by VIM. j. McLain, against Nathan Newton,
for abandoning his Homestead Entry, No 1913,
dated March 10Th, 1872, upon the East = of
Southeast I. of Section "a, Township 4 North,
Range II East in Klckitat County, Washing
ton Territory, with IL view to the cancellation
of said entry, the said parties are hereby sum-
moned to appear at the Office of the Probate
Judge of Klicktat County, Washington Terri
tory, at Rockland in said County, on the Sth
day of February, 1873, at 10 o'clock A. NJ. then
and there to respond and furnish testimony
said alleged abandonment.
W. H. Smallwood, Register.
S. W. Brown, Receiver.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-24
Among the steamboats, that piled

Among the steamboats, that piled
one the Columbia river and Puget
Sound, was the wilson G. Hunt The
following item relative to her original
owner, may be of interest: "Thom-
as Hunt, one of New York's oldest
merchants, died last Friday, aged 70.
In 1850, Hunt established line of
steamers between San Francisco and
Sacramento, sending the steamers
Confidence and WILSON G. Hunt, around
by Cape Horn. In returning to New
York, Hunt was wrecked on the Mex
lean coast. In the year of the Sacra-
mento fire, Hunt sent two vessels
with provisions from San Francisco,
and distributed free to the sufferers.
In crossing the Isthmus on his return,
he contracted fever from which he
never recovered Hunt died possessed
of great wealth.
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NOTICE..
U. S. LAND OFFICE,

Vancouver, w. r., December 81, 1877.
Complaint having been entered at this Of
flee by Henry w. Turk, against Milton w.
Parsons, for abandoning his Homestead En-
try, No. 2040, dated May 18th, 1876, upon
the Southeast of Section is, Township No.
| North, Range No. East, in Skamania
County, Washington Territory, with view
to the cancellation of said entry, the said
parties are hereby summoned to appear at
this Office on the ODD day of January, 1878,
at IL o'clock NJ, to respond and furnish tes-
timony concerning said alleged abandonment.
w. H. Smallwood, Register.
S. W. Brown, Receiver
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County Orders! County Orders !!
County Orders!!!

I will pay on presentation within four weeks
from date, all County Orders" issued by the
Auditor of Clarke County, w. T., up to and in
GLIDING Order No 109 of the series of 1877.
If above orders are not presented within
said four weeks from date, will pay subse-
quent orders in priority of issue, as far as fund
for that purpose can be applied.
The interest on all orders issued between
December 18th, 1875, inclusive, and the said
order No. 100, of 1877, will cease on the expira-
tion of this notice, the interest on all prior or
ders having ceased under former notice.
FRED w. BIER,
Treasurer of Clarke County, w. T.
Dated Vancouver, w. T., January 10, 1878.
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NOTICE..
U. S. LAND OFFICE

y I z II,
Vancouver, W. T., January 10Th, 1878.
Complaint having been entered at this Office
by Joseph H. Dixon, against Edwin u. Van
Horn, for abandoning his Homestead Entry.
No. 1919, dated May lst 1871, upon the South
west 4 Of Section 81, Township North, Range
East, in Clarke County, Washington Terri
tory, with II view to the cancellation Of said
entry the said parties are hereby summoned
to appear at this ONCE on the 9th day Of Feb
ruary, 1878, at | o'clock r. NJ, to respond and
furnish testimony concerning said alleged
abandonment
W. II. Smallwood, Register.
5. W. Brown, Receiver.
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The Commissioner of the General
Land Office recommends a law abol-
ishing all the surveyor generalships,
of which there are sixteen, and ap-
pointing one Surveyor General, to
have his Office in Washington.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-24

Commodore Mutt is reported on the
point of matrimony with Miss Jennie
QuigIey, of his lilliputian company.
Both parties have one consolation, at
least--their domestic difficulties will
always be on small scale. Telegram.
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The New York Custom House mud

tlOn 1t is announced that the .PreSl-
dent has "distinct ideas on the ques-
ton of official responsibility" This
the country will be glad to hear. The
hope is cherished that he will some
time announce these distinct ideas,
and if they contain no other merit,
that they will at least prove consist
ent with his official course in making
appointments.
Mitchell's railroad bill was argued
before the railroad committee last
Monday. Senator Grover came out
and showed his hand, in favor of the
bill. Representative Williams was
not present. Whether or not all this
agitation will bring railroad to our
isolated frontier, remains to be seen.
At all events it is ga contamination
devoutly to be wished" though family
hoped for.
Relative to army matters, General
Pope says that $4,000 men is too
small force for the needs of the
country. This is true, and it would
be well about this time if the army
were increased to fifty thousand and
a regiment of soldiers quartered wher-
ever rioters and bull-dosers most do
congregate.
Sunday mornings STANDARD publishes
the report that Moses band of Indians
have broken out and murdered four
families, and were prepared to enter
upon another costly and bloody cam
paign. But dispatches from Dayton,
Washington Territory, published in the
Oregonia'a, deny the report
Slade, the spiritual medium, don't
seem to find many congenial spirits on
the other side of the Atlantic The
people of Europe are not quite so fond
of being humbugged as the Americans.
He has been expelled from nearly all
the principal cities he has visited.
There should be rejoicing in the house
of the Monarch of England now that
Cleopatras needle has arrived; the
Queen has at last got something to
darn her stockings with. Wonder if
that needle could not be used to mend
the Princes reputation
S. Haley, a machinist, disappeared
mysteriously from his lodging house in
Portland two or three months ago. He
left everything he had in his room, even
a dress coat, with money in pocket
book. 1t is supposed he has been foully
dealt with.
The San Francisco rioters are said
to be secretly arming and otherwise
preparing for an organized resistance
to the authorities. Kearney and all
the other leading labor agitators have
been arrested and put in durance vile.
"The way of the transgressor is
hard''-thus soliloquizes the Boss. He
has made application to the Supreme
Court of New York, to be discharged
under the poor debtor act. How art
the mighty fallen.
The Territorial University is in
fiourishing condition. Only few more
appointments are needed to make up
the 80 required in order to draw the
Territorial appropriation.
Poole, of San Francisco, is to be ap-
pointed L. S. Marshal of California
Poole is made, ''set up the dead wood
and give us another shake" "whatl We
take"-a good fat distillerl
Bland, the author of the silver bill,
was banqueted at Lebanon, Missouri,
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The Independent.
THURSDAY, JANUARY "a. 1878.


politics as well as elsewhere. 1t is said
there is veritable Chinese lobby at
Washington, to look after the interests
of their much despised countrymen.
1t is said to be powerful and we'll Or
ganized. Strange if the Chinaman
without vote should beat the dema-
gogues on their own ground and at
their own game. Eastern people will
not be slow to appreciate the situation,
and John may stir up feeling in the
East that will in some way react upon
the promulgators of those extreme
measures against the Chinese in Cali
fornia- There are plenty of men in
the country who are of the same bent
of mind in this respect as was the late
Senator Morton. They do not talk
much, and when they do, they speak
nationally and their words count. Sar-
gent and Page ct al will not be able to
force their radical schemes through
Congress without being challenged in
some way by this sentiment.
The San Francisco agitators are still
in connection. Business is becoming
unsettled and demoralized, and the
prospect now is that focus will be
reached ere long. The powers of the
legislature now in session are to be in
voked, Just al if the cause of all the
rumpus could be legislated away. An
agitators convention is being held in
San Francisco, and runs are being
made on the Odd Fellows and other
banks. Capitalists talk of going to
Europe until the storm blows over,
and many families it is said are pre-
pairing to leave the city. 1t is pity
that city 50 fair and promising should
be cursed with such lazaroni as kear-
ney and his followers. Col. Barnes
should deliver another lecture on
.'What shall we do with our bovs:"
1t is proposed to change the law
regulating the payment of postmas
tiers. The Postmaster General rec
ommends that all fourth class offices,
or offices where the compensation is
less than $1,000 per annum, be al
lowed compensation on the face value
of stamps cancelled in the respective
offices. 1t is to be hoped this change
will benefit the p. Ms. No class of
officers have so much to do for so lit
tie pay: and especially is this true in
this Western country, where the bust
ness of the Office consists of constant
confinement, much bother and little
pay.
ketcham, Representative from New
ork, has hit the nail on the head by !
introducing a bill providing that no
claim against the United States shall |
ever be paid, unless the same shall
have been presented to the proper
tribunal within ten years from the
time the claim shall have accrued. |
The money that has been stolen from
the government by means of old, stale
and generally fraudulent claims would
probably aggregate sufficient to pay
the national debt or thereabouts. Go
in and ketcham.
Senator Mitchell did a good thing
the other day when he introduced a
bill appropriating $4,000 to enable
the L. s Coast survey to establish a
station for the purpose of making the
tidal observations at Astoria No
point on the Pacific coast is more Justly
entitled to such favor from the gen
sral government With such an in
stitution and an improvement in the
system of bar pilotage-accidents at
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-24

Four thousand Boston working
men had demonstration on Satur.
day.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-24

sSg The National Gold Medal was awarded
to Bradley q Rulofson for the best Photographs
in the United States, and the Vienna Medal for
the best In the world.
40 Montgomery Street, San Francisco
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-08

IT is the practice of hotel keepers every
where to sell liquor until the polls open on
election day, and also after they are closed,
the act of Assembly of March 18th, 1872,
having authorized them to do so. But
that act was repealed by the Act Of April
12 h, 1S75-tbe present license law which
makes it illegal to sell liquor on election
day, whether sold before or after the
cl sing of the polls, as any one can see who
will read the eleUenN section of the act re-
ferred to. Two weeks ago, Judge Ross, of
the Bucks district delivered an opinion at
Norr;stown in which he decided the law
to be as we have stated, and the defendant,
Francis NJ Kane, a landlord, was accord
ingly convicted. If tavern keepers, there
fore, want TO keep ont of the Quarter Ses-
sion, they had better conform to Judge
Ross decision.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-08

BENJAMIN f. WADE died at his home in
J, tferson, Ohio, on Saturday last, in the
18th year Of his age. lie was born i'll Mass
achusetts and emigrated to Ohio when lie
was eighteen years old. lie afterwards
studied law, was member Of the State
Senate, and served three terms in tic Senate
OF the United States, commencing in 1852.
Having been partner with Joshua K. Gid
dings in practiciug law, and having learned
all his politics from that distinguished abo-
litionist, Mr.. Wade was always an intense
anti-slayery man. The abolition of slavery
was his ruling passion and his sole object
until it was finally uprooted. When Lin
coin died and Andrew Johnson succeeded
him, Mr.. Wade was elected President pro
TEN of the Senate and acting Vice Presi-
dent. Had Johnson been convicted OH his
impeachment trial. instead of being ac-
quilted by one vote, Wade would have
served as President for the remainder of
the term. Ee possessed none Of the quail
ties Of true greatness, bat was gifted with
large shrewdness, vast political cunning
and stubborn force of win. In his private
life he had many warm friends and bitter
enemies.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-08

An American artist, Carpenter, painted
life size picture of President Lincoln
signing the emancipation proclamation,
surrounded by his cabinet. The painting
was purchased by New York lady, Mrs.
Thompson, aud presented by her to Con-
gress. The speech Of Hon. Alexander Ii.
Stephens, of Georgia, on the occasion of
the reception of the painting by the Senate
and House of representatives, three or
four weeks ago. attracted very marked at
tention and caused President Barnard, of
Columbia College, n. Y, 10 address letter
To- Mr.. Stephens, i'll which he says:
II want TO thank you with all my heart for
your very beautiful, judiciOus aud patriotic
address on the occasion OF the presentation aud
reception of the Carpenter picture of Lincoln.
~ Is Indeed a marvellous thing how, after her
trials, the South sin continues TO maintain her
noble pTc-eminunce in Statcsmanship ana in
moral dignity aud still more marvellous, per-
the councils of the na lion before the Wal, ard
also during the progress OF the painful strug giu
had been dentiii, d with quail prominence with
the Southern cause, should continue after all
to Command equally. North and South. a honI-
age. "A respect aud conf lence which is awarded
by the people TO hardly any other. ftIsa beau
tiful and a. noble tribute to the character al
ways consistently distinguished for unselnsh
Hcut so lar elevated above the base and mt an
passions which dieng ure 81 much OF our public
!ifs'. to be almost without a parallel The
second address 10 which have referred is in
perfect harmony with this character. and II has
been read with deep SVGtidCati-n u 10y millions of
your cOuntrymen."
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-08

THE Prohibition party will hold its State
convention at Altoona on the 23d of May
tunominate candidates for Governor, Lieu
tenant Governor, Secretary of Internal At
fairs and Judge of the Supreme Court.
While the other parties are profoundly
agitated by financial questions-the silver
dollar, greenback, and specie resumption
how happy aud conteuted is the adyo-
cate of cold water, pursuing the even tenor
Of his way and sitting under his own vine
and tlg tree with none to molest or make
him afraid!
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-08

THREE LEGGED RUNAWAY MATCH
The Lancaster Daily Era of the 1st inst
tells how one of the fair daughters of that
city eloped with one-legged peanut ped
dler Here is the story:
1t is said that young lady OF this city, of
literary taste. delivered an essay at certain
place on Monday evening and, after reading it.
hurried away; RumOr has it that she. eloped
ihat night with small fruit" merchant, and
that she was traced as far as Harrisburg, W here
the trail was lost. May she never regret the
step she has taken, and, although her husba n a
deals IN small fruits, may this act never resu [
in fruits meet for repentance
Since the above was written, the affair has
public matter, In sympathy for the almost
distracted parents of the young lady, we with
hold her name, merely stating that she is a
graduate of the Lancaster Girls High School. is
quite accomplished, very pretty, and is tht.
daughter OF respectable parents. The man Of
her choice is Wallace Fillmer, a one legged
peanut yender, who had a stand in front OF the
Globe Hotel, this city, and who was arrested a
couple OF days ago on suspicion OF having bee N
concerned in the three hundred dollar robbery
at Ho0p's VIiObe) hotel Il couple of weeks avo.
Mr.. Grier, the fatner- in-law OF Mr. Room. made
complaint against Fillmer a couple of DAYS ago,
lie was arrested and taken before Alderman
SpurrIer where he was searched-eyen to tai
ing OF his wooden leg-but only S. cents were
found upon him and he was discharged On
Monday night he elsped with the young lady in
question and was traced TO Harrisburg, which
city they reached at midnight, and at O'clock
yesterday morning they took their departure
for Pittsburg. The detectives are still on their
track, new evidence against Fillmer having de-
veloped since his departure.
The parents OF the imprudent young lady re-
ceived letter from her yesterday, dated Har-
riSburg, in which she makes the declaration
that she was married to Fillmer about two
weeks ago. The case is a sad one, aiken in all
Its aspects, and no one can account for the in
parents, everything that was dear, for one " hose
reputation was such as Fillmer's.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-03-08

4 FIERCE TORNADO AND Loss OF LIFE
IN kENTUCKY.-A Stanford (Ky.) special
to the Louisville Courier Journal says: a
terrible tornado 400 yards in width swept
through Casey county between 2 and )
o'clock Saturday afternoon, doing frightful
damage in the neighboThood OF Rich Hill
and Mount Olive. Vincent Wesley, his
wife, two grown daughters, a nephew
named Sloan, and William Taylor, aneigh-
Dor, who was stopping at lis house near
Rich Hill, were killed outright. man
named Richardson Lad his shoulder aud
collar bone frighfully crushed. Mrs.
Wesey's body was blown 400 yards and
entirely stripped of clothing. Her two
daughters were carried fifty yards aud were
found locked in each others arms. The
father and nephew were terribly mangled,
and all must have suffered instant death.
The dwellings, stables and out houses were
entirely blown away, logs being scattered
for many ards along the path of the tor
nadO, and hearth aud foundation stones
blown from their places.
In the vicinity of Mount Olive Mrs Nor.
gan, wife of Johu w. Morgan. was killed
and the dwelling and out houses Of F.
FLOYD were mpletely.swept away and the
timbers scattered in every direction. In
the village of Mount Olive several houses
were swept away and the remainder other
wise injured. Fences were blown away
along the whole course of the tornado.
Post an0 rail fences were drawn out and
torn into splinters and utterly destroyed.
Large trees were twisted from their roots
and carried hundreds Of yards, A consid-
cradle lumber of horses, cattle and other
stock and nearly all the poultry in its
course were killed. The pecuniary damage
is not less than $50 600.