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prise, or building one mile Of
railroad in the direction Of its
eastern terminus.
The railroad company practi-
cally abandoned. any design OF
building tho branch across the
mountains, three years ago
The bill they had before Con
gress at the last session for the
extension of time made no pro-
vision tor the branch over the
mountains; they never intended
to build it, and this has been re-
peatcdly publicly declared by
nearly every member of the pre-
sent Board. But they engaged
in mining speculation; bought
a coal claim thirty miles south
of Tacoma and built railroad
to it with the means OF the rail
road company. This road goes
back on their own track; every
mile Of it being within the linn
il of the lands already earned
by and conceded to the cempa-
ny, and exclusively for the i'm
provement Of their own private
property. Then they filed new
map for a route which has not
yet been surveyed, and intended
only to cover this coal road and
claim the land theron as part
of the branch road, and, as will
be seen by the report, that the
representatives Of the company
at Washington abandoned their
claim to the balance Of the grant
for the branch in favor of Port
land, to secare the subsidy to
their coal road. If the people of
Tacoma have been betrayed in
this bargain between the N P.
Co. and the Portland Board of
Trade, they have no cause to
blame Jacobs and McGilvra for
it. They labored faithfully to-
defeat the nefarious project, and
deserve the plaudits Of the peo-
pie for their fidelity uader ad-
verse circumstances.
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George Francis Train.

George Francis Train lectured to
1900 persons in Newark nthe 2Sth
uls. Although the night was cold,
the lecturer insisted on having the
windows open and the house flooded
with cold air, About fifty of New
ark's leading citizens, accompanied
by ladies sat on the stage. Mr..
Train said that in Newark Inger-
soil couldn't get a bakers dozen of
auditors, and that Beecher couldn't
make enough to buy a new silk dress
for Mrs. Tilton. Tweedism, he con-
tinued, represents the Democratic
party, GFansism represents the Re-
publican party, Hayesism repre-
sents the frauds of the Louisiana
Returning Board, and Gen. How
ard represents the Freedman's Bu-
reau which rubs the poor freedman
of his hard earnings for Christ's
sake. Laughter. Everything is
bad. Look at the press, for in
stance. They are all down on me.
Look at the Sssn. It cuts my
speeches down to ton lines. And
yet I put an advertisement into it
to-day that COSTUME $40. I do it be-
cause it pays.
The Tribune is bankrupt. It
wouldn't sell tomorrow for the first
mortgage on the tall tower. It cir
sulates about $4,000. the Times
about 20, 900. the World about 10, 900,
the Herald 10000. The circulation
Of the San is yI0, ,00O-more than
that of ali the rest put together,
That's why advertise in it.
In conclusion Mr. Train said:
in fifteen years my hair will be
as black as a ravens; in forty years
T will have new set of teeth, and
in 100 years I shall begin making
Few race of men.
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! beer as 1t is that he who drink
eth water thinketh water, these
Eastern people should be taught
what it is that they are doing in
this new departure.
The japanese are a merry,
light-hearted people, hating the
blues, and not over-addicted to
profound philosophy or love-po-
etry. AS they become a beer
drinking people they will lose
these pleasant characteristics;
joyful and registering they may
be at midnight, but IN the morn
ing they will be dull and mnhap-
py. AS noon draws nigh deep
problems in regard to the desti-
ny OF man and melancholy views
Of the utter worthlessness cf the
universe will take possession of
their mands, to be driven away
only by unhealthy ante-praadial
smoking. Instead of busy1ng
themselves with their art, Sat-
suma ware, beautiful tcapots ind
things, they will go abroad seek
ing companionship of men who
will play Beetboven's sympao-
MES and Schumann's sWarunn ;
till tears are streaming from eve
~ eye. FOR where lager-beer
goes thltller must Schumann ard
Gounod repair in company, and
high aesthetic views and poverty
come as one that travcleth and
strong pipes as armed men,
Real work will suffer and philoso.
ply abound until finally the Ja~
panese, who are no better adapa
ed to beer than a fairy is to bran.
dy, will die outand their place Be
taken by the stronger races who
drink malt liquors with impuni-
ty.
The Mikado sheuId lay this.
sermon to heart and consider be-
fore it shall be too late what
troubles arise from license laws
which set good people by the
ears; he shodld think what it is
to become an extinct people
through eating and drinking
things to which we are by nature
alien, and thus thinking he must
come to see the bad policy of
establishing breweries in the
Flowery Kingdom"
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McCiIvya's Argument.

We are in receipt of a pamph-
let of thirty-two pages, being
the argument Of Hon. John J..
McGilvra in favor OF tho resto-
ration of the public lands, in this
Territory to settlement, and the
recognition of the claim Of the
Seattle and Walla WalIa Rail
road Company in the plan Of re-
adjustment Of the grant of the
restored lands.
The argument is a well-writ
ten and logical statement of the
facts as they exist, and would
certainly win its cause if right
alone governed the decision. Mr..
McGilvra has successfully shown
that the road up the Puyallup
river was built solely for the
purpose of securing the grant of
public lands, and to aid the spec
ulation in town sites; that it
ends in a canyon at the base of
Mount Rainier, and to build fur
ther would be impossible; that
the route by way of the Matches
Pass is impracticable, and has
never been surveyed by the n
P. Railroad Company. He has
also shown that the only practi-
cable route for a railroad to
cross the Cascades to Puget
Sound is by way ofthe Sno9ual-
mic Pass; that the Northern Pa
cific Railroad Company is con-
trolled by Gland ring who
only object is their personal
gain; that the original grant
contemplated grand thorough
fare from the interior of the
continent to the Pacific ocean
by way Of the secure harbors Of
Puget Sound, and not by way of
the Columbia river, with it's
dangerous bars. He has shown
that the effect of an extension
of time will..be to deprive both
the people of this Territory and
of Oregon of a railroad connect
ing the interior with the ocean
as the interests of the Oregon
Steam Navigation Company and
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The Portland Bee, thus sdito-
rally alludes to the late libel
suit: "The editor of the Seattle
Tribune has been indicted by the
grand jury Of King county W.
T., for falsely and maliciously
charging the forgery Of the
Judge Lewis resignation. upon
Beriah Brown, editor of the Sc
attic DIsPATcE.. 1t is to be re-
gretted that there is no. law in
the Territory to punish a mis-
creant who knowingly gives
currency to such base charges "
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Beer for The Mikado.

In pursuance of its policy Of
introducing the manners and
customs of the West into japan
the Government of the Mikado
some years ago sent young
" Frenchman Of the East" to
Berlin, there to study the manu-
facture of lager-aeer. "The
young gentleman" says the New
York World, whose name is
Nakanava, has now returned
home and taken charge Of a great
brewery at Tokia, which is to be
a training-school for brewers
throughout the empire, SO that
we may expect soon to find the
japanese abandoning their tea
and taking to the national drink
Of Germany, even as in Lambs
famous story the Chinese, having
once tasted roast pork, could not
thenceforth be induced to relin-
quish it. The japanese are a
very initiative people, and now
especially, during the time Of
their renaissance through foreign
influence, are they peculiarly
impressionable. Krupp guns be-
ing introduced, European tactics
must follow; the importation of
plano-fortes sounds the death
knell Of the mandolin, and with
the brewing Of lager-beer must
come the drinking thereof, after
the manner and customs of that
mighty nation which first won
so great o secret from the relac-
tant heart Of nature.
1t is incontestable that the
physical and mental character
istics, and consequently the out
ward lives, of a people change
with any important change in
their dietary. The fact that this
must be SO is SO apparent on it's
face that close students Of Mr..
Herbert Spencer will not wonder
that he has been at pains to
provo it in many long chapters
made upon the most convincing
instances which history and
legend can afford. 1t is there
fore matter Of Importance to
point out some of the results
which must follow the general
consumption of lager-beer by the
Japanese, for if it be as true that
| he who drinketh beer thlnketh
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THE EASTERN WAR.

CHICAGO, Feb. 9.-The Times special
says: The effect of sending the fleet to
Constantinople on the Russians, is an
tlcipated with much anxiety.
A st. Petersburg correspondent says
the Russian war party construe the
movement as a violation of neutrality,
and direct and unwarranted impeach.
ment of Russia's good faith. He says
it is looked upon as defiance of Russia
by England.
The statement of the chancellor of the
exchequer that the fleet was sent to
Constantinople to protect British sub
jects from violence is regarded as hypo~
critical and produces great indignation.
Russian extremists demand that war
be at once declared against England, or
rather. that the sending of the feet to
Consiantinople be regarded ass declara>
ton of war by England and treated ac>
cordingly.
Active correspondence is going on as
to the time and place of meeting of the
conference. It is said the Goth inst. has
been decided on. and that the placs will
be either Lausanne or Geneyu.
The Sixty~frst regiment leaves to day
for Malta.
"a Vienna correspondent telegraphs
tina: Russia. besides her exception taken
to Vienna as place for holding the
conference, announced that she had
some other observations to make which
were sent BY special messengers. 1t is
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GENERAL. NEWS.

CHICAGO, Feb. s. in the case Of Ear
by Va. W. F. Story. editor of the Chica~
go Times. in which the lower court
awarded large damages to plaiatiff for
defamation of the character of his
daughter, the supreme court of this
state reversed the decision and 7emand~
ed the case for p7ial. The principal
gseunds of this decision are That in the
lower court the Judge gave erroneous
instructions and excluded competent
witnesses of defendant. 1t is also set
torth that the publication of news as
such differs widsly in the bsht of the
law from the expression of opinion by
the publisher of the paper in the edi.
torial columns. The decision was as
sented to by all but one of the supreme
court justices.
New YoRK, Feb. TO- Theodore Rooses
welt, recently nominated BY President
Hayes for collector of this port, died
Saturday evening.
New YORK, Feb. is generally
admitted that the late Catholic Bishop
Domenec suffered from mental derange>
ment. and that 1t was this which led to
his retiring from his exalted station at
Allegheny, Penn.
The signal service station at the wreck
of the Metropolis reports trunk marks
ed Bartlett" containing clothing, and
q tin trunk. supposed to contain money.
found by the patrolman, who had to
break the trunk open, being unable to
move it and unsafe to leave on the
beach.
Captain Harrison is taking up bodies
from the south end to>day. He will
continue Tomorrow, and thinks he will
be able to furnish o list of all bodies
identified by Tomorrow afternoon or
Monday. AL! bodies identified will be
sent to Norfolk Tuesday. thence to Phil>
adelphia. The ships stores and cloth
ing are still washing ashore.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 9.-The Times
publishes rumor that Domsnec is not
dead, but held as life prisoner at
Rome. whittier he went in obedience to
q summons thither to account for the
alleged squandering Of eight hundred
thousand dollars belonging to his dio>
cese. The rumor Of imprisonment is
probably unfounded, AZ one Of his ex-
ecutors has already qualified since re-
ceiving news from Domeneo's death at
Tarragona, Spain. The mental disorder
from which he suffered evidently dur
ing several years accounts also for his
financial troubles.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 9.-Chsrles Baker.
aged 40. keeper of saloon on Light
st.eet, shot his wife twice this afternoon,
then killed himself. The widow may
recover; jealousy.
OMAHA, Feb. 9.-The supreme court
of Nebraska to- day affirmed the decis-
ion of the lower court in the case of
Warren Clough. who was convicted of
numbering his brother at Seward some
thing over q year ago, and was sentence
ed to be hung.
New ORLEANS. Feb. 10.-Louis Mon
plaiser and James Princs. colorsd Jurors
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more shan probable she will insist ON
certain points as not debstable By the
conferences.
LONDON, Feb. "a telegram from
Paris announces that the Italian feet
arrived at Salonica.
LONDON. Feb. 8.-A special from
Lamia says the Greek army is returning
bone. It's loss during the war was 800
and one prisoner.
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the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company are Identical, and they
are interested in monopoly of
the carrying trade by way of
the Columbia river. The argu-
ment clearly shows that the
managers Of the Northern Pa
cific Railroad Company have
never acted in good faith, but
have scrupled at nothing where
the interests Of the people at
large seemed to conflict with
their own personal interests.
After this showing Congress
has no right to extend the time
for she completion of this road,
without at the same time guard
ing the interests Of the people
of Washington and Oregon; but
Congress has the power to do
this, and power outweigbs right
IN the balance. AS the world
goes right is not right unless it
is backed with power; conse-
quently We need not be sur
prised if Congress secs proper
to rob us Of our public lands for
the purpose Of building up a
monopoly that shall retard our
growth for generations. by it's
extOrtiOns.
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SATURDAY. ...... FEB. 16, 1878.
Jacobs and McCilvra.

luc 1dCOiId AtIUtU, q JOui Aal
which is generally conducted in
a very fair and courteous man.
ner, has become furious at the
action of Messrs. Jacobs and Nc
Gllvra, in their efforts to defend
the settlers of Washington Ter
ritory against the Vaccinations
of a foreign corporation which
sought to hold large portion
of the public domain solely for
purposes of private speculation.
Those gentlemen are accused of
sacrificing i" the interests Of ev-
cry inhabitant of Eastern and
Western Washington" to the in
terests of Seattle; are charged
with defeating the land grant
made by the Government to the
Northern Pacific Railroad to Sc
cure for our people railroad
over the mountains, whereby the
whole Territory is put back for
years in the struggle for devel-
opement, and Mr.. Jacobs is bid
to "listen to the voice of wait
ing industry and PROSTATE enter
prise, and catch the exeeration
heaped upon his trescherous be-
trayal Of his trust"
Very we'll expressed; but
very large majority of the peo-
pie of Washington Territory take
a like view from different stand
point. For eight loug years
waiting industry and PROSTATE
enterprise has been at the mercy
of an organized band of land
speculators, whose agents precc-
ded the railroad surveyors and
entered 40, 900 acres OF lands in
the best locations for purposes
Of private speculation, to which
the location of the road was sub
sequently made subsidiary, with
the agent of the land ring for
the manager of the railroad. A
survey was then made for a line
of railroad from a point on the
Columbia river 105 miles south
west Of where it touched Puget
Sound, thence almost due north
20 miles, to near the line Of Brit
ish Columbia before it diverges
towards the east over the noun
tains, and connecting the least
possible portion of the settled
part of Washington Territory
with the Sound. This was the
survey filed in the department
of the Interior for the branch
upon which two-thirds Of the
lands of Western Washington
have been withdrawn from mar
ket and withheld from settle
ment for the last seven or eight
years, during all of which time
not one mile of road has been
built in an eastern direction from
Puget Sound but the 20 miles
of the Seattle and Walla Walls
road constructed solely by pri
vate enterprise. So far as the
Northern Pacific company ii
concerned, waiting industry still
waits and PROSTATE enterprise
yet languishes, and we have but
to pass beyond the precincts O.
their control, anywhere in this
Territory, to catch the execra'
ton heaped upon the managers
of the railroad for the treacher.
ous betrayal of their trust.
Five millions Of dollars have
been expended, 1861, 900 acres
of public lands have already
been acquired, without promo
ting settlement, opening any
new avenue of trade, contribu
ting in any material degree tc
the general prosperity, encoura.
ging any new industry or enter.
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A Romance Of Divorce.

About the 1st of January there
appeared in the New York Herald an
advertisement inspiring for the ad-
dress Of "the daughter of the late
Horace Meech," to whom, it stated,
the late VIM. G. Glynn of Boston
had, by will, left fortune of $780,
coo, application to be made of Mr..
Choate, fremont street, Boston.
Mr.. Horace Mech was many
years ago we'll known resident Of
Albany. William C. Glynn was at
the same time perhaps q quarter
ofa century ago-a teacher of music
in that city. Among his pupils was
Miss Mech, daughter of the afore-
said. Glynn fell in love with the
young lady, and she. presumably
with him, and they were married.
The parents were bitterly opposed
to the match, anas succeeded. in q
few months, in persuading their
daughter to leave him. A divorce
followed. Glynn removed to Bos-
ton and was lost to- sight, His di-
vorced wife soon married young
gentleman in Rochester, who died
not long afterward in the South.
The widow married for the third
time, gentleman in Buffalo. He
also, died, leaving the widow with
one daughter, now grown up, mar
ried, and herself a mother.
The widow in reduced circum-
stances, was living with sister on
Staten Island, when some Albany
friends, seeing by chance the adver-
tisement, acquainted her with it's
contents. She at once took meas
ures to secure the bonanza left her
by her first love. It seems that
Glynn after removing to Boston,
made fortune in the music bust
ness. Time, however, nor circum-
stances, made him forget "the girl
he left behind him. although she
had thrice married, and had become
a grandmother since his eyes had
beheld her.
Mrs. Anglia Podesta Oneta died at
Cincinatti on the 18th, aged 109
years and one day. She was mar
ried at twenty, and had eight chill
dren. all of whom are living, the
youngest, man of fifty-one, being a
resident of Cincinnati. At eighty
six the old lady married second
husband, whom she survived many
years, to die without pain after an
illness Of only two days.
An ebony coffin, lined with
white satin, with a lot in Pere
la Chaise, was one Of the gifts
proffered to popular actress IN
Paris this month.
Next to committing matrimony.
committing perjury in swearing to
a savings bank return is the thing
most likely to withdraw a prominent
citizen from general circulation.
Thanks. to an overruling Provi-
dence, no American paragrapher has
as yet thought OF alluding to Nine.
Modleska as woman of very Mod
Jeskac appearance.
Drawing straws to see
whether or not they should con-
vict a man of murder, was the
plan hit upon by a Cairo, ILL.,,
jury, and they convicted him.
Good farming land in Stafford
county, Va. was sold a few days
since at less than one dollar an
acre.
A Maine postmistress was
fined Sl17.S0 for opening let
ter passing through her office.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-05-21
The mnrpny movement.

A meeting for the inauguration OF the
Murphy movement, which was held ut
the Methodist Episcopal Tabernacle,
on Elm street, Sunday evening at four
o'clock, was well attended. Mr.. Jacobs,
OF Carthage, Missouri, the prime mover
In the cause, made a few rem arks ex-
planatory of the object Of the
meeting and the manner In which
the movement will be conducted. He
was followed by Elder Knowles Shaw,
of the Christian church, who spoke by
invitation in behalf Of the cause, and
after he had finished the books were
thrown open and one hundred and
sixty. five came forward and signed the
pledge. which by yesterday at noon
had increased to something over tw o
hundred names.
Sunday night and last night the
meetings were repeated with telling
effect, a number signing the pledge.
Considerable interest Is being mani
tested In these meetings, and the Muir
ply movement lids fair to sweep the
city. Meetings tonight at the same
place.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-05-21
NO. 50 l--ESTABLISHED lS49

night, to attend the democratic state
convention. Before leaving no de-
oided upon the following M a select
committee OF eleven on the Potter re-
solution, which will be announced to-
morrow by Mr. Taylor, speaker prof.
tens Clarkson A. Porter New York;
William h. Morrison, Illinois; E. Hun
ton, Virglniai John MoMahon, Ohio; ].
q. Blackburn, Kentuckyi w. y. STEM
ger, Pennsylvanie; Thomas II. Cobb,
Indiana, democrats and II. Il. Butler,
Massachusetts. Frank lIiscock, New
York; Cox, Ohio, and Thomas b. Reed,
Maine, republicans.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-05-21
The Investigation Committee Work
Ingmen's Parry.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 2O.-The Gae-
lie for Hongkong and Yokahoma, to-
day, took fine silver, 81, 1865, 600 bar
silver, S5l7S92; gold coin and dust,
1854; trades, S59,54l Mexicsns,
Sl17,S6S. 1t Is one Of the largest ship.
ments ever made.
The Kesrney convention has CON-
pleted its business and adjourned. The
following resolution was adopted unans
imously:
Resolved, That we, the delegates OF
the workingmens' party of the state
Of California, now Assem- bled In con-
vention, recognize the socialistic work
ingmens' party Of the United States
as q kindred organization, having fol-
its purposes the emancipation move
ment OF the Russian vessels on this
coast
PHILADELPHIA, May | 20.-Speake1
Randall left this city f',r Pittsburg, to