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- meht OF Catarrhal Affections after many misera-
be failures means undoubted specific curative proper
ties In the remedy used. Does SANyoRD's RADICAL
CURE for tatarrh possess such properties? The evil
dence IN the shape OF unsolicited the
most respect able people In all stations Of le
conclusive on this point Never We believe, In the his
tory Unpopular medicines has such valuable
been offered freely offered any remedy th an
That IN the possession OF the propretors of
RADICAL CURE And valu bile as II IL. IL does
sent housandth part Of the ations which
areoday offered by friends to friends In its favor Peo
pie OF wealth and In all Of country
daily admit Its superiority over any method Of
known TO inc regular profession. but shun the
the las In our possession represent but ssma
part OF those withheld for the mentioned The
following unsolicited testimonial from HKNEY WILLS,
ESQ. OF Wells, Fargo Co.'S Express is an outspoken
Endorsement of which we are Justly proud.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-11-02
9aly 8euaebee journal,

issued every morning, except SunuaJs. IL coii.
Sans The latest news 10y telegraph mail, give.
Reports Oh the Markets. and has carefully prepared
political and local articles, generous amount
oi farming, nome and lsceilaneous reading with
a tuil compilation OF Stale news.
Terms, 81 per dn1um IN advance, Is II payment
Is not made within the year. single copies cents,
" 10 had al the bookstores and a this ONCE.
Advertisements Inserted reasonable. terms
RSlss may be ma. " application AZ this ONCE.
, 1878-04-27
The PaiOusc Country.

Jas. Nheelan, formerly of Walla Walla,
has opened harness store IN Colfax-
A dry goods man, representing $50, coo,
contemplates locating at Colfax.
The Gazette says that reports of Indian
difficulties in that vicinity are without
foundation. Moses is represented as be
ing of a peaceful turn of mind.
The population of Colfax has been in
creased by the presence Of some twenty
Cinnamon. The Ga-cttc says the town
can get along without them
A saw mill is soon TO be located in Para
disc valley, five miles northeast of Mos
COW. The machinery is on the ground,
and when III running order will tarn out
IL, GOO feet per day.
About two weeks ego, Scott Clark, of
Paradise valley, while handiia: a loaded
pistol IN careless manner, accidentally
discharged the weapon, the bail entering
the fore finger Of his left hand below the
second JOINT, and coming out of the sec-
ond finger, intiicting severe flesh wounds,
but breaking no bones.
Accordin. to the Paloase Gd-ette, the
extreme cold weather has killed the fruit
in that vicinity, and even along Snake
river, it is thought thai peaches have been
injured To quite an extent. The prospects
for an abundance of fruit were never bet
ter two weeks ago, but the warm weather
Of March advanced the young buds too
far to endure the late freezing nights.
Sam Dillman, q fellow charged with hay
Ing committed a crime against nature,
upon being demonstrated With by his
father-in law drew Il knife and commenced
making mince meat of the old gent Dill
man, after the cutting, left for parts I'M
known. and the authorities have offered q
reward Of S108 for his arrest. His father
in-law will recover; but the calf is ruined
for life
L. f. Vaughn, of Pleasant Flat, has
been on his pleasant place but SIX months,
and now boasts Of being the possessor OF
a comfortable dwelling, sixty-iive acres of
grain sown, iifty-iive Of which is well
fenced, and in addition, has two Thousand
different kinds OF fruit and forest trees,
and grape vines. 8!r. Nau"hn has had
some successful experience with the ditch
fence, having made one hundred rods, his
other fencing is of rail and posts He is
following the injunction OF Holy Writ,
Multiply and replenish the earth, as
ne is the father Of eleven enterprising
children, nine Of whom are of school age.
Miss Francis, daughter Of hir. Vaughn,
has a fine claim adjoining her fathers
place, for Which she lately refused a thou
sand dollars
, 1878-04-27

MILLS oS THE SoUND.-About all the
mills on Puget Sound, are having new
and improved machinery and steam power
added to them. Port Blakely Is having
AN addition that viii increase the manu-
facture of lumber to nearly 100000 feet
IN II hours. Port Madison is having two
new engines where they only had one,
and new gang saw, which Will make
them equal in running ability to Port
Rlakelv. The Port Gamble Mill Co,
have added all the late improved maeEin-
cry for the manufacturing of lumber,
thereby increasing their capacity about
one fourth. The Seabeck mill is being
enlarged and new boilers and machinery
mt in that will make, her rank second
for the quantity of daily manufacture OF
lumber Port Ludlow in the past twelve
months been mostly rebuilt, and the COM
pletion of the mill with new improvement
The Milton mill has been improved much
during the past few months, and no doubt
more lumber is cut there in proportion to
the number of men employed than any
| other mill on the Sound --EschdI9e.
, 1878-04-27
i,ay.ea htenis.
The Dayton brass-baEd is 4 success.

The Dayton brsiSS-nalia Is 4 Success
\ shipment % over o. tons Of wheat WAS
made from the Grange warehouse, at t'raage
city, last week.
Ensiness is represented rs unusually good
the DAYTON merchants beng oyec-lUn with
customers.
Frank Day While playing baseball the
other day was hit over the head by care
lessly handled bat Next.
Al. ex-member of the legislature has loca-
ted at Dayton. and the result is that another
saioon is to he started at that place
The Columbia Chron;cie, recently started
at Daytoa opposes the annexation Of Nalla
WalIa and Columbia counties to Oregon
The presence of an immense number OF
dogs has nothing to DO with The eheapness
and excellence CT sausages manufactured at
Dayton.
DAYTON now boasts regular milk wagon,
4 cheap John, q ,:ray, and last, though not
least, the constant presence OF number Of
brass mounted drumhers.
| At meeting of Columbia County Council
| ". II. at Dayton April Isl. the following
s.i!lcCIS Y ti'-titi: 'sSt4ir
Thomas Throsscil, vice president; Z. Il. Lo-
can. secretary; i. Oliver, treasurer.
The farming community in the vicinity of
| DAYTON, according to the Chronicle, IS busy
| finishing up pioWirg and seeding. An in
mense area of land has been soWn 10 grain
! this season, and thousands of acres of wild
land broke.
The Chronicle thinks that the Union can
get along without the assistance of Wash
mgton territory, and throws cold water on
the constitutional convention. As already
stated, the members are to receive - day,
the drawing OF which VIII constitute Their
most important duty.
The Chronicle suggests the planting Of the
eucalyptus. There is a widespread bellet
that this tree, as a sanitary agent, Is equa
to and far surpasses blue-slass. In many
places In Europe, more particularly Italy
the veneratioa for this tree has assumed
something of the character Of a religion.
a son of George May, living On the noun
tain seven or eight miles from Dayton, dee
very suddenly last week. his death ii Is sup
posed was caused from the effect cf base
bail. In a game he received lex IL III
stomach from a hard swift ball, and shortly
afterward was corpse
, 1878-04-27
ISDtc,TtoNs STILL WARuKE.-Tho,

INDICATIONS STILL WARIKE Though
there have been reports Of renewal Of
negotiations since Prince Gortchakotf7 S
reply to Lord Salisbury was made public,
there appears to have been no real change
in the situation. The British government
evidently does not anticipate peaceful
solution Of the difficulty, for 1t Is urging
great preparations for war with feverish
haste. Russia is also using all her ener-
gies to put herself in a state OF prepara-
ton. ard neither government has either
made any concessions or intimated an IN
tention or disposition to do SO. Russia
no doubt wishes TO gam as much time as
possible, in the hope OF being able to Per
suade Austria either To remain neutral or
to form an alliance with her. Nothing
is positively known as to the attitude OF
the Vienna government, but there is some
reason to believe that Berlin has removed
the anti-war pressure, and that the ten
dencv is towards an Anglican alliance.
Germany is making some efforts to pre-
serve peace, but apparently more for the
sake of satisfying formallty than with
any real desire to prevent an outbreak.
Italy also is jnclining towards an English
alliance. and 1t is not little significant
that as the situation grows more critical
II is Russia, and not her rival, that ap-
pears to be threatened with ISOLATION
| Sacramento Record
, 1878-04-27
rrg,aua.s cansur,r:ssa Of Hreat,stnas.

The statistics OF the movements ol
cereal produce shows that the United
, L.;n,sA"rn has imported durIn.- the inst
half Of the crop year, from September /,
1877, to March |, 1873, of wheat and
-four. In round numbers, - 800, ,CiD cwt. ,
which is 60 per cent. increase over last
ya:.r, and slightly exceeds the very large
total Of the corresponding time two years
ago The countries from which tiese
supplies were chiefly derived were tie
United States. which furnish about Aa
ner cent. then Russia II pr cent Ger
MANY and British india about 10 per cent.
and British North America about 81 per
cent. Il is a remarkable fact that not
Yithstanding the embargo upon trade III
the Black Sea and Danube, caused 10y the
war, thereccipts of wheat from Russia are
s!ight!y larger than for the corresponding
SIX moths last year before hostilitles com
menccd. and about equal TO the average
for the three preceding seasons. THIS
would seem to indicate that the surplus
| of the Russian wheat crop has not been
| prevented from reaching market, but
| has found new outlets, So that the amount
vet to come forward IS less than has been
Generally estimated, and this is III accord
ance with tle latest information iron the
Black Sea ports.
The estimated value Of the imports oi
wheat AID flour into the United Kingdom
for the six months IS $il0,0oo, ,03e, which
is The larg st in the history Of the trade:
The value OF all cereal produce imported
durine the same time Was Sl40,HIo, ,C1o
This IS AN enormous sum for a country IL
nay out for hreadstutiS in half a year, be
sides drawing upon its home gram pro
duce for nearly two-thirtis as much more
The average price Of English wheat iol
the season was 53s Cd per quarter, a5alils
4as last year and 45s l0d two years pre-
eeaino. The future wants OF great Britain
for the remainder of the year will doubt
less be larger, but if the new crop o
wheat should promise well and turn Gu
satisfactory in England her imports woul'
be on less liberal scale. In any even
her imports viii be large and she mus
draw the larger part OF them from TIN
country. whether she become involved Il
! a war with Russia or not, for there Is n
other large source of supply, althoug
Australia and British India WILL have con
siderable surplus to spare. These lndica
+ions are favorable for firm markets to
wheat and -four.
, 1878-04-27
Our Washington kctter.
WASHINGTON, April IL, 1S7;


EDITOR STATESMAN Even i'll 50 simple
and small a matter as the employment of
temporary clerks in one of the depart
ments, the difference between what ought
to be the policy of the government and
what its policy is, was shown III the house
YESTERDAY. A house committee recon-
mended sum of money sometime since
for the purpose, and the house voted the
money ard sent the bill TO the senate.
The senate doubled the amount and sent
the bill back to the holsyc. Conference
committees were appointed. They have
been unable to agree Il the house does
its duty the senate viii yield. If the
house fails to do It's duty in this case 1t
will probably fail in larger matters
For instancS the consular and dlpio-
matte approba ,n bin, in which the dif
ference betwe' the houses is quarter
of million dJnars. goes to a conference
committee to-day. Other still larger sums
are or VIII soon be IN conference commit
tees. 4 little backbone among democratic
representatives Will help the country and
the party wonderfully just now. Let us
have as much unanimity where millions
are concerned and where principle IS
involved, as where a doorkeeper Is to be
elected
Senator Thurman won a great victory
yesterday in the passage Of his Pacific
railroad funding bill. The vote was 10
to I9, and not III any sense political. The
bill is designed, while forcing the eompa-
MES to terms on their business as now
conducted, to still leave to congress the
power, by future legislation, to protect
the interests of the country by III any
change of policy on the part Of the roads.
Senator Blaine oiieredan ingenious amend
ment calculated 10 deprive the country Of
this power, by declaring the settlement
made by this bin q tinality, but was over
whelmingly beaten.
Hon. Fernando Wood yesterday opened
the debate on lis new tariff bill. He SAID
this measure Was not all he wanted, or all
the country needed, but WAS beginning,
and the benefits to be derived from the
comparative few changes now asked for,
would soon make the country eager for
greater and more radical changes. lie
SAID, what Is Iii part true, that this was
not IA partv measure. Gir. Wood is "A very
clear headed man, and understands lris
subject rs well, perhaps, as any man IN
the house, but his speech CT yesterday
was not altogether jGdicious and, IN fact,
was so much an argument for free trade
that it vii! drive away some members
who wished to support the bill asprepared.
Gen. Banks has the floor TO reply TO Alr.
Wood.
| The new doorkeeper, Gen. Field, profit
; ing by the unfortunate example of his
predecessors, proposes TO manage his office
IN his own way. 1t is already evident
there is in him none Of THAI amiabie weak
ness which caused the downfall OF Col.
Polk. Besides, members "f congress,
warned by the past, viii he less cialaor"us
! III Their demands for place under The new
! official. They VIII rot demand that he
make ten go III five and leave something
over HEX
, 1878-04-27

A CHINESE HELL-A traveller thus
describes representation Of the punish
ine.t of the wicked after oath accoiisnSt"
the Buddhist theory, which he witnessed
III the suburbs OF Canton "After
walk Of about mile, We Came to the
Temple Of Horrors This is d horrible
riace-that is, the scenes are hideou5.
The intention is to represent what :. bad
man would suffer after death. IL is com
posed of ten different groups OF statuary,
made of clay, and many Of them are
c!-uiabiillg to pieces. The first group rep
rcsents the trial of man he Is surround
ed by his friends, who are trying 70 defeEi
him the second, where he is condemned
and gwen over to the eXecutipner IN
the third he is undergoing seni-trans-
formation from the man to the brute ;
the fourth, where he is put into a mill F.,
with h!s head doWnwards, and is being
ground up; his dog is by the side OF the
mill licking up his blood. In the fifth
scene he is beng sawed down lengthwlse;
sixth, he is under large bell, which Is
rung until the concGSsion kills him sew
enth, the man is placed upon table, and
two men are padding or spanking him
with large. wooden paddles /; eighth, he is
upon a rack, and the executioners are
tearing his flesh with red hot p!ncefs
ninth, he is Il cauldron of boiling lead
the tenth scene represents him upon ;
grid-iron, undergoing the process d
roasting. In all these his family ar(
present also large figures who represent
the Judge, executioners. little devils anC
various instruments of torture
, 1878-04-27

A DECISION THAT Hrs HAYEs.-lhe
decision of the supreme court OF Lo'lisl-
ana in the returning board Anderson case
IS something of the style OF the gam when
kicked the owner over. Under 1t, Ander-
son was released, on a technicatlty but
il also declared that the consolidated re-
turns hv which the four villains OF the
haard cornted ont T!lden and counted III
Hayes, were without au'horty 'i % -Se
This is equivalent TO a decl'ipn tT-LI1+..oS %
court that Tilden was lawfully f-TGsv -. he
every honest citizen already Dfils'I to he in
was. Yet Hayes, thus declared 70 ~ D tbe 20
fraudulent possession OF the once, ~ y 70 70
very tribunal which he prevailed upon ,ha -
release the felon Anderson, VIII iie,ei .i a. 40
less hang on 10 ii, to his own al" '--'
countrvs everlasting disgrace.
, 1878-04-27
yrys.tnn lse-l.-.

The Teiier strongly favors the North Pa
ctic railroad.
J. W. McLysle, who appropriated gov
errmeEt male, and for which be was sent TO
the penitentiary, has been "ardoned by Nr.
Hayes.
The people of Northern Idaho want miE-
tary protection. The T,iitT strongly urges
the government to establish military post
IL that locality.
According to the TeIl,r, there is a large
body of unoccupied land on the east side OF
Snake river. south Of Lewiston, extending
10 Craigs mountain.
Lewiston is rejoicing over the fact that
". W. Thayer. democratic candidate Tor
governor Of Oregon, formerly resided in that
place. So did Geo. l.. Woods Yet George
made 4 very poor governor.
The Lewiston T,t!er strongly favors hold
| ing a constitutional convention in this terri
tory The editor Of that paper, We believe,
is delegate; bat that, as matter Of course,
has no weight in influencing It's decision
| H0odlums according to correspondent
in the Teller, have habit of showing theli
appreciation for amateur theatrlcals by re
warding the efforts Of performers with show
ers of eggs The Lewiston hens have tn,
reputation OF laying very poor quality o
eggs.
A new town has been surveyed anC
mapped, embracing tile Hat on the west sid
of Snake river near the mouth Of the AsSo
tin creek Mr.. T. Schanck is the projecto
of this new town. 1t viii be Z shipping
point for the FARMERS OF the Assotin country
and can be reached by steamers when the.
can reach Lewiston.
4 three year old COW near Lewiston IS tn
mother of five calves. Tha: COW weul
prove a paying investment for some OF tli
stockmen OF Eastern Oregon, more partIcu
larly the fellow over in Unatlia county
who, a few years ago, started III buslne>
with two mules and now has large ban
OF cattle: and the mnles are still alive.
, 1878-04-27
Recollection.

Oh there are moments IL our lives
When every sorrow, every pam,
That We have ever known or felt,
Comes back with startling force again
Ani there are moments, too, that bring
Back all the happiness OF years
Moments when we forget that life
Is .ioatei to its rest in tears
A foretaste of the better life
Where grief is cheated Of its prey:
Where flowers OF love that once do bloom
Are never known 10 fade away.
, 1878-04-27
Glass ENGRAVING BY ELECTRICITY.

GLASS ENGRAVING BY ELECTRICITY
N. Plante described at the last meeting
of the Paris Academy OF Sciences a new
method of engraving glass by electricity
The surface of plate Of glass or crystal
having been covered with a concentrated
solution of nitrate of potash, and hori-
zontal platinum wire, connected with one
of the poles of al electric battery, being
placed in the liquid along the edges Of the
glass by touching it with the point at the
other end of the platinum wire. The
wire forming the ''pencil" is insulated,
the tip alone remaining uncovered, and
by simply using the wire as an ordinary
pencil and tracing imaginary lines on the
surface of the glass, the design is perma-
nently reproduced and distinctly engraved
thereon. Flat surfaces may be easily
treated in this manner, but the difficulty
of keeping convex surfaces covered with
the nitrate OF potash is likely to prove an
obstacle to the general adoption of the
system BY means of specially con-
structed bath, however. 1t may be posi-
bic to overcome the difficulty.
, 1878-04-27
The Famous Porcelain Tower.

The famous porcelain tower, near Nat
ine, China, in described by 4 traveller, who
saws: In the quiet evening we made our
way out Of the city by the south gate,
through a well constructed tunnel, and
shortly stood upon the eminence over
whose surface WAS mass of debris con-
sisting of broken bricks, tiles and plaster
several feet thick. This was all-all that
was left of that which, for its historic
beauty, the ingenuity of its construction
and us great cost, took rank with the
wonders. of the world-the famous por-
celain tower 1t must have been very
beautiful in its perfection, II We accept
the statements OF its various historians,
who differ So little in their accounts that
one does for all. From them We learn
that its form was octagonal, n,ne stories
high. tapering as it rose to the height of
2GI feet from the ground, the circumfer-
enea OF the lower story beng l20 feet.
The body OF the pagoda was of brick, but
lis face was composed of porcelain tiles OF
many colors Each story formed kind
Of salon, through which ran the SPIRAL
staircase leading to the summit, and whose
walls were coiorcd with small gilded idols
resting in inches, tie entire apartment
beng richly painted and gildea- Each
story Was defined by a projecting corn!ce
of green tiles, from whose points gllded
bells were hung. The roof was overlaid
with copper, and above it rose a mast
thirty feet high, capped 10y a golden bail
and ooiled about by an immense band of
iron, appearing ike rings from below.
The base of this shaft WAS an IRON ball
formed By two halves, the outer sufaee Of
which is ma@niiicently embossed l say
is, for one-haif rests where it fell, the
only tangible thing IN the mass OF rum
The other half, weighing twelve tons, be
ing broken by the fall, Was recast into 4
temple bell.
Standing befoetheha half which isleft, We
query who were they that fashioned this
beautiful casting, worthy the hand OF Il
master! Whose writing and inscription
embellishes its face, unlike amy Chinese
workmanship Whose skill was great
enough IN A. d. I439 to place ball OK
IRON thirtv-six feet Ill circumference,
weighing twenty-four tons, upon a pede-
gtal POI feet hight This ball WAS the
receptacle for various treasures calculated
to ward off evil influences, among which
were nisAt-sliiningjewels, pearls, books,
gold, silver, thousands; of strings Of cash,
satin, silk and priceless medicines The
number Of bells on the structure was l02,
and the interior MAS lighted by several
hundreds Of lamps, while the exterior re-
auired l29 to hight it. 1t took nineteen
wears to build IL, and cost S3,3l3,UIo. Or
ali this, not one story rests on th., other !;
lightning, fire and war have lad their
hands upon il and it fell, It's final destroy
ers being the T;cping rebels Gbont twenty
years a.o. 1t stood IN the grounds OF L
large Buddhist monastery, which tel at
the same time a prey 10 the fanatleiSin
and rapac;ty Of the invaders Gne work
Of art within the grounds escaped dcstruc-
ton, pure white marble tortoise, bear
ing upon his back a perpendicular tablet
with an inscription. i'h!s, with one s"h-
tary priest, keeps watch and ward over
The ruins Of bygone glory.