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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-16
Shooting DeserterS.

Gen. Slocum, III recent lecture on
the war of the rebellion, said that one
of the great obstacles in the way of
success was the leniency of President
Lincoln toward deserters. Finally the
C rps commanders had consultation.
and determined to put q stop to the
pardon business. What followed he
told as follows:
This meeting took place down on the
Rappshannock, and shortly after, three
men of my command were found guilty
of this thing, and in compliance with
the agreement I had made with my as
sociates determined that those men
should be shot before our kind-hearted
President could interfere.
When we got to Leesburg I knew
there was no Geographic connection
with Washington, but knew that the
operators were coming up mighty fast
in our rear, and so ordered my men
out at nine o'clock, and had their graves
dug and directed that the prisoners
should have their knees placed on the
edge of their graves ut ten minutes to
twelve, and at twelve o'clock / ordered
that these men should be shot. To
show you the feeling that existed at the
time on that subject, some of my men
came to me and told me there were
high bets, five to one, that that order
would not be executed, but when the
clock struck twelve those men were
shot. Three or four months passed
away, the battle Of Gettysburg was
fought. the fall of Vicksburg had
taken place, and I was ordered up to
Join the Western army. In passing
through Washington called upon Mr..
Lincoln, and as entered his room he
said "General Slocum, the last time
T think I heard from You was in the
form of q message which caused me
more pain than almost any incident that
has occurred during the whole war;"
1 said that I had forgotten the cir
cumstances, and he said: "When you
were down at Leesburgh I autographed
to you that if the sentence of such o
man had not been executed that you
should suspend it until you got further
orders from me, and you telegraphed
back that the man was executed
promptly at twelve o'clock. The wife
and sisters OF that man were sitting
here by my side and l was compelled to
open your telegram and read it to
them" l know Of no instance that
shows Mr.. Lincoln's. Kindness of heart
r appeals to me more strongly than
that. When you remember the length
of time that had elapsed and the num-
Der Of important and stirring events
that had occurred in the interval, l am
sure you will agree with me in saying
that he proved to be generous and
big-hearted man.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-16

so.A. I'd ns.sr stop if I were to live. I
oaI ICE better so. Ruth-bstter so!'
sGhs kissed the pale face. weeping
softly. She hsd loved him when she
maafied him. She loved him now. 1t
wat hardto let him go, but she felt
tho he smoke the truth. With his
weSkness. and the curse he could not
MISTER on him, it was better so.
I'm sorry, sorry for your sake,
r uth," he whispered family. elf I
could keep my word, I'd like to live
but - I can't - I'm - SO -weak-so
weak"
That was all. In his weakness he
went out into the after life, and I think
God will straighten out the tangled,
broken, threads of their lives in the
other world. Eben q. Re.rford in N.
Y Weekly.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-16
Four Glimpses.

I caught one glimpse OF child - IS
With sunny golden hair b.
At q game of romps with her ldtten-antI
Meier saw such q merry pair. 81
The sun besmed in through the lattice =
And danced on thecottage wall,
A If to show his approval
OF child. and kitten. and all.
One glimpse Of youthful maiden
Beneath the old oak tree,
Plighted her troth to lover,
Ever true to be. 't-..l
And knew that youthful maiden
Isaw'with her lover that day,
Was she first saw as little child ~
. Long ago with her kitten at play. ~
One glimpse Of bright young wife. --..
Pseping out from the window pane,
Watching and waiting there
For her husband home again,
And knew that bright young wife
Looking 90 happy aud gay,
Was she first saw AZ q little child
Long ago, with her kitten at play.
0ae glimpse Of still white form .J
With her babe upon her breast 90.
Both 10 that darkened chamber,
For ever and ever at rest.
All me for too well knew
That life had passed away
From her first saw as q little child
Long ago, with her kitten at play.
Chambers Journal.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-16
American Women.

Sir George Campbell, an educated
Scotchman. who recently visited this
country, has been giving lecture
about us and ours, in which he spoke
as follows: 3 n n
There is q popular idea that the
Americans are so civilized that they
object to marriage, and that for the in:
crease Of population the Americans
must depend not upon themselves but
upon foreigners. believe that this is
quite libel. Tho peculiar sects of
which we hear so much are but drop
among the population. 7 myself saw
none Of them, but I did see great
many people who did not belong to this
peculiar sect, and my decided impress
sion is that the Americans marry ear
lier and trust to their wits to support q
family more than we do, and that they
have large and rapid families. just as
we have, and there is not the least
danger that the American population
will die out.
In nothing, think, does Mr.. Troll
lope so much libel the Americans as in
the most odious character which he at
tributes to the average middle-class
woman of America. He seems to de-
pict her as kind of hideous Jezebel
who invades tramway cars and other
public places, turnsmen out of their
seats in the most audacious and unfeel-
ing manner, and asserts womsn's rights
with the most entire disregard to the
rights of unhappy males. Perhaps Mr..
Trollope's denunciations have had some
effect in working reform; but all
can say 10, that saw nothing whatever
of the kind. Where car is crowded
men will generally give seats to women,
just as they do in metropolitan rail
way in London but never say any
thing more than this. On the contrary,
it seemed to me that the more purely
American Of the American women
those who are not accustomed to spend
money in an ostsntatious way in Eu-
rope, and TO overdress and over-pea-
cock here-are very nice people indeed.
1t is tho Daisy Millers and the Daisy
Millers' mamma who, to some extent,
have given the American women bad
name.
See them at home. and they seem to
me the incest Of their sex. Women's
rights, too, are not much overdone in
America. Women's suffrage is en-
tirely at discount. Nobody has
it, and nobody seemed to me to
want it. except in some remote
States where they have established
some new-fangled social experiments.
Although they do not claim female sui
frage, the American girls are certainly
more independent than our girls are.
In this respect I hope many of our
girls are following their example. La
dies of class who would not like to 60
out as school-teachsrs and telegraph
clerks with us, do so quite freely in
America. think the last school was
in before I came to Kirkcaldy was a
black school for little negro children
in the Southern States, taught by a
young white Northern lady, whom we
should think quite superior to that sort
of work. I am sure that our women
have much to learn from the American
women.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-16

The jokers that included piece Of
stained brick among the geological
specimens which they placed upon
the desk of the professor as objects
worthy of his explanatory remarks re-
ceived the following reward. Taking
up one of the specimens, hs said :
"This is one of baryta, from the Ches-
hire mines. This, holding up another,
is a piece of feld-spar from the Port
land quarries. And this" coming to
the brick, sis piece of impudence
from some member OF the class"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-16
A New Telephone.

There has been recently exhibited to
the French Academy telephone with
some novel features, and said to give
remarkable good effects. It 10 the in.
vention of Mr.. Cover. an American.
He uses very strong magnets, made OF
the hest French steel known, and mag
netized by means of large electro
magnet, deriving its current from a
powerful Gramme machine. The mag
hectic bar is bent in semi-circle, with
its ends or poles projecting inward,
and having each small oblong piece
of iron, on which is mounted coil of
wire. These parts are inclosed in a
shallow cylindrical brass case, the cover
of which carries the vibrating men,
brane (rather thicker than usual) sep
arated from it by an excessively thin
chamber, and attached by means of q
brass ring and screws (which latter do
not touch the membrane at any point.
The old form OF telephone mouthpiece
is abandoned, and flexible acoustic
tube, with mouthpiece, is attached to
the middle Of the cover. Thus, one
may speak sitting at table while the
telephone is attached to the wall. Per-
haps the most novel feature is the use
of telephone call, consisting of a
right angle, and containing vibrating
reed; this tube is fixed on one side OF
the membrane. On blowing into the
acoustic tube this reed&s vibrated, and
consequently, also the membrane, which
then moves in excursions large enough
to bs felt with the finger. A cores
pondingly strong sound is produced in
the receiving telephone through vibra-
ton of its membrane, which sound may
be perceived in hall of any size, and
even (from its peculiar iin,bre) when
other sounds are present. The tube
with the reed in it does not injure, but
rather improves the distinctness of
transmitted speech. Simple phrases
spoken with loud voice into the trans
mitter are heard as far as as FIVE or six
metres from the receiver-a result
never achieved before.-From The Lon
den Times.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-16

WILLING TO OBLIaE.-A very pre-
possessing young lady, canvassing for
q popular book, stepped into the Office
of broker, and finding him apparent
ly at leisure, asked him to look at her
book. The gentleman informed her
that it would only be waste of time, as
he could not purchase it.
"Oh never mind that" CALCULATED
the vivacious young woman, lit won't
cost anything to look at it, even il You
don't buy. I should like to have you
read some portions Of it, and see what
it is"
The accommodating broker took the
volume, and, glsncing at the title-page
commenced perusal of the introduce
ton. This finished, he began at the
first chapter, aud read carefully and
leisurely along. It was about nine
O'Clock when he commenced, and an
hour passed silently away, when the
book agent began to show signs of
nervousness, which were apparently
unnoticed by the broker, for he never
took his eyes from the volume, but
read steadily on. Eleven o'clock came.
and the lady began to walk smartly
around the room glancing occasionally
out of the windows. At noon the broker
was still reading. and the agent wore o
decidedly troubled countenance. A few
moments before one O'Clock the broker
laid the book down, leisurely donned his
overcoat and hat, and remarked
"Thst is a very good book. I am
sorry I cannot read more of it, but am
obliged to go to dinner. II you will call
this afternoon, will continue reading
it.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-16

DEATH OF Tom THuMB.-The death
is announced OF very small but once
very great parsonage General Tom
Thumb. It turns ont that the solid
looking little fellow was Dutchman,
having been born at Bergum, in the
province Of West Friesland, in Holland,
and there he died, the first week in
January, from dropsy. His real name
was Haneman. He had realized hand
some fortune. and had only recently
retired from public life. ~
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-16
THE FATE OF A HERD OF BUFrALoEs

THE FATE OF A HERD OF BUFFALoEs.
An army officer who recently arrived
in Chicago from the Yellowstone Valley
tells a story of what happened to q
heard of buffaloes as they were migrat-
ing southwark. The herd numbered
two thousand five hundred head, and
had been driven out Of Milk River
country by the Indian hunters belong
ing to Sitting Bulls band. When they
reached the river they ventured upon
the ice with their customary confidence,
coming upon it with solid front, and
beginning the crossing with closed
ranks. The stream at this point was
very deep. When the front file, which
was stretched out quarter of mile in
length, had nearly gained the opposite
shore, the ice suddenly gave way under
them.
Some trappers who were eye-witnesses
of the scene said that it seemed as if a
trench had been opened in the ice the
whole length of the column. Some
four or five hundred animals tumbled
into the opening all in heap. Others
fell in on top of them and sunk out of
sight in twinkling. BY this time the
rotten ice was breaking under the still
advancing herd. The trappers say that
in less than a minute the whole body
of buffaloes had been percipitated into
the river. They were wedged in so
thickly that they could do nothing but
struggle for q second and then disap.
pear beneath the cakes of ice of the
swift current. Not beast in all that
mighty herd tried to escape, but in a
solid phalanx they marched 70 their
fatal bath in tho " Big Muddy" In a
minute from the time the first ice broke
not buffalo's head or tail was to be
seen.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-16

It is computed that Minnesota is Gu
pable of producing 700. 900, 900 bushels
Of wheat annually. and that the water
Of Minneapolis alone can manufacture
half OF it into -four. ti
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-16

If you know q man who is willing to
kiss your boots because you are rich
you may be sure there is some one
whom he compels to kiss his boots in
return. He who will cringe before one
who is bigger than himself will play the
tyrant over one smaller than himself.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-16

1t is suspected that were Poe still
alive lie would render his most cele-
brated poem SO that the refrain should
read "Said the raven. never-that is,
hardly ever-moI Q, "-Eoston Gloie.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-16

Select your object in life. and then
make it your great and constant aim to
attain it. This is the only true princi
pie of success in any department of Ia
Dor; the great principle acted on by
men who attain anything like eminence.
They select their object, for the most
part, in early life, and then pursue it
with mistaken resolution and firmness.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-16

When people flock into Q place OF
business as if they were making run
on q savings bank, there is no occasion
for alarm. 1t is only evidence that the
establishment advertises. Rome Senti-
mel,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-16

1t is fool who praises himself, and q
mailman who speaks ill of himself.
, 1879-07-30

t1AS&Af N Uhf10R $fuH&CFtW.
A friend ana neizhD1r has \ sou who Is 10
quick at rcpartee Tint it Ia Iitlln dangerous 10
cross swords with him, lie was cut riding with
hls father tho ot1ler dur, when, noting tho namc
ot street, to axltel II It was named for Mr.
D., a wcll-knuwn hut not altogether popular
citizen. "By no uleans,h snil tho &athrr, "It
II not named Tor him, but for hs father, w1lo
WIS very popular al.l very much ustcen,ed.'
Tile bor said nothing; 80 hls father, who
thought liz saw chaneD to, preach littl0
sermon, continued: "lt's VERY hpt to b. 50. 4
boy has father whom everybody loves aud
rrspects for Ills gouo qualities asnl abilities, but
III TOO maHy cases tlt bt'y doesn't amount to
an1thing.h Said ihe boy after u pause, Your
father was very much cstecmed. wasn't ha,
slri"
a story comes 10 Cauacur Of NJ incident IN q
srhoo III Southampton, Englan.I, sums years
since. ThG boys wCFa being examined ~ the
history OF England. and tt.u answers were
u,uinly dates of events more or less Important
IL tic b,4toty Of thu British Empire. Among
tha pupils was tho sou of ". American sca.cap-
tain. y bright specimen Of Young America.
Being questioned concerning dates iu Eugltsl,
history, he manifested ~ Ignorance bordering
OH Stupidity. This teacher. whose uatisuce was
exhausted, exciaImtth "Whatt Don't you re-
member single date tllat ularss III Hnpnttant
event In the history of Englanif" "Why, yps,
s!r,'' answerod the boy, ~ du know olc,'s
"We)i, uus with H." sud lhr teacher, "7hs
fpnrth " JAy, lT7d." There was decided
Bell54tlou.
, 1879-07-30
Dixon DIXIED.

Shotgun Policy in f1tssisstppL
Notions Of q Free Bal,ot-The 1nLcpend-
ent Candidate for shcrIff In Yaxoo County
Compelled to Withdraw or Die.
Gpectat 10 Ctnc1nnon CommtreAdf.
V1cKsBuao, Miss, July 28.--Quite an e1ten-
sive riot occurred In Yazoo City, Yazoo County,
on Friday morning, the 25sh lnst.. some pa1.ic-
ulara OF which wore brought heru by the pas
6cuCers. crew, md others on the Ynzoo packet
which arrived here this morning. Henry n.
Dixon, q well.known citizen Of Ynzoo County,
has been for some months an Independent eau
didato for Sheriff Of TINT county, supported by
aportion of the whites and large majority oi
the negroes. in opposition to StubblcRcld, the
REGULAR Democratic nominee.
An armed mob from all portions Of tho county
assembled on tho street, near Barksdasn's store,
and scrt 4 committees Of Six to the dwelling oi
Mr.. Dixon, With instructions to demand, on be-
half Of the mob, that hc should Immediately
guilt his canyasB and leave the county or die.
lie replied, without hesitation, ho would not
quit. The Committee returned 10 the mob md
reported.
b. this time the young Mayor, Joseph II.
Holt, appcarcd in front Of Dixons flouse with a
GIN, md. speaking to the mob, said: ttThe
Sheriff OF this county Is With rou and wi11 do
nothing; but ], as Mayor OF this town, will kill
tue frat man who attempts to cross this
threshold."
The mob were for while appalled, at the de-
tertnincd and unexpected action. meanwhile
tue greatest confederation hpread throughout
children wero in the house At the time
Il pnriey Of SIX hours was tndulEed, The mob
continuing to itltrease, when finally Mr.. Dixon
sent out the card which Is included In the fol-
lowing PARTISAN report Of the AEaIr in IN extra
issned py the fazoo City IferatI.
The following ia The ext fact in {ttll:
, 1879-07-30

-
Before Pnndvillo: Seven vagrauu wcro
brought up for trial. throo Of whom wore dis
charged, three nou.suitet, and one, Harry Ash
ton. mad bis case continued Until tile
Dist on account OF the absence Of
tho complaining witness; the case Of
Tom Kcefc, charged with assault With deadly
weapon, was not called, tho parties having
agreed upon settlement. before Mcech
Tie cases Of Frnnk and lioida Williams
charged with assault and battery, were con.
tinued until the 8tl. Constable J. Q. Grant Inns
sworn cut a warrant for ti1r arrest nj W. X.
Nixon on tllc charge Of resisting an officer. Tic
casc was set for Friday.
Justice Walsh: Charles Clark, alias Burton,
perjury tn swearing falsely III a divorce suit IN
which El1rldEe Il Tourtclottc, attorneys, are
Interested, $500 to the LIST; Viola Thompson,
altas Clifton. charged with chluroformIng aud
robb tng I. Il. Weitz, pawnhrokcr, 600 10 tho
1st; ". Il. Barnes, burglary Of J. L'Ainger's
house, No. OFT Haistcd street, in last
January $500 to tho Criminal Court
Justice Wallace; James Kental, stahbtng G..
Bosert, TO the Both; John Joh,lsou, caught at
tUtnpttnR TO b1lrglasixo the Jones School, 500
to the Criminal Court; Mary Payne, larceny Of
as from Sarah Anderson, a poor woman living
at No. 483 Clark strcct, who charitubly gara her
shelter, $500 to the Criminal Court; John Kim
ncy, larceny OF several 1addcte from John Nc.
Dcrmost, patnter, $500 to tho Criminal Court
, 1879-07-30

40 th lsduof 0 1hs 7ffb4NN.
CHICAGO, july G.-Thcrs ie an old saying,
and very TRUE one 1t Is, that "Falr play 10 =
5ovcl." Believing this, and that 4 builder OF
twenty Jeass' e1penencs IN Chicago may berea-
sonabsJ expected 10 say something to tho pur-
pose, 1intond 10 molessly crl..ctse, to eotue ex.
tent, tbs report Of tic experts. And f1,t no.
tica that, although The Chairman Ia sonevhst
stunning fn name and prestige. the names Which
follow do not carry anv considerable weight IN
architectural md building circles, There Ia sucl,
q potable sbsenco al prominent builders, such as
Cornelius Price, Robert E. HAAS, Philo
Warner, and such architects a 2. r.
Randall, ". ". Boyingtou, a. Bauer,
Fred Baunmn. etc., as 10 warrant Tho conclu-
sion thai whether Intentional OF not, The Com
mittee MA. to ali inteDta and purposes, packed.
In any event II must be admitted that tho COM
tntttec, II we except tho honorable Chairman, Is
light weight: md Of him VIC may say, without
dispar1Rcmcnt, that even Government cnEf-
Ing as we'll Is lighting, rs to get loft whcn It
comes to practical business. Moreover, Nc hAYc
had warning ot tie falllbEllay Of Government ex-
pcrts tn ChfcaEo matters. II was they. | re-
House, and reported that IL foundations werc
laid IN mud Or qus0mtre, and must b. taken
down.. but the Wiser heads OF Our loc4I srcht-
tects and builders aald otherwise, and 30 Il has
proved. It will bo equally uuwise 10 heed tho
eapIous 2 e1nssts Ssts, ID taer poodeEDas su. e
file report does he greatest inJustico TO The
contractors, and seems TO Be only III furtherauce
Of vindictt1e persecution Of them, which began
with the building and has grown step by step
With the progress Of the work.
EoV, what arc the fscte IN the case3 The
work, both IN the cutting and setting, compares
fayotahly With the best Ia The city, and lls sub
This fact t indicated BY the report Itself; for 1t
announeesa with great flourish. i" ttse number
Of stosifs allied With stoppusgs, ~. +" but .con-
fesseh, In the next 1tne or TWO, that only forty
are deemed of importance. And that there arc
only "fortY stones with bad joints " IN work
Of such magnitude Is conclusive evidence that
the work is good. And, II further evidence is
Stones are to be reset or Temoved"t
The Committee hava evidently bsen in au
unfortunate Atmosphere and have lmbibe1 the
sentiments and purposes OF the ao-caslcd Gill;
zens' Committee, which never had more than
ghost ot q casa 10 stand On.
1t ia 10 every way fitting that Ia concluding
their report they Should whttowash the brick
"extras," by reason Of deficient width Of stone.
But TO 8ay TINT the contractor for the brick
work, even If be has laid 1300n extra hricks,
haa "plaustbfe e1cuBo'' for being 9, coo 900 Of
brick below the s;ooe-work, 10 \ Mupchauseulsm
Of vnst proportions.
Finally, the concluding paragraph wtdcn
virtually accused the Building Committee Of
letting t1e contract for the cut-stone Is q libel
80 gross and unwarranted that l doubt not that
It will receive prompt and enphattc 1etutatiou.
1t is to be hoped TINT the Council will not act
psecfpitatolv on accouat Of this partisan and
lop-sidcd report. C. u. CARTER.
, 1879-07-30
FATHER AND Son,

NR 1f1s&1 1fNA *"4N'
Yesterday afternoon Justice MorrIson's court
room, next door west Of tllo West Madison
s,,,,ar ..taI ,r.o oanx,nro,,, ~. v..,'a.,, -
Iu..s, .''u,. ."e Sopssa"t was N.ena6a :.
blcklcy. uo!nE business as q grocer at NO. 4T
loosnis street, and the defendant his son, boy
Of 10 am, nnnarently vcry tntc,lrcnt. The
ch,,oa. ,n,a. s.... :, .orr,,,,,- ,r1aoa;o, ,r.,.
eua.sse - u.ao "sIo .".t.s Io"sea'ua |eap-
GUS ana "maklMe tuFcats. Joha Lvlc k!ng
Dc Volt for the son. The courtroom was
crowded. trhr fo,tow,no +e.t{mnnv cano out.
u'.,s"a = n"."1.'".a ~ No.. I. I'm" u"s'
N'eoas1 =. nucn'ef WIS 1ne "'st "'tness
sworn. lie testified that he was grocer, doing
b.lalntsa At 470 Looms street. Ne had been
sixteen years In tho city. II,s hov. Tim t]efcna.
M. W.. shn,t ~ rosss =, 49, n,,' ~. ~
.., NV, "aa aa ~ ~ ,sa'' ~ ase. lne fe''son ne