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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-24

In two recent trips the schooner
Alfred adams has brought to this port
100000 Goldfish taken from the fishing
grounds off the Choumagin Islands,
that lie along the southern coast of the
Alaska peninsula. During the voyage
six other San Francisco schooners were
spoken, one of which had $4,000 fish
on board. These islands lie north
west of San Francisco, in latitude 50
andlongitude 60 west, and are reached
from this port by sailing vessels in Ia
days. There is little doubt that cod
fisheries as valuable as those of New
foundland will yet be developed along
the Alaska coast. Should this prove
the case, profitable field for seafaring
men would be opened, and idle capital
would be presented with an opportu-
nifty for employment more commenda-
BILE and much less financially hazardous
than the gambling operations that have
so long absorbed attention. SO long
as Alaska is abandoned to few mo-
nopolists, and treated as a barren and
worthless territorial acquisition, its
varied resources will remain compara-
lively dormant The people of the
United States should know that the
fisheries of the North Pacific are capa-
Bile of rendering large returns, and that
every reason exists for believing that
Alaskas mineral deposits will one day
abundantly repay Investigation IS. +.
Chronicle.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-24

Thomas w. Knox writes from the
Lotus Club, New York, to Postmas-
ter General Key, that he has received
back two letters, mailed by him on
the 18th of March, to go around the
world in opposite directions. The
eastward letter made the circuit in
eighty-nine days, including four
days detention in Yokohama, and the
other in 110 days, thirteen of which
were consumed by detention in Yo-
kohama, which would have been
avoided by an arrival at that port
two days sooner. The time made by
the more aapidly transported of these
letters, OF by any yet, reported to
the postoflice department, has been
very greatly surpassed recently by
letter mailed by young lady clerk
in the Office ofSuperintendent Black
fan, which accomplished the circuit
of the world westerly in seventy-one
days.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-24

THE SEABECK SHIP.-The vessel
building at Seabeck, on Puget Sound,
has her hull now half finished. fif-
teen or twenty men are at work upon
her. Her length of keel is PA feet,
her breadth of beam A feet and eight
inches, her depth of hold II feet, and
her future lumber carrying capacity
estimated at 100000 feet. She
will be single decked and ship rugged.
Captain Edwards, now on the bark
Cassandra Adams, will command her.
Hiram Doncaster is her builder, and
Adams, Taylor& & Co., are her owners,
1t is said that she is being made as
strong as wood and iron can make
vessel, and it is thought she will be
fast. She will be somewhat larger
than the largest vessel ever built on
the Pacific Coast, and she will prob
ably be the biggest single decked
ship ahoat.-Olympia Transcript.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-24
A Bogus Catholic Priest Arrested at
GerVaiS.

A correspondent writing from Ger
vais, Oregon, to the Catholic Sentinel,
under date of Tuesday last, says that
on the I'd inst. William Hogan, under
the assumed garb of a priest, collected
some money in that parish, got drunk
and was lodged in Jail. He is believed
to be the same imposter made mention
about some weeks ago as being in
Southern Oregon. He is a dark com
plexion, short built man, and has all
the features of first class blk. The
correspondent also says: 81 have to
tender my thanks to the authorities of
Gervais, and especially to Esquire l..
Poujade, justice of the peace, for the
act of justice and prudence displayed
in notifying me when in Portland, and
holding him until my arrival here in
Gervais, so as to enable me to repudi-
ate Hogan publicly as an imposter y
This fellow who calls himself Hogan
has no papers to show except dilapi-
dated forged letter. He was found
guilty, begged the clemency of the
judges, and promised to leave the state.
Considering the Circuit Court would
only meet next fall, and that the rogue
would consequently be heavy burden
on the county, the judges have ac-
cepted his promise, and so he made for
Portland.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-24
NUMBER 48.


A few weeks since party under the
direction of the county road officials
were working the road leading down
the bluff from Albina to st. Johns.
While digging into the bank man by
the name of Ford found piece of COM
mon porcelain or pottery about one
fourth of II large dinner plate in size.
The question is, how came it therel 1t
was under Il bed of conglomerate gravel
five feet below the surface of the
ground and where there could be no
possibility !, of a land slide and in
ground SO hard that only the pick
can start it. When and where was it
madel That it is the manufactured
article there is no doubt, for it has the
enamel and other evidences, although
possessing an ancient appearance. Its
age is estimated all the way from three
hundred to three thousand years. Ev-
licences that our country bore a civili-
zation as old as any part of the earth
are being constantly discovered, and it
may be this piece of pottery which Mr..
Ford is carefully preserving as treas
ured relic may furnish a valuable link
i'll the chain that connects us with the
dim and shadowy part of our ancient
history. Portland Bee.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-24

Notwithstanding the cold winter Just
past, causing cattle i'll large numbers to
give up the ghost, Eastern Oregon,
Eastern Washington and the whole
upper Columbia country, contains an
abundance still. AS an illustration of
this fact, the Inland Empire, in speak
ing of the operations of Messrs. Lang
and Ryan, says: These great bovine
contractors are now preparing for their
third annual tour across the continent
with drove of 200 head of cattle
purchased in this county alone. Since
last November they have spent some
$llS,OOO i'll this county for horned
beasts, horses and saddles; they have
bought thirty-eight saddles from one
factory in this town, besides scores of
articles for camp outfit. These sad
dies sell in Illinois or Missouri for as
much as the original price of them
here. They are now dividing off their
cattle into bands at Rockville, near the
John Day bridge, where they have
nearly sixty men hard Mt work; and by
the time these are joined by those in
charge of the cattle purchased by them
about Walla Walla and Dayton, they
will have more than one hundred men
and $4,000 cattle. The Youngest stock
will be started on ahead, while the
older cattle will be kept back as long
as possible to avoid severe weather.
These cattle will not reach Kelton on
the Union Pacific Railroad till late in
October, when they will be rolling fat
The average drive is less than nine
miles per day, hence the beef does not
shrink on the long drive. This is what
broke up the Kentucky Corner in
beef and set folks to journeying towards
Oregon.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-24

The situation with regard to the
policy of protection is daily becoming
more interesting, owing to the fact
that the doctrine appears to be stead
lily gaining ground in Europe. 1t is
not little surprising that proposal
to organize general tariff league as
defence against the inroads of
American products and wares should
appear at time when the producers
of these wares generally asking con-
tinued protection against the ''pauper
labor" of Europe. Surely some mis-
take must have been made. Either
the American manufacturers have
groundess fears or the Europeans
draw up on their Imagination for their
facts.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-24

Leo Miller the great greenback
talker of Maine, said recently: at
is great wrong to stamp 81 on a
piece os metal that is worth IS cents,
as the metal in a silver dollar is, when
it can just Is we'll be stamped on a
piece Of paper worth nothing" In
this deliverancc the whole philosophy,
or idiocy, of ~ paper dollars and
short silver dollars, is alike condensed
and compressed. As statement OF
the case it leaves nothing more to be
said.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-24
Draying.

The undersigned does draying as cheap as
the cheapest Orders left with him will receive
prompt attention. Small packages taken to
the boats free Of charge for regular customers.
ALBERT BATEMAN.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-24
Newspaper Decisions.

1. Any person who takes a paper regularly
from the post-ofiice, whether directed in his
name or another's, or whether he has sub
scribed or not-is responsible for payment
= If a person orders his paper discontinued,
he must pay all arrears, or the publisher may
continue to send it until payment is made, and
then collect the whole amount, whether the
paper is taken from the office or not.
s. The courts have decided that refusing to
take newspapers and periodicals from the post,
otice. or removing and leaving them uncallcd
for, 10 prima facia evidence Of Intentional
fraud.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-24

Gen. Grant had prodigious recep-
ton in Shanghai, both from natives
and foreigners. The description
shows it to have been unprecedented
One night there was torchlight pro-
cession of the fire brigades and gen
eral illumination of houses of the cit
liens. AT the American Consulate
the lanterns spelled out: "Washing-
ton, Lincoln, Grant-Three Immortal
Americans"-"Grant will win on this
line if it takes a summer; his fame
circles the world" "Grant-of the
people, with the people, for the peo-
ple." The General viewed the pro.
cession from the balcony of the Hong
Kong and Shanghai Bank. 1t was
the greatest display ever made in the
streets of Shanghai.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-24

The bursting of cannon on board
the steamship State ofCalJornia while
she was on the excursion to Santa
Cruz from San Francisco created a
greater fuss than was at first published.
The gun exploded, lifting itself of
the forward deck, smashed through
it and fell into, the hold. The second
officer Of the steamer had forefin-
ger blown off, as well as receiving
other general injuries on the other
hand.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-24

According to an Odessa newspaper
the situation of crops in southern Rus
sia and Caucasus has been scarcely
ever SO bad as at present. What was
left by drought and hail is now being
annihilated by frightful swarms of
grass-hoppers and corn beetles in the
neighborhood of Odessa and the gov
ernments Of Bcssarabia, etc.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-24
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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16
Law; ERS AND SHYSTERS AND
II BILLS OF COSTS.

Thee,I CHEST court of Missouri has
decid; khat lawyer is not an ad-
junct e part or parcel of the Judiciary
systerhi hd therefore is not an officer
of theN,ukte or part of its government.
Thus / Sllows that the lawyers of st.
Louis, 70 were required to pay an oc-
cupati,c9ax and refused, have been
compe'y to take in their shingles or
fork o. he fees. The tax imposed
in Missed Is thirty dollars. This is
a larger.h than the average shyster
of cit. o.:Eillage has at any one time,
and it is mated that of two or three
thousanqhgs gsters at court, one in five
will hav, ttake down his "shingle"
in order AoSep up his "board." JUS
tices of t,.~oleace are greatly annoyed
since jus'erfI Ipnly prosper in perpetual
petty wa al Shysters live by excl
ting strife litigation about trifles in
these pett.c rts. Inc elevation OF
the legal / A. dsion by taxing it, thus
excluding nturers and ignorant
knaves, wite only tend TO render it
respectable Ntt suppress most of
those costl.,,Its about insignificant
matters tbs lake society infamous,
periursJ 6atEt and crowd the pur-
lie, 10 VI Juf II courts with drunken
uieiS Snu Misses. II the Legisla-
.uie "ou'o CT plan to protect the
S '"'e 'reas'e gainst bills of costs
tAa' 'one ukelm the petty courts,
.Isrrel, thata [ q nos.;on for oordo
o. iStion I'd, id no longer fasten
pm soo.e kost of their vices,
their follies, cry rtrneo or cr,r,oo
ue!e'oio '"edo bent, by the State,
vi oiiiS Vi 'osuom courts below or
aooVe' S"o ON lntemplated by the
Legislature ,onE grains of allow
auce. sup VI" from the treasury
and litigation g Thvsters will alike
be suppressed, sen 10 cost of Ev;no
and the morale ;,;on of ooo;o,1
greatly improve bnrdens of GOV.
erniheh' ieSSeneed. hnwhile, learned,
n'"oi'o'e a oul lawyers will
be pleased to pasrgi ibeav;est rssoon
able occupation Accoss 20 tbo
ranks of the proinI has hoon m.ao
so easy '"a' " caste. To be q
heuoei u '"e tiot fraternity, not
very i""s "S'' SIhed most hon.
orable. 1t was ,sII.ranoo - ar
public that the neu ok :. ,o...
ia'oiiou' FW he could not
think, he had o,o rauor,
He could grasp pTrisVs oven ;f he
cou'u no' "1uo0 ny conclusions.
ne cou'u nu" strc ses, even if
ne cou'u no' .on first princi-
pies D"S ~ d Y hanged, and
simpiy oe0"uSs ' D 10 such OBJ
structions at the gat. u ,,o 80
of Themis as thisJ OF "a - iho
highest judicatory las .orr; sna
that which Chitty aSe Il ..ona com
mended. arsty
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16
MIR. soaLEIcHER,s SUCCESSOR.

Saturday when it was still uncer-
tain whether Mr.. Schleicher would live,
and before the telegram came with the
painful announcement of his death, the
disposition of San Antonians in this
city and of Germans, friends of Mr..
Schleicher, was not concealed to make
the late congressman's son-in-law his
successor. How strange that people
begin to administer on an estate before
the breath of the owner has certainly
left the temple of clay 1t inhabited.
But the contest between Ireland and
Schleicher was most violent and bitter.
Schlelcher's friends will love his mem
ory even more than they did the admir-
able gentleman, scholar and statesman.
Their hostility to Judge Ireland will
be measured by their devotion to
schleicher, and, as developed here yes
terday, this affection will constitute a
large share of the strength of ex-Gov-
ernor Stockdale if he be a candidate.
He and Judge Ireland or Mr.. Burgess
would be worthy competitors for the
vacant seat, and if Stockdale decline
the candidature it will be thrust upon
the eloquent Mr.. Burgess, Judge De-
vine or Judge Russell. Therefore it
seems that, however earnest the friends
and intelligent the admirers of Judge
Ireland, he is destined to encounter, If
he become a candidate, competitor for
Mr.. Schleicher's place demanding, to
insure defeat, of his grandest exhibit
tions of intellectual and oratorical force.
But the probabilities are that Mr.. Bur-
CESS, Ireland's friend and supporter,
and not Ireland, will be a candidate.
Burgess will be perhaps invincible,
though either Stockdale or Devine or
Russell will be worthy of his steel.
Burgess, however, is confessedly the
best stump speaker of his district, and
his rival in. this race will have fear
full fight to make.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

THE religious and reading world
will be glad to know that those learned
gentlemen of England, having the
matter in charge, have almost COM
pleted and perfected aud concurred in
the translation of the New Testament.
1t would be painful and dangerous
task to write the history of the differ
ent translations of the Bible. Though
the book be inspired its translators
were not and never hoped themselves
to be translated" and there are many
passages, as they left the work, OF
doubtful authority and significance.
The London Daily Ne0s says it is not
sde to say much about Aldhelm and
Caedmon; it is ticklish work talking
about Wycliffe, the very spelling OF
whose name may provoke a literary
quarrel. When we come to Coverdale
and Tyndal we are in the centre of a
faction fight. The Genevan Bible
and the Bishops Bible are as peri
lous topics as the prayer books of
Edward VI. and Elizabeth. In the
confused theological turmoil of the
sixteenth century, when Protestants
and Catholics succeeded Henry VIII,
who fought chiefly for his own hand,
manly parties and people had turn at
translating the Bible. 1t says a good
deal for their honesty that our author
lied version was evolved, after much
contest of opinion and selection, out
of the Bishops Bible, which suppressed
ed the Geneva Bible, which was a re-
vision of ''Coverdale's Bible, " to which
again Matthews Bible" and the
"Great Bible" and "Cranmer's Bible"
were not unindebted, while WyclilTe's
aud Tyndal's Bibles must have been
consulted now aud, then, as a scholar
might consult BOccaccio's Latin Ho-
mer, as fa- as it goes. The complete
result of all the revislons up to James's
later time Is the most splendid monu-
ment Of pure English in existence. 1t
has the vigor OF the great age-the
Elizsbethan age-with none Of its &C.
centrcities and conceits.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

Bro. PENN's chosen psalm-singer,
Valentine Columbus Hart, has caused
the arrest of Bro. Oswald Pope, of the
Teas Baptist. Valentine Vcx-some-
times called Hart II swears that Bro.
Pope Intercepted letters he wrote and
opened them and read them, and Vox
- the sweetest voice in all Israel - Is
sorely disguised. He has caused Bro.
Pope to be indicted, and sinful sher-
iff, having not the fear of the Baptist
or of Pope Leo of Texas, or any other
Pope or potentate, before his ungod-
ly eyes, gobbled the editor aforesaid
and was about to chuck him into
dungeon vile in Dallas when
some good brother put up a bond
for 5000, and that was enough to get a
good man out of hockelty, the Dallas
word for calaboose, which is Choctaw
for Daniels den of lions and for dun
geons vile. But the Federal grand jury
have the matter under consideration
and Bro. Pope is scared. He did not
intend to commit any crime. He is in
capable of that, but, then, his curiosity
was aroused about the literary skill
of Brother Penn's musical adjunct,
and Brother Pope was led, so the story
goes, to perpetrate deed which soci-
ETY. ard law alike condemn with much
earnestness. There was not supposed
to be any money in the sweet chorister's
letters. We had forgotten to remark
that brethren should live together in
amity. But Brother Vox doe5 not love
Brother Pope.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

THERE are fewer than a million peo-
pie in New York city, and more than
one and quarter million in Texas,
and yet the coroner's Office statistics
of Gotham show that in the past
twelve months there were 1898 violent
deaths in the city; $50 suicides and
100 drowned. Texas doesn't get away
with many more living people, assured
ly, than New York, and yet, because
it is noisilY done in this State, by the
use of the pocket on the hip, the world
is all agog about it and people deem
Us, even in Chicago, an incongruous,
bIoodthirsty, lawless population.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

JUDGE A. p. MCCORMICK, who stood
high upon the district bench of the
State, has been telling the Telegram
what he thinks of continuances. He
claims they should be limited, and
that parties charged with criminal Of
fenses should be forced to trial at the
second term OF the court after commit
ting the ofIense sf which they are ac-
cused. Such law prevails in Illinois,
and it prevents the escape OF criminals.
He believes in destroying the distinc-
ton in felonious homicide, and would
make all murder cases capital offenses,
and believes the law regarding " "iusti-
fable" homicide or self-defense -
should also be changed, to such an ex-
tent that this excuse could not be plead.
Murderously inclined persons would
then have TO resort to other means
than killing enemies to escape
the penalty of the crime. He
also fayors a change In the pres
ent system Of allowing appeals. He
does not look favorably upon the law
giving all felony convictions the right
Of appealing upon bubbles as at pres
ent. and would have no appeals from
the lower courts. except IN capital
cases, and then only that higher court
might review the transcript to see that
no manifest injustice had been done.
He also thinks = change necessary in
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16

Tie French servant girl is generally
much better of than her American OF
British sister. She carries three-fourthi
of her earnings to the savings bank,
and IS never content until she 10 the
possessor Of at least 800 with which
to buy debenture bond OF the city oI
PARIS, entitling her to the chance ol
winning $50, 900 Of the quarterly draw.
ings. Grenville Murray further OBJ
serves that they have too much taste 10
disfigure themselves a. certain English
and he might have added American
bousemaids do, by tricking themselves
out in cheap finery. Their universal
costume is white linen cap and Q
gown OF printed cotton or calico, with
perhaps q silk kerchief OF a gay color
to wear on Sundays. Merino is some
times worn. but not often. While abe
is not indifferent to the attractions OF
dress, she is imbued with 3 native good
sense which tesches her the propriefy
of attiIiDg herself according to her
station.