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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-17

The T. A. b. S.-The picnic of the
Father Mathew Society of Portland to this
place on Tuesday was very pleasant affair
About three or four hundred people arrived
on the steamer Wonder, and marched to the
public park in procession, headed by Bren-
ner's Northwestern band, the Society max
ing creditable appearance. The day was
pleasantly spent in dancing, and with games
for prizes. The party returned at five
o'clock, leaving the impression on the minds
Of Vancouver people that the people OF this
excursion were happy, well behaved clan.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-17

PROFESSION AT THE HOUSE OF PRovI-
DENcE.-The Right Rev. A. NJ. A. Blanchet,
assisted by Rev. Fathers Schram, Glorieaux,
Lajuennesse and Acoylites, celebrated mass.
The postulants knelt at the altar rails, and
repeated thrice the vows of poverty, chastity
and obedience. After the gospel Father
Lajuennesse assembled the altar and deliv-
cred an eloquent sermon on the delight AL
mighty God takes in the practice of those
virtues which the two sisters bound them
selves to perform during their lives. The
music was really grand. Among the con-
gregation we noticed several of our fellow
citizens belonging to other churches The
congregation filled the beautiful chapel of
the House Of Providence.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-17
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Weston, A B.
JOHN EDDINGS, Postmaster.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-17

The Oregon City Ladies' Guild cleared e140
by their 4th Of July excursion to this city.
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The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18

Speciei To the C;aciaaat Co,a~erciai,
C0NNERsyILLE. IND. January Pre-
fessor John Wolfram had peculiar expert
ence on last Saturday evening, which j.
susceptible Of a scientific investigation.
According to statements of the Professor
and a half dozen acquaintances whom he
called into his music room. It was a
strange collision of bodies. Professor
Wolfram, on the evening above referred to.
went into his music room and began pav~
ing upon one of his instruments. Instan-
taneous with his touching the piano the
room seemed to be filed with a thuudpriug
Sopnd, shaking the house from Foundation
to roof The Professor. struck almost
dumb by the queer noise, stopped playing.
when the sound also ceased. Immediately
upon touching the instrument again the
sound was heard. By this time his excite
ment was too many degrees above zero to
mention, and the phenomenon, as it We're,
being SO strange. the Professor called in q
half dozen friends as witnesses, who We're
all completely mystifed After a little
while the roaring sound changed to a sound
like pounding on the wall, and as the in
strument was played loud the knocking on
the wall increased in proportion. only so
4OuI anu La u dH " iLldhC III ADuSC lLtll~
bic. The sound was in succession with
the strokes upon the piano, whether they
We're soft or loud, fast or slow. In con-
versation with the Professor this morning,
,and, by the way. he is not only one of the
best musicians in the State, but q scientific
he said he was not believer
in @pooks, nor in any way superstitoGs, but
be would ike to have tuis freak of sound
explained by such scientific gentlemen a,
Huxley and Tyndall.
The piano was moved about the room.
md the doors and windows were opened.
o see If that would have any effect: hut
t did not. The ponderous echo cOutiu-
ned, responding TO the touch of the piano
or fully an hour and half when it
'eaSed altogether. Every efTGrt was made
o discover the cause Of this strange sound
~ those present, but it was all in vain All
If the parties present say their feelings
Turing the time the sounds were heard was
imply indescrbable, expecting every min
lite to stand in the presence of some kind
If n horrible or monstrous being.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18
For The COMET.
THE TRUE WAY To PUNISH ABAD
BOY.
RY pHILo CoMETosE.

If YOU have "horrid boy at your
house and consider it your solemn duty to
follow the injunction of Solomon, and ad-
minister to him a saving correction, one
which he will be able to retain in his
memory, 1 would recommend this mode of
procedure:
Solemnly promise him a sound drubbiDg,
and then put him in a room and turn the
kew on him, and tell him that you are going
out to the forest for a snake pole exactly
adapted to the exigencies of his require
ments, and that you will be gone an hour.
Before you go, however, it will be pru-
dent to remove all the furniture from the
room, and have it entirely vacant, other
wise he might be conscientiously moved to
earn the anticipated hogging by tearing mp
everything in reach. 1t is safer in such
cases to put things out of the way and
leave nothing to disturb the religious ten
denotes of his mind.
There is more lasting virtue in one hour
of this kind of treatment for a boy than
there is in a snake pole. To say nothing of
his natural fondness for quiet and solitude,
he enjoys a keen continuous interest in the
contemplation of the coming snake pole.
He will remember an episode like this long
after snake poles have faded ont OF his
mind.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18

LSj0R Letter IN IugiHta Ch9 EHteJpriHc.
I am told that the young king of Por-
tHgal is entirely simple in his manners, and
that any member of his court can call to
see him in a perfectly informal manner
when he is staying in his lonely palace in
Cintra. His father, the ex-king Don Fer
nand, is married morganaticaIly to an
An ericau lady, and a former prima donna
of the New York opera by name Miss
Elise Hensler. She is now known as the
Countess dEdla. A portrait of her form
ing pendant tu that of her royal spouse,
was exhibited in the Paris salon last year
1t showed her as a stout, tine-looking lady.
III dark blue velvet, wearing the ribbon of
a royal order across the cOrsago of her
dress. | saw her in the New York opera
house some twenty years ago, prior to her
departure for Europe. She was then It
very beautiful girl with large blue eyes and
a graceful, l-proportioned figure. She
afterward became the prima donna Of the
Lisbon opera, and Don Fernand who is
passionately fond of music became en-
amored Of her and made her his wife. She
is treated by him with far greater pect
and Difference than are the morgauatic
wives Of princes in general fact that is
shown by his permitting her portrait to be
exhibited side by side with his own. She
always accompanies him to the opera, oc-
cupying the box directly opposite to that
of the king and queen. Respecting one
point in her past career the countess Is said
to be extremely sensitive. She appeared
while singing in the opera iu the part of
the page in Verdi's " Ballo il Maschera,
and photographs We're taken of her i'll that
character. These photographs are strictly
prohibited.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18
CASTILLO IN PRINT

The Port Gibson Reveille publishes let
ter from CASTILLO, just as he wrote it, Ger
b1tim, ct 6terattne, ct spelIatm. CASTILLO
was once known as "wheel-horse," but
he didn't write letters in those days for the
papers, Hence, nobody ever knew before
that he was almost equal to Sine Jones as
speller. Slime Jones wore the laurels In
this department in the fat old days of Radi-
calism, but if CASTILLO had gone into print
then, he would at least have divided the
honors with Simon. The Reveille seems
to think that there is large amount of
room for improvement in Castello's orthog-
raphy. 1t says:
A carpet-bagger who puts himself up for Con-
gresham and spells where "whare,' and were
"ware," and speech "speach," and colored "coul-
CURED, ought to be -yentilated-tumi-
gated-and cremated until there isn't lingering
smell OF the carpet-bagger left.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18
JACKSON MISSISSIPPI, SATURDAY, JANUARY IS, 1879.

HENRY D. BURTON, of Copiah, is natu>
raj genius, though, perhaps he don't know
it. At any rate he seems to have struggled
very hard to conceal the fact from the
world. He and fortune have had pros
longed contest with each other and Burton
has managed to hold his own against forN
tune. Some years ogo Burton and Harris
ran for Surveyor of Copiah and they met
in Hazlehurst during the campaign, when
Harris remarked:
''Burton, I've got the advantage of you,
in this race"
''How SOP" said Burton.
81 don't get drunk" replied Harris,
"and you know that you do, sometimes. ;"
''That's fact" responded Burton.
''But, Harris, I've got an advantage over
you?" he added.
"What's that?" asked Harris.
81 am not a d--n fool when l am
sober" returned Burton.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18
massachusetts BuIIdOzery.
Nelc lOrk World.

Our Republican friends will thank us to-
day for another installment of facts con,
cerning the Republican intimidation of
voters in Massachusetts, during the recent
elections. This will reach Washington in
time to form a preface to the sp ech which
General Butler expects soon to make upon
the same subject to those fellow Republi-
cans of his who turn their backs upon the
''bulldozing" that is near to their own con-
stituents. but glue their eyes to the par
tisan telescopes which scan the Southern
horizon. Our last installment evoked an
ill-tempered letter from the Collector of
Boston, in which he endeavored to open
questions of veracity with our correspon-
dent, and the facts which agltated his
serenity have been widely reprinted and
commented upon. Boston officials in Fed
eral employment may well be upon the
alert in view of our exposure of those
"manipulations" of the white voter which
disgraced their party in Massachusetts last
November. And the end is not yet.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE is running for
constable in town in Michigan 1t was
always our opinion, that William Shal1-
speare was not sincere when he wrote:
Filing away ambitior by that sin fell the
angels. We suppressed the charge of
demagoguerv against William because we
had no overt act of his which justified it,
but for all that we were sure that sooner or
later he would go back on his record. And
now at thia late day he has given himself
up to the seductive wiles of an irrepressi-
BILE ambition for the Office of constable.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18


Maine has new sensation in Demo
cratic Governor. She has not known what
it was to have any but Republican gov-
ernment since the Republican party came
into existence. At the election in Septem-
Der last Connor, Rep, received jG,+l
votes Smith, Nat. II. 4O4. and Garcelon,
Dem. 27,s72, there bcing thirty.one scat
tering votes An absolute majority of all
the votes cast being necessary there was no
choice by the people, and it became the
duty of the State House of Representatives
to select two persons from those having
the four highest numbers of votes on the
lists and make return of their names to
the Senate, the members of which must
elect one of the two. If the Democrats
and Nationals in the House held together
they were certain to choose Garcclon and
Smith, and the Republicans. therefore, were
most anxious to break the alliance and have
either Connor and Garcelon or Connor and
Smith sent up for the Republican Senate
to choose between. The union of the ants
Republican parties was, however maintains
ed, and the Republican Senate has now Sc
lected as the least Objectionable candidate
DIR. Alonzo GarcelOn, of Lewiston, Dem
ocrat, though formerly a Republican, and
TIE IhTutSt klllu OF udIA-iututN man.
The State offices Will he divided between
the two allied parties, and as both National
and Democrats seem aetuated by a desire
70 reform and economize. they may make
for themselves a good record and give Mr..
Blaine something to occupy his attention
near home for the next eighteen months.
We have already pointed ont that local dis
, ontent had as much to do with last sep
TENDERS change of opinion in Maine as
the currency question. 1t viii be interest
ing to see what proportion Of the Repub
lican malcontehts VIII return 10 their allie
glance now that the greenback issue is ra-
moved-whether permanently or uot-from
the field of politics, and in a general way
how the new partnership will succeed II
the leaders of the successful allies are wise,
moderate and earnest, neither Mr.. Hamlin
nor Mr.. Blaine viii veX the United States
Senate auy more after their present terms
are over.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18
GOVERNOR STONES REPLY.
NrAR JACKSON. Miss. Oct.

NEAR JACKSON, Miss, Oct. 4, 1873.
Hon. J, II Field, Columbus Miss.
My DEAR SIR have the honor to ac-
knowledge receipt of your letter of the
27th ult., which was received by yesterdays
mail. and take the first opportunity of
assuring you of my hearty concurrence in
the views therein presented. l have been,
from the first, painfully alive to the suffer
ings and misfortunes of the sorely afflicted
people of our State the deepest sympa-
thies of my whole nature have been con-
stantly enlisted in their behalf, and | have
contributed to their relief from my own
private purse as iberally as my limited
means seemed 10 justify, with fixed pur-
pose, aud repeated declarations, to contrib
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18
Three Brothers of WiIIIam Cullen
Bryant.
From he Globe-Drmotra

PRINCETON. Ill, Jan. 5.-Three brothers
of the poet Bryant live here, all of them
farmers. good, solid men, conspicuous for a
sturdy purpose, and a certain, intieNble,
Puritan honesty, but not more than Ordi-
narily gifted; that is, two Of them are not.
Mr. John Howard Bryant Is more than an
amateur poet Some of his verses have
been widely copied, and few Of them have
found their way into the enduring form of
books. The residence Of Mr. J. H. Bryant
is the finest house this side of Chicago, and
il was a Gift from the poet to his brother.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18

A SOUTH Mississippi paper remarks that
vigilance is the eternal price of liberty.
That strikes us as a considerable change in
the net cost of liberty, and a marked altera-
ton in the. terms of the hitherto somewhat
monotonous quotation of the price of lib
erty. But we are rather glad, upon the
whole, that the article is fixed at a stable
and lasting price price that will continue
to all eternity-and that designing sharpers
will have no chance to speculate upon its
fluctuations
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18

The Herald, of 1azoo City, is one of the
leading and valuable journals of the State.
Its proprietor, Mr.. r. Walpole, is an ac-
complished and successful newspaper
manager, and its Editor, Col. j. L.
McCullum, has no superior as writer.
The combination is a strong one, and the
success of their united efforts is gratifying
to man who feels proper pride in the
tone and character of the press.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18

FEW years ago the 90 ol people of Bran
don elected Fop for mayor; at the last
election they turned Jack on their May
or's deck They also have Lamb for their
depot agent and Martin for Chancery
Clerk. That's the way they do things over
in Brandon.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18
Paddy Ahead.

A gentleman of the Hibernian nation
was making himself disagreeable in a Nir-
pinia street saloon last night by insisting
upon the superiority of Ireland over ever,
other country on earth in any and all re
spects. The beer was better there than
bere-the beef, the bread, the houses, the
land. the schools, the people and so on
through the list.
i suppose, said an old timer, with a
frightful sneer, IL suppose you'll say next
that they have found more gold and silver
In ireland than they have in Nevada"
No sor. repld Paddy, but fwhat
they've found there he Of a damsight better
quality.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18
NO. 13.

The proprietors and employees of large
cigar factory in New York have just agreed
upon substitute for strikes and lockouts,
and the plan is SO simple that it is scarcely
strange that no one on this side of the
ocean has thought of it before 1t is
merely to refer future difference between
employers and employed to board of ar
bitration, the members of which are to be
selected by the two parties.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18

SARAH JONES, in her Memoir, of Barnar-
din de st. Pierre, says; = When educa>
ton is better understood, it will be more
generally acknowledged, that, to impart in
struction with success, teacher must pos-
sess deeper intelligence than is implied by
the profoundest skill in any one branch of
science, or of art"
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18

IT is not essential that Congressman
should know how to spell. He goes there
to be heard not to be correspondent of a
newspaper or to write dictionaries, conse-
quently, suppose CASTILLO can't spell, can't
he talk !? Aint he loud-mouthed Hasn't
he got the wind? These are points not to
be overlooked in Congressman. Can't
spell Fudge! Why should he be able to
spell E? 1t is a mere school boys accom-
plishment.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18

The Secretary of the United States
Treasury is about to issue an order to the
banks upon the subject of retiring all notes
under $5. During this process of retire
nient of the little notes we would beg to re-
mind all parties that if they find any diff
Guilty in the work, considerable quantity
of them can be retired in this Office. We
are dealing mostly now in small notes. The
price of THE COMET, you Zee, is juct 50 a
wear. or 81 for six months.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18
"Be sure of Your Point BefOre You
show Your Hand"

On Christmas day Newport woman, in
answer to ring went TO the door and
found basket on the doorstep with a sus-
picious-looking object IN it Remarking
that she didn't keep founding hospital,
she sent it direct to the police station, and
next day the grateful guardians returned
her the basket and cordial vote of thanks,
for the excellent twenty-pound turkey she
50 generously sent them, and yet she was
no happy.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18

The Weekly review IS the name OF a
new paper started last week in the town of
Lauderdale, Lauderdale county, Missis-
sippi. W. H. SETTLER is the editor and j.
X. Almon the assistant editor.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18

Ex-LIEUT. Gov ANTOINE, of Louisiana,
is in trouble There wasn't Federal offices
enough to give all the Returning Board
and Carpet-bag niggers place. and the
Ex-Lieutenant Governor is left out.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18

EVERYBODY won't be so anxious to go to
Congress after reading this special dis
patch:
The unprecedented mortality among members OF
Congress excies serious alarm, as the symptoms are
the same in nearly all 1t is believed to result
from poisoning by imperfect ventilation OF the
house,
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18

CAsTELLo ought to be warm Advocate
of the Common Schools. In those lnstitu'
tions the pupils are taught to SPELL ana
there's where the wheelhorse has his weak
point.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18

The new minister from Spain, Sepor
Vigo, will arrive at Washington, shortly.
He is very able and distinguished man, is
an Alphonsist, and when appointed, was
serving in the roval household.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18

If Delaware is the smallest State in the
Union, she has about the biggest man in
the United States, and just as good material
for President as any of them. Bayard,
for example.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18
Incomplete.

Mr.. Joaquin Miller announces through
the press that the young lady to whom he
is attached, entitled Merinda is standing
forever under a fir tree, but fails to say how
fir the tree is.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18

The new commercial treaty with Japan
places that nation upon the footing of
new power-a recognition of her recent
progress in civilization.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18

WHEN Mr. Blaine, in 1876, shook the bloody shirt
in the air, he made the greatest mistake Of his po-
litical life That shake cost him the Republican
nOminatiOn.-Penn Monthly.
Nonsense. It was Mulligan's letters that
did it. N Y. Sun.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18
STATE AID.

WHY DID GOVERNOR STONE NOT INTA DE
THE STATE TREASURY OR CALL THE
LEGISLATURE TOGETHER FOR THE
BENEFIT OF YELLOW FEVER
-
SUFFERERSl
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18
For The COMET.
OBSERVATIO ONS ON FASHION.
BY JACOB SNYDER.

There il but won thing that fashion can t
ostrasize, and that il plug hat.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18

CAsrELIo may be a success in wheels
but he aint great on the spell
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18

Ir s-p-e.a-c-h don't spell speech what IN
the deuce does it spell? CASTILLO.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18

The perseverance of scizzor-tail coat
to hold the leading plac in nice gentle
mans wardrobe IL worthy of awl praze.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18

In the daze of hoopskurts the arguement
use in favor of their institution, and
maintenance was that they were cooling in
their operations upon the sistem. 1t was
sed that they were actooally indispensable
on account of this refrigerative quality,
but suppose the temperature of the
summers has changed, becos see the bal
loon skirt has bin abolished.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18

A cork -towed butte is the latest agony to
the man who has corns on his toze.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18

Pin-backs and bangs are now the chief
stile of jewlry for gurls. And they don't
cost as mutch as hoopskurts and gold ere
rings do.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-01-18
SPIRITUALISM.
Its Mysteries scientifically Explained
Especially for the Comet.
by PHILo CoMETosE.

A friend of mine and man of science
asks me if l will unravel the mysteries of
Spiritualism ?