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The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-01
Defense Of Gen. Brady.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENTS.

WASHINGTON, March 14.-While
Gen. Brady is under the fire of
enraged men, who have failed to
use him or to displace him from
his position as second assistant
postmaster-general, it may not be
amiss to call attention to some Of
his good work in the department.
He found gangs of adventures
securing contracts and sub-letting
them, and then cheating the sub
contractors out Of the pay for their
work. They would 60 on and pay
mp to the last quarter, because, If
they did not, the sub-contractor
would cease performing the SER
vice. But when the last quarters
work was finished the swindling
gang made no payment. To rem
edy this Gen. Brady's recommen-
dation caused the enactment Of a
provision of law whereby the filing
Of the sub-contract in the depart
ment became a lien upon the con-
tractors compensation, and the
latter could draw no pay until he
produced the formers written as
surance that he had been paid, or
was satisfied. The head of one OF
these pestiferous gangs is now
throwing mud at the author of this
provision. Again, at the session OF
last year, congress enacted provi-
sion, which had been previously
recommended more than once by
Gen. Brady, restricting the amount
10 be expended in expediting the
service on any given route to fifty
per cent. in the original contract
price. Before the passage of this
law there was no limit to the
amount that could be so expended
Another improvement-Whenc con-
gress establishes new postal routes,
which it does at every session, the
postmaster-general has authority
to make contract for temporary
service on every one of them until
the next advertised contract let
ting, at whatever terms he deems
best. Gen. Brady urged upon
congress that this temporary
service ought not to be let until
advertised at each terminal sta
ton Of given route and at the
post-offce department. This was
to prevent the government from
being left at the mercy of the few
knowing ones lying in wait in
Washington for such contracts
The committee of congress chang.
ed it from newspaper advertise.
ments to the bulletins, and now nc
temporary service can be contract.
ed for until it is advertised by
bulletins posted as above. These
are most important and practical
reforms, and we choose to cal
attention to them just at this time
10 show that there has been &
strong man with a clear head il
charge of the postal contract sys
TEN. The advertising should
again be changed to the news
papers, we submit this suggestion
TO Postmaster-general James.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-01

EDITORIAL coRREsPoxDzNcE.

The venerable john c. Gray, of
Boston, who died a week ago, left
$4,000 to the Massachusetts,
hospital, and $4,000 to Harvard
university. y rich Bostonian
would doubt whether he could get
into heaven If he didn't leave a
handsome legacy to Harvard.
They had a gloomy time at the
Worlds far committee meeting
yesterday. 1t is a hopless task to
try to galvanize life into that
scheme. 1t is now stated, almost
authoritatively, that Gen. Grant
will resign the presidency, as his
friends state, his Mexican engage
ments do not permit him to have
anything more to do with the
scheme. He goes to Mexico on
Monday.
Greenwood cemetery is truly a
city Of the dead. According to
the report printed at the annual
meeting of the lot-owners, yester-
day, the total number of interments
in the cemetery has reached 20G,-
237, of which j,27S were made
during the past year. There are
A., ,2S3 monuments and headstones,
thirty vaults above ground, 237
in side hills, and 32j below ground,
in addition to which is the Mau-
soleum, including thirty under
ground vaults and two receiving
vaults, one of them including forty
separate vaults. These are re-
markable statistics OF the city's
dead, and when it is remembered
how many other cemeteries there
are in the vicinity of the metropolis
the a2positeness Of the title OF
"the silent majority can be readily
seen.
The Star twits the Sun on con-
tradicting one day what it solemn
ly said the day before. The Star
is unreasonable. Mr.. Dana follows
the elder Benefits precepts to the
letter, and the Herald built up a
great circulation and business III
spite of its contradictions, people
buying the paper to see with what
skill its editor would turn somer-
saults. The story is told of one OF
the Herald's editorial writers wait.
ing on Bennett for orders. "Write
the strongest article you know
how against secession" said the
old man. "But, Mr.. Bennett,
timidly expostulated the young
man, 81 wrote as strongly as
could in favor of secession last
night, and the article is our leader
to-day" "But no buts," exclaim.
ed Bennett. consistency has nc
place in journalism. You've writ.
ten the-thing up, now write
the--thing down, and let the
stupid public take its choice
And Dana patterns after old Ben,
nett, foibles and faults.
The hold Clara Morris has or
the public is phenomenal in it:
way. Nobody on the stage disap
points her audience as frequently
and, as often seems, as capricious
ly as Clara Morris; and yet she i.
again and again forgiven, and he
eccentricities of action excused
without so much as a harsh criti
cism. On the day when she las
broke down, an immense throns
had gathered to see her perform
ance; nevertheless, when the,
found there would be no matinee
and they could exchange thei
tickets or receive back thei
money, only twenty persons asked
for the money. 1t is generally
accepted that Miss Morris is az
invalid, and, therefore, much mus
be tolerated in her that would no
be endured in a healthful woman
And in her peculiar invalidisn
lies much OF her attraction to tn,
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-01
NEW TO-DAY.
For Sale.

UUHE SCOW HATTIE WILL BE SOLD
Il on reasonable terms. For particulars
apply 10 JAMES BELL.
6i-lm7 Upper Astoria.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-01

PART ].
/. Duo. two Pianos. RondO Op. 73.-.. Chopin
Aug. Zech and VI. ESpinOSa-
. Cavatina. Faust ..............G .GounOd
MIS- jenny landSman.
3. Piano Solo. First TaranteIle .-......... Mills
VI. ESpinOSa.
1. NIOloncellO Solo. Bercus Schneider
Earnest Schgidt.
;. Song, ''Once Again ......-..S Sullivan
Miss Sylvia GeTrish.
PART II.
l. Piano Solo, Caprice op. o.. ..........-..Ketten
VI. ESpinOSa.
. Duet Hunters Song. ...... Kucken
Miss landSman and Miss GerriSh.
,. NiOlinceliO solo. Noctume ........ DayidOf
Earnest Schmidt.
I. Song. 81 tu SavaiS. . Balfe
Miss Jenny IsandSman.
> TriO-a. Andante-b. Presto. MendelSSOhn
tFOr Piano. Violin and NiOlincellOl
MeSSrS. ESpinOSa. COurSen and Schmidt.
Reserved seats One Dollar. Box Sheet will
open at AdleTs Music store.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-01
Notice,

VNHE STEAM TUG MARY TAYLOR
IL VIII be sold at Auction al Astoria on
Thursday, April 9Th, al 10 O'Clock a. n.
:. WATERMAN,
7i-td per Trenchard * UpSlur. Agents.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-06-15
Mexican Homes.

The Mexican ladies, writes CORE
spondent, are the most lovable, charm
ing, amiable women in the world, and
domestic life in this country is worthy
the admiration of our people, and might
be initiated 10y Americans. As there are
no summer or winter resorts, families
are not separated three or four months
of each year. The mother does not
urge her daughter to excel in the art of
dress for the purpose of attracting
attention or catching male butterflies.
The fashionable hotel or boarding house
that pest, that curse of our land-is,
happily, unknown here. Each young
couple, when they marry, settle down
in their own little house, however
humble it may be, and their children
are brought up in the pure sunlight of
home. There are more marriages for
love" here than in France and Spain
combined. Cupid holds tirmer sway
than Plutus. / admit that Mexican
girls ought to have a more solid, liberal
education ti~m they generally receive.
Not that it is at all necessary for them
to puzzle their brains over Euclid and
the exact Sciences but they ought to
burn their embroidery frames, stop
making wax flowers fan absurdity in
this beautiful, fertile land, and study
modern history, natural philosophy and
mark the present course of events, and
take some interest in the political
status of the world. In the higher class
the ladies are generally accomplished,
are good linguists and excellent musi-
clans, but the great middle classes seem
to have no higher ambition for THEN
daughters than to have them taught to
read, write and sew. The fragile forms,
sallow compilations, and the hstlessness
we observe among them, are mainly due
to their eternal stitching and want Of
exercise. Progress.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-06-15
HOW Women shonld Drenu.

An American authority says No lady
need be ashamed to dress plainly or
cheaply; she can, with the help of the
modern guides to dress, appear like
lady on very little money. She can lay
down three rules for herself: Never to
pretend to anything, never owear jew
elry, and, affirmatively, always to be
neat. A young girl with white mus
lin and q fresh flower is dressed for a
queen's ball. A lady of maturer years,
with well-titting dark silk, real Jew
elry or none, and her own hair-all the
better if it is Whites also dressed for
ball. True womanhood include all
the delicate refnements that overflow
in the perfect glove, the well-fitting
shoe, the pretty stocking, the neat
frills, the becoming bonnet. The
American woman, to do her only JUS
tice, is not creature by instinct, and if
she occasionally gives too much thought
to dress, she is still to be admired and
commended for her daintiness,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-06-15
FOR THE LADIES.
4 RoyaI BrIde.s Trousseau

n AoyHt e'BIIOueAehus
The New York Telegram says of the
trousseau belonging to the Princess
Stephanie, of Belgium, married to the
Crown Prince of Austria: Il had been
exhibited at the royal palace at Brus-
sells, and the descriptions of its fairy
like materials, and The exquisite works
of art in gold and silver embroidery and
laces of marvellous delicacy, were most
exciting. Amid all the bridal glories
one table in the middle of the hall was
heaped up with linen and household
goods, which attracted the attention of
the ladies. 1t may interest lady readers
to know that the chemises are fringed
with costly lace and with lovely bosoms
of artistic workmanship. Then there
were jackets, corsets, jupons, handker-
chiefs, fchus, cravates and other most
charming objects necessary to the femi-
nine toilet. Near these were costlier
presents of dresses and iewelry. The
bridal dress was of the traditional cloth
of silver, richly ornamented with en-
broidery designs representing oak,
laurel and rose branches, intertwined
with bouquets of orange blossoms, the
whole, both for design and harmony of
color, forming robe such as connols-
seurs declared was never seen before.
The waist and arms were decorated with
delicate silver lace, the train of the same
material as the robe and embroidered
to match. 1t was four meters long and
four wide. The bouquets and designs
in high relief on the train have occupied
many industrious hands for over three
months. The queen of the Belgians
wore dress at the wedding which was
composed of azure velvet, the train,
with rich silver embroidery, falling
over q similarly embroidered under
dress of dead blue satin. 1t was very
tastefully decorated with silver lace,
and the draping and arrangements Of
this matchless robe were such as to
send those who have seen it into costa
sizes.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-06-15
Fashion Notes.

Scarf draperies grow in favor.
Vermicelli lace is out of fashion.
Colored Spanish lace is made into hats.
Steel lace bonnets are trimmed with
ostrich tips.
Tuscan cream is the name of a new
color in lace.
Crosswise draperies are much used for
short skirts.
Triangular sticks are the newest for
sunshades.
Surah serge is trimmed with batiste
embroidery.
Soft thick ostrich feathers are put ou
bonnets of steel lace.
The. frills on summer silk dresses are
cut in points this season.
Wall flower tints reappear again in
flowers, ties and ribbons.
The Vatican is the favorite style for
illuminated foulard dresses.
Paste jewels set in steel are used for
buttons on foulard gowns.
The pinkish white color of the new
laces is called baked earth.
Some of the summer piques have
designs like those of brocade.
Surah is made into blouse waists for
children's wear. 1t washes as well as
linen.
Chenille dotted net is not tied when
used for bonnet strings, but caught by
flower.
Flat collars to be worn on silk dresses
have point behind and point on each
shoulder.
Watered silk appears as panels in
skirts, and also as waistcoats in evening
costumes.
Black satin parasols are frequently
edged with plated satin rufies Of gold
color or scarlet.
Shirred cuffs edged with lace, accom-
pany shirred collarettes and tichus of the
same material.
The fastening used with surphce
waists is three buckles placed slant
wise at the waist.
Some of the light summer mantles
are trimmed all around with black lace
over white lace.
White pique bonnets in the poke
shape have muslin crowns which are
fastened on by buttons.
White waists under overdresses with
square neck and no sleeves are to be
worn by little children this summer.
Summer gowns for young girls have
skirts of thin wool, and waists OF surah
with silk ruches and ruilles OF choice
lace.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-06-15
WITH THE BEST INTENTIONS.

There's no doubt about it thi Robin
son was a good fellow at Hart, and
meant we'll; but it's astonishig what
an amount of trouble man my bring
upon himself by undertaking 10 much
for his fellow-creatures. dn't sup
pose there was another man insurstore
that took the interest Robinsd did in
the different wardrobes of b fellow
clerks. Ii man got new hi Robin
son noticed it right away; ynted to
know where it was bought, hen and
why, and generally conclud,, by say
inc that il the purchaser hadEnsulted
i'm he might have made a tter bar
gain. And I've no doubt would.
Robinson would have made il point to
favor him with his influence hd expe-
rience, both of which were cor derable.
The same way with coats, oIpants, or
boots, or anything But, notithstand-
ing all this, very few of ourpoys con-
suited Robinson in these maers; they
generally bought their arties with a
reckless indiscrimination thawas pain
full to a man constituted afRobinson
was. 1t seemed hard, when man took
the interest in his fellow-crt lures that
Robinson did, that his notes should
be misconstrued and unapp ciated.
remember when l bought lat new ul-
ster of mine, 1 disliked, for me reason
or other, to see Robinsoni 1 had q
ridiculous aversion to tellit him Just
where 1 got it, and when, a4how much
it cost, and what / did wh the other
one. 1t was a kindly sbpathy on
Robinson's part, there's no Pubt about
that; but it was wasted, far as oui
boys we're concerned.
"Why don't the fellow hd his OWL
business ?" they said. "Wht does he
want to manage other peop IS concerns
for?''
SoIwas glad when he told e, ,confden
TALLY, that ne was about tpe married
/ felt then that his inter would b'
so absorbed in the one lject that i
would be impossible to fuse 1t al
over the universe.
Robinson seemed to We found
treasure. OF course eve body think
so but / knew that Rtnson woulC
know more, and see morl and be les
likely to be deceived, thl other men
and he had, as l supposI gained tn
confidence of the family to which h
proposed to marry. 1 As afraid hi
projected mother-in. law .ght object t
some of Robinson's way but he toll
me he got on with herplendidly.
thought she was rema aable woman
not altogether becausahe got on S
we'll with Robinson, bf from Robir
sons conversation imased she mus
be very clever.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-06-15

Su6 bhlu blldb SIG uhuu seen my wire
for six months, that she never heard
anything about black silk dress. 1
was stunned, bewildered. tried to
persuade her she was wrong; she shut
the door in my face. I hurried home,
naturally vexed and indignant. Ny
wife came to meet me, smiling and fond,
Smith-it breaks my heart TO think of
it. asked her about the black silk.
Was it done? Not quite, she said. Was
it at the dressmaker'sP Yes. At Mrs.
Jones'? And was it to cost twenty dol
lars ? Yes; but why was so troubled
about it?
GO Because, madam, / cried, you
have deceived me have just stopped
at your dressmakers. She hasn't seen
you for six months"
My wife turned pale, called to her
mamma, and fell back into Mrs. Pages
arms in a dead faint.
"Mrs. Page then flew into violent
rage, and abused me shamefully. She
used language, Smith, that it is painful
to repeat. She called me sneak and
petty tyrant, spy and miser. She
declared that her daughter never had a
penny that 1 didn't know when it was
coined, and how she spent it; that
Annie had no more to do with her own
house than Dutch doll, and the sooner
she was out of it the better. She sent
my servant for a cab, and before my
wife had fully recovered she took her
away. I have paced the floor all night,
Smith. I shall never go back to the
store again. I'm a ruined man-for
there's something behind all this, Smith:
my servant told me last night that my
wife has been in the habit lately of see-
ing gentleman, of going out with him
and remaining couple of hours he is
stout and dark, little bald, and wears
spectacles."
I burst out laughing. "That's me r'
I cried. "Look at me, Robinson. I'm
the man !"
Robinson glared at me in dazed but
desperate way. 1 saw that he was upon
the point of frenzy, and hastened to tell
him all about his dressing-case. Before
I was half through, he had absolutely
thrown his arms about me, and cried
like baby.
"My mother-in-law was right, Smith,
he cried. "I have been a sneak and q
spy, and perhaps a miser."
"You meant we'll, Robinson; but It's
better to let women manage their own
affairs"
"It's better to mind ones own busi
ness" said Robinson. "Pve been 0
miserable meddler, and deserve to be
punished. Before heaven, Smith, il
was with the best intentions.
&c know it, Robinson"
"But I'll never do it again-never
And now let's go after my wife You
and I can explain the thing to Mrs
Page. / don't wonder she hates me
Smith. Poor little Annie What Q
life she has led Iwonder she remains
fond of me"
"Well, I can vouch for that" I re
piled, honestly enough; and persuaded
him to stop at home and tidy up bit
get shaved, and have some breakfast
"That servant must CO." said Robin,
son, savagely.
"Let your wife hire the next one,"
said And Just as 1 imagined, when We
reached Robinson's, there was the dear
little woman waiting for him. He fell
on his knees at her feet and began his
protestations. Thought it best tc leave
them alone together; but how exceed
ingly lonely and forlorn my bachelor
chambers did look when reached
/ them !-Hdper'S Weekly.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-06-15
The Dead child and the MOckIng. Bird.

TThe following poem is in no sense mer
fancy On the contrary, the strange, patheti
incident It commentaries actually occurre
not long ago in the neighborhood OF Jackson
vile, Florida.l
Once, in land Of balm and flowers,
Of rich fruit-laden trees,
Whore the wild wreaths from jasmine bower
Trail Ger Floridian seas,
We marked our Jeannie's footsteps run
Athwart the twinltling glade;
She seemed Hobe in the sun,
A Dryad in the shade.
And all day long her winsome song,
Her trebles and soft trills,
Would wave-like flow, or silvery low
Die down the whispering rills.
One morn midmost the foliage dim
A dark gray pinion stirs;
And bark along the vine-clad limb
What strange voice blends with hers
II blends with hers, which soon is stilled-
Braver the mock-bird's note
Than all tho strains that ever filed
The queenliest human throat
As Joannie heard, she loved the bird,
And sought thenceforth TO share
With her new favorite, dawnby dawn,
Her daintost morning cheer.
But an | a blight beyond our ken,
From some far feverous wild,
Brought that dark Shadow feared Of MN
Across the fated child.
It chilled her dropping curls Of brown,
It dimmed her violet eyes,
And like an awful cloud crept down
From vague, mysterious skies.
At last one day our Jeannio lay
All pulseless, pale, forlorn;
The sole sweet breath on lips of deas
The inttering breath of morn;
When Just beyond the o'er-curtaincd rbm
(How tender, yet how strongD
Rose through the misty morning gloon
The mock-bird's sudden song.
Dear Christ those notes of golden psi
Seem caught from heavenly sphereso
Yet through their marvellous cadence sla
Tones soft as chastened tears.
IA 4 II an angels voice that throbs
Within the brown birds breast
Whose rhythmic magic scars or sobs
Above our darling's rest
The iaicsS' ss !, ,bSssssEs. SsasssEs. ~: ,ue once MOI
When. stolen from Joannie's bed,
That eve, along the porchway floor
/ found our rminstrcl-dead
The fire of that transcendent strain
His life-clords burned apart,
And, merged in sorrow's earthiier p'N
1t broke the o'erladen heart.
Maiden and bird + the self-same gray
Their welded dust shall keep,
While the long low Floridian wave
Means around their place ofsleep.
Paul II. Hdyne, IN HaTpeT's Md,zlne.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-06-15

Miss Eva @. Kinney has assumed edi-
torial control of the Ellis (Kansas)
Headlight, and announces in her first
number that she is "a girl, with all a
girls love for fun, frolic and romance.
If editing doesn't take that love for fun,
etc., out of her we shall be mistaken.
1t has a more SOLDERING effect thana hus'
band could have. Troy Times,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-06-15

Legal notices at established rates.
Marriage and death notices, gratis.
All bills for yearly advertisements coll
lected quarterly. Temporary advertise
uoants must be paid for in advance.
JOB work. Cash on Delivery.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-06-15

Iris eolors are the soft hues OF The
az flower, and are becoming 10 young
iris with yellow hair
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-03-24
A campmeetinr Anecdots.

An ancident Of camp-meeting
life, detailed by clergyman on a
Baltimore steamboat, is thus re-
ported in Forest and Stream:
An old couple had supplied
themselves with a bottle OF penny-
royal oil with which to keep OF
the mosquitoes. They extin-
guished their lights and retired. 1.
forgetting the antidote.
The mosquitoes we're very bad,
and, after standing it as long 40
they could, the old lady got up and
got a well-filled ink-bottle instead OF
the oil and gave the old gentleman
thorough lubricating with tho
fluid, face, hands and feet; sbe
then anointed herself in like manner.
They again essayed to court she
drowsy god, but could only get IA
occasional nap. Finally the old
lady got up and struck a light
Giving q glance at the bed she had
just left, she beheld, to her horror,
a colored person, as she supposed,
stretched in the place Of her
spouse.
She quietly got the poker, and
beat the old fellow over the head
before discovering her mistake.
Later on in the night we found tho
old couple on board the boat with
us, he with his head nearly as big
as bale of hay, and she caring
for him with the greatest solicltudo.