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Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-01
EVOLVED.

One swallow does not make summer, but it lowers glass of beer dreadfully. Chicago Tribune.
 The New Orleans Picayuaae thinks that be- fore man cries over split milk he should be sure the milk is pure.
 Mrs. Mcclure, of Jersey City, died on Sun- day, regretting that she had used kerosene to light the fire with.-Detrott Free Press.
 Albany has ordered 300 electric lights. Owners of property don't dare to let it get very dark when the Legislature is there.- Boston Post.
 The latest attempt to raise money that we hear of is by fellow who tried to pawn the sssilent watches of the night. "-BOstO1 Com naerciGI Bulletin
 A man by the name of Hash has been sent as missionary to the cannibals under the belief that the natives will not eat him. Neao Orleans PicGy,tne.
 fellow never thoroughly realizes what a blooming ignoramus he has been all his life- time until he enters into intellectual converse with Boston schoolmarm on her summer solstice.-N. r. Commercial Adoertiser.
 The San Antonio people complain of little fishes in the water mains. They can't expect the waterworks company to furnish them with whales one hundred and twenty feet long for a dollar month.-Ieras Sitfttings.
 At church in Ellis county, Texas. last Sunday, a man was shot and killed. "Now, look here," said the preacher pausing mo ment, 'tI must insist that there be no further interruptions. How do you suppose man can go on preaching when you annoy him in this way ?''- Western FGct.
 q can't think all sinners will be lost" said Mrs. Nimbletung ''There's my hus- band, now. He's a bad man, very bad man, but trust he will be saved at last. I believe he has suffered his due share in this life" ''Amen! '" said Nimbletung from the back seat. Mrs. N. gave him such Q look, but said nothing.
 Howeber, I would say to de writer of poe try dat if he can invent fishline that won't tangle or bute-jack that will fit any heel, he will reap mo honors dan any poetry kin bring him De man who writes poetry may please us for a moment wid some tender thought. De man who raises cabbages and onions not only pleases all winter, but adds to our corporal comfort and general health. -Brother Gardner.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-01
How Official Stealing Is Done. TRamsdeu in PhiladeIphia Times.l

Here's Tom Jones. He's 8 member of Congress and chairman of the committee. He tells his messenger or his clerk to have 'that desk'' sent to his house; he has so much writing to do at night that he must have it. Do you think that desk gets back to the capitol when that man leaves Con- gress Not much Then Dick Roe is chief clerk somewhere handsome drop light worth $2O or $50, perhaps, is in his of fee. He says to his messenger: ''Henry, take that drop-ight to my house. I have got to use it for a week or two and then you can fetch it back" Does it ever get back though? Hardly. Then Congressman may have in his committee room $10O clock. At the close of the session he orders the clock sent to his house. ''for fear some body may steal it during the recess" Does that clock ever tick in that committee room again Not tick. Another way. Jack Doe is the head of department. He com
 mands unlimited servants, called messengers
 He tells handsome colored man to go to his house and stay for day or two, until he can find servant Do you suprose that officer ever really finds suitable man? Never. There is cabinet maker in nearly every de- partment. How easy it is for the cabinet member to tell the cabinet maker that he wants certain thing made ''Won't you please do it q can't find anybody else who can suit mel, and keep the account, and l will pay for the lumber, for your time, etc." Does that cabinet officer ever get an account? No, sir
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-01
income from the duchy of Cornwall amount ed to upwards of e1, BOG, 900 sterling. Poor princel

The bill recently introduced in the New York Legislature for the protection of skunks was not joke. The rural legislator who in troduced the bill said that large grub had recently made it's appearance and was ruin ing the hop vines. The skunk was the nat
 ural enemy of the grub. They came out of their holes at night and went into the hop fields, where they ate the grubs by the millions. The hop growers estimated every skunk at the value of fifty dollars, and were naturally desirous that they should be pro tected. Therefore it was asked by the bill that there should be penalty of fifty dollars for every skunk killed or every pelt exposed for sale. It would naturally be supposed that the skunks would be able to protect themselves and that so far from being hunt ed they would be carefully avoided. It would appear, however, that there is 8 con- siderable trade in skunk skins, and per sons that make business of hunting them. If all this is true the New York skunk should certainly be protected. -.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-01
The Man Who Got 'Ein.

IfrOm LQe D9lrOlI Free fEeesJ
 Three or four days ago citizen of Bron- tion to say to the captain that he suspected plot on the part of his wife to elope with a neighbor of his, who was not only married man, but the father of seven children.
 ''What makes you suspect such plot?" asked the captain.
 ssWen, my wife has been kinder pickin' up her duds, asking about trains and trying to get me to go away on a visit. !"
 And about this neighbour"
 s'Well, he and my wife are talking over the fence about half the time and throwing kisses at each other the other half. I don't care to raise row over this thing, but I'd kinder like to stop lem from runnin' away"
 ''Well you must take your own way to frustrate it, unless you go to the police jus tice. Be careful however. Anger or jeal- ousy may get you into trouble"
 ''Oh, I'll be careful" was the calm assur- ance, as the citizen went his way, to be heard of no more until yesterday evening. Then he called passing patrolman into his house to ask further advice
 ''You see, they had it all planned to elope, 7" he explained.
 ''Yes"
 ''But I got 'em."
 "How ?"
 He took the lamp and led the way to the woodshed. The neighbor, dressed in his Sunday suit, was tied up in one corner, and the recreant wife occupied an empty dry goods box in the other.
 'tGot 'em last night at o'clock, said the husband, ''and I've put in the whole day telling lem what think of such business. Guess I'd better let lem off now, hadn't l ?"
 The officer thought so, and the nelghbor was released, led to the door, and the hus- band said :-
 ''Now you trot, and if you ever try to run away with my wife again I'H-TH be hanged if don't go over and tell your wife about iti"
 He then turned to his wife, united the cords, and said: II guess you feel ashamed of this, and there ain't no need to say any more about it. I ain't very mad this time, but if you try it again there's no knowing what may do."
 "Well!" gasped the officer, as he drew long breath.
 'sWell, didn't git lem ?" chuckled the husband, in proud delight. q may look like spring chicken, but I'm no fool, and don't you forget it!"
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-01

Mir. Henry G. Vennor thinks he is not much of weather prophet who does not oc- casionally revise his predictions. "To hold to prediction made for 12 months in ad- vance, he says. ''would, at the present stage of weather prognostication, only tend to make the whole attempt ridiculous The test these predictions undergo for the first six months is alone severe o2s, although it is my firm conviction that this space of time can be covered, and that with considerable accuracy by an intelligent observance of the leading principles connected with the meteor ology or our country.'
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-01
Littre and Religion.

Relative to the conversion on his death bed M Littre, the Paris Voltaire, says that for six months his old positivist friends were not al- lowed to approach him. Even NJ. Saint Hilaire, who is deistical and 8 spiritualist, was kept at distance, though not denied &C., cess to him. Madame and Mademoiselle Lit tre were ardent Catholics. and were deter mined that what happened in 1874 at Mesnil, when Littre was thought to be on his death-
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-01

According to the London correspondent of the Philadelphia Telegraph, the Prince of Wales excused himself a while ago from &C., cepting an invitation to visit the Australian colonies on the plea of poverty. This is considered ''good' in view of the fact that the prince getsi e1ao, 900 year out of the country, besides living free of charge in pal aces which cost the nation another e7,OO0 annually to keep in repair. The prince has an allowance of e40,oo0 per annum from Parliament the princess also having year ly allowance of ZIG, ,o0O. The duchy of Corn wall brings him an admitted revenue of e70,- 900, and is estimated to produce considerably more. Then he is general, which post yields $2, GOO per annum; is colonel of three regiments and draws e6,oOO per year as field marshal. The revenues of the duchy of Cornwall were formerly charged with the payment of several pensions, aggregating nearly e6. GOO yearly; but these charges have, by little judicious manipulation, been trans ferred to the shoulders of the nation Dur ing the prince's minority. the accumulated
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-01
Tame woospeeker-co1d weather.


 iFrom MT. Primes Lonesome Lake Papers to the
 N Y. Journal of Commerce.l
 There was 8 red-head woodpecker who was singular familiarlIy When he saw me sit down he came down from a tree and lift on the post of the veranda, not ten feet from me, ,-held on there and tapped with his bill, occasionally turning his bright eve to me as if to ask if heard him. Day after day for week he there, having no fear of man, and apparently enjoying company. The stump of old black burch, a few feet from the door step, was perforated by him with hundreds of holes, and when we filled some of the holes with bread he would come down and pick it out It was the first instance I have known of tame wood becker.
 A week slipped along very pleasantly Dur ing this time several parties of people arrived and went into camp on the bank of one or another of the ponds. It is a custom of many north country farmers with their fam flies to go once year or oftener on fish ing expedition. They bring provisions and sometimes tents and have jolly time in the woods. Before l came away there was quite population of men, women and children around Little Diamond and in the evening the camp fires blazing across the water made picturesque scene. The weather continued cold. snow squan on the morning of the 18th of June made think there was some mistake in the procession of the season. and the mistake seems confirmed as I am writing this on the 21st, the longest day of the year. For to-day has been bitter cold here, and we have had succession of heavy falls of rain and ice, not hail, but genuine frozen drops of water. sharp sleet. I have drawn my table and chair close up to the blazing fire and the sensation of the evening is more like Novem- Der or December than June.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-01

The anti Mormon agitation in various re- igious bodies in the East naturally does not please those against whom it is directed. The Deseret Neaos runs over with abuse of the ''sectarian crusade" and denounces the Protestant ministers in Utah as 'hypocrites, D 'sfrauds, D ''scrub divines," and all sorts of bad things.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-01
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The London Economist urges the American people to stop paying their public debt and abolish their excessive import duties. There is nothing selfish about this advice. Oh no !
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-01
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Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-01

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Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-01

A rather notable student finished his course at the Yale Law School this week, graduating third in his class. This was the Hon. Peter Doyle, ex-Secretary of State of Wisconsin MT. Doyle is now forty-fve years old, and has been successful lawyer and politician in Wisconsin. Being conscious of some defects in his legal education he boldly and wisely determined to remedy them at an age when most men would not feel like ''going to school" He has worked hard while here, and will doubtless find his reward for it in the future. He has been popular with stu dents and professors, and one, at least, of the latter expects to see him a member of Congress yet.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-01
BUTTER SALE

1000 Tubs to be SlauSh.
 tered. Gilt Edge Creamery, Az lbs for $l Best York State Butter, 20c lb. Litchheld County Butter tnew), 20c ID. Choice Western Grass Butter, 18c lb. Good Table Butter, 15c Ib. Cooking Butter, 1Oc ID.
 George w. HI. Hughes,
 Independent Dealer, je28 sI Church Street
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-01

Recent cable dispatches have mentioned the complete success of the preliminary bor- ings for a tunnel under the English Channel, indicating that the work might be completed within five years. fuller report of the pro- ceedings at the recent meeting of the South eastern Railway Company, in London, shows that gallery seven feet in diameter has al- ready been driven from the shaft near Ab- bots Cliff for half mile toward France, and an agreement has been made to push forward 8 similar headway under the sea for 8 mile on each side of the Channel. At the present rate of progress this will probably be done within the next six months, and then it is ex- pected that the further nine miles on each side will be undertaken at once All the con- ditions seem favorable to the project. The soil is found to be exactly similar on both ends. It is, as was expected. gray chalk, impervious to water and there is every reason to anticipate that it will be found to stretch in an unbroken bed across the Chan nel. If this anticipation is realized the mak- ing of the tunnel is only question of time and money.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-01
Price Four Gents.

ters read out to him daily and on learning the death of General Colley, di,tated entirely from his own idea a letter of coincidence to the governor of the colony. Before leaving
 de oude molen" the visitor will be intro. duced to the wives, four in number, great strapping women in excellent condition, and about as contented with their lot as the stalled OK, whom in intellectual development they much resemble. Court dress is, though, becoming enough, but scanty and suits their fine bronzed figures well-just a sergeant's plaid of the 91st tartan as @ sort of shawl
 which seems to be regarded as an incum- brance. They are merry, light hearted crea- lures, who fleet the time carelessly enough in golden world of idleness and Kaffir beer
 The ex-king, too, is fond of his joke, and the house sometimes rings with his laughter at some good -natured chaff. ''Can you use a knob kerrie p inquired one young visitor, tall fellow of some six foot three s'Well,' '' said Citiwayo eff I can't do that I can do nothing ;' and picking up a stick, in a few rapid passes he disarmed his inquiring friend; then, with a hearty grasp of the hand, burst into shout of laughter. Lite rature, the great consolation of more civi- hzed captives, is literally sealed book to Cltlwayo. He cannot compose philosophic reflections, like the illustrious prisoner of Ham nor write his memoirs and reflections, like his greater uncle; nor can he even, like hls own bltterest opponents, solaoe an en- forced leisure by writing justifcatory arti- eies for the Ntnetee1ath Century. There is no resource beyond dismal breeding over his misfortunes and the vain hope of a pos- sible restoration
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-01
ANEW DEPARTURE. :. The Weekly Springfield Republican,

Since its foundation, nearly 60 years ago, The Springfield Republican has always contributed gen. erously the instruction and entertainment of its large rural constituency. To make the paper still
 more valuable guide and assistant to farmers ana their families, frstclass agricultural department has been lately added to the weekly edition It reg contains variety of interesting matter mainly orig inAl articles by skilled agricuturiss relating to life on the farm Among the regular contributors are {: Dr. George B. Loring United States Commissioner Of Agriculture Dr. E. Lewis Sturtevant, Secretary of the Society for the Promotion Of Agricultural Sci ence; Maj Henry E. A1vord Dr. Paul A. Chad bourne ex-President of Williams College President Levi Stockbridge, of the Amherst Agricultural Col lege James s. GrinDeI, and other special students The other departments of the Weekly, news. editor ial literary religious and miscellaneous, kept up to their recognized high standard and all of the best characteristics of the paper carefully preserved
 Trial subscriptions from July to the close of the year, 50 cents. Regular subscriptions, S1.5O year in clubs of 10 or more, $1.S5. Commission to local agents Sample copies free. Address
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Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1881-11-24
FROM GENEsEE.

GENEsEE, Nov. IA, 1881.
Ed. TELLER: The ground is covered
with snow, very many acres of grain
are yet ungathered, and much that is
gathered is unthreshed and much that
has been threshed during the two weeks
lasU past, both wheat and oats are in
danger of heating in the granary, it
was SO damp when gathered. MIR. Fix
on the Little Potlatch has about 100
acres yet exposed to the snow and rain
unthreshed. Our country has suffered
greatly for want of farm machinery and
for want of sufficient hands to operate
the machinery We have. 1t is not the
fault of the country we 1.-Two in that our
harvest is not gathered, but it is the
want of muscle and machinery. One
night last week forty bushels of wheat
belonging to Charles Toombs took
wings and went south to feed the wild
geese. There are good many hogs
for sale in Genesee country this season.
Everybody is preparing to put in ON
extensive wheat crop for the next sea
son. There is petition to be in cir
culation which We may ask you to pub
lish in the TELLER and Oregonian
whose object it is to induce some enter
prising merchant to open a trading
house here in Genesec. I think that
upwards Of 100 signers are to this pc
tition. l understand that each signe,
will give bonus of $40 to the man
who will open good store. IF they
keep their pledge it should encourage
some good man to come here with a
stock of goods and do their business
for them A report was in circulation
that Alexander was coming, and i,
produced much rejoicing. But they
soon became sad on learning that such
was not the fact.
Yours. Jolly.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1881-11-24
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Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1881-11-24
FROM cAMAs PRAIRIE.
CAMAs PRAIRIE, I. T., Nov. II.

CAMAs PRAIRIE, 1. T., Nov. II.
EDITOR TELLER: In recent issue
Of your paper | noticed an extract from
letter written by me to some friends
in California. At the time tho letter
was written, l had just got out of a
sick bed, and a. natural consequence
for an immigrant, I had ou big dis
gust for the country and everything
around me. The letter in question was
written to an old hunting companion
California and was purely private in
every particular, the editor of the Bee
Democrat had no right Whatever to
publish any portion Of it, but sometimes
editorsare presuntious as well az other
people. Not one syllable in that letter
was intended to do this country or any
one living in it the slightest harm.
have taken up my abode here and ex-
pect to remain. I am perfectly salts.
fed with the country and its surround
inss and have "ritten three different
letters back to country papers in Cal
ifornia encouraging immigration hither,
among them the Bee. Democrat.
fully expect to meet many of my Cali
fornia friends on this prarie ere the
first of August next approaches.
Your comments regarding the lette,
were somewhat stiff but at the same
time presume they were substantially
due to your patrons on the prarie.
Very respectfully, yours,
A. D. GREENE.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1881-11-24

tho Frye Hotel, Mr.. Frys retiring !;
this house is also well spoken of by
patrons. Therefore, We havs Two first
class hotels, and one fourth rata "Hash-
cry" in Moscow, and when the r. n.
gets here we expect to have save Il
more.
At tho sa,ne time we had quite !
. commo,ion among the Philistines.
caused BY course Of theological leo
lures. delivered here BY Elder !. 9.
Clapp, man Of : great deal more abil.
ity than any that has ever visited 10,
but members Of the different Orth dox
churches think he is the devil himself
let loose for . season, they think 20,
because he has succeeded in knocking
the foundation from under them, and
has shown up tho Billie in ito true
sense. at the same time showing clear.
ly that man can be chrissi ian and
reach Heaven withou. being dragged
there by any Of the orthodox Wal
horses or donkeys. The bost part Of Il
is that the Reverend gentlemen haa
lain down the gauntlet and deties any
to pick It up and fight him in debate
nr eha fraA ~, ~rE <&e ~ ss.s e.~- A. !.
Bible and theology. To this date
none have responded to tho call. and
it is your correspondents opinion tha
they will have the worst cause to main
tain on their hands that was ever easl
of the mountains.
More Anon.
Dixie.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1881-11-24
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THE CRISIS.

Under the above caption, CORES.
pondent of the Oregon Tidette who
signs himself America" speaks az
follows:
In this Government the sovereign
power is in the people, and with them
alone lies all the possibilities Of ad
vancement or downward tendency tc
monarchy, ignorance and slavery.
To maintain a free government al
men must be free mentally, must reach
out to individual thought and action
must be educated 10 higher moral force,