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The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-26
Our Railroads.

Our Railroads.
The meeting of bond holders of
the Oregon and California railroad
company at Frankfort, Germany,
on the 10th of MAY, is merely to
confirm what has already been ac-
complished, to wit: The sale of
the Oregon and California railroad
to the Oregon Railway and Navi-
cation company. As the Oregon
and California railroad now en-
braces both the east and west side
railroads, this will place them both
under the management of the
great and the liberal corporation
which has just secured control Of
the Northern Pacific Railroad COM
pany, and has a through link in
course of construction from Port
land to New York via Baker
city and Granger. it is
not at all difficult to foresee the
result. Whether it will be to
the advantage or disadvantage Of
Walla-w walla, The Dalles, Port
land, etc, etc, is not the all i'm
portant topic. But will it
be to the advantage or disad-
vantage of this Great Pacific
Northwest? We are decidedly of
opinion that that is what should
most interest us. And we are
as decided in the opinion that it
will build up the whole. The
Oregon Railway and Navigation
company are not building cities,
nor dabbliRg in real estate, nor
manipulating political conventions,
but they are proceeding, with wis
dom, to the development of an
empire here. They have not
come among us to oppress, but to
relieve our wants. All they ask
is fair play. They put their
depots where they will be the
most useful, and they will regu-
late triffs to correspond with the
wants and requirements Of busi.
ness. Some Indignation has been
expressed by some merchants over
the fact that the rebates on freights
is allowed by the company to two
or three merchants in Portland
and one in Walla-walla. There is,
however, no discrimination in favor
of particular persons or firms, but
a general rule Of the company
allows Of these rebates to houses
that transport fifteen hundred tons
or more per aunum over the lines
of the company. This is a very
proper concession in favor of large
customers and of the same char.
acter as the concessions made
by all merchants in the whole
sale trade to large dealers. We
will presume a point. Suppose
three publishers enter the marke
the same day TO purchase paper
One buys for cash and takes on,
hundred tons; the second buys fo
cash and takes ten tons; the thirc
buys for cash and takes FIVE or tel
rheams. No. one saves two t,
three cents a pound on his pur
chase, and gets a discount of fv,
per cent. for cash. No. TIVE
saves 1902 cents per pound, anC
gets a discount. No. 3 pays til,
ruling rate, and it is optional witt
regard to the discount. This yer,
same system pervades all lines o
business. How can the transporta
ton companies be censured for fol
lowing rules which govern trad,
of every kind?
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-26

1t is rumored that the president
has taken a firm stand in favor of
an executive session and confirm
alton of nominations. He has
since Saturday sent for and spoken
with eleven republican senators
urging that it will relieve the ad-
ministration of embarrassment by
confirming nominations. A caucus
will be held to-day.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-26

-Four persons, formerly domestic
servants in the imperial palace,
charged with the assassination, of
the late sultan, Abdul Azez, have
confessed that they suffecated him.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-26

Florida orange groves are ad-
vancing in price-some as much as
fifty per cent. within the past
twelve months.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-26
Wanted.

1OOOOO GO0D SPRUCE SHIN
lUU,UUU lgleS made from live tim
Der. For particdlar inquire of
S5-2w j. G. HUSTLER
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-26

The compromise between Mr..
Willard and Mr.. Billings, rumor
says, was proposed by Mr.. Willard.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-26

Marysville, Tennessee, has a but
ton factory, which is operating
quite extensively.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-26
NEW TO-DAY.

IL Ross. on CaSS street 10 let. Inquire OF
PAGE & ALLEN.
April u, 1851. II
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-26

There will be an international
monetary conference in Paris next
summer.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-14
Deaths at Maryyille.

MARYvILLE, Tenn, August II.
Mr.. EDITOR: Death appears to be walk
ing daily in our midst. Last Monday Mr..
W. D. Mckinley died, of which l wrote
you Your type made me say, however,
that he left five children. 1t should have
been nine. About the same time that he
died, Mrs. Mcconnell, the widow of the
late Moses Mcconnell, died at her residence
near the depot. She was victim of con-
sumption, and had been confined a long
time, gradually sinking down to the grave
She also left number of small children to
mourn her loss and grow up in the world
without mothers care or mothers love.
Also, the Rev. Mr.. George, of
the United Presbyterian Church, died
at the residence of Mr.. j. W. Eakin
Wednesday the 10th inst, in the afternoon.
He has been for some time suffering with
chronic disease of the liver, but was able to
go about and attend to the affairs of life
until the first of this week. He preached
to his congregation below Maryville last
Sabbath, and ON Thursday was laid in the
grave
This morning at about o'clock, Mr.. l.
N. Yearant departed this life at his res
idence three miles below town. Mr.. Year
ant was well-to-do and prosperous farmer,
a public spirited man. whose loss will be
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-14
Nonsense.

, A minister had negro in his family,
One Sunday, when he was preaching,
he happened to look in the pew where
the negro was, and could hardly contain
himself as he saw the negro, who could
not read OF write a word, scribbling away
most ind1,striousIy. After meeting, he
said to the negro, "Tom, what we ,
you doing in church ?" "Taking notes,
massa all de gemmen take notes. I"
Bring your notes here and let me see
them" Tom brought his notes, which
looked more like Chinese than English.
"Why, Tom, this is all nonsense" 81
thought so, massa, all the time you was
preaching it."
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-14
Marvellous Fish Story,

A rich proprietor at the interior had
made to establish pond artificial, where
found themselves agglon1erated 5000
trouts.
This proprietor is the father of a girl
ing of from 5 to 6.
She had taken the habitude to go each
morning to give to eat to the trouts, al
the aid of crumbs of bread.
These fishes were become 50 entamed
that they skipped out Of the water tc
attrap the crumbs which the infant child
held in the crevice of her hand.
1t arrived one day that she lost the
equilibrium, and she fell, the head thu
first, in the pond, Of which the water was
enough to profound.
At the cries emitted by the girling the
father was run himself.
But what horror He saw his infan
extended without movement at the sur
face, where she fioated as cork.
What was not the surprise of the faith
er in seeing that she had been supported
by mass compact of trouts.
The fishes had arranged themselves
under her body as to sustain and proven
her from drown.
If this history is truthful, the fishes
are not SO much deprived of the inteli
gence as one pleased himself to believe
Translation from the French.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-14
A Relic of POcahontas.

The editor of this paper, who has
made the study of the Indian character
q life-work. has in his possession letter
written by the well-known Pocahontas
to her father, and publishes it below for
the benefit of his readers. Although
we have. as we said made the subject of
the Indian character LIES study, it has,
of course, been at distance. When it
was necessary to take some risk in visit
ing them personally, at a time when they
were feeling little wild and skittish,
we have taken the risk vicariously in Or
der to know the truth:
"WERowoCOMOCo, Sunday, 1907.
"DEAR PAW: You ask me to come
to you before another moon. I will try
to do so. When Powhatan speaks, his
daughter tumbles to the racket.
"lou say that [ am too soft on the
pale face Smith. | hope not. He is
great man. [ see that in the future my
people must yield to the white man.
"Our people now are pretty plenty,
and the pale-face seldom, but the day
will come when the red men will be
scattered like the leaves of the FORGET
and the Smith family will run the entire
ranch
"Our medicine man tells me that after
time the tribe of Powhatan will disap-
pear from the face Of the earth, while the
Smiths will extend their business all
over the country, till you can't throw a
club at q yaller dog without hitting one
Of the Smith family.
My policy, therefore, is to become
solid with the majority. A Smith may
some day be chief cook and bottle
washer of this country. We may want
to get some measure through the coun-
Gil. See?
Then will so in all my wild beauty
and tell the high muck-a-muck that
years ago, under the outrageous shadow
OF q big elm, | pleaded with my hard
hearted parent to prevent him from
MASKING the cocoanut of the original
Smith, and everything will be O. X.
| You probably catch my meaning
AS to loving the gander-shanked pale
face, ! hope You will give yourself no
unnecessary loss of sleep over that He
is as homely, anyhow, as a cow-shed
struck with a club, and has two wives in
Europe and three pairs of twins.
Fear not, noble dad Your little Poca-
hontas has the necessary instinct to
paddle her own canoe, and don't you ever
forget it.
Remember me to Brindle Dog and his
squaw, the Sore-Eyed Sage Hen, and
send me two plugs OF tobacco and new
dolman, with beads down the back. At
present [ am ashamed to come home. as
my wardrobe consists of pair of clam
shell bracelets and an old parasol Ia,
ia. POCAHoNTAs.
| -BM Nye's BO0Jne5-151
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-14
Fishing i'm Laniand.

The water is very clear at Hammer
fest, in Lapland: you may see every
thing that goes on among the fish. A
few feet down you may see the young cod
swapping at your hook, if you have one;
a little lower down the coalfish, and the
huge place and the halibut on the white
sand at the bottom in other places the
starfish, as large as a plate, and purple
and green shellfish of all sizes. The
plaice is taken i'll the following manner +:
Ia calm weather the fisherman takes a
strong, fine cord, to which he has fas-
tened heavy spcarhead, like a whale
harpoon This he holds ready over the
bow of the boat, while another person
paddles it forward slowly. When the
fish is seen at the bottom the boat is
stopped and the harpoon is suddenly
dropped upon him, and thus the fish is
caught. In two hours the fishermen will
get boat-load. The halibut are caught
with hooks. They sometimes weigh five
hundred pounds, and if drawn up care
lessly will overturn the boat. In many
Of the mountainous districts the rivers
swarm with trout, the habit of which
is to conceal themselves beneath the
boWlder rocks III the bed of the stream,
venturing out only to feed at night
Men, each with heavy hammer, will
enter these waters, and strike one or two
blows on the stones, when the fish rrr
from their lurking place partly stunned
and are easily caught Sea World.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-14
RraMheafing Witnesses.

The law is charitable. It presumes
that all men will do their duty, and it
holds every man innocent of an alleged
crime until he has been proved guilty.
Lawyers, on the contrary, are inclined
to be uncharitable, especially toward
witnesses who testify against their eli
ents.
Though they have sworn &c to tell the
truth, the whole truth, and nothing but
the truth, !" the opposing counsel usually
takes it for granted that they will 60 as
near committing perjury as their Tears
will permit. ;, :;
Doubtless. there is much to be SAID III
justification of the lawyers COURSE,
They see much of the prevarlcatlon OF
witnesses, and many attempts to con-
ceal one fact, or to exaggerate another.
should doubt the truthfulness of any
witness, when interested in a cause
and a majority of witnesses are partisans.
Their skepticism is often made often
sively prominent In a cross-examlnatlOn.
The lawyers manner says, "You have
sworn to a lie and / know it, and the
jury shall know it, too, before I'm done
with you"
Then ne puts series of questions for
the purpose of disconcerting the wit
ness, so that he may contradict himself
and thus spoil his evidence. Ii the
questions fail to effect the purpose, then
they are reinforced by brOwbeatlng.
Daniel Webster once tried this method
upon clergymans wife, Mrs. Green
ough, of Newton, Mass, a self-possessed
xrpr,ooD
The question before the court was that
of Mrs. Badgers soundness of mind,
she having made a viii during her last
sickness. Mr.. Webster, who had been
retained by those who were trying to
break the will, saw that the testimony
of Mrs. Greenough, she being witness
for the opposite side, would have great
weight with the jury. He reasoned,
therefore, to spoil her evidence If he
could.
He began his discrimination by
putting a certain question, which Mrs.
Greenough commenced to answer by
saving. 81 believe"-
:'We don't want to know what you be.
Ieve, madam, roared Webster; eve
want to hear what you know"
"That was what / was about to say, u
replied Mrs. Greenough, going right on
with clear answer to the question.
A gain and again, Mr.. Webster, seeing
the effect of her evidence upon court
and jury, tried to embarrass her.
At length, irritated by his failure tC
ruffle the possessed witness, he
sprang to his feet, drew out his snuff box,
took pinch, and, holding large ban
dana handkerchief to his nose, blew q
sonCrous blast.
"Mrs. Greenough," he asked, while
the report was vibrating, looking sharply
at her, "was Mrs. Badger neat
woman?"
81 can't say as to that, sir; she had
one very dirty trick"
"What was that?"
"She took snuff. "
The Court House shook with peals Of
laughter from Judge, jury, bar and spec,
tators.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-14
MARKET REPORTS
Wholesale Grain and Produce Market.
CORRECTED DAILY.l

TCoRRECTED DAILYl
CHRONICLE OFFICE,
Knoxville Tenn, Aug. IS 1881.
The better grades of wheat continues TO adj
vance. Sales Of prime lots yesterday at 81 20.
We quote the general market 81 10 to sl,15, and
0 " grades $1.0.
CoRE-Act We buying loose, soc /; selling, sacks
included. car lots, 65a67c.
OATS-NeW crop threShed: in demand at 80
ar83 cents per bushel Ted rust-pT0Gi, ;i5a40c.
BACON-Active, buying; sides, l0Hc; shout
ders, Ike hams, 10; selling, packed IN depot,
clear sides, ilHal2c; shoulders, Sc hams,
1012a114c.
LAGD In 50 pound tin cans, i12c. selling
12ai3c.
POTATOES Irish new, s0a90c.
HAY-Loose, S0a90c par 100 pounds; baied,
S1.eO.
PEAs-Season over; nominal. 50caSlU0.
BRAE-S1. 25 per 100 ponds.
FLoUR-Nominal, country extra, buying. dull,
81 50a2. 10: selling, S2.50a215 per sack; family,
buying, s. 50a5 rs selling, s2.75a3.09 er sack
Observation-Disclosures 52a53c.
DRIED FRUIT-BlackberFies firm at 10 ceLtS per
pourd. Apples, 3I2a4 cents per p und.
BUTTER hoice roll, Sa12l2c; prime, 6a10c
grease butter 5a7c.
EGGS-DulI buying at &c.
POULTRY-i1Ve chickens, hens, sc per pound
ters, 212c: turkeys, goDbl rs, &c; spring
CHI ckens in demand &c per Id.
RAGS-COtton 1I2c.
BEEswAX- demand at zoe per pound.
HIDEs-Dry flint, 10c green, &C.
1ALLOW-5c.
FLAX sEED-PeT buShel, soc.
BRASS-l0di2c copper. 19al2c.
WoOL-Ch0ice tub-waSned, $50 fair to GOOD
8 laaS5c dark coarse. Is; unwashed, 2213a25,.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-14
Cotton Manufacturing in the South.

Probably the one great industry in
which the Southern man takes most H.
terest, however, is the raising and manu-
facture of cotton. This is the royal
plant that was the glory and wealth of
the South in the past, and that is, no
doubt, destined to work out its financial
salvation In the future. By all the signs
of the times, King Cotton has come to
his own again. SO proftableis the cotton
manufacturing business that in certain
sections Northern capital goes begging,
the home corporations having become
wealthy enough to carry on the bust
ness. The culture Of cotton is resumed,
but with difference. Instead of merely
raising and selling the raw material
Southern men see the policy of manu-
featuring, both for home use and export.
They are filling their mills with the best
Lowell-made machinery, and are already
producing goods of excellent quality.
They perceive the bad management of
sending the raw fiber to New England
to be manufactured and then buying it
back The day is not far distant when
the finer! fabrics WI be manufactured
in tie South, and, in the meantime, the
demand for what they already produce
is so great that the mills have orders for
all they can furnish for months to come.
= Washington Post.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-14
Crop Reports.

Special to the Cincinnati Commercial.
WASHINGTON, August 1.-THE fig
ures for August l, showing the con-
dition of crops, will be found to vary
very much from the July report.
The report will show the loss on the
wheat crop, as compared with last
year, to be from 60 to 20 per cent.
greater than it appeared to be from
the July statement. The corn crop
will make better showing than in
July, while cotton and tobacco will
be fair. The agricultural de-
partment officials say that the
great loss of the year
will be on wheat. Probably there is
yet time for corn to come out all
right. The cotton worn has not yet
done much damage, and the August
report will show very favorable con-
ditions for this staple. The reports
are made August l, and will be col
lected for publication by the 18th,
The report to appear next week is
the important one for the year, and
though the computations are not yet
completed, it is estimated at the de-
partment today that they will indi-
cate a shortage in the yield Of wheat
of about 1875, 100000 bushels as com,
pared with last year.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-14
Better Yet.

On Canada Southern train Detroit
er had seat behind a couple who got
on at a little station near st. Thomas,
and he thought he had seen the mans
face before. He was looking at him
sharply and trying to remember where
he had met him. when the man turned
and asked:
Aren't you Thomas -, of De-
troit %
Eyes; and aren't you William -,
of Buffalo -
eyes"
81 thought SO when you came in.
And amt you running away with old
Judge Blanks daughter, of st.
Thomas
Give got better thing than that, ~
whispered William, as he leaned over
the seat, " I'm running away with his
wife !''-Detroit Free Press.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-14
A Fragment of Life.

When one breaks camp in the morn
ing, he turns back again and again to
see what he has left. Surely he faaIS
that he has forgotten something. What
is it :? 1t is only his own thoughts and
musings he has left, the fragment of his
life he has lived there. Where he hung
his coat on tree, where he slept on the
boughs, where he made his coffee or
broiled his trout over the Goals, where
he drank at the little brown pool in the
spring run, where he looked long and
long into the whispering branches over
head; he has left what he cannot bring
away with him-the fame and the ashes
of himself.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-14
Kingston PreSbytery.

Monroe Democrat: The Kingston Presby-
terry of the Northern Presbyterian Church
met at the church one mile north of Madison
vile last Thursday. The members of the
church camped on the ground and entertained
the ministers and visitors. Prof. L. J. Lamar,
of Maryville, was moderator, and Hon. W.
A. McTeer clerk. Mr.. Hembree was
ordained to the ministry. More people at
tended the meeting than at any time since
the war. Several from Sweetwater went
over Sunday The Presbytery will meet
next year at Bakers Creek, near Maryvile,
on the last Thursday before the full moon
in April
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-14
No Good Preaching.

No man can do good job of work, preach
a good sermon, try lawsuit well, doctor a
patient, or write good article when he
feels miserable and duh, with sluggish brain
and unsteady nerves, and none should make
the attempt in such condition when it can
be SO easily and cheaply removed by little
hop Bitters. Gee other column. Albany
Times
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-14

A MINISTER out in the far West, who
has been troubled good deal over mar
riage fees, issued the following price
list: Zone marriage, plain, 81 !; ditto,
kissing the bride, So ditto, trimmed
with one groomsman and bridesmaid. 81.
Fifty cents for each additional grooms-
man or bridesmaid. Bachelors past forty
will be charged extra. Maids of age, 10
per centum off. Mileage will be charged
i'll long-distance matches. Liberal dis
count to clubs. Payments in cash no
notes or securities accepted. No money
refunded, or rebates made for poor goods.
Come early and come often"
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-14
Grandfather'S Kitchen.

The following description of the room
in which our eat-grandfathers lived
may recall to some old man the scenes of
his boyhoOd:
Grandfather's kitchen was a somber
room, ceiled and painted brown with
huge beams, high dressers and yawning
fireplace. It had only two small win
dOws, and was entered by nine doors.
1t was, in reality, the great hall of the
house. What is lacked by day was
light and sunshine. At night, bright
ened by a roaring backlog, it was full of
cheer. Then its beams and ceilings and
ample furnishings were enriched by
shadows, and the pewter dishes upon It's
brown dressers shone in the dancing
freight like silver.
The two shelves full of leather-cov-
cred books; the weather-wise almanac
hanging from a peg; the cross-legged
crane with its kissing teakettle; the
brush the bellows the settle in the
corner, and whatever else was there, all
became fire. changed, and were mellowed
into the bright scene.
This room was by night the best
part of the house. 1t was always the
trne heart of it; the vital center from
which diverged its indwelling life. II
was the place where people lounged and
fingered.
Because its small windows let in few
sunbeams, those which did come in were
all the more precious. Because it was
full of homely things, and was, as the
women said, "most convenient, it hat
inwrought into it, as picture, quain
beauty of adaptation. Mellow, brown
Old atchen-how many costly rooms
simulate, in their furnishing, your mex
penslve colors ?-Ncao England By
g0aeS.