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, 1881-02-18
Port Townsend
HOSPITAL
Port Townsend. w. 7.

The aboNe II StitnJIoR having Drer p. aced on
ApernAnenl rbouug. a. The United states Hos
p1tal fer ii 2r-ne Patients TN Puge; Sg,un. the
proprietor takes pleasure IN announcing that
no pans or ez perse will bs spared In uihis-
terins I the comfort and convenience of pri-
vale patients
This is the largest General Hospita north Of
San Francisco. aud by far the most com pirte
In equipment. IL has been thor ughly rented
ant refurnished. Its general wards have &C.
com mmOdatious or about one hundred patients
and are peculiarly adapted Tor cases requiring
the most car ful treatment and constant su.
Peryision at nrui:ed expense. Those who de-
sire them wili he furnished with private rooms
entirely separate and distinct, ~ slight addi.
ttonal cost.
E4r The attention OF hil owners, Al those
Interested In ehippt g. is called u ne fact that
eeamen suffering from cont tanious diseases will
be treated outside the Hos spi;al Without OK.
pense TO the VesseI.
Thomas u. Minor, d, d.,
2S-u Managing Surg on.
, 1881-02-18
An Embryo Railroad.

When Cheyenne was at the zenith OF
its glory, sign of General Offices of
the Cheyenne, Pacific Slope and Sand
wich Island Railroad" was hung out one
morning without creating the least sur
prize: Ii one person had asked another
where the depot of said railroad was,
there might have been some hesitation
about answering; bur It was some time
after the sign was out that any special
inquiries began to be made. Then an
Eastern man walked In one day, carpet
bag in hand, and said:
81 suppose you connect at San Fran
cisco with the regular steamer 2"
''Well, yes; suppose We ehall, was
the hesitating reply.
"Shail? Isn't your road through
YETI"
well, not quite.
''Do you take it in Salt Lake r
"Selt LakeP Yes, think we do
"How much for ticket 2"
''Well. can't say exactly, as we have
none on sale just yet"
"Can get one at the depot?"
well, think not; we haven't any de-
pot yet"
well, you see, we have no trains
yet"
''I suppose can walk on the track"
persisted the stranger.
Well. I should have no objection if
we had track"
mo depot, no tickets, no trains, no
tracks; what sort of railroad have you
got anyhow"
"Well, you see, it's only on paper thus
far, but as soon as we can sell IS, 900 600
worth of stock we shall begin grading
and rush business right along. II you
happen to be along when we get to going
we will put you through as low as any
other responsible route"
The stranger stuck his hands into his
pockets, stared hard, whistled softly.
and then walked out on tiptoe without
another word.
, 1881-02-18

A writer in the London World is deep
ly versed in the geography of the .'Mill
on the Floss" and ssJane Eyre" '.The
scenes of George Eliot's earlier stories
are laid, for the most part. in Warwick
shire and Derbyshire. The Mill on the
Floss. however, is an exception. It is
not, I believe, generally known that the
town called st. ogg's in this novel. and
where most of the action takes place, is
Gainesborough, an old fashioned coun-
try town in Lincolnshire; while the Floss
ia the River Trent itself, where it broad
ems out toward the Humber and the
sea. Nor has the scenery Of the latter
portions of Jayne Eyre hitherto been
rightly identified. Most people imagine
those fine descriptions to have been in
spired by the Moorland solitudes sur
rounding Miss Bronte's own homo at
Haworth. But Hathersage, an obscure
village in the Peak of Derbyehire, was
the real source of her inspiration. The
house called Moor House in the novel is
still standing. and there are many other
associations connected with Charlotte
Bronte in this neighborhood, which the
world as yet knows nothing Of"
, 1881-02-18
Geaeral merenautfee.


RICE-Market quoted at China, siG5s Sand .
wich Island, 74a7t.
COFFEE-Costa Rica, 17a1Sc; Java, 25a26s !;
Rio, 163al7c-
TEAS-we quote Japan in laquered boxes 50a
75c !; paper, 37aa47i.
SUGARS-Sandwich Island, 94Gloc; Golden G,
in bDls, l0c !; hf bbis, 97e; Crushed bbls life.
hf bbls, l2c; Pulverized bbls, 12c, hf bbls.
13tc; Granulated bbls, 11lc, hf bbls I23c.
SARDINES-Qr boxes, S. IS; hf boxes, 81 rs.
YEAST POWDER-Donnelly, Si8 p gross
pooley, S20a22 p gross; Preston Merrill,
$24 D gross.
WINES-White, per dog in case, 50 5Oa4; per
gal, 7Oc to ST. so; Sonoma, per doz in cases,
So so to IS; per gal, 60c to 81 so
Claret-Californis per ga, 81 70 81 25; i'm
ported per gal, 81 50 to 81.
Sherry-Cala per gal, 81 so to 81 so; SPAR
ish, s. TO Sc; assorted brands, SI2 to SIS;
imported per gal, 81 so to 81.
Port-Various brands in or csks, 81 SO 10 IS
81 SO to 81; imported, S. TO 81
SPIRITS-Fine old Hennessy Brandy in or cks
and octaves, IS SO 70 81 so per gal; Dun
ville's Irish Whisky in cases per. doz, $I2;
James Stewart K Co.'s Scotch Whisky in or
cks and octaves, 81; Hennessy Brandy in
case, per doz, very fne-I star SIG, star
SIT so, star Sl9; Holland Gin, large cases,
SIS TO $40; Old Tom Gin in cases, Sl2; Rye
Whisky, per gal, 81 so to S.; Bourbon, per
gal, 50 SO TO IS; A Cutter, So 26 To s. SO |;
o K Cutter, 81 SO 10 $
0ILS-0rdinary brands of coal, SOC, high grades;
Downer 4 Co., 374a4Oc; boiled linseed, 81;
raw linseed, Soc; pure lard, $IaI 10; castor,
81 50a6l so; turpentine, 60G6sc.
, 1881-02-18
r1Ome PrOsI nee aara ef.

hOknS EEO04CG "a 20EkGk.
The following quotations represent the whole
sale rates from producers or first hands,
FLoUR-Standsrd braIds S4 so; best country
brands. "a 00@s4 so, superine, $s 56@
% so.
WOOL-Valley e2@ 27e. Eastern Oregon a0926
WHEAT-Good to choice, 81 IS.
HAY-Tmothy baled, buying at sle@$ls per
ton.
POTATOES Quotable at &c per D market slut
MIDDLINds- 5000 1921. shorts SIS; chop feed
$ls@2e; fine $25@$27l p ton.
BRAN-Jobbing at per ton, $i4@$l5.
OATS-Feed, per bushel 42A @45 cts.
BACoN--Sides, I4c; hams, Oregon C 125@
l4c; Eastern, l4@ l6c; shoulders, le@l2o.
LARD-ln kegs, IL in tins, ISc
BUTTER-We quote choice dairy at 30c35e
good fresh roll, 3o{G3 2: ordinary, Z7@
32ac, whether brine or roll.
DRIED FRUlTS-Apples, sun dried, sa Sc;
machine dried, lac Pears, machine dried,
Halle Plums, machine dried, 13I9l5c.
Apples, market overstocked, at 40@75c per
box.
EGGS-20c per doz
POULTRY-Hens and roosters, $24a.3l Tur-
keys l4Gl6c per pound. Geese, $sas per doz.
CHEESE-Oregon, l5sGl6c; California, iec
HoGS-Dressed, 6@61c; on foot, 4a45Oc.
BEEF-Lire weight, q to 2se for good 10 choica
SHEEP-Live weight, 23c gross
TALLOW-Quotabie at sic.
HIDES-The market is firm at 16c for frst-class
dry 74@s3c for green; enlls, one-third off.
, 1881-02-18

Budaens, one of the most learned men
of the sixteenth century. and the libra
rian of Francis /. of France, was engaged
in deep study in his library, when his
servant came running to him in great
fright to tell him that the house was on
fire. CO." said Budaens, with perfect
calmness and hardly raising his eyes
from his book, ''and inform your mis-
tress It's her concern; you know never
interfere in domestic matters"
, 1881-02-18

-U - Yourselves by making money
Ewhen golden chance Is Of
= = fered. thereby always keeping
AAS poverty from your DOR. Those
- - - - - xuh,, aEa ah- nfagn of
, 1881-02-18

TaIs institute. ON Fidalgo Island. Ii prepared to
furnish thorough and economi education 10
atudsnta OF both sexes. The socadon is favorable
70 health and light expenses, and also because Of
the quiet and removal from city alluremens. Ad
Yanoenent rapid, by individual attention by COM
petent teachers Confederation paid 10 manners
and morals. Parents notified cf work done. and
correspondence invited.
To the corps of teachers has been added an ex
peE1enced photographer and instructor in modern
Iangusges and art Special attention 70 music.
there being ten pupils upon the organ last year.
BOOK ok-keeping, surveying. etc. etc
Terms-S7 and SO Tuition per Quarter.
Opens September 1880. Board 81 so per week.
, 1881-02-18

~ 4 - Outfit furnished free, with full instrnc-
AN u lions for conducting the most profitable
3buslneSs that anyone engage In The
Ne business Is SO easy to learn. and our In.
~ - ~ structIOns are simple and plain, that
any one can make great profits from the very start
No one can fall who is willing TO work Women are
successful as men. Boys and girls can earn large
sums Many have made a the business over one hun
,ired dollars In a single week Nothing Ike II ever
Known before. Ali Who engage are surprised at the
eese and raDidity with which they are able to make
money. You engage In this business during your
spare time at great profit You do not have 20 invest
cenital 10 n we take all the risk. Those who need
ready money should write TO uS at once All iur-
nished free Address TRUE & CO., Augusta, Maine.
, 1881-02-18
COMMITTING MAGISTRATE


PORTLAND, February II, 1881.
Legal tenders in Portland. buying, par, aud
selling at par.
Silver coin in Portland banKs quote at per
cent. discount TO par.
Coin exchange on New York, I per cent pro-
MUM.
Coin exchange on San Francisco, par to per
cent. premium.
Telegraphic transfers on New York. per cent
premium
, 1881-02-18

the good chances for making money offered,
generally become wealthy. while those who donot i'm.
prove such chances remain In poverty. We want
many men, women, boys and girls 20 work for US
right In their localities. The business will pay
expensive outfit and all that you need. free No one
who engages falls TO make money very rapidly. You
can devote your whole time 10 work, or only Your
spare moments Full Information and all that Is
needed sent free Address STINSON & CO., Port
land, Maine.
Middletown transcript., 1881-07-15

The Massachusetts, Regent ON the
board which governs Mount Vernon is
Miss Alice Longfellow, of Cambridge,
daughter of the poet.
Middletown transcript., 1881-07-15

DISTINGUISHED ARRIvALs.-Th is
the season of the year when the modest
traveller, who travels as a business, and
who has to put in a few hours at sum-
mer resort, has the misfortune to see
his name telegraphed to the daily papers
as a distinguished arrival at such ho-
tel He may only have got his dinner
at the hotel, and may have taken a
tOOth-pick and his grip-sack and gone to
catch a freight train for the next town,
but the enterprising hotel proprietor,
who wants to show that his hotel is
rapidly filling up, telegraphs the name
to Milwaukee and Chicago papers.
This is not done after the season is
fairly opened, but the first week OF two
any arrival is good enough to send off
by telegraph. This practice is very an
noying to men who travel for business
houses, us the prOprietors are often led
to suppose their commercial tourists
are neglecting business. The travellers
do not care to be considered summer
guests. All they want is some hash
and a good show of business. Summer
hotels should not take advantage of
every business man who drops in for a
dinner, and telegraph his name all over
creation, as though he had come to
spend the summer. We have seen, in
one week, the name of one drummer in
six different dispatches, from six diff
ferent resorts, and he was only selling
grindstones by sample.-Peck's San.
Middletown transcript., 1881-07-15
LIGHTNINGs TERRIBLE HAVOC.
THE STORY OF THE CELESTIAL BOLT
THAT WRECKED THE BARK
BEATRICE.

Captain Frank Stewart, of Whining.
ton, Delaware, commander of the
English bark Beatrice . loaded with
naptha and crude petroleum, bound fol
France, arrived in the city yesterday
and narrated the thrilling story of the
disastrous lightning bolt which struck
his vessel in the Delaware, near Reedy
Island, on Thursday evening, about
Z O'Clock. Besides igniting the cargo
and destroying the vessel, one of the
sailors was killed by the shock and a
number of others, including the captain
himself, were injured. The captain
says ''The vessel was loaded with
3,071 barrels of oil and naptha and
had crew of ten men. Off Reedy
Island, about Z o'clock, we encountered
Il severe storm, storm the the EHind not being
strong, but the thunder, rain and the
lightning was something I never saw
equaled before. The vessel was struck
about amidship, shattering the miz-
Zenmast, and in five minutes we were
compelled to leave. I started for the
cabin to get knife, but at the hatch
way a mass of blue flame shot up in my
face and timbers flew in every direc-
tion. don't recollect how L escaped
nor how the crew got off, except that
l saw old man Israel Hughes, the pilot
of Cape May, clinging to a rope, by
which he got over the stern. The tug
" Startle" saved our lives by being
near at hand. Her crew picked up all
of US who were in the water and then
took William Scott, first mate, and
John Stevenson, the second mate, off
the wreck. Scott had his left leg frac-
tured and Charles Wallace, colored
sailor, was burned on the face and eyes
and bruised. Stevenson had several
contusions on the body and legs.
Hughes, the pilot, had knee-cap frac-
tured. The vessel was a hulk in
very short time. The tug Inca" en-
deavored to extinguish the flames. One
man, a Scandinavian, about thirty
years old, called Bill, who had shipped
in Philadelphia four months ago and
had been to Havana and back, was at
the wheel and was lost. All who were
saved had nothing but there clothes.
The charts, shipping papers and chro-
nometers were lost" The captain
said the lightning and the blaze of the
explosion made scene of vivid bril-
liancy. The vessel was worth $12,-
600 to SIS, 900 and the cargo SIS, 900 and
she was from St. Johns, New Bruins
wick. The hulk was towed up to
dry-dock yesterday. Scott,
Stevenson, Wallace and Hughes, the
injured men, were taken to the Penn
sylvania Hospital. Phila. Times of
Saturday.
Middletown transcript., 1881-07-15
DON'T PROPOSE.

Only don't propose to me! really like you
We suit each other charmingly, at ball OF
feast you know.
We can brighten for each other best the rev
els careless hours,
We can gather from each other still the mo-
ment's passing flowers, :.
We ever best can gladden. Lies river as u
flows,
Through sunny beds and quiet-but l hope
you won't propose.
No voice suits mine so well rs yours, in gay
duet or song,
No other arm can guide me safe, through the
pOlka's whirling throng;
No other laugh re-echoes half so merrily to
min5,
No other hand so tastefully my bouquets
None saue me half so cleverly from bores-my
deadliest foes;
l can not do without you-oh l hope you
won't propose!
Why will you talk for sentiment? you never
OF aught but fun or nonsense, in long quad
rifle or walk,
Why will you sigh? really like your ring
ing laugh the best.
Why frown at me for lingering with another
JOYOUS guest?
Why will you talk of hopes and fears? why
hint at friendships close?
You never used to tease me so-oh! hope
you Won PROPOSE.
For Won know would refuse you'll must
love before 1 we'd
What should we do together when the sum-
mer sun had fed?
And them we must be angers-must pass
each other by,
With flushing cheek and distant bow, and
cold, averted eye.
Why doom our gay companionship to so dol
orouS close?
We like each other much to well-I hope you
won't propose
Let us still be smiling when we part and
happy when we meet,
Let us together pluck the bloom. of the flow
els at our feet
Let us leave the deeper things alone, and
laugh and sing. and dance;
And fiirta little now and then, to speed an
hour, perchance.
Oh! there's deal of pleasure in sunny links
like those;
Don't break the rosy ties just yet-dedr Char
ley, don't proposes
-Rdtie, IN Boston Home Journal.
Middletown transcript., 1881-07-15

SHE Took HIM DowN.-'TWas the
first twilight interview. She, swinging
in the hammock on the side verandah,
and he sitting submissively at her feet
with his legs dangling off the boards.
How refreshing at the closing hour
of day" he gently remarked, to thus
in sweet companionship await the rising
of the stars that will soon f1eck the
cerulean dome of heaven with spangles
of silver Iwould ever thus, with thee
at my side, reyel in the glories of the
azure-azure, as sure as
"What exquisite language" said
she with sigh. How can you afford
it on six dollars week ?''
The young man was not quite "as
sure" as he was, and slid down the pill
lar to the yard, scaled the fence, and
was seen no more thereabouts forever.
-Ne,r Hdvea Register.
Middletown transcript., 1881-07-15
GREEK LAZINESS.

1t would be hard to name any other
people, undoubtedly clever and possessed
of considerable educational appliances,
that can boast neither of authors, pain
ters, sculptors nor composers. There
are no native theaters native literature
is confined to journalism, and the fine
arts are so utterly neglected that even
the jangling Of piano-fOrte is an unu-
sual sound hence, if the creative power
Of a nation really bears constant ratio
to its general vigor, we cannot estimate
very highly the vitality of the Hellenes.
A powerful consideration strengthens
this conclusion hopeless back
wardness of agriculture and of the ru-
raj population. NJ. About calculated
that Continental Greece contains 5,
900, 900 acres of mountain and pasture,
similar extent of arabic land, and
about ], ,250, 900 acres of forest. Of the
5000, 900 acres of arabic land, less than
100000 were actually under culti-
vation, that is, something under four
per cent. The proportion may have
been somewhat increased in the last
twenty years, but still remains apalling-
ly small. Even on the wide Argive
and BGotian plains, which boasts
something resembling roads, culti-
walton appears in insignificant patches /;
on the table-lands of Arcadia it is even
Sparser while in the beautiful noun
tain hOllows, on strips of soil that in
the similar limestone formation of the
Derbyshire or Craven hills would be
rented at 5e3 per acre, it is almost nom
existant. The traveller is appalled, by
the surrounding desolation, and yet
there is scarcely a product of the tenn
perate zones that will not flourish.
Tobacco and cotton grow well in the
plains; rice could be introduced with
success and the mulberry, with due
encouragement, would provide for the
rearing of an indefi1ate quality of silk
worms. Figs, almonds, apricots, oran-
ges and lemons are unsurpassed.
The olive grows everywhere well nigh
unattended. In rock districts all ce-
reals thrive, with the exception of oats
the Corinthian currant is almost a
SpeciGlste of the Peloponnese, and, since
the appearance of the phylloxera in
France, has found fresh market amid
the wine manufacturers of that coun-
try ; the other grapes are among the
finest of the world. Such are the ca
pabilities of land that ignorance and
lndolance have turned into wilderness.
The vintage is so clumsily trodden and
fermented everywhere, except in the
islands and near the seaports, that wine
which ought to command the markets
OF Europe, not only is unable to bear
expectation, but would spoil before the
end OF the year unless mixed with resin,
a practice highly nauseous to the un-
educated palate. In fact, dislike of
field labor amounts to mania, and,
except at harvest time, no male is ever
seen at work like other noble savages,
he sits at home at ease while his help
mate scratches the soil and bows his
head beneath the weight of burdens
The result upon the interior economy of
the dwelling is such as may well be
Middletown transcript., 1881-07-15

HINTS ABOUT THE HAIR.-Hair
wears lighter, and is changed by per-
spiration hence, in selecting false hair,
it should be dark enough to begin with.
The hair on the temples and forehead
is lighter than that further back, and
to be well matched requires lighter ad-
ditional hair than that chosen for a
switch. Brushing is the best stimulant
for the hair, and should be done twice
a day; fifty strokes in the morning,
and again in the evening, passing the
hand over the hair occasionally between
strokes, is commended by ladies who
have retained handsome hair beyond
middle age. The ends of the hair
should be clipped once month to
keep it thick and even. To do this
thoroughly, the hair should be taken
up in tresses, and comb drawn
through each tress, beginning at the
roots, and doubling the hair around
the comb, so that in passing the short
ends will be seen, and can be clipped.
To prevent the hair from falling out
after an illness, six inches should be
cut off, and after this for three or four
months half an inch should be cut off
each month. The cheap hair of which
so much is sold is usually unwhole-
some stuff; it is not always real hair,
and if genuine, is not taken from the
head of living persons finally, it does
not prove to be cheap, for it is unclean,
easily mats and snarls, and is so brittle
that it does not wear well, or else SO
stiff that it is unwieldy hence it is
not cheap at any price. To test the
quality of the hair, rub the ends of the
switch between the fingers, and if good,
it will fall away out of the hand en-
tirely but if of inferior quality, it will
snarl and mat together. A microscope
may also be used to show if the ends of
the hair are turned the wrong way
Hdrper's Bdzdr.
Middletown transcript., 1881-07-15
THE FLY.

Much has been said of the fly of the
period, but few write about him who
are bald-headed. Hence we say word.
1t is of no use any more to deny the
horrible truth. Although beautiful as a
pearl in other ways, our tresses on top
have succumbed to the inclemency Of
the weather, and our massive brow is
slowly creeping over toward the back
of our neck. Nature makes all things
even. If man be possessed Of such
raVishfng beauty and stteiif winning inning
ways that his power might become
dangerous, she makes him bald-headed.
That is our fix. When we have our
hat on and go chasseing down the street
with that camel glide Of ours, everyone
asks who that noble-looking Apollo
with the deep and melancholy eye is !;
but when we are at the Office with our
hat hung up on the French walnut
sideboard, and the sun comes softly in
through the rosewood shutters and
lights up the shellac polish of our in
tellectual dome, we are not so pretty.
Then it is that the fly, with gentle tread
and seductive song, comes and pros
poets around on our bump of self-es-
TEEN, and tickles us and makes us mad.
When we get where forbearance ceases
to be virtue, we haul off and slap the
place where he was, while he goes over
to the inkstand and smokers at us.
After he has waded around in the car
mine ink while he goes back to the
bump of spirituality and makes some
red marks over it. Having laid off his
claim under the new mining law, he
proceeds to sink on it. If we write
anything bitter these days, if we say
aught of our fellow man that is disa-
greeable or unjust, and for which we
afterwards get licked, it is because at
times we get exasperated and are not
responsible. If the fly were large and
weighed two hundred pounds, and came
in here and told us that if we didn't
take back what we had said about him
he would knock out the window with
our remains and let us fall a hundred
feet into the busy street, it wouldn't
worry us so much, because then we
could strangle him with one hand while
we wrote column editorial on Conk-
ling with the other. We do that fire.
quently. But a little fragile insect,
with no home and no parents, and only
four or five million brothers and sisters,
gains our confidence, and then tickles
our scalp until we have to write with
sheet of tar roofing over our head.
Then he comes in and helps us read our
proof. We don't want him to help,
but he insists on making corrections
and putting punctuations in the wrong
place, and putting full stops where they
knock the sense all out of the para
graph. If the fly could be removed
from our pathway, we would march
along in our journey to the tomb in
way that would be the envy and admi-
ration of the civilized world. AS it is,
we feel that we are not making very
handsome record. Boomer
dng.
Middletown transcript., 1881-07-15

An Ohio woman was married ten
minutes after receiving a divorce.
Middletown transcript., 1881-07-15

imagined. Even in a priests or far
mer's house furniture rarely extends
beyond a rude table and two or three
wooden stools whole villages are with
out a fireplace the process Of sweeping
OF cleaning is unknown, and the entire
family sleeps, curled up in rags, upon
the floor, in company with the insects
of the establishment BIack,oood's
Magazine.