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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-04-29

A Coop RAT TRAP.-Fill barrel
three parts full with water and sprinkle
layer Of powdered cork on the surface,
and over this sift layer of corn meal.
The rat sees nothing but the meal, and
having no innate ideas which teach him
to beware of the treacherous founda-
ton. shifts, leaps and goes gently down
through meal and cork to watery
grave. If any Of his friends see him
disappear from the edge of the barrel,
they hasten to get their share of the
probable plumber. Try it.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-04-29
Four DonKeyS.

Gottfrie1 Kruger, brewer Of New
ark, is comIcal peace-maker. Two of
his nei9hbors were in his place list
week, disputing over debt of $lG. and
Kruger got them TO settle It by mount
ing his two small donkeys, and riding
them around his bar room, the man who
failed to keep his seat to yield his claim.
The donkeys were prodHced, and the
employees and idiers gathered around to
VIZ CHI the trial i'll that novel "court of
couciliation." After few circuits of
the place, some one slyly set the front
door open. Donkey primus darted out,
and us it went, Ivy an almost impercep-
ii 10 motion sent its rider off between
its ears into the street. The other man
rode ont with great care, and reaching
the street drew up and joined in the
horse-lau2h Of the crowd over the fall
len liti9aut. y bsoiioss boast! Don
key secundus qnitely moved along until
"a puddle of dirty brewery water was
reached, aud then with a sndden &C,
cession of energy, it seemed DESTROYS
Of standing on its head, aud the rider.
white roaring over the downfall of his
nei9hDor, went splasing into the I'M
sayoly hnid. lie hadn't won his suit
on the claim, and lie had ruined his suit
of cloths, SO that be had to borrow of
the brewer something 10 wear home.
Before leaving, however, bis neiehbor
AMI ha compromised the $40 dis
pnte, which had failed of Il settlement
in the ordeal by donkey.
Moral: II yon have variance with
Your neiqhbor, go and settle it in
negbborly way, rather than call in The
donkeys,
CoKN CAKE-Two cups of sweet
milk, one-h half cup of meal, one-halfcup
Of lnttnr nun Nmm nMA tAllnaMNnnful
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-04-29

A Detroit man who invested 81 in
lottery drew span Of horses on the
ticket, and though he looked them
over inch by inch he couldn't count
more than fifty-three ring-bones and
spavins on the pair.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-04-29

4 NICE STEW A nice stew is made
by chopping tine any pieces of fresh
meat, and trimmings of roast meat,
then pare ana chop several potatoes and
one small onion, season and stew until
tender, and turn it over several slices
of toast.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-04-29
Medical Uses OF Eggs.

For burns or scalds, nothing is more
soothing than the white of an egg.
which may be poured over the wound
1t Is softer, as q varuish for burn,
than colo lion, and being always at
hand can be applied Immediately. Ii
il also more cooling than the "sweet
OF. and cotton which was formerly
supposed TO DE the surest application
TO ailay the smarting pain. 1t is the
coatLct with the air which gives the
extreme discomfort experienced from
ordinary accidents OF this kind; and
auythiug which excludes air aud pre-
vents Inflammation is the thing to be
at once applied. The egg is also con-
sidereN one of tho best remedies for
dysentory. Beaten up slightly with or
without sugar and swallowed, it tends
10y its emoiiient qualities to lessen the
i, Il Immatiou OF the stomach and intes-
tines, aid by forming transient coat
ing on those organs to enable nature TO
resume her beautiful sway over the
diseased body. Two or at most three
eggs per day would be all that is
required in ordinary cases: and since
the egg is not merely medicine, but
food AS we'll, the lighter the diet
otherwise, the quieter the patient is
kept, the more certain and r3pid is the
recovery.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-04-29

s. muoh has hes1 said about economy
at the White Ii use during Mr.. Hayes
occupancy, tuat statement rs TO his
salary and savings is made by author
i'y in Cleveland paper, We trust
that neither the ex-President nor bis
iriends !elt there was any pressure on
tLem to DO this thing; but since they
have dono it, Of course the curious will
be only too glad to learn that of the
$500 600 received, $l34, 900 went for
the expenses of the Presidential hospi-
taiity, though there was no wine bill to
settle. 1t is said. that of the balance
$50. 000 was applied to the discharge of
debts incurred before his election,
leaving Mr.. Hayes, therefore, with
available cash in hand to the amount
OF Sc 600. The moral of which is that
u President who has no old scores to
settle ont of his salary may amply full
fill all the social requirements of his
high place and yet retire with something
like tt competency for his old age.-lN N.
Y. Examiner.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-04-29

LIFE's DELUsIoN.- Caroline Kuhn,
aged 81, of Paterson, n. j., died sud-
denly without medical attendance. Her
husband who survives her, is 30 Thir-
ty years ago, with fortune of $50, 900,
he started out to find perpetual-m otion,
and he has been working at it ever
since. His room is filed with wheels,
pulleys and levers, and in his search
he has manifested no little ingenuity.
His fay Jrite plan was one based on an
old idea of wheel surrounded with
weights on loose levers, so arranged
that the weights would lee further from
the center on the down side than on the
up side, the difference in weight keep
ing the wheel in motion. But every
time there was something lacking, and
he spent his fortune in trying TO over
come the obstacle. H9 is now poor,
ana spends his time lamenting the want
of meAns to make further experiments.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-04-29

Too INDEPENDENT There is one boy
in Gsdvesiou who will pever be u mu-
sic:tn. he is too independent. His
teacher was trying to make him play
the right notes, and said to him:
You must not reach way over there
on the treble. That's not right
~ guess I'll reach where l please,
on this piano. We own this piano L
reckon. I'll put my feet upon it if l
see fit Galveston News.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-04-29

CoKN CAKE-Two cups OF sweet
milk, one half cup of meal, one-haIf cup
Of butter. pLo egg, ona tablespoonful
each Of -four sugar, and sour milk,
I'd just little soda.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-11-02
Secretary FOIger,

Hon. Edwin d. Morgan, now at the scrip
tural limit of life, having declined the secre-
taryship of the treasury, Judge Charles ].
Folger of New York was nominated for the
position. The nomination was promptly
confirmed by the senate, and the office &C
cepted by Judge Folger. This gentleman's
name was considered by President Garfield
in connection with this office in the forma-
tion of his cabinet, but it was understood
the judge withheld his consent. His selec-
ton is peculiarly grateful and satisfactory
to the country. He is now in his sixty
fourth year. While he lacks the ripe fnan-
cial and commercial experience of Mr.. Nor
gan, he is not without experience in finan-
cial management, having been appointed
United States sub-treasurer in New York in
1860, and he is well grounded in the princ-
Piles of sound finance. His younger years,
and ripe legislative and judicial experience,
will give the treasury department qualities
which it now needs quite as much as those
Of solely financial character. He was Of
fered the position to which he has now been
appointed, during Grants administration,
but declined it. He has had large legis-
lative experience in his state, and his course
in the New York legislature was character
lied by a determined opposition to every
thing that savored of job, and he was iden-
titled with the reformatory movements in
that state, the associate and peer of its very
best men. During the rebellion his career
was marked by stern uncompromising
loyalty to the Union. He was chosen by
the people Judge of the court of appeals,
the highest New York state court, in 1870,
and recently, on the death of Chief Justice
Church, was chosen as his successor, and Is
now the chief justice of New York. In
politics he has always been republican, and
belongs TO what is known as the stalwari
wing OF the party. 1t is naturally predicted
that he will have greatiniluence in Presiden,
Arthur's administration. The country will
have nothing to fear, but every thing that il
good to hope, from the presence of men like
Judge Folger in the national councils.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-11-02
Mormon Prosecuting.

In his Experiences of Pioneer Life - Mr..
James b. Walker, man of varied expert
ence and the author of several works, mar
rates an incident which shows how difficult
it is to bring either reason or Scripture to
bear on Mormons.
In Glasgow, Scotland, an honest servant girl in
a hotel, who had been perverted by the propa-
gandists of their faith, was about to emgrate
with company to Salt Lake. Knowing that |
was an American, she took an opportunity to
speak to me of the Mormons in America. did
what could to dssuade her from her purpose
but she was immovable. Everything, she said, in
the Bible was like the Mormons. Nothing was
like the religion Of the churches in Glasgow. The
Mormon preachers travelled without purse or
scrip. They preached from house to house. They
often healed the sick. They preached the gospel
to the poor; and il some of the older men had
several wives, so had Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
One man she knew had been healed OF disease by
the laying on Of hands. He felt the cure the mo-
ment 1t was effected. He had continued well,
and could work ever since. 1t was therefore i'm
possible for her to doubt. So she talked 1t was
in vain that spoke of the Old Testament with
its polygamy, rs introductory, and imperfect in
doctrine and morals as compared with the New.
She assented to everything said in regard to the
purity and obligation Of the Testament. That
she professed to believe, and she said the Nor
mons practiced it; but the churches in Glasgow
did not IL had been asked at that time, adds
MIR. Walker, naively, " If thought this young
woman was Christian, should probably have
said the dispensatons Of Providence are often
mysterious-let us judge charitabiy.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-11-02

The CONTEST IN VIRGINIA.-General
Grant has written letter to the republican
state committee chairman of Virginia, in
which he says that he regards the political
contest now going on there as national, and
therefore feels justified in openly expressing
his hope that the readjusters may win. The
general goes on to explain why: 81 have
never been sympathizer with reputation
in any form, but in the present instance the
virtue claimed by the democracy of the state
of Virginia regard as all assumed. They
have had control of the state for quite a
number of years, and as | understand the
politics of the state, they not only have
made no effort to pay the interest upon their
state debt but have prohibited taxation be-
yond certain percentage, which looks to
determination to pay no part, principal or
interest. In other words, while they are in
favor of acknowledging the whole debt
principal and Interestingly are opposed to
paying any part of either. Hence, on this
point, between the two, much prefer those
who are willing to acknowledge as much of
the debt as they think they can pay, and
who want to bind themselves to provide for
the interest and the acknowledged principal
when it becomes due. But in this contest
there is much more important issue at
stake. regard the success of what is
called the readjusters as working the eman-
cipation of all the voters of the state and
when that is secured it is matter of much
less consequence which party succeeds"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-11-02

EZRA p COOK and wife, an aged couple, were
found dead in their house at Bellows Falls Friday
morning. No evidence OF violence was found
upon the man, but on the woman's head was
cut and abrasion three inches long Death was
probably caused by concussion Of the brain. Mrs.
Cook is believed to have been partially insane,
and II Is thought she administered poison to her
husband and then inflicted the blow upon her
SELF It is not thought any outside person is
implicated.
THE Southeastern railway company has begun
work on land given 1t at West Farnham, Quebec,
Tor the erection Of machine shops which are TO be
located there. A round-house covering two acres
Of land Is under way and other works are going
on. The Southeastern company located It's shops
at Richford, last fall but having a better offer at
farnham by having large tract OF land given II
exempt from taxation for a number Of years.
together with better conveniences, decided TO es-
tablish there. The company Is doing an immense
business and has purchased two more locomotives
ALBERT LAPwAY Of Sutherland Falls, twenty
two years old, was on Thursday riding on the cars
near Mechanicve, New York, on the front plat
form Of the car next to the engine. The conductor
called for his ticket, tapping him on the shoulder
to get his attention. Lapway turned, and reeing
fell between the engine and the car and was in
stantly killed. The train rolled him some dis
lance between the tracks before 1t could be
stopped. When picked up, the unfortunate man,
who was extricated with considerable difficulty
from beneath the cars, was found with broken
neck, one hand cut off, both arms and both legs
broken, and chest and body badly crushed and
the head cut open
OF the statue Of Lafayette which J. @ A. Ward,
the New York sculptor, is to make for erection on
the grounds OF the university at Burlington, the
New York Herald says: THE sketch model for
the statue represents him a distinguished ell
derby gentleman, standing bare-headed in a semi
contemplative position, as II at the ceremony. lie
is clad in civilian costume, with long surtout
thrown back and reaching to below his knees;
trousers tight at the ankles and ending In CATERS
a buttoned dress coat with high rolling collar;
rufied shirt and broad silk cravat. His hair
is short and his face clean shaven with the excep-
ton of suggestion Of beard by the ears His
face is turned to the right and he stands with his
right foot forward, his right hand resting on his
cane and his left on his hip. The pose is one Of
much dignity, and the little figure has an air OF
great distinction"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-11-02
The Michigan Sufferers.

Ex-senator Baldwin, chairman OF the
Michigan fire relief commission, stated a
week ago that the commission has s175,000
on hand with liabilities of $4,000. IL has
provisions on hand for two or three weeks
only. The commission estimates that $780,
900 more will tide the sufferers over till
next May, although larger sum would be
most welcome, and could be legitimately
used. The condition and needs of the suf
ferers still appeal strongly for substantial
aid and sympathy. There are many people
lying sick without sufficient shelter, bedding
conveniences or medicines. The rains have
filed the wells with surface water, contain
ing organic matter, producing malaria and
typhus. Measles and pneumonia also pre-
vail. There is not sufficient quantity Of
stoves, bedding, mems heavy overcoats,
wooden shirts, womens wooden under
clothing, mittens or hosiery, infants cloth
ing, mems and women's boots and shoes,
large sizes of good quality for winter wear
There is deficiency in delicacies and
nourishing diet for the sick and GONZALES
cent There have been about 100000 of
cash subscriptions, or about 5000 TO each
family. To provide shelter, essential furni-
ture, bed clothing, underwear, medicine and
attendance, feed for one COW and one team,
and food till the next harvest, there should
have been collected Si00 to each family, or
a round million dollars. The commission
cannot well get along with less than $780,
900 more, making total of 100000 in cash
subscriptions. American charity and pstri-
otism has met many heavy drafts upon its
limitless munifcence, but seldom has it re-
sponded to an appeal more urgent or from
a source more worthy than that which
comes from these Michigan farmers who by
no fault of theirs have lost nearly every
thing and are exposed TO extreme suffering
during most Indictment season. They
need money not only to mitigate suffering
and save life but to provide the means of
earning subsistence. Money in unneeded
munifcence has been bestowed upon
presidents widow who was suffering from
no physical deprivation. Americans will not
now deny to these poor farmers the means
of rebuilding their homes and planting their
fields. When the full extent of their un.
supplied wants is known the generosity of
their countrymen will be equal to the
demand.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-11-02
Notes and Notions.


AFuNERAL service in memery OF the late
President Garfield was held in Berlin, Prus-
STA, last Sunday.
SENATOR MORRILL, of Vermont, now
seventy-one years of age, is the senior mem
Der of the senate, and the youngest senator
is Aldrich of Rhode Island, now forty years
of age.
THE president told Governor Foster last
week that he should recognize no faction in
the party, and that while he is president he
hopes it will be party without schism or
discord.
RETURNS from all but two counties In
Iowa give the Hon. Buren, b. Sherman, re-
publican, for governor the comfortable ma
iority of fifty-eight thousand seven hundred
sixty-eight votes.
THE trial OF Guiteau has been postponed
from November 9TH TO the 14th. The pris-
oner is in good health, and since his arraign-
ment, when no personal violence was at
tempted, he has lost his fear Of being mob
bed and become quite grand and pompous.
THE Chicago Times quotes the Constitu-
ton of the United States, and says "Mr.
Arthur's legal term Of office will expire on
the Goth day of September, 1885 this is
on the ground that the term of office is four
years, and Mr.. Arthur became president on
September 20, 1881.
"PERLEY," in Boston Journal: "The
remaining members of the Garfield Cabinet
are, probably, not sorry that Mr.. MacVeagh
has left them, for be has managed to make
himself very disagreeable to some of them,
and had he not resigned there would have
been an open rupture"
THE official vote Of the Ohio election gives
Foster, republican, 312,735; Bookwater,
democrat, 2SS, 1926 Ludlow, prohibition, 49,
597 Seutz, greenback, $3.50. Lieutenant
governor, Richards, republican, 100 I;
johnson, democrat, 2SS,2 66; MacVay, pro-
hibition, 1927 jenkins, greenback, $500.
GENERAL GARFIELD: "When two hun
dred and fifty thousand brave spirits passed
from the field of honor through that thin
veil to the presence of God, and when at last
its parting folds admitted the martyr presi-
dent to the company of the dead heroes of
the republic, the nation stood so near the
veil that the whispers of God were heard by
the children of men,"
DESPITE the land-league advice to the
contrary, large numbers of tenant farmers
in all parts of Ireland are paying their rents
in accordance with the Attachments pre-.
scribed by the land commission. So great
is the rush at the land court that the clerical
force are compelled to labor day and night
and the establishment of additional sub-com.
missions is contemplated.
G. f. TRAIN sends the following response
to Scovile's request for testimony: "Dear
Sir-Last evening saw your appeal in the
Mail. Last year, during the latter part Of
October and first of November, when Gui
teau was boarding at the boarding house
where | now am, became acquainted with
him. One evening | lent him a silk UNI
brella to go to the republican headquarters
with and he returned it, which proves much
in regard to his insanity"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-11-02

TINES CHANGEs.-The whirligig of time
bestows its rewards as well as has its re-
venges. At the breaking out of the war
Edwin d. Morgan was governor of the state
OF New York. lie appointed Chester A.
Arthur, an obscure young man, as engineer
in-chief on his staff. Soon he was made
an inspector general by the governor and
kept in that office while the war lasted.
Time passes on. Arthur becomes collector
of the port of New York, is brought into
prominence by his removal, is made candi.
date for vice-president to appease his friends,
becomes president, the highest officer of the
government, by the act of an assassin. Gov.
ernor Morgan went into honorable retire
ment, rich and respected. Years heap up
over his head, and now at the age of seventy
three, Mr.. Arthur turns to him and bestows
the appointment Of secretary of the treas.
ury. 1t is confirmed by the senate. MIR,
Morgan, however, declines the office. His
age and state Of health precludes his &C.
ceptance.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-11-02

Ex-SEoRETARY SHERMAN has taken the
next natural step in the line of indicating
his management of the treasury department
by offering resolution instructing the com
mite on finance to investigate the use and
management of the contingent funds of the
treasury department since 1871, that is, for
the last ten years, and including Richard
sons and Bristow's terms Of office under
President Grant as well as his own term
under President Hayes. The motive for
giving the inquiry this wide sweep is
apparent.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-11-02
HEAVY DErAIcArIoN.-Tbe Mechanic

HEAVY DEFALCATIoN.--The Mechanics
national bank of Newark, New Jersey, sus-
pended business Monday, its cashier having
confessed to transportation of over
100000 Of its funds. 1t appears that he
had been loaning the banks money to the
morocco firm of Nugent & Co. of Newark
for the past eight years without security
and without the sanction of the directors.
This transaction was concealed from them
by Justification of the books, the cashiers
account always appearing to be correct.
The cashier has been held in $4,000 to
answer further for his crime on the 7th
instant. Christopher Nugent, of the firm of
Nugent & Co., has been arrested for aiding
and abetting the cashier in embezzling the
funds Of the bank and held in $4,000 bail.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-11-02

1T is announced that Mrs. Garfield pro-
poses to have an adequate biography of her
late husband and an appropriate collection
of his literary remains published after care
full consideration and under her sanction.
No one is better fitted for this task by abil-
ity as well as by her familiarity with the
subject matter of the work she proposes to
undertake. Mrs. Garfield was her husbands
con6dant, adviser and helpmeet in his
public and literary as well as domestic
affairs. She is entirely competent to per-
form this labor well, and such life of the
second martyr president will have an espe-
cial interest in the fact that Lucretia Gar
field is its author
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-11-02

A GENTLEMAN who is intimately ac-
quainted with Attorney General MacVeagh
says that he announced his purpose to leave
the cabinet as soon az President Garfield
died, and that his conclusion was entirely
political and was not the result of any per-
sonal feeling. He was an opponent of the
third term, is against the machine and could
not favor the Malone alliance. Under these
considerations it was impossible for him to
remain in the cabinet.