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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-01-26
Ell Perkins OH Children.

To-day | sat in car seat on the Lake
Shore road, behind a pale, care-worn
young lady, who was taking little boy
from Cleveland to Ashtabula. As the
little boy was of a very inqulring mind,
and as everything seemed to attract his
attention, could not help listening to
some of his questions.
''What is that. Auntie?" the little boy
commenced, as he pointed to heap of
yellow corn.
.'Oh, that's corn, dear" answered the
careworn lady.
"What is corn, Auntie?"
3Why, corn is corn, DEAR"
But what is corn made OFF"
why, corn is made of dirt, and water
and air, darling"
"Who makes it, Auntie?"
|'God makes it, dear"
docs he make it in the daytime or in
the night?"
''In both, dear"
''And Sundays"
Eyes; all the time"
"Ain't it wicked to make corn on Sun
day, Auntie?"
''Oh, / don't know. Do keep still,
Freddy-that's dear, Auntie is tired. :"
After remaining quiet q moment, little
Freddy broke out:
where do stars come from, Auntie?"
Il don't know; nobody knows"
did the moon lay emp"
Eyes, guess SO, replied the wicked
lady.
Can the moon lay eggs, too?"
81 suppose so. Don't bother mer'
A short silence, when Freddy broke
out with:
Fanny Mason says oxins is a owl,
Auntie, is they?'
80, perhaps So"
81 think whale could lay eggs. do n
YOU, Auntie?"
30, yes-I guess SOL said the shame
less woman.
did you ever see a whale on his
nest? a
80, guess so''
"Where?"
80, don't knowl Do keep still,
. Freddy" And the lady gave sigh and
looked out of the window.
A moment afterwards Freddy looked
out of the window and saw Q man milk
ing q COW.
''What is he doing to the ccw, Auntie?"
milking her, ar"
"Where do they put the milk in,
.Auntie?"
''Ol in her MOUTH
did You ever see them put the milk
IMP"
30. yes"
"Where?"
81 mean no. Freddy, you must be
squiet-Tm getting crazyw
"Whst makes you crazy, Auntie?"
30. deerl you Ask 30 many questions. y
The little boy seemed to be puzzled
and thoughtful . moment; but soon his
curiosity got the better of him, and, a.
the. cars passed sheep and lamb, he
aakod:
"Where do lambs come from. Auntie?'
ssOl from the old sheep. The old
sbesp hns then"
s1j,n little boys have lambsf"
ssCIerteinly. IN LET you have lamb
Freddy. Who's 20 ~ hcas.'
ssDld you ev1g havs lab, Auntief'
70, q sssrp' dssr.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-01-26
REST AT LAST.
ION the late President "a field. ]

ION toe LATE PRESIDENT "a reid.
Weary DAYS of suffering over,
Hours of bitter anQiish passd.
Meath the lamplights' fitful hover,
We can see him rest at last
Hard the trial, sore the conflict,
High the surgng pillows crest,
Battled bravely. now triumphant,
He has gained eternal rest.
Two long months the world was watching
Round the couch of keenest pain,
Lordly peer and lowly peasant
Felt and wished him well again.
Der the broad Atlantcs bosom,
Message after message flew,
Lightning wing d the flashing wires;
Brought each answer quick to view.
Pray RS went up from hearth and household,
Stately hall aud sacred fame,
Pleading for his restoration
To the people once again.
But 1t might not he. de knoweth
Best who "marss the sparrow's fall
And he took the dear beloved one,
Who was ready at his call.
Ready Yes at any moment,
Even on that gloomy morn
When the coward bullet speeding
Lowly laid his manly form,
Ref us of our peerless statesman,
Lov'd BY all, both great and mean;
Tuly, such bright example
Seldom has this nation seen.
His was here life of beauty,
Mild, heroic, kind and true
Faithful in his every duty,
Whatso'er he found to do;
Nobly toiling onward, upward,
From a home of humble birth,
Till within princely mansion
With the kingly sons of earth.
He could claim an equal footing,
Weld the sceptre of throne,
Brilliant in his every action
Mighty in each look and tone;
And though brief his reign amongst us;
Yet in that shor space of time,
With a courage unexampled
He accomplished deeds sublime.
Deeds which long will shed their lustre
To his everlasting fame,
And in all succeeding ages
Sacred keep his honored name.
Yes, on history's brightest pages
Lustrous will his mem'ry shine;
But in human hearts more deeply
Traced in loneliness divine.
Softly tread; for mark he seepeth,
Mid the noblest and the best
In fair Natures tender bosom,
Law him gently down to rest.
All his toll and care are over,
Every danger safely passed,
In the bosom of his Father
Tranquil now he rests at last.
-[Ccleraine IrelandD Chronicle
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-07-20
FOREIGN NEWS.

LONDON, July IA dispatch from
Alexandria dated p M, says the town
Is totally ruined. The houses from the
great square to the Custom House have
been plundeTed. In the square itself
and other wealthy European quarters.
there is hardly building not ruined OF
StllI burning. The Court House of the
International Tribunal has so far es-
capped. The AnglO-Egyptian Bank is
also preserved. The streets are strewn
with clock and jewel cases and similar
debris. But very few dead bodies have
been found. TwO-thirds of the trOOps
deserted during the bombardment.
After the Khedive's palace had been
surrounded party of soldiers entered
his apartment and declared they had or
ders to kill him and burn the palace.
After parleying their loyalty was bought
with the promises of money. They then
escorted the Khedive to the British at
Ras-el-Tin. His guard was not allowed
to enter the palace there with him. All
the ministers except Arab Pasha pre-
sented themselves at Ras-el-Tin Palace.
At five O'Clock this evening a detach-
ment of marines marched through the
town. Some plundereTs caught in flag
rante delictO were summarily shot.
ALEXANDRIA, July 14-7 D. m.-AH the
Arabs are carrying White handkerchiefs
on STICKS and shammlng great anxiety
to be thought friendly.
OFF ALEXANDRIA, 8 p. M, July 14-AlI
the ships have sent ashore every man
that can be spared. The marines were
landed at the request of the Khedive.
Arabi Pasha sent away by rail women
and children by thousands. All able
bodied males were ordered to join the
army.
The bombardment of Alexandria on
| Tuesday almost exterminated the Egyp-
tian corps of artillerymen, the best
branch of the army.
LONDON, July 15.-JOhn Bright has re-
signed the ChancellOrship of the Duchy
of Lancaster, owing to the bOmbardment
of Alexandria.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-07-20
HORRIBLE CRIME INVICKS-
BURG.

VICKsBURG, Miss, July 15.-At three
o'clock this morning frame store and
dwelling occupied by German named
r Farcas, was found to be in flames in
every portion. Farcas himself was dis
covered tied fast and enveloped in a sack
on the rear gallery of the house. His
wife was found dead with her skull
fractured and the brains oOzing from the
wound. Her lower limbs up to the abdo-
men, were burnt to crisp, as was also
her left hand. Her husband states that
six masked men entered the house. ac-
conPanle6 oy negro woman, who de-
manded of him the keys of the iron safe.
He opened the safe himself, and counted
out to the robbers sum of $7OOi in gold,
silver and greenbacks. They then bound
him hand and foot, covered him with a
sack, and left him where he was found
when rescued from the burning house,
He says they bound his wife to the bed,
administered chlOrofOrm to her, as in
his case, and proceeded to set the house
on fire,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-07-20

French have taken the Hotel Abbatt for
a similar purpose. The Americans are
sending out parties to bury the dead.
The English are pumping water on the
burning houses.
$3.50 EVENING-The Americans are
sending nearly all their marines back to
the ships. Arabi Pasha's force consists
of two regiments only, which are loot
ing the entire country. The road to
Cairo is blocked. The Khedive believes
the people of Cairo will not permit Arabi
to loot that city. Last night a strong
band of Arabs entered Alexandria and
killed a number of loyal Egyptian SOL
diers.
LONDON, July 16.-The Times has the
following dispatch: 1t is stated that
Arab Pasha is marching on Port Said
with 1,5OO men, and that a large party
of BedOuins is apparently following
them. COrpses of slain Europeans, some
of these of women, are floating in the
harbOr. A detachment of Greek sailors
IS guarding the Greek Catholic Church,
European Hospital and Italian Consu]
late.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-07-20
OCCUPYING EGYPT.
England Landing TrOOps-Order
Restored in Alexandria.


LONDON, July I5.-It is stated that the
Duke of COnnaught will take command
of brigade of Guards in Egypt. The
Household Cavalry do not take heavy
kits for active service.
The Daily News believes there is a
growing feeling among the powers that
the time for Turkish Intervention is past
and that the work will be sufficiently
done by English and French Occupa-
ton. Within the past two days France
has shown an increasing disposition to
undertake the Joint occupation if in
vited to do so by the powers.
CONSTANTIN0PLE, July 15.-All Ambas-
sadOrs have received instructions that a
conference will meet Saturday morning
and will in the afternoon recommend
the Ports to intervene in Egypt. 1t is
reported that number of Arabian Sheiks
have promised to support Arab Pasha.
DURHAM, July 15.-The troops are held
in readiness to start for Egypt.
LONDON, July 15.-Admiral SeymouI
telegraphed at eleven o'clock last nigh
that the fire in Alexandria was moi
spread. Nearly all shooting had stopped
A force of Germans have landed to pro
tect the hospital, and a party of Ameri.
cans to establish consulate.
LONDON, July 15.-In the Commons
to-day Dixie, Under Foreign Secretary
read kilograms stating that American
marines were assisting in patrollinV the
streets of Alexandria.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-07-20
LATE NEWS,
on fire..

President Arthur last week approved
the bill extending bank charters.
A building at Texarkana. Arkansas.
was struck by lightning last week and
the walls fell upon saloon, crushing
1t beneath them. Thirty lives were
NEW YORK, July 16.-Within the last
twenty-fOur hours 159 deaths were re-
corded, eighty six of children from
cholera infantum. Five children died
to-day from heat.
The Iowa Agricultural College is said
to be teaching girls how to make bread,
roast and boil meats, and make coffee.
This is not fair, unless the boys receive
instructions in grubbing briers and
building wOrm-fence,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-07-20
AN EVENTFUL HISTORY.
important Suit Before the Knox
County Court.


MOUNT VERNON, o., July 17.-Narv
GMOodbridge) Swan, of Beaver Dam
Wisconsin, has commenced suit in the
Knox Common Pleas to recover her
right and title in the real and personal
property of the late James +. Wood
bridge. Mrs. Swan, whose real name
was Mary Elliott, was born near WORTH
lngtOn, Franklin county, Ohio, in 1898.
and when two years of age was adOpted
by Mr.. and Mrs. Woodbridge, and reared
by them as their own child. One of the
conditions of the strange and unnatural
compact was that Mrs. Elliott was to
renOunce all claim upon her daughter
and to never disclose that she was the
rea! parent. Mary Woodbridge" grew
up IN 0l1ssful ignorance of her origin,
ana II was not until after the death of
MIR. Woodbridge, in 1874, that she was
made aware of her relations to the man
whom she had been taught to believe
was her father. And stranger still, She
was unable to fathOm the deep mysterv
surrounding her birth until in March
1882, while on visit to Mt. Vernon with
her husband, DR.. Swan, who is now a
prominent citizen of Beaver Dam she
obtained clue that placed her i'm nos
session of the secret of her matnTitv
The estate left by Mr.. Woodbridge was
valued at $4,000, to which Mrs. Swan.
as MS heir, lays claim. The points of
the law to be determined, and the evil
dence that will be developed, promises
to make this one of the most highly sem
satlonal suits ever heard in this county.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-07-20
AMERICAN MARINES
Save the Consulate and Escort
Refugees in Safety.

LONDON, July 16.-A correspondent
sends the following:
4 p, nj visited the American Consul
late to-day, and found it occupied by
with a small gun. The houses around
being on fire the Americans were pre-
pairing to blow them up in order to save
the Consulate. How the Americans
managed to get gun-powder into the
square is mystery, as the air is liter
ally full of sparks. However, they sue
ceeded, and brought down the houses in
the vicinity of the Consulate and the
Palace of Justice. So bad was the con-
dition of the streets that the American
marines insisted on guarding us to our
abroad. The English occupy the Palace
of Justice as their Consulate, and the
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-07-20

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Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-14

duce the worst effects. These Boards have
ruined thousands, have filed scores of
graves with suicides, have unsettled the
lives of whole communities, have wasted
in gambling capital which might have
been utilized in developing the resources of
the State. And now that the fortunate
working out of the Comstock Lode has at
last weaned the public from mining gam
bling, it seems that the professional deal
ers and cappers have concluded to shift
their quarters, and take up wheat as sub
stitute for gold and silver. We have not
confidence enough in the stability of our
people to believe that they will successfully
resist this movement. We are afraid that
if the new project is pushed it viii be
adopted. But we are perfectly certain that
evil alone can come from it, and that it
will result in the disturbance of business,
the introduction of new knaveries, the
fleeing of new victims, and the revival OF
that pernicious spirit of speculation which
has been the curse of California for guar.
ter of a century.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-14
RAILWAY FORECLOSURES IN 1881,

The Chicago Rait,Cay Age publishes every
year recapitulation of the foreclosures on
railways during the preceding twelve
month. 1t has just issued the list for
1881, and it is sufficiently startling cata-
logue of financial disasters 1t appears
that last year twenty, nine roads, with an
aggregate mileage of 2,6l7 miles, and with
al apparent investment of $5l, ,277, 900 in
capital stock, and S76, GA, 900 in bonds and
other Indebtedness, making total of
Sl27, 922, 500 were sold to wind up their
obligations. And these figures are rather
below than above the actual facts, for
while the Age has estimated them in a few
cases, it observes that sin several cases
"the statement of bonds and debt does not
"include accrued interest" The fact that
last year was one of apparently general
prosperity would render this long list
of railway failures very perplexing did
we not remember that the bank.
ruptcy of nearly all these companies
began several years ago, and that
they have been dragging along through
1.-THE slow process of receiverships and
foreclosure suits to the inevitable though
"long. deferred result Of sale and reorgan-
"ization." The Age gives summary of
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-14
BooKwALTER pRopHEsIEs.

John w. Bookwalter, the late Demo.
cratic candidate for Governor of Ohio,
recently said to a reporter: 81 think
" there will be a panic in this country
=" inside of eighteen months. There is not
"a business in the country to-day that is
Z" not out of joint. The price of produc-
" tion, of labor and materials is increasing,
"and will increase, while the price of pro-
" ducts stands still. No man can look
ahead six months, and with safety fix
=" the price of any manufacture. This is
San unnatural and unhealthy state of
affairs, and we are merely travelling the
Z" road that leads to periodical panics.'
Panics in this country have usually ex-
ceeded the seven year period In England
seven years has seemed to be the average
interval between these commissions, but in
the United States the time has been nearer
ten years. Now the last panic was in
1873, and next year will complete the Pc
riod of ten years from it. Thus far we
have had panic every ten, or at the
outside eleven years, and there are no
reasons why we should expect to
evade what appears to be
law. As regards the increase in prices,
Mr.. Bookwalter is right. The New York
Public recently prepared table showing
the rise in prices during the last twenty
years. This table shows that the same
amount of food which in November, 1878,
could have been bought for S62 5S would
have cost in December, 1881, $SS; and
that clothing which in 1878 could have
been bought for S25 81 would now cost
S33 Sc. These figures prove that prices
are rising. Part of this rise is attributable
to the initiation of the currency with silver
and silver certificates There is too much
currency for the needs of the people, and
therefore prices rise. And the same cause
must force prices up still more. The tariff
is another cause of high prices, by keeping
American goods out of foreign markets, and
so restricting the sale for them. For the
past four years the country has been sus-
tanned by good crops and good European
markets for them. Let us have failure
OF the harvest, however, and it is by no
means impossible that Mr.. Bookwalter's
gloomy prediction will be fulfilled.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-14
rnE GARFIELp-BLAINR mArTER.

The New York Tribune has thus far had
the best of the controversy over the ques-
tion of Blaine's influence on Garfield. 1t
was first asserted, by an anonymous corre-
spondent of the Herald, that Blaine had
been at the bottom of the Robertson bust
ness, and that President Garfield never
would have touched that affair had he not
been driven into it. Such statement.
however intended, was as much an i'm
peachment of Gariiald as of Blaine, for it
represented the former as having been
little better than tool in the hands OF the
latter. As Garfield is dead, and past in
jury by defamation, however, it may be
presumed that the attack was meant to fall
upon Blaine, who continues. to alarm the
"Stalwart camp, even though he has
ceased to hold office. WhiteIaw Reid has
been fortunate enough at this juncture to
be able to produce evidence which demon
strates the falsity of the assertion of the
Herald correspondent. He has published
letters and dispatches which prove that
Garfield was acting entirely of his own
volition in the Robertson affair; that he
understood he was being fought by Conk-
ling and Platt and that he was fully re.
solved to give them all the battle they
wanted. The Tribune has made this quite
clear, and now Blaine's enemies will have
to find some other excuse for belaboring
him, though it will be difficult for them to
select anything else which if pressed will
not hurt the Republican party quite as
much as him.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-14
wREAT GAMBLING IN SAN FRANCISCO.

A movement is on foot for the institu.
ton in San Francisco of the same kind of
gambling in wheat as obtains at Chicago
The proposition appears to have originated
with some of the mining brokers who find
or fear that the stock market has ceased to
afford a remunerative field for speculation.
Sundry commission merchants also, and
some of the restless spirits that are always
seeking royal roads to wealth, are said to
approve the project, which on the other
hand is energetically condemned by all the
solid business houses. and by the members
of the Grain Exchange generally. These
latter regard it as most ominous sugges-
ton, and In fact as desperate endeavor to
give new lease of life to that habit of
gambling which has become second nature
to SO many people on the Pacific coast.
As to the uselessness of the proposed
method of selling grain on call there is no
room for controversy. 1t is, as its oppo-
nents say, neither more nor less than new
mode of gambling, in which wheat is to
take the place of wildcat stock. There
is no demand for anything of the kind in
the interest of commerce. The wheat
market does not require the assistance OF
a mob of gamblers to get its business
transacted. All that they can do is to
produce mischief, and to interfere with
the natural and legitimate exchange
of the staple. The gamblers in fact are
species of land sharks who undertake
to gain a living without working. They
are among the most useless and mis-.
chievous classes in the community.
The mining boards of San Francisco
have done more harm to the State
and coast than all the convicts that have
been in San Quentin since California was
admitted to the Union. Tney have not
developed anything but the credulity of
the masses. They have, on the other hand,
fostered dishonesty and immortality, en-.
couraged stealing, swindling, lying and
every species of knavery plundered hon.
est industry of its hard earnings /; tempted
the weak and the sanguine to their ruin
and generally kept before the public pict-
ure of brazen profigacy caculated to pro.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-14
BLAcKsURN AND 8UgBaIDGE.

Congressman Blackburn has been ex-
tremely offended by General Barbridge's |
allusion to the yellow.fever episode, and
he has written letter to the public, in
which he affects lofty and majestic air OF
virtuous indignation and scorn. He says
that he has nothing to fear from the judg-
ment of the public on the questions in
volved. We conclude from this that he
supposes all the American people to regard |
his antecedents as leniently as the people of
kentucky did when they made him their
Governor. The most remarkable statement
in his letter, however, is the Inclination
that General Burbridge is in some way be-
meath the notice of gentlemen who have
"practiced decent respect for the opin-
lions Of mankind meaning himself
Now, if there is any man in the United !
States, besides Gutesu, who deserves to
be excluded from the category of ''gentle-
"men who have practiced decent respect
" for the opinions of mankind, we should
say it was the individual who deliberately
and in cold blood attempted TO introduce
horrible and devastating disease into the
North, during the Rebellion. That Mr..
Blackburn is the man who undertook to
perpetrate the aforementioned atrocity,
has been SO clearly proven that even
he does not think it worth while to deny
the fact. He merely refers to his
antagonists allusion to this disgrace
full circumstance in his record, as 'an
"attempt to retort by counter insult" It
appears from this that Congressman Black
burn is sufficiently cognizant of the bent
Of civilized opinion to comprehend that such
a charge as is preferred against him is injuri.
GUS in the last degree. Il is, as he chooses to
phrase it, /" counter insult;' but it is none
the less true because it is insulting, and it
is only insulting to him because he would
fain simulate an honor to which his past
conduct denies him just claim. The
man who tried to introduce the yellow
fever into the North through the medium
of infected clothing, ought not to talk of
"insults, in fact. For it seems to us
that mere murderer is gentleman and
hero in comparison with the base and cow
ardly wretch who sought to slay not only
men but women and children, by the prop
agation Of fatal epidemic. They do not
hold this opinion of Blackburn in Ken
lucky, evidently, but we have nothing to
do with that. We do not know what
special offenses General Burbridge is
charged with by the ex-rebels whom he
chastised when they were doing their
best to destroy the Union, but we are con-
fident that he can never have done any,
thing which justifes Congressman Black
burn in addressing him in tone of affected
superiority indeed it be that he has
degraded himself by condesoending to hold
any intercourse with Blackburn.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-14
THE CARR BEFORE rHg HORSE

Senators Kellogg, Conger, Vest, Miller
IN. W and Farley. are appointed SUBJ
committee to consider the various bills pro-
viding for subsidies to steamship lines to
South America, for the ostensible promo
tion of American commerce. While they
are about it, we trust that these gentlemen
will take the trouble to find out how Amer.
lean commerce can be promoted in any
such way. AT present we have scarcely
any trade with South America because our
merchants cannot compete with those OF
Europe, and because they are so hampered