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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-04-28
SHAKESPEARE ON THE HALF-SHELI

SHAKESPEARE ON THE HALF SHELL
A moderately filled hall greeted
Sheridan Saturday night, not more
than o9e-hn.f the number oelns pre-
sent that patronized the O'Snanty
minstrels, who performed a few
nights before, nor was the presenta
ton Of Shakspeare's masterpiece by
one of the most renowned of actors
received with that eclH which attend
ed the former entertainment. This
was owing IN some degree, doubtless
to the partiality always felt for anna
teur performers, by their friends;
still we cannot lose sight of the fuct
that it is very seldom that an actor
with worldwide reputation appears
before provincial audiences, and we
must look for other reasons to ac-
count for meagre support. One of
these doubtless is that star actors
endeavor to accomplish too much.
They perform heavy pieces with
weak support and without the neces-
sary stage accessories, expecting that
the audience will graciously make
allowance for those defects, and,
like those who are familiar with the
drama, applaud the central figure
without any thought of the back.
ground. This they will not do, aud
alter making one or two efforts 10 be
pleased by such performances, they
stay away with singular unanimity
It's no longer fashionable to endure a
/ play just because that on a metropol-
ltan stage it would be CHIC to do so.
This is a prosaic age, despite Oscar
Wilde and his lilies.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-04-28

CHRISTOPHER Johnson, an old resi-
dent OF Mason county, has been ad-
Judged insane, and was last Monday
taken to the asylum.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-04-28

COURT is in session at Kalama.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-04-28

Four beardless boys AID man
boarded Il Southern Pacific train, Il
few days ago, near the border line
Of TeX,s, and robbed the EXPIRE 81
Of few hundred dollars. Tue
hight that trip, and the party did
hot make il heavy hall
\ poeToFFIcE has been established
i'll Walla WaIia named Estes, with
Louisa Estes as Postmaster; one in
Cowlitz namrd Wood and, with c.
G. Boar tn H. Postmaster. Chas. G..
Rich has been appointed Postmasle r
at Carrollton, in Cowlitz county.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-04-28
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FRIDAY ENEG. APRIL y, lNN2.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-04-28


MArcH CHUNK, (Pa.) April pa
Mountain forest fires in Cacione,
Luzelne, Clinton, Lycoming, Wayne
ana Plke counties, destroyed veryI
large and valuable tracts of timber
'F'imnied at 1900, GO feet. Sew
efal huldir9s were destroyed and
two men are missing. The damage
Is hot all done yet, although it ag-]
Gregates fully S275, 900.
Town Destroyed by IA Tornado. 4
NEW ORLEANS, April 23.-LateI
news OF the tornado which swept
over jackson and carried away al
railroad bridge, states that Month
cello. a town twenty miles cas-, oil
Brookhaven, is completely destroyed;l
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-04-28

See. L. The Territorial Auditor is hereby
directed to draw his warrant for SAID
amount $3.50 in favor OF the Governor
OF Washington Territory, when demand
ed, which SAID warrant shall be pald y
the Territorial Treasurer out of any funds
in his hands not otherwise appropriated.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-11-01
FEEETHTREH
The Vote IN the National House of Repre-.
sentatices on the Walker Instructions.

WHILE the Tariff Commission bill was on its
passage in the House of Representatives the
9Th of last May Mr.. Mills, of Texas, Democrat
moved that it be recommtted to the Ways and
Means Committee, with instructions to report a
new bill. Mr.. Mills said: my instructions
those which were proposed by Robert j. Walker
in the Tariff of ls46" The Clerk read the in
structions as follows:
Resolved That the bill creating Tariff Commission be
recommitted to the Committee Ways and Means, with
instructions report within thirty days bill framed in
compliance with the following instructions:
/. That money should be collected than is
necessary for the of the Government economically
administered.
O. That no duty be imposed on any article above the
g. That below such rate discrimination may be made
descending in the scale of Duties for imperative
the article may be placed the list of those free
from all duty.
A. That the maximum revenue duty should be imposed
on Injuries
s. That all specific duties should be abolished and ad
Udore duties substituted in their place being taken
guard against fraudulent invoices and differentiation
and to the duty upon the actual market value
g. That the duty should be- imposed to operate
equally possible throughout the Union, discriminating
neither for nor against any class or section.
Upon the motion 10 recommit the bill with in
structions Mr. Mills demanded the Yeas and NAYS,
which were ordered. The question was taken,
and there were-Yeas 70, Nays l52, not voting "a,
as follows:
Iron County register., 1882-03-23
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

A JOINT resolution appropriating
800, 900 for flood sufferers was adopted by
the Senate, March IA. The anti-polygamy
bill passed the House.
BAKERsFIELD, Cal, has been dam
aged by violent sand-storm. So dense
were the clouds of sand that lamps were
lighted and travel was almost wholly sus-
pended, as 1t was impossible to see objects
ten PAGES distant. The Methodist Church
building was thrown from its foundation,
and the residence of Mr.. Oshea was blown
down, injuring him badly. The telegraph
wires We're all prostrated by. the storm.
Mrs. SAUNDERS, a lady 20 years old,
living near West La Fayette, Ohio, was
burned to death in horrible manner the
other night. She was standing before
CRATE winding Il clock, when her clothing
took fire. Being old and almost helpless,
she was unable to eXtinguish the flames,
and her body was so frightfuly burned that
she lived only Il short time.
Mrs. +. a. REYNOLDS, a widow, aged
thirty-tive years, employed in the Cleveland
hospital for the insane, threw herself into 4
creek running through the grounds, the
other day, and was drowned. The water
where the body was found was only three
feet deep. She attended church and taught
q class in Sunday school. During the three
months she spent at the asylum she often
appeared melancholy and spoke gloOmily of
her past life, as it had been one of sorrow
and struggle against adversely.
ELLA TODD. a 13-year-old girl living
with her parents in Kansas City, was shot
and dangerously wounded by her brother,
aged II. on the I:t h. While the Young man
was examining revolver 1t was accidentally
discharged, the bullet striking his sister In
the temple. The girl sank unconscious to
the floor. The ball did not penetrate the
brain, but severed branch of the temporal
artery, and the little sufferer was not eX-
pected TO survive.
FIVE workmen in the employ of the
Iron City Bridge Works started to cross the
Ohio River in a skin at Mckeeshock, near
Pittsburgh, Pa, March 18th. Just before
they reached the Allegheny shore the boat
capsized and two of the men, Shields and
Murphy, were drowned. The other three
managed to swim ashore, although in
greatly exhausted condition.
AT Grant Station, near Cincinnati, o
few days ago. Isaac Hendrick fatally shot
his wife. The couple hal been $ parateI
for some time, and Hendrick let a train
as it was passing the house al which his wife
was stopping, entered her room, and fired
three shO s,the first mis- -ihs her. The woman
threw her arms around his neck, and he
shot her once in the heal and once in the
breast. IL remained with her until death,
which occurred two or three hours after the
shooting. The murderer was arrested.
Iron County register., 1882-03-23
The Senate Chinese Immigration Bill.
w ASHINGTON, March 9.

WASHINGTON, March 9.
The Chinese Immigration bill, as passed,
provides that from and after the expiration of
ninety days after the passage of the act, and
until the expiration of twenty years after its
passage, the coming of Chinese laborers to the
United States shall be suspended, and pre-
scribes the penalty of imprisonment not ex-
ceeding one year and fine of not more than
$500 against the master of any vessel who
brings any Chinese laborer to this country
during that period 1t further provides that
the classes of Chinese excepted by treaty from
such prohibition, such as merchants, teach
ers, students, travellers and diplomatic
agents, and Chinese laborers who
were in the United States on the
18th of November, 1880, shall be re-
qtIired as condition for their admission to
produce passports from the Government of
China personally identifying them and show
ing they Individually belong to one Of the
permitted classes, which passports must be
indorsed by the diplomatic representative of
the United States in China, or BY the United
States Consul at the point of departure. It
also provides elaborate machinery for carry
ing out the purposes of the act, and addition
d sections prohibit the admission of Chinese
tc citizenship BY the United States or State
courts, and construes the words ..Chinese
laborers" to mean both skilled and unskiIled
laborers, and Chinese employed in mining
Iron County register., 1882-03-23
miscellaneous Items.

An Interesting scene occurred in the
jail at st. Louis the other afternoon, when
James j. Mcbride, council for Pat McGlew
indicted with Russell Brown for the mur-
der OF Mrs. G. 2. Dorriss, brought the two
young men face to face. McGlew then said
to Brown: "Russel, speak and tell the
truth, and tell them [ had no hand in the
killing OF your grandmother" looking him
steadily in the face ut the moment. Brown
could not stand the gaze; he dropped his
eyelids, and with an nsabashed, craven look
upon his face skunk back into his cell with
out reply.
The grand-jury recommends as
preventive of hoodumism in St. Louis that
saloon licenses be raised to $1,000, and not
more than one saloon be permitted in any
block. The jurymen are of opinion that the
law ''which limits the punishment of bows
under the age of eighteen to a maximum
penalty of one year in jaiI-with two eXcep-
tions, one Of which is practically nullified
by that sympathy for youth which is char
acteristic of humanty-is based on errone-
Gus principles, and the same should be
amended to conform to the law formerly in
force.'
Mrs. John Kilburn, living near Ne
vada, Grundy County, and a bride of week,
met death by drowning in well some time
ago. Her husband went to a neighhor's,
and before going cautioned his wife about
going near the well, as he had fallen into it
himself once. On returning he found the
bucket drawn up and full of water, and
missing his wife, he instituted search and
found her lifeess body.
The tax assessment of St. Louis, lust
completed, is $192, 592, ,24) on real estate and
personal property. This is an increase of
over S25, 0oo,o00 as compared with last year.
Judge Treat has just completed twen-
tv-five years of service on the federal bench
at st. Louis, and received many congratula-
tions.
St. Louis school principals announce
ther intention to form 4 base ball club.
The flood has caused great distress.
A swindler is now going about the
State swinding the farmers buying produce
of them, writing receipts with a lead pencil,
breaking off the point and handing the
farmer a fountain pen to sign his name with.
They rub out pencil writing, make note
over the signature ana sell the note.
The Secretary of State has issued
certificate Of incorporation to the Hag-
gerty & Son Auction Goods Company of
st. Louis. The articles of consolidation of
the Missouri Pacific Railway Company and
the Missouri Pacific Railway Company OF
Nebraska have been filed.
The organized strength of the militia
Of Missouri: is stated to be 1,11772.
Iron County register., 1882-03-23
The GentiIes in Utah.

From the fact that the Gentiles gave
Campbell less than l 400 votes in 1880
has sprung the idea in many quarters
that they are in an exceeding small
minority in Utah, and that it is extreme
ly cheeky in them to ask Congress to
supersede the Mormon Legislature by
Gentle governing or legislative com
mission. Comparison of the Mormon
Conference returns of their population
in April, 1880, with those of the census
in June following, shows that there were
$4,000 souls in the Territory not claimed
as Mormons. Were these people in the
habit of political activity they ought to
cast, on the ordinary voting basis, 5000
votes. 1t will be seen that the proper
ton of Gentiles to Mormons in Utah, ac-
cording to perfectly reliable statistics
(the population in Utah having been, in
round numbers, IA, 900 in June, 1SSO),
is as to 3 IL. They are nearly one
fourth, in other words.
1t may seem invidious to compare
them in respect of their intelligence,
but it is due to truth to say that it is a
case of intelligence against brute force.
There are some intelligent Mormons,
but the mass are not intelligent, and very
few even of the leading class are really
hS W bnO plODGIby, IuOIt
than one-half of the taxable property OF
Utah, including mines and railroads,
belongs to Gentiles. There are some
eight hundred miles of railroad, chiefly
owned by Gentiles, worth at least S10,-
100000; there is Gentle money invest
ed in trade, in stock, in merchandise,
and in residences, equal, probably, to
S10,OO0,OO0; the mines have turned out
an average of S6,000,000 year for ten
years, which is six per cent. on $780,
OO0, 900, as any one can see. The Gen.
tiles have invested, and procured to be
invested, in churches, schools, hospitals,
and public and private charitable asso-
Citations, within one decade, $500, 200 in
round numbers, and they are paying
and procuring to be paid about $3.50, 900
year to keep these institutions going.
This is no feeble folk in anything but
number. 1t is no contemplate minority
not worth a hearing and not entitled to
hearing SAT- Lake city Tribune.
Iron County register., 1882-03-23
The Sonora Railway, projected three

The Sonora Railway, projected three
years ago to run from Guaymas, on the Gulf
of California, to a connection with the
American lines, has been purchased by the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Company. 1t
will be completed this year, at a cost of
S., 000, 200, and will give the Santa Fe a
through route from the Missouri to the
waters Of the Pacific coast.
GEN. w. H. WRIGHT, who died in
Philadelphia few days ago, was once chief
of the Engineer Corps of the Army of the
Potomac, and commanded the pioneers on
Gen. Sherman's march to the sea. He built
the bridges at Leayenworth and Atchison,
and went to the Isthmus Of Panama with
Count de Lesseps.
THE Michigan Legislature has appro-
priated $265, 200 for the relief OF the suffer
ers by the fires of last fall.
COMMISSIONER SHIELDS, of New
York, refused naturalization papers to Hop
Sing, part owner of a silver mine in Nevada,
on the ground that a Chinaman is not il free
white person under the statute.
Iron County register., 1882-03-23

THE Trade and Labor Union of Chi
cagO, March u, passed resolutions con-
demning the calling out of military 10 aid in
suppressing the strike at Omaha, and di-
recting their representatives at Washington
to urge President Arthur to recall the troops
Immediately. The resolutions were tele-
graphed to Washington.
Iron County register., 1882-03-23

FOUR towns in Costa Rica are report
ed destroyed by an earthquake and thou
sands of lives lost.
Iron County register., 1882-03-23

A HUGE meteorite fell with a great
shock at point fifty miles southeast of Fort
Assinaboine, March 10, causing consterna-
tion at Fort Benton, nearly one hundred
miles southwark.
Iron County register., 1882-03-23

THE President has nominated Judge
Samuel Blatchford as Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court, and John Russell Young
rs Minister Plenipotentiary to China.
Iron County register., 1882-03-23

THERE is a report that Don Carlos
has abdicated his claims to the Spanish
throne in favor of his infant son.
Iron County register., 1882-03-23

GUITEAU is still of the opinion that
the ar gument for new trial before the court
i'm banc will result favorably. He is overrun
with visitors, and he importunes most of
them to buy his picture and autograph. He
has saved considerable money, which is to
go to the best legal talent in the country for
defending him. He is represented by his
guards as being very docile and with an ex-
treme regard for neatness in his person,
ssfor,' he says, ''the ladies like me to
look well'' His sole aim now seems to be
to make money to pay his lawyers to get him
out of trouble. and he is continually con-
triving new schemes for the purpose. He
imagines that his book, "The Truth, - will
be in great demand at - per copy, and he
deyotes considerable time to preparing a
new edition. This matter, however, he has
turned over to Mr.. Scoville, who will make
the contracts for printing. binding and dis
tribution; but Guiteau wants every cent of
the proceeds turned over to him for his
necessities.
Iron County register., 1882-03-23

THE Prussian Chamber of Deputies
has voted an appropriation to establish le-
cation at the Vatican.
Iron County register., 1882-03-23

SHERIFF HEALEY, of Montana, has
been released by the half-breed belligerents,
and has returned to Fort Benton.
Iron County register., 1882-03-23

THE convention of the National Green
back Labor party, at st. Louis, March Sth,
was not largely attended. Two platforms
were prepared. The first demands the
abolition of banks of issue; that the United
States bonds be declared due at once and
maid at the convenience of the Government;
that homesteads be not sold for taxes; that
n Rureau of Statistics be established at
Washington: that the President and Vice
President be elected directly by the people,
and that Foreign Ministers when not elected
nv the people be chosen by both houses of
CONGRESS-. A blow was given to monopolies
and a demand was made that every citizen
over % years of age be admitted TO the full
r;,hts of citizenship. The second
platform covered the points given
above and recommended that corre-
snondence be commenced with the
Harper faction of the party, looking
to the calling of joint convention to be
held in November sympathy was expressed
for the people of Ireland il the struggle
against their oppressors, and a stronger
wback was given to monopolies. The sub
'iect of harmonizing the two factions was
treated Mt length and the attainment of that
end strongly urged. The majority report of
the committee on platform and organization
was adopted; but it was resolved THAT if
the objects desired to be gained as expressed
therein are not consummated by the 3oth
of June, 1882. it be the special instruction
of this assemblage to the National EXecu-
tive Committee to proceed, without calling
an extra convention, TO issue the minority
report of said committee on resolutions and
platform as supplement to the platform
of the convention of the Greenback-Labor
party held in st. Louis in 1880, and as a
platform OF principles of the Greenback-
Labor marty now in convention assembled
Iron County register., 1882-03-23

PETITIONS to President Arthur for
the pardon of Sergeant Mason are being nu-
meIously signed. ? ..~a--..
Iron County register., 1882-03-23

Florida papers say that the bronze
or rusty oranges are much the sweetest,
and can be kept longer than the light
fruit, but that they will not sell at the
North for half the price OF the fair fruit.
Iron County register., 1882-03-23
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.

RUFUS INGALLS, has been confirmed
as Quartermaster- General of the Army.
Iron County register., 1882-03-23
Jimmy TuffbOy has heeu inyeStino q

Jimmy Tuffboy has been investing
in cultures" with the usual result. He
traded his old pair of skates for twenty
five cents worth of marbles, '.June de-
livery and the impudent young scamp
he traded with went skating through
the ice and was drowned. Thus Jimmy
is ''short'' on marbles.-Neao HaUea
Register.
Iron County register., 1882-03-23
NOTWITHSTANDING

NOTWITHSTANDING the damage
caused by the floods, it is thought that in
large districts the overflow will not interfere
materially with the cotton crop. Much will
depend upon the stage Of water after the
freshet runs ont
Iron County register., 1882-03-23

ter, Medical Purveyor of the United States
Army, that DIR. Bliss was never placed in
charge Of President Garfield's case by any
member OF the family, and that he contin-
ued to act without authority. On the back
of this letter is an Endorsement of its con-
tents by Mrs. Garfield. The document is
being circulated among Senators and MEM
bers of Congress, to defeat the payment of
the amount awarded to DR.. Bliss.
Iron County register., 1882-03-23

Inquirer: Where is the best place to
learn g sing? The desert. Post.
Iron County register., 1882-03-23

FROM a point twenty miles below
Memphis, where the first break in the Mis-
sissippi levee occurred, the entire country
is one vast sea of water. People all through
this submerged region are utterly destitute
and in a starving condition. Their stock has
been drowned and they are living in gin
houses, stable lofts and upper stories of
cabins. Hundreds are subsisting on parched
corn; many have been temporarily relieved
by the distribution of rations, but others
could not be reached and their sufferings
are very great. All published reports have
fallen far short of giving an idea of the dam
age that has been done or the destitution
prevailing.
Iron County register., 1882-03-23

The empty man getteth too full
Iron County register., 1882-03-23

In regard to General Garfield's part
in the removal of General Rosecrans, a
Washington paper gives story that Mont
gomery Blair ascertained that President
Lincoln was guided by Garield's represen-
tatiOns more than by any other influence.
The recent publication of an alleged letter
TO Salmon Z. Chase from the late President
moves General Rosecrans to remark that he
would have court -martialed General Gar
field had he known of the communication.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-08-24
Garfleid's Alleged RemerSe.

A correspondent of the New Orleans Times
Democrat writes A strange story comes 10
me from the death-be of the late President
Garfield. II is TO the effect that while get
in his full senses. but convinced that he
could not recover he expressed not only re-
gret but deep contrition for the part which
he had borne in depriving President Tilden
of the Office to which he was elected in 1876.
It will be remembered that Mr.. Garfield was
one of the visiting statesmen" who thrust
themselves into the canvass Of the vote OF
Louisiana in that year, bringing ont 'evi-
dence" of "buldozings in some OF the rpr
ral parishes, and in particular that of the old
colored woman whom Mr.. Garfield examined
mot" he said ''as a judge, but as lawyer"
Il is now related that feeling that he
could not recover, that his death must take
place in few days. he talked with his at
tendants about his public career as well as
his personal affairs. II is said, on authority
that I have no reason to doubt, that he
showed himself sincerely penitent for the
part which he took in the great fraud Of
1876. He regarded that as the one great
stain upon his public career, and he made
some reference to documents which he
felt sure would serve to mitigate the judg-
ment of posterity upon him. He expressed
the greatest apprehension that at no distant
period an avenging Nemesis would visit
upon his party and friends terribl, revenge
for that wrong. Those who listened to him
were his personal and political friends,
they regarded the words aud emotions OF
Garfield due to the effect of physical weak
ness and long suffering, and agreed to be
silent regarding them. But in the quarrels
that have risen between the Stalwarts and
Half.breeds they have been repeated and
at length subject of discussion in private
circles. At no distant day some authorized
publication on the subject may be expected.