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One of our citizens demurs at the
proposition of the ARGUS to levy a
special tax to erect n new school
building, alleging that it will benefit
strangers who come here to attend
school free of charge He says it will
be something like the special tax for
fire engine, for which the city has
never received any return. 1t always
does us good to combat such silly
ideas, only, like the Illinois farmer,
we don't like to get so terribly
wrenched by kicking at nothing In
the first place, we never recommend
Cd allowing outsiders to come without
paying tuition. If they have not paid
heretofore the directors are to blame
for not charging them. In the next
place, whether they pay tuition or not,
the amount is tritling compared with
the money they leave in town in other
ways. AS well close our stores to
outsiders for fear that some pervcrse
resident of another county would
come here to invest money! No, they
mustn't heap such an indignity upon
our citizens as to spend money here
Out upon the penny-wise, pound
foolish policy of doing nothing for
lear somebody else will reap benefit
therefrom The splendid q argu
ment with reference to the fire engine
is worthy of note. Such ideas have
led more than d few towns (Colfax
for example) to wait until hundreds
of thousands Of dollars worth of
property are destroyed by fire before
any precaution is taken One Of these
fine mornings Port Townsend will
have fire where the wisdom of in
vesting few hundred dollars in an
engine will be demonstrated even to
minds of such caliber rs that Of our
critic.
Recently ewgantlomrn Of means,
contemplating the buying Of homes.
were looking through PORT Townsend.
and noted the contrast between om.
numerous and neat looking church
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Law and order loving people always
deprecate any circumstances that
lead to punishment by Il mob yet
when such tiends in human form as
the yiolators of Miss Bond, of Hi
nois, are brought to light, it seems
like a waste of time to go through
the usual forms of court trials with
all their chances of escape from JUS
tice through technical flaws. In
fact, the moral atmosphere of the
country is always purified by the
speedy sending of such brutes to
kingdom come. 1t always has a sal
utary effect upon, other two-legged
beasts who can only be held within
lawful bounds through fear of
stretching hemp
, 1882-09-01

A SHARK measuring ten feet in length
was caught in Fidalgo bay by an Indian
last week.
, 1882-09-01

a fow scattering items and u little oc
ca~iDnal idle talk.
, 1882-09-01

Mr. BTGELow, formerly purser on the
steamer North Pacific, died at Providence
hospital Sunday morning. His relatives
Mr.. and Mrs. Bigelow, of Olympia
came down last evening on the Messen-
ger to take the remains to that place for
burial. Mr.. Bigelow was an old resident
on the Sound, having come here in early
times. He was formerly partner with
George W. Harris, of this city. and was
well and favorably known throughout
the Puget Sound country. Seattle
Chronicle.
Delay Bigelow was general fayorite
wherever known, because of his genial,
sunny disposition.
, 1882-09-01
Vessels Consigned to r, W. deLion & Co.
CHlLlAn SHIP LOLA,

FrOm N0Ipar0lSO,
Neither the Captain nor the under
signed. agents, will Ice responsible for
any debts contracted 10y the crew Of the
above uamcd vessel.
4. SVENSEN, Master,
H. W. DELIuN X Co., Agents.
Porf Townsend, Aug %, lSS2
, 1882-09-01

Hops. 1t is only a few years since
hops were raised in Washington Ter
tory-Puyallup valley being the To-
cation of the new venture. Today
the prospect is that hops will soon be
a leading production of Puget Sound.
With prices away up to 40 and 80
cents per pound, the profits in hop
raising are 50 great that the tempta-
ton to engage in that business will
induce many farmers to adopt it
largely.
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British Bmk NnY /. Baker.

British Burk NWy |. Baker,
From t me, Australia.
Neither the captaid nor the under
dersigned agents will be responsible for
any debts contracted by the crew Of the
above named vessel.
Port Townsend, August |, lSS2.
THOMAS SUTToN. Master.
r. W. pELIoN e. Co.. Agents.
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ONE Of our exchanges, in a sensible
article on thcquostion of labor strikes.
gets in q few telling hits that itmight
he well for laborors to heed. 1t calls
attention to the fact, apparently over
looked to q great extent, that while
the lubOrcr has u right to strike, his
employer has a right to close facto-
rie-, refuse to raise wages, and do
many other disugrccablc things that
sometimes leads to utter want and
starvation among striking employees.
Large corporations in the eastern
states have been annoyed very much
by strikers during he past few years
and the result has been in many cases
one of riot, bloodshed, incendiarism,
theft, &c, always worse in the long
run for the laboror. Those Of the
latter who have families to support
are frequently driven to desperation,
all through the leadership Of hot,
headed, restless spirits who imagined
they were going to get their wages
raised by demanding it.
, 1882-09-01
CAilial Ship Julia,

NEITHER THE CAPTAIN NOR THE CN;
~ derSigncd agents of the above ntincI
vessel will DE responsible tor debts contracted
/. q. WILSON, Master.
RW DELIOS Il Co., Agents.
Port Townsend. Mar. -. lsS!.
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capt. Il. V. de Lion. cop'. T.. \. NicI>cIs
, 1882-09-01
MOTTO L..

The partnership heretofore existing
between the undersigned. under the firm
name OF II. w. deLion Il Co., Stevedorea,
and also the partnership heretofore eX-
istiug between them under the fl m name
Of Charles A. Encll & Co., as Co mn isSion
Merchants, at Port Townsend. ". T., has
this day been dissolved by m ltual CON
sent.
Dated New Tacoma, VT. July q, 1882
II. W. DELIoN,
2J4w CHARLES \. ENELL.
, 1882-09-01

@ Avs FILED on SHORT NOTICE
- and in iirst-:uIS style. Nv
Port Townsend. NEWELL GERIISH.
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Popular Notions About Death.
New York Sun.

There are two popular notions about
death that, though they contradict one
another, have adherenls throughout
Clristendom 0aeis that what is called
a natural death takes place with the ebh
of the tide; the other, that it occurs af-
ter midnight in what are called the small
hours before dawn The records show,
as might have been expected, that the
Black Rider, who respects neither age
nor worldly condition, is Indifferent in
timing his visits. In this city last week
the greatest number of deaths took
place at III o'clock in the day, when
there were seven; but there we're FIVE
deaths in each of the hours of 8, Al
and 10 o'clock in the morning. and 3. 4,
and.7 O'Clock in the evening. -Four per-
sons died at 5 o'clock, 6, O'Clock, and at
9 o'clock in the morning and at O'Clock
ami 6 o'clock in the evening. aad three
persons died at each of the hours Of l
and 9 o'clock, a. M. and 8, 10 and IL
o'clock, p. m There were ten more
deaths before noon than after it.
More than half of those who died
we're children under five, of summer all.
ments.
Hotels were the scenes of 10 deaths;
institutions, 1S0; tenements, 400. Only
one death on the sixth floor OF a house
is recorded, though there we're l79 on
second floors.
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Health Of the Prince of wales.

There can he no. concealment of the
fact that the British people are anxious
about the health of the Prince of Wales
1t bad been announced that his visit To
'he continent is made at the request Of
his physician, but the fear has been ex-
cited that the condition. of the Prince is
much more serious than that announce
ment was intended to indicate. His
alarming illness few years ago is in
the minds of all the English people as
they now think of their prospective
King, and the knowledge that his luxu-
rious habits are much the same as be-
fore that crisis in his career makes them
profoundly solcitous. The Prince is
forty-one years of age, having been
born about year after his oldest sister,
the present Crown Princess of Germany.
He has been married almost twenty
years, and his wife has been vigilant to
protect his health in everv possible way;
hut his fondness for rich food, grand
balls and late hours, together With the
constant wear Of his public duties
which are lone the less wearing because
thew are somewhat trivial-has affected
his health 30 perceptibly that there is
cause for solIcitude
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A Matrimonial Wonder.


One of the marvels of Saratoga is a
couple from the South. who have been
regular visitors for fourteen seasons
The two have heen married twenty -four
years. hat the wife still addresses the
husband as dear and he still calls her
darling, and is quite as attentive and
deferential 10 her as he is to the wives
of other men. They are both able
and sociable, and fond OF company, bat
they are always together, and always en-
jry everything in common. The weary
husbands who are always inventing some
excuse 10 avoid attendance on their fam
lilies, regard him with unhountled curios-
ity and surprise, while she is gozed at
with uncoHcealed envy by her less fors
tunate sisters. must not omit to add.
however, that this lady is wonderful "
well preserved both as 10 face and figure.
dresses richly and in good taste, and her
husband can take as much pride in her
charms as when she was GOV maiden,
twenty-five years ago. Perhaps it she
had lost her beauty and freshness-but
| will not spoil this little idyl
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what the Ancients Believed.

Arrisn. who fourisheil about the mids
die of the second century of the Chris
tian era. was OF a skeptical frame OF
mind and had q wholesome dis,rust of
the evideEce Of eye-witnesses He ridi-
culed the old stories about ants that dug
up gold, and griffins that guarded the
precious metals, and declared that none
were to be found in those parts of India
that were visited by Alexander and his
officers He describes, however,a learn.
ed, or rather a musical elephant which
'beat upon cym5al while several oth-
ers danced TO his music. Two cymhals
were hung between his forelegs, and one
tied to his prohoscis or trunk He then
striking the cgmbal which was tied to
his trunk against the Others between his
forelegs alternately, the rest Of the ele-
phanis moved round him as in dance,
and lifted up or bowed their bodies as
f,ly and justly as the measure and rea-
son of the sound seemed 10 require, or
as he who played upon the instrument
direcfed." He also speaks, though from
hearsay, of an elephant dying of grief
because it had killed its keeper in mo-
ment of frenz Nearchus, it seems,
bad protested that he once saw the skin
OF tiger, and that the natives averred
that the animal, when alive. was as big
as. a full grown horse, and further, that
it would leap upon an elephant and
strangle it. Tbereupon ATrian remarks
that those he saw we're like speckled
wolves, only a Ii e lar ger, so that he
never saw tiger at all. hut only leop
ard-AHhe' Year Round.
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THE CAVE AT MAUPHELAH.
The Tcmbs of the Patriarchs--Th6
Mummy of Jacob May be Yet
Recovered.
Cincinnati Gazette.

The mosque at Hebron, part of which
was formerly a jewish synagogue, is
built over the cave of Macphelah, where
Ahraham, Lease and Jacob are buried,
and is one of tue most jealousy guarded
of Mosem shrines Up to the Tine 1t
was visited by the Prince Of Wales and
his suite, including Dean Stanley, no
Europeans, save those passing for Mo-
hamedans. had been admitted So great
vas the excitement over granting the
privilege to the Prince and his party that
the streets had to be lined with soldiers.
The visitors did not 90 into the cave,
but only into the mosque above, where
are the so-called tombs OF the patriarchs,
sumptuous structures, but the real graves
are in the cave beneath. Tue other day
the two sons of the Prince of Wales
we're permitted to enter. the mosque and
to look through an opening in the floor
into the cave A letter hy one of the
psrty says: "We chservsd q small
opening in the foor, which is covered
with a piece OF silver. We removed the
cover and let in lanterns 10 discover the
appearance of the vault beneath. We
C uld by this clearly see the pavement
in the cave, which is of polished stones,
OF six or seven ya,ds,each stone in quad
rangle. We evidently saw here the arch
Of stones prepared for passage to go
down to the cave. hut this artificial de-
scending gate is inclosed or blocked up,
so that the whole structure must be re-
moved ere the entrance can be reopened.
From this great chamber we went TO Ja-
cob's and Lesh's tombs, the buildings
upen which are also made in the same
manner as the other pstriarcbs' 1t is
Impossible TO resist the conviction that
the masonry, gigantic as he blocks of
stone and pillars are, must be at least
very ancient. perhaps even OF Jewish
construction"
Macphelah means ''tiouhlc," and about
twenty years ago an Italian reEegada
employed about the mosque followed
high Official down the stairs into the
cave. He was soon discovered and driv.
en- back. but not until he had seen that
its name is arprcp pirate, for it consists
of two parts Ii 1t is ever explored, no
doubt the mummy Of Jacob, at least,
would be found, for he was embalmed in
accordance swith' the IN ,st elaborate art
of the Egyptians ''.'oA
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AHuman Beanstalk.
Pail Mall Gazette.

Jean Condolst has been brought to
Paris as medical curiosity frog the
Haute Caone. According to medical
contributor to a Partisan contemporary,
this youth, aged 10, took a start on the
18th of May, 1881 being then 6 feet 8
high, and found one morning that he
had grown an inch. Every week since
then he has registered himself, and ON
the 14th of September this human bean.
stalk had gained nearly 5 inches; he
grew 5 inches moro before the 20th of
Jsnua'y, 1882. and more before March
Is, AMI he now stanis feet 10 inches.
All this has been accompanied by great
pains in the back, and he stoops consld.
erably; but since last June it is his legs
only that have grown, and his feet are
already "a inches long.
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Translated from the Omnibus: Guest
to lsndlord-"Mr. Landlord, the box
with toothpicks stands again not upon
the table" Observation-Disclosures
there are with me not more" Guest
"Why then not2' Landlord-"Know
you, in former times, then we're the
guests so cultured and stuck the tooth.
picks. after the use, again in the box.
But nowadays takes every man one with.
So much the business can't afford"
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The Virgins Tree at HeliopoIis.
Pail Mall Gazette.

Many traveller has inscribed his
name upon the famous sycamore known
as the Virgins Tree, at Heiiopolis, where
Arab is now throwing mp his intrench-
ments for the defense OF Cairo. The
rude bullets of time, and the embellisha
ments of the tourist have dealt hardly
with its trunk bat its branches are still
furnishing. According TO the legend,
the Virgin and Child once rested under
its friendly shade during the flight 10
Egypt. Another story tells how Mary
concealed herself with the Child in the
hollow OF the trunk, and that kindly
spider so completely covered the open.
ing with its web az totsscreen her etfec-
tusl!y from observation 1t was pre-
sented by the Khedive to the Empress
Engenie at the opening of the canals
The unfortunate part Of tbe story is that
The tree now shown as the real article
was not planted until about 1872. the
tree Of the fable having died natural
death in 1865
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A Protective Tariff on Watermel-

sHow are the colored voters con- ing
on, out on Onion Creek ?"asked an Aus
tin candidate of darkey with load Of
hay
"Dar's a hesp oh sickness out dar
among de colored folks
"What is it, malaria ?"
81 reckon dat's de name of de stuff
Hit am sumfn what he got from de drug
gerry shop" ea
"What stuff are you talking about ?"
"De stuff what white man out dar
puts in his watermillins to keep de col.
ored folks from mistskiu' 'em for da
own watermilins."
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CLASS R-Fruits
APPLES

Best varieties Autumn apples; best va
rieties sweet apples; best varieties for family
use best 4 varieties for market, 81 each.
Largest and best display of apples grown by
exhibitor. number of varieties and quality con-
sidered. 81. 5e
Best plate of Belmont; best plate of 5 Ben
Davis: best plate of Bently Sweet best plate
of Failawascr: best plate of Grimes Col
den; best plate of Hubbardians Nonesuch;
best plate of 5 Greetings; best plate of Rus
sets: best plate of 8 Romantics; best plate of 5
Rome Beauty: bast plate of s Roxbury Rus
sets best plate of s Smith Cider; best plate of
5 Winter Pearmain; best plate of five Northern
Spy; best plate of Fall Pippins; best plate of
5 Siberian crab apples, 25 cents each.
PEACHES.
Best plate of peaches one variety, soc
best plate Crawford's Early, 25c
" Crawford's Late, 25c.
PEARS.
Best specimens of each variety of pears,
if approved by committee. 20c
best plate of pears, quality and beauty to
rule. 25c
best varieties for general cultivation, SOC.
PLUMS, OUNCES ANe GRAPES.
Best display of each good variety of plums
if approved by committee; best display of
plums; best plate Of ounces; best bunches of
each approved variety of grapes 25c each.
Committee-Dr A B Covert, Fritz Shaub.
John Beardmore. N Garden, A D briggs.
CLASS s.
Best half busbel wheat, best half bushel rye,
best half bushel spring barley, best half bushel
fall barley. best half bushel Indian corn, best
half bushel oats. best peck fax seed. best peck
timothy seed, best peck clover seed, best three
pounds tobacco lspangled), best pounds of
tobacco Cred), best pounds tobacco yellow
each 75c
Best peck Irish potatoes. sweet potatoes,s seed
corn, white beans, 8 pounds hops, half kushel
buckwheat, watermelon, muskmelon, radishes,
wax beans, l2 carrots 10 parsnips, oyster plants,
mustard Lima beans, heads Of cabbage, half
bushel turnips, IL heotss peck tomatoes. 3 win
ter squashes. winter or 7-year pumpkin, {
heads cauliaower, IL cutumbers, vegetable
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egg plant. pepper and stalk. celery, parsley pie
plant, ruta bagas, peas not less than pint each
kind, 3 squashes, 8 oitrcns. top onions. yams,
% cents each.
Committees D Ford, John Burbacher
John Moore, John Cooper, William Martin.
FIELD CROPS.
Best 2 aces wheat. $40
best acres corn (bottom), 10
best , acres (hill). 10
best 2 acres oats, 10
best acres hay. 10
est acre of tobacco. 1U
best quarter of an acre potatoes,
Measurment of the ground must be made
and sworn to by competent surveyor, and the
amount produced must be sworn to by some
one having knowledge of the amount. A full
statement of the method of cultivation and
cost of prod ction must accompany each entry.
Kind and quality must be stated. Entries
may be made with the Secretary to December
1, 1882.
EQUESTRANISM.
Lady rider. 1st prem So 81. 81
Five to enter to start One hour of the
third day of the Fair will be devoted to Eques
tranism. The committee will decide emily with
competitor and her command of the horse. Nc
racing will be allowed.
Boy rider 1st prem So ID, 81
Same conditions as for lady riders.
COMMITTEES to be selected on the ground.
| Discretionary premiums will be awarded on
meritorious articles, whether in the list OIL
not
FOOT RACING.
Man race So. Boys under 16 years of age 81
Five entries and to start (once around ring
Committee Fritz Reef, Chas. Lauenstein
D. Okey. W. F. Hunter, J, P. Spriggs..
MULE RACE.
To go under the saddle, best 9 in 8, three
rounds to the heat. Premium $3 and 50. NJ
owner will be permitted to ride his own mule
The mule winning two heats by coming Out
behind in each to be awarded the first prem.
Committee-Jas. Gatehell, P. Schumacher
jr.. II. r. West, T. o. Little. A. j. Pearson.
JAMES WATSON, President.
GEO P. DoRR Secretary.
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Farm for Sale.

r oFFRR FOR SALE BIoHPY..THREE
ACRES of land, in Center township,
one mile from town. Terms moderate. Eu-
suire of Elizabeth. D. Craig, Executor Of
William Crsg.W ocdsfeld, Ohio. jyIl,S2tf
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NOTARY PU Lie

TWIN undersigned, having been appointed
Notary Public, would inform his
friends, and the public generally. that he is
prepared to 6il Pensioners Blanks. admin
isssr Oaths, take Dispositions, acknowledge
Deeds, Mortgages and other instruments Of
vritino. JOHN JBFFERS.
sprlsjS7sS 3esllsvills. Monroe Co ohio
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A hot-tempered man is like a loaded
gun with hair-trigger. You don't
want to go near it, for the lightest touch
will mako it go off and kill some one.
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CLASS @.

Best mountain cake, silver cake. gold cake
pound cake fruit cake. jelly cake. lemon cake.
rusks. 25c each; loaf homemade bread, yeast
rising with receipt for making. 6 loaves ba-
ker's bread loaf homemade bread, salt rising.
with receipt for making 550c each; blackberry
wine, current wine. eidsrberry wine each va
riety grape wine any other domestic wine, 25c
each; pouuds butter, cheese, 9 hams meat,
box of honey SOC each, S pounds maple sugar,
jar lard, peck dried apples peck dried peaches
gallon dried corn gallon each of other dried
fruits, 25c each.
Committee-P Schumacher. Jr, Mrs. Geo.
Tillman. Mrs Henry Brown, Mrs Mary M Tip
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GLASS B.
GLASS C-Thoroughbred

Best stallion any age .............10
Best brood mare with foal at side. 10
Persons exhibiting thoroughbred animals
will be required to furnish pedigrees of the
animals to be exhibited to the secretary at
the time of making the entry. and dupli
cate to the member of the Board in charge
when the animals are exhibited to the com
mittee.
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