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Examination.

A meeting of the county board Of eI-
aminers will be held at the public school
house in Port Townsend on Wednesday,
February 13, 1884, beginning at 9 A. n,
for teachers certificates. R. @. Kerr
and Miss Cora I. Bash will sit with Il Q
undersigned as such board OF examiners.
J. J. CALHOUN,
Supt Jefferson County Schools.
Port Townsend. Jan. 80, 1884.
, 1884-02-07

Feb. Tugs Goliah and Tacoma re-
turned from the cape last evening.
Tug Goliah reports having spoken the
British ship Howard D. Troop from San
Francisco for Port Blakeley; also the
bark Don Nicholas for Departure Bay,
from San Francisco.
s. s. walia Walla, bound for Seattle
from San Francisco, arrived this morn
ing.
Tug Goliah will tow bark Sycamore,
lumber laden from Port Ludl w for San
Francisco to sea this evening.
, 1884-02-07

Fall lines Misses and Children's Wool
en- and Cashmere Hose at Gersop &
Aerer's
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XOTICE.-Liberal commissions Will be allow ed
u LIVE, RESPONSIBLE persons VINO Will act
Subscription Agents for either publication II any
yo-I ONCE in the United Stale \ copy OF either
paper viii De mailed regularly TO any person Who
VII send u occasional news ltem- from his or her
oeaIity. Sample copies sent free on application.
, 1884-02-07
TeIe graphic.
rorter.- Bill Passes the House.
win Recommend Forfeiture.

WASHINGTON, Feb 1.-The House has
passed the Fitz John Porter b'll by lS4
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Jan. 30.-Sailed bark Northwest, Capt
Magoune, towed out by stmr Addie;
bound for San Francisco.
Sailed-Schooner Queen, Capt W.
Bryant, bound for s. +.
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FurS Tanned.

Any one having Fur Skins they wish
TO have Dressed can have them done in
about twelve days by sending them to
Waterman & Katz's Saddle and Harness
Shop at once. G. ". BLAKE, Ag't.
d8-dw-tf Port Townsend, W. 7
, 1884-02-07
Black Silks,

Remember that ths best cigars in town
are a. the City Cigar Store
, 1884-02-07

Jan 31-Tug q olyokc arrived from the
cape tins morning. She reports having
anchored the ship Challenger bound To
Departure Bay, at Port Angeles, while
she returned here to clear. and left this
morning to tow her to above loading
port.
The Holyoke reports having seen two
barks supposed to be the Don Nicholas
and Enoch Talbot; both buuud to De-
parture Bay, also ship, bktue. and
schooner.
, 1884-02-07
NOTICE.

The Treasurer Of Clalam County, ". T, will
pay on presentation all warrants drawn On The
County Treasurer of said County prior TO and in
Guiding No 81 issue OF 1882. No Interest will be
allowned sfreI the 18th day OF February, 1884
JOHN THORNTON,
Treasure of Clalarn Co., W T.
Treasurer's Once. Cialam Co,
Washington Territory, Jan. g. AID 1854
, 1884-02-07
The Chinese Bill.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 30.-A meeting OF
the house committee on foreign affairs
was held this morning, at which John
L. Lamb, of Indiana, chairman of the
subcommittee to- consider the bill
amending the Chinese exclusion act,
made a report on that measure. and re-
C 'mmended its favorable reference to
the house. The slb- committee, besides
Mr.. Lamb, consists of Eaton of Connecti-
cut and Rice of Massachusetts. Eaton
joined Lamb in his recommends lion,
but Rice made a minority report, the
synopsis of which Was sent yesterday.
The majority report Is brief, covering
only few pages of legal cap. 1t sets
forth that the present law was intended
to exclude Chinese labOrers from the
United Ttates for tea years, and that il
has not done SO. There Is given no
reason why the bill prepared by the Pa
ciic coast delegation should be passed
The report advorta to recent decisions of
the courts III relation to the law, and
without commenting on the constIuc-
tIons placed upon it, asserts that it Is
plain that additional legislation Is neces-
>ary to give effect to the will of congress.
The subcommittee made several amend
ment, only one of which is material
This inserts the word knowingly" Whole
IT was stricken out In one of the last sec.
tions and provides that shipmasters
guilty of bringing Chinese to the United
States, in violation of the provisions of
the exclusion act, shall be convicted and
tiued only when knowingly guilty OF
such violation. The committee
holds to the justice of inserting SUCH
amendment in the main body of the act.
RIcE's MINORITY REPORT.
Rice of Massachusetts,, who has pre-
pared a minority report against the pas
sage of the Chinese hill favored by ma
iurity of the foreign affairs sub comittee
says: 1t is admitted by those WHO are
most persistently demanding supple
mental legislation that the danger from
fraudulent immigration of Chinese is in-
considerable. he San Francis CO Chron-
icie, for instance, says that whereas the
importation of Chinese before adoption
of the treaty were 800 they now do not
exceed sixty-six per month. and of these
at least one half are fraudulent Admit
ting that one-half are fraudulent, OF
which there Is not proof, thu total num-
Der of Chinese fraudulently imported to
| the Pacific coast during the next ten
years would not exceed 300. The num-
ber is not SO great as to cali for legisla-
ton which might involve IA I'D serions
complications with other governments
than China, and which is clearly in con-
tr.ventiou of our treaty with China it
self. The proposed law goes further, and
would prohibit entrance into this coun-
try not only of all Chinanen from ports
of China where they could not comply
with the restrictive provisions of the bill,
but of all Chinese persons. from what
aver I.nrt of China they may come
, 1884-02-07
NOTICE.

On and after this date the Puget Sound
Iron Co.. a corporation existing under
the laws OF California, and doing bust.
ness at Irondale, Jefferson county, Wash.
ington Territory, will not be responsible
for any bills contracted by any collier
burning coal for this Company, nor &C.
cept any orders from them.
JAMES l.. SMITH. Acting Supt.
Irondale. W. T.. Jan. 18th. 1884.
, 1884-02-07
SHIPPING NEWS.

Feb. 4.-Arrived-Scho hooner Neptune,
Capt. w. q. Martin, % days fr IN San
Pedro; loads lumber at Port Gamble for
Oakland, Cal.
Arriyed-Schr John G.North, Capt, c.
J. Moore, 81 days from San Pedro; wait
ing orders.
Arriyed-Brig Levi Stevens, Capt. J.
A. johnson, ~ from san Diego; loads
lumber at Tacoma for >an Diego, Cal.
The Goliah reports schooner III the
straits.
The Ocean steamer Queen OF the Pa
citic arrived about mIunIgnt Saturday
night. We are indebted To the purser
and to the whartinger, ii. l.. Tibbals, Jr,
for customary favors The Queen brought
I46 passengers and 7o3 tons - freight,
distributed lis follows: Victoria, 40 pas
seugers and 3OO tons of freight; Port
townsend, 3 passengers anu 69 tons; Be-
a.tie, 6S passengers and 245 tons; 1aco-
ma, ~ passengers. I2u tons; Olympia,
passengers, Al tons. Her passengers for
this port were: s. Hadluck, h. Lacy
and w. NJ. Chase. Her consignees here
are: A CLlark, Discovery, pkg; q G
b K Co, 2lS; + Heuschober, 3; Gerson d
Myer, 4; ii L. IIbbals, Jr, l. 1 . Kallocn,
New Whatcom, /; j Hunt, I;Z + Ford,
/. Jackman Il Terry, Il; j L Brown, 4;
JAS Jones, Il; Latimer u Co, IL; NJ Pey-
ser, 3, Mrs Landes, /; Norris & IL
hams, IS; z s l 20, Irundale, 699; p b 4
L, 8; Z q b, 3U7; s lladlOck, 2;Water
man & Katz, ~, n p Ex Co, 1; ", T &
Go, /.
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Unclaimed Letters.

List of letters and postal cards wholly
written third and fourth class matter, re-
naming in the postofiice unclaimed Feb.
lst, 1884:
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AGENTS AT
FCGBT sOCSD.

Dec q Brit ship Kin: NCo
taIgo Value, for Ranismo
Dec Norwegian bk TIansbad 5s from ACo
cargo Eaue S457 ~ for
Ssh5O II tngd ana grooVd ?Ff SO
Jan Am hp John MOO
Cargo 29lS3 and Value stSO5 10 Valparaiso
Jan 81 Brit bark Highland Glen Nae
Jan. 81, ship Nphon ASH Co
trough
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES +:

,Iss veal. .. Sg.bJ Three mouths. =. y
81 GlOuta- ...... 5.Un one mOuth........ I.H
IN Advance.
, 1884-02-07

O.r.l advertising rates furnished on application.
, 1884-02-07
H. H. & J. r. LEWIS.

A60rnoyssa6.ha~.
esFlCE-Butler's Building, rooms and 5,
DANES street, opposite Occidental Hotel.
SEATTLE. wAsHISGToH TEERIIogY.
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Vermin in the Hen House.

One of the obstacles to keeping poul-
try in summer is vermin. AS soon as
the fowls become infested with lice they
cease to lay. Even young chicks, if they
have lice, do not grow, and the flock
becomes debilitated and subject to dis
ease. 1t may be supposed that lice are
easily driven away, but such is not the
case. In fact, to drive them away is one
thing, and to keep them away is another.
AS there are several kinds of lice any
one remedy will not answer. The prin-
clpal pest in the day time is the small
tiny fellow, that is scarcely seen, and
who hides himself in the closest portion
OF the feathers, and prays necessarily on
the poor bird. This kind multiplies so
rapidly that in few days the whole
body becomes covered, and the quarters
in which the fowls stay are usually over
run with them. The best method of
dealing with these minute insects is to
use hot white-wash, into which a table
spoonful of carbolic acid has been poured,
or, if carbolic acid is not convenient, use
Lawford's Chemical Fluid. The fluid
itself is excellent when added to clear
water, but white-wash is better, as it
gives cleanliness. There is another kind
Of lice that hide in the day time and
come forth at night. They worry the
fowls so they cannot rest, and as soon as
daylight appears repair to their hiding
places again, as they belong to the
chinch, or bed-bug family. 1t is neces-
sary to dislodge them, to pour boiling
solutions of carbolic acid or the Lawford
fluid profusely into the cracks and
crevices before withdrawing, and the
roosts should receive particular atten-
ton.
1t is unnecessary to state that lice
come from filth. Accumulated drop
pings are the source of propagation, and
the heat of summer causes the lice to
multiply to large numbers in a few days.
If good dust bath be provided the fowls
will keep themselves clean, but unless
the quarters are kept free from the YER
min, the fowls are helpless. Coal oil is
excellent, butts continued use saturates
The wood, thereby rendering it easily
,ombustible. White-wash, plentifully
applied, is the best remedy Farm and
Garden.
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s--&A1 y 20 1ff11 RIM III CfCC
trio railway. The difference Of altitude
between the two hotels is $50 metres,
and few days ago the system which it
is proposed to adopt was put to an expe-
rimental test. Rails of gauge of so
centimetres, were laid ON part of the
mountain for length of so metres, and
with a gradient of 80 to the 100. Be-
tween the rails is rack for the recep-
ton of toothed wheel, and at each end
is a curve in order to show the advan-
tage of the proposed system over the
funicular system, which does not admit
OF the slightest curve. The wagon car
ries dynamo-electric machine, which,
actuates by special gearing a toothed
wheel on the axle III connexion with the
rack between the rails. An electric and
an ordinary brake enable the conductor
to modify the rapidity of descent at plea
sure. The electricity was produced for
the occasion, and in the first instance,
by dynamo-electric machince of five
horse power, actuated by portable en-
CINE. This engine it is intended to re-
place eventually by turbine, for which
there is an ample supply of water. The
apparatus for the transmission of cleo
trio force to the receiver on the wagon
consists of copper cables laid between
the rails and alongside the rack, and the
electric contact is established through
the intermediary of mechanical brushes
in the usual way. The carriage, in which
were seated two, three, and sometimes
four persons, the whole, including the
carriage, representing weight of from
800 to 500 Kilograms, went up the steep
incline at the rate of from | metre to
metres per second, and the descent
was completely controlled by the ingen-
ious combination of the two brakes. In
the event of the project being carried
into effect, which depends to some ex-
tent on the approval of the Federal Gov
eminent, the journey between the two
hotels may be performed in seven or
eight minutes. AS, moreover, water is
plentiful in Switzerland, there is no rea-
son why every fashionable mountain
should not have its own particular cleo
trio railway, and the time may come
when idle or infirm tourists will ride
luxuriously across the Mer de Glaze and
and carried on wheels half way up the
Jungfrau and the Matterhorn. Already
the people at Geneva encouraged by the
success of the experiment at Territet
Chillon (Montreux) are proposing to
utilize the waters of the Arve for the
ascent of the Saleve. But what will Mr..
Ruskins say ?"-English Exchange.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
THE TAMPA LAND AGENCY,
FL. LaPenOtiere, Manager,

VIII take pleasure in corresponding with
paries desiring to invest in this pleasant
and healthy town and neighborhood.
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Y ees are grated, some bear poorer fruit
than others. A real good orange from
Guatemala is finer than those from the
coast, grown in really tropical climate;
for although the latter are large and very
sweet, with fine skin, they are not equal
in flavor to the Guatemala fruit, grown
where it is ever cool. Therefore gen
tleman who moved to Domingo Lamayor
and has a large sugar plantation near
Escuintla, where he has many orange
trees intermixed with cocoanut palms,
wanted me to bud them with good vari-
cites from Guatemala, but could not do
so for want of time.
The growth of orange trees in Gaute-
mala is about the same as in California
They begin to fruit in from seven to ten
years, according to situation, care and
ground. Although they will grow from
cuttings, they are generally raised from
seed, and IN many cases they come up by
themselves, and one only need to put
them where they are wanted. The trees
do not seem as much afflicted with dis
ease as here, for, Notwithstanding bad
ground and treatment, they seldom per-
ish as they do here; if they do, it is from
other causes, as the orange tree has
many enemies. One of them is the
white worm. The worst of all is a large
red ant, called the somDOpO, which has
its nest eight, ten, or more feet under
ground. They work in the day and at
night, and are most troublesome in the
rainy season. In one night, or in few
hours, fine, large tree is sometimes
cleaned of all its foliage, flowers and
small fruit, which the ants carry home.
There are thousands of different worms
and insects, injurious to plants, but the
white worm and sompOp0 are the most
destructive OF all. The nests of the SOM
p0po, which are sometimes very difficult
to find, are very deep and extensive.
They look almost like little villages with
many chambers filled with eggs and
young ones. Each chamber contains
several winged ants very much larger
than the others; some of them are more
than an inch long, and about one-fourth
of an inch in diameter. The Indians
eat them raw and roasted. They swarm
in certain time of the year, like bees,
to form new nest. In some of the
chambers, a coral snake or its eggs is
often found. The Indians call it "the
mother of the Sompopos."
There are several varieties of oranges.
The sour orange is generally used to fla
vor meats, soups, etc., and is sold at a
higher price than the sweet ones. OF the
latter varieties, some have light yellow
ish flesh and are not SO nice and sweet as
those which are darker colored Some
have an exceedingly thin skin, and are
usually large and very sweet when well
ripened, these come from Escuintla or
similar very warm places. They are not
so highly favored as those grown in
more temperate climate. There is kind
Of sweet lemon called 'flinad," which is
rather insipid aud coarse, but commands
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The Orange Tree as grown in the
Tropics.

In the tropics the orange tree is plant
ed and grown like all other fruit trees,
without care, and even generally without
order. The fruit of course would be
much superior when grown with more
care, and better treatment. The rainy
season in Central America lasts about
six months, from the middle of April
until the middle of October. In this
season the fields get crowded with weeds
of all description, which in general are
not cut down, but allowed to dry up,
after the dry season begins, from the
middle of October until the middle of
April. 1t never receives drop of water
during the dry season, and as the mois-
ture in part has been taken out by the
many weeds allowed to remain, the trees
look in many places quite withered at
the end OF the dry months, so that
leaves and fruit begin to shrivel. AT
least this | observed very often round
the capital at Guatemala, but as soon as
the first rain comes the trees regained
their natural beauty although the fruit
always suffers and does not become per-
feet The capital of Guatemala is be-
tween 1000 and 5000 feet high, the air
in consequence pretty rare, and it never
becomes very warm, but remains almost
equal the whole year round. 1t seems
the average heat there is not enough to
ripen peaches and even apples to perfec-
ton. Melons never do well for it is not
warm enough. The really warm season
lasts about two months, from March
until May, afterwards the heavy rains
will keep the atmosphere and ground
always cool. From December until
FEBRUARY the thermometer often ranges
near the freezing point; and even on one
occasion about three years ago, we had
real black frost in Guatemala, and heavy
frost in Amiga, q miles from Guatemala
at the foot Of the water volcano, where
many of the coffee plantations froze to
the ground, and will only give the first
crop this year. The ground round Gau-
te1nala is black stiff adobe, or a yell
lowish adobe mixed with sand called tai
petate, and the first generally is succeeded
by the last at depth of one and half to
two feet. In some places, nevertheless,
you may find veryf fine black sandy loan,
always only one or two feet deep, used |
in Guatemala for the gardens. The |
adobe ground is very little apt to keep |
moisture, and moreover where the evap |
Grafton is greater in consequence of the I
high situation here. Those countries
would be the driest and most miserable
countries in the world were it not for the
SIX months heavy tropical rains.
The orange trees are in fine growing
in spite of poor soil, no culti-
Vation, a great quantity OF water one
half the year and none at all the other
xix months. They. may be called ever
gearing, for they are covered with fruits |
Ad bloom the year round, much more
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THE FLORIDA

higher price than oranges. The orange
like nearly all tropical fruit, is sold very
cheap. They are generally sold on the
trees at one dollar-about eighty cents
in gold-a thousand, and cheaper in
some aces.-Erchange.
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An Electric Mountain Railway.

" A project has been formed" writes
a correspondent, tand will, in all proba-
bility, shortly be executed for uniting
the Hotel DIES Alpes, at Territet Chillon,
and the Hotel de Mont Fleury, whichfs
situated on the steep mountain side
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-18
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE Congregational Church at Grinnel Ia has a
pew named for Wendell Phillips and set apart for the
use of colored people.
KING HUMBERT sent diamond bracelet to Celia
Garibadis youngest daughter the occasion of her
marriage TO Prof. Grazialdi, recently,
THE large arm chair used by Wendell Phillips at
the unwilling of the statue of Harriet Martneau is to
be suitably inscribed with his name and the date of
his last public speech
FREETRADER HURD of Toledo, o. has a round
head and he his collar low his throat that
no one can accuse him of having it at halfm He
is forty.three years old.
GOVERNOR GRANT is said to be the most scholarly
and cultivated man in Colorado When young man
he graduated from Heidelberg and afterwards from
the school of mines at Lubbock.
Mr.. THORN, an American student in Berlin is said
to have the most elegantly fitted up bachelor apart
is in the city, and he entertans in way that
tonishes the economical swells of Bismarckvle.
THE Yazoo City Herald calls its party in Yazoo
county, Miss the 'unconquerableiron-mu
hear-of oak steel -pointednever- say-ie Democracy"
The Democracy of Yazoo is unquestionably the pure
article.
FREDERICK HARRISON, the Positvist has art
Gle in the Nineteenth Century on 1.-THE Ghost of Re
ligon." He declares that agnoscism is not a religion
and that to introduce Postvist services with
and hymns is sheer nonsense.
COLONEL ROBERT G. INGERsobL, who is credited
with losing somewhat 500, 900 in New Mexico
mining hopes to do better in cattle investments He
says that ex-senator Dorseys ranch is he finest he
saw. The Colonel owns an interest in it.
STATIONERY cranks buy envelopes Of
white veum bound all around with satin riSLop and
sealed with white wax 1t is sad TO think that the
effect must often be injured by bad spelling and worse
use of the kings English in the Enclosed letters
QUEEN VICTORIA. in her recent book remarks that
the late Principal Canpbels prayer at the unwilling
of the Albert statue in Aberdeen very long" A
Scotch religious journal after due inquiry, announces
that the prayer which the Queen objected to very
long" lasted just five minutes.
THE Russian poet Polonsi deems it important to
make public that the late Tourguenef actually ter
rible toilet He rose very early to spend hours in
bathing himself in mixture of water and cologne,
passed long time in arranging and rearranging his
hair using several sizes and patterns Of combs and
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CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

In the older term Abyssinia was included with
Ethiopia or the Soudan. There now stands at Axum
an obelisk which it is claimed, Ham erected at once
mark his division of the world and record the food
Though the Abyssinians wofully fallen from their
iGh estate, they yet retain some better evidence Of
civilizai~' and personal Independence than the Sou
danites for tie old civilization of Ethiopia has re-
lapsed into barbafism-Chcago Inter Ocean.
TAXATION only for he purpose of raising revenue
aid any body of men In bringing abo,,S this siu1t %
suit" That is Mr.. Carlisle That is what he has al
ways been in his utterances this subject II ex-
presses exactly the position of the Democracy on the
tariff 1t formulates the principle which they arc
fighting for and will fight for until is The Alorr
bill is the first step in the grand march toward
this constitutional tariff for revenue onlyLouisyille
Courer-Journa.
SAYS the New York World concerning the Tasker
incident: IF Congress hasn't the right to express
respect and admiration for deceased statesmen who
had been identified with the cause of liberal govern
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free from all possible danger of a smallpox
epidemic, and has kept the city not only
healthy, but in a perfect sanitary condition,
some short-sighted people, whom 'twere flat
terry to call men of sense, have ''quarantined'
against u.s. There could be nothing more
silly and contemplate. There is no more
danger in coming to indianapolis now than
there ever was, and there is not half so much
danger as there is in visiting the larger cities
by which indianapolis is surrounded. Indi-
annapolis is one of the exceptionally healthy
cities Of the country.