, 1884-01-24

room Tor a hungr4Cr set. Sublime
reasoning.
NEw PRESIDENT - Robert Harris.
Vice Preiidcnt of the Erie Railroad
Company, WAS elected President of
the Northern Pacific yesterday 18th
inst. Harris accepted. He was
fomeriE connected with the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy.
We publish today a lengthy review
of the recent Ohio senatorial contest.
as taken from an eastern journal. Il
penning an editorial on the subject
yesterday, We covered about thesa
points as those in the review. though
we did not see the latter till afterwlrd.
1t expresses our ideas fully.
1t has been telegraphed from Utah
that mormon who had three wives
went and hanged himself after read
ing Gov. Murray's message. That Is
worse than the minister who is re
ported to have talked his dog to
death. However, it Is not stated
whether the message or the wives
drove the poor man to suicide. Some
men can hardly live with one wife.
1t Will be gratifying news to Puget
Sound people that the new manage
ment of the Northern Pacific has Civ
en- orders to construct the Cascade
branch of that road at an early date.
Our people have looked long and
anxiously for railway connection
across the Cascades. Let it be built.
and the beneficial effects cannot fail
to be felt at once in all branches o.
business.
In eastern Washington the news
papers are very sensibly concluding
to abandon their suicidal policy OF
cutting subscription rates. People
expect so much from newspapers IN
this age that it is well nigh impossi-
BILE to bring a public journal up to
leading position without enormous
expense, and to meet this drain a
corresponding revenue must be de
rived from some source, otherwise it
is certaiu that printers bills will be
come uncomfortable. No class OF
public laborers do more for public
good, ordinarily, than editors and
publishers, and no class. as a rule.
are paid less in proportion to the la
Dor performed.
The Seattle Herald came man
fully to the fore on the question o.
using quotations from foreigl
languages. Our shot must have hit
where it hurt, as the squirming wou d
indicate. Bro. Gordon says, in one
sentence, that he doesn't use Latin or
French in the sense indicated by our
criticism, farther on he tells u that
he is justifable in so doirg, or
words to that effect. We have con
cluded, in the language of an Arkan-
sas jury, that he is not guilty, bu
that he mustn't do 1t again. He has
heretofore affected such exalted su-
periority over poor country editors
that We ventured to humbly pCi-t
out some of his own failings. II b s
last he says: ''if the Deity had en-
dowed the editor of the Argus with
smattering of Latin and n soup con
of French" &c. In our school days
a knowledge of those languages v;s
always acquired by study instead of
coming through endowment. B,
then the Herald man may have le-
ceived his knowledge in that diIe =
ton directly from above. 1t is ctr-
tainiY something awful to behold.
SHALL We Do IF?-As intimated here
tofore in these columns, the time has
come when Port Townsend busin,s,
men must see to it that all the trad.
naturally tributary to this place i,
concentrated here If we sit in idle
ness and suffer trade to be diverted Il
other channels we shall be the losers
no matter who is to blame. Captain
Beecher refuses to carry the mai
through twice week to Sem;ahno
alleging that he cannot perform til,
service. The reason he cannot is ap
parent to any person who stops t.
consider that he goes through to Sc
attic every week A suitable steamer
making its headquarters here, can 20
to Semiahmoo twice a week, easily
enough. We learn that such on
can be had. and that If Port Town
send business men encourage the mat.
ter they can force the trade whore
naturally belongs. Another thing
freights down among the islands are
largely carried through on the eas
side boats. the goods being bough
in Seattle. People between here and
Semiahmoo would generally prefer
to purchase their goods IN Port
Townsend. but they have to pay 81 p
ton for having the same freighted tc
them. while on the other side they get
it all the way from Seattle for SO
cents and 81 per ton. Shall we allow
this to continue, or,will We eacou age
Capt. Tom Wright to put on the
Eliza Anderson?