The Republican journal., 1885-02-19

OCEAN CIRoNICI.E. We acknowledged last week
receipt of the Ocean Chronicle of Jan. 27 from
Liverpool, at which port ship Frank Pendleton,
Capt. l.. II. Nichols, had arrived from san Frances
co. Mrs. Nichols contributes to this number an in
tereStng letter. captioned Around the Earth
AGAIN" The ship left New York Oct. IA, 1855 for
Yokohama, thence sailed for Victoria arriving at
that port May 9TH 1854, aiteI passage of 26 day s.
The ship chartered to load coal at Departure
Bay for san Francisco, remained at the Bay 81
day arrived at san Francisco June Oth and sal
ed from san Francisco Aug. 9th. Mrs Nichols
writes
From san Francisco, we went to Magdalena Bay,
arriving there after fine passage of ten DAYS
ha&daiena Bay is III Lower California, and is I,
part OF Mexico. There are about one hundred in.
nab!talts, the most OF which are native MeNicans.
The Spanish language is principally spoken We
were there thirty five days and the time dragget,
slowly, u me at least, there was not one tng III
speaking lady there. There several ladies'
Who called on me, and should have enjoyed their
company more had We been able to talk but fancy
couple OF ladies being togo Their for an hour and
not be able to understand word that either might
say; hope never TO be placed again. 1t /. said
mat there Is never any rain there, hut never saw
IL ram hardcr imam 1t did Tor nearly twenty four
hours ana should have enjoyed it much had it not
been accompanied by IA heavy gale. There is no
vegetation whatever ON the island. the soil being
dry and parChet,-a real desert
We got away from Mag'iaeni BAY ON the nth of
sept and truly thankful was to again get started
toward Il cooler atmosphere, and leave the hot
o"cIterlng place behind. We mate very Slow
progress the first twenty days, and it seemed as
though Rerer sh0uid get away from that s,orrh
ing heat of the sun, but as all things have an end
SO dld this, amt we are now little past Cane
Horn, with not IA complaint to make of warm
weather.
We have the channel to dread now, but will hone
Tor lhe best. Hoping to hear from you ON our ar.
rival at Liverpool, will now wish YOU all Good
day.
Tie editor, writing at sea, and not knowing the
result of the Presidential election, has something to
say on Polly Ticks;
We have no politics of our own at present. but
whoever squats in the Presidential Chain will
probably soon forget all the fair promises made
prior TO election political patfori is like The,
blocks on which ships Keel is laid they are of
great benefit in building, but on launching day
election eay-they are cut ont and thrown aside
when on goes the ship feeling as little influence.
from the blocks on which she was built, as the
pc luclan does from the platform on which he was
elected.
II we did not think that b. F. b. might walk of
with the cake we would strike of two OF three
hundred copies of prOphesy. to who will be
elected, In one half of them we would say
"Blaine," i'll the other half, "Cleveland" so that
when we arrived and found out who was "electrl.
hed'' we would circulate his lot to show how much
we knew But the best way will be for Us to let
politics alone; nothing good can come out of it
Politicians strained themselves when they passed
the 'DlnSey Bill,' bill good of Itself had not the
enforcement been too hasty Fifty thousand sail.
or5 scattered over the u. 5. and eight trnths of
them i'll debt from twenty to fifty ,i0liars-Was
there any reason or any justice, in passing a law
that those men who We're owing money, should
have the only way they had of paying their debts,
taken from them without making some provision
to enable them TO secure their creditors? How
ever, the blil is good in many ways and il step in
the right direction
Well, AS before said, have no choice in poli.
ucs, and do not pretend to say who is the best
candidate, and Old Polly Ticks herself does not give
any of us much anxiety just at present, as we
y,1ts
the wind two points east of south, for after being
twelve days in making $50 miles and then have The
wind still hang south, we feel rather insignificant
and would sell out cheap. We feel conf lent that
either Blaine, Cleveland, or Butler viii be elected :;
also confident that it will make but little difference
to us which ii is.
The Ocean Chronicle has a department headed
Succotash from which we clip the following items
nnie and Maude, did Santa find you, He found
oracle ana she wondered how he got on board.
Although the 5 Z. trades We're very unfa vorable,
we had IA fair passage from the Cape to the equator
20 days.
Crossed the equator Dec H. making the fifty
fourth time. Thirty times in the Atlantic
nine IN the Pacific, and eight in the Indian Ocean
Wen, Frank, how does the snow fly this winter?
hope you will keep our street well shovellcd out
so that Charles can take that baby out to ride.
Our imagination carries us into p Us store where
we see the usual company gathered as of Old; YES
at $50 we have you all located and fancy we hear a
cry, Z" GiUe as ten"
Whether we shall go New York from Liver
VIZ say, uut Snouiu IL cntncG TO
DE Cardln, we shall want to see jones'" shall we
not, Fred? We hope for n. Y. via. Rio SO friend
Lage, look out for u.s.
No doubt the girls will murmur, and object to
having the year 1900 pass without having Il 18th Of
Feb 1t will be rather hard for girls who are about
eighteen in 1896 as they cannot help themselves I'M
til 1904. This will have to be Photographed OH many
times before 1900 SO the o. c. will lead off
Oracle wishes us to tell Mamie and Maude that
she has got her squares for patch quilt all fin
ished and intends to have quilting when she gets
home; that when she commenced, it took her one
week to make the first square, then two a week,
making two day.