, 1886-07-08
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who take turns in administering Ear-
egoric.
Japan has just had built ia Eng
land two of the fastest and most for
midable cruisers atioat.
The River and Harbor bill has been
stretched out until it asks for twenty
mill ons. 1t would better get vac
ciaated against the veto.
In the National museum at Wash
ington there is pike that belonged
to John Brown. and the rifle taken
from Jefferson Davis when he was
captured. They are labeled The
beginning and the end of the war"
A paper down in Maine solemnly
warns the London Times to be care
ful how it insults Blaine, for it MY
be insulting the next President of the
United States. Is this a threat that
this country viii go to war with the
Times?
The Washington Post implores
congress to do something for coast
defense and a navy before it adjourns.
Unfortunately congress is filed with
men who don't live on any coast, and
dou't know a man-of-war from a
Washington landlady.
Maine democrats blush with slight
embarrassment when asked to explain
this plank in their platform: Re
solved, that we favor all legislation
which will tend to the equal distrihu-
tIon of property" Any who wish,
can distribute without waiting for
Legislation.
Mr. Meeker intends to visit the
various cities of the territory shortly
in the interest of transferring Wash
ington territory's exhibit, recently at
New Orleans. to Minneapolis. It
will cost S3000to do what is required,
and Mr. Meeker will endeavor to
raise that amount
Second Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Knott has issued request for
proposals for carrying mails on the
Pacific coast steamer routes as follows:
From Portland to Astoria, Oregon,
120 miles; from San Francisco to
Stockton, Cal, 125 miles. The con-
tracts will be made for threa and one
half years from January l, 1887 Bids
will be received until September 18th,
1886.
A blast furnace, occupying site
of 46 acres, is to be erected at Ash
land, Wisconsin, On the bay shore,
convenient for ample wharfage. 1t
III r Il
and turn out 60 tons of pig iron each
day. 1t will consume 5000 bushels
OF charcoal a day, thus stimulating a
new forest industry In that region
This is likely to be the beginning of a
great future in iron manufacture fo1
Ashland
The Minneapolis Tribune, refer
ring to the forfeiture of the Casdade
grant, said: mo reason for the for
feituro exists, except. first the enmity
of the Union Pacific road, in who e
interest Senator Van Wyck seems to
have introduced his amendment, and
second, the motive which leads poll
ticians to make a show of opposing
corporations, when they can do Sc
cheaply and safely
The Portland World, a straight
laced democratic paper, replying to q
remark of the Ghehalis Nugget about
''our Chawles" said: "The living is
sues to which the Nugget refers are
at present termed the spoils system
and no man has more eagerly used
this system to build Up a personal
party than Charles S. Voorhees,.
His recommendations have all been
with an eye single to his future poll
itical aspirations"
Republican members of the Ohio
delegation in the house of repressn-
tatives filed with the senate committee
on privileges and elections com
munication asking for reconsidera-
ton of its decision not to grant an
investigation into the method of the
election of Henry B. Payne to the
senate of the United States. The
communication having been submit.
ted to Senator Sherman, he said: i
heartily agree with every word of il,
and have no objection to my position
being known"
n. Y. Tribune: First, Mr.. Cleve-
land is aware that he couldn't get the
democratic nomination in 1888 if he
wanted it; SECOND, he is preeluded,
by his own formal declaration against
a second term, from accepting it if he
could get it. In 1888 the democracy
will naturally be looking for man
whom they can unite. Cleveland has
shown himself not to be that man.
Ii the party were to be looking for a
man on whom they could most sue
cessfully divide, why then Cleveland
would be renominated unanimously
by acclamation on the first baIlot-if
not earlier,
Time card No. of the Pacific di-
vision of the Canadian Pacific rail-
road has been issued and will come
in July Sd. Pacific standard will be
used. and tne "24 hour system"
adopted. There will be no "a. M
and ''p, m." and clocks and watches
will be numbered from l to a. Trains
will arrive at Port Moody daily ex-
cept Saturday, at Il o'clock. and
leave every day except Monday, at
l3 O'Clock, remaining in Port Moody
just one huor. The steamer Yosem
lite will connect with all trains, and
arrive with mails and passengers for
Vancouver at ID or II O'Clock. Ia
coma Neirs
President Harris, Chief Engineer
Anderson and Assistant Engineer
Bogue, of tho N. P. r. T., left this
morning at $50 by special train for
Greene river, with the expectation of
return arrival at Tacoma at 8 O'clock
p. N. General Anderson will leave
IN his private Car attached to the
regular train of tomorrow morning
for Portland, where he will remain p
day or two, and thence proceed east
ward. He says that he thinks that
the switchhack road will be finished
by January l, 1887, but not before
that date. The construction expense
will not be as much IS mad been ,,re-
viously estimated, the rcrte !,eing
found convenient in many RESPECTS
and better than Nas Iirst cxnpcted.-
Tacoma NeH