, 1886-05-20
PICkinZS

and Tom. Caton and Frank Parker |
and Brothers BeechcT and Kuhn and |
Burke viii he there. Aud will there |
bc recess declared iu tn" love feast
while these brethren embrace
The length Of the Northern Pacific |
Railroad company road. including
the Cascade branch. j. 2U295S miles. |
1t has leased I123i miles and the |
length of its branches Is 4ILGJ miles. |
The length Of road finished would en-
title the company to 43.2OOGOO acres
OF land. 1t had sold to June Both.
1885. 5,46S.G1997 acTas. The rolling
stock consists Of 39I engines, pa
passenger cars. and 9,2lG freight cars
of all kinds
The detection among the support
ers of Gladstone has grown rapidly.
The number OF the adherents of
Lord Harrington and Chamberlain
has risen from 81 To los. English
and Scotch Radical papers that have
hitherto supported Gladstone, now
concur that his concessions are made
quate, that the joint commission Is
practically impossible, and that home
rule is doomed to defeat unless cru
cial amendments be made. Its op
ponents calculate that there will be a
majority of forty against the bill.
W. W. Union: In pond, cover
ing about half an acre of ground, the
greatest depth being four and a half
feet. and supplied with fresh warm
water by 4 stream from 4 spring, Mr..
}. L. Reeser has about 1900 carp.
Two years ago he put thirty five
small carp III a smaller pond, and
afterwards transferred them to the
larger one. The fish are fed the
scraps from the table and chopped
grain, and thrive finely. Some of
the fish are over Il foot IN length. al d
it will not be long before Mir. Reeser
has an abundant supply of excellent
fresh fish in his door yard.
The latest seizure OF opium by
American customs officials on the
Sound, while it is matter for con-
graduation of that government, can
hardly be said to be entirely due TO
the perspicuity of those efficient ser
wants, diligent as they prove them
selves to be. They would not have
been to blame had the discovery not
been made at that particular time;
| for it was discovered on one of their
local boats which never saw Victoria.
If cur customs officers were required
to search baggage of passengers com
ing from the mainland on river steam
ers they might or might not occas-
ionally make somewhat similar dis
coveries. COtORast.
India has more than 10000 miles Of
railway in operation and upwards of
$500 miles under construction. The
total capital outlay on railways and
connected steamer service exceeds
$S00,000,000. The Calcutta govern
lately sanctioned the construction of
| 134O miles of new railway. The
gross receipts OF the Indian railways
for 1884 were SS0,000,0O0. The DIFF
ference in point of time distance from
Liverpool in favor of Chicago, as
compared with the Iudian ports of
Kurrachee and Bombay, on the Ara
bian sea, is only about five days, and
when her railway system is once com
pleted, India Will be a formidable
competitor of the American grain
producers in the English market.
JUD6E DAwNE.-The publication of
an item in this paper lately with re-
ference to Judge Duwne was the
means of our obtaining the infor-
nation that the last heard of him in
this neighborhood was on New Years
day Of this year, when he turned up
at Roche Harbor, San Juan Island,
where he had dinner with some
friends who had known hiG in the
| hey-day of his honesty-wheneve
that was His beard had been shay
en-, but the moustache had been left
He appeared to be in pretty good
| circumstances, was we'll dressed, and
bore with him a new valise, apparent
we'll stocked. He never said where
he was going, and his friends were
too polite to ask; but it was found
afterwards that he went to Whatcom.
1t is probable that there is yet Il
darker day before Dawne,-COloniSt.
One lesson OF the southwestern
strike should be carefully noted by
the knights of Labor The strike
was ordered because one man who
was distasteful to the officers of a
railroad was discharged, Thousands
OF men We're ont Of employment for
weeks, and the strike was finally ar
ranged. But in the meantime the
company had employed new men and
nov with the strike arranged the
strikers find that the company viii
discharge none of the men who took
service under it durigg the strike, and
will employ none who were trouble
some to the company while the strike
lasted. The result is that hundreds
of men have lost several months
work and are now stranded with no
immediate prospect Of getting work.
This is due to following blindly the
order of an organization 1t should
be a valuable lesson.
Every man who has the best in
terests of his town, his locality or
neighborhood at heart, should speak
we'll of it, should encourage new en-
terprIses, should use their influence
towards inducing new comers to set
tie in their midst, should offer all the
| Inducements in their power toward
building up their town, settling up
and improving their surroundings
There Is nothing more disastrous,
more blighting OF hurtful to a nei- h
borhood or community. Il town or To-
eality, than is the presence of the
growler, the pessimist, the moss back,
the close-tisted peeGniary individual
who, through the practise of dispar-
aging talk or misery ways, drive
away desirable population. This
taking advantage OF every opportuni
ty which offers to discourage or sin
gle man who desires to locate in
your midst, is not by any means cal
culated to impress that individua or
build up your town and country. SO
be industrious, be generous, be cheer
ful. be united and your efforts will be
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