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, 1886-02-04
Ne Criminal Deception Ia Ours.

We received today four copies of the
Alaskan-all in one dose. We shall be
glad when the mails come oftener from
Sitka, SO that our nerves may not be sub
jec:ed to such heavy shocks. In the issue
OF Jan. 9th occurs the following:
The proprietor OF the Sitka and Juneau
breweries acknowledges his indebtedness
to the Port Townsend ARGUS for late
etltOILl advertisement. He Is ready u
settle tL1 account in beer, If edi'Or
will give him security that it Is ONLY to
be used for medical, mechanical or scien-
titic purposes.
When We require any beer there is 40
danger but what the purpose for which
it is to be used will be honestly AID
tsuthtul.y explained. II We were dem
ocratic governor OF q one-hoTsc territory
probably we might LypoeFitiealIy adyer-
t:se beer manufactured for medicinal
mechanical and scientific purposes exclu
siyely;" and Te might even allow til.
law to be ope ny eylded under our ez
ecutire nose; but Us we are not d demo
Cratic governor OF q 0. h. L, We VIII sin
ply Commend 10 mankind he maGui1i
cant sgecilaeR Of democratic reform tha
struck Alaska anidships "I'' such IeaI
.s.i,Il Losee. We -'-.''' '' 'a -
80 ,,s.s.er rpnglican q ne @s-4'
tic beaEs would 5egin da''e
, 1886-02-04
(From Yesterdays DaiIyJ

The British tug boat Alexander,
arrived in the night and moored to
Union wharf this q. IN. She entered at
the custom house and proceeded to Port
Angeles to tow the Am. ship Commodore,
Capt. Jordan, to Nanaimo. where she
loads coal for San Francisco.
n. EHai..e steam,E Ecrt5 Pacific b-odELt -
Seattle last night from Tacoma, the shaft
of the stern q steamer Bob Irwin,
which was broken a few days ago, thc
same will be welded and returned TO
Tacoma.
The work on the schr. Leo, repairing
at Port BIakely IL completed, and she
returns today to Seattle where she will
take on her deck cargo and sail for Sitka
by the inland passage.
Bark G. 0. Whi.more is expected down
today from Port Blakely with cargo OF
lumber; her destination is Hilo.
, 1886-02-04
Dancing Glass.

Mrs. ". b. Moore will give lessons in
Dancing for Juveniles, at Good Temp
lars Hall, every Wednesday and Satur-
day afternoon, from . to 4:30. Terms:
81 per month, s lessons. for beginners.
No visitors allowed. Private lessons for
adults. 81 each.
Inquire at room next to Judge Teele's,
II floor Eisenbeis stone building.
, 1886-02-04
PUGET SOUND SHIPPING.
Port OF Port Townsend.
(Trom Mondays Daily.)

Schr American Girl, Capt. Moore,
arrived this afternoon, 80 days from
Hawaiian Islands.
The steamer Geo. L. Starr mel tie
North Pacific at Pert Ludlow this morn-
ing and transferred passengers, mail
and freight 1t is believed that hereafter
both vessels will resume their usual
routes.
The bktne. J. A. FGlkenberg, Capt.
Ginger, (son of our respected townsman,
! war IL. - sa.:-s.,p:- n,~. a1st, r-aparins to
sail for San Franciaco via New Castle,
, where she will take a cargo of coal.
Bark Otago, Capt. Boyd, arrived last
night, 10 days from San Francisco.
The tug Tyee, Capt Cove, towed the
following vessels from here to their
berths up Sound inside of forty hours;
Schr.'s j. G.. North, Alice, ship Harry
Mills, bark Kirkdale, to Port Gamble,
ship Two Brothers. Ivanhoe and Blue
jacket to Seattle.
Ship Yosemite, Capt. Saunders, sailed
with cuIRO Vi COGl, bOuuu ~ Jun
Francisco.
Bktne. Amelia, Capt. Newhall, arrived
Yesterday IL days from Honolulu. This
is the quickest trip made from that port
to this for number Of years, and only
surpassed within our recollection by tho
bark Lizzie Marshall, Capt. Bergman,
| -op,a {brao yporS auO
The bktne to be commenced soon at
Port Ludlow will be built by shipwright
Murry, who built the bktne. Discovery
in 1874. and she is to be commanded by
| Capt. Herman, who is now IN that
vessel.
Bark Nonantum, Capt. Foye. was
towed out yesterday by ting Blakeiy
bound to Buenos Ayres. a few days
ago it appears that some of the crew pro-
tested against going to sea in the ship on
account OF leak. 4 survey WAS held
and after sealing the pumps, it was
reported that tie leak was something
less than an inch OF water an hour and
the vessel proceeded to sea. The board
Of survey consisted of Capt Rugg, OF
the bark Thomas r. Foster, Capt
Cameron, CT the tug Tacoma, and Car
penter Fuge, of this place.
, 1886-02-04

We are greatly pleased to see our
old friend f. ". Pettygroye out on
the streets again after his months
illness. He can't be spared yet.
Marcellus Huntoon, Esq, formerly
Of Elkwa. IS at Dell. Baker Co,
Oregon. He writes that be would
greatly prefer his former home over
here among the clams.
We aIe informed that Capt Lloyd,
Of the schr. Harney, has been ap-
pointed customs inspector for duty
on the Alaska route, vice Capt
Waterberry resigned. The new ap-
pointee is an old Puget Sounder and
4 most worthy and competent man.
, 1886-02-04
Shot His Arm OF.

Special 20 the ARGUS.I
SEATTLE, ". T, Feb l.
\ man named G. Miller. foreman on
the work OF construction of the new coal
incline, went with n friend cunning
yesterday, about sixteen miles up The
railroad track. His gun was accidentally
discharged while on the trip, both barrels
taking effect in his right arm, rendering
amputation necessary. He lost consider
able blood before reaching here where
ne was brought on a hand car.
, 1886-02-04
Northern Grown Garden Seeds.

The publishers of The HOuseheeper
Minneapolis, Mimi, give Sl00 of garden
and flower seeds of the subscribers
own selection to every one who sub.
scribes for one year before February 10Th
1886. Send to address given above fol
copy of the January number, which gives
full particulars. Northern grown seed:
produce earlier and more vigorous
plants, and once tried no other kind
will be used.
, 1886-02-04

1t is wise to provide against emer
gencies that are liable to arise in every
family. A cold may be a dangerous
thing, or not, depending upon the means
at hand to combat it. In sudden attacks
OF cold, Group, asthma, etc. Ayers Cherry
Pactor9l will prove the quickest and
most effective cure, and your best friend
, 1886-02-04
What a Wife Said!

Simply this, and nothing more
1t came from Latimer & Co.'S store,
Has proved to he perfect cure,
Pleasant tasting, safe and sure.
That Gum DISQUALIFICATION STrlp.
For coughs. colds, sore throat, bron-
cfitis, whooping cough and all tendency
to consumption. The only Cough Syrup
hat does not sicken the stomach. A dol
package for seventy five cents.
LATIMEH & CO, Agents,
Port Townsend, W. L.
, 1886-02-04

Gladstone and Salisbury may bob up
and down alternately, illustrating the
positions of battledore and sluttlecock
in English politics, but C!inger's auction
store is always ready with useful goods
at low prices illustrating the fact that
merit always wins.
, 1886-02-04
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Nv

TIMBER LAND FoR SALE. Two hundred
acres OF good Timber Land on the water
front near Port Angeles-commanding
The outlet to large body of milling
timber. Will be sold cheap for coin.
Apply at this Office at once for particulars.
, 1886-02-04

Go to D. P. Trimble's Saddle ard
Harness shop, next door 10 tie franklin
Hotel, for first class work in that line.
, 1886-02-04

A large assortment OF Window Shades.
direct from the Mandatory, at n. d,
Hill & Sons.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-25

Augusta me- journal
A ludicrous case of inadyertence re-
Gently occurred in one of the several news
paper establishments in this city. A
youngman who was employed at the office
correspondent with nice young lady in a
neighboring town. Last week she an
swered his latest epistle, sending the ia
vor through the mails. The missive passed
to the counting room with the remain
der of the mail, and the business mana
ger, not noticing the address, tore open
the envelope, and turned it over to the
editor, who clapped it into the Young
Folks Column is communication, the
name of the rightful possessor of the let
ter and the sender both appearing. The
young man, it seems, had been awaiting
some word from the lady, but had been
disappointed, and he first learned of the
course the letter had taken as he was EN-.
ployed on the press, the words catching
his eye as the paper passed before him
His feelings are much easier imagined thar
described, and the young lady was not il
her pleasantest frame of mind on hearing
of the publicity given to her composition
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-25
capacity Of the lkrupp WORKS.

Moncure d. Conway, in Hdrper's Maya
zine for March says In the Essen works
there are 1858 big ovens, 4S9 steam
boilers, 450 steam engines representing
together 1880 horsepower, 1922 ma
chine tools, 50 steam hammers, 81 rolling
trains-inyolving daily consumption of
3, 100 tons of coal and coke by the ,6l8
furnaces, whose draught is through
chimneys of which one is $50 feet high,
with diameter of 80 feet ut the bottom.
The daily consumption of water brought
from the Ruhr by an aqueduct-is 81, zoe
cubic meters. There are ] ,77S steel lamps
and n cubic meters of gas have beer
used annually, though this quantity haC
Just been diminished by the intro
duction of electric lights. The
work ceases only on Sunday anc
on two or three holidays. The pro
duction is enormous. When the Emperor
William visited the place in 1877, MIR
| Krupp caused to be set before him the
100 wheel tires, 100 arles, 100 railway
wheels, 400 railway wedges, 1000 bomb
shells. The daily capacity of the work.
is much more 300 rails (t@o and 1
half miles,. $50 tires, $50 axles, 49,
wheels, 900 wedges, 500 bombshells
In month they can produce 1F0 field
pieces, thirty 6. finch cannon, fifteen ..
inch cannon, eight ll-inch cannon, one IA
inch gun-the weight of the last beinl
81 short tons, its length 2S feet inches
II is one thing to read these figures OF
paper, decidedly another to travel among
the objects they represent, and witness
their extent, their Vomitings Of hnme
their harnessed immensely, and TO hra
their voice.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-25

"Footprints on the sands Of times
She'd great and varied knowledge. picked
up at a female college OF guadratics,
hydrostatics and pneumatics very
vast.
She was stuffed with erudition as you stuff
q leather cushion, all the ologies OF
the colleges and the knowledges Of
the past.
She had studied the old lexieons Of Peru
VANS and Mexicans, their theology.
anthropology aud geology Ger and
DER.
She knew all tho forms und features Of the
prehistoric creatures--iehthyos
plesiosaurus, megalosaurusand many
more.
She'd describe the ancient Tuscans, and the
Basques and the Etruscans, their
griddles and their kettles and the
victuals that they gnawed.
She'd discuss--the learned charmer-the
theology Of Bramah, and the scandals
Of the Vandals and the sandals that
they trod,
She knew all the mighty giants and the
master minds OF science, ull the learn
ing that was turning in the burning
mind Of man.
But she couldn't prepare a dinner for {
gaunt and hungry sinner, or get up I
decent supper for her poor voracl1ul
papa, for she never was CONSTRUCTED
on the old domestic plan.
Lynn Union.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-25

No man in the House or Senate fills the
galleries ms Logan does, says Washing
ton letter to the New Orleans States.
You may talk of his bad grammar and
vigorous craftsmanship, but no announce
ment brings as many people to the CAPT.
tol as does the statement that Logan is to
speak II seems to make little difference
what the subject upon which he is to
speak, the fact that he is to make a
speech fills the galleries. He seems to be
a sort of perennial statesman. He
looks Just the same us he did 20 years
ago." said AZ old habltue of the galleries
Il remember him away back to war times
and don't see that he has changed 4
particle. If you go TO the Army Museum
in the war department you will see there
a big picture of the generals of the war
each mounted on horseback. Logan is in
that picture, and he looks there just as
he looks down there on the floor of the
Senate to-day
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-25

Clara Belle In Cincinnati Enquirer.
/ don't believe there was girl in the
whole tobogganing party withouta yellow
garter on her left leg. That is the fashion
able fetich against bad luck. Now, don't
hurry 10 say that they expected to dis
clos them in the vicissitIides of tobog-
gaming, because they didn't intend to do
anything of the kind, and will prove
their innocence. One night we had n
little smash.up, and n friend of mine was
jammed between the sled and the post
When she got into seclusion, and she and
l made an examination of her hurt, we
found dreadful bruise where the clasp
of her yellow garter had been gouged
cruelty into the tender flesh. IL she
hadn't been the soul Of modesiy would
she have hobbled off to the house, ms she
did, declaring that she had been wrenched
in the arm only, when she knew that a
young doctor on the spot was armed with
ointments and bnudages for such wounds
Again, when the moon came out suddenly
from behind a cloud, full and bright, and
| just then II line Of six toboggans were
ready to start down the slide, Fan old char
cried ont oh, look at the yellow
| CLEANS ~ Every girl was alarmed by the
thought that it was her talismanic garter
that he'd flashed into view, and 10 lef
feet were drawn in with violence tina
betrayed the reason of our emotion.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-25
Thought She Heard Her SONS voice.


SPRINGFIELD, o., Feb. 12.-0ne of the
most remarkable and perfectly authenti-
Gated cases of a presentment of approach
ing evil occurred in this city in connec.
ton with the Drscoll murder case. EARLY
Tuesday morning, at the time when the
struggle must have been taking place in
the factory on Columbia street, where
George w. Driscoll met his death, Mrs.
Driscoll, the mother of the murdered
man, was awakened by hearing herself
called by her sons voice sounding out of
the darkness. Thrice came the cry,
Mother! Mother Mother /" So real
was the voice that Mrs. Driscoll spoke to
her husband and asked him if he had not
heard it also, but he was sleeping soundIy.
Thinking that some member of the house
hold had called, Mrs. Driscoll arose and
awakened the members one by one and
asked them if they had called They all
denied that they had spoken, and the
source of the cries could not be dis.
covered. The family were just compos,
ing themselves in sleep again when mes
senger arrived to inform them that George
was shot.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-25

new 1OrR llineb.
Miss Cleveland has at last solved the
problem which has become more and
more of a puzzle and been less success
fully dealt with by each Presidential
family since the time of Andrew johnson.
That President accomplished feat, and
did the duty handed down by tradition of
inviting to dinner each Senator and
Representative at least once during each
two years. Since then Congress has
grown to be such a formidable body in
numbers that each President has fallen
shorter and shorter of getting all around
during Congress of two sessions. Miss
Cleveland, though delayed by the sad
weeks of mourning that have broken into
this winters season, begins now series
of lunch parties, Mt which she hopes to
entertain the wives of senators ard repre-
sentatives. The first of these parties will
take place on Friday of this week, and a
more delicate and pleasing solution of n
yexed problem could not have been
reached,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-25
Ebe 'EarigG on Diri.

Sew York Ev ming Posi-.
The great question of the tariff on
dirt has come up again, this time most
appropriately in Philadelphia, where the
Press can look after it. II is charged
that carpet manufacturers in that city
have been buying wool in Russia, getting
it invoiced as wool merely, then surrepti-
tiously removing the dirt cor, as the Press
prefers, the 'grease and Dirt and enter
ing it here at duty OF 2! cents instead
of Is cents per pound that clean wool
ought to pay. In this way it is claimed, I"
by the wool growers and others, that g.
600, 900 pounds of wool have been fraud
ulently entered without the corresponding
amount of dirt. Testimony is offered to
show that Russian Donskoi wool in its
natural state contains so per cent of dirt
and grease. Consequently, 6,000, 900
pounds of refuse matter, upon which
freight and duty ought to have been paid,
have been left in the valley Of the Don,
instead Of being brought to the wharves
of Philadelphia. The indignation pro.
duced by the discovery was of course in.
tense, and the Secretary of the Treasury
was appealed to, He referred the matter
a commission of experts to decide
TO come in at a duty of p cents pei
pound. They decided that it was. Blu
the National Wool Growers Association
were not to be headed off in that way
They took an appeal from the Secretar,
to the Assistant Secretary, and hired "twt
Philadelphia tariff lawyers" to help then
prove that the wool is clean enough to b,
taxed cents per pound. The countr,
will await the result with batcd breath.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-25
one Good word for IN, Isat.

IlbtoDurS Sut uulclo-l eleBrHpu.
There are some who say, "kill the rats !!
Wipe them ont of existence!" But the
army of the little impudent fellows is
equal, from n sanitary point of view, to
the whole corps of health inspectors for
usefulness. True, they eat holes into
sugar barrels, and play havoc among the
stores of some of our merchants; they
waste and destroy large amounts Of yalu-
able goods; but they do something else :
they scour the streets, tie back yards, the
sewers, the hooks and corners where
brooms and water cannot be used, and
clear up the refuse. Anything that is
eatablo, thrown out on the streets or into
the yards, becomes, under process Of de-
composition, disease. producing sub
stance. Our friends, the rats, step in
and clear it away, dispose of it, md what
might have produced feyers small. pox or
cholera, disappears through the agency of
the rats.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-25
Keeping mUp.

DOSbou
The Philadelphia Press falls back upon
some occult power of mind reading to Sus
tain its untrue statement that President
Cleveland said no Office holder should be
removed except for cause. Whether he
said it or not observes the Press, "does
not alter the fact that the Mugwumps all
believe he had said it. And, upon this
assumption of what it thinks the Mug
wumps "all believe" the Press repeats in
another column that Mr.. Cleveland de.
clared that he would not remove public
officers on partisan grounds and that no
officer % holding for fixed term should
be removed in the midst of his term ex-
cept for public cause. That was his vol
untary declaration, and it placed him
under the highest bonds. We have
challenged the Press to cite any words of
the President which would support this
claim and it cannot do it. We republished
in full the extract from Mr.. Cleveland't
letter to the Reform League, showing that
it contained no such pledge, nor anything
which can be twisted into such meaning
Pinned down in tight corner, the Pres
now asserts that no matter whether Mr.
Cleveland said il or not, "the Mugwumps
all believed he had said itn--as though
were this true, the President of the United
States could be placed under the highes
bonds" by what certain individuals he
lieved he had said" Speaking as one 0
the Mugwumps, we deny that we enter
tanned any such belief. The fact that tn
public service was solidly partisan was, t,
our mind, and to that of every believer il
true reform, sufficient reason why nu
merous changes should be made. Tn
Press ought to be able to attack the Dem
ocratic party without persistent misrepre
sentation of the President
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-25
A Good Samaritan.

There is usury law in New York, and
a hard faced looking man, Wall street
broker, an American, was arraigned for
the offence.
"Did you lend this unfortunate man
money at the rate of four per cen ia
month";" asked the judge, severely.
Eyes; but wouldn't have done it if |
hadn't had such kind heart. My good
heartedness is always getting me into
trouble"
II don't quite understand YOU
"Well, you see, if hadn't let him have
the money at four per cent a month he
might have fallen into the hands of some
of those Jews, and they might have
gouged him like the mischief. l was act.
ing the part of the good Samaritan, or
rather was trying to prevent him from
falling among thieves"
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-25
ARrsM Us WARP
And what s.insoIn Thought OF

Aud what saIncoIn Thought OF
Writing in Harpe3's for March Edmund
Kirke says; Calling upon Mr.. Lincoln on
one of the dorkest days in the late war,
was surprised to see upon his mantel-
piece q couple of volumes-one q small
Bible, the other Artemus Ward, his Book.
"Do you read Artemus Ward ?" asked
him. ~ don't read anybody else" he
answered, with n smile on his care-worn
face; she is inimitable.n In the plain
building before which we are standingtbe
inimitable Snowman first set up his WAX
iiggers;n and if we enter here we may
encounter the assistant editor of the
Plaindealer, who was the associate and
intimate friend of "a. Ward" when the
latter was the city editor of this journal.
He has many anecdotes to tell of the
genial Snowman. He describes his APP
pearance, when he first came tc the office,
as decidedly rustic. He was, he says, long
and lank, with flowing hair, and loosely
| fitting coat, and trousers too short in the
legs and bagging at the knees. HIS
humor is irrepressible, and always bulb
| bling over, and he kept all about
| him in a constat state of merriment.
1 WAS u MuB-hDt1luB pub u MHB phN
in that line genius. He could see only
the ludicrous side of subject. Going
away once on a short vacation, he en-
gagged this gentleman to perform his work
during his absence. He carefully in
structed him as to his duties, and in doing
so drew from his pocket tow string
about foot and a-half long, and told him
he must furnish that amount of copy per
day, leaving on his desk the measure as
a reminder of the quantity. About this
time he was called upon to respond
TO toast to the Press at Ben Franklin
festival held in Cleveland. He rose to his
feet. hung his head for a few moments in
| silence, and then sat down, having said
nothing. In his account of the festival
in the next days Pldiadealer his speech
was reported by blank space of about
half a column of eloquent silence.
| This gentleman remembers that soon
after "a. Ward" entered the lecture field
lie was invited by theatrical manager in
San Francisco TO deliver course in Cali
fornia. The season being close al hand
the manager asked him by telegraph
"What will you take for 40 nights in
California Answer Immediately" Ward
answered Immediately, by telegraph
Brandy and WATER The joke was
noised throughout the state, and the re
suit was, when Artemus went there tC
lecture on his own account, he was me-
everywhere with overlooking houses.