, 1888-01-26
THURSDAY. JANUARY IS. 1883

COUNCILMAN LEvls' railroad com
mission bill passed the Council oa
the the 18th inst This bill is sa:I
not to be inimical to railroad build
ing and interests.
The National Democratic Com
mittee is called 10 meet in Washing
ton City, February 22d, 10 fix .La
time and place for holding the Dom
Ocratic National Convention. L is
pretty we'll understood, in Difference
to the wishes Of President Cleveland.
that the place Of holding the conyon-
ton will be New York City.
The legislature should memorial
ize Congress to establish on Puget
Sound, q large navy yard and station,
where ship bnilding will be carried
on. Such an establishment would
also soon bring works for the manu-
factory of arms Of all kinds, iron and
coal being abundant hcreabouts.
n PoETLAHD paper says that they
have Arctic winter in the wilds Of
Yakima. If thai be true, Portland
has it bad. How dare it thus speak
Of the future capitalize sunny
Italy Of Washington? Puget Sound
is the France, and Portland baili~
wick is the no mans land" Of the
coast.
THE Chronicle says that the fruit
growers of California-and their
number is legion-are q unit in the
State for protection So arc every
other class of producers where their
products come in competition with
foreign productions that glut the
market with free products created by
cheap labor.
The output of the Nevada mines is
reported as almost fabulous. One
deposit alone is said to have yielded
S116,000,000, and another on the
celebrated Comstock lode S15O,0OO,
600. 1t is not improbable that the
mountain vaults of Washington may
contain as great wealth, and is only
waiting to be found
The Tacoma Ledger says that the
Spokane Falls board of trade has
exceeded its functions. What are
the functions of a board of trade?
To ''profunct" all the prosperity
within its community possible, and
to discourage that which impedes it,
or throws breakers in the body polite
of the commonwealth. Eh?
The legislature of New York,
President Cleveland's own state,
adopted and forwarded to the Senate
a strong protest against the eonfr-
nation of Lamar as Justice OF the
United States Supreme Court. The
same marked opposition extended
through every Northern State of the
Union. To this judgment Senators
Stanford and Stewart must answer
The Ledger says that a streak of
sun light the other day gave a
glimpse of Mount Rainier, and dis
covered that it was partially nude
showed its back bare-of snow. The
hoary old monarch shonld cover itself
else it will catch cold The Ledger
thinks the wind has been playing
havoc with Rainier's wardrobe.
Mr.. HOLMAN, for many years a
Democratic member of the National
House of Representatives from Indi-
ana, and who had acquired the title
of the ''Great Objector," has con-
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secured him the presidential nomi.
nation.
The National banks of England,
sGermany and France, held on Janu
airy 1. 1883, specie reserve funds ag-
gregating S756, .315, gain of SlS,-
1854, over the year prior. The
bank of France held the largest sum,
S461, 81 ,905, and the bank of Eng
land the smallest; 99,553,41O. No
wonder these banks are solvent.
They have 10 cashiers in Canada.
TIE State of Mississippi has two
conspicuous men-Jeff Davis and L.
@. C. Lamar. The Legislature of that
State recently, by resolutions, com
mended the former as great ideal
statesman, and the latter as great
jurist, fit for the supreme bench.
The country has had ample experi-
ence of the craftsmanship of these
men and is better off without either
The man who is not caught out on
the bleak side of the mountains of
tribulation during this cold slice of
winter, is in luck-that is to say,
with fuelhouse filed, larder supplied
purse eorpulent; not on the outside
of a snow blockade; and withal, in
good health and in peace with him
self and the rest of mankind How
many of the human family scores
all this?