Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-01-13

Sale of delinquent tax property Mon
day, Feb. 6.
The number of students enrolled at
the academy this week, 81.
A grand ball is announced at the Cot
tonwood house for Tuesday evening
next. Admission, including supper, 81.
All are cordially invited.
There was dance held at VIM. ste
phens' house last Friday night, which
drew out a large crowd of pleasure-seek-
ers, who got what they went for. Some
of the parties present inform us that a
1ivelier and better time has seldom been
experienced. Several other parties will
be given in that neighborhood shortly.
Mr.. Fred. Cook, of Lewiston, remem-
bered the editor TO the extent of quar-
ter section of oldfashioned plum pud-
ding, at Christmas, which, after hap.
tizing with champagne and drinking to
the health of the generous donor, we
put where it did the most good
We take coyote and all the bounty
scalps on subscription to the F. p.
Notice to School Teachers
Notice is hereby given that the regu.
MAR examination of school teachers will
take place at the court house Mt. Idaho
ON the first Wednesday in February, to-
wit: on February =, 1883, at 10 o'clock
in the forenoon, when and where all
candidates are requested to present
themselves for examination.
HIRAM ROBBINS, Sup't Schools.
Mt. Idaho, l. T., January 8, 1888.
MONEY TO LOAN, on real estate, at low
rates of interest. Apply to
j. ii. FoRNEY, Mt. Idaho.
George Addison was examined before
the probate court this week on charge
of killing a steer, the property of T.
Ecklund. District Attorney Forney
conducted the prosecution on behalf of
the people, and j. w. Parker defended.
The examination was thorough, occupy
ing two days, and at its conclusion
Judge Case held defendant in $500
bonds to await the action of the grand
jury. This being the case, the +. Z.
cannot now publish the evidence.
Back at last! No more running
around. but will confine myself excll-
sively to office practice, where | can be
found every day from "a. NJ. tor.
j. II. MCCALLIE.
Let us Rest.
Now that the new years inaugural
las passed, with its conventional greet
ings, it's tiresome display of extravagant
bOastiIgs. and its solid columns of mu-
nicipai and provincial essays of eloquent
pride and beatltic imaginalions-let us
rest Let us glide into delicious sea-
ron Of repose, after such storm of
nerve -tension, and brain-racking, and
money.spending. And the poor editors
must be, too. completely run down at
the heel. The reader himself, after |
CHANGING over forty or fifty columns of |
his new years intellectual treat, becomes |
con fused and snrfeiied, and is thankful |
that he is not compelled to read it all. |
And he feels a sense of relief when he |
J eceives the next regular edition Of his |
tAper ann finds it shOrn even of the |
usual scraps of interesting news and |
common place editorials-which at other
times would arouse his righteous indig-
j. a'ion. But both editor and reader are
aud stunted, and lapse into
needless langnor and compromising in
difference. The editor remembers not
the ecstatic feelings he experienced
while the searching eloquence WAS
upon him as he coufsed the lines of his
new years peroraiion or if he does, it
Is with distrust of its mighty signif-
canoe. And the reader has forgotten
" hich was this, and whit was that, and
could not tell whether it was Portland
hat had thousand rum-shops, or Pen.
dleton that had thousand-line new
years poet.
Now we lapse into repose
Stir not. let MS gently doZe
Need we much recupcraton,
After such a grand ovation
Editor, and reader too
Clean exhausted. wilted, blue
Sink down into hamilton
Into normal hamilton
UNCLE Xxx.