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the oath of allegiance to Tamasese. but they
did ii because they were forced to. One chief
refused TO swear and the Germans burned his
village OF two hundred huts. cut down the CO.
coanut and bread fruit trees and then dis
turbed the last resting places of past genera
tions OF Samoans; not a grave but was desc
cratated.
SAMOAN COMMERCE
has decreased somewhat during the past two
years, due to the great disturbances there, but
1t Is not 80 small as some people might imagine.
In 1885 the total amount of trade was $50. 6l2
or this Germany secured S2Sl .6l2; the United
States. Sl46. 900, and Great Britain the remain
der, Sl15.000 There is no reason why, if free
from internal troubles, the Samoan Islands
should not have trade worth annually fifty
times as much as the foregoing figures. The
soil is rich and is covered with the most luxu-
RANT tropical vegetation. The hills are masses
OF timber right up to their SUBMITS. most of
the trees being Of valuable varieties. Fruits
such as only the tropics can produce are every
where-oranges, bananas, mulberries. cocoa
nuts. pineapples. lines, and bread fruit. Cot
ton grows to perfection there and sugar cane
VIII prosper wherever planted. Coffee can
be made the staple product.
THE sAMoANs
are really fine-looking people. especially the
men. They are tall well proportional, muscu-
lar and red-headed, the latter popularity
being due to the habit they have of applying
lime to the hair as a cleanser. Their clothing
is generally of the least elaborate description
and in the majority of cases consists simply OF
cloth or shawl twisted around the waist and
falling to the knees or Whereabouts This gar
ment covers the elaborate tattoong which il
found on every Samoan, and which is never
seen above the waist nor below the knee.
There is but one design and that is followed
strictly in all cases. Samoan laws against tat
tooeing are very stringent and violations
are punishable by imprisonment and a
heavy fine. The chiefs and principal men
wear garlands of flowers around their necks
and some of them indulge in the additional
adornment impaired by a head-dress of leaves
The men dislike work. ard they do as little as
possible. This is probably due to the fact that
there is but little labor needed to produce suf-
ficient on which to live well. All the labor Oh
the big plantations is done by slaves. who are
imported from the Solomon Islands and Fiji.
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Raising a Stake.


JAS. MCDONALD TRIES IT AND Is GIVEN NINETY
DAYS.
Jas. Mcdonald, young man who lives with
| his parent, near 4th and / streets northeast
was inJudge Miller's court this morning for try
ing to 'raise stake" without performing any
labor. He would like to be a member of the
''Sons of Rest" because he believes it is I'M
healthy to do any hard work. He has been
tired for long time, which has prevented his
using any Potomac water, either on himself or
his clothing. and when arraigned he presented
the appearance of a person who lived in a mud
house. Jim started out yesterday to get
wealthy, and called on a resident of II street
northeast.
Lady" he said. 'please ma am give me a few
pennies. Ny mother has been dead for three
days, and am trying to get some money to
bury her."
The young man then told a sad story of his
mothers last illness. The lady pitied him. but
his actions soon caused her to doubt his story
and she refused his request, whereupon he be-
came angry, and began to abuse her. While
thus engaged Policeman Crawford came along
and arrested him. The policeman knew that
Mrs. Mcdonald was well and hearty, and he
placed Jim behind the bars at the sixth pre-
elnct. Jim had nothing to say in his own be-
half. and thought it a rich joke when
Judge Miller said ninety days"
Mr.. n. W. FITZGERALD ACQUITTED.-Yes-
terday afternoon. in the Circuit Court.
Nathan W. Fitzgerald acquitted of the
charge of perjury. 1t was alleged that Fitz-
gerald filed an affidavit in a suit here based on
Judgment in Indiana, in which he stated that
he had not been served with process in Indiana:
that he was not in the state, and there was no
authority given by him TO anyone to accept
service. The court charged the jury that the
purpose of defendant was to show that no ade-
quate judgment could have been had against
him in Indiana. and he admitted that the state
ments were false, but at the time supposing
that the suit commenced in December, 1882
had been ended he made affidavit in good
faith, believing that this was another action
The court said that the question was whether
the defendant was honest in making the affi-
davit. If they believed that he made the
affidavit under the impression that the suit was
another than the one cited they should acquit
otherwise convict
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AUCTION SALES.
MoEyNehhSsIBlE gss sALE oE 2. yAEEABlE rAR

MoRIINGhhSSIIE,s SALE OF A yALuABLE FARM
Ry vir,na eh =, A. GEoR9t's COUNTY. MD;
date. sGT Is sfSdord and sse % Mar eosls e
the Isnd Te s 8. 81 Sre s and Td
,aber i W 3, No 5, folio a. Sc. aud by the said
Carroll and by said Agnes Carroll suh-eauentiS as
s,.ned TO Thomas Hill trustee. iocether with other
NoyeInts,T, lssG and rcoerded Liher J. ". b. No
pn ~, Que Hi the and records OF Prince Georres
mortgsle, and trustee under said assignment Will se
Marlboro', Md. ON TUESDAY. the SISff I
DAY ., or tEBRuARl, 1854 AZ TwELvE O'CLOCK
innal - u fnSe ,seSs county Nd sdiolgng he
PGrlthn and John Bowling, known part Of His
Lordshlps Kindness " containing se5 acrs Of land.
The improvements consist VI Two story Dwelling,
nm, rGms and cellar Tobacco Barn. Corn HoUse.
Terms Of sale cash
Attorney named in said mortgage ana trustee under
said asslgnment
MM. STANLEY. Solicitor. feaalO
'I'RnSTEE's SALE OF A FINE FARM IN sTAF-
tnkD COUNTY, VIRGINIA., ABOUT FOUR
RICHMOND AND TRTDEl,Ic KsBtRG RAIL
ROAD, AND ABOUT Two Mills FROM sTAF-
LEADING no STAFFORD CouRTHoUsf, con,
TAINlNG Bob ACRES OF LAND, MORE or
Under and by virtue Of deed Of trust bearing date
the = n day q May, lss0 and duly RECORDED in Ii
ords for Stafford county Virginia, the undersigned
trustee viii offer Tor sale at public auction the
lses, on TUESDAY THE NINETEENTH DAY OF
fEBhU AIRY, lSoa, Al TEN O'CLOCK A. NJ, the
farm or tract Of land which by Asbury
Lloyd 90 Benz. T. Smith IN trust by decd dated Aprl
10 1870 aud Of record in the Land Records for said
county, which said farm contains three hundred aud
nity-Ee acres Of land less, aud improved hy
SINAI iafn- house aud some outbuidlngs. The farm
Is well watered and adopted gardening and farming
purposes. and - composed both Of arabic aud wood
land ana II also has fne stone quarry the be-
M within one mile Of Aqua creek Virginia
Terms OF sale. Onefourth of the purchase money 20
be Ialu m cash within i've days from the day sale
% which one hundred dollars II 20 be- paid deposit
at the time Of se the balance OF the purchase money
70 be paid IN three equal nstalmeits in six twelve
auo eighteen mouths from the day Of sale for which
the purchaser VIII give the his three several
pfonissory notes with interest to De secured by deed
OF trust on the property, all cash option Of
the purchaser. IL the terms of sale complied
with within seven days from the day the prop
ery 10 be resod at the risk and cost If defautng pur
chaser
BROOKE B. WILLIAMS Trustee.
Oihce room ~, kellogg Building, Washington, ID o.
Observation-Disclosures
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nUNCANsoN BROS, Aucuoneers.

NEARLY NEW THREE STORY AND BASEMENT
BRICK DWELLING. NO. l7ls THIRTEENTH
STREET, BETWEEN AND RIGGS STREETS
NORTHWEST
On FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY EIGHTH
AT FIVE O'CLOCK, will sell, in front of the prem
Uses,
SUB LOT 90. SQUARE 23a,
fronting Is feet 18th street. and improved by
nearlynew brick dwelling tthree stories and base
mentD. L rooms and modern conveniences. This
property desrsby located for private residence OF
Investment convenient TO street lines schools and
churches.
Terms-S4.000 can remain on il for term Of years
at per cent per annum. the balance in cash. A de-
post Of 200 viii be required at sale Convey ancing
&c, at purchasers cost Terms to be complied with
in 10 days. otherwise the right reserved TO resell
the risk and of defaultng purchaser after days
public notice of such resale in newspaper pub
Eshed in Washington, ID. c. DUNCANSON BROS.
I'D Auctsoneers
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THoMAs BOWLING. Anctioneer

EXTRA CONTENTS OF RESIDENCE No. 1903
RIGGS STREET NORTHWEST, AT AUCTION,
COMPRISING SQUARE PIANO. WALNUT PAR
Lok SUITE PORIihREs; ENGRANINGS, "a.
FCRNITURE, ODD BUREAUS AND BED
STEADS. BRUSSELS CARPETS. STAIR CAR
PETS MATTRESSES AND BEDDING. WALNUT
MARBLE-TOP SIDERpARD. DINING TABLES
AND CHAIRS lCE-HN, CHINA, GLASSWARE
On THURSDAY, FEBRUARY SEVENTH, 1883. at
TEN O'CLOCK A. NJ, at residence, 1909 Riges street
northwest. will sell above goods.
Terms cash. THOMAS BOWLING,
f.g-dts Auctioneer.
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POLITICAL BLOOD PURIFIER.
RELIABLE sARsAPARIiLA-wHAT THE HON.
DANIEL l. BOWLING. PRESIDENT OF NEW
YORK BOARD or ALDERMEN, isss, SAYS

YORK BOARD or ALDERMEN. isss, SAYS
Good health can only be obtained throurh PUN
blood; pure blood through healthy liver and ksdDey.
We all take some kind Of sarsAparia and % far there
is none 20 equal the famous Recamier sar-aparflla
made by Harriet Hubbard Aver The Hon Daniel n
Downing. President Of the Board Of Aldermen New
York. gives his opinion Of IL In the following letter
NV lokk. Jan ., 1859.
pEAR MADAM:
Having tried your RecNnier SarSaparflla as a r~rn-
edy for an annoying disorder Of the liver with emf.
nently satisfactory and immediate resnls take great
pressure IN Recommending IL 10 he a perfect family
medicine. also found IL a. h. a wonderful tonic and
appetizer Every household should KEEP bottle OF IL
on hand have not felt well in years as 40 now
after taking only one bottle Of H.
Yours very RESPECTFULLY,
DANIEL r BOWLING,
President Board q Aldermen. ISIS.
nyour druggist does not have Recamier sarsaps-
rilla refuse all other kinds and send one dollar 20 Mrs
Harriet Hubbard Aver. So Park Place. New York aud
bottle VIII be sent YOU free Of express chares Un-
Ike other sarssparllas IL will force out an erup
ton on the skin. AZ will not deplete the blood but en-
riches IL while n puriies IL IL
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of the California State
with weight and of riders:
all the
machine
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TUFTS and Wing with Abel bringing the Tufts
and the locked
this
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minutes All STAR Wheels for
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and expeditions action. If the officer had
waited until TERRY had knitted Judge
FIELD, there would have been no occasion
for shooting; to have shot then would have
been little less than murder. TERRY had
made threats against FIELD, and the well
known character of the man was a guaran-
tee that he would endeavor to put these
threats into execution. Because of the
danger, Deputy NAGLE was assigned to the
special duty of protecting the associate
justice, and in affording that protection he
acted the part of an efficient, vigllant OIL
Ger, who understood what must be done and
how to do it. If he were not to shoot, I'M
der the circumstances, then why was he
there? The danger which he was charged
to guard against was certainly as imminent
as it could well be. To have permitted it to
go any further would have shown the in
competency of the deputy, and proven that
in his selection his superiors were mistaken.
We do not apprehend that NAGLE will be
seriously annoyed on account of the affair.
He will have to go through the form of
trial, and TERRY's friends may try to make
things unpleasant for him; but his convic-
ton of murder is improbable. Califor-
mans generally will applaud him for Kidding
the state of one of its ugliest characters.
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A GOOD TEST CASE.

It is announced that a resident of Utah
county is about to enter suit against Salt
Lake city corporation for damages. There
were some springs on the gentleman's land,
the water from which he turned into
reservoir, to be drawn off as required for
irrigation His springs suddenly ceased to
flow. his reservoir went dry, and he attri-
b,ites his misfortune to the doings of this
municipality. The city has driven three or
four score wells in the vicinity of the COM
plaiuants land; that is to say, from one to
three miles distant There is a vigorous
flow from these wells, and the gentleman
assumes that the water comes from his
springs. He proposes to go to the courts
for a rectifcation of the matter, and is re
ported to have the opinion of the dis
tinguished iurist, Judge COOLEY, to sup
port him.
THE HERALD sincerely hopes that this
suit will be brought, and that it will be
tried, sup to the handle,'' to use layman's
phrase. We hope there will be no attempt
to bring about a compromise, and there
will be no payment of suppositional dam
AGES. Ever since there have been drive
wells in this country there has been talk of
damage suits and injunctions. The flow
from some wells has grown weaker and a
neighbor well is charged with the respon-
sibility. A well ceases to run and the
owner thinks that somebody above or
below him has taken the stream.
OF course, it is all guess-worG, for nobody
has traced the source of the supply, and
nobody has been able to- definitely say
whether or not another mans pipe runs
into the stream first tapped by him.
Then again, it would be proper for US all
10 know Just what our rights are in the
matter. II man can locate, pre-empt and
obtain title to, a subterranean stream, as
he can to mineral ledge, and keep every
body else of, it will be well for all to know
IL that there may be no further driving
of wells, lest there may be tapping Of
streams already owned. Heretofore it has
been thought that the owner of land
had the right to do as he pleased
with it so far as digging wells
was concerned. If he wanted to drive a
hollow tube to China, and draw water from
the Yellow river, it was generally con
ceded that he had the right to proceed with
the driving The theory of those who for
the past three or four years have been
threatening to bring injunction and damage
suits is contrary to the popular opinion,
and it is time that we knew, iudicially,
which is correct.
Il is needless to remark that TIE HER
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drive as many wells as he pleases on his
land, and RICHARD ROE can drive to
his hearts. content in his soil, just
across the road, without regard to the
effect that the wells may have
on each other. We take not the least stock
in the claim that a man can blindly drive a
pipe into the ground, and if he strikes
water the stream becomes his from mouth
to source. It seems to US that such a
proposition is preposterous. If it can be
maintained there will be an end to we'll
boring, the first man to get his pipe into
water putting an injunction on everybody
else in the neighborhood, and if he can
prevent interference with the underground
stream half a mile from his well, he can do
the same thing fifty miles away
We trust the Utah county man will
go ahead with his suit. His case
seems to be as good a one as is likely to
arise, and the decision in that will be a
precedent for others who are complaining
about the stealing" of their sub-surface
water. The city can better defend dam
age suit of this character than an indi-
vidual and there are not many private
wells hereabouts worth fighting about,
while the city appears to have some that
will stand a spirited defense.
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THE DRUM CORPS,
damages

1t is really gratifying that the drum
corps, the formation of which hes already
been noted. has declared itself partisan
organizations otherwise we might have re-
NAMED in ignorance of its political com
pleXion, and while drinking in the rich
notes of its exhilarating strains have sup
posed it was Democratic while in reality
it was Republican drink, and vice versa.
This paper has all along believed in pol
itical organization as conducive to regu-
larity and public convenience. 1t has al
ways had preference as between either
of the national or local organizations, and
has never been timid or uncertain in its
expressions Of such preference. True,
there is slight difference between a
newspaper and drum corps, but then are
not both after all swung into line and
given voice by individuals!
The fact that the Drum Corps 1--WE might
as well commence capitalizing it now is a
Liberal organization, having in view the
CARRYING of the next city election by that
party, is not matter OF. much concern
the fact that we have it under any circum-
stances is good enough for the present,
even though it advocated the cause of the
chief Liberal himself and used sulphur for
its Examinations.
This need not settle the case, however
at least, not right away. No one can be SO
dull of comprehension as not to understand
that a Drum Corps is a potent factor in
political contests, but of course it is not
the only one. Undoubtedly there is an
argument in the rub-a-dub, bang, boom,
clatter and ding-dong Of Drum Corps peo-
pie who have withstood the fiery phillipics
of such as our loved but absent JESSIE
BROWN POWERS, the ponderous arguments
of his organ and the gentle influences of a
willing and capable treat-naster, have
melted all at once and become as gum in the
laws of Sixth ward belle in the presence
of the sweet and refined strains of gentle
strainers composing well organized and
disciplined Drum Corps.
Go in, gentlemen, and win. Carry the
city, the territory, and the news to MARY.
Toujours rduddce, as the Boulangists say.
If one Drum Corps isn't enough, let US
have two, three, or as many as may be re-
quired. Let them become so popular that
no well regulated family can get along with
out one.
Hurrah for the Drum Corps
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OUR NORTHERN TERRITORY

The coast and geodetic survey Of the
United States now has two expeditions on
the way to the northern country, having in
view the defining of the boundary between
Canada and Alaska This means the
Identification and establishment of the
I41st meridian for a distance of about
seven hundred miles from the southern
coast near Mount St. Elias to the shores of
the Arctic ocean. 1t will take about year
and half to complete the task The
greater portion of the route will be through
a difficult and dangerous country, crossing
as it will the wide mountain region where
the Rocky mountains in the northeastern
prolongation are divided into four or five
. 'rallel ranges. North of the mighty
Y Jkon river the surveyors will come into
the Tundra, which extends to the Arctic
ocean. The surveyors will do all they can
this season, which will not be much as the
winter time is about to open
up there and nothing can be done
then through the inclemency of the
weather and the obstacles created thereby.
All the coming fall and winter season the
surveyors will hibernate among the SHOWS
and ice of desolate country where per
haps human feet have never trod before,
and about June next the work will be re
commenced with a will and carried for
ward to completion before stopping again.
The most important practical result of
the expedition will be fixing the boundary
line through the gold bearing region of the
Yukon valley. This portion of the terri
tory in which the parties will operate is
populated TO some extent with miners, who
at present do not know which country they
are in-the United States or Canada. The
government of the latter think we have
placed the boundary line about ninety
miles too far east and if this should prove
correct, we have been drawing pretty
freely on British gold for some time and
were not aware OF it. Apart from all
these considerations is the sent
mental one that neither Great Britain
nor our own country cares about losing any
real property: because, since the acquisi-
ton of Alaska and that long archipelago
which On the map resembles a string Of
sausages and is known as the Aleutian
islands, the former nation for the first
time in It's history has a rival in the matter
of having perpetual sunshine on her domi-
Mons. When the last rays of the evening
sun fall on the most westerly of our islands,
the morning sun is about an hour high on
the most easterly point on the coast of
Maine.
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IT WILL be cheaper and easier to put the
woman ALTHEA TERRY in prison or a
house of correction than to employ deputy
marshals as body guards for the judges
who have the courage to do their duty.
The woman ought to be desperate by this
time, if she is not, and being desperate she
is liable to shoot and take chances on es-
Gaping punishment for her offense. Her
life has been one of sensation and vileness
it would be impossible for her to be any
thing but vile and sensational. She would
delight to pull the trigger on Judge FIELD,
Judge SAWYER, Deputy Marshal NAGLE,
or anybody else the Staying of whom would
bring to her the Infamous notoriety in
which she is best pleased to revel. The
authorities should find some excuse for
placing the creature where she will do the
least harm.
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we NECESSARILY expected the st. Louis
Globe Democrat to 'get off wrong about
the late election in this territory, hence
were not surprised to read in it an edito-
rial paragraph beginning as follows; 1.-THE
defeat of the Mormons few days ago in
the municipal election in Salt Lake city
will not secure the admission of Utah to
statehood, but it will hasten the day when
this will be granted AS the CD has
not, for five years, contained single item
regarding Utah that was correct, if it were
possible to make it otherwise, the above is
in line with the eternal fitness of things in
the sanctum of our st. Louis contemporary.
As there has been no municipal election in
Salt Lake city for eighteen months the
value of the GLobe-DemocrGt'S information
and comments will be apparent.
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Poor MAURICE McGRATH is what all
who know the circumstances which clouded
his closing years and are humanely dis
posed will now say, while his voice is for
ever silent and his limbs no longer move.
He was, in truth, "a fellow of infinite jest,
of most excellent fancy;" and, while he
must have had at least one enemy besides
himself, that would seem to fill the entire
figure That he suffered and caused his
family to suffer for another's wrong-doing
is now to be received as a fact, because
coming from his own mouth at time
when evasion or falsehood would be fruit
less to him, even if any useful purpose
could be gained to others. 1t is a dark
mystery that beclouds his recent career,
one that we hope may some day be cleared
up and full justice be melted out for the
sake of those who survive him, if for no
other reason.