The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-06-08

DIR. Hollister was pleasantly surprised
a few days ago by discovering, between
the leaves of an old medical book that
used to belong to his father who was a
physician, satin badge of the stirring
days of 1874 when Henry Clay was the
idol of the people but could never reach
the coveted goal of the presidency. The
top of the badge has the legent 'Clay
now, Polk never" On shield below
the legend, and above the picture of
Clay are the words, tHe protects our
labor which reminds one that the con-
test between free trade and protection
had occupied the attention of politicians
years before the republican party came
into existence. Below the picture are
the words ga nations choice, Theodore
Freylinghuysen of New Jersey, the far
mer of Ashland. ia
The Oregonian of today says .sThe
returns are still far from satisfactory,
but enough is known to be almost Ger
tain who has been elected. sHermann's
majority in the first district is already
over 1000. Ellis in the second district
will have :, close Ito $500 majority.
Moore's majority for supreme judge is
much less and will hardly exceed l 500.
Chamberlain receivd all the votes his
friends. claimed for him, and now leads
Webster by 500. The peoples party has
not made SO good showing as indicated
yesterday, although its adherents claim
their strongholds in the back counties
have not yet been heard from. From
present appearances, the legislature will
stand: Senate republicans ls, demo-
Gratis II; house-republicans So, demo-
Gratis "a.
Here are the contents of one pocket of
six year old Dalles boy. They were
taken out yesterday afternoon, in the
presence of four persons who will verify
this statement, if any one doubts: II
marbles, fish (slightly decomposed),
tobacco tags, 2 sticks, L brass hair orna-
ment, broken poker chip, 3 pebbles, l
pants buckle, 8 strings, 1 iron rod,
Sunday school papers, L envelope, 1
sheet of writing paper, 1 paste board
card, i iron ring, brass button. / hand
kerchief, tin saw (made by himself), 1
leaf cooking receipts, 1 marble sack, /
squirrel skin and l newspaper clipping.
1t isa little unfortunate that the boy
only has one pocket. 1t was the fish
gave him away. 1t smelled so loud that
his mother made him undress while she
washed him all over. Still he smelled,
when the investigation began with the
discovery of the decomposed fish and
the other contents of his, lone pocket.
THE CHRONICLE dispatches speak Of
the magnitude of the telegraphing work
in Minneapolis today incident to the
convention, and estimate that an oper-
ator has to handle $500 a; day to gel
through the stack. Noticing stack in
the Western Union telegraph Office here
as this Minneapolis report was taken off
we inquired of Mr.. Bale Johnson, The
| Dalles operator how far that compared
with this "one-horse town." where there
isn'ta rood of agricultural land within
forty miles, nor a peach tree, nor 6
straw wberry plant, nor an OK, or COW
nor sheep. nor horse; nothing bu
lizards and dts, according to the esti
mate of some people; and we were in
formed that The Dalles Office, yesterday
received 1914 words, and sent 1850
making 1924 words handled by Mr.
Johnson. This does not include words
in checks, addresses and signatures,
which would run the amount up 500 o.
600 more. We simply give the facts
4 Draw yot1r own conclusions as to Th,
Dalles for business point.