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Year: 1877

A Democratic correspondent
of the Portland Standard makes
the following sensible sugges-
tions in regard to the treatment
Of Senator Mitchell: "He was
elected as a Republican by Re
publicans. His individual and
political shortcomings are not
improper matters for investiga-
ton. Especially Democrats may
be expected to raise every pos
sible objection to him, as the
leader of the Republican party
in this State. But he is a Sena


tor Of this State and is an active
man. His untiring energy has
come to be marked at Washing
ton, and he is laboring to do
what he can, in his way, for the
State he represents; and If any
low character, even if the editor
of the Oregonian, filled the place
[ do not think the people of Or
egon would care to have him
traduced and his influence for
the welfare of the State destroy


ed. l am a Democrat, and as a
Democrat [ shall oppose Mr..
Mltchells reelection. But l
hope Mr.. Mitchell will accom-
plish all he can for Oregon and
1 for one Will praise him for it. -


Why is not this correct in
principle? By all equitable prin-
eiples the Devil is entitled to
what is justly due him; yet there
are some so bigoted that they
attempt on every occasion to
smirch over every good public
act of Senator Mitchell with al
Iusions to his indiscretions as a
young man, committed a score Of
years ago, and known only to
bis constituents through the tes-
timony of others and his own
confessions. When the exposi-
Year: 1877

The New York Herald says Bos-
ton is fond of the wild exhiliration
and character of a lecture. Indul-
gence in lectures is species of de
bauchery into which she throws
herself with all the frantic impulse
of a nature unused to restraint. As
is the opium habit or the cocktail
habit with ordinary humanity, so is
the lecture habit with that Athenian
public. Consequently Mr.. Hall. in
going to Boston with lecture, plays
upon the weaknesses of the Boston
ese and may take the place by storm.
But let him beware how he adopts
the fancy they have there that when
he has once conquered Boston the
rest Of the world is easy.
Year: 1877

Mind is vastly more import
ant than muscle, and civiliza-
tion requires men of brains. 1t
is not wise that all men should
make their living by tent max
ing. The law of the division OF
labor is the best law Of civillza
ton. There is a great deal OF
common work to be done, great
deal Of drudgery to be gone
through with. The world re-
quires it and must have 1t. The
day it is diminished we will &c
back ward. The true, honest la
Dor is respectable and in the
truest sense honorable. A man
who is voluntarily idle is not en-
titled to respect. 1t is all right
going up to a state of ease and
riches, but it is the coming
down that is unpleasant. Peter,
the Emperor Of Russia, in a ship
yard and on the deck of a YES
sci; St. Paul, making tents for a
livelihood, were examples to be
remembered, and neither were
thought the less Of because
they worked.
Year: 1877

| The elder DIR. Beecher, on be-
ing challenged by young slang
whanger to theological discus
sion, declined, saying that when
he was a student, an animal
crossed his path one night, at
which he discharged a book he
was carrying under his arm.-
The animal proved to be skunk
from which he received an ad-
monition which had ever after
deferred him from conflict with
that kind of animal. Our eXpe-
rience with the Port Townsend
specimen Of the odorous animal
has been attended with similar
results, though not under like
provocation. 1t is one of the
habits OF this filthy creature to
steal the burrow and attempt to
assume the character of more
reputable ANIMALS. We received
q full charge Of its vile odors for
exposing the fact that a Black
Republican skunk had stolen the
hole and was assuming the char
acter Of Democratic wood
chuck. He might have evaded
the issue if he had not at once
resorted to the skunk's weapon,
which betrayed its real charac-
ter.


The filthy odor which has been
discharged upon US, only exposes
the nature OF the animal, with
out any personal injury. That
the keepers Of squaw brothels
and other dens OF intamy, who
use the brute to befoul others,
enjoy the odor and will continue
to maintain it as a pet, is very
natural. But that any decent
Democrat will continue to toler-
ate it under the guise of wood
chuck, when all it's odors mani
fest the skunk, we do not be-
licye.
Year: 1877

Mr. Smithe ,of the Cambridge Chronicle,
in copying some notices of his editoria
labors in Henry county, by the press of
this city and vicinity, says:


These friendly notices are highly appre-
ciated. They exhibit an intelligent appre-
citation of what we have sought to accom-
plish in the Chronicle, and of the labor We
have bestowed upon it. Those writer's know
how much more time and trouble it costs to
prepare two inch item of local news. than
a two column installment of select reading.
The one often involves hours of search and
inquiry upon the street, or among records,
for fact to be expressed in single line
while the other involves only slashing run
through half-d newspapers with q
pair of scissors. The public rarely APP
preciates what it costs to prepare a column
of fresh local news, every other item o.
which often will hesitate a trip to some
other part of the town, and the re
suit Of which, when obtained, makes
but little show in the newspaper page
beside the columns of selected matte
that another paper may prepare in few
minutes. 1t is. therefore. the more crate
full to us when appreciation like the abov
is expressed.
Year: 1877

This is the company which proposes to
lease the Eggleston wooden mill property
10 this city, which is now idle, and fit it up
for their business, We hope they will be
encouraged to do SO.
Year: 1877

The special New York correspondent
of the Philadelphia Times thus describes
the remarkable man who owns the
Union Pacific railroad:


Jay Gould is conservative capitalist.
He owns the only railroad between the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, except at
Panama. His ambition and desire is
to keep that property up to dividend
paying figure. Everybody predicted
that it would break him, but by retain
ing great legal counsel and having an
inherently strong case, Gould won two
great suits for his rights in the railroad,
and meantime squelched his enemies in
Pacific Mail, the only active rival to
his railroad. He got judgment against
the Mail company for moneys advanced,
etc., and made them pay him about S2,-
100000 from an empty exchequer.
This loss crippled the company and
virtually threw it out of competition.
Gould was inexhaustible in resources,
both pecuniary and legal. His wealth
is supposed to be underrated. His au-
dacity is startling. He pays for infor-
nation more than the elder Bennett
ever paid for news. He works night
and day, and is the only man to whom
the street phrase does not apply, "that
early information and large bank ac-
count will burst anybody
Year: 1877

1t is generally believed even among
the best horsemen in the country, that
glanders is quite prevalent among
horses. Many valuable animal has
been killed by direction of his owner
because of an offensive discharge from
the nostrils, which has been considered
as a pure indication that the horse is
affected with that dreaded glanders.
The fact is that cases of glanders are
few and far between. G. d. House,
the veterinary dentist, says that in his
experience he has never known but two
cases, although he has known of
hundreds of instances when horses
have been killed because they were
supposed to be affected with this disease.
The whole trouble arises from neglect
of the teeth.


Yesterday, Mr.. House operated upon
the horses Of the Hambletonian breed
ing studs, of DR.. Flagg, c.. NJ. Dyer :,
Washburn 81 Vaughn and w. G. Strong,
pulling or cutting, or filing the teeth of
nearly every animal he examined. In
one horses mouth the wolf teeth
were found to be entirely covered by
the gum, and detached from the jaw,
so that every time the bit was moved in
the horses mouth these teeth were
turned, crowded and jammed in the
gum, of course, causing the horse to
Jump and run. Another case was
found where the grinders had been
worn rough and uneven, and were
slightly displaced, SO that the horse in
eating was continually grinding away
upon the inner lining of the mouth,
keeping it constantly raw and painful,
and of course making the beast cross
and irritable. Still another case was
where one of a colts temporary teeth,
after being partially forced from its
place by the second teeth, had remain.
ed fastened by one fang, and in such g
position as to grind continually upon
the gum while the animal was feeding
and yet so nicely had the decayine
tooth been lodged that its presence was
only detected by the offensive odol
! arising therefrom. Several cases oi
Year: 1877

During the dispute over the presi-
dency in the last session of Congress, a
bill to provide for the payment of the
Indebtedness of the several Pacific
railways to the government was some
what lost sight of by the public, and
was finally dropped for want of time.
The subject was first brought forward
by the Union Pacific railroad company
in a letter from Sidney Dillen, its
president, to the secretary of the treas
ury, dated February 9, 1876. The
following table shows the Indebtedness
of the several companies to the govern
ment as returned in the public debt
statement for July, and as it will be at
the maturity Of the subsidy bonds,
twenty years hence, supposing that in
the meantime they repay one-quarter of
the accruing interest in the way of
t,.o,, TO
Year: 1877

We knew they were married as soon as
they got seated together in the cars. They
were both good looking, and looked as if
they were made for each other "My
dear" said She, with an expression of
alarm, GIVE left my new fan at the hotel"


"Yes, you're so carcless-you'rc always
losing things" said he, fumbling over the
contents of his coat pocket. % Now saw
that you would leave your fan, and grab
bed it at the last moment, and here it is
One must have thcir thoughts about them
while on their travels" a few moments
of silence succeeded, when she quietly re-
marked:


"This train is being delayed. Won't
you look at your watch, Ned?'


lie thrust his hand in his watch pocket,
and then jumping from his seat, almost
wild, exclaimed, Give left my watch, as
sure as the world, under the pillow at the
hotel. Cost $500. must 60 back and get
it. We must wait till next train. Come,
dear, the cars will be off in iiff-"


They did move at that very moment, and
he fell back into his seat, hot with perspi-
ration.


"Well, l can telegraph from Farming
ham, and l suppose they're honest at
Parkcrs."


Don't give yourself any trouble, my
dear. But one must have their thoughts
about them while travelling, and as had
mine about me when l saw that you didn't
take your watch after you pronounced
everything in readiness took the liberty
to bring it myself, and here it is.''


Well he did look happy, and there is no
knowing what demonstrations of affection
he would not have made had not all the
surrounding passengers been interested in
what had occurred already.
Year: 1877

From time immemorial there has been
something about college jokes which makes
even those who do not approve of them
laugh. In the medical museum of Dart
mouth College is the skeleton of Evans, an
executed murderer. The other morning it
was seen hung by the neck between the
flag-staffs in the campus, dressed in duster
and tall hat, with an umbrella and carpet
bag. They cut the late Mr.. Evans down
and carried him back to his case in the
museum, but nobody knows who took him
therefrom and doomed him to second
and posthumous suspension.
Year: 1877

In all diseases affecting these organs, Mhether
they secrete too much or too little water or vaeta


er they be afflicted with stone or gravel or with
aches and pains setteled in the oins over the reg
ions of the kidneys, these Pills should be taken ae
cording TO the printed directions, and the Oint-
ment should be well rubbed into the small of the
back az bed Time This treatment will give almost
immediate relief when all other means have failed
Year: 1877

The New York World says landlords in
that city are making up their minds to IL
general fall in rents, not because they see
any clear prospect OF a reduction OF taxes.
but because they see no clear prospect of an
increase in the demand for houses and
stores.
Year: 1877

Volumes might be filed with proof from all parts of
the world TO prove that remedy has ever been dis
covered in the whole history of medicine that acts so
promptly even in the worst of pulmonary dis
ease. \ good appetite. complete digestion strength


and disposition for active exercise, is follow
its use. If you have been lamperng with the many
articles put out by persons totally ignorant of the
science of medicine in theory or practice and ynur
case been neglected the cough deep puruleut and
bloody eNpectoraton, pain and oppression sore
throat dlarrhca night SWeatS fever. parChcd skin,
you will find in DIR. SWAYNE'S COMPOUND your only
hope of cure. Ifthe bowels are costive or headache
accompanies your disease. the use of SwAYNES SAR-
SAPARIlIA and TAr PILLS will remove it, Thirty
years experience. and the increasing popularity of
Year: 1877

Money men, who have not FORGOTTEN that he spurned
the Alien platform in 1874. Ex-Speaker Converse'
who seemed to have the game in his grasp Tort
ight since, hoored by the charges against Hm
of corrupt conduct in the Legislature. Few persons
believed them true. but many thought it unsafe to
nominate a man who would have TO defend himseiI
throughout the canvass. As to Messrs vance ana
Rice. they were strong local candidates out
were never really formidable. The strength
of Mr.. Bishop consisted IN his lack OF
strength. a paradox not uncommon in poll
ties He was unknown, and so had no
enemies. Besides ne was not likely to be IN any
bolv's way for the senatorshp Ii IL not improbable
that the quality Of comparative obScunty which
made him so strong in the Convention Will help hlm
in t1e canvass He is a Cincinnati wholesale groeer'
who has been in business for over thirty years, aLd
has accumulated a fortune. His only experience IN
public life was as a member of the constitutional
Convention whose work WIS showed under by an
adverse majority of over 100000 votes. The ambl-
tons Ewing araspeI after too much q has Just been
elected to Congress, and now he Thought he would
like the Governorship from which it would be an
easy step to the Senatorshp; and then, with the
prestige of three such successes in fifteen months,
the Presidency would be an easy prize IN 1850.


The PLATFORM at first hearing. appears to be drawn
with good deal of sagacity. IL is very positive on

back men are pacifed, and the silver men have the
old dollar jinged in their ears As to the resolution
demurrng 10 the registry law, it is old Democratic
doctrine. That party never wanted obstacles thrown
in the way of voting early and often Inc rest OF
the platform is cleverly put TO catch votes


Altogether, it was a succes ful days work The
ballotng for the places on the ticket below the
Governor is still going at this writing, but If the
reader cares for a proceeding that scarcely IN
terests the Convention enough to hold IL together
he is referred to the Associated Press reports.


1Op. NIT turns out, on further investigation OF
Mr.. Bishops inconspicuous record that III 1o34 he
ran for Mayor of Cincinnati on the Know-Nothng
ticket circumstance which the Republicans VIII be
sure to make the most of. good deal of dissatis-
faction prevails among the sturdy Old-fashioneG
Democrats to ind that al the leading men of the
party have been slaughtered by the Convention, and
a new man taken up who, they say, would never
have been heard of If he had not been rich.
Year: 1877

DESTRUCTION OF MOUNTAIN.-At Tar
entaise, in the Savoy Alps, mountain
nearly 6 900 feet high has been reported as
"crumbling away" although geologists are
of the opinion that the external dislecation
of stones and rubbish is only the result of
some plutonic change affecting the position
of the strata. For nearly a month the
surface of the mountain has appeared to be
in a state of dismemberment. Great and
small masses of the ancient schists of
which the mountain is composed have been
rolling down its steep slopes like stony
avalanche. Forests of pines have slidden
down, or been overwhelmed by the debris
which has been poured over them. Huge
rocks of fifty cubic yards size have been let
loose from their ancient moorings, and
rolled down distance of 5000 feet in the
space of half a minute, leaping as much
as 900 and 1900 feet at a bound, and
fnally getting dashed to pieces at the
bottom. The fragments of rock which
have thus been detached have accumulated
at the foot of the mountain Of which not
long ago they formed part, and have there
formed a conical hill 1000 feet in diameter
at the base, and nearly 800 feet across the
top. The noise produced by the disloca-
ton of the rock masses, and the huring of
stones through the air, is stated to have
been terrific, and we can readily under
stand that two villages in the neighborhood
have suffered very disastrously Jherefrom.
There can be little doubt that the phe-
nomenon is due neither to the penetration
of water into the strata 30 as to loosen
them, nor to actual volcanic disturbance
but that it is one among the uLdreds, if
not thousands, of the plutonic changes
which for ages have been crumpling up the
strata of the Alpine range.
Year: 1877




A gentleman of Virginia City, who has
been taking a look among the old, abau-
doned mines of Truckee district, made o
critical examination of the musical noun
tain, of which good deal was heard some
years ago, when the mines were first dis
covered. Some of the miners pitched
their tents at the foot of the mountain,
and were not little surprised and puzzled
at hearing, during the quiet hours of the
night, tinkIing sounds that seemed to per-
wade the whole atmosphere, coming from
they could not tell where. The sount Q
were not unlike those of small music
box. At times they supposed that the
sounds were caused by the winds playing
among the twigs on the side of the noun
tain, but they found that this solution
would not answer, as the same bushes were
found everywhere, while the musical
sounds were heard nowhere else than on the
side of the mountain at the foot of which
they were camped. They spent much time
in scouting about and listening of nights
and quiet hours during the day, and at
last tracked the strange sounds to q great
bed of small pieces of rock that covered
the slope of the mountain. These bits of
rock were found Co be quite sonorous, and
the miners concluded that the sounds they
emitted were caused by the action of the
wind among them. The gentleman who
recently visited the mountain says he went
to it expecting to find good deal of hum
Dug, D0G found IL much more OF curloslGy
than he had anticipated, the mingled tink-
Iiugs much resembling the sounds of an
Aolian harp, and frequently attaining
startling degree of loudness and distinct
ness. The sounds seem to rise and fall,
approach and recede, as though caused or
governed by the wind. On a close exam
ination 1t was found that the small fakes
of rock covering the face of the mountain
contains large per cent. of iron. This iron
is supposed to be magnetic, and there ap-
pears to be a constant motion among the
chips of it, which appear TO cover the
mauy places. The whole drift of broken
rock seems to be moving down the slope of
the mountain with the slow, creeping mo-
tion of the glacier, and the slipping over
each other of the fragments composing the
mass is thought to cause the tinkling
sounds, which are so numerous as to min
gle and rise into single strong muscular
murmar.
Year: 1877

hallway age.


The evidences that the hard times have
spent their force and that q steady improve
ment in all branches of business has begun,
are now too plainly to be seen on every
hand for the most Respondent to doubt
their existence. The last bugbear of the
farmers, tha fear that the corn would be-
ruined by the frost, has now ceased to
alarm, as for the most part this crop is too
far advanced to be seriously Injured, even
if cold weather should set in at once, as ia
not at all probable. AS to the harvests
generally, they have perhaps never before
been equalled 8, that the farmers are
ensured good return for their labors, the
working masses are afforded food at mod
crate prices, and the great avenues of trans
portatlon are crowded with the eastward
flow of harvests and tho return flow of the
comforts and luxuries which are sent in
exchange. AS no small encouragement, we
may men tion also the fact that our National
currency has reached the highest figure it
has knOwn-the difference between it and
gold having been quoted the other day at
less than per cenJ.-so that there is little
fear of the terrible results which have been
predicted by come in case of fspecie resump-
ton. One of the very best features of the
whole outlook is the fact that the railways
have ceased to cut each others throats, aud
are all charging reasonably remunerative
rates for the immense business which is
pouring in upon them. AS a consequence,
their earnings are showing a marked i'm
provement and sff1rd the cheering hope
that the companies will not only be able to
pay their employees living wages, but that
they will gradually become profitable to
their proprletors.
Year: 1877

THIS nearest fixed star is 226 400 times moro
distant from us than is the sun. Figures con-
can conceive of triliion, much less of 24 tril.
lions of miles. A spider thread on that star
would blot out the space between sun and
earth. Oar luminary would appear as small
brilliant dot, our earth, even if it were not
lost in the solar effulgence, would be absolute


ly and mathematically invisible. And this on
the nearest fixed star, if we proceeded further
into the star depths our sun itself would dwin-
die smaller and smaller and disappear long be-
fore the stars were reached which now form
the limit of our imperfect Observations. If
any fixed star is inhabited, the inhabitants are
not merely ignorant of our earth but of all
the other planets of the solar system, all might
be swept away by some vast cataclysm and the
rest of the universe would be none the wiser
Year: 1877

One of the most important questions of the
day that OF prices in which there is often very great
discrepancies adjoining stores To gain custom
some dealers palm IF inferior goods at low prices
giving customers to understand that they are making
bargains. OF the deception is soon discovered
and always results in of trade But when long
estab ed house and one whose reputation for rel-
ability is universally known as is that OF ME- j. a.
BraselmAn, corner st. Andrew and Magazine streets
announces that prices down and goods may be
obtained at great bargains people buy almost with
their eyes shut for in case like this the reductons
are always the resu Of enterprise and the judciouS
investment Of . large capital. Mr.. BrasemAn an
nOunces on the h page of days STAR list Of goods
and prices which should command the cArsful attention
Of ell our roAders.
Year: 1877

ALBANY, May 1.-The Senate Committee on
Insurance had further hearing this afternoon on the
Graham Insurance bill. John V. /. Pruyn appeared or
the Mutual Life Insurance Company, Of which be is
trustee and said that the passage ot the Graham bill
would end the connection OF all strong and Trustworthy
men in the State with insurance companies because Of
the peual provisions incorporated in it, lie argued at
lcnoth against it, some Of the requirements made
insurance companies he characterized tdc extreme OF
folly large number OF Insurance men from New YORK
xt.4-
Year: 1877

PHILADELPHIA, May 17.-Quigly, the wife
murderer was hanged this morning On the scafold he
betrayed no emotion and met his fate with quiet
ton His spiritual advisers assert their conviction OF his
sncere repentance The execution conducted by the
Sheriff in the presence of his deputes, the prison OIL
cials the usual jury and representatives OF press


Al "A minutes after ~ o'clock the drop fell the an