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Year: 1877

The Rev. DR.. Swing, of Chicago, es
tablishes his popularity with woman
by saying: "When woman thus came
into the world as a lovable or admir-.
able creature, she came carrying the
balance Of power because tmorals fol.
low sentiment more than they follow
philosophy. When wo love we obey,
be it infant, or parent, or schoolmas.
ter, or friend. Love secures obedience
at once. The providence, therefore,
which sent woman into the world to
be esteemed and admired made her to
be . great high priestess at the altar
of goodness. There is little doubt that
had woman not passed into political
and social bondage in savage times
and places when the brutal had dis
placed the human; that, had woman
been free all through historic periods
she would have dragged the world
along after3her to a moral height far
above the condition of the present. .
Year: 1877

In the Senate on the 2lst the post.
office appropriation bill aud the Legislature,
judicial and executive appropriation bills
we're considered ut length and passed.


In the House on the 2lst the report
ne 1essd sS1a snS he
mainder of the session was devoted to the
consideration ofthe sundry civil appropria-
ton bill.


In the Senate on the 22d the only
business Of public interest was the consider
alton and passage Of the deficiency aplropria-
tion bill. The naval appropriation bill was
then considered but not acted on. l. adds
nearly four and one halt millions to the Houss
bill.


The entire time of the House on the
sd was devoted to the Sundry civil service
appropriation bill.
Year: 1877

That cunning seems to be a part of
insanity is illustrated in the killing OF
Erskine Barrot, keeper in the insane
asylum at Northampton, Mass. lie
was found with his throat cut in the
ward of which he had charge, and
one or more of eight maniacs did it, yet
it is impossible to ascertain the facts.
Several had blood. marks on their hands
or clothing, but all deny the deed.
OF course there is no moral responsible
;tv
Year: 1877

IT Is rather a singular provision OF law in
Florida that no man who has lost leg or an
arm shall be taxed IN his business unless he
happens 10 be a manufacturer OF seller OF
ardent spirits.
Year: 1877

Last year wagon and carriage manu-
featuring company of South Bend, Ind,
presented each of their army OF work
men (about nine hundred in ally with a
twelve-month subscription to weekly
newspaper, the employee signlfy1ng
whichever paper he desired to take. The
aggregate expense of this token OF good
viii to their workmen by the company
was large sum of money, but they pro-
pose to incur it again, and as a prehm--
nary step, have taken vote OF the
force to see how many would prefer a
turkey instead of the newspaper. Only
three of the entire number expresst q q
choice for the turkey.


The course of manufacturing com
pany that will have a'care for the intel
fectual well-being of its men, indepen'
dent of their attitude each to the other,
AZ EMPLOYER and employed, ina pecunl'
ary point of view, cannot be too strong,
" commended. The so-called natural
antagonism between capital and labor
will have hard work to assert itself when
capital thus takes labor by the hand and
saws: "Come up higher" The ex-
ample of the company in this matter is
worthy of imitation by manufacturers
throughout the country, and the press
would do well to give them a gentle
hint to that effect BY bringing the one
under consideration 10 their acsics'
Year: 1877

A group of elegantly dressed young
ladies met in one of the streets Of New
York, and stopped to talk together. Near
them rough looking man was on his
knees repairing the pavement, and un-
noticed by the young girls, who talked
loudly, fast and slangy. At the sound OF
one of their expressions the man rose to
his feet and came toward them. Don't
say those things again" he said, looking
squarely at the lady who had last spoken;
"you wouldn't if you knew what they
meant" Silence fell on the noisy group.
The man, realizing what he had done,
seemed abashed, and turned away. The
young lady to whom he had spoken took
a step toward him and impulsively thrust
out delicately gloved hand. "We all
thank you, sir, she said, in clear, ringing
tones. He grasped his trowel in his left
hand, while with his right, soiled with
his honest work, he raised his ragged cap
with a grace that showed the gentleman
in the bsicklaysr, and silently returned sa
his place.
Year: 1877

The detection of another thief In the
cash-room of the United States treasury
affords Washington correspondent the
opportunity of calling attention to the
superiority of women over men IN resist
ing temptation. :,


Since the first greenback was printed
the counting and putting up OF packages
of money have devolved entirely upon
girls and matrons. There are few III
office now who have been there from the
beginning, and billions of dollars have
passed through their hands without the
fraction of dollar sticking. Have they
been rewarded2 No! Numbers OF men
like Winslow, the last thief caught, have
been appointed by political influence at
salaries double those paid women and
these experienced, tried and trusted wo-
men, who cannot be we'll dispensed with,
are not only never promoted, but are
treated as though they should be thank
full that they are permitted to serve the
government for S75 month. Sometimes
a package that has been counted by a
woman has been found short in the ac-
count, and no matter how innocent the
counter may be, the amount missing ls
taken from her months salary. In al
most every instance of this kind eventu-
ally the thief has been found to be male
messenger, or some man who received the
package from the lady, and abstracted
one or two notes.
Year: 1877

A singularly cunning robbery was
lately perpetrated at Florence. An Eng
lishman accompanied by girl OF eight
cen arrived at fashionable hotel, hired
handsome rooms, paid their bill regular
ly every week, and lived exceedingly
well, but without any foolish expendl-
ture. The man brought with him a
writing bureau, which he placed against
the door of the room which communl-
Gated with the apartment occupied by
his daughter, and she had her escritoire
against the same door in her room.
Soon after their arrival the man visited
q leading jewelers. store, and made sew
eral purchases, paying for them on the
spot, and at length told the jeweler
that he was on the lookout for a really
splendid parure of diamonds, with
which he wished to present his daugh-
ter on her marriage The jeweler said
that in this case he luckily had precisely
the right thing, and forthwith produced
a splendid necklace, which the man ex-
amined, stone by stone, and at length
decided to take for $4,000; but he e1-
planned that he had not so large sum
by him, and must communicate with his
London bankers, and appointed the
Tuesday week following as the day
when the necklace should be bought and
the money paid. On that day the jewel
er repaired to the hotel, and he found his
customer seated at his writing bureau.
He took out bundle of banknotes, and
WAS proceeding to count them, say
ing: "My daughter knows nothing
about this. am preparing a surprise
for her." when there was knock at the
door, and the young lady came in to say
that papa's tailor was waiting to try on
some clothes. Papa instantly closed the
secretaire to conceal the necklace, and,
as she stayed in the room and begun
talking to the jeweler, said he'd 60 and
see the tailor and come back presently.
The young lady stayed some time, and
gave the jeweler the chance OF quite an
agreeable Irritation. At length she said
she really must go. The jeweler then
tried the secretaire, found it locked, and
felt quite happy as to the necklace. He
waited and waited, until, when three
hours had elapsed, he rHng the bell and
told the waiter to tell the gentleman he
could wait no longer. But neither faith
er nor daughter were forthcoming, nor
have they since been seen, nor has the
necklace. 1t was found that a nice little
hole had been made through the door,
and the splendid ornament having been
neatly hooked and landed, the hauler
had quietly stolen away. The de-
spair of the poor ieweler may be i'm
agined.
Year: 1877

An enthusiastic citizen declared, says
San Francisco paper, that an inch OF
rain in this State was worth million
dollars. He certainly did not make an
overestimate in this instance. The agri-
cultural products of this State were
worth last year not less than $40, 600, 600.
With no more rain thsn has fallen this
year up to the tenth of January only the
fruit crop would have matured. Grapes
would have done tolerably well, but the
cereal crops would have been a failure.
Three OF four inches of rain, in addition


what has fallen within the last two
DAYS. will be sufficient to mature most
of these crops. Now that the rain has
come, it brings also promise Of more.
1t has put heart into the whole farming
community. They will shape all their
operations for a dry season-one with
Just enough moisture to bring forward
the crops where the tillage is good.


After the middle of January, and in a
dry season, we cannot expect more than
four or five inches of rain at the most
If this is we'll distributed we shall get
fair crops over considerable area. Ex-
cept on irrigated lands wheat and other
cereals will be failure in the San Joa-
quin valley. Irrigating canals will be
pushed by private enterprise, and those
who can turn water on their laads this
year will probably find their account in
high prices for pasture, hay and grain.
There is little prospect that more than
twelve inches of rain will fall in any OF
the coast counties or in most of the In
terror valleys. 1t is reasonably certain
that it will be relatively dry season.
The present rains will revive the pas
lures, which by fro t. and drought had
been nearly ruined. The grain crops
will be brought forward. In many In
stances grain sown late had not even
sprouted; in others it had terminated
and died. Some fields will have to be
sown again. But in most cases the
rain Will bring out enough dormant seed
to make good start.


Il is quite within bounds to say that
every inch of rain which falls after this
date will be worth a million of dollars
to the State; and every foot of snow on
the mountains will be worth nearly as
much more to the miners.
Year: 1877

The Detroit Free Press reports the
following: He was young man, and he
looked like a student-like one of the
students in attendanceatH Harvard college.
Moreover, his prompt action, as he saw
a loaf of bread on the crosswalk up Wood
ward avenue, went to show that he was
fond of football, and therefore a student
at Harvard. He reasoned that the loaf
had fallen from bakers sleigh, and fur
ther reasoned that it was better for him
to kick it into forty pieces than for some
poor man to find it. He kicked. He
kicked for all he was worth, and uttering
a wall of agony he imped to the fcace
aud leaned against it and swore like a
pirate. The interior of that "lost loaf
of bread was handsome cobblestone,
put there for Just such an emergency
Year: 1877

An ingenious Belgian has contrived an
apparatus for the application to general
elections of the system of the bell punch
and the telegraphic tape combined.
There is to be in his scheme at each poll
ing place one machine for every candi-
date. The voter is to touch the machine
inscribed with the name of the man for
whom he wishes to vote, and the ma
chine records one on the tape or g blue
trip ticket" and rings bell. Each tape
punched with the votes is rolled up on q
graduated scale in such a way as to indi-
cate without counting how many votes
have been cast for each candidate. In
the operation of this machinery all that
the returning boards would have to do
would be to bulldoze the reel on which
that tape has to be wound, and thus they
would swell the majority of favorite
candidate.
Year: 1877

If had known in the morning
How wearily all the day


The words unkind


Would trouble my mind,
said when you went away,
1 had been more careful, darling,
Nor given you needless pain;


But We yex our own


With look and tone
We may never take back again.
For though in quiet evening
You may give us the kiss Of peace,
Yet it might be


That never for me
The pain of the heart should cease.
How many go forth in the morning
That never come back at night!
And hearts have broken


For harsh words spoken
That sorrow can ne'er set right.
We have careful thoughts for the stranger
And smiles for the sometime guest;
But oft for our own


The bitter tone,
Though we love our own the best.
All lips with curse impatient
All brow with that look Of scorn
Twere cruel fate.


Were the night too late
TO undo the work of the morn.
Year: 1877

HEALTH AND PoLIcE.-We direct the
attention of the city authorities to the pools
of water standing on the sides of streets
and allies in various places in the city.
These pools of water should be drained of
before they breed any more disease. The
only reason why Albany Is not the health
lest city In Oregon is her lack of proper


irainage-and an efficient system of drain
age must be adopted, or else we shall have
one of the most unhealthy places in the
State, place for diphtheria and fevers un-
numbered TO carry our people to the tomb.
Year: 1877

ATTEMPT AT WHOLESALE PoIsoNTNG:-
Last Saturday morning Dept. Sheriff Geo.
Humphrey went to the pump in front of
the Court House for pitcher of water
He had some trotiblc In making the pump
work; but after little work succeeded In
forcing from the pump a paper bag "a pa
per made for putting up fire eut chewing
tobacco) containing some kind of powder.
Mr.. H.. concluding he would like to know
what the powder was, placed it in compe-
tent hands, and after careful analysis it
was pronounced arsenic. This looks like
an attempt on the part of some one at
wholesale poisoning.
Year: 1877

DR.. W. r. Goodwin exhibited in town. a few
days ago, four-legged chicken, hatched on
his farm Two Of the legs were in the usual
place and the other two where the tail ought
to be, so that the chick might stand upright
when it wants to. And Mr.. Wilmer Ellison
has a turkey with but one eye, like a cyclops,
only that its eye is not in the middle of its
forehead bnt in the proper place at the side Of
its head. Where the other eye should have
been is an ear. Its bills are crossed like pair
Of scissors. These fowl monstrosities seem to
be plenty this year.
Year: 1877

The base ball match that came off at Odessa
last Saturday afternoon, between the Odessa
club and the Independent or "Spotted Tair'
club of this town, proved to be failure on the
part of the sSpotted Tair' club, owing to
being out Of practice and not understanding
the game thoroughly. We will be ready for
them again in few weeks, if we have luck
and plenty Of it, and will roll up big score
for the "spotted Tails" Practice up boys
and we will show them how the cat jumps the
next time. SPoTTED TAIL.
Year: 1877

Gen. Nathan Goff, of West Virginia, in
his recent address on the occasion of the dec
oration of the graves of the Federal dead at
Arlington, said


81 would lie false to you, recreant to duty.
unmindful of these dead, were I to ssy aught
else to-day than feel, or fail to speak as smy
heart dictates. The fame of an American
soldier is a jewel of inestimable value to the
American citizen. There fell not in our civil
war, on the field of honorable strife, SOL
dier, Federal or Confederate, of whose bravery
l am not proud, in whose willingness to die
for the Tig ght, ain the light God gave him to
see right in" have not pride, and at whose
grave will not pause to make my floral of
fering and say, "peace to his ashes" Some
of the same mothers, children of the same
household. men of the same blood, bts5s
alike in battle, pray, tell me why they are
not sublime in death, even though some were
mistaken in life. The victorious soldier
who has no regard for his yanquished foe,
and no respect for their dead, fails to honor
the memory of his disparted brother, and
sullies the reputation of his living comrade.
If the enemy were without character, the vic
tory was without fame. If the foe was with
out courage, the triumph brought no glory"
Year: 1877

HoRRID THREATS OF ARsoN.-A dis.
patch from Washington to the Times
proves that the carpet-baggers and scala
wags in Louisiana are urging the negroes


burn and destroy property, and no
doubt they are guilty of urging them to
commit murder and rape alse. The dis
patch says:


"Just when Cameron's boy, John Pat
terson, had made his last somersault and
assured the President of his support in
his Southern policy, Kellogg breaks
forth in this strain: "Why,D said he,
speaking of what he terms Chamberlain's
cowardly abdication, do you think that
II Packard was in a small place like
Chamber lain he would ever surrender 2
No, sir, he wouldn't. Suppose now he
had his headquarters in the Plaauemine.
where the colored predominates, why he
wsuld have fifteen thousand colored
men with white officers In the field to
sustain him, tell you the White League
there would have enough to do to look
out for their homes. Why, every colored
servant In the employ of those belonging
to the White League had his little bottle
OF coal oil ready for the match, and
when collision comes, if it does come.
the White Leaguers will not have time
to be fighting for Nichols in New Or
leans, but will be needed home TO look
out forItheir property Packard is made
OF sterner stuff than Chamberlain, and
ne means to defend his title and the
rights OF those who elected him"
Year: 1877

PATTERSON TO VOTE WITH THE DEMO-
CRATs.-An article in the Philadelphia
Press says Senator Patterson, of South
Carolina, had an interview with Presi-
dent Hayes on Wednesday, and informed
him that he had made mistake in his
course toward that State; that he would
as soon have Hampton as Chamberlain
for Governor; and in the course of a
private conversation yesterday, the Sena-
tor remarked that as a Republican, but
believing in the right of instruction, if the
Legislature of South Carolina should
instruct him to vote in fayor Of the ad-
mission Of Butler or any other Democrat
to the Senate, he weuld do so, and, besides
he would vote for the admission of Demo
cratic Senators from Louisiana. This
would interfere with his Republicanism,
but his action would be based on the
ground that State ought to be represen-
ted in their State government. 1t can be
stated on authority that the President
made no bargain with or promises to
Chamberlain as condition of his re-
TRACY from the Governorship, and that
therefore the report that he offered him
the post OF minister to France, or to any
other place in consideration of such re-
TRACY, is without the least foundation.
Year: 1877

The San Francisco Chronicle thinks
that If the capital interest in California
mine should be put into Government
bonds paying the lowest rate Of inter
est, it would pay better than it now doer.
The Chronicle is bear organ, but there
is good deal Of truth in what it says.
Year: 1877

\ BOUGHT OUT THE INTEREST OF All TONG


y and Wong Sing in the Beaver creek mining prop
erty formerly owned 10y Eckhart Judge on the 1st
of last August will not he responsible for any
Slug. Pom YAM
Year: 1877

This IS but small part OF the loss.


James Burrows, residing in the rear
OF the two-and-a-half story brick occu-
pied by Slab Dolan, lost nearly all mis-
furniture and all his wearing apparel.


Dolau was unable to save any of his
household goods, while Hennessy, his
next door neighbor, had chance to take
out all OF his Ell cts.


VIM. Lapfersick, of the Hook and
Ladder Company No. l, was overcome
with the heat this afternoon while work.
ing at the fire, and had to be taken to
his headquarters at the GIFTS Engine
house,
Year: 1877

The roof, which was q tin one, was
lifted up, and partly melting was scat
tered in pieces through the air. Some
OF these were carried as far as three
squares, and then dropped on the hous es
or street.


On Eighth the houses on the lower
side were badly damaged by the fire. sew
eral Of them being considerably burned.
Year: 1877

the canal to the city of Suoz, ninety
miles distant. At this period OF writ
ing We are about forty miles from Port
Said, and right in the midst Of the
great Sahara Desert The excessive
heat makes the white sand glisten SO
that it dazzles the eyes that one can
hardly see. Just imagine the ther-
mometer from 80 to 1O5 degrees in the
shade, and you can form an idea Of the
heat here. We are all dressed in linen
clothes and the heat makes us perspire
so that the whole suit will be saturated.
1t is the hottest place | was ever in.
There is no rain during the whole
year and the ground is only dampened
by the dew.
Year: 1877

The Washington correspondent of
Western journal says: "The President
to-day, in conversation, alluded more in
detail to the interview between him and
Charles O'Conor on Sunday last.
O'Conor called ON the President with
Secretary Fish. The President had been
previously notified of the fact that
O'Connor desired an interview for the
purpose of paying his respects, and to
offer an apology for the expressions
made in letter written to friend many
years ago, which, in the heat of the cam
paign, was exhumed and for the first
time published. The language used was
that T" Grant was drunken Democrat,
picked out of the cutters of Galena by
the Repub lean party for the purpose of
ruling the nation" O'Conor told the
President that he could remember no
such letter, and would not deny that he
had written it If he did. He begged to
say that the charge was without founda-
ton i; that he never, of his own knowl-
edge, or from hearsay, had any informa-
ton upon which such an accusation could
had never seen the letter, and only knew
of its existence from newspaper com
ments, adding that he had too much. ex
perience in having been personally
abused himself as public officer to seek
to aggravate this unpleasant phase OF
public life by searching for matters OF
this sort published against him. The
President says to-day that he deemed the
explanation ample, and was entirely sat
! isfied."
Year: 1877

The Colusa (Cal Sun tells the fol-
lowing story: "Last Saturday Master
John Williams, aged 13, was ont hunting
near home, on Elk creek, when he ran
across a panther and gave him the bene-
fit of the contents of his rife The
panther made off, and the young man
loaded up again and gave him chase,
getting in another shot on him. This
time, however, the panther got out of
his sight, but he could see from the
blood that he had been bit. He went
home and dreamed all night, of course,
Of fighting panthers with a grizzly or
two thrown in to make it interesting.
Next morning, bright and early, he
gathered his gun, determined on finding
that panther. He got on the blood,
which he traced into hollow log. He
fired into the log, and then got an AK
and cut the panther out, finding him
still alive, but he finished him up and
dragged his trophy in triumph home.
An inspection showed that both balls OF
the previous evening had gone through
the panther's lungs. He was an i'm
mense fellow, measuring seven feet from
tin to tin"
Year: 1877

for the offender confessed to being n
woman in boys clothes. She said that,
being compelled to earn her own living,
she learned by experience that her sex
was a detriment SO she took to trou-
sers, and in that guise she not only did
better in business, but was able to bam-
boOzle the women.
Year: 1877

THE EHRENBERG MAIL left here on Thursday about an hour before the usual time disappoint- ing some of our people, who were a little tardy with their letters. If there is any schedule time, the departure of mails should be gov erned by it.