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Year: 1879

THAT safety, non-explosive lamp
undoubtedly proved thing of value
Sunday evening at Henry's bank,
AS Nick GRADER was passing the
bank he noticed the fame of tho
lamp that was on the table extend
ing clear to the top of the chimney
and reaching greedily for something 8
to devour. The door being locked,
Nick broke a window, cimed in
and grabbed up the lamp and threw
it into the street, breaking the
bowl. 1t was, on examination found
that the wick had been turned up
an inch or two higher than is COM
mon, which must have been done
by the party who last left the bank,
thinking, no doubt that he had turn
ed it down. However, you may
rest assured that had it been q COM
mon lamp the result would have
been a great deal worse.
Year: 1879

Mr.. John Ry1n, of Grant county,
met with serious accident last
Thursday. Fear of freezing wealth.
err induced him to raise a heavy iron
pump for the purpose OF opening
the escape valve. The pump was
raised several feet above the plat
form and blocked. Mr.. Ryan
in trying to reach down to the
valve lay upon the platform with
his face close against The plank. BY
some means the blocking slipped
and the pump fell, striking his head
with great force and holding it as
in a vice between the board base of
the pump AMI tho platform. The
hired girl was the only person at
home. She, with almost miraculous
power raised the pump enough to
liberate him. His head was badly
cut and bruised, and his face as
he expressed it looked as though he
had been 70 an Irish wake.
Year: 1879

Mothers will thank the inventor
Of the new Safety Lamp for they
can feel sure that their children are
safe, no matter what may happen to
the lamp. 1t cannot explode nor
set the oil on fire, even if dropped
from the hand, Us it will at ouce ex :
tiDguish itself. Ask TO see the new
Harris & Smith Safety Lamp at the
lamp stores.
Year: 1879

SATURDAY evening after the train
came in, Mike Burns, Jr., yard
brakesman in this city, had bis hand
terribly mashed while coupling cars.
A hole was made through the hand
near the center of the palm, the
skin torn off the fore finger to the
bone, and the second finger broken,
1t will use him up entirely for six
or eight weeks and probably more.
We feel sorry for tie young fellow,
as does tie whole community.
Year: 1879

TuE annual prospectus of the Chi
cago Evening Journal is published
in another column. Having been in
daily receipt Of this old reliable news
paper for % many years, and during
which time have tested its true value,
unhesitatingly recommend it to all
classes and cliques as one Of the
most Trustworthy, beneficial papers
ever published ia the great west.
Business andprofessional men should
take either the daily or tri-weekIy,
and the weekly is just what will
suit every farmer. The TRIBUNE
and Weekly Journal for $3.50 per
annum. Think of it, then invest.
Year: 1879

gressional elections, which belongs to
the government of the United States,
and which it is necessary to exert TO Sc
cure the right to vote to every citizen
possessing the requisite qualifications,
ought TO be enforced by appropriate leg
islation. So far from public opinion IN
any part of the country favorlng
anv relaxation of the authority
of the government in the protection
of oielections from violence and corruption,
| believe it demands great vigor, both
in the enactment and in the execution OF
laws framed for that purpose. Any OPP
preston or any partisan partlallty Whlch
experience NAV have shown in the work
ing of the existing laws, may well engage
the careful attention both Of Congress
and OF the Executive in their respective
spheres of duty, for the correction OF
these mischieis. As no Congressional
elections occur until after the regular
session of Congress will have been held,
there seems to be no public exlgency
that would preclude a reasonable con-
sideration at that session OF any admin
istrative details that might improve the
present methods designed for the pro-
lection of all citizens in the complete
and equal exercise of the right
and power of suffrage at such election,
but with my views, both of the consti::
tutionality and of the existing laws. l
cannot approve any measure for their
repeal, except in connection with the
enactment of other legislation which
NAV be reasonably effected, to afford


wiser and more efficient safeguards for
free and honest Congressional elections.


TSignedl X. Is. HAYES.
Year: 1879

\ man went to Harper's hat store


Yesterday afternoon to get a hat. lie


was a long time in making his selection
the assortment was so large he found
every hat he tried better than the last:
He cot one at last, and was so well
pleased with it that he brought in a
humber of his friends who had come to
see the battle, and all were new Y rugged
out i'm headgear that will make their
home friends open their eyes. Harper.
is the hat store, and you can't forget It,
Year: 1879

This bill recognizes the authority and
duty OF the United Statss to appoint
supervisors to guard and scrutinize
Congressional elections, but it leaves to
the government of the United States all
power to make its supervisors eIeCtual.
The great body OF the people want free
and fair elections. They DO not think
that a free election means freedom from
the wholesome restraints OF law, or that
the place OF election should be SanCtu-
arv for lawlesSness and crime.
On the day OF an election
peace and good order are more
necessary than on any other day OF the
year. on that day the humblest and
feeblest citizen. aged and infirm, should
be and should have reason TO feel that
they are safe in the exercise of their
most responsible duty and their most
sacred right, and members Of society
their duty and their right to vote. The
constitutional authority TO regulate Con-
Year: 1879

MsWe are the only direct importers of EASTERN
BOTTLED BEER. A carload Of Anheuser St. Louis
Beer has just been received and connosseus of Beer
easily satisfy themselves by trial that finer quality of
Beer has been offered in this city than this fresh lot
of Anheuser m'm
Year: 1879

FLOOD tides are changing to neap
tides.


HIGHLY seasoned food begets o de-
sire for highly stimulating drinks.


PEAR tree limbs are beginning to
droop, much to the satisfaction of
short boys.


The rain has had the effect to nice
ly pack the gravel lately scattered
upon our streets.


The tax on all kinds of manufac-
tured tobacco is sixteen cents per
pound. Think of it, ye chewers and
smokers!


They have hurdy.gurdy estab-
lishment in Puyallup valley, near
Franklin, called the" DEVILS Play
ground" What's in q name?


The perihelion man thinks he will
make another series of astronomical
observations before getting out
new edition Of his pamphlet. He is
wise.


IT is predicted that Lake Cush-
man and its surroundings will very
soon become popular resort for
tourists, during the heated term of
our Summers.


GALLANTs are looking forward to
the time when they will have an op-
portunity of carrying the lantern
and umbrella while the girl holds
her train up to keep it out of the
street.


ARRANGEMENTS are in progress for
a grand base ball tournament to
take place in Olympia, in a few
weeks. 1t is thought that several
young lady clubs will he present on
that occasion.


WHEN visitors from Portland get so
enthusiastic over the growth of that
little city as to say that I've build
ings are going up on four adjacent
corners, it is time to receive their
assertions with considerable qualif-
cation.


One of the most noticeable effects
of the late showers, is the frightened
of our shade trees after
having been SO copiously drenched.
It will take some time for them to
become again loaded with impalpa-
BILE dust.


REPORTS say that INV J. R. Raj
ston, of New Tacoma, has fallen
heir to fortune of fifty thousand
dollars by the death of an aunt. The
last time we heard from our oldest
old aunt, she was enjoying remark
ably good health


AN intense excitement exists in the
Palouse country on account Of the
reported gold discoveries near Gold
Hill. It seems that the people of
that region are determined TO get
adventurers within their borders by
hook or by crook.


The Walla-walla Union corrects
the statement that prisoners in our
county Jail go out of nights to
steal chickens. 1t says the noctur-
nal depredations were committed on
the clam-beds. Well, there may be
some truth in that, we admit; but
that they would take the trouble to
carve hole in the wall with q case
knife for no bigger game than chick
ems, is absurd.


The wealthy young lady who re-
Gently married a hotel waiter in San
Francisco, has found out, since the
honeymoon, that her husband is q
graduate of Yale College and the son
of a millionaire. He came to San
Francisco and accepted Of the first
thing that offered itself, rather than
be idle. Now we shall expect to
hear of many young ladies falling
suddenly in love with hotel walters.
ACCORDING to the best information
we have, the Spokane insanity is not
raging so severely as it was a few
days ago. People of good sense are
satisfied in letting we'll enough alone.
While enthusiastic ones talk about
the wonderful yield OF fifty bushels
to the acre in Eastern Washington
they seem to forget that they mus,
Year: 1879

cause OF this gloomy business is attributed
to the hostile Sioux who have been stirring
up bad blood in the agency Indians. There
are six thousand Indians at Poplar River
and vicinity.
Year: 1879

THE Republican says there were 500
illegal votes polled at the late election.
1t might Is well have said there were
5000. One lie Is abcut as bad as an
other.


But We regret that IL has led Its own
men to do wrong--to swear to false oaths
and subject themselves to arrest and
prosecution for slander. That paper
slandered the Mayor by inuendoes before
his election in the most reckless and
scandalous manner, knowing what it
said was not true. IL is doing the same
thing now to the Democratic party; and
those who follow its lead into trouble
must take the consequences. The Dem
ocratic party must he vindicated from
the false oaths and slanderous charges so
recklessly made without provocation and
for mere party purposes. Those who
handle fire must be careful II they would
escape without being scOrched.
Year: 1879

THIS 10 SPLENDID weather and Ger
tainly very inviting to our friends in the
country who desire TO witness the fine
display Of stock, vegetables, fruits and
other articles on exhibition at Middle
town. The letter Of our rep rter at
this fair, elsewhere published, will be
found very interesting.
Year: 1879

THE Treasurer Of the United States
and the several Assistant Treasurers
have been directed to pay out gold and
silver coin freely upon all Government
obligations presented for payment and
payable at their respective Offices.
Year: 1879

Some of our esteemed Republican
contemporaries show an objectionable
disposition to 60 off half cooked over The
elections thus far held. The cold facts
of arithmetic must produce a chilling
effect upon their enthusiastic ardor.
The lightning calculator Of the New
Yo:k World sets himself to work and
makes comparison Of the percentage Of
the total vote for the Republican party
in the States already voted and the
same percentage at the presidential
elections. According to him at the
election for president in 1876 the fol-
lowing was the total vote, Republican
vote and Republican percentage Of the
total vote in those States:
Year: 1879

STILL WmNING.-The Republican
is still whining over its defeat. Office is
the great desire of those who compose
that party, and 1t seems hard to PAT
with what they have enjoyed for twenty
years, and hoped by the aid Of negro
votes and making their young men in
the city and State the companions of ne
grOes to hold TO the end of time.
Year: 1879

Tomorrow a number of gentlemen
of this city will leave tor Reading, Pa,
to attend the Bucks County Agr:cultur-
al Fair, which is now being held at that
place. They will probably remain two
or three days.
Year: 1879

If the Republicans have held their
own in these States since then they
should show as large percentage OF the
whole vote, whatever it is. Taking the
whole vote of 1870 and applying the
above percentage to it the Republicans
this year should have cast in nearly
every State more votes than they really
did. The following exhibit shows how
far they fall short, in every case except
Rhode Island:
Year: 1879

Suddenly, yesterday morning, at her
residence ON Pennsylvania Avenue, oar
old hen, who had been suffering for q
long time from the effects Of q tumor,
which hung down from her breast, and
looked like large tomato. She passed
away without struggle, after caring
light breakfast.
Year: 1879

The Santa Clara Valley Mill and Lum-
ber Company is now engaged In prepar-
ing the woodwork tor the finish OF
James Floods mansion at MEMO Park.
This company secured the contract Tor
the outside and inside furnishing, and
all this work is being done in San Jose.
There has never been done in this State
work of the same beauty and finish, nor
of the same quality. In the spring, Mr.
Blaine, the foreman, went East ana Sc
cured the wood to be used, the greater
norton of which cost at least one dollar
per foot. 1t consists principally OF rose
wood, mahogany, birdseye maple, SATIN,
white holly and oak. These woods are
cut and polished at the mill, engaged In
which task alone there are over seventy
five men, embracing the best wood ar
tisans on the coast. All the woods are
highly polished, some SO beautiful and
bright that they act in the capacity oi
| a mirror. As an evidence OF the ele-
gance of this work, a few OF the parts
of the residence to be finished are given
and the manner and style in which the
work is to be done: The main floor
and staircase are to be finished in bright
mahogany, the reception and drawing
rooms in polished satin wood, the IL
brary in black and gold cherry, the
music-room in rosewood, the dining
room and abilliard-room in polished
/ black walnut, chambers and boudoir IN
birdseye maple. the rear of the second
story in Prima Versa wood. and blinds
of white holly. There never came into
! this State before such elegant and costly
varieties of woods. AllA parts OF the
i world have furnished their contribu-
tions. The work has been done slowly
and carefully, entirely completed at the


mill so as to be put in place as soon re,
ceived at the building. 1t will be hve


or six months before all the work Is
completed Jose (Cal.) Mercury.
Year: 1879

Mrs. Mary Avery, of Honesdale, Pike
county, Pa, will not easily be induced
to go near swamp again, if ever she
consents to do SO at all. She has just
passed eight days in one, and will find
that to suffice, no doubt, for the rest of
her life. Her adventure was SO odd and
painful and nearly fatal as it was-so
grotesque as to invest it with particular
and noteworthy interest.


The lady had been visiting some
friends at place called Rowlands, not
far from Honesdale, and she set out to-
ward evening to walk home. Unfor-
tunately he missed her way and wa
overtaken by the darkness. While
seeking to discover her whereabouts
Mrs. Avery got into what is known as
:" Link Swamp" in Lackawaxen town
ship. All in an instant, as it seemed to
her, she began to sink into the ground.
She cried for help, but she was far away
from any house, and no wayfarers
CHANGED that way to see and extricate
her. Then she made violent struggles
to emerge, but these only served to sink
her deeper in the bog. Finally, when
plunged to her knees in the inexorable
mire, she ceased to strive to get out and
deliberately considered her situation.
She was surrounded by timber, out of
sight and out of hearing of any human
being. She had no food and no means
of getting any. 1t was pitch dark, and.
for aught she knew, wild animals might
assail her in the night. She seemed to
be sinking slowly but surely still deeper
in the treacherous mud, and her doom,
if not to starve, was probably to perish
by suffocation. H
Wonderful to say, Mrs. Avery sur
vived in this perilous situation for one
hundred and ninety-four hours. She
managed to avoid descending further
into the swamp, although quite unable
to make progress in il. She contrived to
get hold of some birch-bark that grew
on bushes within her reach, and by eat
ing this to avoid starvation. She
quenched her thirst by drinking the
dirty water in which she stood. By
slight but continual movements she
kept her blood from stagnating. and
which is perhaps most remarkable thar
all, she retained her mental faculties
unimpaired during the whole period O
her terrible Imprisonment. On the
eighth day her deliverance came in the
shape of wandering hunter, who found
her nearly at deaths door, but whc
succeeded in rescuing her alive from the
| swamp. She was taken to the neares
house, which is three miles distant
Mban .,Iu ur ink Immediately provlded


Mrs. Avery will recover. it is said, s.
far as bodily conditions go, but it


feared that she will be a permanen


mental sufferer from the dreadful ordea


she has undergone.


1t is probable that numbers OF un
happy persons have first and last die


by being caught in swamps, and this ha


proved to be the fact more than once @


late with little children who hav
strayed from their homes; but we hav


heard of no instance wherein a perso
so overtaken has passed more than


week in so shocking plight and ha
lived afterward in robust health to te
the tale e.-New York EUeuiaq Post.
Year: 1879

A student of Shurtleff College, in Mis-
souri,, was SO, utterly exhausted after
playing ball match a few days ago
that at night he could not sleep. After
tossing about in his bed for several hours
he seated himself upon trunk by his
bedroom window. The fresh air quieted
him and he soon fell asleep. When he
rcgained consciousness he was lying on
the ground, having fallen out OF four
story window, His leg was broken ana
his body was terribly bruised, but hls
wounds were not fatal.
Year: 1879

At a country party the other night q
humorist was called upon To gcl up new
style of amusement. Seeing an electric bat
terry he started it, and taking one of the han
dies himself he gave the other handle to the
prettiest girl in the room, proposing that they
kiss each other. As their lips met, two mil
lion needles seemed to break in all their ef.
iulgence upon the startled beauty. and now
he knows what kissing is.
Year: 1879

During the progress of fire at Madison
Wis, on Saturday, an explosion occurred,
and seventeen men were more or less injured,
three were not expected to recover.


The proposed taxation of ten cents per ton
on ice taken from the Hudson river is causing
a great sensation. The State would derive u
revenue Of Sl25,000 annually, and prices
Year: 1879

IL Is stated as singular fact that Indiana
has no State flag. The Commonwealth has a
seal with its well known wood chopper and
buffalo upon it, which appears on all State
documents, but the design has never vet been
put upon bunting or silk.
Year: 1879

WILMINGTON, Feb. 7th, 1879.


MEssRs. EDIToRs-On looking over
your paper last evening, saw COM
munication headed word for the fire
watch, in which there is not a word of
truth. In the first place he states that
the fire watch struck the alarm twenty
minutes before any of the firemen made
their appearance. This is not true. The
Delaware was out in less than two
minutes after the first tap of the bell,
and was the first to 90 up Market street,
and the first to the fire, followed by the
Friendship. Now your eye witness, who
ever he may be, must have been asleep
as there were two steamers ahead of
the Washington, and from all accounts
the fire burnt fully one hour before the
fire watch struck the alarm. Now if it
is really a fact that the fire watch did
not strike when he first saw the fire be-
cause he knew it was out ofthe city
limits, would like to know what he
struck for after waiting nearly one
hour. Did he only want to give the
boys little fun, or did he want the
building to burn down so that the citi-
zens could slur the department as ''eye
witness" is trying to do! These are
facts regardless OF what eye witness
says. "A. BUNKER.
Year: 1879

TO morrow afternoon at 81 O'Clock,
Robert Smith of Delaware Avenue
Baptist Church will meet his class of
Young men. To this class Ae invites
all Young men who do not attend any
place Of worship.
Year: 1879

IT is much to be desired that the


next Legislature should contain a


majority of some one political


party. However, it will have to
deal with such variety of new
and difficult questions that no one


who wishes we'll to his party would
have any great hankering for the
perilous honor of moulding the
new laws. But the Democratic
party is in face of the rugged fact
that 1t cannot hope to have a ma
jority of either House with four
sets of candidates Ia the field. All
the more necessity is there, there
fore, for q powerful and compact
to restrain corrupt or In
temperate legislation. Democratic
like Los Angeles should
take a pride In having their dele
CATION unbroken. Particular in
terest clusters around the State
Senators who will be elected this
Year: 1879

fall. They Will take part In the
election of a United States Senator
to succeed Booth. In view of this
fact, every Democrat should put
forth especial efl'prts to secure the
election of Gen. Sanford.
Year: 1879

Of the spring, where 1t boils over into
another clear cold spring in which the
proprietor has placed q sack Of indigo
The people il the neighborhood go to the
spring 70 do their washing. The soiled
clothes are thrown into the water, which
has = whirling motion, and are drawn
out Of sight. In few minutes they rise
to the surface, float to the wringer, and
are run through it into the second spring,
where they are rinsed by passing through
a second wringer. This natural laundry
does its work in about forty minutes, and
one of its special benefits Is that any man
can do the washing, thus sparing women
the drudgery of day over the washtub.
1t is particularly appreciated by women,
therefore. and q number of families in
the county intend to take up their abode
near the spring, In order to facilitate
labor. Californians daily expect TO dis
cover q cave In the vicinity where, by
some arrangement Of partial nature, hot
smooth stones roll up and down over a
smooth rocky bed, so as to serve as fat
irons for the doing up Of the washed
clothes. There Is always such complete
ness In nature that the ironing method
may be confidently looked for. She has
been 80 prodigal in the Golden State that
she would not certainly provide her with
washing springs, and omit caves where
the bleaching, starching, and whole doing
up process may be regulated spontane-
Ously.-Reddin0 Eagle.