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Year: 1877

The Burlington Ha,ckeye deplores
the scanty And denloralised condition
of the Regular Army, brought about
by political demagogues and un-
friendly legislation, and looks hope
fully in that direction as our only
protection against Agrarianism.


An animal without teeth is no
more respected than is government,
and the idea or running a great and
rapidly growing power with 45,O0O,.
600 Of people, constantly increasing,
and many Of them of the worst kind
from abroad ON Sunday school
basis, will become exploded one OF
these days.


An army sufficient to inspire re.
spect for authority, and to secure
safety to life and property, will event.
ually be found as necessary in thit
country, as it is in all others.


BUTT should be of reasonable size
stationed at convenient points, and
should not be made up exclusively Of
General and Lieutenant General OF.
fcers, too valuable to expose in thu
imminent and deadly breach. More
than that, the productive capacity o.
West Point, the hot-bed Of favorit
ism and aristocracy, should be re
duced, and the material Of the army
ought then to be improved by max
ing good conduct possible to result
in promotion. As it is now, the army
is to great extent ofiicered by favor
and recruited from the slums Of tn
large cities. a'
Year: 1877

The Confederate Brigsdiers, who
had majority in the last Congress,
defeated the regular army appropri.
alton bill because it failed to prohibit
the use of any portion of the army in
the South. And now comes Governors
Matthews OF. West Virginia, and Car.
roll, of Maryland, as the first officials
who piteously implore the President
of the United States to send them
some of those hated blue coats to save
their people from the hands of an in
furiated mob.


And President Hayes complies, and
these soldiers, who are borrowing and
begging for money to subsist on un-
til Congress meets again. ana until
the aforesaid rebel brigadiers will
consent to vote them their pay, 20
cheerfully to their duty and put
themselves in front of the said rebels
to save them and their property
from the hands of the despoiler.


And all this is Democratic Reform,
and Democratic State Rights gone to
seed.
Year: 1877




the Chicago Tribune.


The first and most important duty
is to quell mob rule, to stop violence,
pillage and incendiarism at all haz-
ards, and to restore law and order,
and place the safety OF the general
community in the hands of the duly
constituted authorities, instead of ex-
posing it to the blind, passionate, un-
reasoning fury of the mob, which has
neither discretion nor discrimination.
This done, an equally imperative duty
devolves upon the railroad compan-
les. They must cease cutting each
others throats as they have been do
ing for the last twelve months, and
must make their agreements binding.
The community does not ask them to
work for a remuneration less than
the cost or value of their service. 1t
does not ask them to carry freight or
passengers for less than living rates,
or at rates that compel them to re-
duce the wages of their employees
down to the starving point. The first
step for them to take is to raise their
charges, not exorbitantly, but fairly
and reasonably, and then, restoring
the last two cuts of wages, leave them
alone, and await the great crops to
handle and the changes in the fiscal
affairs Of the country than will tend
to restore business prosperity and
place values upon an improving ba-
sis. The reduction of the mems poor
wages does not benefit the companies
SO long as this insane competition is
kept up. Every reduction of wages
is followed by a reduction on rates,
and II wages were lowered to cent
per day, rates would be put down to
zero, with premium offered to ship.
pers. The quickest solution of the
present problem, partial remedy q.
least, SO far as we can see, ia for the
railroads to make schedule OF rates
on the eliye and let live" basis. They
must charge enough to pay their men
such compensation az to enable
them to pay rent and fuel, and feed
and clothe themselves and their fam.
lilies. Before this can be done. how


fever, mob rule and violence must bt
suppressed, whatever may be the cos
or the consequence. M 4gta
n
Year: 1877

Mothers will grow weary and sigh
over the responsibility that baby
places upon them, but they have the
high privilege of shaping q character
for usefulness. Tho exercise Of pa
thence and the preservation Of baby's
health by the proper use of DIR Bull's
Baby Syrup win give them great
present comfort and prospective hap.
piness. Price rs cents.
Year: 1877

General Sherman will spend the
fifteen hundred dollars per month
which the government pays him for
the month of August in surveying
the wonders of the Yellowstone Park
in Montana. His equally well fed
staff will help him,
Year: 1877

Judge Lewis has created sensation ut
Stsilacoom court by excusing grand iu-
rors wno were single men. The organ
ic act of the Territory says that grand
jurors must be freeholders; and the
defnition of freeholder, in common law.
is one who is the head of family. 1t
matters not whether ne owns property
or not, SO long as he is the head of u
family. This is the letter of the law,
unquestionably; but whether it is the
spint of the law, or the intention of the
power which framed the organic act of
this Territory, is quite another affair.
The spirit of the law should not be dis
regarded, nor overridden just because
the letter of the law is badly expressed.


The ruling might at the first blush be
regarded as absurd. Were it not that
believe that the surest way to repeal
obnoxious laws, is to insist upon their





Judge Lewis was addicted to hairs, lit
ting. But it is evident enough to us
that he sees the defect in the law and
desires its modification. 1t this pre-
cept were to become a standing rule, an
irresponsible tramp" with wife and
child would be more eligible as juror
than the wealthlest and most honorable
bachelor in the county. and if one
man on jury was bieamist and the
head of two families, then the cause
could go to trial with eleven men, like
the celebrated Cancemi case in New
York, some years ago. But we are
convinced that Junge Lewis is working
to gain a repeal of such portion of the
act as renders those things possible;
and that before long. it will no
difference whether good Juror is mar
rled or net. So long as he is qualified
voter aud not an infamous person.


We were not favorably impressed
with Judge Lewis on first acquaint-
ance, but his frank and manly ways are
calculated to disarm prejudice and
make him friends where he least ex-
poets them He is the superior. as
juri5t, of any man on the Oregon bench,
I save Judge Sha:tuck. He is less of
partisan than Watson, more studious
than Macarthur. less tickle than Prim
and less bigoted than Boise. He was
great Improvement upon his predeces-
sor, who is man of sterling integrity,
though better fitted for bar than bench.
We should regard his resignation from
the Bench of this Territory tfor he has
more than once talked of it) as a pub
lie calamity. 1t is not alone for his
nice sense of equity that we like to see
him ON the bench; it Is for his ready
and metbodical way of ruling, upon
questions both of law and of practice.
in which he saves money to taxpayers
by expediting the business of the courts.
Year: 1877

Senator Booth, of California, has de-
livered the great speech of the season
in the United States Senate. 1t is not
only replete with patriotic sentiment,
but as literary production it is worthy
Of special admiration. 1t will be re-
membered that it was this gentleman
who said while Governor of California
Il must take my choice between reform
now and revolution hereafter" Baker
himself need not have been ashamed of
such utterances.
Year: 1877

There is prospect Of the immediate
passage of the salmon Matching bill in
troduced by the Republican Senator
from Oregon. This is no premature
movement, for if the catch of salmon
is as large in the next five years. on the
Columbia. as it has been during the
past five. the fisheries will not make ex-
penses after 1882. A hatching-house
in clear, cold water would be of great
benefit and help to sustain our material
wealth. for the largest canneries are in
this Territory, though Oregon reaps all
the glory Of them.
Year: 1877

If anything was wanting to prove
the mildness of our Territorial win
ters, the fact that we reached the
18th day of January before single
fake of snow fell, should tell. the
whole story. And that snow melted
off and was gone in less than three
hours. Put that in your pipe for
for Minnesota and Kansas.
Year: 1877

Suppose Grant did send soldiers
down to "bull-dose" the elections
IN South Carolina, is that any rea-
son why man should buy candle
to hunt for lost roll of silver and
find only clay pipe?
Year: 1877

KEEP Our OF TRoUBLE.-Those who have
dogs, goats, and vehicles, and who desire
to save themselve the annoyance and trou-
BILE Of being reported by the police, should
present themselves at the Auditors office
and get the licenses required by law. No
one who disregards this suggestion will
have any right to complain if the very first
policeman who comes along reports him.
II you allow dog to make his home on
your premises you will have to pay license
therefor. No excuses as to ownership will
avail.


Either kill your dog or get a license
(medaD for him. The lawyers will proba-
bly, blame us for giving this friendly anti
litigation advice. All the same it is given
patriotically and free OF charge.
Year: 1877

RICHMOND GRAys.-This crack company
had drill last night Qorty members pre-
sent), and which for the accuracy of the
various movements and the manual Of arms
was hard to beat Particularly noticeable was
the sestack arms,'' which was splendidly
done. The company is in active preparation
for the regimental parade on the 22d; after
which they will have banquet, prepared by
Mr.. Otto Morgenstern at his hall.
Year: 1877

UNUSUALLY FINE QUALITY,


possessing all the theraperical virtues that belong 10
this drug Just received and for sale by the bottle and
on draught by j. BLAIR, Druggist,
de IL corner OF Broad and Ninth streets.
Year: 1877

The country papers in South Carolina
are, with one consent, demanding the re-
establishment of the whipping-post. The
argument is that larceny, highway robbery
and burglary have become so common i'm
all parts Of the State that no mans property
is safe. The chickens in the coop, the
corn in the field, the very clothes that a
man pulls off at night in the expectation Of
putting them on again in the morning. be.
come alike the prey of the midnight PROV.
lers; and the cry comes up from all quar-
ters: "Give us what Virginia and Delaware
already have-the whipping-pOst" 1t is a
popular theory in South Carolina that it is
utterly impossible for a negro to be honest,
and the whipping post, if introduced, will
he used exclusively as an instrument for
lntimidating and furnishing the blacks. 1t
is easy to forecast the results of such an ex.
pertinent in State where the color and
race lines are so sharply drawn. The
whipping'post would open the way for
merclless system of repression and cruelty.
10 Its credit be it said that the Charleston
NewS and Courier does not advocate so
extreme measure. 1t insists that the
same ends can be better accomplished by
other means, which will not be open in the
same objections. 1t argues that labor is
more distasteful to the criminal than the
lash, and that he will prefer a whipping to
a place in the chain gang.-N. \. Tribune.
Year: 1877

The Baltimore Gazette of Wednesday last
published the following story, contributed
by an Annapolis correspondent


remarkable story of snake charm
ing has been brought to light here. Mr..


Luke Brewer lives near the dock in this
city, and is the father of little girl and
boy aged respectively nine and six years.


He discovered on Saturday last that his
children had been playing with a water.
snake three and a.half feet in length. 1t
appears that the reptile had made its land
home underneath the kitchen flooring of
Mr.. Brewers dwelling, and came thence
through an orltice in the ground Just out
side the house. The little girl on the dav
above mentioned informed her father that
they had pretty pet just like an eel that
came out OF hole in the ground, and
played with them and the kittens. He
asked the child to show him where it was,
but was told that it would not come out
while he was there. He left for few
minutes, and while returning was met by
his daughter, who said she had called her
pet, and 1t was now playing with her
brother. The frightened father hastened
to the yard, and was almost paralyzed with
fear on discovering his little boy carressing
the snakes head. He ordered the little
fellow away, The child reluctantly com.
Piled by stepping back, whereupon the
father seized club, when the reptile com
menced to make for its den. The boy then
moved toward it, calling it endearing names,
and was about to pick it up when Mr..
Brewer dispatched it, against the earnest
and fearful entreaties of the infatuated
children. The boy, robust, hearty little
fellow, refused to be cOmfOrted abStlininp
from food the rest of the day, and begging
to be allowed to bring the dead serpent into
the house. Mr.. Brewer thinks that the
children had been amusing themselves all
the summer with their strange pet. The
tail of the snake for distance of three
inches from the end bore evidence that
two kittens, which were in the house, had
also been participants in the sport"
Year: 1877

A good repartee is told of young man
who was reminded that his aunt had paid
his debts, and that he should be more sub
missive to the wishes of his relative. eyes,
yes, my aunt paid my creditors, but what
has she done for me p
Year: 1877

One of the dress.reform ladies writes
that at last she has reduced the main part
OF her dress to three articles-the union
under garment, o gabrielle skirt, and
princess dress-that they are light, quickly
put on, and do not look outlandish either.
Year: 1877

There is not a girl on earth, whether the
daughter of prince or pauper, who, if made
a perfect mistress of all household duties,
and were thrown into community wholly
unknown, would not rise. from one station
to another, and eventually become the mis-.
treSs of her own mansion, while multitudes
of young women placed in positions of ease,
elegance, an atiluencc, but being unified
to fill them, will as certainly descend from
one round Of the ladder to another. until
at the close Of life, they are found where
the really competent started from. Mothers
of America, if you wish to rid your own
and your children's households of the de.
stroying locusts which infect your houses
and eat up your substance, take pride in
educating your daughters to be perfect mis-
tresses of every homo duty; then, if you
leave them without dollar, be assured
they will never lack warm garment,
bounteous meal, or a cosey roof, nor fail of
the respect Of any one who knows them
Fanny Fern.
Year: 1877

\ classical gentleman living in Eureka,
New, rolled his eyes, stretched out his
arms, and in tones which betrayed rapture
and astonishmcnt, pronounced the name
Of his adopted town lie had found some.
thing. He had sent to New York pub


fishing house for pony, to wit, a copy OF
an English translation of Cicero's Orations.
and the order had been promptly filled !;
and in turning over the leaves he found a
twenty-dolldr National bank BILL where
upon he apostrophizod the town as afore,
said. He then shook the leaves to see if
there were any similar book-marks, and
discovered five and two ones. Net value
of the find, $27. The book was fresh from
the press and not secondhand copy, and
it had been forwarded by the publishers
themselves. The classical gentleman filled
out an order for $25 worth of the firms
publications, sending two of the very bank
notes which he had found. He promises
to repeat the order and collect a fine
library, if the publishers will do their share.
Year: 1877

At the market" Well, how goes the
sale of game this year? p Badly, very
badly prices are so high that very few
people can be found to buy. The business
would be ruined entirely if it wasn't that
we have one class of steady customers
the amateur sportsmen who have been out
for days shooting"
Year: 1877

THE Utica Observer is responsible for all
the statements relating to the exorbitant
claim of GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS for
civil service reform labor which we copied
on Saturday The plea that the account re-
lated to services not rendered when the ac-
count was paid is paltry and dishonest, and
is shown to he so by the adopted rules
which govern the action of auditing and
disbursing officers in the Treasury Depart
ment who adjust all such accounts.
Year: 1877

Special dispatch to the Times. .-.,,


WARRINGTON, November 8. y
! The conflict between the RspubH cans
in the Senate and the President cannot
be much longer delayed. Evidences sf
its breaking out multiply daily, and the
bolder Senators to not affect to deny that
a rupture Is imminent, nor attempt to
conceal it.. The question will be on the
clear and direct proposition of the Presi-
dents right to remove ofice-holders.
From what can be ascertained it is not
the intention of any of the Republican
Senators to obstruct the President in fl
ling Offices which become vacant either
by expiration of term or by resignation
or other natural causes. The Repubh-
cans In the Senate, or at least some of
them, will. however, endeavor TO prevent
the confirmation Of nominations to take
the place OF competent Republican Of
fice-holders already commissioned whose
terms Of office have not Yet expired, and
against whom NO plame 10 attached, but
where vacancies exist from natural
causes nobody in the Senate win place
any obstacle in the way Of the President
in hlling such Offices with such compstent
8uu uOUOK8Uio+ unou - h0 uH6y b0t08bs-
Several nominations coming under this
decision are already laid aside in the
Senate and will not be acted on for some
time. The indications are that the con-
test will begin with the New York city
appointments. The men already in Of
fce are faithful and competent, and their
terms of service, with one exception,
have not expired. 1t is not claimed that
they are unworthy of confidence, and the
fight will be made for the purpose of see-'
ing whether the President has sufficient
|strengh in the Senate to carry his nomina-
tions in the face of the Senators who re-
present. the States where the change is
proposed to be made. The men now in
office, as In the case of those IN New
York, are generally the appointees of
the Senators win stand by each other in
opposition to the Presldent. The COM
merce committee In the Senate Is COM
posed almost wholly of what are known
as "Conkling men," and there Is no
doubt that they will concur in whatever
the chairman may suggest 1t may as
well be understood first as last that Conk-
ling win either hold the New York nom
nations until the next session or he will
try to defeat them in square fight in
the Senate, and he will be likely to un-
der AXE the latter coNrse without being
9 JInewhat certain of success. ..,...
Year: 1877

I'm TIE DISTRICT COURT or r&E sHC-


ond Judicial District Of the Of Nevada in and for
the county Of Ormsby. Roger Crow, plaintiff, J. L.
Clegg and Florence Clegg and A ". Pray defendants
Action brought the District Court OF the Second Judicial
District of the State Of Nevada in and for the county Of
Ormsby and the complaint filed in said county of Ornsby


the oca OF the Clerk of said District COUrThe State
of Nevada sends greeting to J. L. Ce and Florence Cegg
and A w Pray, defendant5 You hereby required
appear in action brought against you by the above
named plaintiff IN the District Court Of the Second Judicial
District the State Of Nevada in and for the county of
Orrnsby and the complaint filed therein "a copy
of which accompanies this Snrnons) within ten days lex
Of the day of Servce after the service of
this summons-f served within this county: if served
this county but in this district within twenty days
otherwise within forty days-or judgment by default will
be taken against you. The SAID action is brought fore
close certain mortgage executed by defendants j. L.
and Florence Cegg said plaintiff, lot NJ ~ in
block No six (6 in Rice Peters addition to the ely of
Carson in Ornlsby county, Nevada; which said ae
was given the payment OF promiss0ry note
made by defendants j. L. and Florence Ciegg the 10th
day of May, A d. 1875, to plaintiff for the OF six
hundred dollars and interest thereon three 81
per month"; all in gold coin of the United States. And
plaintiff asks decree of foreclosure OF said mortgage and
the mOrtaged premises be decreed TO be sold and the
proceeds applied the payment Of attorneys fees
taxes insurance and the principal and interest
said note in gold coin of the United States and found
insufficient that Judgment be docketed against the prop
of defendants L. and Florence CleGg for any bal
ance found remaining due plaintiff. All OF which is
fully set forth in plaintiffs complaint file in my office
And vou hereby notified that if you fail to appear and
answer the said complaint, above required the said
plaintiff will apply the Court for the relief demanded


*s Given under my hand and the seal of the District


Court OF the Second Judicial District of the State


io' Of Nevada in and for the county of Ormsby, this


+ oath day of August, in the year Of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventyseven


au25-law6w ALFRED HELM Clerk
Year: 1877

An OBSTINATE JURYMAN.- Philadelphia
can't make up its mind whether to believe
in spiritIalism or not. A pair Of spiritual
lists, James A. Bliss and woman who call
cd herself his wife, were materialized before
jury there, the other day. Some of their
professional friends came into court and ex-
planned the mysterious means whereby
Bliss materialized his spirits through
u trap door after clothing them in appro-
pirate raiment in dressing room in the
cellar The identical garments that the
spirits wore when they appeared at the
seanceS were placed in testimony, and the
iury actually tried on the clothes to find out
whether they were the handiwOrk of ma
tcrial and earthly tailor. or whether they
were robes dropped by the spirits in sudden
flight from the gaze of skeptical and un-
believing world Eleven of the jurymen de-
cidcd that the clothes were of the ordinary
unspiritual kind but the twelfth man
thought they smet of birthstone and blue
fire. The Jury could not agree. The judge
was amazed. Here" says he, " in the
case Of Running Water. the Indian spirit
materalized from the happy hunting grounds,
You have the mOccasin and wig You have
only to decide whether they are spiritual
murcasn and wig, or whether they are such
as the Indian peddlers sell to youthful brides
and sroomS within the sound of Niagaras
roar" Still the Jury stood eleven to one
The Judge threatened to lock them up till
the crack of doom, unless they reached
verdict sooner. The foreman said it was II
very curious thing, hut the jury could never
agree until they got to spirit land them
selves, and the jury was discharged


But the spiritual and legal trials Of the
pcrsccuItd medium were not destined to end
80 >o,n Ills real wife. whom he had ahan-
dcncd in Boston, matcrialized in Phiadel-
phia and had him and his woman partner
arrested for hsamy. Their defence will
doubles, assert that MIR. Bliss Is only
matcrallzed spirit.