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Year: 1878

The Walla Walla Statesman of
the 3Oth ult. says:


ELECTION FARcE.-Tuesday, April
9th, the Republicans will go through
the farce Of electing delegates to .
so-called constitutional convention.
Democrats in this quarter of the
Territory propose to ignore the
whole matter, and will fail to put in
an appearance at the polls. The
more respectable Republicans feel
the same way, and 80 the choice of
delegates will be left to the rag-tag
and bob-tail element in the party.


Another article in the same
paper Of the same day says:


kilograms are being constantly
sent up from the Sound notifying
our people that certain men are can
didates for the constitutional con-
vention. Our Sound friends are at
liberty to run as many of their can
didates as they please, but once for
all they may as we'll understand that
our people take no interest in the
matter, and intend to let the election
go by default.


The party papers upon the
Sound accuse the "Federal ring"
Of being obstructionists, because
the Federal officers, as a rule,
have not meddled with the mat
ter Of nominating candidates.
The Republican politicians here
say that the Democrats have
managed to control the Conven-
ton; and the Democrats east Of
the mountains are constantly
told that tho act of the Legisla-
ture providing for the Conven-
ton, was a put-up job by Ferry
to give the Federal officers the
control of the Convention.


Men who are ordinarily hon
est in their business transac-
tions, and who maintain a decent
social standing, lend their influ-
ence to giving endorsement and
currency to these miserable and
illogical pretences. The truth is,
that the act of the Legislature,
which is the most miserable de-
vice ever thought of for the Or
ganization of a State govern
ment, has not a single feature Of
the plan recommended by Gov.
Ferry in his annual message;
that the Federal officers as a
class are less in accord than any
other class of the community of
equal Numbers. There is no such
thing as "Federal ring" acting
in concert with a common in
tent. Each department is, to all
intents and purposes, ga gang
by ITSELF" The Executive, the
Judiciary, the Land Office, the
Indian department, the Internal
revenue and the Customs de-
partments, are each Independent
of the other, and there is but
little fellow feeling or social in
tercourse between any two of
them. 1t would be a rare COM
bination for Gov. Ferry and
Chief Justice Lewis, Collector
Webster and Indian Agent Gen.
Milroy, to act together for any
special purpose.


We have no political sympa-
thy with the Federal officials of
this Territory, because we are
an ardent supporter of the pol
icy of the present national Ad-
ministration, and as a general
rule they are not; our personal
relations with them are purely
of social character; but we can
not understand why party feel
ing should constrain men to mis-
represent, or blind them to man.
ifest fact. The most determined
obstructionists are those Demo-
Gratis who are represented by
the Statesman, but we do not un-
derstand that it is strictly a
party failing.


The price of q human Jaw at
Year: 1878

The question of preserving forests is year by year becoming one of greater Importance in nearly every part of the civilized world The well-recognized connection between the extent of forest lands and the amount of the annual rainfall brings the subject home to every mind. In Europe efforts were made years ago to prevent the total disappearance of forests from the face of the land, and in Germany and France forests have been planted which have now attained great size. Germany has forest law which insures the eXis- tence of forests in the Empire. At the time of the Treaty of Westphalla, in lS4S, there was hardly tree standing in Pomerania, along the shores of the Baltic. This long stretch of seacoast was once covered by an immense forest of magnificent oaks. But Sweden re- morselesSly cut them down to furnish materials with which to build her fleets, and when that province passed out of her grasp nothing but sand occupied the place once crowned with giant oaks. The winds from the sea swept across the bare plain, driving the vel low sand before, and gradually the character of the land was changed from one of fertility to one of barren ness. The climate was changed. The cold winds brought with them no rain, and desert was the result. But Fred erlck the Great sought to repair the ravages of the elements by again caus- ing forest to grow along the coast. He urged that the nation must raise either trees or sand, and succeeded in planting pine trees along the tract once occupied by the oak forest. The change was marked The country once again began to take on a fresh and vigorous look. The san1 was soon replaced by fertile soil. In the course of time the pines were cut out, but in their places up sprang the old oak forest of the by-gOne age. Prussia eXpends an- nually a large amount upon her forests, but the income from them exceeds the expenses by about $7,000,000. In France, Louis Napoleon expended many millions of francs in planting a forest in a barren portion of the coasl bordering upon the Mediterranean. Gradually the character of the land changed here as it had on the shores of the Baltic, and in time a fine soil was produced. There are many DOT tions of the earth once covered with forests and abounding in fertile fields, that are now bare and desolate, owing to the removal of the trees.-S. F. Bulktin.
Year: 1878



 Mrs. Fuller of the Eisen farm, in forms the Fresno Republican that she makes, daily, a pail full of tea from the leaves of the blue gum tree, and that all the men about the place drink some of this every day There is not now, nor has there been any malarial sickness on this ranch during this sea- son. We know of our own personal knowledge, says the Republican, that there were several cases of intermit- tent and bilious fevefs on the same place last year. Irrigation is eXten- sively pracliced, and last year a large body of water passed through the ditch, which raised the water in the we'll, and also afforded q fine opportunity for frequent bathing. Some of the hands carelessly drank water from the ditch, and sickness followed in conse- quence. The absence of wind last season gave miasmatic poisons a bet ter chance to generate than usual, but still we feel satisfied there need not have been more sickness than usual last year. The drinking water used this season is first boiled and then al lowed to cool The place is kept clean and in perfect order, and all hands take little blue gum tea daily. The prophelactic and curative properties of the Australian Eucalyptus Globulus are well known to medical men, and different preparations of it are often prescribed. It grows thriftily in this climate, and no better preparation can be made than a lea made from the leaves, which, however, should steep, not boil, as boiling drives of the vola- tile oil which gives the plant its aroma and medicinal virtues.
Year: 1878

EREEn ANY PERSON WHO WILL U make and forward me a list of the names ot reliable persons Of their &C., quaintance who wish to procure an instru- ment, either Plano or Organ, l will use my best endeavors to sell them one, and for every Piano l succeed In selling to their list within one year, I will credit them with Sl6. and for every Organ S5, to be applied on payment of either Piano or Organ; and when it amounts to a sum sufficient to pay for any instrument, selec- ted at the lowest wholesale price, 1 will immediately ship the instrument, free, or after any amount Is credited the balance may be paid me in cash and will then ship them the instrument. They need not be known in the matter, and will be doing their friends real service, us l shall make special offers to them, selling a superior instrument for from one-hall to two-thirds what is ordinarily asked by agents. Please send me a list at once, and after you have made inquiry, you can add to it. Address.

 DANIEL F. BEATTY.

 Washington, NJ.
Year: 1878

Col. Beacon, of General Sherman g
staff, reports that the point. selected
under the act of the last Congress for
a new post is at Bear Buttes, eight
miles from Crook City and eighteen
miles from Dead wood. The site is
between the Indian camps along the
river and the gold mines.
Year: 1878

In France the hog is never scalded
to remove the hair. A large pile OF
straw is fired, and over this the pig is
hung until all the hair is singed off.
The small patches of hair are singed
off by means of wisps of straw.
Year: 1878

Gentienen-Enclosed you will find s225. and I
wish you would send me another dozen Of your
COLLINS VOLTAIC PLASTERS. BY the above
You will see that can do something to help others
In some way even II am not able to be up and
around There are number who have tried your
plasters who had given out that all plssters were
good for nothing, and now join with me that they
are the best they have ever tried. have got along
this winter better than I have before In three
years. wished could have heard ofyour plasters
0ef0se loretta N. Cross.


BALlsroS SPA. n. z. March q, IS17.
Year: 1878

Aberdeen Examiner: The men from
the North that we care to win will
read the speech of the ex-President in
the sense in which IL was written, and
thew will also recognize the fact that
Year: 1878

a magnetic clock, invented by Dan
lei DraWbaugh, of Milltown, Cumber-
land county, Pa, says the Harrisburg
Telegraph, is sufficiently remarkable to
be worth description The magnetism
of the earth, an inexhaustible source of
power. is made to Oscillate the pendu


lum; and the simplicity of all the works
gives an assurance of the least possible
friction. At a certain point the move
mentS of the pendulum itself shut off
magnetic connection with the earth,
and at another point restore the con-
nection, thus securing the conditions
necessary TO produce its oscillations.
The works are SO ingenious and simple
that il is no wild assertion to make
that, were it not for the unavoidable
wearing out caused by even the small
est amount of friction. the clock would
run as long as the solid earth endures.
This clock is hung against board par
titiOn, with all the works exposed, sub
ject to the Earrings Of machinery and
distractions from dust settling upon it.
yet, since March l, 1877, it has been
running continuously and uniformly,
with only slight reported variations. as
tested by transit observations ut noon.
Year: 1878

1t is far easier to feign respect when
we do not feel it, than to express it
when we actually DO; for which reason
frank, straightforward people always
appear hypocritical to suspicious ones.
The very fear of seeming decei;ful
makes Us seem SO.


Some there are who gaze intently in
to the well of truth, but only in hopes
of seeing their own image reflected
there.


Fancy rules over two-thirds of the
universe, the past and the future, While
reality is confined in the present.


Men get fond of the very defects of a
woman they love as they do of choco-
late and tobacco, though horribly un-
palatable at first.


Good sense is the body of poetic gen
ius; fancy, its drapery; motion, its life;
and magnetism, the soul, that is every
where, forming all into one graceful
and intelligent whole.


Little minds rejoice over the errors of
men OF genius, as the owl rejoices at an
eclipse.


Gray hairs seem like the light of
soft morn, silyering over the evening
of life.
Year: 1878

an every serious fire, says Conrad
Wilson the ultimate amount of dlsas-
Ter Is determined by the duration of
line between the first moment of the
outbreak and the arrival of efficient
aid. Whether this interval is 80 sec
onds, or 80 minutes, is question often
on which great values are staked, and
IL frequently makes all the difference
between the extinction of the fire with
ont loss. on the one hand. and Infinite
rain on the other.


Men talk gravely of the value of time
even in the ordinary affairs of life
Bat have they ever referred its value to
standard like this? Have they ever
considered the intense reality of disas-
ter, or the sublime conceptions of ruin
by which alone can be measured its
priceless value in the first brief stage of
a conilagration, when vivid events
crowd each other in an endless series,
as they flash through the little eternity
Of that half hour.


Then seconds are expanded into days
and minutes into months; moments are
measured by millions of value; every
tick of the clock is prophetic Of a ware
hense Ill ruins, and each vibration of
the pendulum swings an unhoused fam
lily into the street.


In the origin of most fires the breath
of child that puts out candle would
extinguiSh the incipient flame. Give
that flame few more seconds, and
neither child nor man could lift from
the ground the weight of waterreQuired
to Subdue it.
Year: 1878

Fifty years age, when snuff taking
was all the go, the Lord Stanhope of
that day estimated that every profess
ed and incurable 'snuffer' takes. by
moderate computation, one pinch every
ten minutes. Every pinch taken, with
the splendid ceremony of whisking
about a big silk handkerchief and
other incidental circumstances connect
ed with it, consumes a minute and a
half out of every ten. This amounts TO
one day out of every ten, which makes
363 days in the year, and if the practice
be continued for forty years. two years
will thus have been spent in tickling
and blowing the nose"
Year: 1878

a popularity in the composition of
the cloyers and allied plants, such as
peas and beans, is the occurrence of IA
comparatively large proportion of lime
amongst their mineral constituents.
1t is for this reason that clover flourish
es best on calcareous soils, or those
which naturally contain high proper


ton of lime, and cannot be profitably
cultivated on soils deficient in this
material. On soils of this latter char
acter dressing OF sulphate of lime or
gypsum, applied to the clover crop


usually has marked beneficial effect
Year: 1878

All the foods of plants enter them
either as invisible gases through the
leaves, or in state of perfectly limpid
solutions, through the roots. Water
will dissolve itself and hold in solution
81 times its bulk of oxygen, Il its bulk
Of nitrogen, Il its bulk of hydrogen,
once its bulk of carbonic acid. and
many times its bulk of ammonia. In
this way water acts as fertilizer, con-
veying these and other nutritious gases
as food into the plant
Year: 1878

If cows are kept in a half-Starved
condition, they yield but little if any
milk, and this of poor quality The
food they get under these circumstances
may not even be sufficient to meet the
more immediate requirements Of the
body, SO that little, if any. is available
for milk. Not only is there no profit
gained by keeping cows under these
circumstances, but the food thus con-
sumed may be said to be wasted, since.
il given to fewer COWS, it might yield a
proper quantity and quality of milk.
Year: 1878

TObacco-s smoking is on the increase.
In 1911 the quantity Of tobacco used in
the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland was less than fourteen
onnces per head of population: in 1879
il was one pound seven and one half
ounces a head.
Year: 1878

y scEEEcH- OWL took possession OF the
Lancaster, Pehusylvnnia. box ia which
n pair Of martins were building THEN
nest, and when they returned at night,
would not let them enter. Tho martins
flew away and soon returned with q
whole army of companions, who went
to work and plastered Ia, entrance to
the box tightly with mud. When the
box was opened few days later, tho
owl was found dead.
Year: 1878

The Virginia Chronicle says that a
demijohn OF water taken rom the bot.
tom of the winze from the 1860 level
of the ophir mine has been sent to
the city for analysis. 1t is supposed
to contain various minerals Ieachod out
Of the ors and rock. When it stands
for short time in the bottom of the
winze-that part below the 1000 level
being at present used as n sump--a
thick green scurn rises upon it. Its
odOr Is very offensive.
Year: 1878

he was an entire stranger to the
girls present, and the boys were mean
and would not introduce him. He
finally plucked up courage, and siep-
ping up to young lady, requested the
pleasure of her company for the next
dance. Sho looked at him in surprise,
and informed him that she had not the
pleasure of his acquaintance. well, Z"
remarked Cazanovin, "you dont take
any more chances than do,
Year: 1878

lr is now charged by the Rcpubli


cans without contradiction that Sona-
tor Conkiins has been secretly working
to get up the present Potter iuvcstiga.
ton for over year, and there is 10
doubt but that tho movement: has the
sympathy OF a large number OF other
Republican leaders. There Is great
many PERSONS who wero opposed to the
movement at first, who now, seeing the
Developments that have been made
consider that justice demands that a
thorough examination should be had.
Year: 1878

heretofore There Is no reason why the
should not compete both in quality and price,
as well as cost of manufacture, with the su-
gar growers of Louisiana.


Last year prices of Texas sugar. ranged
from 5la0D7Iac for fair to choice Since the
establishment Of quarantine the market has
been supplied exclusively with Northern re-
fined grades but the opening Of co1nmunlca-
tion with Louisiana will now supply the state
with the choice grades produced on the plan
tatiOns of our ncighboring State.
Year: 1878

LEARN A TRADE.-Daniel Webster il
credited with having said; "If had as
many sons as old Priam. | would have
them all learn trade, so they would have
something 10 fall back on in case they
failed in speculation" A PhiIadelphia
paper moralizcs thus sensibly thereon;
The number of young men and girls who
are brought up to no useful trade or call
ing, is on the increase. The effect of this
Is seen in political life, where thousands OF
men are begging, as at present in Wash
ington, for position, with a vague idea
that unframed powers and ignorance can
lind shelter in some cosy nook where they
may at least draw their pay. Being prac-
ticaliy OF no earthly use to themselves or
any one else, they only hope to find some
place where they can continue to exist
without bcneilting any one. \ destitute
young man, without trade and who is
not qualified by practice to become a
tramp. is very likely to become one, or
fare even worse by becoming a criminal
ErrhdaGs
Year: 1878

ENCOUNTER WITH AN INDIAN DEVIL
On Thursday Feb. a. j. L. Ingraham and
son, OF Camden. had terrible encounter
with wild Animal on Ragged Mountain
1t was an Indian Devil of large size. With
hounds they followed its track. and finally
came up with the beast. Seeing Mr.. Ingra-
ham in his path he turned upon the hound
and a terrible combat followed which last
ed for short time only as the animal
threw the hound in the air some ten feet
The men did not dare TO fire while rhey
were fighting for tear of killing the dog.
animal seeing Mr. Ingraham's son coming
up, jumped to the top OF high cliff. The
young man at once weLt below and prepar-
ed To fire. The animal watching his move
ments made tremendousl leap from the
cliff TO the young man below. over thirty
five feet. His father seeing that his only
chance was to kill the animal in his leap,
at cnce fired, breaking one fore-leg. The
animal struck his son. however. tearing his
coat in shreds. knocking him down, and
they both rolled down the mountain to-
gether some twenty feet. The hound fol-
lowed and STACKED the animal again. when
the animal lett the young man and turned
on the dog and threw him into the air
again, and he struck on ledge below near
ly dead. Mr.. Ingraham arriving at this
point. took the gun which ID son had drop
ped in the struggle and fired. The animal
dropped down Oh mis- side but WAS still very
ferOciOus. They then took their guns and
struck him until he ceased to move. He
measured five feet. aud looked very much
like an American panther.-l6.
Year: 1878

a MULES WONDERFUL TRICKERY -
Speaking about mules remarked six
footer in Arkansas, as he cracked his whip,
at market. I've got a mule at home
which knows as much as do and want
to hear somebody saw I'm half fool" No
one said so. and he went on. I've stood
around here and heard men blow about
kicking mules till I've got disgusted.
When you come down to kicking, | want
to bet on my mule. A friend came along
and took dinner with me the other day :;
and, as be seemed little down hearted, |
took him out to see Thomas Jefferson. my
champion mule, l was telling the good
man how that mule would flop his feet
around; and he said he would like to see
a little fun. He'd passed his whole life in
the South, but had never seen mule lay
his whole soul into big time kicking
wv ell, b" he said, after borrowing some to-
bacco. II took Thomas out of the stable.
backed him up agin a hill, gin him cuff
on the ear, and we stood BY to see the
amusement. 1t was good place to do
his durndest. and what dye s'pose he did?
In ten minutes by the watch he was out Of
sight. In five 'uore We couldn't feel him
with twelve-foot pole. and-and-" The
crowd began to yell and sneer. and the
narrator looked around aud asked: Does
anybody think I'm lying? Would lie for
one mule? Right here under nv arm is
pound Of tallow candles which are to lie.,
the hole for to 20 in after Thomas; and
got word not an hour ago that the hind
feet of mule were sticking out of hill
thirty nine miles as the bird flies from
where my mule went in. I'm shakv on
religion. gentlemen; but our family never
had liar in it,
Year: 1878

DANzIsBR's.-In another column Of this paper
will be found O list Of the great reductions the
DAnzger's have male in the price of goods
Some weeks. ago dry goods seemed to bs very
a handsome dress can be- now purchased ,it for d
mere song. Those of our lady readers who
have not yet noticed the reduction, will find the
Derusai OF it very interesting
Year: 1878

A ludicrous instance Of punning upon a
name once TOOK place in judicial court Of
been questioning a certain witness named
Gum, and in closing he said to him, Mr.
Gum, you can now go off" The judge on
the bench seeing the pun, gravely added,
"Sir, you are discharged" Or course an ex.
plosion in court Immediately ensued-LNew
Haven Register.
Year: 1878

institutions was any Republicans at any time
recognized by Speaker Neal? What one of
them was not passed under the gag of the
previous question, which shut off all chance
for amendment and discussion?


Tenth. What Democrat, in the House or
Senate, rose to say, or did say, one word for
the widows and orghans of our dead soldiers
when O'Connor's infamous bill was on its
passage, what Democrat voted against it, and
what Republican voted for it? Is not the
true answer hereto, ''No one?


Eleventh. When tie appropriation for the
encampment of the militia was before the
House and Senate, and struck out, what
Democrats opposed that outrage Oh these
poor men? Did not every Republican stand
up for the payment of the money to the poor
boys, and did not every Democrat oppose it,
and vote it down? The answer to this ques-
ton may be written out and sent to the
militia.


Twelfth. Can your State platform, or stump
speakers utter one word in defense of these
disgIaceful and damnable act7 Or, by their
silence do they admit that l have told the
truth? l leave that matter for the Democra-
tic members of the Legislature to reply to on
the stump, and in the papers. Wat do you
say? J. NJ. DALzELL.