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Year: 1877




Thus, generally speaking, IN improv
ing bottom land in the Snohomish valley,
the main points to be looked at are set
tiers above the head of Steamboat slough
only desire to obtain bottom land above
the June freshets, so that no water will
be on their land while crops are growing,
with land enough to build on, so that
the highest winter freshets will not
trouble their stock or buildings The
winter overflow Of the rest of their farms
doing no injury but tertilizing the soil.
Where the upland is not adjacent to the
bottoms they usually find high enough
ground to build on close to the river
bank.


Below the head of Steamboat slough
the settlers have to dixie against the tides,
the treshets not being taken into consid-
Grafton.


It is of this land we now wish to de-
scribe, first as distinguished from up
river marshes, neither have but little
timber The ordinary river marshes are
above June freshets, are covered with
grass, hardhack or other brush, some
times alder, crabapple, ETC., need only to
be drained and the brush cleared off to
be reclaimed. The tide marahes are
either clear of timber or else have a spe-
cies of cedar different from the up river
cedar, in that it resembles the ordinary
Eastern cedar, and spruce to be remov.
ed All the tide marshes need diking
Those that have some timber on them
are usually highest, therefore require the
least diking.


There are some open tracts of this
marsh out of reach of summer tides that
require very small dixie. On several
of these tracts large crops Of oats, etc,
have been raised, rs much as one hun
drcd bushels to the acre, without any
diking or draining. We refer now to
Preston's ranch near Preston's Point, at
the mouth of the main river.


This tract Of tide lands, as compared
with many Others, possesses the follow.
ing advantages: No part of it is over
two miles distant from navigable tide
water. 1t conld all be cut mp into rea-
sonable sized farms, where steamboat
could and would receive and discharge
freight at the house or barn of every
raucher. Much of the land requires a
very little dixie and little internal drain
age, while most all of it is sheltered
from the waves, so that there would be
no surf to destroy the dikes. Then the
marsh is nearly all fresh water marsh,
where the soil is ready for cultivation as
soon as reclaimed Then, too, il would
be an excellent place to keep stock, as
they would to degree be sheltered from
the raw salt breezes, and there would be
fresh water from the river for every
ranch


Another article could well be written
on the yield of this class of land, and
why no greater improvements have been
made here, as we'll as a description OF
those already made perhaps in our
next we will make it the subject of an
other article.
Year: 1877

THE METROPOLITAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.


Yesterday morning Justice Gilbcrt, Of the Kings
County Supreme Court, tho petition of Charles E.
Applcby receiver OF tho Metropolitan Fire Insurance
Company made an order by which he authorized tho
receiver 10 carry out an agreement with the Uon.
tnental Fire Insurance Company, by which tho
latter company agrees to deliver up its policies Tor un
expired tcrms to the holders IN the Metropolitan
pay the latter deliver up their policies in the Met
ropotaD to be cancelled and the receiver agreeing 10
pay the Continental Company seventy per cent OF tho
unearred part of the premiums such policies
Year: 1877

| o, be not the first to discover


A blot on the name of friend,
A flaw in the faith of lover,


Whose heart may prove true to III,


end.


We none of us know one another,
And oft in error we fall;
Then let us speak well of each brother


Or speak not about him at all.
A smile or sigh may awaken


Suspicion most false and untrue:
And thus our belief may be shaken


In hearts that are honest and true.
How often the light smile of fgladness


Is worn by the friends that we meet
To cover a soul full of sadness,


Too proud to acknowledge defeat.
How often the sigh of detection


Is heard from the hypocriteIs breast.
To parody truth and affection,


Or lull a suspicion to rest.
How often the friends we hold dearest
Their noblest emotions conceal,
And bosoms the purest, sincerest.


Have secrets they cannot reveal.
Leave base minds to harbor suspicion,
And small ones to trace our defects;
Let ours be a noble ambition,


For base is the mind that suspects.
We none of us know one another,


And oft into error may fall,
Then let us speak well of our brother,
Or speak not about him at all.
Year: 1877

Il cannot speak to q certainty as to
the exact period Of time to which the
story am about to relate appertains, but
it was in those days long gone by, when
this fair land was divided among many
rulers, and during time when dread
full pestilence made the stoutest heart
quail with fear. Late on winters even
ing a young chiefain, accompanied by
several armed followers, stopped before
the habitation of an aged man, who had
sought and found protection for himself
and child upon the hospital shore of In
installer. The island was then held by
an O'Donoghue, Prince of Locha Tein, a
chieftain who was Qike several others
exempt from the payment of tribute to
great Mccarthy. The leader of the dar-
ing band that had ventured to invade
the island of Innisfallen was Scanlan of
the Glen, and the fugitive before whose
habitation they stood was one of the
powerful race of the O'Sullivans. The
story goes that the old man had failed to
aid The Mccarthy in recent quarrel
with neighboring chief, consequently
had broken the tenure by which he held
his domains, and, fearing the vengeance
Of the mighty monarch, had fled, with all
his wealth, to the ODonoghue for protec-
ton.


The armed party were clamorous in
their demands for admission, and as the
door of the old mans dwelling was not
Immediately opened, they were prepar-
ing to force, when the bars were removed
and Scanlan and his party were admit
ted. Upon their entrance, there rushes
from an adjoining apartment a young
loyly maiden, who flung herself into
Scanlan's arms, exclaiming in joyful ac-
cents:


as it you, my dear Desmond? Ali /
have so long expected you and watched
your coming from the western shore,
long after sundown."


The words had scarcely escaped her
lips when she started back in terror, for
the bright steel of the chieftainIs sword
caught her eye and sent chill through
her young heart. She looked at the
stranger, and sinking upon seat, ex-
claimed:


Great heaven, it isnot Desmond. We
are betrayed"


True, fair maiden, am not young
Desmond, the handsome hunter Of the
Year: 1877

The good ship Anericus, engaged in
the East India merchant service, was on
her homeward passage. Her crew were
jubilant at the prospect ofsoon reaching
home; but probably no one aboard the
ship was in better spirits than the skip
per's pretty daughter, Mabel Stanford,
who had accompanied her father on this
voyage.


When, suddenly, like thunderbolt
from a clear sky, dark cloud of wrongs
and suferings, which had been hanging
over the ship, broke upon them in all its
terrible power, sending broken hearts
and death into their midst, chilling the
hopes of the crew and driving the cap
tain and his daughter nearly distracted
with grief


Mabel Stanford was the general favor
ite of that ships company. None could
help liking and admiring her pleasant
ways; and she, all unconscious of the
fearful web she was so innocentiy weav-
ing, did her best to make the voyage
pleasant.


Among Miss Stanford's most ardent
admirers, and one whom she seemed
especially to favor, was the second mate,
young Frank Haywood, who loved her
with all his heart.


1t was whispered among thecrew that
they would make a fine match; but the
skipper did not look upon the would-be
union in that light; and it was generally
knewn that he would prefer the first
mate, Warren Gregg, who was also a
sultor for his daughters hand.


Warren Gregg, the first mate, was a
man not Ear from thirty, who had fol-
lowed the sea from his boyhood, and was
considered first-class seaman. He was
little below medium height, with a
stout, thick set frame, and frank, open
features, which greatly belied his true
disposition.


This was his second trip as mate of the
Americas, and though he had succeeded
in winning the good will of the captain,
he was generally disliked by the crew
for his naughty and oyerbearing ways.
That he loved Miss Stanford with all the
ardor of which his nature was capable,
there was no doubt; and it is perhaps
needless to say that he looked upon the
attention the manly handsome Haywood
paid her with anything but pleasure. In
fact he was mad with jealousy, and the
opportunity only was wanting for his
pent-up passion to break forth into a
torrent of hatred and vengence.


However, he had so managed to
govern his actions that no one dream
ed of the fierce mental conflict which
was racking his brain.


Affairs were at this state-Miss Mabel
openly receiving the attentions OF
Haywood, while her father and broth
er, the supercargo, was silently work
ing to bring about different result,
and Gregg still trying to win her from
his rival, his passion growing fiercer
and fiercer as bis case grew more hope
less, till plans Of revengeful triumph
went fitting through his brain, ready
to be tried in case fair means should
fail, when an incident occurred which
tended to bring about an estrangement
between the captain and bis daughters
lover.


It had been the aim of the unscru-
pulous Gregg from the first to bring
about a quarrel between the captain,
or his son Lewis. and Haywood Thus
he was continually embittering the
minds of both against the young and
handsome mate, until at last bis object
was accomplished.


Haywood and young Stanford had
an open quarrel, brought about by the
Year: 1877

Secretary Sherman's statement, in
answer to the formal letter of inquiry
by F. o. French, of New York. shows
under the laws now in force there is
no coin issued or that can be issued in
which either principal or interest OF
the per cents. can be paid, except
gold coin, and that to provide here
after for paying in silver coin would
be violation of the contract and an
act OF repudiation.
Year: 1877

From the report of the Commissioner of
the General Land Office tappears that the
Southern States have received the following
donations OF land for the purposes Of internal
improvements:
Year: 1877

A MAGAZINE writer has discovered
that COOK word, as rule, is only done
by people who have paid their bills
Shakespeare was so far ahead OF all his
contemporaries because be had the good
sense to make money, snd was there.
fore able to command the market and
write his later works without pressure.
Pope was able to polish his verses, be-
cause be judiciously made himself in
dependent by bis Homer" Words
worth, like Hayden, wished TO shake
the world; but, unlike HAydou, he
recognized and acted upon the truth


that the 0rst condition Of such power
is personal independence. Live for art
IL you will but fret be sure that you
have not TO live by your art, otherwise
The only harvest that You can reay will


be that Of the first reckless ebullitions
when the responsibility Of life does no


weight upon the busysncy ofyouth.
Year: 1877

A colored coroner's jury in one of the South Carolina sea islands recently found a verdict of murder in case of man dy- ing of consumption. believing him be-

 witched by another colorsd citizen.
Year: 1877

ing themselves. The driver cannot take
the fare, and il the passenger refuses to
comply with the rules, that passenger must
be put Off the car. The passenger reslstS,
and a disturbance results, the upshot OF
which may be to block the line, and, rs
was the case recently, keep some two hun
dred other passengers in rear cars waiting
! considerable time.


By far the most ingenious OF all these de-
vices is that devised for use on city cabs
There is metal circular-case, on the face
of which are two conccntric circles. The
inner one is marked as clock; the other Is
divided decimaliy to indicate dollars and
cents. The hands on the inner circle are
controlled by clock-work; that on the outer
circle must be moved by the driver. From
one side OF the clock extend wire rods, on
which is aign with the words ITO Hire
Between the rods is watch. NThe whole
is piYoted on the cab Just in rear OF the
drivers seat, and in such manner that
when the 8: To Hire -, side is turned upper
most it stands above the roof and is plainly
visible. In face OF the passenger in the
cab is an opening through which the watct
is seen when the sign is turned down.


II, when the cab is hired, the driver does
not turn down the sign, the passenger VIII
demand it, because otherwise the watch can
not be seen, and by this watch the time for
which the cab is used and paid for Is deter
mined. But the action OF turning down
the sign starts the clock, and this then goes
on registering hours and minutes. When
the passenger leaves the vehicle he pays
his fare, and this the driver registers on the
dial, bell-punch fashion. The driver
must then turn his sign up. II he does


Al. n
he will have to pay for the time himself at
the regular tariff of fifty cents per hour. So
from the two dials at the end OF the day
the inspector secs Just how long the cab has
been used and the amount collected. On
the back OF the clock is still another dial,
on which ID an index which moves over
one division every time the sign is turned
down. This shows the total number OF
trips, and is locked so that the driver has
no access to it. 1t prevents the driver
charging for trips only fraction OF an hour
in duration as for Il full hour. 1t will be
seen, therefore, that by noting the trips and
number OF hours employed the inspector
can at once calculate the amount which the
driver owes.


It is difficult to see how such device as
this can be defrauded. The objection to il
is its inapplicability to such conveyances as
stages and strect-cars; and for these ve-
hicles some device which shall absolutely
insure the honesty OF their conductors OF
drivers is still necessity. We commend
the subject to inventors as promising ono
for their efforts. Only let them remember
that however ingenious they may be, inge-
nuity as sharp as theirs will probably be
brought to. bear to circumvent their appa.
ratus. Perhaps the safest rule to go by is
to try to contrive device which shall. like
some OF those wonderful, intricate locks, be
impractcable OF access or alteration even
to the inventor himself.
Year: 1877

from the effects OF the warm weather and are de-
bilitated, are advised by physicians to take mod
crate amounts Of whisky two or three times during
the day In a little while those who adopt this ad-
vice frequently increase the number of drinks"
and in time become confirmed inebFiates. bey-
erage which will not create thirst for intoxicating
liquors. and which is intended especially for the
benefit OF debilitated persons whether ut home or
abroad, is DR.. SchPnck's Sea Weed Tonic. Con-
tanning the juices of many medicinal herbs, this
preparation does not create appetite for the in
toxicating cup. The nourshing and the life sup
porting properties of many valuable naturUl pro-
duetions contained in 1t and well known to medi-
cal men have a most strengthening influence. A
single bottle of the Tonic will demonstrate its val


liable qualities For debility arising from sickness


over exertion or from any cause whatever, wine


glassful of Sea Weed Tonic taken after meals will


strengthen the stomach and create an appetite for
wholesome food. Eo all who are about leaving
their homes we desire to say that the excellent ef
fects of Or. Schenck's seasOnable remedies, Sea
Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills, are particularly
evident when laken by those who are iniurously


affected by change of water and diet. No person


should leave home without taking supply OF these
safeguards along For sale by all druggists.
Year: 1877

IMPORTANT TO PERSONS VISITING NEW
YoRK.-One Of the best kept and most
convenient Hotels for Merchants and
others to stop at when in New York is the
Grand Union Hotel, nearly opposite the
Grand Central Depot, kept on the Euro
pean plan--you therefore only pay for
what you get. Everything is first class,
and prices moderate. adapted to the string
ency of the times, You save the expense
of carriage hire, and by leaving your bag
gage check on the counter of the Hotel.
your baggage will be delivered in your
rooms, ffteens minutes after the arrival
of the cars, free of expense We advise
you to give the Grand Union trial.
Year: 1877

The Compromise bill is now no doubI
in the hands of the President. His sigma,
ture is all that is necessary to make II q
law. Hence the people OF this whole
country are again at sea, politically. Sc
iar as We know all that has been gained
IS the defeat of Grants purpose, frequent.
ly declared to use the army to install hi,
successor, whom he was as free to allegs
would be Hayes. He had also gone SC
far as to say the President of the Senate
would "count" the votes necessary to give
Hayes lSo, without regard to what the
House of Representatives would do.


Thus entirely setting aside the power
Of the House, which undoubtedly is the
body under the constitution and by usage
which has the power to say when there
has been an election and when there has
been a. failure to elect. We are at peace;
hut We are not at rest; nor do we know
v hat will be the resul. of the work of the
Commission of fifteen, Wecan only hope
for the best.
Year: 1877




WASHINGTON, January 26.-The first
step to carry out the terms of the bill pass
cd this day by Congress is to select the
committees from the Senate and House
to form part OF the Commission of Ar
bination. The Republican members OF
the House have already called caucus
for tomorrow at IL, to name their rep
resentatives upon said committee on the
part of the House, and the Democrats
will probably meet on Monday to name
theirs.


A precisely similar movement is on
foot in the Senate to substitute Morton
for Conkling, and there, as in the House
the caucus majority is against the bill.
Ferry is anxious TO haveh caucus,and one
will probably be called Monday with the
chance that the majority which passed
the bill will hang together in making up
the commission underit. The Democarts
will hold no caucus and elect Thurman
and Bayard in the Senate.


Should the conference committee be
abandoned, Randolph Tucker is tolerably
certain TO be named, as would McNahon
of Ohio. Field is more likely to be of
counsel than member of the commits
sion, while Payne, of the committee. is
extremely likely to be chosen. The
friends of Wood and Cox are pressing
them for the position. 1t appears TO be
tolerably widespread impression that
Bradley will be the tifth Judge, for geog-
raphical reasons, he having the Southern
Circuit. No action whatever will be tax
en- by the four judges named till the bill
has been signed and the Senate aud
House have elected their quota. Judge
Campbell and Judge Spoilord have writ
ten TO Speaker Randall. offering their
legal services in presenting the Louisiana
cases TO the commission. LYMAN Trun-
bali is also likely 10 he included in The
list Of counsel.
Year: 1877

One hundred years ago not a pound of
coal nor a cubit foot of illuminating gas had
been burned in the country. No iron
stoves were used, and no contrivances for
ecomonizing heat were employees until
Franklin invented the iron-framed fire
place which still bears his name All the
cooking and warming in town and country
were done by the aid of fire kindled cd the
brick oven Pine knots or tallow candles
furnished the light for the long winter
highs, and sanded floors supplied the
place of rugs and carpet The water used
for household purposes was drawn from
deep wells by the creaking "sweep." Nc
form of pump was used in this country, SC
far as we can learn until after the commence
ment of the present century. There were
no friction matches in those days, by the
aid Of which fire could be easily kindlcd
and if the fire event OUT upon the heartl
over night, and the tinder was damp so tha
the spark would not catch, the alternative
remained Of wading through the snow ;
mile or so to borrow brand of neighbor
Only one room in any house was warm un
less some of the family ill; in all the
rest the temperature was at zero during
many nights in the winter. The meI
and women of hundred years ago undress
ed and went to their beds in tempcratur,


colder than that of our modern barns an,
! they never complained.
Year: 1877

The vote Of the Commission, refusing to
go behind the certificates of the electors,
practically gives the State to Hayes. This
makes the triumph of fraud complete.
Wrong and misrule has the vantage Of
right, if the action of the Commission is
the precursor of final Judgment for the
Hayes electors. 1t is a Judgment, how
ever, by tribunal of our own creation.
gives the sanction Of law TO revolution. w c
must submit to it, for the reason that we
gave the pledge of great party, and such
a pledge cannot be broken.


The end is not yet the spirit of the peo.
pie will quicken into intense action, patriot
ism will become perrid passion, which
will animate every lover of well ordered
liberty, to become propagandist for JUS
tice and national freedom. It now behovcs
every Democrat, to resolve that the iudg-
ment of yesterday shall be reversed, and
that once again, the solemn judgments of
the law, will go hand in hand with Justice
and equity
Year: 1877

MONEY, money everywhere" and not q
cent for those who need it most. While
thousands are starving or prevented from
starving by charity, and other thousands
find it hard work to keep the wolf from
the door, or to make "both ends meet in
order to "bridge over" the hard times,
there is the greatest abundance Of money
at all the sources Of supply. The banks
are full, and at all the money marts mil
lions and millions ofcapital are lying idle,
waiting from something to turn up" in
order to find employment. Like the man
who waits, this money will wait in vain.
1t must be started to work, and must be
set in circulation in al the avenues Of in
dustry, and we believe that it will be, and
that the next few months will witness
great change in this respect. We believe
that we are just at the threshold Of our
most prosperous era as nation and as a
people.
Year: 1877

The Democrats of Chester nominated a
colored man yesterday, he was janitor of
one of the public schools, for councilman
of the middle ward. There is considerable
excitement over the matter.
Year: 1877

Luke's Silver Mill in Bradshaw Basin started up on Thursday morning last, Mrs. Luke putting the first ore into the battery, and made a three days run in the most sal isfactory manner. Competent judges pro- nounce the mill as one of the most complete in every particular to Lc found in any coun- try or state. The engine is of 62-horse power and capable of driving 10 stamps where now only 10 arc used. The mill was to start up again this Monday mo ming, and will continue to run until they shall have worked 100 tons of ore when a clean up will be made and the result published. We. in conjunction with many others, wish the own CTS of this laudable enterprise unbounded success.
Year: 1877

ONE MORE UNFoRTUNATE.-Geor P Brewster, an Assayer, and man of superior business accomplishments. was found in the back room of q house on Granite street. nearly opposite the MINER office, in what appeared to be dying condition. Dr. Day was immediately sent for and it was found that he had taken large portion of nor phine with the evident intention of destroy ing his life. From a paper found on him, it seems that deSpondency was the imme- diate cause of the act. though he had good employment as an assaycr in the office of Jay c. Kelley. and there seemed to be no occasion for becoming tired of life Mr. Brewster undesstood banking and the ex- press business, in whsch his services were sought in Idaho and Nevada, and but for the unfortunate habit of indulging too freely in the use of intoxicating liquor. would now be holding an important position in some one of the leading banks of San Fran cisco or Virginia City. He was native of Canada, where for many years he was largely interested in the lumber business. He is member of the Masonic Order, and respectfully connected both in Canada and England.

 Since the above was written we learn NIT. Brewster died at about , o'clock