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Year: 1877

The administration means to put an
end to the depredatiOns of the Mexican
cattle-stealers on the Texan frontiers.
These "greasers' have become so strong
in numbers and so bold in action that
fOrbearance has ceased to be a virtue.
Whether it will assume the form taken
by General Mckenzie, who crossed the
Rio Grande some years ago with his
troops, and gave the thieves a good
drubbing upon their own soil, or whether
a general setto will ensue is not yet de-
termined. But that these Infamous
"greasers" must cease to cross the from
tier is settled, and we may expect the
quiet of the Rio Grande to be disturbed
this summer by the presence of troops
fully able and authorized to take proper
care of Uncle Sans important material
interests in the shape of cattle and
horses.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, Fob. 2; 1877.


THE MICHIGAN INELIGIBLE ELEcToR-A NEW
COMPLICATION TO THE ELECTORAL RETURNS.


Ottawa county, the residence OF jacob Den Herder
one OF the Michigan Presidential electors is in tho
Filth Congressional district, represented bv William
b. Williams, republican, who says that ho has not the
slightest doubt about Den Hcrder being naturaIized
citizen When found low close the Presidential
votc was the democrats OF the Fifth Michigan district
IN common with citizens OF other States, went
to work TO ascertain II there were any disqualified
electors on their state ticket Den Hcrder who is re-
ported TO be very careful business man, had been
prominent politician in Ottawa county, and, having
been resident there since 1876 when that part OF the
Stale was not thckly settled, 1t is possible say other
members of the Michigan delegation that he drifted
frs: into local politics among the Hoandcrs who COM
pose a large part OF the settlers OF that county
and subsequently was appointed to a federal
office without tho question Of citizenship over being
raised. 1t Is certain that the democrats OF Michigan
have been very careful in their researches and accord
court officials in Michigan there is no record of Den
Herder ever having taken out naturalization papers
AS he was but boy when he settled in Ottawa,
having been there eight years before arriving
At the age OF twenty is possible says tho demo-
cratic representative from that state that he
Rarded as American citizen and permitted to enjoy
official honors unqucstioncd. HIS failure TO produce
documentary evidence OF his naturalization will add


complication to the electoral returns. inasmuch
as the law Is explicit upon the question OF citizen
ship that without the proper papers his action n voting
with the other electors must be regarded irregular.
Year: 1877

having IL known that he had changed the nrurcs on
return He aterward stated that 1.-THE $lUO. OOO was
10 come from the Secretary OF the national party or
The Treasurer OF the Republican Committee" When
no went from New Orleans TO Springfield, III, he was
accompanied By Mr.. Spearing and by Mr. Murphy,
lawyer and democrat He stated that he refused 10
testify before the Morrison Committee on tho first day
OF ms appearance before them but the second day
he told AL because General Huriburt Of tho Morrison
Committee had tried on the first day of witness cx
animation to prove that he twitness had stolen the
return which had come INTO the possession or the
committee through SpearnR, and witness had 10 tell
al to clear himself OF the suspicious cast upon him.
Marshal Pitkn offered To obtain witness lawyer with
whom TO consult the evening OF the lrst day Of
witness examination. but he declined the Offer Mr.
murphy, the same person who had gone with witness
and Spcaring 10 see Governor Palmer, at Springfield
Ill, was consulted by witness, and through HIM no
twness) learned that he would not lay himself liable


to criminal prosecution tor wing changed the figures
on the returns from Vernon parish he testified under
protest 10 having done At iour O'Clock MT Little
hcd stated that he did not feel able 10 continue longer
on the witness stand, and he excused, ana the
committee adjourned until tomorrow morning
Year: 1877

SHARoN's CoUEsE.-The Republicans
Of the Silver State can repent at leisure
their action in choosing bag Of money
for their representative in the United
States Senate. While the party to which
Mr.. Sharon claims to belong is threatened
with defeat through the treachery Of some
Of those whom it trusted Sharon re-
mains in San Francisco and attends to
his private business. Were it not for the
consequences to the public veal which
are sure to result from Democratic ascend
ency in both branches of Congress, we
would say it serves the Republicans just
right for electing such men.
Year: 1877

TIE trial Of the gang who are trying to
stir up strife in San Francisco having
amounted to nothing in consequence Of
the ordinance under which they were ar
rested and tried being defective, the Sar
Francisco Supervisors, by vote Of 9 to 3
have passed II new ordinance applicable
to their case.
Year: 1877

ONG of the San Francisco hotels has
introduced a new and useful feature. 1t
is drunk room" When customer
becomes so much intoxicated that he
can't take care of himself, be is put into
that room and kept there until he is able
to navigate.
Year: 1877

FOURTEEN cases Of small pox has nat
urally caused great excitement to prevail
at Yuma, Arilona Territory. The worst
feature of the matter is that the county
physician knew the disease had broken
out, but kept the knowledge to himself
until it became too apparent to be con-
Year: 1877

The old question of the division of
Butte and the creation of new county
therefrom will come up prominently be-
fore the Legislature this winter. Efforts
will also be made to create new counties
out Of Alameda and Santa Barbara.
Year: 1877

Conspiracy IN SMUGGLING SILKS AND
LAcEs.-An extensive conspiracy in SNUG
Cling silks and laces on large scale has
been discovered by the detective officers in
New York and some of the goods seized.
1t is believed that these goods have for a
long time been sruggled in such large
quantities as to demoralize the trade through
out the country. The silks seized were
landed in cement barrels.
Year: 1877

"You politicians are queer people," said
an old business man to an impecunious
partisan. Why q" asked the politician.
"Why, because you trouble yourself more
about the payment of the debts of the
State thar you do about your own"
Year: 1877

Said one fellow to another, " If was as
fiat footed as you are, would not be
afraid of slipping on the pavement"
"Yes," was the response, "some people are
fiat on one end and some on the other"
And the first chap looked thoughtful, and
went on down the street.
Year: 1877

Ex-PREsIDENT GRANT.-Since Gen. Grant
has been in England he has done more
speech-making than ever before, and he
has done it remarkably well. too. Here
is what he said to delegation of working
men that waited on him the other day:


Whatever there is of greatness in the
United States, as, indeed, in any other
country, is due to labor. The laborer is
the author of all greatness and wealth.
Without labor there would be no govern
ment or leading class or nothing to pre-
serve. With us labor is regarded as highly
respectable When it is not so regarded it
is because man dishonors labor. We re-
cognize that labor dishonors no man, and
no matter what mans occupation is, he
is eligible to fill any post in the gift of the
people; his occupation is not considered
in selecting, whether as a law maker or as
an executor of the law"
Year: 1877

Mrs. George P. Farr of Windsor. has been in the habit of whipping her hus- bands twelve years old daughter by his first wife so severely that the. neighbors recently caused the arrest of herself and husband for cruelty. At the trial mark on the child s head was shown, caused, it was claimed, by the blow of a horsewhip six days before. the offense being that the girl had taken piece of bread from the breakfast table ofter having been sent away. The justice, however, discharged the parties on the ground that they had to treat their child as they saw fit and he conld not interferes SIG 7sa
Year: 1877

WHY does not the international Rail-
way Company go before Congress and
show how peace may be perpetusted
with Mexico, how the country may be
populated and this population imbued
with American ideas, and how the
commerce and agriculture and mines
and Industries of Mexico may be made
the richest resource of the United
States. If this were shown, and that
the International road, extended from
Austin to Mazatlea or San Bias, would
constitute part OF the shortest possible
line from New York to the Pacific, and
to that point on the Pacific to which
vessels from China are forced by trade
winds-if these facts were properly
presented to Congress, measures would
be adopted affecting this railway com
pelIing the final pacification and
Americanization of Mexico cheaper
than war and wiser and better for both
countries.
Year: 1877

The Fourteenth Legislature passed q
law requiring unpatented lands to be
tsxed. II has been the policy of some
of the largest land owners of the State
to get their claims ready in the Land
Office for pstenting and leave them in
that condition. This was done on ac-
count of unpstented lands heretofore
not being taxed. The Texas Central
Rllrosd adopted this policy. partly on
account of not having 10 pay taxes and
partly on account of q clause IN their
charter which required them to alien
a.e a portion OF their lands in certain
number of years, rs, understand, they
claim that that clause in the charter
does not commence running against
them until the land is patented by the
State. This corporation has several
Thousand sections unpatented, some Of
which have been in the Land Office
fifteen or twenty years untaNed.


The taxes on this character of claims
alone for one year, il assessed at falr
valuation, will be sufficient to pay the
entire cost OF making and printing this
abstract. To Keep 1t up each year will
require the rvices of two clerks con
stantly employed.


In railroad work we find that the
abstract would not be complete with
out giving the number of the survey
and section, in addition to what the
law requires us to give. With the num-
Der Of the certificate and number OF the
section the assessors will have no diff
Guilty in identifying aud properly asses
sing the lands. Some lew assessors
have procured written copies of their
counties, and Others who desire can do
So by applying to the Commissioner of
the Genclal Land Office and paying for
them at the rate OF ten 10 twenty dol
lars per county, according to the mum
ber of surveys in the county. Two ad-
ditional clerks have been put on this
work, and think it will be complete
and ready for the printer in ten or
twelve months.
Year: 1877

gins to think for himself and approves
the more the paper that makes him
think, that stirs his bile, that runs bolt
upright against the enclosure in which
be keeps his prejudices and old rusty
ideas as carefully fenced in as he does
his Cashmeres and Devons. A stranger
breaking over the fence scstters alike
the cattle and rooted convictions, and,
thrusting aside the green grass and
dense, tangled vines and underground,
admits the sunlight of truth which
touches and WHITES the soil and the
soul, and richer crops Of verdure and
OF ideas bloom aud blossom and shed
fragrance upon the gardens and fields
and bless the land we Inhabit. People
used to be frightened when new idea
went like blazing meteor across the
horizon OF thought. They shut their
eyes and turned away as if the vision
were painful but now the liberalization
opinion and progress of just thinking
are such.that novel ideas and fearless
expression, however deep the wounds
inflicted upon old sores called preju
dices, OF religion or of politics, rather
please than offend. He must be of
BG1tisn stupidity who would have q
preacher or lawyer or newspaper or
neighbor concurring with him in all
things. What use Is there for series
of books, each reciting the same events
and making the same arguments, only
changing the language and modes of
expression in each2 Long ago the
party used to demand of the press that
it never should depart from the old
deeply worn grooves. 1t must sing
the same song, chant the same prayer,
recite the same tiresome creed, and
support the nominee, right or wrong.
honest or dishonest, forever. But nous
aUOns change t0m cela All this is wholly
changed and the people are morally
Tree as never before.


There are and should be political
parties. These must be organized
III practical action; they must act
solidly; but in thinking and speaking
and in all matters of personal opinion
the broadest freedom is practiced and
necessarily tolerated. Without 1t in
telligent people would not confess al
legiance to party, and with it parti
sanship is divested of its dangers. If
the party's masters could have relied
upon the ignorance and stolidity and
prejudices and compactness of parties
Hayes could not, after legal lnvestiture,
have held the presidency. But party
ties in this country are not lndestructi-
Bile ligaments binding the unthinking
multitude to the person and fortunes
of the party-icader, and while the peo-
pie Think for themselves and are ad-
dicted to newspapers that utter fear
lessly what they think, there can be
none of those terrible revolutions in
this country that desolate Central
American States, and none of those
fearful caIamities to which Washing
ton adver,ed with such anxiety in his
last address to his countrymen. Free
thinking and free expression are alone.
compatible with the perpetuity of free
institutions, and there is no freedom
where parties are despotic and the
press hesitates to define the errors as
we'll as the virtues of party.
Year: 1877

MIR. SECRETARY SHERMAN will hard
ly be able to place any more of his iour
per cents. He can't say on their face
that they and the interest are payable
in gold and we only fear that the Sec
retary will go to fumbllng with the
money market and give the thumb
screws another twist and make prop
erty lower and money harder to get,
and smash things. He and Congress
will have a lively fight about it. The
West will demand the reconciliation
of silver, and If this be effected Sher-
mans four per cents. won't so off as
smoothly as was supposed.
Year: 1877

THE papers everywhere deplore the
fact that the Constitution will not
suifer Governor Hubbard TO accept q
loan in order to continue the employ
ment of the military companies on the
frontier. These, it is SAID, must soon
be disbanded.
Year: 1877

THE Rockport Transcript contains q
deserved tribute to the genius and
taste of Mrs. Lide &Eerriwethcr,, the
New York correspondent of the
STATESMAN. The Transcript says her
description of \. T. Stewards art gal p
lery is the very perfection of word
painting. The warmth, pathos and
accuracy of the language is so vivid
and lifelike, that it needs little exercise
OF the imagination 10 suppose that We
stand beside the writer contemplating
the works OF the great masters whose
productions lend inspiration to her
pen, and as they assume form, give
shape and expression to the fcrvid Ge
scription we discover and magical
power to poetic prose.
Year: 1877

The growth and expansion Of the
Puget Sound coal traffic 10 certainly an
excellent proof of our stability - m in
dustrious people. When We left here.
four years ago. it was barely an expert
ment, and hardly q successful one a
that. The annexed table will afford a
fair criterion of our progress as min
ing people. and give some adequate
idea of the extent of our resources in
this branch of trade
Year: 1877

Of all mean dispositions, the most
despicable is that which hates and
fears the advancement of others.
Within our experience we have
never known mortal who, actuated
by the spirit of envy, but was of
such composition that the object of
his envy was SO far above him, both
in natural energy and ability, that
the poor worm had naught to con-
sole him, but this rancorous spirit
(spirit--God save the mark Little
souls resort to small means, and
envy, the smallest of things, resorts
to the meanest. Its permeatiug
meanness reaches to the golden
shores of the Pacific, and even to
the mountain encircled Sound
country.


From our advices from the East
we learn that the May-Bennett scan
dal is likely totlead to a duel. Both
parties are reported enroute to the
Canadas. Should this affair prove
mortal, who will take the, place of
the last of the BENEFITS?


When it comes down to coming a
f i,st-class sensation out of an absolute
nothing. the aver age Olympia localizer
is hard to beat. We have a profound
veneratlon for the memory of the phi
losopher who originated the maxim
that "God sends us meat and the devil
sends US Cooks
Year: 1877

five mutineers we're secured they were put upon q
tug and brought to the city last evening. On
their arrival they were taken TO the Parish
Plison and locked mp.


A DEMOCRAT reporter visited them for the pur-
pose OF learning their side OF the story. The
spokesman OF the crowd stated that when they
crossed the bar Capt. Streker left the ship and
the chief mate took command. AT daybreak
Saturday morning they arose and were given
coffee and bread. After partaking OF the food
they were ordered TO weigh anchor, which COM
mand they obeyed.


After the anchor was weighed they asked the
mate were they not going TO have breakfast
He replied, Have you not had breakfast" They
said, "No we have had nothing but some coffee
and bread "Well, ," said the mate, saint inst
enough7" We told him no, and he responded,
saying, swell, ii that don't suit you, 70 to hell
and do better.s Cbas. Boarmaster then made .
ssrcastic reply and the mate struck him.
struggle then ensued, bat the mate, releasing
himself from his antagonists grasp, retreated
into the cabin. armed himself with q revolver,
and returned on deck


He then advanced upon the sailor, Boarmaster,
at the same time leveling his weapon, and would
have fired had not the FIVE OF us disarmed him.
This 10 all the trouble we had. They say we
locked tho mates up in the cabin, but that is not
true.


This morning (meaning Sunday morning. tho
Marshal came aboard and put us in irons and
brought us here. Had the mate given us break.
fast, there would have been no trouble. We did
not do any work for the mate after the row. for
he did not order us to do anything.
Year: 1877

OF late II would seem our undertskers hsva
adopted dodge to save their rolling stock and
animals from az much tear and wear as possible
which, while 1t proves q great convenience ia
these grave and sombre personages, intefferea
with the comforts OF other people, who seriously
complain against It, Formerly the funerals 90
ing TO the cemeteries In the lower districts were
IN the habit OF going down Royal street.
but as the Jackson and Pontchartrain de-
pot line Of cars come up that street,
1t compelled the eorteges 10 get off tho
smooth track to allow the cars 10 10 BY. No,-.
they have adopted Bourbon street and raonon1.
hzed the car track ON that street by the sifw
pace at which the funerals travel The under
takers OF course never notice that there il some
times half dozen Of cars in their wake; and tha
poor car driver, on the other hand, owing ID I
natural yeneration for the dead does not veil ont
to the driver Of the hearse to move out of his
way and besides 1t frequently occurs that The
hearse is block away In front of him.


This useless interference with the progress Of
street cars 10 an old one, which manffests itseIf
particularly on our procession DAYS, although of
late we have noticed some improvement in this
respect. And yet, singularly enough, the onIy
organized attention paid to the subject eyi-
den led itself only very recently on the occasion
of the parade of the colored Odd Fellows. when
the marshals Of the procession invariably Cleared
the way for the street cars. This example In cer-
tainly worthy Of imitation.
Year: 1877

NEW YORK, Nov. 1s.-~The Heratds Washing
ton special says Of the Republican caucus yea
terday. that the several members of the com
mittees related what each had said to the Presi-
dent, and what the President had snid In reply.
Ibe burden OF their report was that the Presi-
dent had the good 81 the party at heart. and had
undertaken to build up the purity in the South
ern States. and that the difference of opinion be-
tween Senators and the President was an
honest and O natural one.


The most the committee could say was that
they. hoped and believed that hereafter there
offices OF Objectionable Democrats.


Some of the speakers egtetted that the Presi-
dent labored uuuar an evident hallucination as
to the expected effects of his Southern policy
He was sincere they thought. but misguided in
his Judgment


Tho caucus accomplished nothing definite.
and adjourned to meet again,


good many suggestions were offered. but
none were acted upon. Among these was
the proposition to instruct the executive com
mittee to investigate thoroughly every fact
arisiag In connection with the cases of the CON
IN noutherner) is said to have said that the
who q question might be relegated to the State
10 be undone. and allow of a new election of
Senators by the Legislature as that body is. now
constituted.


The session was not satisfactory to tho a1po-
any stronger. and their plan is now t, effect In
early ADJOURNMENT OF Congress and ket bncA
the nominations hey DISLIKE until the meeting
of the regular session. and also to keep out IL
they can tho Louisiana and South Carolina
Senators.


The Times special says there was some con-
versation about the publication Of the proceed
ings OF the last caucus. and the Senators were
specially cautioned to reveal nothing that trans
pired In caucus to-day
Year: 1877

Last night, at a late hour, young woman, ap
parently about twenty years of age, with al
infant in her arms, entered the Centrsl Station
and asked for lodging. The turnkey, Mr.. Corco
ran, rather surprised that person so neatly
dressed should wish to remain in cell all night
especially as she had an infant asked the stranger
il she had not home. "Home!" she said. 81 once
had home, but that was when was child
Since then have reached womans estate and
become mother. hardly know the meaning oi
the word, and to hear it spoken Of almost sets me
crazy, for it brings 10 my mind memories of the
past-of time when had kind mother and a
good father to look after me.


"But even they we're forced to give me up. I
blamed them then, but since found by sad ex-
perience that they only acted for my good had
only taken their advice. Alas! I did not listen
to them, but married a man that they objected to-,
and as I was afraid that they would prevent our
marrying, one night eloped with him and we
were welded on the morning following. This is
his child" AS she said this she took q shawl from
the body OF bright-eyed, curly-haired infant of
about twelve months, and continuing, she said
"The man whomI once loved and called husband
bssely deserted me few months after this little
one was born.


'Belng thrown upon my own resources, man.
aged to work and make living for US both, but
for the last six weeks l have been sick and una
BILE to work. Ny house rent fell due and could
not pay it. few moments ago my landlady
came to me and asked me for the three dollars /
owed her. I told her I did not have it. She
would not listen to my supplications, but had
the baby and myself showed upon the street.
So, sir, have come to you for nights shelter"


"And ye shall have it," said old Davy, the kind
hearted turnkey, and grasping the woman 8 hand,
he took the mother ana baby in to warm by the
fire.


After they were both thoroughly warmed up,
he gave them couple OF blankets and put them
to sleep in cell. What will next become OF the
mother and babe is a question for society to an
swer, and consequence for which the unworthy
wretch OF husband and father is responsible
Some punishment ought to be reserved for men
who are false to sacred trusts and holy promises