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Year: 1877

AN empty purse fills the face with
wrinkles.


He who has lost confidence can lose
nothing more.


REpRovE thy friend privately, COM
mend him publicly.


SEVERITY breeds fear, but roughness
engenders hate.


WHY they call a sensational report
canard" is because one canardly be-
lieve it, you know.


WHAT word of five syllables is that,
from which, if you take one syllable
away no syllable remains Monosylable
no syllable.


BAYARD TAYLOR says: cit is a
whitening commentary upon our modern
costume that no sculptor has dared, or
ever will dare, to model statue wearing
stove-pipe hat"


"WHY is it, my dear sir" said Wafies's
landlady to him the other day, " that
you newspaper men never get rich 2" 81
do not know" was the reply, except it
is that dollars and sense do not always
travel together"
AMAN innocently spoiled a sermon
and prayer by exclaiming, while the
tears rolled down his cheeks, "Lord, Thou
knowest [ have been an awful sinner
the chief among ten thousand and one
altogether lovely"


BUT no enjoyment is transitory; the
impression which it leaves is lasting, and
what is done with diligence and toll
imparts to the spectator secret force,
of which one can not say how far the
effect may reach.-Goethe.


A COUNTRY paper, in an obituary
notice of subscribers son, says: he
was an uncommon smart boy. He had
little too much curiosity, perhaps, or
he wouldn't have peeped into the muz-
zle of his fathers shotgun.


FAME is feeting and short lived. The
laurel wreath OF glory and respect is
fading from the memorable brow of the
man who discovered America, and
settling on the man who gives the most
chewing tobacco for five cents.
WILL PASS AWAY.


Touched with the delicate green of early May,
Or later when the unveils her face,
The world hangs glittering in star-strewn space,
| Fresh as a jewel found but yesterday,
| And yet it's very odd what tongue may say
How old it is? Race follows upon race,
Forgetting and forgotten In their place
Sink tower and temple nothing long may stay.
We build on tombs and live our day, and die;


From out our dust new towers and temples start;


Our very name becomes a mystery.
What cities no man ever heard of lie
Under the glacier, in the mountain's heart,
In violent glooms beneath the moan 'ng sea!
Atlantic.
A MAJOR GENERAL of the Belgian
army who fled, after killing man in
duel, six months ago, is now waiter in
New York hotel. Already he can
worm half dollar out of your pocket by
the deferential manner with which he
puts chair under your legs.
THE Christian Union some weeks ago
printed the lines
Pas de lieu
Rnone que nous,
and requested translation OF them. Mr.
John Habberton rashly made them out
to be Not 80 far from the Rhone as
we.n and was mortified on hearing that
they should read in English, "Paddle
xour OWN canoe"
Year: 1877

A painful scene appears, by the ac-
count given of it in the Stirling Journal
to have occurred on Sunday. last week,
in church near Gartmore, in that
county. The minister, who is in the
habit of warning his congregation on
special occasions against the machina-
tions of the evil one, was delivering a
discourse on his favorite theme, when
suddenly a large window blind and roll
er behind the pulpit lost its hold, falling
right over the preacher and completely
concealing him for time from his flock.
In its descent the roller smashed a
number of window panes, and the clat-
ter of the falling glass added panic to
the already terrified condition of the
enshrouded preacher. Ignorant of the
cause of the sudden darkness and horri-
BILE noise, he thought he might have ex-
ceeded the bounds of discretion in his
denunciations of the devil, who had
thereupon arrived hastily in person


bent upon retaliation. A frightful
shrek of 81 am gonel" echoed through
the church, and the maddened preacher
Year: 1877

The rock which gives to Standing
Rock Agency its name, is very small
affair, and is said to be not more than
two feet in diameter at the ground, and
does not exceed two feet in hight.
There is a pretty Indian tradition con-
nected with it, which is as follows:


Many years ago this country was oc-
cupied by the Arickaree Indians. One
of these had squaw who was very de-
voted to him; which fact did not pre-
vent him taking another squaw to his
lodge, according to Indian custom.
The first squaw could not reconcile her.
self to this division of her lord and
masters love between two women, and
so she abandoned the lodge and went
out on the prairie with her infant child,
where she sat down and wept, and
grieved, and starved. She died there,
and the infant with her, and both were
petrifed into stone, which is Standing
Rock. Offerings are made to this
rock-the petrified woman and child
nearly every day. The top of the rock
is always painted, and around its base
are beads, cloth, arrows, and other arti-
cles used by Indians.
Year: 1877

with one bound cleared the pulpit, nor
ever stopped until he reached the ex-
treme corner of the edifice. 1t may be
well imagined that the suddenness of
this alarming incident and its dramatic
nature exercised a most powerful effect
on the nerves of all who witnessed it.
Fortunately there was no general panic
or the consequence might have beeu
serious; but the story should be lesson
to those ministers who touch upon the
delicate question Of the personality of
the devil to retain their self-possession
underany circumstances and not to leave
the pulpit unless absolutely elected from
it by force.
Year: 1877

A ,blighting curse seems to have fallen
on everybody who had anything to do
with the massacre; even the country
seems to have suffered from the same
cause. The Mountain Meadows are a
dreary, forbidding waste of sand and
sagebrush, cut to pieces and quilted
through by heavy storms. AT the spring
near where the emigrant camp was To-
Gated, there is a scene of desolation
The luxurious grass, which tempted
the emigrants out of the main travelled
road, is no more to be seen, and the
spring is sunken pool of Shiny, filthy
water. Few persons now pass through
the meadows, all holding it in abhor-
renee and dread. Even in Cedar City,
the hand of an unseen avenging power
is shown. The residents of the town
of 1857 who took part in the massacre
have about all disappeared, and blight
has followed them and their work. The
houses and families of Haight, Higbee
and Stewart are now there and are
objects of interest. 1t is thought these
men have left the country, never to
return. 1t is said they have entered
into an agreement to never be taken
alive and their friends say they are des-
perate and and brave, and will live or
die by their compact.
Year: 1877

The foot Of a wild turkey brought in from Dill Williams Mountain by Charley Fred rick as present from Henry Herbert to T. J. Butler has talons on it resembling the claws of a grizzly bear more than those of a turkey. Henry must have scared up drove ol the South American Ostrich, or captured q Condor from the Andes, if the size of its foot is an indication ofthe bird. By way oflet- ting Dud Moreland know that he and the par ty who are hunting with him are not starving for want of meat, he sends word that if he had Butler and Moreland out there he could iatten them both in month until they could not be distinguished from Charley Yates and he would feed them on nothing but the feet of the turkeys he kills
Year: 1877

FAST FRETGHr.-A team belonging to Miller Brothers, with fast freight, arrived last evening from Ehrenberg making the trip in the extraordinarily quick time of four and three-quarter days. This is almost stage time, and quite unlike some of the fast frcighters who take ten and twelve days to make the trip.
Year: 1877

We are sorry to state that MT. Frank Shuneman is financially embarrassed, and the consequence is that several attachments have been issued against his property. It is his intention, we believe, to take the benefit of the bankruptcy act.
Year: 1877

George W. Bird has been appointed by the Board of Supervisors a Justice of the Peace for Antelope Precinct in this county. Mir. Bird is young man of excellent habits. perfectly capable, therefore the appointment Is a good one.
Year: 1877

Quite number of our citizens who have been on a trip to Black Canyon returned yesterday. The parties who went down to exanine the Tip-Top with a view to pur chase express themselves pleased with what they saw, and more than likely, a sale will be the result of their examination.
Year: 1877

In response to the ovation given Gen.
Howard at Portland he took occasion to
condemn the present theory of the gov
ernraent with Indians aud suggested
the following:


Our only remedy appears to me to
be, "cease forever from making wheels
within wheels from making even the
sEMBLANCE of treaties, assume at the
outset what is always the truth at the
bottom, and finally, come to namely,
UNITED STATES JURISDICTION then
make q permanent management, make
it as nearly conformable to our system
Of government as possible. If justice
cannot be secured to those who are dis
posed to do right, where the governing
is all on the side of our own people :;
then probably removal and territorial
form of government somewhere fer the
Indians. becomes the possible solution,
and the SCHOOLS and the WORK the
permanent remedy. Gather them into
territory, put on the schools and the
work and the taxes. Let obligations
go alongside Of privileges, and if there
is not human nature and human capa.
city in tho red race, as their friends
claim and believe, then the OLD
TROUBLES will be abated.


This campaign evidently has given
the General greater wisdom upon the
Indian question. The above theory
commcnds itself to the good sense Of
every man conversant with Indian char
acter.
Year: 1877

Though actual settlers have been 60
ing in usual numbers for many months
into nearly all parts of Eastern Oregon
and Washington, and some into Idaho.
yet most have gone to the Palouse coun-
try; and still the tide sets in that d.
rection, Notwithstanding the growing
lateness of the season. BY persons who
have just returned from tour through
the country, made with view to fnd.
ing lands for settlement, we are assured
that occupation Of the country is as yet
scarcely begun. These persons easily
found lands which they selected for
future homes, and to which they will
return just as soon as they can arrange
their affairs. A steady movement of
people to tho country east of the Cas-
cade mountains is still noted, both Of
new comers and of persons who have
long resided in Western Oregon. An
incident brings this last fact to our no.
tice in another way. Not day passes
which does not bring orders to change
the address of the Oregonian from Of
fees west of the Cascades to points east,
in Oregon, Washington, or Idaho.
The country which few years ago was
deemed valueless except for grazing,
is rapidly becoming the great region
for wheat; and it will not be long till
the country east of the Cascade range
will produce FIVE bushels of grain to our
one.


No finer country ever was seen
than the district beginning at Umatila,
extending through Walla Walla and
reaching north of Snake river to the
Spokane, and even beyond. 1t is Sec
tion much larger than the Willamette
valley, and has proportionately greater
agricultural capacity. In a few years
it will have quarter of million inhab-
itants, and is capable Of sustaining six
times that number. When the North
ern Pacific railroad is built through it,
affording an outlet for its products, its
development will be prodigious. It's
commerce will occupy prominent place
in the mighty stream that will flow in
the near future through the channel of
the Columbia, to and from the open sea.
Year: 1877

The Little Rock Star says: IA
monkey tied in the baggage-car for
safe keeping was the cause Of some
excitement on the train the other day.
During the temporary absence of the
baggageman he concluded to a,nuse
himself by playing gymnastics over
the baggage. In one Of his vaultinc
tricks he brought valises and other ar
ticles tumbling after him to the floor.
which so terrified him that he made /.
bound toward the ceiling Of the car.
The first object In reach was the bell,


cord, and that he grasped with vigor
and resolutely held on to 1t. or course
the bell commenced to ring, and tn.
engineer, ignorant of what was the
matter, and started at the sudden
summons to shut down, had the train
brought to standstill as soon as pbs-
sibls. The conductor. surprised at the
sudden halt, rushed to the engineer
and wanted to know why in - he
had stopped the train. The engineer
wanted to know what in blazes be
rung the bell for, as there was danger
neither ahead or around. A little In
quiry satisfied all parties where the
summons came from. The engineer
begged some one go on his engine
while he killed the acrobatic brute.


but he was prevailed upon to desist.n
Year: 1877

and the ears viii come within fifteen
miles of this town and will reach here
To II in about three weeks. A new town
called Ida Grove has been laid out
thpe-fourths Of mile from the old
town. The new site is within half a
mile from Maple river on the western
slope of hill and is beautifully sit
uated, and Is destined 10 he y city of
importance in time. Lots are being
bought ranidly, and as soon as lumber
can be brought into town on the cars
buildings by the score will be erected.
North of Ida Grove the hills disappear
and you have as fine land rs Cedar or
any other county in the State can
show. Parties from all parts of this
and neighboring States are coming TO
Ida to look out situations.


This years crops being good these
western counties are going TO settle up
rapidly; in fact had it not been for
the grasshoppers the past two years,
five houses could he counted to where
one can at present, and now think
the tables have turned and settlers
will pour in rapidly.


formed the acquaintance Of n num-
ber of the business men of Ida and
found them wide awake business men.


To any one wishing information of
Ida county, | would say send for a
copy of Ida County Pioneer" tsend
along few postage stamps) and you
will get all needed information.


L. j. GARRISON.
Year: 1877




Whence all but him had fed


The flames thet lii the battle wreck


shown round him DER the dead.


Owen Casabianca was native of
Corsica, on which island he WAS born
I'm the year l73s. His father was Louis
Casabianca, distinguished French
politician and naval commander, and
the friend of Napoleon. He was cap
tain al this time Of the Orient, one of
the largest vessels of the French navy,
q magnificent ship-of-war, carrying
la0 guns and 500 seamen. or Casabi-
anca's mother we know but little,
save that She was young and beauti-
full Corsican lady, and devotedly at
tached To her son. Owen was her only
child, handsome, manly little fell
low, with her beauty In his flashing
eyes and dusky hair. She died while
he was quite young, and when the
green sod was placed above her grave
the boy left the pleasant valley under





his father and tread the hard deck of a
war vessel. Mere child as he was,
Casabianca soon learned To love his
fathers dangerous calling, and be-
became favorite of all on board. He
was made midshipman, and at the
early age Of ten participated with his
f,4t ss,t nf hn 10
ship caught fire during the action.
Soon after, Casabianca, the father, was
wounded by a musket ball. Not yet
disabled, he was struck in the head
some minutes later by splinter which
laid him on the deck insensible. His
gallant son, unconscious Of the chief
tain's doom, still held his post at the
battery, where he worked like the he
TO that he was. He saw the flames
raging around him; he saw the ships
crew desertiDg him one by one, and
he was urged to flee. With courage
and coolness beyond his years, he re-
fused to desert his post. Worthy son
of Louis Casabianca, hefonght on and
never abandoned the Orient until the
whole of the immense vessel was in
flames. Then, seeking refuge on a
floating mast, he left the burning ship
behind him. But he was too late. The
final catastrophe came like the judg-
ment doom. With an explosion 80
tremendous that every ship felt 1t to
the bottom, the Orient blew upk and
from among the wreck the next m0rpu
ing was picked up the dead, mangled
body of the young hero, whose story
romance and poetry cannot make
more heroic than ii was.
Year: 1877

Here Is an amusing comedy OF errors
with Partisan edge: Mime. de v.
was very jealous, and determined to
watch her husband. One day he told
her he was going D Versailles, and
when he went out she put on her bon
net and followed him. She kept him
in sight until he turned into a passage
which shortened the way TO the rail
way station, where she missed him.
She stood for q few minutes in the pas.
sage looking about, and suddenly saw
u man coming out of a giove-shop with
q rather overdressed lady. From the
distance she made sure that the man
was her husband, and without word
Of warning she gave him three or four
sounding boxes on the ear. When the
gentleman turned around to confront
his assailant, she perceived that she
had made u mistake. and at the same
moment she caught sight of her h,ls-
band, who had replenished his cigar
case at a tohacconist's, and was cross
ing the street. What could she do "
1t goes without saying that she tainted
In the arms of the stranger whose ears
she boxed, while the other lady ran
off AS fast "a she could to avoid scam
dal. The stranger, who was come
dian, was astonished to find an un-
known lady in his arms; and, while
his ears were still tingling from her
blows, he was again startled. A gen.
tleman collared him. and shaking him
roughly asked him what he meant by
embracing lady in the street. "Why,
she boxed my ears and tainted ~
screamed the actor. "She is my wife" +"
shouted the irate husband, land would
never have struck you without cause!"
The infuriated gentleman shook their
fists until the lady, who had been car
ried into shop, recovered sufficient
" to tell how it had happened.
Year: 1877




Ifthere is one thing In tbis world
worse thar another, ttsns one ching il
a wicked woman. Civil and military
ohicials At Braidwood agree that shey
would rather meet the striking MI
ners. armed to the teeth, than meet
ten striking women-those strappine
big Welsh and Bohemian women.
each one capable Of ofknocking out OF
time halfa dozen men. A person
whom Fourth Readers and sentimen-
tal historians delight In calling Joan
Of Arc at one time went to war and
fought as her soldiers fought. But
not SO with the Braidwood women.
They make slungshets by stitching
large stone In the toe Of q long.
strong stocking, and with plenty Of
stones in their aprons and in bags
hung at their sides. they go forth to
do or die principally do, as many OF
finkerton's men can testify. and thar
"Sheriff7s possen will readily swear
10. They have passions as wild and
ss mean rs anything human can pos
sibly be. They gather in mobs of 100
or $50, seize bakers wagon, butch
er's cart or milk wagon, and In less
than a shake Of lambs tail they
clean 1t out, and tanntingly request
the frightened tradesman to call again.
They are perfectly fearless, and would
rather fight than eat, and will travel
until they are footsore seeking for q
chance to throw stone at some ha-
man thing not striking miner. w.
learn that rumors are plenty in Braid
wood that the women intend to poi-
son the troops, and II the troops are
not constantly on the lookout they
will succeed, too. Nothing seems too
great or too hazardous for these ANA
IONS of the Mines to attempt. A GER
tain young fellow who has been act
ing as Deputy Sheriff at the mines
for several months, says: Il would
rather meet the devil, and he with a
two-prong fork, bent on my destruc-
tion, than to meet one of those women
with blood in her eye. At night none
Of US ever felt safe, and we never knew
when stone would come whizzing
along and light right near fellow.
don't want any more of it in mine.n
Year: 1877

From the London World, July 25th.)


One day last week a correspondent
of the Times brought great discovery
to the notice of that journal In the fol-
lowing letter: II CHANGED lately to
go into village shop where cotton
goods are sold. On the counter lay a
large piece OF cotton cloth or calico. on
which was stamped al eagle on q
rock, occupying ten inches with the
words: This cloth was made In Amer
lea > and a second piece, also Amer
lean, with the name Of an English
firm as agent, both u penny yard
cheaper than the English Of the same,
of rather inferior quality" We must
say that it takes our ''enterprising"
daily contemporaries a long time TO find
out what is going on In our own coun-
try. Nothing more important has ev-
er happened in the history Of English
trade than the threatened displace-
ment o. our cotton manufactures by
those Of America. Yet we have for
months looked in vain for a word in
the leading journals on the subject.
Piece-goods from the Lonsdale Mills,
of New York State, are now sold In
every town ia England at u lower
price and better quality than English
goods of q nominally corresponding
grade. Il not the falling of of our
Lancashire trade very mysterious
People who go about the world .vith
their eyes shut think that tits. The
fact is that the Americans are beating
us In our field-a fact which it may
take the political economists and city
editors long time to digest. but which,
unfortunately, will soon be brought
home to us all by the spectacle of
thousands of workingmen thrown per-
manently out of employment, and the
hopeless paralysis Of a chief source OF
our commercial prosperity. The dis
aster might still be warded off if our
manufacturers would only bestir them
selves to meet and dislodge their RI
walls, but they are told by the city ed
itor of the Tines and other authori-
ties that 1t "is only passing cloud -
and although they have been told the
same thing for three or four years, and
the cloud has not passed, yet they go
on believing it, and presently will be
rudely shaken out Of the FOOLS para
disc in which they have been slum-
bering. We repeatedly told the pub
lie last year in these columns that
American manufactured cotton could
be bought better and cheaper in Lon.
don than tho products Of the Lanca.
shire mills. 1t has taken the 7insea
till July, 1877, to find out the same
piece Of news. How long will take our
contemporary TO apprehend its full
meaning and significance?
Year: 1877

An old Marquesen chief. on being
told BY a missionary that in heaven
there was no war, or hunger, or thirst
or sickness, Or death: That will be q
good place for towards and lazy folks,
who are afraid to fight and too lazy to
climb bread-fruit and cocoanut trees.
Year: 1877

And just act. 1t was justified by all
of the people, for they were bound by
the same covenants, and the least word
of objection to thus treating the man
who had broken his covenant would
have brought the same fate upon the
person who was so foolish as to raise
his voice against any act committed by
order of the Church authorities.
Year: 1877

There is story of an amateur
hunter in the Rocky mountains who
followed grizzly bear for four days,
and then abandoned the pursuit, alleg-
ing as reason, ''that the trail was get
ting too fresh.r
Year: 1877

st, Louis Society Again Con-
yulsed to Its Very


Centre.
pow the Peace Of Family Is Wrecked
by One Of It's dearest
Friends"
rhe Husband Will Believe Nothing
Until The Truth Is Forced


Upon Him.
Re Is at Last Convinced Of the Deception
Of Which He Fas Been the


Victim.