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Year: 1877

From a private business letter, writ
ten by Hon. John +. House, member
of Congress from this District, to a
gentleman connected with the Ameri-
can, we venture to select paragraph
concerning Louisiana. He says;


Twas utterly astounded to find there
so little pretext and excuse for the at
tempt to defraud Tilden of the vote
of that State. My deliberate judg-
ment is that there was as fair and free
an election in Louisiana as there was
in New York or Massachusetts,. The
absence of what the Republicans call
intimidation in the discharge or threat
ened discharge of negroes from en-
ployment, for voting the Republican
ticket, surprised me. l was on sub
committee that investigated Con-
gressional district in the Northwest
part of the State. Only one negro
could be found in the whole district
who swore that he was discharged for
voting the Republican ticket; and his
employe swore he discharged him not
on account of his politics but because
he was indolent and neglected his
| work
Year: 1877

Ben Hills election from Georgia
will be satisfactory to the country at
large. He offended the people of the
North with his Audersonville speech
in the House, last spring, which Blaine
bullied him into making, but that is
now buried under the dead embers OF
the last campaign. He has pulled
himself abreast Of the best men in the
country since then by showing con-
siderably more patriotism than party
ism.--IndidnapoLs Nel0s.
Year: 1877

The power of INSCRIPTIONS audacity
is crushed at last, and the spell Of its
continued successis broken. Morton,
Logan, Chandler and the Camerons
will now have to yield the leadership
of the Republican party to purer and
better class Of men, and the whole
tone of our political life will conse-
quently undergo a change over which
every lover Of his country must re-
ioice.-Rdnsas CITY Times.
Year: 1877

Washington special to the Boston Herald.


Congressman Thompson is going to
make a very strong and striking pre-
sentation Of the Florida case. l am
convinced from what have seen of it
that it will be the very strongest point
in the whole case when the 18th of
February arrives. He has complete
mastery of the Florida electoral pro-
ceedings. The case is exactly as strong
for Tilden as for Drew for Governor of
the State. If Mr.. Drew was elected
Governor then Mr.. Tilden received a
majority also. If one was in the mi
nority, then the other was in the mi
nority also. Mr.. Thompson will show
that there was an actual majority of
several hundred for Tilden in that
State, and l don tsee how any fair mind
ed, unpreiudiced person will be able to
doubt the correctness of his showing.


Those persons who believe that
there should be an educational quail
fication for the suffrage will find a
powerful aud striking argument in the
Florida case. The investigating COM
mittee found that the Republicans in
selecting Democratic inspectors of the
polls generally selected the least intel
ligent men they could find, for reasons
which are too plain to require to be
stated. In Archer precinct, No. 81
where the biggest fraud-5l9 Repub-
lican votes--is found to have occurred,
the Democratic inspector was a stupid
colored man who could not read or
write. The appointment Of such a
man left the count wholly in the hands
of the Republican inspectors. Had
this Democratic inspector been an in
telligent and sharp-witted man it is
hardly possible that the fraud could
have been perpetrated. Thus the ig-
noranee and stupidity of one citizen OF
the United States opened the way for
the vote of State to be juggled away,
and FOR the whole country to be kept
in doubt for weeks and months as to
who shall be its President for four
/ wears
Year: 1877

THE readjustmeut Of Souther
debts is one Of the duties Of tho
owe, and Of those who own theI
duty of the one side is 20 ma
best possible advances towards
ment consistent with ability 10 I
of the other side to accept the


tions. To pay the face Of thosl
is Just as impossible as it wouls
dry up the North river with a
and the only question Is, what a
caa be paid ?-NelU York Erpf
Year: 1877

Nothing need be palmer than that
the Republican majority of two will
instantly vanish when Tilden takes his
seat, so that his administration will
begin with a good working majority
in both branches of Congress, which
will be greatly increased after March
a. 1879.
Year: 1877

One day, just after King Solomon
had written a column of solid nonpa-
riel wise and moral proverbs, he took
his eldest son by the elbow, led him
down the back stairs of the palace,
through the back yard, past the wood
shed into the alley, backed him up
against q hitopel wood-pile, looked
warily around to see that no one was
listening, and whispered into the
young mans ear, My son, little
office in spread-eagle life insurance
company is better than a car load of
preferred stocks in the Ophir mines"
And then the monarch threw his
head on one side, drew in his chin,
shut one eye. and gazed at his off
spring in silence. Three years after
ward. when the Great Hebraic Con-
Stormy Jordan Life Assu-
rance Company, of which that iutel-
ligent young prince was was presi-
dent, went into bankruptcy, the
young man was able to let his father,
who was a little short at the time,
have 275. 900 shekels for ninety days
on bis simple note of hand.-Er.
Year: 1877

A little girl was abandoned by her
relatives in Chicago, after the death of
her father, and she was sent to a char
liable institution. Within a few days,
two aunts, agrandfather, and cousin
applied for custody of her, and were so
strenuous that they quarrelled violent
ly. They had learned that an insur-
ance policy for $1,000 on the fathers
life was payable to the child.
Year: 1877

Under the heading, The New Par


ty Movement the New York Herald
has the following:


The fact that the Republican party
was, to large extent, made up of the
old whig party, with the addition of
free soil democrats, and that the whig
element has maintained the ascend
ancy in its councils, makes no very
great change either in policy or per-
sonal surroundings necessary to turn
the republican into the whig party
The president is of whig autecedents,
and almost the whole of his cabinet
are the same. The whig policy of in
ternal improvements and protective
tariff is that to which the present re-
publican party stands committed
There is no doubt that we shall have
a reformation of parties; and the Her
aid has repeatedly declared its belief
that the president, who is a great po-
Year: 1877

Time cannot wean my heart from thee
Iloved too long, too well;
Ali better had we never met,


Or never said farewell.
When happy ones are meeting.


Isteal away alone,
And then can't help thinking


OF happy days long flown.
watch the starsapproaching


As twilight glimmers throw
Her sweet shades over nature,
Subduing each bright glow.
And the moons pale light is falling
On every flower and tree,
And the breezes softly signing


Seem whisperings from thee.
Which tell me / am still beloved


AS fondly as Of yore,
And though all now seems clouded,
Bright days are still IN store.
Year: 1877

new clothes began to shrink up around
his shoulders and pulled his arms out
of joint, and his trousers gathered
themselves up like a balky horse,
picked the man up, walked him
along on his tip-toes for half block,
and were just on the point of twisting
him clear over garden fence, when
his suspenders gave way and let them
fly right over his head, and he never
saw them again.-HdtCkeye.
Year: 1877

A Frisco Gentleman invited a
friend the other evening to go to the
nursery to hear the children say their
prayers, when they reached the room
the little prattlers had just sung their
evening hymn, and were trying to
drown the kitten in the wash bowl.
The visitor appeared to be deeply
moved.
Year: 1877

Irrigating the dry lands of Colorado
from wells by windmill power has
been recently found practicable by a
farmer. near Evans, in that State
With one small mill an acre of vege-
tables was watered, and the thirst of a
herd of eighty head of cattle, horses,
and sheep was quenched.
Year: 1877

A woman recently entered store in
Connecticut. and sat down in front of
an iron safe to warm her feet. After
sitting some twenty or thirty minutes
she remarked that she never did like
them kind fstoves-they don't throw
out scarcely any heat, those gas-burn-
ers DON'T
Year: 1877

A man on Pond street went down TO
a New York bankrupt sale the other
day and bought beautiful Spring
suit, imported goods. worth SS5, for
$50. The first day he wore it he was
caught In a drenching rain, and then
as he walked out In the sunshine, his
Year: 1877

The HaIe of Rome, of the 10th
of November, has the following:


Cardinal Bartolina IS serious
ly i'll. This morning he was at
the last extremity, and the medi-
cal men attending him declare
that q miracle alone can save
him. He is the most corpulent
of all the members of the Sacred
College, and for ten years he has
been unable from that cause to
lie in his bed; he can only sleep
sitting up. Let us add, that if
he is the fattest he IS also the
largest eater. Those lines were
written when we heard that a
slight improvement had taken
place in the health Of his pa
tient.
Year: 1877

THE LUCKY ONEs.-Although the
rattle at the Grotto Saturday night
did not take place till 8 o'clock,
there was large crowd in attend
ance. The rattle was for two ex-
quisitely carved meerschaum pipes,
the highest throw to take one and
the lowest throw won the otte er. The
throwing was not particularly big,
and for a long time remained at 40,
which happened to be our throw.
After receiving considerable advice
as to how we should color it, etc. our
sanguine expectations were sudden
ly crushed by the announcement
that a young man named Alexander
had thrown As. Strange as it may
appear, We didn't take much interest
in the throwing thereafter, conclud-
ing we didn't want the pipe any
how; so we pulled down our. chin
and left. The second pipe was won
by Milt. Cook on q throw of 20.


LAST RESORT. - The coal road
which was built from Tacoma to the
Puyallup coal fields last summer by
the Tacoma Land Ring. for the pur-
pose of selling town lots, having
failed of its purpose, real estate
owners in that lively little burg are
as a last resort circulating reports
that the road will be continued
across the Cascades next summer.
For some days past persons have
been telling in q mysterious manner
of new route discovered by which
only slight grade and few rods
of tunneling are necessary to build
The road in the neighborhood of the
Natchess pass. If this last invention
will not sell Tacoma town lots then
indeed the case of the land ring is a
hopeless one.


In JUsTIcE'E CoURT.-In Justice
SCOTS Court this morning, Patrick
Quinn was fined $40 and costs for
committing public nuisance. In
default of payment he was sent up.
Dan Sullivan was charged with ma
licious tresspass: failed to prove the
charge. In Justice Andrews Court
in the case of E. Calvert VS.. Frances
Nichols, demurrer of defendant was
sustained on the ground that she
was u married woman.


New STORE. Major J. r. Bean
has rented the building on Front
street opposite the Seattle Coal
Company's office, where he is open
ing stock of groceries and provis-
ions. This time he starts out on a
cash basis, being fully determined
to neither give or ask credit. By
this arrangement he will be enabled
to sell at the very lowest rates. We
are glad the Major has concluded to
remain with US.


New MARKET.-The old Dolly
Warden saloon building is being fit
ted up in frst-class style for a meat
market, which will be opened by
John Mcknight the last of this week
or the first of next. Mr.. McNaught
is a good judge of live stock, and
will no doubt serve his customers
with the best to be had.


THE good people of Olympia are
exercised over a two-legged calf
owned by o farmer residing near
that city. We had always supposed
two-legged calves were no curiosity
in Olympia.
Year: 1877

There is an anecdote of the sanity and
learned Archbishop Usher, not unfamiliar
to religious readers, which Is meant to illus
trate his spiritual modesty. 1t relates how
friend frequently urged him to write his
thoughts OH Sanctltication, which at length
he engaged to do but considerable time
eapsiug, the performance OF his promise was
unfortunately claimed. The Bishop replied
to this purpose 81 have not written, and
yet cannot charge myself with breach of
promise, for ! began TO write; but when ]
came to treat OF the new creature which
God formeth by his own spirit in every re-
generate soul, found so little of it wrought
in myself that could speak OF it only as
parrots, or by rote, but without the know-
edge of what might have expressed and,
therefore, | dufst not presume TO proceed
any further upon it," Upon this his friend
stood amazed TO hear such confession from
SO grave, holy and eminent person. The
Bishop then added I" must tell YOU, we do
not well understand what sanctification and
the new creature are. 1t is no less than for
a man to be brought to an entire resigna-
tion of his own will to the will of God and
to live in the offering upof his soul continu-
ally in the flames of love, as a whole burnt
offering to Christ and oh, how many who
profess Christianity are unacquainted, ex-
perimentally, with this work upon their
soulsv As an example Of personal self-dis
trust, this is touching and beautiful. But
TO infer from it that there are themes OF
spiritual thought unfolded in the gospel
really and finally beyond the reach OF SIN
cere and consecrated souls would be per
version OF it, Sanctitication is an actua
aud frequent theme OF evangelical medi
tation and exposition. Sooner or later
therefore, declaration of " the whole coun


sci OF God requires that it be gratefully


and solemnly aud reverently opened. Bishoi
H,,1fipoln,
Year: 1877

CoMMoN-sENsE.-The very basis of good
taste is formed by common-sense. ltteaches
1 man, in the first place, that more than two
elbows are highly inconvenient in the world ;
and, in the second, that the fewer people you
iostle on the road of life the greater your
chance of success among men or women
1t is not necessary that the common-sense
man need be an unimaginative man, but it
IS necessary that his imagination should be
well regulated. Good taste springs from
good sense, because the latter enables him
to understand at all times precisely where
ne is and what he ought to do under the cir
cumstauces of his situation. Good taste is
a just appreciation Of the relationship and
probable effects of ordinary as well as ex-
traordinary things, and no man can have it
unless he is in the habit of considering his
own position and planning his own actions
with coolness and accuracy.
Year: 1877

THEIR LAST HOPE GoNK.-The dis
patches which state that Senator Sharon
will resign and that the Grand Jury AZ
New Orleans are about to indict KELLOGG
for felony, would seem to deprive the
Radical Senators of their last hope of
holding the majority. They are still
however loud in their talk of reyengine
themselves on Hayes.


The Herald correspondent says alt is
probable tonight that they (the Republi-
cans) will be beaten, and that Butler
will keep precedence of kellogg. 1t is
taken for granted that Butler will get his
seat after that all is uncertain except
This, that the Louisiana Senatorship will
not be decided without long and tedi-
GUS debate, and that in the end Mr..
Spofford will be seated"
Year: 1877

GOLD takes wings, it would seem, when
it is reflected that ($7OO, 900, ,OOO) seven
hundred millions of United States bonds
have been sold to Europe by the brokers,
and yet all the gold has passedIout of the
country. For the whole seven hundred
millions we have now but about forty
millions in this country, and yet there
are men and editors in plenty who will
swear that we can resume specie pay
ments in 1879 with gold alone. With all
the efforts since the passage OF the Re-
sumption act they have been able to ac-
cumulate but forty millions,an yet they
say they expect to secure enough to re-
deem seven hundred millions of paper by
January 1st, 1870. 1t is preposterous.
Such an attempt to force resumption is
just the way not to do it. The true and
only way to resumption is through the
natural course of trade, as sisted by the
reconciliation of silver. The passage
of the silver bill will do more toward re-
sumption of specie payments than any
shing else. And it will tend directly to
equalize gold with currency. At present
gold coin is only an agent of the brokers.
What there is in this country is bought
by the broker and sold to the merchant i;
he pays it to the custom house officer
and it goes into. the U. S. Treasury,
whence it is sold to the broker to go the
aame road over again. And so it is not
the currency of the people at all, but a
mere commodity for sale between the
government and brokers.
Year: 1877

1T is amusing to read the twattle Of
such egotisticai people as the CONNER
eidl editors print about gold as single
standard. We doubt if some of them
ever saw gold dollar. To listen tosuch
verdant and penniless chaps calling the
leaders of the Democratic party, who
have had the grace to carry great body
even Of the Republican members with
them in favor of Bland's silver bill,
"iGnoramuses" is disgusting TO every
intelligent and impartial mind. Ability
has been all ON the side of the silver
advocates the speeches on that side have
been based on fac,s and figures eloquent
with experience in our own times and
country, and backed BY the use of ages in
the distant past; silver occupying with all
great civilized people the place of money.
And it is not likely that the gold gam>
blers of this day will be allowed to leg
islate it out of the hands Of the people.
The people like the ring of the silver
it is convenient to carry and is great
product Of our own country. We should
not turn with contempt from that which
we produce and nndefvalne It merely to
please the Uforeignl bondholders. ] The
Democratic leaders witt not suffer such a
thing to be DONE If it is done it must
be by some sther agency than that party.
The small potato politicians who SNUG
gled the bill demonetizing silver through
the Radical House and Senate have been
fully exposed and the fraud is apparent
to the people, who will never allow them
to do so again. 1t has been well said
if attempts are renewed to rob the people
by such scandalous trickery, The bonds
should be taxed as other property,
and paid both principal and interest IN
silver and greenbacks. If they prefer
the latter as being more valuable than
silver we don't see why they should not
be gatifed in their choice.
Year: 1877

CONVENTIONS and platforms as well


as political meetings to discuss questions
before the people, by which their votes
are to be secured for candidates, are all
hnmbugs and frauds,if they are to be dis
carded after the election is over. No mea-
sure was better understood or more fully
resolved upon during the last campaign,
than that the-Demoerats, If thev had the
majority, would repeal the resumption
law. Not to have done this in the House
would subject the party to the same
charge which has often been hurled Al
the faithless Republican organization
Year: 1877

THE Cincinnati Enquirer says the action
of the House on the Bland Silver bill is
the only thing that shines out OF Hthe dark
ness" of the present, which reminds us of
what q vicious enemy once said of John
Randolph, that "he stinks and shines and
shines and stinks like rotten mackerel
by moonlight" The phrase is nasty but 1t
is strong. EVERY evening anil Commercial.


An intelligent reader can well imagine
the sardonic smile that would pervade the
features OF the most sarcastic man that
ever sat In the House, of Representatives
could he now read that paragraph. Ran
dolph would doubtless turn up a lip of
scorn at the ignorance 1t displays and seeing
that an "ignoramus" and an ''ass" had fired
one Of his own deadly shots at himself dis
miss the matter with contempt. The re-
mark was used by John Randolph who
thus characterized Henry Clay, with whom
he fought a duel, and made the celebrated
shot into the air, after awaiting Clay,s fire.
Year: 1877

One of the firm who run a commission
house on Woodbridge street is man OF
muscle. He can lift barrel of flour as
easily as common man lifts bag of
oats, and it scarcely makes his ears grow
red as he heaves barrel of salt into a
farmers wagon. For weeks past he has
been boasting of his strength of muscle,
and wanting to see something he couldn't
lift, and the boys around the store got
their heads together the other day. They
took salt barrel and filed it with broken
pig-iron, old weights and other things,
put two inches Of salt at either end, and
rolled it to the curbstone and at n
favorable hour dray backed up in the
most innocent manner and m order from
O. grocer for a barrel of salt was handed
out. The drayman and two of the boys
fooled around the barrel SO long that the
strong man got out of his chair IN
disgust, threw off his coat and said:


"You fellows had better get porous
plasters for your backs. Get out of the
way and give me chance"


He seized the barrel by the chimes
and lifted away. It didn't move. He
gritted his teeth and laid out to pull the
hoops right off. The hoops stayed right
there. So did the barrel.


cit takes four good men to lift one O
them barrels" said the drayman.


"Nonsense! I've lifted score of them,
aud I'll pick this up or break my back.
I guess the salt must be wet.


He got in position, drew a long
breath, and then lifted till his eyes
looked like two towels left out on the
clothes-line in dark night. The barrel
diln't lift. Pig-iron was too much for
muscle, and the litter sat down. on the
walk. His back used to be plumb up
and down, but it hasn't been since that
lift. His eyes are getting back to their
original positions, and the red is leaving
the back of his neck, and he sees two
men handle bag Of dried apples or a
bushel of beans without word of COM
ment. detroit Free Press.
Year: 1877

When man begins to go down hill,
he is apt to betray the fact by his exte-
rior appearance; he wears long face,
allows his clothes to look shabby, and
acts like one bereft of hope or prospects.
Now this is very poor policy; the SYM
pathy and assistance of friends is lot
gained by wearing q dirty shirt; and Tn
less O man acts as though he had COL IT,
dence in himself, he must not expect to
inspire it in others. And SO with the
external appearance of everything. Neat
ness of appearance does not end with q
mans credit, but often enhances the
value of articles which he may have fer
sale. This is especially true upon the
farm, and we will venture to say that q
farmer who attends to the exterior Of
things in general, such rs clean stables
and animals, clean yards and buildings,
and fences in good repair, will obtain
five to ten per cent. more for the pro-
ducts of his farm than one who neglects
such simple matters. If any one doubts
the effect of external appearance upon
values in market or elsewhere, let him
try sending butter to market in al old
weather-beaten firkin, no matter how
good the butter or clean the vessel mny
be inside. If this does not satisfy, try
some stained and dirty eggs, or half
plucked poultry. Producing a good ar
ticle is one thing, but selling it to advan-
tage is quite another, and the good sales.
man generally makes the most money OF
the two. The Importance OF fair exte-
rior can hardly be overestimated. This
principle is potent in any branch OF
trade, and in every grade Of society;
therefore, it is too important to be over
looked or passed unheeded.