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Year: 1877

wAsMsaroS, Dec. 2 1877.
THE uNcoNFIRMED NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.


OF THE PRESIDENT.


II is understood that tho President VIII send into the
Senate during the present week all the nominations
which shall fall BY the failure Of the Senate to act
upon them at the extra session, naming the
persons. II is understood also that unless
proper scrutiny shows that the President has nom
mated an unAt person the nominations will receive
the support OF number OF republican Senators who
will their confirmation ana their represents
tions 1t is likely they win be confirmed.


THE END OF THE SOU HERN QUESTION.


Mr. Eusts will be seated within the present week
and when he is in all the States OF the Union
will be once more fully represented In the Senate
and the war will be at There would seem to
be, after that, NO further reason to speak Of the
southern question.


THE UNITED STATES MARsHALsHIP IN GEORGIA


PRESIDENT HAYES RRAsoN FOR APPOINTING


DEMOCRAT.


The nomination OF Fitzslmmons to be Marshal OF
Georgia, which was confirmed yesterday. opposed
by most OF the republican Senators because he IL .
democrat nothing being alleged against his character
fitness for the Office The Presidents reasons
for selecting a democrat Tor this place. az
they related by some Of his friends these -
y II
Georgia, well North Carolina and Alabama there
Is good deal OF Illicit distng. great many farm
a part Of their corn into whiskey in small
secret stills and this whiskey the COL
lects its with extreme difficulty and mostly oy tho
nep Of deputy United States marsnals The unlawful
disters are by no means all or one party; but they
all make common cause against tho government
officers, and they curse not only the internal
revenue law which exacts . tax whiskey; but the
party which enacted it, the administration which
eniorces It, and tho deputy United States marshals
who hunt up and destroy their stills and whom they
shoot whenever they get = chance. Now, the United
States Marshal OF Georgia has been republican: his
deputies were naturally for the part OF the same
party, and the mountaneers have, in fact conceived
themselves to be carrying on "a ieud with
the republican party. 1t occurred to tho
President, 1t Is said TO change the issue
somewhat by appointing q democrat to be
Marshal and thus dividing the odu m OF this business
between the two parties He asked whether DEM
ocrat would undertake the task and found quito q
number willing He selected ono who is highly
spoken Of as proper person, and It is understood
that Mr.. Fitzsimmons, who was confirmed on Satur-
day. has engaged that larger revenue shall be COL
ectsd in that district at less expense than before In
any the business OF hunting up and destroying
Illicit stills is now in democratic hands in Georgia.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, Dec 2, 1871


THE OPENING OF THE REGULAR SESSION.


Both houses Of Congress meet tomorrow at ten
O'Clock and will be In session until minutes be-
fore twelve II is contended that adjournment
must be had In order to prevent questions arising
hereafter upon technical issues-at least that ID
General Buffers opinion. and In It he Is
sustained by the loader Of tho House, Mr..
Wood. As the House is already organised
and time need be lost by the joint committee walt
ing upon the President and informing him that Con-
gross is ready to any communication he may
have to make, there is reason why tho message
should not be in hand by o'clock and the business
Of the regular session OF the Forty fifth Congress
opened the first day Of the session.
Year: 1877

purchases OF any material for public use should
not be authorized except in cases OF absolute neces


sy; but this seems TO constitute such an exception
to the rule, that might be adopted without any i'm


parment Of the rule ITSELF It's believed that where
30 much depends as regards life and property, upon
the kind OF iron used the navy its quality and ut
should not be lett dependent upon tho
private interests OF those engaged in us manu-
fcture Safety and security require the preservation
OF the govern test where these cannot be
reached by the manufacturer who may become the
lowest bidder under advsrtsement the department.
should be allowed upon It's public responsibility to
procure the material needed, according TO the test


wheresoever IL be procured fair market PRICE
Year: 1877

OUR HoUsELEss POPULATION. Under
this head the Palouse Gazette gives
forth timely warning that immi-
grants would do well to heed. The
unprecedented immigration and the
prosperous times, has caused an ex-
cessive demand for lumber i'll all of
this country, and the result is that
lumber yards are barren at a time
when they are usually full. \ thou
sand feet of seasoned lumber can
not be procured III the city, nor in
fact can thousand feet of any kind
of lumber be obtained at the present
time, except by giving al order to a
mill man and waiting for him to cut
it. The Gazette says: "The immigra-
ton to the Palouse county has been
so unusually large this season, not
withs;anding the Indian scare, that
no kind OF manufactures have kept
pace, and the result is we have about
four consumers to one producer.
This is the more noticeable in The
article of lumber. The three saw
mills in this county have not sup
piled the demand for lumber, and
never can. Lumber has been SELL
ing all the season at from SIG to $50
per thousand, and at no time has the
demand been supplied. There are
now more than one hundred fami-
lies in this county without a shelter
for winter, because lumber can not
be had to build, and ut the present
rate of immigration there can be no
telling how many will be obliged to
burrow in the ground like cayotes,
and if this winter should be a severe
one, there will probably be some
suffering. Every wood shed or shell
ter of any kind is occupied for
dwelling house; buildings that were
expected to be completed before this
time, are unfinished for want of lum-
ber. People intending to come here
will do well to delay until Spring,
when it is hoped that saw mill men
will see the golden opportunities in
this and Stevens counties, and i'm
prove them.
Year: 1877

WHAT FNL.-A minister of the


gospel told me one Of the most


thrilling incidents / have heard N


my life. A member of his congro-


CATION came home for the first time
in his life intoxicated and his boy


met him upon the door step, clap


ping his hands and exclaiming.


Papa has come home y He seized


the boy by the shoulder, swung


him around, staggered, and fell in
the hall. The minister said to me
Il could give you his name if neces-.
sary). "I spent the night in that
house. I went out, barred my brow
that the night air might fall upon
it and cool it. I walked out and
down the hill. There was his child,
dead; there was his wife in strong
commissions, and he asleep. A man
but thirty years Of age aslsep. With
O dead child in the house, nasingI
blue mark upon the temple Nhe1e3
the corner of the marble step td
come in contact with the head 1Rl
he swung him around, and R
upon the brink Of the grax0


aKe drink. H5
must remain till
did. When be a.
his hand over his faCe5 md *
claimed, 'Wbat is the matter3
Where am I? Where is my boy9
You can not see him Stand
out of my way. I will see my boy
To prevent confusion I took him up
to tie child's bed, and rs I turned
down the sheet and showed him the
corpse he uttered wild shrek, 'Ah!
my childv" The minister said fur
ther to me, Gone year after that
he was brought from lunatlc
asylum to lie side by side with his
wife, in one grave, and I attended
the funeral"
Year: 1877

A REGULAR Chinese legation will be
established in Washington next July.
We are glad that Washington, and not
San Francisco, is the capital of the ma
tion, otherwise the moon-eyed celestial
legation, and the hoodlum element in
the city Of the Golden Gate, would
surely meet, as did the houses of Mon
tague and Capulet, and there is no
knowing what the consequences might
be. 1t is quite evident to us, and we
are not alone in our opinion, that if
the unbridled passions of our hoodlum
element in that section of the country
is permitted to go unchecked, that the
day will come when the Chinese heart,
fred to revenge for needless wrongs in
flicted upon them here, will retaliate
upon our little colony in China.
Year: 1877

A RUSSIAN dispatch informs US that
from appearances, it is plain, the time
has come to take action in reference to
crossing the Danube. Accordingly they
are making great preparations to do so.
But what if it should prove to them a
second Kalafat and Widdin affair? 1t
is not unlikely to occur, and many such
attempts cannot do otherwise than
seriously affect the morale of the finest
army in the world, as we are given to
understand that it is. Then, too, by
extending these lines along the banks
of the Danube from Widdin to Giurge-
vo, they cannot do otherwise than
weaken themselves. The dispatch also
vouchsafes the information that they
will attack at one and the same time
all along this extended line and make
the attempt to cross at different places
1t may succeed, but we doubt it very
much. These gentlemen should take a
few lessons from General Grant in
these matters. He never extended his
lines but hurled brigade upon brigade
after each other at the objective point
until he had carried his position. HUI
manitarians will say this is murder and
horrible. We do not deny it, but then
governments are not playing at ducks
and brakes but are engaged in war at
once formidable as it is terrible.
Year: 1877

WE publish in full elsewhere a
highly sensational piece of news that
the Washington Star has been able
to unearth and fathom to its very core
by means of that ubiquitous individual,
the lightning reporter, and whose ser
vices, by the by, should be Immediately
engaged by the management of the
Herald, to start off in search of the
end Of the world. We give it for what
it appears to be, very readable article
for our morning readers to peruse over
their morning breakfasts, and they can
take it for what it is worth. For our
own part, intimately acquainted as we
are with some of the characters intro
duced, we are inclined to discredit the
story. There are plenty of brilliant,
talented men, though, who could be
found to fill the ranks and file even of
such an expedition as this; and hun
dreds to be found who would pay their
own way to Sonora or -; well, for
the love of adventure alone and the
excitement it would give. "Such no.
BILE, swelling spirits!' But, sakes
alive! what do they want with joaquin
Miller? Will he be the Saga of this ro-
nance of the 10th century?
Year: 1877

THE GUERILLA MEXICAN is at his
favorite amusement again. This un-


fortunate specimen of the genus homo,


is never truly happy unless he can have


his boots, jingling spurs, cooked hat
and feather, and hundred armed men
at his command. Thus equipped, and
bearing a formidable pron,tnciamenta
big feature, by the by, with the Mex.
ican warrior in an affair of this sort
he rides forth and into the public square
Of .some thriving, hut over-governed
town of his native country, firing and
yelling as he proceeds, and causing
great consternation-among the women,
for the military and civilians of the
other party previously in charge
have all run away by this
time. Here he reads his formidable
proclamation, proclaiming himself pres
ident, or else the military commandante
Of some one who is desirous of holding
that questionable position; this done he
proceeds to imprison those of the resi-
dent merchants who could not get
away, makes them swear allegiance to
him-and Mexico;-him principally,
whilst he remains. Then, having done
this, there is but one thing more to do
Assess them all heavily for his dearly
Year: 1877

1T WOULD seem that President Bar
rios does not despair of getting the Re-
public Of Guatemala settled up by for
eigners yet. He has tried all manner
Of ways and held out flattering induce
ments, but he has not prospered in the
undertaking. His last advertising
dodge Of the country-for it is nothing
more nor less-is in keeping with the
rest Of his doings. The President of
Guatemala does not bear an enviable
reputation. He will be remembered in
connection with the Punishment of the
priests and nuns from the Republic and
the confiscation Of their property.
Year: 1877

THE mountain was in labor, and
brought forth mouse. This seems to
be the opinion which the Attorney Gen
eral has formed of the confession of
William NJ. Tweed. He has returned
him his papers, and declines to release
him. Is this the last straw that will
break this cunning old mans will, and
compel him to disclose what he does
know Of the matter, or will he endure
to the end, to be known in the dim fu-
ture as the martyred saint of Ludlow
street iail2
Year: 1877

PAUL PRy has ascertained that Gen.
Grant took several valuable swords out
of the Treasury Department. Perhaps
he wishes to intimate that they do not
belong to the gallant General In a
few days the journals will team with
this new outrage. The Herald will fit
out a new expedition to investigate the
matter, and the World will endeavor to
prove that they really belong to Gen.
brave man alone in the seclusion of his
private life, you dogs
Year: 1877

burlington Eawkeyel


We are obliged to the New Century Art
Publication company for one of their ex-
Quisit chromos, but we feel compelled to re-
turn it with the request that they send US some
less elaborate study in its stead. This picture,
Autumn Scenes on American Farms" is
beautiful enough, the atmosphere is marked
with rare transparency, the foreground is
marvellous copy of nature, the perspective
is perfect, the high light, middle tint and
background are all good, the drawing is ac-
curate, and the coloring delicate and natural,
and we will say the other things about it when
the company sends us the other art stand.
But we cannot hang it up in our house. We
have son, who will in all probability be
raised in the city, and we cannot, without do
ing violence to the feelings of father, per-
NIT the hope and staff of our declining years
to grow up, and by constant study of that
picture, fall into the belief that American
farmers, in tight boots and claw-hammer
coats, and their wives and daughters in
princesse dresses and valenciennes lace and
kid slippers, 60 out in the autumn with pair
of blooded horses and basket phaton, and
gather blood-red and golden yellow apples off
the same spreading, gnarled and rugged oak
tree, glowing in all the splendor of the au-
tumn glorifed maple. Take back your pic
and give US David and Goliah, with green
grass and red blood. Don't put in much
grass, but pile on the blood.
Year: 1877

Beecher prayed on Sunday that Hayes
might be brought to fear God and he led to
work righteousness in the affairs of the Gov
ernment. Several persons were formally
taken into the church. Beecher admonished
them to 'savoid all causes of scandal" The
text of the sermon was, ''But though our
outward man perish, yet the inward man is
renewed day by day." Beecher said that
within the man of passions and earthly de-
sires there is better spiritual man, which
comprises the higher sentiments. Some men
seem to be what they are not. They are like
corn that is measured on the cob. 1t takes
three and one-half bushels of corn on the
cob to make one bushel of shelled corn.
There are men who make great show of
piety and good works who are really dwarfs
in righteousness. They talk loud, but there
is no telephone between them and heaven.
Year: 1877

president Bartlett of Dartmouth College]


l believe in giving our daughters the best
and highest education. and therefore believe
firmly in giving them separate and special
education. Co-education may answer during
the period of childhood and the earlier stages
of instruction; It may be necessarily and
safely continued to later period in the linz
tied circumstances and watchful guardianship
of country village; and under exceptional
conditions may proceed, perhaps in the high
range of study. But so soon and SO far as
the distinctive traits of manhood and wo-
manhood begin strongly to develop and as
sert themselves, the physical, intellectual and
moral necessities of the case seem to me to
demand difference of method and separate
ness of daily study, recitation and intercourse.
Year: 1877

"Murder will out, sometime, sure p' ex-
claimed Daniel Wonder, to a few hearers,
as he laid down paper from which he had
just been reading aloud case of mysterious
murder, the perpetrator of which had been
discovered after years ofingenious and tortu-
Gus search. 81 have many time noticed it,
1t is according to the laws of nature, and
must be so, if not right off, by-and.by ; if
not to-day, tomorrow, next day, then a year
ten, fifty, perhaps hundred years hence.
The murder and the murderer are sure to
come out If was on a plank alone with
a man in the middle of the ocean, and was
murder him, and sink him, with no ship in
sight couldn't feel safe Some time or
other something would bring me out. If !
didn't tell of myself, asleep or awake, his
bones would rise, Or"


"Or his sperrit? ?" suggested somebody.


"No; l don't believe in spirits-but his
bones, clothes, or the plank-or it might be
somebody was looking at me from ship out
of sight, through powerful spyglass, or
perhaps from another plank, or perhaps
happening to pass by overhead in a silk
balloon, and see me do it-and so | should
feel sure / was not safe until at last | was
led out to be hung. You see there is always
a chain of evidence between the murderer
and the murdered. Itmay be short or long.
| 1t may be broken into many separate links;
but in time one man picks up one link here,
| another link there, and another, and so on
until all the links are found and put together
and they are strong enough to hang the
man."


at does seem So" said one of the listen
ers, in thoughtful awe,


"Seems so 1t is so I always know that
murder will out, and have seen many singu-
lar cases of it. But the most singular case
ever heard of was the fate of Paul Piera
of Mosscreek. clerk in dry goods store
and so covered up, according to report, that
no evidence was supposed to be left of it
He was unexpectedly missed one day, and
his body was not found till three years after.
ward. People gave up all hopes Of hearing
about the poor fellow, how he came to death

or where, or what for, or who or where hi,
murderer was until traveller came TO Moss
creek and hearing of the murder of pool
Paul Piera, he undertook to find the body
or at least the real criminal, and bring hin
to justice. This travellers name was Solo
mon Foxpaw, and he prided himself on his
detective powers-his penetration and per
severance-and he had restless, rolling
staring, snappy kind of eye, that seemed t.
take in everything about him at glance
People wished him success, but they didn'
expect it. But he didn't care for what theN
expected. He set to work to find some link
for chain of evidence"


"But don't see"


"You can't see anything yet. You mus
wait and see. solomon Foxpaw made in
quiries for a month, but ascertained jus
about nothing which would lead to the frs
link. He then sat down reflected alone 70
three days and finally he said to himsel
Here is piece ofwoods out here, and Pau
Piera was said to be poorly, What NOR
likely than he should walk in the woods fc
] his health-and there be murdered ?"
Year: 1877

The bal mdsque was first introduced in
Paris in l7l5, but was nearly put an end to
at once, owing to an incident which took
place in 1921. Six men carried palaquin,
and made their way to the centre of the
theatre, amid jokes of every nature. There
they deposited their burden and withdrew.
Becoming impatient at the unknown not
drawing aside the curtains, a charming dam
seuse iu domino peeped inside to invite the
occupant to minuet. She drew back in
horror The crowd tore open the screen,
and before them was corpse, a man with
dagger in his heart. The mystery was
never cleared up.
Year: 1877

One OF the Madras papers, the Neilgherry
Courier, mentions singular scene which
recently occurred in that place while the
Commissioner was holding court session.
A gentleman entered the court with boots
creaking so fearfully that the noise called
forth an expression of anguish from the
Bench. The owner of the boots consider
ately walked out of court, took them of.
and returned holding them in his hands.
The Commissioner, no doubt touched by the
kindly feeling thus exhibited, inquired the
name of the gentleman, and desired him to
put his boots on again.
Year: 1877

PLEASURE TAEINa.-P taking
is not nearly ~ much provided for
among our earnest, intense. energetic,
American people as It should he. We
live altogether too much in the future.
tOo little in the present We live poor
that We NAV die rich. We get all
really To he happy. and when We are
quite ready. iutirmiiy, or disease. or
death steps in. and the chance 10 take
comfort in this life Is gone. II we
could only be content 10 seizo upon the
little pleasures that lie just outside. and
often within our daily pathway. they
would make a large sum total at the end
Of the three-scOre-andt ten. Far too
many Of u scorn pleasures that are
cheapand near, and within our grasp,
and complain because we cannot have
such as are costly and remote and mac
cessiblc.
Year: 1877

TEE comb is the hens pulse. If that
be strong and bright, Of good color
and full of blood, shaking with every
quick movement Of the bird IN the
combed varieties, the bird is in nor
NAL state of health and in laying con-
dition. When the rim Of the comb and
wattles have purplish tinge the bird
is not we'll.
Year: 1877

To THE GIR1s.-Be candid. When
you are married, never conceal any
thing from yonr husband. Never allow
yourself to write a letter he may not
know all about, or to receive one that
you are not quite willing he should
read. Have no mysteries whatever.


Troy hasa young lady so conscientious
that she refuses to play on any but an
upright piano. She has the legs snvel-
oped in leather.