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Year: 1874

PENNSYLVANIA COAL TRADE.-There il
rather more activity in coal and the orders
Coming in are to fair amount. The wholesale
prices OF anthracite coal, per ton 2,2fO pounds
for the month of September, free on board al
the several Underwater shipping points, have
been advanced from Is to 25 cents on the prices
OF the month of August. The retail trade iD
this city is moderately active. A report has OBJ
tanned circulation that change is contem-
plated in the mode of the wholesale and retail
mar ketiIg of the coal of the Reading
Coal and Iron company, to the effect that the
company virtually give up the business to the
middle men. While we can find no authority
for the truth of such report, the extensive prep
arations of the company TO extend their accom-
modatons for an increase of their retail trade
is pretty conclusive that nothing of the kind is
at present contemplated, indeed Is preposterous
The extreme drouth has checked operations az
the mines by reason of lack of the necessary
suIply Of water to drive the machinery.-PhiId.
LedOer.
Year: 1874

How DID THE MARsHAL's Doc GET AwAyP
Late yesterday afternoon the dog catcher in
vaded the precincts Of Corcorau street, in the
extreme northwestern section Of the CITY, i'm
search OF game in his line. About half wav
down the thoroughfare he cast his SCOOP net
and gathered into its folds q black and tan
pup, owned by Marshal Sharpe, who has the
President during his stay as q guest. The dog
was quite a household pet, and DR.. Sharpe tried
moral suasion to reclaim the canine. He opened
an argument with the dog catchers, and claimed
that inasmuch as the dog was caught in front
OF his premises, between the building line and
the curb, he should not have been moIested .
for, reasoned the doctor, the owner of a house
can claim as his property the space between
the building line and curb, and q dog Certainly
should be allowed unmuzzled the freedom OF
his masters premises The argument went on


and finally exhausted itself, and in favor OF
the dog catcher, who turned 70 place the pup
N his wagon, but like the Irishman's flea, he
wasn't iht re; the scoop net was empty. The
dog catcher looked mp the street and down the
street, but no ''purp" was 90 be seen. Mean


time President Grant had been standing near
hy smoking impertubably with arms folded "a
III his thoughts were q thousand miles away


but quiet CLEAN of fun from the corner of his
eye indicated that he could have told how tbe
dog escaped. Ii Is deemed barely possible that
while the catcher sud the Marshal were hot In
discussion be might have casually opeued IN a
sccop net with bis toe and signed to the dog to
seoot into the house; but this Is only Q guess.
Year: 1874

MEDDLERs.- Olympia Echo says:
"Several correspondents and individu-
ais have Of late inquired of us if we
know anything about a consolidation OF
the Courier and Dispatch. We do not.
1t is none of our business, and we do
not care to meddle with the business OF
the owners of the offices in question.
Are our correspondents answered."


The editor exhibits trait in the fore
going comments which cannot be too
highly commended. The simple mem
ton of matter of public interest such
as the contemplated consolidation OF
two public journals, is legitimate and
proper. 1t only becomes mean and
disreputable when persons who have no
business with the matter seek clandes-
timely to obtain information relating
exclusively to the private business affairs
of the publishers, for the purpose OF
meddling with or misrepresenting the
same through malicious motives, as has
the literary medicant who is temporarily
employed to write the prosy platitudes
which fill the leading editorial column OF
our city contemporary, to the special de-
lectation of the Tacoma Tribune and
the Kalama Beacon; the trio forming a
mutual admiration society of fossilized
Bohemians. Fortunately for us, none
of them enjoy sufficient public conf
dence to give any damaging effect to
their malicious intent.
Year: 1874

The CRUSADE AGAINST KING ALCOHOL.
The Webfoot Sc loon was besieged by
a large number of ladies yesterday after
noon, who, Notwithstanding the din of
gongs and other vile instruments. stood
their ground until nearly 6 o'clock
Water was poured over and under them,
but it created no visible effect, and it
seemed as if the matter had resolved
itself into question OF endurance be-
tween the two contending parties. The
scene attracted an immense crowd of
people, and when bar r-keeper named
Good SO far forgot his manhood as to
use profane and opprobrious epithets
toward the ladies, he was quickly knock
ed down by q muscular man Lard by.
A general row seemed imminent for a
few moments, but the knocking down of
a few of the more hot-blooded partici-
pants ended the affair.


This morning the ladies assembled in
full force with camp-stools and lunch
baskets, and quietly sat down in front
of the saloon and renewed the attack.
AIoael Immediately laid complaint be-
Year: 1874

ABUSE OF AMUSEMENT The habit of
dissipating every serious thought by a
succession of agreeable sensations, is
as fatal to the happiness as virtue; for
when amusement is uniformly substitu-
ted for objects of moral and mental in
terest, we lose all that elevates our en-


ioyments above the scale of childish
pleasures.
Year: 1874

y They still cure by the laying on
of hands in St. Louis. The Chicago
drummer" who was making love to
another mans wife in that town. got
most miraculously "cured" that way,
but the "doctor" has not been able to
get near enough to that amiable young
man since the event to secure his sig
nature to a recommendation for publ
cation.
Year: 1874

remotest idea what are his own views OF
the matter, beyond the fact that we have
heard him express strong preference for
another man, to whom he probably new
er mentioned his preference. We but
mention his name incidentally, as one
we'll qualified for the place. If he
should happen to be nominated and
elected, we should claim no merit for
the suggestion.
Year: 1874

n A Western paper says that the
way to kill off the poets who offer to
write pieces gratuitously, is to accept
their efforts, hand them to the worst
compositor, and let tie proof reader
correct them according to his own ideas
of prosody. This is warranted to de-
stroy the strongest poetical fever in 8
weeks.
Year: 1874

PARTY CoNsIsTENCY.-Thec consistency
and reliability of party newspapers is
well illustrated by the character of the
assaults made by the partisan journals
upon the candidates upon the Indspen-
dent ticket for State officers in Ore gon.
One Democratic paper says, in the
course of very disparaging remarks upon
all the Independent candidates: 81. II.
Douthit, of Cchoco, a gentleman who
can hardly write his own name, is put
onthe ticket for Secretary of State"


The Portland Ne,cs, the leading organ
Of the Democratic party, says of the
same candidate: "He has held the
Craftsmanship of the Democratic State
Central Committee one or more terms,
and was always conspicuous and active
in and about Democratic Conventions.
We believe that he was elected to the
County Clerkship of Linn county upon
that ticket" The same paper further
says: eft would be difficult to find
another man so totally unfit for the
Office as Uncle Jimmy Douthitt.


There could hardly be more DANA
ging reflection upon the intelligence and
management of the Democratic party in
Oregon than the foregoing. What! a
man who can h ,rdly write his own name
nominated and elected to the most re-
sponsible and difficult Office to fill in
one of the most populous and wealthy
counties of the State! A man so totally
unfit for office that it would be difficult
to find a worse anywhere-the insane
asylum and the penitentiary not except
ed-holding the chief executive Office of
the Democratic State organization; an
Office which at least rank with the Gov
ernor in dignity and ability What eyi-
dence can these party journals present
that the Democratic party is any more
intelligent and honest. or that Uncle
Jimmy Douthitt" is any more ignorant
or degraded than when he was the hon
ored official head of the party, and held
the most responsible official trust in his
county?


This is only an instance of the uni
form bias and prejudice of party organs.
As rule, they are utterly unreliable in
all matters touching the personal merits
of candidates. We served with Mr..
Douthitt in the Democratic party in
Oregon, and with the best wishes for
the prosperity of the State, we should
rejoice to see men of his stamp in the
control of the government of that State.
Year: 1874

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. "a, 1873.
II SELDOM, if ever, pick up newspaper without
l. seeing, among the first items that arrest my at
tention, the record of terrible boiler explosion
Very many causes assigned for this loss Of life
and property. great deal is said TO what should
be done and what should not be done. But scarce
ly hear it said that these explosions due to
accumulation of Scale in the Boiler and yet eight
out of ten instanc that occur in midst are un
doubtedly due to this cause.


Now, permit me to say that manufacture Com
position that will readily and thoroughly this
incrustation; and while am constantly sending 1t
the United States, exact no pay for its
less it gives perfect satisfaction and fuhls all he
claims make for it.


My preparation will remove Scale from any Hoiler.
matter how deen may b. the ircrusat on, AMI at
the time it will prevent injury to the Boiler
from anything which may be held in solution by the
water contained IN it. This article will absolutely
prevent the formation Of Scale II timely introduced
, he pow er which manufacture has been
fully tested by Of the ablest chemists in the
countr. and its fitness to keep iron clean and TO
pI eserve 1t has been demonstrated by them in the
most satisfactory manner.


II you will send for my circular, with my terms and
full particulars. give me call. think will be
able TO convince the most scertcal that this eompo
silion will JUSTLY all / cl i'm for II.


Very respectfully yours,


GEO. w. LORD.
Year: 1874

In Hartford, recently, stranger went to
hotel for bath, and as he did not emerge
from his retirement for an hour, the proprie-
tor entered with fears OF suicide in his heart,
to see what was the matter. The stranger
had only been washing his shirt, and was
waiting for it to dry.
Year: 1874

Dr., entering the hospital surgery. met
Paddy Boyle, the orderly. and asked him
which he considered the most dangerous of
the many cases then in hospital. 'Thar, SIR"
said Paddy, as with an Indicative jerk Of the
thumb he pointed to where lay on the table
a case of surgical instruments.
Year: 1874

In an article, marked by more than its US
ual acrid power, the New York Nation points
out the obvious disadvantages of ''Trial by
Newspaper" A conspicuously painful ex-
ample of that method of dealing with public
offenses is, as everyone knows, exciting the
keenest attention in the United States. A
great reputation is attacked, and with the
name of the first pulpit orator in the New
World, many wider considerations than those
of mere personal feeling are bound up. With
the facts, or what profess to be such, OF the
Tilton-Beecher Scandal, we are not concerned,
and do not mean to concern ourselves. We
hasten to say that we are not going to put
our hands in that mud. We should not hesi-
tate to do SO if necessity were shown, for il
may sometimes be the duty of a journalist,
even at the cost of decency, to vindicate some
personality from grievous wrong, or to as
sert some principle that has been publicly ig
nored. But with the conflict that is raging
around the fame of the pastor of Plymouth
church we are glad to say we in this country
have nothing to do; we have 10 adequate
means of forming Judgment about any OF
the charges that are banded about with reck-
less levity, and we are well pleased to be dis
pensed from the duty of taking side in an
arraignment that has been poisoned with all
the fury of faction. The method of dealing
with the alleged offense of an eminent public
man which The Americans have chosen is
worth little consideration. 1t is not such as
we should be likely to see generally resorteG
to in this country, yet it would be mere phar-
isaical vanity to assert that it is altogether
incompatible with our habits of thought and
our social conventions. 1t is danger on the
brink of which all counties that possess an
unfettered press are lowering, and there is no
security against it except aresolute hardening
of public opinion against the slightest and
earliest signs Of tendency towards the
abyss. The Americans have plunged into
the miry and Shiny flood with something like
frenzy, and it is hopeles to think that the
national mind can come out of it unbe-
smirched.


ssTrial by Newspaper" may be des cribed as


that method of scrutinizing the characters OF


rubc men, ,land distributing praise or blame,


which is common and, indeed, inevitable, in


a Democratic community that resents all


claim to domestic privacy as restriction of


nublc rights. In every country there is an


inclination to assert some such power of su-


perylsion over the private lives of eminent


persons; but in societies where distinctions of


class are maintained the pretension is all but


universally repudiated. OF course, if scan


dal breaks out affecting the private character
Year: 1874

Now the poets are after Miss Anthony,
and it really looks as if hers was one of the
few immortal names that were not born to
die. Though, to be sure, we don't see why
an immortal name should die anyhow.
Year: 1874

Junius Henri Brown says we neglect the
living in order to make a terrible fuss over
the dead. True, doubtless; and it is also
lamentable fact that the dead are not bene-
fitted to the extent OF single cont
Year: 1874

Detroit Free Press: When the Arkansas
census-taker next goes around he will find
Peter Dayton missing from earth. The old
man found a package and threw it on to the
fire to see il it was powder OF sand. 1t wasn't
sand
Year: 1874

THE RAINY SEASoS.-Last night we had
another fine rain. plantiIulig accompanied by
lightning. 1t effects upon vegetation were
no douls good, but the temperature OF the
atmosphere was but slightly improved; be-
fore and after the rain it was too high to be
at all comfortable.
Year: 1874

CoRNER-SroNE TO BE LAlD.-The corner
stone OF the improvement of the Third
Street African church will be laid this eve
ming ut 81 o'clock. WarreH Lodge OF colored
Masops will participate in the ceremony.
Year: 1874

Many citizens of New Orleans are avail


ing themselves OF the cheap delights offered


to such as choose to take a trip on the New


Orleans and Mobile railroad. To any one


who is well known trip of the kind is very


much like ride to Mi'ueburg or Carroll


ton, go far as encounterirg old acquaint-


ances is concerned. Bay st. Louis, fifty


miles distant, is the first habitable stopping


place, and here the depot is generally


crowded on the arrival of every train with


people who come out to see how many Of
their own acquaintance are among the pas
sengers. No sooner does one put foot on
the platform than he is saluted with


"How are you?" from dozen different
friends. Then comes such interchange of
greetings as the few minutes required to


wood up will permit, when the bell rugs


and the cry of .all aboard puts a stop to
it. At the ass the same scenes are repeat
ed, and SO on all the way down to Ocean
Springs.


At Mississippi City our old friend Colonel


j. o. Nixon is installed as the proprietor OF
the Tegarden Hotel, and genial gentleman
and Jolly host he is too. He has comfort.


able place of moderate dimensions, but most


delightfully."- located, within about hun
dred feet of the depot, and not much
further from the sea shore. We learned
that his place is almost filed up with regu
lar guests, though he has reserved epare


room or two for friends, who are not likely


to knock in vain at his hospitable door.
This year the people have made regular


business of living at the seaside, and hence


have dispensed with all fatiguing customs
The ladies dress very simply, but neatly, Of
course, and have tabooed the fashion 0.
| changing oftener than two or three times g
day. Hence they have plenty of time fol
| reading and talking with their friends
There is no greater or cheaper pleasure now
| offered to either gentlemen or ladies than g
| trip to one Of these delightful little Missis
sippi villages, and none of them offer more
pleasant entertainments, for any length o
time, from half an hour to a month, thar
! Colonel Nixon's Tegarden Hotel.
Year: 1874

The telegraph yesterday afternoon an
nounced the death of Lieutenant Colonel
Frederick Myers, a deputy quartermaster
general United States army, and at the
time Of his death chief quartermaster OF
the department comprising New Mexico,
with station ct Santa Fe.


General Myers was a soldier of the old
school, Q kind gentleman and an excellent
officer. He graduated from the Military
Academy with the class Of 1876, and was
appointed lieutenant and attached to the
Fifth Infantry. In August, 1856, he was
appointed captain and assistant quarter
master. During the war he was actively
engaged as staff officer, and received the
brevet of Brigadier General for meritorious
services in his department of the army.
He succeeded General Tompkins as chief
quarte-master of this department, and was
for long time stationed at New Orleans.
where he made many friends, who will re-
gret to hear of his death at this time.
Year: 1874

VITIII, THE LADY WHO DINED IN ADJOINING
w aicove at Brunswick Restaurant Friday evening
allow the who sat at head of table with three
to make her acq uaintancei Address sPES Herald Up
Branch office.
Year: 1874

One of the most glorious visions of John
in the Island of Patmos was that in which he
saw the throne of God, rainbow about it,
in sight like an emerald, and before it sea
of glass like unto crystal. In the midst of
the throne and round about it were four be.
ings, the countenances Of which probably
typifed, in that of lion, the dispensation
of the patriarchs before the flood; in that
of an OK, the dispensation of sacrifices and
nearer preparation for the great atonement !;
in that of man, the incarnation Of Christ,
and new era of spiritual and intellectual
knowledge; and in that of flying eagle, the
swift, universal and irresistible conquestS of
the kingdom of God in the latter day. And
round about the throne were four and twenty
seats and upon the seats were four and
twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raj
ment; and they had on their heads crowns
of gold.


These four and twenty elders, upon their
seats or "thrones, around the great throne,
suggest to the Christian ministry the grand
est possible in,itement to labor and endur-
ance for the kingdom of the Lord Jesus
They are not the twenty-four courses Of
the Jewish priesthood, for the vision belongs
to the Church at large; and they are not
the general membership Of the Church, for
these are represented in the great multitude
which no man can number, clothed in white
robes, and having palms in their hands,
They are the ministry of the Church of al
aces: of these before and of those after
Christ. 1t is they who present the COLDER
bowls full of incense, which are the prayers
of the saints they who start the new song
and lift the Inscriptions of praise to Him whc
made them kings and priests to reign on th'
earth.


How completely all earthly dignities ar'
abased before the honor of an earthly Office
which God so exalts in heaven How ligft
its present affections compared with th'
weight of its exceeding and eternal glory


How spiritually minded, how patient, how
faithful unto death, should they be whom
God calls to its duties here! How zealou
should they be for the Lord of hosts-tc
maintain the honor of His Church, to rous,
it to the devotion to His cause, and to choos
Year: 1874

BY JOHN STUART BLACKIE.
Three bissful words name to thee,
Three words Of potent charm,
From eating care thy heart to free,
Thy life to shield from harm.
Whose these blissfll words may know,
A bold blithe- trOuted face shall show,
And, shod with peace, shall safely go,
Through war and wild alarm.
First, ere thy forward foot thou move,
And WELD thine arm of might,
Lift up thy heart to Him above
That all thy ways be right,
TO the prime source Of life and power
Let thy soul rise, even as a flower
That skyward climbs in sunny hour,
And seeks the genial hight.
Then grid thy loins to many toll.
And in the toll have joy;
Greet hardship with willing smile,
And love the stern employ.
Thy glory this the harsh to tame,
And by wise stroke and teehnic fame,
In God Ike Labor's fruitful name
Old Chaos 10 destroy.
Then mid thy workshops dusty din,
Rhere Titan steam hath sway,
Groom to thyset a song within,
Or pour the lusty lay.
Even as bird that cheerly sings
L. narrow cage, nor frets its wings,
But with full breasted jOyance aings
It's soul into the day.
For lofty things let others strive
With roll of vauntful drum;
Keep thou thy heart, honeyed hive,
Like bee, with busy hum.
Chase not the bliss with wishful eyes
That ever lures and ever flies,
But in the present JOY be wise,
And let the future come


Good Words
Year: 1874

Observation-Disclosures needs n eys-
sem OF sewerage. 1t does not suffice that
the surface OF the streets are well drain
ed because OF the hills. The earth in
many places is wet with numerous springs
and this cannot be remedied without
sewers. 1t Is misfortune that a sewer
was not put in French street before
1t was maea demieed. The cellars about
4th and French are too wet to be in hab
ltable dwellings and they cannot be
drained for the want of a sewer. This is
more or less the case also on Fourth
street. Sewers might be put in Fifth
sixth and Eighth streets and thus the
property on those streets relieved of all
uampness and made dry and healthful,
where now dampness, and as a conse-
quence, coldichillyness exists. The sur
face water from Market street might also
be turned down those streets through
sewers, and the large and unsightly gut
tiers on Market street be rendered un.
necessary. This would be great i'm.
Provement as it would permit the bed OF
that street to be made more level
This street will require alteration before
long. The pavements are too narrow
a1d by making the street between curbs
more level, two or three feet from each
side might be spared. The street now
between the curbs is as wide Us Broad


way, New York is between curbs; bat
the pavements are about six feet nar
rover than those in Broadway.
Year: 1874

A Paris correspondent speaking of


the Vile du Havre disaster, says "Of
the fourteen young children on board,


only one was saved. As she came to
the surface she instinctively caught at
the first object floating past, and" said


to lady who hung to the other side,
1 can't die, so! A willful, petted
child, she even now struggled against
the general fate. Her own story Of the
shipwreck is shorter than many, but
full of pathos: 'There was great
crash, and they call to come on the
other side; then was in the water -
she does not remember having gone
down-'and clung to pair of steps,
| was getting tired, very tired, but
Miss - told me to hold on, and 1
held on /; then boat came and took us
off. don't remember going on board
the big ship, but they gave me some
brandy; then I was dreadfully sick,
and they took offall my clothes and put
me to bed She hugs her doll, and
looks up with her large, blue eyes,
which never until now saddened and
remembers and seems to mourn over
the fate of kitten which foated past
and she wished she could have saved"