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Year: 1879

FGTZJoHN PORTER has the best of reason
to complain of the ill-advised course pur-
sued by some Of his would-be friends in
the management Of his case. A letter
from him received in this city few days
ago contains an emphatic population of
the recently printed tales that new wit
nesses have been discovered by whom it
will be proven that Senator ZACH CHAN
DLER and General GARFIELD resorted to
improper methods to procure his conviction
by court-martial in 1868.
Year: 1879

THERE is now contest in Kentucky over
the United States District Judgship, occa-
stoned by the death of Hon. BLAND
BALLARD. Among the prominent candi-
dates that have fallen under our notice is the
name of Hon. WALTER EVANS, who has
just emerged from n most gallant fight as
the Republican candidate for Governor, in
which he reduced the Democratic majority
by some 10000 from that of the former
gubernatorial canvass, Notwithstanding
10000 Republicans had gone over to the
Greenback party. Mr.. EVANS is a repre-
sentative Republican of the highest type
is an eminent constitutional lawyer-a man
of high abilities and attainments-of ster-
ling integrity and worth as a man and
citizen, and has the respect of every true
Republican in the State. His appointment
is urged by almost all the leading Republi-
cans in the State without exception, and il
would seem but fitting recognition of his
abilities and services for him to receive the
appointment
Year: 1879

THE Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial takes the trouble to
deny the rumor that SHERMAN and BLAINE
have combined their forces to beat GRANT
in the nominating convention next year,
and adds that there is good ground for
the belief that GRANT is the second choice
of each of them" For that matter, the
correspondent might have also said that
GRANT is either the first OF second choice
of every straightforward Republican in the
country.
Year: 1879

WAS there ever q year-a fiscal year, we
mean-under Democratic Administration
in this country when such u report could
have been made as is contained in Commits
sioner RAUM's late statement to Secretary
SHERMAN? The fact that there were no
defalcations, and that the Government did
not lose a cent of the taxes collected by the
Internal Revenue Bureau last year, stands
alone as q Republican achievement, and
one which the Democracy never attained
Year: 1879

ELI Ice, an ex-Union soldier, who killed
an escaping rebel prisoner over whom he
was standing guard, during the war, is now
suffering imprisonment for life in the West
Virginia penitentiary. lie was tried after
the war closed for the killing referred to,
and although the fact was clearly proven
that the act was done under military law
and as an act of war, i. C., a soldiers duty,
he was convicted of murder under the State
laws and sentenced accordingly. In other
words, it appears that the United States
authority TO wage war was not recognized
by the judiciary of the Democratic State
of West Virginia. But, the question arises
can the General Government afford to over
look this cruel and unjust treatment of q
man whose only crime seems to have been
faithful allegiance to it.
Year: 1879

that we extract this declaration from the
columns of the vicksburg Herald, which
journal is Just now engaged in q laudable
attempt to suppress the spirit of violence
that has made the very name of Mississippi
a synonym for everything that is oppressive
and murderous. Verify, the bull-dozers are
reapng whirlwind of their own sowing.
Year: 1879

We are informed that they even
doubled the price OF beer in Chicago
during the soldiers reunion. That seems
to be the game up thereto attract big
crowds and then fleece them. Is this the
reason why they want the Republican
National Convention again.
Year: 1879

A company is organizing to build a
railway from Shoalwater Bay to Ilwaco.


The Seattle fishermen are coming in
now with their boats filled to the gun
wall with herring.


The trade in potatoes on the Sound
is becoming of great Importance; 30, 900
bushels were received in Seattle in one
day recently from various tributary
points.


An old lady residing in Squak val
ley, while in a fit of temporary insanity
last Wednesday evening, cut her throat
from ear to ear with dull, rusty
butcher knife 1t is thought that she
will die.


The gold mines up the Palouse are
creating considerable excitement. A
ten year old boy secured 81 with pan
one day last week.


A foot of snow fell at Fort Colville,
and at the latest dates the snow was
about two and a half feet deep on a
level in Colville valley.


A young man of good social rank
was detected in the act of robbing a
Walla Walla grocery store recently.
He claimed that he was driven by hun
ger to the deed, and from sympathy he
was not prosecuted.


Friends of the Murphy movement
will be gratified to hear of its activity
on the Pacific Coast. Oregon and
Washington Territory are shipping
large quantities of potatoes to Califor-
mia.


Master Frank Micheal, sixteen years
of age, employed in the hardware store
of Mr. Wustnotf, of Seattle, was shot
in the eye from an unknown source,
while sitting at the stove.


During the high water of the past
few days the loggers of the Snohomish
river have lost very heavily. At least
one million feet of logs have been
washed out to sea by the rapid rise and
swift current of that river. One man
lost boom containing six hundred
thousand feet, by the breaking of boom
chains. Several parties lost smaller
amounts.
Year: 1879

A letter from Yakima City gives in
formation that Moses and two of his
men are to be sent to Washington.
Agent Wilbur is making arrangements.
for their departure. The object is to
reach an understanding as to what dis
position shall finally be made of him
and his people.
Year: 1879

On March Sd at Walla Walla dur
ing the prevalence of high gale of
wind, the bell tower was blown down,
killing one man instantly and wound
ing another so badly that no hopes of
his recovery are entertained
Year: 1879

gorgeously, and was as good as new and


better, too, in decorations, but the price of


the cleaning was sixty francs, and the re-


making and fresh decorations made it quite


worth the price of a new gown. Still my


friend will feel good and virtuous and self
denying every time she puts on her newly
furnished old gown, and will firmly believe
she is saving and economical, and treat her.
self on the strength of her good manage
ment. to two or three gowns more than she
would have done, probably. If had to
foot the Worth bills for any charming
young woman, should beg her to beware
OF all economies whenever she entered the
famous "manty maker establishment on
the kue de la Paix, Paris.
Year: 1879

paper on which cOunterfeits are printed are never
fiber paper. 1t is an impOssbity for counterfeit
ers to procure paper of this kind Only one of
them, Tom Ballarad, ever succeeded in making
paper with fiber in it and he was captured before
he could use it. In the counterfeit the fiber is
initiated by indiscrimnate scratching on the plate.
The national banks until about two years ago did
not use fiber paper, but they had to come to it as
a precaution. Of all notes the fves of national
banks are the most counterfeited. A counterfeiter
makes set of plates for one national bank, and
when his handiwork becomes so well known as to
be extremely dangerous he inserts for the plate
from which the name Of the bank and the seal of
the state is printed the note, another plate bear
ing different name and seal. By this means with
a change of only one plate in his set he can run
the gamut Of all the national banks in the country
This is called "transfer" work. 1t is the most
tensively prosecuted of any branch of the profess
ion.


HOW THE BOGUS MONEY is PUT IN CIRCULATION.


The manufacturer of counterfeit money never
puts his production directly into circulation
Those who make spurious coin in very small
way sometimes do, but the larger manufacturer has
drummers employed like any other business-house
The drunlmers will take a stock and go through
the country disposing of it to smaller dealers and
receiving orders. In this way it will sometimes go
through thirty forty hands before it is "shoved"
or put IN clrculatlOn Inls makes IL very ulIhcuIt
to capture counterfeiter. When a secret service
man pounces on n "shover of the queer to get at


counterfeiter, he will have to trace his way back
tediously and under all manner of difficulties He
must catch the engraver at work on his plate be-
fore he can convict him of making them. And he
must capture the working the presses or filling
the molds in the very act. And, besides, the cOun-
terfeiters are always shrewd and desperate.


ONE OF THE MOST CURIOUS ARRESTS
made by the service was about two weeks ago
The man taken into custody going through
the country peddling silver-ware. The secret
service men found out that he resorted to 'sweat-
ing to get this silver for planting. He awaits
trial down in Virginia.
Year: 1879

Gs-A young man at social gathering at Mil
vaukee recently got into trouble with another
Gentleman whose sweetheart he monopolized and
when he tearfully explained that he had known
her for thirty-five years, she took a hand in and
nearly scalped him.
Year: 1879

All that is now left to give the coin pretty de-
cent appearance as genuine money is q coating OF
silver This the cOunterfeiter secures from genuine
coins. The genuine coin subjected to the action
of the battery loses of its silver. Before
it is sufficiently dissolved to totally deface it the
coin is taken out. Enough genuine silver is in
this way procured from single piece to plate n
dozen counterfeits and the original looks, after
the operation, as if it was but little worn, and
can readily be passed This process is called
Sweating" The work is very simple good
hand at the business can make his m0lds from
plaster of Paris and begin turning out spurious
pieces all in two or three hours In counterfeting
gold coin the same method is pursued, genuine
gold coin substituted for the silver one in the
sweating being the only change. Itis much more
difficult, however, to get decent-looking gold
counterfeit than it is of silver therefore there
is not much doing in that line of business.


ANOTHER TRICK OF THE CoUNrERFEITER


in gold is with an instrument made for that pur-
pose to hollow out the coin through small hole in
the edge, fill in with base metal and mill over
the aperture. In this way fourteen dollars worth
of gold can be gotten from twenty dollar gold
piece. The work is delicate one, however, and
not much resorted to. Silver could be treated in
the same way, but would hardly pay. AS an in
stance of the readiness with which all coins can be
counterfeited it may be mentioned that spurious
standard silver dollars appeared the day after the
genuine were issued by the treasury. Plaster of
Paris moulds are not used altogether in counter
feiting coin. Steel and brass molds and dies are.
sometimes used. The faces of the coins are never
engraved in the counterfeit implement as the dies
used in manufacturing by the governmentinvari-
ably are. The impressions of the two faces of the
coin are produced in steel and brass counterfeit
moulds and dies by inserting In either end OF the
cavity to be filled by melted metal soft metal of
some kind. Upon this the coin to be initiated is
heavily impressed until complete identation is
made Dies are very seldom used The machin-
cry for their use is heavy, cumbersome and
costly that they are but seldom resOrted to. The
use of puverized glass in the composition of coun-
terft coins is for the purpose of giving them
"ring" some thing like that possessed by the gen.
uine metal. They can always be detected, how
ever, by their weight never being as heavy as the
genuine.
Year: 1879

is very good method of testing the genuineness
of coin When pressed between the teeth acrack
ing occasioned by the brittle glass is generally
heard in the counterfeit Market women always
bite coin that is given them before accepting 1t
as payment for their wares. Outside OF gold and
trade dollar counterfeiting, there was but little
done in the manufacture of spurious metallic mon
ey until the issue of subsidiary coinage and the
passage of the resumption act Both these brought
hard money out and the counterfeiterS had to keep
up with the times. The operations of the secret
service demonstrate this. All thecounterfeit mon
ey captured is kept at headquarters, and Mt GER
tain intervals destroyed. The custodian in charge
of this money is Mr.. G. A. Rock. An examna-
ton of his books shows that the last destruction of
this kind was in December, 1876. Then there was
melted in counterfeit gold, $ll ,45S.25; in twenty
five-cent silver quarters, 81 ,52S, and in nickels
$lS1.65. This the accumulation of captures
during the seven years previous. During the twi
years and a-half since the melting the accumula
ton is about $13, 900 in excess of the amount the
destroyed.


CONTEMPLATING PAPER MONEY.


That there is much more counterfeting in coil
than in notes is due to the fact that the prOdu
ton of the latter is much more expensive, al
every man cannot go into the business. Itrequir
a very large capital. Engraving is of course
cessary There are very few expert engrayers
the business The machinery used is on the sa
style as that employed by the government, tho'
on smaller scale. 1t is very costly; and ta
six months or year for counterfeter to
plete set of plates Four or five plates, as
case may be, complete a set, all the diiferentc
on the notes having to be worked off on different
plates.


THERE ARE ALWAYS TWO POINTS OF DIFFERENCE
between genuine and counterfeit notes. On the
counterfeit note the geometric lathe work, or fine
continuous line work, is executed by hand, while
on the genuine it is done by machinery; and the
Year: 1879

Be it my souls sincere endeavor,
To keep my heart constant ever.
Times there are with prospects dreary,
And tongues become tickle; very,


While going through the world.
For when from virtue we do sever,
Then o how sad and joyless ever;
AS doubts and troubles we do fear,
For virtue lost withdraws her cheer,


While going through the world.
But firmly fixed in heart and mind,
To cherish virtue, then joy we find;
For doubts no longer our peace assail,
As we find Gods promise not to fail,


While going through the world.
Year: 1879

COunterfeiting the currency of this country is
more extensively carried on than is generally sup
posed. There is a large lumber of men, women,
and children engaged in the business. 1t has al
most become national industry. Two causes
combine to make it so extensive-one, the difficulty
of capturing countereiters and the other the small
number of men who specially employed in the
detection of that class of criminals. Every coin
issued by the government has been cOunterfeited;
and every issue of lagal tenders and almost every
issue of national bank notes has been similarly
dealt with. There more coins made than notes
and more counterfeits of national banks put on
the market than of legal tenders. The readiness
with which coins can be cOunterfeted and the
small capital required to enter into the business is
the cause of the magnitude of such operations
Five six dollars is enough to set a man up in
the


BUSINESS OF MAKING SPURIOUS COINS.


Coin counterfeiters direct their attention chiefly
to the quarter and half dollar silver pieces though
they, by no means, conine themselves thereto
The outfit for the work consists of few genuine
coins, antimOny, lead, type metal, pulverized
glass, a small galvanic battery, crude milling
machine, and moderate supply of plaster of Paris.
With the plaster of Paris soft they make models
very perfect ones-of the coin. Sometimes in
one mold there will be cavities exactly the size of
all the silver coins with the impression of one side
on one half of the mold and the other bearing the
fac simie of the reverse. The base metal, anti
mony, lead, type metal and pulverized glass
though tin is sometimes used-is melted and poured
into the mould. When sufficiently cooled the metal
is taken out. The coin has dingy, rough and
not at all deceiving look. 1t is smoothed with
knife as far possible the rough edges being cut
off. 1t is next run edgewise through small mill
ing machine, which generally consists of two small
cogged wheels. This makes the notches around
the edge.
Year: 1879

UP on the Canada border it is alleged
that shrewd Vermonte1 lures farmers
to bring him butter from the Dominion,
offering fancy price therefor, and then
as soon as they have crossed the line in
forms on them and brings about the con-
fiscation of butter and vehicle,
Year: 1879

Considerable excitement and uneasness
exists at Brownville, and other towns along
the upper Monongahela, owing to recent
outbreaks and threatened violence by strik-
ing coal miners in that vicinity. Nearly all
the coal mines have been shut down for
some time, the original cause OF the trouble
being reduction in the price paid for dig.
ging. Within q few days past several of the
mine owners have attempted to start up at
reduced prices with fresh hands, but the
old men have become SO violent that the
new men are afraid TO 90 to work. Sheriff
Work with posse of 230 deputy sheriffs is
encapped near the scene Of trouble, and has
effected many arrests. The governor has
also placed company of militia at the
sherifi's disposal. Many of the miners have
fed to the mines where they have enough
provisions to Withstand quite . siege, and
fears are felt that bleody outbreak may
occur at any moment.
Year: 1879

At Stockton, Cal, on the 22d inst, while
an assemblage Of people were witness.
ing the trial of new propeller, the boiler
Of pump exploded with terrible force,
killing sixteen of the bystanders and wound.
ing twenty-six. The body Of the engine,
weighing $500 pounds, was blown over the
telegraph wires and landed on the plaza.
The dead lay PROSTATE in every direction,
some falling into the alough from the
bridge. Ten or twelve bodies lay in one
heap at the northwest corner of the bridge.
Others lay strewn, dead and dying on the
street, blown from fifty to one hundred
feet. The heads of some were blown to
pieces, others thrown to the ground with
such force as to break every bone in their
bodies. The explosion was the result Of
recklessness on the part of the engineer.
The steam gauge had refused to work, and
after the engineer had attempted to fx it and
failed, he screwed down the safety valve
and went on with his work. The explosion
occurred about fifteen minutes afterward.
Year: 1879

Is q Pure Concentrated LIQUID FOOD,
prepared directly from the
WHEAT X EHN ELL
without Fermentation, and retaining all


OF Its
BLOOD NERVE AND BRAIN
restoring elem ents 10 natural state OF


vitalizatioii.
Year: 1879

The entire day of Saturday was consumed
by the Oliver.Cameron trial, before Chief Jus
tice Cartier, in the hearing of motions, and
when the session closed the case was exactly
at the same point where it was when the court
convened in the morning General Butler
made motions to withdraw the case from the
jury for lack of evidence; second, that the re-
ceipt given by Mrs. Oliver was in account and
satisfaction and acted as an estoppcl to any
further drain, aud that by her statement, man
ner of living, aud general recognition she was
a married woman in the eyes of the law, aud
could not fulfill n contract if it had been made
and further, If any promise was secured, it was
done through deception, which would inval
idatc any contract in law. The court declined
to grant either of the motions, expressing his
confidence in the jury, and evidently prefer
ring that they should settle the case.
Year: 1879

The Commissioner of the General Land
Office on Saturday issued the patent for the
famous Starr Placer claim, which covers a
good portion Of the town of Leadville, Col
This claim has grown to great Importance
since it was originally filed, less than two
years ago, on account of the town of Leadville
having sprung up on it. The issuance of the
patent has been warmly opposed by people
who are upon tho land and every means pos
sible to defeat or delay the issuing of the
patent has been resorted to. The amount oil
land covered by the claim is 164 acres. 1t hav
ing become n town site gives to it an immense
value aside from its mineral resources. The
population of Leadvile at this time is believed
TO be upward of 1900.
Year: 1879

ACCORDING to the Chicago Tribune
this il the way in which souls are saved
In that city: A few young girls be-
longing TO west side church have set
about . noble missionary work to in
cseass the abundance on their beloved
pastors ninistrations. They go out just
before the evening service hour and lure
young men TO follow them, pilot their
victims In by Misunderstanding side
door, and give them in custody Of two
venerable descons as sinners des irous of
turning from the error of their ways,
and before those young men have re-
covered from their shock of surprise
and disappointment they find them
selves slowed away in front seats between
trustworthy members, and being prayed
and preached at by the officiating clergy
man in a manner which for directness
discounts that of Nathan - &~t@s
Year: 1879

SIR JULIAN GoLDs,ID, a Jewish men,
Der, once remarked in the House of
Commons that the Limitation of the
Sabbath of his race had always been on
work, not on. amusement. But among
the E9elish more fuss would Be made
over a single game of whist on Sunday
than over the work of a hundred boys
who were Aogged TO it How they would
have been scandalized by the Sabbath
dances which used to take place in the
temple at Jerusalem, as recorded by
Josephusl Another peculiarity is that
they have q horror of Intellectual cul
ture. All the grog shops are open on
Sunday, but not one library or reading
room. The Brighton aquarium, after a
long legal struggle TO keep itself open on
Sunday, has succeeded-a good deal of
capital being in it-but it has been
through q compromise by which it has
consented to close the reading room con-
nected with it. But the liquor bar is to
remain open! -
Year: 1879

One quart Of milk, the yolks Of four
eggs, one large spoonful of flour stirred
to smooth paste in little of the milk,
and one pound of sugar; scald until
thick, taking care not to let it burn.
When cold. add one quart of whipped
cream and the beaten whites offour eggs
flavor to suit the taste, and it is ready to
be frozen.


To make ice-cream nicely and quickly,
a suitable apparatus is indispensab' b'e.
If one has no freezer, tin pail with a
closely fitting cover can be made to an
swer. Set the pail in basket-a large
peach basket is good; pack equal guam
titles of coarse salt and finely broken ice
around the pail, nearly up to the rim
pour the prepared cream into the pail,
taking care not to get any sat into it
cover the whole with flannel and leave
for twenty minutes, that the cream may
chill. Freeze by turning the pail half
way round and back, and every few
minutes open the pail and stir the cream
for this purpose use a smooth stick.
Work fast while the pail is open as the
air that reaches the cream delays the
freezing process. Have damp napkin
at hand to wipe away the salt from the
freezer every time that it is opened. 1t
may be necessary to renew the ice and
salt while shaking, rs the freezing mix
ture must be kept close to the sides Of
the pail. When the cream becomes solid,
cover again with flannel, and if eonve-
nient. let it stand for an hour before
serving. g.-Rstral NeaC Yorker.