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Year: 1879

THE CHINESE BILL-The bill to restrict
Mongolian emigration to this country
troubles eastern politicians exceedingly. If
the president refuse to sign it his rotten par
ty viii have as much show to carry the day
at the next election as the man In the moon.
Latest dispatches on the subject says: The
president and secretary of state are ex-
tremely re.icent on the Chinese question
but it is believed by many here that the bill
would have been signed but for the senate
amendment requiring the president 10 give
notice to the Chinese government of the
abrogation of articles 5 and 6 of the treaty.
It is held that by this no ice We would sur
render all rights of protection for Americans
travelling or trading in China, and release
her from any treaty obligation, even not to
enslave our citizens.
Year: 1879

NoTHING 10 EyPLAIN-The Teller asks
MS to rise and explain" certain charges
made against rs by Rinehart, the late In
dian agent at the Malheur We are tired
OF ''rising," and require a rest. Leland, if
You choose to believe 4 representative of the
rotten institution You have been fighting
ever since we knew You, instead of one who
has done every thing man can do for you and
yours, you are at liberty to do so. We can
do it easily enough; but you know the con-
sequences of answering a fool according to
his folly; and we do not consider the mat
ter of sufficient Importance to us. Sufficient
for us TO know that what We are charged
with, We will do again; and you will be the
first one to say, ''Bully boy, +" just as they all
did IN this instance
Year: 1879

FREE HIGH SCHOOLS. Maine leg
islature is inqniring into the expediency
of abolishing the free high schools OF the
state. 1t is an inquiry that is becoming
general throughout the country. In
Maine there are also two normal schools
which are supported by the state But
they are pronounced little more than
costly failures. An argument for the free
high schools is that they are needed TO
keep up the supply of teachers. But how
would it do to let the teachers fad means
to educate themselves 1t is no more the
duty of the state to educate oartain per-
sons to be teachers than it is to educate
Others to be physicians or machinists
On this whole subject the country has
started wrong. But the general discus
sion now going on about it indicates that
there will soon be L return to the sound
and comprehensive principles of the old
common school SYSTEM. .-OsrJoniaa.
Year: 1879

ExaGGERATIoN.-Thei immensereported
losses of cattle and sheep are highly ex-
aggerated. There is TO doubt but that
many died, and the worst is bad enough
Stockmen in the spring will not miss their
loss. There are about 400, ,000 head of
cattle in this basin OF this number, at
the very outside, 8 per cent. have died.
They roam everywhere, and it is a matter
of impossibility for their owners to gather
them in and feed them in the winter
when SNOW is on the ground. This cheap
outcry about inhumanity tu cattle is all
hosh
Year: 1879

SENATOR CoNKLISG home organ, the
Utica Republican, has gone wae'G ell organs
go sooner or later; in other words :. las
given up the ghost, and its dying message is
a warning to all papers OF Its class. The
editor. in announcing his last issue, explains.
with some irritation, that the death of the
paper is solely owing to the failure of certain
friends OF Mr.. Conkling to supply that small
amount of money which is necessary to keep
an organ alive in the absence of those re-


sources which constitute the support of a
genuine newspaper. And how many othe


organs it leaves behind it hanging in thisI
Year: 1879

Wool TRADE.-Owing to the last Indian
war, the late severe weather, and the preva-
lence of scab in sheep. it is not expected that
the Oregon wool yield will exceed that of last
year. 1t is impossible to state at present how
prices will rule: for common clips it is quoted
in California all the way foom L to 17Ac- We
have made arrangements with prominent
wool firm in Boston to have the latest quota
tions sent tn the STATESMAN, which will be
published for the especial benefit of our sub
scribers.
Year: 1879

A SUGGESTION that Zach Chan
der has returned to the senate, we think
ii would be rather a good policy for the
democrats to keep an eye upon him; more
especially during the next presidential
election.
Year: 1879

''CARE killed cat" says the proverb;
but, two to one can safely be bet that care
never killed a woman who has Just got ,
new dress-at least not until she has had q
chance to show herself in it two or three
times.
Year: 1879

THANKED. Paine Bros. will please consider
themselves thanked by the ladies of the Epis,.
copal church for the generous spirit displayed
by giving them the use of their fine hall on
the occasion of the concert on Tuesday even
ing last.
Year: 1879

IT would be good idea If the city would
appoint some cool, practical man, to an honor.
AIRY position, to direct operations in times OF
danger. During the excitement of the freshet
on Monday, while one man was working there
were score to tell him how to do it.
Year: 1879

We publish a synopsis ofa letter
from Leadville of Pittsburg man, who
relates the following experience;


after I had been out around Lead
vile for several months / got to be
tolerabe prosperous. I had s 500 III
cash, a $500 horse, gold watch and
chain, a good pack mule, rifle, two
revolvers,a dog and meerschaum pipe.
One day l came into town and drew all
my money, in order to pay for part
of claim which l wanted TO buy. l
met a couple of fellows whom knew,
just afterI got my cash, and we resolved
to have quiet little game of poker.
Well, sir, | never struck such streak
of bad luck as l did that afternoon. 1t
was a square game, but if anybody won
anything they naturally meant to keep
it. The first thing did was to lose
$500 on four queens. 1t was my deal
and | gave another fellow four kings.
In less than an hour lost every cent
had; then my morse, then my watch, then
my mule, then my rifle, my revolvers
and my dog. | went out Of the place
and resolved to borrow a revolver and
shoot myself.


walked out to the edge Of town and
put my hand into my hip pocket to take
my revolver There was no revolver
there, but my meerschaum pipe was
there. AS soon as felt the pipe gave
a yell of delight, and started off on a
for the house where the boys had won
my money. They were still there. l
got $40 on my pipe and sat down to
play again. l won a little money, and
then my dog, revolvers, rife, wath,mule
and horse. At last | had 81, 200 on one
hand. The fellow who was betting
against me had an ace, king, queen Jack
and iourspot flush. When | got up
from the table it was daylight in the
morning, aud l had S4,SoO in cash, be.
sides the money and things | started
with. ! went down TO the boarding.
house. borrowed the land lsdys Bible
and swore | would never gamble again
as long as lived. | never have since,
and ] never will.
Year: 1879

Prof. c. &. Richtel, the inventor of the
flying machine, and the originator of
some seventy other patents, has lately
constructed two wonderful mechanica


tricks, for the purchase of which severa


celebrated magicians are now negotiating.
AS the tricks are intended for stage ex-
hibition, we can best describe them by
taking view of the effects as they ap-
pear to person in front of the foot
lights. In trick No. the rising of the
curtain discloses Two tea-boxes suspended
in the air, apart, at sufficient inclina>
tion forward to admit OF view of the
interior when the lids are removed.
This simple condition of affairs having
been noted, the magician produces small
boy and places him in one of the boxes,
showing previous to doing so that both


boxes were empty. Then the lids are
removed again and one box appears to
be filled with vacancy, and the other
more or less with small boy. There
can be no doubt whatever as to which
box the boy is in or to the emptiness of
the other box, when at sudden "presto"
and shifting of palms the rope suspend
ing the hitherto empty box, tightens,
the other rope becomes slack, and the
magician smilingly announces that the
boy has passed rom one closed box to
the other, and lifting the lid shows that
such is the case. While the audience
are wondering how all of this could have
been done he dism;sses the tea, chests
and exhibits the second new trick.
Bringing out a magic" table, he
knocks off one leg after another, replac-
ing with feathers, and still the table top
remains where it was before the amputa-
tion of it's members Then boy is
placed on the table and still it doesn't
tumble. The boy is supposed to have
the power of making the table move at
will with his weight upon it--something
as Aladdin of the Arabian Nights used
to save railroad fare by his magic cloth
and the table does actually dit around
the stage according to instructions. The
tricks will undoubtedly create sensation
when they are placed before the public.
Year: 1879

A mysterious affair occurred few


rights back on the Boulevard Biueau,


in the Park of Neuilly. The inhabi.


tants were aroused after midnight by
screams of "Murder!" !" in a woman's
voice. Those who fastened to their win
dows saw in the street well.dressed
female struggling with two men of
respectable appearance. She continued
to call for help, excIaiming Save me y
They will murder me" She was pres
emily gagged and bound and carried
off by her aggressors in thess direc-
ton of the Seine. Many of the inhabi
tants had by this time hastily put on
their clothes and descended into the
street. AS they hurried toward the
river. they saw the two men OH the
bridge still carrying the woman the
next moment she had disappeared, and
the men were seen running away, and
they were soon lost sight OF in the dark
ness. No traces Of the female could be
found, and little doubt. exists that she
had been thrown into the Seize.
Year: 1879

Night Scenes the Ii. g of AN Egypfsan


Railroad.


Communication in Hartford Post


The accounts of the distress now ex-
listing in the valley of the Nile remind
the writer of scene he witnessed in the
winter of 1866. Starting from Cairo
for trip up the Nile, we stopped the
first night near the ruins Of ancient
Memphis, to which we walked in the
moonlight. We were surprised at seeing
on the plain mile Or two south OF US a
large gathering Of people bearing lights
Upon going to the spot we found more
than thousand men, women and chill
dren engaged in throwing up an embank>
ment for the railroad the khedive was
building from Cairo to Thebes y>forced
labor. No machinery Or tools whatever
were used except baskets. These the
poor wretches were filling with their
hands, placing them upon their heads,
and slowly and YEARLY, except when
accelerated by the voice and lash of the
overseer, dragging themselves up the
embankment and dumping them at the
end The embankment, l judged, was
about twelve or fifteen feet higher than
the plain, and perhaps forty feet wide.
The baskets of the men would contain
about three pecks OF the light, dry, allu-
vial earth; those of the women about q
half bushel, and the children pohars a
peck This was all forced labor-no
pay whatever. The khedive would
send steamer up the river to village,
and call for from fifty to two hundred
people of all ages and sexes to 60, with
out pay, and work on this railroad for
one month, at the end of which time be
would send them, or what was lett of
them, back. The bodies of those who
died from exhaustion helped to swell the
embankment No time for sentiment
What their hours of labor were | could
not find out, but I saw them at work at
10 p. m. l saw villages up the river
partly depopu]ated, because of late
visit of these steamers, and one entirely
abandoned and partly in ruins, having
been fired into, as was said by our drago
man, because the sheik could not or
would not furnish the required quota.
1t w.ls the intention to grade the entire
road of several hundred miles in this
way. Whether it has been accomplished
| am not aware. Our party chartered a
government steamer for the trip. At
the coal stations the officers impressed
the first natives they could catch and
compelled them to coal our steamer in
the same manner the railroad was being
graded, in baskets carried on the head.
l do not wonder that with this system
of unpaid labor in full force, with all
the palaces of the khedive, with his
great desire for Improvements, and his
large and disastrous attempts at cotton
growing and sugar. making, there should
finally be distress in the valley of the
Nile.
Year: 1879

The passion of His soul - to learn
more of His Fathers business - had led
Him naturally to the famed school in
His Fathers house, where the wisest
and most learned of His nation made the
holy books, in which that Fathers will
was revealed, their lifelong study. The
mystery of His own nature, and Of His
relations to His Father in heaven was
dawniDg on Him more and more. His
mothers words from time to time had
daily deeper and more wondrous sig
nifcance, and His sinless spirit lived
more and more in communion with un>
seen and endless realities. He had nat
urally, therefore, sought those who
could open for Him the fountains of
heavenly wisdom for which His whole
being painted, and was the keenest lis
tener, and the most eager in his ques>
tions, of all the group seated at their
feet. The days would come when no
further erowth was possible, and then He
would sit in the courts OF the same
temple, as q teacher who needed no
human help. AS yet, however, He could
not honor His Father more than by
seeking, as a child, to know His holy
word from its accredited expounders.
Enthusiasm so pure and lofty in one go
young, lighting up the beauty of such
eyes and features, may we'll have filed
the heart of the greatest rabbi with
wonder and de elight.- Geikie's Ii and
Words of Christ.
Year: 1879

There is no higher tribute paid to
Christianity than that which comes from
its enemies. The Pharisees of a few
secular papers pick up every instance of
failure on the part of professors to walk
worthy of their high vocation, and then
tell us that Christianity is most admira-
bic in itself, but that the churches are
corrupt, because some of their members
are proven to be bad. What is this but
a confession that a consistent Christian
is the highest style of man p Christian
Intelligencer.
Year: 1879

..Ah, he is coming with weary step
and to slow music. We have been ex-
pecting him along, for we knew he must
be almost ripe The man who knows
that the peach crop is ruined by the
frost, the sap being one long icicle in.the
center Of the tree, and the buds and
branches black pulp and dead sticks, is
crawling cut like the prophetic ground
hog to cast shadow over every one he
meets.
Year: 1879


Did you ever notice the large space
occupied in Matthew's Gospel by the
record of the last day of Christ public
ministry, and how much of all that we
know of His mission and message, and
the future of the world and of all men
we owe to the teaching of these four
and<twenty hours? Let me put together
in word what happened On that day.
It included the conversation with the
chief priests and elders about the baptism
of John, the parable of the householder
that planted vineyard and digged a
wine>press, the parallels of the kingdom
of heaven, the controversy with the Her
odians about the tribute money, the con.
vereatiou with the SadduceesN about the
resurrection, with the Pharisee about the
great commandment in the law, the 8
leuciDg of the Pharisees by pointing to
the 10th psalm; the warning to the mul
titude Of the scribes and Phsrisees who
were hypocrites, protracted and pro-
longed up to that wall of disappointed
love, "Behold your house is left unto
you desolate." And, as though that had
not been enough for one day, when He
is going home from the temple to find
for night in that quiet little home in
Bethany the rest that he wants, as He
rests wearily on the slopes of Olivet, the
disciples come to him "Tell us when
all these things be ? and what shall be
the sign of Thy comingr' and there fol-
lows all that wonderful prophecy of the
destruction Of Jerusalem and the end Of
Year: 1879

my OuS"SOuSut-lOf tUkou


Never in my life have I experienced
such q feeling OF supreme delight as I
did on again seeing those waves of
curling smoke mounting to the heavens.
A few steps more and I should stand
by their burning source. On on What
was exhaustion or fatigue, when deliver.
ance was 30 near? In the foggy dis.
tance saw red light shimmering
through the trees. At last saw several
fires and men moving around them.
But who were these men7 Were they
not perhaps, those from whom I was
fleeing? I shuddered with the thought;
but nethiDg remained to me but to ap.
preach silently and cautiously near
enough to observe who they were. AS
/ approached within two hundred feet
of the nearest fire, I noticed with ter
ror, Turks squatting on the ground,
quietly smoking their pipes, as if they
had just finished some work pleasing to
heaven My blood stood still in my
veins, anda cold perspiration covered my
forehead. But this was not all. 1t
was well known that the Turks
possess many dogs, which accompany
them during the night on their maurau-
ding excursions. Suddenly great white
dog followed by several others, rushed
at me, barking furiously. I seized my
sword, and disappeared in northwest
erly direction. For nearly half an hour
was persecuted by the barking and
bowling of these dogs, until at last the
Year: 1879

The Mexican Custom House, just
across the line at Tia Juana, was
entirely destroyed by fire about
half past ! o'clock yesterday
wednesday, morning. Two Of
ficers were sleeping in the build
ing, and they barely escaped in
their night-clothes by jumping
through u window. One of the


officers had a quantity of silver
coin in the pockets of his clothing,


which was found melted into a
solid mass in the ruins. Nothing
whatever was saved from the burn
ing building. The loss we have


been unable to ascertain. A large
quantity of papers and probably
records belonging to the Govern
ment were in the building. The
origin of the fire is said to have been


undoubtedly incendiary, as many


threats had been made to "get rid of
it," There was dense fog pre-
vailing at the time, and none of
the residents in the vicinity knew


anything about the fire till morn
ing. Mr.. ID. X. Allen and our
young friend Elmer Shaffer, en-
route from San Rafael to this city,
had camped for the night near by,
and, SO far as we can learn, were
about the only witnesses of the af.
fair, aside from the two officers al
luded to. The building was suffi-
ciently large to have illuminated a
large part of the adjoining country,
yet the fog was so dense that the
ire could not be seen more than
two or three hundred yards. At
the ruins yesterday morning re-
marks were heard which implied
threats of similar visitation to
parties living near the city; but
such remarks may have had no
real meaning.-at least we hope So.
Year: 1879

Grants body guard and correspon-
dent of the New York Herald con-
cludes a letter from Canton, China,
thus


1t was about half-past ten when
we returned to the audience room and
took leave of our hosts. The vieeroy
said he would come down to the Ash
uelOt and see the general off. But the
general said he was to sail at an early
hour, and so said that he would
prefer not putting his excellency
to so great trouble. Then the vice
roy said it was custom in China to
send some memento of friendship to
friends; that he was sorry he could
not, without a violation of Chinese
etiquette, entertain Mrs. Grant,
and he would like to send her
a specimen of Cantonese work which
might serve to remind her of
Canton when she came to her
own home beyond the seas. The
yicerOy also spoke of the pleasure and
the honor he had felt in receiving
General Grant, and his welcome in
China, would be repeated throughout
China. In taking leave, the viceroy
asked the general to be kind to his
people in the United States for
you have" he said, "a hun
dred thousand Cantones among
you, and they are good people,
Then We entered our chairs,
and amid the firing of guns, music,
the cries Of attendants and the waving
of lanterns we returned. The journey
home through the night was weird
and strange. The party was preceded
by torchbearers, and every chair car
ried lanterns. AT regular points on
the route were attendants holding
torches and lanterns. The streets
swung with lanterns, and the effect, the
light, the narrow streets the variety of
decoration, the blended and varying
colors, the doors massed with people,
the dense and silent throng through
which we passed, their yellow features
made sombre by the night-every.
thing was new and strange and gro
tesque and when we crossed the
river and came under the green
trees and saw our boat in the river
and felt ourselves again among
our own ways, it seemed that
in the scenes through which we had |
passed the curtain had been lifted |
from a thousand years and that we
had been at some medieval feast of
Oriental and barbaric splendor, 81
Year: 1879

Many of his congregation were affected
to tears, and the venerable minister
struggled to repress his own emotion.
In the five years that he has preached
here he has built up quite large
church and endeared himself to the
members of his congregation His
departure creates a vacancy which
will be hard to fill.
Year: 1879

AT the meeting of the Tennessee
State board of health at Nashville
yesterday a resolution was adopted
approving the sanitary suggestion and
recommendations of the sanitary
council of the Mississippi valley as
made at Memphis and Atlanta, and
pledging itself to see the same faith
fully carried out to the extent of its
Jurisdiction. rfTor
Year: 1879

If the young man from Memphis
who started the yellow fever canard in
Montgomery does not set himself right
before he gets back he will conclude
afterward that there are things on
earth worse than yellow fever, and
that it is catching, too.
Year: 1879

INAsMUoH as the brute johnson
still lives, and is not considered in any
great danger of the halter, the Appeal
wants him made an angel by turning
him into a soprano. After that he
might get employment in Egypt The
precious prisoner has been removed to
Brownsville, where it is presumed the
avengers Of little Lizzie Sherwood
will not follow him with ropes or
fagots. n.r r
Year: 1879

DURING the session of congress just
terminated seven hundred and twenty
seven bills and forty-six joint resolu-
tions were introduced in the senate
and two thousand three hundred aud
ninety-fve bills and one hundred and
nineteen joint resolutions in the house.
But it is one thing to introduce a bill
orresolution and something altogether
different to get it enacted into law
Year: 1879

Too BAD.-We really feel sorry for
Henry Larkin, whom we believe to be a
straight forward honorable gentleman,
but little erratic politically and alto
gether too ambitious for the ability he
possesses. After backing and filing, and
blowing hot and blowing cold, be sue
ceeded in securing the nomination from
the Workngmen and Honorable Bilks
for Railroad Commissioner in this Dis
trict. Everything looked bright and the
future promised success when, 10 and
behold the Democratic Convention
nominated Carpenter, OF El Dorado, in
stead Of indorsng Larkin as he no doubt
felt confident they would do. The gem
tleman fondiy imagined that he had sur
rounded the w. p. G.. and n. q. p. and
was bringing them triumphantly into the
Democratic camp when all too late he
discovered that they had captured him
and Democracy rejo.ced at the deliver
ance. No man will ever amount to much
politically unless he has sense enough to
stick to his party and not run after
" strange gods"
Year: 1879

TWELVE sets of telephones have been
sent out to Sir Garnet Wolseley for use
at the seat of War in South Africa The
great advantage OF the telephone over the
telegraph Is that the General can carry on
confidential talk with the officer at the
district station, or soldier can creep out
toward the enemy's lines and whisper
back the information as to position. a
fine wire-the thinner the better-is all
that is needed. This the soldier carries
on reel upon his back, mile weighing
only few pounds. This will be the
first time the telephone has been used as
an instrument of warfare.