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Year: 1879

WE have not been able to secure
copies of the two bills concerning
the people of Port Townsend, just
passed by the Legislature, and now


awaiting the Governors approval,
but have learned from our Repre-
sentative the most important features
concerning them. The fifty per cent.
license money heretofore paid into
the Jefferson county school fund is
now paid into the city, taking about
5000 out of said fund; and there is
no provision in the bill for the bene-
fit of the school. 1t Is claimed that
1t was not the intention to take one
cent from the school fund, and Mr..
Tucker sssured US that he would do
everything that lies in his power to
correct the bill in this particular.
We agree with our representative in
adding that the school fund is al
ready small enough. The bill ex.
tending the city limits of the city of
Port Townsend meets with opposi-
ton from most Of those whom the
bill includes; and who we learn,
have sent petition to the Governor
asking him to veto it. We learn
from those who advocate the extern
sion that there will be no additional
tax to pay; aud that the special tax
levied last summer has nothing tc do
with the property outsidel of the


limits at that time. Those opposed
to the bill say they do not like TO BE
FORCED to come in, and deem it in
justice TO BE FORCED IN when the
city is in debt. We think tho last
reason a just one, and to learn how
much the city of Port Townsend
owed we called upon the city treas,
urer and find that when the taxes due
before Jan. 80 are paid, the city debt
will not exceed 5000 and quite lik e.
ly amount to only 500. No doubt,
next week we will hear the result Of
the petition and the efforts oil our
Representative. H fH.. . n
Year: 1879

WE ARE INDEBTED to Hon. T. f..
Bayard for pamphlet copies Of his speech
in the Senate on the goth of February,
1879, on the Federal Election Laws.
claws in which the letter is followed and
the spirit is killed are the most essential
frauds upon . free government" Is at
the head Of the title page. That being
the opionion of the Senator freely ex-
pressed as to these laws, (and it is no
doubt true,) VIC can not imagine how he
can reconcile it to his "coDscience" to
allow an opportunity to pass in which he
would vote against their continuance,
and much less can we believe he could
separate himself from every patriotic
Democrat in the Senate by refusing to
vote with them to destroy or wipe out the
"s,ains" which, he says, they impress
upon the ''statutes." We do hope our
Senator's vote will not be the only one
wanting to end this struggle aud
that it will not be kept up during the
whole Of next year. We want peace
and we want economy. These laws
endanger one and prevent the other.
Year: 1879

THE United States Bank Examiners
are not to be depended upon. They in
variably carry of heavy fee; but they
rarely fail to discover discrepancy in a
bank account until it is Of an alarming
amount. At least that has been the OK
perience in this city. In the single case
that an examiner did bring q dis
crepancy in cashier to light, the
conduct of the officer toward the bank
customers would soon have brought him
10 grief anyhow while in the case of
Rice, the bank examiner was informed
Of the discrepancy by one Of the clerks.
These examiners have served to make
Presidents and Directors careless. They
have relied on the Examiners too much
for the safety of the stockholders.
Year: 1879

SOME of our citizens are signing for
new Courthouse. We are not one of
those who care to burden the community
with debt for luxuries. If we had the
money to build with we should be glad
to commend the enterprise but as mat
tiers cannotbe changed, We prefer TO have
the crowd attending upon the courts cur
Jailed by more frequent sessions, and by
saving the county heavy, useless ex-
pense by Kidding the Jail of the great
number of prisoners that are required to
be kept for and months before being
tried for small otlenses. The sending OF
vagrants to New Castle to board should
also be stopped by law. 1t is strongly
suspected that the yagrants like ii rather
than otherwise.
Year: 1879

WE HAVE it from pretty good authori-
ty that the office holders at New Castle
have not been idle listeners to tho inuen-
does of Mr.. Dean. They have not felt
that their characters have been very
tenderly handled by the White Clay
Creek Representative, and are therefore
prepared to meet the issue that gentle
man may force upon them, by submitting
sworn statements as to the amounts they
are enabled to make from their official
positions,
Year: 1879

It is now nearly one month since the
prison was visited by us, ut that time
there were SO prisoners, 35 men and one
woman. There had been as high as 80
at one time, This woman was sent to
prison 1s months for bigamy, She had
served IA months and then had only 4
months longer to stay.


Being the only woman there, it was
compulsory almost on the prison officers
to make her lot that OF solitary condne-
ment, which more than doubled the rig
or of punishment, over the ordinary con.
Year: 1879

NEARLY ALL THE WOMEN went to the polls in
Boston and returned home without escort. But
in one case, it Is asserted, a man brought his
the candidates for school committee from ballots
similar to his own, handed them to the ladies'
who meekly walked to the box with him and
deposited them. The air of triumph which other
females exhibited after voting was not noticed
in these ladies.
Year: 1879

In UNIFoRM.-The watchmen of the Treasury
department appeared to-day in uniform-blue
flannel with brass buttons, and blue cap with
gold cord around it. This innovation was
ordered short time ago.
Year: 1879

hough the cost of articles fell % per cent from
1851 to 1872 the cost to the buyers at retail ac-
tually increased. This illustrates the extreme diff
Guilty of getting any reduction In retail prices, as


long as eheap money is still used, and habits of in
fatIon prevail But wholesale prices have declined
IL per cent since 1872, and retail prices have
also declined Al per cent In Time the use of good
money will bring back retail nearer to whole
SAX prices and force retail dealers to abate the
ira charges which, during seventeen years of cheap
money they learned to make for their defence.
That it is no easy thing, retail buyers well know.
II is rs if dealer had become used TO putting
sand in the sugar and water in the whskey that he
could not break the habit. But all who buy chiefly
at retail may we'll think whether they will again
permit cheap money to give excuse for n return
to that ha5t-for another initiation of retail
prices.


There is no land on earth in which labor ought to
prosper more surely and steadily than in this. Yet
formary years labor has been tossed in the air.
again and again. falling each time with rude
shock. as hazing students toss a victim At times
high pay has prompted much waste and extrava-
gance. At times skilled wOrkmen by the thou
sand have gone back 10 England in search of bet
ter living We stand on solid ground Mt last La
Dor is now well employed In Massachusetts, ac-
cording to the Labor Bureau. ont of 5S5.OOo male
and female laborers only 23, 600 are ont of work
less than in 100. Probably the proportion was
never smaller even in the most prosperous times
Nor is there any other time known. i'll which the
wages of workers would have bought as much of
things needed for the support of family as their
WAGES have bought since October last. Men who
could live on their IN 1872 can now live
equally we'll, and one-third of their earnings
Now. too, the dollar In bank meaps dollar 1t Is
not liable to lose part of its value at any moment,


1n,nr IL tS IA txrira pr,ah
as II was in 1867. IL will buy at retail as much
81 rs bonght in 1872. All this a return TO honest
money has done for the laborer already. Would it
not be amazing lolly If we should insist upon 90
ing back TO the wages and prices of choaP-dollar
fimesf
Year: 1879

The Decline OF the Democratic Majority


in the House.


According to tho latest advices and
calculation, the straight Democrats will
not have a.clear majority In the House Of
Representatives. This is the account
given by the Chicago Ttms Of the decline
and fall of the Democratic majority:


"In the Forty-fourth Congress they
numbered l79 Representatives, an excess
OF II over the Administration members,
OF 66 over the Administration and in.
dependents combined, and SO more than
sufficient for quorum. In the Forty.fitth
Congress their number in the House was
bers; but they still had an excess OF 10
over the Administration side OF the chams
Der, and 8 more than the necessary quo
rum. In the Forty-sixth Congress they
found themselves still further advanced
on the downward road. With six vacant
seats their party at the opening Of the
extra session was only l45, a loss Of II,
leaving them barely quorum. Five OF
the vacancies have been filled, and the
sixth (rweltth District, New York; will be
filled by an Administration member in
November, when the party which in the
Forty.fourth Congress had q majority
over all Of Co. and In the Forty.tlfth ma
jority over all Of 10, will be reduced to de.
pendence on the apostasy Of some mem.
bers elected to represent another party
organization, in order to command even a
quorum in the House."


Upor the above, as text, the oincin-
matt Commercial observes that It is perfectly
plain that II general Congressional elsc-
ton were held in the present state Of
public opinion, the Republican majority
would be large. So much for the Con.
federate caucus display in extra session.
Year: 1879

NAILS were advanced to the Pittsburgh
card 1897 yesterday by the Wheeling mills
Even at this new card some Of them will
not care to make many additions TO their
present orders, as they have enough on
their books TO consume several weeks run.
The demand for nails is still quite active,
but there are those who think that the
beit Of the pressure has been felt.
Year: 1879

bo startling in character but for
the fact that they relate to period so far
distant that there will be ample opportunity
in the meantime to forget that they ever
made any threuts. They do oil their revolu-
tionary talk in caucus bound about with
triplc-platad secrecy, and greater care was
never taken than now to keep the country in
Ignorance Of what transpires in these con-
clares. There are hot heads aud cool heads,
and il all that is said could be published
rerbatna, the reason for these extra precau-
tions to keep it from the knowledge Of the
people would clearly appear. If the party
councils were not at variance, and if the
most reckless Of revolutionary projects were
not earnestly advocated by men Of prom1-
nence, there would be none Of this oath
bound secrecy.
Year: 1879

DAN VOORHEES, rises in his place in the Sem
ate to q personal explanation. He says that III


asmuch as be did not attend the Democratic
caucus on certain evening, falling to get the
notice in time, be could not have made the
speech which the reporter OF the Washington
Republican puts into his mouth. DAN evidently
has grudge against that reporter. He {the re-
porter) took the pains to write out speech
which be thought might have been delivered BY
some corn-fed Bourbon Democrat in that secret
caucus {all outsiders being excluded), and VooR-
uEEst was as good man to attribute It to Us
any one else. OF what consequence to the in
dustrious and enterprlsng reporter was
it that Mr.. VOORHEES, was not present
and did not utter the sentiments ascribed
to him? Men in the newspaper business must
NOT be confined to bare facts any more than other
people. Look at the liberties that other men
take; hoW poets indulge in license, and how
clergymeh and lawyers depend upon their
ima.inations to adorn and embellish their ad-
dresses. Everybody knows that good reporter
who understands his business can write out
much better speech on any subject than the
average member Of Congress can make, and If
VOORHEES, had been present he would have no
doubt made the speech reported.
Year: 1879

California taxpayers vino are dissatisfied
with the revenue sections of the new Consti-
tuition recently built in that State, have sub
mitted the sections of that document relat-
ing to taxation to Alr. DAVID 4. WEI1s' cru
chile, and rs result have quantity and
quality Of dross which would disgust even
the rudimentary student of political science.
Mr. WELLS condemns in toto the grasping
theory adopted By these California Solons,
that property, like the milk of the dishonest
gender, may be SKINNED on all sides and in


every form in which it may pre-
sent itself without regard to its
tangibiity or the fact that it may become
onerous to certain classes Of the community.
br. Wells can find nothing in this PACIFIC
Slope theory that commends itself to the
mind Of the man Of average good sense. He
declares that tho sweeping provisions Of this
new Constitution will not stand the test Of
the United States Constitutional law, and
viii not even be respected by the people
whose property it affects In q word, that
it is utterly impracticable, and cannot be
enforced
Year: 1879

that the Egyptian problem shall be solved By
England without any reference to the Sultan
It says: "Can any one seriously maintain that
we should go back on what We haye done SO as
to readmit the controlling power Of the Sultan
with all its evils2 Every motive Of policy is
against It. Egypt Is problem which should
be solved by the Western Powers without Ori-
entail aid" This Is the first conspicuous in
stance, since the Eastern question has been
disturbing influence, that the London Times
has manifested disposition to snub Turkey.
Does 1t foreshadow the ultimate destiny of
Egypt, or is it because none Of the other
Powers concerned in the Eastern question are
interested ic Egypta
Year: 1879

In times OF great public peril It is the duty of
patriots to ignore personal differences Of onln.
ion and unite for the common defense, Tha
Confederates have consolidated all factions If
the Republican party.
Year: 1879

~ An entire day was wasted in the Illinois
Senate yesterday in a squabble over the bill
to levy tax upon express companies and
express wagons, and langthy and disagree
able lecture by Senator WHITING on the
duties and proprieties Of legislators career.


The end of it was the bill was killed and the
Senate put into q bad temper to no purpose.
Year: 1879

The New Orleans Times says the colored
exodus is losing much OF its Importance, and
that the communities chiefly Interested have
concluded to let it run its course and to devote
themselves to remedying the evil.
Year: 1879

of the stock Of redeemed silver now on hnnd'


or so materially reduce it as to give promise
of its Immediate distribution, the States OF
the Latin Union will remove the restriction
on the coming Of silver, and the consequent
demand, being equal to the annual supply,
silver will resume its relation to gold, as it
had held in the twenty-five years previous'to
the demonstration of the $3.50, 600 OF
that metal by Germany. That extraordinary
disuse of silver and consequent demand for
gold to take its place forced France to discon-
tinue coming, and the discovery that the
United States had also demonetized silver
forced the price down. The exhaustion Of
the German stock is all that is needed to re-
stora the demand for and the price Of silver.
Year: 1879

A CoLoRED preacher in Kentucky
called on tobacco dealer for sub
scription III aid of the church over
which he presided, and when the dealer
said he had ought 10 go to work and
earn something for the church instead
of begging, offered to work if the dealer
would employ him. The dealer agreed;
tie negro preacher laid aside his cler-
lcal coat and labored assiduously in the
factory all day, and at sunset received
a $50 check in payment.
Year: 1879

THE Philadelphia Society of Friends
is taking active steps towards the for
nation Of settlements in the west, to
bring together isolated members who
were gradually losing interest in the
principles and customs of their sect.
Year: 1879

The american Ayrtculuralist, in an in
teresting article on the Texas cattle drive,
says: ''The cattle go to the river for water
at noon, with the exception of few, which
remain behind to take care of the calves
One COW may often be seen watching twelve
or fifteen calves, while their mothers have
gone with the remainder of the herd to
drink. After the return of the herd the
"wa.chers" take their turn. This interesting
fac. is vouched for by several old ranch-
men"
Year: 1879

In speaking of Stuart's plume it may be
we'll enough to say that he lost it once. But
he recovered it, and it happened in this way:
Riding little beyond the outposts, he halted
at the old tavern at Verdiersyiile on the
Orange and Fredericksburg Plank Road
He was looking for Fitz Lee With his brigade
to come up that rond on that day. He had
eaten dinner and stretched himself for nap
on q long bench on the porch. His horse was
grazing in the yard with his bride off. After
some time Stuart was aroused from his sleep
by the host telling him that force of cav
airy wos coming up the road. Supposing it
to be Fitz Lees command, he walked to the
gate, and tskiug a survey of the force that
was approaching, he discovered his mistake.
It was brigade of Federal cavalry. and the
head of the column was within fifty yards of
him. There was no time to go back for his
hat, aud, indeed, none for briiling his horse;
but eaping to the animals back, jumped it
over the picket fence and went whirlng up
the road, followed by a succession of shots
from the enemy, but escaped untouched.


His hat, however, fell into the hands of
the headq uartors of General Pope, who was
in command of the Union armies. Stuart
was deeply mortified at the loss of his hat,
and his modification was intensified by his
frequent messages received from Pope, who
took pleasure in tuunting him. But Stuarts
opportunity to revenge himself soon rolled
around. Taking advantage of dark night,
about two weeks after the loss of his hat, he
placed himself at the head of some picked
men aud made dash into Bristow Station,
where he knew Pope's headquarters to be
established Pope made barrow escape, and
left his military dress behind which fell into
Stuart's hands. Then an exchange took
place the coat was exchanged for the hat
and on the next march the dark plume was
seen waving at the head of tho column again
aud the boys were Inspired, and their Cen
cral was happy Whceliny Register.
Year: 1879

Mir. Patton, chairman of women suffrage committee, explained that the committee were satisged that not five per cent of tue women of the state wished the right, and that the committee unanimously agreed that it was not best for them to have it. He wished it under stood that the committee had the most pre- found regard and affection for the women and were animated by sincere dersie to do that which was most for their welfare.- Courant Report.

 If, as Senator Patton incautiously admits the denlal of the suffrage is the denial of a right, it makes no difference how few demand it. If it is true that not one woman in twenty wishes to exercise that right, it is because they have been led by the islanders of men of MT. Patton's way of thinking to believe that voting is debasing business for anybody. If such is the fact, and it is ''not best' on that account for women to vote, it is ''not best" for men to vote government by the people is failure and we should re- turn to those aristocratic, or despotic forms which our American forefathers rejected from the first. Last of all we cannot imagine how sensible women can feel anything but the pro- fsundest contempt for profound regard and affection" which rates property holding New England women below the emigrant and the ne gro in capacity for self government.

 The dilatoriness of law proceedings is strong ly exemplified in case recently decided fol the fourth time in New York court. In 1855 one Latourette insured his property Tn the Pro lection company of Hartford. The property was destroyed by fire shortly after, but the company had failed, and Lautourette sued Da vid Clark, one of it's directors, for having made false statements regarding it's condition The case has been tried twice to a jury, and al the last trial the plaintiff had judgment fol over $12,000. It bids fair to last five or ten years longer.
Year: 1879

March 24th

 MR. EDITOR. .-''Llke the breaking up of a hard winter" is the phrase often applied to things of disagreeable aspect and of which one is continually reminded when contempla- ting the outdoor world at this season.

 One of the worst consequences of such ''breaking up" is the disease engendered by the uHwholesome exhalations arising from the foul matter that has accumulated on the sur face, while Mother Nature has enjoyed her winter repese, and whence proceed the many ailments that at this season afflict humanity The most carefully guarded little children are frequently attacked with croupy symptoms and require prompt attention. For the benefit of those who like myself cannot immediately summon medical attendance will state lit tie of my experience in such cases. A little boy three years old was awakened in the night by the hoarse cough and distressed breathing that almost always poecedes croup A half a teaspoonful of glycerine and little honey soothed the little fellow so that a refreshing slumber succeeded and few days attention to diet restored him to health. More recently child about two became very creupy and needed more energetic measures. A half tea spoonful of gycerine was first administered, and paper smeared with lard and sprinkled with ginger was applied to the chest. AS sine would swallow the loasened phlegm, another half teaspoonful of glyceIine was administered in about half an hour into which was stirred some powdered borax. This caused her to throw off the phlegm without apparent nausea; and the remainder of the night was one of re- pose to child and attendant The few succeed ing days she would be comfortable, but for several nights the same process was repeated till the cold was cured and health returned. The ginger on the chest caused thick rash : to cover the surface, and made one think that scarlet fever might have resulted in delay.

 J.
Year: 1879

Bishop PurcelPs difficulties still remain un- settled. He declares that he owes only half a million of principal and that the rest of the three millions and more, is due for interest.

 It takes over twenty-three millions to run the Dominion government, not much less in proportion to their means, than for the gov ernment of the United States