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Year: 1877

SOME Of the newspapers of Iowa are
asking the Democratic candidate for
Governor Of that State what he meant
when he said in speech, a couple of
years ago, that the Democratic party
was dead and damned. 1t does seem a
little botherinp.
Year: 1877

THE London Times has long article
correcting the impression that Russia
is on the verge Of bankruptcy. The
writer claims that the debt of Russia is
in no way unmanageable, and that her
resources are such as will enable her
to carry on a second and third cam
paign without exhaustion.
Year: 1877

TuE wisdom and discretion which the Presi.
dent displayed in using the National troops to
assist in the suppression of the railroad insur-
rection has made him exceedingly popular
everywhere.
Year: 1877

who had been SO maliciously as
sailed by HIM, voted for him to
represent them and their inter-
ests in the Council, only to learn
by his first act that he is willing
to sacrifice every other consider
alton to his unreasoning and
chronic prejudices. With the
kindest sentiments towards Mr..
Hanford, and no animosity to-
wards the object of his favor, we
sincerely regret that he has, in
his first official act sacrificed all
prospect of future preferment
without any compensating ad-
vantages.
Year: 1877

the Legislature when the Repnb-
licans We're largely in the as
cendant, and frequently, as at
present, the only Democrat re-
turned to the Legislature from
this county, and professed
Democratic paper is the only
journal in the Territory which
has stopped to assail his per-
sonal integrity, even for the pur-
pose of making a point against a
measure which he is expected
to advocate.


An appropriation to aid in the
construction of a wagon road
'over the Saoqualmie pass is
matter of common interest to the
people ON either side of the
mountains, and we believe that
the representatives of the east
ern counties will cordially CO.
operate with Mr.. Foster and the
other members Of the Legisture
from this county in securing the
adoption Of the measure, in spite
Of the warning by the organ of
the 0. S. n. Co.
Year: 1877

A rare specimen of polite lit
erature, popularity characterized
as the "Oregon STYLE"


Like the tale of un idiot,


Full of sound and fury signifying nothing"
is furnished by our morning CO.
temporary in laudation of its
oman about town." We would
suggest that a popular vote for
a public Office is much better
test of the estimation in which a
man is held by his neighbors
than any amount of protestation
from a questionable source. That
test was recently applied in an
election in this city, and with all
the influence that Office could
command, its "man" received at
the rate of one vote to five cast
for his more modest competitor
Of the DISPATCH office. "Expe-
rience is the test of truth"
Year: 1877

Three or four of the Methodist
Episcopal churches in Brooklyn
have unfortunately become so in
volved financially that public meet
ing for their relief is suggested.


There is intense excitement in San
Francisco over the Chinese problem,
particularly among the workingmen,
who are advocating a policy OF total
exclusion.
Year: 1877

timony, all truthful as it might
have been, would have had a
modified tone and the circum-
stances a different coloring when
the passions had time to cool and
reason had resumed it's sway.
The natural consequence OF this
hasty judgment will be a Popu-
lar revulsion that will render it
difficult if not impossible to mete
out Justice to hardened criminals
hereafter.


Far be it from us to impute
unworthy motives or cast any
censure upon our judicial or ex-
ecutive authorities. Rowdyism,
ruffianism and a reckless dlsre-
gard for human life and the pub
lie peace, had been practiced al
most with impunlty and become
frightful source Of disquietude
to the law abiding citizens, and
the Judge, endowed as he is with
a strong will and a determina-
tion Of purpose which neither
personal consequences nor hu-
man sympathies can swerve, was
determined, to the extent Of his
powers, to maintain public order
by administering the laws in
such Il manner as to strike ter
ror to evil doers. These are
high qualities in Judge and
highly to be commended when
kept within the bounds of strict
andimpartiaIjustice; but strong
nature requires strong self-re-
strainst, and the Judge of that
character will sometimes mistake
his object and merge the vindi-
Gator of the laws in the avenger
of public wrongs and hurl his
thunderbolts without due dis
elimination. The Judge, how
ever, was not responsible for the
verdict Of the jury; that he could
only arrest by granting a new
trial. In common with almost
every man in this community, he
believed that Executive clemen-
CIV would be exercised to avert
the extreme penalty Of the law.
What effect that belief had IN
determining the question of q
new trial we cannot say, and it
is not a proper subject for con-
lecture.


The pardonlng power is the
nearest approach to an attribute
Of Diety that human govern
ment can invest in public func-
tionary. In its exercise or refu-
sal, especially in case involving
human life, the Executive is alb
solutely above human response
bility or human criticism, and
responsible only to God. II can
on y be properly exercised in
a God-like spirit, free from any
taint of human passion or preju-
dice, or selfish consideration of
favor or resentment, else it is a
fearful responsibility, equal to
the shedding of innocent blood
which will perpetually cry from
the ground for vengeance. God
only knows how it is in this
case, and man has no right to
Judge.
Year: 1877

The editor Of the Walla Wal
la Statssmdn-like the sub-editor
of the Hatelligencer-is a faithful
henchman of the O. S. N. Co.,
and for years has done service
for them regardless of all duties
or obligations to the community
in which he lives, the party
which he processes to serve, or
the Territory Of which he is a
citizen. In that interest he has
advocated the dismemberment
of the Territory to extend the
boundaries of Oregon over one
Of its richest sections, and in
that interest he has uniformly
opposed every measure calcula-
ted to divert the trade of the
eastern portion Of the Territory
from Portland to our own sea-
ports, notably the Seattle and
Walla Walla Railroad, against
which his most spiteful efforts
have been directed from first to
last, notwithstanding the fact
admitted by all intelligent men
acquainted with the subject, that
the completion of that road
would be worth more to Walla
Walla and its immediate sur
roundings than the entire cost of
building from Seattle to that
point. But the 0. s. n. Co. do
not want it, and the directors of
that company are noted for their
liberality to those who serve
them, as the sub-editor of the
Mtelhgencer can bear witness. Ii
is in that interest that the fol-
lowing llbellous assault is made
upon our most useful and influ-
ential member Of the Legisla-
ture:


| re IA
county in the Legislature. Joe always
has score,of fraudulent bills on hand
which be usually manages to get thro'
by the aid of oily CANNON polite name
for lying. We mention thi, for the in-
formation of members representing
eastern counties who otherwise might
be induced to vote for some of Joe S
swindling bills. Look out for another
Snoqualmie fraud!


1t IS not Joe. Foster but the
Snoqualmie road that is aimed at
by this attack. The day is past
when the editor of that pa, ,er
can either dictate or influence
the action Of the members of the
Legislature from his county, but
no man is so devoid of influence
that he cannot cast a shadow OF
suspicion, by slanderous assault,
upon the most reputable man, in
the minds of those who do not
know him, and if he can create a
suspicion IN the mind of any
that Foster is a man devoid of
principle and unworthy of trust,
and thereby weaken his infiu-
ence in securing support for the
Snoqualmie road, he will have
accomplished his purpose to that
extent.


No man in this Territory has
served so often, or exercised a
larger influence in the Legisla-
ture during any term of service,
than Mr.. Foster, for the SIMPLE
reason that no man in the Ter
ritory has commanded in a great
er degree the confidence and es-
TEEN Of his colleagues and con-
stituents. He never betrayed a
friend or trust, and was uni
formly as successful in carrying
his measures when acting politi-
cally with the minority as with
the majority. He was always
an out-spoken and uncompromis-
ing Democrat, never solicited or
sought a nomination for an Of
fee and was never defeated as a
candidate, and has been repeat
ed elected to both branches of
Year: 1877

Concluded from page4l


When the news spread, as on
the wings of the wind, that Sol.
Baxter, one of the most peacea-
Bile and amiable men in the COM
munity, had been killed by John
Thompson, an outsider compara-
lively, popular excitement was
intense and popular indignation
was bounded by no considera


tion of the circumstances, for no
one who knew Sol. Baxter could
imagine any justifable cause for
his homicide, and could only re-
gard it as a brutal murder of an
innocent man; and Bennett, who
was the primary cause Of the
difficulty, spared no effort to
throw the entire blame upon
Thompson i'll justification Of HIM
self. Thompson, in the mean
time, shocked and nearly paral-
yzed by fright and contrition,
made no effort to escape, but
moaned and protested that he
"did not mean to kill Sol" with
whom he had no quarrel. He
had a preliminary examination
on the following day and was
committed to await the action of
the District Court. The Court
was near the close of it's session,
the term being limited by law to
that week, and the juries had
been discharged. On motion OF
the Prosecuting Attorney the
Court ordered the grand and
petit juries re-summoned. An
Indictment was found for muir
der in the first degree and the
prisoner, represented 10y Messrs'
Hanford and Andrews, two ol
the youngest members of the
bar, was ordered to plead oD the
following morning, a motion tol
continuance and a motion for
further time to plead being
overruled by the Court. The
trial commenced on Thursday
morning and was closed on Fri
day evening by a verdict Of gull
ty as charged in the Indictment,
just five days intervening be-
tween the commission Of the
homicide and the conviction OF
the prisoner, the entire time be-
ing taken up with exciting caus.
es which left no time for cool re-
f1ection or unprejudiced testimo-
ny on the part Of witnesses, the
chief of whom was yet smarting
from the conflict with his enemy.
and the others with their blood
yet stirred to avenge the death
of their friend. Such a summary
proceeding, involving the issue
of life or death to a human be.
ing, we believe has no parallel in
the history of civil Jurisprudence
in this country, and We earnestly
pray that it may not serve as q
precedent in our courts Of Grim


inai jurisdiction. AS clerk o1
the Court we listened to the tri.
al of this case with absorbing in.
terest, with no bias for or against
the prisoner, who we never saw
except On trial, and weighing the
testimony in view Of the sur
rounding circumstances and man


ifest personal animus, we failed
entirely to recognize the certain
proved facts to convict Thomp
son Of the deliberate and pre-
meditated purpose of numbering
Solomon Baxter; and IN common
with a large majority Of the in.
telligence of this community,
that after the excitement attend.
ing the killing had subsided, a
conviction for any crime above
manslaughter would have been
impossible in any court or by
any jury in this county; the tes-
Year: 1877

A Quaker wrote to a matchmaker
~ hereby send thee my pocket Iclock
which standeth in need Of thy friend.
ly correction. The last time it was a,
thy friendly school it was in no way
benefited or profited thereby, for
perceive by the index of its mind
that it is q liar. and the truth is not
in it. Purge it. therefore, / beseech
thee, and correct it from the error oil
its ways, and show it the path where.
in it should go; and when thou lay.
est thy correcting hand upon it see
that it be without passion, lest thou
shouldest drive it to destruction
and when thou seest it conformable
to the aforementioned rules, send il
home to me with a inst and true bill
drawn out in the spirit Of moderation,
and will remit It to thee In the root
Of all evil"
Year: 1877

We read almost daily of nameless
outrages being committed on women
by tramps, and have repeatedly
warned our readers against this class
Of vagrants. Heretofore Bloomfield
has escaped, and this fact has doubt
less led all to think the danger was
imaginary. At last the crime has
been brought to orr doors, and the
warning should not be unheeded.-
On Tuesday, the 18th inst, a tall, thin
visaged tramp, dressed in dirty suit
of gray clothes, was in this city
About the middle Of the afternoon he
appiied at one of the houses in this
city, for food, and was provided with
v hat he could eat, by . young woman.
He found out in some way, probably
was told by the girl, that she was the
only one at home, and when he fin
ished his meal he assaulted her and


accomplished his vile purpose. He
knocked the girl down and she be-
came insensible. When she recovered


consciousness the villain was gone.
For four days the girl kept the secret,
but her agony Of mind became great
"a su1u onS CVuAu ucdTS 0uU tLlb uI00
and woman Of the house were inform
ed of the outrage. The girls person


bore marks Of violence, and her story
was fully corroborated. 1t was too
late then to catch the scoundrel, and
all parties decided to keep 1t secret.
We can give no names or further par
ticulars, for this reason. Our object
in mentioning the horrible crime is to
give warning to the women of the
county of the danger they incur in
even permitting tramp to enter the
house, when they are alone. Itseems
incredible that so gross an outrage
could be committed in our quiet town
and not be known, and yet the facts
here detailed can he relied on, as we


have them fIom a party fully inform
ed. Now let our women folks take
warning and be prepared to settle
the hash of any vagrant sconndrel
who may be found prowling around
their homes.-B bloomfield Repaalicaa
Year: 1877

A friend writes from Europe -
What an. amount. of discomfort wet
boots entail, to be sure and how well
we all recall the fretful efforts we
have now and then made to draw on
a pair of hard baked ones which were
put up by the fire over night to dry.
Damp and adhesive within, they are
without stiff and unyielding as horn.
Once on, they are sort Of modern
stocks destructive of all comfort and
entirely demoralizing to the temper.
The following device will rob the
wet barn-yard Of slushy Winter
or Spring evening of half it's
promise OF discomfort for tho next
morning: When the boots are
taken off fill them quite full with dry
oats. This grain has great fondness
for damp, and will rapidly absorb the
last vestige of it from the leather. As
1t takes up the moisture it swells and
fills the boot with tightly fitting last,
keeping its form good and drying the
leather without hardening it. In the
morning shake out the oats and hang
them in bag near the, fire to dry.
ready for the next wet night, draw
on the boots, and go happy about the
days work.
Year: 1877

applied to warts with fine brush, will
permanently cure them in four days.
We may add that we know of nothing
better to remove warts than the leaves OF
the common bean. Crush the leaves be-
tween the fingers, and squeeze out the
juice upon the warts two or three times
a day, until they dry up and disappear.
The cure will generally be complete in
less than week.-Jomnal Of Chemistry.


To CLEAN KID GLOVES them on
q clean board, and first rub the surface
gently with clean sponge dampened
with camphene or mixture of camphene
and alcohol. Then dip each glove into q
cup containing the camphene, lift it out,
squeeze it in the hand, and again rub
gently with the sponge, to remove all the
wrinkles. After this gather up the cuff
in the hand and blow it to puff out the
fingers, when it may be hung up by a
thread to dry. This operation should
not be conducted near fire, owing
to the infammable nature of the cam
phene vapor.
Year: 1877

Death TO King winter, the cold-blooded tyrant
That held us so long in his iron-bound rule
We crowned him at Christmas, feasted him New


Year,


And drank to his health round the great log OF


Yue
But now we have done with our slavish oblations
maiden has risen who conquers his might,
She is coming, our darling, all rosy with sweetness,
To smile at the tyrant and put him to flight.
But see how he busters in impotent fury,
While EARTH though rebeious, still yields to his


claim
Like an insolent bully he swaggers and RACES
Against the fair maiden. Old Graybeard, for


shame!
Loud are your trumpets and. sharp.are your wea-


pons


What do you know of fair woman's wiles,
The might of her cunning, the strength OF her


weakness,


Or the mischief that turks in her soft little


smiles?
Hearken o Winter No prophet is needed
She'll conquer you first, then she'll weep Ger Your


bier;
Her tear-drops in falling will bring forth the roses,
And the world will forget that you ever were here.
Ay riot and rage, for your downfall Is coming;
word in your ear, my clustering friend
Your beard tells your sex, but sweet spring is


woman,


And the world knows full well how such conflicts


all end.
-Harpers WeeklU.
Year: 1877




A SMALL dish of charcoal placed in
your meat larder will keep the article
sweet and wholesome almost as well as
ice. Occasionally for cleaning the teeth
it will sweeten the breath when nothing
else will do'sO.


RHEUMATIC CURE.-A lady sends the
following to an afflicted correspondent Of
the Germantown Telegraph. One
drachm of hydriodate of potash, four
ounces of the tincture of gentian take
one tablespoonful in the same quantity
of water, four times day, at Z, IL, 3 and
7 o'clock.


SAusAeEs.-Try it with good strong
herbs and pepper: One hundred pounds
OF meat cut fine, four ounces of sage put
through a fine sieve, two pounds of salt,
half ounce of cayenne, two ounces of
black pepper and one-half ounce of sum-
mer savory passed through a fine sieve.
Mix thoroughly.


ORANGE FRITTERs.- pound -four,
one pint of milk, with teaspoonful of
salt in it, and quarter pound of melted
butter, and three eggs beaten very light.
IrepaIe lOur Ordlgts NY IeinoNluB Tie
yellow rind and every particle of white
pith, divided into small pieces without
breaking the skin. In each spoonful of
butter put piece of orange, and fry a
golden brown sift powdered sugar over
as soon as taken from the pan.


BREAKFAST PoAcHED Eaos.-Place a
frying-pan of salted boiling water on the
fire, filed with as many small muffin
rings as it will hold break the eggs sim
gly in cup and pour into the rings; boil
them two and half or three minutes ;
remove the rings, and take up the eggs
singly in strainer serve on half slices
of nicely Drowned and buttered toast of
bakers bread put small piece of but
ter on each egg pepper slightly, and
garnish with sprigs Of parsley. Serve
hot.


To DESTROY WARTs.--A medical ex-
change states that drachm Of nitrate of
silver dissolved in an ounce of nitro
muriatic acid makes a solution which,
Year: 1877

In speech delivered by the Right Hon.
John Bright before the " "Rochdale Working
mems Club and Chamber of Industry" at
Rochdale, on January 3 he gave utterance to
the following words of wisdom !:


"Whatever is good we owe D great deal of
to those among whom We associate"


Public opinion has put down duelling."


at would be better if nobody drank or got
drunk"


81 am not in favor of law which shall
say that no man shall partake of intoIica-
ting drink"


There is good deal of patronizing still
practiced when men address the laboring
classes"


Mr.. Ruskin is great critic. who has
said many things worth being remembered
and many things that ought to be forgotten" :"


MANY people think that because other
countries don't allow us to send our goods
free into their markets We should not allow
them to send their goods free into ours that
two bad things are better than one. They
remind me OF a man who, having had one
box on the ear, complained that none would
strike him on the other side of the head"
"The farmers who were always complain
ing when the corn law was in force have
never been heard to complain since it was
abolished"


''Our laws must be based on freedom and
justice, which bless alike him who gives and
him who takes"


The West India planter stole the labor
with which grew their crops


The abolition of the duty on sugar has
caused the quantity imported to be enor-
mously increased and the price to be in an
extraordinary degree diminished"


Sugar has not yet been as cheap as tur-
nips, but is as cheap as -four andits cheap
ness has added greatly to the comfort of
families"


when there are two men running after one
master wages are inclined to 60 down but
when two masters are running after one man
wages go up.


I'm the present day everybody has a news
paper il he chooses to possess himself Of 1t !;
and newspaper now contains an accu-
rate account OF all that is going on in the
world"


1.-The English, with nobody likely to at
lack them, are making 10O-ton guns"


'lt will be for the parents of this genera
tion TO decide whether the next generation
shall not be in advance of this us far as edu-
cation is concerned"


Glass distinctions in every branch of our
social life are icing day by day abolish
ed


AT this moment there are no conspiracies.
Your workInens club Is not u club TO get up
some movement against the law or the mon
archy."


There were times since Queen Victoria
came to the throne when there was a great
deal less of honest and true loyalty than is
TO be found in the country at the present
moment"


The influence of property, so far as it is
n Just influence, exists now, and is exercised
now and any exercise of it before the bal
lot was conferred was an exercise which
was a tyranny upon whom it was exercised"


The grand, noiseless triumphs of peace
find but scanty memorial at tho hands of
history blood shines more upon her
pages


1.-The workman o; England is now no long
er a human machine he is n ruler of men
and joint ruler of many nations"


depend upon it, ifyou support the school
the school will compensate YOU"
Year: 1877

The investigation into the affairs of the
defunct " Security" Life Insurance Com
pany-" Security :" think of it t,-discloses
a mass of rottenness that is awful This
company had not the excuse of several that
have failed honestly by depreciation in
securities it was thievingly managed from
the beginning, or at least for many years,
and was rotten. The annual reports were
doctorcd to show prosperity when the COM
pany was insUiler.t, and to these false reports
the officers put their names, and sworc to
their correctness, without blush. 1T
might have gone en- for some time, and
made even a worse smash, but the close
times stopped off receipts, and as there was
no more money to wiring out Of the people,
or rather as the volume coming in was too
small to make the swirdlc profitable, it col
lapsod. The thieves swcre to balances they
never had. TO real estate which they never
owned, and to policies which they never
issued ; and by fraud and perjury they kept
up an appearance of solidity which deceived
even the experts. There are others in the
same way, that will come to grief within
month