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Year: 1877

PAINFUL ACCIDENT.-Last Satur-
day morning, Mrs. Jane Trevilian,
residing in the southern suburbs of
this city, met with sad accident,
under circumstances as follows :
Having employed man with now
er to cut the grass in her lot, Mrs. r..
went out to inform him concerning
some post holes, that he might avoid
driving into them, and not thinking
of or realizing her danger, she step
ped in front Of the sickle while the
machine was in full motion. Before
the horses could be stopped the sickle
struck her, cutting AMI mangling
one OF her ankles so that she will un-
doubtedly be a cripple for life, even
if amputation of the limb is avoided
which is vet doubtful Several
pieces of the bono have been taken
from the wound, one piece rs large
as the top of mans thumb. and
others smaller. Mrs. Treyillian is an
old resident Of Mineral Point, fully
So years of age, and a widow. Dr.


Vivian her attendant physician, hopes
that amputation will not be neces-


ary, bu. cannot yet determine.
Year: 1877

HOME AGAIN.-The late County
Supervisors who were carried off to
Oshkosh by the u. S. Marshall have
returned unscathed. Judge Dyer
was convinced by our attorneys that
the arrest was irregular, and relsas-
ed them without ceremony. The
case is taken under advisement, and
little doubt is entertained by our at
torneys that it will result favorabiy
to us, and that our trouble with Mar
iner is near its end.
Year: 1877

Two ORPuANS.-This deseryedly
popular and thrilling drama was
presented to the people of Mineral
Point in the newly fitted City Hall
on Wednesday evening, by. Billy
Marbles excellent company. Our
people need no introduction to Mr..
Marble and his accomplished wife,
who with a first class company and
scenery procured expressly for the
occasion, rendered this play charm
ingly. The company will remain till
the close of the week, and give a
new play each evening. divorce,
and Mark Tw aims "Gilded Age"
are on the list. Reserved seats can
be secured at the Post-Oflice.
Year: 1877

If there is anything that will
"rile' Democratic organ it is ref
erence to the policy and pratices Of
that party during the war, and a
comparison Herewith Of the present
positions to which said party has
been forced by the Republicans; eide
the froth emitted by our neighbor
last week in consequence of the re-
Prospective in our last issue.
Year: 1877

shoes, sacques and other novelties, which they are selling very cheap for cash. They also exchange goods for cotton, wheat, and country produce of all kinds. Call and see them and you will find attentive and obliging clerks ready to wait upon you at all times.
Year: 1877




Co-OpERATIvE SHIPBUILDING. -
The Mtelfigencer of yesterday makes
an excellent suggestion that a vessel
be built here this season on the joint
stock plan, the shares to be taken
by our merchants and business men.
Certainly, vessel of that kind would
be a paying investment; for she
would always commands a full freight
coming this way, while others would
be obliged to come hither in bal
last. 1t would not be policy to build
a very large vessel; one of the size
of the Modoc or Katie Flickinger,
would answer every purpose and
there would be no need of going in
debt for single dollar used in her
construction. The only barrier to
such an operation that we can see is
that some one firm would want to
control the vessel and the others
wouldn't. stand it. If Seattle mer-
chants could pay to themselves one
fourth the money they pay annually
to the owners of the Harvest Home,
Courser and Montana, they would
soon own a whole fleet of home-built
vessels.


IMPROVEMENTS. We note grea
activity in building throughout the
entire city as the Spring advances.
In Belltown Mr.. Harkins is building
dwelling of 1Sx24 feet with an L of
12x24 feet. On Second street near
Seneca, Capt. Sufferns is putting up
q large two-story dwelling house
which will be ready for occupation
in few days. Horace Young's
house on Fourth street is also nearly
finished, two stories high and very
desirable as residence. Rev. Dan
iel Bagley is putting a new front on
the dwelling situated one door north
of the Brown Church. It is pleas
ing to note these evidences of rapid
progress on the part of our city and
the desire of our citizens to adorn
the place where they earn their live.
lihood with elegant and comfortable
homes.


Moved UP.-O. F. Cosper has re.
moved to Renton with his family
where he will take charge of the
Company's store.
Year: 1877

DIED OF ExPosURE. 1t was nearly
midnight on Friday when canoe,
with five Indians in it undertook to
pass between the piles and Mechan-
ics' Wharf. A high wind prevailed
al, the time and the frail shell struck
one of the piles. upsetting instantly.
An old squaw was in the canoe and
was with difficulty dragged ashore
by the others who carried her up
the bank and left her in a cabin
near by. They then came down
town and made fire in the slip be-
tween Horizons bank and the market.
After their clothes were dry they re-
turned to the cabin, only to find the
old clootchman gone. A search was
instituted and her body was found
lying on the ground short distance
off. The exposure and suffering in
the water had been two much for
her. So officer Thorndike was sent
for and saw that the body got de-
cent burial.


DIED AT SEA. "A brother of Geo.
Ridge, who is employed in Car
keek's stone yard. took passage on
the Dakota for San Francisco last
Sunday, in the hope of restoring his
health, as he was afflicted with cor
sumption. On Friday night a tele,
gram was received here, stating
that he had died on the passage
His health had so long been feeble
that his relatives we're not aston
ished by the painful news.


STowAwAYs.-We heard yesterday
that several fellows came up on the
City of Panama without buying any
tickets. Doubtless they compensa-
ted the ship by shovelling coal for
the tiremen. Another case was that
of a man who rode all the way from
Kalama to Tacoma on Friday, unob-
served by the conductor. He was
concealed under the car, on the brake,
and several times barely escaped be-
ing killed.


PosTAL.--The boxes in the post
Office are filled with little notifica-
tions for box-holders to pay their
rent. Those not paying their box
rent for the present quarter during
the coming week will find them
selves shut out after Saturday next.
Year: 1877

In no other country in the world
but America could fire have occur
red similar to that which came so
near destroying the Patent Office at
Washington on Monday 9th, for the
simple reason that no other nation
can boast such an institution, and
that no other people have devoted
themselves to the carrying out of as
many numberless inventions as we
have. The conceit which some one
has imagined that Il Connecticut baby
no sooner opens its eyes than it i'm
mediately sets about devising some
new additions to its cradle or an i'm
proved mouth piece to the feeding
bottle is not so very far fetched after
all. We are all familiar with the
story of the New England farmer
who refused his consent to a suitor
for his daughters hand on the ground
of his whiting. True, he did Whittle
but the shreWd parent had observed
that the stick on which he practiced
was simply reduced in size, instead
Of being moulded into some practical
shape, and so he decided that the
loyer must necessarily be shiftless
and incapable. And 1t is this feeling
that there is nothing worth caring
for unless it has some practical utility
or can be made serviceable in trade,
in business or in the cOmmonest
affairs of life which is chief in the
minds Of the American people to-
day.


Europe is rich in the possession of
her art treasures. There are galleries
and museums in her cities which are
filled with the choicest products of
the brush and the chisel, and libraries
and museums which represent the
patient thought of ages. They appeal
to the higher sentiments and emo
tions in our nature. The wierd
shadows which Rembrandt painted
upon his canvas, the divine glory
hangs around the almost breathing
forms Of Titan, the eloquent beauty
of the Apollos and the Venuses CHS
elled out of marble and almost elo-
quent in their silence, all speak to
the heart. The manuscripts written
by patient monks, the rude weapons
of war which belong to the time
when Britain was forest and phio-
sophie Germany the home Of savages,
Year: 1877

Natures method of purifcation and
consequent cUreis founded on the rational
principle of judicious puIgation;a and when
it is considered that the best physicians
pursue the practice of attention to the
stomach and bowels as preliminary land
often the only treatment of disease, it is
not difficult to perceive that q remedy
possessing all the requisites of a apurgatiye
and Alternative, in addition to other and
valuable remedial influence, must obtain
foritsgif more than ordinary consideration
and favor. Our remedy combines every
quality required for the treatment of dis
ease on the aboye-namcd rational princi-
pie It is q pleasant Cathartic, active
or gentle, according to the dose; it is a
Blood purifier, toning and cnriching this
fluid by its alternative property; its action
on the Liver is soothing and certain, pro-
noting the BiliaTy secretions; it is a safe
and reliable Emmenagogue, acting specifi-
Cally upon the uterine system; it affords
the greatest attainable relief in Dyspepsia,
and cures whenever used as directed !;
and in conjunction with hygicnic means
is the best preventive Of Constipation
that can be suggested


From the above il would then appear
that the simplest method to cure sickness
is that one which combines judicious pur-
CATION with physical sustenance, and the
Observance Of hygieniC measures; the
head should be kept cool, the feet warm,
and the bowels open; and when treating
diseases on the principles exhibited in the
manual referred to below (Which every
one should reaGD the strength should be
sustained bynourishing (not stimulating
food Of the kind adapted to the complaint
while the remedy is removing the disease.
Year: 1877

Bow legs aud knock-knees are among
the com mon delormities OF humanity;
and wise mothers assert that the crook
ciuess in either case arises from the al
llicted one having been put upon bis or
her feet too early in babyhood. But d
Massachusetts physician, who has watch
ed TOR the true cause. thinks differently.
He attributes the aforementioned distor-
ton to habit some youngsters delight
in OF rubbing the sole OF one foot against
that OF the other; some will 60 to sleep
with the soles pressed together. They
appear to enjoy the contact only when
the feet are naked; they do not attempt
to make it when they are socked or
slippered. SO the remedy is obvious,
keep the baby's sole covered. Knock
knees the doctor ascribes TO q different
childish habit, that OF sleeping on one
side, with one knee turned into the hol-
low behind the other. He has found
where one leg has been bowed inward
more than another, the patient has always
slept on one side, and the upper mem-
Der has been that which has been mOst
deformed. Here the preventive is to pad
the inside OF the knees so as to keep them
apart. and let the limbs grow freely their
own way. All OF which is commended
to mothers who desire the physical mp
rghtness Of their progeny .-Harper's
.H1qdeine.
Year: 1877

Mother Goose and her melodies were
commemorated by Rev. j. M. Manning
the pastor of the new Old South Church
in Boston, at the Christmas festival oil
the Sunday school. He said;


There is one thing 10 the history OF
the Old South Church which has not had
the recognition it deserves. la the list
of admission tor 1898 occurs the immor'
tai name of Elizabeth Goose. l almost
beg pardon OF her memory for saying
Elizabeth" since by the unanimous
verdict OF the world, in whose heart her
name is enshrined, she is known as
..Mother" Goose. So, then, Mother
Goose is no myth, as some have thought,
but once lived in Boston, in veritaole
flesh and blood, as the recordssof the
Old South clearly show. 1t is also a
pleasure to find, that in making Goose
of herself she married into well to-do
family. where in time she, too, by
putting her melodies to the press, not
merely laid one golden egg, but has been
laying steady succession OF them from
Year: 1877

the home IN which its loving rhymes are
not sung? 1t is one OF the few books
which cannot be destroyed. Not Homer
or Shakespeare is so sure OF immortal
fame as Mother Goose. Considering the
love in which her melodies are every
where held, their freedom from anything
which might corrupt or mislead the in
fantile mind, their practical wisdom,
their shrewd mastery OF the motives OF
human conduct, one is in all soberness
forced 10 admit that her name is among
the brightest of the jewels which adorn
the brow of Old South. What other son
or daughter Of ihe church. renowned ms
many OF them are in history, has proved
a grester blessing TO mankind, or secured
,hc benedictions of so many hearts T? She
lis TO the new world what Santa Claus is
to the old. And if the twain could, by
some poetical license. be made man
and wife. who does not confess that she.
though much the younger. would be by
far the better half? Let rs hope that the
day is not distant when a memorial stat
ute will be erected to this venerable
lady in one of the parks or squares Of
Boston. Let it be an appropriate symbol
of her and her blessed ministry. Let it
stand where the children OF the city may
gather in their daily sports. trundling
their hoops and carts about, and singing
their dolles to sleep in its motherly
shadows. Where could that memorial
better stand than on the triangular plot
OF ground at the corner OF Boyleston and
Dartmouth streets. so near to the present
Old South meeting house, and in full
view OF other buildings and Institutions
which are the pride of Boston? If not
there. yet in some place it should te rev.
erently set up. And on it should be the
following inscription:


Elizabeth Foster,


known in the literature OF the Nursery as
"Mother Goose"


Was born in Charlestown, Mass, l651;


Married Isaac Goose, of Boston, 1852;
Became q member OF the Old South Church, l6is


Was left widow in l7l0
The hrst edition of herg Melodies"
Published IN l1lg.


She died 1851.


1t. % years.
Year: 1877

Judge Burnet to-day decided adverse
ly to the claim tor alimony, which was
made by Mrs. Rachel Lirdemann, OF
New York, upon her husband, Herman
Lindemarn, a piano dealer of this city.
In giving his decision overruling the
motion, the Judge said in substance
that "a ma ried woman has no right to
keep up separate establishment. In
this case the wife chose to live in New
York that she might be with ler mother,
while her husband was a resident OF
this city, where his business required
his presence.


"The husband has the right to say that
mis- family shall live where he wants
them, and if the vile does not see fit
to live with him, she can not claim sup
port from him unless h. drives her away
by cruelty or neglect. There being no
evidence of that in this, do not feel at
liberty to grant her alllnony, and must
overrule The notion"
Year: 1877

This is story Of what happened not
long since in the Pine Tree State: A
new Baptist convert wished very much
to Be baptised by one minister. and to
join the church Of another She went
to The FIRST and asked him if it could be
done Eyes" he replied. Il could do
it: but | don't take in washing~


The rabbit is timid; but no cook can
make it quail.
Year: 1877

ernment than any ever before Issued. but from its
permanence and security will become the natural
investment of the earnings of the people, both in
the United States and Europe. Every bond sold
will lessen the burden of the public debt to the ex
tent of one-third of the annual interest the
amount of the bond. The bonds are issued for $50.
Sl00 $500, $1,000. and larger amounts, and will
by the mode of their sale be brought within the
reach of all classes of people,


The Syndicate resisted the proposition that the
bonds shoud be sold in this country az par They
undoubtedly propose selling these bonds at
premium. and they declined to contract on these
terms. The Secretary was, however, unyielding,
and, as the official statement shows, agreement
was finally made that for thirty days the public
should have the right subscribe for the per cents
at the limit fixed by law, par in gold. After the
expiration Of the thirty days, however. the Syndicate
can advance the bonds to premium If they fit
TO do so.
Year: 1877

sion Of major in the service Of
the French East India Company for
the Isle of Bourbon.


While in Paris, however, the
princess was one day walking with
her daughter in the garden Of the
Tuileries, when she was met by the
Marshal de SAKE, who Immediately
recognized her. Much embarrassed,
she asked him to retire with her to
a more private place, where she
confided to him her whole story,
not emitting the part which his
mother. the Countess of Konis-
monk, had in her adventures. She,
however, insisted that her history
should be kept secret by him until
she had departed from France.
After the arrival of the family at
the Isle of Bourbon, Marshal SAKE
confded her story to the King Of
France, who Immediately ordered
the governor CT the Isle of Bour-
bon to pay all marks OF distinction
to the family of Major D'Auband,
and also represented her situation
to her niece, the Queen of Hun
gary. This queen at once invited
the princess to reside with her, but
made it a condition that she should
leave behind her husband and
daughter. The brilliant offer wa;
refused by Mime D'Auband on the
ground that she preferred her do
mestic life to all the glories of roy,
atty. Here all trace of the princes;
is lost. 1t is to be supposed thai
her life henceforward flowed easily
along till the tropic flowers blcs.
somed and bloomed on her peaceful
grave.


This history occurred long ago,
and probably would not have beer
brought to mind but for the pres,
ence of the present Grand Duke
Alexis, of Russia, who bears the
same name and station as that Of
the husband of the unhappy Prin,
cess Sophia de Wolfenbrettel.


B. o.
Year: 1877

By about the middle of next
May the public will have seen the
last of the present three-cent stamp,
and will become to get accustomed
to something red, and possibly a
new tint. The best and fastest
color knoYn-the green three-has
proved q placer for stamp-washers,
who take off the oily cancellations
without acid or alkali, and set the
stamp aAoat again. So far the post
Office department has found no way
out of the difficulty, and the long
series of experiments just completed
has resulted in nothing more than
the assurance that green is the
poorest of stamp colors. With the
change Of color, May LIST, there will
be a change Of design. The medal
lion head Of Washington will be
retained; but it will be relieved
with an open space of white; the
scroll-work will have a different
pattern. Altogether the new stamp
will bear some resemblance to a
stamp of sixteen years ago, which
most people have forgotten, The
white background is adopted in the
hope that any attempt to wash the
stamp will leave this part IRE.
trievahly spoiled,
Year: 1877




The action of the Republican State Con-
vention yesterday is a noteworthy sign OF
the times. The ticket which it nominated
is respectable, but calls for no comment.
The resolutions it adopted prove that
President Hayes has won substantial
victory over the recalcitrant element in
his own party. The ascendancy Of
the Cameron family has been SO
great among the Pennsylvania republicans,
and both father and son exhibited so many
symptoms of dissatisfaction during the
spring and early summer, that it seemed at
one time possible that Pennsylvania might
follow the example Of Maine and virtually
censure the policy of the President by re-
fusing to indorse it. But course which
was safe in Maine, where the republican
majority is too large to be overcome, would
have been hazardous, if not ruinous,
in Pennsylvania, where the chances
preponderate in favor of the democrats The
Camerons could not afford to oppose Mr.
Hayes and then get badly whipped in the
State election. The defeat would have been
charged to them, and they did not wish to
take such responsibility. The only chance
the republicans have of carrying Penn
sylvania depends on their maintaining
united front, and the only possibility OF
union lay in indorsing the President


The Endorsement is not, indeed, complete
and unequivocal; but it conveys unqualified
respect for Mr.. Hayes motives, and ex-
presses full approval of the objects of his
policy. But, while indorsing his character
and his aims, it declines to express an opin-
jon Of his means and methods. 1t regards
his policy as an experiment to be tested by
time, and hopes that it will be vim
dicated by it's results. It would doubtless
have been inexpedient to 60 further in the
divided state Of republican sentiment which
the Convention recognizes. The great re-
quisite in this canvass is to keep the party
ment would have repelled the more ardent
opponents OF the new policy. The Con-
vention has probably gone as far as
Mr.. Hayes himself would desire, for it is
better to carry the State on such an indorse-
ment as he has received than to lose it by
of the party. The moderate acquiescence
which has been expressed will grow warmer
and more cordial in the progress of the
canvass.


The platform is strong and explicit in
demanding the reconciliation Of silver and
making it equally with gold full legal
tender. The other noticeable thing in it
is it's straightforward denunciation Of
mob violence-a praiseworthy declaration
which will be approved by all the
better classes of citizens, and is in refresh
ing contrast to the demagogic appeals of the
Democratic Convention. The prospects Of
the Pennsylvania republicans do not look so
discouraging as they did ten days ago.
Year: 1877

In August NJ. Thiers was at Dieppe, but
about the Goth of the month he found the
seaside air too fresh and sharp, and beat a
hasty retreat to Paris. Thence he went to
st. Germain-en-L Loye, a high and pleasant
situation in the environs OF the capital At
this place he died two weeks later. Although
he had not been an invalid in that period
he had not been in his usual health. He
had not overcome that arrangement which
caused his flight from Dieppe. He had ap-
parently caught cold" at the seaside, and
this slight variation from the standard of
good health fingered with characteristic
tenacity, and finally exploded in the onset
which overwhelmed the victims brain. At
eighty-one the resistance the system opposes
is unequal, and the itful guard failed to
keep out the enemy. The expression used
in the dispatches, opoplerie toudroyaate,
means only apoplexy which strikes down
and kills at once as distinguished from that
whose fatal effects are developed with less
startling speed.