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Year: 1878

Glover has his serious side There could
be no better way to take good look at 1t
than to read the statement in our Washington
DISPATCHES of the way in which he has con-
ducted and dropped the investigation INTO
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. A
more reckless trifng with the regulations
of honest officials was never beheld in Wash
ingt0n Eight weeks ago he set out upon
foray against this Bureau, and before begin
ming demanded that Messrs. Casilear and
Sullivan, holding important positions there.
should be suspended, because it was the Opin-
ion of this back-actiO TeiOTmer that they might
have been doing something naughty, and might
obstruct the progress of his investigation.
Rather than leave the least ground for sus-
picion that obstacles were thrown in his way


these officers were suspended. They have re-
mained suspended since that time, while
MIR. Glover has been listening to "A
lot of foolish stories from discharged
employees and disrepUtable and crack-braiued
experts He failed to find anything in his
eager search for fraud but lacks the decency
to say so. The charge was made, but it was
neither proved nor Withdrawn. The suspended
officials have been reinstated, after resting
for two months under utterly unfOunded
imputatons upon their integrity. and Glover,
as he runs away, fires a last, mean shot
in saying that the Bureau is in bad way,
but that "nothing specific" has been proved
against these gentlemen. This is the serious
side of Glover His credulity is amazing; his
dishonesty is no less wonderful. He hasn't
the intellect or the virtue to watch an oyster
bed, and yet the Democratic House has put
him in a position of National importance.
Year: 1878

torpedoes and even crackers on the streets or
private grounds, we may enjoy not only a
quiet day of reasonable and intelligent cele-
bration, but avoid the usual sacrifice of life,
limb and property inseparable from the Chinese
method hitherto IN vogue.
Year: 1878

the furniture Of the room. Here


many hours were spent 10 at


tempts TO invent plan Of escape.


At length they bit upon q happy


thought. Water had become so


scarce in the prison that it was


necessary to go outside to get it.


One guard was allowed to take


three prisoners for water. Their


plan of escape vas to get a suit


Of Yankee uniform and a gun,


dress ard arm a prisoner and have


him guard them out as for waier.


After this the little room was a


place of constant planning for the


brothers. A place was prepared


under the floor in which to hide


the necessary articles, were they


fortunate enough to secure them.


Ginger bread passed as legal
tender among the prisoners, who
were always hungry enough to
exchange almost anything in
their possession for a small piece
of it. The brothers by dividing
their seanty Iations saved some
of this article for traffic. They
also made some money by making
rings and trinkets of gut-a percha
and shells, some of which showed
marks CT skill, though executed
with a pocket knife Jesse ira
ded for a complete Yankee suit,
and jim snapped for a watch
with q compass attachment. And
in a short time might have been
found safely concealed under their
shanty floor, not only the. Yankee
uniform, but also a waterproof coat
for each, pair of scissors, a razor, /.
candles and matches, an axe mi
nus the handle, and a long wagon
whip. Learning that there was
map of the United States in a
picture gallery near by, they pre-
tended to want pictures and were
guarded to the gallery. While
there they traced out the exact
direction home. Now all the
necessary equipage was secured
except the gun. 1t seemed that
every attempt to get this was
fruitless. Days grew into weeks,
yet the Object of their seach was
not obtained. Ia the mean time,
Jesse could have been seen climb.
ing up amid the thick foliage of q
tall hickory tree which stood in
the center Of the prison, viewing
the outside surroundings With ref
ereuce to an anticipated escape.
They were often seen walking
briskly back and forth by barrack
number ten, but it was not once
that they were prepsr-
log themselves for long journey.
At length they found an old gun
barrel which had long been con-
verted into a poker. Having a
barrel TO begin with, they went
immediately into the gun bnsi-
ness. They rubbed the outside
If the old barrel until it was per-
'eclly bright Then with their
pocket knives, they made The
'tock and lock both OF wood
The lock they colored with a lead
pencil to make it look like iron.
rhe result was a gun with which
guusmiIh might have found
auit, on account Of the work. ma
erial, and dirt 10 the barrel, but
Tot an uususpecting Yankee.


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Year: 1878

WRlTING SCHOOL.-Prot. w. f. Wells
Is in town. and has organized writing
school. We may say of him that a course
Of writing lessons under his teaching. dur
ing our attendance at Union Academy, at
Olympia, is the basis OF our personal
knowledge Of him and his qualifications,
and that speaking thus knowingly we can
say he Is tirst-class teac her. one who is
what he claims to be, and who will give
complete satisfaction in his capacity. His
testimonials come from some of the lead
ing educators on the Pacific coast. He
will remain four or five weeks in this town,
during which time we predict for him a
liberal patronage. There is no branch OF
practical education of young persons SO
likely TO be neglected rs that of penman-
ship, and none really more important,
hence we deem it proper to encourage all
worthy teachers of this art.
Year: 1878

The Hoko Salmon Company is making
extensive preparations for Il large amount
Of work during the next season. The
scow load Of lumber which they are taking
down. will be used In the erection of thei,
buildings at Clallam Bay. They evident
ly intend to make thorough test Of the
business.
Year: 1878

The pilot boat LOttie was in our liar.
Dor several days last week. When she
went down the Straits Mr.. Pullen took a
lot Of goods from the store of Rothschid
u Co., for his trading post at Quillyhute.
Year: 1878

All those knowing themselves to
be indebted to the old firm of Roths-
child s. Co., MUST make settle
ment IMMEDIATELY, as this is
positively the last call before their
accounts are handed in to an attor-
ney for collection.


NO distinction of persons will be
made, as these accounts have been
standing so long that patience has
ceased to be a virtue.
Year: 1878

The rate of taxation in Yavapai county for this year has been fixed at $3.50 per el00. Here m Yuma it was $S.y5 last year. Yavspsi ought to be able to support even more arcferm bummers than Yuma can. -[Sentinel.

 Our tax does not come under that caption exactly. County roads and the finest court house in Arizona arc some of the items that swell our rate of taxation. So long as we have something in sight to show for our somewhat oppressive rate of taxation there is spark of consolation in it, but to have a large county indebtedness, heavy taxation and nothing in sight makes the taxpayer squirm and little weak in the knees. sfRe- form bummers" are at e discount round Prescott- Not soul here that goes a cent On them.
Year: 1878

The Supreme Court OF North
Carolina has INDUCED itself in a
sly joke, which will, perhaps,
serve in ages to come to afford
the student of its reports a chance
to smile. In Buncombe county
an erring husband was condemned
to jail for six months because OF


faithlessness to the woman be had
sworn to honor and obey. The
wife, from what motive does not
appear, hired his services from
the county commissioner at S5
per month, for the last four
months of his term, the condition
being that he should remain III
tie Jail every night, reporting to
the sheriff. The county attorney
thought this an evasion of the
law, and called the attention OF


the court to it by motion, which
was granted, that the prisoner be
remanded TO jail. The Supreme
Court, when appealed to, held
that it was Within the discretion
the county commissioners to
choose the master of a prisoners
services, and that so far from the
contract in this case being an eva
sion of the law, considering the
nature of the defendants crime,
it may be that the commissioners
ingeniously devised to aggravate
the punishment by arming his
wife, III addition to the usual ard
acknowledged powers OF wife in
such cases, with those OF master
paying for rhis work, and entitled
thereby TO keep him 10 sigLt and
iararing- In this view, the per-
mission to return to the Jail after
sunset and remain until sunrise
looks like merciful alienation OF


what would otherwise have been
a cruel aud unusualpunishment."
Year: 1878

Those nearest the President
gave the information to those in


front and rushed against them


with the force of a wave.


sThey are going to fireP' The


words were heard by the pilfer-
ers in the stores. They knew
the character Of Jefferson Da-
Wis, and they knew the reputa-
ton Of old Captain Gay. Where
Davis would not finch in giving
an order, Gay would not finch
from obeying it. The women
dispersed as quickly as they
came, and that was the end Of
the Female Commune. They
never held another meeting.
Year: 1878

Great financial men favor g.
boli,hing revenue taxes on banks
and bankers. and laying a duty
on tea and coffee. The banker
can drink wine and eat cake, the
poor man can have bread and
nice water.
Year: 1878

NEW ORLEANS, October "A sub COM
mittee of the Orleans relief committee make
an appeal to the people of the United States
for means to supply the destitute with 1ood'
They state they represent 80 organizations
that have for years devoted themselves to
doing good for their fellow men, ana tney
have united in q common effort on behalf OF
the destitute, and will be pleased to receive
and distribute all contributions.
Year: 1878

grand promenade concert and straw berry fes
tival is to be given by tse Augusta Band, at
Granite Hall, on Tuesday evening next. An en-
joyable time is anticipated, the proceeds to be de.
voted to the fund to hep pay for the new uniform.
The Band on this occasion will appear for the first
time in their new and elegant upiform, and it will
be worth the p ice of admission to see that.
Year: 1878

Our Halowell friends are to have an exhibition,
this afternoon, of the new steamer, recently built
in this city by Frank Moorlen. They will find it
to "work like a charm" with power and endur-
ance equal to any steamer on the river.
Year: 1878

letter from the West, received by a gentle
man in Rockland. says they have harvested the
finest crop of wheat, and can put the flour on
the market at lower prices than have been given
for wears,
Year: 1878

Mr.. NJ. O. Savage has made some radical
changes and repair. in bis fashionable hair dress
ing saloon, next north of the new hotel block.
Paint and paper, and the resrrangement of the
furniture have had wonderfully transforming
power, so that Savage and his competent and
skillful workmen will have more attractive place
than ever for the ir prosecution of business
Year: 1878

A Pennington correspondent of the Eastport Sentinel writes as follows: II rode to the first-class hotel it was GOV cred frame on stlts, and barely parti toned off inside with laths. Every one washed from the same tin dish, and wiped upon the same towel; the fare was tough steak and tougher biscuit; the beds were mere boxes on legs, and filed with coarse meadow hay. No doors to the rooms nor nails to hang @ coat, no stand or even chair to put lamp on i; but mine host just dropped some grease from his dip upon the floor, into which he inserted his candle and bade me make myself comfortable. Now had hired the "pri- vate room at nn extra price, with an understanding that it was to be all my own for the night, and, of course, the only safety for the money was to put it to bed, So you may imagine my seren- ity when at twelve midnight in bounced straggler in long boots the landlord had sent him up, he said, as mine was only bed with but one in it. In the morning I found that about forty persons had been lying right across the long en- try between the rooms, with only here and there a blanket among them, and they snored on as I walked over them. After breakfast the landlord told us all to come out and square the house into place-it had been moved on it's bed in the night by the wind. Leaning on 8 long rail as lever, we all bore our weight upon it, and the frst-class hotel came into place again. But now, mark me, that place is county seat, has a court house and other fine buildings, with churches, two newspapers, and really more than one 6 first-class hotel. And this is sample of hundreds of places on the prairies.
Year: 1878

Laws making it Enable ofiense for
q farmer or land owner to permit the
growth of Canada thistles upon biz
land are accomplishing the exlirpatiou
Of this troublesome growth in some oi
the Atlantic slope States. Oregon
has stringent laws bearing on the
same subject the law 10 this State is
very effective, increasing the fine upon
second and repeated convictions.
Year: 1878

l know not any pleasure Of sense
more exquisite than draught of cool.
clear water when you are thirsty; but
few things are more iusipid than water
when there is no thirst. 1t is thus
that Christ and bis salvation are very
sweet to one, and very tasieless to an
William ArnOt.
Year: 1878

At recent county fair in Georgia.
it is said, there was nothing on exhi-
bition the FIRST day. but on the second
bull and a pumpkin could be eeen.
At night the bull got ont, eat up the
pumpkin and left, consequently the
third day like tie first.
Year: 1878

The pursuit Of the practice of medicine by
the cultivated and faithful physician, under
ordinary circumstances, involves more of
self-sacrifce and the indulgence of high am
bition than the non-professional can ever
know; but 1t is when the fell epidemic strikes
civilized communities that the highest strain
Is experienced, and the conscientious man is
necessarily overwhelmed with sense Of the
responsibility that Is on him and the desire to
accomplish greater results than are recorded
in the past.


The subject of this humble tribute stands
out in bold relief as an example of what hu-
manity and high professional ambition can
impel man to attempt.


Long and patient thought had fixed the
conviction in DR.. Kibbees mind that he could
successfully control febrile diseases through
the known powerful action Of water generally
genious mechanical appliances for testing his
theory. He was especially convinced that he
could control and lead to recovery greater
percentage OF yellow fever subjects through
the medium Of water than had ever been
thoroughly his theory he left home and FAM
lily and friends in New York and arrived
among us within the past two weeks.


At the moment Of his arrival the family OF
DR.. Howe, of this city, were grievously az
fiicted with yellow fever, and the doctor gave
himself up entirely to their service. We are
informed that he never swerved from most
devoted service to this afflicted family until
the destroyer laid it's hand upon him, and
told him his time, too, had come to lie down.


But what of his faith In that which he had
urged on others? It was perfect. Recognize
ing the genuineness of the attack he repaired
to the Hotel Dieu, laid down on one Of his
own water cots, selected one of our most emf
nent physicians to attend him, bore. himself
q Greatar e 1 faifh than this his hath no man!


When the great death roll of the martyrs of
this widespread epidemic shall have been
made up, the philantrophist will be amazed
to see the number of physicians who have
fallen in the unceasing effort to save human
life. All should be gratefully remembered by
the communities In whose services they fell
aye by the civilized world at large-atnd high
on the roll should ever be the name OF DR.. G.
W. kibbee. MEDICUS.
Year: 1878

miles stretched forth the hand Of fellowship
and sent princely donation for the relief OF
their Southern friends. When we see such q
thing we are ready to believe indeed that the
bloody chasm is filled and that universal and
infinite charity has closed the gap which kept
asunder brotherly love.


HThe Army of Tennessee will keep this long
in remembrance. Meanwhile, owing to the
eyertions OF their able and energetic relief
committee, they are giving succor to all the
members of the association who are in need
Not content with this, they afford help to any
veteran who Is in distress, whether he be-
longs to the association Or not, and If we
know Col. Reiehard and Capt. Adolphe Chala-
ron, Of this committee, we are confident that
sary to relieve any fellow being, whoever he
may be, that misfortune would attempt to
claim as it's own.
Year: 1878

MONTREAL, Sept 25-The Orange trials are
causing lively interest here, as upon the
verdict OF the jury impaneled to try David
Grant the district MASTER and his associates,
will depend a solution Of The question as to
whether or not the Orange body has legal
right to walk through the streets ira process
sion, subject to an appeal on points OF law.
The Court Of the Queens Bench opened yes
terday, when y udge Ramsay, In his charge to
the grand jury, pronounced the Orange pa
rades provocative of breaches of the peace.
Year: 1878

New YORK, Sept, 25.--To-day at Creedmoor
the American team of 1878 will shoot over
the range to make record, and hold the Gem
tennial trophy for the year. There has been
no end Of discussion among marksmen about
the advisability Of having q walk over shoot.
The few ridicule the idea but the majority
we're of the>opinion that when the invitations
had been sent out to match fixed by its condi-
tions as an annual match 1t would imperil
the continuance Of the series of international
matches If a lapse was permitted. W. FL.
jackson, of Boston, the captain OF the team,
will attempt to beat the record. The firing
will be repeated tomorrow.
Year: 1878

Butler will carry the central counties, the
Berkshire hills. the manufacturing towns and
the fishing villages along the coast like q tor
and ree borac anoar Voes @ e1ery sn
straight Radical, and every one straight or
Beacon Hill Democratic vote. That Is to
say he is sure of a heavy plurality and Is
likely to get q majority over both his COM
petitors 1t will amount simply to


THE sUFFoCATIoN OF MASSACHUSETTS RADI-


CALIsM In THE STINK OF BUTLERTsM,
and about all that the Democratic party In
Massachusetts has to do In the premises Is to
hold the foul odor to the Radical nose,


AS for the Democracy of the rest OF the
Union, it can establish strict quarantine
to prevent the spread Of the disease.


A. G., b.
Year: 1878

THE agricultural fairs in the north
west have been attended with marked
success this fall. The result of these
annual exhibitions is very gratifying.
Every year there is an improvement i'll
stock and farm products, machinery
and implements. A fair is great uni
versity where the people secure a vast
amount ofyaluable information.
Year: 1878

Expose yourself day and night; eat
too much without exercise; work too
hard without rest; doctor all the time;
take all the vile nostrums advertised,
and then you will want to know


How to Get Well.


Which is answered in three words
Take Hop Bitters2 See other column.
Year: 1878

15tn: reports that new crater has open
ed IN Vesuvius in the bottom of the old
one. The lava is flowing into the old
crater.


ANOTHER PLOT OF ASSASSINATION.


1t was announced from Berlin on
the 18th that it is rumored that new
plot against the life Of the Emperor
has been discovered and several arrests
made.
Year: 1878

EXCELSIOR. - Show llS an apprentice
boy in a prAting Office. a clerk in store,
or an employee in any line of buSi"esS.
who is ever anXionS to learn AMI perform
his duties; who always finds something
useful to do; who keeps himself busy and
does not wait to be- told of each aud every
duty to perform; who is not so anxious
for quitting time to come rs lie is to do
his tul duty to his employer; who believes
in order, decorum, quiet and constant eff
tort during working hours; who Is ever
polite and kind to his fellow workmen;
who takes rs much pleasure in saving amy
useless expense for his employer rs he
would were the positions reversed, and we
will show you one who will never go beg


gihg for Il situation, but will always COM
mand u choice Of the best; who in turn
will become Il respectable and successful


employer, Il good citizen aud true man.
Year: 1878

A NUMBER of Germans have taken up a
quantity Of land on the Stillaguamisl


river, about eight miles above Stanwood.
and are going to put up "a small water
mill to saw the lumber necessary for the
improvements they contemplate making.
Year: 1878

A certain doctor, struck with the
large number Of boys under fifteen
years of age whom he observed smok-
ing, was led To- inquire into the effect
the habit had upon the general health.
He took for his purpose thirty eight
boys, aged from nine to fifteen. and
carefully examined them /; in twenty
seven of thcm lie discovered Injurious
traces of the habit. In twenty-five
there were vrriOus disorders of the
circulation and Indigestion, palpita-
tiOn of the heart, and more or less
marked taste for strong drink. In
twelve there were frequent bleeding Of
the nose, ten had disturbed sleep. and
Twelve had slight liberation of the
mucous membrane Of the mouth,
which disappeared on ceasing from
the use Of tobacco for some days. The
doctor treated them all for weakness,
but with little effect until the sm0k-
ing was discontinued, when health
and strength was soon restored Now,
this is no "Old wife's tale" as thes
facts are given under authority of the
British Medical Journal.
Year: 1878

One of the most remarkable thincE
i'm human nature is the willingness OF
women to sacrifice girls life for the
chance of saving the morals of a scape-
grace man. IF a pious mother can on
ly marry her son Beellebub to some
''good religious girl" the chince of
his reformation is greatly increased -
The girl is neither here nor there,
when one considers the necessity of
saving the dear Beelzebub.-E EdiOard
Eggle8ton IN the Sunday afternoon.
Year: 1878

We ask attention to the account,
elsewhere published, of the proN
ceedings Of the Supreme Lodge,
showing the remarkable success OF
this order, which seems to be the
success of the time.
Year: 1878

There is a class Of disease, otter in
sidiOus in their approach and slow in
their action, dependent upon a poor
condition OF the blood. The surest
and speediest relief ahd cure for these
complaints in DR.. Bulls Blood Nix
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