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Year: 1878

Hon. Edward Eldridge writes
from Walla Walla to the B. 3. Mail:
This portion of the Territory is
rapidly filing up, and to-day forms
marked contrast to what it was
twenty years ago. At that time,
where there was nothing but an
open prairie, without tree in sight,
now stands the city of Walla Walla.
with beautiful avenues, where locust
and poplars upwa, ds Of hundred
feet in height completely shade the
city. No portion of the continent
can compete with this in the pros
duction of wheat, and whenever
direct route is opened between Pu-
get Sound and Eastern Washington,
50 that every farmer can feel assured
of having his grain conveyed to a
market, the growth of Washington
Territory in wealth and population
will be equal to that of any State in
the Union. Nothing is of such ma
terial interest to even the remotest
localities of the Territory as the con-
struction of a railway across the
Cascade Mountains. It is estimated
that with an average crop there will
be two million bushels of wheat
raised in this Territory east of the
mountains this year. nearly all of
which will be for expectation. This
amount will continue increasing for
the next fifty years. Whenever a
road direct to the Sound is put in
operation. at least one-half OF all the
products of the eastern portion of
the Territory will pass over said
road, no matter how great the i'm
provements on the Columbia river
may be. This will put money in
circulation on the Sound, stimulate
ship building, open a new market
for lumber, coal, iron and lime, all
of which articles are required to a
great extent in Eastern Washington.
No two regions in any part of the
world Can SO materially contribute
to the welfare of each other as East
ern and Western Washington. Each
/ one has to an unlimited extent what
the other requires-the two together
make perfect whole"
Year: 1878

them, he would appoint them immedi-
ately and as speedily as possible make
terms with the Indians, allowing white
people to enter the Hills. The session
was drawing to a close. During the
last hours at midnight a conference
committee upon an appropriation bill
was in session. Kidder hurried to and
fro through the capitol with an amends
ment in, lis hand to go into this appro-
priat;on bill. He found the committee
just as they we're ready to report. and
tired as they were the good nature of
the judge proved successful in getting
their consent to put in his amendment.
1t authorized the president to appoint
commissioners to visit the Black Hills
and negotiate with the Indians. and
made an appropriation therefor.


The bill was Immediately reported to
the Senate and House and passed, and
probably no one but those III the COM
mittee knew IF the amendment being in
there which las been fruitful Of such
vast results


A Skeleton Inside Of a Horse.


A miner in the Black Hills, writing
to friend in this city. tells horrible
reminder of the Fearful snowstorms of
last winter and the perils of these who
were caught ont and lost their way on
the plains. He says recently, while he
and two others we're crossing the coun-
try, they came upon the skeleton of
horse. within which was the skeleton of
man, with the grinning skull looking
out at them between the ribs Of the an
imal, like a prisoner looking through
the bars Of his cell. The two skeletons
told the whole story. The man had
killed his horse. cut him open and
crawled inside of him, but the flesh of
the animal frcze solid, and the man
was now as much of prisoner as if he
had been shut in by walls of iron. The
wolves and carrion birds had stripped
the greater part of the flesh from both
skeletons. The miner concludes his
description by saying: ut was sight
shall never forget. cen see it now
whenever close my eyes. - Virginia
Cii,, EDfernriss
Year: 1878

In the first place old Mr.. Wash
ington never left his hatchets around
loose, and so Young George corld
not have found one. If there were
no hatchets to find the very fact
proves the absence of falsehood.
And in the second place no one can
prove that there were any cherry
trees on the old mans land. And
in the third place such thing as u
lie was not known in those days.
Year: 1878

A NEW CHURN.-A certain
Clarke county farmer, says the
Vancouver Independent, on a GER
tam stream, not long since
placed a pail of cream in a Gov
cred spring, to keep cool for the
mornings churning. The good
lady Of the house went in the
course of her mornings work
to get her cream for the churn-
ing, but found that the cream
had totally disappeared, and in
its place was a pail of butter
milk, floating in it big chunk
Of butter and a big frog CON-
placently seated thereon. Her
astosishment was only cquallcd
by her disgust, but it did not
take her long to conclude that
the churning was accomplished
by the motions of the frog 5
legs IN his efforts to escape tiom
the pail.
Year: 1878

You, of course says a cold, thin,
cutting voice, and he glances up and
gees bis wife looking down on him in
taunting, exasperating sort Of way.
sd be ashamed Of myself, she con-
tinued,' to, go on in that ~ay,
and get so out Of patience
with a little bit of q baby.
You've been making enough noise to
wake the dead, ami his clothes look
as if they'd been thrown on with q
pitchfork. i. Gimme him!


And Le gets up silently and sulien-
ly, and after slamming around the
house after the iniment bottle, and
banging doors, and making as big q
noise as he can, he works himself mp
into such a state of meanness and
modification, that to spite himself, he
goes down town without his breakfast.
Year: 1878

on the very spot where his carriage
had been stopped. The vehicle had
been driving all the while in a circle
of one hundred yards or so.


The author of this frolic, the beau
tiful orange girl of the masked ball,
the daching brigand chief who STOP
ped the generals coach, and who,
while seated beside him, extorted a
dozen court secrets, and stole his
signe ring, was no ether than Eu-
genie, then Countess of Montijo. and
now the ex-Empress of France.
Year: 1878

DO VI I-NV.
There came a maiden bright and
fair
Over the pavement tripping;
And never Il thought had she Of care,
And never a fear of slipping.
But oh, alas, for all Of that,
Her feet flew out and down she
sat
Down ON the cold, cold snow.
And To her face rushed n flood OF
red,


And look of surprise, bat oIl
she said,
Was ''DOminO,'
Year: 1878

Having seen my last article in
print, l am encouraged to write
again, The people in this section are
gathering their cotton. The crop is
some better than was anticipated
before the pickers went aheld, and
corn will yield about 80 per cent OF
a good crop.


What we most heed now is some
enterprising person TO come among
US and bring some coed stock
cattle, swine and sheep in particular.
If breeders at the East would send
out statesmen in the summer months
to sell good, pure blooded cattle,
sheep, &c. to deliver when a car
load could be sold, they could there
by benefit themselves, as we'll as
the country. Can you ventilate this
subject little? You may do much
good thereby. Trtly, Nix B6Nbs.
Year: 1878

But the greatest of these is charity"
We gaze to-day, on this broad plain,
And on our inland sea, so blue,
And from our hearts heartfelt strain
Is waited high above and through


The clear aud cloud!ess sky to where
The father waits to hear our prayer
A prayer of thanks, that we are free
From the dark gloom that shadows DER
Our sunny South like Upas tree,
Whose poison kills, then sghs for more
A prayer, that in this golden West
Our homes are more than doubly blest
But while to Him our thanks arise,
For home ant love and native land,
We lend our ears to catch the sighs
From far-dtf homes where Deaths cold


hand


Touches and leaves its cruel trace
On many d loved ones form and face.
And while these means and piteous cries
Come floating on and bursting forth,
Let prayers 20 upward to the skies,
From every household in the North.
For every sore and stricken heart,
Lets pray for each; and give cur part.


-lChicago lnter-Ocean.
Year: 1878

The Kansas migration fever has broken
out in Michigan.


Deer are being extensively and wantonly
slain In northern Michigan.


Wagons carrying loads of iron in She
streets Of Paris have to place some rags or
straw to deaden the noise.


The engagement Of Ida Lewis, New ports
Grace Darling, to lawyer of Rhode Island
Is reported, but she still lives in the Lime
Rock Light house, helping her mother trim
the lamps.


The rival Wood brothers, who are candi-
dates for Congress In the Seventeenth dis
trict of New York, happen to have exactly
the same initials, and there is a strong
probability that many voters will vote for
the wrong one.
Year: 1878

The electric light is already used


D several factories 10 this country,


and its use seems TO be extending.


The circumstances are favorable 70


Its employment in large workshops.


There is always in these concerns a
superabundanee of motive power,


and the work Of driving the electric


machines which supply the means
for lighting can therefore be perform
ed substantially without cost. As
most large factories manufacture their
own gas, the loss which will follow
the Introduction of electricity, bv
rendering useless the costly plant for
the production OF gas, Will fall upon
the shoulders of the very people who
are to be benefited by the reduction
OF expense.


As a rule, too, more light is needed
in these shops than is actually en-
ployed ct present owing to the high
cost Of gas; aud the electric lamp
seems to supply this need at the same
time that it is reducing the cost. So
much seems to have been already de.
monstrated


In addition, the light in some of
the lamps before the public is steady,
pleasing to the eye, and well diffused,
casting no deep shadows 1t is not
yet fully demonstrated that the elee-
trio light is cheaper than gas in build
ings where the employment OF spe-
cial steam engine is necessary. It
may be so, bat the fact is vet to be
shown in actual practice. In the
ene case to which so much attention
has been called throughout the scien-
tife world, of the use of the light in
a warehouse in ST. Petersburg, the
saving Of cost is effected solely by
the fact that gas used to spoil the
merchants goods, whereas the cleo
tric light does not


With reference to the lighting of
dwellings. the whole subject is yet in
doubt. Mr.. Edison claims to have
found way to light dwellings, and
that illumination by his plan is cheap
er than gas.


The facts in regard to this matter
are Set forth in another part Of to-
days paper, where a description Of
the various experiments now making
in this country is presented. Briefly,
the case is as follows:


The subdivision of the electric cur
rent and its distribution to a large
number Of lamps cause an enormous
loss Of light; and while extremely
beautiful and perfectly steady small
lights can be produced, j the lights
ian be turned up and dow a, just like
gas, it is not known that any wen
.or, Mr. Edison or sEy one elsr has
,ircuit.


The public know what ex rava ant
:laimc have been made. These claims
may yet be justified, but up to the
present time they are not. If the |
electric light cannot be subdivided !
more than twenty times, il cannot at
present become a serious competitor
with gas, in dwelling houses and
offices.
Year: 1878

II there IS anY class Of people that
Ough. to live well it is farmers They
are supplied with O great variety Of
food, and among the numerous pro-
ducts OF the farm and farm garden
are many articles that would be re-
garded as the choicest luxuries BY
city people--luxuries because Of their
freshness and purity. Such milk and
cream as the farmer has, money can
not buy in our cities. Eggs, fresh
laid, are not to be had there. Vege-
tables fresh from the soil, chickens as
choice and as fat as you please.
These are among the generally sup
piled aud choice products Of the
farm which should aid in making the
farmers table an attractive one.


The staple articles Of diet are. Of
course, bread, potatoes, and meat Of
various kinds But these articles
can be made so good that none Vill
tire Of them, and cooked III such
variety OF ways as to always render
them inviting and pslatable. Some
people have aa idea that good living
necessarily means expensive living,
and that the farmer can afford only
plain food plainly served, which gen
orally means properly eooked. What
a poor, sl0yenly cook wastes in pro-
viding for an average farmers lami-
ly, would 90 far in the hands of an
intelligent, careful and economical
cook, toward feeding such a family
One Of the greatest shortcomings in
our country to-day is in the vast
amount Of careless and unintelIigent
cooking. Farmers are taking less0us
in agriculture. They are studying
and investigating the many questions
which are continually arising in their
-oid bat always new business of til
ing the soil


Their wives and daughters have
need Of thought, Of study and earnest
investigation into the economic prin-
ciples Of cooking.


Of course, there are very many &C.
complished housekeepers and excel
lent cooks, as there are model farm
ers, but the best are those who gener-
ally can and wiilproit most by study,
experiment and the suggestions Of
others The wise are never too wise
to learn, but the foolish are wise in
their own conceit. The best farm
ers, az rule, are the ones who take
the agricultural papers, who are the
supporters of cur farmers club-,
grsDgers' a1d agricultural societies
that are doing 50 much good So
the best cooks are the ones who are
able to make good use Of cook books,
carefully selected recipes, and who
take an interest ia everything that
tends to increase their knowledge and
proficiency.


Economy in living expenses is be-
coming an important consideration
with cur people, but economy does
not require that we live all the time
on one or Two kinds of food served
always In the same way. Itrequires
that more intelligent care be given
toward the selection Of articles Of
food, having regard for the relation
Of valne and cost, and that they be
not wasted, and that the greatest
good may be derived from them -
Husb0admGH
Year: 1878

The genleel tramp mounted the
landing and rang the front door bell.
Would you be so kind said he ss
the mistress Of the house appeared al
the door. to exchange this piece Of
pie for a couple of bard boiled eggs
and cup Of cofee2 / am Of a dys-
peptic turn, and this is the ninth
quarter of minee pie that have tried
to go through this morning. / can't
stand it, it's too much Of ssmeness
If you accept my proposition, you
can also have the satisfaction Of tell
ing the neighbors that Mrs Robin
son, across the street, uses allspice
instead Of cloves, and that the under
crust is very Stacked baked" The
temtation was great, and the genteel
tramp had bis eggs and coffee and
large triangle Of frosted cake as a
bonus
Year: 1878

bis breast Oh. father Annie here
we bury the past, and under this tree
the dear old willow-let US kneel,
aad for this happy hour, thank Him
who 30 often has saved man from the
perils of sea and land"


We will draw a veil over the sa-
cred scene Light and life are again
at Horton House,
Year: 1878

HIS OBJECT IN PROPOSING GRANT AND OTHERS FOR


THE RETIRED LIST 10 EXPOSE 4 BAD PRINCIPLE.


WASHINGTON, April Ex-senator Sargent to-
day replied ex-senator LOgans letter. addressed TO
him the subject Of the amendment proposed
by the Senator TO the House BILL placing General Shields
on the retired list OF the army. lie says to General
Logan: You seem to be under the impression that nay
amendment is intended argument against the kind
OF legislation contemplated by the House bill frankly
confess that that the principal object Object 10
exceptional legislation OF that character, the elect OF
which Is to heavily burden the Treasury" After speak
ing Of the law about the retired list, Mr. Sargent says
"TO extend these provisions 10 one volunteer
officer is departure from the reason OF a
Just rule that may not much burden the
Treasury. But its extension to one leads In justice to
It's extension to many-deStrOys the rule, and cuts
deep into Tic public fund.- As the people
all over the country are reasonably complaining or
OnerOus taxation il well becomes legislators to scrtnze
the objects OF expenditure, aud not be hurried into
eXtrayagancc however the measures promoting may
be designed as generous and charitable. know
that you and in accord upon such topics You
several occasions in the Senate and resisted
equalization bounty bill which by the estimates OF
the Paymastcr General and Controller OF Inc treasury
would take at least 800 900 from the Treasury


know you cOnendcd that the effect OF the bill would De
to several millions less, but i'll any event tue
draw be euOrnOIls.'
Year: 1878

One of those foolhardy projects with
which this country is occasionally startled
is now being carried out. Two men who
seek notoriety have started in a mere
cockle-shell 10 cross the ocean, and when
they land they will We able to say they
crossed in the smallest vessel that ever
made the trip. Such senseless endanger'
ins of life ought to be stopped by law. The
last time the project was tried it was by {
man and woman. She was very nearly
killed from exposure. The English news
papers very Significantly said that if th'
woman had died her husband would hav'
been arrested for manslaughter.
Year: 1878

In the bar.rOOm to wait until he COj
his hat and coat. It was decent qui.
ct place enough, and there warn't nc
fire in the ladies' parlor-and a.
warmed my poor frozen feet, the door
at the foot Of the stairs SWING open
and in walked a man with q candle
in his hand-the very man I saw out
under the pine trees, with his arm
raised to strike. A small, dark man,
with scar across his forehead and q
squint in his eyes. And on the little
finger of his left hand he wore my
Charles amethyst ring.


II gave shrek as might have rails
ed the dead in their graves, and called
out:


"That's the murderer Arrest him
gentlemen.


"And then, for the first and last
timc in my life, I tainted dead away.


"Well, that man was proved to be
the murderer. Up in his little room
was Charles watch and chain and
purse, tied up in pocket handker-
chief, and thrust between the mat
tress and the sacking of the bed. II
seems he was tramp - was put off
the next train afore mine, for travel
ing without a ticket, and was lurkin
in the woods when Charlie came by
on his way to meet me. He confessed
all at last; how his eye wes caught by
the sight of the watch-chain, and
came into his heart. He
struck my poor boy with ragged
stick twice over the side Of the head
and then robbed him. But according
to his tale, Charlie must have been
lying there good half hour before /
saw him, 80 white and ghAstly at my
,ide, and he-the murderer-was q
mile away when see his ugly, squin-
lin face a.leerin' at me over Charles
Year: 1878

From careful investigation of the
facts we are convinced that the fire
was the work of an incendiary, some
low, vicious miscreant, who desired
to do Mr.. Ferguson an injury. There
is but little doubt but the barn was
fred in the loft window on the north
side, as there was where the fire first
appeared, and Immediately run over
the hay-mow and down the spout to
the stalle, having down draft like q
base burner coal stove, each spout act.
ing as flue. This will account for
the rapidity with which the fire
epread through the stable.
Year: 1878

FrOm Wedne9dAy6 UAlV,


A brick layer, stopping al board
ing house in the upper part Of the city,
was robbed Of his pocket book last
night containing between sixty and
seventy dollars. There is no clew to
the robber.
Year: 1878

Gentlemen of leisure who live in Nevada
will be glad to know the fashions for 1873 1t
will be gross breach of politeness to shoot at
anybody further off than six feet, and if he
falls at the first fire it is de rigueur that YOU
should walk up to the party and put at least
eight more bullets in his carcass in self-defence,
This snecesstates carrying two revolvers, but
that cannot be helped. Fashion at times lays
heavy burdens on its votaries. The knife is no
longer used IN polite circles, and the correct
thing to do after the occurrence is to immedi-
ateiy give yourself up to the police and seud
letter OF coincidence to the nearest relatives OF
the deceased Its not usual to go to the funeral
unless 1t happens to be your own, IN which
case it is in bad taste TO either stay away or
take any active part in the proceedings.
francisco Ne1gS Letter.
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters and communJ
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessariy for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1878

THE Democrats are greatly troubled over
the proposed Republican campaign in the
South. They fear that the Republicans will
carry some of the negro districts unless the
White league resort to bulldozpg again, and
if that is done they fear the reaction in
the North.
Year: 1878

A Jolly son of the ocean was about
being put on board an outward ship
for which he had previously entered
when he asked leave to have another
run "up town. Being informed
that he could not be pprmitted!o go
as the ship was about to sail, he sang
out to a man on the wharf, an entire,
stranger to him, "Hore, my friehd,n
throwing him d five shilling piece
Gspond that for me-I'llido as much
for you another timos'
Year: 1878




The recent controversy between
Ingersoll and the New York Observer
concerning Tom Paine renders the
following, which we clip from an ex-
change, Of some interest:


Ibelicve in the equality of man,
and l believe that religious duties
consist in doing justice, loving mor-
cy and endeavoring to make our fel'
low creatures happy.


My own mind is'my own church.


1t is necessary to the happiness Of
man that he be mentally faithful to
himself.


The word of God is the creation
which we behold.


1t is with a pious fraud as with a
bad action-it bogets a'calamitous
necessity of going on.


The man does not exist who can
say I have prosecuted him, or that l
have in any case returned evil fol
evil,


My own opinion is, that those
whose lives have been spentin doing
good and endeavoring to make thoiI
fellow mortal happy, will bc happy
hereafter. y


The intellectual part Of ofreligion il
q private affair between every mar
and his maker, aud in which no third
Year: 1878

1t is q current belief among the
peasantry of Normandy that If a
girl treads upon the tail or the claw
Of a cat her chances of matrimony
are materially diminished; and if she
trends on both at the same time it is
an infallible sign that she will not
be married for at least four years.
Year: 1878

A curious case as. to the rights Of
the finder of lost property, whose
owner is unknown, is reported from
Rhode Island. The plaintiff bought
an old safe and offered to- sell it to
thcdefendant. The defendant would
not buy it, but agreed to take it and
sell it if he could, using ithimself in
the meantime. While it was thus
in his possession he found a roll Of
bank bills inside the lining. No
one knew to whom they belonged
The defendant therefore concluded
to keep them. The plaintiff, upon
learning Of'the discovery of the mon
'ey demanded the return of the safe
just asit was delivered The defen-
dant returned It, but without the
bank bill; whereupon the plaintiff
sued for their value as money found.
The Supreme Court held that the
finder was entitled to retain the
property as against the party who
put the safe into. his hands for sale;
and the authorities generally main
tain thesrightrof the finder, in this
class Of cases, as against all persons
except Che real owner. :