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Year: 1876

WE do not hear anything said about
organizing a dancing club this winter.
Among so many young men as we now
have in town, there ought to be some
few of them bold enough to come to the
front and lead off in the enterprise. The
old folks have held the advance long
enough. Come boys, go ahead. Get
your hands in. You will have such
matters to attend to very soon. Vet.
erans to the reserve and the rear.
Year: 1876

Mr.. RoBT. HUoHs informs us that he
now has the material on the ground
ready for the carpenters to commence on
his house and butcher shop, and hopes
they will get at it week after next. He
says further, he has cattle enough on
hand and engaged to last him through
the winter, and that he is bound to be q
'"butcher boy or die"
Year: 1876

THOSE who wish to procure life men,
berships in the Atheneum by furnishing
shingles, are requested to do so as soon
as they can, for the workmeu before a
great while will need them. Friends of
the institution, who wish to pay for life
membership by labor on the building,
would find their aid more acceptable
now than, perhaps, at any future time.
Year: 1876

IT is time steps were taken to have a
grand ball Christmas night. The Christ.
mas tree will be the evening before, and
it has always been customary in this
place to have ball on Christmas. Will
not our young men take the matter in
hand, have it well advertised beforehand,
secure music before engaged elsewhere,
appoint committees and see that all who
attend can have a good time. The older
people of the place are looking out for
the Christmas tree, Let the young
folks get up the ball.
Year: 1876

A MAN came toiling heavily up stairs
Thanksgiving day, opened the office door
and got off the following: "Wby is the
Cosmopolitan Saloon like the mouth OF
Pill Chuck pa pause.-"because it is
full of suckers" We carried him down
stairs on shutter.
Year: 1876

WE HAVE mentioned before in the
STAR that we thoughts timer could find
a good opening here in Snohomish City.
No one has come in yet and we now call
attention to the matter again, hoping
this may meet the eye of some one desir-
Gus of coming in and growing up with
the place. To person who would be
willing to settle permanently here every
courtesy and encouragement would be
given.
Year: 1876

We took n walk, last Wednesday, out
to Glcnwild, the place selected by Messrs.
Bennett & Wittcr tor their mill. We
found the race nearly completed, the
foundation already up, temporary root
erected over the works, the tiumc and
wastc-way finished, the large turbine
wheel in its place and ready to run, and
the finishing and adjusting of the ma.
chincry being all that remains to be
done before the mill will be ready to
commence manufacturing lumber.


Considering the short days and the un.
favorable weather, this enterprise has
been carried forward with all possible
dispatch. The proprietors expect to
have it in running order in week or
ten days. The manufacturing of lum.
Der will supply II want long telt in this
community. A great deal of the money
sent abroad for lumber will he retained
and circulated among our own people.
There will be also IA saving OF freight.
The mill will give steady employment to
quite a number Of men and consume
some OF the products OF our farms. We
wish the prorrictors every success posi-.
bic. A Dozen men with the same quiet
energy and persevering spirit, manifest.
ed by Mcssrs. Bennett * Witter, could
find openings tor similar branches of in.
dustry in our county. Mr.. Witter is an
old resident. Mr., Bennett came recently,
looked at the country and then went for
his machinery. They are both of them
practical mechanics and experienced mill
men, and have done most of the work
themselves. The result will be, that in a
short time we shall have a mill which
will he capable of producing 10000 #
per day of lumber when run to its full
capacity.
Year: 1876

THE SAwTELLE CONSULTATIONS were
billed to perform at the Riverside Hall
last Thursday night. Late in the after
noon it was found out that they could
not be here. Then it was determined 10
have social party at the Riverside
Bills announcing it were struck off and
distributed, and notwithstanding the
short notice the hall was tolerahly we'll
filled, and all joined heartily in the merry
dance till late hour. Mathews, Pack
wood and Jackson furnished the music,
anu as is usually the case it was all that
heart could wish. This little party has
set the boys to thinking in earnest about
u grand Christmas ball. It is now de-
termined to have one, and no pains will
be spared to make it pleasant for all.





THE Sociable of Ladies' Sewing Soci-
ETY. will meet at the residence of Mrs.
Bell, this Saturday evening. A gen.
eral invitation Is extended to all. We
will again state, for the benefit of the
uniformed, that the object of this Soci
ETY. is to procure musical instrument
for the AthGnpum.
Year: 1876

ISprlngheld (mass.) UnlOn.1
There are two regular patrons of the
police station in this city, father and
son, of whom the Uasion thus speaks:
"When the old gentleman gets into
limbo the son appears and proceeds I ,
read long lecture on the sin of drink
ing and its attendant evils, usually
winding up with-'It's good enough
for you. / have done all that son
could do to make you live properly,
and you have no one to blame but
yourself. Money is raised to pay the
old mans fine, and then the son takes
his turn at getting drunk and smash
ing things. Straightway the father
appears at the station-house, and, with
benign expression on his counte-
nance, plaintiyely inquiries: is it the
example which I have set you, and am
to be thus repaid for all my watch
fui care and tenderness 2 The family
pay the sons fine. and then it is the
old mans turn. The funny part of
the affair is that father and son have
been lecturing each other in this way
for about nine years, and neither of
them seems to have the slightest idea
of the extreme righteousness which
their continued exhortations have at
tainad .
Year: 1876




And could they have succeeded to
tIsir wish we should not now hear
with surprise of negroes and SCALA
waes assembled not in political con-
clavc only. but around the festive board
where some aaucy mulatto might touch
convevial q asses with some guberna-
toria' aspirant or some impudent
biackauaoor pledge his exiudge over
the way. In which c,se nothing more
could be wanting than that some dark
Aspassia could be foun1 to do the
horrors of the board, and who while
Il ming from off the plate she lately
WISHED, might aspire TO rule the circle
which she served before.


Again, are these social reformers al
together consistent 9Th themselves :?
If We rightly seuemher them they
have never failed TO disgust with their
snobbery every scion of royalty or
mobility who has come amongst us.
They are even said to have surrounded
their chief nj Washington with some
thing of the tawdry spiendor of impe-
rialiarn. Bat this We know that they
have been seen to go into eXtacies over
a lot Of ,Fspane.e mandarins, and only a
year ego were seen to fall down with
out dacency Or sense of shame before
''mockery king Of the Sandwich
Islands
Year: 1876

The Portsmouth Enterprise says:
This splendid ship arrived in our har-
Dor yester lay afternoon on her first
trip from Boston to load with COT ton
for Europe. She was resolved with a
salute from a section of the battery
of the blues" and was visited by
throngs of our citizens eager to view
her
Year: 1876

RESULTS OF THE RAILWAY OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES


GER RATES FROM NEw-YoRK-wEsT-BoUND


FREIGHTs.


Inquiry at ticket and freight Offices yester
day elected variety OF statements In regard the
railway controversy Passenger rates hayo not been
reduced from New-York. The Grand Trunk line Is sell
ing tickets from Boston TO Chicago for SIG, but OF
the ticket agents remarked that this reduction
would not seriously affect other roads owing 10
the greater length Grand Trunk ne and the ad
doual expenses for meals and sleeping car accommoda
tions He added that the shorter lines could far better
afford TO maintain the old rates than to reduce them to
meet the Grand Trunk tariff While regular passenger
rates from NewYork have not been lowered the sale OF
tickets to the West affected by the fact that the return
coupons OF Centennial excursion tickets are offered IN
this city at great reduction and as the season advances
and large numbers OF them are put on the marke 1t
seems probable that regular rates Will be seriously inter
fereL with. One ticket agent said yesterday that
a reduction must within few days, aud another
probability that any change OF passenger
rates would be made. 49,


In regard freight rates. the opinions OF agents differ
radically. The agent OF Of the principal lines to the
West said very decidedly yesterday that rates had al
ready gone smash that since April 20 things had
been getting worse and worse, goods shipped from
the centers OF trade at merely nominal rates. and the
Year: 1876

The complaint in the suit of jeremiah Spader
against the New-YOrk Elevated Railroad Company In
which IN injunction sought against building the road
across the Battery, filed yesterday in the Office Of
the Clerk Of the Superior Court IL ses forth at length
the origin and title of the Battery from tho time when


as Fort st. George 1t became the property Of the city In
trust for the purposes Of park s extensions " low
Year: 1876

1t is mentioned as q singular fact that Solo
never laughed and was very melancholy man. It
must he remembered however that he had 900 wives to
advise him what 10 do when he had throat Nor
wich Bulletin.
Year: 1876

1.-THE Judge from whose decision the appeal
is taken being excused.) That court, in cases
appealable to the Supreme Court, would find
the facts and the appeal would be granted
on writs of error on questions of law alone.
But we can never organize an efficient ju-
dietary system until our constitution is re-
vised and the Office of judge is made more
permanent. Until then We consider our
present constitution bad enough, without
making it worse bysuch crude amendment
as No. 8.


We submit to our country colleagues that
the objections we raise are serious ones !;
that We have fully discussed the matter with
influential country attorneys and political
leaders, and write at their request.


The question only interests the rural dis
tricts. yet, unless prompt action is taken
through the different parish committees, the
people of New Orleans, looking upon it as
Democratic measure demanded by the coun-
try. will give a majority of fifteen thousand
in favor of the Third Amendment. Let us
therefore know how we must vote.


A. TRUDEAU.
Year: 1876

Another raft in the crevasse
such is the weekly report from
Bonnet Carr6. This treacherous
maeletrom has become the terror
Of raftmen. Many Of them swear
that they will not float another
log before the crevasse is closed.
Year: 1876

From the Savannah News.


OF the wonderful secrets of nature
that Florida can boast of possessing
there is one upon which the eye of
mortal has not yet been permit, d to
gaze. For more than thirty years its
eXistance has been tantalizingly pro
claimed by cloud of smoke that has
increasingly assembled from an impene-
trable swamp some twenty five miles
from Monticello, in the direction Of
the Gulf coast. Learned gentlemen
for many years and from various points
have made frequent and persistent eff
forts to solve this long standing and
perplexing mystery, But up to this
time nothing bad been accomplished
beyond unsuccessful attempts to reach
the place, all of which ended in disas
ter within four or five miles of the spot
on which the supposed volcano is
thought TO be.


Judge Bell and others are now
making fresh attempt to penetrate to
this mysterious phenomenon. Judge
White of Quincy has led several expe.
ditions to that region, but in every in
stance has failed to effect an entrance
through the closely interviewer and
impenetrable underground of the
centre of the swamp, While some of
these attempts have been feeable and
inefficient, others have been well or
ganized and equipped, and led by men
of experience and fixedness of purpose
Judge White had an observatory which
he could place in the tree tops to guide
him i'll the right course. And yet this
undiscovered bourne" remains un-
trodden by the foot of traveller.
Year: 1876

THE SILVER B1LL,-The House of
Representatives yesterday concurred
known as the "silver bill" and it now
awaits the signature of the President
to become law. The silver currency
provided for under this act will be a
legal tender to the extent of five dol.
lars, as is the case with other silver,
Year: 1876

hc says the army needs 10 be increased
Does he troops the South than there are
nows Where does he want Them and for what pur'
pose Does be want still 10 punish the eleven states
Is It the purpose TO carry the election IN that way
Then for another Forty millions OF people WV
understand WHY
Year: 1876

The following record will show the changes in tho
temperature for the past twonty four hours. In
parison with tho corresponding date Of last year.
indicated by the Thermometer at Hudnurs pharmacy,
Data
Year: 1876

it to people who could not have had
time to acquire the sentiment of pa


riotism, or even the knowledge of the
which is needed in order to make men
worthy citizens of 4 great state.


''The result fully justified the fear
Of the party. But the desire of the
''politicians' of both sides to attract
votes led them to bid against one
another for tho support Of the new
comers, and thus it happened that, the
vote once conceded, these latter in the
long run were frequently enabled to
turn the balance against the better
class OF native-born Americans. The
course of politics and administration
has since been from bad to worse, and
the progress Of deterioration ever since
the civil War-to which some attrib-
uted the changc-las been very
marked. Now, however, not only has
the growth of tho population rendered
the proportion of the immigrants to
the total number of native-bOrn Am
ericans considerably less, but each
putting aside the check to the outflow
from Europe to which reference has
been made. It will be admitted even
by those who have suffered most from
the so.called American "shrewdness,'
that in no country is such an enor-
nous amount Of business done OIL pure.
ly verbal agreements, and all Amer.
leans feel completely assured that the
good sense of the people will event
llallV SWccD aWay those portions Of the
political body which tend toward cor
ruption. This confidence is displayed
in each other individually, and in re-
gard to their future asa whole, may
seem to us to be scarcely justified, in
view Of what is passing at the present
time; but we are looking on at the
formation of great nation, and it
would be strange if during the process
some serious political difficulties and
dangers had not to be encountered and
overcome. Already, us we believe. 4
change for the better has commenced. -
Year: 1876

The COMMERCIAL did rot say tn at either
of the two gentlemen prominently named
for delegate to Cincinnati from this city
would have no following without the col
ored vote, as the Republican would like to
make Messrs. Scott and Hastings believe.
We did not refer to them or either of them,
but to men heretofore soiled in reputation
by the dirtiness which they carried into pol
itics, whom the people rebuked once, and
will rebuke again whenever they attempt to
dictate to this city. These men have, by
systematic falsehood and deception, within
the last few weeks, sought to mass the col
ored men in their own hands and control
the colored vote, ''solid.' They like neith-
er Mr.. Scott nor Mr.. Hastings, and would be
glad to defeat both, if they could get the
colored vote massed to do it.
Year: 1876

TRY THE ENAMELLED PIPE. IT WILL Non


] Rust or crack and costs only trihe more than
common iron pipe. Is positively THE BEST thing
for water service pipe. have the exclusive agency
Tor ROCK Island. FRED HASS.
Store in Star Block
Year: 1876

Mr.. Green has taken the HERALp's advice
and laid before the city his ideas of what it
needs in the way of Improvements. His
views agree so entirely with the views often
md on one or two occasions very recently
urged by the HERALD that to approve of
what he says seems a little like praising our
selves. Mr.. Green has made long and
careful study of the city of New York. in
some part of whose government he has been
for many years engaged, and we are not sur
prised that he takes comprehensive and just
views of the citys needs; for he knows both
what has been well and what has been i'll
done. He is to be congratulated upon the
opportunity given him to express his views
so fully and clearly. 1t does not happen
every day that a man can get chance to
speak out on the subject which he knows
best and still more rarely does candidate
for Office have the good fortune to tell those
who wish to nominate him what is the policy
which he would impose upon them.


His capacity for the duties Of the Mayor
atty is undoubted. He has long been famil-
lar with the details of the citys administra-
ton; he knows intimately all parts and
departments of the city; he would not be
Mr. Kclly's or anybody else's Mayor; and
barring some unfortunate peculiarities of
temper. which might stand seriously in the
way of successful administration, he would
undoubtedly make a most useful Chief
Executive for the city. He has an unhappy
faculty of arousing needless opposition by
dogmatic temper Of mind, which will always
stand in the way of his complete sue
cess. He has played watchdog so long
that to snarl and growl has becom
habitual with him; and we must
add that while he would not be the creature
of any other man he has habit of thinking
very highly of his own opinions and judg-
ment, which often makes myself" unpleas-
antly predominant with him. In some ways
these are serious faults for tho executive
officer of government like that Of New
York, where a man must get his own way,
no matter how right and necessary it may
be, oftenest by managing and conciliating
mem and not by dictatorial commands. We
imagine that he would bring affairs to
deadlock oftener than is useful; if he we're
in such cases ever so clearly in the right
that would not make the deadlock more en-
durable.


Ii, however, he would agree to leave poll
tics alone and attend strictly to his duties as
Mayor, we believe he might be very useful
officer for the city. and we should not object
Year: 1876

anti-Tammany should be successful" And
the World has the candor and courage TO ad-
NIT that the nomination Of party hack for
Mayor by the city democrats would not only
brighten the prospect of Mr.. Green. but
would imperil the success of the Presiden-
tial ticket The democratic leaders should
lay this emphatic warning to heart:-"If
each party insists, not upon any par
ticular candidate. still less upon any
political hack as candidate. but
upon the man whom citizens Of
New York will recognize to be the best
man in it for Mayor. the division win be
healed and the nominee of the conference
will be triumphantly elected. Any other
course may have the effect of electing man,
Green or another, whom no democrat, Tam
many or anti-Tammany. wishes to see
elected, and may possibly imperil demo-
cratic success in the State upon which the
Presidency depends, and with it the politi-
cal fortunes of the United States for four
years from next March" We are pleased to
witness from such source this frank recog-
milton that the HERALD has been giving the
city democracy sound advice respecting
their local canvass.


We have no partiality for the democratic
party. but as it is in . majority Of nearly
two to one in this city it is fairly entitled to
the control of the city government If it se-
lects good candidates for Office We concede
the right Of the majority to govern if it will
Thn
ment of this city belongs Of right to
the democracy if they do not abuse
their power, and it is for this
reason we are anxious that they should
make good nominations. We should feel
much greater pleasure in supporting their
candidates than those Of the opposition if
they would let us We have, therefore, re-
peatedly indicated the type of candidates
they ought to nominate. We have no per-
sonal favoritism. We would quite as will
ingly aid one good candidate as another.
All that we insist upon is that he shall be o
citizen of recognized standing. capacity and
personal Independence, and not mere
tool of faction. Mr.. Agnew would be q
very acceptable Mayor to the public, and
therefore to us; but we could give an
equally hearty support to any candidate Of
the same general type. Mr.. Babcock, Presi-
dent of the Chamber of Commerce, or Mr..
Royal Phelps or Mr.. John Grenville Kane,
or any citizen Of similar standing, who
would prefer the interest of the city to that
of the party which elected him, would re-
ceive our warm Endorsement as he would
also that Of the people.
Year: 1876

ApALIxA PArTI's RUSSIAN ENGAGEMENT,
as will be seen from our Paris letter this
morning, is question as troublesome as
any of the political problems Of the day.
Whether she opens or closes her mouth ex-
cites az much interest as the agitation of the
question affecting the mouth Of the Danube;
but that she will not sing in ST. Petersburg,
this winter, at least. seems clear Why can
she not be induced to pay her long promised
visit to New York to show us thef full fruition
of her early years at the Academy of Music
Year: 1876

In answer to some observatio ms made by
us upon the prevalence in Philadelphia of
O sort of ochlesis, or crowd disease, q cor
respondent quotes the official tables of NOR
tality to show that the deaths in September
of this year are only greater than in the
same month of last year in an infinitely
small degree. From this quotation we are
led to believe that our correspondent mis-
understood the drift Of our observations.
We did not say that the deaths were more
numerous; we did not say that there were
any deaths; but we are not of opinion that
disease is of no consequence because it
does not kill, or even kill on the spot. In
fact, the disease to which we refer is not
generally fatal; and those who die of it
really die at their own homes in other cities,
to which they hurry away upon the first ap-
pearance of the malady Philadelphians
themselves do not probably have this dis
ease, for they are habituated to the con-
ditions of the drainage and to tho water.
Outsiders who do not take the poison in
sufficiently small doses are the ones who
are affected, and the number of persons
helpless through illness that may be seen on
oil the trains on their way home evidences
the fact. The Philadelphia press have
treated this subject in o very narrow minded
way and with want of tact. intelligence
and taste. They seem to regard as out
rageous the slightest reference to some in
disputable facts, and would apparently like
to gag and suppress all criticism of their ways
as the Emperor Napoleon used to by stop
ping at the Paris Post Office every newspaper
which contained an article he did not like
They are ridiculously intolerant toward the
press Of other cities which treated the great
Philadelphia project with liberal courtesy
and consideration. Without exception we
believe the press of this city favored and en-
couraged the Exhibition but we need not
look for our reward in Philadelphia graft
tude, since we have it all about us, inasmuch
as the Exhibition has brought more profit to
us probably than to its projectors. Visitors
who stay two days at Philadelphia pass o
week with us and find our great city the best
exhibition of all.
Year: 1876

STRIKES among the employees of the coal
and railroad companies are far too frequent.
The latest is that Of the workmen of the Della
pf which we have an interesting report from
Scranton this morning. Evidently the want
Of an equitable system in the determination
Of wages is at the bottom of these frequent
disturbances.
Year: 1876

SENATOR JOHNSTON, of Virginia. explodes
ono OF the campaign stories based on the
alleged intention of the democrats to pay
rebel claims namely, the charge founded on
his bill to pay certain citizens Of Loudon
county o large sum of money. When the
truth is told it turns out to be very simple
transaction and fair sample Of campaign
charges on both sides