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Year: 1876

A much vexed question is whether
our present State Controller can hold
the office for the full term of general
VAUDEVILLE, who was chosen for four
years at the last election. At the
death of General VAUDEVILLE the
Governor appointed Mr.. w. r. G.
BROWN to fill the vacancy which was
done in accordance with the following
section of the code:


"SEC. 1901. A vacancy in the office
of either the Secretary of State, Con-
troller, Treasurer, Attorney General,
Survey General, State Printer, Clerk
of the Supreme Court, or State Har-
Dor Commissioner, elected by the
State at large, must be filled by per-
son appointed by the Governor. At
the next general election subsequent
to the occurrence of the vacancy, a
successor must be elected, who must
qualify and enter upon the duties of
his office on the first Monday in De-
cember next after his election, and
who holds his office for the balance of
the unexpired term.n


Section l04l of the political code
clearly defines the term general elec-
ton which shows most emphaticly
that under the State Constitution and
legislative enactments Mr.. BROWN
will hold the office for two years from
the election of General VAUDEVILLE.
This ought to settle the question, al
though we perceive that some of our
cotemporaries take the view that a
general election is that at which the
President is chosen. From our view
of the proposition we are inclined to
doubt the assumption, but think from
present indications the Supreme court
will be called upon to decide the ques-
tion. The Radicals seem determined
to test the question, and claim that q
new Controller must be elected next
November on the ground that there Is
then a general election. We do not
think they need to trouble themselves
for we believe Mr.. BROWN to be the
popular favorite.
Year: 1876

the reign of Grantism began"
Yet to bring the whole matter down
to its real m crit, the whole affair lies
in the curse of the prevailing intoxi-
cation of the spirit of speculation that
pervades the world. 1t is true that
the Emma Mine was absolutely
worthless, but by manipulation of the
stock there was money to be made.
General Schenck wanted to make a
fortune and he stopped from his high
position to dabble in the filthy work
of brokerage. The result of the episode
is an evidence of the deterioration of
the standard of political ethics of our
time, and very unfavorable COM
mentary upon the spirit of the age.
Schenck has disgraced himself and
the country he represented as well,
and his career simply shows that he
yielded to the prevailing sentiment of
the party he represents. Under the



motive seems to be the rule, and in
vestigations show that reform in every
branch of our Government is needed.
The necessities of the times demand
it, the honor of the nation requires it.
In the practice of the representatives
of the older nations we find no such
acts of malfeasance, but under our
present regime the spirit of avari-
cious plunder seems to rule. Schenck
is victim of this spirit, and he is not
alone. Every department is infected
with it and the people must see that
change of policy is needed every
where.
Year: 1876

The break in the coal combination, the
panic in coal stock, and what is to be the end
of all this is the town talk. Among the ru-
mors the following is from the New York
Journal Of Commerce.:


'That the coal companies who have agreed
to put 500, 600 tons on the market next Tues
day do not mean to find bottom for their
coal at a bona tide sale, but will buy it in
for themselves If they see the price going
too low for their liking. The story is not
improbable. So long as tricks will serve,
these corporations will try to avoid the
inevitable consequences of their own folly.
How much wiser it would be for them to
submit to that which cannot be much longer
postponed by any artifce, and let coal sink to
its proper level, like all other products. Such
a course would in the end entail no loss upon
the companies. The demand for coal, which
has been sluggish for months past, would at
once be greatly stimulated. Hundreds of fur
naces in Pennsylvania and the West, and of
factories in New England, which haze sus-
pended or are running on half time because
coal is SO high, would revive on reduced prices
OF the article.


ducers, is broken to pieces, and prices have
tumbled to the lowest point reached for many
years. The lines, in competing with each
other, expected to lose money largely; but,
with the docking of rates the transportation
business has immensely increased, and the
companies find that their earnings compare
well with those for the corresponding periods
of previous years. They are conceded to be far
larger than they would have been had the old
prostration. We doubt not that the coal COM
panies would have the same experience, if they
would boldly meet the universal demandafor
cheap fuel"
Year: 1876

The recruiting office on Seventh street, near
side of the door, hardly attracts any notice,
and people in the vicinity would scarcely know
that it was there if it was not for the occa-
sional appearance of boys in blue passing In
and out the door. The Office, which is in
charge of Major Throckmorton, was estab-
lished in its present location May 5. Since
that time the work of recruiting has gone on
quietly, and quite body of manly fellows
have been sent from this city into the service.
There have been many applicants, but on an
average only one man in thirteen succeeds in
passing the scrutiny of the sergeant and the
rigid examination of the medical officer. Since
the establishment of the Office eighteen en-
listments for the general mounted service have
been made; forty-six white and thirty-two
colored for the general service. During the
same time there were rejected by the medical
officer 3O5 white and SOB colored for the gen.
eral service and Is for the mounted service.
The total number examined by the medical
officer from May 5 is TAI, of which number
only 96 passed. Many applicants are rejected
without going before the medical officer on ac-
count OF physical or mental disabilities, and
such reflections are not officially recorded.


The recruiting office is on the second floor of
the building. A number of applicants may be
found in the room any morning, anXiously
eyeing the sergeant and clerk, and nervously
waiting for their turn to go before the exam
lining surgeon in the back room. If the appli-
cant passes the examination, q few hours
afterwards he will be seen in the streets wan
dering Istlessly about In blue blouse, with
the lower part OF his person swathed in azure.
blue breeches and with his hands buried in the
roomy pockets. The new recruits are furnished
with clothes in this city. They are quartered
in the upper part Of the building occupied by
the recruiting office, and arc boarded at a
house on Tenth street. The accommodations
are not sufficient for large body of men, and
whenever enough recruits are raised to make
a small squad they are shipped to the office at
Baltimore, where there are more ample ac-
commodations. From Baltimore the recruits
are sent to the sub-depot in New York. The
recruits of the general service are quartered at
Government Island and assigned to regiments.
The cavalry recruits are shipped to Cheyenne,
Wyoming, and must go into camp of instruc-
ton. Hence they are sent to scour the Black
Hills region for Sitting Bull and his yelling
troupe.


Many applicants enter the recruiting office
with the idea that they can enlist In the special
service for the Indian war for six months. All
the enlistments are for five years, and upon
being so informed a good many aspirants to
military fame turn upon their heels and leave
the office.
Year: 1876

Under this heading writer in yesterdays
issue corrects a mistake made by your Wash
ington Grove correspondent concerning lone
of the gentlemen who officiated prominently
at the young peoples meetings" We wish to
say that 1t was not "an excess Of zeal, ," as the
writer vainly imagines, but a positive state
ment made by prominent gentleman, who,
we have no doubt, supposed himself correct.
We are glad to be informed of our mistake.
Thanks are due, and are hereby rendered, to
the writer for calling our attention to the
blunder and giving us an opportunity to "rise
and explain" We beg to assure him that we
hold this gentleman in question, together with
the rest of the young men who have been
recently rescued from life of sin, in quite as
high esteem as he does, and yield to no man
in sincere desire for their steadfastness and
success in Christian life and work. We would
therefore rather help them than throw a
hindering straw in their path. and are sorry
the statement was made. 1t was a mistake,
even had it been true, and the more so as it
was without foundation. We most heartily
apologize to the gentleman and his friends,
and exceedingly regret having done violence
to their feelings as well as the facts in the
case.


WASHING TON GROVE CORRESPONDENT.
Year: 1876

As will be seen by the advertisement in
another column, the members of Union Chapel
choir will give one of their delightful day and
moonlight excursions to Marshall Hall on
Thursday next. There is no doubt that all
who accompany the choir on this trip will
more than be repaid. Their reputation for
good singing is too we'll known to need any
Recommendation. DIR. E. P. Howland will ac-
company them and exhibit his life saving ap-
paratu such as was used by Capt. Boyton.
The price of tickets being within the reach of
all, we predict a jolly good time, and advise all
who can to go.
Year: 1876

don't take down their signs in dull times nor
stop advertising.


Small Handbills printed for seventy five cents
per thousand at the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
Job Office.


Business Cards printed for 2.25 per thou
sand, at the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN Job Office.
Year: 1876

Printing Offices with small facilities can
save money by having their printing done at
the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN Job Office. Our
unlimited assortment of job type and fast
presses will enable US to allow twenty per cent.
on all orders.
Year: 1876

our lands We're fresh and new, stand in evil
dence against the system we have pursued.
This robbing of the soil is serious question
hay more, it is a crime, and thatsystem of
farming which does not tend to keep up the
fertility of the soil to its original standard of
fertility is one unbecoming the age in which
we live. Let us seriously consider the ques-
ton of what system we should adopt in or
der that we may not willfully or blinuly rob
those who are to come after us, of their Just
and rightful Inheritance. Should we not cul-
tivate a less area of land, do it better, keep
more stock, especially more sheep, adopt
proper rotation of crops, and, it need be,
adopt in all its thoroughness and complete
ness, the plan Of the old-time summer fall
lowing farmers, who, working in the interest
OF science anG according to its laws, ''builded
better than they thought?n Let us have the
views of practical wheat growers in the Old
est settled wheat producing localities in the
west on the subject. Let this subject be dis
cussed in the grange, as well as many others
of equal Importance. What grange will be
the first to give to the readers of the Rural


World their views in regard to the best
methods of wheat culture ?-Col7uaa,'s Rural


World
Year: 1876

A. S. Fuller writes to the Horticultmist his
descriptions and opinions of several native
varieties. Wenotice that he puts down Clarke
among foreign varieties, but is he certain
that it is any more foreign than Herstine's
Seeding? lie says:


The wild red raspberry or Rufus st,igosus,
furnishes us the best fruit, both in color and
quality. 1t is a very widely-distributed spe-
cies, but more plentiful in the extreme north
ern states than in the middle or southern.
Wild varieties are numerous in fact, it is
not difficult to find very distinct sorts in any
locality where this plant abounds.


Quite number of these natural or wild
varieties have found their way into cultiva-
ton, but many persons object to cultivating
any of them on account of their tendency TO
produce a great number of suckers from the
roots or subterranean stems. This should
consider q great fault if it were not easily
remedied, for once or twice cutting them oil
with hoe or cnltivator, during the summer,
will prevent any injury to the stock plant,
and a man who does not 60 through and
cultivate his raspberry plantation this num-
Der of times in the season, deserves to fail.


Among the best known varieties of this
species are the following


Kirland-This is one of the Oldest. but is
still one of the very best. The berries are
only of medium size, slightly conlcal, bright
light red or scarlet, quite firm IN texture
and ripening very early. This is an excel
lent market variety Oh account OF earliness
color and flrmness.
Year: 1876

No good farmer, much less true Patron


can now afford to do without at least one
good agricultural paper, published in his
own state. The old habit among some most
excellent, but much mistaken men, of ridi-
culing what was called 'book farming," is
fast dying out. This denotes healthy pro-
gress, and is one fayorably sign Of the times


Farmers are now beginning to realize that
they as class need education and informa-
ton in regard to their peculiar pursuit, as
we'll as the other classes, and really can no
longer afford to do without it. The aglicul-
tural paper is to the farmer what the COM
mercial paper is to the merchant, the litera-
ry paper to the student, or the medical Jour
nal is to the doctor, ETC. 1t is our medium
for interchange of experiments and expert
ences with our various productions, enabling
us to mutually inform and educate each 9TH
er, and thus availing ourselves of each others
knowledge gained in the great school Of
practical experience, we are enabled to save


much valuable time and hard labor in haz-


ardous experiments that have already been
passed through by others. The time has


come to us farmers when it is absolutely


necessary that we labor with the brain, as


well as physically, and then we avail our


selves Of the experience of each other to the


greatest possible extent. In my much trav-


cling over this state, and many times par


taking Of the kind hospitalities of my brother


farmers, it has been my fortune few times


to accept these hospitalities in houses where


no agricultural papers were found, and some


times few or no books at all of any kind.


At such instances an instructive shudder


came over me at the thought OF a farmer
without books and papers in this age and


country! The man and his family were eX-


tremely kind and hospitable, and doing and
saying everything they could to make me
, feel comfortable. But how could | fee
: comfortable under such circumstances? A
man trying to be prosperous, and good
, and useful member of society without read
: ing! Perhaps raising family of children
| in the same way! It was impossible not te
feel depressing influence, and escape I'M
z pleasant reflections under such circumstan
} ces, all efforts to the contrary notWithstand
/ ing. How can we reach the minds OF mer


who do not read? | suggest that every
: grange, While under the order OF business
9 suggestions for the good of the order,
l make dilligent investigation as to whether
V all it's members are furnished with necessary
: good and wholesome reading matter fo
, themselves and families, and that if any ar
$ found without such that proper measure
be taken to supply the need.''


4 The above is from the pen of T. r. Allen
Year: 1876

Master of the Missouri State Grange, and
is pointed and forcible. Feeling that our
agricultural and stock-growing interests
were suffering for want of proper represent
ations, we have been induced to commence
the publication of the Rocky MOUNTAIN
HUsBANDMAN, believing that it could do
more to develop the interests it represents
than half dozen political papers.


1t has been, and shall ever be, our endeavor
to publish a first-class paper, one whose
merits alone, will win it patronage one
that will represent fairly and impartially the
entire interests OF the industrial classes.
Year: 1876

Experience has shown most conclusively
that in order to succeed best on the farm
there is just as much need of what we call
business foresight and sagacity, as in any
business Of commercial character There
is just as much need of taking advantage of
surrounding circumstances and using them
for ones benefit in one pursuit as in the other
The practical farmer who makes farming
success, must be a wide-awake one. lie
must not reject old methods merely because
they are old, but, being aided by better i'm
plements, he ought by right to secure more
time for thought and investigation, and for
Inquiry into the why's and wherefores of his
various farming operations.


1t is question worthy Of more considera-
ton than it has received Of late years, wheth-
er, after all, the modern plan of wheat grow
ing is as good, all things considered, as the
old-fashioned plan of summer fallowing.
Also whether the sowing of the grain imme-
diately after plowing is a good plan as that
of exposing the soil for two or three months
to the action Of the rain and dews, which
renders the fixed potash free, and allows the
finely pulveriZed soil to absorb ammonia and
other gasses. If summer falloWing is prac-
ticed, small quantity of nitric acid is pro-
duced during the thunder storms which fire.
quently occur, and is absorbed by rains, thus
affording an appreciabie quantity of this
acid, which is available as plant food, which,
acting as stimulant, it incites, in connection
with ammonia, a vigorous growth Of the
young wheat plants, assuring as it were a
bountiful harvest of clear, bright, plump
grain.


In whatever direction we have made pro-
gress in the wheat growing districts of the
west, our system of wheat growing is not IS
productive of as good results as it was twen-
ty years ago, as the general average yield
goes to show. 1t is our duty to keep up our
choice wheat lands by proper system Of
culture and rotation Of crops, to the original
standard of fertility. But Notwithstanding
the continued multiplication of improved i'm
plements, we have, by the system of culture
and constant cropping practiced by us, al
lowed a gradual diminution of the whea
producing capabilities of our soil to takt
pltce. w may YET nave W auOpC the Olu
fashioned plan of summer fallowing, keep
few sheep to roam over the fallow lands dur
ing the summer season, not only to destro,
any noXious weeds that may appear, but tt
increase the fertility of the soil by an ever
deposit of rich manure.


Another advantage of summer faHowin:
is, that it hastens the termination of tn
seeds Of weeds, which are quickly destroye'
by successive plowngs and by the harroy
gress we have made in the art of farming
but in too many cases fine houses and barn
have been erected at the expense of the soil
and lower annual average yields than whel
Year: 1876

A NEW SOURCE OF WEALrH.-We
clip the following from the Daily
Olympian of Aug. 9. ''The exper-
iment of the Steamship Dakota in
carrying beef from this port for the
round trip, packed in ice, has been
entirely successful. The meat was
apparently as fresh at the end Of
the trip as when it was put in ice.'
Our dealers in meats can avail them
selves of the same opening for find
ing a market for their merchandise,
as do the Olympian. traders. Ger
tainly the way is as clear for an en-
terprise of this kind at Seattle as it
is at Olympia. No doubt it could
be also carried to such an extent
that the San Francisco market might
in part be supplied with Puget
Sound meats As cheaply as it is now
supplied from southern California
and the adjacent country. One item
is certainly in favor Of our butchers
this year, and that is the cost OF
transportation is fully as cheap from
Seattle to San Francisco, as it is
from any other base of supply that
San Francisco has at present.
Year: 1876

y L


The ASTORIA MURDER.-Late ad-
vices from Astoria would seem to in
dicate that Mike McC Cormick was in
bed and asleep when the fatal knife
was plunged into his heart, and it ID
also intimated that he was dead fully
an hour when his wife called in a
neighbor and remarked "that she
thought poor Mike was dying"
When the unfortunate and doubtless
guilty woman was put under arrest,
she sank upon her knees beside the
body of her dead husband and used
endearing words toward him, prom
ising to join him in heaven, and
then fell PROSTATE in paroxysm Of
tears and vain regret for the act
which she doubtless realizes she
can recall or expiate. On searching
the house large butcher knife COW
cred with blood was found beneath
the bed the victim had occupied -
Portland Standard.
Year: 1876

NEW HousEs.- --Mr. J. D. Smith is
building two-story dwelling house. on
tie corner of Stewart and Second
streets. From what MIR. Smith informs
US we infer that the hill upon which
was formerly the old Seattle graveyard
will be almost entirely built over before
the winter months. There Gre also
four new dwellings going up on Front
street between the railroad and Bell
town.
Year: 1876

ary 18th, 1926, From this point the re-
form spread more and more rapidly, till its
influence was felt all over the country.
Great numbers of voluntary societies were
formed. having in view the promotion of
the same object. Men of all classes acknowl-
edged its importance. Among the first 20
give their testimony against the injurious
effects of alcohol were many physicians of
the highest standing, both those employed
in offices of instruction, and such as were
engaged in the regular duties of their pro-


fession. Indeed. some of these were among
the foremost pioneers of the reform. and
the light they gladly threw upon the sub
ject was one OF the most important means
of its success. 1t is not our intention to
dwell further at present on tho history Of
thismovement. Suffice it to say, that, to
the courage and steady zeal of the noble
men who originated it, and carried it on in
a manner so worthy of their high purpose.
We owe,in some true sense. the preservation
of our land from the degradation and ruin
of a universal slavery to the power Of strong
drink If the work they begun is not yet
accomplished, still any one who compares
the present state of public opinion in re-
gard to this subject with what it was when
they began their efforts, will acknowledge
that their labor was not in vain.
Year: 1876




BY o. O..


Iwant Q wife,


Not overwise
Except IN making bread and piss;
Afraid Of strife,


And one Who feels,
That LIES chief end is getting ue,la
One Who will look
On me, her lord,
As too supreme to doubt my word;
Just as a brook


Drinks In the sun,
And gratefully goes singing OF.
One who will work,
And servants shun,
Nor linger till her toll Is done,
And scorn TO shirk.
The meanest task.
II in my favor she may bask.
One who will stay,
In calm content,
No matter where my time is spent,
At home by day,
At home by night.
Keeping the hearth-stone warm and bright
Who will not care,
When l come in,
To ask me where her lord has been;
Whose face will wear,
Wear all the while.
Nhate'er do, the same sweet smile.
Who, when die,
Will take her third.
And ns'er forget the widows sigh;
silent Bird,


Who ne'er will sing,
Or lift again the dropping wing
Year: 1876

EDITOR OF HERALD would ask space
in YOUR most valuable paper for few re-
marks concerning the public school system
of this city.


NV son entered No. 5 School on last Sep
tember as pupil, and has been strict in at
tendance, and always punctual until few
days since,, when he went to the School in
question, and found that he was ten minutes
late; on that account he was denied admis-
sion by the teacher, and though it was pour
ing down rain at the time, he was told to go
home, and return in the afternoon. He
trudged home through the rain, got wet to
the skin, caugh a severe cold, which pre-
vented his going back to school that day
but the next morning he went, and upon his
arrival was informed that his seat was
occupied by another. l cannot understand
why this should be so, as he particularly ex-
planned to his teacher the cause of his alb
sence. He is now denied the opportunity OF
attending school, because he was sick one
half day.


If ysu, Mr.. Editor, or any member of the
School Board, can answer why such is the
case, you will confer favor on,


Yours &C., VIM. T. ALLEN.