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Year: 1875

The Spnce to be Occupied by the Buildings


Erected.


Philadelphia is preparing to take the
lead in the way of exhibitions or worlds
fairs at the Centennial next year. A
comparison of the ground to be covered
by the buildings at Philadelphia with
that covered in other cities is interesting.
Here it is so plain that oil can under
stand it:
Year: 1875

New York, April 4.-The Brooklyn
Eagle furnishes the following copy of
Mrs. Tilton's letter:


BROOKLYN, May 8, 1875.


Judge Nelson Il ask the privilege
from you, for few words in my own
behalf. I feel very deeply the inJus-
tice of my position, in the law, and
before the court now sitting, and while
have understood from the beginning
Mr.. Evarts' principle in the matter,
yet since your last decisionI have been
so sensible of the power of my enc
mics, that my soul cries out before you,
and the gentlemen of the jury, that
they may beware how by divided
verdict they consign to my children a
false and irrevocable stain upon their
mother. For five years past 1 have
been the victim of circumstances most
cruel and unfortunate, struggling from
time to time only for place to live
honorably, and though released for
some months from the will by whose
power unconsciously l criminated my
self, again and again declare solemn
ly before you without fear of man, and
with faith in God, that | am innocent
of the crime charged against me. 1
would like to tell my whole sad story
and truthfully to acknowledge the
frequent falsehoods wrung from me
by compulsiOn, though at the same
time unwilling to reveal the secret of
my married life which only the vital
Importance of my position makes nee
essary, assume the entire RESPONSE
bility of this request, unknown to
friend or counsel OF either side, and
await your Honor's honorable deci-
sion.


With great respect,


Signed, Elizabeth r. TiIton.


The following is Judge Nelson's re-
ply: Mrs. Tilton, am directed by
Judge Nelson to return your letter as
1t cannot be read in court, also to state
that in civil cases the counsel have a
right to refrain from calling any par
ticular witness, no matter how COM
petent, and that neither the court nor
client can interfere with the exercise
OF that right. Judge Nelson also iu-
structs me to say, that the question of
whether you could be witness, stands
on quite another ground from that
considered when your husband was
called and sworn. He was a compe-
tert witness to testify in his own be-
half against the defendant, and while
the policy of the law was, to some ex-
tent involved, there was no express
statute in the way, but the statute of
May 10th, 1867, expressly declares the
wife to be incompetent as a witness for
or against her husband.


Yours respectfully,


Geo. w. Knoebel,


Clerk City Court.
Year: 1875

IMPUr ENcE.-A young lawyer Of In
dianopolis has recently given evidence
of sublimity Of impudenee before which
the cheek of lightning rod man IS the
veriest modesty. Having a4,.ed young
lady 20 appoin! day ahen she 7culd
like to go driving, he added: "In this
connection will say that am only a
poor young lawyer, who has expended
his all to get an education to ft himself
for the practice of his profession. Were
I situated as once was I would proceed
differently, lbut as it is l hesitate no. to
say that my purse will not allow me ID
expend money for pleasure, and know


ing you have ample means have no
doubt yon will be pleased to bear the
expense of the proposed buggy ride.
Year: 1875

THE PAcIF1c.-Thc Pacific did
not go up Sound last night as
expected, probably on account
ofthc fog. She will take on at
Tacoma u considerable amount
of freight, mainly hops from the
Puyallup Valley. On her re
turn, she will coal here from the
Talbot bunkers. 1t is not known
vet how much coal she will take.
Year: 1875

ApoLoGY.-One of those veXa-
tious accidents to which printers
are SO peculiarly liable befell us
last evening and caused the de-
lay of the publication of last
evenings paper until this morn
ing. Our readers will lose moth
ing by the delay, for we have
thus been enabled to give them
in advance a good many items
o.rnews, the publication of which
would otherwise have been de-
layed to this evening; among
others, special f ON the Salem
State Fair and the freight list OF
the Pacific.
Year: 1875

CITY OF PANAMA.-From the
Pacific We learn that at the time
she left Victoria the City of Pan
ANA had gotten off the rocks
without material damage and
was lying alongside the dock,
taking Oil board the freight that
she had been obliged to dis
charge.
Year: 1875

BAR-RooM FIGHT. In the
course of a fracas in q down
town beer-hall on Sunday night,
one gentleman of German ma
tionality partially sealped anoth-
or with q beer mug, making a
wound about SIX inches long.
The wounded man had his head
scwed up by physician and his
wound is not considered danger
Gus. No arrests were made, the
case being settled amongst them
selves. Tumblcr throwing is
getting to be quite q popular
amusement here.
Year: 1875

nm. The bark Windward has
finished loading with Seattle
coal and hauled out from the
wharf. She was towed out
yesterday afternoon by the Pol
itkofsky which came over for
that purpose. Her place was
taken by the bark J. B. Bell.
Year: 1875

CITY CnARTER.-A meeting of
the City Council was held on
Saturday and others will be held
tonight and tomorrow night to
take action on the proposed new
charter for the City. A draft
Of the charter has already been
drawn up and submitted by the
CITY Attorney.
Year: 1875

COMET. - The Comet to-day
made her first trip since her re
pairs, going up the river this af
ternOon. She will make one
trip up White River and will
then temporarily do the towing
of the Talbot Company, while
the Wenat is beng repaired.
Year: 1875

A New ELEMENT OF CITIZEN
.snIP-Within the past few days
eight Indians have appeared be-
fore the Clerk OF the United
States District Court, in this
city, and made oath Of their in
tention to become citizens of the
United States and the severance
of their tribal relations.
Year: 1875

WENAT.-Thc steamer Wenat
goes on the ways at Hammonds
ship-yard this afternoon. She
will be in the hands of tho car
penters for about two weeks and
will be thoroughly fitted up for
winter.
Year: 1875

u "Is e little bird singing in your
heart this morning?" asked Blifkins Of
his young wife at the breakfast table.


He had been out late tho night before.


and pretended to be very merry aid
amiable. eff you are caught going off
with the hired girl to another dance i'll
beer garden III set thousand birds
to singing in your heart or about your
ears, was tho reply. And Blifkins'
Year: 1875

MEETING. = The riggcrs and
stevedores ofthis city are taking
steps for the organization of a
society for the protection of
their interests. They will hold
q meeting some time during the
week.
Year: 1875

GA5 Sheriff Williams of Kit
sap Co. is in town. On his re-
turn to Port Madison he will
take with him All Tuck, Chi
naman awaiting his trial for lar
ceny, who will be confined III
the jail at that place until the
next term of the District Court.
Year: 1875

GAS. - Notwithstanding the
numerous cruel jokes that we
know will be perpetrated by
every editor that sees this notice,
we cannot refrain from informing
our readers that we Lave intro
duced gas fixtures into our Office
and have done away with tallow
candles. In most Of the offices
on the Sound the gas that runs
the machine is obtained out Of a
q little brown Jug"
Year: 1875

~ If a young man sits up too late
with his sweetheart out at Haddonfeld a,
the old folks como into the parlor, and,
with a refinement of sarcasm, invite
him to wait few minutes longer and
breakfast will be ready.
Year: 1875

u "Working in palaces and dwelling
in novels" is phrase which would
pretty aptly describe the condition of a
large proportion of the industrial class
es Il tbi and ot-er large cities. ass
ing up broadway or through other bug
mess streets Of the metropolis ono is
struck with tho lavish expenditure in
the decoration Of places of business.
Many of these have in their upper lofts
manufacturing establishments in which
arc employed large numbers Of women
aud iris, while oilers .enploy young
men and clerks, of ages ranging fro n
fifteen TO twenty five. Their wages are
Year: 1875

We owe this beautiful fabric to what
was at one time considered a great mis-
fortune. Nearly two centuries ago, a
band of exiled Huguenots from France
landed on the coast of Ireland. Few in
numbers, yet Industrious, this little
band of intelligent men established the
silk trade which has since been modified
into the manufacture of pOplin. They
located at Dublin, i'm the CoOmbs, where
the wooden trade of Ireland formerly
flourished. Here the silk weavers were
impeded by every possible restriction,
and by variety of legal enactments; ;
but the present prosperity of the trade
is owing to what was at that time con-
sidered their greatest misfortune-the
inadequate supply of silk. Necessity
compelled the unhappy silk weavers to
employ another material to exc out the
scanty supply of silk. Naturally they
took wool or worsted for the wefts, and
thus pOplin was introduced. OF the
beauty of Irish poplin there is no occa-
sion to speak, but the enduring qualities
of this choice fabric are not well known
Being made of pure silk and pure wool,
poplin yields to the slightest pressure,
and this quality insures an absence Of
permanent folds, which spoil the effect
of any dress, however rich the texture.
As the wearer of Irish poplin moves, a
wave Of colOrs seems to run through the
fabric; while the eolors of poplin appear
more beautiful than those of any other
material
Year: 1875

Directly up from the river toward
new Rome and you come upon the
skeleton of u mighty round structure,
which the people there call the rOtunda.
You pass around to the front. and You
stand under the temple tn It has been
handed down to us from the heather.
The mighty granite columns that sup
port the Greek porch are too heavv for
any modern machinery TO move. They
are too large for any modern designs
of architecture, and being mOnOliths,
they, unlike the stones of the Coliseum,
will probably remain there. just Is
they are, for cycles o. come. You wish
to enter the PanthcUH, TO see the tomb
of Raphael. Good. Youpush the iron
gate between the great columns. Ii
cracks; priest comes out (as they al
ways do come out in every place you
go into in Rume), and he stands before
you. Hand him franc. You cannot
better introduce yourself. 1t does not
matter much whether you can talk a


word of Italian or not. They all know


ist what you want and you can have
it, if you pay for it, just as well with
out a speech as with it.


In Italy they are willing to do all the
talking themselves. They are q race
of women there. In Italy yOu are not
expected to talk, but to pay. All
around the round, wigwam shaped
Pantheon you see only shrines and
tOmbs. Priests are moving about IN
their black gowns and sombre cOwls,
candles are burning before the affairs
mass is being said for che dead. 1t is
cold, damp and dismal. You feel the
chill and the fevers in your bones. 1t
do IN an m hare
this vault. The priests know this, and
they keep constantly on their feet
when not on their knees. The Pan
theon has sunk down into the earth
or, rather, the earth has grown up
around the Pantheon. Ages have
washed and worn the Alps away the
Tiber has borne the debris to the streets
of Rome and now the ''temple to all
the GODS" which was once reached by
ascending long and lofty steps, is
reached by descending through the
mud.


If you come here when the Tiber is
full YOU will come in a boat. Many
times during the year all this par; OF
Rome is under water, and yOu have a
sort of Venice without the gOndOla. AT
such times the priests enter the Pan
theOn in boats. You see them pass the
great iron gates, row through the open
iron doors which have been put up in
place of the copper ones torn away and
plundered to ornament st. Peters, and
then go all around the affairs and say
their prayers, and light their candles
and count their beads. while the awful
Pantheon stands up to its knees in the
dark and dirty waters OF the IIber.
These priests paddle their own boats
at such times. They are silent men,
Their cOwls are about their faces
ropes are around their waists. They
LOOK like birds of evil omen, angels of
tbe devil. CbarOn on his solemn vOy-
age of the eStyx.-Jodquin Miller, in In
dependent.
Year: 1875

A correspondent writes: We have


been very much disappointed thus far


in seeing so much squalid poverty
among the Swiss. The peasants have
a sallOw, sickly. depressed appearance,
the women especially, and the children


have not the rosy bloom mountain air
is supposed to impart. In HOspenthal,
nor in any village through which we
have passed, have We found a single
clean, comfortable private house. The


hotels make some pretensiOn to modern
comforts; but outside of these there
is little to be said in the way of home
like comfort. which, with cleanliness,
is not dependent upon modern cOnve-
niences. 1t would be very delightful
to happen upon some of those
charming, happy peasants about whom
one reads.-Thus far in Switzerland,
and all through Germany, we have
searched for them in vain.-The pdtOis
in Switzerland is very disagreeable to
the ear, and the German language is
mutilated beyond comprehension.
notwithstanding these drawbacks we
have persisted in trying to draw from
the peasants some pleasureable incl
dents in their lives, but we hear only
of hard labor aud an incessant struggle
for the necessities of life. A girl of
ten years was wheeling home on a
clumsy barrow q bundle of bean stalks
from which the hard, coarse bean had
not been removed. In answer to
question if they were not for the COW,
''Oh, no." she said, I'VE eat the beans
and save the stalks for fuel" The
load was large enough for much stron-
ger arms than hers, and she looked
prematurely old and carewOrn. as did
her father and mother, who followed
her with cOrrespondingly large bun
dies. Disposed as one may be to look
on the bright side of the picture. we
cannot help feeling that the glorious
descriptions we read must be drawn
from festival days, when the peasants
are in holiday costumes and spirits
Wherever we have stopped for glass
of milk it has been given us with such
a proportion of sediment and such a
taste and smell of the stalls that it is
not possible to drink it. This is our
actual experience. but we are going on
in the search, and when
we come to picturesque costumes, rosy
checked children, inviting chalets,
clean milk, etc., We will let you know.
Don't imagine for moment we blame
the peasants themselves or think that
under all this rough exterior there are
not warm hearts we only feel like
those writers who look at
everything through rose-cOlOred glass
ses.
Year: 1875

There are many practical evils, patent
to all, which result from lavish personal
expenditure. In almost every case II
has a deteriorating effect on the charae-
ter, pandering to vanity and conceit.
In an ideal world no ore would obtain
additional respect and Difference ON ac-
count of riches. But under present
conditions large expenditure is bribe
for obseauious and undeserved homage,
quite as certainly as money given Dy
candidates at elections is a bribe for
political power. While it tends to make
many of the poor false and sycophantish,
it AS surely has the effect of giving the
rich a very exaggerated idea of their
own worth and importance. In most


ases it is a barrier to free intercourse
between a man and his friends, or those
who NAV have been his friends, but
who have ceased to be, on account OF
prosperity, selfishly used: having ell
abled and encouraged him to indulge III
tastes and habits beyond their means;
II is but seldom that riches are employed
for cultivating the society OF the wor-
thiest and best. 1t would be nearer the
truth to say that they are mostly used
to cultivate the society of the rich, who
can give return for expensive enter
tainm .nt-a practice especially ineon-
sisten. with the principles professed by
the religious world, who are not less
than others the slaves of the prevailing
fashion. Again, from the custom OF
lavish expenditure set by the opulent.
extravagant expectations are formed as
70 what decency demands from profess
sional persons or Others of moderate
r,eans, which often make life very
hard struggle, when, but for the exam
pie set by plutocrats, existence might
be comfortable and easy. There Is
large class, the vain and weak-minded,
over whom the custom of the rich has
such overwhelming force that, in order
to comply with it, they commence life
on a scale quite beyond their means, the
consequence being perpetual struggle
with fate, or, in many cases, utter de-
gradation and ruin.-Fruser's Magazine.
Year: 1875

Elephant and Chiid.-A troop of ell
ephants were accustnmed to pass a
green-stall on their way to water. The
woman who kept the stall stock took a
fancy to one of the elephants, and fire.
quently regaled her favOrite with re
fuse greens and fruit, which produced
corresponding attachment on the
part of the elephant towards the wO-
man. One day the group of elephants
unfortunately overturned the poor
woman's stall, and. in her haste to pre-
serve her goods, she forgot her little
son. who was in danger of being tram
Piled to death. The favorite elephant
perceived the child's danger. and TAX
ing him up gently with his trunk, care
fully placed him ON the roof of a shed
close at hand.
Year: 1875

A clergyman was prepar ing his dis
course for Sunday. stopping occasion :
ally 10 review what he had written, and
to erase that which he was disposed to
disapprove, when he was accosted by
his little son, who had numbered but
five summers Father, does God tell
you what to preach r. Certainly. my
child.n "Then what makes you scratch
it out"
Year: 1875

The MECkLENBERG DECLARATIONS
ON the 10Th of May, 1775, the citizens OF
Mecklenberg, North Carolina, adopted a
Declaration Of Independence. This was
a full month after the battle { f Lexington
had been fought, but in those days of a
slower communication, it is doubtful if
Any authentic news of that event had got
TO the North Carolina village. "The
Mecklenberg Declaration" was issued be-
fore the Inauguration of those scenes of
strs e and bloodshed with which the Brit
ish Grown sought to perpetuate its rule
over the colonies, and is remarkable as
showing the wide extent TO which dislike
of foreign rule, and disposition to resist
the oppression of the parent country, had
already spread. 1t was perhaps forunate
lor the colonies that the feeling which
found expression in Mecklenberg, was not
elsewhere carried to such ap extreme as
there. The United Colonies took more
pacific, and, we believe, q wiser course
They sought redress of grievances simply
and it was not until all hope Of peaceful
reconciliation was lost, that the final step
was taken. In this way the colonies OBJ
tanned sympathy in the Old World and
put an inspiration of ardor into the ranks
OF the Continentals, which proved of in.
calculabe value in determining the weak
q wavering to join their cause. The
Me leIbergers proposed to celebrate
their Centennial, and we presume it was
pade an occdsion worthy OF the Old North
State.
Year: 1875

Treasury RoBBED.-The robbery Of
the county troasury of Amador county
was singular affair. The county until
quite recently had employed watchman
TO guard the treasury. and the Ledger
complained that the Supervisors salaried
ia lor to guard an empty Jail, and a
watchman TO guard an empty treasury
The watchman was discharged and about
that time Sl2 2,000 school money, was re-
ccivcd from the State. The Treasurer's
story is that he had retired for the night,
leaving bis pants on a chair in the room
where he and his wife slept; that when
awakened about five o'clock on the next
morning he found his pants missing that
he dressed and going out doors found the
p,nts in the yard, with the key Of the Of
ic, missing. He went to the Court House
and found everything apparently as he
had left it, but on opening the safe, $751;
600 was found to be missing. As each of
the SAFE doors was secured by combina-
tion lock. the com binations Of which are,
OF course. known to but few, the Treasur-
er's story has very ctheria appearance.
Year: 1875

DEcLINEs.-The San Francisco Call is
our authority for saying that James An
thony declines the Independent nomina
ton for Governor. We never believed
that there was the slightest possibility OF
m Independent success in this State, but
of all men who have right to claim the
lead ,rship in that party, We believe An
tbony could have polled the highest vo te.
The Sacramento Union, while it existed,
welded an influence greater than any 9th
er power ever had whether that influence
WAS always properly used is not to the
purpo.e. There are yet many whose be-
lief in its integrity and freedom from self
ishness in its fight against the railroad, is
mistaken, who would delight at this OPP
portunity Of giving expression to this
feeling by supporting him for the highest
Office in the gift of tho people of this State.
With the declination of Mr.. Anthony the
Dolly Vardens will cut but slim figure
in the State canvass.
Year: 1875

The Chronicle of ten days ago has an
article of interest in rcla ton to this mach
Imooted question, which in few words,
contains the Republican idea in reference
to it. 1t says mum Der of leading gentle
men Of the party design addressing let
ter of inquiry to the President, briefly re-
hearsing the present state of public feel
ing, disclaiming their disbelief in the sem
sational rumor first started three years
ago, but stating their belief that in view
of the continued reticence Of the President
the assumption that he designed being
candidate for a second reelection was be-
ing used with damaging effect to the par
ty, and asking him to make an explicit
avowal as to his intentions in the premi
ses. On several occasions, gentlemen,
presumed to possess the confidence of the
Chief Magistrate to such an extent as to
entitle their statements to weight, have
given denial TO the foolish rumors, but as
the denials are not made in explicit terms
and with the apparent sanction Of author
/ ty, they have not been accepted as proof
positive of the Presidents intentions. The
idea of the eminent gentlemen alluded to
if carried out in the manner designed,
ought to bring an answer, which will be
satisfactory to the entire public. We have
not been Of those who were alarmed by
the chimera so sedulously held up to our
view by our Democratic friends, nor
trembled at the imaginary dangers which
Cesarism" had in prospect. Our faith
in the American people is little too strong
to be easily shaken. And the attention
which the senseless cry attracted is the
best possible proof Of what the folly OF
such an attempt (supposing one to be
made) would be.


Nevertheless, we hope the honorable
gentlemen will carry out their design and
and let public curiosity be satisfied. Sc
long as these reports came from his po'
litcal enemies, those who were opposing
every act of the administration, we DOM
know that the President was called upon
to deny baseless rumor, or decline 6
thing which had not yet been offered
Now that the question will come from q
mum Der of his eminent political friends
we shall expect an answer. If it should
be such one as we shall expect, it will
prove the folly of being scared at the bug
aboos of the sensational press. Should il
be otherwise, then Grant will see the ma
terial of the party which gave him their
highest mark of confidence. The senti,
ment Of the American people is strong
against long term Of Office to any ont
man. When public officer has meriteC
the approval of his constituents, their ap
probation is generally signifed by giving
him reelection. After that, he is ex
pected to ''step down and out" If HI
does not, the people generally help hin
down. The Republicans understand thi
and have enough independence of part,
to act upon it. Whatever Grants ambi
ton MAY be, he could never receive
second denomination, nor second re
election, unless there we're greater politi
cal necessities than we have yet dreamed
of. The State Convention in June shoul'
expressthe sentiments Of the Republican
Of California, by the incorporation Of al
anti-third term plank in the State platform
and the county conventions should tax
the lead