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Year: 1876

A Western paper of the Independent
school says''there is no man so intense
ly and meanly partisan as not to re-
joice, for the credit of the country. if,
after all the searching Investigations
in progress, the President himself
should be found blameless.' Certain
ly there is not; but how after all is it
possible to believe that the President
was so dull and blind and stupid as not
to know the character of the men who
surrounded him? The whole country
was denouncing them. Did no shad-
ow of suspicion ever flash across his
mind? His brother Orvil has sworn
that on more than one occasion the
President sent him word where there
was good post trader ship vacant
Did he imagine that Orvil was filling
these offices from pure disinterested
motives of patriotism? We should be
glad to believe the President innocent
amid all the rascality and corruption
that have disgraced his administration
during the last seven years; but was it
possible that he could have been SO
blind as not to have seen what was
going on all: around him?-Balt. Ga
zette.
Year: 1876

1sIit the design of the opposition to
go into the campaign with republican
corruption as its only stock in trade?
That is a coed capital in politics,
no doubt; but of itself it will not
suffice. Those who seek to overturn
the republican rule must show by
their acts at this session that they are
capable of governing the country
more honestly, economically. And
not only must they do this, but they
must put up as candidates for the
highest offices Of the nation men of
emienent intellectual capacity, expert
ence in public affairs, and exalted
purity of character. Integrity and
brains will tell in the next presidential
canYass.
Year: 1876

THE physicians say that Commodore
Vanderbilt is rapidly going to pieces, and
cannot live many months. 1t is said that
his business has been arranged with a
view to his death at any moment, and
cannot suffer seriously whenever it shall
take place. But the New York stock
exchange is prepared to be excited by an
announcement of his death, whether
true or false.
Year: 1876

THE Boston phianthropists have been
indulging their sympathy for murdcrcrs
by getting up petition to save Piper,
convicted of the murder of the little
girl, Mable Young, last summer, in the
tower of one the churches of that city.
hut Piper has '!st made confession of
rlat bloody deed, as well as of Others in
which he was supposed to have had Il
hand. The murder was a very atrocious
one, and Piper asserted for some time
that he was innocent, but subsequently
stated that the girl had been killed by
the trap-door of the belfry falling acci-
dcntaIly upon her. lie now confesses
thai he killed her, actuated by an in
sane desire for blood
Year: 1876

A NEW cap has been adopted for the
off GERS Of the navy, and those who have
seen the sample at the navy department.
gay it will make a great commo. zion in
the service on account Of its eXtraorli-
nary shape. 1t resembles the Scotch
bonnet OF Glcngary cap with cape and
cyeIet holcs behind, and differs from il
only in being of reguIation blue cloth.
Year: 1876

In this town there is woman Mrs.
=, who has endured many sad
changesin life; she has been weighted
down with trouble and disappoint-
ments, and has also become addicted
to drink. A few weeks ago she was
on a bender (of course no MAN gave
her the liquor) was arrested and
brought before a justice of the peace
for drunkenness and disorderly con-
duct, and by a decree of said court
was confined in durance vile twelve
days in the county Jail. Now we be-
lieve that laws should be properly
executed aud all persons pay a just
penalty for crime; there should be
po, favored class before the law, nor
poor class to be prosecuted by the
law. 1t is a well-known fact that at
10 time since the settlement of this
town but our streets have been dis
turbed, more or less, by drinking
men and night made hideous by loud
talk and broils of the inebriate. But
who has ever before remained in Jail
twelve days for drunkenness and
disorderly conduct. Is it worse for
a woman to get drunk, to swear or
use vulgar language than it is for
the Lords ofcreation?" How does
the treatment that has been dealt
out to this unfortunate woman COM
pare with the words that fell from
the lips Of our Savior to the guilty
woman Of JerusalemP--" Go and
sin no more" If Mrs. -, should
remain in Jail until some PURE man,
WITHOUT sin, should unlock the door,
how long would she remain there?


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Port Townsend, w. T., Dec. goth.
Year: 1876

Good wishes, like good acts, are
seldom unreasonable, and as this en-
larged number of the ARGUS and the
new year enter upon their career to-
gether, the editor, with his best bow,
wishes his widely scattered circle Of
friends a "Happy New Year." The
holidays are over, plans for the en-
suing twelve months are now in or,
der, and the labor of another cycle
of time has commenced. While the
farmer is laying out what his broad
acres shall do the coming season;
while the merchant is busy with his
stock of goods and his accounts;
while the mechanic and the laborer,
and every one, is hoping and trying
for something larger and better in
1876 than in 1875 the editor of this
paper is not without his plans for
the mutual benefit of his patrons and
himself. 1t will be his aim to make
a larger and handsomer publication,
better in every way, than can posi-
bly, be obtained from any other
source; a wide awake and reliable
exponent Of local interests of every
sort, indispensable to every man and
family on the lower Sound, particu-
larly, and an absolute necessity to
EVERY ONE who desires fresh, prac-
tical, comprehensive and trustworthy
information in regard to the progress
of events at large or the develop
ment of any of the manifold inter
ests of town or country.


Thus much for the PUGET SOUND
WEEKLY ARGUS.


And now, friends, while it is Joy
Gus thought to us--and we doubt
notiti is so to every one of you-that
we are privileged to be among the
many who are permitted to COM
mence the new year, let US all con-
slider it our duty to make some effort
to show our thankfulness for this
favor. Let it stimulate US to live
better, and not for ourselves alone,
but the good Of others. Let us re-
solve to make this year fruitful of
much good, so that it may become
the cornerstone Of a successful life,
thereby enabling US to rise above
the common level of mankind. Let
us possess "Integrity, that we may
win tiss~9n idence Of those around
us; Intelligence, that we may com
mand respect; Industry, that we may
gather honey from the flowers Of
commerce; Economy and Frugality,
to preserve our gains, that we may
render assistance to those whom
misfortune has deprived ofthe means
of obtaining the very necessities of
life; Energy, by which to surmount
obstacles; and Tact, to enable us to
adapt ourselves to the openings of
Providence, and make US men for
the hour and opportunity"
Year: 1876

are now coming into the reservations.
bearing arms captured from the 7th
Cavalry in the late Custer massacre.


WASHINGTON. Aug. THE substitute
offered BY Sargent to day for the non
sectarian school amendment to the Con-
atitution proposed BY the House Of Rep
resentatives is as follows: -4f


AEyIcLE XVI. There shall be main-
tanned in each State and Territory Q
system of free common schools. but
neither the United States nor any State
Or Territory, county or municipal cor
poration shall aid in the support of any
school wherein the peculiar tenents Of
any religious denomination are taught.
SEC. 2.-Congless shall have power
to enforce this article by appropriate
legislation.


The following is the substitute pro>
posed by Ser ator Christiancv:


No State shall make any law respect
ing the establishment Of religion or
prohibiting the free exercise therof; nor
shall Congress nor any state raise by
tax, donate or appropriate any money
for the support of any Theological
school or Seminary or any school teach
ing peculiar religious doctrines or sub
ject in any respect to the control or di-
rection of any church. religious society
sect Or denomination. ,.s r- ...


Senator Morton left for Indianapolis
this morning where he will deliver the
opening speech of the campaign on Fri
Year: 1876

In The trying days Of The war does
sDy one remember Of having hesFa Of
either Tilden or Hendricks maziDgs a
speech. or saying one word Of cheer
for the brave boys who were al the
front fighting FOR the lie Of the Gov
er1menty
Year: 1876

The Democratic eandidste for the
Presidency II a salary grabber. The
records Of the New York COnstiin-
iiOnsl Convention of 1868 show
that be drew full pay for the entire
session. and was present only about
half the time.
Year: 1876

Grant with technical forms to meet any
one of various emergencies which may oil
may not come to pass. The general idea il
to give him het color of maintaining the
iaws,lf extreme measures should be adopted
with or without provacation. All reyo.
lutious are begun in that way.


The situation is grave, and must be
looked squarely in the face to avoid the
perils that few weeks may bring forth.
The men who have held power for fftceen
years, enjoyed the patronage upon five OF
six hundred millions of annual receipts
and expenditures. manipulated the great
operations OF the treasury and practically
run the Government for themselves and
the party which they CONTROL, will not give
up. unless by the compnlsion Of public
opinion.
Year: 1876

New YORK. Nov. PA gentleman
who saw Tweed yesterday, in answer to an
inquiry. said he is crushed and broken;
he has lost his old buoyancy and defiant
spirit; in fact he is suffering from pleurisy
now and is actually i'll. He seemed
wearied and only anxious to know about
bis old acquaintances. He seemed DESC
late and desirous of companionship more
than anything else. He is mere wreck
of his former self. Why, his vest is a
third too large for him and his features
are shrunken and pinched. He has suffered
intensely. He is entirely in the dar as
to what to do and even is without legal
advice. He needs medical advice more
than any thing now.
Year: 1876

Rev. Joseph Pullman.
If the Republican party wishes to make
its grave and end It's days, let it secure
its president by fraud. The great and
strong republic, I think, could even bear
the strain, but the party would be doomed
forever. | have voted the Republican
ticket all my life, and it is easily the bet
ter party. but tampering with the ballot
box is treason against country and against
God, and is never successful Democratic
frauds are no excuse for US. Give us
the honest vote"
Year: 1876

From the ". !. sur.
The southern trade is paralyzed. Moth
ing else could be expected in the present
state of the political situation. The south
feels discouraged and anxious regarding
the future, over which impends the dark
cloud of misrule. Not only the southern
trade, but business of all sorts is nerve
less. Such is the result of the present
political situation.
Year: 1876

There is IL general complaint among
dealers of the poor quality of cheese
now being manufactured in the North
west. On the introduction of this in.
dustry several years ago the produc-
tiOn of our factories was universally
praised. and the fact was fully illus
trated that with proper skill, care and
conveniences our cheese would bear
comparison with that of Ohio and
New York without suffering in conse-
quence. A few days since in the re-
port of the condition of the markets,
we read, 's1n fact very little cheese is
made in the Northwest that is credit
to our cheesemakers, or that would
grade better than ''white oak at the
East. As 4 consequence a consider.
able proportion of the consumption
here consists of New York and Ohio
factory. This does not speak well for
our factorymen, who are operating all
around us, for we do not import but.
ter, nor eggs, nor wheat, nor flour, nor
several other articles which we pro-
duce at home. We advise persons in
charge of factories to bestir them.
selves, and to improve the quality OF
their cheese to the highest point OF
excellence, rather than to remain con.
tent to manufacture an article even
their neighbors refuse to buy if any
other is to be had. The specimens OF
new so far received have sold at 10 tC
12c. as to quality and condition.
Year: 1876

The cutoff at Vicksburg has greatly
alarmed the citizens. The yicksburg
Herald admits that the river is gone,
and that the only hope for a current
past the city is in changing the chan.
mel of the Yazoo river, so us to bring
it through the Chicasaw bayou, and
thence in front of the city to the Mis-.
sissippi. The Herald thinks this can
be accomplished at a cost of about
$500 900 and adds:


s.The main volume Of the Yazoo
river could te diverted through the
bayou, thence into Fish lake, and final
ly into the Mississippi river at the
national cemetery, by means of a
break.water at Yazoo, by cleaning and
deepening the bayou, and by the cut.
ting of a canal from the southern end
of the lake to the Mississippi. The
effect of the plan proposed will be
to keep open a channel in the Missis-
l.sippi from the national cemetry along
the river border of the whole city; and
should this be practicable, the danger.
GUS influence Of the cutoff will not
only be avoided, but we should be
brought into closer and more direct
communication with the rich and pop


ulous Yazoo basin, upon which Vicks


burg mainly relies for her support.
Year: 1876

Agreat fuss was made over the men.
tai condition of young Walworth, who
shot and killed his father some three
years ago, and it was said he would
pine away and die. Prison fare seems
to agree with him, however, and he
weighs about fifty pounds moro than
when he was first incarcerated.
Year: 1876

Ex-senator Sprague is now u hard
working laborer. He is superintend.
ing the work of building 4 dam, and is
the first and last man on the job every
day, frequently working until ten
o clock at night.
Year: 1876

1t is generally supposed that the
business of life insurance has greatly
declined in the past five or six years,
but official figures prove that with the
exception of the Knickerbocker and
one or two other companies, there has
been a great increase. People have
come to recognize life insurance as q
legitimate business transaction to be
sought rather than to encourage sole.
iting agents, therefore the greater
amount of insurance with less fuss.
Year: 1876

Goethe asks, ''Ilow shall you learn
to know yourself! p just ask your
servant what the neighbors say of you;
but if you have no servant the desired
information may be had by becoming
Il candidate for President.
Year: 1876

A farmer makes the following rather
sensible remarks about steam thresh.
Ing machines: II wish to say a word
to threshers on the growing demand
for the use of steam instead of horse.
power for driving our threshing ma
Chimes. Our harvest in Minnesota is
late, often not completed until Sep
tember, and as the pl0w cannot be used
much, if any, after November lst,- the
time for that important work is very
short. And when we add to that the
horse-killing labor of threshing large
crop, we find that in order to properly
complete the work of September and
October we must keep more horses the
whole year, or else sell them when
they bring the lowest price and buv
again when at the highest. -.'


Few of us do either, and the result
is that our plOwing is done in a hur.
rled and slovenly manner, often not
completed until spring, and as a final
result we harvest a crop yielding from
to 5 bushels less per acre than it
would have been with more Thorough,
culture, besides depreciating the value
OF our farms. So much for one side
OF the question. But how will it effect
the thresher! You incur an extra ex-
pense for an engine, it is true. But is
it not offset by the capital you now
have invested in the horses you fur
nisf. and by the fact that you can
keep up a more steady motion, can
thresh more and cleaner, give better
satisfaction, and secure jobs you could
not otherwise get!


1t is folly for you and some of the
old fogy farmers to condemn the use
of steam.pOwer because there have
been 4 few losses by fire by it's early
use, when perfection and experience
were both wanting. The use of soft
coal instead of wood, and other i'm.
provemcnts and experience gained in
the last year or so have reduced the
danger from this source, until it is
small compared with the advantage
gained. And any farmer would rather
pay for the coal than feed the ten
horses now required. We are not
progressing with the age, or our neigh.
bors either in this respect. Will not
some of you help us and help your
selves by introducing several steam
thrcshing machines early this year,
Year: 1876

1t may not be generally known that
the nickel deposit near the Gap, Lancas-
ter county, Pa, is considered the largest
vet discovered in the world, and the
only deposit of the ore worked in Amer
ica The mine is on the high dividing
line between Chester and Pequsa valleys
Besides nickel, copper, iron, and lime
stone are found in the same lOcolity.
Nickel was discovered here about the
year 1856, though copper, which is taken
from the same mine, was known in this
locality seventy years ago. The ore has
a gray color, is very heavy, and 80 hard
that it is mined entirely by blasting.
After the ore has been broken into small
fragments it is put into kilns holding
eighty to ninety tons, and subjected to a
heat produced by the burning of small
quantity of wood and continued by the
conversion of the expelled gas. 1t is
then put into smelling furnace snd un-
dergoes a treatment similar to that of
iron ore.-Hdrtford Post.
Year: 1876

The correspondent of the London
News SAYS: "The women to-day wore
on their heads red kerchiefs with ends
hanging down their backs, embroidered
with coins, in which were often stuck
flowers, chiefly of red and white. They
were generally dressed in white, but in
variably with the brilliant apron sewed
down to the skirt, and often with gaud-
ily embroidered stomacher, or perhaps
breast-plate would be the most descrip-
tive term, studded with coins on black
velvet. The working dress of the women
in the fields is a short jacket, braided
and slashed in the fashion and of the cut
of that worn by the men, a red and vel
low kerchief passed over the bosom,
pettiCOat striped mostly in the parallel
stripes of Moorish pattern, but occasion
ally in checkers, which make the pattern
a tartan, n tapestry-like apron of brighter
colOrs than the petticoat, and bare legs
and feet.


The men are a fine race, tall, with a
certain stateliness and self-respect in
every gesture their faces are almost al
ways good, and often quite intellectual
and chivalric, but IN muscular develop
ment the peasant women of Servia can
give their husbands a stone and a beat
ing. l took the trouble to-day to meas
ure the waist of a lass who was lounging
against the pillar of tavern where we
were having some refreshment. Her
waist was a good inch more in circumfer-
ence than mine, and am by no means a
small-boned man. | noticed, as we
came further south, how the ruddy COM
pleXion and fair hair, bleached almost to
the hue of shabby brick, were being
left behind and giving place to faces of
an oriental type-a blending of the
Greek and Arab, with clean-cut profile,
straight nose, black hair and eyes and a
noble carriage. Occasionally among the
women a face of pure Egyptian type was
to be noticed-a trace probably of the in
fusion of Gypsy blood, which is far from
uncommon in eastern Europe. One wo-
man noticed leaning dreamily over a
garden fence with face cast in the very
mold of the Sphinx"
Year: 1876




The practical experience of the recent
Rosebud battle has about exploded the
idea that a white man is the equal of
five Indians. The daring and reckless
ness shown in, this first pitched fight of
the campaign proves how much they
had staked on the result. Those who
claim that the Indian war will be of
short duration disregard the fact that
the Sioux are among the very best fight
ers in the world. They possess union
and strength, cunning without an equal,
a personnel in which every man is an
athlete, capable of supereminent feats
of endurance, horsemanship and agility.
Further, they possess the vast advantage
of fighting on ground of their own selec-
ton, in their own country, and with
whose resources, either for supplies or
defense, they have perfect familiarity.
1t affords them, too, at every step, natu-
raj Notifications equal-for purposes of
concealment or defense-to the most
elaborate work possible to engineering
skill. Well mounted, armed with the
very best of modern small arms, ever
alert and tiIeless, regarding death in
battle as an honor to be sought rather
than as a calamity to be avoided, they
are practically as effective as a civilized
army of twenty thousand men operating
in an open country and according to the
rules of modern warfare.
Year: 1876

The dry-earth treatment for ulcers is
found quite successful. LARGE, sloughy
ulcers, after being washed, are covered
with a thick layer Of earth, over which
wet paper is placed as a support, the
whole being neatly bandaged. In few
days the ulcers begin TO clear, and when
the surfaces look healthy and granulat-
ing, dressing made as follows is used
a niece of muslin the size Of the ulcer is
immersed in carbolic oil in the pro
portion of one part Of acid TO ten parts
af cocoanut oil Il; with this the sore is
covered. and over it dry earth is placed,
and then mOistencd earth and bandage.
In a short time the healing process man
ifests itself satisfactory while all Odor is
entirely removed.
Year: 1876

This is what may be called sample of
practical affection. True love is not
content TO bask in the sunshine without
an umbrella handy in case of rain. The
following letter is n sample in question


MY DEAR HUSBAND: / got here last
night all safe, and was met at the station
by nncle and aunt. They were so glad
l had come, but were sorry that you
were not along. | miss you so much
We had hot rolls for breakfast this morn
ing and they were so delicious. ! want
you to be SO happy while l am here.
Don't keep the meat up stairs. 1t will
surely spoil. Do you miss me now
Oh! if you were only here, if but for
one hour. Has Mrs. Or brought
back your shirts? / hope the bosOms
will suit you. You will find the mill
tickets in the clock. / forgot to tell
you about them when / came away.
What did yon do last evening? Were
you lonesome without me2 Don't for
get to scald the milk every morning.
And wish you would see if / left the
potatoes in the pantry. If ] did they
must be sour by this time. How are you
getting along? Write me all about it.
But must close now. Oceans of love to
you. Afectionately your wife,


2. S. Don't set the teapot on the
stove
Year: 1876

The heir-presumptive to the throne, or
crown, or whatever they may call it, of
Turkey, is very unlike the present
sultan. While the latter is of mild
and rather indolent disposition, Abdul
Hamid is strong and healthy, both in
body and mind and the energy of his
character, should he succeed, would
probably cause new complication in the
politics of Europe.
Year: 1876

BRING together all the children in the
universe you will see nothing in them
but innocence, gentleness and fear.
Were they born wicked, spiteful and
cruel, some signs of il would come from
them-as little snakes strive to bite and
little tigers to tear. But nature, having
been as sparing of offensive weapons to
man as to pigeons and rabbits, it can not
have given them an instinct to mischief
and destruction - J0haire.


SULKY labor and the labor of force
are little worth. Whatever man does
with a guilty feeling he is apt TO do
wrong; and whatever he does with a
melancholy feeling he is likely TO do by
halves. If you could only shed tran
guilty over the conscience, and infuse
Joy into the soul, you would do more TO
make a man a tn rough worker than if
you could lend him the force of Her
cules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.
- WiLbCrfOrce.