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Year: 1873

Unusual activity has prevailed on our
American Bourse during the past week. A
Summer speculation has occurred, and, under
its influence, large transactions have been
made. What is known as "the Vanderbilt
line of Stocks" comprising New York Central,
Lake Shore and Western Union Telegraph,
seem to have led the upward movement, and
the work of the week closed with strong and
healthy indications for the immediate future


Northwest common stock, by reason of its
transfer from the hands Of mere spectators to
the real friends of the road, has assumed
new phase on the market, and entered upon
new career. There has been manifestation
of corresponding strength, together with spec
ulative sympathy, throughout the entire list.
Hence large orders have come from the water
ing places and holders of stock elsewhere to
buy or sell according to the fluctuations daily
reported. The brokers are happy; business is
lively, and good feeling exists all around.
Erie" It was attended with all the
premonitory symptoms Of corner" How
it will result is a question that belongs to the
future. The manipulation is understood to
be under the control of three or four German
bankers, who for the nonce have abandoned
their business of selling exchange in order to
turn ON ''honest' penny in speculation. With
out going into the merits of the question at
this time, we need only say it is sorry spec
tacle to see parties of whom America buys her
promises to pay abroad dabbling in o stock
that has been the ruin Of the best hnanciers of
the country, and making it doubtful, even
while these lines ore being written, whether
the foreign exchange they have sold to their
customers is worth ten cents on the dollar or
not If a man is a butcher, let him stay so
as long as he hangs out his sign. If he is the
president of bank or German banker, let
him likewise keep within the purview of his
legitimate business, and so retain the conf
dence of the public, When he steps outside
of this circle our people have become
too familiar with the ups and downs
of Wall street corner to take
stock in any firm not known to be legiti-
mate spectators, no matter what may be their
credit who stake their reputation and exist
ence on the tumultuous gambling of an hour.
It is o serious reflection on those German
bankers, who are daily quoted as authority for
the value of exchange, that they have entered
field wherein they will be brought face to
face with ruin, and perhaps drag into vortex
hundreds and thousands who have regarded
them as among the safest and most conserva-
tive elements of the financial world. ma
tional bank that would use its capital for such
purpose would lose its credit. Cashiers in
Vulnerable have tried their hand and failed,
and some are in the State Prison, and it
would not be astonishing if two or three of
these self-same bankers, in their effort to make
little revolution of their own on sixty thou
sand shares Of Erie, should eventually be
brought to grief, and heard OF only among the
obituary notices of the street.
Year: 1873

A QUEER QUESTION FOR OUR SANITARY Bu-
REAu.-Can the Washington Market nuisance
be abatedp While waiting for an official re-
ply we should prefer definite answer to
these other questions lis this nuisance to be
abated? and If not, why not
Year: 1873

CHOLERA AT VIENNA is again reported, and it
seems to be of o peculiarly fatal and malig-
nant type. If it proves to be epidemic it
must seriously interfere with the success Of
the Exposition.
Year: 1873

Tnou mast sent sweet springs to all the pleasant


streams.


In the end Thou hast made them bitter with the


sea.


The partisan journals all snap at him. The
republican papers that cried for his election,
AZ Endymion did for the moon, declare that
he is delusion and snare, as the mythology
cal youth would have done if he found pale
Cynthia to be piece of green cheese on closer
inspection. The democratic journals savagely
denounce him as man who forsook his own
party, joined a set of nondescripts and
then set up for himself The liberal pa
his audacity in doing things they asked him
to do, but doing them in way to disappoint
his friends, as we'll as his enemies The COM
mon grievance held by tho partisan press
against him is that he has not put the ''rght
men, into place; but whether these journals
have satisfactory idea of what ''right men,
are is very doubtful. On examination it gen.
orally comes to mean ''our pet lambs, Mr..
Mayor" There are more parties rushing can
didates for each place than there were crews
at the Springfield regatta. The Mayors diff
Guilty is that no matter how many pull in the
of the Aldermen. The Aldermen, on the other
hand, can reject but it is useless to reject
while the Mayor is too obstinate to nomi-
nate to their liking There is not even
the melancholy chance of his favorite being
beaten, as Tom Bowling was the other day at
o,,tl, Do tba ind hou olo sod
the race off unless there are ten entries. We
pity the Mayor, we sorrow for the Aldermen,
we bemoan the partisan press whose columns
are quivering under the efforts of the blinded
Samson, who is savage at grinding in Philis-
tine mill where there is no grist. The Philis-
tines are savage too. This is reform.


We can walk round the Tombs and count
murderers' heads by the dozen, and feel
rapturous delight in rejecting that the rowdy
is safe and the peaceful citizen in danger
for is not changing played out2" Jack Rey-
nolds lived ahead of his time he lost the
race of life by a neck, as it were for, had
he survived to these reform times, he would
have seen that Legislature can practically
annul the. death penalty. Murder has been
reformed, not the murderers. We can take q
glance at reform financial officer, who carries
on the business of the Empire City with all the
cheese-paring, lightweight giving and petty
trckness of tenth rate grocer in poverty
stricken neighborhood. 1t was Tammany's
plan to be ruinously prodigal reform says
through her sad Andrew that she is skim
flint The reek and filth of the streets, the
pestilence lairs, the low dance houses, the
policy shops, are all evidences of reform. The
high priests of the new political religion are
fighting like village dogs-plenty of bark and
not strength enough in the jaw for q solid
bite. Must we not pray that this is not all
we shall see of reform? muzzled Mayor, a
Board of Aldermen combined for spoils,
wrangling press abusing each other, calling
names to the Mayor and denouncing his foes.
What potpoirri for our voters to contem-
plate, what hopeful picture of the selfish
ness, can't and hypocrisy that lie like quick
sands beneath the surface of the thing called
reform as we know it just now
Year: 1873

the ripper powers of the great Italian composer,
and even seasoning with the customary grain
of salt the extravagant encomiums passed
upon it in Egypt and Italy, it must be a very
remarkable work and one in which every
musician will take warm interest From
heeting glance at Wagner's opera, caught
during its production in German here, enough
was ascertained to pronounce 1t the best of
that wayward composers works. There is
more solidity, regularity and beauty of form
in it than in any other specimen Of the
school of the future. As these two operas are
on the Meyerbeer pattern of scenic effects and
spectacular splendor we may expect an entire
change from the time-honored and dust
begrimed scenes of the Academy stage.


Such is the dish, fit to be set before king,
which the Strakosch Brothers have prepared
for the New York epicures in the Fall. It is
gratifying to learn that since the revival of
Italian opera two years ago the taste and
inclinations of the public in this direction
have encouraged operatic managers to compete
with the veterans of the European houses in
securing for New York the best talent. No
city could be less favorable to the importation
of imitation metal instead of the pure, refined
gold of art than ours. Managers have found
it to their cost how difficult, if not impossible,
it is for them to palm off on our public,
especially in music, aught that is not claimed
and endorsed by art. This has been demon
strated over and over again in Italian opera,
and had some of our impresarii been gifted
with q modicum of prudence and foresight
they would have avoided the narrow, tortuous
course so plentifully strewn with the wrecks
of operate barks. This new enterprise of
which we have spoken bears with 1t an omen
of success in the transcendant ability of the
prima donna, the reported strength of the
company and the interest attached to the
new works of Verdi and Wagner. Thee is
little to be apprehended by an operatic man
ager NOWADAYS lest he venture too far in
Year: 1873

Hcation of bad book says the editor. 'is q
moral enormity. II apowder mill explodes
or railway train is wrecked life and property
are lost by single catastrophe; but the book
lives and passes from hand to hand and from
generation to generation, noiselessly and per-
petually doing mischief Is its publisher any
less responsible than the author for its infiu-
publishers might, with good results, reflect
upon this matter between acts at their Church
services this morning.


The Liberal Christian gives q treatise ON
"Masculine and Feminine" in which it is
asserted that


to crave matrimony, without being feminine
enough to be independent OF it. They repel the
being masculine lack feminlneness and so do NOS
attract the other But the true virgins OF both
In their souls-who think like man and feel like
woman, or think ike woman and feel like man
and marriage Is a supernuity If not an offence to
them; not for want of tenderness or passion, but
because OF abundance OF both.


The Je,oish Times declares that the agita-
ton in favor Of temperance and Sunday laws
go hand-in-hand with the restless under-hand
workings of those who favor Church and
priest rule, instead of the free will of the peo-
pie. The temperance and Sunday enforce
ment men, and the agitators for Christianizing
the constitution, are OF the same class. These
questions are the political capital they trade
on, and it is not astonishing to see the fever
spread from New England to the West and
even New York. Our Hebrew contemporary
concludes that Temperance and Sunday laws
enervate, degrade and enslave, create gloom
mess at home and dissipation abroad"
Year: 1873

It was stated at late hour, last evening,
that the Syndicate had held meeting at the office OF
Morton Bliss Co.. al No 80 Broad-s, for the purpose
OF considering a communication from the Secretary
Of the Treasury who had demanded that they should
guarantee the placing of the full tloo,OOOOOO.


The results OF the meeting not made known but II


understood that in the event Of their refusing to make
the guarantee and save the Secretary from the odum
OF not improbable failure, they will be Obliged 10
throw up their contracts with the Government.
Year: 1873

Among the modern beliefs engrafted up
on the ancient faith there is one which is
worthy of particular notice. 1t relates to
Washington, whom the lroquois called Ha.
no-da-ga.ne-ars, which signifies " Town
Destroyer" According to their present
belief, no white man ever reaches the In
dian heaven. Not having been created by
the Great Spirit, no provision was made
for him in their scheme Of theology. He
was excluded both from heaven and from
the place Of punishment But an excep-
tion was made in favor of Washington
Because of his justice and benevolenco to
the Indian, he stood pre-eminent above all
other white men. When by the peace of
1888 the Indians were abandoned by their
English allies, and left to make their own
terms with the American Government, the
lroquois were more exposed to severe
measures than the other tribes in their al
lance.


At this critical moment Washington in-
terfercd in their behalf as the protector Of
Indian rights, aud tho advocate of policy
toward them of the most enlightened JUS
tice and humanity. After his death he was
mourned by the Iroquois as benefactor OF
their race, and his memory was cherished
with reverence and affection. A belief was
spread abroad among them that the Great
Spirit had received him into celestial res
dence upon the plains Of heaven, the only
white man whose noble deeds had entitled
him to his heavenly favor. Just by the en-
trance of heaven is a walled enclosure, the
ample grounds within which are laid out
with avenues and shaded walks. Within
is spacious mansion, constructed iu the
fashion Of a fort Every object in nature
which could please cultivated taste had
been gathered in this blooming Eden to rem
der it "a delightful dwelling place for the
immortal Washington. The faithful ln-
dian, as he enters heaven, passes this inclos-
ure, he sees and recognizes the illustrious
inmates as he walks to and fro in quiet
meditation; but no word ever passes his
lips. Dressed in his uniform, aud in a
state OF perfect felicity, he is destined to re.
main through eternity in the solitary Gu
joyment of the celestial residence prepared
for him by the Great Spirit.


Surely the piety and the gratitude of the
lroquois have jointly reared monument
to Washington above the skies which is
more expressive in its praise than the
proudest recitals on the obelisk, and more
imperishable in its duration than the syenite,
which holds up the record to the gaze Of
centuries.
Year: 1873

"A rural lady in getting on train
at Danbury station, Saturday, was polite
enough to knock at the car door. The
brakemen managed to comfort his visage
into scmblance of gravity until he got
the door open. and then he precipitately ad-
journed He said be thought be would
laugh bis head off before he got through
with it.
Year: 1873

The Hearth and Home tells story OF
little boy whose feelings were hurt to the
last degree by careless imputaton of dis
honesty, and takes occasion to read one
Of its Characteristic lessons;


We know, or think we know, that child
ish sorrows are short-ivsd. We imagine
that they fade aud are readily absorbed into
the unchanging lighth-eartedness of young
existence. But the very happiness OF
average childhood is itself reason for the
exceeding poignancy of childish griefs. The
spectacle Of life and the grave has taught
the mature man that pleasure is but an in
cident in life. To a man in i'll luck the
reflection that after all it will make little
difference hundred years hence is au aid
to resignation if not content. But to chill
dren, life is all flowers and pleasure, aud q
happy Tomorrow. For, even if we exag-
gerate the actual happiness Of children
there is no question that they regard hap
pness to be he whole end aud business ol
life. To little persons with such philos-
opby, how unexpected, unreasonable, and
calamitous must appear misfortune
Year: 1873

A DIFFERENCE. correspondent of
the Echo indignantly assails us for class
ing the vendor of sacramental wine with
the vendor of strychnine whiskey. A
fair construction of our position would
show that this classification is not ours.
but of our assailants, who denounce the
sale of spirituous, vinous or malt IL
quors as alike disreputable, and more
infamous than the keeping of house
of prostitution or gambling hell. We
are no apologist for vice or hcentious-
ness of any description, but do not be-
lieve that society can be made to accept
reforms by the indiscriminate dennncia-
ton of persons engaged in business
which public opinion endorses and the
laws sanction. We will make common
cause with anybody in maintaining the
laws for the defence of morality and
public decency, but will join nobody in
assailing and prescribing men engaged
in any pursuit which the laws sanction.
However We may differ with them as to
the public policy of their business, we
shall concede to them all the CONNER
cial facilities and civil rights to which
they are equally entitled with all others
before the laws.
Year: 1873

THE EFFICIENCY OF AN EGG.-The
white of an egg is said to be specific
tor fish-bones sticking in the throat. n
is to be swallowed raw, and will carry
down bone easily and certainly. There
is another fact touching eggs, which ii
will be we'll to remember. When, as
sometimes by accident. corrosive sdbli-
mate is swallowed. the white of one or
two swallowed will neutralize the poison.
and change the effect to that Of q dose
Of calomel.
Year: 1873

BRAGGINa OvLR It's FIRE.-The Chi.
oago Times thus indignantly squelches
a Cincinnati journal for daring to in
sinnate that Boston had gone ahead Of
Chicago in the matter of conhagra-
ton:


There is something inconceivably
childish in the idea of the Cincinnati
person chuckling over the thought that
some other city has had bigger FIRE
than Chicago. The petty jealousy and
malignant but impotent hate that arb
condensed IN tne aovsv Htis1io Aoooonsu
all the more ridiculous when it is con-
sidered that the Boston confagration
was not one-half SO great an affair,
measured in any way, as the Chicago
confagration. The latter must still be
the stan lard of comparison for calami-
ties of this character, just as the energy
of the city in recovering from the dis
aster must remain beyond all compare
SON
Year: 1873

A FuG1T1vE.-Several of the Oregon
papers makes illusions to a certain alb
sconding debtor, recently one of tho
most prominent business men in the


State, enthusiastically indicating Ben


Holiday as the man. The fact that his


name is not given, is pretty strong evil
dence that it is . malicious invention,


though circumstances point strongly to


its probability.
Year: 1873




TRAVEL OVERLAND Travel from here
to the Columbia River overland is vir-
tually at an end, by reason of the late
immense falls of snow and rain block
aiding the railroad and compelling re.
course TO the old stage coach. The pas
sengers who went out ON Monday morn.
ing returned on Tuesday night, not be.
ing able to get through. The stage yes
terday and to-day went clear to PUN.
prey's Landing, and in consequence no
mail arrived yesterday, the stage of that
morning not being due here until late
tonight. There are said to be five OF
six land slides on the line of the rail-
road; the two principal being near Te-
nino and Oleaua. Other slides are
looked for, ard even with the present
force of laborers, some two hundred
Cinnamon, It is not thought that the
track can be cleared and the cars run
ming over it in less than one week and
perhaps two.-Olympia Tribune. 26h.
Year: 1873

The seeking Uf God should be tn, prologue
10 all our affairs We are rnjoincd first to pray
and then determine Thou shalt make thy
prayer unto Him; thou shalt also decree thing,
and it shall be established unto thee Char
mock.
Year: 1873

W@~M1OH0s

 '"Tis hard, hard times" The cry comes to us from all parts of the land; brave hearts faint when the possible sufferings of the winter rise in imagination before them, Even this stsid old town feels some of these quakings......A we'll known citizen of our town, who likes the taste of hard cider, visited his cellar for the purpose of ''tak- ing drop" few days ago. Mistaking the jug for one containing washing fluid, he drank 8 swallow of the contents. The conscquencs was more serious than funny, and bat for prompt sntidotes given him the result would have been fatal A warning to all lovers of apple juice-thnk twice befere you drink once......T The marriage of

 Miss R. Shears and Mir. Stone took place on Sheffield Plain at the house of Wright Crippen on Wednesday of last week, The wedding was quiet, but passed off pleas antly in spite of previous parental opposi- tion and the assistance of numerous gos- sip......An attempt was made to bold Grange meeting in French's Hall on Mon day evening. A speaker frem abroad was present, but few of the farmers felt any interest, and the meeting was failure..... At the last Friendly Union society, Rev. Mir. Noble addressed the people, but as was not present I cannot It port favorably. The week previous Dr. Dewey gave us reading from Macbeth. Any one having heard the Doctor read needs not 10 be told that We were highly entertained. These evening entertainments are proving yer, successful here......The Stewards of the M. F. Church announce that sn oyster supper will be given in the Town Hall next Thurs day evening for the benefit of the church. 1 Tbe ladies are invited to attend and lend l helping hand. We hope this plan may prove successful, for the oddity of the affo pleases. It is understood that dance is to follow the oyster supper in the hall. but we suppose there IS no connection Of Ihe two entertainments. How is that Luna ......The Catholics have purchased a site for their church. It will be built nn the grounds opposite the house of Ieacor Smith in East street. J.m,
Year: 1873

Live in the light of the truth that hath fousd


thee, 80 -.


Live Is The ocean lives. sparkling and bl pad
Live for the thousands who perish around thee
Live for thy country, eternity, God; 81.
Live in the past with its eloquent history,


Live in the present, it soon shall have fed
Live for the future. enshrouded in mystery;


Live while you liv ere you sleep with the deaG
Learn to look up when temptations assail thee.
Learn to do right. whosoever may laugh;
Learn TO distrust the delights that regaie thee.
Learn from quilts chalice, OH, never to quan
Learn to rebuke each uhhallowed emotion,


Learn to thyself tU be 10y al and just;
Learn to make Duty the shrine of devotion.


Learn not in man but thy Savior to trust.
Labor for all that is highest and purest,


Labor tor that which is purest and best;
Labor for Him who of friends is the surest


Labor till death brings thy guerdon of rest
Labor in earnest, thy work is around thee.


Labor unWearIedly on TO the end:
Labor is worship, and angels surround thee.


Labor to cheer thee. and hy to defend.
Love mid aspersion, neglect and disaster,


Love in the sunshine, but more in the storm
Love above ALL thine ExemplaI and Master,


Love him with constancy, tender and warm /;
Love not of sorrow her vesture to borrow, =
Love in the dayspriug OF heaven to roam


Love everlasting shall welcome thee home.
Year: 1873

A BAY CRY GIRL's overskirt slip
ped down provokingly low as she
stood on the ferry-boat, and exposed
file of the East Saginaw Enterprise.
That journal is usually "behind," but
to have its whole file in that Fl looks
very unlike enterprise.