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Year: 1876

other countries is waste Of time. We do
not pretend to compete with European En-
bassics in splendor Of representation, and it is
not desirable that we should. The salaries
we paw enable three-fourths of our ENJOYS to
live in shameful squalor abroad, and to come
home rich, considering their station at home.
Not half of them live up to their pay. few
men of fortune and Of stlf-respect, like Adams
and Motley and Jay and Sanford, have spent
much more than they received, just as they
would do if they were in Congress, or in any
Office in their own States. No reduction in
salaries would turn them out of their legations
If it brought more of that class into the SER
vice, and kept out a few greedy ward poll
ticians, there would be nothing in it to mourn
INrnr
Year: 1876

A Tilden Club has been organized at Auburn.
and gave its first annual supper Thursday evening"


The Republican journals of Maine are in high
gee tho unanimous resolution of tho Legislative
caucus that Mr. Blaine is the choice OF the Rep bcans
OF tho State for the Presidency.


The President-malers who are so sure Mr.
Blaine Is dead, had best be haste about buryins
him. He will be found at Cincinnati animated with an
amount Of yeness which would be simply preposterou
IN a corpse


The Pennsylvania Democrats are in favor OF
having the National Convention held at Philadelphia in
Independence Hall, on July T. The State Committee
passed resolution y that effect at their meetng
when 1t decided hold State Convention at Ian
caster on March %.


Iowa has entered the field with candidate
for the vce-Pr sidency the Rep ubcan ticket. His
is George W. McCrary, Congressman and the party
journals pressing his claims with energy and con-id
cradle unanim'y Most Of them put the whole tick t.
Blaine and McCraTy


The Virginia Republican State Committee did
not express preference for r Blaine for the Presi-
dency at their recent meeting They authorize the state
ment at no formal Informal expression OF the kind
was made. and add that had been taken it would
have been N favor Of Grant in proier nee 10 Blaine


Congressman Waddell of North Carolina
managed to work this sarca thrust at the maker of the
Des Mones speech into his euloy OF Andrew Johnson:
After his death pious investigator believe,
claimed to have discovered that he infdel
have very good evidence TO dsproye that but while per-
sonaly know not how that may have been, do know
that while he alive and in office he good @
patriot seek to excite religious persecution against
any portion OF his fellOwcltiZens IL he had religious
yicws OF any kind is safe to say that they his
own, and were arrived at after mature deiDeaton and
reflection; but whatever they were Sir he sought
10 make political capital out Of them"


The Democratic press begins to see that the
party majority in Congress is liable to put its foot In is
every time it touches tho currency question: and is adyis
ing the adoption OF the passive policy. Thus The Bait
Gazette says 1--WE begin to believe that the best
thing that Congress do with the question OF finance
is to do nothing at all. As 1t stands, the Republican
party OF the last Congress Is responsible for the resup
ton Let it have all the glory OF it, and far it 10
unpopular that party will bear the odum; far h
popular the Democratic party will be censured for any
change that made in it, II 1t should be 10 better
by fixing earlier date for resumption and arranging
the details upon sound and sensible plan No
plan that he devised will be good that the Repub
can press ana speakers will not argue anu declare II 10
be q disguised scheme OF Imitation"
Year: 1876

The recent message OF the Governor Of Wisconsin
marks The return of sanity to the Western treatment
of the railroad problem. Wisconsin has suffered
more By crazy legislation than any of the States
and her citizens have already found out that in tho
long run they gain nothing by serving notice upon
capital that it must keep clear Of their borders if it
would keep safe. If now the Supreme Court which
has the matter IN hand should make end of the
fol,es of Granger legislation, essential step would
be taken toward reyiying the prosperity of the
Vast
Year: 1876

New-Yorl1 Is certain to make creditabe
display at the Centennial. In other columns
we present many interesting details of what
our merchants and manufacturers will con-
tribute The quiet work that has been done
in making these preparations is not the less
thorough because there has been So little fuss
about it. The products and manufactures of
both the city and State will be well represented
Year: 1876

Our Philadelphia correspondence records the
great progress made in erecting the buildings
for the Centennial show. The main exhibition
building is well advanced; the United States
Government building is complete; several of
the State structures are fairly under way. II
is worthy of note that three of the great res
taurants are among the most nearly finished
buildings.
Year: 1876

The Commissioners of the District of Colum-
bia appear to be much out of humOr at the
refusal of the House Committee on Appropria-
tons to provide for paying the interest on the
s.e5 bonds out of United States funds. Pub
lie sympathy for the Commissioners, however,
is not likely to rise to the dignity OF a mass
meeting or even a serenade. since the funds
of the District now on hand are ample to pay
its interest, and there is no good reason for
asking assistance from the National purse.
Year: 1876

Persons who do not patronize the
drama in London, may learn what they
avoid, from the following remarks in the
London AtheRdeun1, suggested by book
on dramatic topics:


at is an incontrovertible fact that no
one nowadays goes to a theater with
out putting his life in peril. If theaters
are built within a nest of old houses,
thickly inhabited by different poor, and
not too heedful, families, to the constant
risk of fire within a theatre is added
that of an outbreak of fire in any of the
surrounding houses. If the entrance to
a theater is between two dwellings
where things of peculiarly infiamma-
bic nature are sold, think twice before
you enter. If you must pass by a sub
way under a street or two, in order to
obtain entrance into the sale, it were
wise not to enter at all, unless your life
is insured, and you were comfortably
Indifferent about the matter. Then, as
to the interior, little explosions of gas
are not uncommon, in spite of all the
care taken; they excite corresponding
alarm, they are not recorded, and they
are soon forgotten. Such an explosion,
like the report of gunshot, occurred on
the 7th inst. Nothing worse came out
of it than a little fright, and many did
not understand the meaning of the re-
port. But it might have been worse;
and we will just remark that if the pit
of any of our theaters is seated over the
gasOmeter, we would sooner be up in a
balloon, to which we have the greatest
objection, than expose ourselves to be
hOisted as high as balloons go by a
blOw-up of that reservoir of destruction;
and, further, if a smell of smoking
strike your offended sense in the stalls,
and your friend, who knows the ways
of the house, informs you that Mr..
Mouther's dressing-rOOm is Just below
you, that he always smokes when he is
off the stage, and that his room is snug
ly covered with cocoa-nut matting-in
such case you should politely ask the
manager to remove the mating, and
the cloud-compelling actor; that would
be the least he could do. Managers
generally dO.as little as possible for the
comfort of audiences. On this subject
Mr.. Cook speaks with justifiable sever
ity. Comfort comprises safety; there is
no comfort in being jammed together
in places of torture rather than of enter
tainment, and with the thought of tor
tuOus, narrow, maze-like alleys to get
at stalls, which alleys, in case of a panic
and stampede, would present scene of
horror, sickening even to contemplate
1t is matter for Lord Chamberlains to
deal with, and that not over useful Off
Ger should be allowed no peace till some
thing etfectual has been done for the
public safety"
Year: 1876

The dream of mortals is of time
coming when cares shall cease to infest,
anxieties to oppress, every wish be graf
flied, and they shall take solid COM
fort"


Many waste all their lives in the vain
pursuit of this dream, which, like the
will-o'-the-wisp leads them sad chase
over bog and fen and morass, eluding
them to the last. 4 few thoughtful
souls arrive seasonably at the wise con-
clusion that not in this world will the
time ever come when, without any
dregs of bitterness, the chalice pressed
to our lips will be full of only comfort.
We must take the bitter with the sweet
as we go along.


COntentmenti is notan outward growth.
It's roots spring from the very depths of
the soul, and are nOurished as well by
rain as by sunshine, by sorrow as by
joy. When once one has resolved
within himself to take life as it is and
make the best of it, then he may, even
in tribulation, take comfort, though the
majority of people do not prefer to take
it in that form.


The delights of life, like pleasant
weather through the year, are scattered
all along the way, and unless we enjoy
them as they come, the opportunity
once past never returns. 1t is all very
well to provide for a rainy day, but that
man is very foolish who allows himself
to be soaked by drenching rains that he
may save his umbrella for some possible
future storms. Pleasure taking is not
nearly so much provided for among our
earnest, intense, energetic American
people as it should be. We live alto
gether too much in the future, too little
in the present. We live poor that we
may die rich. We get all ready to be
happy, and when we are quite ready,
intirmity or disease or death steps in,
and the chance to take comfort in this
life is gone. If we only could be con-
tent to seize upon the little pleasures
that lie just outside and often within
our daily pathway, they would make a
large sum'tOtal at the end of three score
and-ten. Far too many of us scOrn
pleasures that are cheap and near and
within our grasp, and complain because
we cannot have such as are costly and
remote and inaccessible. But if we
would only magnify the little things
that make life pleasant, as we do those
that make it unpleasant, the cup of our
joys would continually overflow. We
complain of cloud and storm, but do we
rejoice in the sunshine and fair weather?
We grieve at the cOIdness of a friend,
but do we value fully the fidelity of
those who remain true? We count the
hours when sickness prostrates us, but
how many days of health pass utterly
unnoted and without thanksgiving ?
We mourn passionately for the dead,
while we neglect the living whom to-
morrow we may weep as dead. 1t is
well for us to heed the saying of the
wise man, "There is nothing better than
that man should rejoice in his own
works; for that is his portion; for who
shall bring him to see what shall be af-
ter him ?'-ChicdgO Ledger.
Year: 1876

ooh, she's nobody but a servant girl.
L suppose she is worrying over an extra
washing or a broken cup. They're al
ways fretting at nothing That new
jacket of yours is lovely. Pm bound to
have one, if [ tease a week for the
money. Jackson is very close lately,
and 1 can scarcely get enough money to
keep soul and body together. Can't
you go in with me? Mott has some ele-
CANT dress goods. Call soon; l want
you to see my lace shawl. Mrs. Victor
says it is perfect beauty-fit for prin-
cess n' and the woman whose husband
hardly gave her enough to keep soul
and body together" went into the elegant
rooms to get an expensive dress, which
she wore but once during the season,
while "Only servant girl" kept plann-
ing to make her wages clothe herself,
her mother, and her sister, and get
books to keep the latter in school.


The washing was hard, but this was 4
harder problem. She might knit her
brOws over broken cup, but they grew
still more serious over three pairs of
shoes to be paid for. Dresses for week
days and dresses for Sundays were to be
bought, and mother and Lucy must
have neat hats to wear to church, if
there was "only a servant" girls wages
to buy them.


"Only servant girl" was the plain
woman sitting at the window as the two
women passed; but her heart was full of
love for the dear ones at home, and beat
as honestly beneath her old calico as
their own beat beneath the lace and
silk that had cost some one so dearly.


"Ouly a servant grip was she, but her
heart yearned for sympathy in the
strange city where none seemed to
know or care how she Jared. A few
kindly words would have been so much
to her She looked longingly 1T the
kindly woman who had asked who she
was, as the two passed her window, but
''only a servant grip was all she heard.
Tears filled her eyes as she caught the
words. But take courage, lonely one,
for the Father knOweth his own, and
when our earthly habiliments are laid
aside, and we appear clothed only with
the good deeds done in the body, the
fairest and brightest of all who hear the
welcome summons, "come up higher"
may be "Only a servant girl"
Year: 1876

1t is with extreme vexation that we
again enter an apology under this head.
Somebody or something is at fault, we
know not whom or where. The story
did not come, that annoying circum-
stance is certain, and our readers will
please bottle their impatlence, as we do
our wrath, and wait with what compos-
ure they can assume for further insight
into the journeyings of EDNA and
John.U
Year: 1876

Madame Susanne LAGER, a good act
ress, but extremely stout, was one night
enacting a part in a melodrama with
Taillade, the original Pierre of 'The
Two Orphans" who had at one portion
to carry her fainting off the stage. He
tried with all his might to lift the fat
heroine, but although she helped her
little comrade by standing on tiptoe, in
the usual manner, he was unable to
move her an inch. At this juneture a
boy in the gallery called out, "Take
what you can, and come back for the
rest ~
Year: 1876

Ten thousand dollars damage is the
amount Lucille Western wants the Mil
waukee Times to pay her. for saying she
was drunk upon the stage. If when
drunk she was worth that much, it is a
mighty big increase on her valuation
when sober.
Year: 1876

It was New Jersey wife who said I:
tMy dear, if you can't really drink bad
coffee without abusing me, how is it
that you can always drink bad whisky
without abusing the barkeeper ?n
Year: 1876

FAY OF TERRITORIAL OFFICERS. bill
Is no" up before the House Of Represen tatiyes
that provides for reduction of 10 nor
cent IN the pay Of all territorial officials So
tar as the governor and secretary ara CON-
cerned' this reduction is euirely proper and
we trust that it will be made. PRACTICABLE
these Offices are sinecures, and whatever nav
the incumbents receive may be regarded as
clear gain. With the Justices Of the District
and supreme Courts it is quite different and
IN the case of these gentlemen the reduction
would work great hardship. In the frs.
place the justices are required to be learned
IN the law, and in point of fact they ara
much above the average of the legal profes.
SION. Custom and deceney requires them to
abstain from methods by which men in otbsr
positions add TO their gains, and in this WAY
/ they are restricted TO the salary fixed bv law


Ihe governor can 90 into the courts and prae.
tice hls profession, and in that way gain a
respectable income. He can also 90 into ont
! side speculatiOns-some Of them of doubtful
| eharacter-aud in these his position gives
him advantage over men in private life.
These remarks apply with equal force TO the
secretary, and of both these officials it is not
too much to say that their public positions
have been made the means of adding largely
to their private gains. As already remarked,
the justices are debarred from all oppor,u-
mites of this kind, and hence We deem any
reduction from the salary now paid them as
Of doubtful policy The pay of a Judge
should be sufficient to provide for his imme-
diate wants, and enable him TO lay up some.
thing against raiuy day. In this territory
We have an able and upright Judiciary,
and if the system Of reducing their pay to
the lowest figure is carried out, we fear that
men of less ability and a lower standard OF
integrity will take the places they now fill


y poorly paid judiciary must necessarily be-
come weak and servile, and in the interest Of
justice, without which society itself cannot
exist, we trust that in the general reduction
the Judiciary may be spared.
Year: 1876

FILTHY ALLEYs.-In the course Of our
walks about town We notice that very many
OF .he alleys are in Il terribly filthy condition.
Take the alley between Poplar and Alder
streets. ana 1t Is only a specimen Of the lot.
Many OF the persons living on this alley keep
cows. and all through the winter the filth
has been allowed TO accumulate until 1t Is
piles up in great heaps. All this manure
is well enough in its place, but the heart Of
q town is not the place for great heaps OF
filth, and now that the warm weather Will
soon be upon us, We think it would lie we'll
to take measures for the removal of these S,1
cumuIated piles of filth. Either thorough
publication, ur before midsummer We may
expect our population to be deeimeted by u
plague
Year: 1876

J. P. JUpsoN, young member OF The bar
and a gentleman Of fair ability. Is said to be
willing to represent this territory in Con-
,yre-s. Ny. JudsJu resides at Olympia, and
if he has not keen debauched by the vile herd
that fud their headquarters there, he will
possibly make respectable delegate. As
said elsewhere, oar people take little interest
in the delegate election, aud We only refer TO
these n.atters as part Of the current news OF
the daY.
Year: 1876

VARIETY SrAND.-Peter keefer, the man
who was so unfortunate as to lose the use OF
his Iey from the kick of horse, has opened
a variety stand at the corner OF Main and
Third streets. Peter is poor and afflicted, and
as sueh deserves the patronage of those VINO
aye more fortunate.
Year: 1876

UP FREIGHrs.-We have it on competent
authority that up freights by railroad will
be reduced TO 81 30 per ton This Is 10 at
tract the freights from La Graude and the
country beyond this way. We believe this
reduction to be founded on a wise policy
II will add 10 the amount of freight passing
orsr the railroad and tend tc increase the
reVenne.
Year: 1876

CANAL Al THE CAsCApES.-It is now fully
understood that Congress will appropriate
$4,000 toward locking and daniug the
Columbia River at the Cascades This sun
viii 90 but a very short way toward making
'he Improvement. but The appropriation give,
'hs as.uraune that the government will
eventually give US an open highway TO The
ga and that fac established the wealth and
Develop mont Of the great interior basin is
o-.y 4u... ION of tim.
Year: 1876

THE Foe TWApE.-Since the opening Of
'be .pring trade We have it on good author
i'y that ten tons Of eggs have been shipped
from this place to Portland. 1t is in this
way that the railroad tends to enrich the
country by opening the Way to markets from
which We have heretofore been excluded.
Year: 1876

Sam. Tilden does not lose caste "worth


cent" in the South because he has been


detected in defrauding the revenue. In


deed, it is rather feather in his cap down
there. Moreover, his well opposi-


ton to maintenance of the unity of the


Republic during the late unpleassntness
! was one of the requisites which made him


especially available as Democratic candi-


date, and is the main reason why his friends


so confidently declare his ability to sweep


the South" His great popularity in the


rebellious regions of the South is the rea.


son why he is regarded with so much dis


trust at the North, for those who have


tasted the fruits of disintegration would


fain be spared additional horrors. Thus


far Mr.. Tilden has failed to please both


sections, which no one but political fool


or knave would have ever dreamed of &C


complishing, and to day finds himself as far
from the White House as either of his as
piring predecessors. When the average
American reflects upon the cost of
saving the nation-upon the millions of
treasure and hundreds of thousands OLIVES
expended in perpetuating its unity-they
will not, for moment, hesitate in bestoT-
ing their suffrage as between a political
trimmer and gallant soldier, who imperiled
life and spilled his blood in defense of his
country. The thing called Democracy
has made itself too odious by attemptin, to
detract from such splendid regulations as
that OF Gen. Grant to be able to muster
votes enough to elect their candidates.
They failed to accomplish their purpose in
series of successive elections, and the
same reasons which operated against them
then are potent now. Mr. Tilden has,
doubtless, been taught ere this that
honesty is the best policy" and in after
life he can look back to the time when the
people were spared sore affection by the
fact that the Democracy could find no more
available candidate than q common per-
jnrer. After the 7th Of November Mr..
Tilden will be remanded to deserved in
and the only political future
in store for him will be offered by some |
Southern community, whose cause he so
ably championed during the late war, and |
in whose behalf he spent so much money |
10 enter the White House.
Mr.. Tilden may be popular with the Ku-
Klux of the South, but that fact renders
him without following of any moment in
the North.
Year: 1876

Hon. JOSEPH SEGAR, of Hampton, has
received the Republican nomination for
Congress in the Second Norfolk district of
Virginia. John Goode would rather have
seen any other antagonist put into the field
against him than this old Whig and Re-
publican wsr horse. He knows that old
Virginia never had a more staunch and
steadfast friend than Col. Joseph Segar.
His public record during the past fifty
years has been one continuous battle
against the Democracy and in favor of the
material development of the State. Never
for one moment has he lost faith in her
future greatness. No man in the whole
State has such thorough and familiar
knowledge of her resources; no man is
more capable Of placing them in proper
light before Congress. The people of the
Second district will not only consult the
Interests of the State at large but of that
district particularly by the election of this
veteran to the Forty-fifth Congress in
preference to Mr.. Goode.