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Year: 1875

Ten and quarter millions of the public debt
wiped out in four months is good news 1t is
a sure sign of economy and recuperation when
taxes come in promptly under our system of
ndirection.
Year: 1875

Moody and Sankey have appointed the 18th
of this month as a day of fasting and prayer
for a revival of religion throughout the coun-
try, and they ask a cordial cooperation of all
Christians in its jealous and earnest observ-
ance.
Year: 1875

The New York Tribune speaks of those
''voters who think for themselves" but evil
dently means those who let that journal do
their thinking for them, for it assumes that
those only are free and independent thinkers
who vote its ring g-streaked and speckled
ticket
Year: 1875

BETWEEN the Interviewer" and
Grants hand organ, Vice President
Wilson is kept in pretty hot water. He
now denies that during his recent in
terview with the President they dis
cussed the political situation, or that
he attempted to explain any of the Mt
terances recently attributed to him.
Year: 1875

THE hurdle race over the Louisiana
Jockey Club course, Saturday, resulted
IN a dead heat between Limestone and
Capt. Hutchinson, and was made in
the remarkably quick time Of 1858. The
Nelg Orleans Pieay1ue says:


"Such an event as a dead heat In
hurdle race has occurred but twice be-
fore IN this country, to the recollection
of turfmen. The first instance was in
the race between Virgin and Blind
Tom On the old Metairie several years
ago, and the second on some Northern
course between Limestone and Bullet.
1t Is also worthy Of remark that this
p race was the fastest Of the kind on
record, with the exception Of that won
by Lochiel at Long Branch, when the
remarkable time Of 3:523 was made.
Year: 1875

The Bureau is now compromising large
number Of cases where the neglect to stamp
checks has been proved to have been uqin-
territorial II is claimed that the penalty
for holding such checks is warranted both
by the old laws and by the present revised
statutes.
Year: 1875

The INVISIBLE CHILDREs.-It is not
when your children are with you; it is
not when you can see and hear them.
that they are most to you; it is when
the sad assemblage is gone it is when
the daisies have resumed their growing
again in the place where the little form
was laid it is when you have carried
yonr children out and said farewell. and
come home again. and day and night are
full of sweet memories it is when sum-
mer and winter are full Of touches and
suggestions Of them 1t is when you
cannot look up toward heaven without
thinking Of them. or look down toward
yourself and not think Of them it is
when they are gone out Of your arms,
and are living to you only by the power
Of imagination. that they are the most
to you. The invisible children are the
realest children-the children that touch
our hearts as no hands Of flesh could ey-
er touch them.
Year: 1875

IN GREAT HASTE.


An exchange, telling US of the great
and almost always unnecessary haste
some people are ever in, says The pub
lie was informed. for perhaps the Thrift
eth time, the other day. that man who
considered his time of great value, re-
Gently made flying leap from the wharf
to the deck of departing ferryboat.
He miscalculated, of course; and we, in
common with all compassionate persons,
regret that he lost his life through his
rashness. His haste made waste, he
sacrificed his life in his anxiety to save
five minutes. 1t would probably have
been useless to attempt measures for
protecting him against himself; had
there been n-barred gate at the end
of the wharf, he would very likely have
vaulted over it, SO strong was his desire
to make time" as he perhaps would
have called it. He went out of life in
a feverish unrest, probably having lived
SO a good part of his existence; and the
chief thing to be regretted is that he did
not possess the necessary patience to
avoid taking foolish risk.


But he was only type ofan immense
class, which is one of the products of our
high pressure civilization, and which is
seen at its worst In. New York. People
of this class begin the day by bolting
their breakfast in from ten to thirty
minutes, instead of taking an hour for
1t over coffee and the newspaper, before
going out iuto the days battle After
breakfast, as they start down town. they
run block or two to catch car which
they espy in the distance The driver
stops his horses and waits for them.
When they arrive, painting and heated,
there are at least two other cars close be-
hind the first. Haste has made waste
again. The driver of the first car is be.
hind time. and the inpatient people who
ran will not get down town more than
three-quarters of a minute, prehaps moi
so much as that, ahead of the car tc
which they might comfortably have walk.
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1t may happen, too, that the first car
is crowded, and that a score of hall
suffocated and wearied men and women
block the aisles and hang desperately on
by the straps, trampling on each Others
feet, and indulging in whispered com
mentaries on each others conduct. But
the hurrying persons never think of get
ting into the car behind, even if it il
quite empty they nobly sacrifice them
selves on the altar of haste they plunge
in among the other unfortunates. anC
arrive at their offices as tired as if the,
had done days work 1t is astonish
ing to observe the sweet resignation
with which an elegantly dressed lady ol
a punctilious gentleman. if they happer
to belong to the hurrying class, will pacl
themselves into the most promiscuoui
crowds on the rear platforms of hOrs'
cars. rather than wait three minutes, O.
even one.
Year: 1875

W itness giving evidence in relation to
any statements made to witness by
his wife. Judge Nelson ruled that
the witness might tell what passed
between himself and Beecher. but not
what his wife had told him. Witness
continued : MOulton brought Beecher
and retired. did not salute Beecher
nor he me. l crossed the room and
locked the door and went back and
sat opposite Beecher. l began in this
way. l think l said. presume you
received a letter from Bowen demand
ing your retirement from the pulpit
and from Brooklyn. He answered, l
did sir. l told him that he need not
fear that letter. He thanked me. l
said he need not do so; that Elizabeth
deserved his thanks, and not I. He
said that he understood the object of
this interview only in general terms
and asked me to tell him what Bowen
had said. l said 1t would be better to
go to Bowen himself told him that
Bowen had said he was intimate with
members of his congregation for
twenty-five years; that he was not a
safe man that he had ruined family
households; that he was a wolf in the
fold and should be extirpated. Bowen
had also said that he had it in his
power to drive Beecher out of Brook
lyn in twelve hours. / told him that
after had this interview with Bowen
L told it to my wife, who was dis
tressed, and reminded me of what I
had said in the previous summer, and
that / would break my promise If l
hurt Beecher; that if he was driven
from Brooklyn it would be her shame
and that of her children. Beecher
asked me what l meant by her shame,
and read to him Elizabeth's letter of
confession. This confession was de-
stroyed by Elizabeth two years after,
and the cory was destroyed on this
evening.
Year: 1875

1t is interesting to observe the anxiety
with which the leaders Of the different
parties are looking around for ''good men"
to place on their State tickets. When a po-
litical party is in bad way the leaders,
the real, active politicians who have made
all the money and shared all the spoils,
retire into the background and urge ''good
men" 'to the front" When an election
is doubtful the politician is anxious to
have the best men 'stand in the gap"
The Saratoga Convention imagined that it
could put into ''the gap" men like William
M. Evarts, E. ID. Morgan and John Bigelow.
1t never occurred to the Custom House in
absolute power in the State such men were
not wanted. When it was proposed to NOM
mate George William Curtis for Governor at
a time when nomination looked promising,
his throat was publicly cut by Charles S.
Spencer and his body was tumbled out of
the Convention without ceremony. Those
were the days when the party was powerful
and strong, when good men" were
not wanted. Now in the dark days the
Custom House inspectors pteously calfupon
them to ''come to the front"


We see the same spirit in the dem
ocratic party. When the democrats were
absolute in New York they were satisfied TO
elect Tammany Hall thieves and Canal Ring
thieves and all kinds Of adventurers to
power. 1t was democratic administration
which robbed New York. But now the party
is on its good behavior. 1t is fighting for a
Presidential prize, and we have all manner
of good men, "solid men" who are asked
TO 'come to the front, and 'stand in the
gap" It is amusing to see these tricks on the
part Of politicians II it showed eny real
awakening any sense of inc fitness Of good
men for office, we would accept it as the be-
ginning of a new era in our politics; but we
are afraid that no such advantage is to come.
Politicians seek GOOD men in their day OF
Year: 1875

piled upon our Indebtedness with nothing
to show for it except a bundle of law
suits in the hands of Mr.. O'Conor, and a
crowd of richly endowed lawyers fighting in
the courts. But we trust we have not for
gotten this lesson of the Tammany regime.
We hope that there is public spirit and
honesty and courage enough in the people to
manage their own affairs and to see that the
execution of this great work is intrusted to
competent and honest men. We have
long been accustomed to despise our
neighboring city of Philadelphia as a slow,
pastoral, sluggish town, but every day
shows indications of a new life in that city.
Buildings are springing up in all directions.
Streets are opened, colleges and public build
ings, institutions of charity and science are
in process of erection. Fairmount Park is
much larger and more attractive than our
Central Park, and, to crown all, the citizens Of
Philadelphia, almost single handed, with the
exception of the aid they have received from
their own State, are preparing for an exhibi-
ton which is to celebrate before the world
the glory and prosperity and advancement
of the American nation. Yet at this
time New York, with infinitely more
wealth than Philadelphia and with as
much capacity, let us trust, for self
government and great deeds, lies in the rut
stagnant and dormant, growing worse and
worse from day to day, disgrace to its own
citizens and stigma to the nation. The
suggestions of our correspondent are worthy
of the gravest reflection. We feryently hope
they will not be as seed sown upon barren
ground, but that out of this unfortunate and
disastrous condition New York. in emulation
of her genius and historic fame, may rise up
in her strength and make herself the worthy
metropolis Of great nation.
Year: 1875

WHAT ATTORNEY GENERAL PRATT TH1NKs.-
Attorney General Pratt tells HERALD cor
respondent that he does not think Cover
nor Tilden the only man in the State who
will not steal. He does not think Mr.. Fair
child, nominated at Syracuse to be his sue
cessor, the ablest lawyer in the State; and
he does think that a man who is open,
square and aboyeboard, and scorns decep-
ton, treachery, ingratitude and under
hand dealing is quite as honest as one
who simply refuses to pick pocket.
The opinions of an Attorney General are
always valuable and in this case they are
especially interesting to number of people,
politicians and others, to whom we recon-
mend their perusal in our correspondents
letter elsewhere.
Year: 1875

THEOLOGICAL QUESTION SETTLED. The
San Francisco AHa tells the following
"a man died recently at Suter Creek who
had never adhered to any particular belief
in any specified system of religion, but
who bore the reputation Of being liberal,
kind-hearted man and good citizen. A
mi mister was requested to conduct the
funeral services, and the good man during
his discourse said in effect that the deceased
had not the least chance of salvation, but
had made a bee line for the hot place.
Those who heard this were very indignant,
and that evening a party of men went to
the minister's house, dragged him out of
bed, put rope around his neck, declaring
they would hang him. He begged hard
for life, and finally retracted the asper-
slons he had cast upon the deceased, and
promised to leave the place at once. He
was then released, and the next day he
packed up his effects and left"
Year: 1875

Lady Baker in recent work gives her
ideal of model boy, as follows: "IfI
could make model boy, I'll tell you what
he should be like. He should love cold
water and hate lie. lie should be frank
and unsusplcous, as becomes a noble,
trusting nature, and yet he should be
neither silly nor soft. He should have
plenty of manias. lie should have an ap-
petite like wolf, for should wish him to
be tall aud strongi but he must not be a
bit greedy. He should not be ashamed of
loving and reverencng all that is good and
holy and pure, but with nothing of the
mollycoddle about him. lie should have
fine, sweet temper, yet he should be, as
the Yankee song says, AN orkered man
in row. and he should know how TO take
care of himself with his fists"
Year: 1875

Tom Baskin, the late Democratic
Representative of this county in the
Legislature, showed his usua
shrewdness in declining to be can
didate FOR reelection to that body.
He no doubt feared to face the dam
aging record made by it as the most
corrupt, blundering and good for
nothing Legislature that has ever
disgraced our State. So Tom
thought he would run for another
Office, and selected the Probate
Judgeship as a nice, easy berth, and
one that would ''pay" better than
going to Columbus. But . he is
reckoning without his host if he
supposes the people are going to
forget his Legislative record, espe-
cially his vote for the Geghan bill, al
the demand of the Catholic priest
hood, and his vote for the amend
ment of the Adair law, which was
demanded by the liquor interest
His election to the Office of Probate
Judge would be a virtual endorse
ment of his course as Representative
but unless we are greatly mistaken
the people of this county will say
to him by their votes, "Thou ar
weighed in the balance and fount
wanting"
Year: 1875

Some of the Democratic brethren
grumble a good deal at Tom Baskin,
because he would have the nomina-
ton for Probate Judge, instead of
accepting a denomination for the
Legislature, according to the usages
of the party. They think that it is
rather unreasonable in Thomas, to
claim the right to pick out the best
Office in the county, and refuse to
take the one he had before. Conse-
quently, it is doubtful whether
Thomas will receive very enthusia-
astic support from some of the
faithful.
Year: 1875

It was a favorite "smart saying"
of Sham Cary's, when he was a Tenn
perance spouter, that ''You might as
well give man the itch and tell him
not to scratch, as to allow people to
make whisky and then pass laws to
regulate its consumption"


How does the candidate from
Rocky Fork get down with that?
Year: 1875

lacks comprehensive wisdom, and is
no more safe counsellor and guide
thah when it plunged the nation into
dreadful war. The destiny of our
country cannot be safely trusted to
the government Of the Democratic
party. A. D. C.
Year: 1875

This will be the last year that the
Democracy viii preach imitation
They will be blown sky high in the
State election, and next year they
will have to tie new string to their
political fiddle.
Year: 1875

Is there o business man in Ohio
dishonest enough to advocate law
to provide that all subsisting debts
and contracts may be discharged on
payment of so, 60, or 70 per cent. Of
the stipulated sum- We hope not.
Yet that is precisely what the infa
tionists are figuring for. They pro
pose to water the currency until Q
thimbleful of it will make q glassful
and then call that a good square
drink Col. Jour.
Year: 1875

A little rain fell last Friday and on Saturday
night, but not enough to wet the ground to any
Depth The continued drought is interfering
greatly with fall plowing, and but little wheat is
vet sown
Year: 1875

The Imitation Rumbug" is getting
pretty well ground up. A good many
people begin to understand the thing,
and the better it is understood by
men whose integrity commands a
premium, the more intensely they
hate it.
Year: 1875

Sam Gary in his speech here last
Saturday said that he had just come
"from a trip to the mining and
manufacturing regions of the State,
where mechanics were working for a
dollar day, were being paid out of
the stores in goods at fifty cents on
the dollar, and had not seen money
for so long that they could not tell
a greenback from a cabbage leaf."


We wonder if he thought the peo-
pie of Batavia were fools enough to
believe SO improbable story? We
know they are not lClermont Cour.


Judge Norton has made an excellent
officer during his first term. This
all admit, without distinction of par
ty. He is always to be found at his
post when wanted, ready to dis
charge the delicate and responsible
duties of his Office with promptness,
fidelity and courtesy. The people
have tried him, and know that he is
right, and they will not displace him
in order to put in an untried man,
whose chief qualifications are that
he is strong partisan, and was a
member of the Geghan Legislature
Year: 1875

II is not pleasant to hear that
Moody and Sankey have got out an
injunction to prevent another party
from printing and circulating their
hymns. If the hymns are cIrcula-
ted TO do good to the sinner, they
should rather welcome their multi
.plication, whosoever might under.
take the task. The joining of
the business Of selling hymn books
to that Of saving souls is not seemly
We know that the evangelists are
reported TO have given the large
profits on the sale Of these hymns
in England for the benefit of
religious teachings IN London; but
this does not justify them in setting
up = book stall over against the
pulpit of the reyivalists. Better
give up the commercial side of the
business entirely, Brother Moody
and Brother Sankey.
Year: 1875

Masonic REUNIoN.-The Salem Record
learns through Mr.. S. F. Chadwick that
the Masonic fraternity of Oregon. Wash
ington and Idaho intend to have a reun-
ion somewhere this summer where the
scene of enjoyment can be favored with
a good. old-fashioned clam bake. The
9th of August is the time fixed when the
party will leave Portland for some point
ON the Sound, where Masons aud their
friends will congreests for a season of
sea air and sea enjoyments generally.
After the clam harvest shall have been
fully partaken of. there will be a trip
down the Sound to Victoria on some of
those grand Sound steamers that ply the
length of that labyrinth of waters. a
pleasure excursion that will give q view
of the magiicent scenery of that wonder.
fully picturesque region. We can hardly
conceive of more charming excursion
to be plannad than the one referred to
above. In the first place, the Masonic
order furnishes the general talent to ap-
preciate such tour of pleasure, and
make it thoroughly enjoyable, for of
course the ladies are included next, the
localities to be visited will offer every
charm OF nature. and enough of the con.
comitants of civilization to render the
enjoyment Perfect; thirdly, the fare will,
no doubt, be reduced to price within
command of all who may desire to be
participants, thus Aavoring pleasure
with economy, as we'll as making it sa-
vory with clam-bake.
Year: 1875

A WATERY GRAvE.--Last Friday night
(16th inst.) as the N. W. Stage Co. IS
sleigh was coming down the Blue noun
tains short distance beyond Philips
Station, painful and fatal accident oc-
Cured. by which a man by the name of
Il. D. Sanders. from Boise City. was
instantly drowned. The circumstances,
as related to us. are az follows


The stage was coming this way and
as it approached the cossing of Phillips
Creek - about mile beyond the sta
tion-Col. Sanders was requested to get
out and walk across on log along with
the helper; but he preferred remaining
in the sleigh. The helper ian assistant
who accompanies each trip of the stage
over the mountain) crossed over on the
log. As the sleigh went in the creek
the forward end dipped deeply and
flooded the sleigh bed and the Col. be-
coming frightened jumped out. snatching
up mail sack and both disappeared be-
meath the flood and were seen no more.
The mail which the sleigh contained
fioated off and was lost. The stream at
this point is not very wide and is mere
ly dip and plunge and it is crossed
The toward part being considerably ell
evated in the deepest part, OF course it
was an easy matter for the mail matter
to rush out at the rear. Had the un-
fortunate man not jumped out there was
no particular danger. 1t is not thought
the drivers are to blame as the stage
crossed over in the morning all right
and it didn't look any deeper water
than when crossed in the morning.
Search was at once instituted and prov
ed unavailing until the next day, when
the body was fshed up some two or
three hundred yards below the scene OF
the mishap. The body had caught on
some brush. The mail sack was also
found near, which was returned to Port
land.


Col. Sanders has been interested In
mining operations at Boise City and
was we'll to do. He has b wife residing
at San Francisco, who will receive ter
rible shock by his sudden removal from
life. He has a sister (Mrs. D. A. Ian
caster) at Portland, we understand
Baker City Herald.
Year: 1875

NEW INDUsTRY.--Yesterday afternoon
We visited the new furniture factory of
Hall & Graves. They have erected a
building on the wharf, Immediately in
the rear of their ware rooms, and are
now busily engaged in putting up the
machinery. They expect to have the
factory in running order in about a
week, when We can all be supplied with
home made furniture, as good or better
ttan what is at present imported from
San Francisco,
Year: 1875

FINE BUILDING. "A very substantial
brick foundation has been finished and
the frame work is now being put up for
c. A. Anderson's new residence on
Fourth street. When completed the
house will be one of the finest in town.
Year: 1875

n On Saturday the school CHILD
Zen of this city are to have an excursion
on the steamer North Pacific to Stella
COON and return. A large number of
others have purchased tickets and q
very pleasant time is expected.
Year: 1875

A CHANCE FOR INvEsTMENT.-COl. Ed
ward Eldridge advertises fine site for
a steam saw mill close to deep water at
Bellingham Bay. will be given with ten
acres of land, to any one who will build
q mill thereon.
Year: 1875

Bradfords Jan. pa shocking and
mysterious murder occurred here this
forenoon. Mrs. Emerson, a young
woman but a few months married,
was found sitting in a chair in her
house, the top of her head literally
blown off. Her husband who was III
the barn heard the report of the gun,
and ran TO house, where he found his
wife dead, as described. No possible
clue to the murderer.
Year: 1875

A GENTLEMAN writes to the German
town Telegraph: Persons purchasing trees
to plant should look close to 1t that they
are clean and bright. If they are dis
colored to any great extent, and show
black streaks down from where limbs have
been cut in pruning, the probability Is
that they will be tender and break in


two with a little bending, and Will be