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Year: 1876

The excitement in the political world has somewhat abated. Yet, when the of- ficial returns come i'll, there will no doubi be another demonstration by the success full party, although the vote is so nearly balanced that the successful party will not have much to crow about. It Is be- ieved that when the question is settled both parties will quietly abide the result for the next four years. It IS donbtle>s 8 well, for the community, that our election of President does not come oftener than once in four years. During the past week the Post Office has been thronged at mail time by anxious politicians. to get the earliest news.

 Large numbers of Centennial trees have been set in the street during the past week, so that it is now nearly filled. This will make it absolutely necessary to the success of village improvements that all cattle, sheep and horses be restrained from running at large on the highway contrary to law, and. all persons disposed to trespass on the rights of the public by turning them out, will find them in close confinement. Before any distant day the law will be fully executed without fear or favor of any man.

 We have here certain lawless mis- creants who do nothing themselves for public improvements and also are un- . willing to let alone what others are do- ing, as is proved by their turning ove, young trees just set oat upon the high way. There is a statute law inficting a severe penalty for meddling with orna- mental trees upon the highway.

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Year: 1876

Semiramis, the Assyrlan queen, IS cred ited with the invention of weaving and Pliny accorded the invention of the Loom to the Egyptians, but it seems to be left to the Read Carpet Go. of Bridge port to perfect the weaving of carpeting.

 It is said that there are no goods more perfectly woven or more durable than these goods. Messrs. HALL & READ keep on hand all the patterns of the O..

 and also very extensive assortment of Velvet Brussels and Venetian Carpeting.
Year: 1876

MASTER YOUR CoUGH AT ONCE with Hale's Honey of Horehoe1,ad and tar. Every affection of the lungs, chest or throat tending to consumption, is not only relieved but absolutely obliterated by this wonderful vegetable pulmonic. Sold by all druggists.

 Pike Toothache Drops cure in one minute. 32.4w
Year: 1876

A Salisbury bass viol, 8 century old, and which for third of that time assis- ted at divine worship in the Congregation al church in that place, is now in the hands of degenerate performer who plays profane music at hops,
Year: 1876

Nelson & Cruze have removed their
store from the corner of Main and Gay
streets to East side of Market Square,
where they wis tglad to see all their
old patrons, as many new ones as
possible. yi23dtf.
Year: 1876

The minister's wife, says the BaptSss
Magazine, ought to be selected BY a
committee of the church. She should
be warranted never to have headache or
neuralgia; she should have nerves'of wire
and sinews Of iron; she should never be
tired nor sleepy, and should be every
body's cheerful drudge; she should be
cheerful, intellectual, pious, and domes-
ticated; she should be able to keep her
husbands house, darn his stockings,
make his shirts, cook his dinner, light
his fire, and copy his sermons she
should keep no the style of lady ON
the wages Of day laborer, and always
be at leisure for "good works." and
ready to receive morning calls she
should be secretary to the Band of Hope,
the Dorcas Society, and the Home Mis-.
sion; she should conduct Bible classes
and mothers meeting; should make
clothing for the poor and Cruel for the
sick; and finally, she should be pleased
with everybody and everything, and
never desire any reward beyond the sat
isfaction of having done her own duty
and other peoples too.
Year: 1876

Having lost our citizenship in this
Territory some four years ago, by are-
moval to Oregon, We have no vote IN
the election Of to-day: we SHALL there
fore absent ourself from the polls and
leave the management Of the contest to


the duly qualified voters. and III dong
this, we offer tie following ADVICE to
those vino are entitled to the fir: e sxer-


ciee of the ballot:


In this city may be found Eany OF
the most abandoned and dissolute char
acters that ever stopped stage OF blew
open safe. They may be seen at all
hours of the night, in the low dens CT
vice about what is kno xn as the Lava
bed" a cesspool of all the impure hu-
manity that drips and drains out OF Ore
con British Columbia and Idaho. Place
a blind man at the corner of Second
and Washington streets at ten O'Clock
at night, with u donble-barreled shot
gun and then give an alarm to call the
0enizeLs of that ilk into the streets.
Then tell him to blaze away. and It's
hundred dollars to red apple that be
kills thief with one barrel and a pros
titute with the other This element is,
CT course, entirely mercenary and votes,
as the Swiss fght-for pay cEly
On his recent visit to this city, Hon.
J.. p. Judson was told that this element
| had been secured for him by certain
individual who hes always controlled.
or helped to control it. His reply was
that while he did not mix with that
element or fraternize with those who
we're its leaders = at the same time be
needed votes and if that element could
be voted for him, he did not object to
receiving their support. Onthe strength
of this. It went out that Judson would
carry the county by heavy majority,as
the pioneer residents like A. A Denny
and H. L. Yesler. were working for him;
while the mad house Clique were for
him, to a man. Judge Jacobs was then
absent from the city.


After the meeting on Saturday night
in which Judge Jacobs spoke like
gentleman and transgressed no amenity
OF society in referring to his opponent
six men met in u certain room on James
street and then and there the vagabond
vote of seventy-fi five or a hundred walk
ing hbels on the Gre eator's handiwork,
were sold like sheep in the shambles to
the Federal ring in whose behalf ne
gotiations were conduct d by an attor-
ney of this city.


Now we say to legal Democratic
voters, stand up and challenge every
man you do not know. Do rot Jet the
entire control of your county affairs go
over to the mad house ring. Don't
allow an honest and pains-tahing officer
to be Sc! aside for man who, when in
offica before. could not stay away trola
poker-game long enough to buy anew
suit of clothes. Ills fight is not mat
ter of national politics; it is case of
business men VS.. adventurers, and must
be fonght ont on that line. II you
want to see yonr county, scrip go back
to fifty ceLts on the dollar, let the brace
dealers pets vote as they Ike. Il yon
want to keep np the public credit Of the
county. vote for Booth. who has pla"e't
your finances where they are. As for
the rest Of the ticket, let it stand or fall
upon its merits.
Year: 1876

as far as examined. reveals perpendic'
ular wall of over one hundred feel
in height and sixty feet in width
With lime for fux so close at hand,
there would be no necessity of import
ing it from San Juan or Orcas Island
This region only awaits the develop
ment inaugurated by capital, to become
the Pennsylvania Of tho Pacific. Once
across


| THE CASCADE MOUNTAINS,


And the richest grazing section of Ameri
ca becomes our tributary. The beel
fattened on "bunch grass" is the most
nutritious in the world and far superio,
to the slop-fed stuff sold in San Fran
cisco as stall fatted teef. Now the graz
iers of Yakima Valley. have to struggle
for e li-ing and have all they can do to
get the necessaries of life. Give them
cheap method of shipment to the sea.
and their splendid beef will be worth
five cents per pound Oh the hoof. So
it will be seen how identical are the in
interests OF both Eastern aud Western
Washington. The railroad is being
built slowly but with prudence ard
economy, and the stockholders display
ed good sense in


ELECT1NG THE OLD OFFICERS


The President, Mr.. Denny, is man OF
sagacity and precedence. His good ma
tive judgment clearly foresaw the great
ness of this place from afar off The
Secretary. MIR. Scott. is a good account
ant and man of careful research. Two
such men as these were just what was
needed. as ballast to a driving energetic
man like Superintendent Colman. who
is the last man in bed ut night and the
first oce up in the morning, in Seattle.
That this fortunate con bination will
push this great work to successful
completion. no intelligent observer can
doubt. With it completed, the fntr! e
of Seattle asa


A GREAT COMMERCIAL CITY,


Becomes an assurance made doubly
sure" The depth and capacity of her
harbor have gone abroad into tie COM
mercial outposts of the universe. The
enterprise and thrift of her sons shall
still vindica'e the supremacy of the Sax
on blood. And she shall sit enthroned
on her emerald hiil-sides. the Queen
City Of the North. while the treasures
of the Orient the storied wealth of
Cipango and kathay. for which Marco
Polo and Vasco de CANA first unfurled
the banner of the FerCiinands- be
poured rs tribute into her lap.
Year: 1876

The new Constitution invests the Legis-
lature with power, and it shall he It's duty
to protect by law from forced sale certain
portion of the personal property of all heads
of families, and also of unmarried adults,
male and female. t.-ft 3


Section so. The homestead OF family
shall be and is hereby protected from forced
sale, for the payment of all debts except for
the purchase money thereof, or q part OF
such purchase money, the taxes due Thereon,
or for work and material used IN construct
ing Improvements thereon, and in this last
case ouiy when the work and material are
contracted for in writing, with the consent
of the wife, given in the same manner as is
required in making Eale and conveyance
of the homestead; nor shall the owner, II
married man, sell the homestead without the
consent of the wife, given in such manner
as msy be prescribed by law No mort
gage. trust deed, or other lien on the home
stead, shall ever be valid except for the pur-
chase money therefor, or improvements
made thereon, as bereinbefore provided,
whether such mortgage, or trust deed, or
other lien, shall have been created by the
husband alone, or together with his wife;
and all pretended sales of the homestead IN
yolving any condition Of defeasance shall be
void. 1li4-


Section 81. The homestead, not in
town or city, shall consist of not more than
two hundred acres Of hpd, which may be
in one or more parcels, with the improve
ments thereon: the homestead IN q city,
town, or village, shall consist Of lot, or
lots, not 20 exceed insvaiue Eve thousand
dollars at the time Of their designation -
the homestead, withost referenes 10 the
value OF any Improvements thereon: pro-
rided, that the same shall be used for the
purpose Of home. OF As place 70 exercise
Ihe calling or business Of the head Of fam
, Ily: preceded, also. that any temporary rent
ing Of the homestead shall not change the
Year: 1876

Detroit Free Pross.l


Boys Of ten or twelve, seen on
the street, appear heartless and
without thought, and yetyOu wrong
them. Among the houses on Gin
ton street is one which has missed
many a pane Of glass in its win
doys. Rags and papers are used to
Keep the cold air out, or it may
blow in and whistle through the
desolate rooms without let or him
drance. 4 girl Of ten, whose life
had been one long period of hun
GER pain and pnhappiness, was
taken sick one day ip March, and
people passing by could see her ly.
ing ON q miserable bed near one of
the windows 1t was curious that
any one of the boys coming or go
ing should have stopped TO think
or care about it, but they did. One


Of them, feeling sad at the sight Of


the sufferers pale face, handed an


orange through a broken pane, saw


it clasped by slender white fingers


and then ran away. lie told othel
Eboys., and by and by there wasn't
| day that some lad didn't halt at thu
Year: 1876

window to pass in fruit or flowers.
None of them knew the family or
ever spoke to the girl, and SO they
gave her the name of Gertie, and
called her their orphan. Boys went
without marbles and other things
which belong to boyhood sports
that their pennies might buy
an orange. lemon, or some
simple flower for Gertie, and their
anxiety for her to get well was fully
as great as the doctors or the
mothers. Whatever present they
had, they handed it through the
broken pane, waited for her to
reach up, and never fingered longer
than to hear a soft "thank you"
from her lips. Days went by, but
the boys did not grow weary, nor
did they miss day. 1t was ro-
nance and charity so well COM
bined that it gladdened their hearts
and made them fond OF each other.
Yesterday morning q lads hand,
holding a sweet flower and a big
orange, went to the window. No
white fingers touched him as they
grasped the offering. He waited a
moment, and then with beating
heart looked through into the
room. The bed had been taken
away. On a table rested a plain
coffin, and on the coffin was a
bunch of faded flowers which had
been handed through the window
the day before. Death had been
there, and the boys no longer had a
mission.


You might not have seen the boy
hiding in doorway and wiping
tears from his eyes. He was seen,
however, and when asked the cause
of his sorrow, he sobbed out the
whole sad romance in four words,
a" Our Gertie is dead"
Year: 1876

Eye.


The New York Sun tells this on
the renowned French statesman:
A passage in the New Testament
says, "And if thine eye offend
thee pluck it out and cast it from
thee" Leon Gambetta, the inyin-
cible Republican agitator, is said
to have deliberately destroyed his
left eye when he was a boy at school,
if not exactly in obedience to the
divine command, yet because he
disliked to study the language in
which this mandate was originally
written. Gambetta hated Greek
and did his utmost to get excused
from studying it. But when he
found that his entreaties were of
no avail with his father, he threat
ened to destroy his vision. Gam
BETA pere, a stern and resolute
man, who deemed it a wise fathers
duty to thwart the whims of an
obstinate boy, was immoyable, and
told Leon he could pluck out his
eyes if he chose, not of course
suppoSing the possibility of such a
thing. Enraged at this wholly
unexpected answer young Gam
BETA tore the left eye from the
socket, and informed his father that
the right eye should go to keep
company with the left if there was
no other way to escape from the
hated language. Happily for France,
his father, recognizing the indom-
liable will of his son, at once yielded
the point,
Year: 1876

would make less than 1000 nails to
10 pounds for a 10d. nail would be
looked upon as a cheat, as in for
mer times the difference in the cost
of the manufacture Of one pound
of small nails over the larger sizes
was much greater than now. AS
nails are now made and sold, the
dealer only asks for the sizes needed
by the usual designation, and the
fact that there are now but about
two-thirds Of the number Of nails
formerly called for in the pound
does not lessen the value.
Year: 1876

The Board Of Public Works are pro
ceeding cautiously in their work O.
changing the system of working of the
several departments under their charge
To-day was given most exclusively tt
the Water works department. Very
little was done except curtailing the un
necessary employees.


The most important and radica
change that has been discussed is the
mode Of collecting water rents. The
plan adopted by the late Board, which
mas had but one years trial, and In
which there has been no delinquency,
should have consideration.


A new broom as general rule sweeps
clean, but it Is proper to give every new
movement fair trial. As the present
system has operated but one year and II
has Injured to the benefit. OF the con.
sumers of water, would it not be wise
for the Board to make haste slowly api
see further into the working of the pres
ent system before changingl
Year: 1876

THE indications are that regular lock
out has set in Mt Pittsburgh between the
mill owners and the puddlers. The facts
are fully set forth in another column and
do not need any special comment from us
by way Of explanation. There could be
no season OF the year, perhaps, when a
general suspension OF work would be less
likely to embarrass manufacturing opera
tions at Pittsburgh than just now. The
new card, adopted recently under pen
altics, has made very dull market for
manufactured iron OF all kinds, SO much
40 that it has seemed doubtful whether
despite the penalties, it could be main
tanned. A lockout will have the tendency
to give additional backbone to the new
schedule Of prices and reduce stocks or
hand to a point where operations can be
resumed at profit. -


At the same time, il the lockout shall
have the effect to thin out the overcrowd'
ed labor market at Pittsburgh, and lead
those now out OF employment to seek
other fields, as for instance agricnlIure,i'
will not be without benefit all around
The highly stimulated condition Of the
iron business before the panic drew intt
it mot only too much Of the capital, bu
likewise far too much Of the labor Of th'
country, to the great detriment of both
as results have abundantly shown.
Year: 1876

The call Of the Chairman Of the Repub'
lican State Committee appears in our
columns this morning for convention at
Parkersburg on the 9th Of July, whereat
to nominate candidates, for the various
State Offices.


This call seems to us unnecessarily
early, but no doubt there was strong
pressure on the part Of candidates and
their friends for its issuance, and to this
pressure the chairman has felt obliged
to defer. Wepresume that 80 far as ac-
tual results are concerned, the question
Of two or three weeks is not likely to make
much difference. Those who are disappOin-
ted in their aspirations at the convention
will have all the more time to cool oil
and become disinterested and patriotic
in the support Of their successful COM
petitors, and those who are successful
will have all the more time to grow calm
and phiIosophic over the possibility OF
ultimate defeat Mt the polls, as well as
more time in which to spend their
strength. and money in order to prevent
such calamity.


By the 9th Of July we shall all know
the strength or weakness OF the Demo
cratic ticket that ia to be nominated al
Charleston on Thursday next and jusi
what sort OF ticket to Offset against it
II the Democracy should nominate :
ticket that is particularly strong by rea'
son Of its high personal character, w
may have to look around lively in order
to find some dominoes TO match by the
9th OF July. The probabilities are, how
ever, judging from those who are mos
prominent before the public for nomina'
ton for the various offices, that the
Democracy will not tax the resources o'
their opponents very heavily in this re-
spect. The question Of geographical To-
CATION and soundness on the Capital re-
movaI seems to be the hobby that viii
play the most conspicuous part in the
Charleston Convention.


As to the place Of holding the Conven'
ton, the Committee have chosen n con
venient point and one that ought to se
cure large attendance from all parts oI
the State. Parkersburg has the genera
facilities to accommodate convention
properly, and no doubt the people ther'
will supply all the minor details necesss
ry to the comfort OF n large crowd, be
tween this and the day named in the call
Year: 1876

The Republicans are jubilant over their
victory in Vermont, when, in fact, it is a
triumph for the Democrats. Tested by the
large increase Of the vote, where the vote
is three to one Republican, without any
increase of majority, the victory is secid-
edly with the Democrats, for the same per
centage of change would make Pennsyl-
vania give Democratic majority of forty
thousand. The Republican victory in
Vermont is Of but little significance. The
election in that State was but slight skir-
mish in the great Presidential battle
Year: 1876

AN Odd Fellows parade to take place
on the goth Of this month, is to exceed
anything that has been up to that time
attempted during the Centennial year. 1t
is estimated that there will be fifty thou
sand people in the imposing pageant. A
very large number of lodges from different
parts Of the country have sent official
notices of their intention to participate in
the demonstration.
Year: 1876

aThe eternal fitness Of thinga," demand


that the corner Do meat be broken ant


until it is broken, tight and justice will mo-
prevail. It is disglaceful to our American
institutions. It il anti Republican and


anti Christian to permit . corner on any


thing, but especially is itdamning to suffer
corner on the necessaries Of life. The


country is cured with monopolies. but o.
all the cursed controlling combinations the


most pernicious is that on meats. The


country is too large and the requirements


too immense TOR any combination to control


any one of the great leading necessaries
of life. There is no right or reason for the


prices of meat being maintained at war
prices. One by one are monster monopo-
lies going by the board. Corners in grain


have failed, and recently the great corner
in coal which for time was regarded as
invincible, has collapsed and the people TO-
day are getting their coal at fair prices,
and beef, mutton, pork, an other meats
should be brought down and sold at prices
commensurate with the low rates Of wages
and the reduction of prices in grain and
coal. There should be war against the
war prices Of meats. Beef pork and NUT
ton are outrageously high. Let there be a
dead set made at the infamous meat COM
ion. Of all damnable monopolies the
meat monopoly is the most accursed.
Year: 1876

tUHo00yE1UED 00U14 QA10lAMA.
The sad condition Of things IN South
Carolina is fearful to contemplate, and tl,t
root Of the great evil is the unqualified


suffrage and universal ignorance Of the
negroes Under negro rule there is nc


punishment for offenses, the execution Of
the law being most doubtful thing, even


IN cases of conviction. Murderers and


incendiaries are Get free by negro juriea


and suffered to run unpunished. An indie
pendent Northern observer who has spent


much time in the South, and who has


abundant opportunities and leisure to


obtain clear understanding Of social and
political life under negro supremacy says,


that the negroes are inclined to treat the


idea of punishment by law as the notion


ofthe whites on par with that Of holding


them as slaves, and that as the North


winked at their escapes when they were


slaves, and proclaimed them free when the


chance came, that SO they are keeping up


the appearance of courts and punishments


for forms sake, but not because offenses
are really to be punished if it can be
avoided. He says that the seed of this
evil was sown when an unqualified suffrage


was given to so ignorant and indiscreet
people. The military rule also helps
and aggravates the evil, and in the present
negro courts justice is rarely reached and
never summarily punished. Negro courts
and juries are curses to the country. The
best thing for the country, he says, is to
keep the military away. The military |
cannot keep the country out Of state Of
anarchy, but greatly helps to keep it in
such a condition, by sustaining negro
courts and juries. Before enfranchising
the negro, he should have been educated
and taught to understand that citizenship |
and property were both to be worked for,
to be justly earned. The root Of all the
evil of misgovernment in South Carolina
is the unqualified suffrage and universal
ignorance of the negroes.
Year: 1876

The dog show at the Centennial was an
attractive feature of the Exhibition. Large
numbers went to see the display of sport
ing and transporting dogs. There were
orty distinct breeds Of dogs, and of six hun.
dred dogs exhibited nearly every one was
typical of Its class.
Year: 1876

an. exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, iu
order more fully to excite the fervent adora-
tions OF the faithful. Toe churches are


aud at no time of the day can the pie be
seen without numerous adorers before the
sanctuary of the Lord. All seem animal ed by
the same spirit that of making every atone
ment which love can suggest to the adora BILE
Body Mhioh was broken for nnr aina.