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Year: 1876

STANDING Rock AGENCY has recently be-
come known to fame, and the account of the
Indian war and the principal warriors given
by Colonel Burke, tho late agent. Is interest
ing, and accompanied with an explanation
OF his own part in the issue Of supplies.
Year: 1876

How TO DEAL WITH HIGHwAYMEN.-
The Paris newspapers chronicle an ex-
ample of presence of mind which it
may be we'll to quote for the benefit of
belated travellers. The other night,
says Figaro, one of our friends was
passing by a dark and lonely boulevard
on his way home. He was walking on
one side of the walk, his cane in his
hand, and unconscious of any danger.


Suddenly one of those rascals cut out
for the house of correction, came out
from pile of building materials, armed
with big stick, advanced upon the be-
lated stroller, and at last planted himself
before him. I" want your money, said
the rough, addressing our friend.


Chow much do you want?" 81 must
have twenty francs" "The duce you
must" remarked the victim: eff 1
give You twenty francs that other fellow
will ask for as much more" "What
other fellow?" asked the thief, turning
his head to see whether there really was
q rival behind him. Seizing the mo-
ment when he turned, our friend in
flicted master stroke of his cane upon
the side of the thiefs head, which stun
ned him and laid him out then ran
away without losing a moments time.
Year: 1876

A book agent lately met with a seri-
GUS accident in the suburbs. He was
walking along the railroad when a
freight train came along. The unfor-
tunate man was struck by the engine
and knocked directly across the track,
some tifty-three cars passing over him.
He was then tumbled down bank eight
hundred feet high, over stones and
stumps, and just as he got to the edge
Of the river he struck against pile
driver that was at work, and his head
lying on top of the pile for minute or
two, the ponderous hammer descended,
striking him on the cheek, bruising his
face somewhat. The shock rolled him
into the river just as an up-river packet
was passing, and by some mishap the
unfortunate mau was entangled in one
of the wheels and whirled round and
round for an hour and half before he
was discovered and released. He was
picked up nearly senseless and removed
to the cabin, where his wants we're sup
piled. After he had eaten a hearty
meal, he was approached by the cap
tain, who asked:


els there anything you would like
to have?"


No, no." replied the canvasser,
" there is nothing but this"


What! what" calculated the cap
tain; "what is it ?"


The book agent smiled sweetly as he
produced a subscription-list, and said :


Subscribe to that beautiful book
entitled The Poisoned Gum Drop or
the Candy Woman's Revenge by the
author of Jones, the Button-hole Ma
kerr"
Year: 1876

A SINGULAR REsCUK.-One of the
most singular rescues ever reported, oc-
Cured, the South Australian AdUertser
reports, during the voyage of the Ma
Marole from Fermantle. The schooner
was running at the rate Of ten knots per
hour, before heavy westerly gale, when
the alarm was given of a man over
board. One Of the South Sea islanders
had been relieved from the wheel, and,
In heavy pair of boots and an oilskin
coat, was going forward, when he was
knocked overheard by sea which came
over the side. The waves we're running
mountainously as he dropped astern,
but the report was no sooner made than
the schooner was rounded 10 in the
bare hope of saving the unfortunate
man. She came to the wind under a
press OF sail, made short reach, and
was soon about on the other tack. To
judge of the time on such occasions is
difficult, but the master considers that
q quarter of an hour elapsed before the
position where the man was lost over
board was regained. A sharp lookout
was kept, and on heading over an i'm
mense sea the voice Of the man was
heard above the roar of the gale. The
way Of the craft was at once stopped,
and the man swan up to the side and
was taken on board. He had thrown of
the heavy boots, but brought the oil
skin coat back.
Year: 1876

CATCHING THIR By HIS TEETH
A tobacconist at Greenoek, England,
on arriving at his shop one mon
ing, three weeks ago, found a fine
set Of false teeth lying on the counter.
de then discovered that a thief had
broken into the shop during tha night
and carried off cigars, tobacco and pipes.
The burglar had evidently taken out his
teeth while he was packing up his plum
der and in the haste Of departure had
forgotten to replace them. The police
ascertained that the teeth fitted gap in
the gums of one Blake, and he is now in
custody.
Year: 1876

SUNSHINE. what you can to make
sunshine in the world. Lift up the cur
tains. We do not mean the curtains to
the room, but the curtains which darken
the spirit of your brother, your friend,
your neighbor, or even of stranger,
If the curtain strings are within con-
venient reach. Lift up the curtains and
let the sunshine inl Light is better than
darkness, and how cheap it isl A kind
and cheering word to one who is in
trouble and is perplexed and almost
discouraged; word of heartfelt SYM
pathy TO the afflicted; loving word of
counsel to the young, word of assur-
ance to the doubling; soft word
which, though it buffers no parsnips,
turneth away wrath" to the prejudiced
and unreasonably provoked; all such
words as these are true sunshine to
those to whom they are spoken. 81
have never found anything else so cheap
and so useful as politeness," said an old
traveller to us once. he then went on
to state that, early in life, finding how
useful it was, frequently to strangers,
to give them some information Of which
they were in search, and which he pos
sessed, he adopted the rule always to
help everybody he could in such little
opportunities as were constantly offer
ing in his travels. The result was that
out of the merest trihes of assistance
rendered in this way had grown some
OF the pleasantest and most valuable
acquaintances that he had ever formed.
How many great men have testified that
their whole lives have been influenced
by some single remark made to them in
their boyhoodl And who cannot recall
words spoken to himself in his child
hood, to which, perhaps, the speaker at
tached no importance, but which sank
deep and immovably into his memory,
and which have never lost their power
over himl Make sunlight the world at
best is dark enough. Do what you can
to make it more cheerful and happier.
Year: 1876

Thursday evening about o clock and as
he had some beer both drank of it, Sim
mons then CAV, him money 10 buy moro
beer, and when he returned found his
wife violating her marriage VOW. Calling
his step child, Ellen, who was asleep on
the bed, as a witness of her mothers
crime. he seized hatchet which lay be
hind the stove and struck Simmons dead
with one blow on the neck. He asserted
he struck Simmonss head off at one blow,
but afterward accounted for the cuts about
the neck by saying he had to hack it off
i-the next morning, as it was not entirely
severed. He declared that he intended to
give himself up but his wife had persuaded
him not to do 80. and Friday he dragged
the body into the bed room and cut it up,
packing the pieces away in different places
until he could get rid of them.


The officers who first inspected Fuchs
departments reported. that there were pals
in the kitchen and bedroom containing
meat, which they thought night be pick
| led pork. A close examination of the
premise ,was then made, and in ,ol chest
| under the bed was found heavy solid
hammer thpt bore bloody stains. and a
common handsaw stepped with blood and
|
| heavy hatchets or axes. and these were
covered with half obliterated blood marks


Ia another corner, under a couch, was a
small tin pail filled to the brim with irag


ments of the human body cut into pieces
not more than two or three inches in
length At the side of the bed was "a
large pine chest dyed in every part with
blood, as though bleeding body had been
hastily iammed into it as into a tempor-
ary receptacle. La a common black leath-
er travelling trunk was found another por
ton of the nutilated body, strips of flesh,
and pieces of skin, In another part of the
chamber was large tin wash boiler nearly


filled with portions of mans limbs. pieces
of arms, of hands and of legs and feet: In


the midst of these remains was the trunk
Of body, the ribs stripped clear of skin
and flesh.


The officers next searched the bed aud


turning up the ticking uncovered other


fragments Of human body. Then they


went through the kitchen and digging up


under the bricks of the fire place brought
out many other remains similar to those


discovered in the bed room, They gather


ed the bloody fragments together and sent


them to the morgue. The axes, saw and


hammer were taken to the police station.
Year: 1876

ROCKFORD, HIS, Jan. 3o.-P Gartland
and wife were found this morning near
their farm. five miles north of this city,
4rczen to death. They had been market
ing here during the day, and last night
started home in an opeE wagon, both pro
baby under the influence of liquor. Mrs.
Garland citLer fell from the wagon or was
thrown from it, and striking in the muddy
road face downward was frozen to death 10
that position Her husband was found nea,
the hog pen of his own place also frozen
stiff The coroner's jury rendered yer
dict OF frozen TO death while under the
effects of Intoxicating liquor"
Year: 1876

Tie Republican State Central Commit
tee have selected Mr.. W. ]. W. Cowden
Of this city, rs their Secretary, and thu
Committee is now organized for the work
Of the canvass. The names and address
Of each member OF the Committee will Dt
kept standing along with tue State ticket
an our second page.
Year: 1876

Mr.. Edmunds said he would call up, as
unfinished business, the constitutional
amendment forbidding the appropriation
Of any school fund to sectarian schools. He
promised that the Judiciary Committee
which reported it would not occupy more
than three.quarters Of an hour In giving
their views on the subject.
Year: 1876

Tho committee OF conference on the
diplomatic and consular appropriation
bill this morning agreed on basis Of Set-
tlement. Mutual concessions will be
made, but it Is understood the Senate,
conferees will fix the salaries, -
Year: 1876

PIymOuih Church Sustained on the


Fourth and Fifth Questions.


BROOKLYN, Feb. 22.-At the afternoon ses.
sion, after prayer, the report on the fourth
much discussion. This question related to the
calling of the mutual council requested by ex-
Deacon William F. West, and in it the church
asked if it should have called a mutual council
when requested to by member who had never
submitted any charges against the pastor. and
when such request was made more than one
year after the investigation had beer had by
the church itself, in which the pastor had been
sustained. The committee, to whom was also
referred the communication sent to the council
by Deacon West, report that the action of the
church was proper and just. They state that
the communication was before them Irregular
ly, inasmuch as West, according to Congrega.
tonal usage, should have exhausted every
other effort to set the matter right before ap-
pealing to a council; they therefore refer the
whole matter back to the church.


The report of the committee on the fifth
question, relating to the calling of Mrs. Moul-
toms mutual council, and in which the church
asked whether it had acted right and proper,
or If there was any error on its part which
should be corrected, sustains the action of the
church, and says that the committee feels salts.
fed that Plymouth church was anxious to have
mutual council called. They also state it as
their belief that had Judge Van Cott not
thrown up his hand so soon the council would
have been called. This report was also adopt.
ed without much discussion. Both of the a.
bove reports advise that in every case all other
means of righting matters should have been
exhausted before proceeding to call the coun-
Gil and that no church should call council, SO
long as there is any other way of settling the
difficulty.


Feb. 23-The morning session of the copn-
Gil to-day was presided over by ex-Gov. Dingley
DIR. Bacon in behalf of the special committee
to which was referred the letter from Andover'
Seminary church, presented report in which
the committee say that Plymouth Church
would not accept the invitation. They COM
mend the Seminary very highly but regret that
it should have put forth such a call. 1t is held
that one church should never call for the trial
of the pastor of another, especially after an in
vestigation has been held by the latter and the
pastor declared innocent. The report is sai6 to
be very exhaustive one.


the discussion of the first resolution offered
at the last evenings session, by the committee.
was then resumed, and the council finally de-
cided that the investig alton held in 1874
was adequate and that Plymouth Church had
done its whole duty in the matter. The dis
cussion on the second resolution was then com
menced, bnt was not concluded when the coun-
Gil adjourned.


At the afternoon session the report of the
committee on the question, Shall there be an
other investigation was discussed at lengthand
finally it was decided in fauor of such investi-
cation.
Year: 1876

CAosanS argument n OF tne government


ST. LOUIS, Feb. 23.-District attorney Dyer
commenced his closing argument in the
Babcock case this morning before crowded
courtroom. At the outset he referred to his
conduct of Office since he assumed it nine
months ago and entered upon the duties as
prosecutor of the whiskey ring. He disclaimed
the idea that he had been led into the prosecu
ton of any innocent man and told the jury that
he appeared without malice or other intention
than as representative of the whole people to
prosecute great wrongs. He characterized the
case as remarkable one and the course of the
Judge Porter of trying to drag the President
into the case needlessly aud groundlessly. He
should comment on the Presidents testimony
as he would on that of any other witness.


Mr.. Dyer closed his argument for the govern
ment in the Babcock trial and the court ad-
Journed till 10 o'clock tomorrow, when it is
expected that Judge Dillon will charge the jury
and give the case into their hands.
Year: 1876

The withdrawal of the Gussie Telfsir
and California from the route between
the Sound and Portland, is another
good cause for the return of the Olym-
pia to these waters. She ran between
San Francisco and the Sandwich Islands
for some months and can easily serve a
shorter one like that between Portland,
Neah Bay, Victoria and the Sound
towns. We hope Capt. Finch will send
her up and run her as above stated; and
by that time, in our opinion, the North
ern Pacific Railroad Go. will be very
glad to take silver at par in payment for
treight-or anything else.
Year: 1876

The Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany has notified business firms in this
city that after date Of notification. all
charges of freleht must be paid in gold
only. The justice of this proceeding
is very questionable; at the same time,
while condemning the policy which has
inaugurated it, we shall do so in no mean
spirit. We can differ with people and
Pdiffer honestly. Hence while We ques-
ton the policy of this step we shall not
do SO in coarse spirit of abuse.


The trade of Seattle by way of the
Northern Pacific railroad. is dependent
entirely upon her traffic with Portland.
There is nothing compulsory about
this trade, as is the case with the peo-
pie of Eastern Oregon who have no
other base of supplies. We have Vic
toria less than hundred miles of,
where better articles of silks, cloths,
liquors and many other articles can be
purchased. of superior quality to any
thing ever offered for sale in Portland.
If we want flour and other staples that
Oregon produces, we can buy them in
San Francisco and ship hither by the
Pacific Mail steamers. much cheaper
than by the Kalama-Tacoma route.


The merchants of Seattle receive but
little gold in trade, as they do business
mostly with coal miners who receive their
pay mostly in silver-at the very least,
two-thirds of it. To catch this trade,
our merchants must take silver at par
or The mine-owners would establish
stores of their own and the profits on
the merchandise wonld be spent in San
Francisco, rather than here. Therefore
We say it is unjust to make our people
pay freight in currency which they do
not receive, once in ten times.


Another view of the case is this: The
Northern Pacific Railroad Company is
an Eastern corporation and organized
entirely on greenback basis. All its
accounts are kept on that basis and it
paid all its bills in currency up to four
years ago when we left here. Whether
it has changed to a coin basis since, we
are not prepared to say. But we know
that this step will cut off Portland 8
trade with the Sound at least forty per
cent. in the next sixty days and the
company will find it has but rehearsed
the fable of the boy and the golden
eggs. We believe that the Northern
Pacific road can be compelled to receive
greenbacks not only for freight but for
fare of passengers also; and that any at
tempt to eject passengers from the cars
who tender greenbacks, will result in
verdict against the company. 1t might
be we'll for them to heed a timely warn
ing.
Year: 1876

Burglary by Indians is becoming a
fine art in Victoria. 1t would seem that
a certain jewelry stole was broken open
and robbed last week by three Siwashes,
one of whom was blind, another born
without arms, and the third one naked.
The blind Indian saw a gold watch in a
jewelers. window; the armless Indian
broke open the door with Jimmy.
and the naked Indian put the ''super'
in his pocket. We shall see them all in
the changing before we return to this
blahsted country, ys know.
Year: 1876

The eastern portion of the Territory.
about Palouse rapids. is filling up with
immigrant families from Idaho and
Montana. We attribute this to the slow,
but sure decay of placer mining in those
Territories. Most of these people bring
bat little means with them. but the
country owes them living.
Year: 1876

A party of four hundred men has been
organized at Philadelphia to start for the
Black Hills early next month.


Chas. X. Lands, recently acquitted ON
the ground of insanity of the murder of Car
ruth, the Vineland, N. Y, editor, has been
pronounced sane by Judge Reed after exam
inatiOn of witnesses and discharged from
arrest


A bill to abolish the death penalty in
Maine, and substitute Imprisonment and
hard labor for life, passed the senate by a
vcte of IS to IL. The measure had previously
passed the house. An attempt to have the
question settled by the people at the next
election was defeated in the senate by a vote
of IS to II.
Year: 1876

st. Louis papers of the 18th contain
the following:


Between I and o'clock last night two
men i'll buggy with what seemed to bt
colored boy sitting between them drove
on the bridge, tossed the tOll-keeper theiI
fares and started hastily towards East st
Louis. When out some distance on thC
bridge a cry of " Help, for Gods sake, .
issued from the buggy, and the colored
boy was tumbled out, when the other oc-
cupants of the buggy put the whip to
the horse and disappeared in the dark
ness. Jerry Miller, the bridge collector,
hastened TO the spot, and found that the
seeming -colOred boy was colorcd wo-
man, who said the men in the buggy
were named Wilson and Holland, and
that they were the parties who robbed
the United States express car on the St.
Louis Kansas City and Northern railroad
a few miles from st. Louis about six
weeks AGO. She stated further that she
attended to their room in the fourth stO-
ry of the building 314 North Third street,
over the American Express office, and
that she went there about eight O'Clock
Yesterday morning and found them look
ing some of the stolen articles and papers
over. On being discovered at this, they



seized and chloroformed and gagged her,
and kept her in the room all day. To
wards evening they put mems clothes ON
her and about seven O'Clock carried her
down stairs and placed her in buggy.
She saws she was sensible while being
taken out of the building, and heard
Wilson and Holland say they wanted 10
tie weight to her neck and throw her
from the bridge into the river; that she
knew too much and must be got rid OF.
BEING gagged she could not call forhelp
ner could She escape by running away.
But while on the bridge she managed to
get the gag out of hermouth and scream
ed for assistance, and was thrown out OF
the buggy. When Wilson and Holland
reached the east end of the bridge they
were stopped by the toll collector and
officer Armstrong for fast driving, but
they jumped out of the buggy and dashed
down the eastern approach of the bridge
for dear lie, and escaped. In the buggy
was found bottle which had contained
chloroiorm, a trace-chain, and sledge
hammer, and car coupling link, which
were 10 doubt intended 10 he used to
sink the woman after throwing her into
the river. Holland was formerly a rail
road conductor, but the cOlored woman
did not know who Wilson was.
Year: 1876

BURNED TO DEATH.-A horrible story
comes from Oakland, California A fire
broke out in the house of Mr.. Weary
There was no one in at the time but a
child about fifteen months of age. 1t
was tied in high chair to prevent its
falling. The fire was not discovered un-
til the whole room where the little one
was bound was filled with smoke and
flames. A lady next door heard the tor
tured infaut scream Mamma! Mann
ma p and rushed out just as the alarm
had been given. 1t was too late to save
it then. The fremen came and extin-
guished the flames; but the little girl,
still sitting in the chair, was charred to
a crisp. The mother was absent from
the house five minutes when she returned
to find her darling dead in the flames.
Year: 1876

The way of the transgressor is
hard, says the Bible, and one would
suppose from rhe hard road which
Henry Ward Beecher is being made to
travel, that he is to be ranked among
the transgressors. His enemies are
untiring and unrelenting. They pur.
sue him without mercy, leaving, il
possible, no avenue for his escape.
viii not such persecution produce the
very opposite of its intended effect?