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i WILLAMETTE FARMER: PORTLAND, OREGON, .OCTOBER 14, 1881. BUSH! TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. ' KASTKKIN. liililnet Mailers. Waiiikhtiiv, Oct. 0. President Artliur aas not jet fully lccileil as to liis cabinet ap pointment?, as ho has been compelled to give much of hm timu htcly to tliipositinn of pri vate nfTurs. This much can ho stated with nosi'.ivcw-ss, fiat he lias assured Postmaster General James awl Secretary Hunt that they can remain in Ins chintt an long as they de sire to remain in tho positiini they now hold. lloth of them will reiuiin. Secretary lilaine will ictlru as early as he really wishes to do so The story that Hlainc wishes to re main in the cabinet is not true. This was stated to the western associated press agent to-day oy a very prominent Republican who has closest relations with Blaine. A llitrrlhle trlnir. Nkw Ydkk, Oct. (i. I'olice are scaichinq for four convicts, believed to bo persons who entered a squalid tenement in West 20th street riming the day ond brutally assaulted an invalid mother and killed her infant babe only fifteen days old in the struggle. An Atrocious Allnrk. Lanoastkh, i'a., Oct. 7. Edward Sanders and 1'hilip Kogcrs, two notorious characters, last night forced their way into tho room 1 jlrs. Maiy Seymour, and, in tho prcsenco of her threo children, criminally assaulted her. The woman stiuggled desperately, and at length escaped, Sonders following hor into the street ami knocking her down scverul limes. Airs. Seymour finally eicipcd to a neighbor's house, ill which she died from the i fleets of the iiijuiies ircei cd. Her ass lilauts were arrested. V llalil lltnikr. Hiihtoi , N. Y , Oct. 7. A shock of earth quake was felt heru a little after midnight, It passed fioni West to cast and inadu a noise Boinethiug like tho rumbling of a very heavy train nf cats, ami shook the buildings per ceptibly. Colli Weather. lloston, Ojt. ti. Wolfsboio, N. ., reports say the thciiuoincter has fallen !2 degrees since Monday afternoon, and marked '28 de grees this morning. Snow squalls aro frequent to-day. Fruits are fioan on the trees and blown oft', Iloynion ami Ills Mali-limit. Nkw Ycikk, Oct. 7. A Sun' Washington special says: Jt is asserted that Mrs. (Jarticld lias requested Dr. Iloyntou to withdraw thu statement which ho had prepared relative to tho autopsy and general treatment of the President's case, as she is satisfied that the President's wound was mortal and did not desire to lime tho controversy further nro longed. Many ot the sayings attributed to Garfield were either misunderstood or were not correctly reported fioin tho siuk loom. Notably tho saying, "Is it worth while to continue tho struggle longer ? " is said to havu originated in tins statement nude in tho Pres ident's wanderings when he was evidently ,loimr ovtr his, work as a member of tho elec toral commission, "Is it north while to go into his Floiida Uuamaaa furtLav t!ZQii ervlw-l-n ixntg Ttranch he fell into a stupor from which ho did not rally until the next day. When hu did aiuiiso ho u as surpi iscd to find whole he was and requested to lie Ukou nway and said ho had asked to be taken to Mentor, and wished to go thcro. He frequently asked for Ultimo and wondered he dill not come, but did not make a gencial request that all the membeis of his cabinet visit him. Toward tho latter pat t of the time tho phytic! ins and attendants worn compelled to satisfy his re quests with o union, Notion of Business. WAsiilMiroN, Oct. 7. OiderM for and ship ments ol stamps from tho iutci nation il lovcuue bureau yosteiday wero the lamest eei' buforo known in n single day. One hundred and twuitty.fivoii.nl pouches were sent. rimlliiR Onl Wliiit IVoile Hi I ilk or Mini. Nkw Pukk, Oct S. -A U'oild's Washing ton snoctal says: Word comes from the Jul that (luitoti! has been sullei imr torments from nppiehciiMous of ptihlio feeling for the past few dayn,iluo to Seoillu's having left a bunch nf papeis behind him after his visit on Tues day. Theso were the first newspapers (Jul tcau hail. Keen siuca his confinement, and nev. oi ill of them being of western publieatinn lefeiretl to him in Mini cliar.ietilistii.illy ciprossisc. Ilooits lii Kpaln. A llrrnlil'n Madrid spioial says seiious Hoods are aguin meimeiug thu provinces of Mjtroia and Alicante. After recent lieivj rains the rivers have liseu in -1 hums seven metres iibov o their level, Hooding the valley around Mureia and Drihuela, stopping the railway lullio on both the Alicante and Carthsgena lines. Weather cold all over Spain. A Villoual Mt'iimrliil lloilul. Wamii.mitiin, Oct. .'!.- Senator Miller has been appointed on the occutivo couumtteo for thu vstablislimeut in Washington of a national and iuteinitional (iarfield memorial hospital, to the eiectiui of which hu nsks proper subscriptions in an) sums from not only people of thu I'mled States, but from the woilil nt huge. Interest line. The lust inteiest on tontinmd fi poi cent bunds of the funded loan of 'HI becomes due the let of Nov ember and will amount to near J&il.OOO.OCX), r l'iiliiiaslir. There vv ill bo about ninety ii.iniliutloin of postmasters tube made the (lulling picial session of tho Senate Of these ukiiit forty live are of iiiutiiitsti-r appointed liy (itillnld after the adjournment of thu Senate last sum. liter, There are twenty-one post otlioes w hie It became presidential the lirst of Ust duly be cause of an iucicaau in receipts, and twenty, two vv Inch became presidential the first of the prtucut month. Nominations for thise, it is supposed, will Iki sent in. for costing, ba mado and presented to (ho United States, to be erected in'YVaahinflton, to commemorato the kindly feeling between me two nations. iWnrolect is bruited of an international and .-national hospital,, to be. erected on the spot where Garfield was shot.' A preliminary committee his been appoiitfel , ' J i The Wadjergha massacre reports show that the Arab heaped up thrco.hundred sleepers on which they caat grass, tow and oil, and threw the victims into the burning moss live. Howgatc was brought before Commissioner Huoilv at Washington on a charge of embez zling ('H.OOO and bail'fixed at 50,000. How gato was unprepared to procure it and there' upon committed. Tho tlefcnso have brought up a petition for a habeas corpus. The workmen at the Stauuruslnre potteries have given notice tint they will demand an advance of wages in November, that the mas ter have rcsoH ed to resist the demand, and that a striko must-ensuc. 'I ho strike would involve from 00,000 to 80,000. A ealc Tuesday night and Wednesday han died severely smaller crafts on the Atlantic coast. Nearly all n port losses ol sails and spars, and tome were driven ashore. One schooner lost seven men and another two. The life-sav ing crews rescued many seamen off Virginia. Tho frost on the Cth, was very general throughout Virginia and did incalculable damage, especially to tho tobacco crop. At least ono-half of cho standing crop has been destroyed, and in some counties the condition is even worse, but little of the crop having boon cut and housed. Henry Villard and party arrived at Seattle on the fith on tho steamer George K. Starr from Tacoma. Mr. Villard stated to tho citi zens who visited tho steamer upon her arrival, "We go direct to Victoria and will remain there until 'J hursday evening, when we will return to Seattle and spend Friday with jou,'' Henry Villard and party arrived atVictoiia on the 8th, and after a stay of a few hours re turned to Puget Sound.. Villard visited Ks quimalt harbor, tho supposed tcruiiuus oi-tho (J. P. railway, and made inquiries as to the island, coal lands and the inducements that am held nut for tho construction of an island railway, Dinp. itches to the Victoria Colonist from the mainland report that a serious disaster has bo fallen tho cered crops. About cightdays ago heavy rains fell throughout the interior, and crops which were just ready for the sicUo are entirely ruined. Upwards ol 200 miles of country binds wcia subjected to this disaster. and crops which promised abundance are now f;one irretrievably. Un the island lower main and crops aro safely housed. STATE NEWS. MoMinnville, voted down the proposed JfiOO tax for school purposes. Orint county has produced a peach meas uring in circumference !J inches. Mr. Crandall has found paying quaitz in tho Kudu Creek mountains of llaker and Union counties. The trostlo work on the O. K. 4 C. R. R loading to and from the Harrisburg railroad brulg', is going to bo thorough 'y overhauled and mado as good as now. from one stalk or vino, Hon. K Iloult, -?,- reason gireafu Mopping there is that a long iurinel-niost.beV built bcten Tolcdo'and Vord's.Polut, thwuturo termipos,' which will require "a great length of time and much labor, and'cannot be ready to move the present crop oi stmduiiiiuddh season; Dnc Ds aK ping at Toledo the road can be in rejmi early in 1882 to move off the crop. ThBerk nf tnnnAlinra urill Iia tal.,.l al.aa.l ahjSl..l.' abtyby Fall in 1882 tho road will be in readi ness' for trade and traffic to Ford's Point, the uniriuai terminus. ten notatocs of the early variety, weighing 10 pounds. Tho potatoes aro all nearly of the simo size and aro hard to beat from one vine. Two livery stable horses from Canyon City ran away last week and fell into a cut, one of them breaking four 'ega and the other throe. They hail to be shot to reliovc them ot their pain. Tho Oregon City mills aro literally full to the roof, says the Knttrnrwr. and tho nronri- etors hav o been compelled to construct sheds on their vv half to hold the immense amount of wheat they are receiving. H. C. (Jeer, of Fruit Farm, Marion county, Ougon, raised ),X0 pounds of Kuglish fiol den Cluster hops on .')lj ncres of red land, with IHX) hills to thu acie, and onu polo to the hill, which is '2,CM pounds to thu acie. If any onu can bent that, 1st htm come to thu front. TUKKITOKIAIi. Tho ield of wheat fioin Hillock's " big ranch," near Walla Wulla, was 83,000 bushels. Postponemknt Akkkii FoKi Mr. William Avers, the well known horseman, has sent a communication trom LaOrand to the president and board of directors of tho N. W. L. A. A., signed by a number of tho principal horsemen there, asking that thu Fall races of the asso ciation bo postponed until tho 22d or 24th ol October, so as to allow them time to net here after the races at LaGrande are over. Should this request bo granted, a number of parties pledge themselves to bring down their stables in which are Patsy Dully, Ordinance, Neva Winters, Joo Howell, liilly Gonitis, Premium, Trade Dollar, Caddie It, Sweet Home, Walla Walla Maid, Faustina and others, and there will also a number of people come down from tnat region ana tno vyaua walla country. Hon Ovkb and Killed, A dispatch dated at The Dalles gives the following: AY, Wil liams, an employe of the 0. It. 4.K, Co., was run over and killed at the'east end depot last night at 9 o'clock by two freight cars. He was intoxicated,, and took shelter from the rain under one of tho cars and foil asleep. He lingered until 8 o'clock this morning and died from the effects of his injury. An inquest was held by the coroner to-day, and the verdict was according to the above facts. He was a married man, hai two children and leave's par ents at llenecia, Cat. He formerly worked on tho narrow gauge at Silverton. Quitk A Fi.klt. A gentleman of this city who was down at the mouth of the Willain etto on Wednesday afternoon informs us that fourteen steamers, three ships and three barges passed that point within the phort apauo of twenty minutes all bound to or from tins city, and that none of them got stuck in tho mud. This don't look like Portland be coming an inland town in a hurry. Neaiu.v Rkadv. Tho new steamer Ya- quina is almost completed and will soon be in condition to run between the Yoquina Kay and Portland or San Francisco. She has a carrying capacity tor tour hundred tons ol Ireigiit, and accommodations Isr about titty passengers. CoMriKTKt). Tho narrow gauge division of the O. K. k N. Co. has completed its road to Fullquartz Landing, to which point daily trains are being run from Airlie, in Polk county. At Fullquartz Landing connection is made with boats to this city and intermediate points. Ratk or Taxation, The county court has fixed the rate of taxation for next year as follows: State tax 5J mills, county tax 7 mills, and school tax 3 mills. i. .1 rf- to get at them in Winter that those who have no way to preserve potatoes except this,', as, a general thing prefer not lo grow at allrrathcr than to be bothered with this. ( Damnneits undoubted! v favors the s oread of the tsTsjito.disease. and, therefore, whero there M0sfi9S t all of the disease existing in tho'rMMKSy' ought to be stored as dry as possihtf'TTioso which are to be kept in this general way should be dry and cool; but 'this should be especially seen in the case of seed potatoes. Since the potato beetle came among ns, it is clear that we have had the very best results from early planting and by the use of the earliest varieties. Now these early kinds are more easily affected by the warmth than the late ones. They sprout easily, and coolness is therefore the more es sential for them. Some people think it makes little difference whether seed potatoes sprout or not before planting, and w e have known people to tear off sprouts several inches long, and cut up the tubers in full faith that they will sprout out again and be none the w orse for it. They generally grow, but they are constitutionally n eakcr and much more lia ble to disease than those which do not. sprout till ready to go into the ground, 'nifc ami Gardener. Bon H. M. Estee on Combinations and Mo nopolies. In a'reccnt address delivered before the St Helena Viticultural Association, of California, among other matters of general interest, Mr. Ks tee said: There is- another very serious question w hich affects, or will affect the prosuci ity of the grape-grow ers of California, that is the question of transportation! In order to make grape growing successful and wine-making successful in California, we must have the world for a market; to do this we must have fair and reasonable transporta tion, and that it may be fair and reasonable, every man should have an equal light to tians port, between the same points, the same quan tity at the same price. I am informed that a few w ino merchants of San Francisco hav e organized a combination and entered into a contract with the P. M. S. S. Co., whereby they have agreed to ship to New York, with in a time limited, between 1,000,000 and 2, 000,000 gallons of wine at a price stated, and upon the express terms and agreement that no other person or persons should have an equal opportunity to ship that amount or any other amount of wine to the same point from the same shipping place at the same figure. This a fraud and an outrage; it is a disgrace to the Pacific Mail Steamship Co., and to the railroad companies that stand behind them, and it is a disgrace also to those wine mer- somewhere between Texas and Montreal. As soon as a car is unloaded it shonld be started back' to the road from which it came, butjn New England thoy turn'it over as fheepm moa'propcrtyof the road, and it is run back and forth, carrying local freight." It ja uot'aii uncommon thing when a car is loaded and sent t'o an easternpoint, that'it is not again beard from for three or four months. In the meantime there aro more Jhan a-hundred clerks employed on the car accounts, and week after vv eek' searchers are sent out for the missing car. A lair idea OI tno magnuuue oi these accounts may be had from the fact that the entire movement over tho Pennsylvania Railroad exceeds 4,000 per day. Lost freight cars, which. were formerly hunted by travel ing agents, are now traced by "searchers,'1 official documents, which contain the number and description of the lost car, and tho date on which it was last seen on the Pennsylvania road. These documents are forwarded in the wake of the car, receiving many olKcial sig natures on the way, and finally overtake an agent w ho has the car in charge. Winter Wheat. The season has arrived for the sowing of Winter wheat, the first requisite in the culti vation of which is the pioper condition of the soil, involving Well-plowed fields with the weeds all turned under. Next a system of deep planting, to increase the number of stems, and therefore of ears, and to prevent the throwing out of the roots by the alternate frosts and thaws of Spring. In the cultiva tion of wheat it is highly important that it should have good root-hold, to accomplish which the seed needs to be sown as early ns possible in the Fall. It sometimes happens that along, cool Fall season occurs before the ground closes for Winter, in which case tho roots of the whcit plant are continually de scending into the. ground, so that when freez ing weather sets in they aie firmly set, thus avoiding the danger or their being throw n out. Sowing seed wheat at insufficient depth causes the roots to lie too near the surface, and thus liable to be throw n out in tho Spring. American Vulthalor. Killing Poultry. This is how the French kill their poultry: They open the beak of the fowl, and with a sharp-pointed, narrow-bladed knife, make an incision at the back of the roof of the mouth, which divides the vertebra: and cause instant death, after which the fowls are hung up by the lees. Thev will bleed perfectly, with no disfigurement: nicked while warm, and if de sired scalded. In this way the skin presents a more natural appearance than when scalded 1 "f'alaniltrV Wire, jLt. enants who nave entered into the comuinatton. aHf lll Ittl Illlfil I iftft " a 'ralu'i because it is intended to give O"'!. v sT nieichants a monopoly of and an ad van 1 -j iwgi ITEMS BY TELKUKAl'll. The total amount contributed to the Gar field fund i ?.4:t0. The fund for Mm. t.atiield and family has leached &t3l,li7D. Neither Conkliiii ii(irKoUrtou will attend tho Now ork State convention. Lithographs have bet n luued to be given to the subtiribei to the (iarlirld monument fund. Captain How gate hat been arnsttd on an additional charge of stealing fX,(XX). letters published t Copeiihagaii state that crops have failed in Sweden and a limine it impending. Conk ling was badly bcateu in hit rtlort to get uontrol of the New York Republican Con vention. A project u on foot among Amei leant in Ixutdou to build a church ill liiriuoiy of Prt-tl- neni utuieiil. An advertiwiiiciit appears in the IjiuUii lhi!y .'r propotini; that a duplicate of llntce Joint' statue uf (lltdttone, now riady Tho leeent rain has put the ground in ex cellent conditimi for tho Autumn farming, and the fanners aro now putting in Fall grain. Iho Fall run of salmon, Rajs the Vancou ver ndrjHiident, in Salmon creek is in pro gress, and the lanU are lined with dead nud d)ing tih. The run is very heavy, lufauions ittruilil Pulled. Two of our eitiens, having business at comt, started fur I.afayette last' Tuesday morning, savs tho Yamhill l!e)Hrter, and as they went on foot they took tho lailroad track. When they I cached the high bridge across the North Yamhill rivtr they came upon a very uly uiranijetnent lit tho shape of some timbers placed upon tho track ami siuurrly wedged tluro in n shapo calculated to tuiovv oil a train, no matter I rum which direction it eauio. The President's train would havu been the onu an Her had the trap not been discovered, as th.it was tho first ti .kin to pass along. The obstruction was placed at a point upon the bri Iga where it is about 100 feel from the track to the water of the Yamhill, below, and tho idol of a tumble from a height liko that is enoiinh to make one's blood I till told. Heartless, indeed must be the liun that would pliu to fearful a crime and disaster. What tho object or mo tive of the act eoiild havu been, we aro totally at lots tn conjecture. t'rrl. A shoit time since aa tho College Journal wo had the pleasure of upending a couple dajs in Portland and chatting for a few minutes with several of her most clear-headed and prominent business men. The good opinion we had already, formed of the city was tjivatly mcreatid by the gvtieruut and geutle manly treatment received from them. It cents to ut that Portland has. for the next Iccade at .least, the U-tt outlook for lth rapid and permanent growth of any city tint tide of Chicago. In taut, wo taw no city this tide of Chicago which it at present growing netilv at rapidly at Portland, though we traveled tho entire length of the Southern, Central and Union Pacific Railroad during the Summer, licing, at the it, tho natural depot of a vail and fertile country, at well at a great railroad center, Portland cannot well help growing, When we add to thit the fact that the it otie of the richett eitict of her mo in the w oild ami that her butuirtt uieu have all the ruer.v and dariuc of Chicaraaut. hoi growth and success are doubly aaturuJ, Toi mm tiik TaitMisi'ii It urmuomt that tho wttttiu liruiiuut ot tho Yaquiua lUy ltaitnvsd, for the preicnt at least, will bo at Toledo, nunc 13 miles above Newport The Progress of the Panama Canal A correspondent of the Journal den JJelmtf, writing from Panama, gives an account of tho progress made thus far with De Lessep's great undertaking. The first practical work of any importance yet completed) is the construction of a grand pathway from Colon to Panama. which has been cleared of trees and other ob structions to a width varying from 30 to 60 feet. Now that this cloarance has boen made, it is possiblo for the first timo to get a clear idea of tho work which is before the company. Hitherto it has been only by rather vague guesses that the lie of t'te surface could be conjectured, because the thick foliage of tho trees, spreading over the v alloys and ravines, often mode it dillicult even to sec that these existed. If it was ossumad, as tho Debatt thinks, that in theso casus tho ground was as flat as the tops of thu trees, then thu discov ery of deep depressions so arched ov'er w ill be a great gain in estimating the extent of the excavation works. There is another point in which tho most recent explorations ate re garded as unexpectedly favorable. It was assumed when tho plans wero made that all along the route of the canal a stratum of hard rock would bo found underlying tho soil at a dentil of about 12 feet. Hut at Kmneiado. where tho principal bonnes have been made, it is stated that on March 31st the instrument had reached a depth of 37 feet without find ing any rock, aud even at that point tho rock which appeared was only a lavcr about six feet thick, succeeded underneath by a mixture of clay and soft stone, which went down to a depth of 01 feet, where the boro was still working lately without encountering any rink. It is now said that tho excavation work will probably be liegun in October, after the rainy season, and in tho meantime tho preparatory operations are being actively carried on by companies of workmen, recruited from among tho inhabitants and from Carthageua, w hencu they have been driven by an invasion of locusts. Storing and Keeplnf Potatoes. Of late years the potato has been one of the moat profitable of faun crept in the Hast, and thit chiefly aritet from tho fact tlut it is somewhat difficult to keep any very great quantity of them. Thut ouly so many of them are grown as can be preserved, and at the accomodation! are limited there it no glut in tho market at there are with thingt which are grown and mutt be sent to market at once. Of course there aro timet w hen pota toes rule low. Thit it apt to be the case with early ones, grow n especially for early pur poses, ami inch follow the same law that rules in tntutieut vegetables. So alto those who grow potatoes aud have n com emeuce for storing them. Those who have good col lars under their bmt, or in any place safe from frost and yet cool and dry, can generally iiuke poUtogrowiug pty very well; aud these are usually the ones who do. The infected tubert wilt often rot, espe cially if the mats heatt a little, aud the dit eased ones will often communicate the diieate to the rett, lu a cellar' this can be iwa and noted, but iu a mound out of door no one kuowt of the trouble till Spring, when j-rtvat lost it found. Resides thit, it it to difficult ,wlne .trade trt the-pociflc Coast, because if 'they can ship their wine to New York cheaper than the producers can or cheaper than the other merchants can, then no producer can seek for a market outside of California, and competition in buying and selling wine in California ceases. In other words, the Paoific Mail Co. and ihoso mer chants combine to fix the price of your wine. The wrong is, that these w ine merchauts not only have more favorable terms for them selves than others can get, in shipping their wines to market, but other parties vvho desire to ship then wines to thesamo maikct aie in effect prohibited from doin? so. These corporations might as well and it would bo just as honest for them to enter iuto your house in the night time and steal from you any article of jewely or money that you have, oi-meet you on the highway and rob you. In the latter case j ou vv ould Jiav e a chance both for your life and money; foi jou could fight or run away. But in the former you luve no show of es cape; for, the Railroad and the Steamship companies having combined, no other means is open to ou for rapid shipment, and al though both these corporations arc subsidized by the government, jet they both join in a contract or profits from a contract - that ruius and enslaves the producer. What is worse is, they claim to do this un der the form of nr. Tho time will come when such wrongs can not and shall not exist; w hen before the law, as in tho marts of trade, and in the great race of life, all men shall be equal; when dollars shall not bo tho only measure of manhood; whon corporate wealth shall not be used to crush the poor, or smother out strugliug en terprises; when truth and justice and honor and patriotism shall be the distinctive marks of American citizenship, and when the acci dents of vv ealth, liko the accidents of birth, shall not stand abov c the law or abuso the policy of our gov eminent. Row Lost Cars are Traced. The following it from an interesting article in the Philadelphia Pre: Travelers up and down any line of railway see daily hundreds of fugitive freight cart extending in broken line along the side tracks, and reaching many niilea out of the city. They belong to a hun dred different railw ay companies, each bear ing the initials of the propriety road, and in the general ottice of the company, w hether it be in New York, Pittsburg or San Francisco, there are records that show just w here the car is standing, and why it it there. For in- stance, if the car it detained an unwarranted length of time at German town junction, the Pennsylvania Railroad receives a "tearcher," either by telegraph or train service, asking w by the car it not tent home. In thit way a great railroad stretching half way across the continent, and w ith its rolling stock scattered over every State iu the Union, keeps an ac count of itt stock, numbering, in the case of the Pennsylvania Railroad, more than 30,000 freight cart of all kind. Occasionally, one of the number it lott altogether, and then the complicated detective railway service it set at work. The last clue to its whereabouti it tracesl out, and in time the lott car it found Calamity is the name of a innn who lives at the gold camp of Cummins City. He has another name, but nobody seems to know wliat it is. It has been torn off' the wrapper some Way, and 60 the boys call him Calamity. He is a man of singular mind and eccentric construction. Tho most noticeable feature about Ca lamity i:, his superstitious dread of mus cular activity. Some people will not tackle any kind of business enterprise on enemy, calamity is even more the vie tim of this vague suiierstition, and has a dread of beginning work on any day of the week, for fear that 'some disaster may befall him. Last spring he had a little domestic; trouble, and" las wife made complaint that Calamity had worn out an old long handle Bhovel on her, trying to convince her about some ab stiubo theory of his., Tho testimony coined rather against Calamity, and tho miners told him that as soon as they gjt over the rush a little, and had tho leis ure, thoy wonld have to hang Jiim. They hoped ho would take advantage of tho hurry of business and go away,' bj eauso they didn't want to hang him so early in tho season. But Calamity didn't go away. Ho stayed because it was easier to stay than go. He 'did not of course, pine for tho notoriety of be ing the brst man hung in the youug amp, but rather than pull up stakes and move away from a place wheie there wjre so many pleasant associations he concluded to stay, and meet death calmly in whatever form it mirdir. -nmB One evening, after the work of the day -.a cicnic-, mm me uoys natt eaten their suppers, one of them suggested that it would bo a good time to hang Calamity So they got things in shape, and went down to the Ilig Laramie bridge. Ca lamity was with them. They got things ready for the exercises to begin, and then asked the victim if he had anything to hay. He loosened the lope around his neck a little with one hand, so that ho could speak with more freedom, and holding his pantaloons on w ith the other said: "Gentlemen of thi convention, I call you to witness that thia- public dem onstration toward me is entiiely un sought on my part, I have never court ed notoriety. Plugging along in com parative obscurity is good enough for me. This is the first time I over ad dressed an audience. That is why I am embarrassed and ill at case. You have brought me here to hang me because I seemed harsh and severe with my wife. You have entered tho hallow n,c. ot my home life, and assumed the pre- .-... e,u. DuutL-mng my Household dis. c.e,.H,c n is wen. i do not care to live so long as my authority is question ed. You have already changed niv sub- .aoi.i- who to an arrogant and self reli ant woman. Yesterday I told her to go out and grease the wagon, and she straightened up to her full height and told me to grease it myself. I have al ways been kind and thoughtful to her. hen sho had to go up into the gulch in the winter after fire wood ,,, .. shielded her from the storm whilo I sat alone iu mv cabin tlimnri, ,. i hours. I could name oth.r it,inn. e unseltishnchs on my pan, but 1 wil not take up your time. She uies my smok ing tobacco, and lficks my vertebras up into -my hat on the most unlooked for occasions. Slio does not love mo any more, mid life to me is only a hollow mockery. Death, with its wido waste of r eternal calm and ha shoreless sea of rest, is a glad relief for me. I go, but I leave in your midst a skittish and able bodied widow that will make Home liovvjl, I bequeath her to this camp, olio lis vours, gentlemen. She is all I have to give, but in giving her to you I feel that my untimely death will alwuys be looked upon in this gulch as a dire calami tv. The day will come when you will look back upon this awful tiight and wish that I was alive again, but it will bo too late. 1 will bo far nway. My soul will do in a land .where domes tic infelicity vatid cold feet can never enter. !ury me at the foot of Arinogar hill, whero the bngc-hen and tho fuzzy bumble-bee may gambol o'er my lowly grave." When Calamity lia'd finNhcd, an? im promptu caucus was called. 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