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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1874)
prm.isHF.n eviht fiiat by ALBANY, OREGON. THE YOUNG FOLKS. Pu-is-in-t he-Corner. Two lifUr hanti. hiding two roguish ey,s, I-T. u uv und Hit is ever fM ui.e ; DaHiun l iauu umI a.ud shouting -itu glee. PiaUiM t pU't-.i.-;ii-f'iiii-r m ih uie. r-tr th- vwleot (e r the flour, N-vr s- He'it n4h a"i nyrtiAte before; Sly 1'trle on, in n wiy Most nntair. SteaU 11 n.y corner before I'm aware '. Here il, crai play-gronnd the sunshiny room Never I n f:len a aha, low of gli.oui; Darling i teaching nip sweet little games. Wise little notulie to know all their name?. Clover-bud month held to mine to be kissed ; Blrrcr-tooed voire bow that voice would 1 xnissed ! A corner you've won did yon know this before? Peep it mv heart to be kept evermore ! A tlalf-Dozen Young KasraU. It wasn't such a long time ago, and none of tlit; half-dozen youDg mischief makers have quite journeyed into the land of soberness or gained their title to respect and reverence by gray beards or bald heads. Every boy or girl who may read this true story wiU know something about the scene of it. Why, it used to stare at me from my geogra phy: used to come up to plague me out of my history; the teachers used to talk about it almost every day, and we scholars used to sing about it from our small, green-covered singing books. The picture which used to stare at me always seemed like a mean sort of family portrait ; for I could go to the scene itself, and my young eyes were practiced enough' to see how bad the picture was. And yet it looked enough like Bunker Hill Monument to make, me feel a little proud when I thought. " I live right side of it ; and there are lots of fellows and girls who've never seen it at all." The geography used to read, " Charlestown is situated on a peninsula, immediately north of Boston, and is the seat of the Navy Yard and the celebrated Bunker Hill Monutaept," or something like that, as well as Ij can remember it ; for I have not seen the old geography for over, ten years. 'IThe history told us about the battle which had been fought near by, and we liqys used to go and lip down on the gras behind the breast works, and shoot imnginiry red-coats by the mill ion with our Iiows and arrows, and then hunt for the lost arrows. Often we would sit down qu the stone which bore the inscription, "Here fell Warren," etc., and complacently eat apples, un mindful of the saeredness of the spot. My story is about Bunker Hill Monu ment and a iiolf-dozen l-oys who went to school near the tall granite shaft boys who played ball in the streets whiea run alongside the green grounds upon which the shaft stands, or played "three holes" with marbles, or trun dled hoops about the brown paths. Somehow, at recess one day, it came out that one of the boys had a family ticket which allowed him to climb up as often as he wished to the four windows, which seemed to open a whole world to our youthful minds, as we gazed out to sea, or toward hills and over cities. He was easily king among us then ; for all the rest must pay to gj up, and even "half-price for children" was a heavy draw upon our. pocket money. Couldn't w te SJi cousins of his and go up on his ticket '? He was good natured in his kingship, and took three or four of us up one day, and then increased the number on succeeding days, until it became a regular proceed ing for some ten of us boys to trot up to the top of the monument each pleas ant recess. Sight-seeing grew monoto nous, and we must do something to hold our interest in going up. One day I dropped my hat out, and it sailed away so gracefully that other hats, al most of their own accord, followed mine and found a quiet rest in the grass be low, until we could run down tlie stone stairs and regain our head-gear. After hats, in a few days went jackets, and to see them spreading out to the breeze was lovely, we thought. Possibly some one of ns would have jumped out at last, jf a substitute had not suggested itself to our brilliantly mischievous minds. We were one whole week at work, and doubtless the oue-armed custodian (I recollect I used to wonder if he had lost his arm in tlie revolutionary war; he certainly lookud old enough to me to have been a pTrt of those stirring times) missed our regulartramp through his little office and up the stairs. Then it was ready. It was a wonderfully constructed effigy. Tom had furnished trousers ; Joe had supplied an old coat; Bill had brought a hat; Jack gave the straw to stun out the creature, and I had promised a pair of square-toed boots and the back-yard in which the man was to be constructed. We were pledged by some fearful pledge, such as boys manufacture on special occa sions, not to reveal any of our proceed ings, and I was held answerable for two small sisters who peered wonderingly out from the kitchen windows as we labored. The man was made, and lo! he was a fearful sight to behold. I couldn't go to sleep from thinking of him down there in the yard, and almost believed he would come to life and would run and tell the "monument man " what we wer going to do. Next day was bright and pleasant. Before school we whispered it about that there would be fan at recess, and few lessons were well learned that day. Oars was a boys' and girls' school, and the girls were given the upper hall, which looked out on the monument grounds, for a play-room at recess. When the bell struck which released ns for a half-hour, the girls all ran to the hall windows, and the boys all hurried to the monument grounds. The chief conspirators were soon dragging the effigy up the green slope, and in less time than it takes to tell it, the body was over the wire fence which bounded the monument's base. We did not wait to go through the office this time, but with a rash, were twenty steps ap before the one-armed man could halloo to as to come back. We couldn't think of coming just then, and, with shouts and laughter, hastened to carry the effigy to the top of the monument. Each moment we thought we heard the old man calling to ns and panting up behind as. There was no time to lose, and in a jiffy after we reached the top, oat went a man, as it seemed, frem the little square window. Boys shouted and girls shuddered. The boys knew what was sailing through the air : but the girls really thought . 1 n . IT T 1 nna riT na niui i ii i r i 1 1 1 i. now irruni i v our man went down ! What a magnifi cent crash he made as he struck the gravel of a walk below and spread out his finely-shaped limbs in the most lifelike or lifeless manner. Then we rushed down again, and gave him a decent burial in a neighboring field. Recess being over, we went into school to re ceive five black marks each for disor-i derly conduct, our claim tbat we were only experimenting on the law of grav ity, though upsetting the master's gravity, not doing much toward alleviat ing our punishment. One girl had fainted away during the scene. She thought it was Joe, and she liked Joe ever so much. She married Joe a year or two ago, and I happened to meet him last week, which reminded me of this freak of a half dozen young rascals. Nathaniel Childs in St. N icholas. The ManlJ- Bor. What is it mnkes a manly boy ? It is not niz or weight, for there are some large, heavy boys that are anything bu mauly. We saw.one once, a big, burly fellow, about fourteen years old, with a voice as loud, almost, as that of a mule, but we did not think he was very manly vhen we saw him pick up a small boy, who was quietly playing with a little wooden wagon and lift him above his head, while he screamed in his ear as loud as he could, an J then set him down. The little fellow was pale with fright, and cried ; the big fellow laughed aloud, and went his way, ha-ha-iug as he went, and no doubt 'thinking that he had done a very fine thing. But he was not manly. Nor does the power to smoke cigars, without getting sick, make a manly boy. Some boys think so, we know. Wo have seen eveu small boys, nine or ten years old, pick up stumps of cigars which men had thrown into the gutter, and puff away at them, holding up their heads and stalking along as if to say, "Ladies and gentlemen, -look at us. We are men, we are. We smoke, and we don't get sick." But they are not men. A manly boy is one who shows some good, manly qualities. We do not ex pect him to be as large as a man, or as wise as a man. But he will be truthful, honest and well-behaved. He will never speak of his father as the " Gov ernor," or the " old man ; ' nor will he speak of his mother as the " old woman." He will not be ashamed to have it known that he loves both his father and his mother ; nor will he be afraid of all the ridicule which silly boys may heap upon him because of his love. They may call him a " baby," and say what they please about being " led by his mother's apron strirgs ;" he does not mind that, for he knows that he is right. 1 1 e will never engage in low, mean sport ; he loves real sport, but will do nothing for fun that he would be afraid to talk about at the dinner table. He does not torment small boys, but is ready to help them when he can. His sisters are not careful to hide their work, their books, or their toys from him, lest he should disturb or destroy them ; he would never think of that. He is care ful not to be greedy at the table, or rude in company, but remembers that others have rights as well as himself. Does anybody say that this is very we'il to talk about, "but that no one ever yet saw such boys as are here described? We answer, " There are such boys, plenty of them, and wehave seen them." They are as full of fuu as other boys ; they equal anybody at the different sports in which boys delight ; they swim, and skate, and play ball, and roll hoop, and run just like other boys ; but their behavior is gentle and kind. These manly boys, when they grow up, will make real men, ana will he, in the best sense of the werd, gentlemen." A Wonderful Discovery. A machine is now in process of con struction in Philadelphia (says a corre spondent of the New York Graphic), which, if the claims of its inventor prove to be within the bounds of its capabilities, will awaken the interest of every civilized creature upon the globe and mark a new epoch in human prog ress, it has oeen eonstmoxeu at con siderable expense, and after nearly fourteen years of repeated trial and failure. This machine is nothing less than a contrivance for the application of an alleged new motor a new prin ciple of motive power as far superior to steam as steam was superior to wind and water power. What this principle is, as yet remains a secret known only to the inventor, and as such would nat urally be entitled to all the incredulity that has invariably attached to exorb itant claims of a similar character. There are, however, certain statements made concerning it which will soon be easily susceptible of proof or disproof, as well as certain names connected with it that will compel the respectful con sideration of the public. A number of gentlemen in Philadelphia and in Worcester have contributed money to further the construction of the machine, and, in New York, John J. Cisco, Israel Corse, Hatch, of the firm of Fisk & Hatch, and others are said to have ad vanced considerable sums of money on condition of receiving the exclusive right to dispose of the machine in cer tain prescribed territories. The new apparatus is in the house of the in ventor, John W. Keeley, No. 1810 Mas ter street, Philadelphia. It is so near completed to his satisfaction that a model for deposit in the Patent Office at Washington has been begun, and will soon be finished. Mr. Keeley asserts that with only two gallons of water he would be able to draw a train of cars from Philadelphia to San Francisco and back again. The water, it is stated by a friend uf Mr. Keeley, would be used over and over, something as steam is utilized in a con densing engine. Incredible as this claim is, the inventor further declares that he obtains this vast pt wer without the use of fuel, without the use of chem icals of any kind, and without the use of electricity, or magnetic currents. A conclusion naturally arrived at when it is stated that no fuel is used is that the power is obtained by the decomposition of the water and the rapid disengage ment of hydrogen or oxygen, or of both these gases. The assertion that no chemicals or electrical currents are used is supposed to be made to overthrow this inferrence. The use of force de rived from the evolution of gases is no new idea, and the only reason that it has not been employed is the fact that the consumption of the necessary chem ical substances has been found to be more costly than the consumption of coal in generating an equal amount of force by means of steam. But the most marvelous statement is vet to be made. Mr. Keeley claims that i the machine now at bis residence he ko inrwl the enormous pressure of seven thouand pounds to the square ineVh I When it is remembered that steam boilers are only subjected to a strain of from tnirty to perhaps two hundred nonnda ner sauara inch, according to the purposes for which they are con .in..w o nrniwr sense of this leap up ward to seven thousand pounds will be realized. With this power at his com mand, unencumbered with a corres ponding cost and weight of metal, man s complete conquest over nature wouid seem to be a thing of the near future. Fourteen Times a Murderer. An Englishman, named Tom Adams, who for the last eight or ten years has owned a low tavern and dance-house in Mazatlan. Mexico, and gained general notoriety as a desperate character, died on the 15th instant from the effects of a pistol-shot wound received in a fight several months ago. Just previous to his death, when assured that his doom was inevitable, he sent for Capt. Ver plank, the American commercial agent at this port, and intimated that he had some important disclosures to make, which he desired should be given pnb licity in the Eastern States. Capt. Verplank having consented to comply with his wishes and take down what ever statements he had to make in writ ing, the dying man unburdened his conscience by confessing himself guilty of fourteen murders, all but one of which were committed in the United States and Canada. Adams commenced his narrative by stating that his proper name was George Worley, and that he was a native of Manchester, England. He commenced his career of crime by murdering the second mate of the American ship Cultivator, in the Liver pool docks, about the year 1854. After this deed he went to Canada, and roved about through those provinces for two years in pursuit of robbery. In the year 1855, at which time he was known by the name of Orton, he was engaged as a sailor on the lakes. While lying in the American port of Oswego he murdered a man, whom he understood to be a painter, by throwing him over a bridge. He met his victim in a drink ing saloon, where he went to collect a bill of the proprietor, and followed him until the opportunity was favorable, when he struck him down with a slung shot, and disposed of the body in the way mentioned. After this Adams went to Canada, and assumed the name of Townsend. With two accomplices he commenced a campaign of robbery, and perpetrated four murders in the country west of Toronto, ending with the killing of a sheriff a few miles west of Niagara river. That country then became too warm for him, in consequence of the offering of large rewards for his arrest, and he escaped on board a schooner passing through the Canadian canal to the American port of Toledo. From this port he went to Chicago, and com mitted three murders in that place dur ing the same summer. One of his victims was the captain of a vessel, whom he followed from the St. Charfes saloon ; another was a German saloon keeper, whom he killed in his bed at night, in his place of business, which was situated near a railroad depot, and the third was some man unknowt to him, whom he murdered after leariug a brothel. Al t er these crimes he was arrested in Chicago, tried and convicted of a burglary, and served a- tern of three years in the Illinois State Prison. On obtaining his release Adams went to New York, where he remained about one year, during which time he commit ted two murders, both of his victims in that city being men unknown to him. One was a countryman whom he enticed to the outskirts of the city and obtained 82,000 on his body. After leaving New York he was engaged in a series of rob beries through the Southern States. He returned to Baltimore and murdered a prostitute in that city. Subsequently he committed murder iu Louisville, and one in Memphis, but of the names of his victims he had no knowledge. Adams left New Orleans at the break ing out of the war and went to Vera Cruz. From thence he went to the city of Mexico, and came to Mazatlan about ten years ago. Since his sojourn here he was widely known and generally feared, his place being the most noto rious rendezvous of desperate charac ters on the coast. He finally met his fate st the hands of a Spanish gambler, namta Gonzales, over a throw of dice. He leaves between 815,000 and 818,000. in casa or its equivalent, a - the result of hiscareer of atrocious crime, which he has willed to a sister, supposed to be his oniy living relative, who resides at Sheffield, England. The legatee needs to be devoid of any superstitious scru ples to receive aud eujoy such a blood--clotted legacy. Martian (Mexico) Correspondence New Yotk World. Double-Track Railway Between Cin,. go and Sew York. If there is any truth in the statement, for which the New Ycrk Graphic is au thority, that Vanderbilt and his people propose to build a double track freight railway from New York to Chicago, the farmers of the WeBt certainly have cause for devout thanksgiving. The plaD unfolded by the Graphic is sim ple and reasonable. The New York Central Company will soon have com pleted two additional tracks between Albany and Buffalo ; and the possession of the Harlem and Hudson River rail roads by the same corporation gives it practically four tracks between New York and Buffalo. It only remains for the company to lay a double track be tween Chicago and Buffalo in order to complete a freight railway between the West and the East. With this advantage the New York Central Company would be able to cut under, not only the Bal timore and Ohio rates, but any schedule that could be framed by a company having smaller facilities. G ain could be carried on such a freight railway at rates scarcely exceeding canal tolls. The promise is a glorious one ; but it is only a promise. Chicago Tribune. Where to Get Divorces. Hereafter will Oregon, instead of In diana, be the Mecca of all matrimonial ly discontented wives ana nusoanas. The Legislature of that State has de creed that within that commonwealth the voluntary separation of man ana wife shall work the legal effect of di vorce. This is a powerful thrust at the vitals of the Hoosier State, and will draw off a large percentage of its float ing population. It is probably the best immigration dodge of the day. It will do more to popniate uregou man au the immigrant commissions ever sent abroad ; more than all the millions of boastful pamphlets in a hundred differ ent languages with which States have AainnoA t.Via onmnaf'tlv settled rir ovine.es X - J -- - ; 1 of Europe ; more than any legislation! under the sun could do for far-off Ore' gon. Gkttino Married Undeb Drppirt?ii ttes. A young man in Washington, about to get married, procured tie li cense the day before the ceremony, and pat it in his coat pocket to be t hand when needed. Going to the church he put on another coat, leaving his license behind him in his room. Reaching the church and the license being demanded, he was -unable to find it and sept friend to his lodgings for it. Jiut w me mean time his room-mate had pn on the eoat by mistake, and gone oer toueorge town with the license. Going to George town after him, he A&d returned to the city, and it was hly after a long and weary searel nat he was found, the li cense seen'1 and, the marriage celebrated. Cremation an Ancient American Prac tice. Cremation is no new thing, even in this country. There are evidences of the habit of burning the dead that ante date history. But the barbarians who practiced cremation did not do so to destroy all trace and memory of the de parted. Cremation, as practiced by the ancient races of this continent, accu rately preserved the outlines of face and form. The process was strikingly simple. Imagine a big unbaked brick, seven feet long, four feet wide, and three feet deep. Within this, at equal distances from ends and sides, is to be tenderly packed the deceased friend. The brick is then subjected to the heat of the kiln. The cadaver vanishes into thin air, but the monumental outlines of form and feature remain. Several sepulchers of this unique pat tern have been found near the emery fields of North Carolina. They once encased the mortal remains of men of a pre-historic race. The plowshare of Silas McDowell, of Macon county, North Carolina, first invaded the sanctity of this ancient cemet1 ry. On page 149 of " Pre-historic Races of the United States," by J. W. Foster, LL.D.,we obtain the following descrip tion bearing apoa this ancient style of cremation, viz. : "In 1821 Mr. McDowell commenoed farm ing. During the first season's operations, tlie plow-share, in passing over a certain por tion of a field, produced a hollow, rumbling sound, and, in exploring for a cause, the first object met with was a shallow layer of char coal, beneath which was a slab of burnt clay, about seven feet in length and ten feet broad, which, in the attempt to remove, broke into several fragments. ' Nothing beneath this slab was found, but on examining its side, to his great surprise tiiere was the mold of a naked human figure. Three of these burned clay sepulchers were thus raised and examined durbig the first year of his occupancy, since which lime none have been found until recently." Col. C. W. Jenks, Superintendent of the corundum mines which have recent ly been opened in the same vicinity, gives the following : " A grave has just been opened of the fol lowing construction : A pit was dug over which the corpse was placed face upward ; then over it was molded a covering of mortar, fitting the form and features. On this was built a hot fire which made an entire shield of pottery for the corpse. The breaking up of one such tomb gave a perfect cast of tbe form of the occupant." A chance fragment of one of these brick coffins was plowed up in 1872, and revealed the impress of a plump human arm. Slaughter of Back-Pay Grabbers. Out of one hundred and two Repre sentatives iu the forty-second Congress who voted for the salary-grab, twenty four only secured a reuoniinatio-i to Cougress, while seventy-eight were either beaten for renomination or other wise withdrawn from public view. The names of these seventy-eight are as fol lows : Adams, Averill, Bigby, Bing ham, Blair, Boreman, Boles, Bnckley, Burdett, Caldwell, Carroll, Coughlin, Conner, Critcher, Crossland, Dickey, Duboise, Duell, Eldridge, Elliott, H. D. Foster, Garrett, Getz, Giddings, Golladay, Griffith, Hanks, Harper, George E. Harris, T. W. Hazleton, Herndon, Houghton, Kendall, King, Lamison, Lamport, Lansing, Leach, Lowe, Maynard, McHenry. McJunken, McKee, McKinney, McNeely, B. F. Meyers, Morphis, S. L. Niblack, Pack-, ard, Peck, Perce, Price, Prindle, J. M. Rice, Robinson, J. Rogers, S. H. Rog ers, Sargent, Shanks, Sherwood, Snapp, Snyder, Storm, Stoughton, St.' John, Sutherland, Taffe, D. Townsend, Tur ner, Tuthill, Twitchell, Voorhees, Whiteley. Williams, J. M. Wilson, Win chester, and Young. Out of the twenty-four who voted for the salary-grab in March, 1873, who were nominated for Congress in 1874, twelve were defeated at the polls, as follows : Benjamin F. Butler, of Mass saehusettB ; Roderick R. Butler, of Ten nessee ; Clinton L. Cobb, of iNorth Carolina ; A. C. Harmer, Leonard Mey ers, and James S. Negley, of Pennsyl vania, Isaac C. Parker, of Missouri ; Eli Perry, of New York ; J. H. Piatt, of Virginia ; J. H. Rainey, of South Caro lina J. H. Sypher, of Louisiana and 1. H. Sloss, of Alabama. Out of the whole number of one hundred and two members voting for the salary-grab, onlv nine have been re-elected to Congress. The names of VV . -X USU4.VV LUVU UUitU V X. aOllUTT0 Hancbuu U. otowell, of Virginia; John of Texas ; A. S. Wallace, of l-!,,n n-,il T T ,1 n 1 1 t South Cai-t: Pennsylvania,, R 1Wnl, nf . 'isi aua : A. jvi. 'dell, of North Caroli- - i i ii . ,5 ' Alabama; J. A V, t'Y F- Banks, of MassaebSfctts. ISc. alj of thefje even took the money General Garfield, for example refused tc the extr salary of 85,000, although Toti foT the bill containing it on otur grounds. Cincinnati Commercial How tbe Judge Cleaned Its Chimney. The Lancaster (Pa. ) Exaniner says ; "Judge Pitman's chimney had been foul for some time, and when he men tioned the fact at the drug ftore, Mr. Squills said he could easily chan it out by exploding a little powder ii the fire place. The idea seemed to fitman to be a good one, and he bouglt almost ten pounds of powder in order feo do the work thoroughly at the farst blatt Some men were buBily graveling his roof that day, and jast as the Judge was about to touch off the charge a workman named Snyder lened over the top of the chim ney to call to the man below to send ap some more tar. Then the Judge lit the slow matck The view which met the eye of Mr. Snyder was a fine one, em bracing, As it did. Cape May, and Oma ha, and Constantinople, and Baltimore, and the Sandwict Islands ; and when he got enf-ugh of drinking in tbe scenery, he cave down into the river, apparently with the intention of exploring the bot tom. When he was fished oat, he was glad to learn that not only was the Judge's chimney thoroughly cleaned, but that it would need about four cart loads of bricks to repair damages.- After this the Judge will clean his flues with a brush tied to a clothes-prop. An Elephants' Cemetery. Reports come from Colorado that Lieut. Wheeler's expedition has hit upon an immense deposit of the bones of mammoths, mastodons and other mon sters of the elephantine family, which will be of the greatest interest to the scientific world. Many of the speci mens are said to be entirely new to geol ogists, while others belong to very rare and comparatively unknown species, the finding of which in good condition in Colorado will throw much light on past eras and formations. More than a thousand birdskins have also been dis covered, some of singular varieties, while of the fishes exhumed five of the species are entirely new. The speci mens have not yet been arranged and classified, but many of them have al ready been forwarded to Washington, where competent scientists will take, them in hand and pubbsh the results ot their analyses. Political Notes. The vote of New Orleans, officiallv canvassed, is : For Mayor, Charles J. jLeeds, Uemoorat, 25,944 ; H elix Laba tut, Republican, 14,259. The full vote of Tennessee on Gov ernor, with the exception .of one countv. foots up : Porter, Dem., 104,000 ; May nard, itep., o4,4oy dorter s majority, 49,486. Geobge S. Houston, Governor-elect of Alabama, was Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in the National House of Representatives thirty-five years ago. Among the Senatorial probabilities of the winter are : Israel Washburn, of Maine ; Cad. C. Washburn, of Wiscon sin ; and William D. Washburn, of Minnesota. Five colored men have been elected to the next Congress, all new men. Two are from S uth Carolina, one from North Carolina, one from Alabama, and one from Louisiana. Samuel Lee, the colored Democratic Congressman elect from South Caro lina, used to be the coachman of W. S. King, white Republican Congressman elect from Minnesota. The Democrats have had a majority in the State of New York outside the city but once before this election, since 1846, which was in the special election for Judges of the Court" of Appeals in 1870. Returns have been received from all the counties in Missouri of the vote for Governor some of them being only the majorities. They foot up : Hardin, Dem., 142,127 ; Gentry, Ind., 104,019 ; Hardin's majority, 38,108. The Topeka Record, classifies the Legislature elect of Kansas as follows : Senate 21 Republicans, 13 Opposition. House 70 Republicans, 3G Opposition. The Senate holds for two years ; the Mouse, for one. Official vote Governor : of South Carolina for Chamberlain, Rep 80,531 Ureen, Opp 68,864 Chamberlain's majority 11,667 At the Virginia election the aggregate Democratic vote in the Congressional districts was 94.3G9 ; the Republican, 82,9&3. Total vte, 177,352. The con stitutional amendments were carried by a vote of 86,540 for to 59,914 against. The Topeka Commonwealth givss the votes for Congress men, in Kansas, as follows : JtepH&Koan. Optjositiaii. 1 Pninipi 19,796 Parott 11,176 2 Cobb 14,24(1 Ooodio 14,965 3 Brown 14,415!Hud8on 9,884 A recapitulation of State Gov ernors and Legislatures elect gives the following political results: Governor. lrftitlatures. Republican IS Republican 13 Democrat 20; Democrat 21 Independent 2j Independent 3 " Woman-suffrage " was not so bad ly beaten in Michigan as the other proj ectrs of constitutional reform voted on in November. Woman-suffrage got 39,805 yeas ; the new Constitution, 38, 842 yeas. The nays were, however, away up toward 150,000. The official vote of Alabama on Gov ernor, at the recent election, is as fol lows : Houston. Dem 107,118 Lewis, Rep 93,298 Houston's majority 13,190 The Lansing Slate Republican gives the vote of Michigan, except four small counties as follows : Governor, 1874. ! Goreriior, 1872. Bagley, Rep 111,353'Bagley, Hep 1:18,9 Chanibe-lain,Dein.lw".710,Hlair, Lib 81,880 Carpenter, Pro 3,947 1 Ferry, Dem 2,728 I Fish, Prohlb 1,231 The official vote of Minnesota for Con gress is : Rcmiblican I Owoition. 1. Duunell 16,716:Vaito 13,721 2. S-raii .13,742 Cox Wilson . 13,521 3. King Total ...18,179 15,831 ...48,637 Total . . . .43,073 Of the membership of the next Con gress, the following were members of the Confederate States government or Congress at Richmond : Alexander H. Stephens, J nlian Hartridge and William E. Smith, of Georgia ; Thomas S. Ashe, of North Carolina ; John H. Keagan, of Texas. The vote for Congress, in the oriiy Kentucky district (the Ninth) that did not elect a Democrat, gives John D. White (Republican), 8,774; Harrison Cockrill (Democrat), 8,318. The Con gressman elect is only 26 years of age, a graduate of the Law School at Ann Arbor, Mich. The full officially reported vote of Pennsylvania is as follows : Latta, Democrat, for Lieutenant-Governor, 277,195; Olmstead, Republican, 272, 516 ; Latta's majority, 4,679. In the Legislature the Democrats will have 21 Senators and the Republicans 29, with 111 Democrats and 91 Republicans in, e nouBe a lemocrauc majority oi 12 on joint-baUot. This insures the election of a Democrat to the Senate in place of Scott, whose term expires March next. The Madison State Journal gives the vote of Wisconsin by Congressional dis tricts (tnere oemg no general ticket in le election this year), as follows : 1. WUliamSrr' 3. Caswell 3. Magoon 4. Ludiugtou . . .. Opposition. .12,568 11,676 -1 r"i Pratt 9,532 Cook 11.423 ;",Thomp8on 10,343 5. Barber 9,889 6. Kimball. 14,733 Bouck. .'l4641 7. Rusk 13,634 Fulton -late 8.McDiil... 9,444 Total 93.024 Total 93 411 Tlie total vote (186,435) is 5.039 less than for President, in 1872, and 38,614 greater than for Governor, last year. The official count of the votes in New York State give the following as the re salt of the resent election : For Tilden, Dem 416,341 For Dlx, Bep 361,406 For Clark. Temperance 10,314 Total popular vote 787,963 Tilden over Dix 54,937 Tilden 's clear majority 44,713 In 1872 the vote stood as follows : For Dix, Rep 447,801 For Kernan, Dem 392,350 Total popular vote for 1873 840,151 Dix'a majority 55,461 The Chicago Tribune has been look ing over the list of the next Congress with a view of discovering how many of tie Congressmen who took the back pay and kept it are elected to it. It mkes oat the following list : Mepublicans Boffinton, of Massachusetts : Conger, of Michigan ; Duunell, of Minnesota; DarralL,of Louisiana ; Kelley.of Pennsylvania; Packer, of Pennsylvania ; Hays, of Alabama ; Piatt, ot Virginia ; Stowell, of Virginia; Wal lace, of 8uth Carolina 10. Democrats Randall, of Pennsylvania ; Wood, of Hew York; Ely, of New York; Bwann, of Maryland ; Harris, of Virginia ; WaddeU, of North Carolina: Hancock, of Texan 7. Independent Banks, of Massachusetts 1. The official declaration of the vote for State officers in Massachusetts shows that 96,676 votes were cast for Gaston, and 89,344 for Talbott Gas ton's plurality, 7,032; 99,151 for Knight, Republican Candidate for Lieutenant Governor, and 87,133 for Smith Knight's plurality, 12,018. The votes for Representatives in Congress are as follows : Republican. 1. Bumoton. 9,929 2. Harris 9,651 3. Pierce 8,011 . Frost 6,721 6. Gooch .... 7 263 6. Butler 7,747 7. Aver 7.415 8. Williams.. 8,861 '9. Hoar 9,423 10. Stevens... 7,353 11. Alexander 6,227 Independent and Democratic. Laptiam. . . 4,171 Avery 6,088 Dean 4,927 scattering. 336 14 Abbott... 5 55 6,511 Banks. 13,438 Thompson Tarbox... Warren . . . Thayer... Hill Chapin 8,716 66 79 56 8 8,979 8,585 8,961 3,474 Seel.. 7.773 11.964 65 87,599 72,976 21,895 Prosperity in the West. In the general talk at the East of hard times and depression of business, accompanied by the closing of mills and the reduction of working-time in others, it is a comfort to tarn to the more cheering figures w!ich indicate the prosperity of the West. Last winter, after the panic had stricken the general business of transportation, the rates on grain were so much lower that notwith standing the close of navigation the movement of grain was so heavy during the whole winter the surplus of the Northwest standing over in the spring was very much reduced. So great was this redaction that, at the opening of navigation in the spring, the ordinary high rates of freight on the lakes for moving the winter accumulation did not prevail. The Western producers, therefore, begun the season of 1874 with more cash An hand, received all during the winterj than had ever been known in any previous year. The cash value of the corn received in Uhicago during the twelve months of 1873 was 814,000,000. The cash value of the corn received in Chicago in 1874 not allowing for the, six weeks yet to expire is $21,000,000 an in crease of cash to the producers of 50 per cent, over last year. The crop of 1874 was less in quantity, but the ad vance in prices has placed in the hands of the Western producers more than 50 per cent, more cash for a less quantity than they received last year. The ad ditional seven millions of dollars is of itself a handsome and handy thing to have on hand. Assuming thaUthe whole number of hogs to be packed in the West this leason that is, from October 1, 1874, to February 1, 1875 will be five mill ions, the actual sum to be paid for them in cash will not fall short of 885,000, 000. The season promises to be a shorter one than usual, as farmers are sending their hogs to market to avoid feeding them on high-priced corn. This crop also foots up a handsome advance over last year. There has been perhaps half as much corn shipped from the West which has passed round Chicago as has been re ceived here. During the same period from the close of harvest through the winter there will be perhaps 815,000, -000 worth of wheat passing through Chicago, with other grain, oats, rye, etc., worth S10,000,000 more. All this will be paid for in cash on shipment. While the manufacturers of cotton and woolen goods are dismissing their workmen, running on half time, and pledging each other to produce one third or one-fourth less, the farmers of the Northwest have the following ex hibit of their sales during tfie fail and winter : Hogs $ 85,000,000 Wheat 15,000,000 Other grain 10,000,000 Total .11,000,000 To this must be added : Corn sold in Chicago $ 21,000,000 Corn moved round Chicago 10,000,000 Corn yet to be sold 10,000,000 Grand total $151,000,000 This 8151,000,000 in cash will pass into the hands of the producers, the greater share of it from Chicago. As the season of 1874 opened with the farm ers comparatively full-handed from the proceeds of their sales during the win ter of 1873, they will this year be in even a much better condition as to the supply of money. It is true that the price of wheat has been less than usual, but the advance iu all other grains has, in the aggregate, more than compen sated for the reduction in wheat. This large sum of cash thus sent to the farons all over the West has of ne cessity stimulated production in other lines. This money is not hoarded. It is all expended in one way or the other for commodities not produced on the fai-ms. Chicago Tribune. Driving Out the British. In one of the little villages in West chester county, New York, lived an old fellow, somewhat fond of his glass of toddy, and hanging around the bar rooms of the village taverns, to hear the gossip, and occasionally indulge, and sometimes to an excess, of which he was afterward very much ashamed. He went by the name of " Old Sam," and was really a very entertaining per sonage. He had seen General Wash ington, and was, according to his own story, the cause of the British evacuat ing the city. " Come, Sam," some village lounger would say, " tell us about your driving the British out of New York." " Well, now, squire, I don't exactly say that I did do it, but I will give you the facts, and you can draw your own conclusions : You see, the fact was, I knew the British were in New York, and I knew,, and we all felt that they had been there quite long enough, and for one, I was determined that they should be there no longer. One night, w we had been talking abont.it some i ,V'e going to bed, I said to our folks, x ride to the cit to morrow morning be there before daybreak ; and I Bban armed !' I went right out to the staoio with a lantern, three hoars before daylight saddled oar old white mare, puttwd loaded pistols in the holster of the sad dle, and took my father's sword that he carried at Bonder Hill, and I got into New York early in the morn in p- and the British left." " Do you mean to say that they evac uated the city ?" " I mean to say they had retreated gone ran away 1 Now, I don't mean to say that the British knew that I was coming, bat I do say that it looked very much like it !" The En a of Economizing. As proof that the panic and the consequent " hard times " have not hurt the pro ducers ofN;he Northwest, we cite the fact that, tliough the shipments East ward this year were less than last year, the money paid for them was close upon the same, being, in round numbers, 8200,000,000. Now, Western farmers have certainly bought less merchandise this year. Taking into consideration also the general fall in prices of manu factured articles, it is easy to see that farmers have been economizing, or pay ing their debts off, in real manly style. Speaking of the newly discovered ' rock " in mid ocean, Spicer infers that it is the rock in mid ocean that sickens so many people in crossing the Atlantic. VICTORIA GRAY. A giddy young girl was Victoria Gray, One proud and determined to hare her own wav And rather than bend. She would lose her best friend She was one upon whom you could never depend. That she thought herself charming was plain to ba seen, By her confident manner and satisfied mien ; She was one of that kind Tbat one often will find, Witk a small, selfish head and diminutive mind. Victoria Gray had a ),assion for dress. Though good taste and good judgment she did not possess ; On the streets she Vould flirt, And sweep through the dirt, With thirty-six yards of light silk in her skirt. 8be made many lovers, it may be a score sne had promised to marry a dozen or more ; and felt happy and gay At the confident way They were treated and loved by Victoria Gray. Augustus Van Quirk was her fortunate flame ; (Victoria loved Wis emphonious name) A weak little fellow. Whose whiBkers were yellow. With little white hands and a voice rather mellow. He took her to operas, dances and plays ; He courted and wooed her iu various ways She whispered a store Of affectionate lore That blighted the hopes of a dozen or more. They were married at last : 'twas a most famous affair, Made brilliant by presents of real plated ware ; Twas a transient display. The talk of the day. And this was the end of Victoria Gray. Five years have passed by, and Augustas Van Quirk His never been guilty of going to work ; Just over the way Is a small sign to-day : ' Boardius by Mrs. Van Quirk" (nee Victoria Gray). , Pith and Point. Ilij-gotten gains Doctor's fees. Dubuque papers got over Janan schek'shard name by calling it Jane-uk Smith. If you are going to steal an overcoat, now is. as good a time as any, while the police are on the lookout. A horse jockey boaght a pamphlet, "The Question of Races," butcouldn't find anything in it about horses. Ladies are said to wear their street costumes trimmed with bugles, because they assist them in making their calls. In spite of the Bacon business Will iam Shakespeare bas succeed in getting himself elected to the Delaware Senate. A LITTLE char) in Baltimore imnnH) himself the other niarht bv Jjourinar tar into all the street letter-boxes. The mails were late next morning. It is said that Anna Dickinson can miss more lecture engagements than any other woman living, and it isn't ow ing to the size of her foot, either. The dethroned King of the Fiji Islands has sent five turtles to Queen Victoria, in token probably of his will ingness to act as soup to her Majesty. There are said to be half a dozen American artists in Borne who are starving for food, and yet they can't be induced to come home and go to sawing wood. There is still another point in favor of narrow-gauge railroads. When the locomotive runs over a man two-thirds of the body is left in good shape for identification. Mark Twain undertook to walk from Hartford to Boston. He made thirty six miles in five days, and then took the cars. He says that he has demonstrat -ed that the thing can be done. "Is the Platte navigable for steam boats ?" inquired a traveler in a Union Pacific railroad train of a Nebraska man n. slinrt, fimp n crn " "VniriorftKl Cm steamboats ?" replied the Nebraska man ; "v, uw ittwm iigutuiaugub uuuao. The Queen of Portugal, morganatic wife of Don Ferdinand, in a late visit to a friend admired a beautiful antique cameo in his collection of gems, and he gave it to her. She took from its place the brooch she wore, covered with pre cious stones, threw it out of the window and replaced it by the antique gem. With tastes that have this effect it is fortunate she has a King on hand, even if it is only the left hand. The Sanitary Condition of Water. There is no more proli6c source of disease than bad water ; but to dis tinguish whether the fluid is unfit for consumption or not is somewhat diffi cult. Water from a certain river, spring or well may be repulsive to the senses, and yet harmless to the stomach, in comparison with other water which has a more attractive appearance. Perhaps the best mode of determining the ques tion is to examine the condition of the organisms dwelling in the proposed source to be utilized. If, for example, an induitrial establishment or a collec tion of dwellings empties refuse into the stream, and as a result fish disap pear or are found dead npon the sur face, it is certain that the water is strongly and injuriously affected. The gradual infection may be noted bythefislt. first rising to the top, apparently ill at ease, and subsequently dying. In vitiated water also mollasks perish, and their bodies decompose rapidly. In the air they merely seem to dry ap and retain life, though torpid for some time. Cresses cannot live in corrupt water, and their existence is" a sign of purity in tbe fluid, while algae deprived of their green color indicate absolute cor ruption. M. Gerardin, in referring to this subject in a recent note to .ihe French Assembly, states that the best method of measuring the degree of parity or of infection in the water is by determining the amount of oxygen in a given quantity. Water containing a large percentage of gas is pore and good ; but when little of the latter is present the water is decidedly deleteri ous to health. Scientific American. , Cx.JAjfBmw. I insist upon tbe fact fi1! tbin 8heet is, because of its contact with the body, made unfit foruse in a few ?? a thick mattress, which can absorb and retain a thousand times as much of these poisonous secretions, needs to bo purified as often, certainly, as once in three months. A sheet can be washed. A mattress cannot be renovated in this way. Indeed, there is no other way of cleaning a mattress but by steaming or picking it to pieces, and thus in frag ments exposing it to the direct rays of tbe snn. Ah th aha nrnrAiqoQ am aea-mA . ... . .... v,. , u, 4y practicable with any of the ordinary uioiiicaoOT, j. imi ueciueaiy oi tne opinion that the good old-fashioned straw bed, which can every three months be exchanged for fresh straw, and the tiek washed, is the sweetest and healthiest of beds. Exchange. A philosophical tailor in Harrisburg, Pa., advertises that when people "witk sallow, irregular, and homely faces" are clad in garments of his making, " they are looked npon with love and veneration, their countenances being regarded as the index of pure and com passionate spirits. "