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mabt. v. BBoiysr, editor. ; FRIDAY -JASVTX'. 9? 1880. rr. am scissors. . 1880 is so fur free from Tasted wheat and other calamities. ''.....-.-,. Yesterday was " Jackson's Dy" and the weather was beastly. Hox. II. H. CSilfry in now Beading Clerk of the IT. S. Senate; : : ' c A Bodie untlortaker has made !?o0, 000 since tho first of August. " ' 7 It - AY. L. Black proposes to start pa per at Hoppncr next spring.' ' Eastern Democratic papers soom to lean toward S?ymonr and Hancock. Ox a hundred and seven marriage li censes were issued last year in I.ane county. Fkof. Fu mmr waa holding forth to good houses in Union county at last accounts. The Catholic Fair tvr tho benufib of St. Joseph's C llego, linker City, real ized $333. Grant lias gono to Cuba. If it had been Conklinghe would Havana with out so much ''furss.' , Ix Bodie eople go to bed at night alive and well and get up d-md and stiff in the nioraing., J. J. Comstock recently lost a lot of saw logs from his mill in Lane county by the breaking of a boom Frank Reid's trial, for tho killing of Simons, comes on at the special term of Circuit Court next week. The ''Capital Guard" Ball, on New Year's eve, at the ChemekeU Hotel, Salem, was a grand success. W. C. Evaxs, of Douglas county, has been held in 2o0 bonds for obtaining money under fake pretenses. Ge. SIauoxe, the new U. S. Sena tor from Virginia, is 53 years old and "a Democrat till you can't rest.". Hates saves 15,000 out of his sala ry anniially.. When bis terra - expires ho will have enough to start a lottery, . Me. Sic Eaer and 2Ixs Clara JIul- hallan, step-danghter of Judge Brain arJ, were married at Union last week. Horatio Sethocr La the only man in the United States who can be elected President that cares nothing for office. The damage to the Statesman office at Walla "Walla by the fire recently, amounts to about $300, fully insured. CfiAHPiox Kxt'X, a stallion valued at 10,000, and owned by 31 r. Brack etc, of Canyon City, died at Baker City last week. Grant passed through the Southern States without an ovation. Guess the South-down j-eoj'le are'nt much on the O. B. Phelps, of Marion, Oregon, has harvested 174 " bushels; of buck wheat from a bushel and a half of seed. Beat it if you can ! . ' .. Hayes had his message stolen and stomach-aches abont it- . -lie has evi dently forgotten about that colioss&l steal of the Presidency. ' ' ' Tms is the second week i;i the year, and yet scarcely enough " snbscribera have paid to rescue us from the rtist in our kitchen stove-pipe. At tho recent Sisters'- fair held in Wall Walk the ' sum' of $1,701 was cleared, and is to. je applied' to St. Mary' Hospital in tliat.city, ; , Bob Ixheksoll says there' is no hell, and yet hU own town pajier, the Peo ria JmiTivd, makes il so warm for liim that he doesn't come to town; ' i ,. , Jlox, Geo. II. Xlkxti, f.jrioitr'DLv trict Attorney of :thU District,; was married to Miss Myra. Belt, of Salem, on New Year's Eve. AVe congratulate. "' - .:; . Gbaxt and Hayes is the:nf-xt ticket. It Ls a sort of Ohio boom. Hayes will take the second place,or even the third, or anything else that a man can steal ' Boa IxcnnsoLLis out ia a new work,' "Sjme of the Mistakes of Moses." Now if Moses will rise up and tell of the mistakes of Irigerso'I honor ''will be easy. . t .';! I " It wan so cold at Bodie the oher day that a, corpse, got .upland asked to La buried protesting against Uiedongfti- ueral services. "Wasn't that iSold' for Bodie ? " , 1 ." " ' ; ,. .; . - - -. . . - ; . , -, i We have A harrow gstogo"" candi-, date . for" Cferk. Ife'Savs'h'c' will put' up thirteen, or even fourteen 'dollars to sustain ine local ireas. u us is nomi- nated ? ' - . - s I u.'j :'' Tif E population oi. Kujiisaa has in-, creased 1 t4,97,duiriiig thf) rpasfc fyoar' They arn mostly nirs, hnwver,"atid don't constitute a'grci't part b ' ilie fia li.m wiiuabirs. ; . I'iMSK MAnout :fvs coal inino, 'about thirteen mill's ".from' , Ilcppr.ei;; j.-t'a de cideil success.!. A great' maiiy families in to?rn nd .also, m.tily (C-. -lha b-sK'ness liiiu-e fife wirnmr tl.is oeji.. f' 1 . j Tiii'd.iii f.p,wteJswii.f,Hii-!U r.uuko fun of "iln; Printers'' Jlernt stfej-Mbftirv, Let them' challenge ira or ickriofr!'e'clgc the corn. If torn cats hold uiwe cau beat .them "any ruaik in the. read." .,.. . ' Ex-SE'AT'6a RAM.sAY,,'if''iuaneso,ta, is the newly-appointed Secretary of War ia place of MeCrary, resigned. It dce;n't matter lauch who shall hold V that position for the short time 1' randy Hayes is PromJent. Tho next Demo cratic Pichident will rtnmo Ramsay's successor. ; ' The Jacksonville Simtiml has com menced its 23ih 1 volume, It U over average for n Republican paper and wo wish its enterprising ptoprietors nianyluys of prosperity. Thk fie claims Portland's population tofce,0(Kr'-And yet Albany, with or ly 'about f,S2'JJ of jHjpulation, hns the only ladies' brass band in the Stale! Don't toot your horn so loud, Mrs. Jrr, . Bisuor Gil Haven died in Massa chusetts last Sunday. Many of the readers of the Democrat will remem ber him as the . presiding elder of the last Methodist Conference iu this State. Ox the 23d nit. the snow ras a foot deep in Lake county and the thermom eter 10 degrees below nero. It was thought that more than ono half of the stock of Link River Valley would per ish. A Roseburg imjKsr says "dams are a failure. If the editor of that sheet had been around last Saturday when we were laying a stove pipe ho would have thought his sort of dams were a suc cess. . Rl'iioiis of the resignation of the czar of Russia are again tlying around. The old man is half iiuaue from fear of his life, and tho sooner he steps down and out, the better for the country which ho inia rules. Calcraft, the noted hangman of England, died on tho 1 4 th of December. He held the "position of public execu tioner for 4G years, and it is said that he never bungled his job or " missed a Ggger" in his occupation. Joseph Heas, of Jackson county, was on tho 29th lilt, accidentally tilled by a man named Reeves. They were both engaged in chopping down the taiuo tree, when Reeves' ase slipped and was buried in Hoss's brain. According to an unreliable contem porary, General Grant breakfasted the other morning oQ salt mackerel. The General's friends should warn him that salt mackerel is a dangerous dish to the man who wishes to abstain from drink ing. The Pondleton Ortjonlan of the 27th ult. says : "We have had a huge storm; snow a foot .deep ; thermometer Mon day night, 20 degrees below cipher ; Tuesday night, 5 aegreei below. No thawing in the cay time up to Friday noon." The Radical mud-batteries are doing their best to make Mr. Tihlen the next President, by heaping their infamous slanders upjn" him. Thongs a love of fair play in American hearts that will resent the indecencv of these cowardlv blackguards. A DELINQUENT subscriber writes us that he will ay up "when hU ship comes in. YV e ve lieara Irutn tnat ship. It is an old dug -out I udian ca noe, and was scuttled and sunk on Soap Creek last hog killing time. You can't play that akiper business on us anv longer ! Pay up. Last year's jeanut crop in Trnne see, Virginia and North Carolina is es timated as follows: 25,000 biudicls for North Carolina, C00.00O for Tennes see, nnd 1 ,0OO,0 '0 for Virgiuu, mak ing a total that is an increase of 335, 000 bushels over the yield of 1878. The value of the crop of IS7.4 at lirst hands was 1,500,000. TilE Hartford Time says that under Don Cameron's direction, as Chairman of the Republican Executive Commit tee the ways of the Pennsylvania Re publican school woidd be practiced, and the heathen Chinee would stand aghast in amazement before the contest could be ickised. Civil service reform would go so high tip the spout that Hayes couldn't see it, and Conkling, abashed, wouldn't try ; , We have no fear, remarks tho Brook lyn Times, from Gen. Grant as a third term President personally, and we never had ; - but we feel very sure that tho ef fect of such a departure from the estab ibihed precedents of the Republic would exert a harmful influence upon the American people themselves, and in future-years the mischief of this depart ure might woik out results we now lit tlp dream of. "Wnn.t: tiding in Union county re cently)' E. A. McAllister, a herdsman, came upon a wildcat! Unslinging his lasso, he caught the beast fairly around the neck. . Instead of pulling back, however, the " wildcat, made for horse and rider with powerful leaps. McAl lister fled for his life with his- end of the. rope tied to the pommel of his sad dle. ' He rati at a breakneck speed for a mile, and then looking back, saw that the animal was dragging dead behind. THE -Alll.tTK I BOOM. 'With the .lie w year comes forth the candidate.' ' Many are called but few are chosen.1 Out of about thirty candi dates for SherifT and about tho same number or Clerk (these are the paying offices,) something near twenty-nine in each cse rhnst iwcesRarily lie left f - ."SVtj hope' they-"''"will -all be ood ria- ty;'n1.H..ui it. Thry ..iiht to be phil l-'opUicrU. j Aiany a luftu has lee ucl-1 en forPresident-7-and: even Tilden 'us stolen out of the ollice and there was not' much noise made about it. , 4 Our candidates for these offices are all square-toed Democrats, and will un doubtedly work pretty nearly as hard for the successful aspirant as if they had been nominated themselves. the ri;Dir.ros tTAnmxu Arm it. Urn. Tnmrr' fendnrt Arar ta a Ilf , rrrvnl LIrUI From t int Itrporl. Last week wo gave the fuvt account of the stabbing of Strobo by Gen. Tur ner, at Pendleton, on the 23rd ult. Tho Cist report of tho affair, telegraph ed to tho Standard and Or&jonlun, imulo the matter appear pretty tough for the General, but we nro glad to be ablo to say (as wo predicted last week) that subsequent reports put nu entirely different light on the Subject and place our friend Turner entirely on tho safe ground of ono acting iu self-defense. It appcurs from tho last account that "the man Strobo and AY. L. Black, formerly of the AVeston Jsaler, got into nn al tercation in Matlock's saloon. Strob abused Black in tho moat shameful manner, when Gen. Turner stepped up and attempted to quiet Strobe, who was a large, brawny follow. Strobe, who hnd been drinking, turned upon the General, striking him u heavy blow without causo or provocation, fulling him to the iloor. Ho continued to kick and beat him unmercifully. . Tho Gen eral, cut and bleeding, gained his feet, drawing a knifo as ho did,nnd as Strobo advanced to renew tho attack ho stab bed him to tho heart, killing him in stantly. This Strobo was a large, jxiw erful in in, and when drinking was over Waring nnd insulting, always sailing for a fight. His sue gave him the right to bully over most men. Ho had the reputation of Wing a rough and a dan gerous man, and took a delight in beat ing Beverely every man who crossed his trail. Following is the account of the stab bing affray at Pendleton, as given by ths Pendleton JnJ?jrtulriit, a paper published in opHsi(ion to Gen. Tur ner's journal : On Tuesday evening last our town was thrown into a stale- f excitement by the killing of Harry StruW, with a knife, by J. 1L Turner. It appears from the testimony taken before the coroner's jury on Wednesday that Strobo and a friend were sitting atsup l?r in the lion Ton I lotel, and J, J I. Turner and two friends were also at supper at an opposite table, when some ono tommenced throwing lumps of sugar, etc., at the former ; Strobo lie came excited, and after requesting them to stop ho threw a cruet at the party, and Mr. Sanford, the proprietor, j jieared on the scene and put Strobo and bis friend out. A short time after this Turner and Strobe met in the Bon Ton saloon, when angry words ensued, which were followed by blows, and Turner being too much for Strobe, held him on the ground and beggvd him to behave himself, when they parted, and Mr. Turner left the house, leaving his hat behind him. In about ten minute Mr. Turner came back to the saloon, where Strobe was standing, and when Turner came into the room Strobe brushed up against hint; lurnorthen told him to leave him alone, as he didn't want anything to do with him. Strobe then tlirew a glass of whisky into hi face, ujon which a fight ensued, and the two locked together, after which Turner drew a knife and struck Strobe, first on the shoulder, then below the shoulder blade, the knife penetrating the heart, entering about eight inches. After this deceased did not eak, but died m a few minutes. From this rejort (and its stnirce would not naturally make it fih-udl; to Turner,) there can scarcely be a doubt of the General's justification. Speaking cf this homicide the Eu gene Juuruni (Ilepublican) says : "If the rumor bo true tho resiiectable people in the vicinity of I enilleUin will be thankful to Gen. Turner for this act, and congratulate him on having true grit enott'di to defend himself against the acknowledged mflian, whose rid dance is a good thing for that portion of Eastern Oregon. Should Gen. Tur ner be brought to trial not a jury could be found who would not acquit him un der tlmso circumstances." The AValla Walla- SUttesiiutu of Dee. 27th contains the following : Tho upper Columbia basin has been excited tho past week over the news that General James II. Iiirner, a tal ented lawyer and editor of the East (Jrejoiuaii at x etidleton, bad killed A man. From the various rumors afloat, which we have carefully sifted down, it is very evident that Turner acted in self-defense, as the man killed had on several occasions threatened his life, and on tho day of his death had at tacked him no less than three different times, and called him such foul names that no man with u spark of honor and manhood about him could do loss than resent Tho man killed was conuuonly known as Harry Strobe, was a sheep herder t and bore a bad character gen erally ; on ono occasion he drow a six shooter on a hall-witted man at Prine- ville, and threatened to kill him unless ho made a political speech. His ani mosity against Mr. Turner dates from the fact that he was opposed to him in a law case over a year since, which was decided against him. AVhile with other of Mr. Turner's friends we are hoartily grieved that the unfortunate occurrence ever transpired, we remind our readers, far and near, that this is even now, comparatively speaking, a frontier oonn- try, and that tho state of society is such that with all our laws and effi cient oliicers every man is the guardian of his own honor, and men of high strung, sensitive temperaments aro here, as the papers are continually informing us they ore even in the most opulous cities of tho Union, over ready to avenge nn insult to their, honor, The society that is not is indeed to be pitied. AVe have no doubt but that, when the full facts aro placed before the public, General Turner will come out unstained. siik ;r.ri vlm v.. Miss Jesepliine Meeker,. daughter of the Indian Agent who was killed by the Utes, is to have a clerkship in the Interior Department at AVashington. It is -probable that Schurz thinks this will reward her for the murder of her father and for the hardships that fehe and her listers and her mother suffered while prisoners among the uavages. MiSGMAVrf DAY. Tho Sin Fisneisoo E.mminrr sug gests, in common with suvoral EtMtern journals, that Friday bIiaII not bo exclu sively selected as tho day of tho week on which to hang persons condemned to that ignominious death by due process of tho law. In connection with tho subject the Philadelphia Htiltvt'm state that to ev-Governor llmirmift, the hurguisn of tho muidured lady, Mrs. Mary Surrr tt, must tho credit bo given of depatting from tho custom of ap. pointing executions on Friday. The San Francisco W remarks thereupon that tho change of day was first mudo by Newton Booth, while Governor of that State. Aw a matter of fact, in California and nearly every other Stato, tho Judge of tho Court iu which the oonviction occurs ap-oinl tho day of execution in pronouncing sentence. Hence, iu reference to Governor Booth, the Pout is in error. But it is further in error in attributing tho new depart ure in tho selection of hangman' day. As early a 1853 Judge 11. P. Borne, of Oregon now ono of the Justices of tho Supreme Conit of this State broke away from tho Friday line of inimmuo riul usage, and appointed Tuesday a the day of execution. Sinco tlwn lie lias sentenced thrco or four othct mur derer to'death down to 1870 and in no instanco has he spKinted Friday a tho fata! day. Judge T. J. Bowers, County Judge nndSiiperior Julge elect of Marin county, California, vus Chief Justice of Idaho Territory diring tho Presidency of Andrew Johiuon. He sentenced Simeon AValters, wloso mur der of Joseph P. Bacon was mo of the most extraordinary in the annals if crime, to be hanged on a Wednesday, in August, 1865), instead of on a Fri day. And of luto year iany in stance havo occurred wherein crimi nal condemned to death, within tho United States, weie hanged on soluo other day than Friday. In England, as a reference to tho newspaper of that Kingdom will show, Friday i raiely pKintcd now as tho day of execution. The rulo appears to be, among the Judges in the various ortious of the country, to accommodate the death sen tence to the engagements of Marsood, the executioner, ho is generally em ployed for the terrible service. Friday is slowly recovering from the evil name it has for centuries held, in popular es timation and among superstitions, equally as hangman's day and a day of ill-omen for dearture from se port on long voyge, or adventure in a business way. xmhi or nittm. Tho following I given m th num ber of Indian m ie various mt nnd Territories In tho various Stale and Territories of tho AYest tho Indian aro dWtributod as fol lows : Indian Territory -. Dakota Montana C'J,i10 3C.279 -22.4SC Washington Territory 12,420 Arizona 11,438 New Mexico 10.068 Oregon fj,050 Idaho 4,307 Wisconsin 4,005 Minnesota r 7.C27 Nebraska " C.sys Colorado '. . . . . 8.7C-J Nevada 3,427 California , 1,9-17 Wyoming 1,800 Kansa-s." 1,110 Utah r'75 Ofthoenliro mimler lOO.oOO are civilized, living In log houses or oth er dwellings, and are cultivating tho soil; 125,000 are eml-clvtlizoJ, living in wigwams, nnd beginning V adopt tho habits of civilization; "5,000 are not yet civilized. Those latter load a roving life, and with them the pio neer will yet havo to contend for somo years, outbreaks being at any timo liable to occur, nn illustrated in tho recent troublos with tho Indian In Colorado. Helena Weekly huh jtenJent. SIMFLV A MATTKIt OF " MZ." AVe like tho grit of the Snydor Bros., of tho La Fayette Courier, and aro al most pursuaded to adopt the same plan. Hear the boys talk : "We shall begin tho new year by striking from our list all names for which payment has not been made, and place the accounts of delinquents in U:e hands of an officer for collection. This may seem to some a harsh step, but it is actually our only alternative; we must adopt this plan or quit te business.. If any person thinks this strange let him call and take a peep i to our accounts and sue the hard ' earn ings we have sacrificed on tho credit system and be satisfied. " ( No perception can bo so dull us nbt to recognize tho justness of our uctifn in this matter." , i:U04 It.tTIC STATU COM To.. The Democratic State Oentral C'ofi mittee met yesterday afternoon at Sa lem. M. Ar. Brown, the member fnm Linn county, telegraphs that the St to Convention is called to meet at Albiy on April 7, 1830, and tho Conhnidee recommend that eonnti' conventions'bo held on the 28th arid primaries on 2.1sfc of Miirch, respectively. Linn county is entitled to fil'teen del egates. It has been decided to h Id only one State Convention' this ycir, consequently tho candidates for Pmi dential Electors will be nominatedtn tho 7th of April. , Subscribe for the Democrat. WASIIMCTO LETTEK. IrROM OI' HKHILtS VOKKWrullBUIT. AYAfill!N(lT0N, I). C., Dec. 24. Editor Democrat ; Theru will shortly commence here the liveliest intriguo for tho Republican Presidential nomination over witnessed. AVith Don Cameron at tho head of tho National Cummittee,reprnsuntingGrant, and such an unscrupulous trio as Conk ling, Blaino and John Sherman schem ing and wiro pulling for themselves a candidates, it promises to become one of tho most corrupt contests on record. Don Cameron is a worthy successor for Kach. Chandler. His trait and train iug, and the traditions of tho Cumerou school of politicians, are iu beautiful harmony with tho theories illustrated in the official act of hi predecessor. Bcsiden, he has a "bar'l" and is alway ready to use it. Ono thing I notice in connection with tho proceedings of the committee is that Mr. Geo. C, Gotham was not deposed. Gotham indulged in a littlo rebellion against the ring caudi dttto for Governor of California in the last election, and tho Stato organization sent on a tequest to have him removed from tho National Committee. But Gorhsm assumed a defiant attitude, and justified hi course by showing that it was not ersonal, but simply a fight against the railroad ring in his State. Hesaystl.o party had better paddle close to shore, or they will lose the State in tho Presidential election, and the Senatondiip. The Democrats, he be lieves, will not be divided a they were this year, and unless tho Republican cut loose from Perkins and tho railroad ring thoy arc gone. The friends of Senator Pendleton' bill to give Cabinot minister seat on the floor of the two llotnu: urgo him to bring forward that measure and pi cm it a speedily as )niU It will havo support from l-oth side of the Ser.ato. Hayes said nothing about it in hi cant about civil service reform, but it is urged by the advocate of the measure that one of it most imjorUut result would be tho purification of the civil service, because the head of De partment could then be openly interro gated concerning abuse, and would be forced to make public answer, and the attention of the country could thus be fixed it ion the misuses of tho civil ser vice for partisan, purposes. It would give a vigilant minority the power to effectually expose to the country that interference of office-holder in politic which Hayer once said be thought dan gerous. It waa shrewdly said here not long age that the power and influence of the army of office holder ha be come o great that those opposed to them need to have a two-third major ity to Wgln JU betoro they Iiojhj to carry an election. In other words, that ono third of the voter, plus tho power of the office holders when these engage actively in politics, i equal to two third of the voters opposed to them. Tho Republican make a very wry face over a small doae of their own medicine. It waa a slick job, they thought, to steal the Presidency by the "counting out" process. But now that the same game is being played in the little State of Maine there is bur iood on the face of the moon. Undoubtedly the Governor and hi Council, who are mostly ex-Republicans, have followed the strict letter of the law, and havo taken a step toward tho correction of tho loose methods that havo grown up under continued Republican practice. Yet after all, and granting tho election was carried by bribery and corruption, of which there is no doubt, I believe it would have been better policy to let the Republican party enjoy a monopoly of tho methods of Madison Wells and hi associate ballot thieves. An opposition Legislature in Maine, however, iuy act as a wholesome check upon the scheme to steal the State of New York by legislative manipulation. Poor old Hannibal Hamlin sorrowfully admits that it will. Phono. RETUOSrKCTIVK AVD fEKSOVtL. AVe sco that our old-time friend, Dr. Charles Bcardsley, of Iowa, baa . been appointed Fourth Auditor of the U. S. Treasury. Many years ago, in tho hal cyon day of our boyhood (how far back it seems now '), we used to be a Sunday School scholar of Dr. Beards- ley's. (And don't you forget it, we were a good littlo boy and could jork the short verses in the 5th chapter of Matthew or sling tho shorter catechism with the best of 'em !) AVho would havo thought that after all those- years of . righteous teaching and training that tho teacher would have taken an office under Hayes or that his iramaculato pupil would have gravitated into the business of cngin-! eering a political newspaper I ; But, 'twas ever thus. ; Th Doctor is ono of tho best and purest of tho Radicals whom we remem ber to have known in our youthful days, and we sjncerely congratulate him on his deserved preferment. Tins from the Mercury's Dallus cor respondent: "Judge Piper, the only able speaker the Republican party have in Polk county, is talked of for Dis trict Attorney by sora- of his political Friends. The Judgo is an eloquent Rpeaker. The most unkind thiug he did during court was threatening to un fold tho ringlets of Judge Hayden's hair. But Judge Haydon was of the opinion that if there was a piper hung to every kink of his hair they would not be of sufficient weight to straighten 1 is curls. ADTH K TO A WOHTLH, Burdette, In the Ilswkeye. Sometimes, my son, you will want to whistle. Do not entirely repress this desire to aspirate your feeling In kihbilant strains of wheezy music ; merely modulate and regulate it.' Go off into the wood five or six mile from any habitation, if the desire come upon you during busmen hour, and whistle there until tiie biro's make you ashamed of your poor accomplishment. Do not yield to the temptation too readily lest you become addicted to tho habit and become a slave to it, nnd go whistling around even a a man who ha lost a dog. There are men, my son, ho can whistle musically ; once iu a while yon find men whose whistle is pleasant to the car and soothing to the soul, but you only find one of these every three or four thousand years, and they die young, son ; they die very young. You will observe that the beat whistler i he who whistles least, and practice in sol itude. The poor whistler, who flat on the high note and gasp on the lower ones, and wheeze in the middle regis ter, i tho man who whistle at all time and in all place. AVhis'Je all you will in solitary places, ton ; if it please you whistle in the night a you go home, for a cheery whistle in the dark is a pleasant sound unto the lis tening soul of the belated passenger, but when you come .into the assem blage and (he business haunt of men, unpuckcr your musical lip and abut op your whistle in your heart. And if rer the temptation cornea to you to whistln against the edge of a card, crush it out, if the effort kill you. Whistling i not a lofty, though it is a universal, accomplishment. Though you practice a hundred years, and though you whistle never so whist ley, my son, yet the commonest awilch-en-giue that ever scared a human being deaf can beat you at it. The great and good werw not great whistler, son. George AVashington never aat in a friend' office, with hi feet on the win dow sill, wbiatiing " Grandfather Clock" against the edge of a card. Strive to emulate George AVashington, and although you may never be first in war, first in peace, and in the heart of your countrymen, yet fame will not forget you if they can write upon your tombstone that you never whistled your countrymen into convulsion of intem perate but fruitlea profanity. uiraM ab m aarmnaui auca. Our Washington eorreapondent, writ ing under the data of Deo. 25, aaya : "It ia atated that the Supreme Court ia about ready to announce a decision aa to the conatitutiunality of the Federal rWtion bw; and nlhing bMPtng up on them will be taken up in Congress until this i known. Report says the court i equally divided, Justice Clif ford, Field, Bradley and Harlan that the law are unconstitutional, while Chief Justice AVaite and J udgea Miller, Strong and Swayne hold the contrary opinion. Justice Hunt is off the bend by reason of ill health. Such a divis ion of the J udgea on the queUon,while making a tie, would really leave the law in force. It is not expected that Justice Hunt will ever resume his place. In fact it ia rumored that his resignation ha been tendered and that Mr. Hayes baa offered the vacant place to Senator Edmunds. .They deny this at headquarters; nevertheless it ia gen erally believed. Should Mr. Edmund take a seat on the bench, the election laws and all other partisan legislation of tho Republican party would be sus tained. It would bo an unusual thing for the Senate to refuse to confirm a prominent Senator appointed to any other office, but I reull do not see how a Democratic Senate could take the re sponsibility of permitting such an in tense partisan to be seated on the Su preme bench, notwithstanding hi abil ity." A niSBME BIM-IBE. Tbr Manlerer rcblaa Baa. irrtakra by tawrtr, Maaga Mlaawir. AVhilo Mr. M. AV. Hunt and Chas. Fray were out hunting lost Tuesday, on the farm of Mr. A. Drips, they discov ered a strange object hanging to a tree, Bays tho Salem tt'ifetman, and on ex amination it proved to be the dead booy of Chung Lien, the murderer of Sam. Ho was found one mile from where the murder was committed. It is supposed that ho hung himself the next day after committing the deed, well knowing the fate that was his should he fall into the hands of his countrymen. A small cord was u sod for the purpose, which was fastened to a limb about ten feet from tho ground. To accomplish hi purpose it was necessary for him to climb the tree, fasten the cord, slide down the trunk and strangle himself to death. ' Tiikku are some thefts that cannot be hidden. They are too plain, and though the thi'eves may escape with impunity the people will forever hun imparting any trust to their keeping. Oskuloosu ( Iowa ) JTerald. . That's right, Bro . Herald ! Give Fraudy Hayes fits, and although he does belong to your party the country will not fail to admire yonr pluck and independence. It ia indeed refreshing to see a stalwart Radical paper, with a post ofKco attachment., denouncing the Presidential Infamy. Hoh. Jno, T. Hughes, one of the "colids" of Benton called during the week and gave us words of encourage ment. He thinks Benton may be re lied npon for a round Democratic n-.a-jority in June HiMiifi the MeemmEBs. - tallra TasHlwr hr a fag-Hra Blswa br a ' . CilrU , (AUanla Constitution.) A strange and picturesque story comes to us from the mountains of Towns county. J The authority that we havo at present 1 the report of the deputy in charge of the squad which was Inter ested. It appears that a few nights ago ft deputy marshal of Marshal Flfzfsmon's force, with seven assist ant deputies and eight guards organ ized for a raid into Towns county. One of the objects of the raid was to capture a man by the name of lierros ny, who was reported to be a 'moon shiner," and the leader of a gang of men organized for the purpose of de fying the revenue officer and pro tecting the hidden stills of the moun tain branches. " . " The riding parly moved along qui etly, and by nightfall was In the neighborhood of Berrony' house. They waited until the family had gone to sleep, and then surrounded the house and closed In on the unsus pecting family. Berrony, though surprised while asleep, sprang from bis bed and fled, clad only la night clothes. Despite this light weight, he was overtaken by the deputies and overpowered and tied. In the meantime bis family had awakened and came to the door in more or leas confusion and were making a good deal of fuss. While the deputies were engaged with the prisoner and the people at the door, a daughter of the prisoner, about 18 years of age, slipped out of the back door, dressed only In the garment in blch she had been sleeping, and made for the mountain side with the fleetneas of a young antelope. She carried In her right hand a fox. horn, and fled through the night like an apparition. A deputy pat out In pursuit of tbe fleeing maiden, but hU boots and clothes encumbered him, and she tripping over the sleeping flowers with baro feet soon reached the top of the hill. Once there she turned, and like a daw Roderick: Dhu, gnve one blast upon her bugle-horn. It waa "well nigh worth a thousand men," for aa the echoes of the horn died away in the v allies of the night armed men gathered ailenlly but swiftly to the call of the lightly-clad bat stoat-hearted bugler. As rapidly as possible the deputy had his prisoner dressed and forming his men Into dose order, moved off toward his wagons. He and his men were followed by the family of the prisoner, whloli was constantly rein forced by the arrival f the mountain cers, aroused and angry. By the time the deputies had gone a mile, the threatening force behind had grown to twenty or twenty-five men, and things looked squally. When they had reached a long, narrow de file the deputy in charge found that there was a large force of men in front of him, and that each side of the defile waa held by sharpshooting mountaineers, who were bidden in the woods. The force in his rear pressed closer upon him and he call ed a halt and began to look into things. He found his situation des perate. He could turn no way with out encountering an armed squad, and he felt that he ielt that a fight in the dark could promise nothing but bloodshed and death. He therefore began to parley. The mountaineer demanded the release of Berrony, who is said to have been their leader. The deputy at firt protested and re fused, but he soon found that there were fifty men opposed to him with tho advantages of position. The men agreed that certain discovered btills should be given up, but they would not listen to , Berrony being taken away. At length tbe deputy surren dered him, and be joined his friends in the woods. The deputies had two other prison ers and attempted to get away with them. As they were marching along through the dark, some one whisper ed to one of the deputies : "Come this way.'' Ha supposed it was one of his fellow deputies and moved in the direction indicated. Suddenly he was knocked down and bundled up and pitebed into a fence corner. The deputies discovering his capture, halted again, and held a little coun cil of war. They were afraid to fire on the "moonshiners,", because, they supposed the missing deputy was in their power. And the "moonshin ers" were afraid to fire on them for fear of hitting the prisoners. The two squad canfronted each other in the dark woods for awhile, when the deputies silently but in good , order withdrew and hurried out of Towns county. They carried off their two prisoners, but left Borrony lehind. This is the report in substance as made by the deputy to Marshal Fitz simous. The marshal is not in the city at present, hut we presume when be returns he will take steps to have the arrest of the defiant mountaineer made over again, and made o that it will stick. Sir. ASTIiEY COOPJER'd VITAL RK- STORATIVK The preat tfnstlisb. remedy -nos msae more cures 01 nervous utjuu ity, Seminal Weakness, Lost Manhood, nocturnal emissions, lassitude, inability for mental labor, despondency and such diseases aa are induced by youthful folliea aud excesses, than all ther medicines combined. AVhy will yon suffer T Send to A. . Mintie, M. Mo. 11 Kearney street, San Francisco, lor the Hestorative and be cured. Irioe, S3 per bottle. 1'our times the quantity,! 10. Try a bottle. Dr. Mintie treats all private diseases success fully. , TUt BIBLK OF MODES V 81 IEMX. From tho London Freeman. Tho preparation of tho new bible,, which Is to bo inspirexl by sweet rea sonableness, has not made much ad-, vanco yet A o lay before our read ers tho Improved version of the first chapter of Genesis : 1. There never was a beginning, 2. And Cosmos wa1 bomngonoousr and differentiated. ' 3. And molecule evolved proto plasm, nnd rhythmic thrill- arose and then thcro was light. 4. And a spirit of envy wai devel oped' and formed tho plmic cell whenco arose the prJmoridal germ. 5. And the primoridal germ bo- came protenge, and profenge some how shaped eoxmn, then wxh tlm dawn of life. C. And the herb yielding deed aod the fruit tree yielding fruit after its own kind, whoso seed i in itself, de veloped according to IU own fancy. 7. The cattle affer his kind, the beast of the carlh after his kind, and every creeping thing becamo evolved by heterogeneous Segregation and concomitant dissipation of motion. 8. Ho that by tho survival wjf the fittest there evolved the simiads from tho jelly-fish, and the himhvl differentiated themselves into tho anthrophomorphin primidori.il types. 9. And in due time ono lost his tail and became man, and fx-hold he was the ruot cunning of all ani mals. 10. And in process of im y nat ural ;elccfi'ou and survival of the fit test, Matthew Arnold, Herbert Spen cer and Charles Darwin appeared.and behold it was very good. KILUH ITS CISC. Kearney and Kalloch crowd in San tiMcw eminent reiurrofrs. ah t : r . . their sand lot talk was for reduction of salaries, and yet we find that since Rev. Kalloch andhi gang have been in- tailed tho salaries of the cilv officers have been increased, in the aggregate, from $22,500 to $30,000. This is re form with a vengeance ! The fact is,,tbat the last Democratic administration of San Francisco waa the best in management that the city ever had, and if the foolish follower cf tbe preacher Kalloch had consulted their own interests and been only influ enced by dispassionate reason instead of wild fanaticism the Democratic tick et would have been returned in that city and the tax-payers would have been safe from the greed of ad vent u rou cormorants and irresponsible place hunters. No community or peoplo ever bene fitted themselves by following c3 after a "craze or sensation. The world is governed by an evenness or aa equi poise .which cannot suffer a sudden re vulsion without some sections being the sufferers. The Kearneyites and the Kallochites had nothing at stake in their fight against the law-abiding citizens nd tax-payers of the Pacific metropolis, and now since they have won the peo ple have no right that they are bound to respect. It is well that lessons of this sort ilmn in tliA srpm nf rwilif.irat ulnnnmir - The San Franciscans followed 3 after false gods and they have the benefit of their infidelity. Let Kalloch and let Kearney revel in their ill-gotten gains, and let the Golden Citv sit in her ashes - and lament her folly ! A ISTELLItiEXT CAT. XXVuver Tribune. Champa street has a remark.iMa cat. She has one kitten, the most beautilul, precious little "kit" that was ever seen. As I was passing her going home one day, I greeted her after the customary manner of saluting fine, genial, well-bred cat, and was continuing my way, when she .commenced calling, and, as I kept on, she raised her voice as if to summon a band of serenaders. &dd I, "Pus3, what is the matter? What makes you call so loud?" I looked, and beheld she had followed mo as far as the cellar, and there perched upon the daor, so to speak. It was evident that she wanted rue to fol low her; I went, puss going ahead until she came to a barrel, when she leaped upon tho side ahd mewed, iu- viung mo to look In. rihi3 was the nest of her kittea, and the little thfng was in serious trouble, and this was the mother's method to obtain relief. A gunny sack bad loen placed In the barrel for the cats to Iia nrmn nnr thtk' HHIrt kitten in squirming around, had become en tangled in a raveling. Tho string was four times around the little crea ture's neck, and it waa iu danger of being choked to death. I informed tho groceryman of the kit's dilemma and he cut the strings with a tharp knife. Tho old cat then came out of the barrel and . followed u up to tho walk, expressing her thanks with many contortions of her body. The Jacksonville Times was 'nine years'old Jan. 1st. , It is one of the best papers that comes to our table, and we congratulate Bro. KiekeU cn his prosperity. Long may the Times continue to boom. 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