Image provided by: Rogue Valley Genealogical Society; Medford, OR
About Ashland tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919 | View Entire Issue (June 22, 1877)
U ff' _ 2— w ''rr=r=:=--:' ~ ► INDEPENDENT ON ALL SUBJECTS, AND DEVOTED TO TUE INTERESTS OF SOUTHERN OREGON. VOÉ. II.—NO. 2. ASHLAND OREGON: FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1877. $2.50 PER AN NUM. TUE SILVER QUESTION. BAD SPELLING. off my horse, and made signs to a man P. S. B. PINCHBACK. THE SIMPLICITY OF OUR FATHERS. to feed and groom him and went Oar educators, as a rule, do not pay The story of the life of Pinchback, They say that President Hayes will on to the hotel, where by opening and • Secretary Sherman gives his views AT PARTING. sufficient attention to the study of of Louisiana, who has been so un introduce into the White House the shutting my mouth and squeezing my on the silver question as follows: The stomach, I gave ’em to understand I silver question gives me no uneasiness. orthography. There are a great many successful in his attempts it sit in the simplicity of our fathers. A reform of I. Beside the mystic river wanted my supper, and when I got There are two extremes of opinion upon school teachers in this country whose Council of Wise men at Washington is that kind would be something ambigu At holy even fall Where golden lilies quiver, sleepy I shut my eves and snored, upon it, equally threatening, and as usual spelling is bad enoungh to bring a blush a romantic one. His mother was a ous. In looking over some old books And reedy inurmers call - which they showed mo my bed. each supported by honest conviction to the face of a ten-year-old boy. We are beautiful colored girl, said to have been the other day, the sketches of the social We piture, deir Heart», at etarting, Each le&oiDK <>n his our. I thought they all laughed a great and plausible reasoning. Like most constant y in receipt of communications moro Indian than negro. His father (vents of that period indicated that the And never «now til! parting, How beautiful ;he shore ’. deal more than Americans and noticed disputes, these opinions are now local in magnificent penmanship, and the was a Major Holmes, well know in the simplicity of our fathers was the sim C bobcs : they made signs and faces to and at each ized—one in the East aud one in tho worst spelling that ever dazed the eye South as an extensivo planter, deep plicity of big wigs. There was a Jenk Touch hands with love. other. They talked too, or mumbled West. When two black clouds, angry of an unfortunate compositor, or made drinker and good liver. Having a ins in those days as now: “Miss Peggy Touch Hot with tears - like, which was the same as Greek to and threatening, approach each other, sad havoc with the limited time of a passion for poetry and being deep in Harding appeared, lovely and radiant The goldeD i.ies chime. managing editor. Many of these com his cups, he named tbe boy born to as a cloud touched with soft sunset And call us to toe river, me. we see lightning and thunder, and soon Aud dowu tiie tide of time. munications possess real merit, and wo the slave girl Percy Bysshe Shelly light, in a white mantua silk fringed I was up bright and early next morn the fierce storm, refreshing rain or gen II. desire their writers to bear in mind Pinchback—Percy Bysshe Shelley out with gold, a petticoat of pale blue bro ing and started off in due season to find tle shower is followed by sunshine. The brow r f Alms M Cer that we are glad to receive them, bad of respect to bis favorite author, and cade, blue satin shoes with court heels, Ne’er skoue *ith such a light, a meeting house, for I belonged. As I This dispute about silver will bo fol spelling and all. It is much easier to Pinchback because, as he said himself, and white silk hose clocked with gold. And O we know th it later, went along I overtook several hand lowed by a refreshing supply of silver When tenije ts cone. und n;ght, That light, forever sniuing some girls, and Oh! how I longed to coin, It will absorb a portion of our publish interesting facts when we the child was not gold, not copper, This sumptuous lady’s handkerchief Along life s troubled main, get them, even in ungainly attire, than not white not Indian—in 6hort neither was also wrought with gold, and said Will cheer ns, ttougn repining talk to them and show off a little, but paper money, and will supplement and Iu darkness and in puiu. knew it was useless to think of it, as make easier resumption both in gold it would be if we did not receive them one thing or the other, but a little of to have cost not less than thirty dollars. in any form. If a gentleman comes to all. What kind of a lifo little “Pinch” A head-dress of ostrich plumes, blue, C hobus : they were no doubt Germans. I fol and silver coin, kept equal with each our office with an account of an acci led under the care of his father and white and pale yellow, hair profusely III. lowed them and found where the meet other. One extreme opinion will allow, dent that occured six miles in tbe coun owner may be gathered from the fol powdered, gloves of white kid, buttoned The »tir* march on the gleaming ing was held, walked in, and taking a any holder of silver bullion, or old sil Of Evriv rtUmond <re-*t, try, it is none of our business whether lowing incident: One day he was with to the elbow and wbrought with gold, Aud whi e plume dim y streaming seat, looked around to see what kind of ver plate or teapot, to carry it to tho Above the world’» unrest - he made the journey in an o x cart or a Major Holmes on a Mississippi steam fan of curious workmanship, prodig 'l ed us the mart i«i story a company I had met with, and said to mint and have it turned into silver dol That rules the reattn <>f space— laundelet. The news is what we want, boat; the 3un was hot and in tbe shade iously admired.” * * * “Of the myself, “goodness, gracious, if these lars, and force everybody to take them Tue conib «nd th* gbry and we are glad to receive it in any of an awnjng tho planter and his friends distinguished gentleman present the Heroic lives ru iy Lee. outlandish foreigners ain’t eating their in payment of all debts, public or priv shape. Oar criticism on tbe orthogra played poker for high stakes, and to most conspicuous was perhaps Mr. C hoses : dinners in meeting I” for every one of ate. Such a measure, if adopted now, phy of the country correspondent wLo quiet his nerves drank deep draughts Thomas Jefferson, in a long-waisted IV. ' ’em was chewing like so many sheep. when the market value of silver is 10 is iu nine cases iu ten a school teacher, of iced whiskey punch. The slave boy white cloth coat the height of the ton, Thela»t word wu-t be »poken, I looked and as the preacher hunted | per cent below gold, at legal rates of 1G The last sods ’ musi be rung - is made in the very best of nature, and sat in a corner watching the game and scarlet vest, black satin breeches highly Yet O we give no token for the hymn—he chewed too—I peer to 1, would at once depreciate the pur Of how our beats are wrurg, in the hope that it may, in tho end, waiting for any orders which might bo polished tinted shoes, with silver buck ed about to see where tho grub was, chasing power of a dollar 5 per cent be At here, be*ul-' the river. prove Beneficial to all concerned. We given by the players. While ho was les, with white silk hose. As he entered We lets, and k>-k,nn! s'gh, but didn’t discover any. When tho low greenbacks and 10 per cent below I A'd ou our f ini up- quiver have before us an otherwise well written occupied in this way the captain stum the court of Terpsichore he removed The long, lot g «ords, -‘Gcod-bye!” preacher gave out tho hymn, I tried I gold. It would utterly destroy our cammunication from a liberal souled bled across him, and demanded: from a slightly powdered wig a peaked C hobus : hard to catch a word, for I loved to ’ public credit by which we are now re gentleman who insists on spelling “Whose nigger are you?” “Well, cocked hat of tho latest fashion. Fas show off my pinging powers and see the I ducing the burden of our public debt Touch ban!« wi hlove, “scholar’ with a superfluous “1” and Massa Cap’in, I don’t zackly know,” tened to the lappel of the hat was a Tout h lip« * i i le as— girls look at me, admiringly, tenderly, j 33 per cent; drive out from the country Tn* ¿ol leu lui -a chime, seeks to add emphasis to the word was Pinchback’s reply. “I war Major nosegay of 6weet-smelling posies." * * An<l call U* to 11 e river. but I couldn ’ t make out a single word, I any all gold no longer necessary for And down the tt<ie of tins. I i “much,” by injecting a “t” into it. Holmes’ boy, but he dono bet me on “Mr. John Handcock also attracted and when they began to sing it was purpose, ar. J leave us with what our 1 To be certain that he has made things two little pair and lost. I’se got to seo much admiration, especially from the worse, it was maddening! “Oh!” silver friends so much denounce, the ‘‘sure” he inserts aa “h” into that word fair sex. He wore a coat of fine scarlet (The £tom thought I, my poor nc-ives, my poor single standard of silver bullion, The where he thinks it will do the most good, the game through ’fore I can answer cloth, Line silk breeches, with white tympanum and has it come to this?” results of this doctrine will be so ap and spells “kuife” without a “k.” “Con your question.” The boy bad told the exact truth, nis father, having no silk hose, a full-powdered wig— a la I Written for the T iding «.] My sight grew dim, my head reeled, parent that the sense of our people iu nection” be tends adrift without tho other stake, bet him against $1’000 and Louis Leize—with frizzled side looks and mentally ejaculating I can no long all sections will, in due time, reject it. A Sad FxperiöLce. second “n,” and atones for his niggard lost. and a cocked hat with a black cockade. er endure this heathenish crew,” j imp The other extreme opinion would en liness, by kindly bestowing the missing His ruffles were of the finest French E ditor T idings :—Seeing the letter ed up and darted from the house, hold tirely demonetize silver, which is ab letter on “piano," in addition to the one THE EARTHQUAKE SINKING SHIPS. lace and bis shoe buckles brilliant of “Traveler” in your last issue, my ing my bands over rnv ear3. I never solutely essential for the daily wants of considered indespcnsible to it. Not Capt. Chas. MacLeoon of the Bbip paste." * * * “Our respected fel old longing desire to s>e myself ni let up till I reached a wood where in a life, the coin universally used by man long since a lady who felt called upon Genera, sunk at Huanillos in the great low-citizen, James Harrison, wore an print, rushed in upon me like a flood, dense shade I threw myself down groan kind more than any other by millions, to write a description of a church en- earthquake on the Pacific coast on the entire suit of drab cloth, richly trim and a wish arose to make known to the ing and kicking. “My son,” said a while gold is handled by thousands, i tertainment she had attended, assured 9th ult., has arrived at New York. He med with silk lace.” world that I too had traveled and seen voice just over me, “vhat ’pears to be and in which the rich and poor are ; us in faultless penmanship, and on says his ship became entangled with eights, and also the occasion of my grey the matter?” At the sound of these alike interested in the free use of. Both sweet scented paper, that the little girls others near as they tossed wildly about', A correspondent writing from Altu words I leaped to my feet, and stared metals are convertible into each other hairs, my claims for sympathy etc. crushing against each other, sinking whose parents had dressed them in ras to the Bidwell Herald, under date of The question has often been asked wildly around and t-aw a white-haired both of equal current value. The gen spotless with for the occasion, resem almost immediately in 15 fathoms of May 30ih, has this to say about me, “why is your hair so grey ?” but man leaning on a cano. He was of a uine bimetalic standard of value is as bled dear little “angles.” A gentle water. On the first alarm he came up crickets: until now I have given no explanation, mild and sorrowful countenance and sumed by the gold mcnometalist to be man from Kokomo writes us that from between decks. It was about For the last ten days the waters of have kept the Becret close locked in my very old. My first impulse was to impossible in the face of the fact that half-past 8 o’clock P. M. There had Pitt river have been carrying crickets i “ virtu ” is on the increase in that vil own breast, but the worst is now past, spring forward and clasp him in my gold cannot be divided so as to meet lage, and that “skandal” is not as been several shocks iu the previous from our midst and still they come, the bitterness engendered by the shock , arms, which I did. Here at last is one of the hundred da’ly wants of life. z“frekent” as formerly. From Delphi twenty days, but he bad »finished his there seems to be a band on each aide upon my nervous system, and tho one who can speak my mother tongue, Now, both these extreme opinions are comes the cheerful intelligence that a cargo of guano and was expecting to of the river a few hundred yards above town that have met and concluded to wringing, as it were, of my fond and thought I. The old man struggled just as certain to bo abandoned after sail next morning. Aside from the take passage. We would be glad if full “ corpse ” of experienced hunters loving heart, I am bitter off, and so in violently and said, “have pity on an full discussion, as time passes. It is are in search of some animal that has frightful rumbling sound his attention they would have taken through tickets consideration of my duty to humanity old man; spare my life,” Spare your an old dispute that has periodically been “counting” “debredations” in the was arrested by the extraordinary to Sacramento or some other place, bnt and the reasons above mentioned, I life! said I, I wish you may live a risen for more than 2,000 years, and “naborhud.” Lafayette comes to the phenomena of the mountain above be instead of that they are all out again . wave the native, lingering reluctance, thousand years, you havo no idea how always been adjusted by the govern front with an account of a “sooiside” ing so much agitated that great rocks before they get half a mile below town, as yet thoy haveuot destroyed much with felt by an ardent soul like mine, to comforting it is to hear my own lan ment issuing both metals as coin and became detached and rolled down to exception of G. F. Harris’ garden, very “ resently ” attempted, but not “ purfec- mention publicly private experience, guage in a town of foreigners. Not a maintaining their tquul at a fixed rate ted.” All, or nearly all of this bad word the sea, resembling balls of fire. unluckily there was a riffle at that and proceed after my poor fashion to word have I heard that I could under by limiting tho amount it issues. A spelling is attributable to carelessness. The water at the anchorage suddenly point in the river that carried them to state my case, as a full explanation to stand, since I came into this benighted metal more valuable in the market than The gentleman or lady who has brain receded eo that ships in IS fathoms the bank a great many of them getting all wondering friends and warning to place. The old man smiled a pitying its legal ratio can be issued without enough to write a readable article for a touched bottom. The Geneva Too swung out. They destroyed the most of hia Onions, Cabbage, and other vegetables ! emile, and said,“I see your mistake my limit; metal of less value in market tLan mankind at large. round at the rate of 8 or ten knots an eating them to the ground. Harris newspaper, could very readily spell Soon after I had arrived at man’s es ! 6on, these people are not furriners, but its legal ratio must be limited in its is their words properly if they would give hour, in great circles, until she struck said be could tell the ones that eat the tate, and I and Jemima had vowed eter they have a fashion of chawin’ gum and sue, leaving the absolute need of it to the matter proper attention. There is against a rock that tore out part of her onions for he could smell their breath. nal fidelity, unwavering love and un a person can’t understand ’em at first, fix amount. In our country where we no shortcoming that places a person to bottom. The ship was forced violently They were the ones that suffered. Ha had great room for experiments bounded confidence, the one to, the I but you’d soon git used to it.” Oh, is are struggling to make our paper money such disadvantage as bud spelling. in an opposite direction and went down. also and has made use of it. Among others other, my father took it into his head, that all! said I. “That’s what ails ’em,” equal to coin wo are happily in«a con Our young readers should bear this in Other vessels were as violently driven he tied a rock to the leg of one and as many a father has done before, that said be, “but I can tell you a story that dition to do this easily and with profit mind, and not be in too great a hurry ashore. Capt. McLeoon say6 it seemed placed it under the water for twenty- to send me on a journey might break will make your hair stand straight up! to tho government. The way is to is to drop their spelling books, to take up to him from the sulphurous or electri four hours when he took it out, he said it lay still for a few moments and then off our attachment, that I might find I had a son, and he was engaged to be sue silver coin whenever demanded; the French and Latin.— Exchange. cal appearance of the mountain that gat up and ran off with the rock still some one nearer what he would like my j married to a young lady of this place, old silver dollar as well as smal the volcano was bursting out of its sides. tied to its leg, this shows haw tenacious BUSINESS. wife to be, qnd knowing by what he I everything was ready even the cake was ler coin in exchange for paper money, Rocks were tumbling about with fright of life they are. j baked, bnt on the evening before the either for fractional currency or United remembered of himself, that argument Tho Oregonian thus sums up the ful noise and everything was lighted day Eet for the wedding, ho met his in Dalles Mountaineer: Two families States notes and retiro them. Silver condition of trade and finance in this up. He thinks tho damage to ship *u useless, he resolved upon this tended in the company of some young coins already have superceded the body State: There is a very reasonable ping was caused Dot so much by the from California with their wagons, ar ruse. I readily consented, knowing folks. They all had their mouths full of fractional currency, aDd they are amount of activity in business circles tidal waves as by the upward rush of rived i.i town on Tuesday morning by that time, distance and circumstances, of gum and cornin ’ onto ’ em suddenly, legal tender to the same extent as frac observable, with but few important water and rotary currents, driving the way of the east side of the Sierra and could never affect our steadfast purpose the poor girl knowin ’ he hated gum, tional currency. Let the government changes to note either in the drift of ships repeatedly against each other. and undying love, and so / one lovely Cascade mountains, ep route for Seat-^ | turned her Lead and walked on, the buy silver bullion at what it is worth, trade or the general tendancy of rates, morning I mounted my horse and start tie. They crossed the river here and rest of ’ em fullerin ’ and laughin ’ . It Bacna Vista, Polk county, has a and coin silver dollars and issue them terms or prices. The demand for ed on a journey of several hundred intended to cross the mountains at the was too much for my poor boy, he stag- whisky saloon, tbe license being ob feely to everybody who will surrender financial favors is quite large if con miles. I got along without accident or Snoqualmie pass. As these people had I ered homo thinkin ’ sho was false, eank tained by a technicality over a remon the paper dollar. This is a fair and sidered with the average of the year, adventure, until I bad almost reached left a parched-up country, their great ' down on the lounge and beforo we strance of about 20 majority. The voluntary exchange that robs nobody. the end of my trip, when one evening desire seemed to bo to get to soma bnt with reference to the season, is not just at dusk I reached a nice little vil could call a doctor he was gone. The The silver dollar ought to bo received quite up to former years. This is owing technicality was occasioned by there place where it rained. They will find lage in a real pretty place, where I re | poor girl confessed her fault, in agony by tho government and made a legal to the fact that the continued rains have being no name mentioned in tho re it a Seattle. ---------------- ------------------- — solved to stop for the night and stay of soul, but it was too late and now oho tender precisely as tho paper dollar somewhat retarded trade in several monstrance as being remonstrated i is wasting away iu a slow consumption, A report from San Francisco says: now is. In this way perhaps fifty mil branches, and checked tho marketing against. So tho people have a liquor over Sunday, for it was Saturday. I another sacrifice to the gum fiend. ” As shop in their midst against their will. Crop and weather reports from all prin lion of silver dollars will supercede met a boy trudging along and asked he ceased, the tears rolled down his fifty million of paper dollars, some say of the spring wool clip. Tbe run cf him where I’d find a hotel. He tried The Attorney General has called up cipal points in the State show no wrinkled cheeks. I could bear no mere more, some say less. But let that bo salmon has, especially in the early part hard to tell me, but I could make noth and wringing his hand hard, turned determined by popular demands. By of the season, been short, and the re on accounting officers of the Treasury materiul variation from perevious re ing of what he said and so rode on aud rushed for my horse and mounting this process, every step of it will bring quirements from that direction have for <a copy of the accounts of Brigham ports. Harvesting has commenced in thinking the poor little fellow is tongue- him. rode madly away and pressed anx- both paper and silver nearer and near been of less extent than was anticipated. Young, Mormon leader, filed in the many localities in the northern portion tied.” Next I met a nice young lady So with these circumstances and the Treasury some twenty years ago, when of the State. The recent spell of hot , iously homeward, scarcely stopping to all flattering with ribbons, laces and eat or sleep, for an awful presentiment er the standpoint of gold, and with the fact that the surplus of grain and flour he was Indian ager.t, appointed by the weather has occasioned but trifling measures now authorized by law will ruffles, and asked her where I could i of evil haunted me. My worst fears soon bring all our money to tho same for export in the State is well nigh ex government, These accounts are called damage. A slight, shrinkage reported fifid a stopping place. She too tried to were realized, the epidemic had reach value. We will then have paper money hausted, tbe supply of funds has been for at tho r* quest of Howard, U. S. in some localities, and in some places make me understand but all to no pur rather in excess of the call recently, attorney for Utah, who will examine the north wind which prevailed shat ed our town and Jemima had fallen a pose, I jast couldn’t and so went- on supported by public credit with gold and the market is now flush with capital them carefully in connection with tho tered the grain a little, but the main prey, and was as inveterate a gum thinking, this is a town of foreigners seeking opportunities for investment. | Attorney General. It is intimated effect of the heat seems to have been to chewer as it has ever been my evil and silver in abundance. ------ — v - and its no use wasting time talking to A very considerable amount, which has that thoy will’furnish important testi hasten ripening a week or more. The chance to see. This is my plain un ’em, but perhaps I can make ’em un hitherto been regularly used in stock mony against Brigham Young, and up A mother and her daughter married derstand by signs.” So on I went till varnished story, and this is why my brothers in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and tho speculations here, as well as in San on them a prosecution will bo based extreme heated term is now over, I found a house, that I knew was a ho i hair is grey and why I am a vagabond Francisco, is being turned to other less for various illegal acts committed by through it is still very worm in many , I and T raveler N o . 2. mother got the younger husband. tel and hard by a etable, where I got interior valleys, exciting but Bafcr channels of business. while acting as Indian Agent. (the goem I i I i ©u_ : I Í i > —.......................... ► ♦ ' '■ i i f \ •IT