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The Grant County News. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING AT CANYON CITY, OREGON. S. H. Shepherd Editor. TELEGRAMS. EASTERN. The Vermont Election. "White River Junction, Sept. 7. Re turns of the election are coming in as rapidly as can be expected. One hirndred and ten towns heard from give the follow ing vote: In 1876, Fairbanks, republican, received 25,393; Bingham, democrat, 11, 670. In 1880, Farnum, republican, re ceived 26,572; Phelps, democrat, 11,677; Heath, greenback, 802; Republican gain, 1179; democratic gain, 7 Congressional vote: First district Joyce, republican, 8645; Randall, democrat, 3470; Martin, greenback, 305. Second district Tyler, republican, 9385; Campbell, democrat, 4009; scattering,' 391. Third district Grant, republican, 5180; Currier, demo crat, 2691; Tarbell, greenback, 323, Rep resentatives to legislature Republican, 97; democrats,. 13. There are 131 towns yet to be heard from. The same propor tion will give 23,790 republican majority. Montpelier, Sept. 7. Returns from this district show that Randall is far be hind his ticket for congress. The repub licans art? gaining" in the large towns along the line of the railroad. Joyce is undoubtedly elected by a largely increas ed majority. A Modern Miracle. Milwaukee, Sept. 7. A young Nor wegian named Rosendahl, from Minnea polis, gave an exhibition yesterday of walking on the water. It was a complete success. With his feet secured in two small boat like structures the young man walked rapidly and easily on the surface of the water. The peculiarit' ofRosen dahl's invention is the possibility of making progress by an actual walking movement. There was no striding back or sideways, but a stiaiyht forward walk at the rate of at least three miles per hour. Thousands of spectators witnessed the feat and the. crowd was very enthusiastic over the young man's success. The swell occasioned by passing tugs did not dis turb the walker to any noticeable degree. The Vermont Election. Burlington, Sept. 8. One hundred and fifty towns heard from give the republi cans a majority of 17,000. On this basis the republican majority overall will be about 22,500 and their plurality about 27,000. Thp legislature will have but. one democratic senator. The boute will be overw helmingly republican . Comments of tlic New Yorlc Prws, New York, Sept. S. The Times says of the Vermont election: The most sang uine of the estimates which were other than mere guesses, gave the republicans this vear the majority of 1876, between 23,000 and 24,000 but all returns so far re ceived show that the majority of IS72 has been exceeded. The 'Tribune says: If the republicans gain in the 1S1 towns not fully reported, as the' have gained in towns heard from, their majority will be 25,790. This would exceed the wildest anticipations of the most sanguine republicans. It would exceed the largest republican majority lor governor in the last decade. The re publicans have already 15,000 majority in 110 out of 231 towns, and they would have been satisfied with 20,000 in the whole state. The Vermont Election. "White .River Junction Vt., Sept. 9. Returns of the state eieetion and guber natorial vote have been received from 222 towns, leaving 21 to be heard from. The congressional vote has been received from 202 towns, leaving 39 towns to be heard from. The gubernatorial vote stands as follows: Farnham, republican, 48.S53; Phelps, democrat, 20,717; Heath, greenback, 1530; Farnham's majority over all, 26,576. The same towns gave in 1876, Fairbanks, republican, 44,065; Bing ham, democrat, '20,320; scattering, 73; Fairbanks' majority, 23,627. This shows a republican gain of 2904, and a demo cratic gain of 397. Tho towns to be heard from, gave in 1S76, Fairbanks, republi can, 65S; Bingham, democrat, 668. But if the republican gain in the remaining 20 towns are proportionate to those heard from, Farnham's majority will be at least 26,936 with the entire vote of the state. In 1876 the republican majority was 23,725. In the first congressional district 74 towns give Joyce, republican, 13,150; Randall, democrat, 544S; Martin, greenback, 035, Joyce's majority, 7067. In the second congressional district in 72 towns, Tvler, republican, has 14,732; Campbell, demo crat, 5939;Mead, fusion, 341; scattering, 7; Tyler's majority, 8445. In the third con gressional district in 50 towns Grant, re publican, has 10,906; Currier, democrat, 5021; Tapbell, greenback, 4361. There are in the three districts 29 towns to be heard from. The complexion of the next legislature will be more strongly republi can than for a long time before being composed of 102 republicans; 15 democrats and 1 creenbacker. Full returns on all ithe tickets will probably be received to morrow. Scarcity orimoorcrs. Denver, Col., Sept. 9. A large number 7 fl 1 I ft- . . - . ft- -.- iastern states and Canada this season to -work on the various railroad extensions, of which there are nine in progress. Yet the work is delaved bv the scarcity of labor. The Denver & Kio urauae Com pany alone require at least oOUO more men than they are at present able to secure. Laborers are receiving from $1 75 to $2 50 per day. The mines draw away more than half the number imported. Chairman Morrow on the Pacific States Chicago, Sept. 11. Chairman Morrow of the California state central republican committee, has been interviewed bv the Tribune and states that ne has no doubt am a r am m t n u uiii i rkvm rui'i iiit ,i 1 14 mi inn iiii CpUDllCau A lie uui auuu wojujcu oei- iously by the democrats as debatable is California, and he carefully considers their grounds for such claim and finds them invalid. The statement he makes is careful and convincing in its logic. He is surprised to find so universal a sen timent here that the republicans will carry every northern state. The Mim-Horsc Race. Chicago, Sept. 11. At midnight the great contest of 150 hours, between horses aud men ended and was won by one of the men. There were entered for the race fifteen men and five horses, but at the close only three men and four horses were on the track. One horse, Specula tor, who was withdrawn after two days, died this morning as his owner claims, from the effects of poison. The score stands: Byrnes 578, Krohne 535, Colston 529, Betsy Baker 569, Rose of Texas 545, Both man's entry 527, Dunn's entry 525. There fore Byrnes gets the first prize of $2000; Betsy Baker, second prize, $1000; Rose of Texas, third prize, $500; Colston, fourth, $250; Bothman's entry, fifch prize, $150; and Dunn's entry sixth prize,S100. Byrne is scarcely more than a boy and his per formance is considered quite wonderful. He covered 90 miles yesterday and 88 to day and if his nearest rival had not stopped would have got 10 or 15 miles fur ther. Betsy Baker was very lame at the close. In fact the horses were all in very bad form at the close. The exhibition was brutal and the spectators were much disgusted with the tteatmentof the ani mals. St. .Tuticn Trqt.s .hi 2:13 at Minneapolis. Minneapolis, Minn,, Sept. 11. Day cold, cloud v, wind blowing a gale: track slow, making t'a-t time impossible. St. Julien attempted to lower his record of 2:11. The lirst heat was only a warming up and was tro;; i-d in 2:22U When he got the word tin second time he was go ing fast and readied the quarter m 33 seconds, half in l:04i and three quarters in 1:372- On the Home stretch hu trot ed in the teeth of a strong wind but reached the wire in 2:13. Gallantry of the Ollicers of tlie "Vera Cruz." v. 2ew York, Sept. 13, O. P. Silva, one pt the survivors of the Vere Cruz, in re lating the story of the disaster, says that those who went on deck could tee that the officers were passirg about the ship attending to their duties. Captain Van Sice had beer, in consultation with an other captain on hoard, who as I learned was going out to take e6rnmand of another vessel, and they aureed as to the bst course to keep the ship on. The captain was cool and courageous throughout. A Ullser in u Small Way. Dayton, O., Sept. 13 An old Irish woman named Kate Fitzgerald was run over on theMuet in the city yesterday and killed, She lived alone in an old house, and on marching its rooms to-day some $lo0iJ was found. Vict or Jo SI el rent Discover oil. El, Paso, Sept. 13. Scouts have discov ered VictoriV m:in camp in Carral De piedras in Moxm-o. Various raiding ex peditions are t.ti nir scattered over the state of Chihuahua. Gov. Terrassas has increased the reward offered for Victorio's scalp from 2,d(K) to 3,000 dollars. PACIFIC COAST. Complete Returns in the Cliurter Eieetion. San FuANCfs -o, .-ept. 9. Returns of the Chaiter election complete: lor adoption 4145; against 19,207. San Franelseo '-sits Dovrn"' on the Pro posed Charter. San Fijani isco, Sept. 8. i'he charter election occur red to-day. Total vote of the city, 23,122. The counting is not yet completed, bur the general impression is that the new cli-ir:er is beaten by a large majority. One hundred and four precincts com plete give: For adoption of the charter, 3099; against adoption. 14,474. The ma jority against adoption is beyond all ex pectation. Fusion of Democrats and Sunt! Lottery. San Fran !. -o, Sept. 11. The conven tions of democracy and W. P. C. last night ratified the bargain by which the division of the offices i- agreed upon between the two organizations in consideration of joining their iVrces in the coming mun icipal election. A Fleet Runner. San FiiANctst-OjSept. 1 1. At Bay district park to-day, win. a rough track and un favorable weather, ami penalized one yard vfor a false start. J!. S. llalev, of the Olym pic club, ran Tl) yards in 23 seconds, within three-filths jf a second of the best time on record. The Knllocli Cnse. San Francisco, Sept. 13. I. M. Kalloch charged with killing Charles DeYounj, to day before the superior court, pleaded, FOREIGN." A ProjtOM it .Jesuit .Tlistiott. Rome, Aug. 31. The pope has assented to the piDpos 1 that a portion of the French Jesuits sh mid form a society for propagation ot ie faith in cential Africa. Birth of the Kxpeelerf .Spanish Heir. Madrid, Sept. 1 1 The queen of Spain has been safelv :eSierei ot'a daughter. Both doing weil. Alfonso Ii:t!y. Madrid, Sept. 12 The baptism of the princess has been lived for September 14th. Ex-Queen Isabella will be one of the sponsors. Snaps. Take one cup of molasses, three-quarters of a cup of sugar, one tablespoon of- gineer, and a teasx)oon each of powdered cloves, cinnamon, and alspice. Add these to one-half cup of melted butter and beat in two teaspoons soda, and flour enough to roll. Roll very thin, cut out with a tin cutter and bake in pans in a hot oven. Parent (to dissolute son, who has been making calls) : "It's a shame vou should go and do so. Be a man and keep sober, and you may yet make your mark." Dissolute son: ""Can (hie) do more'n that now; can write my name." tamMMmaamBmammmmaatmatmmmmBBmmam3lsaBaammatmmmMm " -1 I- II MM I I ..... I II " Female Aililclics Tho time has now come when woman may take part in out-door sports, and even athletics. Blaikie, the new author on muscle, gives a clear view of how a woman can carry on her household dn ties and combine with them a mild form of gymnastics. This does not mean that a woman must jump up and down with a pitcher of milk or boiling soup m her hands, but certain motions, such as closing and opening the fingers from the palms of the hand, strengthening the muscles of the fore arm, while other mo tions are as easily made, develop the muscles of the cbest aud back ot the body. American women have no longer the right to be invalids. Long walks, plenty of fresh air and horseback exercise, open a wide field of enjoyment. Heated ball rooms and the '-German" are somewhat neutralized by tho fact that it is the fashion to cultivate the muscles, and when that has been said all has been said. A fashionable young lady, "frivolous girl," probabrv waltzes ten miles during a night's "German," so why should not a sensible girl walk five miles each day, play at cibquet or tennis, which, by the way, is hard work and no play, and in that we earn good sleep, good digestion, and good spirits? All these are the desirable things to possess. In compari son with them the luxuries of life lose their zest. To be strong, healthy and happy is the minimum bonum of life. American ladies may some day possess the splendid vitality of their English cousins; America already carries off the palm for beautiful and well-educated women. They are, however, made deli cate in the first place by the severe climate which forces them too often to lead an in-door life. The vital force is of course lessened, the muscles relax, and a protractod invalidism often fol lows. But let the habit of regular exer cise once be gained, and the American girl, with bright eyes and glowing cheeks, will hold her own against the belles and beauties of other nations. "Look at the famous beauties of any age," says Blaikie, "and everything in picture and statue points to firmness and symmetry of make, a freedom from either flabbinoss or leanness. The Yenuses and Junos, the Minervas, Niobes and Helens of mythology, the Madonnas, the medkeval beauties, all alike have the well developed and shapely shoulder and arm, the light chest and vigorous body a firm and erect car riage. A tfiin chest or a contracted waist would have marred at once the picture or statue. The same vigorous exercise or training which brought forth woman's physical beauty in ancient days will bring it out now." To promise a woman the bearity of Venus or of Helen holds out a strong in ducement to the belles of the present day; and if physical culture bring so high a reward the gymnasium will be crowded by applicants for admission, and book and embroidery thrown aside and exchanged for the parallel bars and other gymnastic exercises. Mow Two Lovers Were Reunited. Loring, the Boston bookseller, tells a very romantic story, as fol lows: "At one Lime I had prepared boxes of fancy paper with a fancy initial or pet name embossed in it, and 1 put this up at Si a box. aud advertised it widely. One day 1 had an order from California from a Miss Susie . The box was done up, addressed to her and lay about here, when a young Englishman came in and wanted to write a letter. 1 gave him the materials and a place, when his C3'xe caught the address on this box. Have you the order that came for that box of paper?' he asked. " Yes,' I replied, 1 'tis about some where.' " ' Would you mind sending it up to my hotel. It it is what I think, I shall leave for California to-night.' "1 found it and sent around and heard no more about it for perhaps three months, when one day the young man. with a lady on his arm,,, walked in. 'M.r. lionng, l want to present to you my wife," he said. lWe could not leave this country till we had thanked 'oti for your part in bringing us together.' The denoue ment, was quite a romance. The young man was the son of an aristo cratic family, and tne girl the daughter of the gardnor. But love levels all distinctions, and the young man felt this girl to be the chosen companion of his life. To break off this attachment his father had sent him to the Continent and dispatched the gardener and his pretty daugh ter to America, where the 3oung man had followed them., ignorant of their address.Jand at last finding it through the chance of a box of paper." Inteumakuiage inducing Stammering . Tho frequency of stammering in the south of France is found, on investiga tion, to equal twelve or thirteen cases in every 1,000 of tho population, while in the eastern departments the proportion is only one to that number. It has been assumed that the defect was in many in stances simulated to avoid military con scription, but, according to the Abbe Petitot, there are two districts in the Bouches du Khone, where all the inhab itants some 15,000 stammer. He as cribes this to be long-continued inter marriages among the communities, and to a consequent degeneracy of the race. The Fancies of Grief. Among all the many causes of grief to which mankind are daily exposed it is doubtful if there is one that strikes so deeply into the secret recesses of the vital principle as the loss of a dearly be loved wife, who has lived with a man for a lengthened period through early ad versity and late prosperity, and who has left him to tread the last weary stages of existence alone. A remarkable instance of the consequences arising fro"m this privation occurred in a small burying ground in the eastern portion of this county not very long since, the particu lars of which we have obtained from one well acquainted with the facts. The name of the husband is likewise known, but for obvious reasons is strenuously suppressed, as is also tho exact locality of the event. Some time during May tho wife of a gentleman, whom we shall call Mr. N , died, and his grief was uncontrollable, his imagination constantly conjuring up the idea that the grave had been tam pered with and the body of his late part ner carried off by resurreelionrsts. Tho friends to whom he mentioned this con viction ridiculed his belief, but appar ently without effect. The husband at length resolved upon the expedient of opening the grave with a view of ascer taining beyond peradventure whether or not the corpse had been removed. Ob taining the assistance of two farm glands, they procured implements and set about opening the grave. It was past midnight when the work was commenced. Mr. N stood motionless, his head hanging down, and deep sighs occasion ally coming from his breast, mixed with the quick breathing of the men as the plied their shovels. He held the lantern in his hand, watching every motion of the men's flushed faces as they brought their heads within the ray of the light in the act of throwing up earth, and intent upen the expected stroke of the shovel upon the coffin lid. The victim's ear was strained to the sound as if he could have augured from it whether or not the chest Avas empty. In a short time, "The heavy moll that shrouds t?u oead" -was entirely removed, and the lantern was taken down into the garve. The screw nails were undone, the lid was raised, and the body of Mrs. N , arrayed in her -winding sheet and scal loped sere clothes was seen, by the sickly, yellow gleam of the lantern, lying in the stillness and placidity of death. Mr. N descended into the grave. He gazed on the cold clay face, touched it, and satisfied himself that it was his wife. He then ascended to terra fmna again, the lid was placed on the coffin, the screws fixed, and the grave filled up. Mr. N paid the men he had engaged, and the circumstance has been kept quiet up to the present.--. Thomas (Can J Times. The Original of Magna Cliarta. Every one knows how Sir Bobert Cot ton rescued the original manuscript of Magna Charta from the hands of a com mo n tailor who was cutting it up for patterns. As this copy was certainly not unique, we should only have had to regret the loss of a curiositv. The vain able collection of the Thurloc state pa pers would probably have remained a secret to the world had it not been for the tumbling in of the ceiling of some old chambers in Lincoln's Inn. where those documents had, for some reason or other, been concealed. In the secret drawer of a chest the cu rious manuscripts of Dr. Dee, the occult philosopher, lurked unsuspected fo years. Many of the letters of Lady Mary Montagu, letters which are among the most dplightful compositions ever penned, and which have long taken their place among English classics, were found in the false bottom of an old trunk. Lord Herbert of Cherbury's autobiogra phy was all but lost to the world. It was known that when Lord Herbert died there were two copies of the work, one written with his own hand, and one transcribed by an amanuensis. At last, in the midst of a mass of worm-eaten, moldy old papers at Lymore in Mont gomeryshire, a gentleman came upon the original copy. Several leaves had been torn out, many others had been so stained by damp as to be illegible. Enough could be decipeered, however, to show the value of tho work. The only hope was that if the duplicate could be secured it might supply the lacuna' of the original. But years rolled by and no duplicate turned up. In 17U7 an estate belonging to the Herbets was sold. Some few books, pictures and lumber were stored away in an attic, apparently Jloo worthless for the xmohaser to take away and lo! among these was found the long lost and much desired duplicate. And thus did English liter ature possess itself of one of the most in teresting biographies it can boast. In deed, the late Lord Lytton used to say that there was no single book, of this kind at least, that he treasured so highly. Still more romantic was the discovery of Luther's Table Talk. Temiile Bar. Spots on Finger Nails. The white spots on tho finger which appear on our finger nails is due to the variable nutri tion of the nails. When the vital forces are vigorous and every part of the body is supplied with good blood, the growth is steady, and there is uniformity in color and consistence. It is a peculiarity m the growth of the nails that if a person experiences a severe attack of disease, or some strange shock to his organization, the nails will indicate it. There will be a change of color, a partial cessation of growth, as they emerge from the skin, ridges appear. In some remarkable cases the nails have dropped out as a con sequence of illness. Phrenological Journal. USEFUL RECIPES. Sauce Piquaktb for Fish. Make a brown sauce by frying a chopped onion in a little butter, adding a large tea spoonful of flour and a tumbler of stock. Simmer a little, strain, and put m a tea spoonful of vinegar, one of chopped cu cumber pickle and one of capers. Stuffed Tomatoes. Take large, smooth tomatoes, take out a little of the inside at the top and stuff with a force meat made thus: Pry some minced onion in butter and add "some bread crumbs, some cold chicken chopped very fine, some chopped parsley, and a little stock to moisten, and pepper and salt, mix well; take from the range, add raw volk of egg, stuff the tomatoes and bake them in the oven. Broil your chops nicely, butter them hot and arrange them around a platter with tho stuffed tomatoes in the center. Coffee Ice Pudding. Pound two ounces of freshly-roasted coffee in a mor- k tar, just enough to crush the berries without reducing them to powder. Put them in a pint of milk with six ounces of loaf sugar, let it boil, then leave it to get cold, strain it on the yolks of six eggs m a double saucepan, and stir on the fire till the custard thickens. When quite cold, work into a gill an3 a half of cream whipped to a froth. Freeze the mixture in tho ice pot, then fill a plain ice mould with it, and lay it in ice till the time of serving. Stuffing for Yeal. Chop half a pound of suet, put it into a basin with three-quarters of a pound of bread crumbs, a teaspoonful of salt, a quarter of pepper, a little thyme, three whole eggs, mix well. A pound of bread crumbs and cne more egg may be used; it will make it cut firmer. Biz a la Tuhque. Put into a sauce pan six cupfuls of stock-or broth into which you have previously dissolved a a good allowance either of tomato paste, French tomato sauce, or the pulp of fresh tomatoes passed through a sieve :. pepper and salt according to taste. When it boils throw in for every cupful of stock, half a cupful of fine rice, well washed and dried before the fire. Let the whole remain on the fire until "the rice has absorbed all the stock, then, melt a goodly xncce of butter, and pour it over the rice. At the time of serv ing, and not before, stir lightly to sepa rate the grains, but do this off the fire. Apple Croutes. This simple and dainty little dessert is one taught by Miss Carson: Peel and core the apples and halve them; take half slices of bread, spread thickly with butter and sprinkle with sugar, then lay ajple.on bread, core side down; sprinkle on more sugar and any kind of spice to taste. Bake. A Luncheon Dish. Beat two eggs, mixing with them a tablespoonful oi cream. Put them into a saucepan,, adding some anchovies and some minced tongue. Spread on toast and serve im mediately. Emerson's Aphasia. Of Balpli Waldo. Emerson a correspondent of the Hart ford Courant writes: "The vigor of that wonderful intellect remains superior to the ravages of accumulating years, but the evidences of decay nevertheless man ifest themselves sadly enough in that dis ease of old age, the inability to recall words, which is technically called aphasia. Tho simplest combinations fail him, but he bears his pain gently, calmly, grandly. When in doubt he turns quietly to his daughter and in quires of her. She answers him, and then he proceeds by the help of her sug gestion as he had begun. On the partic ular occasion of Avhich my informant told mo occurred two remarkable instances of his failing. The first was his inability to recall the word which would describe his son's profession. It was not a mere hesitation for a word. It was an abso lute inability even to form it. Ho waited for a moment, and then he said. 'Daughter, what is your brother's pro fession?' 4Ho is a doctor, father,' she answered. 'Yes, a doctor,' he said, and then resumed the conversation. The next time he was unable to tli'iik of the word which would tell his own age. In like manner he turned again and asked:. ''Daughter, how old am I?' And when she told him he assented, and seemed not at all disconcerted at his need of making so peculiar an inquiry." Bologna. Bo-logn-ya is a waileifcity in Italy,1 yet it invented sausages. Bologna has no hogs, .yet the shops reek with the odois of leeks and garlic. Cairo may have forty-nine smells, but how many has Bologna? There are nineteen kinds of cheese (that are good) and 3ach with a smell oh, what a smell! There are the shops of cooked vegetables, where you buy a boiled hot potatato for a soldi, or a half-kilo for five of them, all these smell; then tho sausages. It is a perfect sausage fair, an industrial exposi tion of Bolognas. They are in links, in gut, in bladders (of all sizes) in cakes,in stomachs, in membranes, in nets, in flask-like forms, in clubs, in cudgels, in canes; sausages smoked, dried, leeked, fatted, lean, spiced, plain, mildewed, decayed, greasy, mouldy, red, gray, mottled, broken, tottering with age, or plump as youth. And yet we feasted on them and the thin, wafer-like, mosaic like surface of it was delicate and zest fill. Chicken Mayonnaise. Cut up some chickens and fry them nicely in butter. Let them get cold, then trim into good shape and put them in a covered dish with salt, pepper, oil and vinegar as for salad; add a few pieces of onion and a little parsley. Let them stand thus for two or three hours. Then drain the pieces of chicken, place them on the let tuce in your salad dish and spread a nice mayonnaise dressing over all. Some of the chicken when fried can be saved for the tomato stuffing.