THE COLUMBIAN.
Ot. Helen, ColnmbiaNCoM Or.
SuXSCBIPTIOir BATES.
1 wir, ! a4nce J 2J
6 months . -y,
S nootki . 1 00
ADVEKTISlNO BATES:
Oat aqr 00 tastrtlon IJJJ
Each abaquai iawrtlon 1 w
EjCADAMSkJto A Proprietor.
The State has gone Republican. The
selection of nominees seems to have been
rood, though there were many excel!. ;
men on the opposite ticket. M C.
George has been reelected and ran away
ahead of his party ticket He has served
the country faithfully, irrespective of
party, and will undoubtedly do so in the
future. The counties, in many cases,
owing'to ring iufluenceshave kicked the
rti a T -11 .
traces, oiacjcamms, nvruug xvt-yuvm-can
County ,has gone on the State ticket
Republican, on the uounty ticket, dem
ocratic. ' Tha legislature, it U thought
fwill b Republican on joint ballot, and
a Republican U. 8. Senator is undoubt
edly booked for Washington. Columbia
County gave the following parties an ex
cess of the Regular Republican majority
( which was 105.) M. C. George, M. C.
4; Edward Hirsch, State Treasurer, 2;
J. F. Oaples, Prosecuting Attorney, 31;
F. C. Reed, Joint Senator,. 4; F. A.
Moore, Co. Judge, 18; N. C. Dale, Sher
iff, 7; M. E. llazen, Assessor, 24; H.
West, Coronor, 4; The lowest majority
on the Republican ticket ( 52 ) was for
W. H. Con vers. Clerk. Owing to the
free use of money and whiskey the ring
shored their candidates through. The
hundreds and fifties that promised us
their support, like Hessiaua, lied and
went back on us, and now if the
ring oppresses and skins them, they
need not come to us with their com
plaints, they must grin and bear it as
best they can. We shall not be their
champion, bat let them suffer the conse
quences of their perfidy. They have
shown the sincerity of their friendship,
and when they come to us to help or
loost them, we shall quietly let them
boost themselves. It will relieve us
from many a thankless job. We have
done more to help the County aud the
people in it than any one else, and for
every favor we have received a kick or
sneer. But we should not complain,
the ancient Jews treated Christ after
the same style, and in 9 cases out of 10
everyone that helps to rescue the op
pressed from the clutches of the oppres
sor is met with the rebuff of those he
would assist. We have this philosophi
cal deduction that the majority of peo-
. , J iL.l -i.
pie like to be numouggea, ana turn. iw ia
hard work to make a silk purse out of a
sow's ear.
Envy seems to be their motive power
as far as we are concerned ; but we are
content to let them have their paltry
offices, if they will let us enjoy our pri
vate rights, but that they will not do,
they pursue us with their rancor in ev
ery private business even to the matter
of our washing. But God is making it all
right, he is finishing up the job we left
incomplete, and we have nothing to say
only to stand, and look on.. Man pro
poses, but God disposes.
Tom Watts threatened us with ar
rest for perjury because we corrected an
error in a Land Office Ad. How good
people are getting to be ! He is like the
ancient Pharisees,' he can "strain at a
gnat and swallow a saw-milL Some
body is very much interested to perse
cute us and our family. We shall de
fend ourselves by law as far as we can,
and if that fails us by the corruption of
its agents, take the pistol and shotgun,
we have but one life to surrender, and
are willing to .die for our rights as our
ancestors were at Iiexington. It seems
M if after passing through such battles
as Williamsburg and Gettysburg, we
had a right to a peaceful habitation on
land we preempted, but & set of unprin
cipled hounds want to root us out, beg
gar our family, disgrace us, and all
through, greed of gain and fiendish envy
jusf; because God Almighty gave us a
ittle more brains than they have. We
jiave used our brains to build up the
country and everybody in it, we offered
our life and yet they are not satisfied
with tlia.t, hey are tired of hearing us
called M JustH hey have got the pa,
try offices, let hem be content, a,n.
eave us alone, even, if like Mordecai, we
will not 1kw the knee to their mush
room greatness.
he West Share should be patronized
y every one, It is a prime necessity of
Oregon, not merely an ornament.
Dr. Stewart loses very few patients.
Our New York Letter
Special Correspondence of the Colombian,
- Nsw.Yorx, May 27, 1882.
What is thk uss or it.
There is very little stirring in, the city
except the rain .that is falling and the
bright green leaves in the.newrf, decked
trees and the noisy narrows. Only four
murders since tlat execution, six
days ago; jjtnree attempts, one of
which Trove a success, bo you see
, papers are dull for what is a daily
paper now without a its regular plethora
of horrors t It has $ng been ja subject
oTromark," that immediately after the
hanging of an assassin the very air seem
to fill with the mysterious force that
impels the criminal classes to deeds of
atrocity; and that before the week is
closed the columns of the papers teems
with new stories of bloodshed. The
question in the minds of a great many
good men who use their bruins to think
with, is to whether the brutal strangling
of a murderer does or does not deter the
thugs from the bloody work that so many
of them have learned to look upon as
the crowning glory of their lives. Hor
ace Greeley was wont to say, that the
worst possible use to which you could
put a man was to hang him. His death
is the result of a judicial murder, and
aided by the quick and graphic pen of
the ever ready reporter, it serves not to
intimidate! the vicious but to encourage
them. Nine out of ten murderers 44 die
game" aud I say it with no irreverent
feeling nearly all, according to the sol
emn asservations of their spiritual ad
visers, go right straight to Heaven. But
what of their victims.
Moses Taylor.
Moses Taylor is added to the list of
the distinguished dead of the year. He
-was one of the typical business men of
New York. When he was only twenty
six years old he had a capital earned by
his own speculations, of $15,000 and at
that time such an amount was a fortune.
Of course in the present age of large
things, bonanzas and Black Fridays this
would not be considered much for a
young man of twenty six, but the big
fortunes that have been accumulating
in the metropolis have leen in the
first place, earned by honest endeav
or and have multiplied through careful
supervision. The Astors, the Lenoxes,
the DeRhams, the Goelets and the few
others of what are recognized as the
44 blue blood" of New YorkVicbty, accu
milated their wealth by degrees. In the
good old times our staid ancestors would
have looked with mortal horror upon a
Jay Gould and regarded a Vanderbilt or
a Cyrus W. Field as a special creation
of the evil one. But times change and
we change with them. The death of
Moses Taylor comes as a reminder of
how a man may carve his way to honor
and fortune and die honored and respect
ed. His father, Jacob B. Taylor was a
cabinet maker and was a member of the
Board of Aldermen from 1817 to 1826,
long before the time when Aldermen
were selected from the keepers of rum
mills, but Moses Taylor himself never
entered actively into politics, although
during the civil war he was lavish in his
expenditures for the 'preservation of the
Union. He was one of the oldest ship
ping merchants in the city, doing an
enormous business with the West Indi
an and Central American ports. Un
like some of his predecessors, however, he
seems to have taken no special interest in
the city of his birth so far, at leat, as
donations go and while we have an As
tor Library, a Lenox Library, and a
Roosevelt Hospital, there is no public
institution bearing the name of Taylor.
Cigarettes and Pool for Drinks"
There are two evils now operating in
this and other cities which are hardly
less powerful in their damning influence
over the young than rum in its most
devilish forms. I don't refer to the so
called boys' and girls' weeklies that scat
ter poison broadcast over the land; but
they are bad enough and their publish
ers should all be doing the State some
service in the stone breaking department
of the prisons, I don't count even the
variety shows, which are only pest holes,
even the best of them. The two I wish
to point out particularly, are cheap cigjyr.
etter arid " pool t r. prinks." Nearly
every boy. beyond ihe. watchful eye of
the mother, smokes cigarettes, the nasti
est apologies for cigars that were ever,
devised. Made of refuse tobaooq gath
ered by Italian lazzaroni in the. gutters
they poison the breath an rit the
health and excite the morhi appetite
of ma,ny a bright lad intended as an or
nament and an honor to his community, J
To purchase them iwo for 52F
many a little fellow has beconSeTa thief
And yet no effort i "'de to pat a stop
to the traffic.
" Pool for drinks" is a &ign to be teen
ou nearly every busy thoroughfare iri
the city. In most places where the
game is played the chief customers are
hoys, the " majority of whom it were
folly to mince matters must steal the
money which the game costs them.
The largest of these places is on the
Bowery. Opeu day and night all the
year round it is crowded constantly.
Policemen pass by the doors and hear
the click of the balls on the tweH or
fifteen tables in the two large rooms, see
loys going in and coming out, often
tipsy, yet never attempt to close the
place. The Society for the Suppression
of Crime is busy in a hundred different
directions,! its agents tempting men to
the commission of crime with a view to
the punishment, but I have never heard
of an effort on the part of the Society or
its agents to bring the proprietor of this
44 Pool for drinks" place to justice. It
is a don of thieves. It is a school for
thieves. Every day and every night it
is opened in violation of the law. Fights
take placejhere every night, and a fight
ing man is kept here to look after the
interests of the house. Men have their
pockets picked hre every night, boys
get drunk here, day after day and night
after night: and yet the place is never
entered by an officer of the law except
when he comes to get his cockcail
A few nights ago I visited this place
for the purpose of inducing one of its
new customers, a loy of seventeen, to
go home jto his mother, an estimable
lady living in 34th Street, who had not
seeu her son in three days. It was 2
o'clock in j the morning when I entered.
The rooms were crowded and every ta-
I
Me. was busy. On the seats at the sides
I
of the rooms were alnjut fifty loungers,
a fair proportion of whom were asleep,
the young man I was looking for was
not in si "lit, so I took a seat and wai e I
knowing that sooner or later he would
make his 'appearance. Just opposite to
me a 44 casual was slumbering peacefully.
Nearly in front of him stood one of those
diameters so well known and so easily
distinguished now a days in New York -a
well dressed but thoroughly bad look
ing young fellow, whose business m life
is to live without work, to prey upon
the cup-shotten fools and the simple
rustics always to !e found on the busy
thoroughfares of the great city. To the
right of this man who was evidently
serving us a screen for his comrade, was
another of similar aspect, who was busi
ly engaged in probing the sleepers pock
ets. His1 work was done with the utter
matter-of-fact coolness of a man measur-
i
ing a fence rail, and he d'splayed no
more nervousness nor fear than though
under the eye of the passing world.
I quietly1 called the attention of two
young men sitting near me. 44 Do you
see thatj fellow over there picking a
sleeping man's pockets T said I. 44 Now
look a-here young feller," said one of the
two, vour photograph would look a
heap better if you'd enly keep your
mouth shut. 44 Can't you let that man
make a quiet dollar"? In a moment af
terward ;the fighting man of the estab
lishment was on the spot, and the pick
pocket was so thoroughly battered that
1 doubt whether his mother would rec
ognize him.
Our wilting Obelisk.
New York is begining to be disconso
late and cast down with grief, some
Graphic 'reporter went prowling around
Central Park the other day and took it
into his wise head that the obelisk was
crumbling away. JSow JNew xorlc is
oeculiarlv Droud of iti obelisk. It has
reason to be, and so had Mr. Vander
bihV He paid over $100,000 for its
transportation to this country and it
would not be pleasant for him to see
this expensive toy crumble away under
the inclemancy of a New York writer.
There is no doubt, however, that the
American climate is producing a had
effect on the dear old monolith. It has
been accustomed to balmier airs and the
the wind, rain and snow of a full grown
New York winter do not it j
There. ifjjftQ qubfc tha.t inscriptions
are be.croing somewhat indistinct and
that the form of the. oonolith is becom
ing goraewhat ohanged. The Qraphia
suggests, that special accommodations he.
made, for it in one of the museum in.
Farfc, and the ldea no.t a tjact
Vhe.n it is remembered that, pflt-
aiifo o EgypJ; Parjfy Tdon and ISfew.
York am the. only, throe cities that can
boast aj Cleopatra's Needle there cer
tainly should be good care taken of the
American article,
Blind Tom's New Song.:
Blind Tom is back again. He has
been playing all the week to crowded
houses; His weight is now about 275
pounds, Tom has 44 dropped into poetry, '
and last night I had the pleasure of hear
ing him , sing the following, his own
composition to music of his own make.
He calls it 44 The man who mashed his
thumb." -
I know very hoet miA,
Who live quite fr y,
lie u beluyod by every cue
The man who mashed hi thumb.
I stood one day near by the hall.
To watch the folk no by
And in the distance far away.
Was the man who nuuhed his thumtk
This is all of Tom's song. You no
tice that it is entirely devoid of thyme;
but that does not detract from its merit
One of Robbie Burns prettiest songs,
44 For the sake of soiueliody," contains
not a sign of a rhyme; yet who would
think of criticising it on that account T
Jumbo and Talmaqe.
The great Ecclesiastic of Brooklyn, lec
tured the other day on 44 Amusements,"
and took the high ground that although
the preachers had always discouraged at
tendance at theatres and other places
under Satan's rule, the circus was not
a harmful thing. Whether like the once
celebrated Giu and Milk Smith of Black
Crook notoriety, Mr. Talmage is on
Barnum's pay-rol!, I know" not, but
that he succeeded in advertising Bar
num's circus, there can le no doubt, for
at his next lecture there were but few
people, and those were all bald-headed.
It is said that Talmage will not allow
JumU's name to be used in his presence
again
Two Sights for the Sksselkss.
A week from to-day, Professor Bib
bers whose name is Johnson, will swim
across the East River, along the line of
the Brooklyn Bridge, with his feet
shackled and his arms pinioned behind
his back. His mode of locomotion in
the water is like that of an eel. At
the same time Professor Donaldson who
coins fame and fortune uuder his own
name, will leap from the East River
Bridge that is, if the Bridge authori
tie permit the fool to act according to
his folly. Two other fools have engaged
$500, on and against the performance
of this feat It is a subject of regret,
especially among coroners and the un
dertakers that the trio of fools could
not lie ewn up in a bag and thrown
from the bridge in company.
The wekk is Nbw York..
The first drunken Chinaman ever
brought before the courts, made his ap
pearance at the Tombs Police Court on
Monday. Verily John is becoming civ
ilized. Th condition of the Menagerie in
Central Park is simply disgraceful. Mr.
Bergh is giving the matter his attention.
At no time in the history of New
York has there been so much building
as now. In addition to thousands of
dwelling houses, there are eleven church
es in the course of construction.
The recommendation of the Post Mas
ter General, to abolish the postage on
Newspapers, and Magazines, meets with
the approval of all classes.
The Chamber ot Commerce reports
adversely, on the question of the sales
of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
The price of fruits and vegetables, is
extremely high owing to the lateness of
the season.
The Steamship Alaska has made the
quickest western trips on record. It
being seven days, four hour and ten
minutes.
Another murder at Greenpoint, who
shall say that Capital punishment checks
homicides ?
' The tide of Emigration has reached
its height, upwards of 25,000 landed
herelast week. ,
Rents in this city are fast getting be
yond the means of all but the wealthy.
It is stated that the evictions here du
ring the past year exceed those in Ire
land,
' . The report of the Life aaynjg Service
is highly oreditable to that rncji of the
RGYeiiue Aiarine,
. Major Grace has, sent a memorial
Congress, asking for the immediate sale
of the o,ld Post Offioe. building, in, prefer
that it may be. ayalabl as taxable, nrpn
A female apny. SexnTof fagg Co.
j i i
Mrs. A- T. Stewart has nrasnnted
Bishop Iittlejohn with the use of a fur
nished house at (garden City for the sea-
son.
The steamship City of Limoln from
South Wule at one time Ightsd twenty
seven iceburgs.
(At the sale of Jersey and Guernsey
cattle yeaterday good prices were real- j
ized. '
Alout sixty female detectives find
emplcyment in this city, mostly in th
divorce business.
The characteristic generosity of Mr.
Bennett is providing for the families of
the unfortunates who perished on the
Jeannette expedition. The parents of
Lieut Danenhower will le in this city
on Sunday to welcome their son, who is
expected on that day, ou the Celtic.
Mr. Bennett and party will meet
the steamer in the lower bay. Ar-
angementn will probably be made, to
give the survivers a reception in Chick-
ering Hall, or the rooms of the New
York Historical 8ociety.
, , m
Correspondence.
May 30th., 188?.
Mr. Editok t)wr Sir; As I have
seen no Pekin items in your valuable
paper for some time, I thought I would
inform you of the prosperous conui
ion of Lewis River country.
. - ! ... . i
Farmers of this vicinity are in gooa
cheer, lecause of their fine-looking crops
and gardens; they look splendidly, but
would do better after the fall of rain
which is badly needed.
I School in the Bratton district ter mi-
liated last week, having been conducted
by Miss Lilla Lewis, a very able teacher
and a daughter of T. Lee Lewis Esq. of
Pekin.
Mrs. Hart, formerly of St. Helen is
teaching near Kalaina.
Prof. Steers opens school May 29th
in the new district on North Fork of
Lewis River.
Judge Beall of Kalama has leen quite
sick, but is convelesqing ; a rapid recov
ery is hoped for by his many friends.
Mrs. Sophia Kenyon, daughter of the
Rev. D. W. Gardner of Hayes, is very
ill; most hopes of her recovery hae
vanished.
Miss Leila Bozirth of Lewis River
had the misfotune to sprain her auklo
last week and has been unable to be
around since without the assistance of
crutches.
; Anew Post Office, called-Woodland
has been established at C. C. Bozarth's
new store. James Copeland is erecting
a fine barn on his farm
George Buchanan is teaching singing
school in the Gardiner settlement. More
anon.
. . -
To Our Readers.
The W?et Shre Oregon';? Illustrated
Magazine, is now one of the institutions
of the country. It in just entering its
eighth successful year of publication,
and starts out with brighter ami better
prospects than ever. Its circulation is
large and widespread, reaching in to ev
ery State and Territory in the Union,
and the amount of good it is doing for
the Pacific Northwest cannot b"i calcula
ted in dollars and cents. It is handsome
ly illustrated, ably conducted, moral in
tone, costs only $2.00 per annum, and,
therefore, deserves the most liberal sup
port It is the most reliable exponent
of the resources of the Pacific North
west, and every resident of this section
may well feel proud of it. The original
founder of the publication, Mr. I Sam
uel, is still at the helm, and judging by
his past effortsf we can look to The West
Shore being better than ever, during
1 882. For the especial accommodation of
of our subscribers, and to assist in swell
ing the list of this most deserving publi
cation, we will, for the next two weeks
receive subscriptions for The West Short
at this office at publisher's rates, or they
can be forwarded direct to the publisher,
L. Samuel, Portland, Oregon.,
The VerUct of The Jury,
We have just received a copy of the
most popular piece of rausio ever pub
lished in this country, called the 4 Ver
dict March," composed by Eugene "h,
Blake, It U written, in an, eay styje,
so that it can, he. pjayed on, either piano,
or nrgan,. he title page. very hand
some, ooAtain.ing correct, pprtra,. of
Hon. Geo, B, Corkhili, Hon. J, Por
ter, an4 J do y, a Co ; also, cor
rect picr of tb,e twelve jurymen, who,
convicted the assassin, pjf op$ late let
loved President, hjs pi of WPfa
sh.oflhj be found uy every household
throu the entire' country. Price, 40
owtfft per copy, or 3 copies fojr $1. Pos
tage sta,mjas taken as currency. Ad,
dress all orders to F, W, Helmick, Mu
sic Publisher, 180 Elm Street, Cincin
nati, Ohio.
CMoney to loan on real estate
security by F. A. Moore Esq. St, Helen,
Oregon.
nr.1vev ,.d.iCSJ wiut to Van
couver on the Voll" lori tioi, J)ny,
and the swiimhoat didn't burst up .r
t . t i
upet notwithstanding "; -Vii
report ein ulated. No m e that
fifty cents to xjK-nd t mm red ,ff, only
those that ere little short, got fright-
,ued, nd staid t Iioin" wvv tj.
Kr'wo not wife, yuu know." The
Www
orations were tlrst-cla and the poem,
4 The Loyal UeaU, anil in reuimiion ny
- I ' - I... .1 4.. 1- .
Mrs J. V. UClUail imru mi ueai.
Wh liked Genl. Morrow's sjeeeh the
best, but all were god, and there wai
tintluncf to mar the pleasure of the or-
caution. The GavlU bounded like a
beautiful snow-white gazelle over Dako-
tian plains back to St. Helen.
Iloro Room,
The Ntore-room at the Taylor House,
has lwen leased by G. W. McBride.for a
ware-house and is leing fitted up .with
groceries, provisions and crockery. TIim
demand from local merchants for more
room is a sign of the increasing prosper
itv of St. Helens.
.
Wilkes and Brand, we have heard cir
culated all kinds of malicious xtories in
Kehaleui alout us. All the business w
ever had with the Nehalemites, we
hired them to chop wood for us, fed
them on the best grub in the Portland
market, and paid them to the full.
THE BEST IS TFIE CIIEArEKT
A large and well-aortnd utock of
men's lioots, men's women', and child
ren's bhoes of all kinds carefully selected
by Mr. Giltner in San Francisco now ar
riving and to arrive at Mc Bride's store.
Especial care has been t iken to grt
the very lest goods in th market.
In the rntit-Asil of the ETection oh!
two precincts had ierfectly correct re
turns. It in wonderful when the Conn
ty is so full of li.nart men. this should
le so. Even the great Nelson Colo
didn't know enough to make out cur
rect returns.
The work on th N. P. R. R. con
necting Portland and Knl-i'nt will oiu.
mence at Portland soon, anil tiie jo'ind
of the railroad wi'l be h ard instead rf
the turtle in our land." The depot will
be a quarter of a mile from our door.
Hon. Jackson Teacher will go around
with S. A. Miles' fine stallion during thi'
.hj season. Those desiring fine hor.es(
should improve this chance, as th
stallion is one of the lest in the whohi
countrv.
There is talk of building an Episcojwil
church on a lot near th Rchool-house,
Bishop Morris when here said thu
Church had funds reserved for that pur
pose as soon as a suitable lot was select
ed.
' ' --
The water keeps rising work in tnd
mill has stopped, and St Helen is at a
standstill. The Mucklea have raised up
their store on blocks. " It is thought th
freshet will be away beyond that of '76.
m
The new postal route between St
Helen and La Centre will le soon estab
lished. It will be a great convenience.
The Litlotia will carry the mail. It will
be three times a week.
GenL Grant tried once in his life tq
get the appointment of County Surveyor;
but the powers that were didnl consider
him competent, was r0 in Columbia
County
We have received th History of tha
Lihby Family, a magnificent volume pre-,
pared by Charles T. Libby, ShatV
speak more fully of it next week.
The outskirts, of the County were
filled with infamous bitters about us, we
have understood. When -w.0 jjetf M
them we shall publish.
IHjTf you want a deed, mortgage or
power of attorney executed propwjx
.call on F. A. Moore, Notary Public, St.
Helen, Oregon.
We hnYo introduced a neT feature in
the paper. We shall have a regular
correspondence from New York City
ancl Washington.
A Russian-Finn by the name of Mat
sou is supposed to have been drowned
near Deer Island. .
The Jfnnzanillo will make her trip? to
the Clatskanie, down o Wednesday
back on Thursday.
Capt. Lemont has some of those ui-
l njficent Cowlitz hara.