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. . r o 0 o o DEVOTED TO POLITICS, NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF OREGON. o O o OREGON CITY, OKEGON, FKIDAY DECERN EBER 11, 1874. , '.." NO. 7. i irsa k" cwa n rmv av . i rv , rn r an rs I I'rT MFt ,SUV I 3 V II I I 1 I til M I f I III t., A V 11 ) in in -imiii mill . ,; 'ill in '.iiiii r - - THE iNTEBPRISE. .LOCAL DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER ALU J? on TUB ruirr, Biikss Man, Family Circle. . I EVERY KUIDAT. ornciALiAJCLACKAMASC- door KOUlII O. T,r..u f Subscription k. ,., vi.nr In Advance $2.50 BineOM.y';1" f Sit Months Terof Advertising . . i. ..rt i-nicnts, including tAZ 2.50 ZX ;; nif ; " -,M r-.nt;i...a".onor.-nr 12- .SX A'7T XO TICES. Kr;(;)N I.6l;l-S NO. 3, I. I. . Thurday old flows' H.M, Main SS? ,irot. Mfiu;H i s of the Or- dJraro i..vit,-:l to attend. By oilier Hi:iti:tCA i)i-:cHi-:n mih;u xo. I O. . I'.. Meets on the ssTWfm iJ. .,..l iNmrtli Tin's- PJLLSj at o'clock 1 in the Odd Fellows' II d Meiubersot tho Degr aro inv it-l tQ'tMil. Ml"I.TO.M.-vl l,()0(;i: NO. 1, A.F. ,t A. M?, Molls its regular coin- A niiiiii'.Mtioiis on Hit First and -"S Taii'l Situnhivs in each month, t 7 o'clock t'vlsu t health ol'Scp. tum-r to tin i-Mlli of March; ami 74 V,j.-k Ir f' -"t'l of March to the u:H of S-t f Vcr. Brethren in good ntmliiii arc I ited to attend. HyordAlf W. M. FILL: i:CAMl'Mi:T NO. 1,1. O. . I'.. Mi-fts at Odd Fellows j H.dl otith'- First andThirdTues ..y of ea'-li month. I'atrian hs in , v. I .!i iiii art; invited to attend. ri.ii r i:.t'A.Mi'ii:.vr no. a, c. K. f. M---tH :it 'M l-V !! Hall, in lr jn I'ilv, ir-: on Muini.iy i'vniiir, ut o'.-l j. -;. M mii'iTs of tli- or.l.-r :r. in-Tit-I t a:i -il l. M. C. A I IIKV, V. J. J. IIaj on, K. s. ni iJTly j: i: s i x j s s v a n i .?. J. V. XOliHIS.M. I)., I'llVSICIW AM) SIHOIOOX, t a m; i .v t: i r v, o ji h a o A'. r till-.' l"p-Ki air in C'harm.-m's nrick, M tin sir - -t. aiij?J HI'. W. Y. 310 UE LAN J), ATTORN EY-AT-LAW; 0 OltKUO.X "ITV, UHlililt.V. OKKICKMiiIii Ktrfd, opi.it t!e t'nrl lluii. S. I L I T K lu A T8 ATTORN EY-AT-LAW: 0RE33N CITY, - - OREGON. -o:k1ck( iMriniirs'.riek.Mjiinist. jinarlSTJ :tf. JOHiMS An & McCOWN iTTORNF.YS I'llL'.VSELORS AT-L.WV. Orogon City, Oregon. pr.-xrtico In nil tho Courts of the tt. Special iittontfon sjivoii to cases in t. s. I jind otncf nt rjron L'itv 5aprlS7i-tf. T. IJAHT3ST, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW, ORKtiOX CITV, : : OREGON. .t,rJ.MFICE,v'r I"'" Wwo, Main itro,,t- 21mar7-tf. Dr. S. PARKER, I ATK OK 1IT?TI rik lifrrn.. 'n ' t " " V vU K,unas county, who may '.n'ir""'1 ",n "tl-nt Ward Haruin"S Wvonal calls. UuWno, Main Str -. - i. tf JOHN M. UACON, iMlTKTKIl ANI IK.T.KU 7t'i rv ... ' 1,111 i Oregon It,, OreSon. - ' "'I'" !. Acki-iniin, Main st. OREGON CITY BREWERY. Henry Humbol, t HAVING ITWHAS- U-U ... " nlKv,. l!r..w- 41 n.l. . !. R to. !nf""n the public that he i It . V ',aroa lf manufacture a No. 1 qual- . a a it n u h ji n, a . . L-IMMI n mn 4 lit n 1 n j .1 1 . . nn..fJ',a Crdvrs solicited and' promptly OYSTER SALOON A N I H H S T A XT Xi AMT ! LOUIS SAAL, Proprietor. ln Strprt, - - - - Oregon City, ("YSTF.n WILT. HE SERVED FROM v.' anrt attr this date during the Wintt 'pason. Tho best qualities of ""IH and AMERICAN" CANDIES for sale in quantities to suit. JOHN SCHRAM, lain St., Oregon City. MAMFACTl'RER AND IMPORTER OF Snddlea, Uaruemt, ware, tc etc. WHICH HE OFFERS AS CIIELVP AS can bo had in the ft5tato, at WHOLESALE OR RETAIL. 8 VI warrant my goods as represented. 1,000 DEER SKINS WANT K J ), AND ALSO, 4 J.J. OTHER KINPS OF HIDES, FOR 1. which I will pay the niches market price in cash Hring on your hides and got your coin for them. "JOHN SOIIRAM, Saddle and Harness Maker. Oregon City, Oregon, July 11, 1873-m3. WAGON AND CARRIAGE ill A j U FACTORY ! riHE uxnEnsioxEn, JL having Incn.-aseU tlio di mensions oi nis premises, at t- the old .stand on tho Corner of .Muin anil Third Street, Oregon City, Oregon, Takes this method of informing his old pa troiis, and as many new ones as maybe pleased to call, that lie is now prepared, with ample room, good materials, and the very best of mechanics, to build anew, re construct, make, paint, iron and turn out all complete, any sort of a vehicle from a com mon Cart to a Concord Coach. Try me. ItltK-kKniitliiiijf, Ilnrne or Ox SHoeinj; and (Jwneral Jobbing neatlv, nuieklv, and cheaply done. OAVID SMITH. AT E. D. KELLY' )IA1. STREET, OREGON CITV, TFST ARRIVED, DIRECT FROM SAX 9f t raneisco, all the LATEST STYLES of Fall and Winter ECats & Bonnets, rimmed and Fntrimmed. for Fall and Winter wear, which we offer to the Indies r Oregon ity and vicinity at exceedingly w l rices. MILLINERY GO DOS. MILLINERY GOODS. HATS AND BONNETS. HATS AND BONNETS. FEATHERS AND FLOWERS, FEATHERS AND FLOWERS. RIBBONS AND ORNAMENTS. RIBBONS AND ORNAMENTS. CALL AND EXAMINE. CALL AND EXAMINE. No trouble to show goods, and no one urged to purchase. Our desire is to please our numerous customers. Oregon City, Oct. il, 1ST I. tf B O () T S A I' l l i U S 1 Y I now offer this stock of (Joods G jat Prices far below any other (house in the State. ! Times are hard and money scarce and I will give every one dhe worth of their money. J I also keep a full assortment of () O 1) S OREGON CITY MADE Ten an1 Roy Clotliing, I'nil enven r, flu lllankc'ttt, And Vnrn. AISO ...... Groceries, Cutlery, Jewelrj-, Not ions, Miiirnl Instruments, Toy, Etc, AT T1IK Lowest Prices For CASH. ......AT D C I S H O E S T () 15 A C C o s G A 11 S H V T S c A P S oct!6tf j. r. WAnn. GKOROE A. HAItDISO. WARD & HARDING, DRUGGISTS AND APOTHECARIES, KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A general assortment of , OiMip:.-s and Cliomical, Perf intry, Soajis Com 1 hiiiI 11 r u silos, , Trnmra, Supporters, tSliotilder Ilruces Fancj- and Toilet Articles, ALSO Kfroncne Oil. Lamp Cllmnej-, Ula, Putty, I'll n tit, Oilm VurnUhr u.ml OyeStufTii, riRE WINES AND Liqi ORS FOR ME DICINAL riRPOSES. PATENT MEDICINES, ETC. rTThysicians' Prescrij.tions carefullv compounded, and all orders correctly an swered. fOpcn at all hours of the night. 11 accounts must 1k paid monthly novtitf WARD & HAUD1NU. COME AND SEE US! 4 LL PARTIES HAVING ACCOUNTS XV wit h illianis iV llnrdiiier can see how the same stands at the end of th month. We want some money. oct20tf A.LEVT8 . - - ----- ' -. . llOV. TO CATCH A Kli vO. KV PAUL TEMPLETOy, ' 1 i " Can you . inform us through tho medium of your valuablo paper, tho best way to eatcli a Jeau ?"-:i.;itJv cor respondent. - i . . J Little lady, do you ask mo lTow to eatcli a beaut Surely you, a winsom la.ssio Surely you should know. ' Let ine tell'you, en passant, That there are many ways, v But I will only mention to v'ou Those that win men's praise. When j our friend drops in to seo you, CJreet With happy face, L.angh and sinarid sparkle- brightly Witii your rarest jrace ; a But, with all your pleasant humor, Though you wear lino laee, Ne'er forget your mother's labors Alid her care-worn face. I.earn to labor help your mother In tho household cares ; T-iearn to bake to cook and iron Don't learn idle airs. True, a man does not deserve you If he'd make you slave; But recollect that men, though rich, Love- women who can save. Learn to be a good, truo woman ; Master every art That to a home and those you love best Pleasure can impart; School your mind a antl 1 heart and fin- gers, Learn what you should know, And then you ne'er need ask tho ques tion How to catch a beau. How They IMayed It on Dougherty. One day last week four or five De troiters went into Macomb county to shoot squirrels and kick their shins against logs and fence rails. They had just eaten a cold lunch in the woods one noon, when one of the party, a young man named Dough erty, stretched out on his back, pull ed his hat over his eyes, and gave his mind up to the work of assisting his body to catch a little rest. The re mainder of the party having an un derstanding beforehand, quietly with drew, one by one. One of them pass ed around to a bush, near to Dough erty's feet and took a tin rattle-box from his packet. Another stood close to the young man's leg, and in a sup pressed voice, when the signal was given, whispered: "For heaven's sake! Dougherty, dont move so much as a finger! A big rattlesnake is right under your leg!" "My God! what shall I do?" "Keep perfectly quiet! it is your only hope! If you even raise your ringer he will dart his fangs into your The man with the rattle-box gavo it a shake and reached out and laid a clnb across Dougherty's legs, while the other man moved off about twen ty feet ami exclaimed: "Heavens! what can we do? If we shoot we may kill Dougherty!" The club was rolled oil" on tho ground and the victim whispered; "For mercy sake kill it !" The club was rolled over his legs again, and the box shaken, and the man whispered back: "Bo quiet or it is instant death! I think the snake Avants to go to sleep, and if you will keep still you will be all right." The box was shaken, and the clnb moved around, and finally the snake seemed to settle down on his breast. He dared uot whisper for fear of rousing it, but one of the men called out: "There! it is asleep! "We'll movo away and wait for it to glide off!" 1 he whole crowd moved over be hind a bank and laughed and rolled and tore up the dirt until they were exhausted, while poor Dougherty lay there like a log, not even daring to draw an ordinary breath. The sweat ran down from his face and started ont from his body until his shirt was wringing wet. The fellows took their guns and tramped away, leaving him thus, and were gone an hour and a half. When they returned Dough erty was sitting up, having discover ed the joke about five minutes previ ously. Ho didn't have a word to say, but there was a whole unabridged dictionary in his eye. They spoke to him, but for an answer he rose up, shouldered his gun, and made a beo lino for the highway, and none of the party have met him since. Grant and the Radicals. Tho gossips at Washington inform us that a sharp discussion is waging now between President Grant and the Radical leaders. Tho Radicals are trying to make Grant understand that they havo been swarnped by him, and Grant is trying to make tho Radicals understand that he has been swamped by them. The New York World has no desire to put its hands between the tree and the bark, as tho old proverb has it. But the truth, that journal thinks, is that Grant and the Radicals have swamped each other. Such a policy as that which for ten years past has kept alive the passions and perpetuated the burdens of the civil war would have destroyed the best of Presidents. And a Pres ident so utterly incapable of looking at power as anything but a personal perquisite would have brought to shame a much wiser and nobler poli cv than that which Grant has served so stolidly and with such selfish un- - , - . -t -r- -i 1 - - concern, urant ana ttie lvaaicais m their mutual criminations and re criminations remind one of the ill- conditioned couple who delayed the marriage ceremony in the kirk of their quarrels. First the bride "took a 6cunner" at the groom; then the groom "took a scunner" at the bride. At last the minister, finding that pa tience had ceased to be a virtue, ex claimed "And noo I have ta'en a scunner at ye baith," and with that put them both out of doors. The people of the United States have "taken a scunner" both at Grant and the Radicals, and that is the end of them both. ; A Tmxc Story of the Rebellion. We were sitting in our room at the Glades Hotel, in Oakland, Maryland, one day, with a charming lady who had dropped in on a visit. One of our windows looked into that of an- , other room, so placed by the posi tion of the main building that half of its interior could be seen. We were looking up and admiring a lit-' tie chubby, blue-eyed two-year old, white as snow, who was pulling a boquet to pieces and tossing out the fragrants, or clapping her hands with delight as a train went thun dering by." " These rooms," said our visitor, "have some tender associations for me." "Why so?" we asked. "Well," she answered, during tho war the greater part of the hotel was seized by the Government as a hos pital, Ave were crowded, into feAV rooms. My sister and I had this. In that room where that little beauty is Avero two Union officers, one sick of tho fe-er, and the other of a Avound. It Avas hard to tell whether they Avere sloAvly dying or sloAvly getting Avell. I never saw such ghostly skeletons to bo alive. Wo Avero 'secesh,' and not modest about it, either; but still our hearts ached for the poor young men, so ill, per haps dying, far 'from friends and rel atives." " It bothers one to know how this should be a hospital," we said, " it is so far remoA'ed from active opera tions." " It Avas thought," she answered, " that the mountain air of tho glades would bo more favorable to their re covery than elsewhere, so this was made a hospital. One day one of these ofiicers dragged himself to the window, and under the impulso of the moment my sister asked if we could do anything for them, and he ansAvered gasping for breath, that a little chicken or soup would save their lives. Chickens were rare in those days an army is hard on poul try. The men will work all night, after marching through the day, to secure a few chickens; so that when the hospital nurse and physician had an unlimited supply of luxuries in the way of Avincs, potted meats and canned vegetables, they were without anything fresh. We knew Avhero a feAV chickens were hid in a cellar, by a neighbor, and Ave coaxed one out of the OAvner, and after a deal of vexa tious trouble for at every turn avo Avero met by a fixed bayonet and an insult Ave got the soup ready, and as the guard in the hall would not permit us to approach our patients, my sister 'attempted, to hand the bowl to tho olhcer iu tho window. Just as ho Avas feebly reaching for it, and she stretching herself half out to give it to him, a harsh, ugly voice beloAV criod aloud, " Look out, there poison!" She nearly dropped herself, soup and all. Drawing back she hesitated a second, and then she took the spoon and began eating tho broth. 'O, bother!' cried the officer, 'don't waste it in that Avay; I'm not afraid; and she gave him the soup. It seemed to revive them, and they continued steadily to improve, as day after day wo supplied them with chicken broth until the cellar Avas empty. During this time we stood at the window talking, and we sang to them 'My Maryland,' and all the southern songs, we knew, until they were Avell enough to leave tho hospi tal and return to duty. They both seemed sorry to go, and forced upon us a quantity of hospital stores and some coffee, which last Ave needed sadly. Then one gavo a ring and the other a broach, as tokens of their kind feeling." "And did they never return?" Ave asked. " One did not, poor fellow, he was killed in the yery next battle in which ho was engaged. Ilia com panion wrote us about it, and the writer insisted upon opening a cor respondence with my sister; and soon his letters greAV into love let lers, and after a time they were en gaged. Nearly a year subsequent to this our patient got lea-e of absence and came on to be married . He put up at a hotel, and Avill you believe it, our own brother, who was in the Confederate service, and knew noth ing of my sister's affairs, led a band of guerillas at night into town and captured his intended brother-in-laAV from his bed. "This not only. defer red the marriage, but depriA'ed the young West Pointer of his promotion that he had been promised for gal lant services in the field. It Avas re ally aggravating, for exchanges had almost ceased, ami looked as if the lovers would haA-e to Avait until 'this cruel war is over' before they could be united." "You should have appealed to Abraham Lincoln to give a married brigadier for an unmarried lieuten ant." - We did bettor. Procuring passes, avo went through the lines and a. pealed to Jeff Davis. Jeff said he would put my brother's prisoners in his sister's keeping. They have been happily married these many years. He is a Brevet Brigadier General now, and it all came of our nursing the enemy in that room." Here is the foundation of a drama superior to that given by Boucicult in Belle Lamar. Washington Cap ital The Atlanta Herald on tho spur of the moment, produces this: Oil, heaA-en-sent Thompson, avc forgiA-c you For'spelling it Avith a "p," c i , I ni-.. t i rTi i-f the fYi.efc . That you have Avallopod Benjamin B ! . -- A rurtnv Look out for a long. hard winter. Susan B. Anthony's feet haA-e already begun to grow cold. Which times are the best ? Meal times. " COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, TTK! T7t?RQ TTV flV P. ft T.TVORMT fi The Tariff" and the rarmcrs. From the Chicago Tribune, The G,000,000 Americans over 10 years of age engaged in farming are taxed an average of about 47 per cent on all they buy, and very heavily on what they sell, for the encourage ment of the industries that givo em ployment to 3,700,000 other Ameri cans. The farmer pays this average percentage on his tools, his fencing, his household utensils on every thing in fact that ho buys. He sells the product of his farm at the LiA-er-pool price, less tho transportation. That cost is increased in a thousand ways by the taxes on iron and steel and by the other duties Avhich Avill SAvell the cost of railroads and their management. Ho is taxed therefore on what he buys and what he sells. Tho farming army, 0,000,000 strong, is systematically bled for the benefit of the employers of 2,700,000 pair of hands. The argument in behalf of this monstrous Avrong is the specious plea of a homo market. It is said that protection to manufactures at tracts operatiAros to this country, and those operatives, Avho would abroad Ha-o only partiarlly on American grown grain, live Avholly on it here; thus there is, therefore, an increased demand for it, and that this protec tion more than compensates the far mers for the taxes it lays upon them. This is cquiTalent to saying that tho grain Avhich it Avould cost tho farmer SI to produce under free trade, and Avhich now costs $1 47, can not be sold for enough more to cover this increased cost, and to give him a larger profit than he could clear if tho cost of his Avarcs had been one third less. It is a proven maxim of political economy that the price of the export ed portion of anything produced hy a country in quantities beyond its own need, fixes tho home price. For if Avhoat can bo sold for 10 cents in Liverpool, and in Xoav York at only 5, if would ho bought up and shipped abroiul until the increased quantity there diminished the profit, and the diminished quantity hero increased the profit. The process Avould go on uutil the two Avere equal. It is for this reason that the farmer sells his grain at any point in America at tho Liverpool price less tho cost of transportation. He must always do so, until tho population of this country consumes all its ag ricultural products a state of thiugs which very probably will noAror exist, and certainly will not for many generations. Xo matter how many deluded loreiguers, lured uy ficticious Avages that aro high in mon ey and low in purchasing power, come here, their demand cannot ser iously affect tho price Avhilo exporta tion fixes the price. At present, the export price, (and therefore the home price) is low, because the cost is higli. Tho apparent paradox is casilv oxplained: England exhausts tho surplus- of the European grain field beforo sho draws upon America, because that surplus is offered to her at lower rates than ours can be, when. its cost has been so swollen by taxa tion. The American farmer could undersell his Russian rival in the Liverpool market, and feed all the millious of the British Isles, if he were not hampered with this weight of taxation. If he had free trade, he would produco his grain ono third cheaper, and then save all that large part of the cost of transportation Avhich reprosonts tho interest on tno extra millions of dollars which pro tection has forced the railroad build ers to sjiend. The farmer uoav pays two bushels of Av heat to carry a third bushel from his farm to Liverpool. Under free trade ho would savo a certain portion of the two and could offer this portion and the third bush el together for about per cent, less than he must now demand for the ono bushel alone. The summing up of tho matter is this: Tho tariff slightly enlargos the home market, perhaps, and destroys a very great part of the foreign market; free trade would open tho market of tho Avorld to the farmer, and Avould not dimin ish the home market to any apprecia ble extent. The farmers of the United States havo the facts before them. Will 0,000,000 of them bo longer taxed for the benefit of a feAV hundred mill OAvners? They cannot free themselA-os by passing free trade resolutions. They must send men to Congross who Avill pass free trade hiAvs. Let them demand their best efforts for the OA-erthroAv of the tariff monopoly If tho farmers of the country Avould but oppose the tariff steal of millions AvitU a tithe of theAigor they. showed in opposing tho back-pay steal of thousands, the great abuse would soon be dead as tho little one. What Girls Should Drink. Dr. Dio Lewis, in his book, "Our Girls," says: I am astonished that a young wo man who is ambitious of a clear, fine skin should drink tea. It is a great enemy to fair complexions. Wine, coffee and cocoa may be used without tinging the skin, but as soon as tea drinking becomes a regular habit, tho eye of tho discriminating observ er detects in tho skin. Tea compro mises the complexion, probably, by deranging the liver. Weak tea or coffee may be used occasionally, in moderate quantities, without notice able harm; but I advise all young Avomen Avho .would preserve a soft, clear skin, and quiet nerves, to avoid all drinks but cold water. It is an excellent plan to drink one or two glasses of cold Avater on lying doAvn at night and on rising in'the morn ing. If you have good teeth, and can help the food into your stomach without using any fluid, except the saliva, it will, in the long run, con tribute much'to your health. I5ob ;ibbons "ISlind. Brooklyn Sunday Union, Judge Servis, the Associate Justice of tho First District Territorial Court of Montana, is justly celebrated for his legal learning, and is greatly be loved bj' his friends. He is stem, upright aud honest. But with all his legal attainments, ho is not the greatest man at cards in the Terri tory. It has been said that he did not knoAV the jack of hearts from the ace of diamonds. In the Radersburg mining' camp, three persons were sitting around a tablo in one of those log-cabin sa loons, Avith a . billiard-tablo attach ed," which are so common in mining camps, playing a f-mall game of threo-hand poker, A quarrel ensued, Avhich resulted in an aggravated case of assault and battery. This did not end the affair, for at the next term of the Court, at the head of the dock et stood tho Territory of Montana a s. A. L. Parks for assault and battery Avitli intent to kill on the body of Andy Anderson. The trial came on, and the only Avituessto the affray Avas Bob Gib bons, Avho Avas the third in the game. Having been sAvorn, he Avas directed to tell the court and jury everything he kneAV about tho affair. After clearing his throat he commenced hy stating that "Me and Parks and An derson were over at Halbeck's saloon the second day after the election Avhen Parks proposed that wo should have a game poker. All agreed to it, and Ave Avcnt into the back room and sat down to tho game; did not know that there Avas any hard feel ings between' Parks and Anderson, or I would not havo played, but heard afterward " Here Bob was interrupted by the Court, who directed him to keep all hearsays to himself, and confine himself to the facts of the case. The Avitness continued: "Well, we sat doAvn to the table. Anderson sat there, Parks here, and I there (mak ing a diagram on the clerk's table). Parks dealt the cards; I Avent blind; Anderson Avent blind over me, and Parks Avould not seo him." The Judge, Avho is a little deaf, Avas in the habit of making an ear trumpet of his hand, and throwing his head a little forward and side ways. Having gone through tho phantomimo, ho interrupted the Avit ness by asking him: "What is the reason that Parks did not see Anderson?" The witness replied: "I don't know, but lio would not seo him. "Proceed," said tho Judge. "Well, I saw him, he saw, and just at that minute "Stop sir," said tho Judge, throw ing himself into a hearing attitude, "did I understand you to say that you Avent blind.' Yes sir, I Avent blind, and Ander son ho went blind, and Parks Avould not seo him; but I saw Anderson, and then ho saw "Witness!" exclaimed tho Judge, striking the bench Avith his clenched fist, "do I hoar you right, sir? Do you say that you went blind and then you saw: "Yes, sir; replied tho witness. I saAv, and Anderson saw, and just " "Stop sir," said the Judge. "Clerk, fine the witness 50 for contempt of Court, and direct the Sheriff to take him to jail, and there to keep him until he receives further orders from tho Court. Call up tho next case, Mr. Clerk." Bob Gibbons was dumbfounded, and did not aAvake io the reality of his condition until the Sheriff had his hands on him, when he exclaimed: "Good gracious, Mr. Judge, Avhat have I done that I must go to jail?" The Judge, Avho was purple AAith rage, did not deign to reply to poor Gibbons, but reiterated the order Avith increased vehemence, aud tho members of the Bar, Avho had been anticipating tho fix that Bob would eventually bo placed in, were con vulsed with laughter, which increas ed the rage of the Judge to the high est pitch. The Prosecuting Attor ney endeaA-ored to enlighten the Judge, and eventually succeeded, but not until ho had produced a pack of cards, and, after dealing out three hands, made tho blind as clear as day to the Judge. The fine and imprisonment Avere remitted and Gibbons Avas allowed to proceed Avith his testimony. An Anecdote of Henry Clay. Many years ago, when tho great Ken tuckian, Henry Clay, was a candidate for re-election to Congress from his J native State, tho following incident actually occurred: On election day, Clay was standing near the polls, surrounded by a num.- oer oi ins irienas, avucu he A as ap proached by. an old friend Avho Avas carrying a flint-lock rifle on his shoulder, as it Avas customary for all backwoodsmen to do in that early day. When he reached Clay, he ex tended his hand to him and said: "Harry, as a man I like you; but vou supported a measure during the last session Avhich I think Avill prove in jurious to tho best interests of the country; therefore I cannot vote for you again." Clay looked at him for a few moments in silence; then ho took the gun off his shoulder, and after examining it for a short time, said; "Ditl you ever have a fine bead drawn through tho sights of your gun on a noble buck, when the flint snapped?" The man answered "Yes." Clay then continued: "Did you break your gun over the nearest tree, or did you pick the flint and try it again?" The man's face brightened up; he hold out his hand to Clay again and said: "Why, d n it, Har ry, I picked tho flint and tried it again, and I will try you oncomorc," and ever .afterward was one of Clay's warmest f riends. Henry Clay, though he made some mistakes, was one of the greatest statesmen this country ever produced. A Truce to Personalities The folloAving article from tho San Francisco Ecaminer is applicable to the newspaper fraternity of our oavu State, and Ave republish it for their consideration, and trust that many may heed its wise counsel. It says: their3 Why do editors dissipate force and intellectual energy in abus ing each other? What good purposo does it subserve? What public inter est does it tend to adAance; what private good does it aid in accom plishing? During the campaign ante cedent to the recent- elections, tho A-alification of each other by the dif ferent journalists Avas past parallel, and avc should hope, for the credit of the craft, beyond possibility of excess in any future contest. In Nevada and Ncav York, espe cially, libel after libel filled the air. and it Avas never known beforo what a scui A-y set infest the editorial voca tion. The Herald says it loarncd in the heat of that strife that amiable, accomplished gentlemen, Avho work hard, Avear decent clothes, earn their liA'ing like true men, pay their debts, fear God and love their wives, whose s-here is to educate public opinion, Avere, after all, fso many penitentiary convicts at large, wife-boaters, for gers, "unnaturalized aliens," thieves, " ticket-of-leaA-e-men," bribed hire lings of one party or another. Noav that the election" is over in tho East and approaching in this State, it would be Avell to suggest to our brethren of tho Press that it is a senseless business . to indulge in abusing each other like so many fish-mongers. Why cannot editors regard each other as gentlemn? LaAv- o yers, physicians, and eA-en ministers of the Gospel of Peace, in their pub lic manifestations toAvard each other pay regard to tho proprieties of social intercourse, and Avhy do not editors observe the amenities that obtain Avith other professional people? Their SAveeping denunciations and recriminations do no good, but, con trarily, much harm to themselves and others by bad example. Tho people do not respect it. Journalists despiso it. Tho influence of tho Press is visibly impaired; and some show of justness is conferred thereby upon the scoffs and sneers of tho Butlers, the Grants, and their ilk. If one editor is a fugitiA-e from justice, or another a victim of a chronic ailment; if one is a notori ous turncoat, and another is an at tempted murderor; if one again is a besotted bankrupt; and still another is an incorrigible check-guerrilla, m Avhat care the general public so long" as they get what they pay for in a good newspaper. From what wo ob serve in the columns of our local co temporaries, there is only ono journal in San Francisco conducted by men of fair character; for it is the only one so far which hfts not been stigmatized as venal or subsi dizable, or edited by men abandoned to the most frightful iniquities. Re ally it is time our brethren gave a truce to personalities, and conduct ed their affairs like tho aA'erago Christian who entertains a hope of salvation. U'hj- CJen. Sherman Is out of Favor. "Why is it that a demand for Gen. Sherman's resignation appears so suddenly in tho papers at Washing ton A hich is knoAvn as the official organ of the administration!" N. Y. 'Pimes. ' It all groAvs out of Sherman's mis conduct toAvard tho ruling family. When Mr. JD. Grant graduated at West Point, tAvo or three years ago, and was commissioned as a sec ond lieutenant in a cavalry regiment, his affectionate mother determined that, instead observing with his com pany among tho cruel and savago Indians, he should enjoy life at Washington, in some official capac ity that would keep him about tho court on as largo pay as ' possible. The best thing that could be discov ered in this lino was a place on Sher man's staff. It.AVOuld make the young fellow a colonel, with full pay and alloAvances for that rauk, and it would insure his presence at Washington 'with very little to do. When Gen. Sherman Avas applied to Avith thisproposition, he flatly declined. His staff Avas full, he said; its members had served with him through tho Avar, and he could not dismiss any of them to mako place for any new graduate of the acade my, no matter Avhose son he happen ed to be; and if a vacancy should oc cur, he should certainly appoint to it some officer who deserved promo tion by his services in tho Avar. . This refusal was the beginning of Gen. Sherman's disgrace at the Avhito house, Avhich became complete Avhen his daughter's wedding beat that of Miss Grant's in pomp and splendor, and it has uoav culminated in this de mand for his resignation. Denied by Sherman, the applica tion was next made to Sheridan at Chicago. He had not the courage of his superior officer, and did not daro to disobey the family command Ho turned out Col. Forsyth, one of the braA-est of tho brave, Avith half a doz en rebel bullets in his body, and made Fred Grant a lieutenant colon el in his place, Avith the chance of loafing in Chicago or Washington, as he might prefer. And now if Sherman could bo driven to resign, Sheridan would bo General of the army, and Fred would be a colonel instead of a lieutenant colonel, and would get about $700 a year more pay. X. Y. Sun. One bad thing about gold Not haA'ing it. tcc ci.a.-intf Takintr' the beardD j off anoyster. O o O o o O o O o o o o o o o 0 o e o o o o o o o o o o o o