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o o 0 o DEVOTED TO POLITICS, NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF OREGON. o o VOIt. 9. . OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1875. NO. 3G. o G Iff M ffr (Ifi 6HF iff f(1 fill 'M)' IbIIJI I .: THE PHTERPHIbt. LOCAL DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER r o It THE Farmer, Basin:ss .Man, & Family Circle. ISSUED EVEUY FRIDAY. A.NOLTNER, h D IT O R A XD P UBLIS II Ell. OFFICIAL PAPEB FOE CLACKAMAS CO. OFrr''E-In e'E-TKJiPRrsE Building, one door wuth ot Masonic HuUdin. Mam Sat. 7 Tcriiiif of Sul.HCvIitloii s Single Copy One Year. In Advance 52.50 Six; Months " " 1.50 i TerinU of Advertising: Tr-insi -nt advertisements, including all I'-'ial noti-i s, 'ti square of twelve Itnfs one wl .. fort For each subs A lent insertion .1.0') na-0.lamn.Ai year 1.00 .'.Mrtr- i Business Car I Viuare. one year 12.00 s o ckty xo ticks. OitKMOX I,03Ci: NO. 3, I. I. O. I'., eveninzat 7' o'clock, in the 2sSifcS l lVUows Hall, Main 'vnir street. Memhersof the Or-lw-r iiro invited to attend. J5y order N. O. niiiJSiCCA DKOKCnLODGK SO. I. ). ). V.. Moots on the r,- Swill I a n. I Fourth Tues- .'JJ tl.iv evening each month, trs'.V' Fellows' If ill. Members of the Degree are. invite. I t: attend. HIUI NOM VII LODGK SO. 1, A. l" A. M., Holds its regular com- l mie.itions on the First and v' i . ri.l : ituniavs in eacii iiiotun, Sr 7 ..',!.'- t'l-d'in Mi.-''t!!i nfS"!. at ,v,sl..i- 1 1... "ill I. nf M:irc h mil 7 'i oVIdoIv from the lth of .March to the 'JrJ!.!i of S)t!ii l)cr. lireiiiren in goon s: m li.i r arc invited to attend. liy oid or of XV. M. VAl.l. li'.C AMi'MilXT SO. 1,1. O. ().!'., Mo-t-i at Oi l Fellows' 11 dl Hi'itiw- First an ITiiinl Tties . c. i.H.nth I'.it riarchs in - .. 1 st in Ii:i,t are invited to attend. n t: s- r x i: s s c ard .sr. i:iVsifi.v: .r sfRduox, o n no o x err r. o j: k a o x. ITji-Siairs ia Chrrman's P.rick, M.tin s:r "!. aul Iti'. Dr. 0. PARKED, I hy.sici;ux cs 8uri-oon. OKi K :: ( hnrmairs Store, K 'siJ'nc ; H:;n street, two door above II. t 'an J -Id'.s stor.. T!i F.)CVr is Kxaminin; Snrjceon for I ni il" arul "i-riodieal") can be mad" with out s: ci il o.-il rs irovn the Pension 15ur?au 'aai:ii;toa. 1!. C. I ) I J . J ( ) 1 1 T W ELCH o:iri.-N- CITY, OIIEKOX. J!i-U:stC:nU i'rica r.u;l for County Order. ATTORN EY-AT-LAW: CITY, - - OREGON. CVJi'TlCE-C'.nrnnn's Vrick, Main st. 0:iiarlS72 :tf. ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT-LAW. Oroon City, Oregon. rWill practice in all the Courts of the Stat-'. Sp'eial attention Kivrn to cases in thf U. S. I.aml uine at 'ro,;oa Lity. 5airlS72-tf. T. T. 13 A 1 I N AT TO FJTdEY-AT-LAW, or kg ox cirr, or eg ox. OFFICE Over Tope's Tin Store. Main strM-t. 21mar7.1-tf. 01Z30 CITY BREWERY. Ilcnrv II umbel, H.viN(i rrrtciiAS- i&i-VHi ed the almvf, Urew- s-i-J- - ery wishes to inform the public that he is now prepared to manufacture a No. 1 qual ity of I. A G VK B JZ Kit, a pood as can bo obtained anywhere in th- state. Orders solicited and promptly fill.-d. V. 11. HIGHFIELD. KtalHliotl since 40, nt tb.e old stand. Main Street, Oregon City, Oregon. 2 An assort '.nnt of Wathes, .Towel V'A ry.and Seth Thomas' Weight Clocks tTT.-'. a'' "f w!icr- arc warranted to be as :-'- represented. '-' l"H'pairins done on short notice, and 'hankful fr.r past patronage. J01IX M. BAC0X, IMPORTER ANT) DEALER 7S in Hooks, s-itionerx-, Perfuni- ?ve!r ery, etc.. etc. ---y Oregon Citj-, Oregon. si!l.VAtthcrost fl5. Main street, east In.i' r, . v0n" wil -llon the undersigned and pay their taxes and save eot s. H. J. HARDING. Orrr, r-V.1Pr of 5h,v1 District No. 62. "gon City, June 2, lST5.-tf OFFICE PS XtXijUJ A NOTICE. VnCE IS HEREBY GIVEN' THAT trZt v- ' ""n.ont Roll for School Dis nf k -"ab"n Placed in the hands - . . v u- ri inn. ii h i is now 3Ii-s. lVilliams Views. "Bother the school board and compulsory education, as they call it," said Mrs. Williams in a loud and angry voico to her neighbor, Mrs. """bc- x o just nai one of those saucy, prying, impertinent fellows, called a school visitor liere inquiring how many children I have', how old they are and whether I send them to school. He has just gone into Mrs. Cope's now; he seems to. be calling at a good many houses in this street, but if he meets with the reception in other houses that he met with in this one, it will bo warm work for him. I gave him the length of yy tongue, and made him glad to quit, and I wonder that you don't all of you do the same. It is a shame of the Government, that, it is, to cam pel poor folks to send their chil dren to school, when they are so bad ly needed at home; and though it is but a few pence, it's something to find every week. Let them find me a servant to do ny work if I am to send my eldest daughter to school." "That's what I say," said Mrs. Hodge. "It is very hard upon us to be compelled to send them, whether one can spare them or not, and they must go so clean, and all. Why the other day, one of those young misses, tlit they call the mistress, sent my children homo to have their hands and faces washed. I went down to the school and told her what I tho't of it, you may be sure." "And quite right, too," said Mrs. Williams; "she sent mine home for the same reason, until I took them away, and then this precious visitor comes inquiring into the reason of their absence. See," she exclaimed, "he's just coming out of Mrs. Cope's; I hope she has given him a piece of her mind." "Oh," snid Mrs Hodge, "you don't know'Mrs Cope, if you think she'd he anything else than civil to him. She quite approves of it and thinks it is a line thing for the children." "It is not line to me, whatever it may be to them, "said Mrs. Williams. Iitit at this moment the visitor left t lie house, politely showed out by Mrs. Cope, who waited a moment before shutting the door, to 2ur chasc some potatoes of a man who just then happened to be passing with his cart. "Good morning Mrs. Cope," said Mrs Williams, coming round to Mrs. Cope's door, followed by Mrs. Hodge; "you have had that tine gentleman paying you a visit, I see." "Yes," said Mrs. Cope, pleasantly; "he called to ask why Sarah and Hetty had not been to school lately. I told him they had boon poorly with whooping cough, but are now well again, and have gone back this morning. It was kind of him to come; he is a pleasant gentleman. "Kind!" said Mrs. Williams; "he only called that he might bring you up before the board for not sending them, if he could imd out that they had not been ill. Jts shameful that poor people's children should be hunted up in this fashion, and the parents summoned for not getting them educated, as they call it, what ever inconvenience it may put the parents to. Compulsory education, as I said Jo Mrs. Hodge, is tyranny." Mrs. Cope looked grieved. "I am sorry to hear you talk in that way," said .she, "because I take quite an other view of it. I think it is very kind of the Government to take such an interest in our children, and to provide them with the means of get ting a good education at so very lit tle cost. It is an excellent thing for the children, and really a great ad vantage to us. They are so well taught, and the charge is so trifling, that it would be unfair to them not to take advantage of it." "They ought not to compel it," said Mrs. Williams; "they ought to leave it open to us to send them or not, as we feel inclined, and not to come looking us up, and prying into our houses, and threatening to bring us up before the board if we don't send them as long as they are able to go." "I am afraid, if that were the case. many thoughtless mothers and fath ers would never trouble to send their children to school at all, and so the poor little things would be suffered io grow up in ignorance, dirt and misery; for you see, we must send them clean to school, aud the very fact of their being clean makes a child feel happier and more respect able, if its clothes are not very good; to say nothing of the immense ad vantage to both parents and children to bo derived from a good education. Excuse me, Mrs. Williams, if I must differ with you when you call com pulsory education tyranny. I should call it benevolent force, or something to that effect." "But what if parents cannot at all times send their children?" said Mrs. Williams, on whom Mrs. Cope's views were beginning to make some im pression. If the eldest girl is really wanted at home to mind the baby while the mother goes out, per haps to earn a bit of bread for them to eat?" "The board is norer unfeeling in such extreme cases," said Mrs. Cope; "and I am sure that our children should be educated when it is possi ble. Ought a drunken father, for instance, to drink away the few pence paid weekly for their schooling that might lay the foundation for his children's future respectability? I, for one, am thankful that the Gov ernment has taken up the question." "Did you say," said Mrs. Williams, "that parents were, benefitted by their children being educated?" "Certainly," said Mrs. Cope; "has that never struck you ? A little re flection will make it apparent." "The fact is," said Mrs. Williams, "that I have been , made so. angry, and so much put out. with th in quiries that have been made at my house about my children, and the trouble of getting theai off to school, that I have not bestowed much thought upon the matter- and I don't see now how it is to benefit the parents. ;Well, now," said Mrs. Cope, smiling and beginning to damp and fold some dry clothes that lay on her neat kitchen table ready for ironin "suppose you wanted to get a place as nurse-maid for your eldest girl by and by sho must do something for her living would she not be likely to get a better place, and be much better paid if she were a well-taught, nicely behaved girl, that could read pretty stories to her young charge, and keep them happy and amused when they were not able toget out. and it was necessary that they should be quiet in doors. If she could sew nicely and help to keep the children's clothes in repair, how much would be thought of that! A girl who has been taught at school, and knows how to behave, and to make herself thoroughly useful, must be more re spectable, and respected and com mand better wages, than a poor ig norant, shiftless girl, who neither knows how to read, write, nor sew." "There is something in that, cer tainly," said Mrs. Williams. "And the same thing holds good with tne boys," said Mrs. Cope; "they must command better wages the better and more intelligent they are; they will be prized according to their capabilities. An educated youth may be placed in a position that he may earn twice the money weekly that another of his age may do without education; and what a help that is to the parents at home!" "I see what you mean," said Mrs. Williams, of whom Mrs" Cope's words were inst making a convert. "My children are learning so much at school in every way," said Mrs. Cope, "that I would not have them miss it, however it may inconven ience me, if I could possibly help it. Look at this little dress; Hetty made this for baby herself, at school, and put the trimmings on. Of course it was placed for her. It is a great help to me, the work she does there, for I have none too much time for sewing myself, aud I am sure I would not have cut it out so well. You see the young people who teach tfiere are taught to cut out, and do all they profess to do well." Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Hodge both examined the dress and express ed their astonishment at the beauti ful way in which it was made. "You wero angry the other day, I was told," said Mrs. Cope to Mrs. Williams, "at your little folks being sent homo to have their hands and faces washed; but you see they could not do such work as this with dirty hands." "I did not like the way in which the young mistress spoke about it," said' Mrs. Williams, trying to vindi cate herself. "The fact is, I don't like Miss Loxley, the mistres,at all." "Don't you? I have always thought her such a nice young person. And when so much pains are taken with our children, the least we can do is to see that they go clean. My chil dren won't go dirty," continued Mrs. Cope; "they wash their face3 with soap and water, and rub them till hey shine again; and as for Miss Loxley, they are so fond of her that they are always wanting to take some flowers out of the garden." "Well, of course they could not sew nicely with dirty hands," said Mrs. W illiams; "but 1 never gave my children any needlework to do there; though I think Miss Loxley gave them something to do." "Oh, you should find them work to do," said Mrs. Cope; "it will bo such a help to yon. The sewing done is worth the money paid for the teaching." "Perhaps I have been too hasty in my way of speaking about the mis tress," said Mrs. Williams. "I see, of course, that it is better for the children to go to school and be taught; and I am glad that I have had this talk with you, and I don't think that I shall speak against the school board in future. I am sorry now for what I said to the gentleman this morning the visitor, I mean; but my temper was always a hasty one, and always will be. But I am determined upon one thing; that the children shall always go clean to school for the future. I am glad you showed mo that little frock of the bab'y's. Good morning Mrs. Cope, you have been right and I have been wrong, and I am not too proud to say so. Perhaps you will let me have a little more talk with you another day. It strikes me you could teach me many things, if it is only how to be civil. I am vexed at what I said just now, for it has let me down." "I am so' glad you see it Mrs. Williams," said Mrs. Cope. "It does let us down when we lose our temper because people are only doing their own proper work, without any inten tion of offending us, though I should not have liked to tell you so. If I can help you in any way at any tmie, I shall be glad to do so." From that day Mrs. Williams needed no persuasion to send her children to school, and she was as good as her word; she saw that they were clean when they went, and see in r how being clean improved their appearance, she began to take pride in their dress, and turning them out as neat and nice as Mrs. Cope's chil dren She did not accomplish all this at once; but it soon became easy to her, and her home, in a short time, was quite another sort of place to that it had once been. Being a candid woman, when convinced that a thing was pood, she-became as fond of sending her children to school and getting tbem educated as .she had before disliked,. the. thought of it. British Workman. The Xew Hampshire Case. We submit the following extract from the Mercury on the Now Hamp shire election to the digestion of tho Oregonian. It shows things in a dif ferent light from what that truly in dependent organ has had tho case: Tlie New Hampshire Senate con sists of 12 members. 'By the re turns of the late election it appeared that there were chosen 5 Democrats and 5 Republicans, with no choice in the 2nd and 4th districts, the Democratic candidate having a plu rality in each, but lacking in one case 23 and in the other 35, votes of an election. In the 2d district James Priest, Dem. had 3,834 Natt. Head. Hep. had 3,771 In the 4th district John Proctor, Dem. had 3,497 George E. Todd, Hep. had 3,457 In the itu district the scattering votes were cast for Arthur Deering who had been a resident of the State only 4 years. The Constitution of New Hampshire requires that "No person shall be capable of being elected Senator who shall not have been an inhabitant of the State for seven years immediately preceding his election." The votes for Deering being void, there was no other way than to give the certificate of elec tion to Proctor, the Democratic can didate in the 4th district. In reference to the case in the second district, Section 8 of Chapter 28 of the General Statutes of New Hampshire is quoted in these words: "The full christian and sirname of every person voted for, with the in itial letter or letters of the middle name, and the usual abbreviations for junior, second, third and tho like shall be written or printed upon every ballot; and every ballot not thus prepared, shall be regarded as a blank and not counted." Commenting on this Judge Asa Fowler, tho most able and upright Republican jurist in the State says: "Under this statute it is perfectly clear, that if the ballots or votes cast and returned for Natt. Head were intended to be thrown for Gen eral Head of Hooksett, and his chris tian name is Nathaniel, I cannot see how, without a violation of their of ficial oaths, under the imperative Re quirements of tho statute, they can avoid regarding all these votes as blanks and refusing to count tbem. The statute is imperative, that all votes not containing tho full chris tian name of the candidate voted for shall be regarded as blanks and ex cluded from the computation." Judge Fowler concludes his ex haustive opinion in the case as fol lows: "I say therefore, in conclusion, that in my opinion, the Governor and Council have the authority, and it is their duty, in examining tho re turns of votes for Senators, to ex clude from tho computation of votes of which it is necessary that any can didate should receive a majority in order to appear to be elected, all votes cast and returned for any can didate by an initial or abbreviated christian name, or by any other than his full christian and sirname, and all votes, cast and returned for any candidate who is by the provisions of the constitution incapable of being elected to the office of Senator; that they have authority, and it is their duty to receive aud consider evi dence upon all quest:ons arising be- ! fore them in relation to ballots, the names and residences of candidates aud all other matters relating to the validity and correctness of the votes to be examined by them, and the candidate in any district who is eli gible and appears to have received a majority of tho votes legally cast and returned for eligible candidates by their full christian and sirnames, with the initial letter or letters of their middle names, and the usual abbreviations for junior ,etc, is en titled to be declared by the Govern or aud Council elected a Senator for said district, and to be summoned by the Governor to take his seat in the Senate on the first Wednesday in June next. Asa Fowler." Concord, May 10, 1875. Under these circumstances the Governor and Council could not do otherwise than issue their certificates of election to Messrs. Priest and Proctor, so that the State of New Hampshire stands 7 Democrats to 5 Republicans. There was a case precisely paral leled to Head's in tho Tenth Senato rial District of New Hampshire in 1871, when a Republican Gov ernor and Council threw out Samuel K. Thrasher, Democrat, because a part of his votes were printed Sam. K. Thrasher. Tho Republicans made the law and have construed it, and have acted under it; and all the Demo crats have done is to follow its re quirements as held' and acted upon by them. Had Better Take Cabe. An arti cle on Ohio politics in the New York Sun closes as follows: There is great danger that a new and grave element will be introduced into this campaign by the Republicans which in the event of success would take vast proportions, and might ulti mately affect the Presidential ques tion. It is understood that the old Know Nothing organization is to bo revived with additional features, and in fact that secret lodges have al ready been organized with a view to excite religious prejudice and con vert it to the worst of partisan uses. This is a two edged sword, and they had better take care how they handle it. . , Nevada gives every convict 'dis charged Jrom her State Prison 825 in gold, and there is a great rush to get into State Prison and" xrat. COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY. CALTFTlRMTA Local Pride. The following was clipped from an exchange and contains so much good sense that we give it entire to our readers: If the citizens of a town desire to have the community of which they are renre seutatives maintain an equality with sister communities and j wish the town in which they dwelt to keep pace with others in progress, it is necessary to cultivate true local pride. We do not mean an inflicted idea of superiority of all that per tains to their locality, or the extrav agant laudation of every enterprise or undertaking in their midst, but a discriminating pride in all advance ment in the general welfare that shall prompt a jnst defence of the merits of tho towu where they have set up the temple of home; a fair com mendation of its artistic or natural beauties, and an encouragement to every individual who put3 his hand to the work of developing its re sources, wealth and advantages. A community whose people are indif ferent so the improvements that may bo inaugurated within their bounda ries, will make slow progress. Tho men who express no satisfaction at seeing a dwelling of comfort and taste erected; who draw their purse strings tight, and grumble at the ex pense of public edifice; shuddering at the increased taxation to pay for some modern improvement, which is to prove a blessing to coming gen eneration, are enemies to civiliza tion, as were the inhabitants of China before its gates of ignorance and superstition were opened and the genius of progress induced to enter. Every dwelling of taste that wealth erects in our midst should be welcomed, every public edifice that is reared should receive our com mendation; every teniple of educa tion should be pointed out with pride as an evidence that we are prepar ing the generation to follow the never ending combat of the spititual over the animal, of mind over mat ter. Every church that lifts its grace ful spire heavenward should be hailed as planting an altar around which will cluster the blessings of educa tion auci rennement. v e should re joice at the puff of the engine, the clank of the shaft, and the hum of machinerv, proclaiming that mdus try reigns within our borders, for every additional stroke of labor tixes on a surer foundation the future wealth of our community, and is rearing on an enduring basis the fabric of common prospeiity. It is a disgrace to those who are ever seeking to underato the place of their birth at home seeing nothing to commend in the localities of which they are a representative part, but holding it up to invidious compari son with a neiguoring city or town. We honor a man who has a true lo cal pride in his village or town where his own cherished fireside exists, and who is not ashamed to point with prido to the spot where his daily lot is cast, Bayard the Democratic Candi date. From the Cincinnati Commercial. Those who watched the course of Bavard last winter must have seen that he aimed at the leadership of his party in tho Senate. He did not make many able speeches as Senator Thurman, but he displayed inflexi bility of will and executive force in a greater degree than any other member of his party. He it was who defeated Senator Morton's proposi tion to amend the rules so as to make the formality of declaring a Presi dential election less dangerous; and his avowed policy was to take the chances of throwing the next elec tion into tho House, where the re sult would be the choice of a Demo crat. Thurman was inclined to yield to the blandishments of Morton, for the sake of tho greater security of peace, but Bayard was fierce and stern,' and represented the aggressive intensity of his party. Another point may be worth noting:, viz: that Bay ard has, within a year, .given more elegant dinner parties than any other man in Washington, tho President and Secresary of State not excepted, showing himself an admirable host, and making a most pleasing impres sion upon his guests, among whom were included all the members of both Houses capable of appreciating a good dinner. This is not a large matter, but a small symptom. State Rich's is Massachusetts. The fourth section of tho Bill of Rights of the State of Massachusetts reads as follows; - "The people of this commonwealth shall have tho solo and exclusive right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign State; and they shall forever hereafter exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction and right which is not or may not hereafter be by them expressly delegated to the United States of America in Con gress assembled." And in the closing section of their Declaration of Rights: "In the government of this com monwealth the legislative depart ment shall never exercise the execu tive and judicial powers, or either of them; the executive shall never ex eicise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men." A writer from Milton, Umatilla county says: People here had new potatoes on the 24th of May, and the Walla Walla people had theirs even earlier. Wild flax grows here from 2t to 3 feet high and it has excel lent lint. There is plenty of vacant land here; good State and school Jands, etc., at SI 25 per agre." Coos County. (From The Coos County Record. The county is in the southwestern part of Oregon, on the coast, west of the Coast liange oi ruouuuuu.5. n extends along tho coast from Ten Mile Creek, on the north, to Flare's Creek, on the south, a distance of fifty miles: ind back from the coast to the summit of the" Coast Range, about sixty miles containing an area of three thousand square miles. It is a mountainous and heavily tim bered country, except in the valleys along the streams, which are timber ed, but not so heavily. Coos Bay is now the principal har bor, the entrance to which is north of Cape Arago, which is the most western point of land belong ing to the United States. Tho en trance to this bay is fair for vessels of twelve or thirteen feet draft; and two steamers and numerous sail ves sels ily between this port and San Francisco, carrying goods, passen gers, and also coal and lumber which latter are the chief exports of the country. Considerable business is transacted here, and the bay usually wears a lively aspect. Coos Bay is a beauty among bays. It is, perhaps, twelve mile long by one or one and a half wide, running in from the ocean in a north-easterly direction; bordered on the one hand by the heavily timbered mountains, and by ridges of white sand, to keep out the ocean on the other. Then, turning eastward, it sends its nu merous arms (tide sloughs,) out among the mountains, as if it loved to furnish the lumberman or coal miner'" facilities for transportation. These arnft are navigable, some for sea-going vessels, and others only for small steamers, three or four of which ply on the bay. The principal towns on the bay are Empire CitjT, on the lower bay, a place of about four hundred inhab itants; and Marshfield at the head of the bay, which contains some six hundred people. The principal in dustries are coalmining, lumbering and shipbuilding. Communication is had between the bay aud tho Coquille valley, via Isthmus Slough, on the bay side, the Isthmus Transit Company's rail road across the isthmus and Beaver Slough, on the Coquille river side. The distance being about twelve miles from Marshfield to the Co qtiille siver. o -o- c. A Good Reputation. A young man expected daily to go away. His mother gave him an unpaid bill with money, and asked him to pay it. When he returned home at night she said: "Did you pay that bill?" "Yes" he answered. In a few days the bill was sent in a second time. "I thought," slie said to her son, that 3'ou paid this. I really don t remember, mother; you know I've had so many things on my mind," "But vou said you did." "Well'," he answered, "if I said I did, I did." - lie went away, and his mother took the bill herself to the store. The young man had been known in town all his life, and what opin ion was held of him this will show. "I am quite sure," she said, "that my son paid this some days ago; he has been very busy since, and has quite forgotten all about it; but he told me that day he had, and says if ho said then ho had, he is quito sure he did." "Well," said tho man. "I forget about it; but if he ever said he did, he did." Wasn't that a grand character to have? Studying Geography. While a newsboy was hanging around one of the depots yesterday a gentleman engaged him in conversation and in quired : "Do yon go to school, bub?" "Yes, sir, and I'm in geography." was the answer. "Ha, ha! Where does tho sun rise?" "In tho east." "Correct. Where does it set?" "In the west." "That's right. What is the earth's surface composed of?" "Land and water sir." "Right again. Is the world round or flat?" "Less see," mused tho boy, sitting down on a bench. "Well, I know dad and mam had a fight about that very thing, but I forget which licked." Bait a hook, a Pott hook, if you will, with the possibility of a pun, and how the paragraphists will bite. Some matter-of fact man will lead off with, T. Pott is an editor in Maine. The Boston Po.t will follow with, There's a tempest in that T. Pott. The Courier-Journal will remark that T. Pott is liable to boil over. The Rochester Democrat: Come, now, fellow-citizens, this thing about T. Pott is too steep. The St. Louis Ileiiubli can will assert that T. Pott is a jour nalist who has grounds for his course. The Milwaukee Sentinel will want to know what on hearth T. Pott wants in the profession. The MilwanVee Xews will speak of him as old Hy's son. He will be mentioned by the Boston Advertiser as T. Pott, the 'steemed editor of the Maine Kettle. The Detroit Free Press will pit T. Pott against Bob Schenck on a little game of draw. And these journals having, like Polly, put the kettle on. the scissorers of the press will all take T. Chicago T.ibune. A. T. Stewart has S40 ,000,000, a marble house and splendid furniture, but he hasn't a child to welcome him home, and he can't be rich with all his wealth. The "Privilege Tax." Governor Ames, of Mississippi, and the miscellaneous crowd of negro rascals and white carpet-baggers and scalawags who- are in authority in that unfortunate State, are evidently determined to use their power to tne utmost for the oppression of the peo ple so long as they can maintain themselves in office.' Some time ago the New York Sun published tax bills and other evidences of the extortion ate taxation which the property own ers in Mississippi are obliged to endure under the rule of the black and white plunderers who have fas tened upon them, and now it seems that Ames and his crew have invented a new process for wringing more money from the impoverished people. It is called a privilege tax and im poses an annual contribution to the tax collector of sums varying fr'orn a few dollars to a fow thousand for the privilege of pursuing a reputable occupation. Almost every imagina ble mode of gaining a livelihood?, except farming and preaching, is included in the list of occupations which render a person liable to the payment of the privilege tax; and in order to make its victims pay up promptly, it is provided that any peisan exerc:sing any of the privi leges enumerated in the bill without first paying the tax, shall be fined, or imprisoned, or both, at the dis cretion of the Court. The law also provides that no suit shall be main tained in any Court in the State to enforce the payment of any claims that may accrue to anj- person on account of any business subject to the privilege tax if the person bring ing the suit has failed to pay this extortionate imposition. If Ames 011I3- lives long enough, he will doubtless become as popular in Mis sissippi as his father-in-law, Ben Butler, did in Louisiana. -o. o. - Important. Mr. W. S. Donthit, of Fourth Plain, suggests to those whose lungs are in any way affected that it will be well to try as a cure the following: Take the fresh gum as it runs from the fir tree when tapped and put it into water, and after standing a short time, a kind of oil will rise to the top. Drink of that freely and the best of results will fol low. Some persors who scemeYl to be far gone with consumption have tried this remedy find have recover ed. It may be well fo the many who are thus effected, to try the experiment above referred to. ar.d if it should prove to be a good thing, our friend D. will be entitled to great credit for his suggestion. V aneouvcr iiejtsier. o -- A Female Philanthropist. Miss Mary Telfair, who died recently, aged SG, daughter of ex Governor Telfair, bequeathed to the Georgia Historical Society about $175,000; to the Independent rresbvterian Church, of Savannah, SS0.000; to the Presbvtrrian Church of Augusta, $30,000. To the Hodgson Institute of Telfairville, the Christian Endow ment of Telfair the hospitajk, for males, the Telfair Academy of Art aud Science, and other societies, and to numerous persons legacies are made, including handsome bequests to the colored family cervants. Tho estate is valued at over $1,000,000. . -C Correct View. Commenting on Grant's absurd letter, in which ho avers that he is not a candiJate for renomination to the Presidency, the Cincinnati Enquirer, truthfully, says that it is a plain consent to accept a third nomination if tendered to him. It is so coupled with self laudatory comments on his military services as to leave no doubt? not only concern ing his willingness, but concerning his anxiety to become a Presidential candidate again. In short, the twice elected President of the United States, in an open letter, announces himself a candidate for a third term. Entitled to It. Mr. Corkhill of the Washington Chronicle also a clerk in a Federal Court in Iowa is quoted as saying the President wants a renomination, is going to get it, and is entitled to it in view of tho sacrifices ho made for the party. This from an inspired organ is sig nificant. Refuses to Canvass. Micheal C. Kerr has returned from tho South completely restored to health. HcP refuses to canvass for the Speaker ship or to make pledges to anybody of what he will do if elected Speaker. He is the first choice of rnr.nv and the second choice for nearly every body for that high trust. -o- .-e The Ohio Legislature .is talking about making the first Jay of April a legal holiday. Inasmuch as the fir t day cf April is all fools' day, the Ohio Legislature may very justly claim a proprietary right to do with it pretty much whatever it pleases. .. 1 Just as the young men of this country have resolved to make a new start and do better, the Rochester Chronicle comes around the corner yelling: "Go sonth. young man, go south. Start a hotel, steal, be an in surance agent anything to9escapo this horrible climate." If you want to know what the free American people think of the last Congress, just stand aroufid the De troit postofiice and hear the mild remarks of the man who pays six cents to send a two-cent package. The Chicago Times doesn't antici- . pate that Beecher will be convicted, but it thinks these proceedings will keep him home of nights after this. Butler has nothing to do but go hnckleberrying and sit on the gro-s eery step o o o O o o O o o o o O o o o c o o o i : i ; O