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T.iird S ittird jls in each month,
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Statesmen Badly Dressed.
Andy Johnson's style Clarkkson (
Potter a Well-Dressed ManOld
PolandSam Cox Fernando
ood's Iijjnlficl Style.
From the Chicago Times.
Andy Johnson was of the old
school style of politician of some
twenty years ago, with but
one modern concession, and that
was that the coat was a frock in
stead of a swallow-tail. His style
of dress, the conventional one of the
'American gentleman" of the years
gone by, consisted of a shiny black
broadcloth coat and trousers, with &
vest of deep black velvet. There
are but few of the Congressmen of
the present day that wear this style
of dress, but take them as a class,
probably they are as badly dressed
a set of men as one can find any
where in the country.
Throughout Congres there are
many men who make it a point of
dressing in the most eccentric pos
sible manner. Luke Poland of Ver
mont was one of the most eccentric
dressers in the House. He used to
always move about in a coat of blue
adorned with small dinner plates of
brass buttons. His vest was gener
ally white, and opened so as to dis
play a wild expanse of dainty milled
shirk bosom, under whose shades
gleamed ht-re and there tiny diamond
buttons. The old man never in his
life passed a pierglass without tak
ing a good square look at himself.
Two of the beat dressed men iu Con
gress are Clarkson Potter of Xew
York iu the House, and in the Sen
ate Gen. IJnrnside. Clarkson Potter
has rather overdone the matter in too
closely adhering to the. Koglsh style
of dressing. His whiskers are cat
after the English fashion, and he
affects the Jvifilifh stylo of pronoun
ciation. Yet there are but few men
in the House who are his equals in
ability and capacity for work. Gen.
Barnside, the best dresser in the
Senate, affects the undress military
style, and in his peculiar cravats.
waistcoats, and origin ll colors never
fails to attract more than ordinary
notice. He was once a tailor in his
early days, and never neglected an
opportunity oliored by an evening
session to put ou full dress-suit. At
tired in tins society splendor, Am
brose loves to stand about the door
ways of the Senate Chamber and al
low the public to drink in the fall
beauties of his noble proportions.
Among tho worst dressed men in
ther branch of Congress is S.immy
Cox. He always wears a bob-tail
sne'.t co;t, and a bobhtil sack coat
never fails to damn a little man. His
clothes would not brin over i?7 50
in any auction store in the country.
Lhere was onlv one man in the last
House who was a worse dresser than
Sammy Cox, and that was Crntch-
hehl of lennessee. lrntciineld is a
rough mountaineer, who never wore
a collar or soaveu niiusei: oitener
thau once a week.
Flannigan, in the Senate, used to
dress in a very peculiar manner
when he was on deck as a Texas
statesman. -V shad-be'lii'd co.it
blue or brown, ornamented witl
bone or brass buttons, a plaid wtdsi
coat, and nankeon-colored trousers,
over which hung a three-pound gold
chain, made up a costume sufficient
Iv striking.
One of the most ungainly-looking
men that ever stood on end in Con
Kress is Louhridge of Iowa. He
looks as if he was whittled out of
very knotty wood with a very dull
knife, and stalks about morning,
noon and night, in a black suit, the
coat a swallow-tail, with a waist-coat
worn open and- low, Uispla-ing a
tumbled shirt that is ever struggling
arduously to cret above his ears. Lut
trell of California was another badly
dressed man. He always wore a
rough array suit, that looked as
some day it had rained clothing, anti
bv chance a few articles had clang
to him. After a time Luttrell don
ned one day a Prince Albert coat
buttoned snugly across his broa
breast. His tronsers were a neat
conventional gray. His paper col
lar had to disappear above a pur
ple stock. onder of wonders! this
California Granger held also a dainty
buttonhole boquet in his coat. Be
hold the intlaence of lovely woman!
the fair creature who tamed the
Granger Luttrell is now in the mint
in San Francisco, possibly continu
ing her good work of polishing down
the crudities of her Congressional
lover.
The double- breasted frock coat
has grown in favor with the better
order of Congressmen during the
last few years. The beauty of the
coat is that when it is closely but
toned it gives a man a very compact
appearance that never fails to im
press a closelj'-dressed crowd. There
is a dignity about a closely buttoned
double-breasted frock coat that can
be found in no other article of a
man's wardrobe. Fernando Wood
would lose nine-tenths of his impres
sive dignity were he to put on a sack
coat and lounge about in a way as
sumed by some of his Western breth
ern. He always wears a long black
coat that buttons tightly np to his
throat. He looks as if he were melt
ed down every night, and run into
his clothes every morning. He is
always easy in manners, however,
and has not the mannerism of Clark
son Potter, the best dressed man in
the Honse.
Mr. Speaker Blaine, affects the
double-breasted frock. He general
ly wears two buttons buttoned, and
allow the rest of his coat to roll so
as to show a very neat shirt. Far
rel of Chicago ;wears the double
breasted frock, generally in some
brown cloth. ' He ' rarely "if "ever but
tons it.' r ' '
There nr iieculiar(garmerj,ts woxji
so original m style that yon cannot
help wondering at the genius of tde
j tailor who devised them, or at the
tasto of the wearer. Kasson of Iowa
was the most notieeahlo t
class last winter. He appeared upon
all occasions in a little "bunt" look
ing uiue reeflmg jacket, until his
very presence, from its absurd mon
otone, became appalling. He visited
Washington this summer, and as he
did not wear the jacket, oat of re
spect to a thermometer then waltz
ing up above 100 degrees, his best
friends passed him upon the streets
wimout Knowing mm.
Of the hats worn bv the states
men of the period, the rakish slouch
nearly always have tho preference.
The Western. and South rn members
nearly all wear this villainous look
ing slouch. Ben Butler crenerallv
wears the worst hat of any of his com
rades.
The Administration.
What Orejfon Radical Rndorae.
An exchange says that the Presi
dent (which means the Administra
tion in Oregon politics) affects great
virtue all of a sudden about the pros
ecution of the St. Louis "Whisky
Ring," for the protection of which
he is more responsible than any liv
ing man. The "ring" furnishes a
large share of the money to aid his
re-election, and has contribute ! heav
ily for other objects in which he is
personally interested. Its influence
at the White House has been often
and openly illustrated in a manner to
cause the greatest scandal.
When Mr. Bristow directed the
supervisors and agents of the internal
revenue to be changed, in order to
break up a corrupt combination
known to exist between them and
the manufacturers of illicit whisky,
Supervisor McDonald, chief of the
St. Louis "ring." went to Washing
ton with a fine span of horses as a
present, and got that order revoked
by the President's own hand, without
a word of conference with the Secre
tary of the Treasury. McDonald
could not restrain his jov over this
triumph, and he telegraphed to his
confederate Joyce, who like himself
is now under indictment:
"The goose hangs high. I rode out
with the President to-day."
To gull the public now, Grant en
dorses a letter to Bristow with this
ardent exhortation:
"Let no guilty man escape if it can
be avoided."
G rant's practice and this profession
are very wide apart; for when Hodge
was convicted of stealing half a mil
lion from the treasury, right under
the shadow of the White House, he
let that "guilty man escape" with a
pardon, and reinstated him in the
fellowship of his associate thieves of
the Washington "ring." So, too, he
has done with a host of mail robbers,
forgers, defaulters, co inteifeiters,
and other third-term patriots, whose
services were needed to pack conven
tions and to jnake platforms of Rad
ical principles
It comes wish a singular grace from
Grant to say to the Secretary of the
reasury
"No personal consideration should
tand in the way ol performing a
public duty."
Since the first days of June, re
marks the New Y'ork Sttu, he has
been established at Long Branch,
seeking personal pleasure and amuse
ment only, to the utter neglect of
every public duty, and setting an
example which has done as mncn as
anything else to demoralize the civil
service. By indecent iruportnnity
and the subserviency of a corrupt
Congress, his pay was doubled, with
perquisites heretofore wholly un
known, which have made the salary
almost clear profit to him.
Instead of recognizing this enor
mous increase by some token of re
sjject for his great trust, and at least
a passing exhibition of fidelity to its
obligations, he has since then been
more reckless than ever, and more
disdainful of public opinion and
common decency. The extraordinary
spectacle is presented of the Presi
dent and every member of his Cabi
net junketing about the country and
exhibiting themselves like a travel
ling menagerie at clam-bakes and
receptions, while the plunderers are
holding high revel in the depart
ments at Washington.
The diplomatic corps, finding the
head of the Government absent, the
Secretary of State absent, and no re
responsible official present to deal
with, have all quit the capital, and
have probably written home that this
is a government of clerks and imbe
ciles. It is not at all surprising that
enlightened diplomatists should seek
to avoid the mission to the United
States, as they have done of late
years.
With vulgarity and venality at the
White House and its social surround
ings, offending all decency when
Grant and his shoddy court are at
Washington for six or seven months
of the year, and with his underlings
to govern during his prolonged ab
sences, the life there to people of
culture and refinement must be hard
to endure. There is comfort in know
ing that eighteen months more will
put an end to this national disgrace,
and restore honor and propriety to
the high places now stained and de
graded by Grantism.
Newspapers. There is no book
so cheap as a newspaper, none so
Interesting, because it consists of a
variety measured out in suitable pro
portions as to time and quality. Be
ing new every week or day, it invites
to a habit of reading, and affords an
easy and agreeable mode of acquir
ing knowledge,' so essential to , the
welfare of ,he, individal and the
community.. It causes man v an hour
sperifc M fdienessrftn4
COURTESY OF
UNIVERSITY
to pass awav meif in-v i-"-whien
' x&nld ot&erwisa " have ; been
mischief.
: Thomas Jefferson.'
Some Interestlmjr Recollections or the
Great Statesman.
From Prof. Geo. Long's Letter.
A few days after my arrival at tho
University of Virginia, I walked up
to Monticello to see Mr. Jefferson.
I made m3rself known to his servant,
and was soon introduced into his
great room. In a few minutes a tall,
dignified old man entered, and after
looking at me a moment, said: "Are
you the new professor of ancient lan
guages?" I replied that I was. He
observed, "iou are very young, to
which I observed that I would grow
older. He smiled and said that was
true.' lie was evidently somewhat
startled at my youthful appearance,
and I could plainly see that he was
disappointed. We fell to talking and
I stayed to dine with him. He was
grave and rather cold in his manner,
but he was. very polite, and I was
pleased with his simple Virginian
dress, and his conversation .free from
all affectation. I remember this in
terview as if it took place yesterday.
Daring my solitary residence be
fore the University opened I visited
Monticello several times, and occa
sionally passed the night there. I
thought that Mr. Jefferson became
better satisfied with the boy profes
sor, and we talked on all subjects.
He saw that I took great interest in
the geography of America, and in
the story of the Revolution, and he
told me much about it, but in a very
modest way as to himself. He show
ed me the original draft of the Dec
laration of Independence, and he
could clearly see that I was in habits,
as I have always been and still am,
a man who preferred plain republican
institutions to the outward show and
splender of European knigdoms
when I say republican institutions. I
mean genuine republican, for a Re
public may have the name and very
little besides that I value.
I often saw Mr. Jefferson between
this time and his death.'' When he
came on his horse to the University,
he generally called on me. His
thoughts were always about this
place of education, of which ho was
really the founder; and though the
first few years of the University were
not quite satisfactory, he confidently
looked forward to the future, and to
the advantage which the State would
derive from the young men who were
educated in the University of Vir
ginia. I remember well a long conversa
tion which I once had with Mr. Jef
ferson cm George Washington. He
spoke of him freely and generously,
as of a man of great and noble char
acter. Mr. Tucker, in his life of
Jefferson, has given the character of
Washington as Jefferson wrote it,
and it is, perhaps, certain that the
character was written at the time
when Jefferson spoke of Washington
to me, though ho told me more
than the written" character contains,
but nothing that is contradictory to
it. The character is exceedingly well
written, and it proves that as a mere
writer Jefferson might have excelled
most men of his day.
I discovered that Mr. Jefferson was
well acquainted with Polybius, who
is not a good writer, but a mau of
excellent senso and tho soundest
judgment.
The last time I saw Mr. Jefferson,
when he was suffering from a com
plaint which caused his death, he
was reading Pliny's letters, and we
had a conversation about a passage.
A few weeks after, when I was at the
Sweet Springs during the summer
vacation, I heard of his death. There
was much foolish display in Virginia,
and some extravagant bombastic ora
tions. Those who had more sense
showed their feelings in another way.
The man who had done so much for
Virginia and the United States was
honored for his service, for his tal
ents, and for his grand and simple
character, lie ought to be revered
by all wno enjoy the advantages of
being educated in his University,
and ever remembered as one of the
great men whom Virginia has pro
duced. His great deeds are recorded
on the epitaph which he wrote for
his own tomb.
Don't Advertise.
Don't do it. Don't advertise your
business; it's paying out money to
accommodate other people; if they
want to buy your goods, let them
hunt 3'on up.
Don't advertise, for it gets your
name abroad, and you are apt to be
flooded with circulars from business
houses, and to be bored with drum
mers from wholesale establishments
all of which also results in solicitirg
your order for new goods, and money
to pay for them, wnicu is very an
noying to one of a dyspeptic temper
anient.
Don't advertise, for it brings peo
ple in from the country, (country
folks, you know, are of an enquiring
turn of mind) and tney will ask yon
many astonishing questions about
prices; try your temper with show
ing them goods, and even vex you
with the request to tie them up
which puts von to the' additional
trouble of buying more.
Don't advertise, it gives people
abroad a knowledge, of your town,
and thev come and settle in it; it
will grow and other business will be
induced to come in and thus inci ease
your competition. r
In short, if you would have a quiet
town not too large; if you would not
be harrassed by multitudinous cares
and perplexities of ; business; if you
would avoid being bothered with
paying for and losing .time to read a
great cumbersome . newspaper, just
remain quiet; don t let the people
know five miles away where you are.
nor what you are doing 'and yOu will
be severely let alond' to" enjoy the
bliss of undistnrbedireptT r: .1
BANCROFT LIBRARY,
OF CALIFORNIA,
Fortunes in Congress.
From the San Francisco Examiner.
One of the most startling facts con
nected with the history of legislation
during the -last fourteen years . of
Radical rule in Congress, is tho great
number of fortunes acquired by mem
bers of the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives, who went to Washing
ton poor, glad to receive the pay as
means of subsistence. JYlostoi tnem
were mereH' professional politicians,
and had no other business to improve
their material condition. ,
There is but one possible explana
tion, remarks the New York Suri, for
this sudden acquisition of wealth,
and it is to be found in the enormous
grants of public land to railroad
corporations: immense subsidies of
money in various forms; special leg
islation for the creation of huge mon
opolies; the passage of fraudulent
claims; great appropriations for cor
cupt "rings;" Credit Mobilier job
bery; Pacihc Mail stock pools, and
other methods, by which the treas
ury was robbed and the people .were
crushed down with ruinous taxation.
Chairmanships and places on the
leading committees which control
the - tariff, banking and currency,
public lands, judiciary, appropria
tions, Pacific railroads, post-ollice,
army, navy, claims, patents, District
of Columbia, and others of less im
portance, but still available for venal
uses, were not sought lor the honor
they conferred, but almost solely for
the profits to be derived from an
abuse of their trusts.
They became objects of bargain
and sale, of partisan arrangements
and of caucus spoils. Presidents,
and directors, and stockholders of
banks, railroads and other corpora
tions, not only shaped the legislation
affecting their own interests, through
the committee over which they pie
sided and held in hand usually by a
majority of three-fourths, but they
openly advocated and voted for these
schemes, in defiance of all parlia
mentary morality and decency.
Ihe Credit Mobilier investigation
revealed the system of rascality which
prevailed in Congress. Astounding
as it was, by exposing the shameless
venality of the most accepted Repub
lican leaders, who preached piety
and lectured on morality 'while in
the very act of stealing, it deserves
to rank as a mere trifle compared
with the wholesale spoliations in
other directions, which as yet have
only been partially brought to light.
According to the Springfield Ji-
pullican, ex-Speaker
Ulaine appears
the list of tax
Maine, to the
the third highest on
payers in Augusta,
extent of 81.0S5. in a city where tax
ation and assessments are low. He
is also a very large property-holder
in Pennsylvania, and owns a fine
house iu Washington, which is kept
up on a costly scale. While he
swore vigorously betore the credit
Mobilier Committee to having no in
terest in that particular job, Mr.
Blaine admitted that he had $30,000
invested in the Sioux City road,
which was really a branch of the
great concern, and managed by some
of the same men, and with the same
seven principals.
Mr. Blaine went to Congress twelve
years ago, poor, like most of Ins as
sociates. He has received no inher
itance and been engaged in no busi
ness outside of politics. Yet in this
short period of time he has grown to
wealth, lives like a prince of the
blood, and even aspires to be Presi
dent. He illustrates the system at
one end of tho Capitol which John
Sherman does at the other, who has
become a millionaire by pulling the
wires of legislation. No wonder they
all looked sad' and felt badly when
the people revolted last year and left
them out in the cold.
Easy Work and Plenty of run.
Our well-paid rulers are taking
the world easy and making light of
the distress. The President, with
every member of the Cabinet, and
many of the heads of bureaus and
and chiefs of divisions, to say noth
ing of a multitude of subordinates,
was absent from Washington at the
last accounts. Some of these offi
cials have not been on duty for over
two mnths, though they have punc
tually drawn their full salaries for
every hour of this prolonged ab
sence. They aro scattered in all direc
tions in and out of the country.
Some aro regularly established at
the sea-side, liko Grant at Long
Branch; others are traveling in Eu
rope, others in California, others in
New England, and' others in Cana
da. All of them are "bent on pleas
ure and amusement, without the
least concern for their obligations to
the public.
Until Grant became President, re
marks the New Y'ork Sun, no such
loose and indefensible practice as
this is was ever known, or would
have been tolerated, lie set the ex
ample, and therefore could not re
buke those who followed it. To this
cause may be ascribed much of the
corruption and stealing which made
the present Administration excep
tionally odious.
Every facility has been offered to
venal and weak employes in the De
partments to abuse their trusts, and
to fill their pockets dishonestly.
;iney nave noi iaiiea to improve
these opportunities, as the frequent
thefts, collusion with "rings" and
scandalous jobbery, which are noto
rious, attest. Ihe want of supervi
sion and of strict accountability ; has
opened the door of fraud, and it will
not be closed until every vestige of
Lrrantism is expelled from the pub
lie service.
. The assessment of Boston, just
compierea, nxes the total valuation
f 'TM 1 &Vj3 - X ' A
of 'real and personal propertv
at
- Know-Nothingism.
- The rise and progress of Know
Nothingism is thus given by the
Cincinnati Enquirer, in reply to a
correspondent who desires informa
tion on the subject:
The principles of the Know-Nothing
party were the disfranchisement
of all foreign born persons from hold
ing office; also the exclusion of all
native born Catholics from that dis
tinction. It was both a nativistic
and religions test. It also favored
the extension of tho naturalization
law from five to ' twenty-one years.
That was not new. The enemies of
the Democratic party were in power
in 1798. They repealed the five year
naturalization law. They substituted
for it a fourteen year enactment. It
was repealed when the Democracy
came in under the administration of
Thomas Jefferson in 1808. The five
year proviso was put back. In those
anti-Democratic days a law was pass
ed which authorized the President
of the United States to order from
our shores any alien whom he might
deem dangerous to its security.
Thus every foreign born person was
to stay subject to the sovereign will
and pleasure of the President of the
United States. This was -known as
the celebrated "Alien Law" of the
John Adams (Federalist) administra
tion. In 1814 the organization was
revived. The churches attended by
foreigners and Catholics were burned
by a mob in Philadelphia. The for
eigners, Protestants and Catholics
were bitterly incensed. They voted
to a man for James K. Polk for
President of the United States in
1S1I. They defeated Henry Clay,
who otherwise would have been cho
sen as tho Whig rominee. In 1854
this party, whose fundamental organ
ization was against all foreign born
Protestants and native Catholics, was
renewed. It was the meeting of se
cret, oath-bound lodges. For a time
it swept tho country. The Democ
racy opposed it, and soon exposed
its errors and its follies. The matter
was dropped until to-day, when there
is another secret society in vogue,
to which most of the leading Rejjub
lican managers belong, whoso pur
pose is to extend the period of the
naturalization laws, and to proscribe
all foreign born Protestants, Hebrews
and Catholics, as well as the native
born of the last denomination.
The Dead of a Few Years Fast.
The very sudden death of ex-President
Johnson calls to the mind the
great number of men conspicuous or
eminent in public life, who have
died wvthin the few years past, or
since the civil war. Foremost of all
was the President who lost his life
at the hands of the assassin, an event
next to the civil war, and which gave
knaves and demagogues an excuse
for adding to its terrors and burdens.
At the same hour came the attempt
ed assasination of the Secretary of
State, who received a shock which
no doubt hurried his death. Of
Mr. Lincoln's first official associates
Seward, Chase, Fessenden, Stan
ton, Smith and Bates, all effective
men in their day, none survive.
Among the Senators of that period,
were Johu P. Hale, Sumner, Dixon
of Connecticut, botli of the able men
from Vermont, Collamar and Foot;
"Jim Lane" Frank Blair and Breck
inridge, all gone now; and of the
dead Representatives we recall Thad
eus Stevens, the leader of the House,
Henry Winter Davis, Samuel Hoop
er and James Brooks of New Y'ork;
Thomas, who won the most complete
victory of the war, and Farragut, the
Nelson of the Navy, and Frank Blair
who saved Missouri.
After the French Revolution, it
was said the stamina of the people
had visibly suffered the young as
well as the old succumbed more
quickly to the assaults of disease and
to ordinary trials, and so the civil
war told on the nerves and the life
forces of the generation which en
countered its responsibilities. Not
an ex-President of the United States
is now alive.
Good tor "Jack." We are in re
ceipt of a letter from Mr. John E.
Sheppard, commonly and familiarly
known here as "Jack" Sheppard, who
is now in San Francisco laboring
earnestly and indefatigably in the in
terest of the Immigration Commis
sion of Oregon. "Jack" was ap
pointed last fall bv the commission
as resident agent in Saa Francisco
to circulate pampLlets, papers, etc.,
concerning our young State among
the immigrants as soon as they ar-
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rive at caiuand lrom the East, and
by personal representations iuduce
them to cast their lot in Oregoi
We are informed by persons who
nave recently arrived frnm S:m Pmn
cisco that Mr. Sheppard is working
wiin an possiDie energy to turn the
constant tide of immirrration vhieli
is passing westward, in the direction
of this State, and that ho is doing
good service for Oregon. How well
he is succeeding in tin's food work
may be inferred from the following
paragrapu which, appears in the. - .
Alta of a recent date. A correspond
out writing to that journal says:
"But here, amidst our own commun
ity, tho office of the State Board of
Immigration for Oregon, 504 Battery
street, now has its busy emissaries
going up and down , the highways of
travel. With flaming hand bills and
frantic appeals they frequent immi
grant haunts and' taverns, docks and
depots all over town, and entice away
great numbers, as the crowded steer
age of every Portland steamer will
&ttestJ3uUetin-,, .... .v
Tisctcre of Ibost. Eh Perkins
has given up tryingto be a humor
ist and is writing letters irom Sara
toga Springs to the New,. Jork,
Mark Twain's Wish.
The Union Democrat. Q q
Sam Clemens, while a resident of
Jackass Hill, in this county, became
imbued with the idea tha't his fur
ther existence depended upon a sight
of the Big Trees, so one day he start
ed, accompanied by his mining part
ner. After passing Murphy's, the
Iay of the country" became unfa
miliar to the travelers and as night
closed upon them they came to the
conclusion that they were not only
lost but that the prospects for food
and shelter for the night were as
slim as they could be. They had
followed a wood road to the summit
of a chapparal crowned hill and did
not know which way to tnrn to-'reach
tho roatl again. After floundering
around in the chemisal and tar weed
for an hour or mre, they reached a
road near an apparently deserted
house. Their halloos soon brought
around them as vicious a pack of
dogs as ever haunted the canine in
fested streets of Constantinople.
They numbered toward fifty, and not
one of them was dumb. They dashed
at Sam and his companion with mur
derous fury compelling them both to
seek a trembling resting place on the
fence. The howls of the dogs finally
brought about twenty of ti:eir mas
ters from the honse and these men
must have smiled in the twilight
when their eyes fell upon Clemens
and his friend clinging with heel and
hand to the top rail of the fence sur
rounded by the hungry snapping
dogs. They proved to be Italians
who did not understand a word of
English. Then and not until then
did Clemens lose his temper. He
swore at himself .for getting into the
scrape. He cursed his companion
for not knowing the road. He anath
ematized the Italians for coming to
the country before they had mastered
the English language. He profanely
alluded to thecgap in his early edu
cation that had not been filled in
with the soft melodious tongue of
Italy, winding up his remarks with
a glance of concentrated hate at the
pack of yelping dogs beneath him, as
he turned to his companion and in
that inimitably lazy drawl so peculiar
to him said: "Do you know Jim if I
might at this moment ask a favor of
Providence after my familiarity with
his name, if it was to be the last
yearning desire of my heart I would
ask that I might be converted into a
ton of prime beef, loaded w ith strych
nine, and dumped Gamougtd)at gang
of curs. I'd die contented after
that."
Narrow Escape.
The Baker City" Ilerahl of las Sat
urday savs: "Last Tuesday evening
about 4 o'clock, Mr. Thomas Cos-
grove was caved in upon while at
workin the main shaft of the Jamei
Gordon mine, and was carried down
with the debris perpendicularly
about 75 feet, then down aa incline
of 40 feet. His fc-llow-workman af
ter the accident went down and at
tempted to rescue him, and found
him buried beneath heavy timbers.
rock and dirt. He managed to un
cover his head and to his surprise
and delight found that life was not
extinct. Being unable to rescue him
alone,-and the dirt continuing to fall
at intervals from above, he reascend-
ed and came to town for assistance.
The party from town were inexperi-
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eutcu in unuergrounti worK, ana
could do very little towards rescuing
tue man. a couple of men started w
down, but were driven back by the
tnreatening aspect of falling stones
and dirt. All this time the voice of
Cosgrove could be heard, though not
able to tell what he said. By this
lime some experienced miners had;
arrived from the Virtne mine, and a
con pie of brave men descended with
stout hearts. They found that great -danger
threatened them, as they
could now and then hear the omni
ous thud of falling debris from
above. They fixed some timbers
and plank so as to protect him as
much as possible from the weight of
dirt, and reascended. They were
none too soon, for no sooner had
they gained the top than a terrible
rumbling and crashing was heard
within, shaking the ground for a
distance around. All hope was gone.
Nevertheless something must be
done. Teams were dispatched from
town with lumber and tools for
timbering the caving portion of the
shaft. With stout hearts and will
ing hands the timbers were placed
in and made secure. After anxious
ly working till about 7 o'clock Fri
day morning Mr. Cosgrove Was res
cued and tirought to the surface,
having been imprisioned in the very
jaws of death for 15 hours. To the
astonishment of every one only one
rib was broken, and though badly
bruised and cut about the body and
lower limbs, his head and vitals (-axo
said to be uninjured.
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Mr. Marvin's Blunder. Ex-Congressman
Marvin, who is the "War
wick behind the throne" in the new
United States Hotel, called on a car
penter yerterday and said:
"Mr." Thompson, we have a nice
bar-room, and we want a handsome
bar made. Who can make the best
one?"
"Well, I-I-d-d-don't 'zactly know
who could m-m-make a handsome
b-barmau," stammered Mr. Thomp
son. 0
"No, no. I want a handsome bar
made 3"
"W-w-well, dang it! if you want a
handsome barmaid, why don't you
go over to T-T-Troy and get one ?"
"No,-. no no, man! I mean who
made these I see all around town?"
"Great guns, Marvin! h-h-how the
d-dlevil do I know who made all
the: b-b-barmaids around town? I
A-A-Anr't tnow. ftnd dfljufi CaX6 wllO
did," shrieked Mr. Thompson .-
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