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"3 o G O O e A - ( HP 4p DEVOTED TO POLITICS, NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF ORECON. VOL. 9. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1875. NO. 48. 1 1 1 THE ENTERPRISE. LQ3AL DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER Farmer, UusAs Man, & lamily Circle. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY. A.NOLTNER, LDITOR AXD PUBLISHER. OFFICIAL PAPEB rOB CLACXAMAS CO. -icc-rr-TrTrv: Enterprise Building, one dr south of Masonic Cuildins. Maia St. TernA f Subscription I Single Copy fV Year, In Advance $2, ' SMonths " ' 1 2.50 50 Terms of Advertising! Transient adv 'niscmnts, including all tezalnoties, square of twelve lins one 'flt 2.50 1.00 fnrerh subsequent Insertion On Column, ne year hk ;; Qiirter" ' - nnsisiess Card II square, one year. I20.t0 OO.tM) 40.00 12.00 socl :ty xo tices. OKHCUM LOHGK XO. 3, I. I. O. l. fleets every Thursday viiiii' at 7 o'clock, in the Oil l'Vllow-. Hall, Main 2SJ- street. Mem .crsdf the Or der art invited to attend, liv order N. G? niiui:cc v $i2c;irt-:i2 loihjk no. S. I. O. O. F.Alects on the Second andllmrth Tuns- :'; dav cvfninpich month, tijtT at 7 'i o'fln;tin the Odd Fellows' Ha':. Mcmbcr.sof tho Decree nre invited t attend. mult.nomaii j,oik;i; no. 1,A.F. tt A. M., Hoi Is its regular com munications the First and Tiiird Saturday ine.u-h month, - ai I o clock mini mou 01 .vp. teinber to the 20th of March; and 74 o'clock from tho '0th of March to thf H.Tt !i o Sjj)temh!r. lirethren in jood itandinx are nivitea to attend. I'.y ordtiof W. M. rAI,L KXCAMPMKXT XO. I.I.O. O. F., Meets at Odd Fellows' o g. Hall o:ithe First and Third Tu- ,OC--a,,, ni' i:h inonili. Patriarchs in ' d standing are invited to attend. n us ilyjzss ca n .?. A. J. H'SVF., M. 1. J. W. NOllRIS, M. D. JIOVKU 5o 1STORRIS, P!I VSIC1 S'S AX!) SfUCEOXS, JO.Ti.;f I'p-v'tairs in Charman's Crick, M n in st rit . Ir. IPivt's r'-Md-'nce Third street, at foot of clitt stair .vay. tf UK. .1 0 1 1 W KLC 1 1 DENTIST, mtz onncfAciTV, orkoox. HI rtirt CaJpric Paid for Count) Order. DENtl ST, M. C ATHEY, ATTORNEY AND COl'NSELOH-AT-LAW, Oregon City, Oregon. fip"i-i il nttf ntion Kiv:-n to loaning Money. OilU Fr;nt roo.a in Kntkrimuse Uiild- J OHNS & McCOWN mm aV counselors at-law. ATT3 Or35on City, Oregon. "Vill practice in all the Courts of the State. Spt-cial atti!ition uivon to cases in tho LT. S. LMtnd J,no hi Or.on City. 5iirlS72-tf. T-i. T. BARIN ATTORMEY-AT'LAW, OREGOX CITV, : : OREGON. OFFICE Over Tope's Tin Store, Main treet. ,-- ZlmarT-'Mf. W. II. H Hi I FIELD. Cttablishcd ilnce 41, at the old stand. Main Strict, Orrgon City, Orfgon. An asortm,nt of Wat he Jewel- ry.and s tn Tljomas W'ei-rht Clocks ill - f i U N n 1 . . . .. . W . . . ii t.l V 11 11 L 1 a II LI. li LVJ (13 W.'i-a r.Mr '!ent! "Kpairins Ine n short notice, and thankful for pacf latronaj'. J0HX 31. I5AC0X, IMPORTER AND D K A t.F. U Sji) In Hooks. Stationery, Perfum- .--X," cry, etc.. etc. ngufli Orf'on City, Oregon. r-Atth Post Offlae, Main stgeet, east J. r. WARD. flGEOROK A. HARDING. WARD u HARDING, DRUGGISTS AND APOTHECARIES, KEEP CONST XTLY ON HAND A general asso..ment of Drugs and Chemical, "ery, JHoapa, ibtnnd A iirnshes,, truss, 1 Supporter. Com NhoulilVAlraci Fancy and Toilet Articles. .ALSO. KrroMe oil. Lamp Chimneys, Ulass Pnll-, Paints. !, Varnishet anil DrcKluffa, Pi"RE WINES A.D LI0.10RS FOR ME- DICIX.lt PURPOSES. PATENT 3IEDICINES, ETC. Physicians Prescriptions carefully compounded, and all orders correctly an- Open at all hours of the nfsht. "All accounts imist be paid monthly, novwf " "WARD HARDING. rn?vIoey ! Money ! m13tl JOfLNSON A McCOWV. 1' O H X 11 I V Far Fetchincrs From the Far West. "Mcsic Hath Charms." There is a fellow in the Oregon City band with so little ear for music that he can't even carry the bass drum prop erly when the Professor of the thumping stick is resting. "No Cards." That was a sick wedding, I'll bet" said an Oregon City man, reading a marriage notice in the paper, "No cards! gol durn it they'll advertise 'No whisky' the next thing you know." Mock Innocence. A Harvard boy once stopped the English Consul's four-in-hand drag at Boston, with "say driver, is this the coach for Brighton?" It is said there was a rise in starch soon after. Consoling. It is a consolation to our school boys to know that those who come after them will have to study a longer list of Presidents, Kings, tc. Bad Treat-ment. "You are sit ting in a very uninviting position," as an Oregon City bar keeper said to a sleeping dead beat. "Oii.v Pro Nobis. Praying in one sense at least, is kneesy. IXesclt of Oregon Immigration. A Dutchman was very indignant with us the other day in Portland because we could not understand him, and with pity for our igno rance said: It looks like to me as if you is pin in dis coondry long enough to spik dat churman langua ges, aint it? Still Harping on the Same Scr ject. Since the recent importation of lazzaroni musicians into the coun try, there is a movement to transfer the harp from the Irish to the Italian Hag. Uxctiocs. There is an oleaginous man in Oregon City who is prepared to bet that he ean polish more peach stoueJjaskets and meerschaum pipes on his nose than any other man in Clackamas county. A Flash. Jack was about "half shot" but he would insist upon turn ing the music for his warbling sweet heart. After twisting the leaf in four different ways, and keeping up a longer rest than the notes indicat ed he announced in his bewilder ment "This music must have been struck by lightning." "Yes, Jersey lightning," grunted his then prospec tive futlier-ii-law. Cood .Maimers. Young folks should be mannerly. How to be so is the question. Many a girl and boy feel that thev can't behave themselves in the presence of company. They feel timid, bash ful and self-distrustfnl the inoii:ent they are. addressed by a stranger or appear in company. There is but one way to get over this feeline; and acquire easy and graceful manners, that is, to do the best they can all the time at home, as well as abroad. Good manners are not learned by arbitrary teaching so much as ac quired by habit. They grow upon us by use. We must.be courteous, civil, kind, gentlemanly and womanly at home, and then" it will become a kind of second nature to be so every where. A course, rough manner at home begets a habit of roughness, which we cannot lay off if we try when we go among strangers. The most agreeable people we have ever known in company are those who are perfectly agreeable at home. Home is the school for all good things especially for good manners. A well-known divine, in his wise old age, once said to a newly-married pair, "I want to give you this advice, my children don't fry to be happy. Happiness is a shy nymph, and if you chase her you will never catch herjbutjnst go quietly on and do vour duty, and she will come to you." m a, "I See That Moon and Raise It." It has never been our good fortune to make a boast of this country in the presence of an Irishman that he did not say, "Yis, that's so, but they have foiner wans in the ould conn thry." Last evening we were lettiDg out some of our long bottled senti ment on the subject of the bright moonlight, when John McElwee, a back-woodsman of Milesian descent, knocked all future poetry ont of us by announcing, "Be the great goats, they have moonlight nights the whole year round in Limirick town, do ye moindthat?" The following notice is conspicu ously posted over the counter of a savings bank in Clinton Place, New York: "Never stamp a check before presenting it to the bank, but give the teller two cents and ask him to lick the stamp and car eel it. The teller expects to lick all stamps, as it saves buying lunch, and is therefore disappointed when not allowed to do so." A man found four boys playing cards on a bay-mow, and was going to give them fits, when one spoke up: "We wa'nt playing keerds. Tom Letter's mother 's dead, and we were tip here showing him the pictures on the keerds, so he wouldn't be lone some. People who are always wishing for something nev should try neuralgia Enibden Geese. From the Canada Farmer. The appellation of Embden has been obtained from a town of that name in Westphalia, but, in this country, they are sometimes called by the name of "Bremen " owing it is claimed, to the firrt two trios ever brought into America having been imported from Bremen in Germany, by a Mr. Jaques iu 1821, and called by him after that town. Originally, howerer, they were brought to Eng land from Holland. The Embden goose has prominent blue eyes, is remarkably strong in the neck, and the feathers from near the shoulder to the head are far more curled than is seen in other birds. The plumage is uniformly pure white, the bill flesh color and free from dark blotches, and the legs and feet orange. In carriage they should be tall and erect, with line square bodies, which in fat specimens touch the ground. They come to enormous size, a three-yaar-old gander has weighed as much as-, thirty-two pounds, and a goose of the same age twenty-six, but a good bird of any breed weighing twenty pound is con sidered very line, and for breeding purposes such weight is quite suffi cient to insure good stock. The Embden goose seldom lays till after a year old. Their eggs are white in color, very large and rough in the shell, which is extremely thick. Regular goose breeders rarely, if ever, allow the geese themselves to sit, but put from three to four eggs under a cochin or dorking hen, which can well cover and take care of them. A turkey hen also makes a capital mother. The eggs should be regu larly sprinkled with luke-warm water to prevent the shell becoming so hard as to check the egress of the young. Sometimes, but not often, they lay two settings of eggs in a season. The period of incubation is thirty days. The goslings are easily reared on the same food as ducklings, but they require green food as well, and for this purpose young green onions are strongly recommended. When once Hedged, they will thrive well with no other food than can be procured by them in the field or by the wa' side, until later in the fall, when they should be shut up for a few weeks, and fed on meal, oats, &c; they will lay on fiesh quickly and come to great weight. Embden geese do not necessarily require much water, but of course, to look well, the pure Embden geese will require a largo pond or brook to wash them selves in. One of the great advantages of the Enibden geese, is that all their feath ers being perfectly white, their value where many are kept is far greater in the market than is even the case with "mixed" feathers. The quiet domestic character of this variety causes them to lay on flesh rapidly. They never stray away from their home, the nearest pond or field satis fying their wants, and much of their time is spent in quiet repose. Their llesh is equal to that of the famous Toulouse of France. Mr. Hewitt says, "these birds have an advantage even over the Toulouse. In institut ing comparisons between the white and colored geese, I have noticed that the pendant abdominal pouch of the Toulouse tells sadly against it when dressed, and would undoubtedly be prejudicial against its sale, in accord ance with current opinion of such an appendage being indicative of ad vanced age." All while aquatic poultry are con sidered to dress of a clearer and bet ter appearance than the jiarti-colored or dark feathered birds, more espe cially when young. This arises from the patches where the dark feathers grow, showing even after being care fully plucked, more particularly if the plumage at the time they are killed happens to be immature. The present circulation of the United States is $374,821,985 in legal tender notes, and 841,145.393 in frac tional notes, and $318,937,939 in na tional bank notes. This amounts in the aggregate to $704,908,317, or $19 12 for each individual in the na tion, supposing our total population to be 40,000,000. If we add to this the coin in the United States, which is about $150,000,000, it gives a total circulation of $24 05 per capita. In England, where there is $400,000,000 of gold and $19G,170,G20 of paper in circulation, the amount of currency for each individual is $15 50; while in France the total paper and coin circulation is S18 34 per capita. We have thus much more money in cir culation than has either France or England, while we do vastly less business. And yet we are told that inflation is necessary. The serenade to the President at Long branch, the other night, is justly described by Jenkins as "a most noticeable affair." When the band played "Coming through the Rye," Murphy urged his Excellency to go out on the stoop and acknowl edge it. "It's no more than right," said Tom, gravely, "and they'll ex pect it of you." Then all hands got around Ulysses and tried to persuade him; but "he wouldn't stir, and re marked, rather impatiently, "Well, well, wait a little. I can't ro while they're playing that tune. It might be interpreted as a reflection npon my preference for iced coffee. "-BrooA -lyji Argus. ai " The happiest moments in a wo man's life are when she is making Ler wedding garments; the saddest, when her husband comes home late at night and yells to her from the front steps to throw him out some key-holes, assorted sizes. A Virginia baby has a fondness for ink. It's plain that he'll never make , a Salem editor. Princess Kelly and her Husband. Princess Nelly and her husband left Long Branch on August 28th, for their European journey, and will not return to the United States until the early part of 1877, when they expect to attend His Excellency's inaugura tion on the commencement of his third term. The princess has no idea that her father will retire from the Presidency, and Mr. Sartoris cannot see any reason why he should not rule America all his life, as the Prince of Wales will rule England, you know. So after showing the little imperial grandchild to the old folks in his country home in Eng land, Mr. Sartoris will bring back our princess to share in the glories of the inauguration ball. That, at least, is his calculation. It is to be hoped, however, that they will re turn to the States, even if the dream of a life tenure for His Excellency should not be fulfilled. The princess is a favorite here on her own merits, and would be welcome wherever she is known even if her father should return to tanning hides at Galena. Besides, there is a general apprehen sion that Nelly will not enjoy a hum drum English country life, where people are all highly respectable, but very staid and quiet. We have noth ing here like the English country family class to which Mr. Sartoris belongs. They are not farmers; they possess a competency that is, for country life and live without work in a dreamy, humdrum sort of man ner, visiting and visited by the coun try parson, the doctor, the attorney's wife, the schoolmaster, and occasion ally favored by an invitation to the residence of the great land proprie tor, who is sometimes a peer and sometimes the member for the coun ty. These are rare occasions, but they are the only opportunities that offer for showing off the country beauties and their wardrobes before appreciative eyes. The country fam ilies seldom visit London, Paris, or any of the gay cities, because their means, which are sufficient for their modest home wants, do not warrant the expenses of a metropolis. Will this placid life suit "our Nellie?" Some believe not. But they forget that her husband is all in all to a young and loving wife, and that wherever he may bo she finds there a contented home. Mr. Sartoris, too, appears to be a favorite with all who know him, and there is no doubt that his American wife will be happy with him, on whichever side of the Atlantic he may chance to be. An Example of Faithlessness. Grant receives $50,000 a year as a remuneration for his Presidential services. In return for this princely salary, he spends fully one half of his time away from the National Capital, neglecting his sworn public duties, and setting an example of faithlessness to obligation which his subordinates have been only too ready to follow. What, asks the Philadelphia Chronicle, would be thought of Col. Tom Scott, Frank Gowen.or the President of any other large corporrtion, if, like Grant, he should leave the vast interests com mitted to his charge to be run by clerks, while he reveled at the sea shore? Such proceedings were un known until Grant became President. It was not the wont of former nation al Executives to absent themselves from the post of duty, nor should it. be tolerated, even in this would-be Ciesar. Sympathetic. A boy tried his first pipe the other day. When his father came home to dinner, he found him braced against a barrel with his legs apart, his hands and lower jaw drop ped listlessly, and a deathly pallor overspreading his face. "What is the matter with you?" inquired the amazed parent. .""My teacher is is sick," gasped the boy. "Well, you mustn't feel so badly about it, Tom my," said the father, kindly. "She will get well again, without a doubt." And then, stepping into the house, he observed to h;s wife that he was the most sympathetic boy he ever saw. Frank Blake, an actor, read the following at his benefit performance in Portland, Maine: Dear public, you and I, of late, Have dealt so much in fun, I'll crack you now a monstrous great Quadruplicated pun! L.ike a frrato full of coals I'll glow, A fjreat fui i0nse to see; And if I am not grateful too, A great fool I must be! And all that to an audience that .yielded him only twenty-three dol lars. A woman entered a crowded street car the otherirtay, and for a moment or two no one offered her a seat. Then a fat man, affected with the asthma, beckoned to her, and said: "Madam, please take take (cough, cough). She stood there waiting for his seat, and as soon as he was over his coughing-fit, he concluded: "Madam please take care and do not step on my sore foot?" The look she gave him was appalling, but all the rest saw the joke. . m He sees and I see. A boy fills his pipe, and he sees only the tobacco; but I see going into that pipe, brains, books, time, health, money, pros pects. The pipe is filled at last, and a light is struck and things which are priceless are puffed away in smoke. Temperance Star. That pipe must have had a big bowl. Bald. As the young lady remark ed about the infant, "How sweet; but how bald for one so young!" - One Fifth. A bald-headed editor writes that flies cause one fifth of all the profanity in the world. COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, TTv-rtrTTDCTTV nV P.AT.TFORNTA. The Dividing Line. A respected correspondent asks us to state the dividing line between the Republican and Democratic par ties, and where they differ. Twenty years ago when the Re publican party was formed, the great question beiivj between it and the Democratic party was the extension of slavery. The Democratic party, construing strictly the Constitution as it then was, believed in maintain ing the institution of negro bondage. According to the compromises of that Constitution, they believed in catching and returning slaves who had fled from their owners; 'and many among them, like Mr. Charles O'Connor, contending that every citizen of a slave-holding State had a right to take his slaves with him into the Territories of the United States, and to keep them there in slavery; and, in effect, to plant slavery in those Territories. The Republican party was organized to resist his view of the subject, and to exclude slavery from the new Terri tories; but it did not then propose to abolish slavery in any State where it was legally established. At that time, this question of slavery exten sioned formed the only divid ing line between the two parties. But when in 1801 the Southern States, starting from the election of a Republican President pledged against the extension of slavery, se ceded, establishing a new govern ment for themselves and making war upon the United States, .then the dividing line became changed. In deed, we may say it became obliter ated by the conflict, the bloodshed, and the fire of the civil war. The Republican party went on from re sistance to the extension of slavery to hostility against slavery itself, and finally to its abolition through the emancipation proclamation of President Lincoln and the thirteenth amendment to the national Constitu tion. Against these measures, the Democratic party, though at bottom deeply dissatisfied with them, set up no real resistance; in fact it may be said that there was then only one party in the Union, so much were all the people engaged in the busi ness of fighting. The form and or ganization of the Democratic party were preserved, but its life was fee ble and its utterances were of no great account. It was everywhere in the minority, and so remained un til the end of the war. This great struggle left behind it in the people and the Administration two strongly marked tendencies, each of them a direct inheritance of the war. One proceeded from avarice and the corruption of morals. It was tho tendency to public rob berv, and it was shared equally by Democrats and Republicans, In the former however, it was soon checked from the absence of opportunity. Their general extinction as a politi cal force had left them powerful in only one important center, the city and State of New York. There Con nolly and Tweed stole their millions, and were detected and driven out; and there the Democracy headed by Samuel Tildcn, is now destroying the public plunders of the canals; while the Republicans, possessing the national Administration at Wash ington, with a man indifferent to every form of public plunder at its head, and anxious only that the plun derers shall be his friends and rela tions, still continue the work of ra pacity, Robeson, Delano, Shepherd, Williams, Orvil Grant, Cowen and the whole countless gang, competing with each other and fattening them selves on the impoverished and suf fering tax-payers. In this respect the Republican party is infinitely worse than the Democratic, because the worst elements of it have control; so that its condition is hopeless, and reform within it is impossible. The Democracy have been long out of of fice, and having had so much less op portunity and temptation to become corrupt, is much more under the di rection of the honest men in its ranks; while in the Republican par ty the honest men have to stand in the background and leave the rob bers to follow their own will. The other tendency, inherited from the war, to which we have re ferred, is a matter of political princi ple, and is, in our judgment, of the highest moment. During the war the Republican party was almost omnipotent. It exercised war pow ers; it was a military government; its hands was everywhere, and its will was felt in every fibre of the people's life. It was in effect, a cen tralizing Administration; and the party iu whose name it was conduct ed became a centralizing party. Such it still remains. The theory and policy of the Republican party at present are that the country must be ruled by one government at Wash ington; and that government must be what in European monarchies is called a paternal one, interfering in every concern of the people, as for instance, in education, agriculture and the repression of crime. Against this policy the Democratic partv revolts. True to its ancient principles, even after so many years and so many radical changes, it stands forth for the old American idea of local self-government and re publican equilibrium. It contends for the exercise of the least possible authority in every sphere of political affairs, and for the greatest possible independence in the individual, the township and the State. It repeats the immortal truth, that the best government is that which governs least. It is against centralization. It is for State Rights, personal rights and local rights. It is thus the bul wark of personal liberty . and public progress. This is its chief distinc tion and its great glory to-day; and this is the reason for which the American people now give it their confidence and mean to restore it to power. We have thus drawn for our cor respondent the dividing line bet ween these two parties the one corrupt because of its long, irresponsible, and almost unrestricted tenure of authority, and because the worst men have got the upper hand iu it, and also centralizing, tending to the consolidation of power in the hands of the Federal Government; the other pure; because long exclusion from power has left the control in tho hands of its better elements, and also holding as its fundamental doc trine to local self-government and the development and strengthening of the political ideas, traditions and institutions which prevail in the Declaration of Independence, and the original organization of the re public. This is the dividing line between the parties, and our correspondent can, we think, now choose intelli gently between them. JST. Y. Sun. The Unknown Itichcs of the Karth. Why should we assume the Peru vian traditions of the lost mines of the Iucas to be so untrue, or smile because we are told the Ashantees know where to find gold iu quanti ties? Why not? The Calif ornian gold was known a century before it was found, and unless geology is all wrong, the Yankees have not got hold of the richest section, which is in Lower California, yet. The Turks must own and neglect endless mines some of them, if tradition is not all self-begotten, mines of gold and there is all Southern Asia to be ran sacked by the curious. Where, be fore maritime enterprise began, did all the silver and copper and lead in those vast countries come from ? The people of India were two bun dred millions before the fifteenth century, and used and hoarded silver and copper in several forms, and lead, and where did they get them ? Ihereareno silver mines open now in India. They are working gold diggings in Wynaad on a system which indicates, if not with certainty, at least with a high degree of proba bility, that they have not reached the "reefs," and have only found some ancient deposits washed down from them. There are all manner of minerals in the Malayan Peninsula, and indeed throughout the Eastern Archipelago, which, for want of civ ilized methods of working, return nobody anything worth having. Would not copper be worth search ing for in those regions, by men who remember that if they can only find any metal worth Avorking, there is the boundless reservoir of China close at hand to draw their labor from? Discoveries of tin in the Archipelago have half ruined Corn wall, and there may be much more than tin the existence of which geol ogists could predicate with certainty. Even leaving aside gold, as a tempt ing but illusive metal, which rouses local cupidity too much, where are the places in Southern Asia, and esjiecially in India, where copper ought to exist? A Modern Myconian. "Ferdin and, how did you ever git so durn ed bald? If it wa'n't that you are so all-fired short I might have thought it Avas from rapid growth grown in night through j'our hair, yon know." It was thus an Oregon City wife addressed her better-half across the banquet board. "Why that air was from early piety, my old tomat. In fact, I may say it came from a carry iu of a prayer book in my hat." "Here let up on that!" broke in Cleopatra. "You're a nice looking feller to carry a prayer book in your hat, now aint j ou? I'll bet a bushel of wheat it come from a car ryin' a brick in your hat, you beer swelled, lop-sided sot." "Ah you git out. That aint fair. Somebody's been and told you." The inconsistencies in our orthog raphy are something fearful to con template. T-o n-g-u-e spells tongue, and the man who first spelled it should have been hongue. A-c-h-e spells ache, and that's all 3 011 can mache out of it. E-i-g-h-t spells eight, no matter how you depre ceight tho idea; and that a-i-s-l-e should spell aisle, f-e-i-g-n feign, is enough to make anybody smasile, if the eltort is not too peigniui. Byron and Beecher. It is a re markable instance of the dispensa tion of things, and how, as DeQuincy said, "slowlyall things right them selves," that the -lady who, in this generation, attacked Byron's charac ter most unnecessarily, has just in her own family, furnished America and Europe with one of the most edifying scandals of modern times. Ttcinlet's Magazine. . . o The value of one vote is again illustrated in Solano county, Cali fornia. T. M. Swan, Democrat, is found to be elected to the Assembly over L. B. Mizner, Republican, by one vote. Evening Journal. The trouble is, every Democrat in Solano county claims to have cast that "settling" vote. A Word to the Wise. Those judges who are called "Necessity" because they know no law will be pleased to hear of the arrest of a watch stealer, in Oregon City, called "Procrastination." A "live issue" for Democrats: Was Adam a Nnow-Notbing? Reporter. He was. Otherwise Evo would never have been born. What holds all the 6nuff in the world? No one nose. Interesting Republican Opinion. From the Utica Herald. We cannot remove from Governor Tilden tlie credit for having origin- aieu tne present movement for caaal reform. - Other Gove mors iTiio-lifc have done it before him. They did not move, and he has. The pressing need for such a reform is nowhere denied and everywhere apparent; so mat urovernor lilden has started no mere roorback, founded upon noth ing, and sure to die when the canvass is oyer and done. Neither is it to bo denied that valuable proffress has already been made, under the Gov ernor's direction and annroval in the right direction. The public has received a great mass of information about the nature, extent and history of the canal frauds, that has hitherto been concealed from its knowledge. It has not only learned the character of the robberies; it knows the names of the parties who have committed them and the amounts of the profit they have realized. This information has come in shape so perfect and complete that it forms the basis of several suits already begun in the courts of the State for restitution and punishment. Thus far, the pro gress of reform has been tangible, and the good cllects will be abiding. We have as yet no reason to be lieve that the reform will stop with the progress thus far made. Tiie Governor shows no signs of shrink ing. He has spared neither political friend nor political foe. He has treated all exactly alike. He has ruined the reputations of men who stand on the pinnacles of the Demo cratic party. It has been our duty in the past to show that Governor Tilden wa not pushing reform as fast or as strong as he could or should. We have urged him on at every step, and where he has been slow we would have had him faster. But the progress of the present month has made up for the earlier delays. It will hardly do for Republicans to sneer at that progress. Nor is it worth while to expend effort in de crying Governor Tilden in the light of what hehasalready accomplished. It is rather for th Republican party to demonstrate its zeal in the same direction, and its willingness to fol low the Governor to its uttermost limit, or to lead the way when he shall show signs of faltering. It is for the party to approve all that has been done, and to incite to further doing. It is for the party to deal as he deserves by every member of its own guild who has been caught in complicity with t he canal frauds. No other course will enable us to go into the canvass with any hope of winning back the State. We must show ourselves less concerned about Governor Tilden, his motives and ambitions, and more anxious for that thorough overhauling whicUour State affairs are shown to need. Uncertain. Nothing is so nncer taio as lovely woman. One of her playful eccentricities is thus noted in an Illinois paper: "A beautiful girl with silken curls in which the sun shine seemed to have got entangled and held, with mild, loving blue eyes that opened wide in sweet sur prise, and melted in tears at the voice of distress, and sensitive lips that trembled and quivered with-, pain at a harsh word, and tender voice, soft as the notes of flutes upon q the water, got .away behind in a game of croquet last Wednesday, and when her brother caught her cheating, she opened her mild bluft eyes in surprise and hit him such a clap over the eye with a croquet mal let that he has had to wear his hat pasted on the back of his head with a wafer ever since. Dear girl I" m No Money in Peaches. The peach crop in Delaware and Mary land this season is not going to make a fortune for anybody. The scheme for shipping the fruit to the West in fast trains has- proved a failure; the experiment was fairly tried, but we are assured the fruit did not bring enough for carriage. The peach growers are therefore in an ill hu mor, and the fruit merchants in Bal timore who handle the crop are equally as cross. As things stand, just now, there is ' no money in peaches for any one who touches them, the farmer who raises them, the railroads that carry them, or the mercnant who sells them . Ph i'ladelplt la C ity-ltem . . - Four Mile Heat Race in Cali fornia. The following horses from the East, are announced as certain to be entered for the great $30,000 purse race of four mile heats run in San Francisco, in October next; Springbrook, who goes out in charge of Harve'v as trainer; Wihlidle in care of Capt. Moore, with Billy Lakeland as rider; Rutherford and Giinstead, in charge of Albert (who trained Joe Daniel and Hubbard), with Dono hue to ride tho former; and Balan keel,in charge of his trainer and owner, W. Jennings. Hennessy goes out to ride Katie Pease. D. II. Pigg is the Democratic can- o didate for the Legislature in Lick ing county, Ohio. Sunday Welcome. He is the first of that genus ever mentioned in connection with the Democratic party, and for his apos tasy from Radicalism may get a good CG name of his county. Beniamin Franklin's copper com posing stick is in the hands of a compositor on the Tremont. Ohio, Journal. It will be sent to Philadel phia next year. m One More Shot. The Albany Register says, "Gen. Phil. Sheridan and lady passed south over the O. & C. railroad about noon on Friday last." Where was his wife ? O O o o 0 0 G o o o o o O o o o G o o o G O 0 o o o G P Q o .0