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VOL. 9.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1875.
NO. 48.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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"
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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 .
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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.
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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 ?
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