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.1 312 DEVOTED TO POLITICS, NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF OREGON. VOL. 9. OREGON CITY, OREGON, ; FRIDAY,:, OCTOBER 15, 1875: NO. 51. THE ENTERPRISE. LOCAL DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER V O It THE Farmer, Business 3Ian, & Family Circle. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY. A. NOLTNER, hDlTOR AND PUBLISHER. OFFICIAL PAPE3 FOS CLACKAMAS CO. OFFICE In E.nterprisf Rnildlnj:, nne doJ" -atli of Mianio liuildlng. Main St. Ternn of Sulxr ript Ion i Single Copy One Year, In Advances. ..,..$i50 Six Months ... 1.50 Terms of Advertising! Tr.inisnt advertisements, including all I 'nl notices, li square of twelve lins o:i wiek - $ 2.50 F.tfa-eh subs?innt insertion 1.00 O-i Volumn, oni year 120.00 Hilf " " " 00.00 O-t-irtor" " 40.00 U nsiuess Card, 1 square, one year 12.00 SOCIETY NO TICKS. oKi;r;oN loihjk xo. 3, 1. 1. o. i, Mceti every Thursday cviiiun jrat 7 'i o'clock, in tlic Sig Odd l-VI lows' Hall, Main 'ii.jF street. Meinhci s (if the Or der are invited to attend. ly order N.G. Second ami Fourth Tuus- ;JilMZ dAV evening each month, rf at 7 ' oVIoi-k, in the Odd V.. Hows' Hull. M embers of tho Decree are invited to attend. riiui-TNo.ii.-vii i,om;i: xo. i, a.i. A A. M., Holds its regular com- A iiiuuicaiions on uiu cirsi anu T.iird Sat unlays in c.i:h month, -nt 7 oVI.-ick I'ro'm thelMth of. Sen. teinher to tlie U J t J 1 of March; ami 7 li o'clock from the :.'1th of March to the J..)t of September. IJrethren in good standing are invited to attend. i!y order of W. M. If A I- LS V. X C A M V .11 E XT X O. 1,1. O. O. V., Meets at Odd Fellows o Hull on t!ie First andThird Tucs- X$Z day of each month. Patriarchs in '"ood .-.tan din:; are invited to attend. Jl U S I -V K S S CA11D sr. a. J. if ve :t, m. i. J. w. XOKKIS, M. P. IIOVKU 5o .aS-OHKIS, p.i vsici v.s axo srir.i:o.s, E7-o;tt -o tip-Stairs in Charman's Brick, M i in str t. lr. II iv -r's r,-sidncJ Third street, at f.) t ol clilf stairway. ! mi. .ronr welch d z n t a ST, OF KICK IN ORKUON CITY, OllECOX. IIl.--it Cnh Price Puitl fr County Or.li-rs. ATTORN EYS-AT-LAW- roitTI-AXU-I.i Opitz's new brick, .U) Tir-t street. o;tl-:uo. CIT Y Charm an' s briok, up stairs. sepf-'ltf .mOllY AM) l'OL.SELCa-AT-LAW, Oiv-on City, Oregon. Sp-eial attent ion Rivon to loaning Money. );lijj front room in Enteuimiise butld ,,v july2!ttf JOHNSON t FcSOWW ATTORNEYS XD C01NSEL0RS AT-LAW. Orogon City, Orogon. cyWill practice in all the Courts of the Stat. Special attention S'veu to eases in the U. S. land Oilie- at. Orogon City. 5airlS72-tf. Hi. T. 13 A II 1 1ST ATTOnraHY-AT-LAW, OR EC OX CITY, : : OREGON. OFFICE Over rope's Tin Store, Main street. 21ntar73-tf. AV. II. HHS1IFIEL1). Etnhllheil since '10, ut tlie old stand. Main Street, Oregon City, Oregon. An iissDrtnifiit of NVathes, Jewel J.T rv.and Sot h Tlioinas Weight Clocks : all of which are warranted to be as l--5 repr-.'sentfd. C"i;pairin done on short notice, and 'hankf ul for past patronage. JOHN 31. U VCOX, IMPORTER ANDDEAT-ER $ljy In Rooks, stationery, Pcrluni- Jpsfi cry, etc., etc. Oregon City, Oregon. r-v-M the Tost Office, Main stgoet, cast STILL IX T II E FIELD! REMOVED SECOND DOOR SOUTH OF II. V AS S.Vl-OOX. WILLIAMS & HARDING, AT THE LINCOLN BAKERY, KEEP THE MOST COMPI-ETE STOCK of Family Uroeeries to be found in the city. All i;xh1s warranted. Goods delivered in the city free of charge. The highest cash lricy paid for country pro-luce. Orr-un City. March 2S, 1S73. TO FRUIT-GROWERS. ryilK AT-DKX FRUIT PRESERVING - Company of Oregon City will pay tho f HIGHEST MARKET PRICE M VuMS' PEARS nnd APPLES. rh.; t ; Chartnan Is authorized to pur rasfortheComnany. L. D. C. LATOURETTE, Trtnr-TT.. President. Kon City. July 23, 1375. 1f .SUMMARY Ol' STATU 'I1YS. "Duke" Holladay is in rortland. Hippie is stumping Eastern Ore gon for Warren. The supposed mail-bag robber is under bail. The convict Jame3 Brown, who escaped from the Penitentiary last veeK, was corralled by a farmer. Two hundred bushels of wheat easily harvested. Julins Yanwindel had three teelli knocked ont by a horse suddenly putting us loot in his mouth. Tho receipts of the Linn county fair were $1,100. A reward of $300 has been offered for the arrest of the brothers Whit ney, supposed incendiaries. Augora goats are becoming ulenti ful in this State. Tho Yamhill Reporter says: Sixty seven loads of grain passed the resi dence of J. W. Cook one morning last week. That's only one road in half a dozen, or more, you must re member. A letter to the Independent says: There has been considerable contro versy about the average yield of grain in the different parts of Wash ington county, and as you should know something of our average 3Tield this season, I would estimate the av erage wheat crop at 20 bushels pet acre, while oats would not average more than 23 bushel. On the 2Gth of last month, in Til lamook county, tiiee miles from the ship landing, on Dougherty river, the dwelling house of Isaac W. Smith, while lie and,, family were.it church, was burned down with his household goods; loss about $G00. The country between Lafayette and Dayton is fust being cleared of its timber, and there will bo some handsome farms in there ere long. J. C. Trullinger, of Centreville, has rented his llouriiig mill for$l,ii00 a year. He has established a store ami large steam saw mill at Astoria, where in future he intends to reside. We are informed that Hon. Geo. II. Helm inteuds stumping Linn county in behalf of L afayette Lane. Mrs. Dnniway is giving lectures. She intends giving us and her paper a rest during fair week. The Linn county council, P. of II., will convene at .Brownsville on the fourth Tuesday iu this month, in stead of tlie second Tuesday, us first appointed. There have been a large number of desertions from the army in the eastern jiart of the State. Cattle in Eastern Oregon are in a very tine condition. The Oregnn'vtn says the Indians hitherto located in tiie Xestneca val ley have all removed to the Salmon river portion af the Siletz agency, with the. understanding that they are to be under the jurisdition of Mr. Sinnot, agent of Grand Bound. The Alsea Indians, we understand, are also willing to remove, if permitted to occupy lands within the bound aries of the Grand Bound reserva tion, and the sooner these Indians are concentrated in one locality, and the country they occupy thrown open for settlement, tho better it will be for Oregon. The State pomological report of Maine gives the following advice as to harvesting apples: Gather the fruit when fully grown or at the time when it has received the greatest nourishment from the tree. Ladders of different length, also stairs, are employed for this purpose. Tho windfall should be tirst gathered and converted into cider, or at least kept entirely sepa rate from the remaining fruit. Pick by hand, select and pack with great care, so as to obviate bruising the fruit. In assorting make two ouali ties for market and a third for cider or swine. Pack in new or clean bar rels. Pack one kind only in the same barrel or box; also let the apples be of as uniform size and appearance as may be. The upper layer of apjdes should protrude somewhat above the chime, and be brought down and headed underpressure. Employ for this purpose a clamp, either patent or home-made. Somo operate with a screw, others with a lever. The latter is very simple, and may be easily constructed. For shipping, the pressure system is particularly ly desirable, as it retains each apple in its place, and hence prevents its being rattled about and bruised. The fruit, being barreled, should re main in open sheds till the approach of cold weather. Keep as cool as possible without freezing, before re moving to the cellar. A very genleel-appearing young man, wearing kid gloves and carry ing a lithe and flexible walking-stick, thought he would have a joke with a rnstyand venerable farmer on the 1 air Grounds last Tuesday after noon. "Halloo," saij the dandy, are you one of the judges on hogs?" W aal yaas, walk right' up and let me look at yon," said the old farmer. 1 hat youth was soon lost amid the crowd, and no other judges on swine saw him. A doctor, attending a wit who was very ill, apologized for leing late one day by saying that he had to stop to see a man who had fallen down a well. "Did he kick the bucket, Doctor?" inquired the other. Eugene "Come, sit down on the shelly shore, and hear the mighty ocean roar." Amelia "I can'lT sit down, you silly goose, because I'd burst my pin-back loose!" TF-LUGIIAPHIC XEWS. Boston, Oct. 6. This mnnii -a meeting of the Prohibition n?tv was held in Tremont Temple. The uuuj 01 me uan was well tilled, and quite a number of ladies were pres ent, llev. D. C. Eddy, of Boston, was President. The committee on resolutions reported the most impor- luui oi nmcu was in eilect resolved that the safety of the reimblic and the cause of prohibition depend upon musing me party a unit for the right, which can best bo secured by by defeating Alexander H. Bice. The committee appointed to report a candidate for Governor, presented the name of John J. Baker, of Bev erly. The report was accepted and made unanimous. Wokcestek, Mass., Oct. G. About thirty delegates are holding a labor reform convention in this city, M. Chamberlain of Boston presiding. Besolutions were reported from a committee in favor of concentration of efforts for a reduction of the hours of labor, denouncing the Fall River manufacturers, advising the work ing men to keep away from all pres ent olitical parties, favoring the substitution of 3 05 bonds for the 5 20s, and the making of greenbacks legal tender payable for duties and all debts, and denouncing the na tional bunk system as one of the greatest swindles on a patient peo ple Boston, Oct. 7. California wool in demand at from 20 to 27 cents for spring. New York, Oct. 7. George Gor man, of the Gorman Manufacturing Co. is reported to be in tronbH on his individual account. Liabilities said to be $00,000. Memphis, Oct. 7. Senator Alcorn has telegraphed tho Attorncy-Gen'l to the effect that several of the dis patches relating to the disturbances at Friar's Point, are without founda tion, and that there is no cause of alarm for the peace of that country. The mob lias dispersed, and it is thought will remain quiet. There is no question of politics in this excite ment. The disturbance was origin ated by a party of several hundred negroes, who had ben excited by the ill-tempered Sheriff. They march ed on the town, but were readily dis persed. Boston, Oct. 8. There was quite a large attendance at the meeting of woman suffragists, held here this evening to consider what, if any, action should be taken at the ap proaching election. Rev. James Freeman Clark presided. The com mittee on resolutions reported a set, the first ot which opposes Governor Gaston; the second deems it inexpe dient to make a separate nomination and negatively endorses Rice. The report of the treasurer of the Peabody fund was read at the after noon session, and showed the total amount available for aipropriations to educational purposes to be $'.)G,D00. New YoiiK, Oct. 8. The lire engi neers met to-day on for closing ex ercises, and adjourned to meet in Philadelphia next year. After ad journment the delegates witnessed a parade of a portion of the New York (ire department. Denveii, Col., Oct. 7. President Grunt and party returned from South ern Colorado this afternoon, and will visit Central City, Black Hawk, and Georgetown to-morrow, and will leave for Washington on Sunday. Haukisijukg, Pa., Oct. 7. At the session of the State Treasury Inves tigating committee to-day, Mr. Gerst, editor of the Lancaster Express, tes tified he had information that the State Treasurer, Mackey, had drawn 4 percent interest on an average de posit of $20,000 in the bank of Sted man, Clarkson & Co., Lancaster, in ISo'J. Gerst declines to give the name of his informant, unless com pelled by law. No other witness to-day. Hard Up Indeed. Duprez Dodge was an old sport, who was known far and near as a "square man," who accepted the re sults of games of chance coolly, and ever found a friend at hand to give him a "stake" to renew the battle with the tiger and the lesser animals of the menageries. Scrupulously nice in meeting all his own obliga tions, he was himself tho most leni ent of creditors. It is related of Du prez that upon one occasion, being particularly hard up, and not dispos ed to make known the condition of his finances, he started out on a col lecting tour, the result of which is best related in his own words: "This fellow lived seven miles in the country and owed me a poker debt of ten dollars. Ten dollars ain't much money when you'er fixed, but it is a heap when you ain't; so I tramped out into the country seven miles through the mud, for it was in the spring of the year, and the mire was over shoe-top a good deal of the way. I found the fellow out in the field planting. At first I took him for a last year's scarecrow." "Did you get anything?" anxious ly interrupted a lounger, hastening the relatio"n to an ending. "Getanvthing!" exclaimed Duprez. "Get anything! No; I took a look at him, ami. walked back to town without saying a word. He hadn't clothes enougu to wad a gun, and his boots were dealing from the bot tom." A paper in Southern Illinois re grets that it went to pres3 "one day too early to record the death of J ohn Rates." This is not quite as cool as the paper which said: "Just as we are going to press John Smith is being run over by the cars." The estate of the late S. B. Hinds, of Seattle, has been appraised at $43 450. .. TERRITORIAL, ITEMS. According, to the Owyhee Ava lanche, Oro Fino bullion to the amount of' $12,380 has been cleaned up from the mine only oince ojjera tions were resumed under the man agement of Mr. Catalow. Hops, which are said to be a fair article for brewing purposes, grow wild in some parts of Arizona, in great abundance. Two prisoners, C. W. Lord, ac cused of larceny, and Mcintosh, in for drawing a shotgun on a man, es caped from the jail at Boise City on the night of October 1st. A reward of $200 is offered for their apprehen sion. A new schedule of fares has been established on the Olympia and Se attle steamboat route" From Seattle it costs now a dollar to Tacoma, a dollar and a half to Steilacoom and two dollars to Olympia. The prices down from Olympia are, a dollar to Steilacoom, a dollar and a half to Tacoma, and two dollars to Seattle. Between ports the charge is one dol lar. Father Cataldo has lately been to Pierce City to make a collection for the purpose of building a school house for the Nez Perce Indians. Agent Monteith has forbidden him to build a school house, but the Fa ther holds the permission of the de partment to erect mission buildings, and thinks quite naturally that a school house is included. They are having a aharp little war over the matter. Utah's quota of stock in the Cen tennial exhibition of next year is 2,35 shares which at $10 a share amounts to $23,51)0. How much of this is taken Ave have r-ot been in formed. Tlie whole amount of stock involved in the Centennial is 10,000, 000, apportioned to the different Ter ritories and States according to their population and wealth. As Ne braska's share is only worth $30,000, Nevada's 11,020 and Colorado's $10, 310, the people of Utah Territory have no right to complain of the lib erality of their assessment. Jefferson county jail is now with out an occupant for the first time, we have been informed since its erection in 1807. The Seattle Homestead Associa tion has perfected its arrangements, matured its plans for the sale of 3,000 lots within the city limits, pub lished its prospectus or circular for general distribution, and its agents will tako the field for work at once. The Fairview Miners Union of Owyhee, passed a resolution not to work longer than October 1st in all the mines tint were delinquent, and on that day work ceased in a number of the mines in that section. The Talbot Company is to have built sixty new large coal cars. To give an idea of tho extent of this un dertaking, we have only to mention that each car will have eight wheels, and that the wheels will average 150 pounds each, or 72,000 pounds. Hilly llurke's Apology. Billy Burke was always a favorite clown with James Robinson while running his own show; and whilst he was negotiating with the humor ist with the strawberry mark on the nose, the manager inquired: "Billv, how are vou on an apol ogy ?' "Tip-lop," answered william, anx ious to secure the engagement. "Good!" exclaimed Robinson. "There's nothing like a clown's cov ering up a blunder or an incident with a few words to tho point, or a comical dido." Burke was engaged for the season and enrolled in the company of "Jas. Robinson's Champion Circus," whose manager Billy was wont to announce as "James Robinson, tho man who rides!" Mr. Robinson was well pleased with Burke's clowning. He sang a good song, had a fund of anecdote and story, and, moreover, was a man who could make an apology. At least, Billy said he could; aud the show had been upon the road but a few days when he had an opportunity to display his ability. The night show was well in pro gress when tho equestrienne was an nounced by the master of the circle. Alas! she had made but a few cir cuits of the arena when she landed all in a heap in the saw-dust, rooting her nose in the dirt, and lay sprawl ing in the most awkward predica ment imaginable, while a derisive laugh and shout emanated from the audience. Now wa3 William's opportunity. He was expected to blame the horse and not the rider. How many poor horses are blamed and rings cursed for inexperienced or clumsy riders of botli sexes! William did not phil osophise and exclaim: "Try again; if at first you don't succeed, try, try again." Herbert Williams or Seal might do that not he. His was a more original method of glossing over the mishap. He made no allu sion to a bad ring, found no fault with the horse, but shouted, as if delighted at what had occurred: "That's right! Get up and try it again. We'll make the people laugh if we break your neck!" That "Queen of the Arena" was as hot as red pepper, and as mad as a setting hen, when sho arose unaided, and rushed into the dressing-room without waiting for the banners, the hoops or the garters. -- Edgar Poe said: "To villify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain great ness. The crab might never have be-, come a constellation but for the cour age it evinced in nibbling Hercules on the hsel." Spend Your Money at Home. An. exchange gives the following ten reasons why jeople should spend their money at home. They aro so forcible and well put that we cannot refrain from presenting them to our readers, hoping that they will give them the consideration which they deserve: - 1st. It is your home; you cannot improve it much by taking money away to spend or invest. 2d. There is no way of improvlnga place "so "much as by encouraging good merchants, good schools and good people to settle among you and this cannot be done unless you spend your money at home. 3d. Spend your money at home, because there is where you get it generally. It is your duty. 4th. Spend your money at home, because when it is necessary for 3-011 to get credit, it is of your town mer chants you have generally to get it, and they must wait for the money. Therefore, when you have the cash in hand spend it at home. 5th. Spend your money at home. It will make better merchu.its of your merchants; they can and will keep better assortments and sell at lower rates than if the only business they can do is what is credited out, while the money goes to other places. 0th. Spend your money at home. You may have sons growing up who will some day be the best merchants in town. Help lay the foundations of "them now. It is your duty. It may be your pride iu after years to say: "By my trading at the store I got my son a position as clerk, end now he is a proprietor." Then you will think it hard if your neighbors spend thjeir money out of town. Set tho example now. 7th. Spend your money at home. Set the example now. "Buy your dry-goods, groceries, meats "and everything at home, and you will see a wonderful change in a short time in the business outlook of the place; therefore deal with j our home merchants. 8th. Spend your money at home. What do you gain by going off? Count the cost; see what you could have done at home by letting your merchant have the cash. Strike a balance and see if you would not have been just as well off, besides helping your merchant. Dth. Spend your money at home. Your merchants are your neigbors, your friends; thev- stand by you in sickness, are your associates; with out your trade fhey cannot keep your business. No stores, then no banks, no one wanting to buy prop erty to settle on and build up your place. 10th. Merchants should do their advertising at home. They should get their bill-heads, circulars, cards, letter-heads, envelopes and all their printing at home, of their own news paper, who aid them in many ways, and advertise them hundreds of times without any pay whatever. Merchants should set an example to their customers by patronizing lib erally their home newspapers. Men and women aro imitative ' animals and are prone to follow examples set them. IIow can merchants expect their neighbors to trade with them if they set tho example of going away from home for their printing and advertising? Let merchants and people all patronize home enter- I prise, and home industry and home trade. So shall they all be prosper ous and happy. The Newest Boston Notion. The newest Boston notion is Mr. Benjamin F. Butler's. Having been inquired of 13T a newspaper reporter as to his "views on nuance," Mr. Butler replied that lie should take no part in politics this autumn in formation which is very satisfactory if it is trustworthy but that he was in favor of paper currency for three reasons. The first and third are fa miliar and need not be repeated, but the second is worth reproducing: "Because it costs nothing, and if a man lose a twenty -live cent scrip he alone is the loser, whereas if it be gold, the government loses also." Mark here, in tlie first place the essential knavery of the inflationists. If tho "scrip'"' is lost the govern ment is relieved from the obligation to pay. That is to say that the gov ernment saves twenty-live cents by a trick of fortune by tlie misfortune of its creditor who loses the evidence of indebtedness. Mr. Butler seems to rejoice in this petty avoidance of a debt as hearty as the idllationists delight in repudiation on a larger siale. But how does the govern ment lose if the gold coin is lost.9 What interest has the government in it when it lias gone out of its posses sion? Having disbursed a $10 piece and received a valuable considera tion for it, whether in naval stores or or army supplies or Mr. Butler's services iu Congress, it is a matter of indifference to the government what becomes of the piece. It is as likely to go back into the federal Treasury after its loss as before. Even if it should be melted up, the bullion may find its way to the Mint, to bo coined at certain charges. The government has no vested interest in the coin after parting with it. Con tingent interest, in tho shape of a mint commission, is not hurt by the loss of the coin in private hands. Mr. Butler's notion of loss and sav ing to the government is as vague as his instinct for the evading of a just government debt by the destruction of its evidence is dishonest. iV. V rost. A PrN.-"Grant's Relative Strength as a Candidate," is the unintentional but excellent heading of an article in the St. Louis Times. The Moral diameter of Early American Settlers. Dr. T.D. Woolsey in Harper's Magazine. We are not disposed, on the score of race, to claim a superiority for the Anglo-Saxons over tho inhabitants of other parts of Europe; nor cau we believe that if there had been no Normal conquest, no . check in the kings by the nobles, no parliaments, no opposition to appal interference by statutes of pra:miinire and against provisors,noProtestantReformation, the English race would have course -developed itself by its inherent ener gies into something great and good. It was in fact owing to national de cline that AVilliams of Normandy succeeded in his conquest of Saxon England. But we rejoice that tho first colonies were composed chiefly of Englishmen, because they brought with them the habits aud traditions of a land "Where freedom broadensslowly down From precedent to precedent." It was not in England, as on the con tinent, that the towns needed to con spire with the kings against an op pressive nobility, or that the nobility gained privileges exclusively for their own order, leaving the others to take care of themselves, but the Magna Charta and all the securities of free dom that followed it were for the benefit of all. We have also great reason to be thankful for the average character of the early colonists. M. Gnizot, in speaking of the English and French revolutions, contrasts them in this respect: that the English occurred in a religious ago among a religious people, while the French broke out in an age when the human mind doubted, or denied with extreme boldness, everything that had been settled before. The first colonies belonged to that religious age, and though it would not be true to say that religious liberty was the only motive of even the Puritan colonists, yet it was a very strong motive, anil it furnished the best conditions for the rise of a God-fearing and liberty loving nation. For they who planted first of all the church, and the school by its side, who within a few years founded a college, as a pattern for all that should afterward arise, might indeed be narrow in some of their views and practices, but they were the best possible pioneers of a com ing host of freemen. So, also, the Quaker settlements were dictated by the desire to emov their religion in peace, away from the oppressive laws ot Jmgland and of its colonics; their leaders were among the best men of The Catholics of Maryland founded their colony for the sake of religious freedom. The Dutch of New Neth erlands did not indeed emigrate for this purpose; but they belonged to a noble race, in whose memories tlie times of William the Silent were still fresh, and their settlements at the end of his son Maurice's life were favored by the more liberal of the two political parties. The more southern colonies did not, it is true, have motives in their emigrations much beyond the ordinary ones that lead people away from their homes. Some, moreover, who joined them at an early time added anything but character and strength; yet the chiv alrous spirit and the attachment to English institutions which animated the best of the settlers in that quar ter were to become valuable elements in the formation of tho national char acter. Besides the elapses of colonists just mentioned, two others deserve to be spoken of, although, on account of their small number and the later date of their emigration, they contributed comparatively little to tho qualities which mark tlie American people. One of these were the Huguenots, who came in tlie greatest numbers soon after the revolution of the Edict of Nantes, and who, making small settlements in New York, Massachu setts, Virginia and South Carolina, have given to the country a number of honorable and important families. Larger and more compact settlements were made by the Scotch-Irish Pres byterians of Ulster, in New Hamp shire, Western Pennsylvani t and North Carolinia a class of inhabit ants of whom their descendants have a right to be proud. t The Cukrenoy axl Taiuff. The Niles Democrat says: While our currency is unstapfe, and while our tariff' laws are so abominable, we can never hope to be more than we are at present a second rate commer cial nation; but if 187G might see the inauguration of sane' legislation on the subjects, then we would as sume our proper position as a first rate power, and no more would Bri tannia rule the wave. Joke on Welleb.-The death of ex-Governor Weller, of California, revives this anecdote of him: Wel ler was once unfortunate enough to be caught in a shipwreck. Arriving at San Francisco, he was asked bv a sympathetic friend if he had Tost much. "Lost everything, sir' said Weller, "everything but my reputa tion." "Governor," said the friend, "you travel with less baggage than any one I ever saw." The St. Joe Herald would publis'.i the young lady's poem if it could possibly make "rhinoceros" rhvme with "Queen Elizabeth," or "gazelle" with "washing-machine;" but it can not not even "by the wildest pro cess of versification." "My son, xmt away that ball. Do you know where the wicked boys go who play base ball on Sunday?" "Yes'm; they go down by the Fair Grounds." The Pacific slope may be all right enough, but it doesn't pay to place too much trust in the California Banks. The Domestic Tootbv.ieli in Dan- 3 v The following keen piece of sar casm is clipped from the columns of the New York Evening Post: Persons who remember th earn est appeal to Congress which was made by a North Carolina member a few years ago in behalf of protection for American peaunts.and who recall the more recent strain of f-loquenco which was rung from -the member from Saratoga, when he ros.; to de mand the assistance of the general government in restraining to their foreign founts the minerl waters which, bottled by the hirelings of Europe come in competition with the laxative current of his own spring, will unite with us in demanding tho most earnest attention of the gov ernment to an insidious attempt which is now goiug on to drive out of existence another brunch of Amer ican industry. We refer to the wooden toothpick. We do not wish to let our feelings to carry us too far, out wo think that the United States can even claim the notion of a wooden toothpick as peculiarly their own. It is associated so directly with the clippings of "Brother Jon athan's" jackknife, is marked so dis tinctly with the American character istics of economy and convenience, that it seems safe to catalogue it among those great original gifts for which? the rest of tho world owe this country its thanks. Natu rally, then, wo cannot rest quiet when we see a foreign nution not only stealing this invention, but with uuequuled audacity seeking to make us pay lor it. The facts of the case are simply these: A Boston firm has imported more than a million of woodon tooth picks from Japan; they are adver tised in the Boston new spupoi s, and there seems to be a determined ef fort to make the use at them a re qnsite to an entrance into Boston socict3 Now. a toothpick is of it self a small object. But consider. The population t-f the United States is, in round numbers, forty millions. Of this numbe r it is fair to suppose tuar, excluding lniunis ana inuiaus, twenty millions pick their teeth. In addition, every grown person has thirty-two teeth, and each sot of teeth ought to be picked after each of three daily meals; from which it appears that a total i f 1J20,000.000 toothpicks are requiied to supply tho daily demand in the United States. These statistics prepare us to appreciate the impending danger. Is the American lumber interest, we ask. to be stiiled and unroofed? Aro the primeval forests to bo permitted to drive back our civiizution into the ocean, and once more to cover our rich fields? Shall we not rather Jet the food produced from our tilled fields bo the means of making tho splinters of our forests useful? To effect this Congress must act at its approaching session without delay. The business will require a states manlike consideration, but we trust that among the new members somo champion of the American toothpick will be found. What the nation de mands is a protective tariff" on every lorm of the toothpick. It will bo possible, by the exercise of a littlo ingenuity, not more than to double the. price of the imjiorfed articles, but to arrange so complex a system of customs duties that all the for eign toothpicks shall be seized for irregularities in the invoices. This will make the protection of the Amer ican articles perfect. An Anecdote of Jcees Janin. Nevertheless, he had a keen eve to his own interest, as the following story will show. When quite a young man a certain neighbor of his owed him fifty francs. One day when he went to usk for it he found his debtor in great trouble. "I can not pay you," groaned the man. "I have no money; I r.m ruined; in a few hours my landlord will distrain for his rent, and carry away all I possess in tlie world." Jule's face fell for his finances were very low just then. Suddenly an idea struck him. "You have some very excel lent wine in your cellar, you told mo the other day; let me have that and I will give you an acquittance for the fifty francs." "Impossible tho porter w ill not let it puss out." "I will take my chance of that if you will agree to my proposition." The debtor did agree, and the receipt was signed. An hour afterwards a man in a workman's dress, with his hat slouched over Ids eyes, appeared at the door with two wine baskets filled with bottles. "I have conic to change some wine that was sent in to Monsieur " (mentioning tho debtor's name) the other day by mis take," he says in a gruff voice. Tho porter, innocent and unsuspecting, shows the way to tlie cellar; the man deposits the bottles he has .brought, takes away those he finds there, and goes on his way rejoicing. Tlie man was Jules .Tallin, and tho bottles he left were filled with very excellent water! Disloyal Talh. As the crowd of darkey spectators filed out cf the Atlanta City Court, and watched the file of sentenced negroes mirching off to the chain-gang, an old negro remarked: "It's a gittin' mighty bindin' on de niggers dese days!" "Yus!" said a sassy saddle-lined fellow; "an' it's got to be stopped somewhere purty soon, 'lease i'm tell in' yer dis sort o' ting is a bustin up de 'publicen party mighty fas'! Don t yer see dere's more niggers in de chain-gang now dan dere used to wuz in de unium league!' Several of the unchained voters solemnly shook their heads and chimed in chorus: "Dat's testament talk!"