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Rip Slam's 3Iisfortunes.
Who Kindled tlie Great Fireat Baker1
Uulrh!
My name is Slam Rupert Slam,
but out our way the boys, with a
natural turn to be vulgar, call me
Hip Slam. I am a Virginian by birt h ,
a printer by education, an editor by
destiny, and I conduct the Baker's
Gulch Reveille in connection with
which I have lately earned some un
deserved notoriety, having been com
pelled to shoot Mr. Lapp, the rival
editor at Baker's Gulch, who had
charge of a villainous compound of
libel and pretenses., stylH O'.e Moun
tain Duru. "Lapp is dead, and it is
true I shot him, but that the deed
could have been avoided I deny, and
I equally deny that it was a culpable
deed iu itself. On the contrary, I
shall assert, to my dying day, that it
was a deed done in behalf of good
morals, and this assertion I will
maintain with any arms the contro
verting party may choose to select.
The BAker's Gulch Iltreiile is pub
lished every Wednesday; the Moun
tain Dmcn comes out every Saturday.
We thus divided the week and the
patronage between us, and I was
content to have it so; but Lapp was
not. He wanted all the subscribers
and all the advertisements, aud he
wanted also to be Clerk of tlie Coun
ty Court. The result was that, in
stead of being Damons andPythiases,
Mr. Lapp and myself became rivals.
I conducted my share of ti;e contro
versy upon the most honorable, high
toned principles. It is not impugn
ing to tlie memory of the deceased
to sav that Mr. Lapp conducted his
part of the rivalry like a lish-huek-
ster.
I was and am a btchelor. I board
ed at the hotel, but I slept over the
ollice of the Rereil, where a small
iron bedstead, a bull'alo robe, some
chairs, a spittoon, and tlie liles of
the AVr comprised niy small fur
niture. Toe night before the last
great lire which consumed Baker's
Gulch, there was a poker party met
in my apartment aforesaid. A barrel
and two shutters were in tins habit of
serving us for table, so that it became
a saying with the 3aker's Gulehers,
"Slam's shutters are off," meaning
that a game of some sort was in pro
gress. U.i tins occasion there were
six of us in the partv, aud seven or
eight spectators, most of whom would
have liked to piav, but were prevent
ed lv impecuniositv. Of tlie plavers.
I only remember Capt. 1'ristow, of
our Ktamping-miil : liube lioluns.
Mr. L-ipp, and myself. We were
playing a rather lively game ot t lit?
2-cent-ante species, with a good deal
of blinding and straddiiug. Laim.
who had a pnpensity to hold good
hands on opportune occasions, some
how had all the luck in calling ne
when T was most unwilling to be
called, oeeause i naa nothing worth
showing. On this night 1 speak of ,
Lapp's luck was perfectly astound
ing,, and lie won from everybody.
Mr. Rollins was in a bad humor, and
I, tilled with the insane desire toget
back my earnings. Lapp, I i.eed
not say, never lost his composure,
nor ever showed more life, more lire,
than you will find in an oyster or a
cucumber. He dealt the cards with
his usual clumsy composure, and
looked after the antes and chips with
the assiduity of a nurse minding in
fants by the margin of a duck-pond.
'Gentlemen," he said, "as I am win
ning to-night, I think I can afford to
treat." So he kicked no Cant. Tris-
tow's nigger, asleep on the floor, and
sent him over to the hotel to get us a
couple of bottles of wine. When it
came, I held a pair of knaves on the
deal. I drew three cards, and found
myself in possession of another jack
and two aces a delightfully full
hand. It took me $2 to come in,
and, as I was just then without chips.
I borrowed from Fristow, who was
slumbering again. Mr. Rollins pass
ed out, and Air. Lapp immediately
saw the pile on tlie table and bet S10
I saw his $10 and went him $2o bet
ter. "See here," said he, in his im
pertinent way. "I m vour friend.
I don't want to win your money I
have cot a good hand, and, if you'll
just call on me. it's all right I'll
show it!" "Mr. Lapp!" I shouted,
"you are a beggarly scoundrel, un
fit to play cards with gentlemen! Do
you see my cards, or do yon surren
der ?" "No, I don't .see it!" he sneer
ed. "How can I see it when it is
not put upon the table? Put up
your money, and 1 II talk to von
'You know that my word is good for
ii, said l. "if you win from me,
you shall have the money to-morrow
auer ureaktast." "Bip Slam," said
the mean-spirited cuss; "let's talk
business. I know you have no mon
ey to lose, and you know I know it
vr, uu .uuticrs a nie ot your
Fiper irom i ne start. 1 want it. I
Know yon have another tile on oVnosit
in the Express Company's fire-proof
1 safe. T irii-a iitrn .i v.i
7 , - bi,juu jiw ior tne nie
nere s tne money but if you'll take
my advice, you'll not bet against my
hand, for it'll win!" I sold him the
nie ana made mv bet trood. TTa
my bet and raised it just enough to
take all my money price of the
Reveille file minus the cost of a
cocktail or so in the morning, and
men, preliminaries .settled, he show
ed me his hand-four queens-by
jingo! every one simnered at me.
and cutting sheep's eyes at the ace
in tne oornor.
Lapp rose. "Gentlemen," said he,
"day is not very far off, and there's
nothing more to drink here. My
brother Slam goes to press in the
morning, and has copy to prepare; I
will therefore take my leaves and my
file of the Reveille " And so, with a
diabolical grin, he departed. His
boy took Capt. Fristow off to bed,
and when the Hereille foreman came
to go to work in the morning I rose,
escorted JIr. Rollins to my humble
couch, covered him Avith the buffalo
robe, and, after giving the foreman j
an order to go down to the express
office for my file there locked up, I
and to fix up an editorial for the pa- I
per, I went off to breakfast. j
At the breakfast-table I fonnd my
delightful old friend, Col. Debonair, i
and a "Mr. Choppa, an English I
traveler, to whom the Colonel intro
duced me. After breakfast we ad
journed to the Colonel's room, and,
by sending for James Addison, Esq.,
were able to make up one of the most
charming whist parties I ever took
a hand with. At 1 o'clock p. m.,
with honors easy and Addison sure
of two by cards to make up the
game our seventh successive rub
ber won and seven empty bottles
under the table, we were startled by
the cry of "Fire!" I sprang to the
window, only to see the office and
building of the .Reveille in a bright
blaze, and Rube Rollins springing
from the second-story window, minus
his hair and lap-robe beard. The'
great tire at Baker's Gulch had be
gun! Two days later, when the fire was
extinguished, but while the ruins
still smoked, I first heard the rumor
that it was I, Rupert Slam, who had
caused this disastrous and over
whelming conflagration. I horse
whipped several persons, but still
the rumor spread, and I was too
busy in re-establishing the office and
restoring the edition of the Reveille
to take more summary means to
check it, or to trace it to its source.
But on the Saturday week succeed
ing the fire this infernal Lapp, in
tho issue of his Jlounfttin Dmcn,
came out with an editorial, double
leaded, upon the subject of "Who Is
the Author of the Late Conflagra
tion?" . In that atrocious article he
savs:
Fellow citizens, wo ask you to
consider where this fire originated;
to reflect what was the debauched
aud desperate condition of the pro
prietor of that establishment at the
time. We happen to be the owners
of a file of that creature's miserable
sheet, and, in an article so long ago
is last December twelve months.
find the following: "Baker's Gulch
is a blot and stigma upon the fair
face of nature upon the throbbing
bosom of humanity. Baker's Gulch
must burn again, in order to be re
formed, Nothing but a complete
I iphometic r ire-Baptism will suffice
to purge away tlie hideous iniquities
of Baker's Gulch."
s soon as I saw this copy of the
Ihtictt, 1 took a friend with me and
proceeded to Lapp's office. I ex
plained my mission.
Mr. Slam, he replied, "I hae a
mission also, and that is to find out
and publish the author of this con
flagration which has ruined this
whole community. I gave you
name and date for tlie article. Prove
that yon never wrote it?'' "How
can 1 prove it except iy asserting
You had one of, my files; tiie other
was burnt in the lire. Produce the
file aud show me the article. If you
can do that I will acknowledge that
I burned Baker's Gulch." ."I can
not do that, Mr. Slam, for, as you
know quite well, my file of the
Reveille as well as yours, was burned
in the great contiagation. jut, in
this volume, I have happily collect
ed a mass of 'elegant extracts,' from
the editorial columns of your paper
during the past three years, and
mean to publish them every one."
"Let me see the volume, Mr. Lapp."
I took it, glanced over a page or two
of its infamous contents, stood a
moment actually appalled at 'such
devilish machination as I saw there
revealed, and then said: "Publish
another word of these lies at your
peril, Mr. Lapp!"
It was charged that I had saturated
ru' bed-room with kerosene and put
a slow match to it. Rube Rollins.
whom I left asleep on my bed, when
questioned, admitted that he smelt
kerosene very strongly at the mo
ment of his escape. My foreman
told me that Lapp had visited the
room after I left for breafast, under
pretense of searching for a shirt
stud of Jiis, lost between the punch
eons of 'the floor. Laip, then, Avas
there, and he is uot too good to make
a bonfire of a whole city in order to
accomplish his ends and destroy his
enemy. In the very next' issue of
his paper he published another
double-leaded article, entitled, "Ru
pert Slam's Editorial, continued."
In this murderous libel he quoted
me as saying: "Unless the mean
scalawags and mudsills of Baker's
Gulch are Avilling to come forAvard
at once and giAe this paper (the
Reveille) the support and patronage
it deser-es, let them prepare for
tears tears that will scald them to
the quick. Let them insure, for the
fire-bug is amongst them, and his
operations Avill be guided by desper
ate hands."
For this article I challenged Mr.
Lapp. He refused to fight, and came
out with another pretended editorial
of mine, in which tlie respected com
munity of Baker's Gulch was abom
inably libeled. For this article I
horsewhipped Mr. Lapp.
The Dext issue of the Mountain
Daim contained an article in which,
amongst other atrocities, I was re
presented as haA'ing editorially said:
"Nothing but a vigorous and persis
tent Ku-KIuxiug can restore this
community to its normal health.
The rope, the whip, and the torch are
needed to save Baker's Gulch from
dying of its own corruptions. " For
this article I kicked Mr. Lapp the
entire length of Main street, and
tossed him into Capt. Fristown's
tailrace.
A day or tAvo later, by a piece of
good fortune, a mountaineer came
into town, and to my offiee, with two
bales of paper strapped over the back
of a mule. "See her, mister," said
he" "that there Lapp's. a Ioav-Ioavh
cuss; lies been ieuig ties on you
1 1 examined his parcel, and to my
surprise and joy, found a complete J
edition of the Reveille, from the first
number down. "What will you
charge me for these? I., must have
them at any price." "Not a nickel,
stranger,"said the true hearted fellow;
I go in for fair play, so I Av'ant to see
you tackle that there Lapp aud give
the low cuss particular fits. He" de
serves it."
But the very next number of the
Mountain Datcn contained the follow
ing : "We are credibly informed
that Slam, in order to befog public
opiuion, has sent across the moun
taicsand has a whole spurious edition
of his incendiary sheet published,
with the objectionable articles .care
fully eliminated. But "it won't work,
Brother Slaru. We have the evidence
against you! FelloAV -citizens, read
the following from Slam's issue of
August 2'J, 18 ." And he Avent on
for half a column Avith a string of the
most iniquitous lies every' invented
for man by the father of lies him
self. I found myself encountering so
many cold and dark looks about this
time that I thought it proper to con
sult my friends, and they advised
me to challenge Lapp to meet me at
a townmeeting. Tlie meeting Avas
called, and ill, the manhood and
intellect of Baker's Gulch assembled
there. I appeared with my files, and
Lapp Avas present Avith his damnable
volume of calumnious forgery. The
mountaineer was also present in the
audience, but, though I did not know
it then, he avus drunk, suborned and
soddened Avith the enemy's own
whisky. I made my statement in
extenso, and I am convinced that my
frank and genuine eloquence made a
powerful impression upon the Baker's
Gulehers. Jnt Avhen I called on
that mountaineer to corroborate me,
lie rose, Avith an abominable drunken
leer, aud said: "It's all a d d lie!
Yon hired me to fetch that bundle of
papers over from Mnshmillionville,
an' I done it! In the midst of the
ensuing murmurs, Lapp rose and
cried out: "I move you the follow
ing fellow-citizens:
Wueiie.vs, Rupert Slam has been
proven an enemy to this community ,
dangerous to its peace ami dignity,
an incendiary and a fire-bug: there
fore, be it.
Resolved, That the said Rupert
Slam be allowed thirty-six hours for
himself and press to remove perma
nently from Baker's Gulch and vicin
itv. The resolution and preamble were
carried unanimously.
After the meeting 1 went once
more to see Lapp, and told him that
I would surely kill him unless he
retracted all his lies about me. His
sole answer was to read tne part of
an unfinished editorial oi his for tin
next Mountain D.nm. in which it wa.
recommended to donblelockall build
ings and appoint a patrol for every
street, "until the convicted fire-bug
-" "Are a on determined to pub
lish that, Lapp?" asked I. lit
grinned in his offensive way and Avent
on writing. "If you don't defend
yourself, I'll kill von as you sit."
said I, drawing. "I am defending
myself," he answered, pointing his
pen at me. I fired; the ruffian fell;
I Avalked out of the olhce. and here
I am.
I am told that 'Lapp, after I left
the office, rose, Aviped the blood from
his forehead and eves, sat a this desk
and wrote as follows: "We are not
able to finish this article to-day
The fire-bug has visited our office
and justified his name by firing upon
us Avith his usual success." He then
yielded himself up to the surgeon's
hands and died in two hours, perfect
ly conscious to the last.butabsolutely
declining to proclaim my innocence
N. Y. World.
How He Taught Financiering.
Not long since two York men visit
ed Kansas. They stopped at a hotel
one loreuoon, ami alter dinner one
of them Avalked down to the barber's
shop to get shaved. Ihe shop was
shut, the barber having gone off to
take his after-dinner nap. Then the
York man Avalked back to his land
lord, and said: "With your magnifi
cent cpnntry, which is the garden of
the Avorld, you ought to be the most
prosperous people on earth, lou
don't look out for coppers. Here's
your barber now shut up and gone,
when he might have earned ten cents
by shaving me. Now he don't get it,
for I'm going to share myself, and
save my ten cents. 1 have a razor in
my valise, and if you will show me a
mirror, I will shave myself. Ihe
landlord said tho barber Avas a shift
less cuss, who, like most western
men, couldn't compare with Pennsyl-
vanians for attention to business, and
patience in scooping the dimes; but
he hoped they would all imorove in
time, and then he showed our friend
into a room Avhere he found a good-
sized mirror, and shaved himself
Soon after he joined his companion
and congratulated himself on the
success he had had in saving ten
cents and teaching Western men
financiering. After tea the pair paid
their bills and went to the depot to
take the train. On their way the
man who hadn't shaved said: "Pretty
reasonable house, that; only one dol
lar for dinner and supper." "Only
a dollar!" said the other, "avIiv I paid
a dollar and a half!" and a little fur
ther explanation showed that he had
been charged DO per cent, more than
his companion: So back he Avent,
and demanded of the landlord an ex
planation, and got it in these words:
"The fifty cents extra is for the use
of a room. You don't suppose Ave
can have our rooms turned into bar-
I ber shops for nothing, do you?" And
the man who shaved himself went to
the depot a Aviser if not better man.
He don't brag much of his adventure
since his return to York, aud it will
be some time before he attempts to
give another Western man a lesson.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE. 0
Washington, Jan. 2G. Allison
called up the House bill transferring
the custody of certain Indian trust
funds from the Secretary ofthe In
terior to the Treasury of the United
States; passed.
Howe, from the judiciary commit
tee reported favorably on the House
bill to amend the revised statutes of
the United States relating to
natuj
ralization; passed. ?
West submitted a resolution re
questing the Secretary of the Treas
ury to submit to the Senate copies of
any proposition made .by the Pacific
Railroad Companies for the creation
of a sinking fund, for the redemp
tion of the Government mortgages,
together with a statement of the ac
tion of the Government thereon, and
of the reason therefor.
The morning hour having expired,
the chair laid before the Senate the
unfinished business, being the bill
to confirm pre-emption and home
stead entries of public lands Avithin
the "limits of railroad grants, in
cases where the entries had been
made under the regulations of the
land department. 0
This was discussed by Christiancy,
Bogy, Frelingliysen, Sherman, Mor
rill, Boutwell, Harvey, Sargent,
McMillan, Ingalls, Morton, Wright
and Hitchcock. The motion of
Christianev to refer the bill to the
judiciary committee Avas rejected.
Ihe House bill relating to the
centennial celebration Avas referred
to the committee on appropriations.
Jan. 27. Windham 2resented a
petition from Minnesota citizens ask
ing an appropriation for tlie im
provement of Red River.
Boutwell presented a report pre
pared by the chief clerk of the Treas
ury Department, and submitted to
tlie Secretary in December, 1S72, in
regard to erroneous practices in ac
counting in tho treasury, Avhich have
grown up in usage, or have been
authorized by law.
The morning hour having expired,
the chair laid before the Striate the
unfinished business, being the bill
to confirm pre-emption and home
stead entries of public lands within
the limits of railroad grants, in
cases where such entries had been
made under regulations of the land
department.
Several amendments were intro
duced and rejected. The question
being on the passage of the bill the
yeas and nays were ordered, ard it
was passed. Yeas If, nays 1. The
bill as passed is as follows:
He it cna tcl f ihe Semde rmrf
I To use of Representative assenhled.
That all pre-emption and homestead
entries, or entries in compliance
with any law of the United States, of
public lands, made in good faith by
actual settlers upon a tra -t of land of
not more than 100 acres each, Avithin
the limits of any land grant, prior to
tne time when notice of the with
drawal of the lands embraced in such
grant was received at ihe local land,
office of the district in which such
lands are situated, or after their res
toration io market by order of the
general land ollice, and where the
pre-emption and homestead laws
have been complied Avith and the
proper proofs thereof have been made
by parties holding such tracts or
parcels, they shall be confirmed and
patents for the same shall issue to
the parties entitled thereto. That
when, at the time of such with
drawal as aforesaid, a valid pre-emption
or homestead claim, existed up
on any lands w ithin the limits of such
grants, which afterward were aban
doned and under the decisions and
rulings of the land department Avrre
re-entered by pre-emption, or home
stead claimants who have complied
with the laws governing pre-emption
or homestead entries, or shall make
the proper proofs required under
laws, such entries shall be deemed
valid and patents shall issue therefor
to the persons entitled thereto.
That alt s ich pre-emption and home
stead entries which may have been
made by permission of the land de
partment within fhe limits of any
land grant at a time subsequent to
the expiration of such grant, shall
be deemed valid and a compliance
with the laws and the making of the
proof required shall entitle the
holder of such claim to patents
therefor.
Jan. 23. Hitchcock presented a
memorial asking that New Mexico
be admitted as a State; referred.
Logan introduced a bill to estab
lish a mint at Chicago; referred.
Booth asked for a breakwater at
San Louis Ohispo, Cal.; referred.
9 HOUSE.
Jan. 26. Clark, from the commit
tee on postoffices and post roads,
called up the bill regulating postage
on 3d class mail matter. It pro
vides that all mailable matter of the
31 class, referred to in sections 3,S78
and 3,911 of the revised statutes
may weigh not exceeding four
pounds for each package, and that
the postage thereon shall be one
cent for every two ounces or fraction
thereof. Clark explained that this
bill proposed to repeat the law
passed in the last hours of the last
session in form of an amendment in
serted obscurely in the sundry civil
appropriations bill, with evident in
tention of misleading the House;
i : i . i
mui law increased me postage oil
3d class mail matter fiom 1 cent per
2 ounces to 1 cent perunce or from
8 cents to 16 cents per pound. This
bill proposed to reinstate the post
age on 3d class matter as it Avas be
fore, to 1 cent for 2 ounces.
This bill was discussed by Cannon,
Garfield, Randall, .Clark and Law
rence. The bill then passed Avithout
division.
The House then went into com-
! mittee of the whole, Haskins in the
chair, on the military academy ap- j
propriatiou bill, which appropriates
231,241, and Avas addressed by Hale,
Hamilton and Hurlburt. Without
action on the bill the House ad
journed. Jan. 27. Cannon, from the com
mittee on postofiiees and post roads,
reported a bill to amend the sections
providing penalties for sending ob
scei e matter through the mails.
Laid on table.
The House went into committee of
the whole, Haskins in tlie chair, on
the military academy appropriation
bill. Banning, ' Randall, Holman,
Danford and Wilson spoke but
the House adjourned without action
on the bill.
Jan. 28. The Speaker announced
it . 11 ...
i ne ioi lowing select committee on
real estate pool and Jay Cook in
debtedness: Glover, New, Lewis,
Pratt and Smith, of Pennsylvania.
Elkins, of New Mexico, "presented
a memorial of the territorial legisla
ture for an enabling act and the ad
mission of New Mexico as a State;
referred.
Goodwin asked leave to offer a
resolution declaring that the people
of the United States constitute a na
tion to the extent and for the pur
poses defined in the Federal Consti
tution; that rights and powers of
the United States Government are
defined and limited by the Federal
Constitution, and cannot be enlarged
or diminished, except by amendments
to the Constitution, etc.
Hamilton, and others, objected.
On motion of Whitthorn, chair
man of the committee on naval,, af
fairs, u eselect committee consisting
of Whitthorn, Willis and Danford
was authorized to take testimony at
Norfolk in regard to the alleged
abuses and frauds at that navy yard.
Springer introduced a bill to pro
hibit American citizens from holding
slaves in foreign countries, and to
regulate elections in Utah Territory.
Iluntoon, from the committee on
Revolutionary pensions, reported a
bill to amend the act of the 14th
Februaiy, 1871, pensioning soldiers
of the war of 1812, and to restore to
the pension rolls those persons whose
names were stricken therefrom in
consequence of disloyalty. He
moved to have the bill put upon its
passage.
Tl.e House then went into commit
tee of the Avhole, Haskins in the
chair, on the Military Academy ap
propriation bill.
There was considerable debate on
an amendment of Hamilton's to strike
out the words "at ?4o0 each, in ad
dition to rations," and submitting
the words "at $540." Agreed to.
The bill was not discussed. A com
mittee was appointed to superintend
II. H. StarliAveather's funeral.
A Fine Art Experience.
Into one of the large jeAvelry and
fancy goods stores at Boston walked,
the other day, one of those customers
that the holiday season sometimes
brings to town. He was a hard-handed,
loose-jointed, broad-shouldered
individual, carefully dressed in a
new suit of baggy, ready-made
clothes, a home-laundried shirt, and
a hat which, although perfectly new,
Avas three seasons behind the present
fashion.
Sauntering up to one of the sales
men, with a very obvious attempt at
being at home anions the glittering
splendor of the salesroom, and a
general air of "Not to be astonished
or done by you Boston fellers," he in
quired. "Got any brunzes?"
The clerk answered in the affirma
tive, and led the way to a bewiler
ing stock of bronze statuettes, clocks,
etc. The visitor stared at them for
a moment as an interior African
might have at the first Avhite man he
had ever seen, and then, setting his
hat a little more firmly on his head,
asked.
"Which o' them figgers rnout be
the Venus of high low?"
The trained salesman, with placid
countenance, quietly replied:
"I do not remember any by that
title; are you sure that was the
name?"
The patron of
a large yellow
the fine arts drew
silk handkerchief
from his hot, and,
uneasil', said:
moj'ping his face
"It mount ha' been ace high, but
I think it was high low; Mariar sed
that ef I tho'tof seven-up I shouldn't
forget the name. The fact is," said
the puzzled purchaser, Avith a sudden
burst of confidence, "the fact is.
Cap, I hev just put up a neAvtenment
down to South Higginsboro', and
Maria 'lowed she'd like a brunze in
the keepin' room, suthin' like Avhat
she seed once in ensin Sam Stiffner's
parlor on Beacon street. Cousin Sam
he writ the name on a card, in praps
I've got it noAv;" and, diving into
his breast poket as if he Avas to un
sheath a two-handed sword, he
lugged out a long pocket book, from
the depths of which he plucked a
card and handed it to the salesman.
" Ah!" said the latter' "the venus
of Milo. Yes sir, here is a fine copy,
a reproduction by, Barbidienue:',
The customer surveyed it earnestly
for a moment, and then said:
"Yejiaint got a perfect one, hev
ye, Cap? This 'ere one has lost both
her arms and got dents all doAvn here
back."
The patient salesmau explained
that the statuette was a copy of the
original that Avas found in that condi
tion. "Shoh!" commented the other,
and then hesitatingly, "don't any
of them haA-e any more close 'n that!
This 'ere one's night gown 'pears to
have kind of slipped off on her."
Again the shopman, despite his
twitching muscles, explained to his
attentive listener thafeit Avas an imi
tation of an ancient statue. He,
hoAvever, cocking his bead on the
side' iuquired:
"Wall, now. what'II you tak far
herjess as she stands?" rapping his:
bony knuckles on the bronze, as if it
Avere a buzz saAV.
"One hundred and fifty dollars for'
that size," saidthe clerk.
"Wha-a-t!" almost shouted thtf
astonished Avonld-be patron of the'
arts; " a hundred 'n fifty dollars fur'
a brunze gal thout any arras, and
skearce a rag to her back! Venus
of My Low! Venus of Your High, I
should say. A hundred n fifty dol
lars! Why that's half the mortgage'
on brother Jim's farm. Guess Mariar
must thought mv name Avas Wilrfan-
B. Astor, instead of John Higgins;
and, fixing his hat a little firmer, she'
made a hastv exit from the store.
and struck a straight line for the'
Eastern Railroad station. Bostort
Commercial Dnllettn.
Tom Scoft, The Hnrglar.
The Career of a "Notorious Thief.
Phil.aijel.phia, Jan. 7. Thomas
Scott, the notoiious burglar, was1
arrested in this city on Dec. 20 on
charge of highway robbery, Avhich'
it was alleged he committed off" the'
10th of November. WUen he was
taken into court, a requisition was'
produced from the Governor of New
York, Scott being wanted in Uticar
to stand his trial for burglary. He;
was accordingly given in charge of
the NewrsYork'ofiicers, and was taker?
to Utica, Avhere, on the 10th of las
Angus , he vyith six companions'
broke into a house in the suburbs
and, Avhile heavily masked, ransacked
the house, having first liandcnffed
the only man about the place, and
driven the women and children into'
a cloak room. This afternoon h
Avas convicted in Utica, and was.
immediately sentenced to 18 years
in the Auburn prison. Three of
his comrades, Leary, Svreatman, and;
Lombard, on the testimony of Wmv
Conroy, Avho turned State's evidence,
were previonslj- convicted and were
sentenced to 18 years each. .
Scott first became conspicuoiiS lit
Philadelphia when some years ago
Lieut, Flaherty had to shoot him
through the lungs to capture him,
for transfer to Springfield, Ohio;
where he was wanted for the murder
ot tlie banker llertzler, whom it was
alleged he killed in the effort to gefc
at a supposed deposit of 8300,000;..
A woman held the horses at the door
while Scott and a pal entered and
shot the banker before the plarni
could be given Scott Avas alsoRa
principal in the Nathan murder. f
the confession of one of his comrades'
in this Utica job is to be believed.'
He broke jail from Joliet prison antl
went to Chicago to do a bank job,
and Avhen arrested his manner was
so Avinning and his tale so plausible
that tho injured bank President gav'
him a new suit of clothes and money"
to get onCthe, track of the fugitive'
robbers. HeAvas the leader of the'
party who did the Wilkesbarre Bank
joli some years ago iu company with'
George Ellis who has now given him
away at Utica, Walter Dunn, now
in the Eastern 2enitentiary for eleven
years, and Warren Emmanuel, and
Crocky Elliot, now serving out a
sixteen years termCin0Cherry Hill
for shooting Officer Murphy, one of
Mayor Fox's men. He Avas also
leader of the party who broke inter
Councilman George Hall's house
several years ago and robbed him
of tAvo thousand dolh.rs.
Scott boasts that there is xto State
in the Union that he has not touched.
He Avas well known in Ne w York, and
at one time consorted with ther
authorities there so much that it ia
one of his favorite boasts that he baa
helped to build 'several of the brown;
stone houses which rarf ujeso rapidly
under the TAVeed administration.
He is a man of about medium height.
heavily built, ;with a prepossessing
face until thebrow is reached. Thia
retreats so rapidly and piles itself up
so much at the back of the erahiun
that his bean is almost a deformity.
He has a heavy scar on his left cheeky
which many times led to his detec
tion. He dresses Avell, and is gen-
tlemanly-looking and 0of pleasing'
conversational powers. Although
only about 37 years old, he has been
tAArenty years a professional thief,
and bis many trials have given him
such familiarity with the technical
requirements of the laA? that he fre
quently covers his tracks so well
that he cannot be convicted.
An interesting historical relie has
been placed recently in the Museum
of theInvalids in Paris. It is the
armor which Charles VII presented
to the Maid of "Orleans, and which
the latter, after having befji' wounded
under the Avails of Paris, placed in
the Church of Saint Denis. It is
composed of plates of steel, weighs
oA'er fifty pounds, and is in all re
spects similar to that noAv in thec
collection of Pierreponps which
belonged to Joan of Arc at the mo
ment when she fell into the power
of the enemy at a Compiegne.
"What can yon say of the second
law of thought?" Student "It can
not both be and not be. (For exam
ple, the door over there must be
either shut or open. It can't be both
shut and open." Tutor "Give an
other illustration." Student "Well
take the case of another door.)
A man in New Hampshire had the
misfortune recently to lose his wife.
Over the grave he caused a stone to
be placed on which, in the depth of
his grief, he had ordered to be in
cn'iwi "TWrs enn not restore her
therefore I weep."o
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"So von wouldn't take me to be
twenty!" said a rich LeireFS to aa
Irish gentleman, while dancing the
polka. "What would you take, me
for, then ?" "For better or worse,
replied the son of the Emeraia
Isle. .
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