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DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF OREGON.
VOL. 10.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1876.
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SOCIETY NOTICES.
OKKGO.V LODGK NO. 3, 1. I. O. F.,
Meets ev
very Thursday win ;
oeveninirat74 o'clock, in the
Odd reiiows uau, .nam i.
street. Members or the ur
der aroinvited to attend. By order
N. G.
RCIIIX'CA.DEGREE LODGE NO.
2. I. O. O. P., Meets on the
tiecond and Fourth Tues
day evenmsrs each month,
Fellows 1 all. Members of the Degree
aro invueu to uuenu.
MULTNOMAH I.ODK NO. 1, A. 1A
& A. M.j Holds ita regular com
munications on the First and
Third Saturdays in each month,
at 7 o clocK ironi uie aim oi oep.
timber to the 20th of March; and 74
'clock from the 20th of March to tho
2dth of September. Brethren in good
standing are invited to attend.
IW order of A . M.
FALLS 12SCAMPMI3XT NO. 4,1. O.
O. F., Meets at Odd Fellows' q r$
Hall onthe First and Third Tues- JoX
dav of each month. Patriarchs r
in "good standing are invited to attend,
BUSIXKSS CARDS.
A. J. HOVER. M. I.
J. W. NORRIS, M. I
HOVKU NOTlTtlS,
PHYSICIANS .VNO SMtGEOXS,
VOfllce Hp-Stairs In Charman' Brick.
Mtin Street.
Ir. Hover's resldeneo Third street, at
feet of cliff stairway. tf
r n. ,t o i iint w l:lc 1 1
DENTIST,
TIST,
OKKICK IN' "UJLXiLJLJ
OK KG ON CITY, ORKCOX.
Kljheit ( ath Price Pulrt for County
Oriiiri.
HUELAT &. E ASTHANI,
ATTORN EYS-AT-L AW-
POI1TI.ANO la Opltz's new brick, 50
First street.
OIlEfcJON CITY Char man's lrick, up
stairs. sett24tf
JOHNSOfJ & fislcCOWN
ATTORNEYS AND tOLXSELORS AT-LAW.
Oregon City, Oregon.
yWill practice in all the Courts of the
ftitata. Special attention given to cases In
the U. 8. Land Office at Oregon -City.
Sapri872-tf. ,
Xi. T. BAR1N
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
OREGON CITY, : : OREGON.
VTUl practice In all the Courts of the
St&te. Nov. 1, 1875, tf
JTAIES 13. TJPTOIsr,
Attorney-at-LaMr,
o Oregon City.
Not. S. 1875 Af
IV. II. IIIGHFIELD.
Itataltllahed since 49, nt the old stand.
Main Strert, Orcgjon City, Oregon.
-Q An assortment of Wathes.Jewel
V7V ry.and Sth Thomas' Weight Clocks
ZT A all of which are warranted to be as
represented.
Upairlng done on short notice, and
thankful for past patronage.
JOHN M. lUCON,
IMPORTER ANDDEAIn
im Books, Stationery, lvrfun
J , ery, etc., etc.
j Oregon City, Oregou.
V.A.t the Post Offlce, Main stgoet, east
side.
TO FRUIT-GROWERS.
i nrmE aldex fruit preservixo
JL Company of Oregon City will pay the
HIGHEST MARKET PRICE
or PLVJIS, PEARS and APPLES.
Mr. Thos. Charman is authorized to pur
chase for the Company.
L. D. C. LATOURETTE,
President,
rriOS. UHARMAX. Secretary.
Oregon City, July 28, 1875 .-tf
MILLER, MARSHALL &C0.,
PAY THE HIGHEST PRICE FOR
WHEAT, at all times, at the
Oregon City Mills,
. :c And have on hand
.Ai FEED and FLOUR
t to sell, at market rates. Parties desiring
; t eed, must furnish saoks. novl2t.f
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CHAS. ICNIG-IIT,
CANBY, OREGON,
PHYSICIAN AND D R UJ GIST
n,Trirtlons ailed at shor
P ,Ce' Ja7 4f.
8PKAK NAE ILL. "
AUTHOR USKMOWJf.
Other people have their faults,
And so nave ye as well ;
But all ye chance to see or hear
Ye have no right to tell.
If've canna speak o' good, y
Take care, and see and feel, " ,
Earth has all too much o woe.
And not enough o' weal.
Be careful that ye make nae strife
With meddling tongue and brain.
For ve will find enough to do
If ye but look at name.
If ye canna speak o' good.
Oh I dinna speak at all;
For there Is grief and woe enough
On this terrestial ball.
If ye should feel like picking flaws,
Ye better go, 't would seem.
And read the book that tells ye all
About the mote and beam.
Dinna lend a ready ear
To gossip or to strife.
Or perhaps 't will make for ye
Iae funny thing of life.
Oh ! dinna add to other's woe,
Nor mock it with your mirth ;
But give ye kindly sympathy
To suffering ones of earth.
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.
Washington, April 2G. Aher the
expiration of the morning hour the
bill to establish an educational fund
and apply a portion of the proceeds
of public lands to public education
and provide for the more complete
endowment and snpport of national
colleges for the advancement of sci
entitle and industrial education was
called up and Booth spoke at great
length in support of the bill.
Sargent submitted a resolution di
recting the Secretary of the Treasury
to miorm the senate how many per
sons are now employed as revenue or
internal revenue agents, giving the
date of their respective appointments,
the rate of compensation and expense
Also to inform the Senate whether in
any cases special rewards have been
paid to or received by any of such
special agents; whether any, and if
so which of them, have been or are
under direction of any other person
than the Secretary of the Treasury
and not a subordinate of the Treas
ury Department, and if so, by virtue
of what statute or other authority;
agreed to.
Mitchell introduced a bill extend
ing the time for the completion of
the survey and location of the Port
land, Dalles and Salt Lake railroad;
referred to the committee on rail
roads. Adjourned.
April 27. The .galleries of the
Senate chamber were again crowded
to-day, two thirds of the audience
being ladies. At 2 p. m. the legisla
tive business was suspended and the
impeachment trial begun. Lord sub
mitted a motion that the evidence
relating to the question of jurisdic
tion of the Senate sitting as a court
of impeachment be given before the
arguments relating thereto are heard,
and if such plea is overruled, that
the defendant be required to answer
the articles of impeachment within
two days, and the House to reply, if
they deem it necessary, within two
days, and that the trial proceed the
next day after the joining of issue.
Carpenter, of counsel for accused,
moved that tho trial be postponed
until the first Monday of December
next, and asked that the time for the
discussion of this motion be fixed at
two hours for each side; request
granted 18 to 1G.
Blair addressed the Senate in favor
of the motion. He argued that it
was impossible for the Senate to do
justice to the great and important
question involved in this case, on ac
count of the advanced stage of the
session, and connsel had not time to
make investigations or for perfecting
themselves to argue this great ques
tion again. The House was even now
making investigations with a view of
presenting additional articles of im
peachment, and if any additional
charges were to be made, counsel
for the accused wanted them here.
He invited the closest scrutinty into
the official conduct of the accused.
He referred to his life and stated he
had won his way into the councils of
the nation on the field of battle. An
other reason why the Senate should
postpone the trial was that it con
nected itself directly with political
parties that were almost committed
to his destruction.
The Senate retired at 4 o'clock to
consult on the motion to postpone
the impeachment trial. At 4:30 the
Senators returned, and the president
pro tern, announced that the motion
of the counsel for the respondent for
a continuance of the trial until De
cember had been overruled.
The Senate sitting as a court ad
journed then at 4:40 and went into
executive session, and after a short
time the session reopened.
The conference committee's report
on the deficiency appropriation bill
as agreed to.
Mitchell called up the appropria
tion bill granting the right of way
through the public lands for a wagoJ
road over the Blue mountains, Ore
gon; passed.
Sargent introduced a V;il
courage and promote telegraphic
communication between Asia and the
5?,fi-CJ5 i hiob referred to
journed. UO U Commer
Ad-
HOUSE.
Washington, April 26. Speaker
appointed the following conference
committees: On deficiency bill
Wells Atkins and Hale; on consular
and diplomatio appropriation bill
Singleton, Randall and Waldron '
Gibson offered a resolution for the
appointment of the seleot committee
to make a thorough investigation into
the conduct and management of the
custom house and other Government
offices at New Orleans and suggest
necessary changes and reforms, with
555
power to sit at New Orleans and re
port at the present session of Con
gress; adopted. .
After progressing as far as rmrp.
fifty-nine, leaving only eight pages
to be disposed of, the committee
rose, and Wells, from the conference
committee on the deficiency bill
xuuue a repor tuat me Senate recede
from three of its amendments and
that the House concur in three other
of its amendments, none of them of
any importance. The report was
adopted. Adjourned.
April 27. Lapham introduced a
resolution to authorize the President
to approve or disapprove of separate
clauses or provisions of a bill;, refer
red. Morrison reported back the Senate
amendment to the House bill to de
fine the tax on fermented or malt
liquors. The amendment, as amend
ed, is to add a proviso that nothing
in the act shall change the present
rules of law respecting evidence in
any prosecution or suit. The amend
ment was concurred in.
The conference report on the bill
excluding Missouri from the provis
ions of the act of May 10th, 1872, to
promote the development of mining
resources, adds the following clause:
and all lands in said State shall be
subject to disposal as agricultural
lands. The report was agreed to.
The committee on postoffices
brought up the question of fast
mails.
Foster, of Ohio, charged that it is
going back to the old slgge coach
system. " ,
Randall declared the recommenda
tions of the committee were fully
approved by the Postmaster General,
and that the mail service was not to
be in the slightest degree diminished.
The amendment was adopted rais
ing the salary of the commissioner of
agriculture to 3,000 and more close;
ly confining his duties. j
The committee then reported bill
to the House. Adjourned.
Characteristic Anecdotes of Ma:
caulav.
In "The Life and Letters of Lord
Macaulay," by his nephew, G. O.
lrevelyan, M. P.,-the author tells
us that Macaulay s outward man was
never better described than in two
sentences of Praed's introduction to
Knight's Quarterly Magazine:
"There came up a short manly
figure, marvelously upright, with a
bad neck-cloth and one hand in his
waistcoat. Of regular beauty he had
little to boast; but in faces where!
there is an expression of great power
or of great good humor, or of both,'
you do not regret its absense." "This
picture, Mr. lrevelyan adds, "in
which every touch is correct, tells
all that there is to be told. He had
a massive head and features, of a
powerful and rugged cast, but so
constantly lighted ud by every joyful
ennobling emotion that it mattered.
little if, when absolutelv quiescent,
his face was rather homely than hand
some. V bile conversing at the table
no one thought him otherwise than
good looking, but when he rose he
was seen to be short and stout in
figure." "At Holland House the
other day," writes his sister Mar
garet, in September, 1831, "Tom
met Lady Layandhurst for the first
time. She said to liira, 'Mr
Macaulay, you are so different to
what I expected. I thought you
were dark and thin, but you are fair, '
and really, Mr. Macaulay, - you are
fat. " He at all times sat and stood
straight, full and square, and in this
respect Woolner, in the fine statue
at Cambridge, has missed what was
undoubtedly the most marked fact
in his appearance. He dressed bad
ly, but not cheaply. His clothes,
though ill put on, were good, and
his wardrobe was always enormously
overstocked. Later in life he indulg
ed himself in an apparently inex
haustible succession of handsome
embroidered waistcoats, which he
used to regard with much com
placency. He was unhandy to a de
gree quite unexampled in the ex
perience of all who knew him. When
in the open air he wore perfectly new
kid gloves, into the fingers of which
he never succeeded in inserting his
more than half way. After he had
sailed for India there were found in
his chamber between fifty and sixty
strops, hacked into stripes and splin
ters, and razors without beginning
or end. About the same period he
hurt his hand, and was induced to
send for a barber. After the opera
tion he asked what was to pay. "Oh,
Sir," 6aid the man, "whatever you
usually give the person who shaves
you." "In that case," said Macau
lay, "I should give you a great gash
on each cheek." Macaulay, we are
further told by his biographer, "was
utterly destitute of bodily accom
plishments, and he viewed his de
ficiencies with supreme indifference.
He could neither swim nor row, nor
skate, nor shoot. He seldom cross
ed a saddle, and never willingly.
When in attendance at Windsor as a
Cabinet Minister, he was informed
that a horse was at his disposal, 'If
Her Majesty wishes to see me ride,'
he said, ,she must order out an ele-
Ehant.' " The only exercisejin which
e can be said to haeve excelled was
that of treading crowded streets
with his eyes fixed upon a book. He
might be seen in such thoroughfares
as Oxford streets and Cheapside
walking as fast as other people walk
ed, and reading a great deal faster
than anybody else could read. As a
pedestrian he was indeed above the
average. Till he had passed fifty he
thought nothing of going on foot
from Albany to Clapham, and
from Clapham on to Greenwioh, and
while still in the prime of life he
wa forever on his feet Indoors as
well as out.
Civility doesn't cost as much as
half a pint of peanuts, and yet some
people prefer investing in reanuts-
Mrs Myra Clarke Gaines.
Hovr R Brave Woman Has Spent Her
. Life In FlifUtlug For Justice.
Washington Cor. of N. Y. Graphic
Mrs. Gaines, the plucky little clai-
ment of a large slice of valuable
crround in the heart of the city 01
New Orleans is one of , the notable
personages of the congressional sea-
son in mis city, ana iuauj uo teeu,
almost any fair day, flitting along
the . corridors of tho capitol or
through the hall-ways of Willard's
hotel with the elastic step of a girl
of 16. For nearly a half-century
the indefatigable lady has. been be
fore the public as a litigant, and her
extended experience in courts - and ,
among lawyers, as well as all the
prominent men of the day since the
administration of Andrew Jackson,
has enriched her mindwith a fund
of information in the way of person
al reminiscences, incidents, and
anecdotes of tho career of men who
have long since passed away. She
was on terms of friendship with
Clay, Webster, Calhoun, and Benton,
and mingled in the old-time society
of Washington city.
She has been fighting this "great
moral battle," as she calls it, for 41
years, and now, on the ascending
scale beyond 60 years, she says that
she expects ultimate success, "al
though it be gained over a pathway
strew with the bleaching bones cf
many lawyers." Judge Paseftal and
Jermiah Black are her lawyers at
present, and through their efforts
a decision has been recently obtain
ed in the supreme court of tho Unit
ed States, taking the .pase from the
state courts of Louisiana, which from
locel influences are unfriendly to
her cause, to the United States cir
cuit courts. The whole amount in
volved will reach to from 5,000,000
to 20,000,000, and if she finally suc
ceeds in gaining possession of this
princely sum of money fo uso her
own language, she will do the most
good."
She relates with much gusto a lit
tle incideat that occurred at a presi
detal reception, some years ago,
which she attended under the escort
of an English gentleman. Lord
Lyons was present on the occasion,
and her English friend proposed an
introduction, and to that end asked
her to advance toward his lordship
for the purpose. Tho little lady
drew herself up in offended dignity,
and promptly replied: "Sir, Ameri
can ladies never advance for an in
troduction," and so the matter end-;
ed. A few evenings afterwards she
met Lord Lyons at a reception at
Secretary Seward's, when he was
presented in due from, and at the
game time informed of the grave
mistake made by his countryman.
She is perfectly at home in politics,
law, and religion, and believes that
Gen. Bristow is the coming tenant of
the White House.
Mrs. Gaines has a short, delicato
figure, which is always arrayed in a
neat-fitting black silk walkiug-dress.
A jaunty hat with white waving
plume ustially adorns her well-shaped
head, which is crowned with a wealth
of auburn hair worn in frizzes round
in front. Her features are small and
delicate, and her complexion retains
a smoothness and freshness rarely
found in advanced age. Her eyes
arc dark and lustrous, and twinkle
with good humor in chatty conver
sation." She has a peculiar laugh,
which, when once heard, can never
be forgotten. Altogether she is a
remarkable woman, full of push, en
ergy and vitality, and few of her sex
could have battled so long in the
face of almost insurmountable diffi
culties, and it is evident there is no
such word as fail in her vocabulary.
Fidelity or A Switchman. The
Berlin (Prussia) Volksblatt says: A
switch-tender had just taken his place
to change the track in order to turn
a train which was in sight, so as to
prevent a collusion with another
train from an opposite direction. At
this critical moment, on turning his
head, he discovered his little boy
playing on the track of the advanc
ing engine. Ho might spring to the
rescue and remove him safely, but
then he would not have time to turn
the switch, and hundreds of lives
might be lost by his neglect. In an
instant his resolution was taken.
"Lie down!" he shouted to his boy,
and the child happily accustomed to
obedience, promptly threw himself
on the ground and the whole train
thundered overhim, tho passengers
little dreaming how much their safe
ty had cost that father. The tremb
ling man rushed forward fearing
to find only a mangled corpse, but
no words can express his joy at see
ing his child alive and unharmed.
The next day the Emperor, having
heard of the circumstance, sent for
the man and presented him with a
medal of honor for hi3 bravery.
Mind YocrP's. Persons who pat
ronige papers 6hould pay promptly,
for the peculiar prospects of the press
have a peculiar power in pushing
forward public prosperity. If the
printer is paid promptly, and his
pocket-book kept plethoric by prompt
paying patrons, he puts his pen to
the paper in peace, his paragraphs
are more pointed, ho paints his pic
tures of passing events in more pleas
ant colors, and the perusal of his
paper is of more pleasure to his peo
ple. Paste this piece of proverbial
philosophy in some place where all
persons can perceive it.
An Irishman noticing a woman
pass along, espied two stripes do
pending from under the lady's cloak.
Not knowing that these were styled
sashes, and in tho right place, he
exclaimed: "Faith, ma'am, yer gal
luses are untied!"
The home circle walking around
with the baby all night.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
Buttenvick's Gas Meter.
During one of the few cold . snaps
that we have had this winter, says
Max Adeler,- the gas meter in Mr.
Butterwick'8 house was frozen. Mr. -Butterwick
attempted to thaw it out
by pouring hot water over it, but
after spending an hour upon the : ef
fort he emerged from the contest
with his feet and trousers wet, his
hair full of dust and cobwebs, : and
his temper at fever heat: After,
studying how he could get rid of the
ice in the meter he concluded, to
use force for the purpose, and- bo
seizing a hot poker he jammed it
through a vent hole and stirred i it
around inside of tho meter with a
considerable amount of vigor. He
felt the ice give away and he heard
the wheels buzz around with rather
mora vehemence than usual. Then
he went to sleep.
Ho noticed for three or four days
that the internal machinery of that
meter seemed to bo rattling around
in a remarkable, manner. It could
bo heard all over the house. But
ho was pleased to find it was working
again in spito of tho cold weather,
and he retained his serenity.
About to weeks afterward his gas
bill came. It accused him of
burning,, during the . quarter,
1,500,000 feet of gas, and it called on
him to settle to tho extent of nearly
350,000. Before Mr. Butterwick's
hair had time to descend after the
first shock he put ou his hat and
went down to the gas office. . He ad
dressed one of tho clerks;
"How much gas did you make at
the Blank Works last quarter!"
"I dunno; about a million feet, I
reckon."
"Well, you've charged me in my
bill for burning half a million moro
than you made, and I want you to
correct it."
"Less see the bill. Hm m m
this is all right. It's taken oft' cf tho
meter. That's what tho meter
says."
"Sposo'n it dose; I couldn't have,
burned more'n you made,"
"Can't help that. The meter can't
lie."
"Well, but how do you account
for tho difference!" ;
"Dunno, 'Taint our business to
go nosing and poking around after
scientific truth. We depend on the
meter. If that says you burned six
million feet, why you must have
burned it, even if we never made a
foot of gas out at the works."
"To tell the henest truth," said
Butterwick, "that meter was frozen,
and I stirred it up with a poker and
set it on whizzing around.
"Price just the same," said tho
clerk. "We charge for pokers just
like we do for gas."
'You ain't actually going to have
tho audieity to ask me to pay 350,
000 on account of that poker."
"If it was 700,000 I'd take it with
a calmness that would supprise you.
Pay up or I'll turn off your gas." j
"Turn it off and bo hanged," ex
claimed Butterwick, as ho emerged
from tho office, tearing his bill to
fragments. Then ho went home,
and grasping that too lavish poker,
he approached tho meter. It had
registered another half million feet
since tho bill was made out. It was
running up a score of a hundred feet
a minute. In a month Butterwick
would have owed the gas company
more than the United States Govern
ment owes its creditors. So he beat
the meter into a shapeless mass," toss
ed it into the street and turned off
the gas inside the cellar.
lie is now sitting up at niprht
writing an essay on "Grinding Mo
nopolies" by the light of a kerosene
lamp.
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Making Shobt Work of It. In
the town of Hopkinson, Mass., lived
a certain Deacon Small. In his ad
vanced age he had the misfortune to
lose the rib of his youth. After do
ing penance by wearing a weed on
his hat a full year, he was recom
mended to a Widow Hooper, living
in an adjoining town. The deacon
was socm astride of his old brown
mare, and on arriving at the widow's
door he discovered her in the act of
turning the suds from her wash-tubs.
Said the deacon:
"Is this Widow Hooper?" .
"Yes, sir," was the reply.
"Well," said the deacon,
that little bit of a dried up
"I am
Deacon
Small, and have ono question to pro
pose to yon."
"Please propose, sir."
"Well, madam," said the deacon,
"have you any objection to going to
Heaven by way of Hopkinson?" -
"None at all, deacon," was the re
ply. "Come in, deacon."
Suffice it to say they were mar
ried the next day.
Fate of a Heeo. Collin Graves,
the milk-man hero of the last year's
dam disaster in Massachusetts, did
not figure in the recent one. An in
quiry has brought out tho sad fact
that ho died of grief, poverty and
neglect some time ago. It seems
that after the Mill River catastrophe,
when he rode down the valley and
warned the inhabitants that the dam
was breaking, people asked them
selves what he could have been do
ing at the reservoir, and then stop
ped buying his milk. The milk
business was ruined, he had nothing
else to do, and not many months af
ter he died in destitute circumstan
ces. Think twico before you allow
yourself to become a hero. --Chicago
Times.
Mr. Vick says in his Floral Guide
that ten drops of carbolic acuV-to be
obtained from any of our druggists,
put in a pint of water, and poured
on the earth in flower-pots, will de
stroy all earth worms, which do so
much damage to tho plants. A trial
will satisfy all of its beneficial effects.
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Characteristics of the Rothschilds.
Gossiping, about' the Rothschilds
and the methods by which their
enormous wealth has leen acquired,
a correspondent says they aro firm
believers in luck. They will have
nothing to do with unlucky men or
enterprise, if they think they, are
such. If an agent makes a failure of
any of their schemes he is ininjidiate
ly discharged, even if. ho is not di
rectly, responsible for the failure.
They prefer their own race for assist
ants, and in most of their offices the
Hebrew element predominates. They
have always been devoted to their
theological , faith,, and strict in. ob
serving all the laws of the sj-nagogif e',
believing that much of their good
fortune has come from unswerving
fidelity to Judaism. . They endow 1
schools, hospitals and alms-houses !
for their faith, and ever renew an
ardent attachment to the ancient form
of worship. Save at rare intevals,
they irtermarry, and are likely to
while they hold together. Nathan
conceived tho idea-of perpetuating
tho name and power of the house by
such consanguineous connections,
common from early times with He
brew families, and the union of blood
relatives has been for years a common
practice in tho family. The great
house now exists in the persons of
some twelve of the family, descend
ants of Mayer Anslem Rothschild.
They are united as of old in their
lives and fortunes, and are men with
rare genius ia pecuniary planning,
and for bearing the largest and most
difficult enterprises to successful is
sues. Their blood has flown in kin
dred channels generation after gen
eration. The mere passion for grrin
has doubtless long since ceased to
impel them, for many years ago their
wealth had swelled beyond accurate
reckoning, but the gratification of
power probably urges them now to
increase their capital by all means of
traffic. They consort with the great
est families of Europe, and have the
hereditary title of Baron. Despite
their hundreds of millions, they aro
still very willing to add to them, for
the love of domination is strong. .
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J. Wilkes liooth's I'irst Attempt to
Assassinate Mv. JLiiicoln.
A Tribune a Washington correspon
dent says: An interestingincident
whicli has never been printed has
last transpired: On the day when
Lincoln was inaugurated the second
time in 1S05, just at the east portico:
a man, recognized by several persons
to be John Wilkes Booth, pushed
hurriedly through the passage lead
ing from the Senate chamber to the
rotunda, and in an excited determin
ed manner broke through the line of
policemen, which kept the crowd
back from tho procession, and made
a desperate effort to reach the eastern
door of the Capitol. He was discovr
ered by a member of the capitol po
lice who seized the excited stranger,
and after a severe struggle succeeded
in forcing him back into the crowd.
Booth had already been noticed by
at least two persons who knew him,!
and saw him pass hurriedly from the
direction of the Senate chamber to
ward the rotunda, and some idea of
his determination to reach the inau
gural may be formed from the fact
that he broke away from the man
who first seized him, and but for the
closing of the side door would prob
ably have accomplished his purpose,
whatever it was. Those who stop
ped Booth, and who, in all probabil
ity, preserved tho President's life,
were not aware who the excited stran
ger was, but the importance of their
action can hardly be overestimated.
The man who stopped Booth is nam
ed Westfall, and was made commis
sioner of public buildings and
grounds, and was recently discharged
by the House.
A lawyer interrogating a rough
witness in a San Francisco court said:
"Do you believe in the existence of
God?' "I don't know," was the re
ply. "Do vou admit the divinity of
Christ?" "No-o," was the hesitating
response; "I don't know nothing
about Christ." "Do you mean to
say," said the lawyer, seriously,
"that you never heard of Jesus
Christ?" "Wal," said the witness,
"the fac' is, pard, that I jest cum up
from Lower Californy, and I hain't
had no chance to meet any of the
people in these parts."
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A story comes to us to the effect
that two farmers of this county re
cently formed a partnership for the
purpose of collecting a number of
cows and manufacturing butter and
cheese. Having purchased a good
cow of a neighbor, A goes over to
bring it home; but as the cow had
no horns to which he might fasten a
rope, he traded it, with a young calf,
for a dry cow with horns. B said he
didn't know where the butter and
cheese were coming from, and so
"threw up the sponge."
A Portsmouth, N. H., young man
who was inconsiderate enough to
"come in," after he had escorted a
girl home from prayer meeting the
other Sunday evening, was obliged
to stop to famil3r prayers, which came
on very soon, but when the pious
householder prayed that "the young
man who, for tho time being, is one
of our number, may be directed to
ward his Father's house," ho took
his hat and left without ceremony.
Speaking of an old China sale in
Europe the other day where a pair of
vases were sold for 38,000, the St.
Louis Republican says: "This Rale
was not held in a lunatic asylum, but
in a land where men, women and
children drop dead every day in the
year of starvation."
i It is said that oranges will improve
j a young lady's complexion. Let the
I juice ran down over your chin.
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All Sorts. : ;
Modesty is a guard to virtue.'
The warmest kind of a Iiat ono
that's got stove in. .
To ' what depth does a man fall.
when ho falls asleep ?:
Colfax wouldn't lecture in Dulutll
for 15 and a serenade,
Some Californians -will feel lone
some over that. law punishing. wife-
beaters.. - t . . .-
Lotta's new house in California!
hasn't a closet in it. - She isn't like
other women. , ..-:.-;
Somebody says' TVndall" calls" fcis
wife Molliecule. We suppose she
calls him a-Tom.
Why is a store that. don't advertise-
like Enoch Arden? Because it "sees
no sale from day to day. '
"What's going on?" said a well-
known bore to Douglas Jerrold. "L
am," was the reply,. and on he went..
Mrs. Benton, the handsome female-
lobbyist at Washington, says that a
winx is better than a kick with most
Senators..
Colored barbers are an institution
of great antiquity. Hamlet refers to
a party who was "a. nigger and a-nig.-ping
hair."
It is said that every young.lady
riding in the cars through the Mt.
Cen is- tnnnel gets ready to be kissed,
in the dark.
The truth about Don Carlos is oat.
He is going to be worth 8,000,000-.
just as soon as he draws in the Ha-"
vana lottery..
Sticks have opened the mouth of
the Mississippi River. That's what
they mean when they say they will
tako a stick in it.
A young lady refused to go into
the Woolrich Arsenal because she
heard that some of the muskets wero
without breeches..
A very clever woman has said", "I
do not wish anybody to do anything
naughty, but if they do, I want ta
know all about itu"
A friend modestly asks why is the
country in winter time like the Black
Crook ? ' Because there aro so many
bare limbs to be seen..
They have a curious-way joking in
China. A mandarin cuts a fellow's
head off simply to see how his widow
will "take on" about it.
In Milwaukee the cast-off stockings
of fashionable ladies are used by 0
coal-heavers for carrying coal up
stairs half bushel at a load.
Said Jones to Brown one afternoon,
"Malaria comes with wife; "
The fever lasts but one short moon.
The ague runs through life." . ,
A woman cannot love a man she
feels to be her inferior; love without
veneration and enthusiasm is only
friendship. Madame Dudexant
Any man who fays he is "too poor
to take a newspaper" should, be in
dicted by the grand jury for obtain
ing a family under false pretenses.
A crocus stuek its head up ia ita
little bed one morning and exclaimed
to its neighbors: "You lilac every
thing if you say this ain't spring.
Tho following message and reply
was sent and received at a Waterbury
(Conn.) telegraph office: "I am dy
ing." "When you die let me know.
A recent marriage notice ends'with
the singular expression, probably
added by a waggish friend: "May
their future troubles be little ones."
"Cheek is the thing to win in this
world!" exclaimed Deacon Dodridge.
"Yes, if the cheek is dimpled and
rosy," responded his handsome
daughter.
When a lovely Philadelphia girl
was introduced to a stranger she said
she was an orphan. When he squoze
her hand she added, "an orphan with Q
four big brothers."
Musical bees are now tho rage in
London, where prizes are awarded
for reading pianoforte and vocal
music at sight, and also for skill in
interpreting classical works.
Junior out driving with a pretty
girl on a windy day. P. t. looks up
archly, and remarks: "My face is
very cold, isn't yours?" and blushes
sweetly at finding it the contrary. .
A St. Louis woman says it is no
worse to encircle a lady's waist with
your arm in a ball room than to hug
your friend's sister on the back stairs.
No worse? Why, it is not as goodl :
The latest article out for fastening
up ladies' stockings has a clasp, on
which appear two surpents' heads,
with little ruby eyes. Sort of "gar
ter snakes," you know. The eyes
can't see.
The New York Sun knows of a
general in the army who hasn't been
clear of debt for thirty-seven years. '
An Oregon City butcher says he
knows of lots of men who would
make good generals.
"Hold me close, and don't take
long steps, dear" the reporter over
heard a sweet femenine voice address
a tall young fellow, last night, as two
forms came carefully down the steps
on their way to the theatre, and he
wondered if that fellow would caro
if tho weather never got any better.
Banting is outdone. Some one has
discovered that sea-weed is a cure
for obesity, and now we may expect
fat people to take to blancmange.
Dr. Griffith, of Delaware, asserts that0
tho weed has the effect to reduce tha
adipose tissue with remarkable rapid
ity, and without interference with
health.
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