M essengeh . P acific « "GO YE, THEREFORE, TEACH ALL NATIONS." s a T VOL IX. NO. 33 I -4— Pacific C hristian messenger , Devoted to the cause of Primitive Christi snity, and the diffusion of general in­ formation. Price Per Tear, in Advance, All business letters should be addressed to T. F. Campbell, Editor, or Mary Stump, Publisher, Monmouth, Oregon. Advertisers will find thia one of the best mediums on the Pacifie Coast for making their business known. RATES OF ABVERTISINO rw H Col........... i Col........... H Col........... 1 Col....... . 4 MONMOUTH, OREGON ; FRIDAY, AUG. 15, 187R. $1 2 4 7 12 nr 00 »2 50 4 00 50 7 (X) 00 OS 12 00 00 20 00 « IT »4 7 12 20 36 AM’l lYr 00 00 Notice* in local column* 10 oeut* per line for each insertion. Yearly adTertuementa on liberal teona. Profe**ional Card* (1 equare) »12 per annum. Cprrespondenoe. Our Washington Letter. (VBOM OUB BBOVLAB COBBB8PONDXNT.) W ashington , July 26, 1879. Visitors to the Smithsonian Insti­ tute during the past month have been rather mystified at the cion ds of dust, the sounds of busy life, and the evidences of labor which surround the usually quiet edifice. The reason of all this is the construction of the so- called annex, now being erected as a receptacle for the Government exhib­ its’ at the centenial exhibition. While opinions vary as to the eligibility of the site selected, none can look upon the pile now being reared without agreeing that it will, when completed, be a suitable shell for the setting it is to receive. Located at the northeast corner of tho institute, it is adroitly placed as not to interfere with the im­ posing front of the irregular pile, -which, with its varied architecture, has been such a source of pride to the visitors of the famed result of the Smithson’s whim. The quaint curves and turrets, and towers and angles which in the aggregate make up the outside of the Smithsonian, still stand in their bold outlines against the southern sky, while the new edifice, by a happy combination, is just near enough and just far enough to serve a dual purpose. It will accommodate the exhibits for which it is intended, and will at the same time, present, in a marked contrast the modern and me­ dieval architecture; for the annex is purely modem. Up to date over 2,- 000,000 bricks have been laid, and about 130 mechanics and laborers are employed. The 4,000,000 bricks are expected to be laid and the edifice ready to be rooled in, before the cold weather. This is the largest job of work laid in the District for many years. Immediately on the death of Judge Humphrey’* the President decided on the appointment of Mr. Charles James to be his successor on the bench of the Supreme Court of the District. Mr. James has been residing here since 1864, although he is really a citizen of his native State, Ohio, as he has voted there several times since his arrival here. This is a favorite spot for men ^of that profession who have been members of Congress, to locate tor the purpose of practicing their profession especially in cases where the general government is involved. These men while they really live here rarely, if ever give up their citizenship in their respective States. The present Sena­ tor from Virginia, Mr. Carpenter, is a notable example. Four years ago, when he was defeated for a re-election to the Senate, he formed a law part­ nership here and made ¿his city his home. Still he kept up his citizen- at Wisconsin and was last winter re­ turned to the Senate from that State. Mr. James tire new judge for the Dis­ trict, is in the same category. He has been a resident here since '64 but never gave up his citizenship in Ohio. His election gives Ohio two appoint­ ments on the bench of the District— the chief Justiee, Mr. Carter, being from that State. Ohio has also of her citizens on the Supreme Bench of the United States—Waite the chief jus-’ tice, and justiee Swayne. Mr. James is a man turning sixty years of age. He was candidate for the bench when Judge Hegner was appointed, and again when Judge Cox was chosen. Tuesdays and Fridays are what is called the cabinet days in Washing­ ton. The members of the cabinet drop in one by one, but they are all on hand by twelve o’clock. Each member brings his portfolio. The President sits at the head of the ta­ ble and Secretary Schilrz at the foot on the right next to the President is the Secretary of States, next to him the Secretary of War, and beyond him the Postmaster General. On the left next to the President sits the Secreta­ ry of the Treasury, next to him the Secretary of the Navy, and next to the Secretary of the Interior in that side the Attorney General. After the cabinet meets it is ten or fifteen min­ utes before the members get to work. That ten minutes is taken up in greet­ ings and off hand talk in which the spirit of fun and humor crops out a good deal. The cabinet are all men with a sunny, fun-loving side when out of official harness. Judge Key is perhaps, the jolliest, though the At­ torney General pushes him hard for that distinction. Secretary Thomp­ son is a proverbial lover of a pleasant joke, while Secretary Schurz is hardly equalled in telling one. Secretary McCrary is a good story teller. Sec­ retary Sherman does not indulge in humor often but when he does it is, on account of its unexpected charac­ ter, the more enjoyable. Secretary Evarts is one of the Quietly humorous sort. His fund, of dry humor and wit is inexeaustable, and though not up­ roarious is keenly enjoyable. The President has probably the heartiest Cabinet that any President ever as­ sembled around him. The old bones who keep at them day by day are immercifully dealt with by the heads of the deparment when they assemble. The Attorney General seems to take a peculiar delight in joking Secretary Thompson. At a recent cabinet meet­ ing the Naval Secretary took with him a list of midshipmen who had passed their examinations. The Secretary called attention to them and said he would like that their nominations for previsions to ensigns be sent to the Senate as soon as possible " as they are worthy young men who have thoroughly earned their spurs." * Mr. Thompson,” interupted Mr. Devens, “ how long since have they been wear­ ing spurs in navy 1” After this ten minutes* of boy play before school, the the President calls the meeting to or­ der. The regular business is taken up, the Secretary of State leading on with his budget. The discussion is conducted in a conversational way. The meetings generally last about two hours. The President to-day made public the names of twenty-four of the per­ sons selected to fill the thirty-five va­ cancies of General lieutenant in the army. Of this number seven appoint­ ments are made from what is called JL the Southern States. Of the seven, Motion, that the meeting be ad­ bars all his time at Moberly and Sa- however, Defrees, of West Virginia, is journed. Prevailed. l. »J leni next year. really from Indiania. His father; who After Bro. Whitney announced the —The Second Christian Church in is the public "printer, is a native of order of the meeting on the following Kansas City, the one for which David that State. Among the others select­ Lord’s 'day the meeting wa9 dis- Walk labors, has purchased a lot and ed Gen. Fremont gets a son and Gens. 'tnissed. will build a bouse of worship. It was Rucker, Orr and Mason, of the army, On July 27th, according to previous organized with forty-nine members a each a son. An appointment from announcement, the audience came to­ yearago. and has since multiplied two­ South Carolina, is a nephew of Sena- gether at 10 o’clock A. M.; and ac­ fold. ator Butler a member of the eommfT- cording to previous arrangements, —A Second Colored Christian tee on military affairs of the Senate. Bro. Whitney stated to the congrega­ Church has been organized. It meets The eellebrated McGarraham elaim tion that a ¡»art of the officers of the in a hall on the comer of Seventh and has been transported from Congress to congregation had been cfio«en and set Grayson streets. Rufus Conrad is the the Interior department, at least for aside to be ordained, and accordingly preacher.— Christian Worker. the present. The New Indiia Co., they came fasting and praying, after —From the Christian Preacher we who have possession of the property which Bros. Post and Shipley were quote : “ W. B. F. Treat talks of re­ claimed by McGarraham, went before ordained; Bro. Post as elder of the turning to his old profession, medicine, the Secretary of the Interior as soon congregation, and Bro. Shipley as and of moving to Texas. Dallas would as Congress adjourned and asked that deacon; this being accomplished the give him a hearty welcome;’’ a patent to the land be issued to therm. elders of the congregation proceeded —We also clip from the same pa­ Mr. McGarraham’s attorneys heard of and ordained Bro. Wigle as an evan­ per the following: “ W. H. D. Car­ this coyp cf eiat on the part of the gelist, and set him to the work. rington has returned to the practice New Idria and at once entered a suit Yours in the oue hope, of law. We regret to lose his services protest against the issurance of the W allace P ost . as an evangelist. The law, medicine, patent. Yesterday Hon. Montgom­ etc., are robbing us of too many good Church News. ery Blair and other attorneys for Mc­ preachers.” It would be interesting Garraham, delivered arguments before to know "low many preachera have 1 (From the Record and Evangelist,} Secretar y Schurz in support of their been driven by starvation to other —Bro. A, B. Markle, recently of De­ protest. They held in the first place corah, Iowa, has. returned to Eddy­ callings. that McGarraham owns the land —Bro. W. W. Williams, of the Ja- ville, his former home. He divides but should his title be proven invalid his time on Lordsday between Eddy­ raaica Mission, will spend some time the; land or at least a large interest in ville and Bluff Creek. In addition he this summer and fall among the it belongs to the government. A de­ will superintend the Eddyville public churches in Ill., lecturing on Jamaica,* cision will probably’ be rendered on schools. and preaching in aid of the missionary " Monday. This will settle it as far as —R. B. Neal, pastor of one of the cause generally, and of the Christian the Interior department is concerned, Louisville churches, has gone to Prince Woman's Board of Missions specially. M the decision will be final. The Edwards Island. Hesperian College, Woodland, only remedy left either party, of the —Eld. Wm. Pickerton of Ohio has California. parties after the case has been decid­ been visiting his son C. M. Pickerton ed by the Secretary, is to appeal to FACULTY. at De Soto, Iowa. Whilet^here he th^ Supreme Court of the United preached for the congregation. A. M. ELSTON, A. M., States. —Bro. and Sister Goodwin have President, and Professor of Ancient . While on his way to the far West located for the present in East Cleve­ Languages and Elocution. to inspect the Indian poets and the land for the purpose of medical treat­ R. A. GRANT, A. M., country where dwells the depredator ment. Professor of Mathematics and As- f in the government of timber lands, -5-R. L. McHatton of Fulton, Mo., tronomy, and Pro-tem Professor Secretary Schurz will halt at Cincin­ has changed his address to Texas. Is of Natural Science. nati and make a financial speech to Texas a kind of promised land to F. A. PEDLER, B. S., the Germans of that city. This event preachers, or are they flocking there Professor cf English Literature. will occur late in August. The ven­ as missionaries ?” Miss BETTIE WOODS; erable Secretary of the Navy, Mr. —J. B. Moore of Beatrice, Neb., Principal of Preparatory School. Thompson, will also visit Ohio early passed through this city en route to in September, and there take a stump Inland Cedar Co., Iowa He has lieen W. T. LUCAS, M. D., for Foster. Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology. called Lack to remain with his aged A ugust . IGNACIO BROWN, parents the rest of their days. Bro. Moore is greatly beloved for his work Teacher of Telegraphy and Penman­ Minutes of Meeting held by the sake wherever he is known. ship. Beaver Creek Congregation, —Dr. S. E. Pearre, formerly of Iowa DR. A. A. DESCHOW1TZ, July 24, 1879. City is preaching for the church in Teacher of Hebrew, French, German San Francisco. and Spanish. B eaver C reek , B enton C o ., O r ., •—Father and Mother Drake of August 3,1879. Miss S. M. LASLEY, Moved and seconded that Bro. Centerville, Iowa, are now spending a Teacher of Instrumental Music. few days with us. Few Disciples in Whitney take the chair. Carried. F. A. PEDLER, Moved and seconded that Bro. Post Iowa are better known or more highly . Secretary of the Faculty. act as secretary of the meeting. Car­ esteemed than this venerable coup­ The session, consisting of two le. ried. Terms of Twenty Weeks each, begins —The Disciple is the name of a new Moved and seconded that there be on Monday, Aug. 18, 1879.' paper started at Newport, N. Scotia. a county annual meeting held in Ben­ The prospects of Hesperian Col­ ton county ; said meeting to begin on T. H. Blenus, is Editor. It is an eight lege are flattering. We are now in Thursday before the second Lord’s page monthly worth 75 cents per an­ possession of Chemical and Philoso­ num. day in June, 1880. Carried. phical Apparatus not excelled by any —Paul Bagley is still on the w ing Motion, that Bros. Draen, of Sum­ similar institution in the State. mit; N. P. Bri4S, of Corvallis; Jere­ discoursing on the moral and religious For Catalogues, address miah Smith, of Willamette ; Wallace condition of China, India, and Japan. A. M. E lston , —D. R. Dungan has held eighteen Post, of Beaver creek; and John A. President. Bounds, of Beaver creek, be appointed regular debates, besides some score or I The Legend Ot Rosebuds. on committee to locate the place of more as irregular discussions. —We are sorry to learn by a let­ holding the said county annual meet­ BY ETBEL V. MATTOM. ter from our devoted Bro. Theodore ing. Prevailed. Motion, that the Sucretary be re­ Johnson, of Bower, Neb., that a hail When creel band* that crown did twins. Which pressed the Snvionr's brow divine, quested to confer with said committee storm destroyed the small grain over Unaonecionaly a roeebnd white, and report where the said meeting a district one and a half by four miles. W a * twined amid tbn aharp thorn* tight; wjH be held. Prevailed, Bro. Johnson was one of the suffer­ And lying on that holy hair. It aaw where tborna had wounded there ; Motion, that the congregation take ers. in consideration the propriety of locat­ —J. C. Reynolds has laltored half Ho gently from its place it slips. To kiaa the won nd with trembling lipe. ing Bro. Morgan in Benton county. the time at Moberly, Mo., during the i And aiooe, the legend aaid. Prevailed. past year. During the year’s work The blood baa tinged its bps with red. Motion, that Bros. W. Post and P. there were four deaths in the clin ch Tue emblem of Ood'a love and price. Henderson be appointed on com­ fellowship wa> withdrawn tioin two, Among the tborna*' it kept ita pLoe, mittee to ascertain the most favorable a letter was granted to one, oqe unit­ So ne'er a crown of tborna we win. point to locate Bro. Morgan. Pre­ ed.at Salem, and thirty-two have But baa aome sweet flower twined within. Search 'mid the Angers of each eare, vailed. united with the congregation. He la- 1 You’ll find a roeebnd hidden there.