Image provided by: Friends of the Dallas Library; Dallas, OR
About Pacific Christian messenger. (Monmouth, Or.) 1877-1881 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 29, 1879)
è. * ....... T' ■ ■ ■ “■ • “GO YE, THEREFORE, TEACH ALL NATIONS.” . a VOL IX. - MONMOUTH, OREGON; FRIDAY, AUG. 29, 1879. 0 . • • • NO. 35. • Faoiflo C hristian M essenger , Devoted to the cause of Primitive Christi unity, and- the diffusion of general in formation. Pries Per Tear, in Advance, f 2.59 All business letters should be addressed to T. F. Campbell, Editor, or Mary Btump, Publisher, Monmouth, Oregon. Advertisers will find this one of the beet Mediums on the Pacific Coast for making their business known. ■ RATES OF ADVERTISING : ‘ Bp«» 1 Iff ■-nrru'M ron "TYr~ 1 Inch.......... $1 00 *3 50 »4 < 0 *7 00 *12 00 20 00 4 00 7 00 12 00 2 50 h Coi........... 35 00 7 JOO 12 00 20 00 4 00 Col........... 65 00 % Col........... 7 0« 12 00 20 00 35 0« 120 00 1 Col............. 12 00 20 00 35 10 65 00 Notice« in local columns 10 cent» per liiWTTor each insertion. Yearly advertiaemente on liberal terms. Professional Cards (1 square) *13 per annum. Correspondence. Our Washington Letter. ( fbom ova BiotmAB oobbkspondent .) W ashington , August, 11,1879. The Sunday which rose upon the city to-day, has had a touch of autumn in it, though, mid-summer has scarce ly passed. It was, however, but a faint trace—a foreshadowing of things to come. There was not a strange voice in any of the pulpits. The riv erside abounded in excursions. The Park, never greener, drew crowds, and Washington was quiet and con tent The hills around- the District cities are all being cut down, baked into bricks and built up again in their new form as sumptuous and conveni ent dwellings. The savage dug a hole in the hill and dwelt there, but the civilized man puts the hill in a hole or grinds it up into clay and presses it out into bricks for a dwelling. The centre hills of the city were long ago converted into rows of two-story hous es, and still the brickyards climb the hills on the edges of the city, and as the hilltops sink their clay rises into houses. The great hills in the north east and southeast sections of the city that formerly denominated the sur rounding neighborhood are being rap idly “ brought to grade,” by the busy brickmakers, and soon the city will have swallowed its last hilltop and as- simulated it into a well-built street The home supply of clay needed is, however, far from sufficient, and for yfiars the1 Virginia bills across the Potomac have been carted, in bricks, across the Long Bridge. Washington has sent out a brickmaking colony to occupy the nearest hills, and at Fort Rurnyon, the first mainland that the road reaches after having crossed the Long Bridge and Alexander’s Island is a populous village of brick kilns and shows the capital a column of smoke by day and of fire by night. The kilns are surrounded by factories that use the most approved machinery and employ many hands. One of the most affecting incidents of the time is the interchange of epis tolary compliments between the Hon. Carl Schurz and His Excellency Spot ted Tail, chief of the Brute Sioux. It appears that old Spot, has detected certain faults in the civil service of his administration, and, deserving the assistance of an expert to rectify them nationally turns his attention to the most celebrated professor of civil ser vice reform now living. It affords one great pleasure to learn that Mr. Schurz will shortly proceed to reform the civil service of the Brute Sioux. There is no information as to what method of reformation it is proposed to pursue; whether he has some spe cial plan, or intends to proceed in the legular way, at ¥300 a night and found. Probably the Secretary him self has not yet decided upon a course, of procedure, but intends to be gov erned by the exigencies of the case as they may present themselves on the spot. All that can be said at present is, that in case he elects to proceed in the regular way much of his precept must be lost, owing to the poverty of the Sioux language in technical terms. It is also expected that he will visit the New Idria Mining Co., in whose favor he recently rendered a decision worth over two million dollars, leav ing poor McGaraham in the cold. (f One of the republican congressional committee men who has been spend ing a week in Maine, returned here to-day. He says that Senator Blaine reporte that he has his party in excel lent working order, and for the first since the canvass was begun he feels sure that the, republicans will carry the State. Blaine has dropped the question of finance, or at least has made it a secondary place, and is running the campaign on the old war issues, especially in regard to the question of State rights. His estimate of the vote is that there will be 135,- , 000 votes cast. Of this number he gives 70,060 to the republican candi date, 50,600 to the greenbackers and 15,000 to the democratic candidates. In teaching these figures he estimates that there were 11,000 republicans who did not go to the polls last year who will vote this year, that there are 13,000 republicans who voted the greenback ticket last year who have returned to the republican party and will at the coming election vote the ticket of that' party. Rapid progress is being made in the construction of the new building for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, at the comer of Fourteenth and B, streets southwest, and it already gives promise of being one of the finest specimens of brick arthitecture to be found anywhere, The structure at its present stage is an interesting sub ject for study. The site chosen is a commanding one. The spaciousness of the grounds and those of the Wash ington monument and the Parks south of the White House gives the building an unobstructed view to the north nearly half a mile in a direct line. To the east lie the grounds of the Agricultural Department, and the Botanical Gardens, forming a continu ous ornamental Park between the Potomac and the Capital fully a mile in length. The walls of the new building are more than three feet thick. Seen from within with the skeleton of massive iron girders and supports, they seem designed to last forever. The chief feature of interest is found in the elaborate system of outside ornamentation. A water line of grew granite and a continuous sill of the same material marks the floors of the first and second stories. The window sills and a portion of the or namented work around the entrance are of brown stone. All the remain der is of brick in two colors, but molded into a great variety of patterns Each story has ita pattern of ornamen tation in pressed brick, while over the whole runs a series of springing win- do w-arches supported upon piers which extend from the ground to the roof. The main entrance is a "study” in brick and stone. Delicate columns of brick support the arch. Panels of brick with moulded sunflowers fill the spaces, and overhead hangs a graceful balcony supported upon half arches of the two materials combined. Orna- L mental work of a still higher order, the United States, and as to transla the cause in San Francisco should not also in brick, is promised within. tions and adaptations, why should be looked upon as a local affair, but A ugust . American publishers pay native hapds one in which the brotherhood of the • • • i " for such work when they can “ steal State is interested. They ought to London Letter. them ready made ” from the English have assistance in this great work, publisher ? Thus, if the French i and I do hope that at the proper time («£OCU1 MUBfOiMSIE:. authors secure their rights in England they will get it. Have we no rich they are pretty safe from Transatlan brethren who would like to build a L ondon , Aug. 2, 1879. Nevertheless it monument to their memory that will An International Literary Congress tic depredations. cannot be forgotten that in a Con last through time and extend into recently held its first sittings in Lon don, and, with Vietor Hugo as its gress professedly “ International ” eternity ? They can do so by aiding President and Alfred Tennyson at the dealing with the laws of .copyright, a work of this kind. The brethren in Tulara and adjoin head of the English committee ap the omission of the United States pointed to receive the distinguished leaves a huge gsp. It resembles a ing counties are going to have an foreign visitors, it may be fairly said discussion on Mediterranean piracy in other camp meeting this fall. They that the poetry of the two countries the last century with studious avoid had one last year which resulted in was well represented. As in all ance of Algiers. While “ translation ” some 50 additions. Bro. Dewitt is gatherings of this- kind, festivity and “ adaptation,” the two evils from laboring in that section and is having played its part; the members of the which Frenchmen most suffer occu good success, I understand. Bro. J. K. Rule preached for the Congress were received at a Mansion pied the Congress for two days, not House banquet, and afterwards the one word is said about, “ reproduc church in Hollister two weeks ago, very Shakespearian Mayor of Strat tion.” The Frenchman finds himself the church there hasr no preacher now, ford-upon-Avon welcomed them as partially robbed, his ideas are pilfered but they keep up their meetings and his guests. One of the London clubs piecemeal by the Englishman; but Sunday school ; the latter gave a con opened its portals to all the membeis, the Englishman is swallowed bodyand cert last week, from which they real while the more distinguished were bones by the American pimte. No ized 370. J. N. Thompson, their the objects of cordial hospitality, at “ translation ” or " adaptation ” vexes superintendent, is one of the most some public and* many private enter him; he finds that he is captured faithful and devoted men in Cali- whole by the enemy and sold for his fomia. tainments. profit. The highclass American pub Bro. Rule is preaching for the It is not at all surprising, that the lishers have lately discovered that, as church at Gilroy. May the Lord official language of the Cengress was French, for no other tongue has Lord Beaconsfield said in 1869, " con bless his labors, The old man is fiscation is contagious.” Now, unfor ripening for the tomb and will soon acquired such peculiar preminence. English is more widely spread, and tunately for them, some Chicago pub rest from his labors. Politics are all the rage now in Spanish is of greater commercial use lishers have taken to reproducing at a very cheap rate the English books California, you can’t get the people to in South America and the adjacent republished in New York. They are, think, nor talk anything else. If seas, while Italian has still an inter in fact, so lost to patriotism that they every man don’t get to vote his prin national superiority as the interpreter actually treat their own countrymen ciples this fall, it will not be for want of the highest kind of music. The courts, the aristocracies, the states as they treat Englishmen. The as of candidates nor parties. There are men, and the cultivated classes in tonishment and indignation of the five parties in the field—the Repub great New York houses at this con lican, Democratic, New Constitution Europe, however, find French the most convenient common link. It is duct is exactly the Bame as that of alists, Working Men, and the Tem Bret Harte’s Yankees, who, conspiring perance party. The wisest political now what Latin was in the middle fonrwl viivMw wtn 14 Hpikt.iipn iivavtirii ’ ( 'hinpp iltllu". IV/1* lit* prophet would not risk his reputation ages, and even down to the beginning that he had whole packs of aces up in an attempt to forcast the result of of the eighteenth century. Russians his sleeves ; and they now cry out, the election. and Turks, Germans and Spaniards, " Let us all be honest!” much as the A good brother said to me the other Italians and Swedes, Englishmen and hens in the stable who, finding them day, that Bro. B.’s “ Remonstrance ” Dutchmen, all use French in diplom selves worsted by the horses, nobly was divided into two parts, a atic or social intercourse. It is the exclaimed, “ Let us all stop kicking.” portico and a back yard. That he inevitable second language of all who This is a statement from the stand had castigated Bro. Peterson in the have ts’o. A foolish Chauvinism has point of English authorship, but it is “ portico,” but had conducted “ Argus’’ recently induced Prince Bismark to force German into diplomatic use and not more than right that we should to the other department where he have some reprisal for a product of “ socked his bill ” into his many eyes when he grew angry at Versailles he the American brain which England and bid him a probable farewell. I insisted upon talking it to M. Thiers. lizAiAxa ill Iluli rtrA lCRVv 1 fand Europe use, in many instances, llLFp ’U AAaxz» W mo vv lLa |niu! Yet, though he may thus impose without price or thanks. I refer to " Argus ” thus wounded and bleeding, some additional trouble on Foreign our mechanical and labor saving in- but will act the part of the good Office clerks in various capitals, he ventions. Samaritan and take care of him till will do nothing to induce other nations his sight is fully restored. If he can t to displace French from its interna Items from California. give us a whole article, let us have tionalposition. Though not the vehicle minus the “ portico.” of the best literature of the world— The church in San Francisco has Bro. J. H. McCollough is located at in this respect inferior both to Eng sold its house of worship and is now Terabanta, Indiana. He was a dele lish'and German—French is the native meeting in the Y. M. C. A. room«. To gate to the late Sunday school con language of the best modern drama those not acquainted with the sur vention of the Disciples, at Columbus, and of the most highly cultivated roundings, this may seem to be a of the same State. He writes that literary style. strange movement, but the t facts are there were “about Jive hundred dele It is curious to note that at this they were compelled to sell on account gates present.” This makes our con International Congress, mainly con of a mortgage on the property, and in ventions out here look* very small, cerned with “copyright,” the French the second place the location of the but " it is not by might nor by power, delegates, who w.ere anxious to make church was one of the most unfavor saith the Lord of hosts, but by my arrangements to secure their rights able in the city. Many who have spirit ” that we are to gain the victory. here, found no authorized representa labored and worshiped there, have I hope to see Bro. M. in Califortiia tive of the publishers of the United said to me that it was next to an im again. States with whom to carry on negoti possibility to get an audience there. ; Webster says that the word “ all ” ations. The fact is that they need In fact the Methodist from whom we " not only in popular language, but in not much fear being wronged by re bought it sold it for this very reason, the Scriptures, often signifies, inde printing, translation, or adaption on so the presiding elder told me, who finitely, a large portion or number, or oui side the water. Though citizens negotiated the trade. Now that they a great part J a fact which every of our Great Republic travel much are free from this encumbrance, I do school boy ought to know, but of and flock to Paris as a paradise, their hope that an effort will be made to which the critics of " Argus ” seem to ignorance of the French language is purchase a lot in a favorable locality be ignorant. Finis. as great as was the English during and that as soon as |>ossible a house A rgus the Continental War, when George of worship may be erected of which III. applauded on* of hia courtiers for the brethren may justly ue proud. — Mr. S. W. Burnham, of Chicago, refusing to learn French, and when But it takes money to do this now, in has beep selected to determine the that language was considered a kind San Francisco, and a great deal of it. site for the new observatory to be of dialect natural enough in the The brethren there have made a great founded by the munificent gift of sev manly Briton’a sisters, bat not to be sacrafice for the cause, and it is next en h u nd red thousand dollars by the late James Lick, of California. One expected from the Briton himself. to impossible for them to accomplish of three peaks of Mt. Hamilton is Few French books are reprinted in this work alone. The establishing of likely to be chosen. H. ■ «» a iwwei »