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MA-RSI-IIFIELX), OK., SATURDAY, JULY 3, 188Q.
!No. 27.
OITM'IAI, l'AI'Ult 01' COOS CO.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY,
Stale of Oreyan.
Governor, W. W. Thayer
Sceietiuy of Stall-, It. I. Karliart
'I'leasnier, K. 1 1 until
Supt. Public Schools, J. L. Powell
2d Judicial District.
.1 initio. J. F. Watson
Distiicl Attorney,
S. II. Hazard
Conn C'yinifi.
County Judge. .1. II. Nosier
Couimissiuiiors,
Hhorill"
Clerk,
Tieasuror,
John ICunyon
jit. 0. Dement
A. (I.Aiken
Alox. StauH'
I). Morse, J r
ASSCSSOr,
lohn Lane
School Superintendent, .). I'. Mooro
t'oionor, 1. u..Mueuey
Curry Conn'y.
County Judge,
Ymmissioucrs.
Delns Woodruff
!!'. Hughes
J. A.t'oolcy
Sheriff,
Clerk.
School Supt.,
Tieusiircr,
Coroner,
A II. Mnore
Walter Sutton
A. M. Gillespie
M It (ill)M)U
Thus, ('iiuuiughum
'1'lie Slatiil'i'M AuiiliiHt 'arllell
Forney's Sunday Chranirlr Hays in
regaid to (ho Piesidential canvass:
Republican newspapers an well as Re
publican speakers will niiiko a great
mistake dining tho coming compaign
if they join in the mud Hinging inuug
urati'il hy the Demoeraey. Tho scan
dals dug up against f!en. Cnrlield re
uiiio no refutation, and for his fiionds
to iimlertaki) it would only give them
the color of tiuth ami respectability
vvhich they now to lamentahly lack.
Fmin the nioment theio- slanders
Mi'io originated (Jen. (Jiirlield has
Crown in popular favor among hi
own people. The great State of Ohio
inste.ul of questioning his integrity
or 1)1 the least doubting bin ability
and eapaeity to nerve its interest has
nlnrgcd its confidence by enlarging
Ii its sphere of ncfulness.
There is no ti tier text uf n public
man's character than the fact that his
own people stand hy nnd coutinuo to
lenew their confidence in him. If
Mmllcatiou was at all neecsHury this
fact nlono would supply il to every
intelligent nnd fuir man in tho coun
try Ono point in this direction is
that Gen. Garfield is not a candidate
for Democratic Mites, and vhy then
should it matter wfiether the expo
nents of their faith consider him a
thief or 11 perjiuor. or whatever else
lcfamatioii may assign to his chnrac
ti'i9 He is tho camliilato of tho Re
litiblican patty anil its vote will be
tibundautly stilli 'ieilt to make him
Piciodmt of tho United States. What
is wanted is proper orgiini.alion of
the party, and with this assured we
have no fears of the ii'sult. The
Democratic resident committee, be
ing the center of all political stands
in Washington, started out to made a
campaign publication of (Jarlleld's
record. A week's exploration anil
xnniinatioit of documents was suffi
cient, and now it is announced that
they give il up. There is nothing in
it and il has been deemed inadvisable
to tup tho committee's barrel for so
useless a purpose.
'I'lie Kentucky .'IiiiiIh.
Aii exchange gives an account of
the Kentucky giant. Martin Van Bu
leu Hates, ho is 3(5 years old and
weighs 178 pounds, and in heighth is
wvt'ii and 11'.,. inches; an Apollo
llelvederein form, perfect proportions
and a physical (Joliath, at all times a
pleasant, affable gentleman, and a
perfect picture of manly grace, dipt.
Hates, as ho Is now known, lefl Ken
tucky in I8C18, parsing through Louis-
ill on his way to Kngland, where he
remained till 187(1, amassing a fortune
and spending his time in the pursuit
of intelligence concerning the history
of the mammoth men who are said
to have existed in olden time, hut
finally arrived at tho conclusion that
Kentucky had produced the largest
men the world ever saw. While in
Knglaml he met Miss Anna Swan,
the English giantess, whom ho mar
1 ieil in London on June 17, 1871.
Mrs. Hales is 71 yeaia old and weighs
11!) pounds, and, as if hy some special
decieo, is exactly tho sanro height as
her gigaulio husband. Together they
are a handsome couple, perfect in
form and feature, highly cultured
and an inteiestiug sight to behold.
Their combined weight is Sill pounds,
and, as Ihoy movu among common
humanity, lowering liko colossal pyi
(imids thoy inspire 0110 with wonder
nnd admiration.
FttiSNOii citizens are making great
nrrangiiinuuts to celubrato tho anni
versary of tho capture of tho Buslilu,
on thol-HliDf July, hy a prooiisdloii,
literary oxoroUiw and a feto at Wood
wind's Cliudutii, San Fnuiuisoo.
A,iTit,i, ii:ii)ui,m;a;v
1I,A'I'I'I.1I.
The following is the platform adopted
by the National Republican convention
at Chicago:
Itepublican rule has restored upon a
solid basis payment in coin for all the
national ohllgatioiis, and has given us a
currency absolutely good and legal, and
equal in everv part of our extended conn
try. It has lifted tint credit of the na
tion from the point wheio six per cent,
bonds sold at 80, to that where four per
cent, bonds are oagerlv sought at a pre
iiilutn. Under its administration rail
ways have incieased from .'11.000 miles
hi l'HiiO to more than 82,000 miles in 1871).
Our foreign trade has increased from
$7K),()tX),(N0 to tl.lf)0,00(l,000 in the same
time, and (air exports, which were $!!(),
(MMI.IMHI less than our imports in 187t).
Without restoring to loans, II has, since
the war closed, defrayed the ordinary
expenses of government, besides the ac
cruing interest on the public debt, and
disbursed annually more than $110,000,
000 fur soldiers' pensions. Il has ji.iid
$8h0,()00,000 of the public debt, and by
refunding the balance at lower lates has
tetlueed the annual interest charge from
nearly IKil, 000,000 to less than fttl.ooo,
cmmi. All the Industries of the country
have rclcd ; labor is In demand; wages
hae increased, nnd throughout the en
tire country there is evdienceofa coin
ing pr Hperity greater than we hae ever
enjoyed. Upon this record the Itepub
lican parly asks for the continued confi
dence and support of the people, and
this convention submits for their appro
val the following statements of the prin
ciple and pui pose which will continue
to guide and inspire its efforts:
Tin: iinri'iiucAN policy.
First We alllrni that the work of the
List twenty-one years has been such as
to commend itself to the favo of the na
tion, and that the fruits of the costly
victories which we have achieved
through immense dilllcultics should be
prenened. That the pence regained
should be cheri-died. That the dihi-ecr-ed
Cnioii, now happily restored, should
be perpetuated, and lual the liberties
secured to this n'lierulion should be
transmitted undiminished to future -gen-eialions.
That the tinier established
and the credit aeciiired should never be
iiupeiiled. That the pensions promised
should be paid. That the debt so much
reduced should be extinguished by the
full iiuwiicut of everv dollar thereof.
That the reiing industries should be
further promoted, and that the com
merce already so great should bo steadi
ly encouraged.
A NITIOV, M.T rONV'KI)i:itt'Y.
Second The coiiMtitutinn of the t'nit
ed States is the supreme law, and not a
mere contract. Out of the confederated
Slates it made a sovereign nation. Some
powers are denied t lite nation, while
others aie let. lined by the States; but
the boundary between the powers dele
gated and thoMorciurved is to he deter
mined hy national mid not by State tri
bunals. POPULAH P.Ill'CATIO.V.
Third Tho woik of popular education
is one left to the care of the several States
but it is the duty of the National Cm em
inent to aid that work to the extent of
its constitutional ability. The intelli
gence of the nation is but tlo aggregate
of the intelligence in the several States,
and the destiny of the nation mutt be
guided, not bv the genius of any one
State, but by the iicrage genius of all.
l'itni'ii.i:i covsTiTinoNAi. a.mi:mmi:nt
1'otirth The coiistitutian wisely for
bids congress to make nliy law respect
ing an establishment of religion, but it
it idc to hope that the nation can be
protected against the influence of secta
rianism, while each State is exposed to
its particular domination. We therefore
lecommend that the constitution he so
amended as to lay some piohihitions up
on the legislature of each State, and to
forbid tiie appropriation of the nubile
funds to the support of sectarian schools.
i)iTli.soniii:i.v.
Fifth We reallhm the belief avowed
ill 187(1, that the duties levied for the
purpose of revenues should so discrimi
nate as to favor Amciican labor. That
no further giant of the public domain
should be made to any railroad or other
coiporatiou. That slavery having per
ished in the States, its twin barbarity,
nolygumy, must die In the Territories.
That everywhere the protection accorded
to a citii'c'nof American birth must be
secured to citizens by Ameiicau adop
tion. That it is the duty of congress to
develop and improve our watercourses
and harbors, but we insist that further
subsidies to private persons or corpora
tions must cease. That the obligations
to the men who pit-served its integrity
in the day of battle are undiminished by
tlu lapse of fifteen years since their liua'l
victoiy. Their perpetual honor is and
shall forever be the grateful privilege
and the sacred duty of the American
people.
tiii:ohisi:si: plank. ,
Sixth Since the authority to regulate
immigration and intercourse between
the United States and foreign nations
rests with the congress of the United
Slates and its tieaty making powers,
that tho Iteiiublican parly, regarding the
unrest i icted immigration of Chinese as
an evil nf gieat magnitude, invokes the
exercise of the power to restrain and lim
it that Immigration hy the enactment of
such just, Immune and reasonable pro
visions as will produce that result.
COMMENDATION 01' II.lYKS.
Seventh That the purity and patriot
ism w hichcharacteilcs the earlier career
of Itulheiford II. Ilaye.iupeaceuud war
ami which guided the thought of his im
mediate picdecesMir to him for a Presi
dential candidate, have continued to in
siihe him in his cuiccr as Chief Kecu
ttve, and that hlstoiy will accord to his
administration the houois w hich aie due
to an elllcieut, just and courageous ful
fillment of the jiublle business, and will
honor his interposition between the peo
ple and proposed pailisau laws.
Altlt.VKINMIINT Of Till; DKMOCIt VC'Y.
rCigJith We charge upon the Dem
on ratio party the habitual Mierillce of
patriotism and justice to u supremo
and uiisatiahle lust for olllco and pat
ronage, that to obtain poijcseinu of
tho National and State (ioverniuents,
and tho co nl nil of place and position,
they have obitruotcd all tho ollbrU
to preserve tho purify ami oousorva
Uio fi'uudoui of auUnigu ; lmvu duvliud
frutidloul certificates and returns ;
have labored to unseat lawfully elect
ed members of Congress, to cecitr.i at
all hazards the vote of tho Status in
the llouso of Representatives; have
endeavored to occupy by force and
fraud places of trust given to others
by the people of Maine, and rcsciired
by the courage and action of Maine's
patriotic, sons j have hy methods,
vicious in piiuciplu and tyrannical in
practice, attached imrtisan legislation
to appropriation hills ; h ivo crushed
thorigh'Hof individuals, and vindi
cated the principles and sought tho
favor of rebellion against the nation ;
and have endeavored to obliterate the
sacred inemoiics of the war, and to
overcome its inestimable good results
freedom and individual equality.
We alllrni il to be the duty and pur
pose of the Republican parly to use
all the legitimate means of this Union
to secure the perfect haimouy which
may bo practicable and wo submit to
the pnrcticul, sensible penplo of the
United States to say whether it would
not bo dangerous to the best interest
of our country at this time to surrend
er the administration of the National
Government to a parly which seeks
to overthrow the existing policy un
der which we are so piospcrous, and
thus bring destruction and confusion
where thero is now older, confidence
aniPhopc.
, DllIMilUCH StlljIllIlM'll,
III the enily part of the year 187G,
Mrs. I'lielps, mother-in-law of James
Montgomery, the well-known railroad
contractor, now engaged in building
the line of the Oregon It nil way Com
pany, Limited, and wife of the Gov
ernor of Missouri, received dangerous
injuries by falling into tho hold of
the st"atuship City of I'anumu, while
the vessel was lying at tho dock at
Seattle. A suit was brought in the
third district, and alter a long, clo'e
ly contested trial, a virdict was
brought in favor of Mrs. l'helps ami
damages to the amount of $5,000
awarded her. She claimed the sum
was too small, and the Steamship
company claimed it was too large, so
both appealed to the Supremo Court
of the Territory, wheic the action of
the lower court was increased from
K,000 to $15,000. The Steamship
company again appealed and Justice
Clifford of the U. S. Supremo Court,
has recently announced the decision
of that tribunal, which sustains that
of tho Territoiial court and in favor
of Mrs. I'lielps.
Vorls of Delia nee.
"Don't give up the ship!" shouted
the dying Lawrence, outside of Bos
ton harbor, as tho Chesapeake poured
a broadside into the riddled Shannon.
"We have met tho enemy and they
are ours!" vvroto tho gallant l'erry in
his report of the glorious victory at
Lako Brie. "Mr. Morris," cried the
rebel renegade Buchanan, from the
turret of the Mcrrimac, to the brave
lieutenant commanding tho Cumber
land: "Mr. Morris, do you sunender
your ship?" "Go to hell, sir!" thund
ered his old subordinate, through his
speaking trumpet, amid the din of
battle. And the Cumberland filed
her last gun and sank in tho waves
with her crew, the Stars and Stripes
floating out a deathless defiance up
on the winds of heaven, as tho shot
went into the sea.
To Alii I(i 'oot' llutlor.
A method in practico among tho
butter makers of Kn gland for icnder
ing butter firm and solid during the
hot weather is as follows: Carbon"
ate of soda and alum are used for this
purpose, niado into powder. For
twenty pouudsof butterone loaspoon
f nl of carbonate of soda and ono tea
spoonful of powdered alum mingled
togethered at tho time of churning
and put into tho cream. Tho effect
of this powder is to make tho butter
comu firm and solid, and to give u
clean, swcot flavor, it does not enter
into tho butter, but its action is upon
the creain, and it passes oil' with tho
hutteimilk. The ingredients of the
powder bhouhl not bo mingled togeth
er until required to bu used or nt the
time tho cream is in the churn ready
for churning.
Ahout ninety million dollars aro
annually paid to foreign shippers for
transportation of American pioduots.
This vast sum might ho kept in this
country if our legislators wero sulll
cieutly far-seeing lo build up tho ship
ping interests of the United States as
tho Knglish Government inn built up
tho vast system hy virluo of which
Great Britain to-day monopolizes tho
carrying trado of tho world. Tho
British have novcr begrudged subsi
dies by whioh their great lines of
ocean steamships are sustained and
developed, and publio inouoy could
hardly he spout to hotter advantage
than in strengthening such steam
ship companion as wo have, an.l in
otiitouragiutj tho organization of
others,
ftiiiigauini: for tho Co.st Mam,,
Only fi.'.GQpur annum.
Npcvllil (JriiiiiNfH.
Tho following is from tho Dramatic
News' correspondent at Home, Italy,
under dato of May 120:
1 am now going to tell you fome
nting that will interestyou. in Hun
gary thero is n celebrated pianist, a
Count Gc7.n-Zichi, who plays with on
ly one baud, lie has been offered
f.W.OOO for an American tour, hut lie
wants $100,000. for he desires to found
a musical academy iu Hungary to
hour his numel And no doubt he
will get his price when his philan
thropic object is known.
Iu Paris, also, there is another gen
ius, an Italian boy, o.ily twelve years
of age, who is astonishing tho world
by his "ready reckoning powers."
His namo is Giacomo Tumuli, and
not long ago ho was wandering the
streets friendless and half-starved.
Ho wont about with a monkey for a
companion in searclt of his daily
hiead. AVIicn his monkey had fin
ished all his tricks, nnd Giacomo saw
a crowd around him, ho used to ask:
"Ask me an arithmetical riddlel I'll
guess it!" And he did so, to the as
tonishment of every ono who listened
to him. One day ho attracted the at
tention of a merchant of Marseilles,
who took him from his vagabond life
and sent him to Paris, where he was
presented to tho Anthropologic Socie
ty. Dr. Broco was so astounded at
this phenomenon that he measured
the boy's head in every direction, and
was rewarded hy finding that it was
much more developed on the right
side than on the left. Giacomo is ns"
easy in manner as any little gentle
man. His face, however, is rather
too old for his ago. Liko Topsy, he
may he said to have 'growed' for ho
knows nothing of parents, relatives,
or friends. His forehead is immense
hideously immense, I may say.
The other day an old man said to
him : "I am 85 years of age, less 20
days. How many hours old am I?"
The hoy took his gigantic forehead
between his hands, thought for an in
stant, then said: "753-"J7 hours."
Another question was: "If I were
tho third of years old that lam and
five years more I should bo '25 years
of age. How old am I?" Tho boy
laughed and said at once : "Why,
ninety years of age." Computing
the cube of such a number as 39,301
was play to him. It is thought that
this lad may bo trained to do service
in tho scienco of mathematics, for ho
is much more intelligent than any
"calculating" boys who have hitherto
come into view. Ho docs not vet
know his A It C's. His education
has, therefore, to bo begun at the very
beginning. But, as u friend remarks,
'It may ho more lucrative to educate
that lad than to rear Dutch tulips,"
which are now onco nioro bringing
fabulous prices.
1Vli't- lu ",lVUHN.,,
Virginia (Nov.) chronicle.
"It's astonUhin'," remarked tho old
forty-niner this morning as ho nod
ded over his glass to our reporter;
"Its astouishin' whata coward a man
is at home a reg'lar erawlin' sneak,
by Jove!. 1'vo travelled a good bit,
and held up my end in most o the
camps on the coast sense '49. I've
got three bullets insido o' me. I've
shot an' been shot at, an' never heard
nobody say that 1 hadn't as good grit
as most fellers that's goin.' Hut at
homo I'm a kyote. Aforo I'd lot the
olo woman know that her hot biscuits
wasn't A 1 when its liko still" amal
gam, I'd fill myself as full as a retort.
I've done it lots o' times. Most o' my
teeth is gouo from tugging on beef
steaks that tho old woman had fried.
D'ye think I roar out an' cuss when I
go over a chair in tho dark? No, sir.
Whilo I'm rubbtn' my shins an' keep
in' hack tho tears, I'm likewise sweat
in' for fear tho olo woman has been
woke up by tho upset. It didn't uso
to bo so," sighed tho poor follow
thoughtfully, rubbing his scalp.
"When wo was first hitched 1 thought
I was tho superintendent, hut after a
year os two of argyin' that pint I set
tled down to shovin' tho oar at low
wages. I can lick any man o' my
ago an size," cried tho old gentleman,
banging tho saloon table with his
wrinkled list. "I'll shoot, knife,
stand up, or rough and tuinblo for
coin, but when I hang my hat on tlio
peg iu tho hall, an' take oil" my mud
dy hoots, an' hear tho old woman ask
if that's mo, I toll you tho starch
comes right out o'nic."
Kxruisiow An explosion of tiro
works, prepared for tho Fourth of Ju
ly, occurred iu San Francisoo on tho
night of tin) 10th. 31. J. Fluven of the
I. X. L. store, had stored in tho base
niontiu tho loarof the storo on Com.
inorcial street, ahou .$15,000 worth of
llroworks, whioh oxploded ahout mid
night. The loss amounted to several
thutiiaudm of dollar.
airiirlI iiM ii Noldlcr.
During tho winter preceding tho
breaking out of the war Garfield had
taken a bold and patriotic stand iu
favor of the Union, and il was under
his direction that a hill was -passed
through the Ohio Legislature declar
ing that "any resident of the State
who gave aid or comfort to the ene
mies af tho United States guilty of
treason against the State, to bo pun
ished by imprisonment iu tho peni
tentiary for life." His iccord as a
soldier is one of continuous gallantry.
When, iu 1802, he encountered
Marshal in an intrenched position in
Kentucky with four regiments and
four guns, lie (Garfield) had but 2500
men at his command. With these
crawling on their hands and knees
through the dense underbrush, he
drove the rebels pell mull from their
intrenchments with the loss of all
their guns and camp equipage, and
with 85 killed left on tho battle field.
Some days later he made a dash upon
the enemy at Middle Creek, attacking
the rebels who outnumbered his force
three to one. It was a fight lor hours
at close quarters, the enemy giving
ground inch by inch, until 4:30 in
the afternoon, when Garfield's small
hut determined forces drove them, in
haste and disorder, capturing their
stores and a number of prisoners.
During the battle the Fourteenth
Kentucky regiment responded to a
call from Garfield to dislodge the ene
my from a position commanding the
field. "Go in, boys," shouted Garfield,
give them Hail Columbia," and they
rushed on, clearing the hight on a
double quick. As they came on Gar
field took otrhis coat and flung it in
the air, when it lodged in a tree top
out of reach. Tho men threw up
their caps with a wild shout and
rushed on following Garfield, who
led them on a run, in his shirt sleeves.
As the Union soldiers reached the
top of the hill a rebel cried out :
'How many arc there of you?"
"Twenty-five million, d n you I"
shouted back a Kentucky Union offi
cer, and a moment after the rebels
broke and ran in confusion down the
hill. It was after the affair at Middle
Creek that Garfield found himself and
his men in tho heart of a rough,
mountainous country, incapable of
furnishing, adequate supplies. The
Big Sandy was swollen by excessive
rains to such a hight that steamboat
men declared that it was impossible
to ascend tho river. Garfield leaped
into a skiff, descended it. ordered sup
plies on board a small steamer, order
ed tho crow on board, and stood by
the wheel, compelling tho littlo ves
sel, trembling in every plank as it
breasted tho flood which swept among
the tree branches along tho bank.
This perilous journey occupied two
days and ono night, during which
time Garfield was absent only six
hours from tho wheel.
Orcgon'n Adventurous Son.
Our readers will note with interest
any news from tho Arcticexpedition
under Lieut. Schwatka, who was
raised in Salem. A late issuo of the
Statesman says : " Two years ago to
day, Juno 19th, 1870, Lieut. Fred. G.
Schwatha, sailed from New York in
tho whale schooner IJothcn for tho
artie regions in search of information
that might lead to a discovery of the
fato of Sir John Franklin's expedi
tion. The last word that has been
reeceived from Lieut. S. was a letter
to his father iu this city, dated the
31st of March, 1S79, and written at
Camp Daly, North Hudson's Bay,
from which point he intended to
start northward shortly after that
date. News may bo expected from
Lieut. Schwatka some time tho com
ing fall, and it may bo that no word
will bo obtained of his whereabouts
beforo tho spring of 18S1.
.fosli llllllngn on .llurrlnfie.
Don't expect to marry an angel,
they havo all been picked up long
ago. ltoincmber Joe, you hain't a
saint yourself. Do not quarry for
beauty exclusively ; beauty islikoico,
awfully slippory, and thaws dread
fully easy. Don't marry for luv,
neither; luv is liko a cooking stove,
good for nothing when tho fuel gives
out. Hut let tho mixture bo somo
beauty, becomingly drossod, with
about two hundred and fifty dollars
iu her pocket, a gud spoiler, handy
and neat in her house, plenty of good
souse, tu IV constitution and by-laws,
small feet, a light step ; add to this
sound teotli an a warm heart. Tho
mixture will kcop in any climate, and
will not ovaporato. Don't marry for
pedigree unless backed by bank notes,
A family with nothing but pedigree
generally lack sense.
It is illegal in Bngland to sell crabs
measuring loss than 4j inohos across
tho hack, and perrons selling them
have lately boen punished,
Nuicldcoftlif: Wife of i ."Mur
derer. A Kansas City, Missouri, dispatch
of the 18th says : A startling tragedy
was enacted hero to-night, resulting
in tho death hy a suicido of a wife of
IlaydeUrown, a condemned murder
er. Tho execution of Brown is to
take place at Mobcrly, Friday. He is
confined in jail in this city. His wife,
an intelligent, prepossessing woman,
of 20, came hero with her three year
old child a few days ago and has spent
nearly all her time in her husband's
cell, since her arrival. During the
entire day to-day, she has been there,
and it appears an agreement was
made between him and his wife, that
both should commit suicide at 7:30 to
night. Accordingly as the time ap
proached, the woman in her boarding
place wrote a note of explanation,
pinned it to the child's breast, and
making a bed upon the floor, placed a
revolver to her temple and put a bul
let through her brain. She expired
instantly. Two policemen went to
the jail to notify Brown of his wife's
action. As they called him into tho
corrider they saw him put something
hastily in his mouth. They immedi
ately grasped him by the throat, and
after a protracted struggle, succeeded
in removing half an ounce of mor
phine from liis mouth. The mor
phine was given him by his wife.
When called to the corridor Brown
emitted oath after oath and curse af
ter curse and when the poison was re
moved, he begged to be killed and
cursed his fate. Brown is a thor
oughly bad man and the strange
devotion of his wife is the subject of
much comment.
The Great American Republic.
The London Telegraph, comment
ing on the United Statet and its great
ness as likely to be shown by the
census now in progress says : "In a
short time the tenth census of what
has long been a mighty people will be
taken, and we lisk little in saying
that, in Joseph Hume's phrase, "the
tottle of the whole," will show a pop
ulation of over 50,000,000, especially if
tho immigrants who arc now pouring
into the United States in vast num
bers aro not omitted from the calcu
lation. In other words, the popula
tion of the great republic in 130 will
be their population in 177G multiplied
by twenty, and were it likely that
the same ratio of increase could bo
maintained for another century, the
mind of man would sink before the
eflbrt of imagining what it is possible
for tho monster republic to be in 19S0.
However boundless the resources of
the North American continent may
bo, it can hardly be expected that the
second centenary of the United States
will be celebrated by a thousand mil
lion human beings, yet such would be
the result of multiplying fifty millions
by twenty. Any how it is certain
that a century hence no such assem
blage of men speaking the same lan
guage, and amenable to the same
general traditions of feeling, habit
and education, will ever havo been
gathered together upon earth as will
then probably occupy the great West
ern Continent."
Clin. DcYouns' Will.
The will of tho lato Charles Do
Young was filed for probato in San
Francisco on tho 22d ult. It is dated
two years ago, and declares that ho
and his brother, M. II. De Young, own
tho Chronicle, and tho property and
material used in carrying it on, of
which tho testator owns two-thirds.
It bequeaths his estato and property
of all kinds to his brother M. II., and
except certain bequests to relatives
and friends, aggregating $15,000, in
cluding $10,000 to M. II., conditioned
on his giving it to his brother Gusta
vus in case ho regains his sanity. It
provides for tho payment of a portion
of the profits of tho Chronicle to his
relatives for their maintainanco. Ex
ecutors without bonds aro It. II. Lloyd
and M. II. Do Young. Tho executors
state in tho petition for probato that
they aro at present unablo to state
tho valuo of tho estate.
Amas.v Wilsey of Petaluma, Cali
fornia, dreamed last Fall that ho
would dio on May 1, 1S80. Tho oc
currence impressed him, though he
affected to attach no importance to
it, and ho joined three lifo insurance
societies, so as to leave his wife pro
vided for in caso of his deathT On
May 1, ho was apparently in good
health. A dinner was to have been
given to him in tho evening, to cele
brate lus escape from a fulfilment of
tho dream. Tho party hud just gath
ered, when ho fell fiom his chair,
stricken with heart disoase, and died
iu a few minutes,
AccoTuiiNCj to tho census enumera
tor, tho population of Olympia is 1,249.
There aro in the citv 280 dwelling
liouios, large and small.
'I' lie Jlodcut rVonilnec.
Tho Inter-Ocean describes the im
mediate circumstances of tho nomin
ation. Garfield, as is well known,
had insisted tiiat the vote of the Ohio
delegation should be cast for Sherman.
When the result of the 30th ballot bo
came kuovn, the man whose namo
was upon every lip, and for "whom
10,000 hoarse people were shouting,
satin his scat pale, but tho very em
bodiment of composure. Such an
event had never occurred before.
Never in the history of popular elec
tions had aconvenlion nominated ono
ono of its own number for office. A
the vote increased Garfield turned to
a newspaper reporter and said :
"I wish you would say that thia is
no act of mine. I wish you would
gay that I have done everything, and
omitted nothing to secure Secretary
Sherman's nomination. I want it
plainly understood that I have not
sought tiiis nomination, and have
protested against the use of my name
If they had permitted, I would havo
forbidden anybody to vote for me ;
but he took me off my feet beforo I
said what I intended. I am very sor
ry this has occurred, but if my posi
tion is fully explained a nomination
coming unsought and unexpected
like this will be the crowning gratifi
cation of my life."
Then the crowd, jamming up to
shake hands with the hero, prevented
further conversation. The General
kept his seat, as if anxious to avoid
the congratulations which were so
roughly thrust upon him. Turning
to a friend, he asked : "Is there no
place where I can go? My remaining
here will interrupt business." But
no one seemed to help him out of his
embarrassment. The crowd still con
tinued to rush upon him, and when
the vote of Wisconsin was canvassed,,
giving him a majority, and the con
fusion of applause broke out, he was
fairly overwhelmed with the excited
delegates, who climbed over benches
to grasp his hand.
High Englih .Salaries.
From tho New York Times.
The British Government places a
high valuo on the services of lawyers
in the cabinet, and pays them moro
handsomely than the other members.
The Lord Chancellor, the Attorney
General and the Solicitor-General
each have a higher salary than the
Prime Minister or the Secretin ies.
The Secretaries : The Lord Chancllor
receives $50,000 a year, the Attorney
General .$40,000, and the Solicitor
General $35,000, whilo the Premier is
paid $25,000 yearly, which is also the
salary of the Excequer, and the Home,
the Foreign, the Indian, the Colonial,
end the War Secretaries. The Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland receives $100,
000 per annum, and the Chancelor of
Ireland $40,000, Judges arc also paid
large salaries in England that of
Lord Chief Justice being $40,000, whilo
tho ordinary Justices of tho Court of
Appeal and of tho High Court of
Justico get $25,000 a year each. No
public law officer in tho United States
is paid anything like the amounts
named. The Chief Justice of tho
United States receives $10,500' which
is $500 more than is given to each of
the Asociato Justices. Tho salary of
the Attorney-General in tho United
States is $8,000. Somo of tho New
York Judges aro better paid than tho
members of the United States Su
premo Court, but their salaries aro
vastly below thoso of tho English
Judges.
A chaumixo widow owns u nico boy,
and a man wants to bo appointed dep
uty fathor tp tho lad. It was only
last Sunday that, while tho St, Paul
man was strolling with tho lad, ho
asked : "Bub, does your mother bang
her hair?" and tho fool answered :
'Oh, no ; but you ought to 6eo her
bang dads head. Guess the minister
didn't know everything when he told
pap td preparo to dio. Preparo, why
lie was just aching to dio.
Dorixo the last four years of tho
Methodist Church, 717 preachers and
119,000 members havo been added to
tho denomination ; 512 prcachors and
78,500 members have died, and therv
aro 10,000 churches in tho United
States, with property valued at $80,-
000,000, and a total debt of $7,000,000.
During tho quadrenium $95,000 of tho
Book concern debt has been paid, nnd
$3,415,000 worth of litoraturo publish
ed. The wondorful of song which pro
ceeds from tho tiny throat of a canary
bird seoms wholly disproportionate to
its size. But it has boon discovered
that in birds tho lungs havo several
openings, communicating with cor
responding air-bags, or cells, which
fill tho whole cavity of tho body from
tho neck downward, and into which
the nir passes and i pnasscs.