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About The Coast mail. (Marshfield, Or.) 187?-1902 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1880)
-m 'j'eTrr"'jy-wy'?' V , Vv n t ' &$ipsBJEfciBU4LkA4 . . . -4 The Coast Ms.fi 1. The Coast Mail. DEVOTKD TO -alii liivm xmmxjjamt. THIS COAST I'lJMUHIII'.P EVERY SATURDAY MORNING WEBSTER, HACKER & LOCKHART, Marxlillpld, Coos Co., Or. MAIL. THE INTERESTS OF SOUTH ERN OREGON ALWAYS FOREMOST, SSSfe- 'tc': Terms, hi Alliance. One year Six IllOtltllS .... Thrpo mouths - The Development of our Mines, the Improvement of our harbors, nnd rail rovld communication with the Interior specialities. 1 fi 1 00 Vol. II. MA-RSI-IITTELD, OR., SATURDAY, AUGUST 21 18SO. ISo. 34. ' , iff '"-&? WW- rfe-SSl? BLJcSvi OITICIAI. l'AI'lIlt or COOS CO. Hmai.I. Talk". Homo ono has aptly tleeoiibod ptolilless small talk iih a inciiliil shifllcssuess which foibids our making nn iilfbit fo talk usefully. It coitH an t'll'ort to lliinl;, and mine at aH to go through tho customary louiiil of weather obscviilions. Anil ho it comes to pass that wo inovo (hio'i:;h a world that is full of beauty with cyox hliliil lo (lin mill vets spiing- illg lll 111(11111(1 UK. Willi IIIOIIMIIllllllH llllll IIIUl(tll(lIIOIIK llll'Mti0IIH pICSsillg ttlllUI IIH for HOlllollH'lll, wo luivo 'loo liii'ii energy lo think of llicin or lalk of llii'iu, ami wo behave ciiiiiimiiilv' us if pining mill diiiklng anil slewi'tig mailo up the tot.il of lifo. Tho sectel of improving til' U 1m to lliul n lovi'l up on which n'l iule'lepls can meet. If tho iutoHootunl lovolof ii mail is about that of moit of (lie pconlo aiming who'ii ho inovci, it in for him to im fia t a sl'inn'l's to i no moo sluggish or 'ess cultuipil-minds of those with whom ho talks. Hocitn niiivo nt this rcMii't by u xpecics of coiiMiomixo. I, ft him talk with tho fiiruior iihout his fiiini mill with tho intisnn ithou1 his tools nnd Inhoi, mid bnvi.ig thus cstiihl'shed what limy ho cnl'cil in p'eot'ienl piirlaui'o n "p' cu'l," eon vpcunt'ou or mi l.itcll'gcut ami though fill sort becomes oiim It may not ho of the highest nn's" but it is profitn lilo. For anything mo.o satisfying, no can tin u to hooks. I novor saw a garment too IIomi lino for man or maid ; there 'never was a ehair too good for a cooper or a rohhler or a king lo nil in; never a house too flue to shelter 11 human head. Thee elements nhout us, tho glorious xky, the impend kuo, mo not (00 good for the human i.kc. Ele gance lit" mail. Kill do we not value tlipso tools for tho houcokeoping a litilo uioro than they am worth, ami coinet'ines inortgngo a lnnco for (he mahogtiiiy wo would hiing into it? I had rather eat my dinner off tho head of a h..rrel, or drers after the 1 fiiMhlon of John (ho Kap'.ist in (lie wilderness, or nit 011 a hlock all my life, th. 111 consume all mynolf hefife I got to a homo, mid tnko t-o much pains wilh the oitlxido th.tt the inside wns ns hollow as an empty utu. Scan ty is a great thing hut beauty of a giiiuieu(, house, and fiini'Mi'-e, am lawdiy oiiiamonts couip.ued with doinclie love. Alt tho elegance of (ho woihl will not make a homo, and I would give more for a npoonful of real, hearty lovo than for whole ship loads of furniture and nil (ho go-go-ouxuexs that all tho uphoiteiois in tho win Id could gather. Tot: Hii'TIkii Ti'.nant Fakmkii. Tho Miitisili landloid is gitimhlSng ut his falling ion's. Tho len.iiil fanner win always gitimhliiig ; ho is now do hpaitiug. Tho laborer iill, as he nlwnys wai, dull, htohd, iudi'Vccnt. IMso'ily hope is in enivaiion. Mo lia.snhettcrcducatiou I bun the Fieneh tcascui, though hy no menu" xo good ns the (lormau and yet look at tho (lireieiico between I'lem. Those have been awakened to new l-fe by the "limbic of pioperty." Tho l'nglish lnbo.er is hut a chattel oil the xoi! ho (ills. Tho tenant (.inner is wearing hix lien t out in tho vain xtiugglc lo force a xuhxixtonco from anoiher mail's laud, and in I ho face of for eign competition swelling 1'ko a ris ing i'.ood agaiiiRt him) is traveling a load whoso oud is the court of bank ruptcy. ImikIoii Vor. SI. 1'ittil 1',-i'n.i. Tic-: Now: optiu: FiN'('i:i:.--ln tho ciirient in mbor of t'lO.V "'''((-' I'eco.'il, Dr. Ilammont'. says that when you poke Hid e id of your linger in your ear, (lie 10.11 ing noise you hear is (ho ciioulalion in your Hugo , which !s a fuel, which anyone can do iionsltulo fir h''iielf hy Hist puiliiiK I''11 Hui,ors in his ears, and then tnop dug them up w'ih iu lorxu'iisianeos. T y it. and (hi ik wi'.U a wonder of a iuiioIi'mo your body is. that even tho po'ins of your linden a e xuoh busy wo'Vxhops that thoy loar "ko a hiik.11 Ni.igaia. Tho inuring in piohahly 1110 0 than tho no'xo ul tho 0' ciilal'ou of (ho blood. H is tho voice of i'10 vital pioi'osxo.i .ogCkhor- -the loiiilng dovu nuil building up processes that aio id ways going on in ovov living body, from coueopt'oii lo death. ClItCIIMH'i'ANCDri Oi'tOU lletOllllillO how inucli hIiow a man shall make. To ho famous depends 011 sonio fouiii (los : (o ho a I'losldout depends 011 (ho ncuto Hiuolloiri of n Tow politicians ami a inystorious set of wiies: lo ho lich depends on lii.'lh or luek ; to ho inlel Ipedially oiiiluoiit may iloioud on tho njipoln inout of I'loviilouooj but to l'o a man in tho buiio of unbalance, (lejiouds xololy ou ono'ti own noblo ambilloii and dotouiiinntiou 10 live in contact witli (Jod'a open ntmos ldifixj of truth and right. -Stun- Kin; 'I'll 11 I.IINt IPlll. "I novor ilcnlt again I" Those words fo' I fiom the lips of rt gonilciniiii well known in Lonilvillo, yet fow recognize in tho elegant easy going man who now commands tno icsncct of hid follow citizen, tho onco coot-hci'dcil, iinpoii'iih'o gitmlilcr, who, in his day, llgii'cd pioniiuoiitly along tho i'licillc coast, and was nl most iinivoisally recognized ns the slnewdosl fiuo ilou'er in tho West, "Ah fori ho game's morality, that's neither here northo'c. When dealt upon the xiiiro il is much liko tiny other game. It is not to bo thought that tiio law wi'l hinder inon u hit if thoy want to play, iiml often they nro fou'voreuiod of pl.iyiog when Micy find it doesn't pay. I dealt iho game for tweoiy yoa's, but J vo ipiit now. I mailo nothing nor lost anything, mid, hut for ii sight I oueo Maw, I should probably be n gambler m! Ml. Ilciohy bangs n tnlo. hot mo tell it: Homo three yearn ago I run n h:;jh toned gaino at n eeitriu place you piohahly know, for it Hi ikes mo I saw you (hero. It wns a sijim'-o game, as I will leuvo any one to nay u (hiking game, for I don't for .'lie bloods in town, nuil 1 o'.en hail m innuy ns llvo liiy-ootx nt u time, wnh too much bus'iiexs on liiuid lo even get linieto .chI. One evening n young ehnp xiiollcil in, with n unit of euri- ohm to. id on h's fuco, ami I coiicluc'ed j right -'ioio that ho was giecn. lie wiiHrnii-!ia ctl, and had a pair of hluc eyes and e'ear-cut fe.ituics .111 in iioeoul looking young follow if over 1 caw one. Uon'y icquhcd a glance to convince you that hu win a s(.-iing-or in the gnmhiing loom. Ho roon was at homo though, for 1 buw in his blue eyes the lovo of play ; after that evening ho was a coiiKtaut visitoi. lo played h:s p;lo right up iiml up, mid never giowled if his luck wes haul, and on ou'ty can! he'd slake the limns tin to hluc. Take it alto- gcthei, hii luck was haul .oinoliiiieH toe haidexl, I ihink, I eor taw. I've known him lo loo -at a single deal seven double shots. I'.uxiuess for me, of coinse, but Niuicliow it M'Oiiicd aliiiojit too bad. I coii'd not xay a womI, (hough, and yet I I'd. cd the boy. Ho had litis of the filthy. 1 think f-om tho day ho began ho must hao dropocd a cool lOi),(HH) 011 the gaino mid never growled. Wo both (put gamhl'iig tho na no night he, poor lad, for xiilllcient lea xous, and 1 because I loathed the game, It was in (his wise: "His coin gave out in a deal or two, and he put up a diamond ling just to see his 'II luck out.yo.i know. The chips miou went. Do had a pin, llnining xtono in .nnxs'vo metal. Ho passed (liai in without a word, irid ilow.-00 cold. So he'p 1110 liodl I wished him 'nek as heart'iy 11.1 any p'ayer ihoie; hut l'o, his last s.aek went my way on a losing aco. Ho diew t"(K) moid I think, on his watch and chain, en! irled h's lino of bets again, hut his luek vas gone. My Hot!! I'll never 'o got tho oalp.liag g nd look (rat etossed !i!s face, hu. ho was ga no. lie novor tiUoiod a wo.d, hu( !:. hix plinii-, liko a pll'ar of xloue. For a iiioinoat ho xeoined ilii.eil at his leverxcs, but suddenly his eyo caught the (hin wo n nu clei of du'I gold on his little (Minor. Ho looked nt it a lit. lo while, and a dink wave of hot, o'Miixo!! blood pau ed ovo" his face, for this eircle( xeein cd .0 cling even fuse1- Minn (ho ll.uii- !.ig gem ho had passed in lufou). Ho I'lh'stx. ipped it oil' his linger n.id hinded it :o 1110. It canio roiuelailly, this woin, old ring. 'Wlmt can 1 linvo ou (hix?' ho iishec. M don't know what its value is, hut 1 II lodeom it llrst or all.' It might h..vo coU 5 now, hut it win wo' hless t'.ioo. S.ill I paxi-cd oat 11 iK.y st.'ck iurotuiu just 0 lot h'm liy ngain. Ho planked it dow 1 in tho pol, and tlion low U 011 (ho tnh'o ho la'il h's fneo upon his folded 11 ins. Well, for a wonder, his luek oliniijcd, nnd ho won Citeo times. Ho look no notice of 1110 when I told him when tho IlinU barred, and so wo played to II dy on each caid. Could you heliovoil? In tho deal tho pot won out and never lostl And st'll ho lay with his fneo in his anus. Tho deal was out, and 1 nhook him up, lint not a muscle moved, and, rals'iig h's face, I H.arlfd luck in lio'roc at tho glmstly o::n"ossiou of his oyes, for (ho boy was dead! I've often wondered (0 myself since tluit n'glit W'liit. (houghts worn Hit (ing (liiough hix Ina'n i ho bowed his head ami hid his face from our s'ghl, what pledges of 11 belter life, legiolsfor a fortuno ho had thrown away w'lh lavish hand, and loathing of his Irrevocable courso. Who can loll? Wo can but ruins nt tliom, but mav never feel. II is face showed .... .... . I !.. .I...I l.J..f years ol licit enuiucu 111 uuu wm 1 game, hut it was not until (ho Coron er's jury nut that I learned nil. He fine them wns developed (ho fact (hat (ho ring which had changed his luck, as it did his existence, was ouo given him hy his dour (lend mother years before. I 'our hoy I I never dealt again." A Dclllii'i'iitc .lltii'iter. On the morning of the 1211 1 1 ult.. leo. W. Smith, ex-Sheriir of (he county of Nevada, Cal., met T. W. Higoiiinoy, an old unit wealthy resi dent, in front of the National hotel olllce. .Smith charged Sigourncy of lobbing him, and without further wn.-iiing drew his pistol and com menced shooting at Sigourney, killing him at (ho third xhot. Trouble had existed between them for many mouths. It appears that Sigourney held 11 moitgngc oil n'l of Smith's properly, which had been foreclosed, nuil .Smith has been disposcsBcd of all his pioierty save a small house i lto which he had moved his family nnd in which ho wns now living. This morning, by oidc of Sigourney, no tice wns served on Smith's family to vacate (ho homo or cabin in winch (hey lived. Smi h c'aiius unfair (rt'.i. incut 011 (ho part of Sigourncy through his many and long transac tions with him, am! that the attempt th's morning to eject his family from (heir 'irexotit very humble abode, xo eniageil Smith lint he bought out Sigourncy and kil'cd him. On the other hand, many claim that Sigour ncy was veiy lenient and strictly hon orable in his iiiauv ye.irs dealings with S o'th, and ii'ic much hesita tion was ojI'soJ to take severe legal mcusuics to get his dues. Hit iii-ocU its 11 llr coy Tor Votcm, (lonc'id Deiiity, in a late i-pceh nt Columbus, OImi, said: )i was not love for 1. 10 xoU (! iicoid of (icneivl Ha icock i'n'1 seen Til !i:x 110111'. kumiii at C'ee'-ina'5. ()'i tho coo :i -, i( wir "e bel'ef .hat he cou'T, bo gov- cii"!1, (,;'cc.cd chI iii::-cd poli.'cal'y by the Lemii'x, (ho IJi'lx, fie ICelleyx' behind the cuitain nnd pull the irap and the T'dens. Thoy put his biil-jdooi. Kate and Magg'e always went limit rccoid to the irout for the same H'.ixoa thai a jiiirio ship 1.1ns ti he penniiiii of an hoiioied uat'ou to the niasliic.nl; forthosaino loasou that a s.illiiil hu.i-er nm.'i'ovs a decoy. Had the'r 1110 ives been go,)!1, and their iiile.ii'ons (o give usa f,i-,opeii and manly battle, toey would have M'lee.cdii candidate who lopioxonted i'io principles and 1i-adI(iors o' thei party .iiev would have 1 ikon Tiiden Itayard Lamar nuil liendrickx. Mime of ibo hi'iu'red distinguished dough faces of the No'-il, or of (ho thousand ex'-Con'ei'e'.ile geneia's and .-.talesmen of ho South. Hut they know too weM that if (ho De.noei'.iiie t-hip we 0 Ian ichcd wilh any of these will any man, in f..c. who had a Dcaioeia e. iceoii.as its 03. cus'tile commando. it would bohoa'-t'ed anil see it 'ed hy an indigii.'iit Noi'th tux! xiink so deep (hat no'ibo' lime por t'lonfiv would wi.iiessi's resii"cc(!o.i. i.'tMiecnletl 'l'ri'ii-iire. Thoy tell in Now Mexico, of a lich mine (hat was woikcd in fust half of too p-eseiit century, and of tho pack ingof Ihesireh'id bullion on (ho hacks of Initios along the well traveled San ta Fo load for eighty miles down (o tho ancient ci.y. Wo listen with eied ulous ems (o (ho statement that 011 tho day proceeding that on which tho yea.ly t.anspo-iation of tho riches was to have i.-.kon place, an ou break between (ho Mexicans and Indians occur-ed, lUidlli.OOO.lMK) inaiksorSO, (XX),fXX), (ho tiensuro of tho year was t blown hack into tho mine and the ...mo caioi'ully hidden. Tho Mexi cans verily hellevo (hat only the old I'uohlo liulLiis know of the location of tho mine, and (hoy say (hat 01.0 of them a wni'o sinco bold his in'onna tiou to 11 wliito mini for a load of mer chandise, hut was butchered by his own ti ibo while pointing tho way to tho opening of lie mine. O.her sto ries as marvelous are (old and be lieved. A MoNYitKAi. special says (hat tho oof and upper lloor of tho bui'ding in tho west oud of tho city, used by Napoleon Dniseau as a grain btoro, collapsed on tho 11 ih, burying tho proprietor and ih'rtcoii young lads liolwcon 11 and Ifi year old, engaged in paok'ng bran.ui'dor it. One lad was killed mid iwo fatally wounded, (ho odiors 1 aving iniiaoulously es caped. A TKi.ao.nAsi from Aden ropo.ts that tho steamer Jidduh, fiom Singapore, foundered olVOuaiilanio 011 tho Sth wiih !;! pilg'ims for Joddih, and nil on hoard perished except (ho captain, his wife, tho chief engineer, cliio! offi cer, nssisiaiK engineer nun sisieoii natives, who wore picked up nnd drought to Aden by tho steamer Siai-dlu. A Hori-lblo Stovy ol' 4,'rluie, Omaha, Aug. (',. Ilendcr made the following statement: My nnmo is Alexnuder McfJrogor; was horn in the Stale of New York ; lived there till I nun ried my first wife; when I iniiiried I had one child called Win. Houck, begolton in adultry ; after he ing married (wo weeks, John Ilender, my son was born ; (hen I moved (o Illinois, wheie Knt.o wns born ; K'ate and John were good children, hut run uwny when 17 years old, and went to Kansas; my llrst wife died in Illinois with consumption ; afier iwo years I miiiiied my second wife; she had three ehildien : her name was Nancy Pensly; the ehildien nil died ; I had no children by my second wife. While living in Illinois I committed my fust inurdci ; tho ki'led wns a shoil, dark haired man; I sunt him down cellar Ihiough a trap door; I got some mo.icy from him; buried him hack of (ho liouc two iods,' the old woman helped me busy him. Went lo Independence, Iowa ; worked on a farm at my lradc(ulncksini:hiiig) there. After a while I went to Kan sas; had heard from Kale nnd John and (hey wrote for 111c (o come on. I went to Knnsas to live with John am1. Kate; Maggie, his cousin, wa theio at the place called Deiiden ho tel ; niter being theio n few days, I helped John to make n dap door (ho same ns I had in Illinois; (ho first man I killed wouldn't get on the trap door; he nod Knte slept together, and xho killed him with a hiiicher knife; she showed me the knife; I buiicd him near the houxc. The only man I ever kil'cd alone was a peddler; I hit bun on the back of the head with a stone hammer; hit him only once: got a good deal of money fiom him ; don't know how much. I icnieinbcr others Hint weio kil'cd. One man John killed and put him under. The two children, both gills, were huiied alive. Tho children wcra seven or eight years ol I. The parents weio j killed (ho day before I iicd toi-iand down into (he poller (o cut (!io vic tims tlno.its. I oiieii henrd them whetiiug the knives. John nnd Kate used to sleep (ogcdier. Leander Smith was Kate's lover; Justice (iiimshaw used to be Maggie's man. Alter leaving Kansas wo went with (ho J uilians. Wo thought this spi ing Ihut we must go to Illinois to die. I 1 stir ted with tho old woman, Kate, John, Mnggie and four ch:U-ieu. The old woman and I Jet (hem n( Schuyler, l'hoy had (ho (cam, one bit and one giav lioie, nnd an old wugon. Sheriir Daniel ,M. ttendor, from Kansas, has arrived at-Fieiiion( with a ivipiisitiou. He doesn't know the Menders, and has nover seen (hem bc foie. tVurrow INciipo 11-0111 Ilea I It by '1'diPHl. An exchango i"ihlislies tho follow ing account of tho sullb-'i-igs of asui veying par'y in Soi'Mioin New Mexi co and Western Texas: Maj. l. J. Lawrence rud eoips. of tho Texa-sand l'aciiio Haihoad smvoyois, a-tci a iii'iuher of dins' cxtiomo Mid'eiing from thi,-st in (hoWhito Sand lli'lx inii'aciflous'y 1 cached iho Tocos liver without los'ng 11 ni.t.i. "out with (he loss of soino stock. Wngons wore abandoned at diflcicut iutcivals fo' foity mil s along tho 1 ..'I O.cai su'eiing was experienced hy ho h men and snick. 'Iho 111011 straggled along, ar.iving nt tho ivor in sfjumls from tho moi.iing of I'io f?Sth until the next moru'iig. With tno essist anco of (hoso who first aniveit nt tho liver, tho Inst of tho strnggleis wcro hroi'ght in with much dilliculty, as many of thom whon found wore eras ed f 0111 thiist, and had stripped themselves of all wealing appaiel from head lo foot. Some woo found within lOOyiKils of tho Tocos livoi, wlioio thoy woro di'nking tho blood of an anini'il thoy had killed. Sev eral others when found had blood in thoir pan. eons and woro sick from drinking it. bonio 01 tiio men were toi.iliy blind. On 11 -riving at thoilv or (ho jioor fellows plunged in head foremost. The pa .y coui (ulated themselves on their nanow escapo from pcVhlng on Iho plans. Had it not been for several of tho most expo lieneed nnd thoir hiavoty the greiKor number would havo died in Iho sand. Tho survey was abandoned on Iho biind-hills, but will ho lesumed as soon as the inon and animals lecuporato W.M. A. lloM.ANP, of San Francis co has been attached to tho Geological Survey of (he I'nited States, and giv en a roving com mission to gathor sl.i tisdps ami other information coiiooru ing tho precious metals of Oregon and Washington. Ai'lcimiM IVurri (mil llic iuuil. I I met A r. emus Ward but onco. Ij was quilo young at tliotime, and wns 1 iicting as city editor of the Stm; pub lixhcd at Schenectady. New Yoik. While I wns city editor of that sheet I met Artcintts. I wns standing 011 a bridge at tho time, and iu talking about newspaper work, was about to say something in regard to my heavy editoiiat lesponsihility, hut Waul checked me by saying : "What creek is this?" "Clock I" I exclaimed, "Why this is the Eiic Canal." "How far is it navigable?' "Why, of ooiuse, it is navigable from one end to tho oilier." "Well," solemnly replied Ward, "that bea 3 all (ho s(eauis I ever heard of. Jly (ho way, I think I can make out some large bonis anchored up the si' cinii there, what avc they, propellers or sidc-whecle'sT" I replied that thoy weic mere canal boats, and weic moved hy hoisc pow er. "Ah! I didn't think the sl'c.im was ns shallow as that," said Ai tennis. "As shallow ns wiinl?" 'Why, you s.'y that thoc boats mo pulled along by hoises. Now, of cour'-c they must walk along in fiont of the boat, mustn't they'.' I used lo run a stone boat on my lamented Un cle John's faun, audi dislincily ie member lh.it tho horses walked along iu iionl." I inonla'Iy dccl.i.cd that I hr.d nev er bcro.o mot w'ih such 1311011MICC. I spcntsoinc I'inc in explaining tho peeu'vi't'cs of the big d:lch, and just as I had begun to think that at h'st I had set tho slanger right on the subject, he knocked my hopes in to klud'ing wood by renia-'k'ng: I supoose (hat when the si 1 cam diies up in the summer they nut the boats on wheels, don't they?'' I"ior( and Kiin'if- js. A I.ii'c Now Yoik disi).! eh says : Ji"v has b"en a month of lem.' "kn'j'c li'igebus'iic-s. T.ice-: wur have been h ger .ben in Juno,.crceediiig (ho impor's. 't is p.o'o.-.Ii'e, by about ?12,- OOO.IXX) and C'c iniero- irovemcot of pioducis have 'occiiunii.ccct'ented for the season. Fo- example, the move inent of giiiiu at LuCi'Io was ineom paia'oly loo 'a 'scat over k.iown in Jti Iv ; r id tho movement o" cotton, con sitle':i)g the la'enc'ss of the "eaou, was lcma'kably huge in niampncfo I'es; also a veiy he.ivv bu-si.'cs was dooe, a.id ihoiiitii-rupdons were few ; and the demand for Iho products seemed (o (read closely on (he heels of the sunnly in ne.i 'v I'll i n loitant biaucncs. An oncoii'fg'iig rov;val in tho i-on business was no-iced though it was duo ina'nly to the exvraoidina" ry demand of huUiois of now nn'iroads in every part of the couii.ry. The Io ci'l and lc'.i'l trade was uui'sually ac I've aNo w'.hout miv dangcous up waid rush in p.ices. July is usually one o .ho inon 1 '.is :n which t. ansae ions aic smallest. J 11 ICJOasiu JS70 all o d'ua.'v "iiies enncr (o be disre gpidcd in tho lcsistless forwe u more niouiof coaimeico aud indus.iy. Tho exchanges of the month snow an in- cicso o' 2o0 per cent, in t'.io agg.o geto, though a comna-iSon is wiih 10 tii'iis which snowed an iiicicase of L'O!) pc cetu. over ihoo of July, 1879. Ou.sido of Now Yo k tiio 'iiciease is IDS per cent., tliough tho iacoasc of July 01 last year was 100 po.- cent. "a:i rbjuc A Cifeagod's latchofiiiollthsays: A Washington special 'o tho Jii'.--Otifcn says tb..t tho o.11e'.i's tit ink Ihoio is ovidonce of viuilcnt 'o ms of Spanish fever picvai'inf; among tho caltlo of Texas, nnd fe..r ..lint unless grent euro !s iakoa it may spread to H'-uois and decimate- caWlo on the great stock farms in tho southern part of tho Stnto. Over 200 cattle havo died from th's imported disease in Mis-.ouri sinco last spring, whither it was brought with eattlo from Texas. At Cue.i nonga Statiop, in San Her uaidino county on (ho 12th ins mil, (ho tenth iroiglit train, a lingo 0110, on tho way from Arizona, lying at tho station, was run into by a fast fieight tra!n,enstwanl bound. Tho engineer perceived tho danger but too Into to avoid a collision. He, together w'th tho brakpsmon nnd conductor, saved himself by jumping. Tho luiin wns uncontrollahlo and dashed down tho hioavy g'lido plunged into tho Sta tionary 1 ain, dostioying both en gines, thirteen cars and tho water lank, foriunaioly no poison was se riously injured, though sovcial sus tained minor bruises. Mit. lluuKCST Youxa, living near Low'svillo, was robbed lately of $;HU). 1 1 0 bin ied Iho inonoy under the house, nnd while absent to Independence, some M-'cf stolo i. 1,1 fc Saving: Invention. j',,,,1 0ynton is surpassed. A young man named W. C. Soulc has invented a pair of shoes with which lie walks upon the water. I'aul Uoyn ton, clothed in his life-preserving ay parntux, flounders in it. Young Soule cinsscd the Harlem liver a fow days ago in his shoes, walking in nn up right mminc, and maintaining his balance without difficulty. An East ern journal suggests that a pair of these shoes ought to be crunied by ovorvone who risks tho steamboat travel on the Sound. Iu tins connec tion it may he staled that Captain D. T. Dobbins, of the Lifo Saving Service, has invented a li.'o saving boat superi or lo anything that has gone before it, nnd which has withstood every tcstlo which it was submitted in a manner to suipriso and delight beholders. One of its chief mciits is, that it is self-righting. The following letter from the inventor (oSupciiulcndcnt Kimball, of the Life Saving Hoard, explains what it can do. He says : "She pioves lo be a perfect success. She will right instantly and carry her cuMe crew when full of water, as she is on righting, and wilh (he crew at ilie'r siiit'ous. She shows a side ovr six inches out amidships, so she can bcb.iil'-d icadily. She is very stable or si'iT under foot and in seaway. It was qu'tc difficult for the seven men to capsize her, full as much so ns it was for the crow of the English self bailing and righting life-boata to cap size then. The prescribed beam of the boat made it difficult to sccui" tbe readv lighting I claim for my own dimensions, hut I have succeeded at the loss of a heavier boat than I designed for nspecial surf-boat. She will weigh not over 1,000 pounds, how ever, which is COO pounds less than our oulinary surf-boats weigh. She is roomy, stoui, staunch and strong, pulls easih. and it is a most beautiful sea boat." There never was a time in tho histo ry of navigation, when more thought was given to the subject of providing means forsaving lives from shipwicck, or anv of the other serious casuabies wVch arc so liable (o occur on our in land bays, livers and the ocean; for never has (here been such a series of accidents on the water, following each odor in rapid sucessiun. Tho idea can be still further elaborate, nnd men of inventive genius should not fai' to give it their attention. Lifting out Siiunps -rllli Wjtia iuttc. A wri.er in (lie "London Garden" desenbes the process hy which he removed stumps from a park in wired tees liru been felled, nnd in cleaning out old hedgerows, where Iho ioo(s had obtn'ned unusually sf O113 foothold. Man' wero from n foot and a half to four feet and a half in d'nmelov. The dynamite is put in car.v'dcs varying fiom one to two inches in d'ame.er, and four inches' n.;. An eaiih auer, mak ing an oriiica two inches in diame ter, nnd about four feet Ion", forms an inc'incd hole so as to place the cartridges nearlv under the centre of the Sii'inp. The number of ca:'- triiiKCS required depends on the size and Strength of the roots. A primer ca-tridge wiih cap and fuse is at tached to the charge, and tho whole rammed down with loose earth by a wooden lainmer. The fuse is of suflicieut length to allow tho work men to get out of the way, to a dis tance of 50 to 100 yards, according to the strength of tno charge. The whole mass is usually blown out, and the tools broken up for loading or burning. A large hole lemains. No damage is done to surrounding tr?"!S. Tho writer states that the work was dono in a far more expe ditious mr.nner than before, and at 50 per cent. less cost. Ho adds that the dynamite used is 75 per cent, nitro-glycerine, and 25 per cent, of an i.nusonal or porus earth pro cu ed from the bottom of German rivers. It is ground very lino, and a powerful microscope shows every giain porus or honcy-c inhed, which soaks up tho nitro-glycerine, form ing a pnsly substance, without al lowing tho 'liquid nitro-glyccrino to exude. Ho regards it as safe as tho uso of gunpowder, witii ordinary caie. Of Hniieoeh's letter of acecpianco (ho 2W&UH0 ways: It is not a Demo o nt'o loUor. It is philliudo on tho platitude which Democrats soino times preach, hut which they nover practice Tho greai ;st incongruity of nil appears whon Hancock dojlares solomnly iu favor of 11 "full voto, a freo ballot and a fair count." Of all stolon platitudes th!s scorns the most grotesque. There has not been a full voto, n freo ballot r.ud fair count in the Southo-n Stnte for years pnst, ami Hancock's olc3(ion would not ho possible if by any miracle thoy should co.no to pass. Atldrrnft lo the I.nborer, by Carl Hcliur Tho following language was ad dressed hy Carl Schurz to tho work ing men of California, in his late speech in San Francisco: Above all things, I desire lo warn you, as I have formerly warned work iiigmcu in other places against the insidious pretence mado hy some that they can further the cause of labor hy inciting the hatred of the latufer against the capitalist, of the pomr against the rich. To excite the ha tred of tho poor against the rich has in nil ages and in nil countries been the favorite resort of desperate dema goguery: hut in a country like ours, where no harrier of privilege separ ates the (liffcient classes of society; where honest individual effort is ham pered neither hy legal obstacles nor hy prejudice or custom ; where every day we sec millionaires as fathers of paupers, nnd merchant princes who were rocked in a poor man's cradle ; wherj fortune and fetation, social and public, are equally opt.n to the intel ligence, virtue and energy of all ; in this count'-y such appeals should meet with contemptuous ridieple as well as ahhorence. Such a cry is blas phemous calumny on our political in stitutions nnd our social order. Why, show to me, among tl.e millionaires of San Franc:sco, ouo whyears ago was not a poor man's son ; show me the poor man heie who may not himself, or may not hope for his son to be what many former millionaires havo ceased to be. And are not open to the lowliest of your distinctions higher than those which mere wealth can con.'e ? Within the memory of tho youngest men before me you hvao seen a mil-splitter from Illinois and a tailor fiom Tennessee in the Pres' dential chair of this great Republic ; and to-day you see, aa the candidate for the Picsidency of the Republican partv, James A. Garfield, who as 11 boy earned his bread as a laborer on the tow-path of a canal, and then, by his own exertion, gradually raised himself up to what he is now, ono of the most distinguished men of the. land, and the future Trcsidcnt of tho United Slates; a man who, in tho fullness of his power, can and will not fail, when thinking of his own youth, to feel the warmest and prac tice the most active sympathy with those who are now as poor and lowly as he was once. And in a country like this, with its resources and oppor tunities, which the survival of the fit test is tho order of the day, where a measureless field or labor and enter prise never ceases to encourage every honorable ambition in such a coun try we must hear appeals to tho ha-, trcd of tho poor against the rich I Truly, the man who makes such ap peals, insults the people, and the man who listens to them does not respect himself. But when, as is this case, such appeals are made to determine the political action of the- working men as in the piesent emergency against the Republican cause, it is doubly absurd and contemptible If you want to honor labor, then add to elevnto him who began his lifo as a poorlaboiing hoy, and by his own unaided efforts qualified himself for the highest tiusts of the Republic. If you want to encourage your children, and inspi 0 them with an honorable ambition which may lift them nbovo poverty and obscuro station, show them this example of 0110 who was among the poo rest-of the poor, attain ing nil the honors his woith deserved. And now, fellow eiiizons of Califor nia, let me express the confident hopa that you will calmly and conscienti ously, as befits a great people, consid er the questions which so noarly con cern tho weltaro of the Republic, and that tho far West will join hands with the far East for Garfield and good Government, Tiieiik is n little old plain wooden school house, painted ied, nnd sitting back from tho counly road, in tho Western Reservt, Ohio, which must possess tho magic power of conferring gieatness. That little school houo is shaded in front by a couplo of big buckeyo trees, nnd hack of it a slop ing play-ground runs down to a creek whoso banks aro lined with hickory trees. Tho school house has but one room, and in tho cornor of that room hangs tho teacher's lunch basket, and huts and shawls. A modest little af fair is that school house, nnd yet it has given to this country Elisha' Whit tlesey, Joshua It. Giddings, Ilenjnmin F. Wndo nnd James A. Garfield. Ex. A Washok mini was reconHy tried for stealing milk from a neighbor's cow nt night. Tho jury, after mnturo deliberation, returned a virdict of "guilty of milking a cow in the first degree."