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OLYMPU. W ASOVN'UTON TEH.
FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1880.
Ho for Hie Coal Fields.
On Friday, last pursuant to pub
lished notice, the Directors of the
Olympia 'and Tenino Railroad, ac
companied by the President, the
Secretory and a few members of the
Board-of Trade, went out to Teuiuo,
and thence, on foot over a broken
country, to the coal mine opened
some years since by ex-<vov. Salo
mon and Col. Bee. The object of
Ilk visit was to thoroughly examine
the mine and determine, if possible,
its availability as a feeder to the
tmsiness of the O. & T. Railroad, in
tame it could be purchased or leased
at paying figures and successfully
worked. So far as relates to its
completion and practicaloperation,
the railroad has now, for more than
a year, fully discharged the obliga
tions imposed upon it, and by vir
tue of which it received the bouded
aid of the county.
But the road, as yet, lias no ob
jective poiut other tlinn the mere
junction with that division of the
Northern l'ucific which spans our
Territory from Kulaiua to New Tu
conia. In a densely populated coun
try, say as one of the Atlantic States,
the mail ten ice receipts ard local
traffic alone, would support the
road, besides affording a respectable
dividend to the stockholders. L>ut
it must bo remembered that we are
living in a sparsely settled country,
■where local trade goes but a very lit
tle way towards compensating such
enterprises as necessitate the outlay
of large sums of money to get them
into being, to say nothing of a con
stant expense attending their opera
tion. The people of Thurston coun
ty are justly entitled to groat praise
for their indomitable will and ener
gy in pushing to a speedy -and hon
orable consummation such a work as
the Olytnpia and Teniuo Bail road.
But the- road is not a chameleon; it
cannot live and thrive upon air
alont, and hence it behooves our
people to put for!lr all reasonable
efforts to open up an objective, busi
ness point which shall iu all time
insuj-e.e, safe and unfailing source of
profitable trade.
With the view of securing such a
desideratum as this, the railroad
officials, generously aided by the
Board of Trade, have lately imposed
upon themselves the task of either
locking up and opening a sow ccal
.mine, or utilizing to tLe profit of all
concerned some mine already known
and situated within a suitable dis
tance of the southern terminus of
the road e.-e it now exists.
That coal is found in paying Quanti
ties in and.about the hills surround
ing Tenino prairie, there is uot the
slighest question. This opinion was
freely discussed and acquiesced in
by several veteran coal miuers aDd
experts, who, .by special iuvitalion,
accompanied the expedition of last
Friday- It is useless to dilate more
on this subject. The needs of .our
railroad are kuow.u to the people in
town and -country, and as it appears
to us, it becomes everybody, so far
in him lies, to do scmethiug, towards
miDisteriug to these wants. The
finder of a rich and convenient cool
-vein will be a fortuaate individual,
mid will be promptly remunerated
ioT all the time and labor he may
iiave expended in tringiug to light
«ucb a valuable discovery. Now who
will be the happy individual ? Who
will embalm liie name forever by
being the first to announce the dis
covery of the precious fossilized car
bon so essential to our present re
quirements? Instead of all speaking
at once, let everybody assume the
role of prospector, and our word for
it, we shall not be kept long in un
pleasant suspense. We are living
in a country rich in minerals. We
have geological riusou to be assured
that both coal and iron exist in
abundance under our feet. Once
more we a>k. Who will be the fortu
nate di-ioveter?
Now that so many of our fr.euds
in Tuoiwater are exeicisiug them
selves ebeut repairing the lower
bridge, would it uot be well for our
a>wn citizens to encouiage them by
trading a Lelpiug hand iu the way
a routing field-day 1- A little
tinioL of muscle as well as sentiment
in this matter would accomplish
wronders.
flood for Land Owners.
If we may credit a small portion, j
only, of what Eastern papers say
about tbe great tide of emigration
now setting in from all parts of Eu
rope to America, there is certainly
quite nn encouraging outlook for
the land owners of the Pacific coast.
Tin New York Ilmld is warmly de
voted to the emigration movement
and assumes the authority to assert
thnt 1880 will far outstrip any prev
ious year in fhe history of Europeau
emigration. Present indications
would seem to warrant the conclu
sion that the number of immigrants
arriving in Boston, New York and
Philadelphia during the present year
will be, at least, three-fold that of
1870. During the three months
ending March Slst, no less than
thirty-five thousand emigrants set
foot upon our shotes against about
eleven thousand for the same time
last year. According to the esti
mates set down by the managers of
eastern emigration boards, four hun
dred thousand settlers will have ar
rived at the Atlantic ports during
the twelve months ending December
31st, 1880. Now, it is assumed Ly
tic same authority that, on a fair
average, each emigrant—men, women
and children, all told—will briug
sixty dollars in hard casli into the
country, aggregating the round sum
of twenty-five millions of dollars to
lie expended for lands and other
' things necessary to the building
up of homes. But this is not all.
liven' able-bodied man, it is sup
posed, will immediately become, not
only a consumer, hut a live producer
of either cash capital or its equiva
lent representative.
Not all these people will desire to
go into the woods and hew out
homes for themselves and families.
1 la-ay will have the ready cash to
pay for improved farms. Hence, it
wiil he seen, that those of our people
who are now paying taxes on mote
acres of improved lands than thev
cur well utilize themselves, wi'l
have a chance to dispose of all or
a portion of their real estate not now
altogether so profitable as they
might wish it were.
Making all due allowance for the
sanguine and voluminous manner iu
which the New York and Boston
journals are treating this subject,
there is abundant reason for suppos
ing that lively times may be expected
in the land purchasing and property
exchanging business before the year
expires. In view of these facts, all
proper effort should be made by our
home immigration societies aud land
proprietors, to secure to our Terri
tory « reasonable share of the thou
sands of families now crossing the
Atlantic.
Tar uniou religious services, un-
I der the. direction of lie v. Mr. Span.s
--| wick, evangelist, have been condnct
:ed with daily increasing interest,
! Each evening of the past week, iu
! the Methodist church. Mr. Spans
wick preaches direct aud pointed
sermons, with an earnestness which
is very convincing, and a power
which is amply evidenced by the
number who have attended his min
istry and remained to the enquiry
meetings. Bible readings, upon
practical topics have been held in
the afternoons, at the Presbyteriau
church. These also have been well
attended aud highly instructive. Al
together the actual aud aggressive
portion of evangelical religionists,
in Olympia, are having a happy
time, and believe that they are do
ing much good, in their Master's
cause. If the religion of Jesus
Christ is true, these working Chris
tians are certainly occupying the
only consistent attitude. The meet
ing ou next Sunday night, as also
those during the corniug week will
be held afternoons and evenings in
tbe Presbyterian church. All are
invited to attend.
REV. J. R. Thompson will conduct
public worship in the Presbyterian
church next Sunday morning. The
Rev. Mr. Spanswick will preach in
the evening.
Tap many friends of Mrs. Louie
M Lowe will be pleased to learn
that she lias become a permanent
resident of this place.
I rn.KLi.LAs and rubber wear have
once more come into requisition for
a few days.
THE steamer Zyhyr is blessed with
large passenger and freight lists.
A Fall Crop of Evil.
The raying that " Misery Loves
company" is singularly exemplified
in the late experience of the Kal
locbs and DeYoungs. After n per
sistent running fire of scandal through
many months, the lil'e of the elder
Kalloch was attempted by the elder
DeYoung. Although the victim
came out unharmed, and was placed
in the gubernatorial chair of a great
metropolis, " Weary the head that
wears a crown," lias justly been the
burden of his song, day nnd night,
ever since his election. Hardly had
the public relasped into a troubled
respite, when the younger Kalloch
seeks to avenge his father's wrongs
by becoming the murderer of Charles
i DeYoung. Scaicely have the
mangled remains of his brother be
come cold in the receiving vault,
when Michael DeYoung is arrested
at the instance of Mayor Kalloch for
the crime of libel. The prisoner is
released on hail, nnd we wonder if
the last sickening detail has come.
No, we arc not yet relieved, for now
comes a resolution from the Super
visors of San Francisco, charging
their chief magistrate with gross
misdemeanor, and urging that legal
| proceedings he at once instituted
against him. Kalloch, himself the
presiding officer, eooly puts the
motion that orders his own impeach
i merit. And so the disgusting busi
' ness goes on; thus, one shameful
presentation after another is parad
:ed before our people under the seu-
I satioual head-lines of the city dailies,
| demoralizing our children and mov
| ing to unwilling shumcfacedness the
batter part of every community.
Would that lie could answer the
ominous question, " What shall the
end be ?"
At the risk of being charged with
egotism we must make passing allu
sion to a very complimentary recep
tion party held in Champion Hall
i Wednesday evening us a token of re
spect to the editor of this paper, who
had just returned from a brief visit
to Sau Francisco, as delegate to the
Supreme Council C. 11. C. The
entertainment was given by the
members of Washington Encamp
ment Champions of the Red Cross,
l of which organization he likewise
holds the houorod position of Com
mander. The hall was beautifully
decorated with evergreens, and fes
tooned with ivy, ferns an:l natural
flowers, the motto "Welcome
| Home" being conspicuously dis
| played at the head of the hall in the
; arrangement of these most beautiful
lof nature's products. The exquisite
taste displayed iu these decorations
was the subject of universal com
ment. At 9 o'clock, Past Command
er Munson took the chair and an
nounced the programme of the even
ing, which included the rendition of
" Home Again" by the choir, an ad
dress of welcome by the presiding
officer, a brief response, and ad
dresses >by Gen. Milroy, Mayor
Barnes, Mr. Silsby and others, in
terspersed with appropriate music.
At its close, the numerous guests
sat down to one of the most elegant
repasts which ever tempted the ap
petite of an epicure, the free-will
ofieiing of tho ladies belonging to
the encampment. The table, which
occupied the center of the hall, run
ning its whole length, was likewise
tastefully deoorated and the numer
ous and dainty viands displayed in
endless piofusion, left nothing want
ing to constitute it a royal banquet
and give the finishing touches to
the fairy-like scene. The remainder
of the evening was devoted to the
social pastimes so popular on such
occasions, in which everybody joined
with a zest, and it was long " ayont
the tw<>l" before an admonition was
given that the hour of parting bad
come. Like all " scenes that are
brighest," it was but a momentary
glimpse of the happiness which we
hope lies beyond, but it leaves in the
desert of tbe heart a bright oasis
where Memory may delight to linger.
CENTRAL RESTAURANT. —Mr. G.
Richardi, a caterer of considerable
experience, has leased the stand
formerly occupied by Mr. Chilberg
as the Delmonico, and is prepared
to furnish board ana lodging at rea
sonable rates. Meals may be had at
all hours and oysters id every style.
THL best tonic we know of for all
those who are pining for a " better
eoantry," would be a ride through
our prairie borders, now teeming
with gresn fielJs of grain.
Teachers' Examination.
According to the requirements of
the School Law and pursuant to due
notice previously given through the
press, the County Board of Examin
ers met on Wednesday last, in the
school building of Olympia District
No. 1. The Board consisted of Rev.
J. R. Thompson, M. A., County
Superintendent, Mrs. P. C. Hale
and Prof. J. S. Henderson. Of the
candidates who presented them
selves, the following named persons
received teacher's certificates in the
order of merit according to which
they stand:
FIRST URAIIE.
Miss I.aura J. Gardner,
Miss Theresa F. Meriting,
Miss llresca N. Meriting,
Mr. 11. P. Hart,
M r. K. A. Jack man,
Miss Flora A. Parsons,
Miss Etta Mprngue.
SECOND OIIADE.
M iss Naomi S. Ilieklin,
Mr. Harry Minkler,
Miss Jane Harnett.
Miss l.aura M. Brock way.
Master John 1,. Hay den.
TI!IU1> OIIADE.
Mr. M. T. Iloliait,
Miss Sophia A. Meriting.
Miss itosi A. Urowden,
Miss Sarah K. Smith.
TUMWATER has been in a blaze of
excitement during the past week,
over the bridge repairing question.
So far as we can gather from reports,
a fair majority of the property own
ers and business men are in favor
of having the lower bridge put in
thorough repair, while the minority,
comprising generally those who live
in the upper part of town, just as
decidedly oppose the measure. A
delegation from both parties were in
Olympia, on Wednesday, urging
their respective claims before our
County Commissioners. Repair the
bridge by all means, and our own
citizens will generously aid in the
matter.
IT is clearly observable that hut
few unemployed men nre to be seeu,
at present, in or about our city.
The Skagit gold mines, the railroad
work in the upper country, and our
neighboring logging camps have giv
en to nearly nil our floating popula
tion of last Winter something to do.
Farmers nre already predicting n
dearth of farm hands for the haying
and harvesting season, a fact which
would pretty safety warrant good
prices for farm help of all kinds.
One thing is certain, no able-bodied
man need be idle, for want of work
during the approaching Summer.
THERE is now a hopeful prospect
that the steamer Capital will soon
be running again, under entirety
new auspices. At the machine
shop of Mr. Geo. S. Allen, work is
being vigorously prosecuted on the
two new engines which aro to drive
the steamer. Her wheels will be
much larger than the old ones, and
in many respects she will be a now
craft.
Ma Y-DAY was spent very happily,
everybody going off on an excur
sion as his fancy dictated. Tenino,
Bush Prairie, McAllister's Lake,
Chambers' Prairie, and several down
Sound ports, were among the many
places of attraction. The day was
unexceptionable and excursionists
came home recruited in mind and
body.
MAY-DAY having been gathered to
its companions of former years, the
question now is, " What are you
gcing to do on the Fourth ?" If our
people want to get up a demonstra
tion, it is high time they were plan
ning the details.
THE late hour of our return from
abroad precludes the intent to give
some account of the incidents of the
trip. Ir. the next issue we will refer
to such objects which came under
observation as may be of general in
terest.
THE Blue Ribbon League meets
in Champion Hall next Sunday after
noon, at 3 o'clock and on Monday
evening at half-past seven. Every
body is invited to be present.
To prevent boots and shoes from
squeaking during the dry weather
of Summer, put them into the closet
and let them stay there till the rainy
season sets in.
Os account of the rain, the field- i
day at the Fair Grounds has been
postponed till Wednesday next, the
12th instant.
FARMEKR not unfrequentlr come
in, DOW, with four-horse teams; two ,
mares and two young colts.
JAKES Mackintosh is requested to 1
call at this office without delav.
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
A Dundee diver has attached a
telephone to his helmet and tested
it during submarine operations with
very satisfactory results.
The extensive studies of Dr. De
caisne have proven to him conclus
ively that immoderate smoking of
tobacco produces iu certain subjects
—especially in women and children
—an irregular action of the heart,
which quickly disappears when the
cause is removed.
The St. Gothard tunnel furnishes
another striking example of accurate
surveying. Although the entire
length of the tunnel is nine and a
quarter miles, the two galleries were
bored with such precision that they
met with a diilcrence of only four
inches in level and a lateral devia
tion of less than eight inches.
Some remarkable facts are being
elicited by the investigations of nat
uralists in Borneo. In the stems of
certain plants found there galleries
are tunneled by n species of ant, and
it is asserted 011 the authority of Btc
curi that tli" ; r'-.euoe of tire ants is
actually css< m;al to the existence of
the plants, for unless attacked by
the insects when young the plants
soou die.
In cases of suspended animation,
or asphyxia, life should not bo too
soon given up. Discussing prema
ture burials, in a communication to
the French Academy. Prof. Fort
states that he was enabled to restore
to life a child three years old by
practicing artificial respiration ou it
four hours, commencing three hours
and a half after apparent death.
In another case which come under
his observation, a physician restored
a nearly droiyied person after four
hours of artificial respiration. This
person had been in the water ten
minutes, and the physician arrived
one hour cfter asphyxia.
The sun's radiation is not without
influence ou the comfort of the occu
pants of a house, and the influence
may be very differently felt, accord
ing to tho exposure of houses. In
a building unaffected by any shade
Heir Vogt recoutly made a series of
experiments to determiue tho rela
tive amount of the sun's heat daily
entering tho different sides. He
obtained the surprising result that
more heat enters a building through
tho east and west walls than through
the wall fusing directly south, al
though the south sido is exposed to
tho direct action of the sun's rays
nearly twice as long as either of the
others. A considerably greater
quantity of heat is receivoi by tho
east than by tho west side.
Fish Commissioner Green notes
a curious instance of insect strategy.
One day he observed a mud wasp
alight near a spider's nest. Creep
ing cautiously around toward the
entrance to the nest, the wasp
stopped a little short of it, and for a
a moment romainiug perfectly quiet.
Then reaching out one of his an
tennae, he wriggled it before the
opening and withdrew it. This
overture produced the desired effect,
for a large spider quickly ran out to
investigate the cause of the disturb
ance. As the spider reached the
most favorable point for attack, the
wasp quickly sprang forward and
dispatched his foe with a single
thrust of his sting. The wasp then
repented his feint until apparently
satisfied that his assault would be
met with no further opposition, when
he entered the nest and slaughtered
the young spiders, which he after
wards carried away.
With the telephone, writing tele
' graph and many other remarkable
applications of electricity fresh in
mind, no one seems greatly surprised
by the announcement that not only
may speech aud varieties of motion
be transmitted telegraphically but
that form and color also may be pro
duced at a distance through the in
strumentality of the same po'ent
agent. This result seems to have
been attained by the diaphote of Dr.
Licks. The apparatus consists of
four essential parts—the receiving
mirror, the transmitting wires, nu
ordinary galvanic buttery, and the
reproducing speculum, lu a model
lately exhibited the mirror was six
inches by four in size and had sev
enty-two fine wires, the latter being
gathered together af a little distance
behind the frame and covered with
an insulating material. On reaching j
the receiving speculum each little
wire was connected to a division cor
responding to its place on the mirror.
Wires were also run from the bat'
tery to each diaphotic plate, forming
a circuit which could be closed at
pleasure. The theoretical action of
the instrument appears to be as fol
lows: The waves of light from an
object are conducted through an or
dinary camera, so that they fall on
certain division*; of the mirror when
the electric cunuut is closed. The
light and accompanying heat pro
duce momentary chemical changes
in the amalgam of the mirror—
which consists of a peculiar com
pound of selenium and chromium.
These chnnges modify the electric
current and cause similar changes in
the corresponding portions of the
remote speculum, thus reproducing
the image, which, by a second cam
era, may be seen bv tbo eye or
thrown upon at screen.
WILLIAM P. Dangerfield, a well
known and distinguished member of
tbe San Francisco bar, died sudden
ly on Wednesday last. Ho occupied
the position of Justice of the Supe
rior Court and was hearing a case at
at the time of his death. Ho was
observed to suddenly throw up his
hands, and after gasping once or
twice, expired. Judge Danger
was held in universal esteem and his
untimely death Las called forth a
general expression of regret in legal
circles.
OLYMPIA medical experts are seri
ously puzzled over the diagnosis of
a new and rather startling disease
which has lately made its appear
ance in our city. It seems to resem
ble a cutaneous eruption, and has
thus far been confined exclusively to
tho fucos of young ladies of sweet
sixteen and upwards. In default
of a better term, and, until such
time as its nature will be more fully
known, the phenomenon has been
styled the rathe dtt mitrtachcs.
HEPOKTS of disasters nmong fisher
men at tho mouth of the Columbia
continue to come from Astoria. An
unusual number of men Luvo been
drowned in the breakers during
tho present senson. A correspon
dent states the evor present whisky
bottle may bo put down as tbo cause
of these accidents.
IT is generally conceded, by
fruit-raisers, that the present cold
wave now passing over this part of
our Territory is extremely favorable
to orchard blossoms of all kinds.
THE fact that the railroad track
was not blockaded by fallen timber,
during the late severe wind storm,
proves the care and watchfulness of
the section men now on duty.
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THE late great tornado in Kansas
and Missouri has had tho effect to
to revive the discussion of tho peri
helion question among several of tho
Eastern journals.
WAR in Europe and war in South ,
America has had the tendency to
make lively times nmoug Pacific
coast farmers and lumbermen.
A GRAND excursion from New York,
Chicago and intermediate citios to
Portland, Oregon, is advertised to
come off about the first of July.
■■
MR. P. P. Carroll has opened a
law office in the room adjoining E.
N. Ouimette's store, formorly occu
pied by Mr. Jos. Cbilberg.
JOAQUIN Miller's next effort iB an
nounced as a " dialectic poem." He .
is to be congratulated, if he is real!/*
coming to his senses.
" Bio news from the Skagit,"
is one of the attractive heads used
by Seattle papers, in default of oth
er stirring items.
THE Board of Trade is quite elat
ed over the idea of a coal mine being
opened by the railroad company.
QUARTERLY meeting at the M. E.
Church 011 Sunday morning. Ser
mon by Rev. A. Atwood, P. E.
No end to locals, about these days;
they come to us like the petals from
orchsrd blossoms.
HOUSE-CLEANING time come and
tnadame is coumnder-in-chief of the
household.
THE public square is now carpeted
by a fabric of nature's own weaving.
WE hear that the new Catholic
Church is soon to be dedicated.
SUMMER clothing is in good de-
mand.