The weekly Argus. [volume], June 27, 1871, Image 1

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‘l‘nnsin‘ Advertisement, 1. hurt lamina,
mm M idompgnkd by the cash. _
B USINESS CARDS. 4‘
I CHAS. 'M. BRADSHAW, -
Attorney and Counselor
A T L A W.
OFFICE-10$ Water Street, two doon west ham'
Bustingl Store,
. My Port Townsend. W. ’l‘.
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PHYSICIAN aim} SURGEON,
Port Townund. \Y, 'l'.
OFFlCE—Northeast corner of \Vater and Tay‘
«mu, oppfiite nonnbout landing: 6:“
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ma G. rm PHILLIPS,
PA SHIONAflLB
'DRESS - MAKER !
_PORT,TOWNSEND, \V. T.
1.7 M: “autumn of Choice Milliuciy artislcu
kept on hand to: sale, B:3m'
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JOHN . P. PETERSON,
“SHIORABLE TAILOR,
Want street, (next door to Stemiug's Saloon)
Pout Towxsnxn, W. T..
IS PREPARED TO 'MAKE UP GENTS;
' and Boy.’ (10¢.an molding to the latent
(nations; also keepa cn hand, for sale by the yflr
‘l’ piece. ’
{w (‘th and CW3; Oregon Clollu
aud Fla-nab i Minion Goody;
- I'eumgl, gm.
which an ofered YO?! luv. [J Special attwdon
paid :- Repairing an Cleaning. 'Lu ms moderate.
WOOD-TURNING
1.. _ , DOSE, Ayn '
Mute Made _or Repaired
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. ...ORDVERS soucmzo..
Pod: .Towusvnd. W. T.. Jun. 12, '7l.
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R’. H. HEWITT,
.‘HJOB—PfiINTER,
ProprietoflxcelsioriJob Office,
Olympia, ‘W. 'l‘.
EVERY ~DESCRIPT[ON 0F PLAIN
or Colored Priming. done, from I Visiting
Card to I Double-thee! roster.
Etcry description of Binnks, including Deeds
Townuhip Hula, etc., on hnudfin printed to order,
addiction guanmoed in stylffniiigiice HM.
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Shavmg and Hanr-Dressmg
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Cl-u Tonsnnnl nrcommodauions at thin cs»
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“ ‘ 7 ILL BE PUBLISHED SEMI-MONTHLY,
at al 00 per Year, and man! ll‘BsClflßßß
will not he e V , .
Bruntlr-l sm: Engr‘éflmfi.
\Vliich retails everywhere 5“ $2 00.
Ihe Immly (um-(0
In the number and excellence of the Engravinll
and the intore t and value of its reading matter will
be unuurpnsscd by any paper of its price.
It will crntaiu n scrim of illustratrd nttieln upon
Nltunl History, shunt biographical sketches of
eminent men. accounts of mule of the‘principal
citiee of the world, with Itnrics, puzzles, cnigmal,
an. to interest the young folks. , i
it: Domestic Department will cant-in receipts.
Ind othcr Irticlct of great value to housekeepers.
It will be tent with (Muslim: l'nmn for 83-, with
Advance. l‘nzin'e Form" or "ism Rural {or
82 50 '10! Little Corpurul or Nursery (or 52. Send
[or rail clubbing list.
A‘enta wanted everywhere. Luge cash com
mission: or splendid p" miulne.
Subscribe at once and lend 10 cent. arm for
pull“ on mgr-ting. C. H. CL'oHING.
31 85 Washington IL, Chicago.
PORT TOWNSEND, W. T.. JUNE 27,1871.
- “Mind 81: “with.
0!» course. Mud-In, like everybody
cleaned-MIR“ you moneyed-r
Mull Twin?! epil‘co- lhflic Vlledic~
tory in the lot Galagr Some of his
eenteneee in the: ten-well eddreu touch a
pselnychologieul fact no ulque end no ins
tereoting u my that an be dllcovercd in
the history ot the human mind. Hue it
ever occuned to you. how dreary a thing
it mint be to teke a contract to be funny
just so many time! I yen. no matter how
grim you mvy happen to feel. nor how
dolrhll may be your surnzundingx? In~
deed to stipulute beforrlnend for the pe
riodical and regain exertion of any 0!
our sensibilities. grave or gay. would
seem to be mortgaging oue'o wery soul to
the most exquisite misery. The play of
fancy. the airy gallop .of those gnu-ml
and ide ‘ g moods of wlllch genuine
literature in ru. is e thing easterly to be
calculated in n, and therefore not exactly
the subject for bargain and sale.
v ' “I weary of the pen.
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--‘ 'Tla now'my lord." PP: '
It might be grief enough to agree. for
I consideration. to be euhlltne every Mon
day morning, to work the fancy evny
Tuesday, to pure 08 into pelhoe every
Wednesday. to be in a fame of exuber
ant artistic appreciation every Thursday;
but how about undertaking to be jolly,
whether or no, eVety Friday. no matter it
on that day you are appointed to be
lunged? indeed, much In appointment,
perhape'..would be the one exhilarating
reliel tn the gloom of eltch a situation.
Humor, one is inclined to believe, must
come epu‘ntineously, it it come It all;
and it in the twin sister of Caprice. ‘ Who
that can compute the return of I carnet,
can compute t'l: re-arrivnl ? And thnt We
may have before or rthe conditione'of the
curious mental prob em on which we are
engaged, recell e {-.cw words from Twain'l
lest dying word: Ind confession : “For
the lat eight months I heve Ind for my
fellows end enmredee. night and day. doc
tote and wetchere of the lick. During
eight months death hae taken two Int-m.
bt'l‘t! at my home circle end mulifinantly
threatened two othrn. All this I have
experienced.‘yet all the time have been
under contract to ltunieh ‘humoroue‘ mm
ter once I mouth [or thie tnnguine. Plum
to put. yourself in my place, and contem
plate the grisly grotesqueneee of the situa
tion. To be a pirate on a low salary. and
with no share in the profits of the busi~
trees, usrtl to be my idea of an uncomfor
table occupation; but‘l here other Yit‘Wl
now. To be a monthly .humorist in a
chocriese time is drrariet !"
So hr, gentle lady. you freely go along
with me. _
At this point I shall 'whirl around I
very short corner. Will you follow ?
You probably think that Math Twain's
depressed npinita and gloomy eutalop
menu were unfavorable for the produc~
tion at wit and hunmr.‘ You 'are mi.-
lnken. The history of literature shows
that the «its and humorist; of all ages
haw been the saddest ol men, and that
thuir most brilliant flaehu have risen from
the depths'of the darkest griels.
The wittiu-st passages of Dean Swift
broke from him when his mind was cloud
ed with hypochondria, which led on to
mad-res. Those chapters in Fielding and
Smollehywhieh have cunvuisvd all readers
with inelxlingulshnhle laughter, wm writ
ten undei' the pressure of misery. Tom
Hood’s "Comic Annual." came forth amid
sickness. and debt, and the pangs ofttnxi
ety. “The personal dispositions of an un
thor may be quite the h'Vt-‘lle from those
which appear in his writings." So said
than old Isaac I)i=-raeli, whose whole life
was an analysis lull a rlcord of the moods
and passion: at literary action. “So he
adds: ‘.‘Johnaon would not believe that
Ilox'ece was a happy man because his
vezses wme cheerful, no more than he
could think Pop» so, because he is contin
ually informing us of it." Who of hit.
age had 3: more it etancholy temper than
Mulien-, who has furnished laughter f 0:
tht-civilizt-d walk! for two hundred and
fihy tears? You know the classic story
at Carlin, the Italian comic actor of the
lust Quinn}. and how. at the very time
when he was nightly filling Paris with
uninh. in utter wretchednesa he applied
to a physician and was advised to tuke a
few doses of Carlin. "I am Cnrlin him-
St‘ll." he exclnimrd in despair. And
there is John B. Gnugh, whom I rink n 3
the greatest dramatic genius of our time.
with a fllngt' through the twn hemispheres
of Tragedy and Comedy in masterful us
thnt ot' Garrick. Gough'u fun is never so
rich 9. when he got. to the lecture. 39 he
often does, in mm duodenum. dis
goat, and sorrow.
Very tell, Inching. you In" I right to
pm um. question. whit-Ix. even from thin
end of the blue. I seejuu ready to lpting
{tom your lips.
How do I neconnt for this apparent
contradiction! For my pan 1 can think
of but. three explwnliont; perhapa you
can find others. '
1. By the lug of mental and emotional
rebound, mum will rule, and the soul
111-used far down on the an: of wreaked
ness swing. back buoyludy into the
spheu 9L wit. Ind mink. '
2. By a subtle lpililull sympalhy be
tween gag-cl] lnd woe. Here again ex
tremal meet. Tum Hobd hld traced this
law when he wrote—al
“Thm'l not : suing-tinned w In”,
But his in their) in melancholy.“
3. By the still grwltvl' pnrndox lint 9n:
sen-ihilitin c n be educated, Cull be 4put
into hmnv‘s’f, in be (In In: to respond to
tlw high call of MlL—(golden Age.
The Southern Pacific Rails-bed.
The Cincinnati Commercial of a recent
date tonfains a description of the country
through which the Southmt Pacific Rail
road is to pass. 7The writer three. year!
ago made the journey i) a Texas emigrant
_train from Vicksburv/ to Los Angelos.
Eastern Texas. he will, is tull of low hills,
sin-cred with a gro hof scrubby timber.
The soil is good fir cotton. The Texas
prairies me rollinkaud better adsited for
raising wheat than Rising cotton. There
is much first clrs bottom land. but crops
are uncertain on account of dronths. Far
ther west the vast plains of the Concho
are nearly level and the soil is very god 5
but here, too, the lack of rains would he
unfavorable to' agricultural development.
The dreadful staked plain, which is coe
ert-d thick with terrible thorny shrubs.
and extends for seventy miles. is bounded
on the west by the Pecos river. which the
writ er thinks the most hideous sud dismal
ton earth; and of which he gives the follow
ing desctiptiou :
"It is just like a canal, only three or
four rods wide-mm! rushes swiftly in its
writhing channel right through the plain.
without my tret-s along is shores. All
its banks are whitened with the ghastly
skeletons of eattlv,‘lor evm the coyote
end the raven, those foulest of sll.foll'
creatures. slink sickened and shuddering
away from those hideous u-gions ot‘ desth.
The vast drove of cattle. after crossisgtlte
Stuhed Plain, seventy-five miles without
water, rushed ittto the pools of crystal
alkali, and drank until they fell deed in
their tracks; or else plunged headlong
into the dismal blood red river. and were
suept down by hundreds in its swih and
trrscherous swirl. When we Mt the
Pecos st last, twelve huntlrrd head from
our drove alone lay dead along its loath
some banks, or fed their teetering flesh to
its wuss," ' 7 '
The eifi'uhe range of mountain: con.
sista of "low lit-rmo-or chains flung to
gether in an inextricablo maze, with I
kind of backbone in the middle three or
{on} thousand feet high.” Tee ridge! of
naked rock appear like rusty iron. ".l'ho
narrow valleys betwren ere. however.
fresh and green with grass. There is I
nnturnl pnu nbout five miles widethroo'gh
these mountains. and on each side of the
range I canon leading up: to the pane by
it easy grade, so, that ~the care will not
oséeud more than a thousand feet if this
route is followed. 0n the west oide of
this range is for a distance of one hundred
miles oselieo of twenty or thirty miles
\Vldt', thrir low cities not protecting them
from the fierce heat, but the coil is en
ceedingly rich. giving sustenance to coco
tus bushes with stalks fifteen inches in
diameter? but here, as on the other ride
at the mountliuc, the heat and tho droulh
make agriculture almost impracticnble.
The Valley of the Rio Grunde, celled the
Valley of Unions, on account of the im
mense silvery sweet bulbs of the: vegeta
ble grown there, consists chic-fly of desert.
of gravel. amidst which are stripe of fer~
tile bottom land from hall' a mile to three
miles in width. The richness of the soil
is inexhaustible, but it cannot be culti
vated without irrigation, for which fortu
nntely there are excellent meant. Near
El Paso ”1988 lands are thickly settled by
Mexicans, who raise magnificent crops of
w [it'll llld onions. The population ia
now more dense than the. lands Would
sustain by the shittleee cultivatien they
bestow, but they eke out an existence by
the aid of enormous herda ol goals. which
pasture on the neighboring plains. In
Eastern Tenn then ate extensive belts of
pine fore»; and I“ the nplnndn 0! Lou“-
nm, between the Wnchiu Ind Red liven.
are nine aim 1"!ng Between Vicksburg
nnd E! l nsdthera is only | Ilretch of two
hundred miles when rue! clnnot he found
close at hand. 'l‘iee will have to be en!-
lied west fmm Mar-lull and the Sabine
for about five hundred miles. and then
hmgln ennwnd from the pub: Moun
taint.
"What hu-o you do'na to further pros
gram 2" said u mlemious' philosopher
bug d 3, to Jerking _
Jenkins rvpiy wu dent and decisive :
“I've produced seven boys Ind two girls,
at." ‘*
Tlm philosopher departed, and for. the
flint lime in his life—thought.-
Mull, persons have wandered why
horse chestnut, horse rulinh. are" are so
cam-J. A notch work. entitled "El -
mone of English Words," fly: that tic
original word wn “harem—hush chut
nut. lnr h radish—and that the French
Ind Swedes translated it into "hom;"
hence the common error.
Scene. the English mining region.
Fin: cullier loquituw'l‘hero'n been n
fuire (rxploninn) nt Jack-on" pit. Bacond
Collier—Mo)- feyther I'otkl‘d the-«n. Fiut
cnllicr—Oy. and he's blown-d n’ to pineal.
Second collier—Bo gum! whey, he's
go: they pocket knit! wi' ’im‘.
“Don't you think my lon msemblu me?"
lain! In npotbecnry a: be inlroducwl his
gnu-any faced boy to flu» willy Dr. 11—.
“Yrs." replivd the doctor, pretending
to scan flue phyniognomy of nob; "yen, I
tee your linimem in his countenance.
A! the dinner of In hill: “million
not long since. the following tout wu
given: “Ben‘s to the president of the gov
ciety. Patrick O'Rafferry. and may he
livd to eat the clficken glut scratches over
his grave."
A Canneuicnt countryman uiJ when
1:» saw I bunch of bnnanu fox the flat
time, “-I'llbe dumed it then ain't the
biggnt buns I ever ua/Sophrmy."
Jun. _ L "H . :j.
if‘ .“Lh-firtii'f‘» >~ ~
,_ rLonznc:
SAMUEL HILL, Agent, 7
I 9 Montgomery St. South.
' Gnnd Hotel Building,
SAN FRANCISCO.
852M8 108 elect/ms
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Rotlscol ac. w 9.1., Agents,
26m10 Port fowusrhd.
Kellen &. Scott,
OLYMPIA. W. T..
balm in. ad Minutem- of
HARNESS & SADDLEBY.
WE HAVE ON HAND A LARGE
Ind compleu stock peruining to our line,
which we after to the public It lowest ram.
Particular attention ptid to dl orderl {mm
shroud. 191113
Fa nm'ng Tools 0]
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M E. s. FOWLER.
NO. 37.
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SABSAPARILM, LEXONADE.
SODA WATER. GINGER 3m.
CIDER, ETC/’..
Act-add Water Wort",
chafllt’, m 1'- _
WOrdcra from :11 ports of Pug“
Sound promyflzfgndedtm V ”In!
J. A. KUHN,
REAL ESTATE AGENT,
Pox-r Towsonxn. W. T..
ILL ATTEND T 0 TEE BUYING All)
W Selling of red mm old! kinds.
[he lac-ting of Lind- And I men! hm
tum-cud on manual: mm.
In "I Inn:
A number“ in loved ei km. W
and unimprovedytogethm 31”“ we!
unimggoved land. in duh pm ol the lenlw‘...
N 0?! ICE—In the Wm Hotel.“
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J. F. SHEEHAN,
Pou- Tomaso, W. T.,
Importer and Dal“ in 7
TIN PLATE, SHEET IRON, WPPEB.
ZINC,
_ BANUA TIN,
. . WIRE.
QTOVES, -8AN6.'38,
runs, HOSE,
Iron and Lead Pipe,
Cut. Tinneduldhmled . ’
Hollow-Wade,
House-Furnishing Hardware,-
Em. Em; Ind
MANUFAQTURER OF ALL KINDI
Tin, Copper and Sheet
ou end 11"“? won't. and.
en n y 109:?! mpdy ex
Pioneer Cracker Bakery, ~
Provision amt Grocery Store,
Parr Towxoun, W. T.
Eisenbe’is & Stork
Mum made-HI:
NAVY AND PILOT BREAD AND
ALL KINDS OF CRACKBRB. A' '
Aho, Woo-lo “a man Doubt 1.1 _
Provisions and Groceries, ‘ '
M. M 8c” -
And ('oan of all kinds
Olden W, solicited :31 MM
gunntced. 13M . . n
Pounds Clean Wool
WANTED,
For which we will pay the
highest Market Pm .
. IN 0-4511. “‘N
[3' Sock: Furnished.
I IBERAL ADVANCES MADE FOR
' consignmnt: of wool to our ugontl in Now
York. no'nucuum a 00..
You Tmmd. W. I'. m 4.
“
Thom pson’s Stage !
Runs Daily between Port Dio
covery and Port Townsend.
Pleasure Parties
Can be accommodntcd at 11l time: with
Convey‘mces.
Saddle Horses kept for Hire.
Port Disco Very. April 80.
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Notice to Putnam.
FOR SALE—ONE OF MITCHELL’B
T-o-Hane Wigvns, nude in the Em drun
ly {or this country. .
For pxnicuhrn Ippl] to F. 8. FOWLER,
l‘on Townsend. 3111