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dig, Uicn take up some of the earth, and washing it tains that llic reading was correct in ils main princi carefully , look earnestly for something to appear at pies, nevertheless. the bottom of the basin. One "believed be had it' several limes, but was disappointed. At length anoth er sung out 4,i't; tut it I've L i! !" I5ut before the party could galhi r round him, he relieved them by remarking, wilhji sigh, "0 it's nothing hut mica." Wonder what they wanted to get colds? "Murder will our." A man has been arrested in Filcbburg, Mass., and is now undergoing examination on a charge of poisouing his wife to death, 14 years ago. 11 appears thai the woman died after eight hours illness, her body being placed in a tomb: and that the sexton of the town at various intervals since, when having occasion to open the aull, has observdd that the stomach of the deceased retained a remarkable stale of preservation. This fact led to suspicions (hat she had been poisoned, and the stomach was sent to Professor Webster, of Harvard College, who on analyzing it, detected a considerable quantity of arsenic. The affair has caused great excitement in Fitchburg. (Exchange. Important to Sleepers. Supposing that a man rise at six, instead of eight, every morning of his life, be will save, in the course of forty years, twenty-nine thousand hours, which is a great accession of availa ble time for study or business despatch being in fact, a gaining of three years, four months, two weeks, and six days, lo anv person of foresight, calculation, MODEST EPITAPH. "My nrm, my country, what arc they to thee? What, whether high or low, my pedigree? I'd haps I far aUjpasscd all other men, Perhaps I fell below th jm all what then? .Suflic3 it stranger, that thou sec'st a tomb, Thou know'st its use, it hides no matter wJ o n." NOTICE. GEO C. LAVVTON having this diy disposed of his interest in the firm of K. Co. toTheo. Magrudcr, tac business will he continued at the old stand under the firm of Wji. K. KILBORiN &. Co. Oregon city, Nov. 10, 11)18. tf. TO THE STEAMERS ARE COMING. COALSl COALS 11 COALS III OTICE is hereby given persons ac quainted with coal localities. rh.U !' n.ourin" cimnles of the same .tiid having them wlt.j ('ipt. . (Jtosbv Jr., at 1'o.iiand. or Gov. "o. Aben'Jthy, at Oregon ty. ;he, " v.iit be o.-vardud to the i. l S. Co.. ,il .i; v Yr'.. 10 :he nm-nose of ..I : ........ . . , .. .-.'.... IiCiug tested, .-innu.dtv. L.r.j Wit. e. sto: JUST RECEIVED: PER "Eveline" and "Sabine," una for sal addition to their former stock, at COUCH & CKO.-MV'S. C, in onEGos city and Portland. and industry, this fact will prove a sufliicient templa- beS 4.1U11 iu yiaiiiau mc ncaunjr auu usuiui iiuuuui iuuj uuuuu, oro. uniting, casiimcicus, uniiuu Uiiw, lung cluth, cotton risiDg. (O If the sovereign grants any thing by mistake, he lias the subject or the grant back again, so that a royal exclamation of "Ilalloi what have I been about? I didn't mean that," will revoke the strongest grant in existence. If Hie property granted is worth more than the king or queen thought it was, he or she might take it back again and, in fact, under almost any circumstances, a tiling given by a sovereign lo a sub ject is subject to be made the subject of capture. (Punch. Origin op the word tahiff. The puzzling name 'tariff' is derived from the loiun of Tarifa, at the mouth of the Straits of Gibraltar, and the most south ern point in Europe, not even excepting Cape Matapan, at the foot of the Morea. Tarifa was the last strong hold which the Moors disputed with the Christians, and is still within three leagues of the empire of Mo rocco. When the Moors held possession of both Hie pillars of Hercules, it was here that they levied con tributions for vessels entering the Medileiranean whence the generic name. Power of Machinery. At Calicut, in the East In dieswhence the cotton cloth called calico derives ils name the price of labour is one-seventh of that in England yet the market is supplied from British looms. A droll Mistake. A contemporary recently placed a list of Marriages under the head of '"causes of war." Ho subsequently apoligized for the error, but main- carpet, cotton umbrellas, Iogiscj.o and totter jiaoer. i i.i. imills. ml stones, crockery &; gl war, cjs.ois. looking lx. dutch o eiu &. covers, saucj-pauj, coat ?c vest button, ha r biui-ja. t jor siropj, braces, boots & shoes, drcs&intr cas, tea crvldnv. m , (r buxe, green &. black tea, raisins, iiD's,, eoffc, sugar, sjlaraiui, p.vor, to bacco, sperm &. whale oil, tar, chdk, sperm cau.hcs, -.ish-tubs, wooden buckets, baskets, garden hoes, axes, nails, smll-aa-.vSj i:c to be sold low for cosh or produce. L EAT LIE U. UPPER, sole and harness leather, in luts losuit buyers, for sale at Portland, by (If) F. W. I'EITYGROVE and Co. PROVISIONS. BEEF, PORK, SALMON and BREAD lor sale low lor cash, bv W. F. C0(JI)E. Oregon City Oct. 13 'iS. (If) OLD STORE JEW GOODS at Kii.korn, Law son and Co.'s Lm received per llenr the fullov iiii; :oods : His lll Ch II'! I till do.uriiliiiii bed licks. u Uro. sheetim ribands: bl'k, jmyui and '-fiu nowd. r lea: collco: sugar: p.pper: glass: nails: iud: smu king tobacco: t ic. etc. All of which will he sold low for cash or produce. Oregon City, Sept. i, '4S. 2s. C . L . II 0 S S , X. Y. STORE," COR. WASHING I ON AND MONTGOMERY STS., SAN FRANCISCO, Ll'l'ER CALIFORNIA. liefer lo Kiliiorn, Lawton and Co., Oregon City, Ceo. arernethv, do. San Francisco, April I, 'IS. ts.