1 1 1 •' fiT~- oval o r G ove 3 » or W oods — D o n ’ t “ C h u t e !” — That When aimed at Duck or Plover Is sure to kick Its owner over I W e learn from reliable parties at Port­ a unit for the removal o f George L . Woods from the office which he has disgraced and abased fqr the past two years. JOÄ PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS, S. F. CHABWtCK, «( Douglas Consty. jo m r B V M IT T , of BMtM County. JAI. H. SLATER, mf Union County. O I 8 E M B A C K S — T H E R A D IC A L PLATFORM . W e are in favot of justice, and if Judge Wilson was right about the Grant County votes, and there is no reason to dispute it, then James K . Kelly is'the legally elected Governor ot Oregon, and it is thfe duty o f the next Legislature, justice to Col. Kelly justice to the State and the people, to It has always been the practice o f place the Democratic Governor in the Republican conventions to diasetnble — Executive office. A ll we ask is justice LOOK AT THIS! Now is the time to 'subscribe for the “ Refused.” - Others have poured forth (HE UNDERSIGNED RAVING SEM O V- ed to his New Store on Front Street, oppo> P o l k C o u n t y S i g n a l ! Nearly every site the west front o£ the Court Houle, hereby day brings us new subscribers for the tènder* hi* grate fa! aeknow/edgements fer past favors, and would a«k for a continoaSbe of the S i g n a l , yet we think, with a very little same; and wou/d say to fell that nifey favor him effort on the part o f the friends o f tha with a call, that jbe will give them je o d goods . sad a fair deal, and those that are not satisfied^ paper, our subscription in Polk county with that, can go to—some other store. T further say, that my old accounts must 9 2 4 A N N IV E R S A R Y O F A M E R I ­ could easily be doubled inside o f one would be dosed up ; long winded accounts are play­ C AN I N D E P E N D E N C E month. The permanency o f the paper ed out. Now, those who do not take advan­ tage of this pious bint, will have to answer for will be duly celebrated at Eola on Sat« is now assured beyond any doubt.— it at the day u f ¡udaeuient. urday, the 4th Proximo. J. H. LEW IS. Everybody wants the home news and Amplo preliminary ’ arrangements Dallas, June 13, 1808. 134w excruciating maledictions against that everybody in the county is interested in land, that the Democratic members will come from the east side o f the Cascades S U B S C R IB E 1 S U B S C R I B E !! gun A s if the defeat o f the spoiletmen o f this coûnty in the late elehtioo was d i­ rectly churgable upon the S ig n a l , not a few grimaces have been leveled at us since that interesting event. One o f the defunct candidates returned our paper marked in large sized letters, “ damned Copperhead rag,” Ac. A ll The P eople’* C elebration o f the C om ing F ou rth ! 1 8 6 8 having their newspaper sustained and widely circulated. I f each one o f our this we can very well stand, but our peouliar nervousness sets in when we patrons would induce just one other receive a letter o f which the following person to take the paper our list would be immediately dou bled ; this would T h e leaders o f the party— the architect! aud fair play, and we have heard of is a verbatim extract : « I can whip enny dam raskel for teling so o f its petiey— are generally composed many Republicans who ulso assert that menny lyes cons evry boddy but noes that jin« be easy done. W ill our friends arouse ? o f knaves and tricksters, tn 1866 the justice ought to be done in this matter. rel grant dident have the daleryum treemons.” W e call upon Democrats, especially, to W e weaken, “ jinrel gran t” is a do this much for us. Republican party o f this State was di- W oods will get no sympathy from Tiod , Dli ail)ce bis iodo<.tioo int0 tha toggery— not he. Anna Dickinson, by far the largest circulation o f aDy tk tt eomethiag eboald be done to recon. office ¡, ¡, notorious th„ hc h>, repeat. the N. \T. Independent, W endell Philips; interior paper in the State of Oregon.— eile the matter, end accordingly the J et]jy offered to sell hie official influence ate all “ lyers,” “ coas ” they say Our list is daily increasing. 0 g ^ a * wvna tricksters met in convention at Cor- j for ni0ney, and the report is current “ grant ” is a notorious drunkard, while vallia and adopted a platform on which that he hag been in thc pay o f a gang Greeley says to elect “ grant ” would WORDS W ASTED. thoy could go before the people and o f army contractors to secure the re. be to br.ng “ daleryum treemons ” on The Albany Democrat deprecates the the Governftent and make the execu­ cry Johnson or anti-Johnson—just as moral of certain honest and faihful of­ tion o f our laws spasmodic and unceri conduct of ministers o f the Gospel and circumstances and localities might sug- ficers, and his schemes in this respect tain. O f course we take it all baok (?) other teachers ( ostensibly) o f the way gest. T h e “ Lnioo men may honestly woujd bave bcen successful had it not men should walk, for the ignoble part the differ ” plank was incorporated into the beeQ for thft iDtcrp0sition o f a distin. T h e y R e t a l i a t e d — Last fall Gov. majority o f them acted in the late elec­ Republican creed, while a Democrat gu;8hed citizco o f F o,k County> who Woods visited California, stumped the tion— in sanctifying immorality and who happened to endorse Johnson at carrie8 a ^\e lhat «.knocked the per- State and handed the same over to the blasphemy in one o f the most direct thia same period was neee>s.itil} a simmons” a littlo higher up than Democrats. The Californiaus, not feel­ ways there is to do thatthiug. “ rebel sympthiaer. lh e policy as at George, and prevented W °°d s and bis ing particularly friendly towards Woods W e regard it as words wasted— as present advocated by the great majoiity confederates from making a wholesale nor his kind o f republicanism in Ore. breath lost— to advert to these things ot Democrats everywhere, o f paying m jj upon t ie Government in this De. gon, set themselves about “ playing with a view to any reformation in this certain bonds in greenbacks, has be*n part0,ent. George has b u ilt! ten thous- even.” Accordingly, they doffed thuir behalf. Stern experience ha9 taught denounced by the republican press and an(j do|i;ir house entirely too soon, for kid gloves, went away low down into the us this much. For the last fifteen by republican orators from one end o f honesty, and no one will shed any tears perlieus o f sin aud degradation and dug years, Christianity, as tried by thc the land to the other as “ repudiation.” over his ignominious downfall. up the K ing o f unclean beasts in the standard'of true piety, has been at a la­ But, it becoming ’ painfully appareut person of Calvin 15. McDonald and ship­ mentably low ebb. A false God— the that the Democratic proposition is find­ T he loth Annual Report o f the Odd ped him offuphere where he was readily negro— was set up. Like the Cuthaean ing much favor among the more intelli­ Fellow’s' Library Association, San Fran­ mounted upon the tripod o f the Union­ colonists in Samaria, who, while affect­ gent and honest o f the republicans, it cisco, has been famished us through ist. He proceeded to biz— to revlution- ing a reverence for the true God, paid became imperative that something be the kindness o f the Secretary o f that ize Oregon, dedicated the gutter in Sa. homage to the idols o f the nations done in the National Republican Con­ most bénéficient institution. lem, and, a few days since, started on round about them, the Methodists vention which lately sat in Chicago and The following appeal is made to all his return to old haunts o f dissipation (N orth) o f to-day, while affecting a hatched out Grant and Colfax, to bam- Lodges and members o f the I. O. O. F., and vice in Sau Francisco. The Cali­ belief in^the true G o i , practically bow bootle the people ee to the real deeigt« b j authority fornians— the victims o f W ood’s elo­ at the shrine o f their idol, the ni g * • RnpnbltMn p.pnr. A brothcr fct be known ,0 u ¡D to lead the Irish, resident o f the Island, them o f aa opportunity o f glorifying of this Stata in denouncing^ the propo- , tbe cj^yi and many f rieD(j8 might anx. from the path o f patriotic duty. In Cuffee though in the attempt they sitiou to pay any class o f U. S. bonds iously but vaiuly seek him. The R eg­ this he must always fail The sons o f should sanctify drunkenness, hypocra- in greenbacks, and being the only rc- ister would obviate such a difficulty. Erin are the same the world over and publican paper in the State that d i,. ’ A, telegram eent to a well-known cy, licentiousness, blasphemy, fornica­ r . . . . . . . ., brother remained in the Odd bellow s despise an apostate renegade. Intui­ tion idolatry and all the long catalogue cnases the issues involved between the j Libra, y for 8 e v e r a l day8 nq one being tively splendid judges o f human nature, o f moral delinquencies and obliquities two parties, with any degree o f candor acqnaiutcd with his residence. and the wiles o f vaunted ambition, they supposed to exist. Recently a brothcr from the interior or fairness, we ask that paper whether rebuke every overture— come from O f course, to simple minds, it seemed the said greenback proposition is de* dropped dead in the street. It was not , . a, , ... . then known he was an Odd Fellow.— whatever source it may— as an insult clear enough that the Apostles of nounced m the above resolution as one i . ., . r , ( As soon as that fact was ascertained. to their manhood and an imputation righteousness bad an opportunity o f the “ forma of repudiation, o rw h e th ., the General R elief Committee hastened upon their fealty to correct principles. presented whereby they could manifest e r o r not consistently with it, any o f the and found the body in a rough box at P o o r l y D i s g u i s e d . — The Advocate their faith in their own teachings by ben d, could be liquidated with green- ‘ V C ount, H o.pit.1, about to be cart- ed out to the “ Potter s Field. * says: their works, when a man, noted for " ac'£9 • t Nothing more need be added to dem- The Guard, a democratic newspaper lately his piety— one belonging to and an or­ ---------------------------------------- onstrate the great importance o f broth- published in Eugene City, has suspended pub­ nament in their own household in the S uppoeed TO BE I n san e .— Not ers from all parts acceding to the ubove lication. request. faith— was presented for their suffrages many weeks since, the Sheriff, upon in­ Now, when it is known that thc By order o f the Odd Fellows' Libra­ as against a man notorious tor all o f formation being filed that a person re­ ry Associatian. Guard has not suspended, the charac­ the opposite characteristics. A fter the siding in this county was insane aud H E N R Y C. S Q U IR E , ter o f the Advocate for veracity will not example set by the Methodist priest­ Secretary. therefore unfit to run at large, proceed be materially improved. And then hood in their relations to the late elec­ ed to arrest and manacle the aforesaid that paper was so particular to say it tion, it would be sacrilege to suppose •apposed lunatic and bring him to town. Speaking o f the congratulatory tele. was a Democratic paper. The Guard that they were not all actuated by a He was subjected to the required ex« gram received by Senator Nesmith from was suspended temporarily for the pur­ desire to promote by all the means in amination by experts in the healiogart, Andrew Johnson, and o f the satisfac- pose o f enlarging and improving the their power, true morality ! and variously manipulated. Oral tos- tion with which it was received by the paper, and not an avowed partisan pa­ timony w»s evoked in support o f the Democracy, the Oregonian says: per in the State has dared to insinuate S enator W ilson of Massachusetts u Cnriou* to hear tho*e who three years ago presumption that the man was insane. that thc publication o f thc same had were characterizing-Tobnaon as a drunken de­ was lately written to at Washington His father was examined and we be- bauchee, a disgraced sot now shouting and been discontinued. The animus o f tbc to know whether the charge preferred lieve the only thing elicited bearing in cheering at the mention of his name.” Advocate was but poorly disguised in by the N. Y . Independent against Grant Curious indeed ! A nd how does it nny waj against the unfortunate pris. the above paragraph. The wish was and seconded by Anna Dickinson, the oner, was the fact that he had inverted ptand over your way, Mr. Oregonian ? father to the thought. N. Y . Tribune and W endell Philips, Just three years ago you were invok­ to a limited extent in the to w it : that the said Grant did, on a ing the choicest curses o f heaven upon “ Pay tftn dollars down ” N ew E xchange . — M The Foun­ railroad humbug championed ly Sam Democrats for insinuating that Johnson certain Sabbath morning, on one o f the tain a bi-monthly publication issued at public avenues o f Washington, in a Clark» A Co. W hile the perpetration was just what you allege thut he was, o f this «illy act was not deemed by the while you are particularly fierce because Good Templar’s Hall, Dallas, for June, drunken debaohee, dance and sing authorities conclusive on the point of the Democracy has defeated your little the prisoner’s insanity, it was neverthe scheme of deposing this same Johnson less strongly hinted that the act o f bit« , that you defended so vehemently when i**g at the bait offered by the said Sam he was charged with being a “ drunken A . S. H ughes''editor, and Misses J. Lyle and S. P. Hughes, associates, is before us. This number is filled with original articles and choice selections. Mr. Johnson has reformed Isis The utility o f suoh a publication being libility quite inconsistent with the sup- 1 habits and was immediately kicked out read in the lodge at stated periods none will question ; it affords a relief from position that the man was really compus o f the Republican party therefor.- the general tedium o f the lodge routine, mentue. The prisoner was not consign- That's what’s the matter. and always contains suggestions which «d to the charge o f Dm. Hawthorne k --------------- Loryea, though those having the beat Thousand« o f men in the Eastern may be pondered upon by the members, opportunities fer judging in the prem -1 States will not vote for Grant on the with profit, at their leisure. W e bespeak for the Fountain a oa i*ee thought he would ere long have t o 1 ground that, for the republican party « ’ larks k Co., betrayed a degree ofgu l* sot.” go. “ A vote 4?raiu." | to take three consecutive candidate« r e e ro f unparallelled prosperity. Logaa is a vote for for th® Presidency from Illinoia is “ A vote for Logan is a rote ] carrying tha jok e a little toe far. Grant.” • rsa r â for M ÎS ïte fc * • have been and are being made. R E A P E R S A fflO W E R i “ Dandy Jim ,” was true, replies that be “ did not see him do it.” This is equivalent to saying that he had no T P . C. S U L L IV A N aud B E N H A Y D E N , ORATORS of the DAY! HE UNDERSIGNED HAS Marshal for the occasion, * J O S E P H L IG G E T T . R E A P E R S, M O W ER S A N D HORSE Reader the Declaration o f In de­ P IT C H F O R K S pendence, at his farm, which will be sold cheap for CASH J U D G E W H IT S O N . or exchanged for CATTLE. A ll are invited to attend, and bring J. W. NESMITH. with them such supplies of provisions Rickreal, June 2d. 124w as may be convenient. B y order o f F o iR T U O im Y C om . of A rrangem ents - 13td ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION. TO FOUNDRYMEN AND BLACKSMITHS HE CITIZENS OF POLK COUNTY arc invited to participate in a Celebration ot the approaching 9 2 d A N N IV E R S A R Y O F A M E R I­ C AN I N D E P E N D E N C E to be held at INDEPENDENCE, OREGON. C u m b e r l a n d and L e h i g h The iollowing named gentlemen constitute the COMMITTEE OF A R R A N G E M E N T S* I. Vanduyn, Ç>r. J. E. Davidson. II. Crane, J. B. Zumalt, and Perry Watson. In Store and A float, For Sale by J. R. DOYLE, San Francisco. [101y] 413 A 415 P acific o r T M arshal OitATon o r rim ok M O T E L . HAS JUST BEEN FINISHED, TV O W IS — O P E N for the accommodation o f all may favor him with their patronage. J. B. SPRENGER. NEW SOUTHERN SUBSCRIPTION First Door North of Browu’x Fire-pr -of Brick. N E W STORE. N E W G O O D «. . N E W P R IC E S . 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