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y*W ’í v »i DALLAS, OREGON, MONDAY. NOVEMBER 30, 1868. VOL. I. fòt ffiwWg gílh (Kountg Signal. is is s u e d every M o n d a y m o r n in g . J. H. UPTON^ Publisher. T erm s —One year, $3 0 0 ; 1 5 0 ; three months, $1 00. six months. T E R M FOR CLUBS: F ire eopies, one yew , $1S 75 ; Ten copies •as year, $25 00, sail for any greater number at $1 50 per annum. A T C O S T ! A T C O S T !! IHE undersigned having concluded to close out their entire Stock, consisting o f G e n e r a l M e r c h a n d is e , Such as Dry G oods Groceries, Clotnlng, Boots sud Shoes, Hardware, C ro.kery, Tili n 'a re , Drugs sad Medicines, e to , etc., Will sell the same At Cost. Subscription must be p a id strictly in advance. R A T E S O F A D V E R T IS IN G W e .ill our Improvements, One sauere— ten lines or less— first inscr Storehouse, Warehouse, Barn, Stable, tion, • • y - * 00 Granery and some other Outbuildings, Each additional insertion, - - * 1 o f Good A liberal deduction will be made with yearly together with Five Acres advertisers, or persons advertising largely. Land, set in Timothy. There is on Legal tenders taken at their current value. Communications o f a personal character will the premises a Splendid W ell of Water. be charged half advertising rates. ' W IN G & A P P E L . Blanks ol every discretion furnished at low rates on short notioe. Legal and transient advertisements must be ^^*A11 those indebted to us, either by note paid for in advance to insure their publication or book account, arc expected to call and settle Advertisements not marked the length ol immediately. WING A APPEL. time for which they are to be published, will be insertedtill forbidden and charged accordingly. Louisville, Polk county, Oregon, Sept. 28, '68. All advertising bills must be paid quarterly h Raiload flattera. NO. 37. Soith American Phenomena—A iag wave, now borne awifty forward op« Brilliant Descriptive Letter. on its crest, their situation was terrible, Jeffries, o f Eola, is ao educated and M e r it R e w a r d e d . — Dr. W. D. On Sunday last, in company with skillful physician and surgeon, and as a A rica , P eru , Sepf. 1 8 ,18G8. a friend, we took a walk along the consequence o f true merit, hie practice Dr. William Trevit, Columbus: W est Side Railroad. A t the end of is extensive and increasing. Wheu I promised a few weeks Fourth street, we encountered the first It is always a pleasing task for us to bridge, which is a massiv^ structure, record the eminent success o f those since to write you from the sunny lands 800 feet long and 85 feet high, across among ns whose services are so nee» p f the tropics, I hoped to have sent pleasant pen photographs o f the south Marquam’s Canyon. It is now com» essary to life aod health. west coast, and to have led you with me pleted ready for the ties, the stringers The necessity for medical men, edu being laid with a foot path o f boards cated and skilled in all the intricacies among the orange groves, to look upon the people o f Peru as t ti -y are, courteous, between them. Further oo, we saw o f the science must be apparent to ali, other bridges and deep cuts that give and we look forward to the d«y when hospitable and kind to the stranger Rut I had scarcely arrived within her evidence that a great deal o f work has empyrics and quacks will have to give boundaries when that terrible convul been done The big cut, 00 feet high way before the march o f colightement sion occurred, which has shaken the in the middle, is now finished and the and be heard o f no more forever. Pacific coast fur over three thousand road bed is completed to the summit at Ben. Butler stole trom a gentleman miles, and obliterated tow as, provinces Slauin’s Pass. There are no laborer.» and communities iorever from the face at work on this side now, the first camp in New Orleans one hundred aud eleven o f the earth. ri he general features of being in Washington county. Every» thousand in coin. Suit was brought the catastrophe have doubtless appear thing looks like progress and seems to against the old pirate and judgm ent re Greenbacks ed too ofieu in the American press to justify the prediction v c have heard covered in New York. made, that cars will run to Hillsboro were werth 40c. on the dollar at the need present repetition. A more vivid and made ten-fold more so by the ut ter darkness which soon shrouded the scene. The merchant vessels were hurled upon the rocks and utterly de* stroyed— the Chanarcillo having rolled over and over and wrapped around her one hundred and twenty fathoms o f chain cr.ble, like thiead upon a spool. The America was crashed, her spars carried away, and a large proportion o f her officers and crew swept into eternity. ^ The Fredonia, moored « t e a an^-aten* .. by four anchors, resisted for sometime the pressure o f the elements, but was fi nally torn from her moorings and utter ly destroyed, with every soul on board. The Wateree was commanded by cool and brave officers, who took every pre caution— battened down hatches, seeur. ed the guns, ran lifelines from every available point, assembled all hands on idea o f the actions o f the earthquake time. The radical saint, Ben., paid by next July.— Portland Herald. the hurricane deck, and having done will, perhaps, be formed from a sketch the amount in greenbacks, clearing con all that human fore sight could snggest, For eloquence, point, spirit and pa. siderably over an hundred thousand of its results as they here present them calmly awaited the result. The force thos, it is doubtful whether Judge H ay dollarsic greenbacks by- the transaction. selves in all their fearful reality. and the velocity o f the sea may be shown NEW CO LU M BIAN den’s speech in the Circuit Court in A rita was the most attractive city of The loil party elect and re elect this faintly to the imagination from the fact behalf o f the doomed Sutton has ever the whole Peruvian coast. Rivulets of H O T E L . monster to Congress, and hence eudorse that she was swept along at from 25 to been equaled iu Oregou by any attorney. pure water flowed through its streets; A D V E R T IS IN G A G E N T ! a downright thief. God aud morality, 30 miles an hour, dragging with her M ain St.y Curvatili, Oregon. His speech is universally spoken of as its northern boundary was a mass of 120 fathoms o f chain and her heaviest my boy. NO. 30 (SE C O N D F L O O R ,) a m asterpiece of genuine eloquence E . S. A ltr e e , s : P ro p T . foliage, where the strange but delicious anchor. Seven times were they carried M ERCH AN TS’ EXCH AN G E, The Judge is iu his element in de Miss Puiey W. For.-yihe is publisher fruits o f the tropics grew in profusion, back and forth by the resistless flood, oard and Lodging on reasonable terms. ralitoruia Street, below Montgomery, fense o f the weak and powerless against 0» the Liberty, Mississippi, Advocate. and the traveler, either from South or not unmindful, even in such momeots Meals at all hours. SAN FRANCISCO. the giant efforts and abundant resources Miss Forsythe says io her salutatory North, was wont to bear with him o f fearful peril of the duties o f humanity, THOS BOYCE, j but gathering into their hospitable deck such unfortunates as floated past in J . K . Is F n o , boats or on fragments o f wreck. The »RACTICAL HhHIIF.H aud H A IR waters thundered upon the crowded DRESSER. deck, but the precautions taken were B L A C K S M IT H 1 N G . In d ep en d e n ce , O regon sible effort to be made in behaif o f a elusively by members o f the family— the Morro, a huge cliff, a thousand feet effectual, and when the Walerte finally NEW SHOP. victim of the law’s vengeance that he five children— 2 girls and 3 boys hav- in hight, crowned by a battery, and settled gently upon the sand, and the roll was called, not a solitary one o f her pposite Salem, on the Spring Valley road, may have the full benefit of every cir ing grown np in the Advocate office at whose foot sleep the mummied Incas complement was missing. She lies on j of a mile from the Ferry, the under* cumstance that would in least tend to printers. Miss F. has good ability as a o f an age long past. The railroad to an even keel, her bow pointing seaward, ned have opeued a JO N ES T H E J E W E L E R , soften the rigor o f impending punish, Tacna skirted the b a y ; a handsome her taper masts as upright as though writer. State Street. Salem, Oregou, Blacksmith and Wagon Shop rnent; and the lawyer who neglects to do Custom-house o f stone and iron fronted she were at anchor, and her hull appan s the place to go and get your watches, clocks and jewelry repaired in good style, Where all kinds of work in their line ill be his whole duty iu behalf o f the weak M o r e L u n a t i c s .— A new religious the mole, and being the entrepot o f the ently uninjured ; her flag floats as sauci. i warrant all my work fur one year ; if it is executed promptly and with dispatch. and powerless, or who.in point o f ability, colony is projected. The papers say south of Peru and o f the bay o f Bolivia, Ij, aod it ia taken down as punctually not right, I make it right. tfSifU EPAlK IN U done to order. at sunset, as though she were still * 3tf MANN A PIERCE. is not equal to the task of defending a that several hundred families, styling there were everywhere evidences o f bu formidable floating battery. But her R E M E M B E R T I I E 8 II O P IN THE P 08T OFFICE BU ILD IN G . prisoner well, should not be allowed to themselves “ Friends o f Jerusalem,” ure sy trade, wealth and refinement. cruise is up; she lies half a mile inland, N. B. Fine watches repaiaed with the great and will henceforth serve only as a sor appear in one’s behalf. about to to leave Wurtemberg to set. est care, But a swifl and sudden doom was rowful monument o f the power o f the tf. tie iu Palestine. hanging, like the swerd o f Damocles, elements. W e sometimes hear a man say, “ W ell The incitement to this t o m f o o l e r y The scene, as I rode slowly along the over the unconscious city. A little af BONHAM A LA W SO N , I hardly ever read advertisements in a is found in certain chapters o f Jeremiah. front o f the city, can better be imagined ter 5, od the afternoon o f August 13th, newspaper any how ." The chances are from what I have said, than intelligent Queer people in this world. Attorneys It Counsellors at Law, the solid earth heaved and shook like ly described. For miles the beach is D r. W . D. J E F F R I E S . two to one th at such person “ hardly ’ ’ Jerusalem pilgrims will be apt to a storm tossed vessel, a roar deep and strewn witbsad mementoes o f the catas ever reads anything else. Rut he found SALEM , OREGON. go hungrf. Iron chests, gun carriages, hoarse, as o f subterranean thunder, was trophe. that Richmond was taken, that Jeff. P H Y S IC IA N . & SU R G E O N . OFFICE IN TIIE COURT HOUSE n27tf coaches, boxes o f tea, masses o f twisted Davis was captured aud that we had There are various opinions entertain heard, and in the instinct o f self-prescr. track, maps, books, papers, broken EOLA, OREGON. a war on our hands for more than four ed as to the ability o f women to become ration, the frightened inhabitants fled boats, furniture, anchors, etc-, etc., Special attcition given to Obstetrics and years, by heariug somebody talk who successful printers. Mrs. Elizabeth to the streets and plazas. The delay were mingled in wildest confusion,while diseasts of women. did read. The same theory applies to Cady Stanton says they arc a success in of a moment was fa ta [; for, torn from the angry sea muttered threateningly, advertisements. Those who do read the business. I f the Revolution is their foundations, as though by a giant as though in wrath at the remnants o f talk about what they learu from the indebted to women for its “ make hand, houses, churches, factories, all prey snatched from its remorseless M c C a u lle y rasp. 4t newspapers, aud thus the most stupid up went down in one undistinguishable those engaged on that paper W hile, in such emergencies, the At ALEXANDER, are accommodated with information in unquestionably arc a success, at least inass of ruiu. The huge pillars o f the noblest traits o f man’s character are D E N T I S T S . at times brought, so are the darker spite o f themselves, as it were. — The Revolution, for perfection in Custom-house were tossed about like features o f bis disposition often thrown FFICE on State street, over Gills' Book typography, has no peer in New York pipe stems, aod fragments o f stone into prominence. W hile the officers o f D O D D ’ S , Store, Salem, Oregon. The Oret/oniaa goes into “ nearly and huge blocks o f masonry were the Wateree were clothing the naked, All operations performed by us are warranted city. spasms’ ’ because the grand jury in to give satisfaction. hurled like pebbles from a sliug. Those feeding the hungry, sheltering the Portland refused the other day to indict One o f the firm may be found in our After the toil love feast in this place who could, fled to the sloping side o f the homeless, helping the wounded and bu SALEM. \ r •office from 8 o'clock a . m ., until 4 p. u., o f each 13 Union soldiers who voted io Port, over “ Oregon Redeemed ! " republicans day. S. D. McCAULEY, Morro, stumbling and reeling like drun rying the dead, troops o f human vul tures were prowling among the debris 18ly E. V. H. A L E X A N D E R . land on the 3rd instant. That paper bet their money Ireely on the State. ken men upon the heaving surface o f for plunder, occasionally scared from says that soldiers have no right to vote It is all up with them now. the troubled earth. Thick clouds o f their unholy work by the uncovering o f while in the service o f the United States, I f they will be virtuous there is a dust arose, and the darkness tnuliplied some dead face, or the more intelligible WATSON If GRIS W ELL, and hence, it urges, that these 13 veter show for them yet being happy, but not the terror o f the panic stricken fugitives, warning o f a cocked revolver. T he A r c h it e c ts a n d P r a c t i c a l very night o f the ruin, when the waters ans ought to be indicted aud punished this t ine. Some few, bolder than the rest, re were still in a state o f unrest, and the HOUSE CARPENTERS, for so doing. mained behind; some to extricate a loved earth still sobbing, at intervals, l.ke a IN D PE N D E N C E O R E G O N . M u d d l e d . — The Unionist copies our one from the ruins; some to save some fretful child, ihe glimmer o f lights up N E W Y O R K B A K E R Y . P r e s i d e n t i a l . — This word belongs for Building Houses ’ T IT IL L take Contracts account o f the breaking iuto Mr. A . S little from the general w reck; but soon on the shore, and the sound o f heavy V V o f every dascriptiou and 1 kind, in town to a class o f adjectives which are form* Crider's boot and shoe establishment blows, pointed out to the wntohers on 5 t^ and country. Sntislaction guaranteed« a roar, louder aod hoarser than that o f any hill where the work o f plunder had ed from substantives by the addition of and credits the same to ‘ Sentinel.' That R e s t a u r a n t, the earthquake itself, w m heard; and begun. The iron safes were rifled, easea al. For example, incident, incidental ; paper, also, in speaking o f a letter re. State Street, Salem. the sea, crouching, as though to make o f merchandise broken open, and their orient, oricntul ; regiment, regimental, ceutly written to the Herald by H. C. the leap more deadly, retired from the contents carried off openly by the mule J , L. C O L L I N S , and so on. W hen the noun ends in Huston, says that gentleman was a shore, and thuudtring on in one unbro load. 'ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW ce, euphony and ease o f utterance re But one strange and solemn freak o f Senator from Polk county. M E A L S A T A L L H O U R S- ken wave,forty feet iu heighth, dashed earthquake was the splitting oft o f • quire the modification o f the sound o f DALLAS, OREGON. down upon the devoted city, and com huge stratum from the Morro itself, die- READ, PIES, CAKES OF ALL K IN D S, al into ia l; as official, and so on. But W e see that many republican papers pleted the annihilation o f Arioa. Seven closing some three hundred huacas or PECIAL attention given to Collections, we might as well say parential as pres Kept on band and Supplied to Order. are extravagant in their laudations o f Indian graves, dating long before the and to matter« connected with reel Estate times the waves retired—seven times conquest. Their inmates sat in grim idenfia/. “ Presidential campaign ” is the rebels who lately overthrew the Cracker*. Oysters and Sardine«. the waves flung themselvos, tiger-like, immobility, in a crouching posture, How consistent! Being Fitted up in first elaaa style we can a blatant Americanism for Presidental Spanish Governnent. upon the unresisting victim. The earth their laces toward the sea. each with 33tf guarantee satisfaction. canvass. What better is a Spanish rebel than an still swayed to and fro, and moaned like some little memorial by his side - a string C A B D W E L L c . American rebel ? Or, if to rebel is o f colored «hells, a rude hook and line, •jSUOJJ t-UiOJ U [— 93tffQ one in distress; and the houseless, home The city clock o f Galveston, Texas, d e n t i s t , a j&r o f wine, or n clumsy trinket o f such a srevious wrong, per se. why NO 9 3 H 0 • 1S V T T V d less, desolated groups knelt shivering has been sold under an execution for a beaten gold. There they had lain for P O R T L A N D , OB E G O N , • ‘ jterq )« satoiQMV countenance it anvwhere? upon the mountai i side, and with white centuries, in suoh perfect preservation city debt. W e should think the pur. DENTAL OMM—NO 88 First street- ly if faces and quivering lips, prayed for that it seemed hard to believe that they chaser would be much in the same fix Over fifty thousand dollars was staked N08XIHM *0 M 'H XyoaiddV *V f were cot cotcmporarioa o f the present as the boy who won the elephant at the and lost by republicans in and about mercy. race. In the harbor were anchored the U. raffle. I propose visiting the interior in a few Salem on the result o f the election in J cafee m F. P F T * M AN, S. steamer Waterce, the United States days? and will write you whenever in this State. Judge Denny’s dispatch IMPORTER AMD SOBBVRIN A New York paper mentions two proved a costly one to his party. storeship Fredonin, the Peruviun frigate cident o f sufficient interest shall present W IN E S a n d I . 1 Q IT O R » itself, trusting that I shall never again cases o f quarantine, three o f Grecian An erica, and a number o f merchant • * have to paiut so painful a picture as Also Sole Manufacturer and Proprietor of the bend and one of cholera morbus. Same Official vote of New York State gives vessels. Tossed liko eorks upon eBLXBBATXD RUSSIAN BITTERS, the destruction o f Aricn.-^CoIum bui Seymour 9,452 majority. 28 3m U S Jackaen S t., San Francisco. treatment applicable to all. whirl pool, now stranded by the reced- Crisis. o f the State. W hen he has failed to that the Advocate was first issued Jan. pleasant memories o f a scene so much, clear a prisoner, his case had been in 1st., 1838, and that th* paper has been much in contrast with the barren and deed a hopeless oue. It is right. It regularly issued ever since— that for the rock-bound coast on either hand. To is human. It is correct for every pos. last twelve years it has been run ex the south, imposing and majestic, ro-e O I GANG PLOWS O SEED DRILLS 8AYER8 & BUCKLFY PROPR’S. B S ‘uo?|?t| Al . w. M , 9)vD|ddY . a« . Physician and Surgeon J