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Not at Home.
An elderly man, shabbily attired, was
seen walking thTough one of the fashion
able streets in a large city, one cold De
cember morning, supported by a larj;e
staff firmly grasped in one hand, while
from the other swung his bundle, wrapped
up in a coarse coUorThandkerchief. His
coat waa of coarse gray, and had evident
ly seen hard service, though perfectly
whole and neat. The traveller walked
slowly along, carefully examining the
door-plates, lie finally paused before a
door of showy exterior, which, if we
credit the testimony of the plate upon
the door, was occupied by Alexander
Iieaumont. "Alexander Beaumont! yes,
that's the house," murmured the traveler
to himself, as he ascended the stairs and
rang the door-bell.
II is summons was answered by a ser
vant, :who, after a moment's scrutiny,
which apparently was not of a very fa
vorable character, said roughly : "Well,
sir, what do you want ?"
"Is JMr. Iieaumont at home ? saiu the
old man, without heeding the intentional
rudeness.
"No, sir, he is not."
"Then perhaps I can see his wife ?"
"I think it is very doubtful, but I will
see," and the servant withdrew without
inviting the man to enter, though the
. day was cold and his clothes 6eemcd
hardly sufficient to protect hint from ita
inclemency.
Mrs. Beaumont was reclining on a fau
teil, in a room handsomely furnished.
The last new magazine was in her hand,
she was glancing over its pages. She
was interrupted in her leading by the
entrance of her servant. "Well, what
now, Betty?" she inquired.
"There's a man down stairs that want's
te see you, ma'am."
"Man ! gentleman, you mean."
"No, ma'am," said Betty stoutly, for
she well understood what made up gen
tlemen in the conventional sense of the
term; "it's not a gentleman at all, for
he's got on an old gray coat and doesn't
wear gloves."
"What does he want of me ?''
""I don't know; ho inquired after Mr.
Ueaumont first."
J' You didn't bring him into the parlor."
The girl shook her head.
"You did right you had better tell
lini I'm not at home."
"Mrs- Beaumont is not at home," said
I Betty, repairing to the door.
"That means she is engaged," said the
old man. "but I believeshe will let me
in when she knows who I am. Tell her
that I am her husband's uncle, and that
my name is Henry Beaumont."
"That old rag tag master's uncle,"
said Betty, woaderingly, as she re-ascended
the stairs.
"Good heavens!" said her-mistress,
"if it isn't that old varatif who strolled
off many years ago, nobody knows where.
I hoped he'd never returo again. And
now I suppose he's poor as a rat and
want's help. Well, he won't get it if I
can help it, but I suppose I must see
him."
The lady descended fully prepared to
give him a frigid reception. "If I am
not mistaken," said the old man, with
- feeling, " 'tis my nephew, Alexander's
wile.
"You are right, sir. I am the wife of
Mr. Alexander Beaumont, and I suppose
from your language you are "
"Ilis uncle Henry. Ah' me ! I have
been gone many, many years, and it does
me good to return once more amjng my
kindred."
The old man leaned on his staff and
his features worked convulsively as
thoughts of the past came over his
mind. Mrs. Beaumont stood holding the
door as if waiting for him to depart.
She did not give him an invitation to
enter.
'-, "Is your husband well ?" inquired the
visitor, looking as if he expected an in
vitation to enter and refresh himself after
his walk by an interval of rest.
"He is. If you have any message for
.him you may leave it with me and I will
deliver it," said Mrs. Beaumont, desirous
of ridding herself of the intruder as
soon as possible. ' -
"You may tell him I called," said the
old man, in a disappointed tone," "and
Xhat I would like to have seen him."
"I wiil tell him," and Mrs. Beaumont
was about to close the door.
"Hold ! there is but one more ques
tion, what has become of Alexander's
sister, Anna ?"
"She, I don't know much about her,"
was the rather disdainful reply ; "but I
believe she married a clerk, mechanic or
some such person. His name is Lowe,
and he lives in Norton street. Is that
all?" ;
"That is all," and th? old mnn turned
"his steps toward the street indicated, with
many forebodings lest his second visit
should be as unwelcome as his -first ap
peared to be.
"Betty," said Mrs. Beaumont, as she
closed the .door, "if that old fool comes
here again, be sure and tell him I am not
at home."
Norton street was not a fashionable
street, nor was the t wo story building oc
cupied by William Lowe either fashiona
ble or costly. : It was marked, however,
by an air of neatness, which indicated
that its tenants were not regardless of
outer appearance.
sWe will.. take the liberty fo introduce
our reader into a little sitting room where
Mrs. Lowe and her three children were
seated. A plain, serviceable carpet cov
red the floor, and . the remainder of the
furniture, though of a kind which could
hardly be selected for a drawing-room,
had a comfortable home-like appearance,
which simply satisfied the desire of those
who derived their happiness from a high
er source than outside show.
. Mrs. Lowe was seated in a rocking
chair, engaged in ao employment which
I am aware is tabooed in all Fashionable
sooietr.; . I mean, darning . stockings,
ISmma, a gin ot ten, was Drusning up
the hearth, which the ashes of the grate,
la which a blazing fire was burning, had
somewhat - disordered, while Mary, who
was eight," was reading, Charley, a little
'.rogue of. five, with a smiling face, which
oould not help looking roguish, was
stroking: the cat the wrong way, to the
disturbance of poor Tabby, who had qui
etly settled herself down to dream of
happiuess on the hearth rug. All at
once a-knock was heard at the-door.
"Emma," said the mother, "you may go
to the door aud see who it is."
Emma obeyed the mother's directions.
"Is Mrs. Lowe at home V inquired Hen
ry Beaumont for it was he.
"Yes, sir," said Emma; "please walk
in and you may see her."
So she ushered the old man into the
comfortable sitting-room. Mrs. Lowe
rose to receive him. "I believe," said
he, "that I am not mistaken in thinking
that your name before marriage was Anna
Beaumont."
"You are right, sir, that was my name."
"And you have no recollection of an
uncle who wandered away from home
and friends, and from whom no tidiDgs
have come for many a long year ?"
"Yes, sir, I remember well, my uncle
Henry, and I have many times wished
that I could learn something of him.
Can you give me any information V
"I can, for I am he."
"You, my uncle," said Mrs. Lowe, in
surprise, "then you are indeed welcome.
Emma, bring your uncle the arm chair,
ana ilary, Dring your lather s slippers,
for I am sure that your uncle must long
to get off his heavy boots. And now,
uncle, when you are thoroughly rested, I
must demand a recital of your advent-ires."
"But your brother, Alexander," inter
rupted Mr.. Beaumont, "let me first in
quire about him. He lives in the city,
does he not?"
"Yes," said she, "he docs live in the
city, yet strange as it may 'appear, we
seldom or never see him. He has suc
ceeded well, and is Wealthy ; but ever
since he married a wife with -a small
property and a greater pride he has kept
aloof from us. I don't blame him as
much as his wife, who is said to have
great influence over him. I have called
once, but she treated me so coldly thut I
have no desire to renew my visit."
"I can easily believe it, for I too have
been reouUed," was the reply.
"You repulsed ! Did you give your
name and inform her of your relation to
her husband ?"
"I did; but she was evidently anxious
for me to be gone ; I took the hint, and
here I am."
"At least, uncle," said Mrs. Lowe
smiling, "you ceed fear no repulse here."
"Of that I am quite sure," said the old
gentleman, looking affectionately into the
face of his neice. "But you have not
told me of your husband. Let me know
whether you have made a good match,"
he added playfully.
"That depends upon what is meant by
the term. If it implies a rich husband,
then Ifailed most certaiuly, for William's
salary is only eight hundred dollars a
year, aud that is what we have to depend
upon. But that I care not for. A kind
and affectionate husband is far mere
worth than a magnificent dwelling and
very costly furniture."
"You are right," said her uncle warm
ly, "and I infer your husband is of such
a character."
"He is, in truth.
"Still," continued her uncle, "are there
not some things which your limited
means will not permit you to obtain, but
which would be desirable?"
"Oh, ves,'' said Mrs. Lowe, I am anx
ious to give Emma and Mary a musical
education, but William s meane will not
allow of such a piece of extravagance as
the purchase of a piano; so that is one
of the things that we must be contented
to deny ourselves."
Mr. Lowe then entered, and being in
formed of the character of his visitor,
extended a warm welcome. A comforta
ble repast was soon spread, of which Mr.
iieaumont partooK nearuiy. xiis spirits
rose, and he seemed to grow young as he
saw the cheerful laces arouna nun, anu
he felt himself at home. Soon after the
evening meal he arose to depart. "Surely
you are not going ?" said his neice ; "you
must take up your abode witn us.
'We will see about that, and-it you
don't think you will get tired of me, per-
hans I'll come. But 1 have hired a ioag
ing, and must undoubtedly remain in it
for a few days."
But vou must call in every aay ana
make yourself perfectly at home, even
before you come here to stay," persisted
his neice. .
"Be assured of that."
"In accorddance with his promise, Mr.
iieaumont made his appearance the next
day about eleven o'clock, and was re
ceived as cordially as before. He had
hardly been in the houce a quarter of an
hour when a loud rap was heard at the
door. Mrs. Lowe answered it. fche be
held two men who had driven up in a
wagon. "Where is the piano to be put,
ma'am?" they inquired.
f Piano ! You havemade a mistake, lor
we have not purchased a piano.
"Isn t your name iiowe f
"Yes."
"Thpn ?t.a all rirht. Jim, bear a
hand, for it's confounded heavy."
"But I am sure there must be some
mistake," insisted the perplexed Mrs.
Lowe.
"Not at all P' said a voice behind her.
She turned round in amazement.
'You. know," continued the uncle,
"that I am' coing to come here and live
with you, and I thought I would pay my
board that's all. As you expressed a
wish yesterday for a piano I thought it
would be as acceptable a way as any.
'You, uncle? Why excuse me out
I thought from from " ;
"You mean," said he smiling,1 "that I
could not afford it. And I confess, said
he, casting a glance in a glass, "that my
dress is not in the extreme of fashion ;
and in fact I was obhged to look some
time when I called at the, second-hand
clothing store before I found these.
However, as I have' got all the service
that I wish out of them, I will throw them
aside to-morrow, and appear rather more
respectably clad." ff-r;-. '
"What! are you wealthy, uncle ?"
1 ."Depend upon it, Anna, I didn't spend
ten years in the East Indies for nothing,"
was the reply. "I bad a mind, however,
to put on the appearance of a poor man,
and test the affections and disinterested
ness of my relations. One of them,
however," he added significantly, "I
found hot at home;' I am happy to find
myself at home with the other' f
let us return to the aristocratic Mrs.
Beaumont, who, a few mornings succeed
ing the events here recorded, was in her
drawiug-room receiving calls. "By the
way," said a fashionable visitor, "I am
to have your relatives, the Lowes, for our
next door neighbors."
"Next door neighbors!" exclaimed
Mrs. Beaumout in amazement, "what do
you mean ?" ,
"Is it possible you have not heard of
their good fortune ! Mrs. Lowe's unole
has just returned from the East Indies
with an immense fortune. He has taken
a house in the same row with ours, and
when fhey have moved into it he will
take up his residence with them. Mean
while he is stopping at the XI House
" hat I Henry iieaumont '.
"The same ; but I thought you knew
it."
When the visitor withdrew Mrs. Beau
mont ordered a carriage, and immediately
drove to the hotel where her husband's
uncle was stopping. She sent up her
card and requested an interview.
The servant soon returned with a card
on which was traced the significant
"Not at Home."
Self-Made Men.
It is a curious fact that nearly all the
successful newspaper men in New York
are what may properly be called "self
made' Henry J. Raymond, who made
the Times, and was in the front rank of
journalism, worked himself up from the
lowest round in the ladder, lie made a
living at that, chiefly by corresponding
for out-of-town papers. '1 he Times would
now sell for 81,250,000. Horace Gree
ley started the Tribune without capital.
It is now one of the most valuable pieces
of newspaper property in New York, and
Greeley is still at its head. The Tribune
Association have, I understand, declared
a quarterly dividend of 30 per cent. Its
shares are worth 87,000, the par value
! of which is 1,000. The Herald was
i started bv James Gordon Lenuet, his
capital being brains and industry. Ben- j
net is now worth millions, and his paper
yields a clear profit of 400,000 per an-
num. Mr. Manton Marble took the i
World when an experiment. He had no
money, the paper was not paying, but he
was aided by capitalists, lie built up
the paper, made it p.-ofitable, and is now
solo proprietor. It yields a handsome
annual income. Charles A- Dana was,
for several years, managing editor of the '
Tribune. lie was subsequently editor of
the Chicago Republican, but did not suc
ceed. He came back to New York, and
in company with others bought the Sun,
which, under his management, is already
a great success. The circulation of the
Sim on the 1st of January 18G9, was
31,000. It is now 52,000, "and growing
rapidly. The Sun is a two cent paper.
The profits on the circulation is very
small, of course, but it gets a plenty of
advertising at twenty-five to fifty cents
per line. The New York people adver
tise liberally and pay big prices. Hence
the Sun, which could not be published
in Cincinnati, is here very profitable.
Business meu believe in advertising, and
to this, in a large part, is due the extra
ordinary growth of the cit-y. The Sun
is printed exclusively on Bullock presses,
which seem to be the perfection of print
ing. The machines are much cheiper
than the Hoe press print both sides at
once and require no teeuers. lhe ex
penses in the , Hoe press room are 200
per week less than they would be if the
Hoe presses were used. The lb-raid is
also ruuning a Bullock press and has or
dered a second.' The Messrs. Brooks, of
the Erprtss, are also self made men. I
believe they started the Enpreti, and are
still managing it. I do not know who
started the iW, but William C. Bryant
has been identified with it, if I mistake
not, from the beginning, at least for a
great many years. His capital was made
up of brains. It is a very profitable
paper. The old proprietors of the Jour
nal of Commerce are dead. It pays
largely. Bonner, of the Ledger, is wor
thy of remark in this relation, although
he does not run a daily paper. He went
into the Ledger from the case, and now
publishes one of the best and most profit
able weekly papers in the world, and
competes successfully with Vanderbilt in
the horse line. Speaking of Vanderbilt
reminds me that he laid the foundation
of his prosperity, lie began on brains
in good order, and has made seventy
millions in money. But I have not space
to go i.'.to this class of self-made men.
It is a fact,1 however, that nearly all the
wealthy men here made their own for
tunes, and, therefore, know how to keep
them ; but, as it is generally in this city,
so it is here ; rich men's sons are of very
little account ; and rich men's sons-in-law
are. generally of the same sort. There
fore large fortunes rarely pass to the third
generation. Society is still better for
this, it the descendants ot the rich
men or Oiew lort should be as success
ful in making money and keeping money
as their lathers, a lew lamilies would
soon own the island.
A Grave Assertion that Byron had
Horns
An entirely new solution of the Byron
mystery . is furnished by a writer in the
31 adras Mail, who says that "his father
had' it from one of Lord Byron's most
intimate friends." According to this
lively correspondent :
r Lord Byron was, in a sense, a devil.
Incredible as the thing may seem to the
thoughtless, the handsomest man in Eng
land had a small tail, a rudimentary pair
of horns, and short, squab teet, divided
forward from the instep into two parts,
instead of being furnished with toes.
Before he was born his mother had been
greatly terrified by Be. ing, when in a
very delicate state of health, the cele
brated picture of Satan Spurned, in the
gallery at La Haye, and the result had
been the fashioning of her child to some
extent after the monstrous form of which
the sight caused her alarm, and of which
the continuous recollection could not be
effaced by any means known to her physicians.-
At the time of her confinement
it was at first sujrsested that the mon-
DO
strosity shou'd not be suffered to live, but
the child's body, as a whole, was so per
fectly 'shaped, and its face so wondrously
beautiful, that the suggestion was forth
with put aside, and England was not de
prived of what was to become in due
time one of its chiefest ornaments. Poor
Lady Byron never recovered wholly from
the shock caused bv the discovery of
what her husband really was ; and partly
through excess of imagination, partly in
consequence of bad advice from persons
who shall be nameless, she felt it po be
her duty to insist unon her husband sub
jecting himself to certain painful opera
tions. But this Lord Byron obstinately
refused to do. lie urged, and with con
siderable force, that the peculiar manner
in which he wore his abundant curls ef
fectually hid from view the rudimentary
horns ; and that, as he never appeared in
public without his boots and trousers,
none would ever suspect the existence of
his other defects, except his valet, in
whom he placed implicit confidence.
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was punching powder into a hole, with a
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A man of mark Mark Twain.
The lowest class of society Dwarf.
A black business A pitched battle.
The peace festival A quilting party.
A table of interest The dinner table.
A coffee stall Too often horse beans.
Ajre before honesty In a wine cata
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Exposed lumber The open board of
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A maiden of honor Any one that is
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A painstaking man The doctor.
A stroke of ill fortune That which
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Why is a balloon like silence ? Be
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Marry young, and, if circumstances
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Be charitable One cent pieces were
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What is the best thing to dfe when de
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Why is a lean dosr like a man in med
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Abd-el-Kader is coming to Paris
F. de Lesseps is worth over 2,000,000
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tfov. rairchild, ot Wisconsin, lavors
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Mark Twain figures in the London
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Eugenie pays Abbe Bauer, her pet
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Miss Annie King, who didn't get the
postmastership of Janesviile, is to become
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Only eight counties in Mississippi went
Democratic.
The velocipede mania is dying out
very rapidly.
The Chicagoans call their one-horse
street cars " Bob-tails.
A Xenia, Ohio, hog weighed 1,200
pounds killed and dressed.
They charge a dollar in Conneticut to
call a man mutton-head.
The proposed canal across Cape Cod
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A New Haven coal dealer gives away
a ton of coal with every fifteenth that is
sold, r , -
Anson G- Chester, of Buffalo, poet and
editor, has been licensed to preach by'
the Buffalo Presbytery.
Abbe Bauer received fifty thousand
francs for preaching thesermoa at the in
auguration of the Sues Canal. -
Samuel, son of Presidctit Kimball, the
Mormon elder, was kicked to death by a
Salt Lake mule the other day.
His Majesty Somdetch Phra Paramindr
Maha Chulalongkoon Patiodr Tepa Maha
Mongkttt is the Supreme King of Siain.
A young lady who drew a gentleman's
wrapper -at a recent gift concert in Water
bury, Conn., now wants a gentleman to
put into it.
- Rev. George Pearce is the oldest mis
sionary in India. Ho has labored there,
for the English Baptists, for forty-three
years. - i.
Hereafter the public debt statement
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well as in English.
A Bridgeport mechanic has invented
a toy velocipede that goes four - minutes
with one winding.
A Stratford, Conn., chap recently gave
a prize chowder, the prize being a gold
dollar hid in a hot potato.
A spunky bride in Port Hope, Canada,
married the groomsman because the bride
groom was too drunk to stand up.
Some Louisville denizens earn a living
by skimming off, the grease from Bear
grass Creek,- over which are ( extensive
pork-houses.
Ob a tombstone in a churchyard in
Ulster is the following epitaph : . " Erect
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dentally shot as a mark of affection by
his brother.' - !
When a clergyman kills his wife in
Chicago, the' papers there .call it "Min
isterial Uxoricide," - which is enough
of itself to provoke any man to kill the
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Interest on the Annual Payments.
Policies may be taken that will Pay to the In
s u red. after a certain number of years, Dur
ing Life, an Annual Income of One-Tenth the
Amount named in the Policy.
No Extra Rate is oharired for risks npon th
Lives of FcmaU-s.
Insures not to Pay Dividends, but' at so low
cost that dividends will be impossible.
ITS POLICIES ARE NEGOTIABLE
By the Charter of the Company, certificates o
obligating will be issued, agreeing .to purchase
its policies at their value which, when accompa
nied by the policy duly assigned or transferred
are negotiable, and may be used as collateral se-
cur ty, in making loans from the Company or
from other parties. ,
The non. Jno. E. Sanford, Insurance Commis
sioner of Massachusetts, in his Report for 1868,
speaking of Dividends in Life Insurance Compa
nies, says , " Tbe sooner such guarantees cease
to be made, and such expectations- created, tbe
sooner Life Insurance will come to rest on its true
motive, and men insure their lives for security,
and not'for dividends. The best and the most
popular companies will then be those that prom
ise only equity, and render all that they promise,
and furnish the best security, with the most up
right and judicious management."
" By the Stock plan the full cash effect of the
premium is immediately secured to the insured,
the Company talcing all tbe risk. By the Mu
tual planthe full value in insnranee of the pre
mium paid, is not secured to the policy-bolder,
who takes a portion of the risk himself."
ADVERTISEMENTS.
"GAY" NEWS.
NEW ENGLAND
MUTUAL LIFE : IASURMCE CO
or BOSTON.
INCORPORATED
Cash aseti........,Mi.
Cash Dividend, 187..
Cash Dividend. 189
Total surplus 'dividend.
bosses paid in. 1868,
Total losses paid...,
Income for 1867...
No extra cbarcre for traveling la mud from Am
Atlantic States, Europe, Oregon, or the Sandwich
latauus. -.
.Policies Issued Inl
- . ' '
Gold or Currency,
WM. E. HALE, MANAGER.
WELLS, FARGO Sc CO.,
GENERAL AGENTS
FOR THE PACIFIC COAST.
TRAVELING AGENT
For Ore iron a&4 Washington Territory.
Albany, September 11, 1869-114
, Albany Agents.
i. BARROWS CO., Agents
for Linn A Benton counties.
JOHN BRIGGS, Agent
for Linn A Benton counties.
May 22, 69-37
THE OLD
STOVE DEPOT!
DEALER I!f
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
1835: T
...-..$7,000,000 00
626,673 66,
786,197 8"
3,612,771 00
675,600 00
8,3-12,100 00
2,862,031 41
All Policies non-forfeitinir. and roverneal h tka
non-forfeiting law of Massachusetts.
Policy holders the only persons who receive t lv
uer as in uu company, which are declared
t and paid annually ; first dividend avail. I
able at the payment of the second
annual premiums. : All Policies w
remain in force as long as
there is any surrender - ' -
value. ' I
lTO FORFEITURES l ,'V5
This old and popular Company,' (the oldest Ma-
tuai mis insurance Uompany in this
country) insures at the low- . i
est possible rates.
The stability of this ComnanT.with its nastnfe
tory, increasing capital and business, aud the sat
isfactory manner in which, it baa discbarred its
obligations in th past. sum m tar thm
future such as far-seeing and careful mas) require)
in their investments. ,
Persons generally, who thoroughly understand
tbe working of Life Insurance, are anxious to
avail themselves of its equitable provisions.
Full information win be given to those who
desire, at the Ageacy.
Horn Office, 39 Stats Street, Boston.
Pacific Branch Offices,
302 Montgomery Street, San Francisco,
Room 3. Carter' Building, Portland, Oregon,
SVERSON & HAINES, Qeneral Afts.
RUSSELL & ELKIXS, Agts,
ALBANY, OREGON.
Albany, September 19, 1868-2y .
STOVES, COOK, PARLOR & BOX
ef tbe best patterns !
ALSO
Tin, Sheet Iron and
Copper "W.xo I
and the usual assortment of Famishing Goods tu
be obtained in a
TIX STOHJ3 !
oo
00
8Gr Repair neatly and promptly executed, fjfc
jT on reasonable term, "ffe!
Short reckonings, make long friends."
Front street .......Albany.
Next door to Mansfield tt Co.
dec5'6S-12 -
BLACKSIW1THIMC I
PLOWS! TL0WS! PLOTS
riHIE undersigned gives notice to the general
1 public, that be is now manufacturing the
Galesburg Patent Plow !
and any other style of plow that may be ordered.
Also, particular attention paid to
Horse Shoeing. Wagon
, Making,
and Darriage
1869.70.
Albany Collegiate Institute.
THE NEXT TERM OF THIS : INSTITU
tion for youth of both sexes, will open on'
Monday, tbe 18th ef October next.
It will be in charge of t'ie Rev. Ebwakd K.
Gbart and the Rev. Samuel G. Invixc, assist
ed by a corps of competent teachers.
The first term will embrace 15 weeks of tuition.
ennmg February 4th, 1S70.
lhe second term will embrace 20 weeks of tu
ition, from February 7th to July 1st, 1870.
RATES OP TUITION
(per quabte or ten weeks.)
Preparatory and common branches.. .... .$J
Advanced c-nL'lish T
Ancient and Medera Lanmaires. liizhe
Mathematics, Ac. 9
Tuition charged from date of entrance to endt
of quarter, and payable in ad vanee.
Organization of College Classes.
A Freshman r!a-s will be formed and a course-
of study prescribed at the opening of the term.
Principal Text-Book.
Wilson's Renders, Clark's English Grammar.
Robinson' Mathematics, Hooker's Natural
Science, Qnaekenbos' Rhetoric, Abbott's Aber
rromhio's Mental and Moral Philosophy, Hark- '
neas' Latin Sir es, Fasqoell's French Series, and
the most approved editions of the Latin and Wreck
Classics. '
A Record
Of every recitation will be made, and an average
given in Quarterly Reports ; also, of attendacoe
and deportment. . , ,
Oovernment. 1
The aim will be to develop in tbe student a
high sense of moral obligation, honor and integ
rity, ana those wno cannot he governed by such)
motives, will not reinnin in tbe school.,
Board
May be had in families at $1 per week, and
rooms procured where students may board them
By order of the Board of Trustees.
EIWARI R. GEARY, .
Albany, Aug. 21, '6!-S0 President.
and General Jobbing.
All work entrusted to me will receive prompts
attention, and be executed in the best possible
manner with good material. A share of public
patronage is solicited.
Shop on corner Ellsworth and Second streets,
opposite Pie-ce' Ferry. F. WOID.
Albany, November 21, 1863-11
CRAFTSMEN'S
LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY
OF WBTT YORK.
Bicnim & KIEARS,
GENERAL AGENTS FOB
Oregon, and 'Washington, Idano and
Montana Territories,
PORTLAND OREGON.
Csush Plan, Lew Rates, Strictly Mntnal.
All
Policies
Terms. :
Non-Forfeiting
by their
No Restriction on Travel, Residence br
- Occupation. 1
Policies issued in Gold or U. S.
. ej, as desired. i -
Curren
No extra charge npon women.
All varieties of Policies issued.
Value upon Surrendered
Large
Gash
Policies.
$13 GOOD AS GOLD. - $20
BUY THE ONLY GENUINE IMPROVED
OROIDE GOLD BATCHES,
HASirACTCKED BT
THE OROIDE WATCH CO
They are all tbe best make. Hunting eases';
finely chased ; Itmk and wear like Jiue gold, and
are equal in appearance u tbe best gold watches
usually costing $150. full Jm-eltd Lever, Gent's
and Ladies sixes, at ! ear n.
Onr Doable Extra Refined Solid Oroide
Gold limiting Cases, Kulf Jeweled Levers, are
equal to $2t)0 Gold Watch Regulated and
(Jiiarant'ra to kern rnrrect time, ana rear and not
tumih. Extra fine Caiei, at $20 each.
No money Is required In advance. We
send by Express anywhere within the United
6 ates. payable to arent on delivery, with the
privilege to open and examine I efore paid for,
and it not satislactry returned, by paying the
Express charges. Good Kill be tent ty mail aa
Registered Packates, prepaid, by sending cash
in advance.
An A'irnt tending for ix watcle get an Extra
WA TOU FREE, making eren $14 Watcke far
$0. or een $20 Wntrhe for $120.
Also, Elegant Oroide Gold Chains, of
laUst and mutt ostly styles, fur Ladies ana)
Gentlemen, from 10 to 40 inches long, at $2, $t
$ft. and $8 each, sent with watches at lowest
wholesale prices. State kind and sixe of watch
required, and 1 avoid Wipus eoneems, order only
irom , UKUUltl W al LU CO.,
13 to
US, Fulton Street, New York.
E. S. MERRILL, Agent,
oet0-5 . : ,. Albany, Oregon.
For Sale.
HOUSE AMD FOUR LOTS !
IN this eit- good new dwelling wwa 11 tee
necessary . utbuildings, and four lots, about
twent; minutes walk from the steamboat landing.
2 or nartieulars inquire at the office of the ' P.
T. Coujpany. of J. B. MONTEITH.
Albany, January 30, 1 869-
.
TTSK MURRAY'S IMPROVED MAGIC
(J Oil the King of Pain.
ju5-Stf 1 flm
Ife MAKING TK feTJ
EVERY VARIETY 0F'
favR.C.E?.Yri,AQT.Jh-SrJ
:
GILBERT ER0., AGENTS,
SALSM, OREGON."
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