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Emnm Gosch, of San Francisco, has sued the proprietors of the Chicago IIo tel of that place for $1000 damages for breaking her leg by tripping on a dilap idated stair carpet and falling down stairs. There were fifty deaths in San. Fran cisco last week. -: John Province, of Stockton, Cal., recently discharged the contents of a gun into his arm, by drawing ic by the muzzle from under the seat in a Ixuit, and the doctor amputated it for him. Whisky caused Jesse Alherton to shoot Pierce Mahauey through the ami vat Baker City last week. The latter says he was at fault and refuses to pros ecute. United States Marshall T. J. Young was last Saturday evening .presented with a $300 watch and chain by the eighteen Assistant marshalls who as listed him in taking the ninth census in Oregon. The presentation took place in the United States Grand Jury room in Portland. " We learn .Yrom. the MeMinnville West Side that Mr. F. M. Stow of that place, was recently killed by the falling of a "tree, while engaged with others in clearing laud The Baker City Democrat say: .Mr. Baldock, living about two msljs northeast of this place, informs us that he has raised on his place the last sum mer, 415 bushels of barley on twelve acres of ground. This is at the rat? of alxout thirty-live bushels to the acre, and when it is considered tlat the "l.uul is the ordinary sage brush land and had not teen enriched by fertiliz ers a particle, we consider it wortiry of record. It was irrigated a little. 'Such f icts are gradually dissipating all 3d theories relative to the value of sage brush lands. The Portland Oregonian saj'S 'Mr. Weinhard's cow in that place fell into his well last Sunday, he supposes for the purpose of watering her milk. On Thursday of last week three men were arrested at Eugene on complaint of Mathew Dunn, for robbing him of "103 a watch and chain, after making him unconscious by drink. Guard The Eugene Journal wants a brass "band in that place, and thinks the City Council will appropriate towards the instruments. The Eugene Journal says tliat J. B. Xichols left that city some six weeks ago for San Francieo, for the purpose of purchasing goods, and has not been heard from since. Fears are enter-' tained that he has been murdered, llis wife, who resides in Salem, i3 in great anxiety. A yonng man by the name of Sulli van was arrested in Eugene on Friday last for forging a check on the United States for $30.14. lie was held to answer.in the sum of $1,000, which he refused to give, and was remanded to the sheriff. The John 1a. Stephens in her late stormy trip brought about one hun dred sheep purchased in Australia, for Mr. Ayers, who resides near Salem. They are of the Leicester breed. But one died during the severe storm through which the Stephens passed. The lager beer cellars entail an indi rect cost of about two thousand dol lars per month upon Portland. A mam named Win. Sheppard was arrested for breaking into Mr. Ilanna's store at Gervais, recently, and taking off a variety of articles. He is in lim boat Salem. The Portland Herald states that the boats of the O. S. X. Co., will stop running above the .Dalles after Decem ber 1st, and merchants of the upper . country are hurrying up their winter goods rapidly in consequence. , The Corvallis Gazette hears that the steamer Elk sank at Newport, Yaquina Bay Wednesday, November lGth. The first snow for years fell in Pres- cott, Arizona, last Sunday. The Indians are on the war path in People's. Valley, Arizona. ; The trial of Wm. B. Bird, charged with the murder of Lieutenant Cowan,; U. S. A., in Sitka, about two years ago, which was to have been tried be fore the District Court of Clark county last Tuesday, was postponed until the Spring term. The prisoner remains - in custody. ftr::X:.: ."::.!. A recent test made' between leather ; and carbolized rubber has, in San Fran cisco, resulted in proving the latter to be by far the superior. - The Portland Bulletin of the 21st inst. says that the Willamette Trans- portation Company's Steamer is how making trips to and from Oregon City daily, and carrying passengers at twenty-five cents each. -1 The Swamp land speculators have been notified that the State is ready to receive the first installment' of pay for the land which they have grabbed. Walk up gentlemen and plauk down your " spondulix." Mr. Joseph Levy, of Portland, died suddenly of apoplexy in -.that city last Sunday morning. The Dallas JiepnMican of the ISth contains the irticlars of a painful outrage upon a young woman by a well-to-do farmer, who used drugs to accomplish his vile purpose. The names of the parties are not given. The dam recently constructed on the South Yamhill has given way, and only one end is left. This is rather severe on the stockholders, and may be the last straw that breaks the earn ers back. The estate' of William E. Ban-on, late of San Francisco, is valued at from 5,000,000 to OS.000,000. The bulk of it is bequeathed to his collateral heirs many of whom reside in Spain. J. J. Burton, of Xorth Yamhill, while out shooting geese last week, met with a serious accident, llis gun burst and destroyed most of one of his hands. There are 245 school children in Olympia. The Olympia W. T. Tnmscrij.t is in favor of Gen. Spragiie for Delegate to Congress. The Salem SUttesmm of the 21st inst., contains the obituary of the death of Mrs. E. L. Woodward, wifeot liev'. L. T. Woodward, Presiding Elder of the M. E. Church for the Salem Dis trict. Her death occurred on Sunday morning last, in the full triumph of faith. She was 44 years of age, hav ing lived 2m2" years single and 22 years married. The funeral 'services were conducted, last Monday morning, in the M. E. Church in Salem, by Kev. C. C. Stratton. Kev. Mr. Xickersou, Profs, liogers and Powell. From the Jacksonville Sentinel we learn that three horse thieve, Morril, Werner and Good, oil Tuesday even ing of last week, while being taken back from the front room of the jail, where they had been allowed to eat, to their cell, overxwered the jailor, Mr. llowlett, forcing him into a cell with a Chinese, secured his revolver, and a small sum of money, locked him in, and then went. By means of the telegraph, however, and $300 reward offered by the Sheriff, on Thursday following thev were caujrht above Vshland by Mr. Callan and son, and Frank Morgan, and returned to custo- dy. The store of II. A. Ray, of Eola, on Monday night last, was entered by 'a burglar, and the .contents of the money drawer taken, and other articles the amount not fully known. He effected his entrance bv boring a hole through dollars charged as expenses and taken out of the fund to reimburse him for the loss, the Board of Education on the 21st lust., passed a resolution tor bidding teachers in public schools here after carrying deadly Aveapons in school hours in pain of forfeiture of their position. Mary Farlev was taken to the cala boose in San Framico on the night of the 21st. drunk, with a piece of her skull missing, it having been chopped awav with an ax by another woman. Governor Safl'ord, of Arizona, has published a very lengthy and exhaust ive review of the Ajtacha question in the Attn, of the 21st. He condemns Colyer's 'pretended peace and murder ous fraud, placing the white settlers wholly at the mercy of .the pa.igo, who thereby resort to the reservations to escape punishment, anil use them as points from which to carry on their raids with the infantry, lie gives a long list of murders aud robberies com mitted by the Apaches fince their pre tended eace negotatkms with Colyer. Cites instances where the plunder of murdered citizens is found in the po--session of the Apaches on the reserva tion, and gives ids opinion tiuit there will be no' peace until General Crook's )oucv has !een fuuy carried out, aim friendly tribes united against the hos tile ; Apaches armed ami enabled io protect themselves. The- Apaches must be reduced to subnissiou' and nlaci'd on reservations, and Kent there all the time. He thinks it would be cheaper for the Governmenfc.t&'poard the entire Aiche nation at first cia-s hotels than to pursue the hue ot pokey marked out by Colycr. Governor., (i rover has signed the memorial in le.halfof the Portland and Salt Lake Railroad. The high freights on the Central la- cilic Kaiiroad, has induced the people of Nevada City, Cal., to organize a company to carry freight by wagons between that place and Sacramento. They expect to save ttity per cent by the project. Johnloster, charsred with the se duction of a young lady whom he. en ticed away from the Salem Fair, has been found iruiltv, and will 1m; sen tenced bv the Court in Portland, to day, says the liulietin. A halt-uretu Indian was lined in Portland last Wednesday for pummel- mg a .squaw. .the? l ale College exploring party left for home from Portland, in the Oritt'omne last Wednesday night. Thev take with them lots and gobs of fossil remains, etc. A negro man raid woman had a fisticuff about' the possession of a child in Portland last Wednesday They were once man and wife, but now not thus thusly. A large crowd gathered, which the police dispersed by moving the. negro man on. the door with an auger, sufficiently large to enable him to put his arm through, md unbolt thefastenings from the inside. William Sheppard, charged with stealing at Gervais, was bound over at Salem in the sum of $500, to await the action of the Grand Jury. On last Tusday morning two young women, named Fanny and Hannah Bills, walked into the dining room, of the United States Hotel at Jackson ville, and cowhided George Tribble, lately from Crescent City, most uu mercifully. The girls accuse him of testifying falsely against the character of one of them before the Grand Jury The act was applauded by all pres ent. " - The California and Oregon stages now lie over eight hours at Oakland and ten hours at Jacksonville. The Jacksonville Times of the ISth inst says : The presence of bears and cougars low down in the valleys is thought by the weather-wise to be token a Winter of unusual severity A bear was seen on 'the outskirts of the village of Ashland, a few evenings ago, and George King, who drives from here to Grant's Pass, saw a large cougar rna across the road about day light last Tuesday morning. Cougars are very plenty in the Calipooji mountains Mulvany, who owns the old water mill on Pass Creek, has killed over a dozen during the past summer. The San Francisco Alta of Xovem- ber 17th reports this sad case : Elloer Wanda, a native of England aged twenty-two years, had been in the employ of a family at Xo. 29 John street. Elloer had been in the habit of taking arsenic to beautify her com plexion. On Tuesday evening she went but with her mistress; and be fore their return home they purchased Rome strychnine to poison rats. Yes terday morning the girl took, as she. believed, her usual quantity of arsenic Unfortunately, she made a mistake, taking the paper that contained- the strychnine. She soon, felt the effects a physician was. sent for, ' but all ef forts proved unavailing, the girl ex piring at about half-past ten o'clock. Prof. Knowlton of the Bincon School, San Francisco, haying had his revolver stolen at the entertainment given by the schools in aid of the Chi cago relief fund, and had thirteen Monday, and tried to commit suicide. He was unnerved at the scaffold and had to be supported. It is rumored that James M. Sweeny, brother of Peter B. Sweeny! has lied to Europe,. there being evidence that he is connected with . the frauds of Tweed and other. Crabb's flouring mill exploded at Lincoln, Indiana, on the 21st, tlemol- j ishiug the mill and a planing mill ad- i joining, and killing one man and in- juring others. Treasurer Spinner in his recent an nual report complains of the increas ing delay on the" part of some of the banks in making returns and payment on duty. He recommends that a vht centage of such duty be added for every ten days delay after one month allowed by law. Spinner nqo;'ts the receipts for the fiscal year, including a balance of $1,405,114 71 in the Treasury, June 30, 1870, as $i)rf0,y04.34i ; expendi tures, b0,Ui,:sa ; balance in the Treasury dune 30, 1871, $10i),917,477. The total numler of Ivational Banks, .June 20, 1871, was one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine. The Commissioner of Internal Eevenue rules HVat the principal and interest of new bonds are exempt from taxation in any form, and that the in terest need not be included in the amount upon which dividend or other taxes are required to be paid. ' Later returns from the Mississippi election show that the KepubHoans have carried the State by a majority of 15,0'JO. The same parly has succeed ed in Kans;i3 by increased majorities. Senator Sherman on being question ed concerning the report of pos.-ible defection among the Uepubiicaiis of Ohio oa the subject of the United States Senatorship, says there is not a .Republican elected to the tjtate Legis lature whom he: would suspect of mak ing combinations with Democrats to defeat a Republican nomination. The Indianapolis Smdinel, which has heretofore advecated the nomina tion of Thomas A. Hendricks for President has taken a "new depart ure" on its own hook, and comes out in favor jof Colonel Tho.s. . A. Scott. The Philadelphia l'ren puts a damper upon his proposition' by declaring that Colonel Scott will have nothing "to do with the party that has indorsed re bellion add repudiation and is covered all over with the sins of Tammany . I. C. Warper & Co. From Madrid, Spain, Nov. ISth, i the following news : The jewelry store ofS. S. Franks, Philadelphia, Pa., w;is roWwd last Sunday night of $20,000 worth of watclies. The burglar concealed him self in the upper iart of the building during the day and admitted his con federates during the night. A sleet and snow storm visited the whole country from the Rocky Moun tains to the Missouri river, beginning our ridayot last week and continu ing until Sunday .morning. Every thing was covered with a coating of ice. causing the downfall of telegraph lines. Trains were snow bound be tween Omaha and Cheyenne. The storm is reported still worse in South ern and W estern Colorado. A dispatch from Chicago, 14th, gives this : Two hundred and forty- six houses have been finishinl within the last two days. Xo lesj than 4,107 persons find shelter in the barracks, and 21,050 in houses furnished by the Belief Committee. .-?--,. There is a fair prospect that-in tum bling down from his bad eminence, Tweed will drag Col. James FLsk, Jr., along with him.- This brazen adven turer, who, to the disgrace of Xew York; owns judges who help him, to plunder the public, seems to nave been fx)l enough to have told some of his secrets to"a woman with wliom he has now quarreled . Hence the Fish-Mansfield case, which the telegraph men tions daily. Franeis A. Walker, Census Superin tendent, has been appointed Commis sioner of Indian Affairs. Geo. C. Bates of Chicago, recently appointed United Suites District Attorney for Utah, has accepted the appointment, and will leave here for Stilt Lake a week from to-day. The Chicago Grand Jury of the Criminal Court, on the 21st, discharg ed young Treat, the patrol who kill ed Colonel Grosvener two weeks after the great fire, and passed a resolution endorsing the action of Mayor Mason and General Sheridan. y C f. A Tribune dispatch from" South Carolina, on the 21st, confirms the re port of a fraudulent issue of South Carolina bonds. -.The Governor charges the Treasurer with a fraudulent issue of bonds, or rather of re-selling bonds ; which had already been converted into new bonds. The State Treasurer de nies this, : and says the Governor is misinformed. The result of the mat ter is that the State Treasury is empty and tne credit of the btate below par. f The Republicans elected six mem bers of the Legislature in Xew York city at the late election. They had not had one from there lor years. Thomas M. Xorwood, tf Savanna, a moderate Democrat, has been elected United States Senator for Georgia. He is said to be a man of ability and character. ,. Dispatches ot; the 21st state that frauds have been perpetrated in the Brooklyn City Treasury, Xew York, by a King, amounting to $240,000, drawn by the Fire Commissioners, p " John II. II. Hunter, who murdered Mr. and Mrs. Targett, at Eechart, Ohio, last Mav. was hanged at Akron, Ohio, last Thursday He feigned I n- satiitv. but ohvsicians declared mm sane. He refused all sustenance from bn the 20th inst., as mission- They are 6 & 0 t c o & o 2 M O E- O Movements of .Radical members of the Corteji have resulted in the defeat of the Ministry. A Cabinet crisis has occurred. Friday's sittings of the Cortes wjere intensely exciting, and the sessiofi did not break up until 7 o'clock tljis morning. During the dis cussion upon the proposition to cen sure the) Government, brought for ward by adherents of Zorilla. a coun ter motion was submitted by Senor Ochoa, jijrovidhig tor the granting of entire liberty to religious societies throughout Spain and suppression of the decrees of the Provisional Gov ernment. A motion was made to de clare the pitting of the Cortes jer maueut; discussion followed, and the Government eventually demanded its objection! as a Cabinet question, when the opponents had a majority iqon division of trie house. lhe motion was found to be adopted by a vote of 173 to 11S. Admir d Maeampo, President of the Council of State and head of the Min istry, at oitce mounted the tribune and lead the royal decree proroguing the sitting ol " the Cortes sine die. The King to-day summoned tbhis presence the Presidents of the Portfo lios for consultation as to the grave aspect of political affairs. It has since liecome kuown that the Ministry have resigned in a body. A belief is ex pressed in high circles that, with some modifications, they will continue in office. Four Catholic priests sailed from London aries to our colored people, the first from England. John brittle, leader of the Total Abstinence Society . of Brixham, Eng land, publicly accused the Queen of intoxication. The charge causes a a great fjiproar and the local authorities have already commenced legal pro ceedings against the author. At Frankfort, Germany, a large quantity of ammimition was explod ed in the military labratory fi-om a can of catridges becoming ignited. The bi ilding was badly shattered. three soldiers killed and many wound- ed. ..,. . ...... . , f The revolutionists in Mexico are about to succeed in their effort to over turn the Juarez Government. The Treasury is bankrupt and the people are gonpg over to the revolutionists. Later advices from Africa say that on the west coast people are dying off from small pox like sheep. The deaths are over twenty per cent, of those attacked. The Juiu nriests are very busy instilling into the minds of the ignorant natives the idea that the disease is a judgment of their Juiu Gods on the people for so many of them embracing jnristiamty The Government of France has re solved to support a motion for the re turn or the seat of Government to Paris, ) at the next session of the Assembly. . . .- . 9 ; v,. , , . . Dispatches of the 21st from London, England,1 state the Magistrates at Terquay have refused bail in the case of John Gribble, Secretary of the Total Abstinence Seciety, who pub licly accused the Queen of intoxica tion. "vThe Spanish Government has sus pended the civil s government of Havau u Sencer Deblas has been nominated to the" Ministry of Foreign Affiiirs. ; 0 8 2 0 (3 3 H o o O Eh 'J2 0Q zr, 0 - 'id CO m 0 &4 g.a g A'.i 0 . o r h M5 e 3 krthsi 5J' ' - a i i UU I C J 0 W ' H L p&i M U in" 4 to V 1' o 0 I 2 13 pa w . u W4 .g H , S. ' ,5 K - za is g " - 3 5 0 1 z fe . BO E3 - 5 g "' S 2' S3 5 t-F ; '. . M H 55 W ,2i tn pi CQ O . o IATENT GATE, ETC. Self-Opening and Self-Closing : G A T E . PATENTED HV JOHN WOKASOX, Jiiue 4, 1;7. ryiVS. GATE IS 8 CONSTRUCTED That) 1 wluMi tlie vehicle ai)nuihc.-i it iho w lio.'ifi on oiin skle vil-r ' r u Jcver wlik-U is cormcftod to Katt) lun;o by u ro , tlm.H ojMjniTlif thebaic hetm'u joii unit fHst. cniii.ir it open. Al'ier Koin ihroiili, thu c-urriac T'uisst's ver u sinulai lever, a. coiine'te:l with ibfnto li"nr c-atisin; ih Kaio, in itt roialiou, to shut boliinci you unci lii(cn. Wo Getting Out of Tour Vehicle I No Itaisin of falelies Xor Pulling uf Strings, Except the "rihlK)iis" of your team. It la oi'iuii c-ailel TSIE IZ MAN'S GATE," An;l a "I&ittd peel s3 iSSawt." TUi.- fjatc is Binij)!c in its construction, bol li of iron unci woo 1 work, an J not likely 1o jot ont of oivlcr. If a matr, eht'iiT eau is itcshtvl, it luiiy Ik uiuiie ii-rhi? wit U tlirc.t cross liars ot v. (h aud onv-tourih inch wiiv, uoatly rv!l at tlie ton, tltu lower end liid in the. boilom har, vliieh is tho style of a factory ma lo j-.aie. Tlio trae.- are r.ovi in practical use in sevenii of tho connt iosarouii i San 'rimt-is;-o, ati'l plenty of lusiimoniiiaia tu.il ueiven. - J THOMAS J. SAFFORDi Ilavinf? purcliascd the 5g!st for IEin Co., Oregon, Han now on hand, aud will niuiuifacturo tin; above described aie. Whettsverit lias htHin it has rc-joived the. hihoHt en comiums, as tliu. Ifir unmoor oi certifi cates from prominent furtiiera in all jmrts Of the country, now in my handd, will testify. CA1S.S5BAGES WAGON'S, Of All 25escriptions, On liand and nianufjictured to order. Ulatksmilhing- and Repairing' Done to order at niot reasona7Ie. rate. Shop f.Kjt of Ferry si reet, opposite Iicaeh, Mon ten U & Co.s nom ine niilfs". Alhjtuy, Oct. 2 1S71-8V MILLINERY, DRESS MAKING. AM) 3L.A01ES' Aili CZt IL,IREK'S FURNI3HING HOUSE! riHIE irNDKRSKiNED HAS OPENED A iiiin;?s, ladies' and chdditn's furnishitiir proods, of ail kinds, of t h) latest and mosi lasluonabte si yies, which shy oifors to tlio lll'JflWOt Atllilllvnnrl u.i . ----- . . wiuiuiii cuuuu y ac the lowest rates. In the Dress Making- Department I prnai-antee entire sat iafact torn Cliaxpea 8PJEC2A1.TIES : OotSiiii.AIwayson hand, ladies' and children' ready made under clothing, cloaks, sacks, aprons, etc. ' ! Triimiiinsr An extensive vn riety of silk, salin, cotton, and woolen dress trimmings, always in store. Cloafeiis;-. Honcy-eomb,astrachan and water-prooi cloth, of. the best qualities. Fui-k, Etf.' Ladies' and children's oom styleaSeti and 8wandown ot latest - Clilarnons. Latest styles constantly on liand, at low liui-es. , Miscellanroais. -Lininj?3 and flndins? or -ail grades and qualities, a full assort- JACONETS. MUSLIN'S. EMHTmTrKT?TT.-s NEN, KID AND ALL DIAPER L1N1 OTHER VARIETIES Ol' GLOVES, HOSE, ETC. . My determination beins? to Rive satisfac tion m style and quality of work and p?.'n' ask a 8are of public patronage. Call at store Opposite A. Car others & Co., First street, Albauv, Oregon. M r, MEN DEN HALL & GODLET. MliS. KAKA1I U. tiOOLEY. 6STAgent for Mrs. Carpenter's Cfxb BK ateo Dresw Modei,. Nov..4, 71-9v4 TO 11TLA.N l iiO 1Kb. m. S TR OPOLIS II OTEIi'.' . - . '-' -' , Corner Front and Salmon Sts., PORTLAND, OREGON. .This new and elegant hotel, with Xew Furniture Throughout, ' - - " Is now . - - - ' OPES TO THE PimiC. Batb llooin for the lurommodatlOB of Uuests. FREE COACH TO THE HOUSE. Come and SecrCs J. B. SPREXGEB, Propr. Oct-7,7I-5v4 p INSURANCE COHPAJnr. AT A MEETING OF THE BOARD O Directors of the Union Insurance Co., of San Francisco, an assessment of forty live per cent, was levied to repair tlie capi tal stock, payable forthwith. This assess ment, being made in strict accordance with the law, under the direction of the State Insurance Commissioner, and also agreeably with the wishes of the directors and stockholders of the Company, places the Union in a position, not only to con tinue in the highest, rank on this coast, but also to assume a distinguished place among American Insurance Companies. 9vSzu