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B. 8. Mkll Paper for Oregon.
FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1873.
Death f Judge Wilton.
Great
It is announced by telegram that
Hon. Joseph G. Wilson, our Rep
resentative in Congress, is dead.
He died at the home of his wid
owed mother, in Marietta, Ohio, on
the morning of July 2d, of paral
ysis. His death is not only a great
loss to his relatives, friends and
party, but is a serious loss to the
State. Hi6 knowledge of the State
of Oregon extended back through
a period of some twenty years. He,
as it were, grew up with the State,
receiving the appointment in 1852
of Clerk ot the Supreme Court ; in
1860, the position of District Attor
ney of the Third Judicial District ;
in 1862, the position of Judge of
tke Fifth Judicial District. In
1864 he was elected to the same
position. In 1870, Judge Wilson
was defeated by Hon. J. II. Slater
for Congress; in 1872 he was
again nominated by the Repub
lican party for the same po
sition; and after a brilliant
canvass against Hon. John
o
Burnett was elected by a majority
of 850 votes. Judge Wilson never
took nis seat at Washington as
Congressman, there having been no
session of the House since the 4th
ot last March, at which time his
term began; but he spent a good
deal of time in Washington last
winter, working for the interests of
i Oregon, and preparing himself for
active duties in Congress. Judge
Wilson was a successful lawyer, an
able Judge, and bid fair to make
one of the best Representatives
Oregon evr had. Socially our de
ceased Representative had many
warm personal friends, who will
most regret his death. He was
0
about forty-five years of age at the
time of his death.
Relative to his successor, the
Constitution of the United States
requires that 6uch shall be eleoted.
Oar Station Anniversary.
The day commemorative of the
Declaration of. Independence, which
was enacted- by the Continental
Congress, at- Philadelphia, on the
Fourth of July, 1776, occurs to
day. No event in a nation's his
tory is more important than its birth.
Thousands of loyal hearts, nay,
millions, will to-day rejoice in the
memory ot that event. It will
bring vividly to mind the dangers,
hardships and struggles which our
patriotic forefathers endured, the
terrible sufferings, and the many
precious lives that were willingly
sacrificed to establish our nation
upon the strong1 foundation of Re
publican liberty. In this noble
work their lives were splendid ex
amples of pure self-denial and pat
riotic devotion. Inspired by these,
they achieved for us a goodly heri
tage ; and upon this, the ninety
seventh anniversary of its establish-
ment, we rise up and pronounce
them blessed. .
PACIFIC COAST SICWB
Not a hundred years have yet
marked the cycles since our nation's
birth. Men are yet living tew, h
is true whose lives ran parallel in
time with ito life. As compared
with the ages of other governments,
the United States has scarcely laid
aside its swaddling clothes. Its
sun of existence has, as it were, just
shed out itsrays from above the
eastern hills ; and yet, how might
ily it has learned to shine. How
great has been its increase of popu
lationits growth in all the ele
ments of national strength and
prosperity, how rapid ! The three
millions have become forty millions;
the thirteen States have multiplied
to thirty-seven States and ten flour-
ishing Territories. Then see the
thousands of miles of railway that
have supplanted the stage-coach;
the splendid mansions that have
taken the place of log-cabins ; the
rich and populous cities that have
risen like magic from a few dwell
ings; the amply-endowed institn
tions ot learning, magnificent
churches and benevolent institutions
that have grown up, giving sub
stantial glory to our prosperity;
the free and equitable character of
our laws and their prompt enforce
ment. No wonder the people ot
other nations, less liberal in their
frame of government, regard the
United States as the chief luminary
among the nations. No foot of
land but its rays have reached. The
people ot every clime and nation
have seen and felt its penetrating
beams of influence, and have come
flocking for more of its light, and
millions are longing to come. Our
national influence being so great,
how great should be our consistency
in maintaining our cherished principles.
Snow was two feet deep at Alto City.
Utah, on the 19th Jnst.
The Trustees of the Willamette Uni
versity lias elected officers as follows :
President, Rev. J. L. Parrlsh; Vice
President. John H. Moons; fccretary,
0. N. Terry; Treasurer, J. ILGiibert.
While engaged in detaching drift;
from the bridge, Mr. Charles fieffg's,
keeper of the toll-gate and bridge on
the Wallowa, was drowned on the 18th
Inst.
The public schools of Portland have
entered upon their vacation.
The Oregonian says tee wagon road
leading from the north fork of the
Yamhill river to Tillamook Bay, has
beed completed. It will be ot great
benefit to settlers along the sea coast.
The Good Teranlars of Washington
Territory are anxious to have Mr. Levi
Leland come there ana give the Terri
tory a going over on temperance.
Montana feels good because so many
pilgrims" are coming there.
Madame Anna Bishop is on her
journey Pacific coastward.
Serenading parties are bombarded
with double barreled shot-guns, in
Salt Lake.
The Presbytery of Oregon and Wash
ington Territory met at Olympla on
Thursday ot last weoa
Through the exertions of the ladies,
the Methodist parsonage on Monroe
circuit. Linn county, lias been supplied
with a carpet, cooking stove and uten
sils a set of chairs, table, book case and
writing table and two bedsteads
The tabernacle now being erected
on the Conference Campground on the
bank of the Molalla, adjoining tanoy,
is 150 feet lone -by iOO feet wide,
probably covering more ground than
any other building in the State. Camp
Wheat was 70 cents
Yamhill tat week.
Since January fifteen steamers have
brought Chinese to the port of San
Francisco.
Business will be suspended in San
Francisco to day and to-morrow.
At Stockton, Cal., Jane 28th, a lad
named John Jones, aged about Itt
years, was thrown from bis horse and
instantly killed.
From the Oregonian we learn that a
shooting affray occurred last Saturday
evening in that city between two
colored men named Wellington and
Gale, growing out of the alleged in
timacy of the former with the latter's
wife. It resulted m Wellington receiv
ing a pistol shot in the jawbone and
neck which the physician thinks will
not prove fatal. Gale was arrested.
There is a man In Portland who
claims not only to be a linguist and
scientist, but is strangely malformed
In the left arm. The Oregonian says,
"the left arm of this man, by Borne
Inexplicable freak of nature, has been
suppressed from about three menes
below the elbow, there being no fore
arm and nand. Tne pnenonienoti
conslts in the lower portion of the
arm, or stub, having the appearance
of a diminutive head and perfect face
of an apparently slumbering, new
born babe, which at the will of the
exhibitor, gives signs of vitality,
moves, amusingly endeavors to free
itself, etc." This man was to lecture
in Portland last Tuesday evening, and
exhibit tins freak of nature.
The Dalles municipal election result
ed as fellows: Mayor, K, (irant;
Recorder, James A. Campbell; Marsh
al, Samuel Klein; Treasurer, F. Win-
gate; Councilmen, F. Dehm. J. W.
French, Geo. A. Liebe and John
Moran. For the fifth Councilman the
following gentlemen received the same
Jul Explosion.
The Republicans of the State of
Maine have put Mellon Dingley in
nomination for .GoiwiH. Their
resolutions are emphatically in con
demnation of the back pay measure
of the last Congress;
An explosion ot nitro glycerine
and giant gunpowder occurred in
Virginia City, Nevada, on the
night of June 19th, killing ten per
sons and wounding manv others.
The explosion was caused by six
cans of nitro-glycerine exploding
150 pounds of giant powder and
200 pounds of black blasting pow
der, all of which weie stored beneath
the room of General Van Bokkelen.
A number of buildings were shat
tered and partly thrown to the
ground. The body ot Gen. Van
Bokkelen was found in a corner of
what was his room, his features so
bruised and charred as to be hardly
recognizable. J. P. Smith and his
former clerk were found about 50
feet from the room occupied by
them. Devme was killed by an
iron door, which was hurled a dis
tance of about 100 feet The names
of the others known to be-killed
are Ren. Maudell, Charles 11.
Xuox, Mrs. Emily O'Connor, Mrs.
Deane and daughter.
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It is plausably conjectured - that
the strong opposition which has'
been lately shown against railway
enterprises throughout the country
and the ill success which some re
cent enterprises have met with,
will cause a general decline in
railroad building for the next few
years. Capiatlists in this country
as well as in Europe are becoming
more and more caution about in
vesting in such enterprises at any
rate.
There is a scarcit;
fan FrancUoo-port,
(twuean
in the
meetiniron this ground will'commence
on the 5th of July and continue over
two Sabbaths.
The grain crop promises well
throughout Utah.
The commencement exercises ot the
Willamette University took place on
Thursday afternoon of last weeit
There were fourteen graduates, as fol
lows: In the classical department:
James Imbrie, Jane Miller, l.adrn
Roval. and Emily Shattuck. In the
scientific department : Llbby Brown,
Sarah E. Chamberlin, Lydia ft. L nam
berlin, Robert Eaken, Alfred Nich
ols, Wm. J. Miller, Wm. H. Meisse,
Theresa D. Holderness. Vellosa W
Smith, and Mary J. Jory. In the
evening, an address to the graduates
was delivered by Key. h. no were, anu
the valedictory address by Miss Jane
Miller. All were successful in their
efforts.
Corvallls has a new fire bell weigh
ing 458 pounds
Oregon Penitentiary lias 94 convicts,
which, to tm credit oi me women,
are all mules.
Seven thousand dollars were disburs
ed to the Warm Spring Indian Scouts
last week.
Rev. Thomas Condon is to deliver
the annual address at the Oregon State
Fair next October
The peach crop about Walla Walla
and the Dalles is almost a failure.
Late frosts did it.
Isaac Henshaw. of Polk comity.
drowned himself on Friday of last week
in Goose Creek. Jle was the same
individual who oyer a year ago. tried
tn freeze himself to death in the moun
tains, freezing his feet so badly as to
renmre their amputation. He left a
wife and seven children, and plenty
of this world's goods for them
Oregon 'City Council have
an anti-Chinese ordinance
number of rotes : N. H. Gates, A. C.
Phelps, L. Newman and J. M. BealL
and the matter is still undecided.
An oak tree standing near the house
of Mr. Rostin Welch, near Forest
Grove, was struck by lightning on
Wednesdayoflastweek. Mr. Welch's
family were considerably shocked.
The tree was shivered to pieces.
Andrew Davis, a half-breed Indian,
and Geo. Beezley, drunken loafer from
Portland, were arrested in the Dalles
last week, for selling liquor to Indians.
They were committed tonppear before
the U. S. Court at next session.
Newton Jacobs, ot Ashland, Jackson
county, had both thighs crushed by
the wheels oi an ox wagon passing
over them, under which heaaldeutally
fell on Wednesday of last week.
Som six inches of snow fell on the
mountain rang, north ot Connne,
Utah, on the 22d of June.
Seattle exiieets to be lighted by gas
within the next ninety days.
The crickets are reported as eating
up the Palouse country.
A military post at Walla Walla
will soon be garrisoned permanently.
A company of 100 men is being or
ganized in St. Louis to locate and
survey an immense estate oi ncn agri
cultural and mineral land in Arizona.
New hay is selling at Eugene City
at $7 50 per ton.
It is stilted that Jay Cooke will es
tablish a bank at the terminus of the
N. P. R. R., when. tin terminus is
found.
Tlie contest for terminus at Puget
Sound is narrowed down to Tacoma
and Seattle.
A Douglas county man has carefully
developed 150 mullen plants, nnder
the impression that they were tooacco.
Deer, grouse and pheasants can be
shot during the present month, but
audience that one br one
laughed neartny. some miscatevoo
boys, or practical Jektete had clothed
the figure daring Ibe night before.
How the feat was performed, is BOW"
the inquiry of the Salemftes. Amoral
philosopher might draw some whole
some lessons from that transformation .
Serious apprehensions of note
Apache troubles are felt in Aria.
An exchange thinks they need six
feet by four reservations, under ground.
There Is said to be at this time over
one hundred tons of salmon on the
wharf at Astoria.
The Presbyterian church at Olympla
was dedicated last Sunday. At the
close of the services $379 were raised
to assist in paying the indebtedness on
the church.
The Bulletin says seven men were
employed last Tuesday in saving the
life of an unfortunate mouse that had
dropped into the river; and they soe-
ceeded.
Bathing hi the Willamette river h
common among the Salem youth.
During Jane 1 ,310 arrests were mads
in San Francisco.
Over 6,000,000 acres of land are
open to homestead and preemption la
Dakota. Nine marriage licenses were Issue
In Marion county during June, two
less than in May.
The Presbytery of Oregon met at
Olympia in the Methodist church, June
26th. and was opened with a sermon
by Rev. Theodore Crowl.
Syl. C. Simpson, State Superintend
ent of Public Instruction, announces
July 7th, as the time for the first Semi
Annual Session of the State Board of
Examination to be held at Salem, In
his office, beginning a 10 o'clock A.
M. Candidates for Life Diploma,
and State Certificates are requested
to be present promptly at that time.
The Statesman says the foundation
for the canitol building is almost com
pleted, and looks sufficiently solid for
all purposes.
The hay crop this vear is the heav- ducks are allowed one month longer
iest ever known in this State. A Denver chap, who had interviewed
Latavette is enjoying a season of the "tiger" more frequently than he
prosperity. iM t,,e throne oi grace, recently oe-
jlt,nn ,.i ,n,w an tho came converted by Hammond, and
,AllmLtl0"..a"d.1!r. VS while exhorting his comrades to follow
5?. 7 F 'KluT ",rc" "c,u his example, said: "If you do not
of Washington county. M aix.ept salyation now, it is not me that
Idaho contributed 10 60 in om are throwing 0ff on, it is Christ
, f 1 .1 f , thrt .. . . . . ...
and tour pouuus oi i) k iucuh y0tl are 'bucKing' against."
ureeiy Monument, num. All0ther bear story comes from
A runaway at Salem last week re- Washington county. A few days ago
suited iii tlirowuig Dr. Jessup and a gne aiHj a CUD miue their ap
wife aud Mrs. W. W. Marten out oT
pearauce on the play-ground of a
a buggy, bruising all of them, and gCi)00i bouse, about four miles from
dislocating Mrs. Jessup's shoulder. Cornelius. The boys of the school
The Owvhee Avalanche boasts of turned out and, aided by the. teacher,
havlntr rwvntlv seen a star in the day- .succeeded in capturing and killing the
tlmp. Tlmt's nothing. An emplatic cub. They gave chase to the old bear
contusion on the head will reveal a and ran her for some distance, she
whole skv full of them. coming very near to some ot the resi-
... ..it. deuces in the neighborhood, in her
At tort Edmonton. . v., c ftlM, ,.. , ti
lor II per pound; flower, of inferior
rOKEIGS SEWN.
Northern Italy was visited with
earthquake shocks on the morning of
the 29th uit. Several accidents oc
curred at Venice and Verona, where
the motion was severe. A church tt
reported destroyed at Felleto, and 38
persons killed; and in four villages
near Victoria fourteen persons were
killed and many injured. Great danv
age was done at Belluno also.
A general rising in Biscay in favor
oftheCarlists was anticipated on the
27th nit. At Bilhm the (.'artists wert
impressing able bodied men into the
ranks and seizing all the arms they
could find.
Castanon's forces were defeated by
the Carlists on the 26th uit., compell
ing them to flee in disorder. At Se
ville a conflict between the troops and
the inhabitants was imminent.
King Victor Emanuel arrived at
Florence, June 26th, and immediately
summoned Signor Minghetti to under
take the task of forming a new Min
istry. 0,
News from Khiva to the 26th nit,
announces that tlae Khan has capitu
lated, unconditionally to the Russian
forces, and the Capital was occupied
by the Czar's troops.
Yokohama dates to the 6th nit.,
state that the educational system or
Japan, about which so much "has been
said, is in danger of proving a failure-
Only one superintendent is appointed
in eight departments. The Mikado,
considering the financial embarrass
ment of the Government, asks that
the work of rebuilding his palace be
suspended. The native press is clam
oring for the establishment of found
ling and lunatic asylums. Farmers
throughout Japan are advised to adopt
our agricultural labor-saving machines
and implements. No pupils will here
after be admitted to the public schools
unless they are vaccinated.
The sheck of earthquake experineed
in Italy on the 29th uit, was even
worse, in its effects than reported, tn
the country north of Vimice. At
Belluno. four persons were killed tad
many injured; at Towes, three were
killed; at Fires, eleven; at Vissonl
two; at Cavassigo. one. Hundreds of
houses were leveled, and several
churches are In ruins. On the 90th
uit., thousands of the people ware
encamped in the fields.
. An exchange says, "tha man
most likely to make his mark in
in tbe world, is one who cannot
write, his own iane.Mr W tplk
the man who writes mofe than one
naine, is wrjqwit&mT)t.
quality, at 20 per 100 lbs
Flfty-tfiree Celestials were arrested
in Portland one day last week, for
violating tlie Cubic Air Ordlnhncc-an
ordinance making it a misdemeanor,
to be puuished by fine of not less than
iaM .1 Am ' t I .
fo or more tnn foo, or impnsouainiai
for each offense, ror any person to
sleep in a room which contains less
tha it 550 cubic feet of air. gome of
these fellows were crowded iutonlacjs
where scarcely 100 Cubic feet was
allowed to each. They wort fined
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Amljy,ato.aBy, fcterfirom
North Cajralipav haw goneinto' ertidV
turpefitlne ' gathering, mh eaa be
pmnMad4n3'4f trees.
flight, and finally hiding in the timber
on the farm of Mr. T. W. Lockwood,
a typo in this office. He has lost nearly
fifty head of sheep recently and thinks
tlie presence of these bears accounts
itpr the loss, and claims that he don't
owe me marauders any more meat.
Upon the dome of the new court
honse at Salem there, is the figure of
the Goddess of Justice which stands
with ouUtretchedliand supporting the
scales of justice. Iast Sunday morn
ing, the people of tuawstald city were
aatomsuea to see tnat me utr uou
deas had been transformed during,
the night. She, was seen to be arrayed
in!asfilpnable,iweL. io; buMfet
There is said to be Chinese an.
thority for the statement, thai the
Emperor of China has forbidden
the exportation of opium after
eighty days from the first of the third
month, which is April, and forbid
ding his subjects to smoke the drag
on pain of decapitation. Consider
able excitement Was caused in San
Francisco by the announcement of
the news.
At St Johnbnry, an last Saturday,
a farmer, named James Snow, wbtle
dm, shot a
Her, named John
etc. lind in her arms she clasneiLA-r i
man (of oMw.) The figure the God- Stanton, who called at bis house to sell
dess made was ludicrous, and the large him some goods.
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