L P Fisher
VOLUMK VI.
ALBANY. OREGON. JANUARY 24, 1874.
NO. 20.
KM TOKIAI. NOTES.
. Gambetta has been challenged to
flglit a duel by LKipiity Hairrgenas.
Caleb dishing threatens to throw up
bis sit as Minister to Spain. Caleb's
mad must be up.
Governor William rickney Whyte
was elected If, S. Senator lor Mary
laud, from March. 1875, on the 21st.
A fire, at Yeddo. Japan, on the
night of December 8th, 1873, destroyed
property valued at $2,000,000.
The State Grange of Georgia met at
Atlanta on the 21st Seventy Granges
were represented by 500 delegates.
Another rumor was in circulation at
Washington ou the 21st that Richard
ion would resign, creating a vacancy
in the Cabinet.
President Grant entertains at din
ner at the White House, liext Tuesday,
the Justices of the Supreme Court.
The commission of Chief Justice
Wake has not been prepared, nor is it
known when lie will come to Wash
ington. The Naval Court, convened to take
into consideration the sinking of the
Virginim, Irom the testimony elicited,
found that the sinking was unavoidable
under die circumstances.
Recent discoveries in South Africa
of rich gold fields , is causing
that country to settle up rapidty.
Nuggets have been found weighing
from two ounces to nearly four pounds.
A bill providing lor holding one
cssiou of the Supreme Court each year
at St. Louis, Missouri, is receiving
?he support of leading Congressmen.
The Kansas Legislatnre has pa&ed
a resolution condemning the back pay
tteal, praising the present Congress
for its repeal, and reaffirming its faith
In the Republican party.
The Vermont & Canada railroad
has been sold to the Central Vermont
for 13,000.000. payable ill twenty
years, secured by first mortgage, in
Wist, at six per cent.
The Grand Master dellverd an ad
dress before the State Grange now in
ession at Janesville. on the 21st. The
order is in a flourishing condition, the
Heeretary reporting 350 subordinate
Granges in the State Wisconsin.
The tax-payers of Portland 1rt 1869
paid the sum of $0,211 48 for the sup
port of tlieir Police Department. Un
der the "reform" policy enacted by a
Democratic Legislature, the Police
Department cost the tax-payers of
Portland, for the year 1873, $32.37775!
The following named persons have
been appointed Postmasters for Ore
gon: SaniualGailcsat Gervais. Marion
County; J, C. Thomas at Mountain
Home, Yamhill County; Henry N,
iowen at Summit. Benton County;
Charles II. Miller at Upper Ochoco,
Wasco County.
The ring candidate for Governor ou
the Democratic ticket is Grover. while
t he opponents of the ring are urging
Whiteaker. For Congressman our
townsman. Hon. Geo. R. Helm, has
tir chances, while Slater has friends
vtio will strongly urge his claims.
N'ez, don't seem to have any friends,
tut they may loom up, nevertheless.
On Wednesday evening Wells, Far
jj.i it Co's express box was robbed of
$ 000 in greenbacks, while on board
of the cars at Kalama. Mr. Pierce,
txprta messenger, had charge of tlie
box. and was waiting, on board the
ur, for tlte Tacouia train, when the
express was transferred from the Kala
ma to the Tacoma train. Mr. Pierce
bad hardly had his eyes off the treas
ure box for a moment, yet during that
brief interval some one entered the
piall car, unlocked the box, extracted
lb package, relocked the box awl
&Jc good bis escape
tiniest from Wmihlnirtou.
Tlie Senate, In Executive session on
the 21st, confirmed Walte as Chief
Justice ot tlie Supreme Court, sixty
three Senators voting in tlie affirma
tive. The bill for the ' relict of citizens of
Oregon, introduced by Senator Mitch
ell ou the 21st, declares jhat it is the
duty of the Government to protect its
citizens on the frontiers who are en
gaged in peaceable and honorable voca
tions; and therefore it is proposed
that three Commissioners be appointed
to inquire into the subject of depreda
tions ou citizens of Oregon by Indians,
the damages sustained, etc. They are
to proceed .to the frontier and take
testimony. The bill was referred to
the Committee on Indian Affairs.
l'A IHC OAST NEWS.
Small iwx has made its appearance
iu San Francisco.
Montana with a population of 20.000.
produced $3,000,000 In gold last year.
A little daughter of Mr. Kaye. of
Olympia, while riding on a hand sled
with some otlier little girls, last Satur
day, ran against a log and broke her
leg lielow the knee.
In the production of tlie precious
metals Nevada leads all the Pacific
States and Territories, and Ubih ranks
with California, at the present, but
proposes to liea. that State during the
next two years.
Montana law provides a severe pen
alty against saloon keepers who sell
liquor to persons known to be in tlie
habit of .getting drunk.
The property valuation of Colorado
Territory is put down at $35,0(19,030;
population 39.804.
The fierce winds of Wednesday of
last week scattered things on the
Sound. Fences and outbuildings were
thrown down, and the schooner Mist
and deputy reremte eMler,' Messenger,
at Port Townsend, were blown up op
to the beach, higher than any tide can
possibly float them.
Recent rains have set Jackson coun
ty miners at work.
Win. M. Turtier. of Jacksonville-
has lieen appointed Justice of the
Peace, vice J. B. Wade, resigned.
Win. Cummins, of Lane county, but
week sold his farm of 050 acres for
$28,500.
Tlie Modoc war so far as 'figured-'
up, cost the Government $338,009 78,
exclusive of pay, clothing and arma
ment or the troops engaged. This
was at the rate of about $2,000 per head
tor each squaw, pappoose and buck
caught.
Chief Justice Jacobs, of Seattle, W.
1'. is slowly recovering from his recent
severe illness.
In the District Court at Stcilacoom
last week, Charles Lvttlc was found
guilty of murder in the first degree.
lor killing; an Indian, and condemned
to be bung on the 20th of March next.
1'he residence of E. L. Wllley.
Oakland. W, IV, was destroyed by tire
on the 11th inst. The loss was serious
as tlie County books and apers which
were in the house, were burned. Loss,
$1,500.
The Olvinpia Courier says the Ra
ider anthracite coal can lie delivered
in that city at $10 per ton. as against
$40 ier ton for Lehigh obtained from
the East, and declares tne lornier equai
in all respect to the latter, if not su
perior. From British Columbia we learn
that thirty Indians recently signed the
temperance pledge at one meeting ot
British Columbia Temperance Ali
ance. Several rods of the high fence sur
rounding the State Prison at Salem,
were blown down by the zephyrs last
week.
Rich quart ha ve been struck in Rye
valley, near the Shumway mill Baker
county.
Leabo's ferrvboat. this sideof Salem,
has been raised, and is now "toteing"
people across the river as usual.
The G. T.'s of Salem will give a
"rand sociable and entertainment at
tiie State Temperance Union, Febru
ary Kith.
Last Monday a man fell from the
Fannie Pattan, on her down trip be
low Wheatland, and was drowned.
The officers of the boat were unaware
of his loss until the ' body was found
the next day,
A watchmaker at Boise City baa in
vented a time-piece which rum with
out weights or springs.
The masquerade hall at Eugene on
the night of the 16th was a success.
The show is reported as eight inches
deep at Olympia.
The lower branch of the Legislature
of Colorado has 1(1 Republicans to 10
Democrats.
A general jail delivery at Denver re
cently, let out two tnurderers, four
horse-thieves, nnd seven drunks.
A hill Introduced by Mr. Nesmith
provides for the purchase of 100 acres
of land In the Indian Territory for a
reservation tor the Ifez Perce Indians.
Judge Albert Head, of Boise City,
indicted for forgery, waadisdiarged bv
the Supreme Court on the ground ot
insufficiency of the indict incut.
Governor Bennett is urged as a suit
able person to send to Washington to
aid in getting Government to contrib
ute something in aid of the Portland,
Dalles and Salt Lake rajlroad.
A man went into a Lodge room of
Good Templars recent! a' Alkali Flat,
near walla Walla, while the Lodge
was in session, and with a Kntte and
revolver swinging in his belt, began to
beat one of the members. The ses
sion wound up boisterously and sud
denly.
At Silver Citv, Idaho, hav is $50 a
ton; flour $10 a barrel; chickens $12
per dozen; eggs, $1 25 per dozen, and
scarce at that; potatoes 3J cents per
pound; barley, 3c; wheat, 2'4C
Corn meal is selling at $12 per barrel.
Times are lively and everybody seems
to be prospering.
Two four-horse teams arrived at
Boise Cif on the 10th with goods from
Wtnnenmcca. They leported the roads
in good condition, with very little
snow to Jordan Valley the rest of the
way about eight inches. Two nights,
they turned out to grass, and their
horses did well.
A letter from K'tt'ta Valley says
times up there are very h"wly. About
forty of those that stampeded In that
direction (luring the mining excite
ment have remained in the valley in
winter quarters. These of course,
must enjoy themselves so dances and
parties are kept In almost a contiimed
round, and the people, though aloof
from tlie world, do not mean to any
the less deprive themselves of enjoy
ment. The steamer Etta White came np
last Monday night to t'aeoma, and re
ports terrible weather on Saturday
night below. She was oft Point Lip
Lip, near Port Ludlow, aiid Capt.
Smith, who has done nothing but trav
el ou these waters lor ten or twelve
years, reports that it was the worst
night he ever saw. The sea ran very
high, and the night was black as
pitch, it lit up only by the frequent
llaslies of lightning, snow falling very
rapidly all the while. The wind was
from the southeast. The steamer was
tour days making the trip from Port
Towntend to Semiahmooand back.
This from Mendocino. Cal., under
date of 21st : A heavy storm has been
raging up the coast for the past week.
I.ast Wednesday night the wind
sprung up from the southeast and blew
a perfect gale until Friday morning,
when the sun came out through the
heavy hail-storm. A new building In
course of erection was demolished,
board from tlie lumher-yard were car
ried across the street, fences prostrated,
and roads blockaded by falling trees.
The Cloverdale. stage, with mail, ex
press and baggage, was carried away
in the flood while attempting to cross
Dry Creek last Friday. The driver
was seriously Injured endeavoring to
save his horses, one of which was lost.
Three passengers narrowly escaped by
swimming ashore. The letter mall
and baggnge have since been recover
ed, but nothing has been heard from
thi treasure box. At Point Arena the
boilers and smoke-stack of the Garcia
Lumber Mills fell through and are now
In tlie river bed. 'Bhe mill narrowly
escaped oeing washed away.
A CHAiucnatisncDispATCH. The
dispatch in the Herald stating tlwt At
torney General Williams, while Sen
ator, was appointed visitor to the Mil
itary Academy at West Point, and
drew $3,000 mileage in his capacity as
official visitor, on the assumption that
he traveled from Oregon, while in fact
he remained In Washington, is without
foundation. Mr. Williams states that
he not only was never appointed vis
itor to West Point, but tliat he was
never in West Point In his life; con
sequently he drew no mileage for siicli
service N. Y. Times.
The New York Pout expresses tlie
opinion that Tweed will be found
among the missing tome line morning,
and somebody will be the richer by a
handsome sum. It adds: "Such is
our prediction."
One Wajr to right Monopolies.
Every county hi Illinois can and
ought to manufacture all . the heavy
farm implements that are used in the
county. A high man In the Farmer's
Association said to me, not long ago,
that the New England states were
made for machine shops, and the West
to raise food for them. That Is true,
but he did not tell the -whole story.
They can. too, raise better wool
and more butter and cheese than we
can. The West can raise any amount
of grain, beef and pork, and in Illinois
you may put up a large machine shop
in almost all of the counties, and sink
a shaft as near as vou wish and have all
the water and coal needed, under the
shop. Now tlie freight is not much
on a dozen hooks and eyes or a dozen
clothes pins, but it amounts to some
thing on a reaper and threshing ma
chine. Now let the eastern men make
our small articles and ship them to us.
and let our farmers buy tlieir heavy
machinery w here it can be loaded from
the factory into their wagons, without
the aid or interference of any third
party. This cm off of freight-agencies,
commissions, and profits and loss to
middle parties, will lessen the price of
a reaper about one-halt", ana other
things in proportion. Some will say
this can't be done, but It can. Farm
ers arc willing to pay about 50 per
cent, more for' reapers than they ought
to. Let them do without or repair
their old ones for two years, and put
$10diutoa stock company to go to
manufacturing farm implements, with
the condition that the stockholders are
to have tlieir machines at a small per
cent, on cost. "np)ose tlie original
stcok is sunk or never pays a dividend,
the amount will soon come back in
saving freight, commissions, Ac.
Make all the farm implements in use
in the county, and it wili add consid
erably to the population, ami, of course
a part ot our surplus will go to feed
the county manufacturers. There
would be less to ship, and the prolia
bilittes would be better prices would
be obtained. At all events we save
freight and commissions on all con
sumed In our county. "Farmers'
Asf-ociartons" will hardly do this, ' but
It will be done, nevertheless will be
done by the "Patrons of Husbandry."
To work againft monopolies, who do
their work in secret, you must meet
them with the same weapon they use.
Although their work may be open, the
beginning is not known to all men.
The "Patrons" are held together by
an obligation which Is binding on
their honor, and this is a fraternal
feeling not known in "Fanners' Clubs"
or "Fanners? Associations," and if
they choose to run a machine shop or
an elevator they will do it. That they
can do such things is known by tlieir
putting up ek-vators in certain coun
ties of Iowa and shipping tlieir own
grain. Where they have done so, pri
vate elevators are to rent, and In some
eases the "Patrons" have rented them.
This plan ot doing our own manu
facturing is going to be bard on the
poor tuiddlle men, the traveling ma
chine shops and all of that sort. What
will become of then)? No one of
them has made a dollar of me for sev
eral years. I will buy. first, where
made, if possible, next where they
keep such goods for sale as I want. I
would like the farmers of Illinois to
talk this subject up through their own
pajier, the Prairie Farmer. If wanted.
1 will give what little help I can. I
would like to hear all objections raised
to home manufactures that can be. I
can only-nowsee one, that is they don't
"home make." Fx.
WoitM-KATKN Peas Prof. Maurice
Perkins, Union University, Schenect
ady, furnishes the following for the
Country Gentleman :
Very often in the spring I have
noticed that the peas, beans, Ac. for
sale in the stores for seed were worm
eaten. In many cases the seeds were
so eaten as to be useless for seed. The
worm, and even the egg, may be
easily destroyed by the bisnlphid of
carbon, a colorless, volatile liquid,
having an odor like that of rotten eggs.
If the barrel containing the seed Is not
full, moisten a cloth with the liquid,
lay It op the seeds and cover the barrel
with an old horse-blanket. The vapor
ot the bisnlphid will sink down among
the seeds and destroy all animal lite.
The seeds themselves will not be in
jured. Two or three ounces will he
enough for half a dozen barrels. This
liquid is used In Europe to destroy the
weevil iu wheat. 1 have not seen the
above mentioned In any agricultural
paper, and thought that it might prove
useful to some of your readers.
Eureka, Nevada, has a cltiaen
named Jones whose beard is three feet
ami three Inches long, and who keeps
it braided and bidden within hit shirt
bosom.
Chang and Eng, the Siamese twins,
are settled iri North Carolina. Tiiey
each have ft very good farm, adjoining
each otlier, and both have families.
They stay alternately, two weeks at a
time, at each other's farm. Both have
children, who have a fine education,
and one of the twins had a daughter
recently married. Tliey have good
residences on their farms and are sue
eesshn farmers.
A special from Richmond makes tlie
annomicemen of the sudden death ot
the Siamese twins Saturday morning.
Jan. 17th, at their residence at Monut
Airey.Snrrey county. Chang was par
tially paralyzed last fall, since which
time he has been very much debilitat
ed, and strongly addicted to drinking
liquor as a means of alleviating h
sufferings. He lias been quite feeble
for several days, so much so as to con
fine the brothers to bed. Friday night
Chang became worse, and expired sud
denly about 4 o'clock on Saturday
morning. Eng became so terribly
shocked that he roared wildly tor
awhile. This attack was followed by
what seemed to be a deadly stupor,
and In two hours from the " death of
Chang, Eng breathed his last. The
wives and families of the twins are iu
deepest grief, the children, many of
whom are deaf mutes, expressing tlieir
sorrow In the most pitiful manner.
A Washington Secial to the Ittur
Ocean says the resolution of Senator
Morton asking for authority to Investi
gate the circumstances attending Mr.
PinchlieeVs election was presented on
account of assurances given members
of the Committee that the election was
procured bv open bribery. It is alleg
ed that he (Pinchbeck) received $1,500
lu money from Morton, a Register in
Bankruptcy, to withdraw as a candid
ate In favor of Morton, but instead
used the funds for his own advance
ment. It is also charged that he
secured members of the Legislature by
paying their board and other bilk
taking their orders on tlie Treasury for
the same, but never presenting fnem.
Senator Morton, while still confident
of the legality of the Kellogg Legisla
ture, still insists that these charges of
personal corruption should de Investi
gated.
Genehousi.v Said. The New York
rifties, the paper which brought Tweed
down, now has this to say: We
venture to suggest that, now that
Tweed is undergoing the penalty of
his offences, the virtuous papers which
cheered and assisted him In the days
of his power, may as well desist from
pelting him, and above all may wiih
great propriety leave his family alone.
When a man Is handed over to justice
the community is done with him, and
ho longer cries out for vengeance. It
ii not a vry elevating spectacle to see
his old confederates tumbling over
each other in their efforts to get the
first kick at him.
Here is an Iowa story : A young
girl near Marengo Is wonderfully
marked by rattlesnakes. Running,
partlaly around her neck, side by side,
are two snakes as natural as If alive,
and the skin being transparent, tbev
seem only lying in wait for a victim".
On ihe front of the neck and upper
part of the breast are the rattles as
though a breastpin making a perfect,
picture and shedding regularly every
year.
The Washington correspondent of
the San Francisco Bulletin writes of
New Year's calls; Tlie Attorney Gen
eral and Mrs. Williams received calls
in the fine mansion which they have
just built and occupied on L street,
near Connecticut avenue. The draw-ins-room
of this house is the largest,
and, perliaps, the most elegant lu
Washington.
The House, on the 13th, very quietly
passed the Senate's Salary Bill without
discussion. Twenty-five member
voted no, aud it is safe to say a large
number of other members not present
would have voted that way. The res
toration of the mileage will tend to
make the bill unpopular. The, bill In
effect ciite off all the expenses of mem
bers in coming to Congress. Of the
35 members who voted against the bill.
10 were Republicans and 15 Democrat.
Evansville, Ind.. repudiates the Idea
that It has no first-class poets. Walter
Scott works In a sash, door and blind
factory ; Oliver Goldsmith work on a
farm ; Thos. Moore Is a finisher, aid
Robert Burns a In the jail. ,.
Henry W. Genet, whose eaau
from the Sheriff in New York ha
easioned so much comment, is said fa
beagraadaoaeftlw "Cltiaen Genet,"
so tronblnom to President Washing
ton mat.ne amaum W recall bjlli
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