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lit ft ; r; 4 f v PUBLISHED KVEKT FRIDAY BY COLL. VAN CLEVE. N THE afiOISTEK BDILDIHO, . Corner Ferry and First Street. TERMS IN ADVANCE. One copy, one year f J One copy, six months... Ti To clubs of t weiUy , each copy. . . . - .. . "- w tnM-il ehnnrcd 20 cents extra! 0 tor theveni-ns ihatfs the amount of poatase per ituuum wlrtcli we are required to puy on each paper mailed by us. . FRIDAY . . . .AUGUST 27r 1S75. Ay cut for the Kojflfcter. The following named peutlemen arc author ized to receive anil receipt for subscriptions iMessrs. Kirk A Home... to tllC KFUlSTtll 111 1I1U luiamres "" " Brownsville. Robert Gla-ss TV- P. Smith O. P. Tomnklns n II. Clauijhton A. Wheeler A Co Messrs. Smith A Brasflcld.., J. B. Irvine Thos. H. Reynolds W. Waterhouse..... .Crawford villa. llalsey. Harrison n;. Lelianon. Shedd. . .Junction City. , Scio. Salem. Monmouth. POST OFFICE BtISTEK. MAILS ARBtVS: From Railroad (north and south) dally ai ll.io p.m. From Corrallta, dally, at 10.30 A. M. From Leltanon. tri-wockly, (Monday, Wednesday and Ftdayi at 10.30 A. M. For BaUroad (not tU and Mt&, daily, closo protnpt at ll.ltiA. M. For CorvaHis, dailv, at 12.50 t M. 5 For Lebanon, trl-weokly, (Monday, Wed nesday and Friday) at 3 r. M. - ; Office hours frmu 7S A.-, to 7i r. x. . - Sunday, from 12 M. to 2 i M. " Money order otlk-e lioirs from 9 A-. M. to V. at. F. II SAYJIOSD, P. M. The Default or n Texas Mull Contractor. The -mail contractor between Fort "Coucho and 121 Paso, Texas, Laving tailed to perform the scrviee, the post master at Fort Concho . has informed the postoffice department that lie l ad oontraced for temporary service twice a week at the rate or $00,000 per an num. The old contract price was 69,- wu. 1 no department promptly re plied that that arrangement was disap proved, and ho was directed to employ temporary service at a rate not over $500 per round trip, once a week. The postmaster-general, under the law, also oflered the contract to tl:e bidders upon the route whose bids did not exceed the turn ot 530,000. The defaulting con tract was lor 619,000. The bidders, ;goinj5 up the list, appear in the follow ing order: Matthew Draper, K. L. Pease, G. S. Gould, James ( Kinzey, the bid of the latter being $28,888. If neither of these bidders shall accept, the route will have to be readvertised. The postmaster-general says that it the route cannot be made twice a week at from 30,000 to 35,000 the mails will have to cease entirely, or be reduced t monthly or senii-rnontlily service, or be carried by mounted couriers to supply military posts on the route, which are mainly interested in it. The depart ment is determined to puisne a vigorous l: T .1 A JJUIlcy iu inu maun, j.ctaii v ce lv me -department confiscated three checks de posited by JIatthew Draper, witli his $I,oi$y, ho having tailed to perioral tba service. Yesterday the department re ceived the money on the checks, it being the first money ever obtained by the de apartment from defaulting contractors. Umbrella Honesty. During the rain Monday a party stepped Into Merrills gro cery and asked for the loan ofan umbrella. He was promptly accommodated. "You'r pretty obliging ratn," wbserved a custo mer, af ter the stranger stepped out. 'Thsit's a mhtr honest lei low, "claimed Mr. Mer rills. "An honester or more generous man you won't find in a day's travel. He has got a liuifiiier of umbrellas of me. but he always .trii!? hack a belter one in re turn, lie changes 'em somehow, but how I dont know, anil I dont care. I see he's honest, an' that's all I. care about it." panbitry Weirs. It is easy tor a man oi a loose, careiesn, nn hokling memory, to forgive; it is very diffi cult, tor a person of steadfast memory to for give. I quite understand the saying of Queen Elizabeth to the Count ess of .Not- 'tintrbam. 'God may torsive- yon ; I ean- not." Elizabeth had a very potent memo ry. To sucli persons the original iniury comes back, years after, with the freshness of feeling's as on the u.iv upon which it wa endured ; while, to the persons ot poor memory, the original transaction comes back in a vety blurred and indistinct niatv -ner. otr Arthur Jieips. The 25ew Orleans Times intemperately -observes that whisky Is always kicking up a rumpus somewhere. Sometimes it nestles In a man's hat as a jolly brick, sometimes in the boots of a man as a hissing serpent, and anon it wraps the pavement around . the weary traveler, and induces him to be lieve the flags a patchwork quilt, a stone sill a soft bolster, the street lamp a bedpost and the gutter a babbling brook. It is worse than Banquo's ghost, yet unlike that classic spook, it will " down" at any man's .bidding. : ' . The First DeClaeauos or'IiiEPE?ii "ESCE. It wasu'C Mecklenberg, nor Phila delphia, where independence was first pro claimed, but in a letter from Mrs. John Adams, to her husband. When the King issued his proclamation : for suppressing .rebellion and sedition after the failure ot the mission of Richard Penn., Mrs. Adams 'wrote to Mr. Adams in Philadelphia: Tliia intelligence will make a plain path for you, though a dangerous one I could not join to-day -in the petitions of our worthy pastor for a reconciliation between onr no longer parent State, but tyrant State, and these Colonies. Let ns separate; they are unworthy to be our brethren. Iet us renounce tbem; and instead of sup plications, as formerly,, for their prosperity and happiness, let us beseech the Almighty to blast their counsels, and to bring to naught all their devices." This was a dec laration of independence preceding by months that vbieh Jefferson wrote. . An anecdote has lately been going the rounds about a King of Spain, who. it is whispered, is no other, than the young Don Alfouso XII. It seems that while on board ; a vessel on his way to bis dominions, one of his newly-introduced nobles presented himself before his sovereign to impart some Important piece of information. The young King listened, and then began bia reply. Unfortunately, just at that moment, tlie ship pegan to roll la a most agonizing fasli i LC u,,nhaPPy courtier left very, very 111, and finally, to conceal his misery from l if S?S' Ie wal ,fi,rc K Mde his faee in i'il Don Alfonso, while continuing ww0 ly observed aU thit , was going m, and, when h jadaed that the crlw was paed, he Interrupt him self suddenly. Count," he saiA in 2."7 Jestic tones, "you forge? tSSTyw, artl - randee of Spahf, pu? oo jour I command you!" , ' UHt- First Conntorieiis or "the Hcsi Currency in the World." AG VNG THAT ft CC EH KD IN AMOVING A 1.AKGK QUANTITY ON THE MARKET HOW THKV WERE IJUIXOEU (Correspondence of the Chicago Times.) St. r.oris. AusriHt 4. A letter to tlie Tiiitrg from Wnsbinsrtoii n few tkiys liCO o-iTO niiuiv interest in?: tacts respecting iteresting tacts respecting the 'In-iilatinz medium - of this country, and tir.ced the various issues and changes in money. It dealt, however, entirely with the genuine, and suggests the telling for the first time in print the connected story of the lirst attempt at greenback counter-- letting, ami me SKiniui manner in which the intentions of the coney men weie frustrated. The occurrences date buck to the time of the greatest war excitement. Everything was in confusion. Gold had gone almost out of sight. The Govern ment was jerking along on temporary loans. There was no policy, no svsteiu anil a good deal of useless bloodshed. Neither victories nor defeats had any di rect effect upon the campaigns other than to quicken or deaden the popular leeling. Every petty merchant had shoved out upon lii3 community his hastily printed shin plasters. Financial chaos reigned, and from the times of the Continental Congress down to this day of idiotic hurrahing &r expansion the circulating medium was never s cheap nor so nearly worthless as during the second year ot tile war. THE KIlt'T STEP Toward order and a reassuring poMcy Was Chase's original issue ot greenback "de mand notes" they were generally called among money men then. Before a uni versal medium the almost worthless trash of private individuals and public corpora tions began to disappear. People locked upon these '"demand, uotes," and the ""promise to pay" assured them that thorn was some kiud of a Government still in existence. The greenback?, as hastily gotten out as the first issue was, restored confidence. With the wisdom that reeog ' liizos the iuilnence of tiifles. Chase cau-ed to he engraved on those early and rapidly successive issues of greenbacks, proliles f patriots and wr scenes ot the revolutiou. llo.v much theso vignettes ami cuts i!M to restore confidence and uuitlcntiou in the Xorlh. will never be known. That they had their effect no one can doubt. Ilovv near that efl'ect came to being worse than nullified, the facts given here, will show. THE CONEY MILEEMCM. In the war excitement the cotmterteitcrs .found their opportunity, and from ocean to ocean they Uooded the conntry with 'queer" of the easily-imitated currency of the State banks and private scrip. "The first issue of demand notes" was haty, and the engraving exceedingly simple and crude compared with the Treasury am! National lank note of . to-day. " These notes were susceptible ot speedy counter feiting. The Treasury Department had tlien developed none of the ingenious and costly devices in paper, printing or engrav- ' ing which now exist to thwart the maker ot queer." The shin-plasters disppeared like snow of a Opting morning befire the greenbacks, and the'cowy" men's occu pation was -not gone but changed. Once a counterfeiter always a counterfeiter. So when t. base s greenbacks appeared tlsere was a hast' Convention of the most dan gerous counterfeiting strength in the coun try to grapple with the new hnaneia! prob lem, 'the rendezvous was St. Louis, ihe home of Bic-bn-ch, Wookev. Sleight, Dr. Parker, and the frequent retreat ot Nelson Dwiggs. Pete McCartney and his brother-in-law Hen Bond, Matt Ifalhawav and Jim Casey, all of whom are known to the secret service as the leaders, past and present, of queer" manufacture and shoviucr m the States, ilau these men. nearly all of whom were directly or indi rectly in the plot, escaped detection a uw ntli longer, half a million iu spurious greenbacks would have been thrown upon the country, followed by more of tlie same as fast as the press could vrk them. nat the ctlect would have, been at that critical period in blighting the gradually increasing public confidence and depreciat ing the new national currency may be agined. The spurious issue, so tar as it was completed a hen the plot was thwarted, would have defied detection. THE CATTUEE OF THE GAMJ Constituted an unusually fine piece ot de tective work, and was remarkable for the fact :hat it was accomplished clean and complete without the questionable aid of a spotter, and -without any assistance from the Government. St. Louis, in its dis t til-bed .and continually shifting population ol th earlier months of the war. constituted an excellent biding place for criminals of all classes, and was the favorite rendezvous of counterfeiters. Ilarrigan, the 'present Chief of Police here. Eagan, who afterward became famous for his two captures and sate delivery to jail of the notorious I'ete McCartney, were the detectives on the St. Ionis force. In the Spring of 1302, Eagan, on his way home from the East wiih a forger, learned in Cleveland that Harvey Walker, alias Charley Hill, was supposed to be hiding- in St. Louis; and that 20.000 in admirably imitated ones on tlie Terra Haute branch of the Indiana State Bank had just been "shoved." Hill and a Scotchman named Ritchie were the TWO EEAIUXG ENGKAVER3 Of counterfeit plate3 in those days, and were recognized all over the country as such. The founders of the American Bank Note Company had for several years a standing oiler of 5,000 tor the capture of Hill. The presence of this dangerous man in St. Louis was news to Eagan. The last that the St. Louis detectives had heard of Hi.ll was his sudden departure from Monroe, Wis., where he had been engfiged during part of the Winter of 1872 making a plate on the Wisconsin State Bank for Bone" Latta, a noted "coney" dealer of the north west. Hill, the story ran as it came to the detectives, had made the plate, received S00 tor it, then stolen it from Latta and run away. . : - s - -: . - When Eagan got back to St. Louis he re ported his news to the Chief of Police, and he and Ilarrigan at once set to work to look for Hill. There was no good descrip tion of the man. He was known person ally onlv to the lour or five men for whom he made and worked .the plates. The most of those dealing in the "queer" knew him only bv reputation and could tell nothing oi his appearance. It . was his custom to stop in a place only until he could finish a job, and then slip away, leaving no trail, not even to the men with whom he had been working. However, the detectives felt confident of the informa tion that Hill was in the city, and there was nothing to do but to look for a blind trail and follow, it up. They set about dogging and shadowing two or three men suspected of shoving counterfeit money in a small way- A week or two of this kind of work revealed a. suspicious circum stance. It was.discovered that a young aian named GEORGE WOOKET ' " . "Was on tamiliar terms with the shoverw. Wookey.was a new one to the St. Louis officers. He had been in the city, only a few weeks. Tracing up his antecedents, It was learned that he had formerly kept a boarding-house in Kansas City, but break ing up that be bad come down to St. Louis with his wife, a Kansas glrf of magnificent personal appearance, and waa living in good style at No. 1 Targee street, the two occupying a good sized residence entirely alone, and Wookey apparently having little to do beyond loafing about town with the boys, ami keeping himself posted. It was determined to put a watch on tlie place. - - Targee street is sliort- and narrow and o penes out upon Market, between Four teenth and Filteeutu streets. Ou Market street, lacing Targee, iu those days, was a marble-yard, and in this Harrigaii and a companion. COMMENCED THKIll VIGILS." All day t hey were obliged to lie stretched out upon the ground, peeping through the cracks in the fence. At nigut by turns, they would come down town for supplies. The supposition had been formed that Wookcy's house was the receptacle for the "queer" as it came from the engraver and printer,. 'and a distributing point to the Vhovers," The detectives had "shadowed" the house ten days, and had not made a point except the confirmation, which long reflection brought, that there was something wrong. Nobody appeared to go in and out except Wookey, and he always seemed to look about him guarded ly every time he passed iu and out. A Sunday evening came, and Ilarrigan had been down town. About 10 o'clock he was on his way up Market, and, in a reck less moot!, stopped under a gas-lamp and stood looking down Targee. He had hardly come to a hale whcii Wookey, to whom Ilarrigan was known by sight, came hastily out of the house and to the corner. At Wookey 's first appearance in the door, the detective, lying behind the fence, had coughed, waruingly. Ilarrigan, however, saw that he v.as gone and it would be use less to try to escape recognition. He stood still while the muttered curses of his partner fell on his ear, until Wookey. reuched the corner, and then sprang across the street, clapped his baud on the man's shoulder, and told him, in a low voice, to come along. As they moved, the officer's quick eye saw- Wookey drop a little pack ago behin ! him iu the gutter. He picked it up. and with a come along, took his prisoner into a saloon, and examined the naukagc, which he louud to contain a fresh batch of THE SmtlOUS "OSES" On the Terre Haute bank. Wookey was hustled away to the police station, and subjected to a fresh search. In his pocket book, wrapped up with a water license which he had obtained only the day pre vious, was found a perfect impressio'i ot the back of one of the greenback demand notes which had just made their way West. It was the first intimation that the detect ives had received ot an attempt being under way to counterfeit the new national - cur rency. The workmanship satisfied the officers that 'Hill was making the plates, and the conclusion was accepted that the back luil been finished, and that Hill must then be engaged upon the face. Wookey s arrest Was kept secret, and Eagan and Ilarrigan redoubled their exertions. The latter, with his companion of the marblc yard. immediately went to Wookcy's house before his wife hail noticed h's prolonged absence, and took up their abode. Night and day one of them remained in the pres ent e of the counterfeiter's wife. From tlie time they entered the house she never removed her clothes, and was not allowed to go outside, the door. Wherever she went in the house one of the detectives was with her. Not a word of information could 1 got from her. but as time hung heavy they insiitutetl close search of the premises, gradually collecting old plates on Statu hanks, and old stocks of the queer." One morning, iu stirring np the ash-heap, they came upon the long-sought plates .ot THE BANK OF XEW ORLEANS. Hill printed a ten-dollar note which de fied detect ion, and lie fore the nr there was a standing reward oi" $10,000 for his capture. Mrs. Wookey Smiled sweetly up on all their searching, but never volun teered aid. When the household supplies ran short, one of the detectives went regu larly to market ami the woman cooked their meals. Gradually; however, her spirit seemed to fail. Her step, which had been elastic, dragged, and she seemed after three or four days to be undergoing torture. On tlie fifth evening she sat on a lounge- carrying on a desultory conversa tion and shitting about uneasily. Finally, with a half sigh, sliegot ipand walked out of the room. One of . the detectives fol lowed; the other. Ilarrigan, who had been cautiously observing the woman's actions, went over to the loimge, ami, picking up an old wrapper which had been lying tliere. found the heavy steel plate with' which the Terra Haute Bunk had lxen worked. The woman had carried the heavy uielalic block for five days and nights under her clothes, and the ceaseless -vigilance of the detectives had finally forced her to drop the burden. That night ended the watch at Wookey's house. About, twelve o'clock the detective on duty beard a little tap on the door. A 'strong arm was reached onr, and in an instant, JOHN FIUSBIE, THE "BOODLE C.VKKIEIZ." Was landed in the middle of the flocr. What neither Wookey nor his plucky wife could be forced to do give away 11 ill aud the whole game Frisbie did almost as soon as asked. After the brief delay of getting his story out of him, Eagan, Ilar rigan and a squad took a cove ret I wagon and drove out. to the city hospital. Follow ing Frisbie's directions they surrounded a Gothic-roofed house about half-way be tween the hospital and Lafayette Park, and then prepared for the encounter. The men took their positions and Eagan knock ed. After a little delay a male voice in quired who was there. "John." replied Eagan, simulating Frisbie's whining tone. The bolts rattled aud Hill stood face to face with a little baud of American detectives and looked down into two or three pistol barrels. Eagan. who h:ul acted as spokes man, stepped into the house, promptly tell ing urn emphatically -,iat the "jig was np," and the best he could do was to take it quiet. The powerful muscular English man hesitated a moment, as if half inclined to give the detectives a tussel. but at. the same time a burly Irishman named Hen- liessy, wtio is still a detective here, SHOVED A REVOLVER In his face and he succumbed, quietly ask ing that the women tolks be not disturbed. Eagan ordered 11 ill to lead the way to his workshop, and the engraver went up to a largo room in the second story. As he en tered the loom he sprang to his bench, snatched a scrap of paer from a plate and thrust it into his mouth. Eagan was at his side in a second, and givinir him "hand and hip." fattened him aud choked the scrap out ot his mouth. It was the face of a split greenback, with which Hill was just finishing the face plate. His mode was to fasten this split bill to a hi eh I v. potlsbed steel plate with drops of white varnish and then trace the lines. . Hill was put in h condit ion to make no more trouble, and a search was commenced. When the detectives came together, after a close scru tiny of the premises, they had the plates on . TWELVE STATE BANKS ' And pounds of tlie "rag-money" of just be fore the war. As the search was in pro gress, a pious ejaculation irom liennessy drew Eagan and the rest to a large closet. Tliere was found over one hundred thou sand dollars in the greenback demand notes strung up on linen thread passed through the margins to dry. The backs were fin- isneo. and the races had received the black impression, including Spinner's name aud most of the work. They lacked onlv the final passage through the press with the finished plate and colored ink. Hill was just giving the plate the finishing touches. and would have. completed the-job in an other day. The notes hung in the closet , like tobacco leaves in the drying-house. 1 lie detectives took them down fn great festoons, threw them together in an out spread sneer, and when all were down the corners of the sheet were drawn up over the mass and formed a bundle ..which was all one detective cared to carry out to tlie wagon. The raid was complete, and the wuoie outnt made a good wagon-load. TRIAL AND CONVICTION Followed. LM1 went to the Missouri Pen! tentiarv for five years and Wookey for three. ' Mrs. Wookey drifted southward in the rear of the advancing armies, and was last heard ofkeeplng a boarding-house In Kentucky. .Frisbie is said to be some where in Canada. During the progress ot the great sanitary fair on Lucas market place in St, Louis, Hill's ingeumty was turned to account. He was furnished tlie neeessarv tools in tlie Penitentiary and oc cupied his time in engraving tlie Lord Is prayer on the flattened face of silver half dimes. Scores of these wonderful speci mens of the engraver's art were sold at the sanitary fair for five dollars each, the pro ceeds going to swell the grand total. It was nearly three years after this capture in St. Louis before counterfeits on t he national enrrenev began to appear. Then through tlie instrumentality of Government officials Hill was pardoned and taken Into employ by William P. Wood, then Chief of the Secret Service. For some months be osten sibly plaved into the hands of the Govern ment, causing one wholesale arrest in Pittsburg, but he soon disappeared and the authorities have -lever been able to get trace of him since. It Is believed, how ever, that both he and Rltchh returned to the old coniitrv. and it is among the possi bilities that thev have been engaged on the plates from which are being printed the spurious notes of the Bunks of England aud France. - Dcli'jeU Items. Wheat will sell for 50 cents a bushel at Yakima mills. Wheat iu the vicinity of Dayton (W. T.) averages 25 bushels per acre. A Swede, wlwse name is not given, was knocked down and robbed at Walla Walla last week. He had just arrived from Umatilla. "A largtohipmcnt of machinery, intended for the Virtue mine, near Baker City, passed through La Grande on Wednesday of last week. The Pendleton Tribune says there lias been some negotiations-looking toward its .emoval to the Dalles, but nothing definite lias 3'et been settled on In the matter. The schooner Turn C Shanfn; built at North Bend. Coos county, for the Portland trade, has been launched, and is said to lie the finest vessel ever constructed at that place. The State Teachers' Institute will convene in th" city of Sa'.em on the first day of Sep tember. 1375, .and continue throe days. The importance of this meeting of the teach ers is manifest, needing no words to prove its necessity, or argmncut to show the ben efits it will give. The Walla Walla Spirit says : "Messrs. Cainbell, Jones and ot hers have threshed their fall wheat, and as far as threshed the average is about 42 bushels per acre. Mr. C. Majer threslied a field of 21 acres from which he realizi-d 53 bn-hels and some pounds as an average per acre." The fruit crops in Walla Walla valley, as a general tiling will lie light this season. Peaches are a total failure. Pear crop not half , one. and apple crop not only light but of a very inferior quality. Plums are scarce, and growers are talkbig of eight cents per pound in any quantity. Last year the price tit plums was from one to two cents per pound, grapes will be plen tiful in their season. t he Pendleton Tribune of the lith inst. Icarus that Daniel U. Bird, a farmer resitt ing on East Kirch creek. Umatila county, cut his throat on the Monday ifvvious in an out building on his ranch, ami lived nor. a short time after being discovered. For some months past he lias been ot unsound muni, at times, (or at least lias tieen so con sidered by his neighbors) and tliere is hut little or no doubt that he took his own lite in a fit of insanity. He leaves a wife and children to mourn hi? untimely disease. Old WenaiS;ioot, tho head cheit of the Umalilla Indians, recently became convinc ed that having more than one wife was wrong, and so tie sent his oldest oe atinii. But lie did the fair thing bv the old lady. giving her four sacks of flour, lots ot sugar calico tor dresses, and every thing that lnui- ins-of the female r-ersuasion so much love; and she left on a fine Cayuse horse, with it actually loaded down with presents the old chief had bestowed upon her prior to her departure. 1 he final parting revealed a state of true inwardness" and paroxys mal kissing truly paititul to witness. "While engaged in digging a cellar for Mr II an ley. near Jacksonville, last week, Sar- geu Dunlap ami some others came across the remains ot two human Iniings. They were about five feet apart.andnre supposed to be the remains of Indians who had been burkd there prior to its sett lenient by tho whites, as some flint arrow-heads were found along with them. On Saturday liefore last (7th;il!e overland stage and mail got a ducking in the river this side of Boise City, and two horses were drowned. After the driver got into the ferryboat with his team, he stooped down to pick np a letter from the boat to hand to the ferryman, and although his team was an old genth- team they started ahead, and before the. driver could stop them the leaders stepped on the apron of the boat which gave way and the whole team, stage. and driver were precipitated into tlie river, which was about ten feet deep. The driver, Mr. Mason, came near being drowned, but finally came up all right and extricated two of the horses but the stage tell on the wheelers and they were drowned. Mr. Mason fished out all the mail, well soaked, however, aud help of the ferryman they got the stage out. Tlie Salem Statesman says : "Sheriff T. C. Shaw wcnt.last Saturday.to Bnena Vista in search of S. J. L. Whiteman, the party who Is charged with committing the horrible outrage mentioned in these columns a few davs since. He was absent, from Itnme. but his wife and mother directed the sheriff to the farm of Mr. Ives, about live miles north of Jefferson, where lie was at work iu the harvest field. He was arrested and brought to town, and upon being arraigned before Jitd-re H. A. Johnson he. warred examina tion. Bonds were fixed at $800. and. being unable to procure bail, he waa committed to jail. Tlie whereabouts of his victim is at present unknown, but Whiteinan says ho is gone to Iowa. It is h mlly probable that a man would quietly and voluntarily leave the country after beinsr inhirtd as Watkins is said to have been, and further developments may be looked for shortly." KEWS fLIPPLIGS. Harmony, Cblarado, is a town with one house. The name of the town will be changed when another family moves in. There is one block in De.roit without a female gossip. It is a vacant block. The new London drink, "stout and bit ter," is Called "mother-in-law" for short. A sweethart is called a turtle dove, so a coquette must be a mock turtle dove. They now make tans with a pocket In the handle to hold a eucher deck. There is in deed, no limit to genius. A wisconsiu widower started out the oth er morning and proposed matrimony toelev en different Women befote noou.lt came so suddenly that all said "no" when they meant "yes." ' -"-- Tlie Arabs think inaae of . their horses than they do of their wives. Here would be a chance for some ; fine writing if it couldn't be said that Arab - women also think moie of Arab horses thau they do ot Arab husbands. -. - v A- New Orleans man will sit on a log in -the boiling sun aud fish all day and feel re warded with- one. bite, and yet if his wife wants a pail ot water brought lie will ex claim. Oh,ycs keep right on fix me for burial.'" Xew Te-Rny. tlee to torktioidL-rs. AN ASSESSMENT OF FIFTY FEU CENT, wn inurle on tlie capital sit-k sold of the tiranfjo L n ion Albany, to be paid on or before tlie 1st day of October, 1H7S, Fnyablo to D. Mansfield, at the office of tho A. Co- S. A. DAWSON, Fros. Alfred M. Itoor, Sec. 47-4 CENTENNIAL. 1876. 1876. Proclamation. Chicago & North-West- em Railway. nai rapi'Lin rocte ovlklaxd. l'assenarers for Chicago, Ntastii-a Falls, Pilts-lmi-s, Fhiladulpluu, Montreal. Quebec, New York Boston, or any point East, should bay their Te.l3iS;COaiTI?iESTAX. TICKETS Via the I'loiicer Itoitte, - "" -rac -t'uicAvo Jt xoimnrEsirLKx it.tii.tTAY THIS IS THE BEST HOUTE EAST. Its Track ts of STEEL- KAILS, and on it has been nmlc the FASTEST time that basever been MADE In thUcountry. By tilts route jiassen gers foriKinlseast of i Ii'khko have choice ot the loiiowing lines from Chicago: ISy 4 Sip I'ittburf;. Fortwayne anrtClilcnjjo niiti lciiiu)lnuiii itiiilHHjs, 3 THROUGH TRAINS DAILY, with Pullman I'amec cars through to Philadelphia and New York on euc-h train. 1 THROUGH TRAIN, with Pullman Palace cars to Buniuioi-c. aud Washington. My Ihe I, ah Skore and Michigan Soth cm ittiiilwtiy mid connections Ac w lark Central and lA-ie ltallrot), 3 THROUGH TRAINS DAILY, with Palace liawin itooaittiid Silver Palace cars thro' to New York. i.'.y t:ie Michigan Central, Urnn Trunk, irfitt ctci i nuil Uiir uud New ltk 4 eittrul lEuilMiiys, 3 THROUGH TRAINS, with rullnian Palace Drawing Room an J Slce-.iin cars through, to New York 10 N iaara Fails, Buffalo, Rochester or New York city. Kj- Iliillintore uud Ohio Knilronrt, THROUGH TRAINS DAILY, with Pullman Puiiicw cars tor Newark, Zaiiesvilie.Wheeling, Washington and Baltimore without change. Thisisttie SHORTEST, BEST and only line ranuins Puilinan celebrated PALACE SLEEP ISO CAES AN t COACHES, connecting wi-h Union Pac.iue Railroad at OMAHA and from ihe WEST, via Grand Junction, Marshull, Co-tar Ruoels, Clinton. Stei-lini ami Diitm, lor CHI CAGO AND THE EAST. This popular route ls nnsui-passetl for Speed, Comfort and Sufetv. Tlie smooth, well ballast ed and perfect tmck'of steal rails, the celebi-at-e l Pullman Pa aco Sleeping cars, the perfect Tirief5ral! Sysieui of moving trains, Ihe regu larity wiih "which tin y run, tlie admirable ar-raneuien-t for riiMnin through enrs.toCtaica-.ro from ail noliits West, wee nre. to passenuera all the commi-is in modern railway travt-linw. o changes of Cars, aud no tedious delays at Fer ric. I'ivisencrers will nnd Tickets via tills favorite rouie at i he General Ticket O.tice of the Central Pat-ido Railroa 1, Sacramento. Tk-kois for sale at ad the Ticker unices or the Central Pa.-irlc Railroad. W. 11. STENNETT, MARVIN HrGHITT. Gen.Sup. Gun. Pas. At. II. P. STAN WOOD. Genenil Agency, 121 Mont gomery Bit-cat, aau Francisco. viiiy Wheat and Oats Stored. Saclts Furnished la Uallailtcsl . Supply. P. C. HARPER & CO., A re prepared to receive and s:ore WHEAT & OATS on as liberal terms ys canbeobtained clscwliera f-if Sacks furnished. Albany, July 27, 1S73-1G THE II JEST IX THE W.lKLDl So Housekeeper ran finite Swift nnd ncuicxonic nrvati niinnuiii. This well known and lonjr established YEAST OWUER is now in rreat demand. SaUia in ereaslnsr dailr. Now 2 trross per dav to the trade. D. CALLaGHAN now sole manufac ture and pronriotor, uses no drugs no hone dust ; pure white cream of Tartar, Imported direct and prround on the premises, being the duet tngreuieni. Always on hand and for sale at lowest, prices Cnllaliau'M Yeast Powder, in 1 tb cans, a superior art icle. Cnllrljiiii Crcnu of Tartar, in all style of ivackares. C'allnxIiMnUt Pare ITnfrlislt Hi-carbonate oi MMa una miiitouis, FOR SALE BY ALL GROCERS. : . ALSO (ren of Tartar Crystal nnd English Ui-enroonale ol rwiit, iu ftejt-a. FOB SALE BY D. rAULAUIIA?! & CO., DInnnfactnrera, 121 FRONT STEEE, San Francisco. 3m IJtSTEY ORGANS SOLD AT THE M. E. PAI isoiiHire. Alltanv. on the most tavorahle term The ESTEY OhGAN has iK'ennrononnccd tht best bv tha most eomnetent ludtrea. Dot.t liny any other until you nave seen and heard these oeauuiui uia'ruments. x. v ii-Acut GRAF & COLLAR, MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN A LL kinds of Furniture. Wareroomson First street between ijioaualbln aud Ellswotin t. PEKRY SPIEi, rKALER IN (WRU-WOOl). Orders left with w . if. i Jodd Co., (under KEO.aTKK office), prompuy aiionuea to. . PROMPT Delivery, Rates. at Living HAVING bouarht out the dellvsrv business of Mr. Lewis 81 inisnn, I bejf leave to announce to- t ne.cn izons ana oasmessmen oi juwuij, I iiave on the streets an express and Job wapron and will be bappy to serve all who may give me a call. - : . . . All orders will be promptly attended to at reasonable rates. . A Orders may be left at the Drag Store of Btn Parker. VIRGIL PARKER. Pictures and Picture Frames. ; E. 13. rURDOl W,,M Announoo to the clt.lrens of Albany and cl".1"hatn5ter.rrl to furnish all Kinds i iiJl'tJKK FltAS'KS to order, at short votice. Plct tires framed, and old frames rmlred. TU athtsotHoe on First street, one dooc went of Broadalbln, and leave j our oi-dtjr. Sl-T tins mioTiiERs, SEALERS lit JEWELRY, Silver & Plated Ware, -and- DIAMOND SPECTACLES AGENTS FOR THE ' Singer "Sewing ; : Machine, The Kent Machine Made. O. S- S. CO. jVOTI013.. FROM AND AFTER DATE, UNTIL FUR Iher notice, freight from PORTL.UD to ALBANY WILL BE 0 X E DOLLAR PER TON All down frefsrht will be delivered at POET LAND or ASTORIA Free or Iraragc and WIiaiTug-;, At Reduced Rates. Boats will leave ALBANY for COUVALLIS or PORTLAND For further particulars, apply to BE4C1I & HOJiTEITD, Albany, Nov. 21, Tl-12 Atfcuta Tlxa Kicl 3tona IVerpasf ty and the Poor win s rrieua. - Awarded ttio Clold .Medal ai VIENNA. CELL'S POPULAR ENCYCLOPEDIA AND .J Universal Dictionary ef Science. Art. B:r- ntpliy, LaiiKimre, Botany. History, Jurispru dence. Geography and the Whole Circle ef Hu man Knowledge." (Toinnlete In (U numbers at 50 cents each, ot bound in one-half morocco 0, two lstrjro royal unarto volumes, ten cmiik a day for H year, wfllizctft in cUep;rt hiiHlin. K.ve.ry lacnity onere t to utose m looaci-ate cir- tuui:aice-'"OJiuin it. Also, the new Pictorial Family Bible. cheanest in tho market 1,300 fllnst ration. Send 3-ccut stamp for specimen paires, to s. if. jji ttt, Gn. Airr., for Paciilc coast. Portland, Oregon. . Farm?, Town Ciiy Property FOR SALE OR TO RENT, OX LIBERAL, terms. For particulars annlv to L. KLKINS, Albany, Or. N. B- Possession given Immediately. Jn2I QOXSTASTLY 03i 1IAN5 Lime, Singles, Iluiiler Farla, Latn, Hair, etc., and for ea!e low, nt tlie warehouse of PARKER & J1UKKH, The Hijjhet Cash Price Paid for Wool. Albany, May U. wS-SSvi Raising and moving Buildings.. WE THE UNDERSIGN ED BEG LEAVE TO innntiRoi to ihe eitlzens of Alhany and surrounding eonnfry that, having onppl led our- seives wnti tue necesry uiaeniuery 101- me injot and removlnR buildings, we are ready at all times to receive orders for such work, which we will do in short or ler at lowest rate. We guarantee entire satisfaction in all work under taken by tis. Orders left at tho Kkoister office promptly attented to. Apply to. BANTY, ALLEN A CO. Albany, Or., April IS. 1875. Stv7 A. WUKELiK. C. P. noot- E. C XX. WUEEtEE. A. "Wheeler & Co., SMEDO, ORE03T, ForwardiiLsi S Commission MercMs. Dealers In aicrehandise nnd Produce. A good assortment of all kinds of Goods al ways in store at lowest market rates. Agents for sale of Wagons, Grain Drills, Cider Mills, Cbnrns, &.. o. CASII paid for WHEAT, OATS, PORK, BUT TER, EGGS and POULTRY- . LYON'S KAHTAIRON, BO CENTS PKK IIOTT I.F. Haa been in ue over llnir a Century It Promotes) the Orowth, Preserve the Color, Inerensesi the Viaror nod Benuty or the Ilnlr, Prevents Its Falluir out nnd TurntoK Ory. LADIES, Do yon, wnnt n Pure, Blooming Cons- plexlon ? If so, a few applications of IIAOAJTS BALV will gratify you to sonr heart's content. It does nway with Bednesa, Blotchest aud Pins, plea. Overcomes the Pluahed appear ancc of hent, rntisrue nnd cxeltcment. BOOTS & SHOES FOR EVERIBOD ! I 1 EASY SHOES FOU OJLS FANCY SHOES FOR YOUNG PRETTY SHOES FORLADIF.9, TINY SHOES FOR IIARIISS JUST RECEIVED , By Ocean Steamer, at LOUIS REHVALD'G Baat & S&a Stare, FUJST ST., COB5EB BBOADAZJUX Albany, Oregon, Clit-apcr tbau Ine Ciieapoit. Albany, March 48, J875-2Svt - l , , - - , Vl , 5S8 AOBJ3Q! Large and Yalnable Tract ol' Farming Land for Sale. THRE1S HUNDRED ACRES Of plow land, 90ft of which is rich bottom land. On the prera- ikcs arc lair ouiiuinfrs, tiotise. Darn, granhry. sheds, etc.; also tood bearing orchard of frmt trees; 300 acres of Ihe very best pasture land; 50 acres of timber land, ash and maple, the beat of tarminsr land when cleared. A never fat iintp stream of water runs throusrh the (arm. Tkert ts also a nplendid quarry of Jiuie-rock on tho 1lace. pronounced by exiierta A-1 rouk. Tour- . iimdred acres are under. fence. It fa one of tho Biost desirable and cheapest farina itongm. county, lying i;,' miles from the O.AC, railroad at Oakland. For particulars as to price, etc.. apply, iu this city, to J. IL BOUCvHTON, iL I Alliany, May 11, TS. JOB PBIXT1NG. mm. "When you wish. . Posters, Visiting CardSy Business Cards, Bill Headffj Letter Headc, Envelopes, Sail Tickets Programmes, Labels. Horse Dills, Circular, I J,i-: Pamphlets, or in tact anything in the Printing Zi call at tha " DAILY HEqSTL! 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