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MAILS ARBtVS:
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ai ll.io p.m.
From Corrallta, dally, at 10.30 A. M.
From Leltanon. tri-wockly, (Monday,
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For BaUroad (not tU and Mt&, daily,
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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!
PRINTING HOUS15
COKNER FERRY & FIItSr-TS.,