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OFFICIAL CITY PAPER.
ALBANY, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1,1875.
TOR CONGRESS,
.'. I1E.MIY IVARREX,
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- The city wns full of people yesterday.
The Oriftame satis from Portlanh for
Ban Francisco to-day at 4 o'clock p. u.
With a population of but little over 100,
000, Oregon turns out this season 5,000,000
bushels of wheat.
i
The Washigton County Fatr, which
commenced on Mouday, is pronounced a
success.
Salem, wishing to make it as picas
ant as possible for fair-goers, during
State Fair week, will sprinkle ber
streets. Velly good.
And now comes "crooked coal"
seizures, the stock of coal in the yard ot
Lund fc Co., . San Francisco, having
been seized by Government officers, be
cause, of the discovery of fradulent
weights.
TA1UOUS "rODUEB."
A young lady, named Francis A.
Treanor, was instantly killed at South
Bend,Ind., one night recently, by pitch
ing trom a third-story window upon the
stone sidewalk beneath. She was in her
nsght-dress, and it is supposed walk
out oi the window in a somnambulic tit.
The steamer Panama sailed trom San
Francisco for the Sound and Portland on
Tuesday. - -
The third husband of a iascinatiug wo
man spent hU last breath in imploring
her not to marry sgatn till after the funer
al. -
Akkangemknts arc perfecting lor
growl meeting of Odd Fellows at
Philadelphia, during tho -centennial
. celebration.
The fifteenth annual State Fair will com
mence at Salem ou Monday' week, October
Kth, and will continue six days. It is
"enerally predicted that it will be by far
the grandest success yet achieved by the
State Agricultural Association, not only in
. the show of the productions of Oregon soil,
. oar stock, the skill of our mechanics, etc..
but In -tho number of people who will
cather there trom every qnartcr to seo
and bo seen. And all these predictions
will doubtless be verified, provided it don't
ram.
Six hundred thousand dollars in
coin was paid into the Bank of Cali
fornia on Monday, in payment of the as
sessment of 20 per cent on the guar
antee fund levied by. the syndicate on
Saturday. The full amount of the as
sessment was expected to be paid in yesterday.
Tuk value of property in Douglas
county assessed, amounted to $1,710,-
791. For State purposes 6 nulls on
the dollar; for school purposes, 3 mills
on tho dollar; for county purposes, 13
mills on tho dollar; making a total ot "Z
cents and three mills to the dollar.
A H8URIHI.E STORY.
A IXTTXE CHILD KILLED BY rolsON AT
TEMPT TO FOISON A WHOLE FAMILY.
A correspondent of the Oivgottian write
from Canyon ville under date of Sept. 21,
1875, relating ,tlio following horrible story:
Quite a gloom was spread over our
nstul quiet community yesterday by the
poisoning of a small child belonging to tltc
Wife of one Mr. Markuin. The part icular,
as near as I can gather them, are these:
Mr. Markuin and familly are comparative
strangers in this part, having came here
only a tew months ago, aud have- been
since their arrival stopping with thtir
relatives, by the name of Sullinger, a well
known and respected family. Last Sunday
z1 the two families had left home on a visit
and on their return a meal was prepared
-. tor the evening, when the milk that should
have been u-kjU was found to be very bitter,
so much so that its use was abandoned.
Nothing more was thought of the peculiar
taste until Thursday, when the same dis
agreeable and bitter taste was observed in
the milk, and also in some salt that had
been prepared for the table. These articles
were only tasted by those present, except
by one small child, who drank quite freely
of the milk, unobserved by the Test, until
' It was too late. Soon after this the child
became very siek, and before medical aid
could be summoned had gone into active
--convnlsions, and expired in tlie mother's
Anns. This led the family to believe that
- unfair play bad been U3ed by some one, and
- to test the matter some of the milk was
' given to a dog and other animals present,
. ail of which Immediately died. In the
i bottom ot the pan wns found some undis-
solved crystals of strychnine.
- The people in the region of this sad af-
fair feel highly indignant, and exptess a
willing desire to find the human monster
- that would thus unfairly creep into a quiet
. household and rob a fond mother of her
darling child. Undoubtedly the one that
Tid thui awful deed expected to catch an
' -wider person, or perhaps all connected with
the fanillv, and it is tliought that although
the parents' hearts may ache for the lost
one, yet they have reason to be tbakful
that it was not worse. '
A machine is being constructed in
England that will not only print an il-
C3 -
lustrated paper upon cylinders, but
which will print both sides of it at once,
and deliver it complete! at tho rate ot
12,000 per hour. It is said to bo a
modification of tho Walter perfecting
machine.
Joseph Ilollis, a farmer living in the
vicinity of Worthington, Dubuque
County, Iowa, was engaged in oiling
somo machinery connected with the
horse-power ot a threshing machine,
when his leg was caught in the wheels
and literally torn from the body. His
injuries were fatal.
At Saginw City, Mich., one night
recently, Mr. II. Hurd, while in a som
nambulic state, walked out of an upper
window in a hotel, and foil to the pave
ment beneath." He was conscious when
taken up, aud stated that the last thing
he remembered was going to bod. He
died in a few hours from internal inju
The Bank of California aud tlie new
Bank of Nevada, are expected to open
on Monday. The committee of the
stock boards have decided to recom
mend that both boards resume business
on Tuesday, ctober 5th. Both these
events transpiring next Week, it is ex
pected that money will be easy iu San
Francisco and business brisk.
On the high road between Wulflin-
gen and Winterthur, in Switzerland, a
solitary foot pad, armed with a poinard,
and of surprising audacity, has estab
lished himself. Fonr highway robber
ies have been repovted lately. The vic
tims who have been compelled to stand
and dslivcr comprise three travelers and
a soldier returning home ou leave of
absence.
In speaking of the probability uf-AIr.
Coggan bringing Osceola to the State I
Fair the Mountain Sentinel says:
One of the questions that seem to inter
st our torse men most at tho present
time,-is in regard to the movements of
Mr. Coggan. He is anxiously looked
4cr at the State Fair with his fine horse
Osceola, and 6ome ot the managers of
lhat grand institution , are doing all , in
' their power to hold out inducements
' that will justify him to make tlie long
,- aod expensive trip to reach there. Our
owners of fast horses and the people
generally who delight in sport on the
' turf, are. auxioua , to know whether
! Osceola will ran at the State Fair.
e have no authority , for making any
-positive statements at the present time
Joutithis much we do know, and can
-state without an y breach of confidence
reposed in us: Mr. Coggan notified
1&e Secretary of the State Agricultural
Society some time ago, that as the so--iety
bad only offered a purse of $300,
to be contended for by horses not raised
; , Oregon, that be could not; come to
. 'piswem ana take the chances for ; that
i ' , -amount, but if the society would offer a
' paras of $500 and require an entrance
f fee ot not less than $250 to so with the
' parse, he would bring bis horse to Sa
lem. He also gave notice that be would
Ototd-bunself ra. readiness to start to
T3alem-.if notified that tlie parse would
Sje bacj;, on or before Eepfc 26th, other-
wis9 he would! conclude to remain here.
II baa now engaged stables at car fair
rounds, and in case he does not re
ceive a reply by to-morrow's stage tljat
bis proposition has been ' accepted, be
snu remain here and pat his horses in
training and be prepared to make things
- istsnasting tor all who may desire to
arn loose against bis horses as will be
A complaint is made in tho St.
James Magazine that, instead of study
ing ber own maritimo interests, England
has created 5 naval powers, Cermay,
Turkey, Spain, Brazil, and Peru, by
.permitting the construction, on tlie
Thames and Clyde, of irouclads superior
to any in her navy for these countries.
It is urged that the Lords ot the
Admiralty should take immediate steps
to have this business broken up.
Desirable bonds for exchange vaga
bonds. Illinois has a poetess who rejoices in
the namen of Hatchett. She is known
by her lays.
A school boy says that when his
teacher undertakes to "show him what
is what," he only finds out that which
is switch. ,
Shoe dealer"! find lhat we have
no number twelve shoes, sir ; bnt here
is a pair of nines." Customer "Nines!
Do yer take me for Ciuderellei?"
Clarence N. Abbot, eldest son of the
editor ot the Atchison (Kansas) Patri
ot, was drowned while crossii g Mor
mon River, Utah, some days ago.
Pni-lvln 5s ill failinff health, ne
-- -j cs
walks out but little, taking his exer
cise chiefly in carriages that his wealthy
friends send constantly to his door.
An important market has been estab
lished abroad within a few years past
for condensed milk, the figures every
year showing a marked advance.
They ara trying to acclimate the
Florida cedar tree in Germany, as it
furnishes the only kind of wood suitable
for the manufacture of lead pencils.
Speaking of the two Italians who re
cently went up in a balloon to fight a
duel, tho young Roscins suggests it
must have been a 6oar-ed encounter.
Texas is now able to raise sufficient
grain for home consumption and a good
ly quantity for exportation. Her wheat
and oats have brought high prices in
New Orleans.
At the Centennial they are to have a
chorus of Cambrian singers, who will
chant in their native tongue their na
tional anthem, "Luddytuddyfyhypyud-
dyfia."
In Rockport (Ind.) says the Demo
crat, the young ladies amuse themselves
by going out in the back rard and
kicking at a clothes line. How is that
for high ?
At Nashville, Teuu., while Albeit
Brewer was descending a well fie was
suffocated by mephitic vajiors and
dropped headlong into the water and
was drowned.
The Sultan of Zanzibar is a clever
pianist. At a recent visit to a music
shop in Paris where he went to buy a
piano, the Sultan caused considerable
astonishment by sitting down to the
instrument and performing with effect
a fantasia by 1 nalbcrg.
The "wheat belt " is enlarging it,
area. Arkansas, for instance, will x.
port small grains this year for the tirst
timo in its history. The same ge.ueral
tendency to raise more and buy less is
observable throughout the SouMu
You would be laughed at "for 'saying
"tomayty ;"' and you would be laughed
at, too, tor saying "potahto" laughed
at, that is by any fool who Jnight hap
pen to hear you. But tho similarity of
orthography in the names would never
fool a potato-bug.
A Chagrin Falls (Mich.) mother
said to her son in a load voice, on going
to church Sunday mornmg, "It you go
after blackberrit-s to-day I will whip
you ; "but stu. k her head back inside
of tho door and whispered, "Son if you
do get- any, 1 wouldn't throw them
away."
Gen. George S. Batcbellcr has been
to Egypt, where he was installed as
Judge, according to appointment. Af
ter tho formalities were over, he was
granted a vacation till October, and he
is now m Fans with bis family, enjoy-
Onr Trc School System.
It has been truly said that the corner
stone of the Republic is our free school
system. Under no circumstances should
sectarian influence be allowed to weaken
it. All creeds should be welcomed
alike in our free schools ; all should be
treated alike, and all have equal priv
ileges and equal opportunities. The
Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist and
Catholic should meet on the samo level
their respective doctrines left on the
outside ot the school-room. There
should be but one fund, for one purpose,
and that, the improvement of the mind,
and not the formation, by the teachers,
of a religious bias. Religious instruc
tion, so tar as it appertains to creed,
should be the work ot tho church and
Sunday School. Morality, such as all
creeds accept as the basis upon which
they build, should be taught in onr free
schools; but beyond this, no church
should be permitted to go. 1 his is
American doctrine, and this is the doc
trine as proclaimed at the present time
bv the Republican nartv. The State
supports the school, not the church
The State and the school are united
but in this free land there must be no
unity, even indirectly, between Church
and State. This union is tlie banc ot
Europe ; j its absence here is the glory
of America.
Except as the Catholic church differs
with this free school policy, there is no
antagonism between it and the Repub
lican party. In its efforts to divide tba j
school funds, and to appropriate pu'olio
money for the support of Catliol' a free
6choo!s, tho Republican party ir, opposed
to the Catholic church. Tb j opposition
is hot to its religion, but tu its policy.
It does not invade tho church, but
simply stands bef.cen the Catholic
policy, as found working with Democ
racy, and tho government of our free
schools. The. motto of the party is
freedom ana quality in the church and
state, and noninterference on the part of
each w'th the government ot the other.
This a safe doctrine. It trenches up
on no one's rights; but around the rights
, bf all it throws tho safegnard ot per
fect equality.
Salj
- lAvr Surr. Tlo heirs of the late
Mft IlavYfy, .of Oregon City, hare
fcio&gb! safe AgMnat:tbe Oregon ; and
CaH2iBia. Railroad Company for the re-
'vernon of alt the property belonging to
toe estate through wbksh the road runs,
Ifcsfj -d!3tlHii8c6bat'i .the rigbtr.ot way
srm f4Mj and wrongly obtained, inaa
; mRcir a tli9 company did Snot fulfill
Ibshr 'proportion oi-the contract. The
ea&s .will, in all probability, come np
for a bearwg at the coming terra of the
syiiCTut vwn i or. viacKamas county.
Who is at the head of the arrange
ments for the Centennial Exhibition to
be held at Philadelphia next year? Is
there any one whose duly it is to give
exhibitors information which they re
quire? Is there a business man in the
proper department competent to aeai
with business men on business princi
ples? To be a great success, tho Cen
tennial Exhibition must be well man
aged; and we trust failure will not bo
permitted to result throng n neglect in
this regard. -
Most of tho European ladies at Bang
kok, Siam, have signed a" petition to
the King praying lor the abrogation
of the law which allows a man to pawn
his wife in payment of a debt contracted
by gambling.
At Laufcuburg in Switzerland, droves
ot wild boars that frequent the forests
in : lhat neighborhood have letely de
scended to the" plains. Great damage
has been done to the standing crops by
the repeated mcursioos of these animals.
M. do Lesseps presented, the other
day, to the French Academy of Science
specimens of white ami black raisins ' of
excellent quality, which grow in an
oasis in the midst of tuo Egyptian de
serts at a short distance from the Canal
of Suez. The vines there produce rais
ins all tho year round. :
M. Robing, a French chemist, has
notified the Academy of Medicine, Par
is, that we may all live forever if we
use enough lactic acid, and recommends
the extensive use of buttermilk.
Tlie Honorable Oliver 'Ames - has
built a fine stone church and civen it
Jo the religions- society at North, Eas
tou Mass., with which the Ames families
are connected. It contains a memorial
window to the late Oakes Ames. " -
A tourist , stopping at an establish
ment at Enghein, France, where'- throat
diseases arc said to bb cared by inhaling
the fumes of a sulphur spring; passed an
hoar in the reception instead ot the in-
baling icom, and when informed of tlie
fufctako declared that the bronchitis
had left him, any way.
ins himself.
Tho residence of G. L. Todd and
John C Campbell, with all its hotiFe-j
hold and kitchen furniture, at Grant's 1
pass, was entirely consumed by fire on !
wo evening oi mo zuui mst.. ana is
supposed to have been the work of a
tramp or a heathen Chinee. The loss
is estimated at $1,000. ;
The O. S. X. Co.'s boats on thtir
wpward trips stop at Celilo ever night,
instead of at tho Dalles, as fbrmerlv.
A force of men is daily employed to
keep the track clear of the drifting
sand, and to avoid detention trom the
moving sand at night. The passengers
go through the same day that they
leave Portland. v
When we look around and see tho
large number of ablcd-bodied men who
spend their money and their time at
the beer saloon, while their wives are
stitching at home, or go out washing
to earn money to Keep themselves aud
their childcrn from starving, we natur
ally wonder why more voung men don't
get married and marvel more that so
many ladies do. - : !
Thk raco; mare, Trifle, was injured
on the La Grande track last week. As
her trainer was leading her around the
track she became frightened at some
object oh tho outside of the enclosure
aud ' jerked loose, and . by some means
got both her hind feet tangled in the
bridle reins. She ran round and round
in a circle, until sho finally wore herself
out and feu. Sho was taken to the
stable and it was almost impossible to
keep her trom having the lock; jaw.
She was at tirst supposed to be ruined,
but at present some hopes are entert
tained that she may be able to run at
rho fair. . t -,,;; .'.,;., j
; The Washington Republic presents a
list of tho duphoited and reduplicated
names in the 44tji Congress, showing
that in this respect the approaching
session will "surpass any of its predeces
sors. There are, seven . 1 Williamses,
three Harrises, -rmd ,- two. each j or . the
Bayhrys; Bakers, ; Browns, Burchards,
Caldwells, Camerons, Clarks. Jtlamu
tons, Hewitts; Joneses, Ladders, Mack
eys, Philfipses, r Reilleys,. Robinsons,
Rosses, Snaths, Townsends,- Varices,
Walkers. Wallaces, Woods, and; Wil
sons.
By a private telegram received in
Pdrt'and, last Monday, the Oregouian
learns that just prior to the railing of
tho Orirlanime, -last Saturday, Dan
Smith, the accused mail robber, arrest
ed a few weeks ago in Texas, by Postal
Agent Uuderwood, and a man named
Fullert'jn, who was also en route to this
city in custody of the captors, was
taken from the vessel on a writ of ha
beas corpus. 31 r. Underwood assures a
gentleman in this city that there has
been no irregularities in any ot the pro
ceedings thus fiir had relative to the ar
rest of Smith, and there exists no
grounds whatever for the issuance of a
writ of habeas corpus or at least, no
reason for sustaining tho same, and that
it will bo dismissed beyond doubt by
court. He claims the proceeding was
instigated by rome San Francisco shy
ster tor tho object of procuring Je?ay
and getting money out of Smith. Pris
oner aud captors will doubtless arrive
on the next steamer.
The revenue from city licenses in
Lake is f 100,000 per annum.
lhere are 1,777 . legal voters In Lane
county.
The tax in Coos comity this year Is 23
mills on the dollar.
Salem will sprinkle her nrlncioal streets
during fair week.
A car load of flax seed was shinned from
Creswell, Lane county, last week. U
Kev. E. K, Geary ha3 been preaching to
the people ot Eugene City in the streets.
There are 40 horses in training for the
fall races on the Boise City track.
Port Gamble has a "staving" good cor
net band.
Prospects are favorable for a grand
showing for Union county at her coming
annual fair.
The typhoid fever has been raging in
Lane county, but few deaths from the epi
demic has occurred.
Mr. Raymond, of Douglas county sold
last week a two-year old perchcron colt for
$400. Good price.
The last kiln of the season was fired at
the penitentiary brkk yard on Saturday
last, by Mr. George Collins, lessee. It con
tains about 300,000.
A solid chunk of coal weighing 6,000
pounds was.shlpped last week to San Fran
cisco from the Newport mine on Coos Bay
Tho Paget Sound country has not enjoy
ed a more prosperous season than the prcs-
dnt for many years.
One hundred aiid six thousand bushels of
charcoal have just been delivered at South
Mountain, Idaho.
Gen. 'orook hasn't had a flht with the"
In'Jians for a fortnight, and lie says that af
fairs have to change or lie will resign.
Ir is now announced that Spotted Tuil
won't consent to sell the Black Hills com),
try. He'd rather mortgage it on longtime
at ten per cent.
Young hoppers are hatching out by the
millions on the Madison and Stinklngwater.
They will hardly grow big enough to lay
before they vre killed by the frosts of fall.
There are eight beer and twenty-five re
tail saloons in King county, W. T., an in
crease of nine over last year. The annual
license received from all amounts to a total
of f 7, 600.
A private letter from Baker City states
that at present money is exceedingly hard
to get, but all are confident of better times
in the not distant future.
A j-cport from Gardiner says the gran
gers of Elkton and Seottsburg arc all pic
nicing down the on the bench necr Win
chester bay. They put in the time eating,
fishing, dancing and making merry.
Tlie Plaindealer says there is tronble
brewing in Oakland over a thousand dol
lars. It appears that $ 2,000 was expressed
from below for Mr. Kd. Young, of Oak
land, but when they came to deliver it up
some one had performed a slight-of-hand
trick, and presto I there was only 1,000
instead.
TelegropMe.
Lotl3vUt., Ky., Sept. 27 The Cour-rier-JottrnaVs,
special from Sonimerset,
Ky., says the Sheriff of Fentress county,
Tenn., captured a man who answers to the
description of Cole Younger. He had 4,
490 and offered all to be released. He U
now In the Fentress county jail and is be
lieved to be the partner of Jesse James,
who was killed at Pine Hill, Kentucky,
last week, James and Younger were both
concerned in the Virginia bank robbesy.
AVashisgton, Sent. 27 The signal offic
reports as follows in reference to the recent
cyclone at ludianola: The lowest barome
ter occurred on the afternoon of Septem
ber 16th, when it stood at 23 99 Inches,'
with maximum velocity ot the wind at the
same time of 83 miles per honr. Thous
ands of drowned cattle are strewn overthe
prairies south ot the town. Several light
coasting steamers are lying in the same di
rection from six to ten mile3 inland.
Secretary Delano will return to Wash
ington to-morrow for the purpose ot closing
his official and private business. The name
of his successor is not yet announced.
Nkw York, Sept. 27. Gold closed
15S?: money. 1W2: gov'ts dull, etock.
lvn.t-.-M 1 J .. lf . .. . IT.-lnn TK3.
The SfeOuxlist Adoocale, of Allau
ta, Ga., September 8, has a sensible ar
ticle on the late pretended insurrection,
and on the treatment of colored citizens
by the Democratic authorities. It says:
"Men have been pronounced by the
courts guilty of inciting insurrection, in
this State, sentenced to the chain-gang,
and worked to death in a few months,
tor distributing liepublicair tickets at an
election."
Devotion to the Republican party is
hltlo short of treason to tho State, iu
Georgia. If this is true at the present
time, what show of justice would Re
publicans have under Democratic control
of the Nation? The proud expression,
I am an American citizen," would
have to be changed to "I am a Demo
crat," to secure, protection to. life and
property.
Tlie .Atlanta (Ga.) Herald reviews
the Democratic candidates for tlie next
Speakership of the House of Representa
tives. . Fernando Wood is the model
statesman, in its eyes; . Kerr, of Indi
ana, will do for the position; Cox, of
New York, is ont of the question, hav
ing favored the Radicals, occasionally;
while Randall, of Pennsylvania, comes
trom a state that cannot be trusted.
Tlie Herald lets tho cat out of the bag,
saying :
"Tlie great and vital question for the
consideiatioii of the Western and South
ern Congressmen is, to elect a Sneaker
who will not organize tlie committees of
the House in the interest of National
Banks, bondholders and protective tar
iffs." v-, - -
Here we have the policy of the Sontlu
ern Democracy, forthe net Congress.
War upon our National banks; war upon
our bond-holders; , war upon the ii dns
tnal interests ot the nation. ' If this pol
icy fails to be checked by a "bopular re
bnke, this fail, it will be strengthened by
Northern converts. The next step will
be the repudiation, through Bourbon in
nuence, or tne obligations of the nation,
Then, Democrats ought to feel supreme
ly happyy over the ruin wrought,
Transactions of the Roscburgliind office
for the month ending August 31, 1S75 : 21
cash entries, embracing 2.503 neres ; final
homestead entries embracing 75H acres ; 24
preemption filings : 2 donation certificates,
eingraeing 4.0 acre ; 2 land warrant loca
tion, embracing 320 acres; 21 homestead
entries, embracing 2,734 acres.
Tlu Courier says a young man made
wine remark that grated harfhly otl the
ear of a jntire of a peace at Nprth Yam--htil.
The J. P. threw himself hack on his
dignity and remarked that as he was a
peace omcer ne cmnu ug"i, ont vaneu
his son John, who. by the way. we believe
is countable, to take the fight off his hands
and to give the young man -a - whipping.
'My son John" made tle attempt, but. a
few vigorous blows put John somewhat in
tlie shape ot a half shut jack knife.
The Indians now conmiitnig depreda
tions im Utah Territory are doubtless in
stigated to tlie work by mormon leaders.
In punishing the barbarians the Mormons
sliould be included which will insure per
manent peace. The teachings of Bi iglmm
Young and his followers naturally lead to
crime of all kinds, ana proselyting Indians
simply means procuring material with
which to carry out tho bloody decrees f
tlie Prophet against th "gentiles.''
A party who recently traveTpd extensive
ly throngh tlm lower end of Marion comity,
a"nd in Yamhill and Wasnington counties,
reports to the Statesman that farmers are
busy hauling in their wheat, but there ap
pears to be none selling hi fact, it seems
m if things have come to a dead-lock at
presenr, the rmycr iu tnat vicinity evident
ly waiting to see if it will not touch lower
liirures, and farmers holding on coniKleut
it will command a better price.
Mr. Tranp, of Kamloops, left Victoria
with a number of choice breeding stock
for his farm a few davs ago. Learning that
the wagon road from New Westminster op
was in a good condition lie concluded to
drive the stock to Hope, in some places he
found the road a quagmire and the bridges
dangerous. At Sumas. whilst trying to
drive the stock across a bridge, the struct
ure gave way and eight or the animals
were killed ana a number oangcrousiy
injured. :
A Moi mon bishop was holding forth to
the saints ouito recently, and wishing to
point a moral, he asked what was the pres
ent population ot the united Mates.-. A
dlscfnle answered that there "might be
matter of forty million gentiles. "ix
tourhs of all these neonla." said the lofty
preacher, "are living in vice and Igno
rance." But what's the odds? we inquire
The remaining six-fourths of the popula
tion are willing to labor for their support,
Alt the mechanics Olvmnia liave more
on. hand than they can attend to, and there
is not an idle one in town, carpenters
are all engaged, putting up new buildings
and improving others. The 'merchants
have been doing a lively business of kite,
and several firms have found it nessary
to hire addititional assistance, lhe boot
and shoe manufactures are overrun with
orders, some of which they have been una
ble to fill on account of not being able to
obtain the required help. All tlie hotels
have a large run of customers, and some of
them are ovemowmg wun noaruers. j .
' From the Plaindealer we learn that Mr.
Jas. Yarbrouglu a young man who has
been working about clark mill. In Cole's
valley, tor some time, on Sept. 21st had
occasion to tum a log to prepare it for the
saw. He took the rope that runs on a bull
wheel, which is used for that purpose, and
went over by tlie log, and In so doing, the
rope got between tbe lower and upper
saws. The lower saw was running at tlie
timo, and he to clear the rope, stepped up
near the saw, and was drawing it out wheu
the under saw caught it, and jerked him
Upon the saw It struck npon the leg be
low the knee-cap, when it gave" a boud
caufshthim in the thlzlkand tore it almost
entirely away ; It then, caught him near
the middle, sawed through the intestines,
cutting them in six different places, tore
away a portion oi tne nip DOUO or mum,
and cut entirely through to the back bone.
iwiur iceiinsr: v estern union. iu;
Quicksilver, loj; Pacific Mail, 34; W.F.
Panama. 133; Union Pacific,' 69; do,
bonds. 103Ji; Central Pacific bonds, 105 V.
St. I-Otrr. sept. 27. JefTDavls returned
from Colorado to-day, much improved in
health, and will leave to-morrow night. .
President Grant and party leave for Des
Moines to-morrow morning.
New Yoijk. Sept. 27. At a late hour
to-night Ned O'Baldwln, the Irish giant
was sliot and mortally wounded by his
nartner. Michael Finnel.
New i"or.K, Sept. 27.The Stir Oil
Mills of New Brunv:ick, owned by Chas.
Mycr, bur.eu yesterday. Loss, 00,000;
insnnnce, $05,000. i
The direct cable parted this nfternoon In
an oecean section. '
Sackamento, Sept. 27. About 500 peo
ple were present at Agricultural Park to
to witness the special races. The first was
a dash ot a quarter of a mile, for $500 a
side, between Billy Anderson, oivned by
John Adams, of Yolo, and a 5-year old
marc, owned by Murry Bridges, of Bat
tle Mountain. Anderson to carry 114
pounds and the mare to carry 00, without
rider. A fine start was had, the mare
about !Ix inches in advance. She contin
ued steadily to gain and though the iiderof
Anderson plied whip and spur, came in
a length aud a half ahead. Time 25 sees.
New York. Sept, 2S. A dispatch from
Richmond, Maine, reports the captain, his
wife, and 14 out of the crew of 19 of the
ship Emily Southard, lost by wrecking ou
the Englih coast a few days ago. Captain
Woodsworth is tlie ninth sea captain from
Bowdiuham lost within a year.
New Yokk, Sept. 23. A meeting of
creditors of the Alabama & I Chattenooga
Railroad, was held ycsterliy, presided
over by C. L. Frost, who stilted that the
sum total required from the bondholders
to get possession of the road from tlie trus
tees including past dne interest, was, in
round figures, $5,900,467. It the creditors
did not come to an understanding, aud
comply whh the terms of the trustees' bid,
before the 11th of October, tho road must
be resold to pay legal expenses. Mr. Frost
said, further, that a more rascally set than
the Governor of Alabama and his clique
did not exist. TIc road's engines have
been wrecked, its coal mines have been sold
for almost nothing, and its property ruined
to enrich a set of political scoundrels. A
committee ot three,, consisting of C. I...
F rost, J. Sickles, and Jos. Morse, was ap
pointed to meet representative of the fir.-t
mortgage bondholders, and endeavor to ef
fect a compronil.se. The meeting then ad
journed, subject to the call of the chair.
New Okleans. Sept. 23. Captain
Abrams. ot the British Steamship Cvrdova,
in attempting to get olT the! Mobile train,
which commenced to move at the time.
made a misstep and fell under and was in- j
stan try killed. i
Fat.?. River. Sept. 2?. Tho follo'ving.
Incendiary notice was found posted on Bed
fovd street lat nicht. j
MONlW. Sept. 25, 1874.
Now, boys, burn Kock ! street, it will
find sometKxly work. Now is yom tirne.
Do it and damn insurance J . Burn- every
agent's house vou come to."
Sr. Louis, Sept. 23. R. K. Turner,
whose arrest and conveyance toCalimniia,
Missouri, charged with' forging deeds to a
large quantity of land, reported in tliese
dispatches a few days ago, publishes a' card'
which slates that his prosecution in this
case is carried on by parties Interested in a
soil ot ejectment, involving half a million
dollars worth ot property in Chicago and
people of the State of Missouri, and that
rhis prosecution is intended to influence
the litigation in Chicago.
New YonK, Sept 23. Carl Scknrz hav
ing declined to address the Board of Trade
here ou finances, aud having suggested W..
M? Grosvenor instead, the Board telegraph
ed Schurz again to day and asked him to fix
a day to suit his engagements.
Omaha, Sept. 2S. The mail train which
left Chicago on Sunday night, the 23th ou
the C. B. & Q. R. R.. was thrown down an
embankment two miles cast of Woodbnrn,
Iowa, by spreading of a track or twisted
rail, about 3 p. si. yesterday. The train
consisted of three coaches, two baggage
ears, and a car containing a pair of valua
ble horses. All but the latter and the en
gine rolled down the embankment, making
two or three revolutions. James Powers,
a section foreman, was instantly killed,
and about fifty passengers were more or less
injured. One lady, name unknown, had a
rib and leg broken.
New York. Sept. 2S. Superintendent
Geo. S. Bangs, of the Postal Service this
afternoon, addressed the members of the
Boaixl oi Trade on the matter of running a
fast evening mail train from this city to tlie
west, lie said it was impracticable, and
would not.be advautagions. That the
morning train served all purposes.
New York. Sept. 23. A coromnnlea
tion was received from Senator Schura de
claring his inability, from pressure of busi
ness, to address the Board on tlio subject of
finance, on either the 11th, 12th or 13th of
next month. - ; 1 ' !
Tlie Board ek'grtplied him in reply to
name any day iu October for the delivery
of his address. '
St. Jaicis, Sept. 23. Holmes & Co. s
lumber- yard, on . Sixteenth street, also a
planing mill and other property in the
vicinity, were burned this evening. Loss,
$42,000; insurance light. r
- CHEYENNE, ept. 33. Jtr. i, uujen, nu
has iust reached here from Snyder's ranch
on the SaDlie, inirry-uve iuis wi "
Laramie, reports that on Friday last, lpur
Indians cume to the ranch, stole 17 head of
horses and fired at two unarmed men who
were herding cattle near by, the ball graz
ing one of tlie men.-:
CHICAGO, cpt. 3W.T-J.ue iu ui x.uu-
catlon to night, ; with hut one dissenting
vote, discarded the BlDie irom tue puuuc
schools of this city.
Washington, sept, aa ane secretary oi
the Treasury gives directions for the retire
ment of of $304,534 ot outstanding ' legal
tenders, that amount being 80 per cent, of
tlie national bank circulation issue : during
the past month. : Until further orders the
outstanding legal teuders will be $373,-
U41,124. - -
San Frakoisco. in tne municipal
court this morning Charles J. Kuchel, the
enterprising young stock broker's clerk
withdrew nU plea of not gulty to the
charge of embezzling 300 shares ot Califor
nia from his employer, Charles W, Fox,
and pleaded guilty. Saturday was set for
sentence. ' To the other Indictment against
him he had previously pleaded not' guilty,
it is not pobable that any of these will be
pressed. i ' "
John Miller, alias Woodruff, the default
er, was then arraigned to plead, de'
pleaded not guilty to each of tne four In
dictments. His counsel made a motion
for reduction of his bail, and the. matter
was taken under advisement. Tb(f cases
were continued tor tlie term by consent.
BEPlBUCAa PUTFOim.
First That the Renublleana of. Orwon
declare unalterable adherence to the Indis
soluble Union of States; sovereignty of tba
Federal Government in the functions as
signed it by the constitution, rights of the
States aud equality of all men before, the
law.
Second That we aonrove of the nresent
Republican National Administration, and
especially the effort to prevent and punish
fraud and expose past violations, and to
guard against their occurence In the future.
Third That we endorse the policy of
adjusting difficulties between this and for
eign nations by arbitration instead of war.
Fourth That the Republcan party of
Oregon oppose a third Presidential term,
and believe that President Grant's letter to
General White fairly removes that Issue
from politics. - r
Fifth That gold and silver are tne oniy
reliable legal tender, and a currency con
vertible with coin Should ' therefore be
gradually attained, and-we are in favor of
resumption of specie payments as soon as
it Is practicable to do so without disturbing,
tlie business interests ot the country.
Sixth We demand that tlie patent laws
be modified and revised to relieve lndustry
from the oppression of monopolies. '
Seventh We demand that all railways
and other corporations s'ill be; held in
fair and just subjeort to tha law-makings
powers, constitirtionally exercised. -
H.'gnth--ve condemn the corroptlon amP
i eT.tVavaganee of the present Democratic"
estate Administration.
Ninth We demand of ouf representa-
tives In Congress their best efforts tojsecure'
aid from the General Government for the'
free navigation of the Columbia -Elver by'
building locks at the Cascades and the1
Dalles, and a wagon road trom Sandy to
the Dalles; the improvement of tlie Wil
lamette, Coquille and Rogue Rivers; the
construction of the Portland, Dalles and
Salt Lake Railroad, aud the iiy comple
tion of the Oregon and California Railroa4
fi om Roseburg to Redding; the Wes Side
Railroad from St. Joseph to Junction City;
aud also the extension of tlie pnblic surveys
to meet the wants of the increasing popu
lation of the State, and the construction
of a wagon road from Ashland, by way
ot Link River, Langell Vallev and Goose -Lake,
to the eastern State line.
Tenth That we are in favor of opening
tip the Umatilla and Siietz Indian Reser
vations for public settlement.
Eleventh That we are iu favor of main
taining our present free school systm audi
of increasing its efficiency, and are opposed;
to any division ot the public school nioneys
for sectarian pnriioses-.
Twelfth We cordially invite alt persons
opposed to the restoration 0t- tlie- Demo
cratic parly to power hi the aatibni to for
get all past political dififemtees-- and unite
with the Republican party kx maintaining
the cause ot true reforax. .
what
Is This a Hint ?- "Fatfier,
does a printer live n?
"Live on? tlie same as oilier people,
of course. Why do yoa;ak, Johnny?"
"Because yow said, yon- hadn't paid
anything for your paper;:and the, prin
ter still sends it to yoni"
"Wife, saiik that bay."
"I shan't do it."'
"Whynot?5
"Because there is- no reason to do
so.'"
"Xo reason?- Yes there is, spank
hinij T tell you and put him to bed.""
"I shan't do any such thing. Wbat
in-the world.do you want him spanked
lor-.'
" He is too smart."
"Well, that comes of your marrying
me." . - .
"What do you mean?" 1 -
"I mean just this, that the boy is
smarter than his father, and yon can't
deny it. Ho knows enough to see that
a man, printer or no printer, can't live
on iohing, and I think you would bo
ashamed of yourself not to know that,
mneh , t'-
A WHEAT tOl'STBT
The following description of Missis
sippi and her people,- though old, is
worth repeating here. It is iveh by
an emigrant who moved to that Slate
after the late civil war, in a -Letter to
his friends : " " '
This is a gtorfon country. Ifr ha
fouger river, and more of them, and
they are muddier, aud deeper, and run
f aster, and make more noise, rise higher,
fall lower, and do more damage, than
anybody else's rivers. It has more lakes,
and they are bigger, aud deeper, and
clearer than thote ot any other country,
Our rail cars are bigger, and vvta, faster
and - pitch off the tiack -oftenef,- $ndi
kill more people, than all other ratteax
in this or any other country. Our steam
boats carry bigger loads, are longer and
broader,- and birtst their boilers oftener,
and their captains swear harder, than
steamboat captains in any . other conn
try. Our men are bigger, and - longer,
and thicker, can tight harderand faster,
aud drink more mean yvhteVy and chew
more bad tobacco; and spit ; mora, ud
spit further, an-1 not. be killed than in
any other country. Our ladies are richer,
prettier, dress filler, spend more aaooey,
break more hearts, wear tighter ftiia
shorter dresses, and kick aptLe devil
generally to a greater extent - than ill
other ladies in all other countries; Our
niggers are blacker, work harder, have
thicker skulls, smell louder, and - need
thrashing oftener, titan, any : niggers in
any other State. . Our. children, PtjuaiL,
louder, grow ' faster, get too extensive
for their pantaloons quicker than an y
children many other country. .""V-U, -V
A Largo Body of Rich Kunt for
who uacap, , .- t
Qftrt RE8 OF LAND. TS IXKK COtrWTTi
j Hww therorm u
lying within milw or a rail-KoodgnaaorarainVuMi..
oepiiuio oi cultivation well uraterod. Baa.
under fenoe. and 1-
ntlra trunt will anlH 1 B. "KHMl. XQ
.. - Wn aire OI
'' '; -i. . - -,-1. ' f S-- A. JOHNS.
Aug 207-8v7 ... ' A y AlbaiSvOtoa.
PROMPT Delivery,
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HAVTNG tmoB-nt ont the dellrsrv bnirtnMa r
Mr. Lewis SUmaoa, I beg leSvi toS2
metail VPJU aerva all who may gi
rSabtTratel1 to at
rarkw may al 11,0 lru storo of BeU fc
VIKGtL FABKER.