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a X. "I don't know but I would." I said. I mother's claim to the property, all safely After all, he is a man. and must be ' deposited in bank before sunset, and oar C:;cij5iJ-VA2sr cieveC W THE' BTE QISTCB' BOILFINff, ' orlT Frrry and J"rj 5!rot. " This life troubles seemed at last to be over. John Ellis, whom I hate most cor dially, and snail while I live, called upon mamma in s few days, and most gracefully withdrew his opposition to l his son's marriage. e took his con- ADVASCS. One corw, year. ..-2 SO Or oov. 1 uwntls.. ...... ............... 1 r0 lo club of twenty, each copy...... .. ,.JS 00 : - dinirt MniM. .... ...... Tf n --nt. ,ub4crHers outside of Linn county wilt toe charged 20 cents extra f-2 70 fbr the year as that Is Uifi mont of nostaire oer annum hlch. ic are required to pay on each paper - A(Mto for tttc Register.. . . ToctoOcwtnsr named trentlemen are author . lt'l to receive and Receipt for subscriptions to me hihister in tne localities mentioned : MoMrs. Kirk ft Uume............ ..Brownsville. Rnlwrt Glass. ..................... .CrawfonNville, W. P. smtt h I I.tlsc v, . P. Totanklns., ......... IInrr!biirj . FT. Clannton. ....... LtOmnon. A. Wheeler ft Co siMd. Messrs. Sinltli ft Brasfittld.. . . Junction ('It y. I. . Irrlne - Soio. Xboa. II. Bievnolds. . . . . -. .Salem. able to care for you somehow. w killing- youi" - j And, as 1 spoke, Meta cried. "I smell smoke!" . Smell it I" T I cried, starting up. "I see it." There it was, coming in at tlie crack6 descensiou for exactly what ,it was of the worn-out door, little threads at j worth, but were more than happy at the first, but filling the room rapidly. We thought of rewarding lreut's taithtul caught up some clotliing, and rushed to . love. ? . r the door. As we opened it. the flames t: Our new house, built upon the site ot burst in on the' landing and staircase, the old one, is but a roomy two story forcing us to retreat. I cottage, but home like and cosey ; and Mother and Freddie slept m the our warming was the weni ing of lirent rooms beyond ours on the other side, and Meta, where I reddie and I offici and we rushed across to them, and we ated as groomsman and bridesmaid, and all four scramb'ed. half-dressed, from dear mamma seemed to throw on twenty Freddie's window to a shed, and so to the yard. liy tins time the neighbors were awakened, and the houses about us were glowing in the flames shooting up trom our old house to the sky. rancv, VRJDAY MAY 25, 1877. THE AFTEIt THE FIItE. T . HAFTINESA WHICH WAS tOCKRO --' CP 1ST AS JROJf BOX. j;, V t The fire, from which we dale in tlie family, it being the frreat event therein for years, seemed, at the time it occurred. the climax of a series of misfortunes that had been falling for tivo years upon bur .devoted beads.. j . Pirft, we lost a dear father j who left the family already mentioned namely, mammafeta, Freddie, and myself. Meta, was but fourteen when fatherdied, v I twelve, and rreddie, , out UiTee years t ag,t There was no money fbr us after the business was closed, and mam- ma thankfully accepted an offer of her Uncle Gordon, to be his house-keeper, and so secure a home fbr all of us. ' Such a home 1 Uncle Gordon Croft wa a man nearly seventy, strong and viarorotis.' 'with' most ungovernable temper, miserly and suspicious, who had lived alone fbr about forty years. What sudden spasm of generosity made him open hi wretched," tumble down old house to tis," wo never knew ; but cer- tainly he repented the arrangement as soorras his proposal was accepted. ; Not one meal passed our lips that we ; were not reminded ot its cost; not an article ot oar poor clothing was renewed without deep groans over our extrava gance; and we were put Out at once Meta and myself to learn trades, I be ing apprentice to a milliner, Meta to a bookbinder. : ; I know now that, scant as our wages ' were, they really covered the expenses of our pooi food a lid worse .lodging. As fbr poor mamma, with all tlie house work, sewing, .washing, and .cooking wpon her hands, surely she earned the , little she spent. Bat, in spite ot our poverty ami hard work, Meta blossomed into a beautiful, modest and tender girl. I was never ' even pretty. .. ' When Bret -Ellis discovered M eta's attractions she was eighteen, still work ing as a book-binder in a place of" busi ness which BretV father owned. Old John Ellis, after storming and rasing like a maniac at the presumption of one of the "bands' daring to be sufficiently attractive to win the love of the son and ' heir of his magn'ficence, dismissed Meta at an hour's notice. As he owned the only bookbinding establishment in the town, and Meta knew no other trade, affairs looked black enough for us. , ' Brent himself was true as steel, and ; wanted Meta to marry him at once. Bot,' io spite of - her gentleness, M eta had come pride and refused to enter a tamily where the: was not welcome. Mother,'-too, at this crisis, informed '3 Brent that hie visit h I better cease, aiid Me-did, not speak ono ' word of UissenU- ' .; -t " l 1 , stormed, -ot course ; '". I always do , "itorm-wbcn I am angry. But nobody ever iiroe round o my opinion, no roat ler how I raved aittl John Ellis cet tainly did not fTo be stire lie , did,, not u hear me, or that xa?ght have made some ' difierence " - Mid-winter 6and-na in this strait.' ' Meta out, of employment; helping moth er about the house, and patiently bear ing TJnc'e Gordon's protests against her jdleness and fiue-lady aits ; I triouning t bat, and- meekly handing over my wage tdvr snele ; Freddie still at the town 'schooli hut with an apprenticeship , joomuigup jb hwj uprmg. .,,f ..o ? ia January Uncle Gordon was taken ill the first serious sickness of his life. ' lie would have no dodot ' tmtil ' abso. Jiitelj forfted to call one in by iucreacing ' pati au4 weakness, snd wlien the 'long deiayed" examination was over it proved ha been rflade too' lite." r " ' I Il just one month from' his first pain , our anele died, leaving a brief will cou- ferMt? all hw. property tbo house in. -leded,icpe var mother, his, "well-be- loved mece, SaTan' Morton." i ' , t BatwerCwas,tbe property J. Kot 'a s hiffinglwaB deposited In , the bank, net an inch ot rear estate washeld in . hi nee tls miserable piece J of land BPOfib w Well, the house Vtood, and ..j eshic barely yielded vegetables for the tabi. W ,tarnd the, .boose npside ' do?-HdtipB!de oat-lMili'O coin re- -' concluded that the misery we had seen, tbe-iiffiettatieee we bad heard, you can, the group we formed, as we stood huddled together it. the yard, and watched everything we ownei upon earth being licked by the greedy tongues of flame, swallowed in clouds of smoke. Meta and I could see our bedroom closet and the scanty stock of clothing there, and count the dearly purchased articles as they were consumed. "My poor black alpaca,' Meta said, watching the lurid trimming creeping np the skirt. "We muht have sua tched that. It hangs on tho door. '-j?ee my band box toppling over," I said. "The bonnet will have flame colored feathers in two minutes." . Mother was too much crushed to 6hare in our grim jestine, and Freddie was trembling .villi excitement and ter ror. The firemen did their duty bravely, but were too late to save anything, and dawn found us home'ess, with nothing left of our house but blackened walls and a tall chimney, clearly defined against the rosy cky of a June sunrise. Then 1 shall love him all my life for that as we stood ntter'y desolate and destitute. Brent Ellis, who had worked like a giant at the fire engines. came all blackened and streaming with sweat and said, 4,Marry me, Meta, this hour, so that I may have the right to shelter all ot you. I have a little for tune ot my own my father cannot touch, and it will keep us from want, if no more. But Meta only thanked him gently. and clung more closely to our mother. We began to realize the scantiness of our raiment in the daylight, aed were g'ad to accept the offer of a neighbor tor- temporary shelter. Others came tor ward, and we had soon an incongruous assortment of cast off clothes at our dis posal, and arrayed ourselves as we best could, presentiuga indicroiis apjearance enough, it any of us could have raised spirits sufficient to laugh. But we were -not exactly hilarious. Utter and entire destitution seemed to have fallen upon us last, after our long fight, with that traditional wolf who had prowled so near or doors fbr the last five years. We salted our enps ot charity offered coffee with our tears, and were blind to the charms of hot cakes hospitably pressed upon s. Neighbors flocked in to ofler advice and consolation, and we were touched by most generous otters ot home and food from several, until we could "look up a home." Where? What could we look fbr ? Our only home lay in ashes; our sole possessions were entirely consumed! For three days we were numbeied by despairing sorrow. "We" means three women, tor Freddie seemed to look upp the whole business as a pleasurable change iu the montouy of his existence. He had not been so well fed indeed I may say so well stuffed iu five years ; fbr all the neighbors called him ir, whenever he passed, to offer tit-bits He had an entire suit of clothes that were outgrown oy one ot the richer boys, and, tilting Freddie, clothed him better than he had been clothed 1 since his father died, and. best ot all, he took a holiday, nobdy having suffic iently recovered their wits to send him tO SCllOOl. t,';,. t ...,,.. TttsAs soon as the ruins of our home were cold enough to admit of visiting, ariies of boys began to d iz in the ashes tor half-burned property, and Freddie bar. rowed ur sensitive feelings fifiy t imes a day by rushing in with buttons, scraps of metal, and ruined treasnres of every description. . '. . '-f- - Mela and I summoned up sufficient energy on tho third day to go to my employer who agreed to take my sister a short time as saleswoman. ; We came back to ray temporary home . somewhat euoouragedy to find Brent had been there and fully enlisted mamma on his side. ,'While she was repeating his ar guments, and Meta listened with a smile ot quiet happiness at her . lover's con stancy. Freddie burst in. J years of her aee when she put on a lav ender silk dress and wound her heavy hair in a coronet upon her head in honor i. t.;.ii o . 'iu...Mrf . starting point, and so it runs a tew miles Brent would have no part ot mam- rf? ?'r. . - i- i,;.. ,;. v.... io. run ineai. i nieai hi tins it ma money Mjuieu up"n ( . : LUXURY OS THE KAIfc. THE MFFERRXCE, We have been frequently asked i "What is the difference between a rail road dining car and a Pullman Hotel ear ? That there is a vast difference is. well known to thosee who have had occasion to one either j but the im travel ed public are not fully advised as to the points ot difference. The old-fashioned railroad eating-house is, alas ! too well known : its peculiar, hastily eaten meats have been partaken ot by too many thousands to be forgotten. The dining car, then, is this well-known eating house placed on wheels, attached to the train at the usual meal hour, and hauled a"ong for tlurty, forty or sixty miles, nutil the meal has been served, when it U set off on a side track and is by the next train hauled hack to its he was a lovins adviser as to its invest ment tor our support, and we make oc casions for present giving toward the housekeeping treasnres of the young couple, to keep up something ot a fair division ot the u.come. Freddie plumes himself greatly upon the fact that his bright eyes discovered the hoard that so improved our fortunes; and it has become a habit with ns to date all tlie events in our family history as having ccurred "before the tire," or after the fire." A IIOltlUBLE DEATH. SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION1 OF A LIVING MAN TERRIBLE SCRNE IX THE CITY HALL COURTYARD. A mos horrible and sickening acci dent occurred in Herman's saloon, in the courtyard back of the City Hall, at a quarter past ten this morning, be ing no less than the spontaneous com bustion ot a human body. The victim ot his appetites was a man named Bar ley or Hartley, who has not leen more than a month in tl.e city, but during that time had been frequent'y arrested tor drunkenness. I.'e was a short, quite fat man, shabbily dresse.1 with a florid bloated countenance. lie had no inti mate companion, but wandered alnuit alone, reemingly demented, occupied Ids whole time in drinking the vile poi son ot the city front and 1 Jar nary Coast dens. Ho has twice leeti treated by Dr. Stiveis for delirium tremens, and was this morning discharged after a longer siege than usual. With a seem ingly INSANE DESIRE FOR DRINK, He continued trm half pat 7 o'clock drinking steadily at the various bars in the vicinity, and the large size ot each potation promised to speedily send him back to the hospital. About the time mentioned, he staggered into the room nearly insensible, and feebly asked tor a drink. This was refused him, and he staggered toward the gas jet to light the stump ot a cigar he carried, while the barkeeper, Thomas Connors, turned i away to attend to his duties. A mo- meul afterward he heard a low moan and noticed a flash ot tire, and turning j around he saw Ilarley falling to the , floor, his head enveloped iu a black, ! thick smoke, while flames issued from his mouth and ears. A horrible filthy smell of burned a: id putritied flesh fill ed the the air, and its nauseating odor made not only the saloon but the court yard unbearable for a while. Not a moment was lost in attending to the suf ferer. He was beyond relief, however. HIS FACE WAS PERFECTLY BLACK, Partly charred and partly covered with a moist suit. His eyes were open! and had a horrible appearance, ::nhke any thing save a roasted egg, while a green ish liquid oozeu trom the cor ers. j 1 1 is mouth was completely roasted on the inside, but with the exceptional his head and hands, ho iarts of his body bears marks ot nis horrible deatru (The coroner : was immediately notified, and the body was removed to Mergue, fol lowed by a curious crowd, who, in spite of the horrible accessories, were anxious to view the peculiar sight. A letter found in Ins pocket, addressed to M. Harley or Hartley, furnished the1 only clue to his identity. . j" N. 1. -lie is believed by some to be the same man who, according to the morning papers, attempted to commit, suicide at Black Point yesterday by placing a rope around his neck, swal lowing laudanum, setting his clothes on fire with kerosene and shooting himself off the bluff after swallowing poison. Should it prove to be 1)6, he can con gratulate himself in having shuffled off the mortal coil in a successful maimer as tar as au uniqueness goes. is J. car the passenger has to work his way through the train while it is under full headway, pass from car to car, running the risk ot falling between the plat forms, and finally finding the car at the rear t the tram. Then comes the meal, which roust be hurried through with to give other hungry passengers a chance to take your place, and you must force your way back to your seat, again run mug the risk of your platform passage while the fam is at full jspeed. In sucl cars yon pay seventy-five cents tor eaob meal, even if yon take or need only a cup ot coffee and a cracker. Dear iu mind that in no case does these dining cars accompany the train from the start ing point to destination. They are al ways cut off a. id taken on a we have described. Viih the Pullman Hotel car the case is different in every respect. '1 hese cars are from sixty to sixty four feet long, have sixteen wheels under each, are built strong, so as to in sure steady, quiet running, without the usual unpleasant side motion, nacn Hotel car contains, iu the order named, the following compartments : : 1st. A csy, neat and clean kitchen, fitted up with a range, au ice and meat box, rows ot shelves covered with bright Silver and brighter slass ware, and all the appliances needed fbr preparing a sumptuous meal. 1 2d. A compact China and class clos et, in which is kept the table-ware and table linen, cutlery, etc. 3d. A passage way cutting off the kitchen and China closet from the rest of the car. and forming an air chamber to prevent the smell of the cooking vict uals from reaching the saloon portion of the car. 4th. The grand saloon. This is fit ted up with twelve, fourteen or sixteen sections with space tor tab'es between each, and in these the meals are served. lou, wiule on this car, own the space yon occupy as much as you do your room at home, and nooue can hurry you while at meals, nor are you fbroed to i give it up to allow any other person to j occupy it. At night, as it oy magic. MOW KOAU COT HIS... NAME. After the ark had been out about two weeks, the wife of the captain be gan to get tired and restless and anxv ions to be once more on dry land. Hence she fell into a habit of every now and then calling out to her husband and iiiquiring whether there were any signs ot clearing up. etc., and he always an swered "Mo." eh in disnair would add Ah I" and so it went on from hour to hoor and day to day. One night the wind came out from the northeast and made things lively on board. The jib j clewlines parted ; the topsail binnacle was carried away and the main sheet blowu into pieces no larger than five cent handkerchiefs. Of course the "old man" was kept busy and was not in the best of humor. He had just hailed the lookout and asked him if lie had seen anything ot "Ary rat," and received in answer "Nary lat, sir !" had just or dered JShem, who was steering, to "Keep her off two points " when! Ham came on d-ck and reported that the larg est elephant had broken loose and insist ed on taking his trunk into the camels' department, who in turn had got their backs up about the interview. , t ne va rious beasts had taken sides in the quar rel, and there was a grand row general ly. Just as the captain had pursuaded the elepliaut to go back to his own room and had checked his trunk iu order to , tacity him, there came a voice," Any sigiu of its clearing up, dear ?'' It was raining then literally in sheets. To the iiquiry was given the nsua' reply, and to the reply was added the usual ah!" only iu a sadder tone than usual It was a little more than the o d man cou'd stand, and he yelled out "No ah!" "No ah I" it is nothing but ''No ah !" all day long; you had better call me "Noah" and be done with it," and he went below to splice the main brace, which had arted. And so it was t at the captain of that first great ship came to be called "Noah." nurytng- A Fert. Quite nn original method ot taking a fort is described in Blackwood's Maga zine. In 1G96, a large Russian army besieged the Turkish fbrt of Azof, which was situated on a p'ain, ttrong'y forti fied, and had a small but well disci plined garrison. No common approach es could be made to it, and the Turkish cannon swept the level with iron hail. In this care the engineering skill of the Itnssiatis was baffled, but tieieral 1 at rick Gordon, the right-hand man of Peter the Great, and the only one .for whose death it is said he ever shed a tear, being determined to take the place atanycost, proposed to bury it with earth by gradual approaches. , He had a large army; the soil of the plain was light and deep, and he set ,12,000 men to work with spades, throwing np a high circnmvallatioii of earth wall before them in advance. The men were kept in gangs, working day and ninht, the earth beintr thrown from one to another SOMETHING ABOUT NEWSPAPERS. ' That hv Americans are a reading people is manifest by the statistics ot the Newspaper Press of the country, as given in the JVewspqper Directory for 1877, just issued by 8. M. PetengUl jb Qo. the well-known Advertising Agents of New York, Boston and Philadelphia. There are reported in it the names, char, acter (political, agricultural, religious, medical, etc.) and names of publishers of no less than 795 dailies, 79 iri-weeklies, 125 semi-week ies, 6,606 weeklies, 122 semi-monthlies, 77 1 monthlies, 16 bi-monthlies and 60 quarterlies, publish ed in the United States and the British American Provinces. The Directory shows the number of each of these editions which are published in each State, Territory or Province. The book contains 376 pages, and embraces an immense amount of valua b'e information, showing great labor and care in its collection and preparation. It gives all necessary facts for au adver tiser to know about, 8574 separate pub lications, while it is also interesting and valuable tor the geoeral reader, the stu dent ot American periodical literature, and the observer ot American institutions Tl.e book is sold at the low price ot $1 per copy. The Walla Wal'a Watehman tell this: Al Reeves was at work at Dr. Blalock's saw m II, and last Monday he took a notion to come to town. He tlx. light he would ride down the flume which is about three miles long and secured a long plank and set sail, and away he went at the rate of atKint 15 mile an hour. Those who witnessed the fact say it was a grand sight. He laid flat down, head up and coat tail fluttering in the breeze. The spray dashing: over him like a Yellowstone eeyser, hut on he went tor about a mile at a furious rate. While in the act ot adjusting matters, one corner of his craft touched the side and spilled him over, board and over the flume in a violent manner, hurting mm quite seriously it not fatally. 480nTS."t 3 Tn Owyhee county, Idaho, there is a singular state of things. Lien holders who hnve furnished labor and supplies have attachments of important mines. They are anxions to push the suit, and the defendeuts want, them put off. It was int imated and threatened when the grand jury wa called, thai un'ess these cases were tried no indictments would lie found. This intimation or threat has lieen carried out and no indictments found The stase robbers and other prisoners must lie turned loose. Thpre is evidently a good deal ot hot blood iu Owvhee over these troubles. this saloon is changed into a boudoir, ! hke the steps of a stair, the top gang and here your couch is prepared, and here yon rest yourself isolated, anc as ' separated from your fellow-travelers as . you would be in your own bed-chain- i ber. 5th. An elegant drawing room, with room tbr six or eight persons. This is found alone in these magnificent cars, j Iu it you and your family and a party i ot menus can oe as seciuueu as you please, or you can slide open the end and have the company ot those iu the grand saloon. 6th. Charmingly arranged lavatories are partitioned off, and arranged in two distinct compartments for t he separate use of ladies and gentlemen. These lavauriet are supplied with pure water, clean towels, combs, brushes, and, in tact, everything the most dainty may desire for the most perfect performance of an elaborate toilet 7th. Then follow conductors' and porter's rooms, linen clsets, etc., etc. It will thus be seen that this car is, as-its name implies, a irtect mod ern hotel, with ah of its appliances and comfo-ls complete. This car is taken on nt the commencement of the journey, and is part tit the train to its destina tion Iu it you get your sleeping com partments and meal accommodations, while neither encroach upon the other. Envious dinine-car employees, who are taking the lowest place "very half hour in succession. In five weeks the huire earth wall was carried forward neaily one mile, until it rose to and aliove the highest ramariK, and : the enrih began to roll over them. This caused the Turkish Governor to hang ont the white flag, and give in. Had lie not dune so. General Gordon would have buried the fortress. THE FEAT OF A CRAZY 6TJISAST. "Senor Miraude," gymnast, ec'ipsed all his previous flights while delirious from fever at New (York, the other evening, lie had tieen so violent that he was tied to his bed, but he bn-ke the . cords, and with a shriek turned a som orsanlt through the third-story window and hung to the casement by his hands . his body swinging to and tr forty feet i alove the sidewalk, ; while he shouied ' to 1 is friends : "Go away! I'll climb to i the moon !" Then h swayed his body I with increasing rapidity ami let go, but ' grasped the metal leader of the bouse, went up it hand over hand with the agility ot a monkey, a. d suddenly plunged torwanl, landing upon the top ot a shutter oi. the top floor. Then he swung on the fragile blind, Jwhich it was feared would be forced frim its hinges Menagerie notes : The rats have made a conquest ot Pitcaim's Is'and in the Pacific. Some of them are as large as rabbits ; all of them are hungry ; and they have swept across the island, de vouring the grai - in the barns and the flour in the st -re-rooms, and attacking the natives with a ferocity that is un common. Three weeks ago a party of Englishmen while journeying from Dudley to lower liornel were overta ken by a host of snakes and lizards. The reptiles were marching in close or der; ii platoons ten yards deep. A man in Ra'eigh, N. C, owns a cat that has a mania for setting on eggs, and it she cannot get a dozen . will square her self down tin a single one, and remain there until she to driven oft. Jatin lias a government heep f"tt of 7,500 acres; f f Minnesota propose'" to spend $100, 000 in the destruction ot grasshopper eggs.-. - One hundred pounds of grass consum ed in doors by cow will prodoce seven-ty-one pounds of solid snd liquid ma nure. ; ? Russia produces 157.938,000 boshel of wheat on 28.743.300 acres, or an average yield ot only five and a halt bu hels per acre. ' The Canadian GoVCntnent has pro hibited importation of British and Ku ropeau cattle, on account ot the preval ence of the rinderpest. .... France annually pri uces 500,000, 000 of grain, $225,000,000 ot wine, and $60,000,000 of vegetables Her total annual product ot the soil exceeds in value 81,100,000,000. A schoolboy g:iing out ot the play ground without leave, one of his masters called afier him ami inquired where he was going. "I am going to buy a ha' porib of nails." What do you want a ha'porth ot nails for?" "For a half penny," replied the youngster. The o her day in au iip-towu residence a ring at the door was heard, and the servant girl, calling to her mistress, said : "Please, mum, go to the dr, and ef its anybody tor me, tell Vm I'm engaged." Rumor says that ex-Presnlcnt Grant will take several thousand f his favorite brand of cigars with hint to Europe from which an exchange infer that lie is going to stump the continent. A western paer, in describing an in cident recentiy, says, with much candor: "Ir. Jones was called, and under his prompt ami ki lt'ul treatment the young man died Wednesday night." At Walla Walla two of the "solid farmers" have made a novel bet. The wager is 200 bushel" ot wheat on the result of the war. The ui who backs Turkey in't scared a bit. The immediate resuTt of President Hayes' policy will be to eliminate from politics the negro as a negro, and tor thi consummation the negro as a mail should be profoundly grateful. A woman m Bn ler, Georgia, re-eiit-1 gave birth to girl twins, which weigh ed just two pounds each, and now at four months old they weigh just four pounds each. They are so much alike -their mother has to lie a different ribbon around their necks tu teh tliem apart. A safety envelope to prevent tamper, ing has been devised. On the flap the words "Attempt t opec." are - printed wilh a double set of chemicals, the first impression containing outgall and the second green vitrol. It the nap ts steamed or m listened in any way the magic printing will appear. "Nashville has a! ways bee believed to be a nice place to live iu, but one res. ident there says he has had the chill and fever every day fbr five years, and in that time he has taken 1,800 graiiw of quinine, 1,000 giains of arsei ic, 500 grah a of ciiiehonulia, 500 grains ot l'e rnvian barkfand a good deal ot nitric acid, without having any effect upon him. There is a man in Tennessee with such big feet that, it he gets them wet in December, he doesn't have a cold iu his head until February. The gates of heaven are low arched ; we must enter ujon our knees. Rkmgiocs Skkvicxs. Bev. J. T. DeVorr w m bold service In the brown Bt. E. church in this city on Sttbbntb, montinft and evening. Sun day School at 2:30 r. M. Prayer meeting each Thursday evening ! "Como, qnickj quick fhe cried ; "we tve (bund a Jag iron boxi tinder' the ha chimney place. ," cau't Jiftit, it is so heavy. .O, come!". -M ?i t t.:; . Ho was fairly dragglne mamma from her seat;aiid, hastily throwing a shawl around her, she followed him, Meta aud myself bring up the rear. " j a r, : ; Truly enough, there was a ; large box tinder the chimney-place,' in a hollow, bricked all around, which had evidently had an opening we, had never eeenIe was large and heavy, and required the nieteil torftfw nt t.ti tnmiiv t riil , were z -;r ,X!T;..ir?3eft! i pbverty;; -Hw pou carry h ine M-mXT'jL EmiJ?A bnwherf;.w. put jt down o the Ste KteeKu f?ir TV. Jz . mn. .v... . severance and strength, burst it open.,. ...uZlmAnd. b can hoarded treasures., Bonds to the amount .rr T wi andwenty jiid. H at .pase of fcMV'??' i,,- I uncut gems, not very valuable: a pack- tiir;rbv V J ge of private Jetters, ao ,oW fashioned VT: tTXl 7mm Velf Vttofd ffift 1 ad chatn.aiid miniature por. nt . wi t ! lij a, mmv nw m- -y i. vu ou epcooTalnjn as to som' romance of MM thMivfi his father had net . ' i . f There was no one to dispute our There is a good deal of sense in the suggestion ot Uieftl'hiiaaeipi.ia J.xmes that all consa ar and diplomatic repre eentatioit abroad Ije limited to eight con secutive years. This was a rule etab- bluui ea - by Jenersoii when tie was sec retary of Slate under Washington, and it was observed until all civil servuw rules went by tlie board. The reason i- obvious: - Jeftersou himself found that when he returned trom a even years ab sence to Europe he was startled at the changes that had taken' place, and tl new eoi ditions and sentiments wei al most alien to him. r JSight! years resi dence abroad is quite sufficient to dena. tionalize . any citizen,, to a'ienate hira from the thoughts, manners and customs of his felluw-citizens, and therefore to render him unfitted properly j to'repre sent his country?" Onei instance of this fa in the case ot an ewtimablcr gentleman now or recently living in Berlin, who, when superseded touiid himself with wife and family speaking ouly German and- Freiicb, and with inducement to return wliere Ui hi associations had teep- bnfamrm&z?r ix j :' y sitrmn 111 i t . ' u,. . tUtv, . Aleua- telegraplis , the .Czar that he will bold New York against, any sonot a Turk that may be sent, against htm. .. . 1 " ' ' i Tlie bid Catholic church at Idaho City caught fire trom a flue and burned to the ground. I,o?2 00u. by his weight, and suddenly leaping in the air, grasped the gutter of the house. Tin tltA culrto oritli cMimiiifr in. paiu io uecrj difference at tl height at which he was cannot, with anything like truth on pert. rmiiig, and then started to descend llieir side, give any va id jrc.ncluMve headiUIlg llie P,iter ot the adjoining reasons for preferring the dining to the t Muse. Away lie weilt; imping from Hotel car, atd tliey only chatter in fa- Bj,utter to wiMdow-sill, nntil the top of vor ot the dining car because they are ; the t, waf, j,, when he slid pawl to do so. J I hese Hotel cars have duwll om the u, the street, es run fr.m New ?1tork U tan hrai cisw. 7Aug , the dark,ie8s. . He was finally and back with fcroper..r Dora Pedro taia,,ht ha died liext day. with Jaret & Palmer's party, that tray- ; , y- ; . : 1,; I eled almost at lightning speed with j RE's'prrr to tn e FbAO.fwo Vniu many jk party of Caiamiis bonanza . Mates flags sUnd atone'" i.f a comer kings ; and ad join in pledging their f the great hah if the Projjaganda at honor ttiat the cars are incomparable. Rme. The story is that in one of the Two lines of these celebrated cars run Italiau rebehions the leader ot the in between New iork and Chicago, and Brgent8 planted his cannon before the one line tmly between Chicago and Oma- lrt,t,aSra,.da, intending to dest roy it. ha. It may be needless to say that this The frigbie, pji auth.rities begged last-iiaroel line runs over the steel track Minister Cass to save tlie building by of the Chicago Sc. North-Western Rail- , t,e power t the American flag; neither way. i hat ttiese cars are aiiraewng a the flag of England, Franoo or A There are in Ireland, (we quote from" a sieech made by Mr. Bright in the House of Commons.) 67,716 owners ot land, t whom 36,000 hold less than one acre. Tho whole ot th land, he'd by 52,782 persons, is 235.558 acres, while two wners hold 282.199 acres. Of the 20.000.000 acres of land in Ireland 17 individuals own 1.400.000 acres, 107 own 4 000.000, and 292 own very nearly one-third of the whole sur face of the country. In England one person iu every 23 or 24 is an owner ot land; in Ire and the proportion is one iu 79 or 80. large share of the California travel, both ways, might be easily conjecturea. Any Gen. Grant says in regard to his for eign tour that if he gets tired of travel ing he will come home in three mouths ; but it he enjoy it lie may prolong his stay two or three years, and extend hi journey around the world. If he had a fixed purpose, however, of going around the world, he would g west, as Seward did. As to his future home, he dismis. sea all thought of that, and can not say until after his return whether he wiil settle down in Galena or some other place. , A very curious and remaikable ex periment has just been tried in India. A Mr. Adams, of Bombay, has invent ed a solar lattery, consisting of two hundred small mirrors so arranged that they focused the sun's rays upon a small dpper boiler and generated steam iu it in twenty minutes. Mr. 'Adams con tends that he could by the same means iistna Would be respected, but the American filter anniM. Aflrmiih hosirati..,, M road deserves to be patroiuzed tlial w f Cass publicly removed his. amsalate to eutorprismg eiuMigi, u, give Uie travel-, th0 propaganda and raised the flag of t generate heat enough to drivo the far 1 a "i. i C'U- T 'w .lh VVrf ' vawa over w rtn.y tw cniei or gest sipnning mill m liomnav wicu ui nw - . - i j,ne insurgents swore ne . woqio - not ore ern Railway on its t'a ifbrrua line. j onXhe flag, made his caml teady iu4. -,. VVe liav lieglected bi y ; that, in t moved away. 1 Prepaganda was these i: Hiol cars, ' ; the taeals sre a l nYe atK igtt tieTtWa' honor t..r B-y y foT ! I the good Uiey dJ iu the time1 oTperil.' .nothing more jjmm that at very reason. . .. - j Some time ago a farmer whtf watf Special Notices. Musical. MU-s Mettle Piper, teacher oi Vocal ami Ii'strmnentMl mu?ic has recent ly located in Albany, and preared to give lessons in the above nameti nranenes. lias hnit neveral years experience in teachina aud oiii give the best of references. hiiig. 4 PLAITIXO, atatiupinar rntttacsaHl Fit ting, Plain Sewing, Ilsir Weavtnc, etc. Cutting and fitting Children's Clothiisff MpaeMly. Call at the rooms adjoining the KxoiBTEfc. otlloc, Albany, Oregon. ; Mrs. CUu.:,VakCixti. Majob White Is located one door west of Fox Bro.'s, first strwet' AttMny. where he is prepared to do all work in his line, sii as reiMiriue watches, clocks, and Jew elry. Also, engrave door-plates, silver ware, xc ' tilve him a call. ab'e terms. .77 TriuneApra 7th, ATnwhvtrT&n Church., was hrryn'io ea ai upper jntori, , jr y - Title of Ui ohnrch.The FirstPresby. teriafi CFteh 6f vAtori . nnder tht presbytery of Oregon iii eohneetioii with. the Uenerai Assemoiy oi ine rresoyteri. given to experimenting, salt tipon swine which lie was fattening. ? He se lected t wo pair of barrow -tliogs, ; weigh ine 200 bonuds apiece. "Oho paw - Ltndsley, p, T)., 6n Saturday May 5th, j ceived with tlieirdaily allowance ot food 1877, consisting, or nineteen members,! two otinees of salt J the other pair.sim- TUI. ll kkflmk STIitt HW PmcL- t :t--l C .A T .1.-. - l thai week it was plainly seen that the salted iw ui(j si mucit stronger snpuwiinn the oil "ts. and after" a fortnisht it .Was an Church of the U. S. A.' Two ruling t increased to two ounces apiece. After elders were elected, via : T. P. Powers j four months the' weight of the salted and W. II. Gray. Three trustees were hogs was 350 pounds each, while that also" elected, viz : T. P. Powers, C. Le- ot the unsalted five weeks later, reach inenwelior and W. H. Gray. d onlv SOOlbs. S"A young man in tlie 'Astern States of a ttalistical aud speculative turn ot mind has accumulated a considerable fortune during the past winter by attend ing church sociable, planting himself by the refreshment tab'e, and betting every body that came np for oyster soup from 50 cents to $5 that'4 he wouldn't have two oysters in his ration. He says that it is a surer thing than dealing taro with sized .cartls and a spring-bottomod box. ' I A man named David -1. Richards, formerly a stage driver In - Idaho, was drowned in the Hot Springs near Austin, Kcv.,on the SOth alt. lie was bathing. The water is so hot that one can remain in ii but a tew second. When taken out a few hours afterwards the body was pai boiled, the skin peelinn off in large flakes. From Hm rinramfr, at. D., Aakara, M n "Although adverse to countenancing pat ent medicines. I cheerfully make an excep tion of your very excellent lung preparation Dr. W istar's Balsam of Wikl Cherry. Thi prepnratioii I have used in my prac tice tor more thaw ten years past, and have always found It to be of more eflecn al service than anything within my knowl edge. I recrinmend ft wita the greatest cnnlidence to iImmc subjeet to coughs ami putinouary compiaiuts. Sokl by all drne-Blste- Mf - . 7ii nwy. Tlie Richmond Range is a great wood saver, and It throws ont less beat than any other good range or atov. It Is way up for Summer use. ins been pennaneBtly enrtxl of that dread dla caae, Consiin pt ion. by a-lrnple remedy, anl ions to tuake known to his follow aaQerera the means of cora. To all who ckwtra it' 1,7 win send a copy of the pnaicripUoti sad nt clmrg). with the direct ion, rnSnd nsinK the same, which they win find a L '0-r"'?10 Astr4, aroBchitii rWPLlX. 1 will man (freei a tmIh. preparlnK a simple Vege.arileXtotwwni'r teayinsr t he skin soft, clear and beantitil ; iSj iitrnetims for prodpoinff a lnxtirfant errowth ot hair on a bald head or smooth &ne xXSZLfl. ew xork. toatav V.T9"'',,tr-""tleniaf who nr. . J""." Hb.- mm lebiiity, rrema- " enct or root hfnl ind&u muv. ami an I m KiTfma irf ... erelion will, for the sake of suffei3n send fww to all vhs nwn . reetmn foiaklthauWfenMMiyTy which WMd&aSarora wteh to pfoOt by the advoci ksMr sxrwi m..a aWtS md- y. Jos" of manaond. twill sdarectn that will euro yois, K Or CUAROIC. Thla fft "nedy discmored by a mfoskmarv