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UBEESBJirH UB.
Harrisbcrg, Oregon )
May 19lh, 1877.
Ed. Kegistku : l'ursiiant to an
nounceraent, the citizens met at the Odd
Fellows' Hall, Saturday, May 19th
1377, for the purpose ct otgamzing
a Greenback Club. The following
platform was adopted and requested by
the Club to have published in the
Albany Register, Albany Democrat,
"Weekly Oregon ian, and the Harris
buig Nucleus. If you can, we would
be very much pleased to have you pub
lish it. II. D. ODEX,
Chairman pro tem.
A. Grimes, Sec. pro tem.
PLATFORM.
Whereas, The dominant political
parties of the country, by a steady and
persistent iufringment upon the funda
mental principles of our Government,
coincident with a corroborating system
of class legislation through a series of
years, have abolished that sacred right
that guarantees equal protection to ev
ery citizen and the whole people, dis
criminating in favor of the rich and
against the poor, exempting capital tax
ation and doubly taxing labor to sup
port the Government, entailing poveity
and oppression upon the productive
classes", offering a premium upon fraud
and corruption in high p'aces, with a
rapid tendei cy to the overturning of
Republican institutions in the United
States. Therefore be it known that we
do organize an Independent Greenback
Club at Harrisburg, Linn county, Ore
gon it true object being
1st, The consideration of all the ma
terial political issues affecting the inter
est ot the American people, country,
staled and nation, and more especially
to discuss the present unjust financial
system inaugurated by the Republican
party, and now being supported by the
Democratic party, that give a danger
ous increase of power to the rulers, and
is transferring the material wealth of the
country into the hands of the favored
law at the expense and impoverishment
of the many.
2d, To co-operate with and assist all
the Independent Greenback Clubs that
may be formed in the county, state and
nation, to promote the cause and secure
tbe acceptance and adoption of the true
principles and affect 6uch concert of ac
tion, that in all future campaigns the
necessary measures may be inaugurated
U select suitable persons to till all the
official positions of trust and profit, and
to do all things whatsoever may be just
and honorable in furtherance of the
cause that from time to time may seem
expedient.
Sd, As fundamental to the principles
ef the Independent Greenback Party,
we favor aud demand the repeal of the
Specie Resumption Act, to remove the
depression that weighs down the indus
tries of the country, we emancipate our
selves from the financial distress and
general ruin that must follow its en.
forcement. And wo call upon all pat-
riotio men who feel that labor should
be respected and receive its just rewards,-
to organize in every County, Congres
" eionat District, in every State with the
view of electing members to the Legis
lature, representatives to Cougress and
tbe United States Senate, who will leg.
isiate to carry out to legal adoption
these principles conforming to tbe wish
cs ot the- people and put a stop to the
insane, ruinous policy of contraction,
4th, We favor and demand a repeal
of the Act authorizing the piesent Na
tional Banking System, being s gratoi
fey of the Government, based open bonds
purchased with depreciated ourrency,
and. deposited with a branch of tbe
Government as collateral security, au
thorizing the National Banker to re
ceive double interest interest upon his
United Stages bond and interest upon
the N ation&L .bank notes at the same
.: time."
5th, We favor and demand that the
Government issue- directly to the people
a currency in, amonnts sufficient to trans
act the business of the country, that
shall be a legal tender tor all debts and
dues public and private that shall, on
demand ot the Government, be received
in full- payment for all United States
bonds at par. We believe this to be the
best circulating medium thta can be de
vised under the present circumstances.
and hold it to be tbe duty ot the Govern
ment to furnish it to the people.
6th, We sternly protest against the
further conversion by the Government
into u mted & tales gold interest bearing
bonds, the iiou interest bearing green
back currency that is in the hands of the
people, operating as a two-fold evil,
contracting the currency and expanding
the taxation, only to add additional
weight to an already overburdened peo
ple.
7 tli, We favor aud demand the re
peal ot the act demonitizing the silver
coin ot the United States, as it enriches
the bankers and the money changers
and oppresses and robs the laboring
classes ot our country.
8th, We favor the unconditional re
peal of the law exempting United States
bonds from taxation and unequivocally
demand that every species ot projierty,
every boudy note or other evidence rep
esciiliug a tar gible value, shall be taxed
so as to bear its just proportion ot the
necessary expenses to support and ad
minister the Government.
9th, Wo favor free trade and unre
stricted commercial intercourse with for
eign nations, that we may liberate our
country from a devouring army of offi
cial parasites that are fastened upon the
industrial energies of the laboring peo
ple only to enforce the collection ot a
tribute of many millions annually at the
numerous toll-houses of the United
States, without the least recompense in
return. The collection of custom-house
duties is a relic of rudeness and barbar
ism, and wo believe if the voice ot all
Christendom could be heard to-day, it
would say that the commercial inter
change between all peep'e should be as
free as the air we breathe. ,
In view of the fact- that neither the
Republican or Democratic parties, with
their estabalished policies and avowed
political principles offer no insurance ot
relief to the embarrassed industries of
the country and long suffering people,
we here and now avow our declaration
of principles, and invite all independent
and patriotic men to unite with us irre
spective of party, creed or color, to ac
complish the object implied in this dec
laration. Therefore tor the govern
ment, maintainance and perpetuation ot
those principles, we hereby adopt this
constitution and code of by-laws.
II. D. ODEN, Pies.
G. A. Grimes, Sec'y.
A Brave Woman.
Mr OeTsbcrg, a Swedish mechanic
ian, claims to have invented, and Cap
tain Aiilstrom, a compatriot, to have
raatuied for practical use, a dress which
will enable the wearer to dash with im
punity into the fiercest fire. It is de
scribed thns: "It resembles that ot the
divers who descend to the Isottom of the
sea, is made of 6rong canvas, is double,
and so quilted that water can run free.
ly between the outside and inside in all
directions. The inner dress has a space
between it and the body ot trie wearer,
to t'e filled with air. At a recent semi-
public trial, the inventor was seen to
plunge into a large fire, and stand for
some moments in the middle ot the
flames."
pays the - ew 1 one l imcs in an
article entitled "The Unpalatable
Truth:"
The special inquiries conducted in the
South in behalf ot this journal, reveal a
condition ot things which cannot add to
the happiness of the amiable Repnbli.
cans who see in the executive pol icy the
dawn of tho millennium. Nowhere
have our correspondents indicated a
break, in the Democratic ranks in any
Southern State as a result of the Presi
dent's kindly efforts.
It is evident that the Times considers
the Republican party annihilated in the
South : also that though it does not
openly condemn the President's policy,
it thinks that conciliation is wasted on
the Southern Democracy.
Ihe Cincinnati Commercial says:
"We see nothing in the declarations and
actions of the President indicating the
least desire to abandon one iota of tbe
Republican principles which apply to
questions of political expediency or hu.
man rights. He has in respect of the
Southern States, simply dropped a poli.
cy that has ceased to be useful, and was
an obstruction to the restoration of peace,
and made an experimental venture for
something adapted to the times, and
likely to work more satisfactorily."
The valley of the lower Danube is
not a healthy place for the Russians.
In the campaign of 1828 they lost 80,-
000 men, mostly from malarial diseases ;
in 1829 they lost 60,000, and out of
100,000 the Russian general had left
but 10,000 or 12,000. The lower Dan.
ube has been a pest house tor their ar.
mies. -
Mrs, Mary Patlon, widow ot Captain
Patton, of theohlclipper ship Neptune's
Car, and at one time famous for having
navigated her husband's ship from Cape
Horn to San Francisco, died at her res
idence in Brooklyn. At the time of her
death, which was caused by heart dis
ease, Mrs. Patton was forty -one years of
age.
Mrs. Patton's famous voyage 'was
made in 1856, when she was a woman
ot twenty. She had been roamed three
years before, in Boston, to Captain
Patton, a young 6kipper of twenty-five,
who had been appointed to the com
mand of the clipper ship Neptune's Car,
launched shortly before for a voyage
round the world. After his marriage
the Captain hesitated about undertak
ing the voyage, it it would compel him
to part from his bride. The owners of
the vessel therefore, gave Mrs. Patton
permission to accompany her husband,
and a year and a halt's circumnaviga
tion of the globe became her bridal
tour.
Mrs. Patton was the daughter of a
sea-faring man, and had inherited a love
for blue water. She soon became pro
ficient in the use of nautical instruments,
and the log of Neptune's Car for the
entire voyage was kept by herj When
the shin returned to New York the
owners placed her in the then already
important California trade, and, laden
with a cargo valued at nearly $1,000,
000, she set sail again in August, 1856,
for San Francisco. Withiu a few weeks
out Captaiu Patton discovered that the
first mate was endeavoring to excite
the crew to mutiny, and ordered him
put in irons. The second and third
officers were both ill ot fever, and so
the entire management of the ship de
volved on the Captain himself He had
been ill at starting, aud under the add
ed strain was soon confined to his cabin
with congestion of the brain. Before
tbe ship had passed Faulkland Islands
he was unable to appear on deck, and
by the time Cape Horn was reached lie
was raving mad. In this emergency his
wife assumed command of the vessel,
and, aided by her previous studies of
navigation and the assistance of a will
ing crew she brought the Neptune s
Car safely into San Francfseo, Novem
ber 3d, 1856, having navigated the ship
and nursed her husband at one and the
same timo.
"When they arrived Captain Patton
was helpless, being blind and insane.
He was a Free Mason, and the mem
bers of his craft in San Francisco pro
vided for his welfare there, and finally
obtained a passage for him to New
York. The expenses of his illness had
beggared him, and husband and wife
arrived in New York utterly destitute.
The New York board of uiiderwrit-
ers immediately presented 3Irsi Patton
with a purse ot 1,000. and a further
contribution of $1,500 was made by par
ties interested in the cargo of the Nep
tune s Car. j lie publication of ner ex
ploit secured a host of friends for her,
and her husband breathed his last sur
rounded by every comfort. After his
death Mrs. Patton went to Boston, from
which place she returned to New ork.
During the last five years she ha resid
ed iu Brooklyn with her son.
PETTEXGILISS NEWSPAPER VI-JlECTOltY.
A very useful and interesting volume
of 376 pages has just been issued by the
eld and well-known advertising agency
firm ot S. M. Pettengill & Co.,. New
York, entitled "Pittengill's Newspaper
Directory and Advertisers' Hand Book
for 1877." The preparation ot the work
has involved much careful labor, infor
mation having been sought from every
city, town, and village where even the
mallcst newspaper is published. The
leading facts are giveu respect:ng 8,574
seperate publications, designating the
political or other distinctive character,
the frequency of issue, the names ot pub
lishers, etc., and showing how many of
each edition (daily, weekly, monthly,
etc.,) are published in each State and
Territory in the United States and Pro
vince in British America. The book is
elegantly printed from new type, and,
beside its mine of information, it contains
portraits of leading New York journal
ists, aud illustrations, ot the extensive
offices where the publishers transact
their business in New York, Philadcl
phia, aud Boston. It is sold at the low
price of $1.00" per copy, and is certainly
cheap at the price to any business man
who does advertising, or to any person
who is interested in the extent ot the
Newspaper business in America.
I he history ot tre Shorthorn cow,
Duchess 66th, which sold in 1853, at
Earle Ducie's sale, in England, to Col
Morris, of Fordham, for 700 guineas, or
3,65, is remarkable as showing; the
actual value of one good breeding ani
mal, from this cow, which was calved
in November, 1850, there may be traced
in direct descent a number -of animals
which have sold for about $500,000.
Let it be admitted that as much of this
value as may be is depending on fancy
or rich breeders, and is not the intrinsic
value of the beet and milk produced;
yet no one can help admitting that an
immense value, estimated iu these alone,
has accrued to the world from this cow ;
and in proportion to this value may be
estimated the profit to a breeder from
any superi -r animal he may produce.
A line of breeding animals is btonzht
into existence which spreads out fan-like,
and diverges year by year wider and
wider, until we can no longer reach the
bounds of the beneficial influence. It is
in this that lies the value of any .good
animal, aud it is au unfair disparage
ment to confine its value to the weight
of meat upon its carcass, or its produce
in milk and butter. The breeder who
produces a superior animal sets in motion
an impulse which must in time spread
and increase enormously, and far beyond
JUSTICE ISI J9ETBOIT.
I don't think I ever saw you here
before," mused the court, as Samuel
G rover walked out.;
"No. I cuess not, tor I arrived here
from Mexico, only yesterday."
Did, eh ? Was Diaz well when you
left?"
"He seemed to feel all right."
"What part of Mexico are you from,
Mr. Grover?"
"From from from "
"Don't be iu a hurry, Mr. Grover. If
you have forgotten the name of the town
I'd wait till it occurs to you, it wasn't,
the town of Poduuk, was it ?"
"That's the place that's the place,'
replied the prisoner, his anxious look
Civmjr way to a smile of rehet."
What is that which, the more cut the
longer grows? A ditch.
A dentist's
and dancing. -
sign Drawing, music
Advice to young men about to settle'
aoicn. bettle vp first.
If you hear thunder you may be sure
you are not struck by lightning.
Gossip is the putting of two and two
together and making five of them.
When does a farmer work a miracle?
When he turns Lis horse to grass.
Secretary Sherman has issued aa or
der forbiddirg all persons to trespass on
"Reaching this city from the town ot; our Northern seal pastures except the
Podunk, Mexico, after leaving President ; Aiat.ka Commercial Company.
Diaz in the best ot health, you tried to -
put a man cut of his own corner gro
cery, and were arrested while throwing
a brick at a hod carrier. 1 nat s aooui
it isn't it ?"
The prisoner made no reply, and af
ter a long silence he suddenly asked :
'Judge wouldn't it be better to own
up that I live on Twelfth street and
that I got drunk because my wife want
ed a divorce ?" I
"I knew that all the time, but if yon
prefer to hail from Mexico, I can't help
myself." j
"Well, I'll tell; you the truth, your
honor. I'm having heaps of trouble
with my wile, and I don't care a cent
what becomes of me.'
"It's him that's made all the troub
le !" screamed a female voice near the
door. "Let me get through this crowd
and tell the judge what a vagabond,
villain, liar aud mean man that feilow
is."
"Say three months, judge !" whisper
ed the prisoner heading for the corrtder.
"Three it is I"
When the woman reached the bar
her husband was seated on the back ot
a chair in the corrider, picking his teeth
with a sliver, and as he caught his wife's
eye he softly said it
"Plenty to eat and the tenderest treat
ment fur three long mouths to come !"
. r . l.i . .....
"xjoh i go to me liiacK Mills xo get
rich, it is far easier to orgauize a lite
insurance company and pay yourself a
salary ot.$3U,UUU a year.
A young father says that one baby
with a cracker .will make the conch of
wearied industry more uucomfortable
than a dozen ot Jersey mosquitoes.
London is, perhaps more than
other city in the world, the city ot
pita Is. There are no less than 88
pitals in that city. -
any
hos.
hos-
The supply trade of the Russian invad
ing army consists of 14,000 wagons and
a large number of locomotives aud rail
road cars. -
Proverbs for Subscribers. "A
i . i n s
wise son makeui a gisu lamer, mm
prompt paying subscriber caosetb aa -.
itor to laugh.
"Folly is a joy that is aessnus t
wisdom " but a delinquent ubscncf
causeth suffering in the house of a new.
paper maker. A-
"All the ways of a man are clean in
his own eves." except the way a delin
quent subscriber hath ui not paying tot
bis newspaper.
"Better is a little with righteousness,"
than a thousand subscribers who fall to
pay what they owe.
'A iust weight and balance t the .
Lord's," but that which is due on your
newspaper is the publisher thereof.
lietter is the poor man who waiketn
in integrity," and payeth uia subscrip
tion, than the rich mau who conticually
telleth the "devil' to call again.
'Judgments arc prepared for scorners
stripes for the backs of fools," and ever.
lasting punishment for him who payeth
not for his newspaper. I
Hope deterred maketh the hear
sick," is a proverb sadly realized by the
publisher who sendeth out bills.
"A righteous man hatetu lying.
hence an editor waxeth wroth again
the subscriber who promises to call and
settle to-morrow, yet calletb not to set
tle, j w -
"It biteth like a serpent and stir.geth
like an adder,' when the adder get
tli rough adding up the amount due front'
his subscribers.
An aristocratic New Yorker, on being
requested by a rich young fellow for per
mission to marry "one of his girls," gave
this reply : "Certainly. Which would
iTnn i . en Via lii.irc mAi1 .V.a w 1 - 9"
Sweet thing in compliments Totty
(archly): "And so yoiij've never been
in love before? Astonishing!" Horace:
"Oh, no. It would bave been astonish-
ing it l had. since 1 ii.-ive never seen
you before !" !
Letter from Alraota to the Walla
Wal'a WatcJirnan : From 20 to 40
teams unload at the warehouse here
daily. Five hundred tons of produce
were shipped this spring, and there aro
now 200 tons awaiting shipment. The
Almota Hotel is crowded and a good
man keeps it. Three firms are selling
agricultural implements here. - A grist
mill will soon be in operation, also a
good ferryboat. Almota is the central
po'iit tor all Falonse country, which is
tilling up, and is bound to be the mam
business point on Snake river.
computation. American Agricultur
ist.
A City in the Trees. The chief
village of the Island ot Isabel, i:i the
South Pacific beyond tho equator, is
built on the snmmit ot a rocky moun
tain rising alm st perpendicular to a
height of 800 feet. Ascending by a
native path from the interior, the trav
eler will find the extreme summit a
mass of enormous rocks standing up
like a castle, among which grow gigan
tic trees, m the branches ot which the
dwellings are built. The stems of these
trees rise perfectly straight aud smooth,
without a branch, to a height varying
from 50 to 100 feet. Some of the
houses are 129 feet above the ground,
the average height being sixty. They
are approached by a ladder of creepers,
and accommodate from ten to fifteen
natives each, beside an ample store of
stones, whicli are thrown with slings
in case of an attack. . At the foot of
each tree is another hut, the every day
house, as it were, where the daytime is
spent when no danger is apprehended.
The natives are cannibals ot the most
voracious type.
From all accounts there appears to be
a remarkable migration of Jews to Pal
estine. An Eastern traveler writes to
the London Times that he found the
whole region from Dan to Beersheba
crowded with immigrant Je.vs from all
parts of the world. M. I). Conway,
writing from London, argues that the
foundation of a Jewish republic or other
liberal government in Palestine, thus in
cluding the. restoration ot Jerusalem to
the Jews is among th possibilities of
the year, and hints that this republio
will be under the protection ot England.
And he believes the scheme hasoeen
considered as one of the possible out
comes of a Turkish war. England se
curing a route to India through friend
ly state under her protection carvec
out of districts now part ot the Turkish
Empire. But, be the tact as it may,
the Jews are flocking to Palestine. It
they immigrate under the encourage
ment of the British Government there is
another si.Ie light thrown on the Eas
tern question. If they go uuder the di
rection ot tiieir own leaders there is an
other fUctor and secret influence to count
in figuring the results of the Turkish
war. The Inter-Ocean, in view of this
movement, asks the question whether
George Lfliott s last work, entitled
"Daniel Deronda," which broaches this
scheme, was wrttten to help tho matter
on? .
"Are these gratuitous?" asked an
old gentleman ot a druggist s assistant,
taking a patent medical almiuac from a
pile on the counter. "No, them's alma
nacs," curtly answered the mtter-ot-fact
assistant.
Hague's Dramatic Journal supplies
the following proverbs : "What can
not be cured must be eaten ; fresh. T A
bird in hand will fly away unless held
tight. There's many a slipon a skat
ing rink. Judge not a man by the coat '
that he steals. Boys will be boys
they can't be girls. It's an ill wind that .
blows your hat off. l ou cant make
a silk purse out ot unbleached calico.
Dialogue between two. Lowland
Scotchmen, a farmer aud a tradesman.
The farmer takes up a fabric, and the
following questions aud answers ensue :
'Ou?" "Ay,oo." "Ah oo?" "AT,
ali oo." "Ahaeoo?" "Ay, ah ae oo."
That is: "Wool?" "Yes, wooV?
'All wool ?" " Yes, all wool ?' " Al
one wool ?" "Yes, all one wool.5
Vermont will have five centennial an
niversaries this year. The declaration
of New Connecticut as an independent
Stale was made Jan. 16, 1,1777 ; the
name of the State was changed to Ver
mont June 4 : the battle of Hubbard ton
was fought July 7 ; on. the 8th the first
Constitution was appointed, and on the
16th ot August the battle ot Beunmgton
was fought.
Thomas Harper, cf British Columbia,
passed through Umatilla county last
week with 1,200 head of large steers,
four to six years of age, en route to the
East. He had them divided into two
bands of 600 each, one band, traveling
one day ahead of the other.
. . .
In Jackson county, a few das ago,
a pistol in the hands of Daniel Chapman
was accidentally discharged, the ball
striking R. A. Niel in the forehead, but
glancing off, only cutting the skin to
tbe 6kull. .
A learned and prominet judge in one
of our Southern cities, who has a very
long nose, Was playing backgammon
with ft testy General, who was, however,
a warm and intimate friend of tbe judge.
Tbe latter suffered from a severe cold
in the bead, and had been continually
"snuffing" during the game, which,
together with his being ahead, irritated
the General, and he snapped ont, "Oh,
blow your nose !" "Blow it yourself?
replied the judge, "it is as near you aa
it is me " The General lost the game
and treated.
A letter reached the dead letter office
the other 3ay directed, to "Sinsinnaty,
O'Hiough." LctUtesU
The Henry rifle, in the hands of the
Turks, is what "not away' with the
Russians in the recent battles.
The Charleston (S. C ) News, speak
ing of the late Senator Browulow, says
that "in the war of secession he turned
traitor to his State." .
Senator Sargent, of California, will
not attend the extra session of Congress.
He is paired with Senator Bogy on all
important questions.
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The largest contributor to the reve
nue ot England is said to be a brewing
turn, which pays about $5,000 for eyery
working day iu the ycax.
Latino for Him. It having come
to the ears ot the United States officials
at this point that Big English, the boot
black, had a handful ot lead inckles in
his possession, the boy was yesterday
interviewed on the subject.
"es; I've got nineteen bad inckles
in my trowsers pocket,'' was his prompt
reply.
"And what are you doing with
them?"
"Holding right to 'em. You needn't
think von've s t a case against me for
you haven't."
"How did you get those bad pieces r
"Rich man, who shall be nameless
black hi boots every morning hands
me out a lead nickel thinks he's got a
soft thinz on mo. but I'm laving for
him!"
"How?"
"Why, he's got a daughter 'bout my
age. 1 11 be thinking ot marryinz in
two or three years more, and I'll shoul
der a bag of his nickels, walk into the
parlor, and gently say: Mister mau
I love thy fair daughter, and I demand
her in marriage. Behold the proof of
yonr vile perfidy, and come up to the
rack or go to the judge!" You just
keep still and let him shower out his
bogus coin. I ain't handsome, but I'm
a terror to plan ! '
; "Got any pocket handkerchiefs?" said
a small, soiled boy, with the chief part
ot his wardrobe hanging from hisshouJ
der by one suspender, and a bundle ot
newspapers uuder his arm. The shop
keeper 6tared for a moment, but hard
times have made even small purchasers
desirable, and he answered blandly
"Here you are, sonny ; all linen ; fittcei
cents." The young merchant cast i
scornful look at him, and said: "
wonder at yer snowiu' them cotton
sieves to a gen'leman. I want euthin
in fancy silk, with a chance for my mo
nog-ram in the corner. Where's there
a fust-class dry goods house 'round here
young feller ?" And he got out of the
door just in advance ot a shower ot
yardsticks and scissors.
A lady who had married a smoker
was asked if she had no prejudice against
tobacco. To which she replied that she
had unnergrone the sraokme precess so
long that the prejudice had been perfect
ly cured.
An observant foreigner says we are
all making a great mistake with our
dogs in allowing them to curl their tails
to the left. In the European cities no
gentleman ot culture will own a dog
that curls his tail that way.
An old woman who is crossing the
street has a narrow escape from being
run over by a hearse "I am not at ail
suicrstitious, she says to her rescuer,
"but it had seemed to me that it would
bo unlucky to be killedby a hearse.'
i he oldest old maid in the world is
Rebecca Anderson, pt Seneca Falls,
aged 112 years. She is so old that it
is upwards of twenty-five years since a
census-taker has had the pluck to ask
her how old she was.
The way to avoid suffering from corns
is to have bay windows on your boots.
A bottle has been picked nn on the beach
between Oape Fool wear her and Alsea river
containing a letter dated May 14. 1S70.
lat. ia 45' south, lone. east which
would be near the Larones, well over to
ward the fiirther shore of the Piicific ocean r
purporting to give an acooimt ot the
wreck or the ship Alercedttis, which sailed
from Hongkong two weeks previously.
The vessel, the letter state, was caucht tr
a typhoon, capsized and dismasted. lope
or saving the vessel, was abandoned al
most immediately ; so a raft was made and
all hands took to it, sixteen men all told
and one woman. The ship soon went
down. The writer savs. "I cast this bottle
into the sea hoping perhaps it may t
found; sis to our fit, whether we may
any of us reach the islands or we may ail
perish hy slow starvation h a question."
The editor of the S-ilein Record has seen
the letter atnl prints it in full. ; It I written
on Chinese brown paper and is in losses
sion of Oeorire Mavtleld who lives nenr
Yaqnina Buy. Possibly it U genuine, but
it may be a canard. i
The Dark Side of Public Life.
Some sad scenes attend the death ot a
onsrress. Said one ot the ex-members
the other day one who has had an
honorab'e though uneventful carreer :
"I have now been in public life twelve
years. Jy t lie re-amnciing or my ptaie
mv District has been ao nsnea. ' i am
almost glad to get out of the public ser
vice, and vet 1 do not know what to do.
They have ca;kd us thieves ; but I have
scarcely enough money to support my
family m respectability tor six months.
1 was bred a lawyer, and have had my
old shing'e for the last ten years creak
upon its rusty hinges before my office
door in my native town. It is a little
town. 1 lie business is small, ana nas
greatly changed, and the people have
almost forgotten me as a lawyer, and I
doubt, it 1 commence hfo there again, it
I could earn my salt. 1 he young men
have got all the clients, and need and
deserve them, because they know the
moderu ways of the court. The truth
i, it is like beginning life over again,
and the prospects are pretty blue. 1 te'l
you, young men, it you have any ambi
tion tor pub ic lite, don t do it. it is a
pretty sorrowful spectacle to see a man
three-score years ot'age iu my condition.
"Gentlemen of the jury," said a Bal
timore lawyer iu the Criminal Court,
"do you believe that tnv client was
guilty of selling beer to a boy iu a small
boltle ?" The boy was a good sized
one, and the jury rendered a verdict of
"not guilty."
Scene in the Grand Jury Foreman
"Gentlemen, it is not necessary to ad
minister the oath of secrecy to tins wit
ness, as he is a member of tbe pTess, aud
nobody would believe anything he
might divulge, anyhow."Sa An
tonio Herald.
The following persons are designated as
a committee by the Benton couuty meeting
co wait on hip vrovernor ami hsk mm l
call the legislature together to knock that
door out of the constitution' which shut
out indebted lies1, viz. : John. Kay, Kq.T
chairman; John Burnett, li. S. Stratum,
Mart V. Brown aud I. R. Moo res. ,--
Gen. Nesmith has 42 acres ot corn this
year. Ilia object is two loin : to fatten his
"hogs a i itl prepare his ground ibr wheat
next year, and he considers a good cultiva
tion in corn equal to summer tallow. v
The Rev. Mr,
journalism last
Talmage . preached ou
Sunday. The part
where he imitated a reporter climbing
np a fireplace and hiding in the chimney,
in oruer to overnear a conversation, is
said to have been verv impressive.
Norwich Dulletin.
The tool-killer is a chronic neglecter
of his business.' Everybidy will be the
more convinced of this when they read
that Secretary Carl Shurz, a gentleman
and a widower ot less that a vear's
sorrowing, is continually distressed with
a deluge of love-letters, dai'y received
from enterprising maids and widows
wh would like to cap the achievement
of Mrs. Christia::cy, by capturing a ma
ture Secretary i and setting np another
"I'abinet" mansion in Washington.
These lovely (?) aspirants dwell ou the
musical gifts ot the beeretary as indicat
ing a sympathetic heart, p'ofess bound
less yearning after the infinitude of soul
affinity. Two or three have even gone
so far as to quote whole stanzas from
Heine's "Buch der Lieder " and trom
the incommunicable chantings of Geibel.
Every last lemale of them should be
soused in the iutinitude of a water-butt.
Let Mr. Shurz publish their names.
A Vermont man borrowed $3,000 of
a widow and erected therewith a hand
some monument sacred to his Own mem
ory. Then he failed and paid the wid-
ov ten per cent. He ought to have had
occasion to use that monument shortly
after. j
It was recently admitted in the Brit
ish House ot Commons that a considera
ble proportion of the Indian army was
com posed ot Mohammedans.
"What can you say , ot the second
law of thought? Student It "can
not both be and not be at the same time.
For example, the door over there can't
be both shut and open at the once."
Professor "Give another example."
"Well, take the case ot another door."
II. II. Snow, a resident of Yamhill Ibr
more tlian twenty-live year,i has pone to
Seattle. He tikes his family and will re
side there.
; The Methodists on the Kock Creek cir
cuit. Rev. C. Alileron preacher In charge,
will hold a csiinpmeethig near Needy Post
office, beginning June 14th. r
The House of Commons recently di
vided upon the question whether the
maximum number of lashes in British
navy should be 50 or 25, and by a ma
jority of 22 in one case, and of 32 in
another, the maximum was fixed at 50
lashes.
Mr. Gladstone has received warning
from his physic an that he must moder
ate his superabundant energy. He has
been told, that he- must not continue to
work at the same high pressure as he
subjected himself to daring the last two
orthree years.
Don'i put me on the river bank,
among tho fragrant flowers ; nor where
the grass is watered by the early Sum
mer showers. But put me in the kitch
en range, and open wide the damper,
and then my .vaprous remains can up
the chimney scamper.
What's broke loose, Charley t Where
are vou going in 6"ch a hurry?
"im going to the store.'
"Trade must be active with yoo.
"It's not the trade that baa called me
out." . .. w
"It's not a woman, is it t
"No ; ot course not. But 111 explain
the thing to yon, to keep down your in,
ternal suspicions. There are three part
ners in our store, and we have ouly two
chair. The last man that eonaesin the
morning has to stand op all day. It is
very important tor me to get to the store
earlv this morning. Good-day.
Kkliciious Sekviciis. Rev. J. r. DeVore wnt
bold BPrvices in the brown M. E. ennren In this ,.
city on SublMUn, morning and evening-. Son
day School at 2:30 P. 3t- Frayor meeting eacht
Thursday evening. V ,"-
Special Koticei. .
Mi sical. Miss Nettie PIpcK teacher of
Vocal and Instrumental music, has recent
ly located in Albany, and prepared to give
lessons in the above named branches. Has
had several years experience- in teaching,
aud can give the best of references 4
FLAITIXU, stamping, OnUtaqr ud Fit
ting, Plain Sewing, Ilair Weaving, etc. Catting
and fitting Children's Clothing apeeftalty.
Call at the rooms adjoining the Rkqistek offlce
Albany, Oregon. Mas. CoLI. VasClete.
Ma Jon White Is located one door west
r Vn-c- T!r-r First street. Albanr. mhor.
he is prepared td do all work In " his Hno,
such as repairing watches, clocks, and Jew
elry. Also, engraves door-plates, silver
ware, &c. Give him a call. -
.' ' m
The Richmond Range la a great , wood
saver, and aa It throws out less heat than
any otlier good range or stove. It la way
up for Summer use.
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send a copy of the prescription used (free of
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