She gcwocrat.
PRTDAY......-FERRCARY" 1,1873.
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THE SUFFRAGISTS CONVENTION.
Tho Women Suffragists held a two
day's Convention at Portland last
week, which was welt attended by
twenty-three women and eleven men.
Of course Sister Duniway wo the
'Light of the Haram" (we should say.
Convention!) and Gen. C. A. Reed,
of Salem, waa the star rooster of the
malo persuasion. They passed a
series of resolutions about thj length
of the famous ''Equitable Adjustment"'
platform of 1870, in which they en
endorsed the 14th and 15th Amend
ments ; held the Radical party to
their promises of last year in relation
to giving the woman the ballot and a
pari of the fat offices ; declared that
all men and women are created equal,
and that Susan B. Anthony did right
in voting in defiance of a law to the
contrary; offered the women suffrag
ists' hearts and hands in marriage with
the Temperance Alliance, (which we
hope, for the sake of the reputation of
the gallantry of the men will not be
rejected but that they will be passion
ately and spasmodically pressed to
their heavin bosoms;) and urged
everybody to patronize Mrs. Duni
way's excellent paper, the 2Teu Xorth
west. Tho Convention was harmoni
ous and unanimous, especially in
taking up collections from the curious
who happened to drop in during its
sittings. Just what it accomplished
we have not yet been able to discov
er, but as "a little leaven leavencth
the whole lump" it may in time de
velop astounding results.
TVHO SO ALL BE TOE JUDGES
A dispatch from New Orleans, dated
Feb. 13, 6ays:
At a meeting of the members of
Loth 'Legislatures it was agreed to or
ganize an Assembly from the mem
bers returned by both Boards, pro
viiiinsr it should prove acceptable to
the National Administration.
Think of that! A Legislature,
elected by the voters ot Louisiana,
wait'ng to hear from the Government
at Washington before they are satis
fled who are the qualified memlers !
They will organize provided it
prove acceptable to the National Ad
ministration f Shades of Jefferson
and Jackson defend
Can it be
be that it is necessary to ask for the
approval of the President before a
State Legislature can organize for
business? How is it that the General
Government is made the judge of the
qualifications of members of a Slate
Legislative body ? It remains for the
present Radical ' Administration to
6olve this problem. Ordinarily a
State Board of canvassers would be
the judge of the qualifications of the
State officers and a county board of
canvassers of the qualifications of mem
bers of the Legislature. But now it
wcins that the Government at Wash
ington must decide who are entitled
to seats in a Slate Legislature! In
deed it seems that Slates have no fur
ther voice in the matter of tho quali
fications of the election of their offi
cers. thieves likely to come to chief.
A Washington dispatch nnder date
of the 14th instant states positively
that the report ot Poland's Mobilier
Committee will recommend the ex
pulsion of Ames and Brooks and se
verely censure other implicated . Con
gressmen, with a probability of an im
peachment of Colfax. Ames is said
to be incredulous us to the truth of
this rumor. He says that if they at
tempt to erpel him he will die hard ;
that it will take the whole House to
kill him;, that if this expulsion occurs
what wjll it show ? No man mast
hereafter tell the truth about Con
gressmen. Then how are the world
aad people to regard it?"
Ixdicted. Last Friday the Grand
J tiry of Jackson county indicted Scar
face Charley, Hooker Jim, Long Jim,
One-eyed Moz, Old Doctor Hum
phrey, Little Jim, Boston Charley
and Dave, belonging to Capt. Jack's
band of Modoc Indians, for murder in
the first degree. Mrs. Brotherton
and son, survivors of the Brotherton
family, swore positively to these Indi
ans as the band who massacred the
-settlers on Lost River in December
last. It is not yet understood what
steps will be taken by the Sheriff to
make the arrests, bat it is probable
that action will be deferred until after
the meeting of the Peace. Commis
sion. Congressman Slater has. intro
duced a bill in Congress providing for
the annexation of Walla Walla coun
ty, Washington Territory, to the State
of Oregon. As Walla Walla county
is the only part of that Territory ly
ing on tho east (Oregon) side of the
Columbia river,-we think its annexa
tion to our Slate would be eminently
proper. The Columbia river is the
natural dividing line between Oregon
and. Wabhintiton.
, The Herald and Oregonian both
alluded in high praise to the able let
ter of Mr. Philip Lowe, published in
the Democrat last week. The Bul
letin speaks very derisively of the po
sition taken bv Mr. Lowe.' All this
j very plain.. The Herald and Ore
gonian are not owned by the propri
tor of a railroad. The Bulletin is.
Lut oppresed farmers draw their own
- cnenBions. . '-
TUB BULLETIN AM UK. LOWE'S) LET
Tho able and interesting letter oi
Mr. Philip Lowe, which we published
last wccV, has been extensively copied
by tha Oregon press. 1 With a single
exception the papers have given- Mr.
Lowe'j views their hearty endorse
ment. It is scarcely necessary to
state that tho Bulletin is the excep
tion. That paper writhes like a
wounded V serpent nnder tho rays of
truth which Mr. Lowe's letter sheds
upon tho ' railroad despotism of
which tho Bulletin is defender and
apologist. Not content with produc
ing a fearful array of.fjgnrcs in its ef
fort to refute the statements made by
Mr. Lowe, the Bulletin indulges in
sarcasm by expressing astonishment
that Captain Hustler, Cot Taylor and
others, cited as authority to show
that wheat can bo shipped in bulk
without packing, ' have never engaged
in a traffic they appear to know so
much about." Now, wo submit that
Mr. Lowe could retort by expressing
wonder that tho editor of the Bulletin
did not learn the blacksmith's trade,
for which his physical proportions em
inently qualify him, instead of wast
ing his energies in quill-driving.
Such a retort would prove nothing,
yet it would at least be up to the
mental standard of the Bulletin's
strictures.
It is useless, for tho railroad organ
to attempt to reconcile the farmers of
Oregon to being longer fleeced by
railroad and steamship monopolies.
The brazen impudence and barefaced
dishonesty which characterized those
who engaged in the plots which rob
bed tho farmers of their last year's
crop will not be soon forgotten
There is a deep conviction in the
minds of honest men, in Oregon as
well as in California, that there exists
a corrupt collusion, of gigantic pro
portions, among transportation com
panies and speculators throughout
the coast, whoso object it is to so
trammel tho farmers as to compel
them to continue to submit to the im
position of last year. And this convic
tion is strengthened wlrcn journals
known to be owned and controlled by
railroad incorporations exhibit so
much sensitiveness on the subject.
The Bulletin will, in due time, find
that the monopoly whose interests it is
so ready to defend has lost its power
to dictate terms to the farmers of Or
ejjon. The faction which adheres to
Mr. Ilolladay, regardless of the inter
ests of the masses, may continue to
control the Republican party but it
cannot longer force the people to la
bor for its exclusive benefit.
SENSATION AT WASHINGTON.
The Credit Mobilier TriScvr Impr.lr!
Oakn A nrt, ' the Slauacbmtett Can-
Cmunan, fexpeiled.
A Washington dispatch, dated last
Wednesday, says: "Washington has
not tnrned out this session so large n
crowd as filled every nook and gallery
of the House to-day and flowed out
into the spacious corriders beyond.
People were present from all parts of
the country applying for admission,
but the vast rotunda could not hold
them. It was expected that a fierce
debate would be inaugurated upon the
reading of the report of the commit
tee on the Credit Mobilier investiga
tion, and that several Congressmen
would be expelled. The reading of
the committee's report wrought up
the excitement and interest to the
highest pitch. The venerable member
from Vermont (Jndge Pollard) arose
amid great silence and submitted the
report. He did not propose that it
should be even read. 'Let it be read,
Let it be read," came from all parts
of the House. The Ilonse was not to
be deprived of the sensation, and the
Clerk commenced to read the report.
Every inculpated member sat quietly
in his seat. As the reading went on
hardly one betrayed any new anxiety.
Brooks, of New York, however, was
the very picture of mental and physi
cal suffering ; his face was ghastly
pale. All others, save Garfield, had a
sullen look that did not pass away till
the weight was lifted and the commit
tee had . declared that they did not
propose to censure them. They then
assumed an easy air. Oakes Ames
sat beside Job Steyensen, on the near
est seat to the Clerk's -desk, with his
face as frigid as ever till the Clerk
read a portion where he was spoken
of as selling and buying votes. He
then turned np his . bushy head and
gave a decided grin, but soon screwed
down his face into inflexible wrinkles
again, and received his sentence stolid
ly enough. , He hardly winced as the
Clerk read :
'Resolved, That Oakes Ames be,
and he is hereby, expelled as a mem
ber of this House.' "
UXAXIMOCS ENDORSEMENT. It is
gratifying to note that the newspapers
of Oregon, without a single exception,
heartily endorse Gov. Grover's gritty
letter to the Peace Commission.
There is really more of the Jacksoni
an metal in that letter than in any
document which has emenated from a
public official 6ince the beginning of
the late war. , -
Secretary Pish gives out that the
U. S. Government is not cariDg a
continental about annexing the Sand
wich Islands. Fish must take tho
rest of ike world for "sardines."
;', The New Hampshire .. election
transpires on ;. Tuesday, Mareh 11.
Jas. A. Waston is tho Democratic
I nominee for Governor.
BOUT THEY WILL OIlOAXZZH. "
Editor Democrat:
A telegram " from, New Orleans; of
the 15th inst., . tinder tho ; caption,
' Agreed to Organize,'? says: . "At a
meeting of the members of both Leg
islatures, it was agreed to organize an
Assembly from the members' returned
by both Boards providing it should
prove acceptable to the National Ad
ministration." Tho italics nre mine;
and it is to that provisio I would call
the attention of tho reader, and in
quire, in what Article and Section of
our federal Constitution' docs it ap
pear that a State Legislature must bo
composed of such members as "prove
acceptable to the yalional AdminU
ministration?' "I admit that the
present Administration has on several
occasions exercised the power to se
cure the election of such members to
State Legislatures as " would prove
acceptable to it;n but this does not
answer my inquiry where tho au-
thority tor tho exercise of such power?
Before we had a Federal Constitu
tion or oven a Federal Union tho peo
plo of the several States elected such
members to their respective Legisla
tures as would provo acceptable to
them. And in tho exorcise of this
soverign right of each State, acting
for itself, our Federal Union was con
summatcd, and in duo time our Con
slitution was framod and adopted all
by act of the States as soverign bodies
politic, tho Federal Government be
ing the creatnro of the States com
prising the Union. And from the
foundation of on: government to the
accession to power of tho Republican
party, tho people of tho several States
guarded with jealous care all powers
not specifically granted to tho Feder
al Government in the Constitution.
It is now diflicu't to imagine the do
irree of coutempt with which the
masses of tho people would, fifteen
years ago, havo regarded a body of
men claiming to be members of a
State Legislature who would havo
passed such a resolution as tho ono in
dicated in the telegram referred, to;
and more diilicult bliil to imagine the
degree of indignation and alarm with
which the people would havo regard
ed the Administration had it even
looked complacently upon such a pro-
ceeding.
Blve Mountain.
IIONOilAIiLi: NlGGtU-S."
With all our Democracy ir. the
country, we cling to many of the hab
its, actual as well at menial, ot Euro
pean monarchy. Thus, we have our
esquire, reverends and honorable by
tho bushel all around us. The great
problem of Democracy is now on trial
more than even in 177C, and though
there is some danger that tho bottom
will be knocked out, and our people,
collapsing into Mongrelism as the
Spaniards havo done in Mexico and
Soutli America, will finally go back.to
the European system of kings as the
only escape from anarchy, we have en
tire faith in tho virtue and sense of
the masses, and slonghing off the 6;ns
and crimes of Lincoln, Grant & Co.,
regime, they will restore the govern
ment of tho Constitution in all its
benificence, grandeur and glory. And
in the hour of returninir reason, virtue
and decency, we shall get rid of many
f the monarchical absurdities that
still cling to us. For instance, the
term honorable, often given -to the
meanest men possible, even to Vice
President Henry Wilson, beyond
doubt the meanest white man on the
Continent. It is now quite extensive
ly applied to negroes, mulattoes, sam
bos, &c-, and will bo run into the
ground, of course. Indeed, we see in
the fashionable arrivals at the St.
James, in this city, two " honorable
cuffees" from South Carolina gravely
registered with names of Senator
Stockton and other honorable (?) gen
tlemen ! Xew York Tay Boole.
Counted Out. In counting the
electoral votes last week Congress ex
cluded the votes of Louisiana and Ar
kansas. Does any one suppose that
those votes would have been excluded
if they had been needed to elect
Grant? And by what right are the
votes of two States excluded from
participation in the election of a Pres
ident ? " Are Louisiana and Arkansas
to be. disfranchised because, forsooth,
a lot of carpet-baggers, liars and
thieves attempt to divert the electoral
votes of those States into a channel
which the citizens never intended they
should go? It was well known by
Congress that a majority of the voters
of Louisiana and Arkansas proclaimed
for tho Liberal ticket in November,
and their votes were as jnuch entitled
to enumeration in the Electoral Col
lege as were those of Missouri or
Massachusetts. '-. ..
In the State of Illinois all forms ot
betting on elections, are. criminal; .of
fences, punishable ty a fine ot $1,000,
or ' imprisonment for one year, ' or
both at the discretion of the court
In England, it used to bo a common
form of bribery at election to bet the,
voter that he would not vote for a
certain candidate mentioned, and thus
win the bet.
A SAD Sight. The Danbury iVeira
roan jmagines this tableau: A small;
wretched, looking honse. Outside a
miserable, apology , lor a man, crazed
by drink, assaulting the door and ma
king the air resound with his curses.
Inside a thin,'pale woman with a wan
expression, of. features, pressing one
hand tightly over her. heart and with
the other heating a poker in the fire.
. -UrWHlll.il IMILIHJMK.'tffr
PACIFIC COASTEIW.
Diptheria is prevalent at Iho Dalle
( Gea.SEades ia Mayor of Sitka,
Alaska
Gold yield of Moutana ia 187?,
S8.000.CU0.
Supreme Court baa ground ite
winter grist. Sr. -
Kalama has a first class Chinese
boarding house.
State Temperance Alliance met at
Salem yesterday.
Union town is the new county tueat
of Uuion county.
Tho Snake Indians at Camp Harney
threaten a revolt.
Helena, Montana, pays 45 mills on
the dollar as taxes.
Hoodlum theatricals ia what's the
matter of Portland.
A Douglas county hunter found a
snake with two heads.
The lako near which Capt. Jack is
fortified is frozen over.
A San Francisco boy is on trial for
murdering a Chinaman.
A mulitia company ia being or
ganized on Yaquina Bay.
Portland is to hae a Catholic
Cathedral costing $80,000.
Nearly every county i- tho valley
has farmer's organizations now.
Fifty teams are employed in freight
ing from Roseburg to Linkville.
The Mormons are talking of emi
grating to the Sandwich Islai ds.
Tho Independent ia to be the name
of tho new paper at Forest Grove
Twelve mules belonging to a Mon
tana man, died of epizootic recently
I. II. Fairchilds, tho new agent
of the Siletz Indians, is a Methodist,
Sam'l Dervilt was killed last week
by n cave in a Jackson county mine
Pcttr Rarick. of Gooso Lake valley,
was last week killed by a log rolling
on him.
The Portland parers call Mr.
Duniway their "fellow townsman.
AVrect.
A Walla Walla Sister of Charity
last week accidently poisoned herself
to death
Three feet of snow at Gem City,
Baker county. Mining prospects
flatterin
The possession of 3 children is why
Mr. and Mrs. Ray are figuring in the
Idaho courts.
Walla Walla's big parsnip wa 2 "5
inches long, and Olympia claims one
to beat it G inches
Gen. Crook is having a good influ
ence on tho Arizona Indians. He
scalps all be can catch.
Dick Popin, of Montana, has fallen
heir to 820,000. Some woman will
Popin there next, Dick.
The M. E. Church South contem
plate the building of a church at
Harrisburg next summer.
A brilliant surpriso party was held
at tho resident of Governor Grover,
in Salem, last Thursday night.
Miss Nellie Nesbilt, a blind girl
of Salem, will probably have charge
of the State School for the blind.
Col. Taylor, late editor of the
JLrald, has a lawsuit in the Portland
courts against T. Patterson & Co.
George Bangesser of Yamhill in
dignantly denies that any such bugs
as are called weevil, infest hia wheat.
San Diego has a new teacher
named Miss Skinner and tho young
sters now don't want to go to School.
The State University fund in the
hands of tho Board of School Com
missioners ia stated at $19,GS3 32,
coin.
Brig. Young only has 117 children
now. He is afraid he will die father
less if Lis family doesn't increaso
faster.
Prospects are flattering for a heavy
yield of gold from the Eldorado
mines of Baker county, this coming
Season
Tho Wyoming female Justices of
the Peace insist on resting their feet
on hot bricks, and sitting with bon
nets on.
Salt Lake papers are being prose
cuted for publishing obscene litera
ture in the shape of Brigham Young's
sermons.
Last week, a small child of Mr.
A. B. Falkner, of Sheridan, fell head
foremost into a tub of lye and was
drowned.
The Modocs last Friday made a
sortie and burned the house of Demis
Crawley, just to keep their hands in,
you know.
James Warnick, of Empire, has
a pistol which is no respecter of
persons. It took off his finger the
other day. ,
Gen. Crook's command has killed
over 330 Indian warriors in Arizona,
and the red devils are suing for peace
down there.
Mr. James A. Smith has resigned
bis position in the U. S. Collector's
office to accept a position in Ladd &
Tilton's bank.
A party of old folks at Olympia
havo organized a musical troupe and
are now giving screeching concerts
on the Sound.
Bro. Bull of the La Grande Sen
tinel has discarded his old hat.
'Cause whe somebody gave him a
new fancy one.
A Portland gentleman owns two
noble dogs who were for three years
used to draw a sleigh in the Cariboo
mining country.
Gov. Woods has been dismissed
from the Utah Gubernatorial chair,
and Claggett, of Montana, appoint
ed m his place.
A Vallejo schoolmistress under
took to chastise an unruly boy of
twelve years of age; whereupon the
incipient Stokes drew a knife and
threatened to dissect her anatomical
arrangements, and the punishment
was postponed.
An insane man named Parker,
I from' the Slato penitentiary, waa
admitted into the Insane Asylum,
Saturday evening.
The Woman Suffragists are going
tc have a grand State Celebration at
dalem on July 4tb. What in thun-
r is it all about?
Ned Percy, who about two months
ago finished his time in the Oregon
Penitentiary, stabbed a man to death
in 'FriHco last week.
I. - G. Rood is now the meanest
cur on the Sound. Ho is in jail for
indecently exposing his person, to
school girls at Olympia.
Mutton bbeep aro selling at $4.50
5 per head at , tho Dalles at this
time. Sheep raisers are looking for
ward to bigh prices for wool.
Two trains last Friday collided on
the Pacific R. It., near Elko, dan
gerously wounding several jasscn
gers and employes of the road.
Hon. Sam. Brown declines the ap
pointment of Capitol Commissioner,
and tho Governor has appointed Mr.
Samuel Allen, of Marion county.
Josh Billings says that if be can
bavo plenty of mackeral fqr break
fast he can generally manage to make
tho other two meals out of water.
It is said that the Pacific Railroad
Company contemplato constructing
but forty miles of the Pacific divi
sion of their road the coming season.
A Moutana paper is in the conun
drum business. It wants to know
the difference between a jackass and
a certain justice of the peace. Wo
give it up.
Peace Commissioner Meacham nays
Capt. Jack Modoc is an ''honorable
and high minded gentleman !" If he
is such bo will have nothing to do
with Meacham.
Lewihton folks havo a playful way
of practising pistol shooting at the
door knob of the Signal office. The
editor says that kind of thing won't
"pan" much longer.
Tho steamer Geo. S. Wright, which
plys between Portland and Alaska,
has been d:o at Portland for nearly
a mouth. It ia feared that it has
been "cast away and lost."
A dispatch from Washington says
tho President will bring the Mormon
subject to a speedy issue. Ho can't
beat Brigham on that "issue" busi
ness, either in speed or quantity.
Tho Statmmaix estimates that
Walla Walla has been victimized by
a Credit Mobilier composed of county
officials. It gives tho figures, show
ing that somtbody has had a "fat
take." I
Wedding cards in Denver consists
of tho jack of diamonds and the
queen of heart, with tho contract
ing parties' names thereon; if the
bride's mother is living, the ten of
clubs is enclosed
On Tuesday last in San- Bernar
dino Win. Hicks tried tho old trick
of pulling a gun toward him by the
muzzle. Tho Doctor is now engaged
in reckoning how much of Hicks'
arm can be saved.
A San Bernardino lover got thrown
from bis fiery bleed in front cf bis
girl's residence the other day, and
the Guardian heard him call for her
and sayB the name sounded like
"Helen Damnation!'
A man named Zook was shot at
Scott's creek, California, last week,
growfng out of a dispute to tho title
of certain lands. The parties who
did the shooting were a man named
Brown and bis two sons.
Virginia city youngsters are engag
ed in coasting on their sleds which
often get unmanageable in couse-
quence, a boy who has got two or
three black eyes, and a broken nose
is considered an Ishmeal.
A Montana man offered to bet his
wife $100 that she couldn't swallow a
hot marble. She told him that was
too thin ho couldn't get rid of her
that way! He says he didn't think
she was so darnation cute.
Two San Jose lawyers trot ' into a
row in the Court room the other day,
and one of them was hit with an ink
stand. His wife now claims that he
is a Crimean hero on the ground that
it was the battle of Ink-her-man
Gen. Jackson, an Indian Chief,
of Utsalady, W. T. last week died
by the aid of another Indian's pistol
because he got sweet on the other
Indian's squaw. See how fast the
Indian imitates the noble white man I
A Puget Sound paper asks: "What
shall we do to be saved?" Well, we
don't know of anything that you can
do, now that you ate bo far gone.
A few years ago we might have done
something for you, but now the jig's
up. ,
As the new divorce law of Oregon
requires all evidence relating to
cases of that kind to be given . in
open court, the 32 cases now pend
ing in Multnomah county will afford
the newspapers down there a huge
feast. ' i - '
A Marion county chap. Bays an eye
witness, recently picked a quarrel
with his girl, in which he. attempted
to pull her hair and spank the spunky
mink; but she turned dentist with
the fire-poker, and he lost Jus shovel
tooth.
A Virginia (Nev.) " wife"' gave her
good looking ; servant ' a 'holiday
Hearing her, husband come ; into the
kitchen, she 6lipped down, put her
j hands over his eyes and kissed him,
He kised back with a vim nhe had
not witnessed in him for years and
said, "Mary, darling, where ia your
mistress?" Sbo"droppe1 thoo 1: ands
and gave a war-whoop and he depar
ted in haste, closely followed by a
poker. . ;
The Roseburg Pantograph says:
"That pence Commission to treat
with the Modocs have got a soft thing
on tho Uncle Samuel. They are
sure of their pay, but Uncle Sam
hasn't got anything fluro on their
treat."
There in a "corner" ia etove polish
at Walla Walla because tho most
fashionable young map of the place
appeared at ft party the other night
with bis boots blacked with it. He
looked "snipshious" and was thte
oberserved of oil observer.
A female speaker at the Woman's
Rights Pow-wow,. in Portland, last
week, said that thr "coming woman
is on the mountain top and that her
spirit is of the mountain air." If this
is truo it is probable that we will
hear something "drap" shortly.
A citizen of , Helena, Mod tana,
was discovered in the stroet with his
garments all on fire in the rear. He
had put a pipe which be bad been
smoking, into bis coat pocket. He
remarked that he "thought the weath
er waa moderutiu' d d sudden."
A certain Oregon justice of the
Peace "splices" candidates for
matrimony in tho following unique
manner: "Them that this court
joins together let no man bust
asunder; but suffer little children to
come unto them so help you God'
A young Mormon, named Benson,
was lust Tuesday hung by a mob in
Salt Lake for murdering another
young man named Crockett. A Mitts
Merrill, who was affianced to the
murdered man Crocket died because
of her lover's death. This is a sad
tragedy.
Whew! How nice! La Grande
Sentinel fcavs "sleigh riding, spelling
matches, singing schools, oyster sup
pers, kissing bees, bails, etc., ara all
tho go iu these parts this winter."
We can hardly keep our davil from
emigrating to that Elysian field im
mediately. Two young misses, aged respec
tively twelve and eight, ran away
from their borne in Riverside last
week to enjoy life and see the world.
The dreams of bliss were rourrhly
dispelled by tho advent of their !
paternal, who wore out a fair-sized
bu.sb on them and then carried thc-m
home.
Now comes a story that on the
14 th of December James Eradley
was driving a herd of 71 cattle across
the Pen d'Oreilo River, AV. T., on
tho ice. An earthquake broke the
ice to pieces, drowning all but 21 of
tho cattle. This story would have
been huger if the teller of it hadn't
run out of cattle.
The Timex tells us that a frisky
Josephine youth a few days ago sent
a note to bin neighbor's wife, inviting
her to meet him 'neath the pale rays
of the German-silver moon. She
didn't go, but her husband did, and
the doctor thinks that barring the
loss of bis none, one eye, and two or
three dozen tctth, the young man
will soon be as well as ever.
A Lewiston gallant concluded he
would bhow bis geranium how he
eould ride on muleback. 'When he
got in front of her house the mule
squatted down, then all at once
bumped up it3 back, and the gallant
rider flew upward into tho air about
as high as Mt. Hood, and came down
astridle of a picket fence. The girl
says he showed his agility success
fully. Tho following advertisement ap
pears in a Utah paper : Wanted.
Two young Mormon women (cousins)
who have bcome disgusted with
"Mormon ideas," and are now living
under a strict surveillance with
their parents in Box Elder County.
Utah, desire to correspond with two
or more bachelors, with a view to
matrimony. Photographs exchanged
if desired . Address, Maria Mason
or Mary Sherman, Corinne, Utah.
A Dalles .washwoman who had
n6ver seen a new-fashioned open-behind
shirt got one in the wash the
other day, and being an obliging
and kind-hearted woman, and feel
ing sorry for "the ignorance of the
wife who had made such a mistake
in constructing her husband's shirt,
sewed up the slit behind and cut one
in front "where it ought to be," you
know. ' Imagine the surprise of the
proprietor of the shirt when it came
home all fixed up the old fashioned
way. ,
A California wag, traveling on the
Pacifie Railroad the other day, hap
pened to be seated just behind a
couple of pretty boarding school
misses, with whem he was. essaying
a small flirtation. As the train
passed into a tunnel he leaned for
waid and smartly kissed hia hand.
As the car emerged from the ob
scurity be chuckled to see the mutual
glances of suspicion which passed
between the young ladies, each bjing
morally certain that the other had
been kissed in the dark.
" Fools rush in where angels fear
to tread," is fully exemplified in the
conduct of the Modoo Peace Commis
sioners in accepting such appointment.
No person of good sense would have
accepted that appointment in the
very teeth of tho indignant people of
our outraged State.
' ( ToXr-GU AFI2K": CLEANINOS5.
The Ex-Queen of Spain is very ill.
Franc9 will attempt to compel
Spain to sell Cuba. .
The snow crushed in a church in
New York last Sunday.
Congress sends congratulations to
Spain "on becoming a Republic.
Antoine Holm will be hanged at
St. Louis on the 3rd of April.
James Dennis, of New York, tick
ed his wife to death last Friday. ,
Two children were burned up in a
New York house hat Wednesday.
A 17ew York broker last Saturday
broke bis neck by falling down stairs.
Grant and bis Cabinet will begin
their Southern tour on March 20tb.
Four rough were kiFed by vigi
lantes at Acheron, Kansrs,' last
Sunday.
About 40 miners wsre killed by a
coal mine explosion near London
last Tuesday.
I
After all obligation4! are paid,
Horace Greeley's daughters will each
have ZW.),W0.
A bill is before Congress appropri
ating 81.000 for a statue to the late
Col. E. D. Baker, of Oregon.
A stay of proceedings has been
granted in Stokes' case, to allow ar
guments on tho unconstitutionality
of the jury nystem under which ue
was tried. .
A Paris special says the troops of
the Regular Army of Spain are divid
ed in their choice of a form of Gov
ernment. The Cavalry ,are sp.id to
have pronounced in favor of a Mon
archy, with Prince Astoria, son of
tho ex-Queen Isabella, for King,
while the Infantry favor a Republic.
Mrs. Wood, daughter of General
Taylor, who was recently voted by
the Jlouse a pension of ?w per
month, in the mother of John Taylor
Vood who commanded the lebel
crnier Tallahassee, and who is now
a wf-Il-to-do commission merchant at
Halifax. It in also said that Mrs.
Wood was a bitter secessionist during
the war.
A Rome special pays the abdication
of Amadous is received with satisfac
tion on all sides, and that neither
Victor Emmanuel r.or !! Govern
ment gave anv advice to Amndeas.
The !attr telejrraphs to Rome fre
quently, giving information concern
ing the situation. It is also reported
that a serious distnrbnncfl has tai?n
place at Madrid and that fighting has
occurred in the streets.
The appraisers of Greeley's estate
estimate that bis personal property
will foot up nbont $12 0). It is
said that Samuel Sinclair is indebted
to the estate at b ast $3 J.000. There
are about $100,000 in bad debts and
worthless securities. Cornelius Van
derbilt, Jr., owes the estate $50.OJ0
borrowed moner. Commodore Van-
derbilt has piven $3,()0J to each of
can have a much money as thev
need at anv time.
During the present session of Con
gress there have been offered no less
than 2G amendments to the Con
stitution. These amendmend cov
er a great many subjects, from the
manner of electing, the term, and
the eligibilty of the President, dowu
to a decree prohibiting, intermar
riages between the races.
Senator Lyman Trumbull of Illi
nois will resume the practice of law
after the 2d of March, the day on
which his Senatorial term expires.
He has been in the United States
Senato since 1S55 seventeen years.
Ex-U. S. Senator and ex-Minister
to Spain John P. Hale of New
Ham; shire, went to the polls and
voted on election day, and has not
been out of bis bouse since. He has
been Bick for over a year.
The Memphis Appeal tella of an
Irishman who got laughed at for
making faces over some persimmons,
and who retorted thus: "Ye Kay
grin, ye mutton-beaded idiots I but I
can lather the sowl out uv -the man
that spilt vinegar over thim plums."
A very modest young lady, who
was a passenger on board a packet
ship, it is said, sprang out of ber
bunk and jumped overboard, on
hearing the captain, during a storm
order the mate to hauf down the
sheets.
An Arkansas artist carved a sleep
ing lion in marble and took it to the
county fair for a premium. The
award was thusly: "James McGill
first premium for a beautiful bull-
pup carved in marble."
From Toledo the announcement is
made that a boot black has bought a
building which he has converted into
a church for his brethren to. worship
in.
Belle
mettle A young lady's
temper.
Ohio's debt is $3,583,456 37.
WEEKLY PRICES CURRENT.
CORRECTED WEEKLY IT P. C. BARPBB CO,
Following are tbo prices paid for produce, and
tha prices at which other articles ara selling in
this market:
WHEAT White, buohel 80.
OATS J biuhol, 40 cts.
POTATOES bushel. $ .50.
OXrOXS bushel. U l 50.
FLOUR f bbl.$9 50.
REAXS W hile. W lb, 45 cts.
DRIED FRUITApples. tb, k cents
Peaches, f lb. Ci cts.; Plums, "J lb, lSo-j
LnrrnntK, Id. IHO."
BUTTER "jS tb. fresh rolll525e.
Eli US rf doj. n. 20 ets.
CHICKENS W doaen. $3 00.
SUGAR Crusboil, lb, 15 ets.; Island, 93
lb, $11(3)13 cts.; San Francisco Rofinsd,
TO n. 131 cts. -
TEA Vounjr Hyson, TO tb, $1 50 ; Japan
TO . fc($ 0" I Black, TO lb, 75c$l 60
CUrrKE to I". 2.1(0)35 eeuts.
SALT TO lb. ll'2i cts.
.SYRUP Heavy Golden, TO keg, $3 50.
Kx. Heavy Golden, TO gall.,$l 25.
BACON Hams, Oregon, TO tb, 18; Eastern,
2 (lets.; hhouMers, 10 ets.
LARD TO lb. 121 cts.
OIL Devoe's Kerosene, TO gallon. 75 cts.,
TO ean. 5 gall., 3 00 ; Linseed Oil, raw, 3
" (fall., $1 2.'; Linseed Oil, boiled, TO gall.
1 374. .
DISSOLUTION OF CO-PART-
XK1ISIIIP.
mjOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN- THAT THE
il firm of Westlako & Simpson Is this day
dissolved by mutual consent, C. 1. fctmpson re
tiring from the linn, having sold his intprest
to t). WeBtlake. All accounts duo Irom West
lake & fsm psfn , as a firm, will b paid by C.
Westlake, and all amount due will be collected
ana receiptee ior oy mm oniy.
1 CVKUS WESTLAKE.
CD. HlsIPSOJf.
Albany, JaB. 23, lSTX-nlBwK
N EW A D V 12 jT 1 8 J M E N T 8.
BEER-WAXTEIH.
WAXT TO R-JY A PAIR OP WrtlTE-
taikd lttr; !o two femalo blnck-tnllud
diT. I would p v a fair nrlce lor th skeleton
of n white-tailed LucJc. Aci Ire tnf lit Albany.
H2SW4. O. P. 8. rLUMMKB.
SKA1.2R Ilf
GROCERIES, PROVISIONS.
Tobacco, Cigars and Yankee Uoticns,
ALBANY, OREGON. ,
J will strive to kpp on bends the tx?t of
erytnlns In my Hue, and to merit public pnt
rtmuge. , vXn4L.
EUREKA I ! ,
THE MACE TO CO
fob Torn
TURNOUTS !
MERRICK MONTGOMERY'S
LIVERY STABLE
KEEPS THR
FASTEST HORSES
-AM Till v
BUSG1ES . AND
IN ALBANY.
HAOOKIST
CARRIAGES
ThT take rv?lal rains to kmi rwrtli!nr In
th Ut r-pnirand lurnlnh the inont complcto
ntlafnctlon to cvnUtmi-rn. Jtnv-fntx-r aU thia
wn.-n you want fwt, or a comforuiM" or
sate r.tif. MKKRK K A MOXTOOM r.KY.
Cur.Hveoudaud Washington bc Albany. -vsnastf.
COMMERCIAL HOTEL.
OPEltA riOtrSK BLOCK, 8ALZX, ORKOOX.
33RK. A. J. RIELY, Proprietor.
Tl;l hoa' will b krft In tint clan order, and
wit.l attentive and obliging w rvantn.
No CtiscM Cooks Employed. '
I am pr"p"r-d to fnrnlxh pood n -com mod a
ti'.nn Ui th trawling nubile, and will uae ewry
endi-nvnrUi mi-rit the pntronat;- of tiie pabUc.
Ki-fe-uUr boarding at rt-ry lw rates.
Tree Coach to the Home.
SHEEIFF'S SAL2L "
OTirE IS IIETJEBY OfVKN THAT HT
ia vlrtnof an -x--i!fion ixwd out of th
Cirnitt Court of th Wat" of itfpnn, tctr th
eotintjrof I .Inn. and to m l!rrt-d and dflir
tmJ. upon a jiidirnvnt acninat K. Conxtnnfino
ftfmnnon and H"nrl!-tt f jnnr.fmn, d'-f'-nd-ant,
and in fqvorof AUolr-h ih-M'ir, plainritf,
for lh for-dof-nr" of a c rtaln mortcne and
th!of tb morterrR-d irrn !--, J havo
l-vp-d iifon nil the risht. tltl- and lnfrt of
thld F. Conantln" foatinot! and IInrt
lta Mpncnoun In and to that c-nnln traH of
land drrib'-d n MUrw. to-wit : Kieupt-d and
lyinjr in the County of IJnn and HUttc of Or--eon,
in Townnhiptwlw. South of ) nrzf ono
w-t, in atvtlonii twT.ty-v-n, twntrlpht,
thlrtr-thrr-e ami thirty-lotir, b-tt-T know.-n and
dHfrtb"d an th tkmation Ijnd Claim of
Frd'-rlclc Pin'-prr Wnr- f"r-d'Tlfi I-.inna-ghnrl,
a hia notification on HIp In th furvp-or-ti"nTr
Ofito, in th xalil fctntf of nf-eoh,
not lnUn 2T.1, claim rontainlnc xri-lOO
rurv-ttl In it.'f.T in um of t, with lnUTt
from tho dT of tmM Jadsm-nt, and for cost
and dlsbnrtnnta. r.mountlnj; to ihirty-ono
do)!nrnnd fifty wiit and for accruing costs,
notice U hcrt-by gi"n that on,
Saturday, the loth of March, JS1S1
brtwffn th" hotir of 9 o'clock a. m and 4
o'clock u. m.. Ut-vlt : nt th" honrof nn" ov-lock
p. m. of mid day. in front of the Court Ilotuw
door in the cHy of Alunr. I.!nn co?mtv. Ktaft
of tm-eon. I trill sll all th rifrhf. fitlo'and in
t"rff or thKaid K. Connnttn'-Spannoasand
Hnri'-tta Spnnnoiut in and to th mtid abov
df-fcrribfl pr-miora at piioilc auction to th
hijhr-rt liMdT forch in hanfi.
. ALLEN JAKKKK.8hi-nJr. l inn Co.Or?i.
i'-yiEo. HrainKKY, lx-puty.
TVfd rh. 13. Ki-nS7r4. ,
A. WHEKI.ER.
C. P. BOOCI.
A. WHEELER & CO.,
SJ!EDD' STATION, OREGON,
FORWAHDIXG AXD COMMLSSIOX 5IER-
CHAXTS.
AXT) DEALERS IX
MERCHANDISE AND PRODUCE !
A pood assortment of e!! kind of goods al
waj iu store al lowest market rates.
Agents for sale of "
WAGONS, GRAIN DRILLS. CHURNS',
CIDER KILLS, ETC.
Cash pn'd for Wheat. Oats. Pork. Battier,
Eg and yogltry.
OH, YES!
THE BAY TEAM STILL LIVES!
AMD IS RUXKIKG CM TIME!
Tir.VKFTT. FOR PAST FAVORS, AXt
still dfslrooa of continuing to mwt th
samf, th nrnprirtor is always r-ady and easily
found at all times. Passonirers and taijsga
carried lo and from the cars to an part or the
city at r-asoiialile rales. A. X. ATiNOI D,
Albany, On-gon. Proprk-tor.
T vSnCaif.
OUT OF THE 'EIRE !
s. j. Mccormick:
Is happy to inform his numerous friends, pat
rons and the public in general
that ho has
REOPENED THE
i FRANKLIN BOOK STORE!
o
XO. . , FIRST STREET,
(Comer of Ash.)
With a Complete Stock of
STATIONERY, BUSK BOOKS,
, ... 0
SCHOOL BOOKS,
GOLD FENS,' CCTX.SKT, ETC,
AU of which ho will dispose of ,
AT THE LOWEST PRICES.
kBubsm-lntlons rPCPlvea jor an i.'m popular
. . 1 ..iM.nA. w. ll I. K wilt t ... a
livervd in any part oi thetciiy. rr.-5w4.
EXECUTOR'S SALE.
"WlTOTICK- IS HEItEBX U1VKS THAT TUB
i undersigned, Kxeeutois ot the last will and,
.... . ..t 1 hm.iik 1urt.ln. IntA nf Mnn
county, Oregon, deceased, in pursuance of an
onlr ot the County C;ourt of Linn county. Ore
eon, made at the January term of said Court.
T ' . . . ii.. : - .... i... .1 .. l
iNt-i. WIN sell IUU luuuwum Mirm.-i.wT. it-o, iix-ujs-
erty, belonging to the estats ot the said Thom
as Martin, ucoeasra, hi-wii : reKimiuig at m
point U tlo-lUu chains west ot me soutn-east cor
nerof Claim So. 41, "ot. No. 2.OT3, in Town
ship 15. South Range, 4 West, Willamette Mer
idian, in IJnn county, Orejron, on tha south
line of said claim So. 41 : running thence west
10 67-100 chains ; thence norta 'J8 11W chains ;
thenoo east 10 57-100 chains ; thence south to tho
place of beginning containing 30 acres more
or less, at tbo Court House door ia Liun ooutt
ty, Oregon, on
Monelay, tte 2tU of February, 187St
at the hour of 1 o'clock P. M. of said day, at
publia auction, to the highest bidder. Terms
of sale U.tS. gold coin, one-half cash in hand.
11.. l...lnn Jul i mAnth. trt hi. eamiiwH -kv
mortgage on the premises, with ten per cent,
interest; . ... II I HAM SMITH. -JOHN
F. ilAKTIX.
n21wl. V Executors.
. It tapped Elands aud Faee,
Sore Ups, Dryness of the Skin,
; tc, lc, , '
Cured st ence hr HEGBMAN'S CAMPHOR.
ICE WIT II GLYCERINE. It keeps tb hands
sol t in all weather. See hat . you get HEGE
MAN'S. Sold by all Druggists", only 25 cents.
Manufactured only by Hscismam 4 Co., Chem
ists and Dr2ir," Xew Tor. jsalJ'Tlyl