The state rights democrat. (Albany, Or.) 1865-1900, January 29, 1875, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Textinlr., !'.: i.i . l ftAyZ!iJlAVAtLY 29, 1875. Hjdfficial" PAPER PGR i OREGON. ()l O1)! I 'i I..CUPITAI. PUNISHMENT. ' Thq rase of, the. murderer, Ger 'rand, whose - death sentence has been! commuted to life imprisonment, Jha elicited an mmsuttl amount of dis-ouseion-iipon- the subject of capital punishment, ttnd : we ' observe that several of our . newspaper eichangeB Hie urging the abolition of the death ,um penalty from our Statute books. As an argument in favor of ,this ' proposition a Snlem paper asserts that "a large majority of the people ' Oregon are opposed to capital pun ishment." ' The only facts which we ire able to get at, without an, ex pression of the ballot box will not warrant Buch an assertion. Only last fall a Legislature, fresh from the people, peremptorily refused by an overwhelming vote, to entertain a measure providing for the abroga- tion of the death penalty, and this .notwithstanding the fact that an ex traordinary amount of lobying and honey-fugling was resorted to by outsiders to accomplish the passage I of the measure. The case of Ger rand stared the Legislators in the face. He was then incurcerated in a felon's cell at the capital,' under the sentonce of death, with no hope or prospect of reprieve'! and as a moans of saving him from the gallows the most urgent appeals were made to the law-makors to abolish hanging. But all to ho purpose. A large ma jority of those members had long resided on the Pacific coast and had been too long fumiliar with crime in all its most hideous features to favor the abrogation of the only wholo some check upon the murderer's fell designs'. ' Thoy woll knew that the condition of society in our sparsely c it settled Stale would not admit of such modification of tie only just ''punishment for the reckless taking of human life, and that they would '" not be sustained by their constitu ency in such enactments. Nearly all Of the oldor States, with society , evenly balanced, with courts coiu ' pletely' organized and justice most n.t Rigidly enforced, have found. it nea . essary to retain the death povally n.n;npon,the statute books, and it was not for our young and transitory iii Oregon to make the experiment of a change in this important particular, ti'; ! True, li few States have recently abolished capital punishment, but the sequel has not warranted iho ex periment. Statistics show that crime ' ' ' las' frightfully increased in these ,., .States sinco capital, execution has l been abolished, and many of the cases have been so atrocious as to -v. . cause the citizens to resort to lynch ,; l: law as the only nderjunto means of punishment. Only a fow woeks ago ' we had tho horrible spectacle do tailed in our public print of the j, t- hanging of a murdoror to a lnmp ' ih post in De MoinoH, Iowa, where hut two years since the Logislaturo took oifrom the Courts of justice the only 'adoqnatB punishment for, and only t reasonable and wjiolesomo check np !',,,, ou murder, Wo publish on the first page of to-day's paper an aocouut of ;,.; one of the most horrible murders -'! reoorded in the annals of crinio, porpotratod by a fiend upon his own '"'little duughtcr. ' ttg atrociousnoHS l .kai nppurttllol. It is horribly cruel and diabolical in all its feature's, and f,r tha tmits displayed by the inhumau ii.' i monster are iiliuost enough to uiako man ashamed of his humanity. 1 Can I", any one nrgo any palliation for such ' ' a crime or ofTor any sensible reason why tho brutal ' porpolrator should ' 1( not be put to tloittli and thus orovor preveuted from the possible com- :; mission of a similar act. It is a i n noticeable fact that Innny of tho Iowa journals who favored the 'abolition t ef tho death penalty', 'ard now, in ', ' contemplation of the rapid inoroaso of murders in that Stjito, urging its ; 'reinstatement. ; The Oskaloosa Ihr . . . oUwas one of that nuiubor, and it closes its' account 6f tho atrocious murdor to which we havo just rnfoiT ! ' ed'in the following words: "AVo , are glad, for Iowa's good liiuiio, Unit he was taken to a neighboring jail in -i i time to savo lynching,, but Wo nmut " express our sorrow that there in no '" elmnce to hang the low dog, legally. Certainly society will be benefitted when ho becomes food for worms. We are Rutislled, ,that the sober second thought of most of those ' persons who favor tha abolition of i the death ponalty in Oregon will lead them to a different 1 conclusion. Thoy are df course as anxious to guard tho. lives of themselves and other peacoublo citizens from, the ; knife and bullet of the murderer as any of us, and must surely know, when they eonteniplato the laiuonl ' able but stubborn fact, that only tho ', Most rigid aud speedy enforcement of the highest puuimlimout known to ' tho law will offoct that object. Tub Hartford Time snrs the most ons))icui)ii8 wrc'k of the fall oloo tions is that of tho Monitor, U. B. Grant. Kothing but the smoke stack IS visible! . Mori Cha'iitiks. Societies are lioing orgauiiied in various cities for furnishing working girls a breakfast of bread and oofloe for five cents and a stick of chewing gmn for six cent. A CANNON THAT SHOOTS BOTH WAYS. We are glad to observe , that . the Congress of the United States has at last been attacked with a genuine case of virtue, and is going to draw its immaculate skirts closely about its disfigured legs and protect itself from further pollution and contam ination with adulterers and such like curses. , The House Committee on Elections have reported a resolution refusing a seat to Cannon, the newly elected member from Utah, who, it is alleged, is a Mormon Polygamist having half a dozen wives, (or, as the committee , recites it ooncu bines.) It is also refreshing to see how patronizingly the Radical journals of the country pat the virtuous Con gressional Committee on the back and utter sanctimonious howls of ap proval and "Thank God uml" over this manifestation of the purity and holiness ot our Republican Congress. And npw that the good work is com menced, we suppose it will go on until both branches of the national Congress is purified and purged of these fornicators and adulterers and the saintly Radical goose is suspended at 1 an exalted al titude, and Boecher and the other pure Yankee deacons are constrained to raise their nasal ebeneezers on high and chant praises over a sanctified and regenerated repnblic-ah ! ' And then away will go Matt. Car- pohtor, who has just been re-elected to the Senate from Wisconsin, and who is known to all Washington so ciety as a libertine and adultoror. And, alas and alack! , We must lose our own Hipplo, who was as much of an adulterer as the Mormon Can non having for years had at least two living wives, with others brows ing around as much "to all intents and purposes." Of course this trio of gaydocoivers must share the Bame fate. The dig nified Sonators Carpenter and Hip pie must step down and out with the Representative Cannon. One is as much of an adulterer as the other; save thoiO might be some excuse, or palliation for the crime of the Mor mon who professed a belief in the sanctity of his oonaubinage and claimed that ho was only performing a religious duty which he had been reared and educated to respect. There . oan bo no such soph istry urged in favor of the Polyga mous Senators. Being lawyers, they yet outraged the law; being bred and educated among Christian insti tutions, they yet violated every pre' cept of Christianity and detilod the most sacred cilidel of our social in stitutions. Then lot the throe stand or fall to gether. If Cannon is refused ad mittance, lot Carpenter be excluded also, and let Hippie be kicked out to make room for one whose skirts are clear of this social leprously and whoso constituency will have no rea son to blush for his private life and character. Let thkm kino with us. The New York H'orW, Louisville Courier-Journal, and Now York Evening Pot are advising tho Democracy of Missouri to ro-eloot Carl Schurz to the United StateR Senate For our port we don't believe in that sort of thing. Carl Schurz has just Blapped the De mocracy of Missouri squaro in the face by asserting that ho "had no sentiment in common" with that party, and we trust the Domooracy of Missouri will now have no votes "in common" for him. We shall here after oppose tlie Grooloying of tlie Democratic party for any purposo whatever, and shall earnestly protest against tlie promotion of rcn 'egadu Republicans over the heads of truo and triad Democrats. The Missouri Democrats have a sufficient number of able statesmen in their own ranks without slopping outsido to eUct a man who boldly informs them that he has no sentiments in common with tliem. We rather like the tone of tho staunch Democratic Representative, Mills, of Texas, who, when asked to favor "Paper Collar Ranks," of Massachusetts, for next Speaker of the House, positively re fused, adding that "Bunks may sing with we DoinooraU, but ho oau't lead Ike. choir." Anoyhkb Katie King spiritual me dium has come to exposure and grief. It now appears that the Katie King who appeared at tho seances of Miss Cook, in London, is of the earth earthy, 118 the Philadelphia spirit proved. A Mr. William Hipp writes to the nowspupers that he attended a meeting where tho Npirits were to sprinkle water upon those assembled. A tumbler was placed on tlie table and tlie lights turned down. Mr. Hipp, buiug suspicious, grospod the tumbler and soon grasped a hand dipping into it. The hand proved to bulmig to Miss Cook. Thus ho had her on the Hipp, and thus was Uie spiritualistic goose suddenly Cook-od Tint Punt roh bis. A five-logged mule is a Texan objout of curiosity. We would like to run a curenter .hop aud make a speciality of re pairing stable in the vicinity of that un;:i.I. A Rkd Ih.iw) paper heads a col umn ' SciBBouiiktimm. It ought to add "by Firiariuktuni, 1 ' "' AVBO FROM THH GALLOWS. On Wednesday of this week His Excellency, the Governor, commuted the death sentence of Thos. Gerrand to imprisonment in the Peniteny for life. But for this timely interpo sition of Executive clemency Ger rand would have been executed at Salem to day. Indeed the scaffold had been partially erected and other necessary arrangements made for the ghastly ceremony when the order of commutation was handed to the Sheriff. We are pleased to know that the Governor was not moved to this act of clemency by the clamors of the swarms of fanatical men and women who daily besieged his office and plied him with all sorts of maud lin bosh and passional nonsense, but was done solely on the united recommendation of the Judges of the Supremo Court before whom the case had been twice argued. He had fully determined to let the law take its course when the reception of tho petition from the officers of the highest court known to our common wealth induced him to grant a com mutation. The subjoined correspondence fully expluins the action of his Ex cellency in regard to the case : Supreme Coukt Room, 1 Salem, Jan. 25, 1875. J His Excellency, L. F. Grover, Governor of Oregon. Executive De partment, Sulem, Oregon, Sm: With full knowledge of all the facts in the case of Thomas Gerrand now under sentence of death and await ing execution, I take the liberty of addressing vou in relation thereto. I am aware of the dolicate nature of the subject arising from the fact that the case has passed beyond the con trol of the department of which I am a constituent member, and from the further fact that if anything can be done in the prisoner's behalf it must be done by your .bxcellcncy in virtue of your constitutional prerog ative. I nope, sir, that under the circumstances you will not think I toucn too mucn upon matters ex clusively within the Executive De parttnent, when I take the liberty to add my request to the voices already raised and ask you to exercise such a degree of mercy toward the doom ed boy as will lead to the commuta tion of the death sentence to impris onment for life. The law has been vindicated and upheld by the recent decision ot the supreme (Jourt. ana in its decision cannot be any more or less the law of this State than if the sentence of death be car ried into execution. It is far from my purpose to attempt to arouse any sympathy Ly any allusion to the age race, or ignorance ot Uerranu, belli" satisfied that you are fully advised of all matters relating thereto, and that proper weight will be given to those oireuinstances. Hopiug that your Excellency will find it entirely consistent with the safety of the people and the welfare of the State to commute the sentence from death to imprisonment for life, I remain your Excellency's obedient servant. (Signed,) L. L. McAnmun. We unite in the request oontained in the above letter. (Signed,) E, D. Shattuck, Jons BimNETT, . P. P. Prim. COMMUTATION OP HKNTKNCK. State of Oregon vs. Thomas Gor rnnd; sentence of death, Wlierens, upon indictment, trial mid conviction for murder In the lirst. degroo of tho said Thomas Gerrand, In thoClri'iiltCourt of Marion county, In said State of Oregon, judgment and sontenco of death were passed upon him by said Court, mid upon appeal tho' proceedings in tho said case were ntllrmed by the Hupreino Court, ntil said Gerrand Is now In the custody of tho Mierih? of said Marlon county, awaiting execution under said sentence; mid, Wherenn, the Justices of the Supremo Court, who heard the said appeal, in view or the whole ease, have requested tho Executlvo to commute said sontenco of death to Imprisonment for life; and numerous petition of the clllnzcns of Minion county to the same effect have boon presented: Now therefore, I, L. F. Grover, Governor of Oregon, do hereby com. inuto the sniil judgment nod sen tence of death, and (ho writ of execu tion thereon Issued, to Imprisonment In tho Penitentiary of said .state of Oregon, during the life of the said Thomas Gerruml; and tho Sheriff of tho suld county of Marion will forth with deliver tho said prisoner Into the custody of tho Superintendent of said Penitentiary, to be by Mm received aud kept us the luw directs. In witness whereof, 1 havo hereun to sot my hand, and caused the seal of tho Statu ororegou to ho atllxed, at tho city of Salem, Oregon, . this 2"tli day of January, A. 1). 1873. . fu . L. F. Guovkh, i Attest ; Governor. 8. F. C'llADWK K; Sec'y of State, As soon bs the Hhorllf read the Governor's order, he in company with Messrs. Gllfivy, Booth mid a few others, went Immediately to tho cell of tho prisoner, who was found In consultation with Father Dileiuan. After calling him to the door, Mr. J. V. B,.th, at the request of tho Sher Itf read the alsive order. For some time ho was unuhle to express him self, mid apparently eould not realize the change. Wo went In tho after noon to pay him a vUt hut learned that he had Just hceu taken to the Penitentiary it then Mug tilxxit two o'clock. We were Informed, how ever, that he desired to express his thanks through the press to Iho Gov ernor and (he Supremo Court for this last act of leniency, and also to Sher Itr Shaw, Deputy Sheriff Win. Bar ker and wife, Rev. P. 8. Knight, Mr. J. C. lUith, Mrs. Thornton and all others who lisve manifested an Interest In his behalf. At five minutes before two o'clock the prisoner, In runipnnv w ith the Sheriff, IVputy Sheriff and Mr. J. C. Booth, started for the Penitentiary. The driver occupied but few min utes; and during that time the pris oner was silent. Ho was Immedi ately handed over to the authorities. TUB MOBS OP STATES. A contemporary, the Richmond Enquirer, calls Louisiana "theNiobe of States," and the San Francisco Examiner thinks there is a great deal of aptness in the smile, for neither Greece in the hands of the Turks, Poland under the feet of the Russian, or Ireland ground down by tlie heel oi England, ever presented so piteous a spectacle as Louisiana struggling in the coils of the Radical , anaconda, an 1 seeking heorically to free herself from its sinewy folds. For two years now the unfortunate State has been undergoing all the perils of a state of siege in war. Her peope have been in a beleaguer ed garrison, hemmed in all sides by enemies, bent upon starving tneui into conditions of surrender. They have made repeated sorties, but all in vain, as it resulted only in the sacrifice of valuable lives without a single advantage. Things have been going on thus from bad to worse, until now they nave readied a condi tion where it matters little what change may take place it cannot but be for the better. The general government, and General Grant, who uses and abuses the power of that government, is wholly responsi ble for this condition of affairs', and he cannot escape the odium it will bring upon his Administration. He has not the shadow of an excuse for keeping the people of that State under the muzzles of his guns or pinned to the earth by his bayonets, while thieves are plundering them in the name of the Radical party. Had he turned the government of the State over to the real people ovon two years ago, not to say long before that time, all these fearful scenes of disorder, anarchy and blood, would have been spared ub, and tho people of that fair State, which has been looked upon in times past as one of the proudest stars in our constella tion ouo of the brightest gems in the crown of our American empire would now bo happy, prosperous and contented under the rule of a local government of their own choice and own choosing ; but partisan am- bition and hide both stood in the way of this solution to the question and what are the consequences? Let the sad story of chronic tumult and disorder that comes to us with its daily repetition of horrors, by each mail, or fastor still, over the wires each morning, answer. All there and everywhere in the country is anxiety and fear. Thore is fovorish dread of something about to happen, a namoless apprehension that at any moment a frightful trage dy may be enacted that will again drench the streets of the Crescent City with blood. We all fool that the fires of a volcano are seeking to break through tho thin crust, and bring disaster and death upon this fair city of the South, and in place of the niiniio revelry of the gay and gladsome carnival, we look for a carnival of death. Will, not Con gresa step in and do an net of right and justice, . and in the interests of poace and restore the people of Louisiana to good government and tranquility? Will they not do this one act in the name of humanity, if not of justice ? Geiuiano was taken to the Peniten tiary on Wednesday nt noon and it was rumored on the streets of Salem that same evening that n petition was already in circulation for his full pardon, i The same free-love, wo- man suffrage crow that besieged the Governor for tho commutation of sentence will of course expect to seoura this Indian's : full pardon and frcodom in due time. But we predict they will not BuceeoJ until Govornor Graver's term of oflico ex pires. ...... , , Sciknck B.ii'jfLKn. Now wo suppose the average Cincinnati husband has lost all confidence in the skill and cunning of tho dentists of that city; for we road an account of a tooth jorkist who lust lijouth yanked 1.1 molars and the tongue from the mouth of a Cincinuatti woman, and yet she is still able to taste sweet things and talk glibly of the latest fusluons. It may woll bo frantically asked, "Is there no holp for a body's son in this vain world?" Re-ei.kited. Mutt. Carpenter, a Republican who wouldn't take back pay, but did tako up with another nuiu's wife, bus just been re elected U. S. Senator from Wisconsin, not withstanding the fact that a petition signed by over one thousand Repub licans of that State asked the Legis lature not to do it, said petition de claring that if Carpenter were elect ed it would break up the Republican party of that State. Willi av Paiir, who first applied the name "carpet-bagger" to the ad venturers who wont dowu South after the war to make their fortunes in politics, died lately, in extreme pov erty near Suffolk, Virginia. The ex pressive application ha gavo to the Bcolawags will not die so soon. A mh named I'llory recently out raged a little girl aged 9 years, at I'rbaua, Ohio. He was arrested and put in jail to await his trial. On (he 17th inst. forty masked mea entered the jail yard, overpowered the keep er, and took out tlie prisoner aud hanged him to the nearest treo. '' PACIFIC COASTERS. Chitfkens froze to (Jealh in Yam hill. : Lane county pays 8 State tax of i8,ojo. ' , ; Vasquez is to hang at San Jose on March 19th. Slate Temperance Alliance meets at Salem Feb. 17. Great suffering among stock East of the mountains. ' Forest. Grove is split up on the subject of erecting city jail. Six men were victims to a snow slide near Salt Lake last week. There were 4,044 deaths in 'Frisco in 1874, iwenty-seYcn ot which were murders. ' ' Loaded teams scooted across the Willamette od the ice at Buena Vista last week. The Ajax went back to 'Frisco from Astoria without coming to Portland. .' Lcabo's ferry boat, alovo Salem was washed into emilhereans by an ice-bust Inst week. ' Charley Christy got his feet badly frozen in carrying the mail from Monmouth to Corvallis. A huntsman named Archie Little killed fourteen fine, plump deer in the Blue Mountains recently. A drove of sheep last Sunday crossed the river on the ice at Port land, and saved their mutton. A Lafayette man threw a snowball at his neighbor with such force that be jerked his arm oat of place. The Mountain benhnel has a new head and a patent outside.' It certain ly is on the high road to fortune. The playful Indians have busted out in Nevada and oommenoed dep reflating on live stock and human life. A Portland thief got so low down as to be below zero. He stol thermometer the coldost night last week. Benton coiirty has 78 tax-payers who pay over $100 each; 13 who pay over $200 eah; 4 over $300; 2; over $400; 1 $518, nnd 1 8708. The loss of sheep during the recent storm in Douglas County has not been great. Young lambs have fared worse than any other stock. ' The Eureka papers blow about a beet weighing 82 pounds, but what a pigmy that is in size compared to a protruding tack in a man's boot. The Vancouver hotels are not do ing a rushing business. Notasingle arrival at any of them occurred dur ing the week ending last Friday. . The Tribune says: It Utah had a live man to represent, her, instead of a dirty polygmniBt, Salt Lake would rejoice in the possession of a mint. The Oregon Granger is shortly to be enlarged. It is a valuable auxil iary to that organization in this juris diction and should be well patronized. Los Angelos indignalod because the Southern Pa-itio K. It. Bwituhed off and refused to pass throuijh that town after a subsidy ol $000,000 had been raised. , , , , . A party ot Chioago tourists ran out of whikkey in tho mountains of Colorado, and , before they could reach a settlement, three ol them died in great ngony. The patent outsides of our Oregon exchanges have just begun to arrive with the poem of "Beautiful Snow,'' and there is a Iceile cussing going on iu certain print shops. . ; A loser, at a little poker gamo nt Shei'idan, damandod the money of the winning party, and as the demand was barked by a loaded revolver, it was quickly complied with. The good people of Yamhill are improving the cold weitther by form readmit schools. The Courier has the mimes of the persons belon g iug to two of these organisations. Ono of our exchanges says: ''The Eugcno Guard was a rebel paper during the war," but the (7 ucird can't see how that was, as it was not estab lialied until two years alter tha war closed. ' - i The residence '"of a man named Tale, about 11 miles from Walla Walla, was last wook buried under a snow elide, and his wife and three children perished. Tate was away from home. When a man bin s stock in a Kansas railroad company, he doesn't begin to brag much about tho value ot it until the road has enlivened the com munity by two or three first-class "holocaiiRts." . ' A little child ot Mr. Shackle, living in the Sitislaw neighborhood, was severely burned on January Gill. At first the injuries were considered fatal, but at present the proxpeut is that it will recover. When a Mormon father tolls his son that his mother is "going to whip him when h gets home," the boy thinks of his ten or a dozen mothers, and then takes to the woods to begin lite as a hermit. We despair ot the oranga and banana crop in Montana this year, litit by a wise dispensation of Provi dence, the average Monuniaii is en abled to lay up a stora ef Iroiou whiskey for his summer's use. A Council Bluils lawyer ato pea nuts in court aud was fined $10 for contempt. 1 ne luiisro remarked mat . , . ... , , l ., h MBS determined to Uphold the :..... r .1... 1... trW (K. CUlirO peanut crop of Ihe bOUlh. I rM i ii . -l it. Hie l'oiUllelon TribuM saVS: Th ii . a,ip i, , j - iVntlleloll OtU iellowt olered $j1 K7 liv Lh hall vhmh ihpr PavB on . , . SMMMlf rVwnt but a Ihfr Sn la wiy is- Curittmas, nd it has been presented ' stncr thai oi-jms, hi theory woum bylh.Commitw. of Arw.fi.mMUlS3SSSJ!!r to Eureka Lodge, with instructions to expend it in the purohsae of books for the Lodge. It ii intended that this shall be the nucleus of an Odd Fellows' Library in Pendleton. The nerves ot the Pendleton people were shocked recently by the cry of fire, and a general panic ensued. The fire was kindled by some boys in a dry stump alongside a livery stable, and it wan extinguished with no dam age to anything bat the stump itself. We are in receipt of tha lienton County Almanao for 1875. It con tains a good desl of . information relative to the early history and pro gress of that part of our State em braced in Benton. It ia published by W. B. Carter, of the Corvallis Gazette. ' The Bedrock Democrat, published at Baker City, says: At CUrksville, on Monday, December 28, 1874, in the forenoon; the dwelling house ot E Wendt was discovered to be on fire. The furniture, eto., was saved. the house was burned down. Loss $3000 or $4000. ' : The following is the business of the Uoseburg Land Office for the month of December: 1,365 acres sold for cash; 15 homestead entries, embracing 1,855 acres 7 final homestead entries,; embracing 980 acres; 1 mineral entry embracing 132 acres; 20 pre-emption filings; 1 donation certificate issued A Dayton couple are having a slight nupleaeantness. The woman charges her lord of threatening to spirit bcr. away, and he retorts by accusing her of being a bad cook. He says "glass and applesass" is a dish lie is not particularly fond ot, especially it the glass is pulverized. The rain storm of last week was general and protracted throughout the State of California, and caused a treshel and flood in many cases. Marysville ' was almost completely inundated, and much damage re suited to life and property. This rain insutesabundant harvest through out that State. The Plaindealer's patent outside froze up on the Ajax, at t''e mouth of the Columbia, and all hands in that office had to fall to and set up both--sides, henco Mao had a live paper last week and in his wrath threatens to bust up the patent out side business in his shebang. "Didn't we tole you so?" The Ilillboro Independent learns that Mr, J. Wilkes, an intelligent and active farmer who lives near Greenville, raised s lot of as fine carrots as can be grown in any oonntry, on his farm this year. One of these carrots measured 22 inches in length. Now then, if any man in this State can beat that let him come to the centre. Tuesday, says the Yamhill Courier the awning in front of the store of Hon. A. It. Burbnnk, in consequeuce of an over sufGcienoy of snow upon it, came tumbling down, striking man on the back, knocking him down He was not much hurt, but awful mad He said he didn't like to have them d n things thrown at nim whoa he was not looking. At San Francisco, on the 3d, one Sohmitl got his Dutch up at a lot of boys, and taking his gun ho popped away and killed the first boy he came across, and that one happened to be peaceable, quiet boy, who had never pestered hnn. If that Dutchman will just hold his windpipe awhile we will have a long petition sent down from Salem for his pardon. What he cant iJEAB. lou may gloat over the failure of the Rebel. lion and the Louisville editor will bear it patiently. But spell Fort Sumpter with a p and he will fight you till he falls exhausted on a pile of Southern exchanges. ' ' That Salem preacher who last Sabbath night tried Gerrand in his pulpit sermon and pronounced hiin "not guilty," is preparing the half breed a lecture against the time of his release from prison. He will do to run with Laura D. Fair. A Good Paper. Messrs. Kelley k Robinson are making of the Portland AVirs a No. 1 paper, and we earnest ly urge our Democratic friends down that way to give it a liberal support. It ia a perpendicular Democratic sheet and no mistake. . Lmfrovisq. Tho Jacksonville Times gives constant indications of progress, snap, vim, and ''git' up," and is now one of our most valuable and interesting exchanges. It is Democratic from center to circum ference. , How .they do rr. If oar-windows were constructed so women could raise them, Chicago drummers would go mad. liaising a window for a woman is their main reliance for striking up an acquaintance. AyWs Chwy IVrtarml the wnrtdN great Tvuifdy lor Cold. I'oujth tui tonsunilou. "T spkciaU ioticksT 4 happed IlumU and Face. Sow I.t, DrjriMft ( the Kith Ac, Ac. PiinxI kt nnM hv HL'iiruiva r i unmin s.it In alt weather.' tw that ymi vtH Ki"pr! MAM. S.ia by nil hrnmruts. only oenta. mass. s..i,i uv mi imuieiA ..nil .. Unulsoturvd only y II ..i H AR m. Cnera. j ..I. uJ IJiutxisu. New MnilTlj " I K IK " iA ik ? Lf n,,t l"f ""'n fn: J'4 "' . ha Is swind d. 'V ,rt-( ht a m.iiml mrtlnet misnt tie vv.;J?Alv'u,, ' w..y' lrt how hv ' iLV Mw Kitth. ough mS la I.Kr Conoiint. Vtum-niai NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. . CARD. SAMUEL E. YOUNO, WHOLESALE AND Retail Dealer In Dry Uooda, Urocertes, Clothing, Hoola and Shoei, Threshers, Kenp ersar.d Mowers, Wagons, 1'Iowb, Seed Drills and Broad Cast Seed Mowers, etc., eto. iermi uaa. - r irei niraei, Albany, oen. vlun:&tr. KSTKAY NOTICE. TAKEN TIP BY A. J. FItEDENBERO, TWO miles East of Hrownsvllle, Linn County, Oregon. One bay horse uUtut ten yeais old, wllh a white spot In toe forehoad, with three white feet, with wlnualls on ono hind leir and a larne lump on the other, and about fifteen nanus niyu, no oiner marKs ur urauus peroep table, and appraised by the urnlendgned, at forty-live dollars, tnU'joth day or January, 1875. STOCKHOLDERS MEETING. KTOTICE IB HEREBY GIVEN THAT A meetlnc- of the Stockholders of the Alba ny and Kantinin Water Dlleh or Gannl Com pany will be held at the office of said Compa ny, In Albany, In Mull County, Oregon, on Tuesday, the 9th day of March, 1876, at the hour of one o'clock In the afernoon of saul day, for the purpose of Increasing the capital stock of said Compriny, and to provide for the payment of the indebtedness of'said Company, and transiictlne; such other business 9 may come oeiure tne company. Uy order or the Hoard of Directors. J. H. FOSTER. President. L. Fume, Secretary. n'wtx ANNIVERSARY BALL. TO BE GIVEN AT ' PACIFIC OPERA HOUSE, ALBANY, Monday Evening, February 22d, 1875. '. . : j. . '-U'l-'V M . - .-.";,., r,,i , BONQBABY COMMITTEE - ALBANY, Gftti. M. V. Brow a, Maior J. R. Hprron. HArtRTSntTRO, O. P. louipklDi, Esq. Uod. J. K. We other ford. HALSKY, J. U. K.'IU, Esq. BROWN6VIILB, G. C. Ii I likely, Esq. scio. D. P. Mason, Esq. LEBANON, ! Jas. L, Cowan, Eiq. BALEM, COIIVALLI9, Hon. U. H. Gilfrey. Hon. J. O. Lee, ' EUGENE, Col. C. V. Kltch, JEFFWKSON, L. Loooey, Esq. RECEPTION COMMITTEE: M. A. Baker. Eno. Cant. ! C- Harofr. Ciipt. W. B. Humpliry, Hon. Geo. it. Helm, FIOOB COMMITTEE! R. 8. Price, Ed. R. M. Carter, J. B. Titus, Jos. wobber. Alajor John rnrker, TICKETS, Including Sapper, $i 00. nZtd. LEEANON NILLIHEBY STORE. FASHIONABLE ESTABLISHMENT. Mrs. A, Comptoa & Daughter, Propr's, krep constantly on nnnd a largo and elegant assortment ol cone, and trim bonnet and hats, and cut and muko divsses In tlie mtest iasliioiis, lie sure and give us acnll. n)w2. PROPOSALS FOR IRON FUR THE CAPITOL BUILDING. ' ' AT SALEM, OREUOX. BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED AT THE OP tice of the Htmnt ol Capital Building Cooi nriKsimnTs lor the Inl louring Iron, vin. 40 Window Kills, 9 fuet 4 laches long; 1 foot 10 inches wide. 3 Win doir HillH, li tbet8inches long; I foot 10 inuhos wide. 4 Window (Hpt, 9fcot6inchos long. Ott ISritrkctM. for window pilasters. Utt t'orbelM, under window sills. 9 Fiecen lied Moulding, a feet 4 Inchon long. 61 IMiiNfer 4'apN, 4H Key N tones. HHt) IseikvcM, for medallions. 7dO OriittnieiitM, on side medallions. 'i his Iron must bo furnished" within tlie tlms nnd inutU' In canlorui to the pi tins nnd apecili cuIioiih or tho smnn an ascribed in the ij"lftipl drawing mul Bpt'clfli-irt ofi notv to le seen tn tho oflico of the Aruliituct, W. W. Piper, In Suleiu. Said bids must bp uroompnnled by an under taking with two or more snri'tios, of not lfss than live p'-r cent, of the amount of en id bid, conditioned that If tho contract be owurded Ui toe suit! biudor he will enlt-r Into bonds for tne fnithiul perlormnnee of (Mild contract The bid nctrlvi;d by tho lioard lor said Iron will b3 ojxiticd by anid Board at their oflico In Hit I nni, on thn 27 th dny oi February, 1876, at 1 O'clouk P. M. of ftnld duy. Tho board r.'scrvt tin right to reject any and nil bids that ahull in their Judgment not be ho-compauli-d with fuilltelt'iit 8uritii8, and also to rt'Ji-ot ull thi' bldft in fase all Mlmll bo too high. Cuh in coin will be paid on the delivery of tho Iron nt Kiilini. By order of the Bonrd. H. Ml APLETON, Prosldani. P. f.. Willis, ftecret-ary. Balcm, Jan tfi, 1S76. n-4w8. REDUCED PRICES. PllINTING PRESSES! THE SILVER-PLATED HAND STAMP, lor printing names on clothing. This Krint one line, nnd In iiirniKhod with 9 alpha etsol tyM' lor fl.oU, or 5 alphabets for l,75. The Euroka llund Stamp, with & alphabets of type, i,uo. Th Improved hand Stnmp, prints 3 ltnrg, with II alphabet a of type, .',un. I ho Home Companion Can! Printer, for bus In ess men and ollKTa, prints 4 Hues, with 10 alplmp-H, t t,;0. The liuslni'wi Man's Printing Press prints 6 lliii'M, with Ifiiilpliabcts, l,.'0 The DlBmond Print hi n l'ross prints from AM, to.'iH Inches witiarf 1.7,0(). A st nek of ink. Inking pads, etc., furntMiod Ireu with each prM. Ad orders promptly ttlicU. Hunti ottWn to MiUltM MoititiH. vl0nU3iu. Albany, Urt'gon. STATE TREASURER'S NOTICE. Btatb Treasurer's OrncK.) balem, urfon, Jan. 21, liiTd.f yolf In hereby (riven t,tat there an funds on hand rinpluol U tho payment of tha fol lowing wnrrunw, druti'ii on the NUte Treasurer Ince 8'pt''nib:T llth, A. D. 1K71, o-wit:. Noi Wi.L'M, Jvt, Jtit. ., JCii. -'Hi. i!17, MH, 2ll, StIO, i'A 'iW, iM, I, :'ri, i5"iH, 'J.'i7, -i'vit J.VI, -1, jtil( tij, VliS 4 'jni, i.V, K7, 2, m! is. Art, , w,UH..HH,uai.-i, ait, ai.i, ,11K, 17. aL'l, .ti-2, U. -Uy, ,1, JtT, 27. 3-N ;t:;i, m, m. w, w, jmj, utt, m, uai, 3..J. SH, fit, .i, M", AIo wuiTBiU No's :!, ftH. 1DW, 201, SHfi, StW, V, 7.i, it7 t. ;n. m, S71, drawn previous to Sept. U, 1S7I. liK-'n -it will not be allowed on the above WnmntsaitiTth.il clnte. iSiiietn, Jan. Jl, iiTix-Uwl, In the Circuit Court, of the State o vrryon,jor tne vounti of linn. Ann o-nrien, Plaintiff, vs. Kiehard O'Brien, It-'lendHMt. Kuii lor Invoree, To 1 tit hard uikrlen the above named defend ant ; fn th nam of the Wat of Oregon: You are h n'by rnulr-d uni(. flr and nHt-r ehn coinpli.ini of tii" a tmve n:un-d pl,ntlrT, In the above entitled phiiw, now on til" with tb Clerk ol bhM mirt. wiimn t -n dityx ntt -r the dule of the 9t !. of thU jSui.tuions upon you If serv ed In l inn Ctmnty, tru., but If served in any ntht-r Couoi.v within this mi', then with in tw'-iity d;ya alter the tint of th mt-rvk' nf i thi i HutiinioiiK ti IM.MI You. ir if at rid hw hI.H. f nwrthMfn.piahv by the Aral day ol the nt vt. anr ,; ri" o1 to Ik hold, n " ' said nam. to be hi,i n 'h ' '"" ncl ilon.l.n v. I he Ii day of Mart-li. in nni County and And ' nrt ainive requo'd. tor Want o( a n- ;."'."."'" ' pp"r; ; therein d-mamled In li.c complaint, which j ins b..twfHn touand tli piuuttrf, and rw Uh rr and eu. ly m th- minor children in aaid complaint oml. ami w,n Uke h.tlJmrnt t.ittv K ITm m 4itv t ti i .hlllf B; F- 'ADYEltTlBEMfey INTRA Y NOTICE. Oroiron on the nu, or niosuibi"? 2""""' ot old brown work horses, about liriolA'l""" talKh. the largest on. or whleh h,"S? "U UBT. ,11 WALKER"1 ESTRAV NOTICE. r-JIAKEN' Vf BT'THB-nNDERfim.,. JsL-.ono oia bay work horse. nit,.P; hlfh, three while feet, and a white nos. . posed to be 12 years old. Hald horse waTi.l " up on the Hth of Deo- 1874, and 1 postc-Jt" up on the nth of Deo- 1874, and poste-J JM of thesaine month, by WUllam HmhhJ Reaverdam precluot, Washington count, 'n? eaon. ... . yi WSwl THE ORIGINAL BAY TEANU 1SBTIM, ALIVH WITH , ... - A...JST E W Oi U T Ft T f THANKFUL FOR PAST FAVORS Aim Still desllUUS Of COniinolnir fa. same, the proprietor la always ready and en.ii! lounn nt all times. I'asseniiers and bnitoii carneo to ana irom tne cars to any partni city atreasonawi atea, A.N.ARNoi.n ttt vBn,., :;Froprleii'' ; , NOTICE, , ' ALL THE POOK ACCOUNTS AND NOTES bolontflnK to tho Ann of It, C. Hill A. Son lte druirmsts In Albtinv m ha fn..ni -V: this date with tho undcrsluned, at th Clerk? oflioe In the Court Mouse, tn this city. Ani and nil persons Indebted to said, Arm win please cat) betore January 1st, i7&, and settis and thereby save ousts, ; - t i : ,,......C.Hn.L80N. NOTICE. IR6lff AND AVTEtt DATE UNTIL FUb , the notice, freight from, Port land to Alb, ny will be onu dol lax per ton. All ilown freight will bo delivered nt Portland or Astoria trtt charge or trtmrtnge at ml hop d rates. Boats will leave Albany for CorvalUs or Ponian every dny. For further Information apply I viunmr. .. -...ii, NOTICE-- AUSTIN MORRIHON. FORMERLY OP Mo. Dououuli Couirfy, Illinois, can haav soms. thing to his advantage by addressing Local uox w Albany, ivUin uounty. urugon. viimiitr. A MILL SITE FOR SALE. . : AV.U.UAM.S: MIU.81TE.StnTADr.EP0B either a grist or saw mill, or both, situated H mile below tho W'ilpy Creek brloVe, and atiouL H mile from the toll gatein Sweet Homa Valley, l.litn oouuty.'can be had very cheap. Knr particulars, address, A. RAI.8T0N, ji'Jlwtl Hweet Homsv NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. THE UNDERSIGNED' ADMINISTRATOR de bonis lion of the Estate of Thomas. Hopps, deceased, hereby gives notice, that hs has tiled his final nccnuntln the matter of said Instate, and all persons Interested, are hereby notllled to appear before Hon. ii. N. Tandy. County Judge of Linn county, Oregon, on Friday, the Blh day of Feb., 1875, at tho hour of 11 u'olock A. M. of said day, to. show cause If any, why said final account and accempnnying vouchers should not be allowed; in settlement of said Kslate. , . , . Fupllslied by order of Hon. K. N. Tandy, County Judge of Mim County, Oregon. . . Juu. 7th A. 1). 1871 i D. i'liuMAN, Adin'r de bonis non. n4. T ' ..... . THE OLD S5ROOM FA0T6RY. WD. RF.TJ)IN(, THE GENTLEMAN who mnmiffleturrd the flrat brooms In this city, liHB Jufit, returned from C'ulilornla and It n train cnnap'il in the old bnslnres at hli old Htand tn the Motzlor buUUliiir, near Foster Milt. vlOnlOtf. - . - -. .,, - ,. DBSSOM TIO. NOTICE. miOTlCR IS HKRERY OU'EN THATTHB Lm rnercnntlle firm of Ham. Levy, ham. Seller and Henry Neller, carried on at HarriuburiE, Oregon, undT the linn name of Lvy, Boiler it Lo n dissolved- hum. iiovy hnvinjr retired irom the same. After Jan.. 1st, Jf7a. the busl iicHs will be condueted it the old stand under the tlrm nnme ol H. & II. Srii-r, who will col lect till accounts due the lute firm and awums all liabilities of tho name. SAM. LEVY, - SAM.8KLLKR, . HKiNRX BKIiLRIU Harrisburo, Dee. 20, 1874. nilw. PICTURES. SPECIALEisoficE ALL RTZBS AND HTYI E3 AT- PRICES TO Milt tliH times. Great improvements maUa on flnishlng piiotographs. . v. , , SOMETHING NEW I ' : ; ' I mnke the copying and enlnrRlnff of oltf TJajruerrotypea, etc:, a speciality, and my unnrges nr as inimws: i will enlarge irom small cards to HxUt or ioxl'2, rind finish nicely ior i nun in ", lor me nm copy, ann l for each nddtllonnl copy, which Ih lower than li is done lor in ban h nineisco. Call and i tnv samples. .. . . .. ft" Satlsi action guaranteed or no eharpciW A. B. PAXTON. nl0n21tf. NOTICE! TO CREDITORS. ' EslHte of Edward E. Parrlsh SifOTIOE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT BY Lm order of t he County Court ol Linn County, , Oregon, made nt the D?combitr term, thereof, 1S74, the iind'Tfiinni'd was duly appointed Ad ministrator of the above named estate. There fore, all persons having datum agnlnBt tho es tate of Edward K, IWrish, ueoaaswd, nre noti fied to present the same, duly verified to the umiertogncd, at Albany, l.lnn County, Orogi or hi nis n'sim-uce aoout lour raiies irom Al ny, near Knox's finite, within the tltnoandlft a- me manner provided uy law. Dated, Jan, im.h, 175. v H. If. KNOX, Administrator. Geo. Ii. Helm, Att'y for tho Estate, niiwf. AlHII.MSTItVIOltS SALE OIF UEA1. ESTATE. mTOTIOE IS HKHRBY rtfVRN THAT THE 1 undersiirned liavld Frotnan, Administra tor ol the estnto of J. C tlrves, doconsod, by virtue f an order of the County Court, of Linn County, Oregon, miwlo and entered of rocord at the regular January term, thereof, IKJ&, will sell at public auction nt the court house door, in Albany, Linn Coulity, Oregon, on JStUurdutfj the 27th day of Feb, 1875, between the hours of A o'clock A. m. and 4 o'clock P. u. ot said day, the following de HcriUed real estate belonging to aid eHtata towlt: Heglnumg at a point on the East boundary ot the original donation land claim of Wallace. Cuahnum and wile, claim No. Vt as npiH-ars ou the plan and surveys of the United HUilen, Townwhtp U, South Range 4 West Willamette Meridian, Linn County, Ore gor.,ai.7H chains North ol tho Kouth-uuit cor nerot said claim, running thence West 70.81 hninjt, thonoe North z oiialtn, thence North aideurei'a West HU(W chains i the North-west corner oj said claim, tliencc Eaht 8i.81 olialnt, thencii sml li X ctmins to the pi ich of begin ning, containing 4W acres of land, more or lew, lying and being (n Linn County, Oregon. Thn said valuable tract of land Ilea wtUikn about :iH miles ot Albuiiv.and will w sold In two nrc'li), theouth hall as oue paresl and the .North hnlf as one pare). Terms ot pule iinUi tmin of tho ' United Ktntes, one-half of purchaft price to he paid down nt the timn of sale, tho other half on twelve iiKinths time with note and mortgajcS) on the premises, sold for s. i'urity. DA V 1 1 ) F R I M AN, Ad m V, fiFo. R. Hfxm, Ati y for Admyr. Jan.atith, 1W5. n - - . .j n24w4. EXECUTOR S 8 ALB OF ? YALIASLE 13PB0VID REAL ESTATE m ths city or albast ' Prnr.ir? notice is jikueby oiveit that by vlrum of an order made by tha County Court, within, and lor the Ctanity of Ltnu.stiite Oregon, on tha l dny of Janu ary. If7,, in tha limner ol Co (fsUite or Kd wtirdM. Altree, 1st" m nld Count r, deceased. w, Mary A. Altre, Kneeittrix and I-xlward W a I (leu, Kx'Cuior ot thu last will and teffta-in- iitoi tii Mild inward b. AIUmu, deesed. will on Thursday t the Uth disy fiFeb., JS75, at th Court Houv dfor. In the eitw f Alhnv. I In nuiil t;unty f Inn, between the h hi t of Ito'eliM'k in tin- nmrniiiL' and 4 n!oek tn the evf-niiia or that dav, m-wit ; At the hour of I o'eto-k i. v, orft r or ale t rmhlte auction thf lollowliig d. ,-ntd r-nl estate, Hituated and (via; In the Ltty of All any, tn in uf Coun ty of I. inn, to-ivit , I oil o.-J and S in Block No. ; with dwelling h.mv ther-'on. No. ft sintl i in lU-k No. with dweMtns hoiiM thereon. ltiNo..I anil t In lUorlf No. M. -Wflh dwelt tttc in ue- tht r-on. lts No. I, 2,7 and , in Ulnrk . W. The North S of IstU No. 7 and R, la JiUvk Ka w ith Jut Iii ng h.iwl!i"ivon1 1t No. 1 In Hkk No. 11, With K. wMh dwliing houw th" , " S "f i N nw-n.n n.ii., 'in.'fvoo. UK .O.Sill HIOTH r O. th"renn. AUo, Ixvt No. : s " tx No. -i in hi. No. l I I" "'. V. e.l, rn sd.lltl.rn l said city ol AlUny. ' Willi ,lelnn h.nie iher.-. ; (r irold cilo f tn Cni-d M O" "7"-'r'" - 7? . . .'" " '" r ntmnioc hall in nlo- monms,scuKd by I , V AKY A. Al TVT, pTenrH. KlWAHO WAI.UKX. kxruu, Johtcs Joiw,Aiurmyi.l,rK;utoi4r niy AU""n- 'i'd do wvll Uy jkamliuy th .irrTt1y.!iW.,hownto n-. on applies.