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...MARCH 2fl, 1875.
OFFICIAL PAPER FOR OREGON,
; HOLijNDjl has 12,000 windmills in
operation, and if the Portland bulle
tin were Ofdr there it would out-blow
' BiRSDM advertises that he will
hold "four races at the hippodrome,
We pass; there -fs no use bucking
against four aces.
The North Carolina Legislature ex
pelled a Radical member because he
didn't believe in a God. No use to
commence that foolishness or half of
the Radical Congressers couldn't hold
their seats, i r ,
Arrangements will be made for a
recess in the Beecher-Tilton trial so
that all parties may attend the Cen
tennial, and then the work will con.
tinue to the end of the century with
out interruption. "
There are estimated to bo about
55,000 babies born every year in
Paris, of which number 20,000 are
put to nurse. That would be n good
place for the, now idle wet-ninue of
the late defunct Sacramento Union to
get a job. ' 1 '
"I see very little of you," said an
old gentleman at a Louisville ball to
a young lady whom he had not met
in a long time before. "I know it,"
was the artless reply, "but mother
Wouldn't allow me to wear a very
low-necked dress to-night, the weath
er is so cold."
It has been colder in Sweden this
Winter, tboft in any other civilized
country, ; In' Furdual the thermom
eter marketl sixty degress below zero,
Wouldn't that be a good market for
Beriah Brown's editorials? They
ought to make good fire-wood, as we
never could see, what else .they wore
fit for. , .
a uanimry girl received a porous
' planter in a gorgeous envelope bear
ing a monogram. At 10 o'clock that
liiglitthe owner of the monogram,
. standing disrobed before his fire, pre
, paratoiy to applying a remody to his
chest,afainted dead away on drawing
from a paper a mass of papor flowers
' ' mid mottoes. . ' !
" 1 !Judge Perrin of Falmouth, Kon
tucky, performed a marriago coro
mouy for, Clay Ashton and his sweot-
heart. A week, later the husband
colled again. "Oh, I see," guid the
i Judge, ,you have come aftor the
FRIDAY...;.
,,i eertilicate." . ''Ob,, you don't See,'
was the reply: "I haven't come aftor
' the certificate. What I want is
div6ree,"- ' i
' ' The rumors of Prince Bismarck's
'"I intention to resign on the 1st of April
are now the subject of discussion in
. all circles in Berlin, but tboir authen-
tinity is doubted up to the present
i:The subject is also matter of comment
' among'-foreign 'diplomatists.' It Is
.C,JJaUl,UU Ulltb liB AUlIJUllltl 1JiaiJCCl'
i 1 11, , i .1, . t 1 n
'' lot wil) endeavor to obtain partial ro
i.lief from his oflieial duties and the
i name of Prince Hohcnlohe is Mien
tioued in connection with such an ar-
t "'tangement. ' ' ,
i iu i.i i r. p 'I in' i ' '
j l J ut an the train started out oh the
'""'Great Western Railroad' in Detroit
the other day, a woman leaned for-
jitj.ward and called to her husband, who
was ten feet away : "Say, Simon, did
"you wash your feet and change your
I , bocks,?' j "No, by swan I forgot all
. . about it," he replied. "Well," said
,,1'Shc, as sho leaned back, "I fuel it
In my liones that there's going to be
a smash up afore we got, to London,
and if you are killed I'll just pretend
, ; I didn't know ye !" .: ., ,
: . , Huh. J, V. Nebmitb passed through
i ourcily last Saturday ou his way
-'homo from Washington by the ovcr
' hind routo.:' He is looking , rcumrk
nbly well and seems iu the host of
i spirits. It doss one good to talk
with him about tfce hopeful aspect of
" national political affairs, and tho til-
most absolute oertainty of the eleo
; -tiim of a- square-toed Democratic;
President in 1870. We welcome Col.
NcsmitU to his Orogou home and his
. ninny admiring friends. '
' i
' Apropos of tho TyudiiU-Diirwin
, theories comes in, one of Gen
, Sohonck 'h latest stories that he told
, to the wife of a British Cabinet officer
. who assured him that "England made
.America All that (the iit.V ''Pardon,
madam," mid tlio.Cieiienilj "you re-
; mind me of mi answer . of the Ohio
lad in his taena, who, attending Sun
day m-hool for the first time, was
'niikcd by Iiin toucher, 'Who mode
you?' 'Mudo me?' -Yen. 'Why
: God made me about so lung (holding
hia hands about ten inches apart),
but I growed the rest."
:!l". ' ."' I
, 1 All Paris is talking of Mllo. (i)iln
iissi, the '.young actress who for a
whim or au advertisement (ha i
ulxnit to make her debut at the Ya-'
Vln) bus insisted on undertaking!
t!m il.ingnroiis pari uf "lion qucou"!
, v. i. u.e
lion frtmrr. Crowds Hock u
''Idly to :
us young lady, who Imn had IK) '
ivi t mining, go info tho cngo
v !i": :u Kuvotui Uiiim, bears, jiycnum,,.
jiii l i'!ir oiiimuls lire ooiitiiifid. sit
mi )', I).n-k i.f the lio:, and make
lf-r t---, f. -i m VMci.mu h!i,t., (l i'.-
THE BIGHT KINO O DKMOCHACY.
The Democracy of California have
commenced the campaign for 1875 in
that State with an earnestness and
zeal which must insure them a grand
t ictory in September. 1 In one or two
counties a faint attempt was made by
a few constitutional "split tails" of
the party to carry the rank and file
into an "Independent movement,
but that sort of bumbuggery is so
effectually played out in California,
where it has in two years past inaugu
rated more abuses than the other
parties had ever practiced in that
State, that no respectable number of
citizens would listen to the proposi
tion, and the two old parties are
marshalling their clans as of old and
preparing for a dual contest as in
times past.-
We like the ring of the following
resolutions which wore unanimously
passed, amid the greatest enthusiasm
by the Democratic County Conven,
tion in San Joaquin county, on the
Gth inst; and the action of the Dem
ocracy ot San Joaquin is only the
echo of the party all over the Golden
State :' At the sitting of the conven
tion the following preamble and reso
lution were adopted :
Whebus, The Democratic party
being founded on the immutable prin
ciples of truth and justice, admits of
no aiviuea party aiiegiuuce ;
Resolved, That this Democratic Con
vention will not recognize or admit
any one to a Beat who does not pledge
himself to use all reasonable efforts
to maintain the organization of the
party in this county, and for the
nomination and election of a full
County, Judicial, Congressional, Dis
trict and btate Democratic ticket,
After the permanent organization
of the Convention the Committee on
Resolutions reported the following,
which were adopted amid wildest
cheers: . i
The Democracy of San Joaquin
County, in Convention assembled,
recognizing tiie (act that uie princi
ples of the Democratic party as here
tofore laid down in the platforms of
National, State and County Conven
tions of the Democracy are the best
to be governed by ; and repudiating
the infamous doctrine that they
should affiliate with a "Third," or a
"People s party, ' whose ; political
horizon is bounded by county lines,
which has no separate existences save
through the chagrin of defeated can
didates, which has no National recog
nition, and whose representatives, for
good or for evil, would.be powerless
in the councils of the nation repudi
ating the dootrine that under any cir
cumstances we should commit polit
ical suicide by merging our organiza
tion with that hybrid body, and as
sisting it to make State, District or
County nominations for public olh-
cers, we do adopt the following-reso
lutions :
'Hcwlved. That accepting the
amendments to the constitution, as
portions of the organic law of the na
tion vand rocogmzing that the ibsuos
covered by them are closed forever.
it becomes the highest duty of the
Democratic party to address itself to
mooting those issues forced upon the
people by a Kaclioai and military rJi,
ooutive, and to oorreet those abuses
of legislation, which, for the past
ten years nave mado infamously con
spicuous a partisan and venal Con
gress. .-. iitwlcetl, ihat to turn end we in
vite the political co-operation of all
good citizens who desire the perpet
uity ol a republican form of govern
ment, and who believe that this only
oan be aooompliHbed by eonoert of
action wita the .National Democrats
party." ; ,
, ,,. TUm NKW HK.VATK.
The eleotion of United States Sen
ator by the Legislature of Minnesota
completes the list of members of the
States in the 44th Congress, with the
exception of one disputed seat from
Louisiana, claimed by Mr. Pinch
beck. The complete list is given be
low, the names of the Republicans
being printed in Roman, Uiobo of
the Democrats starrod, and all oth
ers, including Liberal Republicans
and Independent Republicans, in
small capitals : , ,
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"Mr. Hpeukah, Mr. Speokah, I rise
uia pint of o'dnh. Dara 1 m.n
what done it.." riaeuliit,-,.! i,,.,i.,knr
of the Arkniimiu T.mrit M i,
aliiHiK one haud frantically at the
gallery and mopped his head with
the other. "I)t dar cussed white
man jes done spit down on do ton
o'mv head."
A CHABACTKR1NTIC PLATkOBM.
That able journal, the N. Y. San,
says the Republican portyas repre
sented by an enormous majority in
both houses of the Forty-third Con
gress, and illustrated in the acts of
its last session, points with pride to
its past record, and rejoices in the
following declaration of its present
principles :
I. Third term now, and Presidency
for life hereafter.
U. Government by the bayonet,
suspension of habeas corpus at discre
tion, and drumhead courts martial,
are the true elements of political
strength. ,
IDI. Specie payments in 1879 with
out coin.
IV. Civil rights means tho white
man has no rights which the black
man is bound to respect.
V. More taxes, more debt, and
more expenditures the true road to
permanent prosperity. .
VI. Subsidies, special tariffs, Cred
it Mobilier, Texan-Pacific, back-pay
grabs, railroad grants, and all sorts
of monopolies blaze the pathway of
Republican legislation.
VII. Nepotism is obedience to
scriptural authority, and a blessing
to the reigning family.
VIII. Negro supromacy iu the
South to advance Christian civiliza
tion. IX. Opposition legislatures ought
to be suppressed by Fedoral troops
as dangerous to Orantism.
X. Returning boards are more po
tent than elections, . and should be
appointed by the President.
XI. The people have no right to
complain when the Administration ie
content.
XII. A large standing army and
powerful-appropriations for tho navy
are indispensable to a republic, and
to hosts of magnificent officers seek
ing commands.
XIII. OmjonentB of the third temi.
critics of the President, champions of
the Constitution, economists, and the
toiling masses who grumble because
they are poor, must be classed as ban
ditti, and punished accordingly.
Y.J.V. Centralized government is
national strength, and State Govern
ments should bo abolished except as
dependencies. , , ,
XV. Present salaries are insuffi
cient to maintain the dignity of office,
and ought to bo doubled immediately, .
with back pay at the pleasure of the
oflieial.
XVI. Carpet-baggers and office
holders are abused patriots who have
suffered for their country, and merit
its grateful recognitiou.
XVII. Investigations by Congress
intended to expose corruption and
jobbery, and to damage the Republi
can party, cannot be too sternly con
demned for trenching on private
rights.
AV111. The President is the rec
ognized hoad of the Government, to
whom Congress and the courts owe
obedience.
aIX. Tho nowspapor press is i
nuisance A osnsor to restrain carp
ing utterancos and a severer law to
coudemn offonding editors, are do
mandod forthwith; : , . ' ,
XX. Rings are self-sacrificing or
ganizations, intended to promote the
public welfare, to shape legislation
wisely, to stimulate enterprise, to aid
commerce, to build railroads, and to
place appropriations where they will
do most good.
XXI, A constitutional amendment
is recommended making Long Branch
the summer capital of the nation,
with liberal allowances for tho Presi
dent and bis household during (ion.
Ubants life. .. , , , , ,, i
! I
. 311 K UUEAT HUANDAL.
Bessie Turner is now on the wit
ness stand in the Tilton-Beecher trial
and as hor testimony borders on the
romantic as well as the nasty, tho
biggest crowds yet gather into the
court room and feast thoir ears and
feed their prurient imaginations on
the disgusting recital. Bessie lived
for quite a number of years in Tilton's
family during the allcgod "goings
on "botweeu Xloeclier and IVli's. lil-
ton, and she does a, round, rattling,
ready tale deliver, but all she seems
to know is of Tilton's inhumanity to
his long-Buffering and angelie wife
and of his "fooling around" with
other woinon one of whom she
(Bessie) seems to have bcon which.
She tolls of Theodore when she was
aged about seventeen, how he nsod
to hold her on his lap, caress her hair
and Bhower loving kisses on her
maiden brow; of how he used to car
ry her to hor room and many a time
and oft visit her iu tho silent watches
of the night and dally at her boduide
placing his hand upon hor neck in a
caressing manner mid uttering words
of passion to her which she did not
then understand; how he made too in
effectual attunipts to ruin her and
how she indignantly spurned his ad
vaucoa.
Verily, there bo gay times among
the sanctimonious Plymouth Church
folk, and the christian example set
by them is not calculated to inspire
the wicked to copy after thoir pious
ways!
A young married man at ltocklaud,
Mo., becoming jealous of his wife at
recout cutortaiiiiuctit, told hor, on
reaching home, that ho iuteuded to
commit suicide, and was told to go
ahead. He accordingly procured a
rope, and making due preparation,
swung himself off, calculating how
ever, that ha would be cut down in
time to save his life. An alarm was
given, and the neighbors hastened to
the rescue, but before a knifo could
bo found to cut him down he was
black in the face and nearly dead.
He is recovering, and tliinksit doemi't
pay to run so much rink for the pleas
ure of frightening his better half.
The aggregate sum of the twelve
general appropriation bills paused
during the hint session of Congress is
alHiut 8173,000,000, apart from other
bills containing nppropi iiilioiiH.
FIRHT GIN FROM ANDY.
Last Monday Andrew Johnson got
his first shot in on tho Grant dynasty.
Tho resolution was before tho .Senate
for the admission of Pinchbeck,- of
Louisiana,-and, as it had been given
out that Andrew would be heard from
on this occasion, the galleries were
crowded long before the hour of
meeting to-day, and when tho Senate
was called to order there wns not
even standing room in thenjAvhilo
on the floor of the Senate there were
many members and others entitled to
the privilege.
As soon us order was restored Mr.
Johnson took tho floor, and the tele
graph gives us the following cpitomo
of his speech :
He first referred to the trouble in
the legislature in 18GC and the action
of the federal government at that
time, the instruction totren. Thomas,
in command of tho federal forces, to
strictly abstain from any interference.
In quoting the dispatch conveying
such instruction, to Uen. Xliomas he
said tho dispatch was signed by the
Secretary of War and the presont
President. , He declared it was not
his intention to give utterance to a
single personal matter, but to speak
of public acts. Ho thcu referred to
tho removal of Gen. Sheridan from
the command of the Fifth Military
District in 1867, and said it was in
consequence of a wail which came up
from the people of that section.
Why was it that this mnn Sheridan
had been selected to go back to these
people who before condemned him
and prayed for his removal? Ho
(Johnson) knew the determination
the peoplo sought. Thoir greatest
object was to be restored to tho
Union. He would tell some of those
who were acting behind the curtain
that if thoy expected to stir up an
other civil war and amid the war-cry
and strife have one ride into power
for the third term, then they might
bid farewell to liberty. Applause
in the galleries.
He then proceeded to argue at
length against the third term. In
speaking of gift taking by U. S. offi
cials, he said this question would bo
just as legitimate a subject to consid
er here to-day as the one now under
consideration. Returning to the ac
tion of the President in Louisiana
affairs, he referred to the provision
of the constitution that the United
States shall guarantee every State in
the Union a republican form of Gov
ernment, and said he didn't under
stand the President to bo the United
States. That provision didn't au
thorize the Executive of his own voli
tion to take charge in person or by
agent, selectod from the army of a
State governmout. He declared the
time had been in this countrv within
his recollection wheji if an act of
usurpation liko this had been at
tempted, it would have produced a
shock throughout tho nation and a
storm of indignation would have been
ready to hurl tho perpetrator from
powor. Now wo saw things differ
ently. AVe had gone outBide the con-'
stitution in a way that would bring
this government to an end or change
its character entirely. Again, referr
ing to tho orders, sent Sheridun, the
speaker said hero was a general of the
army sent with authority to go and
look over this country and mark liiin
solf out an empire, proscribe the lines
of his government or territory he
should control, and in which his
power is absolute as that of an em
peror. Whoro, ho asked, did this
power of usurpation and tyranny
fome from? "Upon what meat doth
this our Cvesar feed that he hath
grown so grout" that he can mark out
the boundaries of empires and place
military commanders over them. He
thought it. time that the country was
awakened to consider thesgathings,
J. ho senator descrrucd tiie oryTitu.
tion of the Louisiana legislature, ami'
declared tho action of the military in
the case was unconstitutional, He
would vote against tho resolution
not because it was a Republican
measure, but on the principle that if
Presidential interference1 with the
affairs of a Stato were sanctioned in
this case, why not apply it to all
otuorsr lie relorred to and de
nounced the action of the Presidont
in Arkansas affairs, and speaking of
tiie growth ot .-federal power as
evinced in the action in Louisiana
and Arkansas affairs, the force bill
and the pending resolution, ho de
clared there must be something bo-
hind all this, and continued. "We
can only look at it in tho light of
events that Mill transpire in the ap
proaching Prosidontial election, when
we may havo a conq ueror and usurper
installed in the government, and he
has gone on extending his militarv
power until he has accomplished his
purpose ihe time may come when
some uiomber of the other House
may introduce a rosolution like this.
It hcreaa, A great disturbance and
dissatisfaction exists m the oouutry,
and for the sake of the prosorvation
of poaco and harmony iu the country,
iicuuwf, mat A. or ll. is declared
President." I don't care whether
you call him king or Presidont, for
the next eight yours. What would
you do then? Whoro is the power
to provont, and whore is the navy?
w uat oouia you do m the niipotoncy
and weakness of an unarmed peoplo,
when brought in contact with armod
force? We well know wo would be
powerless. And I to-day, in the pres
ence of this Somite, warn the people
against tha approaching danger. I
toll my countrymen, Mr. President,
Unit empire is uhead, and that in
stead of having a free and republican
Government now, we havo' a kind of
Government which is called a Strat
ocracy. There is a military Govern
ment where the country is ruled by a
military chieftain, and where the
army is the power. That is the Gov
ernment you have now.
Ho appoalcd to the people to arouse
tliomsolvoM against corraptiou, against
prottigacy,ngaiiistusuriution8. Thin
administration is trying to overthrow
the government. Let every effort
be made to sustiuu the government
and ejix't iroui power tho corrupt aud
usurping ruler. Instead of this reso
lution ha would sny to the President
in tho language of Vain to the Em
bassador of t'tt'ssr, ' 'go tell the Kin
peror to disband his legions and re
store the liberties of tho people."
Ho would tell this dictator to stop
his encroachments upon the constitu
tion and bring peace to the country.
Let him do this, and the KM'uker
would mount the rostrum and strive
to gain from the people his pardon
for the violations of the constitution
and all his transgressions. : .
Ho concluded as follows : Let us
forget what has been herotof ore. Lot
us lay aside personal differences. Let
us lay aside party discipline. Let us
give up our parties for our country,
and lay them on the altar in defense
of the constitution. (Applause in tho
galleries checked by the President
pro. tern.)
TUB DICTATOR NOMINATE!!.
A scalawag named Dunn, who con
trived to creep into tho last Congress
from the Eighth District of Tennes
see, because the Opposition divided
its strength between three candidates
who combined had a majority of
nearly six thousand, but who was
buried out of sight at the election
last fall, and probably will never be
heard of again unless he should
turn up among the antipodes, in a
speech just before Congress adjourn
ed nominated Grant for Dictator in
the following words : ,
"Allow me to Bay here, Mr. Speak
er, that I had rather see Guant, with
the confidence I have in his ability,
with the confidence I have in his in
tegrity, and with the confidence I
have in his patriotism, I would rather
Bee him Military Dictator than see
any man on earth President of the
United States who would sit silently by
and see the weak and the helpless
trodden down and oppressed without
attempting to stop it."
Now, if there is a vacancy for dep
uty scullion or bootblack about the
White Houso, here is exactly the fol
low to fill it. Amid the rush of ap
plicants after the adjournment, the
claims of Noxx should not be forgot
ten.
Of course this distinguished patriot
expects to be taken care of by the
paternal Government, which provides
offices for condemned Congressmen,
and levies war taxes to pay for their
support as partisan pensionors.
Mayhakd is to go on a mission, and
why should not Nuns ornament the
civil service in some other station?
THICK A SI MUCH.
Somebody has figured out the in
teresting fact that the total amount
of State, county, city and town taxes
collected in the United States in 1870
Twos 8280,591,000, which was about
$7 dollars a hoad for the entire popu
lation. The total amount of these
taxes collected in I860 was $94,180,-
000, which was about ?3 a head for
the entire population. H)cost, there
fore, more than twice as' much -to
tako care of a man in his Stato, coun
ty, and municipal relations in 1870
as it did ten years before. This does
not include Fedoral taxation; 1
We see that a young lady in Illi
nois, whose parents were spiritualists,
fell ill, and a noted medium was sent
for to euro her by the laying on of
hands. The medium was a gay and
fostive rooster and was a long while
curing her. The baby that was born
last month was a bouncing boy, and
the father of the betrayed girl is look
ing after that absent medium with a
Spencer rifle. A similar case occurr
ed at Brownsville,, in .this., county, a
few years ago, and the medium served
the State for four years at brick
making. ...-:. -I'-:- :" ! '
It seems the religious excitement
is not confined to the wicked region
of tho Pacifio coast and our little Al
bony. Wo learn from late exchanges
that a very great revival of roligion is
now in progress at St. Johnsbury,
Vt. On Sunday and Monday last
over eighty persons requested prayers,
and a mooting in tho Fairbanks ma
chine shop on Tuesday of ternoon was
attended by tho five hundred work
men of that groat establishment and
by many others. The proportion of
positive conversions , is unusually
large. ' i
Stiii up the sleeping lion in the breast
of a Welchman, and he will hurl at
the head of tho offender such epi
thets as nobody but he or an infuria
ted Choctaw or Muscovite would evor
thinkof using. For instance, a Welsh
paper of New York, Y Drych, says of
Ben Butler: 'Ymddangsodd y Cad
Buttler." We have thought a thou
sand times of using the very same
expression in connection with Bntlor,
but some how or other we always
hesitated to do it.
Ahe railroad conductors to have no
privileges? Horo is Helen Crackor,
Sauk county, who sues the Chicago
and Northwestern Railroad Company
for damages because one of thoir
oouduclors "smacked" her lips while
riding on a train. The case is now
on trial in the Supremo Court, where
it was taken on an appeal from the
Sank county Court, where tho plain
tiff was awarded $1,000 damages.
Tho St. Louis Republican wisely
says : Ijet the Southern people leavo
the Administration and tho Radical
party to the angry North, with noth
ing to divert or distract it in the
reckoning; let them retuaiu silent and
passive while tho reckoning goes on,
and the next Presidential election
will be to tho Radical party simply a
day of judgniout.
General Butler's proposed hip to
Europe is pronounced gammon by
tho Louisvilla Cwritr-Journal, siuce
"his plan is to run for Vice-President
on a ticket with Grant." That would
be a combination! The same news
paper is convinced that the "Presi
dent will never quit tho White House
except upon a stretcher."
PAC1PIC COASTERS.
The steamer Oneatta burst licr boil
Two Portlandcrs "struck oil'1 in tho
Louisvillo lottery.
The next session of the National
Grange will ho held in San Francisco.
Matt. Keiltis little boy of Portland,
can't take another swing till his arm
gets well.
A Stockton paper advertises "Tivo
Sisters want washing" So do a good
many brothers.
In Antelope Valley,-Wasco County,
out of 3,500 head of sheep 30 have
died dnring the Winter.
The O. S. N. Co. havo bought off
the opposition between Portland and
Dalles. 'Twos over thus.
Somo fool i-egisteiB at a Portland
hotel as "J. S. Morrill and lady."
Wonder whore his wife is?
Grand Master Daniel Clark, Master
of the Oregon State Grange, has re
turned from the National Grango.
At Marshlield, Coos Bay, thero are
two schooners on the Btock, and the
keel of a thud one is about being laid-
We sec they are having a protracted
meeting at Wingsville. Well, that is a
good place tor angels to start from
Wingsville.
A Washington county melhodist
preacher has quit that chinch and
joined tho Advenlist, and gone to
preach in that line. :
Bro. Murphey, of the Olympia
Standard, practically asks: "What
shall we do to ho saved?" Better got
somebody to salt you down,
, "Fighting Polk" keeps up her impu
tation. Hor sheriff put a hoad on a
man whom he thought was writing
him up in the Portland papers.
Mr. Naylo, of Yreka, was knocked
down by mistako for another man,
recently. Ho hopes they'll hit the
rfcht Naylo on the head next tjme.
A Salem young lady gats up before
breakfast and takes a walk of three
miles for exorcise while her mother
is splitting the day's alloivance-ol
wood..
The new paper at Empire City,
Coos Bay, is to ho Democratic iu pol
itics, and is to bo under the editorial
management of Mr. Siglin, onoof tho
proprietors.
"I call that horse'ear coorliiig,"
said a girl the other evening to a
bashful youth who sat stiffly by her
side, with his hand upon the small of
her back.
9
"What on earth made you get so
drunk; and why oh! why, do you
coiho to mo in this dreadful Btate?"
"Because, my darling, all tho other
places are shut up."
Big religious revival is going on at
Helena. Montana, and all the minors
from "Last Chance Gulch" have
joined. They evidently thought this
was their favorite lead. -
Scarlet fever and yellow ievcr are
well known and most people know
what it is to have tho "blues', but it
has remained for the dootors at Puna
mint, Cal., to discover a "green fever.-'
The Coos Bay News, founded by
Tom. Merry, has been sold to Messrs.
Galo, J. M. Siglius and Jos. Bennett,
and the Record says that it is to be re
moved to Empire City immediately.
Everybody joined tho Good Tem
plars at Glencoo and the only saloon
ist there closed up and put a card on
nis uoor upon wincti ho wroto "go
to holt" and started off for there him
self.
Bro. Ireland, of the Aatorictn says
"Call mo pot names, dear mother;"
and the Jhdlelin, responds by calling
him "tho Princo of liars." Can such
things be aud nobody get a head put
on 'em?
Ankonoy'8 new theatre, just finished
in Portland, is said to be a palace of
beauty and art, and none but first
class talent well be permitted to ap
pear in it.
Tho Eugene Guard says: The
man that robs country editors was iu
town one day this week. Ho remain
ed until after dark and stole a silling
goose off her nest from Uncle Jimmy
Goodchild.
An East Portland man stroked his
gray locks and sadly remarked "I
didn't really know how old and feehlo
I was until I went to lick James this
morning. , Ho'a only 17, bin I couldn't
mako him hollor.
A Sucrcmonto couple tho other
night found tho traditional baby in a
basket on their door-steps, but conclu
ded they would rather get thoir babies
tho old way, and so sent Ihe loundling
to tho poor house. t
Tho Bid Itoeti Democrat says: An
other rich Blrike has been made in
Green's Discovery Mine, at Rye Val
ley. Tho ledge is thirty inches in
width and shows better than anything
horotofo ro struck thero.
A Santa Clara man was thrown to
violently from his horse oil to a pick
et fence as to drive one ot the pickets
completely through tho body near tho
heart and it took tour men to removo
tho body from the picket fence. Of
course ho died,
Our Coos Bay friends have experi
enced considerable difficulty during
the present Winter in getting their
shipping in nnd out over tho bar.
Four steamers ami three sail vessels
which had btcn detained for some
went to sea on the !2th inst.
Our Oregon cenxns taknrs are uow
at work and one of them swears that
thin is what he struck the ether day:
"What is your name?" "John Corco
ran.'" "Your age?" "Twenty-one."
"What nativity?" " Well, Ih.n's what
, brtthew me. I'll tell von, and mavbe
you can make it out. My father was
Irish, but is now a naturalized Amer
ican citizen: my mother English lmu'
I waB born on a Dutch frigate, nnficr
" Uh" Fruntsh flag in Turkish waters.
Now, how is it?" . .
Muoh depends upon the way in
which things are stated. For ex
ample, in one of our western ex
changes, on account of a slbamer
accident, in which tho reporter says:
"The only passengers were T. B.
Nathan, who owned thice-fourth of
the cargo and tho captain's wife."
A young lady hurriedly entered a
country Post Office the other morning,
and Lroalhlessly asked for tho letter
she dropped into the box halt' an hour
before. The letter was written to her
dear friend Julia, describing tho lat.ist
social, and sho had for onco forgotten
to writo "In haslo" in the corner of
tho envelope.
Articles of incorporation gf the
Prinesvtllo Grango Company were
filed in the Clerk's Ofliice, , Wasco
County, last week. The objeot of the
the corporation is to engage in the
purchasing and soiling of wares, mer
chandise, live 6took, farm and dairy
produots and in carrying on black
smithing in its various branches.
An elegant and fashionable affair
came off at Salem last Friday evening,
in the shape of a private masquerade
party at the palatial residence of the
capital's popular merchant Mr. War
ner Breymau, under the auspices of
and for his daughter Elva, a young
lady of many raro qualities and en
dearing graces, which havt made her
exceedingly popular among a large
list of acquaintances and friends.
k From Mr. F. II. Sawtell the Cor
vallis Gazette learns that Mr. Mead
i
living at the mouth of tho Alsea, ac
cidentlly shot his little daughter, aged
about 9 years while doing something
with his gun, on Friday of last week.
Dr. G. M. Carter, of tho Siletz, was
called but had not returned when Mr.
S. came out, It is feared tho wound
is fatal, as tho shot toox effect iu tho
side. Could not luarn full particulars.
The remains of Win. Noble, of Coos
Bay, who was missing since tho 18th
inst., were found floating in Isthmus
Slough by iTio officers ot the steamer
Messenger on tho 13th inst. A coro
ner's inquest was held and a verdict
of accidental drowning returned.
Two men named Wm. Edwards and
Gibbons were bound over to answer
tho charge of murdering the deceased
and it is probable that they will be
purged of the crime laid at their door.
TnE Telegraph is in mighty little
business now-a-dajs. Only last Sat
urday it burdened its wires with a
report that the Custom Ilbuse officers
of Chicago had stolen tho paltry sum
of one hundred thousand dollars;
and during the war 'on official steal
was never considered worth mention
ing until it had arisen to the dignity
of millions. - '
Connecticut ELEOTiou.-The elec
tion takes place in Connecticut one
week from next Monday, when we
may look confidently for a Demo
cratic victory but that is becoming
common now-a-days as juvenile land
marks around a oouutry school house.
Fbom prcse.njjappearances the "lead
ing statesmen" of the Administration
party regard the sustaining of the
Kellogg fraud in Louisiana as the
test issue upon which to make the
next Presidential campaign. We
don't want anything better.
New Hampshibe, The mails bring
us California papei'B published since
the New Hampshire election, from
which we learn that Democrats elect
ed two of the throe Congressmen
which is a Democratic gain one
Congressman from that State.
The Doleware Legislature has be
fore it a bill to offset tho civil rights
infamy in that State. Many other
Southern States are taking similar
action.
IN JIi:.MOIH,,ii.
Tan-oknt,Oon. )
March anh, itrysj
Editor Democrat:
The following l-esolntions wcie pnsaod by
TniiRent Urantte, in respect to the nicmnrj
of their deceased Sister Elisia Morgan:
vVnKRKAS. It has pleasod Hod in his nil
wise providence, U romovo from our midst
Sister Kiirn Slorpin, a worthy and much
osteenied member of our (iixiige, Tlieru-
KKSOLVsn. That we oxnrosa mir deon
sorrow for (lie loss of one so aniiahle and
(mro in character, ana whoso Iilo was nn
innor to tho Grange- and community to
which slit bolonjred.
Uks. That while we deeply mourn the
lossofounj-iister, we feel, that our Iohh is
lior eternal itniin; and to tier bereaved hus
band and friends, we oxtend our tendcrcxt
symruhv.
Rkm. That in respect to her memory wo
drn onr linmso in inciuniini!, and' tho
member wcur the misal badjtu for twenty
davs.
liKs, That in token of our m-uivatlir
ami tiwapevt, theso resolutions bo entered
iilionthe minutes of tins Grnnue, nnd a
copy of the name he eont to the family of
our deceawd Sister, ami also to Ihe Wil
lamette t-armerand our county pane-re for
publication.
J. 11. ItoilKRTH, 1
W. Hfnkhht, Com.
S. A. Fanninu. j
TO THK PATOOV.
Editor Democrat:
Will you pleaso allow space fur tho
following resolution, passed at the
last regular meeting of llue Orange-,
held last Saturday
liemlml. That tho Patrons of Hope
CJrange do not enrlorj the act ion of the
Executive CoinmitU, in recommend
ing the Willtunette flintier to the Pat
rons of this State, as we do not see it
in that li);ht by the persual of its
former nape. Tliercfurp. u- mxvtni.
mend that the Patrons clioow fur 1
themselves.
U F.SM1TU, M.
V. V. Davis, W. S.
A D V K R T 1 8 K M G N T S
CHAN. E. WOLVKRTOff,
mourn' md cousseior at 11b
ALBANY, OIU5UON.,, .' '
tfromra ovor thn Albany Boot , ,.
.""'"wner of KroJJ "
. Nlms , ,
. NOTICE TO TEAVMERH "
Plnil.lp EXAMINATION OK :.
'J. "Is lilnK cOTllllcul, lr IJnn uBl.
H,m., on MatuiUay, MurcKjtlu commS1':'''1
ut. U o'clock A
' ' 1. K. WBATHRRKOnn
-O.JfhoolBu'-i
2l)-5.
ALBANY, BlTH HOUSETT-
AND--
BARBER SHOP
vicinity fur the liberal patronnce bUXC1
on Win for tho past 80v,.n ycara, and h,S T.
tho luturu a conilnuanoo of thoir tovora I.W
the oeuonimodntloii of traiiBlont custom.
and friend. In the upper part oftown he 1.7.
opened a neut Uti le shop next door to M"
punery A 'i nylor wiloon, where a good work
man will always bo In. attendance to wait uTm
Z Ti l,ion2otr.JUE-WEB
KM Kllll F aXkT '
TOTICB IS HEREBY OIVEX THAT BY
1 virtue or nn execution ismv.a out of the
ounty Court of tho county of u,m, State of
Oregon, in lavor of Jacob Mendew and Benla
mln lJivmior n-ufnst Martin Orav, for the
sum or two huudrcd and forty-four dollars and
stxty-six nnd two-third ccntu, j;old coin of the
Uuitod Htiiti's and for costs and disbursement
In tho sum of twenty-two dollars and seventy
Ave cents and accruing oosU, duly attested the
Ulh day of March, l7o, and to mo directed and
delivered. I have levied upon all the ritfht, title
Interest and estate which thn said Martin Gray
had of, in, and to the following described real
estate, on the 8th day of Jununry, 1875, to-wlt-Apart
of tho donation land-claim of James
lllakely, situated In Section U, In Township 14
Houth Jlnnei West of Willamette Meridian
In fiinn county, HI ate or Oregon, commencing:
at the South-oast corner of Hlock No. in
the town of Hrownsvllle, In said county, and
running thence Kast 9 rodH, thence North tf
rods, thence West H rods, thenco South 8 rods
to the place of beginning, containing 72 square
rods, 1 will on
Monday, thc JStk day of April, 1875,
at the court house floor In the city of Albany,
In said JJnn county, ut the hour of one o'clock
in the nfternoon or thitWiny, sell at public auc
tion, all tho right, title, Interest and estate of
the (mid Martin Gray In and to thu above de
scribed real estate, lor cash, gold coin of the
United States, to satisfy aaid execution, costa
and accenting costs. L, u. HICK,
Sheriff of Linn County, Ugn,
nlw.
FOR THE SPRING TliADJS!
' The Trendwcll
Combined Uang aud Sulk' Plows
STATESMAN SEED DRILLS
the only force feed drill,
ON THE COAST.
Call and examine my large stock of agricul
tural Implements. Warerooms on (Second
street, ono block cast of tho "Democrat" build
ing. Fit AN K WOUD.
- vlOn&Jtf.
ADMKAIMi'KAlOU'N NAJLE .
OF '', ... ' .-
IR.-E3 -A.L ESTATE.
PITEIMC NOTICE-IS HKREBY GIVF.N
that by virtue of an ordwr mado by the
County Court, within and lor the County of
Linn, Stato of Oregon on tho 4th dav of
March, l($7.r, In thf matter of the estate of Elf.
B, Moore, deceased. We, the undesigned Ad
ministratrix and Administrator of tho estate
of the said deL-rused, will on ,
Monday, the Mh day of April, 1876,
at the Court House door In tho city of Mbany,
In said County of Linn, at thti hour of one
o'clock in tho evening of that day, oiler for
Rale at public miction the undivided half of
the following di'scrlbfrd real -estate, belonging
to the said estate and situate in said county,
to-wit : Fractional river lot No. two
and the North half of fractional river
lot No. one, in McCully's addition to the
City, of ilarrisburg; aim fractional river
lift, No. two in the original City of Harrisburg;
alflo the South half of thn South-east quarter
of H.-etlon No. :fc!;the South half of the South
west quarter of Section No. SB, In township 14
South, and the North half of tho N. W. quar
ter, of Section 4, and the North half or the
North-east quarter of Section 5, In Township IS,
Mouth, alt in Uaugo No. 3, West, containing
313 S7-KW acres.
Tkkmh: Sahl real eHtato will be wild for
cash, gold coin, ono haU to un jiaid down on
tho day of sale, and th remainder In lx
months ; secured by mortgage-on the promises.
ANN It. MOOUK, Administratrix.
- JAMES Rll.EY, Administrator.
Joiink A Jones Atty'n. , n:i2w4.
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