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MILLER, ATTORNEY A.T LAW, LEBASOS OREGON. win rmietlee In all the courts of the St ito. tToropt attention gtvn to collections, eon- ImalnuGC A tnMlftlilV. vlOnASX- J. A. VAATIS, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW COHVA1XIS, ORESON. m practice In all the Conn of the State a,r umoe la tne Loon ttouse vlunsavl. J. W. DALDWI.V, UTJRNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW, v hi .rtce In nil the Court tn the 8d. 3d m J Kh Judicial Districts; in the Supreme oarv vi Oregon, and in the United States Di net ana urouit lours, umee up-stam in rront n in larrtshs brick block. First St., Albany, ree-an. V oil ivy 1. S. A. JOII.YS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ALBAS V, 0REG03T. tXHc9 In the Court Hon."' vsn2tf. J. XV. UAYIU lt. ATTORNEY AT LAW. CORVA1AI3, OBOON. Poorta! attention to collection of aeeonnts. "Office one door Sooth of Fishers Brick. "w vionarrl. CHIS. E. WOLTERTO.X, inesxir isb consEioi it nw, ALBANY. OREGON. Omre In From an "s brick, up stairs. D.E.N. BLACKBURN", ATTGFiSEma COUNSELOR IT UW Brownsville, Oregon. T Collections asp eoialty. apit. Dr. T. .. SOf.DEAT. OCCULIST AND AURIT r (LF.M, OBEGOX. DU. GOLDEN HAS HAD EXPERIENCE IN troatng the various diseases to which the ye and ear are subject, and feels confident of giving entire satisfaction to those who may place themselves under his care. noStf. 3SI BR. E. 0. SMITH, gg OFFICE IS FROMAN-3 BtJILDIXG, over Blain's clothing; store. Resi dence, south-east corner of Third and Lyon streets. 13:31 . D. B. Rice, H. D., Physician and Surgeon. OFFICE at Dr Hummer's Dreg Store. Residence on the street leading to the pepot, at the crossing of the Canal. l29tf J. K WEATHERFOKD. I W. G. PIPEB. Sotary Publis. . WEATRERFOSD & PSPER, Allmny, Ortfoa. Win practice in the different Court of th State. Special axtentioD aiven to collecting, lnveeti- gatkm of titles, conveyancing and ail probate matters punctually attended to. Proceedings in bankruptcr eoxtemctei. ffl In 9d story, Brir-.' rmlding. rtSaS R, S. STRAHAN, Albany. JOHN BURSE-IT Corvallis STflAHAN & BURNETT, ATTORNEY'S AT LAW. Will practice in all the courts In Oregon. vl2n40tf ..Oils A. B.1XKS, (NOTARY PUBLIC,) ITTOHIBTAUD GQWSELOXATLAW, Corrallls, rewnn. T ILL PRACTICE TS ALL THE COCBTS OF 1 V the State. ConTwsncinfir done. ooDections irade, farms bought and sold, money loaned, and notes disoonoted. OAoe in Court House up-etaira. 3l D. M. Conley, ATTORNEY AT LAW. ALBAXT, OCLCOX. OFFICE, 57 WEST FROST STREET. Special attention given to colleotiona. Tl3nlf G. H. Davis, LL D., Physician and jSnrgeon, SALES, KECOX. Office on Commercial St. Pust-offlee box, So. 2. vlSnlatf DOCTOR N. KENTON, Physician and Surgeon. Having rermanently located in the city of Albany, and entered upon the lliirty-firstyeir of his practice, respectfully tenders his professional erviops to the citizens of Albany and surround ng conn, try. W Office at the City Lirag Store. T,esA. dencc on First Street. vl2n4&u" H- J. B0TJGHTON, M. D AUAST OKEGOS. mHE DOCTOR 18 A GRADUATE OF THE TTVI. X VKB.SITV Medical CoUeca ot New York, and is a late member ot BeUevue Hospital Medical College of Jietr York. f3"OfSce in Dr. Henton'a Drug Store. YlSnTtf R. ARNOLD, M. D., Bomeopathic Fhjsician. ALB AX 1', OKEOOS. OFFICE HOTJKS FROM 10 TO 12 AND from 2 to 4, Chonic Diseases and Sur gery a Specialty. nlOtf. G. W. "WILCOX, Homeopathic Physician, AXBAXY, OREGON. iaJOffiee over Tweedala'a Groocry Store. , Tl3n8tf Easiness Cards, Visit ing Cards, We dding Cards, or any other kind of Cards, call on 11 lllM Mansfield & Monteith lob Printers. Albanv. Or nS7t C COHEN, . Dealer in CEr.ERAL r.:2ncninoisi rostoff.oo Buildlnj, cor., 1st and Brcadalbln stx., AI.BASY, OREC09T. Will keep constantly on hand s full assorrmeni of Clothing, Bry Goods, Fnr- nismng voods, ltats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Groceries, etc, and will sell the above named goods CHEAPER than any other house In the city. Give him a call before purchasing eisewnero. SAM. COHEN, AUCTIONEER REGULAR SALE DAYS I SATURDAYS AND MONDAYS At 10 o'clock A. M. Will also eo to an v part of the country and hold special sales when directed. visnzTti GUN STORE I SCOTT & M0XTE1TH, PROFRS. Customers can alwavm find mi this oltvce m splendid assort meat ot GUMS. RIFLES m REVOLVERS And Ammanitioa of All Kinds. ALSO TOBACCO AIVO C1GABS, WBOLBSALB AKO RETAIL. Baby Carriages, Steamboats, Games M -eh astral Tys, locomotlres, Dolltr, Boy kind of toys mannltarM. HOW OPEN! OUK DISPLAY OF Millinery Fancy Goods! WE ARE KOW ENABLED TO OFFER IK OUR f Y fine Complete Stock of the Latest Novelties is this litre and ha ring- embraced many opportauities presented to as to purchue at natunxai low rates, ve viu oner new (ooas nnnnr the Uoming beason at EXTKAORlINARY LOW PRICES. BLEACHING AND PRESSING A specialty. Also, agents for Demorest Pattern MESDAMES BLEVINS & POWELL, Cor. 1st aad Ferry Ms., ftoarlstcr nulldtaaL o Si Z - H B B 9 a tr tr f 3 E a IS o O u a 11 a a. CO r3 o H CO 1 e e o e H ? e St 9 OB a ig e 4 The Office of the Corvallis, Lebanon Dallas STAGE LINES. is at the Charles Hotel, at Albany, in stead of the American Exchange, as repre sented by the proprietor of the latter hotel. n52tf THE PARKER GUK. SEHO STAMP FOR ClRCULAft PARKER BRO'S 5 WEST MERIDEN,CT. JAMES D ANNALS, nun a an KAxrcrcBxa or SOLID WALNUT BEDROOM SETS, TlarMe and traetl Teps. Parlor Sets and Lounges, Mar ble Top Center-Tables, Spring Beds and Mattresses, WALNCT, MiriE iXD fill EEACKET3, And an kind! of IS hataota. Chairs, Bedsteads, Extension Ta bin, Masda. CilU aad Faacy Mealdlacs, Etc. I intend to keep everything In the furniture line, and will iraaiantee eatutection to all who will call on me at Miller1. Brick. JANES DIMilU. CITY EXPRESS. I HAVE A GOOD TEAM, A FINE, strong hick, and will do any deliver ing or other work entrusted to me with dispatch. I came here to stay and expect ins to stick to this business, I solicit a fair share of patronage. 13n40tf T. I DTJGGER. Taken Up. rTIAKETT UP BY THE UNDERSIGNED. JL on the 19th of April, 1878, in Soap Creek precinct. Benton Conunty, Oregon, one bay mare, about 14H hands high, sup posed to be 8 years old, hind feet while, white spot in face, on nose and back, ap praised by J. M. Risley, J. F , on the 30ih aay ei rtpru, iSiB, at fw- 40wl C. VANDERPOOL ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL. aadepeadeace, Oreffen. J, C. SCBAFFOSD, - I'KOP. HAYIN'O KErTTTED THIS HOTEL in first-clani style, I be to inform to traveling puDlre tnax can give tne: good soouuiBOdadoos. 13.31 MANAGEMENT F THE St BOOt FCXD I X DEK BENOCBATIC ABMLtUTBATIO!. Portland, May 6, 1878. Editor Standard .- These are matters of genei-al public interest independent of their relation to tbe canvass. But aside from this, a great many vague and startling charges have been made by the Republican press in reference to the management of these funds during the last few years, and the serenth resolution in the Republican platform has embodied these charges in the sweeping declaration that the Dem ocratic party "has robbed and misman aged the State, School and University Funds, loaning them to pattian favor ites on straw securities." Let lis see what the facts are by the official record : COMMON SCHOOL FCJTD. The amount of this fund on hand on the 12th day of September, 1870, when the Democracy came into power (see report of School Land Commissioners, 1870, page 16) was 312,385 10. But this includes $5,894 70 of interest due and uncollected on $10,516 03 of notes in the hands of the Board (see same re port pages 1 2 and 1 3). This interest was delinquent for nearly one and a half years. Deducting this delinquent interest and there remained $306,490 40. To which add $235 96 in hand of the Treasurer (see report 1870, page 12., Total fund September 12, 1870, $306,725 36. Thousands of dollars of interest, on loans made by county local agents, was uncollected. In many cases the interest was three and four years behind. Many of the descriptions of land in tbe mort gages were not correct and the mort gages had to be reformed to make them effective, and the fund was in other re spects in great confusion. The law requiring the interest on this fund to be collected and annually dis tributed among the several eounties in proportion to the children in each be tween four and twenty years of age, was passed October, 1866, vet not a dollar teas vtr to distributed until the Democracy took charge. Under the Democratic Administration there has been distributed, including 1877, $216, 885 10. The fund has thus been as sisting to support the schools in all the districts of the State where schools are maintained, and in a few years more will be of sufficient magnitude to sus tain a free school in each of the districts the greater part of the year. STATEXEXT OF TBS laaEOTCtSLB TCrfi. Amount In Sept., 1ST0 S30S,50 tO Amount in lilt (Rep. of Board, p. 101).... 4M,S:i OS Amount in liTl (Reo. ot Board. p-K) SOi.eiS Amount in 1ST8 (Rep. of Board, p. 10) 6i5,i 44 Amount of increase aince Sept., 13rd, $10,009 Total amount of irreducible fund now 535,491 40 To which if we add interest attributed ?4,s5 0 Total ; rK,309 K The above is the amount the fund wau'd now be if no distribution of in terest had been mads or an increase during Democratic management, iuclud ing interest of 475,879 40, or a clear increase of the irreducible principal of $228,991. The charge of "straw securities" is based upon the loans made to J. B. Mc Oane, A. Meyers and the West Port land Homestead Association. These loans were made upon the cer tificates of County School Superintend ents, certifying the value of the lands offered as security. In each of these cases the appraisement and certificate upon which the loan was made was made by a Republican. TheleantoMcClanewas made upon certificates of two different Superintendents, one of whom wa3 iiev. L. J. Powell, preterit candidate on the Republican State Ticket for Suierintend- ent of Public Instruction, who certified that the thirty acres of land in N Salem, upon which fhe loan of 6,250 j was umdf, was worth $20,000 in gold com. C50 much lor "partisan favoritism and "straw securities." CSIVERSITT FUND. The amount of this fund left by the Republicans for the Democrats to "mis manage" and "rob," to quote from the Republican platform, was as follows : Amount of coin loaned (see Rep. Board, 1870, p. 11) 3,0ir U Amount of currency loaned (see Rep. Board, 1870, p 11) ,6S0 00 Amount of coin on hand as per Treas. Rep., 1870 : 273 74 Total amount in 1370, only 7,971 28 There was due $3,205 39, as interest on this sum, but not collected in 1870, which should not be added to the irre ducible fund loaned, as it is made to appear in the report same p. 11. The interest had been due for three years when the amount,$7,97l 26, was turned over to the Democratic Administration in Sept., 1870. This - fund, though small in 1870, was in even.greater con fusion than the Common School Fund. In fact, the old board and county treas urers, who were acting as local agents, did not seem to know the difference be tween it and the School Fund, and consequently got the two funds in some instances, mixed. BTATEJIE5T OF THE Ft'SD. Amount tn 1?73 t 7,971 26 Amouai in l7i (Kep. of Boa.-d. p. 103) 1,79 74 Amount In 1874 (Rep. of Board, p. 93) 68,380 87 Amount In 178 (Ren. of Board, p. 11) 75,490 20 Amount ill 1878 68.7K4 38 It is claimed that the amount report ed in 1876 was too great, because cer tain parts of it were not paying inter est, for instance the loan to A. Meyers, of $10,000, about which so much has been said. There were some other sum put in the hands of attorneys for col lection one or two of which have not been finally adjusted. Somo of the amounts that were not yielding interest at the time Hon. M. P. Deady made his report on the fund, are now loaned out and bearing good interest, so the available fund is near $68,791 38, or an increase during the Democratic Ad ministrations of some $61,000, besides the distribution of several large sums of interest to the University at Eugene City, for its support and maintenance. The loans to A. Myers, of $5,000 each, or $10,000, were made on property valued by Rev. L. J. Powell, candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruc tion, at $30,000 in gold coin. His own signature attests the fact. Tke chaige that tbe University and School lands have been frittered away, is also without foundation. The Uai- veraity grant only contained 16,080 acres, and more ihaa half of that is yet unsold, while there remains more than 1,750,000 acr) of School land undis posed of. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FUND. There was no fund for the support of the Agricultural College in 1870, from the sale of lands. The fund began to accumulate in 1871, and amounted to $900. The amount of the fund on hand now and bearing interest isS 37, 600 97, while but few of the lands be longing to this grant liavo been sold. . Democrat. S05!t OF rBEXTICE'fl SMllVCS. A recent writer produces from thu Louisville Journal some of George D. Prentice's witticisms, which are not de pendent upon time and circumstance'), as most of them naturally were fo? their point and force. Following are a few of them: "To keep your friends treat them kindly; to kill them treat them often. Ha who reels and staggers most in tho journey of life takes the straight est cut to the devil. Men should not think too much of themselves, and yet a man .should be careful not to forget himself. A dinner to whL-h a man is not in vited geiu rally sets the hardest on his stomach. There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues. The doctors ought to escape calumny. No man living has a right to speak ill of them. The working of a corkscrew is about the only thing best achieved by indirec tion. The reduction of postal facilities has gone too far. The mail jtassed through town the other day in a couple of stockings tied over the back of a bull dog. A few days ago tho freedom of New York city was presented to Mr. Van Buren in a gold snuff-box. There was plenty of room in the box for all the freedom that New York has enjoyed for many years. There are two periods when Congress does no business. Oue is before holi days and the other after. Were it not ungenerous to remind a man of his natural deformities, we should inform the editor of tho Grand Gulf Advertiser that he was a natural fool. An opposition editor offers to bet his ears on something to our discredit. Ho shouldn't carry gambling to such ex treme lengths. If ihe eilitor of the isn't a rogue, be ought to bring a libel suit against his own face." sit plum snrrn. "Who is thatl" asked Brown of Jones, as Smith passed by his store on Main street yesterday. "That is Mr. Smith, sir," replied Jones, "and I will bet you the drinks ynu can't spelt Lis name." "I'll take that bet," quickly rejoined Brown, casting a glance towards the clouds, with a look of scholarly wisdom as he complacently removed a fresh 11a ranna, ani puffed from his lips a cloud of blue smoke that Uoated iu wreaths and curls over his head. "Smith S c-li ai-id-t," was his first effort. "Try a;ain." "S-c'-h m-i-t." "Wrong again." "Well, it ain't S ro -y-t-h e, for that sjiells Smythe." "Sa."- "Xo-.r I have it; S-c-h-rn-i-tt." "No, fiir; you've missed it agaiu, and I have won the drinks." "Well, then.I give it up," said Brown. "How in the d 1 do vou sicll it, then!" "Easy enough. I spell Smith S-m-i-t-h." "But that," said Brown, with a look of innocent surprise, "is plain Smith." "Certainly," replied Jones, "that's what I said, plain Smith." Jones gently re-lighted his cigar and walked back into his office, repeating as he went, "Scmidt, Schmitt, Smith." 8ICIUAX BRIGASDS. The ransom originally demanded by the bold brigands who, in January, carried of Signor Parisi from the large town of Patefmo, and from the neigh borhood of his father's house, was $120,000. They kept him blindfolded eleven days and nights in a dark hole or grotto, with an armed brigand constant ly watching him ; but he was well fed, and had a god cigar once a day. When they found that their demand was too great, thev compromised and released him for $2,000 in gold and S7.20O in bank notes; but, as the numbers of the bank notes are known at every bank in Sicily, they overreached themselves in that matter. A minister in Connecticut having married a couplo the other day, the bridegroom asked what his price was. The pastor replied that the law gave him two dollars. "Well," said tho young fellow, "if the law gives you two dollars, here's fifty cents more, so that now vou have two dollars and a half." And before the clergyman could recover from his surprise the pair were otl on their honeymoon. When a men comes homo at night and sips his tea with his fork, and tries to spread a slice of bread with a tea spoon, and howls at his wife: "ley, Bill, here she goes!" it is very safe to conclude that that man has met with a sore illiction, and has been trying to deaden it in some innocent way. A frenchman, bavin? heard the phrase, "I've got other fish to fry,' very readily learned its application Ono evening, after escorting a young jaay uome, and being invited to walk in, he thought of tho above expression, and excused himself by saying: "I must go cook some fish." iFrom our regular correspondent) WAsniscTex Lrrrrra. Washington, D. C, Editor Dmoerat: An Adjoanatne Panic In Congress The waa Statesman sees mirages of tomb stoaes Washington as a Haul tar lam What tbe Kew Zralnnder will do when It is no longer tbe Capital A seene between a Called States Senator and a Car Driver Seels! Reanniptlon The belle from Detroit and another belle from Kansas. This warm weather has the effect to create an adjourning panic in the breast of many a member of Congress. From physical causes, more easily understood than overcome, Washington is a warmer and more unhealthy locality than many points farther south. The capital city is anything but a sanitarium, eveu in the winter, and when tho wart govern ment clerk, after hibernating ia stifling furnace heated Department rooms, and subsisting on the execrable victuals of cheap boarding houses, finds himself en the verge of a hot summer, inhaling miasma from the swamps that flank the city on all sides, he need not be accused of sentimental billiousness, if lie dis cerns mirages of tomb stones, or feels sensations of cremation run up and down his back. With the member of Congress it is much the same; he is better fed than the government clerk but he lacks acclimation, and the air that he breathes in the capital is even more pestilent than that of the Depart ments; and we see men of powerful physique, like Conk ling and Blaine, or tough, wiry veterans, like Christiancy and Howe succumb to malaria and sub sist on quinine. In spite of the millions that have beea spent in Washington to make its streets solid and smooth, and to make its public edifices rival the architectural splendors of the old world, the day may yet come when the capital will be re moved to a more healthful locality, and when the New Zealander, or some other fellow, will wash his fish nets in Bab cock's artificial lake, and calk his boat with pitch from its most aristocratic aveuues. La-it night, while ridin ; i n. First street car, your eorre8n.i.;i,i, whs ed ified by a conversation bt i we.ti a states man and a car driver, vrh-eh lie wiil re late verbatim: .a the i-ai- j.;isstl the Ebbitt House, it as boarded ly the distingue mUitaryjenatnr Rhode Island. The seuasor wa to nil apKsr- ances in a state cf equivocal i xhilara- tion, from what good socitt-.- fdJs good living, but what Mr. Murpl;;- tail by another name, and, from sentences mut tered indistinctly, with eyes half closed, it was inferred that he was thinking of what he had recently done, or had yet to do, in the cabse of education. Sud denly, from a lurch of the car, turning a comer, or from a gesture delivered in half dreamy oratory, his military elbow went through the glass window, shatter ing it into small pieces. The driver who is also conductor on this line ap proached him with great politeness and said : "I don't know but I may be to blatus for this accident, but I don't think I w3, and the company will de duct a half dollar from niv wages. If I was to blame, of course I must lose tho money." "Of course you were, said the senator, but a little later, under a magnanimous impulse, he drew from his pocket twenty-five cents, of the re monetized, and extending it to the driver, said, "d n it, suppose we di vide, that's all tho money I've got." The driver reluctantly accepted the compromise, when the senator called after him: "I'll pay you the rest when I come this way again," and resigned himself to the following soliloquy: "Ride oa these cars three times a dav. guess I'll take a carriage after -this." Then to the . driver: "Oh! you wil: know me; you will see me when you come to the capitol ; you will find me on tho floor; guess you will recognize my face;" and getting off at the Arling ton Hotel "recognize my face, will you? Well, just take a keen look at these whiskers, take a keen look at these whiskers, you will recognize mo again I guess." Social gayety has been resumed with tho expiration of Lrnt, but the weather r is rather warm for violent dancing, and Washington has been beroftof many of its transient belles who have gone home and are making preparations for the summer resorts, or for Europe. Last winter the best dressed lady at the capital, (I give the opinion of -tnother lady who is a connoisseur, was a young lady from Detroit. To be eclipsed by a lady front a "frontier village," caused the belles of Baltimore and Boston some surprise. But there is no reason why a Detroit modiste should not have es good taste as Worth, or be as successful in adornincr the human form divine. Then there appeared another belle froui Kan sas, neat tho Indian reservation, who made her own dresses, and was much admired for her, "style," as well as for her mtelliaence and thoroughbred man ners. The facts are that the distinctions between rural and urbane people are not as sharply marked as they once were, srnco now newspapers and fashion jour nals penetrate every home, and the moral is, that taste like genius is con fined to no locality. . J. A. S. TPLFCRArniC AND HIACELIASEOIS. Wild parsnips are killing cattle in Jackson county. They are having strawberries and cream on the Santiam. Representative Luttrell of California is sick in Washington. Mrs. Tilton ia preparing a detailed statement of her confession. The number of dead in the Minne apolis fire is now swelled to 18. John Mark of Appleantte creek. Jack son county has a herd of 800 ,goats. The-funeral of W. S. O'Brien, in San Francisco, was very largely attend ed. A Russian naval officer is en route from New York to San Francisco, over land. The llmao has passed the leji-Jative, executive and judicial appropriation bills. A Mexican attempted to rido 305 miles in 15 hours, at Brooklyn, on the 1th. The funeral of John . Morrissev, at Troy, N. Y., was attended by an immense concourse. It is thought that some practical action will be taken on the Chinese question. Reports are current respecting the withdrawal of Russian troops beyond the neutral zone. Hayes will allow the Pacific railroad funding bill to become a law by the ten days lapse. A shepard boy living near Ashland recently discovered a iiorcupine's den in tho mountains. The Salem Eagles beat the Monmouth base ball club the Champions four runs, on Saturday. The South Chicago woolen" aiills were destroved by fire en the 15th. Loss $150,000 to $170,000. Russians are to return Turkiah re fugees to their homrs at the expense of the Turkish government. The British admirality ,has ordered that the island of Heligoland be prompt ly and eftlciently fortified. Charles Menzie committed suicide at Omaha, on the 5th, on account of hav ing been disappointed in love. Tho Jacksonville Timet which by the by is one of the spiciest and neatest papera ia the State intends enlarging. Loti of emigrants are this Tear crossing the plains in wagons. Let 'em come I j grand young Democratic Ore gon. The Time's Pera correspondent tele graphs that Gen. Todlebea is taking the Khodalphe insurrection vigorously in hand. v. u. iUiitou. while waiting in a chute at the month af Cotta Neva creek, Cal., fell forty feet into the ocean and wa? drowned. The mining season is drawing to a close in Jackson county. Times iave been very prosperous this Spring with ail the miners in Southern Oregon- The Turks have evacuated Aation, in the Fashalik of Trebizonde. This is considered the commencement of the execution of the treaty of San Stefano. A number of distinguished Masons met at Washington on the 5th, and formed the Royal Order of Scotland. The Order has never existed outside of Scotland. Grand Duke Nicholis has reached St. Petersburg. Gea. Todleben, who is left in command near Constantinople, is the right man in the right place in case of war. Joseph N. Janes, of Evening Shade, Arkansas, step forth into the gleaning light of day. Your sister Eliza wants to hear what you are doing away out here in Oregon. Servian detachments are advancing gardually toward the Prissend, Mitro vitza and Salonica railway at Uakupur. Their progress has been impeded by guerrilla war-fare. Extensive preparations are being made for the celebration of the Queen's birthday at Victoria. Visitors are ex pected from Oregon, Washington Ter ritory and other points. The mother of William Skelton, the man who killed Joshua Brown some time ago in Douglas county, has come all the way from Portsmouth, Ohio, to see her son. Their meeting was very affecting. Congress expects to adjourn towards the last of June. A week will be given to the tariff bill, and about that time afforded for the consideration of the Pacific railroad bills, and some other prominent measures. UOTT JAMES WAS "IXT OFF." "I say, Jedge," said the gaunt woman, hailing the Court from where she stood, with elevated voice and a waive of her long arm, "ye han't got Jim Carpen ter locked up in yer, hev yo ?" "Is there such a man here?" asked his honor of the clerk. "Yes, sir drunk and unab'.o to take care of himself." "He's here," said the court. "Well, I've comearter him," said the geunt woman. "He's the sole support uv his family over in Jersey, and he's my husband, an' I want 'im. James was brought out, and proved to be an inoffensive person. Mrs. Car penter brought her hand down on his shoulder with a bang, and clutched his colar. "Ken I hev im Jedge 1" ; "Yes ; take him." James gave one appealing look at his Honor, cast a regretful glance in the direction of his prison cell, and was led rapidly out of Court. A country youth, who desired to know how to become rich, sent a shil ling in answer to an advert lament, and rocieved the following valuable recipe: "Increase your receipts, and decrease your expenditures. Work eighteen hours a day and live on hash and cat-meal gruel." WIT AJfD BIMOK. Border troubles Matching wall pa per. In what places are two heads better than one! In a barrel. Why is a scratch on the hand like the first flight of a fledglingl Because it is only a little soar. Why is a father's nose like a well- trained child 1 Because it is always un der a parent's eye. In the bright Lexinirton of Kentucky. there are no such words as "No, thank you, I never drink. Midnight soliloquy by a man who sup ped on dried apnies: "Twelve 'e!ock and all swell." "Beauty and boot?" was the cry of the young man who kissed the eirl and was kicked by her father. W by may a. tipsy man fall into the river with impunity I Because he won't drown as long as his head swims. "lorn, what m the world put matri mony into your head?" "Well, the fact is, Joe, I was getting a little short of shirts." . Men are frequently like tea tbe real strength and goodness are not properly drawn out until they have been in hot water. A little boy went to his father dy ing the other day, and told him that he had kicked a bee ifmt had a splinrer ia its tail. "I presume you won't charge any thing for just remembering me," said a one-legged sailor to a wooden-leg manu facturer. It takes 2,160 bees to fill a pint cup, notwithstanding a single bea takes np so mucu room in a tellow g summer trou sers leg. An abandoned wretch affirms that in engaguis a wile only a nan is necessary : but nothing short of the cash will secure a good hired girL "A man with a trade dollar feels as if he had a full moon ia his pocket. But without any kind of a dollar, his pocket is still lighter. What a blessing the phonograph will be to editors ! The bores can slip right into the phonograph-room and plead with the instrument, and the editor. can grind it all oat afterward if he wants to. Maguire, of New York, is a cool phil osopher. On Monday at 8 he found fault with the fish -cakes, and his wife broke the dish over his head. Tuminj to his daughter he said : "Your moth er is celebrating our china wedding." At the end of the first year comes the "cotton wedding," explains aa ex change. And that is not the only thing that comes at the end of the first year. Sometimes poverty comes, sometimes the mother-in-la-w, and sometimes twins. " "What oo yoa think of my new white sack, Leanderi" 'asked Mrs. Spil- kms, complacently, tha other evening. ..-OT-, ...I ..... "White sacE-tnauy beaunlui, my dear, replied Spilkins, dodging behind a chair for protection. If the surplus vitality of childhood could be bottled up and held in rossrvr., how bandy it would come to a woman in after life when she goes to a picnic with a year-old baby, three baskets and a husband too lazy to carry a smile. Deacon Norwoo 1 (to Elder Tomp kins) "Yes, sir; man -with hope and with no faith 13 just like a young man in a row-boat who ban t got but one oar, and rows round and round in a circle and don't get nowhere." Small boy (at a safe distanc) "If he warn't a darned fool he d scull. AH EXAStrLK TO BE EH VI. .1X9. The Democrats of Oregon, in the recent State Convention of that State, nominated a clergyman, named Joseph Emery, for the office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. The nomination, as things look, is equivalent to an elec tion. But Mr. Emery has declined the candidacy, lie is a Uemocrat in principle, but he does not believe in the election of clergymen to office. To show just how he stands cam. be best appreciated from his own words. He says : "I appreciate the honor bestow ed upon me by that representative body, but being a minister of the Gospel as well as a teacher, I have made it a mat ter of conscience to keep aloof from all political entanglements; and although the office to which 1 bare been nomin ated is not a political one, yet it can only be reached by passing through poli tics. I therefore mast respectfully de cline the nomination." It is an admirable exmaple the rev erend gentleman sets, and it is a pity that it is not more generally received as such throughout the whole country. Clergymen ought to abstain from active politics. S. F. Examiner. A tlCAJJTIC IXrAXT. On last Monday there arrived at the Olive Street Hotel, Mr. Henry Header son, a well-to-do farmer of St. Francois county, Mo., with his wife and infant boy. The latter, though only 13 months old, tips the scales at 100 pounds, and in spite of its monstrous weight is a handsome, healthy baby. It is perfectly formed in every re spect. A number of leading physi cians called to the infant prod igy, and pronounced it one of the won ders of -the age. The mother of tha boy is a remarkably fine-looking lady of forty, and is the mother of eight chil dren. Before leaving the city the pa rents expressed their intention of ex hibiting their giant baby to the public at an early day. St. Louis Post. WEUCAIiV A Syrian convert to Christianity was urged by his employer to work on San day but declined. But said the master, "doth not your Bible say if "you have an ex or an ass that falls into a pit on. tne ;atbatn day, he may pull Aim out," "Yes,'" answered Hayop, "but if tho ass baa a habit of falling into the same pit every Sabbath day, the man should either fill np the pit or sell the ass." STATE DEUOfBATlC riATFOSM. The Democracy of Oregon, in convention aseimbl', make tbe following declaration of principles : Sec. 1. That a slmpU government, lioneTT and economically adminUterod, oonflat-d ir, iu aerations to the administration of juslice and tfca pre .-ranon of the public peaoe, is the Wily af'-jard asiiriM i.e abuses of power to which i-ersons in a-uhi.rnv ,vs prone, and the corrupt and fcivish ai:proi,r-afc; oi ir.e public funds to corporatio'y!, winch has eV.rscl--:! the national admiuidtr&tion lur tha rs6 fevefeWtn years. Ssc. 2. That we hcsrtFly approve t:ie sniteon of grew in the remonetizntion of silver. Tha wc biiievt: s ,-jt all money rmuie or issued by the e.venc(S2t bh.,-ni i of equal Value, and that we are hi f iver of ps.-ri.'igau the obligations of the irovsnimeirt in frr-nbicki,c so called, when the pecuniary mteret of tho powie is improved thereby, except where othgrvrlstj cspre-ly provided: Sbc. a That we regard the forced resumption of specie payments as freaily aj-yravatini? the deenwhoa and distress conseqiieiit on a lonj season of iallatioa and extravagance. Wc therefore favor the rjf esi of the set requiring resumption -an 1, 1879. Sec. 4. That the gratuity of near twenty-four rtil Uon dollars now paid the national bank by tb gov ernment U simply levying tribute upon the ps .pie ijr tbe benefit of the capitalist. We therefore favir t! repeal of the lair undr which they were esublUW aad th? direct issue by the government of cil-rren-y re ceivable for all public dues, sufficient to au;pjy c place of the present bank note drcolaUon. Sac. a. Inat we heartily indorse the effort now be ing made in congress to reduce our present tariff kx to a strictly revenue standard. Thai the interest. o the great mm of the people of the United Slates lis lit the paths of unrestricted commerce. Sac. 6. That we favor eonliiruee arltaiion on the mbjoct of Mongolian immigration to tlm country un til the federal eovernrnent is moved to nvdily oor treatici with the Chinewe empire so as to prohil.it it, and thus save those of our felk-w citizens who deTr.J upon labor for a sumrort from uniujt and iegrxhw' competition. Mice. 7. That the ein-treecn rears oi misriio oi ' -- Republican party is indubitable proof that that psrty ia ao longer to be trusted. That muvh of itsie-ritl-uio in congress has tended to make the rk'h rid.- and lias poor poorer, andwearraign tliat party bef-;irexhep.wie for lis Class legislation, for having fostered and upheld rings, for it repeated efforts to overoms th-j voice of the people by an unjust and uncaastitntt-ffu.! n.c of the military arm of the government, and t-K fcrpe.rii perpetrated under its omcisl sanction, aherc-bv K- U. Hayes was placed in the prefjdential chair contrary to the expressed will of an overwhelming maSttriiy tti tbe people of this government. Sec. a That ste demand sora -?Is!aS:o, state an. federal, as will prevent the abuses cjm irtg eut or eim pention for extra acrvicea, and will fUr.it the pay officials to a single salary : 'secure the prohibition ot all perquisites, "that fruitful source of orruptk.n whereby the compensation allowed by raw to tfcoee i public employment is frequently doubted ; thedumtia tion from public affairs of that species of di-fhonety known as favoritism, whereby personal rrieBdefcjpe are rewarded and personal obliaiiona discharged at the expense of the public, without regard to emelency. Sue, 9. That it is the daty of the state government to maintain its suprcmacyaip regard to tha auttusnty not delegated in the conTtttutton ot the United ivaioa, and to vindicate its jurisdiction against encroachments from any source whatever. That intheadministratk.u of state aSairs the preservation of private ris-ht arid promotion of justice shenld be tbe principal aim ; that taxation should be equal and uniform, and extrava gant expenditures of the pubhe revenues be avoided. Economy should be the watchword, and rigorous laws be enacted for tbe management and preservation of tbe various funds belonging to the state. Sec 10. That we are in favor of improvecneut by tbe general government, of the rivers and harbors ol the state ; of the opening of the Cohnrtiws river at tla Cascades and Dalles : of the improvement of thcSn-ifco river, and of a subsidy for the Portland, Salt Lake ani South Pass railroad ; of an exroisiou of time to e.m picte the Nortb Pacific railroad under sneh reasonable conditions as will preserve the rights snd interests of the people of the state, and the settlers upon the fends donated to Also for a subsidy for the speedy com pletion of s railroad corntecKon between Oregos and California. . 8sc 11. That urrrversal education, snd the eenenrl diffusiou of learning being the principal bulwark of American noexty. we are m ovor ot - - n.:: a.m. protecting 6ur public simool system for .tho fai.hf-al sdacttten of the risine generation. I - A LETT Kit fete! TtVi. Gtaysok, Co., Texas, April 21. E-litor Democrat: Please give me a little space ia yocr paper just to warn the young men of my old county not to ome to this "far-lamed State. The snotto here is to make the poor man poorer aad the rich man richer; it is no plaee for a mas of email means. Two-thirds of the pple here are renters, and yoa often see two or three families in one house. Aa for the bnd, it is good, bat it is of the "black wax"ord2T. All who have passed through Joe Lane's land can form some idea of the sticking quality of our soil after a rain. And, by-the-way, we need rain now very badly, aa we have not had enoagh during the last two months to sprout the corn. List winter the loads were impassable, althongh every man in this State has to put in tea days' work en the road during the year the poor man doing just as much work as the large land-owner. I have been over the larger portion of this State and have not seen a barn that would be called by that name in Oregon, They say here that they don't need haras. Mast of the houses are of the low"boi" orrlor, having genera ly bat one room, and no ottthousea whatever. Another thing I don't like is that there are very few orchards m this country, and fruit is very scarce. I can say truly that this is not by any means the State it is represented to be abroad. The newspapers tell of the thousands em : iting to this State, but are entirely silent .Mot the multitudes that arc leaving here as fast as possible. Remember, young men, that $12 per month ia about all yon can get here. Hoping this letter will be a warning to any young men of Linn county who may think of emigrating to Texas, 1 will bow dose. t rem one ot tbe boys woo got Bis iotchin up in Canada. A. M. U. FZOX SHEDS 8TATIOX. Shkdd, Msy 1ST?. Editor Democrat: School began in this place Ivlondry, April 29th, under the most favorable circumstances and there is now a largo and coutam!y in creasing attendance. A moto stndion3 and well disposed collection of girls and Wvys it woald be hard to find aaywhejo. Generally two or three may be found in a school who have dispositions to be continually cansing trouble, but this school is certainly an excep tion in this respect. AH seem well inclined. Captain Shedd, Mr. Porter and Mr. Thomp son constitute the efficient board of directors. They are all men deeply interested in educa tional matters. We anderstand tha people of this vioiaity are talking seriously of making aa addition of another room to their already spacious school hailding, and then employ two teach ers. This, of coarse, would add much to the efficiency of the school. The farmers are jubilant, as they will sees get thronsrh so wine Most of thn peeting to finish this week. A grand picnio is under consideration, which would certainly be appreciated after such a long siege of hard work. More anon, E. J. N. WIU SHOW HUa I P. The Bedrock Democrat, published at Baker City, says of the RSpublicaa candidate for Congress: Of the hypocritical Christian editor, Hines, we will have something to say in the future, and here we wish it dis tinctly understood that any and every charge we may make aga'ut. iim we have undeniable proof '&Vbttck. our charges. He is one of llm worst men in our State, and if he had . his jii3t deserts he would be working for the people of our State in a cvimiual capac ity, instead of being a candidate on tho Republican ticket for Congress. We know his history and at the proper time shall give it to the public in broken doses.