The state rights democrat., March 12, 1880, Image 2

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MART. V. BROWN, EDITOR.
FRIDAY MARCH 12, 188ft
Sky Morn's chances still "boom."
1VT. Haunch has contributed $1000
lo tlic Irish relief fuml.
The nomination of lv S. Kearney as
17. S. Marshal for Oregou has been con
firmed. Tug indications arc that Congress
will not interfere with tho present in
ternal tariil system.
The California legislature has passed
a resolution to exclude Dennis Kenrnoy
from the logislativo hnt!s.
Tim lVisoo of Waloa, belongs to ev
er secret society in England, nlwayn
excepting the temperance ones.
A mono the 103 law students at Har
vard Senator Bayard has a lumlity of
41 as the favorite Presidential candi
date. Only a week from to morrow till our
Democratic rrituaries 5: Linn. Candi
dates will have to bestir themselves and
treat early and often.
At Riverside, C'-ul., on the Sd. Mr.
Talmade, a highly" respected citizen of
that pluee, Lung himself. Teimvorary
insanity was tho cause.
Amelia Bloomer, the inventor of
the Bloomer costume, lives in Council
Bluffs, and is tho wife of Hon. D. C.
Bloomer, ex-St-nator from Iowa.
At Maryst ille, California, on tho 3d,
John Bunker, stopping at the Philadel
phia house, took and overdose of mor
phine, and before physicians arrived
death ensued.
Tue New York Herald's Ii-hdi relief
fund by the middle of February had
reached tho magnificent proportions of
$200,G92.5G, including its own gener
ous subscription of $100,000.
A max got angry in a discussion at
Cooperstown, Iil., and shot at LU oppo-
. : 1 it l , l l
1CUI, Ulll II i 111 HUU IklitUU .1
slander. Taking mora deliberate aim,
be fired a second time, and another
spectator fell dead.
Ox the 30lh of February tho Arion
Society in New York city gave a mask
el ball the receipts of which weie $-39,-000.
Their expenses were $2:5,000,
leaving a net profit of $3-1,000. How
was that for success 1
Tub politicians, with eibt years of
Grant, the InuLtnariolU Xcirs, Inde
pendent, asserts, nearly mined the Re
publican party. They want just one
more chance to finish their work. They
are able architects of ruin.
The Dayton Journal, Radical, says :
Some of our learned contemporaries
continue to assure tho world that the
Democratic party is dead. "We feel
bound to say that it k-ceps tip aa ex
traordinary disturbance for a corpse.
It is positively asserted and believed
that the two Crcs which occurred in
this city during the present week were
occasioned by men who hired cheap
boys to start Gres so that they could
have an excuse to run away front can
didate!. Gce.1T military armaments sonic times
foil to be followed by great military
acts, but that all Kuroje ia secretly or
publicly arming is a fact not to be over
looked, and this too while starvation is
staring so many of its millions directly
in the face.
A iiiSPATCH says that the recent
publication of certain matter in regard
?..... t i ...... i
President Txlden. There appears to be
nothing doing tiie.se - urtys, according to
Radical authorit-, but v. hat Tilden is
at the bottom. .
IIesz are some facts which fciirnifv
o
progress: The private voluntary dona
tions to schools and colleges in Japan
during trie past five years reach nearly
$9,000,020. Upward of 700,000 aeres
of land have also been donated for edu-
cational purposes.
xiie rrisn iamine is now -saia to ue
under control. The agencies of relief
are actively at work, and all cases of
distress are known, lint it will take a
vast amount of money to supply the
work which charity has mapped oiit
for the next few mouths. -
The dispatches are at present occu
pied in the transmission of the troubles
between the Western and American
rYb.ecr flr.1l t iinnetT1a Tltfu-A n yn Cnnr
m 1 - . i- - , , ,
--"-O 1 j -
eojile who care a cent about this mat
ter in Oregon. ' Anything to knock the
Western Union, is the general verdict.
Mb. Olives PALr.viiPLn, the great
Minnesota farmer, intends to cultivate
30,000 acres of wheat" this year. He
will have 20 steam threshers in opera
tion, with 135 reaping machines. -Last
year he employed COO laborer?, and
this year he will ir.cre.1s3 the number to
700. . ;. ' "'-. t - . j
TlTF. Xii-lmk-nn Paiemonf 1 l.
- - - uil.illl.il, 1 .1 n, UQ
banished from Memphis, Tenn., an or
der having been issued .for its destruc
i, irtTi.i...:..rt :i . ? it..
uuii luc. n iQiiii-i v .JWIIJII Ol llie
taxing district. It is to be replaced
with broken stone and Paducah grayel,
and th work is to be completed by the
first of April. Eminent physicians
have given the opinion that this Kich-
j : it. . v. ...... xj l ji,Mia 111 . n ictcucu
condition, has been one of the chief pro
moters of the yellow fever in Memphis.
THE DEMOCnATIG PRIMARIES.
Democrats of I.inn, don't foi-gr-t the
Primariea one week from to-morrow.
Kvery voter of the party in this county
should attend, and sec that only good
men and true are sent up to attend the
County Convention. The importance
of Ihe.oo Primaries cannot bp overesti
mated. Remember that the enj-my U active
and vigilant, and is organizing with
some hopo of success provided we
mako mistakes. Tho'Piitiuu ies are thu
posts of danger to a party. If thry arc
conducted judiciously and carefully
there is no danger of a shipwreck in
tho Convention.
Upon the full alteudar.eo of the pnrty
voters at tlio FriutfuicMHC lurruouious
action and judicious selection of " dele
gates to tho Connty Convention dele
gates who will not bar cr away the
great interests of the people and the
party for mere individual preferment
greatly depends the success of tho Dem
ocracy this year. ,
Wo can carry I.inn county by a
larger vote than ever before, if we arc
juuicious; otherwise muitaues might
result disastrously to our party.
Ity persoual favoritism aside, work
for tho sole good of tho common cause,
and O'd Linn's banner will float higher
than ever this year ;f lSi0.
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TUt DiMI U DltOBt K MSE r.Dl t.
It will be reuicmWred that early last
summer a statement was published iu
the Democbat accusing L..L. Williams,
of Douglas county, of eloping with the
wife of Thomas Danii lj. We Wlieved
said statement to bo true iu every par-'
tleular, as we had it direct from Mr.
Dauicfe himself, who at about the same
timo filed his compluiut lor a divorce,
charging his wir with adultery and
elopeuient with said Williams. The
matter was taken up and commented
ujion by tho Tress throughout the coun
try, and was generally bclioved until
several weeks afterwards, when the
Democrat received a letter from said
Williams dated at Yirginu City, Mon
tana, denying the charges, which letter
was given a place in our columns, and
the attention of onr readers called to
that fact.
The divorce case, haa been up before
the Court for two or three tenn but
owing to the fact that Mrs. Daniels and
her witnesses all live-1 in tho eastern
pat t of Washington Territory, and tho
further fact that her efforts to fairly
present her cao has been so persistent
ly opioscd by Mr. Daniels, bhe has not
been able to safely go to trial until the
present term. List Tuesday nrming,
her counsel being in readiness, as he
and LU witnesses claim, to fully ' and
completely disprove every charge that
Mr. Dank-la Las preferred against las
wife, and the case being called for trial,
the Court, lawyers and spectators were
astonished to seo the plaintilTa attorney
arise and announce to the Court that
they had no testimony whatever to
to offer.
Gov. Gibbs, attorney for defendant,
having set np a cross bill or counter
claim in the answer, demanded the
right to produce evidence, disprove the
charges and ask a decree in favor of
defendant," but was denied by the Court
and the case dismissed.
Tho DEitoca.vr having first published
the accusation, believing the same tobe
true, now takes this the first possible
opportunity to give the judicial result,
and in justice to all parties concerned
Lopes the paper that so readily pub
lished the scandal at first, with unfavor
able remarks, will be equally willing to
publish the conclusion with such re
marks as they may think projcr, to
vindicate the accused and give publicity
to their innocence.
I'XFOISDED ESATIO.
Oar citizens were very much excited
last Saturday over the rumor that in
formation was going over the wires
from San Francisco to tho effect that
the Kearneyitcs and Sand-Lotters had
revolted and were killing Chinamen by
the wholesale, and that San Francisco
was the scene of .lawlessness, riot and
bloodshed !
.Much anxiety was felt hero until on
Monday tho dispatches failed in any
manner to confirm the3e distressful reports-,
but on the contrary it is thown
that Kearney and his crowd had only
made some bull-dozing threats,. and thaj
the citizens and business men had aiked
the authorities for protection, aud ac-,
cordingly troops are now patroling the
city and order is restored.
lVI!I5'PIt; Tilt DCt !L AttOII TUP.
STIMP.
James Madison Wells, whose frauds
in Louisiana gave Hayes tho Presiden
cy, was repaid with a high and lucrative
office in New Orleans. His term of
oflice expired the other day and he ap
plied to the President for a reappoint
ment. Tt was thought that perhaps the
Democratic Senate would not confirm
him, eo the President thought to whip
the devil around the stump and apjoint
ed his son. The matter has opened
anew all that, old sore, and the Presi
dent is daily informed that he appoint
ed all the Louisiana and Florida rogues
to office, and that ho need not begin to
be virtuous now when his term is about
to expire.
Democratic Primaries, 20th.
1 1 'mm Hie N. K. Examiner.)
CMIH TIJItE.tTKX RETALIATION.
Tho latest pluwo of the vexatious
Chinese question is tho newn, which
comes by way of. Washington, to the
eflect that tho Chinese government pro
poses to instituto retaliatory measures
againnt tho United Statc3 as a penalty
for the agitation ngainst that poople on
this Coast, and the projected legislation
by Congress to so modify tho Burling
amo treaty as to prohibit tho further
immigration of tho hated raco here, or
to limit their coming to not above fif
teen individuals on any one vessel ; and
that tho foreign policy of tho Empire
will, in consequence, be brought to con
form to tho ancient usages f seclu
sion and exclusion. And with this ru
mor comes tho additional significant in
formation that "ChinR is undoubtedly
strengthening her armament and is
manifesting a hostile spirit toward Iter
neighbors and foreigners generally that
bodes no good to the peaco of Atdu."
The object of this rumor and this in
formation is apparent, and the publica
tion of both is suggestive, iu tho light
of tho present condition of affairs. The
ono is obviously intended as a " scare j"
tho other is unquestionably designed as
a threat. Neither ought to Lavo, any
other effect upon this country than that
of inditrerenco and contempt; but that
each and both will have a very different
effect that they will Lave exactly the
effect the two in juxtajwition are cal
culated and designed to produce no in
formed and sensible petuou will doubt.
On this Coast, whero tho eoplfi have
beeu mstdo to bear ami atill must en
dure, tho intolerable jiest of Chinese
immigration and coolecuin, tho senti
ment will bo unanimous against heed
ing either tho "scaro" or retaliatory
measures on the part of the Chineso
Government, or the menaco of the
strengthened armanu'iiU and hostile
spirit of that 1'mpiro toward her neigh
bors and foreigners generally. But this
cannot I? said, nor need it lx thought,
of the mas of tho oph on the At
lantic border, csjfcciallir of tho Stales
whoso largo cilie and sea-jorta enjoy
trade with China and profit therefrom ;
and of communities in which tho fana
tical spirit of " tho uni vet siil brother
hood of man" is rampant and unreason
ing. These States and these communi
ties have their largo representation in
Congres.1, and jKitucss commanding in
fluence in the Administration, by which
to materially check or modify legislation
appropriate to the abatement or remedy
of the great evil wrought by the Bur
Ungame treaty tion this coa tt and, in-
directly, upon the industry and trade of
tho entire Republic ; and to effoctively
kill, by tho veto jmwer. every measure
passed by the pri-H,-nt Democratic Con
grcss for tho amelioration or rcforma
lion of these unbearable evils. At the
East, therefore, the " scare " of retalia
tory tneaMires by tho Chinese Empire,
and the threat of its hostile spirit. to
foreigners generally ex pressed in gen
eral sense, however, in diplomatic fir-
lance only to mean hostility toward the
United States and the citizens cf this
country will have the effect which the
parties to the ono and other intended
the two should have. And under the
impulse and influence of this "scatu"
and menace, tho agitation in favoof
the ierpetuaticm of tho Burlingame
treaty as it stands, . without change,
modification or alteration whatever, and
likewise in the interests of the Chinese
already here and who bhall henceforth
come, will e immediately begun at tho
East, to operate upon Congress so as to
prevent legislation for tho relief of the
peoplo of tho Pacific coast from the Chi
nese curse, and to strengthen the Re
publican sentiment in ami out of Con
gress on that . tide of the continent in
behalf of the Chinese and tho accursed
treaty. Of tho supjiort of Hayes and
his Cabinet, in favor of the Mongolians
and against white free labor, these zeal
ots and fanatics are all the timo assured.
It is tho Democrats in Congress and the
Democracy of the whole country they
feel and know they must overcome. It
will be tho fault of the jnsople them
selves, of tho people of this Coast, of
California and Oregon especially, if
these Republican champions of tho Chi
nese shall accomplish their purpose, so
far as tho United States are concerned.
The "scare" of retaliatory measures,
by the Chinese Government, properly
viewed, is as the hissing of geese at the
road-sido at passers no more worthy of
serious attention, no more an occasion
for alarm. That Government will never
cease to remember tho penalty it was
forced to pay, because of ils senseless
and mulish persistence in its absurd
policy of seclusion and exclusion towaid
other nations, in the surrender of Hong
kong to the British government in 1811,
and ever since that event the " ancient
usages" to which Jt now threatens to re
turn' have been as barriers, to keep out
only those who have neither the dispo
sition nor the strength to disregard or
exact them. China does not retaliate
on a Government so powerful as that of
the U"nited States, particularly when,
to do so, would bo to single this Gov
ernment out from among all the Great
powers of the world, in defiance of the
now recognized laws which govern the
relations and conduct of nations toward
each other, for no more substantial
causa than tho fadlny of antagonism to
Chinese immigration- and coolie labor
which exists in California and on this
Coast and is developed by the Demo
cratic majority in Congress. The atro
cious maladministration, during the
eight years cf Gen. Grant's Presidency,
with the ' coloossal public plunderer
Robeson at the head of the Navy De
partment, Las left "tho Government
without a Navy, or with only war ves
sels enough to expose ils present wrntch
ednoss to contrast with the former am
ple condition of that arm of the nation
al strength quito as tho dilapidated
wardrobe of an impoverished dandy
exposes his past nmplitudo of raiment
which lias becomo rogs. But notwith
standing tlw) serious want of an ade
quate Nary nt this time, tho mightiest
armaments which China can put upon
tho sea or in her ports, in "hostile spir
it," will nut avail that Empire in the
clash of war with these United States.
Nor would such a war, from such a
cause, be likely to terminate with ho in
considerable a loss in some nnprets
very sciious although it was to China
at the time -as did the "opium war"
between that Etnpiro and tho Brilhh
Government, when the treaty f Canton
wrestt'd Hongkong from tho vanquished
suppliant, and that important port be
came a I ich piizo to tho exacting con
queror. Canton itself, and other ports,
might be required to satisfy the jtist
vengeance of tho American Govern
ment, as tho outcome of tho threatened
retaliatory measures ; and the sngnckms
statesmen who now shape . and guido
the rulo of that Empire aro keenly
awake to tho posMldo and probable con
sequences of a wr with tho most pow
erful peoplo on tho face of the globe.
Tho "scare" of retaliation and the threat
of "a hostile spirit" as directed toward
tho United States by tho Chineso Gov
ernment, can accordingly bo put aside
without serious concernment or further
consideration. '
But, admitting that there is some
thing to fear from tho recniirso to ro
taliatoiy measures by China on iu-eoisiil
of tho feeling aguiimt that people on
this Coast, iu this State, and in Con
greas although, it is repc ite.l, there is
not what real cause has the Chinese
Government for complaint ; what de
cent pretente for the tin eat to retaliate)
By tho terms of the Burlingame treaty
there are certain privileges and immu
nities guaranteed to the subjects of that
Empire in this country, and to the citi
zens of the United Suites in that Em
pire, and adequate protection of each
Government to all entitle! to these
privileges and immunities, hero and
there, is likewise ginruutocd. Yet the
distinctive measure and degrees of
these, as stipulated In the treaty, are
enormously in favor of tho Chinese in
the United States, and strangely incon
siderable to tho American in China.
Under this startling and extraordinary
discrimination and inequality, the low
est and basest of the Mongolian race,
equally with the worthiest and bent of
that people, U at Hif -el liberty to iiu
migrate and to travel, visit, locate and
abide, whithersoever he elects ia the
United States, to engage hero in labor,
trade, commerce, manufacture, finance,
or whatsoever he Las means and pjor
tunity to embark in ; and lie has the
full measure of protection guaranteed
him that U accorded to and enjoyed by
any other resideut, citizen or alien ex
cept tho elective franchise, and even to
this Chinese Lavo len admitted. Now,
in contrast with this broal measure of
privileges aud protection hero accorded
to all the Chineso who cotuo to this
country, what is the mesure to which
Americans in China are permitted, and
with what faith is tho ticnty stipulation
in thii particular observed t Tho Bur
lingame treaty ojens to Americans five
stated orta of China, and provides
that citizens of tho United States may
engage in traffic iu the interior, with
guaranty of protection. Thus, in the
first place, as against the admission of
Chineso to every foot of soil in this
vast Republic, tho treaty allows the
citizens of this country to a verj small
fractional area of China. Aud, in the
matters of business and .protection,
while tho Chinese of every grado find
profitablo employment or business here
laborers, artisann, manufacturers,
merchants and capitalists and the
Courts and the authorities assure them
equal protection with citizens in every
way, the American in China can profit
ably engage only in mechanics or mer
chandise, and in tho interior he Las
none of the protection, either of prop
erty or life, which the treaty solemnly
declares lie shall be guarantee. Here,
at the very worst, the coolies aro on
very rare occasions and only in remote
places inhibited or driven away from
mining districts ; but in the cities and
throughout tho country they are afford
ed full protection in every treaty obli
gation. In Clrina, at the very best,
the American residont there has liberty
to resido or engago in business only in
stipulated districts, and any who ven
ture outside of the stated ports into the
interior do so at the peril of life and
property, without hope of protection or
redress. A more shamefully one-sided
treaty was never negotiated. : No
mighty . Tower, as tho United States
are, ever before submitted to terms so
unequal , and humilialing in treating
with a foreign Power, whether barely
civilized as China is, or enlightened as
the Powers of Europe are. And it is
to tho ineradicable ' reprpach' of the
American name, and to' the eternal dia
grace of the Republican partj , that the
man who projected tho infamous treaty
had been sent to China by the first Re
publican Administration, of -Abraham
Lincoln, as Minister; to 'represent the
United States ; , that ho there resigned
his office, apostatized from his country
and took service under the heathen
Emperor for higher pay; and that the
Administration which made and ratified
the treaty, and' the" Congress which
passed tho enabling and operative laws
to it, were first and htfit, ono and all
Republican Republicans of the Radi
cal or Stalwart dement of the party.
It is upon the c!i of thctie mon, and of
tho party to whleh. they belonged the
Bamo party., to which the zealots and
fanatics who champion the cause of the
Chineso and coolie lrbor against tho in
terests of tho Pacific Const and while
free labor nil belong -that the people of
tho United States should retaliate j and
tho effective means to so just an end is
to aid and battlo for and vote with the
Democratic party. In no other way,
by no other party, can the Chinese evil
ho eliminated from the land.
THE riMIIM CANAL.
Prchident Hayes sent tho following
mcssago to the Senate last Monday :
I deem it projier to stato briefly my
opinion as to tho tolicy of the United
States with respect to tho coiiHtniction
of an inter-occiiiic canal by any route
across the American isthmus. The iol-
icy of this country is that such a canal
must bo under American control. The
United States cannot consent to surren
der of this control to any Kurojcan
powers. If existing treatija between
tho United States and other nations, or
if the rights of sovereignity of proierty
of other nations stand in the way of
tliia jxilk-y, a contingency which is not
apprehended, suitable steps should be
taken by just and liberal negotiations to
promote and establish American policy
on this subject consistently with the
rights of nations to bo affected by it.
Tho capital invested by corporations or
cilizons of other countries in such an
enterprise, must in great degrca look
for protection to one or more of the
great powora of tho world. No Euro-jH-au
jK)wer can intervene for such pro
tection without adopting measures on
this continent which the United States
would deem wholly inadmissible. If
thn protection of the United Slates is
ri lijnl upon, the I'uiUxl States must ex
ercise such control as wilt . enable this
country to protect its natioi.hl interests
and maintain those whoso private capi
tal is embarked in tho work. An in
tcr oceaiiic canal acre the American
isthmus will esucnlially change the geo
graphical relations between the Atlan
tic and Pacific coatt of tho United
States, and between the United States
and tho rest of tho world. It will be a
great oceanic thoroughfare between our
Atlantic and Pacific shores, and virtu
ally j-art of tho coast line of the United
Mate. Our merely commercial inter
est is greater than that of all other
countries, while its relations to our
power ami prosicrity as a nation, and
to our means of defence,our unity .peace
and safety, are matters of paramount
consideration to tho pecple of the
United States. No other great wcr
would, under similar circumstance, fil
to assert rightful control over a work so
closely and vitally effecting iu interest
and welfare.
Without nrgin:; further the ground
of my opinion 1 repeat, in conclusion,
that it is the right and duty of the
L nitel Mates to aascrt anl maintain
such supervision and authority over auy
inter-ocranic canal across the isthmus
that connects North and South Ameri
ca as will protest our national interests.
This, I am quite sure, will be found
not only compatible with, but promot
ive the widest and most permanent
advantage to, cotnmerco and civiliza
tion.
If this lino cf action should bo adopt
ed l-y Congress it would interfere con
aiderably with the interests of certain
I-.ngltah capitalists, and prominent
newspajiers iu Great Britain are already
beginning to criticise the action of our
President. Tho Imdon ShtiularJ of
last Tuesday, in referring to the claias
of th(j United States far preponderating
influence in tho Panama canal, says
"that this pretension Great Britain is
bound to watch, and if necessary to re
sist. No moro at Panama than at
Suez can tho preponderating influence
of another jowec ho allowed to lay
hands on the trade of England."
a Ft tile Erron r.
There aro two Republican papers now
in Linn one legitimate and the other
is struggling hard to bo "jwople." We
have had many honorable tilts with the
former, and hojo to have tho same sort
of warfare with tho latter. Sa far as
we know they are all good-natured gen
tlenien, and wo doubt not will do their
bast to win Linn over to the god of
Radicalism. They certainly will bo do
ing nothing more than thoir duty to
mako this effort, but we warn them be
forehand that tho effort is futile. .
If the managers of the Radical party,
in Oregon had any design on turning
tho political scale in any county, if wise
counsels liml prevailed, they would have
planted their emissaries anywhere else
than in Linn. Hore the Democracy are
solid, compact nnd united, and not even
a procession of Republicans newspapers,
with a brass-hand and bloody-shirt head
ing tho pageant can , turn the Dem
ocracy from tho earnest, honest, straight
forward pursuit to victory,
Lkap Year is being discussed not
only in sociuT, Jt in commercial circles.
The rulo has been laid down that the
28th and 20th of" Fobruaryare to be
count ed&s one day, but some members
of the New York bar aiguo that if the
time of a note is expressed in months a
note "without graco" falls duo on a day
corresponding , with tho day of the
mouth on which it was drawn, and if
"with grace," then three mote days are
allowed. But if tho time of tho noto is
expressed in days then every day is
counted, and tho three days' grace are
allowed, unless otherwise provided
California averages higher rates for
farm labor tnan any other State in tho
Union,viz: 41 a month without board,
and 2.25 a day for. transient help in
harvest times. South Carolina is said
to pay tho least, or an average of $9.83
per month without board. Transient
help is paid for at the rate of 89 cents
a day, without board.
VIEWS 0 THE BAII.KOAU QIKSTIOX.
Alijast, March 9, 1880.
Editor Jltwocral . -,
The railroad meeting held last even
ing at the Court House developed a
few points which should be kept before
Uioho who desire the best interests of
Albany and Linn county.
1st. A bridgo should b. erected
across tho Willamette river at Albany. !
2nd. Tho completion of the narrow
gauge railroad from Portland to Albany
vl.i Djyton, Dallas ami Monmouth is a
matter which should bp seriously con
sidered by tho people of this city and
county.
In the first place the erection of a
bridge at Albany would insure a rail-1
road either from Astoria, Portland or
Yaqttina Bay. It would give to people i
on the. Went side of the river safer and
cheaper access to this city. It would
nearly overcome the injury sustained by
us by the completion oi tho Western
Oregon Railroad eight miles west of
Albany to Corvallis. However, this
question does not seed discussion, be
cause it is apparent ta everybody. ,
Can n bridgo be built 1 I think that
it can lie done. I suggest the organiza
tion of a stock company as one way
this enterprise can becsrried into effect,
I do not think that this bridgo should
bo given into tho Lands of any railroad
company. 4 he people ot the two coun
ties of Linn and Benton should bold
this property in their own Lands, so
that if any railroad company should
desire to comn to cur city they could all
have the privilege of doing so without
hindrance.
As to the question of securing the
extension of tho Dayton, Sheridan &
Grand Rondo Railcoad to Albany let
me call the attention of the citizens of
Albany and Linn county to the fact
that if that connection were made e
would Lave what our country Los so
long needed, viz.: two independent coin
cting railroads. This is a question of
dollars and cents to us. Is it worth
anything 1 If the Oregon Railway Co.
asked too much let the matter Lo prop
erly shown and they will probably ask
less. We want that railroad or any
other that will insure cheap freights
and greater facilities for travel. If this
should prove to bo the terminus of the
road no injury can result to us front
that fact. If it should be continued
farther south and connect with the
Winr.emucca route it would be worth
probably $100,000 nvery year. We
ought not to allow this opportunity to
secure additional railroad facilities to
pans without serious consideration. If
a bridge company wro organized nego
tiations could be made with any rail
road company that wight kereafter da
si ro to bring a road to our city from
that side of tho river. " LlXS.
A BOOM rOS V IQI i t.
The du-lmtcbcs inform us that on last
Wednesday Senator Slater presented a
memorial signed by the Governor and
other officials of this State praying for
an apmpriation f $250,000 for the
improvement of the entrance of Ya
quina Bay. The memorial asserts that
by improvement of that important. Lar-
bor the resources of tho neighboring
districts will ojcn tip a tract of fertile
country between the Bay and the Wil
lainotto Valley exceeding 500,000 acres.
If our delegation should succeed in pro
curing an spproprietion of that amount
for Y equina Baf they can rest assured
that their constituents, will remember
them. Politics does not figure in this
question. It is a matter upon which
all of our citizens are united, and if we
had had more time that memorial could
have been signed by every citizen of the
great Willamette Valley.
The retort that Senator Blaine Las
expressed ft willingness to accept a sec
ond place on tho Republican ticket with
Grant is so silly that it will do no dam
sge. ."If there is any position under' the
United States Government which is ab
solutely devoid of officil or political
import at ce, except in an remote con
tingency, it is the position of Vice Pres
ident of the United States, and Mr.
Blaine is too young a man, too able a
statosraan, and too, valuable as a publio
leader ' to be consigned to oblivion at
present. '-.
Somebody or Another, who seems
to know what ho Is talking , about,
suggests that Colonel Mosby bo np
pointed Commissioner of Indian Af
fairs. As tho State Department feels
as if it had had about enough of Mos
by, it will no doubt, very cheerfully
pass him along to the . Interior De
partment. It would bo as good as a
week's vacation to see some of the In'
dian Agents dodging i$()jiby,Fkila
deljihia Time. ; '. .
Tho only question of interest to
Secretary Sherman Is this: How
many votes will I have to dispose of
to some other candidate at Chicago?"
Tho Electoral Bill in the New' York
Assembly Is not dead, but sleepoth,
A word from Roseoe Conkllng would
make it very lively Indeod. The
question !, will that word be spoken;
and, if so, In whoso Interest? Chica
go 'Tribune. ' :
. a-iu.ji.jj-j.'-!ii UJ s '
Oru Democratic exchanges in South
era Oregon are almost unaninjqusly in
favor of -. "the re-election of j Samuel J
Tilden as President. Nothing would
suit us better, and it is our opinion that
if the Sage of Grammercy Park can
convince tho Democratio Convention
that he is able to carry New York, he
will get the nomination by acclania
tion.
ri;EeALx.
James Gordon Bennett la in Tunis.
MnJ. Reno .was permitted tore-
sign.
Senator. David Davis owns 6,000
acres of Improved lands in Illinois.
P. T. Barnom haa given $1,0C0 to
tho Irish relief fund. Good boy !
Mrs. Tweed, widow of William M,
Tweed, died on Friday last, In Paris.
Miss Clara Ixrnlro Kellogg has
been charming Iho Parisians by her
skating.
The Sultan of Turkey cannot imy
his debts, but pendi f 12,000,000 a
year for luxuries.
Victoria Woodhull, when last heard
from, was teaching a Sunday School
class In London.
Falti says nho stlii Jias "stage
frights" when she goes on in a new
theator and a new pieco.
Leather petticoats aro ustd for
walking by English women. They
look like satin, and wear forever.
President Monroe's tomb has been
desecrated in so far that tho brass
plate has been stolen from IL
Miss .Leech; a scientific English
woman, has been elected a rncmtH-r
of tho : Pharmaceutical Society of
Great Britain.
Win, B. Afttorowns 21,000 dwell
ing houses In New York. How much
does he give to tho Jlerall Irish relief
fund?-
IXivhfMatbewrf, tho builder of the
first locomotive ever ronsfrueted In
this country, now lives in San Fran
cisco.
Sir Edward Thornton and h'u two
daughters are to bo seen - daily oil
horseback on tho road about Wash
Ington, D. C.
On a late social occasion' at Wash
Ington Mrs. Astor of New Jork wore
diamonds to the value of over one
million dollars. . "
Mrs. General Lander'uhomp,known
m Washington as Hollyhock Cottage,
is ono of the moat attractive resi
dences there. ; 1
Blind Tom's list of pieces which he
plays in public aggregate 7,000 in
number. Tom has got potoof money
laid by lor old age. - . ..
The President has promptly warned
all intending settlers In the Indian
Territory to keep away from that
section f country. '
Bright Eyes, the Indian girl,passcd
an evening with Mr. and Mr. Hayes
at the White Mousey by Invitation of
the President.
Mrs. President Hayts says she
cannot wear her hair except n the
plainest manner without making her
self look like a perfect fright."
Qov. Roberts of Texas, who Is a
gay old boy of more than seventy
years, recently, danced with sevc
young ladies at a leap year lnll.
Mr. T. A. Edbon is hard at work
at Mcnhv Park getting his lamps
ready for the electric light with
which he propose to illuminate
Paris.
Gov. Cornell of New. York reeom
suended la his last message that a
law uhoald be passed authorizing the
election of women as trustees of
schools. i.j '.
Olive Lgan describes Mario Chris
tine, tho young Spanish queen, as far
from being & beauty. Thin to the
vereo of scrawnlness. ' with high
cheek bones and a great hook nose,
she is at - plain young girl as one
would see In a day's wale.
Senator Carpentor's daughter, Miss
Llllle, keeps in her parlor a spine ing
wheel that belonged to her great
grandmother. She is distinguished
in Washington as a vocalist, and
when she slogs ' her favorite song,
Marguerite's she spins flax as an ac
companiment y"""l
' Madame Do Tencla said to tho
young Count d'Hervlngy, her protege:
l"Make 'more . friends among the
women than among the gentlemen,
for by means of the women you can
do all yon wish with the men."
Seven-eighths of the colored mem
bers of the Leghdalara. are uncompro
mislngly in, avor .of Grant for, Presi
dent against thQwodd. The. colored
men will support the ex-President if
he is the ' nominee of tho National
Republican ' Convention under '. any
clreamsbnces. Ttioso with whom I
have conversed ara confident that if
Grant is tha nominee he will bring
out the whole negro vote of tho State,
Richmond Letter to the 'InlexAj
In case of failure., to elect, alt tho
rlngitea who are clamoring for a third
term intend that their chief shall ex
ecute a coup d'etat, and take the
office under the protection of armed
men. This may not be a pleasant
prospect . for American frpemen to
contemplate, but such U undoubtedly
the scheme of the bad men who have
JjlVasted JnCfrant, Ilartford Times,
have known Grant w an ordi
nary subaltern, aa the partner in an
unsuccessful tanning enterprise, as a
soldier with a wonderful knack of
winning batllea,-" and as a President
with an almost equal knack of losing
States. Brooklyn Times.
Subscribe for the Democrat.
, Omi0S Of TltE FBE3.
Tho Detroit Free Press says that
Blain9 wantstosubmit Don Camoryti's
actioni to tho Supremo 'Court of
Maine.
Up to the present timo Blaine ha-
had all the tooni nnd Grant hw got tho
Delegates. This can hardly l-o c.ilk-d
a fair division. I'hlla'h.Ua 7'i.
Blalno can sco the tho diffcrcnoo
between iho Republican Convention
of Pennsylvania and the Supremo
Court of Maine. It's nil in tlu- wk
Insr. 8. C. News. . ,
Brains arc no scarce in (he Republi
can party that they can find but one
man lit for tho Presidency, nwl ,
want to put him in fur a 'bird t'-rin
fflooiMbnrrj Columbian.
The Sherman organs in- o:,J nre
begging- and coaxing- tho U.'nino men
to let up. Hero and thero a A-nrlnl
threat escape, but, as a rule, only
taffy argument is axil. It N inti
mated that tho preference T Mr.
Tilden had something to. do with
tei mining tho place at which Na
tional Democratic Convention U to
held. And k'JU they c:iy he-' t'w'.i.
XClncianttli Enquirer.
Y.X Qvr.P.X Iljciia of Sjiaiu lie
chiefly by pawning or selling her jnwel.
Dut hhe reserved a few, it sf-ein, fi-r at
the grand ball given by the President
of Fiance ialelr,bo wote a rn a! crown
blading with splendid diamond. What
will become of her when her Lsxt bril
liant friends Lave found ll.iir v. v ii.to
the ah'ips of the IVau Royal.
Alfci'KT FLOW Kit.
The immenno wi'eand preat popiilarily
of (ireen'M Augtixt Flower in all town an'.l
village In tho civilized world lias caiiw.1
many Imitators to adopt similar name,
expecting to reap a harvest for thomiiolVf
at tho expenite of the aniit-ted. Thm turili
rine wa introduce J in isws, and for tli-j
euro of Jlyrpiii and IJver Cemp'aiiit,
with their effect, uca a Sotir fstoiruK-!i,
IkjMlvenwSjJ-iick Momach.Siirk He-t ta lt-,
Inditfnxtion, Palpitation of the Heart, vrr
tigo, etc.. Btc, it never failed to our knowi
edge. Three dofiefiwiil relieve miv cw of
lyspepia. Two million bottle koM lonl
year. Price 7i cent, bam pies 19 rents.
Urbkm'h Atlam asd Ihabt Alm ava;
the tnoet expensive free alinauacever pul
linlied, went free on receipt of tww cent
lamp. O. Q. KKRN
Woodbury, X. J., f. !S. A-
Sale.
lit the Circuit Court of the
fvr tie County of Linn :
Frank Parton, Plaintiff,
r.
, William 15. Gore and MarpnrH :cre l is
wife, C. O. Harnea, V. O. 1'aluier. Jnlm
Conner. I bender and 11. Sl. rnlx-i.
partnera Joins iu)ne amler l;i l-.-ni
name and trtylo of tSc-mier & M-rn!erp:.
and John A. Jiobinett, Andraw Tr:j:; a:; J
Jacob Keeo, Itefendanta.
I Y VIRTCKOPADECHKECF FOKK
f closure in the above named 'Court, hi
tue above entitled suit, and an execution
and order of sale lasoed ifi purxii:n-H
thereof, to mo directed and: delner.I, i
have levied upon lite mortimred prtni:.-
deacribed in Maid decree a follow h, u- it -.-
The Kast half of the went half of tl e
Donation Iand Claim of William IS O.oro
and Margaret Core lit wife, the tame If-
iner Claim 2o. 33 ana rsouncuion o. -7,
and aituated in Tp. 12 S. of R. 2.W. of the
Willamette Meridian, in IJnn County, Or
egon, and on
Saturday, the 10th Jay'of April, 1SSC,
at the Court House door in the city of AI
bauv. IJnn Coontr. Orecon. at the hotir
of 10 o'clock A. I will sell the herein
before described real property at public
auction for cash in hand to tho hiUcvt
bidder, the proceeds of cuch nale to l-e ap
plied aa provided iu said decree, as loi
Iowa, to-wit:
Kirnl, to the payment of the costx, tax!
at $.'- 50, and the costs and exeuMM ot
making mild aalo.
frieeond, to tho payment lo the said plain
tilt Frank Par ton the aiuu of ',: .-J in
U. S. gold coin, with act-mint iutt-.rpKt
thereon in like coin from the ruli Uy of
Jannarr. 1SSO, at the ralo of one j-t r cent,
per uioulh.
Third, to the payment to tho. defendant
CO. ltanios the mini of $161 W hi l .S.
gold coin, w th interest thereon in likecoitt
fiom the 22nd day of April. 1S7!.
Fourth, to the parrneut to the defendant
W. O. Palmer the una of J 1 100 5t in I', s.
gold coin, with interest thereon in like
coin from the 27th day of October, ISTt', at
the rate of one per cent, per month.
Fifth, to the payment to the defendant
Jetm Conner tho sura of $350 61 in V. s.
gold coin, with interest thereon in like coin
from the 2-lUi day of October, at the
rate ef one per cent, per month.
Sixth, to the payment to the defendant
benders and M. tsterooen;, partners do
ing business under the f:rin name and
Btyleof Sender Ji Sternberg, tho k'uui of
aieo-t ii ia u . a. um cuu, hm - uieit9-..
thereon in like coin from the 2S h iuy .
October. lS?!i, at the rale of one port-em,
per month.
Seventh, to the payment to the defend
ant Jofcu A. Kobiuctt the sum of j50 1"
in U. 8. cold coin, with interest thereon in
like ooiu from the 10th day of Xovember,
ls.w, at tne rate ot one percent, per monti:,
Kighth, that thereafter, if anything re
main fiom the proceeds of eaia salo.'tliHi
that the same be paid over to the said du
fondant WiUiara It. Uore.
Hated thU Uih day of March, 18H
I.C. XUCKKV,
,. 32wi Sheriff of Linn Co , Oregon.
Vty Ueo. IIUAtfURKT, Depuiy.
H. J. BOUGHTOW, II. D..
wuxr,'. ;. - - OUEKOX.
THE POCTOR IS A GRAPCATK- OP THE
VEKSITV Medical Cutle ot Nrw York, onj i.- a
lot member oi UeUerue UoiUal StiMisul UuiK-o
NnwYuik.
4rurtir In City Druj Starr. Iftiilenoe on m-,vv
of Fourth anil lllrtrurUi street liiructty ta.-k of liid
M. E. Church, Mmth, l;m3j'ii
Administrator' BpJo
-OF
Real Estate.
In the County Court of Linn Couuty, Stale
of Oregon. -
- In the matter of the estate of John Mifr
ler, deceased.
-VTOTICE IS nEREBY fUVEV TIT AT
J3l in pursuance of an order of .tint lion,
the County Court of Linn County, t regon,
made on the 2d day of March, l-so, tln
undersigned, the remaining Admiuistrator
of the estate of John Miller, deceased, will
sell at public auction to the highest bidder,
in one parcel, on
between the hours of 9 o'clock A. M. and
5 o'clock P. M., to-wit: at tho hour of a
o'clock P. M. of sid day, at the Court
House door in the City of Albany, in I.inn
County, Slate of Oregon, the followinsi do
scribod premises belonging to said estate,
to-wit: Beginning at the Southeast corner
of Claim 53, Notification 1674, as appears
by the plats and surveys on file in the U.
S. land oftiee at "Oregon City, Oregon; and
running thence North 77 ilepre68 a?id
mlnutpaWest 80 rods, thence North i roily
thence East 77 degrees and 2 miiiuoo
South 80 rods, theuee South -10 rod to the
beginning, containing 20 acres, more or
less, in Linn Conutv, State of Oregon.
Tprmaof sale: One-half cash iu hand,
and the remainder in tis months from thp
dav of sale, secured bv mortgage f-n the
premises.
I. D, MILLER,
Kemaiuing Administrator of estate ot
John Miller, deceased. :J9v4