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BEDROCK DEMOCRAT, PUBLISH ED EV ERY W EDNESDAY, J. M. SHEPHERD. BY OFFICE IN THE B E D R O C K D E M O C R A T B U I lD I J iG . T eem # of S ubscription : One year,...................................................A 00 Six Months,....... ........................................2 50 C orrespondence from all portions of Eastern Oregon is solicited for the D e m o c r a t . All communications, to receive attention, must be accompanied by a responsible name-, Personal communications will be charged as special advertisements. BAKES CITY, BAKES COUNTY, OEEGON, JANUARY 20, 1875. 1ST e w D r u g S tore. IL Ho street, Boston, 37 Park Row, New Y ork and 701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, are our Agents for procuring advertisements lor the BEDRpcK D emocrat , in the above cities, and are authorized to contract for advertising t our lowest rates. n3lf C IT Y , OREGON, W ould respectfully inform the public that he has recently received a well se lected and fresh Stock of D rugs, Chem icals, Paints, Oils, Perfum eries, Patent M edicines, Soaps, We are now prepared to do all kinds of W ines, JOB WORK on short notice and at reasona Brandies, ble rates. W hiskies and N. B.—All Job Work MUST EE PAID FOB ON DELIVERY. Cordials, JOB WORK.. P R O F E S S I O N A L C A R D S. L. O. STERNS, W e s te r n H o te l. S te r n s & H v d A tto rn e y s and kj . MAIN STREET,......................................BAKER CITY. C o u n s e lo r s A t - l a w , B A K E R CITY, OREGON. L. O. S terns will attend the Courts of the Fifth Judicial District, and of Idaho and Washington Territories. Water Bights and Mining Litigation a S p e c ia l t y . Collections promptly attended to. June IS, 1873.n6y " " ANDREW J, LAWRENCE, B A K E R C IT Y , OR EG O N . Of the State. W Baker City, Sept. 1, 1873. nl7y. IL L P R A C T I C E IN A L L C O U R T S I. D. H A IN E S, A and cou n selor Law, Baker city, Oregon. at [n ltf r i m iS HOUSE has I xau enlarged and re- JL fitted, and is now tlie best Hotel on the Umatilla and Idaho stage route. Stages leave this House for above and be low,. and also for Clark’s Creek Eldorado, Gem City and Sparta. Connected with the Hotel will bo found a first class Liquors, Wines and Cigars «of the best quality. Phelan’^ Improved Billiard Tables ail in good order. o----- o N. B.—Those indebted to either the Hotel or Saloon are requested to appear at the Captain’s office and settle. no5v3tf. RAIL ROAD IIOUS e T Corner Main Street and V alley A venue Southwest Side, B A K E » C IT Y , O R EGO N, ee p s 1 inform-the Public that they have pur chased the Baker City Hotel, and have fitted itup as a First Class Hotel, where they will be found at all times ready to attend to the wants of the H u n g ry a n d W ea ry , -A. tt o r n e y -at-Hi a w , B A K E R CITY, OREGON. S. V. KMGX, In a manner that will give satisfaction. The Table will be supplied with the best the A tto r n e y at L a w , (And Notary Public,) Will practice in the Courts of this State and Washington Territ iry. PECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO LAND Business, and Collections. nl3tf S Give us a call, and then you can judge-of our ability and capacity to please our custo mers. n51tf CLEMENT & SICORD. h a n d kinds of For Medicinal Purposes. TOILET ARTICLES . Of Every Description. Prescriptions prepared at all Hours. City and Country Trade Solicited. Best Brands, o f F a m i l y G r o c e r ie s, T o b a c c o s , C iga rs, A c ., constantly on Hand, at the Lowest Prices. Baker City, Oct. 7, JS74.n221y MILUHERY AM D FANCY GOODS, AT THE- N E ¥ STORE, First doer above the Express Office. a llie s F a n c y a m i M illin e r y Goods in Store, and Latest Styles receiv= L ed by Express every Month, and for sale at most reasonable Prices. Dress ALiking Done to Order, and at Short Notice by MRS. L. J. HUSTON. Baker City, April 18,1874.-n51m6 Bohna A le C ord’s S A L O O N ? AT THE OLD StAND OF B am b erger & F ran k , B A K E R M T ¥ , OREGON. B olm a & McCord Respeetftal- ly inform tlie Citizens- of Baker City and the Public generally, that they ha\e opened a New S A L O O N , MARKET WILL AFFORD. O R -E G O S . on DRUGS, • ' . MEDICINES, PAINTS and OILS, / W INDOW GLASS, VARNISHES, BRUSHES, and CLEM EN T & SIC O R D , Proprietors, rp iie P roprietors respectfully c o s s t a n t iy K a Full Assortment o f all Goods, consisting in part of Baker City, Oregon. J. M. S H E P H E R D , XV E S T O N , R E ID & F L E T C H E R , P rop ’r. S A L O O N ! Attorney-at-Law, ttorney For Medicinal purposes. Fam ily Medi cines carefully prepared. Prescrip tions accurately compounded, at ail hours o f the day or n8 ’ night. Give us a call. tf T. C. H YD E, N o ta r y P u b l ic . J, f . WISDOM, Proprietor, H 'M M H I S X Corner o f Main, Street and V alley Avenue, BAKES S . M . D E T T E N G I E X , & Ci>., 10 S ta te C orn er D r u g S tore, Where will always bo found the very best W in es, Liquors ami Cigars. One of the Finest and Best HOTEL RESTAUBM T J O S E P H H. S H I N N , Notary Public d o AND Co n v e y F R A N C a n c e r, Will attend to Conveyancing and making ABSTRACTS OF TITLE. Baker City, Sept. 11, 1872. nl8tf e TW. REYNOLDS, N O T A E Y P U B L I C AND D E P U T Y U. S. M A R SH A L . Office with John Brat-tain, Three Doors South of B e d r o c k D e m c r a t office, on side of the Street. Balier City, Sept. 3, 1873.nl7m4 JR , JOSEPH MAN AIDAS, Proprietor, B A K E R CITY, OREGON. rip,ME P R O P R IE T O R H A S Bougl&t- JL the Hotel Restaurant, next door to the Post Office, form erly kept by Si cord & W hitcom b, and has fitted the same up in the' best style as a Hotel, on the French Restaurant Style. He is prepared to ac commodate the Public, and is determined to give entire satisfaction. The H ouse.isopen from five o ’clock in tlie m orning until twelve at night, during which timfe customers will be supplied with the best o f everything to be Rad io the M J& . E t . 3 ESL E 3 BS ? * Baker City, July 4,1874.-a 9 tf A, J. TIllBODO, 11. A. M, D. M. A- Queen’s University, \Canada, M. D. Trinity University,J 18o4. F la y s ic ia o , S u r g e o ia , *£c. O ffic e and Ilesidence, at A. H. Brown s former residence, nearly opposite the Bed rock Democrat Office. Baker City, Oregon, Nov. 1 0 ,1874.-y F . JST. S n o w j M . 1 3 . Physician and Surgeon, B A K E R CITY, OREGON. the new Buildrng im m ediate ly South o f the Western Hotel. F F IC E — In MEDICAL E X A M IN E R or the New Y ork Life Insurance Co- nloif J - 2P. o o d , M. l). ;Graduate of tlie College of Physicians and lurgeons New York and of tlie Medical De partment oi the Willamette University,) PH Y SIC IA N AN D SU R G E O N , Terms cash, or no patronage solicited. Office one door north of City Drug Store. n23] ' BAKER CITY, OREGON. Ltf J o lm F . O liord, Carpenter and Joiner, BAK ER CITY, OREGON. Designs and Specifications Furnished. Estimates Made. Terms Liberal. n28y Baker City, Nov. 17, 1874. S J M’CORMiCK, Boots. Stationary. Top. Insic And Importer and D ealer In N E W S P A P E R S, FRANKLIN BOOK-STORE AND SANTA CLAUS Headquarters, E ire-proof Brick Building, 105 Front street, Portland, til 7 O regon. [tf BAKER CITY M ARKET. r o lm E p p in g é r R c s p e c t iß liy (J informs the citizens of Baker Oily that has re-opened the BAKER CITY MARKET, Where, at all-times, ho will be prepared to furnish liis customers with the BEST OF MEAT, Of all kinds, at most reasonable prices. Baker City,'April 11, 1874.-n49t-f LIVERY S T A B L E MESSRS. KILBffis & PEBKIXS T 3 c s p e c i f u l l y I i i f o r s a t l i e C it - J L i izens of Baker City and County, and the Public generally, that they have pur chased the l i l v e r y G it Formerly kept by John Eppinger, and that they are prepared to furnish customers with the best of Single or Double Turn-outs, Either night or day, with or without drivers, at the very lowest rates. First class Saddle Horses on hand. Horses boarded and the best of care bestowed. We keep nothing bin the best of Stock and Buggies. Our stable is at the upper end of Mam Street, Baker City, Oregon. Come and see us, Everybody, and wo will do our best to please you. KILBURN & PERKINS. February 10, 1874.-n40tf LIVERY STABLE CJ n d e r t a k e r . J. W. O L E A V E R informs tlie Public that he is prepared to do land of work in the Undertaking Business on short notice and at rasonable prices. Baker City, Oct, 1 ,1873.n21tf PÄP LEVINS 15 W HOLESALE aliti 9 E T A IS , DEALER IN IE3 Ai* T o b a c c o & C ig a r s, TOGETHER WITH A General Assortment Of all articles in his Lino, which he is selling at L ow e st P r ic e s , for the Ready Pay. His house is located on Main Street, nearly apposite the Bank Block, Baker City, Oregon. Baker City, Nov. 11, 1874.n27if. ■ J. B . G A R D N E R , k] o m hm • ' V» ,vX;'Lqä Hme*? */A j f f e ñ í é s l b e .il î ^ r+ a o _ ¥ o p M o WATCHMAKER AND JE vYELER, ESTABLISHED IN BAKER CITY IN 1867, Keeps constantly on hand a well assorted Stock of WATCHES, CLOCKS I JEWELRY, and is prepared to do all kinds of work in liis line of business. Waltham and Elgin Watches at Factory n3 ] Prices [Y- GEO. J. BOWMAN. S. A. GAINES. GAINES & BOWMAN, Blacksmiths AND lannfactnrers of Baggies & W agons. E A R E GETTIN G OUR TIM B E R direct from, St. Louis, Mo., and none W but the yery best is Purchased, we are there- fore prepared to Warrant all our work. We are now fully prepared to complete any H aving com pleted ¿lieir New Stable, have now the finest and best regulated On short notice, and we can say we have the Very Best of Workmen in our employ. Every one wanting a Buggy or Wagon will save time and money by giving us a cab and examining our work for themselves. In E a s t e r n O r e g o n , STO CK BO U G H T AN D SO L D . Baker City, Nov. 13, 1872. nl3tf Mrs. R. C. Shepherd drover & Bate’s Sewing ¡Mines. IS AGENT FOR Baker City, Dec. 1 , 1872.n30lf When ho got to his dwelling, The soft snow was wellingf . Aggravatingly fine thro’ the wall— ■ And maliciously sifting, And driving and drifting Thro’ the parlor, and kitchen and hall. With the front of him toasting, And the back of him frosting. He whispered in accents not low— That if Hell was’nt crammed, He’d surely be damned, Wo’ld the man who wrote “ Beautiful Snow.’ As ho gazed on his wood pile, And knew in a little while, Not a stick would bo left there to burn - Came the chilling sensation, As to where in creation For another big load, he could turn— And how sweetly he’d rest, I f they’d hold an inquest 0 On the man who delighted in woo— Who’d been writing such gammon, In his beautiful psalm on The Flakes of tlio “ Beautiful Snow.” « .E T T E R . F a i k v i e w , J a n . 9lli, 1875. Buggies or Wagons Where they will carry on the Livery Busi ness in all its branches. As he felt the cold snow on his shin— Which.the same had obtruded, J ust then when he tumbled In a drift that was deeper than sin, And his whole frame did quiver, E ’en his marrow did shiver As;he thought how his chilblains wo’kl grow. And he wept in despair, That the hair he couldn’t tear Of the man who wrote “ Beautiful Snow.” B illia r d T a b le s GRIER & KELLOGG L i v e r y S ta b le Mr. Bentley has completed his contract for repairing the bridge across the Umatilla River at Pendleton. The work done, was For the B edrock , D emocrat . of a substantial character, and was received “ B E A U T IF U L SNOW . ” and paid for at this term of Court. Send B y Ajti. along your big teams. Our worthy Clerk, Mr. F. M. Crockett, | “ It is now well understood, that the au will tender his resignation, at this term of thor of “ Beautiful Snow” is a distinguished tho Court. His reasons for so doing, is tho gentleman of Vermont.” —Ex P a p e r .] reduction made in the County Clerks fees The snow was throo feet ^at the last term of the Legislature. Mr. On the level. It beat Crockett is, perhaps the best County Clerk The very “ Old Nick,” how it froze, that Umatilla County has ever had since its As a poor man did hustle, organization and it is to bo regretted that And along the path rustle, h i^ teijj is to bi filled by another. Caressing his froat-bUtcn nose; TlieNqiow is ten or twelve-inches deep at £adly, softly, lie prayed Weston and is falling very fast to day. That a coffin bo made There is good sleighing at present, and the Very quick, in a minuto or so— indications are that there will be for an in For the sweet-scented bilk definite length of time. Times arcYery From Vermont, or that ilk, gopd hero considering it is mid winter. The man, who wrote “ Beautiful Snow.” And n o w , Judge, if it is not too late, allow me’to wish y o u and the B e d r o c k a happy Where the beauty could be Now Year. LARRY. For his life he couldn’t see OUR O W ÏÏIS E To be found in the City. “ Fred” and “ Bub” will be pleased at all times to have their friends give them a call. BOHNA to McCORD. Baker City, Feb. 10, 1874. nlOtf Special attention is paid to Horse Shoeing. All repair work done on short notice. We are thankful for past Patronage, and still "W * * G llH E S 4 BOWMAN. Baker City, March 11,1874.-n44tf ____ E d it o r D e m o c r a t There Jias nothing o f importance transpired in this mountain burg since my last writing. Everything, with the exception of the weather, is as still as the placid waters o f Snake River in the m iddle o f summer. Cold and stor my weather set in here about the third or foilrtlYof this m onth and has continued at intervals up to date. At this writing it is blowing and snowing-with such fearful vengeance as to render it almost impossi ble to cross the street of Fairvicw; the weather is extremely cold and jack frost is in the height of liis glory. Accidents are becoming so com m on on tho mountain that we Fairviewers are not surprised on hearing, as we arise from our beds in the m orning, that another m;£n was killed last night. About three weeks ago a young man by name of Edmund Porrault lost his life while working in the Revenue m ine in Silver City- O 11 the 4th o f this month a young man by name W illiam Stevens lost his life by failing in to the Silver City Legion Shaft- while on his way home from Fairvicw,—on the Empire side o f the War Eagle Mountain, And now we have io record tho sad fact that while we write this letter there is in the M iner’s Union Hall in this town the dead body of a young man by name o f Ja cob Hauh, who lost his life by being over taken by a huge avalanche of snow, on what is known as the Mohogany side of the mountain. It. is no exaggeration to say that there has more accidents occurred in this camp <vithin the last six months than there basin any. other camp o f its size on the Pacific Coast. We feel warranted in sayhig-that nine-tenths of those accidents are sheer carelessness either on the part of the victim or some o f the Mining 'Compa nies. For instance—what ' would you think o f a company who would sink a shaft within a few feet o f a road where the public are passing at all hours o f the day and night. O u ropin ionin tU em atteris— and we believe we speak the truth—that each and every member o f a company, guilty of such gross neglect, ought to be tried for Hieir lives. The people o f this community are now talking oL getting up a petition to the Idaho Legislature with a view of getting that august body to pass a law making it compulsory to cover up and secure the innumerable started shafts and prospect holes that are scatterec^ all over War Eagle Mountain. This would be a good law for this camp and one which would undoubtedly have a good effect for all time to com e—inasmuch as it would be instrumental in saving many a man from an untimely grave; on the whole it would he nothing more or less than a sim ple act o f justice, and one which would be Railed with jo y by the people o f this com m unity, and we firmly believe that such an act would be far more creditable to obr law-makers than if they divorced every married man and \yoman in Idaho Territory- . „ . Yours, &c., t . c: OUR U M ATILLA COUNTY B E TTE R . Or. Jau. lOtli 1875. County Coart was in session last week, at Pendleton, with O / V /Y lT Y Y P o u n d s o f W h e a t a full board Hon. H . C. Yoakum presid at the B e d r o c k D e m o ing; Messrs Henry Bowman and J. L. c r a t Office immediately, fo r which the high Rodgers, Commissioners. est Cash price wiljbe allowed*. n26tf W h e a t W a n te d . NO. W e sto n , E d it o r D e m o c r a t :— Tlie O U R UNION C O U N T Y B E T T E R . H o g e m , U n io n Co., Or. Jan. 3d 1875. EnrroR D e m o c r a t :— I have but a few mo ments to write. I must say things- look rather cheering. The Summit mine owned by Messi'3 Packwood & Stowart, is looking well. Mr. J. l . Griffin, with his small po8- see of men is rushing ahead bravely. They aro down at the depth of -400 feet from the surface, and aro getting out some splendid Ore; Mr. G. thinks it will pay from $25 to $30 per ton, and from the looks of it, I should judgeit would yield a great deal more, but he is the best judge, wo will call it $25 or $30 Ore; that is pretty good itself. Undoubtedly it is a good mine; hoping that it is, for we need some thing of the kind very bad now. Mr. Alger & Co., are making preparations for their spring work,-by groundsluicing, which will undoubtedly prove a success. Yours Respectfully. ST. CROIX. E xploita o f M r. W illia m BIcW aters. City Correspondence Chicago Times. Our District Court has just adjourned, and die notorious desperado, William Mc- Waters, has been sentenced to twenty-one years at hard labor in the Lincoln peniten tiary, and tho ponderous gates have hidden the criminaTfroin the World in which ho re garded human life no more than a sports man does a prarie chicken. He was young in years, bj.it graduated early among the bushwaekers of Missouri and is known from Nobraaka to Oregon, as the terrible Me Wat ers—a living personification of just such characters as figure in dime novels and fill up the measure of glory in saloon literature. His history will be written and go down to posterity with that of John A. Murrill and other disturbers of society, and the long night of prison penance will only throw a deeper interest around his fate. William MeWaters was born in Platte county, Missouri, the year after tho great flood—1844. Plis mother was a Kentucky woman of superior character. But we know nothing of his early days till at the mould ing age of twelve years he followod the pro- slavery raiders over into Kansas, and learn ed to love blood and hate the abolitionists at Ossawattomie and other skirmishes. In those pursuits he was a kind of free rover, two years. Soon after the rebellion broke out he join ed a company o.f the boys who burned the Platte bridge and precipitated the Hannibal and St, Joseph Railroad train into an awful chasm, killing many of tho passengers, be cause Federal soldiers were among them. Then he enlisted with Jim Gidden’s band, and fought "under General Price for six months. On coming back home to Bee Creek he found the family residence burned, his father and brother killed by the ^Militia, and the rest of tho family driven off in ban ishment. So he associated himself with Bill Anderson, John and Fletch Taylor, aud oth er desperate bushwackers, and resolved to sacrifice a hundred lives for one in revenge, and did pick off' Capt. Cheeseman and thirty or forty of his men, who were quartered in the neighborhood. But the rising glory of Quantrell drew them over into Kansas again where MeWaters found congenial work in the sacking.and burning of Lawrence. Quantrell afterward carriedliis freebooters into Arkansas, and there they fell out among themselves over a woman, and the sanguina ry Bill Anderson drew away from Quantrell aud raided back through Northern Missouri like a líame of fire over the praries, carrying young MeWaters in his train, who had many adventures more strange than fiction, and was assisted out otmany hair breadth es* capes by a fair, heroine named Jennie May- field. 'h At the close of the war we find MeWaters keeping a saloon in Platte City, where he shot a man; and his friend, John Taylor, ivas shot by tho police. He then escaped to St. Joe, which was seething with despera does from all parties, where his oth r friend Fletch Taylor, was shot dead by the police; and MeWaters, in return, shot’ the police man. By the aid of confederates he got out o f Missouri and came to W yom ing, in this county, .where a romantic attachment Sprang up between him and a beautiful young lady, who was to have married his friend, Fletch Taylor, and he was the groomsman, and they were on tlie way up when the affray took: -placej in St. Joe which ended the career o f Fletch Taylor.— Miss Susie Davis wedded MeWaters, and through thick and thin lias idolized her husband—the one bright picture in this narrative. Two years ago MeWaters shot Wolfe dead in a row in W yom ing; and soon after his brother-in-law, W oodson, who is a cousin of Gov. W oodson of Missouri, shot Barlow dead, and is now serving a term in the penitentiary for it. MeWaters was cleared. But about a year afterward John Crook and he shot and killed an innocent man in Dold’s saloon in this city. They were caught and shut up in au iron cage, where it seemed théy were very safe for trial. But one evening, when the guards were shifting them, they managed to steal the arms, and at the pistol’s mouth drove tiie guards into the cage, locked them in, and escaped on horses which had been placed outside by friends. In the Indian Nation the men separated in bad blood, and MeWaters, for whom a large reward was offered, was again caught at Hays City Kansas. But while the Sheriff’s posse was making tlie prison for him, he executed the old manœuvre, and suddenly shut six o f them inside, while he escaped 011 the Sheriff’s horse. He then made his way northward among the Black feet Indians, and shot one of them dead over a bottle o f whiskey, and has liis blankets yet, with the bullet holes, he running the gauntlet of the whale tribe’ Nebraska Ono square orV*’ Each additional R 0 , ^ U s iv . One square three A ®: Business Advertise^- •:. **’ ‘ •.. $o Quarter column. x Half colu m n ,..................... ^ . . . . One column..........................ftp Ten per cent, additional on adVv $c no to which a special position is gnamq DAVTlie space of one Inch, up andx the column,-constitutes a square. in Coin A l t debts due this office are payable ’ * ” otherwise expressly agreed. W e next hear o f MeWaters ,xv. town o f Sparta, in Union county ,le,, IffHo where he visited a relative, and liah mous needle gun. with which lie murder ed a man-named George Weed, with whom he had a quarrel in a gam bling house.— The man had gone off'sem e distance, but had on a soldier’s blue coat, and MeWa ters couldnt resist the temptation o f letting fly a charge at liis brass buttons, shooting him in the back, and escaping to ¿Sacra mento City, with a new reward o f $.1,001) offered for bis arrest. But all t his time Sheriff Farbar, o f Nebraska City, who smarted for liis official honors, had detect ives 011 his track, and Tom Tippet, wlio once live here in the Seymour House with MeWaters, spotted liis lurking places, aud he was suddenly pinioned by the olllcUrs o f the law and brought back to Nebraska City. The result has been told. He has a dozen scars 011 liis person and bullet holes in liis body-, and a dozen times has escap ed from prison; and his rollicking stories would fill a book. He is thoroughly edu cated in deeds o f violence, and never talks about anything else with relish but “ get ting the drop” on some ono. He rides like a Comanche, and is as cool and wily as Modoc Jack. His clear, steel eye never glows except with tlie excitement of an a f fray. He has a fine figure, and might have been a gentleman—an Aubrey or a Kit Carson. But a man who always goos arou nd with pistols to hunt up a fight is uo longer desirable in Nebraska society, and Judge Gantt has the praise o f all parties in ban ishing him to a living grave. The scene when his devoted wife and two pretty children wore tom away from him, and lie was ironed for the penitentia ry, was such as tho hardest hearts could not contemplate, and the officers o f the court shed tears. MeWaters him self com pletely broke down. W iiiH C iu u cea It e m s . We gather the following from tlie W ln- ncmucca dailies o f last,Thursday: Sisson, W allace & Co shipped yesterday 35,000 pounds o f freight for Idaho, tlie grea ter part being for South Mountain. The roads are now in excellent condition for teaming, there being less dust than in summer time. James A. Hill left this m orning for his old home, Sandhurst, Ontario, in tho do minion of Canada. He will be absent about two months, unless he succeeds iu capturing a “ Canuckess” in less time. Vary ville is getting to be quite a lively town. There are two whiskoy m ills in full blast, and a h a lf dozen poker games running in each for tho last month. Snapp’s stage makes the trip from hero to V aryville, in Columbia Dist, 120 m iles, in 3G hours. They’ change horses throo times on tho way. Three car loads o f thoroughbred m erino sheep arrived hero last night from tho Eastern States. Four car loads o f beef cattle were ship ped last night from Mill City to Sail Fran cisco. Baldy Groen, tlie Veteran Stage Drivor, is mining at Varyville, and says lio will have all the money he wants by next Sum mer. „ E. L. Johnson & Co. are preparing to build a quartz m ill at Varyville. Mo., January 7tli 1875.. Both houses of the Legislature orgonized to-day. Governor Woodson’s message is a long document, devoted almost wholly to State affairs. The State debt is a littlo loss than $18,000,000. Referring to crime in tho State, he quotes the English common law, asking that t!:e people of “towns and coun ties'bo held responsible for damages when officers or citizens fail to arrest tlio crimi nals, as a remedy worthy the consideration of tho Legislature. In reference to matters in Louisiana, lie denounced tho Kellogg gov ernment, and the interference of the Feder al authorities in the organization o f tLe Leg islature, and urges tho Legislature to pass condemnatory resolutions. L in c o l n , Neb., January 7th 1875. The Legislature convened to day. Tlio Senate elected N. K. Griggs President, and tho House E. Towle Speaker. Tlio Governor’s message says the debt of the State is $402,000; tho population is 300,000, having doubled in tlio last two years. L it t l e R o c k , Ark. Jan. 7tli 1875. Resolutions were introduced in tlie Houso to day and referred to a spocial committee, reprobating the recent action of tlie military in New Orleans, and repelling tho charge by Sheridan that there is a state of terrorism in Arkansas, whore he lias never been, and about which ho c an only know by hearsay. I n d ia n a p o l is , January 8 tli, 1875. Both bftnclies o f the Legislature- met to day and organized, the Senate electing Re publican and Independent officers, having agreed upon a division. Tho Houso elected David Tarplo( Dem.)Speaker, on a straight, party vote, over both the Republican a id Iri- dependonWfcmdidates. The vote of tlio Dem ocrats was 5t>; Republicans, 35; Independ ents,-9. This gives tho Independents only 12 votes on joint ballot, leaving the Demo crats a joint majority of 8. S p r in g f ie l d , 111., January 5th, 1674. Tho House organized this morning by the electron o í M. E. Haynes, Independ ent, Speaker, he being voted for by Demo crats and Independents. Thé Senate ballot ed twico for President, without a choice, but no doubt Casey, Democrat,'will be elected. J e ffe r so n C i t y , T r e a t i n g T h e W ro n g - D isea so. —Many times Women call upon their family physi cians, one with dyspepsia, another with pal pitation, another with trouble of tho breast, another with pain hero and there, and iu this way they all present alike to themselves and their easy-going and indifferent doc tors, separate and distinct diseases, for which he prese: ibes his pills andjpotions, assum ing them to be such, when in reality, they aro all symptoms caused by somo uterine disorder; and while they are thus only ablo perhaps to palliate for a time, they aro ig norant of the cause, and encourage their practico until largo bills are made, when tho suffering patients are no bettor in tho end, but probably worse for th j delay, Treatment and other complications made, and. which a proper medicine directed to the cause would nave entirely removed, thereby instituting health and comfort instead of prolonged mi»- • -ery. From Miss Lorind i E. 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