mm RiTAius OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE STATE OFFICIAL PAPER FOR BENTON COUNTY Corvallis, July 18, 1879. W. B. CARTER, THE DARIENSKIP CANAL The convention over which de Lesseps, the distinguished French engineer of the Snez canal, presided, which recently assem bled at Paris, to take into consideration the best route for a ship canal across the Isth mus of Darien, and to which Admiral Am men and Commander Selfridge of the Unit ed States navy were delegates, has decided upon what is known as the Panama route, explored and recommended by Lt. Wyse of the French navy. It is very near the line ef the Panama railway. The length of the canal will be a little over forty-five miles, with twelve locks; estimated cost $140,000, 600, and it can be completed in six years, No trouble is anticipated in raising the nec essary capital, as the interest taken in the enterprise by the Parisians is so great that the 2.000.000 francs, in shares of 5,000 francs, which was desired as a first subscrip tion, was obtained in Paris in three days without publishing a single advertisement, EXCHANGING SCHOOL BOOKS. It ougjht to be understood by all who send pupils to our public schools that an arrangement has been made by which the .racifac Coast series ot eaders and spellers that have hith- rto been in use can be exchanged for the Independent seriep, recently adopted by a vote of the county su perintenderits. We understand that the cost of exchange will be as fol lows : i1 irst reader, 8 cents ; second reader, 12 cents; third reader, 16 cenls ; fourth reader, 20 cents ; fifth reader, 86 cents: sixth reader, 40 cents; speller, 10 cents. Another imDortattt Incl in this connection is that thetime for making thisexchange is limited to September 2, 1879, which fact should be very generally understood. W here and how tne exchange is to be made we do not yet understand, but probably that can be round out in every district. Willamette Farmer. ark Record. We find in the National Republican (Washington D. C.) of June 27th, about three columns of the cream of the report of the investigating committee of the last Legislature, entitled, "An Ex Governors record A chapter in the political history of Oregon." A our readers all know, that repor makes some damasine: disclosures jelative to the Grover-Chadwick ad ministration, and very few, if any respectable Democrats have any apologies to offer for the official cor ruplion unearthed, lt is no grave answer to these grave charges, so fa as the people of Oregon are concern ed, that benator G rover should rise in his seat, and pronounce them false or simolv made to damage him. The people of Oregon know better, and demand a different answer. Will he give it them ? Consolidation The Valley Foun tain, for July, comes to hand in mag azine form, and hail,s from Albany, Oregon. In this we learn that the Valley Fountain and Temperance Messenger have been consolidate"1, that is, become one, and the Valley Fountain is that one. If this means one firm, staunch, live temperance paper in Oregon, we welcome the change, as one good, well supported paper, in any cause, is better than a dozen tottering starvlings. The tem perance people of Oregon, if united, ean support ODe live temperance pa per, but no more. Let every friend of the cause now rally to the Foun tain and give it the support and en couragement it needs. It will hence forth be published at Albany, by Messrs. Mansfield & Montieth, with J. C. Cooper as editor of the I. O. G. T. depaitment. Terms one dollar per year. o Whaling. The story book pic tures of whaling, in which a man throws a harpoon from the bow of a boat, are no longer accurate. Of late years the weapon generally used has been a bomb that is fired from a gun and exploded in the whale's body. A new implement of this sort is de scribed as follows: The lance weighs seven and one-half pounds and con taios one quarter of a pound of gun powder, and is propelled by a heavy rocket. There being no discharge of a heavy gun, the recoil is a push rather than a blow, and the bomb is ignited by the rocket when the latter is burned out. A chain toggle at tached to the front end of the rocket is released by the explosion,- securely holding the whale, which, if not instantly killed, cannot long survive the explosion. The Warpath. A young girl named Susan Johnson, of LTniontown, Ky., who is addicted to reading blood and thunder novels, dressed herself in boy's clothes, and, armed with two pistols and a dagger, took the first packet for Evansville, intending to lead a life that would be a terror to the foe. On the boat some deck hands were removing freight, when a bis rat ran out and scudded in the direction of our hero. Miss Johnson jumped upon a bale of tobacco and screamed. They carried her to the ladies' cabin, where she remained the round trip ; and she has now promised her parents to do her share in the kitchen and keep her end up at the sewing machine. Coai. Oil is about to discourage furthtr attempts to inaugurate the electric light. On the 14th inst., the price sank to 33 cents per barrel in New York, and Edison is outdone, and the dangerous practice of using coal oil instead of kindling wood is rtallv encouraged. THE WONDERFUL AMAZON. The Amazon- has been termed "the Mediterranean of the New World." Only after floating davs upon days over its majestic tide does one reach a conception ot its vastness. It is in fact an immense water basin, rather than a river or system ot rivers, that drains the best portion of five rcpub lies and of a colossal empire. The area actually covered by waters of j , the Amazon is estimated at twenty six thousand square miles, and this figure increases at least by a fourth during flood-tide, or as it is called there, the wet season. The channel through which the Amazonian waters flow for over six thousand miles is so deep as to have suggested to the wondering imagination of the earlier navigators only one epithet fathom less. At Obidos its depth is forty fathoms ; at other points it reaches the marvelous depth of seventy fath oms. Half a million of cubic feet of water pour every second through the narrows of Obidos, and with such force does the Amazon enter the ocean six hundred miles below, that fresh water may be lifted from the bosom of the Atlantic at a distance which renders it impossible to descry land on any side. Eighteen of its tributaries are themselves rivers of the first magnitude, and several of these are over fifteen hundred miles in length. " But vast as are these tributary streams," fitly remarks Or ion, " they seem to make no impres sion on the Amazon; they are lost like brooks in the ocean." The Me deira alone, with its great affluents Mamore, Beni, Itenez and Gaupore, carries at mean level over tour hun dred thousand cubic feet ot water per second through an extent of over three thousand miles; yet this hug contribution is imperceptible him way across the river. "The Missis sippi poured into it at its mouth," says Col. George Church, " would not raise it six inches. Within the boundaries of Brazil alone the Ama- zonian networK ot rivers, canais ana lakes offers twenty-seven thousand miles of steam navigation. Twelve thousand miles are actual ly traversed by the vessels of the Amazon Navigation Steamship com pany and oilier steamers. Ihe basin of the Amazon is twice as large as the Valley of the Mississippi, and would hold forty-nine countries the size of England." The natural wealth of the country lor over one hundred thousand square miles is in propor tion with the magnitude of the river. The flora of Brazil is as rich as any in the world, and as far as concerns the medicinal, alimentary, ornamen tal and industrial uses of the vegeta ble kingdom, has no rival. The min eral wealth of the country is seem ingly inexhaustible; the land yields almost every product from the dia mond to the least valuable metal. Bates and Agassiz have related what wonders of animal life are seen along the Amazon. Ihe latter, speaking ot fashes only, says that the river nourishes twice as many species as the Mediterranean, and a larger num ber than the Atlantic, taken from pole to pole. No less cause of won der is the intensity with which life is manifested in these waters. "All the rivers of Europe," he says, " un ited, from the Tagus to the Volga, do not nourish one hundred and fifty species ot lresh water fishes: a little lake near Manaos, called Lake Hya nuary, the surface ot which covers hardly five hundred square yards, contains more than two hundred dis tinct species, the greater part of which have not been observed else where." JST. Yl Tribune. THE SEVENWISE MEN. Most people have heard of the " Seven Wise Men of Greece," but very few know who they were or how they came to be called so. Here is the story, and the moral of it is worth remembering, if their names are not: The Seven Wise Men of Greece arc supposed to have lived in the fifth century before Christ. Their names are Fattacus, Bias, Solon, 1 hales, Chilon, Cleobulus, and Periander. fhe reason of their being called wise is given dinerenuy by various au thors; but the most approved ac counts state that, as some Coans were fishingei tain strangers from Meatus bought whatever should be in the nets without seeing it. When the nets were brought in, they were found to contain a golden tripod which Helen, as she sailed from Troy, is supposed to have thrown there. A dispute arose betweeft the fishermen and the strangers as To whom it be longed, and, as they could not agree, they took it to the Temple or Apollo and eonsulted the priestes as to what should be done with it. She said it must be given to the wisest man in Greeee, and it was accordingly sent to Bias, who deelarcd Thales, who sent it to another one, and so on, un til it had passed through the hands of all the men. distinguished afterward as the that the other was wiser than he, it was finally sent to the Temple of Apollo, where it long remained to tpaeh the esson that the wisest are the most distrustful of their wisdom un un-po- A New Enterprise. Mr. J. W. Collins, of Table Rock, Jackson coun ty, has sixteen acres of sorghum un der cultivation, which is growing finely and promises to yield abund antly. He has sent for the requisite machinery for the manufacture of sorghum syrup of a superior quality, and is sanguine of the success of the industry lie has thus inaugurated, which his enterprise certainly de serves. Willamette Farmer. A MYSTERIOUS NEWSPAPER. President Hayes signed the army bill on Saturday, as it was generaly expected he would do, and on Mon day sent in Ins non-approval ot the judiciary bill. The army bill pro hiDits the use oi any money ior tne employment of the army or any part ot it as a ponce lorce to Keep the peace at the polls. The president explains that he does not wish to em ploy the army as a police force, and that as the bill does not prohibit the use of the army to quell a possible mob at the polls, which may have be come two powerful to be grappled with by the civil authorities, he sign en tne dui; out tne picnciary Dill ae regards as bringing up again all the obnoxious legislation which he had ,oeiore vetoed in the general appro priation and the former army hill ; and for these reasons he vetoed it W nether Uongress will conclude to pass a bill which will be acceptable to the president before that body goes home remains to be seen. It it should determine to adjourn without the passage of another bill the pres ident will promptly call an extra ses-sion.-iV W. Ch. Adr., June 25th. Absence is the greatest of evils when it isn't the best of remedies. For some time past the columns of the daily and weekly press have been filled with news from Russia. In that vast, half mystic empire, an ir responsible despot find himself face to face with a revolutiion that has for its object not only the overturn ing ot his throne, the driving of his dynasty from power, but also the an nihilation of all laws of property, the marriage relation, religion in short, the Russian Nihilists aim at anarchy, pure and simple. They make no se cret of their intentions, and their mad pTans can only be accounted for on the gi ond that they are the reac tion from the grinding despotism un der which they and their ancestors have groaneA The Czar meets the radical opposition to his rule with re pressive measures of the sternest sort. Arrests of suspected person are made by the thousands. Those apprehend ed, if they receive any trials at all, get short and secret ones, and find themselves on the road to Siberia without much preliminary ceremony. Notwithstanding his thousands of iron hands, wielded by the strong arms and directed by "the cunning heads of a powerful and apparently omnipresent secret police, the embers of the wide-spread, deeply rooted se dition are industriously and success fully fanned by an intense revolution ary newspaper, called the Semla i Schwaboda, or, Land and Liberty. Again and again has the Emperor ot all the RusMas declared it to be death or exile to print, publish, or edit this newspaper. Yet the mighty potentate finds it on the table among his State documents every morning, at St. Petersburg or in Lividia; in his sumptuous barouche, or a palatial railway car, the Semla pursues him like an inexorable fate. It contains the orders for the assassination of his chiefs of police, and they are done to death in spite ot all precautions. A few months ago, a very tempting re of 50,000 roubles was offered for any information whatever in regard to the manner of preparing and issuing this mysterious revolutionary journal. Tempted by the large reward, a Pole betrayed the localities of two Nihil ist printing presses in St. Petersburg. These were eagerly seized by the po lice, who were bitterly disappointed in finding nothing whatever to con nect the presses with the insidious, irritating Semla. What startled the authorities far more than that the ex posed presses gave them no clue, was that the informer was found mur dered three days after the presses Were seized. On his bloody breast was a placard bearing the ominous inscription, " Death to Traitors ! " Then it occurred to the advisers of the Czar to appoint a commission of experts to closely examine the typog raphy of the Semla, for the purpose of detecting who made the type for the puzzling revolutionary journal. This investigating committee, com posed of conservative master printers of St. Petersburg, were considerably startled by the discovery that the type of the dreaded Semla came from the imperial foundry in St. Peters burg and a Government printing of fice in the Customs Department. This information only served to deep en the mystery surrounding the issu ing of a paper that the Czar would give one of his fairest provinces to permanently suppress. Whatever the Emperor himself and his devoted friends may have thought of this not reasuring information, observers out side of Russia find no- difficulty in reaching the contusion that the Ni hilists had powerful members among those whom the Czar trusted. Even irresponsible despots are compelled to place confidence in many people. After the tracing ot its type, the Semla became more defiant and im pudent than ever before; it adver tises its price, six roubles per copy ; styles itself a semi-monthly, and naively remarks that it cau always be found at all well-known resorts. So it can, in a certain sense. With out money and without price the bankers of St. Petersburg and Mos cow find it in their morning's mail ; the grocer, th3 butcher, and the ba ker suddenly see it on their counters. It falls thickly on the tables of tav erns and restaurants ; wherever men are found to read in Russia there the Selma is to be read. The late attempt on the life of the Czar has entirely changed the tone of the mysterious organ of anarchy. Before tnat event transpired, it spoke respectfully of Russia s ruler, de nouncing his advisers, and, above all else, the espionage of the police de partment and those that exercised it so remorselessly. Now the daring sheet menaces the Czar himself, in no dubious language. The sweeping measures at present in force through out Russia, to crush Nihilism by brute force, only stimulate the ener- o-v. virn enco and ubiauitv ot the . , . - i - Semla. It causes the Czar more easiness than all the conspiracies folded to him by his industrious lice spies. The lesson that this mysterious Russian journal teaches us of happier America is obvious. We pride our selves on the power of the press in a free land. Some of our officials, clad in a little brief authority, at times in dulge in unseemly sneers at what, in places of power, they are pleased to call the officious censoriousness of the American press. Some ot these gen tlemen have tried in various ways to hamper the free press of the country for exposing their cunning, deep laid plans for self-aggrandizement. It these persons care to know how difficult it is to suppress a bad, out spoken journal in the rmst despotic government on earth, they may reau the lesson of the Russian Semla with great bedefit to themselves; and, having read, ask If the Czar of all the Russias. with all the resources of vast empire at his sole command, and a powerful army at his back, cannot suppress a single revolutionary paper, what can any one successful Amen can politician, or any one hundred of them, expect to accomplish in that difficult line? Printers' Circular. GEN. SHIELD S SWORDS. THE ELEGANT TESTIMONIALS OF ILLIN OIS AND SOUTH CAROLINA. At the funeral of General James Shields, in Carrollton, on Wednes day, the two swords presented to him by the states ot Illinois and South Carolina were crossed over the casket containing his body, and with the floral decorations, helped to make no a rich and pleasing picture. In the procession they were borne, res pectively by Col. P. G. Ballingall, of Ottumwa, Iowa, and mr. J. m. vvu unjtson. a banker of Carrolton. The inscriptions on the testimonials are : on the fiist: "Presented by the state of Illinois to Gen. James Shields, for gallant service at Vera Cruz. Cerro Gordo, Contreras, Che pultepec and the Garrettta of Berlin, City ot Mexico." un tne reverse, scenes from the several battles named. The cost was $2,000. The other : " From the state of South Carolina to General Shields, in testimony of her admiration of his gallantry in the Mexican war, and as a tribute ot gratitude tor his parental attention to the Palmetto regiment. The hilt is studded with diamonds, rubies and emeralds, and on the scab bard is a palmetto tree, with dates of several battles in which the old b?ro fought in the Mexican war. South Carolina invested the handsome sum of $8,000 in this gift. It may here be stated that Gen. Shields breathed his last in a hospital attached to a Catholic convent, pre sided over by a female relative of his, in the beautiful little city ot Ottum wa. The immediate cause ot his death was the bursting of an old wound received by him at the battle of Cerro Gordo. Globe Democrat. LEGISLATION AGAINST TRAMPS. The 6tate of New Hampshire year ago passed a tramp law, which was found to be very effective. It was severely criticised at the lime, on account of what were deemed very harsh provisions. Not long afterward Illinois adopted a tramp law some what similar to the one in New Hampshire. Ohio followed suit with a law whiah took effect on the 1st of July. The following are the provis ions: Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That any person not being in the county in which he usually lives or has his home, who is found going about begging and asking subsistence by charity shall be taken and deemed as a tramp. Sec. 2. That any tramp who shall enter any dwelling house, or shall en ter the yard or enclosure about any dwelling-house, against the will or C3 ' t - without the permission of tne owner or occupant thereof, and shall not, when requested, immediately leave such place, or shall be found carrying fire-arms or other dangerous weapons, or shall do or threaten to do any ni jury to real or personal estate or property of another, shall, upon con viction thereof, be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one year or more than three years. Sec. 3. lhat any person, upon view ot the oftense described in this act, may apprehend the offender and take him before a justice of the peace tor examination. Sec. 4. This act shall not apply to any female or blind person. The Cleveland Leader declares that there is work enough for every man in Ohio who wants honestly to earn his bread. And yet there are 20,000 tramps in that state. There must be some fascination about the life of tramp or so many would not fall into that way of living. A real tramp is an impostor, and when he takes to the road without a necessity for it, he generally becomes a criminal. H has determined to live without work to forage on the community, to beat his way along by false pretenses. This class of men has rapidly mcreas ed in California. Ihe number is not diminished even where work is plen ty. A great many of the outrages committed in the farming districts are by tramps . In some places they are so bold that they intimidate farmers and others. Tbey are inso lent in their demands, and mmter threats if they are denied anything. The time is coming here when some legislation will be necessary to pro tect communities against the tramps which infest the country. An honest man seeking work and willing to pay for what he receives by his labor, is not a tramp. But the vagabond who takes to the road and beats his way, threatening unprotected people, has already begun a criminal life. The legislation which Ohio and other states have adopted may yet become uecessary in California. S. F. Bulle tin. State Appointments. The ap propriation of the State school mon ey cannot be made nntil the local agents in each county report to the State Board of Education. They have not yet all sent in their reports, but it is hoped thy will soon. The State Board of Education will make the appropriation just as soon as pos sible, and then the County Superin tendents will distribute the money among the districts. Salem Statesman. ia.cj.:fic5 coast. Oregon. Little Nellie was looking at Woolfs Wild Animals, when Mr. Jorkins called, and she appealed to that gentleman to explain one of the pictures. "That is a. wild boar," said he and the little lady looked at it thoughtfully and replied : " It don't look like yon, does it, Mr. Jor kins ?" " I hope not," responded the guest; "why?" " Because," said the artless innocent, "mamma said when your card was sent up, 'There is that old bore Jorkins, again.' " And it was a full minute before mam ma's frozen lips thawed sufficiently to inform the nurse it was Nellie's bedtime. A money order office has just been estab lished in Monmouth. The new Monumental mill will be run ning in a short time. The people of Oregon City are trying to root out the opium vice. Hav in the vicinity of Perrydale is suffer ing greatly from the late rains. The Washington county hay crop will be good fully up to that of last year. The stumpaee on some timber lands in the vicinity of Astoria averages $100 per acre. A terrible storm raged on Clatsop plains on last Friday. No very serious damage has been reported. Rev. N. Lee, an old resident of Polk county, died on the evening of the 1 1th at his home in Dallas, John W. Gearhart, who was severely in jured at the Astoria lire several weeks ago, has almost recovered. William Newby of Yamhill, recently sold to Mr. Hewitt of Portland 53 head of fine Merino sheep for $960. Twenty cavalry horses were Dought in Southern Oregon last week for the use of troops at Vancouver. Miss Jennie Bush of Grant's pass, South ern Oregon, has started out as a Methodist preacher. She is 19 years of age and is not well educated. A new trail from John Day settlement to Astoria passes through some splendid land. It is a route over which a wagon road can be readily made. A violin performance at New Market theater in Portland last week by the great artist JRemenyi, was distinctly heard by tele phone at Oregon (Jity distance 12 miles. A church will probably be built at Beaver- ton this season. Mr. R. P. Wilmot has donated a good site and several hundred dollars towards the building have been subscribed. Engineer Thielsen is now making examin ation of the route over the Blue mountains by Ruckle road, with a view of ascertain ing its practicability for the proposed rail way line. Miss Lilly Jennings, on the 3d inst.. run ning down the deep path that leads froTi her father's residence, in Oregon City, to the wharf, overreached her her strength and was forced to leap into the Willamette river. The timely aid of her sister saved her from John Weatherby, while trying to "cut a caper" on horseback, at Center vi He, in east ern Oregon, was thrown. His horse kicked him in the breast a few times and in the face, knocking out two teeth and splitting two ot his double ones, ana cutting a terri ble gash in his tongue. A young man named Jas. A. Onssins, maaaenea dv liquor ana tne loss ot a con siderable sum of money at the gambling ta ble, rushed in scanty attire through the streets of Perrydale on the 5th inst. , brand ishing a fence rail and driving all before him. He was arrested and an officer start ed with him to the country jail, but he escaped. Cussins came from California sev eral montffe ago and had at that time several hundred dollars, which he soon lost. SOUTH END mm Sunday School Organized. Rev, Dr. Messing, of San Francisco lec tured at Udd Fellows' lemple on Sunday afternoon. The Dr. is one of the ablest Isaelitisq priests on the coast. He has been engaged lor some lime in organizing Sunday Schools among his people on this coast, and has met with the greatest success. He organized a Sunday School of sixteen children on Sunday, which will doubtless grow and in crease in the coming years. The Dr. is laboring in a good caure, and suc cess will certainly continue to crown his efforts. Albany Register. Texas has enacted a local option bell-punch law. Each county in the State may decide, as heretofore, whether alcoholic beverages shall, or shall not be sold within its bprders, and, should the verdict be in favor of the sale, then the county authorities may decide upon the number of places to be licensed and be provided with beil-punciies. If we grieve the Spirit of God by our lightness, worldliness, or presump tion, we do but till our own cup with wormwood and gall. He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will sec the defects when the weaving of a lifetime is unrolled. Preserve yonr conscience always soft and sensitive. It but one sin force itself into that tender pait of the soul and dwell there, tne road is paved for a thousand iniquities. riaces oi aitncuiiy prove man s weakness and want; but they are made great blessings when the Lord comes unto them to supply all that is wanting, in the richces of his great love. J. H. -PENN. HAS, and will keep on hand, a- full line of cook, parlor, box and office Rt.nvos mt- ten up on the latest improved patterns and iuei-Having principles. Also, a line of GENERAL HARDWARE. Worker in copper, sheet-iron and tin. Jobing a specialty. Having had a long ex perience in this line, we are satisfied that we can give satisfaction. All work and stoves warranted to give satisfaction. WE WANT WORK. Our prices to suit the times. Call and see our Goodspeed Stove and Orient Range, at Corner of Second and Madison Streets, CORVALLIS, OREGON. 16:26tf LUMBER I LUMBER ! ! 200,000 FEET At Harris' Mill, seven miles west of Philo math, on Mary's river. Bough Lumber, 8 per M. Flooring and Rustic, (rough), at 10 per M., cash down or no sale. June 21, 1879. H. P. HARRIS. 16:26m3 Ladies' Bazar, AT CORVALLIS. SURPRISED. Ed. Gazette : Some surprise is manifest ed by the Albany Democrat at the evidence before the TJ. S. Engineers concerning Ya quina bay. For me, I am not surprised, nor do I think it at all strange that the R. R. Co. should favor the point where they re ceived the most encouragement ; 1 believe we ride something near a mile out of Salem proper, to the depot, because the O. & C. R. R. did not receive the attention they claim ed, and other points along the line acting on the wiser course made concessions, and ob tained corresponding benefits. If those owning lauds at or near Foulweather had wished a railroad terminus, with or without government aid for the proposed harbor, all they had to do was to meet the company in a sjiirit of mutual interest; but they seemed to think the harbor would go there, and the railroad follow, without any special effort or sacrifice on their part. I fully agree with the Democrat's remark that Col. Hogg "was the only person representing the valley be fore the Board. " That he has done so, in an- able manner, is seen by the amount of favorable argument, in favor of Yaquina, which has proven a harbor of refuge for one vessel without the expenditure of a dollar. The Lizzie Madison, 132 tons register, drawing 8 feet of water, came over Yaquina bar at low tide, at a time when a vessel load ed and waterlogged, as she was, could not have entered any other bar harbor between Columbia river and San Francisco. These facts reached the " Master Mariners' Asso ciation " through the able pen of Capt. C. M. Nisson, Master of the Madison. Now I ask, is it surprising that seafaring men, un del-standing the situation, should recom mend the improvement of Yaquina bay? N. B. The Oregonian has failed to notice the action of the Board since Yaquina came under consideration. Benton. Toledo, July 14, 1879. EN MEM0RIAM. The American Agriculturist warns per sons against sending for the " Solargraphvl SI. It is simply a pocket sun dial and no Died m thl8 Ju,v 10th 18'9' Jamcs watch at all. t.x. Since the above was in type we have been 1 A it , 1 . snown one oi ne anove numougs, ana can vouch for the truth of the statement of the Agriculturist. Without due consideration a notice of the fraud appeared in the Ga zette, recently. The Fourth at Cobvallis. The Cor vallis celebration was in many respects a more complete success than any of our re cent celel rations. No accident occurred during the day, notwithstanding the flutter ing of flags, waving of banners, the music by the Albany and Corvallis bands, the sa lutes and fire crackers, the brilliant parade of firemen, and the liberty car filled with beautiful children appropriately dressed all making up a pageantry which would be cal culated to excite untrained horses and un skilled horsemen. The Declaration was well read by Hon, Jas. Chambers and the oration of Gov. Thayer was pronounced excellent by every body. The hospitabty evinced by the Cor vallisites was that of the most liberal and generous, and was of a nature to call out all the resources of our citizens when they re turn our call at the grand celebration of 1880. Albany Democrat. A Fable for Communists. Here is a shoe shop. One man in the shop is always busily at work during the day always in dustrious. In the evening he goes courting a good, nice girL There are five other men in the shop who don't do any such thing. They spend half of their working hurs in loafing, and their evenings in dissipation. This first yonng man by and by cuts out from these others and gets a boot and shoe store of his own. Then he marries this girL Soon he is able to take his wife ont to ride of an evening. The five laborers, his former companions, who- see him indulging in this little luxury, retire to a neighboring saloon and pass a resolution that there is an eternal struggle between labor and capital, Prom Col. Robt. IngertoiVt Speeeh. M. Yantis, aged 69 years. Deceased was born in Garrett county, Kentucky, on the 12th day of October, 1809, where he resided until manhood. On the 20th day of January, 1830, he was mar ried to Sarah A. Hamilton, who preceded him to the spirit land just ten years. Shortly after his mrrriage he removed to the state of Missouri and resided there until in the spring of 1852 when he removed to Or egon and located on the farm owned by him at the time of his death, about seven miles east of this city, in Linn county. He came to Corvaliis on the 3d inst., in good health, and on the evening of the 4th was feeling indisposed, but attached no importance to it ; next morning, feeling no better, a phy sician was called and ascertained that he was suffering from pneumonia, but not con sidered dangerous. Early Thursday morn ing, his symptoms suddenly becoming worse, physicians and friends were hastily sum moned, but to no purpose ; at 8:30 a. m., he quietly and peacefully breathed his last. He was the father of nine children who lived to maturity, and seven of whom sur vive him-the youngest being 28 years of age. Being one of the early settlers of this sec tion, he had a large circle of acquintances, and not an enemy. All who knew him re spected him, and those who knew him best, loved him most. Can more be said ? For more than fifty years he had been a profess ing and consistent Christian, and none who knew his daily life can doubt his happiness. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his children. All kinds of job printing promptly and neatly executed at this office. RS. Kelley has arrived from Portland with a nice stock of Millinorv coods. Huts from 75 cents to $15 00. Ladies' Linen Suits, Sacquesand Dolmans, Calico Wrappers, Dress Trimmings, Fringes, one hundred pieces of nice Embroidery, also nice tuck ing for underclothing, Corsets from 30 cents to $3 00, a nice line of Silk Parasols, Ladies ruchiugs, babies' bonnets, children's aprons, nice style of summer gloves, perfumery, hair oil. lace and all kinds of thread, jew elry, handkerchiefs, ladies' back combs and many other articles too numerous to men tion. Mrs. Kelley is Agent for a splendid Preparation tor he Cemplexion. No lady's toilet complete without it. Mrs. Kelley having bought out Mrs. Frank Cooper, will be found at her store, two doors south of H. E. Harris, on Second street where she is selling goods, at reasonable rates. Ladies, please call and examine be fore purchasing elsewhere. Mrs. J. H. Kelley. Corvallis, June 19, 1879. 16:25w4 HI 1 ! HOUSE MOVING LOKD & TRIMBLE, Propr's. BEING SUPPLIED WITH ROLLERS, Jack Scews, etc., we are prepared to Raise, Move, put under New Sills and level up your barns, and Buildings of any kiud, on short notice. TERMS REASONABLE. LORD. & TRIMBLE. Corvallis, May 1, 1879. 16:21tf LIVERY, FEED, AND EXCHANGE STABLE, On the corner West of the Engine House. Good Teams and Saddle Boarding horses a specialty, and sold. 16:26m3 J. at Horses to Let. Horses bought M. EG LIN. Farm fer-SaTe." THE UNDERSIGNED OFFERS FOR sale his-splendid grain and stock farm, four miles north of west of Corvallis, on Oak creek containing 1200 acres over one hundred acres in cultivation two fine bear ing orchards, and well calculated for divid ing into two or more snug farms Terms easy and title perfect. For particulars in quire of E. Holgate, W. B. Carter, or 1 E. MARPLE, on the premises. Corvallis, Jan. 1. 1878. H5:ltf NEW ARRANGEMENTS. NEW STASrE COACH. From Corvallis to Newport. CARRYING THE U. S. MAILS. New Steam Launch. j Stage Coach, drawn by rood teams, in care of a (rood. !! .'il L.ir irivnr will leave Corvallis at 7 o'clock, A. u., on Mondays, Wednes days and Fridays, connecting with the new Steam Launch at Pioneer at 8 p. m. The Steam Launch leav intr Pioneer on the first tide, arriving at Newport in three hours. Only 15 hours running through. Re turning to Corvallis at 6 r. M. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Through tickets 5 00; reduction for families Good accommodations for pasturage at Pio neer Prompt attention to express business and fast freight, at reasonable charges. Better facilities for traveling than have ever been on the route to the sea shore. The boat is managed by competent men, nanieiy, Ed. Carr and Mack Crow. We expect to receive public favor by first class ac commodations aau ciuoe """""" -y TSL 16:24 M. M. & M. T. CROW. Georoe P. Wrens, Auctioneer. Holgate, Att'y at Law Wrenn & Holgate, REAL ESTATE BROKERS, COLLECTION. LOAN, INSURANCE, OENRAL BUSINESS AGENTS, AND AUCTIONEERS. Office at present, back of ROSENTHAL S Store, entrance on Madison street, CORVALLIS, : : OREGON. Buying, Selling and Leasing Real Eaiate. aibenuuu given MP Prompt COLLECTIONS. Loan. Negotiated, etc. WiU keep Regular Aucticm Sales Eooms And sell at AUCTION, anything desired, either at the Sales Rooms or elsewhere, in City or Country. Agents for good reliable Insurance Companies. We now have on hand for sale, both urain ana Stock Farms, and City Propertt, at fair prices, and easy tcrme. ryffi cas make Sales if anybody can.-SW Please give us a call. WRENN & HOLGATE. Corvallis, April 17, 1879. l:16tf.