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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.