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Newspaper Page TextCorvallis Gazette. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY W. B. CARTER, Editob and Proprietor. TERMS: (coin.) 'fr Year, tx Ifontn. Three a on lbs, so 1 so 1 UD INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. CITY ADVERTISEMENTS. M. S. WOODCOCK, Attorney and Counselor at Law, FFICE ON FIRST STREET, OFF. WOOD- uuuii. Jt BALDWIN'S Hardware store. o Special attention given to Collections, Fore closure of Mortgages, Real Estate cases, Probate and Road matters. Will also buy and sell City Property and Farm Lands, on reasonable terms. March 20, 187. 16-12yl F. A. CHENOWETH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, (BViI,LW, : : : OBKUON. "OFFICE, Corner of Monroe and Second atreet. 16-itf J. W. RAYBURN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, (OBVaLUs, t osteos. OFFICE On Monroe street, between Second and Third. f ;2gerSpecial attention given to the Collection oflotes and Accounts. 16-ltf JAMES A. YANTIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, I OBVALI.W. ... 0KE60BT. ty ILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS " of the State. Special attention given to matters in Probate. Collections will receive r oinpt and careful attention. Office in the Court ouse. 16:ltf. DR. F. A. VINCENT, I E2 W T I S T . CORVALLI8. - OREGON. VFFICE IN FISHER'S BRICK OVER v Max. Friendley's New Store.' All the latest improvement. Everything new and complete. All work warranted. Please give me a call. 15:3tf C. R. FARRA, Ml. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, f FFICE OVER GRAHAM & HAMILTON'S Drugstore, Corvallis, Oregon. 14-26tf J. R. BRYSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. All business will receive prompt attention. COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY Corvallis, July 14; 1879. 16:29tf NEW TIN SHOP. J. K. Webber, Pro., MAjtrr at,. - cobvallis. STOVES AND TINWARE, All Kinds. MB All work warranted and at reduced rates. asm. W. C. CRAWFORD, DEALER IN WATCHE8, CLOCKS, TEWELRT, SPECTACLES, SILVER WARE, etc. Also, Musical Instruments etc. JSS Repairing done at the molt reasonable rates, and all work warranted. Corvallis, Dec 13, 1877. , 14:50tf GRAHAM, HAMILTON & CO., OOBVAIXU ... OKCOOS. DEALERS IN Drugs, Paints, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, DYE STIFFS, OILS, CLASS AND PUTTY. PURE WINES AND LIQUORS FOR MEDICINAL USE. And also the the very best assortment of Lamps and Wall Paper ever brought to this place. AGENTS FOR THE AVERILL CHEMCAa!NT, SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER. WIfcylcliis P. e.eri pilous ( an Mia CtBBUdd. 18-2tf Wm VOL. XVI. CORVALLIS, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1879. NO . 3&! The Breakwater at Cape Foulweather, Is a necessity and owing- to demand for GOODS I IV OTTIfc an increased LINE, W E HAVE THE PLEASURE OF STATING THAT WE HAVE THE LARGEST AND best selected stock of GENERAL MERCHANDISE Ever brought to this market, and oar motto, in the future, as it has been in the past, shall be SMALL PROFITS AND QUICK SALES," thus enabling the Farmers of Benton County to buy Goods 25 per cent, less than ever before. We also have in connection a large stock of ' Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, Privately by our Mr. Sheppard, at a Large Bankrupt Sale in San Francisco, at 50 cents on the dollar, which will be kept separate from oar regular stock, and will extend the same bargains to customers who will give us a call. As a sample of our psices, we will sell Shoes . rom 36c to Soots from 01 to S3 SO. Hats from 35to 1 t . Suck Gloves, SO cents. Silk Handkerchiefs 38e. Grass Cloth S cents. Kid Gloves, 75 cents to 1. Don't forget the place, one deor south of the post office. Corvallis, May 7, 1879. Sheppard, Jaycox & Co. 17-.19m3 CORVALLIS Livery, Feed .AND... SALE STABLE Corvallis Lodffe Ho 14, V. A. SI. Holds stated Communications on Wednesday on or preceding each full moon. Brethren in good standing cordially invited to attend. By order W. M. Barnaul Lodge Ho. 7, I. O. O. I . Meets on Tuesday evening of each week, in their hall, in Fisher's brick, second story. Mem bers of the order in good standing invited to at tend. By order of N. G. Main Hi., Corvslilsi, Oregon. SOL. KING, - Porpr. rfcWNING BOTH BARNS I AM PREPARED to ofler superior accommodations in the Liv ery line. Always ready for a drive, GOOD TEAMS A.t, Low Rates. My stables are first-class in every respect, and competent and obliging hostlers always ready to serve the public. REASONABLE CHARGES FOB HI BE. ParUf r attention Paid to Boarding- Morse. ELEGANT HEARSE, CARRIAGES AND HACKS FOR FUNERALS Corvallis, Jan: 3, 1879. lfldyl LANDS ! FARMS! HOMES I f HAVE FARMS, (Improved and unim- proved,) STORES and MILL PROPERTY, very desirable, FOR SALE. These lands are cheap. Also claims in unsurveyed tracts for sale. Soldiers of the late rebellion who have, under he Soldiers' Homestead Act, located and made final proof on less than 160 acres, can dispose of the balance to me. Write (with stamps to prepay postage). R. A. BENSELL, Newport, Benton county, Oregon. 16:2tf Woodcock & Baldwin (Successors to J. R Bay ley & Co,) XT EEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND AT THE old stand a large and complete stock of Heavy and Shelf Hardware, IRON, STEEL, TOOLS, STOVES, RANGES. ETC- Manufactured and Home Made Tin and Copper- "Ware, Pumps, Pipe, Etc. A good Tinner constantly on hand, and all Job Work neatly and quickly done. Also agents for Knapp, Burrell & Co., for the sale of the best and latest im proved FARM MACHINERY, of all kinds, together with a fall assort ment of Agricultural Implements. Sole Agents for the celebrated ST. LOUIS CHARTER OAK STOVES the BEST IN THE WORLD. Also the Norman Range, and many other patterns, in all sizes and styles. 8a?" Particular attention paid to Farmers' wants, and the supplying extras for Farm Machinery, and all information as to such articles, furnished cheerfully, on applica tion. ... No pains will be spared to furnish our customers with the best goods in market, in our line, and at the lowest prices. Our motto shall be, prompt and fair dealing with all. Call and examine our stock, before going elsewhere. Satisfac tion guaranteed. WOOKCOCK & BALDWIN. Corvallis, May, 12, 1879. 14:4tf JOHN 8. BAKER, PRO. COBVALLI8, . OBEfiOV. TJAVING BOUGHT THE ABOVE MAR kt and fixtures, and permanently located in Cervallis, I will keep constantly on hand the choicest cuts of BEEP, PORK, MUTTON AND VEAL.. Especial attention to making extra Bologna Sausage. Being a practical butcher, with large experi ence in business, I flatter myself that I can give satisfaction to customers. Please call and give me a trial. JOHN S. BAEEK. Dec. 6th, 1878. 15:49tf. ROBERT N. BAKER. Fashionable Tailor, pORMEBLY OF ALBANY, WHERE HE has given his patrons perfect satisfaction, has determined to locate in Corvallis, where he hopes to be favored with a share of the public patronage. AH work warranted, when made under his supervision. Repairing and cleaning promptly attended to. Corvallis, Nov. 28, 1878. 15:48ft. Grain Storage ! A Word to Farmers. TTAVING PURCHASED THE COMMODI ous warehouse of Messrs. King and Bell, and thoroughly overhauled the same, I am now ready to receive grain for storage at the reduced Bate of t ets. per Bushel I am also prepared to Keep Extra, White Wheat, separate from other lots, thereby enabling me to SELL AT A PREMIUM. Also prepared to pay the Highest Market Price. for wheat, and would most respectfully solicit a share of public patronage. T. J. BLAIR. uorvaius, Aug. l, i7S. i:3Zti ALLEY & WOODWARD Druggists and Apothecaries, P. O. BUILDING, CORVALLIS, OREGON. Have a complete stock of DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS, OIL, BUSS, ITC, ETC. Sobool Fooks statloneny, fco. We buy for Cash, and have choice of the FRESHEST and PUREST Drugs and Medicines the market affords. Prescriptions accurately prepared at half the usual rates. 2Mayl6:18tf FRESH GOODS AT THE BAZAR r FASHIONS Mrs. E. A.. KNIGHT. " CVBTALL1S, ... OKKGOJf. Has just received from San Francisco, the larg est and Best Stock of Millinery Goods, Dress Trimmings, Etc, Ever brought to Corvallis, which I will Ball at prices that defy competition. Southern Women. The Richmond, Va., State, in a recent issue, says: f The reported remark of Mr. Jefferson Davis, at a press meeting in Mississippi, that he had never yet seen a " reconstructed Southern wo man," has been the cause of a great deal more discussion than its importance entitled it to, or the author had the remotest idea it would call forth when, in a spirit of quiet humor, he gave it utterance. We all know here what the ex-President of the Confederacy meant, and how very harmless was the expres sion, properly understood and inter preted in its true spirit. But even construing it as it has been by our ene mies at the North, and allowing it the widest latitude from their standpoint, it is, after all, but negative. But, given its most liberal meaning, what does the remark of the ex-President amount to, and how far was it correct ? Are there no reconstructed women in the South ? We know there are, and very many, too; in fact, a large majority of them are thoroughly recon structed, and accept as fully the situa tion as nine-tenths of the men do; but not in the sense of being changed in their sentiments as to the righteousness of the cause in support of which their husbands, brothers, sons or fathers fought, and for which so many of them died. The women of the South find no difficulty in reconciling their duty to their country now with their devotion to and loving remembrance of the cause to which they freely gave their most pre cious jewels, and, while all perhaps teach their children to honor the memory of their fathers by upholding the justice of the quarrel in which they engaged and by revering the cause for which they fell, yet they do not consider that in so instructing they wrong the restored Union to which they owe and acknowl edge duty and allegiance ; and surely that woman would scarcely be held a good mother among any people who should impress upon her children that their duty to their country involved the terri ble alternative of cursing the memory of their fathers. That our Southern women are very reasonably reconstructed, Mr. Davis could have found sufficient evi dence had he sought it by passing through the country and mingling pro miscuously with the people. Our Northern friends may restrain their anger against this terrible army of South ern women. We can assure them they are not conspiring to overthrow the Union, plotting a new rebellion, or raising up children to revenge the wrongs of the South. Nothing of the sort; but, like true women, are busying themselves wholly about the happiness of their homes, husbands and ehildren, taking very little part in the discussion of the political questions of the day." President Grew at Dinner. The French President recently entertained at dinner the Prince and Princess of Wales. M. Grevy, says a foreign journal, " had no English order to wear in compliment to the Prince of Wales, who is a grand cor don of the Legion of Honor. The Presi dent represented very well the dignity of the French Republic. In the parlance of the Elizabethian period, the Chief of the Executive is a most worshipful person. His manners are quiet and grave, and an undercurrent of good nature and of humoristic perception keeps his pride, which is inordinate but not aggressive, from assuming the form of hauteur. While the Prince and Princess of Wales were treated with the respect due to their rank and representative character, no courtly ceremonial was attempted. Nor was there any display of underbred ' inde pendence,' or the ' we-are-as-good-as-you ' sentiment. M. Grevy and his wife went to the vestibule to receive their royal guests and to conduct them to the drawing-room. The Princess of Wales wore a black gauze robe, brightened up here and there with dia monds, and a diamond aigrette in her hair. " She would not probably have dressed so much had she not agreed to appear after dinner in the President's box at the opera. Things were timed to enable the Prince to pass, after coffee was handed round, half an hour in the smoking-room. In the drawing-room, while the gentlemen were enjoying their cigars and chatting, the ladies fell into groups. They again all took seats. 'I like that,' said an American ex-Secretary of Legation, who has been talking to me about English royalty breaking out in this fresh place. 'La Marechale had a con temptible way of behaving toward princely guests. I was never in all my lite so disgusted as one evening at the Elysee, when that mountain of loose flesh, Queen Isabella, was there. My wife was within six weeks of being ill, and was tired. She naturally sat down. The Merechale espied her, and sent au aid-decamp to say that in the presence of a sovereign it was not admissible for any one but a crowned head to be seated.' " I An Accommodated Passenger. The other day, says the New Haven Register, an Irishman evidently not long a resident of this country, walked up to the ticket office in the Union depot and said to Alderman States : "Give me a ticket for Easthampton." "Massachusetts or Connecticut? " asked the genial dispenser of pasteboards. "Naythur ; I want a ticket to East hampton." "1 understand, but there are Easthamp tons in both this State and Massachu setts," exclaimed Mr. States. "Bedad, an is that so ? Which one does it cost the most to go to ? " asked the eon of Erin's Isle. "Massachusetts," answered Mr States. "Well, then, be the powers, I'll take the cheapest one ! " The traveler was accommodated with a ticket to Easthampton, Connecticut, and he got aboard the Air Line train appa rently quite happy. mrjr tor Mas. 25aprl:17tf rlltle No sales of pictures are made in the French Salon. If a visitor wishes to buy a work he communicates directly with he artist. The London Royal Academy's custom is to have a sale clerk in the rooms during the exhibition. Our Na tional Academy does likewise. Study books to know how things ought to be; study men to know how things are. A Few of Russia's Plagues. The war with Turkey being at last closed, and the Asiatic plague, one of its consequences, suppressed, nihilism is now terrorizing the heart of the empire and leaving it an open question whether thonear future of Russia is to be red " Republican or Cossack." At the same time, from a dozen different quarters, come accounts of terrible destitution and suffering caused by the burning of tow ers and cities, apparently the work of revolutionary incendiaries, and the Ar menian journal Mschak reports that the grasshoppers are devastating the Cau casus. " Both banks of the Kura river are covered with them, from Jelissawet poi toTerter on one side, and on the. oth er to Akstafa. Vegetation is entirely destroyed, and starvation stares the in habitants in the face. Breadstuffs have risen from 80 copecks to one ruble 60 copecks per pood. (The Russian silver ruble is divided into 100 copecks and is worth about 73 cents of American money, and the pood is equal to 36 pounds) . Another journal, published in Tiflis, says that the track of the Poti-Tiflis rail road was so thickly covered with grass hoppers on the second of May that a train was brought to a stop and for some time could not proceed. The destruction of a number of cities by fire, although greatly aided by drouths, is probably the work of the de structive propaganda. The Vice Gover nor of Peru telegraphs from Irbit that three fires had occurred in that place, the first consuming 158 houses, the sec ond 44 and the third three; the Mayor of Irbit telegraphs that all three fires "are doubtless of incendiary origin." In Orenburg, fire broke out a fourth time; Uralsk, containing 17,500 inhabitants, shared the fate of Orenburg, and a dis patch from Petropaulovski, in southwes tern Siberia, recently announced that several quarters of that city were on fire. The Czar is meanwhile recreating at Livadia. Notwithstanding the serious outlook in nearly all parts of old Russia, the territory acquired by the dismember ment of Poland remains quiet. " Order reigns in Warsaw," and although the military force seems prepared for any emergency, business proceeds with its usual briskness, and no disturbance is apprehended. But a strict surveillance of all strangers is observed, and travel ers' passes are carefully inspected, whereas a few months ago the bribing of Russian officers was considered an easier and cheaper way of journeying to and from Warsaw than the procuring of a passport. In spite of all the trouble, present and prospective in Russia, a considerable emigration from Germany to Russian Poland is in progress. Eight hundred German factory workmen arrived at Lodz last month, a large number of arti sans have settled in the Government of Kalisch, and other arrivals are expected. On the other hand, the harsh passport regulations threaten to deprive several of the larger cities of Russia of a large part of their population. In Odessa a lack of female servants is already felt, although the city's sanitary condition is greatly improved by the exodus of its lowest classes. Charkoff has lost 10,000 of its 100,000 inhabitants. Berlin Letter in New York Evening Post. A Bright Boy's Happv Thought. The Hartford correspondent of the Springfield Republican says: "There was a pretty bright thought of one of the Battersons, who. when employed some years since as a lad in an office in New York, was sent to present a bill to a shaky concern, with orders to collect it at all hazzards. After much urging, the head of the debtor house gave him a check for $100, the amount of the bill. Hurrying to the bank at which it was payable, the lad presented the check only to be told, 'Not enough funds to meet it. 'How much is the account short? ' was the boy's quick retort. 'Seven dollars,' said the teller. It lacked but a minute or two of three o'clock, and the teller was about to close the door on the boy when the hjtter sud denly pulled out seven dollars from his own poeket, an pushing it over with a deposit check said : 'Put that to the credit of & Co., the parties who had given the check. The teller did so, when the lad at once presented the check for $100, and drawing the full amount thereof went back to his employers in tnumpn. But, as he puts it, ' & Co., who failed the very next day, were hopping mad when they found that they had no funds in the bank." All Sorts of Items. The Chicago Tribune calls Ole Bull a man of violin temperament. A straight line is the shortest in morals, as in mathematics. From a flagstaff point of view, the eagle is the most stuck up bird of all the feathery tribe. Boston aspires to become the fountain head of American literature as it is of baked beans. One girl at the gate is worth a dozen girls at an ice cream saloon in the eye of the Boston Post. It always looks dicidedly suspicious to send a string of fish to a young minister on Monday morning. A large reward is offered by the Boston Post for the arrest of the man who said Mary Anderson lacks gum-shun. Singular, says the Boston Commercial Bulletin, that as soon as people are made one they go off o a wedding two-er. " A Matron" writes from Philadelphia " The habit of a healthy babe is to eat and sleep only during the hrst montn. Dr. Newman defines liberalism in re ligion to be the doctring that there is no positive truth in religion, but that one creed is as good as anotner. " I cannot tell," says an old convict, linw mnnv jrrimAa irp RrraTiued in DflS on and afterward successfully carried out, but tneir names is legion. Curate I wish to be measured for a .Whoa Tailor ftertainlv. sir. May I ask your views : we cut our coats according to doctrine. Texas Cannibals. There is in this city a Mexican by the name of Francisco Alvares, now residing on East street, west of the San Pedro, who has frequently told a story about two runaway negroes, a man and a woman, eating up a third member of their party. Alvares was with a train which brought the two cannibals back to San Antonio. Many, persons have doubted the truth of the tale told by Alvares, but it is never theless true, as there are many persons living who were here at the time, by whom the facts ate remembered. John C. French, now one of our wealthiest and most respected citizens, was master of the train which found the surviving: man and woman and returned them to this city. The details of the shocking story are also preserved in print, and are found pub lished in the Western Texan, a San Antonio paper of that day, under date of March 20, 1851. The following is what the Western Texan said about it : "Several gentlemen a short distance in advance of the train which had just ar rived from El Paso encountered a party of runaway negroes at the Limpio Spring on the other side of the Pecos river. When discovered there were but two of the negroes alive, and they were in a state of misery almost impossible to be described. They had been entirely with out food for ten days, and had been forced, to save themselves irom actual starvation, to kill their companion, which act they had perpetrated on the morning of the day on which they were discovered. They had stripped his bones of every par ticle ot meat wmcn could be obtained, and after having satisfied their hunger with this revolting food, were, when cap tured, in the act of broiling and preparing the remainder to serve them in their on ward march toward Mexico. Without doubt, they would have perished had they not been discovered at the time they were, as they were still 200 miles from the Rio Grande, without any means of killing game, and in a most emaciated condi tion. The two that were taken, one a boy, calling himself Henry, and the other a girl, Meliuda, were brought in with his (rain, and will be confined in San Anto nio until some intelligence is received from their owner or owners. They give the following account of themselves : They say that all three belonged to the same owner, Charles Owens, who lives near Holly Springs, in Marshall county, Mississippi, from whom they escaped more than a year ago, and have been on their way towards Mexico ever since that time. Tne name of the boy who was killed was Morgan. They were all young negroes, apparently not more than 22 years old. After striking the El Paso road, they derived what sustenance they could from the hides of oxen which had died, and been left on the road, by the several trains which have heretofore made that trip. Finding that it was impossible to support life in that manner, they had conversed several times upon the question, of drawing lots for their lives, to see upon whom the fate should fall of being sacrificed to support the other two. This project, however, was not assented to. The boy Morgan then threatened to make sure ot the first opportunity, and kill Henry unawares. Henry, however, proved to be the more cautious of the two, and availing himself of the first opportunity when Morgan was asleep, he cut his throat, and made use of the body as above described. We have heard of instances of misery similar to the above happening on the ocean, but this is the first instance within our recol lection upon land, where human beings were compelled to devour each Other to save themselves from death by starva tion." Han ArUoma, Texas. Jxcvress. The Lost Haversack. " The bravest are the tenderest The loving are the daring." Of all the men that served under the Stars and Stripes during the war of the Rebellion, none were more thoroughly in earnest or more truly loyal to the Union than those recruited in western Virginia. The war was terribly real to them. Not one but had a brother, a friend or a neighbor on the other side, with whom he had fought out the ques tion in words long before arms were taken up. They felt that it was a per sonal quarrel. They were terrible fel lows to fight, although frightfully lax in discipline. Their officers those that were wise-took them for what they were, appreciated their fighting quali ties, and soon ceased to worry about their lack of discipline. What mattered it if they were not exact in matters of salutes to their superiors? They were prompt to obey when duty called, as brave as lions in the face of the enemy, and kindness itself to those who under stood and appreciated them. One day, a command made up mainly of rough but manly fellows of this sort had a fight with the enemy, and captured, a large number of prisoners. That night captives and captors bivouacked on the battle field, and the next day began their march to the rear, where the prisoners were to be handed over for shipment North. Towards noon a rebel officer beckoped to his side the major com manding the escort, "Last night," he said, ".while I was asleep, my haversack was stolen. I know what war is, and I accept its fortune, good or bad. That haversack contained several things that I value one that I prize as I do my life the portrait of a lady." And then glan cing back at the rough cavalrymen, he added sorrowfully, "I suppose there is small chance of getting it again." "I'll see," said the major. The command was marching "by fours." In four lines word was passed from-front to rear, each man communicating with the comrade next behind him. Within ten minutes a sergeant rode up to the major and handed him a package. The major took it to the prisoner. "Open this," he said. There was the portrait, uninjured, and with it a bundle of letters, upon which the owner had written a request that it should be destroyed unopened in the event of his death. The seal was unbroken. A Michigan lady writes, with rare truth : "Under great sorrow or any great trial we can be calm and brave, but it is the thousand and one little vexations of daily life that start the fret, and we fret until we hardly realize or measure how much." Corvallis Gazette. bates of advertising, i i w. i m. i 8 M. M. i itk, 1 Inch 1C0 S 00 I 6 00 8 00 12 00 2 " I 200S0070012OO1800 3 " i 8oo 6 oo i io oo i 16 oo aa o " I 100 70013 001800a006 H Col. I 6 CO 1 9 00 I IS 00 I 20 00 I 85 00 " I 7 .-0 I 12 00 18 CO 86 00 f"0 S " i 10 00 I IS 00 25 BO 40 00 60 00 1 " I 15 00 20 00 40 00 ) 60 00 HOP Of - , wiuiuu. ju vvuw per line, each insertion. Transient advertisements, per square of 12 lines, Nonpareil measure, $2 SO for first, and 11 for eacb subsequent insertion in ADVANCE" L gal advertisement charged aa transient, aiid must be paid for upon expiration. No charge for publisher's affidavit of publication. ieariy auvertisementa on liberal terms. Professional Cards, (lf qnare) $12 per annum. All notices and advertisement Intended for publication should be handed In by noon on Wednesday. Cavern of the Mound Builders. A recent dispatch to the Pioneer-Press announces the discovery of a remarkable cave on the farm of David Samuels, ten miles from La Crosse. The cave is 30 feet long, 13 feet wide and about 8 feet high. Above the quarry-sand, which has evidently drifted in and covered the floor to the depth of three to six feet; upon the walls are very rude carvings representing men, animals, arms and implements, and some appear to be hieroglyphics. One picture represents men, with bows and arrows, shooting animals, three buffaloes and one rabbit. Another represents three animals which, if large, must have been like the hippo potamus ; another appears to represent a mastodon; on another picture a moose is quite plainly delineated. There are eight representations that are canoes, much carved, or hammocks, which they most resemble. One sketch of a man is very plain; the figure wears a kind of chaplet or crown, and was probably chief of his tribe or clan. There are many fragments of pictures, where the rock had decomposed. The rock is a coarse, soft, white sandstone. On one side of the cave is a space about two feet high anl two and a half feet in length, made into the wall. Above are the upper frag ments of pictures, and below are lower fragments, showing that they were made when the rock was entire. From the depth to which decompositions reached in this dry and dark cavern, the inscrip tion must be quite ancient. If the carv ing mentioned really represents the mas todon, the work must have been done by mound builders. The accumulated sand needs to be re moved to get a full view, and possibly human remains may be found. The en trance to the cave had evidently been covered by a land slide, there being left open only a small hole, where traps have long been set for coons. The large num ber of these animals that were caught led to the belief that the space inhabited by them must be large, and investiga tion led to the discovery of the cave. Over the entrance, since the landslide, a poplar tree, eighteen inches in diameter, has grown, which shows conclusively that the cave has not been occupied by human beings for more than a century. Too Many Works. Correspondence Albany Law Journal. J During the year 1878 there were re corded in the Register's Office, in New York City, about 12,000 deeds .including thereunder leases, contracts or other in struments, and about 6000 mortgages. The average cost of recording a deed was $2 25 ; ot a mortgage $2 75 ; so that dur ing one year about $40,000 were paid to the Register for recording instruments in his office. Paid to what purpose? Largely for coppying into books a vast mass of superfluous words. Old set phrases which have come down to us from bygoe times, as Steele says, tau tology was the first, the second, the third excellence in a lawyer. "The universal practice is to extend a deed by means of repetitions, tautology and circumlocution. The origin of this abuse is to be traced to the eupidity of conveyancers." Eifjht teeri thousand times a year in one otfice were written, and paid for these words : "Hath granted, bargained, sold, aliened, remised, released, conveyed and confirm ed, and by these premises doth grant bargain, sell," alien, remise, release, con vey and affirm. Here are twenty-four words, which, if written 18,000 times, 432,000 words, for copying which owners of real estate paid some $900. Of what use are they ? None whatever, say 1 Revise Statute 748, section 1. It is there provided ''every grant or device of real estate of any interest therein, hereinafter to be executed shall pass all the estate or interest of the grantor or testator, unless the intent to pass a less estate or interest shall' appear by express terms, or be necessarily implied in the terms of such grant." Why, then, is it necessary to use more than one word.John Doe "grants" to Richard Roe? Instead of twenty-four words, one. Instead of 432,000 only 18, 000 ; instead of $900, less than $50. The word "grant" would suffice for a mort gage as well as a deed, for the qualifica tion of the estate would "appear by ex press terms." Still, as there is in com mon speech, the words "deed;" "mort gage," which have a well-recognized legal meaning, why not use thsm? John Doe "mortgages" to Richard Roe. The foregoing is an illustration drawn from one part of a deed. It should be drawn from any and every part. Useless repetition, which, day after day, year after year, is accumulating in our record offices, necessitating the use of three times as many books as need be. It is in juring our profession. Every doliargiven to mechanical labor therein is a dollar taken from brain labor. Pet Spiuehs. As spiders are for the most part banished from every room where they are iii:ply to hear music, op portunities are vey seldom afforded of witnessing their Behavior Under jte in fluence, but occasionally people are mut with who do not share the general antip athy to these interesting and ill-used little creatures. A few years ago the writer had a conversation about spiders with tho waiter at Messrs. Boffin's well known diding-rooms in Oxford. This man had a pet spider which lived in the sitting-room of his home, and he said that he could always induce it to come out of its hole by whistling. The little creatures web was carefully preserved from injury, and at the same time this interesting circum stance was related to the writer, the spider was regarded as the pet of the family. Similar cases might perhaps be furnished by observant lovers of the ani mal world, but nnfortunately, very few people seem to be aware of the spider's partiality for music. If experiments were made with different kinds of instru ments by skillful musicians, it is ex tremely probable that very interesting re sults might be obtained. Charnber's Jowr nal. The young gentleman who spoke so eloquently at his commencement of clas sical reading will to-day pull out a yellow-backed dime novel . nd abandon him self to the delights of a wild border life. No man an be free unless he governs himself. .