Corvallis Gazette.
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CITY ADVERTISEMENTS.
M. S. WOODCOCK,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
FFICE ON FIRST STREET, OFF. WOOD-
uuuii. Jt BALDWIN'S Hardware store.
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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
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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.
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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."
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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. .