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WEEKLY CORVAillS GAZETTE- OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE STATE OFFICIAL PAPER FOR BENTON COUNTY Corvallis, Aug. 1, 1879. W. B. CARTER, EDITORIAL BOTES. Gen. Ewirig leads a forlorn hope in Ohio. The Zulu war is costing the En glish nation abonl $2,5000,000 a day. The amount of deposit in the sav ings banks of the United States is estimated at $1,500,000,000. It is estimated that turbine water wheel's have, since their invention, saved the country over $300,000,000 in the one single item of fuel. Georee Francis Train savs that Kearney shot at a jack-rabbit and killed a grisley meaning that he aimed at the Chinese and hit the corporation a death blow. The Cotholic journals ot Paris are publishing a letter from the Arch bishop of that city, to a member of the Senate protesting, in the name of liberty, against educational bills. The Illinois Railroad Commission ers have ascertained that the average life of locomotive engines is 154- years; passenger cars, lof- years; freight cars, 10 years; railroad bridges from 5 to 20 years. Texas is so anxious to secure emi gration that she is virtually giving away her public lands. The head of a family can get 1C0 acres for the expense of the survey and patent, which is altogether about $15. When you reflect that at pic iiics a hundred years ago it was the cus torn for the girls to stand up in a row and let the men kiss them all good bye, all this enthusiasm about na tional progress seems to be a grave mistake. The champion coroner's jury sat at Yonkers, New York, the other day. It brought in a verdict that one "Ellen Kirby came to her death from postmortem hemorrhage." The The jury inadvertently forgot to state bow she died the first time. Down in the Sacramento Valley, when they read that the duty had been removed from quinine, they gazed smilingly into each others eyes through tears of gladness, cor dtally extended their trembling digits and exclaimed, "shake!'.' Yellow fever has again made its appearance the South. In Nashville, Tennessee, a number of deaths have occurred, but it appears to be in much less violent foim than last sum mer, and we hope soon to hear of its entire disappearance. The elevated road is becoming so contagious as.to suggest that in the not remote future all our rapid nights may be serial. Uhicago has tne lap- ids transit" fever, and several peti tion for charters for their establish ment have been introduced into its Common Council. All of the bones of the mastodon recently exhumed near New York have been found except the pelvis and a few belonging to the feet. The bones are in a wonderful state of preservation, except the teeth, and the skeleton, when completed and set up, will be one of the finest in the world. Floods and low temperature have ruined the crops in Great Britian. A stedy rise in American breadstuff's may be expected. It is is a radical change in the industrial relations of nations when the American farmer supports his brother in M old Eng land." Senator Lamar says that Missis sippi is badly infected with inflation heresies, and he believes the entire South will be eoiid for ofi-money legislation next winter. This with the State Rights revival will make lively times for the Democratic party. The South seems providentially de signed for the ruin of the Democracy. Hard times in Great Britain have not reached the liquor interest, judg ing from the report for 1878 ot the excise commissioners. During the year $711,000,000 was expended for wine, spirits and beer, an increase of little less than a million dollars over the outlay in 1877. The increase is traced to working classes and to beer the sale ot wine and spirits, supposed to be used chiefly by the wealthier classes fell off about $10,000,000. Enough beer was sold to make up the deficiency and increase the total outlay, as seen above. It ia further shown that while the population of the country has increased only 15 per cent, in the last seven years, the con sumption of liquors has increased 55 per cent. IMPORTANCE OF JfflMMON SCHOOLS Self government is still an experi ment. It is not so much an experi ment now as it was a hundred years ago. Wa have come to understand better what are the elements that must combine to make liberty per petual. We are attempting to pro duce and cherish the elements essen tial to maintain a free government. Among the essentialities of a free people, is the universal education of the masses. The shool that admits the children of all the people alike, to the enjoyment of its privileges free of charge, is the great Jconserva tor of freedom. If the common school was abolished the majority of the peopleTs children would receive no education at all. They would arrow up in ignorance, and become ready to be pliant tools of every de signing demagogue who eight take a notion to delude them, for his own selfish ends. Bat with an educated people, the demagogue has very little chance. Education prepares peoole to think and reason. In this view of the matter, the common school, the people's college, cannot be over estimated. It is an institution that stands at the very fountain head of constitutional liberty. Without it religion itself would degenerate into fanaticism. Remove the school houses from the land and we would relapse into a despotism long before anothet centennial sun would brin its changing seasons. We should ever keep steadily in view the better- ins of the common schools. Let the tax collected from the people be ex pended, first of all, for the building of better school bouses, and furnish ing them with better seating, and apparatus for teaching. Let the schools run longer, and be system atized so that all the braches will be taught thoroughly in them, to all the children. BAY NEWS. Ed. Gazette : The steamer Alex. Duncan will be here, on her trip south, about August 8th. Consider able freight has been ordered by the merchants of Newport and Oneatta. Pleasure seekers are numerous every house and camping place full. Wallis Nash, Esq., with his family, and many English friends, are here using the Ocean House as a resi dence, and dividing time in hunting, fishing and examining the country. We are looking for the U. S. Eneri neers every day, and, of course, feel a little anxious about our several cas ties ; should they fall, we will gather comfort from the wide-spread inquiry concerning this portion of Oregon. By the way, you will remember that just before the last election your correspondent regretted that the time of our legislature was likely to be used by a gentleman (if elect ed) from this county, in advocacy of a bill to prevent the use of Chinese on public works. I said then that the question had been settled by ad verse decisions of the courts of Cali fornia and Nevada, and that a meas ure of this character would only con same time, obtain a few compliment ary resolutions from Kearneyites, and fall a dead letter. Judge Deady has just written the epitaph of al! such foolish legislation. - How long will it take the people to learn the difference between statesmanship and demagog ery. Our state printer is worrying the hotel keepers fearfully, and I wider stand, having eat up everything on the Newport side, will undertake south beach soon. I heard a man say that one more editor would leave the coast in the condition of Kansas after the grasshopper raid. Newport, July 28, 1879. Rialto. RAILROADS. The Gazette has been the friend ot railroads, or any improvements calculated to develope the resources of our glowing State, ever since it has had an existence, and so frequent ly and constantly have we advocat ed railroads for the last few years that it has become a remark among our friends and readers that on this subject the Gazette was over zeal ous, but we have, at last, whether our efforts have been of any avail or not, arrived in sight of the prom ised land. The West Side road is graded to within a few miles of town, and the first ten miles of the Yaqrtina road is graded, and a por tion of its iron landed in Corvallis, ready to be put down. But, now comes one, last opportunity for the skeptical minded persons, who have, by their negative conduct, been a draw back to the efforts of the ener getic people of our county in all their efforts to encourage internal improvements. The contractor of the West Side road has become in volved in financial difficulties, and work on that rod is temporarily sus pended, and the Willamette has be come so low that only one or two of the boats can run this far up the rivet, and they only with small loads, thus delaying the Yaquina Bay rail road, and a number of our " croakers'' are now busy proclaiming the fact, that the low water and Ward's failure are the result of combination, and that our railroads will remain "in statu quo" for perhaps all time to talk is more than insipid. Neither ot the roads above mentioned can afford to abandon, or even delay, for any length of time, their completion; and, after so long a time, Corvallis has, at last secured railroad connec tion with the rest of the world. THE CCLFAXMAJCRITY. Under our statutes,, the candidates for the mayorality, Capt. Ewart and Gov. James, who received a tie vote last Monday, wHl have to settle the matter by lot. Both have raked their brains for some feasible plan, and several schemes have been tried, but without a satisfactory result. The governor proposed a little game of ten beau draw and nine dollars on the side ; Capt. objected to this ana offered to spit at a mark, but as he chews tobacco and the Gov. don't the latter wouldn't have it. They finally agreed to go out of town and shoot at a -hat, distance, ten steps; weapons, double barreled shotguns. Having made all the necessary ai rangements, they repaired to Rebel F hit, hung the hat up against Holt's barn and commenced firing. After shooting away a can of powder and ten pounds of shoty discovering that the Gov. was cross eyed and Cap. near-sighted, failing to hit the barn at ail, killing, accidentally, a valuable heifer, calf and a Percheron colt and settling with the owner for the same, thoy returned to town and will leave the mattei in the bands of the coun cil, who will require them to pull straws, the longest pole knocking off the persimmons. Palouse Gazette of the 18th hist.. LANE COUNTY. Junction City, Oo'n, ) July 24, 1879. f Editor Corvallis Gazette : As the heated season has actually made its appearance once more, and the clouds and fogs that have overhung our valley for six long months, have entirely disappeared, thereby giv ing life and energy to the various enterprises now under way. The ring of the blacksmiths' hammer, the hum and rattle of machinery ; the sound of tfi3 mechanic's saw and haumer, interspersed every now and then with the shrill whistle of the Junction mills, makes the stranger stop and think what a change has come over our country in the last few years. Seven years ago, the the place where our village now stands, was nothing but a wild jum ble of the thickest of brush, where the deer and cayota were hunted by our pioneer settlers. Then was heard the scream of the night hawk, now is heard the chase notes of the school and church bells. Then was heard the crack of the ox whin. Now the neigh of the iron horse Yes, Junc tion is keeping pace with the rapid strides made by our beautiful Oregon. R. V. Howard is building a large warehouse with cleaning apparatus and elevators with a capacity of one hundred thousand bushels. The June tion mills are being enlarged, and four fine residencesunder way; mark the improvements of our sprightly village. The crops, especially wheat, look better than I have seen in twenty six years; if no misfortune overtakes come. To the thinking person, such it, we will have the largest crop ever raised in Oregon. This with a good price, as indicated now, thsre will be an era of prospent" in Oregon, such as has not been known for severaf years. J. E. Houston, J. W. Brasfield, B. Williams, have loaded in the ac cumulations of several years of busy married life, and with several others. started on a splurg, to the Bay, to be gone two weeks. Jslinton The belief gains groRnd in London that the tierman Government, is at last heartily sick of the attempt to exclude silver from its currency and to maintain the single gold standard. A decided change in the policy of that Government in this regard is looked tor, and the remonetization ot silver is among the probabilities of the near future. J be determination of Germany not to sell any more sil ver has resulted in a rise in the Lon don market value of bullion, and it is expected that the suspension of sales will continue for some time with probability of their total diseontnu- ance. Georgia has still- on her statute books a reward of $5,00 for the "head ofWm. Loyd Garrison, dead or alive" the particular offense of the said Garrison thus outlawed being that he had the courage to express his belief that a great wrong teat a great wrong still, though a whole na tion joined in it, and though much money was apparently made by it. Most people would hasten at the first opportunity to expunge such a law from the books, but the Georgians are singular in many things. Auder sonville was in Georgia. THE REAL ISSUES OF THE DAY. Mb. Editor. The agitation of the Silver question in congress, which was thrown in to the Democratic issue hudget as Green back bait, has accidently uncovered" the cloven foot of the Money Power, heretofore concealed by the loyal robes of Republican ism. It has forced to the surface the real issue, which neither of the old parties be fore seemed inclined to raise, notwithstand ing the Greenback party had charged it for months. That issue is: "Shall the government avail itself of its silver resources in pay ment of its coin obligations, or shall gold, or its equivalent, alone, be issued ? ! : Nine tenths of the voters of the country honestly entertain the idea that silver has been re- monetized, that the standard dollar is a full legal tender in payment of all moneyed obli crations both miblic and private. That un- o - - der resumption act greenbacks are redeema ble in silver as well as gold. It is true it is so legally, 1 ut not practically. The law is a dead letter, killed by the fiat of John Sherman ; and he policy of the Money Power is to denv its resurrection. Silver dollars, bv the act of Mav. 1878, are full legal tender in payment of any and all debts, public and private, without limitation, and having been such at the time the coin obli gations of the government were contracted, a very large majority of the voters of all parties honestly believe the bondholder, as the private creditor, is obliged to accept them in payment when tendered, or receive nothing, at the debtor's option. Put the question to a thousand men, and without being influenced by partisan consid erations, nine hundred and ninety-nine would declare that he who refused to accept silver coin or legal tender certificates, which would bring the coin on demand, should be entitled to nothing, and that interest from that day should cease, until the creditor should conclude to accept such payment, or the government could as conveniently pay gold as silver. But Mr. Chittenden, "the Wall and Lombard Street gold champion," in congress says, " should the government insist upon paying its coin obligations in silver, it would be the damnedest scoundrel on earth." The New York Times, the leading Re publican paper in America, and "the organ of the foreign and domestic bondholders, says : " It is a very significant indication that one of the most important, if not the sole controlling issue in onr politics in the immediate future is to be the financial one However much we may desire " rest" on this point, it if plain that tee are not to have it. Nor is there any complete assarance that the Republican party can be held per fectly firm on the right side of this vexed question. We have had occasion repeatedly to point out that the silver law, which con tinually piles up at least $24,000,000 a year of depreciated silver dollars in the treasury, is a standing menace, always becoming more formidable, to the maintainance of the pres ent scheme of redemption. Against this danger, it is only too clear that the Republicans in congress cannot be absolutely relied on to protect the country. Proof of this is found in yesterday's pro ceedings in the house. Mr. Weaver, of Iowa, introduced an amendment to the Warner silver bill, directing the secretary of the treasury to canse to be paid out, without discrimination, standard silver coin belonging to the government that may be in the treasury, the same as gold coin, in liqui dation of all kinds of coin obligations against the government. This would com pel the secretary of the treasury to redeem the legal tenders, when presented, partly in depreciated silver, and to pay the interest of the bonds, also partly in silver. And though it may be argued that the bill will not become a law, it is obvious that this particular provision commanded very nearly a two-thirds vote in the house. As the sil ver reserve must go on increasing ' under existing law, it is only too likely that the sentiment in favor of its use in the discharge of public indebtedness will strengthen. There is no logical and consistent defense to be made for the permanent disregard of the silver law at the discretion of the secretary of the treasury. Sooner or later, the law. if it remains, must be applied, and the money which is coined under it and made a full legal tender must be paid out by the government. That is what the vote of yes terday means, and it is a plain indication that the issue involved in the silver move ment must yet be fairly and fully met at the polls the only place where it can be finally settled ? ? In a later issue, "The Times," in commenting upon the Warner silver bill and the free coinage of silver, says : " But as a political measure it drew all its force from the fact that it was intend ed to enable debtors, by the aid of the gov eminent, to "scale their debts to per cent., precisly as depreciated greenbacks would favor the same operation to the ex tent of the difference between the green back and gold. So far, also, as the bill re lated to payments by the government, it was one precisely of the same kind and de gree of repudiation that inheres in the prop osition to pay the bonds, principal and inter est, in legal tenders." The Times says the ' question must be met at the polls the only place where it can be settled. " This journal admits that the secretary is guilty of disre garding the plain, simple spirit of the law which be is bound by his oath to execute. It says, " There is no logical and consistent defense' to be made for the permanent dis regard of the silver law at the discretion of the secretary of the treasury. Sooner or later, the law, if it remains, must be ap plied, and the money which is coined under it and made a full legal tender must be paid out by the government. The effects of this " disregard" of law, by the secretary of the treasury is to give the bondholder fifteen per cent, more of interest and principal than he is entitled to by law or equity. It is wholly an assumption of authority and an usurpation of power. Every thirty days during his vast fund ing operations, John Sherman has boasted of the amount of interest he has saved to the people by converting six percent green back bonds into four per cent com bonds, but omitted to state that his violations and "disregard of law," which he desires and and expects to have sanctioned and confirm ed at the ballot-box, have lost to the people 15 per cent, and added that much to the value of the bondholder's 4 per cent, interest. The single gold standard for all debts and moneyed obligations is the main issue the corner stone of the Republican party. Ev ery man who casts a vote for the nominees ot that party virtually justifies John Sher man in his "disregard of law," a started by the New York Times. He virtually de clares for the single sold standard. He vir tually repudiates silver, both in the redemp' tion of greenbacks and in payment of any part of the public debt. He virtually con sents to pay the bondholder 15 per cent. more than he is entitled to under the law, the contract, or by" any rule of justice or equity. He votes to place 15 per cent, extra hardship upon the already overbur dened tax-payers. He votes to perpetuate hard times, and to depreciate still lower, wages and property, as gold continues to grow scarce, and its purchasing power to increase. It is high time that the public mind was waking up to the dangers with which this one man-power is threatening us, ere the last vestige of constitutional gov ernment and civil liberty has flown. What is it to be a Republican to-day ? What is it to be a Democrat to-day ? No man can possibly answer these questions, because there are no vital and general differ ence now involved in these names. Party spirit has been particularly injurious to the laboring classes of this country, because they have ranged themselves pretty evenly in both of the two political parties, and the two parts have thus completely neutralized each other. The interests of the laboring class have had no weight in either of the political parties, simply because the working men themselves stood over against each other in two opposing camps. Thus the working men, as such, lost all weight and influence in political affairs, and had just as well remained neutral and silent, considering their opposition to each other. But thank God, there exists a different feel ing to-day. The laboring class are to be congratulated and applauded that the mass of them have made their minds up to act no longer with the old political parties. Let them adhere to this determination ; the country will be all the better for it. Let them avoid all "entangling alliances,' and snap their fingers at coalition. . Let them act as a unit in accordance with their own deliberate conviction of their own in terests ; for their true interests are also the true interests of the whole country. Let them hold this attitude steadily for two years, and there is not a single point of pub lic policy favorable to themselves that they cannot triumphantly carry. " Call the people together ; The young men and the sires. The reaper from the harvest, field, Hireling-, and him that hire-" W. A. Wells, Corvallis, July 24, 1879. A WARNING T0Y0UNG MEN. One of our exchanges says : Young man, beware of the demon tobacco ! It has sent many a young man to an untimely grave, and cut short the lives of some of our best men. It saps the juices of life and bankrupts your pockets." True, true ! Look ing back over our acquaintances we can remember many young men who began smoking at an early age, and still persist in the habit, who present a great contrast to those who refused to touch the weed. There was Wil Warner. He smoked incessantly, and never got a higher position than bank cashier, while Bill Bloobs, who never smoked, as soon as he became cashier, stole a million dollars, and is now living in luxurious ease in Eu rope, then there was Dick Jones, who never touched the weed, and his brother Bill, who was alway smoking, .uick has now a perma nent position for life, while Bill wan ders about the street in rags. Bill is a tramp and Dick is in State's prison. Then there was Mollie S. Her father smoked, and she eloped with a tin peddler, who has since struck a Bity-barrel well, tier school mate, Jennie, came from a family that abhorred the weed, and she has been married three times, got two divorces, and a third is pending in court. When we remember these fearful examples of a devotion to the weed, we shudder at the curse which is on the country. Young man, you are spending twenty-nve cents a day on tobacco. If you save that up, in a million ot years from now you can pocket the magmncent sum of $91, 250,000, and even in a few years, by saving what yon pay for tobacco, you might be able to buy a nice house and lot with a mortgage on it. From the Oil Derrick. OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF Benton countv. State of Orecon. for tiie year ending July 1, 1879. STATE FUND. From taxes.................. $12,329 52 DISBURSED. Paid state taxes COUNTY FUND. From taxes.. $12,035 81 LAWS PASSED BY CONGRESS. During the session of Congress which terminated June ROih, 727 bills and 46 joint resolutions were intro duced in the Senate, and 2,395 bills and 119 joint resolutions were intro duced in the House of Rerresenta tives making a total of 3,122 bills and 165 joint resolutions. Among the principal laws passedare the follow ing: The approbation bills ; the bill to make subsidiary silver coins legal tender in all sums not exceeding $10 ; to prevent the in troduction of contagious or infectious dis eases into the United States ; to exempt from registry, enrollment or license vessels' not propelled by sail or internal motive power ot their own ; to proywle for tne ap pointment of a Mississippi river commission; to give the pension of Gen. James Shields to his widow and children, and trrantine a special pension to the widow of Col. Fletch er Webster ; to provide lor erecting a mon ument to mark the birthplace of George Washington, and the bill to place quinine on the free list. Congress adjourned with out providing for the pay of United States marshals. During the session there have been presented in the House of Representa tives 2,019 petitions, which are classified by Petition Clerk Francis as follows : Relat ing to claims, 555 f commerce, 253 ; curren cy, 56 ; liquor traffic, 36 i naval affairs, 25 ; military affairs, 104 ; education and labor, 30 ; patents, 78 ; tariff and taxation, 134 ; pensions, 351 ; polygamy, 35 ; postal affaiirs, 69 ; miscellaneous, 293. EXHIBIT $12,32$ 52 " Licenses... " Rents and other services . . ' ' Trial fees . . " On hand from hat year 280 00 338,98 235 50 2,346 79 $15,237 08 DISBURSED. County orders redeemed.. $14,83142 Interest on co. orders........ 149 99 Cash on hand 255 61 EXPENDITURES Roads and bridges Jurors State cases -. Clerk -.- Treasurer. School superintendent District attorney... Bailitts Assessor., ...... Printing Sheriff Insurance Stationary and books Wood ?. Court house. Coroners inquest Paupers Insane Commissioners Fire proof vault (part) Election ... On acct. common school Jail County judge. -.- Interest . . . . . . . . Miscellaneous Cr. By transferred school fund ii ii i . . v-asn on hand 10 00 20 10 BILLS RECEIVABLE. To Marion county order 129 50 " ' Orders on City of Corvallis... ' a no $30 10" HECAPITTTLATION. Dr. To cash county fund at beginning of the' year. .. 2,346 79' " " School.... 427 97 " Estray.... 10 00 " From all other sources 32,285 11 $170 50 Cr. $35,069 87 fund $15,237 08 $5,045 41 1,145 80 1.413 60 1,345 56 560 00 400 00 327 50 144 00 637 50 88 00 1,332 06 242 40 270 48 . 160 00 290 14 75 50 946 82 86 00 238 00 893 25 378 00 58 92 25 00 547 77 149 99 202 64 By county orders paid 14,831 42 " Interest paid on county orders 149 99 " School orders paid. ........... ... . . . 5,821 04 " State tax paid. 12,329 52 asli in county fund..... ass R7 " " School.... 1,662 13 " " Estray 20 10 County orders, outstanding last year . $16,942 94 1,030 18 $17,973 12 CONTRA. County orders redeemed $14,831 42 Interest paid on county orders 149 99 County orders outstanding 2,991 71 $17,973 12 SCHOOL WiiD. On hand from last year $427 97 From estray fund 10 00 " Taxes 4,350 00 " School commissioners. . . . . 2,095 20 ' Fines 600 00 $7,483 17 DISBURSED- School superintendent orders paid $5,821 04 " Cash on hand 1,662 13 ESTRAY FUND. Cash on hand from last year. " From sale estrays , . . $7,483 17 $10 00 20 10 $30 10 DISBURSED. Transferred to school fund $10 00 " Cash on hand 20 10 $30 10 RECAPITULATION. On hand from last year $ 2,784 76 Received from all other sources. 32,285 11 $35,069 87 Paid state taxes $12,329 52 County orders . Interest " School supta' orders. On hand in county fund . . . " In school fund " Estray 14,831 42 149 99 5,821 04 255 67 1,662 13 20 10 $35,069 87 Respectfully submitted, July 1st, 1879. B. W. WILSON, County Clerk. THOMAS GRAHAM, County Treasurer In account with Benton county for the year ending June 30, 1879. GENERAL ACCOUNT. iB. To state warrant paid, (Indigent fund) $ 226 63 " Cash from board of school commission ers for distribution of July, 1878 2,095 26 " Cash from li quor licenses 250 00 " Reduction of land 41 60 " City of Corval lis order paid 32 00 " Interest on Cityorde 2 75 " Trial fees.... 235 50 r Fmes 600 00 " Woodcock ft Kelsay, office rent 36 60 " Pedler license 5 00 " Ferry 25 00 " Sheriff on tax es of 1878 27,977 8 " Poll and prop erty tax collected by assessor. 737 50 By amount trans ferred to co fund " " School... Dr, $32,262 01 231219 81 7,046 20 To cash on hand at beg'ing ot the year " From' general COUNTY rUWD.- Cb. $32,265 01 2,346 79 25,219 81 Cr. $27,566 60 By coufity orders redeemed " Interest paid on county orders " State tax paid. . . .- " Cash on hand 14,831 42 149 99 12,329 52 255 67 $27,566 60 SCHOOL F05. Dr. To cash on hand at beginning of the year ' From estray Fund.... " General ac count. . . By school supt's orders redeemed " Cash on hand. 4B7 97 10 00 7,045 20 Cr. $7,483 17 5,821 04 1,662 13 $7,483 17 E8TBA7 TVTfD. To cash on hand at the beginning of the year. " From Coun ty Clerk. 10 00 20 10 $30 10 it , . $35,069 87 Respectfully submitted. THOMAS GRAHAM, County Treasurer. Gorvallm, Oregon. Julv 1. 1879. To'the County Court of Benton county. Oregon. Sol. King, Sheriff, In account with Benton county. T)R, 1878-July To delin quent tax list of 1875 $ 501 61 " " 107b 443 50 " ' 1877..... ... t.45.1 9S Oot. To assessment roll 1878. ... . . 31.704 51 " " Poll. 18-78. . 538 00 1879 Amt assessed and collected by sheriff 338 77 AdHI Delinauent assessment list 1878.. 1,930 83 $36,911 20 CONTRA CR. 1879 June 30 By amount unpaid on delinquent list 1875 . . 50 1 61 1876 443 50 1877 1,253 98 1878 1,436 57 By amount over paid June 30, 1879. . . . 45 60 " Paid treasurer as per receipts 27,978 39 By poll and property tax collected by as sessor. .- 737 50' By double assess ment. . 18 00 " Delinquent list 1878.... ...... L.930 83 July 14 By am'fe paid treasurer as per receipt . . . . 615 00 fiyam'tto balance 1,950 22 $36,911 2d Respectfully submitted. SOL KING, Sheriff. Ame's Process KEEPS MEATS,- FISH. BUTTER, Eggs, Vegetables, and Fruits aweei and good without salting, cooking, drying, or sealing up. It also stops fermentation in Cider or Wines, cures the scab on sheep, and is excellent for other purposes. It is not injurious to the health, and costs but a trifle. Family rights $10. County and District rights on reasonable terms. Writ ten guarantee given. Money refunded in case the Process cannot be made a success. Genuine testimonials from prominent men' testifying to its health fulness and success. For further particulars inquire of G0LDS0N & MATTOON, Corvallis, Benton county, or Albany, Linn; county, Oregon, general Agents for the' Pacific coast. Corvallis, July 25, 1879; 16:30tf IN OTICE. Land Office atRoseburg, Ogn., July 9, 1879. j NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the following-named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and secure final en try thereof at the expiration of thirty days from the date of this notice, viz : William' A. States Homestead Application No 2199 for the Lots 4, 5 and 6 and S 4 of S E i sec. 2, T 14 S R 8 W., and names the following as his witnesses, viz: James Spencer of Benton county, and Thomas Phillips of Ben ton county, Oregon. WM. F. BENJAMIN, 16:29w5 Register. SOUTH END STOVBjTIX HARDWARE- i. H. PENW, HAS, and will keep on hand, a full line of cook, parlor, box and office stoves, got ten nn on the latest improved patterns and fuel -saving principles. Also, a line of GENERAL HARDWARE. Worker in cooper, sheet-iron and tin.- Jobbing a specialty. Having hada long ex' perience in this line, we are satisfied that we can give satisfaction. All work and stoves warranted to give siuwum WE WANT WORK. Our prices to suit the times. Call and see' our Goedspeed Stove and Orient Range, at Comer of Second and Madison Streets,. CORVALLIS, OREGON. 16:26tf NEW ARRANGEMENTS, NEW BTA3E COACH, From Corvallis to Newport. CARRYING THE U. S. MAILS, New Steam Launch. CT OO D SUBSTANTIAL, - a a. PAann nrawn uv a, Z. :n Mu nt a (rood careful, iwranwr, wWW.. vvj,,- Corvallis at ? croon, a. vh vm.j, days and Fridays, &,ZZ2SZ imr Pioneer on the first tide, arriving at Newport , in three hours. Only IS hours running through. Re turning to Corvallis at 6 r. . Tussdays, Thursdays burning w itnfcrfM OR Aft- reHnfftlnn tnr lilies Good accommodations for pasturage at Plo- K to .tnrMa business and fast ... , VT."..V.1 ,.v,n. Rtr facilities for" ireurnt, a i o - traveling than have ever been on the route to the sea Shore The DOa n luaungcu "J wu.jpv.wm- namely, Ed. Carr and Mack Crow. we expect w i owi piu, "j commodations and dose attention to busiiMjBfc