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OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE STATE
OFFICIAL PAPER FOR BENTON COUNTY
Corvallis, Aug. 8, 1879.
W. B. CARTER,
EDITORIAL HOTES.
It is stated that an English sport
ing nobleman last year paid a bill of
$1,000 for medical attendance upon
his hounds. lie must have thrown
considerable physic to tlie dogs.
It is- remarked as a little singular
by a student of biblical paintings
that all the patriarchs are represent
ed as being bald. It should' be re
membered, however, that most of
them married young.
The whole number of newspapers
in the United Slates has increased
since January of the current year
from 8,703 to 9.153. Suspensions
have been fewer than in any corre
sponding period for years.
There was something lovely ahout
them even in death. It was in a
Deadwood mining camp, and they
lay side by side. Jim's thumb in
Jack's left eye, and Jack's revolver
pushed into Jim's right ear. They
had fit it out.
The Chief of the Fire Department
of Will'amsport, Pa., espying a Tin
ion flag that had been inadvertently
hung upside down, rang the alarm
bells to call out the firemen, surround
ed the house, and demanded an apol
ogy for what he considered disloyal
ty. He was not so patriotic, howev
er, as he was drunk.
Kiss Shattcck, after lying help
lessly abed for four years, at West
Galway, N. Y., prayed earnestly for
a miraculous cure, and instantly got
up and walked. But her recovery is
not complete, and the members of a
Methodist church meet at her house
every evening to pray for another
miracle.
Fathee HyACTSTHE reiterates the
following points in his programme
for reformed- Catholics: 1. Rejec
tion of the infallibility of the Pope.
2. Election of bishops by the clergy
and believers. 3. Preaching of the
Bible and general services in the na
tional language. 4. Liberty of mar
riage to the priest. 5. Liberty and
mortality in the confessional.
The strides of science are truly
wonderful. A German physician is
now successfully treating phthisic, or
pulmonary consumption, by making
an incision through the wall of the
chest and drawing off the pus with a
syringe, and afterwards washing out
the ulcers with weak carbolic acid.
We may live to see the day when
"broken hearted ' individuals will be
relieved of their fractured organs
and gutta purcha ones inserted in
their place.
A itew patent, secured in England,
involves the mixing of pain's and
varnishes with phosphorescent salt,
or a mixture of lime and sulphur.
This composition is to store up day
light and give it out at night. Prac
tically the patentee applies it to
clock faces, so that at night the hands
may be seen distinctly ; but this pa
tent claims its use for all kinds of
lighting pu'poses. Rooms may be
painted with it, and streets so coated
as to become self luminous ; also
ships, buoys, and the other objects
nsed in the signal service.
A novel plan for promoting habits
of economy among children has been
in successful operation for several
years in the public schools of Ghent,
Belgium. By the Advice of M. Lau
rent, Professor of Law in the Univer
sity in that city, savings bank were
established in each of the schools,
and the children encouraged to de
posit their pennies. The wisdom of
the scheme is shown in the fact that
at the present time 13,000 of the
15,000 scholars attending the public
Schools in Ghent have succeeded in
getting themselves accounts opened
at the State saving banks, with about
90,000 to their credit.
The first kindergarten in St. Louis
was established in 1878. Now there
are in the city over fifty public kind
ergartens, in which between four and
five thousand children areto be found.
The kindergarten is compulsory (and
no charge for school material enforc
ed) in so far that children under seven
and a half, if sent to a primary school,
must spend half the school day in a
Kindergarten, unless they have previ
ously been in one for two years. Al
ready the kindergarten songs have,
to a large extent, replaced the silly
rigmaroles that the children used to
sing when together. There are men
who claim that the kindergarten will
make a model city of St. Louis in
the next generation.
POLITICIAN AND STATESMAN.
There is a manifest desttnetion be
( ween a politician and statesman,
though one character may often be
blended, with the other. At onetime
it means party politics, or the arts,
devices and means of promoting the
interests of one party in opposition to
another, or all others one branch of
which is a public or national policy,
advocated by one party against an
other. In this sense, he is a politi
cian who applies himself to suoport
and advance his own party. In an
other application the term indicates
a natural policy in i elation to the
policies of other nations. This de
partment blends itself with the ap
propriate functions of a statesman.
So, also may a domestic policy. But
t he more common understanding of
the character of a politician, is that,
of a man who devotes himself to
party politics. In this view, a man
may be at the same time a very
good p liticiau and a very bad states
man and vice versa. He may be an
honest or a dishonest politician. He
may be a politician just so far as the
luties of a pure and patriotic states
mar, go; or only as an unprincipled
demagogue, all whose aims are selfish
and base. In short, politics are not
in themselves inconsistent with t lit
character of the best and purest men;
and inasmuch as the most important,
the most sacred and the dearest in
terest of society are in the hands of
politic-, the only pity is, that the
In st men aie not the only politicians.
Politics might be,. and ought to be, a
high and sacred vocation. No coun
try can be well governed, where it is
not so regarded, and where puldic
opinion does not make it so. No
man's virtue, patriotism, or religion
can be better or moie worthily em
ployed than in politics. There is no
necessity that politics should vitiate
him; but it is his duty to purify
politics.
THE SflWPHW LINEr
The deepest measurement in the
Atlantic has been made by the Chal
lenger, some eighty miles north of
the Virgin islands 3,875 fathoms,
or 23,250 feet about 4.4 miles. Over
much of the area the depth ranges
! let ween 2,000 and 3,000 fathonv.
An irregular ridge runs along tin
middle, and there the depth is less
than 2,000 fathoms. North of 50
degrees of Ireland to New Found
land, where the cables are laid, ex
tends a similar depth. Around tin
British isle, t he sea is nowhere above
400 feet deep. The Pacific ocern
was considered much shallower than
the Atlantic mainly on account of
thjmanysTands it contains. This
notion has been Urgely overthrown
by various soundings. The islands
rise abruptly from the bottom, and
very deep soundings have been taken
near their shores. Over a large por
tion of the area the depth is above
1,000 feet but in other places it is
f'-om 3,000 to 4,000 fathoms and more.
The deepest sounding yet made in
the Pacific, or anywhere else, is 4,475
tatho'tns 26,850 feet, over five mile
near the Landron islands, in north
latitude 11 degrees 24 minutes, eas'
longitude 143 degrees 16 minutes.
From the gentle slope of the bed of
the Arctic ocean to the Non h of
Siberia, t he line showing oidy four
teen or fifteen fathoms at 150 miles
from the shore, and from its config
uration to the north of this continent
it is believed to be the shallowest of
oceans. I it lie is positively ki.own
of the depths of the Antarctic ocean,
thoughit is presumed to be deeper
than the other polar sea. The bot
tom of the ocean, so far as has been
observed, seem to correspond with
the surface of the earth as respeets
elevation and depressions ; the same
valleys, mountains, chasms and pla
teaus found below as above the sur
face of the sea.
When the report of the Swiss
Centennial Commissioner on Ameri
ean watchmaking was read to crowd
ed meetings of watchmakers at Neu
chatel and Geneva, the general ex
pression was one of abject despair.
Work was suspended on the Gene
vese School of Watchmaking then
being ereeted; and the Canton Coun
cil appointed a committee to consider
what other industry could be intro
duced. As unnsual case was lately tried
at Kutais, in Russia. Seven Jews,
belonging to a secret Jewish order,
wen? accused of killing a female
Christian child in order to get hu
man blood for the celebration of one
of their festivals. The defendants
were acquitted ;: but the people were
enraged at this, and threatened to
take the law into their own bands.
The accused Jews fled.
And now a lawyer is arrested for
perjury. Where is this prosecution
of good men to stop, Graphic
BAY NEWS.
En. of Gazette : The U. S. Board
of Engineers, consisting of Lieuten
ant Colonel C. S. Stewart, Colonel B
H.Mendall, Colonel Jas. A. Williams,
Colonel G. L. Gallispte, arrived at
Cape Foul weather early on the morn
ing of the 29th ; conveyances were
sent to them, and they came over to
the Bay accompanied by Lietits
Payson and Rapier and Mr. Bert.
After a careful examination of the
bar from the light house at Yaquina
Head, they proceeded to the Ocean
House where they were received by
Wadis Nash, Esq , who entertained
the Board for an hour when, express
ing a desire to see the Bay, they
were taken on board of Messrs.
Stevens' sailboat, and with Mr. Nash
went up the bay as far as "Idlewild;"
returning, they started at once for
Foulweather, and before dark the
" Constautine" was out of sight on
her way north. The Board were
very cautious and reserved; prompt
replys were given to all their ques
tions, and no oi;e offered them advice,
or endeavored to instruct them in their
duties, and, I believe, the usual con
sideration of a few town lots was
omited. Whatever may be the final
result of their investigation and re
port, we are satisfied due regard will
be had for economy, and the interest
of the pul lie.
The steamer Kate and Anna is np
for Astoria, and will sail Monday or
Tuesday.
Gov. Thayer is here. We only
lack the Hon. Secretary and Treasurer
of having the " heft" of the State
Department here. The Gov. will,
no doubt, fall easily into the style of
the seaside, roll in the sand, splash in
the salt water, and thrive on fish.
Newport never had so many people
seekiTig comfort away from the heat
of the valley as now. When the R.
It. is completed, how the oxcursion
trains will come crowded, every time
the thermometer jumps above 80.
The hotel keepers will have a run of
over heated valley folks let e'm
come.
W. B. Carter says he is improving
Under the treatment of Mr. Surman,
and his looks shows a change for the
better. We hope Mr. C. will retrain
his health and live to see some of the
good works he has so long and per
sistently labored for accomplished.
Ere long, when the whistle of the
eneine awakens the solitudes of the
Corst rans:c,and the long train winds
around the mountain side, and along
the deep set valleys carrying the
produce of the Willamette to a near
er and better market, when the rush
and bustle of trade brings strange
faces among us, and the poor people
of to-day, become rich, the rich be
come richer, let us not forget those
who so earnestly fought our battles,
and refused to be defeated or silenced.
RlALTO.
Newport, Aug. 4, 1879.
Qceen Victokia has donated $25,-
000 during the past year for ad vance
ment of the temperance cause in
England.
Storm in England. A dispatch
of the 4th inst. from London says:
The severest storm for many years
raged Saturday nifht. The storm was
attended by a fall of hailstones some
four inches in circumference. Dam
age to glass around London amounts
thousands of pounds sterling. In a
great part of Bedfordshire the hay
crop is completly swept away and
many cattle drowned. Newmarket
and neighborhood are fl xxled. The
rainfall in Buckinghamshire isestima
ted at 70 tons per acre. Damages by
floods and lightning are also reported
from Cambridge, Forfolk, Guilford,
LesUrand Bath. The storm was ter
ribly severe in the valley of the
Thames Immense injury is done
growing crops, j Damage by rain, hail
and inundations is irreparable this sea
sow. The loss of live stock is serious.
OumiN of Plants. Madder came
from the East, celery from Germany,
the chesnut from Italy, the onion
from Egypt, tobacco from Virginia,
the nettle from Europe, the citron
from Greece, the pine from America,
oats from North Africa, the ppy
from the East, rye from Siln-ria, pars
ley from Sardinia,, the. pearand apple
from Europe, spinach from Arabia,
the sunflower from PerUj the mulber
ry from Persia, the gourd from the
East, the walnut and peach from
Persia, t he horse chesnut from Ehibet,
the cncnmbei from the East Indies,
the Quince from the Island of Crete,
the radish from China and Japan-,
peas from Egpt, horse radish from the
south of Europe.
State elections this year will be
held in the following order: Ken
tucky, August 4th; California, Sep
tember 3d, State and judicial officers,
four Congressmen and Legislature ;
Maim, September 8th, State officers
and Legislature ; Oh:o and Iowa,
October 7th, State officers in part
and Legislature Maryland, Massa
cnusetts,.Mmnesotai.Mi8sissippi, New
Jersey; New York; Pennsylvania,
Virginia and Wisconsin, November
3d. Governors are elected in all the
States named except Mississippi, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Astorian, July 25, 1879. .
OREGON'S COAST COUNTIES.
From the ready pen of Mr. R. A.
Bensell, of Newport, Yaqiiina bay,
we received the following article,
last week, which we reprodues to-day
for the purpose of again ealling at
tention to the facts therein contained:
Your article on the importance of a coast
ing steamer, or line of steamers, from San
Francisco to Astoria, is timely, and I have
wondered why the scheme has remained so
long neglected. Aside from eastern Oregon,
nearly all the government land, such as im
migrants are seeking, is found along the
coast, and this coast country is, in my opin
ion, the very best of Oregon ; fertile, well
watered, plenty of wood, the finest fish,
abundance of water-fowl and other game ;
never too dry, never too wet. Not as cold
as eastern Oregon, not as hot as the Wil
lamette valley, a mild, even temperature,
singularly free from all miasmatic diseases ;
a country producing the most delicious
fruits aiid the finest vegetables, the sweet
est and best flavored honey, and nicest but
ter ; in fact a man of ordinary energy can
enjov the sum of human happiness, espe
cially if that sum is plenty to eat. drink
iirwl to wear, with a reasonable chance
f,w Bnmfithincr better. I am in receipt of
letters daily asking the way to get to this
paradise. Usually the route, via Portland,
up the valley, and thence by some of the
various trails and wagon roads to the coast,
is so expensive that hundreds are deterreil
from coining. Now, with a. steamer adver
tised, and live agents at these point?, immi
grants can and will come, bringing their
household enects at a reasonable outlay.
The certainty of connection, w ith a market,
will stimulate many dormant industries,
and a trade advantageous to the state and
profitable to the company will be the result.
Following this enterprise it should be en
couraged by every person desiring to see
Oregon's harbors and bays grow and increase
in importance ana weaitn.
Mr. Bensell is a gentleman well
known for truth and veracity, and we
do not again refer to his letter be
cause it has so recently been con
tinued, but as a matter to which we
crave public attention. The coast
counties ol Oregon are even hctter
than Mr. Bensell places them When
the revenue cutter Corwin left Asto
ria for San Francisco, recently, Mr.
C. Brown, of this collection district,
was se:it by her to Ynqiiina bay, for
the purpose of inspecting a new
steamer, built at that place by Capt.
Lilt tens. 31 r. Brown has returned to
Astoria; and he is enthusiastic in his
praises of the region of country vis
ited. Having i o -versed freely with
him we become something of an en
thusiast also, upon the subject of our
coast counties, and we desire to place
as much of the facts before the peo
ple as possible.
San Francisco can well afford to
spare us 50.000 people for settlement
in the const counties in Oregon, from
the Columbia river to? Rogue river,
and we feel like guaranteeing them
all happy and prosperous homes, if
they will only come. As Mr. Ben
sell says, ti e difficulty of getting in
to tlie country has kept a gnat many
out, but that difficulty no longer ex
ists, as Mr. R. D. Hume has placed a
splendid steamer on the route, con
necting with the Oregon and Pacific
Coast Steamship Companies at Asto
rtar to all these points. Fare is
cheap, hind is abundant, and plenty
of people want it. Let them come ;
and the more the merrier.
THE 0L0WGMAN
Once it was " Mother," and it was
" Mother," I'm hungry. " Mother,
put up my dinner," anil her loving
hands would spread the butter, and
sew on the great patch, heart brim
ming with affection for the imperious
Utile curly uate that made her so
many steps.
jNow she is the "old woman," but
she did not think it would ever come
to that. She looked through the fu
ture years and saw her boy to man
hood grow ; and he stood transfigur
ed in the light of her own beautiful
love. Never was there a more noble
son than he honored in the world,
ami the statFof her declining years.
Aye, he was her support even then,
but she out not know it. one never
realized that it was her little boy
that gave her strength for daily toil
that his slender form was all that
upheld her over the brink of dispair.
She onlv knew how she loved the
child, and felt that amid the mists of
age his love would bear her gently
through Us infirmities.
But the son has forgotten the
mother's ministrations now. Adrift
from the moorings of home, he is
cold, selfish, heartless, ami " Mother'
has no sacred meaning to the prodi
sral. one is the " ohi woman, wrin
kled, gray, lame and blind.
JMENTAr. arithmetic snoniii tie
taught in our common schools more
than if now is, for the following rea
sons :
1. It would enable the taught,
when going into practical life, to
compute at once by the simple ac
tion of the mind, without the incon
venience of figuring with the hand.
2". The memory isgreatly strength
ened thereby. By training, the mem
ory grows- stronger ; ami since the
child in the study of mental arithme
tic is constantly making an effort to
think-up how many times one num
her is container! in another, what la
the product, of two factors, or what
a number-plus or minus another gives;
and since he is required to compare
numbers and give their relations
mentally, his memory is much
strengthened.
' 3 ' Educate is from educerer which
means to draw out. The leaching
should be done in a manner best cal
culated to bring out the faculties.
Now, it is evident that the more the
student is required to reason from
cause to effeet and from- the effect to
cause, the greater awakening will be
in his mind. And the- subject we
now have in hand (mental arithmetic)
is calculated to draw out thought in
stead of cramming in ; therefore, it
should be well taught in- onr com
mon schools.
IMPORTANTTO SETTLERS.
Circular from the V. S. Land Office
at Washington.
Registers and Receivers U. S. Dis
trict Land Offices:
, Your attention is called to the pro
visions of the act of congress enti
tied "An act to provide additional
regulations or homestead and pre
cmption entries of public lands," ap
proved March 3, 1879.
Hereafter no person claiming to
enter public land under the home
stead and pre-mption laws will be
permitted to make final proof until
notice has been given as required by
said act.
Any settler desiring to make final
proof must first file with the register
of the proper land office a written
notice of his intention to make final
proof. Such notice must describe
the land claimed, and the claimant
must give the names and residences
of the witnesses by whom the neces
sary facts as to the settlement, resi
dence, cultivation, etc., are to be
established.
The filing of such notice must be
accompanied by a deposit of sufficient
money to pay the cost of publishing
the notice to be given by the register.
Upon the filing of the notice by
applicant, the register shall publish
such application once each week for
a period of thirty days, in a newspa
per which he shall designate, by an
order written on said application, as
published nearest the laud described
in the application, and he shall also
post said notice in some conspicuous
place in his office for the same period.
A compliance with the law will re
quire notice to be published weekly
five times, because four weekly publi
cations would not cover a period of
thirty days.
The notice to be given by the
r.-gi ter must state that application
to make final proof has been filed ;
the name of the applicant; the kind
of entry, whether homestead or pre
emption; a description of the land,
and the names and residences of the
witnesses, as in the application.
To save expense, the register may
embrace two or more cases in one
publication, when it can be done con
sistently with the legal requirements
of publication, in a newspaper pub
lished nearest the land.
When proof is filed that notice has
been given in the manner and for the
time required by said act of congress,
the applicant will he entitled to make
final proof as provided by the laws
in force at. the date of the approval
of said act.
The proof that requisite notice has
been given will be the certificate of
the ngister that the notice of the
application (copy of which should be
annexed to the certificate) was posted
by him in a conspicuous place in his
office for a period of thirty days;
aiid t be affidavit of the publisher or
foreman of the newspaper that the
notice (a copy of which notice must
be annexed to the affidavit) was pub
lished in said newspaper once each
week for five successive weeks.
The proof of the publication and
posting the notice mut be filed and
preserved by the register, to be for
wanb d to this office with the final
papers when issued. -
J. A. WirxiAirsoir,
Commissioner.
TELEGRAPHICSUMMARY.
Six British, ironclads have arrived in Be
seka Bay.
The total coinage by the TJ. S. mints for
July is $4,681,610.
Mexican highwaymen are troublesome in
Southern California.
Whitelaw Read, of the New York Tribune,
is at San Francisco.
Harvest is progressing finely in Nebraska.
Iowa and Minnesota.
Greek troops are arming, in anticipation
of trouble with the Turks.
Gen. Grant's reception at Tokio is unpre
cedented in Japanese history.
The Custer battlefie'd on the Little Big
Worn has been made a national cemetery. -Cholera
is raging among the English
troops returning to India from Afghanistan.
The Chinese government has determined
to resist Russian advances iu Ili at all hazards.
The steamer Lizzie, loaded with cattle and
general cargo, went ashore on Long Island
on the 1st.
An English paper announces that stock
of the Panama canal scheme is at a discount
in England.
Quarantine is imposed on vessels from
the United States at Rome, on account of
yellow feve-.
Lord Chelmsford, commander of the
British troops in Africa, has resigned, and
will return home.
Another expedition to go in search of the
-S or tii vote bas been Organized in England,
to start next spring.
The Postmaster General has ordered free
delivery service at Portland, Oregon, to
commence October 1st.
It is stated that the population of the
Capital of Cashmere has been reduced from
300,000 to 30,000 by famine.
A Chinese chicken thief was killed at
Yuba Dam, Cal., on the second, while in
the act of robbing the roost.
The man arrested in Idaho for Tom Law
ton is supposed to be an imposter, playing
for a free ride to Sacramento.
One hundred and seventeen deaths occur
red from yellow fever at Havana, during
the week which ended July 26.
Jas. M. Porter, son of former Secretary of
War and Past Grand Master of Masons, in
Pennsylvania, died last Sunday.
An expedition sent to Africa by the Al
geerian Missionary society, of London, is
reported to be in a starving condition.
Mr. Barker, financial agent of Russia at
Philadelphia, has been decorted by the Czar
with the second rank of the order of St.
Stanislaus.
The bark Gem of the Ocean, which left
Seattle July 29th, for San Francisco, laden
with coal, went nsnore in a dense log on
Vancouver Island on last Friday. The ves
sel and cargo will be almost a total loss.
No lives lost.
How to Make Mischief. Keep
your eye on your neighbors. I ake
care of them. Do not let them-stir
. . i rn
wiinour waicning. i ney may airu .
something wrongif you do. ToU-surfr?"' .SL?
you never knew them to do anything
very bad, but it may be on-your ac
count they have not. Perhaps if it
had riot been for your kind care they
might have disgraced themselves
long ago. Then do not relax in your
efforts to keep them where they ought
to be. Never mind your own busi
ness that will take care of itself. If
you find any symptoms of any one
passing out of the path of duty, tell
every one else what you see, and be
particular to see a great many. It is
a good way to circulate such things,
though it may not benefit yourself,
or any one particularly. Do keep
something going silence is a dread
ful thing. It is said there was silence
in heaven for the space of halt an
houi. Do not let any such thing oc
cur on earth. It would be too much
for this mundane sphere.
Be very Careful, if yon regard your
self as the guardian of your honor,
that you do not occupy the position
of a sinecure.
ILIST OF LETTKRS
Remaining- in the port office at Corvallis, Benton
County, Oregon, Aug: 1, 1879. Persons calling for
the same, will please sayf " advertised."
ladies' list.
Hancock, Miss Hannah IStaraent, Fattio
Allen & Campbell
Boone, J M "
Conrow. Mark
Crannell, C'has
i rautz S P
Pr:edel, Otto
Hurley. Cornelius
Hilliard, W F
Hurt, Mr
Hill, J W
QE.VTS LIST.
Kessler, Dr J H
Kosminisky, M
Vulleraw
Looney, B C
Pollard, Wm
Roberts, E A
Kaderna - ker, Carsten
Tho pson, 8 W
Turpin, W P.
N. R Barber, P M.
The West Side Extension. Mr. Kohl-
stated, in reply to inquiries from an Ore
gonian reporter that the Taber with iron for
eighteen miles of track for the West Side
extension, is now due at Portland, and that
she will undoubtedly arrive within a few
days. Six other vessels with partial cargoes
of iron, in all sufficient to complete the
road, will arrive at San Francisco daring
the next few weeks. From there the iron
will be promptly forwarded- by the regular
steamers to Portland. The line of the road
has been prepared for the rails to Luck ia
rante creek, thirteen miles north of Corval
lis, and some grading beyond that point has
been done. All the grading yet to be done
can be Accomplished in two weeks. Mr.
K older estimates that the road will be com
pleted to Corvallis on or about the first, of
November.
PACII- KJ COAST.
Oregon.
The Glencoe grist mill is being rebuilt.
Lake county has $679 81 in her county
treasury.
Coos Bay imports peaches and fresh vege
tables from nan Francisco.
Harvest wages are $ 1 50 per day in the
neighborhood of JacksonviUe.
"SC. A seven-year-old boy named Johnny Al
len was drowned at roruana iasi wees.
The wild blackberry crop is more abun
dant in southern Oregon than for many
years past.
A ereat many homesteads are being taken
up in Washington county. More good land
remains
Mrs. Wm. Jackson, of Hillsboro, was se
riously injured last week by being thrown
from a carriage.
Mr.. J. M. Garrison, of Forest Grove, came
near dying recently from the effects of i
yellow jacket's sting.
It is estimated that the wheat on J. C.
Thompson's farm, near Turner, will yield 50
bushels to the acre.
Geo. Satterfield was stabbed by a young
man named Merntt, at Jackass creek, last
week. The wound was not dangerous and
the offender was not arrested.
A lake of wonderful beauty, which re
mains full at all seasons, although it has no
visible source ol supply, exists on the hill
two miles and a half from Empire City.
Mr. L. L. Jones,
aired 1 vears. lvm.' at Uhamooec. was
drowned in the Willamette last week while
iti swimming.
Miss May W renn- is teaching a private
school in the Uential school building, Alba
ny, during vacation. Terms $1 per month
per scholar. New term commenced last
week.
At 8 45 each night the fire bell at Oregon
City warns all minors to go home ; at 9 it
rings again when all minors who are out will
be taken in by the police.
Tom Smith is building a big hotel at The
Dalles. Handley femnott are rebuilding
the Umatilla House the third building on
the same site.
The Railroad Co. intends erectint?'a hotel
at Albany, on the site of the late Comstock
House, plans and specifications for the same
are or soon will be ready.
Kev. P. S. Knight, pastor of the Congre
gational church in Salem, has at the nnam
mou request of the trustees consented to
withdraw bis resignation;
The presidency of the Willamette univer
sity still remains an open question, and va
rious reports of a conflicting nature are in
circulation as to whom the " coming man "
will be.
Thomas McTimmonds-, who was indicted
by the- GFand Jury of Polk county for an
assault, went to Dallas last week and furn
ished bonds in the sum of $300 for his ap
pearance at the next term of court.
A statem -nt recently published in the Al
bany Democrat and other papers that Capt.
L. L. Williams had eloped with the wife of
another man, is denied by his friends, who
have certain knowledge of his whereabouts
and purposes.
One day last week an old 'ady by the
name of Fisher, living in Polk county, tell
from a wagon and was seriously injured.
She had- several ribs broken, besides re
ceiving other injuries, and owing to her ex
treme old age is liable never- to recover.
LewisviUe correspondence of the Polk
county Itemizer : A petition is now being
circulated for a county road, commencing 40
rods from the Williams bridge and following
the south side of the Luckiamute to Fu
quas' ford, and thence to the depot. This
point will secure the trade of the Luckia
mute without doubt, as it lessens the dis
tance which farmers will have to haul their
gram.
Last week while Walter Bay, a lad of
fourteen, was engaged near St. Paul, in Ma
rion county, reaping grain with a self-binder,-the
elevator- became foul with tangled
grain and he- attempted- to clear it off while
driving along. His foot- slipped off the
brake, causing the needle of the machine to
pass through the palm of his right hand,
tearing the flesh and crushing the bones in a
frightful manner.
9
yfi. dry goods peddler named Savage was
thrown from his wagon, recently, over a
rocky precipice into Klamath lake. Both of
his legs were broken and he was injured in
ternally. When found, a few hours after
wards, he was in the lake with his head
just above water, and still living. He was
taken to the residence of Captain Ferree,
whee he died in about ten hours.
NOTICE
TO DONATION CLAIMANTS !
THE ATTENTION OF CLAIMANTS TO
donations of land, their assigns and le
gal representatives, is particularly called to
that Dart of amnion fi f- ma r
approved July 17th, 1854, entitled "An act
" act approved September twen
ty-seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty, to
create the office of Surveyor-General of the
public lands in Oregon, etc, and also the
ict amendatory thereof, approved February
nineteen, fourteen!, eighteen hundred and:
fifty-three," which reads as follows, -to-wit :
"All persons claiming donations under'
this act, or the acts of which it is" amenda
tory, shall give notice to the
Surveyor-General, or other duly authorized
officer, of the particular lands claimed as
such donation, within thirty days after- be-;
ing requested so to do by snch officer; and1
fading the claimant or claim
ants shall forfeit all rightand claim thereto. "'
Now, therefore, the undersigned,- being
such " other dulv authorized officer," do
hereby give notice, to each and ever per
son, his or her assigns and legal representa
tives, claimants of donations of lands, with
in the district of lands subject to sale at the
United States District Land Office at Ore
gon city, Oregon, under said acts of Con
gress ; that each and every one of them,
within thirty davs from thMj, Av f ti
A. D. 1879 (beins the dav of exniration of
six weeks' publication hereof), give notice
to the Register and Receiver of said Land
Office, at Orecron CMtv Ciyaernn f
. 0 . - " , v.
particular lands claimed as such donations ;"
and failing such notice the
claimant or claimants shall forfeit all rights
and claims thereto. "
And each and every person claiming the
benefits of said act of September 27th, 1850,
and the legislation supplemental thereto,
wilt, within niv mnnflia nftoi- tlio a.n!..tin
of the aforesaid thirty days, cause to be
nied m tne united states Jand UHice at
Oregon City, Oregon, the proof, as required
bv law. to comnlete their claim to a dona
tion of land, under said act ; and failing s
to do, such claims will be held for cancella
tion. In witness whereof the Register and Re
ceiver of the said United States District
Land OffifA at. llrACrnn Oiv drorrnn havft
hereto subscribed their names this" 8th day
of June, A. D., 1879.
L. T. BARIN. Register
1;t30w6 J. W. WATTS. Receiver.
NOTICE.
LG. KLINE HAVING PURCHASED
the entire interest of Jacob Senders.
in the store of L. G. Kline & Co., will con
tinue business at his old stand. Will be
happier than ever to see his old customers,
and as mnny new ones as will be pleased to
call on him.
By virtue of the purchase, L. G. Kline is
the only one authorized to receive and re
ceipt for all the outstanding accounts.
L. G. KLINE.
Corvallis, July 16, 1879. 1G:29w4
A WEEK in your own town, and no
capital risked. You can give the buf-'-
ness a trial witnout exiwnse. The best
opportunity ever offered for those wi'
linjr to work. Yon should try nothing
eise until vim see for yourselt what vou
can do at the business we offer. No room to explain
here You can devote all your time or only your
spare time tn the business, and make great pay for
every hour that you work. Women make as much as
men. Send for special private terms and particulars,
whieh-we mail free. 35 Outfit free. Don't complain
of hard times while you have such a chance. Ad
drets H. HALLLTT & CO., Portland, Maine. 16:31)1
Ame's Process
KEEPS MEATS, FISH. BUTTER,
Egs, Vegetables, and Fruits sweet
auti good without salting, cooking, drying,
or su.ding 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 S10. 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 mea
testifying to its hcalthfulness and success.
For further particulars inquire of
GOLDSON & MATTOON,
Corvallis. Benton county, or Albany, Linn
county, Oregon, general Agents for the
Pacific coast.
Corvallis, July 25, 1879. 16:30tf
jN otice.
NEW ARRANGEMENTS.
NEW STASE COACH.
From Corvallis to Newport
CARRYING THE U. S. MAILS.
New Steam Launch.
a GOOD BUBSTAfiiAu
I ' 1. ilrawn hv
- Stage vA-". -f
m&I teams, in care of a KOOd.
careful, sober driver, will leave
SraTclocCa: 7 on Mondays, t
Vrva" . j ,,ir with the new Steam'
davs and Fridays, connectinw.n u
; aunch at Pioneer at 6 P. m. me t" " V
w Pioneer on the first tide, arrlvinB at Newport In-
three hours Only 15 hours running wirougir. jw
tSn tTcorvailto at 8 r. M. Tuer Thursdays
Iturfars. Through tickets. 00; reduction for"
families Good accommodations for pasturage at r-io-Prompt
attention to express business and fast
treasonable charges. Better facUWes for
traveling than have ever been on the route to tne sea
shore The boat is managed by competent men,
nameiv Ed. Carr and Mack Crow.
We expect to receive public favor by first class ac
commodations and close attention to bw
lo:-4
Land Office at Bosf.burg, Oon.,
Julv 9. 1879.
"VT OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT
tl.e fnlimvincr. 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 219JJ
for the Lots 4, 5 and 6 and S of S E sec.
2, T 14 8R8 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
STOVE, Tf k HARDWARE STORE
J. H. PENN.
HAS, and will keip on hand, a full line oi
cook, parlor, box and office stoves, got
ten up on the lat. st improved patterns and
fuel -saving principles. Also, a line of
GENERAL HARDWARE.
Worker in- copper, sheet-iron and tin.
Jobbing a specialty. Having hadfa long ex--perience
in this line, we are satisfied that we
can give satisfaction. All work and stove
warranted to give satiafaction.
WE WANT WORK.
Our prices to suit the times. Call and see-"
our GoOfUpeea Stove ana uneui,
Corner of Second and Madison Streets,
CORVALLIS, OREGON.
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