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Corvallis Gazette. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY W. !0. CARTER, Editor and Proprietor. TERMS: (coin.) 'sPer Tear, three Months, 3 SO 1 SO 1 INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. CITY ADVERTISEMENTS. M. S. WOODCOCK, Attorney and Counselor at Law, fOKVAlll.N OKKOUV OFFICE ON FIRST STREET, OPP. WOOD COCK A BALDWIN'S Hardware store. 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, 1879. 16-12yl F. A. CHENOWETH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, COBVALLM, ! s : OKI iis. -OFFICE, Corner S Monroe and Second street. 16-1 tf J. W. RAYBURK, ATTORNEY AT LAW, COBVA1.HS, t : OBICOSI. OFFICE On Monroe street, between Second and Third. 3-Special attention given to the Collection of Notes and Accounts 16-ltf JAMES A. YANTI8, Attorney and Counselor at Law, COHVALLIN, OBEGOH. tyiLL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS of the State. Special attention given to matters in Probate. Collections will receive rompt and careful attention. Office in the Court ouse. 16:ltf. dr. P. a. Vincent, DENTIST. CORVALLIH - OREGON. QFFICE IN FISHER'S BRICK OVER Max. Friendley's New Store. All the 'atest improvement). Everything new and complete. All work warranted. Please give me a call. 15:3tf C. R. FARRA, M. O. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, QFFICE OVER GRAHAM k HAMILTON'S v Drugstore, Corvallis, Oregon. 14-2Gtf J. R. BRYSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. All business will receive prompt attention. COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY- Corvallis, July 14, 1871. 16:291 f NEW TIN SHOP. J. K. Webber, Pro., MAIN mt,. - COBVALLIB. 8TOVE8 AND TINWARE. All Kindi. MM All work warranted and at reduced rates. 12:13tf. W. C. CRAWFORD, DEALER IN- WATCHES, CLOCK, .JEWELRY, 8PECTACLES, SILVER WARE, " etc Also, Musical Instruments feo Repairing done at the most reasonable rates, and all work warranted. Corvallis, Dec 13, 1877. 14:50tf GRAHAM, HAMILTON & CO., COBVA1XM - . . UBKUOX DEALERS IN MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, DYE STIFFS. OILS. GLASS 09 PUTTY. PURE WINES AND L Q'JORS FOR MEDICI NAIi USE. And also the the very liest assortment of Lamps and Wall i'apn ever brought to this place. AGENTS FOR THE AVERIU CH:Rri3U P-WT, SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER. 0ftelli VOL. XVI. CORVALLIS, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1879. NO. 33. Mr Phjralelatwa' i e.erlptlona lire- X vlUuuuUeil. ld-2tf The Breakwater at Cape Foulweather, Is a necessity and owing to an increased demand for eKOIS I TV OUR L.IIYJE, nnt HAVE THE PLEASURE OF STATING THAT WE HAVE THE LARGEST AND best selected stock of GENERAL MERCHANDISE Ever brought to this market, and our 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. Sbeppard, 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 from 36c to i. Boots from 1 to 3 SO. Hatw from 35 to &l VS. Buck Gloves, 50 cents. Milk Handkerchiefs 38e. Grass Cloth 8 cents. Kid Gloves, TS cents to 01. Don't forget the place, one deor south of the post offiosT Sheppard, Jaycox & Co. Corvallis, May 1, 1879. 17:19m3 CORVALLIS Livery, Feed . AND... SALE STABLE, 4 orvallia Lodge Ko 14. r. A. M. Holds stated Communications on Wednesday on or preceding each full moon. Brethren in good standing cordially invited to attend. By order W. M. Burinn Lodge No. 7, I. O. O. f. 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. Muln St., Coival Is, Oregon. SOL. KING, - Porpr. QWNING BOTH BARNS I AM PREPARED to offer 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 HIRE. Particular attention Paid ta Boarding M oraea. ELEGANT HEARSE, CARRIAGES AND HACKS FOR FUNERALS Corvallis, Jan: 3, 1879. l:lyl LANDS! FARMS! HOMES! I 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 K (Successors to J. U Bayley & Co,) EEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND AT THE old stand a large and complete stock of Heavy and Mielf 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 Knnpp, Burrell & Co., for the sale of the best and latest im proved FARM MACHINERY, of all kinds, together with a full assort ment of Agricultural Implements. Sole Agents for the celebrated ST. LOUIS CHASTER OAK ST0VES the BEST IN THE WORLD. Also the Norman Range, and many other patterns, in all sizes and styles. QT" 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 oar customers with the best poods in market, in our line, and at the lowest jrice. 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. CORVALLIS, OBECIOII, TJAVING BOUGHT THE ABOVE MAR ket and fixtures, and permanently located in Corvallis, I will keep constantly on hand the choicest cuts of BEEF, PORK, MUTTON AND VEAL, Especial attention to making extra Bologna with large expe-i- selt that 1 can give lease call and eive JOHN S. BAKER. 15:49tf. Being a practical b ence in business, 1 satisfaction to custoi me a trial. Dec. 6th, 1878. irteher ROBERT N. BAKER. Fashionable Tailor, "FORMERLY OP 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. All 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 TTAVrNG 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 eta. per Bushel 1 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. Corvallis, Aug. 1, 1878. 15:32tf ALLEN & WOODWARD, Druggists and Apothecaries, P. O. BUILDING. CORVALLIS, OREGON. Have a complete stock of DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS, Oil, GLASS, If., ETC. School I'ooks m tationeny, 3eo. We buy for Cash, and have choice of the FRESHEST and PUREST Drugs and Medicines the market affords. S" Prescriptions accurately prepared at half the usual rates. 2Maylfi:l8tf FRESH COODS AT THE BAZAR - FASHIONS Mrs. K. A.. KNIGHT. (OHVAI.MN, ... OBteoS. Has just received from San Francisco, the larg est and Best Stock of Millinery ttooos, Dress Trimmings, lie., Ever brought to Corvallis, which I will sell at prices that defy competition. Agency far Mate, it mmu. 25aprl6:17tf rears reliable The Rosy Crown of Virtue. Correspondence of the New York World. Pabis, June 6. I do not know how the little town of Nanterra, near Paris, fared during the war, but it ought to have well. There must always be more than an average ten of the righteous in it, and that we know was once accorded more than enough to save a city." For Nanterre has been from time immemorial the typical town of all France for high, in the sense of holy, living. Tear by year it has Dever failed to furnish a Bosiere for the prize of virtue, and as this immaculate young person rarely does more than win in the race by a neck, the average of merit in this district must be exceedingly high. This year alone was Jhere a poor race, indeed it was only a walk-over. M'lle Delphine Collet, who won the crown of roses last Sunday, was without a single competitor. Scores of young girls who would have taken the first prize in any other town, recognized her transcendant f?ift of good ness and kept out of the field. France has almost the monopoly of this idea of rewards for virtue, and Tfan terre has the first reputation of all the towns of France for the article in ques tion. In fact it produces little else than virtue and pork sausages, though careful trade statisticians mention also its build ing stone and a kindred material known as- the Nanterre cakes. Once a year its municipality meet in solemn convoca tion, and proceed to consider the claims of all the candidates for virtue's crown, and for certain collateral rewards in the shape of clothing, a sum of 500 francs to form a marriage portion, trinkets and other gifts. It is worth 1000 francs, all told, say those who ought to know. The question is settled by vote, and on the Sunday of Pentecost the winner is con ducted to the Mairie to receive the trinkets, to the Church to receive a blessing, and finally to her own home, to continue that private practice of vir tue which has been her title to public distinction. Her innocent town's-folk and some of the most cynically corrupt men of the capital attend tlie ceremony. The local fanfare is blown in her honor, the gallant "sapper pumpers" (other wise the firemen of Nanterre) , precede her with blast of bugle and beat of drum, and the whple region makes holi day at fair and ball. Nanterre revels in the consciousness of her own perfections, and who shall deny her right? It would be hard enough to be so good anywhere, but to be good within a two hours walk of Paris is virtue, indeedf The Rosiere, it ought to be stated, is chosen on no narrow and conventional estimate of the qualification. Virtue in the eyes of rench prize-givers very properly means goodness all round. Thus it was even taken into account that Delphine was an orphan, and, though she was not exactly rewarded for this, it was considered to augment Hie splendor of her triumphs. Her positive qualities were industry and thrift, devotion to a young brother, and to an aged uncle and aunt, sweetness of temper in fact, all the attributes of the angel of the house. Report of her was sent up from the laundry where she works by public fame to constituted authority. Constituted authority deliberated on the matter with what result we have seen. It rained on Sunday most persistently all the morning. Delphine was to have been fetched from her home at 2 o clock, but her escort thought it prudent to defer her triumph for half an hour. Im patient calleis could get no news of her beyond that she was for the present "at the coiffeur' over the way." Presently she tripped lightly back, not to be seen again till she appeared in all the glory of her white frock. Meanwhile M. le Maire and the other local dignitaries had begun to assemble at the Mairie. There was the Deputy of the Department; there were the seven Mayors of the canton, with a Secretary-General of the Prefec ture of the Seine. Some had hopes of seeing even the great Prefect himself, but he was not visible to the naked eye. .Presently a great crash of brass music and roll of drums announced the arrival of the procession. Delphine had picked her way through the muddy streets and was at the Mairie door. She came in a cloud ef white, preceded by another cloud of larger volume, which incased last year's Bosiere. Last year she had the advantage in beauty as well as in bulk. She looked dignified, but rather sad ; it was the end of her mayoralty of virtue. The latest incumbent of the office was a thick-set, plain-faced peas ant with the red hands with which she had toiled her way to emi nence ready to burst through her white gloves. She was quietly reeueiUie in manner, perfectly steady and self possessed, but all the time you felt that if any one said a word to her she might begin to cry. Nobody said a word to her therefore, only a good deal was said at her. A notable took up the parable and invited her marraines. godmother selected for the occasion to deck her with her trinkets, brooch, ear-rings and such like. There was, of course, a cry for "pins" at this semi-official toilet, and none were forthcoming. The Notable made a joke about the want of them, at which, although the whole point was in the subject and not at all in the way of treating it, we all laugh ed. It was the day of smooth sayings peace on earth, good will toward women. Then the Notable called out the order of procession. One dignitary was to take the marraine, another the retiring Bo siere, and the Kosiere of the day was to give her arm to "a distinguished visitor from London Mr. Fleeming Jenkin, of the Royal Society." The Frenchman applauded, but they did not like it; and one of them cut in before the tardy Fleeming offered his arm and bore off the prize, leaving the distinguished vis itor from London to make a bad second on the other side. In order or no order, the procession went from the Mairie through the narrow, old-fashioned streets to the church, escorted as Deiore Dy tne firemen with trumpet and drum, lhe Rosiere of last year, with the marraine, filed off to a covered seat in the nave; the new one advanced to the altar, with four small children in white, who bore her crown. The crown was sprinkled with holy water; the Kosiere knelt in prayer; the service went forward with great pomp by the help of a powerful rural choir, reinforced by stars from the capital. The church was crowded, and with a motlev congregation here M. D Lesseps (who has promised to give the Rosiere the first share in the Darien Canal Company) , there "Mark Twain." Among the Frenchman hardly a soul seemed to pay the slightest attention to the service; and when the rather croak ing voice of the old priest took up the chant after the choir, there was a titter at the very altar rails. The old man preached a short sermon, in which he was evidently airing his period for the edification of the Paris crowd talked of the Rosiere's "consulate of virtue," and sketched her history in narrative from the cradle, and prophecy to the grave. Then Delphine, leaving the altar for the seat of honor in the nave by the side of her marraine, was solemnly crowned by that matron with a wreath of white roses; and with a triumphant outburst of song the ceremony came to an end. The pro cession was formed once more, and the Rosiere was reconducted to her humble lodgings by the gallant "sapper-pumper" band. The crowd then dispersed some to see the conjuror swallow the sword at the fair, some to taste the water of the well of St. Genevieve, which is understood to cure all blindness, except that of the belief in its miraculous powers. Fun at Cabinet Meetings. On Tuesdays and Fridays, says the Washington Sun, there are Cabinet meet ings. The members of the Cabinet drop in one by one, but they are all on hand by 12 o'clock. Each member brings his portfolio. The President sits at the head of the table, and Secretary Shurz at the foot ; on the right, next to the President, is the Secretary of State, next to him the Secretary of War, and beyond him the Postmaster-General. On the left, next to the President, sits the Secretary of the Treasury, and next to him the Secretary of the Navy, and next to the Secretary of the Interior on that side the Attorney General. After the Cabinet meets it is fen or fifteen minutes before the members get to work. That ten minutes is taken up in greetings and off-hand talk, in which the spirit of fun and humor crops out a good deal. The Cabinet are all men with a sunny, fun-loving side when out of official harness. Judge Key is perhaps the jolliest, though the Attorney General pushes him hard for that dis tinction. Secretary Thompson is a pro verbial lover of a pleasant joke, while Secretary Shurz is hardly equalled in telling one. Secretary McCrary is a good story teller. Secretary Sherman does not indulge in humor often, but when he does, it is, on account of its unexpected character, the more enjoyable. Secretary Evarts is one of those of the quietly humorous sort. His lund ot dry .tumor I anu wit is inexnaustiDie, ana tuougn not uproarious is keenly enjoyable. The President has probably the hearti est Cabinet that any President ever assembled around him. The old bores who keep at them day by day are unmer cifully dealt with by the heads of the de partments when they assemble. The Attorney-General seems to take a par ticular delight in joking Secretary Thompson. At a recent Cabinet meeting the Naval Secretary took with him a list of midshipmen who had passed their examinations. The Secretary called .at tention to them, and said he would like to have their nominations for promotion to ensigns sent to the Senate as soon as possible, "as they were worthy young men who have thoroughly earned their spurs.'' "Mr. Thompson," interrupted Mr. Devens, "how long since have they been wearing spurs in the navy?" At a latter meeting the Attorney-General an nounced that there was a story afloat of a character so derogatory to the inland marine Secretary that it ought to be met. "Let's have it ! " "It was when he was first made Secretary of the Navy," pro ceeded Judge Devens willingly. "A committee from the Navy Yard invited him down on a visit of inspection. He was taken through the different shops and works, and finally on board a man-of-war, which was lying at the wharf. After being shown over the different parts of the ship, the Captain stood by one hatchway, and asked the Secretary to look down. Thompson took a look of some length, and then exclaimed : "My goodness ! the durned old thing's hollow." The Naval Secretary bore the bantering with equanimity, and remarked that the joke was a good one in its trime, but now had an ancient and fish-like shell. After this ten minutes of boy play be fore school, the President calls the meet ing to order. The regular business is taken up, the Secretary of State leading off with his budget. The discussion is conducted in a conversational way, the meetings generally Listing about two hours. A Beak's Fbeaks. A bear has an ap petite very similar to that of a goat. On board the United States man-of-war Alaska there is a bear cub which was obtained at Sitka by an ensign, and which is the pet of the ship. It is a very playful and sociable animal, climbs to the maintop when so minded, and roves in freedom throughout every part of the ship. On its first appearance on board it devoured all the soap and candles in sight, and ate two officers' dress suits. They were obliged to lock up the soap in an iron safe to keep it out of reach of the bear, and the ensign who owns the animal is mortgaged for two years' pay for damages to the officers' suits. One of the freaks of the bear was to raid on the barber's shop of the ship and eat all the shaving-soap, shaving-cups and brushes, hair-oil, combs and brushes. By order of the captain a guard is kept over the ship's guns night and day to keep the bear from eating them, the ani mal having made several attempts in that direction. San Francisco Stock Reporter. elatfletwl oIMct!!; The Queen of the May favors a post ponement of May -day until the Fourth of July on account of the inclemency of the weather. Facts About Drinking. STATISTICS OP AMOUNT OP BEVERAGE DRUNK IN AMERICA AND OTHER COUNTRIES. Americans take high rank among the peoples of the world as coffee drinkers. Becent statistics place the amount of coffee used per capita each year, in dif ferent parte of Europe as follows: Bus sia, one-fifth of a pound; Great Britain and Italy, 1 pound; Austrian-Hungary, iyt pounds, France, 3 3-5 pounds; Ger many, 4 pounds; Denmark, 5 pounds; Switzerland, 6 pounds; Holland, 7 pounds, and Belgium nearly 9 pounds. The consumption of genuine coffee in the United States during the year 1878 was about 7 pounds for each man, woman and child, or about five times as large an amount of coffee as of tea. The con sumption of bogus "coffee" also amount ed to one or two pounds per capita. The use of coffee throughout the world has increased in large ratio during the past forty years, and the present requirement for all nations is estimated at 580,000,000 pounds per annum, against 490,000,000 pounds per annum from 1840 to 1850. An increased use of coffee does not necessarily mean a decreased consumr tion of other beverages. As will be seen by the statistics given above, the Ger mans, who are particularly distinguished as beer drinkers, are also prominen fee drinkers; and the trench, w somewhat noted winebibers, also considerable coffee. The champion beer drinkers of the world are undoubtedly the people of Bavaria, who drink 147 gallons of beer per head, for which the pay $13 50. The total outlay in Bavaria for this beverage is more than $65,000,000 per annum. The figures given for the two principal cities of Bavaria Nuremburg and Munich and for Ingolstadt are still larger per capita. The former city has a popula tion of about 90,000, and consumes an nually about 212 gallons for each inhab itant. This is an average expense to each person of about $19; total, about $1,700,000. The population of Munich is about 175,000; the beer drank per per son annually is about 248 gallons; this is an average expense of about $22 50; total, about $3,900,000. Ingolstadt, with a population of only about 15,000, ex pends annually for its favorite drink about $175,000. This is an average to each inhabitant of about 47 60, with an average consumption of about ozs gallons. The average consumption of lager beer in the United States is less than a quarter of a barrel per capita per an num, though the use of this beverage in place of stronger liquids is constantly increasing. The average consumption of tea is about a pound and a half per annum; of wine, but little more than a quart, and of whisky, gin and rum, nearly two gallons. A vast amount of oapital and labor finds employment in supplying the human family with its various beverages, some of which cheer and some inebriate. Corvallis Gazette. RATES OP ADVERTISING. I 1 W. 1 M. 8 M. 6 M. 1 yT. 1 Inch 00 300 5 00 8 00 1 12 00 2" I 2 00 1 5 00 7 00 2 00 1800 8 " I 800 6 00 I 10 00 )6 00 22 0 4" 400700I30018 0Q2000 KCo. I 6 00 1 9 00 IS 00 I 20 00 I 85 00 H " I 7 fO 12 00 , 8 IQ 35 00 48 00 K " I 10 UP I 16 OJ 25 OQ I 40 00 I 80 00 1 " I 15 00 I 20 00 j 40 00 60 00 ifQ p Notice ID Lopul rnlnmn On nand u. tin. each insertion. ' Transient advertisements, per equareof 12 lines, Nonpareil measure. $2 50 for drst, and $1 for each subsequent insertionin ADVANCE' Legal advertisements charged as transient, and must be paid for upon expiration. No charge for publisher's affidavit of publication. Yearly advertisements on liberal terms. Professional Cards, (1 square) $12 per annum. Ail notices and advertisements intended for publication should be handed in by noon on Wednesday. Touch Not the Wine. The Decline or Faint ins. - Fainting is so common with some per sons, particularly women, and the cause of it is so little understood by non-professional people that some knowledge on the subject often proves valuable. Faint ness consists in a temporary failure of the activity of the heart, the blood not being properly circulated in conse quence. Although it does not reach the head, the sufferer loses all clearness of vision, and, if not prevented, may fall, the fall not infrequently restoring the normal condition. There is no convul sion, and though he more probably she can hardly be called conscious, he is not so profoundly unconscious as to be incapable of arousal, as happens in epi lepsy. There are all degrees of faint ness, from merely feeling faint and look ing somewhat pale to positive and com plete swooning. In some cases one faint is no sooner cured than another and an other succeed, hour after hour, even day after day. It is scarcely necessary to say that such cases are serious and need prompt treat ment. The causes are various. Some persons are so easily affected that they swoon if they cut their finger or see any one bleed. Their defect is over-sensitive nerves and weak musclar fibre. The heart is essentially a muscle, which is feeble in some, strong in others feeble generally in women and strong in men. Whatever weakens the heart and muscles commonly produces faintness, close, foul air being an active cause. Whatever greatly affects the nerves, such as bad news or the sight of the disagreable or horrible, may induce a swoon; and loss of blood is another and a serious incite ment. Sound health, naturally accom panied by firm nerves and muscles, is the preventive of faintness. The majori ty of vigorous men go through all kinds of severe and painful experience without fainting, while delicate men and many women swoon at trifles. American women, who used to faint continnally in crowds, at scenes of distress now faint comparatively seldom ; and the fact is ascribed to their relinquishment, for the most part, of the habit of lacing, to their increased exercise in the open air, and their better physical condition. Not one American woman faints to-day where, thirty years ago, twenty-five women fainted, and the diminution of the disor der, always the result of direct causes, is an unmistakable evidence, which other things corroborate, of the marked amel ioration of the health of the highly or ganized, extremely sensitive, but flexible and enduring women of our complex race. Among the objections urged against the Pennsylvania Democratic platform by the Chicago Tribune is on stating that it isn't true. The Chicago paper certainly is not innocent enough to sup pose that a search for truth in any party platform would be particularly success ful. Iron rails are $5 a ton higher now than last vear at this time steel rails $3 and I pig iron $1 to $3. MB. PEKEB'S SEASON FOB EXPECTING AN INCREASED DEATH-BATE IN CEBTAIN QUARTERS. Some deaths among the Tenth avenue gang may be confidently expected within the current week. The following adver tisement, published yesterday in a morn ing newspaper, may aid the Coroner who, holds the inquests in determining the cause of death: tfj-l t RE WARD FOR RETURN OF WINE 'H'-1-" taken from 484 8th av. JLiquor dealers take warning, as four bottles are poison. The proprietor of the bar-room at 484 Eighth avenue is A. F. Peker, who is fat, phlegmatic, and upward of forty. " Yah," he said, last evening, " dot ish mein advertisement, and I pay for it, too," and he gazed proudly upon the clipping that he held between his thumb and forefinger. " Was there really poison in some of the bottles of wine that were stolen from you ? " he was asked. "Yah, yah," continued Mr. Peker, with undisturbed phlegm. "I fix dot mein self . Der fellers dot shtole dot wein will get a big dose. We vill hear of some dead beoples around here. I vould make a leetle bet. I vill tell you vat it vas. Der fellers have cleaned out mein place ,ve dimes. One dime they shtole all der lquors una der cigars dot vos m der vay und der next dime der billiard balls under der bagatelle balls und mein new poots. Dot shoemaker in der basement don't keep no more shoes in his blace. Der fellers wait, und ven he gets a big shtock they valk off mit it. Der shoe maker' keeps der shoes in another blace and makes them in the basement. So dem fellers come to mein blace again. Und den I get very mad, und I fixes some bot tles mit der poison 'Oxford Salts' dot poison is, I guess und I put der bottles mid der oder bottles. I put some private mark on der bottles mid der poison, und mein barkeeper und meinself don't give dot to der customers. Veil, der fellers come again Thursday night. Mid a key der fellers unlocked der door of mein basement, and shtole der wine. Der fellers shtole four bottles mit der poison, und ven der bottles is drunk, vot dose some fellers vill get. I half advertise dot wine so dot der liquor dealers vill be careful so dot dey don't buy der poison." Then Mr. Peker resumed his chat with his barkeeper and a customer as though no vision of the possible death throes of the thieves who stole his wine, or others who may innocently buy it, disturbed him. His barkeeper, however, showed some uneasiness as to what might follow, should death result from drinking from the poisoned bottles, and he asked whether any punishment could- be im posed upon Mr. Peker for putting the poison in the wine. England Fifty Years Ago. In those days there were no enriOpes for letters, and postage was calculate 1 by distance; twopence in the Metropolitan District, tenpence to York, one shilling and twopence to Edinburgh, two shil lings to John o' Groat's House, and something almost prohibitive to the con tinent of Europe. "Franks" were in great request, and members of both Houses of Parliament were daily, if not hourly, besieged by letter writers to obtain the privilege of their names on the corners of epistles, which would not have been sent through the post at all unless they could have been sent gratis. When Sir Rowland Hill proposed his scheme of a uniform rate of postage, he was considered a daring revolutionist, destined to ruin the country, even when he fixed the rate temporarily at four pence. When, after a quiet interval, to accustom the panic stricken public to the great change originally contem plated, the rate was reduced to a penny, elderly people held up their hands in dismay and predicted the collapse, not only of the postoffice, but of the Empire of Great Britain. When I was a youth, women wore patterns. Are such articles ever seen in our day ? At that time it was considered vulgar for a gentleman to wear a cotton shirt or a silk hat. The shirt of fine linen and the hat of bea ver were de rigueur. Watches had double cases, between the outer and in ner of which it was the custom to insert what were called watch-papers, on which were printed or written texts from Scrip ture, moral maxims, passages from the poets, or tender love effusions purport ing to be original. Still more recently, and when in my prime, I remember that it was considered contra bonos mores and all the proprieties for a lady to ride in a hansom cab, or for a gentleman to smoke in a lady's presence; and, worse still, if possible, for a lady to be seen in the street with a gentleman who had pipe or a cigar in his mouth. I re member and it is scarcely a memory of older date than thirty years when a gentleman in full dress was not com pelled by fashion to attire himself like a clergyman or tavern waiter; when the fashionable evening dress was a blue coat and gilt buttons and a colored or embroidered vest, and when bright col ors in the waistcoat were not considered the exclusive right of the footman or the costermonger. I remember, too, when ladies were not ashamed to be economi cal in their attire, and did not allow their silks or satins to trail on the ground, but wore their "gowns," as they were called, of a length that just touched their ankle, and allowed the dainty feet and a portion of the ankle to be seen. This fashion pleased the gentlemen and did no harm to the ladies, conduced greatly to comfort in walking, besides saving a considerable sum in the dress maker's account. . Hie man who shot at the Czar is to have a trial, and he had better take a change of venue to Chicago and get a packed jury. All agricultural interests in Louisiana are in a healthy condition, and it is said the farmers were never more prosperous.