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7 Corvallis Gazette. rUBLH'-IIKD EV&Y F8I0AY WIORKIfO BY w. 13. cvirr i i. Editor and Proprietor. TERMS (COIN.) Klx Mou I lis 1 hree out I , 6 ! ao i v i u CITY ADVERTISEMENTS. M. WOODS CK, Attorney and Counselor at Law, 4 Ok V A I.I.I OFFICE ON FIH3T 8TRKET, OI'P. WOOD COCK Jfc BALDWIN'S Hardware store. S;eeial attention given to Collections, i're ciomire of Mortgagee, ileal Estate cases, ProbSte and Roail matters. Will also btryaiM sell City Property and Farm Lands, on reasonable terms. March 20, 1870. 16-I2yl F. A. CHENOWETII. F. M. JOHNSON. CHENOWETH dt JOHNSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW couNAioaet .... ohluon September 4, 1879. lC:36tf J. W RA Y3UR i ATTORNEY AT LAW, lOHVll.H'., ItKIOIIV. OFFICE On Monroe street, between Second and Third. S-Spocial attention ;;iven to the Collection or Notes and Accounts. IG-ltf JAMES A. YANTIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, (OKVALI IM, . - . OBieilJI tyiLL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS of the State. Special attention given to (natters in Piobate. Collections will receive f onipt and careful attention. Office in the Court ouse. 16:ln'. DR F. A. V.NCENT, DENTIS T . CORVALLI8 REOON, rjFFICE IN FISHER'S BRICK OVER v Max. Friendley's New Store. All the !atest improvements. Everyth-'ng new and complete. All work warranted. Flea-egive me a call. G. R. FARRA, M. D, PHYSICIAN AX!) bl!R6EKf, rFFICE OVER GRAHAM 4 HAMILTON'S v Drugstore, Corvallis, Oregon. 14-26tf J. R. BRYSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. All business will receive prompt attention. COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY Corvallis, July 14, 1879. 16:29tf NEW TIN SHOP. J. K. Webber, Pro., main at.. - convALLi.-'. STOVES AND TINWARE All Ifind. BA11 work warranted and at reduced rates. 12:13tf. W. C. CRAWFORD, -DEALER IN WATCHES, CLOCK?, JEWELRY, SPECTACLES, SILVER WARE, etc Also, Musical Instruments Sc ar-Repairing done at the most reasonable rates, and all work warranted. Corvallis, Dec. 13, 1877. 14:50tf GRAHAM, IIAMILTft & CO., CORVALLIS ... OKEGOX DEALERS IN Drug's, Paints, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, DYE Ml'FK OILS, GLASS AKO PUTY. PURE WINES AflD LQJJBS FOR MEDICINAL USE. And also the the very best assortment of Lamps and Wall Pap r ever brought to this ilae. AGENTS FOB THE AVSBIll CH r.x P NT, SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER. mr Fli j-ilct- ' t e . ptlnot nre fVtllJf VIUI irl Id M Uoiviiiiis gazette. mm VOL. XVI. CORVALLIS, OREGON, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 12, 1879. NO. 50. CITY ADVERTISEMENTS. CORVALLIS Livery, Feed ...AND... SALE STABLE, Btfuln tit., Co vai In. Oregon. SOL. KING, - Porpr. fWNING BOTH 3ARNS I AM PREPARED " to ofier superior acoom nidations in the Liv ery line. Always ready for a drive, At UntOfi. My stables are first-data in every respect, and competent and obliging hostlers always ready to serve tfte public. KE' A BLIi CHAKUK-. FOR HlH. Particular iUtf Ion P.l.l to huafdin; o.ae. ELEGANT HEVRSE, CVRKJVOES AND UA( K3 FOR FUNERALS Corvallis, Jan. 3, 1879. Ittilvl Woodcock & Baldwin (Successors to J. R Bayley & Co,) TEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND AT THE old stand a large and complete stock of Heavy and Mieif Haul ware, IRON, STEEL, TOOLS, STOVES, RANG ;8, ETC Manufactured and Home Made T"n and Copper Woie, Pumps. Pipe, Etc. A good Tinner constantly on hand, and all Job'VVotk neatly and quickly done. Also agents for Knapp, Burrell & Co., for the sale of the best and latest im proved FARM MACHINERY. of all kinds, together with a full assort ment of Agricultural Implements. Sole Agents for the celebrated ST. L"UIS CHART R DK S OVES the BEST IN THE WORLD. Also tha Norman Range, and many other patterns, in all sizes and styles. I Particular attention paid to Farmers' wants, and the supplying extras for Farm Machinery, and all information as to such articles, lurnished cheerfully, on applica tion. No pains will be spared to furnish our customers with the best goods in market, m our line, i nn in t tie lowest prices. Our motto shall be, proKint and fair dealing with all. Call and examine our stock, before going elsewhere. Satisfac tion guaranteed. WOOKCOCK & BALDWIN. Corvallis, May, 12, li79. 14:4tf CITY ADVERTISEMENTS. LANDS! FARMS! HOMES f HAVE FARMS, (Improved and unim- proved,) STORES and MILL PROPERTY. very desirable FOR SALE. These lands are cheap. Also claims in unsurveyed tracts for sale. Soldiers of the late rebellion who have, under he Soldiers' Homestead Act, located and made final proof on less than 160 acres, can dispose of the balance to me. Write (with stamps to prepay postage). R. A. BENSELL, Newport, Benton county, Oregon. 16:2tf ULE1 & WOODWARD, Druggists and Apothecaries, P. O. BUILDING. CORVALLIS, OREGON. Have a complete stock of BRIGS, MEDICINES, PAIN TP, OIL, buss, it;., yrc. School 1'ooks :ut.onony,&o. We buv for Cash, and have choice of the FRESHEST and PUREST Drugs and Medic nes the market affords. Prescriptions accurately prewired at half the usual rates. 2May 1 fi: I Stf FRESH GOODS AT THE BAZAR ""-FASHIONS Mrs. E. A.. KNIGHT. rOBTALLM, ... ORIC'S. Has just received from San Fran isco, the larg est and Best Stock of Millinery floods Dress Trimmings, Etc., Ever brought to Corvallis, wh eh I will sell at prices that defy competition. Xa-eiiry for r"teru. I me. tSMsrat' S5aprl6:l7tf a rellabi Corvallis Lodge o 14, r. A 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. Barn am lodge Ma. 7, I. o. O. , Meets on Tuesday evening of each week, in their hall, in Fisher's brick, second story. M em bers of the order in good standing invited to at tend. By order of N. G. ROBERT N. BAKER. Fashionable Tailor, TpORMERLY OF ALBANY, WHERE HE has given his patrons perfect satisfaction, has determined to locate in Corvallis, where he hopes to be favored with a share of the public patronage. All work warranted, when made under his supervision. Repairing and cleaning promptly attended to. Corvallis, Nov. 28, 1878. 16:48R. Grain Storage ! A Word to Farmers. JTAVIXG 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" -1. cts. 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 FRANKLIN CAUTHORN. M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Corvallis, Oregon. - - mm . Special attention given to surgery and diseases of the Eye. Can be found at his office, in rear of Graham, Hamilton A Co.'a Drug Store, up stairs, day or night. June 3, 1879. ' 16-23tf H JbL. H ARRIS, One door South of Graham A Hamilton' VORVALLia, OBKGOSf. GROCERIES. PRO VISIONS AND Dry Goods. Corvallis, Jan. 3, 1878. 18:lvl DRAKE & GRANT, MERCHANT TAILORS, C'R VAI. I. if., -.. OBXfiOH. HAVE JUST RECEIVED A LARGE and well selected stock of Cloth, viz : West of nifltvnrt Broad . loths, renoh asslmeros, votoh Tweeds, unci American multinirM, Which we will make up to order in the most approved and laeh onablc styles. No pains will be spared in producing good fitting garments. Parties wishing to purchase cloths and have them cut out, will do well to call and examine our stock. DRAKE 3c GRANT. Corvallis, April 17. 1879. I6:16tf Boarding- and Lodging:. Pbiloinatb, Bcutou Co . Orrca. GEORGE KISOR, "RESPECTFULLY INFORMS THE TRAV eling public that he is now prepared and in readiness to keep such boarders as may choose to give him a call, either by the SINCE ML. DAY. OR WEEK. Is also prepared to fu'n'sh horse feed. Liberal share of public patronage solicited. Give at a call. GEORGE KISOR. Philomath, April 28, 1879. I0:18tf AijBekt PygaiiL. I William Ibwin. PYGALL & IRWIN, City Trucks & Drays, TTAV1NG PURCHASED THE DRAYS AND Trucks lately owned by James Eglin, wo are prejiarcd Jo do all kinds of City Uau luif. UeHVcrinn of Wood. t. t. Eic, in the city or country, at reasonable rates. Pat ronage solicited, and satisfaction guaranteed in all ea ALBERT PYGALL, WILLIAM IRWIN. Corval!i, Dec. 20, 1S78. l:5f J C. MORELANQ, (CITY ATTORNKY.) ATTORVEY AT LAW, POKTI.ASO, WBEWOJI. OFFICE Monastes' Brick, First street, between Morrison and Yamhill. 14:38tf TIJLK HTAU BAKERY, Jlofn Street, torvalll. HENRY WA8BI0RL PROPRIETOR. Family Supply Store ! Groceries, Bread. Calces, Pies, CandfcR, Toys, Etc., Always on Hand. OorvaHiB, Jan. 1,1877. l2tf - A Page from the Hi lory of Carriages. How few ever think, as they enjoy their elegant carriages of the day, of the clumsy mode our forefathers had of traveling and of the suffering they must have endured in their rude, uncomforta ble, clumsy wagons without springs, that were then in use! Chariots of a very clumsy make, were in use by the people of Israel 4000 years ago. The earliest record we have of convey ance is the camel. In ancient times it was the only means of carriage to con vey the products from Arabia to Egypt. Even in the present day, through Persia, Arabia, Barbary and Egypt, the camel is largely used, as m the days of old, not only to carry merchandise, but as a car riage for passengers. The horse, the ass and the mule date equal with the cfimel. The elephant has been trained for cen turies, and was in use long before Greece and Borne were known; but neither the elephant nor the horse were as well adapted to the sands of Arabia and Egypt as the camel, and consequently were not as generally used. In time of war, the ancient Romans, Carthagenians and Egyptians made great use of elephants to assist in carrying great loads, both of baggage and of archers and spearmen. The hrst knowledge we have of wheels to carriages is in the Book of Genesis. and makes known that wheels were much used in ancient Egypt 4000 years ago. It was not till about the seventeenth cen tury that we had anything like comfort in traveling, and it was almost a century after before mail coaches were intro duced. Before this date all traveling was done on horseback, although wheeled vehicles of various kinds were in use by the ancients; it is stated that it is only within the present centuiy that close car riages were introduced. The hrst coach was supposed to have originated in Hungary, and introduced into England from Germany, in the six teenth century, but so little was it in use, if at all, that we have no trace that Qaeen Elizabeth ever used one. The first coach ever used in Ireland was in 1593; the first that was ever seen in Scot land came from Vienna in 1571, although some writers claim in la. Coaches were long rare in Scotland, the young looking upon them as efiemwate, pre ferring the quick movements of the horse. It was not till the reign of Charles I. that a British King had a state carriage. In bcotland, the only means of con veyance for goods was by pack-horses, -with sacks thrown across the back; this mode of conveyance continued till about 1700, when one horse-carts came in use. During all these times traveling was very perilous, the roads, if they may be called such, were infested by highwaymen, which made traveling anything but a pleasure. About the year 1700 springs of a very rude make were first introduced in Scotland. Up to this time the manner of traveling was of a very rude and primitive nature, and in consequence of the bad roads the speed was not over four miles an hour for the mail coaches. We might mention that in South America and Mexico the mule is used as a mode of conveyance, their country being al most destitute of good roads; so also in Kapland the reindeer is employed, as also in Eamtschatka the dog is almost universally used as a beast of draught. Jb rom the time of the old weeks and Romans, the way back to the ancient Egyptians, following up a period of 4000 years to the present age, the greatest ad vancement ana improvement ot venicles of all kinds have been made during the past fifty years. There are many who can readily recall to mind the cumbrous and clumsy family coach, as uncomfort able to ride in as it was heavy and un sightly to look at. Our grocers' and butchers' wagons of to-day are more sightly and comfortable than was the state carriage of King Charles I. of Eng land. Surely we are living in a wonder ful and luxurious age; what progress has been made in all things that tend to make life desirable; how perfectly elegant and comfortable is the family coach of to-day; what beauties of taste and comfort, how easy, noiseless in all their movements, as they roll over our fine avenues. As we have been astonished at the discoveries snd improvements during the past cen tury, what may we expect in the next.' Not that we would suggest or recom mend and .backward steps, any plan which would render our farm work any slower of performance, or be attended with any more expense. Nor would we recommend a complete substitution of oxen for horse labor; but this much is sure, steers and oxen are never out of place on a New England farm ; there are many kinds of work they can do better than horses, and they are always a source of advantage and profit. At all our fairs, the well-matched, large, well-disciplined oxen and steers are always an object of admiration and pride, and we have sel dom known a New England farmer who had a "likely" yoke of oxen or steers for sale for which he could not get a good price, and always find a purchaser. They may not again assume their former im portance as a farm team, but on the farm, as animals for work a part of the time, for sale as workers or for beef, they are of a coming high rank. Crosses of Here fords with our better class of grades make a superior working and an excel lent beef animal, while the grade Devons are also esteemed as workers or beeves, and the excellence of our Shorthorns is well known. - The main question of farm labor aside for the moment, we would much like to see a revival of the interest in steers and oxen in New England. If their number were greater we-believe our agriculture would rank higher, for the more cattle we can keep the higher will be the con dition of our agriculture, and the greater crops of grass and the cereals we may be enabled to grow. Besides there is always a auick market at a crood nrice for the . . .. - - . . .. . . weii-tattened steer, and where the nay is consumed and animals fed upon the form, there is a profit to such husbandry which cannot be argued out of sight. A I pair of good steers on every farm in Mew I England this fall would not be a bad sight, and every one which the owner wished to part with could find a good market at Watertown, in preference to Western steers. Vandalism at Venice. The poet Morris writes to the London Daily News: I have just received information, on the accuracy of which I can rely , that the restoration of the west front of St. Mark's at Venice, which has long been vaguely threatened, is to be taken in hand at once. A commission is called for next month to examine its" state and to determine whether it is to be pulled down immediately or to be allowed to stand until next year. The fate of such a building seems to me a subject import ant enough to warrant me in asking you to grant me space to make an appeal to your readers to consider what a disaster is threatened hereby to art and culture in general. Though this marvel of art and treasure of history has suffer ed some disgraces, chiefly in the base mosaics that have supplanted the earlier ones, it is in the main in a genuine and untouched state, and to the eye of any one not an expert in building looks safe enough from anything but malice or ig norance; but anyhow, if it be in any way unstable, it is impossible to believe that avery moderate exercise of engineering skill would not make it as sound as any building of its age can be. Whatever pretexts may be put forward, therefore, the proposal to rebuild it can only come from those that suppose that they can re new and better (by imitation) the work manship of its details, hitherto supposed to be unrivaled ; by those that think that there is nothing distinctive between the thoughts and expression of the thoughts of the men of the twelfth and of the nineteenth centuries; by those that pre fer gilding, glitter and blankness to the solemnity of tone and the incident that hundreds of years of wind and weather have given to the marble, always beauti ful, but from the first meant to grow Pmore beautiful by the lapse of time; in short, those only can think the restora tion" of St. Mark's possible, who neither know nor care that it now has become a work of art, a monument of history and a piece of nature. Surely I need not en large on the pre-eminence ot iSt. Mark s in all these characters, for no one who even pretends to care about art, history or nature would call it in question; but I will assert that, strongly as I may have seemed to express myself, my words but feebly represent the feelings of a large body of cultivated men who will feel real grief at the loss that reems imminent a loss which may be slurred over, but which will not be forgotten, and which will be felt ever deeper as cultivation spreads. That the outward aspect of the world should grow uglier day by day in spite of the aspirations of civilization, nay, partly because of its triumphs, is a grievous puzzle to some of us who are not lacking in sympathy for those aspi rations and triumphs, artists and crafts men as we are. So grievous it is that sometimes we are tempted to say: "Let them make a clean sweep of it all, then; let us forget it all, and muddle on as best we may, unencumbered with either his tory or hope! " But such despair is, we well know, a treason to the cause of civ ilization and the arts, and we do our best to overcome it and to strengthen our selves in the belief that even a small mi nority will at last be listened to and its reasonable opinions be accepted. In this belief I have troubled you with this let ter, and I call on all those who share it to join earnestly in any attempt that may be made to save from an irreparable loss a loss which only headlong rashness could make possible. Surely it can never be too late to pull down St. Mark's at Venice, the wonder of the civilized world. General Hooker in Hospital. I remember the first time I ever saw General Hooker at a reception given by President Lincoln in the year 1861-62 a tall, handsome man, keen gray eye, a proud, sensitive noss of the Roman Hebraic mongrel type, a soldierly and chivalric bearing. The imagination lin gered on him, and looked ahead, and saw him at the head of affairs. He had all the qualities of a good leader, except one patience. Napoleon lacked that, too, but he was such a master that he didn't need patience any more than the sun needs a watch, or lightning a pair of crutches. I next saw Hooker on a little cot in the Insane Asylum Hospital, across the East Branch, opposite Washington. It was in the fall of 1861, just after Antietam. He was "mad." He half reclined, with his well foot on the floor, and the foot which had been shot through in battle, on the cot. I interviewed him for the New York Tribune. "You can say for me," said he, "that the battle was managed with inexcusable stupidity, and that we ought to have driven Lee into the Poto mac and captured all his artillery and half his men. And you can say for me," he added, rising upon his elbow, and accenting every word by pounding his crutch on the floor, "you can say that General Hooker says that -General H is -damned- -coward la "Shall I say that, General ?" I asked him. He earnestly enjoined me to say it for him. I scarcely remember now, but I be lieve I did not say it, for I considered that the man was suffering from his wound, that he was irritable and unrea sonable, and very likely unjust. But the man he mentioned never rose any higher in rank, and was shortly retired to a position where personal courage was not required. I have omitted to mention his name, for he is still living, and to pain him would do nobody any good. And McClellan, whose chef dceuvre of Antietam, Fighting Joe criticised so se verely, probably smiled grimly a few months later, when Hooker was in com mand and lost a big battle at Chancel lor svi lie, and had his right wing rolled up like a carpet by the midnight onset of StonewallJackson.iVet York Ijetter. "lite Babies." The fifteenth and last regular toast was "The Babies. As they comfort ns in our sorrows, let us not forget them in our festivities;" and to this Samuel L. Clemens responded. He said: I like that. We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen, but when the toast works down to the babies we stand on common ground, for we have all been babies. It is a shame that, for a thousand years, the world's banquets have utterly ignored the baby, as if he didn't amount to anything. If you will stop and think a minute if you will go back fifty or one hundred years to your early married life laughter J and recontemplate your first baby you will remember that he amounted to a good deal, and even something over. You soldiers all know that when that little fellow arrived at family headquarters you had to hand in your resignation. He took entire command. You became his lackey his mere body servant, and you had to stand around, too. He was not a commander who made allowances for time, distance, weather, or anything else. Convulsive screams. You had to execute his order whether it was pos sible or not. Roars. And there was only one form of marching in his manual of tactics, and that was the double-quick. Shouts. He treated yon with every sort of insolence and disrespect laugh ter, and the bravest of you didn't dare to say a word. Great laughter. You could face the death storm of Donelson and Vicksburg, and give back blow for blow, but when he clawed your whiskers, and pulled your hair, and twisted your nose, you had to take it. Roars. When the thunders of war were sound ing in your ears, you set your faces to ward the batteries, and advanced with steady tread, but when he turned on the terrors of his war-whoop laughter J, you advanced in the other direction, and mighty glad of the chance, too. When he called for soothing syrup, did you venture to throw out any side remarks about certain services being unbecoming an officer and a gentleman? Boisterous laughter. No. You got up and got. When he ordered his pap bottle, and it was not warm, did you talk back? Not you. Renewed laughter. You went to work and warmed it. You even de scended so far in your menial office as to take a suck at that warm, insipid stuff, just to see if it was right three parts water to one of milk tumultuous laughter a touch of sugar to modify the colic, and a drop of peppermint to kill those immortal hiccoughs. Roars. I can taste that stuff. And how many things you learned as you went along! Sentimental young folks will take stock in that beautiful old saying, that when the baby smiles it is because the angels are whispering to him. Very pretty, but too thin simply wind on the stomach, my friends. If the baby pro posed to take a walk at his usual hour, two o'clock in the morning, didn't you rise up promptly and remark, with a mental addition which would not im prove a Sunday school book much laughter, that that was the very thing yon were about to propose yourself? Great roars. Oh! you were under good discipline, and, as you went faltering up and down the room in your undress uniform laughter, you not only prat tled undignified baby talk, but even tuned your martial voices and tried to sing, "Rock-a-by baby, in the tree top," for instance. Groat laughter. J What a spectacle for an Army of the Tennessee. And what an affliction for the neighbors, too, for it is not everybody within a mile around that likes military music at three in the morning. Laughter. And when you have been keeping this sort of thing up for two or three hours, and your little velvethead intimated that nothing suited him like exercise and noise, what did you do ? You simply went on until you dropped in the last ditch. Laughter. The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby canirnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can at tend to. Laughter. He is enterpris ing, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities. Do what you please, you can't make him stay on the reservation. Great shouts. Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind, don't you ever pray for twins. Mr. Clemens is the father of a pair. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there isn't any real difference between triplets and an insurrection. Uproarious shouts. Yes, it was high time for a toast to the masses to recognize the importance of the babies. Think what is in store for the present crop ! Fifty years from now we shall all be dead, I trust laughter, and then this flag, if it still survive (and let us hope it may) , will be floating over a republic numbering 200,000,000 souls, according to settled laws of our increase. Our present schooner of state will have grown into a political leviathan a Great Eastern. The cradled babies of to-day will be on deck. Let them be well trained, for -we are going to have a big contract oh our hands. Among the three or four million cradles now rocking in the land are some which this nation would preserve for ages as sacred things, if we could only know which ones they are. In one of these cradles the uncon scious Farragut is now teething; think of it, and patting in a word of dead earnest. inarticulated, but perfectly justifiable profanity over it, too. In another the future renowned astronomer is blinking at the shining milky way with but a liquid interest, poor little chap! and wondering what has become of that other one they call the wet-nurse. In another the future great historian is lying, and doubtless will continue to lie laughter, until his earthly mission is ended. In another the future President is busying himself with no profonnder problem of state than what the mischief has become of his hair so early laughter, and in a mighty array of other cradles there are now some 60,000 future office-seekers getting ready to furnish him occasion to grapple with that same old problem a KATES OV ADVERTISING. TTVv I 1 M 3 M. 8 M. 1 1 lu'!' 't I 300 5(IB 8 00 12 00 2 " I 2 00 I 5 (K) 1 7 00 12 00 I 18 00 " ' 3 0)J 6 00 I 10 00 16 00 1 22 0 ' J 1 00 J 7 00 1 18 00 I 18 00 1 20 00 l4 Col, t 6 10 J 00 15 00 20 00 I 85 00 'A ' I 7 . 0 1 12 QQ 18 "iQ 85 00 jg 00 10 CO 15 0 J26 U 40 00 60 00 1 " l ts oo I VOjOQ 40 00 60 OH I ICO ot .N lets, in i,ocai Column. 20 centa per line, each Insertion. Transient advertlaeineuts, per i-quareof 12 lines. Nonpar-il measure, t2 50 for Ors. and $1 for each subsequent luserti -010 ADVANCE' L gal adverusert ent charged aa transient, at-ti must be paid for upon expiration. No Chrjte U,r -ubltbers am-Javltor publication. Yearly .iverti-i in. ut.s on liberal terms. Pioteittotial Cnid.s. (l .quare) $12 per annum. A'l uoM.es h d Hdvtrusemouu Intended for publication should bo banded In by noon on W..,i(j.,. . second time. And in still one more cra dle, somewhere under the flag, the future illustrious Commander-in-Chief of the American armies is so little burdened with his approaching grandeur and re sponsibilities as to be giving his whole strategic mind at this moment to trying to find out some way to get his big toe into his month, an achievement which , meaning no disrespect, the illustrious guest of this evening turned his atten tion to some 56 yesrs ago; and if the child is but a prophecy of the man, there are mighty few who will doubt that he succeeded. Owens' Baby. The following letter from the cele brated comedian, who is the central fig ure of the interesting incident subjoined, is self-explanatory: Palace Hotel, Nov. 19, 1879. Mu Dear Sir: Thank you for the ad vance proof of your article, which is cor rect in almost every particular, except that yon have overdrawn the scene in the theater slightly, and made, I think, too much fun of a matter 'which to me is ono of the most serious events of my life. Little David (for I have resolved to call him after you) is sleeping quietly in the new crib I bought for him this morning, and I have an alcohol lamp to warm his milk the moment he wakes up. I have already learned how to dress, undress, wash and powder him, from a kind mat ron residing on the floor below, and can perform every office that his infant help lessness demands of me. I had to dis card the "Maws Feeding Bottle" for an other kind with a rubber attachment that works better. If you know any friends who have children and could spare me a few bibs and one or two pinning Mar kets, send them along. I have all tie diadems I want. D. is just waking up, and the little rascal has kicked off one of his woolen shoes. Excuse my closing this abruptly, as I have to take him. He has commenced to cry. Your sincere friend, John E. Owens. THE FACTS OF THE CASE, Which will be eagerly read by all who know Mr. Owens, are 8s follows: He had retired to his room on Monday about half-past three in the afternoon, and after taking off his coat and shoes, lain down down to take a short siesta as a prepara tion for his evening labors. He was just beginning to doze off when he heard a loud knock at the door, which he au"" swered by requesting the caller to wait'. About a minute and a half elapsed while he was putting on his coots and coat, during which he heard the rustling of dress of some person evidently hurrying down the corridor and the ozy ot an in fant. When he opened the door there was no one in sight, while on the mat outside lay a beautiful baby boy about three months old, with large blue eyes, and crowing lustily. When his first burst of astonishment had passed away he naturally lifted the . little one and noticed a page of note paper pinned to its dress. On this was written: "My Deab Sib: I have seen your per formance of Higgins in 'Dr. Clyde,' and consider it one of the finest impersona tions I ever witnessed. The only way in which I can evince my gratitude to you is my offering you one of the loveliest infants I could select from the Orphan Asylum. Take it and cherish it, and may God bless you and prosper you. "An Unknov,' Admibeb." He was on the point of taking ih tie, helpless cherub, and in a moment of ANGEB AKIN TO INSANITY, Dashing it to the floor, but the baby was smiling at him, and his heart melted in a moment, while great tears welled up from the princely breast of the old comme dian. as he folded it to his bosom and carried it into his suite of rooms. There he laid it tenderly on the bed, covered it with a red handkerchief and a green coat, wrapped its little feet in an old S3ratch wig, looked at it, chucked it under the chin, and well kissed it till his prickly beard made it cry. Then he soothed it, and pulling an arm chair close to the bed, contemplated the situa tion. "I'll keep it," he cried, "in spite of what any one may say. I'm eighty-four years old, and a member of the Baptist Church, and only six weeks in the city; I'll defy public opinion; I'll be if I don't. Next he rang the bell and sent for Mr. Sharon, told his story and his resolve. The latter secured the services of a kind lady guest, who, amply pro vided by Mr. Owens with the necessary funds, secured a lavish outfit for the foundling within an hour. When the time came to go to the theatre, he for the first time felt anxious about his treasure. He could not leave it. Like the Spartan heroes of old he faced the music,, the gibes of the company and the incredu lous disgust of the leading lady and the soubrette, and with the child sleeping in his arms and a feeding bottle sticking out of his pocket, entered the dressing room, where he improvised a crib. He wonld allow NO ONE TO NTJBSE IT, Except his friend, Mr. Kennedy, nor to touch it or handle it. The noise of the orchestra woke it up, and its screanjs drove the leader nearly wild, and an noyed the audience, but he persevered, and merely set hii teeth and sent for some paregoric. How he set up all night with it, and sent for Dr. Bishop to allay its colic, and how devotedly he nurses it day and night, are matters which will be told by-and-by. His act.was that of a good, brave and generous soul, and, as such, deserves to be given to the world. San Francisco Post. A negro was asked if he knew the nature of an oath, to which he replied: "Oo, yes, boss, for sartin. My ole mar ser 'structed me in all dem tings." "Well," asked the judge, "what is your notion of an oath?" "Why, boss, it?a jes' dis: "li I once tells a lie, I'm w stick to it clean t'rough to de end." rif-- - M i England is spoken of as the "tight lit tle island," but there is a city over the channel in France that is Toulouse.