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WEEKLY HUMUS GAZETTE. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE STATE OFFICIAL PAPER FOR BENTON COurJTY Corvallis, Feb. 20, 1880. V. n. CARTER, MORE HOUSES NEEDED. Not a day, scarcely, and certainly not a week, has passed' for tlie last six months Vfiat men have not applied to the- different firms in the city, handling real estate, for houses to live in. In vain have they wander ed op and down our sfrse?!,.in search of a place in which they could house their families. Many have come with capital, smhI- desired- to open business of- various k-imls in our city, but after staying for weeks in some instances, have been compelled to abandon the tow n, for the sole and only reason that the- could not pro cure a place to do business in, or a home for their families. In some in stances, attempts have been made to purchase property whereon to erect suitable business houses, but the owners of the land either would not sell at aH, or asked such fabulous prices that it Tra-useless to think of becoming possessed of realty here. "TVe do not desire to find fault, but we do insist, with all candor, that this course is all w rong. We have capitalists here, that if they would use some of their means, in erecting good business houses of a substan tial character, and neat, tidy cot tages they would not only directly aid very materially in our develop ment and growth, but would also receive a reasonable compensa tion for the capital thus invested. We cannot alwaysjemain in this small cramped upsrjfe; our borders must be enlarged, our waste places built Tip, capital and population encouraged to eome and stay with us. Corvallis has a brigiit and prosper us future Before it, if our people w ill only put their shoulders to the wheel and help. We have the natural re sources and commercial advantages to make a large city, and shall we listlessly let all the glorious oppor tnnities slip through our fingers, for want of energy to sjrasp the golden prize? Do not try to put any one out, or try 3r make a close corpora lion of what we have, but open your purses and build, and greet all who come to cast their lot with us warmly, encourage and stimulate what enter prises are already inaugurated here, and more will follow. If we but lib erally sow, now, in the uot distant future, such a wave of prosperity will sweep over our city as will astonish the most sanguine. Awaken, shake off the lethargy that has bound you so long, plan, devise and push for ward means for the growth and development ot our beautiful city. Who will- build a cottage, who a business- ho.se t WOMAN SUFFRAGE, The eighth annual- meeting of the Oregon Woman Suffrage Association was held in Portland last week, at which time Mr. E. F. Heroy was elected president. Mrs. J. DeVorc Johnson was chosen recording secre tary, Mrs. M. A. E'lrunnds corres ponding secretary, and Mrs. Keehan A --it. SS. . - - - treasurer. i vice iresi cur, tor lalMr-yr.- - each county was appointed Mrs. M ft Q vi rvr v v wvni iiiv. 1 I of Uenton. A resolution tender- mm thanks to various senators and resentatives in Congress for pre senting petitions for a sixteenth amendment, declaring suffrage bas m1 upon citizenship and not sex, wa adopted. Good feeling prevailed, lively discussions were engaged in, and (he members went home feeling that their cause had gained a new rnrpcttHid they feel confident of the ultimate success ot their great ob ject theTsenthralhnent of woman There seeras to be, and very justly, too a growing feeling in favor tf granting to-Woman ali the rights and privileges that men enjoy. Standing Rear, the Ponea chief, who was ruthlessly taken from his home and earried away to the In- itory some two years 'ago, and? who-foundJiis way back to the reservation of the Omaha, in Ne braska, and returned on a writ of habeas corpus by the United State's Court, at Omatyk, Nebraska is in Washington 'telling,. the story of his Wrongs. Standiafejtr is the best specimen of UieflHb- lied men" we have evuMBn. And wa that his cuseK- ne of the ought to receive careful. t h e go ve ru mei 1 1 3t lgfellow.if nephew of u m pea nis oair Tor r &outlfejtiiertc:i. BEACH MIMES. We recently received from Lower Alsea a request to publish the law governing beach mines. After a care ful examination, we find there is no XL S. law bearing upon the sub ject, as the following correspondence will show: Uk.sf.bal Land Office, Washing- ) ton, D. C, Sept. 16, 1879. James C. Tolman, U. S. Surveyor Uenejral, Portland, Oregon. Sib : In leply to yoar letter of 30th June last, you are informed that no mines lying below high water mark on the ocean beach can be disposed of under United States laws. Very respectfully, J. M. Armstrong, Acting Commissioner. The State mining law, page 686 of of the code of 1872, make9 no refer ence to beacli mines, but does refer to surface or placer mines, and as it would undoubtedly be construed to to cover the former, we give below a synopsis of its provisions : In order to secure claims notices must be posted, with name or names, and the claim protected by the owner for 30 days, when it may be recorded by the county clerk in the book of mining records; If claims are not worked for 12 conweative months,, they become forfeited, and other per sons may locate on the same. Each person may hold one claim, and as many more as he may purchase, as the local laws of the miners' district may allow. It is the duty of the county clerk of any county, upon' notice received of a miners' meeting, organizing a miners1 district in said county, to re cord the same, giving the boundaries thereof. Upon petition of miners he may appoint a' deputy to reside in said district, who shall record all mining claims and water rights, in the older in which they are presented fon record. Miners are empowered to make local laws in relation to posession of water rights, working of claims, and survey and sale of town lots in mining camps, subject to U. S. laws. Ditches and flumes, jerma nently fixed to the soil, are real es tate, while they are used for that pur pose. Person or corporations .who shall abandon any ditch, flume or water right tor one year, and cease to exercise ownership over the same for one year, lose their title, claim or interes. MecSanies-' and laborers' liens may be filed against ditches and flumes, lor lanor or material nestowed or furnished. Placer or surface mines may be conveyed by bill of sale, the same as personal property, the same to be recorded within 30 days of the date of such sale. Mortgages shall be executed, acknowledged, recorded add foreclosed as upon chattels. body. Over 50 persons, all unknown to him, sat upon the platform and underwent a thorough examination by him, your humble servant being one of them. In every case he point ed out their true character, constitu tion, prcdelictions, temper, etc. No man lias ever lectured here with as much iplause, and to as large and intelligent an audience as Dr. Simms has. The crowd increased nightly, and the audience on fcs night was the largest of any night of his lec tures. He will pass to Albany on Saturday next (1 4th) and after re maining there one week, will pa88 to Eugene, and from thence toorvallJs about the 28th inst. Your people will Save a chance to enjoy his lec tures as we did here. Ilia price here was only one dollar for the course of six lectures. David Newsome. Febiuary 13, 1880. I NOTES FROMTKE CAPITAL. Uorvalus gazette: j no princi pal topic of talk here now is, will the wiuter ever break and warm sunshine be felt here? Truly that venerable personage, " the oldest in habitant," has never seen just such a winterhere as the one on hand. But the growing wheat is O K, and larger crops of it are now growing in this county than was ever 6ecn here be fore. The pespJe are repairing their broken down fence, and rebuilding sheds and stables that were blown down on the 9th of last month. The saw mill men have plenty of bills for lumber, and prospects are fair for a goodly amount of building this year in the city and county. 1 oliticians are begining to stir about, and talk np the issues ot the day; and shake hands with the dear brothers, and inquire of them how- Sally and Jane and Tommy and James are, and how their friends are going yo vote. The Republicans are buoyant, but the Democrats are di vided and dubious of success, un less the two warring factions of them, and the fiat fellows can fuse together and 'count out," as their brethren did in Maine, and so have fusion majority in the legislature of Oregon, and a Supreme Bench of Judges that will be more kindly to the counted ins than the Supreme Court of Maine was. We have some railroad talk here. and we would be pleased to know that your road to Newport would be built, and also one from Astoria via Forest Grove, Lafayette, Salem, Mount Jefferson Pass, Prineville, and through the splendid wheat, mineral and st wtk district in the south part of Wasco, Grant and Baker counties to Fort Boise, there connecting with the Union Pacific branch from QgdeB. Assuredly capital ought to be hao from the Slates to build both of these roads, which are so muck needed, and would insure to the stockholders a large profit os their investment. One of the chief attractions in Salem,, for a dozen days nastr has been six lectures by Br . Simms, of N. Y., on Phrenology, IleaVje.tle- i: l ..1 . ft-i " jl.V V&I expressions, liatrtyalk,. aoijfbirrj of TELEGRAPHIC. $50,000 fire in St. Louis. Boss Tweed's widow is dead, itev. Alexander Keith, the traveler and author, is dead. It is definitely determined to erect a monument to Prince Louis Napo leon in Westminster. Two freight trains wrecked on the Canada Pacific Southern R. R. The train dispatcher has left for parts un known. Prussia proposes prohibiting for eign vessels from engaging in the coasting tradV-,. except under treaty or by special pel mission. One of the wretches that has been firing on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas trains has been caught. He was shot 14 times before he would yield'.- S. G. Arnold, of Rhod e Island died on the 13th inst. He was thrice lieut. governor, served a short term in the U. S. senate, and was the author of a history of Rhode Island. The California Legislature has pass ed, and Gov. Perkins has approved, a bill prohibiting corporations from cm ploying Chinese laborers. There is great rejoiceing among the working men, thereat. In reply to a demand from New York for subscription to the Irish re lief fund, Ex-Gov. Stanford sent the following: "for the sutiering poor of Tri'land I havi thn Kvinniihv o" common humanity; but there is am ple field nearer home for all that I have to give. Lelaxd Stanford. It seems probable that the Illinois Central railroad will shortly enter a claim to riparian rights between the liver and Twelfth stree, a distance of one imfe and a halt along the lake shore, comprising about all the bar borage in the city. From the Oregonian of Jan. 31st. THE YAQUINA BAY ROAD. The people of Corvallis are imbued with the belief that their city is the avenue through which the grain raised in the south ern portion of the Willamette valley must pass to reach the seaboard. The foregoing statement has possibly been seen in print before, but that thought is nppermost in the mind of every citizen of the place, and will bear repetition. The persons most interest ed are engaged now in obtaining signatures to the memorial published in the Oregonian of the 28th ult. If only a moderate appro priation is made for deepening the entrance to Yaquina Bay, a railroad from Corvallis to the bay is a certainty for the near future. Capital necessary to complete the road al ready commenced by the citizens, will be furnished either from California or from England without delay. A 1)181 NTERESTED VIEW. It is only natural that the old residents of Corvallis and Benton county should feel a deep interest in the future of their portion of the State and be prejudiced in its favor regardless of any just claims for recognition, but the judgment of a man coming into the county, studying it, and seeking an invest ment in business pursuits would be free from all bias. And when the views of one who would naturally be inclined to cynicism agree witn tnose ot tne enthusiastic and self-interested, such views should be accept ed, to say the least, as confirmatory. I call ed on Mr. James Headman, an Englisnian -of wide experience, who came to Corvallis last July, and after visiting nearly every portion has concluded to go into business here. In order to obtain hi ideas of Benton county, I asked : "How did it happen that of all the places in Oregon, you chose this county as a busi ness location ? " "Because," said Mr. Headman, in a quiet. confident tone, " it is not within reason to suppose that the entire product of a great gram growing valley like the Willamette will always be sut through one channel especially when the channel is not a direct one. the natural outlet to the sea for the product of that portion of the valley south of Salem, is through Benton comity to Ya quina Bay, and it is only a matter of time for such an outlet to be opened with Corval lis as the railroad center. " If a railroad sdtould be built to Yaquina Bay, and the entrance improved by the re moval ot the ledge of rock, will the bay ac commodate much shipping i" I asked. It lias been stated that the bay when the tide is out is no mors tha a good sized pond. - DEMCCRATICBLUNDERS. THE PARTY'S INCURABLE STUPIDITY, AS SEEN IN ITS BEOOPD OF THE PAST TWENTY FIVE YEARS PARTIAL LIST OF SERIES OF STUPENDOUS BLUNDERS. - From the Chicago Times, (IncL) There is now at Washington one stalwart bourbon chief who has an appreciative un derstanding of his party's dismal situation. "He stood up. straight as ramrod, and swore for about five minutes like a Cartha geuian pirate, while hi3 black eyes glowed like living coals of fire, as he said that vol umes would be required to express his opinion of the satanic, diabolical, idiotic, folly of the extra session ! " Then he spoke piously of his earnest pleadings to the Almighty to put a few grains of com mon sense into the stupid heads of his party leaders. ' I don't pray very often," he said, " but at the close of the rebellion I got down on my marrow bones and prayed to Almighty God at the rate of three hun dred and fifty words a minute to have the south go over to the Republican party ; or, at least, some of its idiotic leaders." But the Omnipotent paid no attention to his prayers; or else the southern brigadiers paid no attentian to the Omnipotent. They went on making " fools of them selves ! " and the party, "without a hope of resurrection," went into every campaign " with the damned, hellish, and senseless solid south clingiug to their necks. " Then, in agony of spirit, he cried : "Oh, if I could only get some of onr leaders in a room alone with me for a few minutes, so that I could pound some sense into the devilish block heads ! " This expresses about all there is in the Bourbon party situation. It is a situation of utter hopelessness, to which she party has been brought sjlely bj its own persistencs in unparalleled political stupidity. For thirty years ever since the close of Mr. Polk's ad ministration the history of that party has been the history of pig headed combat against the inevitable. The annexation of Texas gave a new impetus to agitation upon the slavery question, both at the south and at the north, and the tendency of public opinion to divide on the geographical line between the free and the slave sections be came strong aud persistent. The predom inant southern idea was to extend the area of slavery ; the predominant northern idea to extend the area of freedom. Influenced by these conflicting ideas, parties began to assume sectional character, the south versus the north. Under the diaphanous pretense of regarding slavery as a stats institution, not to be brought into national politics, northern politicians, styling themselves dem ocrats espoused the southern idea, and that party, at the north, simultaneously began to grow "small by degrees and beautifully less." Nevertheless such was their political stupid ity, they could not see the pit of destruc tion to which, as a party, they were hasten ing. They pesisted in giving to their organ ization the character of a pro-slavery . propa ganda, and in more sharply defining, year by year, the irrepressible conflict between northern civilization and southern barbar ism. This was the real issue in every presi dential contest from Polk to Buchanan. The crisis that had so long been approaching was precipitated by the repeal, in the inter est of slavery, of the Missouri compromise the first in a continuous series of gigantic political blunders, of which-the latest is the incomparably stupid blunder in- Maine. . These grand blunders may be presented numerically, in their historic order, as fol lows : Blunder 1. Repeal of the Missouri com promise. Blunder 2. Attempt of the Buchanan administration to establish slavery in Kan sas. Blunder 3. Rebellion of the southern half of the party. Blunder 4. Manifestation of sympathy by the northern rump to their southern con freres. Blunder 5. Opposition by the northern rump to the emancipation policy. Blunder 6. Hostility to the war policy manifested in the peace programme of 1864. Blunder 7. Re-embrace by the northern rump of their southern confreres after the war. Blunder 8. Opposition to the political en franchisement of the negroes. Blunder 9. Opposition to the war amend ments of the constitution. Blunder 10. Opposition to the candidacy of Grant for president. Blunder 11. Party solidification of the south on the ol 1 pretense of state sovereign ty anil "white man '3 government." Blunder 12. Rejection by the solid-south party of Hayes' conciliation policy. blunder 16. Attempt to re-open the pres idency squabble of 187b by the 1 otter in quisition. Blunder 14. Southern war claims raid on the national treasury. Blunder 15. Espousal of the greenback fiat money programme of national fraud. Blonder 16. The reactionary programme to wipe out the national election laws and other legislation of the war. blunder 1 1. ine extra session to carry forth that reactionary programme. Blunder 18. Ratification and fulfillment of executive usurpations in Louisiana and Florida, and attempt to commit the usurpa tion in Uregon. Blunder 19. Perpetration and defense of like executive usurpation in Maine. ALSEA BAR AND HARBOR. SURVEY OF ALSEA HARBOR AND THE BAR IN FRONT OF IT REPORT OF COL. GILLESPIE, AND OF ME. R. A. HABERSHAM, ASSISTANT ENGINEER. United States Engineer Office, Portland, Dec. 3, 1879. Genral: I have the honor to transmit herewith a chart of Alsea harbor, Oregon, accompanied with a report of Assistant En gineer R. A. Habersham, and to submit the following report of a survey made under my direction in compliance with the river and harbor act approved March 3, 1879. Maj. J. 1. Wilson, corps of engineers, states iu his report on an examination of this harbor, dated September 23, 1878 that The act of June 18, 1878, directed an ex amination to be made of the " Alsea river and bay, Oregon," and an estimate of the cost of improvement " proper to be made." The result of the examination and of con versations with residents at the bay demon strated the fact that no improvement of this river was expected and none is deemed prop er to be made. What the people of Alsea valley want, and rffelt I respectfully recom mend, is that an acenrate survey may be made of the harbor, and the bar in front of it, proper chartsrprepared for distribution to mariners, and the bar properly buoyed. No work of improvement is deemed " proper to be made, ' but I would respect fully recommend that the chart of the har bor be printed for the use of maiiners. There is no port of entry at the Alsea river. The nearest port of entry is New port, Yaquina bay, Oresron, 12 miles north of Alsea harbor. No revenue was collected at Newport for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879. A small coasting tug occasionally enters Alsea harbor aud does all the carrying trade for the harbor. No sailing vessels ever visit the harbor. The nearest light house is on Cape Fonl- weather, about 15 miles distant : the liht formerly located at the entrance of Yaquina harbor has 1 eeu discontinued. The nearest works of defense are at the mouth of the Columbia river, distant 125 miles niately. J am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant, G. L. GILLESPIE, Major of Engineers, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army. Chief of Engineers, United States Army. approxi- REPORT OF MR. R. A. HABERSHAM, ASSISTANT ENGINEER. United States Engineer Office, ) Qy the 12th, a bill was introduced by Gahall in the IT. S. Senate, ex tending the time for the completion J of the Jexas 1'acinc railway ten years. That's right, give them all the time the company needs, but let the rood be Imik at once. A man, passing through a gateway in the dark, ran against a post. " I wish that post was in the lower re gions!'' was the angry remark. "Bet ter wish it was somewhere else, said a bystander. "You might run against it again, you know." The New Hamhshire republican state eommittee has fixed upon May 6 as the time for holding the state con vent ion to elect delegates to tike re- TT 1 J 1 . n 1 1 - 1 . -Jmm m answerea, -wneneveir xaquina nay ; publican national convention. TTjere will not furnish good ancheaage for all the vessels required to carry the products of this valley, it will do more maritime business than San Francisco is doing sow. I' will load a vessel with lumber for China within two months at th Oneatta milbv about six miles from the sea, and she will have a fath om of water under her kepi when her cargo is complete. Mr. Readman in an hnnrif conversation expressed the utmost confidftf&e in a bright iuture for Corvallis, and bases his belief on the grounds advanced by the Older residents, and which are generally known. fcE.NEP.AL NOTESv The fruit interest rf Beaton conntv which has bees neglected in past years will be re vived during the coming season. -Messrs Readman & Nash have engaged jMarlv all the fruit which will be dried thl summer for direct exportation to England. I he English colony m Hentoa conmtv M gradually increasing in numbers. Thafrtto-y are pleased with tbecountry evidencedlby the fact that they have made farcbaaes Of lands and have advised friencbv in England to join them here. "" ntleman, . whogejtttsi ness el m an porwis or-tnei me that the winter vh were in. excellent condition. is a strong feeling that deleirat snouid go to Chicago unpledged In Salem, February 15th, 1880, by Rev. P. S. Knight, Mr. John Chase and Miss Ruby Lance, both oi Salem. In this city, Feb. 12th, 1880,' Mr. Caar Taylor was married to Miss Delia Jackson, at the residence of the groom; officiating clergyman. Rev. JosepU&ttery. The . ereiuunil kaa witnessed only by tlj ifcfrientls of the Co'onel : I have the honor to submit here with the chart of Alsea bar and harbor, drawn from the survey made in pursuance of your letter of instructions, dated Augu&t 12, of the present year. The bar is situated 123 miles south of the Columbia, and 14 miles south of Yaquina bay. A full description of the bay and the country tributary to it, its sources and pro ducts, has been given in the. report of your predecessor lor the hscal year ending June 30, 1879. The portion of the bay included in the sur. ey, referred to as the harbor, comprises all anchorage ground for snch vessels as can cross the bar ; that is, whose draught does not exceed 12 feet. It covers an area of t0 acres, with a depth of from 10 to 18 feet at low tide. The tidal range is 3 feet during neap, and 9 feet during spring tide. The entrance to the harbor lies between a bold headland, 60 feet high, on the south, and a long low sand spit, covered with drift wood, on the north. It is narrow, being not more than 200 feet between the 12-foot curves, and from 25'to 401'feet deep. From the entrance toward the bar the channel widens to 400 feet, curving sharply Sroinr west to north northwest, and back to west northwest, crossing the bar on the last named course. The bar lies 3,000 feet out side of the general line of tha shore at high tide, connecting the south shore and north spit, its axis being nearly parallel with that of the Litter. It is 800 yards in length, and 700 yards in width between the curves of 12 feet. The ship channel shifts constantly from en place to another, a heav y wind lasting a few days, being sufficient to cause it to move several hundred feet northward or southward. Generally the southerly weath er which prevails during the winter drives it northward, and the northwest winds of summer force it southward. It is easily found, however, on the south half of the bar, the southerly winds and currents leing strongest aud prevailing during the greater part of the year. At the time of the sur vey the channel crossed the bar near the extremity, with a width of 300 feet between the 6-foot curves, and a least depth of 7f feet at low water, and I am informed that these dimensions do not change. The dis tance across the bar, varing with each new direction of the channel, ranges from 1,300 to 1,800 feet. The steam-launch engaged for this survey failing to arrive, a 6-oared boat was the only craft that could be obtained for Sounding. In this it was not safe to venture far outide of the bar, for fear ot losing the intervals of smooth water necessary to enable ns to re cross the bar, which occurred very rarely ; in fact, only three times during the two weeks I spent in making the survey, and lasting less than an hour on each occasion. It was not possible, therefore, to survey the approaches to the bir ; but as no breakers were seen, even in rough weather, outside of those on the beach. It is safe to con clnde that the foreshore slopes uniformly, with a tolerably smooth bottom. If the survey could have been made in the month of June or early in July, more complete in formation could have been obtained. There are no outlying reefs nearer than the seal rocks, four miles north of the bar. These are piuicles, rising out of the sa . to the height of from 10 to 30 feet at low tide. distant from the shore from one-eighth to one-fourth of a mile, and are portions of a ledge of basaltic rock which forms the rugged shore line for an extent of about a mile opposite the rocks. During ordinary weather the bar may be safely crossed by steamers drawing not more than 12 feet at high tide ; sailing craft larger than fishing boats should not attempt to enter without a tug, except with a west wind and tolerably smooth bar, but may cross outward at any time when the wind comes from the east, northeast or southeast. Tha promontory which marks the south side of the entrance to the harbor is formed of course soft sandstone, containing fossil shells and hard nodnte; and rests, at the level of low tide, on a bed of soft, soapy, Jack shale, inhabited by myriads, of rock sters. The hills around the bay are simi- hum m formation to the promontory, and are covlfred with forests of -spruce timber from 60 tl fee ftigh- loUe of the entrance the contour of the bottomfejj08 marked changes since tha survey of5 an1 tne ruling depth is from 2 to 3 feet iSKr 14 possible tlyat in the absence of ailestablihed twig-gauge the base assumed forV?. jeveU of that survey may have been toJJSh' nd the discrepancy in the tide lines of TKW0 s5rv?y8 at Ppt where the beach beirW rock n position, could not have altered lBLinwpe LPiakes thia PACIKIO COAST. Oregon. Dr. Thomas T. Minor, health officer of Pngct Sound district and delegate elect to the National Republican Convention, has left Port Townsend with his family for the Eastern States. Mrs. Brake, a woman revivalist, success fully conducted a " protracted meeting" on Wagner creek, Douglass county, making a number of converts. A school house in Douglass county re joicing in the euphonious aud suggestive nome of " Scab Flat" boasts of having the largest audiences at the weekly "spellin skule" of any place in the county. Miss Carr, a young lady of Seattle, while carrying a lighted lamp let it fall upon the floor. The oil ignited, burning her severely and damaging the house and furniture to the extent of 75 or 80. The fire was extin guished with great difficulty. Another of the wise virgins, that had her lamp trimed and burning. Umatilla Republicans want the State Re publican convention to meet at The Dalle3 this year. Judge Whiteaker, of Baker City, while hunting grouse, discharged the contents of his gnn in his arm, and rendering the ser vices of a doctor necessary. John Sno larass, who was killed near Waitsburg by being thrown from a buggy, was buried with the honors of Odd Fellow ship at Walla Walla. 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The preparations matte from these mineral poisons, although they are palatable, a:id may break the cniH, do not rure, but leave the malarial and their" own drag poison in the system, prodtieiiuT quinism, dizziness, ringing in the ears, head ache,, vertigo, find other disorders more for midable than the disease they were intended to rur.-. AvKit'.s A'ii'ti Ct'BB thoroughly eradicates these noxious poisons from tlur system, and always cures the severest casetf. It contains no quinine, mineral, or any thing that conld injure the most delicate patient ; and its crowning excellence, al.ove its cer tainty to rure. is that it leaves the system as freer from disease as before the attack. For I-iiver Complaints, Aveu's Aorre Clue, by direct action 011 tho liver antl bii iary apparatus, drives out the poisons which produce these complaints, nnd stimulates tho system to a vigorous, healthy condition. We warrant it when, taken ac.ordiits to Airections- Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co. Practical and Analytical Chemists, Lowell, Mass. BOLD BY ALT, DlttTOOISTH EVERYWHERE. J. It. LOMKR. J. C. POLLEV. OCCIDENTAL HOTEL, CORVALLIS, OREGON, LOMER & POLLEY, Propr's. The only First Class Hotel in the City. rpKE OCCIDENTAL IS A NEW BUILDING, X newly faniised, and the recognized headquarters for Commercial Travelers, and all prominent mere visiting Corvallis. Lare;e sample rooms on first floor, for commercial men, and bath room for the exclusive use of guests. Board from one to two dollars per day, aecordintr to room. October 20. 1879. 16:43m0 KEW MILLINERY STORE, (Cor. Third and Moaroe Sts.,) CORVALLIS, - - OREGON. To the Ladies, of Corvallis and vicinity r I HAVE JUST RECEIVED THE LAR gest and CHEAPEST, and most desirable; stock of Millinery Goods Ever brought to this city, comprising the; very LATEST STYLES of the season. Also latest styles of LADIES' FURNISH ING GOODS. Do not foil to examine my stock before purchasing. Everybody cordially invited, to call. MRS. J.. MASON. September 17, 1879. 16:38tf Notice of Application for the? Vacation of Streets and Alleys in the City of Corvallis. NOTICE is hereby given that the western Oregont Kailroad Company lias filed with the Recorder, and presented to the tjonimon council 01 tne juv or Corvallis, a jxstition asking for the vacation dthe-- following aeacriuea portion 01 sirccw ajiu suujb u said aily, twit : All that portion 01 cixm street irom tne noutn une' Street tO tBe SOUlll line Ml saiu oiawi Direct. sat portion of B street from the east line. 01 tree t west to the west line of blocks No. SO and rfk third addition to the city of corvallis. re streets Sr. alleys running through blocks - 81, IU avSUsyS t, 1 i 1 Yi uuuiuvii iu vw .win. ns Interested tnerem are nercov nuuuou ar meeting-TM the Council, to ne held re 8th day oisaren, law nas ween nxeu n mu i.hA timet for the hearimr aud con- such petition, fed at which time all per- are reqmrea iftapear inu snow cause, , why the pedjfcn should not be grant- ns f streets ana alleys vacated. men Couneil JTK BRYSON. 1880. 17:5w6 City Recorder. fcKTTER HEADS MONTHLY HWinted at this office.-