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Corvallis Gazette. PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY MORNING, BY. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TKKM4, (Coin.) Per Year - 92 80 Six Month . 1 50 Three Month 1 00 Invariably in advance. All notices and advertisement! Intended for publication should be handed in ty noon on Wednesday. CITY ADVERTISEMENTS. M. S. WOODCOCK, Attorney and Counselor at Law, covVAMlh : : oatGO. OFFICE ON FIRST STREET, OPPOSITE Woodcook A Baldwin's Hardware Store. Special attention given to Collections, Foreclo sure 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 J. K. WEBBER, Main Mitel, Corvallis, Or. DEAL.EB IK Stoves, Ranges, FORCE AND LIFT PUMPS, HOUSE FURNISHING H ROW ARE. Constantly on hand, the NEW RICHMOND RANGE, Best in market. THE BONANZA COOK STOVE, Something New. And the New VECTA PARLOR STOVE. Jan. 1,1880. 7:Hf J. R. BRY80N, ATTORNEY A.T A-A.W. All business will receive prompt attention. COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. Corvallis, July 14, 1879. 16:28lf FRANKLIN CAUTH0RK, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Corvallis. Orrgan. Special attention given to surgery and diseases of the eye. Can be found at his office, in rear of Graham, Hamilton Sc Co.'s drug store, up stairs, day or night. June 3, 1879. 16-23t W. C. GRAWFORO, DEALER IN WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SPECTACLES, SILVER WARE, etc Also, Musloul J nstrura "iite Sc ;J Repairing done at the most reasonable rates, and all work warranted. Corvallis, Dec. 13, 1877. 14:50tf GRAHAM, HAMILTON & CO.. (WKVALLIM ... OBECOar. DEALERS IN Iiiig"s, Paints, M EDICINES, CHEMICALS, DYE STIFFS, OILS, CLASS AND PUTTY. PURE W'NES AND I Q'JORS FOR MEDICINAL USE. And also the the very best assortment of Lamps and Wall Faprr ever brought to this place. AGENTS FOR THX AVHtlU C8EJH&41 P; INT, SUPERIOR TO AMY OTHER PI yOfUiY I e-erlpilona I si fwil. v.. , ii tided. JOB PRINTING, THE Gazette Jnb Piloting House 18 NOW PU EPA RED TO DO Plain and Ornamental Printing, Ai neat and Ctieiip as it eau be -ione by any Offiee on the Coast bin iie-uiH. em. tier eu aeir It pad h, f ok rwromea. Ball Tlrfce'a tiivltMora IMrtaias, Baites rl. Yllitnt 4'arda, Uwiirr Mjmli Pssltn, s-.vlp. . Vmmml Ulstnka lisak Ktea. tblpiff IeP, Order Hooka, Mia., Tmgn. i t., KM SJ-Order- by ntail prompUy tilled. Estl sails lurnishuJ. IP VOL. XVII. CORVALLIS, OREGON, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 26, 1880. NO. 48. CITY ADVERTISEMENTS. Cor-vallla Lailce Ho, 14, '. A. M. Holds stated Communications on Wednesday on or preceeding each lull moon. Brethren in good standing cordially invited to attend. Bv order W, M. Bsrnnm Lode So. 7, I. . O. F. Meets on Tuesday evening of each week, in their hall, in Fisher's brick, second story. Members ot the order in good standing invited to attend. By order of N G. P. 4. CHKKOWETK. F. X .10 H.St ON. CHENOWETH fit JOHNSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, coBVAixi. oKcaosr. September 4, 1879. 16:36tf ALLE1 & WOODWARD. Druggists and Apothecaries, P. 0. BUILDING, CORVALLIS, OREGON. Have a complete stock of DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINT, OIL, GLASS, 110., LTfl. School Pooks -tut.oneny, to. We bur for Cash, and have cnoice of the FRESHEST and PUREST Drugs and Medic ne? the market affords. Prescriptions accurately pre oared at half the usual rates. 2Mayl6:18tf AUGUST KNIGHT, Cabinet Maker. UNDERTAKER, Cor. Second and Monroe Sts., CORVALLIS, OSEOOH. Keeps constantly on hand all kinds of FURNITURE COFFINS & CASKETS. Work done to order on short notice and at reas onable rates. Corvallis, Jan. 1, 1877. 14:ltf J. W rtAYBU , ATTORNEY AT LAW, OKV .Li. I. OFFICE On Monroe slrec-t, between Second and 'third. 4H5Special attention given to the Collection of Notes and Accounts. lii-ltf J IVIfcS A. YAWTIS, Atto. ney and Counselor at Law, I OHVAL.1 1. - (IKI.UM tyiLL PRA' TICK IN ALL THE COURTS of the Sluie. S- in! attention given to Blatters in l'lobale. Collection will receive fi t :n jit aud careful attention. Office in the Court ouse. 18:1 If. OR F. A. V NCENf, DENTIN rr . COltV A I-Ll BJSOOIf. rFKICE IK FISH 133 BRICK - OVEB V Max. Friendley's .nv Store. All tbe 'atest improvement- Kverylh ug new end complete. All wo k warranted. Pirn t-glvc me a call. C. FARfVA, M. r. O KFICE OVKR MRAUAM HAMILTON'S Druy&to.u, t or.alli. O.ejjon. 1 -2Vtf Woodcock & Baldwin (Successors to J. R Bayley & C) EEP CONSTANTLY ON HAN!) AT T old stand a large and complete stwk ut Heavy and Mielf Hardware, IRON, STEFL, TOOLS, 8TOVES, RANG S, ETC Manufactured and Home Made Tin unci 0ii"x- War, Pumps Pipo, Etc. A good Tinner constantly on hand, anl all Job Woik neatly and quickly done. Also agents for Knapp. B.im-11 &. Co., for tbe sale of the beat and latest iro proved kaum MA Clt i ERV. of all kinds, together with a full assort ment of Agricultural Implements. Sole Agents for the celebrated ST.L MS CHftfcT ROtKS GVS the BEST IN THE WORLD. Also the Norman Range, and many uther patterns, in all sizes and styles. gy-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 our customers wHi tlup best jnwxls in market, in our line, and at the lowest prices. Our motto t-hall be, prompt and fair dealing with all. Call and examine our stock, before going elsewhere. Satisfac tion Esrite"d. W UOK ( Ot K & BA LDW I N. ) Corwolia, May, 12, 1879. 14:4t CITY ADVERTISEMENTS. LANDS ! FARMS ! HOMES I I HAVE FARMS, (IMPROVED OR UNIM proved) Stores and Mill Property, ery desirable FOR SALE These lands are cheap. Also claims in unsurveyed tracts for sale. Soldiers of the late rebellion who have, under the 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. JT. E. HARRIS, One door South of Ouabain A Hamilton's, COBTALLIS, OUM. GROCERIES PROVISIONS, AND Dry (roods, Corvallis, Jan. 3, 1878. 16:lvl DRAKE & GRANT. MERCHANT TAILORS, CnRVALLls. - . ORKll,, "UE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A LARGE and well selected sU-k ot Cloth, viz: West of ntflutKi liroad lollis. renoh asstmnros, uoich Tweetle, and. merican -ilttijr'. Which we will make up to order in the most approved and lash - unable styles. No pains will be s; a red in producing good lilting garments. Parties wishing to purchase cloths and have them cut out, will do well to call aud examine our stock. DRAKE & GRANT. Corvallis, April 17 187U. 16:16tf Boarding- and Lodging. PMIowiatlt Hi ii i. hi en or. iro i. GEOKGE K!SOR9 "RESPECTFULLY INFORMS THE TRAV eling public that he is now prepared and in readiness to keep such hoarders as may choose to give him a call, either by the SiNC E M&.L. DAY. OR WEEK. Is also prepared to.fu n h horse feed. Liberal share of public patronage solicited. Give us a call. GEORGE KISOR. Philomath. Aj.ril 28. 187!. Ut.-18tf CORVALLIS Livery, Feed ...AND... SALE STABLE, Wain JSC, C'O'Val la. Orcaoa. SOL.. KING, - Porpr. QWN1NG BOTH BARNS I AM PREPARED " to oiler superior accommodations iu the Liv ery line. Always ready lor a drive, 001 TEAMS At Low 1 altos. My stables are iiii -class in every rcpt.-ct. and Competent and "bliginj h"Sllers always ready to sere the public. . REAH JitllLK CHAKUH' r'0 1 iE. Pariieolnr Htt -IL.ti P.I4I. i.ua iiu sr.. ELEGtNT HtixHSK. CaKKIvGES ANT I i A Kf FU it KU. EKA L3 Corvallis, Jan. ;i, IS7H. 10:1 vl BliES Hauhx. DRAYACE ! BR AY ACE ! Hamlin & Wrenn, Propr'a. H AV1XG JIST RETURNED FROM ttuli-m with a new truek. and having leased the I am . lortnerly occupied by James Eg lin, we are now pivpa ed to do all kinds of t fts YiNC A D HAULING. either in tbe city or country, at the lowest living rates. Gin be found at the old truck stand. A sharr 4 the public jiatn-nago respectfully solic itol. Coi vaiiis. Doc 27. 1878. Ia:52tf J C. MOPELANO, (t ITV ATTORNEY.) AT'IOUMSY AT LAW, fwatTLAAiS. - - .BEoa. OFFTf TE M on ust es' Brick. First street. between Morrison and Yamhill. 14:38tf THE STAR BAKERY, 91 win Street, or vallla. HENRY WARRIOR, PR0PRIET0S. Famllj Supply Storo 1 Groceries, Broad. Cakes, JPiew, CandieiB, Toys, Always on Hand. Corvallia, Jan. I, lb77. , 14U Rupture From a Merchant, Dayton, W. T-, Feb 10, 1879. If. J. Home, Proprietor California Elastic Truss Co., 702 Market street, San Francisco Sir. The Truss I purchased of you aboyteue year ago has proved a miracle to me. I have been ruptured forty years, and worn dozens of different kinds of Trusses, all of which haye ruined my health, as they were injurious to my back and spine. Your valuable 1 russ is as easy as an old ehoe,and is worth hundreds of dollars to me, as it affords me so much pleasure. ' 1 can and do advise all, both ladies and gentlemen, afflicted, to buy and wear your modern improved Elastic Truss imme diately. I never expect to be cured, but am sat isfied and happy with the comfort it gives me to wear it. It was the best $10 I evei inyested in my life. You can refer anyone to me and I will be glad to answer any letters on its merits. I remain, yours respectlully, D. B. BUNNELL. Latest Medical Endorsements. Martinez, Cal., Feb. 17, 1879 W. J. Home, Proprietor California Elastic Truss Co , 702 Market street, S. F. Sir : In re gard to your California Elastic Truss, I would say that I have carefully studied its mechanism, ap plied it in practice and do not hesitate to say that for all purposes tor which Trusses are worn it is the best Truss ever offered to the public Yours truly, J. H. CAROTHERS, M. D. Endoised by a Prominent Medical Insti tute. Sas Fbahcjsco, March 6, 1879. W. J. Home. Esa. Sir: You ask my opinion of the relative merits of your Patent Elastic Truss as compared with othet kinds that have been ested under my observaion, and in reply I frank ly stale that from the time my attention was first called to their simple, though highly me chanical and philosophical construction, together with easy adjust bihty to persons of all sizes, ages and forms. I add this testimony with spe cial pleasure, that the several persons who have applied to me tor aid in their especial cases of rup ture, and whom I have advised to use yours, all acknowledge their entire satisfaction, and consid er themse ve highly favored by the possession of one of the improved Elastic Truss. Yours truly, BARLOW J. SMITH, M. D. Proprietor Hy genie Medical Institute, 635 California street, San Francisco A REMARKABLE CURE. San Francisco, Oct. 26, 1879. W. J. Home. Proprietor California Elastic Truss, 702 Market street, San Francisco Sir : I am truly grateful to you for the wortderful CURE your valuable truss has effected on my little boy. The double truss I purchased from you has PER FEC1"L"Y CURED him of his painful rupture on both sides in a little over six months. The steel truss he had before I bought yours caused him cruel torture, and it was a happy day .for us all when he laid it aside far tbe California elas tic Tsoss. I am sure that all will be thankful who are providentially led to give your truss a trial. You may refer any one to me on this sub ject. Yours truly, WM. PERU, 63 Bacramento isireet This is to certifv that I have examimed the son of Wm. Peru, and find him PERFECTLY CURED of hernia on both sides. L. DEXTER LY FORD, M. D-, Surgeon and Physician. Trusses forwarded to all parts of the United States at our expense on receipt of the price. vend Stamps for 1! lustra led Catalogue and trice last. Giving full information and rules for measuring. California Elastic Truss Co. 702 Market Street, S. F. SAFE AND LOCK CO. CAPITAL 81,000,000. General Office and Manufactory, CINCINNATI, OHIO. Pacific Branch , 211 and 213 California St., San Francisco. CHAN. H. DOO A CO., iBTL4JID, Agents for Oregon and Washington Tor. HALL'S P!fcNT C0"C itKTE FIRE-PROOF SAFES. Uiivc been tested by the most dieattlous confla gratiou3 in the country. They are thoroughly fire pro'f. They are free from dainpm-s. Their superiority is beyond question. Although about' 150,1)00 of these safes are now in use, and hundreds have been tested by some of the most disastrous cnlla;-ryi:oiis in the country, there is not a single intu..ce on record wherein one of them ever failed to preserve its contents perfectly. HALL'S PATENT DOVETAILED TKNOIV AM) Ulti'OYK BURQUR-PiiOaF Have never been broken ojieu and roblied by burglars or robVrs. Hall's burglar work is protected by letters patent, and his work cancot Im equaled lawfully His patent bolt is superior to any in um. His patent locks cannot lx- picked by tbe most skillful experts or burglars. By one of the greatest iiiiprovemeutH known, the Gross Automatic Movement, our hxtka are operated without any arbor or spindle passing through the door and into the luck. Our locks cannot be ojienol or picked by bur glars or experts, (as in case of other locks), and w will put from $1KH) o $10,000 behind them any time airainst an eoua! amount. THEY ARE THE BEST SAFE Made in America or any other country. One Thousand Xollaxnt To any person who can prove that one of Hall's Patent Burglar-Proof Safes has ever been b:oken open and robbed by burglars up to the present time. C. W. POOL, TEANELISG AGENT. Office with C. H. Dodd A Co., Portland, Oregon. V. B. PARI ELLS, Manager. K. P. $300 A MON fH guaranteed Twelve doPars a day made at home by the iodus'rioua Capital not re quired; wewill start you. Men.wo- men. boys and girls make money faster at work lor us man at anytniug eise. Jtne worn is iigm and pleasant, and such as any one can go right at, Those who are wise who see this notice will And us their addresses at once and see for them selves. Costly outfit and terms free. Now is the time Those already at work are laying UP large sums of money. Address TRUE A CO., Augusta, Maine. . Tlinrlow Weed. While talking with Thurlow Weed about the political situation, my eyes fell upon a steel engraving of Lafayette on the wall with a letter in French on the broad margin, written by the daugh ter of the great champion of liberty. It thanked Mr. Weed in warm terms for his polite attentions to her father "when in America recently," and expressed the most earnest interest in the future pro gress of the republic. "So you knew Lafayette ?" I asked. "Oh, yes," the old gentleman said, his face lighting up, "I knew him well in timately, in fact. I traveled considerably with him while he was here. That was in in what year was it ? I forget." "In 1824," I suggested. "Yes," he went on, "he was 65, I should think, and I was about 27. I was invited down here and accompanied the General and his suite to Albany. We went on the steamboat 'Chancellor. Kent.' It was summer time, and we were three days going to Albany. The boat stopped at all the villages along the river, and everywhere an ovation awaited the great deliverer. There were flags and speeches and dinners, and every expression of joy. An event of a lifetime that was. As we moved quietly along from point to point, Lafayette sat on the promenade deck viewing the beautiful scenery and responding to the welcoming shouts of crowds along the shore. Lafayette was a very large man, a man of colossal pro portions and of majectic demeanor. He was larger than 1 am, and I am over six feet, even now, in my old age." "How did the company amuse them selves during the three days?" "Most of the time was spent by the veterans in telling stories of the revolu tion. Thore were more than a dozen rev olutionary officers there; and they have all been dead these forty years. One of these was, I remember, Col. Nick Fish, father of Gov. Fish. He had served near the person of Washington, and he was good story teller. He .told a great many amusing anecdotes, showing that all hands had a good deal of fun even when the army was ragged and barefoot in the Jerseys, and it wasn't certain where they were going to get their next dinner. "And here is a picture," said Mr. Weed, rising and reeling along the wall for it, that interests one about as much as that of Lafayette." He laid his hand on a framed copy of the familiar silhouette of the first rail road train that ever ran in this country from Albany to Schenectady, in 1831. Then he carefuHy measured off a dis tance from one end, and pointing witn his finger said, I an right there do you see me in that car? I was greatly in terested in the experiment, and when I sat there I foresaw some of the greatness to which the railroad system has since grown in this land. The train made very good time that day, too, surprising every body." Mr. Weed resumed his easy chair and said: "The first steamboat, too. I reckon I may be the only man living that saw Fulton s steamboat, the uiermont, mase its first trip in 1807. I was a boy of 10, and lived at Catskill. Suddenly every body heard that the very next day a boat was coming up the river from New York against wind and tide. All were incredu lous, but I determined to see what it amounted to, and early in the morning I started off, with two other youngsters, for Catskill landing. Arrived there we thought we could get a better view from an island in the river; so hiding in the bushes, we took of our clothes (boys' clothes didn't amount to much in those days,) tied them on a plank, and swam over to the island, pushing it ahead of us. I don't know when I have talked or thought of this before. Once on the island we put on our clothes .again and waited, fishing with pinhooks from a log with not very much success. By and by we saw a strange smoke down the river, and presently up it came, wheezing and puffing and splashing along like some wild animal. There were no paddle boxes, and the wheels were visible, and the engine and boiler set up on deck, exposed to the elements. Jt went about four or five miles an hour, and passed within twenty rods of us on the island. It was well calculated to in spire awe, for it burnt pine wood, and poured fire from its smoke-stack like an active volcano. "The progress of this country must be astonishing to you, Mr. Weed ?" "More than I can tell you. I passed through the site df the present city of Syracuse when it was an impenetrable swamp not a house or a vestige of a house its only inhabitants snakes and owls and toads. I first came to New York in 1808, as a cabin-boy on a sloop. Between the city hall and Broadway was the Bridewell the city jail. There were some crooked roads in the suburbs, be tween Chambers and Canal streets, but above that there were only farms and pastures, with an occasional garden. Where Canal street is a stream flowed down to the North river, and Broadway crossed it by a rude wooden bridge. This city to-day seems to me like an other world." N. Y. Cor. Indianapolis Journal. Diamond Cutting In New York. Among the curious and interesting in dustrial facts brought to light during the census inquiries not the least is tbe fact that the recently introduced art of dia mond cutting has been so admirably de veloped here that diamonds cut in Amsterdam are now sent to this city for re-cutting. Hitherto Amsterdam has monopolized the work of diamond cut ting; and the aim there has been to re move in cutting the least possible weight of the gem. The American plan is to cut mathematically, according to recog nized laws of light so a to secure the utmost brilliancy for the! nished stone. The greater loss in weigh c, as compared with the Amsterdam cutting, is thus more than made good by the superior brilliancy of tbe product. From the in quiries made by Chief Special Census Agent Chas. E. Hill it appears that the average increase of value given to dia monds by the New York cutting is $5000 for each person employed for twelve months; aho that our dealers are receiv ing the best Amsterdam cut gems from abroad to be re-cut here and returned. Scientific American. AGRICULTURAL. POINTS OF A GOOD COW. Mr. Henry Stewart, in the Mural New Yorker, gives the following as the chief characteristic of a good cow the points being so well defined that any one can make the selections. They are also in accordance with the results of experi ence: "The extremities should be delicately formed; the tail long and thin, except at its root, which should be large and strong; the muzzle should be fine; the head long, flat and thin, but broad across the eyes, to give room for a large brain, which is the foundation for a highly de veloped and active nervous system; the horns fine, thin and neatly curved ; the eyes bright and active, agreeing with the active brain, but calm, quiet and mild in expression, significant of a quiet, con tented disposition, and one not readily disturbed or worried. As the secretions of the body all come from the blood, and as a rich, yellow color is desired in the butter, so the skin should be filled with a yellow pigment, and the inside of the ears and the thighs, and the other places where the hair is light and the skin plainly visible, should be of a rich orange color, so the scales or ear-wax should be of the same color. The hair should be fine, smooth and silky; and in short the whole appearance should be satisfying to the eye, and consistent one part with another and well balanced." coNCEBirara onions. Onions are eaten to a greater extent than any garden vegetables raised with the exception of cabbages. With many they serve the double purpose of food and condiment. Some persons who ab hor their odor and dislike their taste eat them because they are nutritions and conducive to health. In many portions of Europe where- land is scarce, and peo ple desire to produce all the food from it they can, onions are raised to a large ex tent. They take the place of butter and cheese in supplying a relish to coarse bread. They are sliced in vinegar and eaten raw, made into soup, and cooked boiling and frying. In the warm coun tries of Southern Europe onions take the place of cabbages and potatoes to a great extent. It is somewhat singular that onions are not fed in considerable quantities to poultry and all kinds of live stock. Fowls of all varieties are extremely fond of them, and derive great benefit from eating them. Besides serving all the purposes of true food, they aid digestion and tend to ward off disease". They may be fed raw or cooked. Chickens will eat not only the bulbs, bnt the leaves when chipped up and mixed with dongh. Chickens that are allowed onions pre pared in this way rarely, if ever, are troubled with the cholera. Chickens that eat onions are not likely to be in fested by vermin. One of the best kinds of food for laying hens during the winter consists of cooked meat, potatoes and onions. Onions are cheaper than pepper to feed to poultry, and they answer the same purposes. Almost all kinds of stock are fond of onions, and there is generally consider able difficulty in keeping them from eat iDg them. Of course they should not be fed to milk cows, owing to the odor and flavor they impart to milk,but other kinds of stock may eat onion, not only without detriment, but with great advantage. All animals delight in condiments, and there is nothing in the line of relishes that they will eat as readily as they will onions. For young stock they should be chipped up and fed with grain and meal, but for large animals they require no prepara tion. Onions that are large enough to be salable in season when they are tolerable high are expensive food for stock, but there are always many that ore too small or ill-shaped to sell. To grow onions on a large scale to ad vantage the ground should be prepared in the fall, as the seed should be planted almost as soon as the frost leaves the soil in the spring. As onions are gross feed ers the land on which they are planted should be very heavily matured. To pre vent trouble with weeds the fertilizers applied should be free from seeds, which will ordinarily germinate before the onion seed will. Well rotted stable manure is excellent and so are the fer tilizers prepared from meatblood, and osher slaughter-honce refuse. Ashes and salt are also good fertilizers for this crop. The first cause the young plants to grow rapidly and the last will destroy many insects. Coarse and rank manures are not desirable. Onions should not be harvested till the weather becomes tolerably cool in the fall, though they will ripen quite early in the season. The moisture should be allowed to dry from them be fore they are stored away. They should be kept where the temperature is good and is tolerably dry. If they are aided by heat and moisture they will shrivel and become unfit for cook-g purposes, and, of course, for the f ket. An ordinary cellar is too . nd too warm for preserving onions. -tensive onion grower makes, foy eping onions, as deep a -pit as he can with plow in a dry, sheltered place near the house, scraping out all the loose dirt with a hoe and putting in some chaff or straw from the straw stack, and tramping down well. Then he hauls the onions from where they grew, and piles them iu carefully on this, and puts more chaff on top and covers up with a foot of dirt from each side and packs it smooth with the spade, where they can remain a part or all of the winter, or until wanted. p'Ttiprimpnts marie in France bv MM. Savigny and Colineau have resulted in J the production of some valuable dyes from the common garden cabbage that is they have succeeded in extracting from rod cabbage, or broccoli, a coloring mat ter which is claimed to be absolutely in offensive, and capable of application in all the ordinary operations of painting, printing and dyeing. The leaves of the plant are for this purpose cut into small pieces, thrown into boiling water in the proportion of three pounds of the leaf to three litres of water, and there left to macerate for twenty -four hours; at the end of this time they are withdrawn and subjected to a strong pressure, the juices expressed by this means being added to i the liquor infusion, as tnus oDtainea, - the substance to which the name of : "cauline" has been given is of a blue ' violet color, and forms the base of a I series of derivatives of various colors. Corvallis Gazette. 1 Inch 2 Inch 8 Inch i Inch MCulQIllil Z Column V Column It) 00 1 Column 15 00 RaTES 1 W. $. oil 2 00 3 00 i (0 00 7 50 Of ADVERTISING. 1 M. $3 00 5 "0 6 00 7 00 9 00 12 00 15 00 20 00 3 M. 5 00 7 (0 10 00 13 00 15 00 18 00 25 00 10 00 en. S 8 00 12 00 16 00 18 00 20 00 83 00 40 00 60 00 I YR 812 00 18 00 22 00 15 00 85 00 48 00 60 00 100 00 Notices lu Local Column, 20 cents per line, each Insertion. Transient Advertisements, per square of 12 lines. Nonpareil measure, $2 50 tor Cist, and $1 for each subsequent insertion in advance. Legal advertisements charged as transient, and must be paid tor opon expiration No charge lor publishers affiaavit of publication. Yearly advertisements on liberal terms. Pro fessional Cards, (I square) $12 per annum. Watch Watching. Having obtained a really serviceable article, you should, in order to produce satisfactory results, follow out these rules: Wind up your watch every day. at the same hour. This is generally done at the hour we retire to rest; or, perhaps bettor still, the hour we rise. Avoid putting a watch on a marble slab or anything excessively cold. The sudden transition from heat to cold contracting the metal may sometimes cause the main-spring to break. In deed, the cold coagulates the oil; and the wheel work and pivots working less freely affect the regularity of the time -keeper. When we lay our watch aside we ought to slope it on a watch case, so as to keep it nearly in the same position as it has in the pocket. In laying aside your wateh be sure that it rests on its case, as by sus pending it free the action of the balance may cause oscillation, which may con siderably interfere with its going. If you would keep your watch clean you must be quite sure that the case fits firmly, and never put it into any pocket but one made of leather. Those pockets which are lined with cloth, cotton or cal ico give, by the constant friction, a cer tain quantity of fluff, which enters most watches, even those the cases of which shut firmly. If the watch is not a "keyless" one, the key should be small, in order that we may feel the resistance of the stop work; then we can stop in time without forcing anything. It is also necessary that the square of the key should cor respond with that of the watch. If it be too large, it may in a short time cause the wind up square to suffer from undue wear and tear; the rectifying of which is rather expensive. The hands of an ordinary watch can be turned backward without much risk. It is, however, always better to move the hands forward to adjust your watch to correct time. A skillful watchmaker one day thus reasoned with a customer who complained of his watch: "You complained" said he, "that your watch gains a minute in a month. Well, then, you will congratu late yourself when you have heard me. You are aware that in your watch the balance, which is the regulator, makes five oscillations every second, which is fnnr tmtwlnad nnd thirtv two thousand a ,la v unfliaf von r watch ex nosed to all the vicissitudes of heat and cold, the varying w lgut ot tne air, ana tne snak ing to which it is subjected to, has not varied more than a minute a month, or two seconds a day. It has only acquired witn eacn vioration oi me uaiauee a va riation of the two hundred and sixteen Mi on mo nil Mi nart of a second. Judge. then, what must be the extreme pe'rfec- tion of tne mechanism oi mis watcii. A watch cannot go for an indefinite period without being repaired or clean ed. At the expiration of a certain time the oil dries up, dust accumulates and wear and tear are inevitable results to the whole machinery, the functions be coming irregular, and frequently ceas ing to act altogether. A person pos sessing a watch of good quality, and desirous of preserving it as such, should have it cleaned every two years at least. But care should be taken to confide this cleaning or repairing to careful hands; an incapable workman may do great injury to a watch even of the simplest construction. Foor Empress Eugenic. The London correspondent of the Troy Times speaks as follows of the Empress Eugenie: Little as most right-thinking people may regret that the cause she represents has been overthrown, and it is to be hoped never to rise again, still he would be justly regarded as an un feeling mortal who could not have a word of sympathy to express for this woman in the severe personal trials she has been called upon to endure during the last ten years. It ts only a short de cade since she occupied the proudest position, as a lady, in Europe; now it can be said, without much exaggeration, that none are so poor as to do her rever ence. Driven from her throne, stripped of her honors, bereft of her husband, son, mother and home, she is all alone in the world. sur rounded with gloomy reminiscences. Hers, indeed, has been a life of sorrow, her road a veritable via cruris. It seems on reaching England from South Africa, she was told that, after all she had re cently suffered, the statue of her poor boy might not be given a corner in West minster Abbey. The blow staggered ner, and she cannot be made to underst 1,..,. . . i,, n ffin n ur Tiiaon'i'T nil . , . St. mfll-h u in Till' VfiTlRTHI I" 1,1! She cannot see why it is tuat tne nin UVWWIV TAP iniTM H,Tlfl I L lit. 1UCU1U1. nn . who cave ttD his Hie lor tne I.Iia nnimtrv of his adontion. It i .1....-, .a i,.. Vviin naa 'lci'iiriiini' solved to shake the dust of England W fAot to take ud her abode a. tnraicm cauntrv. whither will also carry the remains of her husband and son. The place in which she will take up her abode in fu ture will be at her chateau of Arenen berg, situated, as almost everybody knows, in one of the loveliest parts of Switzerland. There, it is further stated, it- ; 1,01. ir.tc.nHon to arect a errand maus oleum which shall be a last resting place for the ashes of herself, the Emperor and the Prince Imperial. Though we cannot sympathize with her in this re solve, thinking, as the most of us do, that the good will of France is more to be preferred than the respect of all 'the Napoleons wllb have ever lived, now live and are yet to be born, still we can be generous enough to wish, as the psalm ist says, that "goodness and mercjr may follow her all the days of her life," and that wherever she sojourns those among whom she dwells may remember that she is one who has been the sports- fate, one whose pathway in liie nas ueeu watered with tears. The acme ol laziness has been reached by the man who always kept one eye closed because he could see well enough with the other, and besides it was too. much trouble to keep them both open.