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Corvallis July 8, 1881. WHO SETS THE FASHIONS, Who sets the fashions, YA like to know, For the little people beneath the snow ? And are they working a weary while, There's a Primrose who used to be The very picture of modesty; Plain were her dresses, but now she goes With crimps and fringes and furbelows. And even Miss Buttercup puts on airs Because the color in vogue she wears; And as for dandelion, dear me! A vainer creature you ne'er will see. When Mrs. Poppy that dreadful flirt Was younger, Bhe wore but one plain skirt; But now I notice, with great surprise, She's several patterns of largest size. The fuschsia sisters those lovely belles! Improve their styles as the mode compels; A sid, though everybody is loud in pi-aise, They ne'er depart from their modest ways. A nd tbe Pansy family must have found .',ieen Elizabeth's wardrobe underground; TV in velvets and satins of every shade '1 Uroughout the season they're all arrayed. links and Daisies and all tne flowers hvnge the fashions, as we change ours; A al those who knew thm in ohlendays Are mystified by their modern ways. who sots the fashions, I'd like to know, r the little people beneath the snow? Ami are they busy a weary while Drc ising themselves in the latest style? Independent. LETTER FROM PORTLftNO, VII.TAKD's ANACONDA THE fllOMP-SOX-SIMON SQUABBLE STATE OF BUSINESS, AC. Editors Gazette. Portland is now emphatically a city of great ex pectation. Ireland- of the Astorian used to liken the town to a "fat duck," setting upon the edge of a sea of glo ry, and gobbling the good things .which the winds and waves of circum stance and fortune wafted to its nest. (P. S. Since Ireland has settled in Astoria he gone back on this unct- ious simile.) once for all, that vse tJie people, will rule the destinies of the northwest, and that the corporations created un der our laws shall exercise their pow ers for the promotion of the public welfare. Villard however will hard ly have tlie field to himself, as it is quite evident that Jay Gould will push li is Union Pacific Branch into our state and possibly the coast. Here possibly is the opening for your Ore gon Pacific company. Itwouldtea God send to the state to secure so strong a competing power as this Union Pacific branch extended to the Willamette Valley. Portland is enjoying a long drawn out fight over the election of Mayor. From the certificates sent up by the judges of the election in the different wards, it appeared that Joseph Simon was elected by nine votes. From one ward the judges sent up with their certificates what purporied to be the tally sheets of the clerks, from which sheets it appeared that a mis- lake after the votes had been made in counting, and that rectifying that mistake Thompson would be elected by one vote. The returning board tr ok the responsibility of ignoring the literal statements of the election judges certificates, corrected the al leged error and gave the certificate of election to Thompson. The mat ter is now before the Circuit Court on a writ of Mandamus, asking that the returning board be directed . to issue the certificates of election to Simon. A good deal of bitter feeling has bt en engendered by the fight atid which will crop out still further in the state election next June; for it is really fight for Senatorial advantages in the legislature delegation from this coun ty next year. The Mayor has large ly increased powers and patronage under the new charter, which can and no doubt will be used to advance the interests of himself or "his man." And the same course would have been taken if the other fellow had got in, for and on nehalf of his man. Both partiesjiave been charging each 'other with all mariner of badness, In nothing is the future prospects of the town more manifest than in showing the great need of broth, r t.bn rirec rf runl tmtntc. which is now ! Hallenbach with his revival at this said to be as high here as in San Francisco with its quarter of a mil lion population. And there can be no doubt that the prices of real estate are now much above the margin of a reliable rent value, and pushed into the region of speculation, from which point the reaction will send it down in a crash as in 1872. Business however is not so satis factory as these high prices of real es tate might indicate. The low ju ice of the last crop of wheat and the de ficit in the salmon catch is telling up on the merchants; thus showing a!'t r all that it is labor well paid labor on the larm and fisheries which give solidity and buoyancy to all depart ments of trade. And It is for this reason that the interests of the farm er, as the foundation of our prosperi ty, -should be carefully protected against the extortion of monopolies and the taxes of uujust tariffs. The latest sensation here is the in corporation of the "Oregon and Trans-continental Railrood Compa ny," not inaptly dubbed by some 'Villard's Anaconda." The capital stock is placed at the small sum of Fifty Million dollars, and yonr cor resnondent had high hopes of being allowed to take a million or so of it, when it is announced that the stock has already been taken in N. Y. City and commands a premium. So that we see the good things of -this conn- try are not for the Oreonians. Vi! lard could see as everybody else did, and that the load of bond debts and capital stock of the various corpora tions he had secured control of, ag gregating not less then one hundred and fifty million dollars, was more than any man except Vanderhilt could carry. And as he devisis this new scheme as a sort of wrecking machine, or "devil fish," to be conve niently at hand, and with its beak and succers fastened in the heart and vitals of these corporations, it will draw in with its long arms and slow ly but surely aosorb their substance and leave the chaff and shell to the confiding bondholders. Thousands of bond purchasers will lose their sa vings and investments to the extent of many millions of dollars, while a little ring of half a dozen will acquire immense fortunes. Oregon is inter ested in this game to the extent of getting railway connection with the eastern states and with California, and it will no doubt soon get it. But having these railroads we are still more interested in the manner of their management. We certainly do not want "King Stork" to eat us little mice all up. The Oregonian Bays this corporation "will control the destinies of the "north west". Let that proposition be rejected; nnd have it understood particular time. But this letter is already long, and I will tell ou the balance next time, X. Y. Z. One morning last week as Mr, James Hackney, the father of the lost boy, was standing near the front door of his restaurant, No. 132 First street, Portland two boys stepped at) quickly to him, one of them hav ing a hat in his hand which he hand ed to Mr. Hackney, with the remark: "Here is your boy's hat we found it Sunday night floating in the water near the stark street slip " Instantly the boys disappeared, and before the astonished father could recover from his surprise and start to follow them, the boys were out of sight. The hat, Mr. Hackney says, is the one his boy wore when he went away. The mystery gathering around this singular disappearance appears to thicken, that there lias been some foul play in the affair is now almost certain, but how and for what motive or cause time alone can determine if the mystery is ever unraveled. " Yes, I knew him," the Texas Sherifi remarked, when somebody asked him about Bed-handed Bill; "I never met him but once; he came down here last February, riding another man's mule, and he came in and left the measure pf his neck with me for a lariat." "Did you fit him? " asked the traveler. " Not very well," said the Sheriff, "blamed thing was too tight, but he never said anything about it after he tried it on, so I didn't change it." And then the com mittee rose and reported the bill to the house, which shortly afterward took a recess until the evening session. Bur-detle. JAY GOULD AT G0ULDSB0R0. Jay Gould used to live not far from here, and when he came to Scranton the other day with Sam Sloan and Sidney Dillon there was a general desire to see him. He did not stay veiy long, however, to make or renew acquaintances, at tram came thundering down from Moscow at tlu rate of fifty miles an hour, and the order. "Clear the track!" went through from here to Oswego as goon as his party came in sight. Here he found time to step out on the platform. The only new ac- i TXT T quaint ance he mane was vv. iw Storrs, general coal agent of the Del- aw: re, Lackawanna and western Railroad. Storrs is an austere, thorough-going, hard-woking marl, who has general supervision of the mines in this sei ti n. When Gould and he were introduced, he asked after Gould's health, and the later replied by asking, "What's youi ca pacity?" He meant for producing coal. Mr- Storrs understood, and promptly answered, after which the party boarded their special train, and went flying through the Norch. An old man who saw Gould on the platform, and heard that he could not remember whether he gave his check for five millions or ten millions when he ga'hered in a little telegraph slock, said : " I worked with him more than a quarter of a century ago up the mountain at trouiasnoro. tie got into a snarl with the authorities there about the ownership of the old tannery, and the millitary had to be called out to drive him from posses, sion. He was as hard to fight then as he is to-day. The whole region was excited about it, ana the affair was known all over the country as 'the Gouldsboro rebellion.' A big lawsuit grew out of it. Charh-y Pike of Wilkesbarre defended Gould, and got him off all right " The scene of the tannery warfare of which the old man spoko is a short distance south of this city, on the Pocono Mountain. When Gould passed through it. the other day he is said to have remarked to Sloan: "This place don't eeem to have changed much since I ran the tannery here In Scranton Gould feasted his eyes on the glittering lines of coal cars laden with anthracite and drawn up in line ready for market. The visit was made principally to look over the ground with a view to increasing the railroad facilities of the place, so as to meet the demands which the completion of the New York, Lacka wanna and Western will make on the road. It is thought that, to obviate the congregating of coal cars in the company's yard, planes will be con structed along the hillsides noi th and south of the city to take the coal out of the valley and connect, at conven ient points with the main line of the Delaware. Lackawanna and West em. N. Y. Sin. An ingenious mother who has long been bothered by the fastidiou ness of her children at table has at last discov ered a method of circumventing tht-m. She places what she wants each child to eat before its neighbor at table, and of course each cries for what the other has, and the ends of justice are promoted. "So you married old Heavipenny's eldest, I hear," said the friend "Yes," said young Inforit, " I have." " Good match?" asked the friend. "I guess so," sighed the bridegroom, wearily, "heaps of brimstone in it." And the years go by. Hawk-Eye. The White' House china is described as having designs representing the kinds of food which should go on each dish, so that you may eat an oyster and see a pictured shell, and no on. Said a lady to her husband, dear, what is cotton duck?" said he, carelessly, "a kind of canvass back." "My "Oh, It was a little three-year-old who remarked that she didn't wn't to kiss her papa because he had "fringe on his mouth." Mr. Hemming is the appropriate name of she great English needle maker. A LGNQ NAME AND A STRONG DRINK. He had been fourd in the street early yesterday morning so drunk that he had to be taken to the Essex Market Police Court in a cart, when he was brought to the bar he had re covered sufficiently to pronounce his name. "Tel' him lo give it again," said Justiac Smith to the interpreter. "Tschaikorokorowsky'replied the prisoner. "The cool weather if favorable to the pronunciation of such a name," said Justice Smith, "but to shorten the proceedings I'll call youTschaiky. How did you get so drunk, Tschaiky?" "He says, your Hnoor, he only drink fiveVinis' worth of rum," said the interpreter." "How does he account for ce'iit g so drunk on five cents' worth of rum that he had to be brought here in our elegant coach and four?" "He says, your Honor, the rum was strong." "Tell him that five cents' worth of rum will cost him five dollars." "He says, yo ir Honor, he'd rat'ier be locked up five months than pay five dollars." "I'm sorry, Tschaiky, that I can't grant your request," replied Justice Smith; "I can only give you four days." Words ot a dying cannibal: 'Write me down as one who loved, his fellow men." A New England .Puritan mob killed the first elephant that landed in this country. A man who drinks lightly now is called "a Durham" because he is ot the "short horn" breed. There is a man in Colorado who sins himself "T. Pot." It is said that the least thing makes him boil over. There are about five hundred thou sand lace workers in Europe, one half of whom are employed in France. A. NEW FASHION Iff ITUXMUA.L.S. A new fashion, destined yet to become popular, is being quietly introduced into the funerals in New York. For years the press and pulpit have shown the tolly of expending large sums of money on caskets, flowers and carriage proces sions. While a considerable outlay may uot affect well-to-do .people, the poor, a ways desirous of following "the style" as far as possible, imitate the pomp and extravagance in a degree that is positive ly injurious. In many American cities the Catholic clergy have attempted to check the in creasing disposition to make a show by limiting the number of carriages to two, four or six, according to the circum stances of the family; and Funeral Be fown Associations have bean a feature oi social life in London and several other arge cities of England for years. The fashionof putting after advertised irritations to funerals the words, "It it requested that no flowers, be sent," wa i step in the way of funeral reform; an he more recent adopted announcement. ' Interment at the convenience of the iimily," was another important one. L'hese innovations have reduced consid erably the cost of funerals, the last be .ug particularly appreciated by rich ano .oor alike, as constituting an effectua arrier against the professional mourn rs, who attend all possible funerals foj .he sole purpose of having a ride to tht emetery and back. While it has been frequently remarks of our business men that they driv hrough everything as if they had not . ingle moment to spare, even to die, l sometimes becomes evident that the; lave not the time to at end the fuuera I a partner, a friend, or an esteemei ub lie servant. To the men who beloiij. jo secret benevolent societies and trad' rganizations a funeral of an associate u the morning or afternoon involves tlu iuss of at least a haif-day's work; and. ecause there are thousands who canno fford this pecuniary sacrifice, the ri uains of men who in life counted thei liends by the hundred are not infre quently followed to the grave by a doze i r less comrades. The latest innovation gives all th. rieuds of a deceased person an oppoi unity for participating in appropria; seremoniee. It also doos away with th necessity, whether real or assumed, fo iiring a long string of coaches to accon any the body to the grave. The new fashion provides simply foi lolding funeral services in the evening Jusiness men, society men, employ ere md employes can then attend without using a moment of office or factor) ime. In the morning the remains, ac ;ompanied by the immediate family, nay be taken to the place of interment tad laid at rest New York Sun. Young man, don't swear ! Swearing lever was good for a 6ore finger. Ii iever cured tha rheumatism nor helped .raw a prize in a lottery. It fairs rec immended for liver complaint. It isn't ure against lightning, sewing-machine tgents, nor any of the ills which beset .eople through life. There is no occa ion for swearing outside of a newspaper ffice, where it is useful in proof reading md indispensably necessary in getting arms to press. It has been known, ilso, to materially assist the editor in ixiking over the paper after it is print d. But otherwise it is a very foolish md wicked habit. Washington Repub-He. When Boulton, the engineer, partner f Watt, stood in the presence of George ill., to, open to him the mystery of tht steam engine, and the King asked- him. as he might a peddler, " What do you jell, sir?" Boulton replied, "What Kings, sire, are all fond of power." A man who had brutally assaulted hi' wife was brought before a Justice, an had' a good deal to say about gettin justice. " Justice ? " replied the Judgr "you can't get it here. The court has n power to hang you." AUGUST KNIGHT, CABINET MAKER, UNDERTAKER, Cor. Second and Monroe Sts., CORVALLIS, OREGON, Keeps constantly on hand all kinds of F'TJIilSriTXJRIi:, Coffins and Caskets. WOODCOCK k BALDWIN, -THE LEADING HARDWARE HOUSE II Neatness ! Cheapness ! Punctuality ! This side of Portland. Can furnish anything in Iron, Steel, Hardware, Stoves, Tin fe Copper Ware. As cheap and as good quality as any one m Oregon. IRON AND LEAD PIPE, GRINDSTONES, SHEET IRON, ZINC, ROPE, HORSE SHOES, NAILS, BABBIT METAL. CARRIAGE SPRINGS, POCKET CUTLERY, WIRE, BARBED FENCE WIRE, RAZORS, SCISSORS, HOSE PLUMBERS FITTINGS ETC., ETC. Work done to order on short notice and at reasonable rates. Corvallis,. July 1, 1881. 18:27yl. AN AKESIS DR. s. STIiSBEE'S EXTERNAL FILE BEMEDi Give fiutant Relief, tod i an Infallible CURE FOR ALL KINDS OF PILES. gold by Druggists everywhere. Price, $1.00 per box, prepaid, by mail. Samples sent tie to Physicians and all sufferers, by Neustaedter & Co., Box 3946, New York City. Sole manufacturers of AN AKESIS. RAKES, FORKS, SPADES, SHOVELS, GRAIN CRADLES, SCYTHES, SNATHES, And all kinds of Agricultural Implements. 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