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
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HOUSE II
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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.
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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.
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