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Corvallis Gazette PUBLISHED VERY FRIDAY MORNING, BY YANTIS & WOODCOCK TERMS: (Coin.) Pr Year, $2 50 Hz Months. 1 so Thro Months, l 00 . Sing-le Copies. 10c All notices and advertisements intended for pub iwauon anouia oe nanaea in Dy noon on w ednesday CORVALLIS livery, Feed, -AND SALE STABLE. Itlaitt U9 Corralll, Oregon. SOL. KING, Propr AWNINU BOTH BARNS I AM PREPARED TO v oner superior accommodation, in the Livery line. Always ready for a drive. GOOD TEAMS At Low Rates. My stables are first-clasn in every respect, and com potent and obliging hostler, always ready to serve the public, REASONABLE CHARGES FOR HIRE. P rticalar Attention Paid to Boarding Horses. ELEGANT HEARSE, CARRIAGES AND HACKS FOR FCNERAES. Cory all i s, J one 24, 1881 . 18 :25tf WILLIAM MORRIS, (LATE FROM ENGLAND) TAILOR, FRONT STREET Two door North of the Vincent House, COKVALLIS, - CSiGQN. Genuine Buffalo Pitts CHALLENGER THRESHER ! AU Orders promptly Executed. and cleaning at moderatepricc3. 18:261y H. E. HAERIS, On Door South of Graham & Hamilton '. CORYALLIS, . . OBEtiON. Groceries, Provisions, -AN I DRY GO DS. Corvallis, June 24, 1881. 18:28tf. Bo8rding and Lodging. GEORGE KISER, PHILOMATH, OREGOxi, BESPECTFULLY INFORMS THE TRAVELING public that he ' now prepared and in readiness .'Sth..y V chooce to give him a SINGLE MEAL, DAT OR WEEK. I also prepared to furnish hnm of public patronag, solicited. Give me aadl Am CLVlWtrw ar ti.. Philomath, Juno 24, 1881. W35tt N. 4 AVEBT, D. D. a, DENTIST. Havin locatpH MnMn.t. ly in Corvallis I desire to in- lorm ine puouc mat 1 am ready to do all kind of dental work. My instruments are alt new and of the latest im proved style. All work in sured and satisfaction guar anteed or the money refunded Office over Graham h Gold son' Drug store, Corvallis Oregon. 18:25tf. VOL. XVIII. CORVALLIS, OREGON, JULY 29, 1881. NO. 31. J. K. BRYSON, Attorney-at-Law. A. J. YOUNG. BENTON COUNTY REAL ESTATE And Loan Agency. Money to Loan ! We he'ye fnone v to loan on good farms in Benton Connty in sums to suit borrowers. LOW INTEREST AND LONG TIME. Interest and Principal can be paid in installments. FARMS FOR SALE ! We have a large list of Good Farms and Ranches situated in various nortions of Benton County, for sale on easy terms. Parties wishing to buy or sell a Farm, .Ranch or Town Property, will save money by calling on us. BRYSON & YOUNG. Office: Uo-stairs in Jacobs & Neuo-ass' New Brick, otmosite Occidental Hotel Corvallis, Oregon. 18n27tf. The Best is the Cheapest ! Many valuable improvements, making it KING OF THE FIELD. Lightest Draft, Most Durable, Fastest, Best Cleaner and Grain Saver, Handsomest and .best .fainted Machine in the World. Never eaUken out of the field for any other machine. Examine the Challenger before Ordering. For sale by WOODCOCK & BALDWIN. OCCIDENTAL HOTEL, 03 f f 2 o 25 H IS W s 3 GEO. P. WRENN, Eeal Estate, Life and Insur ance Agent. Will attend to collecting of money on account or by note. Prompt attention given to all business en trusted to my care. Door, Windows, Blinds and Mouldings Kept constantly on hand. CTOffice opposite King's Stables. 22tf DR. F. A. "VINCENT, DEUTIST, CMTUUS, OKECO. OFFICE IN FISHER'S BRICK OVER MAX Max. Friendley's New Store. All of the latest Improvements. Everything; new and complete. AU work warranted. Alease give me a call. 18:25tf. G. R. FARRA, M. D. Physician & Surgeon. OFFICE OVER GRAHAM, HAMILTON a GO'S Drug Store. CorvaUi, Oregon. 18:2Stf. J.R. BRYSON. JLttorney at !La,w, All i will receive prompt attention. Collections a Specialty- Osrrslhs, June 21 ia -1M . MRS. N. C. POLLY, Proprietress, SEsEPTbe Occidental is a new building, newly furnished, and first class in every particular. Stages leave this Hotel daily for Albany, and Yaqu in Bay on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays. is:,!?0 Chinese employed in. this house. GRAHAM. HAMILTON & CO., Druggists and Apothecaries, "AND DEALERS Ir- PAIKTS, OILS, YABNISHES, BRUSHES, MASS, PUTTY, TRUSSES. SHOULDER BEACES, TOILET ARTICLES AC. A fall line or Broks, Stationery and Wall Paper. Our drugs are fresh and well selected. Paescriptions compounded at all hours. 18-26ly Wheat and other Grain Stored on the best of Terms by -AT- Corvallis and Booneville. sacks itomsheFto patrons. Fanners will do weB to call ons me before making arrangements elsewhere vl8n27yl. . TELEGRAMS, Detroit. July 20. -J. E. Davis & Go's drufj store burned; loss $60,000. fireman McQueen was killed. Chicago, July 32. A freight train on the Milwaukee division of the Chicago end North western railroad ran into a washout this morn ing, ditching en engine and seven ear, and killing a brakeman, Edward Hughes. Several eases of lightning striking in the city this morning reported. Reports from all over the Northwest, eame showing that yesterday was intensely hot In most places, and when, the storm came it was one of the most severe ever experienced, being a combination of light ning, thunder and heavy rain. Many cases of strokes by lightning are mentioned, some dis astrous. Two telegraph operators died at their work. Lock Haven, Pa., July 22. The Pennsyl vania ' pulp and paper mills burned. Loss $160,000. , Santa Fe, July 22. All the omployei at the Navajo agency hare left, owing to the threat ening attitude of the Indians, and fears of a general massacre. It is believed that the agent will be either murdered or forced to leave the reservation. "Kansas City, July 22. The wreck of a wild freight train on the Santa, Fe road, near Law rence, disclosed a bold plot to rob a passenger train on which an express messenger had thirty or forty thousand dollars in the safe. Culpepper, Va., July 22 The monument to the confederate dead was unveiled to-day be fore a large crowd. Addresses were made by seveaal confederate generals. Brooklin, Mass., July 21. The most violent thunder storm ever known here occurred this afternoon, accompanied by a terrific shower of hail stone from a half to an inch in diameter, doing great damage. Washington, Jul; 22. The President rested well during the night, and is quite easy this morning. At 2 p. m . his pulse is 92, tempera ture and respiration normal. The President fears, but surgoons do not, that the ball may have injured his spine, and make him a cripple. The wound to-day discharged more patches of clothing, crrried into it by the ball. A piece of bone eut off from the rib and driven into the wound also came ont to-day. Surgeons feel specially gratified at this, as it shows that the wound is draining out thoroughly elear to where the bullet lies, and that everything in the nature of a foreign or irritating substance is being forced out. The patches of clothes discharged to-dsy were both woolen and cotton of the shirt an d coat worn by the President. Be now hears the greater part of the daily papers read to him. Boston, July 22. A heavy thunder storm to day dene great damage in eastern Massachu setts. Lightning struck in many places, burn ing a number of barns, killing several horses, shattering flagstaff, telegraph poles, trees, ete. Half a dozen people were prostrated but none fatal. At New Bedford a schooner was struck and her mtxzen top mast splintered. John Shandy, rtewort, was knocked seuaeless, and mate imperiled. Des Moines, July 22 A case of Asiatie chol era was discovered at Bast Des Moines to-day. Washington, Jnly 22. The Postmaster Gen eral notifies all postmasters that their quarterly accounts mast be forwarded as the law requires immediately at the close of every quarter, failure to comply will be cause for removal. Saratoga, Races July 22. mile, won by Valparaiso, Thora 2d; time, 1:1SJ. Dash 1 S-S miles: Ripple 1, Saunterer, 2d; time, 2:5SJ. Half mile match race: Vampire won in 484 seconds, Ida second. Mile dash: Duke of Montrose 1st, Knight Templar 2d; time, 1:42. Albany, N. I, July 22. After a mutual understanding between Republican member that they would firmly stand by the Republiean caucus nominee, at i:iO r. nr. the conference assembled in the chamber, 21 senators and 69 assemblymen answering to the roll. On mo tion of Skinner that the roll be called and each member rise in hi place and name hi eandi. date for U. 8. Senator. The roll being called, Eldridge 0. Lapham was named by 61 mem bers, Conkling 27, Woodford and Evarts each 1. On motion, Lapham's nomination was made unanimous amid three cheers. Senator Woodin, upon being ealled, congratulated the assembly upon the result attained, and spoke In glowing terms of the action just taken. Holbert said : " I am happy at this result." He prophesied that thi union would sweep the State next fall a by wildfire. Senator Pitts, Sharpe and others also made congratulatory and spirited speeches, all of which were receiv ed with hearty applause. Joint convention assembled at 4 and voted for U. S. Senator, with the following result : Senate Lapham, 22, Potter 5; Assembly Lapham 70, Potter 37. Total Lapham 92, Potter 42. Necessary to a ohoioe, 68. The chair announced the election of Eldridge G. Lapham in the place of Rctcoe Conkling, resigned. The joint assem bly dissolved amid thundering applause. The Legislature agreed to adjourn sine die to-mor row, 23rd. Baa Francisco, July 22. Rumors regarding the sudden disappearance of a clerk of the Anglo-California bank are ia eirenlatioa, to the effect that he is a defaulter to the amount of about $6,000, invested in fast horse and faster women. Santa Barbara, July 22. Antoaia Lopez, a young lady 17 years old, while trying to light a fire, was probably fatally burned by the ex . plosion of a coal oil east. Eureka, July 23. Grading on the Eureka and Colorado railroad is to be commenced at once. A large force of engineers is in the field. ' Washington, July 23. This morning the President showed the usual symptom of recov ery, bat at about 8'oclock was attacked with a chill. Ha shook ail over and hie muscles her came rigid wish what surgeons call " a rigor.' This chilly sensation lasted until 9 o'clock' wham fever set ia and rose rapidly. Hie pulse went Up to 130, aad temperature above 161. Ia an hour or so the fever declined some. The doctor are not able to define the cause of the cause of the change. The flow of the pus from the wound stopped this morning, aad surgeons fay that thi may have eaused the change in his condition. 1:30 r. a. Attending surgeons have just tel egraphed Drs. Hamilton aad Agnew to come to Washington at once for consultation. 3:30 r. k. Dr. Bliss reports the condition of the President much improved sinoe noon. News that the President was not doing no well spread rapidly through the city, and be fore long many footstep were turned toward the White House. The tame expressions of so licitude and anxiety which marked all faces just after the President was shot, were visible everywhere. Dr. Bliss said, at a quarter past 1 o'clock p. a.: "I have just left the Presi dent. ' He is sleeping now and resting easier. There i no greater complication in hia case." New York, July 23. Excitement at hotels and en exchanges and on Wall street, is almost as great and painful to-day as on the day the President was shot. Executive Mansion, July 24, 10 a. h. The President was more restless than usual during the night, and had another rigor just before midnight. This morning at 8:15 his pulse was 98, temperature 9S.4, respiration 18. A con sultation was then held with Dr. Hamilton of New York and Dr. Agnew of Philadelphia, after whirh a counter opening was made through the integument of the back about three inches below the wound. It is hoped that this wilt facilitate the draining of pus. The Presi dent bore the operation well. 11 a. a.: One abscess was reached by an incision. The pus is discharging through both the incision and the wound. July 24. The trouble with the President seems to be that the wound is healing too fast from the interior. The sending for surgeons was a precaution, not an act of panic. In relation to the nature and necessity of the operation performed by Dr. Agnew this morn ing Dr. Re) burn said : The direction taken by the ball after it entered the body was forward and slightly downward until it struck one of the ribs; it was then deflected still further downward, and a little to the right, so as to make acute an ale with the line of the back. When the probe was introduced into tbe wound to the depth of 3 or SJ inches, its direction was such that , the inner end was only about 1 inches from the outside of the body at a point lower down. The examination this morning showed that pus cavity had formed in the track of the bullet, and beyond the point where it glanced from the rib, and that this cavity could be reached by a direct incision three inches below tbe month of tbe wound. A wide cut was made into tbe pus cavity, which was reached at the depth of a little more than an inoh. A flexible rubber drainage tube perfo rated with holes was introduood into the wound made by the ball, and after being carried through the pus cavity was brought out through the newly made incision. Tbe discharge which followed the opening of tbe pus cavity was en tirely sasisfactor to the surgeon and was soon followed by relief to the patient. Dr. Roy burn said there was no symptoms of blood poisoning ia the President's ease. Cauandaigua. July 23. News of the election of Lapham was received hare with demonstra tions of rejoicing. New Oileans, July 33 A fire destroyed buildings from No. Ill to No. 126, aad No. 47 Girard Street Loss $100,000. Dallas, July 23. A train was wrecked yes terday afternoon about 400 miles west of thi city on the Texas aad Pacific road. Three men were killed outright and five wounded. St. Paul, July 23 Gov. Smith, of Wiaeonson, having learned that striking lumbermen at Bau Claire mean mischief, called out two battalions of State troops. July 24 Eight companies of State troops are encamped at the pablie park, where 1000 strik ing mill hands are assembled. Omaha. July 23 A trusted agent of Jay Gould says that an alliance has been formed between the Texas Paeifle (Gould's railroad) the Atlantic ;nd Pacific, controlled by tbe Nickerson interest, and tbe Utah Southern and Union Pacific, to form a junction in the Pah tanagut valley, Nevada, and unite in building a trunk line through from that peint to San Francisco. $25,000,000 worth of bonds for this trunk line has been subscribed, in London. The Southwest system in Texas aad extensions consisting of about 700 miles, eott of construc tion alone $40,000,009, are now building about seven miles per day, and will be finished this year to Leardo. It will be built into New Or leans about October 1st, where it has bought immense terminal facilities in connection with the barge line. It is calculated to complete the Mexican line to the City of Mexico inside of two years. It i thought the wheat and grain crop of the. Missouri river will find an outlet at New Orleans. Las Cruces, N. M July 23. It is reported that some of Lieutenant Guilfoyle's company, while traveling from Fort Stanton, Alamo canyon, in the Sacramento mountains, were attacked by Indians in ambuscade, who fired upon them at distant range. Fire was returned at same range for half an hour, resulting in one Indian killed aad one soldier wounded in tbe thigh. Upon receipt of thi news Guilfoyle started in pursuit, aad at Lagmeant found two Americans dead and riddled with bullets, their bodies still warm. Three mile further west he discovered the Indians and lead a running fight of about 300 yards. The Indians being well mounted, escaped. The Indian numbered 30 squaw aad 46 bucks, supposed to be from the old Modoc eouatry ia Oregon and Califor nia. FOREIGN". Dublin, Jnly 20. The agricultural labor ers strike baa already spread to almost ev ery part of county Cork. Fears are enter tained for the safety of the harvest. Berlin-, July 30! An anti-Jewish meeting was held here Tuesday. 2,000 people pres ent. , ' ' Stontraal, July The Canadian Pacif 6c shareholders passed resolutions authori sing the issue of $85,000,000 bonds. London, July 32. Private advices from St. Petersburg report that the nihilists are every where active, aad that Geo. Igaatieff'i effort to destroy tbe orgaaraalioa asset with no suc cess. The Ciar is still i rasa a red in the castle at Peterbeff. Tbe eoadit ion Of tbe province is appalling. The Siheriaa plague is ravaging the western aad soatbera district aad peasants are everywhere In dispair. The nihilist are working ia rural diatriet with great uccesa. and before long the peasantry -will be a ripe fur insurrection as tbe townspeople. Nothing but the vast military organisation and terror ism practiced by the p-dice stays the inevitable revolution. London, July 21 At the Windness athletic port to day, Meyer, an American, won the quarter and half mile race with ridiculou ease, the former in 53 3-5 seconds, and the lat ter in two minute and five seconds. Havana, Jnly 22. Small poj is raging in San Domingo. Parties are daily organized to bury tbe victims. Yellow fever and small pox are epidemio at Vera Crus. STATEJIEWS, The Capital Guard brass band at Salem is organized and consists of ten instruments, About 6000 men are now on the' pay roll of the 0. R. & N. Co., in Oregon and W. Ty. A new telegraph line is being built by tbe O. R. & N. Co., which will run to Waits burg, day ton and Grange City along the line of the railroad. T. B. Odeneal, clerk of the supreme court is preparing the decisions of the supreme court for publication. It will be out about tbe 1st of next January. Carl Druhm, the steward on board the steamboat Alice, running between Astoria and the various canneries on the Columbia, has fallen heir to a snug fortune of $180,000 from an uncle in Germany. The Pacific Bridge Company have finished the railroad bridge at Lafayette and remov ed their corps of employees to the Luckia mute, where they are putting in another bridge. The Imperial mills at Oregon City are being thoroughly overhauled, and the ma chinery repaired. A new flame is being buiit, and improvements in general are being made. The mills are expected to be mooing again in about two weeks. Tom Outran cf Albany had a bad .time of it las week. On Friday ha was thrown from a horse and skinned up considerably, and on Saturday, while handling lumber at the yard, he feU over the river bank, a distance of some twenty feet, and bruised himself up considerably. A new steamboat is being built at Port land that will run, when completed, from Portland to the mouth of Cedar creek, at which point Messrs. Fobister & Link are erecting a store building and expect to put in a full (took of merchandise. It is expect ed that the steamer will be running by the 1st of September. Old "Father Worth", as he was familiar ly called, died at his home in Halsey last Monday night after a sickness of several weeks, aged about 83 years. He has been a pastor in the United Presbyterian Church for many years, and has lived Jfor quite a while in Halsey and Brownsville. The fu neral took place on Wednesday. Mr Worth was also one of the oldest residents of Oregon. W. C. Morgan's wheat, ia Linn Co, was all ready for harvest last week, and he got out his McCorraick binder, oiled it up put his boy up on the seat and started things to going. The horses scared at something and started off in a keen run and struck a stump, smashed the machine all to pieces, and threw the boy through the air for some fiteen or twenty feet, giving him the worst shaking up he has had for many a day, but not seriously injuring him. No damage to the team. Attempt at Rate. Thursday an indi vidual, giving his name as J. A Pickett, was brought into town in tbe custody of the constable from Fagle creek, where he had the day before attempted to commit rape upon the person of the eleven year old daugh ter of one of tbe citizens there. The girl's mother has been deceased only a short time. The fiend in question claims to be a tomb stone agent, and had called at her father's house for the purpose of selling him a mon ument for his departed wife. From what can be learned it seems that he and the girl happened to be together alone for a little while, when he attempted to perpetrate the above mentioned bestial crime. The girl tore herself away from him, and ran to her father crying, and informed him of what had taken place, By this time the villain had become alarmed and commenced to flee, but the father was equal to the occasion, and soon had a well-loaded piece against his shoulder with fine bead drawn upon him. The father called oat for him to Stop bat he kept on. Again- the father, called for him to halt, and this time attempting to fire; but as luck would have it, in the excite ment, he bad only half -cocked his gun. far which the fiend may be thankful that he now has an oportunity to repent of his evil deed, and that he is not now .waiting down deep in the ground, for a tombstone to mark well the place where ha last "turned up his toes." He stopped than, aad was im mediately turned over to the constable. Ho ha been commited to the keeping of Sheriff Pilsbury to wait for the grand jury to investigate hia case. Oregon City Eater prise. Corvallis Gazette, BATES OF ArrVESTrBDitT arses. 1 Inch., t Inch... 3 Inch... tuck... I Column I Column I Column $ io6 took 2 4 00 5 001 is ooi 1 M 6 rooi s ooi 10 w IS 00 26 00 3 M S00I 8 001 10 00 is oo Hop 1 to S 00 40 00 6 M I 8 00 $ II 00 IS 00 It 00 so oo I .is oo SS 00 60 00! 1 Tr it as 18 9) fit 00, a os sses S3! 10 OS rTotica fat Local Column, not lees than tt cents Sat each notice. Exceeding this amount 10 cents per line for each insertion Transient and Legal Advertisement S3 00 per. square for flnrt and 81.00 tor each subsequent inser tion. No charge for affidavit of pubilcatioa. Transient advertisement, to be paid In ADVANCE. - rroreastonai or business card (I sqaarey Oil per No deviation n the above rites' wltf be mad in' .iamtadiese. , . k MANIAC AT SEA the steamer Newbern, C&ptiarf' Metzger, ten days from Gnaymas, w' rived in San Francisco a fjw dy ago. Mie brought (be mate, D. Q4 Mclsaac, and four seamen of the ilf fated schooner, Eustace, I. Gatte owner, which was recently blown np in the Gulf of Califonffa by the Chi-, nese cook, he first having assassina ted Captian A. Hornsby. The fol lowing are the circumstances of the trigedy as given by the mate:' Cfer' tbe morning of the 1 3th inst, while" on the passage across1 the Gulf from' Cape St. Lu.as Ma 7.1 a tun, about mid way, the Cook exhibited signs of in-" sanity, and seemed to be laboring under the impression that some one' was trying to take his life. As he' was not violent, Captain Hornsby"' did not think it necessary to conBne him. The cook remained in his quar-' ters from 9 a. m. until 2 p. m. when4 he went to work apparently all right He cooked the dinner, trimmed and lighted the lamps, and performed mV duties as usual. A little after 7 P. MV ho went below, all supposing he had" gone to bed, as he usually retirtvti early. At 8 p. ir.he mate was sit ting on the taffrail talking to Captian" Hornsby, when the latter remarked that he would go below and light ' moment he returned' hastily crying out"caich him! catch' him!" at the same lime apparently" holding something with both hand against his body. The mate ran and met him at the cabin door, when the Captain cried "Pull this knife fjotft." He fell against the mate, who tried to pull the knife out, but could noO calling the man at tbe wheel, and a tbe same time seating the Captain, he succeeded in extracting the diatfly weapon. The Captain gashed tVo' or three times and immediately ex pired. The nian at the wheel aw the chinamen running to a lo-jket iff the forward part of the cabin, where the axes were kept,andthen blow out the light. Tbe man at the wheel gave the alarm and all the crew came aft, got the Captian' body, laid it out on the quartet deck and' covered . it up. The cabin door was closed the men all going' forward except the mate, who remained at the wheel.' Soon the cookcameto the cabin doety and the male prevented hia oorniug' out and called the crew aft. The door being open and the cook sering' all the crew would not come cutv The door was then closed and made fast, as the crew refused to come alt again unless this was done, as all the firearms on board were in the cabin. Tbe men going forward again, tb cook came to the door and said it the mate molested him he would'kil! him also and then lire the vessel. The crew fearing he would fire tbe vessel having about 2000 kegs of powder' on board, proposed to leave the ship immediately; but the mate disuaded them from doing so. About 1 1 p. hV the cook lit tbe binnacle lamp in the cabin, tbe crew all standing around the door with handspikes, bat no' movement was made by the cook? and nothing more was seen or heard ot him until the next day. To keep the' men satisfied, the mate got the long? boat ready with water and provisions At 11 a. m. on the 14th inst. the' cook came to the door and spoke to' the man at the wheel, who called' the' mate. The latter asked the cook if he wished to come ont, but he replK ed no, and said if the men wanted' any provisions he would pass the'raf ont. The mate replied that it waaent necessary, as the men bad already been to dinner.- Nothihg'more trans pired until- about 2 r m. when" the., man at the Wheel gave the alaTrrT or fire, the mate seeing' at' the same' trrae' smoke coming out of the cabin sky light, which was partly open. Put ting the helm' down immediately,, the long boat was launched, and in to doing she filled with water and capsized. The crew then got in the' small boat hanging to davits and lowered tbeimselves-and immediately polled away to lew a rd as mat as pos sible. Pi ten minutes the Feeside of the quarter deck was in a theet qf flame, i n fi ve or ten rhin u tea at explo sion took place which was sOmetbjngf terrific. This was followed in a few" seconds by a second explosion. The mate and crew then pulled for the shore, aud at Id a. id On thrjb made the land about SO xumfUy ptm north of Maaatran. r r ins rilace thev made tbsor war to Maiatlah, reaching there ft time tt' take the' steamer Hewbern for Sao FiciBCo, Coos i 'fey Serwa ,