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FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 1, 1882.
Kntered at the Postoffice at Corvallis,
Oregon, second-class matter.
-EDITED BY-
M. S. WOODCOCK,
ATTORNEY -AT LAW.
OFFICIAL PAPER FOR BENTON COuNTY
V. 3. SENATOR.
Through the different papers a great deal
is being said about the qualities and proba
bilities of candidates for United States sen
ator. .While we have no war of words to
wage in the matter and no preferances for
any particular candidate, so that a person is
selected who will do equal justice to all
parts of the state. In canvasing the proba
ble candidates why not weinh the qualities
of other than four or five. Why can not
some of these papers who are so anxious
about the matter make mention of tbe name
of W. D. Hare, of Washington county, or
the name of W. P. Lord, of the present su
preme bench, either of which are excellent
material. The names of others might be
mentioned also, who would do honor to the
state if sent to Washington. Why not can
vass the whole field. There is no use of
quarreling about three or four persons with
so much vindictiveness as some papers do,
while Oregon possesses a great many persons
as suitable as those talked of so much.
SHOULD REGULATE TRANSPORTATION.
At the coming Legislature some settle
ment of the freight question should be made.
Persons who order freitrht from San Fran
cisco, or other points, and direct it marked
to the care of some person to be delivered
to him at some intermediate point, they
should have some satisfactory assurance that
it would be delivered as indicated. Or when
freight is lost, broken or damaged by a
common carrier during its transit, the value
of the article should be made good to the
owner of the freight promptly and without
a delay of years in which to do it. With
the transportation facilities of middle Ore
gon all virtually in the hands of one com
pany and with the disposition which that
company cultivates of oppressing the people,
these remedies can not be effected without
some very possitive and effectual enactment
of the legislature. The legislature certainly
has the power to regulate freights and fares
and to prescribe the duties of common car
riers. It has the power to make large
transportation companies do their duty to
the people and to account promptly and
strictly for all articles entrusted to their
charge.
It is a shame to any civilized country to
know that merchants of this valley shipped
goods from ban Francisco to Portland with
directions for them to be delivered at the
latter place to some of the river steamboat
companies, but when the freight arrived at
Portland, the .company carrying it fron San
Francisco would not deliver it, but conveyed
the same to the point of destination at about
as much again cost as the river boats would
have charged for carrying it.
It is also a disgrace that merchants along
the line of transportation in this valley have
lost articles while in course of transporta
tion while other article, have been broken
and damaged, and' some ot them, even after
a year or more of delay, have been unable
to get anything from the company for the
loss or damage. We have a fino country
bat the impositions it sustains are too many.
THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION.
"The perpetuation of our republic de
pends on the virtue and intelligence of the
people." The church and state with all the
resources under their control, are, or at
east should direct all their energies to pro
mote the most exalted standard of virtue
and the highest order uf intelligence. Eveiy
individual, on arriving to the years of ac
countability, owe two great duties to so
ciety they must contribute to the subsis
tence of society and to its peace. Tbe
church and state have schools for the moral
ancLjjntellectual training of the young of our
nation. This is right. The church and
state walk side by side, hand in hand, thus
far, but soon we find them engaged in a
conflict, for the state provides a code of
laws to license and regulate the liquor
trafic, thereby permitting and establishing
another system of schools whose sole mis
sion is to destroy virtue and intelligence, to
promote vice and to sow the seeds of dis
ease of both body and mind, culminating in
temporal and eternal death. By this pro
cess of investigation, we discover the gov
ernment and the manufacturer, wholesaler
and retailer of intoxicating liquors are all
partners. The government says tothe
"trafficer" apply to me advance a certain
amount of cash and give bonds to keep the
peace, and I will license you,' and will pro
tect -yeu in 'your nefarious business, but if
you don't comply with my requirements I
will arrest ycu, fine and imprison you. And
so the vendor complies with the demands of
the government and they go
Then- the work of destruction be
government may cry peace, s
cry peace, the saloon keepers
peace, but there is no peace. T
traffic is a disturber of the peace of
the most ungovernable interrupi
tnrusts liseir on our attention, xne- accu-
pation is red with human blood and it stains
the statutes of oar state and nation wherever
and by whomsoever protected by a license.
When an individual disturbs a public gath
ering, some one cries "put him out" and the
cry is caught up and passed around and out
goes the. disturber of the peace. All that
is wanting to suppress any disturbing force
is public sentiment aroused to action and
down goes the disturbing element. We
have 'sufficient law and public sentiment to
pumsh a man for supplying liquors to the
indians we protect society and the indian,
from the work of the liquor dealer; this is
legitimate and proper, but whiskey guzzlers,
and old policy croakers will tell us "you
can't enforce a law that prohibits this busi
ness, which takes the children's bread,
that takes our grain that ought to feed our
hungry thereby withdrawing food from the
gMiccrr of the world, sending back the
in cahoots.
srin. The
ociy may
mar say
he liquor
Society,
be that
7S.
grain in a form that disturbs society as ac
tively as a grain of sand disturbs the eye.
Under the old Mosaic dispensation there
was a law that if a man owned an ox that
was in the habit of-hooking, and killing the
neighbors, and it was testified to the owner
of that ox, as to his character, and the
owner still persisted in turning him out upon
society, not only the ox was slain, but the
owner also. Now the liquor trafic is our ox,
the government is the owner. It has been
testified to the owner as to the character
of this ox, the disturber of the peace. It
destroys man; it is one of the most destruct
ive and active poisons that enters the phys
ical organism, affecting the brain, every
nerve, the heart, the liver, the kidneys, the
lungs, the stomach, and in fact every fluid
and tissue of the body, it strikes at the life
of eveiy function, and premature death is
inevitable. Prohibition.
The Polk county Itemizer suggests that
the papers of this place "are indulging in a
very undignified controversy." Strictly
speaking the propriety of it in journalism
may be questioned. While it makes some
fun for a few around town, yet with the
majority of readers it is not appreciated and
hereafter we shall endeavor to act upon the
suggestion of the Itemizer and drop the sub
ject. It is, however, easier to give advice
than to follow it, for it seems to us that the
Itemizer has quite frequently been engaged
in an occasional personal unpleasantness.
But even that don't signify that it is the
most proper thing to do. The Yaquina Post
also gives a gentle scolding on the same
subject.
Mining Laws of Alseya District.
On last Wednesday. Aug. 22nd, the
beach miners of the vicinity of Alseya Bay,
organized a mining district, and adopted the
following"
LOCAL LAWS.
Whereas, The Congress of the United
States has made it incumbent on the miners
of the various mining districts of the coun
try to provide such laws for the protection
and regulation of mining claims as to them
may seem right, just and equitable for the
greatest number; therefore, the miners of
Alseya district, do ordain and establish the
following rules and regulations:
Article L This mining district shall em
brace all the ocean beach- between the
mouth of the Alseya Bay and a point fifteen
miles south ot Cape Perpetua.
Article 2. A claim for mining purposes
in this district shall be one-quarter of a mile
in length on the ocean beach, and shall cover
all the beach within such limit, and also the
bluff or bank for a distance of fi ve chains
back of the beach.
Article 3. The boundaries of claims shall
be established and defined by putting up
good and substantial stakes on the bluff or
bank.
Article 4. All claims shall be properly
recorded and described in the registry book
of the district, within thirty days after the
same is taken up .
Article 5. No person within this district
shall take up more than one claim, but any
person may acquire title to any claim or
claims by purchase.
Article 6. Any person holding a claim
in this district who does not work, or cause
same to be worked, at least three days in
every six months, shall forfeit his right to
the same; provided, that where a person
holds more than one claim, the work herein
required shall be considered only to apply
to one claim.
Article 7. Any person disabled by sick
ness for any length of time shall not lose his
right in consequence of not working his
claim during such illness.
Article 8. All streams or water courses
empting upon the beach within the limits
of any claim shall belong to the owner of
such claim for mining purposes.
Article 9. A Recorder of this mining
district shall be chosen whose duty it shall
be to keep in proper form, all records of
the district, and he shall have custody of
all books, laws and proceedings of the dis
trict; he shall be paid the sum of 25 cents
for recording the title of each claim, bill of
sale, agreement, or any document to be
recorded.
Article 10. Disputes concerning claims
or water privileges shall be settled by re
ferring ihe same to a committee of five, or
by arbitration, or by jury chosen from
among the miners of the district.
Article II. The foreman of any jury or
committee of arbitration shall be sworn to
do his duty faithfully and impartially, by
some justice of the peace, notary public, or
other officer qualified to do the same; and
said foreman shall thereafter administer a
like oath to each of bis associates in each
and every case tried, and to every witness
who shall offer to give evidence in such
case.
Article 12. The decision in all such
cases shall be conclusive and binding upon
the parties thereto, and be deemed and
considered final in all such cases. And
either party may compel the other to come
to trial, by giving written notice to the
other of the time and place of trial three
days previous to the same. The finding of
each case shall be duly recorded by the
recerder.
Article 13. If any costs are taxed in
such cases they shall be paid in the same
manner in all respects as in magistrate
courts.
Article 14. No person not an American
citizen shall be competent to act upon any
jury or committee of arbitration in this dis-
trie.
Article
churn
trans
15. No transfer or sale of a min
shall be considered valid unless
iter is recorded in the district
mg
such
record.
Article 16V The right and title to, and
boundaries of, all claims. existing at the date
of the adoption iqf these laws, are hereby
recognized and confirmed.
Adopted Aug. 22, 1882.
A. H. Eruit, President.
W. P. Ready, Secretary.
TELEGRAMS.
Watkins, N. N , Aug. 25. 700 delegates
were in attendance at the Freethinkers'
convention to-day; The following com
mittee on the establishment of a Free
Thought university was perfected: Col.
Ingersol, Courtland Palmer of New York,
Hon. A. B. Bradford of Pennsylvania, Geo.
Chainey of Boston, J. H. Burnham of Mich
igan, G. H. Waeser of Missouri, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton of New Jersey, Col. M. E.
Billings of Iowa, Bx-Gov. Chas. Robinson
of Kansas, Hon. C. B. Waite of Illinois, and
Jno. F. Engle of North Carolina. Ad
dresses will be made by Geo. Chainey,
Matilda Jodyn Gage, Geo. Milne and Tha
deus B. Wakeman. To-morrow afternoon
delegates will take a boat excursion to the
house where Bobt. G. Ingersoll was birn,
25 miles down the lake.
Erie, Pa., Aug. 25. Captain D. Chapin,
a mine locator of New Jersey, struck a
long-sought treasure this A. M. by aid of
a magnetic rod. For some months he has
been cruising outside of Erie harbor in hope
of locating the wieck of the scnooner Ver
million which, with 350 tons of copper,
sunk in a storm nearly 50 years ago. This
A. M. the magnetic indicator was violently
disturbed, and attested the immediate pres
ence of the metal. Soundings were made
and the wreck discovered in 50 feet of wa
ter. An ingot weighing 50- pounds was
brought to the surface. A huge diving bell
will be placed over the spot and men en
gaged to get up the long-concealed treasure,
worth over 8150,000.
Auburn, N. Y., Aug. 25. Texas fever
has attacked cattle at several slaughter
houses on the outskirts of the city. All
beef is sold under certificates of the board
of health.
St. Louis, Aug., 21. General Sherman
stated during his recent visit here bis in
tention was to leave the army before the
law retiring him goes into effect.
Washington, Aug. 24. Mr. Merrick ar
gued that it was not necessary, as contend
ed by defense, to show that a ennspiracy
existed during the time embraced in the
indictment, if it was proved there had been
a conspiracy before the 23 of May, 1879,
and no explanation as to when it ceased to
be a conspiracy. The mind of the jury
could not be satisfied that it had not con
tinued to be a conspiracy down to that time.
The prosecution had shown that a conspi
racy existed in 1877 and 1878, and the pre
sumption naturally arose that it was a con
spiracy in 1879, a presumption made con
clusive when it was shown that subsequent
to 1879 the conspirators were doing acts of
mutual and reciprocal benefit. Merrick
then dwelt unon Stephen W. Dorsev's con
nection with the conspiracy, and asserted
that from the 1st of July, 1878, the con
spirators had been robbing the treasury,
and with great success, and that in April
1879, less than one month after Dorsey left
the senate, he came out a full fledged rob
ber of the treasury and sat with other con
spirators at a board where tne plunder was
divided. Merrick then laid down the next
point that if conspiracy was found to exist,
any division of property which formed the
subject matter of the conspiracy could not
relieve the parties from joint liability, and
that if the combination was found to exist
for unlawful purposes, and subsequent di
vision of profits, and it was further found
thereafter that there was an interchange
offered by several parties through unlawful
means to enhance the value of the property
to several parties, such illegal efforts ware
evidence of conspiracy.
The next illegal proposition laid down
was: If the jury found that Brady in the
performance of his duty as an executive
officer knowingly, deliberately, and pur
posely allowed for any expedition a greater
time than according to the testimony before
him was necessary it was a circumstance
strongly tending to establish the change of
corrupt motives on his part. Mr. Merrick
also advanced the proposition that filing a
paper in an office of the government with
intent to deceive any government official
was a crime under the law.
Washington, Aug. 24. A rumor has
been in circulation a day or two here that
Ex-Secretary Blaine has assured the straight
out republicans of Virginia of his hearty
endorsement of their course and his support
iu the coming campaign. During General
Garfield's administration, when the ad
vice of every other member of the cabinet
favored endorsement of the readjuster
movement, Secretary Blaine opposed this
vigorously, and when his advise was after
ward cast aside and the administration be
gan the encouragement of Senator Mahone,
he remained passive and gave no efforts of
his own to the advancement of the cause.
He has for a long time been antagonistic to
Mahone, and has not looked upon him as
fit leader of even the readjuster cause. This
opposition in the past, therefore, gives
much color to reports now in circulation
Topeka, Ka., Aug. 25 The greenback
state convention passed a series of resolu
tions yesterday, reaffirming the national
platform of Chicago of 1880, and adding
platform in the same or similar shape as
adopted by the national executive com
mittee at St. Louis last spring. Ex-Gov.
Charles Robinson, first governor of Kansas,
was nominated tor, governor. J. he remain
der of the ticket is as follows : Lieutenant
governor, J. G. Bayne; secretary of state,
A P. Elder; auditor, W. F. Garrison; treas
urer, J. A. Ludlow; attorney general, J. D.
McBryan; superintendent of public instruc
tion, J. S. Whitman; associate justice ot
supreme court, L. C. Uhi. The following
were nominated for congressmen at large
H. L. Phillips, John Davis, Allen Williams
(colored), and J. N. Wood. The state cen
tral committee was appointed and they ad
journed sine die.
Austin, Tex., Aug. 24. The Texas re
publican state convention effected a perma
nent organization and made a platform
pledging support of the party in Texas to
candidates who come before the people for
suffrage purely and independently free
from party nominations and other forms of
caucus dictation, and favsring the sale of
school lands to actual settlers only in par
cels not exceeding 160 acres. Resolutions
were adopted of confidence in Ex-Governor
J. E. Davis, indorsing the administration
of President Arthur and the platform adop
ted by the last national republican conven-
popular movement inaugurated at Jefferson
City a few days ago, and through which a
call for a convention will be made, inde
pendent of that state convention.
Brownsville, Tex., Aug. 26. Fifty-three
new cases to-day and three deaths, all
American. Four deaths at Matamoras with
very few new cases.
Washington, Aug. 26. The commis
sioner of Indian affairs has received a tele
gram from Agent Mills of the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe Indian agency, Indian territory
in which it is stated that the northern Chey
ennes have declared their intention of mi
grating to the Pine Ridge agency, Dakota
regardless of the wishes of the Indian office
in the premises.
San Francisco, Aug. 26. The republican
primaries here to-day were hotly contested.
Several tickets were iu the field and a large
vote polled, all parties apparently taking
hold. Reports from the interior as far as
received this evening indicate that county
conventions are very generally disposed to
endorse the Sunday law.
New York, Aug. 26. The Times has an
editorial epitomizing an important piece of
news. It says: We publish to-dav the re
port of an interview with Gov. Cornell in
regard to an allegation made about the
origin of the Gould-Conkling opposition to
his lenomination, and counter charges by
which Gould and his organs have endeavor
ed t J obscure the real issue of the anti-convention
contest in the ranks of the repub
lican party. The governor's reply to his
assailants is brief, clear and convincing.
We commend it to the careful perusal of
every one interested in the perpetuation of
good government in this state, and we ven
ture to say that no impartial reader will
hesitate in pronouncing it to be the uttef-
ance of a perfectly honest man and resolute
and fearless public servant. We com
mend it also to the careful attention of
Roscoe Conkling. The governor says:
"I believe still had I been pliant to the
wishes of Gould and Conkling in the mat
ter of the elevated tax bill, I shoul have, if
not their support, at least not their opposi
tion, and I do say that they have created
and organised whatever of substantial op
position there is, and that not because ot
anything wrong. I have done, but because
of my action in that and other matters
where I have been right. These men have
not marked me for destruction because of
any mistake, bnt because I have dared to
follow my convictions of right against their
will."
Washington, Aug. 26. General Sturgis,
governor of the Soldier's Home, has received
the first news of his removal and banish
ment to Montana from the newspapers, and
received his orders from the department
to-day. The blow came upon him like a
Wt from a clear sky. He said today he
had taken duty with the understanding
he was to hold the place four years when he
would be retired, but the offended army pol
lticians by a bold exposure of their system
of petty stealing, and being summoned be
fore a congressional committee which was
examining charges against their manage
ment, he frankly told the facts, and excited
thereby the anger and enmity of persons
higher in rank. Friends of General Sturgis
are firm in the belief that his removal was
caused by nothing else than his efforts to
reform the administration of affairs at the
Soldiers Home.
tion.
St. Louis, Aug. The repdlflican cen
tral committee yesterday afternoon decided
by a vote of 28 to 8 not to caH a state con
vention and-will ally themselves' with the
Washington, Aug. 26. The north wing
of the new state war and navy department
building will be completed and ready for
occupancy about the first of December.
The work of constructing the west wing and
center building, designed to connect the
east and west wing, will not be finished for
a year and a half. Two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars was appropriated at the
last session for purchase of material for
commencement of this wing, and it is es
timated $30,000,000 more will be required
to complete the whole building. The entire
cost of the building when completed will
be about 11,000.000.
Victoria, B. C. Aug. 26. The excursion
steamer Dakota arrived here at eight o'clock
this morning, having made the round trip
of the northwest and Alaskan territories
since the 7th inst. All the party are in the
enjoyment of good health, and all returned
with the exception of an elderly lady, who
decided to settle at Sitka, and left the ship
there. One of the participants to-day pre
sented Capt. Carrol with a flattering ad
dress and a yaluable gold watch, through
Judge Strong.
Watkins, N. Y., Aug. 27. The Free
Thinkers association to-day adopted a res
lution to the effect that the general progress
of the world in refinement, knowledge and
good morals is the natural outgrowth of
intellectual cultivation and freedom of
thought and discussion; that the only men
opposed to this and whose material inter
ests favor ignorance, are the clergy, who
make the claim of inspiration for the bible
which the bible does not make for itself;
that there should be no privileged class un
der the government, such as army chap
lains; that church property be taxed; that
the Free Thinkers of the United States
should organize local leagues to oppose
organized vigilance of the church; that Free
Thinkers embrace spiritualists, naturalists
and agnostics on woman and her cause, A
preamble and resolution was adopted set
ting forth woman's proprietary rights under
the Roman government and the removal of
them by Christianity and the subsequent
following of this law by the United States
and concludes:
Resolved, That in the opinion of this
convention no invidious distinction should
be made which denies woman the rights to
be a man's competitor for any position for
which he is eligible.
The resolution further asserts the right
of labor to a just proportion of the wealth
of the world, which it produces, and asserts
that it is the churches and theology that
have crushed the masses.
Bloomington, 111., Aug. 28. Prof. R. B.
Welch, formerly principal of the Pontiac
school, writes from Topeka that his life is
in danger from liquor men there because as
assistant U. S. Attorney he has been pros
ecuting Vfciators of the state law. They
have within a day or two cut his buggy to
pieces, disfigured his horses and threatened
his life. He had to call a meeting of citi
zens to prevent being mobbed.
St, Paul, Aug. 27. Major Rogers loca
ting engineer of the Canadian Pacific, tele
graphs President Hill, of the Manitoba
line, that he has made a discovery which
will save the Canadian Pacific Company
millions of dollars in construction, besides
materially shortening the line heretofore
projected.
San Francisco, Aug. 28. Miss Nettie
Bennett, a young woman who wished to be
"anywhere out of the world" leaped into
the bay yesterday and was not rescued until
life was almost extinct. The attempt to
drown herself was witnessed by a large
crowd and a scene of most thrilling excite
ment followed. Miss Bennett is aged 22. of
fine form and handsome face. She is very
respectably connected in the city. General
disgust of life induced by a wayward, sinful
carreer prompted the suicidal motive.
Great general interest is felt in the result
of the republican state convention which
will convene a Sacramento Wednesday,
and the political atmosphere is rife with
conjectures, predictions and reports.
Republicans are loud in their boasts that
when the convention meets it will contain
the finest body of representative men, in
tellectually and morally, that ever sat to
nominate a ticket m this state. Fi ank M.
Pixley and Congressman Page will probably
have proxies, but there is a good deal of
talk of the convention refusing to receive
proxies so as to keep Pixley out. It ad
mitted he will doubtless proveja sharp thorn
in the side of the convention.
Calcutta, Aug. 28. Fearful rioting be
tween Hindoes and Mohammedans has oc
eurred here. Three Mohammedans have
been arrested. An eye witness of the dis
orders says he saw the disemboweled body
of a Mohommedan infant lying on the
ground and its arms torn off. The headless
corpses of Mohammedan men and women
were lying on every side. Houses of Mo
hammedans were burned and the principal
mosque almost razed to the ground. Heads
of pigs have been thrown into wells with
corpses cf Mohammedan children. Troops
are still patrolling the streets. Moham
medans are still in a small minority of the
population.
New York, Aug. 28. Secretary Folger
has decided to issue a call for bonds which
will probably be made to-morrow. It will
embrace all continued 6's remaining un
called for.
Washington, Aug. 28. Gen. Sherman
will ask to be placed on the retired list ir
November, 1883. He would be compulsor
ily retired in 1884. He retires early in or
der to give Oen. Sheridan, his successor, a
chance to express to congress his views on
the best interest of the service.
Philadelphia, Aug. 27. Delegates ar
arriving in the city to attend the labor con
vention to-morrow. This convention will
have a most important bearing on the cam
paign. When the convention was called by
the trade and labor council uiere was some
idea it was to bind the labor organization
more firmly together. Since then politi
cians have been at work. In '1878 the
greenback labor vote ran up to 80,000.
Chairman Cooper, of the Stalwart republi
can committe, got his eye on his vote and
laid plans to capture this much, if possible
for Beaver, candidate tor governor, and di
vert the rest from Patterson, the democrat
ic candidate.
New York,- Aug. 28. A Post's Washing
ton special says the indifference displayed
by the democratic congressional committee
is in striking contrast with the energy
shown at republican headquarters and gives
color to the report that democrats are not
going to make much of a fight, from this
point at least, for possession of the next
house of representatives. Thompson of
Kentucky who is secretary of the com
mittee will soon be here and the active
labors of the committee it is said will begin.
Chicago, Aug. 27. The Tribune says
editorially: It is stated in our dispatches
with some show of positiveness that Don
Cameron's cause in Pennsylvania is lost, and
Beaver's canvass already practically ended.
If this shall prove to be the case the result
will be due solely to the brutal obstinacy
and stupid follies of Don Cameron himself,
who has stupefied and ininionized politics
in Pennsylvania ever since he had control
of them .
New York, Aug. 28. Journals continue
to teem with local politics. Cornell's re
nomination for governor by the republicans
is the question of the hour. The Herald's
boom for Wadsworth finds many supporters
both here and elsewhere in the state. It is
likely at last to prove a split in the party as
decided as in Pennsylvania. The general
belief, certainly among Garfield men, is that
Conkling is the author of the unpleasantness.
New York, Aug. 29. Rev. Father Nug
ent, of Liverpool, who three years ago es
tablished near St. Paul a colony of emi
grants from Ireland, called on Superintend
ent Jackson, of Castle Garden, to-day in
reference to placing other Irish families in
position in this country.
Ismailia, Aug. 28. A boat supplying
the post with provisions was fired on by
Bedouins near here to-day and four of her
Maltese crew wounded and the boat plun
dere d.
Alexandria, Aug. 29. Among the de
serters from ArabiPasha is a major belong
ing to his staff. He states the part of Arabi
Pasha's army at Kafr el Dwar comprises
7000 men in Mek's lines, all freely come
from Cairo, and the third artiP-y very
strong.
Alexandria, Aug. 28. It is stated the
British intend to cut the dikes near Meks
and flood a portion of the dry bed of Lake
Marsotis, and thus prevent any attack from
that side;
Dublin, Aug: 28. The people of Limer
ick have practically become their own po
licemen, a large marjority of the constabu
lary having refused further duty.
Limerick, Aug. 29. A petition signed
by upwards ef 100 members of the constabu
lary has been forwarded to Earl Spencer,
lord lieutenant of Ireland, asking that the
dismissed men be reinstated
Burlin, Aug. 29. Four German expedi
tions will soon leave Hamburg for America
to observe the transit of Venus, being des
tined for different points of view on the
northern and southern continents. Each
party consists of two astronomers, students
and assistants. The point of observation
alloted to Germans are Connecticut, South
Carolina, Costa Rica and straits of Magellan.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 29. The Siberian
plague is appearing to an alarming extent
in most widely separated quarters of Euro
pean Russia.
Portland, Me., Aug. 29. Ex-Secretary
Blaine delivered a political address to-night
in presenee of a large and enthusiastic au
dience. The speech was devoted chiefly to
state politics. In alluding to the contest
between the governor of Maine and state
council he said: My particular personal
excuse for making this issue publicly with
the governor is he says he is doiug precise
ly with the council of Maine what the la
mented president did with the U. S. senate.
That is, as President Garfield had a great
issue with the senate, so he has one with
the council. Now. to begin with, President
Garfield never had an issue with the senate
of the United States, and there never was
any difference between them. Each re
spected the power of the other, and each
kept within its own power. What the
president of the United States objected to
was that a senator of the United States,
outside of the senate chamber, should be
dictator of appointments in this state. To
make an analogy worth anything Governor
Plaisted would have to present these seven
executive councillors each demanding the
appointees in his councillor district be
longed to njm. inen we would have a
parallel case that the president of the
United States never made a nomination to
the senate where he did not accompany it
with an understanding that when there
grew up a dispute about the one nominated,
and he accompanied it with repeated decla
rations, the senate had as clear a right to
confirm or reject as he had to nominate;
that each was absolute within his own
sphere. nat tne president asKed was
that in a certain nomination which became
of great interest throughout the country
what the president asked was that the sen
ate would either confirm or reject. It was
demanded that it be withdrawn. The pres
ident declined to do this and said "the
nomination is before you, senators. It
within your discretion. I have no right
to ask you to confirm and I have no right
to ask you to reject, but I have a right to
ask you that you will do one or the other,
because the constitution gives me the right
to ask that."
San Francisco, Aug. 29. Among the pas
sengers who arrived yesterday on the Coptic
from China are A. J. Glover and his brother
Q. B. Glover, two Scotch merchants in
Japan. They are on their way to Oregon,
where they propose to purchase a large lot
of land upon which they will raise cattle
and sheep. A. J. Glover will stay in this
country attending the ranch while his
brother looks after their large interests iu
Japan. All labor will be performed by
Japanese, a large force already having beeu
engaged to come out to this coast as soon
as they are needed.
Good Briek
kept constantly on hand at
Mrs. L. A. Dennick's
Brick Yard, near tbe flouring mill, on the new ferry
road. South of Corvallis. 19 33mS
OCCIDENTAL HOTEL.
Corvallis, Oregon.
CANAN & GIBLIN, PROPRIETORS.
new building,
class in all its
THE OCCIDENTAL is a
newly furnished, and is first
appointments.
RATES LIBERAL.
Stages leave the hotel for Albany and Yaquina Bar
M 1 1 1 A
Large
Sample Room on First
Commercial Hen.
Floor for
19-35 ly
PORVALLIS
Livery, Feed,
-AND
SALE STABLE.
Main St., Cor- alii, Oregon.
SOL. KING, - - Propr
OWNING BOTH BARNS I AM PREPARED TO
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Always ready for a drive,
GOOD TEAMS
At Low Rates.
My stables are first-class in every resDect, and co m
petent and obliging hostlers always
rea y to serve the public,
REASONABLE CHARGES FOR HIRE.
Prticular Attention Paid to Boarding
Horses.
ELEGANT HEARSE, CA! IU AGES AND HACKS
FOR FUNERAES.
19:27y
LEGAL
LANK
FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE
s
PITTS' CHALLENGER THRESHERS,
(WITH LATEST IMPROVEMENTS TO KEEP UP WITH THE TIMES)
M'Cormiek's Twine Binders,
GENUINE IMPROVED HEADERS,
CHAMPION AND M'CORMICK
Sulky Hay Rakes, and a full stock of the best Having and Harvesting
Tools, WITH A FULL LINE OF ALL EXTRAS FOR THE MA
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WOODCOCK & BALDWIN
WILLIAM MORRIS,
TAILOR,
Two doors north of the Vincent House, COKYALLIS, OK.
ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY EXECUTED.
Repairing and Cleaning at moderate Prices. 19-26yl
THOMAS GRAHAM,
Druggist and Apothcary,
AND DEALER IN
MIS, OIIS, TARNISHES, BRUSHES, GIASS, PITTY, TRUSSES.
SHOULDER BRACES, TOILET ARTICLES
A full line ot Broks, Stationery and Wall Paper. Oi?r drugs are fresh and
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Wheat and other Grain Stored on the best of Terms by
-AT-
CORVALLIS
SACKS FURNISHEDT0 PATRONS.
Farmers will do well to call on me before making arrangements elsewhere