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About The Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1885)
Weekly Corvallis Gazette. FRIDAY MORNING, AUG. 7, 1883. OFFICIAL PAPER FOR BENTON COurfTY Katered at the Postoffice at Corvallis Oregon, as second-class matter. THIS PAPER will be found on file at the following turned placed, where advertising mar be contracted for at our regular rates: C. W. LOMLER & Co., Advertising Agents, Portland, Oregon. L P. FISHER, Advertising Ager t, San Francisco, California. OEO. P. ROWELL & Co,, Advertising Agents, Mo 10 Spruce Street, New V ork City. J. H. BATES, Advertising Agent, 41 Park mom, New York Citv. & W. AYER & SON, Advertising Agents, Philadelphia, Pa. Dio Lewis' Nuggets is the title of a new monthly which is on our table. It is full f nugcrets from the pen of Dio Lewis, A. AL, M. D. Dr. Wales who was recently tried in the U. S. naval court for ineffi ciency and neglect of duty, was suspen ded from duty for five years, on fur lough pay, and to retain his present number in his grade during that period. The defaulting postmaster, Hibb-, of Lewiston, Idaho, has been given into the eustody of the United States government by the authorities at Vic toria, and is probably now at the scene of his crime. Government defaulters da not find British Columbia as safe a retreat as do the president and defaul ting bank cashiers. UUffENTATlON OF JEREMIAH. Editor Gazette. In the "Leader" of the 30th, ult., -31 Democratic fossil exhumer, undert;signature of "B,'' produces a few extricts from "the pop ular spee'cli of J udge Jeremiah Black, on the Electorial Commission fraud." The true inwardness of Jeremiah's lamentations is easily explained, when it is remembered how a Democratic Congress labored and brought fourth the Electorial commission, which in stead of accomplishing the purpose for which it was designed, only served as a trap into which the "poor heartbro ken Democracy," unspectingly blun dered, and in which it was so firmly held that to squeal "fraud" was the only thing possible. The returning boards also, furnished unhappy Jeremiah with material for his la men tut ions. It will be remembered that the boards were duly organized, under laws passed by the legislatures of the respective states in which they were held, and although perhaps not in strict conformity with the require ments of our national laws, yet they were in exact accordance with Jeremi ah's "late lamented doctorine" of state supremacy. The principal claim to greatness, for which the memory of Jeremiah is so profoundly revived by the moss back of the present day, was attained chiefly through his devotion to the doctorine of state sovereignty. While we are in this fossil exhuming business, friend "B," let us dig a little deeper through another strata of American history, and bring to the surface another specimen of the glow- At a public meeting of citizens of Sitka, Alaska, held July 14, resolu tions of regret upon the retirement of worJs of this t msU1 of yo J. H. Kinkead as governor of the ter jugt to see how ifc will Hppear iu lhe ritory were adopted. The resolutions light of to-dny. include expressions of satisfaction as te j j, was in the Autlimn of 1860 a the public, life and personal worth of I presidentiai election had just been the retiring governor, regret because I , , Abraharn Lincoln had been gated provinces', it would totally de stroy the whole theory upon which th y ar : now connected." Encouraged by the opinion of Jere miah, southern democracy lost no time in arranging itself in armed treason against the Union. At this cricia. is where Jeremiah "lost his dignity as an American citizen," and thoroughly proved hims elf "not of the stuff that martyrs are made o!," neither aid he "know how to feel when called upon to die for his country." To put it a little finer it is extremely doubtful whether or not that he had a country. From his opinion one would conclude that if he claimed a ccuutry at all, it would naturally be about the size of South Carolina But how fared it with the gospel of Jeremiah when the Nation's hosts of Freedom were marshalled under the leadership of the mighty Abraham? "The water of truth" did "rise grad ually" and "the overflowing scourge" did come. "The refilge of fraud and lies," was not entirely swept away, only, because of the Nation's magna nimity, "This mighty Nation," (with a big N,) "did rise and shake herself," not cnl.y as one man, but as millions of then.: She shook the earth south of Mason and Dixon's line, and also shook the bottom out of the gospel according to Jeremiah. "Justice" trod with leaden hail and struck with her iron dads. "God's mills grind slowly," us ually, but in this instance they ground a good sized grist in a very short time after the flood gate had been fairly lifted. So much for "the glowing words of a great man," and while the mossback may find iu them a treasured relic of the past, no progressive American will dig for Nationalism in a democratic cemetery. It isn't there, H. of his retirement before he could fairly put the machinery of the government in motion, and sympathy on account of present bodily afflictions. Mr. Kinkead first reached Alaska in 1867, And has always been considered a pio neer citizen. A copy of the resolu tions were ordered to be handed the retiring governor and published in the .coast papers. They are signed by M. F. Berry as chairman and Edward H. Brown as secretary. The dude representing the dignity of the newspaper up town put on con siderable style last week. He prides himself on showing to the people what little he knows about grammar and spelling, and judging from his paper no one would suspect that he had ever ! learned the difference between a gram mar and spelling book. He says that "VV. H.Mansfield.foreman of his office took a run over to the Bay Saturday"; when everybody suspects that Mans ,field has been the power running the paper for a year or more, and but for his presencee in the office the thing could not have been put out in a half way passable style,and since observing the paper which came out during Mr. Mansfield's absence it is no longer honestly and fairly elected. The southern Democratic leaders, Ftung with rage because of their defeat at the hands of progressive Americanism, at once began preparations for the de struction of the Union. The seed of State sovereignty, planted by Jefferson and Calhoun, and nourished by such Democratic leaders as Davis, Brecken ridge, Tombs, Benjamin, Vallandighain and Jeremiah Black, had rapidly de veloped into the full grown palmetto tree of secession. James Buchanan was at that time occupying the presidential chair, Jere miah was a member of his cabinet, holding the position of Attorney-General, of the United States. Wheu requested by Buchanan for an opinion of the authority, vested in the President, by the constitution to pre vent secession, he delivered an opinion which was accepted by the President, as conclusive authority, for permitting southern democrats unmolested, to make the attempt of destroying the Union. Following are some of the "glow ing words" of Jereni'ah's opinion: "Without the exercise of those functions which belong to tbe civil ser vice, the laws cannot be enforced in suspected but becomes a fixed fact any event, no matter what may be jn every ones mind. Again he says. ''Some of ourj printers have gone to the harv-est field, no others to be had." What an idea ? When a man running a newspaper sends his prin ters to the harvest field. A farmer should just as readily be suspected of sending his harvest hands to town to run a newspaper. Anyone could have guessed from the appearance of the paper ihat "the printers had gone, and before leaving, each had thrown a boot black at the paper." Again he pub lishes. "Lost, Between Palestine Church and Corvallis, one Smith and Weston 38 Calibor Revolver" &c., If the physical strength which the gov ernment has at command. Under such circumstances, to send a military force into my state, with orders to act against the people would simply be making war on them. The existing laws put and keep the Federal Government strictly on the defensive. You can use force only to repel an assault on the public property and aid the courts in the performance of their duty. If one of the states should declare her independence, your action cannot depend upon the right fullness of the cau.se upon which such declaration is based. Whether the retirement of the state from the Union be the exercise of a right reserved in the constitution nv a vin-nln'i.iii.ii'c i , i t it- i with his fine perceptions ot spelling j tein thilt you he not in either case ana grammar ne can spell tnis wora the authority to recognize her inde- Best Machinery IN THE WOELD. McCOKMICK TWINE BINDERS, icHAMPlON.TWINE BINDERS, CHAMPION MOWERS and REAPERS BUFFALO PITT'S THRESHERS, PTR ACTION STEAM ENGINES, HAINES' headers, i SHAY RAKES and FORKS, bain wagons. again and then tell the people what kind of a "bor" he is, he can per haps thus interest his readers with funny historical sketches about himself aside from his knowledge of spelling and grammar. However we notice that all patrons of that paper seem to be highly pleased to realize that Mr. Mansfield has again returned from the Bay.so that he.no doubt as heretofore, will write up and again fill the "Lea der" with locals prepared by him and writtenjn the office, instead of filling the paper with four columns entitled "Benton County" which has run in that forlorn organ for four weeks with out change, besides nearly four col umns of clippings which were injected pendence or to absolve her from her Federal obligations. If it be true that war . cannot be declared, nor a system of general hos tilities carried on by the Central Gov ernment against a state, that it seems te follow that an attempt to do so would be ipso facto an expulsion of' such state from the Union. B-'ing treated as an alien and an enemy, she would be compelled to act accordingly. And if Congress shall break up the present Union by uncon stitutionally putting strife and enmity and armed hostility between different sections of the country, instead of the domestic tranquility which the consti tution was meant to insure, will not all the states be absolved fiom their feder al obligations'! Is any portion of the people bound to contribute their money or their blood to carry on a contest jn the place of local news which ought j iie tj,atf ' to, and would have been written up, The gutes are ooliei)gHea of ona had Mr, Mansfield been there to ! another, and if some of them shall con do i(t Jquer the rest, and hold them as subju- Senator and-Mrs. Stanford, of Cal ifornia, have aent to the Grant cot tage at Mt. McGregor a floral memo rial representing "Gates Ajar, " formed of white and purple immortelles, and each gate is six feet high and five feet wide. It is said to be most beautiful and suggestive, the gates standing slightly open, with an arch above in which appears the name, U. S. Grant, set in flowers. Speaking of this an exchange says: "Much has been said in the last few years about the ten dency to go to great extremes in fu neral display and certainly the country never had a more striking illustration of this tendency than now. It is proper that the burial rites of thegreat should be conducted with stately sol emnity anil honor, but costly flowers, a gorgeous casket, heavy with trappiugs of velvet and mountings of silver on exhibition for hours before a gaping and curious crowd strikes a chord that jars painfully, and forces a criti cism to lips that are reluctant to cen sure either motives or methods in the presence of death. If, however, there is ever a reform in the matter of fu neral extravagance and display it must begin with those vho can afford these things, but. from choice bury their dead without vulgar ostententation. New York Tribune: The fact that John Roach's bids for the Dolphin and lhe three cruisers were $315,000 below anv other contractor's seems to dispose of the charge that he was bent ' upon plundering the government. His enemies, however, are equal to the emergency. Seizing the bnll by the horns,, they affirm that this very dis crepancy between his bids and those of his competitors proves that he had 110 intention of honestly fulfilling his con tract. Philadelphia Bulletin: The calam ity may well be called a national one, for the shipyards of Juhn Raach rep resented on a grand scale the idea of American industry and enterprise as it is represented nowhere else; and to close these great works means not only the ruin of John Roach, and not only the scattering of his thousands of workmen with all the distress that such a catastrophe implies; it means a tremendious blow at the whole great system of protected American industry from which this branch of it cannot recover until an American congress anil an American administration rise to the level of the great issues which are being repudiated at'Washington. New York Tribune: Mr. Roach's retirment from business is strictly in line with democratic policy. He clo ses his works and yards, discharges workman receiving $30,000 a week, and leaves a large force of indust-ious skilled mechanies to shift for them selves. He is forced to do this partly because the times have been hard ever since the election in November, but mainly because the administration has been dealing unfairly with him for partisan ends of its own. The assign ment increases the feeling of depress ion caused originally by the success of a party committed to the policy of free shipa and revenue tinkering. A Nice Line of Spring Wagons AND Hack gUGGIES AND CARRIAGES. aw Mi II lO AND Mill Machinery. Rubber and Leather BELTING- Corref pondence Solicited. Catalogues Furnished, on A pplication . Woodcock & gEom) Corvallis, Or. NEW TAILOR SHOP. FRED. LA UCHLE, Proprietor. )One door south of Hose Bro.'a Cigar Factory. ) CORVALLIS, - . OREGON. ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. Cutting, Cleaning & Rtpariiig A SPECIALTY Satisfaction frilara-iiteeri Leave Orders. THE MUTUAL SELF-ENDOWMENT .A 1STD BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, Grand Central Cfflce, Fort Worth,'Texas. SAM C'UNDIFF, President. B. VV. BROWN, Vice-Presi tent. Ei M. MACY, Secretary. A. W. MORRISON, 'i re Chartered under the laws of the State of Texas. June 11th, 1881. Copyrlul t pcctircd bj filing title Jure 11 1S81, in the office of the librarian of Congress, 1) c. PACIFIC COAST DEPARTMENT. Office:: No. 7 Powell St. Corner Market. San Francisco OFFiCER H1N. SAMUEL G. HILBOftX, President, A. W. KF.l.SF.Y, cr Sacramento, Vice-President: W, it. WAiiU, Secretary, .1 N. ItUSSKL. Sk., Superintendent: PitUF W, . . TAYLOR, M. t)., SfediCPl Doctor, PACIFIC BANK, Treasurer. CAPT. J. N. IE0KAED, State Supt,, Portland, Or, The object of this Association is to provide em'owmen's for living members as w ell as benefits for families of decease1, members, at the least -ost consistent ith perfect eicuiity, Ly issuing ondowu tizt v; well as death benlit certificates. The plan embraces tin) forms, lite and death. One j ays at the death of a member and the other pars D Ave e,ual installments during life. The association is ope rated on the mutual plan. It has no stock holder; to absoih its earnings, and no trustees among win. in to Divide its surplus. The total membership of the association bow an mints to moriy 14, W0 with a stenciv increue each month. The association has disbursed to cat (570.038. 02 in benefits tn the legatees of deica.ee mem bers, and on maturing coupons. Is loartinz from fit tee to twenty thousand per month to limine; nitiul fcrs. -REVIEW SIKCE ORGANIZATION.- Receipts since organization, Disbursements since organization, Balance on hand. ST.70,236,06 570,038.02 201,06 Coupons paid, - - - 1 - - SO.CiiO Agents Wanted in every county of the Pacific Ccast. F. M. JohnSOn, Resident Agent, - - Corvallis, Oregon. City Stables aBaily Stage Line FROM ALBANY TO C0HVALLJP. THOS. EOLIlSr, , - - I'roprietor. On the Corner Wast of the Engine House Ha ring secured the contract to rarryiiif; tk CORVALLIS, - - OREGON, j united state. m jfegg ;Corva II i s tc .Albany rl new and oonmi-ulious BARN, 1 am hotter than ever prepared to keep the i j,or t,,e eilgnjn(r , yv , i t.:i, e ( . jj;. , itir BEST CF TEAN'.S BJGQIZS. CARRIAGES o'clock, ;mn will bturtf V AH.M t 1 chnk .i tl o afternoon, returning u- mi1.? aloi i o:eck Tbi fine will i e in. par-.-U With m oil uni. uiitlar ! ui drivers mid nict cofc-turtaul ami -A K T- SADDLE HOUSES TO III UK. At Uti.-jonale Kates. ittiT Particular attention yiveu t. Buanlini: Hordes Uorse. bought ami Sultl or iixehanjreti. pl::ask give mi. a call. EASY REDIftC VEHICLES For the accommodation of the TUA ELJNG j ritlJC. Wheat and other Grain Stored on the best of Terms by bjl9. ar. BiaAiR, AT A 1j 1 8 SACXS FlUXniii l) TO PATJWVb. Farmers will do well to call on me before making arrangements elstwhtre lS-ST-Tl THE EENTOH COUNTY REAL ESTATE ASSOCIATION Office:- Corvallis. Ore'0 JI. S WOODCOCK. Manager. rn.T TO ASSOCIATION will biij ard sell all classes of Real Estate rn rea sonnble terms and wiilthor 1 H In ou"hly advertise In describing; each piece of property entrust! d.o it for sale. lhe follow ing pieces of pi operty will be sold on extraordinarily reasonable terms: SAW MILL Um'ivided J interest in i l ... L. vatei, a good plan r and se.su aires oi lar d tw ii connection with he mill. ) ewer u tt ncr.t to n 11 the year. itc" ted hardy n arket red will i ..out 7 inik . ' of t rvallis w h an excellent ge c ..ad to am! rom it. Turns cisv. FH VFann all under fence only i miles "m Jorvallis of 350 acres, 80 acres now in mltnatwn. tl uiai.ee cf it can be cultivated ;al out SO ol .t i ov n heatv:tha lair house good barn and granerj. will be sold at a tannin. 'Itiu s easy. FARM Farm of 47S acres for less than si- pci re heim one of the cheapest and best sain.s n .' ..... ...i a : ..... i, . . t i.i" Monroe. I oi a good school, m one of the best neiiih U.e state with church plivilcgea handy, cres in cultivation, and over 400 can hi All under fence, with good two stor nnm n.ri UN I.I LUU U . u . ...... n icntoi. Ct mile froi lorhoods : vbout liSt ultivtaed rame h e, large mn am. . . tftteriilt vear a. until., ..." " " midair purposes. This is one of the cheapest laims i the v. illamctte Valley Terms easy bTOt 'K FAKM 220 acres, about 10 in cltivrtion ISO acres can te cultivated, tl acres of good fir and oak timber, the brlar.ee gt cd i ras- land. Sn a!l ccm lortable bouse nd 1 urn. tius adjeining un inex haustible I'll range, making one ol the best itoth, ranges in teuton icnnty. it i.atcct at out 10 n.:lw boutl.wcst of torvaiiis. price ,tu. I FA 11 M - A farm of Ite aues of laud situated 4 mikfiom Lorvallis. in Li'.u t ui.ty, tr. All under leiice; to acres of rich b Item lai d in cultivation tli acres of good fir, as and maple tin. ter; 2 gef d In uses, 2 good orchalds aid two KOI d wells with I un ps. Terms: ino per acre, hail tash down i.d bahtnee payable in one and two ve-ais, seemed by mortgage upon the farm. LOTS Tw-o unimproved lots ir. Corvallis. One 0 toe choicest building places in the city for sale eas- onablc. ALSO Four nnimproved lots except tens ed in Corvallis, Or. The choicest building place un the city for sale reasonable. THOSV!A3 GRAHAM, Druggist and Apothcaiy, -AND DEALER IN CH 1 .- . . . t. ni'mmi' Win T AJfetl aTM P1WTS, OIIS, VARS1SHES, KSHS, KIASS, PITH, MS. SHOULUEE BRACES, TOILET ARTICLES fcC. X full linp ot B oks. Stalione-y and Wall Paper. O r drujrt are trehh am' selected. Paeseriplions compennded at all hourr. 19-271 The New Steam Yacht "TRESSA MAY" Isatvourdianosalfor the season of 1885. Being maimed by carelul and competent officers and crew who will exert themselves at all times to obUge vis itors Chaiters a Specialty. Kates reasonable. For term, apply to f Newport, Oregon, LUMBER FORSALE! Well seasoned and in the Ware house, a fine lot of dressed FIjOORIBTG, RUSTIC, OASIHTGr cct. Any party purchasing 5,000 feet or over, may have the same at $24.00 per M. Enquire of T. J. BLAIR.