The Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, December 13, 1889, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextTHE COHVALLlS GAZETTE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 18S9. ODorballis (mit. IKMl-KD KVKRT FRIDAY HORSING BY CBAIG- Sc CONOVEE, SUBSCRIPTION RATtS Per Year S k Months Three Months. ., Si.nijle Copies Per Year (when not paid in advance)... 93 00 1 01) 75 5c . 2 50 The street railway will be built and the cars will be running before Mav 1, '90. m The Michigan Central railway pays oat $18,000 a year for whislts. It makes them whistle to run. FiRE-proof ancj time-proof books, with leaves and covers of sheets of asbestos, and printing in gold or silver letters, have been suggested. William Bacon, a man ovei 90 vears of ase aud a resident of West Charleston, Maine, cut and carried out of the woods on his back, 700 hop poles in one week. Salem is getting in earnest about railway connection with Astoria, and alreadv a stock comimny has: been formed. It is nip-and-tuck between the capital city and Albany about this matter. A young lady on her way from Ohio to Seattle, armed herself with a revolver. It went off in the car and shot her bustle off. Ixts of fools think it necessary to arm when ever they come west. It is stated for a woodeu fact that Orecron fir is one-tbird stronger than eastern oak, and one half stronger than eastern pine. This shows what we are here fir. Altt. We o pine that the foregoing is meant for a j-oak. Remember the district teachers' in stitute will hold a three days' session here during holiday week beginning on the 25th. Prepare yurselves to receive the visitors in a royal manner. It will be a good advertisement for C'oivallis. A bridge over the Willamette, a water-ditch to furnish water for power purposes, a railroad connection with the east side S. P. line south, and a railway from Brov nsville, Linn county, are the much talked of movements about Corvallis just now. The Willamette Valley Tribune is the name of the new weekly paper started in Independence. J. H. Stine is its editor, and E. O. Chair.ness, formerly a merchant in Corvallis, is the business manager. The first edition was very neatly gotten up. great In order to keep pace with the. growth of the city, the Presbyterians are making some substantial im provements in their church edifice The building is now thirty one years old and is deserving of a few extra touches to its inner apartments. A vegetable cartridge-shell, which is entirely consumed in firing, has been brought out in France. The cartridge lias scarcely half the weight ot one with a metal shell, the cost is con siderably less, and the inconvenience ot removing the shell after eaih shot is avoided. The ex-president of the southern confederacy, Jefferson Davis, died in New Orleans on Thursday, December 5th, at the age of 81 years. He was native of Kentucky. He was a great advocate of states' rights, and was foremost in the cause of the civil war, and now he is dead and it is another plank in the bridge over the chasm. "I was in Montgomery, Ala, re cently" said a commercial tourist, "and I saw them putting in a new block of stone on the state house steps. 'Do you see that' said a friend. 'That block is being put in where Jefferson Davis stood when he took the oath of office as president of the confederacy. His admirers chipped away the original stone to carry off as mementoes. That is why they had to put in a new step. " Some one estimates that getting born costs the people of the United States $225,000,000 annually; getting married, $300,008,000; getting buried, $75,00fl,00a It is in older now for some other idiot to calculate how much richer the woi Id would have been had nobody ever been born at alk It sometimes, happens that a man will make a very abstruse calculation to prove that he is an ass, when the fact is patent without demonstration. SCIENTIFIC FARMING. The first agricultural experiment station, according to .rrof. W. U. Atwaterofthe United States depart ment of agriculture, was established at a little German village near Leipsic in 1851. In 1856 there were five, in 1861 fifteen, in 1866 thirty, and to-day there are more than one hundred ex periment stations and kindred insti tutions in the countries of Europe. The first agricultural experiment station in America was established a.. Middletown, Ct., in 1875. There were four in operation in 1880, and in 188 some seventeen in fourteen states. In the latter year congress made the en terprise national by an appropriation of $15,000 per annum to each of the states and territories having agricultu ral colleges or departments of colleges. This has led to increased activity, and there are now forty-six, or, counting branches, fifty-seven, agricultural ex periment stations in the United States. To support these forty-six stations, the national and state appropriations for the present year reach about $720,- 000, and over 370 trained nieu are employed. With the present session of congress it is the ufcy-hrst one over wnicn tne "Mr. Speaker" has held the gavel and returned thanks for the honor con ferred on him by being elected to such a seat. 1 lie lust person to occupy ure sieaker's place was Mr. Muhlenberg, of Pennsylvania, and since that time the office has been held by Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Kentucky, South Carolina, New York, Virginia, Tennessee, In diana, Georgia, Ohio, andltlaine, with the present one from the latter state also. Only one speaker ever became president, that being James K. Polk. Clay and Bell both ran but were de feated. f7 m mm UOGl Situated in the very heart of the world-filmed Willamette valley, at the head of navigation on the river of the same name, and at the junction of the Southern Pacific and Oregon Pacific railroads, within seven tv-two miles of the Yaquina seaport, and ninety-seven miles of Oregon's metropolis, is located the city which has been, for the past thirty-eight years, known as the Here is located the most important educational institution in Oregon the State Agricultural College. It is situated on a 35-acre tract of land, with an additional 100 acres upon which the Dormitory building. Mechanical Shops, and Octagon barn, are standing. This institution has connected with it the U. S. experi ment station with an annual appropriation of $15,000 under the Hatch bill; tin's school year finds it with a roll of 150 students, with new names being added nearly every month. A NEW SCHOOL BUILDING Costing $25,000, has been built during 1S89 and was opened for the purpose for which it was designated on Monday, December 2nd. There is a daily average of 250 scholars. There is a corps of five teachers. The "Corvallis College," an institution connected with the M. Hi. Church, feouth, is established in Corval lis and also has a boarding hall attached. There are about GO students attending. Very few of the democratic papers waste any words on the sensation in congress the Silcott defalcation. C. E. Silcott was from Ohio, and was the cashier for the sergeant-at arms, having been holding the position for six years. He was a democrat. The amount of his stealings is $75,000. Had he been a republican the sheets conducted by the democratic (and some independent) papers would have material enough for editorials for the next six months. When Bishop Carroll was conse crated in 1790, the entire population of the U nited btates was a little more than four millions. The Catholic population was estimated at 40,000, There is now a Catholic population of 9,000,000; 8,000 priests; 10,500 churches and chapels, twenty-seven seminaries, 650 colleges and academies -V- jjJ.OOO parish schools. Wherever the name of Jefferson Davis, as secretary of war, appeared on public structures around Washing ton, it has been chiseled out. Visitors to Cabin John bridge, the great arch over which the Washington aqueduct passes, will remember the inscription reads: "Franklin Pearce, President. , Secretary of War." Alta. MODEST BENEVOLEXCE. The Head - OF -NAVIGATION on the Willamette River. You should Locate in the HEALTHIEST CITY iu Oregon or the Northwest. Site of the AGRICULTURAL College of Oregon. CAPITALS BETO COUNTY" One of the fiuest and best flouring mills in the state is located here, and another one is in the course of construction. A street railway will be constructed on the principal streets and the cars will be running by April 1st, 1890. Two very pretty girls in this town recently attended services in a church where they were strangers. When the time came for taking up the collection they found, to' their dismay, that they had but 1 cent between them. And there, com ing up their side of the aisle with the plate was a lovely young man with whom'they were slightly ac quainted. They simply couldu't put that solitary cent in the plate, and to put in nothing was not to be thought of. Then one of the girls bethought her that, she had a small envelope in her pocket. She pulled it out, dropped the coin in it, sealed it, and when the lovely young man came along she dropped the envelope in with an air that made the collector think it con tained at the very least a 5 note. Denmark has the largest per centage of tilledjand of any coun try in the world. MOTHERS! Castoria is recommended by. physicians tor children teetbing. it is a purely vein table preparations, its ingredients are pub lished around each battle. It is pleasant to tbe taste and absolutelv harmless. It re lieves constipation, regulates the - boweis, quiets pain, cures diarrhoea and wind colic. allays - feverishness, destroys wormv and prevents convulsions, soothes the child and gives it refreshing and natuaal sleep. Cas- toria is the children s panacea the mothers' trieud. & doses, cents, 3J6-2y. . "S3" bJLj An excellent electric light plant is now in op eration and another dy namo is to be added, be ing of the arc system. A courthouse, costing $68,000, was completed in 1889, and it is the handsomest ne in this state of Oregon. o-ond bote's, a sawmill, nlanins mill, two sash and door fac VUi laillO 1JUO V. S H V sxkjm a.aw-w V..VC) 7 ' ' . tories, two cigar factories, an excellent hay-press manufactory, a foundry, and other numerous estaDiisn ments. There are three weekly newspapers which are just as well edited and present as good an appear ance as any published elsewhere in Oregon. The head offices of the Oregon Pacific Railway Company are located in Corvallis and furnish work tor thirty or more employees. SIX OF GOD'S TEMPLES Have their doors opened on the Sabbath days, and their , pulpits are Allied with reverend gentlemen of hich education and cordial manners. The denominations represented are the Congregational, Evangel ical. Episcopal,- Methodist Episcopal, Southern Methodist, and Tresby tenan. 1'rayer meetings are lieia on Thursday evenings of each waek. . PHYSICIANS- J. M. Applewhite, M. D., PHTS1CUN and SURGEOX, Corvallis, Oregon, Office at R. Graham's drug store, on Main street, opposiie, reading room. . G. R. FARRA, M. D , PHYSICIAN and SURGEON" Special attention given to Obstetric and diseases of Women and Children. Office up stairs in Crawford & Farm's brick. Office hours, 8 too a.m., and i to 2 and 7 p. m. i:i3-yi. AT COST, And some below cost, for cash, The following lines of goods must go: Guns, pistols, butcher knives, baby carriages, bird cages, hammocks, croquet sets, second hand sewing machines in good working order, gloves, dog collars, spy glasses, walking canes, and ther things too numerous to men tion in an advertisement. is done for smmi Pk!pds"E St airs?! ?mah I B of enlarging my MUSIC & Business. The RESORT! THOS. WHITEHOKN, Proprietor. fSTTIie famous AV H. McBrciyer liaivl niacin Sour Mash and Old Crow Bonrlon Whiskies. Weinhard's beer on tn. Kclilitze's celebrated botiled beer. Knicker bocker's Beer. The gentlemen s favorite n-snrf. Fancy mixnd drinks a sp'-iialty. Kt-eps constantly on lumd all kinds of imported liquors and cigsirs. Liquors for medical purposes a specialty. Main Strkkt, - - - Corvailis. NOTICE TO CKKDITOliS. In the County Court of lieutou County, State of Oregon: In the Matter of the Katate of Joseph Thompson, DeeM. Notice in hereby given that the niuler Mtied has been appointed .iliniiiitrat.rix of the estate of Joseph Thompson, deceased, bv said court. All persons hi'viug claim against snirt estate are hereby notifiml to present the same, with the proper voucher, to iiih at mv residence in Wt-st Y.npiine, Benton county, Oregon, within fix mouth from the date of this notice. Dated No vember 9, 18S). M A IU A V. Til OM TSON, Administratrix of the Estate of Joseph Thompson, deceased. t 9 jfiM mm i WILKINS' ADITI0N to CORVALLIS Is now on the market at prfees ranging from $50 to $125 per lot 50x100 feet. The best Suburban property ever offered. ONLY six blocks from public school; eight blocks from court house; two blocks from State Agricultural College. Street cars will be running by property on or about April 1st, 1890. No other section of Oregon offers greater inducements to Capitalists, Investors, and Homeseekera. Sub urban property is selling fast. Lots 50x100,' one-lialf mile from center of city, are being sold at from $100 $125 and $250, according to location. Now is the time to invest. Over $60,000 worth of proper ty changed ownership in November, 1889. For further information concerning CORVALLIS or Ben ton county, or Wilkins' Addition, address . v 1 ' Or M. "W. WILKXCSTS, - " r - - Corvallis, Oregon. from Ohio. HtTri ta f tvriim: Vm tit w orn i.ti n Uirm lr it ti iit-iifli; I if.w h.ivf mi nff-my K. t Alb-n i !' ulvtiiii mikI .iitiit. ii mid uvn huikt- fliltfO n iiii.-iH IV. tl.tA):i:i-N. IVI'li-.i.. Klhn- IlnrrrtlnirL' l'ir w; it - : l Ii.-m t- tii vi-r know it i--inbiy It.mk nt'iiii!k)i 't 7 inv n.f tiv.T itK.I. W. J. Kl- tm.rv, ii.nier. wri'pw "I -3prnik- km rtT i'r virtir UtiititMt jL.';,iilni'MM rvvry lit.;i- i vWt, Vr ys.'J irolii if "rtt-mi- tuneha-TTi one wh. mkm hold ofthinrnntd bit-lit M tn. iii:iitif n.ii:. Shall we start YOV in V.ti husinefis. rilrr? H'rit ! mul ltini mli mhtn.t it t'..r y-iir'lf. 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Afier yon kiww ail, "fauuid'-ou eui-liiile iu pin furthi-r, why u liiirnt iadtie. AikJra K. C. A LI. K.N CO.. JkLUtMA. AlAISftV R. L. Taylor, PROPRIETOR OF THE Little Band Box Barber Shop, Corvallis, Oregon. grSbaving, hair cutting, dressing, dying, anil shampooing. CITY LAUNDRY ! Jm Sing and Doc You, Proprietors. THavinj( lately made an entire , change in tbe management ot the wah-hose, just south of the Hemphill boose,- we are pre pared to ive satisfaction in our line. He also conduct an intelligeece office. . gptI3 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCEKN. I take this methotl of informing the public that my wife Mrs. Julia Pittman luft my bed and lodging on Sundav, Nov. 24th, 1889, and that I will not be responsible for any debts contracted by her after this date. m. ' . L D. WTTMAN.