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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1877)
CITY ARB n tea rrr fcSTABLISHED FOE TIB piSSEIljlATIM OP DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES, AM 10 EARS AS DOXEST LIVING BT THE SWEAT OP Ol'R BROW WHOLtiNO. 499. KUGENE CITY, OR., SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1877. $2.50 per year IN ADVANCE: in Elf $tt(jtttt . City 6uarl . B. AUXANDKR, W. H. ALEXAKDIB. ALEXANDER BROS., publishers and Proprietors OFFICE In Underwood'! Brick Building, over Craln's Jewelry Store. OUR ONLt RATK3 OF ADVERTISING. lilTertiMmeoU inserted u follows; m. square, 1 Ubm or lew, one inserUou J; each Wkjeausnt insertion $1. Cash required ia tdvatae Tina adTertiaers will bshargd at U tollowirsj rates 1 On square three mentha...... HJJ iz month " - one year Transient notices In local eolamn, 10 eenU per lint for each insertion. AdTertisinx bill will b rendered quarterly. AU lob wor mutt be rain roa on deutkbt. POSTOFF1CE. Hlc Hour. -From 7 a. m. to tp.ni. Sundays trfin ISO to S:M p. m. , Hail arrive, from th aouth and leaTes doing north 16 a. m. Anie from the north and loare. txiins; rath at 1:81 p. m. For 8iui.law. franklin and Ions; T im, eloas at f i.M. on Welnlay. ror inwraw ol n.m..r'M.lr Anil Ttmwnaville at I V.B. letter, will be ready for delivery half an hour after nral of train, letter, ahould be left at th. omoe SOCIETIES. w..i iM. Vrt n A V aad A. M Meet first and third Welneadaya In earn nunth. Brum Brrrrn tanoa No. t LO. in v Viwtvrv TuMolaT erentnc. a?.lH' Wiii.nii.i V.nciMHHHT No. . meete on the id and 4th Wedneadays in each month. LON. CLEAVER, 3E2 NTIST. OOMS OVER MRS. JACKSON'S Mil linery Store, WILLAMETTE STREET. DENTAL. DR. F. 'WELSH HAS OPINIO DENTAL ROOMS Permanently in the Underwood Brick, Eugene City, and respectfully solicits a "hare of the public patronage. Refers by pennisnion to J. k CardweU, Portland. A. IK PATTERSON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Sew Nlath Street, Malta Ike it. Charles Mwlel, BaU, KlTttKVK CITY. ORKQOK. - S1.S. lflCSLIN & SHIELDS, HAVING ASSOCIATED IN THE prac tice of Medicine, offer their professional service! to the eitirens of Euirene City -and the aurroundii country. Special tten given to all OBSTETRICAL CASES and UfER INE DISEASES entrusted to their care. Bill due when the service ia rendered. Office- M Ninth street and at the residence tlr. Kickli Willamette street, between Ninth and Tenth rtreet. DB. J0SEP2 P. GILL 0 idence when not iirofessioTially enffagtii. Office at the POST OFFICE DRUG STORE Rtaidenoe en Eighth rtreet, opposite Presby terian Church. ' . Crtas. M. Hdf ri, PRACTICAL GUX&UITII. riwiTJiR TV OITNS. RIFLKS, 'and materials. , Ret-iiSn done in the neatert ty and warranieu. Sewiny MacUineaf wuea, uica, etc.-; repaired. Guns loaned arfdf ammunition furnished. Shop on Ninth itreet, oppogi Star Bakery. QMO.B. LORRIS, ' iTTORSET A!ID COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Office on Willamette rtreet. Eugene City. Purchasing AjBftt, B. LAKE. SAN FKANCISCO, CAt. JEWELRY ESTABLISMENT. Jr S. LUCKtT, ffitf 6EALEBIN gj3 Clocks, Watches, Ckins.'Jewelry, etc. Repairing Promptly Executed. earAIIWerk WmtXti'. J.S. LUCKKT, Elliworth & Co,'! brick, Willamette Street. Bok and StatTonery Sloie, FST OFFICE BUILDING, EUGENE City. I have on hand and am constantly rWinan a-ortm of .Uf Bajt.School d Mucellaneoul Book., SU,1) OPPOSITION IS THE LIFE: OF TRADE I SLOAN BROTHERS TfTILL DO WORK CHEAPER than any ' VY aha ia town. HORSES SHOD JOB tl 50, VrUli mrw auterial, aU nxlnl. BeeettiM a4 Cemta. ail warraate4 ( le atleiaetlaa. Slop oa Eiglitfl it, 0PB08ie Ham- pareyi oudis. vrEW NTOCK OF lIAT-Th tiert . XI a Urg-t ever Wa. AS BENDER HENSHVECKKDi Any olientioraan vot vill go rotiri4 pehint your face, and Ulk in front of your pack spout sometings, vas a shvindler. I heard dot Brown says veek petore next apout me I vas i benshpecked hnspand. Dot vas a lie! De proof of de eating vas in de pud dings. I am married twenty year al ready, and I vas yet not paid beaded, I dona vas ootid er some pettgoat gofernments; Bhlill I tinks in vas pet let if a teller will insult nut bis vile Una tot her advices apout soraeiings or oder. I'ein American vomans don't know Boriietiiifp tiefer about his huspaut s fteeihess, und t hen dera hair timet; conies; iind not so much money comes in ue house, dot makes not much tit- terencu mit h5r,: . Shlili sho niooet have Voiie of dot pull pack in do front lioop skirt pcttrgoats, nut every kind oo trimmings. 1 ooty soon dot hus pant gets punkrupted all to pieces. Uoy send lor de Doctor: und vhen de doctor comes de man dies. Den dot vomans vas obliged to marry mil anoder mans vot she doii't tnaype like mil tour or six sniidreus, on account ot his first vife already, und po&eoba bly vono or two mudders-by-law voue second-handed, und de oder a shtep tnuuder out law. Den site says mit herself "I efen vish dot I vas dead a little." Now if a Chermans coca dead, dot don't make a pit of titterence. No pody vould hardly know it, except maype himself. His vife goes mil de peesness on shust like noting has hap- peuea to somepoay. American vomans and Lherman vomans vas a lifierent kind ot peoblcs. tor inshstinct, last year dot same tut er, Mr. Brown, goes frit me in de pucber peesness togeder. lie vas American man so vas his vife. Veil: many time vheu ifery peoblen has got be panic pooty bad, dal voman comes to her huepaiit and says she mooHt have money. len l.e goes out rid in'g mit a carriage. Vonce oa a tiue lirown says to me, Bender, I voulJu't be henshpecked." So he vent off und got himself, tight shust pecause his vile teas him blease don't do 'dot. Den lie sits down on bis pack mit de floor, und if am not dere .dot time ho never vould got home. . ' Veil, dot night, me and my vite ad a little talk apout sometings ; und do next lay 1 says to Brown, "Look here vonst I My vite sue makes sau sages, una vorws in aot sniore ; aiuo my laughter she vorks py the shlore und makes head-sheeses, und your vife vas going out riding all de limes mitdehorso car, und a patent tied- ack-cardinal sthriped slhockings. Now your vito moottt gotorkin de shtore und cut peefsteaks, und make sauerkraut, or eke ve divide notequal- y any more dot profits. Veil Brown goes home and he tells Us vik) apout dot. Den she comes pooty quick mit Brown around, und vebad a misundershtanding apoul sometings, in vich efcrypody took a bart, including my kct.'e nog xvaiser. l'ooty K)Tr dp cornel 4 policesmans an4 arfi-Bta us for breeches of promise to keep de pieces, und assaulting de battery, or someiiiigs. Vvn de nrin ot Btuder & Browu was broken up. I go apout my peesness, und Brown go mrt Ins feetines&v My vrre sue holui fn de shtore. llts vitu goes nu- ing mit de horses cars, und efery nights she vas by de theater. Vol s de consequences r Along comes dot Uenienmai panic, uoi faftcks Brown more higlier as two kites, py chimmirry f By income vas shlili rrrore as my outcome. But Brown, he goes .found dot shtreet mit his hands out ot bis pockets',' und be dorr's &t a cent to his back. The Springfield Republican thinks there is great danger in the sugges tion to cut down the army to 5,000, gel along with the money still unex pended ana so avoid mo neccsMiy oi an extra session. 1 he reason is: "ii the country found ont that it could get along safely atid even happily for six monlhs without ao army, or with one ok onlv 4.000 or 5.000 men.' it miirht insist that Congress snouiu ' - form tile habit of omitting the Army Appropriation Bill every year, and so save twenty or thirty millions to the Having adopted2 Dem'bcrat:6 dd trines the present head of the Radical oartr would cladly seize upon the Democratic organisation. But Dera ocriU will remember that it was tbroHgh their organisation that those doctrines were impressed npon the people nbtll tTieirenforcernCDt became a matter of necessity, add will deem it their doty to preserve such a use ful organization intact for fear of 'atf- ctdenta. A locomotive engineer, just dis charged, revenged bmnelf by saying that it was about time he left the company, anyhow, for the take of his life, for "there was nothing left of the track bat two streaks ol rust and the tight of way." TITLE EQUALLY BAD. And now comes little George Gor bam, and remarks "that the election of Packard was as clear as that, of tho Hayes electors of Louisiana." No one will dispute with little Gnorgy about that matter. Horoino in his life he is ri"ht. Packard has as good a title as Hayes, The trouble is, that Hayes had noue at all. It must be horribly galling to littlo Georgy and me rest ot his tribo, lnoludiur; the eel ebrated "eight," to find that niter six months ot outrageous and uersistent Iving crowned by the pcritiry ot the eight," that the man who has reaped the benefit of that rascality; by his acts shows that the whole proceeding was an infamous fraud. No wonder excofsivo anger palsies his tongue, no wonder that old lieu Wade blurts out all sorts of incoher ent splulterings, no wonder that Wen dell Phillips rants and Cameron i. while Chandler is fairly beside himself with mortification and rase. They allhave reason to bo incensed. The wholo pack ot them, one and all, Irom Mearns and J. Alauuison Wells to Chandler arid Morton, lied and lied and lied nirain. Tho Returning Boards lied and the Congressmen and Senators and Su preme Court Jud es lied, all for tho purpose of not only lying Hayes iuto the Presidential Chair, btft of main taining the "bloody shirt" infamy aud the carpet-baggers in ollioe. Yet in spite of this Niagara of mendacity, the man who profited by it, calmly and swoelly though tacitly admits that all his kind triefius wero to say the lerist of it mistaken.' That, tfo Mr. Craggs says, "is putting a very tine point on it." But they aro just- served. No punishment is tco se vere, no humiliation too galling tor them. They have incurred tho repro bation of every good citizen, on ac count of the inetlltblc disgraco they brought on the American name; on account of the imminotlt peril in which they placed the most sacred in stitutions of the country, ft f good to see them defeated, disappointed and disgusted. That tho country safuly passed through tho terrible danger to which ft was exposed by their villainy, was not owing to their efforts. That was effected by the good sense of tho mass of tho people, tho magnanimous for bear, nee of the Democratic- jHaftlj, and tho heroic self-detilal of the cili ceiisofthat section, who lor nearly ten. years have been the victims of every wrong and oppression which the malicious liate and maliguant in genuity ot the Radical leaders could inspire and invent. S. K Examiner. "CAUPET-UAliUliHS." The application of this term is local ized in the South. At the close of tho rebellion, when the Administration was doubtful about whom it could trust, most of the Federal appoiut nu nta for the South were from among Northern loyalists. Then tliero wis a class of Northern men, hiving status tor patriotism during the war, who went South, and, ingratiating them selves with the colored volers,ollained elective position. This latter class had little to lose and ail to gain. "Make hay while the sun shines'was their motto, and in many instances they used their offices lor purposes of tho most shame less robbery. No wonder that they became objects ot suspicion and dis- ike with those whom tbey helped to impoverish, fn South .Carolina and bouisiaua wiey were particularly uni on, and it is because their power is now broken that theso Mates are given up to such wild joy. A few figures lrohi Louisiana will show the extent of their misrule. At the clcVe of the war the debt of Che State was $4,000,000. Under tho provisional government to 18G7 it ran u d to tlO.OUO.OOO. From this figure it grew to' 822, 430,000; Of this in crease' of $12,500,000, added between 18G7 flhd'1874', a correspondent of the New York Tribute gas: According to the statements of eminent bankers of both parties, about 10,000,000 was stolen. A people tlir.i r jMm d could obt be otherwise than restive, nor have other feeling for the "carpet bagger" than hatred atid contempt. Agriculture, said Socrates, is an employment the most worthy the ap plication ot man; the most ancient and the most suitable to' his nature. It is the common nurse of all person in every age and condition of life ; is tho source of health, strength, plenty, and richness : and of a thuu sand ftfber delights ahd honest pleas ures. It is the mistress and school of sobriety,-temperance, just cc, re- ligion,-and in short, ot all the virtues civil and military. in the village of Ilarbottle, North nmberland. England, no child has died during the but twenty yenrs a farmer and his three shepherds have between t.em forty-seven children, and during the pal thirty years not a deuh has occurred in their ni lies. . - Ttoa Disgrace of the Supreme Court. Nolhing can better illuetrato tho present degradation of our politics, remarks the New York Sun, than the fact that tho vacancy on iho Bench of tho Supreme Court ot tho ITnit ...1 States is sought after by tho partisan methods and machinery which would be used in seeking a place of uiesson- or in one ol the departments. Recommendations lor at least i!5 aspirants, including several Judges of the Vireuit and District Courts, havo aeinauy t)een tilee in tho ollice ol the Attorney-General nt Wiisliiiiirton. Many others havo applied for the place through their friends in Con gress; and several Senators have modestly advocated their "claims." ' Now. of all our nublio ollieos. this . . ....-.' . I is me one which should seek the man who fiom character, ability, and i?en. oral qualification is moVl lit to till ii. Tho Court has declined enormously in public estimation. Tho shameful bargain by which Bradlev and Strong were appointed to sustain the legal tenders by upsetting a former decision of the Court and thus saving to the Pennsylvania and other raihoad cor porations tho dillcronco between gold and paper on their outstanding con tracts, struck a blow nt the nitegrii of tho tribunal. Followed by the n agrant violation of the Constitution n the appointment of the Electoral tribunal, snd by the indecent action of the satno two men iu that body, the Court Btaggcrs under a burden and a reproach which may yet render necessary its total ro-orgamatioii. And now when another vacant)' occurs, by which an opportunity is offered to , restore tho Court so far ns the appointment of ono honorable and capable man might contviiuto to Us purification, it is huckstered in the market like a piece ot merchandise and under the system of bargain and sale which Mr. Hayes calls his "poli cy,'? it is likely to bo b Id to the higli'cst political - bidder! Examiner. Too Mum Monky. Tho Argonaut recently contained a list of over one hundred names, all citizens of San 'Vancisco. which it claims own $1,- 00V,UO0and ojUimTH each'. Among the list nre a largo who get 810,000, 000. I'lio Argonaut insists that they all take that ptfper, but pays them tho following parting compliments : Wo could name.. hundred jolly loliomians who enjoy life much bet ter ihaiU-luso toilers in the mill finan cial. We could pick "out many a duelled and sordid soul from among these millionaires with whom wc would not o-irscif exchange e'lhcr our ea laeiticH for eniovnients iu tins world or our hope tor salvation iu llio world to come. They can't oat more nor sleep longer limn we do. Their di gestion is not better iiian our own; their clothes aro not as good, nnd old Charon will only find under their tongues tho same six pence that will iay to ferry us across tho black river of death. A Good Cement. A coi respond ent of llio N. Y. Tribuno gives the follov: ing receipt for making a good cement : A good cement (or mending almost anything may bo made by mixing to gether lithorgf and glyoerino to the consistency of thick cream or liesii putty. 1 Ins cement is uselul for mending stone jars or any other coarse carthenwaro, stopping leaks in seams of tin pans- or wash boilers, cracks and holes in iron kettles, Ao. I have tilled holes an inch in diame ter in kettles and used tho smite, for years in boiling water ahd feed. It may also bo used to fasten on lamp tops to tighten loose nuts, to secure loose bolts whoso nuts are ioi, tigni- en loose joints of wood or iron, loose boxes in wagon hubs, and in a great many others. In all cases the article mended should not be used till the cement has hardened, Which will re quire from one day to a week, Becom ing to the quantity used. This.ee- II . .1 a? . I meni win resist tne nciion ui wim-i, hot or colli, acids, and almost nny de greo of heat.' When you see a young man silling in a parlor with the ugliest six year old boy that ever frightened himself n the mirror clambering over Ins knees, jerking his white tie out ol knot, mussing his while vest, kicking his shins, feeling in all his poekttslor nickles, bombarding him from lime lo'timo with various bit of light fur niture and bijouterie, calling him name at tho top of his fiendish lungs, aud yelling ir,caaiitly for him to come out in the yard and play, while the uuresiHing victim smiles all the time like the cover of a comic alman ac, you may saftly bet, although there isn't the sign of a girl apparent iu a radius of 10,000 mile, you can bet your bottom dollar that howling boy has a sister who is primping in a room not twenty feet awsy, and that the yonng man doesn't come there just for the fuu of playing wilh her brother. siT.euL. TrMlmony la ten at I lie foroner'a In qnrl oser Hie body of Nrolt uurii, oil fr'rlduy, I cbruary ltd, 187T. J. M. Dick tcitiliotl as follows : My name is Jorcmiuh M. , n,y aj.0 ja jjg yp, . reidonoo, Ijuio county j oecumtjon, minister aim i.iruior ami soniciiirit'S a sunuyor. ivsiOTiuty moraine, ruii. 1st. 1S77. 1 was over nt tho foot of this hill on my way homo. t nuaru soma one. call, at tlie timo James Storniiint ovortook uio. and stated that ho tlioiiuht .Mr. Oalumi was shot. Ho hud passed liim across tho river; and had hoard a shot, and at tho same time heard Mr. Oslmrn's voiiKsav, my (Sod. 1 camo Wk and sent for Mr. Cotlinan ) then four of lis wont over llio nvor, went to the cabin and found Mr. Ilslmrn there. Ho stated that ho was shot We examinod the place whore tho ball went in. He stilted he thoiijlit . Jack Cogswell siiov nun, urn i,o w as not sure. Tliuro was two if u in pointed out tho onu-k of tho lion so. aud one oi them was tired ; lie fell, and the nog e.-iiiiu Irom nojuml tho house at him, and he shot at the doc I was with him from about nine o'clock in tho morning until he died about three o'clock in tho nlteniooli of tho sumo day. Ho re Hosted us to move him. We made prcar.itioiis to move him, and as soon as we fot a wagon thore, we car ried him from the ca1iu to the bank of the river, whuro he died. Ho died in nNiut lif teen minute afr we got there. The cabin is aboitt '.'OO yards from tho river.. Wo did not see any person at tho cabin but Oahurn ; he was lyinjr in tho bed. I examined the wound, found he was shot through tho abdo men, I'v toM mo that morning ho was go ing ovr - to his claim to burn down koine trees and make a fence. Ho says ho told them to gi t out of tho cabin or he would cut a tree on it The cabin is on the land that Mr. Osbuni claimed j ho has claimed the laud since I j his pre-emption papers are ; dated then. 1 found the ax and Ins hat aud blood by the tree where ho said he fell. He told me he took oil' his pistol and scabbard and laid thorn on a log behind him. I found tho scabbard on tliu log. J. M. DtcK. John I'oM'iunn tosliuVd as follows : My name is .lifhu ( 'oilman ) my residence with Mr. Millioan ; ago, -III j occupation, farmer. 1 went over the river with Mr. Dick and Stormniit. Wo went to tho cabin, found Mr. Osbiirii lying on the bed. Wo turned tho clothes olVot hiii), aud found whore the ball shot him, ninl also wero it camo out 1 asked Mr. Dsbiirn, and ho stated to mo that lie wint tliuro and commenced chopping on a tree, aud ho told them he would chop tho tree down if they did not get out tho cabin. I suppose fiiiui tho looks of tho tree ho had struck about a doxen licks on tho trco, and ho aw two rillcs pointed nut of tho crack, and he iiiuied to step behind tho tree to screen himself, and they wero too quick for him -shot him and lie supposed it was Cogswell shot him. Ho says the dog camo out or around tho cabin, nnd ho shot nt the dog. Cogswell then came out and olleied to give him a blanket Ho said ho diil,iiot want it, but wanted some water, and Cogs yell fetched him soma Wf t"r. He said Cogs v. 11 took tho pistol from off tho ground wbeio it was lying, and took it oil. Tho cabin is on tho place Mr. Oahuru claimed. 'I'lio trao almut siit Mtcs from the corner of tho pl;ice-wlicio they shot out John Cowman. Joscih W. Woods toHtilled as follows : My name is Joseph W. Wood age, 40 ) resi dence, l.oiu county i occupation, f irmer. In the liint plack, wu heard of tl shooting through Mr. Cogswell. He wantul in me and my brother to go up and look after Oa huru ; hu was in a pretty bad I'm that Iwi noil had shot him. We started up and we m"t Many Kanoir just below his brother's. My brother asked Mr. Kanoll' whiro we would liml Unburn ? ho said lieaf tho cabin lying by 0 tree. Wo went and found Mr. I lick anil Mr. Coll man there, My brother asked Mr. Unburn about tho shiMitiiijjf. f Ho stated und related tho sumo as tlie iftor wit nesses havo test ilied, 1 was personally ao ipuiiuteil with Mr, Dsbiini, and the corpse is tho body of tho man that went by tliri name of Scott Unburn, and is tho person who made the statement Johki'U W. Wood. James Htormant tcstllied as follows : J. T. Stormniit ago, i.'.'l ; occupation, farmer wont over with Mr. Osburii to work help him fence. When we went across" tho river, he went about two hundred yards, and said hu Would go up and tell Mr. Kanotf that he'd better take bis thinks out bcf'ire till road was closed and he hail not been gone from mo more than ten or lifteen minutes, until a gun lired, and he also hollowed.' He hol lowed, oh I (tod, njid then tliero was another gun lired. I knew there was some of them hurt. I came home ami got Mr. J. M. f lick, my brother and ('oilman, and went over there. Win n wc got over there he was ly ing iu tho lied. Hu wanted mo to go after the doctor, and 1 went after tho doctor. Could not tell exactly whether it was Oh bum's voice or not. I did not hear Unburn any that ho would hold the ranch if it took powder and balls to do so. I be:inl a part of i.oliiimu s testimony. Oslmrn liat was ly ing olf by a tree, could not say how fur. I understood Osburn to say that they both shot him. I might have been mistaken. 1 started immediately after the doctor. Unburn hail a pistol a Colts' revolver and a knife a butcher knife. I was about twoor three hundred yards from the cabin when tho shots wero fired tliero wero two shots lired. I heard Osburn say thnt Kanotrhad built a cabin on his place. If Kauoff held the place lie hIioiiM not keep anything on it any nn provcfneiits. J. T. SloitMANT. Augustus Hendricks testified as follows Augustus Hendricks : am, ii.'l s occupation, fanner. The first I heard of it, Mr. Kanoll came down the river and como into tho shop where 1 was at work, shook hands with me and my brother, and I suked him if Osburn had nut him iu the river yet He said no. that he (Unburn) hail better lie in tho river or any other place, than be in tho condition he is in. He started ilowu the roail. Isaul, you aud him havo had some words, have you? lie ud, well I don't know, and went on. ('Vswrll says Osburn wants you to coino up there, anil asked where is your lather I said tell in in, (your lather) coiuu out hero quick. Said Harvey haa shot Osburn. and Osburn wants him to come un there as quick as 1 could u:t there. Said O.iburn was not dead. He leit water and a blanket fur him, and of fered to t ike bun iu the cabin, and he would uot L. I heard Mr. O.Jiuro say that he Would have Kanoll olf ot there if he hail to drag bint off. Ai i.i res Hkmikii Ks. John Cogswell testified as follows : Name Ji.lin I 'i'ift-t.!l at M (wjTiltiation. fannfr. Iay before yeu.-nlay aftunuHtn I told my wife I would go and get KMiie vemaon if liar - 7 '"' About a mile and a hall almve llendrii-k , saw Hendricks aatchmg f.H- a d.-er. Said the d..gs aer out and he i , haded me a I tu going up. Sfppcl tmti Into the trail and Raid he would bate to hear of any body Iwiug killed in this neighborhood. Said I, so would I, what ie up. Said some thing aWuit Oshurn making threats, and laid, I to him, he wauted to borrow a gun of yoo) some time aco tn blow my head off, and ha said he did, that it was no secret, he did aot tell me to keep it It was Cas. Hendrickst the ferryman. About a mile above that I mot Knnoff coming down. I asked him if ha had killed any deer. He laid yes, he bad, killed" two yesterday. What is the news, said IT .When I came in from hunting yeiterj day, thtira was a tree across my house, and tho roof was oil and my bed and blankets wero wet iaid he hail cut the tree off and tixed it up again, and after he got it fixed Osburn came there and told him that WM his land aud ho must leave, aud ha' said hb was the one that cut the tree on his house. Said that Osburn called uie a d m black b, and said I must leave. Kanoff itopped, back and got his gun and told Osburn be. could not call him that again and live. Oa burn said shoot and KauolT said call me that, agaiu and I will. Osburn told hirn tha there was laud enough for thorn, and il.J would trade two forties for two that I Jiad, Ik. u, ,,!.! .ntlafv lorn well for it . Told 04 burn that Ware had told him that .Hie land was vacant, and ho would go ilow n to v are If Ware said tho land lielunged to Ostium,. ho would go off of it He would not assent to go at first, but after which he did, said ha, would no down the next day, draw hi school monoy, pay hii and woitVl inert linn ni are s ouicv vw-.. . - went back to tho cabin to get tno ooer. u was lato and stayed all night In the morn hut after breakfast we heard omethmg a, the corner of the houso. As I lisikod np Mr. Osburn step(H'd in front of tho door witn nia nislol in his hand, nnd said something I did, not understand distinctly, and laid get ttui of tho hosco il in you or I'll shoot you,,. At that timo Kanoff stepped into the- tloor, Ii reached and got my pistoL Haid. Osburn U) Kanoll, i agreed to meet you down at " but I liave a liosso of men out here to back) mo uud you lmvu got to get now in fifteen. minutes. !Sivn I i.-cgswou mm go ion. up, tliero, had hired him. Sayi ho, he is proi eut and ho is ill hero aud yon can ask him. And Osburn turned around, had hu ax ana pistol in his band wd said I will mash yoo. and your house all toeuthor, and went t chopping on a tree, a leaning tree, loaning over the cabin, alout lour or five itep. a. I, a ur.nt ut tho tree ho hollowed.. struck lick or two and gave another hoi. low. Hy this time Kanoff got a board knocked off so wo could sue him, had hu gun in his Hand ami I said Knnoff don't ihoot. Osburn had his pistol down by the side of him.' When' I stopped out of the house right at the corner, some lix or seven stop nine uiu nw - g im i . k .,,.1 iii.thiirnna. 1 stonpeu a second, itepisid back and mot Ksmdr goiri(, out facing mo. Says I, don't go out if ba has his pistol in his hand Jiell lliwt you, Kanoff mid ho had ihot him. Then I looked out of the crack and law Osburn' loot lying over a polo by the lido ot the tree. Said lv don't go out until you know he is dead or has not got his pistol. Said I don t see him, after hs.king out of tho crack. Savi I, you, watch on that sidu and I will watch on thia side. He knocked off another board. At that timo Osburn throw hi hand, out from i i. tl,.. trim, and aavs I he is hiirt Ihen Osburn culled 1110 and said Mr. , CogswcIV comu hero. I stepmid out id t'i eaoin i the corner, and mi 1 was going, 1 tliougiitoi ii, i,iti,,l S:iiil throw, vour pistol away. Says ho, I can't shoot, you havo killed me., . . . . , . I ...... Ilatl. Says 1 it was not mo mat bi jro jm ho, it wiui that other fellow then If yes, ay I, it was that otlier leiiow. .inou no re peated for mo to come. out thefflV.and threw his pistol so ho could reach it hui'dily. 'Say, tlj'rovf your pistol lurtiicr tnan niat u yo ml m to eoine. for I uiiilerstaud that you throaU'ned my lifo again, no longer than ye: torday, and I do not mean to gi Von chmice. ffe reached and got Ins pistol and threw it about three steps, I think. I wenk up liotwoon him and the pistol and picked the pitol, tipthen asked hinv wbat.I oould do for him. Ho safil get bim some wator, for I wont live. 1 got him tho water, then I took my mulo tluit wa Undiiig near, put my saddlo on aim lieu ,iuo mm u", then went back to him and asked him wha I could do for him) said U wanted w tais.. say I, this i no timo ff talking, I want to, let somolHMly know th rilCumstance. Says, he that is Just what I want yon to do, and. go quick. Said I will go a quick a I can says, what els can I do . before I go. 8aii), get me some more water and lot it so I caa get it Asked him if I hail not better help him in the onbiiu He said no don't stir rue. Then I got a blanket and doubled it and put it over him, and then itartod and weut out, in the trail, met Jnddy Whitney and won, on, told Hendricks' boy, and told them to go up u quick a they eould, and weut to, Woods ami loin mom to go upaa qui they muli L I took the pistol horn an found ono ball out and the hammer turned on the next cap. Kanoll was in the cauiflj the most of the time; did not see Kanoff shoot biini did not see either one; Kanoff hal cartridge rillo; no other persou present that I know of. 1 could not tell which hot, tirst could not se them. 'Ihere wa two shots fired alsiut together, think one inside came first One report of a gun came from. where Osburn stood. My dog wa there ana. went up, when 1 took the water, and smelt., and called my attention to the blood; did not see tho dog until I took the water. When I met Kanoll the day before, Kauoff told me that Osburn said one of them must go over his dead body. JohsCooswcll. Hw Folicv. Beverly Tucker saya Why, sir, Hayes' Southern policy, as they call it, is the Democratic plat, form of last November. Il ia the otv terances and principle of tho party, for the past ten years boing carried . into eflect. Dow long do you sup poso Chamberlin and Packard wouldj' have remained it Tilden had received his rights? Not a day, hir. No, not even uutil tho inauguration. It has -been just a hope that they could carry on tho old gamo that induped. them to bold out as long as they have. When Chinamen part they say 1 "chin-chin." which means good bye, j, fc t t, wa H lth t.ur girg; , , ,. ' , ,r ... , , '-7 c,"u l,"u "oul ual au uuur fore thoy can get apart. from Osburn, just as I stopped to tn Burner be grabtied bin pislul. I laid.iook out hoTI shout, think I wid this twice. About the, .i.:. i . wan. mi nt mf nioutrl. I