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t. "ITT TTTTl CI Y A B1H ! ESTABLISHED TOR THE DISSEMIX1TI0S OF DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES, ASD TO EARS AH IIOXEST LIVING BI THE SWEAT OF OCR BROW WHOLE NO. 500. EpGENE CITY, OR., SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1877. $2.50 per year IN ADVANCE. 1 T I 1 H H n i r- - - - . . gfte Sugcnc City Guard. T. K. ALEXANDER, W. II. ALEXANDER. ALEXANDER BROS., Publishers and Pio.uietors. OFFICE In Underwood's Brick Building, over Grain's Jewelry Store. on It ON'I.V IIATK3 OP ADVEKTISING. Idvartlsemeuta inserted as follow : )ne square, 10 Hues or law, ouo insertion each hjequont insertion $1. Cash required in advance Time adrsxtisers will be charge! at the following fates : One Kiaie three months j JJJ six months 8 eo . nnfl Vtiar 12 00 Transient notices in local oolumn, 30 cents per line f jr each insertion. Advertininir bills will be rendered quarterly. All job wo' must be ram fob ok iikuvkuv. I'OSTOFFlCt;. OtHcs ITours -From 7 a. m. to 7 p.m. Sundays finm 3:30 to &Sfl p. m. Mail arrives from the south and leaves noinn north lo a. m. An ivea from the north an I leaves iroinir rath at i-M p. m. For rSniiiihiw, Franklin and lxinir T jm, clone at 6 a.m. ou Wednes lay. For Crawford. yille, Camp Crock an! Bniwntville at 1 r.H. Letters will be ready for delivery hiilf an hoar after a Tiviil of train's. Letter aluuld be left at the office cue hour before mails depart. " A. 8. I'ATTEKSOS, P. M. SOCIETIES. KttnnNB Iwoe No It, A. F. and A. M. ueta Hint and third W e iiicaays in eaca mouth. m. Hrrxcnn BvrrtK tmav. No. 9 I. O. tvr O.K. Meets every Tuesday evening. " meets the 1 unl 4th We Ine Hys in em'h month. - 't- riunvillf a FwriUPUVNT Nil. ft. LON. CLEAVER, 32 ES 1ST 27 t3 "2? - BOOMS OVER MRS. JACKSON'S Mil linery Store, WILLAMETTE STREET. DENTAL. DR. F. WELSH HAS OPENED 'Vyffj DENTAL ROOMS Permanently in the Underwood Brick, Eugene City, and respectfully solicits a share of the imblie iiatrouaije. Refers by permission to J. t Cardwell, Portland. ' A. IF. PATTERSON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, JfHee on Ninth Street, opposite the St. Charles Hotel, and at Residence, " KiJGTCVii: CITY. OIUtON. . SHIELDS, HAVING ASSOCIATED IN THE prac tice of Medicine, offer their jirofesHiunal cervices to the citizens of Eugene City and the aurrouniliii? country. Special attention L'iven toallOlJSi'Et'lflCAL CASES and UTER INE DISEASES entrusted to their care. Bills due when the service is reudered. Officer on Ninth strcSt and at the residence of Dr. Nicklin on Willamette Btreet, between .Ninth and Tenth streets. . se2 D2. JOSEPH P. GILL CAN BE FOUND AT HIS OFFICE or res idence when not professionally engaged. Oifice at the POST OFFICE DRUG STORE. Residence on Eighth street, opposite Presby terian Church. Chas. r.1. Horn, PRACTICAL GUNSMITH. niriTT-T? TV ir:tTXS. RIFLES. fund material Repairing done in the neatest style una warrant j. t Uewiug Machines, Safes, Locks, etc repaired. Guns loaned and ammunition furnished. Shop on Ninth street, opposite Star Bakery. GEO. B. DORRIS, 1TT0RXEY 1SD COCXSELLOR AT LAW, , Office on Willamette street, Eugene City. WM. Purchasing Agsnt, : B. SAN FKAXCISCO, LAKE. 1 ' OAL. JEWELIIY ESTABLIS5IEXT. J. 3. LUGKSY, DEALER IN Clocks, Watcnes, Chains, Jewelry, etc. Itcpairiii IVoniptly ExtfuteJ. CiTAIlWork AVarranled. J.S. LUCKKY, Ellsworth i. Co.'s brick, Willamette Street. ' Hoik sii Stationery Store. POST dl FICE BUILDING, EUGENE City. I have on hand an 1 am constantly receiving an a'rtmtnt of the Best Scuo.il and Miscellaneous Books. StationeTV. Blank Books, I, Portfolios, (rds, Wall ta, Jtianks, Pnrtnv.n i naes, eta. etc A. 8. rATfER-SUN. OPPOSITION IS THE LIFE OF TRADE! SLQAii B?.3THtRS "TTTII.L DO WORK CHEAPER thss sy other I Y shopistawB. HOUSES SHOD FOR SI 50, With sw material, all nmaL Eewttiag old that ft Ceala.. All warrmatesl t srtTe aitUlartUa. fillop oa Eistti it, opposite Hum . parey'a Stable. 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Tallow,, Will sell Hef la eaoak. frua I to I eeau. 1VGIn.TURAL IMPLEMENTS of U kinds at insi le ft.iro. hr T. ii. HENDRICKS. CAHPIiT-BACtJKU'S LAMENT. Ai8-"01d Rosin de Bow." I've traveled this country all over, . And now to another must go, Where the darkies are easier swindled, Aud less of my lying do know. I came from the cold, frosty region, The land of the iee and the snow I eame with tuy carict-bat empty, And now 'tis ipiite full, as you know. At home I was ragged and dirty, And left wheu the sun had gone low, But soon made a raise in this country, When I tfot in the Freedmeu's Bureau. I told how I shouldered my musket And fought for the (Kxir old negro j How I hated the seeesh and rebels, Aud told them to hate 'em also. I swore them at ni -lit by dark lanterns. In the- league we call loyal, you know; And m ule them believe it they left tt Straight down to the devil they'd go. I promised that land we would give them, Ut acres quite forty or more, With a mule fat and ready to tend it, That caught each fool darky, be sure. I promised to give them all office, And to make them my equals also ; I niade them thinlc4 w;is an anj,'el, Aud this earth would be heaven below, We gut every office we wanted, Aud threw the Kxir darkies a bone ; We roblied and we stole without fearing For Grant he would let us alone. That "mournful fact" speech of old Greeley struck us the first heavy blow ; Now the niggers cVmfound 'em, want otfice, Then where shall our carpet-bags go ? I see that more tSiuble is coming ; The mule aud the land I can't show ; So, like many a swindler licfore me, I must pack up my stealings aud go. TUB FATK OP TUB UBNOEHS. Some weeks ago the telegraph an nounced that the Bunder family had been arivak'd somewhere in Arkaumu), then that it proved to be some one ulse; and then again that one ot the men who helped "lyneh" them would publish a lull ntatemeut of the all'air in the Chioajro Times. Below we re publish tho statement made by the man Dutroitrel'eirod to as published in the Times, which has just come to hand: The Benders might have continued their bloody work in peace and pros perity tor an indefinite- length ot lime had they continued planting their victims in the garden. But previous to tho killing ot Dr. Vprk they had murdered a man named Jones. In February a man named Couklin, in company with another farmer, while riding along Drum Creek, saw the dea l body of a man caught in some driftwood. It proved to be the body of Jones. Hu had had bis skull smashed in with a hammer, and his throat cut from car to oar. The body had no clothing upon it save a shirt, Some ten or a dozen farmers met qui etly on the banks of Drum Creek, and atlei viewing tho body of Jones held a council. At this meeting the Bon ders were spoken ot suspiciouslv, and it was determined to keep the dinc?v ery of the body quiet until future de velopment. Tho next day a man who was evidently a tramp and had footed it from Independence on his way to Fort Scott, stopped at Du troll's house and asked tor something to cat. In conversation with this man Dulroit learned that late the previous evening the tramp had, while looking around for a place to pass tho night, come across a small hay stack back of tho Bender's house, into which he quietly nestled himself. It must have been midnight when he was awakened by voices, and quietly looking out from his nest he taw the dim outline ol threo persons, evidently at work digging, a a short distance from him. It was so dark that he could not dis tinguish them, but he could hear them epeak in German, a languago he did not understand. His tirst im pulse was to go out to them. But something seemed to wilhold him, and alter a lime they finished what ever work they were at and withdrew into the house. The tramp departed early in the morning and had tramped on until he had stopped at Duiroii's house lor breakfast. lie concluded his tale by remaikiug that it "looked mighty like they burying some one." Mr. Dutroil s.id nothing at tht time, but when the parly ot twelve met by appointment on Drum Creek, he re lated the circumstance to them, ami it was determined to give the Bender mansion a quiet inv wtigaiion. A wagon track was discovered leading to tlio Bender place Irom where Jones' b ody had been thrown into the creek. The party strm-k out on the wagon trail, and at about sunset it brought them in view ot the tavern. It was then determined to lorego proceed ings until the morrow, when in the morning, the entire party would meet on Drum Creek, well armed, aud ride over to the Bender place. On tfie morrow, at about 8 o'clock, the party assembled on the creek and immediately proceeded over the prairit-s to tlu suspected house. But wlicn they arrived they tound the Bender ranch deserted. The Binders had noticed the squad ot horsemen riiling upon tho wagon trail the pre vious evening, and during the night had bundled np their effects and de parted. The Benders at this time bad tour horses, cow, and a wagon load of household tracks While the icouting party were can vassing me new state of affairs. Mr, Dutroil and others went in search ot the spot indicated by tho tramn. They searched around for some time in vain, as the ground had been re cently plowed over, but at last struck a spot that appeared moister than the rest, as though the ground beneath it had recently been turned up. No shovel being found, threo of tho party so'i to work with shingles torn Irom the root of the house, and after digging a hole four feet deep, one of them wit'i a shout, reached dowu his hand aud pulled up the skirt of a man's under garment, and beneath could be seen an exposed portion of a human body. This was tho corpse of Dr. Voi k, though at the timo the explorers did not know it The track 'of tho Bendor wagon could bo seen leading to tho south west. Tho horsemon lollowed at full speed. Just at sunset the pursuers enmo in sight of the fugitives. They had evidently urged thoir teams on with all speed possible, as they were a good forty five miles trom their tavern, and their animals appoared well used lip. There was no cow with the outfit, nor had the Bonders' cow been seen or heard ot from that lay to this. As tho pursuit came in isihtot their game thoy gave a yell, and charged dowu upon ihera. Tho moment '.he Benders caught sight of their pursuers, tho greatest conster nation appeared to seizo upon them. John Bender, who was walking by the sidu ot the wagon, ran forward to the lead team, as though to unhitch them, but was evidently recalled by tho old man, who handed him out an old fashioned smooth-boro ritle. With this weapon ho fired a harmless shot at the advancing horsemen, and then drew a navy revolver and reached his laud into Hie wagon tor auolher. Before ho had time to draw it forth, however, a shot from one of the farm ers laid him out lifeless on the prairie. tho ball entering bis left breast and piercing the heart. Old man Bender stood up In the wagon, and, striking down the cover, yelled at his horses in German aud nourished a revolver over Ins head. The pursuers wished to capture them alive, if possible, but dia not liko to approach too close to the old man a revolver. As they were going down a roll in the prairie one ot thoir lead horses fell, and Kale, springing out of the wagon, went to the fallen animal as if to get it up. But instead of raising np the lallcn beast, she out ooso us mate, and, mounting it was endeavoring to make her escape on its back. At this the old man seemed crazed with anger aud tired his revol ver at her. lie did not hit her, how- ver. but tno horse springing forward caught a leg iu the bieoohing of its fallen male, and went down with Kale under him. The old man having emptied his revolver, tho pursuers closed in on him and beat hinJrdown with their gun barrels, though ho and his wife fought like tigers to tho list. After they had tied Bender and his wife they cot tho girl out from under the horse and tound that she had a eg broken in tho full. Dulroit said Kate acted liko a very detil. She cursed them, cursed her father and mother, and seemed a red-hot vial of wrath. The party moved over to n "run" and camped for the night. Old Ben der refused to say a word in English, but both he and his wife cursed their captors in German. Kale Bender seemed to think their captors kuew everything, and while she would not answer questions, she made no con cealment of tho hellish wei k that had been carried on at tho tavern, and as serted frequently that they had killed over 100 persons. She said sho had dono most of tho throat culling her self; that John was afraid; that he or the old woman did well enough to knock their victims on the head, but they appeared to be afraid of thcrn after they were down. When asked why they had killed so many (referring lo ber assertion of having killed 100 persons), she replied that the old people (meaning her pai-' ents) liked tho money, but sho liked to see the blood. She was lying on the ground unbound, her broken limb preventing ber escape. One ot the men happened lo sit down near her, when, quick as thought, she jerked his revolver from his belt and fired at him. The ball missed hiu and en tered the fleshy part of the thigh of a man named Love. Before the could fire again she was shot, one ot the balls passing through her head. The old couple looked on with ap parent indifference upon the terrible scene, and when spoken to would make no reply, save to give utterance to maledictions npon their pursuers. The farmers held a long consulta tion as to the disposal of their priso ners. A Ixind of sworn secrecy was entered inlo, and so the man and bis wife were boih sl ot. Ther made no anpeal to mercy, but died cursing. The fallowing morning their effects were divided np smoig their captor. .The bodies were buried on the spot. A POINT APTLT PIT. The Her. Dr. G. Gotthoil, ot New York, a Jewish Habbi of distinguished ability, lately delivered a lecture in that city on "The Jewish people in tneir treatment or (tbe rounder ot Christianity," and at the conclusion of his discourse he reterred to tho shocking barbarities, the tiurders and massacres committed lately by the Christian Roumanians on Jewish fu gitives' who sought to escnpo the hor rors of war there, and he then asked, "If people geUio indignant at a sup posed judicial murder committed eighteen centuries ago, what will they say to these repeated atrocities per petrated at this day ?" This was put tiojj the whole question iu a nutshell. As things have gono in this Christian world, ot which many who call them selves Christians' brag so very much, luring tho last two or threo hundred years, it is within tho bounds of rea son to say that, had the sacritioo of the savior been deforred to this per iod, and tho soenes before Pontius l iliMe, and thenoo to the cruoitixon on Calvary been shifted to certain bigoted portions ot our own Christian laud, the sufferings of tho Man-God would have been greater than any the Jews are alleged to have put up on him at the dawn of tho Christian Era. And yet, to this day, these same Christians, so-called, persist in proscribing their Jewish lellow-oili- tens to the limit nf their ability and opportunity, for no other reason than that more than eighteen hundred years ago, men who were said to be Jews put Jesus to death. It is an outrage upon humanity and a wicked perversion of the gospel ol Christian- ty to proscribe and perseoute the Jewish pooplo of this ago on account of scenes which ocourrcd so far back in the remote past, and tho learnod and eloquent liabbi in New York very aptly put the prcgu, nt question for tho Christian world to deliberate upon. TUB LAWYER AND TUB FAttiKKU. A sharp old qitaker who had read tho story of the lawyer aud the farm er and the gored ox, called upon a neighboring lawyor and said : "friend Foxoraft, I very much de sire to ask thy opinion." "I am all attention," replied the lawyer, putting down his pen. "Supposing, friend Foaoraft, that my dog hath gone into the pantry and stolen a leg of thy inuttou, worth one dollar, what ought I to do ?" "lNy for the mutton ; nothing can bo clearer." "Kxaotiy, friend Foxcraft; and now know thee, that tby dog, '1'iuchera, whom I well know by sight, hath stolen a leg of mutton from my pan try, worth exactly one dollar, and now what art thou going to do ? "Fay for the muttou, ot course; here is the changii." Tho good Quaker took his dollar, and was about to depart, when he was stoppod by thghwyer with : "Hold on a moment, my friend. 1 have a little bill against you, which I hope you are ready lo pay." "Bill against me, friend Foxcraft T Thou art certainly laboring under a mistake. I am sure I owe do man a shilling." "No mistake at all. I charge you my regular fee of five dollars, for pro fessional ad v iee in this case." "Then verily I must pay thee ; but allow me lo give it as my opinion, friend Foxerall, that I have touched pitch and been sadly delilod." When the Scut!) Carolina legisla ture was ran in tho interest of hu manity, says tho Chicago Times, and the Republican party it used to re. ward itself for its noble devotion to principle, "llease send one box best champagne to financo committee room." "Please deliver bearer one box best cigars, ouo gallon best whisky and ono. box champagne." "Please send box champsgno to Sen ator Nash's residence." "Give bearer dozen bottles whisky," was the word ing ol little notes sent out by the Secretary of the Senate. And the requests were not confined to wet groceries. Flour, sugar, aud the sub stantials were ordered, and all were paid for out of the contingent fund, i'hey were a hard lot, the South Car olina solons. A man on Pondstreet went down to a New York bankrupt sale the other day and bougnt a beautiful spring iuit, imported goods, worth 85, for 17 50. The first he wort it be was caught in a drenching rain storm, and then as be walked out in the sunshioe his new clothes began to shrink up around his shoulders and pulled his arm oat of joint, and bis trousers gathered themselves op like a balky borse, picked the man np, walked him along on bis tiptoes for half a blocks and were just on the point of twisting him clear over a garden fence, when his suspenders gave wai and let them fly right orer his head and he never saw them again. Barlingtoo J la key e A CORHKCTIO. From the Pioneer. Sam. C. Upham,the pioneer author and orator, makes complaint to ns at follows: I regret that that typographical fiend, the unreliable compositor, who is constantly waltzing around print' mg offices seeking whom he may make' unhappy, has obtained a "sit" in tho' office ( t The Pioneer. lie has made one or two shocking blunders iu set ting up my speech, which the proof reader left uncorrected. I acknowl edge that I am pretty well advanced in ths "sere and yellow leaf," but when a bloodthirsty compositor with malice aforethought, deliberately adds 75 years to my somewhat event ful life, it is rather more than human1 nature can stand. I certainly said "more than a quarter of a Century ago." I also said "untiriag" instead of "nnitirig." We know just how Mr. Upharri feels about this matter. We have experienced the desire to drink the heart's blood of tho unprincipled com- Eoaitor whose whole delight seems td o in wrooking the hnppincss of ed itors and authors and making deso late thoir hearts. P. S. To Sam. C. Uoham. Phila delphia. Shall' we send you his re mains by express or mail? Editor Pioneer. REPLY. Hit him with a "shooting-stick," . Shy at him tho plainer," Mash him with "imposing-stone, The world will be tho gainer. When Ida "form" you have laid out, Just take s gotxl "impression," , And the "proof" please mail to me Send likewise his coiifoesiou. His corpse ctnbahii in "printer's-ink And for fear that he may rally, , riant him, plenso, deep in the gronndv For a hcad-stouo, place a "galley." Tublish his "obituary," la "lon-prinior" or "brevier," Say he's gone, but tot forgotten That "cantankerous pi in tier." Ram. C. UrHAM. Philadelphia, April 23, lb77. v Boir.Ki) PoiiTOKs, But few cooks4 put upon a table a plain boiled pota to that is fit to be taken into1 the stomach. This rule, if lollowed, makes a potato not only palatable, but digestible. Peel and put into cold water say one dozen peacnblow tiotatoes, and let them stand an hoar longer will not hurt them;) wash thffra out cf the water and put fhem into boiling water enough to cover them in a sauoe-pan with a close fit ting cover; throw in a tablespoonfut of salt, and lot them boit half an hour; turn off the water, and stand the sauce-pan on the back of the range or stove for five or ten minutes keeping tho cover tightly closed, as herein lies the oecret of having a po tato look like a snow ball. Serve iff a covered dish, and keep them oov-r ercd until wanted for the plate. Most ' oooks lift the cover off the sauce-uan to lot the steam escape. This makes' the potato heavy ana indigestible. Siioo-nxa SitRAPB. On Wednesday night just before tho boat left Taoo mn tho soundi of firearms ran? out from a saloon on the hill, kept by a if rer.cn gentleman namen liougnpray. It seems mat two uown souna sports named Brown and Cornell had got tho man with the nious name into Si game of poker (which it not pious) niwl atrinned him of a !arre sum. A grand row thon ensued and Lough- pray brought out a six-shooter witn which ho tanned Cornell's crow until Brown sought to Interfere. Then tho Irate Gaul began to burn powder' for their benefit and shot Brown iff ilm h.ff ftiul Cornell in the hand. He' also ladled his billiard table till' it looked as if it had been bombarded bv a Russian fleet. Don't no near' him--he is "onto it,"deoidodly. Dis patch. TIia luil'iptr is an acuoinulishcd fact:- J- J 9 ' it cannot be recalled or. undone, re marks the St. Louis RcDiiblican. "In dependent." Suppose the llepubli- can leauera snouiu ueeiuu un. failure; can Mr. Hayes send the troo t hunk to South Carolina and Louisiana overturn the Hampton and Nicholls Governments, set np tno aeiunct Chamberlain and Packard pretenses in their place and maintain them for foor years by armed force? The yny suggestion is absurd. Mr. Haves and Lis whole cabinet are solemnly and1 firmlv n edired to tho principle Ol non iuterferer.ee in (be South. Now that Ohio's auota of Federal nnnintmnnU U full. 1 what is tO become of tho rest of the patriots in . a.aa.a that State, who are likely to te leu out ;n the told, mad and hungry f Ilec Wado wilt nrobablv come to thef recr, and put them in training for the fall election. , . . i - Tt baa lufln arranged that when' ex-President Graat goes to England, he is to visit the liueen, ana me waeen is to return the visit. The great qus tionwill be: Dos Victoria take sujif .i hers? I"' 'it