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THE INDEPENDENT. Thursday, July 20, 1876. 1776. 1876. July Fourth Oration delivered At the Grand Bar becue at Gaston by the rbn. Jos. Gaston. (Published by recpiesi of the audience.) Fellow Citizens, Ladies and Gentle menOne hundred years ago to day, in the City of Philadelphia, there were convened in a small room fifty-six earnest men. They were not nobles and princes, except in the sense that- every true hero and pa triot is a nobleman, but plain men delegated to consider tne injustice and oppression imposed on them selves and neighbors by the King of England, and which has been re counted in the Magna Charta of our Independence just read in join hearing. They wrought wiser than ther knew, and the srreat Proclama- mation of Liberty which they there issued to the world became tue chief corner stone of our nation and government, the centennial anniver sary of which we are met to cele brate. When we consider their surround ings and circumstances, and the small means- they had to support their cause ajralust the power of King George, and the fact that the roval -proclamation had denounced them as traitors to the Government of England and set a price upon their heads, history fails to produce a grander or more heroic deed than that first step in the foundation of a new nation. Before them stood the " certainty of a felon's doom on the scaffold with dishonor and shame in case of a failure, or to secure suc cess they must welcome long years of labors, dangers, privations aud anxiety. We. in our day, in the fieaceful enjoyment of the fullest iberty under the law can have no conception of the risks those men braved, or the great dangers and trials the invited not only for themselves but for every adherent of their cause. Had any soldier, engineer or great general been given the case of the the colonists, with a schedule of of their means to defend themselves against the great power of England, he would have told them that their cause was nothing but reckless fol ly. But they did not stop to couut the cost; and had they done so they would have lived and died the sub jects of the British crown, and we would not have been here to-day to celebrate any particular blessing. But they were thoroughly fired with the flames of patriotism; they saw only the tyranny of taxes without consent, abolishing their juries, public plunder by unjust laws, and general oppression and robbery by the agents of the crown who swarmed through the colonies as useless of fice holders worse than the locusts in Egypt. It mattered not to them that they were few in numbers or weak in means, for earnestly believ ing in the Scriptures which declare that "the race is not always to the swift or the battle to the strong," they placed their firm reliance on Divine Providence for protection, n.nt nlerlo-ed to each other their lives, fortune and sacred honor to make good the declaration "Hint all men are created free and equal" The Declaration of Independence on the 4th of July, 177G, was not a proclamation of any newly 'ac quired liberty, or of auy new politi cal right, nor was it intended in any way to be a form of government. The people of the thirteen colonies had at that time been in practi cal rebellion for more than a year, and had seized the liberties by such rebellion, which their representa tives formally asserted to be their natural rights, descending to them from the God and Creator of all, and not from the grace of any king or potentate. The spirit of independence which finally culminated in the formal as sertion of the right to a separate national and independent govern ment had been gathering force and volume for several years. As early as- March 5th, 1770, one Crispus Attacks, n colored man, had been killed in Boston while re; resisting the insolence and tyranny of the King's soldiers.- And is it not a sad commentary on our boast ed freedom that the race that shed the first blood in defense of our rights should be the last to receive the blessing? In December 1773 the act taxing tea was resisted by a pub lic destruction of the tea in Boston harbor. Iu 1774 the people com menced o arm in view of openly re sisting the demands of the King's officers. In March 1775 resolutions were passed by the convention in Vir ginia calling upon the people to arm themselves, and on which oc casion Patrick Henry, the great ora tor, boldly asserted, "There is no longer any loom for hope, Ave must fight! I repeat it, we must fight. An appeal to arms and the God of hosts is all that is left us!" And on the 10th of April, 1775, the war of the Bevel ution was com menced at ItexiDgton a few miles from Boston by the British troops firing on the Colonial militia. The battle of- Lexington fired up tha whole thirteen colonies, and all elected delegates to the Convention at Philadelphia. I am thus particular to give the historical order of a few of the events which preceded the formal as sertion of the rights to a separate independent national existence so that wo may the better understand the course and progress of the in fant nation one hundred years ago. The colonists were loth to take the steps so fraught with danger and trial. They sent numerous most loyal petitions to the King of Eng land humbly praying for an abate ment of the ricrors of his govern ment. All these were tieated with scorn and contempt. In a speech in the convention at Philadelphia, John Adams said, "It is true indeed, that in the beginning we aimed not at independence. But there is a di vinity which shapes our ends. The injustice of England has driven us to arms; ana blinueu to ner own inter est for our good, she has obstinate ly persisted, till independence is now within our grasp. Why, then, should we defer the Declaration? Is any man so weak as now to hope for a reconciliation with England, which shall leave neither safety to the country and its liberties, nor safety to his own life, and his own honor? It will thus be seen, that the fi nal act of dissolving all connection with the Mother country by the as sertion of the Independence of the Colonies, was not the sudden out burst of public indignation or pop ular passion but the slow growth of the logic of events. This Declarition of American In dependence is an original idea in the history of nations. I cannot now recall a single precedent exam ple in the history of the world. Na poleon Buonaparte invested his brow with the iron crown of Lombardy, and declared himself king of Italy. The Great Frederick constitutedhim self King of Prussia by placing the crown on ins own neau, wnile J-ouis the XIV of France always referred to the government by saying, "The State which is myself." And the world is full of the examples of na tions formed by successful generals and great warriors calling the army to support their unlawful usurpa tion of power over the people, and the proclamation of a government founded upon their own celnsh am bition. But our Declaration of In dependence was a crown of honor for all citizens and the whole people as one man, placed upon their brows in the self assertion on their rights as freemen. It was the first example of a self constituted natioD, rising as it were like a veritable Phoenix from a then hitherto undiscovered source of pow er, so suddenly, so noiselessly, and yet so substantially as to call from its godfathers a declaration of the principles of its foundation, and an unanswerable statement of the rights of man, and an excuse for this great deed saying "that a decent respect for the opinions of mankind'7 required that much at their hands. With this reference to the great his torical fact which we have met to celebrate, let us brielly review the grand results which have llown from its successful establishment. And no review of the history of our Centennial would bo either truthful or just which did not iu no ble words, more noble than I can command, portray Ihe courage, pa triotism and trials of 'ir foiefathers who gave up all to the cause of na tional independence. Seven years of long, wasting war and want was the price of our priceless boon of freedom. In all of those anxious, trying, tedious years, which it has been fitly said to be the "times which tried men's very souls, "George Washington was the great central figure, and throughout the whole conflict undoubtedly the mainstay of the hearts and confidence of the people. A plain Virginia farmer, with all the virtues of honestv, truth, justice, courage, modesty and honor, uniting the hero, the warrior and the sage, ho so discharged the j great duty laid upon him by his trusting countrymen, as to justly go down in history as the "Father of his country," and be proclaimed iu all lauds and languages as the man "that was first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his country men." And picture too if you can those unselfish revolutionary soldiers in winter quarters at Valley Forge, tracking the frozen earth and icy snow with the blood of unshod feet. See them destitute of clothing, with starving supplies of inferior food, and not one pay-day in seven years of war. But when they confronted the well fed soldiers of King George the insolent red-coats, their mighty souls burning to avenge the wrongs of their country, "one was as good as a thousand, and two could put ten thousand to flight." The authors of the Declaration did not appeul to the support of a Divine Providence with misplaced confidence, for if ev er a cause seemed to be favored by the Supreme Ruler that cause was the war for American Independence. The spirit of patriotism gave zeal and courage to the whole people and to none more than the women of those times. They not only gladly accepted the duty of providing for their families and cultivating the farms with their own hands, but they also supplied large quantities of clothing to the ragged army, rai sing the llax and redueiug the straw to cloth through all the processes, hatchelin and weaving on the home made looms. And many did even more, and with unconquerable hero ism were found in the thickest of the battle, and in the midst of death and carnage, loading the dealing cannon or ministering to the wounded and dying. Some may ask themselves if the spirit which incited tho people tc such deeds of danger and heroism had made them welcome such sore trials and want, and even death rath er than defeat, if that undying love of country has died out in their pos terity in one hundred years. The l de rebellion goes to show that it has not; for whatever may be said of the issues which divided the people of the North and South, nothing could be more manifest, than that both the men and women of to-day are quite as ready to serve and suf fer for what they conceive to be right as their ancestors of '7G. But the great and manifest result of American independence has been the establishment of this great na tion as one of the most powerful and prosperous on the face of the globe. In the physical development of the soil and material resources of tho country, in providing the means of education and intelligence, in the development of the mechanical arts, and the gathering of a population, and the founding of towns and states, the progress of the na'ion has been the wonder of the world. From a population of scarcely three millions in 1776, composed mostly of scat tered farmers occupying a half wild strip of territory along the Atlantic sea shore not larger than California and Oregon, and destitute of wealth and manufactures, and with scarcely public highways, tho country has grown in a century to a vast Empire of thirty-eight, etates, covering the continent from ocean to ocean, with great cities, eighty thousand miles of railway, and forty-three millions of people. When Independence was declared, the pioneers had just commenced to cross the Alleghany mountains into tho vast wilderness of tho Ohio and Missisippi vallevs. Daniel Jjuone was the only white man in Kentucky, and there vs not a single American settlement in all the region now covered by the great States of Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minne sota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Tex as, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama and Florida; while Califor nia was 'n the hands of a half-dozen Spanish priests, and Oregon wholly unknown to the world. And when we compare this prog ress with the development of other nations, the rapid rise of our country seems more like a revolution anil protest against the former order of hu man affairs than the slow growth of the other great nations of ttie Edith. It was eight-hundred years from the founding of liome until the Empire reached the acme of its power. It has taken a thousand years to build up the power of Great Britain. It has taken a thousand vears to brin" tne missiau empire to its presents greatness. It is nearly a thousand years since the division of tho great Empire of Charlemagne into the powers which now constiute the na tions of France and Germany. And yet in one hundred years our free Republic has built up a nation equal to any of these in culture, intellect and knowledge, and inferior to none in arms and physical power. The achievments in social and po litical reforms have been equally grand. Here every man has been made a freeman, and every freeman a citizen. Education and knowl- edge have been practically brought home to the door of all, while here for the tirst-time in the world we find a practical illustration of civil and religious liberty. Of the character of this progress, society, and especially that class of society known as moralists, will di vide in opinion. Those who cling to the traditions of tho middlo ages and place the public safety only on precedents, look upon all of tins throbbing power and activity ti the nation with distrust, and would fain restrict itwithiu principles repudiat ed centuries ago. While another class, knowing that good and evil are ever present in the fail est work of man, hopefully strive to give the mind, heart and labor of the nation a proper direction. And to balance the Bourbonisin of one extreme with the Radicalism of another in the equipoise of a conservative and steady progress becomes not only (Le duty of statesmen, but of every patriot and christian. And while we contemplate with pride and satisfaction tho achiev ments of the past, it is well in this Centennial year to look forward al so and see if perchance there bo any rocks in tho channel or "false lights on the shore" to endanger the good ship of State. And iu the investigations of these questions we find that in our government all changes for good or for evil must commence with the people them selves. The politicians or the cler gy, are powerless to carry any meas ure until the public mind favors the proposition. There is therefore no power or potentate above or over the people that can promote or restrain tho progress of the nation against tho will of the people. And it is a striking and s'uggestive fact that this Declaration of American Independence, so fresh in all its spirit from the heart of the people, has been ever true and con sistent to the highest development of the nation. While the Federal Constitution has had to be amended in many particulars, the Declaration has never needed amendment or altc ration. As erting the God given end natural right? of man, like the Bible it needed no amendment and was not susceptible of improve ment. Slavery grew apace and reared its treasonable head, and the great declaration thundered forth tho equality of all men. Then came tho bloody civil war between the North and South; slavery was abol ished, and the Declaration was vin dicated and glorified by tho terrible war which made freedom a living truth to the. black man of the South. All the promises of the Declara tion are now realized to the people, and in speaking ot the death of Lin coln, the eloquent Chas. Sumner remarks. "The corner stone of national In dependence is already in. its place and on it is is inscribed the name of j George Washington. There is an- other etone which must have its place at the corner also. This is the Declaration of Independence ful filled; and on this stone we will gratefully inscribe tho name of Abraham Lincoln." The first Century of National ex istence has been devoted to clearing the forests, subduing the prairies, bridging the rivers; to building towns, cities, telegraphs and rail roads. The nation has grown rich and powerful, aud proud aud ungod ly. With the accumulation of wealth has come luxury, idleness, extravagance and corruption in pub lic morals; and men of a'l parties are pained and disgraced at tho robber ies and thefts of men they bave hon ored and trusted with place aud power. The next Century should be de voted to the eradication of public aud private crimes, to the better ed ucation of the people, and to such reforms as will give honest industry its just reward, and restrain tho pow er of chartered monopolies within such bounds as will be just to both labor and capital. You may ask, WUAT SIGNIFIES ALL THIS? The past is a lesson that should be heeded by every citizen of Amer ica, aud sacredly taught to his chil dren. It is no less truo now than it was two thousand years ago, when Demosthenes was endeavoring to arouse the Greeks to their dangers, "that eternal vigilance is tho juice of liberty." As virtue is confessed ly the vital principle of tho Kepub lic, and as every citizen is an inte gral part of the government, just in proportion as virtue and patriotism decay iu the heart of one citizen or another, in the same ratio is the lie public dying and hastening to dis solution, to anarchy, to the rule of a Dictator or a King. And as the faithful citizen cannot afford to be yoked to the dead body of tho trait or to Lis country, anymore than one lining body can safely carry the corpse of tho dead, for in such case calamity must soon fall upon both, so also must every man who would do his duty and save his own rights and liberties be faithful to teach tho principles of virtue to the rising gen- oration, enforce the laws of bis couutry aud stamp out fraud and corruption, and bear aloft the stand ard of honesty ami viitue. That there has been some decay in public virtue, and general lettiag down of the stern spirit of justice which actuated our forefathers, is evident from the generally accepted opinion now-a-days that a rich man caii escape the punishment due his crimes where a poor man would be speedily punished for tho same of fence; and that a wealthy man can purchase his way into high office, while a poor man of greater merit and ability could no hopo to be available for such honor or trust. Ask any !d veteran who can re member the public opinion of fifty it i i i i i i ears ago, ami no will tell vou tnat such ideas had no currency in those days. Tin: i:r.Mtiv. While there is now a hopeful re action iu public- sentiment, much re mains to be done to banish from the politics of the country these seeds of decay. The question of adminis trative reform is not tho hobby of any political party, although it ought to be. Party success, even if party men saw success aright, re quires that it should be. For when it is settled beyond doubt that any one political party will, as sure as the world stands, inexorably punish all offenders against the laws, high and low, rich and poor, alike, and refuse promotion to any but its wor thy and competent members, then will the true men of all parties rally to its standard. And such will rule; for I have confidence that those who prefer honest government are large ly in the majority. The reforms in political abuses must commence w ith tho citizen himself. Corruption in the public service is not the exclu sive distinction of any political par ty, but unfortunately the disgrace of all. And when the citizen voter so reforms his own mind and disposi tion, that he will not wait for party leaders or organs to tell him how to vote, but conscientiously seek out the right side, and then" support it with unflinching fidelity with, which he would defend the honor of his own house hold, then will the politi cal conventions be careful to place none but tried and true men in nom ination ; and tho cause of good gov ernment will have achieved a victo ry of greater power and consequence than acts of Congress or standing armies. The law-abiding and tax-paying citizens should never forget election days. They must remember that the driftwood and purchasable ma terial will always be found in full force; and he that neglects to vote for any reason is little less than a criminal himself. And apropos of the evil of such neglect alio v ino to refer you to an example in history. It seems that on an election day in Rome about two thousand years ago, that ono Tiberius Gracchus, the champion and defender of the rights of the people, appeared for re-election to th.j office of Tribune. Our own historian Bancroft has sketched the event. "The election day for Tribunes was in midsummer; the fev husbandmen, tho only show of a Roman yeomany, were busy iu their fields gathering their crops, and failed to come to the suppoit of their champion. (Now mark what follows from this failure.) lie was left to rest his defense on tho rab ble of the city, and though early in the morning great crowds of the people gathered together, and tho as Gracchus appeared in the foium a shout of glory rent the skies, which was redoubled as he ascended the steps of the Capitol, yet when the aristocratic party camo with the whole weight of their adherents ill a mass, the timid flock of yeomen, yielding to the sentiment of awe rather than cowardice, fled and left their defender, the incomparable Ti berius, to be beaten to death by the clubs of the Senators, together with three hundred of his most faithful friends were left lifeless in the mar ket place. In the fury of tho tri umphant passion the dead body of the heroic Gracchus was dragged through the streets of Home and thrown into the river Tiber." When the news of this horrible murder of tho people's friend went to the country, tho farmers armed themselves and rushed into the city, and lit the flames of a terrible civil war in which more than a million Ii-es were lo.-,t. But it was tho last expiring struggle of the Roman peo ple to regain their lilerties. Thi is a lesson that every voter should heed, if wo would preserve our free Kepublic and our liberties. Never neglect to t tteud the polls and cast your votes conscientiously for the good and the true. Your fore fathers bared their breasts to Brit ish bullets and bayonets, and fought through wilder storms iu rags and hunger to secure the inestimable lib erties wc enjoy, and are we so base as not to light for the preservation of what they so dearly earned? The reformation of the public ser vice is tho great question of the day. Aud don't rest satisfied until you have placed on the statute books a law as irrevocable as those of the Modes aud Persians that every man no matter what his rank or position, who shall bo guilty of offering or receiving a bribe for a vote at any election, or to influence any man, in the election orappointment to any office or position, or for tho doing or neglect of any official act, or cor rupt administration of any office or appointmeut, or the decision of any court or jury, s-hill thereby be for ever disfranchised, and forever pro hibited from voting or holding of fice iu this country, in addition to present statutary punishments (ap plause). And drive tho thunder bolt homo by making it the duty of juden, r:inl juries and prosecut- leg attorneys to prosecute all sucli traiiors to honor and justice, and convict them without mercy and cast thetn'down from the companionship of independent freemen vtt'nr that no Governor's pardon can ever re otoro them to citizenship or equali ty among honorable men. ' "This lovt ly laud," says Webster, "this gljrious liberty, these benign institutions, the dear purchase of our fathers, aro ours; ours to enjoy, ours to prest rve, and ours to trans mit, (fenerations past and genera tions to come hold us responsible for the sacred trust. Our fathers from behind admonish us with their anx ious paternal voices, posterity calls to us from tho bosom of the future, the woild turns hither its solicitous eye all, all conjure us t r act wise, ly and faithfully in tli3 relation which we sustain. Then let us go forward 'with malice toward none, and with charity for all,' and labor to secure not only peace and union between nil sections of our common country, but union and liberty, one and inseparable; and raise high the standard of American honor and virtue and make the country in fact and truth tho hope and blessing of mankind, and a beacon-light to the oppressed of all nations." And "Thou, too, :.il on, oh ship of State S.iil on, t'nioii nfron and great;' Humanity with nil its f :trs Is hanging lit -.ith'ess on thy f.tte! S til n, nor fei.r ti lifrnst the n, Our heurts, our hopts are all with thee. Cur hearts, fur hopes, nurpr.iyers, our tears, Our faith triumphant oVr our fear,. Are nil with thee -are all with thee." Law Ke latin: tit Npwsjmimt Subscrlp Hons, A.c. 1. Snlwcribcrs who do not cn've express notice to the contrary, arc considered wishing to continue their subscription. 2. 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Out tit and terms free. 1 HUE Ac CO., Augusta, Maine. nprl3vl 8. tit $() per day ftt. home. Samples worth free, tatinbon Co., Portland Maine. OEXD 25c. to G. P. RowelhtCo.. N-w York 3 for Pamphlet of 100 puex, containing lists oi Jimu newspapers, aud estimates show ing cost of advertising. F. A. BAILEY. Main St. Jlillsboro, PEALEB IN DHUCIS. mkdicim:s ciirmicaus PAINTS OILS, UK US I IKS, SO A PS, PKKFUMHUY AND TOILET ARTICLES. Pure Wines & Liquors for MEDICINAL USE. AS I AM DETERMINED NOT TO BE undersold by uiy house on tho IPcvoiflo Coast! I WILL SKLL. Befct Coid Oil, tt3et per fiullon. liest Linseed Oil, !!5c to gJl per gallon licst Castor Oil, JSil .. per gidlon. Finest O. K. Paint lirushta, 17. each usual price, 50 Best Atlantic Lead, l'2ct per lb Blue Vitriol, .cts ptr 9. Fine Castile Soup, IHc er ft. Bent Uarnisheiit, Zinc and Cheinieul Averill Paints, together with every other Article kept in a rlrbt-clus drug btoic, all rang. ing in piicea um above marked CAS H I-ca 1niarc AS H ! 11TJ. L. TIM.HAS haa charge of the prescription department. PrescriptioiiH carefully compounded ul llll Iioill fc. FOR SALE! The Follutviii? Vnluablc FAREVSIG LANDS For Srtloi 020 Acres l miles north of llilU- boro, l'4th acres in cultiva tion, 0250 Acres :i; miles west of Dilley Station; '200 ucres In cultiva tion. 1QO Acres ono mile south of Dilley Station, hO acres in cultivation. OOO Acres 3 miles West of Dilley Statiou, 300 ucrc-s iu cultiva tion. ftm Acres 3 miles nouth of Oafton Stutiou, 200 acres in c-ultiva tion. -2LOO Acre 2 I miles west of Wilbur St.dion. """ Acns on Sauvie's 11 md In Multnomah county, 'J miles north of Portland. Jod Dairy At (irazin ; Jlnnr-li-es ClitMp for Cash. TKIIMS ISA- SV. Apent for 117 KKl Kir? .VO. C HEAP Ell k Mnvi:i:coMHiXEJ) M,:roit.tA ifs HEAP Ell k MO WEE: COAT'S It AY UAKE;t 1)1 LLP. V STATION. Parties desirous of buying will please en quire of A C Hall at DILLEY, or of XV CI Srousin, at my residence 3 miles west of Dilley, ' Dilley, Washington Co., Oregon, Msv 21th. -187(5. junltf LOOK HERE ! ! If you want anything in the Grocery line, from a barrel of Su jar down to a Nut Meg LOOK IIEHE! NUTS. CANDIES, OYSTERS, CRACKERS, CANNED FRUITS, Or anything kept in a First-Class Gro cery Store. Call at the Post 0ffic and get them cheaper than ever J Mean liuiiie. Torms-CASII. W. D. Pittenger. flOtf WOOL CARDING FOR THE YEAR 1870. The undersigned having located his Card ing machim at the place best known by the name of Webb's Mill, two miles north of Glencoe, Washington County, Oregon, w here he is prepared to make rolls and bats to order. Bring on your wool in good order, with one pound of grease to every eight pounds of wool. Don't wash your wool too clean. J. DIX. ill LAND FOR SALE! THE UNDERSIGNED HAS FOR SALE several Fur inn and a large Amount of tirut class, unimproved land, lying iu Washing ton County, Oregon. Immigrants And otntra desiring to purchase would do well to giv tu a call. Now Is tho time to secure comfortable homes on easy terms. TIIOS. D. IIUJIPIIIlKYf. JIiLLHuoim, Juno 29th, 1875. jlyl-tf Furniture Man'f Co, SuccKssons to EM 1 L LOWENhTEI N A Co. an n JIUROREN in S1IINDLER, Manufacturers and Importers, M liolesal and Retail Dealers in FurnltuTefBeddin. Carpets. Paper-Hinging, uu-iaoun. Mirrors, etc. etc- , . Wareroorn: Cor. TamniM & urst Sts. Steam Factory Cor. Madison & Front Sts., Portland, Oregon. WE CALL THE ATTENTION OFTIIE citizens of HILLhRORO and vicin. ity to the fact that we hav our Hummer Ktoek of furniture, tduo carpets, oil-cloth and wall-paper which we oiler at greatly reuuec-a prices. To the tirunger wo would say buy furniture of this houso muda from our Oregon ash. maple and alder. Wo do not keep Pino and ICedwood furniture made in California. And if you want a find rata Spring bed, Wool, Hair, or Pulu matt 'hss, everything at tlii establishment it clenu new mill rebh, not a pound of seconddiamt material lined. The Oregon furniture Man ufacturing Company is managed ly men who have ncnt the best part of their lives in huildiiig,im the furniture huMi'iic in Or mi ami we elaim to know the witiits of th f iirnituie.trade. See and prico our goods. Wo warrant sntixfaction. Oregon Furniture Manu'f Co. decl.lly portUnd, Orvgon Am Y. Boycc, x 33 isr t i re . s prcpMrcd to do all kinds of Dental work. lie has a lino Dental i hair, ulsothe noted Ktlicr Spt uv! Which renders tooth-pulling comparatively 3?anlces! J-.l Work- ll'nrrautfd. OFFICE adjoining the I'ostoflico In Hills boro. ni2:tiu3 PROFESSIONAL CAltDS. F. A. JIAILEV, M. I. Physician, Surgeon and Accoucheur. HULSBOEO, - OREGON Ol TICK at the Drug Ftore. llKKlDENCH Thrca Mocks Bouth of Drug Store. nl :yl DOCTOR R. PKYC12, Physician and Surgeon., OrrtcK at nicsmiCNCK nea Washinoton hotki., IltLLNOono, Oregon, WILSON IIOWLIIY, 31. D. Physician nnd Surgeon, FOREST tiltOVl', .... CKEUO.T, OFFICE--At his Residence, Went of Johnson's Planing Mills. n41):.y T. II. IIANDLEY, ATTORNEY ASD COUNSELLOR AT LAW. OFFICE-In the Court House, Hillnboro,, Oregon. uiy!3-tf C A. BALL. IIALEIoa TOTT, HALL . STOTT, A rTOU X U VS. AT-LA W, PA TEXTS OUT A 1XED. No. C Dekum's niock. PORTLAND, ORKOON. n8 ly IOUN CATLIV. p, XILUk Cat In ii. Kitllii, ITTOIIXEYS AXD COUNSELOR; AT LAW. Delcnm's Building, First Btrect, PORTLAND, OREOON. THOMAS II. TONGUE. Attorney .at -Law, llilUboio; Washington County, Oregon, TIIOS. D. HUMPHREYS. NOTARY PU11LIC and CONVEYANCER LEOAL papers drawn and collections made. Business entrusted to his care U ended to promptly, OFFICE Vw Court Ilouae p3:3 JAMES WITHYCOMBE, Veterinary S urieon, IIILLSI30RO, - OREGON. nrlntirmary Kept for Horses, f 15 per month will be tho charge for any ordinary case. prt