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t 'w- V V ADVERTISEMENTS, S'lic Democratic ¡¡Times. • - In T he D emocratic T imes will Le charged at the following rates • Published Every Saturday Morning First insertion, (ten lines or less)................. $3 00 For each week thereafter......................... $1 Of A liberal deduction from the above rates will l e made on quarterly and yeaily advertisements. V BY J. N. T. MILLER & CO., V r Publishers and Proprietors. << t OFFICE—On California St,, over Kubli A Wil 4 JOB PRINTING. son'k Livery Stable. Every variety of Job Work executed with neat ness and dispatch, at reasonable rates. TERMS: Subscription, per annum.......... Six months.................. $3 oo $1 50 THE LE&SOX TAUGHT. [From the S F. Examiner ] Oregon has voted to sustain the Usur pations of the Radicals. The vote has increased several thousand since 1870, when it gave a Democratic majority ot 335. How the large increase of votes has been effected we need not wonder; the power of the Government has been used elsewhere to semi votes into the d''ibtful «States, and this has probably been tin“ ease in Oregon. Attorney-General Wil liams, one of Grant’s henchmen, quitted his post of duty at Washington to canvas, and, doubtless, to distribute money free ly from the Secret Service Fund to ac- complish a Radical triumph, The Rad- icals will have a majority in the Legis lature on joint-ballot, thus securing a U. S. Senator; fortunately, however, to re place one of their own kind. They have gained a member of Congress. The lesson in this case is an important one to the Democracy. The Cincinnati Convention lias not, apparently, caused any break in the Radical ranks in Ore gon. The Democracy of our sister State expressed no preference in regard to Pres idential candidates. Their delegates to the Baltimore Convention were free to accept Greeley ami Brown, for the plat form was made with the view to suit a probable union of interests in the contest in November. The result in the web-foot State will be claimed as a great victory for Grant. If there are dissatisfied Re publicans there who prefer Greeley to Grant their number cannot be great or they failed to vote. We have not data at present on which to form our opinion of this result, but it seems like a counter part of the Connecticut election. “Bas sivism” in tite platforms of the Democ- racy in each State, instead of securing victory, as their framers supposed, has produced in both instances, and in two closely balanced States, •< •only defeat and mortification to the opponents of Radical misrule. T he Omaha 2?cc exposes the silly trumped up notoriety which lias been given to the Administration for its “great reduction of the public debt," as follows: If this reduction of fifteen millions of dollars in one month is to be regarded in the light of a great triumph of the finan cial policy of the Government, we fail to perceive where the people who are taxed to pay this enormous ui have been ben efited. We regard the present reduction of the National debt as a great financial blunder. If Nebraska paid $15,030, which • is the one-thousanth part of thissum, in to the United States Treasury, in the shape of duties on imported goods, licen ses, internal revenue and income tax, she would be compelled to pay the sum over to redeem a government bond bearing five per cent, interest. Meantime her people are groaning under a weight of taxation, are paying from 12 to 20 per cent, on money in Nebraska. Reducing the National debt in that way would, it continued, soon throw us all into bank ruptcy. T he latest invention comes from Del aware. A man down there, having heard that the earth revolves at the rate of 1,000 miles an hour, has arranged a plan for going up in a balloon and re maining stationary while the earth is permitted to slide away beneath. He thinks by this means he can reach Cali fornia in a couple of hours, merely by I shooting up from Wilmington in a bal loon, and then drooping down again as soon as the Rocky Mountains are observ ed to go past. He has the whole thing arranged now in perfect order—the bal loon, and the place to start from, and so forth—so that the scheme cannot possi bly fail, and all he wants to make things complete is something to tie the balloon to, in order to hold it still while up in the air. I t was claimed that the new liquor law in Michigan would effect a revolution, and this is the way it is done : “The Michigan law has had the effect to bring out the following scheme for the sale of the popular beverage: You put ten cents on the spot marked whisky, the appara tus revolves, and directly you see a glass* of whisky standing before you, and you don’t know, of course, who gave it to you or how it came there.” I n a letter to a female hen-jockey, Greeley writes: “Chickens should al ways be weaned before they are two months old, and should upon r.) account be permitted to suckle the parent hen af ter they commence to cut their eye teeth.” »_______ A box , containing a black bear, was received at a railway office out West the other day, with this inscription: “Black Bare—Ef yew don’t want to git bit, kepe your fingers outen the crax.” H opk 1» the sun-light of life. VOL. II. TliOUBLES OF N’KWSPAPFRS -■ ■ ■— SENS11ILE HINTS TO G1RES. COX PEAYS A TRICK OM UUTKER. LEGAL TENDERS taken at current rates for subscription. NO. 25 JACKSONVILLE, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1872. CAPT. KIDD’S TREASURE. JUST SO. An I.astern exchange, commenting on It is astonishing how few of the young While Ben Butler is screamingin Con A rather amusing story is in circula Everbody has heard of Capt. Kidd, tho the newspaper business, publishes the women of America know how to make tion at the expense ot the gentleman from gress about arson, rape and murder in the daring cockney navigator whom William following interesting article on the sub- good bread. How few of them know how Massachusetts, commonly called “Ol< South, the late Attorney-General of the of Orange sent out to catch the pirates ject, which is especially intended for the to make up a bed properly ! How few of Strabismus.” At the President’s leve< United States, Hon. Henry A. Stanbery, that infested the seas for the benefit of edification of delinquent subscribers, them know how to cook meats well ! in Washington the other night, which a man of education, experience, and ripe commerce and William’s pocket, but newspaper spongers, Ac., whether “pat How few—how very lew—understand was densely crowded, an old lady from judgment, who has been traveling in the who, instead of making war against the rons" of the city or country press : the numerous amt complicated dutiesof somewhere in the interior, in a fainting 'loomed section, tells the Philadelphia I corsairs in the service of his sovereign, “There are two great troubles about a house-keeping—ofsuch house-keeping as condition, requested her husband to get Age in substance as follows : “No man became himself a pirate and the most fa newspa|>er—one grows out of the effort to makes a home pleasant and attractive. an ice. can witness the acts of the military rulers mous of all these savage sea rovers. He make it live, the other out of tho effort Sour bread causes sour tempers. Heavy “Can’t be did,” responded “hub,” in in these States, as he has witnessed them, was finally captured, taken to London, to plea-e everybody. The first trouble bread is like a leaden bullet shot into some irritation; “there ain’t no fresh- without becoming satisfied that a change and hung upon the gallows tree, leaving I may be overcome, . the second never. your own ranks. Neglect and ignorance liients here.” of administration and of party is demand behind him materials for numerous buc “Don’t believe it. Didn’t we get lots ed by the interests of the country. We caneer songs and nautical novels. It wa-» Every newspaper man in the world lias of household duties are mortal foes to do an ideal, as hecalls it—jierhaps he means mestic peace. at Belknap’s the other night?” the good doubt if Poland in Russia has suffered so supposed that he had scraped together idol— and is.always trying to reach it, Love at first sight is very poetical and woman said angrily. “Now go and get much from ‘bayonet rule’ as South Caro twenty million pounds in coin and treas lina. Incident» of personal and political I ure, and as only about two millions were and never does, which is very strange. romantic ; but the love and respect that me an ice and some lemonade.” “I tell you don’t be a fool; there ain’t aggravation that reach us through intel- ' found in his possession, the stories that Some people believe that there is a for endure to the last view are invaluable It is easier to win a lover no freshments, and everybody says so,” ligent sources, by Northern men whose I he buried his booty in the various har tune in every newspaper in the world, and sublime. business leads them into the Southern bors where he lurked, gained wide cre from Nova Zembla to Victoria Land. or a husband than to keep him. Rosy grunted the lord and master. “You are quite mistaken, sir,” said the States, are almost incredible, and stamp dence. There have been many reports These people are very honest, very sin cheeks and bright eyes may rob a man cere, ami very innocent in this belief. If of his heart ; but they ale not certain to Hon. S. S. Cox, who happened to be near, the administration of Grant as a libel on that Kidd's treasures had been found, but they had to try tiie harness on, and work keep his temper sweet, when he comes and who never loses an opportunity to Republican government. The Govern nobody seemed to get any richer by the in it awhile, they would soon .-inganoth- home hungry and sits down to a poor put in a joke. “The President always ment at the present time is run for two pur discoveries. It is a fact, however, that provides substantially. There is his but poses—first, to make money for those in many sea-faring men have diligently ertune. Note what follows : The Chris dinner. If mothers were less ambitious and ■ ler, whose business it is to show the la authority, and, secondly, to force by hunted for the banks where Kidd depos tian Standard, of Cincinnati, states that although its affairs are conducted with greedy to obtain rich husbands for their ! dies to the supper-room,” and the Hon. fraud and bayonets the re-election of. ited his surplus funds, and really believ ed that they were within the range of the strictest economy, and its subscribers daughters, and more sedulous to bestow ’ jester pointed to Ben Butler. “You’ll General Grant.” human exploration. number twelve thousand, it has thus far upon them a domestic education—in its find him a little stuck up and cross, but A n A ttempted M urder .—A terrible Now there is another story that Kidd’s cost $21),0»»0 more than its income. It elf a rich dowry—more happier domestic must not mind that. Tell him you wau’t affair occurred in San Francisco lastSuu- treasure has been found by some oyster says The Advance, of Chicago, with a circles would be found. terrapins.” day. J. H. Mansfield, a young painter, men in »Staten Island »Sound, near Eliza Man is, toagreatextent, an animal. To This was said so gravely that the two still larger subscription list, sunk about had become acquainted, aud fell madly bethtown, N. J. It is even said that $75,000 in four years, and had not be keep animals contented and happy, they struggled through the crowd to where in love with Miss Mary Hein, daughter some of these lucky oystermen have be come self-sustaining when the late fire must be well fed. When their stomachs Ben stood talking to some young ladies, | ‘ of a merchant of that city. She failed to come rich, and will not give a clear ac “I say, mister, are you butler,” asked : occurred: th.it The Interior, in less than are full, they are indisposed to tight or reciprocate his passion. Last Sunday he count of how or where they got their the man.” two years, has used up a capital of nearly to quarrel. met her, drew a revolver, and told her to money. Now they are fighting over the / ( It is unquestionably true, as the Book >7i>,ooo; and that The >t mdard, of Chi “I’m Gen. Butler,” replied old Strabis retract her refusal to marry him or he I right to a particular oyster bed, not for cago, with fifteen thousand subscribers of Proverbs hath it, that “better is a din mus, pleasantly, thinking the two coun would end the matter there, and imme i the oysters, but for old coins of gold and was not self-sustaining. But all these ner of herbs where love is, than a stalled try people were filled with admiration of diately fired twice at her, both bullets silver, and other valuables which they but a great his greatness. papers learn a lesson, and that is that ox and hatred therewith taking effect, and again thrice into his bring up with their tongs, and the quai- dit the death oj tu wspapers. Hence, deal better still would be the love and the : “I don’t care whether you are a Gener own breast, before the young man wiio rel revealed the facts of the fishery. Cf if you take the.-e papers, they will let you stalled ox both. Together they make a al or not, but inv wife wants some of | . was with Miss Hein could disarm him. course it must be one of Kidd’s marine run to the day you pay up to, and then most excellent dinner, and the one is your tei rapins and iced lemonade.” ' Dr. Murphy lias extracted the bullet from banks, which kept no books and used the “.Sir?" snorted old B. in amazement. 1 drop you like a hot potato ; that is, un sauce for the other. Love is too liable to diminish and sub “Oh, don’t take on airs, old cock. Come, Miss Hein’s breast, but that in her thigh sea as a safe. The coins which have less you renew. Ca-h is their life Go cannot be reached. He has also cut out been brought up are fastened to oysters, to the New York llercdd office—that side, when it lias to dine out to get a good now, hurry up with them terrapins.” of Mansfield ’ s back the bullet which en and according to a newspaper account, “You must be drunk, sir! You must be magnificent establishment grew out of a dinner. tered below the nipple. The other passed “have every appearance of having lain Poor cooking and bad house-keeping are drunk !” Wall Street cellar. Do you wish to take “No he ain’t,” screamed the wife; “lie’s out at the other side. Both are still liv there for hundreds of years.” If this is the II' raid Down with your money. among the prolific sources of divorce ing, and it is believed that Miss Hein, a fact, the oysters in that fishery must Do you wish to advertise at a dollar a suits. They produce differences ; they a Knight Templar, lie ain’t drunk, but though terribly wounded, will recover. be well on in years. It ought to elicit line’? Hand your advertisement and produce misery ; they produce ill-feeling, I guess you are.” some inquiry into the possible age of oy Roars of laughter greeted this, and in your money through that pigeon-hole, ill-health, separations and death ! A high tempered husband quarreled Mothers ! if you wish to do sum’thing which Mr. Cox was forced to join. But with his wife the other morning, and get sters, while we are taking coins of the take back your receipt and be gone When the National Intelligencer sus substantial and real to promote the com ler’s face reddened, and he began pulling ting the worst of it, he took his razor date of 1534 on the half shell that have pended, there was due upon its books fort and happiness ofyour daughters, iq- his cheek out in a most violent manner. from its box and threatened to sever liis “lain there for hundreds of years.” The same newspaper account states : struet them to be good cooks and good “I don’t understand this most violent juglar vein. His daughter fell on her $400,000.” “ One thing is certain, the coins fished up housi-xie e>. conduct. What do you want, sir—what knees and begged him to desist, but he A C alifornia V iew of O regon F i - ! do you want ?” wouldn’t do it. “Let the old fool cut his are genuine, as none of them are much Tin: P residency .—The nominee of nances .—Says a San Francisco paper: “Terrapins, I tell you.” throat if he wants to!” exclaimed his less than two hundred years old. The the National Woman Suffrage Conven “Oregon is growing so rapidly that the “What do you take me for, you d—d wife. “Oh ! that’s what you want, is coins range in date from 1534 to 1687, and tion for President is thus spoken of by capital available is insufficient for its fool ?” roared Beu. it ?’’ retorted the husband. “Well, I was are principally of Spanish, Flemish and the editor of the ir Northwest, who business, though the rates of interest have “You call me a d—d fool and I’ll hit determined to get the best of you some East Indian coinage; probably the plun risen considerably. A u<ury law lTni s was the attending delegate at the Con you on the snoot,” screamed the old man. how, and now I'll not do it,” he added, der of half-a-dozen nations. It was in the legal interest to twelve percent, an vention from this State: At this juncture a policeman seized the as he carefully replaced the razor in its this little inlet that Kidd generally con For humorous reading now we com belligerent husband and led him away box. cealed his vessels when he was desirous nually, and for the sake of securing loans of visiting New York secretly.” the borrowers pay a bonus of five per mend our readers to the columns of ‘‘the mid much laughter. Butler, turning sud I A miniature Dead Sea has been dis Woodhull' ’ paper since the nomination There is said to be great excitement cent., equivalent to seventeen per cent. denly, saw the mischief-maker. covered in Nevada. It lies in an oval in Elizabeth port and vicinity about this A quarter of a million could be loaned in of that celebrity for the Presidency. “Cox, did you do that ?” basin, one hundred and fifty feet below discovery. 30 days at that rate, as we are informed That the infatuated leader of the free “Well, yes, Pm afraid I did.” I the surface of the plain, the banks shelv- on good authority. The influence of: lovers and Internationals really believes “Well, I owe you the terrapins, and T he “City of Veiled Women,” in Siam, i ing down with as much symmetry as if railroads, immigration, good crops and 1 -lie will be elected there can be nodoubt. I’ll pay you, mind that—I’ll pay you. Asia, numbers 9,000 inhabitants, all of fashioned by art. The water of the lake high prices of grain, has induced the Schemes for the bestowment of Federal And the two walked lovingly away to I is impregnated with soluble substances, whom are of the feminine gender. One farmers to purchase large stocks of ag o patronage, the overthrow of monied aris gether. mostly borax, soda and salt to a degree thousand of them belong to the F. F. S., ricultural implements, and the mer- tocracy, the equal distribution of wealth, T he Grand Lodge of Good Templars that renders it almost ropy with slime, and the remaining eight thousand ad chants of Portland have erected line the abolishment of interest rates and the buildings, Tiie town has doubled its complete demolition of the marriage in session last week at Salem, was well and so dense that a person can tloat on it minister to their aristocratic wants. In this feminine municipality female black population in six years, and has now system, are some ot the hobbies upon attended, and the reports of the various without effort This lake has no visible smiths, jewelers, merchants and manu officers sb.ow the order to be in a outlet, but being of great depth is proba thirteen thousand inhabitants, There is which she expects to ride into power. The following bly fed by springs far down in the earth. facturers abound, and the jack-of-all- It is indeed pitiable to behold a wom flourishing condition. not an empty business house in the t rades is a woman. The walls are guard items of interest relating to the Order are place, and its banks, with an aggregate an of Mrs. Woodhull’s ability thus de A little girl, when her father ’ s table ed by female sentinels, female policemen capital of $250,000, are notable to accom luding her followers. It is the old story taken from the G. W. Secretary’s report: was honored with the presence of an es patrole the streets, and once a week fe modate the banking demands of tiie over again of the blind leading the blind Number of lodges reported last year, 80; till both fall together into the same number of lodges organized,sixteen; num teemed friend,began talking very earnest male military, both horse and foot, per State.” ditch. ber of lodges ceased working,fifteen ; pres ly at the first pause in the conversation. form their evolutions on a large parade H endershott , of Union county, was ent number, SI ; initiated, 1,461 ; admit Her father checked her rather sharply ground in the centre of the towu. T iie announcement that Grant and defeated for State »Senator in the late ted by card, 153; reinstated, eighty-one; saying : “Why is it that you always talk A boy in Lockport, Illinois, who had Wilson had been nominated, says the S. election by eighteen votes. The cause of total membership, 1,695 ; cards granted, so much?” “Tause I’ve dot somesin to J 1 just come into possession of his first shot F. Examiner, met with the most frigid defeat was owing altogether to local is 240; resigned, 282 ; suspended, 463 ; ex say,” was the innocent reply. gun, amused liimself by banging away at reception that we have ever witnessed in sues sprung on the day of the election pelled, 120; deaths, 7; total, 1,112; in- A n artesian well at Los Angeles, (Cal.) • his father, who was greasing harness on I this community on the receipt of intelli and when too late for them to be met and gence of equal importance. No bonfires crease as per lodge reports, 563; total one hundred and fifty feet deep, is throw the wood-pile. The old gentleman let answered. For the past two years there blazed ; no guns, booming from the hills, i membership, 30th of last April, with 30 ing up live fish resembling trout. The him practice a few minutes, and then has been a desire on the part of Union to proclaimed tiie joy of our people over an ¡lodges to bear from, 2,318; estimated well which supplies Stockton, 800 feet i fanned the youngster with one of the I have the county seat removed from La | important event in political history. No , membership, 3,218. deep, dees the same thing. There is no tugs, until he concluded to go out of the Grande to that place. On the day of large procession of enthusiastic individ W hen women are in arms they never doubt, therefore, of the existence of sub Schutenfest business. Some parents nev election the Radical candidate pledged uals paraded the streets as of yore on oppose the liberties of tiie press. Miss terranean lakes or running streams, in er can let a boy have any fun ! himself to secure t) •: desired removal if similar occasions. The news was an I I Jones says that the first time an editorial which these fishes live. A family in this city, says the Alba elected, and this g med for him the votes nounced at the Radical headquarters, coat-sleeve encircled her waist, she seem I ny Democrat, has a tame pigeon and a W alnut stumps are becoming valua of both Democrats and Radicals. Had and a procession, meagre in number, not ed to be in a pavilion built of rainbows, ble as articles of merchandise at the East. hen who are on the most intimate terms this been known in time Mr. Hendet- exceeding one hundred, and funeral in the window sills of which were composed shott would have carried the day by a appearance, marched forth with a band of-Kalian harps, and we oiler our servi Some one has discovered that the curly with each other—in fact they are “as grain of the roots can be used with great thick as two in a bed.” They fight for large vote. as if they were escorting a corpse to its ces to convince any of our fair friends of success for veneering purposes, and the each other, run together, roost together, last resting-place. The manner in which Miss Jones’ truthfulness in the matter of result is they are in demand, and are and are said to both favor Greeley and O n the 16th inst., when the let ter from the news was received indicates plainly delightful sensations. worth one hundred and fifty dollars a Brown, and are willing to leave the ques the American authorities was read in the that in the coming contest California stump. tion of tariff to the Congressional Dis English House of Lords, announcing will give a large majority against the L ast week’s Roseburg Ensign has a that our Government had, coward-like, T hat unhappy New York lady whose tricts. long article predicting the re-election of Philadelphia nominees. backed down from its position on the Al Grant and Colfax. We guess not! Col husband allows her only $100,000 a year C ongress has adjourned, and the peo abama Claims que tion, the announce J ones and his wife were always quar fax has already been retired to the stir for dress, and who is consequently obliged ple of the South are to have a breathing ment of our national humiliation was re reling about their comparative talent for ring tune of “H—11 on the Wabash,” to wear a dressing gown half the time in spell. The continuance of the Ku Klux ceived with derisive cheers. This is the keeping a tire. She insisted that just so while Useless will in a few months be order to save money to buy decent eve bill will keep up the reign of terror that spectacle that our country presents to t!.e I surely as he tried to re-arrange the sticks mustered out to the lively step of the ning dresses, has at length resolved to de has existed until after November, and whole world to-day ! The object of the with the tongs, he put the fire out. One “Rogue’s March.”— Democrat. mand a divorce from the stingy creature. is thought will enable Grant to get tho sneers and jeers and jibes of those who night the bells sounded an alarm, and A tubular bridge has been planned electoral vote of those persecuted States. M bs . M. P. S awtell has really made would be forced to respect our country Jones sprang to his fire bucket, eager to to extend across San Francisco bay. It ia B ati more is a favorite as a place for anti its claims if we had anything but a rush to the conflagration. “Mr. Jones,” the cold-blooded proposition to the Cali an immense iron tube intended to be holding national conventions, having had fornia Immigrant Aid Society to bring coward and an imbecile for President! cried his wife, as he reached the door, one hundred thousand women to the Pa sunk from 23 to 30 feet below the surface, thirteen; Philadelphia, four; Chicago, “Mr. Jones, take the tongs!” cific coast. Well, we suppose w’e may and held in place by its own buoyancy three ; Harrisburg, Buffalo, New York, P ity the poor, the shabby, the ugly C oleridge tells us of a man who had prepare *o welcome them to our bosom, and by cables and mushroom anchors. Charleston, Columbus and Cincinnati, and the suffering, aud do not sneer at but it will be hard upon us. _____ ____________ at them. All ways of life are weary such an overwhelming self-esteem that A census has just been taken of Brig one each. he was never known to speak of himself enough, and mercy is like the gentle rain T he track of the Oregon & ^.’¿fornia A natural spring that will intoxicate, ham Young’s family, which returns him without taking off* his hat. Railroad is laid to Sm»;;o,g Hil£ from heaven—and very sweet to a tired situated near Kern river, California, is 68 children, of which 40 are females. His soul. delighting the Indians of that vicinity. wives number 32. 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