TWO*»»*« LETTER FROM JONEPI11XE. UEXEBÀL XOTEN A!fl> XEWM. I W illiams C rbkk , March 6, 1875. To tiie E ditor of the T imes : Inasmuch as you have had no communi­ cation from this section for some time, I will try and give you a few items of a local character. It would be greatly to my ac­ commodation, and no doubt to yours, did I have something of a startling or sensational nature to transmit for publication. In the absence of anything extraordinary or sen­ sational, I am compelled to treat of common­ place incidents. I need hardly make mention of the fact— in view of recent discoveries—that “benight­ ed Josephine” is hopefully looking up again, and, if present prospects hold out, will soon be in a position to ask no odds of her sister counties. She lias struggled long and bravely against adverse circumstances, unbefriended by either near or distant neighbors. In the days of her prosperity she was courted by adventurers from all ]>arts of the world ; in the hour of adversity she became an object of sublime indiffer­ ence. Having mountains chiefly to boast of, permanent population has extended to her an undue proportion of cold shoulder. But, after all, our mountains may prove our most valuable possession. Nature is said not to waste any material, and to what other use besides bearing precious metals could such mountains as these be put ? I pre­ sume, like a sensible editor, you give it up. As an additional evidence that “benighted Josephine” is becoming unbenighted I cite the fact that we have now, (what wo have not had for several years,) a traveling preacher. Rev. Mr. Haines, M. E. Church South, recently arrived in this county from Tennessee, having boen transferred to this State as his future field of labor. Mr. Haines is quite a young man for tho ministry, but enters upon tho discharge of his duties with energy and confidence. Wo havo also had tho lienefit of a phreno­ logical lecturer in our midst, recently—scru­ tinizing the physiognomy and feeling for the bumps and purses of our people. Ilis advent was signalized by tho astounding discovery that many of our old bachelors, in spito of their rigid adherence to single- ble isodness, arc absolutely on tho marry, and that many of our young ladies aro pre­ eminently fond of hash, as well as of the opposite sex. What precise effect these stunning discoveries will have upon the market value of Southern Oregon “bonan­ za,” I will not attempt to compute. Al­ though ho charged a good price for his charts, ho usually gavo good ones—under the wise supposition, no doubt, that nobody wishes to pay a high price for an inferior article. As a lecturer, he is a failure, being “no orator” as Brutus is supposed to have been. You have probably been otherwise ad­ vised of the fact that wo have now* a flour­ ishing Giange organized on Williams Creek. This makes tho third in the counrtv—enough to form a Council. Farming prospects are very favorable at present. Stock have done well this winter. Mining in placer diggings has proved a failure this season. Quartz prospecting is our only alternative. Work on tho Horse­ head lead will probably commence now shortly. A new silver lead has been dis­ covered lately. Jack Layton has his big hydraulic onca more under way, though with but a small head of water. Williams Creek is a good place for a saw- mill. A blacksmith shop is also needed* Settlers can find cheap places to buy, or tolerable fair ranches to take up in this X. Y.’Z. county. The latest Cabinet rumor is that Ben But­ ler is to be Attorney-General. Official Paper for Jackson à Josephine since the passage ot the civil rights bill many theaters in Southern cities have been MARCH 26, 1875. closed. FRIDAY A brother of the famous dwarf,Commodore Nutt, is a well known resident of Coos AW EVASIVE REPLY. county. The Masonic Order in Oregon have, up to Tho Sentinel last week, in replying this date, forwarded $1.060 to the Kansas to our remarks regarding the article sufferers. More atrocities reported in Cuba. Twenty- in which it criticizes Senator Mitchell two men were shot without even a for his action In tho Alsea Reservation farce young of a trial. matter, not only loses sight of all jour­ A late London dispatch says that most of nalistic courtesy and legitimate and the European wheat markets show arise of one to two shillings. gentlemanly discussion, hut it also The North Carolina Legislature has ex­ makes several assertions which it can­ pelled a memlier from his seat because he not make good. We at first intended said there was no God. A bill has been introduced in the Delo- to pass it by with silent contempt, but ware legislature to offset the effects of the as the purported author admits of be­ Civil Rights act in that State. ing poorly posted on matters in this Josephine Mansfield has at last recovered a judgment against the estate ot Jim Fisk State, we write these lines for his ben­ t for $25.000. An effort is making to secure a efit. If the Sentinel did not mean to new trial. leave the impression of Mitchell’s dis­ The Pittsburg D»xt says Grant will require another increase of salary if Congress per­ honesty in the matter, tho Oregonian, sists in raising the tax on whisky to ninety from which the article was taken, did cents a gallon. From the reports received, a Walla Walla mean U. and the average reader would paper thinks that from thirty to fifty per have understood the Sentinel as mean­ cent, of cattle in Montana, Nevada, Idaho, ing the same. The public is too well Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington, die. acquainted with the T imes to believe will The wheat crop of Oregon has not been a such reckless language, and conse­ failure for thirty years, never since first set­ quently the malicious and silly asser­ tled by tho whites. What country else­ where on the globe can show’ a better record tions that “the T imes is, and always than that. has been, a servile tool in the hands of l'inchbaek’s ease has been postponed to a few demagogue politicians, and is as next session of Congress. The Radicals are to hold him as a check against the subservient to their commands as the aiming possible election of a Conservative Senator hound Is under his master’s leash,” from Louisiana. Gen. Applegate, says tho Eugene Guard, need no refutation at our hands. has invented a new kind of wagon hub, These remarks come in very poor taste which mechanics pronounce a success, and from a paper of which it is an undis­ a decided improvement upon anything of kind now in use. puted fact that it is run solely for tho the The latest returns from New Hampshire interests of its proprietor. We alone I give Cheney (Rep.) 39.225 ; Roberts (Dem.) stand responsible for what appears in 39,163—a majority of (»2 for Cheeny. Two ! the three Congressmen elect are Demo­ the T imes as being written by us, and of crats—a gain of one. nobody but us has anything to do with A militia company has been organized at Marshfield, Coos county, and the following those articles. We have not yet be­ officers elected : Morton 'Power, captain ; come so hard up for material as to T. G. Owen, first lieutonaht, and Win. father leading articles and local items Saunders, second lieutenant. taken from other sheets without any The Oregonian, through its local columns states that soldiers of the late war are to re­ credit whatever, and endeavor to palm ceive $8 50 per month additional pay, minus them off on the enlightened people of I all bounties. As we understand it, this bill failed for want of the President’s signature. Jackson county and the public at large It is rumored that Plymouth Church has as our own, as the Sentinel has very “passed around the hat’’ to the extent of $125,000 to defray tho expenses of the suit. recently and repeatedly done. Deacon Bowen is said to have protested savagely, and declared that he would not Even Mo. be a party to it. New York Independent characterizes The following frank and truthful ar­ tho The passage of the force bill through the ticle is from the San Francisco Alta, House and the civil rights bill through the as “destructive victories,’' and says the leading Republican paper of that Senate they are likely to lead to tho destruction of city. It admits the fact that the New the Republican party. Hampshire election was a Democratic The Coos Bay .Vcirs says a man actually victory, and not a Republican one, as tied up his loft arm in a sling in Empire last and played himself off fora Modoc some small-fry (¡rant organs, hard up Sunday, war veteran. About 10^*. M. he had no more use for that kind of a sling, but in­ for capital, would have us believe : vested the proceeds of charity in a sling “The Whigs beat us in their great meet­ made ot gin. ings but we beat them at the polls, said a There will bo seven members of tho next Democratic journal a long while ago. These i Congress named Williams ; no M ashburns, days it may be said that in their first re­ two Smiths, one New, one M ike, one Tar­ ports the Republicans are almost always box, and oneStinlikson. Now, if Attorney- given as victorious, but as tho reports come General Williams was only in the peniten­ in later, somehow the Democracy has a tiary, the Williams family would be appro­ priately provided for.— Idaho World. nasty habit of creeping up on the flanks and In the Beecher-Tilton trial last week tho rear of the Republicans, and before we testimony of Jos. Richards, brother of Mrs. know what is the matter, they are in the front. Something like this seems to be the Tilton, created some sensation when he case with the New Hampshire election. mentioned his entering tho parlor of Til­ At first the Republicans had the State. Gov­ ton’s house and saw Mrs. Tilton hastily and ernor, Memliers of Congress. Legislature with a flushed face leaving a position beside and State officers. Iuvter reports give a Beecher as lie entered. Mrs. Moulton, a somewhat different prospect. The Demo­ most respectable and leading ladv member of Plymouth Church, also testified to Beech­ crats were crawling up rather disagreeably. er having confessed to her his guilt, alleg­ As usual a third party, so-called, a set of in- ing that the fault was all his and no blame ccmpatibles, irreconcilable*, who persist in attached to Mrs. Tilton. Mrs. Moulton doing all the evil possible, have stood be­ says he several times threatened to kill him­ self in consequence of the great shame and tween the two principal parties to prevent scandal which his crime had brought upon cither from winning. Of all drunken peo­ his church and family. It is universally ple the Temperance people in political cam­ admitted by the newspaper world that Tii- paigns are the greatest of .inebriates. They ton has made a very strong ease against the great preacher. •xercise no sense at all, and learn nothing from continuous defeats and continually The Difference. diminishing voters.” More Taxation. Arkansas. The Civil Rights Bill I REAMES BROS., Odd Fellows’ Building, Jacksonville, Oregon, is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed N otice by the County Court of Jackson county, (Successors to White A Martin,) Oregon, Administrator of the Estate of John DEALER & WORKER IN dealers in Blattner, deceased. All persons indebted to said estate are re­ quested to settle the same immediately, TIN, SHEET IRON, COPPER, LEAD, etc. and all persons having claims against said estate are requested to present them with the proper vouchers to me at my place of business in Jacksonville within six months CALIFORNIA STREET, Pumps, from the date hereof. HERMAN v. HELMS, Administrator of said Estate. AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, JACKSONVILLE, . - OREGON. Jacksonville, Feb. 23, 1875. 9x12. GENERAL MERCHANDISE, Administrator’s Notice. NAILS, LOW PRICES WILL WIN VTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT LN the undersigned lias been appointed by the County Court of Jackson county, A FIRST-CLASS STOCK OF STOVES, Oregon. Administrator of the Estate ofWen- delin Nus, deceased. iie undersigned take pleas -- All persons indebted to said estate are re­ ure in notifying their friends and the HARDWARE, TINWARE, quested to settle the same immediately, public generally that they have purchased and all persons having claims against said the stock of White A Martin, and are now estate are requested to present them with proper vouchers to me at my residence in POWDER OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, receiving and opening a very large, exten­ sive and well-selected assortment of Jacksonville precinct within six months from the date hereof. J. N. T. MILLER, Fuse and Caps, STAPLE DRY-GOODS, Administrator of said Estate. February 23,1875. 10x13. T Administrator’s Notice. VTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT LN the undersigned has been appointed by the County Court of Jackson county, Oregon, Administrator of tho Estate of Minus Walker, deceased. All persons indebted to said estate are re­ quested to settle the same immediately, and all persons having claims against the said estate arc requested to present them with the proper vouchers to me at my residence in Ashland precinct within six months from the date hereof. HUGH F. BARRON. Administrator of said Estate. February 22, 1875. 10x13. boots and shoes , Wooden and Willow Ware, ROPE, NAILS, California & Salem Cloths and Blankets, Ready-M&de Clothing, PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES, GLASS AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, CUTLERY, WIRE, Hats and Caps, Shot, Brushes, Chains and Hose, LADIES, CHILDREN A MISSES SHOES. ETC., ETC. Notice of Final Settlement. In the County Court for Jackson County, Oregon. In the matter of the Estate of Robt. Alexander, deceased. I havo secured the services of a First-elass We havo also in connection with the above a very large and fine stock of choice Mechanic, and am prepared to do all repair­ iie undersigned administra - ing promptly and in superior style. tor of said estate having tiled his final T account thereof and asked for an order for GROCERIES, HUNTERS’ EMPORIUM! —AND— HARDWARE AND CUTLERY STORE, GLASSWARE, QUEENS- WARE, HARDWARE, CUTLERY, tho final settlement, therefore notice is here­ by given that said final account will be heard and determined is said Court on Tuesday, the Olli day of April, 1875, and any person having objection to said final ac­ TN CONNECTION WITn THE A ROVE, count and settlement must then and there 1 T am receiving and havo constantly on hand a full and first-class stock of make the same. Published by order of Hon. E. B. Watson, County Judge, made Feb. 24, 1875. Groceries, THOMAS W. DIPPEL, 9x12. Administrator. DRY GOODS, Gum Boots, TOBACCO, PAINTS, OILS, NAILS, WIN­ DOW GLASS, CAST AND STEEL PLOWS, WOOD­ EN AND WILLOW • WARE, ETC. We are now ready to soli anything in our line at lowest cash prices. Persons wishing to bnv goods will find it greatly to their ad­ GLASSWARE, CROCKERY, Eto., Etc. vantage to examine our stock before pur­ chasing elsewhere, as we are determined not to be undersold by any house in Jackson county. gtiC Everything sold at reasonable rates. £*Y*Give us a call, and then judge for vourselfas to our capacity to furnish good« Give me a call. K. KUBLI. as above. REAMES BROS. Jacksonville, Feb. 18, 1875. Jacksonville, Feb. 12, 1875. Ready-Made Clothinc, NEW FIRM! NEW GOODS! I FRANCO-AMERICAN —AND— California Street, Jacksonville, Oregctn. New Prices at Ashland, Or. HOTEL it RESTAURANT, Opposite Odd Follows’ Hall, 4 LWAYS ON HAND THE BEST STOCK A of Patent and Home-made Rifle and J. M. McCALL