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zt She fieinortiific 4^ ♦ Published Every Friday Morning, Bj znz RATES OF ADVERTISING CHAS. NICKELL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE—On Oregon Street, in Orth’s Briek Building. Kate* of Subscription: One copy, per annum • fc “ ** ~ ........................ six months A4 three months,................. I $3.00 2.00 1.00 I I VOL. V Idl'd l'ìrtl’l 1/ IH AtlVtlllCf• 1 1 /• JACKSONVILLE, OREGON, FRIDAY, DEC. IT, 1875 NO. 51 Advertisements will l>e inserted in the T imes at the following rates : One square, one insertion........................ $3.00 each subsequent one........... 1.00 Ix*gal advertisements inserted reasonably. A fair reduction from the above rates macle to vearlv and time advertisers. Yearly advertisements payable quarterly. Job printing neatly ana promptly execut ed, and at reasonable rates. C ounty W arrants always taken atfpar. I OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. Ladies’ and Gentlemen's T. A. DAVIS. c F. K. ARNOLD. GENERAL NOTEN AND NEWS. T. A. DAVIS & CO., Chinese lost $70,000 on the Pacific. The California Legislature is sitting. Pennsylvania has eighty-six towns F2ÏNCY GOODS WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, which end in “burg,” FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. American leather and ribbons are 71 FRONT STREET, ....P. P. Prim Circuit Judge BOYS' and GIRLS' now exported to England. District Attorney........................ H. K. Hanna JACKSON COUNTY. Congress will be asked to vote $1,- PORTLAND, OREGON. County Judge,............................F. B. Watson R E A D Y-M A D E CLOTH ING, 500,000 to the Centennial. . (John O’Brien, < 'ountv Commissioners...... | M A.Hueston Heavy rains and swollen streams E KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND are reported in California. BOOTS and SHOES, t Clerk. .......................... ........ E. D. Fowdrav a complete stock of ........ J ..... K. Knbli Treasurer,......................... A New York paper says that Oregon . Assessor,............................ ...... W. A. Childers beats the world for salmon. School Superintendent... ........ IT. C. Fleming GROCERIES, BEDSTEADS A CHAIRS, DRUGS, Surveyor............................ .......... J. S. Howard The Cuban insurgents have been ................ IL T. Inlow Coroner......... PERFUMERY and TOILET ARTICLES, quite successful since July last. ...D emocratic T imes Official Paper CLOTHING, I JOSEPHINE COUNTY. One million bushels of peanuts were PATENT MEDICINES, eaten in the United States last year. County Judge,.......................... M. F. Baldwin _ x' _ . . ( S. Messenger, LIQUORS, TOBACCO and CIGARS, County Commissioners,...... • james Neelv. Oregon apples sell for 12J cents a GLASSWARE, WINDOW GLASS, pound at Silver City, Idaho Territory. Sheriff.......................................... Dan. L. Green Clerk.’.................................. ..... Chas. Hughes CROCKERY, ETC., Moody and Sankey, the revivalists, Treasurer............................. ........ Wm. Naucke ‘ PAINTS, OILS AND A ssessor................................ ........ John Howell are meeting with success in the East. School Superintendent,.... ........... J. M. Smith 1 There are only nine gold banks in Surveyor,.............................. ..... W. N. Sanders At E. Jacob’s New Store, PAINTER’S STOCK OF EVERY KIND, Coroner................................. ..... Geo. E. Briggs the world, and they are all in California. D emocratic T im es Official Taper BLUE VITRIOL, Orth’s Brick Building, Jacksonville. Paul Morphy, the once famous chess COUNT SITTINGS. player, has become a hopeless maniac .MrA-.ton Cidinh/.— Circuit Court, second LUBRICATING OII.S, ETC. ETC. in New Orleans. Monday in February, Juno and November. County Court, first Monday in each month. Secretary Bristow has rescinded the i Josephine Connti/.— Circuit Court, fourth ll of the above articles sold order imposing double duty on washed Monday in April and fourth Monday in Oc- at the very lowest rates. If you don’t T-P* Sole Agents for Oregon for the cele tolier. County Court, first Monday in Jan believe me, call and ascertain prices for brated CARBOLIC SHEEP DIP, which wools of any class. I kills Ticks, Lice and all parasites on sheep, uary, April, July and October. yourselves. No humbug ! In the colliery explosion in York All kinds ot produce and hides taken in ! and is a sure cure for screw-worm, scab and JACKSONVILLE rRF.CTNfT. i exchange for goods. 42tf. shire, England, 140 lives were lost. foot rot. Circular sent on application. Justice of the Peace,...................J. II. Stinson Careless blasting caused it. Constable.......... ......................... A. M. Asburv TOWN OF JACKSONVIT.LK. “EXCELSIOR” The President’s message occasiored f C. C. Beekuian, Pres’t. much excitement in Spain, and an in | Sol. Sachs, formal session of the Ministry was held. Trustees........... ...... 1 John Miller, Cor. Cal. A Oregon Sts., T.IVKBY STABLE I Wm. Hoffman, The Russian harvest is much of a 1 K. Kubli. Oregon. failure ; that of Great Britain is short; J ackson ville. Recorder,......... ........................... U. S. Harden Oregon St.. Jacksonville, Treasurer,........ .............................. Henrv Pape while that of the United States is large. M .irs hill.............. ......................... L P. McDaniel Street Commissioner.................... -Silas J. Dav For soldiers killed in the late civil PROPRI CTOR. W. J. PLYMALE. DAVID LINN war, 85,000 head-stones have already PROFESSIONAL CARDS. Keeps constantly on hand a full assortment been completed at West Rutland, Vt. STATE OF OREGON. . Governor,..................................................... L- F. Grover Secretary of state,................... S. F. Chadwick State Treasurer,........................................ A. H. Brown State Printer................................ M. V. Brown Sup’t of Public Instruction...!.. L. Rowland FURNISHING and W A FURNITURE WARE-ROOM, of furniture, consisting of AVIN« JUST RECEIVED A NEW stock of Harness, Buggies and Car BEDSTEADS, riages, I am now prepared to furnish my BUREAUS, TABLES. patronsand the public generally with as GUILD MOULDINGS, FINE TURNOUTS STANDS, SOFAS, LOUNGES, As can l>e had on the Pacific Coast. Saddle horses hired fo go to any part of the country. CHAIRS OF ALL KINDS. Animals BOUGHT and SOLD. Horses PARLOR A BEDROOM SUITS, broke to work single or double. Horses boarded, and the best of care bestowed upon ETC., ETC. them while in my charge. Martin Failing, if this meets your eye, address the Salem Mercury, as your family is getting anxious about P II Y S I C I A N A N D S U R G E O N , you. The German steamer Deutschland, Kerbyville, Oregon. from Bremen to New York, was wrecked in the North Sea. One hun Dr. L. DANFORTH, dred aud fifty of those aboard were lost. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Warden Dunham, from whom Boss Has removed to Jacksonville, and tenders Tweed escaped, is suspended from of his professional services to the public. Also Doors, Sash and Blinds always on Offieo ami residence on Third street, oppo- rer my terms are reasonable . hand and made to order. Planing done on fice. The Grand Jury is investigating site and east of the M. E. Church. Undertaking a spe the matter. Suits against Tweed have A lilieral share of the public patronage is reasonable terms. cialty. solicited. W. J. PLYMALE. meantime been postponed. J. A. CALLENDER, M. D., THE Wooden rails have been successfully P II Y S I C I A N AND SURGEON, ST. MARY’S ACADEMY, tried on a railroad in Pennsylvania. ' Trains can run over them at the rate JACKSONVILLE, OREGON. CONDUCTED BY CITY DRUG STORE, of sixteen miles an hour with safety, and they will last three to four years. THE SISTERS of the HOLY NAMES. JACKSONVILLE. J&F Office at residence, on Fifth street, op- i The Sacramento river, at Sacramento, jtosite the Court House. was on the 3d up to the high water HE SCHOLASTIC YEAR OF THIS he new firm of kahler a bro . H. K. HANNA. mark of 1861-62, and still rising. The school will commence about tlie middle have the largest and most complete levees had not given away, but a force of August, and is divided in four sessions, ATTORNEY «ft COUNSELOR AT LAW, of eleven weeks each. Tlie following are the assortment of I of men were employed strengthening terms; Jacksonville, Oregon, DRUGS, MEDICINES A CHEMICALS, them. Board and tuition, per term,........... ..$40.00 ... 4.00 Bed and Bedding ................................. Will practice in all the Courts of the State. The committee on opening exercises Ever brought to Southern Oregon. Also Prompt attention given to all business left Drawing and ¡Minting........................ ... 8.00 the latest and finest styles of of the Centennial have selected W. M. Piano,...................................................... ... 15.00 in my care. Entrance fee, only once, ................... ... 5.00 Evarts as orator ; H. W. Longfellow as Office in Orth's Brick Building—upstairs. STATIONERY, poet ; and a grandson of Richard II. SELECT DAY SCHOOL. E. B. WATSON. c. w. KAHLER. And a great variety of PERFUMES and Lee, of Virginia, reader of the Decla Primary, per term,.................................... $ 6.00 T< >ILET ARTICLES, including the best and ration of Independence. KAHLER St WATSON, Junior,* “ ..................................... 8.00 cheapest assortment of COMMON and PER “ ..................................... 10.00 FUMED SOAPS in this market. The Rowing Association of Ameri ATTORNEYS A COUNSELORS-AT-LAW, Senior, Prescriptions carefully compounded. can colleges has resolved to challenge Pupils are received at any time, and their 44 ROBT. KAHLER, Druggist. terms will lie counted from the day of their JACKSONVILLE, OREGON, the Oxford and Cambridge clubs of entrance. For further particulars apply at England and the Trinity Club of Dub the Academy. 29tf. Will practice in the Supreme, District and MRS. BROWN, lin to row a six-oared race, without other Courts of th is State. Office in Court House—upstairs. coxswains, at the American college re TABLE ROCK SALOON, ASHLAND, gatta of 1876. JAMES S. HOWARD, OREGON STREET, A bill has been introduced in the U. u. S. DEPUTY MINERAL SURVEYOR WINTJEN & HELMS, Proprietors. Millinery and Ladies Goods, S. Senate to remove the legal and po litical disabilities of all citizens of the FOR JACKSON, RIBBONS OF ALL KINDS, United States subject thereto ; also one HE PROPRIETORS OF THIS WEI Ac- Josephine and Curry counties, Oregon. extending the time for the construction known and popular resort would in Official surveys made and pateuts obtained form their friends and the public generally Flowers, Feathers and Trimmings, of the Northern Pacific Railroad— at reasonable rates. Full copies of Mining granting ten years’ additional time. I aws and Decisions at my office in Jack that a complete and first-class stock of the best brands of liquors, wines, cigars, ale and sonville, Oregon. Senator Kelly has introduced a bill ap HAIR, JUTE AND porter, etc., is constantly kept on hand. propriating $360,000 to construct a They will be pleased to have their friends H. KELLY, canal at the Cascades. “call and smile.” LINEN BRAIDS AND SWITCHES, CABINET. ATTORNEY A COUN8ELOR-AT-LAW, The billiard tournament, which re A Cabinet of Curiosities may also lie found cently closed in New York after a JACKSONVILLE, OREGON, here. We would be pleased to have persons —ALSO— several days’ continuance, terminated possessing curiosities and specimens bring Will practice in all the Courts of the State. them in, and we will place them in the Cab with the victory of Cyrille Dion, who Prompt attention given to all business en inet for inspection. Agent for McCall's Bazaar Fashions. has been declared billiard champion of trusted to my care. WINTJEN A HELMS. America. Dion won all the games he Office in the building formerly occupied hv Jacksonville, Aug. 5, 1874. 32tf. i Matt. Dillon’s New Saloon, played. In the game with Sexton, a Kahler A Watson, opposite'Court House. young player of great promise, Dion Next door to Reames Bros., gave an exhibition of skill, judgment and rapidity with the cue that has C at . ifoknia S tbeet , California Street, Jacksonville, Ogn. never been equaled in tho history of Proprietor. S. P. JONES, billiards. In this game Dion’s average was 30, which is the largest average riUIE UNDERSIGNED TAKES PLEAS* ever made at the three-ball carom \TONE BITT THE CHOICEST AND BEST 1 uro in announcing that he lias just IM Wines, Brandies, Whiskies and Cigars opened out at the above location, ami will game. The usual averages made by kept. constantly keep on hand a complete and the best players vary from 10 to 18. first-class stock of the best brands of wines, DRINKS, 12J CENTS. A handsome monument has been liquors, cigars, etc., and also the latest Eas SURGEON DENTIST. tern |*eri<Mlieals and leading newspaiiers of shipped to Pendleton to be placed over NO CREDIT IN THE FUTURE—it don’t pay. Families needing anything in our line the Coast. Give me a call. the remains of Hon. George A. LaDow, MATT. DILLON. ••an always l>e supplied with the purest and on which is inscribed these words: ll branches of the profes - l»est to l>o found on the Coast. Give me a “Hon. George A. LaDow. Born in sion attended to in tlie most scientific call, and you will be well satisfied. RAILROAD SALOON, Cayuga county, New York, March 18, manner with promptness and at reasonable rates. Every style ot Plato-work made— New Boot and Shoe Store, 1828. Died May 1, 1875.” The in THIRD STREET, JACKSONVILLE, OR., Gold, Silver, Platina, Alumnium ami Rul>- scription block is surmounted by a l>er Plates. Special attention given to chil C alifornia S treet , round column broken, to indicate that dren’s teeth. Nitrus Oxide (laughing gas) HENRY PAPE, Engineer. given for the painless extraction of teeth. he whose body lies beneath the marble Oregon. Will Visit Ashland annually on March 1st; Jacksonville, has passed from earth in the prime of also Kerbyvillo on 4th Monday in October. life. The monument is the best one Office and residence on corner of Califor THROUGH TICKETS, 12J C ents . nia and Fifth streets, Jacksonville. which has gone up the Columbia river aving permanently located f4T Call and examine specimen work. beyond Vancouver—the base being of in Jacksonville, the undersigned re spectfully informs the public that he is HOICE WINES, LIQUORS AND Ci the best Clackatna9 quarry stone, while r __ ftQA Per Day at home. Terms prepared to do all kinds of work in the boot gars constantly on hand. The reading all above that is constructed of the free. Address G. STINSON and shoe making line. Satisfaction guaran table is also supplied with Eastern periodi i most beautifully veined Italian marble. teed. M. CATON. A Co., Portland, Maino. 6. cals and leading papers of tho Coast. B. F. HOLSCLAW. M. D., H T T T A H C A MCCESMIL RAILWAY, OREGON AGRICILTIBAL SOCIETY In an article on the Railroads of the Great West in an Omaha (Neb.) daily paper, we find the article we copy be low. Coming as it does from a paper published at Omaha, where, it is well known, not the most friendly feelings are exhibited towards any enterprise not controlled by Omaha, its testimony is most valuable. We quote as fol lows : The Board of Managers of this So ciety met in Salem last Tuesday, with W. P. Watson, of Hood river, Presi dent, in the chair. E. M. Waite, of Salem, Secretary. Vice Presidents Joseph Hamilton of Linn, and G. W. Dimmick of Marion, were also pres ent ; also Directors C. P. Burkhart of Linn, Wm. Bigham of Wasco, Jas. Tatom of Polk, T. D. Edwards of A POPULAR ROAD. Lane, W. G. Scoggin of Washington, “In these days of ease and luxury i W. Elliott of Clackamas, J. Kelsey of it is quite important that the traveler Benton, G. Stewart of Yamhill, and should know, when going across a John Minto of Marion. Directors S. country where there are so many com G. Reed of Portland and W. C. Myer peting lines as between Omaha and of Jackson sent letters giving reasons Chicago, on which road safety and for non-attendance. The statement of the financial con comfort is most considered. Such a dition shows that the debt of the Soci road is the Chicago and North-Western. ety has been reduced in two years from The present controlling stock owners of this road are active, energetic and $11,000 to $5,500. The receipts at successful railroad men, who will never the late State Fair summed up $20,300 rest easy while any competing line —the expenses being $10,000. The can eclipse them in any respect. They improvements for the year cost $4,500. Standing Committees were appoint, are laying down steel rails, and put ed and officers elected for the Fair of ting on day and night coaches, and sleepers that outshine anything in the 1876. Lewis Savage of Marion was West, and their road-bed is the oldest, chosen General Superintendent; R. best located and safest of any road out A. Irvine of Linn, Chief Marshal, and of Omaha. The country through A. Luelling of Washington, Chief which this road passes is unsurpassed Marshal of the Pavilion. A vote of thanks to G. S. Downing, for beautiful scenery. First winding under the bluffs of the Missouri, then Chief Marshal for the last two Fairs, up the beautiful valley of the Boyer was passed. An offer of the grounds for the An river through Cedar Rapids, the most delightful city in Iowa. Across the nual Re-union of the Oregon Pioneers clear waters of the Mississippi at Clin in 1876 was favorably passed upon. ton, thence over the highly cultivated And it was resolved that at the next prairies of Illinois to Chicago. The Fair hay should be furnished for conductors and employees on these stock entered during all the time the trains are noted for their civility, and animals were on the grounds. John F. Miller and E. M. Waite are gentlemen with whom it is a pleas, were appointed to examine and report ure to do business, who by their cour teous manners and charming affability on the subject of having a sufficient are fast making the Chicago and supply of water for the grounds. It North-Western the most popular line was thought it could be furnished for $3,000. The Society ought not to be lietween Omaha and Chicago. », The trains that run over this line penny wise and pound foolish on this are made of elegant new Pullman subject. The Board have been occupied in Palace Drawing Room and Sleeping preparing the premium list and in con Coaches, built expressly for this line, sidering other essentials. There are luxurious, well lighted and well venti lated Day Coaches, and pleasant loung several important reforms that ought ing and smoking cars; all built by to be made, and it is high time they this Company in their own shops. The should be. In some respects the An cars are all equipped with the cele nual Fair has been materially and no brated Miller Safety Platform, and toriously wanting. It ought no longer Patent Buffers and Coupling«, West to be so.— Journal. inghouse Safety Air Brakes, and every T he L anguage of C olors .—The other appliance that has been devised for the safety of passenger trains. All following is said to be the French method of the meaning attached to trains are run by telegraph. colors; but it appears to us to smack In a word, this great California line has the best and smoothest track, and rather of the laboratory than of genu the most elegant and comfortable ine sentiment: They hold out that equipment of any road in the West, violet is analogous to friendship, blue and has no competitor in the country. to love, as suggested by blue eyes and It is eminently the favorite route with azure sky. A bunch of violets would, Chicagoans traveling East, and is ac therefore, tell a lady’s suitor that knowledged by the traveling public to friendship is all he has a right to ex be the popular route from all points in pect. Yellow is paternity, or mater Western Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, nity ; it is a yellow ray of the spec Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Ne trum which causes the germ to shoot. vada, California, and the Pacific Slope. Red figures ambition; indigo, the spirit of rivalry ; green, the love of Two F loral M arvels .—The fol change, fickleness, but also work; lowing from the Horticulturist gives i orange, enthusiasm; white, unity, uni an account of two novelties among versality ; black, favoritism, the influ flowers, one being located in Santa ence exerted by an individual. Cer tain persons have the gift of fasci Clara : “One is a black lily, in Santa Clara, nating all who approach them; and California, with three large blossoms, black, which absorbs all the rays each nine inches long, and perfectly of the spectrum, is the reverse of black outside the green petals. The white, which combines them all other is to be seen at Constantinople, in one. Besides the seven primi and described by an eye witness as tive colors, gray indicates poverty; belonging to the narcissus genus of brown, prudery; pink, modesty; sil bulb. The flower represents a perfect ver-gray (semi-white), feeble love; li humming bird. The breast of a per lac, (semi-violet), feeble friendship ; fect emerald green, is a complete copy pale pink, false shame. of this bird, and the throat, head, M esmerizing a R ooster .—An ex beak and eyes are a perfect imitation. periment which may amuse the boys The hinder part of the body and the two out-stretched wings are of a to repeat has been described and bright rose-color, one might almost say vouched for by a popular science jour flesh-colored. These wondrous bulbs nal : Place a rooster upon a table or should have been sent to the Vienna board, and, holding his wings closely exhibition. They will be in abun down to his sides, let a second persou dance by the time of our Centennial bend down his head until his beak celebration in 1876. And yet they touches the board on which he lies, can hardly be greater curiosities than and draw a line of white chalk straight the strange and mysterious “Sancta out from the point of the beak. This Spiritus” flower from South America, done, the bird may be released from with its life representation of doves.” all restraint, and he will not stir so much as a feather. “Nay, further,” T he best yeast in the world is made writes one, “you may clap your hands by pouring Ixiiling water into sifted or shout close to him, without rousing flour till the mixture is as thick as him from his lethargy, from which, common paste. When cool enough add however, he will ultimately recover.” a teacupful of yeast. The next morn Another experimenter writes: “I ing the lumps will l»e gone, and the have seen a row of fowls rendered whole will be excellent yeast, with quite senseless by drawing a chalk, out using potatoes, hops, or any other line (beginning at the top of the beak) useless ingredients of the kind. To slowly across a table, and I have suc make yeast cakes, stir in corn meal, cessfully performed the experiment. spread on a board, cut into square The birds are simply mesmerized.” cakes and dry rapidly in the shade. A P rolific C ow .—At the sale of W hen a Missouri engineer ditched the late T. Grimwood’s stock in Eng- his train he faintly asked : “Did it i land on the 1st inst., a Suffolk cow was kill any one who parted his hair in sold which had six calves in twenty the middle ?” They answered that months, all living. The first birth three such were lying dead. “Then I was three (all fine grown animals,) then die happy !” he sighed, and was soon one, and Just before the sale two more, which were brought into the sale-ring no more. in the arms of laborers, the cow being A T ennessee girl, riding on the decorated with a blue ribbon.—AVn* cars, crossed the aisle, kicked a young ; tucky Lire Stock Journal. man up against the window, and re. A harder subject to deal with than marked : “I was brung up never to even an old deck of cards is a uiau allow’ a yaller-eyed man to wink at who won’t advertise, me.” 1 — — < 4. . I. .11 ■ .