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About The Democratic times. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1871-1907 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1877)
1 ’ 9 ■w KT1 nm dlic Sfráuíriitií ®tar& Published every Friday Morning by ’ RATES OF ADVERTISING. L CHARLES NICKELL. I I Editor and Proprietor. / ft 4 'Ä •OFFD’E—On Oregon Street, in Orth’s Brick Building. Kates of Subscription: “ three months, n.oo 2.00 1.00 VOL. VII. I PROF ESSION AL CARDS. JACKSONVILLE, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1877 7. Ladies' and Gentlemen's A PACK OF <’AK»M. A nobleman wlm kept a great num FURNISHING and ber of servants reposed great confi dence in one of them, which excited a H O M E O r AT11IC P II Y S I c I A N , jealousy in the others, who, in order FANCY GOODS, to prejudice their master against him, accused him of being a notorious game Hogue'« Ranch, near Kerbyville. BOYS' and GIRLS* ster. A. C. JONES, Jack was called up and closely inter rogated; but lie denied the fact, at the ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW, READY-MADE CLOTHING, same lime declaring he never played JACKSONVILLE, OGN-, a card in his life. To be more fully convinced, the gentleman ordered him BOOTS and SHOES, Will practice in all the Courts of the State. to be searched, when behold a pack ot Office m Orth’s building—up-stairs. cards was found in his pocket. GROCERIES, BEDSTEADS A CHAIRS, Highly incensed at Jack’s want of G. H. AIKEN, M. D., veracity, the nobleman demanded in a PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, rage how he dared to persist in au un CLOTHING, truth? JACKSONVILLE, OREGON. “My lord,” replied he, “I certainly Oflice—du California street, opposite Union LIQUOHS, TOBACCO and CIGAKS, do not know the meaning of a card. Livery Stable. The bundle in my pocket is my alma nac.” CROCKERY, ETC., J. S. JACKSON, M. D.. “Your almanac, indeed; then I de sire that you should prove it.” PHYSICIAN AND S U R G EON, “Well, sir, I will begin. There are At E. Jacob's New Store, four Jacksonville, Oregon. suits in the pack, which indicate the four quarters of the year. As Office on corner of California and Fourth Orth’s Brick Building, Jacksonville. there are thirteen cards in a suit, so streets. there are thirteen weeks in a quarter; there are also the same number of lu L. DANFORTH. M. D., nations: the twelve court cards repre 1* H Y S I C 1 A N AND S U R G E O N , 4 LT. OF THE ABOVE ARTICLES SOLD sent the twelve signs ot tho zodiac, at the very lowest rates. If yon don’t Jacksonville, Oregon. believe me, call and ascertain prices for through which the sun steers his diur nal course iu one year. There are yourselves. No humbug ! Al! kinds ot produce and hides taken in I fifty-two cards in a pack; that directly Office on California street, opposite P. J. Ryan’s stoic. Residence on Third street, exchange for goods. 42tf. answers for the number of weeks in a opiH.site aud east ot the M. E. ( hurch and year. Examine them more minutely adjoining the Court House block oil the and you will find three hundred and north. sixty-five spots, as many as there are H. K. HANNA, days in the year; these multiply by Cor. Cal. A Oregon Sts., twenty-tour and sixty and you have ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR AT LAW, the exact number of hours and minutes Jacksonville, Oregon, OREGON. in a year. Thus, sir, 1 hope 1 have JACKSONVILLE, convinced you it is my almanac; and, Will practice in all the Courts of the State. Prompt attention given to all business left by your lordship’s permission,I will now in my care. prove it my prayer-book also. I look DAVID LINN Office iii Oi lh’s Brick Building—upstairs. upou the four suits as representing the Keeps constantly on hand a full assortment four prevailing religions—Christianity, c. W. KAHLER. K. B. WATSON. of furniture, consisting of Judaism, Mohammedanism and Pa KAHLER & WATSON, bedsteads , ganism. The twelve court cards re ATTORNEYS A COUNSELORS-AT-LAW, J mind me ot the twelve patriarchs, from BUREAUS, TABLES, which sprang the twelve tribes of Is s JACKSONVILLE, OREGON, GUILD MOULDINGS, rael, the twelve apostles, the twelve articles of Christian faith. The king Will practice in the Supreme, District and STANDS, SOFAS, LOUNGES, other Courts of this State. reminds me of the allegiance due his CHAIRS OF ALL KINDS. Oilice on Third St., north of Express Office. majesty. Tiie queen of the same to PARLOR A BEDROOM SUITS, her majesty. The ten brings to my H. KELLY, recollection the ten tribes in the plains ETC., ETC. ATTORNEY A COUNSELOR-AT-LAW, of Sodom and Gomorrah, destroyed by Also Doors, Sasb and Blinds always on hand and made to order. Planing done on the tire and brimstone from heaven; JACKSONVILLE, OREGON, reasonable terms, j-i?’ Undertaking a spe- the ten plagues of Egypt: the ten com Will practice in all the Courts of the State. •cialty. mandments; the teu tribes rut off for Prompt attention given io all business en their vices. The nine noble order- trusted to my care. among men. 'Die eight reminds me THIRTEENTH YEAR. Office opposite Court House. of eight beatitude-; the eight per sons saved m Noah’s ark; the eight JAMES S. HOWARD, ST. MARY’S ACADEMY. persons mentioned in Scripture to be U. S. DEPUTY MINERAL SURVEYOR released from death to life. The seven CONDUCTED BY reminds me of the seven administer FOR JACKSON, THE SISTERS of the HOLY NAMES, ing spirits that stand before the throne Josephine and Curry counties, Oregon. ol God, the seven liberal arts and sci Official surveys made and patents obtained ences given by God for the instruction at reasonable rates. Full copies of Mining rnilE SCHOLASTIC YEAR OF TUTS of man; the seven wonders of the Lawsand Decisions at my office in Jack 1 school will commence about the end of sonville, Oregon. world. The six reminds me of six pe August, and is divided in four sessions, titions contained in the Lord’s Prayer; of eleven weeks each. WM. M. STEWART. I*. VANCLIEF. the six days of creation. 'Die five re $10.00 Board and tuition, per term............ WM. F. HERRIN. . 4.00 minds me of the senses given by G ul Be<l and Bedding................................ . 8.00 to man—bearing, seeing, feeling, smel Drawing and painting....................... .. 15.00 Piano, ..................................................... STEWART, VANCLIEF & HERRIN, Entrance fee, only once................... .. 5.00 ling and tasting; the five wise and five foolish virgins. The four puts me in SELECT DAY SCHOOL A TH IRNE YS-AT-LA W, .$ fi.oo mind of the four evangelists; the four Primary, per term,............................ . 8.00 seasons of the year. The three re “ ............................ Rooms 21,21,26128 MrCroery’s New Building, Junior, . 10.00 Senior, “ ............................ minds me of the Trinity; tile three Pupils are received at any time, and spe i hours our Saviour was on the cross, No. 310 Pine St., San Francisco cial attention is paid to particular studies in tiehalf of children who have but limited i three days he lay intoned. Tiie two time. For further particulars apply at the reminds me of the two Testaments, the Academy. two contrary principles struggling in man—virtue anil vice. The ace re ASHLAND, OREGON, C'ity Drug Store, I minds me of the only true God to adore, worship and serve; one truth to prac- W. J. ZIMMERMAN & CO., Prop'«. ■ tice and one good master to serve and CALIFORNIA STREET, obey.” “So far is very well,” said the noble, ANUFACTURE AND BUILD ALL Kahler & Bro., Proprietors “but I believe you have omitted one 111 kinds of mill and mining machinery, ■castings, thimble skeins, and irons, brass card—the knave.” »casting« and Babbitt metal. Bells east. “True, my lord—the knave reminds Farming machinery, engines, house fronts, stoves, sewing machines, blacksmith-work, 1UE KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND me of your lordship’s informant.” and all work wherein iron, steel or brass is ' T the largest and most complete assort The nobleman became more pleased used, repaired. Parties desiring anything ment of with J. than before, freely forgave him, in our line will do well to give us a call be fore going elsewhere. All work done with DRUGS, MEDICINES AND CHEMICALS raised bis wages aud discharged the neatness and dispatch at reasonable rates. informer. JAMES SPENCE, M. D., FURNITURE WARE ROOMS, I THE ASHLAND IRON WORKS, z-ir Bring on your old cast iron. ZIMMERMAN A CO. Ashland, April 8, 1876. WILL. JACKSON, Dentist, California Street, Jacksonville, Oregon. ■jnVERY OPERATION PERTAINING TO ri the jaw skilfully jierforuied at reasona ble rates. No more credit will be given after the first of January, 1876. I will take all kinds ■of produce. Office and residence on corner of Califor nia and Fifth streets, Jacksonville. All Hinds of Job Printing NEATLY A CHEAPLY EXECUTED AT The Times Office ; » TV W gniuifrniir Units. .me copy, per annum,. “ " six months, .. - CARL NFI1UKZ ON INDIAN AFFAIRS. The report of the Secretary of the Interior embraces an extremely inter esting, candid, and important review of the Indian affairs of the country. It is not too much to say that Mr. Schurz istthe first Secretary of the Inte rior who has treated this subject with entire frankness, says the Record Un ion, and has endeavored to make tiie people understand it. His statement amounts to a sweeping condemnation of the policy and practice of the Gov ernment for years past. He does not hesitate to declare th d all, or nearly all, our Indian wars have been caused by gross injustice done to the Indians by the Government or its agents; that these agents have for the most part been corrupt and unprincipled men, who have plundered right and left; that the Indian service lias long been honeycombed with corruption; that nothing" but a radical reform can amend it; and that Congress ought either to institute investigations itself, or give his Department greater power, in order that it may tie enabled to pun ish tiie thieves. He states that the late war witli tiie Nez Perce Indians was incurred through a direct breach of faith on the part of the Government, and lie intimates that tiie conduct of Chief Joseph through tiie struggle was more creditable to him than that of the Government had been to it. He makes several recommendations re garding tiie civilization and education of the Indians, but suggests as a mai ler of primary importance that a policy of honesty and good faith should be in augurated. The anuses which the Sec. retary so unsparingly reveals and con demns have long been familiar to the public. The press has exposed them and demanded reform for several years. But until now there has never appeared a Secretary of tiie Interior who pos sessed the courage anil the conscien tiousness to urge open war upon the thieves, or who did not either ig nore or gloss over the most notorious iniquities in this connection. H enry B ergh C atches I t .—The other day a New York teamster was brutally healing a bay mule with a paint-brush tail, when Henry Bergh, President A. 8. P. C. A., rushed in and caught the fellow’s uplifted arm and cried, “Slay! hold!” Just then the mule, who had reserved his fire until some one came in range, looked back and fired a ninety-four pound hoof, that struck Mr. Bergh about mid ships and soured all the milk of human kindness in his soul quicker than a thunderclap. “Kill him!” hissed the great philanthropist between his set teeth, as he bowed himself over his elapsed hands and sought the nearest drug store, in the attitude of a boy who had tarried long at the green apples, “kill him! Pound the hair off him! Fear out his heart with a nail grab,the long-legged, iron-jawed, thick-headed son of iniquity! Pull his accursed legs out by the roots and cut him into fish bait before you burn him alive! Oh-h-h; diddledy doggone a billy-be-doggoned son-of-a-gun of a mule, anyhow.— Bur- lington Hawkeye. Nor M uch of a V ictory .—The New York Express thinks the recent Republican victory in Massachusetts was nothing to brag of: “The Ad ministration prides itself, we are told, upon the result in Massachusetts. The old commonwealth used to give a Re publican majority of 100,000. Even last year it gave Mr. Hayes 41,000 ma jority. This year the Republican Con vention warmly indorsed the Admin istration and we elect our ticket by 17,000 majority. That is what the Administration calls a great “victory.” A few more such “victories” would surely ruin the Republican party. When a Republican Administration gets down on its kneesand thanks God because it has carried the State of Massachusetts by a small plurality it is well enough to begin to inquire to be found in Southern Oregon. H oni S uit Q ui M al y D ense .— Also the latest and finest styles of whether we have been altogether for Last Summer, says the Hagerstown tunate in the selection of our rulers.” Mail, a woman canvassed this town to STATIONERY, sell patent garters to the ladies Those T iie Vanderbilt will case promises garters had to be made or altered to fair to excel in scandalous details the And a great variety of PERFUMES and TOILET ARTICLES, including the best and suit individual limbs, and so the can Beecher-Tilton nastiness. If the dec cheapest assortment of COMMON and PER vasser found it necessary in all cases laration of Scott Lord, that W. II. FUMED SOAPS in this market. to make an accurate measurement Vanderbilt had entire control of the Prescriptions carefully compounded. The patent garter was considered a second wife of the Commodore and ROBT. KAHLER, Druggist. first-rate article, and the canvasser or that “he perpetrated the most infa canvasseress drove a lively trade here, mous offense a son can commit against TABLE ROCK SALOON, sold many garters, and measured many a father” is rightly understood by the limbs. She left here to ply her trade public, the revelation will shock the OREGON STREET, in a Pennsylvania town. There a com moral sensibilities of the people of the bination of circumstances which it is whole country. If “Bill” Vanderbilt WINTJEN & HELMS, Proprietors. not necessary or, indeed, judicious to is not a greater brute than his father relate here, led to certain inquiries, was he will settle to escape the expos and the measuring canvasser stood ure promised by Scott Lord in his HE PROPRIETORS OF THIS WELL- known and popular resort would in confessed—a man. He now languish opening speech to the court. It is a form their friends ami the public generally es in jail. nasty scrape, even for as bad a crowd that a complete aijd first-class stock of the best brands of liquors, wines, cigars, ale and as tiie Vanderbilt’s. porter, etc., is constantly kept on hand. T he will of the rich man of the fu They will be pleased to have their friends ture will read: “To the respective at A bill has been reported from the “call and «mile.” torneys of my children I give my en claims committee and placed ou the ( CABINET. A Cabinet of Curiosities may also be found tire estate and worldly goods of all de House private calendar for the pay- here. We would lie pleased to have jiersons scriptions. Personally to my children, ment of about $2,000 to ex-Assistant possessing curiosities and specimens bring and to my beloved wife, all that re Treasurer Cheeseman, (now residing them in, and we will place them in the Cab mains.” This instrument will satisfy at Lakeview) being the balance found inet for inspection. the family, and save the trouble of due him on stamp account as per judg WINTJEN A HELMS. 32tf. proving the old tiiau insane. Jacksonville, Aug. 5, 1874. ment of the U. 8. circuit court. T NO. 52. I mportant D ecision .—At tin* last term of the Circuit Court for Union County Judge McArthur rendered an opinion of great importance to those persons engaged in sheep husbandry. It will be remembered that in 1874 the Legislature passed an act to pre vent ttie spreading of contagious and infectious diseases among domestic ani mals. Under this two persons were indicted for permitting sheep affected with the scab to range where they are likely to come in contact with other animals not so affected. To the indict ment a demurrer was interposed, upon the ground, among others, that the act was void for uncertainty. The argu ment urged in support of the demur rer was that the failure to enumerate the contagious and infectious diseases in i the act rendered it void. Tiie court in i passing upon the question held that wl hen the legislature has gone as far in de scribing the offense as the character of the evil will permit, the act cannot be regarded as void for uncertainty, and that it was not necessary thateith- er the technical or the popular names of the diseases which afflict domestic an imals should lie set forth in the act. U pun this point it was further held that the diseases must be named or de- sc rihed in the indictment. The Mountaineer says this opinion ■ts al rest the question of tiie sutfi ency of the law referred to, and it is > be hoped its provisions will be rigid- enforced in all proper cases. P ronunciation . — Speaking about spelling reforms reminds us that a ref ormation in pronunciation is impera tively needed. 'Die number of public speakers who know how to pronounce their own language is very small. The pulpit every week slaughters its moth er-tongue by its pronunciation. It is true, in a literary as well as a religious seihe, that he who offends not in word, the same is a perfect man. We con vert diphthongs into vowels by sub stituting bile for boil, and rile for roil, we elip our words in such pronuncia tions as lat’n for lutin; the vowel u is abolished altogether, and for it we in voke the double o in such words as in- stitootion, latitood, Toosday, and the same double o is also compelled to do I service for ew in such words as noo, doo, etc; we convert i into an indistin guishable and indefinable vowel in such words as quanterty for quantity, ability for ability; and the r, of which die Frenchmen make so much use, is rarely or never heard with us, except at the beginning of a word; we stop our bottles with cawks and eat our din I ner with fawks; while certain conso nants dropout of line as in gover’ment and iu Feb’uary. T he P ain of D eciding .—The great labor of life, that which tends more to exhaust men than anything else, is deciding. There are people who will suffer any other pain readily, but shrink from the pain of coming to a decision. Now this is supposed to lie wholly an evil, and disadvantag eous for the world; but, like most oth er tendencies of the human mind, it is a very beneficent arrangement. There would be no stability in the world if the making of decisions were not a very difficult thing. What was decided yesterday would be upset to-day; aud there would tie no long and fair expe rience of anything. Whereas, in the present state of auinau affairs, even if a great evil exists, and many people have recognized the evil, it requires an immense amount of decision and decisiveness before the evil can be up rooted. This brings into play many high qualities of human nature, such as long suffering, patience with oppo nents, and the exhausting of reasoning powers brought to hear upon the evil which is sought to be destroyed. A ppearances are D eceiving .— She was over in South Salem and went tripping along just as happy as a coun try school inarm, and when just this side of the brick store she stopped, stooped and made a grab for the tail of tier dress; now somebody in that neigh borhood owns a pet William goat, that is some on the butt, and just at that mo ment he came around the corner of the building, and seeing the lady grab bing for her dress, he thought she was bantering him for a fight and was too quick for her, and she landed on her left ear and shoulder up against the fence. Goats will sometimes make mistakes when chances are fas orable.— Record. xWlLL HAVE T11ER 1'oDDY.— The Times' Washington special ridicules Price’s resolution forbidding the sale of liquor in the capitol. McDougal, of California, was the last Senator who denounced it, but for seventeen years the practice has been openly followed, and more liquor has been drank this session so far than any previous one and will be. Liquor is put in an ordi nary coffee cup and drank in a way that deceives an innocent outsider who does not suspect the actual state of the facts. ■ - ■ ♦ »- -------------- -- S ubscribís for the T imes . Advertisements will be 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 lair reduct ion from the above rates made to yearly and time advertisers. Yearly advertisements payable quarterly. Job printing neatly and promptly execut ed, and at reasonable rates. C ounty W arrants always taken at par. R eai . ly D ead .—The circus-going people of Jacksonville and vicinity re member the Conrad brothers whose comical performances—one simulating death and the other moving him about, contributed to the amusement of the audience. The London Era contains the following account of the death of the elder Conrad: “One evening the elder Conrad fell to the ground after a pretended blow, and was turned and returned, as usual. Ilia arms and legs were jerked, he was struck and kicked and dragged, but preserved a steady impassibility. Suddenly an expression of distress could be noticed through tho grotesquely painted liniments of his brother, who hastily dropped on his knees and placed his hand upon the heart of the inanimate clown, ex claiming, “My poor brother is dead!” At this the audience only laughed, “Gentlemen,” said the distressed man, with tremor in his voice, “I assure you he is really dead.” Then, taking him tenderly in his arms, he bore him from the arena. The crowd appeared struck with the natural manner in which the bereft clown expressed grief, aud ap plauded him vigorou-ly as he depart ed. There were loud encores for both, but neither presented himself. Death had been more thoroughly simulated than ever before. I nteresting F acts A bout L ondon . —London, England, covers an area of 78,080 acres or 122 square miles. When the census was taken last year, there were 1,500 miles of streets, 2,000 miles of sewers, 417,767 inhabited houses, and a population of 3,489,428. The inclusion of fifteen miles around makes the population 4,286,607. There ire over 100,000 professional men, 211,000 of the commercial class,505,000 mechanics, 65,000 latxirers, and 35,000 whose occupation is undefined. There are 1,633,221 males, and 1,866,207 fe males. Of the women, 892,130 are married, and 226,000 are domestic servants. There are 15,000 tailoresses, 58,000 milliners and dressmakeas, 27,- 000 seamstresses and shirt-makers, and 44,000 laundresses. 29,000 are return ed as gentlewomen. The number of children reported as attending school is 314,000. London, though much larg er in population than New York, is not as densely packed as the latter. New York, in 1870, with a population of 942,592, had only 95,044 dwelling- houses, and the average number of persons to a dwelling was 14.72. In London the average last year was 8.33, and this was smaller than the av erage, according to the census of 1870, in either Brooklyn, Boston, Cincinnati or Jersey City. < ♦ » — ■ I ■ O ld H usbands and Y oung W ives .—Jennie June, in one of her gossipy letters, undertakes to explain why it is that so many young women marry elderly men. She looks away from money—which has generally been brought into a consideration of such alliances—for the principal reason. The young man of to-day, according to this authority, is not the desirable young man of fifty years ago; he is not so thoughtful, sober, pains-taking aud couscientious; he lives at a club, has no love of home life, nor desire to build up character or reputation as a man and citizen; his ideas of life are bound ed by the theatre and the doings of his own little set; and in too many cases his ambition is to win as a racer and be on intimate terms with the ballet. Naturally,mothers shrink from entrust ing their daughters to such youths as these, even if they have the opportuni ty, and are better pleased to bestow them on older men—men who have sown their wild oats; who know bMlF little of value there is in the temp<£ rary excitement of pleasure; who have, perhap«, been married once, and have learned to value home and the guar antee it affords for Issting happiness. — ■ " ■ ■ < ♦ »» L argest L andholder . —The fol lowing is from the,Boston Herald/ Probably the largest landholder in America is ex-Gov. Coburn of Maine. Incredible as it may seem, he is the owner of not less thun 693,000 acres, divided up as follows: Maine, 450,000 acres; Canada, 135,000; Wisconsin, 35,- 000; Dakota, 35,000; Michigan, 20,000; “ Minnesota, 13,000. His latest purchase is that of the tract in Dakota, and was taken of the Northern Pacific railroad in lieu of stock, in which road he In- vested some $500,000. His agent, Mr. Whipple, had just returned'from the* West, whither he has been to look af ter Mr. Coburn’s interests and see about the last purchase. He reports, the land in Dakota as among the finest* held by the governor. He says It is well adapted to growing cereals, and fine crops of wheat have been harvest ed in the vicinity the present season. The governor is said to be besieged, with beggars of both high, and low standing, and scarcely a day passes hut he receives letters asking aid to help build seminaries, churches, and. charitable institutions. He is (reported as giving away upward of $100,000 per annum. Mr. Cuburn is probably worth $6,000,000.