*** PreUY co°l Ulk, con aidoring Biat I ’-os there to guard him, and my carbine ready for a shot, with It has been asserted that Dan Vernon comrades within hail, but he went was the boldest and most ur'‘”le‘,w.ir. fifty on: whacker in ' irginia '"^enaudoab “I have my rifle under the straw, and When Sherman ransacked could have shot you long ago. I didn’t s alley somojJ* Mls Vernon, oth- want to, however. I feel good natured the house poultry and live stock, tills mormng, »nd you need fear no orel whl'n'li.^.^xjrd set came along there harm. ’ Seas a tragedy. IWiw in the Gonfod- “Oue cry from uie will alarm die eiate ranks up the valley, and his wife whole poet,” I managed to remark. and four children were left in a bad sit­ “Pooh 1 Let’s hear you yell out uation. They had no food in the house once !” when hungry forageis demanded a meal, Our eyes met There was nothing and not a live thing had been left on the lualicious in his, but they put a strange farm. The woman, despairing and des­ spell on me. His voice, too, had a perate, made a fierce )>ersonal attack on the men who had entered her house, and strange, tender influence, and when he asked me to toss him my canteen of in the struggle a jq * was discharged and the heavy ounes ball killed two of water and haversack of food I obeyed without the least hesitation. He drank her children as they clung to her skirts. from the canteen, and he chewed away The foragers were uo better than at the food as he remarked : thieves in this instance, and had the “This is pretty good fare for a hun­ official attempt to discover their identity been successful they would have re­ gry .nan. As I can’t stay here to get it all I shall beg the favor of carrying the ceived just punishment. Acts that rest with me.” should forever curse the perpetrators He was looking into niy eyes, aud I were often committed by foragers un could not force my lipa to utter a word known to officials in authority, ami this of objection. was one of them. “I hear that Sheridan has ofl'ered a re­ The woman left the murdered chil­ ward for me, but no one will ever earn dren on the floor and fled with the oth­ it,” he said as he drank again. ers up the valley, and her footsteps had He was not fifteen feet from my car­ scarcely grown cold when the avenger of bine, and I was thinking how surely I her wrongs appeared and demanded could hit him, when our eyes met and blood for blood—and more. Dan Ver­ he said : non was permitted to leave the ranks to “ .No No use trying! trying • If you want to become a destroying angel. Tl e chil­ shoot me blaze away, but I tell you you dren were buried under a cherry tree in can’t hit me." the yard by our men, but no hand wiped We looked at each other for half a up the dark and terrible blood stains on minute, and I felt my carbine slipping the farm-house floor. The husband and from my grasp to the ground outside. father, panting for vengeance, crept into My fingers had no strength to hold it. the deserted house three nights after the Dan laughed in a dry way and said : burial, and dipping his fingers into the “Why don’t you shoot I” undried blood, he swore to rest not, but “You shall never leave this place to kill and destroy as long as life was alive,” I said in answer, but I hardly re­ left him. cognized my own voice. 1 do not know what Dan Vernon was “Pooh ho carelessly replied, “I am when he left his home to become a Con­ ready to leave now ! I shall go out of federate soldier, but I do know that this other door there, and you will sit when he returned to it as an avenger he right where you are.” had no more mercy in his heart than a I was looking full at him, and to save tiger. We heard from him at once. A my life I couldn’t move a hand or foot. scouting party riding up the valley lost Each limb felt numb as if asleep. its captain and two men by successive “Well, old boy, good bye to you,” shots from a Henry rifle, and the man said Dan as he picked up his rifle from who find them escaped through the the straw, and in another minute he was woods. That night a vidette was struck out of sight. I was sitting there, mouth from his horse ami his throat cut. Next open and eyes fixed on vacancy, when a day a teamster was killed. In one comrade came down from the picket­ weeks time Dan Vernon had killed post, shook me by the shoulder and cried thirteen men. He left no wounded be­ out : hind him. When he fired it was with a “A nice man you are fast asleep and dead aim, and the victim went down your prisoner gone.” with scarcely a cry from his lips. Was I asleep 1 [No ! Was it a dreaml A refugee who came in, gave us such No ! But the prisoner was gone. details of Dan as we did not know, and There was talk of a court-martial in my when it was known that he was bush­ case, but it never occurred, as the pris­ whacking, our advance agents were de­ oner was supposed to be only some com­ tailed to hunt him down. They pur­ mon “Johnny Reb.’’ Had it been sued him in vain. Knowing every acre known that my man was the famous of ground in the valley, he not only bushwhacker, I should have been taken eluded pursuit, bu* many of the men out and shot for permitting him to es­ pursuing him never came back to us, If cape. I permitted him and yet I didn’t. their bodies were found, a bullet hole I was ta helpless as without power of was proof that Dan Vernon had added muscle, ’lhat night he crept in on a another victim to his list. In four picket and stabbed him to the heart, week’s time he had scored thirty-four and I wondered if when the poor vic­ victims, and foraging and scouting par­ tim first saw those strange, wild, mag­ ties dreaded that one man more than a netic eyes glaring into his it deprived regiment of Early's army. He him of his power to ask for mMvr would murder a picket at one time dur­ ing the night, and next day bushwhack Not a Book Judge. a troop ten miles away, and he moved with the stealth of a tiger. No man “Old Si” rejiorta many u conversation ever gave the alarm after knowing his between town and country darkeys presence. which shows that they both possess a Well, what I set out to tell was how small amount of native wit. And apro­ we captured Dan one fine day, and how pos of negro wit and sharpness, I heard singularly he escaped. Parties were a tale the other day of a Georgia colored continually hunting him without suc­ trial-justice which seemod to me worth cess, while our party one pay found him repeating. It appears that a white without searching. About fifty of us Democratic lawyer, was called to plead were thrown forward one day from the for his clients bekna this ebony justice, picket post to a new position just de and, not fancying that the negro had serted by the enemy. Included in this any mind of his own, prophesied an new territory was a log house, supposed easy victory for himself. So, when it to be deserted, but when we camo to in­ came his turn to plead, he sent to his vestigate we discovered a “Butternut” library for a very large number of law- curled up and asleep on a rude bed in books, and arranging them on the desk the corner. He had gone to sleep before him, began to search them and within the Confederate lines, and when to turn down leaves in each one. When he awoke the blue-coats were about and he had thus marked about two fat vol­ beyond him. umes he began his plea, and from time Who the prisoner was no one seemed to time he would pick up a book and be­ to care, but it was the accepted opinion gin reading an immensely long extract. that he was no more than a private sol­ The colored justice sat blinking, and dier, and I was detailed to guard him showing evident signs of distrust of his until he could be sent buck to head­ own ability to comprehend, for half an quarters. The man betrayed no alarm hour, whan suddenly he said : “ Mas r, when roused from sleep. As far as we is yo—is yo gwine ter read in all dem could see he was unarmed, and when books dat away t” the boys joked him on his capture he “Well, your honor," answered the coolly replied: lawyer, blandly, “I wished to call your “ Well, it ain’t nuthin’ to weep over. attention to a large number of opinions I was gitting purty tired of this thing, pertinent to the case.” anyhow.” "Mas’r John,” continued the sable I had a fair look at the man’s face, trial justice, “’pears like de mo’ ye’ reads and 1 found something there to puzzle outen dem books de mo’ clouded like I up in the camp the" pi<>lfed renkons daF 1’ betterVfeci kind* o( in ft ■ Ines a lverliiu d LIFE IN A Th, Champion Safe. A Gazette rejHirter han been qtanding the day in ins|>ecting the safes rescued from the ruins, and in gathering notes as to their condition. The result of the investigation proves beyond all doubt that the Hall safe manufactured in Cin­ cinnati, Ohio, is the most reliable s ife represented. There were safes from half a dozen manufactories in the fire, and their contents were in all cases be­ tween a scorch and utter ruin. Some had to be blown 0]>en, others cut to pieces with chisels; some were a mass of broken plaster and warped plates. Oth­ ers seemed sou id on the outside, white within there was nothing saved. Some lost knobs, others had the combination completely upset. In every case the Hall safe opened without a hammer or chisel, and the contents wore wholly un­ touched. The County Treasurer’s safe (Hall’s) lay in a mass of combustibles upon which a stream the throat, lungsand cheat. Il saves Ibituaand, from untimely graves, and Is Invaluably in res­ cuing children from the croup, whooplog cough and qulnir. It Is sold by all druggist,. “My dear llllle Tommy look, so pale, and It mem, a, though lhat nasty sort- on bl, month will «ever go away! Now Just look al that little Waller er Bra Brown'si Ihe ldtlle child lathe very picture of bcallh." Waller la a good llllle boy and lahe, his dose or Ore- Son Bleed Purl Her, and bl, pupa give, him ra eent, a week lor doing It. tr In mxklnr any pnrehM»' or In ■...ns tion the unme oí the paper. t cl r x* lx O GREA'’ a . HTRowiiRiixin Direct Importer and Dealer in LEATHER ANO SHOE FINDINGS, N*. 141 Fraat ■«.. r»rtlM4. Or ^iGUNS OUNS : humington’*, , bbarp’s and _ _ 1 WínehMter " ' Rifle,. ----- . ____ RlflM.------------------------ And C*rtrH co GO » CT3 UO 2 as 2 cc Z, CX3 GO o s Ct a« 04 W z< X © h u Z) tn s II o s « *4 ° Hi 30 0 3. 3 -2 S w ¡1 « oo OQ w æ W. W. ESE EY, The largest aid best facilities of any shop on the Picifit slope, and guarantee e/ory article o our work, and price* that can't te be» by dealer* or man jfectufer*. Witte to me kr anything you want, and compare with any of my compelltws an«i be cop Vinccd. W. W. F.SFEV. Box 5.MI. Portland, Ogn. BURTON HOUSE, Corner Third mid F htreet»* Near the Steamship Landing* and Railroad Depot*, PORTLAND, OREGON Lewiston A Fretland, Proprietors (Late of Minn sola House.) Will N|«are no pain* nor ex;>ense to make this bouse I HF. HF.HT HO’» I I 11* 1*01111. iNI» IMPORTERS .......... ANI'...,... Wholesale «nd Retail Deniers i.< WINDOW GLASS. Generai Merchandise ! M|. ul<3 : lil<*lc, l>oul>lo I liloR, VryHtul P«lwet. i> i .1 -: m . No. 169 and lï 1 Second St. an ii-iy A j no comparison between it an»’ the common slow acting porous plaster. It is in every way superior to all other external remedies, Including liniments and theso- < alk-(l eleclrlc i appliances. It contains new medicinal elementsAvhlch in combine ation with rubber, posesses ihe most extra­ ordinary p iln-relleving,strengthening and curat 1/e properties. Any pbysiolan in your own localily will confirm the above statement. For Lune Back, Rheumatism, Female Weakness. Stubborn and Neglect­ ed Colds, and Coughs, diseased Kidneys, Whooping Cough, affections of the heart, and all Ills for whlah porous plasters are used, It Is simply the best known remedy. Ask for Benson’s Capcine Porous Plaster and take no other. Bold by all Dsuggists. Price 2ft cent*. Kent on receipt of price, by Seabury 4 Johnson, 21 Platt St., NewYork. meh ‘¿5-1 in Comstock & Pfluger. COXQfEHEK OF CONSUMPTION 1 HALLS BAX SAM! FOR THE LUNGS Eradicate* Coughs, < <’lds, Pmuinonta, BronchHi* Asthma, Croup, Whooping Cough, and all diseases of the breathing organs. WE WANT! Hall's Balsam 1» the Leading Sjrecific lor Consumption. 17VERY FARMER IN OREGON A WASH Inston Territory to »end name and po.t oflleeaddree., end we will mail them Iree our New Catalogue for 1879. The mini complete Catalogue of flret-ola-s and Improved Agricul­ tural Implement., Farm and Mill Machinery ever iMued In Oregon, with price, reduced to null the times. It soothes and heals tho m< ir branes of the Lungs, inflamed and jtoisoned by the aaiorimeul .ml 1 a|| ot|)Pr kind* of Ho-e. on hand, i.t Mai. Fianrhco Price* Dr. Spinney, *p fiLti No. 11 Kearny Street, FOR SALE EVERYWHERE. The Physiology of Life & Marriage, By X ll. J*ml)*. W. 1». Treats all Clironle and Spevlitl l>l«‘«ses. Ac Dal ll I'lrtllOA. Gabler’s New Neale CpriK't Pianos Burdett Organs. Fine Piano Stools. Tuninsr and Repairing of Instrument* a Specialty. W IBEBOOHM Third M., near Taylor, Port­ land* Oregon« ___ apr 11-tf CENTENNIAL Patent Adjustable Bngr} A Wagon Tops UHS BUGGY TOP IS LIGHT, STRONG AND DUR able. Adapted to *eat* of all cla**e* of vehicle*. ■ --------- - -■ — Price, tJ4 Six different .lire. «1« Order* Order, filled by ex- pres* C. O. D. Liberal discount to pre** L. ----- the trade. - Give — — . ..L — outside * «----- — ben ordering. width of *eat from outside to when ordering. „ tops ~~ ’ï on 23 th* Pacific Three thousand of these were zz sold Coast last year. Th-y are covered with Rubber Ulatieiit cannot account for. On examining the urinary deposit* a ropy sediment will often be found, and some times small particle* of albumen will appear, or the col­ or will be of a thin milkwh hue, again ebangiug a dark and torpid appearance. There arc many miff who die of this difficulty, ignorant of the cause which m the second stage <>f seminal weaknes* Dr H. ^il guarantee a oerfect cure in all such eases, ami a h- a»tny reetorsiion of the genito urinary organ*. Ofil'-” houre—10 to 4 and 6 to 8 Sundays from l" to 11 A. M Conaultation free. Thorough examination and advice |5. Call or address, l>K. HPIM.NEY A 4 4>.. 0. 11 Kearny Street, San Francisco No feb 11 For .linpllcltv, dnr.bllltjr, »tot m.ovonlen <■. Rnperlor to oil other,. »7 anil »1 Examln, before purcbaalRC Iron pre«». Ilopklti»,Taylor A Co., Proprietor», flu Monvomo Mt.. H. r. GREAT REDUCTION IN FRICWJ. 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Address all order* to MAN FRANC1HCO NEWS CO., No. <13 Waahingtou St., San Francisco, Cal., or send 25 cent* to the author, No. •220 Sutter Mt., Sin Francisco. ap 18-Im Nl,veu,oi, < Atmospheric Letter Copying Press Dealer* in Portland, Orr«on—<5>p»«ite < h eyoti ana Wash ington Mortgage fariiigTBank* apr 9 of WR2W M’4»f«K —READY» A fine assortment o' Buggies, Phwtons, Car­ riages, Express Wagons, etc., constantly on hand and made to order. Top Buggies and Extension»Top Carriages n specialty—making a specialty hi this line and manufacturing a large quantity, we can offer better inducements than any other house In Oregon. Top Buggies from to 9400; Open Buggies from f 12ft to < all and *ec onr Ragg). Order* fr< m the country solIqMed and prompt­ ly filled, New top furnish'd •<> < rder by send­ ing seat. THU*. FHF.EMAN. meh 12-ff BOOKS ANO STATIONERY! And Blank Book* MaaufactUHn» No 4A/V«t Street, Groceries! Manufacturer and Importer of JOHN F. HENRY, CURRAN & CO., WholM*l4 »nd Retell Ite.ler, In Groceries! Saddles, Harness. Leather, Saddlery Hardware, Etc. »Dove brief extracts are taken from a ( ONE A MeKEKl IIER, Groceries! SHOES ! BOOT S ki-nil AcISTD for I’rli-f UM or virtl ou__ P. SELLING, (F. O. Box 414 ) ALBERT BARTSCH, FcllowinE Dr. D. 1). Wright, of Cincinnati, sends us the sub toined professional indorsement “I have prescribed fall's Balsam in a large numbel of case*, ami always with success.” He add* that “b one case a patient with every appearance of conflriied ronsiunption, was restored to his usual health soon after commencing to take the Balsam.’’ John Kuhn, of Lafajctte, Indi writw : “One year ago I was to all apiMiaranccs in tic last stage* of con­ sumption, and got so low our ikfctor said I would not live twenty-four hours.” Mr. Ktiin further states that “after taking nine bottles of it^Ts Balsam he is now in perfect, health, bavin" use5eaut¡ier the Complexion in Cures Pimples, Boils, The late Ameer of Afghanistan was , ijdse. THOMAS FREEMAN’S universally called the “madman'1 ' Blotrb^, Neuralgia, Scrofula, throughout bis dominions, and so great ; Gout, Rheumatic and Mercurial was the awe in which he was held by his subjects, the Times of India says, that : Pains, and all Diseases arising Fourth Street, between Taylor and Salmon, no one dared tell him of the defeat of his ; from a disordered state of the troops on the Peiwar Khotal by the PORTLAND, OREGON. or Liver. English invaders. Shere Ali sat in bis i Blood mo BY ALL DRUUOIETN. council room, waiting for news, but no one ventured to tell him the result. At last, the mother of Abdulla Jan sent her little girl to tell her father. He woe talking eagerly as the child entered, and she tried hard to blurt out her message. “My mother says I am to tell your High­ ness,’* but the Ameer kept putting his hand on her mouth, as the discussion was important At last he turned to her, ••Well, what is it, little one!” The child came siding up, all eyes upon her, “My mother says I am to tell your High ness the SahiM*have crossed the Khotal." An instant stampede from the neighbor­ hood of the Ameer closed the council. Is now the GREAT FAMILY NEWSPAPER for the Farmer, Miner ami Merchant. Bugglew, Carriages, Plimton*, light speed Wagons, light and heavy Buck Boards, Dexter Wagon*, Side Spar and M kite Chapple W agon*, Spring and Thoroughbraee nt.w til« Mftfl-v ftrYfie lM *l Faüteru Haterinl. Which has been accumulating during a period of twen ty-nine years, proving, the j .- •ii .. i.«. Jvne nrearnn^, rrryV/is arc affected, and showing the estimation in which the remedv is held by the public and the medical preMession. Sold by all druggists. Price SI |»cr bottle. OF POTASS =THE WEEKLY CHRONICLED PONITIWELY cured . Mass of Evidence tl_ IfDIDE ACME OF PERFECT JOURNALISM ! In (act, a newspaper containing the entire new* of the week, not a miserable epitome on it. Many who have suffered for years with this disease (Catarrh) and been pronounced incura- able, nave been restored to perfect health by my Orders from the Coqtitiy Solicited "kaniRiH. it look, negllent to see y,,r Ultlc children in the Spring of the year w itli fflielr races all broken ont In flllhy sori's. Tell, hue band io bring home a bottle of Pfander’« Ore­ gon Blood Purifier and give the Hille fa is a dose every morning, and you'll tlnd lliclr happy, healthfal. blooming eltci ks this envy orthe neighborhood." San Francisco Weekly Chronicle! During the year 187s far excelling every i>aj>er o i the Pacific Count in CircuiuCloD a. id nut id m*r it The heavy increase of our Subscription List «luring the past year ha* been so great that we are dStermitied to sjjare no expense during the present year to make the WEEKLY CHRONICLE tho Sloddart Electrical Co., If you are going to paint your house, barn, wagon or machinery, the wotK.er- ful Imperishable Mixed Faint is surely All] kinds of Produce llunj-lit ni.d ffi Id the beet, for it is warranted by 1*0- chick , peel or blister; to cover belt Sr and work easier than any other pslut. Tar Jinper- pit will save by ccrresjsoniing with us. iHbable Paint was awarded the flr-t prrknlutn, over all other paints, at the Vallforn'ai Htate Fair, 1878. and tho Gold Mtelal K< the Oregon State Fair. 1878. Get a circular from their Agent, which explain, this won.lrrtul dtecov- ery. Try tne paint aud you certain'? would have no other._________________________ A l»l»LI ANCE« without finding a pennauenUure, I began doc- For Medical Purpose* and the Treatment ot Chronic and tering myself using medicines made from toots Nervous Diseases without Drugs, Minerals, Calomel or and herbs. I fortunately >viued a wouder- the Lance; easily applied to any part of the body for the ful Hi tiers or Blood I’leanser, t be first b >0 1« of s|>eed]y relief of Pain and cure of wHch gave me new lite mnL^igor and in time effected a permanent cure. I was free from ca­ A'ervou*, Debility, Uhrtiiunlisiu, tarrh, my luugs became strour and sound, be­ Liver Complaint, Neuralgia, ing able to stand the most severe cold and ex­ Kidney Disease, Dyspepsia, posure, aud I have gained ow-r tbbty pounds Female < omplalnts, Impolenci, tn weight, f <■< i ¡ng contidc a., t hat I had made spermatorrhea, Epllepay, a wouderful discovery In medicine, I prepared Paralysis, larlrose Nelns, a quantity of the Root Bitters, and was In tho Nervousness, Uuptureor Hernia, habit of giving them away ter sick friendsand Spinal Diseases, I r I nary Diseases, neighbors. 1 found the meqlelne effected the Weakness, Premature Decay, most wonderful cutes of all diseases caused And all i'lironlr miu I Nervous Diseases. from humors or scrofula in Hie blood, Impru­ dence. Bad Stomach Weakness, Kidney Dis­ ease, Torpid LI ver, etc., etc. The news of my Every Appliance is tested and Warranted. Prices range discovery in this way spreiu trom one person from $5 to *25, according to the appliance required and to another until I found myaHf called upon to the severity ..t the case Sufferers who desire relief, supply patients with mediclaes far and wide, call or address and I was induced to establish a l> boratory for compounding and boll ling 1. W PRF.NTKX CO., Music Dsalcr*, ortland regon Just opened, * new, full, comp'et« steck of Wood aud U il'-.w Ware Also, all kind* <4 Br»<>n>'. Brush«*, Feather Duster*, Fish Hook* aud Finhiug Tackle, Twine«, Ropes, PafWr Bags. Item!John*, etc. Vw.H«>kt Agent for Va'tejo Futsnt Maefcit.aad ' aliforai* Browm Factertec Write f'< Circular and rri'W Lint* to t . ■• inmnL No.