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LAFAYETTE, OREGON, MAY 16, 1873.
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Courier. Report
T^afayette
Publii led every Friday by
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To nis E xcellency , L. F. G ro
G overnor of O regon , ¿yir:—
I have the honor * to report that in
OF ADVERTISING :
conformity with General Field ’ Order
No. 3, issued by Brevet Maj jor-Gen-
oral Frank Wheaton, U. S. Army,
rKa,;j 75- ri
I District of the Lakes, a copy of which
is herewith enclosed, the M< odoe po
¿taches, . 2»0 3 50 I 4 50 909 | 15
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I sition was attacked early ol
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linche«, 300 4 O) | 5 00 1 11
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morning of the 7th Inst.,
inst., by the
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uncier Briga-
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der-General J
J. E, Ross, two Compa
Compa-
fCol.
Kell,
P nies, A, . Captain Harrison
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B, Captain O. C. Applegate, each
men,- includ-
includ
Buxine«« not eas in the Local Columns, 25 numbering some sixty men,
belonging
each
insertion.
ing
twenty
Indian
scouts
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cents per line,
For legal «tuf transient advertisements $2.- to Company B, and an in?
independent
50 per square < f 12 lines, for the first inser I Company
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California
volunteers,
voiun
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in
number,
Capta
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Fairchilds,
co-operating
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troo] of the U. B., under
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ton, U. S. ’A. The engagement be
Subeription i Sent East, $2 00 a Year.
gan at 8:3Q A; M., and continued un
til dark; andiowirig to the position
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of the enemy, which it was impossi
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ble to force or provide against, re
sulted in the discomfiture of our at
JYttorn ey at Law tacking forces with a loss of about 40
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Ynen in killed and wounded, includ
LAFA CETTE, OREGON.
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ing two killed of the Oregon volun
teers.
Office in the ’ ?ourt House.
The Oregon Volunteer Militia un
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plish the most effective service, have
since the commencement of opera
ATTORNEY AT LAW J tions against the Modocs, placed
themselves under the direction and
LAFA VETTE, OREGON.
command
of General Wheaton, an
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ILL PRACTICE IN ALL OF THE officer of great ability and experi-
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State C »urta.
1 enco.
From the most reliable information
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at my command ’ I T estimate
R STOTT
CHAS.A. BALL.
1 bcr of hostile Indians at not t less than
BA^L & STOTT,
150 wariors, and from information
derived from scoutin' g parties and
Attorce vs at Law > others, and which I deem reliable,
many of their females fight with cour
111 First 8‘reet Opposite Occidental Hotel.
age and desperation equal to that of
the males.
PORT AND, OREGON.
it ion is
is in what is known
Their position
jsnlOtf
as the “Lava Bed.’’ an immense plain
I of volcanic rock, cut and broken with
fissures, canons and chasms, on the
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south of the bouudry line between
Oregon and California. It is one of
Attorn
at Law,
great
strength and difficult of ap
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proach. It is the opinion; of General
Dallas. Oregon.
Wheaton and Majors Green and Ma
ILL PR uCTICE IN THE COURTS son that it will require 1,000 men,
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of I »unii iill, Polk and other counties
with mortars, and provisions for a
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n Oregon.
siege of many days, to dislodge and
captui e them, and from my own ob
w. M. RAMSEY,
servation I concur in their opinion.
The home of these Iudians is in
Oregon. Tho scene of their depreda
Attorn sy * at Z
tions is along the border of both of
the States of Oregon and California,
LAFAYETTE, OREGON.
t^yir victims are the defenceless citi
zens of each State. Settlers, not
Offiee in the Court Hoose.
longer ago than’Tast summer, were
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terrified by insults to their families
-OOK H E R El and tho fear of massacre, into remov
ing from the country, while others
Cheaper Than Ever. 4 for $1.
have been compelled to procure tem
porary immunity by giving them cer
tificates of good character and gratu
ities of fcxxl, while one settler was
W. SAWDER DESIRES TO INFORM
forced to pay for the privilege of cut
• the people i of Lifayette and vicinity ting grass upon his own land by the
that he ha« loo. ated at McMinnviile, with
new inetrnmenti, and is prepared to take delivery of a beef steer to the insolent
the finest pictur in all kinds of weather, savages. A settler, Henry Miller,
Particular atten ion paid to
was massacred by them within a few
TAKING.CjHlLDHENS’ PICTURES.
months after having given such a
N. B.—Children should be brought between certificate. Aey must be conquered
the 1 our« of 10 and 2.
and removed to distant •reservations
‘E- W. SAWYER,
or the country here abandoned to
them. I am satisfied that no force
that it would be practicable to place
upon our frontier could entirely pro
tect it from their raids, and the with
E. CAIpEB. Proprietor.
drawal of the force now here would
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Lodging i per week.................. 44 00 invite them to renewed robberies and
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massacre.
” . day ......... $1
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General Wheaton, if supported by
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the proper authority, will*put an end
he table will T be «applied with tlie best to Indian troubles in this vicinity for
vSmar2«
in the market.
all future time. He has gained in
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formation by the movement of the
7th inst. of the position of these In
LAFAYE TE ACADEMY. dians that is indispensable to success
- - - . Principal. ful operations against them and could
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only be obtained by a reeonnoisance
in
force. His coolness and excellent
EXCES. MONDAY,
ebm
judgment
in the affair of the Lava
APRIL 7tR, 1873.
Beds were conspicious throughout.
, TUITION FOB TEBM OT TWELVB WEEKS
The same honorable mention is due
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Primary Departtnent,
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Geography, Aril hmef tic.
* Grammar,
Sciences,
8 JO Mason, both, like Gen. Wheaton,
fligher Mathem itics A
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aprl8m3 veterans of the late _war, and the
Pupils can entpr at any time.
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former a man of large experience in
Indian fighting with Gen. Grook;
Cols. David Perry and R. F. Bernard,
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locks ( . 4 8KW^|NO machines Capts. J. Q. Adams, G. H. Burton
and James Jackson, Lieuts. Ross,
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LEANED AND REPAIRED by
Rheem and Moore, of the 21st In-1
W. O.
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fantry, and Lieuts. Boutwell and1
Kyle of the 1st Cavalry. Col. Perry
and Lieut. Kyle are painfully wound-*.-
ed. Surgeon McElderry, of Fort
Klamath, and acting assistant sur
geons Skinner, White and Durrant
were under fire during thej wwlii
---------ILL BE <T LAFAYETTE ON THE day, rendering prompt service to the
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cacé Month and
wounded of both regular and volun
Remain during (Jours Week,
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teer forqee. The management of the
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Headquarter«, District of the. Lake«,
and of the U. S. Troop« and Ore
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in tlie Modoc Country, Camp near
Van Bremer’«Ranch, January 20th,
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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
O«® Copy, Qne Year,
Month«,
of Major-General
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Auplegate
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CaptjL Kelley, Applegate
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and .T J. R.
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tho Irk
latter
Ross
’ staff,
wis admirable.- Capt.
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D. Foudray, also . of Gen.
Ross >’ stuff.
staff, HcénfnTWLTiiíwl
acdonipaniod Líí
his com
rnander
mander upon th»
the fiold.
fiol<|. Hon. J. N.
T. Miller was present and rendered
important service
the' en-'
gagement. At Gen
request he
has been actively
in the
field from the
ment of hos-
tilities. The
riuòted
themselves most creditaW, Ly and 5 in a
manner honorable to i the : State.
Surgeon Bell, of the Volunteer^» was
promptly at his post in the
thè field.
The Independent Company of Cali
fornia Volunteers, Capt. . John'Al
John f A-
Fairchilds, occupied a most impor
impór
tant position on the
le extreme left, and
were greatly exposed during
ing the ep-
en-
tire day. They formed a portion
por|ion of
the party undem • Maj ¡pr Greèn and
Col Perry that forced its wav over
great natural obstacles aijd through
a most terrible fire to a junction Ayith
Capt. Bernard’s forces op the East.
Four (4) of this Compapy were seri
ously wounded. ’
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The courtesy of the officers of the U.
S. Army, commanding here, towatds
the Volunteers-has been markod «^tid
UI111VIU1, OAAVL
IHO IUJ 1C*1 jcHRSloV
uniform,
and .lUVXL
.their material
assist “ ”
ance to our troops has been variable.
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Wheaton moved
his, head -
quarters and temporary figld
field depot to
this point when a concentration
concentration" of
the forces was made for the attack.
On the 23d inst., his headquarters
and field depot will be I re-established
in Lost river valley near Tule lake,
in Oregon, a much morn central and
controlling point,
Volunteer
headquarters will abput the same
time be established it spme pointy in
that vicinity, j,
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I have assigned C
wm. Thoipp-
Anonap-
son, of the Governor’s staff, by order
transferred to serve • A-jjth me, and
Col. C. B. Bel linger, o fany owjj stiff,
to •a
duty in the
field. • r. L'hey acobmpa-
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More Money,
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be pardoned the use of the term—
(Laughter)—that the length of;
your lives may correspond with:
the measure of your virtues, and
that you will be succeeded by bet- ,
ter nlen than yourfiMves, I. bid
you good night. The Senate re
tired amid roaring applause and a
liberal shower of paper balls..
before, and yet on the pretext that
he was poorer this increase of Us
pay was given liim I
No wonder that corruption
grows and extends when such an
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example is set by the President C
the United States.—JV. Y. Sun.
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That is an instructive contrast
which the Hon. J. F. . Farnsworth
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draws ip .his recent letter between
the expenditures of the White
House under President Grant
and those under President Lin-
McClure's Last Shot.
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Mr. 1'arnsworth presents the
following table :]
| We printed the other day, says
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some
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the Iowa Stc
B orax for the E pizoty . —A
Fur Lincoln,13(4.
For Grant, 1873.
or- ’ Secretary
Fori
Secretar
ror Secretar
Secretary
marks of Col. Alex,- McClure in city paper remarks, that the pro*
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to sign pat-
the Pehnsylva ria Senate upon po prietors of the establishment to re
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$1,500
f 'or
For
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private
private
At the adjourn- fine borax on Powell street near
litical reform,
se ¿retar y,
| secre ta ry,
legislature,
during Chestnut, have satisfied themselves
ment
of
the
steward and
assistant sec
messenge r.. 4
retary, stew
the noisy “las I hour” the House that they have found a protection :
For Contingent
ard, lacssen-
sent a Committee to Alex, to come against the .epizootic. Knowing
expense«
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ger, and two ..
of
executive
i executive ’ «of-
and address tlie House on Reform. that borax has a healing influence,
_ fice ... ..t..
clerksi...........13,800
He came and }nade the House sor on inflammation of the mucous mem
For
or two night
mgl
For contingent
watchme q.
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expenses of
ry by the folio vjng remai ks >
brane of the mouth, in the human,
For two door
executive of-
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and
C
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genus, they gave four ounces daily
keep e era
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lice.............. G.tkX)
For one furnace
For one watch
of the S tate 0 f P ennsylvania : of it, refined and pulverized, in
keene r
man and two
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For fuel
policemen.. 3/>4O I thank you fo | the distinction you lheir food, to each of their, horses,
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F< or repairs of
For two door
have conferred upon me by your not one of whom has been attack
house and for
keepers and
one usher.. 3,600 invitation to a ddress you on the ed, while many others about them
furniture and
For one fur
for improving
subject of reform, I know of no not thus protected have been af
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nace keeper
grounds, pur
men, either of the flicted. The horses like the med
chase of pi’çta
For fuel......... 5,000 other body of
and all contin
For “annual"
present or past that needs instruc icine. Physicians, familiar with. ■
gencies. ...’.. 6,000 rejiai rs of
tion on the necessity of both pub the qualities of borax, anticipate^
F or rep air i n g
house and for
lic
morality so muclj favorable results from thd use of.
furniture,
bi muner resi
lie and private
p
dence at the
and for re
as the TT
H< ouse of Representatives the new remedy.— S. F. Rural Presto.
“OldSoldiers’ i ■
pairs &c.,
of
this
State noW ,before me—
Home
. ,000 •tc, .of green
< hotue I......... 35,000 (laughter)—or that has so broadly
At a receut visit of Kaiser Wil
Total.......... ; $2
Total
$09,1U) and deeply experimented in the liam to a needle factory, a workr
line of individual and official prof man, whose duty it was to bore
According to this .Gen. Grant ligacy. (Laughter and, applause.) out the eyes of needles, asked for
spends $Gb,160 a year ¡for contin I am not surprised, however, that a hair from the monarch’s .head.
gencies,
genpies, where
where) Mr.
Mr . Lincoln spent it is so, ivhen I consider ’that of It was given, and placed at once
only £22,500. This, however, is the members scfviDg in this House under the boring machine, ar hole;
not the whol¿ of the additional
from my immed ate locality, many turned in it with the greatest care,
sum
im required tor
for the presidential
and few, a thread'inserted, and them the.
werè not even n dominated,
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establishment-under
tablishment-under Grant. He if any, were ever elected. (Shouts hairy nee31e handed back to roy
kjept about Iris person during the
of daughter.) I sent you reform alty.
first four years three military offi
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bills, which cost me many days of
cers drawing pay and allowances
Another
man
has graduated,
Mr. Ivan Applegate* was present as lieutenant-colonels at the rate anxious thought and labor to per
upon the field during ; the engage
fect, but you dapced not when I from the Yale “School of Journal
e^gage-
of
about
$4,000
a
year,
making
ment
service.
.... . and
—” rendered
™defed important ¿etvfce.
piped to you, neither did you weep ism.” He has been rather more
tfully and obediently-'
olttdientlv the whole expenditure for him rcsponsiveto
Very respectfully
responsi ve to my mourning over the successful than any of his preder-
yours,
J ohn p.
F. M iller . . over and above .¡his salary
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more degeneracy of the body politic. I ce8sor8. When he found that he»
Majôr-Generpl O. 81 M.
than $80,000 a - rear, or aearly must admit, however, that you could get no more than $8 a week
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as much as it was for were prompt executioners, for ev on any Western journal, be went,
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ery bill that'looked towards re right away and got a position as
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The figures bf this extravagant form was negatived with a yell as clerk in an oyster saloon, where
If any of our readers will go in and unnecessary outlay do not, fast as rules wopld allow. But in ’his weekly stipend is $10.
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Two members of the Kentucky
far
Salem or Portland where v>ge|a- whole of the stoiw. ,
By dint of ligious cycles, the darkest hour is
Legislature
being
noisily
drunk
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bles are sold, they will .find on lobbying and col oguing with cor just before the dawn of day ; and
sale there articles raised in Caite rupt and weak members of Con it ¡stratifying that after you have on a railway train, the conductor
fornia and imported to supply the gress, President Grant has got his consummated all thediarin you can’ remonstrated., One of them pom
Oregon trade» We can raise pie salary raised from $25,000 to $50,- possibly inflict ijpon the State ^ou pously demanded, “Do yoa: know/
plant abundantly, but our dealers 000 a year, notwithstanding the have by a unanimous
nimous resolution Sir, that I am a member- of the
qui-.
import it from California because constitutional provision which pro called for a confessor.
essor. (Laughter.) Legislature ?” The conductor qui
there is no ¡ reliablei supply at hibits the alteration of the Pres It was well to pause thus, just for etly replied, “You’ve got.the symp- -
home; we can raise cauliflower as ident’s salary during the period the sake of novelty or reference, toms.”
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well as it can be raised anywhere, for which he shall have been elec so that wjien th) tempest breaks
An actress has been teachings
teaching
but we do not do it, preferring to ted p’ It is trub that by a very you can point to this becoming
send to California for it. We close construction of the letter of act of contrition for the wrongs accentuation to the school children
in Carson City, and now every
even find barrels of cucumber this clause, it is held not to for done to your r cops stituents
ti tuen ^nd the youngone in ¡town says, “the no-
pickles for sale in the stores hefe, bid the increase, of President common weal th
ih< (Apr pl a use ' and bul juke,” and “beyoutifool skceyi,”
brought from California, ard ateo Grant’s salary by an act- of Con sai-castic shou uts.)
M .ost of you
canned frui.t, that we can supply kt gress passed immediately before who have for t tree months been and the old folks can’t get their
home, is fof sale in eyery grocer" the commencement of his second serving in the places to which mouths straightened out.
All this while our people arc co¡
term ; but there can be no ques other peraons w ere elected by the
That was a very laconic Florida
plaining of hard times and moniv tion that, if it does not violate the people have discounted the retri
Sheriff, who, wnen called upon to
is so scarce we can hardly do bus- letter of the Constitution, it at butive wave of [ popular reproba-
resign, wrote back, “Your commu-
mere., There is good reason why Jeast commits an outrage upon its tion by creating offices by legisla
ideation is received, stating that
Oregon should be scarce of money, spirit; and there is something ex- tive* enactments, to whieh you
my resignation will meet the ap
when we send abroad for our wag-
ingly
repugnant
in
the
idea
of
hope
to
retire
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those
unpro-
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proval of the Governor. It does
ona agricultural implements ahdf a man upon whom the people' have vided for hope to be placed on the
nol meet Brine.”’
oiir woo«
wooden ware. .
most of our
conferred the high honors of the indefinite pay roll of the pasters
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It is sil inply a discredit to our Presidency going into Congress aud folders of the House, ■* in ac-
The editor of a children’s paper
State if W¡e cannot supply oub own and lobbying for more money for
received a letter from
coidance with the prevalent cus- in Chicago, ile&ived
markets with vegetables in the himself. It is a I trianifestatation t< m here to pension decayed a lady subscriber recently, in
proper season. There is a> cori- of avarice rind greed which might statesmen. (SI louts of laughter.) which was twas
was written, * “ ‘ Our
stant drain of money out of Ore- be expected in a Shylock, but That you seek liberal counsels to Anna died last week, after read
gon, to purchase things we could which is exceedingly disgraceful have good seed sown in the chaos ing the last number of your val
Well raisAat home if we had com to a President of the United
Xy.
of virtue tjjat 1 urrounds you is a uable papdr.7
mon sense ideas of economy. States.
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hopeful sign of the times, and if
A lady living in Crewkerne,
This valley could support twenty-
One of the apologies put forth you do not cheat us more than
five thousand more inhabitants on for this act on Jhe part of Pres- 30,000 in Phi adelphia next ‘ fall
” Somersetshire, England, tied her
money we send abroad for articles ident GranUs the alleged great the places that know you now will garter around the neck of her
that we ought to raise at home. increase in the expenses of living know you wo more
forever. horse under the impression that
The circum
There seems to be a good .open at Washington^ arid the necessity (Laughter.) But I turn to the he was bewitched.
stance bewitched half the young
ing in this country for \ market imposed upon the President of faint silver liping on the deep
gardening.— Fanner.
i I spending m entertainments and cloud of your record. One act of men in the neighborhood;
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i Í otherwise at least $25,000 a year,
this House gladdened the hearts
If you can it make money hon
or even more. This apology is of the whole people of the State estly, you had better remain, poor
¡I’ ¡¡A Vermont farmer sent to an frivolous, During Mr. Lincoln’s and reinspired hope throughout
all your life. It will not pay to
orphan asylum ior
for a boy
that was term the expenses of living were the length and breadth of the exchange your honesty for a few
orpnaijiasyium
Doy mat
tractable, even greater than they are . now; commonwealth
smart, active, brave, ttactable,
I refer to your dollars and cents.
prompt, industrious, clean, intelli
intelli- and yet in four years Mr.l Lincoln vote in the midst of disorder that
Quiet girls will be pleased to
gent, good looking, reserved- arid] sa ved from his •salary between $50,- at a Philadelphia fire would be
modest. • ■ The superintendent
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000 and $70,000.
Besides, Gen. called a riot, on Monday evening hear that a new color will be worn
plied thut
that their boys were all hu Grant ¡is
and econ
is a veTy
very thrifty
uirmy auu
cwu- last,
hast, fixing an early day for your this season, which is described aa
man though/ they were -orphans, omical man. He travels a good final adjournment. (Laughter and a subdued mouse color.
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and referred
hitn to New Jerusa-;
erusa- deal, it is true, but he pays no fare; applause.) I have heard *of no
As daylight can be seen through
lem ifrhe wanted to get his order
as a country seat at Long citizen of the 3tate who did not
very small holes, so little things
filledm. ‘ The farmer in r6tu|rnj
but that was presented Jo heartily approve of that act
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Will illustrate a person’Miharacterw
wanted to ‘
t the furniture that it con- (Laughter.) I am happy to point
“When thereVa will there’» a
rusalem
He was undoubtedly
►ubtedh on to it as the oa^is in the withered
“nev
of his second inaugura- desert that you have made about1 way,” as the young man said whei^
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than ever you, and to accord you credit for- he eloped with the fair legatee.
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