LAFAYETTE, OREGON
J VOL. 8
A ¿juin Petitioning' for Relief.
The Secret o‘f *; Wife!« Power.
FABMING NEWS.
The Register sayB $1 06 per bushel
is tho highest offer yet made for 25,-
Q00 bushels of wheat now stored in
iti the Farmers’ Warehouse at Albany.
D. M. Guthrie has purchased of T.
H. Hunsaker, of Marion countjfe. 22
head of choice French Merinos, prog
eny of the pure bloods imported by
J. D. Patterson in 1866, and sold to
Jesse Parrish and Frank Powell, of
Linn county. Having been kept pure
and well tended they retaiu all the ex
cellence of the originals.
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‘1 R. Gurney, Worthy Deputy for
Douglas county, has organized in his
district Granges as follows: Union
Grange; Douglas county; A. A. Math
ews, Muster; John G. Fluke, Secre
tary, Looking!
25 charter mem
bers Coos River (Jrange, Coos coun
ty; Cyrus Landriff, Master; Robert
Roop, Secretary, Coos River P. O.; 17
charter ipembers. Mr. Gurney will
¡ organize a grange at Myrtle Creek
’soon.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION’
Copy, One Year,
Copy, Six Month«,
Copy, Three Months,
RATES OF ADVERTISING
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Business notioes in the Ld'cal Columns, 25
cents per line, each insertion.
For legal and transient advertisement* $2.» .
50 per square of 12 lines, for the tirst inser- ,
tion, aftid 11.00 per square tor each subsequent
nsertion.
Legal Advertisement» to be Paid for up-
en making Proof by the Publisher.
strain his voice. Th q
flagged, and hq playe l
and she nibbled at th?
finally said if was a b
evening, and shq ye
grandfather predicted
He said he guessed it \
as the moon wasnjt < i
to hang a po wder-ho: i
Person*1 Ad vs. 50 Ct«, n Line, "utt
Subcriptions Sent East, $2 00 a Year.
BUSINESS CARDS
to know if she thought
rotted out boots fatter
lampblack. SUe cowl
had an idt^ that it dif.
W.’ M. RAMSEY
coin lib need to locff’ 4
I when she discovered B<
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the lamp. S)ie rose u
the light down a lull
ruoAt look dim. It tod
• «’_ E. C. TïRADSHAW.
A-ttornev at ILaw
LAFAYETTE, OREGON-
SVUIVAN
A-ttornev
his left arm fell down
hug. ThcRr'he
went
o
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out of the window to i
it was or was noUgoinj
coming back, he tur
down a little more, and
and wanted to know iff;
to rest herself by lcanii
his shoulder.
LAFAYETTE BUSINESS DIRECTORY
Ah, me’ we have all
Who of us cart'd a cent
clock struck 12, and
from home? The old
asleep, the watch dog j
and tho handsofuest gii
try didn’t see why we
hurry.
Perhajra I shouldn’t
ERGUSON <t BIRD, comer of Jefferson
and Main ; dealer» in produce and gen
eral merchandise..
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ELTY A BiMfBON. north «ide Main
street; deniers in drugs, confection
eries ami family supplies.
AS. McCAlN, attorney; office on south
side Main street
ARBER BHOP, J. R. Majors, propri
etor ; east side Jefferson street just
above tinf shop.
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with justice
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’t snow,
D. A. Miller has turned bee-hunter
enough and taken to the hills south of Salem
die end; where he harvests many a store the
would, bees have been all supimer saving.
He lias plenty of wild honey, and on
1er courage ly needs a reasonable supply of lo
custs to live in the good old primitive
Shu hadn’t, style. It is to be noted by distant
,’t want to. readers that this happens'late in No
vember, that bees are still flying and
»given. making honey in Oregon
' ’ By order of the Executive Com
mittee there will be • eld a meeting of
the Oregou Farmers’ Union, in the
Legislative Hull, at the city of Salem
on Monday, January 5, 1874. and im
portant business will be brought be
fore it fqr consideration. All the
Farmers’ Clubs now organized, or
which may be organized before the
nail meeting!, are requested to send
delegates to the same. All persons
who have hitherto attended as dele
gates still hold their seats as delegates,
and where there are vacancies they
dro entitled as follows, from Art. 4,
Constitution: “Each Club, League
or Grange, shall be entitled to one
member at least, and one additional
inember for each 25 members or frac
tion of 13 members over.” The dif
ferent committees appointed at the
last meeting are respectfully and
earnestly requested to forward their
reports as soon as practicable^ also
tho Secretaries of different clubs,
leagues and Grange^ who desire to
sepd delegates.
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M. RAMSEY. County Judge and
• attorney at law,—office in the
Court H ouse.
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OIfN BIRD, weatside Jefferson street,
dealer in stoves and tinware.
sennò!
tan b
H C. BRA DBHAW, attorney at law.
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D ayton business
directory .
coin.
RIB. iSvLOR, dealer In general mer-
efcamble. Odd fellow«’ building. The
chedp-seash utoro.
S.- POWELL. Baw Mill. Dressed
• lumber of all kinds, doors and win
dow frames.
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oward a btewart , blacksmiths,
Wagons. hacks and buggies ironed.
Gunsmithing and general job work done.
T EADBETTERÆ RIIJEY ; pictures of all ■
description« always on band and frames
of all descriptions made ty order.
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ARKER & CO., Ferry street; dry
goods, groceries ami general merchan
dise. Dayton flouring mills,
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BEST, livery stable Ferry street; bug-
• gies and horses to let at all times, at
reasonable rates.
ministration would beyelieved of
two vexatious iquestions at one
time, and possjbjy seine Cuban
desperado would shootr Kellogg'—
and thus rid the4 World ¡of a cheap
scoundrel! But ihen ^he Admin
istration would Jose already and
convenient tool, «nd tie emanci
pated people of Louisiana wonfd
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be free to vote
th<^| pleased.
Kellogg will nefer- leave Louisi
ana with tho approval
his prin
cipal at Washington. il
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Some children, were talk in
their fathers ami brothers wh<
been captured as prisoners of
Many tales of forts and C
wcro told,Hhe speakers Cvidi
priding themselves, when.a
fellow, who had been si lent, s
ft r.;L
up—
“That> mithin,” sai
got an uncle that’s
too, aud he ain’t
warnuther.” ' i.
CLIPPINGS.
A green-grocer—-one who trusts.
Baptist exhortation—brethern and
cistern.
The Bible lias been translated into
Esquimaux.
The only thing that can live in fire
is a live coal.
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Nothing demoralizes a -printing ofi*
fice like a parade.
Why is this continent like milk ?
Because it’s ours.
The twelve great nations^of the
world own 285 iron-clads.
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Three thousand species of grass arc [
now known to botanists.
The public statuary offthe United
States has cost $l,o(M),000* ,
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. An Illinois lawyer advertises for
the hairs of Rebecca Long.”
The high- er wertake the themometer
up a mountain the lower it gets.
i A drunkard is like a bad account,
because he generally overbalances.
During tho last ten years, nearly
150,000 .housed have been built in
London.
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The value of the English shilling is
said to be 9 3-4 per Cent, less than it
ought to be.
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If speech is silver, and if silence is
gold, how much is a deaf ana dumb
man worth?
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“Man is a mystery,” said a lady to
her beau. “Yes, dear,’'said he, “and
a girl is a misscry.”
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Putting up a stove-pipe in Danbury
is politely termed “ attending a black
crook matjnea.”
Somebody wants a young man to
look after a .horse of the methodise
persuasion.
A tender-hearted omnibus driver
says he hates to run over a person; he
thinks it hurts the springs;
An Irish editor sdys he can see no
earthly reason why women should
not become medical men,
*w^X*c!uml) 'inan lately Went to law
with a deaf man. Of course the lat
ter was the deaf-endant.
Old maids, it* is said, are seldom
found in China, but rare old china is
often found among old maids.
An elderly lady, ’ endeavoring to
post a letter in a hydrant, is a specta
cle to make an oyster weep.
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Oq-A/eek days you buy your music
by tho sheet; on Sundays you ban
have it by the choir for nothing.
The obituary notice of a Kentucky
lady includesuiie fact that her hair
was six. feet eight inches long.
A man is eulogised as an “energetic
citizen” was run over by a funeral Xn
Providence, R. I., last week-
A man on being asked for an ap
propriate inscription fur a foundling
asylum, proposed: “Thu3 far; but no
farther.”
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A Canadian paper refuses to publish
the'valuable productions of one of its
contributors at less than seven cents
a line.
the reason w!
Mrs. Sarah Newcomb, of Illinois,
‘•Because God
recently ruined a handsome bed-post
by dashing out the brains of her hus
band with it.
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A careful observer hue noticed that
A negro in J Boston complained young ladies with new solitaire dia
at a police station that a brother mond rings never require much urg
ing to play the piano.
colored man had broken a chair
all to splinters over his head. Be
ing told there were no marks on
his cranium, he said: ‘‘No! ’e didn’t
make nc/mprks. but ’e smashed de
ch’ar all tfer pieces, and de ch’ar
belonged ter mej’
^A> man who works for a living
shpuld marry a woman taller than
himself. J‘The laborer is worthy of
his higher.”
Why is a jig advertiser like a sore
finger? Because he is more thought of
than his neighbors? No; it is because
he i J always “on hand.”
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An old toper by the name of Gil
christ, having moved away from Nel
son street^ the neighbors now want a
steet lamp.— Dahbury Neu:».
A Tennessee paper tellfi of the pre
sentation tp a citizen of Nashville of
the “inkstand used by Gen. Jackson
liberately wroth and punctuated at the battle of New‘Orleans.”
A clock in a factory was expelled-'
the following: “A poor man fell
from
the promises the other day by
otefr the gallery last night while
the request of the workmen, because
‘Eli-Perkins’ was lecturing in a it had not struck for eight .hours.
beastly sta^ of intoxication.
Before bustles came into fashion!
there
was a chance for newspapers to
An old sea captain, who attend display
enterprise; but now all of-
ed a falldress party after his re them are behind 1» their make-up.
turn from a long voyage, wa’ as
An active bachelor in Maine claims -
tonished at the costume of tbe ul to be one hundred and twp years old;
but he “makes his own bed,” accord
tra-fashionable Judies, but finally ing to a local paper, “so hs iwust lia^”
reconciled himself to it, saying—
One day when Mrs; -Parington.
•* I suppose they wear their [ heard the minister say there would be
a nave in the new eburch, she ob*
dresses half-mast as a mark of
served that “she know who the pasty
was.M
speet to departed inode^ty.”