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Temptation is ' Hallo, Bill, where have you been never dangerous until itjias an In* for a week back?” ‘I haven’t side accomplice. Sin within'be been anywhere for it, ain’t got a trays the heart to the outside as I sailant. ? ¿ - weak back either.” -- ------------------------------------------- i,r t • When a bit of ostrich feather is In a California obituary it is found by a wife in her husbands stated that “the deceased was a beard no one can blame her for person of romantic nature. He being down on him. placed the breech of his gun in the A western paper is dead. In fire, apd looking down the muzzle its last gasp it faintly whispered, departed hence instantaneously.” '•Two hundred subscribers, and It is pronounced an ominous only thirty-cne of them paid up.” sign when a man, who has been A Detroit female of just twenty- married scarcely twelve months, five was married to her fifth hus begins to betray an abnormal in band lately. All the gentlemen terest in the causes of lock-jaw. are alive, and the first four are do “If this jury convicts my client,” ing well. said a Missouri lawyer, rolling up An embryo poet, who is certain his sleeves and displaying his pon ly a close observer of human na derous fists, “I shall feel compelled ture, remarks: “Time marches on to» meet each one and hammer jus with the slow, measured tread of tice into his soul through his head.” a man working by the day.” . — t T r X Of course London is ringing Judge Jeffreys, pointing with his cane at a prisoner before him, with stories of the adventures observed, “There is a great rogue which happened during the fog, one of which is worth quoting: r at the end of this stick. ** ! ” . • i • The man replied, ?At which end, my An old geutieman who had some business at Charing Cross made my lord?” . An Iowa editor wrote: (“During his way as far as foe Strand, but the past week we have been visit-, there completely lost himself. He* ing the Solons of the country;” •crept slowly on and ^on, without and his constant subscribers think the least idea of where lie was go that is a funny way to spell “sa ing, until he found himself descend ‘ 4. • ing some steps. On these steps loons.” he plumped against a man who . Andrew JacksQn was accused was coming up them. “Hallo,” of bad spelling, but John Randolph said the old gentleman. “Ha lo,” defended him by declaring that ^‘a said the man. “Can you tell me man must be a fool that could not where I am going to?” said the old spell words more ways than one.” gentleman. “Yes,” said the man; . A good brother in Deckertown; “if you go straight on you will N. J., advertises in the local pa walk into the river; for I’ve just per that be didn’t set out his trees come out of it.” ; for hitching-posts for those who A “runner” for a Milwaukee attend thè. Methodist meeting house, was, a few days ogo, in La house. I -- Brosse, anxious to get across the A Boston man was cursing an river on the ice,, but was told it editor the other day’ when he fell was dangerous, so he got on his dea dpad. Several similar instances handsand knees-and/started to hav have been lately reported. Men crawl across, hauling a skiff on the should b bo careful in speaking of ice to get into in case the ice ai anything sacred. broke. After he had crawledbalf ¡.-I A learned doctor has given his way across; and was all tired and opinion that tight lacing is a pub discouraged, he heard a noise be <- lic benefit, inasmuch as its tenden hind him, and, thiiiking the ice cy is to kill off all the foollish was breaking he got on hia knees, girls, and leave the wise ones to just as a load of wood came up be *> grow, into women. hind him. The ice was a foot The impulsive, clerk who acci thick, and some other runners had dentally deposits a shovelful of played it on him. I|e is searching snow down foe back of the rural for the fellow who told him the pedestrian, was in the drug store, ice was thin. . Saturday evening, negotiating for A veteran observer says that a bottle * of liniment An exchange says a number of “Old friends are like old boots. young men in this city are attend We never, realize how perfectly ing a night school, where la tin is tliey were fitted to os till they are tought At least we judge so, as cast aside, and others, finer and we saw a crowd the other evening more stylish perhaps, but cramping and pinching in every corner, are. ? who had got as far as “Hie.” ~ substituted.” Domestic young lady* (making The Indian* have got a new pie);—“Frank, the kitchen is no place for boys. • Has dough sdeh dodge. When, they are thirsty, . an attraction for you?” Clever which is said to be quite frequent youth.-7-’Tt isn’t the dough, cousin; ly, they go into a saloon in De? pere, Wi?., and' ask “Schnapps* it’s foe dear.” A sophomore says he cannot un haben?” This always »brings the derstand how any one possessing drink, as the saloou-keeper is ti what is generally known as a con- bound to believe they are • Ger - : i -^'^ifive-eent > r * mans. science can — counterfeit a “ ■ . • I -■ -; 4 5 11 V $ <\ • ■ I > * ■■■— ■ ’ / “ ■■ • , . • - • ■■ < - < I _______ ________________ _ ----------------------------- 4j- 4- 4 / 1 ’ « i 4 v% -F •* NO. 3. * * A certain man has a watch which he says has gained enough to pay for iteelf in six mouths. Johnny assures us that a rail* road conductor punches a hole in your ticket to let you pass through^ An English wag' asserts that machinery is the most modest of all things, since it almost always travels in cog. ’ Charming is that faculty of the human mind whifeh enables one to drop into poetry like Mr. Wegg upon any occasion, no matter how prosaic, which throws a soft light of romance around bread and cheese, and irradiates the common place soul with beauty.1 Such is the faculty possessed by a noble poet in Chicago, who was reentjy informed that Madame Nilsson had thoughtfully built a shelter for her cows on’her land at Peoria. Mind ful of the catastrophe which led to the destruction of his native* city, he immediately buret into this wild and beautiful frenzy of verse: “Christine, Christine, thy milking p the morn and eve betweep, and < ot by the dim, religious light of the fitful kerosene. For'the cow may plunge, and the lamp explode, aid. the fire fiepd ride the gale, and shriek the knell of the burn ing town in the glow of the mol ten pail!” r í< : I _L. .1 ■ . 4 • i 1 I- ■ Í 4 » • V 5 * 1 «Í ■■ I • I, r » 4 * f; w J » ■ ■4» ............... ....................................... ............. low the muBtard.i He was then forced to take a dose of painkiller, and had his back rubbed with the “Vigor of Life,” and his «tomacli with the “Oil of Glad0088.” •• Then he vomited up everything but his boots and socks. This being over be took seven of Ayer’s pills, two spoc^usful of caster oil, a teaspoon fol of salts, and a blue pill. And now, if you want to see the mad dest boy in Michigan, just say “fly poison to Sam Buckleby. ^-1 , U_________ -------- s A S hocking T ragedy .—Infor matidn has just been received here of a terrible tragedy which occur red at Dutch Flat yesterday morn ing, says the* Sacramento papers of the 1st inst, intelligence of which strenuous efforts have been made to keep from the public ear. As the facts have preached this place it appears that one Charles Calhoun,.a resident of Dutch Flat, became acquainted witlr a young widow of the town about four months ago, and immediately be gan paying his addresses to her with a view to marriage. His at tentions were not Acceptable to their object, and shef discouraged them in every possible way, and gave him a decided refusal when at length he made a formal offer of his baud. But the lover was per sistent,"and%having à firm belief in the adage that “faint heart never won fair lady,” .he set himself at work with success to procure the intercession of parents of the lady in his favor. The persistence of the lover and die influence of the parents overcome l^cr opposition to bis suit though uot her repugnance to himsçlf, and two weeks ago the two were married. A maVriagc under such inauspicious circum stances could hardly be otherwise than.an entirely unhappy one, and very soon the husband exhibited jealousy toward his unwilling bride This jealousy culminated in thé tragedy of Saturday morning when tlie husband, goaded to frenzy by the green-eyed monster, shot his wife before she had arisen from her bed, hissliot taking effect.in her right eye, which if not mortal, is certainly very serious. Having as he supposed, killed his wife, the desperate man then »placed his pis tol to his own head and fired,'kill ing himself instantly. His Te- mains were deposited in the grave this morning«- The tragedy has appalled the people of the town where it occurred, and a deep gloom seems to have settled upon it. L »w t X- > f l in ■ J ♦ X : a h • I » r ', • » ■ t r ■ ■ • 4 I w . À «■ The man in the moon has long, for earth DOHRISS <S» HEMBREE had a singular lacination a dwelling mortals. Volumes have . r •v *i TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. been written to prove or disprove On» Copjr, One Year, - >3 OO his supposed 'existence, and fancy One Copy, Six Months, • 1 75. has ever been busy in fabricating Oik« Copy, Three Month s • 1 00 imaginary voyages to his domain? The sort of literature of which RATES OF ADVERTISING : 1 W-pWllMTr3M i 6ifi iYK Poe’s “Adventures of Hans Pfaal” i ineS>]~rrn251 t - tít 6 uo i stfoîreüo is a type, hasfoad many votaries ílnehes, I 8 00 | 12 | 18 Ó0 and admirers. Hans Pfaal was a äXnchc«, I 2S0 | 3 ftO I 4 50 9 00 | 18 | 22 Ò0 Hinche», f 3uü|4 00VflÖOnr~I 20 | 30 00 wealthy Dutchman, who, for some i CoL I ¿50 J Ä 50 I G 0Ô I 18 1 22 | 32 Ö0 .misdeed, found it desirable to quit j ÇoL j 500 1 7 Ö0 ¡ 9 00 I /¿O' J 28 ~ I 00 \his native city, like the late la-. BCoL I Tööi 9 00'i Ü 'I 20 I 30 | 50 00 1 Coì. | Í0 j Í5 118 T>0~ J 50 ~| 90'00 ' mented Genet, as uobtrusively as So he secretly con- Tm-iiness notice« in the Local Columns, 25 possible. Cent« per line, each insertion. For Ieg.il and transient advertieoment« 82.- • structed a balloon, and, with bet HO per square of 13 line», for the first inser- ter luck than Professor Wise, suc tion.-and $1.00 per square f<ft each subsequent nsertion. ceeded in getting off in it between Legal Adrerfixementx to be Paid for rtp» two- days. After an eventful voy on matin'; Proof by the Publisher. ^.Personal Adv*. 50 Cta. a Line.-^4 age he arrives at last at the moon Suberiptions Sent East, U 00 a Year. where he makes several wonder BUSINESS CARDS. ful discoveries, which arc not set B STOTT CHA^.A. BALL. down in any lunar geography. M. BALL & STOTT, Jules Verne, also, after exhausting Attorneys at Law, all the plausible impossibilities of lll First Silreet, Oppoaite Occidental Hotel. land and sea, has turned his at tention in the direction of plane PORTLAN’b, OREGON. tary exploration, and lately’dis- j anlOtf patchcd- a party of happy voyagers P. C. SULLIVAN. moonward in an immense hollow A-ttoiTiey at Law, ball fired from an enormous can- 1 • DoJlas, Oretfon. non. The idea, it may be remark ILL PR ICTIOE IN THE COURTS ed, was anticipated in a rather vf Yamhill, l’jik and other countics iü Orejon. 20Iy clever paper published iu Harper's Magazine many years and is con- , sidered by the Spectator to fall W. M. RAMSEY, I * | short in point of ingenuity to Poe’i Attorney, nt Law, invention. LAFAYETTE, ORIXION. Thcse arc samples of the efforts made by imaginative writers to Office in the Ceurt House. get to the moon. Restless fancy, ~ JAS. McCAIN, on the other hand has been not ATTORNEY AT LAW, less earnest in its-effb rts to get the LAFAYETTE. OREGON. moon to us? The erection of the ILL PRACTICE IN A*LL OF tTHE immense reflecting telcscojies of **L»te Court». iuarllv8tf Sir William Herschel and of Lord’ E. BRADSHAW, Rosse excited the wildest hopes in Timcs. • '.ÏT Jk.ttorn.ey at Law, the bosoms of these visionaries who -44—- T . LAFAYETTE. OREGON. persisted in the belief that the man I n ” to > S am .— in the moon was something more The La|»orj, Indiana Herald gets Office in the Court Howe.* than a myth. The first peep into off the follqv^nj|r, the gigantic instruments, it was * Some tiiicmgjg |a Mrs. Buckle- LAFAYETTE BUSINESS DIRECTORY. confidentially hoped, would reveal by, who live^ovel. in Berrien Co. ERGUSON 4 BIRO, corner of Jefleraon the whole domestic life of tlie directed fief muel, a lad of I and Main ; dealers in produce and gen neighbor planet. Many people fourteen yearfc, i take a turn at eral merchandise. ELTY & SIMPSON, north side »Fain still living will remember the ex-, the churn. * Not jas Samuel had street4; dealers in drugs, confection citement produced by Lock ’ s cele eries and family s ipplies. set his heart on? ling a fishing at brated moon hoax, perpetrated AS. Met,'AIN, McCAlN, attorney; »ttornejr; office on south that very time t his back up side Main street. »ide something less than a half century I V ■• .< . - .1 and flatly refos« £o agitate the M. RAMSEY. County Judge and ago. It was published here in the erpam. The cprv^ure was prompt • attorney at law,—office in the Court House. form of a letter written by the as ly taken out ^f.fiis .«pine by a slipr OHN BIRD, west »ide Jefferson street, tronomer Herschel to a scientific per and with teare-in his eyes, he dealer in «tove« and tinware. journal of Edinburgh, and pur Went bn dutyjwitiltbe dasher, in yi C. BRADSHAW, attorney at la nr. ’ J daring “ ported to be a minute account of about half an heir if,/and ST. JOSEPH BUSINESS DIRECTORY. the animal and vegetable life which the brief absewfeof his mother, his that philosopher had discovered ifi eyes fell upon a plate of fly poison gT- ELTY A SIMPSON, cor. 4th and Elm; .ML dealer» hi groeerie», glaaaware, Queen* the moon. In spite of many pal and a bright, smart thought struck ware and patent mediainaa mediein»» . - pable absurdities and numerous himi Just beforq Mrs. B. came OTEL, j . H. OId», proprietor; cor r of 4th and Depot streets. New house gross inacuracies, the story found Joj Samuel lifted be fatal platter good accommodations. v eager credence, unti! the next mail to his face, and a? she entered he a DAYTON BUSINESS DIRECTORY. from Europe exploded it. The put the poison^ irtj tn his lips with c. CALL, MANUFACTURER OF story now reappears, in a more tlie dramatig $xclfi ¿nation: “There • Saddles and Haraeaa. All work war ranted. OrdersJeft with J. W. Cullen will plausible and quasi-scientific shape. mother, I guess y| ¡u won’t lick me receive prompt attention. The fact is recognized that there no more!”j-Now/ - what did this HR18. TAYLOR, dealer In general «an* is a limit to the power of telescopic Spartan dame'jlo? Did she shriek chandise, Odd Fellows’ building. The ip cash store. ___________________ penetration, which so far as the for a doctor and fall info hyster- ■WKT ft. POWELL, Saw Mill. Dressed moon is con8cerned, denies to ies? Not mudi •Iphe simply took w ▼ • lumber of all kinds, doors and win earthly vision the privilege of see dow frames. / — Samuel by the na of foe neck, OWARD a STEWART, blacksmiths, ing objects on its surface,* the size lifted him dèf|. iy into the pantry, Wagons, hacks and buggies ironed. of which ¡3 less than sixty, feet beat the whítáo of Ax eggs together Gunsmithing and general job work .done. - ---------------- U— ------ ' . —-— -------- -— square. But these objects can be and told him io to engulf foe kame W EADBETTER A RJLEY ; pictures bt all JLd descriptions always on hand and frames photographed, and it has been sup instanter, hé F _ she called refusing, .. ) of all descriptions made to order. posed that by an application of the the hired gi^l, an<^ in a twinkling j ARKER A CO., Ferry street; dry goods, groceries and general merchan* microscope, the photograph could Sam found himself outside the al* dise. Dayton flouring mills, * z be so magnified that every square humeé. Thej] M$8.B. began pre- ■ i i. ■ BEST.Jivery stable Ferry »treat; bug* foot of the moon’s surface would M imetic.. ' Seeing paring a mi • gies and horses to let st all times, at reasonable rates. - be as minutely visibly to us as a this, Sam’s pluck dissolved, and he □ - -s cryiDg «J NELL 4 CO.,Ferry street; dealers in like portion of the earth itself.-*- commenced,- general merchandise. The NEW cheap Thè difficulty in foe yay of this was only trying to skeer ye.” Bat cash store. ------ jther ivas not to be mg AINTING. House, fcamaj AINTING. carriage and'wagon desirable consumation has hither- ¡the stern F done painting and sign writing to or* to been that the irregularities of ¡softened, and d ^amoel bad to swab order by J. W. Carey, L WK' - --• >’ ’ 2 ■i|i the smoothed ] photographic modi- um were develop d under the mag* nifierwfth suchi; surprising luxuri* anceas altogbthe to efface the pic* essary, therefore, ture. It w to find a maferia (so smooth and ifen tlie micro* texturelcss V W- I ■ if scope could kiot persuade it into unduo exaggeration. This, it is now | reported I tlie mysterious French savant, whose aid is al- waysnnvoked < I these occasions, lias < length fd itov cred in a sort of paper madh oF fflie t|i fibers of the irihed with this po- milk weed. tc’nt auxiliar|, our savant has sue- ceeded in |tak tng photographs whicji powerjullJ rfegnifled, prove beyond, queiionf foe existence of animal life hi tbdmoon. Two ap parently hutitpn injiabitants were even discovdpedF walking .camly about, head Downward, like flies upon a c^ilingi- a circumstance which prevfefcdplie savant from securing mOlna an inaccurate view of the i?xttbme summits of their craniumh. Fpr further de tails all tcrr^tia|l|natic3 arc now looking with|bn lijess suspense« Such storir^ “ serve to amuse. I the more soil 6ua labors of the as- tronomer, art 1 havi have ' tlie merit, be- tlie kind, of yortd most fii ’ 1 tio&sW - . * I itiv| doing no pol barm. The ab- surdities of ti F P’ |cfent one are ob* 0 thefoi. is the vipus; not tlip let st of fact that tlite cdl liod iodion film on which telescopic ^photographs a re foot iiy ’Er s |jy bom femes as near an taken, probafly absolute tex^rofc?^ , „ , i‘ material as any that can > icl^id for the pur- pose., Entlu| s|s on this subject may as well ma 4 up their minds ¿hat the moO^, atjdast, or so much as we can see otpi is untenanted by man pr b&8t||abd devote their romantic ene^glcj to colonize i ome more favorable anct.- ■Jf. Y. M< published every Friday by 1 J 4» ■ ■« ----------------- - v h ¡ '1 ■ t 1J 4 gLi . Is • * LAFAYET* æ^OREGON, MARCH 13, 1S74. .4 H * » !h; I " ■ » a i i 4 " I f .»! 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