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About Lafayette courier. (Lafayette, Or.) 1866-1??? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1874)
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Ì® *ir i.i ' * i L ,ifc th V ft I ’ • IV f t ¿ i T-— ■ J „ '■■ 1 - e OREGON, AUGUST 21, 1874 •J ■ .11 ; ; ? • • I a glai-s of wlife,” said one of the ’ « Company “ I thankee ; 1 dont care if I do;” ' ’zUf i “But you must drink - a toast.’’ I eats the toast what aunt Deb by makes, but as to drinking, nev er seed the> like. ” • What was tfie supprise of the company to fiear .the stranger speck as follow^ Ladies and5 gentlemen, permit me to wish you health and hap piness, with every other blessing earth can affaixl, and I advise you to bear in mind that we are often deceived by appearances. You mistook me by dress fora country booby; I from the same cause, thought fliese fiicse men wore .JL . gentlenion. Th deception was mutual I wish you good even- -4L:— mg. How Tljey Finally jjot Married. A Polite Bunker. LAFAYETTE COURIER. z ? a VOL. IX.~ >x ■ I ! - •« ■ > r ■ ' The iPiovidence Journal tells the following stoty: One j lpng suihmer aftertibon there cain^e to Mjp. Davidson’« the ’ most cuyipus cudops specimen of an* old bachclcjf. bachcldr'tihe worjef ever heard'oí. He waslold, waslofd, gni$ grpyt, w wrinkled . _ _ and - ■ - - -■' ■ r J ddd. He hated old women, eg- < peeially olid maftls, arid wasn’t afraid to iay so. * He and Auut Patty hqd it hot whenever chance drew them together- r; yet [still he came, anti it was noticed that it Aun Aunt Patty, (o<)k unnsuiM /care _____ ;care w with her dress whenever he ;; was expected, One day the col best waged un- usually s^-dng, an d Aunt‘ Pally left in disjittst anc Lwent out into i Aaother Water 8po«t in Nevada. CLIPPINGS. ---- * A ustin , August, 18.—A heavy The great success bf Coutt’s “The living link’’— -Dog. Dog. rain storm, accompanied by thun banking-house is due almost to ac TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. 1 bad habit to, get into— A coat der and lightning, set in at tliis cident, its you will see. Burdett - S3 00 that is not paid for One £opy, One Tear, place shortly alter five o ’ clock this 75, Coutts, one of the founders, was a - 1 One Copy, Six Month«, Colorado calls for more women - 1 00 evening, antf in a few minutes af- One Copy, Three Month», modest banker on tb/eStrand, terTfip commencement of thestorm It has gcarcqjy • »ingle one. London, in George I.I’s reign, The girls of an Illinois semina Bu-tiuess notie® J 9,e Columns, 2.» a foot of water was running through and he n>? le it a jAtftliCef as his '•‘•Ttisenicnt A2. the streets. At half past 5 some ry amuse themselves by spitting at bank was situated soqp^distance 10 per square nr 12 lines, for the tirst inser a - ; persons camped on the hills on the a mark, tion, aod 41.00 per square lor each subsequent from the so-called “citv,” in order nsertiou. ,. other side of the canyon, in which Overstrained—Mrs. Mary Strain » l^gal Adv^'tifiements io be Pa id for up- to keep ! imsclf “posted” on the 9H making Proof by the Publisher. the town is built, rushed in a body of Pittsburg, who -married three financial movements going on A<lvs. 50 Ct«, a Liae. to a hill .overlooking the town, brothers. there, to dine with some of the Suberlptions Sent East, $2 00 a Year. making frantic gestures indicating It is asserted that had the comet leading city bankers and bank impending danger, À moment af hit Chicago l;106 divorces would FOH SALE, managers as often as’ opportunity ter ward a horseman galloped have been blasted in the bud? E It was during one E HAVE HAVE FOR FOR SALE SALE ONE ONE OE Ob THE THE Would permit. through the canyon, crying, “The Celebrated PARKER BROS. Breech of these reunions that a hank offi Who is the laziest man? The Loading Shot Gun*, at a bargain. > waterl the watcrl To the hills! to, cial casually remarked his surprise furniture man; he keeps cha'rsand - BUSINESS CARDS. x ’ the hills! ” and immediately behind i that Lord...........had been refus- lounges about all tbe time. ____ ________ _____ —------ £- him followed a wall of turbid wa- I cd a loan of £10.000 that day at Pittsburg typographical errorf I \y. M. RAMSEY, t£r, eight feet in height, which* his bank. The circumstance was1 | • muttered to “The Legislature pasted the bill swept through the town like an JLttorney at Law, noted by the West End banker, herself, as she,stopped to gather a over the Governor’s head.” avalanche, carrying destruction - LAFAYETTE, OREGON., and the dinner over, he repaired her atten- with it. For a few minutes noth . There is nothing more calculat* Tlie Scandal. V tion. J H at once to the house of the noble O Ree i:i the Co art Hou/e. ing could be heard but the crash ed to weaken a boy’s moral char “What dip you i|i|i ì for?” said a man and left his card, requesting I- In reference to Beecher’s state- of timbers, falling awnings, crash acter than to get his fishing-hook ® r ;ilAS.A BALL. ' » bTOTT. his lordship to call at his office the gruff voice behind her ment the leading bTew York dailies BALL. & STOTT, of buildings and the dealening roar fastened on rubbish in the river. following morning on business of “To get, rid ot yoa? of August 14th ajre thus reported of the torrent. People fled to the Why did he hate it so? A cer Attorneys at **T* Law, great importance. ; “You did’nt do it, in ¡Qiin ti»Lnc■ in inn the il dispatches: hills, and there in crowds witness tain member of Congress has given ;11 First 3 re^t, Opposite Occidental Hotel. The next morning .... was an “No; you are woj: The Times tl ink Beecher's ed the awful scene of destruction. a New England college no less PORTLAND,OREGON. nounced to Coutts, and, on his dock burr.” ' • statement discloses moral coward Fortunately no lives were lost, a? than 1840 patent office reports. . V ' if in- • , ' j animi ge|| qniring what business had neces “You w of me, ice and irratiorial behavior, but far as known. While an Indianapolis journalist . P. C. SULLIVAN. sitated his visit, the banker at either.” . ii that the impressit oh will lie general • • ' It is impossible to accurately es was writing an account of a burg 1 if* * once inforined him that as a --V« .bank * “ I won ’ t, <|h? ” that his story is nc|t idt consistent witli ft Attorney at Law I timate (Ì : i . 'i - the amount ■ - ’ ?■ L ’ of losses at lary, his own room was broken in er he had heard that his lordship innocence. ( | ’ - “Only in cju ne wayj Dallas, Oregon. present, but it. is immense, and can tel* and ransacked by thieves. desired a loan of £10,000 and he “ And that? ’ Tfia World says Beecher has ex. T,'STILL PRACTICE IN THE COURTS not fall far short of $100,000. ’ ’ I V T of »\* Utt ill, 1‘jlk ani other eoLnties respectfully offered him his Serv plained his letters^sparing neither “Marry ffic- A New York man has christen I. Ì4 Oregon. 20'y At this hour—9 p. m a furious ices. Tilton, Moulton, dor himself; thus “ What! U8 two • »18 get mar- ed his daughter Glycerine. ’ He « i body of water is rushing through •> *’But I can give you no security tied! What would p ople say?”. proving that he hat nothing to con says it will be easy to prefix nitro JAS. McCAIN, the streets, and ilie rain is falling Mr. Coutts,” said his lordship, as “That’s nbthinir G us. Come, ceal. Beecher dispels the only- if hei temper resembles her moth in torrents. The cause of the dis- ATTORNEY AT LAW, the banker commenced counting a ' say yes or ro , I in in V p Í: hurry f." shadow of distrust which may have er’s. \\ . 4 . aster appears to have been the LAFAYETTE. OREGON. small package of crisp bank notes crept over his good goo< name among ‘•Well, rio^then. — ” IV A Detroit paper says that Bay bursting of a clopd in the vicinity ILL PRACri.E IN ALL OF THE that were on the desk. fair, pui*e minded nlen. * pure n|cr “Very well; goodbv, I shan’t ord Taylor has concluded not to marl Lv8tf <Ute Coarte. of the summit. “Your lordship’s note of hand con e again J- j . • The Herald saysiit cannot anal ---------- explore tbe heart of Africa, and E C. BRADSHAW, , yze Beecher ’ s statement now. It will be quite sufficient.” gallantly a pucker “Stop a bit wh P laying D raw P oker with those obituary notices may as well n is strong, and perhaps will be ac- T hree H ands . C fficer Joe Nor lie distributed. Jkttorn *y at Law, rc-pondcd the West End banl&r, you’re in 4 < /, «*» and he handed him a note to si|n. ' LAFAYETTE, OREGON. ccptcd by Beecher’í friends as a ris arrested two men named John “Y’es or no. '. The Newburyport Herald knows ■ 1 I But I do not think I shall nbw vindication; but the|Hbrald thinks r'> “I must consult—-» Reed and William J. Doyle who a bachelor who says he always • 1 ' ' I Oik-« in tbe Court House want so much as ten thousand “All right; I thought you were the public will not accept it as a fi; engaged in a game of “draw looks to the hymenial department* of age. Good by.” J LAE A Y E rr E BL’S 1N ESS DI REC I OR Y. pounds,” hesitated the nobleman. nal disposition of thq case. , _ poker in conTpany with a third of that paper for the news of tbe ■ F . 4 . r “That is immaterial, your lord- ERGUSON & 1I RD. corner of Je.Terson; I ’ ’ 1 r “Jabez Andrews, Mo ■ n’t be a ■' party named David May, at a sa weak. and Main ; dealers in produce and gen In olden days, if aicountey-jump- shi^" replied the banker. eral merchandise. fool. Come back, I' ‘say. Why. —L er took too much liqiior and got im loon on forth street. On in ves- A Detroit father keeps bis boy - “On second thought I will take [ 1 believe the .critter lias taken me 1 tigaling the antecedents of the E .TYftA SIMPSON, north side Main b to trouble, he was siire to figure iu in of night# by. varnishing a chair street; dealers in drugs, confection the ten thousand, and, as 1 shall for earnest. Jtibcz j|¿drcws, I’ll , gentleman he found that they had cries and family s pjilies. the police reports next morning as and sitting him down. It’s a nov-? only need five thousand, you wijl consider.” ; .* I A just .beaten May out of the AS. McCAlN. attorney; oilice on south I J medical siud^ut. I Now it ap cl plan, but awful tough on tbe please place the balance to my ■ide Main street. “I dor.’t want any jpnstderi’ng^ round sum.of $1,000. They were . ' ■ I •* pears another class of men are to trowsers. M. RA-USEY. County Judge and credit as an opening of an account I’m going. Becky Hastings ' is brought to the Four Courts and • attorney at law, — olfice in. the have a turn, for a gentleman who A'Chicago editor, who went out with vou in mv name.” waiting for me. I fought I’d Court House. searched. On the person of had a little difficulty with the po for a day’s sport with tbe gun and The banker thanked his new give you the first chaste, Patty. » OHN BIRD, west side Jefferson street, .Davis, sewed in, the lining of his lice the other night, and was fined [ IB w * 1 . dealer in stoves and tinware. rod, shot a forty- five dollar cow, customer, escorted him with much AP right; goofl by.” a ll coat, on tbe left hand side, w as $3 in the rtforning, described him jpi C. BRADSHAW, attorney at law. and caught an old hat with a stone politeness to his carriage at the “Jabez! Jabez! Tha^"stuck up found a mysterious machine, con- self as a “ journalist. ” I This is too in it. ; ST. JOSEPH BUSINS^ Dih ECTOR Y ¡ door, and ‘ then bade him “good Beck Hastings shan’t ¡Have him! bad. . Newspaper mciihavc quite necting by means of a string run J day.” . ' 1 Jabez, y’es! Do you he|j^—y-e-s!” When tbe wife is detected show enough to .bearffrom |he jibes of ning down the leg on the inside ing unusual affection for her hus OTEL, Jell. Olds, proprietor; cor r -<-w The action of the banker was fr of 1th and Depot street*. New hou^e 7- I r-— an unkind world, without having of the pants with the left foot. good accommodations. J udging from A ppeara ^ ces .-- band, it may fairly be expected longsighted one. It was a good tli^s sort of stigma cast upon them. Attached to the boot was a hook DAYTON BUSINESS DIRVXJTORY. investment. The balance was A good story iti told hi illustration as a fastening for the string, made that she will appear before long in A ^>ious soul giving ; expression of hollow spring wire, another a new bonnet. soon increased, the loan returned of the folly of fudging ¡from ap HIUS. TAYLOR, dealer lu general mer A A jiersoikdressed in a to hi$ devotional feelings in a short small string of the ordinary hem i chandise. Odd Felloes' building. The and the nobleman commenced to pearances. A Tennessee man yrrote his will cheap cash store. . i speech in church, said! “ I shall pen kind being received in the hol on a paper collar, and it passed tell the slory around at the Courl suit^of homespun clothes stepped Ï : J Dressed -of St. James of the wonderful ac into a house in; a citi x on- some never cease to love and revere the low of tbe wire, and acting Upon H. POWELL, Saw Mill. Dr< through the Probate Court as well • lumber of all kiuda, doors and I win-* the inner jjbrtioh of the machine ac » i xlow » frames. -------- ies were name of my’dear Saviour, nor can l\ commodating spirit of tliQ. West business, where Several cording tp the ifiovcment of the as any other will, though a little One I.forget how his name looks in the foot. TIfe machine BEST, livery stable Ferry street; bug- End banker. Others de;»o&ited assembled in an inner r 7 ue itself is of the unhandy about-filing. • gies and horses to let at all times, at their funds in his hands, and the of the company Remark in a low Bible, as it is there spelled J-e-a- most ingenious device. It consists “Yes, sir,” said a Michigan 4th I reasonable rates. was y in S Ó u-s.” j- uf two thin steel plates, with work of July orator, “Putnam went rigid IjABiEit & CO., CO., Ferry Kerry street; street; dry dry story was so well circulated at the tone that a coin try m AttAER & Ki ------ ■ r goods, groceries apd general merchan- ■ -------- * resembling the internal organism — diee. Dayton flouring mill«, i palace that the King’s curiosity waiting, and agrped to ave some A Boston correspondent of the of a clock, clock. L tracts nearly on the into tlm wolfs den, dragged her e en- was aroused, and he informed the fun. The following dii —--------- i True South writes that Boston may principie of a ordinary paper out, and the independence of Amer a K • 1 banker s patron of his desire to sued: '1 outh fronts on ica was secured.” \ be built on seven hillsF but the fastener. The Hardware, Iron, Steel, meet the banker. “Yon are frofn the I country I I the outer edge j the coat. The streets are so mixed up that ybu There are no boquets about a HUM, «POKES, RIMS, OAK, ASH Ä_____ ’n» •n I •'. coat is thrown half open, so t$mt Coutts went finally. He wasuppose? * can’t tell which hill you are on.7 the right hand, ijh holding up the newspaper office, but<tiometimea the -AND- “Ye8 I am froti tlieci i^itry V introduced to the King, and his f A New York papers gravely ob qirds, is brought in ’close proxim contents of the paste cup acquire a sir, wh¿, do |iiu thjnk HICKORY PLANK, quiet, modest manners won the “Well, sir, .serves that tbe suicide qf a farmer, ity with its mouth. When the maturity which by any other name favor of the court. His presence of ihe city?” .* NOUTUÜP 4 TH0MP3OX , I I »*\ i • which it notices, “it is singularly the player de?ires to recure an ace would smell aa sweet. at the court creutca quite a sensa It has got a tarnel sighted houses he brings both h^nds close to the Portland, - - - Oregon. strange, inasmuch as he lias not breast, and, by extending the left A San Francisco reporter blush ma70-3m maSMm tion, for it was soon after reported in it.”' n ’T i 1 I expect there aire a gj^atinany been in the habit of doing such leg, the action on the cord ojicns bed at some remarks of Victoria that the King had given his pri things.” the mouth of tiio machine. The Woodhull, and was promptly dis» -♦ f-Z vate finances into the keeping; of ladies where you came from?' painter being asked to esti card is then slipped in, and a re charged by his employers for “con .“Oh yes a woudy^igl |r jist for Burdett Coutts. The rest of the ceiver on the inside is drawn for all the world like them/ (pointing mate the cost of painting a certain ward and drags or sucks it in duct unbecoming a journalist” court soon followed the example Wholesale and Retail Dealer in- Doors, house, drew forth a pencil and pa still further. So on until the Sash, and Blinds, also German There is a mule in East Wheel of the King, and thus secured to jlo the ladies. * 1 f f • French, and American r ' * * ’ - “ And you are* quite . beau per, and made the following calcu best hand is secured. By wind ing, W. Va# who has kicked the. "I WINDOW GLASS. the house the wealthy patronage among them, no doubt. ” lation: “A nought ¿8 a nought; ing the thing up it is made to roof off his stable every night fur of the aristocracy of England.* , Crystal sheet, enameled, stained and cut Yes, I beaus ’em to me ng and three into five twice you qan’t—I eject the cards thus brought in, the past week,in ad< dition to knock- * «¡axing done to order at San Francisco rr»ill »\Ainl your «rzvtia* Vi/xnr ’/N for Avi« fifty AlHl«« dol rJzxl thereby enabling tl he player to ex- about? ’ First law of gravity--Never will paint house prices, and satisfaction guaranteed. ecute his-motioris almost imper- ing tbe squeal out ; of a family of a • 5*1 Front Street,............. k........ PORTLAND. • 4- i ft . Maybe the gentleman Wilf la ^e ],pigs. • ..« lars ” laugh at your own jokes. ma29-3in ceptibly, :' i I v ; ’ í •• - ■ ■’ i r F ’ I X • ’’Ll ri ' X Í W 1 I •» • KU-.’ 44 ■ ■ i i t . i J ■•.y i t 1 = ; ■ « ' •I* ■ ’ ■■ z ' ' 4 F i ft . - F «; — -V-' i ■ K t * ■i ■ 3 i • \ • ' 1- . ’ ■’ I r 4 » I ¥» 'I 4 '1 ‘I __ ... I • 7 ’ ' i ” • i ' i I W * ■ 1> 4’ 44 «M^1 » 1 t i*"« F '»e K J W K J I I t H . * -e-- ■ 4. • I. . ¥ ¿x C V ■ * ' ■ W ■ ‘ - J - st -HI '* - d 5 - A ¡4 I. f • * A >• > I ,♦ - - - - Í rtf 4 ; - i ’ ' I ' - •- 2 - » J. SIMON. I ; I ■ - t '«i ’ X . l 1 4 X .1 . J « 4 i » ì J < ■ • 1 ; »f -,3 k . í; V * n 's > M iL / S? t V . ’.