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LAFAYETTE COURIER. ’ OBATRAL COMMITTEE. STILL ANOTHER. The prosecutions of those who The Democratic State Central FRIDAY. PERUT à RÌFI, 1876. Committee will mieet at Portland have been concerned in the Chica-w on Thursday next for consultation. go whiskey frauds, if they are not HV1T0KIAL NOTUS The chief business ¡which will come interfered with by the President, before them will I jc the arrange are likely io bring to light some The New York Sun says the ment of calling thé next State Con very unpleasant facts in relation to “war cloud” is growing bigger—I vention. On account of the enact the honefable Jasper D. \\ ard, late war between Spain and the United ment of a law by Congress provid ! U. S. Attorney for thffi Chicago States. • J________ _ ing that all Congressmen for the 1 district. Ward was a nfembe? of the Forty-third Congre^, and ser Great excitement -prevails over next Congress shltU be elected in recent discoveries of rich gold November next, there will be no , ved on the committee appointed to situation mines, 26 miles west of Laramie Congressman elected iu June, and investigate the political |n Arkansas at the time of the at City. Quartz containing $2,500, hence it will not bo necessary to per bxi bas'been found in a spur of nominate a caudic ate therefor this femptedvevolution in that State. Spring. Then th it? question will be It will be remembered that the ma the Centennial ^>tic. presented lo the C lo min it tee for dis- jority of that committee, although Tito relusal’of Gov. Tilden to cussion, whether it will be necessa ! headed by so pronounced a partis interfere in the case of Edward S. ry or proper to hold Id a State Siate Con Con an as Judge Poland of Vermont, Stokes will command almost uni-1 vention this Spring, or whether all 1 were unable to find any plausible re^sal approval. 'Hie penalty the business can a| well be done by excuse for federal interference with awarded this prisoner was ridicu-i district conventions. The chief the action of the people in adopt- lously ipadequate. to his offense, difficulty in the wav is the election i ing a new Constitution and elect* and there is uo reason why any of delegates to tta Natioaal Con i ing a State Government, and they i • * 0 • part of Jt.ijhould be -emitted. It vention. This can not bg done, \ had the manliness to siy so, iu is getting*‘to Itc.almost« difficult very well by di^tfictsj ’ ♦ Mae the ■ spite of the personal efforts which ’••i .iu,. 4r> Juom'.cl .- in Neu York districts as such are re nof not entitled to President Grant made to influence as to recover stolen goods. When representation in the national Con- them qtherwise, such as sending a ever there u a conviction, at least vention, and their selection of del- message to Congress, which was let the sentence be rigorously exe egates would no ; be valid unies? said to be writteu by the advice of cuted. satisfied by the (State authorities.’ Boss Shepherd. But while the ma By ojiening the tire of investi We cannot see h$w the holding of jority of the committee condemned, gation oh the Navy Department, a State Convention can be avoid the illegal interference with tlTe af the House Opens up a campaign of ed without taking a “new depart fairs of Arkansas which the Presi rich promise. -The Marine Corps ure.”' But we ¿hall be content dent threatened, this man Ward is the firat point of attack, and since with any reasonable solution of tlie1 presented a minority report in its worthless service costs $1,060,- problem bv tho Committee. Wei which he took precisely the grounds 000 per annum, it will find few de cannot see the necessity of holding which Grant vainly desired the tenders. The close relation be conventions befdre the middle. of ' committee to assume. For this tween unauthorized or unless na-, ’April, since it will not be necessa Ward was appointed U. S. Dis ▼al expenditure« and payty favors ry to make a canvass of the State. trict Attorney, and now it is char and vokes has long beqn a public We hope the -Convention will be ged that he has been personally in scandaH and will doubtless prove called to meet about the middle of terrested in a distillery which was L engaged in defrauding the revenue. an equally vulnerable pointy The April. fire should soon spread along the 4 It is also alleged, that while act SELECT THE BEST MEN. ing as the prosecuting officer of the entire line. In some countjes the people ar® Government, Ward furnished the During last year the granges of now d’scussing |he qualification® Whiskey Ring with information of Illiuoid Io.-t 3Q,000 members, so and availability qf different persons what was going on in the jury says an Illinois paper. as candidates for the Legislature. room, and that he advised a man In Oregon many joined the or der just to see what .theite was in It is a little early yet, but we pre in the employ of the Ring to bribe sume that nothing wilt l>e lost to the official stenographers of the it,—if the order was’a success they the people by a c&relul examination court for the purpose of obtaining were willing to stick, if anything went wi{jng, they would say: “Oh I of the records and fitness of aspic for the implicated distillers accur I just joined to ^ee what there was ants for office.! In this county, ate knowledge of the evidence like heretofore, too 1 ule care has been ly to be produced against them.- in it, aud didne^t' qare whether it taken in making selection^ for the succeeded or not” This is not Legislature. We might refer to ‘ A PHEM1UM FOR THEFT. right. the blunder of the Democracy in -----—————• In a trial- held by the U S Com The election of Mr. Lamar to the last campaign hi selecting one missioner in Boston not long since- the Senate will do much to redeem of the candidates for the Legisla the case being that of Isaac II. his section from the unworthy po ture which caused the election of a Frothingham, charged with embez sition it has occupied in the higher Republican. Al little care in this zlement in the Boston Post Office, branch of the legislature respect would have saved the de evidence was introduced showing since lhe*cfosc of the war. , In the feat of oue Democrat. The De a curious state of affairs in that of old times the South had in the sen mocracy should not nominate hnv fice under the late Postmaster Burt. ate men who commanded at least person who has openly declared Ono of the witnesses. Henry S Ad the respect of their Northern aaso- himself for any particular person ams, cashier, testified that in the ciates by their brains, if not by for U. S. Senator, because it might spring of 1874, while the Post Of their politics. Of late Southern contribute to his defeat. It is thé fice was in the Old South Church, Senators have rarely been above! first duty of Democrat® to nomin they commenced to receive postal contempt. Mr. Lamar is a splen-l ate and^lect to thè Legislature cards; that shortly thereafter 125,- did specimen of a reconstructed none but competent and honest men 000 were missed, and that witness, rebel, ftle fought us bravely, sub and then they will cast their bal Frothingham, and Mr. Dommet mitted honestly, showed us in his lots for some able and honest Dem (another clerk) agreed to pay the manly eulogy on Charles Sumner, | ocrat for the Senate. Elect men* value of them, which amounted to how well he appreciated the vir I who cannot be bought or imposed some $1,250,. by paying so much tues and comprehended the moral upon and let them select the Sena per month; that Mr. Domb'.ct’g sal elevation of some of the leader on t . tor. It is folly to nominate men ary was raised $20 a month, Mr. ’ ■ * the sjde that won in our great con- who am pledged to any particular Frothingham’s $15, and witness’s fliet; throughout his service in the aspirant and persons who intend to $300 a year, for the purpose of eu * House bebaved-llke an honest man, be candidates for the Legislature abling them to pay for the cards. a patriot, and a capable legislator. should not become committed to The idea of raising the salaries-of W e welcome the day, says the New any one for the senate. Post Office clerks in order to en York Tribune, when the South able them to reimburse the loss to begins to place such men iu her the Government arising from the highest positions. In the issue of February 12th, thefts of one of them, is decidedly The^abt that one Chinaman haB 1875, the C ourier contained the original. If this plan had been been naturalized in California, and following: adopted m regard to the officials “A telegram qpys the Secretary of the report that two or three others Vi ar has transmitted to Congress tne War the implicated in the stealings of the have formally declared their inten report of Major Michler,United States Whiskey Ring, what colossal sala on^inoar nn on th»> the nmniW«! proposed imnrnvA. improve tion to become American citizens, I engineer, ment of the Yamhill river. Michler ries some of Grant’s particular have excited extraordinary inter considers the iurprovem^nt practica friends would have pocketed ! est and no little apprehension in ble and desirable, on account of the that would ensue to produc NJ^W MEXICO. that State. According to a San benefits ers and consumers, especially of Francisco paper, if Chinese natur wheat. It is estimated if the im A new movement has been star provements are extended te McMinn alization is tcfgo on, it is within ville it will co8tj $2’2,000. The report ted in Congress to bring in the the political possibilities that,with is transmitted without Comment by rotten borough of New Mexico, in five yeag from that date, 10,- the department.” with its mongrel population, as a In the annual report of Major 000 Chinamen may be marching State in the Union. The facts N. Michler, “ a rough estimate of up to the polls in San Francisco to concerning that Territory have vote, and not less than 70,000 in I the possible cost” is made which been systematically misrepresented, the State oi California. The Chi I amounts to $222,500! Quite a both in regard to the quantity and namen in that State eligible to nat ! difference! Now, the question ar- quality of population, resources, uralization are considerably more i rises: Did the managers of the and everything else which affects in number than one-half the white 1 Railroad have anything to do with the question of admission. The voter?, and if all who are now in ! making the said’“estimate.” It is whole Territorial Government is the State should be naturalized to the railroad’s advantage to not absolutely controlled by a Ring, of within five years, the choice of have the Yamhill river improved, which S. B. Elkins, the present Governor might depend upon the but it. would be an immense bepe- Delegate in Congress, is the head will of the heathen Chinee, the : fit to the farmers, thereby saving and front That Ring notoriously great majority of whom, as it is 1 immense sums of money in freight runs the courts, hucksters what is well known, retain in California ' alone. miscalled justice, handles all the ; Evidently, there .is a “ screw their native customs, barring a appropriations, and in a word gov loose ” somewhere. ’ We believe weakness for soft bats and cowhide erns the Territory as a personal boots. Bat as out of the immense that the river could be made nav- property. This is done through ' igable to station “46” for $50,000. emigration from China during the. If we remember rightly the old P. favorites at Washington. The peo pas| twenty year® only one immi T. Co., offered to build locks, etc. ple have protested in vain against grant nas as yet developed into a at the mouth/of the river aijd make this domination, and when; they full-blown American citizen, it is the river navigable for the sum of rose up at the last Territorial elec r Dot probable that Ah Sin will be $50,000. tion and defeated Elkins, they were elected Governor of the Golden The Piesident h&s noeer for music, fraudulently crowded out by hi® J ——r __ » ■ Territory into a State, in order to » n Emigration to the Far West. Sheriff’s Sale place the chiefs of this Ring of Emigration to the Pacific Coast 'WJ'OTLCE^s hereby e ven th»t bv vii ue and plunderers in the Senate., By that »States of California and Oregon, Aw auiflionty of a writ of execution duly issu ed out of . ue Circuit Court of Yamliill county, means patronage would be hultij- from March 1st to end of Decem- ¿late of j Ore.to i, \ on the 2d day of Feb.T»jry„ 1876, on a judgement rendered p.i the 151 h day plied for their profit, profit, and the re re*' feer, 1875, has been very large, of April- 1871, M. 8. Hart, plaintiff, ir>71, iu farorof ”a»M/ anii agri nt -be MeMin ” invi ie Wa-or and Maou- cent history of rascality in South and still continues like a great fack’. ind Companv, de fefendapts, for the sum of z-1--- V _. -»r- . . . , • U , - _ five hu^Jred fndeifcbiy-f _-seven dollars and ls.JOO Carolina,^ i « Mississippi, Louisiana, ocean . wave. • 1 hose whojiave pas- ($,->87 is too), which was enrolled and docketed hici was ’s office Arkansas, Alabama, arid Eloridhjeed through Omaha, Nebraska, on in the.Clerk ' " of said court in wucTcoun’ty on the 1; th. day of April, lsTl. and ,or want of . Vould be repeated in another f form form., -¿migrant trains alone, number in ' pedonai property out of rvliicu to satisfy said . I I tl.A «r, z.i... ____ e •Ì“,,°li’n!® it, I have levied upon 'the follow!, g re- | estate (o s-iisfy he sum of $173 63-100 ijow * ” j Lthe aggregate, as shown by the ofo rl IDAHO JUDGESHIP. I interest thereon Jrom the 15lli_day of c ue, wit- ------------------- ---------- - -. _____ ■ '>-"1 Ï ’ j -a | fic.ial record of the Union Pacific Ap il. Jaul.at lit» isbeof 10 oei cent, wan »- the fi’t-l.-'er sum of $70.92 cos s. And now the President nomin-l r Rail road company, fifty-three thou num. eu<[ mal B ock. No. 31: Black No. JI: ai’sQ Fractic 2, < < «I.« and 8„a.id fracliphal ■ . ... <.w>m i lo x Nos ates a man named Pickdtt for As-« sand and two hundred souls. Dur lo 8 Nos. t, ■ , *, -i.. '2 No. ‘_. I in Johns' __ ' Addi» 22‘. ion. ,o _ the 2.jI 3 and 6in, r. block sociate Justice of Idaho.. The ju f ing October 5,025 persons went town of ........ i MeMiiinvi[le. Said lots all 'viug, „ east ---- of Aie nd or dh'dipg Hue beü/een 'm- thuds diciary of that Territory ‘has a his out, 4.225 in Noveiriber, and 2,775 ot I. M. tobns lolms and W. 'J J. . Newby, Now by, situA situa e in •» Yamhill -onnt'-, Oregon, anu on tory. One of the first Judges was in December. The month of Aug-, a Sn.u<tliiyz«l>e 4th day of Jli»<-<-h. a Mr. Smith of Oregon, ^vho knew ftst makes the smallest show in num- At .he i>4«>r of one o’clock m the a' e’noon of * id de e 1 * 7>11 proceed ’o tJe‘1 iu ’ ont nt the about as much about*law as a hog bers, .being only 1.872—of these sa ’ - io-the .own of I afavette. Coui-t House ■ door ov Sia « óf Q.egon. he highest Yainhii' i knows of astronomy. h-oih this 1.040 weic natives or Americans, bióuei r public auction foe cash in h; u<< lue time on up to the time ^ne Kelly 277 Irish, 103 Germans, 116 Engj Aboyé di-sc ibe« leal es aie fo s.iMsfy seid exo- * cv iòni y ith costs aud accic ng coe»s. ' H. (\ DALE. was sent out there from Newf York lish, 47 Frencjh, 22 Scotch, 21 Ital « Sber’ff of ïainùu1 coentv. but little improvement rwas made ians, 96 Portugese, 27. Chinese, 8 Feb. 4. S'TC.. . ~ ‘ 12 Sw;ides, and ’ - 8 -L Norwe eg- ■ l . ■ i i * ¡n * ”.: rr ■.. • in the matter of Idaho Judg Shipul Swiss, i Final Settlement. Kelley served as acceptably as any '’?n8> which in about the average \i CE IS HEJRELY GIVEN THAT $6 of his predecessors until he ^vas in-l for each mon h. nersiiine» -m*- administrator *>f the es- vited to step,down and ou.f ogiy® Many thousand persons have al I tate of J hu Vsnbiitk . k, ilycaseo. has tib-dd i the coin iy court Of iamhill coiiury. / ■ . w-j- place to one Lewis, whose service« so gone to the Pacific coast during Orégon, hi- tlnai accou it of his auurn .A-.i ti of the. ek’itte „„ of _ sani deceased, de and that said to the party must be necognizedfe tho last year by sea and on first CO fit lfil s oi^lereil jii .t s rid aecunyt tn- hear t s.qil county th|' epurt li<ni>e in l,nlay<»1te, hi — --Ti ___ « and rewarded. Soon after this.ex-? and second class cars—of which at ano Btatii - on Tuesta , >•, «hoYiti . —— da j v of Marc ~ ’ <’•- 1876, al k»u o’clock in ♦lie foi moon of said Judge Kelley was arraigned befor< the number is not given, as many day at « i hicli time and-place all p i-' ns inter the bar of the court to show causci of them were tourists, who have I eMed in laid esiaJe may appear 'And object to said a ipcount. T, J. jell - son ; why he should not be disbarred fori since returnep, while those who • Administrator. went out on emigrant trains “ went I circulating slanders against hi$ Feb. 4,1376. ---------- i----------------- Ji— to stay/' aud now constitute a por successor. The doughty. Kell^ . »- ■ ii tion of the permanent population very promptly informed the Cour ISFotice.1 I / i f- “7’ < - j that it had no jurisdiction of liin •of California and O'-cgon, while J^-JTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN <HAT XV by virtue of an oriiqr of the (ifutjty- since he had never been admittet from some of *the Western States Court of Yiqnhill County. Stu'e ofl)te.gon, recently devastated by the ravages to the bar in his life. i mad< ±.-.J: and enured ofr -onl nTJu.--: 5th day c of <>' ■ Jobvr. 1-7,', I will sell at pnftlic auc- of grasshoppers, .Texas. Missouri, Judge Lewis seemed ¡likely t( lion :o the highest bidder for cash in baud. U. 8 (¡old (••in, iu front of the.! 'onrt House’ hold on longer than his predeces Kansas, etc,, thousands have gone i door ii* ^ ambill county, btat ■ of Oregon on the (■th day of , March, DVO, at the hour sors had been permitted jto’occupi the old way, ¡crossing the plains of oi o’clock in the afternoon, of »aid day, • the f illowing described .real estate, to-wit: the bench, thereupon some on and Rocky Mountains with ox and / n part « of s/* tvn Th e undivided one-fif'h lots .tu, No, who possibly wat ted the jilaee him* horse teams, requiring from three 104, S’o. 1)7 " and ' = i No. *’ ' u.»; also ’ the ’• undivided ■ -■ - one-! ifth part of the upper half of lot self “resigned” him, whiclkresignaj to six months to make the journey. Iweiky-sbven, all in th< town of Day on. ( Yamhill County. State of Oregon, tion was promptly acbepted at More wagons haying crossed the Also 1 the undivided one-fifth part of the fol- Jowi ig described'tract of land in Yauibill Washington. The first Lewis knei| plains this year than any previous com ty tala of Oregon, to wit. of his resignation was wÉen hego| year sinc.e tlie completion of the B« ginning at a point on the south bank of the ainhiil river. north. 20 (b-grees west, Pacific Rdilroad. Of these an es “notice to quit” with tho incider$ uist; nt 20,feet from the northwest corner of tl e town plat of said t>wu of l>.i(yton; timate was made, rather an actual tai mention that his letter of res then ce n south " 52 ~ degré» „ s west parallel with, coupt, and.it ^was found that 6,000 ains: tjeii 1 he ’ ine of said tow u plat ..... 15 chains: tfcenbe ignation had been received and ac 'nort 117.63 chains to _ the Vai mtiill Hi ... V.nuhill river; ts meaç>L then ce down said river with its vnsaid niewiaer- cepted! And now comes Picken, --averaging two pertjons to each-- tug4 11.35 chaina to the place of beginning: coiiluuiug ten acres and, twfln.y-six perches about the forty-fourth ¡Associa® yagbns wer4 en route to Oregon, moi • oi leas. j principally farmers with their fam Justice for poor Iilaho.^-i-RfcordcA » JOHN W. CARY. Liliuinistrator. ilies and little all under canvass. r Jan 6. 1876. i 5 SPAIN, They arc now without dbubt per i Kstray JN" o tice, manently settled upon the produc Fo- some months pasjt we hav j aken U p , by the l NDERHGNED ____ _____ livitig'six miles North,)>f Laf.nette , _ .__ «’n 1 tive agricultural lands of Oregon, had periodical sensational rumoi =i or about tho Sill of Dece ber, l'jîi, one . roa. mare »bout U bands high. rears old; ol< -h. 7 years of war with Spain. Tb^t there 3 a State which, with a population no i rarks or brands perceptible. The * abov ‘ ye cstriv was this day appraised by J.T. Hem- even a probable, recessity for a wj r of 90,923 in 1870, had 1,116,290 bien, J. P., at i20,'this the 1 sili day of Dec. Is7i. ' WM. ROBERrsI Jb7.1 with Spain no reasoninijnityid wi 1 atVes jitider cultivation; and hasn’t experienced a single failure in its admit; the present and Jong cot- NOTiÇ S.1 tinued civil cominotioh in thJt crops for the thirty years it has 1 'o T whom it inav That J. " * * concern; ■ country should entitle lier to tip' been settled and cultivated.— Bos ( « T sympathy of every pdwqr wit 1 which she is at peace. Tbedigti fied tone of the recent fliplomat note in reply to the Atn|, ¡¿an cir cular on Cuban affairs slloqld com mand the respect of all great pow ers. The note declared that .tl le United States Government has i 10 occasiou for complaint at id no te able ground for its proposed at tii in the affairs existing in Cut That all just and cquitafole clait 19 between the United States ai d Cuba have been amicably and fill y satisfied, or arc in cours^ of adju®t| ment, therefore there dan be Jio cause for complaint on that scoi Without giving utterarii.ee to ai idv |K> itical opinion we wo^ld say, jet * Jer Spain alone--let her manage own affairs. We have enough r° occupy us for ye4rs to ¿oine in re- storing order in our own house hold. : ton Tran 't ripe. with t ' N PROPRIETORS. » € WOULD1 RESPECTFULLY GALI, WE the attention of the citizens of Yamhill County to the fact that we are nianufactoter* of and dealers in SASH, DOORN, BLINDS, MOLDINGS, do 5 r AND itlNDpW FJRAJUES, A • -«AL r All kinds of honsehold furniture, such »6 Chairs. Bedsteads, Safes, bu reaus, Stands. Tables.; • Whatnots, Etc. — AI.St>— ' . All kinds of fln-nnll I ing (Jone with X I* 9111 and dikpateh. Dili Oil I and see and'Jearn our>pti IS. «..»"Newell posts, haul rails and banisters made to order. Addbesss: - * SMITH, SAMPSON A CO., Lafayette, Oregon. -f no49J:m6 . '•> W. B. CAREY, LAFAYETTE, OGN., — DEALER IN— * t, Stoves, Tin, Sheet Iron & Copper-Ware, OBBING DONE WITH CAREIAMD WAR granted. AU orders front the country promptly at tended to. J no-lyj-ti I | H. B. LHTLEFltLD. ■■■-■ ............... d , „ H. W. HILL, e............. . 4 LITTLEFIELD &. HILL, $ 10 — ■ . ft REWARD I OREGON. i * 7 ,1 HAVE A LARGE AND stock of Drugs. WE lected WELI se < ■ Patent Medicines, Paints. Oils, Broshe:, Fancy and Toilet Articles, Notions, Ac., &o. ------------------------- 1----------------- ------------------------------------- --------------------- BUTCHER - SHOP I k —AT— LAFAYETTE, OREGON — ALSO— — BY— CHAS. MORRIS Cigars. Tobacco and Stationery, ¿te., Ac. Which we will sell at reduced prices foi cash. T 4J”Perscripuons filled and medicines com pounded at all hours. ' Office of Dr. H, B. Littlefield. do 34. respectfully ask a sjiare of the public patronage. j ' . ■Eresh meats constantly on hand. "Give me a call. - I , GHARLH8 MORRIS. Proprietor. no34tf . -------------- 1--------- ------!------------ ;--------- I - , ft_- ■ - ■ ÎELTÏ AND SIMPSON - J DRUGGISTS, oo< OOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOÖOOOOOO o o ■■ — o »o o o o EMIL B0P E8. o o o Watchmaker <k Jeweler, o ' o O , o M c MUNNVILLE. o o - . o- i O0OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOÖ oooooooooooooooooo o o LAFAYETTE, OREGON. -4 FOR B SA LE. —:0:— lAlLED TIMOTHY HAY FOR SALE; I also Berkshire pigs and B alitua FRED. A. CRAWFORD. C HCl lickens, ,TO RENT. S 7 AM 8TILL TO BE FOUND AT MY OLD stand ready to sen e the ,boys with a shave, bath or shampoo. i Hair cut in the latest stylp. r I « OFb 0R ',00 acres good farm VF V f Land, for cash. SeptlO Inquh-e at this office. ’ FOR SAUK, EXPRESS LINE, WB7E HAVE FOR SALE ONE OP TGC ▼ V Celebrated PARKER BF.O8. Breech FBOM ■ o typographical error occurred iu our last iesce. We were, made to apeak of Malarkey aa haring been en- g»ged ü/the magic lantern ahow bua- ineaa when we'intended to say Mal lory. LAFAYETTE, U........ YED — OR ~ STOLEN from • BAFA’S- «TRA STOI l3l e>re, about the ____ 1st t of November, 1875, ?. snrni horse; star in foreln-art: fl'.een lia i<!s high: no hiau<N. fc^T"I will ;>ay a iewar<tof *10 to Htij-one who Win give me i it l >> iiiation of bls whereabouts or bring b:in toineat Liitnvotte. i ,W*M. SULLIVAN. W ashington , Feb. 1. — The House committee on Indian affairs to-day topk final action on the question whether or not they should recommend an appropriation to sat isfy any claim for losses caused by Indian depredation®. The commit tee decided to report adversely on all such bills and'petitions referred to them, taking the ground, sub stantially/, that the government is not liable to pay for Indian depre dations, either out of thé general treasury or the Indian trust fund annuities. Representative Lane, of Oregon, voted against this re port of the rest of the corrmittee, and will submit a minority report, contending that th.e government is bound, ¡ d one way or another, to pay well established claims for los ses occasioned by the acta of its In dian wards. _______ It is now rumored that such prominent character® as Gen. John A. Logan^and Hon. Charles B. Farvell are connected with the rev enue frauds in the Chicago "Dis trict. If guilty, let them “step down and out. Let no guilty man escape.” We shall see how well thia rule is enforced. (Odd Fellows Building.) 4. : carrying on operation® is a >D- verted pugilist; another ia a •n- verted actress; another i® 11 convert- State at an early day. and the carelessness with which he tool®. ed minstrel. We notice .jMvertho- used to take Baboook’s flute to rake It is proposed, without a color lees, that the clergy assist theeeun- Now is the time—subscribe for the fire with was a oonstant manaoe of reason, to convert this worthies® ordained revivalists. to their friendship. -the C ourier . • V- To icItaiH it miy aoittem: 5 Jotice! is hereby that J. B. Harker Ha. nothing nug to do witt with running _ the Dayton Flouring Mills. J. T. HERBERT. ; J ayton , Nov. 26, 1875. S' ■ t SMITH, SAMPSOK & CO., NOTIfE. f It is surprising that so few; the revivalists who are promiijt at present belong to the clerical der or have had a theological tr# ing. Brother Moody, the most nowned of them all, is not a ¿1 gyman. Peter Dwyer .isl not i> Widow Van Cott, Mrs. Lowery, and the other three female rev val ist preachers, are not ordaine. ued' uin- iaters. One of the revivalists jor PIONEER * C hicago .-Feb. 1.—The Tribcne Washington special says a promi nent naval officer says to night that the action of the Navy Department during the last few days fully jus tifies the apprehensions of difficul ties with Cuba. It is certain that stores and munitions of war and supplies of all,kinds are being rap idly concentrated at our new naval depot at Port Royal. We bavfe a formidable squadron there under command of Rear Admiral Leroy. It is announced among naval men that this squadron is to execute a series of maueuyers within a few weeks pnder direction of Captain Stephen' 11 all, commanding the fri gate Hartford; but something more serious, m ?aning business, is con.' templatjed. Those in authority de templatjed< According to a San* Franciico ny such being the case. dispatch, the wcll-kno^rp magazine Final Action on Inclioa Uoanea. called the Overland Monthly lfas gone down at last. It has strug gled stoutly for life through mdpy years, has changed hands mere than once, and has several times been in the throes of dissolution. It an interesting magazine, and, during its ‘lifetime, gave? us many brilliant essays,, stories ¿nd poems. It did a great deal to 'de velop the small but famous clat .Sg of of California writers, at the hea J b which stands Bret ^iarte. death was inevitable. | There not enough readers on the Pai (¿fie coast to support such • magazine, and it could not succeed in' beet m- ing the rival of the leading ma( za- zines in the East. j J bits nothing to do C. VauRenssttleer “ with runuiug tho Dayton Flouring Mi is. J. B Ilarker. . u49:inl j Apprehensions of Difllc/iity CuOa. ..HS MISCELLANEOUS. ding Shot Guns, at a bargain- THETARKER CUN DAÏTBH TO ST. JOSEPH. I WILL run a hack from Dayton to St. Jo», via Lafayette, connecting with the ears rv- All business promptly attended to. decll’74:tf J. BEST. <> ESSEX HOTEL, SEND STAMP FOR CIRCULAN PARKER BRO'S WEST MERI DEN,CT 78no39-ly D.L TURPIN,' Proprietor, LAFAYETTE, OBKOON. - HAVING THOROUGHLY refurnished the house, I am prepared to oilier supe rior accommodations to guests. ' Qjri respectfully ask a thereof the public patronage. H a . . Di L. TUBPIN. i !