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About Ashland tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1878)
A* INDEPENDENT ON ALL SUBJECTS, AND DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHERN OREGON. I ASHLAND, GIÆG0N: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY VOL. IL—NO. 34. ASHLAND TIDINGS. PROFESSIONAL. — ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY — DANIEL GABY, The Press and the Plow. We envy not tbe prioctly man, In city or la town, Who wood-re whether pumpkin Tines Turn np the hill or down. We care nut for bi* mu bl« hall«, Nor yet hi» be.pa of gold; We would not own bi» b .rdil heart For »1! Bi» wealth Iwlo told. ATT()K\EÏ.AT-IAW, NOTARY PUBLIC O. C. APPLEGATE de CO. and OFFICE—On Main Street, (in rear Dr. REA L ESTA TE A GEN T. - B Y- Chitwood’s Drug Store.) ABB LAND, OREGON. Terms of Subscription : M. L. McCALLj. O m copy one year................... ...................... -- ■• I 2.50 1.50 “ “ »ix month»............. .............. — 1 00 “ •• three “ ................. ...................... . 12.50 Club retee »ix copies fur............-................... Teraae, ia advance. purveyor and Civil En^fneer, __ ASHLAND, •r .lOcts. >10 oo 3 oo 5 00 8 0i . 10 00 . 14 M . 17 50 LVGAL advkbti . kmenth ■O m square (teu line* or ir»*) Ut lu ertion. Each additional inserì ion............................ >2.50 1.00 OREGON, is prepared to do any work in I is line on short no. lice. [nu27tf] Terna* of Advertising: Itocal No! io* per line......... Frofe*»i >Dai Caid», per je«r Two locber, per quarter Four •' “ EiXrtt “ “ Oie-tL If Column “ Three-fourtha “ “ One “ “ We are the favored or«» of earth. We breathe pure air e.icu morn, We Bow, we re«p the gi lden grain, We gaiter in toe corn. We toil -we live on * hat we earn, And more than thi« we do— We he«r if etarviug miliious round, And gludly fatd them too. i I. O. Müler Jbe lawyer lives on princely fees, Yet dtagSfa weary life, He Lever kuowe a peuoful hour, His ainiwBpbere is »trife. A merchant thumb* hie yardstick o'er, Grows haggard at hie toil. He's not the man God me .nt him for, Why don't be till the toil ’ Architect und Bnilfler^ GRANITE STREET - - ASHLAND. - g in bis line on ehort no’ice and luweet uime. n‘v2it W ILL uu do the »nythli j. o. c. wiMjca J«4> Printing, J. WELLS The doctor plod« through storm ami rajo— Pl-ds at hie patient's will; When dead and got e he plods ag dp To get hie eug'.by bill. The printer—bie»» bi* noble sou.! He grasps the m'ghty a-rth, And bLiiups it ou the d Jiy sheet Jo cheer th« Lborer’e hearth. WIMER & WELLS. Of *B description, done on short notice. I«gal Blanks, Circulars, Basine«» Ctrds, B.l head», letter - bmir, Fusor», etc., gutieu up iu good Biyle at livitg pria». Agents for the Tidings. •L. B«mue’», .... Port hind, Oregon. Jacob Too upeou, ... “ '• J. A Alejjaie, ----- Saiem M. L. Ctt nibethu - Dr N. L Le* - - . . Junction Oily. Tbaicner A W or Jen - I.iokviue. A. F. SuHiiug, ----- L.keri-w, J. P. Rubrr », ... - Merx.tur-er. A. Huu*ly, - ... - Bm>uza. JS. M. Prt'engi‘1 A Co., . - • - New York. H<>wel! tc Cnee email, ... St. I aiui ». I. P. Fia-er,................................. 8 in FraiM iecu, T «♦«. Boyce, ... . — - “ “ -J. R. Neu, — - - • Jack« nvilje. 8 Sergent, ■ - - • - Pi œurx. .El. R. U*H), - • OnTi'l P<HUI. MH* Aine W. Cuhtg, - - R«» k Point Petit H. Burl - — •- -- • Youciha. ♦C H. Dynr, D. iry Mi-» U ly McC be ... - A»' I J. M S u I' imi , Gemrai Aveutfoi Jackton aud Juee- ,]>hiae OHiitl e-. Cant. D. J F^rr*e Geweml Ag-ntforL k* conr»y .Stages leave Ashland as follows The O A<C. Stage Co.^inge leave Asbl md lor Jarkaout ill®. Rook Poim and Rose bill g ev«ry d»y at (> a. m. Mail do es at 5:30 a. xu. For llenlv, Yiek i and Reading at 6 p. ni. Mill c'e^e« nt 5;:’.0 p. m. ♦GirrettA Eeirev’» Singes Imre Ashland every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning* tor Linkville, and return on every Tru sdny. Thursday and Saturday. IL^are Linkville tor Like City, California, / Wednesdays ; arrive al Lake City Batnr- rlays : leave Lake Citv Mondays ; arrive nt Linkville Thursdays, carrying mail aud passengers. A. D. HELMAN, P. M. Practical Millwrights. .Flouring inilis, saw mills, quarts mills, and ak ki-.ds ot unit luaebiuery put up to <>rder in ibe veiy best style. All »orkw u- raiiied. Saiis-action guaranteed, address eiiber. or lio'h.at Ashland. Oregon. [29’t. D. S. SCOTT Oregon. Ashland An abundance of go< d brick always on hand at my ki.t, vue nule 1K,rib of AeUKiai. I nm also prepared to do i-U kinds of thick work io tbe Ver> beat lLb.Uuer. a Ashland Lodge No. 23 XX a . F. A A. M.. Huid» tlwir »tatul cumn>i»ication» Thurt-doy even Ing« on or before i lie fill I moon. Brethren iu good •lauding are cordialiy invi'ed to I. W. H. ATKINSON, W. M. J. 8. I vbamk », Sec’y. “I would :he fount of Ci»taly H d Lever wet niy lips, For woe to Ulm tbit hastily Its »/.cred water »ip, I” D. S. SCOTT. V2u26-61U T. G. WATTERS, LAND AGENT. Aehland, Jackson County. Oregon. Will attend U> the buyjtqr anti selling of UiC&txlU All business eutriistptl to me will ieceive piuHipt iitten ion. I w ill cheertidly answer »11 le'ter» of in quiry in legiFU io this poitio . oi Oregon — lis Chinate, .-oil. 1’rociu ts rtc. Reference given il requited. v2i»24] T G. WATTERS. J. W. BIGGS, Ashland Lodge No. 189,1. ©. G. T. Meets at the Hatt of Helman & Fountain every Friday evening at 8 o'clock p. m . B i other* and -Pieters in good standing nre cordially invited to at tend T .e Temple meets every firrt ani tbltd Wed- > nesday in e-.ch month. ELLA ANDERSON, W. C. T. F. W alteb M ykh Ses y. PcftSF, Give me a trial and rest assured that I can satitfy you. . % PHQÏOGRàPBIC SOCIETl El We ting the honor of the Plow, Aud honor to tbe Piees — Two noble iuenumeute of toil, E ch wi h a power io bless. The bone, tbe nerve of ibis f*.»t agv, True worth of bum.n kind; One 111« the ever f ithful earth, The other tins the mind. ARTIST, Oregon. Ashland I am r ow permanently’located in this pl tee, at d req e dully asks the patronag of ibe citizens. ALL WORK WARRANTED To give Entire S tisfactÌQn. The Times. prices to suit A vi ry natural inference it is, drawn from tbe above quotation, that the gilt of song is Dot, at all times aud in ¿very respect, an enviable ono. Not that its • ffect upon tbe perpetrators of rhythmic splendors isu’t exquisitely delightful— for no person more than thja poet feels aud knows the meaning of the word ecstasy—but there is a feeling common to nearly all votaries of the Muse, that they are upder special obligations to offer something more than an »ordinary excuse for their existence among men. Mediocrity meets with encouragement and patronage in nearly every other calling of life, and is often preferred or mistaken for superior talent; but tbe mere poetaster is an invariable victim to ruthless ridicule, and must bear tbe buffets of al) classes, and all grades of intelligence Goldsmith, notwithstanding tbe splendor of bis geuius, was made to feel the effects of this raillery, and he, no doubt expresses a feeling common to most off those who have tried ‘Thit fountain’s witchery On old P.iruaseue’ crown,” When he speaks of poetry as being, •‘In crowds His shame, bls solitary pride.” Equally commob to many, too, was his muse experience in a financial point of view: HOTELS. Ashland Lo&tfti No. <5, I. O. O. F.» Hold their regular meeting every Saturday even- Ung at their bnll in A»hhnd. Brothers iu good • standing are cordially invi.ed to at'end. A. D. HELMAN, N. G. R. P. NEIL, Rec. Ssc’y. Rebekah meetings on Tuesday evening, nearest •he full of tbe moou men month. PROFESSIONAL J. A. .APHEGATL Attorury and (Eounselor-at-iaw SALEM OREGON. ASHLAND HOUSE “Thou f.utd’st Tie poor at firs', and T this “Ah, who wll tnkejny outcast rhyme*; 7b»: kr-w nor name, nor hearth; Put rained like crow Ing r.utumn leaves Upon a glutted earth !” LONG ESTABLISHED HOUSE, where he Is ready at any time, and on all occasions io set be'oie litem ibe t esi tbe Perhaps it is well, in the long run niarkei affords, in a style second to tio other bouse in Oiegon. that those who seek to scale tbe heights Dinners and suppers for special occasion», of Helicon and bathe in the sparkling gotten up in appropiiuie style, al i-bo t no waters ot the Hippociene, are made to tice. JASPER HOUCK. triumph, if they triumph at all, against severest odds and manifold disadvan tage!«; otherwise, the world might be vouchsafed an infiictimi too grievous to be borne, in tbe “harmonious flow of vocal sounds,” and such as would be chiefly interesting to their authors. But this fact does not render any the less contemptible the inane wit so often embodied in ignorant criticism Byron, in.his day, seems to have reached tbe conclusion that no very great amoput of'previous preparation was mecesaary to constitute a man a.critic. P ioneer H otel . > ■ DR. J. H. CHITWOOD, O regon . .A shland , OFFICE—At the Ashland Drug Store. J. R. NEIL, ^TFOR^Y AT-LAM’J Jacksonville. Oregon. DR. J. S,JACKSON. .PALYS1CIAN and SURGEON. -JACKSONVILLE OREGON. t Graduate of the Belkvue Hospital Medical Oo'lege, ?N«*Jiork. [v2al9tf m» so.” And many, oh, bow many I are compell he undersigned wishes to re . iiiiuu bis friends, aud 'h« traveling pub ed to cry out iu the bitterness of despair: lic generally, that be is still io be ioutuj al Linkville, Lake County, Oregon The subscriber is again in charge of the O ld P ioneer H otel of the Lake country, and is determined to make his guests Comfortable and Happy. Give him a call and rest assured that he will make you feel at home [2-29tf. GEORGE NURSE. “Critics »11 are ready made,’’ and be might have added that their im portance, like the importance of every LAKtVlEW COTT ABE.I thing else that is tbe out growth of lit J. W. HAMAKAR. A Pleasant and Homelike House situated tie labor, is about commensurate with — AT — NOTARY PUBLIC. Humming Bird Springs, near the easy facility of their origin Our lllNKVILUE LAKE CO., OREGON. own “wild Byron of the unfarrowed JKlaniath Lake, plains,” Joaquin Miller, has expressed in Pint tO/fiee Building. Special Eleven miles from Linkville, on the road to .atteatiwi given to conveyancing. [2 19tf. his idea of tbe matter very beautifully Ft. Klauiatb, Lake Co., Oregon. as follows: H. KELLEY, Attorney and CouDsellor-at-Law, J acksonville , O rison . Win practice tn all tbe Coarts of tbe Bute. Prom, at en loo given to all business intrusted to my care. OrvtcE.—In tbe boildt»g formerly occupied Fahtar A Watson, opposite Court Houfe. Attention paid to tbe wants of guests Tbe subscriber a'so keeps a Good Stable well supplied with hay aud grain. Cail ana see if he can keep hotel. D. J. Ferree. I “Ths poet’s passion—lofty pi We— The sentiment—tbe wool g throng Of sweet temptatione thaib-tide Tue wild sod w»y ward caiid of soog, Tbe world knows not.” Poor Joaquin! he has had to pay 1, 1878. dearly, at times, for bra temerity in daring to bestride Pegasus; yet he his written'much that will long be prized by those who love poetry for its own sake and in spite of tUe rid iculous eccen tricities of its aatuor. The worl 1, though, as a general thing, is too prac tical, or too much absorbed in tbe rival- pursuit of riches, to know or care much about “the wild and wayward child of song ” The limited few usually give direction to popular taste; while the “m^b,” if anything, is more eager to cry down than up the fame of the trem bling aspirant to poetical renown, and that, simply because the greater mass of people have no opinions of their own in such matters. To correctly criticise a master piece of painting, is said to require an artist equal.y great with the oue that produc ed it. The same ru|e bolds good, in a measure, with regard to poesy. Au in tense love of it is nut always born iu tbe individual. It. is more frequently the result of cultivation aud habits of life. As people become more and more acquaiutpd with the best literature of tbe age; as they forget to be selfish aud cease to be fond of earthly turmoil; as they rise to a higher plaue uf human happiness aud intellectual enjoyment, they are apt to become patrons aud lov ers of poetry. “Poetry,” says C >le- ndge, “hits been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me tue habit of wishing to discover the good aud beautiful it) all that meets and sur rounds mo.*' Is it not a pity, then, that so many people permit a maudliu sentimentali ty to thwart them in the possession of such a habit? To recommend a more universal study of the art of poetry in our schools aud colleges, would be al most tantamount to furnishiug self-suf ficient evidence of one’s fitness (Uf a position iu tbe Insane Asylum, yet such a recommendation, if carried out, would not be wholly devoid of advan tages. There is no valid reasou why all persons who read and write should not uuderstand at least the mechanical con struction of verse. Not that it is abso lutely incumbent on all such to become victims to the mania or folly of publish ing the result of their mental throes; that may be left, as at present, to those who haye courage to brave the atten dant odium; but the discipline which such e^oercises give tbe mind is valua ble in any other effort at marshaling what some writer felicitously calls “soldiers of expression,” i. e., words. Let all who wish, then, partake of the water ot Gastalia. As Joseph O’Connor, a writer who has unmistak ably beeu there, say»: $2.00 PER ANNUM OREGON AND KANSAS. ARIZONA. A person who resided temporarily in Oregon a year or two ago, says the Oregonian, bat ia now in K iqsm , baa We make the following extract from published in one of the papers of that a letter written to Nelson Stephenson State a warning to people who may of Linkville, bv John La Tourette, think of coming to Oregon. He aaya da ed Camp McDowell, Dec. 30, 1377: he has seen six dollars an acre rent paid “You may think me a loug time in in this fútate, and only aeren bushel^ writiug to you, but I did not intend to of wheat to the acre harvested; bat write until I found out which way the eveq be appears to think this a result “toad would jump.” I think I have of poor farming, for be says if a man now found out and I will try to give understands putting in whe«>t properly, you a full history of bis leap. You he may get twenty-five bushels to thq ask me how I lik-« the country and cli acre. He adds these statements: “Tn is mate; I answer, I like tuem very well. wheat the farmer must sell at an aver- What of the general surface pf the age price of seventy-five cents Per bush- country? I answer, rough and rocky el, which gives bin $18 75. Takiqg —inexpressibly so. Jiow much land his rent from this, he has $12 50 left, in th- Territory is fit for cultivation ? and $1 »0 for seed, and be has $11 I answer, about one acre to evejy hun Then it costs for heading, threshing, dred. Where do you find tbe land and sacking ready for marekt, thirty- you cultivate? We find what little five cents per bushel at tbe lowest iz there is for cultivation on the rivers; j ares, which would leave him $1 50 per such as the Verde, Salt, Gjilia, San acre for bis plowing, aotyjng, ditching, Pedro and Little Colorado. Is there and all bis work.” With this showing no land away from those rivers fit for there is a word of caution agsinst leav; cultivation? Yea; you will find small ing so good a country as Kinase for a patches of land ou all the tributaries home ou tbe Pacific coast, from which which form these mtjic rivers. Can many, be says, would gladly ref uro if you get to all of these out-side places they only had the means to do so. handily? Yes, if you will make you a We are informed that tbe writer QÍ rope ladder, and let yourself down this letter is one R. W. Harris, into the box like canyons, one tbous- I now lives in Linn county, Kansas. In aud feet. Are they all as bad as that ? 1875 he borrowed most of tbe money No, you can reach some of them with necessary to move himself and wife to pack animals. Could yon make wagon Oregon. For a year be reaided at Brooks* roads to them ? You could,by expend- I i ; Station, Mqion county, in this State. ing three millions six hundred thous His trade is blacksmithing. In that and. V/hen you get to these places, one year he realized enough from his how much laud do you fiid ? From ' work to repay the loan and oonvey him- 40 to 60 acre*, first on one side of i self and wife back to Ivinsas, and have the stream, then on the other. Can i a handsome &um left. It not occur you grow grain and vegetibles without | red to him that a country which offers- irrigating? No, without water every- j advantages like this may be a very thing “goes dead.” I* the soil good ; good one, rather than the bad oontry to produce a crop? Yes, it canuot be he would represent it. beaten in any country. How is tbe There is not a farmer in Oregon, ex ouuntry for grazing? It cannot be cept in distant localities out of reach of beaten, that is, as a whole, for there i transporatiou, who is not making more is a vast amount of grazing land where money than the farmer In K tusas, and there is no water. The wuole country doing it with less labor. Wheat, tbe abound« in grass; all the mountain j great and sure crop yields a profit ranges have plenty of grass and water. which can be derived froin no pjqp irj As a general thing, in the winter, there K insas. Large wealth is often acquir is plenty of water in the low ranges. ed here iu raising wheat alone. Nor Iu making the change, you wouid have has the grasshopper plague ever caused to drive from forty to^ne hundred and a famine in Oregon, tweaiy-five miles. This depends upon tbe range you seek. GENERAL NEWS. How are your mines ? They are now (Conlen?el from Oregioun and Cdl Disp itches. ] making gigantic strikes in miuiug. The Sc. Louis, Jan. 20.— Advices from miues that have been opened, have been sold out to capitalists who are now put- Te^as say Indians raded in Mason Oo. tiug up quarts mills to work them. a few days ago; killed two men and There will be plenty of money in circu ran off a large number of cattle aod horses. U. 8. troops and Texas rang lation next summer. “JT-'tir j>>y will be to think of B; Is there land to be located yet ? Yes, ers are in pursuit. T a ill ever hauut your dreuu»; plenty of it ou the Sau Pedro, south of Newburyport, M ass ., Jan. 2Q.—Jas. "You'll ihir*t «g -iu to drink of it this place about 200 miles; but they Hennessey, aged 12 years, intending to Among a tuuusand streatus!” F. have the ague there and it is little set frighten some little girls, took a loaded W illiams C reek , Jan. 18th, 1878. tled as yet. Bat oue emigrant Jias gone gun, which went off, killing Rosa Far- there that I know; that is Oliver Swin rel, aged six, aud wounding two others. LETTER from big butte . gle. Tue AXulholluuds have sold opt New York, Jan. 21.—Win. M. Tweed J an . 20tb, 1878. what cattle tuey bad left, and are going has made application to the supreme E ditor T idings ;—Tue snow has back to Oregon again. Spry and Mil driveu tbe deer < ff the high mountains ler intend going back if they can sell court for his discharge under the poor and now those like unto Esau of old out their cattle. In fact, scarcely a debtor act. He was taken to the oour^ “make the welkin ring” from early person comes to this country who does but the hearing of the case yw ppat- poned. dawn eveu until dusky eve. not become disgusted with it and roll With glilteriug artillery, two of out agaiu. They expected to find the Belgrade, Jan. The Berviati Dardanelles’ brave sportsmen camo up ftavior rifling chief of this territory and, troops have captured Pristina, and here durjug the late ‘freeze up.” consequently, tbe land flowing with reoccupied Kershiemli after an en They brought a four-horse team, aud mils aud hone/; but when they found gagement, in which the Tarka lost 40Q likewise a yow not to return unto Sod that the Chief had changed his locality Killed and wounded, and .459 Turks om and Gomorrah until their tour aud had given up his right to Beelze were captured. horse wagon was loaded down with bub, and chat he having consumed all San Francisco, jTan. .21.— Over a deer. They hunted one eveuing, aud the surplus milk and honey, they had thousand men have applied l°r work at the next morning borrowed a piece of to buy everything at a round price— the filling in of Mission Bay, to day. Vacou and departed heuce, in disgust, fl>ur at $12 per hundred;coffee, 40cts ; About three hundred aud fifty men with a broken vow*. Aud now it transpires that, in the sugar, 20 cents; syrup, $3 per gallon; have been set at work thus far. Others * person ot Mrs. Mary Gage, we have a bacon, 40 cents per pound, and every will be put on as rapidly as possible. first-rate artist. Mrs. G.—has recently thing eke in proportion—they got Chicago, Jan. 21.—The Times* Wash« pointed a picture that would do credit ‘sktered” and concluded this country ingtpn special says: Oae of the most to older hands at the busiuess. With some practice, something more tbau was too hot for them. modest bills of the present session was ordinary urti-tic sk'il will be developed As for me, I am satisfied with the introduced, to’-day, asking G »▼em in our Butt Creek painter country and shall stick to it. I can sell We want tbe P >*i»l D nartment to my butter for 75 cents, one dollar, aud inent aij t$> the extent of $5 ),000.000 to bail«) a railroad from the Atiantio to * awake Irom its Rip Van Winkle” nap < a dollar and a half per pound — Six bits and give uulo us a Postuffiee. We the Pacific, via Indian «polis, Chicago surely have tbe requisite namfier of is the least price you get for your but I and Omaha. It has sixty pages and citizens to entitle us to this considera ter. Is there not money in making tion. As matters now staud,-we have butter? I think there is. Will not serves to make tbe generality of the Pa cific lulls appear ridiculous. * * co travel from .12 to 20 miles for our mail matter. Postal tVgeut, please seventy-five dollars per hundred for London, Jan. 21.—The royal geo butter .pay? It pays me, anyhow. My hearken unto us One of Dardanelles’ mo<t. wealthy cattle are rolling fat. My beef I sell at graphical society has resolved to givp farmers is destined to “burst.” One of I fi cents; B*rley 2 c?nts; fl »ur, $4 per . a banquet iu honor of Henry M. Stan h*a hired men went tp tbe gri*t mill a ley, aud to invite Kim to real a paper few days since, and as soon as he got hundred; potatoes 8 aud 10 eent»; eggs there, bedwa* weighed. After eating are worth now in Prescott, one dollar on his explorations. dinner he had gained niue pound«. City of Mexico, Jan. 13 — President Just think of it—twenty-seven poands aud fifty ceats per doz—six bits is the Diaz utilizes tbe army for works qf per day, or 9,855 poaud« of fl >ur and ruling prioe.” Mr. Li Tourette closes peace. Tbe soldiers are engaged ,iu bacon in one year. “That's the way bis letter by wishing all his old Oregon draining the Mexican valley and work* the money goes,” etc. ing on the roads. friends a happy New Year. J oiinny S moker . A Very Interesting Detter fron} an Oregon Emigrant. I I 1 a I V *■ • À
