INDEPENDENT ON ALL SUBJECTS, AND DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHERN OREGON ASHLAND! OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1879. VOL IV.—NO. 17 ASHLAND TIDINGS. SO HE DOES. He 'lights upon your head, A naughty word is said, • As with a rap, A vicious slap, You bang the spot Main Street, Ashland. Where he is not. He laughs, and rubs his gauzy wings, He scratches head and legs, and Hings; He slyly grins, And then begins Some mischief new The undersigned from and after April At once to brew. 18th, projiose to sell only for And just as you have grown serene, Recovered of your golden spleen, CASH IN HAND With blustering buzz he boldly goes Or approved produce delivered—except Half up your nose. You sneeze when by special agreement—a short t And wheeze, and limited credit may begiven.,»' • And ’gin to swear, When, boo! right in your ear They have commenced receiving their The rascal drives pell-mell. And now you rage and tear, my friend; New Spring Stock, and that every You wish him evil without end; day ¡will witness additions tq You want him sent to—well the largest stock of Most truly I Do hate a fly. J. M. McCall & Co ÏMMtien liberal term.«. P RO FESSION AL. DR. J. H. CHITWOOD, : ASHLAND, : : OREGON. : OFFICE—At the Ashland Drus Store. JAMES R. NEIL, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Jacksonville, Oregon. J. W. HAMAKAR, PUBLIC, NOTARY Linkville, Laks Co., Oregon. OFFICE— In PostfUffleo building. S|»ecial attention iven to conveyancing M. L. M'CAU, Ashland, Oregon. Is prepared to ilo any work in bis line on short notice. DR. W. B. ROYAL, Has permanently located in Ashland. Will give his undivided attention to the practice of medicine. IIx« had fifteen years' experience in Oregon. Oftiiu at liis residence, oh Main street, opposite the M E. Church. DR. WILL JACKSON, DENTIST. ; : : Ever brought to this market. They < ile- sire to say to every reader of this paper, that if Standard Goods! Sold at the Lowest Market Prices, will do it, they proj»ose to do the largest business this spring and summer ever done by them in thu last five years, and they can posi­ tively make it to the advantage of every one to call upon them in Ashland and test the truth of their assertions. They will spare no pains to maintain, more fully than ever, tho reputation of their House, as the acknowledged SURVEYOR i CIVIL ENGINEER, Jacksonville, General Merchandise ! HEADQUARTERS! For Staple anil Fancy Goods, Groceries’, Hardware, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Millinery, Dress Goods,Crockery,Glass and Tin Ware, Shawls, W rappers,Cloak«, And, in fact, everything required for the trade of Southern and South­ eastern Oregon. A full assert men t of : Oregon. Will vi.it Ashland in May and November, and Kerbyville the fourth Monday in Octo­ ber, each year. Ashland, Sept. 15, 1878. THE ASHLAND MILLS ! IRON AND STEEL For Blacksmiths’ and General use. A Full Line of Ashland Woolen Goods! Flannels, Blankets, Cassimeres, Doeskins, Clothing, always on hand and for sale at lowest prices. The highest market prices paid for W e will continue to purchase wheat Wheat, Oats, Barley, Bacon, lard. —A T— Come One ami All. The Highest Market Price, J. N. MefALL A. CO. And will deliver Flour, Feed. Etc., Anywhere in town, AT MII.I. rRIC’ES, Wagner <*■ An«ler«on. JAMES THORNTON, JACOB WAGNER, W. H. ATKINSON, E. K. ANDERSON. THE • ASHLAND ASHLAND WOOLEN livery, Sale&Feed MANU FAC Í? CO., STABLES, ARE NOW MAKING FROM Main Street, : : Ashland. I have constantly on hand the very best SADDLE nORNF.M. BL’UUIKM AXI) CAHBUBES, And can furnish my customers with a tijvtop turnout at any time. The Very Best NIAITIIVEIWOOL! BLANKETS, HORSES BOARDED FLANNELS, On reasonable terms, and given the best attention. Horses bought ami sold ajid satisfaction guaranteed in ij all my transactions. II. F. Plill.I.IP.M ASHLAND < ICMARBLEM » WORKS. CASSIMERES, DOESKINS, AND HOSIERY. S our patrons ^ OLD AND NEW, J. H. RUSSELL, Proprietor. Are invited to send in their orders and are assured that they Having again kettled in this place and turned mJ mjr entire attention to the Marble Business, I am pre- pared to fill all orders with neat­ ness and dispatch. Monuments, Tablets, anerity; “one of those everlasting ped­ dlers again ? Oh, it’s only a scissors grinder.” “And very fortunate, too,” said Mrs Satterly, a pale, over worked little woman, with light liair and faded com­ plexion; “for my shears are so bad I can’t cut with ’em. And there’s the embroidery scissors, and a pair that be­ longs to the mending basket, and—” “How much do you ask a pair?” de­ manded Maude, sailing out on the gar­ den path, with her pretty feet thrust into slip shod slippers, soiled wrapper tore down on one side, and her hair yet in the loose, tangled curls, which had hung like coiled gold down her ncek the night before. The man—a swart-browed, stooping foreigner—set his wheel upon the grass, bowed low, with a smile that discloset teeth gleaming whitely through his thick, bushy beard, and held up six fin­ gers in pantomimic gesture. “That’s too much.” said Maude. “He can’t understand you,” sail Eleanor, laughing. Miss Satterly shook her head,stamper the little untidy foot, held up six pairs of scissors in various stages of dilapida­ tion, and displayed a silver quarter of a dollar. The scissors grinder smiled again, anc made an obeisance nearly to the ground, and assented to tho bargains with nu­ merous nods and signs. “Isn’t he funny?” said Eleanor. “Horrid velveteen-coated fellow!” said Maude. To think that he belongs to the same humanity as my Algernon!” “He looks tired and thirsty,” sail gentle-hearted Olive. “I’ve a grea; mind to offer him a cool drink.” “You’ll do no such thing,” sail Maude, imperiously. “Ill have no sis­ ter of mine running to wait on scissors grinders! |Mamma, is that chocolate ready yet?!’ “Chocolate!” repeated poor Mrs. Sat- terly, with a conscience stricken air; “I declare, Mamie, 1 forgot all about it. But I’ll run directly and seo it boiling. », Maudo Satterly crimsoned to the very temples. “Forgot!” .shouted she. ‘•You're al­ wavs forgetting! I never saw any one ike you in my life! No, I wont have it now. If von can’t prepare my chocolate when 1 want it you shan’t prepare it at all. I should think you might have thought of it, Olive.”, “I am very soriy, Maude," liegan Olive, apologetically; “for all that I hink you ought not to speak so crossly to Mamma.” “Hold your tonguo,” said Maude, stamping her foot again. “Do you sup- »oso I am going to be tutored by you? I sliall speak as 1 please, and so 1 give you fair warning. Dear me, how that scissors grinder’s buzzing makes my head ache!” And she swept into the house like a ’air fury. When Olive came in a few minutes afterward, with the six pairs of scissors all sharpened and burnished up to a scientific state of brilliancy, her sister was lying on the sofa with her face .urned toward the wall and her eyes resolutely closed. “Oh, dear me!” thought Olive. “I’m afraid she’s in ono of her sulking fits, that lasts twenty-four hours at a time.” And she took advantage of the cir­ cumstances to pour out a goblet of ice water, and offered it surreptitiously to .ho swarthy Italian, when sho carried out the silver quarter that he had so lanlly earned. He bowed low once more, after the oriental fashion, drank it eagerly, and astonished Olivo very much by raising ler hand to his lips, as ho uttered the words, ‘-‘Buoii giomo, signoria!” and ile- larted. “I suppose it’s his foreign way,” said Olive, turning very rosy. “Oh, Eleanor, don’t tell her!” said Olive, blushing deeper than ever. “Of course T shan’t,” said Eleanor. S’2 50 PER ANNUM The Dwelling House of the Fu lure. * Crimes Against Women. Six months ago the whole community was shocked by the discovery of a brutal murder which had l»een perpetrated with the most horrible and revolting circumstances. A young girl who had been wronged as only a woman can be wronged, and then murdered, mutilated, crowded into a trunk while her flesh was still warm, whs thrown into Sangus river, and found floating there last Feb­ ruary. Only now have the perpetrators of this crime been discovered. Those who were her immediate murderers may re­ ceive their punishment.. But is there any law that can reach the case of Allen N. Adams, of Boston Highlands, who, while the girl was earning a living as an inmate in his family, was the first cause of all that followed ? He was a man of mature years. It was on her 20th birthday that she was found lead in the river. So young and yet so wronged ! She was old enough indeed to know better. But the mature man lured her to her ruin ! His crime is one of the gravest as well as one of the grossest. But this sin against women never gets its deserts. » Last year in New York a woman's voice was heard in shrieks, and when a policeman ap[»eared he found a young girl, yet in her teens, in a chamber with a man who said he hail got her in a dance-house and had kept her where she was a month or so, but he had Just told her he was tired of her and should leave her ; and then she shrieked and ran to the closet, took her clothes anil thrust them into the fire, and said she would kill herself. She was takon to the po­ lice court for trial. There sho told that she went to Coney Island for a holiday. As she walked on the sands the man who had just been found with her spoke to her politely, and walked along, talk­ ing pleasantly, till they came to an eat­ ing house. Then he asked her to lunch with him. Knowing nothing, anil hence fearing nothing, she went into lunch. The next she knew she woke to find herself in one of the vilest and most no­ torious of the bail houses in that city. Evidently she hail been drugged. The fellow told her the stato of the case; that she would now be ashamed to go home, uul that the only thing she could do was to stay with him and he would tako care of her, etc. The poor young thing, ignorant, bewildered, distressed, wild with grief, shame and dismay, accepted his ¡ncmise to take care of her. Now, when he told her he was tired of her, anil should leave icr to shirk for herself, at first she had rent the air with shrieks, thrust her clothes into the tire and said sho would dll herself. All this was told with con­ vulsive sobs which so moved tho heart of lie judge that lie said sternly to the young man, “What have you to say for yourself!” He admitted the truth of her statements, but said : “Send her up, Judge; send her up. Give her a month or two. It, will do her good.” The Judge ordered him to leave the court room, saving he was “sorry he could not give him liis deserts.” And iie went out, no doubt glad to escape from the reproach­ ful eyes of his victim, free to create such another tragedy, and no law to punish him.—Boston Journal. If the world grows wiser as it grows older, the city of the future will be so built as to allow each residence to stand in the center of a lot from seventy-five to one hundred feet square, with a wide open space in front and back and sales. In fact, the city householder will have a dooryard and such as ho most likely played in as a boy in the country. The real estate owners of this grasping gen­ eration would doubtless hang themselves in despair if some great sanitary revolu­ tion should threaten to comjvel them to Sell building lots only in accordance with such a plan; but it is the simple truth that men are fools to go on building houses on the present abominable plan. The city house of to day is merely a box, long, thin and high, without openings at the sides, and communicating with the outside air only by a few windows and doors at the front and rear. If it is a largo house there are rooms in the mid­ dle—probably sitting rooms or sleeping rooms—into which the sun’s rays never penetrate, and under the conditions which govern most of the houses in New York and Brooklyn. Its best rooms are not faiily lighted and cheerful for more than three hours in the day, and gaslights and furnaces are called on in Winter to supply what the sun cannot. Any conclusion based on theso facts, as a compensating coolness in Summer, would l>o misleading. The fact is that our brown-stone and brick houses be­ come storage reservoirs for heat in the Summer, and this cannot lie radiated from the sides, but only from the front and rear, it follows that tho refreshing coolness that ought to como soon after sunset is delayed till toward morning, after the tortured inmates of the house have nearly sighed their souls away in vain longings for a cooling breeze. If houses were built with an open space on every side, instead of being put up like mere pigeon holes, it would be possible to plan them that every living-room might be well lighted, every sleeping­ room well sunned, and all their inhabit­ ants have plenty of air, with a chance to benefit by the grateful breezes that sometimes tempt the heat of an August ****** night. It would be interesting to com­ “Well, what luck,” deman led Guy pare (he mortality rate of an ideal city Mariner, as he sat smoking at his of this kind with that of the New York window that evening, ami hailed with of to-day.-—New York Times. acclamation the approach of Algernon Medlicote. Pike’s Peak Signal Station. “I’ve won my wager.” “No 1” About six years ago, the United “But, by the shades of Mohammed, I States signal service station was estab­ have !” asserted Medlicote, sitting down lished on the summit of Pike’s Peak, where the cool breeze of twilight could 14,336 feet above the level of the sea. fan liis brow. It is the highest, and is now considered “How did you manage?” one of the most important stations on “I disguised myself as a scissors the globe, e-pecially for the study of as­ grinder, and put the family shears in tronomy and meteorology. The rarity [»erfeet order.” of the atmosphere at this high altitude “Did they suspoct —the young ladies, gives a remarkable brilliancy to the I mean?” stars and all the heavenly bodies. On “Not in the least.” the highest point of the summit stands “And how does the ‘fair one with the the signal station, a one story building, golden locks’ appeal’ in the seclusion of 24 by 30 feet, containing four rooms — her own home ? ’ officer's room, kitchen, store room and “Like a slovenly virago,” said he. wood room. The station is now in “Had it. been anything else than the tes­ charge of officers Sweeney, Choate and timony of my own eyes 1 couldn’t have Blake. Usually two officers are at the believed it. But Olive—little brown­ station on the summit, and one here to eyed Olive—she is a jewel of the first receive the reports ¡»er telegraph end water.” transmit them to tho department at “So you have transferred your alleg- Washington. Four regular observa­ ianco from ono sister to another?” tions are taken daily at the appointed laughed Mariner. “But isn’t it rather minute, and every particular in regard hard for the divine Maude to lose both to wind and weather is carefully record­ her wager and her lover at the same ed, such as direction and velocity of the time ?” wind, highest range and mean lowest “It’s a rosebud mouth,” said Medlicote, barometer and thermometer, mean hu­ gravely shaking his head, “but the sharp midity, number of clear, fair, cloudy and words spoiled it.a perfect Cupid’« bow; foggy days, rain fall, snow fall, etc. In the hair was like spun gold, but crimp­ case of unusual storms in any part of ing papers are not becoming to the fe­ the country extra observations are taken male face. And upon the whole, at any hour of tho day and night and Mariner, I think I have reason to be reported to headquarters. There are only grateful forever and ever to the scissors two seasons in the year on the peak; Sum grinding fraternity.” mer—August and September—all the And beautiful Maudo Satterly could rest grim Winter. The highest ther­ not understand why it was that Alger­ mometer during Summer is about fifty non Medlicote proposed to little brown­ degrees, and no night passes without the formation of ice. The coldest weather eyed Olive instead of her. “Everybody thought he was devoted the past Winter was thirty-seven de­ to me,” said she, disconsolately. grees below zero. The swiftest velocity “Perhaps he changed his mind,” said of the wind was 100 miles per hour, which is but a gentle zephyr when com­ Eleanor. Of course Mr. Medlicote confessed pared with the fierce blasts of old Boreas the episode of scissors grinding to his whistling over Mount Washington, N. blushing and happy little wife after II., at the rate of nearly 200 miles per their marriage—well regulated husbands hour. From June until November the never do keep anything from their wives summit is accessible—not without much — but Maude never suspected. For what fatigue and difficulty—on foot or on the back of an Indian pony or donkey, and says the old adago ? “Where ignorance is bliss ’tis folly to parties of five or ten or sometimes more go up almost daily, among them not a be wise.” few ladies. The officers go up and Got His Case Continued. down every three weeks on Norwegian snow shoes, twelve feet long. Thunder­ A little six-year-old in this city had storms on the peak are alarmingly ter­ been listening to the remarks of a legal rific. The atmosphere is highly charged minded uncle in regard to the prospect with electricity, and at times the whole of an indicted party getting clear by a mountain top appears like one immense continuance of his case from time to sheet of flame. The supplies for tho time. Shortly after the little fellow got station, consisting of about 3,000 pounds into a scrape, which secured for him a of provisions and family stores, are car­ promise from his mother of a little dose ried up in the Summer on tho backs of of slipper at an early period. He anx­ the little, sure-footed donkevs in loads iously sought the uncle for legal advice of 200 pounds. Wood is cut at the on the subject, who could only sympa­ timber lino aliout three miles from the thize with him, but with no prospect of summit, and it costs §18 per cord de­ relief. “Uncle,” said he “don’t you livered at the station.—Troy (Colorado; think vou could get mother to continue Times. the case? If we could get a continuance Thunderstorms come to the just as I think I could get off.” He got off — well as to the unjust. They arise dark­ Natchez Democrat ly and dismally in the evening, just at Devil’s Lake, Wisconsin, is a favorite the time when a man thinks of taking Summer resort. The lake is a pond, his girl out for ice cream, and when, therefore, she cannot go. and the devil is raised by the boys. The Abuse of Chloral The persons who become habituated to chloral hydrate are of two classes as a rule. Some have originally taken the narcotic to relieve pain, using it in the earliest application of it for a true me­ dicinal and legitimate object, probably under medical direction. Finding that it gave relief and repose, they have con­ tinued the use of it, and at last have got so abnormally under its influence that they cannot get to sleep if they fail toi resort to it. A second class of [»ersons who take to chloral are alcoholic inebri­ ates who have arrived at that stage of alcoholism when sleep is always dis­ turbed, and often nearly impossible. These persons, at first, wake many times in the night with coldness of the lower limbs, cold sweatings, startings, and restless dreamings. In a little time they become nervous about submitting them­ selves to sleep, anil before long habit uate themselves to watchfulness and restless ness, until a confirmed insomnia is the result. Worn out with sleeplessness, and failing to find any relief that is satisfactory or safe in their false friend alcohol, they turn to chloral, and in it find for a season the oblivion which they desire, and which they call rest. It is a kind of rest, and is no doubt lietter than no rest at all, but it leads to the un­ healthy states that wo are now con­ versant with, anil it rather promotes than destroys the craving for alcohol. In short, the man who takes to'chloral after alcohol enlists two cravings for a single craving, and is double-shooted in the worst sense. A third class of men who become habituated to the use of chloral are men of extremely nervous and excitable temperament, who by na­ ture, and often by the labors in which they are occupied, becomo bad sleepers. A little thing in the course of thefr daily routino oppresses them. What to other men is passing annoy­ ance, thrown off with the next step, is to these men a worry and anxiety of hours. They are over susceptible of what is said of them, and of their work, however good tho work may be. They aro too elated when [»raised, and too de­ pressed when not [»raised, or dispraised. They fail to play character [»arts on the stage of this world, ami as they lie down to rest they take all their cares and anx­ ieties into bed with them, in the liveli­ est state of perturbatiAn. Unable in this conditio 1 to sleep, and not knowing a more natural remedy, they resort to the use of such an instrument as chloral hydrate. They begin with a moderate dose; increase the dose as occasion seems to demand, ami at last, in what, they consider a safe and moderate sys­ tem of employing it, they du]»end on the narcotic for their falsified rej»ose. — Dr. Richardson in Contemporary Review. States. It was Washington Irving who first knit together those bonds of family aiid domestic sympathy lie tween England and America of which 1 have just spoken. After the violent disruption which tore us asunder, he had the grace and courage to diffuse bis own kindly and genial feeling from his sunny cot­ tage on the banks of the Hudson through ¿the lurid atmosphere that has >een produced by the successive wars of 1775 and 1812. Westminister Abbey, A French View of American So­ Stratford-on-Avon and Abbotsford were ciety. transfigured in th«? ever of Americans by »is charming “Sketch Book.” and from Comte Louise de Turenne, who s[»ent that timo has set in tho pilgrimage of more than a year, in 1875-76, in travel Americans to our English shrines, which in this country and Canada, in company las never ceased, and which cannot but with Baron Edmund de Rothschild, of render any further dislocation of the two tho Paris branch of the renowned bank­ countries more difficult. ing house, has been making quite a book Bryant, Ixmgfellow and Whittuy alxnit us—two volumes octavo in tact. have done, perhaps, even a greater aer' He seems to bo a careful observer and vice by touching with the sweetness ami a candidreporter,paying a good deal of at­ the light of their poetry scenes before tention to statistics. The Comte is ap­ hut little known in the natural objects preciative when he speaks of our women, and the historic splendor of their own whose personal charms he considers su­ country. Bryant, to use the words of a perior to those of any European nation, distinguished American ecclesiastic, first while their manners are so elegant and entered the heart of America through refined that they alone prevent our harsh the Gate Beautiful. When we seo the and angular men f.iom relapsing into green river and the rocky slopes of barbarism. The Comte thinks that a Berkshire, we feel that be did for them great many otherwise sensible and re­ something of what Wadsworth effected fined people in Baltimoie and Washing for the lakes and mountains of West ton display a rather ludicrous anxiety to moreland. Ixmfellow and Whittier trace their origin back to ancient and il­ achieved their fame, not only by those lustrious houses, but indeed he conceives I>oems which appeal to the general in­ that tho mania for titles is common to stincts of mankind, and are entwined all classes of American society. The with the sacred recollections of Europe, number of judges, generals and gover­ but they also attach themselves directly nors to whom he was introduced was to the legends of the early inhabitants simply amazing. Society, however, in of the northern continent, and to the the sense of these rapports, those sym­ stirring scenes of the great conflict both pathetic communications that one has of America with England, and of the with others, does not, in the Comte’s Northern and Southern States. view of the case, exist in this country, The romances of Hawthorne, which except in very limited proportions. connect themselves with Italian life, There is a small and secluded circle of may to us for the moment have the mast eminent minds, enlightened and culti­ interest, but those which shall possess vated tn art and letters, but these only the most enduring value are the strange associate with themselves and admit scenes of New England in the streets of none from the outside. Besides these, Boston and Salem. Such pathetic and so far as he saw, society is confined to elevated sentiments, intermingled with the moveaux riches, whom tho Comte national character, must have a share in characterizes acutely, saying, “America raising the nation above the “rustic is full of men who have succeeded mar­ murmur” of parochial and municipal life velously, and who are themselves a fail­ into “the great wave that echoes round ure; whose residences are splendid, but the worlds—Dean Stanley. whose souls are vulgar; who have pic­ tures and cannot appreciate them, books Miss Alice Winston of Virginia says; and do not read them, clothes and bad ‘••I think women are more apt to be in­ fashions, clients (clientes in the Roman fluenced by money than-men are. '1 here- sense) but no society; flatterers, but no fore, they are more lisely to marry for friends. They have acquired fortune by wealth than men are.” great effort, but they do not know how “Mamma,” asked a little girl, “why to enjoy it.” is it they sing in church, ‘We ll dine no more,’ and then go right home an «line? Woman’s rights—six button kids.