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J J v - A •1 TIDINGS ASHLAND ASHLAND ASHLAND: TIDINGS ISSUED E\ERY FRIDAY MORNING. W. II. LEEDS. Editor and Publisher. Terms of Advertising: LBOAX.. One square, first insertion....... Each Additional insertion......... ..$ 2 SO ... 1 «0 76 I .. 12 50 AND MANUFACTURING. GENERAL REWS. Geo. B. Ourrey, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. ASHLAND, ORE410N. VIII attend to in the court* of Oregon, render advice and prepare puj>cr* In the set tlement of estate«, make applications for patents under the V. s. in in Ing laws, and may lie consulted on all matter* pertaining to Government land*. School ami Swamp lands, and claims against the V. S. for «ar Tices or losses. i rio.."» OFFICE—Main street. Township plat* on file in the office. Talent, Hopkins & Co., Hereby inform the public that they have just opened and are displaying at their store in Reeser s block a first-class stock of J. T. Bowditch, Attorney and Counsellor at Law ASHLAND, OREGON. GEN L MERCHANDISE, Will practice ii «11 court* of tlie State. Collections promptly made and remitted. 9-4- T. B. Zont, Attorney aud Counsellor Which they now otter at the very lowest living prices to cash customers and they feel assured that all who favor them with their patron age will lie well satisfied with the prices and quality of t- their goods — Their stock consist* of at Law. OR. JACKSONVILLE, practi.in nil tho cuurl« of Oregon. ■ offn e in the court house. (UWi I--------------------------------------------- *4. - Albert Hammond., I CIVIL ENGINEER and SURVEYOR ASHLAND, OREGON. Will att. nd promptly to any business in the line oí laud surveying, locating ditches, etc., and everything pert, tiling to civil engineer ing. Satisfaction guaranteed. f^F~Otfiee at the postoffice. 10-12 J. S. Howard, Notary Public and Conveyancer MEDFORD, OREGON. AU kind* of real e*ialb business given careful attention, ami information furnished con cerning prv|H-rty in the new town. PHYSICIAN SURGEON. AND Specially: Diseases of Children, lUomen and Dr. S. T. Songer, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office one door south of A-ddand House on Main street. f f 11-12 Dry Goods, Staple and Fancy Groceries, Provisions, Ladies’ and Gents’ Furnishing Goods, Hats & Caps, Boots and Shoes, Notions, &c. ALEN, HOPKINS It GROCERY STORE! In Johnson’s block, C. J. Sechrist, M. D., PH4ENIX, OREGON. Office at residence—slate at Engle Bro«.' drug store. (10-40 J. S. Walter, M. D. S., Will practice his profession of Dentistry —AT— A shland , O regon . Office in College Boarding House. 11-8 Miss Alena Weber, Tuavherof music' ut A.Milaud College, will give lustructluu* in PIANO, ORGAN and GUITAB To a limited number of pupil* outside her college class. Residence at Mr. A. G. Rockfellow’s on Church street. Ashland, Oregon A. L. Willey, MISCELLANEOUS CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. A shland , O regon . I* prepared to give estimate*, to furnish mate rial, aud complete «11 kinds of buildings IN OK Ot’T OF TOWN ou reasonable term*. All work warranted to give satisfaction. citOl*—on Mechanic street, over Aoule ,t Gil- 5 fr»y’s spire-house uud office. (18 40 Successor to Hunsaker & Dodge, ----------- DF.ALRR JH------------ Groceries and Provisions TABLE WARE AND CROCKERY. M. 1. it’ CALL. A. 1". HAMMOND, Haamond. & McCall, CASH ! REAL - ESTATE - AGENTS — AN D— CASH BUYERS, Govern Yourselves Accordingly. CONVEYANCERS, Ashland, Oregon. Loan- iiegotiati-d. Property bought «nd sold; collection* attended to: Alotract» of title fur nished. —Manufacturers of— /J SASH, DOORS & BLINDS, Lumber, Mouldings, Brackets ! Dealers iu— C. W. AYERS, PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES, CLASS Architect and Builder. LATH and SHINGLES. MANUFACTURER ANO WOOD WORKER, Shop on First Avenue, near Main St. Planing, Matching and Sawing done to order. Water Pipe made to order. ; 4?“ Will make estimates and bids on all building*. public or private, and furnish all material, plans and specifications for the construction of tfie same. PiF’Saah. Doors and Mouldings on hand and for sale at lowest rates. ;* 'Geneial shop wo,k done in short order. ;-jf”S:air building a specialty. All work guaranteed tube firs’.-class, and of latest designs. NEAR R R. TRACK, MECHANIC 3t., ASHLAND E. K. ANDÊRSON Vice Président. President. Ashland Woolen Mills, M c M illen , -------- Manufacturer of MANFFACTVRERS OF-------- WHITE and COLORED BLANKETS, Wooden Water Pipe ! \MIL4ND, Wooden ^^Proprietors of the Tozer & Emery Planing Mill, JAMES THORNTON, OREGON'. « \ Fill furnish and lay either round or \ \ "piare timber 1< --« .it the lowest price*, .oi l in ,i matim r e iaranti', d logile permanent "iti-i. :i ".i Ha-had liing experience in the bus : -- ami Li el the pipo for the < >. & C. R la ta 'vii Ko-» burg and Ashland. . ;■ 1 -'i ’V r Headquarters, Youle A Gilroy’s Planing Mill ^^^.Re*'dence near the town pump on Oak st. CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER, 10 16 - ■> ' V. JOHN RALPH Plain and Fancy Casaimeres, Flannels. Hosiery, Eto W’ :r the r.iiiiu«wi depot ’n Ashland, W; Oregon, OVER and UHDEBWEAR. - CLOTHING MADE to ORDER. u hv is pr par?<l to nil work in his Hue loiticu uud in thu beat niunnvr. REPAIRING DONE at Short Notice. [IO^ o O] ------- * IO MILES FROM ASHLAND. JACOB WAGNER. Proprietor. FI'IHIS HOTEL, which has been for many _A_ years a favorite place of summer resort for per- ins seeking health and recreation, has recently been greatly improved by the pu-aem proprietor, who has do^e much to make it plea«ant and ttt",;ac(i>e U> guests. The Mineral Spring Office and Sales Rooms in Maaonic Building, W. ■ | ATKIK*£>N. Secretary aadGeneral Maaaffeg AN’D JERSEYS. G. W. Farlee, of Temton, N. J., a prom ising breeder of Jersey cattle, writes as follows to the Jersey Bulletin: The public experiments made in Eng land as to the comparative value of the milk of prize Holsteins and that ot the good Jersey, showed conclusively that for butter, the Jersey was as rich again as the Holstein milk. Such testimony ought to be conclusive on the points in volved, but as I have a disposition to ex periment, I thought I would make a test for my'personal satisfaction. I had in vain tried to get a friend who had a cow of each breed to make a test similar to the following, but I rather suspect he wanted to Bell his Hostein and dare not run the risk of the comparison. A neigh bor of mine owns an excellent three-year- old Hostein that has had her second calf. Individually she had the external marks of a good milch cow, though she is not a phenomenal milker, her best daily yield being about sixteen quarts; no larger in fact, than that of the Jersey I proposed to pit against her. The capacity com paratively small for a Hoetein, was in her favor on the score of richness. I was glad to find a Hoetein of her grade of quality for I desired to make as fair a test as jiossible. I procured threo quarts of her milk aud set it for twenty-four hours for cream in a can in the Cooley Creamer; temperature of water. 42 to 5<i . I then selected from my herd of Jerseys of aliout the same ttge, three years old. and that had dropjied her ond calf. My cow had her calf two months earlier than the Hostein. She was by no means my liest, but a fair representative of my herd. I took a quart and a half of her milk and added to it a quart and a half of pure water, and 6et three quarts of the mixture for cream in the Cooley. I have a can sjiec- ially prepared for testing of cream, which is simply the ordinary small can with a piece of glass half an inch in width in serted in the side of the can for aliout half its length. This enables me to meas ure with a rule the depth of the cream without disturbing it. Tlie result of my experiment was that my Jersey milk and water showed twenty per cent, more cream than did the pure Holstein milk. What a grand water source is the Holstein! But then a pump can beat her “all hollow,” and at much less for maintenance. The Holstein men Ixiast of the enormous yield of their cows. Judging by the re sult of my test as above, I can show a herd that will beat their best records. My best Jerseys will average at least eighteen quarts a day, when fresh, milk ing seventeen to twenty-three quarto daily of Jersey milk, so that my cows give, with the aid of the pump, thirty-four to forty-six quarto daily of such white fluid as is pumped from the udder of the Hoe stem. Iu this eetimste I have given the Holstein the benefit of the twenty per cent, excess of cream on my adulterated Jersey milk, and merely claim that Jer sey milk is as rich again its the Holstein milk, since, by reason of my care in breed ing, my cattle are probably much richer than the good ordinary Jersey. I should have premised that the two cows were fed sulistantially the same; the Holstein had access to lietter pttsture, and each was fed about one aud one-half quarto of corn meal a «lay. It is not evident why the Holstein breeders avoid stating the grain ration when they make their but ter tests? It is a singular fact that I have failed to find in the public press a single instance of the report of the but ter yield of a Holstein accompanied by a statement of grain given. A Nevada Maa’s Experience with Shorthorns. NEW TIN SHOP NO. 22. Looa) Notioea, per line.............................. lbo Regular advertisement inserted upon liberal terms. Job Printing Of all descriptions done on short notice Legal Blank«. Circulars, Business Cards Billheads, Letterheads, Posters, eto., got ten up in good style at living prioee. CONFEDERATE MONEY. ARE GREAT MEN TALL? (Savannah News.]. [Washington Post.J [Washington Critic.] A correspondent inquires of us if there is any truth in the general belief that the leaders of any particular age are large men. “or is it merly superstition?” There is a modicum of truth in it. While there are numerous exceptions, it seems to be a fact that great poet«, es sayist, scholars and philosophical tluuk- era are, as a rule, small, while great gen erals, orators and politicians -those who are engrossed in doing rather than think ing are a* a rule, above the average size of men. There is a reason for it Those who possess the most vitality are apt to make the biggest noise in the world. Washington was a large man; ao were Cortez. Charlemagne and Wellington; so were Webster, Clay, Tom Corwin, Toni Marshall, Lincoln, Chase. Sumner; so are Gladstone, Bismark, Ferry, Cleveland, J nines Q. Blaine and General Sherman. When men who have won distinction are not tall, they generally make it up in breadth, like Bonaparte, Stephenson, A. Douglas and Sheridan. The thinkers of the world have gener ally lieen small, as Cicero, Aristotle. Ba con, Alexander Pope. Alexander Hamil ton and Oliver Wendell Homes. The tnemliers of the Senate, ever sin« that body was established, have been, it is alleged, aliout an inch taller than the average height of American men. Suc cessful American editors have generally been tall men, averaging six feet high and over 200 pounds; as the elder Ben nett, Thurlow Weed, James Watson Webb. Horace Greeley, Wilbur F. Storey. Murat Halstead, Jos. Pulitzer and Chas. A. Dana all fine specimens of full-grown men. Great orators are almost always very large men, and Buch specimens as Joseph Cook, Henry Ward Beecher, Colonel Rob ert G. Ingersoll, Mr. Moody, Roscoe Copkling and DeWitt C. Talmage are familiar to the eye of the present geuera- tiom of Americans. These orators are not only alike in weighing 225 pounds apiece, but they further resemble tach other in possessing a keen sense of lx>th honor and pathos, and in being coarse grained-of the earth, earthy. If they had not lieen coarse of texture they w ould have died young; and if they were not large they would have lacked the physi cal strength to surpass in the sharp com petitions of their time. In New York it is proverbial that the great merchants outweigh their clerks. The rule of the survival of the fittest (wliich means only those who are best qualified to live) enters into all of the rivalries of our trying civilization, and a large percentage of those who hafe not the stamina to endure and overcome to fight and conquer —perish on the skir- mish line of the battle. Some months since the Critic pub lished a number of interesting incidents connected with the early history of tel egraphy in this country, which, having attracted the attention of Mr. W. H. H. Ward, managing director of the Ward Axle. Brake A Coupling company at Mo nongahela City. Pa., he contributes to the Republican ot the latter place a chapter of his own experieuoe as the advisory as sistant of Prof. Morse in making his first experiments. Mr. Ward says: “In April, 1844, the start for laying was made from Wasliington by trying it un der a process by a Mr. Cornell of Ithaca, N. Y.. himself as the sufierintendent of the work, by laying the wires, incased in lead pij>e, eighteen inches underground. When the first 600 feet were laid it was discovered that the recording pen, of three point«, showed weakness, and with the second 604) feet additional weakness, and when the third 6lM) feet was added the peu refused to make legible impres sions ou the paper as then used. Then the professor hastened to the patent-office in a fever of excitement to consult with the writer what to do, for the professor frankly stated that all his hojies had now gone up, and be seemed as helpless as a wet rag. But when told to hang it up he immediately recovered lus.electric elas ticity, sprank to bis feet, and went for the men who were anxiously awaiting his re turn. He said: 'The problem is solved by hanging up the wires,’ and it was. The next day Prof. Morse and the writer settled on glass insulators, and for econ omy obtained gratis the necks of lieer and porter liottles from Baltimore and Washington hotels; and at the meeting of the whig nominating convention in May. 1844, the line was completed to the Relay station, Baltimore A Ohio railroad, and by June 2d to Baltimore.” A few month ago the firm of Dixon A Murphy advertised in the News for Con federate money and offered 2 or 3 cents a piece for each bill. The appearance of the advertisement gave many the idea that some scheme was on foot to convert the old notes into good, solid Bland dol lars. There were not a few, though, who, having a considerable sum of the old cur rency on hand,-were glad to sell even at a discount of 98 cents off. So ever since the the notice first ap- peared the enterprising firm has lieen re- ceiving all sorts of inquiries. They base bought in amount ranging from 85 to $5,000. All that the firm wanted with the bills was to use them for advertising their coal business by distributing “the promises to pay” all over the country. The largest denomination received was the five-hundred dollar bills, and the smallest five-dollar bills. At first the notes came in rapidly, but of late there have not been many offering. The mar ket seems to lie pretty well bought up. Bills were picked up at every [>oint from Virgina to Texas. Some were tattered aud showed wear, and some were as bright and crisp as new. One package of $154X1 looked as if the notes were just from the press. Altogether the firm has purchased 20,- 000 bills, which once represented millions of Confederate dollars. On the back of each bill the firtn has had printed the eight-staDza poem beginning: We find in the Inyo Register a letter from W. J. Marsh of Fort Churchill, Nevada, which gives what the writer de scribes as “a few plain, common facts re garding the improvement of cattle.” Alumiua....................................................... 9201 grains. There is a general feeling among farmers Borack' acid................................. .»175 and stockmen that to pay more than $54) Calcium carbonate...,................ .21.1281 • < Sodium chloride............ i.................3t).68O> for a Bire is the prelude to financial ruin. Carbonate of iron............................. 2 5517 << Silicic acid................. . 3.9471 They go on supplying three-year-old Titanic acid .............. . 1.5443 lieef steers to the butchers that weigh Carbonate magnesia .78.8788 .24.681 Bicarbonate soda.... 500 pounds, and are elated if a few reach Lithium carbonate, txitasslutn carbonate, io- 550 pounds, and fail to see that by the d’no and traces of nitric acid not estimated. Total amount of carbonic acid gas, free and expenditure of 8200 to 8300 for a sire combined, equals 58.4788 grains per gallon. that is purely bred, aud worth something to their herds, they could Bell two-year- ¿¡^•Special attention paid to the comfort and olds as heavy as their three-year-okls now needs of invalids. Among the improvements of the hotel are the average, saving a year in time and the baths, fitted with all modern conveniences. cost of keeping and all attendant risks ROOMS OUAN, NEAT ANO COMFORTABLE. for a year. I recently sold 30 beef steers, Good Table Faredt Reasonable Prices. all three years old but six, which were foqr years old. Among them was a one- BOTTLED water fresh from the spring half Shorthorn steer, three years old, and on sale nt Geo. Engle's in Ashland. in no way superior to the average half breed steer, that weighed alive, after driving 26 miles in one day, 1284 pounds. — FOR THE BEST — The other 29 made an average live weight of 1049 pounds, and dressed only 50 per TIN, SHEET-IRON Si COPPERWARE cent of live weight, or 524 pounds, while the grade Shorthorn dressed 730 pounds, Collât or 57 per cent of live weight. He dressed 80 jiounds more than the best four-year- old, and 206 pounds more than the other 29 head averaged. This steer ranged in the mountains with the others and fed with them, showing his contempt for the stale and false notion that Shorthorns can not rustle for a living, and proving their In Reeser's Block, Ashland. Or., Full stock ability to outgrow other animals under equal conditions. All this is simply the ' on hand and made to order. result of using a pure Shorthorn sire. Particular Attention paid to Job Work. This steer did not cost me any more than the others, and on the butcher’s block Which will be done in a workmanlike manner brought me 815 more than they did. Now, «nd al i 1 should like to ask such of your readers as think they cannot afford to buy thor oughbred sires, how many half-breed Shorthorn steers it will take to pay for None but the best material used. even a 8500 bull, out of the extra pounds of meat they will drew. over and aliove B. F. REESER. the animals they are now raising? The first 40 steers rawed will cover the price. When there are 40 steers there will lie 40 MRS. L. POWELL heifers that will be worth $25 a head lias opened a t more than their mothers as a foundation for further improvements. To all intents the sire is half the herd in determining the force for good or evil within it No On Oak Street. breeder of cattle can afford to use a com Ashland, Oregon, mon sire. To do sow a bad type of econ omy -a penny wise and pound foolish practice. The man who does not im Aud hopes to receive a good patronage. prove his stock will get left Breed from WILL EMPLOY NO CHINESE LABOR. the best forever, which is the only road to success. 1M7 I. A U N I) 1 ! Y SHOP WACOM At foot of Cascade Mountains, Prices That Defy competition. 9 ---------A LSO---------- .• Is the most noted of Southern Oregon, and its medicinal properties have heei^ p.tove'u to be of great value «nd benefit as a tonk' and aid to digestion ityd u* a rcthedy or'relief in uearlv allca«es of kidney trouble and kindred ali ments. Following is the report of the analysis: One standard gallon of the water contains: YOULE & GILROY, We offer for sale the following described real property. [7-fig.] The Hargadiue property, consisting of very desirable town lots, improved and un improved; and farming lands and stock ranches tn sizes to suit purchasers, up to GUOtJ acres: also. A G ood S tc k R anch . *.M>0 acres, six miles East of Ashlaud- good for samnier or win ter range. T’ wlntt A cbks of good wood land near own. W m . M. GILROY. GEORGE E. YOULE, irveying of all kind* *ati*factorily and promptly dom . s U. k The Vermont house of representati paaaed a bill granting suffrage to wo last weak by a vote of 135 to 32. The general assembly of the Knigh of Labor have raised the salary of G Master Powerly to $5,000 per annum. Natural gas is taking the place of the didn’t-know-it-wae-loaded shotgun. A Michigan man found some ou hia his fl farm and touched a match to it. Now they are trying to find him. There are now 230 subdivisions of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, ft is stated, with a membership of 20,000.«. * Widow-elect Parsons, wife of the con demned Anarchist, says she will plant the red flag of the Commune in every New England mill village. She may not deserve the fate of her murderous spouse, but she ought to be shut up for her an noyance of the public.—[BiwfoM Cummer* Bulletin. CLAYTON & CORE 111-18 Office at Ashland House. HOLSTEBiS The industrial ruin that was predicted for Atlanta as a result of its prohiliition laws has lieen averted, except as to one interest. “The only industry.” says an Atlanta dispatch, “that has been driven out of the city is the rum industry.” Since July 1st four new industrial enter prises, each employing many workers, have been established. Of seventy liquor shops that have been vacated, fifty-three And everything usually found in a first class General. Merchandise store. are now occupied by tradesmen represent ing a variety of interests. Cash buyers will find it to lie to their interest to call and examine our goods and get our prices liefore purchasing elsewhere. Edwin Booth has concluded at Chicago the most remarkable theatrical engage ment that city has ever known. He has been playing Hamlet every night for sev eral weeks. Receipts ran from $20,000 to 823,4)00 per week. Ever) foot of spaoe was occupied. Men and women were glad to sit on the balcony stairs, or even get standing room. Tickets were sold out for every performance days in ad vance, and the audiences were described as lieing in a state of enthusiasm border ing ou frenzy. Booth himself was over whelmed with surprise at his reception. A dispatch of Nov. 3d from Lovgootee, Indiana, tells the following tale: At 3 We keep constantly on hand a full assortment of staple and fancy goods. o’clock this morning the Ackerman hotel, a two story frame building, burned, and ...................................................... :t: PLAIN AND DECORATED WARE, COFFEES, ROAST AND GREEN. three men ¡terished in the flames. They were forgotten in the excitement till it ’ t ’ IN GLASS AND STONE, it: TEAS, IN PAPERS, CANS & was too late to save them. Two of them • + • were J, C. Gates and Michael Tracy, who CUTLERY AND if JARS. SPICES & ALL were yesterday elected treasurer and auditor, respectively, of Marion county. • ♦ • YERWARE. -tts. • * • KINDS OF : * • Worta out by the exertions of the day, they retired at a late hour and were not CANNED GOODS. hanging a - stand • ♦ • wakened until too late to escajie. Gates FRUITS, MEATS, &C., &C. LAMPS. BOOKS AND STA died a death of torture, as indicated by • • 4. • • the position in which his body was found. TIONERY, PENS AND PENCILS. :X: OILS, PAINTS AND BRUSHES. • * • The third victim was John Burch, whose presence in the building was unknown. All ymsls in our line we will furnish at the lowest eash rates. Call and He leaves a family of four children. see for you rse Ices. Gates had a family of eleven children, mostly grown. Reeser’s Blod, Ashland F. H. Youag, AY, NOVEMBER 12, 1886. f MERCANTILE PROFESSIONAL CARDS. M- ASHLAND, OREGON, F VOL. XI |2 00 1 50 LOCAL. Terms ot Subscription: 3ne copy, one year....................... “ •' six months................... “ •* three months.............. Club Kates, six copies for............ Terms in advance. TIDINGS. Representing nothing on God's earth now. And naught iu the waters below it. The distribution of the bills bearing the poem excited considerable interest as to who was the author of the pretty verses. Many attributed them to Father Ryan, and almost all of the South’s sweet singers of two decades ago were given credit for the quaint lines by their sev eral admirers. Before going to England in June last Denis Murphy presented President Cleveland at one of his recep tions with a $54» interest-bearing note, which had the verses on its back. The President smiled at the promise to pay two cents per day interest, and the inci dent aud poein were published in some of the Washington papers. There happened to be in Washington about that time one S. A. Jonas, who is editor of the Aberdeen (Miss.) Examiner. The poem was pass ing around as an anonymous production, when Mr. Jonas recognized it as an ef fort of his own. written at Richmond in May, 1865, at the request of some old friends and veterans. Although the verses are peculiarly appropriate and beautiful, they perhaps never before had anything like the circulation they have had within the last year. They had laid unnoticed so long, that the public had forgotten the writer. During the last twelve months they have been scattered all over the country. Mr. Murphy took 1500"bills to England, and when he re turned had given them all away. In Cardiff Wales, where an American is something of a curiosity, Mr. Murphy gave a number of bills to the miners and left them tinder the impression that he was a benevolent Croesus of Court of Cristo, for the miners considerered the bills genuine currency worth par. A few days before the first advertise ment was published a Savannah gentle man burned a barrelful of old Confeder ate notes, the whole representing over 81, OCX I, (MX). This has probably lieen the fate of many a barrel of the pledges that were once issued so freely that 81200 of them were required to buy a pair of boots, and coarse boots at that. On Horscrock Mountain. Iu the Malheur country an old hunter and trapper known as Mountain Sam is doing a good business killing huge moun tain sheep for their heads and horns. These he ships to New York over the Oregon Short Line to fill the orders which he is constantly receiving and there they are mounted. Sam’s best customers are wealthy Englishmen. For many years Mountain Sam has buried him self in the most remote recesses of the Malheur inountanis. Sam rounds up the wild sheep with dogs, llis pack numbers 25 head, and they are a pure cross of the blotxlhound and the bulldog. Mountain born and bred, these noble animals add to the natural strength and sagacity of of their blood-strains a marvelous endur ance and activity. No snow-depth, no roughness of trail, no steepness of preci pice, no loftiness of the peak, no remote ness of locality, can stop the mountain dog when on the track of a mountain sheep. The pack works in an organized way when the trail of a band of sheep is st nick. The dogs break into little bun ches and wide and careful circuits are made. The closely pressed sheep are hurried to a common center, and they will soon be bunched, with 25 stanch dogs, crests erect and tails wagging, mov ing about them iu an endless and eager circle. The pack has been known to bunch 250 head of sheep, and to hold their watch and guard for six hours wait ing for the coming of their master, who had l>een kept bpek by the difficulties lying in his path, for old Huraerock 1ms its rock ribbed sides ornamented with some pretty tough trails. It sometimes occurs that the dogs bring the game to gether on a spot utterly inaccessible tq human feet. Then the hunter gives tlie dogs notice of the fact by a peculiarly shrill and piercing shout. The pack at once dash into the midst of the sheep, seize and slay the largest, and by dint of rolling tumbling, and falling from crag to crag, from declivity to declivity, bring their carcasses within reach of their mas ter.— [Heppner Gazette. BiicklenS Arnica Salve. The best Salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sore«, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, coms, and «11 skin eiuptions, and positive ly cures piles, or no pay required. It is guarantee*! to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by J. H. (Jhilwood St Son's. A True Dog Story. (Exchange. ] Last year a clergyman of Norfolk, England, missed his pet dog, and there was much grief in the family, for Rough, the lost collie, was a favorite with the grown folks as well as with the children. Some nine months later the clergyman, hapjiening to go to Cattle hill, where the drovers were, saw Rough and joyously laid claim to him; but Rough's new master, a drover, refused to give the dog up. and there was a dispute. Of course the drovers wore in sympathy with their fellow, and the clergyman found the odds against him. The drover said that he had owned Rough for years; the minister held to it that Rough was the very Rough he had raised. Two policemen came run ning up, and the case was stated. “But how can you prove ownership?" asked one of the officers. That put the minis ter in mind of something. He thrust his hand into a pocket, pulled out a penny, and gave it to the dog with the command, “Rough, fetch a loaf.” Rough, with the penny in his mouth, went to the nearest bakery, made it clear that be wanted some bread, and eoon came trotting back to the crowd. The clergyman broke off a morsel, gave it to Rough, and stood by while the dog munched it. Suddenly the clergyman exclaimed, “Rough, I be lieve that bread is poisoned!” Out the dog spat the piece of bread, and the crowd cried “Bravo!” There was no longer doubt as to the true ownership, and to the shame of the drover the dog trotted off at the minister’s heels. Sam Houston. I Perley’s Reminiscences.] A prominent figure ut Washington dur ing the Taylor administration was Gen. Sam Houston, a large, inqxising-looking man, who generally wore a waistcoat made from the skin of a panther, dressed with the hair on, and who generally oc cupied himself during the session of the Benate in whittling small sticks of soft pine wood, which the sergeant-at-arms provided for him. His life had been one of romantic adventure. After having served with distinction under Gen. Jack- eon in the Greek war, he had become a lawyer and then governor of the state of Tennessee. Soon after his inauguration he married an accomplished young lady, to whom he one day intimated in jest that she apparently cared more for a for mer lover than she di<l him. “You are correct,” she said earnestly. “I love Mr. Nickerson's little finger lietter than your whole body.” Words ensued, and the next day Houston resigned his governor ship, went into the Cherokee country west of the Arkansas river, adopted In dian costume, and became an Indi;tn tra der. He was the liest customer supplied from his own whisky liarrel, until one day. after a prolonged deliauch, he hoard from a Texas Indian that the - Mexicans had taken up armB against their revolting jirovince. A friend agreeing to accom pany him, he cast off his Indian attire, again dressed like a white man, and never drauk a drop of intoxicating leverage afterward. John H. Yates, of Batavia, N. Y., Rays. “I cheerfully commend «.» — Your Aromatic Wine It did new life and vigor send Old papers for sale at this office—50 i Through this weak frame of mine. «•to per hundred. It did for all mv Htomach ills One-eighth or 10-lb. Ixn crackers at the 1 ____ More than the doctor and his pills.” Bed Hchuiet 65C- * i For sale at the City d/ug stord. EARLY TELEGRAPHY. An Elephants Memory. ILoudon Telegraph.] Our local corresjxmdent telegraphed last night: “An amusing circumstance hapjiened at Hythe yeeterday. when an elephant belonging to a circus freely helj>ed himself to an early breakfast. It appears that between 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning the animal managed to effect his escape from his oom panions and paid a visit to a house with which his memory had a pleasant association- a little shop at the oorner of Market street. On ar riving at the place the elephant found that it was closed, but, nothing daunted, he cooly lifted the door off its hinges and helped himself liberally to the con tent« of the shop--potatoes, apples anti sweets. When he had either satisfied his Hpjietite or had exhausted the supply of good things he retraced his steps, and on the return journey he was met by his keepers, who had in the mean time be come aware of his absence. The animal in question visited Hythe about eleven or twelve years ago, and when passing this house was treated by ite then tenant to a good meal of potatoes. This seemed to have left so good an impression on the animal’s mind that he was led to pay an other visit to so pleasant a Bpot with the result recorded above. About the same time the next morning he again got away, and was making for the same place, but was discovered by bis keeper before he had gone far on his expedition." Cranberries and Sugar Beets. The Albany Bulletin has an agricul tural turn and discusses the new indus tries of Washington territory in the cul tivation of cranberries, sugar cane and sugar lieets. It says: If Washington territory will grow these commodities successfully, why will not Oregon? There is no question but what all of these industries will pay largely in this state when once established, and far mers who are determined to break through the conventional rule of wheat raising would do well to look into these matters. 'There are plenty of marsh lands in the state susceptible to the cul tivation of the cranlierry. and enough experimenting with the sugar beet has been done in the state to demonstrate the fact that they can be successfully grown in Large quantities. The sugar cane will also thrive here if it will grow on the uplands of Washington territory, which it is known to do successfully.” We know of one fine sugar beet indus try in Oregon. It is that of Mr. Samuel Simon, of this city. His farm is two miles east of here, near Mount Tabor; and his display of sugar lieets at our Fair was magnificent. He and his partners anticipate establishing a sugar factory. [Portland Democrat. Burned to Death. Last Sunday night, says the Asturian, a small building occupied by Chinese took fire from the stove and was con sumed. One of the unfortunate inmates jum]ied from a second-story window, breaking his head in the fall, and on be ing asked said there were more smother ing inside. Some of them jumped from other windows, from which smoke and Hamee were issning, and efforts made on the part of those engaged in putting out the fire succeeded in saving two more. The one who jumped out was fearfully burned, the doctor in attendance on liim stating yeeterday afternoon that it was doubtful if he lived. After the fire was thoroughly subdued the half burned re mains of another Chinaman was found in the cinders, he having fallen on his face and so perished. Application will do much to overcome defective training, remarks the Chicago Tribune and when Miss Cleveland has been at work a few years in her chosen profession she will not make the mistake again ot trying to split up the printing office towel into kindling wood for the purjioHe of making a fire in the office stove. I The Colonist is informed that the Cas- siar minee, near Alaska, have returned a fair profit the past season. Travelers from the Yukon river in Alaska also con- firm the report of the placers there, claim ing that as high as 8100 a day has been Söcurixi Rdcmbd.