VOL. 1. NO. 24. canyon" cut, Oregon, svturday, September 20, 1379. TERMS: $0. PER YEAR. Tie Grit Count? r WDWO ifU. ; PUBLISHED SVERY" SATURDAY MORNING uv Editor ai Pusmsiier. SUBSCRIPTION: Per Year, : : : $3 00 SixiMontRs, : : : $1 75 lNYAIlIAlSl.Y IN ADVANCE. . o RATES OF ADVERTISING. Notices in local CoIumiii, 20 cunts per line, each inscr'ion. Trmieietit advertisrments, per square of 12 line, $2 00 for fir-t, ami SI for each subsequent insertion in advance L'jgai adv rlisenients charge 1 as transient, and must be paid for upon expiration. No cert i!i -ate of publica tion given nn'W the lb: is paid. Yearly a Ivcra-cmoit 0:1" very liber terms. Profession?.! Carols, ( one inch or less,) .$15 per annum. Personal and Political Comtnuuica'ion ehnrg. d as advertisements. The above rates will be strictly adhered to. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. (J. Pa rk 1 -11. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Canyon City. Oregon. M. L. OLMc'TKAD, ATTORXKY AT LAW, Canyon City, Oregon, Gko. B. Cm key. Canyon City, Oueoon. M. I Justin. Attorney Jit. Ljiyy, ("uriyon Citv. Oregon. F. 0. HO US L IS Y, 5l D. Graduate of the i'mversityof rknn pylvnni i, April 8, 1.Q-18. Canyon Cry, Or-gnn. Office in his Drag Store, Man Street Orders for Hnus prom'ly filled. No profesHi mal palr-i-inge sdieiid uulftss directions a? e s rie'ly followed . J. W. HOWARD, M. D., Canyon City, GkvntCo., Oregon. 0. M. D0BSOI, Irl. D., rax. N. H. BOIjEY. 7Z ZHTISJ" "37 X 23T27, jfS5f-D53tnl Rooms, Oppofito tbc Mrthi' Church. Canyon City. Oregon. G. I. HAZE LTINE, jE 3b. o -fc o & 1 a, j- la. o i T CANYON CITY, OR KG ON. GEO. SOLLiiT O jST "T O TT OXT"" MIL K-M A3? . The best of filk furnished to 51ie citizens of Canyon Cit) ev 2vy moaning, by the gallon or quart; at reasonable ra tes. JOHN SCHMIDT, Carpenter and Wagon Makek Canyon Citv, Oregon. Dealer in Hardwood, Spokes and Felloes, Furniture, 3hairs3 Faints, Glass, and Window-sash. 11U V Hi Life a Sermon. ''Our everv life is a sermon. i 'I.ii-'k'k :i si'mmn '" f Ml us nreaeh it. --- I- 1 Preach it ere thi hour is past; Up and preach it! do not waste it, Pei haps this day may bo your last. "Life's a sermon !' How; then, live ye Is it full of lies or love1? Is its lo'jic clear and truthful J Does it point to the heartabovel "Life's a sermon !" What. hen. snifh it? Does it onward, upward move Is it written clearly, plainly, Every deed a word of love' Is it woven from thyself' Does it only prate of pleasure, Pride and otse, and love of pelf' "Life's 1 sermon '" Ever preaching, Vast its in 11 net ee here above; All its t.otes a tinkling cymbal. Should the heart be dead to love I "Lif-'s a sermon !" All must preach it, Battling oft with many a foe; Oh that God may see Christ's beauty Gle imieg through its tears and woe ! "L fe's a sermon !" O Great Master ! Make it pure, and true, and free, And its Writ, though tangled, broken Yet may guide some soul to Thee ! W Poole Balforn. Josh Billmgsisms. .If a young man hain't izot a wi llhal amel head 1 likj to see him part his hair in the middle. L don't take any foolish chances. Tl I wnz caded upon to mourn over a dead mule I should s'and in front ov him at.d do : i wep'ng. There is no man so poor but that he kan afford to keep one d"g, and i have S'en theni so poor that, they could af f.ud to keep throe. I say to 2 thirds ov the rich people in ths world, make the most on your nmney. for ir makes the iiiO't on you. M.-ppy thought. .1 never ariry unhx a stiec ss when 1. sli a ra'Cer'aix's bed sMekini; out of a whole. .1 boir off to tin; left and sav to miself that, hole belongs to tliat snaik. The inlidel argys just as a bull duz ehaned t" a post. He bellows and saws, but he con'r get lo e from the post, i notis-'. Not much. I think the Lord that there is one thinu i" this world that, money kan't buv, and that is the wag of a dog's tail. T no'is-; one thing, the man who rides n the kars every day is siti-fied with one scat, hut he who rides once a year wants four. The man whom vou kan't get to write poetry ir tt-11 the truth until you git him half drunk, ain't worth the in vestment. Whenever see a real handsum wo man engaged in the witnmin's rights 1 liz.in ess, T am going to take off mi hat and jit.e the processhun. See if I don't. Long years after the capture .of Stony Point, when Andrew Jackson was prcs i'ient. a visitor at the White House re- m.rked that the postmaster in his town (who "held over"') was an enemy to the prtsidmt even been heard to call him ' a seoundrei !" and urged the removal of the ill-mannered officer. "What sort a person is he ?" in quired the president. The visitor admitted that the post master was an aged and honorable man, and incidentally remarked that he wa one of the survivors of the battle of Stonv P;.int. "What !'' said the president, rising from his chair. "Was he really with Anthony Wayne at Stony Point !" "He certainly was," replied the visi tor. "Well, then," said Old Hickory, '-he has a perfect right to call me a Scoun drel every day in the week, and to be postmaster during ,is nntural life. The craze for china is more than fif ty years old. Tricks on Farmers. The travel-' All About Kissing. It is because ing sharpers who select credulous farm- there is so much hypocrisy in promis ors for their prey are constantly invent- cuous kissing that we object strongly to mg new tricks with which to impose on their victims. One of the latest of; these is to petsuadea farmer to become local agent for a new hay rake, or some other patented article of machinery, by offering him a good commission 011 all sales he can make. This done, the farmer is induced to sign a ejnditional note for the payment of a limited sum of money when he shall have sold S275 worth of the new machines. This note is so drawn and worded that it can be cut in two crosswise with a p.iir of seizors, the right half beiug worthless, but the left half being a regular note of hand for 8275 sign- , to persuade the great majority of sen-i-ed by the entrapped farmer. The j ble persons to do their best to bring traveling agent having secured it, sells 1 general kissing iuto disfavor. Ex it to any one who will buy it. and the farmer first awakes to I is folly when the note is presented for payment. Another game is quite as adroit. A very respectable looking person goes through the country with Ki 1 .! 111.1' ana carnages to sen, ana sens inem at such low -SOU and S00 i iiiiul:.,i "l-'uu iiuu each m any fanners are tempted o buv them; but ihe anent is scircely out of sight when another chap in pur suit of him comes along, exihits a chat tie mortgage o the buggy to the aston ished purchaser and carries oil the property; provided the purchaser will 1 . 1.:... 'pi , . v lev nun. J nee iiieiv an: imruiuniu 1 j almost as common in the country as the swind ling games practiced by sharp- era in the cities, u..soPhisieated cnun!.hL t was nor. Iog after this that try people being the victims in both cases. Laws have been pased to pro tect the public against them, but it must be bouie in mind that a farmer's good sense is a b-tt-r protection than all the laws that can be devised. The less farmers have to do with oily tongued tnveling-agents who are not known, the better for them. St. Louis Republican The L iVeahle Woman. The man who meets and loves the woman of twenty-five is truly fortunate, and she is equaily fort una' e in meeting and lov ing him. says a writer in a feminine journal. At that age she seldom de ceives her-elf and is seldom deceived. She may not have, she is not likely to have thc'i, her fust sentimental experi ence; at such an age is more sentimen tal, an l rarely ever flouting. She boks back at the youths she imagined she ! was enamored of between sixteen and eighteen, or even twenty-two, and they Harvest is not more than half done are worse than idifferent or repellent to j,, Yamhill county. The yield is bet her they arft redieulous; and in some I ,er Jinl tie rsfc not so damaging as at sort she, as she then vn, redieulous to herself. Shu cannot, but think what she has escaped; she cannot but be grateful to her destiny that her sympa thies and effect ion have be?n reserved for a woi thy object and a higher end. At twenty-five, if ever, a Avoman knows and estimates herself. She is less lia ble to emotional or mental mistakes; she is far surer of her future, because she feels time her fate is, to a certain extent, Avithin her own hands. Not only is she lovelier and more loveable, broader and stronger than she has been, but her Avedded happiness and powers of endurance are in ti manner guaran teed. Hoe. V Co u N Tit Y M A N , seating himself at a fashionable restaurant with the inten tion of taking a hearty dinner, sum- u.oned a waiter and made known his j purpose. The latter skipped briskly j awav and finally returned with a handsomely bound bill of fare, which he opened and placed before the guest, who pushing it away, scornfully ob-serA-ed: "Oh, come, now, you can'nt oram no literature doAvn me; vittals is what I want vittals and purty derned quick, too!" A young girl in Lynn, Mass., has had one of her feet so badly poisoned by Avearing colored stockings that it is said her foot will have to be amputated I the senseless custom, f 1 well enough for a man to kiss his wife, a lover his j darling, a mother her children, and a , brother his sister; but it is another j thing tor a person to kiss anybody and every body. It is a question whether i all public kissing is not objectionable; : it is certain that very little can be ad- vanced in favor of public promiscuous kising. Except in some eases, there is nothing enjoyable in a kiss, and it is certainly not a beautiful thing to look at. It should, therefore, be only nec essary to prove that' it has ceased to be a reliable symbol of effect ion in order change A child at Dover, South Mills, Me., J now eight years old, was born without eyes. He has eyebrows and eyelids but there is nothing which indicates the presence of eyeballs, and doctors t,he presence of eyeballs, and doctors sav that he has nothing whatever in the 1 r rut 1:1 rn ( sin eve ornrsiTustn. m little Tie fe!low is ail unusullV brisjht b..v. has never been heard to utter a word of complaint at his condi'ion, and he in variably rebukes his friends if they give expnssion to any pitying words. That he appreciates, however, the mis- j fortune that afllits him is shown by this tact. His little netce hau a cataract upon her eye, and he had heard f'ars 11 . 1 111. i exiiressvu Josr it snouia destroy ner his mother heaid his voicc'in an adjoin ing room, and, go'ng quietly to the door, she was surprised to hear him praying to God that the little baby might not become blind. The Mrs. Sartoris, the announce ment of whose death created such a shock in the United S'ates a few weeks a:o. was the mother-in-law, not the sister-in law of Nellie Grant. Ameri can papers must be rather "grave" read ing fot the latter ju.-t now. She has probably read more obituary notices of herself than any other person living, and all breathe the same spirit of ten der regret. Fort Keogir, Wyoming Ty., was. vis ited by a terrific hail storm, a few weeks ago, which completly destroyed the quarters of Company H. Fifth In fantrv,nand unroofedsever.il other build- sngs. first reported. The warehouse at Sher idan is now completed, and the cleaner will start next week. About 10.000 bushels noAv stored, nearly all of Avhich is OA-er average in weight, and of su perior quality. But foAv buyers here, as yet, and no wheat offered at present prices. The Beaverton correspondent of the Hillsboro Independent write: Andrew Johnson, a Swede, Avho resides two miles east of here has just returned from a rsimble in the Coast Mountains, where he was lost three days and two nights with no companions but three hounds and a gun. Ho waded a mountain stream the whole of one day, jthe hru?h nnd ""Norwood being impen- etrabie. 1 he depth of the stream, he says varied from one foot to arm pits, 1 t i x t 11 ,n rtePtn- 110 red i"me m a sor- rowful condition, feet badly swollen, shoulders galled and larcerated by car rying his gun. From the Standard. Ah Chee has been fined at Salem for keeping an opium den. John Purdy wtis arrested last week in Lakevjew for robbery. Mr. Bateman of Hillsboro, is the champion rifle shot of Washing ton county. N. F. Smith killed three grouse with one rifle shotynear Hillsboro, last week. Genera! News. Best & Belcher has levied an assess ment of Si. The Chisholm case opehedl td i), Kalk, Miss., on the Sth. Carpenters in Paris have struck for higher waes and shelter hours. During the past week G5 deaths from yellow fever have becuned iif Havannn. A sorghum factory is being built at Boise City. A great deal of building is noAv going on in Seattle. Two Seattle Chinamen Avere recent ly fined 10 apiece for killing a hog Avithin the city limits. Fire has destroA'ed the Wir.ter range in the vicinity of Stpiaw Mountain on,; the Payette. Delegate Brenfcz has appointed Fred W. Sparli' g of Seattle to the naval ca ( etship of Annapolis. Mr. James Imbee of Cornelius, plains, has purchased an English coach horse for 82,000. The work of ballasting and otherwise repairing the W. V. R. B. Avas comple ted last Aveek. A bridge will be built, in all prcbi bility, OA-er the north fork of the Santi am, at or near Mehama. It is repotted that Hon. W. D. Hare Avill leave Astoria and sejttle on his Washington county farm. Wisdom & Snyder's saw mill, ne,r" Sterling, Jacksonville county, AA-as burned to the ground on last Thursday night. Messrs Pratt, Holmes and Brown haAe killed several deer near Rock Is- and, Clackamas county, ree.M.fc'y. S6rne loAvIived Avtetch has been slip ping obscene cards into the lock boxes of the Sea't! post office. Colonel Bernard's troops, almost des titute of clothing, and on broken down animals, has returned to Buise City to refit. It is estimated that 15,000 bushels' grain will be shipped from Chehalis1 and Newaukam stations, LeAvis county, this year. J. W. Bailey has discovered rich quartz and placer diggings on the Dose whipple, a tributary, of Hood Canal, W. T. Mrs. Freeman, wife of Leigh R. Freeman, editor of the Index, and for merly of the Ogden Fieetuan, who AA-as wounded by the accidental discharge of a shotgun while enroute to Butte, ex pired a few days ago. Frank Lambert would have choked" to death Bart Chamberlain ne'ir Geravis on Saturday had it not been for the ntercession of a friend. The gross Aralue of Yamhill county property is 4,087,577; indebtedness,' SI ,209,095; exemptions, $352,624; and total taxable property, S2,4G5,298; number of poll taxes, 81,504. The tax levy for Yamhill county for the year 1879 has been fixed as follows: State tax, 7 mills: county tax, S mills; school tax, 3 mills; making a total of 17 A mills 21 mills less than last year. On after the loth day of September' a pasenger coach will be attached to the regular train on the W. Y. R. R, the' said train to letve Dayvil e ;it 4:30 o'clock; returninj, will arr've at 8 15 o'clock. From five to six, car loads are arriving daily; and it is expected when harvest is completed, to receive from 18 to 20 car loads a day. Considerable fault is being found in fjafayefcte with tflie county cenrt, for paying what some claim to be double' the amount that should have been paid for repairing the Dayton btidge. The court let the contract at 8750, nnd sev eral at ties say they would have been willing to have taken the job for $400f atjd would have made big inuney at. it at those figures.-