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About Grant County news. (Canyon City, Or.) 1879-1908 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1880)
VOL. 1. NO. 4 k CANYON CITY, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1880. TERMS: $3. PER YEAR PROFESSIONAL CARDS. C. "W. PARRISn. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Canyon City, Oregon. M. L. 0 INSTEAD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Canyon City, Oregon, Gho. B. Cukkey, f CaxyoitCity, Ouegon. M. Dust in, Attorney at Law. Canyon City, Oregon. FC. HORSLEY,M D. Graduate ok the university ok penn Fylvania, April S, 1 SJ S. Canyon Ci'y, Oregon. Office in his Drug Store, Ma'n Street. Orders for Drills promfly filled. No professional patronage solicited unless directions ate s rictlv followed T. W. HOWARD, M. 11, " Canyon City, Grant Co., Orkgon. . O.M.DOI)S0N, S.D.. 7i. l. BCIiSY. 23 S ZVX rI7 X 3 -T", jCSJ-DrUl Itootns, Oppopito th . ctbntiist t'lur;h. Canyon City. Oregon. (j. I. UAXELTItfJS, ayon cut, oukgon. rmn pot t renin) D hu 1ST -ST C3 jST CI'PT" MIL KOI AN. The best of Milk furnished to Jie citizens of Can von City ov 2ry mo'iiiii, by the gallon or quart; at reasonable rates. Frank RScCaJiuRrs Variety Store, J elm Day City, - - - Oregon. DMA I.SJ R IV CiHOlCE GROCERIES, . , TOBACCO, , ' CiC.ARS, STATIONERY, . , . NITS AND CONI'ECTIONERY, ETC. , ETC. Would respectfully, .solicit a share of the patronage of the ci'ir.cns of John J)n y and sut rounding country. MAIN STREET, JOHN DAY, - - - - OHEGON. PDLfflETSGHAN&GO, Announce that they have re ceived a full and well assorted Stock of GENERAL MERCHANDISE, which tliey offer Having bought for Cash we ;re prepared to sell our Goods ( Cheaper than they were ever I sfore sold in this Market. j Canyon City, Jan. 16. 1880. a tt 3 0IV1 AT0ES A. IT. Grotii. CITY HOTEL Canyon City, Oregon, ETJLISON & GROTH, - - Proprietors Bg leave to inform thoir friendi And tho Public Generally 1 That they can be found at the OLD STAND, And aro alwhws reaiy to furnish good Board and Lodging AT MODERATE PRICES. GOLDEN EAGrLE HOTEL, Canyon City, Oregcn. The undersigne 1 takes pleasure in announcing to his Patrons and the gen- erul public that after a trial of nearly a year, he feels confident of success in Hotel business. I shall endeavor to yain the esteem rf my guests, and give slum their mon ey's worth. Terms of Board and Lodging, Invar hibly Cash: Dourd ami Indginir.per single day.Sl:50. without lodginr,per single day, SI. Board and lodging, per week, 37. without h'dgins.', per week, 85. JOHN SKGEKDAI1L, Proprietor. Grange Hotel- PRAIRIE CITY, OREGON, J. XL TTardman, Proprietor. Tbo accnrmno'ia'ioDS at tbo abnvu Jlotcl pro gnoti. and pvry rart v-ill bo ti':c to uja-ko gueats Uw at lio:n. y:.CiCoraortnble hp nrd a good n fi'i'f as thu inirkot ftffrdd 'i7!)iihd tt rcfimnnb-e antes. HARNEY HOTEL Fort Harney, Oregon X. HMVE-:5t, 5ropi-lc.tor. Having eoniploiod my Hotel I am prepared to entertain the traveling public v:Hi care and comfort. The table is supplied with the best the market uttbrds The beds are neat and clean. DA L L KS A N D DA K FAl C IT Y STAGE LINE, Araile & Co., Proprietors. .Departs from Canyon City for The Dalies and Baker City, Daily. Arrives from the same points, Daily. R. C. "Williamson, Sup't. CANYON CITY t McDEPwMIT ST AG E LINE, FKANK McBEAN, - - Proprietor Departs from Canyon City cn Monday, Thursday, and Sat urday of each week. Arrives at Canyon City on Sunday, Wednesday and Fri day of each week. Put up expressl' for Family Use, in three pound cans. Warranted, finer, better and cheaper than the Imported To matoes, By G. "W. Houston, Canyon City, Oregon. For sale by Phil. Metschan fc Co., Gundlach & Bro and the proprietor. N. Hulison, T X T, General S2ews. Miss Kate Field brought from Strat ford a slip of Sbaksphera's mullberry tree, whieh she has presetted to the Central Park commissioners. It is to be kept in a green house until April and then planted with proper ceremony probably upon the poet's birthday. The Park commisnooers sent for the slip on Bliss Field's arrival, and it is now in their care. Mrs. Hannah Simpson Grant, the mother of the Generil, is now, at the age of eighty, living -with her daughter Mrs. Corbin, in a small house oo the heights above Jersy City. She is a quiet and dignified old lady, with a small straight figure and regular foa t tires. Sho has bright dark eyas and a kindly smile, and ah moves about with usual vigor and activity. A large ferry boat is about to bo built for crossing the British Channel. The dimootions are. h-ngth, G50 feet; width, loOfoet; draft of watsr, 8 fMet. This boat will contain a whole- railway f-tatiMU of 180 tracks, and will be pio pslled by a nutubar of paddlas and screwa, and will frm a connection with the railroad j irimuing from the eoasfi to London and Paris. Iletbei i iSpenciir iia delicate look ing man, with t tiingo of hoard amimd his threat in the stvls of IJorac1 Gree ley. lie is nssrly sixty yetrs old. and has never mud much iwmey, having b?e;i nt times pinohei. by poverty. Ha has gMi-c to lilgypt to com)!ete his reoov cry to httalib. the Uuit-d Htat- in 1794 were: Phila deSphi. -12.020; New York, 30,000; C'mrlnutt.11, 20,000; Boston, 18,000; Bniiimor, 13 503; JCwport, 6,000. At that tim-. the tutirt population wa h.s thau, 4,000,000. Mts Yccum, a auhool teicher of Kit titas valley, Orgnu, hai taken up n land claim fenced it, built a hnuse. m i tliia vofr taised 012 buslwli of uraiu bssidaa oaehing her oh o'. She says alio doas eot mian n mrry until she cau support a hubnd. Sydney Smith ua d t y thtt the eoiamon practice of the lr;y iu bie day wae to cndevor to draw ai out of men as Eve was drawn from Adam's sm'c, by casting them into a deep sleep- To add rcaliilic cgee; tu "Unel Trin's Cabin," at Luranaport, tud., a livs oloud hound wc introduced, and the brute heiuhtned the realism by breaking his cluio and biting au act ress seriously. The first instance in hiatory of a coroner's jury composed exclusively of women, lately occurred at Chejenne, Wy. T.f in the case of khe death ot Mra. Tlieraaa Gneek. The negroes of Sabine pariah, Louia i.'tnn, are wild on the subject of Kan sas. The parish ia thrcatoned with a sable depopulatien. Mie Alice Longfellow, daughter of tho poet, has become the Massachusetts Vice-Regent of the Mount Vernon La dies Association. A sontiuiontj 1 youig man 4hus feel ingly expresses himself: "Even as nature benevolently guards therosewith thorns so doss tho endow women with pins." Young AlfariRii is most unfortunate in his wives. The second is attacked with epileptic fits, and the promise of lineal heirs for tho throne is not bright. A lady voter of Boston found too late that she had voted her curl pa pers. The only way iu which the czar can escape assassination is to kill himself before somebody eke does. Oliver "Wendell Holmes calls a kiss a lisping consonant. He should have added also that it usually'follows a-vow-sL The Utah Legislature now in sees ion at Salt Lake has 39 mtmbers, all of whom ar polygatolits with the ex ception of four. They draw thir pay from the National Government, and during tbeir session of 40 dys enact uiuspirodj' laws inimical to the interests of die America d people. A white deer was recantiy captured at King's Feny in Florida. The authoress : Ouida, is t-0, homely, and wears bar hair down the back. Gen. Sherman is .said to be the most persistent theatre-goer of all the public men in Washington. The recent cold weather kdled a largo number of cattle in tha prairies of Tex as, where shelter could not be obtain ed. Suspicious - A aausage maker ad ver tiies his wares as "dog cheap." A Lublin newspnper says: 'A num ber of death: are unavoidably postpon ed. A man seeing thesiga "Hand-? olf.'' ianocently asked if they had gone on a picnic. The Cxar begins to feel like a target. at a shouting tournament. Charles Lamb remarked of one of his critie, "The more I think of hiii, the lee I think of him." The great trouble with protVs-sional bull elubi Ls ti find a pitcher that will hold water only. Professor Poetor alludes to the earth aa a marc mutard seed. The Buffalo lUxprea says that this id because it is hot inside. We learn frgoj Lord Lome, who got the oews from Bacousfield, who are Quutm ViotorU as his autlsoriiy, that Sara Bernhardt is makiug a pnir of slippers for Talwage. Pedjtgtie "Whaiia the jeaaniu of the Latin vt?rb ignosco ? Tall student (after all otkera bare failed to give the correct detiuitiou) "I doii't kuow." Pedagogue "Kight; o up to the head." An erebaygi says, c,Napdeou loved a as a a who eowld die." Thin accounts fer hi purchariag Louisiana from tba Spaaiards. Bf3tou Traaicrip. Tkere laay be men whe would will ingly aeareh ihe Scriptures if they thought they oulJ find anything to steal ia thecu. Boa Ion Transcript. Sneaking of Seaator Bayard's boom, the Chicago Tiibuue chidioirly remarks that little States like DelaTfaie should be seen and not heard. It ia a mean man who would fool a Ish by wearing a white choker aad clerical coat when at?olliug along the banks of a brook on Suaday. BosUa. Poat. The follewiag 'ig&s, banded down by tradition' are yet believed iu nsany parti of America: AVhito specks n the nails are luck. Whosoever reads epitaphs loses his memory. To rook tbe orakle when empty in in jurious t the child. To eat whan a boll is tolling for a funeral causes toothache. AYben a mouse gnaws a hole sorae misfortune- uaay be opprehendad. He who has his tosth wide asunder must seek his fortune in a distant land. Whosoerer finds a four-leaf trefoil shamrock should wear it for good luck. Beggars' bread should be given to children who are slow in learning to speak. If a child less than twelve months old U brought into a cellar it will be come tiruid. When children play soldier on the roadside, it forebodes the approach of war. A child grows nroud if Euffcred to look into a mirror while less than twelve mouths old. He who proposes moving into a new house must first send in bread and a new broom. "Whosoever sneezes at an early hour either hears some new? or receives some present the ?ume day. The first tooth cast by a child should be swallowed by the mother, to iBSure a irrowth of teeth. Buttoning the coat awry, or drawing on a stocking inside out, cause matters to go wrong during tbe day. By b-ndins the head to the hollow of the arm. the initial letrer of one's fu ture spouse is represer.ted. Women who sow flaxseed should, during the process, tell some lies; oth erwise the yarn wil I never bleach white. When women are ?tutl'ing beds, the men should not remaiu iw the house; otberwije the feathers will surely como through the ticks. When a person enters a room lie should be obliged to fit down if only for a moment, as he otherwise takes awy the children's sleep with htm. If a dojj scratches on the Hoor or how's in a peculiar manner, or an owl bo -t in the neighborhood of the house, it is an omen ofdeath. Blaine is to have an ovation tenpered him at Washington. The friends of the Northern Pacific Railroad have begun to work in earn est to fecure the passage of a bill extend ing the time for the completion of the road and feel confident of success The Democrats of the Seuats all vot- ed to reject the nomination of Kutchin for co1 lector of Wisconsin, on the ground of the violence of language used by his paper in dt-nouncing Democrats. The disappearaut-e of Dr. S. Dana Llaves State As-avcr, is announced. It is auid that after settling up all mat ers of bu?iuet3 on the 20th inst. he lelc Bo.ston. leaving a k'tter bating thut he tthould uot return. business way in a prosperous condition. The cause cf bii sudden disappearance is domestic tr'Uibl''. A co-operative colony is forming in Brooklva for the purpose of settling upon government land in the vicinity of Pugel Sour d. A meeliag to piornote the movement Vfa held in U ition Hall; which rr&a addressed by Dr. P. XL Vauderwejdoj editor of the Practical America, aud E. V. Sin alley. On the 29te, in the Maine Senate, reven fusion Senators appeared. They were cordially received and took their saats. At well and Potier of Penebb scott; nsid that the interests of their eon. stitueacy required their presence at the beRrd, and hovT-erer much might be said in regard to the position of affa;r. their daty was phio. In the House 22 fu fiooistB took their seats. Stalli5 Bouoht. Webb Ander son of Grant county has bought Wy Bouaki, !Nat Wastf nil's stallion and race horae, well known to the turf in this county, for 8400. Audcison has a large band of horses in that eeunty Hillsboro Indepcnde-t. Augusta, Mo., Jan. 30. Several additional Pusionisti tcok thtir scats in the Housa to-day, and there are but four empty senatorial chairs. The Au burn light infantry do par1 erf this morn ing aud no military or extraordinary polico force are at the State House now. PiTTSAung, Jaa. 30. At a moeting of the "Western Union Iron Association hold in this city to-day the price of iron was advanced to four cen's. Chicago, Jan. oO. Chieago wheat ur.st fled and loTVer at SI 18 cash; ?1 lb' for Ft-brurryand $1 20 for March. New York, Jan. 30 The Titae's Washington special says the removal of Commissioner Hayt did not come a pay too soon, and now, that incompe tent obstruction having been put out of tho Indian Bureau, wo shall expeofc ho see a more eulightened policy adopt d Jo ward the Indians.