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Grant Co. Mies.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
.Oiil your thermometer mcltt
V llucsklolxirriM are reported not
as plentiful m iiiunl.
The days are jjettini lik . tlio
test of in notnowhat shorter.
Now timothy hay delivered in
bringing from eleven to twevr dol
lars a ton.
Handier a wa y uji Uu) click
Sloan mill Moody have fine groin
crops thU hcAMnt.
Mining locution noticoi for wile
nt this ollic?. Huy some- beforo
.jou go inpcting.
There arc 70,000 lawyer in tho
United Stnten nnil still the country
is rofe and itorou'i.
The board of equalizition, ax
. tisr notice che. whore, is a-lverthod
to meet on the lait Monday in
August.
linker City obtained a liountiful
supply of pure water for protective
and domestic poroses nt a depth of
150 foiL
The sons of tho tmwirvf midline
is growiiig weaker anil weaker.
Soon it will not bo heard nt all in
these parts.
An Indian in tho everglades of
Floiidit, it is said, is still holding in
klavery negrooa that wen- his when
the war broke out
Tho latest mixed drink is called
a "business braco," but iU practical
tendency is more that of u buninots
suspender.
V (Much complaint is made- that
fineepmen are guilty of setting fires
in tho timber either intentionally
or uccidently.
Old 89, in which have fallen tho
Satnoan, Danmark, Johnstown and
Seattle disasters, began with a total
eclipse and vill end with a total
telijise.
j Frank Kingsbury, ktockman and
rancher of Harney county, was
over during ihe week on butiness,
and shook hands with old acquaint
ances
Win. Gillis, a prosperous sheetf
i man 01 me .nuiuie rorK eomiiry,
Jhold his wool clip at Heppner re
eently for Mil cents per pound, so
wb have leen Informed.
Prof. W. It. Hrooks writes to the
Scientific American: "Whilo sweep
ing the southeastern heavens yes
terday morning I discovered a new
comet." Moral: .Sweep and ye
shall find.
The N'kw.s received a pleasant
call last week from Messrs. .1 . Thom
as and T. tSillxfrt Uowirk, of the
Monumental mine. The gentle
men repoit work progressing ttii
tactorily at thu Monumental.
Miphthciia, that dreadful disease,
is in the valley, and too much pre
caution cannot be taken to pi event
its spread, tor when once it becomes
epidemic the lives of many little
cliildcron will lie required to pay
the sacrifice. ,
It is gratifying to noto the good
hay crops generally all tlnotigh the
John Day valley this year when
our neighbors in other portions of
tho htato will have to content them
selves w ith from none to half a
crop, (.irain, too, is a good crop
where it could bo irrigated.
The brute Sullivan confined in
jail for the murder of llronkoe took
the warpath Saturday night and
throw all his MipiH'i- diidies nt jailer
MuUullough. llis Siillivanic uug
r.tty was chained together hog fash
ion after that, to prevent another
Pit MM II - !- A
such outbreak.
A Portland Sunday paper in no-
ting the maniiigo of Mr. Julius
Durkheimer to Miw Delia Fried,
Itakci a Iuj'w into the rum future una
tersely heads the article "Durk-
heinier Fried." Thn titr.iir is ren
derod more grueiome by the fctut)
ment that tho minister who fried
Mr. Durkhoimur is named I. Itloch.
Wasco Sun.
Wenrgo W. Joiio. eatne duMi
from l'rairio City laH week and
iuiinedi.itoly t'iU a few drinks of
nomothing htnmger than tank wa
ter, llu was subeipiently angled
and tried Ixiforu Judge lluli-on on
it charge of drunkenness and disor
derly conduct. Gcorgo was fined
61&.00 or sovoii and one-half day
iu jail, A friend helped him pay
tho tine, and ho wus released.
Saturday wo were shown by Ah
Toy letter received from his
grandmother in Canton, conveying
the information that a waterspout
visited tho Chang Ping and Ping
Yuen di&tricti, anil flooded the
country three cheongs deep. Tho
villdgc of Chne Kon iu tho Ping
-Yuen .district and Cheong Tun,
Hop Lui, Ngai, Kit, Sam Chan
Kui and Hum Po-hui, iu the Chan
Ping district were overflowed and
upwards of (5,000 lives were lost.
It scums now that Dr. Ashford
has determined to remain at llaker
City, where thu Democrat wiys ho
mijoys n lucrative practice. Tho
?'bwh stated that he had lojatoil at
Iturjjs, ami whilo wo acknowledge
smr mistake desire to statu that our
Juforiuatiou nnuo directly from re
t liable patties Iu this city whom Mr,
Afford hud Informal of his iuten
tiou, iiJoO from thu fact that ho bud
routed a rcaideticu iu Uuru. If
the Dr. had uo luteutiou tbuu of
chaugiug bi ieidvuco why did l'
Huy our mining location notices.
Important notice from the l'. S.
land oftlco under "New to-day."
11 A. McCoy has returned to
(Irant county from tin Poget Sound
country.
ijfruuIno old July Weathet; ther
, iflometcr insestcriiisj from 'J 2 to 00
degrees.
Hvorylody has a clmiice to hid
for the "work on tho I'endleton-Can-
yon City wagon mid.
All comiiiuniocitions to insure
their publication mint k aeconitxi-;
nied by Ihe true nunc of the wri
ter. Cattle aru selling nt very low
price in southwestern Uiegon.
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I li.i n I lu tin lA. linwnnt
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of winter feed.
"tJive the boys a chance," mivs a ,
j tiade journal. Noneenito; the loys !
j take too many chances now; that's;
the trouble.
' M4ker City has ooen exporioncinjc J
rtyni warm weather. Parties from
' tliev repoit fhe morcuiy stnndiiij; ;
! nt 1 10 in the shade. " ;
! An Hnglish magazine has doeiil
' oil that a woman can not bo called
I an old maid until she has passed tho
ago ot -to. ."50 mere are no out
maids.
Another Crook county man is
missing. His namo is Cantrell.
Seaixh is lieing vigorously erseou
ted for stvk inspector Nutting and
Cantrell.
Old grain is exceedingly scarce
in tho market, and unless threshors
sUirt soon stablemen and teamstoi-s
must "h iu mote from ouUide
countries.
Water is becoming impregnated
with mineral and organic impurities
consetpient upon the low sUige of
Nprings anl wells, and it is well to
look out for typhoid fever germs.
Chauncy M. Luce is dangerously
ill with diphtheria at his father's
reddenco. His life has been de
spaired of, but nt this writing there
is a slight change for thu better iu
his condition.
Hill Nyu says he has found tho
moiiucU man. He has a Sunday
handkerchef made to Older with
carlet spots on it, which he sticks
ffK his nuso lust bi'foro tlio mate
htarbt-uroimd, and leaves the church
like a house on lire.
Mrs. Cardwell, wife of John
Card well of Drew soy committed
suicido last week by taking strvch
nine, the funeral taking plac last
Thursday. Our informant did not
know of any reason assigned for
the woman's rash act.
lu l.eavenworth, Kan., a tiifin
must sign a vcititicate setting forth
that he is sick lieforo he can get a
drink at a drug store. The highest
record of sickness iu any ono month
was reached in June, IriKO, and tho
number of sick men was 22,000.
Judyo Deudv has taken a new
departure in his judgments on those I
.. . .. .
w in si. 1 fitinr to Indians. Kc-
cently James Murphy of Pendleton,
was IniHight before II is Hon. on
this charge, and was lined one dol
lar and sentenced to the penitentia
ry for ono year. In former casus a
ten dollar, line was alwut all there
was of it.
Deputy U. S. marshal, Harper,
a few (lays ago took from Dia
mond valley J. 15. .Seward and
James Sweitzor, charged with
forcibly obstructing and imped
ing due administration of justice
by means of Winchester rifles, iu
their said hands. Tho prisonurs
are to be tried before Judge Dea
dv at Portland.
It is said that the county court
of Umatilla county made an ar-j
rancemont with an abstractor to
tor to
give hint one-half of the amount
of tho taxes on land which had
not heretofore been assessed, but
which ho should trace to the
thu present owner. The buiii he
would receive would amount to
over f20,(X0. A great deal of
land no doubt escapes taxation
in every county, on account of
want o'f information about it by
assessors. Mountaineer.
SheritrGniv returned fiom hi
trip to Arizona Sunday evening.
He failed, however, to enpturo his
man Hryant, who was wanted for
selling u band of sheep not his ouu '
and for ".tlioi misdemeanor com- '
mitted iu this county. Previous to i
Miff heard of Bryant
-diao, Cal., and tele-
.,:.-. ..i.n..
starting the sliei ifl
in St n it 1 ti ct i ti fi 1 1 llrt
V.i ti... ,i. ...:.r 't .!... ..!... t,.
H . . " nr "1 V Y
detain film, liut when lie rniclieu
there Bryant had secured his ,-
lease upon a writ of fialteas corpus
and had lied into Arizona. Gray
got trace of him thou at Yuma, and
the shenll was notified that he was
wanted, and nrouiised to keep the
prom.s,,, ... hU.T w
prisoner. I lie next move was to
Phii nix to secure from tlio governor
of thu territory u romiisilion, and
' whilo on tho road he received from
I the deputy sherilf at Yuma a telo
I grain offering to catch Bryant for
I ilfiO, Ho Accepted the terms, and
' finally the deputy sheriff raised the
amount to 6200, and wanted 675 to
pay some other man for services iu
the matter. Oui big sheriff re fun
i ed to btaud this extortion, und after
, a lengthy chase iu which Bryant
succeeded in keeping just far enough
ahead of him to evade capture, vo
' turued without bin prisoucr. Kvi
' deutly Bryaut'b uiouey wub iued
i freely with tho oflicers ia Arizona,
aud it looks u though bcr deputy
The offers received at Johns
town to adopt orphan far oxeceri
tlio supply.
About four liutidrcd and fifty
cubic feet of well packed timothy
hay in mow or stock will make :i
fon.
Mine in northern Omni coun
ty arc dodtined to create n largo
amount of tho worlds colitl
wealth in the not very distant future.
I I IIU IjllUH.-lll IIVUI illllllUI tllL'
ti... i. .....I..... !:..
i ftr mnktni' iirrnnirniiieiit to semi
0VeP t0 w l'it0r Staf.cn !2o0
Irish families unable to support
themselves in the old country.
The cattlemen, bheepmen, and j
V "W 1 hTV-l Ml IV V S II II I
i . .. . t . . t
lv nlQn wo ncej a
u.jn(pr ,0 fi, h( CTwls
and springH. and we may get tt,
who knows?
,Ot weather the water in
drinking laila is too warm to
tlrink, and in cohl weather it ih
froKen solid. There are other
things in thin life which posses
equnlly discouraging foumlatioiiH.
Kre long the sheriff." will 1k
around with Hubponas for tho
September crop of jurors. When
he serves one on you it is consid
ered in good taste to attend his
reception without further invita
tion on his part.
Sheriff Gray did not attend the
prize light at New OrhmtiH, the
report to 1 1ml effect being a false
one. He was industriously pur
suing his man through the desert
wastes of California, Arizona and
New Mexico during his absence
from home.
The first official act of a wo
man mayor of Kansas is rejiorted
to have boon tho fining of a man
"fri for a plain drunk." On tho
same day she made "two ging
ham aprons, set a hen and re
turned five calls." A pretty
good pointer on what a woman
can do.
Tho other day there passed by
this otlice an immigrant wagon
iu which there were an old man
and his wife, seventeen children
and five dogs. The devil giued
at them for a momont and re
marked that there must be good
soil wheru them folks came from.
Oehoco Heview.
Miss Hlaueho Clark whilo re
turning to Fox valley after the
'ourth of July lost her satchel
Bomcwhere on tho road, contain
ing a few dollars in money and a
watch. The finder woulJ confer
a favor and be suitably rewarded
by returning the same to W. II.
Clark, at Canyon City.
Dr. Nanson, the arctic explor
er, states that the interior of
Greenland is covered with a
shield of ice 0.000 feet thick.
The inhabitants of that country
can face mild w infers without
fr of an ice lainine and thebo
fl.1 UMIIIIIlltP. M till. Ill ll.llllll 11..
"ul .' "-' "
minded of that scorching place
i way down below.
t The constitution for North Da- J
', kota is ready for adopton. It
provides against feiuuh suffrage j
and that uo foreigner shall vote t
until two years after ho has de
clared his intention to become a
citien, and that the reading of j
the Declaration of Independence
with facility shall he considered
a test of muilifieation to vote.
Now that diphtheria is in -mr
midst we give the following which
may bo tried and its eflieney de
termined: A pan of sliced raw
onions placed iu a room where
, there is diphtheria will absorb
the poison and prevent the di-
sense from spreading. I lie on-
1 ions should bo buried every
morning nnd fresh ones cut up.
A Yankeo woman got frighten
ed by an approaching thunder
i storm and went over to a neigh
bors for company. She w.is
hardly seated before she was
struck dead by lightning. Mor
al; If tho lightning wants you
it will find von whenever you
, may IikIc. It it Uoesn l wan
yon, you coumn i get sirucK n
von tried,
Thu latest evangelist hails
from Nebraska. Ilosays, "Yes
(biting a large chow from a plug
of black tobacco and expectora-
I tB with marvelous accuracy in
. 10 ' ,f xluinhor.ng dog.)
i I vu been getting there with both
i l ve been getting
fi.,,1 l,,l,.K. Tf.H b.t.1 (nun I stoi..
" , v , , . . , '
! H '"'jed in twenty con e t
in ono night, and you bet that's
big work. 1 got right down to 1
'em ami h i Vin know that if
they don't waltz up to tho mourn- j
ers bench and get religion they'll
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Lrjiiiiirj... f" . , ,,
I generally fetch 'cm.
The residents in tho nighbor
hood of Caleb aru discussing the
value of a kiss, and appeal to the
Ni:ws man for a settlement of
the wordy difficulty. In reply
we must "state that ir. our opin
ion the value depends entirely
upon the Kisser and the kisseo
and the motive that impels the
exchange. We have seen some
folks kiss when it turned us
against tho custom and our din-
nor too. But we have seen this
amusement or pastiinu indulged
n when t was butter worm see-
ing than a horsu race. No gen
eral rule can be established and
, 0.iJ vaJuu jvloceJ oo it.
The total rainfall in Haltimoro '
sinco Juno 1st is over tliirt v-four
inches.
A llridgelowti woman, "Oyoow
old, took her first railroad rido
recently.
Tho coin in tho vaults of (lie
mint nt San FranriHco h now be
ing counted.
Ono hundred Hquaro miles in
Montana wero swept by a prairie
fire recently.
Dr. K. A. Ivuiuht, dentist,
will ho in l'rairio City August
fith and remain two weeks.
In the past
vcar
there
were
12(1(5 deaths by violenre iu New
York, including nccidents.
Idaho pruM'itta an adamantine
front to Mormonimii and declares
that .she will have none of it.
If you happen to see a small Uiy
chasing a bumble Wo you will know
when lie yells that he haseauj-ht it.
The editor and nltorney Clif
ford started yesterday for liar
ner City, to be gone Feme days.
When a man is as itolito to
men as he is to women no is en
titled to he kuo,wii as a gentle
man. (ien. Sherman is authority for
the statement that the eleventh
commandment is to itund your
own business.
Iu shaking of rainy days
down in Ivontuokey they call "it
"bad weather." Anything is bad
down there that has water iu it.
In Cambridge, England, butter
is sold by the yard, a pound of
butter being rolled out into a
stick a yard long and sold in sec
tions. The Secretary of the Treasury
has decided to ask the Attorney
General for an opinion as to the
right of Chinese to pass iu tran
sit through I'nited States territo
ry. Mrs. Francis K. Willard biivh
that no woman ever lived who
did so much to discountenance
the social use of intoxicants as
the late Mrs. Kx-l'rosidont
Hayes.
An exchange asks: "Did you
ever see a left handed idiot or a
bald headed fool?" Wo have
seen the baldheaded fool. lie
spent half his money for hair re
storers. A New York paper says that
two of every three women that
one meets in the streets no lon
ger wear bustles. Perhaps not,
but they wear wire frames in
place thereof.
Women have cheek enough to
wear their hair cut short like
men's. Hut there is one thing
they dare not do. Not one of
them dares to remove her hat in
public and dust off the buld spot.
The city editor of the London
Times died recently, leaving a
fortune of .'fT.20,000." We don't
know a single city editor iu
America who is willing to die for
the sake of leaving such a fort
une. A Pennsylvania editor has found
that m my ting iu imUiic is playful.
He says: "Tho lightning plays,
the winds whistle, the thuudi-r
Itills, the snow ilio, the waves leap
and tho fields smile. Ken thi
! trees shoot ami the rivers run."
Malheur river is ruorlcil
about dry, and little is the won
der. Should we have another
year or two such weather as we
have had for the last three sea-
cons there will bo little water iv-
mniuiug on this x: tioa uf the I
earth. i
Progressive observation is the
name of u new game which has
become popular in Boston. The
players are shown a largo num
ber of articles of alt kinds on n
tray. In al out half a minute
the tray is taken away and the
iktsoii who is mott suecrnsful iu
naming the articles on tie tray
scores a point.
John Farrull had courted an
Illinois woman for eighteen war.
When ho finally decided that the
(i10 ,.omtf fr tlcm lo .)art
aho flung tho swill nail after hun
ami DroKo ins nip, and tlio jury
. r . . . . - . .
who tried the ease returned a Vor
diet of "not guilty" without leav
ing their seats. Served him
right. A man who will court for
a lifetime and not propose de
serves death.
There is a farm in Kush valley
Utah, upon which has bcuu dis
covered a mine of natural shoe
blacking, which produces a fine
xilisli not easily dimmed. 1 ru
y, there are more things in the
earth than were ever dreamt of.
Up iu Montana there was found
some years ago a deposit of nat
ural soup. No doubt if wc keep
on digging we shall find iu duo
lime towels, tooth-brushes and
such things nil fully developed.
She's a great old Mother Karth,
and uo wonder so many people
want all of it.
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SYRUP OF KIOS,
Produced from tho laxative and
' nutritious juice of California fig,
i combined with tho medicinal
virtues of plants known to bo
mokt henolloial to the human
system, acts gontly on thu kid-
, ueys, uvor auo ooweis, oiieoumi
ly cleansing tho system, dispell
ing colds and headachus, and
curing babituaJ coujUnatioa.
REASONS I'OK THEIR SUCCESS j
One nlt.
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Yours of unvnryin ; success
the treatment of all diseases and
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famed reputation. Their system
of electro-magnetic treatment is
now recognized by well informed
.1 .1 . !.. .1...
people as wie grcaicsi in me
world, and their success in curing
diseases being nowhere criunled.
This professional firm is eonno3
ed of two eminent physieitms.
each one of whom has attained
the highest degree of proficiency
iu his own specialties, being emi
nently qualified by special edu
cation and extensive experience
for the particular department of
practice to which he makes a
sMcialty. The only way a doc
tor can "become thoroughly suc
cessful is to devote himself to
some special branch of his pro
fession. Under the regular eodo
of ethics this plan is almost im
practicable; and doctors contin
ue to make fatal blunders by en
deavoring to practice more than
they have ever learned. Tho
Drs. Darrin have successfully
solved the great problem and
overcome all these difficulties in
their oxtenrivo budness by their
method of treatment, iu addi
tion to n thorough course iu some
of the best medical colleges in
the country each one of the phys
icians has been trained in his
own particular lino by practical
experience, under the direction of
skillful specialists. Their expe
rience is not limited to a few iso
lated conditions, as is so often
the case with other doctors. They
meet with and Heat every imag
inable complication of disease,
and the experience thus gained,
together with the constant study
of their respective specialties,
constitutes the natu.il ground
wotk of their unparalleled suc
cess. Dr. Darrlns' Place of Uuilnets.
Drs. Darrin can bo consulted
free at 2115 Fifth street, corner of
Main, Portland. Ollico hours,
from 10 to 5 o'clock daily; even
ing, 7 to S; Sundays 10 to 12.
All curable chronic diseases, loss
of inanhoj.l, blood taints, syphi
lis, gleet, gonorrluea, stricture,
spenuatorrhu'a, seminal weak
ness, or loss of desire of Koxluul
power, in either man or woman,
catarrh ami deafness, are confi
dentially and successfully treat
ed. Cures of private diseases
guaranteed, and never published
iu the papers. Circulars sent
free. Most cubes can receive
homo treatment after a visit to
the doctor's office.
UKAK VAI.MCY.
July 20, '611.
Kpitou Git.vNT Co. Ni:ws:
I thought I would drop you a
few lines to let you know Bear
valley is not doad yet.
Most every body is making
hay.
GrdcnR look lino. Mr. Frank
Poarfcon has a squash in bloom
and Mr. Blanton has a tomuto,
watermelon and musk melon
blooming. How is that for Boar
valley?
School is out, suppose the pu
pils are thankful, as it is such
inarm weather.
Sunday School, I suppose, is
dead, ns there was none iust Sun
day. Some of the boys ate feel
ing terrible lonesome since Mis
Mack, the Sunday School teacher
is gone. There is one whoso
name I shall not mention, that's
bron very much heart-broken. I
saw him a few days ago, his eyes
looks pretty much swollen. Oh,
don't take it no hard, then in an
other notion) iiinnn iu Bear val
ley yet.
Tlio school in the ScottH ciW
district, under lia- sMUlul .loan
foment ol Miss M.-.ry Co.U,
.ill olo' next Friday. All tho
scitohiiu aie we1! pit- isi.il with
MiH l o. its as a to i he. .
S'l.lrtHKIt.
The Mormon Probfrm.
The Co Avniiou met lite Mor
mon qiubtitni with the moM de
cisive and extreme- leiucdy
that was suggested. Aud that
wiih right. Mormonisiu and a
free utulo cannot 1 oth livu in Ida
ho, wide as are our borders. If
wo purpose to do woll huru to
hero build a state for ourselves
and our children, wo must at thu
start let this monstrous combina
tion of ignorance and knavery
understand that it is to have no
vote or voice iu the work. Tho
Government that we set up on
these plains and mountains is to
bo supremo within our bounda
ries. No revelations, no matter
their sourcecoining through tho
lying lips of lecherous priests aru
to lie received here as superior to
tho enactments of our own stat
ute books.
It was a monstrous danger
which confronted our statu at the
start, and our delegates have mut
it like muii. Aud the people will
solidly stand with thuiii.- Idaho
Statesmuu.
! Italy has a dobt of f 1.302,800,-
000 tho Inrgeht of any nation iu
! the civilized world, calling for
! SIVO.OOO.OW iutvwrt auuoally.
WASHINGTON 1-KTTKR.
V.sin.stw.N, July '21, 'SO.
Hi). O it ant Co. Nnws:
Snchofthe candidates for the
aiH-akership of the next House as
come hero from time to time and
talk with the president, c.xpro8
themselves as confident ol an
oarlv extra sension. Judge Per-
. . . .... . ..
kins who is just nt present tho
only candidate iu town, believes
that the session will he called
for the early part of October, lie
thinks tlml" very little tlino will
be consumed in organising the
House. Modifiers from nearly
all congreMiitcn who have been
interviewed on the subject in an
ticipating only a short light over
the rules. He believes that the
extra session will have some
time to devote to the fori IV, as
well as to discuns n national elec
tion law. The contested oleotion
over, will not iu his opinion, re
ceive immediate i.ttcution.
The Indiana ioliticiaiiH who
cotno hero so frequently havu
much to say about Mr. Harri
son's partiality for Indianapolis
people, ami cite numerous exam
pica to show thai tho only first
class positions he line bestowed
tiHn ludianian's have been given
to Indianapolis. The comments
are very bitter. The same ton
duct cost Mr. Cleveland a good
many votes in New York. There
was a democratic association of
New Yorkers here I hat was by no
means a unit. Nearly a filth of
thu total membership, "nnd near
ly all the really influential peo
ple, were from Albany and Buf
falo. Of course, the New York
City .democrats never iccovercd j
from the mortification, and the
"Albany association" as it was
termed "by them, fell into the
soup. Kxtreiiie favoritism ofany
locality of liis own state, is dan
gerous to any president.
The naming of children after
contemporaneous great men is a
weakness that many parents
have cause to ngtet. Charles.
Sumner,, replying to a Boston
constituent who thought of nam
ing his bov after him, suid that
while Charles was always a sub
stantial ami respectable name,
Sumner might yet become a very
bad one. Besides, is there not
something supremely ludicrutis
in finding some duudcr-hcad
butcher named Vergil'.' People
who ought to know, say that lCx
Senator Bruce, who is about as
close a political trimmer as one
cares to meet, has always kicked
himself for naming his boy Bos
coo Oonkling, being always afraid
that the naming might make
him unpopular with foiiic repub
lican opposed to the great New
Yorker's wing of the party.
I uccidently met an old friend
with his wife aud a sou of about
four, the other evening. The
father has been in the depart
ments so long that the people of
his own Illinois home have quite
forgotten hiin. Ho has not even
boon home to vote for ten years.
His wife is the niece of a promi
nent republican senator, ami he
depends upon that relationship
to retain him in otlice. aud just
nt present to abtaiu him a sub
stantial promotion. He is a great
republican now, but four years
ago was a howling democrat
though before Mr. Cleveland's
oletion ho had been a republican.
"Pretty child; what's the boy's
name?" I asked t ) father, care
lessly. "G rover,'1 he repliis.
"Just (inner; no middle name,"
I inquired. "No middle name,"
puts in the mother. "Only Gro
vor, it is an old family name, my
grandfather Baker's num.'."
1 knew her grandfather Baker
and his name was Cyrus, though
ho was not great. And I loinein
b"r, also, when the i lil I w ti b-ip
titled during the opining of the
last administration, and the
tun ne on the church regist -r is
"drover C.ovel.ind S i." Th-s
Diole teaches that no man can
serve two masters, but in a hum
ble way, many government clerks
may Ik; aid to come wry close
tu lt-iking miceiie iu this direc
tion. nnlniie. i! e b-lco of the 111 jb Pihof
;liltin 1 1, t l-.xiivc and liuliitiou.
nh tl.e n.vJii iiisl viriu4 of plan
etiown to b mot licneltrUI Id tier
itmHiylrm.foimini;lheOM Y PI'K-
Kucr Iu:mi:uv to a semiy ct
proi.iptly on the
KIDNEYS. LIVER AND BOWELS
tX3 TO
Cleanse ihe System Effectually,
tt THAT
fivnu ULOOD,
napnEsniNO sleep,
HEALTH nnd STRENGTH
r Uf f. 'low. Hcry one it inlBg it
. II .i" ..(liehleU with it. Atk your
, ;(.i hYkVV Of TIGS. Maou.
t til by ttiQ
.FORHIA FIG SYRUP CO.
lA.wtt.v, I.. Hi Vswc, N. V
Oregon Scenery.
A largo tinted engraving of Urn
beautiful Grande IJondu -nhy
nnd tho city of 1a GrumJo ac
companies the July numbM of
the West Shore Magns iw r.a an
art supplement. Taken m u
whole, it is ono of the finot nitd
mo.st instructive mimlwrs of that
excellent mngnxine ever issued,
ami contains, in addition to tho
alnive, n nnu.s of informiition
about nil iMirtions of the north
west, ns well as excellent to'ics,
jiootry, etc. PublWhed al 42.60
a year, by L. Saiuuel, Portland,
Oregon. Single copies. cvnla.
Mexico iu overrun uith foreign
capitalist seeking oppoif unities
to build railroad.
A representative! of tho St.
Louis Wrought-1 run Stove and
Kango Company is wort: ing tlio
country.
Wo notice in an exchange tho
inent'ou of a very cnnsidernlo
thief iu Unltimmv who Mole n
saw-mill, but after nllectioti It'll,
the mill dam, thinking tho own-'
em might want to use it when
they found the mill gone.
Tor Sale cr Kimt.
A good dwelling houio'vfith or
without furniture. Hel loci
tion in Pniirio City. For tesuw,
enquire or address, .lr. it. M.
Fisk, Prairie City. Hi?
I'll I' IT FOB SAI.K.
To those wishing to bu frtdt
ami vegetable, I would say tlat
1 will bell apples on the veiled nt
fiO cts per lot, ,da. a tfood assort
ment of vogotiihleu lor sale at vmt
p.onablo prices. All nnb is will l o
promptly attendud to. Ordera
left with O. P. Cres'ip. iu Canyon
Citv, will nvicli ma every week,
an 1 will usually be iu town f?attir
days and Tiionhiyw of each icek
with fruit to sell, ltetddenrw two
miles below Jo'ui Day City, on
Tno Dulles road.
M'u, Lccc
Strayel, from Dear vlly, :uo
' mo hint Si tii , one smalt browti
inure, branded with dim fluto
tour mi left shoulder, having a
on dlo on. Five dollnra re etud
will lie paid nr either, ot inf-nrm-v
ti. n that will le.nl to their voeov
erv. (.'an bit left at Leo MdlOiw'nr
livery stable iu Canyon ' Uv,
at my ranoh four ijtt!t tasltfty
John Day.
J. A . LAvrvu'K.
IjiciirM I a bcttgire.i . a..:
In ilia kl.iu')f! Wliu uts; n i ti. HJIt
fall Into Uit.llr. 'Xli.iK . b. I . f..'.tj::Vl
innUilir.i, llrlght' it i-jir i.t a:. t,cr.t.o
Willi tutrlUlo rrtatitly up: O" Iw.i'l'" of
tlto erpruis stfartci). LsUriH o! (' n V l lor,
enuratl, t'nvi'l ninlistrn...ni . -im Vr.. ii Im
npiiriihen.li'il Iriiin a l-.wt it .vi.'-m Uhi
tiutliler, nt wtiivli .ptt..i.i i i if '. -ii3.'i
arc (tie cauws. Jl.'iii i!.t'K' . .
a llu I nolo iu.il niiuWr k' i.cH.k; .' lie'
ruiul orpin. Hint i-in ui-h i c : L- i :l$l
upon III liltunl Okiu llui i' ,i..i!u . .ulun
wlllinui n.xrjtiiiK ihrui m i ! l . 'cwl
Irom lit unmeill".ci -I t -: i ci j. fit
rommcrfo. A f ntthm W im.i . liLf i of thl
llilterr, livrcniuii .' nv. - i ' t. . i.M..ri,
I to euul.Iv Uwin In hi ni l t: Ii-ihHi
lu hiijiio llir.ni.rli Iimw, In .i..'.:i. i vri
ilurilvo ut rliouiiinil-ii' nii.i .in ! '.'"WS-lip-",
lover nml npm, r. ntmi... m '.',!
tici'tmaro couiinttinl l .v (tiu Xntn.;-.
PeouSias'
Msny I'trull.ir (vliiM Uitt im J'.. Sac
Jparlila hujirl'i le i.:ii" i .. '. i.
I'inilliir la rn:iililu.i.li ,i, ",' imi 4
anl 'i('arat.'i t i t U-"' .. '1 ,
II.h)i HiM3i,.' !'.. v . .
llll! f'llllMlr;.tu' V.t'K' llllil y t"''-
liot known ri'i.icll. i t?f j oj
tlm it'crutiio l.iiii.- f eS! ,"'' .'i.
1'ccUtr la I: jf Gv''j' '
qii.I rroiiPiny vi T..: :
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Ono Q 'nll.1 1." ?t- .
fT. j-vVJ larger tail t:4.:.i i ti.-t
.JV S r-V"i' lri,-er iIim t...iM...i,it
V lll"J'l Sf I'.xill fi .'' i I'O I.
S rreiillir I.i Iti tanJitU.it i. r. .,
Hr-nl !j r i .i. :i.-i a. i .mi'it.V i.'nfi;i ..
Hlo linlkMi. 7., Mill li"i wr-j J.-i li cit
tho Itllu el " fliu ill-:: l l. e J S
lutln r i'Vci ill"rnVi i nt.." t!N
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r w?m i i . ui
t..i M.ii- Id tt
(ticmiin
itiruail,
Xjv'' eat in ittl ft . .U'-u
CtJ" y' no ou.i r r : r ..iwt
, ' ever u'. icil ..t.clt iv' i-
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y ot ciiuo mi tv-au:ctl)'.
Do not Ik' luilm-rd 1 1 1 ey " Wvst tt iv.t.HI
but In) jure t't ( t tlx r f.t!l r K'i! :
Hood's Snrsaprm'iia
nMi.r nurugnjij. sii-in.iv, : i-,vt.
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K'Cient.1'1..
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ml.l. itMilt- !'
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t ne Uipi ttti't il"tl
Uli.1. nt. CUroilltlU
tJllll. Oil.
I. O (JAUt'KUl!.
TMuiV.'io, 7..
Juno Q.IUO.
itT litl M! 'il'.llt
.in lifuii 1J ! mil.iril
19 iuohOii, vtm riiitil l St. Ji... Oil. rarr
bit nmalitinl f tn.aatiil. V. ). CllHU.
JO U.UI'.X B1SIIHON, ttq, Ht lr!Sl
(vuul lilu.l Hutu Atrti Utlf.n. wiyt: "Ili n
NiullUt vUh ibf rnu.rkbW rltkiti') . M.
JaruU Oil, I (ImrfUUr uihI titartUy ItelbiM
IbU mluulilc trllk fir Willful alluivut,'
IliHi. OUUS I10WI H, r.i (loviiitor .f dUry.
Uo0.Jiily Club. I'n'tl. City IVict. BiUuy
Co. tan: in my ianillr cn'l iur MubinI
I Uuva ukI bt. Je'lM Oil uttb .atiafaugy
I roiulu.iiitl Ulfuvu II ihe Ucii rented fjr lUj
. I'OlUrulcllU!ClitauJ'IBSIlHlllNtU"
At rri'xiiT MtiUnii ii