The Dalles Daily Chronicle.
THE DALLES
OREGON.
Entered at the Postofflce at The Dalles, Oregon,
as second-class matter.
STATE OFFICIALS.
Governor . S. Pennoyer
Secretary of State.
j. w. MCBrwe
Treasurer
Supt of Public Instruction,
enatora
Congressman
State Printer
...Phillip Metschan
E. B. McElroy
(J. N. Dolph
J J. H. Mitchell
B. Hermann
Frank Baker
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
County Judge..
.C. N. Thornbury
Sheriff D. L. Cates
Clerk J. B. crossen
Treasurer '. Geo. Ruch
, . (H' A. Leavens
voramissioners Frank Kineaid
A -sensor John E. Barnett
surveyor ji. . snarp
Superintendent of Public Schools. . .Troy Shelley
Coroner William Michel!
The Chronicle is the Only Paper in
The Dalles that Receives the Associated
Press Dispatches.
DIAPHANOUS BOSH.
The organ of the ten mossbacks ' who
voted "No" a week ago today, was in his
happiest mood last Saturday evening.
He poured forth a perfect torrent of his
torical, literary, scientific, legal, etymo
logical, hydraulic, antequarian, geo
graphical, riparian. Partingtonian wit
and humor, so completely overwhelming
that we have not ceased for four and
twenty hours to .bestow our benisons on
a merciful providence that has reduced
the price of Webster's dictionary to three
dollars and a half. Referring to the ar
gument of the Chronicle on the charter
bill, Mr. Michel 1 gives us the following
sample of Times-Mountaineer rhetoric :
The arguments in its favor were ex
tremely diaphanous, and did not follow
the simplest rule of logic or contain the
least element of analytical or synthetical
reasoning.
Heaven help the readers of the Times
Monntaineer. How thankful the public
should be that the "manuscripts" were
burned, when without them the gentle
man is able to turn himself loose in that
style.
The Review makes the following plea
for the farmers' alliance movement :
"The farmers' alliance simply breathes
the spirit that is in the air. The western
farmers know that things are somehow
wrong. They have been trying to solve
the puzzle. Doubtless their diagnosis of
society's diseases, and still more their
remedial formulas, are at some points
absurd. But they are honest ana ear
nest, and in many of their views they
are clear headed and right. They have
at least made one grand discovery;
namely, that they have been delegating
the business of government to politicians
and lawyers, and that if the interests of
. the masses are jeopardized by the syndi
cates and monopolies and growingly
dominant corporations, it is high time lor
the people to cease electing to legislative
and executive posts the classes of men
most amenable to the influences of cor
porate wealth and power.
"The western farmers believe that the
money powers has been robbing them
through an actual or relative contraction
of the circulating medium ; and they be
lieve in free silver, if not in limit
less issues of irredeemable paper.
Far from wishing dishonestly to
scale down the mortgages on
their farms they desire only that
money should have a normal purchasing
power. It is so easy to criticise the exT
travagance of the accusations that these
reformers often make, and to point out
fallacies and heresies in their economic
creeds, that there is danger least the
east m y forget to note the advantage to
the country that can but accrue from
the aroused mental political and social
activity of the western farmers."
"The city will not be able to inaugu
rate a purely gravity system until it has
from 20,000 to 25,000 population, and
even then this will depend upon the de
cission of the council and water commis
sion." Time-Mounta inter.
This is another specimen of "dia
phonous" nonsense. Why we have a
gravity system now always had a grav
ity system since the water of Mill creek '
were first piped into the city. The
Chronicle wonders if Mr. Michell is as
much off on the meaning of the word
"gravity" as he is on the word "dia
phonous." Will it require a decision of
the city conncil to make water run down
hill?
A Smart Boy.'
An ingenious Iowa youth tied a thread
to a nickel, dropped the nickel in a slot
machine, got what he wanted, then
withdrawing the nickel by the thread,
repeated the operation until he had
made a clean sweep of the receptacle's
contents. He was arrested on charge of
theft, but the judge who tried him held
that he had committed neither burglary,
larceny or robbery, nor even obtained
property under false pretences. He had
merely done what the inscription on the
machine told him to do drop a nicklein
the slot and he kept on doing it.
Nothing was said about leaving the coin
where it dropped.
Members of the farmers' alliance have
organized a company at Helix to handle
and ship their own grain in order to
make all the profit possible out of the
product of their farms. The company
has secured the Reese & Redman and
Robley platforms, and is making prepar
ations to handle a large amount of grain.
Eatt Oregonian.
Owing to the great amount of snow
there is in the mountains, it is not ex
pected that travel across the Cascades
will begin until the middle or last of
May. Ochoeo Review.
Burns, since it was incorporated, has
been assuming city airs, and now pro
poses to have a daily paper, edited and
published by Mrs. D. L. Grace. Suc
cess to both the town and its daily paper.
Maud George told me last night I was
his little duck ! Ethel He probably dis
covered you wern't a chicken.
STRANGE SOUTHERN BIROS.
tssui Hopkins Describes Some Denizens of
the Virginia Backwoods.
"Didn to never hyar "bout elpen
strechersr" asked Sam Hopkins the other
day.
Sam is a little colored chap that runs
errands and makes him well generally
useful about an uptown hotel. He hails
from Charlottesville, Va., and what Sam
doesn't know about the Virginia woods
isn't worth knowing. -Sam may trifle
with the truth sometimes, but he puts
on such an air of injured innocence when
any of his statements are doubted that
yon are almost forced to believe him.
he again repeated. "Why, they're the
curiusest birds in all Virginny. What
theys like? Why, bless yo stars, they
am t like notnin in these hyar parts.
Yo' kin only find 'em in the swamps back
o Charltsvule, in the spring time, too.
Wnar they is in the Bummer? They
ain't nowhar. They's jess frogs an' liz
ards. Well, when yo' want fur to shoot
elpenstrecbers yo takes your gun an
goes oat in the swamp at night. Yo'
see they burrows in the ground day
times an comes out at mght to feed.
"They's bigger'n a quail, an' most as
big as a Ain't got no feathers
only IcSs? bristles, like a porky-pine.
They's as black as yo' hat, too, an' looks
like a young rooster with his feathers all
punea oat.' uooa to eat? Yes, siree.
Moe as good as 'possum. Yo' has to be
mighty keerful, too, for if a elpen
strechey sticks yo' with one o' them ar
quills yon's a dead man, sartain sure. In
the summer time they changes into liz
ards an' frogs. They's jess the bigges'
frogs you ever see, too.
"An' yo' never hyard o' soras neither?
! , . . .
wen, saKes auvei wny, me an' my
Cousin Bill killed moe' a thousand of
'em in one night. Soras is jess like black
birds, only smaller.
"All yo' has to do is to go in the woods
with a pitchwood light an' a long pole.
I jess went out one night with a light
an' pole, an' Bill he held a big bag. Jess
as fas' as I'd knock 'em off the limb
they'd fall in Bill's bag. Bat they's
common all over Virginny.
"Then they's the gingas cutus, big
ger'n a nelephant, and the whanetdoodle
bird that flies aronn' nights and carries
off pigs and cattle. An' say, mister,
they's got a green bag down there moe'
a foot high, an
"Hoi' on, sah! That ain't half they's
got down there." Then, as I had turned
to leave, after expressing my incredulity,
Sam remarked, with an air of injured
innocence:
"Well, ef it doan' jess' beat me. These
hyar Yankees won' blieve nuthin less
they sees 'em." New York Herald.
Too. May Be Laeky.
A New York statistician and financier
figures that ont of 20,000 men only 8,000
will die worth over $10,000, and only
8,000 who can be called rich. He says
that 8,000 men lose $3,000 and upward
ner vear. And that 9 (100 men 1 n nnn
each where one makes $100,000. Detroit
xree r-ress.
I Disease a Punishment?
The following advertisement, published
by a prominent western patent medicine
house would indicate that thev recrard
disease as a punishment for sin :
"Uo you wish to know the quickest
way" to cure a sever cold? We will tell
you. To cure a cold qickly, it must be
treated before the cold has become set
tled in the system. This can always be
done if you choose to, as nature in her
kindness to man gives timely warning
and plainly tells you in nature's way,
that as a punishment for some indiscre
tion, you are to be afflicted with a cold
unless you choose to ward it off by
prompt action. The first symptoms of a
cold, in most cases, is a drv. loud couch
and sneezing. The cough is scon followed
Dy a promse watery expectoration and
the sneezing by a prosase watery dis
charge from the nose. In severe cases
there is a thin white coating on the
tongue. What to do? It isonlvnecessarv
to take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in
double doses every hour. That will greatly
lessen the severity of the cold and in
most cases will effectually counteract it,
and cure what would have been a severe
cold within one or two davs time. Try it
and be convinced." Fifty "cent bottles for
sale by Snipes & Kinersley, druggists.
The Ladies' Tailor
School of Dress Cutting
Mrs. Brown's Dressmatini Parlors,
0or. Fourth and Union Sts.,
The Dalles, Or.
Each scholar can bring in her own
dress and is taught to cut, baste and fin
ish complete.
They are also taught to cut the Beam
less waist, dartless basque, French bias
darts and most every form of sleeve.
IWIn the dressmaking department I
keep only competent help.
Dress Cutting a Specialty.
County Treasurer's Notice.
All county warrants registered prior to.
January 14, 1888, will be paid if pre
sented at my office. Interest ceases
from and after this date.
Geo. Ruch,
Treas. Wasco Co., Or.
The Dalles, Or., April 3, 1891. a31
F.TAYLOR,
7
PROPRIETOR OF THE
City Market.
FLOORING MILL TO LEASE.
THE OLD DALLES MILL AND WATER
Company's Hour Mill will be leased to re
sponsible parties. For information apply to the
WATER COMMISSIONERS,
1 The Dalles, Oregon.
LEAVING SICK BEHIND.
Stanley's Column Are Obliged to Desert
Their Dying Comrades.
Early next morning Stanley started off
with his company, promising to clear a
path as well as he could in order ' to en
able ns to carry the boat sections through
the thick undergrowth. Stairs, Parke
and I then made a careful examination
of the men and loads, and found that we
should be obliged to leave fifty-six men
and eighty-one loads behind. Many of
the men were so cowed and hopeless that
they wished only to be left to die peace
fully where they were. ,
But any man who was at all able to
crawl along we passed as fit to travel,
and those fifty-six men we left were near
ly all in the last stage of starvation and
sickness. At any rate, we thought that
their chances of getting food would be
better if they came with ns, and nothing
could be gained by remaining where they
were.
We had great difficulty in getting the
men off with the loads, and it was past
midday before the last of the caravan
filed out of what is now known as Nel
son's starvation camp. I find the fol
lowing words in my journal that morn
ing: fit is a truly terrible position for Nel
son to be left in; he has food only for
three -days, and will have to exist on
what he can pick up in the shape of
fungi or roots. Stairs has left riim a
fish hook and line, and it is possible he
may get a few small fish, but the river is
so rapid and full of bowlders that he has
but a slight chance of catching any
thing. 1
"Meantime we are going on with an
exhausted and starving column to try
and find food in a trackless wilderness.
Nelson is now so crippled from ulcers
that he cannot creep far from camp, and
will have to depend entirely upon what
bis two boys can manage to bring him.
"We got off about "two o'clock, and
sadly said goodby to poor old Nelson,
for his position is very precarious and
our chances of relieving him small; he
has worked with ns in good fellowship
all these months, and now we are prac
tically abandoning him." A. J. Moun
teney Jephson in Scribner's.
Old and Toons Great Men.
Great as have been some men who died
young, who knows how much greater
they would have been had their lives
been prolonged. Might not Marlowe
have rivaled Shakespeare? Yet possibly
Byron had already given ns his best,
and Shelley and Keats might not have
surpassed their early efforts.
Had the author of "Festus" died at 23
there would . have been lamentation as
over Keats, but Bailey has lived half a
century longer without producing a sec
ond poem. Tasso, though he lived twen
ty years after "Jerusalem Delivered,"
never equaled that epic, written at SI.
Still there are men whose longevity
has certainly stood for much. Michael
Angelo showed astonishing precocity,
but he owes to his eighty-nine years his
.great renown as painter, sculptor and
sonneteer. Voltaire's fame, again, rests
on the entirety of his writings, not on
any single work, and the literary dicta
torship with which age invested him:
Cut off twenty years of his life, and his
fame would perceptibly shrink. Goethe,
Emerson, Caiiyle, Longfellow, Tenny
son, Hugo, Dumas all had the advan
tage of fullness, of years, so as to be
judged by bulk as well as quality. Hum
boldt, too, owed to his ninety years a
portion of his reputation.
The true comparison would obviously
be between works produced at the same
age, or between men dying at about the
same age, but it is much easier to test
achievement than capacity. Perhaps the
best books (in posse) have never been
written, and we often feel that the men
were greater than their works. Who
knows, moreover, what geniuses have
died in childhood? Atlantic Monthly.
Old Batter.
It is a matter of wonderment to many
what becomes of the tons upon tons of
dairy butter piled up year after year in
the . wholesale grocery stores and com
mission houses of our cities, and which
the average American would not allow
on his table. "The poorer the butter
the further it goes,'' said a large butter
dealer of this city, as he packed rolls and
prints of various colors and sixes in a
fcagar barrel lined with butter cloths.
"That expresses it in more ways than
one. . Good butter always finds a ready
market here at home; it never goes beg
ging for buyers at any time of the year,
but packing grade goes to the end of the
earth. The contents of this barrel will
go to South America."
"Not just as it is?"
"No; it will undergo manipulation.
The firm to whom this is to be shipped
melt down this grade of butter and pack
it in glass jars. By the time it reaches
a South American port it is of about the
same consistency as olive oil. The South
Americans ns it on their bread aa we
use butter. A large proportion of pack
ing stock shipped from the northwest
goes ultimately to European countries."
North West Trade.
Hsdae No Longer the Fine Tree State.
One of the pioneer lumbermen on the
Penobscot was Mr. John Trickey, still
living in Bangor, at the age of 85 years.
He went there on foot with a pack on
his back and only $1.50 in his pocket in
1829. Today he is one of Bangor's
wealthy citizens. "Times have changed,"
as they say, since Mr. Trickey began his
operations. Maine was really .the "Pine
Tree State" then. In eight years Mr.
Trickey cut 33,000,000 feet of pine on
land that now constitutes the towns of
Carmel, Kenduskeag and Levant, where
hardly a pine is to be seen. At that
time there were no roads, and all the
provisions were taken np the river in
boats, special crews being employed for
that purpose. Lewiston Journal.
Needed an Airing.
Old John sing When I wor a young
fellow like yo', Sam, I worn't so fond ob
ventilatin' my opinions as yo' are, sah!
Young Yallerby Huh! I don't won
dah you ventilates 'em now. . Dlicy am
musty enough, suahl Judge.
S. L. YOUNG,
(Successor to E. BECK.)
-DEALER IN-
Jewelry, Diamonds,
SILVERWARE,:-: ETC.
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry
Repaired and. Warranted.
165 Second St.. The Dalles, Or.
W. E. GARRETSON.
Leading Jeweler.
SOLE AGENT FOfi THE
All Watch Work Warranted.
Jewelry Made to Order.
138 Second St., The Dalles, Or.
-FOE-
carpets . ami Fomitore,
CO TO
PRINZ & NITSCHKE,
And be Satisfied as to
QUALITY AND PRICES.
John Pashek,
jneiclant Tailor.
Third Street, Opera Block.
Madison's Latest System,
Used in cutting garments, and a fit
guaranteed each tune.
Repairing and Cleaning
Neatly and Quickly Done.
R. B. Hood,
Livery, Feed and Sale
Horses Bought and Sold on
Commission and Money -Advanced
on Horses
left For Sale.
5FFICE OF-
The Dalles and Goldendale-Stage Line.
Btage Leaves The Dalles every momitiij
at 7:30 and Goldendale at 7:30. All
freight must be left at R. B.
Hood's office the evening
before.
R. B. HOOD, Proprietor.
. COLUMBIA ;
Qapdy :-: paetory,
W.,S. CRAM, Proprietor.
... (Successor to Cram & Corson.)
Manufacturer of the finest French and
Home Made
O AIT DI B S,
East of Portland.
-DEALER IN-
Tropical Frails, Nuts, Cigars and Tobacco.
Can furnish any of these goods at Wholesale
or Retail . ,x
FESH ' OYSTES
In Every Style.
104 Second Street, The Dalles, Or.
WflTl
CLOCKS
We are NOW OPENING a full line of 7
Bfact anJ Bflorci, Henrietta (Ms, Sateens, Siilais anJ Calici, ; '
and a large stock, of Plain, Embroidered and Plaided
fcwiss and
: V . in Black and White, for
AfJW A liIT
IHen's and Boy's Spring and Sammeir Clothing, Neekaiea and HosiePV.
Over JSUxlx-toi. tTnrinm -. ' 1
A Splendid Line of
rfc w-ifSfSrX? t?n J? our lin,e
Good7totesd Tat lZT&Z. S,lpper8' and of th
H. S.OLOMON,
Next Door to The Dalles National Bank. -
NEW FIRM!
foseoe 8t
-DEALERS IN-
VSTAPLE V AND
Canned Goods, Preserves, Pickles, Etc.
Country Produce Bought and Sold.
Goods delivered Free to any part of the City.
Masonic Block, Corner Third and Court Streets, The Dalles, Oregon.
The Dalles JVIei?eantile Co.,
Successors to BROOKS & BEERS, Dealers In
Gents' Furnishing Goods, Boots and Shoes,
. Hats and Caps, Etc.
Groceries, Provisions,
390 and 394
Remember we deliver all purchases
I. C. NIC
-DEALER IN-
School Books,
WEBSTER'S
oiaiionery, dictionary
Cor. of Third and asMnloii Sts, The Dalles, Oregon.
JAMES WHITE,
Has Opened a
Zjixnoli Counter,
In Connection With his Fruit Stand
and Will Serve
Hot Coffee, flam Sandwich, Pigs' Feet,
and Fresh Oysters.
Convenient to the Passenger
Depot.
On Second St., near corner of Madison.
Also a
Branch Bakery, California
Orange .Cider, and the
Best Apple Cider.
If you want a good lunch, give me a call.
Open all Night
C. N. THORNBURY, T. A. HO DSON,
utie nec. v. a. uana umoe. notary i-uduc.
THQRNBURY &HUDS0M.
ROOMS 8 and 9 LAND OFFICE BUILDING,
roitomce box S2B,
THE DALLES, OR.
pilings, Contests,
And ail other Business in the C. S. Land Office
. Promptly Attended to. .
w e nave oraerea jBianKS lor lungs.
Entries and the purchase of Railroad
TIF. 1 -1 1 -- m
which Wfi Will riftVA anil olinoa fKa
lie at the earliest date when such entries
can oe made. Look for advertisement
in this paper.
Thornburv & Hudson.
REMOVAL.
H. Glenn has removed his
office and the office of the
Electric Light Co. to 72
Washington St. '
Nansooks:
Ladies' and Misses' wear.
T T I Tx-ts
Felt and Straw Hats.
f Ladies' and Children's Shoes and to
NEW STORE'
Gibons,
V FANCY V
HARDWAREHr
Hay, Grain and Feed.
Second Street.
without chargfe.
KELSEN,
Organs, Pianos,
Watches, Jecaelry.
J. M. HUNTINGTON & CO.
Abstracters,
Itisripanee Aoents. V
Abstracts of. and Information Concera
'' ingJLand Titles on Short Notice.
Land for Sale and Houses to Root
Parties Looking for Homes im
COUNTRY OR CITY,
OR IN SEARCH OF
Buiqe Location,
Should Call on or' Write to us.
Agents for a Full Line of
LeaJiiifi Fire Insurance Companies, :
And Will Write Insurance for
-A-ZLsTX- -A.3SdIOTJ-3SrT,
on all Ja t
EESIEABLE ZE&ISiCS.
Correspondence Solicited. All Letters
. Promptly Answered. Call on or
Address,'
J. M. HUNTINGTON A CO.
Opera House Block, The Dalles, Or .v-
$500 Reward!
We will pay the above reward for any case at
Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Im
dlgestion, Constipation or Costlveness we cannot
cure with West's Vegetable Liver Pills, when the
directions are Btrlctly complied with. They are
purely vegetable, and never fail to give satisfae
tion. Sugar Coated. Large boxes containing 3
Pills, 25 cents. Beware of counterfeits and imi
tations. The genuine manufactured only
THyOHS C. WF8T COMPANY, CHIGAr"V,i
BLAEELET HOUGHTON, - "V. .
Prescription Druggists,
175 Second St. The Dalles, Or.
DISSOLUTION NOTICE
THE PARTNERSHIP OF BILLS WHYER8
is this day dissolved by mutual consent.
The business will in the future be conducted by
N. B. Whyers who will pay and collect all part
nership debts. -, O. C. Bills.
Dated April 14th, 1891. . B. Wlim
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