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COW ELESS THE PAUM.
God bless the farm the dear old farm !
Cod bless its every rood,
Where willing heart and sturday arm
Cau earn an honest livelihood !
Can from the coarse and fertile soil
Win back a recompense for toil.
God bless each meadow, field and nook,
Begemmed with fairest flowers,
And every leaf that's gently shook ers.
By evening's breeze or morning show
God ble-s them all ! each leaf's a gem
lu Nature's gorgeous diadem.
The orchards that, in early spring
Rlush rich with fragrant flowers,
And with each autumn surely bring fers,
Their wealth of fruit in golden show-
Like pomegranates on Aaron's rod,
A miriacle from Nature's God.
And may be ble.s the farmer's home,
"Where peace and plenty rein !
No happier spot 'neath Heaven's high dome,
iJoth tl.h broad, beauteous contain,
Than where, secure from care and sliife,
The farmer leads his peaceful life.
Unvexed by to'l and tricks for gain,
He turns the fertile mold ;
Then scatters or. the golden gr.;in,
And roups reward a hundred fold.
lie dwells where grace and beauty charm.
For God halh blessed his hope and farm.
THIS MOKSlXtt CALL.
15 V CLAIM AUGUSTA.
Ciiai: aotk us Airs. Hick ford ;
Airs, lattlttojt.
(Mrs. Bickford sits alone, Quitting-;
costume suitable to a middle
aged lady ; and nose surmounted
Avith a huge air of spectacles.)
Mrs. Ji., (to herself.) AVell, I
declare! Jf this ere hain't heen
tlie dullest morning I ever experi
enced. 1 dew wish somebody or
uther Avouhl come in I'm dying
to hear the news ! I shall gape
myself to death, at this rate, afore
sunset. (Yawns.) Law ! jest as
true as I'm alive, here comes Mrs.
Tattleton ; the very woman I Avant
to see, lor what she don't kmnv
hain't worth knowing 1 I'll hide
my snuff-box, and tell her I'm out,
for she'll sartinly Avant a pinch of
snuff, and if she thinks I han't got
none, she 11 give me a pinch p raps.
ENTEll MKS. TATTIJCJIOX.
T.. (advancimr to shake
Jfi'S
hands) Good-morning, 3Irs. lick
ford, how do you do this morn
ing ?
Ifrs. Ji. Law, mc! why, it it
hain't Mrs. Tattleton ! I'm power-
take off
your bunnit, dew ; and take a cheer,
dew ; how dew you dew this morn-
Jfrs. 71 I dunno but I will take
oil' my bunnit a minnit, jest to cool
my head. Its kinder sweaty
weather, now. I am as well as
usual, except this bad cold that s a
ucwine round ; but have you heard
the at o:s ?
Jfrs. VA-Xo ; what is it ? Dew
tell ; has Parson ScrapeaU's Avife
got a new set of chany ? or has 1111
Jenkins' wife got that ere new silk
bunnit she's etarnally talking
about ?
Mrs. T. (looking wi"e) Nary
one of um, Mrs. liickford, nary
one of um AVould you believe it ?
Miss Brown told "me this very
morning, that Emma AVeston is a
gwine to marry that ar young me
chanie Georire Woods; a fellei
that hain't sot nothing on airth
but what he works for ; and then,
too, when she lias objected the re
posals of rich men ! 1 declare, I
can't hardly believe it. And
there's Jacob, my oldest son, he's
been after here more'n two year;
and if I do say it, there hain't
many better fellers than my Jacob !
And now she's a gwine for to throw
herself away on George AVoods !
Mrs. 1. (raising both hands)
Massy on us ! you do ft say so,
though, do you, Mrs. Tattleton !
AVhat is this world a coming to?
Emma AVeston going to marry
that feller! (with "a sigh.) A Yell,
poor gal, she'll be likely to find
the difference at ween coughing and
sneezing ! 15ut how did 31iss
Drown iind it out 'i
Mrs. T. AYall. you know Mary
Smith, that works to Squire. Wes
ton's ? AYall, one evening, as she
was in the closet that jines the
parlor, putting away the chany
ye see the AVestoif s had had com-
pany
Emm she heard young oods ax
a to marry" him, and heard
her answer in the afurmative. He
axed her dreadful perlite not a
mite like the way 31 r. Tattleton
axed mc Did ever I tell you
about it ?
Mrs-J. No, never; dew tell.
Mr. T. AYell, yc see, we was
walking home from husking at
Deacon Mansfield's he's on one
side of the road, and l'se on tother
we hadn't snoke sence we eaine
out of the deacon'; when all' to
t
ORJEGON CITY, OB
once he edged up toward me, and
spoke rite out, and sez he : '"Sally,
did it ever 'cur to you that I think
you're about the "likeliest gal in
town, and that that by cracky !
&dly, you know what I mean," I
want to court you!" AYall, yc
see, by this time, I was blushing
over head and cars; but I plucks
up courage, for thinks I to myself,
perhaps I shan't git a better chance
if I wait till I'm "fort-, and sez I :
" AVhat made you think of that,
Jonathan " Oh," sez he, "moth
er is getting old and decripid, and
we've got ten cows and a three-year-old
heifer, that's got to be
milked, and I don't know of the
tral that can do the job as slick as
you can !" "AY ell, Jonathan,"
says T, " I'm willing if daddy is
ax him." So Jonathan went and
axed daddy, and daddy was will
ing and glad to boot. And so I
got my sheets, and towels, and
piller-cases, all made up; we was
married right straight olf ; and if
Tattleton's laming hain't quite so
good, I rather guess he'll go to
Congress, yet, for at last town
meeting he was apinted chief hog-reeve
! But, massy on tfs ! I do
railly bleeve I've left my snuif-box
to hum ! Dew give me a pinch,
31 rs. Bickford dew.
Jlrs. JJ. Lawful heart ! how
sorry I am ! But I'm intirely out !
Afrs. It. (Puts her hand in her
pocket, and after a lengthy inves
tigation of the receptacle, draws
forth a siiu"lf-box) Dear Sakes !
how forgetful I am growing ! I tell
3Ir. Tattleton that I grow older
everyday, but he won't believe it.
Just as sure as Noah built the
Ark, here's my snutl'-box, rite here
in my pocket ! Dew take a pinch,
Mrs. Bickford.
(Both ladies dip deeply and sit
" snulling"' sometime in silence.)
Airs. J. (giving a snulf be
tween each word) This is real
good snulf, 3Irs. Tattleton ! Where
did you git it ?
Mrs. T. Up to Lot Doolittle's
grocery, to Squashtown, next door
to Deacon AYigglesmith's tavern.
Airs. Ji. AYall, as you was say
ing, laming will work Avonders.
I've allers wished I'd gone to
school more though my laming
is so good now, that I can read the
newspaper without spelling more
than half the words. But is that
all the news you've got this morn
ing? Can't you tell me something
else ?
Afrs. 71 (rising, and approach
ing 3 Irs. B.) Sartingly I can!
And now, if you'll promise, never
so long as you draw the breath of
life never to tell on't, I'll tell you a
secret.
Afrs. I. No, I'll never tell o'nt
as long as I live ! hope to die this
minnit ! Now, dew tell, for I'm
acking to know.
Airs. 71 AYall, now don't never
mention it as coining from me, but
it's the Lord's truth, that Peter
Grimes' wife has actually got a
pair of boughten cotten stockings!
They was bought to Bosting, and
ask "thirty-seven cents and a half!
Now, did you ever?
Mrs. Ji. No, why no! If that
hain't the great est ! " To think of a
well woman's buying boughten
stockings ! I declare, I must run
right over and tell Mrs. Krowing
ford of that.
Airs. 71 Now, pray, don't men
tion it as coming from me!
Airs. Ji. No, 1 won't, Mrs. Tat
tleton. Now, call agin, soon, dear,
I'm allers so
Dew !
gtau
to see you !
mi
Airs. 7 I'm obliged to ye
1
Dew call over and see mc ! Good
mornin'. (Goes out.)
Airs. Ji. (alone) Disgraceful !
Emma AVest on's gwine to marry
that are carpenter feller, when I've
been planning and contriving for
my David to catch her! Wall,
wall, the things of this airth is dc
sateful and despritly wicked, Par
son Scrapeall says ! But I must
run over and tell 3irs. Krowing
ford of it. AVon't it make her open
her eyes? (opens a door, and
calls) Betty Betty ! bring my
bunnit and shawl, and put some
valler snulf m
my go-to-meeting
snutf-box.
Ca;ckii Crnn. A prominent
citizen of Philadelphia had heen
long suffering from a cancer which
distressed him by reason ol the
very offensive exhalation that dis
turbed the hous2hold. lie used
diluted carbolic acid as a disin
fectant. It not only completely de
odorized the sore," but destroyed
the cancer itself pursueing it evi
dently athrough its roots. The
wash" which he used was one quar
ter ounce of carbolic acid in one
quart of water, three times a day.
His physician thinks half the quan
tity of acid would be equally-ciiec-
t,uai.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
TINTVH'P.qTT'V DV P. AT T5YAPMTA
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16 -ISGSV
THE PAIISIMOXIOUS CLEIIK,
Weston,' said 3Ir. Dajton to
one of his clerks as they were alone
in the spacious counting-room
which was attached to the large
store of which Mr. Dayton -was
mi -
proprietor, give me leave to say
that I don't think your dress sulli
ciently genteel to appear as a
clerk in a fashionable store.'
A deep blush suffused the face of
the young man, and in spite of his
endeavor to repress it, a tear glis
tened in his full, black eyes.
'Did I not know your salary was
sufficient to procure more genteel
habiliaments, I would increase it.'
'3Iy salary is ample large, sir,'
replied AVeston, with a mortified
air, but with that proud, independ
ence of feeling of which even pov
erty had not been able to deprive
him.
' Oblige me, then, by changing
your apparel, and presenting a dif
ferent appearance in future. You
are wanted in the store.' AVeston
turned and left his employer, who
muttered to himself as betook up
his paper, llow I detest these par
simonious fellows.' 3lr. Dayton
was a widower, and had but one
child, a daughter, who was the
pride of his declining years. She
was good as an angel, and beauti
ful as she was good. She was
simple in her tastes and appear
ance. Such was Laura Dayton when
AVeston 3Iay first become an in
mate of her father's house ; and
what wonder is it that he soon
learned to love her with a deep and
ardent affection. Their tongues
never gave utterance to what they
felt, but the language of their eyes
could not be mistaken. AVeston
was the very soul of honor ; and
although he perceived with pleas
ure that he was not distasteful to
her, still he felt that he must con
quer the passion that glowed in his
heart.
' I must not win her heart,' he
said to himself; 'I am pennilless,
and her father would never con
sent to our union.' Thus he reas
oned, and thus hemanfully endeav
ored to subdue what he considered
an ill-fated passion. Laura had
many suitors, and some were
worthy of her ; but she received all
their overtures with decisive yet
gentle firmness.
Her father wondered at her con
duct, but would not strive to alter
her inclinations, lie was in the
decline of life, and wished to see
her happily settled ere he departed
from this world. It was not long
before he surmised that young 31a y
was the cause of her indifference to
others. The pleasure she took in
hearing him praised, the blush
which mantled her lace when their
eyes met, served to convince the
old gentleman that they took more
than common interest in each oth
er, lie forbore to make any re
mark upon the subject, and was
not so displeased at the thought as
AVeston imagined he would be.
AVeston 31ay had not been three
years in his employ. 3Ir. Dayton
knew nothing of his family ; but
his strict integrity, good morals
and pleasing manners, conspired
in making him esteem AVeston
more highly. He placed unbound
ed confidence in him, and was very
proud of him. lie wished him to
dress as well as others, and had of
ten wondered at the scantiness of
his wardrobe ; for although AVeston
dressed with the most scrupulous
regard to neatness, his clothes were
almost threadbare, which 3Ir. Day
ton thought proceeded from a nig
gardly disposition, and according
ly he addressed him upon the sub
ject as before related.
Soon after this conversation, 3Ir.
Davton left home on business. As
he "was riding through a pretty
little village, he alighted at the
door of a cottage and requested a
drink of water. The mistress, with
an ease and politeness which told
that she "had not alway been the
humble cottager, invited him to
enter, lie complied, and a scene
of neatness and poverty met his
gaze, such as he had never before
witnessed. The furniture, consist
ing of nothing more than was act
ually necessary, was so clean that
it cast an air of comfort all around.
.V venerale old man sat by the win
dow, with 'his staff in his hand.
His clothes were whole, but they
seemed a counterpart of Joseph's
coat of many colors.
'This is your father, I presume,'
said he, addressing her.
it is, sir.
He seems quite aged.'
'He is in his eighty-third year,
and has survived all his children
but myself.'
'Have you always resided
here?'
I1 lift! WLMI-
No, sir; my husband was once
wealthy, but indorsing runined
him, and we were reduced to this
state. lie soon after died and two
of my children followed him.'
' Have you any children living ?'
' One, sir who is my only sup
port. My own health is, so feeble
that I cannot do much ; and father,
being blind and deaf, needs a great
deal of attention. My son will not
tell mc how much his salary is, but
I am sure he sends me nearly all
of it.'
' Then he is not at home ?'
' Xo, sir, he is a clerk in Xcw
York.'
'Indeed! Pray what is his
name?'
'. Weston May.'-
'AVeston 3Iay ! Is it possible?
AVhy, he is my clerk. I left him in
charge of my store-only. -two. weeks
ago.?
Explanations followed ; and 3Ir.
Dayton soon left, promising to call
at some other time.
' Xoble fellow,' said he, mentally,
as he was riding slowly along, and
ruminating upon the call. ' Noble
fellow ! I believe he loves my girl,
and he may have her and part of
my money, too. 'Bet me see, and
he fell into a reverie; and by the
time he reached home he formed a
plan he determed to execute. How
it terminated we shall see.
Full of this new plan, lie entered
the breakfast room, where Laura
was waiting his appearance.
'So AVeston is going to Eng
land,' said he, carelessly.
. 'Sir?' said Laura, dropping her
coffee cup, ' going to England.'
' To be sure; what of it, child ?'
Nothing only I we shall be
rather lonesome,' replied she, vain
ly endeavoring to repress her tears.
' Come, come, Laura, tell me, do
you love eston i on never
deceived me; don't do it now.'
' No ; well I I do love him most
sincerely.
' I thought so,' replied he, as he
left the room.
'AVeston,' said he, as he entered
the store, ' you expect to go into
' Yes, sir, in about four weeks.'
'If it would not be inconvenient,
I wish you would defer it a few
longer,' said 3Ir. Dayton.
I will, sir, with pleasure, if it
will oblige you.'
' It will oblige me greatly, for
Laura is to be married in about six
weeks, and I wish you Avould at
tend the wedding.'
'Laura married!' said AVeston,
starting as if shot.
'To "be sure. AVhat ails the
boy?'
' Nothing, sir ; only it was rath
er sudden unexpected.'
' It is rather sudden; but lam
an old man man, and wish to see
her have a protector before I die.
I am glad you can stay to the wed
ding.' ' Indeed, sir, T cannot stay,' said
Weston, forgetting what he had
just said.
' You cannot ! AVhy, you just
now said you would.'
'Yes, sir; but my business re
quires my presence, and I must
go.'
' But you said you would with
pleasure.'
' Command mc in anything else,
but in this I cannot oblige you.'
' AVeston, tell me frankly, do you
love my girl ?'
' Sir !' AVeston seemed like one
waking from a dream.
' Do you love my girl ?'
' I do", sir.'
' AYill you give mc vour mother
for her ?'
'3ly mother! AVhat do
know of her ?'
you
3Ir. Dayton repeated the incident
already related, and in conclusion
said :
' And now, boy, I have written
to your mother and offered myself,
and she has accepted ; Avhat have
you to say ?'
'Thatl am the happiest fellow
on earth, and proud to call you fa
ther,' replied the young man, with
a joyful face.
A" Icav Aveeks after a double Aved
ding took place at 3Ir. Dayton's
mansion, and soon after a sign Avent
up over a certain store, bearing the
inscription of Dayton & Co.'
Young man, you may learn from
this that it is not fine clothes that
Avould Avin for you the esteem of
those around vou.
The New York lft;-Aisays pro
vincial papers blame that journal
because it objects to Grant's ab
sence from AVashington. X ot a
bit of it. If the World had had
its way, Grant would never have
been in AVashington at all.
Who
surf.
the fclarc of old ocean? The
What Neka e Does. An ounce of gen
uine pluck is Avorth a regiment of fighting
men. A little nerve, pluck, coolness and
decision have carried men safely through
difficulties apparently insurmountable.
In all probability there is no person pos
sesses nerA'e to a greater degree then do
bank robbers and persons ol that class,
who live not by their labor, but by their
wits, and operations which succeed from
boldness. Not long since a man stood in
a Wall street bank with a bag in his hand
containing ten thousand dollars in gold.
A gentlemanly looking man with his hat
off said to the man who held the gold.
'-Let me heft it ; I'll guess within half an J
ounce ol' its wenrht." The person ad
dressed mechanically handed the bag to
the applicant, ayIio at once ran out of
doors, and was soon lost in the crowd,
while the loser never saw it again. On
seeing him' with his hat off, he thought
him a clerk in the bank. A gentleman
standing bv saw the thief remove his hat
from his head, tind hang it on a hook, and
he. too. supposed him to be some one con
nected with the bank, and therefore said
nothing.
Some years since, a person entered the
Importers' and Traders' Bank, New York,
in broad daylight, took off his coat, put
on a duster, stuck a pen behind his ear,
and then walked deliberately past clerks
and tellers, and pushing the president
aside, who stood talking with some of the
diiectors, entered the vault, and helped
himself to the largest package of money
he could find, and walked out unmolest
ed, no one suspecting that anything was
wrong till he wai off and out of sight.
A few months ago, in New York, a
hearse dove up to the door of a mansion.
A genteel j oung man rung the bell, and
enquired for the mm that lived there;
but he was down town. He said the
hearse contained a coffin in which were
the remains of the son of the occupant of
the house, who had just died at school in
Connecticut. The servants at the house
had heard nothing of the matter, but help
ed the driver bring the coffin into the par
lor, and at the suggestion of the young
man, who said he was a teacher, sent one
of their number to the gentleman's place ot
business to inform him of the sad news.
The teacher remained in the house to tell
him the particulars, but when the man ar
rived, the teacher had gone, and about
three thousand dollars7 worth of jewelry,
kept in bureau caskets had gone with him.
The coffin was opened and found to be
filled with a beech log.
Tea Brands and Tlicir Meaning.
Hyson"' means before the
flourishing spring, that is early
spring ; hence, it is olten called
in the
Young
Hyson.-'
" Hyson Skin" is composed of the ref
use of the other kinds, the native term for
which is -tea skins." Refuse of strll
coarser descriptions, containing many
stems, is called tea bones."
Bohea " is the name of the hills in the
region in which it is collected.
Pecoe," or Pecco," means white hairs'
the down of tender leaves.
"Pouchung." folded plant."
'Sonclmpg." -small plant."
'Twankey" is the name of a small river
in the region from whence it h broug'it.
- Congo7 is from a term signifying -Labor,"
from the care required in its pre
paration . Excha nee.
Makk of a Gexti.emax. No man is a
gentleman who, without provocation,
would treat uncivilly the humblest of his
species. It is a vulgarity for which no
accomplishment of dress or address can
ever atone. Show us the man who desires
to make every one around him happy,
and whose greatest solicitude is never to
give offense to any one, and we will show
you a gentleman by nature and by prac
tice, though he may never have worn a
suit of broadcloth or ever heard of a lexi
con. We are proud to say for ihe honor
of our species there are men in every throb
of whose heart there is a solicitude for the
welfare of mankind, and whose every
breath is perfumed with kindness.
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AVho has not suffered from the de
ceit, double dealings and insinceri
ty of pretended friends, and found
by sad experience, there professions
of friendship, all a cheat a linking
snare only a name. AVe believe
with a Avriter in Jac7card''s Alonth
l'f, that "in the long run sinceritA'
pays', and this, in all relations of
life social, political and commer
cial. The man Avho impetuously
run his hand into the Avood-chuck
hole' and got bit for his rashness,
uttered the elements of a great
principle Avhen he dreAy his bleed
ing hand out and exclaimed :
"I'm awful glad the critter bit
me, for now I know he is there !"
Ary few people like to be bit,
even by a Avoodchuck. but if the
knowledge which comes through
such suffering is Avorth the price
paid for it, nobody can honestly
say that the being bitten is a cal
amity. The fact is, avc all like to
"know he is there; and we feel A ery
uneasy and dissatisfied until avc
do know
Josh Billings defiines a thurer
bred . biziness man as " wun that
knows enuff about stealin' so there
kant anybody steel from him, and
enough about law so that he kin do
his stcaliu 'legal
NO. 49.
A MYSTERY CLEARED CP.
In a recent number of the Cleya
lahd Herald, Mark Twaiirsays r
Ex-Secretary Stanton had an inter
view with Secretary Fish yester
day. ; Sensation Telegram of the
Associated Press.
I Avas present at that interview.
The subject of it Avas warts.' '
Ex-Secretary Stanton said that
AvhenTie was a boy he had sixteen
on his left hand, and tAx on his
right thumb, and one on his elbow.
He said he used to hunt for old hol
Ioav stumps with rain water stand
ing in them to soak his warts in.
Secretary Fish said he had a
million warts when he was a boy,
and sometimes he split a bean and
tied it over a .wartand then took
the bean and buried it at midnight
in the dark ot the moon.
Ex-Secretary Stanton said lie
had tried that but it never worked
Avell.
Secretary Fish said he could not
remember that it worked; he re
membered trying it a good many
times and in the most unquestion
ing good faith.
Ex-Secretary Stanton said his
usual plan was to run a needle thro'
the A art,and then hold the end ot
the needle in the candle till it had
warmed the wart to that degree
that it Avould never take an inter
est in the world's follies and vani
ties any more forc'cr.
Secretary Fish said ho thought
he Avas the wartiest boy that ev
er At this inopportnne moment ex
Secretary Stanton's carriage was
annonced, and he arose and took
his leave. The next Associated
Press dispatch that distress tlio
people through the columns of eve
ry newspaper in America read as
iolloAvs :
The subject of the interview bc
tAveen ex-Secret ary Stanton and
Secretary Fish has not transpired.
There are various rumors flying. -It
is generally believed that it re
ferred to the Alabama qucstiou, and
Avas A ery important.
And. yet they Avcro only talking
about warts.
Chemistry of the Star
There is something unspeakably won
derful in the very phrases employed by
savans in discussing the subject. Solar
and Stellar Chemistry" what are tbes?
There ar"e many educated men to whom
they would seem enigmatical ; and a per
son of ordinary intelligence, Avho has read
nothing about the modern experiments
upon the. spectrum, if told that a mere ex
amiriatioffof the rays emitted by a plane
tary 'foofly will reveal the substance of
which thai planetary body is composed,
would probably reject it as an attempt to
practice upon his credulity. Yet it is ft
demonsfrTit ion that the sun's atrnoBphero
consists-mostly ol the vapor of iron, but
contains also the vapor of fifteen other
metals, among which are certainly nickel
and perhaps cobalt. As nickel and cobalt
are fouriValways in meteoric stones, this
w ould seem to suggest the origin of rro
lites in the atmosphere of the sun. But
the revelations of the spectroscope are not
confined to the great central luminary of
our system. The chemistry of the fixed
stars is defined by it. and the exceeding
delicacy of the observations by which
such amazing knowledge is obtained lend
a higher attraction to its pursuit. A small
star in the Northern Crown, which all at
once attained to the brilliancy of a star of
the first magnitude, has been shown to owe
its preternatural light to a sudden com
bustion of hydrogen gas. a cause to which
is also referable the red prominence, in
the sun's disk. Equally striking is the
conclusion which has been reached by the
spectrum - analysis concerning the(
" Nebulae," which were for a loCtr time
o
supposed to consist of stars so numerous
and so remote that their light was blended
and confused, but which have been satis
factorily proved to be luminous gages or
cosmical clouds, as, strangely enough, the
early astronomers supposed. ''Jlours . at
Home'-for September.
National Capital Convention. The
Stiles7na7i-says Gov. Woods has appointed
A. J. Dnfur, Win. M. Hand, and Henry
Buckingham, as delegates to represent
Oregon in the Convention be held at
St. Louis relating to the location of the
National Capital in the West. Mr. Buck
ingham is now an editor in Leavenworth,
Kansas, but was formerly a resident of
Oregon. This makes the Oregon delega
tion complete. The rest of the delegates
arc A. A. McCully, John Barrows, and C.
C. Beckman.
A Yreka dispatch states that serious q
Indian difficulties are likely to occur in
Surprise A'alley. A party of thirty war
riors have demanded at Fort Bidwcll the
ielease wiihin ten days, of the Indian
prisoners held as hostages for the delivery
of Indians who committed daring murdera
in that neighborhood during tyy.
TtST- The Statesman says there are 150
students in attendancet the Willamette
University. This is a larger number than
was entered upon the rolls at this time
last ye? r. The school is in a very pros
perous condition.
Stockings are now darned by machine
ry and they are darned nice.
Illegal hufcbandry Thrashing a wife.
Counter attractions fretty lady clerks
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