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About Willamette farmer. (Salem, Or.) 1869-1887 | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1873)
"WILLAMETTE FAEMEE. rv JOHN HUGHES, state stiu;i:t, SALIC.1I, UltKGON, DEALKU IS Bacon, Lard, Butter, Cheese, Flour, Grain, Feed, AND DOMESTIC PRODUCE OF ALL KINDS. Faints, Oils and Window Glass, American and English Coach Varnishes, English and American Furniture Var nishes, Gum Shellac, and Japan Varnishes, White Damar and Asphaltum Varnishes. CASTOR 0 I.AKD (HI.. SKATS FOOT OH., ELEPHANT OIL, llOtll'ISII OIL, POI.AIt OIL, UNSEED OIL, l'UTTY COl.OHS' LAMIMILArh. liltAlNlNU TOOLS, Ac,, Ac. WALL PAPER, Lime and Plaster, Hair, Nails, and Shingles. Wholesale and Retail. Cash paid for all Kinds of Merchantable Produce. Jy27f J-OI3HST EiTXG-IHElS. COOKE, DENNIS&Co. MANVFACTl'Itfi SASH, DOORS, BLINDS Moldings, RUSTIC. AND ALL THE LATEST STYLES of In'lde nnil nuti-lde tlhMi.oftliebe! quality of tkar cidar lumber cut ucd lit s.iU-m, m mm,jm wm TURNING, DONE WITH NEATNESS AND DISPATCH CEDAR LUMBER AMI rjsliinjjh'M iut fcSulc Clu'iipi IlcNt of Work ul Lomi'kI I'rU't' rieao jrlc ua call, co imr tlwli, Kara our i. Ice, anil cl o ii j our ut iter. Special atlriilliin iMirii In order f.fm I'AIlM EHS, and Information freely .'lull fcralln lo our lalron. Shop one Mock Eatt of ll.c Clu.nuI;cU IIoilc. JV.'i-lf MARBLE WORKS, MONROE & STAK.KK. Dialers lu MONUMENTS, AND Head and Foot Stones. ALSO, MANTELS ANIl- Furniture Marble TO OHDUR. ADDIIESS: A.J. MOMIOi:, I I WM. STAK.K1I, Salem, Oregon. I I Albany, Oregon, nmt'jr i.r-n. n mi. J. V. I'ATTLII-ON. Jones & Patterson, Real Estate, Insurance, ....AMI.... GENERAL AGENTS, COMMEllCiAl. HOTEL llllUIINll, KHleiii, Oregon. SPECIAL ATTENTION (1IVEN TO THE -ale of Ileal Erliilu In all parti of Oregon. A lar.-u amount of cry dralraule CITV PIIOP I'.HTV, cnltllitr of llwelllnc Hoiim, Lot", Hall I'ioi k" and Illock, Store, Sc. ....Al'O.... Imiirord FAIIMS ami Valuable I'lunllluileil dome and TIiuIkt Laud, tltuated In the bet lo. tallllo In IhcSMlc. .. .Aim.... Hi-Mlnir ami Lratlni; of all kind of property, I'oIHctlon of Claim, Ac, rtc., win mclie runiit littiitlou. AC.ENTS FOlt The Mutual Life Iusuranco Co. Oi N-v "Vorlc, ... AM).... The Union Fire Insurance Co. Of Suit FnmclHoo. IW For coniiklc din Option of properly ap I It at their ottlcv. , , (V Corre'poudi III pminptly au ered, and all ii lormatlou tliin fre of charge. Addr, JONES. A I'ATTEItsON. Uit'.'s-r, Mux B. Salem, Orrgou. FLOURING MILLS. Best Family Flour, Baker's Extra, XXX, Superfine, and Graham, Middlings, Bran, Shorts, CONSTANTLY ON HANI). Highest Price in Cash PAID FOlt WHEAT, AT AXX. TIME. n. C KINNF.V. A.-eut S F. M. Co. CHINA NTT OIL, COAL OIL, IUW AND UOII.ED OIL H. D. BOON, llUIIR IK.... BOOKS, STATIONERY MUSIC, Periodicals, Newspapers, Wall Paper, ....AMI.... Musical Instruments the ci:i.i:iuiati.i BURDETT ORGANS ....AMI... Hallott and Cum s ton's Pianos Alnayon tuind. Tluv InMiumci.t are FAVOH1TKS with nil mu-lclan. and Oil Store I tlic retort of all who w lli In lui) lood cheap. II. D. HOON, Stiiteftreil.Sirlem. Dili. OREGON BUSINESS DIRECTORY. mm: iiMtiitNi(.i:D will co.n- A inence tollcttlng fur u Business Directory -of THE STATS OF OREGON In a few day j and, In make ll uccefful, respect fully riiiul the co-operation of all perron Inter cried In Ihu welfare of the country. The Mate lu non riaclu'd that po.ltlon when a j early rum inaryof In r pri''re lncccrary, hence tlioMiluc of n work whli li will combine, In a conden.ed form, all matter of public lutcrcrl, Thewoikln contemplation will embrace a gen eral rkctch of the Stale; He phyrlcal arpcel, geol lyy, climatology, lmtany, zoology, commerce, manufacture, roclitle, public building, produc tion, and all other mbject on which Information I" required. The work will be llluilraled with tkiUuc of romo of the bailing prominent rcenrry of the State, and ll complljllon will be under the charge or J. Mortiincr Murpliy, Ksq., Whore recent work on Wa-liliigton Territory ha been highly commended by the pre and public. The BUSINESS DIItECTOKV of each town aad city will Incomplete; and that, wild rkilihcn of cadi place, rhould make II attainable In thr nun bint, farmer, and mechanic. A au admitting medium, It will be tlmbvit yel Introducid In the Slate, a II will be of rucU Im portance that II wlllalwajf lie rilalnrd In a prom inent po.ltlon for relerence. The rater of adiertl'ln will be at fulliiu : One Pub" '" Half Pace 10 rard 5 fir Adictlinra taklni;ouc p-f wjll ncelie a ropy of the Ixnik grail. I'rlce of Ike Work Mill be.....t2.S0 f The liook will be dMrlbuted on ttery route of tratel aid lu every public placo In the country. S. J. MoGORMIOK. PUBLISIIKR, 105 Front street, Oct. W, Iff. POIITIAND. Lotli-r rrom Olilu. Editor Willamette Earmcr! It has iihvii.vs boun n jiloaMUil tu-k for nio to contnist tlic oiiportunttii'i, privileges, mid Mc-xlngs (if one mh' tlon of country with those of anoth er, and fur the comfort anil consola tion of any Oliloaus who may have f taken up their iiIhhIc in Oregon, anil feel (INsitNtleil therewith, let them ' reail the following account of mat 1 tors pertaining to weather anil cll I inatology in latitude south of !!!) de gree north, in central Ohio. In the j words of the poet, ' "Nou'inbcrcameon with an ejerocre, And hi rtormy lanuac wa luiirli lo hear," for, on the 17th day, lie took from , every ro-se the garlands which had been hung around its head, and with no seeming preferences for either rich or poor, stolidly settled down In winter tiuarters with a reality that nstoiii.-hed the oldest settlers. Pur ple and tluo linen, rapidly gave place to the better adapted woolen fabrics. "The fore! ell, tin' muni-pile yreir.n Tlio cuttle and sheep upon a thou sand hllW, demanded immediate care and attention, and that care and attention remain witli our people even unto tills day. Kor stern win ter reigns all rugged and ,-cvere, ex cept that, as If by way of change, recent rains have Hooded the coun try, carrying away sundry bridges and dam", knocking the liottom out of roaiN, and the person llvcth not who has seen worse roads or longer miles than now exist here. Feed of all descriptions rated high, and hay ruled in tills grass-producing coun try at twenty dollars per ton. lu stock, every thing which could bo eaton or sold was removed from the feed list, and pedigree has not seem ingly made much dillcrcucc in (lie price of stock. The knowing ones who have got some of their stock (litis far wintered, say that the man who buys to graze will pay for what lie gets to run on grass this time, and no doubt he will. As yet, no attempts have been made at putting in spring crops the forbidding state of the weather pre cluding all chance for agricultural operation-:. More fences have been I prostrated by winds than during any winter within the knowledge of the j writer. Among the elderly citizens, the Palo lloroc and his rider have struck right and left, nearly all the pioneers having gone to more con , genial dimes. There is more talk of selling farms and going to a better climate, than ever known or heard I before, and laud rules twenty-live .percent, lower than at the cloe of j the war. I was to-day conversing with a gentleman from Colorado, i who says that lie wintered one hun dred head of stock upon the range, and when ho left they were lu line I condition, In till section of the country six months' feeding at Ii'iH Is a dead certainty. Now, Western Emigrant, who may read this, let me say to you, If you left Ohio, sigh not for the tlcih-poti you left behind you, nor think you yet that this laud llowcth; with mllk and lioncy, for the bcci nearly all died during the winter, and :t' de grees below zero niudu milking less a luxury than necessity. 1 now predict a heavier tlow of emigration to (lie I'aciflc slope than ever wltnc-M-d before, for thefearof other, experiences similar to the past lias given to many a lasting impress Ion of tlie Importance of fSreeley'n I great suggestion, "(Jo West." And but a few yearn henco tlio butter class of northern I'uropeaii emi grants will hold hway whero Yan kees fear to dwell, or linger shiver ing on the brink. Caution would dictate, to any rea soHithlo man that it would bo bettor to avoid the two climatic extremes, to wit, tlio frigid cxtroiiie, which prevails hero in Ohio, and tlio onu Im'Iow, where all claim it is too hot. Hoping, Mr. Editor, that none of your readers will huvo to enduro either of these, unmodified, I leave you at present to your rullections. John Watkhh, Jn. LeonariNburg, Ohio, April 17, '7.'). On the 2fith April, snow full In Pow der Itlver Valley, linker County, enough to whiten thv ground. I Stupidities. I'lider this head, Dr. Hull, in his Journal of Health for Marvh, 187:1, I humorously discourses on tlio ten idency of the times, as follows: I " It Is really a great wonder that I everybody is not dead and hurled, and the world itself u-ed up entire ly, if the thousandth p.ut of what is I told tw alKiut microscopical and oth icr ' dNcovoiioV so called, Is true. ! One man will have It that the ulorl- ous Union over which the Stars and Stripes tloat so proudly will soon be come depopulated, because respectable- people don't have children; an other has discovered myriads of bugs in tlio chatelaines and water falls of (lie ladies, boring into their skulls and sucking out alt the re maining brains of the dear delight fills. A (iermait taean now tells us that every sip of tea wo take is full of oily globules, which get into tlio lungs direct, weaken them, set up a cough, and tlio nelson dies of con sumption. Another man has found that the purest spring water, clearas crystal to alt appearance, if let alone will deposit a sediment which gen erates typhoid fever; hence lie pro poses that everybody shall null drinking water. Another says that bread basso much lime in it that it is turning us all to bono, and makes us still' in the Joints, that being the reason we have no lithe, sprightly old men now-a-days: henco we arc full of limps and rheumatics long before our time, therefore we had lietter quit eating bread altogether, and live on rice and sago and tapio ca. Tlio water-cure folk uuro " that pork and beans and ham and eggs are full of abominable triehhur, and that, if one is swallowed and gets faiily nestled Into tho system, lie, she, or It will breed a million more in a short time, and that roast beef has Juvenile tape-worms in it. And here come Tom, Dick, and Harry, all In a row, loaded down with miero'.i'opos and spy-glasses which show as plain as day that tho air Is swarniing with living mon sters and putrid poisons, which lly into the mouth ami crawl tin tlu nose and creep Into tho oar; lienco it is death to breathe such pestilen tial air, and that the best way Is to keep the mouth shut, plug up the nose, and ram cotton into the oars. " V. verso many learned profession al gentlemen have been torturing poor llgures for years to make them tell the stupendous lib that every- I wily Is either crazy or soon will io; that tho annual Increase is ten per cent., eotiseiiieiitly lu ei even years 'ovorymidy will be crazy, and more I too. "The fact is that tlio people who siiemi their time in Hatching out these tomfooleries, ought to bo put to work and bo made to earn an hon est living. Tliis woi Id lias been pretty well lakoii care of for some thousands of years, increasing lu comfort anil wealth ami life, the av erage length of which last has doub led wit hill two centuries, and the population Increassd perhaps three fold; and (he presumption is (but tho Ureal .Maker of all will so ar range all tho antagonistic forces of life for tlio future as eventually to make the wilderneos and solitary place (o ho glad, anil (ho desert to rejoice and blossom m the rose,' and tho race bo happy still." Jlmy Povntvrv Comi, Jt is no wonder that Very liiuny people are poor when their hard earnings are wasted in indulgences which do harm instead of good. I trend is tho great staple of food, and $J00, 000,000 were spent last year for Hour to feed poor people. Hut the tobacco sold lu tho country for chewing and smoking and suiitr, cost $L,.V)l(Miol(KMl; about (j for every iiimi., woman ami child. This is bad enough, but the cost of intoxicating liquors was much higher. Dr. Kdwurd Young, at the head of tlio Bureau of Statistics lu Washington, estimates the amount paid for liquors consumed In IH70 at (iOO,(KK),000; averaglnglng nearly j-lft for every man, woman and child. A largo amount of this is ued in Hor families, and reduces them to want and wretchedness. Tin: Philadelphia !', says that tlio spirit of tlio age, and certainly tlio sentiment of Pennsylvania, Is avorso to arming a moral catiso with ler.d penalties. It therefore announ ces with satisfaction that tho people ' ,.r II. .....,-1 t-fiiilii l.iivit Inul l'tfjtl he ill j i-iiii-. .. ....... .,...' j'" ,-. .. an Immense majority In favor of II conslng tlio sale of spirituous liquors. The Republican counties go as strongly for It as do tho Democratic. On h'aturilay last the house, with all its cootwitH, of Jtxu lliiuyard, who lives about eight mlliHfroni Kugtne on C'uiiim Kwulu, Ijuiu county, wus de stroyed by lire. Oats and thihu Oiiiciin. At n mooting of a farmers' club, recently hold at Cobourg, Canada, tbesccrctary gave sonui account of the origin of oats and the countries where they grow. Its native country Is unknown, but most probably it came from Cen tral Asia. There Is no mention of o.tts in the OKI Testament; wo are told that Solomon fed his hot-sos and drom edaries on barley, (lats wore however known to the (t rooks, whocallod them Itromo, and to the Uomaim who made ue of them as provender for their horses, early in the Chi Mian era. The oats are better suited to a moist than a dry, an.il to it cool rather titan to a warm climate, (hough (heir Held of cultivation do not extend quite so fur noith as (hat of the coarse kinds of barley. In Scotland, tmtn are grown to the north point; Itu Norway thclrcultuiv extends (o nurtl'. latitude Ad degrees, In Sweden to lati tude (!:) degree J10 minutes, in Ittisslu these popular limits appear to corres pond with those of rye; south of the parallel of Paris, oats are little culti vated, lu Spain ami IVilugal tiiey tiro svaiooly known, yet they are grown with considerable advantage lu Hcugal. Itoiiin.Mi thi: Mails. -Pop mouths past, (he popular and reliable publish, el's Messrs. Hunter V Co., of Hins dale, N. ., have been annoyed anil dismayed at the Immense losses of valuable loiters which were dally oe cuiing. Aided by the chief Detective and two special P. O. Agents, they have at last the satisfaction of seeing the thief a night clerk in (he Itostou P. O. "behind (lie liars," and he lias confessed all. Messis H. .V Co.'s loss es have been enormous; In fact, no exact estlmatecan at present be mtiilc. Thu thief carefully examined, aided by a light, every letter, ami look i-fii'i one that contained money. Ho was caught in lite act ami in rested, and, If lie gels his dues, will be hoard ed Willi the slate for from live to ten yea uh. Meantime the piosieiiiiis imsiucsof Hunter ,V Co. goes on with lis usual energy, piouiptucss and cm-, and those who have lost money by mail will now see Just icoct It iveii't, and avoid giving the Manic lo honest persons, KitoM Tin: Coiiii i. i.e. Captain Katlltle has his new schooner under way and expects to launch on the lilt of July. He Intends to put Iheeugllio of the steamer Mary into the vessel In order to cross the bar at the mouth of the Coqtiille going out and coming lu. The vessel will carry C.o,tKKi feet of lumber or one bundled tons of vimt. Allen Collier, a young man leslillug upon the Coitillle near Cunningham Cleek, nation l,S escaped death lilt other day, fiom a falling tree. It struck him llrst on the side ofhis head and bruised (he whole of one side of the Inn!. Although sevcicly injiiied It Is slipiMiscd he will '"cover. Tho dwelling liotisoof John Xoslcr on Deaihiiau'H Slough was cullicly dcstioycd by lite with all its coiiIciiIh last week during the nhcuco of (ho family. No liiKiiraiico.--Vi'mvf(C. At thcaiiiiiml meeting oflheCohim hhi District Agricultural Society buliU In Dalles City, Oregon, Apill lit, IS7.I, the following olllcel's were elected for tho ensuing year: President, James M. Mini; Vice Presidents, John Irviu, (Icorgo Sullies, Itobeil Mays, David Patterson, J.. I. Coart, William Dig ham, Charles Hunter, Win. Allen, Will. McAfee. W. P. Watson, K. lilt mason, li. (''.Snipes; Secretary, II. M. lieall; Assistant Secretary, W. C. Oaidiuer; Trcasiiicr, William (Iraitt. Oiiikion Ai'l'l.ns. Our maikctsaro almost, entirely supplied In the apple Hue from Oregon at Ibis season of I lie year. Why 1m it V Is ll because Cali fornia apples will not keep (III HOW us well as thu Oregon, or because wu can not raise enough lo supply our own hoinu demand and hence impoit thou sands of boxes annually fiom our northern sister Statu ? Will our orchurdlsts please, tell us'.' .V. '. Hit nil ''. At a late discussion by tho Cham plain Valley, Vt., Horticultural So ciety, it was staled that a fow years ago tho fruit of tlio orchard of Mr. Wright, of Cornwall, was Invariably so wormy that tlio owner thought of abandoning tho attempt to grow fruit for prollt. Tho orchard was convert ed Into a hog pasture, and lu (wo years tlio fruit was all fair. Tho ruorted assassination ofa sur veying party In tlioNolialeui Valley by Indians proves (o bo false. Su'crc, "eH-Hif ,,, V