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WILLAMETTE FARMER; SALEM, OREGON, AUGUST 1, 1884. $twa fytynVjinH GENERAL NEWS. Counterfeit $10 Rrcenbacks have been put afloat at Now York. Spokane Falls has spent 12,000 in grading streets this season. The values in the State of Texas this year show an increase of $00,000,000. A Pittsburg millionaire is about to establish a daily newspaper in London. There is abatement of the cholera at Marseilles and other points in Franco. The Lakoview Examiner says there is 2,843 94 in Lake county's treasury over liabilities. The total assessed value of property in Grant county for the present year is $2,983,72;;. The free baths in Philadelphia were patronized by over 00,000 people week before hist. Grass on the hills in Oregon is re markably fresh and giccn for tlii-i season of the year. Cher $8S,000 have been left by the late John Archer, of Salem, Mass , to the Salem hospital. At Conyors, Oa , John Mitchell shot himself in a room w hero four men had before committed suicide. The gen eminent says th redemption of unused postal cards does not pay,and it will redeem no moro of them. A New York dispatch says merchants in loading blanches of trade are notic ing indications of better times. Col. Bob Ingersoll is to deliver a sciies of lectures in Portland. Infidels will find poor picking in Oregon we think. The wife of Lieut. Groely has left San Diego, Cal., for Portsmouth, X. H. She expects to join her husband in August. We understand, says the Uoseburg Independent, that giain in the country is rusting, though not enough to afreet the yield. A thunder J-storm accompanied by lightning set fire to a field near Bollcs' Junction, and destioyed 1750 woith of property. Im.migi.uits aro ai riving daily from California and settling in the llig Bend country. Thoy biing all their stock, etc., with them. The exhibit published by County Clerk J. J. Lamd shows that tho in debtedness of Coos county, July 1, loss cash on hand, was .110,929.9:5. Tho total expense of the Greely relief expedition is estimated by officials of the navy department at about $700,000. The original estimate was 300,000. A federal court in Chicago decided that the liability of a national bank stockholder is a contract which survives his death and attaches to his estate. The authorities of Xew York city are taking precautions against cholera and during the next eight weeks will distrib ute 5,000 gallons of disinfectants daily. Hon. T. W. Uicknell is visiting our State. Ho writes an article and says wo are a grand country ami can raise wheat. Truly this is wonderful. The name of the Pomeroy Republican has been changed to tho East Washing ton, the first number under tho now namo has reached us. An assay from a Baker county assay ofiico, of tho croppings of tho quartz ledgo discovered near Wallowa, gives 51.70 gold and $2 50 silver. A large number of hop kilns aro be ing erected along tho lino of the Puget Sound Shore road. Xearly every farm has from five to ten acres in hops. A son of J. A. Haskell, living near Goldondale, W. T., committed suicide because ho couldn't go to The Dalles and see the circus. He was aged 18. The striped convict suit has been dis carded in tho Ohio penitentiary, and prisoners have been furnished with clothing tho samo as worn by honest mer. Polk county Itomizer: The fruit raisers of Oregon can o.to to themselves and tho State thousands of dollars by destroying the worm webs on the fruit trees without further delay. If this work is neglected they will find their trees a living mass of worms next spring, destroying foliage and frujt to a greater extent than ever beforo heard of in the northwest. R. Hogan, of Sandv, says tho Oregon City Courior, out of one cedar tree, seven feet in diameter, built a ono story frame house, including the shingles on tho roof, dimensions 21x10, cut 4,000 shakes, made 4,000ehingles, and has enough wood left for 5,000 moro shingles. Mr. Hogan says ho has tho bo turnip, thirty and one-half inches in circumfer ence The Sandy country is looming up. Tho increased acreage of fall wheat in Clackamas county, says tho Courier, if about twenty per cent; tho aereago of oats and spring sown wheat is also larger than last year's, and tho crop, if harvest time is favorable, will much ex ceed the jield of last year. Tho fate of tho farmers depends on the weather, which, judging from atmospheric indi cations, may now probably eoon como to a settled condition. The Corvallis Gazette Miys : "Wo aro informed from a reliable source that the big trestle on the O. P. It, II., between tunnels Nbs. 1 and 2 is now completed. The grading is finished four or five miles this side of Trapp'a place. Tho working force on tho road has been in creased by one or more car loads of Chi namen each day. All of the late rein forcements have been put to work on the road this tide of tho summit and are pushing ahead with all practicable epeed." Victoria, B. C, is thronging with vis itors. The Texas fever is prevailing at Kan sas City. Wheat has begun to arrive at the mills in Salem. Many herds are afflicted with the Texas fever in Kansas. The winter wheat is all harvested about Forest Grove. As they cannot voto in Xovember tho pcoplo of Tacoma are now voting in an oil can for Presidential candidates. Some Victoria parties have purchased the Eliza Anderson and placed her on the Victoiia and Westminster routo. Bobbers stopped tho overland stage near Bedding. Tho express box was taken and the mail was not molested. Mexico, according to a late San Fran cisco dispatch, is attracting attention as a market for salmon product. They liko it and es-tcem it a luxury. Work is progressing slowly on tho Cascade division of tho Northern Pacific, and about 100 men arc at work at the front, about fifty miles below Yakima. A Walla Walla exchango says that tho yield of wheat this year in spite of of the largo amount of summer fallow land will be fully equal to last years crop. A number of the small boys of Tacoma bocamo wealthy after the fire by gath ering up the old iron and selling it at the foundry. One boy mado $17.00 in ono day. At the evening session of the Episco pal Convocation in Seattle last Friday, the subject of raising a million was dis cussed. Very enthusiastic speeches w ere made and $265 pledged. Lieut. Schwatkahas resigned his com mission in the army, and his resignation has been accepted. It is thought that he proposes to accept some position under a foreign government. Tramps aro gotting to be common about Silverton, Oregon. A large num ber of them when diroctcd to work ex hibit their contempt for manual labor by going in the opposite direction. Tho effect of the new law of Iowa, which makes the keenini: of a house of ill fame a penitentiiuy ollense, is repoit- ed to bo the complete liddance of the "social evil" in the towns of that State. Joe Drake, tho negro under sentonce of death for the murder of David Swarie and now confined in tho county jail, is taking things easy and don't seem much worried about his coming neck-tie party Tho Postoflico Department has $500, 000 more for the freo delivery business this year than last, and twenty now of fices will be put on the list, and moro carriers hired for somo of tho old ones. An Ohio man has just married tho wife from whom he was divorced eight years ago. He provod to her that ho had quit snoring and sho demonstrated that sho had learned to make good bread. Wo learn, says the Lafayette Regis ter, that Luther Fletcher of Dayton killed a cow a few days ago, which had a twen tv dollar gold pieco in her windpipe. The coin was worn perfectly smooth and the stamps were barely pcrcoptibltv The O. It. & X. Co. has made tho fol lowing reduction in rates to tourists: From Tacoma to Victoria, $ I CO ; round trip, $5. From Seatflo to Victoria, 4 ; round trip, $5. The former price was $0 each way. Verily there must bo some competition on tho Sound. The permanent survey of the line for the Xorth Beach Railroad is finished. Tho company's finances are such as to warrant their beginning building opera tions immediately. The lino it is said will be a very pleasant one and pictur esque. Win. T. Mooro and Fred P. Crone miller, of Roseburg, have formed a part nership, and will commence the publi cation of a Democratic nowspapor at Rosoburg about September 1st, to bo called the Roseburg Becord. Both are steady and industrious young men. Prof. B. J. Hawthorne, who recently accepted the offer of tho chair of rhetoric and phisiology in the State University of Oregon, at Eugene, has been tendered, says the Benton Leader, a situation as Professor of mutlematics in the State Univeisity of Texas, at Austin. The following are tho appointments of tho Bt. Rev. B. Wistar Morris, of the Episcopal church for his Southern Oreg on tour: Aug. 3, Marshfield; Aug. 0, Port Orford ; Aug. 12, Chotco ; Aug. 13, Kirbyville ; Aug. 17, Jacksonville ; Aug. 19, Eaglo Point; Aug. 21, Ashland. Telograms concerning tho French har vest uateu July II, from Pans, says: Harvesting of the wheat crop in the central zone is proceeding actively. Tho farmers being unable to find n sufficient number of reapers, furloughs have been granted to soldiers, who assist in gather ing the crops. A dispatch from Paris, dated July 27, says that after a council of the ministers at'Klysee, Saturday, Prime Minister Fer ry held an interview with Li Fong Pac, Chino-e embassador. It was arranged that China should pay Franco indemdity of 20,000,000 francs. A pacific solution of the troubles is now certain. Tho hay crop in Lane county is being gathered now. and although considerable has liccn spoiled by tho late ruins, stilj thoro will be donble tho quantity cthor ed that there was last year. Self-binders are cutting wheat and barley in every portion of tho county, and the wheat is said to be heavier than ever before known. It is thought that hcodors w ill be able to commence work, if tho weath er remains fair, the last of next week. The oat crop is also larger than ever be fore, the yield being astonishingly large. Lane county will hare nearly double the surplus grain to ship it did in 1883. Helena is to use electricity. The San Diego Sun has begun its seventh volumo. Boston wants to photograph those of its old landmarks which it cannot afford to preserve. Tho farmers say the corn is now mak ing a growth of two inches every twen- ly-rour Hours. The Prince of Wales is reported to have inspired the hNscs at Bernhardt in London recently. A trio of counterfeiters wore arrested in Portland. Thoy were making and passing bogus dollars. They will bo sent up without a doubt. Two elk have lately been killed near the valley, one near Sit. Wilcox, in Scog gins' valley, and tho other in tho vicini ty of Quick's mill, Oregon. Hunters say that game has not been so plentiful for years. Valuablo gold diggings have been discovered on Lone crock, a tributary of Skeena river, It. C. Six hundred dollars were taken out by ono man in two days, and two other men found 1,700 in thrco hours. Tho great conl vein on Clo-el-um, W. T., is twenty iot thick; the upper strat um is fourteon feet and the lower ono siv feet, and the two aro separated by a layer of slate six inches thick. The un der stratum is pure coal. During tho year 1883 there wero 100 pamphlets on British Columbia distrib uted in Europe, mostly in tho United Kingdom. Some wero translated into Gorman. There wero 9,000 immigrants landed in the provincp, of which 0,000 were whites and 3,000 Chinese. It is believed that there aro fowor idle men in Tacoma to-day, says tho Ledger, than in any city of its size in the Northwest, and mmy of tho men' who are idle aro those who would not work if they had tho opportunity to do so. The Oregon Fruit Drier. Fruit growers aro doing tho light thing in purchasing the convenient machines they can save their orchards with. Mr. 11. S. Jory informs us that he is now putting up the sixth of his Oregon Driers ordered this season. Evciy ono admires their convenience and durabil ity. Ho will go to California soon and build machines there and that will be turning the tables and "carrying the war into Atrica." Tho old story is reversed and instead of California inventors hawking thoir wares through Oregon our fiiend Jory will show them an Ore gon idea worthy their notice. AVe have no doubt ho will do well. KELLY & UNDERWOOD, SALEM, - - OREGON. REPRESENTING STAVER & WALKER, GENERAL AGENTS FOR J. I. Case Threshing Machine Co.s Engine, Threshers, Headers and Saw Mills. Stmlcbakor Farm nntl Spring Wagons. Buggies, and Car riages. P. K. Dcderick & Co.'s Hay Presses. EMPIRE MOWER, REAPER AND BINDER. The J. I. Case Plow Co.' Sulkvuntl Walking Plows, Harrows and Cultivators. Hoosier Drill Co.'s Seeders, Drills and Sulky Hay Itakcs. Acme Harrows. DIAMOND AND BUCKET E FEED MILLS, TEED CUTTERS, Etc. gsSend for Illustrated Catalogues. ACME HARROW, Clod CpuhIicv and LevcU-v. Weighs much less than other Pulverizing Harrows. Sells about one-third lees, aad with all does the most thorough work of any. J. I. Case AGITATOR. Hid Agitator is the hel grain Having ma chine eter tnailt. It runs lighter, threshes faster, is jess liable to net out of order, and saves "rain better than any other machine GET UP CLUBS. Tho Faiuiek is making an eflort to pnlist hi its behalf all tho reading and thinking portion of tho farmers of the North West. Subscription has been reduced as low as wo daro venture in tho belief that wo can doublo our lit of paying subscribers and greatly increase its inlluenco and popu larity. Tho Farmeii is closing its fifteen year of publication. It is no new venture, no uncertain thing, but well founded and nbly conducted. Any binglo bubscriber can remit $2 00 and receive tho Faumi:k ono .v cur from date of payment. Thoso who write and send in a club of five, nil paying nt once, cm have the Fakmkk one yi-ar for $1.75 each. Old friends of tho Farmer cau easily sccuic among their neighbors five or ten names and secure their paper at $1.75 or $1.50 per year. Wo hope that many will get up clubs and vindicate our faith in their good will towaids their old timo friend, The Willamette Farmb. THE EMPIRE HARVESTER AND TWINE BINDER. Hast ho Neatest, Simplest and Best Drivo Wheel : has tho best Canvas Arrange ment for carrying Grain from l'latfoim to Elevators ; has tho best Cutter bar j has the best ritman Connection ; has no Sulo Droit ; 1ms tlio best Adjustable Jieel; has the best Tilting Arrangcmont ; has tho bcst liaising and Lowering Arrange ment. It is unexcelled for Stiength nnd Durability ; it is tho lightest j is simplest in Construction ; is Substantially and Strongly Built; is tho Surest to Hind ; has Fowor Pieces of Machinery than any othor; has hoed of Fewer Exports; has a Friend in every purchaser. ELKHART CARRIAGE Ed HARNESS M FG GO. Bb Haiera ef all itylei of . I. i.ua iiaraeM Mike "It's the Irish that does all the inventing in these days, suio." Jonath an "Irish be hanged 1 Tho Irish don't invent anything to speak of. Americans invent everything." Mike "Thin per haps yez can tell mo why tho Irishman's name, Fat, is always next to the date on all new inventions. Not an American namo can you find on one, nt all, at all." MiUriafrom the undrained Pontine marshes near Homo, is a terror to travelers. Ayor's Ague Care is an effectual protection from the disease, and a cure for those who have become its victims. It woris just as f fTecuillr in all malarial districts on tnis side of the tea. Try it. A CARD. To all who are suffering from the cirors and India cretlonsof )outh, nertou. ukru, earlv decay, Ices of manhood .c,l wtlleenda rerlpothat will cure you, KRKK OK CI 1 AHO K. This Kreit remedy was dl.cov. cred by a mlsrionary In 8cuh America bend a aelf. addressed envelope to the HKV. JOSEPH T ISMA.V, Station D, New York. Citj, Adv. Slmarly FARMERS SAVE FRUIT ! YOUR THE ACME DRIER CO. llivinj purthued the rUht lr Multnomah (.ouMy for the BURNS FRUIT DRIER AND EVAPORATOR, Are prepared to fumUh the various alzeicf family and factory drlera. The merlUof 1 his drier and the superior qutllty of IU product an too ell known t- rulre detailed enumeration. For Urmi and particulars enquire at the foot of Oak street, TortUnd, of J. 8. K3TAPF, AGENT, AIM .lacal far Clarkaatas , ljaljSm " - m BBBBBRBn We Retail at Wholesale !AaSIAOE3,BUaOIES,BFRIMO WAGONS, SIM OLE A DOUBLE BABMESS ft SADDLED We employ no lurentu, ana If fioc ,. T-aU4 1 wuatyou order is not Minn jp? IILCIIirVf 1CTMV rjiyrndfi No. 4i JJUKKy (W cut) In Ji:t the Rama liHotliprrt w 11 at 130. Ton Hiiinrifs at KIM), fine ha iiniiaU Hold for $I2& to 4140. Our JiaxueRfl aro nil N 1 Onk ..iilli.r. Hlnirlo.MK.ri(ltoM2ll. Kven tiling fully wiirrnnlrd. lie- ' foroutiylDff.Bt-udfor our llliitUraUHl ft Li taint ('fttalnnifl frf. AildnwHlV. l'itATT, Hoc'. Jjliliiiri, Inrilann Prices, (TT-HIIII ANV MIIKltl'. Wl i 11 I'M V1I.MIL, US' I'trrB ii!N-' rt. &oi2 Mm- Examlning Before! Tta'lHBS" Jtr.viiii"n ,0 K frXHtH VV" "" WN ...N-'V iij!ii ,BS'" - Vl? -vftir- " 5"Vi v,. ,-X. 35 THE NEW IMSSILLON SI.HO. 38 and ID! 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BoarclinK and Day School Young Women anil Girls, for The a.TFKSTII VKAII cneni K mlirr .'lit. The lit Hv. II VlUr .Morrli, llnlcr Thorough In ktruitkiti In rtill.h, Art, liijrujA'(N, and Mu.lo. A corp of fountvn tiach.rv ior caialuipio, addrt.4: 11 1. is HOIiMIV, I'rliitlH, tjuUm llox U, Cortland, Oregon, Salem Property For Sale I A LOT-iix1GSficttuthcf Cheintkrta Hold, with J tu,rt un It oimplod byllr, A I. llucldUKhain a Kroury .i rn Al o, A loitifiruhiu dHeliinj; In ro'ilh bal"iii, it It nv.' iwiiii, lot "ixlMJ leet. The abore v.111 be wId at a lureuln. Adlrias : I'lUIILKS JUKY, hale n, Or. Or, itII at the Jort aaou abop, houlli Bilim. BISHOP SCOTT GRAMMAR SCHOOL, A Ituaritluic mi'l lay ilf lioul fur lloya. flMIK HKMINTII VVAIt UNDKIl ITd 1'KKUENT J inaiiaemeft l b.KinHr)lritilcr ltd. Boys auocaefiiry utte.1 fcr Cullee er for buvlnoM. Kivs relenl i.d throi 'iiltlnsr leathers I'lxdpline strict. ror furthtr Inf irmatlon and tor caUUyur contalulnr lUt of former pupils, adiireae: J. W. 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