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JACKSONVILLE, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1870
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JACKSONVILLE LODGE No. 10
The Climate of Alaska—Very Remark
able and Interesting Facts.
Mother, once I read a story
Of a shell from ocean’s bed,
Carried fur o’er land and water,
By a stranger’s hand, ’tis said ;
Which, though long o'er dreary desert,
With its captor forced totroam,
Never censed its wailing, sighing,
For its pearly ocean home.
So thy child, my precious mother,
Though he wanders far from thee,
In his heart is ever longing.
Longing by thy side to be ;
I would hear thy loving counsel.
Feel thy tender sympathy :
Have thy soft anti southing accents
In my heart make melody.
When my day of toil is over.
And I lay me down to rest,
I would have thy loving fingers
Smooth the cover o’er my breast :
I would feel the gentle pressure
On my hot and wtaried brow,
Of thy lips so pure and holy—
Ah, that joy has left me now.
Mother, if in life's hard battle,
I should quit me brave ami well,
Anti for (lod and man ami country,
Do such deeds as shall excel ;
It was you who shapcdjny bearings
In my plastic infancy, ,
Under Him who gave me being,-
Mother, be the praise to thee.
A Visit to a Chinese Silk Factory.
Sudden Fright—Its fearful Effect*—A
Lady Driven Insane.
A correspondent to tho Cincinnati Commercial
AN e are indebted to Professor Doremus for some writes from Canton :
A pase of sudden or violent fright occurred in oar
very remarkable and interesting facts and statis “I directed my guide to take me into t^c silk neighboring town of Abingdon, on Monday last,
tics, communicated to him from Mr. J. A. Tun weaving districts. We soon entered them. I at which should prove a sad and impressive warning
ner, a resident of Sitka, Alaska, on the climate once dismounted to make a careful observation of to all who are partial to indulging in practical
and products of that locality. We will first give their modus operandi for the production of this jokes. It seems, from what we can learn, that on
the tacts thus received and then some explanation renowned fabric of Oriental looms. All around < that day a party of boj a, disguised by hideous
of their peculiarities for the information of the me was silk, silk, nothing but silk. In small, masks and grotesque garments, called at the res
dark houses, little better than hovels, were seen idence of an estimate lady, Mrs. George H. Mar
general reader.
First, then, Sitka is tho largest town in Alaska, people, chiefly women, dyeing this delicate textile. shall, in that place. They entered noiselessly nt
a town of about sixty homes and eight hundred ¡Outside, in little filthy yards and pig sties, over the back door, and succeeded in frightening an in
inhabitants, chiefly Russians, of the lower class, ¡the ground where the family sv ma were wallowing, fant almost into convulsions. Mrs. M., hearing
but divided from it only by a stoçkade is an In were placed bamboo poles, whereupon were hanging the hurified scream of her child, hastened to its as
dian village of ninCj hundred more souls. The skeins of silk just from the dye, and glowing with sistance, to shield and protect it from harm. In
products of the regions round about are limited to the most vivid hues, as they hung for drying in hurrying to her childAfche suddenly encountered
fish, furs and timber. Potatoes, turnips, radishes the sunshine over the loathsome pools below. I the masked figures, and fell fainting to the floor.
visited several of their weaving shops. They were She was shortly afterward found by her friends,
and onions can be raised, but they are small.
quite similar in their fixtures and arrangements. and proper remedies were at once administered, but
They have there over thirty varieties of indigen
ous grasses ; but hay cannot be cured—not sun 1 spent some time in examining one of the largest. her revival only witnessed the horrifying fact that
enough. Coal is found in thirty miles of Sitka, It was, perhaps, about one hundred feet long and i she was hopelessly insane. Up to this writing, we
but it is so bituminous that it has burned out the sixteen feet wide. The walls were of coarse clay ■ regret to say that no lucid intervals have been de-
smoke stacks of steamers using it. Gold is found blocks, sun-dried, unpierced by a single aperture i 1 veloped, and the woman, once a happy wife and
in several localities, but not in paying quantities. for air or light save at the front, which was en* proud mother, is now a raving maniac, bereft of
tirely open the whole breadth of the building. reason, and cowering in fright.
The mountain tops behind Sitka are white all sum
The floor was simply of trodden clay, uneven and i Ibis sad affair has caused a deep feeling in
mer ; but along the coast there, near the sea level,
untidy. An aisle ran down tho centre, just wide J Abingdon, and Mr. Marshall has the deepest sym
it seldom snows, even in winter, and the thermom
eter hardly ever falls below the freezing point. enough for one person to pass ; on cither side of pathy of the community in his sudden and distress-
About the 23d of December at Sitka the night this were ranged the nearest looms, and standing , ing bereavement. The boys who participated in
I this masquerade, which has brought so dire a gloom
takes up tke whole twenty-four hours, and about as close together as they could be placed.
the 23d of June the evening daylight blends into
Two or three persons were employed on one and sorrow upon a once happy household, realise
that of the morning. The coldest day from the loom. The looms are plain, common looking af the situation keenly, and are struck with sincere
I records of a whole year at bitka, did not reach low fairs, almost precisely of the same kind, as to ap sorrow for the results of their reckless thoughtless
er than twenty-two degrees above zero ; and the pearance and mode of manipulation, as were those ness. This is but another warning, in an already
warmest point of the warmest day marked sixty- upon which our grandmothers in Ohio used to i long and dreary catalogue, against practical joking
1 nine degress above zero. There were two han- weave the linsey-wolsey for the wear of us Western and its inevitable results, and we trust it will bo
hired and eighty-four cloudy and rainy days in the boyf, when even the preacher was almost a stran , remembered for some time to qome, in that local
Increase of Moral Forces-
' vear and tiltV fair davs, and only five days of ger to broadcloth. Squatting myself down by one ity at least. All right-thinking people, it is to bo
I snow at that point of tho seaboard in that high of these iriendly-looking acquaintances of my hoped, will discourage any amusement which has
JAMES K. NEIL,
More and more as mankind becomes enlightened, latitude. The rainfall of the year was only ninety- boyhcod, I leisurely watched the delicate and dili for its object the mortification er fright of the ▼ie-
the world is governed by moral forces. War be- two inches, or about three times the"average rain-' gent manipulation of the weaver and his assist tiin upon whom it is inflicted. A blighted and
i<»mes frequent as popular Intelligence is diffused. fall of New York. They’had fourteen inches of ants as thu shuttles flew to and fro in the mazy darkened home is the latest realization / of thia
Third Street, (west side), between California A single human mind may put into play motive i rain in Sitka in February last, which is equal to [mystery
I
of figures and flowers that came gradually fantastic mummery, and as such should speak si
and Main.
powers which, like the speculative lever of Archi about fourteen of our heaviest summer storms.
lout larger and plainer upon the glowing surface of lently, yet eloquently, against the perpetration of
Will practice in the Supreme and other Courts
Now, how ar« we to account for this remarkable I Ï the georgous fabric, which those skillful workmen such doubly wicked “fun” in the future.— Gale»-
medes, may disturb the equilibrium of the world.
of this State.
,
In the present time the chief instrument of the dim.ito of Sitka? We have heretofore touched I 1 were there creating under my eye. So complex burg, 111., Dree Pre»».
T&" Particular attention paid to the collection noral forces is the printing press. It has sup upon it, but the facts submitted will justify fuller , were the movements of the men on these simple-
G rape C ure for C onsumption . —The use of
of Claims ngainst the Federal and State Govern planted the ecclesiastic, the traveling monk and explanation. First, then, between the fifty-fifth i I looking machines, and so marvelously beautiful
ments. the Entry of Lands under the Pre einption the troubadour. In our own country it becomes
grapes, according to accounts frequently publish
> and sixtieth parallel of north latitude there is u were the products resulting therefrom, that 1 gazed
an<l Homestead Laws, and to the Entry of Mineral
ed
during the past two or three years, has been
an actual despot, declaring war. concluding peace, [string of ¡.-lands with a narrow selvage on the sea with unbounded amazement upon this work of silk
Lodes under the recent. Act of Congress.
very successfully applied to the cure of consump
dictating treaties and deposing rulers. There was |coast, say fifty miles wide, between the sea and 1 ’ weaving as it progressed before me.
C. W. KAHLER,
tion,
in its earlier and less decided stages in par
i time when a republican people, about to form a I coust range of mountains, which selvage maybe
The weather being warm and the shop crowded, ticular. The “grape process” is conducted now
government, stipulated for the liberty of the press, ! called the panhandle of Alaska; und Mount St.
the workman were almost naked. My visit inter to a considerable extent on the banks of the
and the time may come when they will require Elias, seventeen thousand eight hundred feet high,
ested them manifestly, yet not a loom ceased its Rhine, where several physicians have establish
some safeguard against its despotism. When the at the northern junction of this panhandle with
clicking, clacking noise, not a man letthis employ ments in which patients afflicted with consump
JACKSOXVIl.EE, OREGON,
Aew York Tribune demanded an udvance on the the main lerntory. may be called the silvery frost
ment to gaze, but I detected them giving furtive
tion, or with deranged digestive organs, are treat
Will practice in the Supreme Court, District, and Confederate capital, half disciplined armies were ed rivet binding the handle to the pan. Sitka, glances and exchanging mutual smiles among
ed by eating grapes as in other places they are by
compelled to move, in spite of the remonstrance near the fifty-seventh degree of north latitude, is
other Courts of this State.
themselves at the curious stranger who had thus drinking water. The patients assemble in the gar
OFFICE—In building formerly occupied by 0. of commanders ; and everybody knows how inglo- in the centre of this pan haudlo. The pan itself, unceremoniously squatted himself down in their
Jacob*-M»pposite Court House square.
riously the Federal arms were defeated.
or about four hundred squares miles of Territory, midst, by one of these humble looking looms, on a dens twice a day, and each fills a basket with
grapes, under the watchful eye of a special doctor.
How mighty, then, must lx; the monster-minded lying between the sixtieth and seventeenth de
DR. OEO. B. TO Lili AN,
common dirt floor, within homely clay walls,
They then sit down to slowly suck the juices of the
press, giving out its oracles in every city and vil grees of latitude, is absolutely worthless exoept tu
where, nevertheless, are produced those magnifi fruit, while lively music is played in their hearing.
lage of the nation, and following the explorer to the hunter and trapper.
(late Surgeon U. S. Army,)
cent fabrics which for ages and throughout the From four to six weeks is the time required for n
ward the sluggish tropics, or to the fierce latitude
But how is it that at Sitka the cold seldom sinks world, have been the pride of wealth, the envy of
Physician, Surgeon, and Accoucheur, of the poles. In every civilized atmosphere tho mercury lower than twenty-two degrees above
cure. This story, if true, mny prove a sad dis
beauty, and the admiration and desire of royalty. couragement to doctors and proprietors of quack
WILL PRACTICE IN JACKSON AND breathed by civilized men, under every sun that zero, while in the same latitude in the northern Far down, and nearly to the extreme limit of this medicines, which are upheld to cure consumption ;
adjacent counties, and attend promptly to lights the inception of enterprise, this autocrat extremity of Labrador the cold for weeks together long room, was a plain board counter, extending
but we believe the main virue of the “grape pro
all calls on professional business.
of the moral forces stands with heart of fire and is forty degrees below zero and snow covers the
quite across the room. 3ehind it stood the pro cess” will be found in the regularity of habita
breath of steam, and with its hundred arms to land all the year round! How is it that at Sitka,
OFFICE AND RESIDENCE,
prietor of the factory, a smooth-faced, richly-clad which the treatment otherwise imposes. A gentle
drag
and
crush
out
the
usurper.
above
the
latitude
of
Moscow,
they
have
hardly
a
on 4th street, opposite the M. E. Church, Jack
Chinaman. Directly over him the building was man, for many years connected with a celebrated
sonville, Oregon.
colder day in winter than they have in New Or unroofed, thereby affording a spacious skylight;
Jan. 8th, 1870.
janS-tf.
A S trange E xperience —A dvised of ms leans, and nearly three times the annual average except this window there was none. Ti. rough this water-cure, once told us that this imposition of
regularity in sleeping, eating, drinking, bathing,
M other ’ s D eath .—The Awftwrn At/certiser pub rainfall in New York ? The prevailing westerly
skylight and down upon the counter below, the
Dr. L. T. DAVIS,
lishes the following statement, with the remark winds in our Northern hemisphere, and the great sunshine fell upon the finished work of this dingy, and walking, constituted all the virtue that existed
in the water-cure process.
that from its knowledge of the gentlemen by whom equatorial ocean current of warm water which from
dirty, squallid looking workshop. The proprietor
the account is given, it is prepared to give entire I Japan sweeps around and across the Northern Pa was busy measuring off and packing up the pro
How C orks are M ade . —Cork, which is th*
Opposite t lie Old
credit to it : “Some weeks ago a prominent citi cific Ocean ar.d down by Alaska, British Columbia
bark of a tree, i< received at th» factory in the
duct of his looms.
zen ot Auburn was in the city of Chicago trans and Oregon, explain it all. The same causes, on a
And as the sunlight streamed full upon the gor form of slabs, a few feet in length, some of which
A rkansas L ivery S table acting busine s connected with his manufacture in similar scale, applied to the Gulf Stream make the geous
colors of those magnificent silks, satins and are over two inches thick and a foot or more wide.
thisplace. Oneevening, after an activeday's work, pleasant climate of the British islands. On the
brocades which the proprietor was tossing about The slabs are sliced up intn square pieces by a cir
fcaling somewhat fatigued, he retired to his room contrary the comparatively cold and dry climate of
Jacksonville, Oregon.
him in billowy radiance, it seemed to my eyes, as cular knife hung exactly like »circular saw. Thia
at the hotel a little earlier than usual, and made the Atlantic slope of North America is due to the
I stood far up in the feeble light of the center of circular blade is ground to a thin/ sharp edge,
E. H. GREENMAN,
hi« customary arrangements for the night, but prevailing westerly winds blowing over a frozen
which will cut up slabs of cork, without removing
FHyadcian db Surgoon, just as he had composed himself to sleep, he ex continent in winter and from great moun'ain the room, as though he were tossing and toying
with ramoows. From places so humble and sur a kerf, faster than a saw will cut plank into piece«
perienced
a
singular
sensation,
and
heard
a
voice,
r
anges
covered
with
snow
even
in
the
summer.
OFFICE—At his residence on Fifth Street
roundings so squallid as this come those royal of equal size. The square pieces are then held by
'
Jacksonville, Oregon.
apparently very near and as plainly and distinctly The horribly cold climate of New England, New
the hands of boys in a kind of lathe, in snch a po
jBW^Will practice in Jackson and adjacent coun- as though it issued from the throat of a human, foundland, Labrador and Greenland is, however, fabrics which are to decorate palaces and to adorn sition that the sharp and thin end of a hollow
ies, ar.d attend promptly to professional calisi___ pronounce the words, “Your mother died to-day !” due to the cold Arctic current which, with its ice the persoas of princes and monarchs of the earth.”
mandrel will cut out a perfectly Youbd cork in an .
and
with
the
words
came
an
assurance
that
the
an
bergs
from
Baffin
’
s
Bay,
flows
down
into
the
At
DR. J. B. OVERBECK
S hallow P ans for M ilk —Use only shallow instant. Mandrels of various sizes are employed
nouncement was too true to doubt it. He arose lantic between our sea coast and the Gulf Stream
pans for milk, and the larger the surface, and the to cut of the desired size. Each cork is then pla
’’ir.’TLL PRACTICE MEDICINE AND SUR- in the morning after having pnssed a sleepless from the South.
ced by little fingers, in corresponding recesses, in
VY GERY, and will attend promptly, to all calls night, and made immediate preparations for a
But of what practical utility is all this? It is less the depth, the better. Then put into each pan, a feed-wheel of an automatic machine, where the
<on professional business. His office'and residence
journey home. As he started for the depot, he of the greatest practic 1 utility in reference to the before straining, one quart of cold spring wa er to corks are tapered by the removal of a thin sharing
are at
met a boy with a telegraph dispatch in his hand, movements of emigration from one country to anth every three quarts of milk ; then the cream will be from the periperhy of one end. The sharing is re
The Overbeck Hospital,
gin to rise immediately. Skim every twelve hours,
1-tf and calling him to his side he asked if the message er. For example, in these facts and figures from
On Oregon Street, Jacksonville, Oregon.
moved by the sharp edge of a circular cutter orac
was not for him—giving his name—and sure Alaska, knowing the enduiing causes thereof we and the butter will be free from all strong taste
two feet in diameter, which revolves horizontally.
JÄHES D. FAY,
enough it was from his family, confirming the know that Mr. Seward, in his estimate of that vast arising from leaves, or coarse pasturage. The ob The edge of every instrument that cuts cork is
truth of the announcement of the unseen inform region, is wrong, and that General Thomas is right, ject of the cold water is double. It cools the milk brought in contact with the material to by cut with’
ant, that his mother had died the day previous at and that Alaska, to the white man, excepting that so that the cream rises before the milk sours, for a very Drawing strokd, as such spongy material
Auburn-
had received no intimation but that little aforesaid selvage of sea islands and sea after milk sours it furnishes no more cream, and could not be cut satisfactorily by a erutbing stroke.
California Street, in building formerly occupied by she was enjoying her usual health, nor had there coasts, will be utterly worthless and uninhabitable also impairs the flavor of the cream already pro-
Thick slabs of cork are cut into large corks, while
Dr. E. H. Greenman.
been anything to excite in the slightest degree his for perhaps ten thousand years to come.— New duced.
the thin ones are worked into corks of a correspond
Will praetiee in the Supreme and other Courts
apprehension for her safetjx until the occurrence York Herald.
ing size.
i
of thia State,
Two passenger cars and the smoking car of a !
of the incident related.”
It must be comforting to a man, no mattvrhovr
C ure for C rovp .—The white of an egg in train on the Rome and Ogdensburgh Railroad, were
«çe* Particular attention paid to tfce collection
.of Claims against the Federal and State .Goyerp.-j A Tçn«£3see girl in order to make a sure thing sweetened water is a French cure for croup. To thrown from the track by a broken rail on Jan. ugly or despised he may be, to think he. was onoo
.ment«, the Entry of Lands- underjthe Pre-emption
be given in repeated do.-es as long as necessary. 25, near Ogdensburgh, N- Y. One passenger was a baby, beloved by a large circle of relatives and
friends. It is a comfort we would not deny Mw.
to marry her.
killed and several others injured.
It is said to be a sure eure.
jLodes under the recent Act of Congress.
1 tf.
ITS REGULAR MEETINGS ON
ever
very Saturday evening at the Odd Fell ows’
Hall, Brothers in good standing are invited to
SII .AS J. DAY, N. G.
attend.
N. D. SHORT, R.
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May 1st. 1869.
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