JACKSONVILLE, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6,1870.
VOL. 2.
A Tript to Buck Lake —Continued.
A M other ’ s D eath .—Few persona who
less inspired individuals will suppose they
have lo««t their “first and dearest friend” can
were written afterwards.
Mount Pitt I thy dizzy bights, at length, I tread, read the following with unmoislened eyes :
An<l gaze on Nature’s bold expanse below.
Death comes nn unsought guest to every
Within the circle of our vision what
board, and nt his special bdding toino be
A range of objects greet impatient Bight I—
loved one goes forth to his mysterious home.
Lakes, mountains, valleys, woodlands and leas
Time and philosophy may teach resigna
Environ thee ; and thou art, seemingly,
, The top o’ this vast rotunda called the Earth.
tion unty hearts made desolate by his coming;
Rogue River Valley, Scott’s nnd Klamath’s, each, but they can never fill the vacancy therein,
Seem hanging on thy umple skirts. Close by,
when ahe that was our mother no longer casts
In almost speaking distance, Shasta stands
a halo about our darkened hearth.
Adorned with e’en a whiter garment than
A mother’s place—an loved, so worshipped
Thy own ; along the Cascades to the North
—once empty must, be forever so. A breast
A colony of pyramids arise
once panged by a mother’s death, no medi
To keep thee comp’ny in the upper air.
cine cun reach with healing.
NO. 15.
P rotect Y our E yesight .—Milton’s blind
ness was the result of overwork and dyspep
We broke up camp at Buck Lake Saturday
sia. Ono of the moat eminent American di
Published Every Saturday Morning,
vines, having for some time been compelled
morning July 23d, aud returned as far as
to forego the pleasure of rending, spent thou
L'»»t Prairie. From this point Mr. C. W.
BY P. D. HULL,
sands of dollars in value, and lost year» of
1? w Y> 1 i h lx o r «St !• r o p r I « t o x-. Kahler nnd the undersigned separated from
time in consequence of getting up several
the balance of the expedition with a view of
OFFICE-—On Third St. Between California and C.
hours before daylight nnd studying by artifi
going around and ascending Mount Pitt,
TERMS:
cial light. II;s eye» never got well.
or Mount McLaughlin as it is sometimes
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Multitudes of inen and women havo mad»
called. After an impressive farewell, in
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their eyes weak for life by the too free use of
bdding which the aid of onions was invoked
the eyesight, reading sinall print and doing
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to start the teats that would not flow, we
al
(a T bk D emocratic N bws will be charged
fine sewing. In view of these things, it ii
plunged into the dense woods at the North
the following rates
well to observo the following rules in the uae
east end of Lost prairie, traveling that course
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of the eyeu :
most of the way until we came to Luk» of the
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Avoid all sudden changes between light
A liberal deduction from the above rates will be Woods—a distance of about 10 miles. Oc How strange and multiplied the thoughts that crowd
No mind, however aacred, no henrt, how- and darkness.
made on quarterly and yearly advertisements.
casionally wo met with the fresh blazes of the Into the bruin of him who, weary in limb,
Never read by twilight, or moonlight, or
ever hardened, cam forget the gentle being
new wagon road, then being reviewed nnd Sits down upon thy lofty parapet
JOB PRINTING.
on a very cloudy day.
whose sufferings begot his life.
blazed out by O. C. Applegate and party To muse o’er God’s own page of written Truth I
The
wonder
is
:
How
long
since
first
thou
cain
’
st
Every variety of Job Work executed with neat through to Klamath Lake. The route cer
Never sleep so that, on waking, the eye»
A mother is truly our guardian spirit upon
A
meteor
from
the
molten
world
below
?
ness and dispatch, at reasonable rates.
tainly seems a feasible one, and by the out And hath the adamant fusing furnace that
earth. Iler goodness shields and protects ; shall open on th» light of a window.
Do not use the eyesight by light so scant
lay of a little labor and means, can be made Evolved those streams of lava, which arc here
she walks with our infancy, our youth and
the best road leading to that section. In the Congealed in tattered spirals, fully ceased ?
mature age—ever sheltering us with her nb that it requires an effort to discriminate.
Business CEtirba.
Never road or sew directly in front of th»
vicinity of the Lake of the Woods wo lost our I feel to own how great und powerful is
sorbing love, and expiating our many sins
light, or window or door.
trail, and, after wandering two or three hours The hand of Him who rvarest such columns in
with her blessed prayers.
It is best to have the light fall from abov»,
through tho heavy timber surrounding the The twinkling of an eye. It only needs
And
when
our
mother,
with
her
burden
of
obliquely over the left shoulder.
Lake, very cotiscienciously arrived at the con His all-sufficient fiat to go forth
That all Earth’s crust might shattered be, to atoms I love, her angelio influence, her saintly care,
Too much light creates glare and pains
JACKSONVILLE LODGE No. 10 elusion that one lake, nt least, was appronri
ceases her bounteous life, how much we lose
and confuses the sight. The moment you are
ately named. L ike of the Woods fully comes Immured beneath eternal snows, thou stand’st—
olds its regular meetings on up to one’s ideal conception of what a lake Most venerable heap of loose and crumbling stones— of home, of happiness, of Heaven, no one can sensible of an effort to extinguish, that mo
every Saturday evening at the Odd Fellows’
reckon ; for our mother was none but ours, ment cease, and talk, walk or ride.
be. It is large enough tor a small Except where 1’1 ho bus long hath shot his rays
llall. Brothers in good standing are invited -hould
to
and we only can know how holy she was—
JOHN MeKEE, N. G.
attend.
As soon as the sky is blue and the earth
navy to maneuver in its bright and crystal Of light and heat, thro’ days continuous, on
E. SMITH, It. Sec'y.
how sacred her memory must aver be.
Thy .Southern front, and sent thy melted snows
green, it would seem that the ceiling should
waters, ami trees, and rocks, and mountains
W m . B ilge a,
And glaciers rippling to the ocean. 1
But
may
we
not
borrow
’
consolation
from
he a bluish tinge, the carpet green, and the
•ire beautifully mirrored upon its surface.
> Trustees.
H. K i . ippkl ,
Have
gazed
upon
thy
“
lone
magnificence
”
the thought that our Iona is Heaven’s gain ; walls of tho same mellow tint.
11. V. H elms ,
Its extreme length is near five miles and it« From boyhood up, and curious pride hath oft
May 1st, 1809.
t—f
that aurely one angel watches over us, erasing The moment you are instinctively prompted
width about one ; waves a foot ami a half Incited me to visit this thy crest.
with grateful tears the records of our sin, and to rub the eyes, that moment oease using
high surge against the Eastern side of it and Whil’st here, 1 learn u lesson that I might
JAMES R. NEIL,
m ike a person imagine himself on the borders Have known, full well, by rote long, long before— making easy our path to her with blessed them.
and blessing prayers?
If the eyelids are glued together on waking
ora mini iture ocean. We were distppointel Thy exaltation lilts thee up to cold,
Third Street, (west side), between California in find ng any fish in this lake. Just below Unfrequented realms of isolation ; thy
up. do not forcibly open them, but apply th»
and Main.
The Coming Comet.
Proud
grandeur
seems
to
cost
thee
dearly,
when
the lake is a beautiful broad spreading prairie
saliva with the finger—it is the speediest dilu-
Will practice in the Supreme and other Courts
Such
blessings
as
a
humbler
station
and
of this State.
that. I»v drainage might lie converted to some
tent in the world—nnd then wash your eyes
A warmer friendship should, of right, beget—
For
years
predictions
about
the
appearance
useful purpose. Five or six miles from the
and face in warm water.
T'JÈT" Particular attention paid to the collection
Where changes of the seasons e’er are wrought.
of a wonderful comet have been made with
of Claims against the Federal and State Govern lak ■ we came »o where the trail in’erse os the So with vain man, whom mad ambition spurs—
A little boy , in the habit of bringing
meats, the Entry of Lands under the Pre einption d D ew road, leading to Fort Klamath, not
unrivalled regularity. Since the beginning
lie
climbs
to
“
frozen
altitudes,
”
and,
when
and Honsestea i Laws, and to the Entry et Mineral
of the late war these prophecies have been flowers to school, was much annoyed because
>i great distance from Klamath Lake, und He finds himself the head and focus of
Lodes under the recent Act of Congress.
his teacher, a young ladv, so much admired
annually repeated.
camped for the night. We started early next The fiercest, coldest wintry storms thut blow,
C. W. UAH LEK,
them that she took them from him and kept
morning, returning along the Drew road to And no protection lelt to mantle him from
Each year astronomers have calculated the
them for her own gratification. To get
rhe summit of the mountain, at the toot of The storm, reseinoleth but a lofty peak
erratic
movements
of
the
fiery
visitant.
Attmiey ani CeiiMselUr-at-Law,
“square” with the teacher he on» day
M >unt Pitt, whose Northern and Eastern Thai never knows the genial warmth of Spring, They measured the parabola of its winding
slopes are still covered with perpetual snows. Nor Autumn’s ripe und proudly beaming splendor I way, aud knew the preeise moment the shin brought to the school n very large and attrac
J AC KSO N VI LI.E, < >R EGON,
tive rose, of a rare variety, having first care
Bv the margin of one of the transparent lake*
ing
p
’
llar
would
flame
across
our
visiqp.
But
Practically
8
eaking,
—
and
not
metaphori
Will practice in the Supreme Court, District, and
fully sprinkled it with Cayenne paper. Tak*
fed by the constant melting of the snow, cully,—dear render, “how is that lor high?” none of these prophecies have been realized.
other Courts of this State.
ing two of bis schoolmates into his confidence,
OFFICE—In building formerly occupied by 0. seemingly almost perpendicular overhead, Will you be surprised if, after the produc
One comet, searching for society through the rose was passed from one to the other ard
Jaeobs—opposite Court House square.
we tied our horses on a plot of grass, and be tion of the above, the writer should Confess the solitudes of space, camo in sight about
all pretended to smell it in turn until the
gan, on foot, the ascent of the Peak. Over himself too thoroughly exhausted to ever 862, but it oniy stayed some three days.
DK. GEO. B. TOLMAN,
teacher espied it. She ordered it brought to
fallen timber, rocks and brush, we trudged complete the sketches of mountain adven This whs promptly decided to be a wandering
her at once, and ns she received it she grace
(late Surgeon U. S. Army,)
about three miles, before reaching what was lures. What’s the use of him occupying son of a comet, and not the phenomenon that
fully applied it to her nasal organ, and in
Physician, Surgeon, and Accoucheur, really precipitous climbing. Once upon the space describing to you our descent and re was to startle us with its brilliancy continued dulged in a prolonged «niff, which was suc
snow our progress was easier, until the in turn to Jacksonville—all of which, of course, or months.
ceeded by a sonorous sneeze—“a chee boo !
WILL
ILL PRACTICE IN JACKSON A?
AND
adjacent counties, and attend promptly to creasing abruptness of the mountain arid was performed ?
So other prophesies were delivered and have a chee-hoo I” repeated twenty times in lee»
hardness of the snow rendered such climbing
all calls oa professional business.
P krambulous .
remained unrealized until this present year than two minutes, to the« infinite delight of
dangerous. Veering off from the snow we
OFFICE AND RESIDENCE,
of grace. Now the promises are renewed. the hoys, a* they witnessed her sneezing fit, %
T he W heat T rade of the W orld .—Tn
on 4th street, opposite the M. E. Church, Jack found ourselves on one of the steepest ridges
indicated that she was much tickled, if not
sonville. Oregon.
running up to the summit—the Northeastern the ten years ending with 1863, Great Britain The comet is to come this time undoubtedly,
pleased, with that pungent rose.
jan8-tf.
Jan. 8th, 1870.
angle of the mountain. Our experience along imported wheat from nil countries to the and is to bo the king of the comet host.
this ridge was a giddy one. At times we amount of 175.459,000 centals. This aver Astronomical figuration is net to fail any
European War News.
Dr. L. T. DAVIS,
were on a sharp backbone from which, had we aged 17.545,900 centals per year. As the more. Somebody, as learned as Prof. Looipis,
made a false step, we would have been pre English wheat crop is something short of the who decided that the stars could’nt fall in
P aris , Aug. 1st.—Bourse opened quiet
England
at
the
very
time
when
tlio
metoric
cipitated thousands of feet below. Some of average this season, the amount required
40. No news of any «erioua engagement up
Opposite t he 014
shower
was
fearfully
grand,
gives
us
the
data
the chasms are frightful to look down. At will probably be not less than 20.000,000
to 3 this afternoon.
abou< the incomparable comet coming in 1870.
times
our
progress
was
made
in
between
the
L ondon , Aug. lat—4:30 p. tn.—No oew»
centals, or 33 334,000 bushels. Of the above
A rkansas L ivery S tabi e ,
It
is
to
c<>mc
soon
and
uncomfortably
close.
snow and cliffs of rocks, where the reflected ten years foreign supply the United States
of buttle yet. The streets are full of rumor».
heat of the sun had melted a path just wide furnished twelve bushels to every twenty two In size it will cover half the nothern sky, and One is, that the French fleet have attacked
Jacksonville, Oregon.
enough for a single person to march in, and from all other parts of the world. Prussia be visible in the brigbest noontide. At night Hamburg ; it is discredited. The Prussian
E. H. GREENMAN,
through the snow to a depth of ten feet. furnished eight and Russia about seven bush it will outshine the stars, and eveu put the decree, prohibiting exportations, is ascribed
rhyartcian. db Suigaon, Where the snow was entirely melted away, els to our twelve ; together, Russia and Prus moon to shame. Nay, we are to havo no to the probable existence of a blockade.
flowers seemingly more beautiful than any sin furnished fifteen bushels to our twelve. nights. This brilliant stanger will be a light
OFFICE—At his residence on Fifth Street
R ome , Aug. 1st. — His Holin»»», the Pope,
Jacksonville, Oregon.
seen growing in our bent fl <wer gardens, were This year the Prussian supply is cut off, with that will mako darkness visible.
yesterday received General Dumont, Com
.®jy*Will practice in Jackson and adjacentcoun- found blooming in beds of pulverized stone,
the probabilities in favor of Russia being
Among so many prophets one ought to be mandant of the French troops. Another de
ies, ar.d attend promptly to pro essional calls.
clear up to the summit.
also shut out betoro she can m irket much of found whose anticipations will be coinfirmed tachment of the French army left Civitia
DB. A. B.OVEBBECK
After five hotfra weary climbing, scram her surplus. This country would then have and possibly this may be thecasenow. Who Vechia for Marseilles on Sunday.
M emphis , Aug. 1st—1:30 p. m.—A terri
1I*TLL PRACTICE MEDICINE AND SUR- bling Und struggling, up almost perpendicu to make up the deficiency from Russia and knows ?
ble
steamboat disaster occurred thirty mile»
YY GERY, and will attend promptly to all calls lar rocks, under overhanging cliffs nnd among Prussia. In short, the United States promi
above here at 30 minutes past midnight
on professional business. His office and residence
ses this year to enjoy a monopoly of the Since the adjournment of Congress General last night. The steamer Silver Spray, while
loose
and
constantly
descending
debris
of
are at
rock, we finally reached the top, and took a British wheat trade, and prices ought to rule Carl Schurz has gone back to Missouri to on her way from New Orloans to Cincinnati,
The Overbeck Hospital,
1-tf
long and welcome rest, “viewing the land higher than they have for many years. This, lead the “Liberal Conservatives” in that exploded her boiler, killing and wouediog a
On Oregon Street, Jacksonville, Oregon.
of course, depends upon the contingency of State, who are supporting B. Gratz Brown large numberof her passengers and crew. Sb»
scape o’er.”
burned to the water s edge.
JANES D. FAY,
No description of » view had from such an the war. If France draws back from her for Governor, and are working to remove
Some French cavalrv were repulsed with
eminence can possibly come up to the reality desperate enterprise, Prussia and Ruasia, political disabilities from 75,000 men die a lose of 13 men. The destruction of th»
of beholding it for oneself, and one pen por who have good crops, will soon reduce the franchised by the Missouri Constitution. French rail wav Belch is complete. Another
The German element io that State is going skirmish occurred near Saar-Loui». French
OFFICE—In Court Honse, up stairs.
traiture of the scene is about as good ns an Liverpool market.
in strong for re enfranchisement. The liberal retreated, leaving an officer and 8 m»n on
other ; any one of them is necessarily fur
Will practise io the Supreme and other Courts
the field ; 3 Pruwsian cavalry wounded.
A committee of two ladies of the town o' Germans connût look with allowance upon
of this State.
from complete. It is hoped what follows
At a banquet giveu in London, Gladstone
the radical Republican doctrine of giving the
———
Winona, Michigan, have given notice to the negroes su fl rage and at the same time depri v alluded to the war as the most mournful and
may
not
prove
le»<
interesting
in
consequence
MF* Particular attention paid to the collection
ing a large and intelligent class of white men miserable ever witnessed hv man ; and said
of Claims against the Federal and State Govern of its being set to rude measure. The highly liquor dealers to leave town or be put out.
ments, the Entry of Lands under tho Pre-emption imaginative reader is asked to believe the fol
of it. We wish Carl Schutz and his coadju England’s first idea was neutrality; her
second, preparation for the worst.
and Homastead Laws, and to the Entry of Minera
H
Attorney A. Counsellor-at-Law,
W
Attorney & Counsellor-at-Law,
Lodes under the recent Act of Congress.
1 tf.
lowing lines were written on the summit—
Wisconsin still contains 9,811 Indians.
tor»
ruccobb
in this right move.— Herald.