VOL. 2.
Published Every Saturday Morning,
NO. f 24.
Three Men Killed by a Grizzly
Speech of Hon. C. L. Vallandigham at
“Double or Quits.”
Circumstances Alter Cases.
the Democratic Ratification Meeting,
on Saturday, September 3d, 1870, at On the 18th inst., three men whose names A few nights since tho passengers in a
In the early days of California, miners
Dayton, Ohio.
are unknown, but who had been keeping a crowded street-car wero startled by the soft would play poker, «uchre, or seven-up for
dairy on the San Benito Ranch, came to their conings of a couple in a corner. A bluo veil pinches, or ounces, or nuggets of gold; and
F ellow C itizens :—Not now participating
P u b 1 1 h h o r
1» r o p r 1 o t, <» x-. actively in politics, I have yet so far yielded death in a most horrible manner. On Thurs­ hid the laday’s face, and tho gentleman^s thousands of dollars would sometimes be lost
day, the 17th, ynaof,t^eir cows strayed away hand was playing nervously with its folds.
and won in an hour. There was one gamb­
-OFFICE-—On Third St. Betwoen California and C. to the earnest solicitation of friend* as to
and
was
lost.
On
the
next
morning,
before
“
You
love
mo,
then?
”
they
heard
him
ling miner called Double-or- Quits, because
accept the Presidency of this assemblage ;
TERMS:
breakfast,
two
of
them
started
out
to
take
a
say.
when he lost the game he would cry, “Double
and the more cheerfully, not only because it
ScLscr'rpû<ti, per annum, in advance
$4 00
The reply was in a tone less loud, but its or quits !” and losing that would cry, Double
look
for
the
missing
animal.
After
travel
­
-.Six months............................................
$2 00 is the first in a canvass of very great inter­
accent was tender as heart could wish.
or quits!” again; and then “Double or
est and importance both at home and abroad, ing up the ravine for some distance, they
“I have loved you so long,” the swain con­ quits!” and “Double or quits !” again, un­
ADVERTISEMENTS.
and significant, too, in its bearing upon the discovered the cow lying among the brush.
(n T he D emocratic N ews will be charged at
coming Presidential campaign, now but two Thinking she was asleep, they wont up to tinued, “and I have almost been afraid to in­ til it was all “quits” with him, and ho had
the following rates
start her homo ; but it appears that the cow dulge the sweet hopes that are now resolving nothing loft to “double” with. He was one
First insertion, (ten lines or less)................. $3 00 years distant, but because I bold in kindly
had been killed by a grizzly, who was at this themselves into certainty.”
of the luckiest of all the diggers roundabout;
For each week thereafter................................... $1 00 and most grateful remembrance the many
time
lying
by
her
side.
As
the
men
ap
­
“
Was
you
afraid
of
pa?
”
wherever he struck bis pick, gold seemed to
A liberal deduction from the above rates will be favors so heartily bestowed upon me iu times
“
No,
but
of
you.
”
proached,
the
bear
leaped
upon
the
foremost
made on quarterly and yearly advertisements.
spring up and beg of him to take it. Ho
past, by the Democracy of Montgomery coun­
“Why should you bo afraid of me ?”
worked like a nigger all day ; and when be
ty, and the Third Congressional District. one, and throwing him to the ground, tore
JO3 PRINTING.
“Because it seomed so impossible that you had made fifty or sixty ounces, he would go
For these, men aud brethren, I owe to you a his entrails, and then seizing the second,
Every variety of Job Work executed with neat­
and get rid of it at “double or quits.” lie
debt of gratitude which will never be repu­ caught his head in his mouth, and bit it en- should love me.”
ness and dispatch, at reasonable rates.
“
Why?
”
fearfully.
The
bear
tirely
off,
mangling
it
had a drop of drink in him ODce— it wasn’t
diated ; and be assured, that although for a
“I’m homely ; my face is not handsome ; the only time he bad it, and he kissed a
year or more tho interest upon it may remain then resumed its former position by the dead
pnüiatss «Curbs.
unpaid, that interest will be compounded, cow. The mau who was first attacked t|id 1 have nothing that attracts the love of wo­ barmaid. When she boxed bis ears for it—
which wasn’t what they always did—he
and along with the debt itself will be dis­ not die immediately, but had enough strength men.”
“
But
you
are
rich,
”
the
lady
archly
re
­
caught her round the neck, and cried
charged to the uttermost in the good time left to drag himself a short distance from the
plied.
spot.
“Double or quits !” and kissed her again.
ermiug—a time which, in the history of par­
“
Passably
so
;
but
not
very.
”
He came to a queer end, did Double-or-quits.
ties, is as fixed and unvarying as the revolu­ In the meantime the man left at the camp
conversation
had
by
this
timo
grown
JACKSONVILLE LODGE No. 1ft tions of the heavenly bodies. Leaves have having prepared breakfast, went out to call
He had a quarrel with a digger ; and they
ugly
interesting,
aud
every
ear
was
agreed to fight it out. They staked money
their time to fall, and stars to set, and the up his companions. Finding thoir trail he
J_JOLDS ITS REGULAR MEETINGS ON
listening in the crowded car.
on the fight—we forgot how much—and
every Saturday evening at the Odd Fellows’ Republican party hastens now to its decline, followed it until he saw the cow lying in the
“
Would
you
marry
me
if
I
was
poor
?
Brother*
in
good
standing
are
invited
to
bushes
;
and
thinking
he
would
drive
her
Hall,
Double or-Quits licked his man and won.
aud like Lucifer, it falls never to rise again. Its
attend.
JOHN McKEE, N. G.
“
How
can
you
ask
—
am
I
mercenary?
”
“I’ll fight you again to-morrow,” said the
mission — for good or evil, let time disclose— home he approached the spot, when the bear
E. SMITH, R. Sec’v.
“No—but so many are.”
man who was licked. “All right,” said
¡to destroy the old Federal Republic of Wash­ springing upon him, instantly killed him,
W m . B iloer ,
There was a momentary silence, and then Dodble-or Quits ; “we’ll fight to-morrow far
Trustees.
H. K lippel ,
ington mid the Fathers, has been accomplish­ mangling him in the most horrible manner.
11. V. H elms ,
The surviving victim, who was lying in the the whispered conversation was resumed with the same amount—double or quits.” They
t—f ed, and itself now dies. If history shall ap­
May 1st. I8«‘J.
prove its work—if that grand old fabric of brush at a short distance from the scene, wit­ a mutual confession. In plain words both fought the next day. Double- or-Quits came
JAMES R. NEIL,
Republican Government which the Wash­ nessed his approach and death, but was so acknowledged resemblance to Job s turkey with a rush. “Double I” he cried as he de­
terribly wounded that he was unable to give —neither had a cent. They would commence livered a stinging blow. “Quits !” cried the
Attorney A Counsellor-at-Law, ingtons, the Hamiltons, the Jeffersons, the. noy
warning. The bodies were found a short their married life very much as they begun other man ; and he hit Donble-or-Quite a ire’
Jays, the Marshals, the Madisons, the Jack-'
Third Street, (west .«¡tie), between California
sons, the Webster*, Clays and Calhouns, and time afterwards and conveyed to the camp, the world—with nothing. The mutual con­ mendous blow in the face, and knocked him
and Main.
Will practice in the Supreme and other Courts
the men who trod in their footsteps, founded, whero the survivor did during the ensuing fession was evidently a damper on their en­ senseless. Double-or-Quits never recovered
cf this State.
and for more than half a centurv, full of night, after relating the aflair as we have thusiasm. They were silent. The lady cast from that blow. He took to his bed, and
furtive glances at the swain, and at last mur­ died a week afterwards. He was crazed* al)
Particular attention paid to the collection glory and honor- as resplendent as the noon stated it ab »ve. The bear is the same one
the time he was ill, and didn’t know anyone
of Claims against the Fc'.eral and State Govern­ day sun, preserved, shall be adjudged beforei which has b<*en in that vicinity for the last mured audibly :
ments. the Entry of Lands under the Pre <*tnpti.>n
ten years, it being known from its peculiar
about him. But all the week he was playing
“I am too young to marry.”
and Homestea i Laws, and t> the Entry et Mineral the great tribunal of posterity unfit to have
Lodes under the recent. Act of Congress.
survived, and justly to have perished, then track, having lost, three of the toes from one The tone was disappointed. It bad a hesi­ cards with shadows, aud crying out, “come
tation accent about it that meant more than along—cut again. Double or quits!” A
will the men of this generation, who have of its feet.— Sun Jose Independent.
C. W. KAHLER,
the language. But tho answer came heartily minute before be died he jumped out of bed,
accomplished i's overthrow, live in the judg
and looked before him in a fright, thinking,
Organization.
—bluff, and to the point.
Attorney ani Couiisvllor-at-Law, meat of future ages as the iebuilders of a
perhaps, that Old Nick was by his side, and
“So am I.”
better ami n >b!er supers ruciure of Imperial
The Oregon Branch of the Pacific Railroad
bad come to fetch him. “Double or quits I”
JACKSONVILLE, OREGON,
“We’ve both been mistaken.”
Republic. Mvself an actor in these scenes,
Co. organized in this city yesterday by the
he screamed, and then, as if he had lost the
“Yes.”
Will practice in the Supreme Court, District, and to that judgment I long since appealed, and
election
of
the
following
directors:
Jesse
Anu so they had. They left the car quietly. game and couldn’t pay, he threw up his arms
other Courts of this State.
with it, “after some time be past,” I shall be
Applegate, Henry Klippel. J. N. T. Miller, The question of marriage was thoroughly un­ and dropped down dead.— Golden C o ­
OFFICE—Iu building formerly occupied by 0. wholly content.
Jacobs—opposite Court House square.
derstood. There was to be no wedding.
Presently, ladies and gentlemen, it will be J. C. Tolman and Jumes D. Fay.
G rant ’ s T reatment of F arragut .—The
The
Company
propose
to
build
the
road
mv pleasing duty to introduce to von the
DR. GEO. B. TOLMAN,
Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, the Democratic on the line indicated by the Williams’ amend­ A T ail .—“’Twas a kam still morn in Brooklyn Eagle, in noticing the death of Ad­
candidate for Representative in Congress ment, should. that measure become a law. October, which is one of the fall or ortum miral Farragut, specifically chargee against
(late Surgeon U. S. Army,)
from this district. You are, one and all, well Jacksonville is designated as the place of months.
President Grant and Rear Admiral Porter,
Physician, Surgeon, and Accoucheur, aware that for now these twenty years we business of the company. We are pleased
It was at the seizen uvthe dyin year which that from the time of Grant’s accession to
have not hitherto agreed in party habitudes,; to see among the names of the corporators
ILL PRACTICE IN JACKSON AND nor upon the political questions of the past.: many of the most substantial men of South­ awakens fond remissness of formur memeries power, himself and Porter systematically
adjacent countie*, and attend promptly to
treated the Admiral with a contempt which
Neither a« to any issues of former years doi ern Orogen, men who, instead of running uv the rekolekshun uv bi gone daze.
all call* on professional business.
off
to
San
Francisco
with
what
little
money
we probably now agree. This is neither re­
The rane cum doun in a kind uv fine mist, did not even cease with his death. Porter
OFFICE AND RESIDENCE,
quired nor expected of us. Upon the ques­ they have made, have held on to their coun-
try with genuine American energy and are in a sad, lingerin kind uv way, as if it hated prescribed the uniform which the Admiral
on 4th street, opposite the M. E. Church, Jack­ tion of the Trojan war and the relative mer­
should wear, and changed the pennant which
its of llectqr and Achilles, and the rape of determined to bring it to the highest point to wet tho spot on which it lit, but didn’t
sonville, Oregon.
he adopted, and not satisfied with these petty
jan8-tf.
Jsa. 8th. 1870.
Helen, we might even differ to-night; and I of prosperity. The best interests of our egzackly no whar else to go.
State
demand
that
a
grand
trunk
of
railway
meannesses, he interposed a claim for himself
dare say that upon the issues of parties in
should run through thé State North and The fernal breeze uv ortum kept a blowin
the
time
of
.Jefferson,
Jackson
and
Buchan
­
Dr. L. T. DAVIS,
of half of the prize moneys due Farragut, and
an. and especially the more recent questions South with branches coutsing East and West. away, but not hard enuff to blow ennybody’s refused his request to be put at active service
of Lincoln's Administration, we never shall We have millions of acres for the energetic hat off. The trees swaid back and 4th like
on account of his health. Grant and Porter
agree. But, next best, we agree to disagree. poor of all other States, welcoming all with an old woman with the teethack.
good
homes
and
fraternal
feelings,
to
aid
in
Opposite the OK
To him, in all these, I concede sincerity and
On Rich a lovely morn as this, a maidon were jealous of the reputation of Farragut,
building
up
the
Western
Empire.
We
hope
integrity of motive ; and, as for myself, men
und annoyed and snubbed him with a pro.
the day is not far off when we shall behold fair, with p nsive air & golden hair, gazed
of
the
Third
District,
I
know,
and
you
know,
gramme planned for the purpose, and when
ivery S table ,
that in purity and patriotism of purpose, no the enterprise brought to a successful com­ out of the east kitchen winder uv a house in
sincerer man than I ever drew the breath of pletion.— Salem Mercury, Sept. 22.
the beautiful and romantic Stait, Eleenoy, the old hero was dead, his death hastened by
Jacksonville, Oregon.
life.
gazed long and well, gazed and gazed and this systematic ill-treatment, the Government
Change
of
French
Rulers.
Mr. Campbell and I have been rival can­
E. H. GREENMAN,
better gazed—she gazed as if there wuz sum- declined to detail any naval or military or
didates, also as you remember, upon old is­
civil officers to attend the funeral. Of couree,
X>lx3raiioin.xx dto Surgeon, sues, for the same office for which he is now
Louis XVI was executed in 1793, and hie thin on her mind—which I supozz there wnz!
Porter succeeded to the dead Admiral’s rank
OFFICE—At the U. S. HOTEL, on Califor­ a candidate. But we met face to face like son. the Dauphin, after barbarous usage, She wuz a nice girl uv medium boit, with a
men : we fonght like men, and like men we died in 1795. Napoleon I had two abdica­ mild temper & iron spoon in her left hand. and wears his title, besides enjoying prize
nia. Street, Jacksonville, Oregon.
^ft-Will practice in Jackson and adjacenteoun- submitted alternately to the fate of battle. tions and two exiles. His son died in Aus­ She had been bakin pancakes. Her eyes moneys which justly belong to his heirs.
*04, ar.d attend promptly to proleasional calls.___ At the close of the long struggle honors were tria, and never attained the imperial sceptre.
easy, and if at first be took bv tricks, in the Louis XVIII, who came next, was an exile flushed & her buzzum hovo with the emotions I t is a curious fact, of which no really
(
end I won. and so we parted fair foes at last. for twenty years ; was restored to the throne uv her feelings. Suddenly she spoake & satisfactory explanation has ever been given,
DR. A. B. OVERBECK
It is enough, men of the Third District, by the bayonets of Europe ; was chased off it revealed the cause uv her solisytood as she that as fire arms are rendered moro and more
WILL PRACTICE MEDICINE AND SUR- that to night we cordially agree upon the liv­ by Napoleon, driven into exile, but was
VY GERY, and will attend promptly to all calls ing issues of the moment. To him I extend again put back bv the military forces of the says : “Thar, mam I’ll bo dad bobbled if deadly, war becomes less and lees destructive
on professional business. Hi* office and residence now upon them the right hand ol fellowship. continent. He died after a reign of nine that old kow of Snigginzes hain’t broke into to human life. At borodino the loss was one-
«ire at
third of all the men engaged. At Waterloo
[Mr. Vallandigham here stretched out his years. His brother, Charles X., whose youth our garden agin ?”
The Overbeck Hospital,
had been SDent in exile, was driven from the
hand
to
Mr.
Campbell,
who,
rising
in
his
it was one-fourth. At Inkerman, where there
1-tf
On Oregon Street, Jacksonville. Oregon.
seat, shook it cordially and with an appear­ throno by the revolution of 1830, and died M ust H ave B een .—In a discussion, some was neither a rifled cannon nor a breech loader
ance of deep emotion. This was the signal far from his native land. Ilis successor, doubts were raised whether Eve was formed
JAMES D. FAY,
for a tremendous burst ot applause on tho Louis Philippe, whose father had been exe­ frem “a bone.” A poetical lady thereupon on the field, tho English lost one-third. At
part of the crowd, who had belore remained cuted in 1793, was in tarn driven from tho remarked : “Well, if Eve was so formed, it Magenta and Solferino. with vastly better
kingdom, when an old man, after a prosper­
obstinately silent.—R eporter , j
weapons, the casualties were one-eleventh .
ous
reign of eighteen years. Ilis successor must have beeu from the bone of conten- at Chattanooga one-thirteenth; while at
Let
the
dead
past
bury
its
dead.
We
“
act
OFFICE—In Court House, up stairs.
in the living present, heart within and God was Louis Napoleon. Of all the sovereigns tion.
Koniggratz, where the terrible needle gun
Will practice in the Supreme and other Courts
of France since 1793, lie Lis had the longest
o’er head.” [Applause.]
How L ong ?—The Herald of Hygiene ad­ caused such consternation, the losses were
of this State.
Democrats ! patriots ! friends ! to you, with reign, as President and Emperor. They
the fullest measure of confidence in his tri­ thus compare : Louis XVI. eighteen years ; vises its readers never to eat upon an empty only ono twenty-third.
«tir Particular attention paid to the collection umphant election, I present Hon. Lewis D. Napoleon I,fifteen years; Louis XVIII, nine
stomach ! If the Herald’s readers act upon General McClellan is said to now receive
of Claims against the Federal and State Govern­
years
;
Charles
X,
six
years
;
Louis
Philippe,
Campbell,
Democratic
candidate
for
Repre
­
ments, the Entry of Lands under the Pre-emption
this advice, how long will they survive to salaries from various sources which make his
and IIoni33tead Laws, and to the Entry of Mineral sentative in Congress, from the gallaht old eighteen years ; Louis Napoleon, twenty-two [
1 income aggregate about $50,000 a year.
peruse its columns?
years.
Third District of Ohio.
Lodes under the recent Act of Congress. 1 tf.
• *
BY
P. D, HULL,
I
I
W
A«KANSAS L
i
JACKSONVILLE, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1870
Attorney & Counsellor-at-Law,