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POLK COUNTY TIMES.. DALLAS, OREGON, SATURDAY, M A Y 15. 1869. VOL. 1. u-u ■ ' m .1.^11 A ■ THE POLK f O l'M TIMES It Iiaued Every Saturday Afternoon at Dallas, Polk County, Oregon. P. R. STUART, - - PUBLISHER. OFFICE— Northeast corner of Main and Oak streets, fronting Academy Block. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. SINGLE COPIKS«rOAa Year, 00; Six Months. #2 00 ; Three Months, $1 00. CLUBS will be supplied at the following rates:—Five Copies, one year. $13 75; Ten Copies, one year, $C * 'Ml, and for any greater number at $2 50 per ,.>.uam. Subteription mimt hr paid •trictly in adranee. ADVERTISING RATES. One square (10 line» or less), first insert’n. $3 00 Each suhioqucnt insertion......................... 1 **<* A liheral deduction will be made to quar terly and yearly advertisers. Professional cards will be inserted at $12 01* per annum. Transient advertisements must be paid for in advance t<* insure publication. All other advertising bills must be paid quaiterly. r ' COME, 15 BEAUTIFUL DREAMS. BV GtORUE D. IMSESTtCK. Come, in beautiful dreams, love, O h! come to me oft, When the light wing of sleep On my bosom lies soft; Oh ! come when the sea, In the moon’ s gentle light, Beats soft on the ear, Like the pulse of the night— » When the sky and the wave Wear thrir loftiest blue. When the dew’s on the 11 >wer And the star’s on the dew. Come, in beautiful dreams, love. Oh! come and we’ll stray Where the whole year is crowned With the blossoms of May— Where each sound is as sweet As the coos of a dove, Anil the gales are as soft As the breathings of love; Where the beams kiss the waves, And the waves kiss the beach, And our warm lips may catch The sweet lessons they teach. Legal tenders taken at their current value. Blanks and Job AVork of every description furnished at low rates on short notice. Polk County Official Directory. Come, in beautiful dreams, love, Oh ! come and we’ll tly Like two winged spirits Of love, through the sky: With hand clasped in hand, On our dream wiugs we’ll go Where the slar light and moo.) light Are blending their glow; And on the bright clouds weTl linger, Of purple and gold, Till the angels shall envy The bliss they behold. Polk county c o y c t s an arva o f about 1.2 j 0 square miles. NuirbeV of voters. 1,227. Acres o f land under cultivation, ¥3 270. Value of assessable property. #l,234,o2U. The Land Offico for this District is located at Oregon Uity— Owen Wade, Register ; Henry Warren, Receiver. • . Cot sty O rric ru s .— Commi»tionem, E. C. Dice, R. Tatcin; kJltdye, J. L. Collins; Sheriff, J . W. Smith; t Itrk, J . I. Thompson : Assessor, II. Davis: Tremnrer, R. M. May; Sr hoot Su N E W S I N B R IE F . perintendent. J. If. Mter: Surveyor, L. Burch: Coroner, C. D. Etubree, John Bright want- America to abolish T e r ms of Corur. — d e m i t Court, B. P. Boise Judge, convenes in Dallas on the Ith Monday in capital punishment as an experiment April and 3d Monday in November. County lor England's benefit. Court convenes on the 1st Monday in cacti . Strawberries arc fifty cents a basket month. in the New Orleans market, and apples N otarik « P i b u c .— T. Pearce, Lola: W .W Boone, Indcpuadcnce; J. L. Collins, Dallas: 1 mx for a duller. j II. N. George, Bueuu Vis! i. trouble. The Illinois Legislature pro- post'S to dig a ship canal from the south ern branch ot Chicago river to Calmut lake. It will cO't a great deal of money to do th s, but that will promptly be forthcoming, in consideration of the advantages to be derived. A handsome woman in Paris, who recently eloped with an actor, on the third day wanted to return to her hus- band, but be refu-ed his consent until i her father handed him a check for 810,000. A $'>.000 monument is to be erected over Sam. Houston’s grave at Houston, Texas. A Texas exchange says: “ The South ern Enterprise comes to our office wrap pad in 830 coupons attached to $1,000 Confederate bond*, due in 1867.” New Britain, Connecticut, is where the Brother«» Cheery ble live. Two broth- eri there owning property together pro posed to make a division, and each wrote down what ho would do. They were $700 apart ou comparing notes, each wi.-hing to give more than he was wil ling to take. They nr*» in a terrible quarrel about it and ill have to call in Tun Linkinwater to settle it. Senator Sprague, of Rhode island, has ju«t purchased an immense water power cltn il in Columbia, South Caroli na. on which he will soon commence a large cotton mill. A S.u.hern e x change -tales that, besides this en’ e»'- prise.there are several other large cotton factories being built in South Carolina, i several in Georgia. three or four in A1 1 abama. as many in Mis-issippi, and that even Florida and Texas are moving in the -ante direction. A shoe dealer of Cleveland has inven ted a novel apparatus for measuring a lady’s foot. With this machine a cor- reel measurement is taken of every part that the shoe covers, so that a misfit is an iuipo—ihibifv, and the whole shoe I <-a:i be made the exact size and shape Women are looking up. line of P ost O ffick T o w \ s T— Dallas ’ cou n ty 's ta tb ] Eola. Independence, Monmouth. Buena \ i-ta, 1 them i' financial editor of a New York | desired. Bethel, Bridgeport, Etna, Grand Konde, Lawn [taper and fills the post most acceptably. The janitor o f Gerard Hall, o f Phi! Arbor. Luckiamute and Salt Creek Mary E P. L Magoon. o f North adelphia, was found dead in the build English, Iowa, advertises UcrseT as an ing, on the 24th instaot. with his hands and feet tied and shot with a pistol ■ .fkttorneycss-at law."I bullet through the head. The exports of iron and steel, and Euclid E. Thayer has sued a fascin- manufactures thereof, from the United I a ting matron o f 40, in Providence, R States in 18(jX were valued at $9,114,. i for seducing his son Owen, aged 17, 740. j into mariiuge with her. The father, but MissCHawc, the English governess not the son. wants a divorej granted. PROFESSIONA L CA R DS. of the young Prince Imperial o f France, The other evening, while the Chicago whom that young gentleman told his W . D. J E F F R I E * . M. D ., express was nearing Pittsburg at the mother that he loved better than her, Physician ami Kurgeosi, and was praised thereupon for his truth rate of thirty miles tin hour, a passen ger came aboard. He is doing well, Eola. Oregon. fulness, has ju-t been married to M, considering the circumstances. And Thiery. an old captain o f the guard at- Special attention given to Obstetrics and j so is his ma. Diseases of Women. lt f i tached to the court Colonel Totten has decided, after a Wooden car wheels are to be tried <>n seres of ob-ervations, taken at Panama J . E . D A V ID S O N . M. I)., New York and New Haven railroad. A-] inwall Bay, and connected by Phvftician ami Surgeon, It is claimed that they will be more and accurate levels along the line of railroad, cheap and durable than those made of Independence, O gn. 1 that the mean height of the Atlantic iron. and Pacific ocean s is exactly the same. » R . J L S S I P. >1. D ., The authorities of Cornell University A soap dealer recently distributed P!iy«ieintfi ami Surgeon, are divided upon the woman question. soap among the members o f the Massa- Dal Las, Oregon. A Mrs. Norton has applied for admis chu etts Legislature, and the next day OFFICE— At residence, on Jefferson street sion as a student, and Mr Cornell and the Boston papers were aston'-hea at several of the professors favor her ap 1 opposite Academy Block. the “ c ’ein and fresh appear nee of plication. The tiu-toes, however, say many Senators and Representatives.” n o m im i a l that it is not prudent to hazard flu* suc Mr Motley will he the sixth Massa Attorneys & Counsellors-at-Law, cess of the mmy now theories they are chusetts man who has represented the dow testing by admitting women. SALEM , OREGON. United States at the Court, o f St. James. The Woman’s Suffrage Association 11 is predecessors from that State have 1 OFFICE IN THE COURT HOUSE. held a meeting in St. Louis, when a been John Quincy Adams, Abbott committee was appointed to wait on the j Lawrence, George Bancroft. Edward C . O . C I I R I i, County Court and urge upon them not Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law, only the propriety, but the importance Everett, and Charles Francis Adams Private letters from Paris say the SALEM , OREGON, o f appointing a matron for the County Will practice in all the Courts of Record and Jail, who shall have special charge of French A»1 mtic o.ible will be finished and on shipboard by the middle of the Inferior Courts o f this State. the female prisoners therein. month. It is intended to have the ca OFFICE—In Watkinds A Co’s Brick, up «fairs. I Mrs Kelley, of Black Brook, N. Y.. ble in working order by the 4th of 38 year* old. has been married 21 years, July. ____________________ Hayden A .flyer, is now the mother of 19 children with S f . w a r d ’ s B kll a n p G r a n t ’ s A T T O R N E Y S - A T - L A W , out ever having had twins, the youngest child being 13 months old ! There is G o n g . — Sewards little bell has left Dallas, Oregon. but 10 months difference in the ages of Washington, and a Chinese gong for calling to the public crib Mongolians, OFFICE IN THE COURT MOSSE. 1 her first born and second born child. Indians, Negroes, and the debris of ev The Cheyenne Argus say9 there is a •■ry form of barbarians, has taken its SULLIVAN & WHITSON, rumor that tracklaying on the Denver Attorneys & Counsellors-at-Law, Pacific Railroad would commence at place. The little bell rung honest men into prison, but. the Chinese gong rings Dallas, Oregon, Cheyenne soon after May 1st. The iron ’ ihem into barbarism. That is the dif Will practice in all the Courts o f the State. 1 tor the entire distance is stacked up at ference between Seward’s bell and the eastern terminus. Grant’s gong. The one is a tinkling J A S . U. T O R N K R . L rco R o ra vineyard The reports of the Boston Clearing little thing in the hands of a cunning V in e y a r d A T u rn e r, House indicate a large increase in the knave, end the other is a thundering A T T O R N E Y S - A T - L A W , business o f the Hub during the past hangwhatiyer in the hands o f a not over temperate butler of the great Mougrel D allas, Oregon. year. Seward’s jell was stealthy OFFICE— On Main street, one door north of West Tennessee rejoices at the tide kitchen. the Dallas Hotel. o f immigration now setting in. One and unexpected, hut Grant’s gong, town recently received an addition to though horrid enough to split th»* ears J . L. CO LLIN S*, o f the devil himself, is thoroughly ad its population o f two hundred persons Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law, vertised, and surprises nobody — l a y from Pennsylvania U. S. M ail leaves Dallas f >r Salem on Mon day, W>.due.sday and Friday at 7 a m , return iug same days at ft p. in.; for Independence, each Tuesday morning at 1»: f*r Salt Creek, each Tuesday at l j> in.: for Lafayette, Mon day and Thursday at 3 p m . returning Wed- nesay and Saturday at 10 a. m.; for Corvallis. Wednesday and Saturday at 10 a. in., returning Monday and Thursday at 3 p. m. Dallas. Oregon. NO. 3. Book. Cuhan volunteers are being recruited SinT Reflect before you act, but Special attention given to Collections and to rapidly in New York. A full battery mutters T*ertal '*ng t<> Ilei»! Estate. 1 o f artiilrry was lately sent to the insur ; when the time for action arrives, slop thinking.” was a maxim o f General gents, and arrived safely. J A S . MCCAI N. J. A. ai * l k o a t k . Jackson. Applegate A flcCaiu. This is the age of “ manias.” The £*•&>“’ A cotemporary boasts of “ a . uh- ship c nul mania is beginning to prevail scriber of forty.five vears staudiog.” A T T O R N E Y S - A T - L A W , largely in all parts ot the world, and I We think it time he sat down. Dallas, Polk County, O gn. 1 this continent has its share o f the T H E D U TY OF T H E HOUR. O F F IC E -S E E K E R « « A N D O F F I C E H O L D E R *. PRErrY WOMEN m w a m u i g w i M my Democratic papers and leaden T he W ashington correspondent o f There can be no doubt that the the Chioago Republican write» t i fol in the United States, at the prcseuttiiue, have adopted what we consider a strange mania for office holding is demoralizing lows: and curious “ policy.” They seeiu to the people—-tending iu that direction as B u t ju st so long as women are w eak think that the say nothing, do-nothing much as any score of other causes that and men are powerful, some o f th e evils system is a right one. Pick up a so- can be assigned for a retrogression in o f the Department never will be feme- called Democrat paper o f the day. and the popular standard o f morals. died. I t ia so much more eomfortable While many are over paid for what wliat do you see ? Is it a bold and fear to a jaded man, worn out in the ardwous less discussion of principle— a manly, they really do, many are paid for doing duties as head o f a Bureau, to tee a honest expression of sentiment—o r is nothing at all. There are officers of fr«*h, y o u n g , pretty-faced wc it not rather a crawling, sniveling, de the Government receiving liberal sti adjoining desk, rather thaa one w ith a ll precatory and parasitical subserviency pends, who from one year’s end to an the sweet ju ice of life squeezed out of ot the “ powers to be” — their political other perform no manner o f service for her, whether by age or misfortune, it Subordinates and matters not which. The first one is tho opponents? This is childish— worse the Government. associates do ail the work assigned to oil o f the machinery ot every-day life p than childish ! What the people want — what the country wants, is an hocest, their particular office. Some o f these the latter is the adhesive gam wbieh honorable, fearless discussion of prin supernumeraries cannot even write au need» cleansing away. Women who* ciple. The old landmarks o f republi official letter, giviug a proper report ot look with longing eyes to an active life can government the highways and by the progress or details o f tho business in the Department at W ashington had ways of the doctrines o f 8» ate sovereign committed to their charge and exccu better cooiult their mirrors first, antes* ty and white supremacy, must be »gain tion. Officers o f this kind may be Secretary Boutwell makes MW laws to explored and majtyed out. In a word, known to some o f our readers. These meet individual eases. It is tr o a ,* few the Democratic papers must take higher Government paup rs frequently devote “ crones” may be found in the basement ground than to pander to those high in their waking hours to loafing about the o f the building, bnt as you ascend to* authority. There is no chance to fool streets; they infest the office rooms o f the upper realms o f the castle, new the Mongrels—to siip on their blind business uieu— often the tormenting visions of beauty greet the eye, until side, or stab them in the back. That plagues and bores o f the editor’s sauc. the spectator is lost in a dazzling dream, 1 - h been tried for several years, and turn. The public may deem it fortunate o f enchantmeat as glorious in its be failed all the time It is a feat that when they keep up a show of service wilderment as a Turkish havem. l a cannot be*accotnplished. It is hammer by remaining within their official stalls many cases these handsome young wo* ing at a rock that cannot be split The during office hours. men belong to Washington fiuailiest. A thorough overhauling o f the De They have good homes, with A e com only way to thwart them in their mad V J career, is to face and fight them like partmeut clerical forces at Washington, fort» o f life, without paying far them.. c* men. The secret of Mie prolonged suc and the Custom House aud Internal T h is enables them to spend their wage«- cess of Mongrelism nos in the fact that Revenue Department employee list, in the adornment of their persons». it has had to contend only against a and the graduating o f salaries by the These are the girls whose live» Mrs» negative in opposition The Democratic amount o f work actually rendered— Swisshelm so bitterly deplored. These« leaders have imposed but a feeble bar lopping off all idlers— would in one are the women who practice the Grecian rier to its headlong course, because they year render it wholly unnecessary to bend and who dot o ar «venae» ot a. would not resort to the only kind of continue a personal income tux. For brilliant afternoon as the butterflies do* assault which would tell upon the hide many of these men, who are useless in the clover heath. Petted dealings at of the Mongrel rhinoceros. This poli*• their legitimately appointed places, are home, petted darlings at the Treasnuf, icul bea-t is uot to be appeased by flat industrious thieves, and they use their no wonder they are spared their d a ta * tering words, nor tamed by fawning car position dexterously to enable them to if they have a headache, or a new data* esses. It is not afraid o f whips or plunder the nation .— S F. Herald. to make. No soldier’s widow or starv switches; nothing but the javelin and ing daughter o f the R epu blic ean drive the sharp spear will terrify it. Demo It is idle, if not criminal, says the them from their warm nests, feathe tea- cratic papers and people must cease Baltimore Gazette, to attempt to co n sou that “ a tfc ing of beauty is » jpy fo r their dalliance with it, and fight it fare- ceal the fact that our best men are bei ever.” Gen. Seheuck says be hswlwed* ly, squarely and vigorously- They coming alarmed at the progress of in vain to get a place for a young jir li must burl at it continually words as events in this city. Several emi who had two brothers killed in tttse sharp as axes, and as hard as cannon nent gentlemen, whose names cannot army, and who lost her father abw ia* balls They must despise it, denounce j be given, so expressed themselves to the arm y. There are other heaatifwU it, work agaiust it, and hold it up to your correspondent to-day. They are women there, the mention o f whose* ridicule and contempt every hour o f not alarmists, usually so called, but are name is enough to bring the blush to the day. Call it by the right name, men who, when the battle raged the every honest woman’s cheek, some and hurl back iu its own teeth the epi fiercest, were found always iu the front. public man’s pretty play thine, and y e t thets it heaps upon the Democratic A t times like these, when nothing is for such as these the widows anddaugh«- party and the Southern people. It is known and all is uncertainty ; when a ters o f our uoble soldiers must stand vain to hope, as many affect to do, that generous nation has taken a chief whose aside and sing the “ Song o f the Sh irt,” the present Executive will throttle this reticence has induced universal com or another ouite as sad. Has the eun monitor, and render him powerle-s for rnetit, and whose political notions have o f another day arisen ? W ith tremb future mischief. Our fear is, that he yet to be revealed to the country, under ling form aud bowed head we shall watt will rather whet its fangs, and make it such circum-tances undue importance and see. more ravenous than ever. We are sat may possibly be giveti to acts which at isfied, therefore, that the best thing that other times would pass unnoticed. But T he G rant H ouse . — President c»n he done by press and leader, is to the regular onward tread of the new Grant’s greed for money has broueht enlighten the people and to arouse them Administration towards a military des him into trouble. T h e W ashington to a sense ot their terrible danger. potism does indeed alarm some o f the correspondent o f the Baltim ore (Gazette They should write, print, scatter and most able and distinguished patriots says that about the first o f last Febru plead, until the masses recover from the now assembled at the seat o f the Fed ary G rant put the house in the hands most fatal delusion that, ever swayed the eral Government. of a real estate age at lor sale. On the public mind. I f they will go to work sixth he sold the property to Sayles J . like brave men to explodo the lunacies Bowen for forty thousand dollars; one An exchange says : “ In feeding farm aud crimes o f the monstrous taction thousand was paid down, and a memo animals, remember that when you place now ruling and ruining the country, randum of agreement was entered into, food before au animal it is eaten for two years hence a Democratic Congress signed by Kiibourn A Latta, G ran t’» three purposes: to give muscular may be ol**ctcd to save the nation from agents. Grant also wrote a note relat strength, to supply heat, or to make fat ing to the gas fixtures, furnace*,( A c. utter perdition. or butter. The mote a cow consumes A fter the payment of the thousand A d v a n t a g e of R a i l r o a d s . — The to supply muscular waste, the less goes dollars, and after the agreement had last number o f the Former thus illus to milk. The more she needs to keep been duly signed. Sherman's friends trates the good effects of railroads upon heisclf warm, the less she can yield of wanted the house, and offered sixty-five agriculture: Very large amounts of milk or flesh. Coarse, rough food, as thousand. G rant tells the real aatate firm products are hauled from the up swamp hay, butts of cornstalks aud agents that Mrs. G rant would net sign per portion o f the Willamette Valley straw, yield some starch or carbon. the deed to Bowen, and offers to pay to Portland. Say that it takes a funner, This is the reason why an animal in an him the thousand dollars back. W ith living within ten miles o f Eugene City, open sh*-d will eat trash which it would tho full knowledge o f this agreement eight days to nuke the round trip to reject in a warm stable. Yet there is he coolly sells the house to Sherman. Portland and back, with a l»»ad o f three nothing gained by starving them to The Gazette says Boweu ia furious, .and thousand pounds. Ten m»*n in charge rough fodder. Good shelter would be adds that “ there need be no surprise if of u railroad freight train would deliver cheaper. The richer tood is in albu a suit for twenty thousand dollars dam one hundred times that amount, or one men, the more vigor and mu-cle it will ages is entered on the docket ere long, hundred and fife/ tons at each end of make. The farmer gains more by a in which President G rant will be de that route within one day, and that from few high led animals than from much fendant. and Say lea J Bowen proseeu. day to day— that is, the ten men's labor, half-starved, ill housed stock. tor. A n effort has been made to have combined with railroad facilities, would Bowen make a quit claim b y the repay- move as much freight between Portland G a l l s o n H o r s e s — Owing to de meat of the one thousand dollars, but aud Eugene City, as could eight bun fects in collars and saddles, or lack o f he demands ten thousand dollars ad dred men and sixteen hundred good seasonable attention in wet weather, vance ou the price paid, which he al work horses. Here is the saving o f the backs, breasts and shoulders of leges he wss offered for tho property. the time and strength of all those tnen horses become badly galled. It is oruel This, o f eourse, our worthy President and horses at least seven days our of to work them in this condition, but in does uot want to pay, and the suit it each eight that it would take them to many cases it can hardly be avoided. imminent ” move the farm products ot the country In such cases, tho wounds should be over the distance mentioned. thoroughly sponged daily with strong W e cannot name, nor eaq any feav »hat the firmer markets his crop soap suds, followed by a solution of one name a single bkttle'in which the by railroad nt a saving o f teu cents on saltpetre and spirits o f turpentine Put Federal troops defeated a Confederate each bu-hel o f wheat, this would be one quarter of a pound o f the former force equal to themaeivee in number. equivalent to an enhancement o f the and a pint o f the latter into a bottle and No >uch incident either upon a large profits upon his crop to the amount of shake them well logether, and apply to or small scale, occurred doiM g idie Tour two dollars per avre o f - 0 bushels per the wounds with a feather two or three years. T h at’s one the truth* e f acre, and that is equal to a rise of $10 times each, oroftener, if circumstances history, and not all the weridteau m ake per acre upon land that will yield an will permit, till the healiog process it aught but a truth.— LouiteUl C ottier average o f 20 bushels per acre, besides commences, when the application may " i. iL n ';»■■■■■ * leaving him seven days out of the eight be discontinued. A n editor who wai married to aj& is« to prepare for anouer crop that is as Church, says he has enjoyed more hap certain to yield him a greater profit as Charles Dickens says he ean always piness since joining the Church, that it costs him less to get it to market. judge of the character o f a hold or he ever did in his life before, u . Go slowly to the entertainment restaurant by an inspection o f the cas Jtta?*’ Ho who blacken« cdhen .doe« o f tiiy friends, hut quickly to their tor. The mustard pot and oil cruit arc infallible tests. not whiten himaaH. misiortuues.