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DALLAS; OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1869. VOL. 1. TUB POLK C O M TIMES Li laaaad Every Saturday Afternoon at BaUaa, Folk County, Oregon. f . B. SHUT, EDITOR 1VD PROPRIETOR. OFFICE—Northeast coraer o f Main and 'Oak ¿treats, fronting Academy Block. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. SlITGLK c a F I E S -O n e Year. S3 Of, Six Maaths, Three Month«, $1 00 . CLCB'i will be supplied at the following rate«:—Fire Copies, one year, S18 75; Ten 'Copies, >ne year, $25 00, and for any greater ‘number at $2 50 per annum. Vahaer ptio* muet be paid ttrictty in advance. ADVERTISING BATES. *t — One *qa\ra (IS line« or les«), first insert’n, |3 00 Bach su^sequent insertion-...................... I 00 A Uh.-ral deduction will be made te qu&r- 'ceriy aal yearly advertisers. Professional cards will be inserted at $12 00 per annum. Transient advertisements must be paid for in advanee to inmre publication. All other advertising bills must be paid quarterly. Legal tenders taken at their current value. Blanks and Job Work of every description furnished at low ratee on short notice. F olk County Official Directory. Pel%.',ounty covers an area of about 1,250 • square miles. Number of voters. 1,227. Acres - of land under cultivation, 93 270. Value of assessable property, $1.234,529. The Land <>#oe t«*r this District is located at Oregon City—Owen Wade, Register; Henry Warren, Receiver. Cor.iTT OrrtciHS. — Commiteioticrn, E. C. Dice, R. Tatew; Judge, J. L. Collins; Sherijf, -J. W. Smith : fi e r i, J . I. Thompson ; A»»e»»>>r, H. Dsvis: Tmteurer, R. M May: School Su- periuUrudctm J. II. Myer; S u r v e y o r ,T. Burch; Coroner, C. D. Ernbree. T an*« o r C o r a r . — Circuit Court, R. P. Boise •Judge. e<.nvenes in Dallas on the 4th Monday in April awl 3d Monday in November. County Court convene* on the 1st Monday in each /month. N or siur.« PriLlC.—T. Pearce, E ola; W. W. Booue. Independence; J. L. Collins, Dallas; H. N. ttaorge. Buena Vista. P ost O rric* T o w n s . — Bethel, Bridgeport, Buena Vista. Dallas (county seat), Eola,Grand Koude, independence, Luekiamute. Lincoln. Lewisville, Monmouth, Rickreal, Salt Creek and Zeaa. U. 6 . M a i l le a v e « Dallas for Salem on Mon day, Wednesday and Friday at 7 a in., return iug same days at 6 a. m .; for Independence, each Tuesday mornirg at 6 ; f«r Salt Creek, •each Tuesday at l p m.; for Lafayette, Mon day and Thursday at 3 p in , returning Wed- -nesay and Saturday a. 10 a. ra.; for Corvallis, Wednesday and Satuscay at 10 a. m., returning Monday and Thursday at 3 p. in. P R O F E S S IO N A L C A R D S . W . D . J E F F R I E S , N . L>., Physician and Surgeon, E o la , O r e g o n . Special attention given to Obstetrics and lt f Diseases of Women. J . E . D A V ID S O N , M. D ., PhvMician and Surgreon, In d e p e n d e n ce , O g n . 9 1 R . J E S e l f P , M. D ., Physician add $urg«*»n, D a lla s, -O regon. OFFICE— At residence, on Jefferson street opposite Academy Black. 1 B O N H A M <fc L 4 W S O Y , A tto rn e y s k C ounsellors-at-L aw , S A L E M , OREGON. OFFICE IN THE COURT HOUSE. 1 C. C . C U R L , A ttorney and C ou n sellor-a t-L a w , SALEM , OREGON, Will practice in all the Courts of Record and Inferior Courts o f this State. OFFICE—In Watkinds A Co’s Briok, up stairs. 1 TO C0BBESP0NDENT8. Whatever you have to say, my friend, Whether witty, or grave, or gay, Condense as much as ever you ean, And say it the readiest way ; And whether you write of rural affairs, Or particular things in town. Just take a jp>rd of friendly advice— Boil it down. For if yon é° g'o »i spluttering over a page, When wnouple of lines would do, Your butter is spread so'much, you see. That the bread looks plainly through. So when yon have a story to tell, Aud would like a little renown, To make quite sure of your wish, my friend, Boil it down. When writing an article for the press, Whether prose or verse, just try T o utter your thoughts in the fewest words, Aud let them be crisp and dry. And when it is finished, and you suppose It is done exactly brown. Just look it over again, and then Boil it down. For «ditors do not like to print An article lazily long Aud the general reader does not care For a couple of yards of song. So gather your wits in the smallest space, If you’ d win the author's crown, And every time you write, my friend, Boil it down. Robert R. Hughes, a contributor to the Richmond State Journal, a Republican — The N. Y. Herald says : The Prin- organ, was arranged at Chester) near ter8’ National Convention at Albany, Richmond, Va , between Captain W. E. by a vote o f 46 to 28. laid on the tablt Cameron, editor o f the Index, and M r a resolution for abolishing all di»tiud*| Hughes. The police arrested the sec tions o f race and color in the craflfc onds and Mr. Hughes, near the fight. This means that the distinction of color | \n„ ground. The fight, it is thought, is to be enforced as an objection tothé will be renewed in another State. black man, and as it is with the print — A private letter from an eminent ers so it will be with *11 the other Tradei "Englishman standing high in the esti. Unions. They will all be array« mation o f the Government, says that against negro equality in their w«rk- »*K™ ■» V ' - ‘ Gladstone, Johnson and B ri/h t are ’ .. ~ ,. r , s hops, and the administration before 4 r strong supporters of Canadian indepen long will hear from them at the polls. dence. He further says that the Brit — The Confederate Genera/ Jubal ish Colonies will within a year be re A. Early has taken the stump tor Walk quired to manage their affairs without er, the conservative candidal* for Gov recourse upon the mother country. ernor in Virginia. — The new Government o f British — A negro woman in Chicago has Columbia is Anthony Musgrave. A sued a white man tor “ breach of prom Victoria paper says his appointment ise.” She only asks 850,000 damages. was decided upon at the Colonial office — It is stated that the destruction of some months ago, and it seems that the property by fire in the United States late iMr. Seymour was aware of the in thus far in the present year, has reach- tention. od over 817,000,000. — Says a London letter : The Prin C A L IF O R N IA W H E A T C R O P D A M . AGED. The San Francisco Herald of the 24th ult. says: ‘ ‘News is arriving from many sections o f the State that the damage to the wheat crop by rust is more aud more apparent, and in some localities an almost total destruction seems inevitable. The valleys near the coast, and the Sacramento river crops will be the most seriously affected, be ing more under the influence o f fogs The heavy fogs of the past week have been particularly destructive.” The Bulletin o f the 23d ult. says:— “ I f auything were necessary to accom plish th$ total destruction o f the wheat crop in Ibis State, iu the distiicts affect ed by rist, the weather for the past week has been eminently adapted to bring a>out such a result. For the pust three or four nights the fogs have been so moist as to completely lav the dust, and to force upon one’s mind th<- impression that it has been raiuing These fogs, in connection with a hot sun during the middle o f the day, have had a disastrous effect on the wheat crop wherever they have prevailed The amount o f cloudy weather experi enced thus far this Summer has been so great as to excite general remark We have no data upon which to fotm aft accurate estimate o f the damage done to the growing wheat, but as a rough guess, wo should say that the crop has been diminished by the rust to the extent o f about 2,000,000 bush els.” As an offset to the damaged crop prospects in California and Oregon, there is now opening a better outlook tor a market. Pri* es have gone up in the New York market slightly, while the rise at Liverpool is decided and more remarkable than anything that has oc ourred in the grain market within the year. The cause of it. according to the New York Commercial Advertiser, is that the Russian Government has en tered the grain market o f Germany as a purchaser. As Russia is one of the largest grain supplying countries in the world, furnishing England more than that country obtains from all other sources, including the United States, its appearance as a purchaser of grain is the more extraordinary. It must eventually exercise an appreciable influ ence upon the American breadstuff's trade. The United States will be call cd upon to furnish the bulk o f the de- icit, and an increased activity in the export demand will be the result. H a y d e n dt S l y e r , A G e n e r o u s G i f t . — W e have already chronicled the fact, says the Dallas, O regon. World, of the generous gift o f Mr. W. OFFICE IN THE COURT HOSSE. 1 W . Corcoran, transferring to the City of Washington a beautiful art building SU LLIVAN k W H IT8 ON, and pictures and money, in amount, all Attorneys Oounsellors-at-Law, told, more thun * million dollar», while Mr. Belmont has offered twelve pictures Dalla*. Oregon, from his magnificent private gallery to WHI practice in all tbe Couru of the State. 1 the new collection. N<»w, Mr. Corcoran has been roundly »bused a« a “ accession J . L C O L L IN ^ sympathizer,” and this very art build Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law, ing was seized daring the war and turn Dallas. Oregon. ed into some sort of a loyal and negro shop, and Mr. Corcoran was obliged to Special attention given to Collections and to appeal to a court o f law to obtain pos- matters pertaining to Real Estate. 1 session of his property and rents for LTCUHCCa v i n k v a r d J JA8. h . t u b n b r . the same. It now appears that the V in e y a r d & T u r n e r , property so seized and misused by the A T T O R N E Y S - A T - L A W , 1“ ederal authorities was designed by the gen rous and much-abused builder and Dallas, Oregon. owner as a free gift to the capital of OFFICE— On Main street, ene door north of that government. This, for a so called the huila* Hotel. 1 “ secession sympathizer.” What have J AS. MCCAIN. J. A. AVPLEOSTR. 1 the Butlers, Dows, Logans, and other A p p l e g a t e S l V c C a i n , loil plate-passers and gatherers who en riched themselves during and the A T T O R N E Y S -A T - L A W , war done in the o f contribu Dallas, Polk County, O gn. 1 tions or ATTO R N EYS -A T - L A W , k by way to Washington any other city ? V. N E W S IN BRIEF. j 3 — Navy Department will soon offer cess Christian is just recovering frnm a for sale five iron ciads, now laid up iu sudden illness, about which there is New Orleans. thrown a great deal o f mystery. She — A sausage vender of New Orleans was to have gone to Balmoral with the has procured the arrest o f all the neigh- | Queen, but the attack came on the very boring butchers because they barked day ° f the departure from \X indsor and mewed wheu customers came to a°d though it was described as serious, buy o f him. the Queen went without her. Rumor - I n Chicajo, the other day, there “ matrimonial row. was a conte-t between butchers to see In the Circuit Court at TV ashington who could cut up and dress a bullock , five colored men were sworn in as grand o f average size in (he shortest time. jurors. Among tho petit jurors sum moned were nine colored men. One The work was done iu 4:40. bailiff appointed by the Court is colored. -A correspondent from Havant ________ of the — Victoria paper says a great change sends the following statement forces iu the field ° The Government is about to fake place in British Colum- has 13,I'OO regulars and 27,000 volun bia. With oue sudden movement, it teers, added to 1,686 volunteers garri will pass from the condition o f a Crown soning the principal cities, o f which Colony, governed from Downing streot, 025 are at Havana The Patriots have to that of a self-governing Province of 35,000 whites and 19,000 nesrroes, of the Dominion o f Canada. which about 26,000 are well armed. — The St Louis papers claim that the This force will probably be increased merchants o f their city will “ capture” by some 800 whites and negroes in a the trade of Colorado and Utah when short time, should they continue to re the Kansas Pacific Railroad is extended ceive arms aud ammunition from the to Denver, and the projected road from United States. the Union Pacific to Denver is finished. — Alexander H Stephens has recov- — Resolutions have been introduced ered from his recent illness, caused by j jn the Connecticut IIou*e o f Represen- hq accident. 1 tat'ves. proposing three amendments — The severest storm ever known to the State Constitution. One proposes swept over the lower peninsula o f Mich that the State officers shall hold office igan on Tuesday o f last week. Such j for two years, instead o f one as at pres tornadoes are o f rare occurrence Fen- ent, another changing the regular Leg- ces were prostrated houses blown down, islative sessions to Wednesday after the crops flattened and freshets w re caused first Monday in January; and another, l»y the heavy rains. One man was fa faking the power of granting pardons tally injured and others are reported from the Legislature and bestowing it injured. The details arc not yet re- upon the Governor and the Judges of ceived In some places the storm the Supreme Court of Errors, swept everything before it. A church _ q - Wo local reporters on the Mont in Macomb county was struck by light- gomerv (A la .) Mail recently fought, a ning and seriou.-ly damaged. j duel because they differed as to the — Boric has resigned the Secretary- color o f an actress’ eyes. ship o f the Navy, and Geo. M. Robert - 1 _ j nd{ie 0 de]|, of Massachusetts, sun, of New Jersey, formerly Attorney decided, in the case of Ward vs Hun- General of that State, has been appoint- trei5Si that a man a “ damned NO. U. ELECTRO P L A T E D P E O P L E . ing on within gave way, a large gap ap. peared, and a mass of earth was heard Many people have the true, sharp, to strike a pool o f water an indefinite clear ring of genuine metal, many have distance below with a heavy splash. an unmistakable dead leaden character, — The President will, on the 10th but a very large proportion may of July, after tho Virginia electidn, or summed up under the very conrpr der an election in Mississippi fdr the hensive title “ electro plated-people 15th of September or first of October. It is not easy to discover these at one — The Government has sent down to They have ail the brightness and pold Mt. Vernon a number of cases formerly of true metal, they answer all the par- in the Patent office, containing uni poses of sterling silver for a time, and forms. cooking utensils, camp equipage it is only after you have occasion to and other personal property of General make use of thetn frequently, and test Washington. They have been forward tlmm pretty severely, that you will find ed and committed to the care of the the thin veneer o f true metal pass away Ladies’ Association, who will prepare and their true coppery character made them for public inspection in the old manifest. For everyday gentle usage electro plate is very well, and provided house. — Ex President Andrew Johnson was too tnuch strain is not put upon it, it taken violently ill with the colio through may'answer your purpose for years to eating too many oranges recently, and come, and it is often only when you was in considerable danger through the bring \t to »he melting pot, and are anx night. He has since recovered and re ious to know its real value, that you will find oul that it is worth but very little. sumed his canvass of the State. So it is with the people who may be — In an Iowa saw mill recently, a termed electro plated ; you may depend visitor touched a swiftly revolving cir on them as fur as you know it is worth cular saw with the fore finger o f his their whiW to be depended upon If right hand, and it was cut off. In des they think it to their advantage to know cribing how the accident happened,'the you, they will know you and be o f ser* visitor reached out his left fore finger vice to you; but do not put any trust to the saw, when it too was cut off. in their stability. Let any vast calam — A New York paper contains the ity or di-grkce come upon you. and you following advertisement: “ Feeling a will speedily find out that they have a sense <»t‘ guiltiness, I request all well- ij^ise substratum to their glittering ex disposed persons to pray to God for me. terior. Frank. Newspapers please copy.” Electro pitted people are like electro —Two beautiful and brilliant young plated spoons and forks, always best daughters o f the late Confederate Gen when they are new. See how electro eral Zollicoffer, were married two weeks plated goods shine and glisten in the since— Nat. Gaither, o f Kentucky, and shop windows, and then think how bril Miss Mary,and Mr. Bond, o f Columbia, liant, well-informed and hearty you Tennessee, and Miss Octavia. used to think Bo-and-so, but how you — At the Observatory in Washington have found out his real character at last. arrangements have been made to.carry Electro plated ware is best and bright into effect a plan o f signals, by means est in the show-room, so are electro of the telegraph and steam whistles, to plated people; they soon tarnish and get dim with constant using in prosaic warn the city of coming storms. everyday life. You may polish a plated — The Star announces that S. S. spoon up to a certain point with great Conant, managing editor o f the Times, effect; it will look all the more briliian$ has succeded Raymond as editor in and effective ; but eolw yond thit point chief. and the more yoo polish and use it the — The woman cause has achieved a worse it will become. Not so with ster-' victory in Boston, where Miss Emily ling silver and genuine people. The Judson Harris was chosen to read the more you polish the one. aud the greater Declaration o f Independence at the degree o f intimacy yon have with the Fourth o f July celebration. other, the more you will bring out their — Gentlemen who are fortunate en brilliancy and good points. Electro ough to get free passes over the Pacific plated clergymen, electro plated Christ philanthropists, Railroad are informed, for their encour ians, electro-plated agement, that it ouly costs ten dollars bankers, bill-brokers, tinkers, tailors, per head a day for sleeping aud eatiug soldiers, sailors, apothecaries, plough- boys and thieves, abouud on every side. accomodations on the route. — The ability of a female tongue to Formerly we preferred good old silver, keep a secret is proved by the conduct bruised and blistered though it might of a St. John’s girl, who did not, tell be. The period of silver has passed her lover that she was worth four mil away, and the present is an electro lions in her own right until alter the plated age. marriage. — Boston has a citizen, who, after a journey over the Pacifio railway, wrote home that the distance “ to San Fran cisco by the Pacific Railroad is equal C'l h'9 p1a(>e- Englishman” is not swearing, within to 211 games euchre, 178 drinks aud — A Washington special says that the meaning of the statutes, so long as 117 cigars.” — Bishop McQuade, o f Rochester, Commissioner Delano’s recent order ro- the Alabama claims remain unsettled, says that the progress of the Catholic garding the reduction o f the clerical _ John N. Maffitt, commander of Church in America is owing to the sanc force in tho various revenue depart the lafe Confederate steamer Florida, meuts, saves the Treasury 81,100,001 has instituted legal proeeedings to re- tity with which its members regard the per annum. j cover some ten thousand dollars worth marriage relations. calling — It is said that it will cost the gov. ernment six hundred and twenty mil- lion pounds sterling to purchase the tel- egraph lines in the country as contem- plated. — Boston is to have a new postoffice, but its triumph is dashed by the fact that a beautiful horse chestnut tree— the pride o f the Hub— must be sacri- ficed to make room for tbe building. of property confiscated in tho Uni'ed States District Court, at St Paul three years ago, and sold by the United States Marshal for about three thousand dol- lars. -Eighteen in favor to one against, is the vote o f the Methodist Episcopal churches in Philadelphia, on the ques- tion o f lay delegation. Nineteen churches have been heard from so far. — The annual examination of cadets — The following intelligence compg at West Point was held during the past from Bucharest: A brigand of Her week. The graduating class numbered culenn strength w n about to be hung forty. i f° r murder. He hurst the straps which __TI d Supreme Court o f Georgia hound him like flax, seized the execu- decideti »hat the c*»de o f Georgia, adop tioner and hanged him before assistance ted by the new constitution, forever could arrive. He was thereupon ap- prohib rS m irriage relations between . pointed to his victims’ s office, white/persons and persons o f African j — The new marriage law of Ohio descent. They declare such marriages prohibits the intermarriage of first annulled. cousins, and of girls under sixteen »nd Department o f Agriculture of bovs under twenty one, unless with estimates the increase in the number o f the consent o f their parents. In con- horses iD the United States since 1860 sequence, a young lady who is nn or- at 000 or 25 per cent. The whole phan, and is not legally age— eight- number U now said to be about 8,000,- een— and so. without a guardian. c«n^ 000, at 82.666,000,000, which not get. married until she “ grows up.” — Miss Mary Gray, o f Georgia, has, is considerable more than the whole by her own efforts, caused the bodies of national debt. — A hoy and girl, at Goffstown, N. fifteen hundred Confederates, who fell H., aged respectively sixteen and elev- in the battle o f Franklin, Tenn., to be en and one halt years, are said to have collected and decently buried, got married. A clergyman whom they — Some men were exploring a cave called on sent them to the Town Clerk in an Indian mound near Davenport, for a certificate. On their way, a man Iowa, a few dnrs ago, and had secured married them for 37 cents. The wife several stone hatchet* and other relies, now attends school, and gravely talks when thev fe’ t a movement o f the earth to her playmates about her “ old man.” under foot, and clambered hastily out. — A duel out o f an article They had hardly the entrance in the Index, denouncing. when the ground they had been stand — The 1,750 0f valued growing Petersburg reached H en ’ s R ig h ts .— T he New York Herald gets off the following good hit on that class o f '‘ female roosters” who are continually crowing about “ ben’s ri-h ts:” “ There is a movement in high chicken quarters.‘stated since the poul try show, to have tbe hens assert them selves before the world in a series of resolutions poin'ing out that the roost ers do all the crowing and fighting and roost on the highest perches, and yet lay no egLrs. and that this is oppressive and unjust to the hens.” — In New York the papers complain that, rather than reduce the price o f ftay* A Pennsylvania girl thinks the strawberries below a certain rate, the advertisement o f agricultural societies monopolists who regulate the berry are the best commentaries on the man market throw them in the river. agement o f their fairs. “ Look at the — The English papers contain a full premiums,” she says: For the fastest description of a gorgeous suit o f clothes trotting horse. 85 » ; for the next fast which the Hon. John Jay, American est, 825 ; for the best team o f work Minister to Vienna, has had made in horses. S5 ; for the best loaf of bread, London. 50 cents.” — At a fashionable wedding in St. N o b l y E x p r e s s e d . — clip this Louis recently, the officiating clergy little gem from au exchange: If there man, Rev. Father F, M. Keilty, iu his is a man who can eat his bread in peace address to the eroom said : “ You are with God and man, it is that man who the man, and the man must be the ruler lias brought that bread out of the earth, Any idea lookin to woman as being the or won it by his honest industry. It ruler is a perversion o f Scripture.” is cankered by no fraud; it is wet by --Prentice thinks the Radicals have no tears; it is stained by no blood. no cause to complain o f Grant’s ap W h y is t h e M a r r i a o e o f t h e pointing incompetent men to office.since S exf .8 D e c l in in g ‘/ — The Revolution they set the ex imple last November. answers this important question : Stew, — The Indians are reported to be art has sold twenty shawls this seaAoif down on Grant’s Quakers. “ Um I” worth $3.000 each, and one worth $ 4 - cried Hole-in the-Boitle, chief o f the 600. One woman ran up a bill for Arapahocs, “ Quakers no good; bring S20.000 at his store in a couple of water ; no whisky !” months. At the recent “ Charity ball” — Registration in Richmond, Va., in this city, a lady paid $10,000 for last year showed six thousand male ne diamonds to shine in on the occasion. groes subject to assessment for poll tax. Beautiful was the reply o f a The assessor this year can find but half that number. The Whig that venerable man to the question whether a great many are dead, and sarcastically he was still in the land o f the living— opines that quite as many never existed ,‘ No, but I am almost there.” suspects at all. — A yonng lady exhibited at the Hampstead Literary Society the foot of a stocking, exquisitely darned, placed in a neat glass case, and labelled. “ Spe cimen exhibited by a Girl of the Pe riod.” The effect of !>r. ! Walker’s V ikfoak Bir- TKR8. oven when for its cathartic proper, tics, nre very different from those o f any other medicine prepared specifically for that purpom». There is no natfrea or di-turban e o f the stomach, and instead o f causing any sense of languor, or debility, it Reeins rather to invigor ate the whole system, and excite the kecaevt appetite. , * * 4 t f , ' " M IF i