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POLK COUNTY TIMES. VOL 1. m POLK COUNTY TIMES DALLAS, OREGON. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4. 1869. NO. 19. — The sugar lands in the South now -—Paris, Kentucky, which manufac —The area of the unsurveyed lands how many we know not. for they are NEWS IN BRIEF. sell for from $5 to $75 per acre. gone, and their history no one baa writ tures more whi-ky than any other place of the United States is fifteen limes —A Trojan girl bas a photographic al ten save from their broken and scat* —The yellow fever is still raging at of its size in the country, is making greater than the whole area of France. Is Im sd Ir»ry Saturday Aftarnoon at bum containing male friends, labelled tered monuments. Key West, Florida. Six out of every preparations to hold a temperance rncet- —A German merchant of Boston Dallas, Polk County, Orsfsn. They were the old Americana. To* “Book of Hims.” ten cases prove fatal. The mortality iog. asked a young lady in Austria a day we are hero; bat who are they that —George W. Curtis will probably among the troops is great, about six r—John Quincy Adams has accepted lately F. K. STUIRT, EDITOR ARB PROPRIETOR. very interesting question, and received shall cover this land and become the succeed Henry J. Raymond, deceased, coffius a day being ordered. the Democratic nomination for Govern the “happy yes” by the Atlantic cable new Americans of to-morrow and all as editor of the N. Y. Times. OFFICE—Northeast corner of Mata and —California pears sell iu Chicago for or of Massachusetts. A Vienna paper, in chronicling the fact the future. A contemplation of ex —A “woman’s rights” convention twenty Oak streets, fronting Academy Block. cents each. They are too cost- sajs: “Perhaps the bride and bride —John Mitchell has had Gen. Dix ceediug interest is that which takes in ive. will be held at Chicago on the 9th and arrested on the charge of illegal impris groom may exchauge in the same way SVBSCRIPTtOH SATIS. the daily changes in the nationality of 10th of September. their first kisses, which would be elec —-Cleveland, Ohio, and Quincy, Illi SINGLE COPIES-One Year. S3 00; Six a people. We. were a mixed comuifh —A horse-thief in New Jersey has nois, are the latest candidates for the onment iu Fortress Monroe, in 18G5. trifying, indeed.” Months, $2 00; Three Months, ft 00. —The Revolution wants women on the —The case of the Cohens, who rfc- nity at the start, and have been com CLUBS will be supplied at the following pounding ever since. Our ranks have been sentenced to 150 year’s imprison National Capital. police; but an exchange fears this would rat««:—Fira Copies, one year, S13 75; Ten been recruited from every sovereignty ment. It is hoped he will be a wi-er —Southwestern Georgia is raising augment the “won’t go home till morn fused to pay a tax upon tobacco they Copies, one year, $25 00, and for any greater had bought at a United States Marsh and a better man after serving out his its best sugar crop since the war ing” fellows to an alarming extent. in northern and western Europe. We sentence. number at $2 50 per annum. al's sale in í A jw York, with the under —A fool is going to ride a velocipede —The New York World estimates standing Jlmbecriptiun mutt be paid etrietlg in advance. drove back the savage and, setting our that no furthe« stamp would —Brigham Young is said to be the on a rope over Niagara. Caucasian shoe in place of his mocca that 30,000 persons nightly attend the be required, was decided Ly the Com ADVERTISING RATES. sin, said we were the American Peo- third largest depositor in the Bank of —The Tribune thinks General Grant theaters of that city, a great part of missioners iu that city in theit favor. is something of a failure. One square (10 lines or less), first insert’n, $3 00 pie. Put those who fought in the rev England. come trom the floating population, —It is asserted that there were more Each subsequent insertion........................ 1 00 olution were not the ancestors of the —The lady editor of a Minnesota —Ex Senator Buckalew is to be a whom drunkco people iu Boston on the Vast which numbers 70.000. , A liberal deduction will be made to quar men of to day. Their stock has dwin paper declares against female suffrage. candidate for the Pennsylvania State —The Labor Congress has expelled 4th of July, than were ever seen there terly and yearly adrertisers. dled. They have passed from the —“A new book by the late Artemus Senate. Susan B. Anthony. They had agreit on any similar occasiuo. Being denied Professional cards will be inserted at $12 00 front, and the Germanic, Celtic and Ward, —The prospect in Cuba is good for with 35 pictures from his pano deal of trouble concerning her, and a liquor as usual, they found means to get per anuum. African elements are largely represent the revolutionists. for spite. rama,” is announced by his English ex long discussion prececded her expulsion drunk Transient advertisements must be paid for of ihe present Americans. For ecutors. —Jesse D. Bright, formerly U. S. —The rivalry of the railroad Com in adranue to insure publication. All other ative aught we can see it promises to become —The Evansville (Ind.) Courier panies iu striving to secure connected —Only seventy four private houses Senator from Indiana, who was expelled advertising bills must be paid quarterly. Legal tenders taken at tbeir current value. more so. The famous Anglo Saxon nominates lion. Thomas A. Hendricks linos to the West is exciting a great in Boston are assessed at over $60.000, from his 6cat for his bold and determin and only fifteen at more than $100,000. ed defence of the Constitution, is a Blanks and Job Work of every description blood, never overcome by anything but for the Presidency in 1872, and the deal of attention. its own errors, is, we fear, weakening Ligonier Banner “docs uot hesitate a —Governor Senter intends, it is said, —New single beds called the “An candidate for the Senate from the State furnished at low rates on short notice. among us. Emigration assaults with moment Kentucky. He will undoubtedly to have the Tennessee Legislature called thony,” have made their appearance. of to second the motion.” out and a false and vitiated life cankers TH E P O E T'S CORNER. be elected, as the Democrats have the to ratify the Fifteenth Amend Married folks don’t like them. it within, and it may not be many cen —A New York lawyerof prominence together almost unanimously. —Thirty two thousand acres of land, Legislature THE MOTTO. turies before the posterity of the Pil holds that a worn in can perform no act ment. —A certain town does not —Boston merchants who contributed belonging to the Kausas Pacific Rail allow old maids. yirginia of greater self-degradation than engage- grims. of the settlers of Jamestown, and the girls reach nr jo us o. s a x * 1<r in a suit for breach of promise and to the juoihc are disgusted because road, has lately beeu sold to an English 30, tho young men When of the followers of Peun, shall besought 1 IJo draw lots, and the they got no trade. colony of 1,200 families ‘‘Give me a motto r said a youth for blighted affec- claiming but not found among the then Amer lucky ones make up a purse for the vic To one whom years had rendered wise; — Wou!d-be-Gov. Dent is writing —A Paris journal made 110,000 tim. ican people. The light of a ucw era tious. “fL-me pleasant thought or weighty truth, dawns even this hour. Asia is hence —General John C. Breckinridge has letters and making himself ridiculous. francs in the three first weeks of its — A persistent young man of Hart That briefest syllables eomprise— Some w rds of warning and of cheer forth to be a partner in our marts and determined to settle permanently in —The friends of Judge Chase think existence, but the editors got themselves ford, who was opposed in his ioclioatioDS To grave upon my signet here. our movements. China and Japan are Lexington, Kentucky, aud resume the the Southern elections favor his election in jail. to marry the girl of his choice by her in the arena. For a few decades long practice of law. to the Presidency in 1872. “ And, reverend father,” said the boy, —The past and the present—The parents, at last succeeded in winning a “Si:ic«j life, they say. is ever made er let the “golden gate” staud open, —Andrew Johnson and Emerson —Gen. Lee is expected to attend the Woman of Rome—“ Here are my jew reluctant consent, and the date of the A mingled web of grief and joy— and the locomotive go and come across Etheridge are the two prominent candi Gettysburg celebration, to be held by els.” The “ Woman of the Period”— marriage ceremony was fixed. After Sir.ce care inay come and pleasures fado, the continent, and more of the new dates for the United States Senate iu both armies engaged. Pray let the motto have a range ‘ Go to my house and Katie will show the arrival of the company upon the Of meaning matching every change.** Americans will trace their lineage to Tennessee. happy day appointed, the youngster — A large French emigration iscom you the li«tie brats.” Canton or Nagasaki, to Dublin, Ashan — Half a dozen young men whose gravely proceeded to address the aston “Sooth!** said the sire, “inethinks you ask —The fashion reporter of a New ing to the West; five new French stca mouths tee or Beyond the Rhine, than to Eng York A labor something over-nice, water at Newport, contemp'ate ished assembly thusly : “ We arc much daily paper anonuces that “Ida mers are building for the emigrant getting shipwrecked That well a finer brain might task. land or Normandy. Time changes, and off Lime Rock so obliged for this gathering on our ac Lewis’ wedding has been postponed, trude. W i n think yon, lad, of this device— wc change with it. The soil under our as to have the honor and satisfaction of count, but let me suggest that there is Older than 1 (though I am gray), and her sister has just effected an en —More stringent regulations con foot—the rocks themselves—blow away gagement 'Tis simple—‘This at ill pass away!’ no necessity for any further business, with Ida’s fiance's brother.” ceruing the revenue on whisky will being rescued by Ida Lewis. in dust; the sea creeps iu daily on our as we were married three weeks ago !” soon be issued by the Government. The terms are uot uieutioued. ‘‘When, wafted on by Fortune’s breeie, —There has been a personal difficulty shore, but we make no record of the Bolton of Memphis, who In eudles* peace thou seem'st to glide. mutation ; the men of the older ranks —The negro who brought su;t in —A man in Baltimore has named a between the editor of the Washington was —Wade Prepare betimes for rougher seas. shot in that city a few days ago by drop down and others fill their places, Quincy, Illinois, against a steamboat new patent cooking stove after Stone Journal, North Carolina, aud Abbott, Dr. Dickens, And cheek the boosts of foolish pride ! the prosecution of an wall Jackson This is very appropriate, U. S. Senator for that State, on account old family feud, iu made Though smilin^joy is thine to-day, captain, for damages, in having been and we hurry on and take no heed. just before liemeuiber, ‘This will pass away!’ Hut to him who eould stand apart and refused a state room and a scat at the tor Stonewall made it decidedly red hot of an article written and published in he died, by the terms a of will which be the Post by Abbott. They have both queathed $100,000 to charitable he pur write it in a book, how different the first table on the steamboat, got a ver on short notice. “When all the sky is draped in Hack, And, beaten by tempestuous gales,' New American from the Old. —Hereafter whites will not be allow been arrested and bound over to keep poses, gave the widow of “Stonewall” dict against him. Thy shuddering ship seems all a wreck, peace. Afterwards, on demand of Jackson $10,000, and left to each of W m . O P almer . —The rate per annum for attending ed to settle on Indian reservations, and the Then trim again thy tattered sails; Englehart, the Post retracted the arti his former slaves fifty acres of land. tho.-e now living on them will have to To grim despair be not a prey— to visitors at the White House, under cle causing the difficulty. Bethink thee, ‘This will pass away!’ W heat C rop of 1869.—This pro Johnsou’s administration, was SI,690; leave or be ejected. —A Chicago reporter, who attended duct may be said to be the stap'e of it is uow, under Grant, S13.380. This —The Dixon Illinois Democrat says —The amount of mouey sent through aspring opening of a fashionable milli Thus. 0 my son. be not o’er proud, Oregon, and to a great extent the pro sort of economy and retrenchment will tb it, a tombstone iu the ccmetry in that the mails by postal money orders is in nery, says Nor yet cost down ; judge thou aright | of i t : “ A cabbage leaf When skies are clear, expect the c!>>ud ; fit arising from its production. Last yet bring ruin on the country. creasing about one hundred per cent, city he irs simply the suggestive epitaph: trimmed with three red peppers and a In darkness wait the coming light; yield iu this State in proportion to the —A man in Chicago killed himself “Gone up.” annually. This year the aggregate foots dried cherry sells for $35. It is called Whatever be thy fate to day, breadth of land sown was larger than the other day iu order that his wife and --The Pacific Railroad expedition up thirty million dollars, against sixteen a jockey ; has one great advantage— Remember, ‘This will pass away!’ *’ usual, but owing to the excellent crop family might get his life insurance from Puget Sound, has reached Helena, million last year, and it is estimated the can he eaten as a salad when the season in the other portions of the United money, aud thus be saved from starea Montana, and report a uood couutry, amount will again double next year. changes. One composed of three sighs G EN ERA L M ISC ELLAN Y. States and elsewhere, the market was with a pass through the Rocky Moun —The Republican Tennessee State and and a bit of pink-colored fog was dull and prices ruled low during the tiOD. [ C om un iea ted. ] tains, not over 5,0U0 feet high and with Convention was very boisterous; and at considered cheap at $55 entire year. Accordingly those who —It is proposed to establish an in easy N E W AMEKICANsL one time bloodshed seemed inevitable. —The criminal law of New York has grades. expected to derive considerable gain stitution for the education of young Pistols and revolvers were drawn all been so changed that a man may tes History has many lessons. To the from their farms were at last compelled ladies, in which the science of w>*avol- — Pollard, iu his volume upon the over house, and it was only by vig tify in his own case, the testimony to casual or superficial observer the chief to receive what barely covered the ex ogy, spinology, and cookology will form war, says General Lee carried on the orous the effotts of the detailed police that be weighed by the jury, the same as objects are struggles, tyrannies, wars, pense of producing and marketing. a part. After obtaining thc*e accom war coldly, as a painful matter of bus a riot was prevented. all other evidence. In the case of a crime and bloodshed; and if h^ be a This year, so far, promises but little plishments, they may receive the F. F. iness, regarding secession as a mistake in that city, lately tried for from the beginning. man of tender or impressible feelings better in the same regard. The yield \V. (fit for wives) —A desperate conspiracy lias been policeman killing a man shooting him with a he directly turns away from the sub in Oregon is not so great, but the nuin —Marshal Serrano is a sarcastic man. — Major Haggerty, our Consul to discovered on board the U. S. frigate revolver, while by in the act of making an ject with a sad heart. Of this nature ber of acres is much greater At the lie told Gen. Sickles that the United Glasgow, is refused his exequator be Sabine, at Cherbourg, on the part of arrest, the new act* was for the first are histories of the aucient world, and present rate—sixty cents per bushel, the States couldn’t have made a more cause he wusoDeca Fenian in America. some of the crew,to set fire to the mag time put in practice. sorrowful enough pictures do they show margin for profit to the producer is “grateful selection” for Minister to —Nothingin the newspapers descrip azine and blow up the Ship. A cabin — A lady in Evansville, Indiana, was us. Could we have recited for our very small, and nothing but the neces Spain! His »»oral character had evi tive of the eclipse can outdo this from boy discovered the burning fuse. with her child a few days ayo, Studies an account of the industrial sity of selling will induce mauy farmers dently floated before him, in a cloud of a Chicago piper: “ Mis9 Luna, that Seven sailors have been condemned to playing and rau into a closet, when the child progress of natious, of the educational to put their wheat into m arket at so frankincense and myrrh. heavenly ‘girl of the period,’ will this death. pushed the door shut, and having a advancement of communities, and the low a figure. A few days ago prices in —The Albany Evening Journal says evening overwhelm and suuff out Mr. —Georgia has 47 cotton mills,South spring she was made a close pris-. gradual amelioration of manners and California seemed to have an upward the Knights of Pythias are a secret Sol, her effulgent old beau, by whose Carolina 40, Missouri 27, Alabama 11, oner for lock, nearly hour (the child being customs, then we should have a new tendency, and many entertained a hope Democratic organization. borrowed light she has been shining so and Tennessee 40. Tho product of too sm xll to push an back class of histories. A few examples— that our surplus would be got off nt re —Illinois has 400 newspapers pub long. Coquetry ever terminates thusly.” these Southern mills is fine shirtings her husband came home the to springjuutil dinner. She none of them at all perfect—-are all we munerative rates. But from dispatches li.-hed within the State. Of these, —August 2lst was the hottest day and sheetings, aud at the Cincinnati fair was so nearly suffocated that she could have of such ; yet no works could em received in this city since, wc learn that compared well with New England goods. of the season in the Eastern States. not have lived long had she net been sixty one are published iu Chioago. body more of interest. No doubt the the apparent increased demand was At Cincinnati it was “roasting hot.” —The Union Pacific Railroad Com released. historian’s task wuuld be doubled in only temporary and that the market —P ap r money is not appreciated by panv arc now offering for sale nearly a — A man named William B. Smith, —The schools and colleges of the difficulty were he to undertake this had again become dull, and but few outside barbarians. They should come watchmaker in Whitehall, Michigan, class of reyituls, for there are no state buyers even found, at »he figures given here and live under Radical rule to un- South have been more numerously at. million acres of their land in Nebraska, a while a temporary fit of insanity, re papers of the earlier agriculture; the iu our regular dispatches. It is serious der.-tand its beauty. Advices from tended this season than ever befoie. at prices ranging from $2 50 to $10 cently in took up a doubled-barrellcd ¿hot per acre. Of these lauds 015,000 acres older manufactures were rather con ly doubted if the general- average of Japao report that paper money was —The Fenian Congress is in session. cealed tjpan recorded, and the march of prices this season will be much above forced upon the people on pain of death; They claim that Ireland is drilling; an arc north of the Platte river : 140.000 gun and walked out into the street and south of that river, and 250,000 not on shot the first two men he met, aud education is like the flight of a bird in that of last. The only solution of this aud trade was paralyzed. army in secret for revolution. (ho e»r —it leaves no track behind, difficulty iu the way of our farming —Cincinnati has230,000 inhabitant«, —The Oxfords won the race by three the line of the railroad iu Polk and threatened to shoot one or two others. • He was finally captured and lodged in gull, if they could be written they population is that a foreign market b e.119 churches, three morning and two lengths and six seconds. The river other counties. jail. One of the men shot was killed would be more precious than gold. found for our surplus wheat, or that^veoing papers, besidcsf two German banks were lined with spectators all day, —The Labor Convention in session outright, at*c and the other badly wounded. $ t|t there is a third kind of history, the farmers turn their attention to the dailies, and 19 weeklies, 20 monthlies and the cars almost unable to carry the at Philadelphia adopted a platform, in Panthers are being shot in Louis teaching lessons even more profound. cultivation of something more certaiuly and one quarterly. Its suspension bridge ! crowds. which occurs this paragraph—“Legal iana — six long. They oecasionaly The former sort tells us of men, their pjofitable.— Oregonian. —A man in Illinois has been fioed tender monev should be made a lciral eat up a feet has the longest span iu the world, and young nig., but with this ex actions sud passions, and continually as $50aud costs by a Justice of the Peace, tender for the payment of all debts, C09t two millions. individuals. But there is a history of A Trinity County miner shot a mon —^The War and Navy Departments “for attempting to steal a kiss from a public or private, and convertableat the ception are loyal. races, communities, peoples, which ster eagle, recently, and broke its wing. have transferred to the Treasury De Mrs. Slippery.” option of the holder into Government A W ife ’ s I nfluence —You fancy, knows no one mao, but depicts the ad- The wounded monarch fought hero partment the power to contract for the —The coal business at the East is bonds bearing three per cent, interest, perhaps, as you have been told so often, vancings and rettetiiog* ^ mankind in ically, but was driven on foot to the mi recovery of all vessels, both Confeder deran-cd by strikes in the cotl regions, with the privilege to reconvert the that a wife’s rule should only be over the same spirit lint one notes the ner’s eabin, where it was secured. The ate bonds into money or money into bonds her husband’s house, not over his mind. and the stoppage lor some time of op and Federal, whioh were wrecked broken wing was amputated, aud the spread of a forest or the encroachment at pleasure; that the claim of bond Ah, no! the true rule is just the re during the late war, in the Southern or erations. of the sea. It calculates the march of noble bird bled to death. holders that bonds bought with green verse of that A true wife, in her hus other waters. —South Carolina negroes arc wholly the generations«. It has no moral side; Acuta and chronic rheumatism, as well as — A oonntryman sends tho following unable to understand why a sheriff backs. the principal of which by law is bands’s house, is his servant; it is in it is purely ethmMegicaL It sees the gout, generally affect the joints, but other more to the Cincinnati Enquirer : “ A radi who has been elected by themselves payable in currency .should nevertheless his heart that she is queen. Whatever rise and fall of peoples rather than of vulnerable pans are also subject to their attacks. cal is a compound, unconstitutional should ask them to pay any taxes. be paid in cold, is unjust extortion ; ofbesthecanconceive.it is her part are generally caused by vitiated blood, empires, and tells no tale of motives They that the exemption from tax on bonds to be; whatever of highest he can which is produced bjr derangement of the di- noun; black in person ; African in gen . —The weather and crops are favor as hope, it is hers to promise ; all that is good or bad. It is not an exposition of gestira organs. The most effective remedv that der, desperate in oaae ; and is governed able in England. The crops are being securities, is in violation of the prin dark in him she must purge into purity; ideas, but a narration of grand and sim can be used for curing these painful affections, by negroes under partizan rule, as oue gathered in good condition. ciples of the revenue laws.” The plat is Dr. Walker’s V caetasi ,* V inrqab Rimma and all that is failing in him she must form alsosay9 that the Convention is ple facts. ignoramus governs another. —a remedy speedy and efficacious, which wilt —Gen, D >dge has not been invited strengthen into truth. From her, We talk of ourselves as the American eradicate the disease, and remove the cause. opposed to continuing or creating na —The Chicago Journal augurs fa- to become Secretary of War, a9 was tional banks, and favors only the circu through all the world's clamor, he must People, but forget that we have no ex A lie haa no legs but a slander! vorably of the success of a female ora- reported. There i9 now no Cabinet lation of greenbacks made by the Gov wi'i his praise; in her, through all the clusive right to the title. Other races world’s warfare, he must find his peace. | tor, from “the strength of her jaw.” officer in Washington. ernment. k»Tf been as much Americans as we— haa wings. m