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/ > THE POLK t’OF.VTV TIDES It Issued Every Saturday filter no** at Dallat, Polk Coaaty, Oregon. *. R. STUUT, Ettim " m PROPUETOR. O F F IC E — Main street. between Court and Mill streets, two doors south of the Poatuflce. G U ISC U PTIO N BATES. S IN G LE COPIES— One Year. $3 «* *•; Pin Month*. S2 0« ; Thee« Mouths, $1 (Ml. CLUBS will be supplied at the following rates:—Fire Copies, one year. Sl.'t 7 »; Ten Copies, one year, f 2a 00, mad for any greater number at S2 ¿0 per annum. Smb»crij>tioH mn*t bt p a id « iric tly im mdramc*. ADVERTISING BATES. One square ( 10 lines or less), first insert'«, f 8 SO Kerb 'subsequent insertion...................... 1 00 A liberal deduction will be made to quar terly and yearly adrertisers. Professional cards will be inserted at SI 2 00 ç e r annum. Transient advertisements must be paid for in a-lvance to in.-ure publics'ion. All other advertising bills mast be paid quarterly. Legal tenders taken at their current value. Blanks and Job Work of every description furnished at low rates on short notiee. THE POET'S CORNER. THE P R IN T E R S TOIL. Blow, ye stormy winds of winter. Drive the chilly, drifting snow, Closely housed, the busy printer, Heeds not how the winds may blew. Click, click, bis tyoe go dropping. Here and there into bis case, As be stands for hours popping Every letter in its place. Heaven «¡and the useful printer Every comfort mortals need. For our uights were dull in wüster Had we uet tbe news to read. Fad would be rhe world's condition I f no printer boys were found; Ignorante und superstition, Sin and sutlering would abound. Tea, ¡1 is tbe b »*f printer Rolls the car of knowledge on, And a glo< my mental wiuier Soon would rvigu it be wore goue. 1 NO. 36. DALLAS» OREGON. SATURDAY. J^U A R Y 8. 1870. VOL 1. Money’s useful, yet tbe »inters Fdl not bull so «inch a p ace As tbe bus}, toiling printers. Fingering type before tbe <‘ace. Yet while tbe type they’re busy setting. Oil some thankless popinjay Leaves the country, kindly letting Printers whist o lor Ibetr pay Oh ! ingratitude u'graiiguel Are there on enlightened soil Men with minds so incapacious As to slight the printer's t it? % Radii* al tribute to the Mem»ry ot ftn a k lia Pierce, IV hi Piatt writes to tbe 0 neiuu.tti Uutsi luerciut: isinee wiitin^ you last, the uews reaches «a v f the death o f this aceotn- plishe<t goutl- mhu . It cotues like a voice o f tbe far-off paat. He seems to have beian^d to e tbrnier age. While I wriftv his lisodsums, k««dl loyl»* d »«ii upon me, through u life-like por trait. painted by Healey. uod presented nit* hy that eminent man He «art tbe truest gentleman I ever kuew, and uttde so by the prompting* of a good heart. His loyalty to bis friends and party placed bint in a false position, »ad did wrong to bis fine in tellect. He felt tbat he could as well forsake bis fiiuiily ns abandon bis orpin ¡cation, so gave up to party what was meant for tu ittkiod. It wan his wi*for- • une, therefore, to be President, when the grave questions touching humanity, ihat terminated in a terrible war, broke upon «be country. His keenest sym pathy •« were with the riglt, but his s»nse o f duty to his organization and friends held him wrong He told me with much feeling, in the last conver sation l had with him, that, alter the storm which would dest oy the Consti tution and unsettle-eld found itions. the salvation of the country would depend on tbe conservative instincts of the Pe moerathc party. And he died so believ ittir- We should lament his loss if onlv in remembrance o f the purity and refine ment that p tvr led the Executive Man sioi while k * was its mister. Since the days of the •mrlier Presidents, it we ex eept Mr. Van TWren, n« such gent e- man occupied that place. His nature was too gentle, his inteloct too fine for the coarse men be was ended upon to control. Douglas, the athlete of the png. took the leadership o f the party and h*fr to P erce the empty h mors of his position. Both are gone. and soon to he forgotten. They lived to illus trate the difference between the actor md th«* d rentier— the thoughtful atu- •1 nt and tbe emirse man o f the world Vnd now. while la<i»eiitiug the loss <»f Franlcdn Pierce, I am r* -minded of his '-eaii’ rful effort on the death of WeL- >ter. The stir fh it d Ha ope irs in dark ne-s beyond rite tnnihled horizon I a ve il* the ermsolation o f knowing that whi'e it sets on this world, it rise* on a hri »hter carrying with it for. vt-r light •irid J »dn»** •N o t h in « in t h e P ark * **— The Riehnt* nd Kx imin r has a spicy chap ter mu ibe subject of newspapers, eiieit- ...| l, the stereotyped remark ->f indif- ro t render« after ^running five in n See him ! bow extremely busy. • tur. w.irld^.iif a daily i—me .if new*, Fingering type betöre the c »«e — •hat, there’* niching in the paper ” Toiling, till he's aim it dissy. 1» s v * : — \ nd op - ii are always gum - lo exali the fauiauii race hljng ib eit th *ir nip«’ '*, and in*ini|i- »»Mg h >w MHI'h ter th ft/ v hi d lo ir. G EN E U . I L M!SC EL L « ,V Y They 1a k «> fliu- mtlv about ‘ fi e* ar- H e i . lk B w YD .— I* tii.i} mu he known ■ iej.-s” on every Vwi igin ibl* -uhjeet g* |j**t to our readers «hurt this u-mark able Ld\ i\ thrif could effept such a ehsnge -nine of tiiese ever-niotiing philosophers is now an inmate of a Paldoriiia m-a •• asylum. She is said to have lieen n v fry it for «me hundred and fif’t v days in in«; mad, but has reeeut y become a succes*inn. And then ther think it is mother, and is now sensilde. A Ditt— nothing ♦« “ select” for a newspaper— bnrg paper says «t ‘ her career: Fight von hare merely to run the scissor* thro« h n half dozen exeto Ip'jfug ;| < (1 id " in male attire, at her lather’s side iu the rebel army, running the blockade, you have got matter en -ugh N w thi* perverting the faith o f a nuvaj officer i* the most i in ortaat und the most d if courted, married, divorced, married fie ii It department to fill on a newspaper again and separated fr>*tu her aaeond Very few men have the s ighfest idea husband, actress, lecturer, and social how to do the work. It requires a reformer— such was tbat widely known thorough new*piper man—who know* Female, Belle Boyd. H er feet and the puhlie appetite well— who know* brain had no rest; buffeted from pi lar what is going on in the world— and who to post, with no guide and no support knows how ta write and p ick a column but her own ¡as incts and fiery South in a dozen lines. Men who skim a ern passions, we cannot admire, but we «ewspaper *wd toss it aside little reflect must pity this strange soul, and be as bow uiueh berinsand toil have been ex tonished at its wild romantic career. pended in nerving up that meal. Busy A fter all, when so many storms have heads and busy hands have been toiling been weathered and so many dangers all day lo gather and prepare those passed throug, the high spirit has suo- viands and some vast building has been lit from cellar to garret all night to get cumbed at last. that psp<*r ready for the newsboy by erack o f dawn “ N-'thing in the pa H ere is an affecting seewe on a terry per!” Nothing in your head1! That’s boat crossing a rough riv e r: “ Oh. ! what’s the matter.” Henry, this is terrible.” “ Yes, it is,” be responded, “ but lean on me and I H ow t o M a k e S h i n o l e b L a s t — will protoct you.” “ Do you think it will be as rough as this all the way Silas Brow says that twcnty~five years across?” “ I do,M responded Henry. ago he dipped shingles in a large ket “ Then I guess I ’ ll have to lean on you,” tle of lime wash to which salt bad been returned the lady. “ For life,” whis added, and the whole kept boiling. A few shingles were dipped in all over at pered Henry, turning pale at the thought of refusal. “ I — I — don’t know a time long enough to soak them well, -—the water is aw— ful rough— [ guess und then thrown aside te dry. In a short time all the shingles were thus ye— yes— you’d better— aak papa.” prepared. Although what are termed ‘•sap shingles.” they have lasted twen — The father o f a Cornell student ty-five years, and may de ne for years who seat as an item in his cash account. to come. Several experiments o f a “ Charity, 630,” replied, *‘ I fear that smaller character have been made since charity cover* a multitude o f sins.” with very successful results — Albany Cultivator. — W hy are teeth like verbs? They • tb regular, irregular, and dateotive. 1 Subscribe for tbe T i m e s , $3 a year. F E M tL B J O tA E Y IS N . The «nout exciting horse race tbat ever took place in America, and proba bly in rhe world, came off very unex pectedly ou the grounds o f the Illinois State Fair Association, at Decatur, re cently. Four premiums of §50. 640. 630 and 6-0. each, had been offered for tbe be-« lady equestrianism, und at 4 n 'c k k twelve 'mliM put In aw appear ance, ail tuountcd on caparisoned and mettled Meeds. The •exhibition com menced by the ladies riding to aud fro in front of the grind stand, displaying their skill and management of the horse before a delighted audience nuin boring nearly thirty thousand persona. As each displayed some peculiar skill she received rouods of applause, and this urged »nd nerved the others to greater exertion. One \oung lady, Mi*s Sadie Wilkinson, ot Nvaritic, Ma con county, III., uot content with hav ing already received more applause than any other, dismounted and had her sad dle removed, and mounted the hare back o f her black horse from the ground wrh the case of a eircus iider. The cheers o f the multitude had a ready produced its effects up -n the riders. o.»u*ing an abandon and recklessness p-culiar to 'he sex under such ci renin- -taoees While the contusion was at its aoex.oneof the track marshals with more lungs than discretion, shouted out at the top ot his voice, “ Go clear around the track ! g o ! all o f you g o ! go.” In an instant every horse was un der full run. the ladies were applying the whip, .md th«: air was filled wirh hats, ribbons, laces and “ fixins” which have a * place no a Tace track. On they dashed, lour leading the crowd and running as near “ neck und neck” us possible. A t th» start the black steed with the mai I o f Nyantic on his hare hack was about one hundred yards in 'lie rear, and no such thing as a race wi- contemplated, but she leaned for ward like u regular jockey, gave him the whip, and soon passed the rear hor s *s. :«nil then the middle group, imd was tit rhe act of taking the lewd when her borne atuinhh-d aud fell unon the graw» at the edge of Ahe track. She was np before him. how-ver. and had hold of his bridle when four or five meu sprang over the guard and held him while she again mounted from the grmtid The Nyantic girl again ap- nli sl tli» whi • vigorously, and wasststn O'-aring rh» racers in front Coming in *>n r*o* last quarter a grey h *rse had the lead by a len tb and now every whip was in fu'l »day ; cver\ horse, with letgthened neck straining every nerve for tm* lead. \s the horses w»re near ing rhe grmd stain! the history o f the »rack ftils to furnish a jiaml el to the inietis« feeling and ««»itein ent h'ghf- cued ¡md intensified by the frailness • i m I reeklossncss o f th»*e daring lady rid rs They cut the air with such * • ¡fine** th i» their long *kirts floated •ivi*r rh» h.ieks o f the horses Forso.n» di-tar,ee now no change hud taken fila«*e, each doing her level best, exeept with the Nyantic maid, an the bare-hack stped, who quickly took advantage o f »he ele r spice on the pole side, and rupidlv pissing one after another came nnd'*r the string neck uod neck with the third ho-se. and onlv « length from the the lead I f ihmdemoniimi had broken loose it could not have excelled the wild huzzas and cheers given the Nyantic girl by that exeit»d multitude. The young men cbe»red and yelled ; tbe young ladies applauded with »heir fans and kerchiefs, while the tears ran down their pretty cheeks; the old peo ple. in many cases, embraced each other in their joy. while the thick tongues in their choking throats mur mured iu bfiken syllables, •‘ Nyantic;*’ As she rode back on her foaming steed, all covered with dirt by his fall, *»nd her clothes torn almost to shreds, tbe grand stand resound »d wirh the cheers of thirty thousand voices, and the sur rounding groves prolonged the echo. The committee wore over an hour in c owing to a decision, and finally gave her the third premium The commit- m itt«« tied two red ribbons on her arm, amid the hisses and censure o f the mnl. titude. but they were scarcely there be fore someone leaped into the arena, cut the ribbons off, and t.ranipl»d them in the dust. And that ended tbe most exciting race of this or any other age. — A blunderbuss was recently to be used in a play at a flhieaffo theater, and the one who loaded it fitl»d it te the muzzle by wav o f a joke. WheB the pieee was fired it kicked the actor over in aerate » f insensibility, and terrified the entire audience. Ladies fainted and were carried home; the police rushed in thinking it was some terrib’e accident, and all was in the utmost confusion for some time. — George D. Preutice is critically ill o f rh(*^uiati*m ot the heart. — A « expedition o f ooe hundred tneii iif command o f Col. Aabby, Mns- b y ’s Lieutenant during the rebellion, sailed fur Cuba on Monday. 27th ult T h »y took twenty thousand small arms and some cannon and ammunition. -—On CbrLuna* evening Joseph H. Heidhampl, a well known German oit- .iceu o f St. Louis, waa'poisoned Since that he has been pronounced dead by phyeicians. The body showed no signs o f decomposition, and the family re fused to have it buried A few days sinee a man aad woman, singularly at tired, visited (he coapse with the an nouncement that they would work a miracle by raising the dead. They proceeded to make virion* manifests tions and handled the body quite roughly, when ih » deceased g«»t up aud gave the miracle workers a severe beat ing. P R O F E S S IO N A L C A R D S , 4 0 . son county, on account o f the excited .— ------------------ . ■- ^ condition o f its people over murders W . D . J E F F R IE S , M. D ., committed there. The transfer must be ratified by the Legislatures o f F W ida Physician and SurgeM, and Alabama, and by Congress before Eola, Oregon. it ean take place. Special attention given to Obatetries aod — The other day. in Buffalo, an ex Di«e**«« of Women. 1tf cited individual, with a carpet bag in J. E. D A V ID S O N , M. D ., one hand and an umbrella in the other, and a shawl hanging over his arm. ac Physician and Snrircnn, costed one o f the street gamins with the Independence, Ogu. ! question : “ Say, bub. which iy the T. V. B. Embrer. quickest way for me to get to the Krie railroad depot?” “ R u n !” was the la- P H Y 8IC I4 lVA§VRGE016 couic response. A M IT Y , Y A M H IL L CO., OREGON. — The employees of the l Ttali divis ^ F * Office at residence. Uyl ion o f the Union Pudific Railroad— 200 miles at its west end— have organized a BOUHAM A L A W 8 0 1 , -ecret society, to which nearly every mau belongs, whose object it is t<* rid Attorneys fc Counsellors-at-Law, SALEM , OREGON. the stations o f tke thieves, gamblers O F F It’ E IN THE COURTHOUSE. 1 and murderers who now infest the line. On Sunday, lately, several of the head €. G. CURL, villains at Promontory were informed Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law, that they must “ get or dangle,” aud SA LE M , OREGON, they “ got.” — A woman was sent to prison in New York city recently for attempting to steal forty cents with which to buy bread The *ame woman a few yeans ago was worth over 6100,000, which she had amassed in keeping a hotel. — The Postmaster General ha* noti Inferior Court«.of this State. fied the Congressional Postoffie» Com O FFIC E — In Watkinds A Co’« Brick, up 1 mittee 'hat the North German Couf. d- sbiir* eration has ab dished the franking priv H a y d e n & ifly e r , ilege, aod recommends that Cougr-ss do the «ante. A T T O R N E Y S - A T - L A W , NEWS IH BRIEF. ' Will practice in ail tbe CoorU of Record and — Tbe World has information that Kdwin M. Stanton, late Secretary of Dallas, Oregon. the War department, died on the 24th the Duke of Argyle is coming to Wash OFFTCE IN TH E COURT HOUSE. 1 ington to arrange the Alabama qu« s- ult. and was buried ou the 26th. SULLIVAN h WHITSON, — The Occidental Hotel, San Fran tiou. Also that Ki glaud proposes, in cisco, with furniture aud the lot on stead of making the apology demanded Attorneys & Counsellors-at-Law, which the building stands, is rated at by Sumner, to transfer to the United Dallas, Oregon, 61.000 000. The new hotel at the States all that territory lying west of Will practice in all tbe Court« of the State. I corner o f New Montgomery and Mar Lake Sujierior, including British Co J . L . C O L L IN S , ket streets, will cost, lot aud furniture lumbia and ell her possessions on the included, 61,200.000. The Lick House Pacific coast, in consideration o f our Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law. is put down at 6800,000, and the Cos paying a large sum of money therefor. mopolitan at $975.000. Two years ago an enterprising agri culturist went to North Carolina with a few hundred dollars and began culti vating peanuts. This year ke has sold His crop for 684,000, netting 654,000 profit. Dallas, Oregon. — The Woman Who Dared lives ia Special attention given to Collections aad to Hlinoi«. She "worried a promise o f mar. matter» pertaining to Real Estate. 1 riage out of a Sunday evening culler, «AS. MCCAIIL invited him to a party a few days after J. A. AP P L EGAT E. wards, showed him a marriage certifi Applegate A XeCaia, cate containing his name— and stroking him under the chin, said: “ Now, Hen A T T O R N E Y S .A T - L A W , ry, yon are going to fulfil your engage Dallas. Polk County, OgW. 1 ment?” De*pite Henry’s exeuses he COX & E A B H A R T , was a married man in less thaa fifteen minutes. — Terms have been arranged, by means o f cable dispatches, between J«tues Gordon Bennett, Jr., o f the American yacht Dauntless and Mr. — Favorable report has been made in Ashbury, o f the Knglish yacht Cam the Senate on the bill to provide for bria, l«>r a race for a stake o f ¿550, 1‘ruru the old Honk of Kinsale to Sandy execution o f laws against polygamy in Hook, New York, to start next fourth Utah. ••f July. — Gen. Morgan, a leading Democratic — A report comes from Ottumwa, member o f the Georgia Legislature, Iowa, of ¡m abdominal Case somewhat says the present Legislature will never resembling the Richardson McFarland reseat the negroes nor adopt the F if affair. In this the husband caoght the teenth Amendment. lover escaping fix*in the house, and shot — A recently wedded Chicago wife him through the bowels, but the latter has sued for a divorce on the horrible qui»tly inserted a bowie-knife in the charge that her husband is a “ night husband’s bowels, thus adding insnlt. to editor.” She will probably get i t ; for uijurv. it is an outrage for a night editor to in — Tbe House has continued the con veigle an nnsaepecting woman into ma sideration o f the Georgia reconstruction trimony. bill. An iiiter»sting debate fo'lowed. Voorhees, Kid'idge. Cox and other De P rogress o f t h e C a l if o r n ia a n d ill no rats oppo*ed the bill. »8 also did O r e g o n R a i l r o a d . — The California several Republicans. Farimworth and and Oregon railroad is progressing ra Bingham making speeches and voting pidly. There is now completed and in against it. Logan. Butler and others d uly use fifty one miles, from Roseville, spoke in its favor, and the bill passed— the junction with the Central Pacific 121 to 51. railroad, to a point in Butte county. 17 — Congress has adjourned over the holidays, and meets again on January 10th. — A young man and hi« intended presented themselves before the city clerk of Davenport, Iowa, tke-other day, for a marriage license. It was found that the intend»i bridegroom was un der age and had neither parents nor guardian. In order to make the pro ceedings regular the lady suggested that she herself be appointed guardian, which was done, and 8he then gave her consent that her ward should marry herself. WHOLESALE ft RETAIL GROCERS M O O R E * BLOCK, 1A LB M . Goods by the Package at Reduced R at« __________________ mv 10 3tf_______________ Underwood, Barker A Co, W AG O N RAKERS, Commercial street, Salem. Oregon. a n u f a c t u r e a l l r in b s o f w a g o n s after the most approved styles and M tbe best uf workmanship, on short notice, aad A T P O R T L A N D P R IC E 8 1 __ 214 f____ _____________ E. O. SLOAT, Carriage and Ornamental S I G N P A I N T E It, Commercial Street, Opposite Starkey's Block,? 21-tf______________________________ BALWW. miles north of Mary*ville. The Com pany on Saturday last added 250 Chin ese laborers to their already large force, and this week will send 100 more from the Western Pacific, besides 60 teams S. C. S T I L E S , with scrapers. Sufficient iron and ties are on hand, and the Company now Mailt at* (opposite tbe Court House), D alla*. feel assured that tbe road will he in full operation to Chico. 44 miles north o f anufacturer and d ealer in Hsrness. Saddles, Bridles, Whips. Collars. Marysville, by the 15th of February Check Lines, etc., etc., of all kinds, which be is next. Meanwhile the Oregon end of prepared to sell at the lowest livtng rates. road, nnder Holliday’* contract, is be y g g - R E P A IR IN G done on short notice. ing pushed towards this State with con siderable energy.[.‘ ] — San Francisco Frederick Nuss, Bulletin. — A man named Smith, in Omaha, was made to pav a penalty for kissing, S ending L etters O utbids the against her will, o f course, a “ tat, red- M a i l . —By recent decision o f the Post aruied. ravishing female who sells cab Office Department, communications cun bages.” be sent outside of the mail if enclosed — Some genius has invented a “ ha*e- in stamped envelopes and being equal burner” tobacco pipe, and a novel in in value and amount iu rates o f po*tag» vention it is. The tobacco is fired at to whieh such letter* w .uld be liable if the bottom, ns coals are in a base bum sent by mail, »toil prop Hy *eab*d * »th ¡r er stove, and the pipe, like a stove, na «v •nch letters cannot he t ik n theref-orn n- be replenished at will nt the top. It is without rearing or ile-tr .vin g »elope« and the same Inly directed ami said to be much cleaner and deeidedlv more convenient than the old fashioned addressed, and the date <*t -aid letter on the envelope; and it is not required article. — George V) Prentice, of the Lmii*. that »nsh'ietters aud envelopes he hand vilie Courier-Journal, died on the 29th ed to the postmaster at t he point o f des tinatton. It is the ditty o f route agents ult to receive letters After rhe mail is closed — The Alabama Legislature has been m session for thirty days at an expense aud all way letters prepaid hyetainfis. o f over 640 000. and only eight hills — In a chardh in Illinois, t he ¡ladies, have been presented to the Governor having re-carpeted it. put up a-antic? for approval. — The official nnnonncempirt -shows requesting all gentlemen who nse N • fhat st the recent election in West Flor bucce “ leave their mouths nt the door ida, 1.16*2 votes Mere cast in favor o f —~ If 'Indio* were cast adrift oa die se annexation to Alabama and 661 against. where would they stcur .to ? To tb This is less lhan one-third of the regis .! tered rote. N o poll was bad ia Jack 'Isle of Mao. Saddlery, Harness. M CARRIAGE A WAGON N A K IR , » » t »• » * Main street. Corner of Monmouth, IN D E P E N D E N C E . H a v in g j u s t e s t a b l is h e d m y s e l f in business at Independence, I solicit a air share ot business from the' citisens of Folk and adjninilig comities. Ad Kinds of w>rk in iny line done in the best sfyl«\ on notiee, aud at the most reason able mies. /■yp C a ll and Examine my Work. 20 tf FRED ’K NUSS. HilKuREII A SHINDLER, FURNITURE Importers and Dealers in AN D B E D D IN G . The -Largest Rtock aud tke Oldest F i t * uiture House iu Portland. WAREROOMS AND F A C T O R Y : CORNER SALMON AND FIRST STREETfl, yPO R X LAND , O R E G O N .¡, ID tf t'äi mm w