The Polk County signal., December 08, 1868, Image 1

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M ERCHANTS’
J ^ o a r d and Lodging on reasonable
Meals at all hours.
terms.
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EXCHANGE,
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Montgomery,
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Independence, Oregon
N E W SHOP.
JOXES THE J E W E L E R ,
pposite Salem, on the Spring Valley road.
i of a mile from the Ferry, the under­
signed have opened a
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Blacksmith and Wagon Shop
State Street. Salem, Oregon,
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s the place to go and get your watches.
clocks and jewelry repaired in good style
1 warrant all my work for one year : if it i>
cot right, I make it right.
R E M E M B E R
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Where all kinds of work in their line will be
executed promptly aud with dispatch.
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Attorneys & Counsellors at Law,
Dr. W . D. J E F E R IE S .
SA LE M , OREGON.
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and to matters connected with real Estate
PIES, C A K E S OF ALL K I N D S ,
Kept on hand and Supplied to Order.
Crackers. Oysters and Sardines.
Being Fitted up in first class style we can
guarantee satisfaction.
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IMPORTER AND SOBS»R IM
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Physician and Surgeon
near residence,
Coart Streets, Salem.
the attributes which create and foster a
passion for stimulants, and which belong
to all the distilled and f jrmented liquors
of commerce. Its alcoholic element is
derived from sound rye, a "rain which,
according to the testimony of the most
distinguished analytical chemists yeilds
ing political assemblies on partisan pol
itics.
W e then asserted that a vast
proportion of ‘.lie Infidelity which seems
to be fixing itself in the United States
as an Institution, was suggested, begot­
ten, provoked, stimulated, brought into
“ What has
A
W arn in g to Counterfeiters and a
Caution to Purchasers.
produced
this
great
change? The action ofthe Oregon Leg
islature and the time honored pr inciples
ofthe Democracy ! ”
No expense will be spared, no loral weans
of yunishing fraud will be neglected, in the
effort to preveut the counterfeiting of I10S
T E T T E R ’S S T O M A C H B I T T E R S .
Again : “ I t is not a question now
who has been elected President, but
who ran against Grunt! ”
that, i f such actious, und such utter,
ances, are consistent with religious and
Christian teachings, practices and pre­
Not to purchase any article purporting to
be H O S T E T T E R ’S S T O M A C H
BITTE R S
which is not authenticated by the handsome
Government stump, specially engraved for the
proprietors, and also by their superb new label
with a beautiful vignette representing the con­
flict between Saint Gcurge and the Dragon at
the top. and a minaturc note of band signed
Hostetler A Smith, at the foot.
N. B.— The Genuine Bitters are sold in Bot­
tles only. All persons who pretend to sell the
article by the gallon or barrel are impostors
and the stuff they offer is a worthless anil prob­
ably poisonous counterfeit.
cepts, they have all the religion they
waut, or need, and are just as good
Christians as the preachers who essay
to teach them the way in which they
should walk.
This is natural— is a log
ical conclusion.
The St. Louis Christian Advocate has
an article
in its issue of Nov. l l t l i
under the suggestive head o f “ religion
and p olitics ” which is to the p'uut.and
PREPARED AND BOLD BT
HOSTETTER
A
SM ITH ,
PITTSBURGH, PENN.
For sale by all Druggists, Grocers and
Store-keepers throughout the world. Agents
for the Pacific Coast,
and LIQUORS.
Also Sole Manufseturer and Proprietor of the
j
the masses for the pretensions of preach
a more whole.somc spirit than any other known being and nurtured by the curse aud
substance.
But the Q U I N T E S S E N C E OF
R Y E employed in the manufacture of the Bit
scourge o f the age, political preaching
ters, must uot be confounded with the rye-spir­
it sold in the market as Bourbon or Monongahe- and the active and zealous participation
la whiskey. The very be-t brands of those liq
of professed preachers in the low and
uors procured 'or hospital use, and preferred by
the medical stall's of the army and navy to any contemptible struggles aud foibles iu
other liq tor, are not to be compared in excel­
cident to the conduct of partisan politi­
lence with the article us d in the concoction of
the G R E A T S T O M A C H IC . It is subjected iu cal campaigns.
Is it surprising that
tho first instance to a process which deprives it
of the pungent and acrid elemeuts proved by both politicians aud people should lose
chemical test to exist iu even whiu *re deemed all r\->pect for the minister who prosti
the finest imported and domestic spirits, and
utter being thus purified, is kept ou hand long tutes his sacred calling to the extent ol
enough to give it mellowess before bc.r g medi
mounting the stump ” and hammer
cated. The chief virtue of the preparation is
not, however, in its spiritous bns<s, but in the ing away tor hours, fuming, frothing
juices of the todie, aperient, corrective and anti
billious vegetable products so largely intermix­ and striking right and left and bring
ed with it.
all the accompaniments < f the dema­
It is claimed that H O S T E T T E R ’S B I T T E R S
commend themselves to the special favor of the gogue to bear iu exciting the prejudices,
Temperance Physician as the only diffusive
stimulant which be can prescribe without dan­ inflaming the passions and iucitiug his
ger cf unduly exciting the brain of his patient
hearers to deeds o f ungodliue-s and may
and of creating the morbid thirst tor alcohol
which .loses of umncdicutcd 8( irits are so apt hap violence ?
The preacher who ideii
to engender.
To arguo with the dogmatists who assert that tifies himself with the rabble tnu-t con
stimulants arc always unnecessary and pernic­ tent himself to he deemed one of the
ious, would be a waste of time. The most em­
inent lights of Medical Science have sc-tled rabble : indeed, in the popular estima
that question, and it is n»t worth while to have
tion lower than that, for his ’«iqu ity is
to bayc a controversy with the rushlight. The
leading champions of temperance in the Uuited ten-fold.
Politicians know their own
States, Horace Greeley among the number,
Deception and iu-incciity are
have announced that they are not in favor of hearts.
prohibiting the employment of spirituous liq
a part o f the programme on the politi-.
uors as medicines.
So much f*T the moral claims of the article cal huntings; the minister who intrudes
under the nmperance code. The ground being
thus cleared, and it is hoped, to the satisfaction himself there is tried by ihe standard
of every rational champion of su'ni ty. the spe
o f deception and insincerity which per
cific application ofthe Bitters »o the prevention
vadc the atmosphere of partisan politics.
and cure of tho “ ills that flesh is heir to,
comes next in order.
It has been but a few week* since hous
Persons whose lives a^-e peculiarly sentitivc
es were illuminated, anvils fired and
are said to be ol a “ billious habit.’
The uior
bid influences which eflTect others in a genetai
way, seem in their eases to operate directly bonfires built, while numbers congrega­
and mainly upon the bilialry organ. Many who ted at the Court House here in Dallas
who are ti.us predisposed to an overflow of bile
are subject to periodical attacks of biliousness, for the purpose of ‘'jo lify in g ” over’ Or
accompanied by pain in the right side, fangor,
egon Redeemed (? ) ’ A prayer meet,
pain between the shoulders, glo >my feelings,
and that peculiar tinge of the complexion ing was in progress in the city at the
which ii d ofttes that a portion of the bile
The minister in
which should have passed off through the bow­ opening of the orgies.
els has been misdirected to the venous system, charge of the Dallas work attended the
and is present iu the superficial blood vessels.
prayer meeting and then wended his
To avert these symptoms, und the gcucral dis
order of the internal organs which tney involve,
way directly to the Court House where
it is advisablo for individuals of a bilious hab
u to take at least two doses of H O S T E T T E R ’S he became an active and leading partic
B I T T E R S daily at such times as they have
reason to apprehend an attack. Indeed, all ipaat in tho extravagant aud intetnper
who have a constitutional and temperamental
ate sayings and doings o f the meeting
tenden -y to liver complaints would do well to
take a dose of this admirable A N T I B I L L I O U S
As a specimen o f the sincerity which
S T O M A C H IC every day. When the great
secretive gland is seriously disordered, tho marked the utterances of the Rev. di­
medicine usually resorted to is mercury, which, vine on this occasion we will quote a few
unless administered with very groat caution,
is infinitely more dangerous than the disease it gems from his speech.
Remarking up­
is intended to subdue. In a large majority of
the cases treated with calomel or blue pill, the on the glorious (? ) acheiviuents o f the
anti-bilious and alterative properties of the
third of November in this State in
Bitters would produce the desired effect. And
let it be borne iu jniud that, whereas mercury is snatching the same from the grasp of
in every shape an iusidious poison, the medical
the Domocracy (? ) and what had lod t<>
ingredients of this preparation consist exclu
sively of wholesome vegitable extracts, whieb the change, the Rev. gentleman ex
axe diffused through the system by means of
with sacreligious unction:
the purest and mildest of all known stimulants. claimed
H O S T E T T E R , S M I T H A CO.,
Agents for Pacific Coast,
eXLXBEATZD RUSSIAN BITTERS,
Wholesale
Druggists, San Franauoo.
Llbwt7 “ d 38 3m
113 Jackson St., San Francisco. dec 7—lm
corner of t u,...
o f the go-pel and the just contempt of
M edicinal P reparation , not a B ev ­ ers who eagerly or otherwise lend them
selves to th l unholy work o f hurangu
erage , and that it is entirely free from
ìtnojf uno j »i¿j u j—rnffo
N 0 0 3 RO
PORTLAND, OREGON,
Offloo—
that H O S T E T T E R ’S B IT T E R S is a
CAUTION.
M E A L S A T A L L H O U R S-
•NTAL
it be distinctly borne mind
State Street, Salem.
ATTORNEY AND
Cs
L et
and
Restaurant,
J. L. C O L L I N S ,
A few weeks since, we referred brief­
Now, peofde very naturally conclude
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STOMACH BIÎTCRS.
Pulpit Politics—Is it Consistent
with Christian Character, or
with the D ig n L j o f the Chris­
tian Ministry ?
ly to the waniog influence «.-f ministers
D r y Goods Groceries, Clotnlng, Boots
HOTEL.
H O S T E T T E R ’S
HE undersigned having concluded to close
out (heir entire Stock, consisting of
Such as
three months, $100.
F i r e copies, »ne year,
Medical Properties of
General Merchandise,
J. H. UPTON^ Publisher.
T e rm s — On«
NO. 38.
DALLAS, OREGON, TUESDAY. DECEMBER 8, 1868.
VOL. I.
we cannot close this artie'e better than
by quoting an elaborate extract. The
chance out o f a hundred i f he docs not A Curious Di Force EclairissemenL
uuulgc politics with some part of the
-erviees;u t least it is doubtful if the
A curious matrimonial affair has just
spirit o f the previous days harangue transpired in Brooklyn; the parties are
does not tinge the religious services, uot in the high life uor known to fame,
l'his migliug religion and politics may hut their history is nevertheless inter­
he precious food tor some, hut we opine esting. TVu years ago a couple, recent­
that the great majority are on'y supreme-, ly married, moved from Boston into the
ly disgusted. Such a ministerial course City o f Churches, whore the husband
will sooner make infidels than increase set up in business and prospered. H is
the number ol converts to the religion business at his office was belter than at
o f Christ. I f it does not make down hom<, for his marnedUlh tt*« fittfcappy, *
right infidels, we fear it will superin­ and, five years ago, the parties managed
duce an indifference to tile paramount to secure a divorce. They gradually
importance of religh.n.
lost trace of each other, and, during the
W e may he asked if there arc minis­ pa-t year, each of them married, and
ters who thus dabble in party politics? * acli to persons who had been divorced.
Most ce tainly there arc. But a short The two husbands, during the period,
till!-' since we saw iu a secular paper a were thrown together and became inti­
list o f appointments for one o f ou r!).!)’« mate, without knowing their real rela
to address polit.cal meetings in different tion» to each other, aud, a few weeks
parts o f tlie Slate, covering the space of ago, the one who had married the di.
nearly a month. Such a t >ur of politi­ vurced woman, invited the other home
cal speaking will not have tlie tendency to lake dinner with him. Imagine the
to aid iu preaching the doctrine o f holi­ embarrassment which occurred wheu
ness, or contribute largely to the en­ the happy husbaud introduced his wife
joyment o f perfect. lo.e, or the establish­ and his friend to each* other. Both
ment o f an enviable ministerial reputa­ were too well bred to have a scene, and
tion. Let politicians attend to their so although the dinner passed off some­
work, and Christaiu ministers to their what frigidly, there was uo actual un­
appropriate calling— the salvation of j pleasantness.
sinners from sin und future perdition,
The recipient of the diuing courtesy
and building up the church iu spiritual­ invited the other to go h -me with hioi
soon alter the events related, and par­
ity and power of holiness.
It is uot the di-cussion of politcal take of a family dinner, little thinking,-
questions to which we object, hut the as it huppeued, that he was iO return
discussion o f those questions with their he compliments o f the other iu every
It turned out that each hud
accompaniment.of denunciations in the pariculur
pulpit, (or by Christian ministers any­ ma ried the divorced spuusc of ihe oth-*
where,) of their, being mingled with the er, and it w.is moic satisfac ory to them
services o f the house o f God. The real ft> know that each was entirely pleased
merit of political ami all other questions with the urrangeincut.* So much for the
hears no comparison to the value and intricacies of mutrotnony. I dare say
claims of the Christian idigion. We there arc many a couple or many a pair
repeat, we hove not the slightest objec­ ul couples that would he greatly bcuefiF- •
tion to political discussions— the right ted by such a change.
o f every man to choose his party and
Vx.le lor its principles, and all this may­
Y oung M en . — ltshou'd be the aim
be done without making it a part of the o f young men to move in good society—
pu'dic services iu the house of God.
wc mean uof the rich, nor the proud,
A religious periodical should he kept nor the fashionable, but we me-n the
as free from party politics as the society of the wise, the intelligent, and
pulpit. What moral right has ihc the good. Where you find men who
Christian minister to leave his appro know more than you do, and fr m
priate work o f preaching the gospel, fur whose conversation you can gather in­
party political purposes ? Or ilic editor formation. it is always -afe to be.
o f a religious pafer to pro-titute its
It has broken dowu many a m >n by
columns to party political end»? While assocociuiing with the low and and vu!»
he may claim a legal, lie has no moral gar. where the ribald songs were incul­
right to do any such thing. When the I cated and the indecent story to excite
people attend the services ol a church it j laughter, or influeuce the had passions.
is expected that they go there to hear Lord Clarendon attributed success aud
the gospel preached,and to worship God. happiness in life to as-oeiating with
And wheu they subscribe fur a religious persons more learned and virtuous than
periodical, it is reasonable fur them to; ourselves. I f you wi»h to he wise and
expect tcligious information aud relig respected, and i f you desire happiness
ious couii»el.
at.d not misery, we advise you to as.-o-
ciatc with the intelligent aud the good.
M odekk W omen as seen at S ar ­ .Sirive for excellence and strict integrity
atoga — i see a few in this multitude and then y< u will never he found iu tho
o f women who would n it icpel the in sinks of pollution, or on the benches of
sinuatiou o f strong minded. I watched revelers and gamblers. Once habitunte
one person for weeks with anxious eye. yourself to a virtuous course, or ouce se­
Her long flaxen hair, and spectacles sur cure a love for the society o f the good,
mounting a pulpy, Spurgeou nose.seem­ and there is nothing which would he a
ed to denote the Fri edman's missionary. greater punishment than to he obliged
Her Pre R.qduelite shoes, following the hv accident to associate lor half a day
exact form o f the foot, were evidently with the low and vulgar.
designed by some lover o f nature, aud
not a mere copyist o f such ideal forms
T h e panic in New York i« financial
as sq a re toes. Here, thought I, is one uflairs, though not likely to extend now
who sets at defium-c the ty ranny o f cus
over the country, should warn us o f the
tom. A iasl no flirt ol sixteen, with a
peroraliou to her dress two yards long, necessity that wk become less reckless
was more weak and prejudiced than she
She had chanced tocioss Mrs. i?tauton s
orbit somewhere iu space, and admired
her snowy locks, ‘i which,” she added.
** were o f course blanched by some ar­
tificial process. For her part, she h id
no paiieuce with such wouieu. They
overstepped their sphere.”
Every night some hotel furnishes a
“ hop ” for the delectaiiou of its inmates.
Here, under the gas, wc see women
whirled in the maddening gallop, with
a ring o f spectators gathered around to
see fair play. Now they skim around
the periphery, now they dive into tlie
vortex, until they look lik»* a "roup of
wild eyed Bacchantes, drunk with g id ­
dy motion. 1 might have gazed ou a
plantation break-d-wu with emotions
loss keenly poignant. Young booby in.
forms us privately, as he wipes the per
sjairatiun ol the last round dunce from
his br<>w, that lie takes his partner a-ide
and tries her paces before venturing his
reputation with her iu the ring
Oh,
humiliation ! These he the masters wo­
men servo. These are the pleasures
which they «rill never surrender, no,
nevi-r! with the glorious privilege ol
being toasted as “ Lovely W oinun,” at
the fag end o f Caledonian festivals just
before Calvin MeMurrugh mid boozy
companions fall under t,ho table.— Rev-
o l’itinn.
The Democratic editors-of the city of
New York ¡ire a hard set. Their names
ate Wood. Marble, Stone and “ Brick.”
and extravagant in the use o f money.—
That there will he a univcrsol panic,
and revulsions so wide spread as to be
dreadful in their effects, unless tfie hab-
iis of our pe >plc are radically changed,
is only a question of time. Financial
skill and experiments nny put off the
evil day. Devices however do uot cre­
ate gold, they only substitute some­
thin" for it. In time, all that is bouht,
and usi d.or wasted, must he paid for.—
The substitutes must be exchanged for
that substance which they represent,
and then the superstructures o f wealth
based upon these will couic down with
a crash. Sue)« facts as have fiecu fur-
ni.-hed by Wall "Street, during the last
month, ought not to be without their
wholesome influence over ft*c land.—
Extravagance is likely to be more dan­
gerous than nny other evil, and cur peo
pie will he wise it they chegk it while
it is possible.— Ocrideui.
T he P o l k C o u n t y S i k n a l ha- put on a nsw
drc«i8.
Couldn’t you loan your old one to tbs
Courier, M r . S i o n a l ?— Corvallis Gazette.
No.
W e were thinking of making $
present o f the old duds to the Roseborg
Ensign.
Advocate says:
W hat can be thought o f a minis­
ter who, during one day, harangues
The vote iu Los Angelos county
a political meeting on parly politics,
California, fell
hundred short ol
greeted with the shouts of the rab­
the number oa -the -G-rcut Register
ble, and the next day goes to his
This county is strongly Democratic—
pulpit to preach Jesus and tho resur
could solitary and urnt'idcd have giver
rection to the people?-
How edifying
J.
II.
Lewis
has
ju-t
received
g.case
ifie St «to to Sevmonr h *d the Demo
such a discourse must be to the seusi*
u'atb
polled their »licutftb-
1
ble, candid hearer! Then it is only one | of new stvle winter boots