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VOL. 2. DALLAS, OREGON. SATURDAY. MAY 13. 1871. Site rtjgffu Itejublian Zii Issued Every Saturday Morning, at , Dallas, Folk County, Oregon. BY R. II. TYSON. OFFICE Mill street, opposite the j Court House. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. SINGLE COPIES One Year, $2 00. Six Months, $1 15 Three Months, $1 Oft For Clubs wf ten or more $2. per annum. Sbcrijtiom mutt be paid trictlt in admanct ADVERTISING "BATES. One square (10 lines or less), first insert'n, $3 00 Each subsequent insertion- 1 00 A' liberal deduction will be made to quar terly and yearly adrertisers. Professional cards 'will be inserted at $12 00 nr &nnum. Transient advertisements must be paid for in advance to insure 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 rates on short notice. A Splendid Chance. We will send the Dallas Repcblicas and DkRE3t's Moxthlt, which is itself $3 for one year, to any person who pays us $1 Dkmorest's Monthly stands unrivalled as a Family Magazine. Its choice Literature, its superior Music, its large amount of valuable information on miscellaneous subjects, its practical and reliable information in regard to K fashion, and arti-itin illustrations, fire its. just claim to its well-earned title, "The Model Magazine of America." THE GREAT 8I.EET OF IHll. ITS liFFECT ON THE Fit U IT CHOP. From the Western Ruralist Sleet is a natural phenomenon of fre quent occurrence. It' makes its ap pearance more or less frequently every year, and may appear at any time when the rain-cloutl is warmer than 32 Fahrenheit, and the crust of the earth and oljects'near; it are below the freez ing point. The sleet about which we propose to ay a few things, fell on Wednesday, the 25th of Jaouary. It began iu the morning at 6 o'clock, with the ther mometer at 27, end rained without interruption until the inormnjr of Thursday. The falling rain elevated the temperature to 30 by nightfall of the same day j yet most ot the rain was converted into ice and did not enter the ground. The measure of the rain was 117 inches, aod we noticed a horizontal line No 10 galvanized wire enveloped with an icicle fully one inch in diameter, with short icicles from below at dis tances apart as regular, and proportions as uniform as the teeth of a horse comb. In the magitude ot its proportion, this sleet very far exceeds anything of the eort we ever witnessed before, and the dismantled forest trees bear evidence of this, those of brittle texture, with many ; small branches suffering most. i We were curious to take some notes of the proportions ot this sleet, and cut off a branch of the Wey mouth Pine, about six inches long The delicate-and llendcr leaves of the White Tine, which add so much to its beauty, put out in fascicles of five upon the small branches, and radiating around the points; these leaves assume the appearance of a brush four or six inches in diameter. In the branch cut off, each of these fascicles had presented its points to the shower, and had become the base of an i iciclef so that a branch, in itself almost ' as. light as a ' feather, had taken -on three quarters of a pound of ice ; .and the parent, a very fine venerable tree of fifty summers, with foliage too dense to let through, a drop of rain JbefoTC freezing, actually had in attach sznents to points of its interior branches the respectable weight of three and a Jbalf tons of ice, being the weight of a ishower of rain 1 17 inches" upon the gpace covered by such a tree. ' v It is not surprising, then, that branches called on to suspend three or ifour hundred pounds of ice at arm's length' should fail of strength, and . .being too brittle to bend down to the - perpendicular', should break off and dismantle the tree a fate that has overtaken thia beautiful eWrgreen .above all others. We are not disposed to question the fitness of those law by which the elements are ruled; and if we were called upon to assess damages for the crashing among the trees which accompanied this sleet storm, we shorjjd feel disposed to dwell considerably in mitigation of damages upon the advan tage the farmer has derived from the presence of this sleet. The drought of last summer exhausted the moisture, jiptn the earth's surface to a depth ex ceeding two feet; but up to the 25th of January! when the sleet commenced as we had opportunity to know by the digging or holes in the orchard, only abiut one foot of this arid mass had been moistened by the rains of autumn and winter, and the lower stratum could not easily be saturated unless some sponge like material held the moisture at the surface while it slowly filtered through. A snow fall is perhaps the most efficient method of watering the dry sub-soil, as, beside holding the water while the snow melts, the parti cles of snoW'iu falling drop so lightly as not to close the interstices made by frost for percolation, of water, which the pattering of the heavy drops in a rain fall would do. But the only difference between snow and sleet is, that one is water frozen in the clouds', the other the same material congealed on objects near the earth's surface, and in thia case containing, 117 inches, together with the snow ;and raiti that fell upon it furnished as much moisture towards saturating the ground as a snowfall to the depth of twenty eight inches would have done. As to the effect of sleet upon the fruit crop, we are of opiuion that the masses entertain an undue apprehen sion of danger. In April 18G8, many of our readers will remember that after the peaches were in fnll bloom, a light snow fell during the forenoon of the 10th of April, and during the evening changed into rain and sleet, so that on the morcing of the 11th, the petals of the peach blossom were embedded in frozen snow and ice, transparent as the clearest crystal, but the thermom eter .stood at 31, and peaches iu full bloom were not hurt; so in the late sleet storm the thermometer was at no time below 24, while the backward ness or slightly dev lopei condition of the fruit bud would secure it from harm in the presence of any degree ot cold above Zero, even though surround ed by sleet. As respects the prospects for a fruit crop in 1871, the dry weather f last summer, we think, has secured a full supply of fruit buds, which being alive and bu slightly swollen, will nut pro bably be damaged, and are therefore most likely subject to the single future hazard of parsing the ordeal of hpring frosts. The damage to the orchards ly the great weight of this sleet is confined principally to peach trees with large hanging or horizontal brauches, and we think the best thing the orchardist cau do with such will be, where the dis mantling is not too great, to head back the remaining brauches, sparing vig orous sprouts, and thereby make an effort to secure a growth of young wood branches. A vigorous tree thu treated may have considerable bearing wood-for the crop of 1871. A Wonderful Memory.- Daniel McCartney, a humble laborer in Salem, Columbiana county, Ohio, 53 years of age, possesses such a wonderful memory that be is subject of an article in the last number of the Journal of Specula live Philosophy, published in St. Louis. The article was written by W. D. Ilerrkre, the State Commissioner of Public Schools in Ohio. Mr Kenk!o visited 'Mr. McCartney and used all possible ingenuity in making repeated tests. McCartney is illiterate and nearly blind, but he remembers the occurences of every day since January 1st, 1827, when he was nine years old. Mention any date to him in the last 44 years, and he tells instantly what day of "the week it was, what sort of weather pre vailed, and what he was working at and conversed about. Mr. Ilenkle pro vided himself with a journal for 45 years, and, after several , severe cross- examinations, proved Mr. McCartney to be correct invariably. Mr. McCart ney also displayed a remarkable faculty for mental arithmetic. ' J DeOnltio a of lllble Terms. A day's jouruey was thirty-three and one uitn nines. A Sabbath day's journey was about! TCnodJak mil . iUfial an English mile. Ezekiel's reed was eleven feet nearly. A cubit is twenty-two inches nearly. A hand's breadth is ; equal to three and five-eighth inches. ; A shekel of gold was $8 09. A talent of silver Was 8538 32. ? A talentof gold was 813 809. 3 A piece of silver, or a penny was thirteen cents. v " ' A i A farthing wa three cents. Agarah was acenV A niite was Vcent.'-'' ' An epha, or bath, contains seven gal Ions and five pints.; '".'S'yyi. ? "A bin was one gallon and two pints. A firk in was seven plots. ; V J ' ' 4 1 1 An tinier was six pints. ' ;; A cab was three pints. IAVV VERSUS tOVE. From the Marh alltown (Iowa) Times. His Honor, Judge Chase, was called upon last Monday to enforce a decree of Court, which, to his. honor be it said, he commanded obedience thereto, while his heart pleaded foe those who were made subject to it.. Stern, unrelenting duty as a Judge, and the silent, earnest pleading of the heart in sympathy with a distressed mother, who was required by Jaw to give up the custody of her children, and be separated from them. The scene was the most affecting one we ever witnessed in a Court room, and there were but few dry eyes among the spectators. ' The man, the part that is human and divine, would crop out in the Judge while telling the poor heart-brcken woman with her three children clinging to her, and crying to remain with their mother, that he could do nothing but command her to obey th; decree, until the Judge himself, conscious of the unnatural act, choked, whilo his eyes moistened at the pitiable picture before him. We honor him for that evidence of humanity, and a kind humane heart, while executing the stern mandates of the lam - The case was this : A Mrs. 0'IIara, ten years go, obtained a divorce from her husband and the custody of her children. The Supreme Court affirmed this decision; but this husband, this human fiend, spared by f I ell to torture thtc he had sworn to love and protect, has followed her up in the Courts until he found some fool of a judge to modify or change the decree, so as to give the monHterjCOtitrol of the children; and this poor woman, with her three chil dren, from eleven to fifteen years of a:e, was dragged into Court by a writ of attachment, to be compelled to sur render her darlings, to her dearer than her own life, toa humm monster. The case is without a parallel in Iowa. It reminded us of the fugitive slave law, when the poor runaways were brought into our northern Courts, their chains clanking as they walked, to be remand ed back to the bell-holes of slavery. This law that stifled the affections and outrtiged Deity, it.elft was soon disre garded, and but few Courts could be found that would outrage humanity and d fy God, by remanding (hem back to torture. Hut here came a hurann fiend, with the smoke of the bottomless pit curling around him, and the fumes of the sul phurous realms on his garments, and asked a humane Judge to give him his children, that he might torture them as he had done both them and , their mother, when he owued them under the law. " ' The bar of Marshall County, fo their honor be it said, rebelled against the mandate, while admitting that there was no other way than to obey. The oldest child, sobbing as if her heart would break, asked his Honor not to do so monstrors a thing; her father cared tlothing for her, and when she was a mere child, he had abused and kicked her until her life was despaired of. She could not, and would not, leave her mother, who had cared for her from infancy up, and now bhe was big enough to help her dear ma, to be torn from her ; her brothers, younger than she was, said they would not go with their father ; they would stay with their mother; and their sobs filled the Court house with sympathisers; and the low mutterings of an 'outraged au dience became audible, and the fiendish father soon saw, that, with law or with out law, those children could not be taken from that mother in Marshall town then he agreed that she might keep-them, allowing hira the privilege ot visiting them. This ttmoly eonces sion saved huu from the vengeance of an outraged community. . 9 t Let it the forever' understood that Marshalltown is no place to come to to enforce an odious degree of some pusil lanimous J udgo, or tear the heart stringshuman wretches are noi want ea i this community. We have no threat to make, but wa An tint, want in threats to make, but we do not want to witness any more cases like this. To Remove Scorch Marks. If linen has been scorched,' and the mark not penetrated entirely through, so as to damage the texture, it may be removed by the following process : Peel and slice two onions, and extract Juice by squeezing ex pounding. : Then cut up half an ounco of white' soap, and two of fuller's earth, and mix them with the onion juice, and half a pint of vinegar. JJoil this composition well; then spread it, when cool, pour over the scotched part of linen, aud let it dry on. After, ward-wash out the linen, and. the mark were there will be found to .hare been removed. AND THE SION, COMMIS- From the New Jersey Mechanic. The press of England and also of Canada has worked itself into a white heat in anticipation that the United States would propose to annex the Can adas, whether eitizens of . those pro vinces were disposed to be annexed or not. The difficulty encountered by the Commissioners has been a much more practical one how to reconcile the high notion of the Canadians as to their control over fishery and trade, with the rights and interests of England and the United States. Oo the fishery question for instance, all our treaties are wilh England, for even the recipro city treaty was negotiated with the mother country in 1851, but now, un der the Dominion Act, Canada set up a claim to regulate the Hunt of shore fisheries, and impose tribute upon our finhertnen, in direct contravention of the treaties of 1783 and 1817. The Canadians are very touchy, too, about any arrangement between Engbud and the United States which shall dispose of the fishery question, except upon their own terms. When in 1870 Mr. Fish suggested to Mr. Thornton that an arrangement might be made by which lumber, oal, sail anu n-n suouiu do aamitteu tree into the United States, or at least at a low rate of duty, provided Canada gave us the freedom of the canals, of the St. Lawrence and the iushore fisheries, the Canadian Government informed Mr. Thornton that they looked upon a pro position of that kttid a wholly iinum enf, and subsequently Sir Franci? Ilineks, the linanco Minister, and Mr. Tupper, the President of the Council, denounced in the Cauadiau 1'arlianent, the American propo-ition as degrading and insultios to the Dominion. Sir John Macdonatd is undernrtxd to take the same view, and also tr hold a position which has brought him into collision with the Whig members of tho English Commission. Iu discuH.-iug reciprocity, Sir John was willing to Kraut us the freedom of the fisheries and the free navigation of the St. Law rence, if wc will admit upon reciprocal terms, free of duty, trrain, lumber, cat tle, vegetables, dairy produce, salt and fi.$b, and ahso throw open our coasting trade to Canadian vessels. Hut he would uot consent to have manufactures thus interchanged; for , as the Oanadi ans now obtain their revenues from du ties on imports, they would be com pelled to tax English manufacturer, while American manufactures would be free. On the contrary, Earl de .Grey, representing the view of the Driliiflt Hoard of, trade, thought that anv arrangement made between Canada and tho United States by which the Cana dian tariff is lowered upon American manufactures must equally affect the admission of English productions into Canada. A discussion has taken place between the Canadian and En-jlK Governments on this point, the Canadi ans endeavoring to show that, under tho reciprocity treaty of 1854, England set up no such pretensions, while the English Government, on the contrary, maintained that no such arrangement can be made with the United States in which England can not equally well participate. It is even asserted, with as much confidence as anything can be asserted about the debates of the High Commission, that the warmest discus sion thus far, was between Sir John Macdonald and his English colleagues, Sir Stafford Northcote -rather siding with Canada, while the other three, and of course the American Commissioners, took the opposite view. . , An old farmer was one day looking over his broad acres, with an axe on his shoulder and a small dog at his heels. They espied a woodch tick. The dog gave, chase and drove him into a stone wall, where action immediately com menced. The dog would draw the woodch u'ck partly out from the wall, and then the woodchuck would take the dog back. The old gentleman's sym pathy getting high on the side of the dog, lie thought he must help him. So putting himself in position, with the axe above the dog, he .waited for the ex traction of the woodchuck. Just as he struck, the woodchuck .gathered up, drew the dog in far enough , to receive the blow, and he was killed on the spot For years after, tho old: gentleman, -in relating tne story, would always aua "And that dog don't know to this day DUi nuav vuo hmuuuiiuvl muiuu iiiui. Hair Curling . Fluid -nicce of white beeswax about -lelt a the fiizo of a .filbert, In an ounce of oIifo oil, and - - add ono or two drops of otto of roses. ; Subscribe for the Hefuslican. PfgUEltlES PROFESSIONAL CARDS, dC. Physician & 8urj;con, IIUENA VISTA, OftECON. Formerly Practiced with R. C. HILL, M. D. Albany. 8 tf WHOLESALE DKAXKRS 15 DRY GOODSj Etc. MOOHE'S IlI.OClv, SALEM. 100,000 lbs Wool Wanted For which the Highest Market Price wilt be paid. 3 -3m JOII.V J. DALY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, IVotarv Public, &c, I1UENA ATITA. 41-tf J. C. GRUBBS, f1 D.i PHYSICIAN AXl) UHCiEON, ' Offora hia Services to the Citizens of Dallas anl Yiciiiitjr. OFFICE mi XICIIOLS" Drug Store. 34-tf P. A. Fbbsch. J. McMinuj. NEW BLACKSMITH SHOP, Eola, Folk County. All Kindnof Illarkt-mhliliig-doneon Fbort Notice, ami to the uticUcti'iii of Cuetymers, mnl at Kf anonnl'lj HaU. Special attention ai'l t llorae-hoelng. Oct. 27, 1S70. FKK.NCH A AlcMAHON. Sl-ly Y, I. 4El'l'HIE, M. I)., Phyician and Surgeon, IiIa, Oregon. fpecial attention given to Obstetrice and Di-.cacc of Women. 1 tf Attorney and Counsellor-at -Law, am;m, (ui:(;ox, Will practice in all the Conrt of Record and Inferior Courts of this State. ' OFFICE In Watkinds A CoY Brick, up trtirf. I P. . SULLIVAX, Attorney U Counsellor-At-Law, Oallas, Ortpjon, Will practice to all the Courts of the State. 1 Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law. Dallas. Oregon. ?p?cial attention pircn to Collections and to matter pertaining to Real Estate. 1 jko. a. ccnaar. B. ncntKT. CUR 5152 Y & HIT II LEV, Alforncys-At-I.aiv, LAFAYETTE - - - - OREGON, 1 3 tf "ItUSSKIaL A: IKStUY, Real Estate Brolicrs and Real Estate Auctioneers, OFFICE. St. Charles Hotel Building, PORTLAND - - - - - OREGON. YAG3N AHD CARRIAGE SHOP, Main Street, Dallas. Second door north of the.Dnig Store. The nnier?li;ned wishes to Inform the 1'uhlie that ho is prepared to do any kind of work in hi line on the shortest notice, and in the beat tjle. Thankful to hi old customer and friends for former patronage, he, respectfully olicits a continuauco of the vatnej 3-tf S. T. GARRISON. FURNITURE! It urea us, Lounges, Tattles, BeclytcnflN. A Variety of CHAIRS for Parlor ai4 . : Kitchen use. RAW-niOO OOTTOtn CHAIRS I ; Of my own make. ' ' : Shop ncar lVnjniirc's illiU I INVITE THE PUBLIC TO EXAMINE ray stock. I shall bo,pleascd to show, you my goods, and better pleased when you buy. NEW WORK put n? to Order, and RE PAIRING done at the lowest cash price. 4-tf j; WR1 0. WILLS, Dallat. s ALT. ARMEN t ISLAND AND LIV ERPOUL Sfllt, in quantities to suit, at COX A KARIIART'S, Salem. 1 LL KI DS OF m Wimi DONE ON J Short Notice by Mrs. CeltcU Ellsberrj, Bear Wajmlre'a Mill, Dalla PROFESSIONAL CARDS. AC. J. ill. BAlTiIOSSIi, I'OHTIjA KI) - - -j, OUEGON. OenjEral News Agent t For Oregon and Adjacent Terrritorlea. A1h SPECIAL COLLECTOR of , all kluda of CLAIMS. AGENT (or the Dallas Republican. WOOL! VOi)L!l WE WILL PAY THE II IO UEbT SIAK kct Price in Coh fur WOOL. Backs and Twine FurtiiaWdj Wool received at any Shipping Point on the , Willamette Hirer. COX Sc EARSIAI1T, c)Mn:nci Ar street, halcm ii. p. siiivhu; IloustV Waoti and igil Painter, Dallas, Polk County, Oregon. IV IS IV W A'GOiV AIVD CASt K!A(iE MTORV. HICIIAROON A CO. Inform the Pubiij that they are now realy-to do all kiu'l of work iu tbeir line. CARKl AG ES, WAOU.NS, Ac. Built or Re paired with Xeatnepa and Dispatch. WAtiONri curietantly ou band lr tisie. IlLACKrfMITHIXO doue by au exjrienced Workman. One door south of Livtry Stable Dalla?, Ogn. 8-if Under wood, ISarkcr & Co, Commercial street, Salem. 'Oregon, MANUFACTURE ALL KINDS OF WAG ONS after the most approved tyles the beet of workmanship, ou short notice, arrd AT POltTLAXD PltlCESl 2!-tf O J J I z-JS Harness. vuu.ui viji Mala at. (oppoite the Court IIoum), Dallaa, ' . MAN0FA(?TCREn A!?D DEALER IN-1 Ilamesf, Fadd!, Ilridtef, Whip. Collar, ; Check J.inen, etc., etcM of all kind, which hz prepared to ell at the lowest liringrstea. ' ' CfrKE PAIRING done on short notice. HURGREf. SHII1DLER, Inipc tU'r and Dealers in . , . FURNITUllE ? AND ' ,., '' IS E DDItt, v The Largest Stork and the Oldest Pur itlture House In Portland. r. WAREROOMS AND FACTORY .? h . COKITEB SAtKON AND FIRST STREETS PORTl.AVn, OREGON.! ' $75 E V E R V W E IJ Ki; LADY AGENTS. . We want Smart and Enerjjctic Afrrnts ro introduce our popular and jsty celhrfvd invention, in ercry Viltaif,' JWs (Vfs tV' i Imlispentahle to every Household; . J They are highly approved of. endor't anH i adopted by La-lie. 'Ayi'M ami , XirfeM .m r now a GREAT FAVOllITti with ! them. ' '' ' ' Every Family will Pnrchase One or more of them. Sointhin? that tberrtnerics j' are apparent at a GLANCE. : -t;,J'.-i. '; - f DRUGGISTS, MILLINERS. DRESSMAKERS " and all who keep FANCY ST'UvKS, will Rn our excellett articles SELL VEHV RAPID-: f i"t given perfect satisfaction and netting : S M A h h FORTUNES to all Dealers and Agents, COUNTY RIGHTS F'RT2rE,.; to all who.desrre cnnsinir. in an JIuorahit, Itexpectnljle and VnJiubU ttnine$, at the ram time dcinj; a& to ttieir companions in life. "V Sample $'i 00, fent free by nuiil on receipt of price. SEND FOR WHOLESALE CIRCU- ' LAR. ADDRESS, ; victoria manXjfacturing coMr"Y., r IT, PAHK PLACE, New Yrk. mntniTrt r n I i nni J. ill. K1NC AID has opened a New Photographic Gallery In Dallas, where he wilt be pleased to wait o'w . CuBtoruers in his line of Business at all hour ' of the' day. .f ' r . l 'y ;y y" ' '. 1 1 liiltlrcti't Pictures Taken without grnmUltnp, at the same price at Adults. PAtisfuetlou guaranteed., Prices to . ? suit the times. ... . , f Rooms at LafI!ett's Old Stand, Main StreV Dallas, Polk County, Oregon, April 27th, 1871. . " -&-tf