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TT -J 0 VOL. 2. DALLAS, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1871. NO 34 he D r 1 3 a n $ cp ufcliran la -Issued Every Saturday Morning, at Dallas, Polk County, Oregon. ' BY II. H. TYSON. OFFIQE Mill street, opposite tho Court House. SUBSCRIPTION HATES. SINGLE COPIES One Year, $2 00. Six Months, $1 25 Jlxreo Months, $1 00 For Clubs, of ten or more $2 per annum. Sbacrij)tion mutt be paid ttrictly in advance ! r.T : ADVERTISING RATES. One square (10 lines or leas), first insert'n, $3 00 Each subsequent insertion 1 00 A liberal deduction will be made to quar terly and yearly advertisers. Professional cards will be inserted at $12 00 Transient advertisement? must be paid for in advance to insure publication. All other &J jeriising bills must be paid quarterly. Legal tenders taken at their current value. Blanks and Job Work of every description furnished at low rates on short notice. A Splendid Chance. We will send the Dallas Rrim-blican and PRMREftTs Monthly, which is itelf$."5 for one year, to any person who pays $t Demotikst'r" Monthly stands unrivalled a a Family Magazine. Its choice Literature, its euperiornllusic, its largo amount of valuable information on miscellaneous subjects, its practical and reliable information in regard to the fashions, and artistic illustrations, give it a lust claim to its well-earned title, "The Model Magazine of America.'' A SIGHT WITH A MANIAC. BY A YOCKG SIKOEON. The maniac was a 'giant, lie ha broken his heavy chains as Sampson .broke the withies had torn open tho door of the cell torn the keeper, liter ally to pieces burst open the door killed the watchman with a heavy iron bar he wrencnel from the door and escaped with hia formidable weapon into the city. The whole place was aghast at the news, and we students at -the hospital and dis.-ectin? room who where connected with the Asylunfhad to nerve ourselves to help capture the escaped wild beast. I had-gone to the d'i5.ectins; room nlnnft. and was about to commence using the knife on a subject. There ,wns a storm rarin" and with a low ob the wind swelled through the long aisle of forest trees, and flashed with the gathered force of an ocean wave against the dead-house. Simultaneously, a hand struck the light door, and the yell of a maniac ran through and through mv brain. Above the door, through the small ventilator, the face of the madman and murderer neered down at mc. Ah, ah ! I have caught you at last here and alone. 1 have been wait ing for you. You took me once, didn't you ! Ha, ha I Let me in. The coolness of imminent peril brought. oiv Dowers to action. 1 held his eye an instant ; but it was evident he was too wild for that ; his blood was ip, and it roved with eager ferocity .through the room and over the frail walls. With the light bound ot a Jeopard I gained the door, and shot the double bolt. A gleam of rage darted irom his eye : but he laughed, 11 .Ha, ha ! You Uimk tnat win Keep me .out." ' Wait." I cried. " I have a weapon in mv hand as keen as a razor. It is tooisoncd bv the dead bodv I have been working on. Burst the door and I'll t)lunce it in vour heart. If it but touch 50U you arc a dead man. You may till me, but I'll kill you, as certain as there is a God." The swartiiy giant shook the door until its hinges creaked and groaned beneath his hand. Then laughing again low to himself, muttered. " Fool, I'll outwit you yet 1" and then stole off in the darkoesa. I heard him for an instant pressing against the wall of the building, and it swayed and bent in wards with the weight. Then silence. The din of my Dulses made thunder in my ears as I tried to hear hia stealing tread, and the sobbing wind rose anew with a weird shriek, making my efforts fruitless. . A thousand times 1 heard his low, devilish, murderous laugh. A thousand .times I felt his brawny strength against the door, and saw his wild face look down at me through tho gloom ; but 'till he did not come. I tried to think he had abandoned the design and had elunk off discouraged ; but I knew it was not so I knew he was crouching in some corner on the watch to spring on me when I passed. Could I Btay there all night ? No, certainly not. An hour more, and Harry Leigh, liiy wife's young brother, would come to seek me would come, unconscious of the danger, until a bloodhound at his throat would choke tln brave young life out of him for ever- I listened, iu the intervals of the now fitful storm, to hear if he was breathing near me." I waited for the neit lull. It came that deep hush that follows the gusty wind. I put my soul in the sense of hearing, but no human shadow of sound greeted it. When the storm swelled again, I drew the bolt and looked into the uight; a black pall hung over the earth and sky. I had as good a chance to pass him in the obscurity as he had to catch me. With my knife between my teeth, and the massive thigh bone of a nigger to slay him with if I must, I drew off my shoes, and stepped out into the darkness. A sudden whirl of the tempest almost took me off-my feet, and a brick, dislodged from one of the chimneys, grazed my head in its pas :ige, and broke in halves before me ou the pavement. With bated breath, and a step like the tread of a panther scenting his prey, I parted the thick darkness, aud turned my face towards the hospital, lie might be either here at my step along the passage or hidden in the anirle of the wall at the door through which 1 iuu.t enter. This seemed the most probable ; but there was another door known only to the doctors. I thought I would elude him. With infinite caution, 1 began to scale the ligh wall, dreading, horribly lest some sudden break in the eky might reveal me to the wild eyes that watched fur me-but no. Safely p?issing the 9t.imrait, I threw my leg over fur the descent, and felt my fu't seized.. It mm but the tendril of a wild vine skirting the wall. (J rasp ing my knife iu my right hand, L crept iloug the buhes for about fifty yards, then struck across the lawn for the side entrance. 1 lie darkness perplexed me. but I thought I. was steering straight. Snddeuly my foot struck brick. v hat was this ? I tried to recollect. There was no pavement round that part of the hospital. I pushed on uncertainly, and feeling a weight in the air, put out my hand to grope for some clue to my wherea bouts. I was in an alley, flanked with stone walls far above my head. I gave a sudden turn. In an instaut I knew I was in the subterranean passage of the asylum. 1 timing to retrace my steps, the opaque density of some heavy body crouched between me and the outer air. I heard its stifled breathing its stealthy tread approaching me Just heavens ! A struggle for life with a madman in these narrow, gloomy vaults to lie in a pool of one's own heart's blood in this undiscovered tomb and my young wife Constance ! it was maddening ! For an instant my brain was on fire. Then I thought that there might be an exit other devious windings in which I could elude my deadly pursuer. Go ing deftly backwards, 1 turned the angle iu the wall, and then plunged at the utmost speed of a young and active man along the back passage. Instantly I knew I was being pursued, Meeting another crossed path struck into it an opposite direction. The maniac instantly followed me. What a race through those cavernous depths of the madhouse 1 What tragic pitfalls might lurk at every step! what black and stagnant pools lie waiting to engulph me ! what deeper depths of icy black ness into which to fall and fall for ever. The passage grew narrower. We were, perhaps, under the very centre of the building, and farthest from the outer air. 1 had tried to breathe noise lessly; the effort exhausted me. I knew nothing of the labyrinths could only guess at our position by the distance from the entrance. 1 had counted the turnings we had made.- I 'thought I could retrace them. My strength was failing. 1 was fleetest, but he was most enduring. Presently ho would run me down. It would be a terrible veuture, but the necessity was imminent. I would try it. Gathering all my force, I darted on like an arrow into tho darkness. The suddenness of my increased speed baf fled him. I succeeded in putting fifty yards between ua, gained and turned the next angle, then, drawing myself against the wall, with every nerve and muscle strained into preturnatural ten sion, with the mighty heaving of my spent chest crushed into silence by an effort of despairing will, I waited for him to pass me. I heard him coming, rushing on with new strength through the blackness, reach tho angle, turn it, striking his massive body against the jutting stones. I heard him spring like an animal on along the track. I felt his hot breath like steam the foam of his set jaws flung across my face and he stopper!. I felt that he was feeling for me ! that he was crouching ou the stones. I saw the red of his eyeballs glare up at me through tho darkness. I felt the touch of his icy flesh on my hand. Like lightning, he raised himself, arid throwing his vast weight against me, pinioned me to the stones. And the mud rage of a man at bay surged upward to my braiu. I clasped my knife convulsively, and seized him by the throat, resolving to die hard. Itavas hair it was shaggy The hands against my iMiest had a thick coat of fury 1 clasped him to my breast. It was Liou my favorite dog, Lion. $ "Great heavens, Keene, what kept you the whole night in that cursed dead house? It is near day ; the door has been open those two hours, aud Derby aud King have been asleep. I was getting on my boots to look for you." " Why in the name of common sense did you let this dog out after mc ? Will you tell me that ?" "Why he howled like a maniac, and clawed at the door till I thought you must be in aoiwi danger, and 1 cu'uld not keep him iu." " Danger ! Well, we can talk now. House yourself. I had an interview with your maniac, and he is prowling around the grounds after mc now. Call up the men. I must go alter Philip immediately. You don't say so ?" l Yes) don't waste a second." In five minutes the whole force in the hospital was out in the grounds. We took him iu an angle of the great door, crouched behind the jutting wul', waiting for me. He drew his lips back over his teeth, in the dumb ferocity of a mad brute, as he saw me, and his eyes settled iuto a dull, lurid glare", impossi bio to describe as be hissed out, " Ila ! this is twice twice you triumph; wait till the third time !" Around the blazing grate, in tho closing hour of the tempest-twsed night, wo shook hand over the glad ness of our reunion, and af ter the story was over, and the horror first, and the laughter after, at the close of my adven ture, and Derby and King had left, and Harry Leigh and I stood watching at the window the young winter day rise over the hill, there was something very like tears over the bold, bright blue eyes as he pointed to the walls of the mad-house and said, " Constance would have gone there, Keene, or died, aud mine would have been a heavy, heavy life after." - - Ladyhood' A plesant and clever writer in TiN ton's " Golden Aye" furnishes the fob lowing exquisite limning of " The True Lady :" From the lady there exhales a sub tier magnetism. Unconciously she cir cles herself with an atmosphere of un ruffled strength, which, to those who ccme into it, give confidence and repose. Within her influence tho diffi dent grow self-possessed, the impudent are checked, the inconsiderate admon ished ; even the rude are constrained to be mannerly, and the refined are perfected ; all spelled unawares by tho charm of the flcxablc diguity, the commanding gentleness, the thorough womanliness of her look, speech aud demeanor. A sway is this purely spiritual. Every sway, every legitimate, every enduring, sway is spiritual, a rcnancy of light over obscurity, of right over brutality. The only real gains we ever make are ppiritual gains a further subjection of the gross to the incorpo ral, of body to soul, of the animal to human. The finest, the most charac teristic acts of a lady involve a spiritual asceution, a going out of herself. In being and bearing, patience, benignity, generosity, aro tho traces that give shape to tho virtues of truthfullness. Iu the radiaut reality of ladyhood the artificial and conventional aro naught Different from, opposito to, the super positions of art or the dictates of mode is the culture of the innate, tho un folding of the living, as different a3 the glow of health is from the cosmetic stain that would counterfeit its tint. The Scientific American says it is impossible to construct a burglar proof safe, for the thief, with his cylinders of compressed hydrogen and oxygen, can in a few seconds burn holes of any size in the hardest metal, his Are drill ona& bling him in a few minutes to work his way into the strongestsafe that was ever constructed,) a ci mc 17 1, a it letter. I-'roai our Special Correspondent. Editor IlnruiiMCAN. Sir : At a meeting of the. stock holders of the Saiitiam Mining Com pany, Prof. Joab Powell pre.-idiug, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted, with but one di.senting voice : Resolved, first, that a copy of these proceedings be printed, and that we authorize the Secretary to put 400 shares ou the market at once to pay for the same. Second. Thatour couutry is poleedi ng, not from political effects, but from the non-appreciation of talent, aud that "Susan" is that talent; and second, that this meeting, feeJing their bowels of compassion moved in agoniz ing and tumultuous gushings toward tho forlorn object of our sympathy, that we, iu our entire, whole, uudivided and concentrated corporate capacity, do, with due solemnity ami with tears of agony, blood, brine and other heart rending not herein specified, recom mend, order, command, entreat, and otherwise urge upon Susan to take a step Ah, that step ' Third. That we have, after many years of labor and deep research iu the realms of spiritu alism or spirits connulted John A. Merrill, Lucrccia Uorgua, and other bright lights and that we have re eeived instructions to proceed as will be hereinafter specified. Fourth. That we have opened negotiations with the Prime Minister of fhe IrUh Republic for the recovery of the animate form of the lion. -Mr. J rani ; aud Fifth, be- ieving, with some shining lights of New York, that tho species should be improved ; and Sixth, that the decision of this body hhall be fiual and bindiug on tho parties herein named aud Seventh, thai we are desirous of bind ing the two Republics closer together in the bonds of unity ; and Kighth, that the authorities which we have consulted tell us that there is an afhuity existing between the parties specified. therefore, bo it revolved, our own cor porate body concurring, that you, Mrs. S., are hereby authorized, commanded and bound by thete presents, to don male attire, purchase you a ticket, buy a Government, mule, and proceed to Ireland, where you will find George in female attire awaiting you, aud where you are commanded to lay siogc to his heart bust it if you can and if you can't, for God's sake bust him, and then lie of grief, and thereby call down the blessings of all the civilized world (Salt Lake aud the Oneida Community excepted) on your devoted headi Signed by all the parties. R. C A woman says what she chooses without being abused for it. She can take a nap after dinner while her hus- bund goes to work She can go iuto the street without being asked to land treat at every saloon. She can stay at home in time of war. and get married again if her husband gets killed. She can wear corsets if too thick, and other fixings if too thin. She can get a divorce from her husband if she sees one she likes better. She can get her hu-band in debt all over, until he warns the public, not to trust her on his account. Rut all these advantages are balanced by the facts that she can not sing bass, wear a beard, go sparking or climb a tree. As to the origin of the phrase "Old Nick," Archdeacon Xarcs tells us that Nick" was a very old name among the Northerns; and from them we de rived the word. We borrowed it, in fact, from the title of an evil genius among the Danes. They believed that he often app3ared on the sea aud on deep rivers in the form of a sea moii ster, psesaging immediate ship.wreck and drowning to the unhappy sailors. Keyster, another antiquarian authority, mentions a deity ot tho waters, wor shipped by the ancient Danes and Ger mans, under the name of Nicken or Nocca. Hence, doubtless, the " Old Ni-k arose, by au easy corruption. In the museum at Cassel, Germany, is a library made from O00 Luropcan trees. Tho back of each volume is formed of the bark of a tree, the sides of the perfect wood, the top of young wood aud tho bottom ot old. When opened tho book is found to be a box, containing the flower, seed, fruit and leaves of the tree, oither dried or lmi tated iu wax. A girl, forced by her parents into a disagreeable match with au old man whom she detested, when tho clergy man camo to that part of tho service where the bride is asked if she consents to tako tho bridegroom for her husband, said : "Oh dear no, sir ; but you are tho first person who has asked my opin ion about the matter." PROFESSIONAL CARDS, dC. I. SB. uAivmmmi I'OIl'lXAN'I) - - - - OISKGON. General News Agent I'or Oregon 'and Adjacent Terrrltorief. Also SPECIAL COLLECTOR of all kiuda of CLAIMS. AGENT for the Dallas Republican. JOU.V J. HALT, At Vx & Con bi e J Ic r- a I - Law, Will practice in the Courta of Record ati J In feiior Courts. Collections attended to promptly. Office in Dr. J. E. Davi'lon'n nuiMinjj, MAIN STREET, INIHilENI)EVCC 41-tf J. C. GRUSDS, 171. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Offers his Service to the Citizens of Dallas and Vicinity. OFFICE tut NICHOLS' Drug Store. 34-tf W. I. JEITHIEH, M. I)., KMiysician and Surgeon, Eola, Oregon. Special attention given to Obstetrics and Di..ejtt-es of Women. ltf Attorney & Counsellor-At-Law, Dallas, Oregon, Will practice In all the Courts of the State. 1 J. L. iOI,MS, Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law. Dallas, Oregon. Special attention given to Collections and to iu alters pertaining to Real Kttate. 1 RUSSEL, FERRY & WOODWARD. Heal I2!atc Agents and Real Estate Auctioneers, No KM). FRONT .STREET, PORTLAND - . - - . ORECON. J. A. A PPM3tt ATI2, A 1 1 -y & Co ii 11 c 1 1 o p-a t - La iv, OFFICE IN COURT HOUSE, DALLAS, FOLK COUNTY, 03E00IT. , 29.tr Committee on flail roads Have decided that a soon as the Oregon Central Railroad (We?t Side) is completed into Plk County, they will b?ue orders to all con- triit"rs and woikuitu on the line to purchase all their Groceries and Provision. Clothing, Boot and Shoes, Lad us' Bresa Goods, Hardware. Tinware, Or anything they may happen to want of M. M. Llli, at Laclede, ! rni-rly known as C1u(Tp Store. Mpanwbiie, all farmery, r anyone cLc, will find it to their interest, to inll and make their fe'eotions. All are awure that I am cell ing jJ'Mxls rhmjier llt'in tt)lulm.l in Pulk Co. I buy more Produce that! any c vtorea in the County. So bring along your Butter if it is soft, and if it is sonn, ail the better. lours truly, M. M. ELLIS. Ml BOOR AM III BLIND FACTORY, MAIN STREET. DALLAS." . 1 have constantly on hand and for Sale WIABMIW SASH, ftlazecl and IJulazcil. DOOllS OF ALL SIZES. WINDOW AND DOOR FRAMES, All of the Best Material and Manufacture, ll-tf JAMES M. CAMPBELL. Or. CIIAEUjE W ILMKV, OCULIST, SALEM. - - - OREGON. All who require Surgical Operations on tho Eyes, or treatment, aro invited to give him a trial. Those who do not receive permanent benefit will not be required to pay fvr treatment. JIo is amply provided with all tho modern and improved Instruments, and will make thorough Examinations free ot charge. NEW PA1AT SlSOt Carriage., Wagon, Sign, AND ORNAMENTAL PAINTING, GRAINING & GLAZING, PAPER HANGING, &c, Done In tho most Workmanlike manner by IX. P, SIIRIVER. Shop upstairs over Ilobart & Co's Harness Shop. DALLAS, POLK CO., OREGON. 27-tf PROFESSIONAL CARDS, &C. jlll 11,1, AS IIOTEV CORNER MAIN AND COURT STS. Dallas, Folk County. Oregon. The undersigned, having RE-FITTED tfco above HOTEL, now informs the l'ublic.that he is prepared to Accommodate all who may favor him with a call, in as good style aa can be found in any Hotel in the Country. Give me a call, and you shall not leave disappointed. 12-tf W. F. KENNEDY, Proprietor. Saddlery, Harness. S. C S rJC Mj E Main st. (opposite the Coor House), Dallas, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IW Harness, Saddles, Bridles, Whips, Collars, Check Lines, etc., etc., of all kinds, which he Mi prepared to sell at the lowest living rates. g:$r R E P A I R IN G done on short notice. 875 E VERy WEEK! HADE EASY, Br LADY AGENTS. We want Smart and Energetic Agents t introduce our pjipular and justly celebrated : inventions, in every Village, Tutau and City the WurUt. - - ' Indispensable to every Household; They are highly approved of, endorsed and adopted by Ladien, J'Jntician and Diriue and are now a GREAT FAVORITE with them. Every Family will Purchase One or more of tbem. Something that their merits aro apparent at a GLANCE. DRUGGISTS, MILLINERS, DRESSMAKER! and all who keep FANCY STORES, will find our cxeellett articles SELL YER Y UAPID- ' L Y, gives perfect satisfaction and netting SMALL FORTUNES to all Dealers and Agents. COUNTY RIGHTS FREE to all who desire engaging In an Honorable. IttprvtnM id ProjiaUe llunint, at the same time doing good to their companions in life. Sample $2 00, sent free by mail on receipt of price. SEND FOR WHOLESALE CIRCU LAR. ADDRESS, VICTORIA MAHUFACTURI2TG COMPY., IT, PARK PLACE, New York. r nwminn rmTi?nv J.-II. KINC AID has opened a New Photographic Gallery In Dalla?, where he will be pleased to trait Ofi Customers in his line of Business at all hoars of the day. Children's Pictures Taken without grumbling, at tho same price at , Adults. Satisfaction guaranteed. Price to , euit the times. Rooms at Lafollett'a Old Stand, Main Street, . Dallas, PulkCounty, Oregon, April 27th, 1871 . C. S. MIL VER, No. 13C, First Street, PORTLAND, - - - . OREGON Wholesale and Retail Dealer in DRY GOODS, - CLOTBISV. LADIES' DHESS GOODS, HOOTS AND SHOES, HATS & CAPS, OR O C FRIES r- PR O VISIONS, Highest Ca.h Price paid for all kinds of Ooiiiitr Xi-oluee. . L2-4m '" ' '" - II II i '"I I iiih II MW , Itag Carpet Weaving. 4 LL PERSONS HAVING MATERIAL ' V for Rag Carpets, and wishing them : Woven, can bo accommodated by calling on the undersigned. Orders left at the Store of R. Iiowe Bros, will be promptly attended to. lf-Hm WM. SAULS BERRY. C. V. FARM ENTER. ! r. 1. BAUCOCTt. PARftiENTER & BA0CGCK. Manufacturers, aud Wholesale aud lie all Dealers In JP arn i tvwc f Commercial Street Salem, Oregon, HAVE ON HAND THE LARGEST. Stock of Eumitiirc, ' ISeiUIiiag, Witiriow-Shades, ffol lands, and PA IE tt-II A i imis To bo found in Marion County. All kinds of Picturo Frames, Coffins and Caskets made to order on short notice and At reasonable rates. PARMENTElt7A BABCOCK v Salem, March 23, 1870. 4.tf Ilargains! Ilargains!! HAVING PURCHASED AN ENTIRE " New Stock of Goods, I would call the .f attention of tho Public to my Old Stand at the " Brick Store. I have a full stock of , ; ; ; Groceries, Diy Good 8, Hoot and Snoes, 'i. and everything fouud in a first-claas Variety Store. My old; custoojem will find jt to their advantage to renew their patronago, and new ones will be cordially welcomed. , , All kinds of Produce taken at tho highest market rates. ; r,, ., i: j Pallas, Aug. 3, JS7-1. W, C. BROWN. 22-Sm, 1