THE C0LXJ1EBIAIT St. Helen, Columbia Co., Or. FBXDAY, JA2TT7AB7 5, 1883. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. 1 year, la advance S month ' Jmoaths " ADYXSTISIXG SATES: Oft square (10 lines) first insertion. . . . . ach subsequent insertion . $2 00 1 50 1 00 $2 Oo 1 00 E. G. ADAMS. Editor & Propriety. OUB WASHINGTON LETTER, (From our Regular Correspondent. Washington, D. C, Dec, 9th, 1882. And here we are again looking down Upon the assembled Senatorial wisdom .again in session. The Senate Chamber has been newly dressed and bedecked, and oiled and varnished and painted and carped until it looks wonderfully im proved in appearance. The seats and desks shine like so many new pewter dollars, while the new green carpet cov ering the floor gives the chamber an ap pearance of verdure that is pleasing to the eve. The reader is begged to be lieve this particular color green was intentionally selected for the Chamber not to mark the ' Eternal Fitness of Things," but in order to present to the world and the balance of man and worn -ankind the greatest possible contrast be tween the trappings and trimmings of the chamber and its sage, sedate .and dignified occupants. A he popular demand for economy found a responsive chord in the House of Representative to-day, and it was brought about by an aspirant for the Speakership of the next House. Af ter several attempts Mr. Sprinsrer, of - A AW- Illinois was recognized to introduce resolution providing for the printing of 2,000 copies of the digest of the rules of the House. Objector Holman of Indi ana, did not neglect the oportunity of fered to carry out his policy and entered a protest. To his manifest surprise Re publicans and Democrats rallied to his support, and although Mr. Springer ex plained that the number of copies asked 'was not in excess of the usual session Allowance, only nineteen Representatives were willing to stand by him, and he was compelled to succumb to superior numbers. The incident was the subjeet of considerable comment as indicative of hcr tendency of the House, for among Mr. Hoi man's adherents were Robeson f New Jersey, Norr of Michigan; Fish er of Pennsylvania: Hiscock of New "YVirlr ten A Nrinpr nf Maryland." Some comment has been made because -of the failure so far of the President to send to the Senate notices of the recent suspensions of officials in this District, with the nominations of their successors. "Under the law the President has thirty -days from the beginning of the session to do this, so that he has plenty of time, as yet Mr. McPherson, Clerk of the House of Representatives, has prepared a table Tt the members of the next House of Representatives, in which he figures up a clear majority for the democrats of 59 over all Some of the democratic mem bers who have seen this estimate think Mr. McPherson has not given the demo crats credit for all the straightouts of their party and that the democratic ma jority will be at least several above the figure fixed by Mr. McPherson. The President's levees will not begin until after the holidays. There is much talk about Congress not adjourning for the holidays, but this is an ancient farce that is gone through with every year with commendable regularity, and ends .just where it begins in talk. As Lent begins early in February, things will have to be rushed and the levees whieh will be four in number, will have to be crowded close upon one another. It can't be denied that Washington society is just a little gone on the handsome -dignified President. He is simple and unaffected as he possibly can be, and -consequently extremely elegant It is a great mistake to suppose that the fact that he is President makes people indul gent toward him. On the contrary, he ia on that account subjected to severerH r i i ... . r wrubijjjr oiiu teener criticism. He is a perfect master of social fence. No nan was ever so' anxious for a social persecution as Mr. Blaine was. To have been lacked out .of office and ordered out of the White House would have suited his purpose exactly. Instead of that he was let -down & easy as possible and treated with the most marked so cial -deference, being repeatedly invited to dinners at the White House, both formally and informally. The same may said -of half a dozen other men whom the President knew to be vindictively- opposed to him. They might plot against him, but he refused to oblige them by opening a social warefare. As for the President's multitudinous love affairs, which are regularly telegraphed over the country by hysterical correspondents, he has no more idea of being married than the Pope. The Supreme ; Court of the United States on the 4th instant rendered a srs sion on the tax sale case of the United States against the Arlington estate, af firming the decision of the lower court in favor of the Lee heirs. Chief Justice Waite and Justice Grey, Bradley and Woods dissented. 1 August. GOTHAM GOSSIP. The Transit of Vernis. A Grand Opportunity for tlie Light Fingered Gentry. A nother Scandal Suit. Mow a Manicure and Chiropodist rose to Eminence and Wealth, and is said to to have Fallen. Why he i believed to be InnocenL-jIIow a Wall Street Man's Forgetfulness: was Cured. New York, December 11th, 1882. i The Transit! of Venus, is happily passed and the, scientists, are now hard at work " figuring, " as the plumbers would say on ;their observations, so as obtain the precise amount of miles the earth is away! from the sun, and thus how lonsr this planet ias still to re- volve before it! will be swallowed by the great fiery luminary. It is hard to say whether the event was a greater treat to the astronomers or to the small boy. Certain it is that there was a corner in old window-glass and lamp-black. Thou sands of people stopped in the streets to have their eyes blinded, by gazing at the flaming disk of the sun, in the hope of discovering the little black spot on it, which was meant to represent the fair planet Of 'course the light-fingered gentry rose to the occasion, and they managed to relieve a number ef star gazers of their timepieces and pocket books. It was too bad that the transit could not be seen at night. It would have afforded ; a splendid excuse for the model husband who now and then goes " out with the boys," just to see that they do not cut up too much. The Mailard scandal is happily over, and the young woman whom a rich young Hebrew named Levy treated so shabbily, after leading her astray, is now busy taking steps to bring a suit for the damages against the wretch who in or der to rid himself of her, had her indict ed for perjury. Fortunately for her the jury were sensible men and they acquit ted her. Another affair of an odious flavor, is shortly to come up to the dis gusting satisfaction ef those men and women who throng court rooms, when ever moral carrion is dissected in the in terests of law and justice. Some two years ago a Doctor Pray, opened a suit of gorgeous parlors in West Twenty third street, and sat up as a Manicure and Chiropodist Now Chiropody in days gone by, was a science and art practiced by the old Negro " corn doc tor," who with his little box of strongly smelling salve, preambulated the streets in search of , custom. Dr. Pray called in fashion to his aid, and in his sump tious room the paring of one's corns and cutting of one's nails becume a luxury worthy of the Orient. The doctor de voted extraordinery attention to finger nails, which he polished and pared ac cording to the latest dictates of fashion. In summer he made his headquarters at Saratoga, but was well represented at at every other watering place and sea side resort of note in the country, He advertised largely but judiciously, con fining himself mainly to theatre pro grammes and so-called Jenkins papers. Of course he became a feature of New York life, the woman flocked to him, and as he charged from five to ten dol lars a consultation the doctor made so t much money, that he stands a fair chance of being quietly shipped off to a lunatic asylum by his anxious relatives. This is the fashionable way of preventing a rich man and particularly a rich parvenu from making a fool of himself. But the fates have spared him this experience at least for the present. They set a pretty woman at him. He claims that she tried to extort two dollars from him during a professional visit to his: rooms. She charges him with what in the modest vernacular of newspapers j is called " ungentlemanly conduct" The young person in ques tion, is nineteen years old, superb form, possesses an equally beautiful face, re- joices in .the ,genteel name of Delia Springsteadi and is a milliner by trade or proffession. She says that one day while visiting the doctor, he took liber ties with hei; Her sister is her witness. Unfortunately tnfe sitter was in an outer room, and the door separating the two appartments denied her even the privfc lege of looking through a keyhole. All that the sister could testify to is that she heard " noises and screams." Now this may have just as well have been caused when the doctor tried to make her feet which presumably had been very fashionably deformed, resemble something like a work of nature again. In fact it sounds almost impossible for a Chiropodist to forget chimself. I am assured that the surest way to spoil the illusion regarding a woman's beauty, is to get a look at her feet, not attired in a seductive and imaginative hose, but in all their unnatural curves, and provided with a full set of corns and bunions. An observing lady at the seaside this summer explained co me that the reason why so few young, ladies get married at Long Branch, was because they went in bathing without bathing shoes. For this reason, I for one am unwilling to hold Dr. Pray guilty until he is proven so. . I do not wish to be put down as ungallent in these remarks, for they are merely as calm, u nimpassioned observa tions of facts. Meanwhile, however, the scandal mongers are eagerly waiting for an examination by the courts. One of the leading figures in Wall Street, is Mr. J. Van S who has an office on Broad Street, not a mile away from Exchange Place. He is a genial whole souled man, much imposed upon at times, but none the less always gen erous and kind to the needy. He has but one fault, and that is forgetfulnese. This falling manifests itself in a pecu liar. way. At eleven o'clock in the morn ing, he rushes from his office to the Ex change with a handful of orders, for. al though he is no longer young he glories in doing more work than the small fry. He is always in a hurry, but this does not prevent him from hailing any of his acquaintances he chances . to meet to come into Delmonico'a and take a drink. He will bustle the waiter, gulp his cock tail down with a rapidity as if his stom ach were afire, and then with the "good bye old fellow, I'm in a hurry, I'll see you again," rush off, of coarse forgetting to pay. Now anybody who has. been on the street for a week knows Van. ii Recently, however, a young chap came down, - who of course was much flattered by the attention of the great man. They had a drink, and true to precedent the young man was left to pay. The next morning he happened to meet Van again, and the same scene was re peated. Again the young man smiled over his elder's forgetfulness. But when he was taken in the third time, he asked the bartender " I say, does Mr. Van keep a slate here V The bartender grinned as he mixed a flaming cocktail, and said " sometimes." Then the young man smiled with a lightened heart, and for a week he waited for Mr. Van, ev ery morning and feasted to his heart's content One afternoon he met Van going home. " Come in and have some rum," was his seductive greeting. In they went, and the broker not being in a hurry, pulled a roll of bills out of his pocket, the smallest of which was a ten dollar note, which he handed to the bar tender. The bartender gave him forty five cents in change.. "What's this, what's this," bustled the old man. "Per fectly right sir;" reylied the Ganymede. I've got it all down here. Here are two curacoas, two brandy sours, two cham pagne cocktails, two "never mind," replied Mr. Van, looking somewhat crestfallen ; " that's all right, but for heaven's sake don't let mo run up a rum bill again." Since then, rumor iays he wears a blue ribbon, and although the boys are anxious to be invited to a drink, he never responds. We desire to call the especial atten tion of our lady readers to the advertise ment found in another column headed "Pleasant and Profitable Work for Wom en." Never was such an opportunity offered to some energetic lady to acquire a good income so easily. We have it on good authority that lady canvassers east of the Rocky Mountains are mak ing $75.00 and 100.00 per month sell ing " Practical Housekeeping" fc " Man ners that Win." The books come en dorsed by such eminent women as Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mrs. Livermore, and many others. We trust that some in telligent and energetic lady among our many readers will take advantage of the opportunity and secure the agency for this vicinity. It is surely worth trying for. I Our new boat is " done gone." lute. We had a roval time Xt the Institute at Oregon City. It met in the Baptist Church, and went off like a first class exhibition, We found all the Teachers a rollicking good set, and Prof. McElroy was the quintessence of good humor. There Was always something started at which one could smile. The singing was good and lively and took away all feel ings of monotony. PVof. McElroy knows how to Tun an Institute, We wish we could go into particulars but hav'nt time You ought to have been there and then you would know how it was yourself. One Prof, called another Icha&orf, but said Prof, did'nt even get mad, nor did we when our Missouri stories were shoved one side in a regular snapping turtle style. Prof, Condon gave a lecture in the evening we Were there in the Baptist Church, we followed with a poem and Miss Luce of Salem read Edgar Poe's bells. The audience gave most respect ful attention. Pro! Quick and Mrs. Adams read essays before the Institute which were well received and fully ap preciated. CoL White, County Judge gave us a turkey dinner at his hotel and Judge Eastham entertained uat his residence in first class style, Mrs. Eastham is a native-born Oregonian, and shows Ore gon can raise as beautiful and charming women as any State in the Union. Oregon City is just the same place it used to be, full of hospitable people, .ii ' i-1 " We were refused a reduction on our fare and that of Mrs. Adams on the O. R. and N. boat; although we had a cer tificate from Prof. McElroy, State Su perintendent, we paid full fare both ways. They also carried by our paper last week, which made us late on issu ing the Columbian. We have just re ceived a request from the Headquarters of the N. P. R. R. in Minnesota to fur nish them a full statement of the re sources of Columbia County so as to en hance the value of their lands. This will be a work of great labor and take a big amount of our valuable time. The letter contained no greenbacks. As the O. R & N, Co. and the N.P.RR Co. are virtually one and the same, the way we are treated by the same looks decid-j edly picked. We know Mr. Villard would le hugely disgusted at their treat ment of us, if he knew it, as he was the first person in the wide world who gave us a most appreciatory notice in leading New York papers during the War of the Rebellion, Mr, T, A. McBride says openly and above board that we have done more to bring out Columbia County than any man for the last 18 years. We are glad there is one noble soul that has manhood enough to acknowledge our merit Old Dr. McBride bequeathed to Tom his in tellect and a good share of his soul too. Long may he wave on his native soil ! "Wo have received the Western Farm er's Almanac for 1883 published at Lou isville, Kentucky by J. P. Morton & Co. Price 10 cents, circulation 100,000. Typographically it is finely printed, and the corners are rounded off. Its interi or contains all that an Almanac should. It is an Encyclopedia in itself. It is not often that an Almanac embraces the whole round of sciences as this does. It contains besides all its other scientific information, essays from some of the most gifted minds of America on Agri cultural and analogous subjects. While stooping to every day life in its minutest details it soars to the farthest depths of the universe, and explains the most al 6 1 ruse questions in a manner intelligible to the commonest intellect Wit, of the choicest kind is intermingled, so the mind should not become wearied, and the essay of " How to Raise Farmers' Daughters" has hardly its equal in the whole world of wit; nearest approach to it being the oration on Duluth, by J. Proctor Knott, one cf Kentucky's most gifted sons. We could fill columns, if wo went into detail, but the best way the reader can convince himself is to send for it, and peruse it thoroughly, and he will find himself a wiser and bet ter man. THE BEST IS TOE CHEAPEST, Just received a large stock of Men's eady-made clothing consisting of fine Diagonal, Beaver, Cassimero and Tweed :mita j Also a large stock of Men's and boys' boots, made in San Francisco expressly for this trade. A full line of ladies' and misses' Fine shoes. Call and examine quality and prices of these goods at MoBRIDE'S STORE. The Teachers i aewYears G-oods. A large assortment of jewelry in the jlatest styles will be opened at McBride's Store, about Dec. 21st Rolled plate Jewelry ice Sets with real garnet. opals, pearl, & cameo settings. Solid Gold & Jet Sets, Cuff Buttons, Cuff Pins &c. Vases, Books, Poems, .Picture Books. LOCAL 2TBWS. We have received a photograph of Island Alcove, the old paternal farm of cjur father Rev. John Adams, situa ted in Durham New Hampshire, on the Piscataqua river. It contains 77 acres, and is a spot romantic as well as fertile; it in almost an island. Great Bay on one sid and Little Bay on the other. It is in n high state of cultivation, its princi pal crop is hay and fruit. It abounds in Ixmt trees, both pear and apple. On it :ia the magnificent family tomb in which repose the ashes of so many of our relatives. The persons in the pic ture are brother J oseph Adams, his5 son Ed ward and daughter May and a gentle man by the name of Knowlton. i . : Mike Dunnegan and his brother and a lIr. Sheridan were in town lately. Mike looks fine, but is deaf. He was restored to health at Bartlett Springs in jCalifornia, an establishment kept by a j)r. Adams and a Mr. Quigley or Crgley. He says he received there the tehderest nursing and kindest care, and hence the name of Adams has a good sound to him. We esteem Mike highly anjd hope he will live many years. His brother is a fine specimen of young man hood. They had all been over to Lewis rijer to visit a sister married to a Mr. Anrys. We have received Pen Pictures of Representative men of Oregon. It is a carefully written book, and furnishes a vast amount of information about the living men of Oregon. It seems to us better to write something about live mm than dead ones. The glory of a country is its men, and Oregon shows itself riot behind in that respect of any State in the Union. This book we learn has met with a large sale, arid will run through many editions. Everybody is interested to read it The authors have shown great energy, and we hope will reap a rich harvest in gold twenties for their labor. Mrs. Allen is improving. Everyone will rejoice as Mrs. Allen is both good and beautiful, and needed in this world ajvhile longer to train up aright her young and interesting family. Hattie Kathbun is nursing her ; ere long Miss Blank, Mrs. Allen's sister is expected from Forest Grove. Prof. Garrison and wife also a sister of Mrs. Allen have paid her a visit, but left for home. George Dorris who used to work in our 0 fice when we published the Vancouver 1 'egisler, is with Mr. Habersham. Dorris was once one of the swiftest typoa on tie Oregonian, but delicate health has c impelled him to choose out door labor. George is a son-in-law of Morris Baker, one of the leading citizens of Vancouver and a step-son of Hon. J, Wt Watts, of Oregon City. Rev. Sebastian Adams, 'Mr. McNally fcjunday. It was a very agreeable visit jlr. Adams has the sympathy and re spect of all in his great affliction, but the dearest, tenderest friends must be sev ered by death. It is one of the sad cer tainties of human life. We have not yet received the obitu ary notice of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, nor have wo received anything respect ing our friend S. D. Morrison who has passed away in his earvy manhood. Sam vas a good-hearted man and has left a eautiful family. May he rest well in lis early grave ! Rev. Sebastian Adams was acquainted with a cherished friend of ours, Mr. J. H. Michie, a jeweller in Cincinnati, If anyone wants an honest return for money invested in jewelry we know of 10 better place to send than to J. H Michie, Cincinnati, Ohio. A H. Blakesley had a very interest ing dance New Year's night at the St. Helen's hotel. , 13 ladies were present Iau had an agreeable time, though cer tain parties in town ran anopposition in favor of a dance at Swager's at which there was a big crowd. Wa continue to &ct as solicitors for trftd'e-marfca, copyrights, -etc., for the United States, and to obtain pat- enta In Canada. England, France. ! Germ&nv, and all tfier countries. - charge for examination of models or draw ings. Advice by mail free Patents obtained through tiaf are noticed la the SCIENTIFIC ABXJCUICAN, which has the largest circulation, and Is the rnost influ ential newspaper of its kind published In tne world. The ad vanta gee of eucb notice every patentee under stands This large and splendidly illustrated news paper is pubUshedwKEKLY at $3.20 a year, and is admitted to be the beat paper deroted to science, mechanics, in ventione, engineering works, and other departments of industrial progress, published m any country. Binglei copies by mail, 10 cents. Sold by all news dealers. . Address, Mann & Co., publishers" of Sden tiflo American. 261 Broadway, New York. Handbook about patants mailed freer M 4. J - m " Notice. All accounts due Dec. lat. must b6 settled at one. No new accounts opened after this date. G. VV. McBride. Oeople are -always on the okout for chances to in r" crease their earnings, and in L.time become wealthy; those wim u not iinjrove meir opportunities remain in poverty. We 1 Offer great chance to make money. We want many men, women, boys and girls to work for us right m their own localities. Any one can do the work properly from the first start. The buunewi will pay more than ten times ordinary wages. Expensive outfit furnished free. No one who en gages fails to make money rapidly. You can de vote your whole time to the work, or only your spare moments. Full information and all that in needed sent free. Address JSTINSOM kJt Co., Portland, Maine. Vick's Floral Guide For 1883 is an Elegant Bopk'cf 150 Pages, 3 Col ored Plates of Plow?rs ana Vegetables, ancLmo . than 1000 illustrations of the choicest Flowers, Plants and Vegetables, and Direction for growing. It is, handsome enough for the Centc Table or a holiday Pres ent. Send on you r nam e an d Post Office addrefti, with 10 cents, and I will send you a copy, poet age paid. This is not a quarter of its . cost. It is printed in both English aud German. If you afterwards order seeds deduct the 10 cts. Tick's Seeds aid t ho. Best- in tad World I The Floral Guide will tell hew to pet and grow them. Vick's Flower and V gat able Garden, 175 Pages, 6 Colored Plates, 500 iinravings. For 50 cents in paper covers; 1.00 in efegaht cloth. Ib Ger man or English. Vick's Illustrated Monthly II agatine. 32 Pages, a Colored Plate in every number and many fine Engravings. Price $1.25 a year; Five Copies for $5.00. ; Specimen,- Number sent for 10 cents; 3 trial copies for 25 cents. JAHES VICE, Rochester, N. Notice for Publication. Land Office at n Oregon Citt, Oregon. Jan. 3. 1882. Notice ! hereby riven that the f ollowine-namixf settler has filed notice of his intention to make final FROorm support of bis claim, and that said proof will be made before the Conswty Clerk of Columbia County at St. Helen, Oregon?, oi Tuesday Feb, 13, 1883, viz,' J. If, JW, Preemption D, S. No, 3389 lot Ifc Loi No, 10, Sec. 14, T. 6 jr. H. 5w, He names the following wftnesses to prove his1 continuous residence upon, and cultivation of, said land, viz: N. C. Dale of St. Helens, and NelJt D. Peter son, Geo. E. Hawkins, and Gustave Peterson of Kiverside, all of Columbia County, Oregon. L. T. 13AKIN, Kegister. v3n?2i5 Notice for Publication. Lad Office, at Oregon Citt, Oheoojt. f Jan. 3, IX3. f Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention, to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said prx! will be made before the County Clerk of Columbia County at St. Helens, Oregon on Tuesday Feb. 13th, lS83v viz: Nels D. Peter son. Homestead Entry No. 3360 for E. $ of s. x, and additional Homestead Entry N. 3803 for w. i of 8- K. ir alE in. Sec 2t, T. 6 it. II. 4 w.. 1 e names the following witnesses to prove hi continuoua residence upon,, and cultivation of said ami, viz: N. C. Dale of St. Helens, John H, "WiIon George E. Hawkins, and Gnetave . Peterson of lUverside, all, of Columbia County. Oregon; L. T. BA11IN, Register, v3n22j5 - E. H-Y. DO. 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