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OFFICE First door south of post office, Boas
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on band the largest and best assortment of
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Parties traveling on the railroad will find this
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ping of tbe train at tbs Oak
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-- for a number ol years, and has become very
popularrith the traveling public. First-class
SLEfePINC ACCOMMODATIONS.
And the table supplied with the best the market
affords. Hotel at tlm leot of the UailroaJ.
H. O. STAriTOW,
Dealer in
Staple Dry Coodsl
Keeps constantly on hand
inent of
a general assort-
EXTRA FINE GROCERIES,
WOOD, WILLOW AND GLASSWAKF,
BY TET.EaRJk.PH TO DATE.
The New York Sunday Tribune here
after -will be sold for three cents.
I. B. Elkin & Co., merchants of Lon
don, have failed. Liabilities, 100,000.
At Havana twelve deaths from yellow
fever occurred during the week ending
sept.
Forest fires are doing considerable
damage in the vioinity of St. John, Newfoundland.
The thermometer in San Francisco at i
noon on Sept. 21st stood 82. At Los An
geles it reached 103.
Yillard and a portion of his guests ar
rived in St. Paul Sept. 21st and loft the
same evening for Chioago. .
An explosion of fire damp Sept. 20th
in a mine near the town of Unna, West
phalia, killed fifteen miners.
At Valparaiso the rise and fall of the
tide, caused by the earthquake at Java,
has given the people much alarm.
At the colonial exhibition at The
Hague, Holland, United States exhibi
tors obtained 57 of the 2553 awards.
A special from Montevideo states that
tbe snip Erwm, from Liverpool for San
Francisco, was burned at sea. The crew
was saved.
Richard Whalen. a young man about
20 years old, shot himself at the Alham-1
bra theater in St. Louis on the night o;
Sept. 20th.
The JSmperor oi Germany has ap
pointed King Alfonso to the command of
the Schleswig-Holstein Uhlan regiment
garrisoned at Strasbnrg.
At Pittsburg, Sept.. 23d, an explosion
of fireworks in the old stables of the ex
position building resulted in the death of
a boy and three race horses.
Postmaster General Gresham has gone
to New York to look into the operations
of the postoffice at that city. His visit
may be extended to Boston, and thenoe
to Iowa.
The nomination of Edward Newman,
as examiner of teas at San Francisco,
made by the collector of that port, has
been approved by the secretary of the
treasury.
Statistics completed for tbe Times
show that the sixteen leading hotels of
Chioago were assessed at $6,500,000, and
the theaters are valued at over $800,000.
Twelve property owners in the whole
sale district have buildings asseseed at
$14,812,000.
The city of Montreal has surrendered
a claim of $100,000 against tbe Grand
Trunk road, the latter binding itself to
erect within two years a mammoth depot,
modeled after the Grand Central in Phil
adelpbia, and depositing $100,000 in the
bank as a forfeit.
The secret service division of the treas
ury department has received from Bos
ton one of the five dollar notes of the
Irish republic, previously reported as ir
regular. It is said by treasury experts
to be a fair imitation of United States
treasury notes.
An Akron, O., dispatch of Sept. 22d
says: The fast west bound express on
the New York, Philadelpnia and Ohio
railway this afternoon crashed into the
rear of a freight side-tracked at Tal
madge, the next station east. The pas
senger engineer was killed, and several
train men injured, none fatally. Tbe
passenger engine and two freight cars
were burned. Not a passenger was
hurt.
Claim agents have been sending out
circulars stating that by an act of con
gress the secretary of the interior was
authorized to increase the compensation
of all assistant marshals engaged in tak
ing the ninth census. The secretary
says additional pay can only be allowed
in a limited number of oases, where he is
satisfied the pay is insufficient, and warns
assistant marshals against the misleading
circular.
An Agram dispacch of Sept. 21st says:
Six hundred peasants from Gradescy
and Bellovor assembled at Far kas winch
yesterday, armed with muskets, axes and
cudgels, snouting, "We won t belong to
Hungary." A small body of military
attempted to disperse the mob, but were
forced to withdraw, Reinforcements at
midnight were received with a volley of
stones and shots. The troops returned
the fire, killing ten and wounding many
more. Two soldiers were wounded.
ALSO
Crockery and Cordage
A full stock of
HCIIOOL
13 O O IS
Buch &9 required by the Public County Schools,
All kinds of STATIONERY, TOYS and
FANCY ARTICLES,
To suit both Young and Old.
BUYS AND SELLS LEGAL TENDERS,
furnishes Checks on Portland, and procures
Drafts on San Francisco.
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ALL ORDERS
Promptly attended to and Goods shipDod
with care.
Address. Il&cheney & Beno,
Portland. Oregon
Certificates of . incorporation of the
International Northern Telegraph Com
pany were filed at New York September
19th. Capital stock, $5,000,000.
A Gnaymas dispatch of the 20th says:
More rain fell last night. Reports are
arriving that persons who fled from here
are dying in the interior. Ten deaths in
the city have been reported in the last
twenty-four hours. It is reported that
COO are down with the fever. Alsur, one
of the wealthiest men in Sonora, and
owner of the famous Trinidad mines,
died from the fever yesterday.
a. unnaio oispatcn or toe 23d says:
There is much excitement in East Buf
falo over the attempted lynching of
Rev. John Pittlass, pastor of the Roman
Catholic church there, by members of
his congregation. The ohurch has over
1000 members, mostly ignogrant Po-
landers. A young man has been ap
pointed as assistant in the pastoral work,
who became popular with the people.
Bishop ityan thought he was interior
ing witn tne useiuiness oi me pastor.ana
sent him to Uswego. The people were
very angry, and last night a crowd en
tered the house of Father Pittlass, while
he was at supper. The priest was car
ried out doors into Peckham street, and
suddenly knocked down by two of his
captors, and thrown into the vard.
Knjawski, known as the "Polish 'King,
on account of his influence with his
countrymen, faced the crowd with his
revolver, and the police appearing, pre
vented any f urther violenoe. Threats of
further trouble are seriously made.
A St. Louis dispatch of September 23d
says: Passengers arrived on the delayed
Ohio and Mississippi train this evening
report a serious accident near Seymour,
Illinois, at 4 o'clock this morning, by
which two persons were killed and quite
a number wounded. It appears that
trains Nos. 3 and 5 left Cincinnati last
evening an hour apart, with orders to
run slow near Seymour, in consequenoe
of the track being in a bad condition.
No. 3 hitched on a Louisville sleeper at '
JNortn Vernon. When four miles west
of Seymour, while running about three
miles an hour, as per orders, it was run
into from the rear by No. 5, which was
running along at high speed. The pas
senger coach, which was in the rear of
the sleeper, was driven nearly half way
through and partly on top of the sleeper.
The engineer of No. 5 and a little child
belonging to Mrs. Taylor were killed
and a dozen or more passengers were
1 wounded.
The Democrats of Maryland nominated
Robert M. Chane for governor.
John Payne Collier, philologist and
commentarian on Shakespeare, is dead.
The Prohibitionists of Massachusetts
nominated Charles Almy of New Bedford
for governor.
Robinson was nominated for governor
of Massachusetts by the Republicans
September 19th.
The New York Times celebrated its
31st birthday by reducing its price from
four to two cents.
Judge Jonathan Dixon was nominated
for governor on the first ballot by the
New Jersey Republican Convention,
Sept. 18th.
The report of the auditor of the state
of Ohio just completed, shows collections
under the Scott law to be nearly
$2,000,000. A
O Donnell, the slayer of James Carey,
the informer in the Phoenix Park mur
der trial, arrived in England, September
18th, and is confined to the Southamp
ton jail, awaiting trial.
It is believed that, with the utmost ex
ertions of the postoffice department fully
one-third of the postomces of the coun
try will not have an adequate supply of
stamps upon the date when the law pro
viding for new letter rates goes into oper
ation. Department officials, however,
do not fear any serious obstruction to
business.
A New Orleans dispateh of September
23d says: The boiler of an engine run
ning the saw at a bridge being con
structed over Red river, for the Vioks-
burg, Shreveport and Pacific railroad,
exploded with terrible force, killing
five, and wounding five, who were at
work as a night force. A boy named
Willis Watts was the only person on the
boat at the time of the explosion who
escaped unhurt.
A Melbourne dispatch of Sept. 20th
says: The newspapers generally express
dissatisfaction with Lord Derby s dis
patch condemning the projected annexa
tion of South Pacific islands to Australia,
and they assert that, owing to this poli
cy on the part of the home government.
they fear the colonies will be flooded
with French convicts. In Victoria, it is
declared that Lord Derby has failed to
appreciate the danger, and that the col
onies themselves must devise means for
their protection. A conference of rep
resentatives of the various colonies will
be held in Sydney, New South Wales,
the latter part of November, at which
the subject will be discussed.
A Wilkesbarre dispatch of September
221 says: A terrible accident happened
in tne woodward snait of tne .Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Coal Com
pany, at Kingston this afternoon. The
shaft is 500 feet deep and has twenty
feet. of water at the bottom. George
Bulg, Thomas J. Davis, Edward Phil
lips and Isaac Devan were working on a
platform, timbering the shaft sixty feet
from the bottom. A piece of timber
weighing half a ton fell on the platform
while being lowered. It gave way and
four of the men were precipitated to the
bottom, falling in the water and drown
ing. Philip Barry and Lewis Jones
were saved by hanging to a beam, after
orying for help. The men were all mar
ried, except Davis, and leave large fami
lies in destitute circumstances.
Pension Commissioner Dndley says:
Of the appropriation of $100,000,000 for
the payment cf pensions for the fiscal
year ended June 30, $39,000,000 remain
ed unexpended and was reappropriated
for the present fiscal year, making the
sum available for expenses of the bu
reau about $125,000,000. Commissioner
Dudley expresss the opinion that there
will be another large surplus at the end
of the present fiscal year. In that event
he will ask to have the surplus reap
propriated, and expects to be able con
siderably to reduce the amount required
for the fiscal year beginning July 1st,
1884. The commissioner says that not
withstanding the probable expenses and
this large surplus, the number of pen
sion claims passed upon the present year
will show a large increase over last year.
He attributes the saving to the charac
ter of the cases and the efficiency of the
examiners, uonimissioner uuaiey is
also of the opinion that he will be en
abled to reduce the number of employes
in the pension bureau from 1500 1250.
A Sioux Falls, D. T., dispatch of
Sept. 18th says: The last clause in the
constitution of the proposed new state of
Dakota was passed upon this afternoon,
and the convention adjourned, leaving
the final arrangement of the document
in the hands of the committee of arrange
ment and phraseology. It is a carefully
constructed paper, and strong safeguards
are thrown against monopoly, banking
and railroads being especially consid
ered. Ten thousand copies of the docu
ment will be printed in English, and
1000 each in German and Scandinavian,
for distribution in southern Dakota. The
question of salaries to be allowed state
officers was decided. The governor is
to receive $2000, and the treasurer, aud
itor and attorney general $1000 each. A
resolution was adopted that will gladden
the prohibitionists, which was to submit
to popular vote any measures upon a pe
tition of 50,000 legal voters, and upon a
majority vote it shall then become part
of the state constitution. The delegates
go home well pleased with their labors.
An important event in telegraph cir
cles was the recent opening of the Cen
tral and ' South American company's
lines to Brazel. connection with the
OVERWORKED.
BT ILLS. WHXKLKB.
Vp with the birds in tbe early morning
The dew-drop glows like a precious gem;
Beautiful tints in the skies are dawning.
But she's never a moment to look at tbena,
Tbe men are wanting tbeir breakfast early;
tsbe must not linger, the murt not wait;
For words that are sharp and looks that are surly
Are what the men give when the meals are late.
Ob, glorious colors the clouds are turning, :J -If
the would but lcok over bills and trees:
But here are the dished, and here la the churning
inose luiny tuways muit yieia to wese.
The world is filled with the wine of beauty.
If the could but pause and drink it in;
But pleasure, she says, must wait for duty
Neglected work is committed sin. .J-
't-' '
Tbe day grows h and bar hands grow weary; '
Ob, for an hour to ooal ber bead.
Oat with the birds and winds so cheery!
But she muBt get dinner aud make be bread.
The boar men ia tbt bay field working, -
If tbey saw ber sittig with idle hand.
Would think ber lazy, and call it shirking.
And she never could make them understand.
They do not know that the heart within ber
Hungers for beauty and things sublime,
Tbey only know that they want their dinner,
Plenty of it, and just "on time."
And after the sweeping and churning and baking,
And dinner dlshe are a 1 put by,
She sits and sews, though her head is aching,
Till time for supper aud "chores" draws u.gh.
Her boys at school must look like others.
She says, a she patches their frocks and hose.
For tbe world is quek to censure mothers
For the least neglect of their children's clothes.
Ber husband comes from tbe field of labor.
He gives no praise to his weary wife;
She's done no more than has her neighbor;
fla the lot of all in country life.
But after the strife and weary tussle
With life is done, and she lies at rest;
Tbe nation's braiu aud heart and muscle
Uer son's and daughter: shall call her blest.
And I thin it the sweetest j y of heaven,
The rarest bliss of sternal lifo,
Anl the fairest crown of all, will be given
Unto the wayworn farmer's wife.
minutes together, the court and jurors,
galleries and dock were in a roar. How
ever the law or the facta might turn out,
it was clear that the laugh was. all on
Larry's side.
"In this perilous conjuncture, amid
all the rapid alternations of his case
now the prospect of a triumphant return
to his home and friends, now the vision
abruptly dispelled and the execution
staring him in the face, Larry's coun
tenance exhibited a picture of heroic
immobility. "Once, and only once, when the evi
dence was in full tide against him, some
signs of mortal trepidation overcast his
visage. The blood in his cheeks took
fright and fled. A cold perspiration burst
from his brow. His lips became prised
together. His sister, whose eyes were
riveted upon him as she clung to the dock
side, extended her arm and applied a
piece of orange to his mouth. He ac
oepted the relief without turning aside to
see by whose hands the relief had been
administered. .
"At this crisis of his courage a home
thrust from O'Connell floored the witness
who had so disconcerted his client. The
public buzzed their admiration, and Larry
was himself again !
"The caso for the crown having closed,
O'Connell announced that he would call
no witnesses. Larry's friends pressed
hard to have at least one of the alibis
proved, but O'Connell was inflexible,
and they reluctantly submitted. The case
went to the jury laden with hanging mat
ter but not without a saving doubt.
After long deliberation the doubt pre
vailed. The jury oame out and the glo
rious sound of 'Not Guilty !' announced
to Larry Cronin that he had miraculous
ly escaped the gallows. He bowed with
unassembled gratitude to the verdict.
He thanked the jury. He thanked
O'Connell, shook hands with the jailor,
sprung, at one bound over the dock, was
caught as he descended in the arms of
his friends, and hurried away in triumph
from the precincts of the court.
It will be remembered that Lover
makes Shamus mount the gallows, his
mother, if we rightly remember, stand
ing near him. She whispers something
in his ear, he springs from the scaffold,
is caught by his friends, and is off and
away before the jailer or any other of
the authorities can say "Jaok Robinson,"
much less proceed to lay hands on him
to bring him back. But to continue :
I saw him a few minutes after, as he
was paraded through the main street of
the town to his barony. Tbe sight was
enough to make one almost long to have
been on the point ox being banged. The
principal figure was Larry himself, ad
vancing with a firm and buoyant step,
and occasionally giving a responsive
flourish of his shillalah, which he had
already reassumed, to the cheorings and
congratulations amid which he moved
along. At his sides ' Were his wife and
sister, each of whom held the collar of
his coat tightly grasped, and, dragging
him to and fro, interrupted his progress
every moment, as they threw themselves
upon him and gave vent to their feelings
in another and another convulsive hug.
"A few vards in front of his mother
bustled along at a strange sort of pace
between a trot and a canter, and every
now and then discovering that she had
shot too far ahead, pirouetted round and
stood in the oenter of the street clap
ping her withered hands, and shouting
out her ecstacy in native Irish, until the
group oame up and again propelled her
forward."
And that is the story of the celebrated
Shamus O'Brien in prose 1 In the flow
and beauty of words the poem may ex
cel it, but in dramatic force and feeling,
SHAMUS O'BRIEN.
Samuel Lover wrote a poem which he
called "Shamum Obrien." ' It became
famous, and even now is so great a fa
vorite with the masses that hardly a
patriotic commemoration of Irish events
takes place without some body being
down on the programme to recite the
trying adventures of O'Brien, seldom is
there a mixed class of entertainment of
fered at a theater that the versified
Shamus does not appear as regularly as
the thrilling circumstances of "Sheri
dan's Ride," are retold by the crack elo
cutionist of the company. Yet, strange
to say, there was a Shamus O'Brien; at
least no one ever came so near the noose
as he is represented by Lover to have
done. . Had he been so near the hempen
cord as all that,"they would have swunsr
him off whether or no. Men in the 1798
period never mounted fcthe gallows and
desoended from it alive, unless it might
be in some rare case of survival after
hanging. The writer has taken pains to
trace back through the vanished ages
the story on which "Shamus O'Brien"
was founded, and has at length hunted
ud the events on which Lover proba
bly based his beautiful and &aohing
poem. Here they are, very much con
densed, from a trial which took plp.ee in
the memorable and, to the American, de
testable reign of George III.
Larry Cronan was a stout, hardy Irish
boy, who, although he was but twenty
five years of age, was already a husband
and the father of five blooming babes,
for they were little more, when Larry
got into that trouble which came so near
ending all his trouble in this world. He
was in a good condition of life, was what
they called a five-pound free-holder, and
paid his rent punctually. He loved his
neighbor, and seldom missed a mass, a
fair or a wake, and was altogether one of
the best behaved and most thriving boys
in all Ireland. Bat,in an unlucky hour,
he was arrested and indicted at tbe Sum
mer Assizes of his native county "for
that he, on a certain night and at a cer I the truth is not to be surpassed. A touch
tain place, feloniously and burglariously of humor, as in the above description,
entered a certain dwelling house in seems to be native to the Irish in relat
search of arms," &o., and stood capitally intr any narrative, no matter how tragic.
indicted under the Ellenborough act. A Ireland's history teems to overflowing
writer of the day says: "I was present J with the deeds of her patriotic sons, but
nude. They tore their clothing from
them, and they were unmercifully tossed
amid the brutal laughter of the soldiers
and the assembled crowd. The married
woman died, also her child, prematurely
born in consequenoe of the treatment.
The young girl a person of great beauty
and refinement was seriously injured
both in mind and body. This girl had
been offered 1000 to inform on persons
implicated in the rebellion, but indig
nantly refused the bribe.
A Crss-Eved Cat's Burial.
The widow Maloney, who lives in a
two story - brick cottage on Frankfort
road, near Lehigh avenue, yesterday
bnriod a Thomas cat that was a source of
genuine pride to the neighborhood in
which he dwelt. The cat in question
was bobtailed and had lost one leg in sn
election riot. To his other misfortunes',
which were sufficient to bring tears to
the eyes of an old maid, had been added
a total deprivation of one ear and an en
tire lock of hair on the head. The hair
had been swept off in a collision with a
pail of hot water.and the ear was severed
by a boy who lived in the same block.
To cap the doleful climax the cat was
cross eyed, had a temper that would
Lave martyred a mule, and a voice that
extended over seven complete .octaves.
As a cross eyed eat he was an animal
never before seen in that neighborhood.
The cross-eyed Thomas cats that have
been born since Noah went in the ark, it
is said, can be counted upon the toes of
one foot. It therefore happened natur
ally enough that Tom, which was the
"short" for the name of the Widow Ma
loney's prize, soon after his birth, which
occurred six years ago, got to be the
standard curiosity of Lehigh avenue up
as far as Seventh street, and on Frank
fort road to the old bridge. The perver
sion of the sight was heartrending. Both
eves turned in. so that he bore the con
tinual appearance of trying to look down I power was changed from tbe triumvirate to that
SOUPS OF OREG02I HISTORY.
TERWrORIAX. GOVXBSXKHT. U
The first effort made with a view to the e.
tablishment of a civil government in Oregon
was made at Champoeg, then the principal
settlement in the Willamette valley, oil the 7th
of February, 1841, when "a meeting of some
of the inhabitants was held for the purpose of
consulUng upon the steps necessary to be
taken for the formation of laws and the eeo
titn of officers to execute the same." The Bev.
Jason Lee was called to the chair. The names
of persons regarded by the meeting as . gui ta
ble were recommended to the people atUrgs
for governor and for other necessary oSsers.
A resolution was also passed "that all wtflers
north of the CommW river ot connected
with the Hudson' Bay Company, adaatUaa . .
to the woteotlon of oar lavs oa 'taati P
phSTthat effect." On the ISth A the t
lame month persons were e acted to fill ;.th
various offlcea,Vnd toe, were iustnictad "to ao
according to the lw oi New Yo .k jantil
"her lfws should be adopted. The,
officers did tfot, however, enter upon the dis
charge of their duties. Various causes for dis
couragement presented so many, obstacles to
the organization of civil government at that
time as to necessitate the abandonment of the
MInMarch. 1843, another effort at civil gov
ernment, and a meeting at Champoeg, resulted
in the establishment of a provisional govern
ment, with a triumvirate execuUve, style
The Executive committee. The expenses
of the government were borne by the people in
voluntary subscriptions of such amount an
nually as each subscriber should choose to
Pay BXBCtmVB AND LSOISUtirVK, .
In May, 1844, the people elected a . wrad
Executive committee, and also a Legislative
committee. Peter G. Stewart, Osborn Russell
and W. J. Bailey were elected Executive com
mittee, and Peter H. Burnett, Dsvid Hul, M.
M. McCarver, M. Gilmore, A. L. Lovejoy,
Bobt. Newell, Daniel Waldo and T. D. Keiser
constituted the Legislative committee.
On the 8th of June, 1844, tbe legislative,
committee having assembled at what is now
known as Oregon City and received the first
message of the executive committee, proceeded
tn mnnnatniot tne eovernmen. ira Binwiim
at his trial, and still retain a vivid recol
lection of the fortitude and address with
which he made his stand against the law;
and yet there were objects around him
quite sufficient to unnerve the boldest
heart a wife, a sister, and an aged
mother, for such I found to be the three
females who clung to the side-bars of the
dock and awaited in silent agony the
issue of his fate. But the prisoner, un
dismayed, appeared almost unconscious
of their presence. Every faculty of his
soul was on tbe alert to prove to his
friends and the country at large that he
was not a man i to be hanged without a
struggle. He had used the precaution
to come down that morning in his best
attire, for he knew that with an Irish
jury the next best thing to a general
good character is a respectable suit of
clothes. j
"It struck me that tlm new silk hand
kerchief almost betokened innocence, for
who could have gone to the unnecessary
expense if he apprehended that its place
was so soon to be supplied by the rope?
His countenance bore no marks of his
previous imprisonment. He was as fresh
and healthy and his eyes as bright as if
he had been all the time out on bail.
"When his case was called on, instead
of shrinking under the general buzz that
his appearance exoited, or turning pale
at the plurality of crime of which he was
arraigned, he manfully looked danger in
the face, and put in action every resource
within his reach to avert it, haying dis
patched a messenger to bring O'Connell
from the other court, andi beckoned to
his attorney to approach the dock side
and keep within whispering distance
while the iurv were swearing and mani-
fested no ordinary powers of
United States being made via Galveston, j physiognomy in putting by every juror
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Texas.
auguratea, ana is is anticipated that a
lively business will spring up between
the two great sections of the western
hemisphere. Various gentlemen in of
ficial po3itions and prominently identi
fied with tbe business interests of the
country have sent sentiments over the
wire upon this occasion, and among
others is the following from President
Arthur to the emperor of Brazil : "The
president and government of the United
States salute the emperor and people of
Brazil, through the new channel of direct
communication 'between the two coun
tries, this day opened via Galveston and
Valparaiso, and see in it a multiplied
link of intercourse, and an assurance
that the happy relations between them
will continue and increase to the mate
rial benefit of both peoples and conn-tries."
dog look. He had even the sagacity,
though against the opinion of his attor
ney, to strike off one country gentleman
from his own barony who j owed him a
balance of 3. I
"The trial went on after the usual fash
ions of trials of the kind Abundance
o? hard swearing on the direct, retrac
tions and contradictions on the cross
examinations. The defense was a mas
terpiece. Several times the rope seemed
irrevocably entwined around poor Lar
ry's neck as many times , the dexterity
of O'Connell untied the Gordian knot.
From some of the witnesses he extracted
that they were unworthy of credit, being
notorious knaves or process servers.
Others he inveigled into a metaphysical
of her equally patriotic daughters the
record is soant indeed.
Full of tears and smileswould be a
book relating the lives of the mothers of
Irishmen. Like bright dew-drops glist-
ening on dying roses snines tne devo
tion of the women of the Green Isle to
their sons, husbands, fathers and broth
ers, in their dark hours of peril, and of
death. The last on the soaffold the last
at the grave is the mother of the patri
otic Irishman. Whatever other woman
may desert him she is always thereat
his side to the bitter end.
No Irish woman's name figures in the
long list of pensions bestowed by Eng
land on informers. No rewards were
ever gained by Irish women for the be
trayal of men. Woman was always the
first to shelter the hunted patriot, and to
keep secret his place of concealment
even when threatened with death herself.
Emmet was sheltered by a woman, so
was Lord Edward Fitzgerald. Linked
arm in arm, slowly paced Mrs. Bond in
the prison-yard with her husband, Oliver
Bond, heavily manaoled the coffin in
eight of all, and the dreadful apparatus
ready.
There was but one vulnerable point in
the cast-iron heart of Lord Castlereagh.
It was that to him was denied the happi
ness of paternity.
This was the only bitter drop in the
cup brimming over with all else that was
good and coveted by other men. The
force of the blow struck him by a woman
may be estimated when this remembered.
The mother of Teeling, a youth impli
cated in the rebellion of 1793, vainly be
sought of Castlereagh the pardon of her
son. Bathed in tears she turned away
from him, saying: "You can not com
prehend my feelings, my lord, I remem
ber you have no child 1"
Previous to the outbreak of the re
bellion of '98 there was a noted prison at
Geneva, in the county of Wexford, into
which the husband of one young woman
and the betrothed of another were
thrown. The women were permitted to
visit the prisoners. Finally they ex
changed clothes, and the young men
escaped. As they were only yeomen,
and their women peasant girls, this act,
identical with the escape of that of
Lavalette in the dress of the countess,
his wife, was not lauded to the skies and
handed down in history as a wonderful
instance of feminine heroism. On the
contrary, when the girls were found oc
cupying the men's cells, the rage of the
soldiers was so great that at a court-
at his nose.
- All tht cat had to do to create a holi
day in that section of the city was to sit
on Mrs. Maloney's front stoop and settle
his eyes in position. He didn't have to
gaze at anything in particular. That
was an accomplishment he did not pos
sess. He simply wiggled the stump of
his tail and waited for developments.
The developments generally came in on
the first train, and consisted of small
boys, cats and dogs, men and women.
And the cat would sit there unmoved,
occasionally revolving his eyes into fan
tastic positions, in order to convince the
assembled multitude what sort of a cir
cus he really possessed. All night he
uplifted his voice.
He had two voices a still and small
voice, like that of Mr. Tilden declining
the nomination of 1884, and a large,
whole souled, expansive voice that sur
passed, the combined, effect of thnnder
and a fog horn. The still, small voice
usuallv wandered forth into the soft
night just after dusk. The large voice
did not get abroad until about 2 A. m.
Then it staid abroad until breakfast
time. Sometimes Mrs. Maloney's
Thomas would experiment with both
voices simultaneously. The effect can
not be expressed. The final cruise of
death was a laudable attempt to pass
under the wheels of a street car while it
was in motion. He was buried in a pine
coffin with a white ribbon around his
neck. The coffin was lowered by the
widow's eldest, son into a grave three
feet deep, in the rear of the family man
sion. Fifty people were present at the
funeral, attracted by curiosity and the
fame of the wonderful cross-eyed cat.
St. Louis Democrat.
Fanners Arbitrate, Don't litigate.
The law favors arbitration as a peace
able and inexpensive method of settling
difficulties. In many of the Btates there
are statutory provisions by which a judg
ment mav be rendered on the award or
finding of arbitrators concerning a mat
ter duly submitted to them. It is al
most always possible to take a case out
of court and submit it to referees at any
stage of its progress. In the absence of
any statutory provisions, it is always
lawful for parties to agree to submit
their differences to arbitrators, and abide
by their decision. The agreement to
do so may be either oral or written, but
the latter is the better way. The lorm
not essential, except that the meaning
should be carefully expressed. It is cus
tomary, in addition to the agreement, for
the parties to execute to each other an ar
bitration bond, conditioned on each party
performing the award given by the arbi
trators, whatever it may be. If the
award is properly made it then becomes
binding on the parties. Arbitration is
well worth considering by farmers wno
find themselves in dispute about some
simple question of fact, as for instance,
the amount of damage which A's breeohy
cattle have done to B's corn, or as to
what was the value of A's sheep which
were killed by B'slad dog. Such ques
tions can generally be quickly, cheaply
and justly settled by one or more fair
minded neighbors, and the expense, de
lay and aggravation of a suit in court
thus be avoided. American Agriculturist.
puzzle touching the prisoner's identity I martial they found the women guilty of
otners ne sumnea oy repeated blows j Having aided tne escape oi traitors, sua
with the butt end of an Irish joke. For sentenced them to be tossed ia a blanket
"I'm getting tired," said an old gen
tleman the other day, as he laid down
his magazine to wipe his glasses, "of all
this preaching and" lecturing at women,
all this analyzing and pioking of them to
pieces. Seems to me every young min
ister with his head full of Rachel and
Rebecca and Deborah and Esther and
the Queen of Sheba, and every literary
fellow of the university type who's cram
full of Joan of Arc and Qaeen Elizabeth
and Semiramis, and in fact everybody
who writes or talks for a living, when he
falls short of subjects, picks up poor
woman, and blazes pway about ner
'sphere,' and 'individuality,' and 'rela
tions to man,' and so on. Always peg
ging away at women, as if they were im
beciles, who had to be watched; or help
lees infants who have to have their steps
directed; or dangerous people, who must
be kept down. It can t be very pleasant
to be continually held np like a butterfly
or put on a slide under a microscope and
criticised and chattered about as if you
were a rare insect, or a new kind of ex
plosive, or some newly discovered ani
mal, or an old relic. Oh I let up on the
women, l say."
Drowning men catoh at straws, and so
do thirsty men.
rt o ainri hA. the leffislative powerB were
better regulated and more clearly denned, and
a judiciary syBtem was established. An act
was passed to create a revenue which should be
equal to the wants of an economical adminis
tration of the government. Tbeir session
lasted nine days and they performed much im
portant labor. ;
The organic law thus passed by the legisla
tive committee was subiequently adopted by
the people at a regular election, and became
the basis of all other territorial governments.
The legislative committee again assembled in .
Oregon City December 16th of the same year,
and continued in session eight days, enacting
much necessary legislation of importance. .
AK IKnEPEKDENT OOVEBKMKJfT. ,
It is remembered as an interesting historical
fact, that about this time the question was
seriously discussed as to the expediency and
necessity of an independent instead of a pro
visional government. It was argued that the
geographical position of this territory was such
as' to place it at so great a distance from the
seat of the general government, as to render it
almost. Impossible to present Jbe needs r.nd
wishes of the people to the authorities at Wash
ington, or to get assistance in return; so that
such an independent government was not only
expedient, but necessary, Some few persons
of high character and important influence were "
in this movement, and it was prompted by the
fact that this distant territory appeared to have
been left by the general government without
protection, and as if abandoned by their own
country. They were not able to realize the
difficulties that beset the negotiations about the
title, and the embarrassments and delay of the
general government in consequence. But,
happily f r the people of Oregon, the inde
pendent" movement found no favor in the eyes
of the large majority. The people very gener
ally looked forward with honest pride and hope
to the time when the flag of their oountry
would again throw its protecting egis above .
them a visible sign that they had not been
forgotten in their distant home.
In the spring of 1845 George Abernethy was
elected the first governor of the territory of
Oregon.
STABS AUD STRIPES. ,
Bays Hon. 3. Quinn Thornton, judge of the
supreme court of the territory, in his narrative,
from which we have drawn largely for this ac
count: "The appearance upon the Columbia of -
the United States sebooner enara, ia xbb.
cheered the hearts of our citizens in that dis
tant territory; and upon the stars and stripes
being displayed, they were greeted 4 oy tne
spontaneous shouts of the people, whose minds
were filled with a thousand glorious memories,
which clustered about the emblem of tbeir
country's nationality. An ensign and union
jack being among the few- articles
preserved from the, unfortunate wreck of
that vessel, these were, with peculiar ap
proriateness, presented to the provisional gov
ernment of Oregon, through his Excellency
George Abernethy, by Lieutenant Niel M.
Howison. the late commandant of the Shark.
This was emphatically tbe nrit nag on tne
United States that waved over the undisputed
and purely American territory of Oregon; for
it was about the 22d of February, 1847, that
a confirmation of the news of the Oregon treaty
was received. Powder sufficient for a national
salute was fired from an old rusty and dis
mounted gun whioh had been given us by a
merchantman." 5
It was expected that immediately on the set
tlement of the boundary and the title questions
the congress of the United States would at
once provide for tbe establishment of a terri
torial government in Oregon. But great was
the grief and disappointment, as well as the
astonishment of the people, to learn that con
gress adjourned and left them still in the
anomalous and extraordinary position of bav-'
ing no government or protection of the United '
States over them. A petition was prepared
for such a government, signed by most of the
settlers,and sent by the Hon. J. Quinn Thorn
ton in person to the city of Washington. ,
TXBBITOBT OBGA3TOTD.
Through the zeal of Senator Thomas H.
Behton, who bad always been a friend of Ore
gon, and by the aid of Hon. Stephen A. Dou
glas, assisted by the efforts of President Polk,
who was anxious to have some important event
close his administration, Oregon was given a
territorial government in 1848. Hon. Joseph .
Lane, who was ever after been closely identified
with the interests of this Bute, was appointed
the first territorial governor. He started at
once for his future field, and arriving here is
sued his executive proclamation on the Sd of
March, 1849. ,
To aid further in the settlement of Oregon
and stimulate immigration thereto, congress
the next year passed a law granting to any sin
gle man who had settled or should settle before
the first of December of that year, 320 acres of
land, and to a married man double that quan
tity. This is what is known as the "Donation
Law." It was extended by congress from time
to time and expired in 1854. .
In 1853 tbe Large area before known as Ore
gon territory was divided, and that portion of
it known as the district of Vancouver was set
off and organized into tbe Territory of Wash
ington. March 2. 1853. The boundary Una was
nn tha north bv the 49th parallel.
The Columbia river forms the boundary be
tween Oregon and Washington. ,
In 1859 Oregon, having population of
52,405, was admitted into the Union as a
state. - - ' T-
The Concord School of Philosophy has
not yet determined how a woman should
act when her nanus are iu wo uvu&u r
and an aggressive ny aiigaw vuiw