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ROSEBURG REVIEW ;' is issukd " , FRIDAY MORNINGS ROSEBURG ' KEVJEW HAS THE HUES? JOB OTFICE IN DOUGLAS COUNTY. CARDS, BILL HEADS, LEGAL ELANKS And other Printing, Including Urge and Heavy Pssters and She ry Hand-Eilli Neatly and Expeditiously executed AT PORTLAND PRICES. view .Roseburg I I 1 1 THE REVIEW PUBLISHING CO. J. R. N, BELL, Editor. One Year - - - - - ?2 50 Six Months - . - - - - - - 1 25 Three Months - 1 00 GE5EBAL DIEEOTOBY- t VOL. XL HOSEBURG, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1886. NO. 34. Grovee Clevklasd President. Thos. F. Batabd Secretary of State Daniel T. MASNi5,Secretary of Treasury. L. Q. C. Lamar .Secretary of the Interior. VVm. C. Endicott Secretary o War W. C. Whitney. ., Secretary of Navy. W. T. Viuts. Post Master General. A. H. Gaelafd. .Attorney General. Moa&isox B. Waits. .... ... .Chief Justice. STATE OF OREGON. tn: SSu.::::::::: u-s- Binokb Hermann. .Congressman. Z. F. Moody Governor. R. P. Earhart.. ... ....Secretary of State. Edward Hirsch State Treasnrer. E. B- McELROT....Sopt. Pab. Instruction. W. B. Byars ... .....State Printer. J. B. Waldo, C. J., ) Wit. P. Lord. ....Supreme Judges. W. VV. Thatee, 1 SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT. R. Si Bv.x. ..... v, ...... : , ; . . ..; . Judge. J. W Hamiltow , .' . Prosecuting Attorney. - r . DOUGLAS COUNTY. . Tw Sl' - .. Senators. J. H. Shuts. j VVm. Massing, gnP&SSfl ..Bopres-ntaUves. C.B. Wilcox, ) Thos. R. Sheridan . . Clerk. Am f Ar.ti Sheriff D. S. West,; ..... ..Treasurer. G. T. Russell..... School Superintendent. J as. A. Stebli ng ........... i . . Assessor. J. S. FrrzHrGH.v. ........ County Judge. J. Hall, C. A. McGee, . . ..Commissioners. N. E. Brit .. . . .Surveyor. Da-S. S. Marsters....... ... ..Coroner. Thos. Smith ..... ; . . . . . . .Seeep Inspector. f t . precinct officers: T. L. Gannon.. .....1T ,. Tas. Harpham Jusliccs- Peter Junger. Constable CITY OF HOSEBURG. II. C Stanton, ! John Rast, 1 tP. Sheridan, V .. .... .. i Trustees, . C. Wheeler, 1 P. Benedict.. ; 1 T. Ford .................. ....Recorder. G. J . LANGEnBERG Marshal. John Chasb...... ..Treasnrer. U. S. LAND OFFICE ROSEBURG, Chas. W. Johnston.. ... ..'.Register. A. C J ones . . -. . . . . . . , . . . .Receiver : SIGNAL SERVICK xi. a. x auvj e , vuserver. PROFESSIONAL. L. F. fJLNE, JOHN LANE JANE & LANE, Attorneys at Law. Main street, opposite Cosmopolitan Hotel. C. FULLERTON, , Attorney at Law. Office in Marks' brick, up stairs. ( 1 B. WILCOX, J. Attorney At Law Office opposite E. G. Young & C's. Oakland ' Oregon. J. page ! PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Oakland, - - - Oregon. R. C. HUNTER M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. CANYONTILLE OREGON K. L. MILLER, M. D " SURGEOJT. Homoeopathic Pbj sician. Offiice up stairs in the old Sheridan Brick, on Jackson Street, Roseburg, Oregon. Chronic diseases a speciality. W. L. FREEMAN M. D. OFFICE IN DR. HOOVER'S OLD Stand, where he may 1 found day or . night when, not professionally engaged. ESPECIAL Attention Given to SURGERY and Diseases of Women. Dr. THOMAS GR ill A 31, A GRADUATE Of the University o( Pa. at Philadelphia and of the ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, and ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, LONDON ENGLAND hu located for. th practie of hU profoaeion In ROSEBURG - OREGON Office and residence, Washington street opposite the Catholio Church F. G. (EHME, M. D. (Pronounced Ama.) HOMCEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN & Graduate Of The UrflVERSITY Of Leipzig Germany. Office i; Residence at the house of Geo. W, Day, near R. R. track, Rose burg. H. PARRY, Merchant Tailor. n the Red Front, next door to A. C . Marks - Store. Repairs and Alterations neatly done. L. BELFILS WJLTOX - I 'eel confident of gmng satisfaction in all work cuuujto o me iu watches, clocks, and jewelry I also repair musical instruments. I hare the Coiuity patent riirht for sale of Concrete Cement Pipe for couveyin water to any place do sired in Douglas Couuty. I win also teach any kind of instrumental music Anyone desirfnfr instruction will call on me at mv . watchmaking shop. L. Bklfii. NEW YORK LUMBER & Wood Yard. GoTo 11. IV Howell's East side of track one block south of depot is where you will find number one dry lumber, bugar pine, Cedar, Fir, and all Dimention J umber for buildings, sawed and ehaved-cedar shingles, Sash Doors, Blinds, Screen Doors, Mouldings, Wall and Stair railings, Balusters, Brackets, Newel posts, Ceilinsr, Rustic, Flooring, and all kinds of Finishing lumber, sawed and split Cedar posts, 1 inch plank sawed expressly for sidewalks. I represent the Sugar . Pine Door fc Lumber Co. of Grant's Pass Or. which from personal inspection I believe to be the finest establishment on the Pa cific coast, it employes seventy men. The Proprietors and Overseers are all Eastern men and experts in the busi ness, the machinery is new and put up in the. best manner, and all under srtict discipline and order. Their work is all dono by number one me chanics and is equal to any work of the kind done in New York or the East. Fruit boxes, Picket fences and Gates complete. I also represent a number one mill at Yoncolla where I have sawed all Dimention lumber to order on short notice. All guaianteed as represented or no sale. Call and see stock and prices before purchasing. Stove wood constantly on hand at HARD TIME PRICES. OVERLAND TO CALIFORNIA VIA OREGON AND CALIFORNIA R. R. And Connections. TIME, 2i DAYS. Fare from Portland to San Francisco $32; to Sacra mento $30. Close connections made at Ashland with stages o the California Oregon & Idaho Stage Company. (DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAYS.) East Side Division. BETWEEN PORTLAND & ASHLAND Mail Train LEAVE. Portland 8.00A. M. Ktiscburg 6.25 P. M. Ashland 8.45 P. M. Roseburg 5.15 A. M. ARRIVE. Roseburg. , ..G.15 P. jr. Ashland 4.00 A. M. Roseburg. ...5.05 A. M. Portland 3.45 P. M. Albany Express Train LEAVE. I ARRIVE. Portland. 4. Of P. M. I Lebanon 9.20 P, Lebanon 4.45 A. M. Portland 10.05 P. PULMAU PALACE SLEEPING (JABS Daily between Portland and Ashland. The O. and C. R. R. Ferry makes connection with al me regular trains on cast Side Li v. f rom footof r St West Side Division. BETWEEN PORTLAND & CORVALLIS Vail Train. . LEAVE. I ARRIVE. Portland 7.30 A. M. I CorvallU 12.25 P.M. Corrallis.... ..1.30 P. M. I Portland 6.15 P. M. At Corvallia comiectwith trains of Oregon Pacific for Yaquiua Bay. Express Train- LEAVE. I ARRIVE. Portland 4.50 P. IT. 1 McMinnviUe.. 8.00 P. M. McMinnville.... 5.45 A.M. Portland 9.00 A.M. Local tickets for sale and hasrsraire checked at com pany's np town office, cor. Pine and Second streets. Tickets for principal points in California can only be procured at company's orace. Corner F ami Front Sts., Portland, Or. Freight will not be received for shipment after 5 o'clock P. M. on either the East or West Side Div. R. KOEHLER, E. P. ROGERS. Manager. G. F. & Pass Agent. CHI C AGO COTTAGE ORGAN Das attained a standard of excellence whioh admits of no superior. It contains every Improvement that inventive genius, ekiU and money can produce. OUR I BVEBT .' OBGAN ATM J j WAS- IS BANTED f FOB TO i EX.CEL. h YF.ARS TliPRo Onrana are celebrated for volume. quality of tone, quick response, artistic design, beauty in finish, perfect construction, making them the most desirable organs for homes, schools, churches, lodges, societies, etc. ESTABLISHED BEPVTATIOX. UNEQUALED FACILITIES, SKIIXED WORKMEN, BEST MATERIAL, OOMBIKKD, XAS1 THIS f HE POPUIiAB OHSM Instruction Books and Piano Stools. Catalogues and Price LUta, oa application, raz GHICA60 COHAGE ORGAH CO. Jw. Randolph and Ann $(., CHICAGO. ILL MILLWOOD MILLS ON HUBBARD CREEK. CLARKE 1- BAKER, Proprietors. We are now prepared to furnish 1 amber o the best quality in quantities to suit the purchasers, always having on hand the largest stock of any mil in Douglas Comity. We will furnish lumber at our mill at the following PRICES. No 1 rough lumber.. .$8 to $10 M No, 1 flooring, 6 inch 1) i M gie M If a. 1 flooring, 4 inch D & M $13 jj No. 1 finishing lumber... gie m ; CLARKE & BAKER. CITY DRAYING DONE WITH DISPATCH. CALL ON JOS CARLOS. HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS- BAILEY'S HOTEL. Oakland, Oregon. 3oard $1 per Day; Single Meals, 25 cents, tSThla house ha lately changed hand and is oroughly renovated, and refurnished. The travel ng public will find the best of accommodations No Chlnamon mployod. Bimn BAILEY. ABSOLUTELY FIRST CLASS MRS. D. C. McCLALLEN. Proprietor of the McCLALLEN HOUSE. Jar go Sample Booms for. Commercial . Travelers. " Coach o and from the house Bajrgajre delivers free of charge. DEPOT HOTEL, OAKLAND, OREGON. nioiiai-cl Thomas, Prop. First Class SLEEPING ACCOMODATIONS. AND THE Table supplied with the Best the Market afords Hotel at the Depot of the Railroad. Central Hotel ! KOSEBUKG, OREGON, OPPOSITE CARLON'S LIVERY STABLE. Board and Lodging per day. $1.00 " " " " week 5.00 " Without Lodging 4.00 Meals, 25 cents. Lodging, 25 cents -Thorough satisfaction is promised to travel ers and the public generally. MRS- B. GARRISON, Prop. No Chinese employed . New Restaurant ! J. Clements Proprietor. ROSEBURG OREGON. Ouc door south of E.ujton'8 grocery Etorc. MEALS 25 cts. SIOORE'S RESTAURANT. (Principaal Business Street.) Boisoburg, Oreffou MEALS 25 CENTS LODGING 25 CENTS We Keep the Best the Market Affords. CIVIL BETO STORE V. I ARRINGTON, DEALER IN Dry Goods Grocsies etc All Kinds of Produce Taken in Exchange CIVIL BEND, DOUG. CO., OREGON. NEW STORE AT DILLARD, OR. would respectfully inform the public that he has on hand a fine assortment of Dry Goods, Groceries, Rcady-Made Clothing and in fact everything usually kept at a first-class store. Uive him a call. Goods at Low Prices. All kinds of Produc Taken in Exchange for Goods. taJLll orders promptly attended to. mrs. s. a. ntJTcniNsojr, MILLINERY STORES Oakland, -.Oregon. LADIES WILL FiND MY STOCK LARGE AND J Complete. Prices moderate. Gin Mo Call. Mbr S. A. Hctchixsos. Brewster's Patent Be In Holder; Vnni. linM nrfl wlwra mn tmt them not 71 tmder bones' teeU One agent gold 12 doz. In 1 6 Oars, one dealer sold 0 aoz. in- is aays. Bnmples worth tlM rats. Write for terms. E. E. BKEWSTEE, HoUy, Mich. THE New York Coffee House And Oyster Saloon Leading Check Restaurant in the City. SIFERD HACKNEY, PROPRIETORS 132 FIRST STREET, PORTLAND ORECOM. sPrivate Rooms ot the Lstrst Desig-ns for Lsdles OPEN DAT AND NIOHT. HAVING PUliOHASED Tlio Entire Stock of - ATJPISB, o of o I. R.DAWSON, At : : RIDDLE OREGON Consisting o BOOTS, : . "' SHOES, CLOTHING, DRY GOODS, A HARDWARE, GROCERIES, Eta Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc. I Am now oll'oi ing the same At Prices TliatDefy Competition. FOR CASH At Riddle - Oregon. F. Gornutt. ALL PERSONS KNOW IMG THEMSELVES IN dcli'ed to Noah Oornutt will please call at my oulu) at Kiddies at the store . aud. . settle, at. otuto ... . - . . , - i". Cornult. - , TIIE GRAPH CURE. SAL-MUSCATELLE In America WITHOUT THE EXPPN3 OF AN EUE0PAN J0UK5FY! The crystalized salts, as obtained iu a pure slate from grapes and choice fruit, in a portable, palat able, simple form, are now presented to the public of America as the grandest resolvent of impure blood, corrector of the liver and regulator of the bowels the natural promoter of HEALTH AND LONGEVITY., Eminent physicians claim this achievement a new era in the allied science of medicine, as it furnishes the blood with its natural salines that are lost or eliminated every dny. SAL-MI 8 CATELLl A POSITIVE, NATURAL SICK HEADACHE AND DYSPEPSIA CUBE. Eal Muscatelle Is Nature's own product. It sup plies to the system the want of sound, ripe irrapes and fruit; it la the aimpleat and best preventive and cure for all functional derangements of tho liver and kindred ailments; prevents the absorption of mal ari al diseases fevers cf all kinds; counteracts the ef fects of bad air, poor drainage and impure water; a powerful oxydizer of the blood; a natural specific for all skin eruptions, sick headaches, biliousness, nervousness, mental depression, and will remove the effects of accidental indigestion from excessive eat ing and drinking. Have it in your homes and on your travels. It is a specific for the fagged, weary and worn-out. . Prepaired by the London Sal-Mcscatelle Co. LOSDOX, KX0LAND. Beware of imitations. The genuine iu "blue wrappers only," ASend for circulars G. EV NOVITCH, General American Manager, P. O Box 1963, New Tork City. Mention this paper. For sale by 3. HamUtoa Rose burg Oregon. " n. nrrnzRg' GTJIDB la ftssssed Sept. susd March, l eskcn jrtnx. srwFi"i 1 mce,wiui tw Whole Ptetwre OrnXUrf. orsriEa Wholeamle Prices) ji-u. o uuuiiuh ma kII troods tmt vv w ' pevsoMl os family s. Tells bow to order, susd strcsi exstet cost or vT" tlUiut Ton use, cat. drink, wtw, or bjrrVfna with. These IHV AI.UABLB BOOKS contain Inrorraatton glesvned from tho' astrketa ot tho world, we Wuisull st copy FRKJS to o-y dress wpon receipt ot 10 cts- to defray expense of malliiMr. lt n noox fironi yon. Bepectnlly MONTGOMERY WARD & CO: tit SO VTsJsmah Avesme. Cmlenco, Ilk This paper is kept on file at E. C. Dakes advertising agency, 64 and 6.5 Merchants Ex. change, San Francisco, Cal., where contracts i J tor advertising can b made lor it. r ! ... - ; - r j oozrzsr ; ' :OFFERS: ; FOR SALE - :i. Some Choice Cpaaish Merino Bucks $10.00 for the best, and as low as $5.00 per : . . head. Clr. IMMI At. m rAvtdatlnM In Pr. noh Dal tlomnnt.. -,,,. . jurH nviiiivmvy R seburg, Oregon. EVERY FARMER HIS OWN MILLER. The Young America Feed Mill is a mill that every farmer can afford to buy; ia durable, easy controlled; Any boy able to drive a team can handle it; grinds fine or course, as desired; grinds corn with or without cob, oats, ryewtc, com meal for house us 1 Sheridan Bkos. Agent. O. P. -TOMPKINS I PURCHASING Agent of All KINDS OF MERCHANDISE! A., orders from tho country filled on Bhort notico from Every Class or Kind of Goods from First-Class Stock. Absolutely "no charges or commission. will be charged for filling orders. OFFICE: 107 first street, At D. W. Prentice's ; " Portland.Or : j. 1 - Obtained, snd ill Patent Business in the V. S. Patont, Office attended to for MODERATE FEES. - Our otfice Is opposite the U. 8. Patent Office, mud we can obtain Patents in less time than those re mote from WASHINGTON Send MODEL OH DHAWINQ. We advUo as to patentability free of charge; and we make NO CHARGE UNLESS WE OBTAIN PATENT. We refer here to the Postmaster, the 8upt. of the Money Order Div., and to officials o( the IT. S. Pat ent Office. For circular, at! rico, terms and referen ces to actual clients in your own State or county, writs to C, A. SXHV ACO , Opposite Patent Office, Washington, D. C. Henry Uaaton 's Roseburg Grocery Store. KEEPSCONSTANTLY on hand a full assortment of GROCERIES' Of AllAttnds! Guarantee j to be of the best qualily. FRUIT JARS, CANNED FRUITS, TOBACCO and CIGARS, TEA, COFFEE, SUGAR, A SPECIALTY- CANDIES and CAKES. Produce Bought AND THE Highest CASH PRICE Paid' Givo me a call and convluco yourselves. GOODS delivered anywhere in the City U'cVSl-ftiM ot Charge. Henry EJatston. Jackson Street, JASKULEK", . Practical Watchmaker, Jeweler and Optician . ALL WORK WARRANTED. Dealer in Watches, Clock?, Jewelry, Spectacles and Eyeglasses. A FULL LINK OF CIGARS, TOBACCO 4 FANCY GOOD. mHE ONLY RELUm.F. OPTOMER IN TOWN X for the propcrarijostmcnt of Sp'Ktacles. Depot ti n.nlt;.. T : 1 1 . . 1. 1 Cuu.fMnlM .11.1 1.' .-n glasria Office in Hamilton' Brick Work. JOSEPH SIIINDLER. PROPRIETOR Of The CITY . BAK ERY AND KEEPS CONSTANTLY ON HAND A V full stock of Bread, Cakes, Pies, llain and Fancy Crackers, etc. Also a fine selection of French and American Candies and Choc late Goods f2fo)Ufo)ilf! U 111 Ml 1 f i . ilII Absolutely Pures This powder never varies. ' A marvel of purity trength and wholesomeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in com petition with the multitude of low test, abort weight alum or phosphate powders. Sold ouly in cans. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 106 Wall St. N. Y. Look Sharp Now! IF YOU HAVE GUNS Or Sewing Machines Of anything else that needs REPAIR ING, send it to CAKL W-EBEK, At ROSEBURG, Shop on Main St. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Douglas County Bank, HUMPHREY & FLINT, Roscbnrg - - Oregon- TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING- BUSINESS Sight Drafts Drawn on Portland, Sau Francisco, New York and other rjoints. Rills nf principal cities of Europe. Deposits re ceived subject to chock. Collections made on all accessablepoints at reasonable rates. OREGON PACIFIC R.R Willamette VaHeyto San franoisco Via. xaquina. DAILY TRAINS, TRAINS LEAVE CORVAXUS Daily, except Sundays, at 2 P. H, LEAVE YAQUINA Dailj, excopt Sundays, at 7:10 A. M. Tho Company l riirht to change sailing days. 1 Fares and Freight at reduced and moderate rates River Boats on the WilUmottc couuectin Con all if. Children Cry for PITCHER'S Health and Sleep without Morphine. J. 0. SHERIDAN Successor to R. S .& J. C SHERIDAN DEALER IN Stoves and Tinware, Roseburg, Oregon rpilE undersigned takee pleasnre in an- nouncing .to the public that he selling everytniDg in ma line at prices that DEFY COMPETITION! IF YOC WANT- STOVES. AGEIOULTUJJiL TOOLS IE0N, STEUL, NAILS, HO ESS HOES, TINWABE, OUTLEfiY Or anything in my line, call and examine my stock and learn prices before purchasing else where, as 1 am selling lower than ever. J. C. SHERIDAN DRESS MAKING. I AM PREPARED DO FIRST CLASS Wo k in this line, and ask a share of the patronage of Roseburg and vicinity. ELMIXA V.CRCMP Next door to L. Eelfils Jcwelrj' Store, Roseburg Oregon U Mil HER SPH1DER VXD DER FZ Y. I reads b Yacob's shtory book, A couple veeks ago, Von firsd rede boem, vot I dinks Der beobles all should know I'd ask dis good conundhrum, too, Vich ve should profit by, "Vill you bto mine parlor valk? Seys der sphider off der fly." Dot set me dinking right avay, - Und vhen von afternoon A shbeculator he coomes in Und dells me pooty soon He haf a silver mine to sell, Und ask me if I puy, I dink off der oxberience Off dot pluc pottle fly. ? Der oder day vhen on der cars I vent py Nie Yorck oudt, I meets a fraulein on der train, Who dold me mit a pout, ., "She likes the Deutcher shendemens, Vj ; Und dells me sit peside her I says, "Mine friendt, I vas no fly, Eefyou vas peen a sphider." I vent indo der shmoking car, Vhere dhey vas blaying boker, Und also hat some dings dhey calls Der funny "leedle joker." Some money it vas shanging bands, Dhey wanted me to try I says: You vas too brevious, I don'd vas peen a fly!" . On Central Park a shmart young man Says: "Strauss, how vos you peen? Und dake me kindly py der hand, Und ask me off mine Katrine. He vandts do shange a fifty bill, Und says hees name vas Schneider Maype, berhaps he is all right: Mosdt like he vas a sphider. Most efry day some swindling chap, He dries his leedle game: I cuts me oudt dot sphider biecc Und pool id in a frame; Rif;hdt ind mine store I hangs it oup, : Und near it n der shly, v. I keeps a glub, to send it guick oudt, Dhose sphiders "on der fly." TIIE BIBLE OF MODEMS SCIENCE. The preparation of the "new Bible, whioh is to be inspired by sweet rea sonableness, has not made much ad vance yet. We lay before our readers the improved version of the first chap ter of Genesis: 1. There never was a beginning. 2. And cosmos was homogeneous and undifferentiated, and somehow or another evolution began and molecules appeared. ' ... ! - 3. And molecules evolved proto plasm, and rhythmic thrills arose, and (hen there was light. , 4. And a spirit of env was do veloped and formed the plastic cell, whence arose the primordial - germ. 5. And the primordial germ became protogene, and protogene somehow shaped eocene; then was tho dawn of life. 6. And the herb yielding seed and the fruit tree yielding seed after its own kind, whose beed is in itself, de veloped according to its own fancy. 7. The cattle after his kind, and the beast of the earth after his kind, and every creeping thing became evolved by heterogeneous segregation concomitant dissipation of motion. 8. So that by the survival of the fittest there evolved the simiads from the jelly fish, and the simiads differen tiated themselves into the anthiouior phitic primordial types. 9. And in due time one lost his tail and became a man, and behold, he was the most cunning of all animals. 10. And in the process of time, by natural selection and survival of the fittest, scientists, skeptice, infidels, and scoffers appeared, and -behold it was very good. London Freeman. DOES GOLD OUOWt' Years ago I wrote and published in a London magazine an article in which undertook to prove that gold grows1 grows the same as grain or potatoes or any thing else. I reckon I did my work crudely, not knowing any thing about chemistry or even the ordinary terms of expression about such mat ters, and so my earnest and entirely correct ssetcn was torn all to pieces and laughed to scorn. Well, I have at last found positive proof of my general statement right here in these mountains by the Pa cific sea. Briefly and simply, I have found a piece of petrified wood with a little vein or thread of gold in it. How did that gold get into that piece of woodt Was it placed there by the finger of God on the morning of crea tion, as men have claimed was the case with the gold found in thp veins of the mountains? Nonscnce! Gold grows! Certain conditions of the air, or certain combinations of earth and air and water, and whatever chemicals may be required, and then a rock, a piece of quartz, or petrified tree, for the gold to grow in, and there is your gold crop! Of course, gold grows slowly. Centuries1 ujon ceutunes, it may be, are required to make the least sign of 1 1 Tft 1 - - growtn. jjut it grows just as 1 as serted years ago; and here at leact hold in my hand such testimony as no man in this world win be rash enousjh to question -a portion cf a petrified tree with a thread of gold in it. Joa quin Miller. WAaillSQTOJT ZXTXEX WAsniifoTox, Oct 26, 1886. There is much speculation just now in regard to the complexion of the Fiftieth Congress. . There is great diversity of opinion, of course, as to which party will have a majority. As Hon, S...S. Cox said; "ther will be many holes in the House. The places of many prominent men will be filled bv new ones." But Sanafar TTann. thinks the democrats will have at least twenty-five majority. They have such a large majority in tho present House that it is not believed it can be over come unless apathy shall prevail to a much greater extent in the democratic than the republican districts; , : The boldest declaration cf "the pres ent campaign was made by Elaine in a recent speech in Lewiston, Maine, which was in effect that the republicans would repeal the civil serrice law and at once turn out every democrat in the service of the government Civil ser vice commissioner. Oberly, taking Blaine to task, sail that having en deavored to make himself acceptable te the temperance people, tho laboring men and every shade of religious opin ion, he now seeks to commend himself to that portion of the democracy op posed to civil service system, in order to make his "calling and election sure.' In the campaign of 1884 he promised to purify politics by introducing the very system which he now deprecates so strongly, if the people would honor with their votes. , Mr- Oberly re marked that it was the boldest state ment Blaine had made so far, and showed his swivel-like proclivities. A gentleman from New York, a leader of the democratic party in that city, who was here during the week, was speaking of the president's natural anxiety in tegard to the success of the party in New Yerk this fall. He has been on trial for eighteen months, and he thinks the people, of the state which put . where he is will express their opinion of the administration and its method at the polls this fall. He be lieves tbey are with him, but he does net know it certainly, and that renders him anxious as to the result. Yes," continued he, "Cleveland's - present term is experimental." But it the Democrats carry the next general elec- l: . 11 f t i c of power, and nothing can stop them. ' The journal of the House of Repre sentatives for the first session of the present congress has just been issued, and it is exactly one half larger than ever before. It was so bulky that it had to be bound in two parts of six teen hundred pages each. Some heroic remedy is needed for the bloated Con gressional Record, and it has been suggested that Congress adopt a rule that no man shall make a speech from manuscript That would take out the worst trash which now seeks a harbor within the official chronicles. t Mrs. Cleveland is employiug the pleasant autumn days in overseeing the improvements and repairs upon . their country house. She drives out there almost every afternoon, accom- anied by her mother. The interest 02 stage of decoration has been reached, and the important question of ceilings, carpets, and draperies is under consideration. Since the purchase of his little farm the president has been much interested in agricultural mat ters. He intends to sow twe nty acres in clover, and an orchard of New York pippin trees is to be set I out Grape vine arbors are being ' added to the place, and several cows of fine breed and other blooded stock are to be sta bled on the premises." Mr. ; Cleveland has been advised that a man of his full habit, doing so much mental work, needs something more 1 invigorating than riding out for an hour or two. So he is anxious to do some of . the granger work himself this fall and next spring, if only for exercise. The farm is so far from the road that a passer-by would have to scan the prem ises with a field glass to recognize any one. He can work to his heart's con tent, consequently, without being watched. The President will find a great deal of comfort in this place after the business cf the day is over, and he is entitled to it, for he ia work ing his life out in office. : The Lancet makes a distinction be tween wl.at it calls the use and abuse of tobacco. Tho man who can Bay, "I always know when I have . smoked enough if I gobeyoud tho judt limit T lnoA tnv imver nf nmmnfc rleciainn - j r - - r--i - is one, it suggests, who had better not smoke at all; but "a moderate use of tobacco soothes the senses, and leaves the mental faculties free from irrita tion, ready for calmly-clear intellectual processes. When this is not the effect produced by smoking the weed had bettor be eschewed.".