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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1885)
TH Oregon gout. i I. IT Win . i n i ' tii VOL. II. UNION, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2(5, 1883. NO, 26. miLmua.iLmjbU.tM.minin3CTn THE OREGON SCOUT. .An Independent weekly Journal, issued ovo y Saturday by . JONES & CHANCEY, l'ubllphcrs and Proprietors. A. K. .Tones, I lldltor. J .1 H. CiiANcnv, l'oi emau. IIaTKS OP SUHSCKII'TION: One copy, nno year $1.7) " " Six months 1 exi " " Threo months 73 Invariably casli in ndvanco. Ifby any chance f inscriptions nro not paid till end ot year, two dollars will bo chunrcd. lUtcs of ndvertislnif mado known on appli cation. Correspondence frcSm all parts of the county solicited. Address all communications to A. K. Jones, Kdltor Oregon Scout, I'lilon.Or. Lmlsro Dlrrrlor. GllAN't) KONDE V.U.LKV I.OIXIK. No. fifi. A. V. and A. !. Jlcets on tlio second and lourth Saturdays ol ench month. 0. T. Ilui.r,, W. M. C. E. Davis, Secrotnry. Union- I.oimib, No. :ki, I. O. O. r lfejrulnr meetings on l'rldny evenings of each woekat iheir hall In Union. All brotlircu in Rood Btandlnjr are invited to attend, lly order or the lodjre. S. V. l.ONO, N. G. C5. A. Thompson, Secy. Cliurrli Directory. Jt. V.. Ciiritcn Divino service every Sunday nt 11 a. m nml 7 p. in. Sunday school at :i p. in. I'rayer mectliur every Thursdny ovenln;? atti:;!0. Hkv. AMinitsoN, Pastor. PitFSiiYTEiiiAN Clinton nebular chnrcli service every Sabbath Morning and evonhtfr, Praver lneetlinr o.ieli week on Wednesday nvotilnp. Sabbath school every Sabbath at 10 a. lit. Jtov. II. vi:knon hick, l'astor, St. John's Episcopal Citutcn Scrvleo every Sunday at II o clock a. in. Hev. W. U. PowEi.t., Hector, County Oiliccrn. Judiro A. C. Cralir Sheiiir A. I.. Saunders Clerk 11. P. Wilson Treasurer A. P. Ilenson School Superintendent J. I.. Hlndman Surveyor 15. Simonis Coroner 13. II. Lewis I.'OMMIKSIONKHS. Oeo. Acklos Jno. Stanley State Senator I.. II. Kinehart 1 1 K I'M EH 15 N T A T I V US. K.T.Dick i:. 12. Taylor ai odicci'M. Miiyor D. II. Itees l.miNltll.MEV. S. A. Pursol W. O. Ho'dletnini j.s. union winis siciir .1. It. Eaton (. A. Thompson Kecordur I. H. lliomsou jMarslial J. A.Dcnuev 'treasurer J. D. Carroll Street Commissioner L. Eaton Departure ol" Trulitw. Kecular cast bound trains leave at !)::Wa in. West bound trains leave at 4:LD p. m. I'tCOFICSSIOXAL,. J. R. CKITKS, AT'l'HCrVB-2V AD" B.A1V. Collectlnsr and nrobato nractlco sncolaltica Ollice, two doois south of Postolliee, Uiiion. urcun. R. EAKIX, Attorney at La?f aod Notary Public. Onico, ono door south of J. II. Eaton's storo Union, Oi CBon. I. N. CllOMWELL, M. D., Physician and Surgeon Ofllce, one door south ot J. H. Eaton's store, Union, Oreon. A. E. SCOTT, M. I)., Has permanently located nt North Powdor, when) no will answer all calls. T. II. CRAWFORD, ATTOaCNIiV AT l,AW, Union, - - - - Oregon. 1). Y. K. DEERING, IMijuieiini a till Mui-fA'i'Oii, Union, Oregon. Ofllco, Main street, ncxtdoorto Jones Ilros.' variety storo. Iti'Sldenco, Main strcot, second house south ol court houso. t'lironlodltcases a specialty. Atlornoy anfl Coausollor at Law, Union, Oijegox. Ileal Estate. iMVf ond Probato Practice ii 111 recelvo special attention. Ottico on A street, rear of State Land Ofllco. II. F. IJURLEIGII, Attorney at S.aw, ISoal INiute and Collecting: AkciiI. Land Ollico Uusiness a Specialty. Ofllco at Alder, Union Co., Oregon. JES8K IIAUDESTV, j. w. siiKi.Tor SHELTON & HARDEST!, attoicvkym at law. Will nrnctico in Union, Halter, Grnnt, Umatilla ami Morrow CounticH. also in the Supremo Court of Oregon, the District, Circuit nnil Supreme Courts of the United States. Mining and Corporation businetw a je icalty. . Office in Union, Oiejon. nun i ii i ii i m ii iiiiiii 1 1 ii ii i im n i minimi A I'llOl'IlETlO DEATH. An Ascd Man Pninils a Prediction and Drops Dead His Antolilosraphv Ills Mfitli cdlcal Mfe-His Will. Early last spring an aged man walk ed briskly into tlio Enquirer ollico, and. with a very brief, preliminary stated that ho wished to leave in charge of tlio editor his aulobigraphy, lo bo published after his death, which would probably oeenr some time tiiis fall. Ho also" wished to leave the names of friends to whom papers con taining an account of his deatli were to bo sent. The old man was Rich ard Rissoll, a naturalist. His predic tion was fullilled yestonlav morning at tho Hummel House, where, in tlio ollice ot the hotel, while walking, ho throw up hishiitiiK and, w.tli no "other sign, fell to the tluor a corpse. He had been exceptionally cheerful all tho morning, and nt lho breakfast table had eaten heartily. Ho had confidently predicted that ho would die this fall, and, as the orthodox people say, "had his lamp trimmed and burning." In It is pock et was found a scaled envelope ad dressed to the editor of lho Enquirer, and on it wa3 written, "Drop this letter in tlio letter box nt my death." Tho following was found enclosed: "Cincinnati, 1SS.".--Deak Editoh When jou got th s I'll be dead tit tlio Hummel House. J loft in' your absence witii Mr. a lotter for publication at my death, l'lcaso do not forjret it, as Mr. said ho would look it uj and publish it at tho proper time, lours confidingly, RlCHAKD lJlSSKLL, "Eighty-live years." Tlio following directions were also found on li s person: Cincinnati, Soptembcr 2, 18S.3. N. B. : 1 have a letter in the hands of the editor of tlio Enquirer for publica tion, l'lcaso call on him ami give particulars ot my ucain, etc. l am vory fcohloin mind and body, and can not livo but a short time. R. Rissm.i., 85 years. To Mr. J. Coplock, Esq., Sr.: I havo about $90 in my trunk to pay board while 1 livo. . Bisski.l. In addition lo oilier arrangements for his last sleep, which will bo read further along, this methodical old gontlcman recently purchased a hand some monument, paying for the same $250, and had it all inscribed, oven to the year 1885, leaving only in blank tho month and lho day of tlio monlli. His last will and testament was not forgotten, and hero it is: Cincinnati, O., October 15, 1885. My Dkak Alick Wiikkmok: 1 send 3011 in another envolopc my Poinorov National Hank stock for $2,000, and my Norton Iron stock for 1,000, and iny Ohio Machine Company stock for 750, all of which 1 present lo 3 on as a free gift; also, I ive you my house you livo in in Middleport, and tho money 1 have placed lo your credit in the l'omoroy National Hank, all lo be used for tho benefit of ,Sallic,Nollic, Carbon and yourself, children of my nopliow, Carbon Wheeler, deceased. 1 advise you to eiiooso Samuel Rrad bury your trustee, to do your business. ly all means, and keep under his con trol, and the whole of my gift as still as poss ble. Yours conlindingly, RlCIIAUI) HlbSKI.T.. The autobiography for which the old gentleman expressed a good deal of solicitude is lierowith inserted as it came to the oditor's hands: AUTOOH.M'll OHITUAKY. UICUAUl) lllSSrjU., I.WTLllAl.lbT, Ol' CINCIN NATI, h di:ai). i ijiki), as : had livi:i, in 1.0V1S WITH ALL NATL'Iti:. Jjixiiient. When those lines 1 re r?al I'll beconillntd ultimo ten fliel, Hccju-o no kli died in thu West To lav me loucly at icst. Allien, l.ve norl I of sinnirs; 1 :o where graves are winners. Ray no young pr.est to protend to pray mo out of my grave for money. They come and dance tho jigs of lifo; away they go liko shadows play ing beforo moving objects. Timo brings all 011 a lovel, tho king with tlio beggar, and all sleep togothor in tho great womb of Nature. My turn has come when 1 must join tho liinumorablo thromr of billions of dead and sleep with tlieni tlio sleop mat Knows no wakintr in that vast graveyard eoverinr the whole earth. Every step taken on so 1 presses on what was once vouotablo and animal life. Fall and winter arc lho rhrhtsoasons of tho oar to die, when other thinirs decay and aro looked up in tho icy embraco of winter, but vernal spring anil summer aro tlio neht tunes to live, when birds 111 early spring their sweetest lovo sonirs sing and all na turo bursts into new life, nud in sum mor the green earth is covered with gaudy llowcrs. The groat drawback on dying is that 0110 docs not- wako up morn ings to greet friends and to read the daily papers, thereby losing nil that transpires in th's livo world of ours. If lifo was a thing to buy, tho rich would livo and thu poor would dio nt once. Rut life is like a "snowflake on the river a moment while, then gone forever." It brings a pang to know lifo comes not again to the samo indi vidual, but out of its sad decay olhor croations of livos arise spontaneously, as matter nevor dies, but livo? on in nthor forms, liko tho leatlets that fall to tho ground all seru and brown ero long mingle with tho toil and buds arise, giving births to new-born llow ers. Tho elements of bones and feath ers are in tho now-born egg, and tho nature, too, making the strutting llow ery peacock. Life is a strugglo full of caro and trouble; its greatest pleasures aro of ehorlost duration. Yet if 1 was asked what I most desired I would say giro mo back my youth. m It should be considered a sin and a disgraco to die prematurely, proving violatlous of natural laws, but to dio with old age should bo regarded as the most honorable of all deaths. My philosophical roligion enabled mo to livo alone with myself and to dio alono without a murinor. 1 am not liko tho Irishninn, who, when ho thought ho was dyintr, becamo alarm cd and sent for his priest, avIio said: "Rat, I hone you aro not afraid of vour God?" "No, your Holiness; it is tho othor gentleman I'm afraid of." As I have nono hero lo linccr by mv grave, 1 invito passing friends to call at my lot, No. Ill, section 110, Spring orovo uoniotory, wlieret can bolounu at homo by my monumontat all times, since none move out of the citv of tho lamented dead of over 10,000 iuliabi hints. SKHTCII OF MY LITE. I mado my first yell in my mother's bed-room without a shirt on January 1, 1801. Life left mo , 1885. 1 havo lived in Cincinnati sinco 18G0. I grow up on a farm in Connecticut, i am of Frencli-Huguenot stock and English origin. My ancestors catno over 235 years ago and settled on a farm in Massachusetts. I never had a doctor nor look any drug-store poisons 111 my me, ami incrooy uicu a natural deatli in my 85th year. I was self raised and educated from 1 years old, when 1 was left 011 tho stormy sea of lifo without compass or rudder to steer through a long voyage. At 17 I was a .school teacher and taught boys of 18 years how to think properly. Subsequently I praeticod the hum bugecry of medicine, which is expe rimenting and guess-work, like a half blind man going out lo shoot birds or rats. 1 refer to doctors, not surgeons. Then I was a traveler and stood upon tho banks of tho Rio Grande; visitod tho tombs of tlio Presidents and saw some of tlio renowned pooplo of our country and tho nobility within tho tropics. I havo now gono whoro lodgings aro free, into my house tho gravo-diggor mado for mo; to play hermit for my own amusement, till Gabriol calls for saints and sinners to arise and put on their running clothos. Thus ends my oventful lifo in my 85th year; yet 1113' evil deeds will livo in voices, while my virtues will bo written in sand. I gavo my assots to relative- orphans andothorwiso beforo 1113' death. 1 havo many distant rela tives living in New England and York State, but my near ones havo gono to kingdom como. or where tho "wood bino twineth." Riciiakd Bissem., Naturalist. Coroner Carriek held an inquest on the body of tho oocentric and pro phetic old gentleman and found that death was troni exhaustion consequent on old age. Cincinnati Eqnuircr. Symptoms ofRniin Weaviuoss. Patients who sufl'er from brian wearinoss aro usually very fanciful. and oasily given to imagine that tlioy are the subjects of organic discaso of tlio brain, such as softening or tumor. Reoplo wlio consult medical men about Ihoir mental or cerebral conditiou aro seldom diseasod, although t am bound to confess that long-continued brain exeitomont or dobility might ond in something serious. There is however, ustialh' a marked deviation from the straight road of health, of which the patient is himself porfoctlv conscious, whothor h's friends bo so or not. He does not feol his "old self," ho experiences groator nervousness, ho can not settle so long and so well to business as ho used to do, he can not grasp calculat ons so well, ho loses lasto for any kind of work, whothor intellectual or other wise, which necessitates tlio loast do grco of thought. Ho would fain work as of yoro, and tries hard to do so; but me power 10 comuiuo in 11 uocs not roiilly exist in tlio brain, and lie is vexed and worried, and rondered worse in consequonco. His memory assuredly fails to a great extent, and his intellectual pow ers aro reduced to a lower obi) than formerly, or tlioy but Hare out occa sionally and dio away again. There is, to use hotnuty lauguage. "no stay" in the nervous powor. Sleop, if it can bo obtained lor an hour or two, tonds greath to rofresh peoplo suffering thus. Thoy awake and arise more hopeful and more full of strength; but, alas! tho first exeitomont blows it all awii3 Cdiselrs family Magazine. A Irura Tiling of It. "What intorest can 3'ou have in reading the 1 st of prizes in tho Ha vana lottery? You nover buy any tick ets," asked Kosciusko Murphy, on seeing Col. Yorger pursuing a paper. "I Know that I nevor' buy a ticket, but I havo moro real enjoyment than if I did," ropliod Col. Yergor. "How is that?" "You seo, I pick out a niimbor. If it wins I am as much tickled as a man can bo, and co on a tear. If my num ber don't win, then I havo saved tho price of tho ticket, and 1 colobrato my oscape with the money l'vo saved. I am bound to win oither wa3'. I can't bo beat," 'Jexan Si f Hugs. A lutek RespoiiHe. A Now London boy, with a milk pltchor in hand, fell headlong down tho back htairs. He had regained his feet and was brusliintr tho dirt from his slothes when his mother appeared at tlio head of tho stairs and asked: "Did you break tho pitohor?" "No, I didn't; but I will," was tho quick ro sponso. And ho did. Hartford Timet . Nalhentel Hawthorne never fouid It eary to uee u Indicia d word. necei- 19 i Wo nro Again to tho front with tho flnost assortment of DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES and CHRISTMAS GOODS ovor soon in tho Valloy. Evory poraon buying OHE DOLLAR'S worth of Gooda from us during tho month of Dooombor will ro ccivo a chtmco in tho followinc beautiful and valuablo prosonta : 1st Prize Plasli Celluli Dressing- 31 " a " Cigar Stai. 1 " (C 1 t n Lane msrsm. These Prizes will bo drawn for on DECEMBER 31st, at SEVEN O'CLOCK. Wo have an elegant Htoek of Christmas Cards, Celluloid Goods, Choice Perfumery, Dolls and Toys, Scrap Books, Photo Albums, Autograph Albums, Cups and Saucers. 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