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o .V if, Oregon Scout. VOL. II. UNION, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY V.J, 1880. NO. 33. The I THE OREGON SCOUT. An independent weekly Journal, Issued cvo y , Sat urdu r by JONES & OHANCEY, Publishers and Proprietors. A. It. Jonhs, 1 J n. CiiAscr.r, I l'orcinun. Kdltor. KATES OF SUIISCIUPTION: One copy, ono year $1 CO " " Six IllOlltllS 1 IW " " 'J'hrco months 15 Invariably cash In advance. Kites of advertising made known on appli cation. Correspondence from all parte of the county Millcited. . Address nil communication to A. K.Jones, IMItor Orcyn spoilt, I'nlon. Or. Lodge Directory r.ttANI) llONHK V.U.t BY I.ORGK, No. CO. A. V. ami A. l. Micls on thu second and fourth batbrdays of each month. .., 0. K. llKi.l., W. M. ('. K. Davis, Secrctnry. I'mos Lodok. No. UxT. O. 0. V. ItcK'ilar inectinir on Friday ovenl"tr ot ciieh wcekat their hull In Union. Alt brethren in pood standing aro invited to attend. Ity order oi the lodyo. S. W. Lo.NO, Is. G. G. A. Thompson, Secy. Clmrcli IMreetory. M, K. Council Divine servico every Simdny at II a. in and 7 p. in. Sunday school at .1 p. in. l'rnyer incctliifr every Thursday evening ut(i;yo. JIkv. Anduiisdn, Pastor. 1'ltrsiiVTrniAk Ciiriicn ltejrulnr church Ferviee every Sahbnth niornltitr and evening. Prayer moctiiur oacli week on Wednesday evening. Sabbath soliool every Sabbath ut 10 a. m. Hov. 11. Vkunon Kick, l'ustor. St. .John's Ki'iRcoiMi. Ciitntcu t'ervlco every Sunday ut. II o'oloelt a. m. JlKV. W. It. l'OHXU, Itccto. County Olllecrs. .lildpo A. C. Cr.llp; Sheriff A. I.. Saunders Clerk 11. l' Wilson 'liensurer A. V. Ilenson School Superintendent .1. L. Ulndmau Surveyor U. Slinouls Coioner K. H. Lewis COMMISSIONiatS. Geo. Acldos Jno. Ftnnlcv State Senator I.. 11. Kinuhurt II Kl'K USENTATl VKS. F.T.Dick , E. E.Taylor City Ofllccr. Mayor '. D. It. Hfxs OOUNCII.MEN. S. A.I'ursel V. D. ltr!dleman .l.S. Klliott Willis fckltr .1. II. Unton O. A. Thompson Hecorder I. U. Thomson Marshal J. A.lleunev Treasurer .1. D. Carroll Street Commissioner L. Eaton Ilepnrtnro or Train. Heirulnr oast bound trains leave at 0:30 a. in. West bound trains leavo at p. m. I'UOI'USSIONAIi. J. R. CK1TES, i AT'B')Iti"VUSr AT LAW. Collecting and probato practice specialties Oflice, two doois south of 1'ostoOice, Ur.luu, Oregon. R. EAKIN, Altoncy at Law and Notary Fnic. Office, ono door south of J. It. Eaton's storo Union, Oregon. I. N. CROMWELL, M. )., Physician and Surgeon Oflice, one door south ot J. II. Eaton's storo, Villon, Orujron. a. e. scott, m. 1)., pbiysicbatv ab ,n8;kiho:v. Has ne.rniaucntly located at North Powder, vliorche will Binwer all calls. T." 11. CRAWFORD, ATTORNEY AT EiAW, Union, - Oregon, D. Y. K. DEERINO, iTiyHlvInn nml Snrseoa, Union, Oregon. Office, Main street, ncxtdoorto Jones Dros.' tarloty storo. K-s dcrco. Main street, Eecond house south ot rourt house. L'hron'udlscasot a specialty. O. I itita.v,, Mam and Counsellor at Law, Union, Okkgox. Heal Estate, T.nw and Probato Practice will receive special attention. Offlco on A street, rear of State Land Oflice. II. F. BUHLKKJH, Attorney nt I.uiv, CEcal INlutc uml Collcotiiis: A&cnt. Land Oflice Uusiness n Specialty. OCTce at Alder. Union Co., Oregon. JKSSK IIAttDCSTY, J, W. SHELTOS 5HELT0N & HARDEST!, ATTOItaaiYH AT LAW. Will practice in Union, linker, Grant, Umatilla nml Morrow Counties iiUn in thu Supreme Court ol Oiron, the District, Circuit umi Supmb Courts of the Uuited tstntes, . , ' Mining atul, Corporation buslnet kalty. Offic ia Union, Oregon. Biography of Spartacus. Spartacus, whose given name mmmiis to have been torn on" in its par.jr down the eorridofs of time, was born in Thrace and educated as a shepherd. While smearing the noes of tin young lambs with tar one spring, in order to prevent the snnllles among them, lie thought that he would become a robber. It occurred to him that this calling was the only one lie knew of that seemed to be open to young men without menu-'. He had hardly got started, however, in the "hold up" industry, when he was captured by the Romans sold at cost and trained as a gladiator in a school at Capua. Here he succeeded in stirring up a conspiracy and uniting two hundred or more of the grammar department of the school in a general ruction as it was then termed. The scheme was discovered and only seventy of the number escaped, headed by Spartacus. These snatched eleaver from the butcher shop-, pickets from the Roman fences and various other weapons, and with them fought their way to the hills, where they met a wag on train loaded with arms and supplies. They secured the ne.cessary weapons thereby to go into a general war Ihim ness and established themselves in the crater of Mount Vesuvius. Spartacus was a man of wonderful carriage and great physical strength. It had always been his theory that a man might as well die- of old age as to feed himself to a Roman menagerie. He maintained that ho would rather die in a general free light, where he had a chance, than to be hauled around over the arena by one leg b.diinda Numidian lion. So he took his little hand and fought his way to Vesuvius. There they had a pleasant time camping out nights and robbing the Roman's daytimes. The excitement of sleeping in a crater added a wonderful charm to their lives. While others slept cold in Capua, Spar tacus cuddled up to the crater anil kept comfortable. For a long time the little party had it all their own way. They smiled the air of freedom and lived on Roman spring chicken on the. half-shell, and it beat the arena business all hollow. At last, however, an army of three thousand men was sent against them, and Spartacus awoke one morning to lind himself blocked up in the crater. For a tune the outlook was not cheer ing. Spartacus thought of telegraphing the war department for reinforcements, but finally decided not to do so. Finally, with the ladders made of wild vines, the little garrison slippetl out through what had seemed an impassa ble lissure in the crater, got in the rear of the army and demolished it comple tely. That's tho kind of a man Spar tacus was. Fighting was his forte. Spartacus was also a good public spoaker. One of his addresses lo the gladiators has been handed down to posterity through the medium of the "Fifth Reader." a work that should be in every household. In his speech ho states that he was not always thus. Rut since he is thus, he believes that he has not. yet be.cn successfully outthussed by an liotly. lie speaks of his early life in the cit ron groves of Syrsilla, and how quiet anil reserved he had been, never daring tosay "gosh" within a miloof the house: but tinally how the Romans landed on his eoiiM and killed otl'his family. Then he desired to be a lighter. He had kill ed more lions than any man in Italy. He kept a big crew of Romans busy,' winter and summer, catching fresh lions for'liim to stick. He had killed a large utnnber of pien also. At one matfnee for ladies and children he hail' lulled a prominent man, from the north, and had done it so llueiitly that he was encored three times. The stage tnana irer then came forward and asked that the audience would pleaso refrain from another encore as he had run out of men, but if the ladies and children would kindly attend on tho following Saturday ho hoped to bo prepared with a good programme. In fact ho had just heard from his agent who wrote him that they had purchated two big lions and also had a robust gladiator up a tree. He hoped that ho could get into town in a day or two with both attrac tions. Spartacus finally stood at tho head of an army of 103,000 men, all starting out from tho little band of 70 that cut loose from Capua with Ihhto wed cleavers and axhundles. This war lasted but two years, during wlifch time Spartacus inado Rome howl. Spartacus had too much sense to attack Rome. Hut ut last his army was betrayed and disor ganized. With nothing but death pr capture for him, he rodo out between tho two contending armies, shot his war horse in order to save uxpenscsand on foot rushed into the thickest of. the tight. This wa' positively his last aj pearaiiee, 11); kijjed ;i..lurgt mnuhcr.of j people, but at hut lie yielded to lite1 great pressure that was brought to beat upon him and died. Probably no man not actually engag ed in tlie practice of medicine, ever kill ed so many people as Spartacus. He dill not kill them because he disliked them personally. but because he thought it advisable to do so. Had he lived till tin present time, he would have done well as a lecturer. "Ten Years in the Arena, with Illustrations," would draw llrst-rate at this time with a certain class of people. The large number of people still living in this country, who will la aside their work and go twenty miles to attend a funeral, no matter wliiiM- funeral il is. would no bolibt en joy a bull light the calm and refining joy that hoMMi'd over the arena. Thoo who have paid . 17"i,000 to see Colonel John I. Sullivan disfigure a friend, would, no douh. hac made it $.'5.50,000 if the victim could have been killed ami dragged around over the ring bv the leg: Two thousand years have not refined u so much that we need be pulled up with false pride about il. -IlitlXyc, in Xrir Vorl: Mcrriiry. A Ballade of Accomplishments Selection from Sehuhrrt ami Spolsr She can verv retjK'clahly play, Anil Chopin anil J.lszt from the tcore On her p.itlent plano-fortc; Ami many a Teutonic l.iv She can slnjj with or without the hook, Her talent there's none can gainsay; Hut she never will learn hotv to cook. In German her friends she can floor, Ami In French she Is alo an fait. Against her linguist leal lore I am sure that no one can Inveigh. She dances as light as the spray; In that art the no rival will brock. She's ever to pretty and gay: Hut she never will learn how to cook. , Her gowns are from Gallia's shore' Anil are made In the moilu of the d.'.y. Her father the bills must deplore l'or her very expensive array. She palnt anil she models in clay To make beautiful every nook, And ait of all ports she'll, essay, Hut she never will learn how to eook. ENVOY. Fair maids, reud the moral, I pray; 1 would win her by hook or by crook. I would give her a chance to say ''yea;" Hut she never will learn how In cook. Clitcur JlitinbUr. The President No Nepotist. A Cleveland, O., correspondent, w-rit ing to The Xcw York. World, saysi President Cleveland has two nephews here. Some time ago one 'of llieni, Charles Clveland, wrote a long letter to his uncle, saying that he was a trav eling man and was doing well, but would not object lo doing better if the president felt like giving him something in tlie ollicoholding line. No answer wtis received. .Meanwhile another nephew, Neil Cleveland, was appointed by .John Farley, the new democratic collector of internal ravenue in this city, to a position that pays 1,800 a year, with not too much to do. The fact was noted and commented upon in the public press. Soon after ward the nephew Clmrles received a loiter from tlie president. The writer very much regretted that Charles had not done .something to keep Neil out of tho ollico to which he had Ikmui appointed. Neil had been placed where lie was by the Cleveland collector without the presi dent's knowledge and very much against his wish. The . president added that with a brother-in-law (.Mr. Uacon, of Toledo) in ono oflice and a nephew in another, the family quota for Ohio was about full, but not a word was .said di rectly touching the letter Charles hail sent him. The young man then fult at liberty to free his mind and ho did .so. In responding ho observed that, ho had always believed this to bo a free coun try, where ono man, if ho could get it, hail as good a right to hold oflice as another. It was the first time ho had over been taught that one must remain in private life simply because another of the same name had held an ollico somewhere else. If Neil had been aj pointed by Collector Farley without the president's knowledge or consent ho did not see what tho latter had to do with it. As tho president has not re plied the correspondence may be con sidered at an end. Shaved His Wife. An Ohio banker, who owns a farm and a line herd of blooded stock, recent ly agreed his wife that she should have a cor) t heifer calf as her own property. Some days afterward ho war offered a hundred dollars for tho frisky , little animal, and going to his wife he told her ho could get fifty dollars for it, , and asked whether she desired to sell. She thought what a nice amount of ( letiijiilnltcs that amount or money would buy, and authorized him to make tho sale. He did so, and giving her one-half of the hundred dollars put the remaining fifty in UU Jacket, apd now the jotferd in his neighborhood' havf started a report that tho bunker shuveJ bU wife, (Jhicmjo Lcdqcr. How Newspaper "Work Is Done. Henry W. (Jrady relates the follow ing in the Atlanta ((5a.) Conxtittition: "Can I venture on an incident here that throws an inside light on journalism? At - o'clock on the morning of (Jovernor Stephen' death an editor of the Consti tution, who with two stenographer had prepared the narrative of tlie night, wn with the watchers in the blue room of the nr.nisioii. The Constitution IimI to go to press al ;l:!!0 to the minute. It was not believed that Mr. Stephens would die before that hour. Consequently the narrative had. been w ritten in the. present tense. If death should occur before the paper was put on the press, there were perhaps a hundred place in tlie story where the past lene would have to-be substituted. A force of proof readers sat with the proof before llieni, every contingent point marked. Thirty printers sat at their desk awaiting or ders. The telephone between the man sion and ollico was open, and the night editor sat with the 'phone to his ear. At !!.'J.'i Dr. Steiner. rising from his knees with reverent fa'e, said 'He is dead!' llefoi'o the whispered words had left the room I lie word 'dead' llew along the telephone wires and reached tho listening night editor. Before the watchers in the parlor knew that the great soul had taken its tliglit. a dozen proof readers were plowing through .slips with swift pencils, thirty printers were clipping the moorings that held the present to to the past, and in just seven minutes the press was throwing oil" the story of the life and deatli of (icorgia's mart vr . statesman." Tho Convivial "How." In the old days, before the war, there was an impression general that an offi cer of the regular army, no matter how strict soever his incognito might be, in variably betrayed himself the moment he "moistened his clay" by pronouncing the monosyllable '.'How!" During the war the volunteer officers were quick to pick it up, and its use, whenever two or three were gathered together for the purpose of taking a drink, was univer sal. It was understood lo be a refine ment of tlie Indian gutteral "Ugh!" which the noble savage always ejacula ted whenever he quaffed his draughts of firewater down, and from the plains it found its way to the haunts of civiliza tion. Hut, alas! the popular belief must be dispelled and the totust caused to give up its redolence of the "boundless prairie." Research lias brought to light tlie fact, that tlie word is of Roman ori gin; at least we have the authority of William Shakspenre for the assertion. In the first scene of tlie second act of "Julius Ctesar" the great, dramatist put into tilt! mouth of Hruttis this speech: "Cains Ugarlil, that Mctellus spake of, Hoy, stand aside. Cains l.lgarlus! Howl" We dislike to destroy idols, but as that, embodiment of wisdom, the late la mented King Solomon, hath it. "There is no new tiling under the sun." Boston, Herald, Husbands and Lovers. Many a woman sighs and weeps in .se cret because the husband of her youth lias ceased to pay her the attentions of a lover. Ho coolly lets her pickup her own handkerchief, talks stillly out of tho door before her, and lets her risk all sorts of disasters by clambering out of a double wagon unassisted. Now, wo don't propose to excuse men for any such unpardonable lapses; but it is a fact that tho majority of women cease to grow in attractiveness, or to speak botanicitlly cease to put forth now buds of promised loveliness to ohallango their husbands' perennial adoration; and thu perverse creatures cease to cast admir ing glances at the old plant which has dropped its blossoms. Do you see tho remedy, neglected wife? Treat yourself as you treat your plants. You give them fresh air and sunshine, fresh soil and more room for the advancing roots to grpw in; give yourself more oppor tunities and room for mental growth and the cultivation of personal graces. Maybe it's too bad, but you can't blame a man much for not continuipg to smile perpetually at tho remembrance of honey huded long ago. Von must yield a present hweefness and' a promise of plenty in the future. Ct icayo Ledger. "Fascination of the Ermine. There is honiethini: fascinating about tho ermine, something in thu judicial junction that take's hold of a mail's na ture and'refuscs to let go. I have heard old lawyers say that once il judge, a man should lie always a judge, anil thoy must be right. 1 have never known a man who sat on the Ixinch and retired without wishing himself back agalu. Chicago Herald. Although twenty thousand volume haya Urn added In the Utt'two yeurn to the Colum bia college library there In need of more hooka In meet the demand of tlie profeMor aud atudqiti In the rurloua department of the uulvinlty, facially in tlie graduate cuurtet. CATTLE SALES. tSevlcw of Public Snlei of Pedigreed Cattle In the rutted Mntei Durlnc I MS.". The prices realized for pedigre -d cat tle in Kngtanil lat year were generally lower than for several previous seasons. Fine stock in tills country has shared in tlie general decline of everything pro duced on faun. The .rcers' (iatette of this city ha been at the pains to col lect and tabulate the results of all the leading stiles in this country and litis made a comparison of tlie prices obtain ed with those realized during previous years. Following are the leading por tions of tho report it presents: In the eae of shorthorns, while I lie average of SlOH.Oil per head may appear very low to some sis compared with the published averages of former years, there is really not so much difference be tween the result of 188.) find the years immediately preceding as- appears from the published figures. While we have heretofore given more complete returns of tills nature than have been published clew hvre, it litis been n well-known fact that quite a numbi'i' of small local sales of plain cattle have always escaped no tice. We have this year made an clfort to make our report entirely complete, and as the average qf these local stiles i of course much below that obtained nt leading auctions, tlie grand average of the year is considerably reduced from former figures. While it is true that a report which does not include stiles of low-priced pedigreed stock in the hands of farmers conies nearer all'ording a fair average value of the stock in the hands of prolfessionnl breeders, il is neverthe less manifestly more accurate to take the results of all public transfers of pure-bred cattle wherever held, even though circumstances of a most discour aging nature, may have eonspiivd to ; operate against their success. '1 Ins wo have undertaken to do in tlie preparation of this report, and tho total of 7,0"j7 head as compared with 4,!l8!l head re ported last year shows how much more thorough has been our work this time than over before. In considering lliis report it should also be borne in mind that it is quite generally allowed that, there has not been a season for many years when so few really first-class cattle have been on the market, a fact unquestionably due to the preference of tho average breeder to hold fast to his good tilings in periods of depression and send lo the miction block those animals which can bct be spared from the breeding herd. Hy 'first-class cuttle" we would not be un derstood as meaning .simply thoe be longing to sorts that have usually com manded high figures by reason of their descent, for while holders of that de scription of property have refrained from offering them in any large num bers, there has been much more than the usual disposition evinced on all hands to carry over tho better grades of stock until the depressing inlliiences at present alfeeling all breeds alike shall nave been removed. While we have to report therefore thai 7,0.r)7 head of eattlo of this breed have sold for tin aggregate uf 7iy,8G -an average of $10!l.0) per head it is gratifying to note that in tho few instances where what were regit rd ' cl as really choice tilings were included there was little dilliculty experienced in M'curing fair prices. The highest aver age of the year was .'177, obtained for tho thirty-eight head jointly offered at Doxtor park by Mr. Hronson C. Rum sey, of Hufl'alo, N. V., and tho estate of tlw late Charles M. Lansing; Col. W. A. Harris Llnwood, Kan., following t with an average of i?:t08.f() on a draft of twenty head. The joint sale of Messrs. (Jibson, Murray, ami Cobb, at Dexter park, stands third, with an average of !J07, to tho credit of thirty head, and Mr. T. Corwin Anderson made about ?!100 on n draft of thirty-six head from Side View. In many respects thu great salo'of the year, however, was the dirt porslon of Mr. Robert Miller's I'liim (irovo herd at West Lilx-rty, Iowa, on which occasion ninety-six head of cattle of all ages brought a total of S-.oGO, a general uvorago of $270. Tills wiw it field having quite a reputation as con taining animals qualified to enter the best show-rings of tho west, and to this fact is attributed the very largo attend unco aud spirited bidding which char acterized tho sale. There is certainly ' much encouragement for breeders of tho best individual cattle to be drawn from this Iowa sale, aud its result constitutes of course a much fulror test of tho aver age value of thu better class of herds than is afforded by tho grand average. Am is always thu case, tho prevalence of a rather low range of prices has in duced more than the average iiuinlxsr of tho weakor holders to throw their I stock upon tho market, so that It is safo ' to soy that thu large number of eattlo of this, breed sold at perhaps uu sat fac tory prices roprcsonUi the usual unload ing of those who from lack of inutility or , want of faith let go at what Is In all probability the lowest present ebb of' the tide of values for "the red white and roan." With the returning conlidenco which is almost sure, to follow the disnp nearaneo of disease, which has this .year so grievously injured the cause in tho great southern states of Kentucky and Missouri, an appreciation in values seems inevitable. Hercfords held up wonderfully well under heavy importations, and show tt higher average than any other breed, either of beef or dairy stock. Four hundred and eighty Head of "whito faces" have .bivu sold for tt total of i?Mt5.02., tin average of $:'()t 40 per head, and while the market has showed some sign of being somewhat over stocked with cattle of the less desirable sorts, there is an unabated demand for the best individual cattle of approved breeding. While all breeders ' are of course more or less interested in main taining past and present prices of cat tle of tiiis breed it is certainly no essen tial to (he continued prosperity of tho breed thai so high a range of values bo maintained. It may bo said thai all fashion in eat tlo breeding lias its origin in a real or assured basis of individual merit in tho stock whoso blood is in great request, and this is undoubtedly true; but the er ror lies in relying upon such blood too implicitly after it has become so far re moved from the original fount of eeel lenco tis to have lost, the merit which impelled the earlier. demand. So long as a special strain of eattlo shows desir able characteristics not found elsewhero in tlie breed, a demand for sueli blood at ti gooil price is legitimate mid to bo en couraged, and people who pin their faith to such a strain, so long as it evin ces these characteristics in u more mark ed degree thtin'can be fouiill'elsowhcrc, are not to be classed as blind followers .of fashion. When the time comes, how ever, (as sooner or Inter it almost invar iably does), that men follow up such a lino on tlie strength of what it has been, it degenerates into n simple fashion, which can but result, injuriously to the best interests of the breed. Two hundred and eighty live head of Scotch polled cattle have Ikjcii sold dur ing tho year, 180 of which were Aberdeen-Angus ,and 10.r Galloways. Tho former show an average of $'279.40 and the latter -V-'j!!. Importations of both breeds' were very light us compared with preceding years, and there is an absence of tho attempt to force mutters which characterized the business in some for mer seasons. The feeling with refer once to these breeds may Ikj described as one of quiet confidence, and the ad mirers of the Angus in particular are showing a disposition to make a strong pull for popular favor. Tho record their favorities have made at the fat stock shows both at home and abroad, has served to nerve thu already strong bauds in which the breed is largely held in America, and there is every prospect of all reasonable prosperity for tho "doiMies " during tho coming year. Home-bred polled bullocks will soon bo an established featuro of our fat stock shows, and there is every reason for as suming that tho success which they are morally certain to win both on fiot and upon the blosk at these exhibitions will stimulate tho demand for pure-bred spe cimens for stock purposes. Among tho Angus sales those made by Mr. Harvey at Rlvorviow Park and Thyrlington and that of Mr. Whltridguin this city shov4 tho highest averages. Tho leading Gal loway sale was that of Mr. James Cun ningham at Kansas City. Sales of dairy eattlo have boon limited to Jer seys and Holstuin Frie-llnn.s; no less tli'an l.G'Ol head of thu Island butter breed having passed under tho hammer for n total of $:JI2,(X)G, an averagu of $191. f0 per head. Thee reflections of our esteemed correspondent, Mnj. Campbell Hrowno, of Tennessee, upon his decline in prices for Jers.iys, pub lished in last week's Gazette, are so em inently sound that wo can do no better than to refer our many rentiers who aro interested in thu breed to his communi cation, to bo considered in connection with the average herewith presented, w Eight hundred and fifty-four head of Holstein-Friesians have brought a total of $101,210; an avcrago of $192.J10. None of thu leading collections of cat tle of this breed have been disjxirscd. and no largoyiiuniber of gilt-edged nni- mills from leading herds have been sold, m that thera has been little to lift the tlYurago of tho year to high figures Thu Ilolsteiu and Frieslun Interests: have consolidated their forces; a grand, show was made by tho brood nt tho full, fairs, aud material progress has unques tionably been made in all directions, Chicago Times, Not So Odd as Ho MightBa. It is thought worthy of, riuk tjat tho.l'r.Incj) ,of Yilas u,BliigVf when eating small birds. It would 1st still moro remarkable if he ud his toes. Aew Orhuna Picuymt,