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-j* '* '- Tila Polk County Itemizor. POLK COUNTY HMIZER la s t’ ED EVEKY 8A TIR D A Y .1. H. M c C A lN . K u b M c r ip tlo u * • B a te t* : - PRO FE SSIO N A L CARDS. J. N. SM ITH, M. D., AND S U R G E O N NEW PRICES. NEWCOODS. Dallas, Oregon. Oltica on Mill St., North o f Court House. The Largest Stock and Cheapest Goods ! ! DR. W. H. R U B E LL, K .N" T I S T , Dallas, Oregon.^ I U . WORK DONE IN SIKHTVLASH ST Y L E a v Office one door iiortii o f J.D. Lee'« White Brick. N L. H IT L E R JOH N T D A L Y D A L Y A B U TLE R , A T T O R N E Y S A T F or P eople the of IJtG A L Mill St U I take pleasure in announcing to the public that my E. J. DAW NE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, and N o tary P upllc- SPRING O P E C I A I ATTENTIO N G IV E N »TO COLLECTING ‘A and loaning money. Always prepared to loan from ifllK) to #2,500 on ours/pial or real estate security. Office in Griswold's building, opjiosite the bank, Salem, Ore gon. Is now open and ready for inspection. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Tn M v Dalian, Oregon. Tnd.epeiid.enc© S to re I l i n e r . ON MAIN STBKKT, 0PHCI8ITK THK ' 7 Court House. Collections uusde a «lieciulty. You will find the FIN E ST GOODS and the L A R G E S T ASSORTM ENT of K. R 8K IP W O R T H , GENERAL MERCHANDISE ATTORNEY AT LAW, -A N D - Kept on th e West Side o f the Willamette, outside o f Portland. Notar y Public, Albany, Oregon, ’ 11.1. l ’ KAt TICK. IN A LL THK COURTS IS THE State All busiuess entrusted to him promptly at toudod to. Office in O 'Toole « Block, Broad Albin St . U M L Pii**« Dallas A PIPES. My Millinery Department Is complete tu every respect and in the hands of u competent Milliner. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Jrf*" Will practice *in all the Courts of the State. Office up stairs in Court House. C3A.S. P. A You will tind a CO M PLE TE ASSORTM ENT of a t L a w , DALLAS. OREGON. I 'r o i i i f i l In my Perrydale store SULLIVAN, t t o r n e y GENERAL MERCHANDISE il f t - n l a o i i l*nl«l l o I t iia in e a s . Suitable for tho Country Trade. O rr i« ’E On Main Street, two doors north o f Postoffice You will also find a L IN E of Millinery of the Latest Styles! DR. J. B. JOHNSON, U o lit lH t * Having returned to Independence to pefmunently locate, is prepared to do all kinds o f dental work. Filling and treating a specialty. < (tlioe in Vandnyn & Smith's new brick, up stairs. ra r. itt a I'rodiUT taken in Exchange for Goods at Market rates. jorfss Give me a call before purchasing elsewhere, and SEE M Y GOODS T R U IT T & JOHNS, and G E T TH K P R IC E S !! A tto rn e y s -a t-L a w , EZRA D ALLA S, OREGON. i tFFIO E ON' M ILL STREET. NORTH O FC O U R ‘ ' H our « auglt5 DR I D E N T IS T , Dallas. Oregon. (Late o f Eugene City and Sheridan. Nit.ro Oxide or Laughing Gas administered. up sta in over H. Butler's «tore. D a l l a s , N ov . 17, 1882. Office A. E. SCOTT, M D , P h y s ic ia n and Surgeon, L u te o f O a k lu n d , C a l.^ m s p erm a n en tly lo c a t e d in **w POPPLETON. A L L X A SK T. MASON, R E H 11 / E N T Is that you do yourself justice by buying goods where you can get them the cheapest. I know it is the practice among a great many merchants to sell a few leading articles at cost, but they must make it up on something else. I intend to strictly adhere to very LOW PRIC ES in everything I offer for sale, and in DRESS & FANCY GOODS, II1 I.I.IS , OKU LON. W ill bo fou n d nt all tim es at lb M. SiniA.'g Drug Htore. Z. T. DODSON, M. D., PHYSICIAN, SURCEON, W . H. HOLMES, Counselor at L a w , S a lem , O reg on - jo h n , CLOTHI NG A N D OBSTETRICIAN. Ha«||)ennanently located In Dallas, Oregon. Office in Hyde's drug store. novlltf. Attorney and M c D o w ell F u rn ish in g CSonds, E tc ., E tc. There is no doubt or question but J shall sell them very much lower than the same goods have ever been offered in this market. ¡-¿J" Please to call and price the goods and you will see that I am in earnest. M. M. E L L IS , Real Estate Agent, . Successor to AY. C. Brown, D ALLAS. OREGON D A LLA S, OREGON, MARCH 8. 1883 P A R T I E S DESIRING TO BU Y OR SEL L R E A L I estate, will do well to consult me. Office two doors west o f Jap. R. Miller's drug store. BURNS J. L. C O L L IN S , M O R R IS O N . A LIVERY AND SALE STABLE. Attorney and Counselor at Law » a lia n . I AS BEEN IN P RACTICE OF HIS PROFESSION _ I h In this place for about twenty five years, and will II attend all business. t e n d to _____________ MANLTACTUAKRM AND DEALERS IN U th e M ost R e a s o n a b le R a te s ! Conveyance o f commercial men a specially. Patent Medicines, THE P E R R Y D A L E . ORfeOOX ROWELL & SON, B lack sm ith s, PALLA R. BELT HOUSE ! P E T E K ( O O K . ................................ PiiopmiETOR. In d e p e n d e n ce . Perfumery. Fancy and Toilet Articles. CIGARS AND TOBACCOS. And lift.»«. UPHOLSTERED WORK. ALBUM PICTURE FRAMES. WALL BR ACKED. AND WINDOW SHADES. K EBP A COM PLETE STOCK IN D U * LIN E and will sell as cheap as the same goods can he U rE 1 Portland. Do s o t take our word or other people* O regon . A l l k in d s o f W o r k in ou r lin o don« on S h o rt N o tic e . We siso keep s large snd well selected stock o f Caskets and Oases on hand, HKBRLTHOrsr HASOHANOED HANDS AND r word for it, but come and see our goods and learn our prices. will he ru* «« a first class house In every respeet. Which we will furnish at Reduced Price* Salesroom on M A IN STREET, two doors north of Vsaduye k Smith. I X » ft'. I* ft'X » H X 4 ' ft'., O R f t K . O X . DALLAS CITY MILLS, WM. STAIGER, WILSON & HOLMAN, PROPRIETORS. D E A L E R IS O R E O O S. à KE N oW R E A D Y T o TH» A L L K IN D S OF |>!«/'k*Tr ith w >rk in th**ir line o f Lunin«*« in tbe style »m l on the live jmkì let live plan Yon will flu«! tbom at their shop whenever work is wanted, day or meut, «tur «hop i« at the Elk horn si*n. °ne door «oiitn ™f Bum« k Morrison • »very «fahle We thank yon for your custom in the past and hope von wMl c nt.n le the «am* i« the future We ara Vonra truly R* »WELL A RON I falla«. November * . 1 * 2 « I ’RIXG all kinds of b HL’ KNH A V< m g O W , I’ rop'rs. S T A T IO N E R Y , H M T l IIP HOKHK8, CAftW AGK» AND IJYKKY At '(fief, opposite the Dallas Hotel, eoroer o f Main and Court street. Dallas, Polk County. Oregon.____________ WILSON & RAY. H. 1 . LINES & LAWRENCE, O regon . SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY. Drugs, Having purchased, tbe above mill«, we »re now pre pare«! to do all kinds of \ W . P. WEIGHT. A U C T IO N E E R And County Surveyor. P a l l a s . O m w w - _= . — --------- , X I r i l l . a t t e n d t o h i s b u s i n e s s in «ay part o* th « county prom ptly, « . » '- t f C ris t a n d C u s to m W o rk Promptly and in a satisfactory manner Give us a cal' W ILSON A HOLMAN. P a l l a s Oregon. Jan. 3. 1R3 MONEY TC LOAN I We have mones to loan on approve«! Roai Estaf Security, in «urns from HEAD-STONES, Executed in Italian and American Marble. One to Ten Thousand Dollars. Thn* From on« to firs years; Terms Truitt k Johns. A o is it N IMS THE ORLOV. SIAMESE WOMEN. Shrews Triti«™, Cashier«, Buyers -------- — --------- Easy Also «very ! Granito M« r o f Com story so<l otbwr » to o « work. to. ao4 oaelosurs to burial loto, fur BrotWrs Albany. Ovarro NO. 35. LONDON SLAVES. 8HANTY-B0ATB Inch ....... Inehe«... Inehe«... Column . Colum n.. Column.. S W S jf'1 w v v-*' f s i I ! ; i.fi c a * ia I* *.ücal notice« 10 cento i l ‘r..reMioiml or buaiiM 1 annum. No deviation from tha above r a t « will be favor of any advertiser. Traitaient and legal adv« for tirsi, and 50 cento for each anbeeug the former IN A D V A N C E amt the CHIFXTA’B ADD1 M A TO TKK » » A i- Ff \ People o f my tribe! th^sorrow ing widow of the dead Ouraiy apeak« to you. She comes to yen, not aa the squaw o f the dead chieftain, to rouae you to war and victory, but to weep with you over the leas o f her people und the greed of the pale faoei The fair Colorado, over whose rooky mountains we have roamed and hunt* •■d in the olden time, is now overran by tho silver plated Senator and the soft eyed dude. W e are driven to a small corner o f the earth to die, while the oppressor digs gopher holes in the green grass and sells them to the speculator of the great cities toward the rising sun. Through tbe long cold winter my people have passed, in want and cold, while the conqueror o f the peaceful Ute has worn $250 night-shirts, and filled his pale skin with pie. Chipeta addressee you as the weep ing squaw of a great'm an whose bones will one day nourish tbe cu cumber vine. Guray now sleeps be neath the brown grass of the canyon, where the soft spring winds may stir the dead leaves and the young coyote may come and monkey o ’er his grave. Guray was ignorant in the ways of the pale face. He conld not g o to Congress, for he was not a citizen of tho United States. He had not taken out his second papers. He was a simple child o f the forest, but he stuek to Chipeta He loved Chipeta like a hired man. That is why the widowed squaw weeps over him. A few more years anti I shall join Ouray—my chief, Onray, the big In- iun from away up the guloh. His heart is still open to me. Chipetn could trust him, even among the smiling maidens o f her tribe. Ouray was true. There was no funny busi ness in his nature. He loved Dot the gerb of the pale face, but won my heart while ho wore a saddle-blanket nnd a look of woe. Chipeta looks to the North and the South, and all about are the graves of her people. The refinement o f the oppressor has come, with its divorce and schools and gin cocktails and liour bread and fall elections, and we linger here like a boil on the neck of a fat man. Even while I talk to you, the damp winds of April are sighing throngs my vertebrae and I've got more piuns in my back than a conservatory. Weep with the widowed Chipeta. Bow your heads and howl, for our harps are hung on tbe willows and our wild goose is cooked. W ho will be left tc mourn at Chi- peta's grave? None but the starving papppoeea of my nation. We stand in the gray mist o f spring like burdocks in the field of the honest farmer, and the chilly winds of departing winter make us hump and gather like a burnt lioot. . All we can do is to wail. Colorado is no more the home o f the Ute. It is the dwelling plane of tho bonanza. ¡Senator, wno doesn't ' know the difference between the plan o ' salvation- nnd the previous ques tion. Chipeta cannot vote. Chipeta o«n not pay taxes to n groat nation, but you will be apt to Lear her gentle voice, and her meliow racket will fill the air till her tongue is cold and they tuck tho buffalo robe abont her nnd plant her by the side o f her dead chieftain, where the south wind and the sago hen are singing.— [Detroit Free Press. Sell«««. Along thu shores o f the Mononga- T h e y B e co m e Id en tified w ith th e C ountry hela, where the hills of Soho cast a Hon. D. Sickles, late United States nnd T h e ir .Masters, and »ay T h e y a re shadow reaching actons the river •- T r u e H U f t y y . H appy aud C on ten ted , representative at the Court of Siam, nearly to the sloping streets that run in a recent lecture, thus describes down from Carson street to the the women of Siam aud the Queen As frequent allusions to the Orlov The correspondent of The London water’s edge, may lie seen a style of consort; ‘ "The native women of Siam diamond, (which adorns the Imperial are remarkably handsome, und, News, accompanying General Hicks’ habitation here aud there closely sceptre of Russia) have been made by though somewhat diminutive, they expedition to the upper Nile country, resombling the domicile that so de lighted David Copperfield at Yar my daily contemporaries, aud us vari are naturally graceful in their move writes: At Berber we note for the mouth. They are of a nondescript ous conflicting accounts of its origin ments, and excel the men in intelli fiist time the excess of the pure character, tlieso shanty-boats that gence and shrewdness. They are the have been published by them, 1 think negro race, either the descendants of settle heavily in the sludgy soil or cashiers in almost every native es it may be o f interest ta give the fol tablishment, and are considered to be former slaves or the uctual slaves of rock lazily in the swell that sets them lowing authentic details furnished me safer guardians of the money-box the swarthy Arab merchants. These afloat as an occasional steamer snorts noisily by. They are boats that during a residence in S t Petersburg than the proprietors, or even their Berberiue blacks aro to all appear might almost he called houses, and own husbands, to whom they dole out ances most happy and contented. by a decondant of the Armenian houses that might be boats, aud yet the eopjier ots or silver fuanga with merchant who brought the stone to frequent precautions and admoni Whether they are held in bondage or they have peculiarities o f their own thut belong to neither class. Somo- Russia. tions. Although, in accordance with not. all alike have either laugh or times there has been an attempt to The diamond in its rough state Eastern ideas, ‘ hey are regarded as soug on their lips. The labor they beautify them by daubing on coarse formed tho eye of an idol in a temple inferior to men in every respect, there perform is to a European observer of red paint, picked out with dirty near Tricbinopoli, ami was abstracted are few countries where they so tho most dilatory character, a chant white. Tho effect, while possibly by a French renegade, who oscui ><1 thoroughly demonstrate and main accompanying the slightest physical satisfactory to the inmates, has a with ibis prize to Persia. llere»hb tain their equality ns they do iu Siam. exertion. So slight is the physical rather dispiriting effect upon the wandered from town to town trying In every well organized and property power exhibited that four men will casual observer with a pretension to to dispose of it for a moderate sum, conducted business house they are leisurely roll a bale of goods that an artistic taste. He is apt to wonder but only meeting with distrust and acknowledged to bo indispensable English wharfman or porter would whether the crude {figments laid on suspicion. At length, when the news and nearly all the multitudinous na make nothing of. They pause at so lavishly have not a tendency to of thu theft spread over India-and tive hongs >8 and retail establishments every turn of a package amt sing in engender colicky troubles among the reached Persia, feaiing arrest, he ac at Bangkok, as well ns those in the unison; then over it goes againt in cliiidreu who revel in dirt and semi- cepted the offer of a Hebrew mer remote provinces of the realm, are fact, they take an hour doing what nakedness in and around these chant, and surrendered the diamond either owned or managed by them. an ordinary laliorer at home would amphibious d wellings. F or there are for £2,000. Meantime, the ¡Shall was They seem to [ k i S h osh a genius for accomplish in a quarter of the time, children, scores o f them, as it appears, informed, not only of the robbery, trade and are marvelously successful and no one seems to hurry them. who call these places home, and but that the thiei was residing in his in all kinds of mercantile pursuits. They apparently have it all their own doubtless could gaze without envy territory, and had offered the stone As saleswomen in the native shops way, and their wav is to take things U|>oii the finest lawn surrounded repeatedly for sale. £ t once his they are precise and persistent in leisurelj®' Let it bo understood that mansion in the East End. Have Highness gave orders to arrest the making a bargain, and always win no apology is offered here for slavery, they not free access to water and mud man, dead or alive, and to seize the their customers by a genial craftiness though from my inquiries among at all hours o f the day and night? diamond; whether for the purpose of that is too fascinating to resist, and those in forced servitude I did not Can anything be more delightful restoring it to its rightful owners, or unaffected plausibility that disarms meet with one who desired to return Limn running along tho gang-planks in order to retain it for his own d e suspicion. Tho Chinese merchants to his or her native condition of bar to the coal barges that are always lectation, it is now impossible say. who settle ir, Siam and engage in barism; and this, I think, speaks being unloaded with a great expen The Jewish merchant naturally be trade have a keen appreciation of volumes in favor of the kind way in diture of labor.gruntings and pers came alarmed for the safety of bis these qualities, and select Siameso which they are generally treated. piration on the part of muscular men new acquisition, as well as that of bis women for their wives in preference Through the m ed iu u of an interpret who, both Caucasian and Ethiopian, bead, and gladly sold the stone to an to those of their own race, who are er, I had a long conversation with a are all of the same grimy hue. What astute Armenian merchant, named seldom capable of becoming anything couple of very neatly clad Dtirka if the sharp fragments of coal do Thus, the men. hailing from the country south Shafras for £12,000. The mngniti- but menials or toys. sting the littlo bare feet? It gives couce of Catherine tho Great and Eurasians on one hand aud the of Sennar, lying between tho White them a dainty, tripping gait that is her Court was a by-word in Armenia Siamo Chinese on the other, that sec and Blue Niles. They had been cap at once graceful and unique, nnd may aud Persia, and Shafras knew right tion of the far East is being gradual tured when young iu a tribal war at somo future time be useful if they well that if he could roach St. Peters ly peopled by new fo.'med races, in something, for instance, like a feud have to act as nurses in a small pox burg with his diamond, he would be which only a few distinguished traces would be between Yorksbiremen and hospital, where clumsy footsteps able to dispose of it nt a handsome of the ancestral typo will ultimately Northumbrians—and though their wonld disturb the patients. profit. The gieatest difficulty was to be found. Siamese women are also captors were of the same race they "What kind of people live in these secrete the stone so thoroughly about important factors in the body politic. were mercilessly sold into servitude. shanty-boats?” asked a Times repre bis person, tLat in case of bis arrest In the state, as well us iu the house To day they repudiate all notion of sentative o f a resident o f Twenty- it should not be discovered. It was hold, she performs a part which com returning to their own country. They sixth street too large for him to swallow, so he mauds the respect of even those who said: “ Here wo are well cared for The resident gave an odd twist to In the by our master,” or, ns they termed solved the problem by making a deep pretend to despise her sox. liis features, which included the gen palace her will is “ the power behind him, “ kind father.” Ho clothes us. incision in the calf of his left leg, in tle closing o f one eye, and said, with setting the .tone, and sowing up the the throne greater than the throne and when meal time comes we sit, a slight smile: “ Ail kinds. Just itself.” Her Majesty, the Queen Con under his roof and eat our till, and ac around here you can bet they aro -wound with silver thread. When the cut had cicatriseil sufficiently to al sort, though unproclaimcd ns the night we have good bedding and pretty quiet, because they have to be. royal spouse, is nevertheless practi shelter. When we desire it ho gives That one,” pointing to an ¡esthetic- low the removal of the wire, Shafras began bis travels towards Russia. cally supreme in influence, if not in us money to go to the bazaar, and looking craft, the cloudy windows of authority. She is less beautiful than what belongs to him belongs to us. which were still further obscured by Had he known on arriving at the frontier that tho diamond had been some of the inmates o f the royal We are o f his family. Why should crimson curtains, while what was mansion, but more noted for her we wish to return to tho misery and apparently the week’s washing hung traced to the Jewish merchant, and from him to an Armenian, he would ability and intelligence than any of uncertainty of our early life?” Such, carlessly in tlie sun from various probably have tried to conceal his the women that surround tho court. so far as 1 have been able to glean, projections, “ is occupied by a man nationality. But he boldly declared The young K ing has been devotedly is the general feeling of those in who works in a mill. The family are Aim self an Armenian merchant to attached to her from h i' boyhood, servitude. They become, so to speak, decent people, but |Xior, nnd they tho Shah’s inquisitive officials, was ar and denies her nothing that his gen- memliers of the household of their live there rent free. Those on the rested, and consigned to prison on eron« nature can iiostow to comploto masters. They benefit largely by the opposito side of tlie river, right It is even reported civilization, such as it is, that sur suspicion. Strong emetijs were ad- her happiness. opposite, are also tho homos of labor ministeied, but no diamond cim o to that he would destroy the time-hon rounds them. They form ties and ers. They are well-behaved folks, ored custom of his country by casting affections. They marry and have light. Ho was stripped naked, beeauso the ferryman leasing the plunged iu tj a hot bath, and then aside his other wives, if she demand children, nod they become thorough wharf would not let them stuy if they ed it. She is his constant companion ly identified with the country and examined from head to foot, with no were not. But in those a little lower bettor success Even a little torture at home, and accompanies him on surroundings o f those who own them. down there are some high old times every journey, and 1 was informed At sunset the “ tain," or nativo was tried, but Shafras was firm; aud occasionally. Men ami women are in the end ho was bundled uncere by a missionary lady who had been a drum, is heard in the court or at the all huddled in together. Their regu frequent visitor at the palace for entrance o f every house. Master and moniously over the frontier.—-his lar drink is old rye, nud such old rye. Dotty cash, however, being retained, many years that, in the affairs of the servant are alike holding their “ ter I t costs about $1 a gallon, and there State he relies more upon her ju d g tubas,” just as in Spain one hears in lie reached Orenburg, and here some are a dozen fights iu every pint of it compatriots advancod him sufficient ment than upon the advice o f the provincial towns and villages the with more quarrels und bad language members of the privy council, who twanging of the guitar and long- money to reach the capital. than could be meayured. D o any of Catherine the Great was short of are presumed to be skilled in the sighed, tremulous note o f some Arab them work* Gh, ye , they work. subtle art of statecraft and diplomacy. fathered music. The femnle slaves, ready money when Shafras offered Tho man are roustabonts and deck her his diamonds for sale. He de Besides being amiable, industrious if really they can be called so, seem Lffhds on steamers They work up and frugal, she is gifted with good to sit as high nt their dress tablos as manded £10,000 for it. but the Era and ilown the river, and at the end of A young lady, whose name we with press could not raise more than £20,- sense and endowed with other admir the lighter-colored mistresses whom a trip they come home for a good hold, writes to say that it is very able virtues. When Mrs. Grant was they serve. O f ornaments they have 000, and though she offered 10,000 time, and I guess th«>y have it. At strange that an animal may hear peo dessiatine (at four acres each) of presented to her in the private audi plenty- silver and gold coins lieing night yon can hear their voices echo crown land in addition to this sum, ence chamber o f the royal palace, woven into their innumerable thinly ing over tho water iu ribald songs to ple speak a language from the time Shafras refused. Catherine was she conducted herself with a sim plaited tresses. Amber, coral and tlie accompaniment o f a mouth organ it is born, nnd yet never understand greatly chagrined, and did not hide plicity and dignity of manner that jasper necklaces fall in rows over or accordeon, with an occasional yell a werd of it; while a child, who is her annoyance; but she was too no could not be surpassed if she had their, when young, Btntuesque bosoms thrown in for n chorus. Why, they bern entirely iauumiit of a single bio a character to resort to tho coer been a well trained scholar in the here, as is the custom of the conn even have ilnuces in those stifling word o f its meaning, b arns the whole language of whicL that word ia a Like Queen try, left uutraiiimeled by robe or cive measures which a Shah o f Persia school of etiquette. little places sometimes. I don’t know member. We do not think it at all would have adopted without a mo Amirah. as described by McGloin in corset. whether they have the fashionable strange, liecatise a duckling who is Like the Beshareen Arabs, the Ber- waltzes or whether one o f them leads ment’s hesitation. Shafras was his charming romance of Camliodia. allowed to depart unmolested, and she employs her talents and e ertsher liereens, male and female, wear, at the others in tho ‘German,’ but I do hatched out withont any idea o f betook himself to Amsterdam to have influence in the interest o f her coble tached to their right arm aliove the know tbat they shuffle through some aqiintics can swim half a mile the his diamonds cut. Here it was that lord and for the welfare o f his elbow, red or brown leather, cylindri kiml of salutory ««xerciso that seems first time it goes in the water, while some men, born with the same igno cal shaped amulets, like small drtiniH, the famous Count Orlov first saw the people.” as if it wonld shake the timbers of containing scraps of parchment, in the shanty apart. Once in a while rance, can never bo taught to swim a jewel for which his Imjierial mistress JIM BENNETT'S SPKEE. scribed with verses of the Koran or the police make a raid when they get stroke. had signed, and he determined to lay James Gordon Bennett, owner of some cabalistic words invented by a too bad, but ns a rule no one inter it as a gift at her feet. The bargain “ A woman won the literary essay with Shafras was concluded off-hand, the New York Herald and a yatch local fakir. These are believed to feres with them. They are isolated for Count Orlov never haggled. In named Namouna, is just now on preserve the wearer from all bodily from thn rest of the world, and ex prize nt Vanderbilt University over exchange for the diamond (which grossing the attention o f the world harm. Happily, whatever may be the cept when an actual murder takes 121 rivals, and they were all males.” weighed 18.5 carats, and is valued at by a little spree that he indulged in kindness shown by the master to bis place, iih in the case of McSteen, who Well, what of it? It only shows that £300,000) Count Orlov promised Shaf recently while he was in Yillo- pondsman, slavery has its days num killed his wife ill a riverside shanty at the spirit of gallantry still inhabits ras, on his return to Russia, £70,000 frauclie. Mr. Bennett put the cap tiered. Thn government of the Kho Hazelwood, they are allowed to enjoy the male liosom. If any one of those 121 and more fellows should have down, an annuity o f 2,000 roubles, tain and mate on shore and essayed dive, rightly influenced, is deter themselves in their own way.” stood up against one lone woman, their respective roles himself. The mined to stamp it ont, and the pres nDd a patent of nobility. “ W ho aro the owners of the boats!” robbed her of the prize, he would be Tho Count kept his word. Shafras Namouna is a yatch, of course, but it ence of English officers (now in the asked tbe reporter. enough sight meaner than he ought the kupeta (merchant) became Laz is a hundred yard* long, and is there Berviee of his Highness) in the dis “ That woulil be hard to say. Some arev the devorianin (gentleman), fore larger than many ocean steam - taut provinces of the Soudan will o f them belong to the parties who to be. But, supposing there had cashed his billH at the Imperial Treas era. The party of Mr. Bennett’s undoubtedly aid the extinction of the live in them. When an old tugboat lieen over 121 female rivals to one ury, and drew 2,000 roubles a year for friends on hoard was large but they curse. Let the mahdi lie disposed of, gets all stove np, so that it is no more male, what kind of a chance would the rest of his life, which, as usual ’ were very nervous when he told them and the revolted districts brought use on the river, the machinery is he have had? Do you think the with annuitants, was a very prolonged that he was going to run the machine back to ¡heir allegiance; a new moral taken out, with everything else of any women would have given him any one. Before he died he liecamo one himself. They started off’ very nicely teaching firmly and sternly inculcated value, am) tho shell is sold fora mere chance that he didn't fight for and of the richest men in Russia. With but soon ran against a gun boat in will shed a new light through these song. Then two or three will club win by hard work ? No, sir, not by a the price of the diamond he In »light tho harlxir and frightened the icari dark lands. When the now turbulent together nnd raise tho few dollars large majority. mines in the Oural. land in liessar ners nearly out of their wits. The and over-conflicting tribes are made required, thereby getting a house rent A gded story is told of the wife of abia, and houses in St. Petersburg. gun-boat put off for safety. All tho finally to nnderstnnd that the sale of free for the rest o f tfceir lives. They an American diplomatist, who is Tbe •‘unearned increment” in thirty boats in the bay were kept busy their fellow men is everywhere pro have to got permission from the fond of calling upon the celebrities years made him ten times a million dodging the Namouna until she hibited, the great incentive to strife vharf owner to squat on his territory, in every place which she visits. B e aire, and at the present day bis de struck a reef that badly damaged will cease toexist; prispners, hitherto nnd in return they keep an eye on ing in Florence some time ago. she scendants, nnml>ering hundreds, are her. The passengers were now thor a source of wealth, will become un his lixise property nnd prevent chains expressed her intention of calling all immensely rich. Loris Melikov, oughly alarmed but Mr. Bennett told marketable, and the excuse for inter and such like lieing carried off by upon “ Onida,” the well known nove formerly Minister o f the Interior, them that ho got tho boat to have necine warfare, with a view to mutu- sneak thieves. They keep an eye on list. Her friends attempted to dis and Delianov, at present Minister of some fun with and that ho always I al kidnaping, become obsolete. Then the coal, too. There is a great deal suade her, saying that “Ouida” had a Public Instruction, are grandchildren adopted the present stylo of landing the numerous trilies bordering the of coal stolen from barges, as it is, violent nrejudico against Americans. when he wished to go on shore, but White and Bine Niles will tind there o f the Armenian Lazarev. but not so much as there would lie if they were not suited he would run is no further profit in wnr. and with if these shanty boat guardians did Undeterred, the female diplomaat ____ the boat out on the bank and let them genernl jieace nnd ihedevelopment of not exercise squatter sovereignty over called nt tbe novelist’s house and was A NOVEL IDEA. met by “Onida” who said: “ I must drop over the »idea on the ground. civilizing influences the plonghshare tbe flats. I iruess thev help them Some believe that Jim had lieen 1 will take the place of the sword. To selves to a lump of coal occasionally tell yon that I exceedingly dislike ceived the idea of establishing a bank drinking liefore he took possession of this end the government of the K he to keep their stoves going. It don’t Americans,” “ I am very mnch sur which will loan small sums o f money the boat. He ought to pay better at dive will strenuously and honestly take much to wurm up one of those prised to hear that,” was the reply, at a moderate rate o f interest, and tention to business. We don't see strive, and backed by the energetic sbnntii's, ami tbe coal men can stand “ for they are the only people who thus do away with pawnshops. ‘‘The how be gets enough copy ahead to lie work of the English now depnted to the loss of what liltle th« y use. l’es, read your nasty books!” lea is,” he says, ‘ ‘to receive pledges, able to leave the Herald lor a whole attain this end, there is hope for a it seems a funny life to neople acens Croquet will soon boon deck again, successful termination of the present tomed to a comfortable "house on cry which the borrower may redeem at month at a time. revolt. To sum np briefly, tlie curse land, bnt there are mauy of th«‘se and tlie circumambient air will again an amount of interest not to exceed ____ No liquor can easily lie obtained in I o f slavery i* not tho actual holding folks who couldn't lie pai«l to live” lie sur charged with special invoice« 2 per cent per month. In some cases of those dear old familiar concomit we would only take 1 per cent, anil I the Indian Territory, and on s saloon I of slaves, but the misery caused by anywhere bnt in a shanty boat. ants o f tho game, snch as “ You h or sometimes, if the case would warrant standing on the Texas side of the di the destruction o f villages, the sever rid thing,” “ You are jn.it as hateful it, we would make the loan a lienevo- viding line there is said to lie a sign | ing of family ties, and the cruelties .Speaking about the weather as you ran be,” “ I won't {dag another lent one and take no interest what which reads on one side “ Last perpetrated in the work o f capture. W ou ld n 't it tie nice | minute, there.” “ You're a regular T o tarn on the ice ever. In some instance we wonld Chance,” and on the other “ First People are dragged miles and miles And allow a stream | ch ea t” e tc It ia unnecessary to n - reminding the travelers withont water, chained by the neck; take the ordinary 6 per cent, per an Chance” O f Vanilla cream i js-at them. Yon will hear them all nnm interest. We would, o f course, going either way o f the consequence* in tact the trails o f the captorers T o m oisten jronr guzzle • I in a few short days. may be followed by the skeletons of nse our judgment in tbeee matters; o f neglected opportunity. And a soda fiz Attend to ita biz. their captives left on the line of but our invariable rule will be never C ool the inaide coat In choosing a wife. always select to charge any more than 2 per cent, A New Kxcn*e. W ife—“ Why, rente. O fy o n r parching throat— ■ . . — 4 -- — j one that will wash. — j Whitehall per month. Another great benefit to George, I do believe yon have lieen Fre eze y o n t e t h e m u zzle ? Times. But how are you to We can tie thankful to a friend lor —----------- -------- -------- the poor is our determination to bal taking too mnch y m e!" George (who until after you wringer. Tbe A lady who bought tieavy mourn ance our books at the cloee o f every livee in Brooklyn and has jn*t re a tew arses or a little money; and year, and if we find that our profits turned home after a lively evening) I yet for the freedom and command o f ing at Algona, lo., explained to the ' geation smacks of sad irony.— |J exceed 8 per cent, per annum, we in —“ W ine! Nonsense, dear; I ’ve just | the whole earth, and for the great ' milliner that her husband was not i keeper. Take a dry gnode eler lie in g . our life, health well, and might pop off at any time, ! has she not been in the clothes tend to invest the excess in coal and (hie) come homo over the bridge, ' lieneGta o f oar being, distribute it among the worthy poor and it’s made me dizzy: fliat's all *’ and reason, we look upon ourselves when it might not suit her to come Will she not know how to hang • and never leave yon? a« under no obligation | Bishop Hall to town. o f the city.” kelp me. Bob 7’ T h e L u ck y B e c e u ila u ti o f a M an W h o K n e w 'a G o o d T l i iu g W h e n H o S a w It. STOCK ! J. H. TOWNSEND, BELT ■ ■■■' P olk C ounty ! LAW , f IL L PRO M PTLY ATTEN D TO A L L liii.-iliu tiH entrusted to them. Office ou opposite Court House, Dalla« Geo. W. Belt. Indopon lence. i • D A L L A S, OREGON, S A T U R D A Y , J U L Y 28, 1883. VOL. IX . 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