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OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1873.
NO. 43.
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Tiic Kidkalsanreaily alarmed by
. ,-,.r..rii movcnunt. The
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shouting to the rank and J
tost -ui.1 Mi m, th:it the " Denmerats
... and the "farm-
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t r.-main trie. Ju.-l novi
hides on the
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c,.,..,. fat oiiiivs
vaiu-m, :iuu none.-,
1 1. ... w.l -f
t, ,,-d labor app. ars.
The ot.iee-hoioer
and !'
i..:ial oiuec-sceker are nw
tkkfally sie.,-ing
I w.in' to ! a farmer,
n 1 wi'.h l iJ
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'lef-ts i-UMS to Vliakle.
.;.ie -i o-.:e K.-.tyoi-i
o. .ill fi.e. m .k-this wrangle
'.Vu.l'Kl i;'(!iey ImV'Ii'I i:itt
A:u iij: the ! -nli-i:- nk- ?
A kil l, cr -r i; s ai .. e riy in ;,o ;
T:.e : --- :;-: ! n- alh mi:: r::( ;s,
Aim .!o !!'all l :r(iJ:.l Hie siiU-il 'Ii!
red ".
A y-'Me-i a;;.e qui vers ;
; . .s ;:i jee-- a ; i, m su i:ij; oes do'.s ii
il;.- "envrs liurry afler;
c.h n i yoiuii triuitinhatit crown
Taeo.'iv wiih jo. and Iauhfer.
k il ah:) Ti t i:. We are fast
ii:"i . ii. -.lioii af scii'j; ners to live
a' -1 n.iiii-.' iViir. One Imvs are
i trades ; e-ur t'a rne. 1 's sens
ru-.v.'ii! into tities looking i't-r
hi, is and 'I tees in the p.?t-olnee ;
,;i.:i.' A nit i i un it 1 hi one luui-
i i.ho;isc-v!-ork for waires, liow-i'-.-.
!.t !i r n e 1 ; so we are send-
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far s oi kui-'ii and having
i ii s it .i! 1 : hi u oi I h t '. :.: t w s
i le.ii-.c ier .Hi st l t s. Tholiil
i' ei i ,(-.-., N is heavy, w e i io ic-t
..!,r i'Vi ii si. iii.i; tJiou.ih we are
.1 .s :. Ii 1 ais who desej f ll.e.-.( Ila-
; ,! . -rt ..ar willows, a.if ,o-dec.-ivt
d) wear Hi; r. ; -ea n
; m.-n (ir, i a i'o;v iun elol i:s ;
a ai. li aniu .' our youugej
: ii It iv-,'- ueii'i illy icaeh'-d i: -:
r ;h.' s.'.i. lliii-e, we j -lunge
T aial deeper in til-lit to ine eld
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"' like the farmers who hires
ij.':! ns' Si r.s to cut his V.OOll,
i; s;oek, .hi ! run l.is errunts
.:- " s ii i'V lounge at the urog
1 t;. i! l'i!:"ti ! s. and then w ema r
In 'i,i -r.i' iiis -et etl'oi t, iie sinks
i. i-oi-r a
i teeer into tleot.
saei in i an
A e-i Ward t
iinn out, aliil lie
te-in :main. Ve
ta'et turn nvi r
anew k-af. Our Ikivs
:t'M gii ! must i-e t;.-ight to love lai-or
e;. i a oi, s i:i4 lii'-iii-t 1m s to do it Cili
i i ti'.lv. iVr tmi-.i Mm out fewer un-e--i"ii.ils
;;nd more skilled artisans as
iemt growers. We iiiut firow and fai
ri it.- i-.vo iuiuilred nilllions wortii p-r
:-.iei.i:u. y. tiii-li w.-now iniort, and so
''' '.'.:'-. tiie foreign i'.i-1't. a hieh we have
o I'-a-iv auiiieiited year ly ye;ir.
' nie-: qu-ili!y oiir clever f.oys to
''" and run f.u tories, furnaees." roll-
'ii..t.t.inia-l ICS, 111 tii.lUe-siio, :s, etc.
Handwork uiiiu-s. iuioroxe and
!a
; -"li-'U i:ii..!enieii!s, and doui-'le the
j ' - -1 1 ore luels oi'tlieir father's farm.
' sii.,:! n .. u,.u t;1; t tideofdeii that
. ol v ajraiust our shores, ami
r -V't , , vii'ed and ai moved i.v
l- U-'t tlt.-a s.
Sknmoh I'fnton.-Ii, a recent inter-vi.-w
s -ii iter Fentou exiiresed a con
v. li'.n that the Adininisiiation party
2) y "il I in-ver reform itself, hut would,
as in. -fusing cot .-ujiiion sever the
I- nek's support from it. II,. looks for
tl"- uliieaat'I. su.-cess of the Liberal lte-th-m
m .veiuent. On this .subject
!" s i -el ; "Tlu- movement liegun last
' If w:il dr iw to it ;xople euougll to
'i-r.ssful. The evidetiK- te 1 1 is
a iv n t n' e. .mplete until we reach the
-n of iiaH)iriant vleetions. X-vir-,Vr,..
demand for purity of liv-
l;,a nt will, in the maulim"-. increase
oi i i. in ire and more earnest. There
-twus greater i .-ed of the clean
tu is ot a n..w partv in public allairs."
His -books .It is interesting to ob-s'-rve.the
way a man turns and looks at
si'uie his t
e has stubbed against. We ;
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en srf to r''!eat his esual exclamation !
Ha- sr. ' :'H'"as,'M,s- I, is looks indicate j
"HVIU5UI msaeart.
Its f'.sseiitial ;uju.
In the history of political parties
nothing stems so remarkable as the
vitality and force which the Demoe-
racy of the Lmte.l exhihit in suite
of coutiuuons reyerses. 'Llicro must j
he some good in an organization !
that can maintain itself intact and re- ;
, . ii, , , ,J
tain its liold upon such lar-'e masses L,
of people in the face of repeated con- ! u 'in 1 ranc 1SC Mwuuer, the an
sicutive politii-al disasters. What j nouneemcnt created but little excite
this something is, ?dr. James l'ai ton, J ment. Ten vears ago such an event
the noted biographer, himself a Had- j woultl liave cauca t ' J
ical, hints at in his August install-j .. .. , ,. ' Ui" L out
mentof the life of Jeilerson." Writ- j cry ""om tIlC lUiUlc aiul evoked a
ing of the llepribiicaiis" of LSiO and general feeling of consternation;' but
tlic-ir ilescej'dants and disciples, ho. j.
sas: "it is oi tlio essence ot t!:eir
faith tliat there is nothing occult or
mysterious in the art of government,
bat that it consists in doing right.
Their simple conviction is and they
ttesi re the coming party to ponder
well the truth that t.ie old Demo
cratic paitv ruled tlie United hiates
for six I v a cars for no .tl;
no tlier reason
than tiiat n every leading issue ex
cept one the old Democratic party
wa.-i ri.v'ht." Tiiese are tiu: words of
a ll.tiiieal Ucpuhlican, who was an
abtiiitionisi in the davs when the ne-
;r'i haii iifit be
en hani.-hod from
Aiii'-iican polities by the settlement
ot the. questions wuieii concerned
tne bia-.-k men as a ela -s.
The parry that makes only one mis
take, according to its opponents' ad-mi-.suJi
in three sore years, mt-t
lit- a trustwortiiy ia--ty. That mis
take eoii-ei-n. . I le.s.i tnan one tenth of
the iniiabitantrj of the country, less
than four millions out oi about forty
millions. It was ike theory of the
Democratic ai ty that the oiher niije
teiiths oi t!ie jieojile were of some
consequence, and that the Coiistitu-
hi'-h
w as
it a
ot
-; r..moil:l
cou-i teiatioii.
led, on the re-
t.iat qiU'stion Si.-tt
mainiijg issues and the new ones
arising in the dawn of the immediate
future, the Democratic party is eh-ar-i
in the right and in harnionv wit.h
the
iiofds of tin- i.o:,::hir heart.
JL in- puri-'O'-'e v;i t
v, jvs tiie extinction .f
Ka-ileal imrtv
saver
Th
ai
pu..'st.' is acei
ilaoicai paity's
uuplished, an.
tin
l s.
oci-ut'iition eoni so
la;- as pl ineii-;e is coiiCel'liCti.
iie. ji .should it. longer cam!
earth.' It has 1.0 object now
Why
; the
nit i-J
co itiiinc hi poss siou of the power
of govertiment, and to that end it
wilt sacrifice every iota of irhiehiie
an.l iiat riotism.
i. 4.
:Vs is ooservea oy a
i ive.y.oses nothimr
eotemp. nary it
now ls;t to pos
the hlild. It is
re-;poiisible for an iniquitous tariff
wjilcil is eating
r tiie " ItaiS out ot 1 uc
profi'sses to proket;
llei USU it S it
i
iuiij.iin
u; a manufacturer's aris-
tsicracy at the expense and impover
ishment of tiu: hone ar.-i sinew of the
tod-worn artisan. It is responsible
uisn, for tiie robberies of tiie lands
and moneys of the pt ople by railway
ni--...ipo!ie.s. It is willfully blind to
tiie fact tiiat we are drifting rapidly
io lb:- time, if indeed we have not
already reached it, v,l.--ii tiie oor
man cannot possess t'ne. ioor man's
b.-.-.t blessing, the acre on which he
may erect !;..- little homestead. The
o ei - .veening power of Capital in the.
laud it heeds only to encourage and
foster. It remains for the party of
the people tiie Democracy without
.iPision or ilisse:i.-ioi), not groping
among the ashes of the past, but
building for the future, to light and
v. in the battles of the people against
the monopolists and their party.
Difficult 'jo Sn;. The Kansas
Cliy Tihc says of the quesiion of
the nppoinlnieut of a Chief Justice
by the President, in connection with
the report that Tvlr. Conk! ing will re
ceive the nomination, it is difficult
to see how President Grant can laid
it agreeable at Ihis time, or consist
ent with the least of the promises
made by his j'-rty before his re
eieciioti. to appoint this man Conk
ling to such an ooiee. Never a law
yer of marked ability, full of the
petty tricks and quirks of the lower
order of politician, not clear of the
miserable ilobilier business, a par
tisan of the very worst strine, his so
lection would be an insult to the
good sense of the country, and haz
ardous in the extreme at. a time when
the people are so nervous and sus
picious over the wrought hoy claim
to sustain at the hands of the judi
ciary. However, Grant has done so
many foolish and unwarrantable
things, and has been held to account
for them so timidly and seldom, that
a decree sotting forth the necessity
of certain classes wearing iron col
lars as a badge of inferiority would
be as implicitly obeyed as a military
order ousting a Governor, or taking
possession of the executive ollice of
a State.
What it Pkefeus. Nobody doubts
that if Uutler gets the llepublican
nomination in Massachusetts he w ill
be elected Governor. What more
striking illustration could there be
of tiie low moral le el to which the
Republican party has sunk than its
tolerance of such a man as a candi
date for its highest honors in a Stale
which has always been the chief cit
adel of the party? If the Democrat
of Massachusetts . should nominate
the purest, ablest, most upright and
most respected citixeu of the State,
the Republicans will none the less
support Butler if he gets the Repub
lican nomination. The great party
of moral ideas " has become a mere
party of spoils, says the World, and
though making the most sanctimo
nious professions of public virtue, it
prefers liutler with plunder to the
purest Democrat without.
"Cat ins is ever moral, ever frrave,
Thinks who endures a knave is next a
lr iin-f
Save jcs-t a't pixser-then i rcfers.no
doubt,
A rogue with venison to a saint with-
out.
Vhat the Keat,un t
A short time ago the cashier of a
hank in New York was discovere.1 to
have emhezzlea half a million lol-
ars f'tm the institut
was a trusted officer,
; t...
ion of which he
Notvuthst-mil-
- s l"- fiioj-imiv OI tile pr mo rnra
. " ume, f,a s
of th
to - day the announcement of a irreat
robbery of funds belonging to the
Government or to any public institu
tion hardly creates a ripple of sur
prise. hJueh occurrences are becom
ing too common to excite much in
terest except on the part of those
who may happen to be ruined through
the crime of the defaulter. This con
dition of alhiirs is not peculiar to any
one city or section. From every
part of the country the mails ami dis
patoues bring us day by day accounts
of bank o;';icers who have stolen the
funds eutru.-teil to their care: conii
deniiat clerks who have absconded
with bonds 'or money placed in their
c-iiar:
Go eminent
wiio
have appropriated to their own use
the funds extorted from the over
taxed people. Tho New York Su.t
tell us that a short time ago, at the
j annual State conference of one of the
largest and most inlluential religious
denominations iu New England, the
tiva.-uier, on presenting hi.; report,
apologized for its not being properly
audited, explaining that the omis
sion was owing to the fact that tiie
auditor was iu the State prison,
wiiere he had been sent for embez
zling the funds of a bank. If embez
zlers usually paid the penalty for
their guilt which overtook this man,
the prospect would not appear so
oiscouraging; but his was an excep
tional case. His profession of Chris
tianity was not suiiicient, it appeared
to sao him from just punishment.
He was not perhaps so thoroughly
sanctified as the chief of the 1 'ree t
nieii's bureau, or he would have
found some mode of eluding the pen
alty of me hi .v.
it is evident to the most careless
observer of events, that within tiie
la. t few years there has been a fright
fed increase in crimes of this charac
ter, and that tiie public hae come to
look upon tn.s iicserit;wn of dishon
esty, which is far more dishonorable
than downright stealing, with singu
lar leniency. What is the reason for
this? We think the answer is very
plain. The public conscience has
become so thoroughly debauched by
the corrupt influences of men in high
daces who have robbed the people
iu every form, that it has alni-.-st
ceased to be thought disgraceful to
betray a tru.d.
So hmg as our government is in
the ham Is of men w ho show them
selves dtsiituto of moraiser.se; so
long as public plunderers, when con
victed of their crimes, are whitewash
ed by pt.eked Congressional Commit
tees; so long as such men as Cres
well and itobeson are retained iu the
Cabinet by a President without mor
al sense and a parly ind liferent to
right and wrong; so long as men
proven in the eyes id' all men guilty
of robbery ami p-.-rjurv go from the
seene of their exposure to be welcom
ed with open arms by formal bodies
of profossed Christians so long as
this ::tate of aihiirs continues we may
expect to see embezzlement, defalca
tions and kindred offenses increase
and multiply throughout the hind.
Tut: Ti;t:.ssti: v Gold. The gold
surplus in the treasury on the 1st of
this month was .S7,iV.7,-10:!. It is
the policy 'of the treasury to main-
tain a large gold surplus
fol
some
purpose w hich is not easy
io matie
i.
out, .and it has averaged e:0,.)dO,e.)0
for more than four years. The an
nual interest oil it at C per cent, the
Government rate, would be ci,8()0,
000, and for four years Slu,200,000.
As this surplus will no doubt b-.i
maintained to the end of President
Grant's administration, or for four
years longer, the interest will by
tliat time have amounted to $."8,-100, -000
or ll,o-i-4,K)0 in currency. In
other words 1 he treasury will have
lo.st this amount in interest by keep
ing its gold, hoard idle in its vaults.
One reason assigned for keeping this
gold reserve is that the Government
inav have it to pay out for its green
backs when it shall decide to resume
specie payment; another is that it
needs it to control the price of gold.
Rut as there is no more preparation
for a resumption of specie payment
tlein there was ten vears ago, and as
tiie o-overnment has not been able
to prevent gold from going up high
er in 1873 than it was in 1870, neither
of these reasons is satistisactory.
ll'JllbltCllH.
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Stp.ateoy, An experienced hns
hartd in Lafayette, Ind., sent two
switches home to his wite, ironi
which she was to make a selection,
but before doing it he changed the
tags, putting the -$25 on the $10
switch, and vice versa. After a crit
ical examination by herself and lady
friends, the choice fell upon that
labeled $25 and she decided to keep
it, notwithstanding her husband's
plaintive protest that he could not
afford to pay out more than $10 for
sucu an articio
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The I.odire's Private CIoet.
The Lodge of I. O. O. P., at Wood
stow, determined tohave their lodge
room done up clean and nice, and it
was resolved unanimously that Mrs.
K. should be cmployd to do the job.
Afer the meeting adjourned, the
guardian, who know the inquisitive
character of Mrs. K. procured abillv
goat and placed him in a closet which
ssa.s kept as a reservoir for the secret
things. He then imformed the ladv
of the wishes of the lodge, and re
quested her to come early next morn
ing as he would then be at leivure to
-ho .v her what was and w hat was not
to be done. Morning came, and with
it Mrs. K., with her broom, brushes,
pails, tubs, etc., prepared and armed
for the job, and found the guardian
waiting for her.
"Now, madam," said he, "I'll tell
you what we want done, and how we
came to employ you. The brothers
said it was dklieult to get any body
to do the job, and not to meddle with
the secrets in that little closet; wo
have lost the key and cannot rind it
to lock the door. I assured them
that you could be depended on."
"Depended on!" said she, "I guess
I can. My poor dead and gone hus
bin.i, who belonged to the Tree
Masons, or Anti-Masons, I don't know
which, used to tell me all the se crets
of the concern, and when ho showed
me all the marks the gridiron made
when he was initiated, and told me
how they fixed poor Morgan, I never
told a living soul to this day. If no
body troubles your closet to find out
vour secrets till I do, they'll lav
there till they rot they will."
"I thought so." sai. I the guardian,
"and now I want you to commence
in that corner, and give the room a
decent cleaning, and I have pledged
my word and honor for the fidelity of
your promise; now don't go into that
-Ioset," .and then left the lady to
herself.
No sooner had she heard the sound
of his foot on the last step of the
stairs than she exclaimed, "Don't go
into that closet! I'll warrant there is
a gridiron, or some nonsense, just
like tiie anti-Masons for all the world,
I'll be bound. I will just take a poop
and nobody will be any the wiser, as
I can keep it to myself.
Suiting the action to the word, she
stopped lightly to the forbidden clos
et turned the button which was
no sooner done, than ball! went the
the billy-goat, with a spring to re
gain his liberty, which came near
upsetting her ladyship. Roth start
ed to the door, but it was tilled with
implements for house cleaning, and
all were swept clear from their posi
tion down ti) the bottom of t he stai rs."
Tiie noise and confusion occasioned
by such an unceremonious, coming
down stairs, drew half the town to
witness Mrs. K.'s eilbrts to got from
tiie pile of pails, tubs, brooms and
i i r u s i ) e .- i into t he street.
Who should be first to the spot
but tiie rascally door keeper, who.
after releasing the goat, which was a
cripple for life, and uplifting the
rakish that bound the good woman
t .) earth, anxiously inquired if she
had been taking the degrees!
"faking the degrees!" exclaimed
the lady. "If you call tumbling from
the top to the bottom of the stairs,
seared to death, taking things by
tlegrees, I have them, and ii you
f.ighlen folks as you have me. and
hurt them to boot. I'll warrant they'll
make as much noise as I did."
"I hope you did not open the closet
madam," said the door-keener.
"Open the closet! live ate the ap
ple she was forbidden! If you want a
woman to do auyth.ng, tell her not
to do it, and she'll do it certain. I
could not stand tl ie temptation. The
secret was there. I wanted to know
it. I opened the door, ami out pop
ped the tariuil critter right into my
face. I thought I was a goner, and
I broke for the stairs, with Satan but
ting me at every jump I fell over
the t ub, and got down the stairs as
yon found us, all in a heap."
"Rat, Madam," said the doorkeep
er, "you are iu possession of the
great secret of t he order, and you must
go up and be initiated in the regular
war."
Founder in Houses. Benjamin
W. Wood writes to the Southern Cult-
icttor: Many years ago I learned a
cure for founder in horses, which is
so simple, and lias proved so success
ful in my hands, that I send it to
you, thinking it may be of service to
some of your readers. Clean out the
bottom of the foot thoroughly, hold
up lirmlv in a horizontal position,
and pour in, say a table-spoonful of
soiiits of turpentine, if the cavity of
the hoof will hold that much, if not,
pour in what it will hold without
danger of running over; touch the
turpentine with a red hot iron
(this- will set it on lire;) hold the
hoof lirmlv in this position until it
all burns out. Care must be taken
that none runs on the hair of the
hoof, lest the skin be burned. If
all the feet are affected, burn turpen
tine in all of them. Relief will
speedily follow, and the animal will
be ready for service in a short time.
I once w .plied this remedy to a horse
that bad been foundered twenty-four
hours before I saw him, and he was
promptly relieved. In another case
where the animal could hardly, be
induced to move, his sufferings were
so great, and he was treated in the
same manner as soon as his trouble
was discovered, and less than an
hour afterwards was hitched to a
buggv and driven twenty-live miles
the same day, all lameness disap
pearing after he had traveled a few
miles.
cj.T Tt.TiT- Atlanta has fooled
4i,Q niritimlism business until
it has raised a medium in the shape
of a baby fourteen months old, that
writes messages from the spirit land.
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uuiraary of S-'ate News Items
Coos county pays .l?l,."o G2 for the
.the support of paupers and indigent
sick, while the schools are kept up
at a oost of .?l,ir(J. thus making the
former cost more than the latter bv
!?ou7 G2.
A rocking chair was saved from the
Portland tiro which was highly prized
by its owner, ex-Gov. Abernethy.
It was brought round Cape Horn in
ISoO and is at all events over 111 years
old.
On Tuesday of last week Thomas
Re 11, of Eugene, was arrested on
, . c tl XL IX S T i
complaint . of Sco ft McMurray, who
charged liim wi h stealing a purse
i i ill T 1 i n i n (if vl .11 i nr .--. t .i 4 i . . i- I
before Justice Holland he was bound
over to await the action of the grand
jury.
In the case of Whitlow vs. Ross,
in me .-Mipreni" Court, at talent, tne -
1 1
Court rinds that Perkins was entitled j
to a patent for the whole tractas do- j
scribed i!i his notification, according
to ins claim survey, and that the di- j
vision line, as claimed hy the pi.untill
is the correct one. Decree for plaintiff.
On Tuesday of last week at Gar
diner, Capt. McKellop, of thcjschoon
er Enterprise, recently stranded near
that place, while at work on the
wreck, had the misfortune to have
his log broken in two places. He
was soon taken to Empire. City for
medical aid, and is now doing as
well as can be hoped.
A young lady of MeMir.nville while
out iu the hills blackberry ing was
confronted by a cougar, one day this
week. She viol. led up her panier,
and the last seen of the cougar he was
endeavoring to ii ml .some local news
in the Yamhiii ii.'o'-.V-, ami while
engaged in this vam pursuit the lady
quietly meandered homeward.
The Yamhill Jlejorter says: Judge
Rowland cut a patch of rye which
stood about seven feet high, three
weeks ago, and now the second crop
is weii headed and will be fit to cut
in a couple of weeks. J.J. Col lard
cut a iieid of volunteer oats one mile
north east of to .vn, about the same
time, and thai crop is nearly lit to
cut again.
Hon. Thomas Harris, ex-Mayor of
the City of Victoria, R. C, arrived
at tiie Dalies last Monday. Mr. Har
ris is the largest man that ever visit
ed that city weighing 107 pounds.
He left Tuesday morning in company
with Messrs. Marsh French and J.
M. Bird for Yakima valley, whore he
expects io buy a band of horses.
He is a contractor on the Dominion
rait road across the continent.
The Deer Bodge LuL-peuih-.it (Mon
tana) of July "Jhtii, has the following
notice of a Corvailisite: Mr. R. R.
Biteii-e, of Corvallis, Oregon, gave us
a cail this week. Mr. R. was in Cal
ifornia in ISi'.), returned to tiie East
and brought his family to Oregon
and settled in the Wiliauiette vallev
. ;i ice::, lie visits .Montana- on a
tour of observation, having come by
the Million road.
Col. Saxe has disposed of five of
his Short Horns, leaving him only
two ou hand; and he thinks he has
buyers in sight for those. Ho has
received his iioek of pure Cotswold
bucks, and has sold four of them to
Kinney t Sons, of Salem, at fc:J5
each, and persons near there wish to
get fhe remainder. Considering the
"times and the seasons"' Col. Saxe
has been very successful in linding
purchasers.
Tiie Albany Democaat says: "Last
week wo wore shown a new kind of
wheat raised by Mr. Jos. Hamilton,
of this county, the seed of which
was obtained by him from the Pat
entOdice at Washington. It is winter
wheat and is known as "Arnold's
Hybid No. 0," and described as "a
new and hardy variety, imported
from Canada." When it was planted
Mr. Hamilton saved some of the seed
and now, in comparing it with what
he has produced, it shows that Oregon
can raise wheat as large again as they'
can in the States and use the same,
kind of seeed.
The Farnvw has been shown by
J. D. Smith, who lives near Salem,
specimens of wheat, ordinary club,
raised by him in rows, and cultivated
as he did the potatoes adjoining it.
The ill ills were two feet apart ami
the grain was well tended, showing
as a result single roots with 3-1 heads.
Be also shows, for comparison, a
specimen of broadcast wheat of same
variety, containing six heads of much
loss average size. The drilled w heat
contains the more heads to the same
space of ground, and most double
the yield. It would be an interest
ing experiment to cultivate a whole
acre of wheat in the best manner, and
test tiie value of broadcast sowing
and w ell cultivated drills.
A MEMiiEK of the Mosouri Legisla
ture, .whose reputation was exceed
ingly below par, absented himself
for a while, and then had his death
announced. Thereupon the Legisla
ture passed the usual resolution of
condolences; some ef the wily mem
ber's bitterest enemies eulogized
their "departed friend's exalted char
acter and high moral worth ;"and the
next day he reappeared in his seat
with the resolutions, and eulogies
neatly pasted in his memorandom
book as a receipt in full for the past
and a letter of credit for the future
Nothino Can Sroi the "Beast.
The telegraph tells us that the friends
of Butler at Washington do no not
express the least concern in regard to
an alleged formidable coalition
against him for the Governorship of
Massachusetts. They say Butler has
made such hdeaway now that nothing
can step him.
The Last. At a coroner's inn uest.
' a witness was asked, "What was the
j last thing seen by the deceased?"
"Kerosene," was the reply.
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A Minister and the Ileus.
A venerable minister adopted a
shrewd and successful plan to abate
the nuisance of neigbor's hens. One
neighbor and himself kept their hens
shut uj) so as to not annoy others.
The other neighbor, though often
expostulated with, would let his hens
run at large, and they made sad w ork
in the gardens of the minister and his
other neighbor.
One day the man who kept his hens
shut up came to the minister in great
trouble, saying: ?.Ir. It., I really do
not know what to do; 1 had just put
111 V f.O'. I.LS1S oil it 41. s . .irs.i
. ...... Utt tlx Xltit Ullttl, dixit
; hl)01. hens have st.riJtcluHl
the ,,eds a,, , umlone all inv
.
work. I don't want to make trouble
iu the neighborhood, but what can I
do? "
T ! . .s. 1 .1 a 1 i .
t inu u-iifiiiNit' iijim.suT liiimL'uwi-e-
hens I wish to kill. T will let them
out and they w ill go right into vour
garden. You shoot them. You "may
throw them over if you have a mind
to; but you shoot them."
He went home. The hens were
let out and were soon in his garden
and he shot them.
The news flew through the neigh
borhood that the man had shot- the
minister's hens. The other neigh
bor heard of it and said to himself,
"If he shoots the minister's hens he
will mine; "and at once shut them
up and the annoyance ceased.
"Regular way!" exclaimed the lady
"and do you suppose I am going
through the tarnal place again, and
ride that ere critter without a brittle
or a lady's saddle? No, never! I don't
want nothing to do with that' man
that ritles it. I'd look nice perched
on a billy-goat, wouldn't I? No never!
I'll never go nigh it again, nor your
hall nutiier if I can prevent it, no
lady shall ever join the Odd Fellows.
Why, I'd sooner lie a Free Mason,
atid bo broiled on a gridiron as long
as lire could be kept under it,
and pulled from garret to cellar with
a halter, in a pair of old breeches
ami siippess, just as my poor husband
was; he lived over it, but I neer
could outlive such another ride as I
took to-dav."
All in tiie Family. While But
ler is preparing to bluff his way into
t,3ie chair of Gov. Andrew his carpet-bag-sou-law,
Adelbert Ames, is being
put forward for Governor of Misis
sippi. One State is in the zenith of
its power and influence, the other is
swamped in debt and degradation.
The election of Butler would go .far
toward destroying the influence, of
Massachusetts, while that of -Ames
w ould bo an additional misfortune to
the oppressed tax-payers of Missis
ippi. An Or.P Four. Miss Anthony will
have her little digs at the "tyrant
man," be he ancient or modern.
Somebody having heard that she
was chief of-the census bureau nuder
Noah, asked her what was the pec
ulation of the antedeluvians before
the flood. She replied : that she
didn't know, because Neah refused
to appoint her to that position on
account of her sex; and petulantly
added that that navigator was just as
much of an old fogy as Gideon
Welles or Mayor Havemeyer.
Eathek Doi'dti-tl. The young
men of New York organized a "ten
o'clock society." Their object is to
! regulate the hours for visiting young
lailies. as they are determined tolim-
it the time of their visits to ten o clock
Those young men who do not return
from a'chat with their lady love at
that hour are called on by members
of this society, and brought away--peaceably
if possible, but forcibly if
necessary.
Wnnix SuMMnn Uc A young man
in Indiana sues his father for loaned
money, which the father claims was
his own property. The father's coun
sel ; in summing up the case of his
client, remarked: "Twice has this
prodigal returned to his fathers
house; twice has he been received
with open arms; twice for him has
the fatted calf been killed; and now
becomes back and wants theidd cow-.'
Petitioning. The Commissioners
of Tippecanoe county, Ind., have
forwarded to Gov. Hendricks a pe
tition setting forth that Mrs. Samuel
Smith, of Iroquois county, recently
gave birth to four children at a time,
and praying that such steps be taken
as will secure an appropriation to the.
father and mother and to each of the
children a section of government
lands.
rr.oLiFio of ITtAUP. The New
Orleans Post Office, like the New Or
leans Custom House, is prolific of
fraud. Mr. A. Miller, superintend
ent of the newspaper department.
has been arrested, charged with
breach of trust and embezzlement of
$1,03UG8. Thus Kellogg's active"
supporters are gradually being draft
ed oil to jail.
1'r.oFEssioNs Not Wanted. The
Hon. Charles Francis Adams latolv
received a postal card with the print
ed platform of the "Farmers' and
People's Anti-Monopoly Party of
Livingston Count v, Illinois," to
winch he replied: I see little to ob
ject to and a good deal to approve;
out at tnis ttay it is not profession
il .i
mat is so muck wanted as practice.
Protection. The New York Btil
lelia, after an elaborate argument,
comes to the conclusion that protec
tion is practicable only where it is
neeutess.
One Kind. A Western editor,
with a right appreciation of the back
pay grab, says there is one kind of
"back-pay" he favors, that of delin
quent subscribers.
Lavish Ixpcnditure.
From lS02tV72,aperiodof 70 years
Congress appropriated for the im
provement of the streets and avenues
V, 3asl,1Uffton C,t.v' the sum' of
L2oO,000. In 1S72 the District of
Columbia, by act of Congress, was
given a Territorial Government, with
a Governor appointed by the Presi
dent, and a legislature composed of
two branches, like our Senate and
Assembly, elected by the people of
the District. Among the machinery
of this Territorial Government is a
"Board of Public Works," and since
the formation of the Territorial Gov
ernment this Board of Works has ex
pended the sum of $10,370,000 in
street improvements, of which vast
sum $3,700,000 was appropriated by
Congress out of the United States
Treasury. At its last session, Con
gress appropriated for public build
ings in various parts of the United
States, $10,108,153. This is not ex
pected to s u ilice for the erection of
the buildings under way, but is mere
ly the amount to be expended during
the present fiscal year, and will, no
doubt, be duplicated at every session
of Congress for the next ten'years to
come, for it takes longer and costs
more to erect a postoffice for the
United States Government than it
oid to build the temple at Jerusalem
whose erection was the chief glory
of King Solomon. These are but a
small portion ef the lavish expend
itures of President Grant's Admin
istration, which our Radicals friends
are accustom to laud to the skfes for
its "wise economy." It will strike
the reader, in view cf these facts,
that our late assemblage of Ratlical
reformers might have justly alluded
to his laish expenditure of the Ad
ministration when it was passing
resolutions denouncing the "back
pay-steal." The avIioIa A,im;;on
iion under fii-.-mf b.ia !..-,.-.
scheme rf iobs .ni1 rnl.tio
"Wack-pay steal. "was a mild illustra
tion of Radical honesty!
Senators Seecx-TiATing in Pub
Dot s. In connection with the dis
covery of the sale of valuable public
documents to second hand elealers ir?
Washington, two cases of note have
come to light. In the first a Sena
tor was applied to by a vender of oil
paintings to purchase a landscape
for $200. The artist finally offered
to exchange for documents then tlue
the Senator,' and the sale was made
on these terms. The artist vpcp ive.1
nearly all the books duo for the last
Congress and sold them to second
hand dealers. The other
that of a Senator whose term expires
with the last session. Pie traded all
the books due for two vears for a
single rare volume in the hands of a
second-hand dealer. Cincinnati Ga
zett.;.
Their Head is Level. There have
been a good many vigorous denuncia-
lions ot the back-pay swindle, but a
convention of fanners in Kansas has
i nprovcil on any of the forms hereto
fore noticed. In a concise preamble
they characterize the sw indie as ' one
of the most outrageous steals known to
the civilized woikl," and added:
Whereas, D. P. Lowe, our Congress
man, suppoitcd the bill; Iti:seLVEn,
liiat wo uciuaiul that lie resign his
seat in Conirress, tliat his plae-e niaT be
filled bv an honest man iiiMtead'of a
t.iiei." Air. Lowe must consider the
reierence to himself as slightly tier-
nal, if not inoicating a waning of his
oopidarity.
What tiie Whites Must be. In
an editorial on the negro leauers of
Louisiana, the New Orleans Picayune
says -that their dei-lai alion is this, and
nothing t lse : " We are citize.- u, gentle
men, equal under tin Constitution and
the laws ; but we are not satisfied ; you
must be liumili iie.l, tl-graded, or wo
shall not feci safe ; it is easier for you
come down to oui standareLthan it
is for us to work up to vourstat anv
rate, we have you on the rack, and
we'll still turn' the screw." We are
sorry iiuk-etl that these representative
men ot the negro shoulu have so
woiitonlv and effectively killed the
uiiLieation movement: but thev have
done it, and the funeral is theirs.
The Civil over Military Power.
In the opinion of the Pittsburgh Post
our Government should lie so reorgan
ized ami administered that the military
should he always cleaily and emphat
ically subordinate to the civil author
ities. The .Democratic party cannot do
a greater good to the next generation
of tin! American people than to take its
stand, now, upon that vital intof the
Constitution, to comjel military men
to forego tlu ir military life and aspir
ations, before entering upon civil po
sitions. Sellino Official Postage Stamps.
It seems that the Postmasters in several
S ates have been furnishing the public
with official stamps of the Post-otne-OQ
Department, where such official stamps
are sent from their jxiints of destination
to the dead-letter ollice, as they are
known to In private letters. One post
master in Ohio recently received two
hundred oilieial stamps and sold one
hundred and forty. A circular of the
Post -ollice Department cautions Post
masters from selling and the public
from buying these official stamps.
Not in Favor of It. The Portland
Argus does not believe the report that
Grant fa'vors a reeal of the salary
grab law. It says: "We regard the
story a" sham a fabrication by party
leaders so often the indignation of the
people until after the elections. When
you see a tlnefa.sk his associates to sur
render their share of the plunder, while
he keeps hN share, upon any pretext,
then it inav be jMssible to lielieye this
story but 'certainly not before."
Unless the People Enfokce It.
The Albany Arqu.i says it is plain
unless the ieople enforce his retire
ment, that our imperial President
will continue his hold upon his of
fice, even if he reduces every Stata
to a provincial condition equal to
that he has enforced upon unhappy
Louisiana.
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