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.... k o o o o o 0 O o o O O o o o o e THE ENTERPRISE, PRECOX riTV, OKEGOV.OCTOBER 1, 1S7I. Democratic State Ticket! KO If COXUKESSMAX, o OF POLK COUNTY. Pifbllc Speaking. ir.,i. T W Vtit t i it lk TVrnrwr;iti ran. didate for Congress, will sjeak as fol lows: Pendleton, on Monday, October C, IS?:;, :il 2 o'clock v. m. La (irande, on Wednesday, Octoler lvc;!. at 2 o'clock P. M. 1 taker Citv. Friday, October 10, lb 3 at 2 o'clock 1. M. Gov. L. F. Orovr will address the citizens of Oretron on the jiolitical issues of the day, at the following places and times: Jacksonville, Saturday, Oct. 4th at 1 P. M. 'anyonville, Mondaj-, Oct. 6th at 1 1'. m . Ilillsboro, Friday, Oct. 10th, at 1 p. M. McMinnville, Saturda3-, Oct. 11th at l.v.M. O O Labor and Capital. At the time of the adoption of our present form of government this country had not been the abode of a civilize! people but for a compara tively short period, not .Mifliciently long for the large aggregation of capital. The financial condition of the individuals composing the body politic being coincident with that political status of the individual man which is the cardinal doctrine on which, the government was founded namely, "Equality before the law." In the progress of time in this, as in other favored lands, capital began to aggregate. The capitalists who constitute but a small numerical ele ment have been and still are seeking by a species of insiduous class legis lation to obtain the control of the 0 only source of wealth to-wit, lahor. l'or illustrations take the protective tariff and the banking systems, the latter included government bonds which by law are exe upt from mu nicipal and State taxation and which are also by law a basis for the bank ing business. So common is the ef fort to seenre this class of legislation that we have in our State and nation al legislatures what are called mem bers of the third house or lobyists who by fair means and foul have too often been successful, whereby gi gantic monopolies h:,e been raised up in almost every part of the coun try. These largo aggregations of fiipital used for the .gradation of labor are the out growth of the spe cial class legislation s.bove referred to. How stand the two political arties of this country in reference to these measures threatening to give to capital the domination of labor. The Democratic party have ever been O2posei to a protective tarifl' while the other pvrty or parties have ever been its advocates. Dem ocrats have o2Hsed "while its oppo nents have been the friends of the banking system. Democrats have opposed while Republicans by en act men ts-J tave created monopolies which bv their suicidal policy of rinding exactions if not checked Avill cl ippie the energies of the la boring nissses and operate as a check upon, i-ather than facilitate the de velopment of the country. While there may, to some extent, have been lobbying for class legisla tion during the time the Democrats were in the administration of the general government it is neverthe less tre that it has so alarmingly in creased during the past twelve years in which the Republican party have been in power that the laboring classes are found organizing to act in self defense. Take for example The Mechanic and Labor Unions, the Rations of Husbandry or Farmers (H ranges.;. While we regard concert of action as dilhcult of attainment on the part of so numerous a class and from the nature of their vocations operating separately, individully yet we think thev are 'competent to the task and that the laborers, mechanics, farm- i . e 1 t. -. ........... ...1... ers anil men oi jiioue laic iin-.m.-!. wo are the tax-payers and who consti tute nine-tenths of the entire people will by giving or withholding their suffrages command that considera tion to which the importance of their vocations and their numbers entitles them. In this connection we refer to the Jabor question as affectod by the in troduction of Chinese laborers into this country. If it is said that the Chinese came to this country under the treaty made during a democratic administration we reply that we had then that of which we have since been deprived by Republican admin istration; that is the right to prevent Chiuesr immigration according to the louglas plan of preventing slavery into the Territories by "un frienely legislation" ot this we have been deprived by the amendments to the Constitution, numbered 14 and 1" which are the boast of the Republican party. Tho treaty made Qvith China by Democrats was a treaty of commerce, that made by the Republicans called the Rurlingame treaty places the Chinese in this eouutry on equal looting with the most favored nations of Europe and in addition provided for Chinese becom ing naturalized citizens. If we are charged in this with favoring class legislation. Ave reply that as between white civilized races and the inferior heathen races we plead guilty to the eliarge believing that as the strength of a Republican government lies in the virtue and intelligence of the people; the stability ot our free in stitutions are endangered by the un limited extension of the elective franchise affording another element or facility for corruption and fraud in conducting our elections which in some instances amount to little more than a fare Let the laboring musses ponder the questions before t-asting their votes. o o I lion. J. IV. Xesmith's Speech. Hon. J. "W. Nesmith, Democratic candidate for Congress, addressed a very large and appreciative audience at the Court House last Tuesday j evening. The Oregon City Brass i Band discoursed music for the occa- ' sion. uoi. YY . jj. wmte mtroctuceu the speaker to the audience in a few appropriate remarks. Mr. Nesmith, upon taking the stand, was greeted by loud cheering and " Hail to the Chief " by the band. He began his remarks by an allusion to the time thirty years ago when he and Capt. Hedges worked side by side in a car penter shop in this city, and when one of the most bloody Indian battles les ever fought on our soil was fought within the limits of our city. He said he recognized but three faces that were then familiar to him. He next proceeded to the discussion of the political questions of the day. He reviewed, brief! y, the "pamphlet speech " of his opponent. lie treat ed the tariff, internal improvement, monopoly, transportation, and other questions in an able manner, and, judging from the demonstrations of the audience, to the satisfaction of all. He said his opponents, of the Republican press, had charged him of being a "monopoly man;" he said he had been born in poverty, reared in poverty, and had worked by days' toil for what he had, and he knew what it was to be a poor man, and said that he had always been opposed to oppressive monopolies from boyhood, and would always op pose them; he, with many other farmers residing in the upper valley, had been robbed by high tariff trans portation, and that he favored the regulation of rates of transportation by just legislation; that transporta tion monopoly companies were cre atuers of the people and that the cre ature should not be greater than the creator. He briefly referred to the resolutions of the two parties relative to the past early indiscretions of Sen ator Hippie; he said he was not here to jiass judgment upon air man's character but as the Repub lican party had put an endorsement resolution in their platform which compelled him to notice the Senator, he would refer briefly to what the Republicans were called upon to en dorse, viz: seduction, lietrayal, de sertion of a wife and helpless chil dren, embezzlement of his partner's money, change of name, running away with a school inarm, adultery and mormonism. He exposed the infamous Credit Mobilier swindle and showed that the Republican Convention at Albany endorsed the same swindle by endorsing Grant, who endorsed and congratulated Colfax (the principal thief j upon his escape from punishment. He denounced the back pay steal and the theif who signed the bill and took $ 100,000 of the tax payers' hard earned money. He denied the al legegation in the Republican plat form that capital and labor were mu tually dependent upon each other; he said that he, with many sons of toil, had lived in Oregon thirty years ago upon labor without capital, and that capital was always at war with labor trying to control it, in order to make the rich man richer and the poor man poorer. Re closed his speech in an allusion to the pledges given in Hi Smith's pamphlet ad dress, and said that they were well enough for a man to make before an election. He favored internal im provements and so did the party which placed him in nomination. He planted himself upon the Demo cratic platform. He would labor for the advancement of the whole peo ple of Oregon, if elected, and he would know no North, no South, no East or West; and any interests that citizens of Oregon might have in any of the affairs of the Government De partments would receive his support and aid, whether the parties be Dem ocrats or Republicans. He wanted the voters of Oregon to go the polls on the loth of October and vote as freemen for the man of their choice, and he would be satisfied, no matter who it might benefit, hurt or elevate to office. The meeting was verv en thusiastic throughout. Smith's Address. We publish the pamphlet address of Hiram Smith to the voters of Oregon. We do not propose to give it any extended no tice, as it is not the production of the Radio-id candidate himself; but when Smith was asked at the Linn County Fair who got it up for him, j S4l: " A feller in Portland writ it." ! Even were it the address of Smith, j it contains nothing w orthy of special mention unless it be the diversity of policy between the platform of the v n . . . , I -uuain convention and the one j adopted by the pamphlet composer j in regard to Indian affairs. We j opine that it is a ruse of the Bullet hi j Publishing Company to "bleed" the j dupe out of a few of his hoarded "twenties." Smith is selling the j pamphlets for a bit apiece, so that any cf our readers who desire, can j obtain one by enclosing three post- : age stamps to Hi Smith, Harrisburg. -- -- i The Tlatt City, Mo., Laud mark j says: "The Oregon Republicans have ! t i . ii t: a -. iuuLiu m me person oi oenaior -.Mitchell one of those roses that by anv other name smells as sweet." The Political Capalgu. It is a fact worthy of note that the great body of the voters of the en tire country appear less interested in mere party politics than formerly. Bitter partisan feelings giving place to cool deliberation of the questions affecting the material interests of the country. We do not understand this condition of things indicative of less interest in the affairs of State, but, on the contrary, a determination on the part of the voters to free themselves from party bias, and judge of the measures of parties in their bearing upon the business re lations of the various members of the body politic. This is but the reaction of the partisan furor pre vailing, for the last several years, during which measures have been adopted looking only at the present party advantage to be gained with out a thought as to the result of these measures as permanently affect rights and interests, nay, even the character of our institutions. We shall not deem it a good omen for the people to lose interest in the general politics of the country, but to lay aside partisan feeling for the promptings of patriotsm is wise and prudent. The views and feelings of the statesman do not necessarily run in the same channel with the zealous partisan. The calmness character izing the present political campaign in Oregon is owing in part to the fact before mentionetl, but in greater part no doubt to the fact that the Republican party is acejdiolous po litically. Their candidate being proverbially the impersonation of a minus ( ) placed before statesman ship. . An Independent Viewing. The Dallas Bejaibiiean heretofore an earnest Republican journal, has come out with this motto: " Inde pendent in Politics and Religion." In an editorial upon the candidates of the two political parties, has this to say of our candidate, the Hon. J. W. Nesmith: J. W. Nesmith commenced busi ness when but a stripling upon the La Creole in this county, unlike Mr. Smith, he is low in statue and of about lifty summers; lie is vrell known in Oregon both as a private citizen and a public servant; like 31 r. Smith he is well developed but of entirely different organism; he is a man of more than ordinary na tive talent; he is a farmer, and to a stranger, who should notice him, when at work upon that farm, he would present an appearance very much uulike an ex-United States Senator; he is of the 1'lymouih Lock round head type, and when not mo rose, very congenial; he is well posted in politics and religion; he has acted in the capacity of a nation al representative, for a period of six years; his record while iu the Uni ted States Senate, is a very good one, the Congressional Olooes show that he aecomphahed more for Ore gon, than any one man who has ever represented her people; unlike Mr. Smith, he is a man, who has enemies as well as friends; he is just now amusing himself by running over the political race track all by him self, declaring the unsearchable riches of the time honored princi ples, of unwashed Democracy to the faithful band of the unterrined. His opening speech at Eugene City, is said by the leading journals of the Republican party, to be a failure; by the Democratic journals to be a masterly effort; we should hesitate to believe either without corrobora tion from some other source; one thing is certain, he is more than a match for both his competitors in de bate. If elected, Mr. Nesmiih will make an able representative, aud we idiall undoubteply know, cn or after the 13th of October, whether lie is elected or not. The lixerution of the IdocK. The follow ing is the order to the commanding officer at Fort Klamath for the execution of the Modoc Pris oners : Headquarters Department of) THE Co IXM til A, PORTLAND, '- Or. Sept. 10th, 1873. ) The Commanding Officer, Fort Klamath, Oregon, is commanded to cause the sentences of the Military Commission, in the cases of Captain Tack, Schonchin, Black Jim, Boston Charley, Barneho, alias One-eyed Jim, and Sloluck, alias Coke, Modoc Indian captives, to be duly executed in accordance with the President's order, as promulgated in General Court-Martial orders No. 3:2, War Department, Adjutant General's Of fice, Washington, August 23, 1S73; at Port Klamath, Oregon, on the 3rd day of October, 1873, between the hours of ten o'clock A. M., and two o'clock P, M., of that day. The receipt of this order will be acknowledged by teiegram, and its execution by letter. Jeff C. Davis, Brev't. Major-Gen. H. Clay Wood, Official. Asst. Adjt. Gen. How's this for Hi?--We learn that a certain Federal officer at a town up the valley had made his appoint ments for delivering himself of the iniquity heaped upon him by Back pay steals, Credit Mobiliers, and Senatorial indiscretions, has come to grief. A Commissioner has come out from Washington aud discovered several " irregularities " in his sale of surveying contracts. Truly the days of Radical reign are few and full of sorrow. Let us weep. m The Salem Statesman has a squib in Wednesday's issue relative to Senator Baker bribing an Oregon Legislature. We should have thought the eolitor of that paper would keep respectful silence about Senator Ba ker's election to the Senate, he being one of the members that was brifrd. The Chief Justiceship The President has appointed Sena tor Roscoe Conkling, of New York, to the Chief Justiceship.made vacant by the death of Salmon P. Chase. As to legal ability, Mr. Conkling is not wanting; but as to jurisprudence he is said to be a failure. He is an ultra politician, and it is said by our eastern journals that the honor was conferred upon him for two reasons, viz: first, as a reward for party ser vices ; second, in order to get him out of the field for President. Conk ling was a defender of the Credit Mobilier thieves, a champion of the SauJDomingo annexation scheme, and also of the "back-pay" bill steal, and was a warm supporter of the Kellogg Government in Louisiana; he sup ported President Grant in all of his favorite measures, in fact Conkling has been the ad visor of the President, and is accredited w ith having w ritten the most of Grant's messages. He is not a statesman of the type of Clay, Calhoun, Webster, Benton, or even of our latter-day statesmen Julian, Trumbull, Sumner, Thurman, Hen dricks, Schurz, Casserly, Tickers or Wright ; he lacks one essential, hon esty. It is the general rule now-a-days to call every one dishonest who differs, politically, from us. but that is not what we mean by Haying that Mr. Conkling lacks honesty we mean that lie docs not treat his col leagues and fellow-ciiizens us he would have them treat Lim. In his debate in the Senate iu April, 1872, with Senators Schurz and Sumner iu regard to the policy of continuing the bavonet-law in the South, until the Presidential election he let party zeal get the better of his judgment iu descending to the low pot-house slaug, characteristic of a politician rather than a statesman. In the Senate last Pall he refused to allow eulogies paid to the memory of Horace Greeley, because Mr. Greeley bad been his competitor for the Senatorial honors. We give below the views of the New York I feral J in regard to the appoint ment of a Chief Justice, about two weeks before the appointment of Mr. Conkling: These reflect ions are suggested by the discissions now before me jmulic fiiitul as the succession to Mr. Chase. We iiHve hail the painful dutv of showing that the of olhce under Mr. Taney was a reward ; that under Mr. Chase it was only a resiin; place. W liut i.-n the tem-P-t'oI t lie present ilUcussioiis ? Sii.iply this: How will the appointment of this man or that man all'rcl hUs chancen for the Presidency ? Here is Mr. t'otik liuu;, who is nanu d from New York. Waal is the question in the mind of the friends of that Senator? Not is he com pent, learned, honorable, fair-minded; not would I lis appointment tiring re nown to the iU'Ueh ami exalt jusii.-e ; but simply this: How will il auect his chances for the Presidency in the m :.t Convention or some. Convention to come after? Would he in more availa ble in the Senate or on the Supreme lieneii? just us we can imagine a e in pany of Knglish jockeys ' discussing w hether tin; air and grass uf Surrey or of Kent are best suued for the hoi -.;: that is to enter for the Derby. M..re than all, the sentiment of the Kej nl li can party justices (tie.-,e oisi u.-.ioiis. It' some prudish person suggests liiut Mr. Conkiii: as Chief Justice, would no longer have am! :ti. m oiild be content, and would regard his robes stained if they dragged in political wa ters, the answer is prompt, th d this would be to bury himself, to be oi no use to his friends to oe foriroiti-n. Al ways the Derby the raee tor the Derby as Hie only purpose iu life. Tliut won, nothing n mains. Ihit it se n.s to usj that something should remain. Is there no fountain of honor or duty in this llepul-lic but that the foul toads of polities must knotaid gender there? Does it not occur to our public men that this Supreme incn should be above all iniiueiiecs evi n the gaudy winning dreams of ambition? Is there not honor enough in that high and almost holy station that men should not leave its lofty and serene opportunities to bother and fret at tiie doors of every rowdy con vent ion? There is no justice where this is seen. The Radical press is trying to cre ate the impression that Hi Smith is not a politician, but a modest high minded man. We know of a few of his high-minded transactions. In the Spring of 1870 he, in conjunction with Dr. Bayley, of Corvallis, his partner Brassfield, Henry Hufi'i nan and several others, did hire nearly one hundred men to leave their homes and families in Linn and Lane counties and go to Benton county for the e.rjires.t nrpo.e of carriiny the leyislutire tk, ,1 in the in terest of Ben llolladay. For the proof of this statement we cite to the affidavit of Hi Smith takeirby Judge Strahan before W. J. Robertson, J. 1'., during the investigation of the frauds in the same election. This is the kind of a man the Radicals have put up as worthy the suffrages of a free people if he be a high minded man, we don't want anv high-minded ones in ours. Mrs. Belle A. Chamberlain is drawing crowded houses nightly at the Court House, in this city, and in her success is verifying the state ment we made a fortnight since that she, as a speaker, excelled Bcecher or Bishop Peck. Northwest. How do our Christian friends like above comparison between the ven erable Bishop and a dirty well no matter what. This should be suffi cient to let the friends of woman suffrage see how society would be degraded by allowing such women to be the leaders of society. All virtu ous womon should shrink from such. In the article on facts and figures which appeared last week, we were slightly mistaken as to the price charged for freight from Roseburg to Portland. We took our figures from the Roseburg Plaitulealer. It should have been 45cents per hundred, instead of 815 per ton as the Plaindealer gave it a slight dif ference, however. COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, UXTVERSITY OF C ALTFCYRNTA . Territorial Xews Items. Ogden is inflicted with burglars. Salt Lake loses 00,000 by the Eastern failures. The rumor that work at Tacoma was suspended is false. A mine north of Corinne has been disposed of for $10,000. Melons are worth a dollar apiece at Missoula, Montana. Shotgun messengers ancompany the Montana Stages now. Lung fever takes off horses in Montana lively just now. Chickens were $6 per dozen in Helena, Montana, last week. Boise City merchants are doing business on a greenback basis. desertions are frequent from Fort Shaw and other posts in Montana. It coats ?1(8 feright on a threshing machine from Portland to Seattle. Six horses figured in the Boise City races last week, from Oregon. A Thurston county farmer will en ter 150 articles at the Seattle Pair. There are thirty-three saloons in Walla Walla and only five churches. Thirty-one car loads of tea passed through Ogdeu last week, going East. A severe frost was experienced in the vicinity of Olympia last Thurs day night. The Cooke Brothers' bank at Ta coma promptly paid, and is ready to pay all liabilities on sight. The sloop Bushwhacker discharged K'2,000 shingles for the Railroad Com pany at Tacoma last Friday. S?ya a Walla Walla paper: It costs M to gt a ton of wheat to Wallula, a distance of not thirty miles. C. B. Bagley, of Vhe Olympia Courier, has been appointed by Sec retary Struve, public printer. Wrhen the free postal delivery sys tem ir inaugurated in Salt Lake, six letter carriers will le required. Boise City, I. T., was iudnlgine in horse racing last week. That is all we coeld find in the Statesman. Mr. David Byles, of tho Chehvdis, had all of his w heat, barley and most of his oats burned on Sunday, Sept. 21st. The h.tflliyeitver says: "We are in formed that in many parts of this county the potato crop will be a failure. An immense vein of plumbago has been discovered in the Kiugsbnry mine of the Cottonwood Mines, Utah. Widla Walla Valley with a million bushels of wheat can onlv send to market 100,000 bushels. " Cause lack of transportation. The Champion Hall Company, Silver City, blaho, have awarded John Upham the contract, for build ing their hall, at 'J,7i0. The M'oit'inan tells an incredible srorv about a quartz lead at Mill Crek, r,!X feet wide, 2,000 feet long, and paying j27 to the ton. Utah wheat is bringing .St) cents a bushel, anp Hour is worth from 2 to . L0 pL-r sock of one hundred pounds at Salt Lake City. Daring the we k ending Septem ber 20th, Wells, Fargo & Co. ship ped fio:u Silver City, I. T., twelve bars of bullion, valued at S2ti,CW LK. George Walker, formerly of Silver City, L. T-, and familiarly known as Old Growler, is engaged in building the United States observatory at Ogden Utah. The immense amount of grain in Whitman county, V". T, is now about jsll in the stack, ami the ma chines ikre .-ill ready at .work thresh ing it out. A Turbine water-wheel, rattsl at 7f horse power, or three times the size of tbt mm1 it is to displace iu the wah-r-pipo manufactory at Turn water, ha: leen shipped from San Frr-ncisco for the company. The Port Town send Argus says: "L ist week Thomas Marsden picke 1 up a tir.e 5U0 pound anchor with fif teen fathoms of chain attached, and on Monday morning the schooner Ontario fished up a smaller anchor about 2A) or i)00 pounds on the bank below Point Hudson. The 00 man writhes and broths at Col. Nesmit for having the audacity to canvass the State alone, lie says the reason Hi Smith won't canvass with him is beesuse he is a black guard, and because Williams refused t iianviw with h'.m hist year. Now, Mr. i?'S00 man, you have uttered a deliberate falsehood. Col. Nesmith has conducted this campaign in a gentlemanly manner. Compare him to that pettifogger, Williams, who w hen Senator Thurman charged in a speech in Ohio last month that he had left his post with money taken from the U. S. Treasury to aid the Radicals in carrying a certain State, Williams telegraphed to Morton that he must say it "was a lie" but he w ould not allow an investigation. Tee Statesman says the Democratic papers are still retailing the "lie"' started by the Oreyonian , to the ef fect that Senator Mitchell said he didn't care a damn whether the Re publican party succeeded or not, so they endorsed him. We had the re port from respectable Republicans, w hose veracity would not be ques tioned, that Senator Mitchell i' ut ter the above saying, to men in this city one week prior to the meeting of the Albany Convention. We did care to publish the same as we did not regard it as our funeral, but as the Statesman, chooses to stigmatize it as "a lie started by the Oreyoniar we politely inform that sheet that living witnesses can testify to the same. The Radical press is now- engaged in charging each other with crimes that should forever damn that party to obscurity and its leaders to the utter contempt of all respectable people. They charge each other with all the crimes known to the criminal statutes. f I Summary of State Xews Items. Salem is afraid of fires. State Fair next Monday. Fires in the woods near Salem. Tho Dalles is infected by bur glars. Dallas had only two fights last week. The Washington County fair clos ed to-day. Ice was formed at Salem last Mon day evening. There were 495 entries made at the Linn County Fair. The Brownsville Woolen mills are turning out good work. There are now twenty pupils in the mute school at Salem. Washington county's share of the State school fund is $3,3U8. A girl smoking a cigar was the sensation at the Albany Fair. The Salem mills have received 130,000 bushels of new wheat. Flem Hill has been appointed sub agent for the Klamath agency. There is becoming considerable inquiry for real estate in Astoria. The boats on the Columbia river are carrying full freights both ways. A shoemaker named Fuchs com mitted suicide in Portland last Mon day. An unsuccessful attempt was made to lire a saloon at Corvallis last wetk. A Mr. Smith had his wrist broken in the hadling of wheat at Weston last week Three men had an encounter at La fayette, the other day, and one came out worsted. Over ninety students are in at tendance at the Agricultural College at Corvallis. Only four marriage licences were issued by the Clerk of Marion coun ty last month. Yamhill county claims to have rais ed more wheat thau auy other coun ty except Linn. Ed. Delashmutt, of Dallas, raised a tomato which measured 2t5 inunos in circumference. Ex-Governor Whiteaker will start east of the mountains with a band of cattle in a few dys. Three men caught 20-i trout in three hours, in the Umpqua rivor at Roseburg last wee1-;. Miss Lizzie Jordan has taken charge of the music department of the McMinnville College. The editor of the Bxlr& k Uamocrat has lost his pistol. Delinquent sub scrilers are once more happy. The pile driver is at work on the wharf at Astoria, which is intended for the Astoria Farmers' Company. There were ovar 1(H) teams at one time waiting to unload at the various warehouses iu Albivny lat Monday, A military company lias been or ganized at Eugene City with W. J. Shipley as Captain. Bill has "seen" duty. The brick work of the State Uni versity building is com leted and carpenters are engaged in getting the roof on. The Plaind-jnh r announces that John W. Kelly, late of t ie Jr nri, has a.siiLu-d editorial control i f the former paper. Zeb. Hinkle, a well-to-do farmer of Benton county, was killed last Fridi.y by the accidental discharge of a shot gun. Wo learn with regret that Hon. T. 11. Cornelius is lyiu'r dangerously ill j !t his residence in Washington coun- j ty of typhoid fever. Seuator Kelly is ou an inspection j trip up the Columbia to ascertain ! the wants of that section prior to his return to Washington. j The Liuu county i-gricultund so- j eioty invite persons to deliver ad- I ilresr.es to them aud then charges j theui the usual admission fee. The State Grange has elected Dan- i iel Clark, of Marion, Master; John ! H. Smith, of Liuu. Secretary; An- ! thony Simpson, of Bentan, Chaplain. I The Willamette IuH'r has ad op- j ted the patent inside swindle! If it ! would now adopt the patent outside ! it would be quite an improvement, j Prof. Marsh, of Yale College. Conn., was at the Dalles last week ' examining the geological specimens j or Rev. 1 homas Condon, State Geolo gist. Two nuggets, weighing respective ly 48 and 27 ounces, and whose com bined value is 1.200, were sound on Sucker creek, Josephine county, re cently. The McMinnville Ueort-r says: "Epizootic has made its ap2eanuice again in a very severe form. Many horses are suffering with it in this section." A couple of sports who had been around at the Linu County Fair, were arrested at Salem, on Saturday, by the Sheriff of Linn county, for gambling. The Didles Mountaineer which has weathered the tempestuous storm of journalistic career for l'i years is now compelled to adopt the patent humbug outside. Mr. Waito gives notice that all animals and freight for exhibition at the State Fair, will be delivered this year on the grounds, thereby saving trouble and delay of travel and trans portation from the Salem depot. The Jacksonville Times says: " A rumor is rife in our community that the Klamath Indians have threaten ed to break out, should the convict ed Modocs be hanged. Also, that they have had a war dance and made other w arlike preparations." Ex-Governor Whiteaker one day last week killed a large cougar. A neighbor's little girl was at the barn, and hearing a noise on the opposite side from the house went around to discover the cause, when the animal jumped at her. A dog interferred, and she escaped to the house. Junction City Lodge No, 50, F. & A. M., was installed on Wednesday evening, the 24th, by M. W. T. McF. Patten, Grand Master. The follow ing ofiicers were installed: James W. Brasrield, W. M.; V. Kstatz, S. W. T. A. Milliron, J. W.; Stern berg, Treasurer; I. Senders, Secre tary. A Large Majoritt. Full official returns of the recent election iu Ken tucky show a Democratic majority of 92,304. Telegai.hic XeW8. Washington, Sept 'U ti . tary of the Treasury y esTedTv ! S,'er ed to the President that .i.8u?i-st- or uomls now being made u 'V. c"hi' when 2,H)IUW shall have t11 ISh ceav, ,tv, bur- MAUVSVlr I f .r 17 years of age. living,'.. v - v r . says the President "has' t,.'...i '"'fritm olfice of Chief Justice to s,.,,' t t1'' ling and that the Senator will I ( ' "k" Chicaoo, Sept. T1,P in.V''''''1- exjKisition opened to-night in ,i tri;d niheent building erected n i !. ' J'la-- v for its use. Not less than tweitt llk and people are in attendance r hibition exceeded th eic,.t.,,- ' tx all, the space in the buildii',.;;1 e NH feet long by 2X feet w7.h. ,'h tilled with products f nature i from all parts of the country ' :irt Nkw "ioRK, Sept. . , from the Peruvian iovrnimr,"fr a'a Consul here anoiinees that the tin,!' J1' opening proposals for laying a suri rsne cable between Panama ami p was extended on the l.Uh of Scut....,' for (At days. 1 11,1 r The col lossal bronze statue in i ect Park. Ilrooklvn, of John lh.vv. i aine, authcr of -Home, Sweet 11,,, 7. vas uncovered tenia v in the tivs. ,1' f t.'OOO iH-rsons. 1"-miUm w: ot''(XK IK' I'll I I. A OKI I'll I i . dedication of the Masonic Teim.lp j day tifty-nine Lodges of Phihufeh,! turned out numU-ring. about i." thousand memU-rs. The procc," "!! was nearly three hours in passing ' given point, and was viewed by ikniu persons. - Kinoston, Jamaica, Sejit''7-Tj Pritish steam sloop xu,W arrived hrr to-day from Omoa, Honduras bri nig the following intelligence Mien I V traba s troops, after assassinating a aV tatchment of P.dacia's force whi'-K were under Hag of truce, approached the Fort,. sacked Omoa, and imprisoned all the Ih itish subjects, gutted the con sult-.ues of America, England, Sp-ii,, and Portugal, tore the American tlatr i " i"j r.vu me uierciiaiiN and warehouse.-:, leaving them jn-rtVct wrecks. The N iolje .soon after arrived and demanded the surrender of t1(, imprisoned foreigners, and explanatinn for the outrage. The authorities were obstinate and refused to accede to the demands of the commander of tho XioU when a iKjmbardment followed until a Mag of truce was shown, th prisoners surrendered and compensa tion guaranteed. PiTMU lUi, S-pt. 27. A I '.est on social to the Journal fro New York savs the Mixed Commission on Hritish and American Claims have made timd awards and concluded its usiness oil--day ahead of the time fixed l- the; treaty. In brief, the result of the iil quiry is that the United States liovi rn ment paid to Knglish sufi'ererssbv nr late w ar 2 per cent of their claims" tin ountiug to SLietsij). while the Anii-r-c:m chums against England are all dis allowed. T!i Pnsburg postellice was taken possession of this afternoon by Majur Pithbridge, chief of the special s-i "i bureau ot the Postollice Dcpartm m. Col. John II. Stewart, )h st master. h;;s beer arrested as a defaulter. It is l. lieved the defah-atio will amount t" $"iu.K0. Pakis, Sept. 27. Members of t!. Right assert that the Assembly will 'Rehire in favor of tho monarch y U-i'on; November. A dispatch from Enghoin, lielgiun:, announces the death in that t wn ,'( Sebastian Olazag.i, the well-known Spanish st. iti sniaii. Drr.t.iN, Sept. L1. There was a larire meeting at Droheda yesterday in f iv.r of the release of anv JYinan prisoners. Several members of Parliament paiticil pated iu the di-cussion. Nkw Yoi:k, Sept. :N.Th- President ol the First Xatioi.al IVink h -re advi-.-es iin iniiiiediabi resumption of s;. pa n lent, on the ground that m oh act ion will add Sso.txm.txiii to the positive relief of the money ni u kct. Siikkvktokt, La.. Sept. 2. WiM-.in the last four days several of l! c in.st piomiiie it rnl ' res-ectabl citizens of Shreyep -i t have fall; n vic tims to t i epidemic. The population las )en fearfully thinned out by sickness :u d death. There r fewer deaths and. new cas--s because theenre fewer peoi.l. l-oN-p.-.x. Sept. 2V. Two hundred and twenty-Hive thousand pounds bulli' ii vvas shh ped from Plymouth for New York on Sunday, and the stc:anshi; which sailed from Southampton tho same day for New York took out l'i, pounds." EmraiM incuts have been made for the shi; mi nt of .".n.mn) pounds by tho steamship from Southampton to-morrow. It is said ;m.iK pounds were booked for shipment this week. Th' rwimnnt " of I ,U n withdrawn From the Hank of England on hakims to-day is Cts.neu pounds. Tho election ,,,rd Mayor tiMlny resulted in the choice ot'Ardn w husk, at i . resent an Alderman and mciulx r of Pai liameitt. Eon pon. Scot. The specie d raw- fro m the Hank of England n advance to-day is for shipment to N w York. A special from Perl in hints :J financial tri uli'es in Cormanv. K-n-cy stock and b k shares arc not saleable : some ' ave fallen iti per cent. Nkw Youk, Sept. :0. A telegram from I'.oston last id:ht. savs Admiral VYinslow-, U. S. N.,' who commanded the Kearvargp when she sunk the Ala bama. di d at h is residence at Huston Highlands 1 ist evening. Hkkmn, Sept. I). Eouis Muhlbach. thoseh brated Jcrman novelist, is dead. M' int'iom Kit v, Ala., Sept. 21'. Th Hoard of Health reports one death from yellow fever, ami five new casts within the past -is hours. The Oregon ian copied a leading editorial from the London Ti?nes in regard to Ca-sarism. The Times fa ors it, as do all European journals. The point is just here: Our Repub lican friends of the press make fun of the idea of the present executive desiring a third term, but at the same time quote articles frcm pa pers favoring the third term which Mr. Grant's friends are asking for. We desire to know if the Bulletin and Oregon ian w ill place themselves on record either for or against the third term for President. An an swer will be in order. An Ignoramus. The publisher of a little sheet east of the mountain has commenced the issue of a "patent supplement" to his weakly publica tion. He claims to "publish" niorw reading matter than any other aper outside of Portland. Admitting that he "publishes" the patent extr or supplement, then helms not as much matter by a few thousands as the Enterprise publishes on the outside pages. Cheek, you know There were a goodly number of honest Republicans out to hear Hon. J. W. Xmith last Tuesday evening and from their conversation we judge they were highly pleased with our standard bearer. We are not in the promising business if we were we would promise Nesmith 300 majority in this county. - - m The Walla Walla Statesvian bs do. ing good work for Hon. J. W. t,s' mith. It claims Umatilla county b iiOO majority.