THE ENTERPRISE.
OREGON C1T1', OREGON ALGIST 7, 1S74.
Timely VarjiIur.
"We have on our subscription list
quite a number of names -who are
indebted to us from one to five years.
This is a longer credit than we can
afford, aDd within a yery few days
we propose to notify all in arrears
for overyear, tho state of their
account, and if no i settlement be
made within thirty cys after such
notice, we shall discontinue the pa
per. "We cannot give credit for an
indefinite time, and hereafter, when
ever a person is over a year in ar
rears, we shall give hjim notice and
stop the paper. . Iff payments are
made promptly on Abe notices we
shall give, the bills 111 be as if paid
in advance, at the yjfe of $2 50 per
annum; butif pay n'.- it is delayed,
and we are forced to the expense of
collecting, it -will-be made out in
accordance with our terras, $3 per
year. We trust that we shall not
be compelled to " scratch" any of
our patrons from ov.r books; but
unless payment is made, we nuisj,
part with them. Wo not only trust
that those who are now in arrears
will pay up on the okl account, but
we having trusted;: them so long,
they will make payment for the next
year in advance.
A Different pinion.
While one of our State Democratic
exchanges appears to have no doubt
of Grant's ability to succeed in his
call its attention to the following
from the Indiauapqlis Journal, a
Radical organ, and i(ublished at the
home of Senator Morton, in fact, it
is his organ, but takes no stock in
tho third term question. It doubts
whether the PresiderA desires anoth
er re-election, but i he does it is
confident he could not succeed in
such a movement. "Tho Republi
can party," it says, v is a powerful
organization, but th( nomination of
Grant for a third term would shatter
it into a million fragments, and
rightly, so, for it would be a piece
of political bravado and a wanton
disregard of an almost universal sen-
timent, at a time wen there is no
emergency to justify such a disre
gard. It would be a clear case of
voluntary suicide, and we assume it
as tolerably certain that tho party
will not commit any such rash or
foolish act. Neither tho preservation
of the Government nor of tho party
requires his renominatipn, and if he
or his friends are Working to that
end they will undoubtly fail."
Sad CoNnrriON. An exchange says
that there are States in the Union
that, fifteen years aio, were inhabit
ed by wealthy, bay, and prosper
ous communities, J Vid now if the
whole property of f V of these States
was put up at attoKu, or, if it was
sold at a liberal appraisement, it
would not bring enough to pay the
public and private debt. This may
rA atti- nr sovnrs of im r ronn.
structed Commonwealths in the
South, and notablv of the great and
beautiful but ruined State of Louisi
ana, where the State officials, serfs
of Grant, rule tyrannically without
a, shadow of legal right to the offices
in which they are sustained by Fed
eral power backed by bayonets.
Three Issues The San Francisco
Examiner says that the currency and
tariff questions have already divided
the Radical party, and the possibility
of Grant being a candidate for a third
term will unite the Conservative ele
ments of the Union to use their
influence to prevent a departure from
tho traditions of tho Republic re
specting the tenuro of tho Presiden
tial office. They will remember the
warning of Jefferson, that electing
one person to tho Chief Magistracy
for several terms may end in making
that elevated position a life-office for
somo ambitious aspirant. These
three issues are taking such form as
to warrant the belief that they will
underlie tho Presidential contest,
which on the next occasion promises
to be the most exciting that has ever
transpired in the United States.
A Vigorous Protest. Comment
ing on Governor Kemper's third
term letter, the Mobile Register, edit
ed by John Forsyth, makes this vig
orous protest against the scheme:
If General Grant wants to try his
hand for a third terra, let him run
on his own strength, or let the Rad
icals carry him if they can. Conser
vative men of all patties would sim
ply disgrace themselves in the eyes of
common sense and common justice
and propriety who undertake to sup
port the most selfish, unpatriotic,
unprincipled chief magistrate who
lias ever sat in the chair of Washing
ton, Jefferson and Adams. Let the
South, of all sections, beware how
they are seduced into this monstrous
Hard Monet. A convention
whose purpose it shall beto give
birth to a party with bard money for
leading issue,-has- been , called in
Illinois. The signers of the call are
members of the Democratic State
Committee, of the Liberal Commit
tee, and several prominent citizens
of Chicago. The convention will
meet in Springfield on September 1st.
Hon. II. G. Struve.
A short time since, one of the
Portland papers published a report
that this gentleman, now Secretary
of Washington Territory and Grand
Master of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, was a deserter, and
otherwise reflected upon him as a
gentleman and citizen. While we
have no sympathy with Mr. Struve
politically, our personal relations
amply justify us in publishing the
following vindications of him from
the Washington Territory papers.
We have known Mr. Struve for many
years, and have ever heard him spo
ken of as a gentleman of unimpeach
able character, and in justice to the
Order, of which he is the present
honored head, we cheerfully give
place to the following from the Seat
tle Dispatclt, edited by Be ri ah Brown,
Esq., says:
Admitting Secretary Struve .to be
the deserter alluded to, what of it?
At the time of his enlistment, over
twenty-one years ago. he might have
been eighteen years of age; certainly
not over that age; he had but recent
ly arrived in the country unacquaint
ed alike witli our military system
and civil customs, it is not remark
able that he should have sought
military service under the Republi
can idea that perfect equality was
maintained in t his country and that
ability and merit were the only tests
for promotion. Nor is it strange
that a, gentleman with an University
education and cultivated tastes
should take the risks of desertion as
the only alternative to the dog's life
of a common soldier in barracks, re
duced to the menial service of a hos
pital attendant, especially in the
case of an unnaturalized foreigner
joiuing the service under the inspi
ration of military ambition and de
votion to Republican liberty. But
that was over twenty years ago, dur
ing all of which time Mr. Struvehas
maintained, in every community in
which he has-lived, the character of
of an honorable and trustworthy cit
izen; has achieved distinction and
competence in the practice of his
profession; and has held several
honorable public positions, the du
ties of which he has discharged with
signal ability and acknowledged
fidelity, and a few men commend in
a higher degree the confidence and
respect of their fellows. Is not
twenty years of a useful and irre
proachable life sufficient to atone
for a single indiscretion of youth
and want of knowledge, punishable
by law but involving no malice or
wrong to any human being, and ac
tuated only by the impulse for free
dom which induced the slavo to
break the bonds by which he is held
under the law.
To the ?.bove, the Olympia Stan
dard, a Democratic paper, adds this
just endorsement of tho views ex
pressed by tho Dispatch. The Stan
dard says:
We add our cordial endorsement
to the above, as a simple act of jus
tice to Mr. Struve. The public will
bear us oufin the assertion that,
politically, his course has been wide
ly separated from our own and our
personal relations have not always
been tho most amicable, but when
an attempt is made to blast a reputa
tion founded on many years of use
fulness and honorable effort by the
citation of a single j-outhful indis
cretion, we trust that we never shall
be found so devoid of the common
impulses of humanity as uot to raise
our voice against such a manifest
injustice. We believe the charge to
be inspired solely by malice, aud
this is the opinion of the whole com
munity, except tho few who have
been its instigators.
Heavy Robbery at Salem.-'-Tho
office of Well, Fargo & Co., at Salem,
was entered by burglars on Wednes
day night of last week, and some
85,000 in coin and valuables ab
stracted from the safe. The burglars
entered the residence of Mr. B. F.
Brown, the agent, during the latter
half of the night, and took from his
bedroom his pantaloons, containing
the keys of tho office and tho safe,
and were thus enabled to perform
their work in a very short space of
time. Discovering his loss in the
morning at about 7:30, Brown, hasti
ly dressed, and fearing the worst,
started for tho office. When about
half way ho was met by one of the
; messengers, who informed him of
the loss which himself and the com
pany had sustained. We understand
that suspicion rests upon three or
four parties, but up to this time no
arrest has been made. The safe con
tained money and effects belonging
to various corporations and individ
uals in tho city, all of whom will be
losers to the amount so deposited.
Tho Superintendent of the Company
has offered 81,000 for tho arrest anil
conviction ol the thieves, to which
the city adds 8300 and Mr. Brown
himself 8250, making 81,550.
Very Proper. No more fitting
commentary on the bad character of
the "Poland" law could be found or
desired, says the Philadelphia In
quirer, (Radical,) than the single fact
that the first person to take advan
tage of its tyranny is "Bois" Shep
herd, head and front, beginning,
middle and end of that notorious
District of Columbia "Ring " which
Congress had to get rid of by special
act. "Boss" Shepherd is altogether
the proper person to employ a law
conceived in iniquity, and which can
only be executed in corruption.
Unconstitutional Ex-Attorney
Gen. Black thinks the new law under
which Congress expects to drag edit
ors to N asuington from: any State
for trial for alleged libel in any pub
lication circulated tbere will fail
He holds that it violates the spirit of
the Constitution,"' which- guarantees
the right to a trial where the alleged
crime is committed, and that this
right cannot be evaded by statutory
provisions locating the crime where
a newspaper is only circulated.
Telegraphic News.
New York, July 30. The Demo
cratic State Central Committee of
Illinois has issued a circular. They
ask the restoration of specie a3 the
currency of the country, free coinage,
rigid restriction of government.
State and National, and tho right of
the people of the State to protect
themselves from monopolies.
Chicago, July 30. A fire to-day
destroyed property on Water street
worth' 835,000. There have been
eleven alarms of fire here to-day;
none false; no great damage.
Galvestox, jnly 30. The Netcs'
special says a fight between the In
dians and rangers and United States
cavalry occurred near Jacksborough,
on Friday last. The Rangers lost
twelve men and several wounded.
The cavalry losi several men and.
their commander and the whole force
was repulsed by the Indians.
Despite the action of the Govern
ment in refusing to send military to
Vicksburg, the executive powers of
Mississippi still persist in the state
ment that the public peace 4S endan
gered. Gov. Ames, who has been
away from his post, has returned,
and to-day telegraphed President
Grant, reiterating in the main the
representations set forth in the tele
grams and mail advices previously
forwarded by the negro, Lieutenant
Governor Davis. He makes no for
mal demand for troops, but the tenor
of his dispatch is such as to intimate
that he desires Federal troops to be
called to Vicksburg on election day.
Washington, July 31. Governor
Ames to-day telegraphed to the Pres
ident that the condition of affairs
in Vicksburg is alarming; that in
fantry and cavalry organizations
exist, and that bodies of armed men
in violation of lawassnme the guar
dianship of the peace. The contro
versy is between the Democrats, who
are white, and the Republicans, who
are mostly black. Each fear frauds
and violence from the other. Tho
Democrats, who are masters of the
situation, oppose tho presence of
troops. Ho asks if there can bo any
serious or harmful results in sending
troops there, and will it not' be the
least of the evils to have troops there
in case of emergency. Secretary
Belknap sent thefollowing reply:
lion. A. Ames, J-Ackson, Miss.:
Your dispatch has been submitted to
the President. He declines to move
troops except under a call made
strietly in accordance with the terms
of the Constitution.
Montgomery, Ala., July 31. Tho
Democratic State Convention ad
journed this morning. B. D. Lewis
and W. H. Torney are candidatea for
Congress at large. Resolutions an
nounce that the action of the Repub
lican pa. ty necessitates a consolida
tion of all whites in self-defence.
They denounce as abominable the
violation of the Constitution as con
templated in the Civil Rights bill.
New York, Aug. 1. Van F.ten,
arrested at T re ton a couple of days
ago for being concerned in the bond
forgery in California, was removed
from Jersey City yesterday and
lodged in the Hudson County jail,
to await the arrival of the United
States Marshal from California. This
morning, on going to Van Kteu's
room, the jailor discovered that he
was breathing heavily, and found
standing by the prisoner's bed a two
ounce vial of laudanum. The jailor
administered emetics and went for a
physician. Several doctors answer
ed the call, .find an effort was made
to resuscitate Van F.ten.
Detroit, Aug; 1. A fire broke
out in Muskegon at an early hour
this morning, and has destroyed
nearly half the city.
The portion of the city consumed
contained mostly wooden buildings
in the eastern portion. All the saw
mills escaped The fire oniginated
in Hart's boot and shoo store, on
Western avenue, and everything was
burned to the railroad depot. About
200 dwellings and 100 places of bus
iness were destroyed.
New York. August 2. A Herald" s
special from Paris states that serious
complications have arisen between
Germany and France concerning
Spanish affairs, and that a diplomat
ic rupture between these powers is
threatened.
Justice Riley gave a decision to-
lav, virtually dismissing the com-
laint for libel against" Tilton. Moul-
ton has not testified. Ho cannot be
ound.
Young Walworth, the murderer of
lis father, has been declared insane
and committed to an asylum.
Aew Iork, Aug. 4. an Jrten,
arrested by Lees, of San Francisco,
died from tho effects of poison taken
with suicidal intent.
Physicians have declared that Van
F.ten, the California bond forger,
died of congestion of the lungs, and
not from the poison which he took.
Local option is everywhere defeat
ed in Kentucky. The Democrats
elected the Clerk of the Court of Ap
peals.
Ihe reservoir broke at irenion,
New Jersey, flooding an area of one
mile long and three hundred yards
widf Many houses were swept
awaj-, but no' lives were lost.
A Long Team. The following
from the Union Times, Union coun
ty, shows how they carry their freight
in Eastern Oregan. Ihey te a
whole steamboat full on one wagon.
Tho Union says: "Several., freight
teams passed through town yester
day, stopping long enough to sup
ply themselves with grain and pro
visions. The lead team was loaded
with nearly sixteen thousand pounds
of merchandise for Mormon Basin,
was skillfully navigated by J. G.
Thompson, and measured from the
head of the lead horse to the nma
end of the wagon over one hundred
and twenty feet."
Civil Rights conversation in Ma
con between two darkies:
"Say. Bill, when dis civil rights
bill done passed fore Congress, do
your know what I'se gwine to do
"No, Sam: what yer gwine to do?
"Use gwine down tode Brown House
and take dinner setting at de same
table wid de white folks. And den
I'll set out in front and smoke my
segar jes as big as any of em
It way. niererer. If von 'tempts to
eat dinner at de Brown House I bets
you eats supper in h 1."-Star and
C ultivatoK. .
Gordon Duncan, of Linn county
wo ttujuugea insane one day last,
wees, and sent to tho Asvlum at
Portland.
The Champoeg Murderer.
Below we give the communication
of His Excellency iZ FGrover, Gov
ernor, to the Sheriff of Marion Co.,
in relation to ,tbe case of Thomas
Gerrand, now in jail awaiting the ex
ecution of his sentence for the mur
der of Thos. J. Hubbard, at Cham
poeg, in that county,". on the 12th
day of last April :
Executive Office, 1
Salem, July 28, 1S74. f
To Hios. C. Sham, Sheriff of Marion
county Sir: Herewith I transmit
you my findings and conclusions on
an application to commute the sen
tence of Thos. Gerrand, a prisoner
in your charge, convicted of murder
in the first degree, by 'which you will
observe that I am not able to find
sufficient grounds to warrant me in
interfering with the proceedings of
the Court. Very truly yours.
L. F. Grover, Governor.
State of Or., Executive Office, )
Salem, July 2S, 1S74.
, In the matter of the application to
commute the sentence of Thos. Ger
rand: At the June term of the Cir
cuit court of Marina county, Thos.
Gerrand was tried upon" an indict
ment for murder in the first degree.
The jury in the case rendered a ver
dict of guilty as charged in the in
dictment. A motion in arrest of
judgment and for a new trial was Jn
terposed, but afterward withdrawn
by defendant's council, whereupon
sentence was passed upon the accus
ed at the bar, that he be executed on
the 14th day of August, 1874.
Application is now made for Exec
utive clemency, and that the sentence
of the court be commuted to that of
imprisonment for life.
The facts in the testimony is gath
ered from the official statement of
the judge of the court, before whom
the ease was tried, and of the prose
cuting officer ' who conducted the
trial on the part of the State are as
follows: Several weeks before the
difficulty, which culminated in the
death of Thos. J. Hubbard, at the
hand of Thos. Gerrand, on the 12th
day of April, 1874. The latter had
been employed to work for the form
er, und a dispute arose between them
as to the payment - of a small sum of
money which Gerrand demanded and
Hubbard refused to pay; the latter
claiming that the amount of work
which Gerrand had contracted to do
for a stipulated price had not been
done. " .
A few days after leaving the ser
vice of Hubbard t Gerrand obtained
a Colt's navy revolver, and told one
witness that "he had purchased it
to use for the purpose of getting
even with Hubbard." At another
time he to'd two other witnesses that
"Hubbard owed him money, and if
he did not pay him he (Cerrand)
would put a bullet through him
(Hubbard)." On the morning of
the homicide Gerrand asked another
witness to load his pistol and to put
in big charges, saying that he might
kill a man that day. The pistol was
loaded and Gerrand took it. went to
Champoegand inquired for Hubbard.
lie was liiloreu that liuubam was
at a certain place half a mile distant.
ille went to the place mentioned,
luund liuiiuarii; little or nntiiing was
aid but Hubbard shortly left the
place going in the direction of Cham
poeg, Gerrand followed close after
him. Hubbard reached Champoeg
entered the store of C. O. Pelland.
Immediately afterward Gerrand came
to the entrance of the store, and re- j
mained standing in the door. Hub
bard said to Mr. Pel land, "this man
(referring to Gerrand) wanted to
shoot me a while ago in the woods
like a dog." Gerrand replied in sub
stance "that if he (Hubbard) did not
pay him he wouLl shoot him yet."
To" which Hubbard rejoined, "I will
see you damned first. Gerrand
raised his pistol and fired, the ball
taking effect in the lower front por-
tiou of the neck, from the wound of
which Hubbard died m a few days
afterward.
It does not appear tht Hubbard
1 lit 1 . m
was armed at me time oi the latal
meeting, nor that ho did anything
further than stated to provoke the
deadly assault.
With these leading facts substan
tially, though perhaps not exactly
stated, there appear to be no materi
al circumstances or points of evidence
in conflict.
After presenting the chief incidents
of the case, as developed on the trial,
J udge tionham remarks: "I studious
ly endeavored to secure to Thos.
Gerrand a fair and impartial trial ac
cording to law. I am satisfied that
on this score," ho just ground of com
plaint can be entertained."
"It was, in my judgment, conclu
sively proven upon the trial of said
Gerrand, that he did deliberately
and with malice aforethought, shoot
and kill Thos. J. Hubbard, as charg
ed in the indictment."
The Prosecuting Attorney remarks:
"Tho accused, Gerrand. "was tried
by a jury of good and lawful men,
under the supervision of an honora
ble, competent and concientious
judge, and defended by able counsel."
1 presume the proceedings were
fair and regular, as no exceptions to
the same havo been final ly insisted
upon.
The petititions set up no newly
discovered evidence nor do they
present any considerations in pallia
tion of the crime committed., which
were not presented to the jury and
urged before the court.
Under this state of facts I cantot
arrive at any other conclusion than
that stated by tho judge who presided
at the trial. "
Commutation of tho sentence is
sought upon three principal grounds:
1. The youth of the person under
sentence.
2. He is of Indian blood in part.
3. Two of the petitions present
arguments against capital punish
ment in any case.
The age of criminal responsibility.
as laid down by legal authorities, is
fourteen years, though upon proof
of a sufficient knowledge pf and dis
crimination between right and wrong
persons of much younger years have
been held amenable to the penal code
for murder. After the age of four
teen years it has been considered that
the innocence of youth until past the
period of full manhood is a strong
restraint .'from- the commission of
crime.-'""- : - -
In this case it appears that Gerrand
is between seventeen and eighteen
years of age. There is no evidence
that he has not, as nsual, the intelli
gence and strength of mind accom
panying those years.
That he is of Indian blood in part,
should not be allowed, and I think
has not been allowed to weigh against
him. The fact appears rather to
have created a sympathy in his favor;
as is mentioned in all the petitions.
Neither should this fact be a bar to
the violated law; for among all races
of men, by all nations civilized and
savage, and with few exceptions in
all ages, there has been but one pen
alty for the willful and deliberate
taking the life of a fellow man that
penalty is a life for a life. This has
not only been the penalty affixed by
human laws, but by the mandate of
Dirine Power.
All classes of men can, and do,
understand this law.
The Statute of this State declares
that "every person convicted of mur
der in the first degree shall be pun
ished with death."
While entertaining great respect
for the views and feelings of those
who urge opinions against capital
punishment in any case, my sworn
duty to execute the laws as I find
them, does not permit me to enter
tain arguments and considerations,
hower cogent against the laws them
selves. .Those are questions for tho
consideration of tle Legislature.
Acting under the weight of solemn
official duty, and in view of the whole
case, I am impelled to the conclusion
that the judgment of the court ought
not to be arrested, and that the sen
tence of the court cannot justly be
commuted.
I admonish those in charge of tho
prisoner that he have every privilege
and assistance in his preparation to
meet the final Judge of all men.
L. F. Grover.
The Ircss C'ag Law.
The first case under the new "press
gag law" of Congress is soon to come
off before the Criminal Court of the
District of Columbia. It is the case
of a newspaper correspondent charg
ed with slandering Zach. Chandler,
of Michigan, who brings suit for
$100,000 damages.
Now that the press begins to awak
en to the infamy of the attempt to
abridge its liberties, by the enact
ment of this Congressional law, it is,
without distinction of party, raising
its voice in condemnation of the
deed, and menace and punish
ment of its perpetrators. Many
prominent Republican journals have
had the sense to see, and the courage
to denounce, both the law and the
perpetrators in the manner they de
serve. Nothing in the old sedition laws
of the Federal party can bo found
worse than this act, which confers
on a grand jury, in the District of
.Columbia, the power to indict and
bring to Washington in custody the
proprietors, editors or attaches of
newspapers in any part of the land,
there to be thrown" into prison to
await trial, subject to such excessive
bail as a court under direct influence
of the government may demand, and
compelled to rely upon such justice
as may be secured under the shadow
of federal corruption and authority.
It is not too much to say that this
law, if carried out as no doubt de
signed by its authors, ends at one
blow tho liberty of the press, and
puts in the hands of the government
a weapon of intimidation well nigh
irresistable. But few papers in the
country would be able to stand the
expense of a single trial under its
provisions, which may be brought
about by the most wanton cause.
Its enaction should condemn both
its authors and the party under
whose banner it has found favor and
life, to cverlastiug infamy. It is a
blow at the liberties of the people
which they would be fools not to be
alarmed at, and coward not to resent.
llaniter of Liberty.
Thomas Cerrand
State of Or., Executive Office, )
Salem, Aug. 1, 1874. f
7b His Honor It. 1 lion ham, Judqe
of the. Circuit Court of Third Judi
cial District, in and for the countyof
Marion :
Whereas, Upon a Bill of Excep
tions allowed at Chambers by his
Honor, the Judge of said Court, in
the case of the State of Oregon rs.
Thomas Gerrand, triedupon an iu
dictment for murder in the first de
gree, at the June term of said Court,
1874, and of said charge convicted
and sentenced to execution on the
14th day of August, 1874, and upon
tho perfection of an appeal to the
Supreme Court of the State of Ore
gon in said cause, an application has
been made by petition to susjend
the execution of the sentence in said
cause, until said appeal may be heard
before the Supreme Court aforesaid.
Now, therefore, I, L. F. Grover,
Governor of the State of Oregon, do
hereby order and direct that the war
rant of execution in said cause bo
suspended from said fourteenth day
of August, A. D., 1874, until Friday,
tho 2d day of October, A. D., 1874,
and that hereupon proceedings be
had according to law.
L. F. Grover.
Local Optiox. This question
will be brought before our next Leg
islature, and in order that tho mem
bers may understand what this law
costs in California, where it in pro
nounced a humbug and failure, we
appeYid a little bill of costs from the
Colusa Sun, which was created in
that county recently, as follows:
To the judges and clerks of tho
several precincts, 8177 25; to J. T.
Gill, posting proclamations, etc.,
SG0; Addington & Green, publishing
proclamations and printing election
blanks. 100; making a total of
8337 25.
Worse. One of the Eastern pa
pers has nominated Chief Justice
Waite for the Presidency in 1876.
This, thinks tho New York Herald,
is a grave error. The Supremo
Bench should be above the atmos
phere of politics. The nomination
of a Chief Justice for the Presidency,
in the estimation of the Herald,
would be worse than the nomination
of Grant for a third term.
.No new developments of any im
portance have been, made regarding
the robbery committed in Wells,
Fargo & Co.s Express office in Salem.
(Summary of State News Items
The sixth brick kiln of the season
at the penitentiary is nearly com
pleted. :
The telegraph office at Salem has
sent and received 3,883 dispatches
in six months.
T- e residence of Drury Stanton,
on the Santiam river, was burned on
Saturday last.
The celebrated Virtue mine, of
Baker county, is in operation. Forty
men are employed.
A Salem establishment expects to
turn ont 200,000 grain bags before
the 1st of November.
A novel race is soon to take place
on the Coquille river. Each horse
will be ridden by a lady.
Green apples, from Walla Walla,
raised this season, are selling at Pen
dleton for five cents per pound.
! Rumor has it that a very respecta
ble La Grande lady is about to lose
her mind; cause, Spiritualism.
A. G. Walling of Portland has the
contract for completing Eugene Sam
ple's share of the State printing.
There is an eighteen-year-old girl
near Stayton, Marion county, that
weighs 338 pounds in her night
gown. Tho first load of flax was brought
into Salem last Thursday from the
farm of Mr. Jesse Macey, living near
that city.
Hon. A. n. Brown, the State Treas
urer elect, will move his family to
Salem early during tho coming
month.
A French gentleman living in
Eastern Oregon, who spells his name
Schwydrienxzkity, will soon leave
for Europe.
Churchill farm, in the Waldo Hills
was sold the other day for 3,500,
cash down. It sold last year for
$1,000 less.
Mr. Sanford. who lives south of
Pendleton, has lately sold 1,800 head
of sheep to Messrs. Frazier fe Curtis,
for 2 50 per head.
A number of improvements are
going on in the city of Corvallis
warehouses, dwellings and barns are
going up rapidly.
The citizens of Linn county are
subscribing liberally to the stock of
the proposed Agricultural Imple
ment manufactory.
The farmers of Eastern Oregon
are busily engaged in harvesting.
The wheat crop will hardly average
a3 well as last year's crop.
Parties at the Dalles are arrang
ing to build a couple of sailing ves
sels to run on the Columbia river
between Celilo aud Wallula.
The soldiers have evacuated camp
Warner, aud that part of our country
is left without protection and at the
mercy of the blood-thirsty savage.
Mark Hoffman, sent to the peniten
tiary from Washington connty for
one year, for the embezzlement of
school money has been pardoned by
the Governor.
On Sunday last a fire got out on
Winkle's Butte, ten miles south of
Corvallis, and burned over almo.-t
the entire mountain. About 3,000
rails were distroyed.
B. Hall last week found some roek"
a few miles from Jacksonville, which
proved to be immensely rich. Less
than a pound was crushed on a mor
tar und assayed $1 .12's.
While boring the well at the Court
house, Corvullis, last ednestlay, at
the depth of twenty-six feet from the
surface, the auger struck a fir log.
Tho wood is firm and hard.
The Portland Relief committee
havo made a final report showing
that thev have expended the sum of
$12.W.,35 in relieving the wants of
sufferer's by the fire of Aug. 2d 1S73.
: Mrs. Judge Thayer, of Benton
county, has just had harvested ninetj
acres of fall wheat, on her farm six
or seven miles from Albany, which
averages about thirty bushels per
-cre.
The celebration of the first anni
versary of Ashland Lodge, No. 45, I.
O. O F., was a successful affair.
There was a large number of people
present and everything passed off
finely.
Last Wednesday a son of T. G.
Flannery who lives about two miles
from Forest Grove, while riding on
a load of oats fell off, and one of the
wheels run over Lis breast hurting
him seriously.
Jackson county has 2,372 children,
and her share of the school money
is 61,650 80 coiu and $395 90 curren
cy Josephine has 303 children, and
her proportion is $273 50 coin, and
$05 GO currency.
The Catholics in Baker City and
vicinity have at length determined
that they will do their portion to
ward securing the services of the
Sisters of the Most Holy Names to
open school in Baker City.
Jesse Macy did some tall threshing
with his machine, a few days since,
turning out his 1,110 bushels in two
and one half hours, including stop
pages. The work was done on A. N.
Gilbert's farm, near Salem.
Milton Hale, of Albany was last
week very badly injured by a calf
kicking a-barn door against his head,
from which misfortuue he has since
been confined to his bed with a dan
gerous affection of tho brain.
It was rumored at Junction, but
the report could be traced to no reli
able source, that two men named
Baker, who recently started east of
the mountains with a drove of cattle
from Lane county, had been murder
ed by a man who accompanied them.
Two Union county men left Union
for Nevada last Monday week with
nearly 300 head of cattle, consisting
of yearling heifers, cows and cows
with calves. They purchased their
drove in Grande Ronde valley, pay-
ing ? ana per head for yearlings.
$12 for cows, and $14 and $16 for
cows with calves.
Up to within a few years past it
was generally supposed that the hills
west of Corvallis .were fit only for
grazing purposes. ' This, however,
is not true. The Gazette have in
their office some fine specimens of
wheat, grown upon these hills. Even
the red hills are proving to be very
productive, and well adapted to
cereals.
The Ueecher-Tilton Scandal.
The Brooklyn Eagle says it i, in.
formed and is authorized to announce
that Henry Ward Beecher has written
a letter to Frank Moulton, in which
he earnestly asks and adjures Moul
ton to go before the committee and
exhibit all documents ho has and
tell all he knows with reference to
matters in controversy between Til
ton and Beecher. This letter is de
clared to be. long, explicit, earnest
unmistakable and to the effect that
Mr. Beecher has no wish and Moul
ton no alternative but for the latter
to go before the committee and fully
and frankly say all he can say forth
with. This earnest request from
Mr. Beecher, coming with a request
from the committee itself, will reach
or has reached Moulton at Narragan
sett Pier.
New York, July 31. Beecher'a
friends assert that when Moulton's
evidence is submitted it will entirely
exonorate the reverend gentleman
from criminality, and show that the
letters of apology were brought about
and written for an entirely different
purpose from that ascribed by Tilton.
To a reporter in aconfidential talk)
Beecher intimated that his friends
might rely on him; that although
the clouds were somewhat dark at
present, the sun -of truth would soon
burst forth and dissipate them; he
was preparing a refutation of "all
charges against him and felt strong
in his own heart. He might havo
been inconsiderate, even indiscreet
but had wronged no one. '
A special messenger was sent to
Narragansett Pier to see Frank Moul
ton.but failed to find him.
Shearman to-day said: "I bavo
talked with Moulton on this subject
ho has nothing to say that will hurt
leecher. Moulton held very pecul
iar relations with Tilton. His testi
mony will not hurt Beecher'a case.
I know what Mr. Moulton 's testimo
ny is, and wish he would speak."
The following is publishod this
morning by mutual friends of Beech
er and Tilton: "I know Mr. Tilton
told me that Mr. Moulton, having
learned that Beecher had got posses
sion of a paper which Mrs. Tilton
wrote, clearing him of wrong doing,
Mr. Tilton went to Beecher'a house
to get it. I don't know positively
whether he used threats, but I know
he went with a pistol in his pocket,
prepared to get the papeiby threats
if necessary. I know he came awnv
with the paper in his pessession.
Mr. Tilton told me so at the time."
Dr. Bacon says; "It is mjPbelief
that Tilton has been three years
seeking to lay thiegg, and used my
letter as a pretext before the Investi
gating committee. It is a poor sub
stitute for legal proceedings, and its
verdict, in any case, will be unsatis
factory. I . feel no sympathy for
Tilton, and withdraw confidence in
Beecher with the greatest reluctance."
The Tribune loses hope of Beech
er's ubility to explain his letters, just
iu proportion as that explanation i"r
delayed. It admits that its sympa
thies have been entirely with the
great preacher, but says delays are
diugerous, and that Mr. Beeeher's
friends have been altogether too tar
dy. A full and convincing statement
would still satisfy the demands of
the decent public, but it will now
require to be fuller and more con
vincing than would havo been neces
sary last week.
The Sun ealls for Moulton, and
says if he is not heard from it will
be believed that for some reason ho
dare not testify.
The World demands of Tittyn more
proof, and thinks the public ought
to exact it from him.
New York, August 2. During re
cent years, Tiltou's treatment of his
wife according to her testimony 1 ri-
day evening, has been marked br
frequent violence in word and occa
sional violence in action. Several
times after the alleged discovery Til
ton locked his wife in her room and
berated her in the strongest lan
guage, accusing her of violating her
marriage vow, not only with Beech
er. out with lour or nve other men.
whose names were unhesitatingly
give to the committee by Mrs. lil
tou. It has been learned that another
witness, whose testimony is consid
ered of great value, has testified be
fore the committee to the same effect
that Tilton had included other men
besides Beecher in his charges of
adultery with hiswife. Mrs Tilton
said her husband seemed to have a
sort of mania for digging into her
ears the belief that Beecher was guil
ty. He used repeatedly to take down
the Bible and read to her: "Whoso
ever looketh upon woman to lust
after her, hath committed adultery
already with her in his heart;" and
would then say: "There. Elizabeth.
don't you think Beecher is guilty of
adultery."
Mrs. Tilton also testified that Til
ton, on ono occasion wheu he was ia
a violent tit of rage, brandished his
fist before her face so closely that
she felt sure that he was about to
strike her; so also thought another
person, a 3'oung woman who was in
the room; she rushed in between
them to prevent Tilton's striking his
wife, and received such a blow from
his clenched fist that she fell to the
floor, striking her head upon the side
post of the parlor door as she fell,
and receiving severe injuries.
New York, August 4. A synopsis
of Mrs. Tilton's testimony is pub
lished. She says Tilton cared little
for his family, and often left her en
tirely alone without coal, or food, or
help, and was constantly telling her
of his wrong doings with other wo
men. When Beecher began visiting
her house, Tilton soon I e.-ame jeal
ous, and in the winter of 18 began
to accuse her of criminal intercour-'C
with Beecher. She found comfort
in Beecher s society, and tried to tea
Tilton all their conversations, bntuo
would declare she lied and was con
cealing something, and was
trying to make her confess, say irg
he had seen her sitting on Beecher s
lap. His treatment was bars" ana
often violent. Tilton oons'antly o
fessed criminality with other wonjj
She never confessed anything of ju
kind. The letters used by Tilton
were written by him and copied y
her when sick and out of her
She never confessed to Miss Anthony
that Beecher and herself Jjrct0h,t
mitted adultery, but did tell her tb
her husband had accused her oi
In conclusion, she said Tilton jlonj
is responsible for the disruption
the family.
Tilton has written
a letter lo th
Unn MMYinliininC'
of taJI
course, declaring that ho has no cob
fidence in tne result.
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