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THE BEST INTERESTS OF OREGON.
Oregon city, okegon; friay7k6yeiber 2(k I874.
VOL.
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SOCIETY NOTICES.
OKKUOX LtHKili NO. 3. I. I. O. FM
M-etH cverv Thursday .r'T&gu.
ov,-iiin-:t 7 Li o'clock, in the tgrj&frk
Oil i'.-ll-w.H' Hall, Mam --1
str.-t. MjiiUicrsoi thu )r
,i .r an- invited to attend. V.y order
JN . (jr.
i.j::t::i:c.v irt;R!:i'. i.oim; -i no.
:; I i. o. F., Meets on tho 'przjy '
S .Mil l nii.l IV.tuth Tuevi-
d.i.v . v. ni.i,-s each iiu.nth, iJ
; , , . in the O ld
l.-.;i.,,v( II ill. Membersof the Degree
i'i ;:- d tn atu-nd.
..I J. " ii I.OJf;i: NO. I, A.I'.
,t A. M-. iI'i U its reirnlar com- A
in i:ii -.iti'ius mi tlio First and ;V,
T ,' .:;: i s in i.'.ac l !nintn.
a: 7 '!' il nill I.'IO ."'Ml oi
t '.ii i.t totiif J-ttii of March :and 7 1 j
!-) ! i"i-i :u "Jih of .Mar.-h to the
Hi" S -;i'.i 'iiiit;r. llrctliroii in good,
s: ui li'i z :i '"' in 'itc l to at ten !.
W nrd !: of W. M.
I' VI. ! MSt V M 131 MX 1' NO. I,I.O.
(.!'., M cis ;it Oil Follows' a rv
II ill mi tli" First and Thir.lTu:;s-
it iv (;"..'! itii.nt'i. .it riareliM VY
iu r . '-l i;.i:i li-.ij; are invited to attend.
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!.- M'-:s Ao.M I'.-ili.vs-ilill. i; Or -
i i!y. ' ". 1 M':v!ay -v fiiinir. at
7 - .'.Ii. -:v. 4 licr.s :' ih'- on! r iir.tin
;t - I . .to :i iV .M. t.:. A fflKY,
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.J. W. M. 1J.,
o i: :c ; u x : i r r. o i; j: ; o x
e.? 'i-.-! ,i ir.s in C'liar.nait's I'rick,
M s:r - -t. ;ui-'lltf.
Vi. W.()lOHEL
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ATTOR' -EY-AT-LAW:
C lyric:: -(.'Iinr.nair.sl.riek, Mainst.
i u.irisrj ;tt.
J 3 n s n & Mcco w r j
rrj?tN::v ll rorxsELORs it-law.
Oraar City, Oregon.
Will pra.-tio! in .-vl 1 th Court? of the
r,: :it,V vi,eutl :.tt -ntion jriven to eases in
'ii I . s. .ana ;it Oron C'itv.
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ATTOrAlE
oniy;ox cYrr,
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vr'"5- 21irtar7:i-tf.
Dr. fc. PARKER,
I ATE OK rbKTLAMD, OFFEUS HIS
-i s"rvi-os as Thysician and Surfon to
in.- r-o;.i.. ,,f cijickamas county, who mnv
.it any tUn,. JO I , nwd of a pi, vsioian. He
jiri opnd nnlt-nv at Ward, "it Hardin-'s
i ru- Mor- whjl he can be found at all
yn s thn lvhen not en-asod in pro
. .Vl.,;l1 ,Ci!lcV Usid-ne. '.Main Street,
iv xt d-or hut n -e above Ii. t'autield's store.
'cin'j.T J(, 1ST'. tf
JOHS M. 1UC0X,
IMPiitTFn i-ii to.- t T-r, :
In Bo.iks,statiouerv. K"r,,. f yf-!J
"v. etc., etc. i " .nBfe,1
OreS.J, Citj-, Oreffoit.
R?- i-i It T
at.-H- ' IV I Warner's old stand
- '""V Ack.-man, Main st
03EGQN CITY BREWERY
Henrv II
UAVIN; IHTKCHAS- fLL K4'S,
ed the aV.i.ve I'.r.-w- 'L-jJJ
TV WlshPK In 1 -l'". irti, tlirt rrV.o'. 1. . ' I
......... v... I'.t.ii lunt lit Ii
now prepared t Amanufacture a No. 1 qual
itv of
I. .1R R Ii K Ii It.
as good as CiAe obtained anywhere In
thi State. Orders solicitea and promptlv
filled.
OYSTcR SALOON
AND
II E S T A TJ R A MT !
LOUIS SAAL, Proprietor.
-Main Street, - - - . Oregon City.
OYSTERS WILL. RE SERVED FROM
and after this date during the Winter
R-Hori. The best qualities of
'RKXrn and AMERICAN CANDIES.
I'Tscile in rjuantitk-s to suit.
-Vsey r. f -Wti!
J O H n S CH RAM,
3I;iin St., Oregon City.' : " '
MANUFACTURER AND IMPORTER - OF
Saddle, Harness,
rillCII HE OFFERS AS CHEAP AS
can ue naa m tne state, at
WHOLESALE OR RETAIL. ,
warrant my joods as represented.
1,0 0 0 DEER -SKINS
WANTED,
AND ALSO,
t IX OTHEIl KINDS OF HIDES, FOR
IV. whieh I will pay the hiRhes market
price In cash Dring on your hides and get
your coin for them.
JOHN" SCHKAM,
Saddle and Harness Maker.
Ore-on City, Oregon, July 11, 1S73-ui3.
WAGON AND CARRIAGE
M A V U FACTORY !
rpiIE UNDERSIGNED,
A having increased the di-
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uhuimiiiis oi ins premises, at t-
the old stand on the Hi,
Corner of Main ami Tliirtl Street,
Oregon City, Oregon,
Takes this method of informing his old pa
Irons, and as many new ones as maybe
pleased to call, that he is now prcpaV'-d,
with ample room, good materials, and the
wry bst of mechanics, to build anew, re
construct, make, paint, iron and turn out
all eompl"t-. any sort of a vehicle from a
com mon Cart to a Concord Coach. Try me.
I?lncUmi tlilnr. Horse or Ox ftlsoeSitg
and General Joblui neatlv, quicklv, and
cheaply done. DAVID SMITH.
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MAIN STREET, OR Eli ON ITTV,
Ji;.ST ARRIVED. DIRECT FROM SAN
Francisco, all the
LATEST STYLES
of Fall and Winter
Hats & Bonnets,
Trimmed and Fi-trimim-il, for Fall and
Winter wear, whieh we offer to the ladies
of Oregon ( ity and vicinity at exceedingly
I.ov I 'rices.
MILLINERY GOODS.
M YTS AKD OOFifiETS.
FEATHERS AND FLOWERS,
FtnTHEP.S AFiD FLOViERS.
RiSECfJS AND cnWAMENTS.
niBDCFJS AND ORNAMENTS.
CALL AND EXAM! HE.
GALL AND EXA'diHS.
No trouble to show goods, and no one
urged to purchase. Our desire is to pl-ase
our numerous customers.
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'the worth of their money.
I also keep a full assortment
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Jewelry,
Not ions.
Musical
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Toys,
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OREGON STEAMSHIP GO.'S
STEAMBOAT NOTICE!
Stx E. COOKE,
Will leave OREGON CITY for FORTEAND
every day Except Sunday, at 7,v. o'clock,
A. M. Returnintr, will leave Portland for
Oregon City at 2U, o'clock, P. M.
Str. ALICE,
Will leave OREGON CITY for CORVALLIS
every Monday and Thursday of each week.
Stv. DAYTON,
W Ml leave OREGON CITY for McMINN
N ILLE. IA FAY ETTE and DaYTON and
all points between, every Monto.C
nesday and Friday of each w eek. leaves
the Basin at 8 o'clock, a. m.. and connect
with the train at Canemah at P, a. Vi.
Stx ALBAXYr,
leaves OREGON CITY for HARRISBUIiG
and El. GENE and all intermediate points
every week.
Str. Fannie Patton,
Leaves OREGON CITY for ALBANY and
all intermediate points between twice ev
ery vcek. J. D. BILES, Agent,
Ororon Cit v.February, 111. 871. . .
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A. LEVY Sj
I.-WS OS THIS STATE oF OK fc!
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CONCERNING FEES OF COr.NTY OI FIc EKS.
.. An Act to repeal section two and
Sur :f "n Act, approved October
oc, 18i2, entitled "An Act ' to
amend chapter 18 of the general laws
concerning fees of officers," and to
ameud; aii Act entitled "An act to
amend chapter IS of the general laws
concerning fees of officers, approved
October 2ith 1870," and section 12
of an Act approved Oct. 24th, 1801;
entitled, " An act to prescribe the
fees of certain officers and persons,"
and section 4 of an Act appfoVed
Jan. 12th 1850, entitled, "An act to
amend an Act entitled, an Act to reg
ulate the fees of certain officers and
other persons, and section 1 of an
Act approved Oct. 12th 1S(M," enti
tled, "An act to tlx the legal dis
tances from the several eonnty seats,
in this State, to the Penitentiary at
the city of Portland, and to regulate
the fees of Sheriffs for conveying
convicts to the Penitentiary and all
of an act approved Oct. 2'Jth, 1870,"
entitled ".An act to regulate the fees
of officers in certain counties, and all
of an act, approved Oct. 28th, 1872,"
entitled, " An act to amend an act
entitled an act to regulate the fees of
officers in certain counties, and to
amend section 5, of an act approved
Oct. 21st, 18C1," entitled, "An act to
amend an act," entitled, "An act to
provide for the collection of taxes
and to repeal an act approved Oct.
1'Jth, 1800, and to prescribe the fees
of Clerks and Sheriffs.
Ha it ei(wtid by the Legislative Assent -Ihf
of the State of Oregon :
Section 1. That sections two and
four of an act approved Oct. 2:3d,
1S72, entitled, " An act to amend
chapter 18 of the General Laws con
cerning fees of officers, and to amend
an act," entitled, " An act to amend
chapter IS of the General Laws con
cerning fees of officers, approved,
Oct. 2Uth, 1870, and section 12 of an
act approved Oct. 21th, 1804, entitled
" An act to prescribe the fees of cer
tain officers and persons, and section
4 of an act approved 12th 1850," en
titled, " An act to amend an act,"
entitled, " An act to regulate the fees
of certain officers and other persons,
and section 1 of an act approved Oc
tober 12th, 1804," entitled, " An act
to tix the legal distances from the
several county seats in this State, to
the Penitentiary, at the city of Port
land, and regulating the fees of Sher
iffs, for conveying convicts to the
Penitentiary, and all of an act ap
proved Oct. 27th, 1870," entitled,
" An act to regulate the fees of "offi
cers in certain counties, be and the
same are hereby repealed.
Sku. 2. The lees of county Clerks
.shall be as follows:
For issuing any writ, or process,
except a .subpoena, iilty cents.
For issuing a subpoena, for one
person, twenty-live cents, and live
cents for each additional person
named therein.
For filing each paper or pleading,
ten cents.
For entering any judgment order
or decree of any court, thirty cents.
For each folio after the first in any
judgment, order or decree, fifteen
cents.
For each folio of any journal entry
other than a judgment, order or a
decree, lifteen cents.
For taking an affidavit including
the administration of the oath, lifteen
cents.
For swearing a witness, ten cents.
For taking and approving an un
dertaking or bond in any case, twenty-live
cents.
For making and tiling judgment
roll, twenty-live cents.
For making copies of journal en
entries for judgment roll, fifteen
cents for each folio.
For docketing judgment, or decree
in judgment docket, thirty -live cents.
For making copies of any records,
or tile for each folio, fifteen cents.
For official certificates under seal
of any court, twenty-five cents.
For oflicial certificate without seal,
twenty-five cents.
For issuing a commission to take
testimony, titty cents.
For taking depositions, for each
folio, fifteen cents.
For taking costs and disburse
ments, fifty cents.
. For docketing cause in any action
or proceeding, seventy -five cents.
For swearing jury on the trial of
an action, suit or proceeding, Hfty
cents.
For receiving, reading, filing and
recording verdict in iiny suit, action
or proceeding, seventy-five cents.
For issuing letters testamentary of
administration or guardianship, fifty
cents.
For recording any judgment, or
der, decree, bill or appointment of
any executor, administrator or guar
dian, for each folio, fifteen cents.
For recording the appointment- of
any admeasurer of dower, twenty-five
cents.
For making all indexes in relation
to an estate, fifty cents.
For making and keeping a register
in relation to an estate, fifty cents.
For making and keeping a record
of the accounting and distribution
in relation to an estate, two dollars.
For filing and making a certified
copy of a declaration to become a
citizen of the United States, fifty
cents.
For enter ing judgment of admis-.
sion of an alien to citizenship, and
making a certified eopy thereof, one
dollar and fifty cents.
For making blank assessments,
census or tax rolls or copies thereof
required by law, for each quire such
roll may contain, four dollars.
For making copies of assessment
or census roll, for each folio, fifteen
cents.
For extending on tax roll, the rates
levied by the county court, for each
folio, fifteen cents.
For each warrant or order drawn
on the Treasurer, ten cents.
Frovided that no charge shall be
made for filing or canceling redeem
ed orders or warrants. ,
For making abstracts of the same
for each folio, lifteen cents.
- P'or making out exhibits of the re
ceipts and expenditures of the coun
tv, for each folio, fifteen cents.
For each certificate of election, re
quired by law, fifty cents.
- For each election notsico required
by law, twenty-five cents. .
... For making out an appointment in
pursuance of an order of the County
Court, twenty-five cent's Vi . '
For issuing any license required
by law, other than a marriage license,
fifty cents.
For making and depositing in the
jury box the ballots containing the
names of the persons on the jury list,
one dollar.
For drawing jurors for any term of
the circuit or county court and mak
ing and filing memorandum thereof,
fifty cents.
For making panel for the sheriff,
fifty cents.
For making and filing a list of ju
rors or witnesses in criminal cases,
and before grand jury w ho may be
returned to any court with an ac
count of the mileage and per diem,
five cents for each name.
For recording such mileage and
per diem in jury book for each folio,
fifteen cents.
For opening and canvassing elec
tion returns, for each day necessarily
employed, three dollars.
For making abstracts of vote3 cast
at any election, for each folio, fifteen
cents.
For receiving, receipting for,
keeping and disbursing money, on
the first five hundred dollars one
half per centum: on the second five
hundred dollars one-fourth per cent
um; on all sums over one thousand
dollars one-eight per centum.
For taking and certifying an ac
knowledgement to a deed or other
instrument of writing, fifty cents.
For recording any deed, declara
tion, contract or other private writ
ing, required by law to be recorded,
for each folio, fifteen cents.
For making and issuing a marriage
license, registering the same, filing,
recording and indexing marriage
certificates, two dollars.
For filing and making entry, when
required by law, of any articles of
incorporation, bill of sale, or chattel
mortgage, fifty cents.
For entering and attesting satisfac
tion of a mortgage or judgment,
twenty-five cents.
For each poll book required by
law, one dollar.
For taking each justification to a
bond or undertaking, twenty-five
cents.
For making in the several indexes
the entries required of the filing and
recording of and auy instrument, pa
per or notice, for each entry, fifteen
cents.
For receiving and filing every man
date from the supreme court, and
accompanying papers, thirty cents.
For entering issuance of attach
ment, twenty-five cents.
For furnis'hing fee bill to any per
son, twenty -five cents.
For entering issuance of execution
in execution docket, twenty-five
cents.
For entering return of execution,
and how disposed of in execution
docket for each folio, fifteen cents.
For recording any private writing
less than one folio, twenty-five cents.
Sec. 3. The fees of the Sheriff
shall be us follows.
For serving a writ for the enforce
ment of a judgment or decree, seventy-five
cents.
For serving any summons, sub
poena, notice or order, on each per
son served, twenty-five cents.
For executing any provisional
remedy, fifty cents.
For serving any bench warrant or
warrant of arrest, one dollar.
For committing a person to prison
or discliaring him therefrom, or at
tending a person in custody before a
court (or) judge, fifty cents.
For taking an inquest by a jury for
the trial of the right of property,
two dollars.
For taking and approving any un
dertaking or bond, fifty cents.
For making and delivering a copy
of any process, order or notice nec
essary to complete the service there
of, for each f.mo, hiteen cents.
For summoning any panel of ju
rors for the circuit court to be paid
by the county, ten dollars.
For summoning any panel of ju
rors for the county court, six dollars
For summoning a jury, in any
other case required by law, four dol
lars.
For calling a person from the by
standers to act as a inror, ten cents
For all raonev actually made on
any process and returned to the
clerk, two ier centum on the first
thousand dollars, and one per cen
tum on all sums over one thousand
dollars.
For making a conveyance of prop
erty sold on any process, to be paid
bv the guarantee, two dollars.
For making a certificate of sale of
real property, fortv cents.
For making a certificate of sale of
personal property, when required or
demanded to be paid by the pur
chaser, forty cents.
(To be Continued next week.)
The latest Sunday School prodigy.
having listened to a discourse on the
necessity of offering a firm front to
the evil one, said he'd " be scared of
the old devil, but if he came across
one of the little ones he'd knock the
stuffing out of him.
A farmer near Centre Point, Lina
county, Iowa, planted Limburger
cheese near his potato patch, and the
bugs gave his field a "wide berth."
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
What Caused their Defeat Mission
oi the Democracy.
The Governor elect of Xew York,
in a speech at Syracuse, sums up
the causes which led to the defeat of
the Administration in the following
able manner. lie starts by saying
that the Federal Administration is
tainted with abuses, with jobbery,
and with corruption. In the domin
ion which it maintains over the re
constructed Southern States organ
ized pillage on a scale tenfold larger
than that of the Tweed "ring" is the
scandal and shame of the country.
Civil liberty is endangered. It is
now certain that 1'resiueut urant
nourishes the bad ambition of a third
tetm. If the sacred tradition estab-
ished by Washington, Jefferson,
Madison and Jackson can bo broken,
the President may be re-elected in
definitely, and wielding from the
centre the immense patronage w inch
will grow out of such vast usurpa
tion of authority by the Federal Gov
ernment he would grasp the means
of corrupt influence by which to car-
v the elections. There will be no
organized thing in the country of
sufficient power to compete with him
or to resist him. The forms of free
government mav remain, but the
spirit and substance will be changed.
An elective personal despotism will
have been established, li-oman his
tory in the person of Augustus Ctesar
will be repeated. Thoughtful men
ire turning their minds to the means
of escape from the overshadowing
evils. The lladical party cannot save
he countiT. Ideas of governmental
meddling and centralism dominate
over it. Class interests hold it firmly
to evil courses. Throngs of office-
lolders, contractors, and jobbers who
iave grown up m lourteen vears oi
its administration in four vears of
war and during an era of pajcr mon
ey are too strong in the machinery
of the party for the honest and well-
intending masses of tho Padicals'
The lladical party co-aid contribute
argeiv to maintain the Union during
the civil war. It cannot reconstruct
civil liberty and free institutions af
ter the peace. A change of men is
necessary, to secure a change ol mea
sures. The opposition is being ma
tured and educated to attack the Ad
ministration. The Democracy, with the tradi
tions of its best days, will form the
nucleus of the opposition. It cm
braces vastly the larger body of men
of sound ideas and sound practices
in political life. It must remove ev
ery faint which has touched it in evil
times. It must become a compact
ind homogenous mass. It must gath-
. ii ii i iir.i.ii
er to us alliance an wno iuiiik me
iauie tilings concerning the interests
f our liepublie. It i; becoming an
dequate and effective instrument to
eform the Adn'iini.-tration and to save
the country. It reformed itself m
order that it nn-iiit reiorm me coun
try. Now in the name of the regen-
ited Democracy, whom we present
-. .i.".! i 1 - 1
we declare that in mis great wont n.
will tread no step backward. Come
weal or come woe, it will not lower
its liar. 11 will go forward until a
)olitical rev.
ilnt ion will be worked
principles of Jefferson
shall rule in the admin
out and the
and Jackson
istration of the ledoral. Government.
Let us obey the patriotic maxim of
old Rome, 'never to despair of our
country. Actual evils can be miti
gated. 13ad tendencies can be turned
aside. The burdens of government
can bo diminished, productive indus
try will be renewed, and frugality
will repair the waste of our resources.
Then shall the golden days of the
liepublie once more return, and the
people become prosperous and happy.
To effect such a beneficient purpose,
is the mission of Democracy.
I jitcre-.ti.-ig Correspond cue c.
The following correspondence fell
out of the coat-tail pocket ot Air.
Chandler, chairman of the National
Republican Committee (as he step
ped into his carriage the other morn-
-i ! 1 1
mg ami was picKeu up oy an emis
sary of the Ku-klux Klan:
Attorney General's Office, I
Wasiiincison', Oct. 0, 1874. J
U. Jailbird, U. S. Marshal, Ala.:
o.
Sir Send on more Southern out
rages in time for tho elections in Ohio
and Indiana.
Geo. II. Williams, Att'y-Gcu.
Tho following was the reply:
IIoo. Geo. II. Williams, Alt' )-Gei. :
Ifs impossible. The clerk who
does 'em's got another boil and can't
work.
O. U. Jailbird, U. S. Marshal.
This accounts for the Republican
rout in those States last Tuesday.
A man about two-thirds drunk,
and his back covered with mud,
stopped a policeman on tho street
and asked to be locked up. " Why,
you arc able to walk home, aren't
you?" asked the officer. "Yes, I
could get home, all right, but I don't
want to, and yon wouldn't if you had
my wife! Take me down, ole feller,
and if she comes inquiring gind,
just sav I've gone to 1 ledo on mpor
tant business. erron -ree i re
.f.
A man may borrow money, steal
from a widow, discount his whiskey
bill, or "nip" a prayer book from a
dying heathen, and still have soma
chance for pardon, but when he
swindles a poor printer out of his
bill, we' think the devil has such a
firm grip on the seat of iiis panta
loons that repentance and forgivness
are out of the question.
Me's gion' to buy me a new m-a-a,
my b-i-t-, 'caus my old ma whips
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me-e," was the expression of a littio
two-year-old, out West, on receiving
a chastisement at the hand of his
ni other.
Something of a farm.
A correspondent writing to the
Commercial Bulletin gives an account
of the scale upon which farming is
done at- tho "West. The following
extract from his letter refers to the
Illinois farmer millionaire and his
broad acres:
The farm is that of M. L. Sullivan
of Rurr Oak, near Chatsworth, Liv
ingstone county, Illinois, and is not
only a big bat a well managed and
profitable enterprise. The farm is
eight miles square, containing 40,000
acres 04 sections Government sur
vey. It is subdivided into 32 farms
of 1,200 acres each. Each has a caji
tain and a First and Second Lieuten
eut, all under the control of a Commander-in-Chief,
its owner and Brig
adier General J. M. Minor. There
are 15,000 acres under the plow, over
10,000 of which are in corn, which
looks finely. This required 1,000
bushels of corn for seed this year.
The remainder of the farm is used
for grazing and small grain and grass.
There are 250 miles of hedge, be
sides fences; 150 miles of ditch for
draining wet land; 200 men and 400
workhorses and mules are used on
the farm. There are employed also,
one surveyor, two book-keepers, four
blacksmiths and eight carpenters.
An accurate account is kept with
each farm and each man, horse and
mule horses and mules being all
named or numbered and charged
with the amount paid for them and
their food and credited with their
labor. There is no more regular or
systematic set of books kept in any
banking or manufacturing establish
ment than Mr. Sullivan's.
The whole of this land was entered
from the Government about twenty
years ago by its present owner, at
$1 25 per acre. The farm at this
time, with the improvements made
upon it and personal property con
nected with it is valued at 2,000,000.
So you see we have a millionaire in
Central Illinois in the person of a
sturdy farmer, who shows "what I
know about farming" by his works,
andean stand in the center" of his
farm and say truthfully, "I am
monarch of all I survey." This
farming seems to havo paid.
TIi j Country Skool Mom.
She is invariably just about twenty-three
years and six months old,
and remains rite thare for a term ov
years.
Shu wears her hair either kut short
or hanging around in ringlets, and
iz az precise in all things az one ov
Fairbank's improved plrtform scales.
She never laffs out loud, and el
dum even smiles, but when she does,
she does it acconliu to the rules laid
down by Murra3' for speakiu out and
pronounein the iuglish langwage kor
rocktly. She is the very essence ov dabble
extradited propriety, and -would rath
er be four years behind the frshuns,
in her dress . ml bonnit, than to spel
a word wrong, or parce a sentene in-korr-jckliy.
She l:e-o-)S a scrap book and an al
bv. r.::d would proper rather to hav
the av.togir.fi ov sum inilk-p.nd-water
poet, than the name, ov sum good
man to a sixty-days note. -
Tho country skool mom seldum
dies an old meid; she gets married
generally to sum man who haz but
little edukashun, and ho thinks (as
he ought to) that thare aint anuther
such a larnt woman az his wife on
the face of the oarth.
With all her precise phoolishness,
her pompous knolledge, her silky
sentimentalism, and her allmost all
wuss mistakin manner for matter, i
respekt the country skool mom; she
taut ne mi letters, she waz pashunt
when i waz stoopid, she soothed me
when i wus frackshus, and she often
(good sole) giv me a titbit from
lunchion at nooa time.
May kind heaven strew sum kind
ov happiness in her pathway, for she
iz p;iid poorly, worked hardly and
the stepmother to everybody's chil
dren y she never seceives from the
world ennything better than the
most formel respekt.
Tre
of the
of the
Value of an Office. One
most remarkable illustrations
value of an important office
during Republican rule is found in
the present Cabinet, no member of
which, at the time of accepting the
position,- was in what is usuallv
termed moderate circumstances, and
some of them were quite poor. They
are allowed a salary of $8,000 per
annum, and it probably costs them
each about $0,000 per annum to live
in the style that their respective po
sitions demand. Ihis would leave
them each about 82,000 per year clear
profit, or, sav $10,000 during tho
time they have been in office. The
real facts are that none have saved
less than a quarter of a million, an;
several have stowed awav over a mil
lion, and one of them over two mil
lions out of their salaries. Aecprd
ing to these figures, which are cor
reel, a position in tne Uabmet ol
Ulysses is as good a birth as any
ordinary mortal could wish.
A young man in Fairfield, Iowa
received a letter from his trirl last
Sunday, and five minutes after read
ing it, shot himself dead. Every
woman in the town would give ten
years of her life to know what the
letter comtained that made the young
man feel so.
According to a recent German au
thority it is be vond dispute that Amer
of
ica was aiscovereu o u i-nv
Buddhist priests in the fifth century,
1 Whether they camo on purpose to
! .1 ; .-r-cr. 4f r.-r Tt-firn rast. noon its
discover it or were ea3t upon
shores bv accident is not stated.
A shocking scene Kerosene,
-Oregon State Grange.
. The following articles of incorpor
ation were tiled : at the office of tho
Secretary of State:
This instrument, executed in trip
licate, witnesseth that Daniel Clark,
E. Forbes, A. N. Hill and M. Fiske,
do hereby associate themselves to
gether and make thesa articles of in
corporation under and in pursuance
to the general laws of Oregon, relat
ing to the formation of private cor
porations. First The said Daniel Clark, E.
Forbes, II. N. Hill, and M. Fiske,
their associates, successors and as
signs, do hereby form an incorpora
tion, and adopt as the name assumed
by the corporation, and by wjiich it
shall be known, "The Oregon State
Grange of the Patrons of husbandry."
Second The duration of this in
corporation shall be perpetual.
Third The business enterprise
and occupation in which said incor
poration is to engage, is the acquir
ing by gift, donation, purchase or
otherwise, of real estate and personal
property, and the holding, using,
selling, disposing of and conveying
the same; the chai-tering of ships;
the shipment of wheat and other
grain and produce, and goods, wares
and merchandise generally, and theo
carrying on of a general merchandise
business; the borrowing and loaning
of money on mortgage and personal
security, and the carrying on of a
general banking business; and dis
posing of stock in other corporaitons,
whether home or foreign.
Fourth Tho principal office and
place of business of this corporation
shall be in tho city of Portland Or.
Fifth The amount of the capital
stock of this corporation shall be
850,000, United States gold coin,, di
vided into shares of $100, like gold
coin each with power to increase.
In witness w hereof we have set our
hands and seals this seventh day of
November, A. D. 1S74. c
Daniel Clakk,
E. Folbes,
II. N. Hill,
M. Fisk.
Journalism as a Business. In
commenting upon the failure of a
newspaper manager, the St. Louis
Globe tells a plain truth in the fol
lowing words: The bnsinespf jour
nalism will continue to bo an inviting
field for experiments to those who.
have a large amount of money, and a
large amount of egotism. A man
who, having edited a newspaper un
til he was 40, should suddenly an
nounce himself a lawyer would bo
regarded as a fool by the legal pro
fession; and yet we often hear of
lawyers of 40 making sudden pre
tensions to journalism. There is an
idea that editing requires no appren
ticeship; that editors come forth
from law offices and colleges fully
prepared for the profession, like Pal
las from the brow of Jove. It is a
mistake; there is not in America to- O
day a single journalist of national
reputation who has not devoted more
hard work to his profession than,
with equal fitness and application,
would have made him a great lawyer
or a good doctor. And yet ninety
out of every hundred men you meet
on tho street will hesitate about car
rying a hod or making a pair of shoes,
whereas there will probably not bo
one in the hundred who can't accord
ing to his own judgment, edit any
newspaper in theapountry better than
it is edited, no matter in what man-
i ner or by wuom.
Profits of Oregon Wool Grow
ing. Owing to tuo mildness of the
climate of Oregon, both in summer
and winter, and tho opportunities
afforded for the judicious selection
of grasses, the production of sheep
and wool promises to become tho
most important, as it is now themost
irofitable business m tho State.
Sheep farmers can raise wool for 12
cents a pound. All got above that is
clear profit, lhe average price this
season was 20 cents, so that the
sheepmen had a clear profit of 15q
cents a pound on all the wool they
aised. That would be GO cents clear
profit, and the lowest calculation on
each common sueep, yielding an av
erage of 4 pounds each, and 81 20 on
the thoroughbreds; some improved
stock vield 8, and even 10 pounds
each. The clip of wool this season
in Oregon will not exceed 1,500,000
pounds; was it not for the scab dis
ease it would bo 1,750,000 pounds.
Tho price was favorable to the pro
ducer it ranged from 25 to 33
cents per pound. The grading is
being gradually introduced, and that
is a great encouragement to the in
troduction of good stock, It will be
seen that Oregon farmers realize
ten per cent, and something more
on thpir wool. No industries in tho
East can s1bw such profits. U. S,
LJrortom ist.
A well-to-do farmer's wife at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, has a remarkably so
ciable manner of crusading. Sho
stands in the streets, throws a brick
througli the window of a saloon, and
whispers so as to be heard three
blocks, " I'm going to die in glory!
And her husband stands across tho
road and fervently ejaculates 'Amen!'
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Jones says he first met his wife in
a storm, took her to the first ball in
a storm, popped the question in a
storm, married her in a storm, lived
in a storm during his subsequent
married life, and buried her in
pleasant weather. ;
New Jersey has found a method of
manufacturing rum from cranber
ries, which is said to have a longer
rane that even untamed lightning,
thelatter only kills at forty rods,
while the former is deadly at most
anv distance. '
Go to work should be all the go..
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