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"i-rpTnihn o o O 77 O o o o o -O j - - THE SNTEBPniSE. OjjEci.X CITU OREGON, FE3,1$ 1375. Another Radiea? Outrage. We find the following among the dispatches of tlie 11th inst.: The joint Republican caucus com mittee has completed the political bill which has been in course of preparation for some time.- The points- of the till, which will be pre sented to the j-kmete and House cau-! cus, respectively, are as follows: First He-enactment of the fourth section of th Ku-Klux act, which allows the President to suspend the writ of habe..s corpus in certain j cases, and gives him full power to use the army; to suppress disorder and maintain beace. Second Tl Lj appointment ofJDtep- I ntvU. S. M a-shals and supervisors m full power to con of election, duct elections, count ballots, super vise returns, and arrest persons who attempt to intimidate voters or un lawfully interfevs witb the conduct of election. Fourth To provide for a full and fair registration of legal voters, and to make it unlawful for any of the reconstructed States to impose ex cessive poll-tax, or require payment of such tax as a qualification for vot ing at any congressional election. Fifth Declaring the exhibition or use of deadly weapons on days of registration or election for the pur pose of intimidation or violence, a criminal offense punishable by fine or imprisonment at the discretion of the court. The bill, it is said, received the unanimous Vote of the joint commit tee. The first proposition simply is to give Grant power to control the elec toral vote of the South by suspend ing the civil Uiowers, and remanding the States 1:k to a territorial con dition. Th Vecond usurps all the functions orV State. It is to give power to the venal scoundrels "Washington to overrun the States with United States Marshals at elec tions, and while it is directly intend ed for the South, the same law will apply to Oregon, and should it be passed, the people of our State, as well as every other Northern State, may expect the U. S. Marshals to control, with Federal bayonets, our next Presidential election. The fourth is to allow the Federal officers in States to superintend registration, and would renuiro the citizens of Oregon to submit to such regula tions as the Federal authorities might dictate, which would entirely subvert the rights of our people. The fifth proposition is intended to surround the Registration Boards with Federal soldiers, and also at the polls, under the pretext of prevent ing intimidation and the disarming ofi.the people. In fact, the whole proposition i? an infamy which could only have been concocted by a set of traitors to free government, and if it is carried out in the South, the same may be expected in every Northern State where Grant has fears of his inability to carry it. It is a stu penduous scheme to retain Radical power, and iti would not surprise us if the above i plans are carried out. Should it bej nothing but a revolu tion would e-ior get the traitor Grant out of the A'hite House. On by one, the people allow their rights to be taken from them, and if they al low this last effort to succeed, the' may as well sing peans to King Grant. ; Another Infamy. A dispatcfVrom "Washington, un der date of ifo 10th, gives the fol lowing iu regard to Arkansas: An Inter-Oceans Washington spe cial says there is wide difference among of opinion the Republicans in regard to the President's message on Arkansas and there seems to be much less cu'ance for any action being tak en in tl3 Senate in the matter than in the case of Kellogg in Louisiana. The friends of Brooks here represent the President as very clear and very positive in his views. They repre sent him as saying that he has infor matton that if the general govern ment fails to take notice of the meth ods by which the Garland resolution was achieved iu Arkansas, eveTy oth er southern State now Republican will bo revolutionized by legislators lately elected, in the same manner as in Arkansas. They represent the President as believing that those changes will all be brought about within twenty days, if unchecked by nny action of Congress. Thus far the President has absolutely refused to recognize Garland as Governor, and the letter has resorted to several expedients to secure such joognt tiou. After various attempts he fin ally made a reqnistion as Governor on the Secretary of War for the quo ta of arms belonging to the State cf Arkansas. No attention was paid to this requisition. Garland was not even notified that in had been receiv ed. Soon after he notified the State Department, as Governor, that he had made certain appointments of commissioners for the State of Ar kansas to thej Centennial. The Pres ident directed the Secretary of State to write to him officially, simply an nouncing that his various letters and dispatches had been received, but to admit no recognition as Governor. Governor Brooks, who is here, feels confident that if either the House or the Senate should recognize him as legally elected Governor, Garland would give way without resistance. His friends here are confident in the belief that unless Congress takes some action in the message of yes terday the President will construe the failure to act as he did their fail, ure to settle the Louisiana question, and when Congress adjourns will fully recognize Brooks as Governor, and use whatever means he finds . jsecessary to replace him in power. Surveyor General's oftlce will not be removed to Portland until the 1st of A?ril. Flax Culture in Clackamas County. In a recent article in the- Bicfletin copied into the Extebprisb, some facts were given- about the profits of flax culture for the lint. It is enough to say feat two part?es from North Ireland, last year, had over Hwo hundred acres sown in Marion, Linn, and perhaps in Polk counties, simply to raise the lint for export to Ireland. This year the Messrs. Williamson brothers have rented 400 acres in Linn county at $15 per acre for the same purpose. Besides the lint they have two grades of tow, which is suitable for twine, cordage, or up holstery, and which sells for 80 and upwards per ton. The lint is worth 500 per ton, or 25 cents per pound. The Messrs. Smith, in Marion coun ty, have employed some of the con victs and hired some of the water power in the Penitentiary to prepare their fibre for market, and perhaps work it up. Our Clackamas county farmers want to rtiise something besides wheat, oats, vegetables and fruit. Tho soil of this county is rich and is well adapted to flax. James Wilken son, Esq., now living on the Dement farm formerly the Abernethy claim, came from North Ireland. He is a linen weaver by trade, and is well acquainted with flax culture and what is required. Flax needs rich, strong soil, such as we have, and of course like wheat it exhausts the soil. The flax raised for lint requires its own kind of seed and its own kind of culture. But the profits per acre bring a large per cent, for the invest ment. The prairie gives about GOO pounds fine lint per acre in Linn county, last year, worth 150. The culture of which costs 10 per acre. The second grade of tow, for uphol stery, brought 4 cents per pound or 80 per ton. This business employs many field and shor hands, and thus sets the idle at work at a profit to them and the county. We spend thousands of dollars for wheat, oats and bailey sacks which can be made here from material that we can raise. Why raise the raw material and send it to Ireland, and buy the linen and bags back? Why send the first class of tow to New York to be made into shoo thread, twine and cordage in the factories of Massachusetts, when we can raise the fibre and manufacture it here, and become exporters ourselves? The world is our market as well as theirs. Why wait for people to come when we give the immigrant little or nothing to do when he ar rives? Labor has been a drag in our market for two vears, and our mechanics and other laborers are going to California for work, and perhaps to encounter drouth in a year or two. We have the soil, the raw materials, the water power, all at hand aud wasting, while we are buying utensils, clothing, and even food from those who work harder and at greater cost to get these things than wo would have to do. Mr. Wilkinson, or any one, can easily gain the facts about this culture in Oregon from his fellow countrymen, who have tested it among us and can help farmers in our county to begin intelligently if they are so disposed. The culture of flax for seed, to make oil at the Salem mills, can be done at less cost, and with less profit. Yet the fibre of this kind looks well. It is white aud strong, and seems to be more suitable for burlaps than the tow from the lint flax. Surely an industry of this kind that would employ the young who can get no work or trade, would be a great pub- lie benefit. Remember that our State imports over 300,000 worth of sacks per year, which might be made at home of material raised by our selves. Grant Did It. It is now posi tively known that Grant made the order with his own hands directing that tho public advertising should be withdrawn from theRadical news papers which had condemned his conduct in Louisiana; and that he himself named others to bo substi tuted in their stead which had ap proved of military intervention. As Graut considers the Presidency a personal possession, to be adminis tered for his own interest and at his own caprice, remarks the New York Sun, this act was consistent with that theory. It also furnishes auother illustration of his peculiar devotion to civil service reform, which figured so largely in the annual message, and has been exemplified with so many striking proofs of his fidelity. f - Should Not. It is not always safe to place implicit faith in the asser tions of Administration organs. For instance, before the fall elections the Grant newspapers insisted that a Democratic victory in Indiana would be a vietory for inflation. The Dem ocrats carried the State, and the re sult is the election of a hard-money United States Senator to oppose the inflation rroieets nf Afni-trtn j publican colleague. j Appointed. Judge O. N. Denny, i well kuown in our State, has been appointed Collector of Internal Rev enues for Oregon. As long as Radi- ; cols Lave to hold these positions, we J know of no more clever geutlemt n ' than the Judge for this position, and : are pleased to note his appointment. The Meeting Last Saturday. In pursuance of a call issued by Mayor McCown, our citizens met at the Court House for the purpose of appointing a committee to act in conjunction with the State Board of Immigration. The proceedings of the meeting are published elsewhere. Speeches were made by Hon. A. J. Dufur, who urged the people of this county, that while they are taking the necessary steps to induce immi grants to come here, that the best advertisement for them would be to prepare and send to the Centennial Exhibition the products of their county, ne showed that this coun ty had many advantages over other parts of the State, and all that was needed to give the public of the East tho information they desire. The fruit, iron, timber and other articles raised in this county would attract people here, and capital would soon be employed to use our magnificent water poM'er; a condensed statement of our resources should be published setting forth our vacant lands, their productiveness and the amount va cant, and price of improved and un improved lands. The remarks were listened to by those present with great interest, and we feel confident that all who heard him had a better opinion of Clackamas county than ever, and if our real condition were only known, we would soon have the vacant places occupied, and our great water-power brought into use. Dr. Atkinson followed. He urged the great necessity of erecting facto ries, and showed the fallacy of the argument that we have not people enough to use what we can manufacture. He illustrated this by stating that if wo will apply this kind of reasoning to rolling mills, and other manufactories, we should apply it to wheat, and not raise a bushel moro than we can eat. He showed that we are here on the edge of the markets of the world, and that we have never raised a sur plus of anything but" what wo have found a ready market for it. We regret that his speech was not heard by all that class of reasoners who claim that we must first have popu lation before we can have successful factories. This style of argument is simply folly. We send our pig iron, the best probably in the world, to San Francisco, there it is put through rolling mills, made into nails and other useful articles, and sent back again to us. No man of ordinary sense can successfully maintain an argument that we cannot prepare this iron and send it abroad as cheap as San Francisco or any other coun try. What Oregou needs is self- reliance and a proper use of the great natural resources which lie all over the State undeveloped. He also showed the necessity of a diversity in our products. We regret that space will not allow us to further detail his address this week, but we shall do so hereafter. Speeches were also made by Judge Randall, Hon John Myers, Ma-or McCown and Hon. W. C. Johnson, all ex pressing themselves heartily in sym pathy with the movement to develop our county, and all agreed that Clackamas can offer as good, if not better, inducements to industrious immigants than any county in the State. There will be an effort made to raise funds to print a description of this county, its resources, valuation, productiveness and other advantages. For this purpose our citizens will be called upon to contribute, and we see no investment that will pay back an equal per cent. This is what is needed, and the farmer, mer chant,' mechanic, laborer, in fact, all, are interested. Clackamas county properly written up and distributed throughout the East will place it before the people, and it will not be long before we will see tho beneficial results of such an investment. Let our citizens give this move a hearty support. Rather Heavy. We notico in the proceedings of the Woman's Suffrage Association that it is estimated that "1,000 ' of the voters of Clackamas county were suffragists." That is good. In fact, it is a huirc joke, and if the estimate of the strength of that association is correspondingly incor rect through the State, the cause is even in a worse condition than we have ever thought. Why bless your souls, there is not that number in the State, and Clackamas, after mak ing due allowance, probably, fifty suffragists, including the women. The dear people should not be so badly informed on this subject. m-- ' Who Is He? A late number of the Washington City Star in men tioning the notable arrivals, says that "Gov. C. P. Crandle, of Oregon, ar rived in this city last evening." Oregonians will naturally run their digits through? their matted locks and propound the startling conun drum: "Who is he?'' The same pa per says the same individual was "assigned a position in the depart ment of justice on Monday, January the 25th." Orpjonion. Postal Agent Underwood is com plimented for the energy he has dis played in getting th" mails through from Portland sin -e the close of nav igation. In former winters the mails were allowed to lay over for weeks at a time, but this year it has been so arranged as to give ns semi-weekly communication with the lower coun try". Wulln JVaftrt S'fifennan. COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY CF CALIFORNIA, Fruit Culture. There are three essential things in the profitable cultivation of fruit: 1st, soil; 2d, climate: 3d, a market. In the absence of either or these es sentials, there will be a failure in the f development of its industry. Ohio was once a garden for the peach and apple. But the clearing of her for ests has so exposed her orchards that the raising of fruit is an unprofitable enterprise. Michigan was once the emporium of the peach. To-day her bearing trees are confined to a narrow belt along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan. Northern Illinois, Wis consin, Minnesota, Northern Iowa, and Nebraska north of the Piatt, are consumers instead of producers, and the the severity of their winters de cree that it shall ever be so. In fact the States east of the Rocky Moun tains do not, and never will, produce more than a tithe of the fruit that would be consumed if it could be obtained at reasonable rates. Grapes aro shipped east from California and are sold at fifty cents a pound, while her pears and peaches aro retailed through the Middle and Eastern States at twenty-five cents a piece. There is a boundless market through all that region of country for tho fruits of tho west, if it could but reach them at a reasonable cost. California is wonderful in the pro duction of grapes and peaches, but her plums do not excel, and her ap ples do not equal those of Oregon. Our State is especially adapted to the development of the apple. The fruit is large, well formed and sound. Climate and soil is perfectly adapted to the wants of this fruit, so that the the product will be nutritious and of the finest flavor. But we lack a market. California, in limes past, could find a marker for our surplus fruits at profitable rates to the producer. But she now has a surplus at home, and we must look elsewhere. Our isolated condition, and the exhorbitant rates for trans portation, renders this a difficult task. It can only bo done profitably l)3T reducing the green fruit to the smallest possiblo compass. In this direction the Alden process of curing fruit is precisely fitted to the fruit interest of Oregon. It will make u profitable home market for the fruit products of the State increased five hundred fold. In Iowa, green apples usually retail at 2 per bushel. Six pounds of Alden-fruit is equal to a bushel, and retails at 25 cents per pound, is equal to apples at 1 50 a bushel, or 25 cents in favor of the consumer. This fruit is acknowl edged by all who have ever tested it to be far superior to green fruit for all culinary purposes. There is no waste by decay, no trouble in pre paring, saves a large per ceutage of sugar, is finer flavored and every way preferable. For cooking and table sauce it is destined to supercede the green fruit, as the cars have the stage coach, and the woolen factory the old fashioned spinning wheel and loom. If these are facts, aud time will prove them to be so, would it not be wisdom for the people of our State to look well to their fruit inter ests as the shortest and surest road to wealth. Portland, Dalles and Salt Lake Kail road. A dispatch from Washington to the O reyoniau, dated February 12th, has the following: During the debate in the Senate to-day, on the Portland, Dalles and Salt Lake Railroad bill, Frelinghuy seu said tho Committee on Railroads, during this session, has had before them six or seven bills providing for subsidies. The committee had con sidered thera carefully, had heard arguments, aud had concluded they would not report any of them favor ably to the Senate. Many bills thus treated, he said, had infinitely more merit than the one under considera tion. The Senate by a vote of two yeas, twenty-six nays, refused to order to its third reading the Portland Dalles and Salt Lake Railroad bill, Cameron and Flanagan being the only Sena tors who voted in the affirmative. A ' special dispatch to the Bulletin from Senators Mitchell and-Kelly, says the fate of the bill settles the questiou as to all other subsidies now before Congress; and that the vote in the Senate stood nineteen for, and thirty-eight against. Radical Scoi;nikel.s in South Carolina. The Radical Governor, Moses, of South Carolina, has been indicted for malfeasance in office, but being tried by a jury as guilty as himself, he got clear. Recently new indictments have been found by the grand jury of Orangeburg coun ty, against Gov. Moses and J. L. Humbert, a negro county treasurer, appointed by the late Governor, for breach of promise and grand larceny, in taking $6,000 of the public money to buy the control of the Columbia Union-Herald, the leading Grant newspaper of South Corolina. Eight indictments were also returned against Humbert and one McKinley, late a school commissioner, for for gery. It is gratifying to see that some effort is making to punish thieves in that State; but if all the public robbers there should be sent to the penitentiary, we fear the third term party in South Carolina would be deprived of its most eminent leaders. The Portland Public Schools. For the Oregon City Enterprise A few years ago, it was remarked by . Josiah Failing, that the Central Free School was the best investment Portland had ever made. The pub lic schools, even ten years ago, had drawn a population of families to the city. Many of those families re mained and became most valuable citizens. As tho schools improved, others came to share the benefits. The city has now a large proportion of children of school age. It is over 2,600 in a population of about 10,000. Leading men of the city have al ways given the free schools their earnest support. Col. Wm. M. King, in 1819, with his own hands helped to build the first school house; Mr. Lawnsdale made liberal grants of lots for schools; Messrs. Failing, father and sons, Messrs. Corbett, Ladd, Deady, Shattuck, Ainsworth, Flan ders, Thompson, Holmes, Burton, Farer, Strowbridge, Shiudler, Mc Cormick, and gentlemen of profes sional and business classes generally have united as citizens and acted as directors to give vigor and complete ness to the system. Taxes have been annually voted and baid to supple ment the amounts received from the county and State treasuries. Eligi ble blocks have been purchased in different and canvenient parts of the city and commodious buildings erect ed to meet the requirements of tho increasing families. The best teach ers have been sought, and in most cases secured, on liberal salaries and sustained in their efforts to instruct and maintain good discipline. The first lesult is, that the public school system has won the intelli gent sympathies of the people, and has become a permanent institution, to be cherished as an essential factor in the growth and prosperity of the city. The second fact is that it has improved in quality as it has grown in quantity. The wisdom of keeping the whole city in one district has been shown in better grade and more thorough teaching in every depart ment, and in establishing the high school for which all the lower grades steadily prepare every pupil. The system has become a unit, like the body, every part feels the impulse given to every other part. The need of a Superintendent of the city schools was strongly felt, and during the year past Prof. King has devoted half of every day to aid the teachers in perfecting the work in their sever al rooms, there are six grades with two divisions each, comprising what aro usually called the primary and grammar schools. The high school course occupies three years. Little children, say from five to seven years of age. who eater tho B class of the lowest or sixth grade, are expected to remain in it tivo months, and at the semi-annual examination to be found ready for the A class of the same grade. This they will complete in five months more. At the annual examination, the last week in June, they are expected to be ready for tho B class of the fifth grade, aud so on completing the primary grammar course in six years. Some drop out then, but a large per cent, press on with growing habits of study and desire of improvement to enjoy the benefits of the high school. As may be supposed, the school rooms are quiet, orderly and attrac tive 2'laces for the children. The twenty-six ladies and gentlemen now employed strive to be examples wor thy of imitation, in words and man ners. The pupils show, in and out of the school room, the results of excellent training. The Fubruary examinations have just been concluded. On Monday the 15th the pupils began work in the classes to which they have been advanced. Twenty-one of thirty-two candidates passed to the high school on a test of 70 per cent, and upward in Practical Arithmatic, Mental Arithmatic, Grammar, Geography, U. S. History, Physiology, Spelling, Composition and Pennmansliip. The high school extends the mathemati cal course to Algebra aud Geometry, adds the Elementary Philosophy and possibly: one or two sciences, and makes the Latin, Greek, French and German optional studies. Some pupils from other counties have entered the high school after a rigid examination during two or three days, and paid their tuition. It would aid all the districts schools of the county if their pupils, on ex amination, could enter the high school at Portland free and enjoy the benefits as the pupils of the city do. It would lift up the schools of every county to have a free high school at the county seat, for which all pupils might be fitted, and to which they might look forward. " It would make the county system of free schools a unit, and would secure better teachers, and better schools. A County Superintendent, giving his time to it, could do for thirty or forty districts what a city Superin tendent does for one. The town system of free schools in Massachusetts permits the scholars in every district to pass, on examina tion, to their Central High School, which is usually located in the prin cipal village of the comity. Michi gan adopted the same system of free high schools to 'accommodate the pupils of convenient districts. Those high schools become, in some cases, normal schools for the training of teachers. They prepared large classes of well drilled students for the State University. Thus the school system for that State is a unit from the lowest primary to the high est clossical collegiate or scientific course. It is obviously better to work the free schools on a plan the most approved by experience and to make the best use of the child's powers of body and mind, than to leave the system to be loose, irregu lar and aimless. Every artisan, and every profes sional man succeeds better by attend ing to one work. Division of labor is the road to success. This is true in the school room. The teachers of the B or A class in any grade will do far more for any pupil than he or she can do ir required to teach the A and B classes of two or three grades. On this principal of the di vision of labors the Portland public schools are fulfilling the wishes and aims of their numerous friends and patrons. A whole county or State, uniting on the same plan, can pro mote the education of the children as in no other way. On Friday evening the 19th, some of the teachers of the Portland pub lic schools propose a concert of school exercises in the Central Build ing to illustrate by specimen or sam ple classes and exercises sfjme of their work for the last five months. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. Washington, Feb. 10. The Sen ate confirmed the nomination of J. M. Thayer for Governor of Wyoming- Luttrell, by request of the various Grange and Settlers' oaganizations iu southern California, entered a pro test at the general land office to-day against the further issuance of pat ents to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company for lands on fragmentary portions of their lines via San Benito pass, until the existing controversies regarding it are decided. Little Rock, Feb. 10. The Pres ident's message on Arkansas affairs creates considerable excitement here. Business is greatly depressed by the unsettled condition oi anairs. Augusta, Feb. 10. The bill for the abolition of capital punishment was defeated in the House to-day and the measure is dead. Chicago, Feb. 11. A fire broke out about midnight in the store of Cooper & Graham, Keokuk, Iowa, destroying the store and the entire contents. The adjoining buildings are in great danger, and up to two o'clock the fire was not under con trol. New Orleans, Feb. 11. The Con gressional committee, now en route for Washington, telegraphed to the conservative caucus that the terms of compromise submitted to them were impracticable, and that in their judg ment, it could not be carried out. A determined efibrt will be made by Alfred Leonard to ratify the compro mise without intervention of the com mittee. A New Orleans dispatch says that Jones, the new Senator elect from Florida, is an Irishman by birth, is a lawyer of maked ability, and a Democrat in the strictest sense. Little Rock, Feb. 12. The grand jury, by direction of the State attor ney, have been investigating the charges made in the published card signed by 150 ex-federal soldiers, some time ago, that a reign of terror exist ed in Arkansas and that they had car ried lives in their hands for years, and have made a report in which they say they summoned and exam ined -10 of the sighers of the state ment, none of whom could testify any facts to sujiport their published allegiations, but their testimo showed that unusual quiet prevails in the State. No evidence of the White League or anv such organiza tion was obtained. One witness tes tified to knowing of one man belong ing to the organization, but when accused ana summoned, he declared that he belonged to the Knights of Pythias. Chicago, Feb 12. Tho weather this morning is very cold, the ther mometer indicating 14 degrees below zero at G a. m., and 6 degrees below zero at noon. High wind yesterday and last night drifted the snow badly and a great deal of delay on all rail road lines. Trains on seven roads are either unable to get in cr delayed several hours. Reports from all parts of the west state that great in convenience is experienced on ac count of freezing and scarcity of water for stock. St. Paul, Feb. 12. The Senatorial contest has assumed a new phase. This evening Gov. Davis sent a letter to his friends withdrawing his name from tho contest on condition that Ramsey's is withdrawn. The friends of the latter promptly responded and neither of the former Republican contestants are now candidates. A joint caucus was held and a new nomination made. It is understood everything is again open and every Republican member of the Legisla ture is at liberty to vote to-morrow for whomsoever he please. The vote will be at least interesting but prob- ablv not decisive. Washington, Feb. 12. A caucus of Republican Senators vesterdav agreed, bv a large majority to the House bill passed last session, for the admission of Colorado as a State. It is believad the House bill for the admission of New Mexico was also agreed to. Washington, Feb. 13. Samuel Hooper, member of Congress from Massachusetts, d'ed this evening. Heard From. A pitiable case of the reverse ef fortune, left Roseburg, says the Plaindealer, on last Wednes day. It was a man named Earl, the same who recently attempted suiside at Portland by jumping from the ferryboat. A few years ago this man was in comfortable circumstances. While residing in Astoria, his wife deserted him for a paramour, taking wth her all they possessed, which happened to be in money, amounting to several hundred dollars. Not be ing a strong man, he sank under his misfortunes, and was; stricken with paralysis. He is now a perfect wreck.. Ho was furnished a ticket atPortland for this place. Mr. Louis Belfils generously paid his fare to Coos Bay, whither he desired to go. This is the same individual whom our citizens were called upon to send south to prevent him becoming a county charge. It was Oregon City that furnished him the ticket, and not Portland. Should Look After Them. The Louisiana and Mississippi grangers, in a joint address to the members of the order throughout the Union, vouch for the entire trustworthiness of the sub-committee's report, and bespeak for it a careful and candid reading. "Believe us," they say, "this report tells you the. truth." Gen. Sheridan should look after these agricultural "banditti," when he gets through with the clerical and mer cantile desperadoes, their confed erates. Daily Astokian. We are in re ceipt this week of the Daily Astorian. It is full of local news from that sec tion, and our old friend Ireland is making a good paper of it. Success to him. . Prof. Condon will -Forest Grove to Fn mVe f"m spring. Ea8ne in t .".mas are general.. over the soil, preparatJrv wheat rw, !. V- .IUI7 o 8o; wheat it. On the hih rrn- 8oicS 3havealrea.lv Com " DgIttS The frost I T2S some in is in good condition. gone and land Mining operations in IM-. will be conducts on a ll &llnt-T this year than ever before ?7? prospects are that the result m very gratifying to miners am vantageous to that part of Oregon The Alden Fruit Preserver ' pany of Albany, have called0. Si ting for the 15th of March forT election of directors and tliP w tion of such other business aVra brought before it. Ud The Record says: Although tl,. supreme court has adjourned tU judges are busily emloyed preparing opinions in the cases already decide! so that they can Iw embodied in volume of supreme court decisions In the Albany school distrit ilm are 282 males between the aa nt t ana zu; ino. ieiaaies, J0; number, 572; increase over last vear G3; No. not attending school during the past year, 110. Forty-four of tl whole number under 20 and over 4 years old attended the College dnr ing the year, and 20 attended private school. There are 2S0 persons who vote at the school meetings of tlia district. The Yamhill .Courier learns that the fall sown wheat is seriously dam aged. That which was exposed so that the wind had a good opportuni ty to blow the snow oil" is entirelv killed, while those portions that were not so much exposed looks well. Some contend that the freeze will be a benefit to the land, as it will kill out the cheat, wild oats, etc. " Hop culture is about to be intro duced quite near Salem. Mr. A. S. Kightlinger, who purchased 20 acres of the Pringle island claim, situated just above Moore's mills, is clearing and preparing the same to commence cultivating hops there. Mr. John Miuto is also negotiating for the sain of forty acres of his island land to Mr. Piper, who was Litcly connected with Lapwai Reservation in Idaho, and whose intention in making tho purchase is to commence the cultiva tion of hops and market garden. q A Baker City letter of February 3d says: " To-day is bright and clear overhead, with 20 inches of snov underfoot; roads good and sleighing excellent; thermometer 25 dec above zero; last night, however, wm very cold. A few cattle and shee; have died, and sh5hld the grass not make its appearance before March more will die, as feed is short; plen ty of grain but little hay. Town quiet; trade average for the season. The Sacramento papers annonin the arrival 01 A. L. .ueaclinni km troupe at that city, and the I'nfau speaks well of his lecture and t!i exhibition given by O. C. Applegatu and his Indians, to explain their customs. At the clo-e of the winterterm f the Baker City Academy, among tb-, young ladies, Miss Pauline Eppii:- ger took the first and Miss Fanniu Price the second prize for elocution. Of the male students Jacob Rjhbiu was adjudged bfst in the same branches and Charles Yantis seeoni-'. There were six female contestants, and five males. Abe Hackleman, of Albany, receiv ed a letter from Oohoeo, written on the 2Gth ult.. bv his nephew. Win. H. Jackson, which says that tho weather over there is cold aud stor my. They have a good deal of snow but on the ISth a chinook wind took the most of it off. He says the stock look ery well. The Albany Demorrnt learns that some one in its neighborhood has been sending baek"to?3hio for their job printing, and very properly com ments upon it and does not hesitate in pronounce the practice shiime ful and despicable. Were it not for such a class of men all over the State, we might have more manufac turing interests developing in our midst. We learn, says the Democratic Tim", that Mrs. McCall, wife of Capt. 3. M. McCall, of Ashland, died at that place on last Wednesday night. The Grangers have decided to build a large warehouse in Davton for the purpose of cleaning and stor ing grain. Thos. Knebel has opened a ledge of coal on Cayote creek, 8 miles from Eugene City, which he is using in his blacksmith shop, and which he regards as equal to any Pennsylvania coal. Oak Point Grange, in Polk county, has sent t?40 dollars coin to the sni ferers of Nebraska. In its river news the Record says: The Shoshoue'a hull has been filled full of oil barrels, so that when the water raises she will float off the snag on which she is grounded. A Union county report says so far there has been no loss of stock, but should there not be a change in the weather soon, farewell to many of the horned tribe. Discouraging news from Wallowa and adjacent valleys. Stock looks well in Polk county. Wheat sowed early and that bad good start before the freeze promise well, but that sowed and just hp the cold spell came on us may somewhat injured. Snow has all 1IS" appeared except on northern expos ures and shaded places. Two four-horse wagons leave Rose burg every morning to meet the southern stage, and return heavy freighted with mail. Richard Tan Houton, agent ej collected and transmitted t for Kansas and Nebraska sufferers. A letter from North Yamhill tott Reporter, says the cold weather vast amount of damage in that p of the country. The farmers are opinion that the principal part oi fall sowed wheat is killed. I , tatoesand fruit of all kind are u stroved by the freeze. The apples that have withstood the fr without injury heietofore, hae entirely destroyed. : O o o O O o o T3 L'TT T rV r a T T nr on -r