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DEVOTED TO POLITICS, MEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF OREGON.
VOL. 9.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAyToGTOBER 8, 1875.
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SOCIETY NOTICES.
OKCGOX I.OPCJK NO. 3, I. I. O. l.
Meets everv Thursday s$fca$,
evening at 7 'i o'clock, in t ho ?'v4s!.j
Uil Fellows' Hall, Mam -v-.;
struct. M nbers of the Or
der are invite,! tu attend. J'.y oruer
3 I O. O. F.. Meets on the
Second an Fourth
cUv evenin each month,
ot7'.. .v'.-l.i.-k: in the (.Kid
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Fellows' 1 1 ill. Mcmbcrsof tho Decree
ire invited to attend
ji:ui;r.oii All IMDdi: XO. I, A
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fc A. M., Holds its regular com
munications in the First and
Toird Saturdays ineach imnith,
at 7 o'clock from tho -'Kit of Sep.
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t.,. .!.,.! t.it!i( ' c h i) March; ami
I 7i
,...v.'k'yfi-.iiii the l-Mtii of March
to the
2-lth of SjOicmhcr. Hrethren
standing iivv invited to attend.
in goou
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O. V., Meets at O Id Fellows' 0 r
Hall on the First andTaird 'l'u.-s- Va
d.iv of each month. Patriarchs f "
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SKlrN CITY, OKHiOX.
Price fr County
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P()KTIjN3-I.i Opitz's new brick, 33
First si ro-t.
CITY-Chariiian's bricn, up
stairs.
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ATFOilNCY AND tl)tNLLOIl-T-UW,
Oregon City, Oregon.
-.oi .i -itntinn riivn to loaning Money.
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COUNSELORS AT-LAW.
OrDgon City, Oregon.
"XViU practice in nit the Courts of the
Mt.ti .-so -ei il attention trivcn 10 cases in
the V. S. Land O lie- at ur.-on City.
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L. T. 33 A HI jST
ATTORTJ EY-AT-LAW,
OREGON CITY, : Q. OREGON,
OFFICE Over
treet.
rone's Tin Store, Main
21marTJ-tf.
W. II. HUJILFIELT).
Kutablislied ince ' 0, at the old stand.
Main Str.it, Or??on City, Orr?oii.
An assortment oi at nes. .lewei
rv.and S 'th Thomas' Weight Clocks
o"ii rf which arc warranted to be as
fc'lIfiS r-pr l'citd.
cy-K-'p-iirin-i done on snnn noutT.ii
thankful for jl.st patronage.
JOlA 31. IJACON,
IMrorjF.KNPPKATJ.R WS)
In Rooks, Stationery, Pcrlum- M-pM
ery, etc., etc. w,-ir
Ores-oii City, Oregon.
erit-n urini done on short not ice, ana
ir.Uth3 To
side.
Office, Main street, cast
STILL IN T II E FIELD!
REMOVED Sj-COND DOOR SOUTH OF
IIAjVS SAl.OOX.
WILLIAMS &. HARDING,
AT THE
LINCOLN BAKERY,
KEEP THE MOST COMPLETE STOCK
of Family Groceries to be found in the
citv Ml woods: warranted. oods delivert d
in th citv fr"Cf charge. The highestcash
criepiid for Ci'intry produce.
Oreion City. March 2S, 1S73.
TO FR-JIT-GROWERS.
THE ATD?N- FRUIT PRESERVING
Cotnpanv rjf Oregon City will pay the
HI1HEST MARKET PRICE
forPITMS. PEtRSaml APFLES.
-j Mr. Thos. Chirman is authorized to pur
chasa for the C ompany.
U D. C. LuVTOURETTE,
President.
THOS. CHAPMAN, Secretarv.
Orecon City, July 28. IS75 af "
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llOV:I-K So
VSltNS AN"
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SU.HMAKY Ol STATE NKWS.
Several wagons loatled with grain
left Jacksonville for Fort Klamath
last week.
Jacksonville thinks she is old and
populous enough to have a town hall.
Dense smoke obscures everything
in the vicinity of Jacksonville, and
forest fires in the vicinity are raging
extensively.
Sheriffs. B. Eaten, of Eane coun
ty, conveyed to the asylum, on the
25th inst., Thomas Hendricks, lately
from Nebraska.
Mullen & Strong have commenced
putting up furnaces on their cinna
bar ledge on Little Applegate, .;n
Jackson county, to extract the quick
silver. Mr. John Wolford, near Silverton,
has raised and cured about 4.000
pounds of hops this season. Mr. J.
Stornier is also eucracred in raisin":
hops and has cured this season 1,200
pounds.
Koapp, Enrrell & Co., of Portland.
filed in the ofliee of the Secretary of
State on the 21th inst., as a trade
mark the word "Pacific," and claim
the absolute use, name of and title to
said trade mark in their business.
Tho Jacksonville Sentinel say that
Stephen II. Meek, a brother of the
celebrated Joseph Meek, the Oregon
pioneer, is at present in Cinnabar
district, Trinity county, and has very
good prospects m the quicksilver
line.
I'ortl.iiul averages one insane man
every two days.
Frank Cooper who has just return
ed from a trip in the vicinity of
Table Koek, reports the woods on
lire in the vicinity of tho headwaters
of the Mollala and the north fork of
the Santiain. He states that hnn-
dredsof acres of good timberare being
tiestroved bv the "lire liend." This
large lire mav account for tJie smoky-
appearance of the atmosphere for the
last two or three days.
Last Friday Mr. Shute, who lives
near ilillsboro, set fire to his slash
ing, and the wind drove it into his
fence and across the lane into Mr.
Moekledowuy's fence, burning a great
oeai oi ir, aiso me siashimr on ins
place, and it was with difficulty that
lie saved his barn. The lire also got
into Mr. Gibson's and James Imbre's
fencing, burning considerable of it.
The whole loss of fencing is estimat
ed at from 500 to 800.
Two voung men of Ilillsboro who
wished to experiment a little with
nitro-g! vcerine, proem ed what thev
thought were two bottles of the stuff
of a druggist, and taking them out
into the woods where they placed
them on a log, and standing about
mty yards oil, behind a tree, threw
bricivs at the bottles, expecting a
fearful explosion, but imagine their
surprise when thev found that the
bottles contained turpentine only.
Soth II. Hammer has received the
appointment of "Superintendent of
Mineral Lands in and for the State
of Oregon."
The nnestion of who shall bo post
master at Silverton is, we learn set
tling down to a single candidate.
The most popular one is the widow
of the recent incumbent, Mrs. Atholia
Wright. The selection is certainly
an excellent one, and wo trust she
may secure the office.
The Tualatin river is lower than it
has been for many years.
The Independent savs Arthur II
and Cordelia Johnson mortgaged real
estate in Washington county on the
Jbth instant to i-. ti. Keed. in con
sideration of the sum of tfOO.000
gold coin.
The robust voice of the parrnlous
patent-medicine vender disturbs the
silent echos of Portland streets,
Prof. T. II. Crawford, representa
tive from Oregon to the vnand
Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Arnerica, has
arrived safely, at his destination In
dianapolis.
A mile made in 2:37 bv Bell Flower
at the Ilillsboro-, Fair, is said to be
the best time ever trotted in Oregon
Mr. Siglin, of the Coos Bay Netcs,
last week narrowly escaiied from
drowning.
The Oneatta Mill at Yaquina Bay
The Governor lias appointed Jas.
A. sterling a notary public ior Ore
gon, at Oakland, Douglas county.
A new ijodge, 1. (J. (J. r., was m
stunted at fccio. iinn countv. on
Friday evening by the Grand Master.
The presbytery of the U. P. churches
will meet at Brownsville on next
Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
The spans of the Lebanon bridge
are now beiug laid and the work will
be continued everv day, Sundays in
eluded, till the bridge is beyond the
danger of a sudden rise in the turbid
Santiam.
Mr. L. L. Cooper, chief engineer
of the Yaqnina railroad survey, and
assistants Webber and Liggett, are
engaged at Corvallis in perfecting
the necessary maps, etc., to complete
their summer s work.
The rnsh of pleasure-seekers to
Yaquina Bay is now greater than at
any other time during the season.
From ten to twenty wagons may be
met dailv on the road to the beach
Most of them are prepared to camp
The Corvallis college opened under
verv favorable auspices on Monday,
the 27th nit. The greatest number
of students ever enrolled on the first
dav of any previous session was 42.
On last Monday morning there were
88, embracing, a large number of
voung ladies and gentlemen from
abroad.
TCKRITOKIAI, MVS ITEMS.
There are only four Presbyterian
pastors in Xew Mexico,
Judge Wingard has accepted an
invitation to deliver the annual ad
dress at the Walla Walla fair.
The sum of $5,000 has been sub
scribed at Olympia to the fund for
building a wharf to deep water.
The "stone age" of Tdnl.TWrif.
will be represented at the Centennial
by several tons of
Tho common council of Seattle i
has voted money to purchase a, first
class tiro engine, hose and other ap
paratus.
Eight emigrant wagons arrived at
Walla Walla last week just across
the plains. Emigrant trains reach
there almost daily.
Information from Rockv Bar savs
that the health of Jndere Whitson is
much better, and that he will ar
rive in a few days at Boisj City.
The Wyoming legislature will be
divided, politically, as follows:
Council 2 liepublicans and 11 Demo
crats; House, 9 llepublibans and 18
Democrats.
Their names are Chaves and
Montes, their homes in Xew Mexico,
and thev are to be hung in the old
fashioned way next month, for the
murder of De Chamara.
George Shaw,
an Ogden hopeful,
seven years of age, swung on his fa
ther's big gate till it came off the
hinges and crushed his skull, death
ensuing shortly afterward.
Capt. S. Calhoun took ten tons of
barley from the Swinomish to Seat
tle lately, which lie disposed of at a
cent and a half a pound. He took
home with him 8,000 grain sacks.
The Puget Sound Salmon Company
at Point Elliott, has already be
tween two and three hundred bar
rels of Salmon on Yesler's wharf, at
Seattle, ready for shipment to San
1: rancisco.
Mrs. G. M. Woodworth, a culti
vated and wide-awake ladv of Las
Animas, has been appointed centen
nial agent for southeastern Colorado,
and is gathering up curiosities for
the big show.
A young man named Tow was sus
pected with taking a rule out of
Boise City on a horse belonging to
an honest granger of Boise valley.
When overtaken he had the horse in
Tow sure enough.
A German tramp, named C. Myers
who was recent v arrested on suspi
cion of having killed a fellow-traveler
was found dead in his cell at Salmon
City, the otiier day, with the arteries
his arm severed.
At a meeting of the Idaho Jockey
Club, tho following officers were
elected for the ensuing year; J. II.
Bush, president; J. B. Oldham, L.
It. alter. 11. L. Short, lJarl JIace,
II. C. Branstetter, vice presidents;
C. Ilimrod. secretary; H. C. Bran
stetter. treasurer.
This is tho kind of justice they
have in Dakota Territory: lwo
years aro. V. P. intermnte, a
Yankee banker, willfully murdered
Col. Edward McCook, Secretary of
the Territory. Last year the prisoner
was sentenced to prison for len years,
a pitiful sentence for the enormity
of his crime, but lately, in a new
trial, a iury has been found to ac
quit him.
Here is something wonderful. It
is about, some Indians who are hon
est and not lazv; About ten miles
from the mouth of Cataract creek, a
tributary of tho Big Colorado, in
Arizona, is the Spanish Indian vil
lage, numbering three hundred per
sons, who have language of their
own, and are very thrifty farmers,
keeping some two hundred acres of
land under cultivation. They do
not associate with other Indians, and
never having been consigned to a
reservation, they are singularly free
from the laziness and dissipation of
the modern red men.
The following gentlemen, we are
informed, constitute the anconver
Indedendent Publishing Company:
A. S. Nicholson. W. Byron Daniels,
John Ginder and Thurston Daniels.
Under such administration the Inde
pendent can hardly fail to prosper.
The IZeaister savs: Mr. John
O'Donnell, of Battle Ground, placed
upon our talde this week a piece of
an oak tree with a perfectly formed
star in the center, and tho conun
drum is whether the tree grew out
side the star or the star inside the
tree, and if so which one?
A correspondent, writing from
Dayton, " T-. under date of hept.
27th, says: e have had splendid
weather for harvesting, and thresh
ing is just about over, with but little
rain to hinder. Grain in the vicinity
of Davton turned out very well.
Some crops of wheat averaged 50
bushels to the acre, and oats and
barlev averaged from CO to 70 bush
els to the acre. There is plenty of
o-rain but no way of transportation
An Iowa exchange, evidently hav
incr bpard of friend Warren's thril-
''r
ling orations, says:
About this time, as the almanacs
say, look out for the annual gather
ing'of the bloody-shirt wavers the
fellows who never can get through
talking about the war "when I was
in the ami) u-n .
position and captured Joe Johnson,"
or "when I ran Beauregard through
with my trusty saber." If these
noisy. pestilential demagogues could
be induced to accept pensions, retire
from the world and trouble it no
more with their gabble, the people
would willingly pay the bill and
thus get rid of &n abominable nuis
ance. "agasiaEwrmniH'v:
TELEGRAPHIC X'EWS.
WBsniNorox, Sept. 2G. Postof
fices established Bonanza, Lake
county, Oregon, John S. Shook, P.
M. Discontinued Coos river, Coos
county, Oregon. Names changed
Hot Springs, Lake county, Oregon,
to Goose Lake, Eobert H. Dnnlap,
P. M.; Franklin, Pierce county, W.
T. to Sumner, Joseph C. Kincaid,
P. M. Postmasters appointed J.
G. Blakely, Aumsville, Marion coun
ty, Oregon; Dr. VV. II.,Saylor,
Forest Grove, Washington county,
Oregon; John Cramblit, La GraDde,
Union couufy, Oregon? H.' Leliin
sky, Looking-Glass Douglass county
Orefon; Wm. S. Humphrey, Mon
roe, Benton county, Oregon. F. II.
Gabb?rt, Myrtle creek, Douglas coun
ty, Oregon; Leonard P. Col burn,
Stone, Baker county, Oregon; Rob
ert Freeman, Centerville, Snoho
mish county, U . T.
Buffalo, Sept. 21. .bx-canal com
missioner Alex Hartley was this
morning arraigned in the supreme
court, under a joint indictment
found against himself, G. D. Lord,
Lewis J. Bennett, Thai C. Davis,
and Wm. -II. Bowman, for conspiracy
to defraud tha state, lie entered a
plea of not guilty, and gave bail in
5,000.
It is announced that the Young
Men's Christian Association have
leased Gilmore's Garden for the win
ter, r.nd that Moody and Sankev
will begin a series of revival meet-
s November 1st, which are to
continue all winter.
Nicw Yoes, Sept. 20. Ex-Govern
or Bigler reports the centennial col
lection in this citv to date at a nuar
ter of a million dollars.
Capt. Henry Burden, of the 12th
police precinct, tried before the
police commissioners on charges of
official corruption, was dismissed by
uuanimous vote. A number of po-
lico have been dismissed on lik
charges, their dismissal beit.g brought
about by the recent legislative inves
tigation Worcester, Sept. 20. The Massa
chusetts Republican convention nom
inated A. II. Rice for Governor over
Pierce, Loring and Charles Francis
Adams. The platform demands a
speedy resumption of specie pay
ments.
New York, Sept. 29. Ned O'Eald-
win died this alternoon. lie was a
prize lighter, better known under
the name of Irish Giant.
Fall River. Sept. 29. Tho mill
operatives are all returning to work.
Everything is quiet..
Xew Yoke, Sept. 20. At a meet
ing of the bondholders of the N. P
R. R. to-day, the report of the pur
chasing committee was read. G.
Cass, receiver, also submitted his
report, which was unanimously adop
ted, after which directors were chosen
for the ensuing year.
Boston ool Ualitomia spring,
continues to meet with good demand
with sales at 20(S 25c per pound, as
to quality; pulled wools quiet, at
prices ranging from o7 to 50c per
pound for amber and X.
Washington, Sept. 20. Tho agri
cultural report tor August and Sep
tember gives the condition when bar
vested for all States as 70 per cent.
The quality is poorer than for several
years. The oat crop is superior in
quantity and quality, and is mostly
secured m good condition, lhe bar
ley average for the country is 83.
Chicago, Sept. 30. A Fennsyl
vania iron master named G. D. Cole
man will in all probability succeed
Delano.
iM-:w jl ork. sept. oO. A rumor
was current on the street yesterday
that the P. M. S. S. Co. had sold
their Shanghai line, consisting of
three steamers, for 3700,000. Presi
dent Dillon says the sale has not yet
been consummated, though negotia
tions are now pending.
The board of directors for the
Northern Pacific Railway Company
met to-day. Frederic Billings, of
Vermont was nominated for Presi
dent, but was obliged to decline on
account of ill health. Chas. Wright,
of Philadelphia, was then chosen
President; Geo. S. Lake, Vice Presi
dent; Samuel Wilkinson, Secretary,
and Geo. E. Beebe, Treasurer.
Washington, Sept. 30. The com
missioner of internal revenue has de
cided under the act of July 11, 1870,
that railroad corporations are liable
to 5 per cent, tax instead of 2 per
cnt. to August 1st, 1S70, on the
amount of all dividends, earnings,
income or gains which had accrued
before that date, and also on undi
vided profits e.irned by the company
prior to that date, and added to any
surplus, contingent or other fund.
This question came up on an appli
cation from the Illinois Central rail
way to abate the tax assessed at five
per cent., claiming that 23 per cent
was the legal rate under the 15th
section of the act above named.
New York, Oct. 1. The agency of
the Bank of California here will pay
all outstanding drafts of the bank on
and after to-day.
San Francisco, Oct. 1. To-day
will be ratified the sale of the build
ing and lot on the northeast corner
of'balifornia and Davis streets to the
Granger Business Association, In
surance company and Bank, which
associations will enter upon the joint
occupancy of the premises on Janu
ary 1st, next. An extensive fruit
market will also be started on the
premises by the Business Association.
The apartments in the Nevada
block designed for the Nevada Bank
and the First National Bank will be
ready for occupancy to-morrow.
Question. Have you ever noticed
what Gordian knots a few glasses of
beer will tie in yonr drawer and shoe
strings? You need not answer
aloud.
The Democrats have gained 10.000
votes in the last five years in Kentucky.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
ttvtuc-ptty riTT n.AT.TFOFJIIA.
Olie Right Of a Wife.
j
"John," said I one night to my j
husband, as I put my basket of sew-
ing away preparatory to retiring, I
"John, as you go down to-morrow ;
morning, 1 wish you would stop at
Mrs. West's door, and leave her S5
from me."
"Five dollars!" and my lord looked
up quite astonished. "For what?"'
Y hy, she is collecting money to
aid that society she is secretary of,
and as I always felt interested in it,
1 told her 1 would cive her bu.
I said this with quite a show of as
surance, " though 1 really felt quite
uneasy as to the reception of my re
quest, for John is rather notional in
some of his wavs: however. I had
been cogitating some matters lately
in my own mind, and determined to
make a bold stand.
Well Sarah.'' at length came the
reply, "you need not count on my
doing any such thintr. I don't ap-
prove of that society at all, and not
one cent of mv money shall cro to
help it."
I give it out of my money," said
I, growing bolder; "I only asked
you to leave it at her door for me."
lour money I What do you
mean?" "I mean what I say mv
money. Have I no right to spend
money as well as yon? I don't ap
prove of the Masons, but that does
not hinder von from spending money
and time for them as much as you
have a mind."
John looked at mo quite amazed
at ni- sudden outbreak. You see I
had aiways been the most amiable of
wives. Then he broke out unite
triumphantly, "Coma now, who
earus tho money thit maintains this
family i
"You and I together,'.' said I.
"Together! Well, I should like to
see the first cent you have earned in
tho last seven years we have been
married. Together! Well I call that
pretty rich."
My spirits were visibly declining
under his ridicule, but I kept on as
boldly as 1 could.
"When we were married you
thought, or pretended to think,
yourself veiy happy in assuming the
care of board bills and wardrobe. I
didn't ask it of you. You asked m
to bo vour wife, knowing well all
what that meant
"As nearly as I remember" inter
rupted John, you were mighty ready
to accejit mo."
"Granted to save argument,"
said I coloring.
"Well we stood up in church to
gether, and you promised to love,
cherish, i to., and so did I.
And obey, too; but yon in re
turn, endowed me with all your
wordly goods, and the minister pro
nounceu us man and wite; and so
we have lived."
"Yes," said John, complacently,
"and as I look back over the time
have done what I agreed, ana made
a pretty good husband. I rcallv
think you ought to be thankful,
when yon see how some wives live
"Well," said I, "I think I have
Ln a domestic, prudent wife, and
I don't feel an atom of more grati
tude to j-ou for being a decent hus
band than you ought to feel to me
for beiu": a decent wife. Is it anv
more credit that you keep your mar
riago promises than I keep mine.-1
"Sarah, you are positively very
acrimonious to-night, Don't 3011
think we had better go to bed?"
"No sir. Well, meantime wo have
laid by money enough to buy this
house and still we have some in the
bank."
"More thanks," said I "to the per
fect good health wo have had. We
made all those promises for better or
for worse. Now it has been the bet
ter with us all the time. Had you
been sick or honest misfortune be
fallen 3ou, I should have managed
some way to reduce our expenses so
that you would feel the burden as
little as might be. Had I been sick,
more care would have fallen on you.
But we helped each other save, and
now I claim an equal right with you
in spending."
"Whew! Why, that is treason."
"If we occupied the respective po
sitions of superior and subordinate,
I should do what I do for 3 ou for a
fixed stipend and no questions
should be asked as to the use made
of it. Being equals, I will not ask
compensation as a servant, but be
cause the contract we have made is
lifelong and not easily broken, I do
not therefore call it very magnani
mous in a prosperous man to accept
these services and render in return
only my board and the least amount
that will creditably clothe ine."
You see I was growing irate.
John's temper too, was on the rise.
"What do you mean by services?
Housework? I am sure a home is
as much for your satisfaction as it is
for mine: and I am sure the tailor
does not leave much of my sewing
for von to do."
"I don't complain of house-work,
nor of doing your sewing; but I do
think the burden of little Johnny
has all fallen on me."
"It strikes me," said he with a
provoking complacency of tone,
"that if you earned his living you
would have less to say about the
burden falling on you."
"John," said I, "answer me hon
estly. Do you work any harder or
any longer now than you did before
he was born?"
"I don't know as I do," said he;
"I always worked hard enough."
"Well, and so do I. But now as
to Johnny. I presume you will al
low yourself half owner of him, as
the law allows you entire control
over him. How much do you do
for him?"
"I mafntain him. I do my part."
"No. John, 3-ou are wrong; you
don't do your part. From the first
you never have. Did not weary
months go by in which you bore no
part whatever of the burden?"
"Well, that is curious complain-
ing; what would would you have
me do?"
"You might have got a servant,
instead of letting all the house-work
fall on me; or you might have kept
a horse, so that I could ride out and
enjoy the fine weather; but that is
all past now."
"I should say it cost me enough
for tho doctor, nurse, etc., without
talking about keeping a horse."
"True, it cost enough, but I am
talking about the divison of the bur
den. Was the part 3ou bore in pay ment
of those bills equal to my part
in the matter? Would 3-011 have
taken my place for that money if it
were to have been paid 3 011 instead
of those who cared for you? I think
not."
"Didn't I have all his clothes to
buy
'No Sir. I went
without new
a season, and
my wardrobe
clothes of any sort for
the money saved from
supplied all that was needed; and I
might add that all his other clothes
have been got in the same way."
Well, really, I had no idea how
ranch of a martvr you were. Next
yon will be clothing me in the same
way. How thankful I ought to be for
so calculating a wife!"'
"Now, in these two vears," said I,
continuing in the face of his sneer.
"all of the care and confinement con
sequent on attending the child have
all fallen on me. I have managed
some way to accomplish my house
work and sewing as I used. I can
hardly think how it has been done-
Did it ever occur to yon to think
how many times I have been to
church since he was born?"
"You wouldn't expect a man to
take care of a baby, would you?
That isn't a man's work."
"Isn' it?" said I bitterly; "then I
wouldn't have a baby. I have been
to church just four times, and then
some visitors staid with Johnny.
How many times did yon ever get
up in the night to soothe him when
he was sick and fretful?
"How do you suppose" Faid he,
"I could work by daj- if I didn't get
1113- night's sleep."
"Just the same way when en
night was broken, exactly-."
"Well, Sarah, what is the drift of
all this argument, any way? for I
don't ee any use in prolonging it."
"Well then it is my original state
ment that as I did my part of tin
family labor and took all the care of
Johnny and yon are a man in pros
perous circumstances, I am entitled
to as much money- for that as if I
were employed and paid by the
month for the same work, and I have
a right to spend money- for things
that don't suit you if I please to do
so; and I may add" said 1 with sud
den vehemence, "that it is mean
aud contemptible in you to oppose
or forbid my doing so."
John said no more. I saw by the
look in his e3es that he was quite
angry; and so was I. That was the
first time in our married life that
we failed to kiss each other good
night. Indeed I felt guilty, though
I hardly know why, but it was late
before I fell asleep.
The next morning all was serene.
No trace remained of the evening's
storm, but nothing more was said
about the obnoxious subscription.
Next day I met Mrs. West, and she
thanked mo very- heartily for doub
ling my money.
Dear John! He didn't mean to bo
unkind, but he never stopped to
think about such tilings. When his
next settlement came and he slipped
a 20 bill in my hand and said "that
is for your own private purse," I
really thought lie was the best hus
band in the world.
Douglas Jcrrold
Douglas
Jerrold had known the
misery there is under ine sun. lie
. 1 . - -w-
had worked his own
way. He had
been a sailor; he had been a printer;
he had eaten the bread of adversity-.
He had educated himself. He knew
the enormous odds at which poverty
fought. He knew how heavenly
genius is weighted unless genius has
money at his bankers. He had seen
men whipped at the yard-arm. He
had seen poverty crouch on the
friendless doorstep and die. No won
der he was against wealth and power
against placemen and professional
politicians. No wonder he pointed
from tho modern bishops to the
apostles of old, and drew the moral
of the contrast with words of bitter
reproach. He was an enthusiast;
but the lightning of his eloquence
was backed by" legitimate thunder.
His storms were not sham tempests.
They were justified by a sultry at
mosphere and t be unwholesome va
pors of political jobbery and aristo
cratic tyranny. How much may we
not be indebted to Douglas Jerrold
for the change which has come over
society! For a time his language
may have widened the trulf between
the upper and lower classes; but the
descriptive grace and tenderness of
Dickens brought Mayfair to the fire
side of St. Giles's.
That 100 ready to. be put up in
Portland against Warren's election,
is thus advertised in tho Detroit
Eree Press.
'I'll bet you 100 he isn't,' was the
embarrassing reply, from the bade
of the hall which the chairman of a
political meeting in Oregon received
the other night upon introducing a
speaker as the next representative of
the State in Congress.
Norristown Herald: An old woman
in Bridgeport who lias pasted nearly
five thousand medical recipes in a
book during the past forty years has
she is growing discouraged. Some ; himself near HarnVburg last foatur
people are born to ill luck," she says. ' day. -
The llonanza King.
A correspondent of the Bostcn
Herald tells a story of James C.
Flood, of tho firm of Flood and
O'Brien, now the financial rulers of
the Pacific coast. He says:
J. C. Flood is the name of tho
man who is at the head of that great
mone3'ed institution, the Bank of
Nevada, in San Francisco, which
was the cause of the breaking of the
Bank ot California. The history of
that movement and all its resnlts are
well known to readers of the Herald.
But t" e history of the man who was
the prime mover of the whole affair
has uever yet been printed. He was
born, it is believed, in Ireland, but
on that point my informant is not
positive. He made his appearance
at Fort Hamilton many years ago,
when he was quite a lad, and engag
ed himself as a workman in the
wheelwright shop of Colonel Church.
He was accounted a good boy, that is
there was nothing particularly bad
about him. He was faithful in his
work and was of rather an inquiring
mind, always wanting to know tho
why and wherefore of everything.
He could not read or write, and tho
two sons of Col. Ci:urc!i were then
about his age. They have since
grown up, and keep the hotel; are
the judges, coroners, sheriff's agents,
agents of the government for many
thinge; are agents of the Western
Union Telegraph and of the associ
ated Press. Their father is now
dead. Young Flood prevailed on
Thomas G. Church to teach him to
rc?id an. I write, and he proved to be
a very apt scholar. His learning
enabled him to take a front rank
among his fellow workmen, and it is
said there are a good many wagons
now in existence on Long Island
that have a peculiar finish put upon
certain parts of them by young
Flood. When the California fever
broke out tuc-re were three compa
nies of troops sent there from Fort
Hamilton. In one of these compa
nies Flood enlisted and went with
them to California. After serving
his time he went into the mines and
came hack again to the wheelwright
shop at Fort Hamilton with somo
3,000 or 0,000. After slaving a
short time he married, and soou af
ter, with his wife, went to San Fran
cisco, lie there opened a bar room
and became quite popular, made
money, and being naturally shrewd
and careful in invetments, lias risen
now to be one oC the acknowledged
powers of the Pacific coat. There
are several around Church's Hotel at
Fort Hamilton who well remember
the young man, and who will doubt
less now agree that it was a good
place to emigrate from. He is now
said to be worth money enough to
buy up t bo whole region around
Fort Hamilton, and throw in Fort
Lafayette as a chowder depot, which
is all it is fit for. His history is like
that of many another in this free
country a poor, cjlliterate boy
taught his alphabet and to read,
write and cipher by Thomas G.
Church, his old employ ers's son
now not a millionaire, but a, ten or
twenty millionaire, lie lnrs the con
solation of
accident he
knowing1 that in case of
is a good wheelright,
aud can make a splendid cocktail
-o.
How a "Coiner" is jlanaged.
A, B and C combine their means
and credits to make a coiner in. Inly.
They therefore quietly begin in May
to buy corn to be delivered in July
They "gradually buy all the corn in
the market, and, of necessity, must
buy all that arrives, pay ing for tho
latter whatever is demanded. When
a purchase is made, buyer and seller
pur
margin, either in casn or
certificate of deposit. As soon as
the corner becomes known, there is
an effort made fo break it. The set
tlement takes place at 3 r. m., on the
last day of the month. Those who
have sold corn to the corner and
have no cgrn to deliver, pay the dif
ference between the price at which
he sold, and the ruling price at tho
close of business on the last day.
As the corner has thus purchased
sometimes five times as much corn
as there is to be had. amounting to
millions of bushels, and the price
has advanced five cents a bushel, tho
profit is enormous. As the prices O
advance, additional margins are re
quired. Those failing to put up tho
additional margins, lose what they
have already put up. The anti-corner
seek to so crowd sales on the coiner
;:s to exhaust its sales and credits,
and render it unable to buy for cash
all the corn in sight, to prevent hav
ing it rushed into Chicago at the last
moment. These are exciting times.
Corn at such a moment may be pur
chased of the corner or xJijnneut,
from six to fifteen cents a bushel less
than it is selling for on "Change for
delivery during the month. Each
time there is a corner, there is a
crash, sometimes of the corner men,
and at other times of the anti-corner
men. The whole proceedings are of
such questionable honesty, that the
Legislature of Illinois has.declired
the operation of a coiner to be a fel
ony. Corners are attempted in wheat,
oats, barley, pork and lard, and some
of them have been quite, successful
in a pecuniary va3-. It requires
nerve, audacity and money, or credit.
Recently a bank here went into a
corner, issued its-cernncai.es 01 oe
posit for margins; the corner failed,
and so did the bauk, and the certifi
cates have never been paid.
Equtvocal. An Oregon City
butcher boy nays he will soon be on
his own hook."
A man supposed to be insane shot
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