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o - o - i o " DEVOTED TO NEW3, LITERATURE, AfO THE DEST INTERESTS OF OREGON. VOL. 10. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1875. NO. 2, IMS EBUiiPSISI V3 A L0 DAL nsyspapeh F O U T II K Farmer, Business Man, &- Family Circle. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY. PROPRIETOR AND PUBLISHER. o OFFICIAL PAPER FOR CLACHAKAS CO. OFFICE In E.vtkki-risk r.uildlnr, one j iih(.f Masonic lUiiklinjr. Main t?t. Term of .Sii-M-rIplIn t cila Copy I'm Year, In Advance $2.50 siv Mouths " " o 1.50 Terms of Ad vrt islng : Transient advertisements, inelftdin all r'id not io'-s. V S'iu:irii of twelve lllP'S (Jll'l Week 2.50 Foreaeli su'JS"'Ufm, insTinm On'! Column, oik.- year Hilf " " " o.nrtrr - Business Card, 1 square, one year .() l'M'O K.(11 1D.0II 12.00 society xo ticks. OKlKiON i.()3u;j: NO. 3, J. I. ). I, Meets every Thursday yi.-' t-veuingat 7 li o'eloek, in the '-! O.I.I Follows' Hall, Main JS street. Members of the Or der are invited to attend. Uy order-. ici:uj:cc v ij:cui:i: i.oi)t;K xo. .'5, I. ). ). Meets on the Swiii'l and Fourth Tues day evening ea. h month, at 7 'i o'eloek. "m tlu' Odd Follows' Hall. Membersof tho IK are invited to attend. rree ;.:i;irxt.jA2i j.oi:;92 no. i it A. M., Holds its regular nun- A. 1 muni' atioiis on the First and T.iird Saturdays in eaeh month, at 7 o'cloek lioin t Ik1 L.'Dt Ii of.S.'p. ar lenioer in ui -nil oi .waren; aim i ...I. .l-xt i 1 r o'clock from the. JJtli !' M.ircli toth 'Rh of .September. Iht threu in frood bin din . art.' uiviteil to attend. lv order of w. m. v:aiMi!:i no. 1,1. o. O. F., Meets at O ld Fellows' W r, Hall on t he First and Third Tu;-s-d.iv of each month. I'atriarehs ? "V i a id standi!!.: aro invited toatteml. n v s i .v i-: s s a A it d .sr. A.J. H )VKK ?i. n. J. W. NORRIS, M. I). Courtis, in )V 1MY: VAlo WW N: f r y.Vi. M -l in sir l'p-St airs in C'hareaan's l.nck, ! 'r. 11 vr's rWl'-nc f'i i; ii i-liif stair.v ay. Third st root, tf at JOI IT WELCIt D 1 3 G f O'TK'K IN" o:t::r;o city, oit! ()?.". in l;i-. Iai;I f r County ATTOv4EYS-ATLAV PO!lTIiM). f'irt str '.-t. -I.i Opitz's now brick, ;i.v CITY Cliarman's s-'t bri'"!, no tJltf stairs. att.)um:y ami Oregon C luiNsrAnii-vr-L-WV, ;ii v, Oi'coh. il att nt ion ix'iv -n to loaning Mon"V, ii! Front room in K:;TKHi'iaiK bmkl- Dili l-i- ju iyot f q ATT0?iM:'S ) l")L'AEL0?iS IT-LAW. o Orogon Gity, Oregon. iWAYill jiraoti'".' in all tho Courts of t!io Stat . Si'oial attention given to oasos in tli' U. .S. l.aml Oiiie- at r .-on t tty. 5airls72-tf. ,L."oT. JiA 11 O-l-V lilt, :V-AT-LAV, onixwy CITY OR KG OX. OFF ntrMM, ICE Ovor Pope's Tin stop', Main !1 iiiii rT.'J-l t'. II. IIKillFIKLH. i:,(allili-(I i;Mo ' !., at the old stan.I. 31 a i n Strvl, Onvcoii City, Orrion." An anrt mnt of 'at lies, .Iwol rv.aiul s -tli Tliomas' Weight Clocks j. . ! II ui v I1R II lltV Itlllllllll. w iu Ml, 113 Uj-I'J r .,r .,.it"il. n"! "l i iritis ilim" nn short not ico, and thankful for past patronage. 'O .,11 ,.f ...l.w.'i f.. ii"irp-inl..,l In I,- c JOHN 31. IS.VCON", la Hooks, stationery. lVrfum- . -... -k Ty, etc. , etc. o V 1 Or fir on City, Orejroji. trv Attho Post Main stoct, cast STILL IN THE FIELD! RE?.13VED SECOND DD3.1 SC'JTH OF HAAS' SALOON". WILLIAMS & MARDSTJG, AT THE L I H C 0 L H BAKERY, KF.F.PTIIE MOST COMPLETE STOCK of Family iJroc-ris to be found in the ?''' All ironils warranted. Jooils delivered "i tho city free of charge. The highest cash paid for coaiitrv produce, oron Pity. March -JS. 1S73. tiTfrust-ghowers. AT.DKX Kit tUIT PRESERVIXO gon City will pay the - otnjiany of Ore: HIGHEST MARKET PRICE .:.YMs- PKtKSanil APPLES. ci".., lr,!'.-chnrmn is authorized to rur- " ' - "'r me C ompanv. L. D. C. LATOURETTE. Osoo City, july lsf5 ' Five and a Half Patched. I am a bachelor, an old" bachelor: at least that's what my nieces pret ty, saucy, clever, lovable girls call me; and no doubt they're right. though I can't go so far as to agree with them when theycdeclare a man owuing to five-and-forty years and a dozen white hairs "decidedly vener able" and "fearfully gray." Howerer, an old bachelor I am dubbed, and I must confess, if to acquire that distinction one is oblig ed to be made much of by lovely wo men and charming maidens, as I am. I have no serious objection to the title. In the first place, my home is a homo in every sense of the word, al though without a mother, or even a mother-in-law. I occupy, and have occupied for the past year, a suite of remarkably pleasant rooms, the front windows looking on a crty park, and the back on a garden made delightful by two line old peacn trees, a heavy crane vine and a sweet smelling wistaria TM 1 a i T 1 i nifi tatter lias cnmbed to my, win dows, and twining in and out of the slats of the shutters, effectually pre vents my closing them, but gives me in recompense great fragrant bunches of purple flowers. These cheerful rooms are part and parcel of JHrs. ALidget sD boarding house. No, I am wrong. Mrs Midget Mr. Midget was lost at sea live years ago does not keep a boarding house, but takes a few se lect boarders, of whom she is pleased to intimate sue considers me the se lect est. "Wonderfully comfortable the "few select" iind it in Mrs. Midget's shady ohi-iasiiio'.icM, neatly Kept, three storv brick housed "Everything like wax," my eldest sister says when she comes to visit me, which is about once in four weeks, a day or two after my maga zines have arrived. "And the landlady," I invariably reply, isu t sue awl ill cunning r so demure in her ways and speech-for such a wee thing, and so pretty, with ier bright blue eyes and vellow mir I Ibit Maria, I can't divine why, pre tends not to hear me, or else repeats, with scornful emphasis;: ''Awfulcun nmg! The fact is. I'm so much my Kinswomen that 1 olten nnd my self, when I wish to be particularly emphatic, borrowing their qtieer ad eeuves ami peculiar tortus oi ex pression. Indeed, uncle, said Charley to mo the other day named lor m Charlotte I diaries, as near as they could get it) "you're beginning to talk like a girl, and at your time of ife, too!" And I didn't feel at all insulted; for if all girls talk as well is my nieces, Ic consider Charley s remark rather ti compliment than otherwise. t. Mrs. Midget knows how to furnish table, too; all sorts of little delica cies and unexpected tidbits, stews and hashes above reproach, bread md pies, marvejs of culinary skillc uiil tea and collije well, really cohee and tea. As for Mrs. Midget, herself, she's such a tot of a woman that I feel like laughing outright every time I look at her, perched son a pile of music- books placed on a chair the chair itself taller than, any of the "few se lect" at the head of the dining table. Indeed, only the other day, when she asked, in a solemn manner, fixing her blue eyes oii my face, and lifting a large soup ladle in her mite oi a hand, j.f I would have some soup, I did burst out laughing, she looked so very much like a little girl play ing dinner with her mother's dinner set. The miniatures woman laid down the ladle and sooked at me in sur prise. Mrs. Midget, I beg your pardon," sani i; "i suddenly thought oi a man I saw at the circus." "Oh!" said she, and returned to the soup. - o I'm a romantic old fellow there, you see how naturally I fall in my nieces' way love, poetry7, music, flowers (Mrs. Midget always lias a posy ready for me in summertime, which she pins into my button hole with her own fair hands, and I assure you it is not at all unpleasant to have her standing on tho tip of her toes to reach it, with her small round head just touching my chin), and the fair sex. Yes, old bachelor as I am, I love, and always have loved, the fair sex; and I really think it is because Hove them so well I still remain unmar ried. I never could make up my mind that one of all those I admired was prettier, brighter, and sweeter than the others, and as I wanted the prettiest, sweetest, and brightest, I have been in a dilemma all my life, lint I've always meant to, and my intention is stronger than ever since the day I picked up a little patched glove in Broadway in front of Stew art's I feel convinced that the owner of that glove is the wife for me. I wear it next my heart. Silly? Not a bit oi it. :no single man could 1 eln a glove like that near his heart Five and color; every a half, a pretty mouse linger well filled out scarcely a crease in them she must be plump; a faint smell of rose (as a general thing, with the exception of honest cologne, I detest perfumes, but if I can endure any, it is rose, calling to mind, as it does, bees, but terflies, flowers, and all that sort of thing), and the eunningest patch in the palm of the hand. Now I'd never seen a patch in a glove before, so it struck me as some thing odd, and I examined it critic ally. The manner in which that patch was sewed in told me the wear- er of the glove was neat and method ical; uie line silken stitches used in sewing that patch in, that she was dainty; the fact that tho color of the patch exactly matched that of the glove, that she- was constant, true to one shade. Then I imagined her personal ap pearance: solt brown eyes, chestnut hair, slight but pjnmp figure, feet to correspond with her hands decid edly graceful and attractive. altogether very I'll wager she sinpes. plays, and dances well," I said to myself, in conclusion; "is not rich, or she would" not patch her glove, pr poor, or she would not wear kids." I must find her! All, very well to sav, but how to find her? A "personal." if it met her soft; brown eyes, would frighten so modest a little creature, and she would be likely to hide herself in stead of allowing herself to be found. Shall I show my treasure to my nieces, ana asic it tiiey can "ive me any clew to the original possessor? rhaw! tho teasing things would make no end of fun of me liyJove! where have mvAvitsbeen? I'll see what Mrs. Midget says about it. She's by far the most sensible woman of my acquaintance, and very sympathetic, and is at this moment sitting aione in tno uininsr room m a low rockinpr-chair, with a iriant work basket by her side and a heap of stockings in her lap. If 0 "There, my dear Mrs. Midget, is the glove. Ion will see at once it is all my fancy painted it," and I plac ed it in the landlady s little hand Over went the big work-basket on the floor, as Mrs. Midget, tluowinfir herself back in a paroxysm of laugh ter, came near going over too, her absurdly small feet kicking wildly in tno air ior a moment 'until 1 had re stored the rocking-chair to its librium. equi Shall" I pick up the things, Mrs. Midget,' said I, as soon as she had ceased laughing, rather put out. to tell the truth, by her strange con duct, so unlike the sympathy I had expected. "les no if von please I don t care, stammered Alr-i. JUidget, m t voice very different from her every day one, and with the loveliest rose color on her cheeks. As I thought so I detected the fragrance of rose apparently emanating from a epoo of thread I held in aiy hand, and ie membered the glove. "33id von drop the glove, Mrs Midget," I asked, seriously. o, repuea she, opening a wee hand, and showing it, crumpled into a heap. lake it, and oh! please say no more about it. It's too too too ridiculous! and oil she went again. "Mrs. Midget," said I, "what are you laughing at i. suddenly thought oi a man l saw at the circus said she with saucy look I had never before seen in her blue eyes. I in convinced you know the own er of the glove," said I. "It's an old maid whom nature has sought to compensate for lack of other charms by giving her a perfect hand, or a raudmother who still wears live and half, though her complexion has fled and hair departed. You know I'm sure of it; and though you com pletely shatter my beautiful dream, you must tell me. And in my excite ment I, quite unintentionally, put my arm around her slender waist. "Well, if I must, I must."" oaid Mrs. Midget. "Prepare for a fearful blow. The glove is mine!" Mrs. Midget has ceased to bo a widow, and I cam no longer a bach elor. v "Wiiat Bof.s He Live c Ox? The Toledo Jilmlo relates the following: A citizen of Toledo, in the ordinary current of business, became in pos session of a note of a German saloon, keeper. The note being due he took it to the party and presented it for payment. The man was not prepar ed to liquidate his obligation, and asked for an extension of time. This being granted, and the conditions settled properly, he was turning to leave, when the German said: " Shoost vait von leetle whiles, tint I gifs yon ein glass good peers." " No, I thank you, I don't drink beer," way the reply. "Yell, tlen, I gifs you veeskees, that is petter as so mooch." "No, thank you, I don't drink whiskey." " Sho! den I know how I fix you; I haf goot. vines," jerking down a bottle with a flourish. Again the quiet, " No, I thank you, I don't drink wine." "Yot! you don't trinks nothings; veil, I gifs you ein good shegar." Once more, " No, thank you, I don't smoke." "Mein Gott," exclaimed tho Dutchman, throwing up both hands, " no peers, no veeskees, no vines, no dobacco, no noddings vot you live on, anyways betatoes, eh?" Jay Gould's Mission to toe "West. The St. Louis Times, referring to the visit here of Jay Gould, Sidney Dil lon, Oliver Ames, and other railroad magnates, says: "The main object of their visit was to perfect arrange ments to run through cars from here to San Francisco, -via the St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern and Union Pacific railroads, without change, and ultimately from New York, via the New York Central, through this city. It is further said that this pro ject is designed to forestall the action of the National Railroad Convention to be held here next month, and, if possible, to kill the Southern Pacific railroad project, which has many strong friends here. Franklin Pierce was the only Presi dent who went out of office with a Cabinet as originally appointed. Getting an Old ".Fashioned Coun try limner. Mr. Jones told his wife last Sun day morning that ho believed he would walk out in tue country and spend ths day with a farmer whom ie knew, and get an oiu-iasnioned country dinner, bo alter eating a very scant breakiaot, in oraer that ie would be able to "put away a ?ood portion of the old-fashioned dinner that he imagined he was going to get, he "lit out." As it was sev eral miles to where he was going the walking began to whet up his appe tite, and by the time became within sight of the farmer's house he felt as if he could devour an ox, and when he readied thediouseaud the savory fumes of roast pork greeted his ol factories, his hunger became almost beyond endurance. After knocking about the place awhile with the farmer, the coveted dinner hour arrived, and with the full intention of doing justice to an old fashioned country dinner, Jones went in the house with the farmer p.nd took a seat at the table, and be ing helped to a choice piece of the pork, he "pitched in, telling the farmer that he thought it was very nice. "Yes," said the farmer, "if that hog had lived till Christmas it would have pushed four hundred pounds; but 'twas taken sick the other day and died, and as times are hard we thought that wo would save it any how." Jones' eyes became about the size of the plate that he was eating off of; his ravenous appetite disappeared; and buttoning up his coat he looked at the farmer, and began shaking from head to foot. " Got a chill, eh?" said the former, taking in a good-sized mouthful of the pork, which made Jones fell sick at his stomach. " Yes," said Jones, jumping up from the table and making for tho door, "and I must be getting home, as I don't care about being laid up on your hands;" and leaving the far mer to eat his old-fashioned country dinner himself, Jones struck out for home. About thrcs o'clock that afternoon, Mrs. Jones, who was taking a nap, was aroused by hearing a noise in the kitchen, and on going out to as certain the cause c f it, found Jones at the cupboard devouring cold vict ual: as it he had not tasted food for a week. " DiJii't you'get your .old-fashioned country dinner?" she asked. " Get thunder and lightnirg, no! Go and make supper, old woman!" JJanburi Xcics. Reading for Young People. The Tribune criticises severely the kind of literature provided for boys and girls, which, says the editor, is too often flabby, gushing and preten tions. It attempts muscle and ends in mush; it ndorns the t de at the ex pense of tho moral, and is as far be low the line old English models as it well can be. There's little that is rich, strong and healthy about it, and yet it is the stuff, outside text books, that chiefly helps to make the brains of schoolboys and girls be tween the ages of twelve and sixteen. When the supply fails the youn;j peo ple are naturally not slow to take up those novels which are even more weak and gushing. c It is useless to inflict upon young people a daily compulsory stint of dry history and drier essay. The teacher who is really wise and accom plished understands very well how to awaken and to train an active and delighted interest in Hie best thought and the noblest literary manner. If nothing but a novel appeals at pres ent to the young girl's capacity, give her a novel; but let it be a standard in conception and execution. There is not much danger of surfeiting children with writing too old for them; every teacher who knows his business thoroughly kuows how the fields of 'history may bo made to blossom under young eyes; how childish imaginations take fire be tween the flint of motive and the steel of action when both are brilliantly rehe used; and how even the bones of inference and deduction are made lively by eager young minds. Girls and boys who are not stupid, natural ly delight in splendid description, in good sense, and in simple English. .- . -o His nervous system being a little broken down, a Shepard street youth went into the country to recuperate, and wishing to" bring his girl home something, he wrote " Dearest An geline: What shall your honey bring you for a present? Mountain views, a basket made by a genuine Indian, a mess of trout, or what.9 Anything you say, you shall have." She wrote back, " I would rather have you save your money and put it into a cham ber set or a marble-top table, some thing for the house when we are married, you know, darling; but if you are out in the woods and can get some spruce gum riglit from the tree without tearing your pants, bring me home a good hunk." She has been chewing gum for tliirty days. If the gum don't give out soon we fear she won't have any use for the marble-top table, though she may for a marble slab. A New Cathedrax. tor Loxdox. Colonel Forney writes from London: The lloman Catholics of England are preparing to begin, under the aus pices of Cardinal Manning, a cathe dral worthy of the Metropolitan See. It is to be placed in what is called the Archdiocese of Westminister, in the rear of Victoria street. Canvassers for the city papers are beginning to swarm into the country. ' Now is the time to get up clubs" unless you have a good dog. A Vast Estate in" Kansas. Among the prominent visitors the fair is Mr. George Grant, of Y at 1C- toria Colony. Kansas, tno owner the largest farm in the world, with the exception, perhaps, of that of the Dnko of Sutherland, whose broad acres consist largely of hill and heather. Mr. Grant's domain covers 570,000 acres in the heart of Kansas, about 200 miles west of Kan sas City to Fort Hays, tho centre of the tract. His effort. is to establish a model farm, for which great credit is due him, as well as for his success ful efforts in introducing imported with native stock, and also the best methods of sheltering and feeding cattle in winter. Mr. Grant is going back to Europe in about live weeks to arrange for the bringing out of more people, and a large portion of-; high-bred stock, which he will exhib it at tne Centennial, with the inten tion ultimately of shipping it to Victoria. Mr. Grant states that one herd of eighty-one short horns of the Booth strain sold five wetks ago at the sale of the late Mr. Terrs' prop erty in England, at an average price from young to old of 3,0(0. They were of the same family that ho Las at Victoria, and many of the animals were bought for America. Mr. Grant's colony ha3 largely swelled this season by immigrants, and another English company lias just bought -10,000 acres adjoining the Victoria colony. One of the New York Gunthers has started with 5,000 acres, and Mr. Dickinson of St. Louis has bought two square miles, and is out there now making arrangnients for putting up a house. Mr. Grant says lie is more than sat isfied with the produce of his crops this season. The rains have been abundant, but last year the grasshoppers swept everything. One field of eighty acres of Hungarian grass on his farm lias produced 770 tons of fodder and 5,111 busliols of seed, giving a profit of more than 500 per cent, on the cost of putting in the seed. He put in 300 acres of alfalfa, a kind of fod der much used in California. The land will grow three crops of this grass in a year, at the rate of six tons to th acre, but it affects a deep, dry soil. Mr. Grant lias increase! his flock of shoe) to 10,000, and has 1,000 cows. In less than live years he ex pects to increase his sheep to 100,000. His wool alone this season brought. 11,700 in Boston "at thirty-three cents per pound. Sheep farming is evidently destined to be a profitable business in Kansas. c c The I top Field. A letter from Madison county, N. Y"., to the Sun, says: The hop har vest is ended, and the yield proved much larger than for years, while the quality i3 said to be excellent. The European crop is also largo this year, which fact causes the prices to "fall. Last year the hops brought readily forty cents per pound; this year the highest price offered by the buyers is fifteen cents, and many farmers have sold their entire crop for eleven cents per pound. The hop harvest begins about Sep tember 1, continuing six weeks, and it proves a harvest indeed, not only to the farmer, but to the laborer, and his entire family, down to the little live year old child, all of whom are drafted into the field to pick hops. The price paid for picking is forty cents a box, holding seven bushels. A good picker can fill five boxes a day. Many poor families in this way earn fifty dollars during the harvest. A hop field under a September sun presents a busy and merry scene; the air resounds with laughter and songs, and when evening comes tho young people gather in tli2 large farm kitchen for a "hop dig," and dance until tired nature demands rest. Tho potato crop in this region is this year large, and the potato beetle is called a humbug. The farmers are selling potatoes for twenty-five cents per bushel. Last year they sold readily for sixty cents. There are many fine apple orchards in this vicinity, but this year the, crop is a failure. Other crops,.. such as wheat oats and grass, have been abundant. -3-. Ci- " TaiiKincj to SuiiSRiiJEKS. We clip the following from the Winsted Prexs. Bro. Pinney is "up on his ear," as the boys say: Have you paid yo lr subscription? We feel an interest in your future which prompts us to ask you this question in a spirit of a mis sionary. Give heed ere it is loo late, it is easier for a needle to go through the eye of a camel than for a fig tree sown on stony places to take away from those who have nothing that which they have, even though the virgins with their ten commandments refused to partake of the prodigal calf that Adam killed as a peace-offering after Abel slew his brother Noah in the ark. Ponder on these things. They are full of hidden meaning for subscribers who are in arrears. Our Mineral Weaxtii. The year 1875 will rank as an eventful one in American mining. Whether in the b'ne of new and rich discoveries, in creased yield from old mines, or better methods of taking out and re ducing ores, it is equally a year of great progress. The yield of pre cious metals in the United States, which has for some time fluctuated from 00.000,000 to 70,000,000 ier :n - in I eai, -vviii in Lor.t nearly 100,000,000. aggregate very We never can tell exactly where we loose our umbrellas. It is singu lar how gently an umbrella unclasps itself from the tendrils of our mind and floats out into the filmy distance of nothingness The Jews. Some curious, and in some re spects surprising and exciting partic ulars have lately been collected and published in a French paper re specting the Jews. Although the Is raelites hold such an inqortant place in trade, commerce and fi nance, and are to be met with in every quarter of the world, it ap pears that they are to be found in least numbers in some of the most commercial countries, and in most numbers in some of the least pros perous and enterprising States. Moreover widely as they are scatter ed, and numerous as they appear to be, it seems from the statistics in question that the census of the whole race falls short of live millions of souls. In France where there ex ists little or none of tho stupid and barbarous prejudice- against the Jews which prevails in some coun tries, and where one would think there was a wide field for the pecu liar talents of the race, there are only 40,000 Jews. In all America, a still more favorable country, there are only one hundred and twenty thousand Israelites. On the other hand, in wretched, and unprosper ous, and down trodden Poland the Jews are to be found in greatest number, one outcof every seven of the inhabitants being ao Hebrew. One can understand there should be few Jews in Spain, but it is csurpris ing that they should be almost as rare in Belgium. In Sweden there are comparatively few Jews, but they abound in Hamburg, Austria, and ltomania in the proportion of one to every twenty four inhabitants. In Hamburg and Austria there is abundant emplov ment for their tal ents, but ill liomania there cannot be any great scope for their com mercial and financial instincts. Ire land always boasts of being the only country in the world in which the Jews were never persecuted and, indeed, whether at home or abroad, the Irish always manifest a certain respect for the Israelites but Ire land has hardly had the opportunity of persecuting the race, for even at the present day there are not three hundred Jews in the whole country. An interesting addition to these sta tistics (if it were possible to secure it,) would be the amount of wealth iu the hands of the less than five millions of Jews that abide upon, if they do not inherit, the earth. Con sidering tho enormous wealth pos sessed by oy a few well known in dividuals of the race, such a return would doubtless show a high aver-' age per head. London Globe. Ciradtial Disappearance of Partj Lines in Lingiish ami American I'olitics. o The politics of the United States, which are commonly, and in a sense justly, considered to be absolutely without interest ,for Englishmen, seem to foreshadow the condition to which English jolitics are rapidly ITT , . coming. e are not about to raise a cry of warning against the "Amer icanizing of our institutions." In the sense which used to be attached A ll -. -. to in is pnrase, tne supjioseu tlanger never existed. England is not about to become a republic, or to make the judges elective, or to abolish the peerage; and she was no nearer tak ing any of these steps before the late conservative reaction than she is now. 0 The resemblance between the l'if nil a i. pontics oi ine countries relates to a matter more fundamental than any oi inese. j.c is easier to imagine England ruled by a President, or iuhabited by a wholly untitleu popu lation, or submitting lawsuits to the decision of judges chosen by the rate payers, than to imagine Englishmen not iiiviciea into nuerais ami con servatives. Y'et while there seems no chance of any of the first three contingencies occurring, the last is in all probability, on the eve of being reduced to fact. The obliter ation of political landmarks has al ready been aseomplished in America Republicans and Democrats are now prejiariug themselves for the Pres idential canvass, and everywhere they re making the discovery that neither party have anything to"unite their members among themselves, or to dilierentiate them from their oppo nents. luonaon spectator. Harits of Great Toets. Mr .Ualph Waldo Emerson has been talking with a correspondent of the concord Monitor about the habits of his poetical friends. "Holmes" sah ne, is so clull that he can write at any time. Lowell broods over his subject for a time and then composes with great swiftness. ' He does not like to write to order, though desi rous of employing the stimulus o Hieai, occasions. e asked him to read a poem at Concord on the one hundredth anniversary of the fight out ne saia ne could not. His wife a day or two before, wrote to me say nig; 'I cannot speak for James T-nr T 4li7- -.. uoua jun uiuY expect a poem "J"i on me lum. lie has been going about lor some time in that peculiar way which is promise of promise something' and on the 19th Lowel was on the ground with his poem and a grand one it was. prepares his poems to any great occasion, as Longfellow be read on a minister who lives near Boston sermons, nearly a year wrote the poem read prepares his ahead. He at Bowdoin College last summer early in the fall of the preceding year, and well it was he did so, for the months inter vening hive been fruitless as far as literary labor is concerned, owing to physical prostration. He is happily better now." Provided. Oregon has a new town called Pay Up. It is said to be a good place" for settlement, pro vided those seeking homes are not hard up. News Column. it snowed last Sunday in "Wash- mgton D. C. Eich mines are being discovered near Prescolt, Arizona. There are five horse-thieves in tho Wasco county jail. The new Russian Minister to Wash ington is named Chickine. Tbe Cubai question tating the Cabinet at is again agi Washington. News from Virginia City is to the effect that work is resuming rapidly. Of the 1205 voters in Washington county, only 502 voted at the last election. Harvard students have been trying to blow up college buildings with nitro-glycerine. According to experts, 110.000 tons of wheat in there are this State for exportation. Inflation Democrats of Ohio have declared war upon the hard money Democrats of New York. Collections are being taken through out California for the benefit for the destitute Virginia citizens. Failures to the average amount of 100,000 a day have occurred in the k.st during the last month. c2, 000, 000 gold will be sold dnr- . .11 I f i 1 T T ing this montn, oy oruer oi tue u. S. Secretary of the Treasury. The official vote in Ohio gives Haves, Republican candidate for Governor, 5,510 majority. There will be 1,000.000 gallons of wine pressed from this year's grape crop in Los Angeles county, Califor nia. On Saturday evening a grand con cert was given at Gilmores Garden, New York, in aid of the Centennial fund. A. wandering band of Cheyenne has twice defeated the United States troops near Fort Hayes during the last week. It is thought that the President will urge upon next Congress tho importance of giving aid to the Darien Ship Canal. There is some talk among New York capitalists of constructing nn opposition railroad line across the Isthmus of Panama. Miss Georgia Carpenter presented the colors to the steamboat City of Salem, which were received with a neat speech by purser Hatch. Lulu has made" the three fastest straight heats on record. Her second" heat was trotted in 2:14, equalling the fastest time cever made on the turf. On Monday last a meeting was held in Albany, for the purpose of soliciting subscriptions in order to represent properly our productions at the Centennial. Supt. Catalow, of the Oro Fino mine in Idaho, oilers to bet fc-lu,UUU that he can select a ton of ore in ten days that will mill over 10,000, and there are no takers. Charles Grant, who sued to re cover 10,000 damages from the O. S. S. Co., on account of personal in juries received at tne time oi tne blowing up of the steamer Senator, was non-suited in Portland last Fri day. o A San Francir-can named I. N. Pike has offered the receipts of his res taurant for one day for the benefit of the Virginia City sufferers, and Tom Maguire has offered the proceeds of his two theatres, for one night, for tho same good cause. The ship Western Shore, built at Coos Bay by Simpson & Bros., has made a trip from San Francisco to Liverpool in 101 days.the fastest time of the season, and the return voyage was made in 110 days; thus beating the best time of the season by 21 days. o Prof. Jenney, the Black Hills geol ogist, arrived at Cheyenne, W. T., and been interviewed. He reports the gold fields as covering an area of 800 square miles, and as containing the precious metal in sufficient quan tity to pay miners from 3 to 5 per day to the man, and that bars in some of the streams will pay much more than this. The professor cor roborates the report of Gen. Custer that the valleys of the country are fine agricultural lands, and the hills and canyous adapted to stock raising. In other words, that the stories of "gold in the grass roofs" are true, although not to be secured by the aid of a pick and pan. Agricultural returns for October show the wheat crop of the present year is a short one, and there is marked deterioration in the quality. The average thus far reported is about 8 per cent, of last year's production. If this indicates a'total depreciation it amounts to nearly 02,000,000 bushels, and gives the crop at 210, 000,000 bushels; in quality the crop averages 14 per cent, below sound condition. The condition of the corn crop is exceptionally high; the pro duct reported this year falls short of 1871 about 4 per cent. The oats pro duct is 5 per cent, greater than last j ear. The total crop promises to be extraordinary both in yield and quali ty. Tobacco, 2 per cent, above aver age. Barley, 85 per cent, of last year's crop, and buckwheat not far from average. Sixty-three millards of francs 12,000,000 were spent by the com bined nations of Europe in the effort to put down France between 1791 and 1816. - The Smiths have only ten repre sentatives in the next Congress. They will bring in a bill to secure majority representation.