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t DSVOTED."TO ''riSV'. LITERATURE j-i AH 3 THE CEST I N T E R E ST 3 OF -'OR E G O f tS o VOL. 10. OREGON; 'mm,: OREGON, FRIl)AT; NOVEMBEE 19v t875;:;; NO. 4. ra Mum. . -:"- - . - " . -," -' t '-" ''.V . --.'- .. , - s L -. "- -":.'-:-?..'.'" '.' ' , ."'"''.-. . !' ' .. -V - -. ' - O " ' llifiiliffl'-wlw j -r r-. r-TI 1 IUDTIVf II. . ll T HE EM A LOCAL NEWSPAFEB K O It THE Farmer, Business 3Iaa, & Family Circle. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY. pttnPSIETOR AND FUBLISHER. orriCIAL PAPE2 FOU CLACKAHA3 CO. tloof south oi Miksouic liuiiaiut;. Mam t?t. Tornt- of SubscripJioii: r.,r On- Y.-ar, In A.lvanc... .$2.50 .. 1.50 Six Mont lis ' Terms of Advertisings Transient n-ly.-n isonvnts incJmUns , n l'MT'il not i:i-s. 2.50 l.oo litlS OIH-' W'.-i'lv For oacii si!1)s :miu"!H One Column, onO yi; insert ton ir 12').00 OO.Oif 10.(0 12.00 Half on-Art'T" RUsmcssCarJ.lsiurtr , oni' yfiir. SOCIIJTi' NOTICES. . Meots ovoi nirs lav loc k, in t!ij Odd 1'fllowV Hall, Main street. M .-inlicrs .f the Or der are invited to attend. ,Jy order 3. I. O. O. r ., Meets on mo NL..-,iii,l :inl l'm-th Tiies- .1.... ......I .r a ik-ti.lk tlMtlltll U. ...... v.. - at 7 'i o el .eK, lit me Follows' ll:ill. Membeirsof the 1 rree are laviica in aiien-i o siui.TX!).'! ;i 2.(;;s: xo. t A. Holds its regular eom inmiie.ttioiis on the J'"-irst and Tnird Saturdays in e;u-Ti month, , A. I". A at 7 o eloi'K ironi I lie -oi 11 oi oej tembor totiiolMth of March; o'eloek from the lieth of Marc 'itli of Sijlmleiv llrrtliren 3ta!idinii are invited to utteiid. I5y order of wnd 7'-; it loth" in jood w. :.r. fai.l s:xca:.sims:xt xj. i,i.o. O.K.. Meets at O Id Fellows' n Q, Hall t!ie First and Tiiii d Tues div of ea - month. Patriarchs "j in g j 1 ta!t ling are invited to attend. n u s i x a s s V A P. D S. i. W. -oki:is, M. A. J. If'J VEt, M n. IIOVKli IsOliHIS, p:ivsk j vxs axo sriaciKo.ws, y-0'15'. ITji-Stairs in t'luirntrn's Crick, Min sir -ft. i.r ir .v-r-s r.-siil.Tii?? Third strict, at. f-i it of chif sta:rvay. tf Dli. JOHN WKLCI DENTIST, OK'.'KU-: IN ON CITY, Oil Iricf PaiJfjrt'ounty Orilor. HUE L AT & EA3T24AWJ, ATTORN E YS-AT-L A W- POJt Tti N'i 1. Oiit.'s new lriek, -ta Flr;t str-".'!. ll!:r; CIT Y Ch arnr.in's ' rick, up utair. s.'i-t2tf ATTOilMIV AM) ('!)C.SEL:MT-L.1W, Oi Ci2,OH Cit v, )i ci2;oii. Spt-liil nttiMition jilv-'ii to loaniiv-T Mon"y. Ota i-'roitl roL:n in ICntki'ui.sk huiUl-in- j n I y-.lt f JO.HTJso? & Lie ATTORNEYS AND COnSELORS AT-LAW. Orason City, Oregon. t"VUl pra.-ti-'t? i: nil t!v5 Courts of tho 8tat". So-ciul attention jriven to cases in tlie U. S. Uint U;ik- at orc-ou City o:iirl7'-lt. J.. T. 15 A I? I N A T T O n r J Z Y -"A T - L A W , OJlKdOX CITY, : : : OR Ed OX. the Courts of the Nov. 1, 1873, tf -ill St ale. l'raotie-j in all Y. II. UKillFIELI). Established ninrt ' !'., lit tlie old stniiti. 51 a i 11 Str:d, Orrgou lilv, Dri'con. An assortment of Writ li.-s. .Tou-.-l- rv.iiii'l s -t h 'I'licimus' Weight Clocks all of whicli are warranted to he as r'iri'seui"u. y It -pa irin dono on short not Ice, and thankful lor past patrona-e. JOHN 31. IJ.M'OS, IMPORTER AND DEALER In Rooks, stationery, lVriu-it- ery, etc., etc. Orruu City, Oregon. (J trwAtthe Post tde. OtV.ee, Main stgoct, oast STILL IN THE FIELD! REMOVED SECOND DOOP, SOUTH OF 11 A AS' S AI.OOX. VVILL1AF.1S & HARDING, AT THE LINCOLN BAKERY, KEEP THE MOST COMPLETE STOCK of Eamily Groceries to le found in the oitv. All enods warranted. (Joods delivered in tho citv free of charge. Tho hi -host cash orico paid for country iro.h;oo. Oregon City. March I's, 1S73. TOWuTf ROWERS. rrHE ALDKN FRUIT PRESERVING J Companv of Oregon City will pay the HIGHEST MARKET PRICE for Pl.i-.ii, PKAItSnnd APPI.KS. Mr. Thos. Chnrman is authorized to pur chass for the Coin nan v. L. D. C' bATOURETTE, tm President. THOx. fllAnMAN.Scretarv. OreKon City. July S, 1S75 :tf ' "Gnod-byo, thon,"ai(l Jie turned awa.v, rsootln-r worn iMwpoii tncia spoueni lou hurdly coiiltt have guessed that u:s- IIov close a bond was broken The f.tint, sli-rh.t tremor of the hand That flashed lier own ia tliat brief liartinpr, Onlv her heart could understand, Who saw the tear-drop starting Who felt a sudden surge of drmht, Come rushing back unhidden o'ei4 her, S3 . As wit'i the words her life withouT His presenee loomed before her.. The others saw, the others? hoard A calm, cool man, a gracious woman;- A quiet, brief fa re v. jll, unstiiftid liy aught at all uneoihuion. Site know a solemn die was c::st, She knew -that tao paths now must sever; That one familiar step had pissed Out of her li:e forever. To all the rest it merely meant o A trivial parting lightly spoken; site read tree bitter mute lnienr, She knew a heart; was broken ! The solcmu Androscoggia bell was ringing the mill girl in by broad sunlight one noon, when there came a knock at the door and behind it thy young ladv whom I heard. Deb was startled bv the Knock and frightened by the young ladv. It was not often that visitors came to Brick alley and it was still less that Jiiick alley hail a vrsitor who knocked. This was a young lady for -whom. Deb's mother did t'aUi washing. Deb's Vuother-jviped her hands and placed a chair, and the young lady sat down. H'io was a straight lady, with strong- feet, and long brown feathers in her hat and .soft brown gloves upon her hands. She had come, she said, with that Cluuy e6t which she found she should need for a party this very night. Indeed she was in such haste for it that she had hunted Deb's mother up which was a matter ot some calneiuty as she never had the least ide;t where she lived before, and show crooked tho tairs were! Hut the lace was very yellow, as sho saw, and she would bo sure to nave it iiouo by nine o ciock tonight? .ud : " And then, turning her head sud denly, the straight young lady saw poor croo.iod Deb in her h:gu chair, with wonder 1:1 her eves. I wonder if ITl f l ightened her," thought Deb. liutsheouly wondered nnd dtd not speaks "Is this vour -, " "Yes," said Deb's mother, "the i-i l n-.'. mi . i i uKiesc. iuieeu. 1 n iry iny uesc, mj.'am; but I don't know a 3 I ought to promise.' H e spoke in a busi- ssdike tone nd turned the Clrtnv lace a dainty collar and a pair of sott culls about 111 her hands iu a b Ashless like way. A breath of some kind of Rerouted wood struck ia a little gust against Deb's - face.' yho wondered how people could weavs sweet smells into a piece of lace aod if the young lady knew how mulsh plensaiiter it was than theonions that Mrs. 3Ic?.Iahoney cooked for dinner every oay ot me weeic except Sun day, upon tlie tirst lloor. lint it gave her enough to do without speaking. "Fifteen !" repeated the young ladv standing up very straight, and lioi;ing verv sorrv.a How long has she been like that?". "Horn so," said Deb's mother. "She jtfot set in that chair ever since she's been big enough to set at alj. Would you try gum on these, Miss?" r "Jiut vou never told me von had a cr i pled t, 01 X i e young lady said this quicklv, Yon have washed for me for three years, ainl yon meveiLtoid ine you had a cripple'd child!" "You never asked me, TJiss, said Deb's mother. The. young lady made, no reply. She came and sat down on the edge of Deb's bed, close beside Deb's chair. She seemed to have forgotten all about her Cluny lace. She took Deb's hand up between her two sofr, brown gloves, and her long brown feathers dropped and touched Deb's cheek. Deb hardly breathed, , the feathers and tho gloves, and the sweet smells of scented wood, and the young lady's sorry eyes such very sorry eyes were so close to the high chair. Fifteen years!" repeated the young ladv, very low, "in that chair that nobodv ever poor little girl! ljiit you could ride," she said sud denly. "I don't know, ma'am,' said Deb, "I never saw auybody ride but the grocer and the baker. I ain't like the grocer and the baker." i "You could be lifted, I mean," said the young lady eagerly. "There is somebody -who lifts you?" "Mothers sets mo generally," said Deb. "Once, when she was very bad with a lame ancle. Jim MeMa- honey set me. MeMahonev." "I shall' be young lady, quickly, but mother now. lie's first lloor Jim back here," said tho still speaking very speaking to Deb's "in iust an hour. T SlU all come in an ea:v Kb.;ri. ;, warm robes, if you will have your daughter ready to take a ride "with me 1 shall be very much obliged to you. The young lady finished her sen tence as 11 sue didn t know what to say, and so said the truest tiling she could think, which is what we are all in danger of doing at times. "Well, I a'mJsure!" said Deb's mother, "Dabitra, tell the lady " Bat Dabitri could not tell the lady, for she was already out of the door, and down stairs and away into the street. And, indeed, Deb would not have told the lady has never told tho lady can never tell the lady. If all the blue summer skies, cnl SUPJlfflzt. an.T tho shine 01 soiaraec" sta.i-R ff'J:l- - m - . - . I "1 into you.1- JfancTs fc opci for vqu to paint.Jci-p-Uqobs.itha would vou know wtat to 6Ay? 0 Into th& poor little- scran-boolc nf Deb;5 liteo tj3e oblbrs" of. )itaven dropped aud. blinded her on t-bAt be- wiideriDg- beaobf u3ble8"sed ride. Ill iiast an.hoxir the sleisrh n tbere, with tjie easiest "cttshioiis and the warmest- ropes? .. aad bells the merriest; o&us and the straight yoaug lady. Aj2& Jim McIaUouev wastlasi-e, ad !ja caaTisd taer down stail-s to "Sv&" her. And Ler mather was. titer, and. wa.ped.Utu-ull abont in an-'ohi iad eua-Vl", fdr Deb" bad uo ' tilings" like other littlo cirls. The young l&d-y rmeiQbercd that, and 1 !- 1.. she had brought the prettiest itth bits liooa-tbat Deb hid ever seen, and Deb's faco looked-Iikt a bruised day-lily between the shining wool, bnt Deb could not sid that; and Mrs, McMaucny was there, paring ouions at the door, to wish her good luck; and nil tb.e.liuti3 TJcMahoncys -were there, and all the children who did cot wonder, and the grocer turned in at th.a alley corner, aad tho baker stopped as be turned out, and every body stood ana tmuej to see her start. The "mute horso pawed .the snow aod held op Ins head Deb had never seen -such a hors-e and the yonngjui0y tiaa gathered the reins into her brown glove3, and the sleigh-bdls cried for joy, how they cried' and away they went, and Deb was unt of the. alley in a minute, and thti people in the alle3' hurrahed, and hovi-aucd,-and. hurrahed to see her go. That be vyildering, bean lifal, blessed ride! How warm the little white hood was! How the cushions sank beneath her, and thefur robes opened hko leathers to the touch of her poor, cuio hands! How tho bells sang to her. and. tlae snowdrifts blinked at het and the- icicles, and the slated roois, and eky, .and tho people's smilatt at her. "What's tho matter?" asked the yoang lady; for Deb drew the great ffolls rob over" her lace and head. and sat so for a minute still and Jud der!. The young lady thought she wa f risrhfcenecl. ".But I only want to cry a little!" said Dob's little smothered voice. "I aut cry a little first'" AVlieu she had cried a little Bhe held tip her bead, and the shine of her pretty Vi'hite head grew faint be suie tho iume 01 her eyes &uu ner checks. ThatbewilderiDg, buautial, blessed ulIh B tree Is and a crowd, and church Apdriss were in it yes, and 0. wedding ivtul ft funeral, tooall things that Dub had seen in her lugh chair in the daytime "with her eyes shut, she saw in the sleigh on that ride -yith hsr eyej open wide. tone Wfis; very stm. j.uo voanfr lady did not talk to her. and 5ho did not talk to the young lady. The horso held UtJ his head. It seemed to Deb to .be flviog. She thought that bs must be like the awful, beau tiful whifeo horse 10 Hovel ati on. Bh felt as if he could tako her to heaven iust as tven as not, it tuo yoang lady's brown gloves should only pult tlm rains that vav. They rode- and rode. In and out of the merry streets. Jhvough' the s!riiviriv "bells, abont and abont the grfcat Chnvoh spires all over, and over the laughing town. They rode to tlia river and the young hidy Stopped, the white, hurse.ao that Deb contd look across, uud rip and down at Ua sinning strewn, ana the sum- iu-x bank. "There is so much of it," said Deb sofilv. think fug of tho crack of it she : had CfeO, between two honsea for fifteen' rears. For tho crack seemed to her very ruuaa liko fifteen years 111 a high eaiair. and the Jong-broad- shouldered, silvered river seemed to her very much like- thia world about which s!ie liod wondered- They rode to tha mills, and Deb, trembled to look up at their frown ie.g walls, and to rifcefc their hun dred eye; but tome of. the girl3 who wore tlio little pink bows, nod who knew her C31U0 nodding to look down out of them, uud -she lctt oil trem bling to laugh: then, in a minute she trembled again, for all at once without any warning, the great An droscoggin bell pealed the tune, just over her head and swdlowed her up 111 ljs sound. Sue turned pale with delighted terror, and then she Hushed witii terrified -delight. . Didit pray, or crv, or laugh! Deb did not know, it seemed to Lcr that if the white horse would carry her. into the great heart of the bell, she need never sit in a high-chair at a window again, but ride and ride with the voung ladv. It seemed to her liko forever and ever They turned away from Andro." eoggiu without speaking, and rode and rode. Daylight dimmed and dusk dropped, and see! all t!m town ablaze with lights. They rode and rode to see the lights. Deb could not sneak there were so many lixrhts And still she could not speak when thev rode into Brick alley, and Jim MeMahonev and her mother, and th children who did not wonder, came, out to meet her and take her back to her chair She was too happy to speak. She need never wonder any more. She could remember. . But the voung ladv did not want her to speak. She touched her white horse, and was gone in a minute; and wJien Androscoggin beil rang them to sleep that night for the young lady forgot to ask for her CInn', and was too tired to go to the party I am sure I cannot tell who w as the happier, she or Deb. Eliza- betti Stuart Phelps. V oikmen commenced ' nutting up the frame work on the new church at Albany, known as the Church of England. ' of 5umifs!.' .Prom tho N. Y. San. Ten years ago Joun Maelrey was working as a mining laborer m a lit- tle 'exploring shnft hi Virginia, City. He swung bis pick vigorously, and was-paid SI d day. lo-uay he has a larger income than any otJier single individual 111 America, anil li 11 is wealth contiuues to accumulate as it has in the past two year's, his fortune will rival thaL of tne richest lioths child. Mr. Maekey isEthe head of the great firm of Flood & O Brieti ot San Francisco, whose gigantic opera tions and grand aggrogation f eap ital recently swamped the Bank of California, and hurled Sharon, Ilals- ton and Jons from tueir financial pedestal. The members of the firm are John Maekey, James C. Flood. lliaui S. O'Brien and Col. James G. Fair. Mr. Maekey is lis financial head, Flood and O'Brien attend to the interests of the firm in California, and Col. Fair is working superinten dent of the mines it: Virginia City. The latter embrace the Consolidated Virginia, the richest mine ever dis covered in Nevada, now turning out a million and a half a month: the California, adjoining it, -with even a ger body, of ore; the Hale and Novcross, Best and Belcher. Gould and Curry, Sierra, Nevada, Mexican, and finally the-famous Savage, which m years gone by has turned out its millions. Besides, they own a score of small mines, any one of which may at any time turn up a bonanza. Of the entire business and profits of the firm, Mr. Maekey has a three tilths interest. The iirra owns CC.000 shares of Consolidated Virginiastock, on wUicu they declare a monthly dividend of 10 a share. Mu-clcey'a share- of this is 8390,000 a month. Of stock in the California mine, they own 00,000 shares. The first monthly dividend is fo be declared in Novem- Yr v avwI will A r rl "Ti A Utl 1 CA1J1 IX l U. 1 V? 1 t Wi Ifc. teS A I A. ir ey's income, 300,000 a month X ... 1. . The other mines thar the hrm control pay no dividends, bnt they yield a large revenue to the nrm m ways more in direct. For instance, the firm owns all the wood used 'in thtir working. both for fuel aud for timbering, and they seU it to the companies at an iiawenso prone, 'xhe cavage, Hale and Norcross, and Gould and Curry all crush more or less ore, and this ia done in the firm's milla at a cost of 13 a ton. The j'ield of silver be ing scarcely enough' to, pay the coat of both mining aad crushing, assess- mcnta aro levied to make up the de licieocy. The linn's iocome from thia source and from, croshmg iho ore of the Consolidated ..Virginia. which is also done iu their Own mills, is estimated at 50.000 a month, of which put Mr. Muekev down fur Add to th.H the prospective profits of the Nevada Bank, which has just opened with a cash capital of S5,000,- 000, and which is tho exclusive prop erty of the hrm, and yon may then figure out the income of Mr. Maekey. The Bank of California paid for years 18 per cent, on their SOOO.UOO capi tal, xhe prohts of the new bank cannot be lexs. This amounts to e0C,000, or 75,000 a month, of w-hic-h Mr. Mac key's share will be 45,000. To sum up thou, Maekey will have for the next year from his mining and bunion interests aioue tho colossal incomn of .d31,000 a month, or at tho rate of nearly 810,- 000.000 a year. This does not in clude, the income of his vast wealth in real estate. For - the past year he was neon insuring jarge investments in the very heart of fcue city. Whole blocks of thf; most valuable real es tate in Sun Francisco have been pur chased, and tho income from this cannot well ha estimated, but it innst be enormous. Mr. Maekey 33 the most retiring and modest of hny of the California millionaires. He lives in "Virginia, but his family snend most of their timoiu Ban Francisco. 'Ho dresses plainly, and might be supposed to bo a well-to-do farmer nothing more. AJreadv 'the Nevada politi cians are moving- to make him Sena tor Jones's successor in Washington. If he wants tho iilace, he can un doubtedly buy it for much less'mori e.y than Jones paid, for Nevada poli ticians are poor and hungry, aud will sell on f cheap. Oi AUckcv S parfnors. J. C rioou is the mofe important. With O'Brien, Flood used to keep a little gioggery On bansonm street, ban J- rancisco. Thev did not close, the establishment until jSC7. They made some money Ht the business, tun I invested It witu Maekey in the purch'tse of the ground that is a part "t the uonsoiuiiuou Virginia mine. Flood and O'Brien ue Irishmen. They "aro shrewd and sharp ..iu business, generous to their friends, and unrelenting to their en- ur.e,. -J. hey tno- "p puveit- stricke.n oewspapor man Iti.t spring , .. S S . n ..j. i:oi i man who nai none uHsiHoynie ii' turn while they wvre in tlie whisky business 8nd in threo. days made him worth $75,000. On the othr hfind, Sharon, ayd Ihdslon, and the lUnkof Calif eu-nia', which had offond- them, they crushed out in tines weeks, n-nd they, would have Kept tne bank down but f?r Balston's death and the popular outoi'y againftt tliem. Flnod reeentlv bought 53,000,000 wor th of real estate, aud said himself just before the new hank opened that he had 4,000,000 lent on call at one th His weiiltli is 1v to that of Maekey. Col. Fair is the only man of book educa tion in the firm. He? has long been a mining superintendent, and is somewhat noted for tricks that are vain. When ho was poor, a. few years ago, he was hnown by some as "Lving Jim Fair," and by others as "Siipperv Jim," but everybody calls him Col.'Fair now. He is worth ten millions. Empire City has a literary club. Satisfaction ill Xiscnesss. From tb. N.Y. Tribuoe. : . " ' test .ease of great concern .to A photographers ; and ' of considerable interest to the. public is beTore the! Brooklyn court. -Por seventeen euo eessive" times & young lfidy faced thd camera. Duly after each successive sitting the photographer ee-ot the evidences' oi his labor for criticism and ' possible acceptance. None of the pictures suited, ait last the laity declined to sit agio,-s.nd the gentle man who hart origin-ally made the contract -if it eftn. be so. called de clined to takeuuiy cl :'tli pictures or to pay for anything dona. " The pho tographer- has brought before the court his seventeen negatives .nd proofs, doubtless quoting Hamlet, "Look now upon thia picture and on this. '" His labor in preparing them amounts to a eertain sum of money, to recover which he has sued. There were the front face, and tho. sido face, and the half -avert ed gaze; the chm a little more up; the sad look; the faint smile; the ex pression of being very muoh. pleased more in fact than the Tady actually was, and consequently not at all a truthful picture. There were also tint, standing portrait, and the one with the hand up to the bead in a position of reflection; the one with tlie hair drawn b.ck and the one with it let down; the one with the neck lace, the one with the furs, and the one that seemed as if it might have suited, with the last now thing of a bonnet. All these the lady, and the gentleman, and all their friends, and now the jury, have contemplated. As Beau Br u rani el's valet said of the morning's bundle uf tried and reject ed neckties, "These are our fuilures." The defendant replies to. all this array ot testimony iuatbis agreement "with a tall young man in the room" was simply that a portrait should be obtained that should give -satisfaction; that failiog, nothing was to be paid. Tho Autocrat of the Breakfust Table has to!d-u3 how that same requisite of ."satisfaction" tortured him with anxiety when lycenoi trus tees specified it as a condition of his lectures. To promise satisfaction in this part of the country is almost as serious a mutter as to demand it, further" souths So far as photo graphers are concerned, they have put themselves in the vocative, where they have odopted such a method of doing business as is in evidence. The usual -experience is when a pho tograph does nob suit, another and another attempt is made,-till all par (iea to the transaction are wearied beyond endurance; Dd at last the siiter, grown desperate, takes what does not really give' the ooveted sat isfaction takes any of tho lot, and usually the eworst; on the principle that people who' go all th rough 4he woods to look for a cane usually put up with a crooked stick. Most per sous get into this condition of de spair before they have settled them selves for thn seventeenth time to gaze at tho black cloth, to-be asked to throw up the chin and to look smiling. "Were human nature not so constituted, the business of photo graphing likenesses would have to be reorganized, or it would scarcely last a fortnight. For all that appears in tho Brock lyn. Case, which probably offers a, lair specimen of this sort of ngrefunent, if the sitter had been willing to go ou with, the attempts , at getting a likeness they might hnvo continued indefinitely, till the golden tresses oi yonlh are whitened by the snows of age. But camera sittings nro like the infinite denoroiuHlora of ninth u maticH; with every n.w iiguro ob tained, they grow mm clnmy. The suit under consideration snests, however, anew fcatnro in the prob lem. Suppose a gentleman lias made this bargain respecting a lady's por trait. Suppose also, tho lady be comes tired- of the experiment, and ontting the sole Of her ntimoev three flatly ou the ground, declares that she will not present herself beiore the camera again. Photographers probably have some rights as well as wrongs. Can tuey compel the gen tleman to hud a substitute? laHuciice of Newsiiapers. The Boston Traveler states that a school teacher who had enjoyed the beueiit of a long practice of lu.s pro fession, and had watched closiy the iullue-nec of a newspaper upon the minds of a family of children, gives as a result of his observation that, without exception, those scholars of both sexes and all ages who have ac- cessto newspapersaf home when com pared to those who have not, are: 1. Better readers, excelling i pronunciation and consequently read, more u uderstan. 1 1 ngi o Thev are better spellers, and define words will ease and accuracy. 3. They obtain partial knowledge of -eoranhv in almost half the time it requires others, its the newspaper has made them familiar with the lo cation of important places and na tions, their governments ami doings. i, They are better grammarians, for having become familiar with every variety of style in the newspaper, from common place advertisements to the finished and classical oration vf the statesman, they more read i 1 3' compre hend the meaning of the text and-con-sequently analyze' its construction with accuracv. The Pix-Back. The Yreka Union devil is delighted with the new pin hack frocks. He and his holyhock went out walking last Sunday night, and just for experiment imagined it rained, aud he says they could just snug up under one umbrella lots easier than they could last winter. Minnie Myrtle Miller is lecturing on "Societv" in Coos county. Centennial ticn. Exhilu- The following rules have been adopted for the. government of the Art Department of tho Qcmtemiial Inhibition: I, The exhibition will be opened May 10, 1S7C, -and " closed' N ovember 10.1876. 0 ' 2. Works of art will be admitted for exhibition whether .previously' exhibited or not. - 3. Uo charge will be made fori space. " . ; i, L. "Wnrka Of foreiern artists- bo-loncr ! :im?fc" residents of the United .'States ) .'11 1. . .a -w 1 . 3 . 1. . w. . . 1 tM win 09 aorantea on tne approai ui the-Gommittee .of Selection f.or ex- t hibition in a special gallery. a 5. The installation of works oart admitted to the exhibition will under the supervision of the. commis sions of, the country. to which they belong. . 6. All works Of art must bo of a high order of merit, and those pro duced by the citizens of the United States will be admitted to the exhi bition on the approval of the Com mittee on Selection, composed of artists. 7. Packages forwarded by eshibi "tors in the "United States for admis sion to this department must be marked "'Art Department. Interna tional. "Exhibition, Philadelphia." -There mu3fc be also attached. to the outside and.inside of each package a label giving the name and ad dress of ths exhibitor and the title, and nntaber of articles in the package. 8. All pictures, whether round or oval, ehonld be placed in square frames. Excessive breadth in frames cr projecting moldings should be avoided. &bnjlov-boxes will not ho allowed to project more than ono inch beyond the irame. uiass over f oil painttugs will not he permitted. 9. Works of art intended for sale will be so designated in the official catalogue. 10. Works notintesded for compe tition mast be so stated by tho ex hibitor, and they will be excluded from examination Dy Ihe jury. 11. All wo.ks of art must bo irf Philadelphia prior to April 1, 1S70 and mfter having been admitted uu, der the rules cannot be removed be fore the close of tho exhibition. Ap plicant" will bo notified of tho time and place to present their works to the Committee;-ou Selection for ex amination. 12. "Bach person presenting works of art for admission thereby agrees to comply with tha special, rules established for this department and , the general rules for the government of the exhibition. A. T. Goshoi:n, - . Director General. Tohn Sartain, Chief of Bureau, Art Department.1 James D. Claghorn, Chairman of the Advisory Art Committee. Ilailroail Coninetitio:i. In a recent address, Mr. Charles F. Adams, Jr., one of the Bailroad Com missioners of Massachusetts, etook the ground that competition had fuiled to solve the modern transporta tion problem; that it hail, on the country, increased the difficulties of tho case by multiplying railroads faster than tlie growth of the country furnished them business to do. The committee winch reportedto tlie "Cheap Transportation Association in this city a lew evenings asro evident ly does not agree with Mr. Ada'ms. It proposes toencourage competition and to add to the miles of llailroad already laid b- building a new line between New York and St. Don is exclusively for freight "or one on which passenger traffic would be subordinate to freight." The Presi dent of the New York Board of Trade, Mr. Opdyke, spoke favorably of such an undertaking in his address at their recent dinner. The committee in sisted at considerable length that the trunk lines which connect the East and the West cannot furnish the fast ami cheap transportation demanded by tlie public interests, and especially by those of this city. Mr. Adams here might interpose the question, How then can anew and costly line furnish it? The proposed road, wi,j.h double tracks, it is estimate!, would cost 70,000,000, to build and equip. Tliis large sum of money, the com mittee believe, can be raised as fol lows: ' One-half in this city, one quater in the West aud along its line, 'and one-quarter on first mort gage construction bonds." Great as are the country's resources, euter piises of such magnitude are of slow growth. It is not necessary to look beyond New York for proof of. this. This cit3" for many years.has needed rapid transit within itsu municipal iKK.nct.iri'.'s at least as mush as it now needs anew freight railroad to St. Bonis yet rapid transit is just taking shape. While the association is raising its 70,000,000 there will be 1.. : x . - .niMck.ui!iu 10 question wnetiier we need any more railroads and whether beyond a certain point, competition promotes the public interest. Netc York Evening i'o.sl. Ax Immexse Hotel. A gigantic hotel is about to b built in London, with American capital, by an Ameri can architect, with American speed, after an American plan, and to be managed on the American system. A site not far from tne House of Com mons, and close to St. James' Park has been purchased and it is said that ay ear hence the first visitor may take up his abode in tae new establish ment. This hotel will make up 1,000 beds; the dining-room will accom modate 700 persons at the same time, and a staff of 100 servants will be re quired to carry on the duties of the house t Friend Siglia'oV the Coos Bay Xe.vs is "doing it up brown. Jivt at - the EgJlt and Aljysslnia. From tho rail Mall Gazette. ' A letter from Alexandria in the hand says that a war between Egypt and Abyssinia seems to have become inevitable. Singulir.lv enough, it is c Ahysiina which is 'taking the ag gfessive, although there can be little o doubt thatho is far from being a match for the power of the Khedive. It appears, however, that another of those civil conflicts which are con tinually oecnring in Abyssinia has taken pla-e there, and Khg Johannes has perhaps considered it necessary to. divert the attrition of his people o from internal disputes by permitting 0 soinn 01 tne tribes to make incursions on Egyptian territory. Public opinion 0 in Egypt now unanimously demands the jiunex.ition of Abyssinia, and if the Khedive should hesitate which j'.s by no 'means certain he will do so only because tlie Egyptian treasury is. very low just now and Darfnr is not yet quile reconciled to the Egyp tian rule. Tlie annexation (adds the c corresiiondent) will certainly ocjeur sboner or later; the only qusetion is whether it is to be effected at or.ee. 0 The itfeursion of Abyssinians ab-.no r6f.io.-red to, which is regarded as be ing of special importance becansa the aggressors were-- accompanied by government troops, look place on tho northern frontier, wnere Egypt 1 at present unprotected, and they 0 Cvidtidly hoped to push forward without resistance up to Sennaar. . Dirr-gily, !.vweer, the new pf the o ail'.ir r. a-.-!: ;! Cairo, the Khedie t:'m re ,1 i;il l!ion iv.tl troous uu--. der Iliilnp Pasha to march at once to the soutli. ard a large force is be ing piepared for reinforcements in -ase t general slionht think it ad vi:e:i)le to ienetrate into Abyssinian teiritory. The con-f-spondt nt thinks that -the result of a war between the two countries cannot "'.bo doubtful. Nearly one-half of the population of Abyssinia is composed of Mohamme dans, who would not &t all olect to uniting with their kinsmen and core ligionists of Egypt, and King Jo hannes has for some time been al most without any inliuence in the country. People are already talking seriously of entrusting the adminis tration of the country to Munzinger Pasha if ll should become an Egyp tian possession. c - -o- Eeware of Ono Class. 111 the glass lurks a world of evil. Eveuoie glaxs disturbs the quiet and working of the human sA stem; and if jt contains much spirit it will produce a ee; tain amount of intoxication. Bu;t we should look at its tendencies to see the delusion and danger involved in one glass. it is the one glass at dinner, or for medicine, that lias gradually created a liking for liquor on the part of thou sands, and which has ended in their ruin. It is the one glass in the saloon which often ends in drunkenness with all its terrible consequences. It is the first glass ordered by the doctors to delicate yor.ths that creates the appetites for stimulants, and often leads the poor sniierer to excess. One glass taken at the social board, or at their father's table, has led to the dissipation of so many ryoung men, almost to the heart-breaking of their c parents. It is the one glass on the o part of many tradesman, that leads to their expensive habctsand to the neg lect of their business, ending too often in ruin. Oh! if people would calculate the dreadful consequences lurking in the one glass "they would dash it from them as their greatest foe! ; Evrry case of drunkenness begins with the one gla-s; and suicides man slaughter aud murder proceed from the same cause.. Behold the deg radation of many of the "female sex through intoxicating liquor! This all commenced with the oue glass. What a mistake for persons to sav. "One glass will do nobody harm." A single spark from a passing train lias fired mauv a forest, destroying farms and-villages and caused in many instance a fearful sacrifice of human life. There is no good either in the liist or second glass, therefore shun it as you would your greatest enemy. CalnoU1 Sentinel. Small is the sum that is required to patronize a newspaper, amply re warded is iis patron, I care not how humble" and unpretending the ga zette which he takes. It is next to impossible to (ill a sheet with printed matter without putting into it some thing worth the subscription price. Every patent whose son is away from home at school should supply him with a newspaper. I well remember what a marked differeneeo there was between my schoolmates who had and had not access to new-spapers. Other things being equal, the first were ahw-ys decidedly superior to the last in debate, composition and general intelligence. --Zt Webster. Says an exchange: The dry goods mercV'ds of Virginia City, Nevada, recently entered into a compact notto advertise in any of the papers. It was a money saving an angtme-nt.and the effect was the opening of several new dry goods stores that did ad vertise and the failure of auumberof old firms that liad agreed tp the com pact. An amusing feature about tho business of men that do not believe in advertising is that they have to come to it at last. The sheriff does it for the benefit of their creditors. u When 3-011 see a married woman standing on the corner a block from ber house to catch the letter-carrier, 3-011 ma- know that she is expecting a letter from her aunt, and doesn't want her husband to see it. Tlie case of State vs. Whitney, who was convicted of arson at Salem last week, is to be appealed. 0
