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THE ENTERPRISE,
OKEGOX (TIT, OREGON, AUGUST 1?, 1S7G.
The Keform Platform.
What does reform mean to the mass
of intelligent citizens? It means sim
ply honesty and fidelity in the Fed
eral service. Granting there i3 a
widespread belief that the service
has not been honest and faithful;
that in many cases, where there has
not been positive wrong doing, par
tisan favoritism or sluggish insensi
bility to official obligation has toler
ated corrupt practics. Do such things
make the honeyed phrases hiding the
gaul-like sentiment of the St. Louis
platform a particle more palatable?
The indignation which tho aforesaid
corruption provokes and the protest
which it calls forth arc in no sense a
party movement. Men of sense and
respectability, no matter to what par
ty they belong, are of one mind. in
respect to the matter. They say to
one another: "We may differ about
free trade, centralization, hard raouev
o
and a distribution of power, but we
demand with one voice that you shall
regard your oifiee as a public trust
and shall not use it solely for the ad
vancement of your own private in
terest. "
The St. Louis Convention, artfully
availing itself of the popular temper,
has made "reform" tho verbal corner
stono of a spirited arraignment of
tho Federal Administration. Such
an indictment is never a difficult
thing for an opposition party to
frame; but it is easy to show how
misleading is the platform which the
Democrats have built upon this de
mand for reform. Tho first sentence
declares the "urgent need of imme
diate reform" a broad generalization
from which no Oregonian will dis
sent. Coming to particulates, the
jdatform urges tho necessity of re
form to establish the Union in the
hearts of the people; to establish a
sound currency; to restore confi
dence to capital and to relieve labor
of its burdens; to regulate 2ublic ex
penditure; to put a stop to tho waste
of public lands upon railroads and
other unworthy objects; to guarantee
the rights of American citizens; to
put an end to "sectarian strife" and
"sectional hate;" to promote tho effi
ciency of tho civil service; and to
prevent official malfeasance.
Although tho word "reform" rep
resenting the demand which is every
where made, is adroitly connected
with these several questions, it
throws no light whatever upon most
of them. The Democratic platform
makers, by what first looks like a
clever device, but soon appears to be
a shallow one, endeavor to conceal
their own differences upon these
questions by echoing the popular
call for "reform" of the personal
character and conduct of officers of
tho Government. Reform of this
Kind does not affect systems and poli
cies at all. It is a prime necessity of
every system, a condition precedent
to any policy.
Honesty of course is indispensa
ble; but there are hundreds of thou
sands of strict!' honest men who,
if put at the head of a department of
the Government, would bo as help
O less as an infant in command of the
steamer Ajax in a hurricane; who if
sent to Congress would be as inca
pable to legislate on important ques
tions as a Clackamas squaw to calcu
late au eclipse of the sun.
Keform, according to tha Demo
crats, is the putting of honest men
into ofiica. Suppose a Democrat to
0 he blessed with these attributes,
stealing of course will stop, but the
work of the Government will all re
main to b done. Tho Democrats
imagine that the people will not in
quire into their principles, but by the
mere shouting of reform pass them
into power. Granting their honesty,
what will they do with the currency
should they get into power? It is
fair to assnmo their attitude toward
that question will be about what it is
now. Would the Democrats be any
better equipped with a financial pol
icy if they were in power to-day,
and what would their advocacy of
"reform" avail them in this respect?
cWould it avail them in the treatment
of tho civil service system, or an
other question of policy? Does it
pledge them to stop the wasting of
the public resources upon public
corporate speculations, when it is
well k nown the entire Southern
Democracy is in favor of subsidizing
Mr. Scott's Southern Pacific Rail
road?
There is no mistaking tho popular
demand for reform of the personal
character and conduct of Federal
officers. To secure honesty and fidel
ity has been tho object of independ
ent political conferences and of the
independent press. They have been
ecured at least so far that both tho
great parties have nominated pure
nd trustworthy candidates for th.9
Presidency. But when this work of
essential reform is accomplished, the
delicate and difficult business of gov
ernment is yet to be undertaken. It
is becaase the St. Louis declarations
endeavor to turn attention from this
manifest truth that they are mislead
ing.
The Walla Walla WatcJanan ad
vises farmers to cling yet a little
longer to their wheat as prices may
improve.
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County Koads.
We begin almost to give up in de
spair, for so often have wo agitated
the subject of improvement of the
roads leading to and out of Oregon
City to no effect that we now are grow
ing confirmed in the belief that either
our people are weak-minded or
strangely indifferent to their own
interests. We recollect writing some
time ago of farmers in tho neighbor
hood of Zion, although nearer to
Oregon City than to Portland, on ac
count of the better roads leading to
the latter, are forced to sell all their
produce in the metropolis and there
also make their p-.irchases.
We had always considered the ne
cessity for the imirovetnent of public
roads atopic upon which there could
be no difference of opinion, but judg
ingfrom tho inertia of the Oregon
City merchants and Clackamas coun
ty farmers, it cannot be a subject of
such pregnant importance after all.
In revolving this subject in our
mind, several potent reasons for the
improvement of our highways have
suggested themselves, as well as ar
gument in favor of each land owner
building and keeping in repair tho
road across his own land. The latter
wo herewit submith:
First. The land owner is most in
terested in that part of the road
which crosses his own farm; and he
uses it himself more than others,
and would bo more likely to keep it
in order. It comes under his ob
servation every day; ho has a better
opportunity to know what is wanted
and where to get the best material for
building and repairs.
Second. If such a law were passed
the publis thoroughfare would be
come ono of the fixtures of the farm,
and its condition would affect the
saleable price of the land. A good
road would be a personal credit to
the owner, and every dollar laid out
in improvement would come back to
him in the increased value of his
farm.
Third. Tho best machines are
those of simple construction, lasting
longest, less liable to get out of re
pair, most easily managed and at
small cost. We claim the same for
tho Road law; the more simple it is,
the better for us and the road.
The easiest way is to make a law re
quiring each land holder to build all
the road across his premises have
that for a starting point or founda
tion, and then other provisions can
be added to modify what some choose
to call injustice to certain individu
als, which we think is more imagin
ary than real. Still, there may be,
once in a great while, a case that
would need special provision in the
framing of a new road law. Such a
rule would not be as unequal or un
just as the present one. This checks
individual enterprise, while the
other would give free scope to those
which inqn-ove their premises.
Fourth. We have but two courses:
we must do the work ourselves or
pay some one else to do it for us. If
we build them ourselves, then wo
shall find employment for our teams
and hands at times of the year when
their work is not pressing, and at tho
same time bo clearing the land of
stone. We should not pay out money
o strangers, but could build tho
road for much less than for any
other person. We could arrange our
business so that whenever, in the
course of farming, any stone that
could be moved might bo drawn
and deposited in the road, and
at other times these stones could
be broken up and then covered with
gravel. This material would bo fur
nished by each land owner frco of
cost, and most men would bo glad to
get rid of tho stone, and at tho samo
time improve the highway. Nino
teen times out of twenty this law
would equalize the road tax better
than any other way that has sug
gested itself to us.
Fifth. Where there are wealthy
people who own but litttle land, or
say the road does not cross their pre
mises, they might be assessed a
money tax yearly, which would go
in tho county treasury until it is
needed to help others who have very
much more than au average amount
of road to build.
The contract entered into by those
who blind themselves to ship wheat
from Albany to Portland by Capt.
Cochran s proposed line of boats, is
substantly as follows: "We hereby
agree to obligate ourselves severally
and separately in bonds to Captain
J. W. Cochran & Co. to furnish
them the amount of freight sent op
posit our respective names, for trans
portation from Albany to Portland,
Oregon, (to bo landed on any wharf
the shippers may designate) between
the dates of November 15, 187G, and
June 1.1877, for which service we
separately and severally contract and
agree to pay ten cents per bushel
for grain, or three dollars, thirty
three and one-third cents per ton
unto the said J. W. Cochran & Co.'
and we separately obligate ourselves
to furnish the amount of grain for
shipment, and in the manner indi
cated, and failing to do so within
those dates, become liable for the
amount of freight money as herein
after indicated at rates as above."
Dayton is improving unusually
this summer. Five new buildings
are in course of construction. Capt.
Powell is erecting a new warehouse
40 x 80 and three stories high. The
dam across palmer creek has been
completed, tho mills are prosperous
and Dayton is happy. '
PHILADELPHIA LETTER.
Philadelphia , August 1, 1S7G.
"Dashing over ridges,
Rattling uncVer bridges."
And away we go, waking the virgin
forest with our mad and noisy haste.
Rapidly surrounding objects join in
the ceaseless backword procession,
while neighboring farm houses ap
pear only to bo swallowed up in the
fast receding past. The bright
morning displays to advantage the
vernal beauties of nature; little song
sters warble their matin lay from
leafy retreats, and everything adds
its modicum to tho glory and har
mony of tho summer scene.
Yes, despite the terrors of a "heat
ed term," I am Philadelphia bound.
Armed with the needful umbrella,
the historic carpet-bag in hand, and
snugly ensconced in the capacious
folds of a-well used "duster," I have
left the land of the Congressional
bore and am now sallying forth, over
flowing with patriotism, to join in
our first national celebration; and, as
the Northern Express, annihilating
timo and space, swiftly dashes
through tho picturesque hills and
valleys of Pennsylvania, my mind,
soothed by tho steady click-click of
tho quick revolving wheels and
lulled to repose by the passing beau
ties of nature, resigns itself to dreamy
somnolency. Soon, my thoughts,
lead as by elfin hands, begin to toy
tho golden strands of our political
fabric. Impercejtibly tho glittering
threads move ajxu-t, the dust of de
cades is brushed away, and the re
cord of a hundred years is revealed
in its pristine brightness to astonish
ed mortal gaze. Phatasy succeeds
phantasy, tho imagination riots in a
cloud land of speculation, and we
rise from our musings to tho tune
ful clang of clear. ringing bells in the
centre of Pennsylvania's great me
tropolitan city, ycleped, "the village
of brotherly love."
As tho needle to tho pole, so tho
visitor, in obedience to some un
known law of gravitation, soon finds
himself knocking at the Exposition
gates. Presenting the requisite fifty
cents to the grim Cerberus of tho
entrance, ho passes tho magic por
tals of the patent turnstile and in 'a
few moments becomes ono of the
component particles of the busy
scene about him; but, let us, our
selves, thread the labyrinthine walks
and fathom the mysteries of the
giant structures which so airily re
pose amid the hills and dales of
Fairmount Park.
Entering then, from Reading Sta
tion, wo pass into the shady path before-
us, follow its romantic sinuosi
ties, hearken to tho merry carol of
the birds in the drooping branches
above, and ere long are in tho heart
of this fairy-like laud of enchant
ment. On all sides rise in lordly grandeur
buildings of bewildering complexity.
Boundless magnitude is rendered
trebly effective by Hie concomitants
of brilliant color, chaste ornamenta
tion and varying architecture.
Where, but a few months since,
noblo trees reared their heads to the
bright blue sky and little violets
nodded and bent lovingly in the
brce-zo, now exists, as if created by
the magician's wand, a city ablase
with crystal, and resonant with the
tramp of hurrying feet. It is, veri
tably, the Arcadian city of our
dreams a joyous, jubilant Boho-miau-liko
place where the Hags of
all nations are lloating over our
heads, where the softest music is
wafted to us on the breeze, and
where a mild and delicious madness
steals over our senses impelling to
the accomplishment of much and yet
ending in naught. It is to this land
of perpetual delight that I bid you
come; credit not tho false rumors as
to extortion, come without foar or
trembling, and enjoy to satiety, if
possible, tho effulgent boauty of this
century plant, which has blossomed
forth on tho woodod banks of tho
winding Schuykill.
But to my story. Terchanco, hav
ing thus effected an entrance, wo re
pair to the Art Gallery and gazo upon
the artistic marvels of the brush and
pallet.
Hero are congregated paintings
from every clime, some tender and
even mournful in execution, and
others dark and sublimely grand.
The beauties of Memorial Hall must
ever defy description; words would
avail but naught, in expressing the
serial grace of a piece of statuary,
the dazzling brilliancy of a martial
scene, tho tender pathos of a famil
iar landscape, or tho stern and
gloomy shadowings of some great
masterpiece, which in turn thrill tho
soul or charm the eyo of tho ob
server. The pleasures of art inspec
tion are, however, fated to bo but
momentary, for soon yielding to the
versitile current of passing human
ity, we aro swept swiftly away to re
cover our individuality beneath tho
arched dome of tho mammoth Main
Hall.
Within this vast area, dotted with
the emblazoned banners of Great
Britain and Ireland, the broad stand
ard of France, the battlemented wall
of Spain, the gaudy pavilion of Bra
zil, and the antique temples of Egypt
and Soudan, with empires, kingdoms
and republics innumerable, is dis
played to human oye the combined
intelligence and culture of the known
world.
It is an Aladdin's palace with its
silver, its gold, its malachites, its
mosaics, velvets, laces its every
thing that mind can conceive or hand
execute.
Tapestry work, hundreds of years
old; exquisite laces of cobweb text
ure; diamonds of fabulous value;
jewelry of intricate design; and ob
jects of personal adornment without
number and incalculable prioe, re
spond to the gaze from all sides.
Ceramics are exhibited in the great
est profusion. Plates are embellished
with grotesnne China figures, fanei-
I ful butterflies, and impossible riving
j fish; smiling little cherubs and Cu
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pids, chase each other round and
round graceful vases, while on otn
ers scantily attired female figures,
with drapery blown by the breeze as
they float lazily along, exhibit to pub
lic gaze, their exquisitely moulded
proportions; but why continue the
theme? The Main Hall, with its
"glittering generalities," is a never
ending panorama of wonderful crea
tions, and with a sigh of relief we
escape to the confires of the adja
cent Department of Machinery.
Everything in this building exhib
its brains, and the immensity of tho
undertaking is appalling.
Upon every hand genius appears
to have assumed material shape, and
stand revealed to mortal gaze.
Iu the midst of all else, rests the
great Corliss engine, and as it moves
so turns every pully and runs every
belt in this vast Hall. .
But even practical mechanics be
come in time wearisome, so strolling
out into the cool air wo bare our
head to the breeze and fill our lungs
with the health-giving zephyrs of
Heaven.
Soon the needful settee and pro
tecting awning are found, and our
wayward thoughts again dash off into
the contemplation of art and science,
to be reclaimed from their wander
ings by the seductive tones of "ye
wait-ah;" and, as we quench our
thirst with the foaming beverage be
fore us, the sweet sad strains of
music from the band in the Ravino
are borne through the trees.
No tv a triumphant pa?an comes ri
oting forth, and now it sinks to a
tono of deepest pathos.
The cool wind fans our brow and
the trees rustle above us. Once
more we quaff the cooling nectar and
drown all thoughts of sadness in its
magic tide. We remember no more
tho bitterness of life; wo banish the
palo phantom of care and trouble;
and, for the hour, live in the land of
the lotos dreamers, tasting the sweet
ness of peace and fullness of pleas
ure. But, now tho music is throbbing
and dying; the spirit of melody soars
aloft into space.
The sunlight shimmers through
the trees; and wo move silently away,
bidding a tearful adieu to this our
dream of drowsy indolence.
It. M. D.
The Indian Situation.
We have news at last from Gener
als Crook and Terry, and thoso per
sons who wero anxious as to their
safety will breathe more easily, now
that their safety is assured.
There is enough in this news, how
ever, and in that which accompanies
it, to impress us anew with tho grav
ity of tho situation in tho Indian
country, and tho necessity thero is
for some change in our method of
dealing with this perplexing prob
lem. The reports of general alarm
on tho frontiers are perha2s exagger
ated, as similar reports have been on
former occasions in tho interest of
contractors and rascally traders to
whom an Indian fright is scarcely
less valuable than an Indian war; but
making allowances for exaggeration,
we know now that Generals Crook
and Terry aro practiced and bold In
dian fighters, and at tho head of
about 3,000 regular troops hesitate
to follow and find Sitting Bull's force
and await tho arrival of reinforce
ments, because the foe outnumbers
them greatly. Wo know also that
bitting Bull is almost certain to re
ceive many additions to his warriors,
now that ho has won so complete a
victory as that in which Custer fell.
In a word, it is certain that tho hos
tile Sioux are strong enough to givo
very serious trouble, and that they
aro strongly bent on doing it. We
shall have peace and quiet on tho
border when Sitting Bull and his
band shall have been conquered and
not till then. Tho only question is,
shall wo send a sufficient force out to
conquer him speodily, or shall wo
waste our energies and tho lives of
our soldiors in half-way measures?
This war may be mado a small
affair if wo chooso to begin by re
garding it as a largo one. Wo nood
to send out such a forco as will bo
able to conquer and catch Sitting
Bull, and the sooner wo do it the less
it will cost in treasure and blood to
accomplish the purpose.
Saving at the Spiggot.
Business is generally 60 dull that
probably little inconvenience will re
sult from tho cessation of the fast mail
system, as, a consequence of the ex
treme bluuderheaded economy which
characterizes the majority of tho
present Congress. When times aro
dull it is not necessary to bo in a
hurry, and although some persons
who are interosted may bo annoyed
at the tortoise policy which is now in
vogno in Post Office affairs, Ave can
suffer tho infliction without much
grief. But it must bo humiliating
to think that in a nation like ours,
tho system of economy which pre
vails is that which burns tho wrong
end of the candle. There aro no
doubt immense excesses in the ex
Xjendituro for public purposes, much
of which is absolute waste and rob
bery; but they are in Departments
with which the people have little to
do as, for instance, in the War and
Navy Departments in the manage
ment of tho Indians, and in the civil
service "in many particulars. Tho
Post Office management oonocrna
every man; and it is closer to the
people than any other branch of
Government management. The sort
of policy which seems to have gov
erned Congress in this matter is con
trolled by that kind of economy
which saves at the spiggot and loses
at the bung.
The thermometor wa3 up to 109 at
Walla Walla ono day last week.
Congress adjourned on the 16th.
TI2I.EGKAPIIIC XCW'S.
Eastern.
New Yobk, Aug. 11. The Inde
pendent Labor party have nominated
James Gordon Bennett for mayor.
Ottawa, Aug. 11. A letter from
the Northwest mounted police force,
dated Bismarck, July 19th, says:
Our party came accross four hundred
Sioux on the war path one hundred
miles from the scene of Custer's
massacre. Ws anticipate trouble
with the Indians before we reach
our destination.
Washington, Aug. 13. Tho dis
agreement of the Senate and House
on the bill authorizing Jtho accep
tance of the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company's iron steamships, was set
tled by the conferenco committee,
and the bill has been finally passed
by both branches of Congress with
out any material chance in the pro
vissions heretofore telegraphed.
The salaries of governors, chief
justices and assistant judges of Wash
ington, Montana, Idaho, Utah, New
Mexico and Arizona Territories aro
fixed at $3,000 each. All other Ter
ritories are given 82,000.
New Yokk, Aug. 13. A. Times
Washington special says the appro
priation bill as finally passed made
a gross reduction of about twenty
nine and a half millions below last
year.
Washington, Aug. 14. On in
quiry at army headquarters to-day,
it is ascertained that nothing what
ever has been received confirmatory
of the report of tho Sioux squaw
that a terrible battle had taken place
between Gen. Crook and the Sioux
Indians, and that the latter had been
almost annihilated. While hopes
are expressed that the report may
prove to bo true, tho story is con
sidered doubtful.
Senate by a vote of yeas 20, nays
12, passed the bill to carry into effect
the Hawaiian treaty. It without
amendment.
Washington, Aug. 13. Postmas
ters oppointed: J. C. Gillett. Bell
evue, Yamhill County, Oregon; Dav
id "Everest, Newberg, Yamhill Coun
ty, Oregon; S. P. White.Willametto
Slough, Multnomah County, Ore
gon; Andrew F. Millard, Pekett,
Cowlitz County, W. T.
Washington, Aug. 15. Whereas
it is alleged that the late election of
August 7, 1870, in Alabama, for
State otlicers and members of the
Legislature, was characterized by
great frauds, violence and intimida
tion, whereby the freedom of ballot
was in a great measure destroyed,
and a reign of terror established;
the ballot boxes stuffed; precincts
where large Republican majorities
existed not opened for voting; obsta
cles were interposed to prevent reg
istration so tho popular majority of
moro than ten thousand was over
come; that, and in its place was giv
en an apparent, but fraudulent ma
jority of more than forty thousand
and, whereas tho Legislature thus cho
sen will have tho election of a
Senator to represent that State in
this body; and, whereas, if those al
legations are true, a groat number
of the citizens had their rights un
der tho constitution and laws of the
United States wickedly violated;
therefore, resolved, that a committee
of five Senators be appointed by the
chair to investigate tho truth of said
election, with power to sit during
rccoss; to visit Alabama and make
investigations; to send for persons
and to use all necessary process of
the duties and to maito a report to
tho Senate during tho next session
of their investigation and finding;
and that such committee bo autho
rized to employ a clerk and steno
grapher. Nkw Yokk, Aug. 1T. The Tim us1
Cincinnati dispatch from North Ver
non indicates the renewal of the
strike of the brakemnn on the Ohio
and Misissippi Railroad with even
more alarming indications than be
fore. Late last night it is stated
they tapped tho telegraph line and
took off some dispatches from the
Superintendent to tho President of
a nature which highly inseused
them, and before morning tho revolt
was general. It is stated on good
authority that tho Superintendent
of the road was a prisoner. Freight
trains have been detained by men
striking, and did not roach Flora,
111., until Iato to-day. Tho Governor
of that State being called on, imme
diately sent his guards to Flora and
several men havo been arrested.
The Times' Indianapolis special
declares that for threo days a great
public highway iu Indianapolis has
boon iu tho hands of a lawless mob
and thousands of dollars' worth of
proporty destroyed, simply because
Hendricks is not at his home to do
his duty.
Chicago, Aug. 15. Tho Tribune's
Omaha special says: The dispatcli
received from Helena about Terry's
fight was first considered improb
able, but it since has had some ap
parent confirmation at military head
quarters hero. There is no news of
the junction of Crook and Terry.
Crook left camp on the Dth. Terry
was to march on tho 7th. General
Williams thinks from tho direction
in which the Indians wero marching
tba? it must have been Crook that
met and whipped them. Private
dispatches from J. W. Dean, agency
postmaster, states that ho got from
Indian sources tho news that Crook
had met and defeated tho Sioux.
Dispatches from E. D. Townsend
state he had no news from Spotted
Tail agency that Terry's troois met
and whipped the Indians.
Tho Inter-Ocean's Sioux City spec
ial says: An Indian brought news
into Fort Thompson this afternoon
of a great battle recently fought by
Gen. Crook's command and Sitting
Bull's force. Tho Indians were
nearly all killed. Thoso who es
caped scattered in all directions
there not being enough left to resist
soldiers.
Washington, Aug. 15. Gen. Sher
man states he has received a similar
report from another direction, to
that published yesterday, stating that
a terrible battle had taken place be
tween Crook and the Sioux, aud the
latter had been almost annihilated.
It was brought to Red Cloud agency
and sent to him from Laramie, there
fore, he says there seems to be more
substance in the squaw's story than
was at first considered probable.
The Postmaster General, at tho in
stance of Senator Mitchell, has or
dered increased service on the fol
lowing Oregon routes: lloseburg to
Empire City, increased to six trips
per week; Dallas to Alsea, increased
to semi-weekly between Philomath
and Alsca; scrvico between Browns
ville and Craw fordsvi lie made tri
weekly; Scio to Marion, increased to
six trips per week. All service to
commence September 1st.
The President to-day signed the
legislative, executive and judicial ap
propriation bill and the Indian ap
propriation. All the regular annual
ap2Jropriations havo now been ap
proved . !
The Senate has confirmed the nom
ination of A. M. Clapp to bo public
printer. The son of Speaker Kerr tele
graphed from Rock Alum Springs.
Va., this afternoon: Fathcris failing
very fast. We expect the worst
every moment.
l'oreirii.
Loxdon, Aug. 11. It is reported
that Disraeli is about to be raised to
the House of Lords with the title of
Earl of Baconsfield
confirmed.
Edinbukg. Aug.
The report is
U.TlioScotch-
man says) a trustworthy correspon
dent informs us that Disraeli's eleva
tion to the peerage is the first step
towards his resignation of tho Pre
miership, not now, but before tho
bogining of the next soBsion. Earl
Derby is mentioned as the now Pre
mier. London, Aug. 14. The Mark
Lane Express says harvesting is
everywhere in progress. Recent
showers have benefited the pastures
and root crops without damaging
the grain. Farmers in many dis
tricts of England and France are dis
appointed in the wheat yield, which
is less than expected, although pret
ty good. Oats will likely bo some
what short. Prospects of the pea
crop are favorable. Local trade is
dull and likely to remain so until
the results of homo and foreign har
vests are definitely known. The
supplies of foreign wheat aro heavy.
Tho weather has also depressed the
market. Sales are only practicable
at a decline of a shilling per quarter,
and business has been small. Large
arrivals of maize and oats caused a
fall of 6d on the spot, but forward
shipments of maize are steady. The
provincial markets havo been quiet
and firmer because less influenced
by foreign supplies,
of slight advance
The lloating cargo
dull at a decline of
for wheat.
Some few cases
havo occurred,
trade has been
Is per quarter
Chas. John Howard, Earl of Suf
folk and Berkshire, died to day, aged
72 vears.
l'arliic Coast.
San FitANcrsco, Aug. 11. The
Chronicle this morning says oditor
ially: We are authoritatively in
formed that Senator Booth, who was
last year the leader of tho Indepen
dents in California, will soon take
the stump in this State for Hayes
and Wheeler.
San Francisco, Aug. 11. Only
four cases of smallpox reported this
morning. Six occurred yesterday
and two deaths. The deaths during
the last week numbered 130, which
tho health officers states were despe
rate cases which came to hand a week
or two ago. He gives it as his opin
ion that tho extensive vaccination
has chocked tho diseaso, and that
tho worst is over.
San Driioo, A-ig. 14. Tho people
along tho border aro considerably
alarmed in consequence of the with
drawal of military protection and
fear trouble with the Mexicans will
begin immediately. Many aro pre
paring to abandon their homes. A
meeting of citizviis was held Satur
day and a letter written to Gen. Mc
Dowell protesting against the with
drawal of troops from the frontier.
Vii.-jinia, Aug. 11. C. M. Mayer,
deputy coroner, ex-depsity U. S.
Marshal, otc, ha absconded. Ho
is defaulter in some bankrupt estates
to the amount of about a thousand
dollars. Ho is supposud to bo ac
companied by a women of the town.
TKKIUT02UA3, NMVVri ZTU.VW.
Boise City has $200 of her celebra
tion fund left.
The Chinese have a Masonic lodgo
in Idaho City.
Seattle is happy on account of a
daily mail with Ta-coma.
Rich oro has been discovered ii.
the Buffalo mino, Ida o.
General Custer's widow is danger
ously ill at Fort Lincoln.
Considerable grain has boon pros
trated by high winds at Tacoma.
Water-melons and musk-molons
sell from a bit apiece down to a song
at Walla Walla.
Tom Davis, of Boise valley, will
havo 10,000 bushels of fruit "in his
orchard this year.
The Washington Territory Repub
lican Convention is called to meet
at Kalama ou tho 20th of September.
Daniel Edwards Mas badly crnsh
ed by a cave in the Bellingham Jiiy
coal mines last week. Hopes aro
entertained of his final recovery.
Tho assessed valuation of What
com county, W. T., is 510,000, an
increase over last year of 10,000.
About fifty graders and pilers in
all are now at work on the Seattle
and Walla Walla railroad. The work
is advancing rapidly.
Teamsters haul freight from Walla
Walla to Lewistou for a cent and
a quarter per pound. This is like
working for nothing aud board
ing yourself.
The Olympian says: "Some of tho
tho leading men of Walla Walla in
opposition to the railroad, have
'weakened.'" and now ship their
grain by that 'odious monopoly.' "
Miss Alice Kellogg, of Snohomish
City, was thrown from a carriage
last week with such violence that
her collar bono was broken, and she
remained unconscious for 21 hours
after. She is now very low.
A little son of Hon. J. P. Judson,
of Olympia, while playing in the
streets of Steilacoom, recently, was
kicked by a horse in a most "shock
ing manner. It seems that the boy
took the animal to be very gentle and
ventured to disturb its heels. The
animal kicked out frightfully, tho hoof
striking tho poor little fellow right
in the face. His under jaw was left
almost toothless, the front ones es
pecially being uprooted. The up
per lip was cut open so wide that
the dorter is afiii1 a nortion of it
will drop off " before it heals. Also
tho base of the nose was driven flat. t
SUMMAKY OI' ST ATI? M n
Burglars abound at Portland.
Gervais has a case of small-pox
Salem has a Hayes and Wueclor
Salem
.1.13 aro still
in
The ladies at the
more young men.
seaside cry fot
There are over two thonS!,i .
neso in Portland. "u m-
II. W. Scott and bride rctn
rnctf
-" a Learner.
The Union county fair be
the 3d of October.
on
Albina now boasts of a m-
hotel and post office. g Cor.v.
post office.
The State legislature convenes
the 11th of September.
on
Miss Emma Strang of Forth i
died at Astoria last week.
The Weekly Democrat at Aiw
has begun its twelfth year. 7
John Canos, of Nehalem Tall,
committed suicido last week.
Three miles moro of the Dalk,
and Sandy wagon road are completed
The subject of the Yaquina rail
road is beginning to be again agitated
A lad by the name of Tharp
drowned at Independence lastSatnr
day.
Richard Nicholes, the East Tort
land small pox patient, died last
Sunday.
Mrs. Flournoy, of Roseburg Las
been adjudged insane and sent to
the asylum.
It is reported that Sam. L. Simp,
son is to be the editor of the Salem
States?nan.
Mart Brown and wife will probab
ly leave San Francisco for Albany on
the 10th inst.
The Agricultural Society of Linn
county has decided not to hold a
fair this fall.
1,000, bushels of wheat wero stor-
ea in me r armers warehouse
Jefferson last week.
at
W. A. Wheeler has soid his inter
est in the Telegram, published at In
dependence, Polk county.
C. M. Foster, of Baker county,
has been appointed a deputy U. &
marshal in Eastern Oregon."
The small -pox has made its ap
pearance on tho Klamath reservation,
and out of five cases two have proven
fatal.
Prof. Lane, of Illinois, a half
brother to Hon. J. G. Blaine of V.
S. Senate, is looking for a home iu
Salem.
The Oregon Swindling Navigation
Company is what a Portland pajn-r
calls it, and it knows whemf it
spe aks.
Samuel Grant of Elk creek, IVn
ton county was thrown from his
horse last week and had his collar
bono broken.
o
Potatoes throughout the Yaiiin.i
country are blighting and rottirg
very badly, and a failure of the croji
is threatened.
The best yield of fdl v.Ur.t in
Washington county is that of f. b.
Phillips, who threshed 100 busl e".
from IS acres.
At tho fireman's election at tlie
Dalles l.-ist week Geo. M linger v
chosen chief engineer ar-d M. Cliav
man, assistant.
The Oregon State Woman SnlTraM
Association will meet in Salcin n
the 12th September and continue
in session three or'onr days.
Two wbeep were sheared at EngtT'
last week which yielded 77 ponr,i
of wool the ileeee of one weihin;
i38andfroni the other 30 pounds.
Henry Crow, an insane man, at
tacked f. Miss Davis with an :n in
Douglas county last Sunday, a:u!
was shot dead by her brother!
Ezekiel Eddy, of Bridgeport, was
thrown from a horse with such vio
lence last week tliat he reinainftl
senseless for twenty-four hours. Bis
recovery is doubtful.
The Albany Register says: Far
mers still . make tho assertion that
thero will bo a falling off in tfc
wheat yield in this county, varionsl
estimating it at from 10 to 30 per
cent.
Hon. M. Wilkins, of Lane Conntr,
has been appointed one of the inter
national jurors to ths Centennial
Exposition from Oregon, ami will
leave for Philadelphia some tine
within the next two weeks.
Dr. Renfrew, of Eugene City.dieJ
last week from drinking toocopior.?
1' of cold water while overheated.
He came to Oregon twenty-three
years ago and was universally re
spected. Gates and Old's warehouse at St.
Jo was destroyed by fire on the 10th,
burning a lot of hay aud COO bushels
of wheat. It is supposed to bJ'"
been the work of an incendiary. l"e
loss is placed at $3,000.
Postal Agent Underwood receive
a telegram at Eugene City, that tw
stage containing tho U. S. Mail am
Wells, Fargo Co's express
robbed on Siskiyou monntamg l.
threo desperadoes, on the ni"-
The Deputy SLeriff of !
county arrested Robert X. f.
Cocs county last week for biga.: j
He has held to await the action i
the grand jnrv in the sum of j
The complainant is said to have ,
husbands.
Seven wagons containing fdmj i
from San Deigo, California pa.
through Roseburg last week w" j
for the Willamette valley. 1 ie, of
peared to be of the better clas
wanderers, had with them a ctro
of fine young colts, and said n -
had come to purchase farms anu
ide permanently in State.
There is a kind of general J i
going on at Empire City j
r ti mi linr SOU "
ivirs. x-nnnps uun nnr'Ttf' t
daughter, W. A. Lusc, 1 . ,
J. C. Manning and others, are j
cated. Those named above ua rf p
been charged witli riotous co ,
and arrested. It appears tuat i
of them at least were verv ?
to slaughter a doctor nameti
. K,...0W.. . -- ,-
ear-
bat why does not cieanj - tliC
Examinations aro going on
courts.
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