31)c Enterprise
OREGON CITY, Till'Rsb.lV, JAN. IS, 1S77.
Congress and Telegrams.
Both Houses are now committed to
the doctrine that the citizens of this
country have no right to any privacy or
any protection of the law in the matter ,
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of their private aud personal telegraphic
dispatches. Yet neither House of Con
gress has any more authority over the
telegrams than it has over the letters,
papers, or other personal effects which
are protected from search or seizure by
the direct and explicit language of the
Constitution of the United States. It
merely happens that both Houses of
Congress know of a corporation which
is likely to have a great many papers
which eah House would like to see,
and the Senate aud Ilouse, harmonious
in wrong-doing, if in nothing else, pro
pose to throw their drag-net over the
"business of the Western Union and oth
er telegraph companies which believe
that the sacrednessof private correspon
dence should be respected and guarded
by those intrusted with it.
This is a serious business, so serious
that we cannot understand the idiocy of
those who suppose that the president of
Iho principal telegraph company is a
Republican, the telegraph company
would be willing to betray the secrets
of the wires to a Republican Senate but
not to a Democratic House. A corpora
tion with so subtle a conscience would
be a rara aris indeed as long as it last
ed; but if the W. U. T. Co. had been
run on the principle of sacrificing busi
ness for the sake of politics, it would
never have been heard of as a monopoly.
In any attempt to obtain the tele
grams by force, Congress is as impotent
as it is arrogant; while it is formulating
its orders, and decreeing its penalties,
the nimble corporation can get out of
its way a dozen times. But what a com
ment on the people who govern us,
that the only escape from their persecu
tion should be the destruction of papers
and documents which have been pre
served only because they might have a
value for those who owned them! To
find anything equal to it we must go
Lack to countries and ages in which
.constitutional liberty was unknown, and
in which government means the arbi
trary will of a ruler always less grind
ing in its tyranny when the ruler is one
.than when he is many.
If wo can conceive the existence of
such a right as is claimed by our two
Houses of Congress, it means not merely
the right to seize and read and publish
"all telegrams received or sent by Zach--ariah
Chandler, Don Cameron, etc., etc."
on the one hand, and on the other "all
dispatches containing the names of Pat
rick or Grover, and all dispatches where
the sum of 8,000 is mentioned;" it
means not merely, as the Senate order
runs, "all dispatches of a political char
acter, by whomsoever sent or received,
referring to the electoral vote of Ore
gon," but it means all dispatches what
soever, received or sent by uny one, or
referring to anything under the sun.
Jfo man, woman nor child in the United
States has any right or privacy in busi
ness or social life hereafter, but sends
Jill dispatches subject to the perusal and
.approval of the members of Congress.
.Such actions could not be more arbi
trary or inquisitorial if a force of clerks
were stationed in the telegrajjh cfilces
to copy all dispatches for the reading of
the members.
There can hardly be two opinions as
to which side will win in this uneven
contest. The public conscience in Amer
ica is slow and dull, and we have endur
ed bo much that we are not easily mov
ed. But if this attempted outrage should
be consummated which is not likely,
although Orton has been taken to Wash
ingtonit will at least excite a sufficient
indignation to punish some of those
concerned in it. We are sorry to bo
unable to distinguish between the usur
pations of a Republican Senate and
those of a Democratic House. Each is
as bad as the other, and each is render
ed more objectionable by the base cal
culation of party support which under
lies it the Senate evidently depending
on Republican backing in its violations
.of the law, while the House apparently
counts on the support of the Democrats
But instead of holding that party neces
.sity justifies anything and everything,
the people are beginning to demand
ithat party necessity should justify itself.
This monstrous claim, put forward in
the mere interests of party, to subvert
ithe rights of the people, will hs very
far from establishing any additional
.confidence in politicians or politics, and
aas already set a great many honest
men to thinking whether it is not time
to give the pretentions of Congress a
et-back, and to teach the servants of
the people the true limits of their
.autboritv.
Ti 1. 1 i -l . - - - r.
xh uas ueen reported to tne rv. i. nun
tbat May and Bennett met only for ap
pearance's sake, and fired three shots at
space. It is thus the ancient code of
honor is burlesqued by our modern cav
aliers, and may they continue to ridicule
?vhat is neither moro nor less than sui-
cide on the one hand and murder oa the
th.er.
The electoral vote is to be counted on
St. Valentino's day, and the all absorb
ing question cw is, "who will get the
'walentineT
xue jracKar.d ana rucnoia govern-
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menw fiim continue their strife in
Jjom6iana. It is very likely that the
President will recognize Packard's as
the legal govemrneRt.
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The business Outlook.
There can be no doubt tbat business
id steadily increasing. The croakers re
fuse to see the facts and dwell upon in
cidents which prompt gloomy forebod
ings, as if those told the whole story.
Iu some branches of business there is
reasonable complaint, but in the aggre
gate the transactions are very nearly as
larg0 as thev were at tLi3 time last year
"
A paper, with a tendency toward statis
tics, called the Public, says:
The exchanges at the clearing houses
of the seven chief cities, for the week
ending December 16, aggregate oo3,
23G,-iOG, against 566,271,077 during the
corresponding week last year. These
clearings.it sho-ald be remembered, rep
resent the transactions ofHmnks having
over 808,000,000 of deposits, out of
about 82,200,000,000 in all the banks,
national, state, savings and privato, in
the whole country.
The decline is less than it has been in
any week since October. In the aggre
gate the decline is barely $31 ,574,064 on
transactions of over $1, 166,000,000,
about 2.7 per centum. This, too, in
spite of a material decline in prices and
wages, and in consequence partly of a
decline in stock speculation, which dur
ing the two weeks in question resulted
in sales of only 1,122,0 i'J shares, against
1,118,510 shares during the same weeks
last year. Be3-ond dispute, business is
better than it was last year at this time
in quantities exchanged, and it is stead
ily improving. " Political uncertainty
alone retards the recovery.
Taking a selfish view of the situation
as an Oregonian, in which we are ena
bled to profit by the misfortunes of oth
ers, our prospects are cf the brightest
description. From California comes the
sad news that a prolonged drouth is
destroying everything from San Fran
cisco county on the south as far north
as Contra Costa. A friend who has just
returned from that part of the Golden
State informs us that cattle are being
killed for their hides, that the grass is
all parched and burned up, the streams
all dry, aud the wheat all yellow after
getting but a few inches from the ground.
This, of course, in one sense, is good
news for Oregon; for, of course, the
Pacific coast wheat crop will not be as
heavy as usual.and those who raise their
usual amount will get very much better
prices. This is a certainty, and whether
the Russian bear and Sublime Porte
enter the arena or not, Oregon is 6ure
to get more money for her wheat than
ever before; which, divested of tho un
pleasantness of preying on a fellow
brother, is an outlook "ofj purest
serene."
ray
Advertisers.
We recollect reading sowewhere that
people who advertise are not only smart
er but better looking than those who do
not, and the more we have studied the
assertion, the more truth we rind con
tained in it. That they are better look
ing is natural if not logical. Advertis
ing is an indication of intelligence, and
intelligence is one of the leading ele
ments of good looks. At all events, the
world believes in those who advertise,
and it places its dollars in their pockets.
Such are "live" people, and in these
live days nobody wants anything to do
with any but live men and women. Our
advice to everybody except in matri
mony is to advertise. It is sure to re
turn largely, increase your reputation
as a business man, make hosts of friends,
and add to the number of shrewd and
sensible people in the world, of which
there has never vet been an overstock
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
nas ueciaeu tuat a railroad enprineer is
not bound to stop his train to prevent
running over children any more than he
is to prevent running over adults. The
case in which the decision was rendered
was one where there were two children
playing on the track when the train was
approaching. One ran off, but the other
caught its foot in the track. When tho
flagman saw this he gave the engineer
the signal to stop, but it was too late,
and the child was injured. The court
held that, having a right to a clear track.
the engineer is entitled to the presump
tion tiiat any trespasser will remove
from the track in time to avoid the dan
ger, and if he whistles to attract the
trespasser's attention he has done all he
can reasonably be renuired to do. This
ruie, tne court held, applies to children
as wen as adults.
J.ue uemocratic mass meetinpf at
Dalles, Polk county, on tho 8th proved
a failure. A rosnlntirm na cnl.n-.if
" tiwu JI.Ulllt.bl.Al j
mat we are in favor of inaucruratinir
Tilden at the point of the bayonet if it
need be. which was AmAn.w ;n
der language, but both were votet
down. Ou motion the meeting adjourn
, uwuvw. iu UJ11
eu without any resolutions. Cousidera-
T.l i. ...
uie jawins was indnlrrnI in Ktt l.
leaders, but they did not get to blows
A dispatch from San Diego, Cal., in
xwxma uo lutM, lUc long aesired rain put
in appearance last Sunday. The rain
had effect of lessening the depression felt
among all classes, but still the stock
tv ill 1 1 o r 4-r noif nni-M a V
" lua grass grows
before any relief can be obtained, and
ii is nueiy mat a great many more sheep
and cattle will die. The outlook, how
ever, is greatly improved.
The present yield of gold from the
various mines and sections of this con
tinent is set down at about a million
dollars each week of the year. Austra
lia is producing about half as much,
and the rest of the world say twenty
five million more, giving the gross sum
of a hundred million dollars per annum.
The man who
"Tilden or war,
goes about shoutincr
would go into the
"tented field" only as a sutler
. I r from Paris. As for Bennett it would
TS615ettlDSgeneralthatUot be a bad idea for him to remain in
wash." wvuamJ wont
iuo oil xjj. qu i i hi v acrr sis-v . a. c i ,
lVhat Crops to Leave in the Ground.
Wo take the following very valuable
article from an agricultural exchange,
which it will be well for our farmers to
peruse carefully, as it contains much
useful information for them:
Many farmers are rather slow to learn
that what thev take cut and off of the
soil in the form of a crop must be paid
back to the soil, or it becomes greatly
impoverished. Ignorance of or imliiler
ence to this great law of nature has
caused so manv worn-out worthless
farms throughout the country, and it is
high time that farmers begin to realize
that thev must pay back what they get
from the soil, or else be condemned as
murderers of tho life-giving soil be
queathed or falling into their hands in
uo'order of Providence, and transmit
ted to their children a ruined, worthless
inheritance of land. On this point it
may not be amiss to publish the experi
ments made in Germany by Dr. Weisko
and several other savans, showing that
the stubble and roots left in the earth
by crops that have been harvested, add
to the soil much more nutritive value
than eomraonlv supposed. Thes ex
periments fully explain the great value
of clover as a preparatory crop for
wheat, and for all other crops that are
not manured with nitrogen, potash and
phosphates. The clover of a single acre
lasbeeu known to leave nitrogen enough
for 110 bushels of wheat, phosphoric
acid enough for 114 bushels, and potash
enough for 78 bushels. Moreover, it is
found that most of this valuable mater
ial is left in the best possible condition
for use. Whether the nitrogen of the
clover comes wholly or partly from the
soil, or from the air.it is certainly taken
from a condition in which it is of but
ittle use to most crops, and is converted
into an available one, so that practically
the clover is a creator of nitrogen in the
soil, as it is also an efficient purveyor
of potash and phosphoric acid.
The librarian of the New York Mer
cantile Library has been interviewed as
to the class of books most read, and
says the people read chiefly novels, now
a-days. The call for works of fiction,
he says, is increasing, some of the
young lady patrons of tho library get
ting through with two or three books a
day. The standard novels are in great
demand, too, Dickens surpassing the
others, and of his works "David Cop-
pertield" and "Dombey and Son" stand
first in popular favor. Thackeray is
best known by his "Vanity Fair" and
"Pendennis," Bnlwer by "Tho Last of
the Barons," and "My Novel," while all
the works of Dumas, Scott and Hugo
are much sought after. There seems to
be a sudden falling off iu tho demand
for works on European travel. Eugene
Schuyler's "Tmkistan," PrinieV'Trav-
els in the East, "Dotting Around the
Circle." by Curtis, and the writings of
Bayard Taylor, W. D. Howells and Du
Chaillu are continually asked for. As
to histories, Bancroft's United States,
Guizot's History of France, and Macau
lay's, Hume's, aud Fioude's works are
the most popular. For children's read
ing Oliver Optic still reigns supreme,
but John Abbot is as great a favorite as
of old, and May no lleid, Elijah Kellogg
and Horatio Alger, Jr., s ill contiuue to
be tho delight of tho small boy. Jules
Verne should bo popular with young
folks, but there are more calls from
grown people for his books than from
children.
John Bright, formerly tho advocate of
peaco at any price, has become an advo
cate of war at any price. At Birming
ham he recently expressed himself in
the following beligerent way: "Why,
700 years ago the people of this country,
with one of her heroic Kings, joined the
Crusaders, and weut to Palestine for
tho purpose of liberating holy places
from the possession of Infidels and Mo-
hamedans. What do we now do? We
give the blood and treasure of England
to the support of the Turkish Govern
ment. We give Bethlehem and Calvary
and the Mount of Olives, through the
blood and treasure of England, and the
power over all these vast countries,
which are almost a wilderness under the
Turkish scepter, wo do all this simply
to prevent Russia passing any war ships
from the BlackSea to the jlediteranean."
A successful experiment of wheat
growing on a new system has been
made by D. O. Bissell, of Goose Lake,
Modoc County, California, who wager
ed that he could raise forty bushels to
the acre from one pound of seed. The
test was made on a tract measuring ex
actly the eighth of an acre, which was
subdivided into spaces about nineteen
by thirty seven inches apart, and two
ounces of seed were planted, after the
fashion of Indian corn. Instead of be
ing scattered broadcast, it was irrigated
and cultivated in the same way as In
dian corn, and the yield was ten bush
els, or at the rate of eighty bushels to
the acre, twice the crop called for by
the terms of tho wager. In the same
field wheat cultivated in the ordinary
way only yielded at the rate of twenty
bushels to the acre.
A 6ingnlar case was a few days ago
decided by the Supreme Court of Iowa.
It was a suit by a wife to recover dam
ages from a saloon-keeper for selling
liquor to her husband. The court de
cided that the verdict of 31,025 against
the saloon-keeper was invalid because
one of the jurors took a glass of liquor
in the progress of the trial. The court
considered itself bound to so decide,
because of decisions heretofore made.
A peculiar feature about the case is that
the defendant, himself a saloon-keeper,
caused the verdict to be set aside on ac
count of the liquor drinking, although
it was shown that the juror did not be
come drunk.
James Gordon Bennett sailed on the
steamer City of Richmond for Europe
I on the 13th. Miss Mav. tha was-to be-
j bride, will not not have any use for the
elegant bridal outfit recently imported
Europe permanently, at least
t wouldn't be missed very much.
ho
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
T-onrmT rrrtr PUT TPOOV T A
Telegraphic News.
Kastern.
Topeka, Jan. 11. The Governor's
message was read to-day. It is chiefly
local in character, but discusses the
evel effects of granting power to those
who but recently were in arms against
the Government, and declares these
acts of mercy and forgiveness have
proven ashes in the mouth of wisdom
and bitterness to the soul of justice.
He congratulates the State for it3 devo
tion to right, and pays a tribute to the
Republican party for its patriotism.
He says the people of Kansss desire
peaco and fervently pray for it, but if
uecessary, they will dutifully defend
the sacred earnings of the last great
struggle in a still greater one.
A nephew of Senator Morton, named
E. K. Hart, committed suicide at Chi
cago on the 11th inst.
Bennet is said to have married Miss
May and sailed for Europe from Phila
delphia. May is wounded severely in
the thigh.
Hayes and Wheeler visited the Ohio
Legislature on the 11th. Wheeler was
tendered a reception and at 11 P. M.
started for Washington.
New York, Jan. 12. The Times
special from Gloucester, Massachusetts,
says that sorrowful news has come to
hand to-day that ten schooners of the
fishing fleet from this port are miss
ing and doubtless lost and that the
crews of them have probably perished.
Tho Times Harrisburg has the follow
ing on the t .abject of the recent Repub
lican caucus. The subjects discussed
were Presidential complications and ac
tion of the National House of Represen
tatives in attempting to violate secresy
of messages. The subjects were fully
and freely discussed. Persons here
who profess to be able to read the signs
of the times, entertain gloomy forebod
ings for the immmediate future. They
think tho country oa the verge of
another terrible war; that condition of
feeling in your city and Maryland are
as bad, if not worse, than during the
period which immediately preceded
hring on Sumpter. Should the worst
come Pennsylvania will do her full
duty.
New York, Jan. 13. The Times'
Washington special says: The electoral
committees of the Senate and House
had a long meeting this afternoon, being
in session till 5:30 o'clock. Another
meeting will be held to-morrow. The
proposition agreed on by the Senate
committee is under consideration. The
bill, or former draft of the proposition,
has been very carefully kept secret, but
the general and outlines are known. It
provides that the Senate shall, on the
day of the counting of the vote, meet
with the Ilouse in the hall of the latter
body, and the Vice President shall open
all the certificates, and tellers appoint
ed for the purpose shall, as usual, read
the record and sum up the votes, but
there are to be counted, in the first
place, only returns to which no objec
tion is made. Where there is one re
turn only from a State, and that is ob
jected, to, the two Houses will deter
mine whether it shall be counted, but
tho concurrence of both houses will
be required to reject any vote; where
two returns are made from one State,
the dispute is to bo referred to a com
mission or tribunal coni'iosed of nine
members of tho Hou.se aud Senate and
the four justices of the supreme court
lougest in service. The nine members
of the House and Senate are to be
selected by the appointment of five
Senators aud five Representatives and
then dropping one of the ten hy draw
ing lots. There milit thus be on
the commission five Senators and
four members of the House, or live
members and four Senators. The jus
tices who would become members of the
commission by the terms of the propo
sition would by Clifford.Swavne, Miiler
and Davis. This commission to be
authorized to determine all questions
in dispute, and their decision to be
final. The disputed votes having been
counted in the presence of the House
in accordance with the decision of the
commission and the whole number of
electoral votes having been summoned
up by the tellers, the President of the
Senate will announce the result in the
usual form , which will determine who is
to bo President of tho United States.
For some reason the Democratic
managers do not now consult Tilden as
formerly. Some state he is irritable on
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account oi ma vast amount oi money
no lias squandered on an uncertainty.
Chicago, Jan. 13. The Journal's
Washington special declares that all
reports that the Senate committee on
electoral count have agreed are uu
founded, and the plans telegraphed
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iruiii iiusuiuytuu, purporunf' to Do tne
basis of agreement, are condemned alike
by Democrats and Republicans in the
committee.
The political excitement has been
greatly revived by yesterday's publish
ed report that the Senate committee on
the electoral count had agreed on a plan
which, in its last analysis, would remit
the settlement of the Presidential
dispute to chapce. The fact that these
reports are premature and conjectural,
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and mas memuers oi ine committee say
no plan is likely to be agreed upon
which shall not embrace much more
important propositions, whose nature
has not been guessed at by the public,
is not yet generally known. Comments
are still based on the assumption that
the joint committee will reccommend a
reference of all controverted questions
to a new conglomerate tribunal in
which one party or the other will con
trol the decisions, according as a Re
publican or Democrat shall be elimiuat
ed by lot. The projects seems to find
favor with the Democrats, but a large
number of dispassionate members of
both parties concede there is no possi
ble ground for a compromise in which
the element of chance shall be exciud
d for neither party will consent , to
abide by tho decisions of any tribunal
whose status can be definitely measured
in advance.
Washington, Jan. 13. Major How
ard, of Jackson, Mississippi, testified
before the Senate committee on privil
eges and elections this afternoon in re
lation to alleged intimidation of voters
in that State at the recent election. He
stated he knows of at least 100 persons
colored, and he thought they were
mostly Republicans, at Tennans, a poll
ing place just outside of Jackson, who
were kept from voting py reason o
their not being able to get through the
orowd around the polls, and by reason
of supervisors of election at that place
askiner numerous questions of voters
simply to take up time and delay vot
ins: is satisfied from what lie saw and
heard that many colored voters wero in
timdated for th9 pnrpese of keeping
them from voting. One of the methods
practiced was to threaten to turn labor
ing men oat of employment. Republi
cans attempted to bold political meet
ing; Conservatives and Democrats cre
ated disturbance and broke up the
meeting. Republicans in all jiarts of
the State told witness previous to last
election that unless they could be pro
tected they would poll a small vote
Judge Percy, of Hinds county, Mis3.,
in conversation with witness before the
election remarked that tho Conserva
tives in his county didn't propose to al
low the Republican party even to be
built up in that county again. What
would be called a farce in the North
was called an election in Mississippi;
met but two colored men in Mississippi
who were Democrats; saw no violence
done any person previous to election
day; knows that a large majority of the
colored people would vote the Repub
lican ticket if let alone.
Petitions from fourteen States, and
bearing nearly 4,500 signers, have been
received by the National Woman's Suf
frage Association, and will be presented
to Cougaess asking for a sixteenth
amendment to the constitution of the
United, States, prohibiting any State
from disfranchising U. S. citizens on
account of sex.
New York, Jan. 16. The Sun ac
cepts the probability that the joint
Congressional committee on counting
the electoral vote will report in favor
of a tribunal of five Senators and five
Representatives, from which one mem
ber shall be dropped by lot; the re
mainder, in conjunction with four su
preme court judges, to determine irre
vocable all issues in counting the elec
toral vote on which both houses of Con
gress may fail to agree, lue &un op
poses the scheme as one with which
the country will not be satisfied; the
element of chance should not enter into
the settlement of this question; besides,
canvassing electoral votes is not the
proper functions of the supreme court.
The World also throws cold water on
the scheme.
Matamokis, Jan. 15. News is just
received that E;.querago, a prominent
military officer of the late Lerdo Gov
ernment, was shot at Monterey on the
11th inst, by order of Diaz. Gen. La-
bariel, collector of this port, Col. Zal,
lormerly second in command under
uen. Revultos, and several other offi
cers who would not declare in favor of
Diaz, leave here to-day by schooner for
Vera Cruz. Revolutions'" officers con
tinue to enforce the three per cent, tax
by breaking into and plundering stores.
To-day they carried off the furniture of
a prominent citizen, leaving his family
in an empty house.
Loxpox, Jan. 15. A dispatch from
Constantinople says: At to-day's sit
ting of the confer ence, the Marquis of
Salisbury, in the name of his Euro
pean colleagues, communicated to the
representatives of the Porte the last pro
posals of the powers whose demands
were modified and softened. The di
visions of Bulgaria into two provinces
aud the restriction of Turkish troops
to certain places are not mentioned in
the propositions snbmit ted to-day. The
previous propositions for an interna
tional commission and making appoint
ment of governors of provinces subject
to consent of the powers are consid
erably modified. Iu addition to con
cessions the cession of Swornlik to Ser-
via is left in suspense. The proposal
for aggradizemeut of Montenegro are
reduced to limits which the Porte has
signified its willingness to accent.
Thus all contested points are relin
quished by the powers except commis
sion ot supervision and appointment
of governors, and even these points are
much modified. The powers now pro
pose that the appointment of governors
of provinces be subjected to their ap
proval only during the next live years.
and that instead of an international
commission, a mixed bodv composed
of Europeans and Turks be'established.
After making his communication. Lord
Salisbury announced that if tho Porte
did not agree to to the proposal now
made, he had instructions to quit Con
stantinople. Pera, Jan. 1G. The Marquis cf Sal
isbury had an interview with the Sul
tan, who is disposed to accept all the
conditions of the amended scheme sub
mitted to the conference.
Iacin'c Coast.
Sax Francisco, Jan. 10 The Lick
estate has been settled amicably; John
Lick gets 8333,000 in addition to the
3150,000 devised, out of which he pays
to the nephews, etc, 872.000 in full satis
faction. The Grasshopper Pest.
The peoplo of Colorado are studying
the habits of the grasshopper with
great inteiest, since the moro they learn
of tho troublesome insect the better able
they are to provide defenses against its
depredations. It is found that when it
i3 known precisely what regions are oc
cupied in the summer with the egg-laying
insects,farmers in other regions can
calculate with terrible accuracy wheth
er or not they are likely to be visited
by the jiests in the following season,
and if so, at about what time in the
3-ear; and thus forewarned, they can so
time their planting as to forestall dam
ago to their crops. For instance, there
were grasshoppers in Colorado last
summer, and doubtless thero will bo
plenty of young ones thero in tho
spring, which some other country will
get in the fall, when they take wing.
Therefore, the Denver yews advises the
farmers of Southern Kansas, tho Indian
Territory, South-western Missouri and
Texas to plant early in tho spring, and
mainly crops that will bo harvested by
the 20th of July as any or all of these
localities are likely to receive attention
from Colorado's product of grasshopers
next season.
Wno Counts the Vote. Mr. Chan
cellor Kent says, (lt Kent'K (!otnmnn
taries, page 300) : Tho Conlitntin doim
not expressly declaro. Iu tho cm mo of
questionable vot-H and n chwdy con
tested elect ion, thix pwfr tuny bo all
important, and J prnmunn in tho nb
sense of all b'ishdiori nri tho hubjoet,
that tho prrxidfiil of llm ,S'mfa counts ir
rote and tlch-rmiurn ftin rrsuf, itnd that
the two house are p runout only an spec
tators, to witnens tho fairness and ac
curacy of tho transactions, and to act
only if no choice be made bv tho elec
tors." A farmer on the Toucliet, in the
"Walla Walla valley, who makes no pre
tentions to extensive farming, realized
$2,000 from the sale of hogs alone last
year.
State News.
Dalles has a bank in prospect.
Diphtheria is abating at Salem.
y Prof. Condon is very ill at the Dalles.
Lot Livermore, of Pendleton, is very
ill.
Burglars are making free in all parts
of tLe State.
Masquerade ball at Salem St. Valen
tines night.
"Undo Shelton," an old pioneer.died
at Portland last week.
Tho Bull Head gold and silver mine
on the Santiam is to be re-opened.
Two Chinese students are attending
the Willamette University at Salem.
W. G. Harris and Wm. Ugton have
purchased the Dallas flour mill, for 6,.
500.
Col. Nesrnith has bought a half in
terest iu a flouring mill at Dixie, Polk
county.
Hon. S. Staats has sold 400 acres of
land near Monmouth, to a Mr. Damon,
for 88,000.
Burglars went through four houses at
Forest Grove last week.but failed to get
any plunder.
R. B. Hargadine, a wealthy stock
raiser of Ashland died in San Francisco
last Saturday.
Flowers are in bloom at the Dalles,
and the residents have commenced
making gardens.
Two unsuccessful attempts at bur
glary were made at the Dalles last week
by two masked men.
The St. Louis Globe Democrat says
the best hemp grown in the United
States comes from Oregon.
A little son of Mrs. Sarah Ripper,
aged two and a half years, was drowned
in the Umatilla river a few days ago.
Messrs. Handley and Sinnott, of the
Dalles, offer 100 for the arrest of the
thief or thieves who robbed their store
last week.
On the last trip of the schooner Annie
Gee from San Francisco to Coos Bay,
the mate was washed over board and
drowned.
The Coqnille Black Sand Mining
Company has filed articles for an in
crease of its capital stock from 8400,000
to 8750,000.
A rich discovery of quartz was made
in the Payette valley by R. Ferguson
and Alex". Cyphons. No excitement,
but great hopes.
Mr. Joseph Day, first brakesman on
the Celilo road, fell from the traiu ou
Friday last, just as it was nearing Celilo,
and was seriously injured.
The amount of beef canned at Kin
ney's Astoria cannery since September
1st is 10,500 cases. The aiuonnt of mut
ton canned is 500 cases.
Judge R. P. Boise overruled the mo
tion to grant W. K. Neil a new trial for
the killing of Seth W. Hayes, which
was argued before him last week.
The revenue cutter, built at Albina,
was seized last week and is now held by
the United States revenue cutter. Rush,
pending a decision to whom she Ihj
longs. Oregon will doubtless have a large
immigration from California this year
on account of the threttemvl drouth in
that Slate. Drouth never affects Oregon,
nor do the crops ever fail.
E. L. Cady, of Harrisburg, Linn
county, wants to make the acquaintance
of any member of the Otli buttery Wis
consin volunteers in ISll'i, who resideth
in Oregon or Washington.
Hon. C. B. Bellinger, chairman of the
Democratic State Central Committee,
and A. Bush, banker at Salem, have
been summoned to Washington to testi
fy in the Oregon electoral muddle.
A family by the name of Barr, living
near Oakland, Douglas countv, have
been circulating counterfeit half-dollars
through the State for some months past.
They were arrested last week and will
explain before the U. S. court.
Hon. Ralph C. Geer, of Waldo Hills,
on New Year's day celebrated the 40th
anniversary of his wedding day.
Thirty-six of his posterity, together
with a large number of hi3 neighbors,
sat down to his festive board and cele
brated the day in good old New Eng
land style.
Mr. A. J. Stnrtevant, of Pendleton,
last week, while attempting to draw a
ball from a derringer (by accident be
ing on full cock) it went off, sending
the bullet into the hand. It ranged up
wards and lodged in the forearm, a few
inches above the wrist.
The son of Mr. Byers, the proprietor
of the Pendleton mills, met with quite
a serious accident ihis week. While
trying to capture a piece of iron im
bedded in a piece of wood, he drove
the iron by some mistake through the
left hand. He is now doing well.
Cassius Rogers, of McMinnville, has
been missing for about three weeks, and
his family are afraid that he has been
made away with or left the county. He
had 81,500 with him, and said he was
going to see a neighbor on business,
since which timo nothing has been
heard ot him.
Senators Elected.
,Tas. G. Blain was elected U. S. Sen
ator from Maine on the ICth for the
short and long terms. He received the
unanimous party vote. i
Hon. Wm. Wimlom, Republican, was
re-elected to the TJ. S. Senat3 from Min
nesota on tho lGth for six years.
Logan was probably elected U. S.
Senator from Illinois yesterday.
T. W. Kerry has been re-elected TJ.
S. Senator from Michigan by a unani
mous Republican vote iu the assembly.
Tho Water Witch, the only English
tnan-of-war not propelled by paddle or
screw, but by means of the recoil of
wak-r jots, projected at high Telocity
from nozzels at tho ship's side, made
Hovon knots an hour at her last trial
trip. Tho system lias important ad
vantages over the old ones, and tho pro
moters are minguino of ultimate success,
3Jy an analysis of the vote of Presi
dential electors on November 7, 1876,
on the basis of the census of 1870, it
has been found that the States repre
sented in the vote for Hayes contain
nearly 4.00,f 00 square miles of territory
more than those which cast their votes
for Tilden, and nearly 81,000,000,000
more of the wealth of the nation.
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y OTHERS.
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I. SELLING
? ?AS JUST RECEIVED THE LARGEST
JL JL stock of
FALL AMD WHITER GOODS
ever imported to Oregon City, which he offers
at greatly reduced prices. My stock of
CLOTPIIISTG
Has bwn lanrelv increased find I can show
as handsome a line of ready-made goods in
Men and Boys' Business and Dress Suits,
Coat, etc., as can be found in the country ,andQ
at prices that cannot tail to satisfy. My
CRESS GOODS DEPARTS
Is filled with a splendid assortment of all tho
leading styles and lashionable shades ot goKls
Einpresn Cl It,
MoUairs, French and
American Dress (iood
Black. Alpacca,
Ilrillia ntities,
Caiiuilfrcs, KC
fla i: l s ,
Plaid, Plain and Opera Flannels, of all colors
Bleached and Unbleached Cotton Flannels.
Ladies' nml Gents' I'nderwar
.Sliawls and Scarfs,
Wool Blankets,
Tm iika uimI O
Truveliiij Satcliela,
llatManil l a ps.
Oil lot H for
Floorand Table.
BOOTS and SHOES,
I would call special attention to my stock of
Men's and Boys' San Francisco Boots, which I
have sol.i for anumbe of years past with gen
oral satisfaction. Every pair warranted. A
omplete stock of
HARDWARE & FARMING UTENSILS.
Choice Teas, Canned Goods, and all choice
Family Groceries,
All at Low Prices. Also,
LIVERPOOL AND CARM 1SLAXD SALT.
Highest Price paid for all kinds of
Uoxzzalr.v Produce.
200,000 lbs. of WOOL Wanted,
for which I shall pay the highest cash price.
I. SELLIXC.
Oregon City, Nov. 1, 1875-tf.
J. P. WARD.
GEORGE A. UABDI.NO.
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- EEP CONSTANTLY ON 1IANU A GE
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Perfumery, Soaps,
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Trusses. Supporters,
Shonliler Braces Fancy and
Toilet Articles,
.. ALSO
Kerosene Oil, Lamp Chimneys,
Cilass, Hntty, Paints, Oils,
Varnishes and Dye Studs
Pl'RE WINES AND LI(U ORS FOR MEDICINAL
PURPOSES.
PATENT MEDICINES, ETC., ETC
""Physicians' Prescriptions carefully com
pounded, and all orders correctly answered.
Open at all hours of the night.
Of All accounts must be paid m nthly.
novl,IS75tf WAUL &. HARDING.
HEW BLACKSMITH SHOP,
AT
John Lewis' Old Stand.
CX. CAN'OXO HAS OPENED AT
this old stand, where he is prepared to
do anything in his line.
By Horse shoeing a specialy.
Oregon City. Mav 263m
OYSTERS!
OYSTERS!!
OYSTERS!!!
AT GEORGE FUCHS', OPPOSITE THE
Depot. Served up for customers
FRESH OR STEH El).
Families supplied at the rate of 75 cents per
hundred. GEORGE FUCHS.
Oregon City, Oct. 20-tf
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