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. - £ B V ■ I rLy-4 » THE OREGON REGISTER. — —................ , ■ • - --------- — " A GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, FOB THE PEOPLE, AND BY THE PEOPLE.” LAFAYETTE, YAMHILL COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 15,1888. L vn. I Oregon Register VBLISOE» EVEBY -AT- FBID a Y (From our Regular Correspondent.) . E?ON ■TTE, WASHINGTON LETTER. - BY — •RANK S. HARDING. W ashington , June 1, 1888. Greater enthusiasm has never been shown than wbb displayed by by the democrats in congress at the suggestion that ex-SerSrtor Allen subscription bates . G. Thurman should be nominated for vice-president on the ticket with Mr. Cleveland. The sentiment is ed *t the poetofflce in Lafayette, absolutely unanimous in favor of as second class matter. the greatest of all Ohio’s citizens. Nothing but the consent of Judge OFFICIAL JIIRECTORY. Thurman would be necessary to UNITED STATES. secure his nomination by acclama L................. Grover Cleveland tion. rofSta'e.................... Thoa. F. bayard r of Treasury..............Cfcaa. 8. Fairchild “With the ticket Cleveland and - of the luterior.................... W. F. Vila» War.......................... Wm. O. Lndic tt Thurman, Ohio could be added to rtTMvy ................. - 3T. Cr Whitney «r-Odierai..................Don Dickinson the democratic 'column this year," r(ieuA*l......... ................... A. H, Garland said an Ohio democrat to your cor $tice............................ C3XGBE8MÜNAL. respondent to-day. Mr. Cleveland J J H Mitchell ............ . ......................... I J. N. Dolph is said to be the man who first sug stative .......................... Binger Hermann gested the nomination of judge STATE. r............................... .-Sy 1 vèste r Penn oyer Thurman, and the idea spread like ». ........................... Geo* W, McBride a prairie fire among democrats here, ¿ \................... f.;............ O. W. Webb iblic Instruction................. E* B. McElroy for “the noblest Roman of them ............................................. Frank Baker ( W. W, Thayer, all,” as the judge is affectionately I Judges.......................... a Win. F. Lord, called, is personally very popular. ( K. 8. Htiahun. DISTRICT. But from the judge’s recent remark, .......... ................................... R. P. Boise “If the people believe me to be an l ........................................... Geo. W. Belt ..................... W. L. Bradshaw honest nian they will let me alone ” C0TNTT7------------------------ - ---------- ..................... . .L.Longharv there is no doubt left of his per ........ .... W. Dried well manent retirement from politics. .......... ..?... T. J. Harris ..:.C.?.<w W, W. Nelson ir. It having been deeided by a cau ............ . ............ Wyatt Harris .......... ..............-J. D. Fenton cus of republican senators that the I George Dorsey ‘18..., fisheries treaty must be discussed ( J. 8. Hibbs ............ town . in open sessions of the senate, those 7 John Thompson . i Thomas Huston who had constantly votecTagainst Trrigteoa ,7.... . ., . : ^WJ {ar’J ltamsey itamaey— ■ ■ ••• ■ I Henry Hopkins open executive sessions for any pur •(ZE Perkins ......... E. Carpenter pose, stfch men as Sectors Ed ............ B W Dunn ."Nelson munds and Sherman, for instance, did not hesitate a moment to turn tub uw or NsirHi'ArrKS. , ■ scri era who do not give express no completely around and'reverse their te eoutiary art* considered as wishing previous records. me their subscriptions. •ahM'-ribers order the discontinnauce of There was one day’s open discus ri-tdicak th«; publishers may continue to m antil all arrears are paid. sion of the treaty this week, after mbrcrihers neglect to or refuse tn take riodtc’»!» from tl e office »o which they which it was postponed until June » directed, they are held responsible The administration has Imre settled tboir bill an*1 ordered 11th. tr discontinued. nothing to lose by having the sub lUcrihers move to other places with- ining the publisher,, and the papers are ject publicly discussed. ‘ , he former direction, they are lie d Seeing the utter hopelessness of courts have decided that refusing to odic.ils from the office or removing any republican being elected presi n« lh«m unc»ll»d f„r |8 »rin,, facje dent, Mr. Blaine has written anoth of intentions 1 fraud . postmaster who neglects to give the er letter, stating in positive terms ce of the neglect of a person to take office the paper addressed to him, is that he will not' under any circum 1 to the publisher for the subscription stances accept the republican nomi nation^ He knows what it is to be , „eryear, Io advance......... $2 00 y.ilx month« I d advnee............ I 00 CHIRCH NOTICK, ■-ill be held at the following tinea • br the M. IS. pastor in charge of the circuit: il»J-ll n.m. Weat Chehalem; 3 p. l«y~I.afayetle, morning ana and evening. evening. • v, morning II a. rn. I. Pike school house; h<i - - Sat ¡oiog-previous, A riders uu_ is, at Anderson ’s school jdjy—11 a. m. Carlton; 3 p, m.______ rLafayelte. Preacher in charge. PRttBYTMUAN 8KMVICM. •errice.H wi l be conducted by Rev. tne Presbrterian church, as follows: b«tli of each month at Lafayette. 4th Sabbaths at Zona. oath at McCoy. All cordially invited. J. Burt Moore, ilCIAN AND SURGEON, ••■•ni • • Oregon. • J. c. MICHAUX, UFAYBTTB, OHEGÖN- ----------- . I active experience nt nine year« icrvices to the people of Lafayette inding country. ¥1. C. Stepliens. PRACTICAL iaker and Jeweler, ayette, Oreg-on_ • frMcla., ,twlt of votchex. c'nck«, ^/Hpoetacleo aodaelhat onprreedent- 'JtweIrY repairing a spec- »Ity-AII work warranted. •»■eanall. T. C. STEPHENS. run over by the Cleveland train, and one experience of the kind is as much as he wants. Gen. Sheridan has this week been about as near death’s door as it was possible to go, and still live; his family and physicians at one time gave up all hope, but sud denly therfe was a change for the better, which continued for three days, when he had another relapse. There is little hope of his ultimate recovery. A committe of citizens of Cincin nati are in this city for the purpose of inviting Mt. and Mrs. Cleveland to attend the opening of the mi tennial ‘exposition in that city,._____ -Commissioner. Stockslager has recommended that suits be brought against the Southern Pacific rail road company to vacate patents for about 80,000 acres of land in South ern California. The house committee on public lands has adopted the •substitute offered by Mr. HoTinfth, of Indiana, for the general land grant forfeiture bill, which recently passed the sen ate. The senate bill permits the roads to hold all the lands along the line as far as the roads have been completed; regardless of the time limit provided in the original 4 grants. Mr. Holman’s substitute holds the railroads to a stricter ac countability, and forfeits all lands not earned strictly according to the terms of the original grant. The first session of the fiftieth congress bids fair to break the record as to the length of the ses sion; No One^dares to name a time for adjournment. If they are not still here in September it will be because the heat will drive them away. Let us glance at the regular business that has to be finished up before they can adjourn. Of the fourteen regular appropriation bills, only two—the military academy and pension bills—have passed both houses. Five of the others have passed the house, and one is now pending before that body. Six of them have not yet been reported from the committees. The first session of the forty-ninth congress was called very slow, but at a cor responding date two years ago it was more than one-third ahead of the present congress. The Mills tariff bill -when it comes before the house again will have quite a number of amend ments added. But none will be ac cepted or voted for by democrats, except those which have been ac cepted by the democratic caucus, a resolution to that effect having been unanimously passed by the caucus Wednesday night. The amend ments which have been accepted by the caucus are rather numerous, but do not affect the bill to any great extent -It is estimated that all told they will not make more than $2,000,000 a year difference. ST. LOUIS CONVENTION. The following description of the opening scene of the great demo cratic convention will be of interest to many: . S t . L ouis , June 5.—The demo cratic national convention began to gather in largely during the hours of the morning, although Chairman Barnum will not announce the opening until noon. The stream of humanity which began to run in to the big Exposition building as early as 8 o’clock has grown to a torrent, which surges in and' fills the great Exposition hall to over flowing. Long before noon 10,000 human faces gazed upon the high desk reserved for the presiding of ficers of the convention, as yet empty, but with its gleaming white silver gavel, the gift of the Color ado delegation, and possessed of curious interest for the expectant multitude. The noble proportions of the hall strike alkat once with admiration. It is oblong in shape and flanked on either side by balconies reaching back about 200 feet, above which, stretching entirely around the au ditorium is a bfoad, overhanging gallery. The ample stage reaches from the rear of the chairman’s platform fifty feet to the east wall of the hall, and accommodates 440 of the gathered leaders and fathers of the national democracy. The decorations are simple but effective. The stage is hnng with red, white and blue bunting, relieved by fes toons and borders of evergreen. Upon a pedeBtal on the right of the entrance of the hall stands a bust of President Cleveland, and sus pended on the face of the gallery above the stage is a large portrait NO. 45. of the president in oil. Ou the were imported from the West Indies other ride are similar portraits of and other countries. To the aggre- Hancock, Cleveland, Tilden au.dj.gate of imports must be added the ex-Governor Marmaduke, of Mis domestic product to find the total souri. A very striking effect is consumption of sugar in the United produced in the gallery above the States. " J, stage by an enormous shaded draw The best imported sugar is the ? ing of the capitol at Washington up centrifugal, in form of coarse C^ys- on a background of sky-blue can taline particles, varying ip size ac- „ vass. The delegations of different cording to the grade or quality of states are arranged entirely across the article. The lowest form of the the hall and stretch ninety feet in product is called piilado, a thick front of the platform. They are syrup, of which Comparatively little arranged with aisles and in alpha is now imported. Samples of sugar betical order, beginning with Ala are taken from a specified number bama at the right and ending with of cask^ff every cargo by govern-’ Wisconsin at the left. ment samplers and sent to experts, As the convention gathered, a who determine the grade as a basiB full brass band of sixty pieces, sta for fixing the duty thereon. The tioned on the west gallery, filled instrument employed to indicate the hall with martial strains and the degree of variation in the qu^l • popular operatic airs. Delegates ity of sugar is called a polariscope, straggled in last of all, generally by and a variation of one degree means delegations, and there is some con a difference of l-44th per cent duty, fusion in seating them in accord a small fraction, but on millions of ance with the plan arranged, but pounds it means thousands of dol nobody appears to be in a hurry. lars. The manner of handling sugar Everybody is good-natured. As noon approaches, the vast in the port has recently undergone audience watches each new comer a change. It is another instance of to catch a familiar face in the ante the condensation of business meth whereby chamber. Those in the hall who ods, ______ , . the same results are can read the father dim inscrip- obtained by fewer workers, Form !*. • tions beneath the portraits on the erly the great bulk of sugar was T stored in the warehouses and with- 1 face of the east gallery railing, re peat the epigrams to their neigh drawn by refinery from time to bors, who pass them on, and soon time—a method which gave em the curiosity of the entire audience ployment to a great number of coopers and laborers. Now the is satisfied. Beneath Cleveland’s portrait is bulk of it goes direct to the re the familiar quotation from the fineries, and a good many workmen president’s message: “It is condi have lost their occupations in con- tion, not theory, that confronts us.” sequence. In the busy Beason, which usually Under Tilden’s portrait is Jthe motto, “Let there be peace and fra begins about the first of March and ends about the middle of July, as ternity throughout the land.” Beneath Hendrick’s portrait is, many as twenty-five or thirty ves “The necessities of war cannot be sels are distributed at one time along the Brooklyn, water front, pleaded in time of peace.” Beneath Hancock’s portrait is discharging their sugar cargoes. written the following quotation An idea of the bulk of an average from‘his letter of acceptance: “The sugar cargo can only be formed by great principles of liberty are the seeing Say 1,600 hogsheads of an average weight of 1,500 pounds inheritance of the people.” each spread out upon the dock. A MOUNTAIN OF SUGAR. One hundred of such cargoes, if „ " Americans ought to be the sweet piled in the form of a pyramid, est people on earth if, as has been would make a ¿ugar Cheops. Every asserted, food goes to make the package is .weighed by a govern- race. Perhaps they are when notjment officer, or a sworn special. Sleeting a president or discussing The former receives $4 a day, six fisheries. The quantity of sweetB days in the week; the latter 30 landed at thia port during the year cents an hour for actual service. would amaze any one who has not The weigher’s position is no sine given the subject special attention. cure. He is a worker. He must It would appear that Americans stand at his scales from 7 a. m. are preserved in sugar, atloat on until sunset; he must endure blaz rivers of saccharine. From West ing suns and face the coldest winds. What becomes of the million Indies black strap to golden syrup, from dainty lady’s fingers to solid tons of imported sugar, not to men pound cake, from molasses candy to tion the domestic product? Ask the most delicious bonbons, Amer the ladies, ask the children, ask icans beat all other people as ab the baker and copfectioner, ask the sorbers of saccharine, the French housekeeper. It goes into millions ‘of cups of not excepted. No adequate idea of the enormous quantity of sugar coffee and tea daily; into cakes, consumed in this country can be preserves and pies; into fruits and conveyed by a statement in pounds. sauces, and a hundred other things. The figures, however, indicate that The Western flapjack swims in Uncle 8am has a tremendous sweet saccharine fluid; it permeates the , luscious griddle cake. The cunning tooth. The total sugar transportations confectioner and skilled housewife for the year 1886 amounted to mold the crude article into multi 2,498,192,000 pounds, or about form artistic shapes, and invest the 1,000,000 tons, valued at $71,604- substance with a delicious consis 698. To this tremendous aggregate tency. If the supply were sud*—:—- Cuba alone contributed, 1,201,503,- denly stopped, society would be 000 pounds; Brazil sent 223,062,- converted into sauerkraut.— N. Y. 00(|pounds; Germany (beet sugar) Stm. V ----------------- 203,228,000 pounds, and the Sand Republican National convention wich Islands (free sugar) 191,623,- will be in session next week at Chi 000 pounds. Smaller quantities cago.