DAILY REPORTER 1 M c M innville . O regon . F riday . J anuary u . isb 7 VOL. II. NO. 11 The» Daily Reporter, One at a Time. One step at a time, and that well placed, Entered in the Poetoffloe at MoMinnville for rransmieHion Through the Mails as Sec We reach the grandest height; ond Class Matter. One stroke at a time, earth’s hidden ■ -o D. C. IRELAND. E. L. E. WHITE. D. C. IRELAND & Co., PUBL1SHEHS stores Will slowly come to light; One seed at a time, the forest grows: One drop at a time, and the river Hows Into the boundless sea. One word at a time and the greatest T hi D aily R bpobtbb is issued every day book in the week exoept Sundays, and is delivered Is written and is read! in the oity at 10 oents per week. By mail, 40 One stone at a time, the palace rears cents per month in advanoe. Rates for ad Aloft its stately head ; vertising same as for T hb W eekly R bpobtbb . One blow at a time, and the tree's cleft through, &, Jek Printing, And a city will stand where the forest n ------ —-- grew We beg leave to annonnoe to the public that we have just added a large stock of new A few short years before. novelties to our business, and make a special ty of Letter Heads. Bill Heads, Note Heads, Statements, Business Cards, Ladies Calling Cards, Ball Invitations (new designs,) Pro grammes, Posters, and all descriptions of work. Terms favorable. Call and be con vinced. D. 0. IRELAND & CO. O. W. OOUCHBB. B. B. OOUCHBB Coucher & Coucher. One foe at a time, and he subdued, And the conflict will be won ; One grain at a time, and the sand of life Will slowly all be run ; One minute, another, the hours fly; One day at a time our lives speed by Into eternity. One grain of knowledge, and that well stored, M c M iwhville - - - O beoom . Another and more on them, And as time rolls on your mind will Office aqd rasidenoe, corner of Third and shine D. streets, next to the postoffioe. With many a garnered gem Of thought and wisdom. And time will tell, ■ -o-------- “One thing at a time, and that done Late of New Orleans, La., well,” Is wisdom’s proven rule. Piles and Fistula a Spe —Golden Days. ciality. Consultation PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. DR. I. C. TAYLOR, tYee. No Cure No Pay. Office with H. V. V. Johnson, M. IK. McMinnville, Oregon. H. hubley . JAS. m ’ oain . McCain & Hurley, ATTORN EYS-AT-1, AW AND NOTARIES PVBLK), Lafayette, Oregon, Especial attention paid to abstracts of title and settlement of estates is probate. Office -Jail buiding, up stairs. Mrs. M. Shadden. Fashionable Dressmaker. fjF"The Taylor System of Cutting and Fit ting employed. Third street, Next to Bishop A Kay’s store, MoMinnville, Or. Ms. Hair Cutting, ^having and «bam. poain* Parlor. 15c SHAVING 15c. C. H. FLEMING, Proprietor. (Buooessor to A. C. Wyndham. ) Ladies and children’s work a specialty. gV*I hav^ just added to my parlor the largest and finest stock of cigars ever in this sity. Try them. _______ _ D. C. IRELAND 4k CO., Fine Job Printers, • McMIlBBVille, Oreg«B. The Year. The length of the year is strictly 365 days 5 hours48 min utes 49 seconds and seven- thenths of a second; the time required for the revolution of the earth round the sun. About 45 B. C., Julius Ca?sar, by the help of Sosigines, an Alexan drian philosopher, came to a tolerably clear understanding of the length of a year, and detweed that every fourth year should be held to consist of 366 days for the purpose of absorbing the odd hours. By this rather clumsv arrangement the natural time fell behind the reckoning, as, in reality, a day every fourth year, is too much by 11 minutes 10 seconds and three-tenths of a second, so it inevitably followed that the beginning of the year moved onward ahead of the point at which it was in the days of Caesar. From the time of the council of Nice, in 326 A. D., when the vernal equinox fell Correctly on the 21st of March, Pope Gregory found, in 1582 A. D., that there had been an over- reckoning to the extent of ten days, and that the vernal equi nox fell on the 11th of March. To correct the past error, he decreed that the 5th of October of that year should be reckoned as the 15th, and to keep the year right in future—the overplus being 18 hours 37 minutes and 10 sec onds in a century—he ordered that every centennial year that could not be divided by four (1700, 1800, 1900, 2100, 2200) should not be bissex tile, as it otherwise wouhj be; thus, in short, dropping the ex tra day three times every 400 years. While in Catholic coun tries the Gregorian style was readily adopted, it was not so in Protestant nations. In Brit ain it was not adopted until in 1752, by which time the discrep ancy between the Julian and the Gregorian periods amounted to eleven days. An act of par liament was passed dictating that the 3rd of September that year should be reckoned the 14th and that three of every four cen tennial years should be leap years; 1800 not being a leap year, the new and old styles now differ twelve days, our first of January being equivalent to the 13th, old style. In Russia alone of Christian countries, is the old style retained. The old style is still retained in the treasury ac counts of Great Britain. In old times the year was held to be gin on the 25th of March, and this usage, or piece of antiquity, is still observed in the computa tions of the chancellor of the British exchequer. Temperance Alliance. PRICK TWO CENTS. A $10,000 Bedstead. New York Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer: A bedstead which cost $10,000 would be a curiosity anywhere. Such was the price paid, I am told, bv Mr. and Mrs. Whitney for the bedstead at their house in New York, on which Col. Ol iver Payne sleeps. Whitney’s friends here say that after his father-in-law had made him a present of this house in New York, he complained that he ceuld not keep it; that it took more money than he could earn to pay taxes, keep servants and sustain the place. Thereupon Col. Oliver Payne, who was a bachelor, gave his sister $1,000,- 000 to go to housekeeping. It is a fact patent to every business man that our money volume is not large enough now, even to keep it at $25 per capita, which we cannot, unless we coin silver dollars twice as fast as we are now. The national banks have contracted their circulating notes $65,000,000 during the present year. The green backs are a fixed quantity and by law are neither diminished or in creased. We are coining silver at the rate $25,000,000, and about as much more in gold. But the amount of gold and sil ver coined is not equal to the amount of bank notes destroyed. Here then we have a contraction of the money volume going on every day, in the face of an in creasing demand. The national banks have yet $69,000,000 in 3 {»er cent, bonds deposited as security for their circulation— and these will be called in and cancelled during the coming year, so that the contraction of currency from this source is to continue. But this is not all. Our population is increasing at the rate of 3,000,000 a year, and in order to provide $25 per capita for such increased population, we need to add $75,000,000 to our money volume each year. In the face of such facts what is to be thought of the financial wis dom that would recommend the stoppage of our silver coinage? The Yamhill county Tem perance Alliance will convene at Sheridan on the 19th of January. Article 6th. All temperance and religious organizations shall be entitled to a representation in the alli ance. Article 7th. The basis of representation shall be one delegate for every twenty members, and one for a fraction over ten of the organi zation sending delegates. C. T. B ishop , Corresponding Sec’y. * A. R. Winaus, of Han Fran One who was here at the time says our correspondent was in cisco, is canvassing Oregon in error. Mr. Newby donated ten the interest of the Louisville, Ky., and Cincinnati, Ohio,trade. acres for the college.