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The First American ^Railroad.
In the course of a paper read before
the Franklin Institute, bearing the
title, “Transportation Facilities of the
Past and Present," Mr. Baraett Le Van
corrects the commonly received state
ment that the Granite Railroad, built
at Quincy, Mass., in 1827, by Gridley
Bryant, for transporting stone for the
Blinker Hill Monument from the grau-
ite quarries ot Quincy, was the first
railroad built in the United States. On
this point he presents interesting testi
mony to prove that, far from being
the first, the Granite Railroad was
really only the fourth in order of pre
cedence in the United States We quota
from that portion of the papier relating
to the subject as follows: “Railroads
were first introduced into Pennsylvania.
In September, 180V. the first experi
mental track in the United Sta es was
laid out by John Thomson (the father
of John Edgar Thomson, who was
afterward the President of the PenusvL
vania Kailroad Company), Civil Engi
neer of Delaware County, Pennsyl
vania, and constructed under his direc
tion by Somerville, a Scotch millwright,
for Thomas Leiner, of Philadelphia. It
was 180 feet in length, aud graded one
and one-half inches to the yard.
The
gauge was four feet, ».nd the sleepers
eight feet apart The experiment with
a loaded car was so successful that
Leiper in the same year caused the
first practical railroad in the United
States to be constructed for the trans
portation of stone from his quarries on
Crum Creek to his landing on Ridley
Creek, in Delaware County, P»., a dis
tance of about one mile. It continued
in use for nineteen years. Some of the
original foundations, consisting of rock
in which holes were drilled and after
ward plugged with wood to receive the
spikes for holding the sleepers in place,
may be seen to this day.— Scientific
American.
Wealthy Romans.
home of the ancient Romans wer«
very wealthy, 'rhe philosopher Seneca
had a fortune of £3,500,000. Tiber:us,
at his death, left £23,624,000. which
Caligula spent in less than twelve
months.
Vespatean, on ascending the
throne, estimated all the expenses of
the State at £25,000,000. The debts of
Milo amounted to £600,000. Casar, be
fore he eutered upon any oilice, owed
£2,995,00c.
He had purchased the
friendship of Curio for £500, and that
of Lucius Paulus lor £300,000. At the
time of the assassination of Julius Csesar
An ony wn in deb to I® amount o.
£3,000.000; he owed .this sum n th®
ide of March, and it w s pai b he
kah nds of pri<; he -<ju nden d £147 -
000,000.
Appius squa de *d i < d®-
baachery £500,000, a d tin ing on
examination of the stat of his affairs
hat e > 1 had £80,000. poisoned him-
• U because be outsider* d that sum in
nflic nt f i bis maint nance Julius
Cc»«ar gav Sat 11 , the mother of Bru-
• i s, a arl of the vaJue o £10,000.
One single dish oost Eso us £80 000.
Caligula spent for o e upper £80 000,
and He.iogobalus £20,000 The usual
ooetof » repast to Lucultas was £20,-
000 — Chic-go Herald
KOORDISH
Swarthy Aaiattee Who Have Not the Loaet
CoacepWoa of lllllll I itlll
Coiai; h oc So Const; Seat;
Couldn't Have Been a Woman.
Bofcley~That vm a painful affair in
^mnkford last week.
M ik B. -Oh, do tell me!
* “A woman was the sole repository
•f a dreadful secret On her dpoth
bWAg^aUed ^erretotivds arotydd her
♦'’ItAri• *.
»*r
v«n
“And proclaimed * to all!"
••Not a bit. ,
Ced without reveal-
<og.,.. ..*» .
••william, that story Is untrue, or
*A*e it, Was not a woman?’— PktiodeJpAia
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Portland and Willamette Valley Railway
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Holi
est Goods, Honest
Weights and Full
Measure
General
P
Dealers
Complete
Stock
—A few evenings ago a fine-looking,
wcll-drqssed negro, black ae black can
be, entered a drug store and inquired
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semi-confidetotally
of t S« «jD©
WËK&
-How much
rEi
- ------- ----------- like a
little, sah, in a pretty
,
box like these,"
pointing
vaguely
„----------
lv at botes containing
toilet article.'
articles *li !o OM sho# caaes
“W®H.” Mid tde MSrt, dubtously,1 “I
dunno, what do you want it for?"
“F®r de toilet, sahi for my wife—she
powdahs, sah!’’—
Exprtse.
I
1-dT f 1.50 in advance! for the Reporter for
1887, means just what it says—nt advarc «.
Not a month after the beginning.
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Only Route via Yaquina Bay
To
t ' •
4
San Francisco.
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While we do not propose to Santa M®ria....
Wedeesday Feb 9
- .jMsdsyFeb. 15
City
be undersold, yet do not and Yaquina
*SjjT
2l
| mh > Maria.......
.Sunday Feb. 27
City
can not put these goods in Yaquina
V
a . / ’
* * *1 , *4 L <1C AM
competition with Auction
Daily Passenger Trains
or Short .Wrkjhfcrods
(Except.Bugays,;
sold to the trade by unscru
6:20 a. tn.
Levee Yaquina
pulous dealers. We fear no Arrive Oomlhs
10:38 a, m.
lk30a. m.
Arrive Albany
. honest competition. Thank Leave
13:40 p. m.
Albany
1:22 p. m.
ing people for past patron Arrive Corvallis..........
.. -i^Ap.
A r»ve Yaquina
_ tn.
age and favors, will be pleas . The Company reserves the right, to change
days. Fares, between Corvallis and
ed to have you call and de sailing
and Cabin. |14; Bail
San Franeisvo, Bail
.
. - -*
-
Peerage, 09. iA8. . ». . .
termine for yourselves what < and Fea
tnfermation
Jarmation apply
apply to
merit is in our modest claim.
CHAB. C
CHAS.
€ HOGUE,
Acting Geo. F. and P ass . Agent.
A. J. APPERSON.1
Corvallis, Oregon
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Remember that there is a home
numery at Lafayette, when you want
trees. Address E. R. Poppleton.
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Oregonian R. R. Co. limitso Line,
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The shades of «vetting are beginning
to settle down over the wild mountain
ous country round about.
It is grow
CHAS. N. SCOTT, Receiver.
ing uncomfortably chilly for this earty
in the evening, and th® prospect« look
favorable for a supperleas and most dis
To Portlaat
From Portland.
agreeable night, when I descry a village
iq.Er iCoburg
perched in m opening among the < •
Cbbnrg
and
Passen and
mountains a mile or thereabouts off to
Airlie
STATIONS.
ger
Airlie
Mail.
the right Repairing thither I find it to
Far®. Mail.
be a Koordish village, where the hovels
bj’JL
are more excavations than buildings; OUR MOTTO IS SMALL Prof-
AR Ar p.iu
Lv a. in LV
4 45
. Portland, PWV»
915
buffaloes, horses, goats, chickens and
its and quick returhs.
Ft. Jefferson St..
human beings all tind shelter under the
4 15
Elk Rock .
11 00
same low roof; their respective quarters
1 .24
460
1106
Oswego..........
.29
are nothing but a mere railing of rough
3 40
11 46 . .,. Tualitan..
.52
poles, and as the question of ventilation
Winters...
3 10
12 10
.75
jb never even thought of the effect upon
2 53
. Summit........
12 26
.88
one's olfactory nerves upon entering
2 29
12 50 . ..Newberg ...
1.00
215
1 10 pwv Dundee jvn
is any .thing but reassuring. The Upon which we hope to win
1.00
tilth and rags of these people is
your esteem and patronage.
2 10 .. ORy Dundee
125
1.1*1
something abominable; on account
2 32 West Dayton. .
1 03
1.16
of the chilliness of the evening they
Our connections with East
2 44
Lafavette
1253
1.24
have donned their heavy raiment; these
12 35
3 02 .Ilavton Juncton
1.36
ern
and
Pacific
coast
dealers
have evidently had rags’ patched on top
3 08 McMinnville Cs..
12 29
1.40
3 19 . . Armstrong
1218
1.48
of other rags for years past until they
and manufacturers are such
Whites
330
1.56
12 07
have gradually developed into thick
Briedwell ..
3 52
1.72
11 4->
quilted garments, in the innumerable
that we are enabled to
Harrison
1140
3 57
1.75
seams of which the most disgusting
Broad meads .
1.84
4 08
11 27
buy
these
goods
as
low
or
entomolpgical specimen?, bred and en
4 10 Sheridan Junc’n
11 25
1.86
gendered by their wretched mode of ex
lower than our competitors,
423
Bkllston
1.96
11 08
istence, live and perpetuate their kind.
5 00 ......... Sheridan. .
10 45
However, repulsive as theoutiook most
whether general or special
assuredly is, I havejio alternative bat
555
Perrydale..
9 25
1.04
dealers. Buying goods in
to cast my lot amdng them till morning
Smithfield....
2.12
6 17 .
900
1 am conducted into the SheiklCs
8 46
2.24
6 31
.
Polk
.
greater quantities than most
apartment, a small .room partitioned
6 50 .... Dallas.
8 30
2.37
2.53
7 10 ... Cochrane
s 06
off with a pole from a stable of horses
competitors, and when hand
2.65
7 28 .... Monmouth,
7 50
and buffaloes, and wliere darkness is
Luckiamute .
2.80
7 47
7.‘J0
made visible by the sickly glimmer of a
ling business of any kind the
. Simpson.
2.91
8 00
7 14
grease lamp. The Sheikh, a thin,
8 15
. A irlie .
3.02
7 00
volume of business enters
sallow-faced
man
of
about
AR
LV
forty
years,
is
reclining
on
largely into the account in C has . N. S cott ,
a mattrass in one corner
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smoking
Receiver ORC( Ld) Line.
cigarettes; a dozen ill-conditioned rag’-
determining the profit or
W illiam R eid ,
muftins are squatting about in various
President P&WVRCo.
margin to be realized out of
attitudes, while the ragtag and bobtail
of the population crow'd into the buffalo
acific
ailroad,
it. Therefore all
stable and survey me and the bicycle
opular
oute.
icturesque
anges.
from outside the partition pole, A cir
do
have
an
ad
cular wooden-tray, containing an
vantage over speeial dealers,
abundance of bread, a bowl of yaort,
Fast Time, Sure Connection, New Equipment
and a small quantity of stringy cheese
and the greater quantity of
tliat resembles chuneks of dried codfish,
warped and twisted in the drying, is
goods sold or the volume of 225 Miles Shortest
brought in and placed in the middle of
20 Hours Less Time.
the floor. Everybody in the room at
business done, the greater
Accommocations
unsurpassed for comfort
once gathers around it and begins eat
that advantage and the less and safety. Fares and Freights MUCH
ing with as little formality as so many
LESS than by any other route between all
wild animals, the Sheikh silently mo
the price ought to be. Hav- in Willamette valley and San Francisco.
tions for me to do G same.' The
yaort bowl contains one solitary wood
ing a full and
en spoon, wi* which they take turns at
of the following
eating moutbtuls. One is compelled
to
draw
the
line
somewhere,
lines of goods from the lead-
even
under
the
most
uncom
DIAirV PAMEXGEB TRAINS.
promising
circumstances,
ai.,1
I
ing dealers and best manu-
(Except Sundays.)
naturally drew it against eating yoart
facurers, which we replenish Leave Corvallis at 2 p. ni. Leave Ya
with this same wooden spoon;,making
with new fresh goods month
small scoops with pieces of bread, I dip
quina at 7:10 a. m.
von part and eai scoop and all together.
ly or oftener as the trade re Oregon and California, West side, trains
’rhe.se particular Koo rds seem absolutely
connect at Corvallis.
quires, to wit: LADIES
ignorant ot anything in th® shape of
The steamship Yaquina city, which has
tnsnnerlipesB, or of consideration of
undergoing repairs, and the Santa Ma
each other at the table. When the yoart l>re«« mid Fancy Gotxh, Getit« been
ria will each Mil on the dates ' below named:
has linen dipped into twice Or thrice all and Boy « Clothing and Furnish
around the sheikh coolly confiscates the ing Good*. Kat« and Cap«, Boot* vii) -I <»> I FXOM XAQVIMA,
bow), eato part of what is left. portTS
Yaquina City..............
Thursday, Jan. 27
water ip|o the remainder and delib and Shoe«, Crp<;kery, Queen« Santa Maria........ ’...
Wednesday, Feb. 2
^Tuesday Feb.tS
Yaquinn City..................
erately drinks it all up; one or two oth ware and Gia«« ware.
....
■ Monday Teb. 14
ers seize all the cheese, utterly regard and a full line of fresh grocer Santa Maria
tOMday iFeb, 20
Yaquina City..............
less of th® fact that nothing remains for
. Saturday, Feb. 26
Santa Maria
ies, so our customers do not Yaqama City
rnyseff and th®if companions, who. by
Fxidfljr March 4
the wav. w>em to regard it as a perfectly
have
to.
deal
at
hjilf
dozen
E1OM SAM VRAMCIWO.
—• < ’ - a
natural prooey^ihg. — Ttomas Stevcm-,
places
to
supply
their
wants.
.Friday
Jan. 28
Santa
Maria
..
...
•« ouunff., ,
;
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Thursday, Feb. 3
Yaquina Cify'................
. '
—Sponges are very offensive in smell
when taken from the water, and soon
Sow worse. This is cured by burying
em in dry sand. and. when deeompo-
•Uon has ceased, exposing them in wnr®
cares to th® action of th® tides — 'A a -
POPULAR. ROUTES.
MISCELLANEOUS.
VILLAGE.
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