Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1870-08-20
Ghe oregon Rtpubliean.
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER.
DALLAS, SATURDAY, AUG 20.
Brcvities.

raltar.
The wheat crop in Canada will be
below the average.
There are several cases of yellow
fever in Philadelphia.
War between San Domingo and Hayti
is said to be imminent
The channel of the Wesser is sown
thickly with torpedoes.
A Herald correspondent on the Baltic
Coast has been arrested as a spy.
The corn crop of Arkansas will be
larger this year than for several years
past.
The first bale of new Texas cotton
sold in New york ON Monday at 362
cents per pound.
There is serious trouble between the
whites and Negroesin in Woodford county,
Kentucky.
One hundred grocers in Brooklyn
have been prosecuted for selling pack
ages without stamps.
The nail makers of Weymouth, Massa-
chusetts, are on strike, and those of
Taunton threaten to join them.
The number immigrants arriving last
week at New York was only 331 in
consequence of the war.
The Apache Indians lately made an
incursion into Sonora, destroying the
lives and property of citizens.
The Reform party Of Massachusetts,
will hold State Convention ON the 9Th
of September at Worcester
The first ship from China through the
Suez Canal arrived at London on the
9th instant with cargo of spring teas.
The funeral procession of Real, the
murderer, executed last Friday in New
York, was attended by 1000 persons.
Eighteen young men have been fined
$40 each for habitually "loafng" on
the street corners of Boston.
On Sunday morning the dwelling of
+. r. Smith, one and half miles of
Salem was burned.
A severe hail storm visited Terre
Haute, Indiana, on Monday evening.
The hail-stones are reported to have
been six inches in circumference.
A Niagara Falls man advertises: -
Gall persons wanting my wife to do
washing or sewing from this date, are
prohibited from bringing or sending any
thing to be washed or made without my
consent.
A California law maker. more accus-
toned to the arts and phrases of poker
than to the parliamentry usages of leg
islatlve halls, once seconded motion by
saving. "Mr Speaker, | straddle that
blind"
: A paper encourages the young by the
example of "youth who formly lived
10 hovel yet, with only his two hands
and crowbar, opened jewelry store;
and now he is living in large stone
residence in Sing Sing"
A policeman in Boston arrested boy
for some offense last Saturday, when he
was set upon by n large crowd of boys,
attempting to rescue the prisoner. He
fred four shots into the crowd, wound.
ng as many boys.
The following amendment to the Rev
enue law will take effect October Jst:
"On and after the 1st day of October
1870, the stamp tax imposed in Sched-
ule B, or promissory notes for less sum
of money, or-for payment of any debt
and the stamp tax imposed in Schedule
G, on canned and preserved fish be, and
the same is, hereby repealed" etc.
Hon ART IN LYING.--A geutle,
man of transatlantic raising" had men
toned. the Exceedingly likely) fac
that he had seen as many as fifty snake,
mp tree at one time A stupid Brit
isher having ventured to evince very
decided incredulity, s'Waal, stranger,
said the Yankee, "there wor forty,
''forty! but that is as wonderful al
ffty," exclaimed the other. "Waal
stranger" was the rejoinder, "you seen
tarnation hard to please, we'll sa,
twenty, there! and I'm darned if don
fight afore / take off another snake. :
But eren this, as "a clincher," mus
yeild tothe following: A yankee. possibl,
the same man, having told an English
man that he shot, on one particula
occasion, nine hundred and ninety -nin'
suipes, his interlocutor asked him VIII.
he didn't make 1t a thousand at once
ono" said he not, ''likely I'm going t
tell q lie for one snipe." Whereupo'
the Englishman, rather eriled,p an'
determined not to be outdone, begal
to tell long story of q man havln'
sWum from Liverpool to Boston. ode
you see him, asked the Yankee, sudden