Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1870-07-02
STATE ITEMS.

The Presbyterlans will soon build a
church at Albany.
Mr.. Volney Smith, son of the late
Delazon Smith of this State, is pub
fishing a Republican paper at Lewis.
vile, Arkansas, called the Red River
Post.
The body of Tommy Wright, boy
who was drowned in Mary's river some
days ago, was recovered on Tuesday
while floating in the river near Corval>
lis.
The Farmer says that kerosene
thrown upon the nests of caterpillars
will destroy them This is said to be
an excellent way Of getting rid of them
when they infest fruit trees.
Mr.. J. w. Dou:hitt has returned to
Salem from a trip to the east of the
Cascade mountains, where he has been
making selections of the fifty thousand
acres of land donated to the Agricul-
fural College founded by the United
States Government. The lands have
all been designated and set apart.
Most of them are in the Goose Lake
country, and the rest in Ochoco Valley.
The Statesman contains the follow
ing: Messrs. A. l.. Buckingham and
w. J. Murphy, who have been pros
pecting for coal in the hills of Polk
county, short diatance from Salem,
have found favorable indications of a
good quality of coal, In digging down
they find many specimens that would
prove of interest to geologists. We
have been shown shells of CLAIMS, cock.
les and other submarine animals in a
state of perfect preservation, proving
concusively that at no distant time in
the past that part of the country has
been the bed of the ocean. They have
taken out petrifed wood and bark, fos>
| silized leaves of aquatic plants. But
1.-THE most important discovery they have
yet como upon is chat of peculiar
substance somewhat resembling soap
stone, and which is found to be an ex.
cellent polish for metals. 1t has been
tried by jewellers, who pronounce it su-
perior to the Eldorado polish for silver
ware, while tinsmiths pronounce it ex.
cellent for securing copper and tin,
The fortunate discoverers have put up
a quantity in small packages, which
they are selling at trifing price, in
order to obtain an extended and thor
1 ough test Of the substance.
The Plaiadealer says: Our friend
John Jones brought into our Office this
week a specimen Of side oats, which
measures eight feet in length, the heads
being over eighteen inches; he also
brought cluster Of white clover which
measured five feet and one half in
length. If any other portion Of the
State can beat this, please say SO.
The Gazette learns from Mr.. Hatch
of Yaquina Bay, that the boiler Of
Bensell & Meggison's saw mill, at To
ledo, exploded on Monday last. M
one was hurt, and no serious damage
was done excepting that Of the boiler
The Company telegraphed immediate
ly for new boiler, and will be in ope'
ration again in few weeks.
i The Umpqua Navigation Compan,
have their new boat nearly completed
They will launch the hull about 'th'
lst of August.
The Plaindealer says: The hayin!
season has commenced, and our farm
ers are busily angaged in cutting Their
crop, which is very large, perhap
double that of last year. The grain
crop of the county is also very large.
Chris Swineburgher of Salem, fel
t from ladder on Wednesday and brok
. his leg.
Patrick Gass, the only survivor o
the Lewis and Clarke expedition tha
= came out to Oregon in 1904, died re
Gently in West Virginia aged 8
years.