Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1872-07-13
State Items.
[GleaDings from State Exchanged

Indian ponies are worth from " oU
to $40, each in Baker County.
Corvallis is having cisterns sunk, for
the use of the fire department..
r. G. Head, has pure hased an in
terest in the Benton Democrat.
Oats are so short in Umpqua Valley
that they are being cut for hay.
The Good Templars of Washington
county have a picnic at Hilsboro to-
day.
Miss Nancy Yocum was thrown from
a buggy and considerably injured, on
the fourth.
There are said to be four cases of
small pox on the railroad between Salem
aud Lake LabIsh.
The average daily attendance at the
public schools in Portland for the last
quarter, was 233.
Mcssrs. RILEY & Lippincott, Of Yam
hill county have rented the Opera
House, Hotel, Salem.
Portlanders indulge in open air meet
ings under the auspices os the Young
Mems Christian Association.
DR. Renfrew of Eugene has been
return ned to the Asylum having been
again attacked with Insanity
The Jacksonville Times has changed
hands. Thomas Il Kent aud James ~
Miller becoming proTrlctors.
Those Apostles of Temperance Me
Dougal and Taylor have been ecturIag
in Salem during the week.
Corvallis seems doomed to destruction; +.
On the morning of the I'd inst; a
black smiih. shop was burned, loss $1,000
Skilled work men have been sent Tor
from the east to work In the iron mines
at OsEego, after the new machinery is
put in.
Brooks the murderer Of Narony
spoken Of las: week, has been released
it being found that he acted in self
detcnsc.
4 man named Stopper, at Forest
Grove, had his eyes put out by an cx-
ylosion of al anvil hIch he was loading,
on the Fourth.
A proposition has been made to re-
duce the time on the overland route
from Portland to San Francisco to
three days
Mr. Dent, of Eugene, swallowed u
needle some time since, and one day
last week it was extracted from under
his right shoulder.
The Oregonion in speaking of the
increase Of business in Portland. says
one firm sold in single week, $4,000
worth Of machinery and hardware.
The editor of the Bedrock DcmocroI
offers premiums to any one breaking a
leg, or otherwise mutilating them
selves to furnish items for his paper.
Three convi,ts made an uns uccessfu
attempt to escape from the Oregon Fen
itentiary last Saturday. Two Of them
were caught, but the third. refusing tC
stop when ommanded, was shot and
died in few moments.
The Dalles Nouataineer says: "Johr
Dougherty; the deserter who cut hi,
way out of the Guard House at Fort
| Vancouver short time ago, was ar
rested on Thursday evening by sheriff
Schultz and will be taken back to Van
couver.'
"The Glorious Fourth" was duly eel
ebratcd in Salem by Russell Post, thC
firemen and citizens generally, by ;
basket picnic on Marion Squire, an ora
ton by Rev. Mr.. Adams, and targc
shooting at the mouth of Mill creek il
| the afternoon.
1t is reported than an extensive ledge
of cinnabar has lately been discovered
by Frank Cooper, on the headwators o
the MolalIa, about fifty miles north o
Salem. Mr. Cooper is olated over biz
extreme good luck, as he is satisfied tha
it is immensely rich He has sen
seventy five pounds to San Francisco tt
be assayed.
The Linn County Treasurer's repor
shows that there had been received
from all sources the sum of S3S,O73 8:
during the fiscal year ending July |
1872, and had been paid out during
the same time, the sum of $50, ,766 z
leaving balance in the Treasury o
| $500. The county is out of deb
and plenty of money in the treasury.
Speaking of crops and the late rains
the Farmer says: "The grain crop
are saved and hay much improved, ant
gardens are as promising as could b.
desired There is one thing Learned
from this season, and that is the neces
sity of sowing fall grain. Most fal
grain is very good, and always is il
Oregon. Much of the spring grai'
is only moderate. Oats fair crop.
A Linn county woman gave birth t
three daughters, last week. All inter
| ostad are doinv well hut tho father mn