The Benton democrat. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1871-18??, 1873-02-08

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last month.
Over 500 widows 6f Revolutionary
pensioners still live.
The Mormons have three powder mills
and cartridge factory. gT
The first snow storm Of the season
occurred in England last Saturday,
Boarding. house hash in Boston il
vaccinated the same as other people.
Pine wood is worth SIS per cord ii
Virginia City. Nothing said about oak.
Russia is vexed with great cmigra-
ton movement Of families to the United !.
States
Emancipation Day was generally ctl-
ebrated by the negroes of the Southern .
States.
A New York physician makes very
handsome profit resuseitating would te
suicides. = aa o
The Rev John Tecumseh, an Ottaw,i
Indian, has left 100000 to the Baptist
Church in Kansas.
OnNew Years Day the Baltimore
american entered upon the hundredtE
year of its existence.
Post Offices were established in
France in 1861; in England in 15sf,.
and in Germany in 1641.
The number of marriages iu Ohio IN
1872 was 26,3o3; divorces granted;
1925; births, 61,210; deaths, 25,2oay
It is proposed to establish a Pro.
fessorhip of Journalism at gorntlt
University, in honor to Mr.. Gre4ey's
memory. @
The widow of Hon. Rob'tJ. Walk.
died in Washington January 10Th. ShG
was a and-daughter of Benz ,mia.
Franklin.
The country does not respond cheer
fully to the call for ten million dollars
to get up Philadelphia Centenniuf
Celebration. ~ fEf '.a=r
Three thousand coiored people FROM
Georgia and Florida want the United
States to furnish them passage to
Liberia as colonist.
A New York artist makes living
by restoring bruised eyes to their natu-
raj color, and finds his best customers
among the women.
rThe Boston papers want the little
girls in the public schools to learn the
art of sewing, but are troubled to know
what modern lady car teach them
Mrs. A. J. Riley has taken charge:
of the Commercial Hotel, Salem.
This lady has high reputation as a
private boarding house keeper.
The St. Louis Democrat laments be-
cause of the prevalence Of the idea that
it is more genteel to sell shoes for $40
| a week than to make them for $25. q
Pumpkin pie ten feet in diameter
and four feet deep was the dessert at
recent California dinner. After that
stop talking about your grandmothers.
Daniel Drew can lose three millions
| worth Of his greenbacks and not feel it,.
but the loss Of FIVE dollars worth of his
religion would probably bankrupt him.
"Where are the dead, the vanished
dead, who trod the earth that now we.
tread q' IF we were to make random
guess, we should say the most Of them
are buried a3 e..
The Utah Mining Journal threatens
to "publish some of the most obscene Of
Brigham Young's sermons and send
them to Washington to be distributed In
Congress- n
| A writer in the Washington Chronicle
says there are now in America over 6f,,-
J. 600 miles of railway and that there wifi
be seventy thousand by the end Of the
present year. :
4 A new leaf in the family History;
Jack" Now I'll be papa going to fix
the furnace" Sallie-a Oh, yest and
I'll be the new nurse, and you must
kiss me behind the cellar door,,
1 On the 25th Of November, 1888, the
British forces evacuated the city Of
New York, and on the 25th of Novera-
Der, 1879, the last Of the British forces
evacuated the Island of San Juan.
] A clergyman at a recent Baptist Sun
day School Convention said that he
was called to the bedside of alady who
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