The Benton democrat. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1871-18??, 1873-01-18
PACIFIC sLOpERs.

The fail grain looks well.
Wheat 80 cents at Salem.
Flour scarce at Baker City.
Oregon City is infested by burglars
| California has abolished days 8
grace.
/ Gen. Palmer has been ordered to his
reservation
The Salem ferry boat has again com
menced running.
Mrs. Duniway lectured in Forest
Grove last night.
G. M. Lockwood, the noted stage
mar, is reported dead.
A Salem local has been seeing ghosts.
Join the Good Templars.
"A. S. Patterson has been re-appoint-
ed postmaster at Eugene.
A California lady has just been arous-
ed from a nine years nap.
Mrs. Duniway is lecturing in favor of
reform school in Portland.
The steamer Calliope passed down
through the Locks this week.
Polk county rejoices over 1o3 mar
riages that took place in 1872.
The Salem FIGURING Mills are still
idle, on account of high water.
Corother &c Co., of Albany, have dis
solved. The business goes on.
A schooner is soon to be put on be-
tween Portland and Coos Bay.
The Salem Mills are again in full
blast, running four pair of burrs.
Three days are required to make the
trip from Roseburg to Empire City.
Mat. Bledsoe is at work at his trade
III Salem, and commands general respect:
No more venison after the 31st of
this month. The game law, you know.
Bogus twenty-dollar pieces are in
circulation in and around Jacksonville.
Several cases OF epizootic are report
ed as having occurred in Salt Lake
City.
U. S. Marshal T. G.. Young contem-
plates an early visit to the Eastern
States.
The Chinese in this country talk of
shipping grasshoppers home to China
for food.
1t is thought that the smallpox scare
at Baker City was occasioned by the
Mrs. Duniway will receive the dona-
tions of her friends on the evening of
the oath.
Only one death in Baker county from
the supposed smallpox. No new cases
reported.
A Salem man advertises for a house
keeper. who would not object to
natlimony. ---
Hon. C. G. Curl, clerk of the Su-
1reme Court, was taken suddenly i'll on
Tuesday last.
1t seems that the man arrested at
Seattle, as Schultz, was not the identi-
al individual.
J. B. Underwood has been re-appoints
ID Postal Agent for Oregon, Washing
on and Idaho.
j. B. Congle burned out in the late
Portland fire, has gone San Francisco,
or new stock.
Perry Raymond and Gus Wheeler
ave purchased Ed. Freeland's Book
store, at Albany. I
A San Francisco mass meeting has
rotested against the cession of Goat
sland to any railroad company.
The Oregon City Woolen Mills will !
e re-erected and ready to renew opera
ons by the first of August next.
On account of the Oregon City basin
eing damaged by high water, the /,
oats are not making regular trips.
A number of emigrants from Virginia :
ave arrived at Pulnphrey's Landing,
q Cowlitz river, where they propose to
ettle.
Business at Empire City is good, with t
etter prospects in the spring. Five 9
otels, not large of course, are doing !
xcellently.
Private William Rexford, of the
outhern Oregon Volunteers, has died
ON exposure. The remains were sent E
ONE for interment. a
The telegraph wire spanning the river {
Portland, parted the other day, and :
le Company fitted up temporary Of a
ce in East Portland. Q
w. F., Alexander, of Linn county,
as been appointed on the State Board !
Equalization. Uice Ex-Governor Q
Vhiteaker, resigned. = t
The MoDoC WAR.-The latest intel. d
gence from this section says the howit-
srs had arrived and would be in posi-
on Thursday night. It was expected
lat an attack would be made on Friday :
ornirg. The troops will assault Gap.
in Jacks camp from the north and 7
'uth simultaneously, under cover of s
fi8l eyes fl