, 1878-04-27
F. .om the D iiv Of Teursday.


F.om the D iis of Teursday.
PETROLEUM DIscovERY.-Mr. E.
A. Woodruff, writing from Oregon
City under date of the 22d inst,
sends the following to the Oregomiau:
II observe by your notice of our
petroleum discovery that you labor
under slight mistake as to its To-
cality. It is situated about two
miles above the fall, at the con
fiuence of the Willamette and Tual-
attn rivers. upon land belonging to
Mr.. Hayes. but not upon his farm,
that being five miles distant. Also
it is not muddy spring. It was
discovered in digging ditch to
drain the land, the ditch at this
point being about four feet deep.
Our attention was attracted to it by
the gas arising and the oil floating
and passing off upon the water. We
have since dug out several feet
square to ascertain the direction of
what we supposed to be lead or
vein, and find it is almost q COM
plete circle about four feet across,
forming we'll defined we'll of sand,
which in color is a greenish blue,
and quite free from water when the
drain water is turned off, but smooth
or slippery from the oil it contains.
We have procured an auger and
will commence boring down the well
of sand to-day, and think will have
an opportunity of sending you a
sample soon."
tTHE LECTURE. The lecture OF
Hon. Francis Henry, of Olympia.
for the benefit of the Young Mems
Christian Association last evening,
was attended by the most select and
attentive audience that ever assem-
b]ed in Yesler's Hall, and which in
point of numbers was far in excess
of any which had ever been drawn
together by any previous lecturer at
this place. The lecture itself was
certainly the richest treat we ever
enjoyed. 1t consisted of series OF
papers on literature, science and
art, supposed to be addressed to the
Mirror of Scieuce." an imaginary
periodical, and wers received with
the mos. hearty applause, the au-
dience entering completely into the
humor of the thing, and beng con-
vulsed with laughter from the be-
ginning. The soags "Alki," 1.-THE
Old Settler" and 1.-The New Conner"
written by Mr.. Henry and sung by
Mr.. Ross O'Brien, who accompa-
Mod him, were repeatedly applaud
ed and encored, and Mr.. O'Brien's
impersonation of the Old Settler
was inimltable. The audience. one
and all, were sorry when the lecture
was concluded, and were 10th to
leave.
A HAVEN FOR Ex- -EDIToRs. From
the personals in the Walla Walla
papers we learn that within the past
few days that city has had visitations
from Tom Merry, late of the DIS
PATCH, Dave Higgins. of the Iateli-
gencer, and Charley Newell. former
ly of the Portland Herald, all look
ing for new fields of enterprise in
the newspaper line. There are now
only three newspapers published in
Walla Walla, and it is reported that
81 500 has been subscribed to Merry
to start fourth, Democratic in pol
itics, though he has expressed his
contempt for political editors and is
under pledge never to start mon
pareil paper in long primer town. "
Necessity knows no law"
MISTAKEN IDENT1rY.--Some of the
Oregon papers are associating the
name of DIR. Thos. q. Pearne, for
merly a distinguished clergyman
and politician in Oregon, with a
scandalous transaction in New Jer-
sey. That is a mistake. The name
of the New Jersey clergyman is
William Fl. Pearne. Thomas H.
Pearne, the Oregon man. is a settled
minister of the Methodist Episcopal
Church at Hillsborough. Ohio.
These facts we learn from Rev. DIR.
Dillon, of this city.
MONEY FoUND.-Mr. Jos. Surber,
while engaged in plowing some lots
belonging to him last evening in the
vicinity of the Catholic Church,
turned up an old decayed buckskin
purse containing two five gold piec-
es and $3.50 in silver. It is sup
posed to have been buried there by
some habitue of the old mad house
in begone days. who had relieved
somebody else of it, and cached it
for safe-keeping.
A peasant named Wang, who