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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-11-29

BvT. BRIG. GEN. JULIUS HAYDEN
died in Orange, N. j., recently. He
served in all the wars of the United
States since 1912, besides fighting the
Indians during the years of his active
service on the Plains. Out of the not
very muni6cent earnings of an army
officer he always gave one-tenth in
charity.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-11-29

BANGoNNE is new name for silk
repped goods.
The Benton record., 1878-04-12
Oregon tnterprise-
crying.

It is gratifying to be able to announce
that true merit is always appreciated by
our Western people. The Vest Shore
started as an Illustrated paper nearly three
years ago, and has now the largest circula
ton Of any paper in the Pacific North
west. Its engrayings are artistically ex-
ecutad, and the articles are we'll and care
fully written. It is one of that class OF
papers which can safely be admitted into
the family circle, the publisher being
especially careful not to admit any aaticla
or advertisement which would be likely to
offend the most fa8tidions. For 1878 TIE
Vest Shore has been greatly improved
and adorned with magnificent new head
ing! Every issue consists Of is large size
pages, filed with the very choicest read
ing. It is a publication that every re
sident of the Pacific Northwest can feel
proud OF. As the subscription price is
but 81. 50 per year, every family should
subscribe for It, and those having friends
in the Eastern States should send them d
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receive the paper for 1878, and will also
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Curious History of a State.

The territory now known as the
State Of Wisconsin was claimed by
France on the ground Of discovery
by its missionaries and teachers in
1890, who governed it until they
ceded it to Great Britain. 1t was
held by the British nation until
1882, when she ceded all her pos
sessions northeast Of the Ohio to
the United St,.tes. Wisconsin was
then thrown under the Territorial
Government Of Ohio by the or
dinance Of 1887. On the 4th OF
July, 1900, the Indian Territory
was organized, and it was attached
to that Territory until April 18th,
1878, when Illinois became a State.
It was then attached to the Ter
ritory Of Wisconsin, July 4, 1896;
50 that Wisconsin was governed
by the King Of France ninety-three
years; the King Of Great Britain
twenty years; by the state Of
Virginia one year; BY the Ter
ritory ofOhio sixteen years, by the
Indian Territory nine year by
Illinois Territory line years, and BY
Michigan Territory eighteen years.
She continued a Territory Of the
United States nearly twelve years,
when, On the 18th Of March, 1919,
she became the thirtieth State Of
the American Union.
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The Human Ear.

Probably 10 portion Of the lu-
man anatomy is 50 delicate, sen
sitive, and at the same time so
capricious in its action as the hl-
man ear. We have known a
woman who could stand up in the
garret looking out Of q dormer
window, and hear her husband kiss
the hired girls in the cellar, eight
rooms and two fights Of stairs
away, and the next night that very
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NO. 43..

same woman would take her baby
to church and hold it on her lap
while it screamed and howIed fifteen
minutes of the sermon into oblivion,
and be astonished when she was
told that the dear child had been
CRYING.
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Original Story.
FRONTIER SKETCHES
By JOHN J. HEALY.
ORC FlN0.
NUMBER SEVEN.

ORC FlN0.
After brief, but very pleasant
stay at the DalIes, I struck out for
Portland, where remained during
the greater portion Of the following
winter.
In the spring of 1861 the Orc
Fino excitement broke out at Port
land, and having made the &C
Ouaintance of a number OF miners,
I contracted the gold fever from
them. Captain Pierce, an old
prospector, discovered the Orc Fino
mines the year previous. They
are located on Orc Fino creek, a
tributary of the Clear Water, in
Idaho (then Washington Ter
ritory. In the spring | took pas
sage on the first boat for the Cas-
cades, via the Willamette and
Columbia rivers. The scenery
along this route is beautiful in the
extreme, but has been SO often
described | will not attempt an ac~
count of it here. The town of
Vancouver, just opposite the
mouth of Willamette. where the
down steamers land to receive pas
sengers and freight for the Dalles;
Mount Hood, which Jake Mix told
the English officers was once a hole
in the ground; the famous Rooster
rock, and other places equally no
ted, are points of interest which
never fail to attract the attention
oftravelers.
At the Cascades are two very
pretty little towns, one Of which
was once the scene Of a horrible
Indian massacre. The red fends
came upon the inhabitants before
the latter had time to prepare for
defense, and indeed before they
had any reason to suspect the
presence of the Indians. a few OF
the men without families escaped,
but nearly all the women and child
rem were killed and horribly
mutiIated. 1t is said that one un-
fortunate child was lmpaled alive
upon the pointed limb Of a tree.
Geo. Winds, who is well.known in
Chotcau County and other parts
of Montana, was one of the few
persons who escaped the slaughter.
Col. Wright, Of the 9th Infantry,
afterwards captured eighteen Of the
Indians, and hung them all except
one boy, who was first made to wit
ness the execution, and then per-
mitted to go and tell his people of
it.
The Cascades are the favorite
fishing grounds Of the Indians.
The tide water from the Pacific
Ocean comes up to the foot Of the
falls, and the salmon are in fine
condition when they emerge from
the salt water and leap the Cas-
cades to reach their breeding
grounds. When the fish reach the
stream above, they remain for al
few moments nearly motionless,
apparently exhausted after their
wonderful leap, and the moment
is seized by the Indians to spear
them or capture them with net.
10 facilitate the work of catching
the FISH, they have platforms erect |
ed which project out ever the boil
ing torrent and enable them to see
the salmon as they spring up. A
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ADVERTISING RATES.
Poetry.
OUR RIGHTS

T wonder what our rights may be,
The mystery grows more deep;
For everywhere some can't agree
What each may plainly keep;
For arguments are risky things
Which turn on pivots small,
And every time the last one brings
A weight that turns them all.
7 wonder why the wrong sometimes
Can counterfeit the right
With such success that error t~lnes
Its tendriIs round it quite,
Until the two as closely grown
Inseparable seem,
And neither are quite fully known
Till Justice comes between
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deep ocean occasionally follow the
tide water up this stream, ard it is
no uncommon thing to see porpoise
and even seal sporting near the
Cascades.
The falls are not perpendicular,
but consist Of two steep rapids,
about seven miles in length, be
tween which there is a whirling ed
dy of comparatively smooth water.
The lower rapid, though very swift
and dangerous, is frequently navi,
gated by canoes, but the most tear
less Indian dare not trust himself
upon the upper fall, which rushes
over the ragged rocks with tremen-
dous force. Yet, in the month OF
May, 1858, the steamer Umatilla
passed over the upper Cascade
with a cargo Of passengers and
freight. The boat pulled out OF
the little cove above to 60 up
stream, but on reaching the chan
mel, the pilot found there was not
a sufficient head Of steam on to en-
able the vessel to stem the current,
and there was consequently no
means of preventing her from going
down stream.
The pilot was q brave man, OF
great presence Of mind and mas
ter of his profession On finding
the boat was bound to 60 over the
Cascade, he swung her head around
and allowed her to plunge bow
first into the boiling waters, guild
inc her as well as he could among
the huge boulders and rocks until
reaching the eddy below, where
she remained long enough for
small boat to put out from the shore
and rescue the passengers. One
man, who became frightened as the
steamer passed over the Cascade,
Jumped off and was drownol, bqt
all the other passengers were say
ed, and the boat itself was after
wards recovered and made a fortune
for her owners during the Frazier
river excitement. Dennis Halpin,
now living at Fort Benton, was a
deck hand on the Umatllla when
she made her famous voyage over
the Cascades.
This mishap was lesson to other
boatmen, and such precautions
were taken that similar accidents
did not occur again. Our own
steamer landed in safety within
the beautiful little cove below the
rapids, where horse car railway
conveys the passengers around the
portage to another steamer above.
We arrived at the Dalles IN the
evening, where the scramble for
cayuses, pack saddles, etc, began.
Many ofthe 'web-feet, as the Orego-
means were called in those days,
brought their rigging with them,
but the old Frisco forty-niners, Of
which there were many seeking the
new gold fields, had their outfits to
get.
The distance from the Dalles to
Walla Walla is $50 miles, and as
far as the UmatiIla crossing over
the same road / had travelled with
the emigrant train. It was a sight
we'll worth Witnessing to see the
fortune hunters stringing out along
the route. Many Of them were
wholly unused to this mode Of
travelling, and the struggles with
obstinate pack saddles and bucking
cayuses would have made mule
laugh. It was not until after pass
ing John Days river that the
horses and their masters seemed to
have come to q proper under
standing Of the situation, as up to
this point the trail was marked
with gold-pans, picks, shovels, and
provisions Of all kinds, which had
been left behind BY the frisky
bronchos, owing to the unskillful
manner in which their packs had
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this party Of experienced miners,
and was in high spirits WhenI left
Walla Walla in their company.
Our journey was not unattended
with difficulties. On arriving at
the Touchie, we found the creek
very high, and were obliged to re-
sort to the method of double pack
ing the animals in order to keep
them from being washed away by
the current while fording the
stream. The next trouble was at
Two Canyon, where Kennedy's
spotted cayuse parted company
with his pack, but the accident was
not Of a very serious nature and
was soon overcome.
In due time we arrived at the
Snake river ferry, then owned by
Craig and Tom Bell, and from this
point we travelled up the south
side of the Clear Water, crossed
the Pot Latch, and kept on to the
foot of the mountain between the
Clear Water and the Orc Fino
mines. Here our difficulties
commenced in earnest. The noun
tain was very steep and the snow,
which was falling more or less
nearly very day, made the ascent
extremely hard on nFman and beast.
A short distance from the sum
nit we came on a camp Of stam-
peders who had abandoned their
horses and were carrying all their
worldly possessions on their backs.
At this point the snow had been
thawing during the warmest part
Of the day, and the lara was turned
into swamp soft enough to mire
saddle blanket. We Ave- ever were
not inclined to aban i. eur horses,
and concluded to ca if It'll morn~
ing, hoping that Il ght's frost
Would harden the r0adrsuficientIy
to give the animals footing. This
delay was well advised. By day
light the following morning we
were riding over hard ground, and
We made good progress before the
sun again turned the snow into
soft slush. Another camp, and an
other mornings march over frozen
ground, brought us to Bummer's
Hill, overlooking Pierce City.
Bummer's Hill at TINS time con
tanned over one thousand inhab;-
tants, all prospectors, or persons
seeking ground for mining pur-
poses. There was not a single
permanent habitation on the hill,
the most pretentious dwelling be
ing nothing better than small tent
or brush tepee. The hill was
covered with snow to the depth Of
several feet, except where it had
been trampled down, or turned
into slush by tile action Of the sun,
and the weather was only occasion
ally agreeable. During the day
the boys would scatter outover the
country in search Of claims, and in
the evening would come to the
camp, tired and worn outswith the
days exertions, and compare notes
of their search for coveted wealth.
It was the jolliest crowd | ever
camped with. The old miners
would keep the pilgrims in q state
Of constant excitement, with their
extravagant stories Of the Califor
MA or other mines, and it was no
uncommon thing for party Of
greenhorns, after listening to tale
Of discovered wealth related pur-
posely for their benefit, to start of
at midnight and locate claim IN
some barren spot which they had
been told was rich in yellow metal
There was also considerable rivalry
among the experienced hands, but
there were few really bad charac-
ters among them and quarrels We're
not Of frequent occurrence. The
day after our arrival I lad the good
fortune to meet with one Of old
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FORT BENTON, NJ. T., FRI

turned with reports of good pros
poets about three miles down the
creek, and the next morning we
put out for the spot and located
1000 feet of ground. We then
cut a trail down the mountain for
our horses, put in dam to raise
water on the bar, and in two weeks
time we were sluicing and obtaining
satisfactory results from our labor,
FOR THE LADIES.
'Ricbelieu' ribbed hosiery is
new.
Beige is a favorite color for
spring.
The newest lace mits are fringed
at the top.
Faylan embroidery IS something
entirely new.
New collars and cuffs are wider
than ever.
Marabou fringe is still a favorite
black fringe.
Mourning stockingsar embroid-
cred with jet beads.
Jet will be the favorite bead
trimming this summer.
Pretty new fans are Of rustic
bamboo, hand painted.
Spring bonnets Will be one little
heap Of artificial flowers.
Silk gloves in eight-button
lengths appear with spring importa-
tons.
Moire satin ribbons are the new
trimmings for spring bonnets.
Quadrille a Neippe is the name
Of a new French material fer
Pring,
Clair de lune' has had its day,
although it will still be worn a lit
tie.
Bunches Of ostrich tips will be
used for garnishing hats and bon
nets.
Pearl bead ornaments and fringe
will trim many Of the spring bon
nets.
Chambery gauze is one of the
prettiest materials for evening
dresses.
New paper and envelopes are
covered with japanese designs in
pale tints.
White chip hornets are bordered
with pearl beads; black chip ones
with jet.
Lovely designs in damasse silks
are small half-moons in different
colors on a solid groundwork.
Stockings entirely checked or
openankled appear for evening
wear-a novelty in ladies hosiery
Jet scarfpins are shown in the
shape ofan arm and hand, on the
forefnger Of which bird is perch
ed.
Dainty silk handkerchiefs are
formed into ladies' breakfast caps,
which are tasteful and becoming.
-ss
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Dainty silk handkerchiefs are
formed into ladies' breakfast caps.
which are tasteful and becoming.
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from visit. to their friends (the
songish of Vietoria), encamped the
first afternoon out, on the beautiful
Bay Of Metchosen, V. |. The
weather being very fine, most OF
the party went bathing, and among
the number maiden Of perhaps
eighteen summers, who, had ac-
companied her grandfather on the
trip. Desiring seclusion, she went
round point away from the other
bathers, and being known as a bold
swimmer, is supposedtohave taken
headerinto deep water. However
taken, it proved to have been a
plunge into the arms Of death, tor
when the swimmers reassembled
around the camp fire the girl was
missed, and notwithstanding a
diligent search that evening, could
not he found The following morn
ing with sad hearts the party left;
but very soon those in the foremost
canoe, On rounding the first point
saw (the water being calm and
clear) a human body as if seated on
the sandy sea bottom, with what
seemed like flour bag Immediate
Iy behind it. The natives knew
what this meant. AS soon as the
canoes got together two Of the
most active young men managed
with daggers so to disable the
monster (for it was a gigantic devil
fish that the octopus with its
victim was brought to the surface
The foregoing facts have been com,
municated to our informant by an
intelligent and respectable half
breed woman from .letchosen, who
saw the body of the drowned girl
with some OF the prehensile OF tie
mollusk still adhering to it. Size
compared the head OF the octopus
IN size to that OF "a hf'y-pound Hour
sack, tusl; and said that the ter
tactes were twelve in humber, Of
different sizes, and the largest
about the circumference OF mans
arm.
How tba snl1an TSa,.v;es = nano,,,er.
The MARRIAGES al nrineesses. on
whose expenses, as the HAITI
Hamavoun Of 1858 stated. no saw
;nn conld ha nferted deserves
snnc;a1 notice IF one of the Sui
tan,s danohters has attained the
aoe at which Turkish girls are gen
erallv married the father seeks a
husband for her among the mobiles
at his court. If a young man es-
npfiallv please her he IS Given the
rank of ieutenant.eeneral nothing
lower being ever selected. The
chosen man receives, in addition, a
magnificent fully furnished palace,
and sixty thousand piastres a
month, pocket money: and in ad-
dition. his father in law defravs all
the housekeeping expenses. The
BRIDEGROOM j. not ALWAYS over and
above nleased at being selected.
If he be married. he is OBLIGED to
Get a divoree-lle must never have
wife or mis- ress 10 addition to
tbA nr;ncass. and moroauAr ha !.
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Hhark o.!

Il certainly is somewhat startling to dis
cover that there are sharks in the East River
and along the Long Branch coast nearly ten
feet long and weighing seven hundred and
fifty pounds, swimming around on the look
out Tor unsuspecting bathers. Shark stories
are often of the character Of sea serpent ro-
mances, more periodical than reliable; but
unfortunately there is no room to question
the fact Of tho presence Of these monsters
of the deep in our waters. One Of them has
been actually captured and landed at Long
Branch, and another has attempted to make
O meal Of q lad who was bathing from o
boat in the East River, at the foot of Column
bia street, Brooklyn. Although the boy
was bravely rescued by his companion in
the boat he was SO badly mangled by the
sharp teeth of the shark that his recovery
is doubtful.
We have plenty Of sharks on the dry land
in New York, and their teeth are terribly
sharp. They tear and mangle the public
credit, swallow the public money and play
all sorts Of antics too often with impunity.
We have grown accustomed to them, al-
though it would, of course, be a good thing
for the city If we could cast q net strong
enough to catch them all and dispose of
them. But this new danger is one for which
we are not prepared and which will spread
CONSERVATION among the pleasure seekers
who are still enjoying surf bathing on the
seashore as well as among the unruly lads
who defy the city ordinances and public
decency by bathing in the open rivers. 1t
is not agreeable to reflect that one of these
creatures may be ready to meet you as you
plunge into the water, and TO make dainty
repast at your expense. bathing suit and
all The appearance Of two within few
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PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Butler is Kearnsy's Beuny-tactor.
Senator Blame Is having his portrait painted.
California can spare . million Of wheat this
year.
There Is an increase OF insanity among the eslorsd
people Of Virginia.
Sir Edward Thornton, the British Minister, Left the
city yesterday Tor Washington.
Nautucke, visitors caught nine sharks In one day
They havo also caught nns scandal
Philadephians like Narrsgansett Pier with Its
pretty beach and the trips TO Newport
Under General Buffers Presidency Dennis Ksarnsy
would make . delightful Minister TO France.
Senator Mitchell, Of Oregon. sblnks that General
Butler would rather DO President than be right
A Georgia man having eaten thirty quails In thirty
days offers himself ~ candidate Tor Congress.
Miss Anna Dickinson Will, In good health and
energy, resume her literary lAbors In PhiadeIphia
In Buffalo an open air concert was postponed be-
cause OF tho serious illness Of lady living In The
vicinity.
Senator Thurman left Washington yesterday for
Ohio lie will mako q political speech Al Hamilton
on Tuesday.
The Toronto Telegram thinks that 10 a mistake
for British Columbia TO exclude the Chinese from the
labor Market
A daughter OF Colonel Mesby was created Queen Of
Mosby's name is Mary
In families where there ls great deal Of subdusd
discord isnt the eksleon that costs 10 much trouble
as u 10 the closet TO keep II In.
Mr.. John Bryant. aged sevsnty-six, married MIRA
Nancy ssmon, aged eighty-onc, all Of virgnin, and
Of such 70 the kingdom Of heaven.