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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-09-26
PHlLoMATH ITEMS.

The two stores are doing very fair busi-
ness.
Business is lively here. There are quite
number of new buildings being built.
Mrs. Enos is slowly recovering from very
severe attack of cholera morbus.
= Considerable sickness through the coun--
try, but all are recovering, so far as heard
from.
Harvesting is about oVer-rust and rain
has injured grain considerably, in this Sec
tion.
The sound of the industrious blacksmith's s
hammer can ever be heard from morn till
late in the evening.
The Cruci5le speaks for it's self-needs no
comment. j. B. Horner is live, local
editor.
Everybody will have to economic, and
learn to live cheap. and hope for better
time-and for better crops next year.
G. B. Wells shadow is seen upon our
streets-he lost 20 pounds avoirdupois
weight, in eight days sickness.
The Boarding Hall is in full blast-come
early, SO as to secure rooms, ever keeping in
view the old adage, that delays are dam
gerous.
Mrs. Stroup and her two daughters, have
just recovered from severe spell of typhoid
fever. DIR. Whitney was the attending
physician-he cures everybody.
The school in the College commenced
rather fayorably, new students coming
to attend school. 1t is expected there will
be full school this winter.
| We are going to have brand splinter
new milliner and dress makers shop. Miss
| MolIie Williams and Miss Laura Thompson
are to be the proprietors. Look out for a
full stock of fall goods.
Bird Wells sold thirty feet fronting Main
street, to N. A. Thompson, for 500 90,
cash, upon which he intends to build a new
| drug store, this fall. Success to the new
enterprising young man
/ The district school has been in operation
two weeks, with splendid success-the at
tendance has been good-the number of
students, in daily attendance, being from SO
to 81. We have an efficient teacher, and ev-
erything looks fattering, for good school.
| The morals of our town are in high
state of preservation, at present, excepting,
now and then, you will hear an oath sung
out at some neighbor's swine, for poking his
proboscis into some ones place of business.
You people who live in an incorporated city
4 had ought to be happy, and drop an occasion.
al tear for those who are so sorely troubled
with-well, | don't know, if you can think
of anything worse than an old SOW and ten
or twelve shoats, You will please rise and
explain. B. c.
Philomath, Sept. 90 1879.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-09-26

NEW BRIDGE.-Last Saturday, Mr.. VIM.
McLagan and his son, Rollin, practical
bridge builders, completed very substan-
tial bridge on the Peoria road, in Linn
county. 1t is represented to us as a first
class structure, built somewhat on the Howe
truss style. Mr.. McLagan has built several
bridges in this county, and to say that he
built a bridge, is guaranty of excellent
design and workmanship. The bridge re-
ferred to is about ninety feet span. There
are several other just such bridges needed,
both in this county and in Linn.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-09-26

COMING TO OREGoN.-In response
to the numerous urgent invitations,
it is now quite probable that Gen.
Grant will visit Oregon, while on this
coast, which he greatly desires to, as
will be seen from the following dis
patch to the Portland papers:
:. It is quite probable that before General
Grant leaves this coast he will go to Oregon,
as he expresses desire to revisit his old
stamping ground on the Columbia"
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-09-26

FoLLow1NG is IN extract from a
recent letter from General Grant
The fact is, the Chinese question is
not going to agitate the country long.
The Chinese government is very anx-
ious to keep all their people at home,
and, if not interfered with, they will
stop immigration" IF this predic-
tion of the Generals shall be verified
the people of the Pacific coast shall
rejoice and be exceeding glad.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-09-26

NEW sroRE.-Mr. Thos. A. Ghislin, late
of Albany, has opened general variety
store on Second street, nearly opposite Ir-
wins boot and shoe shop. Mr.. G. is at pres
ent in cramped quarters. but he hopes soon
to get another and larger room.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-09-26

In this city, on (last Sunday the 22d day
of Sept, JudgeyJ. ). Whitney, of Albany,
to Miss Elizabeth Mills, of Finn county, BY
VS.. McFadden, County Judge
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-09-26
NEW ARRANGEMENTS.
NEW STAGE COACH.
From Corvallis to Newport.
CARRYING the U. S. MAILS
New Steam Launch.

A GOOD SUBSTANTIAL SMlR
1oaa % sssss ssaSs, G1asa in care ef'se Of eood ~
Careful, sober driver; will leave Mons.v. wsdnss.
davs and FRIDAYS connecting with the new Steam
Launch at Pioneer at p N, The Steam Launch leav
inc Pioneer on the first tide, arriving at newport I'M
three hours Only Is hours running through Re
tnrnine to Corvallis at M. Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays Through tickets s5 co. reduction Tor
families Good accommodations for at f io
neer Prompt attention express business and fast
freiobt at reasonable charges Better facilities for
travelling than have ever been on the route to the
namely. Ed. Carr and Mack Crow.
We expect to receive public favor BY first class ac
Communications and close attention to business
con11u" ia9o NJ NJ M. T. CROW.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-12
The unattalnable.

We are always striving for the things just
out of our reach. The glittering pleasure in
the distance looks brighter and fairer than
anything we possess. The friend W. reach
es out bis hand and offers US sympal. } is put
carelessly aside, while we are eager OWN
the friendship of those who have nothing to
give US but coldness. And the sunshine of
to day is not so golden as that of tomorrow
will be. Forgetting or neglecting the small
pleasures of life which the present has in
store for us all, we look forward to the fu-
ture, which is to bring us perfect happiness.
And when that future becomes present, we
are rs far from happiness as ever. We must
not expect that the time will come to any of
us when happiness will be ours without being
linked with sorrow. Nor should we forget
The blessings that surround US in the present
the word of sympathy, the smile, the true
friend, the sunshine, and all the countless
small joys of to-day. Tomorrow may bring
unexpected pleasures if we improve the pres
ent. But if we neglect the golden opportu-
mites of to-day, it will hold nothing for US
but remorse and pain.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-12
The First Socialist.

The admirers of Lasalle, the father of Ger.
man Socialism, have contended that he was
patriotic, but not ambitious. Helene Won
Racowitza, on whose account he was killed
in duel, has recently published some me-
moirs in which his motives are placed in a
strong light. He once said to her: ''Have
you an idea of my final plans and aims No?
Then look at me. Have the air of man
who would be satisfied with playing second
fiddle in the State? Do you believe that l
sacrifice my sleep, the marrow of my bones,
the power of my lungs, in order to fetch the
chestnuts from the fire for others? Do l
look like political martyr? No! will act
and struggle-but will also enjoy the prize
of the struggle; and will put upon your
brow, let me call it for the present the diadem
of victory" Then, taking her before look
ing glass and speaking of his Presidential
aims, he finally asked her whether he and
she together did not form ''proud Royal
pair"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-12
AngOra Goats.

John Harrison, who resides eight miles
northwest from this place, says the Hillsboro
(Oregon) Independent, called this week and
placed upon our table strand of wool shear
ed from one of these goats, the quality of
which was the best we ever saw. 1t meas
ured one foot in length and was as fine as
silk. He has $50 of these animals, and paid
Landrum & Rogers, of Watsonville, Califor-
mia, $500 for three bucks alone. He has
goats which shear from five and a.half to six
and half pounds each, and the wool is
worth from ninety cents to one dollar per
pound. There is no doubt that goats are
more profitable than sheep; the fleece cleaner
when sheared, and the animal more hardy
and less liable to scab and other diseases
known to their kind.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-12
Dates for Food.

The attention of the poorer clasaes says an
English exchange, is directed to the sullabil-
ity of dates as an article of food at once
cheap and nutritious. Dates are extensively
consumed by the lower orders in Egypt, as
also by the Arabs in the Persian Gulf, with
whom dates and bread form the principal
diet. Those in better circumstances cook
them in different ways, such as frying them
with little butter or making them into an
omelet with eggs. Formerly the only dates
imported into the London market we're from
Egypt, called the Taflat, which were and
are still sold by grocers at from eightpence
to tenpence per round But the Tafiat, al
belt large and fine-looking fruit. have a
tough skin, and are far less succulent and
nutritious than those now brought from AL
Basrah and the Persian Gulf. These latter
are disposed of wholesale in boxes or straw
sacks at from ten shillings to fourteen shil-
lings per hundred-weight, and are hawked
about the street for from twopence to four
pence per pound. A more general demand
for the fruit would probably lower the re-
tail price; and it would be a great boon to
the lower classes if they could be convinced
that one pound of dates, costing about three
halfpence, contains as much nutriment as
half pound of meat, and much more than
the same weight of many of the articles of
food for which we pay six or ten times the
nrice
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-12
The War ON Vaccination.

The Norfolk County Gazette contains a
strong article from Alfred E. Giles adverse
to the compulsory vaccination in our COM
mon schools. He holds the present law to
be merciless coercion which is unjustif-
able upon principle, ''as an outrage upon
the nearest and dearest natural rights of man.
kind, and as violation of the Constitution
of Massachusetts,. He quotes largely from
eminent authorities in Europe to show that
vaccination is not preventive of smallpox :;
that cow-pox virus is as decided poison as
that taken from the smallpox patient; that
it propagates a variety of other diseases more
fatal than smallpox; that smallpox as well
as other diseases, when they fasten upon vac
cinated persons, are more malignant and
difficult to cure than when they attack per-
sons who have not had their blood thus cor
rupted, and that longevity has disminished
since the introduction of vaccination. The
views presented, while adverse to the peculiar
idea, are presented with ability, and exhibit
not only research, but humanity we'll
worthy of public attention. The subject is a
very important one, and we'll deserves at
tention, both from medical men and our law
makers. Boston Post
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-12
Formation Of Character.

In all training of character, continuity and
economy must be supreme. The notion that
character is spontaneous is held by most peo-
pie in the earlier portion of their lives, and
is wrong. When they discover this, nine
tenths change to the other extreme. This is
wrong too. Hosts of young men think that
their character will form of itself and that
they will necessarily become better as they
grow older Hosts of old men believe that
their character is fixed and that it is impossi-
BILE for them to become better. Such beliefs
arc foolish. People are wrong in thinking
that they can put off their bad traits and put
on good traits The old failures cannot be
thus transformed, but out of the old habits
new can be formed. This is what many a
poor creature needs to know. We must
make what we are to be out of what we are
already. Evolution is not atheism How
natural this all appears when we reflect how
easily man who tries to do Gods way falls
into them. We can never be nearer to God
than when helping miserable fellow-crea-
ture, for we can't conceive of God doing any
more. We may find that fellow-being can
be touched with kindness where blow has
ceased to have power to move. We should
address ourselves to this. We can do nothing
until we find the germinal spot. Kill all
mans sins and you do not make him better
only less bad. To reform him, you must
train the good that is in him, not transform
the evil. The lesson to learn is to find out
how many loaves and fishes he has and to
multiply them.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-12
The Pyrenees.

In the Pyrenees there is an interesting stage
line between two villages, one on each side
of mountain 10000 feet high. After the
coach had proceeded little distance and
reached the steep part Of the ascent the con-
ductor begs the passengers to get out so as to
ease the horses; they are even requested to
push behind and help the poor animals to
drag the huge vehicle up hill When at last
the summit is reached each traveller, wiping
from his forehead drops of sweat as big as
kidney beans, congratulates himself on the
breezy ride down the steep slopes of the de-
cent which awaits him. There Is where he
fools himself, for the conductor, with sweet
smile, begs the gentlemen to be kind enough
to hang on to the coach behind and act the
part Of Westinghouse air-brake. or else the
horses may be injured. In this manner the
terminus Of the line is reached, the passen-
gers having pushed the coach all the way up
one side of the mountain and held It back all
the way down the other. In spite of this
there is rush for places on the stage daily,
as there has been for half q century.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-12
Saved Dy Cold Water.

A Windham county correspondent tells the
remarkable story of man in Canterbury
who, sick with some kind of fever, was pro-
nounced by the local physician to be beyond
hope of recovery. A neighbor was called in
to watch with the sick man; and, as there
seemed no possibility of the patient living
through the night, the watcher insisted that
the family should all retire early, promising
to call them Immediately if any unfavorable
change occurred. As soon as he was left
alone with the presumably dying man the at
tendant commenced feeding the patient with
cold water, a tablespoonful at time, con-
tinuing the process until an ordinary water
pailful had actually been administered. The
fever thus drowned out, the sick man fell
asleep, awakening late in the morning to call
for food. He was allowed to eat what he
wanted, continued to improve. and in two or
three days was up and about his business.
The remarkable case is well attested and
there seems to be no doubt of its substantial
accuracy as recorded above. The water used
was obtained from we'll adjacent.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-12
Eucalyptus Trees.

Two millions of eucalyptus trees have been
planted in Algeria. The French government
has granted q subvention to q company for
the planting of yet larger number. In
Corsica more than l, 200, 600 trees have been
planted. In Cyprus 80, 900 have already been
planted by the British authorities in the fever
infested localities. The Italian government
is planting forest of these miasma- absorbing
trees on the Campagna, in the vicinity of
Rome. Prince Troubetkoy thinks the eucaly-
ptus amygdalica is the most useful variety of
the tree. 1t is very picturesque and of re-
markably rapid growth. Plants grown in pots
and replanted at the age of six months have
attained in eight years height of seventeen
meters. Its leaves contain six times as much
volatile oil as those of the eucalyptus glo-
bulus. It grows as well in q damp as in a
dry and exposed soil. 1t bears coh very well,
baving res sted temperature ofvtwenty-one
degrees Fahrenheit in villa near Rome.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-12
An Ancient Rum.

A singular ruin stands upon little hill near
the north bank of the Gila river, three and a
half miles from the new railroad station al
Gila Bend. Surrounding space of two OF
more acres are stone walls, still standing to a
height of three or four feet, inclosing some
twenty rooms, and a peculiar structure which
can readily be imagined to have been an altar.
It is perfect circle, within which lines of
stone describe two equilateral triangles, in
tersecting each other and forming six point
ed star. At each point of the star and in its
hexagonal center are smaller circles of stones.
Upon rock near this structure is cut the fig
to the north. There is little doubt that ex-
cavation of the debris surrounding these ruins
would disclose implements and other relics
of long-forgotten race.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-12
LEADVlLLE As IT Is.
Letter in Salt Lake Tribune !

The acme OF business prosperity in Lead
vile was reached about six weeks ago. Ther
merchants had all they could do, restaurants
were crowded, hotels overflowed, every chail
in the saloons pre-empted, theatres attended
by drowsy sleepers, because beds were not tt
he had for coin, lumber fresh from the log
$50 per thousand, freight from Webster,
(the end of the Denver and South Park rail.
road track five cents per pound, the stages
arrived full of passengers every night and
the army of weary pilgrims foot came like
cloud of locusts from the East; real estate
way up-naked lots on the principal business
streets selling for $4,000 each. All this was
six weeks ago. There has come a change.
Merchants are skirnishing for business and
many declare they are not paying expenses; /;
restaurants are going behind. One of the
principal restaurant proprietors told me his
receipts had fallen from $400 to $75 per day;
bis rent was $500 per month and he must in
evitably close his business. The hotels now
have ample room for all their guests; the sa-
looms are not over-run with custom; the the
atres are not patronized as they were, lum-
Der has dropped from $50 to $17 per thous-
and, and freight from the end of the track
has fallen to 2 cents per pound. The COM
ing crowd has lessened, while the departures
have increased. Fifty-fve dollars per thous-
and for lumber induced the erection of 40
saw mills; high prices for goods brought in
hundreds of merchants; while five cents per
pound for freight mentioned in Kansas and
Missouri was of itself sufficient to send every
available quadruped in those States to the
front to haul for Leadville. So everything
has been overdone. Real estate now has no
fixed price, and lucky is the poor fellow who
can get 80 per cent of what he considered
his property well worth two months ago.
The whole trouble is, that $1,000 people have
gone in to do business that cannot legiti-
mately afford a support for over 1000 souls
at the outside. The sanitary condition of
Leadvile.is is not what its admirers could wish,
nor do the local press give the truth in this
respect. Pneumonia is the most prevalent
and fatal disease, and the death rate is from
five to eight daily-or say 4s per week, just
one-half that of San Francisco with its pop
ulation of 100000 souls. The cemetery of
Leadville, in use but little over a year, speaks
in tones more melancholy than words.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-12
Cruel Treatment of Coolies.

A Chinese paper gives an account of the
cruel treatment to which the coolies are SUBJ
jected, who are employed in the Dutch is
lands in the Straits to clear land and plant
tobacco. Every man, on his arrival, is tat
toed on the cheek, and once arrived they are
never released. No letters are allowed to be
transmitted; if one is sick no medical attend
ance is furnished; they are dressed in cocoa
nut bark, and have for food one pound of
rice in the husk daily and a little salt fish.
On account of the unhealthiness of the eli
mate nearly half die the first year, and the
total number of deaths since the trade began
is more than 10000 Such rigorous watch
is kept upon them that no one has ever been
known to escape.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-12
A Remark able Bank Statement.

The latest return of the Bank of France is
the most remarkable ever issued On the
Oath of April the note issue of the bank was
2,187, 100000 francs, and the cash in hand
was 2,149, ,0O0, 900. There was therefore a
reserve of more than 9S44 per cent. upon the
note liabilities. Moreover, the actual amount
of money on hand had never been reached
by any other institution in the world, and
rarely or never by the Bank of France. 1t
is close upon $4SO, ,000,0OO in hard money
almost three times as much as the Bank of
England reported as in its possession the
same day.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-12
Friendship Of Congressional Belli-
gerents.

Washington Letter to Chicago Tribune.
Honorable gentlemen who INDUCES in bit
ter denunciation of each other as the parlia'
mentary restrictions will permit, and verdant
visitors in the galleries regard duel as in.
evitable. But, within an hour after the Wal
Of words, the contestants may be seen in one
of the restaurants which adorn the base
ments of the capitol, engaged in joint at.
tack on soft-shell crabs, which are now IN
their prime, and washing them down with
bumpers of NUNS extra dry. Thurman and
Edmunds, Eaton and Conkling, and so on
down through the senators, often ''piat'
while some stupid man is on his legs, and
stroll together into some quiet room, where
they assure each other of the high consid-
eration with which they elevate their right
arm, and bring to their mouth glasses con-
tanning a fluid which would be pronounced
Old Bourbon were not that tax-producing
beverage prohibited at the capitol.
And later in the day gay and festive din
ner-tables are graced by the congressman
who have been indulging in acrimonious de-
bates. Whatever soreness remains on the
side which got the worst of it, vanishes with
the soup, good nature comes in with the fish.
cordiality Is established with roast lamb and
green peas, and there is no distrust when the
dessert is served. Of course the lubricating
fluids play their part, some of it containing
the concentrated glory of Burgundian' 3, while
the fruity produce of Madeira, the exquisite
ly-favored Metternich 'Johannisberger patent
port, and sparkling champane are amicably
discussed and fraternally enjoyed. The legal
training of congressman, or ratl er OF seven
eights of them, has made them quarrelsome
sdversaries, yet all the. while fraternal
friends.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-12
THE OLD ACOUTREMENTS.

There hangs sabre, and there rein
With rusty bit, and green curb chain;
pair of spurs on the old gray wall
With moldy saddle; well, that Is all.
&c Tome out to the stable, it is not far,
me moss-grown door is hanging ajar.
Loo Look within, there's an empty stall.
"here once stood a noble horse; that's all.
rhe good black steed came riderless home,
rlecked with blood drops, as well "a foam.
Se see yonder hillock, where dead leaves fall,
Inc good black horse pined to death; that's all.
An? Oh, God! 1t is all can speak
question me not. l am old and weak.
HIS saddle and sabre hang on the wall,
ana his horse pined to death; have told you all