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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-03-28
. THRILLING WITH JUSTICE -


Under the above caption the Salem
Statesman of the 14th inst, has some
pertinent and timely remarks, sug-
gested by the late judicial farce in
that county, by which notoriously
guilty parties escaped "unwhipt Of
Justice" There is scarcely shadow
of doubt in the minds of well-inform-
ed persons, on the subject. that Mrs.
Hebert and John D. Whitney con-
cocted and carried out the murderous
plans which deprived Marion county,
of peaceful, quiet citizen, in the
person of Oliver Hilbert, and involved
the taxpayers of that county TO the
amount of thousands of dollars of
costs. But it does not stop here
Such instances produce feeling of
insecurity of life and property and
establish fearful precedents. The
Statesman says:
In all cases coming up for adjudicatie n, j.
before court of justice the first objective
point should be to ascertain the equities of
the case ; truth should be brought out as far
as possible and in the application of the es-
tablished principles of law that construction
should be given as far as possible in the in
terest of truth and justice. Precedents are
not as safe as the elementary principles of
law coupled with honest purposes and good
sense.
By departure from this rule we think,
the Supreme Court of this State greatly er-
red in granting new trial to John D. Whit
ney there were no facts before the court
to show that Whitney had not had fair;
and impartial trial there were no evidences.
that went to show that injustice had been
done IN any degree. The grounds upon
which a new trial was granted was purely;
technical and not upon an exception taken
by counsel for the defense at the time of trial.
1t was forced effort to follow precedent
rather than substantial justice. /!
The minority opinion given by Judge
Boise is clearly in the right. When an at
torney takes upon himself the obligations of
his professions he is in honor bound to dol
business committed to his management on.
honest and legal principles !; there is no code
of honor or obligation to clients that will
warrant any illegal, dishonest practices or
the taking of any undue advantage of an un-
settled principle or technical defect in the
law. Counsel are supposed to be educated
in the law for the purpose of aiding and,
facilitating the adjudication of differences in
the interests of justice, and not to mislead
and defeat the right.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-03-28
Church Directory.

Catholic Church: Services the 1st and last Sab
bath of each month Mass commences at 1870 A. NJ.
REV. VAN LIN, Pastor.
M. E. Church South Preaching morning and even
ing on the 1st 3rd and 4th Sabbath of each north,
at IL and 7:30 respectively Sabbath School at 930
every Sabbath. JOSEPH EMERY, Pastor.
Evangelical Church: Services at P. NJ. on the
lst and 3rd Sabbaths and at II A. NJ and P. NJ, on
the 4th Sabbath of each month Sabbath School at
$3.50 M. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening of each
week, at P. M. w. C. KANTNER, Pastor.
Presbyterian Church There will be preaching
morning and evening at IL and o'clock, respect
lively. Sabbath School Immediately after the morn
ing service. Fl. p. DUNNING, Pastor.
M. E. Church: Services the End and 4th Sabbath
OF each month, at IL A. NJ. and P. NJ. Prayer
meeting, Thursday evening at T. Services at the
Grange Hail. four miles west of Corvallis the 1st and
3rd Sabbaths of each month, at Ham.
G. w. BENNETT, Pastor.
Episcopal Church The services for the month of
Oct. will be as follows Oct 9th and goth at 7:30 P.
M, Oct. 18th and 9th at IL A. NJ, with Holy Com
munion.
Sunday School every Sunday, between the hours
of and P. M REV. L. STEVENS
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-03-28
New CoNsTITUTIoN.-The new
of California hoe many

New CoNsTITUTIoN-The new
constitution of California has many
important and desirable changes
The s. F. Chronicle, of the sth inst.
in speaking of the amended bill Of
rights of the new constitution, says
The Bill Of Rights in the new constitution
is great improvement on the old one. Il
has been the cruel custom III some countries
to coafine witnesses who could not give
bonds for their appearance in the same room
with the worst of criminals. This Is prohib
tied in Section 6. The mode of trial by
jury as prescribed in Section 7, meets pop
ular demand of long standing. In civil cas-
es three-fourths of the jury may find a We
dict. Section allows the prosecution ssby
information of offenses hitherto prosecuted
only by indictment, and provides that grane
juries may be dispensed with save once {
year. This is another concession to pub
lie opinion more or less well grounded, tha
society has outgrown the cause which once
suggested that the grand jury alone shoulC
take cognizance of public offenses.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-03-28

The richest city in the world is said to be
Frankfort on-the- Main, which contains a
population of about 100000. If it's wealth
were equally distributed among its inhabit-
ants, every man, woman and child would
have 5000 each. 1t is asserted that there
are 100 Frankforters worth from 81, 600, 600
at 5, 200, coo each, and 250 who are worth
81, ,0O0, 900 and upwards. The city is one of
the great banking centres of the globe. Its
aggregate banking capital is estimated at
$500, 0OO, 600, more than ne-fourth of which
the famous RoTHscHILPs, whose original and
parent house is there, own control The
annual transactions in bills Of exchange are in
excess of SlOO,OOO,OOO. Its general trade
and manufacturing industries have greatly
increased since the formation of the German
empire Chicago Tribune.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-03-28

KENNErT SQUARE, March 15.-Business is
entirely suspended out of respect to the
memory of Bayard Taylor. Many houses
are draped in mourning. Gov. ,Hoyt and a
Joint committee of the state legislature ar
rived early, also grand chorus from ada,
cent towns At Cedar Croft private burial
services were held, the parents of Mr.. Tay-
Ior being too infrm to attend the regular
ceremonies. The funeral procession then
started for Longwood, where the remains OF
Mr.. Taylor were inferred.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-03-28

A boy asked his father the other,
day what was a philosopher. A
philosopher, my son? Why, phi
iosopher is man who reasons" Is
that SO p said the boy dejectedly !;
!" thought it was man who didn't
let things bother him." The father
patted his sons head.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-03-28
Letters from New
York.
[FRoM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT
New York, March 6, 1879.

New YORK, March 6, 1879.
THE LAST OF THE OLD MACY FIRM.
The house of Macy is probably as widely
known as any in America, and its reputation
was won by one cent. If any other house
sold a certain grade of goods at one dollar,
Macy marked his at SO cents. Somatimes for
oddity's sake his prices would be $l2Ol for
given article, or $3.50. A price at even
money was as rare as an honest politician,
and this popularity, more than any other
cause, probably, brought his store into noto-
riety and him into handsome fortune.
But the grim Book keeper has been baIanc-
ing accounts rapidly with the old firm of R.
HI. Macy & Co. Two years ago Mr.. Macy
died in Paris, leaving an inebriate son on an
allowance of few hundreds annually. Not
long after Mr.. Laforge, the second partner,
died, and this has now been followed by the
death of Mr.. Valentine, the sole remaining
partner of the original firm. The son allud-
to also died a few weeks ago. The immense
business now passes into the hands of Mr.
Webster, who came into the firm after Mr.
Macy's death, and suddenly finds his self
master of retail business often amounting
to $50, 600 in single day.
"wET TO ORDER"
After every large dry goods fire the small
er class of retailers get up tremendous run
on s. wet goods from the late fire y and
even larger houses have done more or less in
this particular line. 1t has long been a mys-
tery to some people how so much goods
could be damaged in any fire without break
ing all the insurance companies. Some
other people didn't stop to speculate intel
llectually, but proceeded vigorously to finan-
cial speculation in these goods, thinking that
materials which were damp and dirty, with.
out attempting to hide their shame, must be
cheap. The recent heavy fires gave fresh
impetus to this particular trade; and though
wiseacres blinked and winked and limited
about good chances to work off unstable
goods, the dear people were blind to blinks
| and deaf to hints, for they scented -.s bar.
gains
It was left for an Eighth avenue Israelite
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-03-28

Love may be blind, as they say,
but it can be noticed that in all the
records of the ages it has never kiss
ed the girls mother by mistake when
it reached after the girl.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-03-28

Mrs. PARTINGToN says she has
hunted and hunted and can't find out
who said, aThat Ruth crushed to
earth shall rise again..
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-03-28
MORLEY.
WOMAN.

A woman, notwithstanding she is the
best of listeners, knows her business, and
it is woman's business to please. l don't
saw that it is not her business to vote but
I do say that the woman who does not please
is false note in the harmonies of nature.
She may not have youth or beauty, or even
manners, but she must have something in
her voice or expression, or both, which it
makes you feel better disposed towards
your race to look at or listen to. She knows
that as well as we do :; and her first ques-
tion after you have been talking your soul
into her consciousness is, did please? A
woman never forgets her sex. She would
rather talk with a man than an angel any
day. Womanly women are very kindly
critics, except to themselves and now and
then to their own sex. The less there is of
sex about woman, the more she is to be
dreaded But take real woman at her
best moments-well dressed enough to be
pleased with herself, not so resplendent as
to be show and a sensation, with the vari-
ed outsiGe influences that set vibrating the
harmonic notes of her nature stirring in the
air about her-and what has social life to
compare with one of those vital interchanges
of thought and feeling with her that makes
an hour memorable? What can equal her
tact, her delicacy, her subtlety of apprehen-
sion, her quickness to feel the changes OF
temperature, as the warm and cool currents
of thought blow by turns? At one moment
she is microscopically intellectual, critical,
scrupulous in judgement as au analysts bal
ance, and the next as sympathetic as the op-
en- rose that sweetens the wind from what
ever quarter it finds its way to her bosom.
1t is in the hospitable soul of a woman that
a man forgets he is stranger, and so be.
comes natural and truthful, at the same
time he is mesmerized by all those divine
differences that make her a MYSTERY and q
bewilderment. Atlantic Monthly
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-03-28
ROBERT N. BAKER,
!.

ElORMERLY OF ALBANY, WHERE HE HAS
given his patrons perfect satisfaction has deter
mined to locate in Corvallis where he hopes to be IA
vored with fair share of the public patronage All
work warranted, when made under his supervision
Repairing and cleaning, promptly attended to,
Corvallis, Nov %, 1873 15:4stf.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-03-28

New YORK, March l5-The emigration
movement, recently commenced, of Jewish
residents here promises to assume import
ance. They propose buying lands in the far
west, parcel them into farms. each emigrant
acquiring a title on easy conditions. The
colony now organizing embraces farmers.
skilled artisans, carpenters, plumbers and
other trades. Prominent Hebrews here, of
Cincinnati and elsewhere have been long dis
cussing and maturing plans to benefit their
poor countrymen in the large eastern cities.
A convention is called here of prominent
Hebrews of the country for July 7th to con-
scheme.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-03-28
SETTLE UP.

A LII PERSONS KNoTING THEMSELVES
a indebted to the late firm of B. T. Taylor 4
Co., are hereby notified to come forward and
settle said Indebtedness Immediately and save
costs, as our business must be closed up.
B. T. TAYLOR 4 CO.
: Corvallis 13, 1878. I5:46tf.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-03-28

Short settlements make long friendship.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-03-28

Catholic Church: Services the 1st and last Sab
bath of each month Mass commences at 1870 A. NJ
REV. VAN LIN, Pastor.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30
The Cossacks.

1t Isl common error to confound the
Cossack with the genuine Russian,
whereas the former belongs to an alto
gether distinct race, and his incorpo-
ration with the empire is of compare
lively recent date. The annexation by
Bussia of the Ukraine and its population
occurred as late as 1649, when Poland,
the former owner, was prostratcy by the
rebellion Of Bogdan Khmeln itski. The
complete possession of the Lower Don
was not secure to Russia till fully half
century later, under Peter the Great.
Although numbering only 100000
men capable of bearing arms, the Co.'S
sacks have always been remarkable for
their fierce and Independent spirit. 1t
is their boast that they have invariably
been commanded in battle by their own
officers, and that serfdom, universal in
other parts of the empire, has never ex-
listed among them in any form. A GEN.
fury ago, in the reign of Catherine H.,
there broke out a Cossack rebellion,
which, if successful. would have chang
ed the whole history of Russia. In 1772
the Czarina's murdered husband, Peter
ILL.,. was adroitly personated by Cos
sack soldier, Ikelman Pugatscheff, who
closely resembled him, and the people
of Southern Russia, already Disconnected
at the favor shown to foreigners by the
empress, at once declared for the pre-
tender. At first he was completely sue
cessful; but his decay to occupy Moscow
gave GATHERINGS forces time to assemble.
The imposter's adherents gradually fell
away from HIM, and he was at length
captured by Col. Nicholson near Sara
toff, in 1878, and put to death with cir
cumstances of great barbarity.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30
Profitable Farming.

The most vital question affecting the
farmer is how to make farming prohta-
BILE. Especially is this felt in the de-
pressed condition of our markets at the
present time, when produce of all kinds
does not pay the cost of production. Be.
low we give condensed summary OF
the more prominent causes affecting tie
condition of the agricultural class. we
do not propose to present to our readers
all the causes affecting the successful out
come of the farm, but rather to point out
the more important and prominent ones.
We call particular attention to the fol
lowing:
/. The enormous loss which many far
mers sustain from the neglected condi-
ton of the manure piles.
9. From the exposure of farm machin-
ery to the inclemencies of the weather.
5. From the loss which is sustained in
keeping more animals than the owner
can properly provide food and shelter for.
4. From raising scrubby and indiffer-
ent animals, when good ones could be
raised at the same cost and twice the
profit.
u. HuHS IuOIS lstiiu tiishh otah bS PioP
erly cultivated. thereby raising on two
acres that which might be more profta-
bly, raised on one.
6. Making specialties of certain crops.
to the ultimate exhaustion of the soil.
z. From disposing Of the crops in the
condition in which they are raised, in
stead of converting them into beef, pork
or mutton.
8. In neglecting to properly attend to
| the little details of the farm.
g. In not keeping strict account Of
the transactions of the farm.
10. In not using proper judgment il
disposing of the produce of the farm am
the purchasing Of machinery and othe
necessaries.
II. Purchasing provisions which shout
be raised at home.
-. In not having machinery enough
to properly harvest and save the crop
We believe that failure to make farm
ing profitable may be traceable TO one o
several of tine above causes. which lit
tie study and forethought will successful
ly obviate. 1t will be apparent to every
one who gives the above causes due con
sideration that the remedy for unprofta
BILE farming lies with the farmer.-Iooa
IN Prairie Farmer.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30

SLATE RooFs.-It is often urged
against slate roofs that they must neces-
sarily be constructed of much heavier
timber in order to sustain the extra
weight; but the fallacy of this argument
is readily seen if we consider for mo-
ment that the timbers required to sus-
tain a single roof must be sufficiently
strong enough TO carry whatever snow
may fall and remain on its surface, con-
tingency that need not be provided for in
slate roof. as the latter material is i'm
pervious to water, and having no rough
surface exposed. ice or snow cannot accu-
mulate upon it; therefore, it follows that
single roofs are occasionally subject to
greater strains than slate ones. A good
roof of slate is practically imperishable.
Its durability has no limit, and in many
cases where the timbers have had to be
renewed on account of decay, the states
have been carefully taken off and relayed
over the new timbers, whereas the life of
a single roof. under the most favorable
circumstances, does not exceed thirty
years. A slate roof seldom takes fire
from sparks from your own chimney OF
from neighboring fires; and the water
flowing from the roof TO the cistern dur
ing rain storm is free from dirt, insects.
OF decaying wood. and will retain its
purity for a much longer period than
water that has first fallen on a single
roof.-AmeriodH Builder.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30
Forget Not the Old Folks at Home.
BY LOUISE S. uPHAM.

Afar from the scenes your young hearts loVod'
Affair from the homestead's shade,
o active women and busy men.
Your toiling feet have strayed.
But whether you strive in the public mart,
Or by fresides of your own,
o never forget the home of your youth,
And the couple who wait alone.
Their cups are not brimming DER with joys,
Their hands are not full of flowers
They live in lifes silvering, autumn years
And dwell in life's solemn hours.
When together they struggled up lifes far MIL
Child voices made music sweet
In their happy home, while their hearts Kept TIM
To the pa;ter of little feet
But now adown the shadowy side
They YEARLY move, and slow;
And their eyes grow dim, when with faiterins
tones
They speak of the ''long ago"
They gave their youth, they gave their strength,
That their children might attain
To station or wealth, or heights of fame,
That never were theirs to gain.
But now by the lonely hearth they wait,
Whose years are almost done,
Like shocks of corn they are whitening fast
In the mellow autumn sun;
And the BenjArnin-cup. in their burdened sacks,
The JOY Of all priceless Joys,
Is the clssTing hand and yearning heart.
And the love Of their girls and boys"
SO. never forget the dear old folks"
And the blessings far away
Far, farther of from their peace and rest,
Your feet each year viii stray;
And. bv.snd-by when the turf is pressed
Der their graves, you will long, in vain,
For the loving smile and the welcoming KISS
That will never be yours again.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30

SUGAR BEETs A BETTER CROP THAN
PorAroEs.-To those whose farms are
situated upon the railways, or upon the
sea coast, or along navigable rivers, the
beet sugar movement warmly comments
itself. and in our judgment, at the pres
emit time, there is nothing that promises
70 well for a cash crop rs raising beets
for sugar, at the prices offered. Land
which is in good condition for corn
should produce from twenty to thirty
tons Of sugar beets, something OF course
depending upon the season; but in TINS
respect no crop is exceptional. The Ia
Dor of raising an acre OF sugar 6eets is
no greater than that of an acre OF corn;
thew are not so exhausting on the soil,
and the value of the crop promises much
better, besides bringing the ready cash.
which corn will rarely do. AS compar-
ed with the potato crop, the sugar beet
has several advantages. The average
yield of potatoes on the old farms in
Maine. is probably not over one hun
dred bushels to the acre, and the price
varies very much from year to year.
Last year they were high. and the farm
er who had good quantity to sell, was
fortunate.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30

A New THEORY OF DEw.-Prof
Stockbridge, Of the Amherst Agricultu-
raj College, has been making some ex-
periments as to the origin of dew, and
has arrived at conclusions somewhat diff
ferent from those generally accepted. 1t
is usually held that dew is the moisture
of the air condensed through contact
with objects of a lower temperature, and
and that it does not form till radiation
has reduced the temperature of the
earth. Prof Stockbridge asserts, how
ever, that dew is the result of condensa-
ton by the air of warm vapor which
rises from the soil, and he embodies the
results of his experiments in these pro-
portions: l. The vapor of the soil is
much warmer at night than the air. and
would be condensed by it. 2. Vapor
from the soil is soon diffused and equal
lied in the whole atmosphere, but in the
largest proportion when evaporation is
taking place near the surface of the soil;
and, other things being equal, plants
nearest the earth have the most dew.
3. Dew under haycocks, boards. and
like objects on the ground could receive
it from no other source.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30

A BILL introduced by Senator Gamer
on of Wisconsin, in the United States
Senate, recalls curious and perhaps
largely forgotten story. The bill directs
the payment by the Secretary of the
Treasury of 81, 900 to John L. Williams
''in full for services rendered and losses
incurred by Eleazer Williams, the father
of John L. Williams, being the amount
claimed by Eleazer Williams during his
lifetime under the ninth article OF the
treaty with the Six Nations OF New
York Indians, January Is, 1885,"
Eleazer Williams in 1912 began to assert
publicly that he was the son of Louis
XVI. and Marie Antoinette. His story
was to the effect that he had been stelen
from prison in Paris and brought to
America by an agent of the royal family,
and it was fully told by the Rev. J. II.
Hanson in PntRaDs's Monthly in 1858.
Williams died five years later. Accord
ing ID the other story of his life he was
born at Caughnawaga, in this State, in
1881. and was the son Of Thomas VIII
liams, an Indian chief