The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-08-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.

lis W. tbu IVA S'H'~-
again in Massachusetts,.
WORK on the canal and loks at the
Cascades was resumed last week,
with force of 500 men.
THE official census Of Columbia
county, w. T., for 1879. shows a
total population of 6,s94, an increase
OF 1914 within the last year.
The Elk Empress Eugenie has writ
ten the Queen begging that no pen
atty be inflicted on Lieut.. Carey who
had command of the squad which
left the Prince to fight the Zulus alone
THE railroad and steamboat lines
have extended the usual courtesy of
half fare rates to clergymen attend
ing the annual conference of the M
E. Church, which will convene at
Portland on the 18th inst.
THERE is destructive insect prey
ing upon the leaves of fruit trees in
and about Walla Walla. They eat
the substance of the leaf, leave moth.
ing but the skeleton, when the re-
mainder dries up and falls of.
As the Indians have once more
raised little breeze on the border,
it would seem to be an aNxpieious
time for enterprising Demoe2szsc pol
iticians to timber up their chins for a
fresh howl against the army.
The s25o,ooo recently brquea,hed
to Jeff Davis, by Mrs. Dorsey, has
dwindltd to s25 900. Jeffy may be
successful in leading captive silly
women, but he can't capture whole
families. Mrs DIS brother will con
test that will.
THE State University at Eugene
has received a gift of the valuable
publications of the Smithsonian in
sti,ute, comprising twenty-one octave
volumes of" Contributions 10 KnowE
edge" and fourteen volumes of Mis-
cellaneous Collections"
THEY were fishing off Newport,
when the fair one of the party point
ed to sail in the distance, and ask
ed, "George, what kind of vessel
is that ?' He leaned over. stole a
kiss from her lips, and answered
calmly, "That's fishing smack"
An Exchange describes new po-
tato enemy which is said to throw the
old potato bug far in the shade. Its
body is shaped something like a
grasshopper, with a head resembling
a lobster. 1t burrows in the ground
and preys upon the potato itself.
DR.. C. C. Cox, United States Com
missioner to the Australian Exh;bi.
ton, has started for that country.
The United States exhibitors, who
number some 200 or 800, have heen
awarded one-,enth of the space in
the exhibition. American enterprise
is proudly displaying the products OF
American industry everywhere.
THE indebtedness of Marion county
is $3.50 %. Last year it was
reported by the authorities to be only
$lS,63S 80, the difference being
found in the matter of interest on
outstanding warrants since 1872, not
heretofore set out in annual exhibits.
The Statesman censures the former
ad ministration Tor not explaining this
part of the Indebtedness totax-payers.
In regard to the illiberal effort to
exclude Jews from Coney Island, the
Board of Delegates of the Union Of
Hebrew Congregations in the United
States, make the following just
declaration: We may safely leave
our defense to the Intelligent and
advanced public sentiment of our
fellow citizens, irrespective of creed
or race"
JUsT as we supposed. The father
of Hon. De la Matyr of Indiana,
spelled his name Delamater. So
says newspaper in Allegheny coun-
ty, N. Y, where De La Matyr, OF
DeIamater, was brought up. But
what's in the spelling of a name, ex'
cept SO far as it reveals the style et
the man who spells it. De La Matyl
looks so foreign, so distingue, you
know. 1t looks a good deal like Dr.
La Fayette, in print, and sounds well
Mr.. PIsY informs the Dayton wv.
T. Nescs that he has every reason to
believe that badgers destroy. that
pest known to farmers as the ground
squirrel Ii this fact was generally
understood, badgers would lie pro
tected in agricultural districts, instead
of being preyei upod with guns,
sticks and stones whenever they
present themselves. His knowledge
in regard to this carniverons habit of
the badger is based upon the fact that
: ha killed one a shn,f TINA sinca bov