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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-07-23

The moon was once region of intense
activity, as is clearly shown by the vast
volcanic craters covering its surface. but
it has long been believed that all changes
in its form due to. cooling from molten
mass ceased years ago, leaving our statel-
lite cold, dead world. Recent observa-
tions, however, have shown great black
crater, over three miles in diameter, which
was never seen prior to 1866. AS many
very minute features in the same vicinity
were MAPPED by careful observers before
that time, it can scarcely be supposed that
the existence of SO large an object could
have escaped notice The conclusion is
therefore drawn that the crater was
formed during the year 1876 or 1877 This
would seem to indicate that the moons
internal fires are not completely extin :
guished, and it is possible that some day
we may witness the interesting spectacle
of an active lunar volcano.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-07-23
"Our Future.v

AS soon as the meeting was fairly
under way Brother Gardner an
nounced that Judge Affidavy Martin,
late. of Alabama, but now travelling
in the North as the agent of patent
ish-hook, was present and desired to
address tho club on the subject
named above. It was voted to hear
the address, and after being received
in due form and introduced, the
Judge stood upon the platform and
began: "W mus not look in de past
fur our fuchur. No man kin tell what
de mex hun'er Vars will bring fo'th
yards. What am our fuchur? Who
kin tell what dis nashun will amount
to if it keeps on in the way it hez
begun? IF any one had told you
twenty years ago dat tonight l
would STAN befo' you wild a paper
collah on my neck, you would have
set him down as an assassin. Yet de
march of Improvement has accom-
plished eben mo- dan dat. For de
sum of fifty cents you kin have a
brass watch-chain fixed up so nigh
like gold dat you kin work it on
boss trade for fifty dollars. Eff any
body had told George Washington
dat de day would come when shirts
would button behind what would dat
great aepp have said? Dis kentry am
a mig bcy clock. Ebery time de
pendulum swings a child am bon.
Ebery time de mint hand takes
Jump somebody comes to the front
wild new sort O. stomach bitters or
an improved rat trap. Ebery hour
ticked off am a mile O railroad built,
a bridge laid down, hill levelled or
forest cleared. Such of us as kin
remember back hun'er Vars real
ize de change mo- dan de young
folks. Sich of us as lib a hun'e 'erd
vars IN de fuchur will not be sur.
prised to see mugs wild free handles,
coffee pots dat shet up like jack
knife, rat traps dat illuminate de
house an rockin'- chars dat sail
aroun' on wheels" The speaker
closed amid cheers and applause, and
for the remainder of the evening was
put in the seat of honor under the
Bear r-Trap.-Detroit Free Press.
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A Mothers Love.

In one of the public schools of San
Francisco, few days ago, youth bub-
bling over with high spirits violated
long established rule, and was sum-
moned to the bar of judgment. With
sobs and tears he confessed the soft inn
peachment.
ssHave your mother call tomorrow" !"
the teacher remarked, with awful and
ominous significance. His maternal an
cestor appeared on the following day.
and after being duly and publicly in
formed of the fragrant breach of disci-
pline her son had been guilty of, was re-
quested to know if she would punish him
herself or have the teacher attend to the
matter. She preferred the latter course,
and urged that the blows be well laid on.
The next day was appointed for the
aagellation. At the usual hour for such
unpleasant affairs the youth was sum-
moned to the front. He came with hang
dog look and some trepidation. An ora
ton on youthful frivolities having been
duly delivered, the boy was ordered to
extend his hand beneath an upraised
ruler. He refused, and in accordance
with the usual custom in such cases was
spread across the teachers knees, and
the punishment was administered in an
other quarter than the one originally in
tended. For some unexpIainable reason
the most energetic blows fell without the
desired effect. A consultation of male
teachers ensued and the offender was
conducted to private room and his
wardrobe subjected to rigid examina-
ton. On the interior of his bifurcated
garment, at a locality of great strategical
importance in such an emergency, was a
thick flannel baby's frock securely at
tached.
"Who sewed that on?" demanded the
principal, in voice of thunder.
'sMy mother!' answered the boy, with
heart breaking sobs.
The teachers hurriedly consulted
again, instructed the boy never to reveal
the circumstance, and sent him to his
studies. Somehow the matter leaked
out.-Leadoitle Democrat.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-07-23

Being in tobacco store on Giavier
street, New Orleans, Colonel Sam Boyd
fell to praising his blooded dogs of the
terrier and bull species. His extrava-
gance provoked the remark from Colonel
d. A. Wilson, bystander, that his color
ed porter owned a coon which could whip
any fighting dog in the city. The talk be-
came a dispute and the dispute grew and
out of it came a wager. The fight took
place at Nelligan's, once the great sport
ing center in New Orleans. The rules for
the combat were drawn up regularly.
Boyd led out bull terrier named Sam.
The dog weighed thirty-fve pounds. He
was terrible thing of bone and teeth.
The Coon was veteran, with long claws
and teeth and heavy fur. The bets ran :
A thousand dollars to five hundred that
the coon would give in in five
minutes; $1,000 to $3.50 in ten min
utes ST 900 to 500 in one-half hour
by the watch. Several buckets of wa
ter were placed in the ring for Andy's
benefit. By the time that all was in read
mess $4,000 had been staked on the re-
suit, and the betters were all men of posi-
ton in society A member of Congress,
the Sheriff and all the city officials were
present. The fight was opened by dash
of the terrier. For full minute the
beasts rolled in deadly embrace over the
arena and the fur flew. At the enasof the
first round the dog wasn't such afavorite,
though he led. The coon with singular
cunning upset the buckets of water in the.
saw dust so that-the dog slipped here and
there The fight ended in the complete
discontinue of the dog, which died on
the following day from its wounds. But
where was the S. P. G. A.? And yet cen.
siderine that the historical combat occur
red on Christmas Day.. 1855, the s. T. G.
A. were not blame perhaps.
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Latest NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
MATINEE, Cal, Feb. IL. 1a,

MARTINEZ, CAL, Feb. IL, 1879.
: W. j. Herne, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss Co., 702' Market street, S. F.-sir: In re-
gard to your California Elastic Truss, would say
that have carefully studied its mechanism, ap-
piled it in practice, and do not hesitate to say
that for all purposes for which Trusses are worn
1T is the best Truss ever offered to the public
Yours truly, J. H. CARoTHERs, M D.
Endorsed by a. prominent Medical In
stiute
SAN FRANCISCO, March 6, 1879.
". j. Horne, Esq.-Sir: You ask my opinion
OF the relative merits of your Patent Elastic
Truss, as compared with other kinds that have
been tested under my observation, and in reply
frankly state that from the time my attention
was first called to their simple, though highly
mechanical and philosophical construction, to-
gether with easy adjustibility to persons of all
ages, forms sizes. / add this further testimony
with special pleasure, that the several persons
who have applied to for aid in their special
cases of rupture, and whom have advised use
yours, all acknowledge their entire satisfaction,
and consider themselves highly favored by the
possession of the improved Elastic Truss.
Yours truly, BARLrw J. SMITH, NJ D.
Proprietor Hygienic Medical Institute,
R25 California CTR Gan Erop
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DREAMS OF THE PAST.
BY ELAINE.

From the Portland Telegram.
am thinking yet, with a fond regret,
OF an eve in the long dead past;
OF q sunset sky-a stream flowing by
A happiness too great to last
When my young heart beat to the music sweet
or q voice that loved too we'll:
And the passionate bliss of that first sweet kiss
Was too holy for lips to tell.
Ten years have flown since we sat there alone
In our hearts, sweet summer time;
But I'll never forget, or cease to regret,
Those days Of rapture sublime.
And SO, tonight, in the soft twilight,
Tho, tT1Ier love is mine
weep on the breast where my head sinks to
rest,
And wish again it were thine.
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A REMARKABLE CURE,

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 26, 1879.
w j. Horne, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss, 702 Market street, San Francisco-Sir I
am truly grateful to you for the wonderful CURE
your valuable truss has effected on my little boy.
The double truss purchased from you has PER-
FECTLY CURED him of his painful rupture on
both sides in little over six months. The steel
truss he had before bought yours caused him
cruel torture, and it was happy day for us all
when he laid it aside for the CALIFoRNIA ELASTIC
Truss. l sure that all will be thankful who
are providentially led to give your truss a trial.
You may refer any one to me on this subject
Yours truly, WIN. PERU,
63S Sacramento Street.
This is to Gritty that have examined the son
of VIM Peru, and find him PERFECTLY
CURED of Hernia on both sides.
l.. DEXTER LYFoRD, M. D.
Surgeon and Physician.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-07-23
A Reminiscence Of 1864.

In February, 1864, Alexander Long, a
Democratic member from Ohio, offered
resolution providing for the appoint
ment of Peace Commission to bring
the war to close and restore the South
ern States all their ssrights under the
Constitution
Gen. Garfield rose and replied extern
poraneonsly:
"Mr. Chairman, am reminded by the
occurrences of this afternoon of two
characters in the war of the Revolution,
as compared with two others in the war
of to-day. The first was Lord Fairfax,
who dwelt near the Potomac, few miles
from US. When the great contest was
opened between the mother country and
the Colonies, Lord Fairfax, after pro-
tracted struggle with his own heart, de-
cided that he must go with the mother
him, and went over grandly and SOL
emnly. There was another man who
cast in his lot with the struggling colo
nists, and continued with them till the
war was well nigh ended. In an hour of
darkness that just preceded the glory of
the morning, he Matched the treason to
surrender forever all that had been
gained, to the enemies of his country.
Benedict Arnold was the man. Fairfax
and Arnold find their parallel in the
struggle of to-day. When this war be-
gan, many good men stood hesitating and
doubling what they ought to do. Robert
p. Lee sat in his house across the river
here doubling and delaying, and going
off at last almost tearfully to join the
army of his State. He reminds one in
some respects of Lord Fairfax, the state
ly royalist of the revolution. But now,
when tens of thousands of brave souls
have gone up to God under the shadow
of the flag, when thousands more,
MANNED and shattered in the contest, are
sadly awaiting the deliverance of death
now, when three years of terrific warfare
have ragged over us; when our armies
have pushed the rebellion back over
mountains and rivers, and crowded it
into narrow limits, until a wall of fire
girds it; now, when the uplifted hand of
a majestic people is about to hurl the
bolts of it's conquering power upon the
rebellion; now, in the quiet of this hall,
Matched in the lowest depths of a SINH
lar dark treason, there rises Benedict
Arnold, and proposes to surrender us all
up body and spirit, the nation and the
flag, its genius and it's honor, now and
forever, to the accursed traitors to our
country. And that proposition comes
God forgive and pity my beloved State
it comes from citizen of the hme-hon-
ored and loyal commonwealth OF Ohio" "
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-07-23

Sunday school scholar to the teacher
s.Did you say that the hairs of my head
were all numbered?n Teacher Yes,
my dear" Scholar Yell, then,n fpulI-
ing out hair and presenting it, whats
the number of that one ~
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A religious body having resolved to
build new church, the pastor went beg
ging very zealously, accepting not only
the widows but the child's mite In the
Sunday school a few days afterward,
while instructing the children, he COM
pared himself to a shepherd, and then in
quired what the latter did with his flock.
One bright-eyed little fellow promptly re-
piled, "He shears them"
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Sculpture
CURED.

From = Merch amt.

DAYTON, w. T., Feb 10, 1879.
". J. Horne, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss Co., 702 Market street, San Francisco-Sir:
The Truss purchased of you about one year ago
has proved miracle to me. have been ruptur-
ed forty years, and dozens of different kinds
Of Trusses, all of which have ruined nv health.
as they were injurious to my back and spine.
Your valuable Truss is as easy as an old shoe, and
is worth hundreds of dollars to me, as it affords
me so much pleasure. can and do advise all,
both ladies and gentlemen, afflicted, to buy any
wear your modern improved Elastic Truss imme-
diately:. l never expect to be cured, but am
satisfied and happy with the comfort it gives me
to wear it. 1t was the best $40 ever invested in
my life You can refer any one to me, and I
will be glad to answer any letters ON its merits.
I remain, yours respectfully,
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-07-23

Now treat your girl with GOODNESS and
she'll like you all the better, and yanilla
is the safest flavor.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-07-23

When man draws an inference b
should draw it mild.
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California Elastic Truss Co.
702 Market Street, S. F.
HAL,S PATENT CONCRETE
FIRE-PROOF SAFES.

Have been tested by the most disastrous confa-
grations in the country.
They are thoroughly fire proof
They free from darnpness.
Their superiority is beyond question.
Although about 10000 of these safes are now
in use, and hundreds have been tested by some
of the most disastrous confagrations in the
country there is not single instance on record
wherein one of them ever failed to preserve its
contents Dertcctly.
The daily gazette., 1880-03-16

The COUNTY AIMS HOUSE is not in
the position to please few land spec
ulators and other gentlemen who
would like to make few thousand
dollars by its removal They fear the
small pox, or cholera or some other
disease. This is the most childish
nonsense. These gentlemen saw pro-
per to build their dwellings near the
Aims House. They were not deceived
into choosing the locations for thel
homes, and have noright to expect
the County to sell it's very eligible and
ancient Aims House location to ac-
cOmmodate them because of fear of
smallpox. Why these men are old
enough to know that citizens of Will
mington do not move from theil
dwellings because case of smallpox
or cholera happens to attack a neig gh
Dor. They dread the smallpox or u G
cholera as much as the few men who
l We on the hill, but they never think
of leaving their houses from the dread
OF such diseases ; nor did the wealthy
people of Philadelphia a few years ago
when the smallpox made raid
among their sections and to the sur.
prise of all, passed over the districts
where the poor were the most numer
Gus. The County Aims House is ou
hospital, and if man should have hi
ribs broken or shoulder disiocated, h,
should be taken to the most convent
ent place and not jolted. over rougl
roads miles into the country. Tn,
grounds upon which the Aims Hous,
is built is not likely to depreciate ant
will do very well to keep. If sold nov
it viii bring less money than for an,
time within thirty years.
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CHhitifF's SALE.

By virtue OF writ OF Levari Facias, to
me directed, Will be exposed ~ public
sale ut the
LAFAYETTE HOTEL. No. sii shipley 81
Kept by John J. Dougherty, In the city OF
Wilmington, New Castle County, Della
ware, OH
WEDNESDAY, the 3fst DAY OF MARCH,
A. D.. 1880. at o'clock. p. m.
The following described real estate, viz:
All that certain lot, piece or p r'el OF
land with IA brick house thereon Greet
ed, situate in the city Of Wilmington.
bounded and described as follows, 10 wit |:
Beginning on the northerly side OF Fifih
street AT the distance of ~ feet (be the
same more or less from the corn, formeI
by the interst ction OF the easieriy side OF
spruce street with the norLheriy side OF
FINN street; thence north 81 degrees, Ga 81
lOO feet TO q corner; lhes ce north as de
grees, west lS feet, ot the same more or
less, To a curnerj thence southerly 80 de-
grees. west ~ feet to the line OF the head
uf three-feet wide alley; thence Aions
said line of said alley south IS deg e. s,
east feet to "a corner; Lheuce along the
easterly side OF hald Lhree.IeoL wiue alley
southt2 degree. west 81 feet 10 the north.
eIly side oI Finn street; thence along sn ID
side OF said street south 6S degrees, east 10
ieet, be the same more or tess, 10 the place
OF beginning, be the osntents thereof what
they may.
Select and taken In execution as the
property OF Ann Harrigan and I. {. =. and
10 be sold by
JOHN PYLE, Sheriff.
Sherifrs office, New Castle, March 10
1851. marlS-eodIs.
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HERIFF's SALE.

= HERIFF'S SALE.
- by Virtue OF IA writ of Levari Fucias
70 lne directed VIII DO exposed 10 Public
LAFAYETTE HOTEL. o. sll shipley ST
Kept by John J. Dougherty, In the city of
ware, on
WEDNESDAY. the 3lst day OF March. Iss0
at zo'cIock, T.. M,
Tie following described real estata wiz. A n
those Two certain lots or parcels of lanu
lying aud being situated In the city Of
W iiiiin ston, a.d described on the Deed
OF conveyance To the said John e. H,.n-
dock, as follows. 70 wit: One Thereon he
sinuiDB hL corner VI William NIvl.vi,
ioL and IN the southeast side OF X Inv
street, y, .nehcs up King st' Get north
rner stake, thence by new una
south 6S degrees east ~ feet to al osrs Mi,
shalps line, thence down the said linz
soulh o. degrees, west ~ feet 10 ano. her
corner ui the said Willam Niyley; i,,,
thence win line thereof noGLh ~ d.,
gre West oO ieet TO the place OF benI,,.
nlhg, containing one Thousand feef a.,
lahu, ne the same more or less, The
other thereof adjoining the one ner.,.,
before des ;rlbed. Beginning al a cnr,,a.
STAKE oi llnolny ScoLL's, now tienrg.,
lay lor's lot on the southeast sI,Ia or n, ~ ~
street thehce south 5o degrees, east 5J lei
tpauoLher corner stake in Mnses
shaiis, late John Gyies' lIne ih',,.!,,
south Sil2 degrees west y feet TO anuih.1r
corner stake In the said line, the Zee norsh
% degrees west 20 feet TO another cnrn.,r
sake n the east side OF a ING sfr.s, me- nc.
lpshee w nc, along The same rs Ieet 10 the place
Vi pcslhnihB, CONTAINING I2JJ ferI ia a., :
a',n ,,,e nro,1 OF less, excepting and releas
ihg from lhe lines oi the said MORTON
the ioilowihg described lot or piec. of y =, =
~, 70 WI: begihning ON the easterly side OF
Ming street AT Lneline of EllzabeIh R,'h =,
son aud late George TayIor, Ihann'. aeou ,,'.ii II
cry ahu parallel TO second street "a, Zee,
nenSe * f.si az as0utnerly parallel TO KiDg street
erly and parallel To Seconn streei "ess. esI.
10 Ihe easteriy side of King street tbenca
iS @ iesI III i,.cb.g ia,1ng sald side OF King street
hing. Deed k-cord 1, vol i. page I61 ~ u
oeiNeu anu taken IN execution a. tna
Paopcity OF John u. Haddock and E,iZa'
be soldby Holm pVI n u, ana 10
Iss, sherin's ofiice. New Castle, March IL
marl5eodts
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hHERIFF 5 sALEs.
,HERIFF's SALE.

CHERIFF's SALE. &
By virtue of writ OF LevsrI Facles
~ me directed, vii pe exposed TO pubic
sale, at THE
LAFAYETTE HOTEL. No. s4i shipley 81
kept by J~hn J. Dougherty, In the city o
Wilmington, New Castle county, Della
ware,
The 3ist day 0f March, 1880, at
O'Clock, p, M,
The following described real estate. viz:
All that certain lot or parcel OF land SIT,
uaie in the city OF Wilmington, bounded
and described n follows, To wit: Begin.
ming at point On the Northeast corner oi
Front and Adams street. thence northeriy
along the eastery side OF Adams street
il3 feet lO IN. to The northerly side OF
Pleasant street: thence easlerly along
Pleasant street l2S feet TO q stake. thence
southerly parallel with Adams street llS
IeeJ ~ In. To the northerly side Of Front
street, thence westerly along the north
eriy side of Front street rs feet To the
place Of beginning. be the contenis there
Of what they may,
seized anu taken iu execution as the
property ut William Richmann, Jr and
{. L's, Al Il 10 be sold ny
JOHN PYLE, Sheriff.
She -iff's ONCE. New Castle. March Y.
1880 marl3 eodts
The daily gazette., 1880-03-16
Great Whales or Cape May.

When the Old Dominion steamer Isaac
Bell was of the capes ON Friday morn
ipg, the lookout on the bow Of the ves-
sell cried, There she bIows!" Immediate.
ly the huge black body OF a whale, sew
enty or eighty feet In length, was s-en
TO rise up out of the water not more
than 800 feet ahead of the vessel. The
signal was At once given to reverse the
engines, as there was no time 20 change
the course OF the vessel, anu had she
struck the whale the result might have
been serious, either from the Conclusion
or from damage TO she sides or paddles
Of the steamer by the lashing ofthe tail
of The infuriated animal. The vessels
headway was scarcoly checked when
another whale was seen to spout few
hundred feet NJ, ern. While preparati 1ns
were made TO discharge cannon, aud
by some Of the sailors to. iig an impro-
vised barpoOu,, the hrst whale dlsap-
peared under the water and in another
moment was by the side of its compan-
on. They kept company y few miles
With The steamer and then disappeared
seaward.
The daily gazette., 1880-03-16
-TUEsDAY. MARCH 10. 1850.
ARRESTS AT THE PoLLs.-of VIII

ARRESTS AT THE POLLs.-Of what
use was it to pass an act making it
unlawful for soldiers to be stationed
within mile of the election polls II
the United States Marshals are to be
permitted to do the very thing appre-
hended of soldiers? ? 1t matters very
little II man is to be arrested and
Imprisoned before or after he votes
whether the arrest is made by a Mar
shal and his Deputies or by Sergeant
and his men. In fact a man would
feel better and more confidence in re-
sisting the soldiers, since the attempt
10 despoil him, of his liberty would
seem more open and brazen. The Mar
shals are the sly European process; they
may spy around in citizens attire
seeking to overhear and to watch for
a reasonable opportunity, while the
soldiers wear their military dress and
march In squads. Senator Bayard,
from the Committee on Judiciary,
yesterday, reported fayorably the
Senate bill making it unlawful for any
Marshal, Deputy Marshal or Super
visor Of Election, or any person acting
by their authority, to arrest or i'm
prison on election day any election Of
ficer acting as such under and by vir-
tue Of election Or appointment under
any State law for any offense against
the United States election laws, but
the warrant or process for such offense
may be executed at any time after the
close Of such election day. Mr.. Ed
muiids stated that he and other men,
bers Of the committee did not concur
in the majority report"
This bill does not go far enough; it
ought to except citizens as well from
arrest; but it is hetter to take that per
haps, than allow the law to remain al
ii now stands However, as Mr.. Ed
munds and his colleagues on the com
mittee say they are opposed to it, o
course Mr.. Hayes will veto the bill
should it pass.
With the aid of the telegraph wha
is to prevent John Sherman giving
orders to the Marshals in a dozel
States to arrest the election officers, i
thereby, Grant would carry enougl
votes through the fraud to give him
majority? Don Cameron's hundre'
thousand armed men could Thereon
frame their excuse for assisting hin
to take the Office"