, 1880-05-27
State and Territorial.
willamette VALLEY.

There are l42 voters in Eola pre-
Some improvements in the way of
moving and reftting buildings is chron.
cIed at Perrydale.
The narrow gauge is now all the talk
in Kings Valley. Over $4,000 of the
subsidy has been subscribed.
Onward Lodge, I. 0. G.. T., at Knox
Butte, Linn county, initiated twenty
members during the past term.
Albany congratuates itself that the
Columbia has sailed, and It's new hook
and ladder truck is on the way.
-Four women of Amity met in the
store of w. G. Brown recently whose
united weight was S3S pounds
w. P. Ready, of Corvallis, has been
appointed State Printer ad interim, un-
til the Legislature meets in September.
The Standard Mills, at Milwaukee,
have resumed business, the water hav-
ing receded sufficiently to release the
machinery.
The Reporter calls the measles
"tame contagion." The editor of that
paper evidently had them before he can
remember. u. .r.
The people of Alsea Bay want an adj
dition of bona tide settlers who will
build school houses and churches and
make homes. fg .l'ft
The net proceeds of the excursion un-
der charge of the Evangelical Church,
from Corvallis to this city, last Satur-
day, were about 5000. n'1' -'f
Excelsior Lodge, l. o. G. t., of Cor
Wallis, order their lodge room to be
draped in mourning for 80 days in men,
ory Of w. B. Carter.
Miss Ella Z. Taylor, daughter of Col.
Chris. Taylor of Dayton, was married at
the residence Of her parents in that place,
on the 18th inst, to G. E. Detmering.
In addition to the six attorneys who
reside at Dallas, 22 were in attendance
from abroad during the session of the
Circuit Court at that place the past
week.
1t is quite the fashion this year for
country newspapers to sell out their col
umns to political parties 1t is easier
and more remunerative. than to run
politics on their own account.
The trial of r. Nj. johnson for the
murder of Mason Crosserly began in the
Dallas Circuit Court on Friday morn
ing. The trial is one that will attract
great attention, and will occupy sew
eral days. -t...
The frost that visited Yamhill county
Tuesday night nipped the early garden
sass" and caused the wheat in some To-
calities to take on q sickly hue AT the
present stage of vegetation, however,
the damage is trihing. s',.s..
Albany will be supplied with water
by the new works from the canal above
the city limits and conducted through @
pipe down the canal through probably
three filters, and will be forced directly
into the mains by the use Of a large tur-
bine water wheel. ....f'
Last Saturday a $4,000 pound Lefell
turbine wheel was taken out Of the Mag,
nolia Mills to be sert 20 Shaw Il Young
at Turner's. 1t will be used at that
place in propelling the machinery of a
Touring mill. This wheel has not been
in use since Mr.. Fosters return from
the East in 1870
Freights have been reduced on the
Western Oregon Railroad, from Nc
Minnville to Portland and vice versa,
as follows: First class, per ton, So;
former rates, So 20. Second class, per
ton, 50 so; former rates, 81 20. Third
class, 50; formerly S3 90 Grain and
mill stuffs are held at the former price.
This reduction began with May 18th
and will hold good until further orders.
The commencement exercises OF the
Agricultural College will be held at
Corvallis from the 23d to the 26th OF
May, inclusive. The public generally
and the farmers of Oregon in particular
are invited to he present at public ex-
animation of TIE students on the 2lst
instant.
Festive mich cows are rayaging the
gardens at Salem.
The annual camp meeting Of the NJ. L.
Church, South, will begin at Dixie June
18th. t. ll. v .DH.