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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-08-11
COUNTY JUDGE.

q. Z. NCiNclIl
CoaMoNwEALTn's ATTORNEY.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-10-15

Americana IS rifle rested in the 1oophole
where he had first taken up his position.
There's the worst of them," Mat
said, looking along his weapon; 'she's
coming up with a log to stave the door.
He'll never do it !" and our last bullet
brought down the ringleader.
There was CONSERVATION and hurried
consultation. After lapse of about
five minutes, the whole force of the be-
siegers rushed shrieking on our little
garrison. A moments surge outside,
and the door fell back as Mr.. SIS gun
swung down on the crowding savages
with terrific force, telling two of the
foremost like oxen. remember wild
struggle with our guns and fists. Mat
and the squatter lowered above their op.
ponents Like giants, fghtinGk kwith terri
BILE energy. The black fellows had forced
me to the ground; one was shortening
his grasp of the spear to drive it through
my body, when felt gush of blood
spouting over my face and chest, just as
the savage fell on me mortally wounded.
Then remember a hurrah outside and
the cracking of rifles.
"That was good backhanded blow,
boss, said Mat family; ST guess the
cooks got another squeak. Dye hear
that? Hoorayl Knowed the Doctor i'd
do it" said he, with renewed energy;
take that" and heard the dull sound
OF another blow, and a low moan of pain
as the station hands rushed in. The Doc
tor soon recovered. So did Mat, who is
now one of the richest men in the colo
MES. well have a large scar across
my breast.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-10-15
Side-HIll Chicken Houses.

An Iowa correspondent writes to The
American Poultry Yard: I have built
several chicken houses in my day, having
pitched my tent from time to time in sew
eraI different States. I first used the
south end of barn cellar as winter quar-
ters for my fowls, putting in windows to
give plenty of light and heat. I have
seen barn cellars very 1l-suited for the
purpose, being too damp for the conine-
ment of any animal, and would not use
one for this purpose unless the site was
dry and afforded good southern expo
The next best chicken house that am
acquainted with is built into the south
side, of hill. The front side is nearly
all glass, with board shutters to close
over the windows at night. Last winter
when she mercury stood % degrees be-
low zero outside. it was degrees above
TIE freezing point inside this house.
Another building was banked up to
the caves on the herth and south sides
and west end; four large windows in the
south side of the roof, and door in east
end. At night the windows were covered
with Straw mats and board shutters. In
side. the building was lathed and plas-
tered, and the floor covered with gravel.
This house would be just the thing for a
fiat country, but where hills are plenty
and handy, I should build a side-hill
house if could not have barn cellar.
But whatever style of house you may
conclude to raise your chickens in, have
it constructed so that it will be warm
enough without the use of artificial heat.
Stoves in poultry houses are nuisance
any way, and in the long run will do
more harm than good. Put in plenty of
window glass, and the sun will warm
your chicken houses cheaper than you
can do it with wood or coal.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-10-15
A Wonderful Feat Of Memory.

The history of the celebrated conjurer,
Robert Houdin, furnishes remarkable
example of the power of memory ac-
eui-ad by practice. He and his brother,
We yet boys, invented game which
ahey played in this wise: They would
pacs shop window and glance into it as
they passed, without stopping, and then
at the next corner compare notes and see
which could remember the greatest mum
ber of things in the windoY, including
their relative positions. Having tested
the accuracy of their observation and
memory, so that after running by a shop
window once, and glancing as they
passed, they would enumerate every ar
ticle in it.
When Robert became a professional
conjuror, this habit enabled him to
achieve feats apparently miraculous. It
is told of him that, visiting a friends
house where he had never been before,
he caught glimpse of the bookcase as
he passed the half-open library door.
In the course of the evening, when some
of the company expressed their anxiety
to witness some specimens of his power,
he said to his host:
"Well, sir, I shall tell you, without
stirring from this place, what books you
have in your library
"Come, come" said he, incredulously,
''that is too good"
''We shall see, replied Houdin. 'sLet
some of tKe company go into the library
and look, and I shall call out the names
from this room.
They did SO, and Houdin began:
saTop shelf, left hand, two volumes in
red morocco; Gibbons Decline and
FALL next to these, four volumes Of half
calf; 'Boswell's Johnson sRasselas, in
cloth; sHume's History of England, in
calf, two volumes, but the second one
wanting" and so on, shelf after shelf, to
the unspeakable. wonder of the whole
company. More than once gentleman
stole into the drawing-room, certain he
would catch Houdin reading a catalogue;
but there sat the coniuror, with his
hands in his pockets, looking into the
n -
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-10-15
A Monster Sewing Machine.

The largest sewing machine in the
world, a Singer, has recently been
finished. The machine weighs over
four tons, and is in some respects of
new design, uniting much simplicity Of
construction with great strength of
parts. It is adapted for general manu-
sfacturing purposes of the heavier sort,
although specially made for stitching
cotton betting, an article which is just
now taking the market as a cheap and
servicable Institution for the gearing and
the ordinary leather betting. The
material used is of great strength and
toughness, and is sewed together in piles
or layers up an inch in thickness. The
betting in being sewed together is passed
through heavy feed rollers some nine
inches in diameter, and more than eigh5
feet in length, getting stretched and
pressed in the process. There are two
needles at work with two shuttles which
can be removed from the bottom without
disturbing the overlying piles of betting.
The rollers between which the work
passes are actuated by reversible worm
and cam motions, and the machine has
in addition to these roller feeds, what is
known as top feed motion, suitable for
a lighter class of work. The stitch, as
in the ordinary sewing machine, can be
adjusted from one-eighth inch upward,
and the pressure of the rollers on the
work passing through the machine can
be regulated at the will of the operator.
The machine, which is driven by
steam, has been made for manufactur-
ing firm in Liverpool.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-10-15
Mark Twain ON the Gold Bearing Water.

I have just seen your dispatch from
San francisco, in Saturdays EUenSsag
Post, about ''Gold in Solution" in the
Calistoga Springs, and about the proprie-
tors having Extracted $1,000 in gold of
the utmost fineness from ten barrels of
the water" duriag the past fortnight, by
process known only to himself. This
Will surprise many of your readers, but
it does not surprise me, for once owned
those springs myself. What does sur
prise me, however, is the falling off IN
the richness of the water. In my time
the yield was dollar dipperful. am
not saying this to injure the property, in
case a sale is contemplated; / am only
saying it in the interest of history. 1t
may be that this hotel proprietor's pro-
cess is an inferior one-that may be the
fault. Mine was to take my uncle-I had
an extra uncle at that time, ON account
of his parents dying and leaving him on
my hands-and fill him up, and let him
stand fifteen minutes to give the water q
chance to settle well, then insert him in
an exhausting receiver, which had the
effect of sucking the gold out through
his pores I have taken more than $11,
600 out of that old man in day and a
half. I should have held on to those
springs but for the badness of the roads
and the difficulty of getting the gold to
market.
I consider that gold-yielding water
in many respects remarkable; and yet
not more remarkable than the gold bear
air of Catgut Canyon, up there toward
| the head of the auriferous range. The
air-or this wind-for it is kind of q
trade wind which blows steadily down
through six hundred miles of rich
| quartz groupings during an hour and a
quarter every day except Sundays, is
| impalpable gold. Nothing precipitates
and solidifes this gold so readily as con-
tact with human flesh heated by passion.
The time that William Abrahams was dis
appointed in love, he used to step ou5
doors when that wind was blowing, and
come in again and begin to sigh, and bis
brother Andover J. would extract over a
dollar and half out of every sigh he
sighed, right along. And the time that
John HARRISON and Aleck Norton
quarreled about Harbison's dog, they
stood there swearing at each other all
they. knew how-and what they didn't
know about swearing they couldn't learn
from you and me, not by a good deal
and at the end of every three or four
minutes they had to stop and make diyi-
dend--if they didn't their jaws would
clog up SO that they couldn't get the big
nine syllabled ones out at all-and when
the wind was done blowing they cleaned
up just little over sixteen hundred dol
lars apiece I know these facts to be alb
so1utely true, because I got them from a
man whose mother knew personally.
| do not suppose person could buy a
water privilege at Calistoga now at any
price; but several good locations along
the course of the Catgut Canyon Gold
Bearing Trade-Wind are for sale. They
are going to be stocked for the New
York market. They will sell, too; the
people will swarm for them as thick as
Hancock veterans-in the South.
MARK TWAIN.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-10-15

LIEUT.. SCHwATKA's DISCOVERIES
New YORK, Sept. 29.-The Herald Lon
don special says: Schwatka's discover
les and Polar matters generally continue
to be the leading topics of discussion in
the English journals. Among the latest
contributions to the literature on this
subject is q letter from Commander
Cheyne in reply to an article in the
Standard. 'sIt was not the Arctic re-
gions," says Commander Cheyne, "that
sent Franklin men to the next world.
They were murdered by the contractor
who supplied the expedition with pre-
served meats. The same contractor fur
nished Sir James Ross expedition, to
which I belonged, and the tins Ia
belled Beef and Mutton contained
nothing but offal Some of the tins
when opened contained nothing but big
knuckles of bone. Everything belong
ing to the animals was put into the tins,
except the horns hoofs and hides. The
very entrails were there, and when they
to hold their noses SO offensive was the
stencil. If Sir James Ross and his party
had been out another winter they would
have starved. I have repeatedly, in my
lectures throughout England, denounced
this contractor as murder, and dared
him bring an action for libel. I should
be glad to have him do SO, for could
esta olish the truth Of what say"
A baby lately had the misfortune to
swallow the contents of an ink bottle.
His mother, with wonderful presence of
mind, Immediately administered box of
steel pens and two sheets of foolscap
paper, and the child has felt write inside
ever since.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-10-15
WEEKLY CORVALLIS GAZETTE
--- OCTOBER Is, 1880
ONLY.
BY /" ELAINE"

BY "ELAINE."
Only some faded blossoms,
On which my tears fail down;
Only lock of softest hair.
Waving, and dusky brown.
Only q heart that is breaking,
Yea, breaking, day by day,
All for an old, sweet lesson,
Taught in q mans sweet way.
Only a heart, rebellious,
Struggling against Gods Will;
o, why should you longer murmur?-
Peace! Peace! my heart. be still!
You have had your dream OF love
Why murmur because it is done?-
Other hearts have been broken,
You're not the only one!
Only q life that is empty,
Devoid of pleasure or joy;
Full of wild, bitter long,ngs,
And grief, without alley
Only some bitter mem'ries
That will come surging back,
Along the hills and valleys
OF Times relentless track.
Only n 'bundIe of letters
Tied with ribbon, blue;
Letters that drifted into my life,
And caused me to think hiEa true.
Only a heart that is breaking,
That is, IL hearts can break;
Only life that is blighted,
All for q mans sweet sake!
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-10-15

few days after my return, with an open
letter from Frank to my brother in her
hand. Naughty girl, why didn't you
tell me all about it?"
.'Oh, Margaret" answered. 1T was
so ashamed of my own cruel conduct to
you. Will you forgive me?"
Willingly, my dear little sis. I
know you were jealous, but it was only
excess of love for the best brother that
ever lived. Well, took your pet
brother, and now You take my favorite
cousin so we will consider it, as Blanche
says, fair exchange"
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-10-15

.4he rice crop of Louisiana this year
was one of the largest and best ever
grown there.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-10-15
SAN FRANCISCO. March s, 1879
A REMARKABLE CURE,
SAN FRANCIsCo, Oct. 26, 187!

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26, 1879.
" j. Horne, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss, 702 Market street, San Francisco-Sir:
am truly grateful 10 you foi sshe wonderful CURE
your valuable trusa 1as effected on my little boy
The double truss purchased from YOU mas PER-
FECTLY CURED nih, o. his painful rupture on
both sides in little owe six months. The steel
truss he had before !. oougnt yours caused him
cruel torture, an6 il was happy day for us all
when he aid it aside far the CALIFORNIA ELIAS
TIC Truss. / am sure that all will be thankful
who providentiaily ed to give your truss
trial. You may refer any 10 me on this SUD-
ject. Yours truly, VIM. PERU,
638 Sacramento Street.
This is to certify 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.
Irusses forwarded 10 all parts of the United States
at our expense ON receipt Of the price.
Send Stamps for IIiustra ed Catalogue and
Price List.
Giving full information and rules for measuring.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-10-15
THEY ARE THE BEST SAFE
Made in America or any other country.
One Thousand Dollars

To any person who can prove that one of Halls
Patent Burglar Proof Safes has ever been
broken open and robbed by
burglars up to the
present time.
c. W. POOL, TRAVELLING AGENT.
Office with G. H. Dodd q Co., Portland, Oregon.
@. n. PARCELS. Manager, .. r.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-10-15
<,sRupture
CURED

DAYTON, w. T., Feb 10, 1879.
W. j. Horne, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss Co., 702 Market street, San Francisco-Sir:
The Truss purchased OF you about enc year ago
has proved miracle to me. have been ruptured
forty years. and worn dozens of different kinds Of
Trusses, all of which haYe ruined my 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. 1 can and do advise all,
both ladies and gentlemen, afflicted, TO buy and
wear your modern improved Elastic Truss imme-
diately. meyer expect to be cured, but ana sat
isfed and happy with the comfort it gives me to
wear it. 1t was the best $40 I ever Invested in
my life. You can refer any one to me and will
be glad to answer any letters on its merits.
remain, yours respectfully,
D. B. BUNNELL.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-10-15
Latest Medical Endorsements.
MAITINEz, CAL, Feb. II, 1877

MARTINEZ, CAL, Feb. II, 1879.
W. j. Home, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss Co., 702 Market street, S. F.-Sir: In re-
gard o yorr. California Elastic Z 4uss, would say
thai asve carefully studied lis mechanism, ap-
plied i ii practice and do rot hesitate to say that
for ell purposes for which Trusses are worn it is
the Deso Truss ever offered to the puolic.
Yours truly, ]. II. CAROTHERS, M. D.
Endorsed by Prominent Medical lnsti-
tute.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 6, 1879.
W. j. Horne, Esg.-Sis: You ask my opinion
of the relative merits o. your Paters Elastic Truss
compared with oshei kinds that have been
ested under my observa;op, end in reply frank
ly stale that from the time my attention was first
called TO their simple, though highly me.
chanica and philosophiea al construction, together
with easy adjust bility to persons of all sizes,
ages and .orms. add this testimony with spe-
cial pleasure. tnst Toe several persons who have
applied TO @, sio IL tDeir especial cases of rup-
ture, and wlor aave advised to use yours, all
acknowledge thei- entire satisfaction, and consd-
er themseive highly isvored by the possession
of one Of TIE i'm proved Elastic Truss.
Yours truly, BARLOW J. SMITH, M. D.
Proprietor Hygenic Medical Institute,
635 (;aliforpi;. street. San Francisco
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-10-15
HALLS PATENT DOVETAlLED
TENoS AND GROOVE
BURGL,AR-pRO0F

Have never been broken open and robbed BY
burglars or robbers.
Halls burglar work is protected by letters
patent, and his work cannot be equaied lawfully.
His patent bolt is superior TO any in use
His patent locks cannot be picked by the most
skillful experts or burglars.
By one of the greatest improvements known,
the Gross Automatic Movement, our locks are
operated without any arbor or spindle passing
through the door and into the lock.
Our locks cannot be opened or picked by bur-
glars or experts las in of other locks, and
will put from 81 900 TO $4,000 behind them any
time against an equal amount.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-10-15

$50 you are going to be my cousin as
well as sister, exclaimed Margaret, COM
ing into the room where I was sitting q
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-12-15
A "f'riend's'' House.
yesterday.

Here is story of one of the oldest
houses on Conanicut Island, the ru.
raj sister of Newport, where the peo,
pie of quiet, simple tastes go to be in
the country and escape the fashion
of watering place. The house fe.
ferred TO is situated on a fine farm
which belongs, and always has be-
longed, to Quakers. Indeed, the will
of the late owner provides that il
shall never go out Of the possession
Of persons Of that faith, that it shall
never be leased to any buta Friend,
and that room shall always be set
apart for the accommodation Of any
travelling Friend who may bring a
letter of recommendation from q
member Of the Society. In the Rev
olutionary days, this house was in.
habited by widow farmeress TO
coin word) and her two small sons.
One evening band Of soldiers, who
had set fire to several houses and
barns on the island, rushed, torch in
hand, upon this dwelling, startling
the family at the tea table. The pla-
cid, sweet face Of the Quaker mother,
with her two frightened boys cling.
ing to her skirts, appeared at the
door just as the men we're about to
burst it open. They paused for au
instant in their work of destruction,
when, in a voice Of perfect calm, the
heroic woman said. aFriends, wilt.
thou not come in and supp" The
soft words turned away their wrath
and completely conquered these rude
soldiers, who followed their gentle
hostess to her hospitable board, where
she made them welcome. After
hearty meal they rose, shook hands
kindly, and promised that for her
sake and that Of her children their
dwelling should be sacred; and that
the old house still stands in the
midst Of It's veteran trees, proves that
they kept their promise faithfully.
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JOHN w. ENGLISH,

A ttornoy at Law. will prac,e. in the Courts Of Ma.
u son, Putnam and Jackson, and in the Court Of Ap
pssls Of West Virginia. Address Point Pleasant Mason
county West virginia. ljan s. IS19-Iy
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-12-15

ing he had called and learned from
her mother where she had gone, he
had lost no time in following,
but, Waiter" said Hetty, hesita.
tipgly, "do you know / heard some.
thing about you and-Miss Mitch.
ellso
He laughed.
Miss Mitchell is to be married
shortly, Hettie, to our junior partner
She has been very kind to ME, and
so has her uncle, my employer. In.
deed, Hetty, | wanted to tell you Of
my good fortune and good prospects;
and : to ask you, darling, il, when-n
And then the words which had
been for q whole year delayed were
spoken; and Hetty wondered as shs
'aT6 'iomo s,SSsfbor
tiiiS could ;be the, sale world that it
had been on that dark, dark day
yesterday.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-12-15
ATTORNEYS.


A ttorneys and Counselors at Law, Point Plea.
n SAINT West Virginia practice in the County Of Ma.
soa the United States District Court for West Virginia
B Prompt attention given TO the collection Of claims
sn.ru.tedt to ihem. Address, Point Pleasant, W. Va.
jan Q, is79-iY
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-12-15
RANKIN WILEY, Jr.,

A ttorney at Law, Pon, Pleasant, West Virginia
q Pras,ices in the County Of Mason; the United
States Dstre, Court for West Virginia and in the Su.
prems Court Of Appeals Of West Virginia. ps Prompt
sssenton given the collection Of claims jan I4iy
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-12-15
W. X. dUNN,

A ttorney at Law, Point Pleasant West Virginia.
a Practices in the Courts OF Mason county, the
Court Of Appeals Of West Virginia and the United
eatsi District Court for thi, State. Prompt attention
gtrsa to the collection Of claims Office the Court
House. Jan. ,B, I88o-iy.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-12-15

A ttornoys Mt Law, will practice in the counties Of
a Mason and Putnam. Address E. D. knight, at
Charleston, West Virginia, James H. Couch Jr, at
Poin, Pleasant West Virginia. n9-Mr. Couch Isl No
iafy Public for Mason county. jan 8, Is79-iy
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-12-15

A ttornoy at Law, ofHcs in cour, House, Point
p Pleasant, West Virginia. Practices in the coun.
Court Of Appeals ofwsn Virginia and in the Federal
Courts. tnoy. 1919
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InHN T. TIAIMs.

A Nornsy at Law and Notary Public, Pon,
p Pleasant West Virginia Win practice in the
promptly to all business entrusted to him.
dec. '7e.Iy.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-12-15

When an eastern man goes to Col.
orado he is called "tender-foot" un.
til he has been shot at, stabbed, en-.
gagged in a free-fght, fallen down u
mine, kicked by a mule, and chased
by a vigilance committee. Then it
is admitted that he is getting use to
the country, and when he kills his
man he is looked upon as citizen.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-12-15

with me and asked how the family
was, She's a real swell, "a regular
roarer, ftell you, and if you don't
shine up some, she'll cut you out
aWilliam, don't let me hear any
more such slang talk from you, l
beg said his mother reprovingly.
Sand Hetty," said her little sister
Annie, as she carefully drew of and
folded her gloves, II heard Kate
Hayes tell Mrs. Green that Walter
and Miss Mitchell were going back
tomorrow to Philadelphia, and Mrs.
Green said she supposed that was
one reason.of his coming to River
side that he mighttravel home with
her. n II
Hetty lest all heart and hope a,
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"what did you get9' asked a wife
of her husband on his return from a
hunting excursion Of several days
duration. ~ got backl" he sentent.
iously replied.