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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-02-18
NEW ENrERPRlsE.

The announcement has been made that
Portland is about to receive another adj
dition to its already increasing list of bus !
mess houses in line that has heretofore
been but partially represented in that city.
We refer to the new boot and shoe house
of Messrs. Akin, Selling & Co., who have
completed arrangements to bring to Port
land the most%eztensive and complete
stock of boots and shoes ever opened
north of San Francisco. In Connection
with their stock of importeS boots
shoes they have also arranged WIN
well known factory of Messrs. Lei
weber & Co. of Astoria for the menufac
ture of all kinds of goods suitable for this
market and are having made up some OF
the handsomest goods ever exhibited l4
this state. The members of this firm an
well and faynrably known in this com
munity. Mr.. Akin, who is now in Boston
having been CONNECTED with the boot and
shoe trade of Oregon for nearly twelveJ
years and is considered the best buyer in
the market. Mr.. Fen Selling has beeQ|
identified for over fourteen years with
leading retail house in this state an
familiar with all the requirements Of
gon and Washington Territory. In
ering bis connection with the retalf
ness, Mr.. Selling has given the merq
of Oregon good cause to rejoice as
always been an inveterate enemy q
prices and dealers will be only too happy
to assist him in his new association,
knowing full well that they will Obtain
far greater concessions than has formerly
been their lot. Mr.. Regensburger, form
erly with the firm of NJ. Heller q Bros. of
San Francisco is the third member of the
firm and although not so familiar to tn
Oregon trade is very highly appreciat
by that of California. The new
starts out on solid finarci basis ha
tits reported, a capital q auarter
million dollars, besides Il the
excellent backing, an art equ(
desirable as capital. We)Desp0
new firm abundant SUCCESS.
Grana Kephsssaon
ed ssds t6sl Riansy pas
ofsection or country. There are no
stances nor false and tenn mp6rary slim
pIepsration. It f purefE vegetabf
pounded under formuia thkti
tests and won endorsements Eom
highest medical talent In the coHntry.-t
World.
IA If You Want Satisfaction take
sewing machines to J. b. Garrison
ing machine store, 167 Third sire
land Or. He has employed on
best adiusters and sewing ma
palrers ON the coast. Charges r Die,
all work warranted for one yea
hot weather produces inaci,on q L [ker In5
action OF the liver causes diseased kfk1eys. ends
diseased kidneys undermine the life quicker than
consumption. ALI these troubles can be avoided
the purest and best remedy ever discovered.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-02-18

For acough or cold there is no remI
equal TO Ammen's Couah Syrup.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-02-18

Grann KephtsssOm
Warner's Safe Kidney andILiver Gun
ofsection or country. There are no 1
stances nor false and tenn p9rary slim
preparation. It is purely. vegetabf
pounded under q formula thk
tests and won endorsements Eom
highest medical talent In the coHntry.-E
World.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-02-18

n IF You Want Satisfaction take y
sewing machines to J. b. GarrisoI
ifg machine store, 167 Third stree
land Or. He has employed oni
best adjusters and sewing ma
palrers ON the coast. Charges r
all work warranted for one yea
New-York tribune., 1881-08-17
TIE PRESIDENT

The life of the President still hangs in the
balance. 1t is clear that he is yet in grave
danger, and at the same time it is true that
the sum total of the events of yesterday affords
encouragement to his physicians. The pulse
at no time reached the highest figure of Mon
day, which was 1870. The highest figure
recorded in yesterdays official bulletins is 100,
at Z p. M; and the highest figure actually
reached, at another time, was 124. The most
alarming symptom of the day was a tendency
of the temperature below the normal point
"a tendency which, if marked and prolonged
while the pulse was still high, would Indicate
the approach of dissolution but there was a
rally from this, leaving the temperature at the
time of the latest dispatches normal, with the
pulse IA. These figures show a perceptble
Improvement over Monday night, which is con-
frmcd by almost every detail of the case. The
official bulletins mention only one instance of
vomiting throughout the day, and the methods
used to supply nourishment have proved suc-
cessful. The wound is healing WELL and the
discharge from it is unObslructed and of a
good character.
"The President has fair chance for re-
cOvery." These are the words of one of the
principal physicians. They are sadly unlike
the buoyant prophecies of recovery which the
Presidents condition justified a few days ago,
but they show that the case is not hopeless.
Now, more than ever, the doctors are the men
who would suffer most 10y the holding out of
false hopes. 1t is the duty of physician to
| care for his own reputation at the same time
| that he guards the life of his patient, and, at
| this stage of the case, with the whole country
aware of the gravity of the crisis no physician,
| even if he knew no higher moral law than
| a selfish desire to protect his professional
| fame, would hold out hope when he knew
the event would prove him a false prophet.
The more cheerful tone of the doctors, there
fore, following the general Improvement in
| the Presidents condition. slight as it may be,
is good ground for refusing to give the Presi-
| dent up. Men have astonished their doctors
and friends before now by recovcries that
were deemed almost miraculous, and when it
| is declared that the President has an even
chance for life it is plain that his recovery
| would not need to be miracle.
New-York tribune., 1881-08-17
SKINNER ,SN4KES

Snake stories are proverbIally of the highest IN
terest possibly because he history of the human
race begins with of them. II is natural we
suppose that the numbero of yarns about serrents
should be large in the summer months, when the
creatures are lively, and the newspapers find them
agreeable set-off to the elegant monotony of let
ters from the watering places. We forget whether
his Marine Majesty the Sea Serpent, has been seen
this season more than two OF three times by wan
derers the beaches by voyagers upon the ocean,
but he may hide his head in The pillows in modest
confusion now that a land snake ten feet long and
six inches through the middle, has been observed
at East Deering, Me-, making much noise in
going through the bushes as a dog would. Not that
a snake is not much 4vger than this, but then
he is expected to be, vbile Down East land snake
ten ieet long and mahIng as much noise III going
through the bushes a dog woud is exceptional,
particularly when he opens his mouth " wide enough
to take IN a rabbit" No wonder the boy who saw
him fled in terror and made attempt to capture
the monster Another boy has also him. and ii
remarkable circumstance that usually these monsters
are seen by boys. This doubtless adds somewhat 10
their size and the width of their mouths their ca
pacity for taking i'll rabbits and the ,rity of
their rattes when they of the Iattling order.
The general prejudice against snakes which has
been entertained by mankind since the little af-
fair i'll the Garden of Eden has undoubtedly been un-
favorable to their accurate mensuration. There is
an arithmetical ideaity in all accounts of them
they may be regarded the very poetry of feet and
inches. When one has seen "pesky sarpent' il is
easier and more natural to add to his length than
spoil the sublimity of the report by tamely whiting
it down. So when "a nest of snakes has been OBJ
served, the number of its inmates may just as
well be placed at two hundred as at twenty. What
is the use of running much risk if the party en-
counterng it is not allowed to tell his own story in
his own way
Many rural sojourneTs will see snakes this summer.
Our advice for the sake of good paragraphs is that
they be reported as long a I'd numerous as possi-
BILE. At time we thought that sharks would
beat ali the rest of creation his summer and GER
tainly in the matter of swallowing rabbits whole,
the shark might give any snake points: but the
snake stories coming in many and so startling
that the sharks nowhere, and so, possibly some
times are the snakes.
New-York tribune., 1881-08-17

to pay the State Indebtedness but Eever mean
to pay cent. No Republican has any reason
to prefer these people, whether they are merely
insincere and dishonest, or at heart determined
to break up the public schools.
AS to every other matter at issue, the duty of
Republicans is plain. The Bourbons have tried
for years to rob the people of the right of
suffrage, and the Anti BourbOns have defended
that right. The Bourbons have swindled at
elections and in the count, and the influence of
the Anti ti-Bourbon leaders has been shown in
securing fair count and an honest vote. The
Bourbons have suppressed free and loyal pub,
lie schools, wherever they could, wishing TO
have the children of the rich brought up in dis
loyalty, and to have the children of the poor
deprived of education. The Anti Bourbons
have steadfastly insisted upon free popular ed
ucation, and have earned the gratitude and
confidence of Republicans by their course.
Yet when Republican voters propose to hunt
down Virginia Bourbonsm, all its Northern
partsans cry out that the only question is one
of debt-paying, and that the Republicans are
repudiators. That charge will not go far. The
conduct Of the Republican party in Congress, in
every Northern State, and in every Southern
State, proves that it is heartily in favor of hon
est payment of all public obligations. 1t has
been persistentIy assaied in Virginia and in
every other Southern State, because it has
made or tried to make provision for honest pay
ment of debts, and its record is established be-
yond question. The men who pretend to doubt
its fidelity to the public credit, in State or
Nation, know that they are speaking falsely.
1t is their only chance to deceive the people as
to the real nature of the confess in Nirginia-to
save a mean, proscript and disloyal Bour-
bOnism from overthrow, by alsely pretending
that it means to pay debts. That fraud will not
succeed. The Republican party gives its hearty
sympathy to the men who propose to put Bour-
bon Democracy under the sod, and prays that
they may prevail.
New-York tribune., 1881-08-17
ERINCE IND TIE RHINE.

Gambetta's speeches at Bellevile would
have been incomplete without the character
iStic reference to the lost provinces. Once a
year he appeals to the patriotic impulses of his
countrymen by expressing vague hope that in
the course of time, perhaps during his own
lifetime, Alsace-L Lorraine will be reanneXed to
France. The orators phrase is invariably
caught up by the Berlin press in n spirit of
affected establishment that anyone so influential
as he should devote himself to a lifelong policy
Of revenge. This year the structures will he
harsher than they usually are, for the German
diplomatsts had settled it in their own minds
that they had induced the French Foreign
Office to look in another direction than the
Rhine for the provinces she has lost Tunis had
been regarded as a trap which Bismarck had
baited in broad daylight for nation which he
had once conquered but was anxious to ap
pcase. As the willy Chancellor himself is re-
ported to have said: :" A conquered nation al
ways thinks of those who have beaten it, until
it has the chance of beating somebody else :;
so Tunis supplies an excellent diversion, and
the more SO rs the French can now see what
g the alliance of England and the gratitude of
- Italy are WORTH" Gambctta seems to have a
different view of the logic of conquest. He i'm
plies that conquered nation must never aban-
UOn tflc nope OI TcHalnlIS what III mas lOSt, ana
that Alsace- Lorraine are toward the Rhine, not
toward the desert.
Eleven years ago this very week the earliest
reverSeS of the French arms in the campaign
with Germany were creating panic in Paris
Already the Republic, with its substantial gains
in public life, has lasted half as long as the
eildcd Empire with its shOwy trumphs and its
hollow mockcrics. The military system which
was overwhelmed with disaster has been rc0r-
ganzcd, and France is to-day greater barrack
than Germany. Compulsory military service
has become Il republican institution, and is
looked upon day rs the main guarantee Of all
the civil, educational financial and political
reforms which have been wrought since the
downfall Of the Empire If the French people
do not barbOr an aggressive resentment toward
Germany for the loss of their provinces, it is
because they realize that it was an Imperial
rather than National disgrace. AS Gqmbetta
himself said ut Cahors They fell because the
"nation at a sad hour gave itself up entirely into
" the hands of one man and that man the
crowned ntriguer who had stolen their liber-
ties. Yet if there be no resentment, the mem
DRY of the awful catastrophe of Sedan remains
Military adventures in Northern Africa cannot
prove a permanent diversion. The nation that
has regained its liberties Will neither dsarm
nor lose sight of the Rhine.
New-York tribune., 1881-08-17
PERSONAL.

Mr. o b. rockingham. who is now in s.ot,sna
with his wife and daughter will sail for this cn,,
try in fortnight o"1i-
Mr. Richard II. Dana is in Italy and in excellent
health. He saws he has not had sick day sipce n.
arrived IN Europe three years ago.
The Hon. I. NJ. POmeroy is acting president OF
the American Express Company. and II IS thoneht
that he wall be elected to succeed Mr. Fargo IN
that Office.
Dean Stanley. it is said. meyer recovered from
the loss of his admirable wife but long after Sl,e
died he said to friend that he fell his work was
done. and that younger men must now carry II o,
Pointing to brst OF Lady Augusta Stanley which
stood upon his study table. aud looked down up,n
his desk, he remarked that the light OF his life lad
gone ont.
In spite of General F. A. Walkers acceptance OF
the presidency of the Boston Institute of Tech
nology, he viii remain Superintendent Of the
Census until the census of 1850 is complete. This
new position.
Mr.. Quincy says that young people revered
Charming, but the distance between them was inn
passable One day on a fishing excursion he fright
ened timid girl into awestruck silence liy asking
her: DO these waves look Ia you as if they we're
moved by the wind or rs il each wave were
propelled by the impulse il receives from the one
following itp
The Misses Begg. the daughters of Robert Burnss
youngest sister are two kind old ladies living
in little cottage near Ayr. When General Grant
was travelling in Scotland he called upon the
sisters, and a correspondent of The Detroit E,ee
Press declares. gallantly salntea them with kiss
=" very good-looking man is General Grant" saws
the elder sister.
General Robert Patterson the owner of sew
eral mirrors which once belonged TO Washington.
and for more than haIf a century preserved them
carefully in his residence Philadelphia. re LEFT
in his will directions that these mirrors shall remain
where Insy are so long as any oi his descendants
occupy the house, and that they shall DC regarded
as heirlooms by his posteTity
New-York tribune., 1881-08-17
PUBLIC OPINION.

Now we beg all TO take notice that there is
nothing more utterly dead in South than the doc
tfne OF state sovereignty. The only Object for which
the doctrine was held has gone gimmering There
Federal Government has become imperal-alwavs vas
men had had eyes 10 The southern states have
learned that fact and have absolutely accented m Nv
Orleans Times (Ind Deml
Is not the first step toward a needed read
justment of parties a the direction ~
changing the tssuef II the Offices takeu out n
politics, viii not principles come inf Ia contest over
measures instead OF men, some party win be ne
the needs OF the people. Let have an end to make
shift policies and personal poltics-l Boston Herald
1nd.)
In little while longer the Northern people
VIII iuy uliderst nd that they interested In GOOD
government IN the south, and both the powerful
noDal laftcs VIII make II point sustain those IA me
Souih opposed To budOZers and ballot suffers
Herald (lnd Dem.D
New-York tribune., 1881-08-17

then can the events at Washington, the Sena-
torial designations and the crime of Guiteau,
afford the Democrats great opportunity to
profit by the agitation of Civil Service Re-
form, since the events named both attest the
sincerity of Republican professions and the
determination of the Administration of Presi:-
dent Garfield to abolish existing evils and
purify and elevate the services The effect
must be rather to strengthen the Republicans
who have given these proofs of their honest
purposes, than TO afford great opportunity to
Democrats, whose accession to power would
precipitate upon the country all the evils, in
creased thousand fold, which good citizens so
denrecate.
N n do we see how the events at Albany,
which are so confidently counted on as re-
inforcement can in any way contribute to the
great Democratic opportunity. That there
were differences and chickering's among the
Republicans is true, and it is also true that,
for several weeks, the Democrats in the Leg
islature exercised in an uncommon degree the
mastery virtue of silence--on both sides these
were incidents. The Overshadowing event at
Albany was the election of two Administration
Senator'S, accompanied 10y the final rejection of
the Bosses and the establishment of harmony
and good feeling in the publican ranks. In
that properly be called a great Democratic
opportunity, unless it is an opportunity to en-
counter one more defeat. And perhaps this is
the opportunity afforded by events of which
they are making so much.
New-York tribune., 1881-08-17

leaders Wnc seek To make rne best OF Dad
situation, that the House of Commons had re.
moved the "dange excrescences" OF the
bill, and the Lords would therefore not per-
sist in their amendments. not even IN that OF
Lord LansdOwne. upon which such stress has
been LAID. Distinctly throwing the response
bility of the effect of the bill upon the Com
mons. the Lords thereupon agreed to the bill,
and then exchanged congratulations upon the
soluuoE of the difficulty. The spluttering
charges of the Home Rulers that there had
been an understanding between the Govern
men and the Opposition were denied both by
Mr.. Gladstone and Lord Salisbury The chief
significance of this event. on the whole, would
seem to be the proof it affords of the growing
weakness of the House of Lords.
New-York tribune., 1881-08-17
BOURBONS IND THEIR LILIES

1t has never been regarded as proof of wis
dom in the ostrich that, when hotly pursued, it
hid its head in the sand. The Virginia Bour-
bons and their Northern apologists are pursuing
the same course. The world knows that they
are pursued, and deserve to be hunted to the
death, for being Bourbons-for utter disregard
of the peoples rights, for shameless dishonesty
at elections, for mean prescription of political
opponents, for persistent endeavor to rob the
school fund of Virginia, and to close up the
common schools, under pretence of anxiety for
the credit of the State. When hotly hunted,
these pitiful creatures thrust their heads into
the sand, and pretend that they are merely
debt-paycrs. Nobody is deceived, and the Re-
publicans of Virginia least of ALL
BY the Republicans of Virginia we mean the
men who are true to Republican principles. 1t
happens that small fragment of the Republi-
can voters, under the influence of Messrs. Wick
ham, JOrgensen and Dezendorf, are serving as
tail to the Bourbon kite. THE TRIBUNE does
not impugn their motives. 1t is conceivable
that they may be honest in the belief that the
Bourbon Democrats are to be preferred.
Fanatical error sometimes does more mischief
than deliberate trcachery. 1t is unfortunate
for these men that their business and personal
relations with leading Bourbons, in railroad
management and otherwise, supply a possible
motive for sympathy which other Republicans
do not share. Certain it is that they are acting
precisely as they would act if they had been
hired by hope of financial or other favors. to
help the Bourbon leaders. 1T their position is
greatly misunderstood, the plain truth is that
they are wholly responsible. THE TRIRIrNr
does not assume that they are acting from m
proper motives, but it would he folly to ignore
the fact that they are doing everything in their
power to help the Bourbon Democracy.
The large majority of Republican vote rs
! in Virginia oppose the Bourbons, resolutely
and unsparingy. They say, as to the debt
| question, and prove conclusively from the
acts and declarations of the Bourbons them
selves, that there is no real difference between
! them and the worst of the Readusters, ex-
cepting that the Bourbon politicians are in
sincere and dishonest, and strive To hide their
purposes under very tlimsy tricks of phrase
| They resolve that the debt shall be paid-after
the creditors have been forced to stand an
other scaling and that the taxes shall not
be increased. If that means anything. it means
| that the school fund is to be robbed, and tho
| public schools closed Mr. Daniel insists THAI
it does not mean that, and the more charitable
| Inference is that it means nothng-t,at Tho
! BourDons are merely pretending u willingness,
New-York tribune., 1881-08-17
Nesu12lorIs pailp Grihmaae.
FOUNDED HORACE GREELEY.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST II, 1881.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN-All opposition to the Land bill was
Withdrawn in the House of Lords yesterday the
disagreements of the House of Commons with the
Lords amendments were substantially accepted
- Anti-Jewish disturbances took place at
Stettin, Prussia. - Oil wells said to have
been discovered near Hanover Germany. - At
an election meeting held in Paris great disorder
prevailed NJ. Gamble tn was unable to make him.
self heard. =- The insurgents in Tunis continue
to cause trouble to the French.
DoMEsrIC-The Presidents condition yesterday
continued to be very alarming, and there was in
tense anxiety throughout the country; DIR. Bliss
said last night that the President had fair chance
for life and DIR. Agnew expressed announcement.
- The bequests of Matthew Vassar are made
public. - Disbursing Officer ii. w. Howgate, of
the United States Signal Service, has been arrested
at Mount Clements, Mich, charged with embezze
ment. =-= The Providence Atheneum robbed
on Monday night. -= Judge Seth Ames, late Chief
Justice of the Massachusetts, Supreme Court, is
dead. - Bonnie Lizzie, CTickmore, Brooklyn and
Captain Franklin won the races at Saratoga. -
The Julietta colt, Hindoo, Monitor, Wave o Light,
Ohio Boy and Speculation the winners at Mon
mouth.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-Much anxiety was felt in
this city yesterday account of the Presidents
condition. -= singular case of outrage on the
part of a Brooklyn policeman was reported. -=
The testimony against the alleged Italian brigand
was concluded. - The annual session of the
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows was begun -; The
Photographic Association of America met in
vention. - Gold value of the legal-tender silver
dollar (412lo grains o7.57 cents. == Stocks ac-
tive and declined sharply, closing weak at small
recovery.
The WEATHER-TRIBUNE local observations indi-
cate slightly warmer and generally fair weather.
Thermometer yesterday Highest, 7o0; lowest, GO;
average 66lso.