The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-09-09
GENERAL NEWS.

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| There appears to be a run of sickness in
the families of the officers stationed at the
garrison at Vancouver.
Married-On Sunday, August %, 1881, at
the residence of D. NJ. Calbreath, Buena
| Vista, MIR. Thomas Mogford and Miss Rho
da Rowe.
| The British bark Jane Porter Legg mas
ter, cleared yesterday from Portland for
Queenstown with 81, ,l62 centals of wheat,
valued at Sl32, 800.
Malhuer Indian Reservation has, been
abandoned by the U. s., and will soon be
thrown open for settlement.
Mr.. Hadley, who has been prospecting at
the old steamboat mines on Applegate for
some time past, discovered rich quartz
ledge that assays as rich as any yet discover
| ed in jackson county.
An egg measuring six and three quarter
inches one way and eight the other was laid
on our table this week by Peter Bouschey.
Sentinel. Oh what big IL large egg.
An emigrant named Stephen Jones was
robbed of Si00 in money at Logtown one
night last week while camped there over
night.
The building of the 0. R. & N. Co.'S tres
tie over MILESTONE hollow is a gigantic
piece of work. 1t will be $50 feet long, 90
feet high, and will be what is known as a
three-story trestle. The lumber is fitted
| together on the ground and then hoiste
into position by an engine.
We noticed on the steamship dock yes.
terday large number of packages of tools,
shovels, picks, mattocks, ETC., which has
just been landed from the steamship Col
umbia for the Oregon Pacific Railroad C.m
pany. They will be forwarded to Corvallis
per West Side railroad. At Greenwich
dock the schooner Emily Stephens was tax.
ing on some so tons of railroad iron fol
Yaquina. Standard
A burglar entered the establishment of
White, Goldsmith & Co some time during
Wednesday night of last week by making 9
hole through the side wall of the store. He
| carried off 40 dozen silk hankerchiefs and
made his exit by the front door.
STRUCK IT RIcH.-Messrs, Ross, Miller
and McQuade returned to Albany last week
from the mountain regions between FISH
Lake and Mt. Jefferson, where they have
been prospecting for silver lodges, and they
claim that their labors have been rewarded
by finding ledge that will yield an enorm.
GUS sum of silver to the ton.
1 Articles of incorporation were filed last
week. with the Secretary of State incorpc.
rating the Mammoth Flume Co., Union
county; capital stock $50, coo; incorporators
Samuel Hannah, J. B. Eaton and E. j. Nc
Comas. Also the Union County Rea1
Estate Association; capital stock $l2C0; in
corporators, E. S. McComas, Samuel Han
nah and W. T. Davis.
= Thirty thousand persons have petitioned
the Georgia legislature, asking that the
people of the state be allowed to vote of the
prohibition of the liquor traffic. The peti
tion ,was 600 feet long, and had names from
every county.
There is potato vine growing in Langen-
berg Bros garden just back of their boot
and shoe shop, that is of very extraordinary
size. 1t is now ten feet high, and don't
seem to be done growing yet, being of as
healthy color as it was early in the spring.
I-Plaindeaier This is certainly big =
l--- vine.s
l
The fruit trees in and about Oregon City
are gray with the webs of caterpillars. The
disgusting pests have not made a raid upon
these. trees about this city for some years,
| but remembering the crawling condition oi
sidewalks. fences and door steps in times
OF like visitation we can sympathise with
the Oregon City folks under the infiiction.
Telegram.
| There are $40 insane patients in the asy-
lum at East Portland at the present time
Says the Telegram" This is the largest
| number ever before reported in the history
| of the institution. There was a greater
number admitted in the last three months
than any other quarter. The sum paid by
the State for the support of tht patients
last quarter was $40, 2S2, ,S5.
| SHIPS WANTED.--Farmer who are on
this market with their wheat are making a
good deal of complaint because the price of
the cereal is not higher. Says the Telegram:
The trouble is that there are not enough
vessels. s.All the ships headed for the Col,
umbia!river," says one firm, .'cannot carry
off the surplus wheat of 1881 growth. u
When it is remembered that the heavy crop
of this year is now about ready to throw on
| the market, the reason for failure of prices
ITO ''boom" are very apparent.
The beast Sprower, who brutally beat his
twife few days ago in Portland was arrest
lsed ami tried. and fined $50 for his offence
lin default of payment he was sent to Jail for
reflection.
The Hilsboro Independent gives an ac-
/ fcount of mother in that vacinity who ac-
companied her daughter about IA years of
age with the young fellow to Vancouver for
them to be married after failing to get the
necessary marriage license in Oregon.
Says.the Sentinel, Ben George. an old
time resident Of jacksonville, returned from
Waldo, where he has been employed for
some time past in the mines of Winner &
Simmons He reports their clean up finish
ed amounting to about $4,000 for the
seasons work.