The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-10-20

courage 60 speak lot ltSeH. Inc productl0I
and traffic in, and the use of alcoholic
drinks are problems that challenge the
most earnest consideration of the highest
intelligence, because they involve ques-
tion of the highest political and social i'm.
Iportance.
Wheeling, Oct. l5.-The majority of Cen
Golf, republican candidate for congress, con
tlnues to increase as the returns come in
A most remarkable lead of republican gair
? runs through nearly every county in the
district. For instance, Wetzel county, the
J democratic Gibraltar of the district, onl,
returns a democratic majority of 354 against
over 800 two years ago. Only three o
leleven counties of the district has giver
democratic maiorities, and there much loss
is shown. Gof's majority is about $50
Last reports from the second congressional
district looks favorable for John W. Mason
republican. special to the Intelligencer
Indicates about so majority for Mason. The
latest from the fourth district, where Judge
1Loomis, of Parkersburg, republican candi-
date against Eustice Gibson, shows large
cut in the democratic vote, but not enough
to elect .Loomis. The democratic majority
in the state will be reduced six or seven
Thousand. Kig, democrat, goes back from
the third district.
| New York, Oct. l5.-The Evening Post
|says the election Of Folger now appears to
be utterly impossible Even the party
managers know it, although they do not
lopenly say so, The defections in the re-
publican ranks are enormous, and are irrem.
lediable. They are mainly among class OF
lpeople who have waited long, but, having
made up their minds, are not easily fright
ened or cajoled. Sympathy for Folger per.
sonally will no longer stem the current.
The entire problem the republicans have to
Isolve is how to make his defeat useful to
the cause of good government and party too.
They should make it such a defeat that
Everybody must understand its meaning,
1t should be clear that it is not the result
of democratic skill or their increasing popu-
larity, but the work of republicans them.
selves, who are determined to emancipate
their party from vicious rule and restore
its moral vitality.
Salt Lake, Oct. l5.-John T. Caine, who
was nominated by the Mormons as dele
gate to congress, has never been polyga.
mist, but is an earnest and bigoted Mormon,
who will go to Washington the acknowl-
edged representative of the church. Hooper
was the choice of the people but the church
leaders refused to accept him because he
wanted the Mormon convention to declare
itself in line with the democratic policy and
tput in plank for the separation of church
and state.
Columbus, Oct. l5.-Oficial returns from
the different counties are coming in very
slowly on account of Scratching on all local
tickets. As the returns come in from the
different counties it looks as if the great,
sweeping victory claimed by the democracy
would dwindle down to only small ma
Ijority. The democrats are considerably
surprised. Morey and Hart have been
elected, but they seem satisfied because they
have majority of the delegation.
! Columbus, Oct. l5.-The official vote. Of
Stark county completes the official vote OF
the eighteenth district, and shows the cleo
tion of McKinlay over Wallace, for CEN
gress, by eight votes. A contest is talked
of. This makes the Ohio delegation stand
8 republicans and l3 democrats
On the returns received it is estimated
the democratic majority in the state will be
about 10000 only. ..-
| New York, Oct. 15.-The civil service
reform association, of Brooklyn, has passed
resolutions denonncing the interference Of
the federal administration in the politics Of
this state as contrary to the declaration in
favor of civil service reform, embodied in
the republican national convention upon
which the present administration was cleo
ted, and as utterly opposed to the spirit Of
our government.
Indianapolis, Oct l5.-The liquor mer
and democrats talk loudly of what will be
done next month. The republicans are also
hopeful and say there is much dissatisfac
tion among the democrats, by which the re-
publicans will profit. Gov. Hendricks says
Indiana will surely go democratic. The
people oppose the tampering with personal
rights OF men by the legislature.
Bloomington, ILL.,, Oct. 15.-Great ex.
tcitement is felt at the little town of :Seco1
Woodford county, near Ell Paso and about
twenty miles from Bloomington, over the
discovery of high grade silver ore in Pan
ther creek, a small branch of the Mackinaw
river which flows among ragged hills and
on the farm of well known physician.
One evening recently stranger was discov-
Iered in the stream carrying a dark lantern
and apparently searching for something.
Being questioned he stated he had discover.
ed in the bead of the stream quantities Of
very rich silver ore and had been at work
for somesweeks developing it. The dis
coverer here produces evidence that he
has taken from the bed of the stream not
less than fifty pounds of very high grade
ore, samples of which he had assayed in
Chicago and ST. Louis and found to be
from sixty to seventy-ive per cent. pure
silver mixed with copper. The discovery
has set the whole neighborhood wild, and
the whole community has turned out pros
pecting. Excitement and enthusiasm runs
wild. A fact of real interest in connection
with this discovery is that some years age
in the sand of Panther creek were found
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