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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-05-05
POLITICAL POINTS.

Election day in Benton county will find
Iowa.
Vote for NJ. c. George, who has proved
himself worthy Of your confidence and
support.
The voters of the Second Judicial District
are not willing to besmirch the judicial
ermine of this district, and consequently
will vote for e. S. Bean, OF, Lane.
Citizens of Benton County if you would
have the affairs of your county conducted
honorab'y and conscientiously, vote the
Straight Republican ticket in. June.
! Tie GAZETTE banner, emblazonei with
the motto "Repubiican--always for the
Right" continues to wave, McFaddcn, his
tool tompsons ETC., to the contrary notwith-
standing.
We have no doubt that Hon. NJ. C George
will be ret elected. If he is he will have
the honor of being the first Representative
in Congress re elected by the people of this
State during the % years th=t Oregon .ha.
been State.
| Voters of tho Second Judicial District,
when you come to cast your ballots at the
June election, don't forget the injury Boss
McFadden tried to do you in his assaults on
the Oregon Pacific through the columns OF
| the Benton County Blade.
We don't wish to put ourselves forward
as prophet, but please mark this predic-
tion: The morning following the coming
June election w. S. McFadden will "war-
bie' in \ different strain to that he INDUCED
| in at the late ''squelchers'" Convention.
The Jacksonville Times prints J. O.
Smiths speech before the Democratic Cor
yention, on the Chinese question, and
thinks it very important; but if it had
printed M. c. Georges speech upon the
Chinese bill delivered in the house of Rep.
resentatives it would not have wasted its
space.
The Yreka journal says: The Democrats
arc not so much opposed to preachers in
politics as they pretended, and have n"mi-
mated one for Governor in Oregon. Correct
"Mr. Nixon. Anything to win is the Demo.
cratic motto in Oregon and tho real stripe
here will sacrifice their religion to their
politics every time.
W. ]. Worthington whom the Demo-
Gratis have put upon their ticket for State
Superintendent, has but one alias that we
have heard of. going by the name of
William Lambert on his arrival in Oregon,
but afterwards concluded that w. J..
Worthington was a real nice name, and
adopted it accordingly.
The Democratic Convention has denounced
the GAZETTE be, ,ause of its Republicanism and
its opposition to Democracy and treason
the twin evils that the honest citizens of this
country have to contend with. We have a
faint recollection of Democratic condemna-
tion of Republican doctrine in 81, and
the triumph of the party of patriotism and
honest Government over BoothisB in IS.
And the Republican party of Oregon
will be victorious in June next over
dishonest Government and McFaddenism
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-05-05
Republican County Convention Platform.

The Committee on Resolutions submitted
the following report, which was unanimous
1y adopted
Mr.. President-We, your Committee on
Resolutions, beg leave to submit the follow
ing;
The Republican party Of Benton county,
in convention assembled on this Sth day
of April. 1882 hereby make the following
declaration of principles
]. That the laws regulating the assessment
and collection of taxes should be SO amended
that all classes of property shall bear all
equal proportion of the public burden; and
ed by mortgage on real estate should be
made taxable in the county where such
real estate is situated.
2. That the Republican party deeply re-
grets and strongly deprecates the action of
President Arthur IN vetoing the bill for re
stricting Chinese immigration lately passed
by both Houses of Congress, and asserts the
right of the American nation to prevent
the incursion Of hordes of Asiatics, whose
cheap labor may improperly depress the
wages earned by American citizens in many
departments of life.
8. That inasmuch as the people are the
primary source of power under our Repnb-
Gcan government, and as consequently all
corporations derive their existence and ex-
ercise all functions by virtue of rights gran
ted by the people themselves, it is incum-
bent on the Legislature of each State so to
regulate the charter privileges of corpora
tions within its borders as to prevent such
corporate bodies from encroaching on and
expressing the people. That with special
reference to common carriers, extortionate
fares and freights, and the discrimination
in rates. times and distances between cor
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-05-05

Railroad offered the only pros oective, avail
able means of competition to relieve the
producers OF Oregon from the burdens which
they had been laboring under by means of
such oppressive transportation facilities. 1t
will be wise for voters to take this import
ant subject under consideration and thus
look before thew leap
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-05-05
REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.

For State Senator,
Z. WOODWARD.
For Representative.
TOLBERT CARTER.
R.. J. NICHOLS.
w. 2. kEADY.
For County Clerk,
B. W. WILSON.
For Sheriff,
SOL KING.
For County Judge,
+. NJ. JOHNSON:
For County Treasurer,
T. j. BUFORD.
County Commissioners,
JAMES EDWARDS.
ANDREW GELLATLY.
For Assessor,
PERRY EDDY.
For School Superintendent,
JAMES CHAMBERS.
For County Surveyor,
GEORGE MERCER.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-05-05
l=FICIkI PAPER FOR BENTON COUNTY,
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.

Congressman,
HON. NJ. C. GEORGE,
of Muitnomah.
Supreme Judge,
w. P. LORD,
of Marion.
Governor,
q. F. MOODY,
of Wasco.
Secretary of State,
Il. P. EARHART,
Of Multnomah.
Treasurer.
EDWARD HIRSCH,
of Marion.
Sppt. of Public Institutions,
L. B. MCELROY,
Of Benton.
State Printer,
W. H. BYARS,
OF DouSlaS.
Second Judicial District.
For Judge,
r. 8. BEAN,
of Lane.
District Attorney,
T. G HURSH,
of Douglas.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-05-05
TER rs.

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Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-26
AMERICAN FABLES.
They wouldn't Squeeze.

A Hyena and Wolf met one day in
narrow path in the forest. By little
squeezing they could have passed each
other and gone about their business,
but the Wolf yelled out:
"Hol therel out of my pathl"
"You are no bigger nor better than !
amp was the Hyena's reply.
'This is my pathl"
"Ycu're snotherl"
Thus they bantered and jawed until
each was determined not to give way
and in the fight which ensued botl
rolled over the bank and were badly
shaken up. They were still iawing
when Lion came along and cuffed
them apart, and observed:
"That path belongs to me alone, and
if I catch either one Of you using it I'll
break your backl'
Moral: If you won't squeeze to &C.
commodate, and if you will fight, don't
fight over thst which concerns your
neighbor more than yourself.
THE VAIN PULIET.
A fine, fat Pullet who was roosting on
the limb of q tree safe from danger was
saluted by Fox with:
"Good evening. Miss Pullet-I never
saw you look better. Your figure is
perfectly lovely"
"Do you really think SO p
"Certainly l do. I'd give anything
if ! could wear my hair done up in a
French roll and have it become me as
it does you."
"Aren't you iokingP'
81 was never more serious in my life.
Your small feet and pretty mouth are
the envy of all the Pullets in the neigh
borhood."
'Dear me, but is that so?"
Sand everybody says you have such
tony air about you"
"Oh, lai'
II think if We were to walk out to
gether we'd mash the whole town.
'Really, now2"
The Fox gave her more soft solder
and in the end the vain Pullet flew
down and furnished square meal fo1
the crafty william.
Moral: "Flattery," said an old
Rooster, as he looked down at the few
bones and feathers, "fattery is the soft
purr of cat. The sweeter the purr,
the longer the claws and the sharper
the bite"
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-26
An Alarming Revival.

The terrible intelligence reaches us
that the enormous hoop-skirt has re-
appeared in London and Paris. As it
has appeared there, it must of course
soon appear here. There is no calamity
SO great, however, that it has not some
compensation. 1t will be the first
severe blow at modern estheticism as
applied to house furnishing. The
modern house is at present a museum
of blue china plates, tea-pots, jugs
vases, placques and crockery in all
states of age and dilapidation, beside
numerous other fimsy and brittle objects
of bric-a-brac, ormolu, buhl, bijouterie
and vertu, which are not arranged in
any order or system, but are piled up
and thrown round helter-skelter, and in
all sorts of confusion. To navigate
safely among them, even with the
present limp and clinging styles OF
drapery, requires great skill and cir
cumspection; but when women enyelop
themselves in crinoline, and go sailing
about like balloons, the esthetic stuff
must be removed or broken. Which Will
conquer-hoops or blue china?
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-26
General BraddOck and His Sister.

1t was at Bath that Fannie Braddock,
sister of General Braddock, who was
killed near Pittsburgh, committed
suicide. She was daughter of Edward
Braddock, an army officer who left her
$50, 900. The word Braddock is said to
mean broad oak. Fannie Braddock was
beautiful woman, with a fine mind,
and at her sisters death she received
her allowance; but falling in love with
worthless man she obeyed an impulse
to pay his debts. She then obeyed
another impulse to go to gaming tables,
when women at that period sat down as
freely as men. She soon ran through
her money, fell into despair and hanged
herself with her garters to the door of
her chamber. Her inhuman brother
made joke upon her death, saying !:
''Poor Fannie I always thought she
would play until she would have to
tuck herself up" When q person had
run in debt at the card table and could
not play until the debt was paid up she
was said to stuck herself up" This
was in 1871. Her brother, General
Braddock, was for some time kept at
Bath by a celebrated prostitute. and
went there by the name of Captain Bill
KUN Braddock, fought duel at Bath
with the Earl of Bath, who threw him
his purse on the field, saying: "You
are poor duck if you KLINE you will
have to run away, and you will then not
have shilling to support you" This
so exasperated Braddock that he could
not fight we'll and his sword was struck
out of his hand. Under such man as
this General Washington learned the
art of war. Braddock was buried, as
we all know, on the road between Pitts
burgh and Cumberland, Md.-TCincin-
natl Enquirer.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-26
Woman and Woman.

Mormon women exercise great power
on each other, if they chance to be
relatives or friends. Some singular
stories are told in illustration of this.
A man having married second wife to
please himself, married a third to please
his first. A couple about to be married
made an agreement between themselves
that the husbands second wife should
be one of the relatives of the first wife.
The lady who was selected refused, and
the husband remained true to his
promise for ten years. At the end of
this time his first wife voluntarily chose
another mate for him. The belle of the
settlement, a gentle. refused monaga-
mist offers of marriage, and married a
Mormon who had two wives already.
A girl, distracted between her love for
her suitor and her love for her mother,
compromised in her affections by stipu-
lating that he should marry both her
mother and herself, which he did. A
girl, gentle, bitterly opposed at first
to polygamy, married polygamist at
the solicitation of his first wife, her
great friend. Two girls were good
friends, and one of them, getting en-
gagged to man by no means of pre-
possessing appearance, persuaded her
friend to get engaged to him, too, and
he married them both on the same day.
Judging by these incidents, jealousy
does not thrive in Mormon land.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-26
The COurtesies of Travel.

It is common to say that, in losing
the old stage.coach, we have lost that
comfortable sociability which once made
travel so great charm. But we have
lost something more. We have lost
that humane instinct which, in the
olden times, made all travellers consid-
crate of one another. Travel-trdroil; ;
the derivation OF the word is suggestive.
1t was work, and hard work, in the old
days, and out of the common strain and
the common hardship came co-opera-
tive and fraternal spirit which trans
formed its hardships into pleasurable
memories. But the Pullman Car is
refrigerator. In transporting fruit
from California, the first condition
is that there shall be coldness, and
then-isolation. The nectarines must
not touch each other. In like manner,
as we multiply barriers between the
travellers. 1t is not merely that there
are parlor- cars it is that in these, and
in the ordinary American railway carri-
age, also, the first consideration comes,
more and more, to be personal comfort,
and not mutual consideration. The
grudging answer, the reluctance to i'm
part information, the almost brutal
struggle for the best, which increasing
ly disregards weakness and age and
woman-these are things which one
sees now more frequently and un-
pleasantly than of old. We talk of the
garrulous and interrogative American.
Bat where is he? Vanished as utterly
as the Massasoit Indians. An English
gentleman, who lately traversed the
continent, said that he had never travel
ed in a country in which his fellow
trevelers were so reserved.
It is q mistake, if it is no more.
There is no one whose horizon may not
be widened if he will only avail himself
of the wholesome education of the fell
lowships of travel. 1t is easy to be too
much upon ones guard. All travellers
are not swindlers, and courtesy is not
necessarily familiarity. As it is, one is
reminded of that countryman Of ours
who, having crossed the Atlantic with q
roommate who, from the beginning to
the end of the voyage, had not address
ed to him one word, parted from him,
saying airily: SWELL, good-byi You
will now proceed. I suppose, to your
home at the Deaf and Dumb AsylumP'
Il Century.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-26
Rather Curious Law in England.

A British Member of Parliament, Mr..
Macfarlane, has been comparing some
of the sentences recently inflicted upon
offenders of various grades, and he has
reached the conclusion that in the eyes
of British law it is q much lighter Of
fense to kick woman to death than to
pick her pocket. A man who kicked his
wife to death was sentenced to six
weeks hard labor, and in the month
following a man who had picked a
woman's pocket of nine shillings was
sentenced to penal servitude for ten
years. Nor are these exceptional cases.
The penalty in case of knocking down
a wife and kicking her savagely in the
face was three months hard labor; for
knocking down and kicking woman, a
fine of four poun ds; for trying to kill a
wife with a razor, being second offense,
twelve months. Against these are set
such sentences as for stealing Goals to
the value of two shillings, eight months
hard labor; for stealing watch, live
years penal servitude. It would be in
teresting to inquire how much of this
scandalous leniency to brutes is due to
the ancient tradition that makes mans
wife his slave. But it does not appear
necessary that the woman attacked
should be the mans wife in order to
give him practical immunity. In case
of violent assault upon woman in the
street, the ruffian was fined forty shil
lings, and in another case where three
men ill-treated and killed a woman
they were imprisoned, one for sixteen
mont. and the others for six months,
while man who stole knife and some
keys got five years. All this seems to
show that the equal protection of Eng
lish law is not meant to extend to
women.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-26

city that she should furnish it to suit
herself and have all the servants she
wanted. and I've kept my word. Come
round and see us whenever you can.
You will always find the latch-string
out"
Edward did not fail to accept the
invitation thus frankly extended-a
very pleasant intimacy growing up be-
tween the three during the twelve
months that followed. Our hero's busi-
ness grew and prospered until he began
to think of removing to larger place
His uncle had given him several liberal
orders as we'll as sent him number Of
customers, but said nothing more about
assisting him in any other way until
Christmas Eve. Entering the cozy room
where Edward and his daughter were
sitting, he said,-
II mustn't delay any longer the lift l
promised you, nephew"
Edward glanced from the five thous-
and dollar check to the lovely face at
his side. and then to that of the
speaker.
"You are very kind, uncle-far kinder
than deserve, but -"
"Speak out, lad | Would you prefer
it in some other form?'
Edwards fingers closed over the hand
he had taken in his.
"Yes, uncle-in this"
The old gentleman looked keenly
from one to the other.
:'You are asking good deal of me,
nephew. Polly, have you been en-
couraging this young man in his pre-
sumption ~
"I'm afraid I have, father" was
Polly's smiling response.
"Then go, my daughter give you
into worthy keeping and il you make
your husbands heart as happy as your
mother made mine during the few short
years that she tarried by my side, he
will be blest indeed"
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-26
The Spider and the Fly.

So rotund and beaming, apparently kind,
Type Of generous living and smallness of
mind,
In each corner and crevice of alley or street,
This fourishing spider we everywhere meet
Entrenched and alluring, lore glittering
arrays
OF divers inducements in lavish displays,
Brilliant hv day and gorgeous by night,
Ensnaring each trustful and unlucky wight !;
Sporting unfairly with cobwebbed brain,
Degradation and ruin add to his gain;
And helpless his victim squirms in the tolls,
While the huge spider his life blood, despoils.
The incautous fly, once ecorched and be-
smirched,
In the torchlight-on ruins rough pinnacle
perched,
Slips down in rapid and fearful descent,
No help to the reecue-no use "good intent. %
To a brightness of eye and faultless attire
Soon succeeds mad thirst, an eager desire
That glares through the sight in demoniac
hate,
And the once proud mien now is a shambling
gait
By vspid discourse and flattering thanks,
The spider hourly adds to the ranks
OF the lost and forsaken, the useless and vile,
Losing his soul to his greed and his "pile."
For money his conscience is silenced, his fame
No account-for can he not purchase name?
But woe to his future, to that man of greed
When his victims bear witness to each evil
deed!
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-26
Material for Egg Shells

When birds are in their wild state,
they have no difficulty in procuring a
supply of material for forming the shells
of the eggs they lay. They have an
unlimited range, and can pick up parti-
cles of limestone, portions of decom-
posed bones, and other substances that
can be converted into the shells of eggs.
Wild birds lay at most only as many
eggs as they can hatch at two sittings.
Some kinds of birds hatch only one
brood of young in a season. Domesti.
Gated birds, especially fowls, produce a
large number of eggs in the course of e.
year. Some of the non-sitting varieties
of hens lay as many as one hundred and
fifty eggs in a year. A large amount of
material is required to form the shells
for all these eggs. It is not contained
in the grain and other kinds of food
that are furnished fowls, especially
those kept in confinement. As con-
sequence, they lay eggs that have very
thin shells, or no shells at all. The
eggs that have thin shells are liable to
break in the nests, or during removal
from place to place. Fowls, whether
allowed to run at large or kept in close
quarters, should be supplied with ma
terials for forming shells. The best
substance for forming egg shells is bone
dust. 1t should be prepared from fresh
bones. The next best material to entire
bones pulverized is made by burning
bones, and then reducing them to pow
der or small grains. The pulverized
shells Of oysters and CLAIMS are very
good, and fair and clean substitute
for either of them is found in marble
dust that can be obtained of the manu-.
facturers of grave stones and monu.
ments. Air slaked lime should be fur.
nished fowls for forming egg shells. if
no better material can be readily
obtained.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-26
VARIETIES.

A silver PLATED iron dol lar is deceivipg
Iowa.
Three newspapers in Strackville,
Miss, employ women compositors
only.
Three thousand acres of land in
Hillsborough county. Fla, have recently
been sold by the Disston agents to a
Northern man.
Seventy.fve Thousand emigrants set
tied in Arkansas last year, aud it is
thought the number of settlers this
year will be even greater.
A stone weighing eighty live pounds
recently fell at Salina, Kansas, and
another, cigar shaped, four inches in
diameter and over twelve inches long.
Six hundred 10 wa druggists have
agreed, in view Of the danger of selling
alcoholic drinks, not to fill physicians
prescriptions for wine, whisky and the
like.
The town of Payson, ILL.,, by vote,
put the matter Of licensing rum-sellers
into the hands of Women's Temper
ance Union. OF course, no licenses are
now granted.
The signs indicate that the fall run
of shad has commenced. About 275
barrels were taken by the Messrs. How
land, with several hundred barrels more
in the nets awaiting transportation.
Mr.. w. s. Barnett, of Asheville, N. O.,
is we'll under way in the construction of
| two tobacco factories, both of brick,
three stories high, and seventy by forty
feet. They are to be used for plug to.
bacco.
General Dabney Fl. Maury. of Rich
mond, has been making tour through
the cotton States, and writes to the In
dustrial South that new factories are
numerous, and that the people are get.
ting along nicely,
Hamilton Disston wanted to return
his land that he bought from the State
OF Florida for taxation at 25 cents per
acre, but the county commissioners of
Hillsboroueh have assessed all in that
county at $1.25 per acre.
Never will our generation see such
another crop year, especially in South
Carolina. Small grains, fruits. vege-
tables. corn and hay will exceed all
former yields, and cotton promises to
be equally good.
Philadelphia is running water-pipe
for drinking and culinary purposes
through common sewers, and thus sub
jecting the household supply to the
risk Of poisoning. The health board
protests, but cannot stop it.
General Warren leaves his family
nothing absolrtel y nothing-and the
widows only source of income will be
the paltry pension due his rank. 1t is
stated by one who for "a good many
years has been very near and dear to the
family that the general mortgaged his
last piece of property for the sum of
$40, O,00O-more than it will realize-in
order to defray the expenses of the pre-
paration and defense of his case before
the court of inquiry.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-26
Why the Town Couldn't Recover.

No, this town has never recovered
from the war, said the Virginian, as
he crossed his legs and looked up and
down the deserted street.
Was it burned?
No.
Any OF its people killed off?
No.
Have any great manufacturing estab
lishments been removedp
We never had any to remove.
Any epidemic frightened the people
away?
Not as know of.
Then why is it that the town has
never recovered from the war?
Well, some lay it to this and some to
that, but it's my opinion that what all
this town is the fact that man will
come here from New York and flop
around and ask questions and want to
know all about everything and every
body, and never ask leading citizen if
he is dry. tell you such line of pol.
icy, if pursued for ten or fifteen years,
takes the ambition right out of men.