The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-10-13

Sherman and his educated horses are en-
tertaining the people of Washington Terri
tory these days.
The family of Senator Cauthorn have
been in Polk county for several days visit
ing relatives and friends.
Last week postmaster A. S. Patterson of
| Eugene, had his arm amputated at the
| shoulder joint and also four tumors extract
| ed from his side.
| The gravel trains which have been work
ing on the road between here and Portland
this summer have been called off duty this
| week, on account of too much rain.
Hop picking in the Puyallup valley W. T.,
has just closed and the yield has been enor-
nous and the price paid far above the aver
age. The crop is estimated at one million
bushels of dried hops, produced on GOO acres.
Our unfortunate and venerable friend
Blodget was in town during the week, and
as usual upon such occasions in rather a
disorganized condition he appeared and paid
his most polite respects to the City Re
corder.
Business cards bearing the firm name of
Simon Brownstone, Seattle, have been re
ceived, indicating their readiness to sell dry
goods of all kinds One of the firm is Hen
ry Simon formerly of Max Friendly's estab-
blisnent.
We are informed that the state agricul-
| NJ has ot lone ST
twice as many pupils in attendance now
than it had last year, which speaks volumes
for the way this establishment is being
conducted.
1t is rumored that the better half of one
of our professional men found her bearded
partner in rather suspicious circumstances
few days ago, resulting in the seriousness
of knocking their future happiness into
| Smithereens.
The opening night of the skating rink at
Hamilton's Hall has been promised for the
| past two weeks, but owing to the fact that
the hall has been otherwise engaged on the
evenings promised to open, it had to be un-
avoidably postponed.
Dayton and Maria Elliot, son and daugh-
tor Of Henry Elliot of this place, have been
engaged to teach the Prineville school.
Miss Maria took Wednesday mornings
train for that place and Dayton expects to
make the trip across the mountains in a
few days.
Will F. Weber who has so long been an
engineer on the North Pacific Railroad,
arrived in town this week. He has for a
short time past been surveying and locating
dence who are looking out for increasing
their manufacturing facilities.
Zera and his popular gift carnival"
proved to be blk, of course, just as was
expected, but was :patronized in the same
liberal way that all such gift humbugs are.
The only prizes worth carrying home were
a sack of -four and his ''double- -barreld
piano" the latter gift being wash board.
Mr.. z. J. Hatch, the former proprietor OF
the steamer Yaquina, has been in town the
past few days. Mr.. Hatch is now running
boat on the Willamette, between here and
Portland, which made its first trip to this
point Wednesday evening, returning the
same night loaded with wheat from Blair's
wharf.
1t is rumored about town that one of our
handy young men, having family and osten-
sibly running legitimate business, politely
appeared before the City Recorder this
week, took off his hat and paid his compli-
ments to the officer of peace and quiet. Be-
fore departing, however, he left for safe
keeping i'll the city treasury twenty-five
dollars for the privilege of having amused
some of his friends and followers with a
rama of foro