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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-11-30
VALUABLE MINES.

''Sol. Center, superintendent of the
Calumet mines. in Union county,
Oregon, has returned home after a
hard summers work developing this
valuable property, a great portion OF
which stock is owned by Walla Walla
citizens, says the Walla Walla States
man. Mr.. Center is a practical miner
of great experience, and is just the
man for such work. The mine is o.
copper, carrying much gold and silver.
The ledge is strong body of solid
quartz, and drift run across it fifty
two feet has not crossed the ledge.
Work is suspended for the winter,
owing to the snow. Ordinary assays of
the ore yields $50 per ton in gold
and silver, and from 10 to SO per cent
in copper. Picked specimens 60 as
high as $25o per ton. The mine is SO
advantageously situated that the ore
can literally be quarried out, and
when opened a thousand stamp mill
can be kept running day and night
with the greatest ease. There is
plenty of timber and water adjacent
and the other facilities for inexpensive
working are second TO none. The
formation of the country is very favor
able and belongs to the granite family,
and is highly mineralized. AS soon
as spring opens work will be COM
menced in good earnest and fifteen
stamp mill will be erected, with rotary
furnace and amalgamator. The ore is
extremely free milling and can be
worked at an expense of one dollar
per ton, and with large 200 ton
stamp mill can be reduced at forty
cents per ton. There is no sign in the
ledge body of any refractory base
metal, such as antimony, arsenic, black
jack, iron or lead. Everything is con-
Quoted in the most economical and
businesslike manner. The manage
ment have placed the property on a
perfectly sound business footing, dis
couraging all speculative tendencies,
and with this in view will start in with
a small mill until it has earned the
large one that in two years will occupy
its place"
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-11-30
POOR BUTTE2.

eff an architect and builder should
say to nan who wanted fine build
ing put up, that he never used line,
level, plumb, square, or rule, he prob
ably wouldn't get the job even of the
most ignorant But it is no more alb
surd to attempt to frame fine build
ing without the use of the proper tools,
then to attempt to make uniformly
fine butter or cheese without the use
of the thermometer. But that is the
way the most of ten cent and shilling
butter is made. The mass of the but
ter sold goes for half price, year in and
yea- out, and at all seasons of the year,
largely caused by being cburned at
the wrong temperature, by persons too
stingy or too stupid to invest thirty
cents for good thermometer. A va
riation of five degrees from the STAN
dara spoils, or greatly Injuries, either
butter or cheese, while it is common to
not guess within ten or fifteen degrees,
when feeling the temperature with the
hand. The unconscious condition of
the body, and the state of the atmos-
phere, and our exposure to great. heat
or cold, leads even experts astray.
Unlike most men, thermometer nev-
er lies. And unlike most men. when
It does lie, it lies only very little,
and does but little harm"
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-11-30
BECOMING PARTICULAR.

Our English cousins are becoming
somewhat particular in regard to then
investments in American securities.
A few years ago any sort of a smart
talking Yankee could go over there
with the plan of a ship canal across
the Rocky Mountains and dispose of
all the stock which could be hauled
on dray, but times have changed.
A Boston man went to London four
months ago to dispose of shares in his
narrow-gauge underground railroad,
from the Hub city to Galveston, but
returned the other day sad and discon-
solate. All he wanted was capital
of $5oo,ooo,ooo, and he was ready to
give his word for a semi-annual divi-
dend ofsix per cent, but English cap
italists refused to put up a dollar
Even when he showed them prelim-
mary survey of the route, which settled
the fact that the road would run
through no less than six great oil basins
and Craze a hundred coal deposits,
they leaned back and replied:
eyes, hi'it's hall very plausible,
you know, but there's the Grand Trunk
hand the Northern Pacific, hand the
Erie, hand the Denver, hand the
Reading, hand the Wabash, hand a
mattar of h'about fifty silver mines
that we'd like to ear from hin the
vay of dividends frst."-Ex.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-11-30
DOWNFALL OF THE WILLARD STOCKS

There is something intensely ludic-
rous about the decline in the prices
of the Willard stocks which cannot fail
to be noted everywhere outside OF
Wall street, says the Wall Street Daily
Nezvs. By his shrewd devices, solid
companions, and good luck in starting
his stock gambling at the beginning of
a boom, he managed to sell out the
larger part of his stuff, and left banks
and money-lenders with what had 9TH
erwise accumulated.
When the mania for securities in
the "banana belt" had somewhat sub
sided, holders who had bought out
right, and those who had been left
with stuff by loaning money upon it,
were in common straits, and began to
inquire into the value of what they
were possessed Of They discovered
that they had embarked in a gamble
of the simon purest character, and
that the most of the stocks which they
were saddled with would be dear at
the price of Sutro. Large numbers Of
the victims were seriously crippled by
their mistaken confidence in Willard,
and cases are numerous where the
possessors of fortunes were obliged to
sell out their homes and take their
families to live at hotels and ordinary
boarding houses. Some have actually
been reduced to the condition of
tramps, having lost every dollar they
had.
While the larger part of the people
who bought the Willard stocks were
reduced to such straits as we have in
dicated, many of them being actually
homeless, Willard himself is building
one of the most magnificent mansions
of modern times, wonder of archi-
lecture and costly decoration, even
outrivaling that of Mr.. VIM. H. Van
derbilt He entertains, at enormous
cost, princely ambassadors, and brings
shiploads of titled personages to wit
ness the work which has been wrought
by money subscribed in blind conf
dence, and which can never be got
back again. ..
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-11-30
NEWSPAPERS.

Here now, we have 1.-THE newspa-
per! Wonderful product of the brain
and toll! One would think that it should
be dearly bought and highly priced,
and yet it is cheapest thing in the
world. says an Exchange. One to five
cents will buy it; one to two dollars
will bring it to your home every week
in the year. And yet, strange to say,
there are men 900 poor to take a
newspaper. They can pay five cents
for a glass of beer, or ten cents for a
beverage of unknown composition, call
ed "cocktail;;" !" they can pay a half of a
dollar for a circus ticket, or twenty
five cents for the theatre, but they are
too poor to buy a newspaper, which
is a ticket of admission to the great
Globe Theater; whose dramas were
written by God Himself, "whose scene
shifter is Time, and whose curtains are
rung down by death" 1t is not neces-
sary to speak of mighty responsibilities
which necessary attach to the control
of SUCH power in the land as the
newspaper is to-day, nor to say that
the editor who rightly apprehends the
Importance of his work must bring to
it reverent spirit and a constant care.
The humblest sheet in the land goes
into some homes as the only authorita-
tive messenger from the great world
outside; its opinions are accepted as
truth, and its suggestions have the
force of law. The editor stands on the
widest pulpit known in modern society.
'The lawyer has narrow sphere be-
fore him; the Senator and the Repre-
sentative-the walls hedge in their
voices; the minister has the parish
walls about his church. But there is
a pulpit that has no limit it is the
press. 1t is, literally, the voice of one
that cries in the Wilderness; for, all
across the populous land the papers
speak; and there is not in modern civ
ilization place or power that can COM
pare with this Rev. Dewitt Tai
mage once said: "In the cianking of
the printing press, as the sheets fly
out, l hear the voice of the Lord AL
mighty, proclaiming to all the dead
nations of the earth: Lazarus, come
forth? and to sthe retreating surges of
darkness: let there be light
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-11-30

holding the situation with the shot gun,
can turn all ofits campaign efforts to-
ward Northern States 1t must be re.
membered however that solid south
will also bring a solid north. The fact
that the Democratic party has not pre-
sented any new idea since it aban-
doned the "lost cause" except to
scramble for the spoils of office, is a
sufficient reason why it shall and will
not succeed.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-11-30
The Bourbons of Virginia were so

The Bourbons of Virginia were so
hard pressed by Malone, who is not a
Republican but is an anti-Rourbon,
that the color line was closely drawn,
the shot gun policy was revived, color
ed citizens were terrorized and pre-
vented from voting and in that way the
Bourbons were saved. The bar
barious and uncivilized feature of Dem
ocratic policy to some extent indi-
Gates what course will be adopted to
carry solid south in the presidential
contest next year.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-11-30

One of the main pointers in the
coming National conflict is the Dem.
ocratic expectations of a solid south.
The Mississippi plan which was recently
established in Virginia to carry the
election by the shot gun policy has
proven beyond doubt that the idea of
conducting a fair election in any south
ern State is out of the question, and
can not be done under things organ
lied as at present. The solid south
will no doubt be leading element to
Democratic victory and the party by
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-11-30
Investigation in Washington, D. c

Investigation in Washington, D. G.
recently developed the fact TINT man
engaged in the shoemakers business, a
colofed man whose business was gath
ering rags, Il minister, two editors, "a
publisher, two hardware men, two
grocerymen, one pressman, banker,
bank chashier, tailoress, copyist
and an inventor. All of whom were
acting and practicing as pension at
torneys.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-11-30

The $40, 900 express company
of the Northern Pacific appears to
have been abandoned, says the Wall
Street Daily Mews. A dispatch from
Sioux City says: cat an early day
Wells Fargo & Co. will take charge OF
the express business on the entire
Northern Pacific line. The Northern
Pacific has heretofore done its own
express business.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-11-30

We learn that Hon. M. G. George,
intends to introduce bill at this ses-
sion of Congress, which, if it passes
both houses, will place Alaska under
civil government. A good bill.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-11-30

Ben Butler talks great deal about
his recent defeat to believe as he pre-
tends that he sees indications for his
future political success.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-11-30

Hoadley has now become a Demo
cratic necessity, for they claim that
with him they can carry Ohio, but in
1884 with National issues they will as
usual realize that delusion to be false.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-11-30

Nearly million dollars in gold bars
and coin was received short time ago
at New York from Europe.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-11-30

The Washington Territory House
unanimously passed a bill to restrict
Chinese immigration.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-11-30

A correspondent of the Wall Street
Daily Neus estimates that sixty per
cent of the Oregon Railway and Navi-
CATION Companies net earnings for the
year will fall short of its promised ten
per cent dividends on stock $772,8o6.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-11-30
From the Akron commerci.
al, Ohio, Nov. 25, 1882.

Readers of the Commercial can not well forget
that large space has for years been taken up by
Kendalrs advertisement-especially of a certain
SPAWN Cure. We have had dealings with DIR. Ken.
dali for many years. and the truth is fully ard faith
ully proven not only that he is good honest man.
and that his celebrated SPAWN Cure is not only all
that it is recommended to be- but that the English
language.is not capable of recommending too highly.
kendall's SPAWN Cure will cure spavins There
to our certain knowledge but, after ALL if any person
confines the usefulness of this celebrated medicine
to curing spavins alone, they make big mistake.
tion for rheumatism in the human family 1t is good
for pains and aches swellincs and lameness and is
just as safely applied to men, women and children
as it is to horses We know that there other
good linaments but do believe this SPAWN cure to
be far better than any ever invented.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-11-30

Mr.. Payne, aged 72, is said to have
the best chances for being the next
democratic U. S. senator from Ohio.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-11-30

In New York the Republicans
erased the last years Democratic ma
jority.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-11-30
OFFICIAL PAPER FOR BENTON COUNTY

The Republicans in Nebraska made
a gain of ten thousand.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-11-30
KendaII's SPAWN Cure

San Francisco, Cal, Jan 16, 1882.
Messrs J. B. Kendall & Co., Gents:-Through the
Recommendation Of friend about year ago, was
induced to give your Kendall's SPAWN Cure trial
and am pleased to say that was fully satisfied with
the results 1 used it in several instances upon
spnts, which after few applications were entirely
results. The medicine has grown in popularity in
this vicinity in the past few months and what is
said here to-day belieyeis put out upon its merits
ALEX McCURD,
Foreman for City R. R. Co.
Send address for illustrated circular which we
think gives positive proof of its virtues No remedy
has ever met with such unqualified success to our
knowledge, for beast well as man.
Price 81 per bottle, six bottles for IS. All drug
gsts have it get it for you. or it will be sent
to any address receipt of price the proprietors
DIR. B. J. KENDALL 8 Co., Enosburgh Falls, Vt
SOLD. BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-11-30
SAVED HIM 1880 DOLLARS.

ADAMS, n Y, Jan 80, 1883.
DR.. 3. j. Kendall & Co, Gents:- Having used a
Success, thought would let you know what it Las
done for me. Two years ago had as speedy a colt
as raised in Jefferson county When was
breaking him. he kicked over the cross bar and got
fast and tore one of his hind legs all to pieces.
employed the best terriers, but they all said he
spoiled. He had very large thorough pin, and
used two bottles of your Kendals SPAWN Cure, and
it the bunch entirely Off and he sold afterwards
for $500 (doars( l have used it for bone spavins
and wind gals, and it has always cured completed.
and left the leg smooth.
1t is splendid medicine for rheumatism. have
recommended it to a good many, and thev all say it
does the work ] was in Witherington Kneeland's
drug store, in Adams the other day and a very
fine picture you sent them. / tried to buy it but
could not they said would write to you that
would send me wish you would and will do
you all the good can. ~
Very Respectfully, E. S. LYMAN.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1883-05-31
Mistakes of NEWSPAPERS.

The number Of type used in ordinary
country newspaper is about 100000
that is the actual number OF bits of meta
arranged for each newspaper in prepar-
ing newspaper of that size for the press.
We suppose few people think Of the
printing trade as one of the most exact
and particular handicrafts, but 1t is. In
making type, variation that might be
made in the finest machinery would rem
der type useless. We read once in while
of wonderful piece of cabinet or mosaic
work containing ten, twenty or fifty thous-
and pieces, the maker of which has spent
months or even years of labor in preduc-
ing, and the people go to see it as curl
osity. But the most elaborate and care
fully fitted piece of this kind ever made
does not compare for minuteness OF detail
and accuracy fitting with that which the
printer does every day. The man who
does the first is looked upon as a marvel Of
skill, and if one hundred of his pieces are
put in wrong side up or turned around il
is much noticed in the general effect; but
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1883-05-31
Coffee.


The cotfee-berry grows wild in Abys-
sinia, where beverage has been pro
pared from it from time immemorial.
It was introduced into Persia S75 A. d.,
and thence into Arabia some six hum
dred years later, where it was used
by students to keep them awake nights.
In 1921, Burton writes, 'The Turks
have drink called coffee, as black as
SCOT and as bitter, which they sip up as
warm rs they can suffer, because they
find by experience that kind of drink so
used helpeth digestion and promoteth
alacrity' y'-vivacity of spirits.
About 1850 it was introduced into
England and France against much op-
position. 1t will be seen that our Pill
grim Fathers were unacquainted with
the drink. Probably no beverage is
now more extensively used.
The essential principle of coffee is
caffeine, a poison capable of producing
paralysis of the great nervous centres,
but mainly affecting the spinal cord.
The same is true of theme, the essential
principal of tea. Such drugs are not
necessarily harmful. Phosphorus is
violent poison; but it is found in fish.
Persons who drink coffee freely eat
less food. The Gallae, an African tribe,
often, in their long wanderings, live
solely on coffee and butter-a bagful of
coffee day of the size of a billiard-ball.
1t is better adapted to the warm than
to the other climates. Many, and an
increasing number, at the North are in
jured by it, while it is used much more
freely at the South with no harm.
There are thousands of people who
cannot use tea and coffee without injury
even in their mildest dilutions. When
strong and i'll large quantities they may
impovcriSh the nervous force, and pre-
pare the way for the inroads of all
Companion.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1883-05-31
Uhe Canton Aarotate*
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY At
CANTON, LINCOLN County, OAK.
Terms of subscription.

The coronation of the car was accom-
plishcd Sunday at Moscow with all the
barbarc pomp and circumstance that a
Russian populace could desire. The alb
sencc OF the dread spscter of nihilism,
whose expected crrand may have been
postponed, did not make the day all that
such holiday might have been. But
with weeping peasant women at he road
side and people overjoyed at the sight
of the czar and his beautiful wife, as the
reports describe the scene, it was a close
resemblance to a genuine coronation where
the loyalty OF the subject adds the spirit
OF righttu sovereignty to the mere form
Of ruership. The occasion was looked
upon to some degree as marking new
era in the national history-as putting an
end TO the financial depression, opening
the way to greater political freedom, and
rendering the nihilist unnecessary and OBJ
nOXlOuS
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1883-05-31

Thursday formal opening ofthe Brook
lyn bridge signalized what is probably the
greatest engineering feat of our" modern
civilization Possibly there were greater
achievements in this direction in the days
Of the Ptolemies for certainly no appllaa-
ccs are known to our experts which could
handle the immense stones which entered
into the Egyptian structures 1000 years
ago. The bridging Of such stream or
arm of the sea as the East river, and at
such an elevation above the water level,
was an undertaking which called forgenu-
inc courage as well as scientific skill of the
very highest order. True, the project re-
quired forits success the revenues of mod
crate sized kingdom, but money alone can
not do such work.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1883-05-31
ILLINOIS CENTRAL R. r.
Shortest line between
Sioux City to Chicago
Without change of cars.


Commencing January 1st. 1882, daily express
passenger train will leave Sioux Oity, Sat
urdays excepted; leave Sioux City 2:30
PM; arrive in Chicago 2:45 p. NJ.
Sleeping cars run through from Sioux City to
Chicago.
Passengers leaving Chicago, bound west, at 10
A. NJ, via Illinois Central, will arrive at Sioux City
the next day at 1928 A. NJ.
An accommodation train will leave Sioux City daily
Sundays at $40 p. NJ, connecting with through
passenge train ut Fort Dodge. Trains going east
connect at Chicago with all trains Detroit, Cleve-
land, Buffalo, Niagara Falls Pittsburg, Philadel-
phia, Baltimore, Washington, New York, Boston
and all parts of the east.
The Illinois Oentl al is the quickest route to Ce-
dar Rapids, Burlington and Keokuk making direct
Rabids & Northern railway.
This train connects at with trains on the Cedar
Rapids and Minnesota branch leaving Waterl 90 AT
1929 A. NJ, and arriving at Mona at 100 con-
Meeting with the Milwaukee and st. Paul railroad
trains, and arriving at st. Paul at $3.50 p. NJ, and
ut Minneapolis at AS T.. NJ.
Connections are made at Dubuque with trains
on the Illinois Central main line leaving Dubuque
at 900 A. NJ, arriving at Galesburg at 3:55 P. NJ,
Peoria at 7:05 p. NJ, Burlington 500 p NJ. Rock
Island at 80 p. NJ, Quincy at 1910 p. NJ, st.
Louis, 40 A. NJ, and Cairo at 4:l0 A. Ms con-
meeting at Cairo with trains for Memphis, Nash
Vile, Vicksbnrg, Mobile, New Orleans and all parts
of the south,
Connectio ons are made at Freeport with Chicago
Milwaukee and st. Paul, leaving Freeport at l:l9
p. NJ. and arriving at Racine at $50 p, NJ, and
Milwaukee at 6 20 p. NJ.
Baggage checked through to all important points
For through tickets and information apply at the
Illinois Central depot.
Trains run by Dubuque time, which is twenty
E. T. JEFFEkY, J. F, TUCKER,
General Supt. Traffic Manager
All. HANSON, Genl Pass. Agt.
J. W. RUDY, Agent, Sioux City