The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-12-07
EASTERN STATES.
Discovery of a Planet.

Discovery of Planet.
BosToN, Nov. 30.-A cable dispatch has
been received at the Harvard college obser.
vatory announcing the discovery of a small
planet by Baliza, at Vienna.
Consolidated.
NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Nov. 80 1t is re.
ported that the Winchester Arms Company
of New Haven, and the Union Metal Cart.
ridge Company of Lowell, Mass, have COM
bined, and in the future will act together
as syndicate, controlling the cartridge
manufacturing interest of the country. The
company at Bridgeport employs $4,000 ope-
ratives, and the Winchester Company
nearly as many, independent of large num-
Der at work on guns.
A Years Labor tor Shotgun.
SALINA, N. c., Nov. 30.-James Buck,
IAN old white man living near Boakin, owns
small farm upon which he and his only
daughter lived. She was aged %, and was
plain looking. Buck saw chance of max
ing profitable crop of tobacco, if he could
only get some one to assist him, and put
his daughter in the field. He was very
poor, and could barely make enough to live
on, and knowledge of this fact prevented
him from securing labor. Richmond
Furney, a young man, moved into the
neighborhood about fourteen months ago.
and procured a job on neighboring planta-
ton. Furney became enamored OF Buck s
daughter. The father was willing to turn
the affection to some account, aud agreed
that if the yonng man would assist him on
his farm for one year he would give him a
double -barreled shotgun and his daughter.
Furney agreed. The term OF service ex-
pired to-day, and FurDey asked for full
fillment of the contract on the spot. Buck
gave him the shotgun, and called his daugh-
ter in and asked her to become Furney's
wife. She refused. urging that she had
already given her heart to another, to whom
she was to be married tonight. Furney
went off in terrible rage. threatening to
sue the old man for breach of contract, and
get an injunction restraining the girl from
marrying his rival.
Northern Pacific Bonus.
CHICAGO, Nov. 30.-The text uf the
Transcontinental Association traffic agree
ment says that in consideration of the
Northern Pacific withdrawing from Cali
fornia business the Northern Pacific and
the Oregon Railway and Navigation Com
pany shall be paid by the other lines parties
to the agreement in proportion as the earn
ings from business subject to this agree
meut are shared by each, per cent of the
gross earnings ON business between or pass
ing through eastern points and San Fran.
cisco except business received from or de-
aivered to the Occidental and Oriental
Steamship Company or the Pacific Mail
I ompany. it being understood that the
Northern Pacific railroad and the Oregon
Railway and Navigation Company share IN
the subsidy to be paid to the Pacific Mail
Company. The subsidy now paid the Pa
cific Mail Company for its steamships be-
tween San Francisco and New York shall
be borne by the several companies repre-
sented in the agreement, in proportion to
their revenue from San Francisco business
covered by this agreement.
The Tribune" on the Mormon Question,
NEW YORK, Dec 1.-The Tribune adopts
the main points of Governor Murray's decla-
aration concerning the power of the Mormon
ing with great rapidity. The gospel does
not overtake them with the help of the tele-
graph and fast mails. The missionary spirit
is by no means active on our side, but 1t is
strong with them, and it seems to grow strog-
er as they become more prosperous. They
have passed the boundaries of Utah and are
getting dangerous hold upon neigh boring
territories. If we cannot put down polyga-
my by law we allow the sovereignty fthe Un
tied States to be defied by an inner organi-
zation which assumes all civil power by vir-
tue of ecclesiastical authority unknown to
our laws and openly hostile to legimate gov
ernment. If, owing to the exceptional char.
acter of the population, national authority
cannot be exercised in the usual way, some
other means must be devised. We cannot
permit our sovereignty to be destroyed by
pedantic adherance to the customary form
of exerting it. We must remember that
the auth rity of congress over all the terri.
tories is absolute. 1t can govern Utah with.
out alegislature, or even, if the worst comes
without an election, as well as it can Alaska
The Business outlook
NEW YORK, Dec 2.-Transactions in gen.
eral merchandise have been strictly in accor-
dance with the small requirements for imme-
diate distribution, and is apt to be the cass
as the year nears its close. The general
markets. with very few exceptions, lack
tone as well as spirit. Stocks of goods in
many cases have so accumulated that they
have become heavy burien to carry, and
those whose financial necessities are really
exigent are compelled to realize, which is
apt to involve concessions.
The Strike Pronounced a Faiiure.