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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1884-05-02
THE BENTON COUNTY
REAL ESTATE ASSOCIATION
THOS. J. BLAIR, President.
M. S. WOODCOCK, Attorney

TNHIs ASSOCIATION WILL BUY AND SELL ALI
J. Glasses of Real Estate on reasonable terms and
will thoroughly advertise by describing each piece OF
property entrusted to it for SALE
Mr. T. j. Blair will always be readiness, and viii
take great pains to show property.
Offices near T. J. Blair's warehouse, at tie
GAzErTE Office.
The following pieces of property will be sold on
extraordinarily reasonable terms:
TOWN LOTS-Six vacant lots in the northwest par
of Corvallis Nicely situated for residence fenced and
with good vari ty of fruit trees. Price 81 900
TOWN LoTs-Two vacant lots in the southwest
part of Corvallis; Very nice for residence, fenced
and set out with fruit trees. Price $780,
DWELLING AND TOWN LoTs-1a lots on the
corner of 9Th and jefferson streets in Corvallis Or
with comfortable II story dwelling with good rooms
q good stable, woodshed &c. Half cash, balanc
on reasonable terms. Price SllOo
SAW MILL-Undivided interest in mill run by
water, good paner and seven acres of land used
in connection with the mill Power sufficient to run
all # the year. situated handy to market and within
about miles. of Corvallis with excellent good
road to and from it. Terms easy
FARM-Farm all under fence only 81 milesfrom
Corvallis of $50 acres, 80 acres in cultivation the
balance of it be cultivated about 20 of it in
wheat with a fair house good barn and granery.
will be sold at bargain Terms easy
FARM-Farm of 47S acres for less than sIS De,
Bentol. county, situated miles west Of Monroe Of
a mile from good school, in one OF the best neigh
borhoods in the state with church privileges handy
About 130 acres in cultivation, and over 400 can bt
cultivated. All under fence. with good two story
frame house, large barn and orchard; has running
water the around, and is well suited tor stock
and dairy purposes This is of the cheapest farms
in the Willamette Valley Terms easy.
LOTS-Two unimproved lots in Corvallis. One Of
the choicest building places in the city for sale
enable. ALSO Four unimproved lots except fenc-
ed in Corvallis Or. The choicest building place in
the city for sale reasonable
STOCK FARM-32O acres, about so in cultivation,
$50 acres be cultivated, so acres of good fir and
o. timber, the balance good grass land. Small COM
fdttable house and barn. 1t lies adjoining an mex
haustible ou range, making one of the best stock
ranges in Benton county. Situated about ~ miles
Southwest of Corvallis Price $1,000.
FARM-A farm of 1876 acres Of land situated j
mile from Corvallis. in Linn County, Or. All under
fence; 80 acres of rich ,ttom land in cultivation,
56 acres of good fir, and maple timber; good
houses, good orchards and two good wells with
pumps. Terms $50 per acre, half cash down and
balance payable in one and two years, secured by
mortgage upon the farm.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1884-05-02

G.. f. RICHARDS & Co., Agts.,
427 & 4e9 Sansome street, Clay. San Fran
cisco. q 2033lyr
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1884-05-02
Cuba in the Market.

New YORK. April 2S.-The Star pre-
tends to know that private negotiations
have been going on the past week to sell
Cuba to Mexico. The proposition came
from Spain. After consulting his cabinet
ministers, Diaz returned an answer that he
would be satisfied to purchase Cuba on con-
dition that the Cubans should agree by a
plebiscite, vote Mexican bonds to be given
Spain in lieu of purchase money. Spain de.
mands that the United States become secur.
ity for Mexico's performance of the contract.
'tThe story is in the main correct" said
Cubera, editor of the Ell Separatista, 'tand
Foster, United States minister at Madrid,
is now at Washington to see that the gov
ernment will be satisfied with the arrange
ment. General Aldena, formerly agent for
Cuba, went to Havana last Thursday, to
have a conference with both the Cubans and
the Spaniards on the subject, and get opin-
ions as to the probable success of plan of
subraitting the question of a plebiscite con-
vention, to be held here as soon as he and
other Cuban generals return. to which rep
resentatives from the South American re.
publics will be invited"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-10
A PROCRUsTEAN COFFIN.
The Way a Long Mortal was Shortened
So that the Obsequies Could be Fin
ished.

The Way a Long Mortal was Shortened
So that the Obsequies Could be Fin
ished.
Several farmers of Oak Greek who
brought produce to the South Side yester-
day, says the Milwaukee Sentinel, brought
intelligence of a strange burial which oc-
CURED there last Friday. Horace Bald
win died last week. He was remarkably
tall, his army description making him 6
feet inches. In cases where his COM
rades would have been wounded in the
breast he would stop the bullets with his
stomach. He was so cOnspicuOusly tall
that he was given a sObriquet appro-
Driate 10 his stature. He could not stand
army life very well, and soon gave it up.
Friday, when the DeighbOrs gathered at
the farm house to do honor to his memory
by following the remains to the
grave, it was found that the coffin had
been made for a siX-foOter and was there
fore seven inches too short. The corpse
could not be squeezed into the casket and
so, rather than to disappoint the people
waiting outside, relative ran into the
WOOdshed for a saw and began deliber-
ately to saw off about eight inches of the
dead mans legs. He thought the corpse
moved and tainted. Thereupon anotl er
relative seized the wood-saW and COM
pIeted the shortening process. The
several members were bent back, the
coffin lid fastened and the funeral cortege
wendell its way to the Oak Creek ceme-
terry, The story has created a great SEN
satiOn in Oak Greek and those who did
the remarkably savage thing are severely
onuaT rod
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-10
ROBBERY OF PASSENGERS.
The Responsibility of Railway Com
panies for Losses.

The keF pons1D1l1by OF Railway COM
panies for Losses.
There are many cases, says the RdilUdy
Register, where passengers have brought
suits against steamboat companies to
recover the value of property stolen from
their staterOoms. In most instances the
carriers were held liable, because they
sold the board and lodging together with
the transportation, and were as much
inn-keepers as they were carriers. Still
even in these classes of cases the courts
have seemed reluctant to make the COM
panies liable.
Mrs. Del Vale was going down the
Mississippi once and wore all her jewelry,
in order probably to make good appear
ance. When she retired she put the pro
perty, valued at $4,000, in the pocket Of
her dress, and hung the latter on the
hooks provided for the purpose. In the
morning the dress and jewels were both
missing. But the stern judge said that
Mrs. Del Vale, and not the company,
must bear the loss, because she ought to
have deposited the jewelry with the clerk.
In England, as we'll as in this country,
railway companies have been held for
the theft or loss Of the hand baggage of
passengers. Mr.. Richards once went up
to London, having with him a satchel con-
tanning several thousand pounds. ArriY-
ing at the station a train porter carried it
out to a cab and went back for another
piece of baggage. The cabby, recognizing
his opportunity, did not wait, but drove
off before the unfortunate Richards and
the porter returned. ! ct MIR. Richards
was not so very unfortunate after all, for
he sued the company and recovered the
amount of the loss. In this case and others
similar, the theory acted on by the courts
was that the lost baggage was cOnstruc-
lively in the custody Of the carrier, and
that the passenger had not released the
company from its obligation to care for it.
The principle of the first cases recited
was that the company only agrees to
carry safely the passengers and such
baggage as it may agree to carry by
checking it. The contract is performed
when the checked articles and the pas
sengers are not injured. If loss arises
in consequence Of the failure of the COM
pany to carry the passenger with proper
skill and due diligence, then the carrier
will be liable. But when any person
takes into the car articles of any kind he
does so at his own risk, and If they are
lost or stolen he cannot recover. If a dis
honest emplOye, however, should steal the
baggage of the passenger, the company
would be liable; for it agrees to only
employ honest and competent servants.
This rule is fair, because it is easy for
a traveller, if he desires security for his
baggage, to have it checked, or, If it is of
peculiar and unusual value, to acquaint
the carrier with that fact, and recOmpense
him for the responsibility. 1t is either
negligence or fraud for a passenger to
take with him into the car property that is
exceedingly valuable, and if it is lost it is
his own fault; for the company cannot be
held for the loss of that of whose value it
was ignorant, and for the carriage Of
which it did not CONTRACT,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-10
More Campaign Scandal.

Washington Letter 10 Philadelphia Times.
The public is about to be RECALLED with
publications concerning Mr.. Blaine's pri-
yate life as an Offset to publications relat-
ing to alleged moral delinquencies of Mr..
cleveland. A leading Democratic paper
in a Western city is understood to have
had writers engaged Tor considerable
time in Kentucky, where Mr.. Blaine was
a teacher shortly after he attained his
majority, and if what is retailed in pri-
yate becomes the wool and warp of the
story that is being woven for the public
the campaign will not be wanting in
interest thereafter; and not so much on
account of the forthcoming story about
Mr.. Blaine as what will follow it in con-
tinuatiOn of Mr.. Cleveland's alleged moral
delin0uencies. Mr.. Blaine's friends have
not been ignorant Of what was intended,
and editors and others in his interest
when admonished to call off their dogs
referring to the Cleveland scandal-have
declined to listen to any such suggestion,
but have signifed an intention to let
others loose. This is a manner of con-
Quoting a Presidential campaign so en-
tirely new that it is not surprising that
people should be startled, turn their
heads. hold their noses and refuse to listen
or behold. Despite this, however, it seems
probable that they will have to give at
tsntiOn.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-10

elegant homes on Broadway, and an es-
tate that allowed his family TO live in lux
ury. Mrs, Bull has not long returned
from an extended tour abroad. She is one
OF the handsome widows of Louisville,
and her young married daughter, Mrs.
SEWER, Of Paris, France, was one Of the
picture beauties of Louisville in her girl
hood, and pronounced on all sides the
most beautiful woman in Washington last
winter.
Prof. A. d. Hurt, late Of the Male High
School in this city, also removes with his
family to Lake City, Fla, in the fall to
occupy the Presidents chair in the Agri-
cultural College at that place.
COYIF DOTTGTAS
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-10
Yonng nIenl Read This.

The Voltaic Belt Company, of Marshall,
Mich, offer to send their celebrated Elec-
troy oltaic Belt and other Electric APP
pliances on trial for thirty days to men
(young or old) afflicted with nervous de-
bility, loss of vitality and manhood, and
all kindred troubles. Also for rheuma-
tism, neuralgia, paralysis, and many
other diseases. Complete restoration to
health, vigor and manhood guaranteed.
No risk is incurred as thirty days trial is
allowed. Write them at once for illus
trated pamphlet free.-Ad0.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-10
THE CLEANER.

Beneath late summers bright, still heat.
The yellow, half-shOrn fields are widely
spread.
And parched and dry the grasses lie
Where ran anon the broOklet's silver thread,
While back and forth the workers come
Behind the shining blade that swiftly leaves
The lavish plenty of the field
For their brown hands to bind in golden
sheaves.
But when the sun is dropping low
Behind the far woods dark and ragged rim,
She comes across the stubbled-feld
Left lone and bare. The deepening twilight
dim
Observes her bent and aged form.
Shes u0ous to scan the naked dew-damp ground
For every stray forgotten spear
The careless workers may have left unbound.
HdHaGh HedrHe, IN Current.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-10
IDLE WORDS
Ofdle words!

o idle words!
WHY will re never die,
Tluf float forever in the sky,
DImming the stars that shines in memory,
Destroying hope and causing love from earth
70 fee,
ul-omened birds.
Preying upon the heart,
Leaving with wounds deadly smart;
Expiring breath that taints the very air,
Will We forever leave your victims to despairs
Ul-omened birds.
o idle words!
How many are the tears
That We have caused to flow; the fears
Ye have begOt and made to mountains grow,
Crushing the innocent beneath a weight OF
woe,
Ill-Omened birds.
o idle words,
Your flight Is ever on,
Il heaven darkening the sun;
BY weary iourneyings without delay,
To wend your dreary way unto the Judgment
TI-omened birds.
-Ererv otter Saturday.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-10

MRS. WINSLoW'S SOOTHING SYRUP
should always be used when Children are
cutting teeth. It relieves the little suf-
Ierer at once: it produces natural, quiet
sleep by relieving the child from pain, and
the little cherub awakes as bright as
button" 1t is very pleasant to taste. 1t
soothes the child. softens the gums, al
lays all pain, relieves wind, regulates
the bowels, and is the best known remedy
for diarrhoea, whether arising from teeth
ing or other causes. % cents bottle.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-10
A MoRN1NG coNrEMPoRARY commented yes

A MORNING CONTEMPORARY commented yes
terday upon the death of three men from the
balloon accident at Lille. This morning its
readers must have been pleased to see that
two of the three had recovered, and ''only
one'' remained ''dead up to the present" The
words would almost suggest that even his
case is not quite hopeless. Death from a bal
loon is, perhaps, not so deadly as other dis
eeeps -TOnTOll fT7Oba
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-10
verdict of an the Inrie,
Advice to hIouners.

Benson's Capcine Porous Plasters have
been awarded gold medals over all COM
petitors. Safe and positive.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-10
Dress GSoos. Ctr.
Low Prices KNOW No Drill Times
THE CROWD OF PURCHASERS
That thrOnged last week proved this eectuaIy
WE PROPOSE

figures
week. max a this
Our Summer Dress Goods Stock,
Our stock of Sun Umbrellas and Paraso1s
Our stock of Choice Fans,
Our stock of Laces,
Our stock of Embroideries,
Our stock Of Hosiery,
Our stock of Gents and Ladies' Vests
Our stock of Ladies' Underwear,
Our stock of Victoria Lawns and Dotted Swisses,
Our stock of Marseilles and Checked Nainsooks
Our stock of Lace Bobinets and Mosquito Nets etc.,
to quality
ability please enabled
closing determined
We find policy
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-10
GIntb4ttg.
GOING! GOING! GOING!

YES, THEY ARE GOING, BUT STILL WE
HAVE SOME LEFT OF THE CLOTHING on
WHICH WE ARE MAKING GREAT REDUC.
TONS.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-10

Street Brigade so Rare as to be a
Natural Curiosity-The Street Corner
Merchants to Give Way to the Law
The Exposition Assuming shape
LouisyiIIians to Migrate for the Winter
to the Land of Flowers.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-23
ADVERTISING.

~ - 81 = = $50 = an Ssaar 90
1rr7r Rr0PN-TSc NEWS il served in the city ~
news dealers at % cents per week. single
a.raNa
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-23

what was the meaning of it. FLOATING debtt
WHY. It's the marine budget, Of course. -
From the French.
81 HAD hardly entered the room, said he
with = tremulOls voice, ''When mist suuGeh
" gathered before my eyes. / was unaDle 70
= Z iTeb in front of me heard the muir
mur of voices, and then y on IalnteI 4,
anickIv put in his friend. NO; wiped the
frost oil my glasses"
"WHES die, my boy" said a rather festive
Pittsburg father TO his son. u don, wan ~;
floral pillow with Father or 'Resl on ~;
simply the letters IS. Y. L. nothing mo-
And what, dear father, are those letters 70
signIfys" They shall stand for the "oI"s'
see You Later '-PittsbuTg IetsgF0P".
A CONTEMPORARY ASKS: chow shall women q,
carry their purses to Illustrate the thleVesc
VIII carrv tbem empty. Nothing illustrates
a thief more than to snatch woman P1ai y
after following her half nile anu llIeI i -
that it contains nothing but recipe loI sPloS'
I peaches and faded photograph u Aol :" uA
mother.-Free Press.
P1fzade1Dhia can: - win you be home to
i dinnerg' asked a Chicago woman OF hef nus
/ band as he was about starting LOT Dusln DUSTY p
/ No. / think not he answered, eApe - ~ -
/ be very busy. Besides. new saloon y ~ y
\ opened lust around the corner from my oAHce
/ and viii drop N there and get a niue lIet
I lunch Well.' said his wife. while q wave o.
! fear swept across her race, ne caIelul AV' -
4 get hurt In the rush.
I1,lrad his WHO burst into tears al
/ his sick bed. II am so afraid. was the IoV'
ing response. that you will die, john, anu a
YOUR life is only insured for $4,000, by IN,
| lime paw the funeral expenses and get You
1 nice tombstone. / will have to mortgage tl'
house and furniture in order to obtain none.
/ enough to go to Florida for the winter; JON
was pronounced out of danger the loiio"lns
/ day.
AFTER racking his brain for SIX months
! Pittsburg nhiIanfhropist has hitu schem
bv which he proposes to benefit his fellow
men. In brief, his project is to turn Mormon
wed Anna Dickinson, Elizabeth Cady sian
ton. Susan b. Anthony, Lille Deyereau-
Blake, Kate Field, half dozen barn -stormlni
actresses, and then flee to Utah. The Latle
Day Saints are half frantic over the lnlelil
gence and declare they will emigrate to IN
South Sea Islands if the Pittsburger carrie
ont his Dlau,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-23
Nutt,s AcauittaI.

The Unioutown tragedy ended yester-
dav. The Jury declared that james NutI
was not guilty of any crime in killing n
L. Dukes, because he was insane at
the time. A committee of citizens VIII
examine his mental condition to-day anu
conclude that if he is luna
tic he is harmless. He VIII
Of course be permitted to return 10 MS
home. There are few, if any, VINO Deliese
that Mutt was ever insane, but hooouy
comnlains about the verdict. The lacts
advanced to show insanity were sum
cient. perhaps, to raise douoI III Tue
minds of the jury, and the accused was
yivan the benefit of the doubt. Jurles,
&c rule. are Influenced by pub
lie sentiment, and public sentiment
justified James Nuts act. Dukes nad
traduced Nuts sister and killed his
father. 1t is true jury acquitted MN
Of murder, but the popular verdict was
against him. The popular feeling oil the
community was that Dukes had commit
ted a crime that deserved death, ana
James Mutt. a mere youth, influenced by
that feeling executed the coinLnu
nity,s Judgment. AS Senator Voorhees, SAID
not in 200 years has anyone been punished
for doing what James Mutt did. Inc
killing of Dukes and the circumstances
which led to the deed have attracted Wld'
attention. The people in every part OF th'
country are familiar with all the details
Their svmpathies were with the accused
| - ~, ,,,o+bar apd sister. The fact tina
James Mutt violated the law was recog
nized, but it was violation which eXclt
/ ed no Indignation.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-23
PERSONAL.

Gen. HANCOCK was recently asked by ru-
raj genius in the West where he was during
the late war.
EDWARD WHYMPER, the Alpine celebrity,
has gone to Africa to try the ascent Oh mount
kilima-NjarO.
HOWARD RUSSELL, the well known war cor
respondent, is shortly to wed the countess
Malvezzi, Of Ferrara.
JUDGE C. z. FENNER will deliver the ora
ton at the unveiling OF the monument 10 0eh'
Lee in New orleans on February z.
Mrs. MACKAY has refused to pay for the
portrait painted Of her by Meissonler, the
great French painter, who is suing the lazy
for $4,000 francs.
FATHER RYAN has been invited to write an
ode to be read at the celebration OF the Two
hundred and fftieth anniversary Of the set
tlement Of Maryland, on March %.
Ex-Gov. CHENEY, of New Hampshire, has
purchased a large estate in HlllsDorough
county. He will make an elegant country
home of it and call it "Grassmere.
LIEUT.. RHODES, the hero of the Gay Head
disaster, has been in the revenue marine ser
vice for eleven years. His age IS 50, ne Is
native of Connecticut, and has the record OF
4 1rst-class man.
Mr.. O'HARA, the colored member of Con-
cress from North Carolina, who has been
placed on the Congressional Campaign Com
nittee. has complexion like cuban: lie Is
well educated. and is an earnest ana nuenI
speaker and hard worker.
FOUR violent deaths are reported from
Monte Carlo within a week. Three unsac-
cessful gamblers made away with themselves,
and a fourth, who had won, was made away
with. So it appears to be little choice between
losing or winning. The wages are the same.
THE Montreal Witness relates that Mayor
Beaudry, of that city, excited some comment
and amazement on Thursday by driving
through the streets on his way to the Councli
with his head encrcled by a huge blue VEIL
in appearance like those that once adorned
Canadian grandmothers' bonnets.
Tso TsUNG TANG, the Chinese Imperial
Commissioner, is II years of age and still
vigorous. He was born in the province OF
HOnan, renowned in Chinese annals Tor brave
men and able Ministers. His parents were
attracted into his service many foreigners,
principally Germans, and has already formed
the nucleus OF a fleet.
MONSIEUR DAUDET takes his note book
everywhere, being well known among MS
friends for this popularity. once, IL lS re
lated, he had a sentimental and dramatic
scene with his wife, concerning which ne re-
marked: "Ths scene, my dear, is like chap
ter that has slipped out of novel;" III Is
more likely, AlphOnse," was the reply, ITO
form a chapter that viii slip into novel;
NJ. lola, the novelist, is still comparatively
Young, having but just passed his fortleth
wear. He is the son Of an Italian engineer,
and curiousy enough, failed to pass his
graduating examination at college. lie tnen
turned to journalism, in which he spent two
wears, living in a precarious and Wretcheu
fashion, literally from hand TO mouth fame
and fortune have since come to him, however;
but. though one of the wealthiest writers OF
the day, he stills leads busy and unpreten-
tiOuS life.