The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1884-06-20

| GIllS WSCh AS luduy DIS uSc nave
been confined in durance vile at one time
Parties attending the commencement ex
ercises at Albany last Tuesday evening re-
port very pleasant and interesting time
4 His excellency, Gov. z. F. Moody, has
recently appointed our fellow townsman,
and real estate dealer, T. J. Buford, 6
notary public.
DIR. J. B. Lee and wife and Miss Grace
Hanna went to Eugene City last Wednes
day to attend the Commencement exercises
of the State University at that place. They
will probably re5lrn to-day.
The schooner d. S. Williams sailed from
Seattle last Tuesday for Yaquina Bay, with
$50, 600 feet of lumber for the o. 2. + r.
Co. This is claimed to he the first ship.
ment of lumber from Seattle 20 Oregon.
Geo. A. Brock left yesterday for Eastern
Oregon, where he win spend the summer
months rusticatipg, and in the fall be ex-
poets to permanently locate at Alkali for the
practice of law. May his clients be numer-
Gus aud wealthy.
Jesse Huft, of the Summit, has a
thorough bred Cosswool lamb, one year old,
on which the wool, by actual measurement
Of sample shown us, is II incb"s long, aud
o: t'ue qualify. Jessie is justly proud of
his thoroughbreds.
The rarages of the destroying cut worm
is reported from different po.Uions Of The
State as doing much damage to late sown
g,ain and gardens. Benton county seers
to be favored in this respect, since no re-
po. Is of this nature have reached us.
Rev. Dr.. Lindsey, of Port and, will hold
services at the Presby terian church in this
city net Sunday, morning aud evening,
being the concluding exercises of the Benton
county Sunday School convention, which
begius on Friday at the court house grove.
Delinquent tax payers find limit to SOILS
endurance, as will be seen by our advecIis-
ng columns. This is as it should be, as it
is well know fact that the finances of a
comfy depend on the collection os its taxes
| From private Letter received from Will
NJ. Kirk, we learn that the trip was made
from Corvallis 70 Corydon, Iowa, in SIX days
and si-, hours. Judging :::om the tone of
the letter, there is no place like OREGON. and
we expect to see Wills smiling corn epance
on our u ee;s a.,ain before the cold wave
strikes SA&5 country.
A CHS ,e opium fend come to :, ;ef last
atu lay N ht, and Ter pa,7i~g tie S>5-
bs h in the civy coo'e, p'e,Ydel 2r ~ 20
the ca ge of smoking op;p aid ws,s 'ped
!s ia = :, ~; cor /.
| BE socce ded n enl',. ; U"= syhpaGbies
o. his countl j men in his behalf, who paid
TIE fue.
While The Coed Lodge Was il session
this week little fve-ye- r-old airl was
beard to ask her aunt, 'sWby can't I go to
lod je with you? and on being answered,
''you have not had the third degree yet"
she said; ''well I've had the mumps, and
that's just as good" Tbs is not talen
Esom an almanac, but is an actual occur
j. nee
Wa Gle, who was shot by Farris near
McMinnville, is sill alive, but his recovery
is nearly impossible. The ball passed
through the right lung, ranging downward,
and was t-ken ort near the spine in the
small O; the back. He is quite old and had
many physical msforcures before. Farfis is
dependent since he has had time to reject
on the enormity of his chine.
The Grand Army reunion and military
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the 18th, 18th and 18th of July next, prom
jscs to be one of the grapdest events in the
history of Yamhill. It is on the same plan
"a that held at Portland last year. Posts
ON all parts of the state will be in attend
auce, several pieces of artillery will be
brought up, and the Governor and staff will
homo the Post with their presence. Several
companies of infantry and cavalry viii be
organized and fully equipped for the occa-
sion in various paris OF the county and state.
, J. w. Webb, of California, lectured at
the city hall last Monday evening on the
| temperance question. Mr.. Webb had just
returned from the Right Worthy Grand
Lodge of the world, recently held at Wash
ington, D. c., and was in possession of
faces and figures wbi' henade his lecture one
of unusual Interest. Mr.. Webb is uudoabt-
edly the peer OF any temperance Lecturer
that has ever visited Corvallis.
| Deputy county clerk, ]. o. Wilson started
for the B.:y last Monday, to remain foe a
month or moe. During his say he will
erect adwelling hoGse, and were it not that
we are reliably informed that it is for his
father, we would suspicion that 'Oph' was
contemplating matlimony. He returned to
Corvallis, Tuesday evening for repairs, hav-
ing broke spindle of his wagon. Evident
ly a deputy clerk requires some time to
become an expert teamster.
| A street fakir armed with a license from
the city to sell soap appeared on the s5ree3s
of Corvallis last week, and under the pro-