The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1884-01-11
LOCAL NOTES.

The latest feature of attraction to the cit
liens of Corvallis who enjoy that class of
amusement is a shooting gallery.
We acknowledge receipt of the third an.
nual report of the State Minera!ogist, from
the California State Mining Bureau.
Mr. w. H. II. Grant and wife, nee Miss
Maddie Ward, of Lane county, came up
from Portland last Monday evening and will
remain in Corvallis for some time.
The county clerk of Douglas county re-
corded 500 deeds during the year of 1888,
also l30 U. S. land patents and l62 mort.
cages.
Why is it that our southern exchanges
which should have reached us on Saturday
last dld not put in appearance uatil Tues.
day of this week?
The late storm has SO damaged the Coos
Bay and Roseburg wagon road that the
mails are carried on pack horses over the
old trail, and travel on the road is i'm
possible at present.
ANY deficiency in the general make
up" of the GAZETTE this week may be at
tributed to the fact that our foreman has
been to the skating rink"
Mr.. ]. N. Leonard and wife went to AL
bany last Tuesday morning. They have
been in Corvallis for some time, Mr.. L. in
the interest of the Mutual Self-Endowment
and Benevolent Association of America.
Douglas county has couple of boy mail
robbers. Billy Stilwell, a lad of Is years,
and Wesley Donce, aged Is years, are un-
der arrest, charged with robbing the mail
OF a registered package containing 500.
The Overland Monthly for 1884 will con.
tinue to make speciality of sketches OF
Pacific travel and studies of nature on this
coast, scientific and general; Alaska and
the Northwest, China and japan will be
subjects of description and study, besides
the usual variety of contents. Subscription
price 81 per annum.
We acknowledge the receipt of an invi-
tation from the Governor of California and
president of the committed to arrange for
no ling the Worlds Fair in San Francisco
in 1857, to meetiwith the committee on Jan
3rd 1884, but as the time was past before
receiving the invitation we will be com pelled
to decline the pleasure.
There is young man in our town who
wears detected look, and who, upon being
asked the cause of the change in his appear
ance, said that he had made up mis- mind to
live the life Of an old bachelor, but now
that Leap Year had come, he dared not
look at a fair damsel for fear that she would
take advantage of the "Leap Year act
and place him in an embarrassing position.
We are of the opinion that his fears are
groundless, since she young ladies of Cor
Wallis think too much of themselves
Messrs. W. L. Price and Henry Cham
bers of Kings valley were in town during
the week. They say that they are unable
to get their newspaper mail through by way
Of Philomath to their postoffice until abou.
four or five days after it starts from here.
They ought to get up petitions and send on
to authorities at Washington, D. G., and
stir up the mail carriers, because there is
no reason why mail should not reach KINGS
valley on the same day that it leaves here
unless it is on account of the carelessness
and unobliging disposition of mail carriers.
Mrs. Fisher, the wife of the victim of the
late homicide near Portland, has been ar
rested, charged with murder and equally
guilty with Bloxam, the man who fired the
fatal shot. As both parties were charged
with murder, neither could be admitted to
bail, and this action fell with particular
hardship npon the woman, who had left her
children at the cottage, one of which was a
babe at the breast. However she was per-
mitted to return for the babe, when she
wSs then committed to the county Jail.
The incest and the cheapest albums in the
city at Mattoon's.