The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-04-10

| In new I orK City there is quite demand
for crazy quilts, and lunatics have been dis
covered who are willing to pay from $50 to
$500 for one of elaborate design.
| One of the heaviest showers of rain that
ever fell in that section, visited Uniontown
md Sterlingvllle precincts, Jackson county,
Wednesday evening. Crops are consequent
ly looking finely there.
| Next fall, says the Yreka Journal. there
will be an immense number of young cattle
in Siskiyou county, as the increase has but
very little loss i'll consequence of the extra
ordinary mild winter.
/ The United States Government pays the
| widow of the late Mr.. Webster, formerly
Collector of Customs at Port Townsend,
| 900 for the site of the lighthouse at
Point Robinson in Pierce county
Grasshoppers are already Matching out by
the thousands near White Rock, Ell Do-alo
county, California, and the indications are
| that the whole section of country will soon
be swarming with the pestiferous insects.
A. H. Denny, residing near Bethel, has
recently grubbed up the largest silver beal
tree in Oregon. set out by w. P. Watson,
ex-president of the agricultural society, in
1850. 1t measured eight feet seven inches
in circumference two feet above the ground.
The churn must go. According to
French patent the passage of suitable
electric current through milk causes the
rapid separation Of the butter and renders
churning unnecessary. The manufacture of
cheese and the removal of rancidity from
butter by electrical aid are also claimed.
A common sample of the White Bull ore
from the Santiam mines has been examined |
by Portland assayer and found to contain
Sl5 so Of gold to the ton and 65 in silver.
The Santiam mining district is but three
miles square and for its size is pronounced |
the richest on the Pacific Coast.
The jacksonville Sentinel says: In the |
orchard of David Cronemiller of this place,
can be found fig tree with figs on that had
not been picked last year, ana are still hard
and have neve" been frozen, and the tree is
now laden with crop in size about as large
as peas. If any one can heat this for eli
mate we would like to hear it told.
A man in Jackson, Michigan, claims to
have towel made by his grandfather in
1874 and thinks it great couriosity. IF he
could only get one gaze upon our cleanest
towel which was hung up long last August,
he would not be slow in coming to the con-
clusion that his relic is nowhere in compari-
son with printers towel-Lakeview Ex-
aminer.
Rosehurg Review: One day last week,
while c. w. Smith was hunting in his pas
ture for coyotus and looking in some holes
among the rocks, he had concluded to stop
up hole, and on putting his fingers under
a rock to turn it over coiled rattlesnake
sounded the alarm. Mr.. Smith found many
more snakes summing themselves on the
rocks and succeeded in killing several.
Southern Oregon is receiving SIS per cent.
Of the immigrants arriving in Portland, a
result of judicious advertising Of her re-
sources by means of pamphlets. Several
counties in other parts of the State have
begun issuing immigration literature as
means of diverting part OF the population
IN their direction. This is commendable
enterprise on the part of all and commend
lble enterprise wins i'll the long run.
Following is the kind of weather they had
n New Orleans IN rhe 26th of March, ac-
cording to the Times Democrat: ''The
Spanish bayonet is blooming, the violets are
abundant, roses are opening the leaves are
orming peach blossoms everywhere, and
yet the weather continues wet, cold and
lisagreeable. Winter is still lingering
5he lap of spring in earnest. The anna; ure
gar lener may be seen of mornings living
himself rheumatism fooling around sickly
lot of garden truck.
The San Francisco Post says: The ques-
5ion of the prompt completion of the Cali
Oregon State line, depends materially upon
;he rapidity with which the new issue of
bonds by the Central Pacific Railroad is
taken up. At present there is a depression
m railroad securities, and the general pub
ic are somewhat inclined to abstain from
investing in them. The probable result, so
lar as present indications go, will be that
little railroad building will be done this
year. The road from Delta to the line is
through very difficult and mountainous
country, and will require large force of
men, and question arises whether the men
qualified for the work can be obtained in
sufficient force this season. When once
, 'mmenced, the road could probably be car
-ied through in two seasons, if favorable
ones. 1t may be commenced this year.
What acton may be taken is not yet
known,
Seventy two patents have recently been
ssued by the secretary of the interior to the