The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-03-27


The Rome, N. Y, Sentinel reports that
two men who served on jury at trial in
Utica the other day, after they retired,
voted on verdict in direct opposition to
their real sentiments because they did not
know the difference between the terms
plaintiff and defendant" in the case.
Simultaneous with the reports from
Kansas about the snow blockade in that re.
gion came notes of alarm about the next
wheat crop; not of danger from fost. WHICH
nips the prospective peach every mid-win-
ter, but from the "Hessian fly" which il.
now reported at work in twenty connties of
that State.
| On account of the recent amendment to
the school law, which appropriates $50 to
each school district out of the general funds
and then in the same ratio as formerly, the
directors of the Eugene City schools have
ordered that the school there be discontinued
that the teachers be requested to continue
the schools by subscription, that they be al
lowed the use of the buildings and fuel free.
The Salem Statesman properly says:
Everybody should discourage the cry of hard
times. Look at the bright side of
things for while. Tell your neighbor that
times are good. and the country prosperous.
Don't be afraid of the future. In this state
it can't be worse than the past. 1t is bound
to be better, and if you sit idly by and let
others sow the seed, others will reap the
harvest, and you will still he crying hard
| times in times of the most abundant pros
peritN
The French newspapers can teach Ameri-
cans lessons in the art of booming circrlla-
ton. The Paris Gaulois, as an inducement
to yearly subscribers, promises to pay a sum
of 5000 francs to the heirs of any subscriber
who may be killed by any accident, either
by railway or otherwise. They also offer a
smaller sum to those of their readers who
may be temporarily injured and can produce
their subscription receipt for the current
| year.
! Good reports continue to come from the
mines near Mountain House anil Yelling
ton, in Silver Glance district, New, VIII
lard Mcdonald are running their little
mill on good-paying ore, and an exceeding
ly rich gold ledge was discovered last week
IN the mountains seven miles north of Well.
ington, near the old Carson and Aurora
stageroad.
The gold stike which was made about
thirty miles west of Nogales. A. T., last
week, is proving veritable bonanza, sever
al parties have lately returned to Nogales
from there, and nearly all of them have
brought in some very beautiful high grade
gold quartz specimens. and the general i'm
preston is that the camp is bound to be a
good one.
We are in constant receipt of the Tacoma
Daily Ledger, which is an 8 page column
paper 1t is good paper, and the proper
amount of exertion and money expended
will make such p per anywhere, but the
interesting point is the enterprise of new
town that sustains so great an under
taking. The status of the newspapers of
Tacoma is the best evidence yet shown Of
the substantial growth and prosperity of
that city.
Joseph Drake, one of the murderers Of
David Schwartz, was hanged at Salem last
Friday, at ] p. M, by Sheriff Minto. The
execution was accomplished without any
mishap, and brakes neck was broken by
the fall. The scaffold was erected at the
northeast corner of the Court House, and
only few spectators were admitted, though
Drake could be seen from the outside until
the trap was sprung. The body was cut
down i'll twenty minutes and given to his
friends for burial. He went to his doom
with firm step and without assistance,
and on the ''brink of the grave" protested
his innocence to the last.
An important discovery has recently been
made which adds another feature to Ore
gon's great resources, says the Portland
Standard. A large and apparently mex
haustible body of ccal was found last fall
within 100 miles of Portland, samples of
which were sent East for analysis. Reports
received yesterday pronounce it anthracite
coal. Biologists have ,oontended that no
such coal existed in this part of the world;
that the coal here was Ignite and that
ages of time would have to pass before it
would become anthracite. The fact of its
discovery, however, proves that in one case
the geologist are in error. C. D. Folger, of
this city, has large interests in this new
t,bonanza from which millions are expected.