The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-07-13
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A. r. Cyrus made a business trip to
Salem one day this week.
w. II. Wheeler is in town this week
visiting his parents.
Cheap machine oil and pure Drugs
at the City Drug Store, DIR. Courtney.
IL. Y. Gibson. left yesterday for San
Francisco, where he will make his flu
Iure home.
Mrs. r. 4. Jones ana daughter Sarah,
left for Albany, Monday, where they
will make their future home.
Mr.. George Alexander, eompositor
on the Telegram, of Portland, is in the
city visiting with II. Y. kirkpatrick.
Harrisons' first word, after he heard
OF his nomination, were, YOU had bet
ter buy your groceries Of Il. c. Peebler,
On July 5th, Sam Mfcklin who was
working on a house in Corvallis, made
a misstep and falling from scafiold
was instantly killed.
kMots A1bkAts star tSN AAi E1&tit II AAutiNtStt
yesterday TO attend the teachers assoc
citation. We wish him pleasant and
profitable trip.
If you want nice marble work for
ornament, or first class job of monu-
mental marble, call ON NJ. \. Keek op-
posite the Bevere House, Albany.
Fifty trained physicians have started
on tour of inspection OF New York
tenement houses, with the view OF pre-
venting disease by timely action.
A Brooklyn man has opened hotel
which he calls the Greenhorn House.
1t is, as the name indicates, for the
accommodation OF those making their
first visit to Brooklyn.
Jofn.-Iones, a near-sighted young
man living in Bath county, kentucky
attempted to cut Of the head Of "A
chicken, missed his mark, and took
of his LETT hand instead, at the wrist.
We had the pleasure Of attending
social gathering Of the young folks at
the residence Of J. NJ. Marks, and en-
joyci ourselves very much. All that
attended report having a good time.
sThere were five or six thousand peo-d
pie ATTENDED the celebration at Corval-
lis on the 4th, The main attraction
was the laying Of the corner stone Of
the new court house and the sham bat
tie by the military companies.
Before YOU start on journey go ard
see DIR Courtney, and procure a bottle
of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Dlarrhea Remedy. 1t is great safe
guard for travellers and gives immedi-
a.e relief
A wedding took place at st. Pau,
Mimi, last week where the groom was
over six feet tall and the bride little
over two feet in height. During the
ceremony the girl stood on chair,
her head just reaching 10 the grooms
shoulder.
The Oregon and Washington Terri
tory railroad construction to Walla
walIa is being pushed rapidly and the
line viii be completed by October and
will haul the wheat crops of the valley
to Puget Sound. The new line will
add to the valure of the crops over ten
cents per bushel.- Ex.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Morris, Miss Ada
Morris, Mrs. Wm. Cyrus, Miss Jennie
Cyrus and Miss Rosa Moore of Scio,
visited Lebanon last Sunday. Miss
Cyrus and Miss Moore started to San
Frascisco yesterday to attend the Nat
ional Teachers Association there. We
wish them a pleasant journey.
The latest Peruvian mails furnish
graphic accounts of the burning of a
woman at the stake, on the accusation
Of witchcraft. This i'm the summer of
1855. and in country that is supposed
to have been favored with christianity
for centuries. Both South and Central
America are cursed with a bogus form
of civilization.
The hotel charges at st. Louis, dur
ing the Democratic National Conven-
ton, were huge, according according
to the reports of the delegates from the
Pacific coast; but ii appears that Chi
cago developed more of the hog dispo-
sition. Neither city viii be likely TO
profit by ii in the future. The charge
of S47 day for ordinary hotel accom-
modations is shamelessly extortionate.
The New York law which goes into
effect next January providing for the
jnfiiction of the death penalty by elec-
tricftv, requires that the criminal is to
be completely secluded after sentence
Is pronounced. The execution itself is
to be conducted in private, with only a
limited number of witnesses present.
The body of the victim may be deliv-
cred to friends, but the funeral must
toe private
Mr.. Chas. Hill, representative Of the
Hall, Safe & Lock Company, paid
Lebanon a visit last Monday for the
purpose of opening the o. & c. r. r.
Cos. safe, but after working three
houls gave it up as bad job, and the
safe had 10 be taken to Portland to be
opened. NJ. Z. Hearn accompanying
the same 1t will be endeavored Ia
open the safe without injury.
Mrs Jennie Winn and daughter
I.etta were visiting friends and rela-
tives in town this week.