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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-09-06
A HUMAN MATCH.

Major P. G. Blud, who lives
north of the city on the Grown
Hill road, is Mississippian by
birth. His father was slave
holder and believer in the cause
of the south. Politics led to a
separation of the family, one of the
sons who stoutly stood for the
Union leaving the .paternal roof
and coming north in his teens.
When Lincoln called for men this
son was prompt to respond. In
the service to which he thus gave
himself he became a Major, and
1t is through him that this story
has its being. During the war he
learned that his father and
brothers had enlisted in the con-
federate armies, and when the Ma
jor with his company was forming
part of the investing lines that
held the starving Mississippians
within the Notifications of Vicks-
burg, he wondered if any of his
own kith and kin were in front of
his guns.
IL have just received word that
my old father is dead" he said.
He left paper which was to be
opened after his death. 1t is a
strange document, as yoa will see.
In it he asks for reconciliation of
his children-estranged since 1860
by the war. One clause. directing
particular attention to me, which
says:
Il cannot go to my grave with
out asking your forgivness for sup
pressing so long my parental love.
There is no reason why our family
should longer live apart. Our hot
southern blood explains our con-
duct. There is but one act of ex-
cessive vindictiveness that needs to
be explained.
Twas in charge of a battery at
Vicksburg in front of your COM
mand. On the 2Sth of June you
made an assault upon the works.
We were short of battery supplies.
Our last fuse had been fired. We
had neither torch or match. You
know, perhaps, that your sister
Kate, then a young girl, followed
me all through the war. She
would not leave ME. You know
also the peculiar physical energy
ard subtitle force that characterizes
our blood. If you will go back to
the early duys-before we had
heard much of electricity or "spirit-
ualism"-you will remember how
all of you children used to rock
tables and chairs by a power you
could not explain, and how Kate
used to comb sparks off of her hair
to the terror of the colored peo.
pie.
Well, in our desperation tina,
day in the trenches, determined
to have Kate fire the cannon if the
worst came. By rubbing her hands
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-09-06
AFFECTING THE FEELINGS.

"Mabel," said the young hus-
band as vague thrill of horror
passed through his frame, "surely
you are not in earnest! Tell me
you are only jesting''
Only three months had passed
since Since Rodney Algernon Nc
Pelt had led Mabel Washabaugh
to the alter. Only three short
months before had her heart
swelled with joy and pride, and
her nose glistened with the deli
cate shade OF cold pink usually
worn there by young brides, as
she took the solemn vows that
bound her to the manly and de-
voted youth at her side.
And a cloud had already risen
upon the horizon of their married
lie.
Surrounded by all that wealth
and art, guided by the tenderest
affection, could do to make exis-
tence perpetual joy, with an
elegant home in one of the lowell
est suburbs of the western me-
tropolis, Mabel Washabaugh Nc
Pelt had chosen to antagonize her
husband in a matter of vital i'm
portance, involving at once his
civic pride and his self respect as
a man. .=..
81 am in earnest,' she said,
coldly, in answer to his excited
query. Il am not jesting, Rod
ney."
"Mabel," he exclaimed, as he
sank nervelessly into chair and
drummed on the table with
trembling fingers, "tell me! Have
have you any Missouri blood in
your veins?"
Tie young wife scorned to make
reply.
''Think once again, Mabelp' he
said wildly. '.Knowing, as you
do, the utter inadequacy, the Sc
cluded location. the miserable cli-
mate and absolute deafness of
that forlorn old town"
.''1t is useless, Rodney" replied
she, with a careless yawn. IL
don't care a fig for the worlds
fair. l repeat it, l would just as
lief see it go to st Louis as any
where else in the world"
With an ashen face Rodney
Algernon McPelt left the presence
of his wife. His jaw was firmly
set, his eyes blazed with the fire
of a determined purpose, and his
features worked convulsively.
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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-09-06
A statement that the order o

A statement that the order OF
Foresters was the wealthiest
friendly society in the world,
possessing capital of f3.S21 ,163,
is contradictid by adother that the
Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows
has a capital of f6,sO6, 1856.
Or the 10000 qualified voters
in New York city, only $4,000
pay taxes on property. This is a
fine field TOR the single-tax folks
to work in.
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER will be
the first democratic chief justice
to hold court in Charleston S. c.,
since the days of Robert b.
Taney.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-09-06

Sleeping cars have been of slow
introduction in Europe. 1t is now
announced that train of these
cars run between Paris and Rome.
Each car is divided into seven
compartments, two having four
berths each and five ten berths
each.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-09-06
Shortest line to Chicago and all points
east, via ST. PAUL and MINNEAPOLIS.

The Northern Pacific railroad is the only
line running Passenger trains, second-class
sIeepers free af charge), luxurious day
coaches, Pullman palace sleeping cars, pal
ace dining cars meals IS cents.
See that your tickets read via the North
ern Pacific railroad and avoid change OF
cars.
Leave Portland at lO:4O a. M, and 2 a.
m, dailv; arrive OF Minneapolis or st. Paul
at 500 p. IN. third day.
PACIFIC DIVISION - Trains leaye
Front aud G street daily at LOS a, m. and
a. M; arrive at New Tacoma at 6:l5 p.
m. and $50 a. m. connecting with compa-
ny's boats for all points on Puget Sound.
CHAS. S. FEE,
Genl Pass. Agent, st. Paul
A. ID. CHARLTON,
Asst GenI Pass. Agent, No. l2l First st. ,
cor Washington st, Portland, Oregon.
wDepot, corner First and G Streets.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-09-06

Mr.. GLADSTONE defines his do
mestic policy as follows: "When-
ever my wife insists l submit;
whenever | insist she submits.
We never discuss family affairs at
the table, and if anything un-
pleasant occurs during the eve
ming we never refer to it till next
day.'
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-09-06

STEEL rails are quoted in Eng
land at G5 to f5 IS ton, equiva-
lent to $26.25. Freight is $3.50 a
ton, making the rails worth $2o.75
in New York city. Steel rails are
quoted in New York reports at
$27.5O and $2S, or less than free
trade prices with freight added.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-09-06

stroking her hair she could charge
herself with electricity and dis
charge it off the end of her finger in
sparks. When you came up
against our breastworks that day
1--WE did not then know that you
led the column) we were without
means of firing upon you.
"Kate," l called.
eyes, sir,' she answered, CON-
pretending without further words.
Stepping up to one of the guns,
she peered through the portfolio at
the advancing column of blue
coats. l saw her turn pale and
falter, and her eyes were fixed on
anAobject outside. | looked and
saw you in the van of your ranks
fairly in front of our cannon. l
was dazed, but only for an instant.
Our men were beginning to Weld,
and your troops, meeting feeble
resistance, were coming on tri-
umphantly.
"Do your duty Kate,'' said,
and the girl, setting her teeth to-
gether, rubbed her hand twice
over her rough jacket, and lightly
struck the Old-fashioned cannon
right at the touch hole where a
little pile of powder had been
poured. There was an instant dis
charge, and result-confusion in
the Federal lines.
do not know. unless Provi-
dence came directly to your aid,
how you escaped. But | loved
my state, and we thought we were
right, boy. You need never to
have known this, for few saw it,
and they are gone. But fathers
returning affection compels me to
tell all. In the fierce love we had
for our cause we would have sacri-
feed you. l thank God that in
the fearful rain of shot that day
you were spared. Kate lives to
join in this request that you for
give"
"There is nothing in this to ex-
cite any incredulity," the Major
said, in speaking of the letter.
"My father is right. All our fami-
ly are human electric batteries.
Let me give you an illustration"
The Major sat down, pulled of
a shoe and stocking, scraped his
bare foot On the carpet few times.
Turning on gas Jet he took his
finger and applied it at the gas
vent. Instantly the gas ignited
from the spark that was given off
his finger.
81 haven't done that for years. -
said he, "but | knew that l could
do it unless my physical makeup
had changed. It's not SO re-
markable. Many people, doubt
less, could di it if they but knew W
their power.
Eyes, l shall go back to Miss
issippi, and Kate will be just as
dear to me as if she had blown up
Jeff Davis instead Of having fired
at her Yankee brother."- lind.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-09-06

Does the reader suppose that
this young husband rushed off to a
lawyers office, and, burning with
just Indignation, instituted pro-
ceedings for divorce?"
He did not. He simply had his
misguided wife sent to an insane
asylum.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-09-06

A Boston railroad works its
engineers and fremen 127 hours
one week and 80 the next. They
get $15 and $11 per week respect
lively.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-09-06

A projected canal across the
upper part of Italy, connecting
the Adriatic and the Mediterra-
mean, would take six years to
build and cost in all $125, ,OO0,-
900.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-09-06
BEST I'M THE WORLD.
Further Great Cures of Skin
Diseases by Cuticura.

Boy one year and half old. Face and body
i'll IL terrible condition, being covered with
sores. Sulphur springs fail. Cured by
Cuticura Remedies.
have used your CUTICURA REMEDIES in
two cases where 1t proved to be successful.
The first was in the case of a boy year and
halt old. His face and body were in a
terrible condition, the former being COM
rletely covered with sores I took him To
the Massena Sulphur Springs, but he did
not improve any. l was then advised to
try the CUTIcURA REMEDIES, which did.
He took one and one half bottles of CUTICuRA
REsoLvENT, when his skin was as smooth as
could b., and is to-day. l used the CUTI-
cURA on his sores and the CUTICURA SOAP
i'm washing him. He is now five years OF
age, and all right. The other case was a
disease of the scalp, which was cured by
washing with the CUTICURA SOAP and rub
ling in the CUTICURA, one bottle of Curt
cURA REsoLvENT being used. They have
proved successful in every case where have
advised the use of them. 1t is surprising
how rapidly child will improve under
their treatment | recommend them for any
disease of the skin as being the best in the
world. This is my experience, and l am
ready to stand by my statement.
JOHN r. BERO,
American House, Hogansburgh, N. Y.
An Unbearable Skin Disease Cured.
I have been afflicted since last March
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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-09-06

The Detroit Free Press spoils
the thrilling Chicago story of the
carrying away of a 2-year-old child
by bundle of toy balloons and
her rescue by sharp shooter, by
showing that it would take 5000
toy balloons to lift an average
child of two years.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-09-06
RAILWAY AND NAVIGATION.
Oregon Pacific Railroad and
Oregon Development Co.'S
STEAMSHIP LINE.

235 Miles Shorter; 20 Hours Less time
than by any other route. First class
through passe niger and freight line from
Portland all points in the Willamette valley
to and from San Francisco, Cal.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-09-06

The members of the South Fork
Fishing Club, whose carelessness
resulted in the horrible Johnstown
disaster, are contemplating re-
building the dam recently de
stroyed. In case they attempt
to do SO, the people would be
justified in dumping every mem
Der of the club into the fishing
pond.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-09-06

nEnVJn Skin and Scalp preserved and
kAkI y beautifed by CUTIcURA SOAP.
Absolutely pure.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-09-06
Pains and Weakness

q I'D OF females instantly relieved by
MR that new, elegant, and infallible
Antidote to Pain, Inflammation,
and Weakness, the Cuticura Anti-Pain
Plaster The first and only instantaneous
pain-kilIing plaster.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-09-06

I'D EE 10 SILK AND SATIN NECKTIES.
L hGE Agen ts' Snap box and Outfit, y COS
The NECKTIE Co, Augusta, Ma. Please state
what periodical you saw our advertisement m.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-09-06
GREAT OVERLAND ROUTE!
NORTHERN
PACIFIC
.RaiIrOad.-

Two fast trains daily! No change OF cars!
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-09-06

Boy one year and half old. Face and body
in a terrible condition, being covered with
sores Sulphur springs fail. Cured by
Cuticura Remedies.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-12-25
The Christmas Observance,

Christmas has not run itself into the
ground" Every year 1t takes a higher
place In the worlds regard. This year
it will be observed by more people and
by a greater portion Of the inhabitants
OF tho globe than atany timO since the
first Christmas in lifelong and l%ongthGn.
ing line Of succession.
1t must be admitted that the day Ia
observed by many who are not OF Chris.
tian faith, TO whom the observance and
the association are Of character purely
social. 1t Is true, also, that for count.
less theoretical Christians the Christmas
impression has In 1t llttlO Of religious
feeling,
1t Is not that tho Christian religion 10
losing its hold, but that tho social iea-
turU Of tho Christmas tide has become
smoro marked. Earnest Christians may
regret this, yet 90 the current has set,
and II by no means follows that religious
conviction is less deeply craven Oh the
mind and the heart Of UhrIstendom.
The increasing social drift OF the OBJ.
seryanCO no more suggests ths decay Of
the Christian faith than the same thing
Is suggested by the iACreMing tendency
Of the churches to blend with religious
life that social intercourse which warns
into a nearer and dpater fellowship the
men and women who Try 10 serve The
one God, d
II the day brings more smllOs and lOss
auSIctity than In other times, Il need
not worry Christians to SOC In this an.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-12-25
ncclre FOR n Merry ChrIstmn,.


Everybody has his own way Of cele-
brating Christmas-and 80 have his ais
tiers and his cousins and his aunts. The
INTELLlGENcER being everybody friend,
and in this season Of good will being at
peace with all the world, begs 10 Offer q
few kindly suggestions.
For this day only lot business 90 to
the dogs. Let care look out for itself
aud be hanged to it, Make happy as
many as you can and insure your own
happiness. Give the children a good
long liberal inch, and II they take an ell
you can get them back within the Gus
tomary bounds betwixt this and next
Christmas.
II a friend has not received so many
or 50 valuable presents as yourself, don't
make him feel small over his, As you
value the sweet propriety Of these Christ
mas times don't apologize to y friend for
not giving m%ore-nothinG could DO o
greater insult thPn the suggestion such q
policy embodies. Don't ba ashamed Of
anything you have received-that would
be a serious reflection on yourself.
Don't eat too much; the stomach has
no Christmas attachment. As TO treat.
ing-treOt strong drink with a politely
distant and discriminating Difference.
Have a rafting good time; go to bed
quite sober" and get up in the morning
with a conscience as clear us a bell, ready
for my business.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-12-25

Rev. +. NJ. Shrout Pastor United
Brethren church, Blue Mound, Kany
says: ~ feel II my duty to tell what
wonders Dr.. Kings New Discovery has
done for me. My lungs were badly dis.
eased, and my practitioners thought
could live only few weeke. took five
bottles Of DR.. Kings New Discovery and
am sound and well, gaining 20 pounds
In weight"
Folks Combination, writesi after a
thorough trial and convincing evidence,
i AM confident DR.. Kings New Dlscov.
cry for consumption, beats 'em all and
cures when everything else falls. The
greatest Kindness | can do my many
thousand friends Is to urge thOm to try
IT, Free tFial bottles at Logan Drug
Coz Drug Store. Regular sizes 90 cents
and 81. 90.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-12-25
TIR MRST YLRGINIALANp BOOM.

NNNMHNNNNH HH..
Same Recent Large TransactioRa In Hardy,
PdndletOn and Pocahontas Counties,
Valuable iron and Timber Tracts,
The MooreAald Examiner notes some
recent extensive real estate deals in that
section Of the State, Among them are
the iollowingt
a few months ago Messrs, sommer'
vile and Daley, trustees, sold to Mr..
William A. Engtmen about $500 acres
Of timber land for $4,000. This Ia a
very valuable tract Of land.
Aweek or two ago we mentioned the
fact that Or. Parran had sold 10 Joseph
and I. IL. o. Pancake, Of Hampshire
county, q track Of 1900 or 5000 acres oil
bark land at sixty cents an acre,
Last week some Pennsylvanians were
here and closed the bargain with J. II.
Btoll for the "Blg Survey, at ga cents
per acre. This il q valuable tract OF
mountain land lying East OF Mooreteld,
and contains some six or eight thousand
acres. II has upon ~ u large quantity
OF bark and timber and is pnderlaid
with iron ore, We understand that MIR.
Broll reserves the mineral right,
IL Is also said that VIM, Stump, Of
Hampshire, has Rold his mountain land,
IN South Fork, &c. the aaplO party.
Last Friday Messrs. j, D, Heiskell
and Jno. W, Chambers, trustees, -old to
Hon. w. f. Dyer, Of Petersburg. u tract
Of about 800 acres Of the John Y. Van
meter land, lying back OF Old Fields,
along the road leading To Patterson
Greek. Price paid s. per acre. This
is a fine tract OF grazing and timber
land.
Referring to some large transactions
effected lately by Hon. WILDER +. Dyer
Of Grant county, the EXAMINER says: In
March last, as attorney for the widow
and heirs Of j. b. Anderson, deG'd,' MIR,
Dyer soldiO New York capitalists $4,000
acres Of fine timber land lying In PEN
| dleton and Randolph counties, the
greater portion In Pendleton, for the
sum Of S82,5O0. This was a portion OF u
tract Of about $1,000 acres patented IN
1874 by the Commonwealth OF Virginia
TO Levi Holliu@Worth OF Philadelphia.
In March 1887 Mr.. Dyer bought Of D.
g. MGClung, Esq, Of franklin, 24,S24
acres, q POTION Oh Ln9 ~
survey, OF e5,vVV scg oS aooVe InITNr NV.
acre, This tract Mr.. Dyer has recently
sold to u Baltimore party at u meat little
profit, gettlng therefore SsVy pr aCLei
IhIs,land Is slluaten IN tspuleSon an ANY,
Pocanontas Gounues, M, T u"
Highland county, ~, u.aSV Wpy De'
tween the SINKS country anu GIap uot'
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-12-25
.OLp.PlsHIONEp TELRaRlPHY.
The Chioi operators and sIanassrs Used
mImh Polna like IInamsn.S

The Chief OppFRtern and Aianagera Used 70
Climb Poles Like LInsmsl.
'Nsu Ysrt SIN,
Speaking Of the claim Of the late
Charles Tappap Smith to have intented
the spurs with which electric lipenen
ascend poles, one Of the veterans in the
Western Union service said the other
II don't think Smith really did get
upthe spurs that are now psedi they
are such simple affairs that they prob
ABLY lust grew naturally out Of tile first
devices that were hrst used 10 assist in
pole.cllmbing, think II probable,
howeYerIthat Smith did invent the orig
inal c%oniriVance, which was q much
more clumsy and %inConvenient affair
than the,spurs, though 1t doubtless sug-
gested them. In my early days in tele-
Sraph work, we used things some.
thing after the model Of these
tongs that you crack loaf sugar with
Id help us up the poles. There
was one set for the hands and another
for the feet. We put the tongs in our
hands as high up the pole as we could
reach and jabbed them into the wood
with jerk. Then we pulled ourselves
up as far as possible by main strength
and brought the tongs on our feet TO-
gether around the pole; they held us
while we got a fresh hold with the tongs
in our hands, and 80 we gradual got up
the pole, It was very slow and clumsy
compared with the way llnemen run up
and down poles now,
"In those days" continued the. vet
eran, ""telegraphing was a good deal Of Q
trade, Before q man could be manager
Of an office he had TO know the whole
business from the bottom up, and be
had to take his turn at doing pretty
much everything in 1t besides. The
manager and a couple OF boys would
constitute the force at such an office
as Jersey City, and II the wire
broke In a storm, or AZ any
other time there was trouble on the wire
when the regular liaeman was already
out, the manager, who was also cashier
chief operator, delivery clerk and every
thing else, would turn over as many
duties as he could to the eldest boy, and
letting the rest Of them slide, would
take i pair Of climbers and so out Y
hunkupthe break or crossing, I've don't
1t myself many atime, and used TO thInl
l could 90 up u pole as lively as the besI
Of them"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-12-25
SALE.

by virtue Of a deed Of trust made By Chifa
Beul0f aud Rosa Beutet, his wiiG V ~ n,
trustee, dated June y, 1857, recorded ~ lf yI S,.
IL. WoSt VifTiniS, in deed Of Trust HOOK No y
page 226, / will sell at publlohncilon A. We iV''
door Of tho Court House Of said county O'
SATURDAY, tho 18th DAY Of JASuARi' y,
commencing al 10 O'Clock AIN tho 3sos w
property, that n 10 say! The nOi!hsTS
fourth d lot numbered thlfiy'lhit ltos" .'tb
tho west side Of Market street nelWvsIa Vt5s
and seventh streets, IN Jonathan Zane tlN"
70 the city Of Wheeling. ,Ilsf
Ths Title d believed To be perfect lnl
a. trustee | will convoy only The WV WV"
me by laid deed Of trust. mn
TEhM6 or 8ALE-Oncdhifd R1a a, muir IN
o. the purchaser elects W pay ~ ~ lnIstII.
Of sale, the balance In two equal l,n,. lps
one and Two years notes bearing IHD WA ~
tnshtSl' NJ" n, J, " COWDES It,pS
". II, HALLEA, AuCtlOnCet. ~
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