The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1890-08-01

August 18th.
Save fare from Corvallis to Portland
by purchasing your tickets for the east
from Geo. F. Eglin, agent for the
Union Pacific Co.
The warehouse of the Benton
County Flourlng Mills Co. is now
ready to receive grain. Its capacity is
10000 bushels.
Mrs. John Kelsay started for Puyal-
J lup, near Tacoma, on Wednesdays
train, to visit her mother, Mrs. Cont
ncr, who has been quite ill for some
time.
DIR. 7. B. Lee has been confined to
his room the past week. Of late the
doctors health has not been as good as
his friends would be pleased to have
him enjoy.
A Chinaman who had been work
ing on the narrow-gauge railroad nine
miles east of Albany, committed sui
eide last Sunday night by hanging him.
self to an oak tree.
Prof Letcher is in receipt of IA very
| fiattering offer to return to his native
state. Virginia, and accept position
as professor of mathematics in one of
the educational Institutions of that
state.
DR.. Jenkins, from San Diego, passed
through Corvallis Wednesday morning
with a mule team which he had driven
the entire distance, some 1000 miles.
The doctor is out for the summer and
will spend the time in the mountains
of Oregon.
Mr. w. w. Elliott, manager of the
Elliott Publishing Co., San Francisco,
publishers of birds-eye views, maps,
Autographs, ETC., was in Corvallis Sat
urday and Sunday. He will be IN this
part of Oregon again in a few weeks,
when he will make an effort to obtain
some work from Corvallis and Benton
County.
Rev. A. Rogers has rendered his res
ignation as pastor of the Congregation
al church of this city to take effect
about the first of September. Persons
of Mr. Rogers ability and power of Or
atory are not numerous and his resig-
nation may prove to be a serious loss
to the cause of Christ in this COM
munity.
1t is claimed that some of the evan
gellsts who predicted the destruction of
Oakland, Cal, and other localities, are
paying Oregon a visit. They should
be mindful of their own fate if they
make any rash prophecies concerning
any of our towns. We shall not allow
the boom spirit to be retarded in any
such manner.
The w. V. S. L. & L. Co. have in
their office sample of wheat which is
said to be a remarkable example Of pro-
ductiveness. 1t consists of fifteen
straws from one grain the heads on
the straws averaging seventy grains.
The wheat is of the hazel club variety
end grew on the Bennett place on the
Philomath road.
A Sure cure for the whisky habit:
DIR. Livingston's Antidote tor Drunk
enness will cure any case Of the liquor
habit in from ten to thirty days, from
the moderate drinker to the drunkard.
The Antidote can be given in cup of
coffee without the knowledge of the
person taking it. The Antidote will
not injure the health in any way. Man
ufactured by the Livingston Chemical
Co., Portland. Oregon, Or from Allen
& Woodward, sole agents, Corvallis.
On Saturday last freight train on
the Southern Pacific was wrecked at
Willsburg station, five miles from Port
land. Four freight cars were derailed
and badly smashed. The wreck was
caused by large rock from one of the
cars loaded with building stone falling
IN front of the car Mrs Della Ander-
son, lady of 65 years of age, who was
standing On the platform, presumably
waiting for the passenger train due in
a short time, was struck by flying tim
bers and SO badly injured that she died
in few hours afterwards. A little
girl who was with her barely escaped.
The annual meeting of the Oregon
Press Association at the metropolis