The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-06

wise than happy.
4 barrel Of old bourbon whiskey was
shipped 10 Lebanon this week and was
returned forthwith. Was i a mistake
or l. the 'original package law in
force in this country
It Is shame and disgrace TO any
railroad, lie it narrow or wide gauge,
that will compel its passengers to stand
i'm the snow as they are forced TO do at
the Lebanon Junction.
Alta meeting Of the stockholders Of
the Calapuuia and Blue River mining
company in Brownsville Monday eve
ming, it was decided 20 put mill on
the property early in the spring.
Rev. c. 4. Mcdonald is agent for
the famous Epworth pianos and
organs, which for tone, durability and
| finish, are unexcelled. Inquire at EX-
PRESS office for prices and terms.
If your are suffering with weak or in
famed eyes, or granuated eyelids, you
can be Quickly cured by using DR.. ].
III. McLean's Strengthening Eye Salve.
% cents box, at j. n. Boards.
On the lst of March. 1891, Mr.. J. II.
McClun and Miss Elmira Duniway.
both of Sweet Home, were united i'm
holy wedlock; Thos. A. Yast, pastor of
Evangelical church at Sweet Home,
officiating.
j. A. Beard sold his drug store last
week To Messrs j. A. Roberts and
Charley Miller ofthis place. Although
John will retire from the business, we
are assured that he will continue To
abide with us.
Now that immigrants are coming
into our town, it may be well for our
people to remember that first impress
sions are usually lasting and very
much depends upon our manner Of re-
eeiving strangers.
Phil Smith makes good time as as
SCISSOR; having assessed the county sew
eral times, he knows where to find every
man, where every man has been found
and what he is worth when he is found.
You can't dodge Phil.
A gentleman is canvassing our town
with view to establishing n circulating
| library. BY the close of the week n
membership will have been enrolled
sufficient to guarantee to our town a
valuable circulating library.
One of our citizens who has resided
I in Lebanon but a few months, has
/ returned after months travel in diff
ferent parts ofthe country, satisfied that
/ Linn county and this particular part
of the county is unexcelled.
A total abstainer, seventy-five years
Of age, challenged any man who used
| tobacco to wrestle with him last Sat
urday and not single lover of the
narcotic plant dared grapple with
this advocate of temperance.
Died, Sunday, March L, 1891, near
Shedd, of diphtheria, Thomas, son of
/ Mr.. John Morgan, aged u years. This
is the second son Mr.. Morgan has lost
/ from this disease; and two others are
afflicted, but are improving.
Be sure and read the mining news in
\ this issue. The facts set forth in this
article can be relied upon. The mines
in the Calapooia and Blue River dis
1 tricts are ali that we have claimed them
| TO be, rich, easy of access and practically
inexhaustible.
There are many accidents and dis
eases which effect Stock and cause Sc
rious Inconvenience and loss to the
farmer in his work, which may be
quickly remedied by the use of DR.. J.
! H. McIean's Volcanic Oil Liniment.
I For sale by j. a. Beard.
/ The weather on Saturday night and
1 Sunday last, left conglomeration Of
/ ice, snow, mud, etc, on our streets
that was not pleasant mixture by
4 any means, and we don't know
whether 10 charge it to winter or spring,
! perhaps both are 10 blame.
The two towns Of Brownsville are to
/ he united under one charter, saws the
Times. 1t is much better to have the
| two towns under one government
Such a union viii keep down petty
1 jealousies which are sure to arrise in
the absence Of such a compact.
Rsv T.. f. Thompson, of the C. p.
church, arrived in Lebanon Wednes-
day and Will hold services in the G. p.
church each evening this weei,; also
Sunday morning and evening. Rev.
Thompson is n newcomer to this
country and bears the best of creden-
/ tials.
There are abont twenty-five families
/ in Lebanon, the majority ofthem new
J corners, who do not read the EMPRESS
and if they do not want their names
/ to appear in our forthcoming table set
ting forth the illiteTacy ofthis town
they would better take up their line Of
march in time to avoid notoriety.
Reduced rates at the photograph gall
I lefy one week longer. Having run
short of material lately, 1 was unable
to accommodate my patrons, but /
now have the materials and the re-
duced rates will obtain one week longer.
g 90 per dozen for cabinet photos.
w. ID. MESARVEY.
The following is the most comical
piece of graveyard literature we ever
remember to have read. IT appears as
an epitaph in an English cemetery
and reads rs follows:
| Here lie the remains Of Albert Gordon
Mouth almighty and teeth aceordini;
Stranger, tread lightly oer this wonder.
If he opens his mouth yon gone, by thunder.
We wonder that the Grangers as a
body do not take hold of the sugar
beet industry. If there is a state in
the Union that can excel Oregon in
growing this vegetable we do not know
it, and why our people should be so
slow in inaugurating the beet-sugar in
dustry, has puzzled wiser heads than
ours.
Among the government sinecures in
this part of the Union we may men,
ton that of carrying the mail between
Lebanon and Lacomb. The latter
town has a bi-weekly mail service
which costs the government two dol
lars a week for fifty-two weeks in the
year, making an annual expenditure
of Sl04.
F. Fl. Roseo of Albany was IN town
this week with a view to feeling the
public pulse with reference to the
Albany bridge. Let us regard Linn
build up the interests of the whole by
lcfT. f1,o cute,