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Year: 1873

Once on q time their dwelt in the city of
Alton u worthy but rather irritable gentle
man, who was the host of famous hotel
there known as the Franklin House.
Numerous citizens daily drew their rations
from his literally furnished table, and not
few visitors from the rural districts pre-
ferped the substantial fare of the Franklin
House to the more pretentious board of the
Alton House. One day in addition TO all
the good things with which the dinner table
was loaded, there was at the lower end a
nice roast pig, that would have tickled the
palate of the gentle "Elia," who discours-
es so eloquently on that savory Wand.


At the conclusion of the meal this roast
pig remained intact, when along came
belated drover, who sat down beside it, and
deVoured the whole of it. The landlord
looked on amazed and was puzzled to see
where his profit was to come in after de-
ducting dollar-and-a-half pig from Hfty-
cent dinner ticket Giving vent to his dis
gust, he said very sarcastieally to the dro-
yer, "Isn't there something else you would
like to be helped tos'' Wal--yas,"
drawled out the drover; 81 don't care if !
take another of them little hogs This
was too much for the equanimity of the
landlord, and to keep himself flom ''spon-
taneously confusing like Dorothea, he
was compelled to rush ont in the open ali
where he could vent few unorthodox
expressions without being overheard by the
elect, Of which he was one.


rB-"Tmth Is ;smighty, and will prevail"
So goes the ancient saw. But 1t is mighty
! slow sometimes prevailing.
Year: 1873

G7g- Doctrines are Of use only as they are
practioed. Men may go to perdition with
their heads full Of truth. To hold the
truth and fight for it is one thing to be
sancti6ed through it is another.
Year: 1873

The prices of all grain and farm
products are row so low, as scarcely
to pay the farmer for his labor and
exten.es in creating them. This
will discourage industry and check
production, for men cannot be expected
to follow one years unrequitted toll
by another.


The railroads, however come IN for
a share Of responsibility of this
stogration They are not responsible as
so many excited people insist, for the
evil in all its magnitude. But they do
not adapt themselves with sufficient
Aexibiity to the condition of things
They do not. in sympathy with the
general appreciation, adjust their
freights to the actual market value of
what they carry. When prices ere
high-when the blight and the presence
of armies covered half of Europe,
then farmers did not complain of high
freishts. Their profits were large.
They made large fortunes, They
could indulge the railroads in charging
high rates-rates that are now ruins
Gus.


The railroad companiesstand in
their own light They ought volun ia
rily to take part of the burden. They
ought to lower freights to point that
will justify the farmer in shipping at
once. If they do not, the present crop
lies over. The tarmes, with his
pranaries full of old corn and wheat
will rest on that. He will SOW light
and produce little this year, and VII
consume what he has on hand. The
railroads will lose the traffic. Then
cars will rust on the slde-tracks
Their receipts will fall off and div'
dends disappear. BY maintaining wal
prices, they cripple the farmers, an'
lose the transportation of the surplus OF
hand, and the crop of next seasot
besides. It is better for them to bring
their prices down to rates that VII
move things, whether they maxi
Il Profits for the next three months or no.
Wrist get the surplus out Of the way AM
Year: 1873

put it in the power Of the farmers to
try again. This is true policy for the


Railroads. They will gain by it in the
end. and will, in thus showing a will
ineness to bear share Of the present
buldeDss, and Inconvenience, remove
most of the feeling now existing against
them.
Year: 1873

nHE ILLUSTRATED pHRENOLOGICAL
Il JOURNAL, is in every respect First
Glass Magazine. Its articles are of the highest
interest to all. Itteaches what we are and how
to make the most of ourselves. The infcrma-
tien it contains on the Laws Of Life and Health
is well worth the price of the Magazine to every
Family. tits published at So 90 year. By


special arrangement we are enabled to ohee
the PHREx0LoGICAL Journal as a Premium or
a new subsc ribers to the OKEGoN REPrBLIcAS.
or will furnish the PHYSIOLOGICAL JOURNAL
and OREGON REPUBLICAN together for 81 90
We commend the JOURNAL to all who want
n good magazine
Year: 1873

NO ACTION TAKEN on THE RIVAL REPUBLICAN CAN


DIDATEs-A TEMPERANCE TICKET SUGGESTED


BosToN, Sept. 3.-At a meeting of the Mas
sachusetts Temperance Alliance, to-day, Mr.. Galley
member of the Campaign Committee and warm But
Ter man. reported that the Committee was not yet ready
TO make any extended report He said they bad not yet
committed themselves either in favor Of Butler or wash
burn and had concluded make every effort TO elect
true Temperance man, the question OF specifying who
should or should not be Governor being entirely
dropped The motion TO adopt Mr. Calley's report met
with considerable opposition, but after short dlschs
sion it was adopted. Judge PItmsn made report upon
tbe LAST National Temperance Convention He review ed
the proceedings body and stated that not
as successful might have been wished, owing TO a
of attendance
Year: 1873

The Acting Solicitor OF the Treasury, this alternOrn
sout 10 Judge Fisher, United States Attorney for the
District of Columbia the evidence aud report in the
wawaset investigation and instructed that officer to
institute the necessary suits against any and all persons
who have Incurred penalty forfeiture growing out
OF the navigation destruction of this vessel and for
enforcement Of which the United States be made
a party or Il interested The District Attorney is moi
strueted as 10 whether he snail institute criminal pro-
ceedings that matter being left TO his discretion ;
but his attention is called to the several acts Of Con-
gress the subject
Year: 1873

How 10 CooP UP HEN.-When a


woman has a hen to drive into a coop,


she takes hold of her hoops with both


hands, shakes them quietly toward the
delinquent, and says, "Shew, there !"
The hen takes one look at the object to
convince herself it's woman, and then
stalks majestically into the coop, in per-
feet disgust of the sex. A man don't do
that way. He goes out doors and says,
1T is singular nobody in this house can
drive hen but myself" and picking up
a stick Of wood, hurls it at the offending
biped and observes, " Get in there, you
thief !" The hen Immediately loses her
reason and dashes TO the other end of the
yard. The man straightway dashes after
her. She comes back again with her
head down, her wings out, and followed
by an assortment of stove wood, fruit
cans and coal clinkers, with much puff
ing and a very mad man in the rear.
Then she skins up on the stoop and under
the barn, and over a fence or two and
around the house, and back again to the
coop, all the while talking as only an ex-
cited hen can talk, and all the while fol-
lowed by things convenient for handling,
and by man whose coat is on the ground
and whose perspiration and profanity APP
pear to have no limit. By this time the
other hens have come out TO take a hand
in the debate and help dodge the missiles
and then the man says every hen in
the place shall be sold in the morning,
and puts on his things and goes down
street; and the woman dons her hoops
and has every one of those hens housed
and contented in two minutes, and the
only sound heard on the premises is the
Oldest boy as he mends the broken pick
Year: 1873

A PARENT writes to US that he is an
noyed and panied by his son staying out
nights, and asks us if we can present q
remedy for his rapidly growing evil.
There are several remedies. The boys
spire may be broken with an AK, or he
may be nailed to the floor with red hot
railroad spike, driven through his abdo-
men, but the most efiectual way is to
compel him to wear patched clothing
Ddabu1y Ne,0S.
Year: 1873

SOME boys dropped an anvil weighing
two hundred pounds out of a third-story
window on the head of negro who was
passing, and he had them arrested. He
said he was willing to let the boys have
fIn, but when they jammed gemmen's
hat down over his eyes in that manner,
the law must take its course.
Year: 1873

a LADY Of literary turn writes to
know if she can pay for her paper by
writing poetry. Oh, certainly, we will
allow three cents pound for manuscript
poetry, or she can darn our stockings for
the amount-it's all the same to us. We
are in favor of patronizing home talent.
--YOnkc1''S gazette.
Year: 1873

" YOUR HAIR Is coming out or turning grey, dc
not murmur over misfortune you can so easily
avert. Ayers Hair Vigor will remove the cause
OF your grief by restoring your hair TO iti
natural color, and Herewith your good looks and
good nature.
Year: 1873

"But notwithstanding all this, the Lynch
Returning Board, with the sort of evidence
which was before them, had no power under
the law of the State to investigate these char
ges of fraud and injury upon their convictions
of wrongs that had been suffered"


These words embrace the marrow of
the report made by the Senate commit
tee, which was telegraphed in yester-
days edition. They embody in clear
and distinct terms condemnation
of the whole proceeding and main con-
clusion of the Lynch Board. They ex-
press, as strongly as could be desired
by us, the judgment of that committee
against the action of that board. In
other words, it is here admitted that
the Kellogg Government, in its entirety
is fraudulent, usurping and illegal
one. 1t reverses and sets aside the or
der in chancery of Judge Durell and
the decision of our Supreme Court.


It remains to be seen whether the
Congress will act consistently with
this deliberate conviction. Will it act
by ordering new election and setting
aside the prima facie rights of those re-
turned by the Wharton Board, or who
have the evidence, aside from those re-
turns, that they received majority of
the votes? This would be too fagrantly
inconsistent, and would manifest too
grossa partnership. In order to square
their acts with their professions, it
seems to US inevitable that the Senate
Committee must report that the Kel-
logg Government is IA usnrpation, and
the McEnry Government is the primG
tacie legal one in the State of Louisi-
ana.-N. o. Picayune
Year: 1873

A PHENoMEEoN.--On the 7th of February
inst, at about o'clock A. NJ, the passengers
on board of the steamer Peerless" on her re-
turn trip from New Orleans, were enabled to
witness an unusual phenomenon in Old River,
where the waters of that stream empties into
the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers. A
thin sheet of ice covered the river from bank
to bank and the boat in ploughing through
this light coating of ice caused the fragments
to glide along over the river distance of Is or
90 feet ahead All on board witnessed the
unusual sight, and five or six of the employees
OF the boat, t,-among whom were two old
steamboatmen that have been running in this
trade for 20 or 25 years,--declare that this is
the first time they have witnessed this sight
What renders the circumstance more aston
ishing is that on that night the temperature
was comparatively moderate. 1t is true the
Ice was found only at that place extending
over distance of about half mile, at the
spot where the north wind blew upon the river
like through funnel, and where the current
isimperceptible.
Year: 1873

g We resume the publication of the
COURIER to-day, after a forced suspension OF
five weeks, having met with unnecessary de-
lay. in setting up our new press, owing to the
dilatory manner in which our order for im-
portant parts of machinery from the manu-
factory in New York was flled-reaching here
at least two weeks later than it ought to.


Being now in complete working order, We
again solicit the encouragement of our friends
and the public.
Year: 1873

Ey Notwithstanding the immense business
done by Munzesheimer in the grocery line
particularly in family groceries and plantation
supplies-tthe supply of all grades of flour
being speciality with himl-hc keeps his
stock SO well up to the demands of his Gus
toners that you can scarcely ever call for
anything that he can not furnish, and at the
most reasonable prices.
Year: 1873

TT Two expert fishermen left our town on
yesterday for the purpose of sending fSesh
fish from Darbonne, to supply our Market
The first invoice will arrive on Friday next at
the break of day.
Year: 1873

BEHrED TIME. The present number Of onr
paper is issued more than three days behind
time, but win hereafter appear ON the regular
days of publication, every Saturday morning,
as usual,
Year: 1873

II Owing to enjoying delays is getting
our press up, and our time being entirely oc-
eupied in getting under way again, we have
been necessarily compelled TO neglect our To-
cal department somewhat in the present issue.
Year: 1873

be proven that the canvass was entered
into BY the fusion party, headed; by
the late Governor, with the avowed
purpose Of ofcarryingthe election against
General Grant and the Republican
party, by the adoption Of any means
necessary for the purpose. l am pre-
pared to show that partisans support
ing the fusion ticket frequently de-
clared during the canvass that the
success of that ticket was certain, ir-
respective of the ballots cast, declaring
that the Governor had the election all
in his own hands; that he could elect
or "count in" any candidate he
pleased. am prepared to show that
the obstacles thrown in the way Of the
Republican voters Of every class were
especially directed against one class
Of them, on account of their color and
previous condition, it being notorious
that, with very rare exceptions, the
voters Of that class favored very de-
cidedly the Republican ticket. All
these charges am prepared to mlin-
tain. My opponents failing to receive
any countenance from the different
legal tribunals, both State and federal,
that have been appealed to, have re-


sorted to the novel experiment of
sending abroad travelling committee,
aided by eminent counsel, to exhibit
Indignation before the people and, if
possible, obtain their sympathy by
en- pnvte statements and concealment
of the real facts of the case. They
indicate q desire that IN investigation
be had. ] have at all times expressed
my readiness to join them in this. /
would not hold an Office to which l
did not believe myself to be elected.
] desire that the fullest investigation
may be gone into Of this whole con-
troversy, to the end that the action
taken by the courts and by the ma
tional administration may be vindica-
ted.


In taking the solemn oath of chief
magistrate, it is with a sincere desire
to do all in my power essential to Sc
cure the peace, prosperity and fullest
development Of the State. To this
end ask the aid and sympathy ofsall
good citizens; l demand, asI have y
right to expect, your earnest CO opera
ton, and l invoke the generous smiles
OF an overruling Providence. ft
Year: 1873

An English writer has recently as
serted that an undue proportion of
lime in tile system is the cause Of pre-
mature gray hair, and ad vises to avoid
hard water, either for drinking pur-
poses OF when converted into tea,
coffee Or soup, because hard water is
always strongly impregnated with
lime. Hard water may be softened by
boiling it; let it become cold, and then
use it as q beverage. -'t .t.t-
Year: 1873

An Illinois man is going to Cali
fornia in 3 balloon, to avoid the heat,
dust, and fare of railroad travel. He
will bounce over the Rocky Mountains
like rubber bali, and come down
dead or smiling ON the slope.
Year: 1873

A HORRIBLE STORY.-A dreadful
accident occurred in Rhode Island,
Saturday, 14th ult. Two men, named
Smith and Drew, were employed in
Johnston as wood choppers. It was
a cold windy day, and the men, while
at work, kept up q hot fire under q
large overhanging rock. By keeping
q brisk fire they warmed the rock
itself, and thus, by radiation, secured
a really warm place. After work, as
it is supposed, they went to the fire to
warm themselves and have a smoke
before going home. While they were
seated there the rock cracked and fell
over ON them, and they were found
under it on Monday. Smith was evil
IDENTIFY killed on the instant, but Drew
had struggled to free himself. He had
reached his ak and chopped his own
foot off, but his body was still held
fast, and after vain efforts to get away


he had ended his struggles by cutting
his own throat with an Ak. The rock


was probably as hot as it was heavy,


and the suffering Of the poor man must
have been beyond description. Smith,


the one first killed, had bsen in the
army at various times, had both legs
and three ribs broken, and bullet in


his body. He was thrown out of en-


ployment in Boston by the fire, and
seems all his life to have been one Of
fortunes victims. The whole story is
as horrible as can well be imagined.
Year: 1873

Here's story with a moral for the
boys: A little boy ran away from
school to 60 chestnuting. During the
expedition he fell twice ont of one tree
to the imminent danger Of his life,
was licked by one of the other boys
whose breath he materially lessehea
by stumbling, against his stomachj )
ran a silver into his knee, and was
bitten violently upon the neck ty a
new bug. When he got homo his
father anointel him with the boss end
of billiard cue, and the next day at
school the teacher escorted him twice
around the room by his poorest ear.
He says that chestnuts are 10 worny


this year that it don't pay to % after,
them! .-
Year: 1873

wanted. The bark Of these greedy and vim
dctive men is worse than their bite. Nothino
is gained by yielding to them. The White
House influence, it must be admitted, is moro
formidable. But 1t is not likely that II the
Secretary Of State would once refuse to permit
the appointment of known vagabond, ths
President would make an issue about it. And
II he did, who should hesitate about the riebt
thing to do under the circumstances


There IL not the least difficulty in inducino
the best men in the country to accept all ths
offices in the gift Of the Government. Tbs
new Provisional Commissioners, who are now
trying to repair our damages in Vienna, vera
found by Mr.. Jay in an hours promenade.
They are all men Of character and stand.
ing, free from any grovelling tempta-
tions or desires. Why could not such
men have been appointed in the beginning :
Why should any other sort ever be thought
of With President and Secretary of
State who agreed in respect and care for ths
public service, nothing would be easier than
to have at all times diplomatic body which
should be at once serviceable and credit
able. But what can be expected, when
spirit of reprehensible compliance
prevents the protests of the men who
know what the service requires i-when
men like Mr.. Fish sign the commissions Of
men like Cramer and Meyer, and Dorman B.
Eaton takes up the Civil Service mask which
George William Curtis has thrown down in
disgust, and prepares to repeat the old pathetic
comedy over againf
Year: 1873

In one of the oriental cosmogonies the world
rests on a serpent, which rests on an elephant,
which rests on a tortoise, which rests upon
nothing. If you can believe the first three
propositions your faith becomes sufficiently
robust not to give way at the last. Those
who Loyalty trust the present Administration
are expected to believe something like this in
relation to the true responsibility for the
Vienna disgrace. Meyer and Stiasny and the
others have behaved shamefully; this is
admitted. But nobody is responsible for
their appointment. They were strongly
recommended to Gen. Van Buren, and
he passed them on the State Depart
ment and Mr.. Fish to the President
and in some mysterious way, without the ex-
ercise of the intelligent volition of any NOR
tai, they were commissioned and sent abroad,
armed with the power to faint and soil our
name in O minute more etfectually than the
President and the Secretary can clean 1t In
years. Mr.. Fish, who in his quality as a gem
tleman and man of character, takes
less liberal view of bribery and theft
than the average politician, is said to
be greatly. dissatisfied at the misconduct
of these people who are, after all, subOrdinates
of his, and wishes it to be known that he did
not select them. 1t is not likely that the
President will be so sensitive about lt-tor
reasons that we need not repeat-but we ex-
pect to hear from him also that they were not
the men of his choice. When Gen. Van Buren
shall have spoken also, we shall be convinced
that nobody wanted these men; that they
came into place by species of parthencgene-
sis independent of paternal auspices. They
are the official Melchizedecs of the age.


This is all very idle and unworthy. Nobody
doubts the integrity or the sense of honor OF
the Secretary of State. His acknowledged
character is q matter of Importance to the
Administration. His good repute is made to
cover a multitude of sins. But these things
are not done with impunity. Neither Mr.
Fish nor his friends can forget that his name
is signed 80 the commissions by which Iud-
son. Cramer, Butler, and the rest OF that
unsayory category have been privileged to DIS
honorand discredit the American name IN foreign
countries. If Mr. Fish had not signed hs name
TO these commissions other men would have
been sent No one could have been worse.
IL is true that these worthless wOuld have been
proyided for in some other department, but
we should at least have been spared the antics
they have allowed themselves In the race Oh
the unsympathizing world. IL is useless, ana
not true, TO say that there is any necessity ior
such appointments If COngr ssman comes
and asks that an improper person be pu'
IN Office, q prompt refusal is al that Is
Year: 1873

For many reasons the proceedings of this
body, now in session in Cleveland. have an
unusual interest outside of the Church which
it represents. Nothing gives so wholesome or
welcome an indication of our progress nova
days as to find any sectarian convention free
ing itself from sectarian prejudice and basing
its action not on old dogmas or precedents, but
on the broad ground Of common sense and the
love of God and our neighbor. Especially is
such action significant of the higher levels TO
which Christians are aspiring when it occurs
in Church bound by ancient beliefs and GUS


toms into exceptionally narrow bounds. Tho
Year: 1873

The horse disease is slow but sure 1t began on
the Atlantic coast last October 1t reached the
Pacific States about the first of April AT last ac-
counts, the streets Of san Francisco were almost
booess even oxen being averse to entering the in
fected citv The utter abstinence OF the horses from
all public duties is said to be hard great variety
of trades all of which we know. Bat the news
popers make merry over the contagioD, and one OF
them has "leadng article" on the subject pen
svely concluding that the disease is "retful to tho
four-footed slave of the harness, and from many
stable in the city we hear sound which, although
called bv the administrative q cough, we are SURE Is
aborse-laugh at the expense of ungIaeiul ana IN
considerate man. Which is taking a cheerful view
of things.
Year: 1873

Although the sum of usefulness which may
be the result of the late Public Health AssO-
citation Convention at Cincinnati is not con-
spcuOus, it is probably a good beginning, at
least. The Convention adjourned on Saturday
last and finished up its work by receiving an
interesting paper on the epizOotic disease,
which gave some valuable statistical data, II
nothing more Immediately practical.
Year: 1873

That the Indian disturbances in Oregon are
causing uneasiness elsewhere appears from
dispatch from the Governor of Washington
Territory. That functionary telegraphs to the
Secretary of the Interior that savages in his
region are making hostile demonstrations, and
that he wants arms. In Eastern Utah, also,
there is disquiet among the Indians, and it is
quite likely that the general apprehension Will
affect the tide of emigration which would
have otherwise flowed into that portion OF the
country this Spring.