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An enterprising but ignorant South American has sent to an Albany locomotive shop for one hundred "cow-catchers". He expects to use them in taking wild cattle on the plains of Paragual, in place of the lasso. July 22. 186}.

Bad luck is simply a man with his hands in his breeches' pockets and a pipe in his mouth, looking on to see how it will come out. Mirch 10. 1866.

Mr. Geo. C. Fisher, one of the pioneers of this county, returned from a visit to Indiana last Saturday. . . . George seems to be enjoying as much health and happiness as a bachelor ought to enjoy, and perhaps a lee tie more than he deserves. Mtrch 31. 1866.

A flock of a million crows flew over Salem a few days ago. The editor of the Press counted them, we suppose, as he gives the number at just a million.

Ftbru«ry 26, 1870.

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More Brightness from Eugene City

In the Eugene City Guard, 1870-1871 By George J. Buys

The Guard at Eugene City began publication in 1867 and a year later was sold to George J. Buys and A. Fitzroy. The latter with- drew in December of 1869, and it is interesting to see, through an examination of the old files, that not much happened to liven it up for about six months after Buys had full charge of it. Then, as if shaking off from lassitude or inexperience or restraint, he began to give a marked pick-up of brightness to its items. Those old pages of the 70's exhibit the blossoming growth of a newspaper personality, through some influence within himself or under some stimulus from the outside. He controlled the paper until the fall of 1877. Like Orange Jacobs and H. R. Kincaid, he had no special place or caption for the paragraphs he presented with special literary touche