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ll eft OREGON COURIER. VOL. XI. OUEGON CITV. CLACKAMAS COUNTY. OIIKGON. FRIDAY. NOVEMUKR 2.. 1893. iNO. 29. rV , . 4 OCCIDENTAL NEWS. Pugnacious Prisoner Threshed by a California Justice. AN ARIZONA PROBATE JUDGE. A Company Petitions- for PorinlHsIoa ta Float Logs Down the Mo kcluiiiuo River. Sacramento officials are driving out the highbinders. Armor plates for the Monadnock are arriving at the Mare Island navy yard. The Great Northern railroad is secur lug gi-ouud for a depot and yard at 'la cuma. The Congress mine near Prescott. A. T., which lias lain idle for two years, is being pumped out, and work will soon be resinned. Frank Luttrcll, son of the lute lion John K. l.uttrell, United States special Agent for Alaska, has been appointed to succeed Iuh lather. At Pocatello, Idaho, an edict lias gone lorlh that liencelorth no married woman or uiiiiuirried man shall be employed in the public schools as a teacher. The resignation of Horace W. Bying- ton, Collector oi Internal Kevenue lor the Sacramento district of California, has been accepted by Secretary Carlisle. Oncar K. Hill fMcn, Utah, has been sentenced lu 1. 1 years' imprison ment for embezzling 450,000 of the funds of tho Commercial National Dank of -Ogdcn. The Assessors are getting ready to swoop down upon the Oregon Doafd of Equalization. December 20 iB the date Stirling of Douglas county set for the attuck. A long n nd stormy winter is predicted liy the Kliiiimtli Indians of Oregon. They base their prophecy on the move ments of the wild fowl and other like phenonieMit. Louis Mahler, a prisoner at Santa Cruz, attacked Justice Craghill on the bench in his court. The Justice then threw a-id i) hi dignity and severely pummcled his assailant. Thomas Cruse, the Helena millionaire banker, is a very sick man. His physi cians have advised his prompt removal to California. Mr. Cruse is the discov erer of the famous Drumlummon mine. Sealing claims to the amount of fl, 000.001) have been filed at Victoria, B. C, and forwarded to tho Dominion gov ernment at Ottawa for compensation for exclusion from Behring Sea during arbi tration. Experts claim to have found a short age oi over $1,000,000 in the value of the water piant recently purchased by the citv of Tacoma from C. B. Wright of Philadelphia for $1,71)0,000. Kxperta place tho value of the plant at 1740,000. Fire has devastated about 8,000 acres of pasture and timber land on the Santa Marguerite ranch near Capistrano, Or ange count v, Cai. The ranch is owned liv R. 0'Ne"ill ami the Nevada Bank of Sim Francisco. D. Gui-cia's large bee ranch was destroyed. A Los Anireles dispatch savs the South ern California Railroad Company offered a number of tramps work for a week or ten (lavs at strengthening a levee to pro tect it's track, promising $1.75 a day. Some of them worked a few hours: others a day, but all quit at the end of the second day. Three indictments have been found at rrescott, A. T., against h. W. trench, the deposed Probate Judge and County School Superintendent one for embez zlement, one for forgery and one for cashing ft warrant knowing it to be fraudulent. French has been in jail since his arrest in September. The Mokelumne River Manufacturing Company lias petitioned the Board of Supervisors for permission to float logs down the Mokelumne river, the company to clean out that river so that logging may be made possible. The upper forks of the Mokelumne river pass through an extensive region of tine timber land rich in sugar pine. Captain W. ,1. Canton, a Waterville lawyer, lias brou .'lit suit for damages in the sum of 420,000 against Michael Daugherty of Portland. The suit grows out of the publication of a card in the local papera in which Daugherty warns all people from purchasing from Captain Canton anv of the projiertv formerly owned by John Daugherty and Mrs. Mary Daugherty, deceased. Secretary of the Navy Herbert has or dered the removal of the following offi cials of Valleio for offensive partisan ship: A.L. Ilatheway, chief clerk steam engineering department, $1,400 a year; A, liurnap, chief chemist, $1,400 a vear; C. Foster, clerk, $1,000 a year. These places will be tilled as follows: A. C. Bradv, Oakland, chief clerk; D. McGin ley, Oakland, chemist; D. Murphy, Val lejo, clerk. J. I.ee Carroll, son of ex-Governor Carroll of Maryland, is a noted hunter. He is at Tacoma on his way to India to hunt tigers and elephants. 'Monday Mr. Carroll made up a party of friends, se cured guides and started for the Cascade Mountains on a goat-hunting expedition. Tuesday the guides quarreled between themselves, and one of them named Re vere was shot. Carroll, who was entirely unused to the barbarous scenes enacted by the guides, determined to return to Tacoma. Applications for ground space at the San 1'rancisco Midwinter Fair have been received in such large numbers that it was necessary for the fair management to make application to the Park Com missioners for sixty additional acres of ground, which was' granted them. The exposition grounds now cover a space of 180 acres. It has also been decided to build an annex to the manufacture and liberal arts building. This annex will be in the rear of the building, and will be seventy-five feet in depth, and will rnn the entire length of the main build-ing-402 feet. The Ship Owners' Association of San Francisco baa commenced a new deal in the shipping of sailors for coasting ves sels, and from present appearances it is likely that considerable benefit will re sult not alone to sailor?, but to owners of ves'els. Briefly reviewed, the plan pnt in operation is to secure for coasting vessels the very best sailors that can 1 obtained. The men are rated according to the work that they perform. If they prove acceptable, they are compensated not only in wages but are given a rank which insures their speedy employment on other vessels. Generally speaking, affairs have run smoothly, but there are a few captains who desire to tie free from all rules and would like to ship men from all places and whenever they see lit. They are in the minority, however, and it is' evident that they wili have to join the niai irity before long. From the rec ord liA it i learned ti at iii--e ar i". itlicati r.s f"om ovf 1 f-l m-:- whom ar tlas-- '. ci r r; . . . i ' Terr goud and rvi. 11-n are h a j . I:.-. . .. i - -.-. means scarce, sr. d the a'Mciatioa Liila-iwas recc:.; sariea made remarkable headway. ' honor for gallant conduct. FROM WASHINGTON CITV. Tlio President liaa appointed I). M. Kitpatrick of Louisiana an Assistant Treasurer of the United Stales at New Orleans In place of Andrew Hero, Jr, The Commissioner of the general land office haH ordered Inspector Curmichacl to investigate the appraiscmeniit of lots in the townHito of Port Angeles, Wash. Many occupants have protested that the appraisement is unequal. Secretary Herbert la n noted as author ity for the statement tliut there will be an immediate change in the command of the naval Ii rces at Jim, which devolved upon Captain ricking of the L-harleston alien Admiral Stanton waa recalled. Representative Hermann having niado sntislactory allowing to tlie department that the Be tilers in the vicinity of lvi son in Lane county. Or., were too uiuch Inconvenienced to wait until July next for new mail contract to deliver their mails, an order has been issued that pro posals be invited at once for mail service, to commence January 1 next. Commissioner Lamoreaux of the gen eral land ollice has decided in favor of the Great Fall Water Power and Town alto Company the case which involved l he whole town of Great Falls. Mont. The decision is that the townsite com pany is an innocent purchaser and under tho act of March 3. 1801. could not be disturbed in its possession of the prop erty. Lieutenant-Colonel Charlea R. Green- leaf, Deputy Surgeon of the United States army, has been relieved from duty in the War Department and ordered to assume charge of the medical supply de partment in ran rrancisco, relieving Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph P. Wrisht. Deputy Surgeon-General, who will as sume charge of the medical supply de partment in St. Louis. The annual report of Tillman. Rectistcr of the Treasury, shows that in October, 181)2, the value of registered bonds which were supposed to be held by persons of foreign nationality amounted to about $18,800,000, of which only 14,830,300 ap peared upon the foreign ledgers. " It is evident," savs the report, " that a large proportion oi the registered bonds owned abroad are controlled by agents residing in tins country." There is much complaint among ex hibitors over tho delay in awarding World's Fair medals. As manv of the exhibitors expeet to make the most of their medals in an advertising wav. thev complain that the great delay will rob mem oi inucu ni me commercial advan tage which they expected to reap in re turn for the heavy expense involved in making the World's l air exhibit. The design by St. Gaudens for official medals is nere, out tne contracts lor manutact uring the medals has not yet been award ed, and it is still even uncertain whether the work may not be done by the United States mint. The plan of the Treasury officials contemplates medals of elegant workmanship that wouia require tour or five months, as it would necessitate stamping some of them 400 or 600 times and it does not seem probable the work will be completed before next summer. The blame is laid to the Committee of Awards or to Designer St. Gaudens for not furnishing the designs earlier. Secretary Carlisle has received from the Commissioner of Immigration at San Francisco a report, accompanied by sworn testimony, about the landing In San Francisco of twelve Russian con victs, who escaped from confinement and were picked up by passing vessels and brought to this country, the men are now under arrest in San Francisco, and the Question that complicates the situa tion is what to do with them. While the greatest secrecy is maintained at the de partment about the contents of the offi cial report, it is believed five Russians were political prisoners, in which case it is said our immigration laws do not in terfere to debar them from landing. At the same time the Russian Minister, Prince Cantacuzene, has interested him self in having them turned over to the Russian authorities. The matter has assumed such an important phase that Secretary Carlisle has taken it into his own hands and will confer with Secre tary Gresham on the fate of the Bus- Sumner 1. Kimball, general superin tendent of the life-saving service, in his annual report to Secretary Carlisle states that at the close of the last fiscal year the establishment embraced 244 stations. The number of disasters to documented vessels within the field of the operations of the service during the year was 427. There were on board these vessels 3,605 persons, of whom twenty-three were lost. The estimated value of the vessels in cluded in the disasters wa9 $0,414,075, and that of their cargoes $1,684,000. Of this amount $6,442,505 was saved and $1,055,570 lost. The number of vessels totally lost was eight. The cost of the maintenance of the Berviee during the year was $1,231,893.45. The general su perintendent states that the fears ex pressed in former reports of a threatened decadence of the service, excited by the frequent resignations of many of the best surf men on account of the meager n ess of their pay, have been dispelled hy the recent increase granted by Con; gress. Hiram Hitchcock, President of the Maritime Canal Companv of Nicaragua, has submitted to the Secretary of the Interior the annual report of the com pany, which was not due until Decem ber 1, but sent it at the request of the Secretary, who desired to use some of the data in his annual report. President Hitchcock says that since the appoint ment oi a receiver lor ttie Canal Con struction Company little work has been done. The Secretary was referred to the last report as to the present condition of work. Since organization $1,055,811 has been paid into the treasury, all for stock subscribed for at par except $48,871, which came from other, sources. There was paid out for construction and admin istration expenses $830,788 in cash and 31,990 shares of stock, par value, which are worth $3,199,000. The company is obligated for $6,355,000 of its first-mortgage bondB. It has issned 180.000 shares of stock, par value $18,000,000, in pay ment of concessionary rights, privilege's, franchises and other property. The vindication of Captain John Bonrke of the Third Cavalry, author and soldier, on the charge preferred against him for his conduct in the Garza cam paign on the Mexican border has been completed by an order jnst issued by the War Department, directing Captain Bourke to join his regiment in Texas. Captain Bonrke is now on duty at the World's Fair, and the department has lost no time since the exposition closed in showing its appreciation of his valua ble services by sending him back where lie can do the most good. It was charged against Captain Bourke that he had acted in a high-handed and arbitrary manner in throwing innocent citizens in jail durin? the trouble with Garza. The matter was discussed in Congress and considered by the War Depirtment. No action was taken on the chaws, but the United Stat Court at San .ii'.,-i:i 2nye r-ractii-a' eTon-ration to tT- -a'n by i : '.z-n-'t' 'i f t ' a E04i c. EASTERN MELANGE. Biff Chunks of Gold Quartz Found in Colorado. TERRIBLE DROUTH IN GEORGIA. Colorado Miner Decline to Accept Work at a Greatly Reduced Rate The Anarchist. Ohio natural-gas companies have formed a combine. The associated banks of New York have $90,000,000 in gold. A short cotton crop and dry weather are reported from Texas. The Republicans of St. Louis carried the School Board election. Baltimore trolley cars must be pro vided with a life-saving fender. Over 300 lynchings have taken place in the South during tho present year. Big chunks of nuartx full of gold have been struck on a claim at Cripple Creek, Col. Terrible drought has dried up wells and springs in Georgia's mountain dis tricts. Philadelphia has got the liberty bell back from Chicago, and business has been resumed. A movement has been started to es tablish a steamship line botween Gal veston and Tampico. Failure to answer a New York Jury notice or explain his delinauencies inav cost Carl Schurz $100. The Chicago Presbytery has deposed and suspended Rev. Tothoroh from the ministry of the church. The Louisiana taxpayers are requested to pay their taxes at once and save the public schools from closing. There is a general movement through out the country toward higher insurance rates on farm-property risks. The first application of a woman to be a notary public in New Hampshire has been refused by the Governor. It is claimed that the new cruiser Co lumbia, now at Boston, is the swiftest war vessel owned by the United States. Many Indiana pensioners learn they have been dropped from the list on pre senting their vouchers at Indianapolis. It is said that the attorneys for Pren dergast, the assassin of Mayor Harrison, wintry for a change of venue from Chi cago, Four hundred persons have been ar rested in West Virginia within ten days for moonahing and illicit retailing of """"v A Baltimore and Ohio train recently made the run from Akron to Chicago, a distance of 352 miles, in eight hours and twenty minutes. The Georgia House of Delegates has voted down a propbsition to increase the nay of the Judges if the Superior Court iroin iz,uuu to fz.ouu. From January to October of this year 78,434 aliens arrived- as Cbin passengers in this country, making, an. increase of 32,746 over laHt year's arrivals. A Deliver dispatch"iy that "the union mihers are standm&Wit lor their old wages and refuse to. accept an offer of $2.25 for eight houiV-Work." The United States District Court fined the St. Louis. and Mississippi River' Packet Company $1,000 for carrying gas-. oline on a passenger steamboat. The great viaduct of the Wilkesbarre and Eastern railroad over Panther creek has been completed. It is more than 1,000 feet long and 163 feet high. Thev lynched a white man down In Virginia the other day for assaulting a negro girl. The color line is fast giving wav before one with a noose in the end of it. Over 50.000 Russian Jews have landed at the port of Hew York in the ten months oi tins year according to tne oi ficial report of the Commissioner of Im migration. Bridgeport's (Conn.) coffee-house, es tablished as a result of temperance agi tation, earned 25 per cent dividend its first year. In that time 180,000 meals have' been furnished. The Javanese people, who formed such a center of interest in the World's Fair, have departed for their native land, and each man takes with him a trunk, a sewing machine and a gun. Colorado declared for female suffrage bv a maioritv of about 4,000. The min ers are said to have voted for it to en courage immigration of strong-minded women lrom iNew &ngiana. A railroad is to be built to the summit of Whiteface Mountain in the Adiron dacks, the height of which is 5,000 feet. The road will be thirteen miles long, and will begin work next spring. At the children's building in the' World's Fair, where babies were cared for and cheeks given to their parents to insure safe redelivery, only one baby out of 10,000 remained uncalled for. But very little money is being loaned in Kansas, and farmers are nnding it hard to secure renewals of their loans, which are becoming due. The cause as signed by the loan companies is the fear of hostile Populist legislation. An epidemic of influenza is raging in Chicago. Two-thirds of the people are affected. Physicians say it is the regu lar old-fashioned cold in the head, but that it prevails to a greater extent than usual at this season of the year. Caleb Davis of Polk county. Ark., or ganized a Sunday-school in 1839, and has been its superintendent ever since, except while away serving in the Con federate army during the late war. He is now 84 years of age, and his youngest child is 44 years old. Fifteen preachers have been sent out of the Sunday-school during its history. Louis F. Menage, whose extradition has been asked from Guatemala, was President of the Northwestern Guaran tee Loan Company of Minneapolis, Minn., which failed last Mav. Menage made away with at least $3,000,000 be longing to the concern and its clients. The bodies of Alexander McClelland and his son Oscar, who disappeared from Centralis, III., in 1881. have been dis covered in a pond, where they were buried and staked down. A brother of the deceased senior McClelland is sus pected of committing the crimes. The discovery has created great excitement at Centralia. Mavor Swift of Chics go has ordered the Commissioner of Buildings to dis charge all the building inspectors who were appointed without having received certificates from the examination board. T:...re wre piiteen of them. Theothers 1 t '-nit enn-e fir renis;n- iV y. V ? Mnr.,r '. ;! - '1 t -Ht 1 y i or '- ( -.. -. t ' ' r-2 i ? ' or ; .ec.ii a wt:i aseanvnt woomI oe 1 promptly dismissed. i BUSINESS BREVITIES. Artificial teeth are made of paer, Cooking by electricity grows in favor, The world's Imp crop is over 0,000,000 pounds. Four thousand Englihh clergymen want employment. The wealth of England is estimated at 10,000,000,000. There are about 40,000 shoe and leather firms in this country. South Africa has lots of sheep, but only one woolen mill. American grain elevators are being in trounced in Germany One-third of the telegraph operators in I'.ngland are women Half the ocean ships of the world are owned by Great Iiritain The cotton mills of Japan give employ mem to zz,ooo operatives. The entire stock of gold in the world is less than $8,000,000,000. The length of all the canals of the world la nearly zu.uuu miles. In Paris, Berlin and Vienna there are butchers who sell horseflesh There is a tunnel 32 800 feet long on one of the Mexican railroads. Three thousand locomotives are owned by the Pennsylvania railroad. The first cotton mill in this country ' said to have been at Heverly, Mass, There are $500,000,000 of English cap ital Invested In American railroads Boston has built 17.020 new buildings in the past decade at a cost of $110,00.5,- 469. On an average a locomotive engineer travels 20,000 miles in the course of a year. The mint of Philadelphia has a collec tion of over 8,000 coins of different na tions. The cost of an ironclad is about $400 a ton. ThiB includes guns and all equip. ments. The net private indebtedness of the American people amounts to $10,700,- 000,000. The first rocking chair was made on the Brewster farm, Kingston, Mass., by a farm hand in 178U, Figures show that the total railway mileage of the country en June 30, 1893, was 171,603.62 miles. The biggest quill toothpick mill Is in I'aris. Norway leads in the man u tact' nre of wooden toothpicks. Nickel of the best quality is now sell. ing at 60 cents and fine silver at about $11 per avoirdupois pound, The prospect now is that more than 1,000,000 tons of sugar will be made in Guba during the season oi 1HU4. Londoners drink 0,800,000 gallons of milk yearly, or little more than two j Ions for each man, woman and child. In the matter of well-kept country roads it is stated that New jersey leads, . and that Southern New England follows, The making of lucifer matches is I state monopoly in France, Spain. Portu ; gal, Italy, Greece, Roumania and Servia. Last year New York citv paid for its school bill $4,000,000, for its amusement bill $7,000,000 and for ita drink bill 00 000,000, A check for 5,333,050 on the Bank of England in payment for the Kimberly diamond mines is said to be the largest ever drawn. In every mile of railroad there are seven feet and four inches not covered by the rails the space left between them lor expansion On the Mexican pension roll there are names of 15,215 survivors and 7,282 wid ows, and something over 3,000 casos were pending at latest reports. '--Pennsylvania furnished 60,000,000 of Pm 70,000,000 tons of coal mined in this country this vear. Illinois was sec ond, with 18,000,000 tons, In Brazil it is not customary for ser vants to reside in thniremnlover'n house. They come to work early in the morning and return homo in tne evening, Russian women and Japanese men are pronounced by those competent to judge the best of the world's workers with the needle, as shown in the embroidery ex hibits in Chicago. . PURELY PERSONAL. The Prince of Wales is very fond of wearing old clothes, probably because he doesn't have to. Mrs. Levi P. Morton has leased the house, formerly occupied by Senator Jones of Nevada, in order to supervise the complete education of her daughters. Everott Chauncey Bumpus of Quincy, Mass., a member of the present freshman class of Harvard, is completely blind, but intends to take tho full course for the degree of bachelor of arts. Now that Marshal McMahon Is dead, France has only one living citizen who has been President, and that is Carnot, the present ocenpant of that high oflice. Thiers died in 1877 and Grevy two years ago. : , ,, . Gardening was Gounod's pet bobby, and almost to the last day of his life he Was able .to busy himself among his roses and geraniums. But mentally the composer waa a wreck long before death came. ' Miss Sallie Matthews, who died in Louisville recently, was lor a time in command of an Ohio river steamboat, with fully 100 men subject to her orders. She was 33 years old at the time of her death. . . Bishop de Goeshriand of St. Albans, Vt., at the age of 77 is the oldest Bishop in the. United States. He has been a priest fifty-seven years, and lately cele brated tiie fortieth anniversary of his elevation to the Bishopric. Governor Peter Turney of Tennessee, although 70 years old, is still fond of hunting fox and deer, and has a pack of hounds at his home (called "Wolfe's Craig ") in the southeastern part of the State. He follows the hounds on horse back. Services in commemoration of the an niversary of the death of the Anarchists were held at Chicago the other day. The occasion was made notable by the fact that Samuel Fielden, Michael Scwab and Oscar Neebe, comrades of the exe cuted Anarchists, who were sentenced to Joliet, but pardoned recently by Gov ernor Altgeld, were present, Fielden and Schwab being the orator of the day. Grand Duke George of Russia, whose sojourn in Algeria and the Riviera failed appreciably to benefit his health, now lives in the Caucasus, where the climate suits him so well that he is advised not to leave his present place of residence. lie win receive a visit lrom his mother before Christmas, and it is possible that the Czar may accompany ber. Count P. P. SchouvalofT is the fortu nate poeaeesor of the only diamond fields in Rnssia. On his estates, comprising 300.000 hex-tares, five gems were acci dentally found lat year. The first dia- ! mond was picked up on the place in 1H.JII, and in the vears since then soont IV) have lieen diwovered. Th Count :.. ;, !-' to "irfTm i!:n on-' K i:;t'v . f t .' R- '.. i'h'.i ei.L.-.,. ar. Je,j xT u.'ie'-iM in a.u...i.' ,r. led pr u:;-;n m Ki-s.a and rented to tit Homad Aa , bassador to Berlin. I FOREIGN FLASHES. A Great Mexican Revolutionary Leader Put in Prison. TWO AMERICANS IN TROUBLE. Leaden of the Brailllan Insurrec tion Have Decided to Holit the Imperial Flag:. Evictions are agitating Ireland again. The French government want M. Hers extradited. There is a " craxe " in France for am ateur theatricals. Russian statesmen plan a State mo nopoly of tobacco. The Manchester (England) ship canal IB practically complete The mind of M. Hr, the Panama ca nal intriguer, is failing, The leading scientists in Germany are puzzled over a blue man. English miners refuse to agree to pro posals to settle the strike. An English syndicate wants to start a big bank at Havana, Cuba. A new Ministry has hnnn formed In Greece with Tricoupis as Premier. President Carnot of Franco has beo-nn a crusade against the sulphur match. Levi P. Morton has nlaced his two daughters in a convent at Tours, France. The Bank of Snain has subscrilied $50,000 to carry on the fight againBt the Rifflans. French scientists have devised an arti ficial larynx, which is claimed to enable the dumb to speak. Germany means to raise increased rev enue from tobacco and bourse transac tions. It is becoming more costly to main tain the peace of Europe than to carry on a destructive war. A Britinh syndicate Is reported to be ready to advance money to gain control of the Nicaragua canal. The famous Chinese giant. Chang, died at Bournemouth, England, November 6. He stood eight feet high. Milan police recently nabbed sixtv- three Anarchists at one meeting and great quantities of documents. Miss Rye. the English philanthropist. has introduced 4,000 English pauper children into Canadian homes. The citizens of Sebastopol have nlaced wreaths upon the tombs of the French soldiers who fell in the Crimean war. The Brazilian government has pur chased nine torpedo boats in Europe fonr in England and five in Germany. The roval opera house of Munich has offered a prize of 8,000 marks for a new German opera by a German or an Aus trian... . ...a . . There is talk that European powers will view with displeasure the effort of Spain to extend her territory in North ern Africa. Empress Eugenie has declared her in tention to spend the whole winter at her vii:a of the (Jap, near Aientone, on tne .Mediterranean shore. Lord Colin Campbell has turned up in Bombay as a counselor empioved to de fend twenty-nine Mohammedans impli cated in the great riots. Honduras has apologized for firing on the American mail steamer Costa Rica. The apology is entirely satisfactory to the United States government. Having partly abolished gambling among army officers, Kaiser William now plans legislation against betting on horses and public card-piaying. The navigation of the Dead Sea is the latest Btep in Oriental progress. The Sultan has sent two sailing boats there one for freight and one for passengers. Paris advices assert with great oosi tivencss that an assured result of the visit of the Russian fleet will be the re election of President Carnot next year, Prof. Tvndall has recently returned to his English home from seveial months' soiourn in Switzerland, by which Ins health la said to have been greatly bene fited. Letters from Ac.ra on the West African gold coast say that the King of Ashantee was stoned to death recently by insur gents in the streets of Coomasaie, his capital. The New York Times' London special says: lbe European backers of Brazil ian insurgents are pouring ont gold by the millions in the hope that Admiral de Mono may overthrow tne Kepubiic. The London Times learns through a private channel that the leaders of the Brazilian insurrection held a conference, at which it was decided to hoist the im perial flag and direct their efforts toward a restoration ot tne monarchy. The smock frock, which from time ira memorial down to twenty years avo was universal In the costume of the British workinsinan. has almost entirely disap peared, and in France a similar fate has overtaken the traditional blue blouse. The London County Council has bought forty-one acres of Hilly Fields, Brock ley, as a park for Southeast London. The Council wishes to buy four acres more, but must raise $14,000 more before it can do so. The whole cost of the land wili be $215,000. Gladstone announced in the House of Commons that he had written the Coal Mine Owners' Federation and the Min ers' F'ederation, inviting them to meet in joint conference, over which Lord Roseberry lias consented to preside, and endeavor to bring about a settlement of the great strike. P. C. Oglesby and Harry Howard, Americans, are in the royal prison at Havana. Both are charged with as saulting the military. Howard is a na tive of Boston. He has been in the prison five months. Oglesbv is a native of Georgia, and claims to lie a nephew of ex-Governor Oglesby of Illinois. Henry M. Stanley has been sued bv G. W. Appleton on an agreement by Stanley to pay the plaintiff 10 per cent commission on all lectures procured for him in America. Stanley admitted the agreement, but said it had been toon re scinded, and the plaintiff lost. General Juan G. Cortina, one of the greatest revolutionary leaders in Mexico, has been arrested and imprisoned by or der of President Diaz for attempting to incite another revolutionary uprising against the government. Twenty-live years ago Cortina was the most desper ate and greatly feared man in Mexico. His arrest has canoed a great sensation. The Pope will hold a consistory in February, when several Cardinals will ; becreaM. The question of conferring the purple on A n-lihishop Ireland has been ra'.'ed, bnt f be Pmt seems to have a ran ton l it : b-a. K-!iif afr; I of of- -:.'. f ' ;'ii very 111. hit '.-AO! i- 11 - .i ...!. 0:i",uetir do Arcara carom. iU be "frff-it-Mrd at the next conaUtory. PORTLAND MARKET. Whkat Valley. 02. Walla, Hil'u'c per rental. i'95c; Walla HOPS, WOOL AND HIDES. Hops '02s, nominally at 10(3 10c per pound, there being none in the market; new crop, '03s, 10(al03c for Btrictly choice, and nominally at 8c for medium. Wool Prices nominal, Hiuks Dry selected prime, 6c; green, salted, 60 pounds and over, 3'uc; under 60 pounds, 2(a 3c; sheep pelts, yearlings, 10(4 16c; medium, 20i35c; long wool, 30(cc60c; tallow, good to choice, 33!sc per pound. ruCR, raxn, rrc. Floob Portland, $2.90; Salem, $2.00; Catuuaia, H2.90; Dayton, $2.90; Wailu Walla, $3.16; Graham, $2.60; superfine, $2.25 per barrel. Oath New white, 34 36V per bushel ; new gray, 33(a34c; rolled, in bags, $6.26 $tl.60; barrels, tU.76(u.7.00; coses, $3.76. MiixsTorrs Bran, slO.OO; shorts, $17.00; ground barley, $18 00; chop feed, $18 per ton ; whole feed, barley, 7t'c percental: middlings, $23t28 per ton: chicken wheat, $1.10(41.16 per cental. II a v Good, $10(312 per ton. daibt paonuci. Buttbb Oregon fancy creamery, 30 S32jc; fancy dairy, 26(327 Vc; fair to good, 2022gc; common, 18(g20o per pound. Ciik ssi Oregon, 10(3 12'c ; Califor nia, 13(cl4c; Young America. 15(3 10c: Swiss, imported, 3032c; domestic, 18 (gzuc per pound. Kaon Oregon, 30c per dozen ; East ern, 26vu,27Hc. foui.TKY nominal : chickens, mixed. $2.003.50; ducks, $3.00r3.50; geese, $8.00(a 9.00 per dozen ; turkeys, live, 10 10gc per pound; dressed, 12c. VIOKTAB1.I8 AND fKOITS. Vbobtablbk Cabbage, Is per pound; potatoes, Oregon, 75c per sack; onions, $1.50 per sack ; sweet potatoes, ll)c per pound ; uregon celery, iHXgouc. Fkuitb Sicily lemons, $5.00(g5.50 per box: California new crop, $4.00(4.60 per box ; bananas, $1.603.00 per bunch ; oranges, $3.50 per box; grapes, 6090c per box j New York Concords. 15c per basket; apples, green, 00c per box; red, $1.00(31.25; cranberries, $8.008.50 per barrel. ltvb and dbehbbd heat. Bur Top steers, 2 c per pound ; fair to good steers, 2c; No. 1 cows, 1bc; dressed beef, 3.605.00 per 100 pounds. Mutton Beet sheep, $2.00; choice mutton, $.1752.00; lambs, $2.00(32.25. Hoas Choice heavy, $5.00(36.50 ; me dium, $4.50(d6.00; light and feeders, $4.50(35.00; dressed, $0.50. Vial $3.00(35.00. staflb obocebies. CorrEB Costa Rica, 23c; Rio, 22c; Q..l....,n Ci... fni.l.. tLaiL.. km- buckle's, Columbia and Lion, 100-pound cases, 25,80c per pound. Honey Choice comb, 18c per pound; new Oregon, 1620c; extract, 9(3 10c. Dried Faurra 1893 pack, Petite prunes, 8(3 10c; silver, 1012c; Italian, tlffllOc; German, 8 (3 10c; plums, 6(3 10c: evaporated apples, 8(3 10c; evaporated apricots, 15(3 16c; peaches, 10(312jic; pears. 7(311c per pound. . Salt Liverpool, 200s, $15.60; 100b, 116.00 : 60s. $16.60; stock. $8.60(39.50. - Bban SmaU whites. BgBcs pinks, 3c; bayoe, 33c; butter, 4c; lima, sQe per pound. Rice island, $5. 750.00; Japan, none in market; New Orleans, $6.60(30.25 per cental. Syrcp Eastern, in barrels. 4055c in half-barrels, 42(3 57c; in cases. 35(3 80c ner gallon : $2.25 per keg: California. in barrels, 2040o per gallon; $1.76 per Hoqar D,4?4c; Golden 0,6c; extra n t , f f . . .1 w, ac ; coniecuoners- a,oc, ury gnur ulated. 5c: cube, crushed and pow dered, 6e per pound ; Jc per pound discount on all grades for prompt cash; maple sugar, lo(31oc per pound. CANNED 00008. Canned Goods Table fruits, assorted, $1.75(32.00; peaches, $1.86(32.00; Bart- lett pears, $1.70(32.00; plums, $1.379 1.60; strawberries, $2.25(32.45; cherries, $2.25(32.40; block berries, $1.85(i2.00; laspbernes, 12.40; pineapples, iz.Zoki 2.80; apricots, $1.66. Pie fruits, assorted, $1.20; peaches, $1.25; plums, $1.00(31.20; blackberries, $1.25(31.40 per dozen. Pie fruits, gallons, assorted, $3.15(33.50; peaches, $3.&0(u4.00; apri cots, $3.60(34.00; plums, $2.7523.0O; blackberries, $4-20(34.50; toinaUM-s.fi, 10. Meats Corned beef, 1b. $1.40; m. $2.10; chipped, $2,36; lunch tongue. Is, $3.60; 2s. $6.76; deviled ham. $1.50(3 2.75 ier dozen. r inn sardines, s, mmw.B, s, $2.16(34.50; lobsters, $2.30(33.50; sal i ll. i.ii. i 1 Ri. fl.i. mull, .in win, t."'"".."'' f ".wi $1.75;2-lbs, $2.26(32.60; -barrel, $6.60. provision. Eastern Smoked Mbath and Labd Hams, medium, 14(al5c per pound; breakfast bacon, 18(3 19V: short clear sides, 10(3 loc ; ury sail sines, uiijhc; lard, compound, in tins, 10 '-ic per pound ; pure, in tins, 13)g16c. baob and baooino. Burlaps, 8-onnce, 40-inch, net cash, 6c; burlaps, 10) -ounce, 40-inch, net cash, 0'vc; burlaps, ll-ounce, 46-inch, 7c; burlaps, Id-ounce, 60-inch, He; burlaps, 19-ounce, 70-lnch, 14c; wheat bags, Calcutta, 22x36, spot, 8c; 2-bushel oat bags, 7c; No. 1 selected second hand bags, 7c ; Calcutta hop cloth, 24- ounce, 10c. MISCELLANEOUS. Tin I. C. charcoal, 14x20, prime qual ity. 18.60(39.00 per box : for crosses. $2 extra per box; I. C. coke plates, 14x20, prime quality, $7.60(38.00 per box; terne plate, I. C, prime quality, $0.50(37.00. Nails Base quotations: Iron, $2.26; steel, $2.35; wire, $2.50 per keg. Bteel rer pound, I0!tc Lead Per pound, 4J'c; bar, 6Jc, NavalStorkh Oakum, $4.50(36.00 per bale; resin, $4.80(a5.00 per 480 pounds; tar, Stockholm, $13 ; Carolina, $9 per bar rel ; pitch, $6 per barrel ; turpentine, 65c per gallon in cor lots. Iron Bar. 2Xc per pound ; pig-iron. $23326 per ton. Bishop Anscr. the head of one of the German Roman Catholic missions, lias been honored by the Kmperor of China ith the light-blue .Mandarin's button of the third class. In the entire history of China missions there are only two other similar instances where clergvmen were vested with the rank of a Man darin. In the rase of Bishop Anser the distinction was conferred for meritorious services as a peai-emaker between Christ iana and anti-Christians. An attempt was made to assassinate Georgievitch, Servian Minister to France, by a poorly dressed man, who fired a shot at him while he was in a Paris res taurant. The assailant was arrested. WldnkMd la China. It is a law of good society in China that young widows, never marry again. W idowbood is therefore iielu in th. nirvKuut MlMIn .ml t Vi a rAur -. .u ' , ,i.i- ihe w'dow &ov: ,Dore eWe Ar "er Ition become with the people. Should she reach 60 yearn she may by applying to the emperor wt a suin of money with which to a tnllet on which in engTaved ' . . , , rri... ...1 l. . " la tucea rer xne pnnciMei wwum to bet boose- Exchange. Highest of all in Leavening Power. -Latest U. S. Gov't Report i a ABSOLUTELY PURE MEM AND GARDEN. Corn Cribbed Before It ii Fully Mature Will Mold. LOSS OF FRUITS 15 STORAGE. If Heat ii Pnt Away in Proper Con dition, It Will Keep Sweet Agricultural Notes. The American Agriculturist says: Tiie loss of fruits and vegetables in storage is of not unfreqtient occurrence. To lose one's supply of potatoes or apples is serious matter. Sometimes the loss is due to storing in bad condition. Potatoes aim appiea in ci, every iruu or vege table should not be stored awav while damp. Dampness favors rot. Fruits and vegetables are best stored in some dry, airy outbuilding until the imminent approach of freezing weather makes it necessary to put them in the cellar. The building should have rather open sides, and there should be a free circulation of air under and around it. Seed corn should not be put away until It is thor oughly dried to put it away damp is to give a connai invitation to disaster, ii meat is put away in proper condition, it will keep sweet; otherwise it will decay, and it would make many a farmer feel poor to have his pork spoil. Meat most frequently spoils because it Is out away before it is thoroughly cooled. One should remember that the interior cools last, and that the middle of a piece will retain considerable heat after the sur face has been cool for some time. Some times meat butchered in very cold weather is put away frozen so hard that it will not absorb salt. This may favor decay. Every year much hay, straw and fodder is lost because of storing it in bad condition. The great bulk of the straw stored in this country is put in stacks, and it will keep in good condition sev eral months if the stacks are properly constructed. Much depends upon the top, and it is a good plan to repair the top and carefully readjust the keepers some weeks after the stack has been built. It will have become settled by that time. The same attention should be given to haystacks. Corn fodder left in the field during the winter is sure to be damaged seriously. The parts in injured are just the ones that are most valuable. If it pavs to cut corn, it will pay to store the fodder in such a way as to preserve it. If it is well set up and given a roof of boards and straw, it will keep in good condition. Corn cribbed before it is fully mature will mold, and may rot. It does not pay to get in too great a hurry and store the corn before it is fit; and on the other hand, unless one begins husking it at the earliest sea sonablo moment and pushes the work. his corn will pass beyond a fit condition for storing if he lie in the sreat corn- growing belt. Wheat or oats put in the inn in unlit condition will spoil unless attended to, and one should frequently run his hand deep down into the bin for some weeks alter tliresbtng. II the grain starts to spoil, the only thins to dols to get It out on the barn noor and shovel it around everyday until it dries and cools. In conclusion, to put everything in stor age in trood condition is a reform much needed on many farms, and it is to be noted that it is a reform that may be be gun at any time. items or I.NTEBEHT. It is very seldom that a horse gets cast if tied short. A warm barn and a good bod save grain in winter. A straw shed may be made as warm as a nank burn. Baby tread powers are now made for running baby separators, Happy is the man with fresh cows. Uutter is high aim steadily advancing, It is time those porkers you mean to ' turn oft in the lull " were getting in good shape. All out of doors" is too roomy a place lor milking, ihu successful dairymen milk under shelter If turnips are fed. do the milking be fore feeding, unless your customers are fond of turmpy flavor, You can make a pound of pork cheaper now than in ordinary Decern tier weather. Are you crowding the shoats? Keep a book account with your cows, Know what they are doing and what in come you have from each. It is business, It is to be hoped no one is leaving stock out of doors in the cold rainstorms, To do so advertises want of common sense. Salt given to cows has some effect on the quality of the milk. This is neces sarily so, as the salt aids very much in the digestion ot the lood. One of the Points for stock erowers to keep in mind in improving their breeds is that the quality can be improved witn- out increasing the cost for food. The Jackson Park dairy test has proved that there is a general-purpose cow, and that she will make butter. The special dairy cow makes more of it, however. If sheep or pigs are allowed the run of the orchard, thev will destroy many in sects by eating fallen apples, and will do better lor the succulent food thus ob tained. Milk with dry hands. It is far too common to keep the hands and the teats Ji : . I.i :il T . 1. - unpping wet wim miit, i may uv m little easier to milk with wet hands, but it is a filthy habit. Get the cream into small bulk to lave butter in churning. Thick cream can also be churned colder than thin cream, and a gain in quality is obtained as well as an increase in quantity. There have been enotnrh tests made to furnish proof that dry corn fodder can be successfully made into ensilage by wetting it as it goes into the silo: about fonr or five pails of water to the load is plenty. A close barn is not the best for sheep. Give them a shelter from storm, free from drafts, and except for ewea that have to mother winter iambi you nave enonvh for all except the most severe weather. Good butter ran be made when all the butter fat is taken oat of the milk. Good butter ran lie made from the rirt half or three-fourths of the cream which rises. but not from the latt to rise if churned by itatii. It wUl be itu& Cosby, inieiijr 1 A Xotad glngar la Soolstj. Catalanl, a gifted songstress and a lortly woman, was the Idol of society and the fa vorite of fortune. But she bad neither knowledge nor culture, and her Ignoranee sometimes made her stumble into ludicrous mistakes. One of her greatest triumphs In London waa the singing of "God Save the King." The town went mad over ber ren dering of the national antbtm. Two hun dred guineas were paid her for singing U once. But she always sang U "God shave the King." At tne court of Saxe-Weimar she nodosa the marked attention paid to gentleman Jf majestic appearance. "Who Is thatF" she asked. "That, madam, is the celebrated Goethe," eras the reply. 'Uoetbe-tiottnsr asked tbe pooled singer, to whom musle waa the only pro. klon tnat brouKDtecltbritr. Mnwaal Instrument does he playf " 'He Is tbe renowned author of the "Bor rows of Wertber,' madam." "Oh, yea. 1 remember." Then, abruptly addresslnsr the in sal inm she sold with fascinating vivacity, "Oh, sir, what an admirer I am of Wertherf' Goethe, always sensitive to woman's praise, bowed profoundly. "I never," she continued, "saw anytbiut so laughable in my Ufa What a capital larce it Isl" The Sorrows of Werther' a farce, mad am t" exclaimed tbe poet coklly, annoyed that tbe most sentimental of fala hooka should be thus spoken of. On. yes." added Catalan!. lanonlns loudly, "never was there anything so ridlo ulous." She was referring to a burlesque of the story, which she bad seen acted. Goethe did not recover himself for the whole s Ing. 'Youth's Companion. What Beading Beally Bit Though nobody has a right to prescribe the books tor another to read, a direction may be Indicated which experience has proved It Is desirable to take. That direc tion may be briefly pointed ont aa the one) which contains the gems of oar language. There are many of them quite enough to occupy tbe time which the average man la able to devote to reading. When he has read these, he will have a right to explore the bypatba of literature, but only when be boa exhausted the first class should he begin-to dabble in the second, third or tenth rate. In fact, once this taste for the best la cultivated any other than It will paU nny.n Ik. u . a rwl fmi M ...t.fw Ika ntlnJT. The reader becomes Intuitively aware when a master spirit la talking to him. for ho feels that what he la reading bean aa lntt-. mate relation to universal humanity a well as to himself, and therefore possesses a vital Interest for all This is a true test of whether bookie merely parochial or belongs to the wide re publio of letters. No matter bow exalted or bow bumble the theme, if It appeals to our common humanity It Is literature la the true sense. The "Compleat Angler," with its freshness and simplicity and over flowing love of nature, and the "Natural History of Selborne," wherein, says Car lyle, "Parson White has copied a little sen tence or two faithfully from tbe inspired volume of nature," are aa truly literature a tbe sublimities of Milton's cathedral di apason. Chambers' Journal. Plant Tenng Trees. It baa often been said that as soon as yon can excite a personal iuterest In the plant ing of tree the foreatry question will settle Itwlf. One of tbe mistakes too frequently niade Is, bowavsr, the euapunurenient of the idea that it take eenturiea to get trees large euougb for timber purposes. If properly plauted and properly eared for, as they ought to be in a well ordered forest plantation, growth la extremely rap Id, and good timber tree could be obtained witbin a quarter of a century. Near where this paragraph is written there Is a speci men of silver maple, Acer dasycarpun., not in year since a seed, wbicb 14 fart 0 inches in circumference, and an American eta about the ame age, which 15 feet In cir cumference. Fact Ilk these eould bo easily multiplied, showing bow easy it I to get profitable forest In a very abort time when tbe great publio nroalty and eoose queut profit becomes a matter of exact flg urtng. Meebon' Monthly. Iris and It Companion. In Astronomiscbe Nacbiichten Or. Anw ere bo published a complete discussion of the system of Sirlu in tbeligbt of the most recent Instrumental investigations. It will be remembered that from Irregularity la tbe motion of this tar, Dr. Anwer deter mined some year previous to Alvin Clark's discovery of Its companion that such a com panion must exist, but observation Nil wa obliged to await th lucre In th ilat of the telescope. Adopting th recent de termination of tbe parallax or Blrius, a de termination made by GiU and Elkln, Or. Auwere finds that Sirlu and ita companion are respectively 8.80 and 1.04 times heavier than the sun, that they are about LBuaan. 000 miles apart, and that th time of revo lution about each otber 1 41.4 reara, Tne accuracy of hie computations may be judged br the fact that he has applied to his orbit all of tbs observation of the star for on ward of SO year with most satisfactory agreement. Ihum'i file f Letters, In a room of tbe hone of Or. Nansen, tho explorer, is aa enormous number of let ters tied op with blue ribbon. "Gnees what the are," be eaid to a representative of Temple Bar. Th representative eould Dot guess. Every shape and stac and th 1 1 knj of letter appeared to be there. "Well," said tbe doctor, "these are tiie applioatioc front all parti of th world and written la al moat every language to accompany wo north pole expedition. There are ore a thousand of them. Of eoure I don't bd- swer them. 1 couldn't. Bat I do read them, and their sood wish are very ea- eouraglng, though they have eoat me a lot of money, for they are oftra njidefetamped, and I have to pay for them because aaa never knows what may be inaaa.' Aa Eitrsardlaarr wnllmrisa; Fans. A German eontemporary states that a very peculiar patient was neentlr aade treatments th Augsburg Btat botpttaL A man, aged 40, had an blmwlf the task of swallowing om K0 fruit stoass. Hav ing finuihed this extraordinary meal, he e perianced excruciating pain. While nader treatment ea to Brat day In the aos7iSat tbe medical men euceseded In removing lag hazel not (tone. Tbe man had takes all this trouble to place hi ill in Jeopardy tor a wagsrof $L Th flame f th Pi lax. The plume of the Prince of Wales weaa on Mate occasion i aaid to be worth tSOv 000. Tbe feather, aa English writer says, are pulled from tbe tail of the feriwah, ooe of the rarest and moat beautiful birds of India. Great expenae and troubl are a cesaary to capture th bird, which is found only la th wildest jungles, Tho are taken from the Ure eeek.