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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1893)
Lincoln County Leader, J. r. ITIWAKTi PablUbcr. TOLEDO OBEOON OCCIDENTAL NEWS. Placer Mines Being Reworked in California. KINDERGARTENS IN OREGON. The Deepest Sea Sounding Ever Made Fine Hops Rained in Sonoma County, Cal. Kindergartens are being opened in many towns in Oregon. The Grand Hondo has marketed 100 carloads of hogs the jiaHt year. Mare Inland will get all hut $50,000 of uie louu.wju to be spenton the Hartford. R. O. Harris and Jim linker, two dar ing roblrtars, have been killed in Arizona ly a posse under the Sheriff of Coeouino county. Mining operations are being resumed in Cieur d'Alene district in Idaho under owners' turms, $3.60 for miners and $:( lor oarmen and shovelers. The old I'inacale placers in Han Diego county, Cal., and near the Han Bernar dino border are being reworked with ex cellent rcHults. Dry washers are used. The Oregon Agricultural College ex hibit at the Mate Fair was turned over to the World's Fair Commission of the Ktate, and is now displayed at Chicago's great show. Judge Koss at Los Angeles holds that a Chinuman to be a merchant must be actively engaged in buying and selliuK uiui oiimr dunes that merchants are oc cupied with. Forest fires In the Hound country in Washington have driven the cougars anil bears out of their dens and into the val ley settlements, where they are seen in great numbers. The population of New Mexico has not materially changed during thu past year. The total Territorial indebtedness Is fill 1,712, and the cash balanco in the treasury is 111! 1,MX). Immense coal fields in Konora, Mexico, are to bo worked by Kan Diego parties, who have obtained a lease from the gov ernment, liailroad, harbor and other concessions have been granted. There is a rumor at Victoria. II. C, founded upon private advices, that the governments of the United States and ireat ilritain aru negotiating to close Jiehring Kea and the 1'acillu for two years. It is reported at Chino that Claus bpreckels bus bought (1,000 acres of the Jlixhy ranch near West minster, Orange county, Cal., and will plant it to licots, If this be true, it means another sugar factory for that region. The Albatross has made the deepest sea sounding ever made. 1'hosphorus fish without eves were secured at 2,800 fathoms. l-'n-li ami weeds sulllcient to load four cars were secured in the neigh borhood of llc'hnug Sea. The Hoard of Directors of tho mh An geles Chamber of Commerce has passed a resolution favoring the extension of the time of registering Chinamen under tho tieary act lor three months and in dorsing tieary's hill suspending all im migration for live years. Thu holders of scrip issued by the canneries at Hun June ate alarmed over a notice from the government that this scrip is subject to a tax ot 10 per cent, The scrip was issued because thu can neries could not borrow from the banks anil merchants accepted it from the em ployes. In Sonoma county, Cal., there will lie 10.000 or 11.000 hales of hops produced this year, axaiust 8,400 last year. The hops are of an excellent quality. Only white lalHuers were employed, and they were so salislactorv that Chinese will not 1st given work when white help can be secured. The Idaho Wool Growers' Association has offered a reward of $500 for the ar rest and conviction of the person or per sous who have been Hiisonlng a large numls-r of sheep in Owyhee county, llundreds of sheep have Im-cii killed by eating saltpeter or a mixture of salt and strychnine sprinkled over thu ranges, Hheepmeu charge the cattlemen w ith the wholesale poisoning. The l.os Angeles Chamber of Com merce has been induced by tho large in flux from the Fast to pass a resolution station that " here, as in every other section of the country, several men stand ready to III! every vacancy for work that occurs. The new-coming day laborers stand very little chance of securing work at the present time, and are therefore urgently warned not to come to this country." It is rciHirtcd at Sail Diego that an In dian outbreak is Imminent at Yuma, owing to the trouble between Chief l'as ipial and ex-Chief Miguel. Telegraphic orders have la-en received by Colonel Kellogg in command of the local garri son of regular troops for aid. He has assigned Major Charles 1 Davis to the command of a detachment of thirty men, who w ill leave at once for service at that point. Suspicion is now aroused at San Diego that the ImhIv of the man found recently near l.a Mesa was that of A. C. Warner, w ho disapH-arcd from San Diego some weeks ago after stealing $30 from his roommate, lie is said to have engaged passage bv the l'acillc Mail steamer Sep-lemU-r 5 for Chili, and is understood to have had $4,000 in Chilian scrip, having stolen the American money to meet his immediate requirements. The sugar Industry of California for the past year has Ix-en very successful, ltoth the grower of sugar beets and the 'manufacturer ot sugar therefrom have realized large profits. The retlnery at Watsouville is reported to !-o working at its lull capacity. The yield of sugar lieeta this year' is 70,000 tons, which at present rates is worth $77 per ton, ex clusive of the Umnty, which is worth 1 40 per ton. Last year the crop of sugar beets was 5,000 tons. It it expected the R rowing of sugar tieets will lHme a tading agricultural industry. Thomas R. Sheridan, I'tvsldcnt of the First National Hank of Koseburg and one of the promoter of the Coos Hay, Koseburg and F astern railroad, says the remaining sixty-two miles of road has is-eu located from Myrtle Point to Hose burg. Work is practically suspended for the rainv season, but w ill he started in earnest early in the spring, and the road will lx completed by November 1, lH'.H. Completion of this road w ill make accessible an immense timber area, and will render tributary to Portland a large and fertile section' of the State, which has heretofore been in all but name pan of California. BUSINESS BREVITIES. There are 60,000 telephones in London. Germany's first railroad wu hnilt in 1835. Russia has more horses than any other nation. Liberia vearl vex nortal (Yin nonr.nn,la of coffee.' -"-'- The boor land of Irel and amfinntfl tr 2,830,000 acres. California wines are Haiti t. crainino favor in Europe. Over 12,000 persons are employed in London theaters. Nearly 1,000,000 pianos are made an nually in Kngland. The total cost of the Suez canal ex ceeded 20,000,000. The capital invented in English rail roads exceeds 1500,000,000. The little Kingdom of Greece finds employment for 27,000 sailors. The unicycle is expected by an in ventor to go a mile in twenty seconds. The hats worn out in this country an nually cost as much as $:soo,000,oou. It is estimated that 5,000,000 women are earning wages in the British Isles, One of the largest barber shops in New iora now employs girl barbers exclu sively. Tho price paid for cider apples at the big mill at Doylestown, I'a., is 10 cents per UK) pounds. Forty-seven years ago the patent for the first practical sewing machine was issueu to r.uas nowe. The State of Illinois will nso this year more than 4,000,000 barrels of beer, or enough to Moat a navy. Tho national debt of Great Britain is CWMJ,WM,nHl (.f,4U.),407,ODj; the n i tional debt of the United Stales is ('177,- 777,804.37. Greeley, Col., will ship alioiit 6,000 carioaus oi potatoes 10 oiner mates uie present year. Many carloads of these (HJlatocs go to lexas. The Waterbury Watch Company has resumed operations. The courts ought to tiavo known that It was Impossible to winu that concern up. A carpet loom has been devised which runs two sets of needles, and h in ventor claims that it will produce a square yard of carpet material in one minute. The consumption of beer in tho United States is now half a barrel per capita, and is doubling alsnit every eight years. At the iH-ginning of the next century it promises to be a barrel a head. Tho Tribune states that the 1,103 mill ionaires of Now York city alone could, if they choose, buy up tlie whole real estate of the entire Southern States anil evict the population by duo process of law. According to the ofllcial report for the past twelve months the American peo ple drank only 8, 383,720 barrels of imer In 1875, while last year wo drank 31,374, 611), and this year 33,870,400, an increase of 2,450,610 barrels. Tho nail machine was invented in 1775. At the present day it is estimated that 4,000,000,000 nails are annually made by machinery in (ireat Ilritain alone, and from a fourth to a half of this number In the United Hiatal. Eastern Switzerland manufactures an nually nearly $20,000,000 worth of machine-made embroideries. The United States alone have imported as high as 7,700,000 worth of these articles in a single year, and the business seems to ha inoraaiing. PURELY PERSONAL. General Itlack holds his pension by grace of a special act of Congress. Inspector Williams of the New York Hilice was arrested tho other day by one of his men, who was convinced that tho Insiicctor was a conlldence man. Mrs. Crook, the widow of tho Indinn llghting General, is a very line-looking woman, w ith snowy-whito hair that is in striking contrast to her youthful and vivacious spirits. Tennessee has seven living ex-Governors. In the list of olllcial succession thevcome as follows: IhIiiiiiiO. Harris, D. W. 0. Neuter, James 1). Porter, Alvin G. Hawkins, William II. Hate, Hubert L. Taylor and John P. lliichanan. It is stated that as soon as thu Arch duke Francis Ferdinand d'Fste returns from his journey round the world his betrothal will take place with Princess F.luahcth of Havaria, a granddaughter of the Emperor Francis Joseph and of Prince Urgent l.uitpold of Havaria. IXm M. Dickinson of Michigan, ex Post master-General of the United States, has been retained by the Canadian Pa- cillc to defend President Van Home and other ollicials of the road charged with violation of the interstate commerce law. The trial comes up in November at Ta ima. Captain Malum, now of tho United States steamer Chicago and the author of the remarkable liooka on theinlluence of sea power, is one of the most popular Americans in England. He was a guext at the dinner given bv the ljueen to the German F.tuperor at Osborne the other riMiing. Ex-President benjamin Harrison writes to a friend that he will arrive in San Francisco about the 1st oi next Feb ruary. He w ill remain in California six weeks. Ilia lectures at Stanford Uni versity will bo largely historical, and will treat of colonial characters down through the confederation to the adoption of the I mted states constitution. Dr. Thomas Heiule Park, tho physi cian who accompanied Stanley through tho Central African forest in his search for Emin Pasha, is dead. The explorer showed much atl'cctioii for Park in his I took, for the physician pulled Stanlev through w hen he was attacked bv sick ness at Fort Hodo and also iH-rfornnsl excellent service for the other members of the expedition. lxml UoWrlawas passed over recently in favor of the Duke of Couiiaught, and the latter was given the important com mand at Aide rshot. The incident has caused a great deal of bad feeling in the F.nglish armv. Ixird Huberts is the fore most English General, w hile the Duke is simply the son of his mother and has no more military ability than the average Columbian Guard has. Contrary to the general Ivlief. it Is said that I.i Hung Chang, tho Viceroy and real ruler of China, is most kindlv disposed toward the Christians. Two of his daughters were educated in Massa chusetts, and Nub were converted to Christianity. Subsequently one married a Frenchman and the other an Knglish man. Their inllueiu'e has made their father very tolerant of their coreligion ists. Dr. Stocker, the Gentian clergyman who has become prominent through his hootility to the Hebrews, preached Ids first sermon in this country in Chit-ago last week to a small congregation. He made no reference to the Hebrews, and ttid nothing sensational. At Mr. Moo dy's meeting the following day Dr. Stocker spoke in F.ngliah, saving that he was an anti-Semitic politically only, not personally or socially. He is said to he an entertaining speaker, with the power of apt Illustration in hit sermon. EASTERN MELANGE. A Firebug Conspiracy Discov ered in Chicago. HE LOVED A COLORED WIDOW. Destitute Farmers of Western Kan sas Appealing to Governor Lewelliug for Aid. Of fifty-six Indian agencies twenty are now in charge of army officers. Massachusetts is credited with having 100,000 cyclists, including both sexes. The water supply is limited in New York, and the price of milk has gone up. Gold-mining in Colorado has been much stimulated by the decline in silver, The town of Perry in the Cherokee Strip is rapidly assuming city propor tions. There are said to be about five contest ants for every claim in the Cherokee Strip. There are about 750 hotels in Chicago which have accommodations for 150,000 guests. Three billion cigarettes were smoked in this country during the fiscal year just enucu. It is saM good moonshine whisky can be Ixiuuht in Eastern Tennessee for 60 cents a gallon. The clergymen of Kings county, N. Y. are denouncing tho proposed Corbett Mitchell light. A syndicate of Populista, headed b State officials, is buying up newspapers in close counties in Kansas. Floods have done immense damage to crops in Virginia ami washed away four large mills on the Kapidan. The Federal grand iury at Birming ham, Ala., has indicted six Federal otli cvm for conu,liun in uiuue. Deer are more plentiful in the Adiron dacks this full than during any previous open season for a score of years. An organization of Spiritualists re cently met at Liberal, Mo., and raised 100,000 for a Spiritualistic college. Captain II. D. Spore of Hudson iB or ganizing a bicycle corpB for the First Regiment of tho Texas Volunteer Guard. A movement has liecn started among the A. O. U. W. of Kansas to secure seed wheat for the destitute western farmers. The big dynamite guns for the defense of New York harbor are to bo trained, elevated and depressed by electric mo tors. Tho consolidation of electric railroads with the establishment of a truck sys tem in New England is one of the latest schemes. The Columbian Celebration Compa ny's building at the World's Fair cost $400,000, and it was sold by tUe receiver for 12,250. A Chinaman at Ottawa will test the constitutionality of Canada's law, which imposes a duty of $50 each on all Chi nese immigrants. . Tho Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers in Pennsylvania has agreed to concede a 10 percent reduction in the finishers' department. In Cincinnati there has recently been organized a rent guarantee company, the business of which is to insure land lords against loss by bail tenants. There have been recent developments tending to show that the Ijuisvillu and Nashville railroad will soon absorb the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern. A Chattanooga electrician projioses to perfect an arrangement by means of which train robbers will lie electrocuted as soon as they touch tho express com pany's safe. Two interesting reports on tho manner ot living and of saving by tho working people will be transmitted to Congress ly Coimnissionerof Labor Wright within a few months. The Texas Penitentiary Board is con sidering tho purchase of tho Rogers su gar plantation in Brazoria county. Con victs have been working it on the shares for several years. Governor Ix-wolling of Kansas has re ceived hundreds oi letters witn appeal for aid from destitute farmers of Western Kansas. They say they must have help I or starvation will follow. The Citizens' league of New Jersey ' aims at the defeat of those members of i the Legislature who voted for the infa , moils racetrack bills last winter, in case they are made candidates again. Ixiuis Simmons, a white resilient of Mascoutah, III., 41 years old, was ducked In a pond tho other day for presuming to want to marry Mrs. Emma Jackson (colored), who weighs 400 pounds. The announcement that the Pennsyl vania Railroad Company will arm all its trainmen and that tho express compa nies will supply their messengers with Winchesters and shotguns is timely, A Zulu fraud, who has lieen operating in the West, was arrested in tho .ion M. E. Church at New Haven, Conn., while delivering a sermon and placed in jail oia charge of swindling Chicago people. Already !,000,000 have been spent upon the 'scheme to carry electric power for illuminating and manufacturing pur poses from Niagara Falls over the State of New York. The first wires will prob ably Ik- strung along the Erie canal. The statistics of the shipping of the world, just published bv l.lovds, show that there is no nation wbieh has made so rapid an increase in the tonnage of steamers registered during the past twelve months as tho United States. Two hundred and one women availed themselves of the privilege of voting for school ollicials at an election held in New Haven, Conn., on September 18. The ticket they supported was elected by a majority of 1,700 out of a vote of 7,507. The reports of railroad earnings con tinue to show a decrease as compared with the earnings last year. There has U-eii a decrease every week for some time, but the weekly decrease has been growing smaller since the middle of Au gust. A water famine prevails in part of Eucinal and Duval counties, Tex. In the town of Aipiilarvs there is much suf fering. Mexican women await the com leg of the trains, and with cans and pails catch the drippings under the ten der and engine. The House Committee on Ranking has decided to report favorably on Mr. Springer's bill providing that before a loan can be made by a national bank to ne of its otlleer consent must be grant ed by yea and nay vote of the directors. A great number ot hanks have come to grief because of the borrowing proclivi ties ot their director. A firebug conspiracy has U-en discov ered in Chicago, the scoundrels having their headquarter tu that city. At least euht tires have been traced to these tir hugs in Illinois and two or three other State, and during the last three year the pan ha mcveded it) gating a clear f.V),UV from the insurance companies. FROM WASHINGTON CITY. Ex-RenreeenUtive Georze H. Durand of Michigan has been selected by the Attorney-General to assist in the prose cution of Federal officials and others implicated in the charges of opium and Chinese smuggling on Puget Sound and vicinity. It is intimated that the Treasury De partment is actuated in ordering the revenue steamers Grant and Perry to the Pacific Coast more by the condition of the Chinese and seal-fishery questions than to aid in the prevention of the smuggling of opium in Puget Sound. The Secretary of War has awarded a medal of honor to Captain Ernest A, Cardington of the Seventh Cavalry " for distinguished callantrv at Wounded Knee creek, H. D., during the Sioux war oi the winter of 181)0-1. " Captain Lar dington waa badly wounded in the bat tie. The Committee on Ways and Means has begun consideration of the new tar iff hill. There is an intimation that tlie Secretary of the Treasury favors an in crease in the internal-revenue tax on whisk v, leer and tobacco as the best means of raising the additional revenue necessary to meet the increasing deficits ot the government. In consequence of the new restrictions for conducting the official trial trips of naval vessels contractors will find it more difficult in the future to earn pre miums for an excess of speed. Begin ning with the Montgomery, soon to be tried, the contractors will not be permit ted to maintain a pressure above 5 per cent in excess of tlie standard pressure. Heretofore the contractors carried steam to a dangerously high pressure. It is highly probable that the Com in it tee on Territories will report a bill fn- n,o mlmiaaion of Utah to Statehood OkTi fron con I Ir the Hnrt tine son falo fori of t deti T cep Nai Me am ign; ma cor car;. ports at which they are compelled to stop by provisions of the company'scon tracts with the Central Amcrican'States, leaving the postmaster to fix the com pensation. The annual report of Governor W. T. Thornton of New Mexico states that the population of the Territory has not ma terially changed during the past year. The total Territorial indebtedness is 011,712, and cash balance in the treas ury $121,000. Sbx-k-raising hrts decreased as a result of the four years' drought. Many mines are closed on account of the decrease in silver value and the money market stringency. Tho annual product of precious stones is rapidly increasing. Governor Thornton recommends the approval by Congress of a legislative act of tho Territory providing for a County Court in every "county where the county seat has a population of 2,000 or more. Tlie report of tho special agent on the production of tin and tome plates for the quarter ended June 30 shows an ag gregate output ot 41,800,042 pounds, of which slightly more than 4!) per cent was from American block plato. Manufact ures during tho fiscal year 1801 aggre gated 13,!UO,710 pounds, of which (,2!X), 633 were from American plate. During tho fiscal vear of 1803 there were Hl),81!l, 202 pounds manufactured, of which 43, 600,724 were from American plate. The report on the imports and exports of plates indicates that the entire consump tion by tho United States during the fis cal year 1803 was 720,000,000 Xunds, of which more than 15 per cent was of American manufacture. Secretary Herbert has given to the press the correspondence relating to tlie removal of Captain Higginson from the command of the Atlanta. The state ments that Secretary Herbert apologized to Captain Higginson for removing him from duty and offered to restore him to his command on his own application are not Isirne out bv the facts, and are espe cially denied. Captain Higginson is en titled to the credit of having disclosed to the department the condition of the At lanta when the vessel was ordered to sea. Tho letters embrace the full his tory of this well-known case, and tlie conclusion of the matter is that Secre tary Herbert accepts the apology and explanation of Captain Higginson, and says his connection with the matter will not lie permitted to prevent his licing assigned to such duty as his rank enti tles him to perform, when the opportu nity oilers. The compromise silver measure pre pared by Senator Jones ot Arkansas has leen introduced in tho Senate by its au thor. It provides that there shall lie a commission, comprised of three Senators to bo selected by tho Senate, three Rep resentatives to lie selected by the Speaker of the House and three persons to be se lected by the President, subject to con firmation by the Senate. The commis sion shall organizo by the election of one of their number as' President, and tlie President is to appoint a clerk. The commission is to hold its session in the capitol and in such other places as a ma jority shall direct, and employ necessary stenographers and employes, and may administer oaths and send for persons and papers. The commission is charged with an examination into the fiscal and mon etary condition of the government and the "peoilo of the United States, with a view to devising means for the better ment thereof, and is given full jurisdic tion. It is charged to specially examine and report upon by one or more bills the following subjects: The full or partial remonetization of silver and a proper ratio between it and gold; revision of legal-tender laws to prevent discrimina tion between various description of money; State-hank tax repeal with nec essary revisions ; the cause ot the pres ent paralysis of trade and the necessity ot legislation to prevent national bank' from abusing their power. The second section of the resolution instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to set apart and retain in the Treasury so much of the silver bullion now in the Treasury as will be necessary to redeem the outstand ing Treasury note in compliance with the terms of the act of July It, 1S;X, and provides that the remainder ot the bullion shall be set apart to be coined, and the Secretary is required to coin it at the rate of not less than 4.000.000 standard silver dollar per month, which when coined shall be an aseet in the Treasury, and while thi coinage is in progress the purchase of silver bullion under the terma of the Sherman act hall be suspended. FOREIGN FLASHES. Great Progress in the Study of the Monkey Language. THE ABOLITION OF KN'OCTISG. Wasp Plague in Sussex," England- Assassinations in Italy The French Vintage. Another native war in Southern Africa now seems inevitable. Succi, the faster, is insane, and is now in an asylum near Pans. Harvesting operations in Roumania show a satisfactory result. The revision of the Belgian constitu tion has been accomplished at last. A caravan of 10,000 camels and 4,000 slaves left Timbuctoo for Morocco re cently. The doctors to Chinese royalty were recently fined a year's salary each for incompetence. Train-robbing in Spain is guarded against by stationing two soldiers in every railway car. Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria's latest project is the establishment of a med ical faculty in Sofia. Paris has a new storage-battery street car line that has been iu successful op eration several months. . Dr. Cornelius Herz of Panama canal 'oriety is recovering his health at rnemouth, England, lie average number of assassinations attempts at assassination in Italy is 1 to be fully 5,000 a year, ranee is the only European country ch has to-day fewer able-bodied men i it had thirty years ago. he Ubina volcano in the Peruvian dillera has become active nftor hoir" , quiescent state for years. aiser William, Dr. Miquel says, has sn for his motto, " The Emperor is first servant of the people." le London section of the National ;ral Federation has declared for the ition of the House of Lords. te wasp plague is still very bad in lex, England, and the destruction in rchards has been very great. iring the reign of Victoria the In- government has coined 2,000,000 oia ana Jtzou.uou.uuu ot silver. le latest estimate of the Russian at crop is 272,000,000 bushels. Last s crop was 250,000,000 bushels. peasant living on one of the Greek inito recently dug up a statue, lor which uie untiHti government has paid 132,000, The tariff war between Germany and Russia will force the former country to uuy enormous quantities ot grain in tins country. Russia is said to bo about to acquire a naval station in East Africa at which to repair and coal tho vessels of her Pacific squadron. Tlie phylloxera has at last touched every wine-irrnwiniy district, in Franco the Champagne vines being the last to oe narmeu. Christine Nilsson has her dining room papered with hotel bills which alio has paid during her professional tours. The sum total is enormous. The St. Petersburg correspondent of tne ijonuon central rews says that an imperial ukase will shortly be issued abolishing the practice of knouting by the police. The recent army maneuvers of the Austro-IIungarian troops were not satis factory. Emperor William was not very favorably impressed with the work of the Generals. In Switzerland all the telegraph linos are controlled by the government. There are 1,411 offices and 12.385 teleeraDh on. craters. The annual profit derived above an expenses is fl'o0,000. The quantity of fruit in South Lincoln shire, England, this season exceeds all previous years. Owing to the markets being glutted, growers have a difficulty in tusposing oi too crop, nt i mere nas Decn so great an increase recently in tho growth and exportation oi .i.in a oranges mat mat town now stands next to Bcyrout In importance among me ports on tne t-yrian coast. .Mr. Gladstono has offended against irauuion in appointing Mr Henry Aor man Governor-General of India to suc ceed lxinl Lansdowne. The rule has been to appoint nobody hut a peer to that post. The Duke of Edinburgh, althoncli he has expatriated himself and has become a German princeling, does not propose iu reiiiiquisii inn rigni 10 tne annuity of 000 which he draws from the Impe rial Treasury of Great Britain. In order to stav the cholera it iB stated that two Jewish women, merchants wives, re going irom nouse to nniixn in Gallicia with a pair of scissors cutting ., d timi, n ill, ii ninny nave Bl lowed to grow in unorthodox fashion. A letter from Prof. Garner, dated from his steel cage, which he has named Fort Gorilla, has been received in England from Fernandez Vaz, Africa. The pro fessor claims to have made great progress in ins siuuy oi tne monKev language Mr. Burne-Jones, the English artist, is engaged upon the interesting task of painting a portrait of Mr. Gladstone's youngest granddaughter, Dorothy Drew. This little blne-eved maiden of 3 year is said to resemble the grandfather start lingly. Dr. Buchwald of Iipsic discovered among some forgotten manuscripts in the University of Jena Martin Luther's political essay against the theological faculty of the University of Louvain, Belgium, which manuscript was sup posed to have been lost. The tailors have met in London " to prepare for the abolition of the sweating system and long hours and for the com ing battle of the tailors ot the world." The 25.000 members of the organization are threatened by the master tailors with a destruction of their union. The present year of 1893 promises to be a great year for the French vintage Chateau Latlte, which produced 320 hogs heads last year, has this vear yielded 1,000, and the increase is general.' There is such a demand for caks that certain ordinary sizes, usually bringing 4 franca ow cost 12 francs. Many ot the houses in Holland have a special door, which is never opened save on two occasions, when there is a mar riage or a death in the family. The bnde and groom enter by this door; it is then nailed or barred up nntil a death occurs when it is opened and the body is re moved by this exit. The Chinese government in reply to the joint protest of foreign Ministers against the alleged barbarous treatment of foreigners in China, especially in Hu nan and Hufehe. of which Chang Tung is iceroy, promised that Chang Tung should be degraded in rank in the event oi further onrrages happening in hi province. PORTLAND MARKET. w..t-Valley. 90cfl.00; Walla Walla, 87J90c per cental. provisions. Eastbbm Smokkd Mats and Labd Hams, medium, uncovered, ,14! 815 V: per pound; covered, 14(gl5c; break fast Won, uncovered, 16WHci ered, 16417c; short clear sides, 15 , (a 16c; ory sail siuea, ita" -i compound, in tins, 10c per pound; pureVintins,1314lic; Oregon lard, 11), 123,0. BAGS AND BAQOINO. Burlaps, 8-onnce, 40-inch, net cash, 6c; burlaps, 10-ounce, 40-inch, net cash, 6'c; burlaps, 11-ounce, 45-inch, 7Mc; burlaps, Id-ounce, 60-inch, lie; burlaps, 1'J-ounce, 76-inch, 14c; wheat bags, Calcutta, 22x36, spot, 8c; 2-bushel oat bags, 7'c; No. 1 selected second hand bags, 7c; Calcutta nop cioui, it ounce, 10c. HOPS, WOOL AND HIDBB, Hops '92s. 100160 ner pound, accord ing to quality; new crop, '93a, 11c for inferior to uc ior cnoice. Wool Prices nominal, limn Drv selected nrime. 5c: green. salted, 60 pounds and over, 3ic; under 60 pounds, 23c; sheep pelts, shearlings, lOffllfic: medium. 20(335c: long wool, 3060c; tallow, good to choice, 33c per pound. FLOOR, FEED, ETC. Flooe Standard. 3.25; Walla Walla, $3.25; graham. 2.75; superfine, $2.50 ner barrel. Oats New white. 33(t?35c per bushel ; new gray, 3032c ; rolled, in bags, 6.25 (gb.W; barrels, fo.vocgv.uu; cases, f.o. Millstdffs Bran, $17.00; shorts, $20.00: ground barley. $22(823; chop feed, $18 per ton ; whole feed, barley, 80 85c per cental; middlings, $2328 per ton; chicken wheat, $1.101.25 per Hay Good, $1012 per ton. DAISY PRODUCE. Butter Oregon fancy creamery. 27W i530c; fancy dairy, 2225c; fair to pound. Uiikksk uregon, lzxjc; uaiuornia, 1314c; Young America, 1510c per pound. JiiOQS zzc per uozen. Poultry Chickens, old. $3.003.50; broilers, $1.603.00; ducks, $3.00(34.00; geese, $8.009.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 14c per pound. live and dressed heat. Beef Prime steers, $2.50(32.75; fair to good steers, $2.00(32.50 ; good to choice cows, ti.MKgz.uu; aresseu beet, f3.MJ(g 6.00. Mutton Choice mutton, $2.002.50; dressed, $4.00(35.50; lambs, $2.002.50; dressed, $6.00; live weight, $2.002.50. Hoos Choice heavy, $5.005.50 ; me dium, $4.505.00; light and feeders, $4-505.00; dressed, $7.00. Veal $4.006.00. miscellaneous. Tin I. C. charcoal, 14x20, prime qual ity, $8.50(89.00 per box; for crosses, $2 extra per box; I. C. coke plates, 14x20, prime quality, $7.508.00 per box ; terne plate, I. C, prime quality, $6.507.0O. Mails Base quotations: Iron. 12.25: Bteel, $2.35; wire, $2.50 per keg. Steel Per pound, lOc. Lead Per pound, 4c; bar, 6SjO. Naval Stores Oakum, $4.505.00 per bale; resin, $4.80(36.00 per 480 pounds; tar, Stockholm, $13 ; Carolina, $0 per bar rel ; pitch, $6 per barrel ; turpentine, 65c per gallon in car lots. Iron Bar, 2Jo per pound ; pig-iron, $2325perton. . CANNED GOODS. Canned Goods Table fruits, assorted, $1.75.(it2.00; peaches, $1.852.0O; Bart lett pears, $1.75(2.00; plums, $1.37 1.50; strawberries, $2.25(82.45; cherries, $2.25(22.40; blackberries, $1.85(32.00; raspberries, $2.40; pineapples, $2.25 2.80; apricots, $1.65(82.00. Pie fruita, assorted, $1.20; peaches, $1.25; plums, $1.00(81.20; blackberries, $1.251.40 per dozen. Pie fruits, gallons, assorted, $3.16(33.50; peaches, $3.504.00; apri cots, $3.60(84.00; plums, $2.75(83.00; blackberries, $4.254.60. Meats Corned beef, Is, $1.50; 2s, $2.40; chipped, $2.654.00: lunch tongue, Is, $4; 2s, $6.75; deviled ham, $1.75(82.15 per dozen. Fish Sardines, s, 75c$2.25; Ks, $2.15(84.60; lobsters, $2.30(33.60; sal mon, tin 1-lb talis, $1.25$1.50; flats. $1.75;2-lbs, $2.252.50; -barrel, $5.6o! STAPLE groceries. Dried Fruits Petite prunes, 10llc; silver, ll812c; Italian, 13c; German, 10(811c; plums, 8(8c; evaporated ap ples, lOQllc; evaporated apricots, 12(8 15c; peaches, 10(812,'c; pears, 7llc per pound. Honey Choice comb, 18c per pound ; new Oregon, 16(20c; extract, 93.10c. Salt Liverpool, 100s, $16.00; 60s, $16.50; stock, $8.60(89-50. Coffee Costa Rica, 23c; Rio, 22c; Salvador, 23c; Mocha, 2028c; Ar buckle's, Columbia and Lion, 100-pound cases, 25.30c per pound. Beans Small whites, 3c; pinks, 3J4c; bayos, Sc; butter, 4c; lima, 3'ic per pound. Rice Island,$5.75(g6.00; Japan, ; New Orleans, $5.606.25 per cental. Syrup Eastern, in barrels, 4065c; in half-barrels, 42857c; in cases, 35(4 80c per gallon ; $2.25 per keg; California, in barrels, 20t840c per gallon; $1.75 per keg. s-, viuiuoii v, o-c ; extra U 8J.C ; confectioners' A, 6'c ; dry gran ulated, 6,c; cube, crushed and pow dered, 7o per pound ; 4'c per pound discount on all grades for prompt cash: maple sugar, 15(8 16c per pound. VEGETABLES AND PRC its. Vegetables Cabbage, lc pur pound; potatoes, Oregon, 75c per sack ; new on ions, H4C per pound; tomatoes, 35(8 40c per box ; green corn, 15c per dozen sweet potatoes, liV(81,Sc per pound egg plant, $1.00 per box ; new California celery, 90c per dozen ; Oregon, 35i350c. bo VVT? "-lnns, o.uu(trj.50 per -auiornia new cron. IS.OOiaSKn per box; banana. $l.50fi 3.00 r4r hnnnh oranges, n1Brket bare; Oregon, peaches 1 5c per box ; California, 75 (3 85c per box fall butter pears, 65800 per box; ltlUc per pound; watermelons, 75c(i$l.OO per dozen; nntmeg melons, $1.50 per box: Casawvaa. $2.00(32.50; grapes) 50(390c per box ; Italian prunes, 60(3 80c per box ; &P LT; r5?K,WI' Ki? venstein Soci3$l.00 per box ; Waxen, 75.300c. Asking I ha Wrong Prty. "Some of yon." said a political orator "remind me of Johnny Birirn, who un' dertook to break the yearling bull, and to make sure he did not get away tied me rope around his waist. The break ing process angered the yearling, and he split a crack in the atmosphere tow.nl the .wainp. Johnny only hit the ground , 8harP Pri in the high place. In their mad career " you what it is," he said, "I they paeu , neighbor, who yelled to introduce a bill for the coinage John. W here are yon going' 'Blanked of half cents. " u snow. n renhml k. through th. air. -Aak ..O.J Northwest Macuciua. FARM AND GARDEN. Necessity for Planting Timber for Present Use. WOMEN MAKE BEST MILKERS. Sell Every Foot of Idle Land Prac- tlcal Suggestions for Pro gressive Farmers. We often hear farmers urged to plant timber for future use and profit, but I have never heard a word said about planting any for the present time, savs writer in Farm, Field and Fireside. There is a great deal said of what timber will amount to in nlty years, but nothing about what will be profitable in five or ten years. Would it not be very conve nient if a farmer could in five years raise all the fence posts he needed? It can be very easily done by simply planting one or two acres to an Osage-orange grove. 1 have cut them at lour years old that were from one to two inches in diameter at the top of a six-foot post, and although cut green out of a hedge and set in the fence, they were quite sound at the end of twelve years, while some burr-oak posts in the same fence were entirely rotted off. Osage orange does best on land on which timber or hazel brush for merly grew. A two-inch Osage-orange post is much morn satisfactory than any iron post that I ever saw, and, I believe, will last longer unless the latter was gal vanized. Of course, small posts will split at the top if staples are driven too near the end, but that is easily obviated by tying the top wires with annealed wire around the top of the post. In the blue-grass region of Kentucky I saw black-locust posts sold for 40 cents apiece, while oaa posts were not worth more than 5 cents each. Osage orange is a stronger and more durable post than lo cust, and if it were grown in groves, it would be straighter and better than if grown in heuges, ana no stock would trouble an osage-orange grove alter the second year, and if well cultivated, not much after the first. Hedges are too much trouble, and exhaust too much land to be profitable ; but where durable, strong tun ner is needea there is nothing better than Osage orange. While it makes the hottest fire of any wood 1 ever saw burned, I never knew it to be troub led by insects or borers of any kind. I think six feet apart would be about the right distance to plant a grove. This would give about l,200.plants to the acre. cost of cow-milkinu. Jaque in Country Gentleman says: Your correspondent asks what he can afford to pav for having women do the milking. We have several times had an arrangement with wives of our tenants for milking morning and evening, and have paid 10 cents for each service that is, 20 cents per day. This is based upon an hour's service at each milking at the rate of $1 for a day's work. In an hour's time a good milker ought to milk ten women are to be preferred for milkers when they can be had, or when a por tion oi me torce can be women. Their natural manual dexterity is greater than that of men, and they will milk with more rapidity and greater ease to the cows, which means that thev will get more milk, and the udders of the cows will be kept in better condition. Tlie presence of women at milking time checks rude conversation and boisterous conduct, and the quieter the stable can be kept the better, especially if you have any nervous cows. The men are not apt to neglect the thorough cleaning of the stalls or brushing of the cows in occa sional absence of the proprietor if they know that women are to aid in the milk ing. The average man, born or long res ident in this country, looks upon every woman as a lady, and entertains for her a respectful courtesy which keeps him upon his good behavior in her presence. He will be making a good move to in troduce as many women as he can among his milkers. IDLE LAND. If there is any land upon the farm which is not earning anything, it is a di rect menace to the prosperity of the rest of the farm. The taxes and the interest on its cost go on just the same as if it were earning something, and this de tracts from the profit of the whole. Often these idle and waste places are but a har bor for vermin and weeds, or if thev do not become so, it is because there Is a constant expenditure of labor to keep it clean, and this labor might far better be expended in the cultivation of some crop. It will pay better to clean such places up once for all and put them to some use. Most of them are capable of some good. Not infrequently they would serve admi rably for a timber tract. general farm notes. It will pay to give cows corn nntil clover aftermath grows up. Do not allow dairy cows to fall off in quantity of milk from short pastures. Take only clean eggs to market; in order to do this have only clean nests. Do not be tempted by extra prices for early pullets which will soon be laying. Every hen over the number you can well house and care for will be kept at a loss. A large quantity of the butter produced in this country is spoiled by too much churning and working. Give chickens a change of food fre quently; they will keep in better health and produce more eggs. Generally fowls which feather and ma ture early are good egg producers, good Betters and good mothers. First-class butter sells for a good price almost universally. It is only the infe rior grades which bring low prices. Do not hurry cows to and from the pasture. Dairy cows are sensitive, and are much disturbed by harsh treatment. Get ready for winter work now. Build poultry-houses and arrange yards; select the breeding stock and layers, and dis pose of all others. Raise more poultry on the farm for home consumption. Compared with pork, it costs less and is much more nourishing and healthful. It will often pay to sow winter rve and not allow it to mature. It makes good late-autumn and early-spring pasture, keeps the soil covered during the winter and furnishes a growth to turn under for green manure. An I'unrenwry Coinage. Washington society last winter knew a very self sufficient bachelor, who was a congressman. In certain lines he was smart enough, but gen erally speaking he needed about twice as much sense as he usually displayed. One eveninz he wm t.iivino- tn a I "IVT.- . . '..1 00 ' hare already." Detroit Free Press. J