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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1892.
ASLEEP AT HIS POST.
A Braieian on TneMacMw Railway
- Cause! a Disaster.
A . GRAVEL TRAIN' TELESCOPED.
What a Plugged Ten Cent Piece Done
On a Columbus Line.
TBI KIDS BAND OF APACHES FIGUT
Anarchists Again at Work in Paris
Stage Held Up The Chilean
Ministry etc.
Greenville, O., Nov. 8. A north
bound passenger train on tlte Mackinaw
railroad telescoped a north-bound gravel
train yesterday evening about one mile
south of this city. The engine pulling
the gravel train ran out of coal and cnt
loose and ran into town and coaled up,
and while being turned jumped the
track and was unable to get back to the
track. John Dougherty, brakeman of
the gravel train, was asleep in the cab
oose, instead of being back flagging the
passenger train, whichjwas nearly due,
The passenger train came along at the
rate of forty miles an hour, and the grav
el train was not seen in time to stop the
passenger engine. It dashed through
the caboose, where the brakeman was
sleeping, and on through, telescoping
five loaded cars. It .then turned over
and rolled down a steep embankment,
and lies on its side buried in the mud.
C. M. Huff, engineer, and E. Conway,
fireman of the passenger, both jumped
just as the engine started down the em
bankment. Both were seriously hurt
. about the back and internally, Dough
erty, the brakeman, was cut and mangled
in a terrible manner, and cannot live,
-about twenty passengers were aboard,
nd all were hurt more or les9. C. A.
Hedrick, a mail clerk, and wife were
passengers on the train, and both were
badly injured. The damage done to the
engine, cars and track is about $30,000.
A Plugged Dime Causes a Strike.
Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 8. The elec
trie system of the Consolidated street
railway is tied up this morning. Con
ductors and motormen have gone out on
a strike. It is not positively known
what caused the trouble, but it is under'
stood to be due to the dismissal of a con
ductor last night who refused to accept a
"plugged" dime. About 600 men were
. affected.
A Skirmish With Indians.
Los Angles, Nov. 8. Major McGregor,
in command of Fort Bowie, telegraphs
the military head-quarters here that
Lieut. Bean had a skirmish with The
Kids band of Apaches in the Chiricahua
mountains Sunday, and captured their
horses, but had in turn to fortify him
self and men. Reinforcements were for
warded to him from Fort Bowie.
Work of Anarchists.
Paris, Nov." 8. Anarchists are at
. work again here. This morning police
men found an iron instrument resem
bling a sauce pan near the offices of the
Cormaux mining company. They took
it to the police station, and began to ex
amine it. It exploded, killing two
policemen, wounding another fatally,
ana wrecking the Duilding.
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A Masked Stage Bobber.
Downieville, Nov. 8. The stage be
. tween here and sierra city was held up
last night by one masked man a mile
below Sierra city, and Wells-Fargos box
was handed over to him in compliance
with his demand lor spoils.
Chilian Ministry Have Keslgned.
Paris, Nov. 8. A dispatch from San
tiago de Chili says the members of the
Chilian ministry have resigned..
Oregon Gray Wolf.
Grants' Pass Observer. J. P. Cole-
. man informs us of the killing of a huge
gray wolf Monday. The animal was
chasing some chickens, belonging to J.
A. Hubbard in the east part of town.
It was a genuine gray wolf, and had been
seen sometimes in the foot-hills near
town, but got too bold at last and came
. town on a lark, and sold itself for $2.50
in county scrip. The wolf was a mon
ster measuring four feet four inches in
length.
The Open Hirer Cry.
East Oregonian. Last, year the state
built a portage road around the obstruc
tions in the Columbia, river below The
Dalles. This has caused a saving to the
. farmers of $2.50 a ton on wheat and iir
the same proportion on other articles.
Thus the need for a similar road above
The Dalles is emphasized. The cry for
an open river raised five or more years
ago by the East Oregonian is melody
' still to the people. . .The state can give
the people an open river. To depend
upon the government and the politicians
is useless and senseless. - Let's go to
, work for an open -river and show the
politicians that' they have been
. found out and cannot be trusted.
HAKKITI'S BOODlK.
A Barrel of It Thrown Into The Oregon
Campaign taut Night. v
Additional narticnlars concerning the
Barrel of Boodle pitched into Oregon
last night with a torch and fuse attached
by the New York Tammany party to
help Weaver capture Oregon is furnished
by the noon train today. The Oregonian
savs:
. Boodle has come to the assistance of
Chairman Dan Murphy and his per
plexed committee. It arrived last even
ing in custody of a trusted agent of the
democratic central committee, and he
was not in town an hour until arrange
ments were being made to spend the
money as speedily and effectively as
the brief ante-election interim and the
demoralized condition of iihe party
would permit. Just how much lucre
has been thrown into the Oregon cam
paign it is impossible to ascertain, but
that the amount is no stingy one may
be suspected from the expense already
incurred. Every dollar of it will be
spent in the effort to carry the state for
Weaver. At 1 o'clock this .morning
Baltes & Co.'s ten printing presses were
rattling off this self-explanatory circu
lar:
Democrats of Oregon: Important
orders have just been received from
Chairman Harrity. The election of
Cleveland depends on Oregon going for
Weaver. A democratic vote for Cleve
land electors in this state is a vote for
Harrison. If you are a democrat and
want Cleveland elected vote for Weaver.
D. R. Murphy,
Chairman State Democratic Coin.
As many of these appeals as can be
printed before five o'clock this morning
will be bundled aboard of special trains
that start from this city at 5:30. Each
will consist of ai locomoti ve and cars, and
their conductors have been instructed to
maintain an average speed of forty miles
an hour. One carries Chairman Mur
phy and Capt. Moffett over the Southern
Pacific to Ashland and return, and the
other conveys Messrs. Markley and
Sperry to Baker City and back again,
over the Union Pacific. At each station
of any importance the train will stop long
enough to deliver the democratic boss of
the district, who has been notified by
wire of its advent, a bundle of the cir
culars and a bit of the boodle. All the
arrangements were completed before 2
o'clock, at which hour the jubilant
patriots were crowding the party's state
headquarters.
No attempt was made to conceal the
fact that money had arrived, and that by
its free use the party hoped to defeat the
Harrison ticket. Chairman Murphy
only regretted that it had not arrived
sooner. "We are going . to carry this
state for Weaver if unlimited money
and tireless work can do it," he said.
Nor were his conferees more modest in
their exultation. The atmosphere reek
ed of boodle suddenly and unexpectedly
acquired.
It is extremely doubtful that even the
entire Harrity barrel could reorganize
the demoralized democracy of Oregon
sufficiently to enable it to vote as a unit.
Nor is it likely that the staunch par
tisans who sustained the position as
sumed by Messrs. Butcher, Noland and
Colvig can be purchased to renounce the
principles of democracy and vote for
candidates whose platform is nauseating
to them. Mr. Murphy will experience
no difficulty in distributing the contents
of his barrel but the result of the ex
penditure will certainly disappoint him
How to Treat the Codlin Moth.
Greene Smith, of Penewawa, tells
how they treat the codlin moth up in
the Snake river fruit region. He says
they use the spray-pump treely, and
that there is a method in use in that
section, resulting very satisfactory, of
tying a band of cloth, about six inches
wide, around the base of the tree. We
use old jute grain bags, cut into four
strips, and doubled, and have trapped
the apple-worm by the score. They
should be put on so soon as the bloom
drops, and kept there until after the
crop is gathered, being removed once a
week and all the worms killed. It being
the nature of the worms, after leaving
the apple, to seek some secluded spot in
which to spin their cocoon, from which
they come forth a full-fledged moth,
ready for the attack on the "big red
apple,7 therefore the band oners a very
nice shelter. I have killed 125 worms
from under one band after being on a
week. As to trapping them by using a
light, a pan of water with a film of kero
sene on it, set under the light, will no
doubt be of considerable help. I would
not, however, use kerosene, but some
other kind of oil, for the scent of the
kerosene seems to be obnoxious to them
and drives them away, at least that is
my experience. With a lantern and
pan of half water and half soured cider,
set near some barrels of cider, I have
seen amilkpan one-fourth full of moths,
all caught in one night. One of the
most extensive fruit-growers on Snake
river says be will next season spray
every week, from the dropping of the
bloom, until the apples are ripe, and if
then he does not obtain better results he
will dig up his apple trees and raise
other varieties of fruit. . .
. Notice. T
I will sell a few lots in the city cheap;
titles clear. Now is your time, call or
address - A.Kennedy,
11.7-5t , Ninth street, The Dalles, Or.
WALL STREET REPORT
The General Drift of Money an! Tone
tlie Trade Situation.
SPECULATION HELD IX CHECK.
Hardening Tendency of the Money Mar
kets Both Here and in Europe.
THE DALLES tIASKET QUOTATIONS
Interesting Report of the Wheat
Produce Situation for the Cur
rent Week.
and
Henry Clews' Weekly Commercial
circular for the period under review says
that in Wall Btreet the tone of business
lacks any special element of speculation.
Many factors in the condition of busi
ness at large are favorable to a higher
range of prices, which had been very
generally expected to appear at this
stage of the season ; but counter factors
have appeared which are holding spec
ulative tendencies in check for the time
being. There is, however, a very
healthy demand for railroad mortgages
and prime dividend-paying shares, and
that fact encourages the bull owners of
stocks to stick to their holdings.
The hardening tendencyof the money
markets, here and in Europe, naturally
holds speculative transactions in check,
the more so as the drift has run farther
than has been generally expected. We
have been assured by Chicago banking
authorities that that money center has
so far gained control ot interior finances
that the great grain states would no
longer be dependent on New York funds
for moving the crops. Some people have
believed this boast, and are consequently
taken by surprise at the present condi
tion of our banks ; but the fact has been
that, since the end of July, the surplus
reserves of the clearing-house banks
have fallen from $24,000,000 to zero, and
that $20,000,000 of money have been
6ent from New York to the interior.
This is a change so sweeping and so un
expected that it necessarily becomes a
serious element in Wall street opera
tions, as its effects are apparent in
stringency and unusually high rates for
loans and discounts.
MARKET REVIEW.
Summary of Trade and Business for the
Current Week.
Thursday, Nov. 10th. After all that
the week has been one of political issues
and of the presidential contest at the
polls, there has been the -usual great
activity in trade in the several lines of
merchandise, produce and real estate.
The streets have been at times quite
jamed with teams from the rural dis
tricts, and from the distant interior.
Purchases have been large and the cash
has been paid down on the spot.
In conversation with a leading dealer
yesterday, he informs us that although
the season was late before the fall trade
opened, the volume of business so far
exceeded expectations, and is put down
as one of unusual interest and magni
tude, and that the opinion prevails that
it will continue until after the holidays.
Prices in the general line of merchan
dise is well maintained for the season,
which are lower than formerly. In sta
ple groceries there have been some
changes to note. Sugars have dropped
another J of a cent a lb. on all grades,
since our last report. During the past
week a large invoice (of sugar was re
ceived from the refineries in China, at
Portland, which, coming into competi
tion with the San Francisco refineries,
is expected to cause a still further de
cline. Salt has felt the influence of
large arrivals by ocean vessels, and a
decline is reported in Liverpool 100 and
200 lb. sacks, of 20 and 25 cents per bag,
Dried fruits are very firm, owing to the
increased demand and the limited
yearly product. Prunes are marked up
cents per lb. Sundried and evapor
ated apples are also quoted a shade
higher. Dried grapes and loose musca
tel raisins are firm at 10 cents per lb.
with limited receipts.
The produce market is somewhat un
satisfactory. Receipts, generally speak
ing are meager and prices unsettled.
The egg market is very stiff, and receipts
are limited. Some dealers are bidding up
on former quotations 2 cents a dozen.
Poultry is in fair demand, that is to
say : choice fowls, prime early spring
chickens, find a ready market at $3 50 to
$4 00 per dozen, while late and old
fowls are quoted at $2 25 to $3 50 per
doz. Turkeys are beginning to come in
to market. We heard of one lot of 50
that were sold at 8 cents per lb., live
weight. Small lots of extra good, will
sell at 10 cents per lb. But few geese
have been sold or offered and those
brought $7 per dozen. The market
could be quoted at $7 to $8 00 per dor..
Ducks are being offered freely and prices
range according to size and condition.
One bnyer says $3 00 to $5 00 per doz.
another says $4 00 is the average. The
Dalles market is governed largely on the
r or nana quotation, as . purchases are
made by dealers for that market.
Potatoes are said to be scarce, and are
firm on quotations. The general belief
is that prices will steadily advance as
the season passes. Some few . orders
have been filled west of the mountains
and shipped to this city within Jthe last
few days, which have supplied the pres
ent demand.
. jseei came quotations remain un
changed, mutton ia very firm and is
said to be short of supply , with a better
inquiry, and prices looking up. Five
dollars was paid , for some large fine
sheep during the week.
The wheat market is without change,
prices have been fairly steady for the
week past. . Foreign and eastern mar
kets show nothing that is encouraging,
save they are steady with now and then
a feverish pulse. Reports from Chicago
are that the wheat blockade is not en
tirely clear, and that buyers are shy,
in irortiana and ban i rancisco there is
no change in quotations. The Dalles
market quotations are above other mar
kets in proportion. We quote 62c for
No. 1, and 57c for No. 2.
REAL ESTATE.
The interest in politics the week past,
has been the cause for a stagnation in
real estate transactions. The transfers
have been less than the week before, on
that account.
i PRODUCE MARKET
Portland quotes vallev wheat at
$1 25, Walla Walla at $1 17 to $1 20
per cental.
lhe Dalles market is steadv at 60 to
62 cents per bus. for No. 1, and 57 to 59
cents per bus. for No. 2 and No. 3.
.Barley lhe market is nearly lifeless
in barley, prices are down to 70 and 75
cents per 100 lbs.
Oats lhe oat market is atitf and of
ferings are light at $1 25 cents per 100
lbs. Rye 75 cents per bushel.
millstufks Bran and shorts are
quoted at $18 00 per ton. mid
dlings $22 50 to $23 00 per ton. Rolled
barley, s.'o uu to $24 UU per ton. Shell
ed corn $1 2o per 100 ffs.
lour saiein mills Hour is quoted at
i un per uurrei. uiitmuuu uruuu hi
$3 90 per bbl. per ton and $4 00 per bbl
letail.
hay ximothv nav ranees in price
from $12 00 to $15 00 per ton, according
to quality and condition. Wheat hay is
n full stock on a limited demand at
$10 00 to $12 00 per ton. There is no
inquiry for oat hny, and prices are off.
Alfalfa hay is not much called for, and
is quoted at $10 00 to $12 00 per ton.
These quotations are for bailed hay ex
clusively.
Butter Fresh roll butter is in fair
supply at 50 to 55 cents per roll, in brine
or dry salt we quote 40 to 45 cents per
roll.
Eggs The egg market is getting short
in supply and good fresh eggs find ready
sale at Sy, cents per dozen cash.
Poultry There is a fair demand for
fowls for a home market and for ship
ment to Portland. Chickens are quoted
st $2 00 to $3 00 per dozen ; turkeys 8
to 10 cents per n ; geese ?7 to ?8 per doz,
and ducks 3 to fo per dozen-f -
seef A mutton Beet cattle is in
moderate demand at $1 75 per 100
weight gross to $2 25 for extra good.
Mutton is held at an advance of last
years prices and ia quoted at $3 50 to
$4 75 per head. Pork offerings are
light and prices are nominal at 4 to
grdss weight and 5 cents dressed.
staple groceries.
Coffee Costa Rica, is quoted at 22c
per lb., by the sack, fcalvadore, H-'c,
Arbuckles, 25c.
Sugar Golden C, in bbls or sack ,
$5 00 ; Extra C, $5 10 ; Dry granulated
$6 16; In boxes, D. G., in 30 lb boxes,
$2 00. Ex U, $1 So. UU $1 75.
syrup $2 U02 7o pr keg.
Rick Japan rice, 67c ; Island,
rice. cts.
Beans Small whites, 4o c; Pink,
4(f84cperllK)lbs.
Saxt Liverpool, ouio ek, boc; lUUlb
:, $1 10 : 2001b sk, $2 00. Stock salt,
$16 00 per ton.
Dried jpruits Italian prunes, izc per
lb, by box. Evaporated apples, 10c per
lb. Dried grapes, aiuc per pound.
vegetables and fruits.
Potatoes Peerless, Buffalo whites,
Snowflake and Burbank seedlings quoted
at$l 25 per 100 lbs. "
Onions The market quotations for
A I onions is $1 00 per 100 lbs.
Green Fruits Good apples sell for
85$1 per box. Fall and early winter
pears pre quoted at 6075c per box,
hides and furs.
Hides Are quoted as follows : Dry,
6c lb ; green, 224 ; culls 4c lb.
Sheep Pelts 6065 ea. . Deerskins,
20c lb for winter and 30c for summer.
Dressed, light $1 lb, heavy 75c lb. Bear
skins, $1$10 ea; beaver, $2 50 lb;
otter, $4 ; fisher, $5$5 50 : silver gray
fox, $10$25; red fox, $1 25; grey fox,
$2 50$3: martin, $1$1 25; mink,
50c55c; coon, 35c; coyote, 50c75c ;
badger, 25c ; polecat, 25c45c ; com
mon house cat, 10c25c ea.
Wool The market is reported off on
wool, and is quoted at 12c16c lb.
BUILDING MATERIAL8.
Lumber Rough lumber No. 1 $11 M,
No. 2 $9 M. Dressed flooring and rus-,
tic, No. 1 $25 M, No. 2 $20, No. 3 $16.
Finishing lumber, $22 50$30 M.
Lime, $1 25 per bbl ; plaster, $4 50 per
bbl ; cement, $4 50 per bbl ; hair, 7 cents
per lb; white lead,.-7 cents per lb;
mixed paints, $1 601 75 per gal;
boiled linseed oil, 65 cents per gal.
Retributive Justice.
N. D. Herald. An editor works 16oi
days per year to get out fifty-two issues
of a paper: That's labor. Once in a
while somebody pays him a year's sub
scription ; That's capital. And once
in a while some son-of-a-gun of a dead
beat takes the paper for a year or two
and vanishes without paying for it :
That's anarchy. But later on justice
will overtake the last named creature,
for there ia a place where he will get his
deserts : That's bell.
T -1 1 . . . .
LATE ELECTION NEWS
Tne Returns Come in Slow, But the
Resnlt Remains Unchanged.
THE GREATEST POLITICAL VICTORY.
How the Electoral College Stands at
the Time We go to Press.
THE
PEESIDENT - UNCONCERNED,
V
The General Resnlt In the itmnti
. Still Indefinite, Bat It Is Con
vincing as It Is.
The latest advices give Cleveland 274
electoral votes, Harrison 137, Weaver
, or a 'majority for Cleveland of 92
over all and a plurality over Harrison of
125. This sweeping victory for the dem
ocrats as tabulated, shows that the fol
lowing states will cast their votes for
Cleveland : '
Alabama. . : . 11
Arkansas ....... 8
Mississippi 9
Missouri 17
California.'. . . ... .' 9
Connecticut 6
Florida. 4
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina.
South Carolina.
Tennessee. :
Texas
Georgia 13
Illinois.. 24
Indiana 15
Kentucky 13
Louisiana . . 8
Maryland 8
Michigan , 6
Virginia 12
West Virginia. . . 6
Wisconsin 12
Total... 274
The states voting for Harrison are
Delaware 3
Idaho 3
Iowa .13
Maine 6
Massachusetts ..15
Michigan 8
Minnesota 5
Montana 3
New Hampshire. 4
North Dakota .
3
Ohio 23
Oregon 4
Pennsylvania . . .32
Rhode Island . .
Vermont . . . . .'. 4
Washington..
Wyoming 3
Total : 137
Weaver has carried six states as fol
lows:
Colorado 4 Nebraska 8
Kansas 10 Nevada . v .
Minnesota ,4 South Dakota.'.
-. Total 33
RECAPITULATION
Total Electoral College 444
Necessary to a choice. .............. .223
Cleveland has , .274
Harrison ; 137
Weaver. 33
Congress is democratic by a clear
majority of about 50. New York is
democratic by not less than 30,000 and
has elected a democratic assembly. New
Jersey is democratic by 5,000 but Kean,
republican, for governor claims his
election. Connecticut is democratic by
not less than 1,000, and has chosen a
democratic governor and legislature.
Massachusetts has chosen Harrison
electors, and probably a republican state
ticket. All the rest of New England is
republican. The legislature in New
York is democratic, insuring a demo
cratic successor to Hiscock.
Cleveland has Illinois bv 10,000 at
least, some estimates put it at 75,000.
The entire democratic state ticket ia also
elected, and the democrats have a ma
jority of the congressional delegation
and apparently obtained control of both
branches of the state legislature. As
this state is to be rvdistricted this win
ter, this will enable the democrats to so
gerrymander the state as to gain per
manent advantage in future elections.
Democrats claim uauiornia by a ma
jority conceded by 'republicans.
Weaver's vote will exceed 20,000 in the
state.
Connecticut gives Cleveland a plural
ity of 5,000. The result for the legisla
ture is as follows : Senate, democrats,
13; republicans, 11. The house is esti
mated republican by about 15, insuring
the election of a republican United
States senator. The democrats; claim
the house, however.
The vote of Indiana is considered more
favorable for Cleveland than Harrison.
At the republican hea'dquarters the
state is still claimed, but not with much
show of confidence. The best informa
tion obtainable indicates that the state
has gone democratic 3,000 to 4,000 ; that
the democrats have elected 10 out of 13
members of congress, a gain of 1 ; and
that the legislature is republican in both
branches.
The result in Wisconsin is still in
doubt, both sides claiming the state.
Chairman H. C. Payne, of the republi
can state committee, claims about 10,-
000 plurality for Harrison and Spooner.
Chairman Wall, of the democratic com
mittee, stands by bis claim of 12,000 for
Cleveland and Peck.
The Michigan republican state ticket
is elected. The electoral vote is divided
by the gerrymandered districts. Re
turns to, Chairman Breidenthal from 29
counties in Kansas show a fusion major-
ty of 9,400. Late returns at republican
headquarters show a great falling off in
the republican vote and indicate the
election of Lewellin, fusionist, for gov
ernor, and the Weaver electors. The
republican state ticket is probably
elected, and Jerry Simpson ia defeated.
A Washington dispatch says Presi
dent Harrison went about his public
duties this morning as if nothing had
happened and seemed the least disturbed
of any body around the White house.
A friend said he would lay. down the
cares of office without a single personal
regret. He declined to talk to reporters
about the result.
THE VERY LATKMT. .
Portland, Nov. 9. Both parties ar
claiming California. Ohio may be ad
ded to the Cleveland column.
IRELAND'S HOHILIS8.
l nlor the Direful Persecution of Brit.
Ish Rule She Has a Mighty Tale
of Woo to Tell.
Ireland baa a mighty woe that is
worse than a failure of crops. It is the
eviction of poor tenants. This is a sad
and cruel feature of Irish life that
arouses the -sympathy of all the world.
A man with a family can live with a
meager supply of food and with little
clothing and money, but when he and
his dependent wife and children are
thrown out of doors without the protec
tion of a roof or fire, then look for the
last stages of suffering and for death,
from exposure and starvation. If any
great charity were to be organized ia
England it would seem that it should be
for the evicted tenants who have not
one penny with which to pay their
house rent. Their inability to do this
comes not from sluftlessness and lazi
ness, but from failure of ' the soil to pro
duce, and from excessive taxation
Were a large charitable fund collected
with which to tide over these unfortu
nates until a favorable season brought
them good crops, and which, of course,
they take as a loan to pay back when
able, so as not to lower their personal
pride, the suffering of Ireland would be
immeasurably lessened. Every day
now come tales of distress from the
evicted tenants. These reports would
prompt the suggestion that while the
Irishmen in America are contributing
to the. home rule fund they should like- .
wise raise another for home protection'. .
- Col. Donan's "Astoria."
As a work 'of art, taste, arrangment
and typographical excellence, and a
souvenir that reflects the talent and taste
of its author, the little book entitled
"Astoria" has no peer in OregAVi. It
was compiled and ' edited, by 'Col. P.
Donan, whose impressions are beauti
fully and vividly described in every line
and picture. It contains 36 pages, with
cover.. - The inside gives in half-tone,
from photographs, public buildings,,
street and water scenes, industries and
products of ; the city and the Columbia,
The first and last pages are unique and
suggestive, particularly the last which
gives a full view of the Astoria peninsula
in comparison with the topographical,
location of New York. No more truth
ful or flattering presentation of Astoria
could be laid before the eyes of readers. ,.
With the beautiful illustrations is a
succinct and elegant description of ' As
toria from the time of John Jacob Astor
to the present day, with facts and figures
that will convince the reader of Astoria's
future and claims for supremacy. Col.
Donan has put out the best, neatest and
most attractive work on Astoria ever .
published. '
Hew to Sweep a Store.
A correspondent of the Boots and
Sjioes Weekly writes : "As a great deal
of harm is often done in sweeping out a
store by dust soiling, we believe our plan
is worthy of adoption. Take a shallow
pan and partly fill it with kerosene oil.
then dip the broom into the oil, turning
the broom handle to the floor for a min
ute or two, long enough to allow the oil
to run into the broom. Use a soft, light
broom. You may have to dip the broom.
three or four times. After sweeping a
few times you will have no dust, and
your floor will be white and clean. The
smell of oil soon passes off. This is the
cleanest way on earth to sweep out a
store. In sweeping after business hours
it is a benefit to the stock, as no moths
will bother the goods. If you will try it
for a week it will always be' done. No
oil will get on the floor to injure it (it
will evaporate) if you are careful not te
nse the broom too suddenly after dipping-"
All of Them.
"Where are you going !" asked Knick
erbocker Jones of Bon Van Slyck, as
they met near the Grand Central depot,
last Thursday.
"I am going off for a day or so," re
plied Bob, who was carrying a valise.
"What's up?"
"Nothing, except tomorrow is my
birthday, and the young lady to whom
I am engaged is going to call at the house -to
congratulate me and . make me some
little present, I don't care to be there
when she calls."
"I don't understand you. If I was en
gaged to young lady, and she was going
to call and see me dn ray birthday, I
should be the .happiest man in New
York."
"Yes, but the other two are going to
call also all three of them are going to
call on me if I am there ; don't you un
derstand?" and he hurried into the
depot to catch the three o'clock train. '
Situation Wanted.
Bv a competent woman, as vhouee-
keeper, or to take care of a family. In
quire at this office of Eme J. Ordway.