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About The Oregon mist. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 188?-1913 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 4, 1891)
OREGON BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM. Circulation, 800. 575 Subscribers 'OF COLUMBIA COUNTY. WITHIN COLUMBIA COUNTY. VOL. 8. st.jij:li:ns, Oregon, Friday, seitemheu 4, ih.u. no. no. LEADING PAPER THE A MOTHER'S LOVE. . Th Poor NiwiHM Who rirjiirl lUnwII to Nitvit Her "' Atlrnmntlo story was told nt a din nor party recently by a lawyer In '. whoso piuotleu th Incident luitl or ciiituiI, kiivi tlm N. Y. Evening bum Jiint before tlx fliiiiiiiclimtlon of llie i nIuvdh it youiiflc intilutto, owned by n , Sinilli Cut'ollnu planter, ill il sinldoii lit of anger utrui'k ntul killed i niimtm-'i , mm, who whhuIho liliowu liiilMirothar. i Willi tlio iihhIhIiuico of hi niolliot' the i young twgro iiiniiiijriiil to cmoiiio before " Uiii dmiil wnt illHuovtii'iid uu(i iimdu bit way north, wliuro all triteo of libit wm lout. k As noon 1114 aim wits freed the imliii- by mother followed lioillnviuil, do- ; terinlned that noukiwIioi'o and somehow ' alio would find liur ami it bu vn mill ulivn, for ltd wan all alio bud In (ho world. Year after ynnr alio drlflud , vngiioly from iilace to place, providing for her wiiiiln by doiiif Ilia work of n ; IiiiiikIivhh and never renting from ber , - elf oil K lo nun her boy. Nio bud been n funnily young woman In bur early i nays, nut iittrn worn nun her rentiem i beitrt bud mnda her old nt 40, nnd nt I 60 hIih wit bowed unil w rinkled like f woman m tlirva score nnd ton, t Olio luy it Munition canto to her t from an ndjciliiliijr dale, it fearful lenl document wbioli ulic (lid not com- iiulictnl, but which oho understood In i Monm vaue wity to I hi eonnecled with s' lliu welfuroof ber cliild. In her per t plcxity aim longht out thin lawver nnd . told bun tbnutory of her Ufa. Inquiry allowed that alio had lccn aiiminoni'il to rovo I bo Identity of it rrirnc-hnrd- r-nrd ui'Ki'o who wiu under trial in a J iielhliorin male on a (rruvo i-harn. A curium train of evidence hud lie t wiled much of the early lifo of the :' rrliiiiiiitl, nnd bad failencd upon him tlm luHpieiou of being llio migro who hul no ill any vimr In-fore killed bin mauler'! noil In hoiith t'anillnu. The iiiuxtion rcNti'd upon tuo tentlinouy of Ilia iiirad ne"-re ait to whcllier or not . I .. . ... .... ! 7 . I . . thin waa the mini. $ Mm wn broulit into court Hefore Iter waa tba mruu5u and iuipn!n( or '; r.iy of court olllulula; the aolemn mttura of tlm oath w ns carefully explained to ; her mid she wan I hen awoi n to ttdl s "tlm truth, the whole truth, and noth- bi); but tbo truth." The atnry of her lift) was drnwii nut by aklllful ipiealion iue;, nud then I ho prisoner was brought biforo her. Mother and nn stood i a'alu faeu to face; he wilh all tlio sins ul a vriininiii's Ufa on hi shoulder, and she bound by what was to her . devout soul the st roiigest vow human ' ImiIiij; can nuikii, to njwuk the word that hould send bis ;iiiity soul to its r iiunUliiiient, Kho gave one devourluif ."' look at the nlouehlii lleuro and hartl uud fne Iwfore bur. All the bunker ;f of her liln npiwareil In her ettia. Xben e alia rained bur bent frame to lis fullest brk'ht, and, littiuif her rirlil hand, looked calmly at tlio Jmlire and law yers. "l'fo heaven, 1 swears." aba aid, "dut 1 ncblair saw ills Ixiy befo'." Mio bud saved him from the gallows, but be was seiituiiced to serve u term la the. penitentiary for tlm charge on which lie was orie;lnully arrested. Hut It cost lior own lifo. Kcmorse X and terror for the tiot-to-bo-forjriven ,1 sin which she believed herself lo have committed together with the deep i wound w hich her heart bad received i after the hope of so ninny venrs were loads too heavy for the tired soul, and in it few iiioulhs tlm frail body was buried in the potter's Held with the lawyer as the only mourner. How our Navy t'seil to HboiM. i The prolii'iunoy of American gunnery I fit this war is perhaps best illustrated by the Constitution's lirst action, with j the (iuerritiro, In which she was hulled I but three, times, while, her antagonist, i to use tlio words of her commander, ' was reduced to a "perfect wreck" with ; iii forty minutes from the time the Con stilullon betron to tire. This battle oc curred on August ID, 1811 In lior action with the Java. Decent iM'r 19, off tho coast of Uruzil, the ; Constitution was hulled but four times, nnd with tbo exception of her ttiniutnp sail yard she did not lose a spar. Tlio Java, on the other hand, was "totally dismasted," while her hulk wns so l shuttered and pierced with shot-holes i thut it wits Impossible to fiut her to Ilia t harbor of Sun Salvador, which was only I few hours' sail. In her action with tho Cynno nnd f Levant tlio forces opposed wore: Cou- stltullon, 61 guns with 1W7 pounds of motal; Ilritisli, AS cutis with lo08 ' pounds of metal. In this extraordinary , action tho Constitution was hulled only : thirteen times, while tho Cyane. bad every braco nnd bowllno cut away, "ber main nud misexen musts left in n tottering Htnte, nnd other principal soars wounded, several shot 111 tho hull, n I nn or ten botwoon wind and water." The Lovaut also wns roughly handled. Before dismissing tho subject of gun nery wo should take into considera tion: 1. Tho Inferior quality of Amer ican cannon nnd shot. 2. Tho doil cionoy In woiglit of American shot. 8. The fuel that in two of tho four actions between tlnglo frigates the Kngllsh used French cannon and shot, which were eight per cent, heavier than their nominal Kngllsh equivalents. Vctitury. The Newspapers of tlm United States. Nine yoara ngo tho tenth consus In eluded an enumeration of tho news papers published In all the status nnd territories In 1880. Tho total number of periodicals then roglstored was 11,. 814, of which 971 were published daily. Tbo enumeration of Kowoll' Newspa per Directory was less complete than that of Mr, North for tlio consus. Kowoll, In bis edition of 1880, cavo 9,723 periodicals, nud 8ti dailies. That is to say. tho figures of tho consus were more than 10 per oont. over Howell's llgnros for the total of publications, and more than ,15 per cent, over ltowcll for tho number of dailies. . This year Rowoll's Dlrcoiory men tions not less than 18,819 papers print ed In tlio United States, including 1,491 dallies. If tho dollcieneius of Ids enu meration count in the same proportion ns thoy did in 1880, as compared with I'rof. North's aiiumeration for the last consus, the number of periodicals issued In tho United Stales to-day is not far from 19,01)0, and tho number of dtlly newspapers not fur from 1,700. TO SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION. Substances That Am Mnbla to Cans Fir In llulldlnaja. All lubatances that lira liable to take Are ontanuouNly do so mora readily when oovorod up so nn to oonflno the heat generated or whou mbjuoted to artlllclul hent, ollbor from atonin or hot-air tluoi or that of tbo lun. Oily rags are liable to burn spontaneously, ud are doubtless ofton tho cause of Urns In fiiotorlos, junk shops, or pnpar mills, which are supposed to be of In oeudlnry origin. Canvas whan painted with oil paint and rolled up or packed closely in a oonlliiod place Is pretty sure to burn. Ordinary oiled clothing, uoli as Is worn by sailors, when plied In heaps on shelves or elsewhere. Is very subject lo spontaneous Ignition. Such goods should alwars bo hung up. so as to admit of a free circulation of air around them. Spont tun-bark will Ignite spontaneously whan stacked up In heaps. It Is for this reason often used in white lead works to generate carbon dioxido by lis fermenting In the corroding bed. Tho moistening of such fibrous sub stances as cotton, hair, or wool is al ways attended with slight boat. Wet Iron tilings generate hunt rapidly, ?ns does also rusting Iron. Very lino frag ments of iron and steel, by their rapid oxidation, will become rod-hot, and some Kngllsh scientists declare thut the Ures known to be caused by steam pies constantly In contact with wood orig inate from the rust of the iron. An Kn gllsh authority suys: "When oxide o"f iron Is placed In contact with wood excluded front the atmosphere, and abled by a slightly In ereased temperature, the oxide purls with Its oxygon, and is converted Into tlnely divided particles of metullio iron having such an ulllnity for oxygen that, when afterwards exposed to tho action of the atmosphere from any cause, oxy gen is absorbed so rapidly that these particlos become red-hot, and if in suf ficient quantity will produce a temper ature fur beyond the ignitnblo point of dry tlmlxT. Whenever Iron pipes are employed for tho circulation of any hauled medium (whether hot water, hot air, or steam), and wherever the pipes are allowed to become rusty and are also in close contact with wood. It Is only necessary to suppose (lint under these circumstances the uncly Utvnleu particles of metullio Iron become ex posed to the action of the atmosphere (and this may occur from the mere ex pansion or contraction of tho piiKis) in order to account for many of the tires which periodically tuko iilnco at tho commencement of tho whiter sea son." It Is difllcult to tret ncrsons to believe that there is any danger from lire aris ing from the contact of steam tiius with wood, notwithstanding that there have ts,"; weil-aiuwua cases of ures origin ating from this cause. Iron scraps or llliugs, or little chips, always found on the floors of machine shops, and usually mere or less oily, are liable to boat if they become rusty, and particularly so when saw-dust 'is used, as U often tho case in Ixilt works. There is an instance ou record where a lurge machine shop was flooded by a sudden freshet, welting the heaps of iron filings ou tho floor, which became healed immediately after the water bad sulwidod. Toronto Monetary Timet The Cook roach. Comparatively few peoplo know that this familiar of the kitchen Is not by any means a native of these climes, it is nn Importation from the warm and sunny lauds of Asia, brought over, Kr baps.somethlng liku two centuries ngo. The first arrivals mint have roue-hod this country as stowaways on board ship, and, rinding themselves in con genial surroundings, llicy multiplied apnea. Now thoy seoin almost every where, but for a long timo after thoy swarmed In tlio kitchens of town houses thoy were unknown in the country. No doubt if they bail been natives of a similar climate they would have quick ly reached oven tcuioto villages, but thoy fortunately huvo delicuto constitu tions and cannot stand exposoura toJ cold. Many peoido must have noticed that it is only in not summer weather that they are seen far away from the warmth of the kitchen lira. It is this need for n high tamporntura which causes them to concentrate whore it is most constantly maintained. Cool larders and pantries are comparatively secure against thoir altaeks. In spile of tlio fact Hint they would Hud better fare tboruin than the crumbs and particles upon the kitchen lloor. Their common description as "borriblo black booties'" is a curious misnomer. They are not black, nor nro thoy beetles; the only part of tho description which is at all applioaoio to mom is tiiu aiumoi --Horrible," with which few will quarrel. N. r. Lcdmr. WIU We Have American Quinine? Adolph Sutro is trying the experi ment of raisins: cinchona trees at his grounds above tho Cliff House. It is From the bark of about a dozen varie ties of this tree that quinine is extract ed, and if thoy will thrive in this cli mnto the trees will become very valua ble. Moroovor, the cinchona is a very showy troo nnd highly ornamental, some of them growing to a height of eighty font. Tlio enormous medicinal consumption of tho bark of the cincho na has caused the troo to bo extensive ly cultivated In India nnd Java. -It grows In high allltudas In Now Grana da, Kcuador, Peru and Bolivia, whoro thoro Is a great deal' of moisture. It has boeu tried with success in Aus tralia, neat' the seaooast, and Mr. Sutro thinks somo of tho varletlos will, grow here, where there is a moisturo lit the atmosphere all tho year round San Francuco Examiner. " ' Bent Catching. , Sent catchers say that tho bustnoss is ono of continual hnrdshlp from the be ginning of n trip to the end. The clunute during tbo season is most dis- ngreoaiilu. - It is damp ntul rainy unit heavy fogs settle down without it mo ment's warning.' Often nud ofton bents have been separated from the schooner and have wandered about for several days, before being picked up. The boat stays oul as long as it is liht enough to see the souls. The work is tedious nd very rough. ; : ( A3 OREGON NEWS. Tlio potato output around Iltiona ViMtu will tliiit fall bo goinclhing nour 70,000 buHlicln. Tlio crops in Crook worn never bo good before, and Mock of all kind is in tho bent condition. baloni peoplo went tlio 8IKIK8 removed from the Willamette betwoon that city and Oregon City. At Heppnur (Icorgo Muir'a hay stack caught (Iro and, together with 500 bUHhelH of wheat, wiih totally destroyed. Lust week 2000 head of bIhjcd wuro BhiptK'd from Klickitat county to tho 'Irouldalv Moat 1ucking Company. A Bon of JumcH Hunt, of (iorvnin, while riding it liorco was kicked by another horse which ho wan driving and his leg broken. Hon. L. Ililyeu, of Kugwie, has been uppointod a member of the State Hoard of Equalization, instead of T. It. .Shoridun, who declined. Tlio Tillamook County Fair Asso ciation will hold their first annual fair at Tilluinook, beginning Hop tember fst and lusting three days. The directors of tho proposed Kirtago railway company , nt The Ualb-B are perfectly willing that Portland should build and own the road. ' Andrew Person was killed at Huynes Slough. Coos boy, last week while cutting down a tree, which split and "kicked" back injuring him so that ho died in a few hours. Large cleanups nro reported from tho placers of the Stisanville district in northern Grant and extensive development work is being done on the quartz properties of that district. There is no need for a man to be idle in Oregon City. Contractor Hugh Peters, who has the contract for the grading of Seventh street, complains of tho scarcity of labor ers. William Tompkins, of Forest Grove, lias exhibited a bunch of timothy that stood seven -ieet and four inches in height; also oats five feet four inches, with forty stalks to a stool. It is known that there are a number of beds of clay in Clacka mas county tp.at have every lndtca lions of being good potter's clay, though nothing as yet has even been done to test them. Work at the quicksilver mines on Beaver creek is being rushed, over thirty men being employed there. A largo amount of money is being expended in purchase of machinery and in opening the cinnabar deposit. Dr. Patterson is of tho opinio: that his hop yard of forty acn son the island near luigeno will produce one-third more than in any previous year. Hop lice uro present, but in far less numbers than several weeks ago. Last week an immigrant train containing five wagons and about twenty person passed through Prine ville, en route to Multnomah county. They were from Minnesota and North Dakota and had been on the road sinco May 4th. Mrs. Emma Ward has the con tract for carrying the mail from Farewell Rend to Prineville, Crook county. She has a distance of thirty miles to travel, across the desert, with only sand, sago and junipher in sight, and not a drop of water on the route. Young Nutt, tho counterfeiter who was recently captured in South er,)! Oregon, says tho two Coon broth ers who escaped told him they had manufactured $500 worth of spurious $5 pieces which thoy suc ceeded in " working off on Puget sound last summer. A Salem music dealer sold a if 125 organ and put it in a wagon to deliver. lie covered it up and in a short time heard an explosion, and discovered tho instrument on fire. It was totally destroyed and the wagon badly damaged. What caused the tiro is a mystery. Thero has nlroady been some trouble with forest fires in this sec tion, says the Jacksonville Tjmes, and there is likoly to bo considerable complaint on this score before the eonson closes. Hunters and others in the mountains nro altogether too careless about setting out lire whoro it will do tho most harm, Umatilla Indians are, preparing for their annual hunt to provide thoir winter's food, and soon their will bo an exodus of able bodied braves from the resevation. They will scatter in overy direction, to John Day, Malheur, Wallowa, Snake river and oil places where good hunting grounds are offered. - - Forest Grovo has five and three quarters miles of public sidewalks and nino miles of graded streets. Forty-two new residences, one church and three brick stores are being built, while a two-Btory addi tion to the public school building is almost completed. Many other houses tire contemplated yet this year. WASHINGTON NEWS. Tho trouble between the militia in Washington is now settled amicably. Several hundred dollars' worth of jewejey was stolen from the resilience of Mrs. Drigs in North Seattle. The county commissioneis have added f'500 lo tho fund for making Thurston county's exhibit at the Tacoma exposition. A Btcam lire engine and two hoso- carts havo boon received at South llend, and a lire department organ- i.ed. Seattlo police have captured a vagrant with eight diamonds in his sleeve, and are holding him on sus picion that he stole them. Carl J. Nordin, employed in a sliiugle mill at Snohomish, ran his hand against a saw last week, which tore oil all the lingers on one hand. Fire at Edison destroyed the Edison hotel which all its contents. The loss is estimated at about 5000. The cause of the fire is unknown. A son of J. V. Sampson, of Wash ougal, got his hand caught under a rock tho other day nnd so badly smashed that two fingers had to be amputated. By the falling of a hugo fir tree the new residence of Frank Bridg hain, at Toledo, was completely demolished. None of tho family were in the house at the lime. Henry Hansen, living near Cow litz, while cutting down a cedar snag last week, was in some way caught by the fulling snag, which struck him on the back of the neck, killing him instantly. J.L.Davis informs the Daven port Times that " Texas Jack," one of tho horsethieves whom he had arrested but not convicted recently, was hung somewhere in the Oka nogan region last week. Colfax has a law and order league, tho members of which, through their executive committee, have notified the citizens that it is their purposo to see that the Sunday and gambling laws are enforced. Circulars have been sent out to tho thinning ranks of the men who first Bottled Puget sound, asking thorn for a lock of-their hair and thoir name. The intention is "to work the hair into a picture of Mount Rainier. People in the Snoqualmie region were much stirred up over the elop ment of the 17-year-old daughter of O. S. Jose with a half-breed named Guye recently. Tho girl is a beautiful blonde, said to be highly accomplished. Frank Webber, of Lincoln creek, Chehalis county, reports that he has already sold his entire hay crop, the product of fifty acres in the mow, for if 1500. Surely no farmer has a right to kick when he gets such returns as the above. George Merchant while digging a well at fcureka Hat, near Walla Walla, was suffocated by foul air. lie bad signaled to be Hoisted up and when about half way fell out of tho bucket. When brought to tho surface a few miuuts afterwards ho was dead. Tho body of Mrs. Rurgess, who disappeared from her homo near Kitzvelle about a week ago, has been found in a field near her home. She left a note saying she could not make bread to pleaso her husband. Tho neighbors are undecided whether it is a caso of suicide or murder. Irrigation will soon be adopted in cortain sections of Whitman county, and tho result will be watched with interest. Al Hooper, of Hooper postoUico, has recently let a contract for a ditch two miles in length, by means of which he proposes to irri gate 200 acres of prune ground, small fruits and hops, which he proposes to set out next spring. The North Fork Coal Company, owning a fine-looking mine on the south fork of tho Nooksack, aro vigorously prosecuting the work of development. A tunnel 125 feet long has been run, and a shaft is now being sunk from the tunnel. Tho coal is said to be of excellent Duality, and the owners are confi ent that they have a lino property. Reports are now coming in from almost every county in Western Washington of somo big trees dis covered for the world's fair. The most definite knowledge has been contributed by Mr. S. II. Soulo and Mr. J. M. Saar, of Sumas City; who recently explored a forest of big trees. They measured fir trees from nine to fourteen feet in diam eter, six feet from the; roots, and thdBO trees run from 300 to 400 feet in "height." A perfect spruce was also found which measured fourteen feet in fliamcter. Specimens like theso with cedar, trunks live feet square nnd 120 feet long, without a knot or a blemish these are what will bo shown to attract the lumber makers to Washington, and to help establish markets in the ast. FAEM AND GABDEN. EVAPORATED APPLES. Our readers will recall the action of tho German government in' regard to alleged discovery of oxide of zinc in evaporated apples two years ngo, and which tvas made a pretext to discriminate against our products. It wns assumed that the procc38 of blenching the fruit bright caused tho ground for complaint. Careful investigation made by our own gov ernment departments, however, soon proved that no injurious admixture !f anv tT,:Zn stance entered into the fruit. A searching investi gation at various evaporating estab lishments showed that minute frag ments of metallic zinc could be traced, and further search solved thecause. It has been the practice, for rapidity of labor, to scrape the fruit off the trays after evaporating it, and tho instrument most con venient and almost universally used was the ordinary steel trowel, and occasionally its sharp edges would clip oil' minute particles of the gal vanized surface. . During the past year all evaporating linns, know ing this fact, have substituted a woodtyi instrument, or simply a shingle, which serves every purpose in consequence of tins discovery and change, not a complaint was made as to production of the fruit of 181)0, nor did chemical tests discover any trace of former alleged foreign or injurious substances. It is hoped that this article may be read by all who propose evaporating fruits of anv kind the coming year, and that only a wooden instrument will be used for the purpose here stated. American Grocer. snow ANIMALS. - To the professional feeders for showyard purposes it is not neces sary to give any particular caution as to tiie manner of treating the animals being fitted for the fall campaign, but it is always in order to point out the danger of overdoing the thing. Animals that are natur ally of a thrifty disposition if not watched may lay on too much flesh, which is not only detrimental to their future usefulness, but will be accompanied by a loss of smooth nesa, which may be fatal at some critical moment under the eye of some expert judge. Animals of a daintier fcabit will require close attention in order to tmeve the best results. If induced to eat too heart ily by means of condiments, etc., a case of indigestion may ensue which will throw the feeder back many days, or perhaps weeks, in the work of training. Study the appetites, therefore, of the animals in charge, and add to a ration here or take from it there, as tho exigencies of the particular caso may demand. No great amount of Uesh can, as a rule, be put on during the heated term, so that by tho middle of July the carcass should be well along toward show form. After My time arrives it will, in the case of cattle especially, be difllcult to do much more than maintain the flesh already gained and put on t he finish ing touches as respects hair, horns, handling, etc. Breeders' Gazette. 110(1 C1IOI.EKA. We find tho following in a bulle tin from the Georgia department of agriculture: Hogs fed freely on tuuips, cab bage, sweet potatoes or chutl'as will rarely if ever have cholera. Sleeping in lousy or dusty beds kills as many or more hogs than cholera. Plenty of pure water, frequent change of food and clean stalls will contribute greatly to tho health and thrift of all farm stock. no BKKS INJURE KIU'IT? Iii reply to the querry, Do bees injure fruit? it is safe to say no. They will not disturb sound fruit, the outer skin or covering of which is whole. Horticulturists have made complaint that bees injure fruit. and especially grapes, but these complaints, when culminating in a lawsuit, have been, so far as we have heard, settled in favor of the beekeeper. v ITEMS OF INTEREST. Half-cured hay is wholly spoiled by rain, and about half-spoiled by a heavy dew, if suffered to receive it when spread upon the ground. Speed tho planter, the harrow. the roller and the corn plow. The finely pulverized earth retains greatly more moisturo than hard and unstirred ground and it holds all tho rain that falls. In Europe wherever the - sugar beet is grown the value of the land has increased. Beets are grown for two or three sucqessive years on tho same land, which will then produce better cereals and other farm pro ducts; The Canada thistle has spread so rapidly in New Zealand that a law is about to be passed similar to the Canadian law, compelling farmers to destroy the weed on tho roadside adjoining their lands as well as upon their lands. PORTLAND MARKET, . 0 pitoi-ccK, FRorr, rro. WllEAT-Wil!a Walls, $1.50; Valley, $1.53 per centtl. KwiR -Quote; Standard, $3.00; Walla Walla, $t. 00 per horrel. Oats -Quote: 43fe,50j per bathel. lUv-Qiote: tliOili per ton. MiLLSrofFS-Qaot: Hrao, $23.00; Shorte, $25 00. Gmnnd Birley, $:) 00fa32 00; O.Vip Fee1, $22r,2(i per ton; birley, $1.20 fel.25 pur ofntal. ISorrKit-Qintf: Oregon fancy cr.s-msry, 32J"; fsucy iliry,2"i!; fair to good, 25o; common, 5fo20.:; California, 2224u per per pound. Ciiekhk Q lote: Oregfiu, 2(n l21-", Call fori.ii, 12 j ptr pound, K;si - O. eir.n, 20 1 per dozen. i'oULTUV Q l ite: Old Chickens, $5 50 (jji Of); younii ohickeni, $2 50C(,4; Ducka $4.00(0.0.00; G?eau, nominal, $8 per dozmi; Turkeys, 15j per pound. Vki;ktabi.b.s Quote: Cabbage, $1.50 per cental; Ciulill wer, $1.25 per dozen; Ooiona, 1 per iiiikI; Ik-eta, $1.25 per aack; Tor nips, I 00 u.r tack; New i'otatue, (He; TomatoDK, 70 j per box; Lettuce, l2Jo pur dozen; Green i'uaa, 3"' 4c per pound: Hiring l!;an, 'A: per pound; llhu lurl), .'(; per pound; CncucrilxTa, 10; pur dozju; Carrota, $1 25 p.r aack; Oiru, 10 per dozun; Sweet I'ota toe, 3; per Hound. Khi th Kivpiai.lt (Jraunc, $2 50 to3 50; Sicily Lemon, 7 to 8.00; California, 5 00 to 0 00 par Imix; Applo, 75iS to 1.25 per box; lit iiiu, A ii) lo 4.00 per bunco; I'meap plea, 5 0!) to 7.00 per dozen; I'eaches SOj per Ikix; Blackberries 7c per pnund; I'luiim, 50j per box; Water mellona, 2 50 per dozin; Cautloupes, 1.50 to 1.75 pir duzm; Grapes, 100 per box; Pear, 1.75 per nix; N .'ctarines, $1.25 per era i ; Crab apples, 'As per pound. XTAI'LK UliOCEWK. Cokcke -Costa Kiel 21; Rio, 23c; Mocha, 30; Java, 25:; Arliuek 20 per pound. SiiiAKt Golden C, 43 s extra C, ijo; dry granulated, 5c; cube crushed and powdered, Gi'J ; confecaioners' A, 50 per pound. SrncP4 E wtern, in barrels, 47 to 53c; hilf birrels, 50 to 58;; in case, 53 to 80c; per gallon, $2 25 to 2 50 per kee; California, iu barrels, 30c pe Ktllon; $1.75 ;r keg. Beans -Quote: Small Whites, 3j; Pink, 3a,3.J Biyos, 4tc; Butter, 4Jc; Lima, 4 Coos per pound. 4 Uhiku Fkcits Quote: Italian Prunes, 101(" I Ic; Peliv) and German Prunes, 10c per pound; Raisius, $l.75Vo 2 25 per Soi; Plum-rar-dried IVan". I0fa,llc; sun-dried and factory P. urns, ll(a.2c: evaporated Peaches, 18&20 ; Smyrna i-'ijs, 20;; California Kiga, 9s per pound. Rice $5.50 per cental. Hosev Q lote: 18S 20j per pound. Salt Quote: Liverpool, $lr, $10.50, $17, stock, $11 per ton in carload lota. THK MEAT MARKET. Beef Live, 3c; dresied, 5(a.0o. Muttoo Live, sheared, 3Jc; drcaiid, 7c. Hoja Live, Gj, dressed, 89j. Veal 5(3 7o per pound. Smoked Meat and Ltrd Quoted: Eastern Ham, J2iVi13c; Oregon, I2c; Brrakfaat Bacon, 12ft 13c; other varieties, 8ftllc; LirJ, BJCe lljc per pound. MISCELLANEOUS. Hides Qioted, Dry Hides selected prune, H.W'JJ, o less tor culia; green. elected, ever 55 pounds, 4c; under 55 pound. 3-; Siicep Pelts, short wool, .to 50i: r t'lOfe-SOj; long, 00fl.25; shearling", lOfn-A,, Ij'low, uood to choice, 3(o 3i per pomid, "' - Wool- Quote: VVillitntte "Valley, 17 19:; Eisiern Orenon, KXS.lOJc per pjniiJ, accordinx to eonditioua and ahriukaee. Hum -Nomina!. Qjote; 20 to 2c per pound. Nails Bias quotations: lion, $2 S5; Steel, S2 85; Wire. $3 40 per keg. oiioT Ouote: ?1. ;o per aajk. Coal Oil Quote: $1 90 per cue. Work on the erection of the new Portland chamber of commerce building will bo commenced in a few days. Frank Keim, a printer It Port land, shot himself with suicidal intent August 25th, but failed to put an end to Ins existence. He may recover. Thos. A Sutherland, editor and proprhjtor of the Portland Sunday Welcome, was drowned on tn even- iti2 of Aucust 20th bv fallinc off tho pontoon of the west landing of! the Stark -street ferry. . j ferry Another undecisive battle was fought on Sunday, August 23d, between the presidential and insur gent parties of Chili near Valparaiso. Several thousand soldiers on both sides were killed, but no advantage gained to either. Salmon fishing has just com menced in Tillamook bay. The chinook salmon now invade tho bay waters.' They are not plentiful at present, but when the chinook gives place to the silverside, a much larger number is expected. The fire and water committee of Walla Walla has awarded the con tract for furnishing the city with a new 1500 pound firo alarm bell, to the McShane Bell Foundry, of Bal timore, at twenty-cents per pound delivered in that city. Hon. S. J. McCormack publisher of McCormack's Almanac, and the leading stationery and book dealer in , Portland years ago, - died in San Francisco. Mr. McCormack was mayor of tho city of j Portland in 1S58, and served several years in tho Oregon legislature. " ' Another call has been issued by the property-owners of Astoria for a meeting to consider the . best man-, her of raising the land subsidy required to secure the commence ment and construction of a railroad, standard gauge, from Astoria to transcontinental connection. ,, ; Another case of " didn't know it was loaded " occurred in ..Portland Sunday morning. John Bevan was showing his friend Richard Hughes a pistol when it accidentia wentofT, tho ball entering Hughes' left eye, causing Instant death. " 'The cor oner's jury . rendered a verdict of accidental shooting and completely exonerated Bevan front any crimi nal intent. - - - GENERAL NEWS. President Harrison was fifty-eight years old on August 20th. A young man named Broon killed his father in a fiendish manner. George J. Osborne, a prominent man of St. Paul, committed suicide. Evansville, Ind.., has just had the heaviest rainstorm for many years. Two girls were drowned at Lan cing, Mich., by the upsetting of a boat. Tho frost in some of the Western states did but very little damage to corn. Considerable damage was done by the recent heavy storm in Missouri. - The water in Salton lake,recently formed in the Colorado desert, is receding slowly. A deserter from the arniy was captured at Uoseburg and taken back to San Francisco. , The Union Pacific will contest the rates recently fixed for freight over railway lines in this state. The cloud-burstin Pottsville, Pa., and the rapid rainfall, did damage to the amount of over if KXJXX). The chief of police and six men were killed at Granad, Nicaragua, in the attempt to suppress an out break. James C. Shute, a New York fireman, lost his life in the discharge of his duty, being suffocated by smoke. The gang of workmen digging in the burned building at Park Place, New York, have so far found seventy-one bodies of persons killed in the disaster. More bodies are missing and being hunted for. The barn of a farmer named J. A. Robinson, was burned near New castle, Cal., while he was attending a meeting of the farmers' alliance last week, and when at the next meeting his house was burned. The business portion of the city of Jacksonville, Florida, was burned on August 18th. Twenty-five busi ness houses and fifty dwellings were burned. The total loss is over if 1,000,000; insurance $500,000. . M. Eiffel asks promission to erect a tower on the world's fair grounds, the enterprise to be backed by French capital. . He states that it will be superior to the one at the Paris exposition. The prospects are that the proposition will be looked upon most favorably. Dealers in cigars would do well to remember that according to a law passed by the last congress any per son -woo- sens cigars to a customer in any other -tray than from a prop erly stamped box," fcsjjwi himself Halle to a fine of $100. lfanuiri2 cigars to a customer in a glass or on a plate or tray or laying a hand ful before him, from which to make his selection, is a breach of section' 2G02 of the revised statutes of the ' United States. , r , It is the intention of the state fish commissions of the different states lo make provision for a compre hensive exhibit of native and culti vated live fish, with hatcheries, appliances and equipments for trans-' portation, models of fish ways in ' use, etc., at the world's fair. Each ; state will have its special exhibit, j and in addition to this there will ,ana 11 aauu,on lo lmf ",0"' w,, 4 l? a, laT Kcve,r"u!!lt -dwplay: of ; Biiuii mm sea iihii. i ae coast staieB; will send especially large displays.. The pope, like the German enipe-, ror, speaks better English , than . many Englishmen. He is partiou-, laily fond of the queen's tongue, , and uses it in preference to French, ' ' the language of the Vatican, when ever he gives audiences to American or English people. He is also well versed in German. The holy father has a remarkable memory for faces, rivaling that for which the Prince of Wales is noted. But in his own case this is a natural gift rather than an accomplishment. Judge Hanford, of the United ' States court,has rendered Unimport ant decision in certain Chinese depredation cases, in which he takes a different view of the law from that taken by the treasury depart ment and congress. Judge- Han fod construes the law strictly, and where it " says Chinese i shall be deported to the country from whence they Came he holds that the statute does not contemplate the country from which they originally came, but the the Country- from whence they came directly into the United States: ', '' 1 ;r, No aide shows are to be permitted within the world's , fair grounds. The directory has decided that the fee shall entitle the visitor to see everything within the enclosure. . There will be, ' however, several theaters bunt and kept running, at which the finest talent in the world, it is expected, will appear, and vis itors who choose to attend the per formances will have to pay an admission .fee. ... Such sights as "A Street in Cario" will be free, but natives of oriental countries in a few cases will be allowed to charge a small fee to special perfurinaiices of a theatrical nature. -