The Oregon mist. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 188?-1913, October 30, 1891, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textnn 784 Subscribers In Columbia County - HKHT Advertising Medium In Columbia Co. nn Uadtng Paper of Columbia County. VOL. 8. ST. HELENS, OREGON, .FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1891. NO. 44. Circulation, 1,(X TDK OREGON 1' ()UE(JON MIHT. IMHDKI KVKHV KIIIIMV MIMININU J. R. BEECLE, Publisher. The) County Offlolal Paper. Rnliavrlpilun Itataa. tin snny nna rir In ulvsuM inniiy ' muth " Hlnti tupy II w 7ft ft Advcrtl.ins Ht.. jTofnulaiial car.1. nit yar, , 'J' On tHiliifflii on ar - ' llslf column mi vwir (Jiartir mtlinnu cm" yu,, On luelt n niiutlh II i. Itx'h Hum motilh........ On Ini'b lx Month. 4 ft Ijx-I nnlii'M, tumuli Per Hs ""I htwr lion ; luc.iiu .r lln lor rich nbwiwiit lu Uaalarfvertla.nH.nl, II.Ml iwr Inch !f flr-t lnwrlinii, inn 71 oomu r IIM'B wr VX D .1U"J uttant luwrium. (KlLUMHtA COUNTY DIRECTORY, Juris ..!. J. wlaf,Ht, (l,,k K. K Unlik. Ht. II m Vli.fllT !m. Marker, Ml. IM.-iii TrMUUW ...... W. 1 ..111. HI. llt'lctl Hri.l. n( R..j(Kl... .,....... J, (1. Walla, MVannnw Aawaaiir.,.., '. V. un, llaliiler iturtrvyur A. H wilt, Ml. iisti-tu Coiamlaalouer.,.. !i. a'l atviiiHir. itMiitii (1. W Harm, t:!Maiii. - ultr Nolle.. M..imc. -HI. IMru, I'mIk, Kit. !f,i-lt(tilar pnmmuiili'alUiiii Krai mil Tlilnl Hatanlay lu h mi.nili at 7 .HI r. u at MimiuI tun. Vl.lilu. mmlin In " .landing InvliMl l alt4uil. Mab.K .- Illllulrf lxlico Nn. at--Mute.1 no In, fainr.' an or brlum vai'ta lull m.Mi .17 NO r a at MMMilit 11.11, ntnr lll.M.'h.t.l'. Ii.ro, V Lit ln Hantaan la (uod Maudlng luvltml Ui IIUUcl. K tana Ural Appointment., flrat Hatnlar-lhtir lalauU, It a. m.i Nt, llrivna. 7 r a. awuiid Hunilar-Nr (lt, II A. M.i ML lltU-na, 1 m r. a. Krlilay bfv Ih third Hatt.lay-t'lankaille, 7 ) a, a " ' Third HaBriay-Ollloti, II A. a.; llimllnii, it r. g. fourth HanrfayVarnunla. II a. at. and 7:.1l r. at.; Wllaun'i, r. M M. BI'HUNUAMK.Vaatnr. Tha Malta. 0n rlrar (bual) Im. at I Ml A. M. , l rltrar (boat) rloa at I r. a Th wall (of Varnuula aud I'lUarmr leaf aL lllna Tunadajr, ThuiKla aud Saturday at . a. Tin mall (or Marabland, Clabkanl and Mlat tara tjulan Monday, wtnila ami KM. lay at I .' a Malta (railway) north rlo. at 10 a m,: lor foil land at a r. M. Tratalar' Ualta--KIar Kout. Kraaaiail, W. Him -la llrlrii. fur fonlaud at II . a Tnnday, 1 linrwlay awl Hal ardar latra HI. Ili'to-ii. lor l.'lauhanl M.iu da. W1nNla and Krl.lar at W a. H. Hra.aa Jiwara Kcwnm-Ibarra Hi lli lrm for forttand dally .I Kunday at tl:.0 a. m. ltturtilBa. laatm furtlaud at I f r. H. rKOFKHHlONAL dr. h. r. cuer, Phytlclan and Surgeon. HI. Ilalaai, Or. DR. J. E. HALL, Physician and . Surgeon, l lalaaaul, i'nlanibla Co., Or. T. A. Mi Ilatlil ' A. K. )naaXN. MoBRIDE & DRESSER, Attorneys at v Law, Orrgaa City, lr. Prrnnni attention Iran lalaud niflr bn.luvsa A. B. LITTLE, Surveyor and Civil Engineer, Ml. Hlna, Or. t'nauiy Hnrv. yor. laud .urlntT, town .l.l ling aud iiillirerriiK aoia inomnlly dour. W. T. HuMwav. J, W. liaarKi. BURNEY k DRAPER, Attorneys at v Law, Or(oa t lly, Or. Tw.lv year." rinrrli'tira a. Itwulrtor nf the Unit.! Hia'Mi Ijtnd oiDw hnt w.mniiiit aa in our .iwH'l.lly nl ill kind, nf bualiim. Wf ira Ih lud Ufttna nr Hi url. and Involving lha l.rai tli In lb tlonvral land nmro. J. B. BROCK EN BROUGH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Oregon City, Or. Hntclal Agritt of (Ivm-ral laud OAIcp.1 . ... i ..... ...H. U.,,1 ft... ill at una anil otutr laun imihv iiumiii... a tiHM'ialtv. litlli. Htoud KliMir, laud onto tlQlllllllf. : - E. WINGERT, Notirj Public and Real Estate Agent, Itanban. Columbia Co.. Or. .Th nndarlK"l will attend to aud nrrtlly to all banluoai tHiiUlnlun lo lha traunli'rrltiK of real eatate, and atinaur Inoulrlea ri'latluii In liM-allu i aud advant.Ki'.. Utu In th town ol Niwr. tlnlila or Hrttlwn. Will aUu ati.ud lo fnu.lou I'lalin., bWng aatlmriieil to by b'Kal rwMitultlou tiotn the Ocparlinvul of Int. r nr. MIBCKLLANK0U8. D. J. SWITZER, GENERAL INSURANCE -AND- Real Estate Agent, St. Helens, Oregon, -OO TO- John A. Beck, Watchmaker and Jeweler, -TOR YOUR- ELEGANT JEWELRY. Tha rinoat Aaaortnient of VN'atrhoi, Clooki and , . J.w.lry ol all JJr.rlilliiua. ePPOflll IHI IIMONO, fUKTLAND, OW TJIK EVERDING&FARRELL Front 8treet, Portland, Oregon, DEALKR8 IN WHEAT, OATS AND MILL FEED OF ALL KINDS, Hay, Shingles, Lime, Land Plaster. Also Flour, Bacon, , AND A OESKRAL A8S0HTMENT OF Gro ceri es, , Which we evil clifnp for cash. Give uh a call, EVER DING & FAR R ELL. Olatskanie Line. STEAMER C. J. W. SHAVER, Master. Leaven I'ortliinil from Altlcr-Htrwt dK:k Mttnday, via Westport, Skuiiiokawa aiul Cuthlanii't, Wcdiicuday ami Friday for ClatBkanie, toiicliini; ut Huuviem Inland. St. llidciiM, Coltimlda Citv, Kahuna, NHr City, Kniuier, Codar Landing, Mt. and all intcniiniiate jioiiits, returning lui'mlay, lliurgiiayanabatuniay, NOW IS THE TlfilE - IN eorgetown. This desirable proierly adjoiiiH Milton Station, on tlio Nortliern Pacific Kailroatl, ONE HOUR'S RIDE FROM PORTLAND, And in only 1 1 miln from 8t. Helenit, th county-scat, on the Columbia river. Milton ereeit, a tx-autnui mouniain iiream, runs wunin 2H) yardH of thin pmiwrty, furnishing an inexliaiiHtiblo mipply of wattir for all )iirjKHf8, LOTS, 50x100 FEET, Hanging in price. from $50 to $10, can lw aeciired from D. U. Switzer, St. Helens, Oregon JOSEPH KELLOGG Joseph Kellogg FOR COWLITZ RIVER. HI a.L.... . .4. Leaves IM O rill WGST day at 5 'l'lniimlv nod Kutunliiv at ( A. M. Mftrnu lri I rrr leaves RAINIER at 5 a. m ing at Portland at 10:30 a. m. Rotuming, p. m., arriving at I p. m. SEEDS F.L.PCSSOH 1 SON Wirarry a th vtcnr TrHI, Bulb.. El... BMk.trp.rt' 3up.ll... Ulv u a tital order. F. L. POISON SON, 209 Nueaaaanrl to Miller Broi. DON'T BUY ANYWHERE BUT YOU WILL FIND THE Freshest, Purest and Best of Everything -AT CLATSKANIE V DRUG 7 STORE, DR. J. E. HALL, Proprietor. TRY A mi w riflBF POWER 6V( ""w and Writ for N Illu.traM Calat.gua ai THE LEFFEL WATER WHEEL4 ENGINE CO. SPRINGFIELD, Of U.8A W. SHAVER. Collin, Hradliuiv, .Stella, Oak Point TO SECURE A LOT - & CO.'S STEALERS and Northwest Monday, Wednewiay anu rn- a. m. leaves PORTLAND Tuesday, daily, Sunday excepted, arriv ling, leaves PORTLAND at 2:30 TREES full .took nf MM., FarllUi.ra, Second Street. Portland, Or. CataJmua Fraa. YOUR DRUGS AT A REGULAR THE - If WHEEL use LESS WATER PACIFIC COAST. A Huge Block of Pure Asphaltum. GOLD HILL'S CINNABAR VEIN. Heavy Business Done Along the Rio Grande jn Smuggling1 in Horses and Cattle. ITaanA 1 esinal.taratittf airlfatAjl AVAr the (linpoHl of ita mummy. One (lav lout week ilxty tramps were out off the train between Yoma and Colton. ll..,mi'a Sll fond arA all AKhatlfltAtl. The lutt Itittltttive levy has proved in Biuiieifiii. . T. Ilayne of Portland has been elected Uraiul Chancellor of the Knights of I'ylhiaa of Oregon. A rinnahar vein, aiity feet tn width, haa heen dietKivered near Gold Hill, Or. The ore la immensely rich. Tt.a Plilnn aiionr-lwml) fuclnrT trill ran until D -cembflr. 80 far 825 tons of gran- nlHteil BUfur nave twit mrnou uuv. ' t Muua.1 ll.a l.tnl tax lew throutrh- out the State is over 13,000,000. The total levy on rauroaas u nearty 000. It is believed the property involved in the Davia will case at Butte, Mont., will lie divided amoux the claimant and fur ther litigation will be suspended. - The tailors of Vancouver, B. C.are on a strike becanee the bosses have refused to pay extra for all pockets over four in coats. The 1km sea want five pockets al lowed. The British sealers Otto and E. B. Marvin. sei!d in BehriniSea, have been released at Vancouver, B. t?., by direc tion of ttie Lord Commitsioner of the Admira'ty. The Oregon Grand Lnd-e of the Knhthtaof Pythian voted that hereafter no aaloonmen shall be admitted to mem bership in the aubordinate lodges of the order in the State. A Freano physician is recommending etioulvptus tea, made by boiling the leaves, to all his patients suffering from malarial troubles, and the discovery ia thought to be quite an Important one. Thecodlin moth haa done great in jury to the Oregon apple crop. How to force orchardists to spray their trees to check the spread of disease is a serious question with the State Board of Horti culture. A block of pure asphaltum, weighing two ami a half tons, waa recently taken from the asphaltum mine near Santa Barbara, Cal. It is believed to be the largest piece of asphaltum ever mined in one block. ii t l ikiCiuMA," la aorain fritrht- ening women at Pomona, Cal. His mode oirrition is to lie in wait in a seclud il 8t on a residence street and end ftily nnh out on a woman and squeese her about the waist. From observations made by Prof. Is me! 0. Rnsell, who was sent out by the United S atus government and the Na tional Geographic. Society to explore the region altout Mount St. Kl aa. the mountain is between 18,000 antl 19,000 feet high. The case of C. W. Johnson against the Southern Pacilie railnad for damages received in the Lake Lahish dis inter is before the court at Salem, and is attract ing interest, owing to the fact that John m was traveling on a pass at the tine lie was injured. t Walter Uw of the firm of W. A J. SI sne of New York city haa presented St. 000 to the Lick Olwervatory for the nurMse of publishing a series of en Inrited heliogravure plates of the moon made from the photographs taken with the great telescope. M. E. Wisdom and J. W. Bailey of Portland have purchased the Point Rrceaj steck farm in Baker county, Or. There are about fifty fine brood mares on the place, and the celebrated stallion Challenger is at the head of the stud. The price waa $15J,000. Santa Barbara is to have a boulevard 100 feet wide on the beach in front of s,he city iust above high-water mark and protected from the sea by a heavy bulk head. The sidewalks and roadway will be tuved with bituminous rock and lined with double rows of trees. The Nevada State Board of Assessors ami Equalisation made individual raises in Elko county to the amount of 800, OX), besides a horizontal raise of 20 per cent. The board reduced the Central Pacific railroad appraisement. A howl of indignation is the result. . A strange disease has broken out among the horses on the Dufour ranch near Cameron, Kern county, Cal., and a number of animals are alHicted. The disease is said to resemble diphtheria, but the remedies known to be efficacious in that malady are without avail in this. Reports from the gold regions of the Upper Yukon are very promising. Six teen men reached Jnneau before the To peka's departure with a large quantity of uold dust and nuggets from the Yukon mines. The least any of the party had was $:l,0lW. One nugget weighed $236 and several from NO to 50. The gold excitement is increasing, and prospects are good for a big mining boom. A smugglers' headquarters has been discovered on Lopox Island, a small un inhabited island tn Paget Sound. A ves sel recentlv landed tiftv Chinamen on lliu island. " From there they were taken to the United States by twos and threes in s nail biats, being put ashore in the woods ami guided in by white men un der cover of darkness. From f5J to 100 Is paid for each Chinaman successfully landed. ' The United States revenue cutter Richard Rush haa left San Francisco for 'imalaska. The vessel is ordered back t the sealing grounds, aa it ia reported that a nnmlter of sealers, who were not ntiidled with their small catches, are waiting to make a descent on the rook erieswnen the revenue veeselas'tall have left Behring Sea. It is expected the Rush will remain in the vicinity of the seal islands until the middle of Decem ber. ' EDUCATIONAL. An Iowa Public School Gives a Holiday That the Children May Attend the Races. Wellesley College opens this year with 700 students. " New York has turned away 10,000 school children that cannot be housed. President Angell threatens to close the University of Michigan if gambling is not stopped. . The gain In population in the United States from 1H50 to lSfHJwas 128 per cent, and in the school enrollment 116 Iter cent. There are said to be over 23,000 In dians in the United States who can read Knglish and over 10,000 who can read Indian languages. . Northwestern University at Evanston. HI., has followed the example of Cornell and abslished the barbarous cane rush between the freshmen and sophomores. The schoolmaster is going to be abroad in England more than ever. The Lon don School Board is educating 20,806 more scholars now than they were three years ago. The management of the public schools it Mwon City, Ia., declared a recent Thursday afternoon a holiday in order that pupils might attend the races. The action has caused much comment. The census statistics show the gain in population in the United States to be .A 8tt per cent., while the enrollment, of children in the public schools is 26.54 per cent. This is a healthful indication. The Cornell school of law has enrolled Mrs. Marv Kennedy-Brown, a graduate of Welleslev and a young widow, as one tif its students. She is the first lody whose name appears on the school list. The endowment of the new Chicago University is now over 12,000,000, and more than 610 -tudents have already en tered the first year's course, which will begin, it is expected, in the autumn of 18HJ. Prof. Totton in a military lecture at Yale remarked that the average age of the 110 men in the class was 21 years, and he added : " Upon graduation yon will have before you about forty-eight years apiece." The largest Sunday-school In the wot Id is in Stockport, England. It be gan In 1804. It now contains 5,000 pupils and 44 ) teachers. It has registered dur ing its existence 70,000 scholars and 3.500 teachers. . . Government schools are to be estab lished in San Salvador, where free win cation will be given to women to fit them tor places in the government offices as postotnee clerks, printers, telegraph and telephone operators. Anstria haa not only a high school of agriculture, but fifteen intermediate and eighty-three primary agricultural schools besides nine chairs of agriculture in pol ytechnic establishments and agricultural ex peri mental stations. Prof. Harris, United Btatee Commis sioner of Education at Washington, in a letter to Assistant Postmaster Sturgeon of St. Iuis, who hod requested his views as to corporal punishment in schools, has replied that the fewer the cases of such punishment the better the icbools are likely U be, and that en lightened sentiment is against the use of the rod. Cornell University has opened with an attendance in excess ol thtt in any pre ceding year. Up to date 1,370 students in all departments hare registered, and a number ore in attendance, especially post gradua es, who have not yet regis tered. A noticeable feature is the in crease of students in the courses in arts, philosophy and electrical and mechan ical engineering. - A remarkable career in the teaching profession was brought to a close some two weeks since by the resignation of Miss Lucy D. Bliss from the principal ship of the Plain Primary School, Stock bridge, Mass. Miss Bliss began teach ing in town when 10 years .old, and taught continuously, with the exception of one year, for about fifty-four years. Three generations in Stock bridge have beyun their school life under the instruc tions of Miss Bliss. MISCELLANEOUS. Use of Chloride of Gold and Manga nese Successful for the Cure of Consumption, Governor Steele of Oklahoma haa re aiirned. George William Curtis says Tammany is an organization tor piunuer ana wnn out politics. R.la-ard V. Searles is to nresent to the town of Methuen, Mass., a fine statue of George Washington. There ia much excitement at Clifton Forge, Va.,over the threatened uprising of the negros, owing to the lynching of one of their number. The noted telescope makers, Alvan G, and (inorve B. Clarke of Cambridge. Mass., who made the lens for the Lick telescope, have dissolved partnership. Mrs. Parnell proposes, if she recovers her health, to write a memoir of the great leader and relieve him from much of the blame cast upon him on her ac count. The original site of the old Valley Forge, Washington's headquarters in the winter of 1777-, has just been sold for $10 per acre. The tract embraces fiftv-one acres. - There is a rumor at Washington that Governor Steele of Oklahoma is to su- Dersede Commissioner of i'enBions Kanm, who, it is asserted, has res'gned, to take effect November 30. The length of the twelve-inch gun for the Monterey is thirty-seven feet, and it is designed to propel an 800-pound pro jectile twelve miles, necessitating a pow der charge 01 imu pounus. Gross frauds in the purchases of coal, 1m tliA nV AThtltlfv fill nsane asylum have been unearthed. A gaug has been engaged in this work, and a trmat sensation is promised. A London firm haa been In the habit of lilting out women in expensive gar ments and then sending them to New York, where the irooda were sold and the customs duties evaded. The clothes were made to fit the women, and there fire the fraud was not detected. Al though the women pretended to be in entire ignorance of the uses to which they were being put, it is generally be lieved thev easilv joined the conspiracy. for they got a first-class ticket on the ocean steamers and were enabled lo re turn to their country again, the contract 1 so stating. ... - EASTERN ITEMS. Carter Harrison Buys the Chicago Times. JOSIE MANSFIELD MARRIES. The Manner In Which the Ballots in Ohio Are to Be Distinguished From Each Other. St. Paul cars have letter boxes. Carter Harrison is said fo have bought the Chicago Timet for $400,000. Anthracite coal has been discovered in the district of Alberta, Canada. The Italian Consul in Boston is inves tigating the condition of Italians. The public schools of Oawstomie, Kan., have been closed for wantof fnnds. Chicago will erect a building in mem ory of Columbus at a cost of $1,000,000. Ten thonsand voters in Chicago have pledged themselves to vote for the Peo ple's party. The postmaster of Philadelphia has ordered his subordinates to stay away from the races. The government is about to begin the work of preparing a hydrographic survey of the Great Lakes. A Justice of New York has jut de cided that you need not pay for a meal at a restaurant unless you eat it. The financial statement of the Pall man Palace Car Company shows a sur plus for the past year of $2,Wtt,223. A moonshiner' church in Alabama aud a secret oath-bound moonshiners' clnb in Georgia are .promoting lawless ness by wholesale. In the 6,000,000 letters that reached the dead-letter office last year there was money amounting to zH.)4J ana checks and notes of the value of $1,471,871. Four men were shot by the Mexican military authorities a few miles across the border from Rio Grande City, Tex. They were charged with being revolu tionists. J. and F. D Mollenhauer will start a new aiiirar factory in Brooklyn, with a capacity of 1,200 barrels refined per day. It will open next July. It will be inde pendent of the trust. The September statement of the Santa Fe Railroad Company shows that the gross earnings of the system for the fourth week in September were the larg est in the history of the company. The validity of the new constitution of Kentucky is to be contested on the ground that the Constitutional conven tion made numerous changes after the instrument was ratified by the people. Josie Mansfield, whose relations with Jim Fisk and Ed Stokes brought her into public notoriety in New York twenty years ago, was married recently in Lon don to Robert L. Reade, a New York lawyer. A statement prepared at the pension office shows that the pensions issued during September numbered 27,044, on winch the first payments aggregaieu a-t,-072,470. The average first payment in each case was $137.32. M. R. Hanson, reputed to be a wealthy lumberman at Hanson, Wood county, Wis. is alleeed to have signed the name of George lliles, a Milwaukee million aire, to $o0,0J0 worth of fraudulent pa per. Hanson haa disappeared. There are thousands of dead fish along the shores of the Upper Mississippi. The river fell lower than for twenty years, . . . , .- . . . i leaving targe nnmoers 01 nan in puoir which gradually dried up, and the fish have since died on the bed of scorching sand. The Bank of Columbia and theColnm bia Banking Con pan y of Columbia, Tenn., have assigned. The capital stock of the former is $100,000 and that ot tne latter $00,000. It is claimed that' the creditors of both institutions will be paid in full. On each ballot to be cast according to the provisions of the new election law in Ohio are to be these distinguishing de vices that have been adopted by the par ties: Republican, eagle; Democratic, rooster; Prohibition, rose; People's, plow and hammer. The influx of Chinamen into the United States from Mexico continues, and it is only those who are unaware of the prohibitory law that are captured. Those who know they are breaking the laws generally evade the officers. Fif teen were arrested last week. The Cramps will enlarge their plant for ship building on the Delaware river to eight times its present area. Seven launching ways are to be constructed, large enough to admit the building si multaneously of seven vessels of the sise of the war ship Philadelphia. One of the recent evidences of a grow ing interest in trade with the United States on the part of the countries to the southward is to be seen in the announce ment that a permanent exposition of the Eroducts of Mexico and Central America 1 to be opened in New York. The Association for the Advancement of Women at ita recent meeting in Grand Rapids, Mich., elected Julia Ward Howe President for the coming year. Jennie A. Froiseth of Utah and Ellen C. Sar gent of California are among the Vice Presidents. The congres closed with a symposium on the subject of "Man," that personage being handled severely by numerous witty speakers. ' The commission to negotiate with tha Shoshone and Arapahoe Indians of Wy oming for the cession of a part of the Wind River reservation telegraphs that the commission has ettneted an agree ment with the Indians, under which thev cede to the United States about 1,100,000 acres out ot a total of 2 0,O X) acres, ine inuians receive nw,uw, or about 55 cents per acre. The late JohnTwohig, banker and cap italist of San Antonio, Tex., bequeathed the bulk ol his estate, estimated at f v 010,000, to the Catholic Church. Miss Kate Twohig, his sister, is to receive U', 5 H) per vear for the first two years and $2,000 per annum for the remainder of ner life. His brother .and nephew in Ireland are each willed $50 per annum. pavable aemi-annua' and to a sister in Boston he gives $260 a year. PERSONAL MENTION. Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone Will Pass the Winter in Italy Death of Mrs. , 'Henrietta Lamar. Mr, and Mrs. Gladstone have deter mined to pass the winter in Florence. Tennyson, who is in excellent health, has just been giving sittings for a por trait, r Mrs. Harrison has been chosen an honorary member by the Association of the King's Daughters. Lord Lytton is in' such precarious health that he has itunder consideration to resign his post of British Minister to France. Secretary Foster's portrait has jut been painted for the Treasury Depart ment by Miss Blanche F. King, a young Waahington artist. " Warner Miller has been studying the canal system of Holland and the WAter way that the German government is constructing at Kiel. He is to take part in the New York State campaign. , , Hon. John A. Sleicher has been ap pointed editor-in-chief of the New York Mail and Krpreti, to Succeed the late Major J. M. Bundy. Mr. Sleicher re tires from the editorship of Franler lie'i Weekly. m ' The death of Bishop William J. Boone (Episcopal) of China is annoanced. The Bishop, who was the son of Bishop Boone of China, did much to forward the cause of Christian missions in that country, and was entirely devoted to his work. . . , Mr. Spurgeon was only 19 when he preached his first sermon. Even theta bis eloquence , was remarkable, and within a few years be, had .gathered about him a large congregation. At that time he was a pale and slender stripling, with a noticeably large head. His ro tundity of body came many years later. Mrs. Henrietta Lamar, relict of Gen eral Mirabeau B. Lamer, who command ed the cavalry at the battle of San Ja cinto and was the second President of the Republic of Texas, died October 6. She was the daughter of R v. John New land Maffitt, a Methodist preacher of national reputation about half a century ago. ." General Brugere, controller of Presi dent Carnot's household, holds his pres ent place through a curious piece of bad and yet good fortune. He waa a mem ber of Marshal MacMahon's aad Presi dent Grevy's households, but would have been removed by President Carnot had not the latter accidentally wounded him while out hunting. Kate Field relates in a way that ad mits of a supicion that she was the young lady in question who gave rise to the bm mot of Walter Savage Landor. He having dropped his spectacles one ' day, an American girl picked them up for him, whereupon he exclaimed with much grace : " Oh, this is not the first time you have caught my eyes !" William Cotter, Jr., of Hartford, Conn., must have a remarkable memory. He is a registrar of voters, and the Timet says that of 12,000 names on the list he claims to be able to tell from memory the residence and politics of each one, and also in cases where a person has ' been absent in Europe, or staying in ' some other part of the country, to tell wh re be went and when. -.. One of the successful lawyers of the Pacific Slope, a son of the famons John O. Breckinridge and a brother of the Kentucky Congressman, bears the curi ous name of " Owen County " Breckin ridge. He was born the day, 1853, that his father was nominated for Congress over ex-Governor Letcher, and as that result was brought about by the vote of Owen county, the grateful candidate be stowed the name on his new-born heir. NATIONAL CAPITAL. Annual Report of the Auditor of the Treasury for the Postofftce .. Department. '' The report of Lieutenant Cowles upon the wreck of the United States steamer Despatch has been received at tlieJSavy Department. It is merely a brief state ment of the facta already well known, and contains no comment nor explana tion whatever. , It is customary in such caseJ for the officer to reserve "tils testi mony for later use UnderoetK. -' "'" ' In his annual report-to the Secretary of the Interior Governor Prince of the Ter ritory of New Mexico refers at length to the beneficial results which, he thinks, will accrue from a settlement or the dis puted Spanish and Mexican land claims bv the Court of Private Claims recently organized. The Governor insists from . .- . L .. i XT- I ! I. any point 01 view ma ivw atciiw ia entitled to Statehood. , , .r ., , The annual report of the Auditor of the Treasury for the Postoffice Depart- -ment, showing the receipts and expend itures of the department for the. fiscal year ended June 30, 181)1, has been sub- mitted to the Postmaster-General.- It hows that the postal revenues during the year were $05,931,785. The expend itures to September 30, 1891, were $71, 602,462, leaving an exeeise of expendi tures over all revenues of $5.7'0,677. The amount placed with the Treasurer to the credit of the department, consist ing ot grants from the general' treasury in aid of postal revenue under the act ot June 30, 1800, was $2,200,000. The ex- -cess of the expenditures over the grants is $3,530,677. ' V- Chief Harrington of the weather bu reau in the report of the operations .of the bureau since its transfer to the De partment of Agriculture July 1 last ays the service haa been reorganized with a view of carrying out the ex pressed intention of Congress to especially de velop and extend its work in the inter est of agriculture. Since July 1 new service has been organized in Arizona, California, Utah, Florida. New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Virginia, Washington, AVest Virginia and Wyom ing. The most practical and the most highly complimented portion of the ex clusive work of the State service is the issue of a weekly weather crop bulletin. On September 30 there were over' l.SiH) weather signal display stations in opera tion, an increase of abont 100 per rent, in less than throe months. There aro npw probably 2,200 voluntary observers in the United States, reporting to the weather bureau, and steps are being taken to cover every section of each State and Territory, so as to le-ive no section without stations from tweuty to thirty miles apart,'