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' f " Circulation, 1,000. 1 nn M Subscribers . In Col nmhli County BUST Advertising Medium In Columbia Go. True Leading Paper of Columbia County, VOL. 9. ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1802. NO. 10. HE Jul, ii ii Ja OREGON THE OllEtiON MIST, 1MNUK KVKHY VK11AY MOUNINO J. R. BEEGLE, Publisher. Th County Official Paper. MiiuaerliHliin llatre. duo onpjr mi year In advauce,..,, , (1 Ml ono mi in mouth . . 7 Bluv iiy ., A Advertlalnir Hatea. 1'rffiHloul (Mr In one year,....., Oufi vol tun ii one Year, if ilf column omt year tyiiarter column omw year ' tin Iiieli on month. ,.,,.. ...... jj One Inch tlitee muiitli.,,,,,, ,..... ........ Ona Inoh .1 iiiimtli..,.,,,,.. ,........... l-onal untie., lAneul per line for flint lnr t Urn; lucanui pur Una lor each aubacouout m- alvi!Tllimtiit. I1.M) per Inch for lint lii(irll,iu,n,l74('.mlLi r lneti lor each aiilino qunt luiwtiloil. COLUMBIA COUNTY DIRKOTo Counly OrHeere. JlI'lRC Cork , Hh.rllf. Trraattrer ..,.... Bupl. of rtuliooln,... Aaor , ., .surveyor. ....... tloniintiutloner...... ,.). J. rtvrl nur.Ht, II luiiai ,.,. K, K (juiirat, Ht. iieena ,...wm. M'jtikar, Ht. Helena U. W, t ,ilo, Ht Helena J, (I, Walt., Hcapnoo'a '. K. I), mil, Italnlwr A. II. Little, Hr. If ilea. W.ia'l lipeiieer, Vvriiouln fll. w Hartiea, (.."atnaaiiio. MiH'lKtf Sutler.. MaoHIJ Ht. Helena Uirtit". No. -c(fiilar rommuiilcatliMiii ltrt and Third Ha'unlay lu each aaonilt at 7:l . M. l Mauitilc Hall. Vl.llliui Dieintetr. lit flood .taiiiHua Invito! w attend. M omi lialulur I.mIk No, 'U H aUil inn t ttiK Haiar'Y.tm or befure each full moon at7:K0 r. h. at MuiiIii Mall, ovur Ula-ictiaM'. aloru. Vliltlu members til fund alaudliix Invited lu llatO'l. t ." i vang-elle,! Appointment.. Vlrat Baudaylli!r liland.U a.m.: Ht. Helena. 7:00 r. M. tMumit Hiiiulay Nwir City, 11 A M.i Kculwn, 7 no r. M. Third Muudarullttou.il a. M.i llonlton, i f. M. fourth HundayKHVlaa I.laoil ((ill'ttlian), 11 i A. M.I Kiwlot't.i r. M. M. IIUKI.INUAMK, I'aator. '"..-.. ' ' Tim Mlla, " . Down rim (boat) Iom at :S0 a. m. I'p rir (hoat) cloaca at I r. H. Th mall for Vanimila and IMilalmrir leaa Rt. Ilcltua Tuwlay, Tlmrailay and Haturday at 4. M. Th mall for Maralilnml, Olaukaulc and Mlat leave, llulnu Monday, WmluaoUy and Krlitay at Malta (railway) north cloio at 10 A M.i for rortland at X r. M. Travtelera' uld-ltlr Houtea. TB II. W. HH1VKH l.pavcH H', H-llIH fo fortlauil at II A. M. Tuardiiy, Thuriulay and Mat "enlay. Iava Ht, Hclcni for C'lai.kanle Mnu day, Welnii.day and Krl.lav at :H0 A, M. NraiMaa Jimkcii KKhkono l-arca Ht. Hcln 4or Pnrtlaud dally rxiwptHuuday at tV: A. M. HetnruliiK, lca I'oilland l 't ,M r. M, M1HCKLLANKOU8. D. J. SWITZER, GENERAL INSURANCE -AND- Real Estate Agent, Sr, Helens, Oreoon. -lit) TO- John A. Beck, Watchmaker and Jeweler, FOR YOUR ELEGANT JEWELRY. The Fltie.t Aaanrtment (if Watchea, Clocka and . Jewelry of nil Daacrlptlona, OPPOSITI THI CtMONO, PORTLAND, OR' PIANOS and ORGANS. llnlltitt DttviH and New Soulo Kimball PianoB and Kimball Or gnnH. ' I invito inunction, and dt-fy ooiupotition. . L. V. MOORE, 105 Washington St., Portland, Or. Write for catalogue and priees. Mention this paper. Clettslcstiiie X-iine. STEAMER C. W. SHAVER. J. W. SHAVER, Master. Iaves Portland from Alder-stroet dock Monday, via Westport, Skamokawa and Cathluniet, Wed mday and Friday for Clatskame, toui-hiiiK at! Pauvios Inland, 8t. HeletiB, Columbia City, Kalfima, Neer City, Rainier, Cedar Landing, Mt. Collin, Bradburv, Stella, Oak Point and all intermodiato points, returning Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. DON'T BUY YOUR DRUGS ANYWHERE BUT AT A REGULAR" as5 '""t " YOU WILL FIND THE Freshest, Purest and Dest of Everything , .V'- ' AT THE SLATSKANlEvDRUG .'STORE. DR. J. E. HALL, Proprietor. I'HOKKHHIONAL. DR. H. R. CLIFF, Physician and Surgeon, at. Helena, Or. DR. J. E. HALL, Physician v and . Surgeon, ;itakiiiil, Dolunililn Co., Or. T. A. MiiHkiui. - A. H. Dhmmikh. MoBRIDE ft DRESSER, Attorneys v at '.' Law, ; !ra"on City, Or. I'rompt Hit Mitlim tilvun to laud olllce bni,liiaa A. B. LITTLE, Surveyor and Civil Engineer, HI, llnlona, Or. County Morv. yor. Land nrvovlnii. town plat tliiK andauiflnourliig work piouiplly done. W, T, lluimiev. J. W. Ubackk. BURNEY & DRAPER, Attorneys .' at .' Law, Orciton CHy, Or. Twclva warn expcrlcnci) aa Hcnlntcr of the United Htaica Ltud otllco hero rccommenda ua In nurapwlaltyof all kind, of biialncua bvf'ire th Ixiid Office or Hie ( urn, and Involving Ilia practice In the Uelierel lnd UMlcth , , . jr B. BROCKENBROUQH, ATTORNEY . AT LAW, Oregon City, Or. (f.ate Hppclal AKunt of (lencral Uml Offlne.) li'iuiiwiea I, Pru-empilo't axil Ihntier l,nd Ap ill at oni and other Laud Ortloe Hulne.a a Hieclaliy. Oillec, tkvond Floor,. ImA (Jillue B.lllilllU, - CHAS. W. jflYGEH, Notary Public AND INSURANCE AGENT, MAVCIEK, OR. An Overtaxed American. Mm. Calliirouiid I uioe you are de liKliUiil to et iHtck to the Unit-eil Wtntenf Mra. SliiHldy Oil, ym; it' a great ro ller to bilk to liolMHlira iiftm- converging wltli the cmwiieii hcHili of Kitrupeao long. Muusey'e Weekly. Two of m Kind. fie (KllKlitly rude) I culled becuuite 1 thought you erem out: She (Hweutly) Well, do you know,' I lliuiiKlit l wita out too. The nmid niimt havo thotittht you were aome one ele, llnriwr'a liiunr, Cominltteil a MliHlemnanur or Matrimony. "Notice that iimu over there how tier voua he itppwtrB cotwlaliUy looking anninil toaeu If nnylioily in wulclilng him. I'll lit he'e a burglar." "Yea, or a bridegroom." Muimy' Weekly. A Plau.lble Tlioory. Mra. Yv Sweet I ciiiinot underatand why ao many cultured men are willing te leave all the liapplnetw of Home, an tne lilemlnga of civilization, and upend a life time lu exploration in auch countriea aa Afriru. Warruheurt (gallantly) All men, madam, are not ble.ed with auch wlvee a Mr. De Sweet-Street & Smith's Good New. . -. Very Acoompllalied. MIu De Muir How charming yon look today I i Miaa IW Mcanor (slightly dyapeptlo) I regret that I ran not say as much for you. Miiis De Muir (aweetly) You could, dear, If yon were as ncuonipH-ilied a liar as I am. ruck. , PACIFIC COAST. Portuguese Laborers are Basely Deluded. SOUTHEASTERN IDAHO STOCK Petaluma Will Probably Have a Silk Faotory Real Indians in a Border Drama. The Appeal Court at Victoria, B. 0., has iUBtained the Sunday closing law. Steamboats on the Upper Willamette aretoqiiittowingbarges. It does not pay. Telephone connection between Los Argolva and Santa Barbara has been made. ---. ' .""' ' ' ': '', Montana mining companies are shut ting down the mills, owing to the low price of silver, v ' ' ' 0 " Revenue olllcers at Boise City are suc cessfully raiding Chinese shops for con traband opium, ,, The company for building and operat ing a silk factory at Petaluma, Cal., has been reincorporated. - ' - San Bernardino and Los Angeles are made closer neighbors by a flier the Hotitbern Pacific has put on to ran be tween the cities.- Tlie Southern Pacific Is to rebuild about eight miles of track on a higher level at Ochoa, east of Benson, A. T. This Is done to avoid washouts. The United State District Attorney at Boise Oity. Idaho, has requested the dis missal of the indictments aiainst twenty Mormons accused of polygamy and adul tery on the ground that the evidence is insufficient to convict. , . r 5 A Boise City dispatch says:1 The re ports floating through the press of large losses of stock in Seutheastoru Idaho are absolutely without foundation. The cattlemen have an abundance of bay on hand to feed the stock till grass appears. The Los Angeles Evening Erprm will be twenty-one years old on March 27 net, and the event is to be celebrated with a complete " new dress." The A'j- fir is the oldest paper in Southern Cal foria, with the exception of the San Diego Union. A scheme has developed to control the water supply of Los Angeles. A secret meeting of the Counc'l was held, in which attorneys addressed it in the al leged Interest of the public, but evi dently to obtain advantages for a newly organized company. The Arisona and Sonora Land and Ir rigation Company owns 1,500,000 acres of land in Northwestern Sonora and Ar isona, and a canal will be built from a point twenty-eight miles from Yuma, running thence into Mexico, where it will irrigate 1,000,000 acres. i C. P. Huntington has instructed W, H. Mills, land agent of the Central Pa cific, to make some large land purchases in California, Mr. Huntington writes: " We must break up largo land holdings in California if we ever expect to make any great success wi th onr railroads. Ten thousand ncres in Northern California will soon be purchased and sold in small lots to farmers. Oilier large purchases will follow." About twentv Portuguese laborers have been landed at : Port Harford through the agency of an intelligence otli in San Francisco, which represent ed to the men that laborers were wanted at San Luis Ibispo on street work. The men soon' made the discovery that they had been duped into paying a fee to some rascally labor agent, and that no work was to'he had. "Nick of the Woods," a border drama, was put on the stage at Carson, Nev., the other night with local talent. Gen uine Washoe and Piute Indians were in the stake dance, which is graphically described as so realistic that the " audi ence was spell-bound and timid ladies trembled as the apparently infuriated savages swooped their knives and hatch ets in the face of Nick." , . One of the biggest gold nuggets ever seen at Tucson, A. T., was brought to that city recently. A Mexican, while walking along tne placer diggings at Quijotoa, which had been washed out by the late rains, saw the gold, a dingy yel low lump, sticking out of the sand, and kicked it loose. The value of it is about $200. it weighs eleven ounces. Smaller nuggets were also found, It is stated at Victoria, B. O., that the government has decided to aid the proj ect of bringing crofters to that province by loaning the province 150,000 for thirty veare at it per cent, interest. It Is further stated that an English com pany is in course of organ ration, with a capital of 1.000,000, for the purpose of purchasing the fish from the boats of the crofters aa soon as caught and transport ing them threugh the cold-storage sys tem on steamers and cars to every im portant raa-ket on the continent. . i The Fresno Canal and Irrigation Com pany, formerly the Pine Ridge flume, filed a declaration of intention to bond the flume for $800,000, the bonds to run for twenty years. The purpose is to raise money for the construction of a flume from Fresno fifty-seven miles to the timber belt of the Sierras. The pur pose is to bring lumber down; also to carry water for irrigation purposes. By it 80,000 acres ot raisin land will receive water, which now has none. A billion feet of lumber is tributary to the flume. From present Indicittons Desert Lake will be niuo1! larger than last year. At present the lake is about half a mile wide, and after running along the South ern Pacific track for ahout two miles ex tends off out of s'ghtto the south. At this time last year there was not a drop of water visible, althouh there was a quantity a few inches below the surface of the sink.' It was not until several months later that the floods occurred in the Gila and Co'orado rivers, ciused by the melting of snows, and it was In Au gust that the water in SaHon Sink began to attract attention. ' Snows in the mountains at prepent are heavier than for years, and coming, as the water will wheu they melt, on land already in a large part saturated, a lake of unexam p'ed extent will probably be crested. Old residents . believe that about 100 miles ot track of the Southern Pacific, which lies in the desert below the sea level, will be overflowed. PERSONAL MENTION. The Late Duke of Clarence a Great I Admirer of Mr. Gladstone A . . Grand Duke Hissed. Thomas A. Edison was 46 years old a few days ago. He was born in Alva, O., from which town he takes his middle name. George Moore, the novelist and essay ist, is a red-headed man, who look very much, it is said, like Etnile Zola. An other notable red-headed man is Swin burne, the poet. The handsomest man in Congress and particular favorite among the women lobbyists is Mr. Durborow of Chicago, who is rich, a bachelor, but 84 years of age and has never mode a speech. The remarkable likeness between the latest accepted portrait of Columbus and the ordinary portraits of George Wash ington is appreciated at a glance. It is at least an interesting coincidence. ; The Prince of Wales wears an 18M col lar, has a 45 chest, 84 arm, 42 '2 waist (for troupers 44) and 30 leg (for trousers 31). Contrary to general credit, especi ally in America, his tastes are exceed ingly quiet. . The Czir of Russia hat become inter ested in cricket, and has organized two elevens among the young men of his court. Cricket in wintry Russia is al most as much of an exotic as football in South Carolina, . . , , Senator Morrill is the patriarch of Washington whist players. He has a thoroughly scientific knowledge of the game, and once a week at least be gath ers about him a set of select players from among his friends in official life. It has been said that Queen Victoria is the only person now living who knew Sir Walter Scott personally. But there is an old bookseller in Edinburg who often talked with him ; and it is thought probable that there must be still others who can claiu. that honor. Frof, Renonf, the eminent scholar in charge of the Assyrian aud Egyptian collections in the British Museum for the last six years, is about to be retired from office under some civil-service regula tions. It is thou;ht to bs impossible to fill the place satisfactorily. One hears several different pronunci ations of " khedive-" whenever circum stances, as they lately have done, bring the Egyptian ruler into prominence. Worcester gives kay-dee-vay or keh-dive (as in hive), while Webster gives keh deeve or kee-div, and his international agrees with the Centnry dictionary in making it ke-deeve. The Duke of Clarence was an ardent admirer of Gladstone. On one occasion at. the House of Commons, when the venerable Premier introduced his home rule bill, Albert Victor waa so carried away by the eloquence of the great ora tor that he clapped his hands heartily, which was particularly noticed, as the enqueue of the House forbids such an outburst of enthusiasm. Margaret Fuller used to be accounted a very wise woman, and doubtless she was. for Mrs. Sherwood credits her with having once said: "Never talk about yourself, your diseases, your domestics or yonr dresses. Talk about your friends' interests, not your own." Perhaps it rap hv nnt.t.intt that precept into prac tice that Miss Fuller ge.'ned her great celebrity as a converser. Grand Duke Sereins. Governor-General of Moscow, was publicly hissed according to KusBtan papers a tew weeks ago. ine Grand Duke, who is a brother of the Czar, is not at all popular among hie sub jects., Recently he gave orders that the races snould not begin until he amvea at the course. At the first race after the order, however, he was more than an hour late, and the people expressed their displeasure, it is said, by hissing. WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. A Pot-pourri of What Is Being Done to Make the Chicago Exposi tion a Grand Success. Michigan will expend 12,000 to $15,- 000 on its forestry exhibit and $4,000 to $6,000on its display of fruits. The Board of Trade of Columbia, S. 0., has undertaken to see that an exhibit worthy of that State is made at the ex position. The total amount paid out to February 1 bv Treasurer See berger for construction and other expenses of the exposition was $3,072,8".. The preparation of the educational ex hibits from South Dakota and New Mex ico has been intrusted to the women members of the respective State Boards. Invitations to foreign nations to send representatives to t'ie exercises dedica tory of the exposition buildings next Oc tober have been issued by the committee on ceremonies, and have been forwarded to their destination by Secretary of State Blaine. Chief Samnels of the horticultural de partment has returned from a trip to Florida and Cuba, where he stimulated interest in the exposition and secured the promise of many fine palms and other tropical plaats to be exhibited in his department, r , The Manufacturers' Club of Philadel phia desires to erect a building in the exposition grounds, constructed entirely of material made by nfnber8 of the club, with intent that it be headquarters for manufacturers not only of Philadel phia, but of the entire country. ; Delegate Smith of Arizona has report ed a bill from the House Territories Com mittee to ratify the act of the Arizona Legislature authorizing the issneof bonds to the extent of $30,000, to enable the Territory to be properly represented at the World's Fair. The report accompa nying the bill says Congressional author ity is necessary, hi cause there is . a law forbidding Territories to incur an indebt edness exceeding 4 per cent, of the as sessed valuation of property. The re port savs Arizona's assessed valuation is only $30,000,000, but its tasable yalue is really J8"0 1,000. . , i The women of Denver are engaged in raising $10,000, with which to contribute something notable to the Colorado ex hibit at the exposition. They purpose to get Preston Powers to reproduce in bronze, one-eighth larger than life else, his celebrated group, "The Closing Era," which represents a dead buffalo and a solitary Indian in melancholy contem nlation of it the two forming, as Bier- stndt says in commending the project, a " perpetuation in bronze of a dual de parting race." After exhibition at Chi cago It is the Intention to place the group in the capitoi grounus at uenver, EASTERN ITEMS. Race Trouble in n Ohio Public Ssh-ol COFFIN TRUST REORGANIZED. Nioaragua Grants tho Louisiana Lot tery Company a Perpetual Charter Eto, - Philadelphia has regained her normal condition oi health. New York capitalists will - build Chi cago's Lake-street elevated road. The Indian appropriation bill reported to the House carries $7,230,787. The wheat crop in Tennessee has been badly injured by the late freeze. Baltimore is soon to have an elevated railroad costing about $1,000,000. Worcester. Mass.. is to abolish grade crossings at a total expense of $2,094, 000. South Dakota will probably lose $1,- 000,000 of its school fund in suits now pending. . A nrooosition is pending in the Iowa Legislature to substitute high license for prohibition. Five of the county officials at San An tonio, Tex., are under indictment for embezzlement. The Chicago gas trust admits that its customers have been paying for more gas than they consumed. The Illinois State Board of Agriculture says the wheat area in Illinois is 4 per cent, larger than last year. No more smoking is to be tolerated even in the hall or janitor's room at Le high University, ttetniehein, ra. The coffin trust has been reorganized. and the prices of burial caskets will be advanced 20 per cent, within thirty days. The merits of the bichloride of gold treatment for drunkards will probably be investigated by the New York Legis lature. ' ' '- -,.. The Question of rebuilding the State University is absorbing more attention in the Missouri Legislature than any other subject. . An active discussion is going on in armv and navy circles relative to the proper guardians of the coasts vessels of war or the artillery. Everv precaution is being taken against the spread of typhus fever in fiew York, ana toe prospect is mat it will be effectively checked. Race trouble in the public schools at Lebanon. O.. is creating excitement. The opposition to both races attending tne same ecnooi is Decoming wieuso. It has been ascertained that Lane, the defuultingTreasurer of Appanouse coun ty, la., is i.i (jentrai America, tin bondsmen have made good bis pecula tions. . ,' The new steam motor which has been given a partial trial on the Btreet raie ways in Chicago is too costly and heavy for ordinary use. Ihe motor weigne 10, 000 pounds. , - A Coroner's iurv in Peoria. 111., brought in the following verdict one day last week : " We find that the aeceesea came to her death by being found dead in her bed." ; Mnv Rusflian Jews are applying to the Consul-General in New York for ae listonce to go back to Russia. They say they can do better there than they can in this country. Congressman Bingham of Philadel phia will deliver the oration at Gettys burg June 2 on the occasion of the un ve ling of hitrh-water-niark monument on Cemetery Bidge. ,- . ; . v The retirement of Generals John M. Schofield and O. O. Howard will take out of the active service, it is said, every regular army off! -er who commanded a corps during the eivil war.; . The Kansas. Arkansas and New Or leans railroad has tiled at Little Kock a mortgage for $fl,0!'0,000, which money is to be used in the construction of the line through the State of Arkansas. Kenorts from all the counties of Geor gia show a general reduction in the cot ton acreage o tne present year 01 aoout 2 1 per cent. Food crops end tobacco will fill the gap caused by ihe reduction. The rtDort comes from Philadelphia that an English trust 1m been formed, with $5,000,000 capital, to consolidate all the tann ries of the United States, with heoi'qnarters in the feast and a local branch in each State. A Panama disnatch savs: Nicaragua has granted the Louisiana lottery a per petual charter. The principal office of the company will, ba atGreytown. It will have branches in an tne otner vjen irai American Republics. : Junction Citv. Mo., has a " Bellamy " club that does the cooking for forty four families. It is a solution of the hired girl question," and the members are very enthusiastic Last year $5,320 were paid out for table supplies. It is a coincidence that the first arrest made in Ohio under the Brewer law is that of a cit'z'en of Jefferson named Brewer, who, b.iing unable to pay the fine imposed for failure to send his chil dren to school, has been sent to jail. A cave has been found under the sub urb of H'ghland Park, Chattanooga, and twenty-tive men are at work hlastingout the passage, which is at fit at very nar row, widening into large underground rooms, which seem to have been used in the past. ;'. "Immigrants are herded worse than cattle," Bsyr one of the New York In spectors in his report, and " I doubt very much whether any person who owns a dog would give it such quarters as are at present afeigneu nninnn eeiugs uy trans atlantic steamship companies.", t Near Rav's Mill. Ga., a negro woman left her house to go to wr-rtt, leaving a babe 9 months old tn charge of two chil dren, aged 11 and 9 years, named Mark and Lina. Mark. it seems, soon after the mother left, ki'lI and mangled the babe with an axi then he took a fork and gouged out the eyes of the little one, which he roasted, and taking a slice of flesh out of either jaw, he and his sister sat themselves down and devoured the flesh. NATIONAL, CAPITAL. Senator Allen of Washington Introduces it Bill Relative to Puyallup In dian Reservation Lands. The President has appointed the fol lowing cadets at large to the United States Naval Academy : Paul E. Toistig, John T. M. Terry, Frank . Ridgelyand Richard J. Olesby, Jr. The Senate Committee on Finance has agreed to make an adverse report on Senator Coke's bill providing for the retirement of national bank .circulation, to replace it with treasury notes and to permit national banns to loan money on real-estate security with interest at 8 per cent. 1 Delegate Caine of Utah presented a memorial from the Legislative Assembly of Utah asking for an appropriation of $500,000 for a public building at Salt Lake City, $250,000 for a public building at Ogden, $100,000 for the same purpose at Provo and $75,000 for a building at Logan. Mr. Bowers of California introduced a bill 10 provide for the establishment of a District and Circuit Court of the United States at San Diego. The bill provides that court shall be held in the southern district of California at San Diego the first Monday of June and December of each year. . A bill has been introduced in the House authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to reserve from public eale or entry nnsurveyed lands within the States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Mon tana and Washington. The bill aims to carry into effect those provisions of the act admitting these States to the Union, granting to them land for educational and other purposes. . , : Senator Allen of Washington has in troduced a bill to secure removal of all restrictions upon the title ot the Puyal Inn Indian reservation lands and permit ting the alienation of these lands, with the exception of the portion of the res ervation within the heavy black lines on the map and accompanying tne report 01 the Puyallup Indian Commission, com nrisincr in all about 2 6 " a -res. It also firovides for the public sale of these ends as provided for by the State Legis lature. '.' . .- ! Secretary Rusk in answer to a Senate resolution has communicated to the Sen ate the report of the special agent of th Department of Agricultnre upon the rain-making experiments. General Dy renfurth, who is in charge of the exper- iments, in summing up their results , says: "The few experiments made do not furnish sufficient data from which to form a definite conclusion or evidence upon wh'ch to uphold or condemn the theories of the artificial production or the increase of rainfall by concussion. What has been done so far is altogether preliminary, but with the benefit of the experience gained 1 nope wie siiujec will be pursued. .., , ' : A statement has been laid before the rinnafl from the Commissioner of Cus toms showing a $1,711,061 drawback al lowed by the government on tin cans, etc., manufactured from imported tin plate and exported from October 1, 1890, to December 31, 1891. Another state-! ment shows the amount of drawback al lowed on imported salt used in curing meats exported from October 1, 1890, to December 31, 1891, aggregated $92,201, included in the third etatement was a table giving the quantity and value ot salt imported and withdrawn from the warehouses for the purpose of curing fish, the duty on which, remitted nnder the act of Oetober 1, 1889, agjregated 112,995,600 pounds, valued at fioa.tsftn. Mr. Gillesnie of Pennsylvania has in troduced a bill in the House authorizing the Secretary of War to correct the rec ord of the released prisoners' of war who were at Camp Parole, that the muster cut shall date from the discharge from said camp or other place where they were still subject to military control in stead of the dato of the muster-out of the regiment to which they were at tached, which mnster-ont occurred be fore their discharge aforesaid, and that there be allowed and paid to these sol diers pay and allowances to the time of their actual discnarge. tsucn ctaimB sunn be examined and reported to the Secre tary of the Treasury, who shall prepare an estimate for the amount required to pay these soldiers. Air. Stumoof Marvland has introduced a concurrent resolution directing the Senate and House Committees on Immi gration and Naturalization to inquire into the recent admission into the port of New York of a fame numoer 01 Jbu mnnan emigrants afflicted with typhus fever and to investigate jointly the work ings of the various laws ot tne umtea States relative to immigration from for countries and the importation of contract laborers to the United States and the expenditures made in connec tion therewith, the investigation to be conducted at such times and places as the committees may deem proper, and they be authorized jointly as full com mittees or through subcommittees to send for and examine persons, books and papers and to administer oaths to wit nesses. Representative Robert Hitt of Illinois is authority on diplomatic service in the House by reason of his connection with the diplomatic service at home and abroad and also his long service in the Committee on Foreign Affairs. In con nection with the controversy now going on between certain members of the House as to who shall have the credit of forcing the passage of tne uninese ex nlnainn act Mr. Hitt savs the various acts proposed are in direct violation of the treaty with the Chinese government. He is not posing as the Chinaman's friend, but he is disposed to believe that there is more political sentiment than anvthing else mixed up in the Chinese question. There are men in Congress tivdavfrom the Pacific Coast who have small armies of Chinese servants at home, and in private conversation, tney ri.r.ltt,rft that thev could not get alonar without Chinese domestics. " If the Chinese finally concluded to go," he con tinrxut " und there was no further pre text to agitate the question, some of our political friends would be out of a fob." The same condition of affairs would re sult, he said, if the tariff and the silver questions were Anally disposed of just now. Mr. Stump of Maryland and Mr. Geary of California are involved in an .mn.im, Wit none the less bitter, per sonal controversy over the authorship of aChinese bill in the House. While they ..ura HUmitinw as to who would receive the credit for the bill introduced, Senator Dolph of Oregon introduced and passed a Chinese exclusion bill in the Senate, thus stealing the thunder oi both of them. FOREIGN LANDS. Brussels to sbe Made a Real Seaport. t LABOR QUESTION IN VIENNA. Negotiations for a Commeroial Treaty Between Italy and Switzer- -land Broken Off , . . Berlin Socialists will make a May-day demonstration. The elections in Japan have been at tended with serious riots. The Irish local government will not be pressed in Parliament until after Easter. Disastrous storms, with heavy rains and overflowing rivers, are reprted in Hrvnin . "': . - r-f- - - Petroleum has been struck f 700 barrel a day) in India by the Assam Railway Company. ' ,:.:v,v ; The negotiations at Zurich for a com- ' mercia) treaty between Italy and Switz erland have been broken off. - The Cardinals are said to have voted in favor of electing an Italian in the event of the death of Pope Leo. They are. growing nneasy in England over the neglect of good citizens to take an active part in municipal 11 le. -, . Eneland is building two war vessels of 9,000 tons. Spain has ordered three ar moreu cruieera ui h,va iajub uioi'iaw Uient. ' ' ' A cable dispatch to the Guatemalan legation at Paris says that the revolt led by Enriqaez is suppressed and Enrique 1 is dead. ... The telephone line between London ' and Paris has worked so well that an other will be laid between London and Brussels. Rumors are current in London ami Liverpool of impending difficulties in the corn and cotton trades, owing to a serious decline of prices. . Daily orders in Russia prohibiting the transportation of grain from one district to another alarm merchants, who fear confiscation of their stocks. " Joachim Lleell, son of the famous pv triot and historian, has been arrested at St. Petersburg on a secret chargt and sentenced to banishment to Siberia. At the end of the year the Telephone Company of Austria will cease to exist, the government assuming control of ail tne teiepnone lines 01 ine cinguoin. , In Vienna the labor question is assum-i ine a erave aspect. The winter has beeiv exceptionally severe, and thousands of . workmen are on the verge of starvation.! The Russian imperial prohibition upon the exportation of grain is about to be suspended in favor of the owners of 10,000,000 poods of oats now lying at the Baltic ports awaiting shipment. ' An Odessa correspondent savs that protest against the imposition of J1'4" tary service the German colony at Taah- ,, kend, Asiatic Russia, has decided to em- Igraie eu maeee iu mo umvcvk The action of the King of Portugal in voluntarily relinquishing 20 per cent, of his income from his civil list has already led to a demand in the Senate at Madrid that the Spanish King shall follow suit. Prof. Kippay, a well-known painter, and collector of Berlin, has been sen tenced to a month's imprisonment, at Constance for illegally appropriating cu rios belonging to the church of Altizur- nuu. " ' .: Holland has 4.5T0.0SO inhabitants, of whom the males and females are nearly ; equal in number. There are 2,600,000 Protestants, 1,700,000 Catholics and 97,--000 Jews. The rest have no settled re Hgion. - . ine Mavor 01 nariieur, rrauuB, strictly forbidden the wearing of decol lete dresses by the women of the com-, mune on the ground that such eostnmea are prejudicial to peace and social mo- , rality.'. ''" "-'.f ir-' ' 1 '- The British Chamber of Shipping has) adopted a resolution; in favor of Great Britain negotiating a convention with, ing" and desertion of British Bailors in -American ports. i Berlin is to have shortly a creamery, erected at the city's cost, in the Fried-, richsfeld cemetery, where bodies of the ... poor and unknown and of the subjects of anatomical investigation at clinics and hospitals will be reduced to aanea. The committee of the Prussian Diet has adopted the clause of the sectarian primary educational bill providing thatr children belonging to religious denomi nations recognized oy tne state enau oe instructed by teachers of their own de nomination. - ' An English financial writer, who has : been studying probate statistics, asserts , that among the 130 or 140 persons who in each of the past fonr years have left fortunes exceeding 100,000 each in per sonalty "there is hardly to be found one in each year whose wealth appears ta have been the result of speculative finan cial operations." ' - - " l "Mrs. Robert Montague, danghterin law of Lord Robert Montague, has been committed for trial at Coleraine, County Londonderry, Ireland, on a charge oi causing the death of her little daughter, Mary Helen Montague, 3 years of aget through the, severity of punishment. The child was left iii a dark room and tied up in such a manner that she was choked to death. . The project of making Brussels a real seaport is making progress. According to the official statements made in the, Provincial Council of Brabant the cost of widening the canal connept'n Bros eels with the sea will be 20,000,000 ranex i that of the harbor works to be executed at Brussels .12,001,0)0 francs, that of a dry dock 1,000,000 franci and iiuaHv the vaulting over of the river Sonnette 2.0U0, OOOfrancs. , Eugene Wolff, a newspaper correspond ent, whose reports to the 15 -rlln TYyu'.Vrfl on the disaster to the Zeleweki xiedt tion and other matters caused C- laneel lor Caprivl to Order his expulsion from German East Airio in Novml"r lat, has published an amplified attack noon Baron Soden'e administration f the Governorship of the East African p,i!'tiT, His stories of the roMwiet r,i... n.-'.-i. practiced on the natives hv t't- i i r , a have attracted int one aitent hy