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ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1802.
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OREGON
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J. R. BEEGLE, Publisher.
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aaonilt at 7:l . M. l Mauitilc Hall. Vl.llliui
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ttiK Haiar'Y.tm or befure each full moon at7:K0
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fourth HundayKHVlaa I.laoil ((ill'ttlian), 11
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M. IIUKI.INUAMK, I'aator.
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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