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About The Oregon mist. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 188?-1913 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 26, 1892)
E OREGON MIST. VOL. 9. ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 189?. NO.-35. THE OREGON MIST IMUEU EVEH Y I'HIOAV IHOHNIrlO .-BY-,.. THE MIST PUBLISHING COMPANY, J. R. BEEOLE, Manager. OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER. nub.erlpllou Hates. On. enpr " 1'' '" advance W J? on. "vy ("" v"" Nlniilt copy w J.u'i i. li . . I ii i in hi in ill ml III Advertising Hal... Frnf.nlouat canla on. year ''' '.I? One column one year , 1A Halt column una yeitr ' Ijunrlerenlunin on. year ...... .0 On. Inch on. inonlli , On. Inch three inimtli. Uii. Ini'h alx inimlha Lnoiil tKittco.. in I'enl. per llur for (Ir.t In'.r tloni lUcunln petllni) lur each nbiiiiiint In sertion. ..... i l,eiitl auertlmont, tl.M per Inch lor lint luaertl mil 74 cent, per Inch lor each .iiIj..- ciuunt I iieurllml. COLOMBIA COUNTY I) IK KCTOKY. County Olllr.ri, juiiiie.,. Dean Blaucharrt, Katnler Clrrk K. K. (Jules, H . Helen. Hneillf A. Maaale, Ml. liclei 'Ireaaur r,....'. U. M. Wharton, Columbia City Sunt. "I Hehonl. T. 1. ClecUin, Veruoul. Aaaeaaor W. II. Kyaer, Rainier Surveyor.,.., A. B. Utile, Ha uler Coimnlaal iner... !e. u. n mo mover, veruuma (I. W. Hafiiea, Mayser. 1 i lonely Hollo... Ma.okw, HI. Helen. Lode;., No. M-BegnUr coiiiiunnli'iitlonii llmt awl tlilnl Haturday In .Hi ll month al7:!N)r. . t Maaonlo hell. Vl.lt lint member. In good .landing Invited to at- l,MAaoi(ir.-ttaliiler I-nda... No. II Stated nmHIiiKH ifttlnnliiy on or hetoreoach. lull moon t::r. m. at Muaoiilii hall, over Hlaiicharrt'. lore. VlallliiK memliera In good lauding In vited to attend, ' The Mall. Down rlyar (Iki.I) clo.a at S:0 A, M. lip tlvur (lHiat)li.a at 4 r. M. The null fur Vernonla and rittahura '. St. Helena Monday, Wedneaduy and Krldayal SAM Tiie' mull lor Marnhlntnl. Cletakanlo and Ml.t leavoa (Jnlhii Monday, vt'odncwlay and rrlday "VlaUa (railway) north cloa. a' 10 a, M.j (or fori laud atx r. M, Trar.laia' Uuld. Klv.r Koal... Hta, W. Hil A visa- Uavea M. Helena for Portland al II A. M. Tunlay, Thnradavand Haturday. l.e.ivca HI. Helen, lor ( latakaul. Miuday, Wedueaday and rrlday at S;U0 A, M. Htkankr Ikai.ua lav. Ht. Helen, lor Port, laud 7: tb . M. ttlunitim at o:Hu r. H- Htkamrh Johki'M Kki.i.noii l.iiavea Ht. Helena for I'oiiliirtd dully except Simdiiy. at 7 A. K. ar rlvlnitat I'orlluint al IO.HIIi reluming, leave purilanv at I f. arrivliiK at Ml. Helens an. PROFESSIONAL. jit. ii. it. vuvr, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. St. Helena, Oregon. JU. J. K. HALL, ' . PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Clataknuie, Columbia county, Or. JjR. W. C. BELT, , PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Rainier, Oregon. ATTORN EY-AT-L AW, St. Uklbns, - - Oukqon. Deputy District Attorney for Columbia Co. T. A. MuIIhidi. A. 8. Dhkmkr, jyjeHlUDK A DKK88ER, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Oregon City, Oregon. I'rompt attention given liunl-olllce business. B. L1TTLK, SURVEYOR and CIVIL ENGINEER, 8t. Helena, Oregon. Ciiimty surveyor. Lund snrveyliifr, town platlliiK, and cn(jiucering work promptly done. ..... W. T. Bubnev. J. W, DlAPIII. JJtlRN'EY & DRAPER, ATTORNEYS-at-LAW, Oregon City, Orogon. Twelve venriT exjicrlcnre as Register of the United States Lmirl Oflloe here, recom mends ue In ous specialty of nil kinds of business belore tlie Litud Ome or the Courts and involving the Oonernl I.ainl Olllce. JJROCKENBROUtJH oi COWINO, ATTO RN E Y-at-L A W, Oregon City, Oregon. ' (Laic Bpcciiil nent of General bind office. 1 IInniete:id, rre-emption, and Timber Land applications, mid other Lnml Oltlce business a specialty. Otllce, siiiond floor, Lund 0 lik e Uuildii.it. A. H. BLAKESLY, -Proprietor of- Oriental : Hotel. ST. HELKN8, OREGON. The house has been fully refurnished thioiighiiut mid tiie best of aooom modutioiiB will be given. CHARGES REASONABLE. RTAOK run In connection with the hotel connecting with the North ern 1'acltic Knilroad at Milinn. Stage for Toooaua trains 10 p. m. For Portland, train at S p. m. 1ST. HELENS Prescriptions A Specialty. EDWIN KOSS, DliTJG Q-IST. - DEALER IN - PURE DRUGS, OPTICAL GOODS, MEDICINES, TOILET FANCY GOODS, ARTICLES, CHEMICALS, STATIONERY, CONFECTIONERY, NEW NOVELS, ETC. irasnBi PERFUMES And every thing usunlly found in a First-Class Drug Storo. . FhysiclH.ni' Prescriptions carefully compounded at any hour, day or night, by a competent and Experienced Druggist. .-. MUCKLE Manufacturers of LUMBER . -AND DKVI.KBS IB GENERAL MERCHANDISE. ST. HELENS, OR. Joseph Kellogg & n Joseph Kellogg and Northwest. FOR COWLITZ RIVER. NORTHWEST Leaves KELSO Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 5 am. Leaves day, and Saturday at 6 a. m. JOSEPH KELLOGG Leaves RAINIISR at 5 a. ra daily, Sunday excepted, arriving at Portland at 10:30 a. 'in Returning leaves Portland at 1 p. m., arriving at 6 p. m Don't Buy ANYWHERE BUT DRUG i -YOW WILL Freshest, Purest, and - at Clatskanie Drug Store.; DR J. E. HALL, Proprietor. CLATSKANIE LINE.- lLrri- zxzZZ, STEAMER G. W. SHAVER. J. W. SHAVER, Master. T.Aairoa "Pr.rt1n.nrl n f. Airier Sf, Honlf Montlftv. Wt dnpsilav. Friday for Clatskanie, touching at Sauvies Island, St. IIelens,Columbia C.'itv ITalnmii. Kopr flitv. Rn.in i Cedar Landinsr. Mt Coffin. Bradbury, Ste'lla, Oak Point, a id all intermediate points, re turning Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. OA Ti.l Murk. wlih Hliuvllw. hv Prior ol Queen Vi Antl-Hulrln.il. perboltlo. aent In aeiumi 1 1. mii ooaervaiion ponaeni. ntnetly eon eoiititln.. We In vile . nd lo-dav. Addreaa l. nena money or aninipa oy imerwim n " ' T. , 1, it ndentlal. Thla advertlNcment la noneai ira siniiKiu iin ... " on to d.al with n and you will llnd everylhliic aarijricaeiitcilfiitthlai.nl an;; OUFM CHEMICAL CO.. 174 Rnce Street, CINOIHHH1 l. . ' -To ladles whe Uiwodae. and aell amoea thlr rrlenna so W'i j rJ we will preacint with a BILK DRKKB. Jf yarda bast aim Burn Laryo Boilla aiid aalw DRUG STORE. Orders from tbo Country filled by Return Mail, .! BROS., ( Co.'s River Steamers, 'PC ' ' A' . .alibi Jgek PORTLAND Tuesday, Thurs- Your Drugs AT A REGULAR STORE. FIND THE- Best of Everything the - NEW DISCOVERY OCID&fiT In compounainE it solution a purl wiui acctUently ppllled on the hand anil on Wttshlnir sltei-waril Uwus (Uncovered tlu.t lite linlr was cem plelelv remiiviio. We at once put llils wondei'liil prepiiratlon. ontho inurketaiHl suRreiu litis been tlui demand thut i o are now Introduclne; 11 tlirougliotU tiic world under the nnmeof ttu en'a Anll-iiairJlie. IT IS PERFECTLY HARMLESS AND SO SIMPLE ANT ClliLEICANUSEIT, T.a the hair over and apply the mixture lorn few nilnutis. and tho tair Vllwippearaasll by muilowllliont the situ In sal pain or Injury when amillcdorever nflerward. It Is unlike a nyollici' preparation everuaecl iv i, into niirnnse. Tliiiiisniiila ol I.A 11 1 1 S w ho hove been annoyed with hnlr on tlielr F. OH. XECK nod Alt MM attest Its wcrlM. KNTI.KMION who dnnot apprrclnlea bcni lor hulr on their nerk, And a nrlceU'n. boon In Ulleen'a Alll l-Ililll Ine wblrh doca .way renderlne ita future rrowlh an lim r impoaaihliilj . safety mailln. boxea poatnrJ yM by ".(seoirei t -... I.u u..r.. .1.11... ft- 11 n-ill UIV Hi IIO lr .117 PACIFIC COAST. Discovery of an Immense Glacial Field. EXTENSIVE FIELDS OF COAL. The Surplus of Wheat In Oregon and Washington Califor nia Hop Crop. Bodle is rebuilding. Astoria baa suppressed gambling. Umatilla. Or., claims to have an In dian 130 yeara old. Electricity will soon ran all the street rail waj a in Han Diego. Work on Portland's magnificent vas- aenger depot baa been reaumed. Extensive coal field have inat been discovered near Klamath Falls, Or. The California bop crop promisea to be of s first-clam quality. Picking ia about to commence. Ail pursuera of the Collia train rob bera, the Sheriff and posse and the Ari zona trailers have abandoned the aearcb. The surplus of wheat in Oregon and Washington will be about the same as last season, bnt the quality ia superior. A party of Pima Indiana went into a Fhamiz (A. T.) store recently and par- chased ten parlor chairs and two bjxes of stove polish. A. L. Taylor, who dried his own apri cots this season, got f 450 from 148 trees on one and a half acres in the south part oi romona, i;ai. Thomas O'Brien, President of the Miners' Union in the Oveur d'Alenes, has been sentenced to six months in the Shoshone county jail. Threats to kill Graham sympathizers are made at Phoenix, A. X., by the friends, it is supposed, of Tewkshary, who is charged with assaulting Graham. An immense glacial field, covering nearly as great an area as that of the Aipi. bnt not so thick, has been discov ered thirty-five miles southwest of Shoap, Idaho. A yoiinn man named Cooper robbed the Superintendent of the Idaho Sam pling Mill Company at Haiipy, Idaho, of $4,IH)0 in county bonds, and left town with the securities. A fellow demanded a pass from the Southern Pacific at Los Angeles, and on refusal be acted eo strangely the police were called on to remove t'im, bnt the fe low fotiiht 1'ke a maniac and was se cured with difficulty. The Bradstreet mercantile agency re ports fourteen failures in the Pacifio Coast States and Territories for the past week, as compared with fourteen for the previous week and twenty-three for the corresponding week of 1891. Complaints have been made at San Diego before thi Superior Court against the Ferris Irrigation Comnany of the al leged incompetency of the directors and citations have been issued for them to show why they should not be removed. M. J. Williamson attempted to crosa the desert, a distance of forty-five miles, with only a bottle of water. He was subsequently found lying in the sand, in a dying condition, twenty-five miles north of Phoenix, A. T-. He waa taken to Phoenix, and will recover. A scheme to pool the lumber trade of the Coast from Alaska to Southern Cali fornia under one head bas been origi nated in San Francisco, says a Tacoma dispatch. The plan of the proposed trust has been sent to the Coast mill owners, and the development of the scheme for the past two months has been carefully kept from the public. It is rumored In Salem that hop buy ers in the vicinity of Lincoln were offer ing to contract a prime quality of hops at 36 cents. It is known positively that 25 cents has been offered near Salem for several daya, but the 35-cent rumor ia an astonisher. Bayers concede that the crop in England will be much shorter than had been expected, and only a small yield was counted on. Shortages are also being reported from California, where picking ia already in progress. A very large deposit of kaolin has been found in the near vicinity of The Dalles on the Oregon side of the Columbia. This alkaline earth, when heated with pare sand and potash or soda, forms common glass. As sand of the purest quality is abundant in this vicinity, and ine constituent aixaune carina are also found in abundance, there is no reason, says The Dalles TimerKiunlaineer, with the amount of capital lying dormant in The Dalles, that a glass factory should not be inaugurated immediately. Arrangements are quietly progressing which are likely to result in carrying out the proposed scheme of building a motor line to Waterloo from Albany. Several capitalists of Portland, as well as Al bany, are willing to take stock in the project, and have been looking after the matter during the past few days. It is proposed to run an electric motor line via Lebanon and Sodavillo to Waterloo, and from the fails there to trarsmit power for electrio lights and motive power for the street-car system of Al bany. Settlers who have filed homestead claims and desire to make proof and pay for the land must prove at least fourteen montns' actual residence since the date of the entry to entitle them to commute and pay cash for the land. The time they have lived on the land before filing will not be allowed when they seek to commute. It will be allowed where they continue residence and make five yetrs' residence on their homesteads. This statement is made on the authority of Captain J. T. Apperson, Register of the Oregon City land' office. A report comes from Turner and other places in the Willamette Valley to the effect that ahovers of the queer are work ing in that neighborhood. In some places they are uing the old dodge by chang ing a two-dollar to a ten by pasting the figure ten from a cigar stamp on a two dollar bill. And in places they are pass ing counterfeit silver dollars. The coun terfeit dollar is easily detected by the sleek feeling, and is lighter in weight than the genuine half-dollar, but the two-dollar bill is hard to detect, unless one ia observing when receiving it. EDUCATIONAL. The Revenues of Oxford and Cambridge Represent an Immense Amount of Money Etc. The University of Leipsic ia worth nearly $20,000,000. There are thirty-one colored schools in Iberville parish, La., and only twenty wnite. The English Privy Council has decided that Manitoba need not maintain sep arate schools for Roman Catholics. For two years in succession a girl stu dent has carried off the Sargent prize for a metrical translation of an ode of Hor ace, open to all the students of Harvard College. There la not at the preaent moment in the whole length and breadth of the Ger man fatherland a university which ad mits women as a matter of right to its lectures. . Queen Mary's College is the only col lege for women in Scotland that fits them for university degrees. It was founded about fllteen years ago, and bas 200 stu dents in art, science and medicine. England with ninety-four universities has 2,723 more professors and 51,814 more students than the 360 universities in the United States. The revenues of Oxford and Cambridge represent a capi tal of about $75,000,000. The only dental departments that ad mit women to the study of dentistry are those of Ann Arbor and Pennsylvania College. The first woman dentist, Mme. Hirschfeldt, who afterward became dent ist to the family of Emperor William, graduated from the Pennsylvania school. "Thomas Walton of Philadelphia says there should be a law forbidding a teacher to teach after reaching the age of 50." "William Gender of Milwaukee recommends a change in the rales which will insure a permanent tenure of office to competent teachers." Let the other cities speak. " In the multitude of coun selors there is safety." The gospel of St. Mark, printed on raised letters at Philadelphia in Novem ber, 1833, was the stepping stone to the education of the blind. It was printed in the old French type invented by Hany, but now Roman letters (without capitals, to save space) are used, and the Bible is printed in eisht volumes, each a little larger than Webster's unabridged dic tionary. The new catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania shows 1,764 students, or twenty le" than Yale, while the Uni versity ot Michigan bas Z,b3, or just twenty less than Harvard. In the num ber of teacher i Harvard now comes first with 263, the Univeraity of Pennsylvania second with Z37, Uoiumma third with 220, Yale fourth with 153 and Michigan fifth with 145. The three characteristic instrumental ties of modern civilization are the rail road, the newspaper and the common school. The common school means the acquisition on the part of each boy and girl, whether rich or poor, of the neces sary knowledge required to read the newspa.ier and make use of the railroad to exchange the products of their own industry for a share in the products of the world's industries. The consequence of the use of machinery and the steam engine is the trans'er of population from the country to the city and the substi tution of educated directive power over machines in place of mere hand labor. Hence everywhere education is in the ascendant. After the Franco-Prussian war Austria increased its school attend ance until it has now 13 per cent, of its population in school. France hes in creased its school attendance to 15 per cent, of iU population, where it had only 9 per cent, before the battle of Se dan. About the same time England re modeled her owe system, and following the example of France in 1881, England in 1889 has made her schools free to all her pupils. Italy and Spain have devel oped their schools until 10 per cent, of their respective populations are in the schools. PERSONAL MENTION. A Novelist Takes Andrew Carnegie as the Model for the Hero In a Novel That He is Preparing. John Blackatone sold the silo of the city of Boston for $150 in 1635. The Empress of Austria when in her younger days waa considered the best horsewoman in the world. She still keeps up her old love for riding. Mrs. Guild, an American sculpt. .:s, has recently completed a bust of Mr. Gladstone, which is highly commended , by the critics as a portrait and a work oi art. Harriet Beecher 8towe is not yet en , tirely forgiven in the South for her "Un cle Tom's Cabin" according to a visitor in St. Louis interviewed by the Globe Democrat. I William Black, the novelist, ia taking I Andrew Carnegie sa the model - for the hero in a novel he ia preparing. The novelist was with Carnegie in his coach ing tour through the Highlands. I Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood has b?en lect ' uring on the question, ' Is Marriage a Failure ?" Belva says it isn't ; but what the great pub io yearns to know is whether there is any Mr. Lockwood and . what he thinks about it. . I M. Zola bas been so much struck by the scenes and incidents he witnessed at Lonrdes that he has mapped out the out lines of a book on the subject. Despite ' the themes it is not likely to be an en grossingly religious work. Newman Manning, formerly a Catholic and a nephew of Cardinal Manning, w-ts baptized and became a member of the Chestnut-street Baptist Church of Lnu- i isville, Ky., recently. It was the desire of his uncle that he Bhould become a priest. Count de Lesseps, notwithstanding the calamity his Panama canal project brought upon him, looks marvelously I young for his years (he will be 87 in No vember), and he enjoys excellent health. He is living modestly in Paris with his (second) wife and their young children. I The 'mother of the Shah of Persia, Sul j taneh Wolideh, according to foreign pa pers died In Teheran a short time ago. She was the widow r f the Shah Mohara i med, whom she survived more than forty yeari. The Princess occupied a palace : of her own in the Persian capital, where each Friday sh waa accustomed to re ceive her son. The monarch never failed at these visits to bring his mother either , a basket of fruit or a basket of flowers from his private garden, FOREIGN LANDS. Extensive Frauds Upon a . Custom-House. THE CHOLERA IN RUSSIA. Europe Suffering Just Now From a Glut of International Expositions. Cholera returns in Russia show a large increase in new cases. The backbone of the revolution in Honduras bas been broken. Paria alone consumes more wine an nually than all the United States. Kioto, or Mioko, Japan, is making ready to celebrate its 1100th birthday. The Czar's throne is said to be worth four times as much as Queen Victoria's. The Afghan news has caused a steady decline in government securities at Lon don. French Republicans have gained 195 seats in the elections to Departmental Councils. Baron Rothschild of Paris is said to be mad. and his insanity finds relief in breaking statues. A French company ia building an American street-car line in a Turkish town ruled by Russia. Symptoms of the phylloxera have ap peared in vines on the Rille, the Rhone and at Hautvillers, France. Locusts have invaded the province of Buenos Ayrea in the Argentine, and are doing great damage to crops. Mrs. Langtry'a ambition to be tall has made her appear in extraordinarily high hats and French-heeled shoes. The Congo State fnwaj at Benakamba have been annibi'a 1 and Commander Hodister tortured and beheaded. England's imports for July, compared with a year ago, increased $335,00U, and her exports decreased $1,240,000. In Paris the newspapers are discussing the anestion. Will France be reduced to the necessity of importing babies 7 I Hombarg's season is now at its height, ' with hundreds of royal and noble peo : pie to be seen in the pa-sing show. I There are some who advance the opin , ion, based upon bis recent utterances, that Bismarck bas become demented. The uprising of the Arabs in Congo State is said to be in obedience to a proc lamation oi "holy war" from Mecca. Mr. and M'B. Stanley are busy explain ing to the newspaper-reading public why the tormer was defeated for Parliament. The census of India, just completed, shows that country to nave a population of 230,000,000, a gain of 11 per cent, over 1881. ' There are 150,000 Americans in Eu rope this summer, and it is estimated tnat they will spend $07,037,500 in sight seeinir. A Paisley poet has been fined 7s fid for creating a disturbance by reading his poetry to the inhabitants of an Ayrshire Tillage. Chancellor von Caprivi proposes to atop the growing of tobacco in Germany and to place a heavy tariff on imported tobacco. The Pope haa presented hia portrait to the Q ieen Regent of Spain, Monsignoo xsei ai iwing commissioned io convey it to her. Since 18S6 Great Brain has completed nineteen new armored warships, while ten others are in various stages of con struction. An outbreak of phylloxera ia reported in the Avize-Cramant district, the vine yards of which are among the finest in Champagne. , A choir of women wearing cassocks, surplices and mortar-board caps has been introduced at St. James' Church, Mar ylebone, England. Aid. Caldwells, the man who defeated Henry M. Stanley for Parliament recent ly, began life as a gardener's boy, and subsequently worked as a tailor. In underground London there 'are ! 3,000 miles of sewers, 34,000 miles of tel- egrapn wires, s,zuu miles oi gas pipes and 4,500 miles of water mains. Owing to a failure of harvest, Samara, one of the most fertile provinces of Rus sia, has applied for a loan of 20,000 ru bies, with which to procure seed. Europe is suffering just now from a glut of international expositions. Affairs of this sort are in progress in Stockholm, Munich, Schevingen, Vienna and Genoa. The Emperor William will visit King Oscar of Sweden in September. The monarens will meet at Uothenbarg and BIBll UUUI IUC1D v - uuuwug upiui- tion. .' , . The convention of German horse butch ers have agreed to open a first-class res taurant at B-rlin for the purpose of ed ucating the upper classes to use horse flesh as food. , ( The Shah of Persia has left Teheran for hia annual sojourn at his summer palace, accompanied by a retinae of 800 wives ana regiments oi tniantry, cavalry and artillery. Extensive frauds noon the Cutom houe of Barranquilla, capital of the Colombian province of the same name, have been di 'covered, The total amount ia placed at $186,000. A Frenchman has invented an envel ope which exposes part of the letter to the stamp that makes the postmark. Thus the inclosure will bear official proof of the date on which it was posted. One of the most important undertak ings recently sanctioned by the Munici pal Council of Paris is the construction of an underground electrio tramway from the Bois de Boulogne to the Bois de Vincennes. The Queen Regent of Holland has re fused to remit the sentence o! three months' imprisonment imposed on Cap tain Bakker of the Netherlands-American line steamer Obdam for cruelty to a stoker on board ot that vessel. Berlin has spent about $14,000,000 in sewage works and $5,668,719 in sewage farms, on which about 860,000,000 tons of sewage has so far been deposited. Eighteen thousand acres of land near Berlin have been bought for sewage larma. NATIONAL CAPITAL. Supervising Architect Edbrooke Says the New Eight-Hour Law Increases Cost of Construction. The Land Department haa notified Representative Hermann that it hopes to be able to allow Oregon $35,000 for surveys of public lands, and that direo tiena have been sent to the Surveyor- ' General of Oregon to complete inspec tion of all surveys not yet inspected. Funds are now provided for that pur pose. Supervising Architect Edbrooke says regarding the new eight-hour law that it will increase the cost of construction 12 per cent. The government spends about $25,000,000 annually on public buildings, ana the additional expenditure under the new law will be $3,000,000. He saya tha law may also make a serious differ ence in the character of the public build ings to be erected in Washington, Omaha, St. Paul, Milwaukee and San Francisco. Treasury officials, while apparently unconcerned over the recent gold ship ments, are generally observing unusual reticence in the matter. Acting Treas urer Whelpley takes a very philosophical view of the situation, and says he aeea no occasion for any excitement because the Assistant Treasurer at Mew York recent ly paid oat $1,000,000 in gold for export in exchange for treasury notes. He saya that there ia nothing unusual in the transaction beyond the fact that gold shipments seem to have continued a lit tle later this year than heretofore. It waa due, he thought, to very heavy im ports of late, paymenta for which must be made in gold. Gold exports in hia opinion are practically at an end for this season, and the usual reaction in favor of the United States will soon aet in.. Representative Hermann was in con sultation with the acting Secretary o( War. General Grant, the other day, seek ing to expedite department action as to the contracting of work at the Cascade locks and the canal on the Columbia. General Grant assured Mr. Hermann that the department itself is doing all that is possible and allowing no unnec eseary time to elapse, and that Major Hand bury, being the officer in charge, has been directed to submit specifica tions upon the contract, which ia to be let. So many advantages are taken by contractors in every way that the chief of engineers ia determined that when the contract ia entered into for this great work, as Congress haa directed, it must be understood that no leniency will be shown, and that every particle of work must be completed in the exact time and order specified in the contract, and the contract shall be so carefully pre pared that no advantage shall be had by legal quibbles. The Potomac river, which is the only . waterway approach to the national capi tal, after being practically unguarded for many years is at laat to be supplied with modern defenses. The project contem plates empalements for four twelve-inch modern guns on lifts, six ten-inch and three eight-inch guns on a disappearing carriage, eight twelve-inch mortars and extensive submarine mines operated from two mining casements. The tor pedo arrangement will be one of the most complete and destructive in the world. Immediately in front of the fort the Potomac curves gracefully in the shape of a half moon, and the guna posted in the land batteries can deliver a broadside as well as a " bow-on " fire upon an advancing boat before the tor pedo mines are reached. Plans have also been perfected for effectually ob structing the river at this point should such a step be necessary. The sum of $117,100 from ths general appropriation of February 21, 1891, is now being ex pended on this work, and abould that amount not prove sufficient, an allot ment will be made from the appropria tion passed at the session recently end ed. Two hundred additional acres of ground at Sheridan's Point on the Poto mac, contiguous to Fort Washington, have also been acquired by the govern ment so that there may be no lack ol room for the plant. WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. A California Young Lady Will Set Up and Operate a Miniature Black smith's Forge. The government of Mexico will ex hibit at the World's Fair a large and valuable collection of Aztec relics. Director-General Davis of the World's Fair estimates that Congress has con tributed nearly $4,000,000 to the exposi tion. . . The colored women of Minnesota have offered to assist in the decoration of the State's building at the World's Fair, and the offer has been accepted. . A model of the figure of Lot's wife in . salt will appear in the Kansas World's Fair exhibit to represent or illustrate the salt industry of that State. The German exhibit at the World's Fair will contain an. architectural dis play, including drawings illustrating 200 . or morn of the most notable buildings' in the Empire. . Handsnmnlv framed, larva nhnto- graphic views of the prominent feat n res of the numerous seaside resorts of New Jersey will be shown in the exhibit of that 8tate at the World's Fair. The women of New York State will furnish and decorate the library room in the woman's building at the World'a Fair. Plans are perfected to make the furnishings very elaborate and tasteful. The room will contain as complete a col- fAnt.tnn aa la rmaiaihla tA ffetViAe nf wnrk-a written by women. - The California State World'a Fair Board has given permission to Miss Ray Bitveridge of San Francisco to setup and operate a miniature blacksmith's forge in the California building. Miss Bever idge is a niece of ex-Governor John L. Beveridge of Illinois, and is said to be an expert of the anvil. Thomas Cook & Son of London, the well-known tourists' agents, have noti fied the transportation department of the World's Fair that they intend to make an exhibit of means of transpor tation, including the following : Nor wegian carriole, Norwegian sleigh, Lap land dog sleigh, Irish car, Neapolitan cart, Turkish calqne, Palestine encamp ment, camel saddle and harness, ele phant with howdah, Bombay bullock cart, .catamaran, Chinese palanquin, Japanese jinrikaha, antique English se dan chairs, old English traveling char iot, models of dahabeahs and Nile steam ers, models of boats and also to show models of various Egyptian temples. of ua le ealxa from aeai wun onur. Oood Sl4vry or OoinauMioa to Agent-