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GON nn VOL 9. ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1892. NO. 39. r ORE MIS THE OREGON MIST IIVtJEU EVKUV I'HIOAV IMOHMlNta -St- ' THE MIST PUBLISHING COMPANT, J. R. BEKOLE, Manager. OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPHK "ubscrlpllon Ham. One copy one year In nlmnc, II M Out unity tlx mouth. 76 Ulngla ooujr Advertising Itatea. Profeaalonal cardi on, rear I 13 Oiie I'olumn on year 1M Hall column una year 76 Ouarlar column one year 4' One Inch una muutli ! One Inch three imtnth. M ' Una Inch .U months I l.iM'ul notice., Invent! per line for llr.t lu-er tlon; lu uaut par line lor each aubeiiient lit aatrllmi. Lexnl ailvartlH.iiieiitt, II.M ier lui'h Fur II rat Inanriliiii, aim 70 eeuta rar inon iur eavn unae quant lu.tirtluii. COLUMBIA COUNTY DIUKCTOKY. Caunly Olfl!fir. Jmlite.. Di'au Illamihard, Italuler Clara K. K. ynick, -. m-iona Hnarlir . A. M !., rtl. II f lei,. 1r.-a.iir r K. M. Wliartou, Columbia City Hu,. of schools T. J. Cleetou, Vanmiiia Auwxor , W. II. Kyaur, Kalliler Burvoyor A. H. I.UIIo, Ha uler .,, ,., ,. jrt. a. Hiiho mover, Variioula "- U. w. Haruaa, Mayner. Nocieir Nellees. MiaoKtr. Bt. Holent Uxlgs, No. 11 Regular eomiuiiiiiratlona Itrat ami tlilril Saturday In aaclinioiilh alTiHOr. M. at Maaonle hall, Visit- I nil member. In good alaudliii) luvltad to at. titiiil. t M lai.mi? -Hulitiar I.odre. No. 21 Mtated nie.tln. riatunlay on or before earn full moon at l:m I. at. at Miuomc nan, over uiaucnani . alnre. Vl.ltlug member. Ill good ataudlng In vltud to atund, The MaUle. flown river (boat) rloae. at ?S0 a. M. t'l, river llioalUflilHe. at 4 P. M. The uall for Vemonla and I'lttntmrir l.avai Hi. Helena llbiiday, Wetliieatlay and rrlday at I A. M. The mall Inr Marahland. Clat.kanle and Mlat leave. Cjulnn Monday, nauueaoay ana rnaay M.ihi (railway) north oloae a' 10 a. at.; Iur I'urll.ud at I r.N. Travelers Ui.Ua Hirer Heaitaa, Htii0. W. iuva-l-eavea . Helen, lor Portland at 11 a. at. Tueaday, Tburailav and H.tunlay. Uavua Ml. Helena for ilatakanle atoniiay, weuiiewiay ami rnuay at o.w a, m. HrKAMRtt Iiiliii-leaves Bt. Helen, for Port land 7:a6 a. M. returning at t:m r. n. HrHa JoaarU Kiu.mia Leave. t. Helen, for Portland dully ament Holiday, at 7 a. at., ar rlvlngat I'ortlaud at ID. HO; returning, leave ruruanr at I r. .. arriving at oi. neieua PROFESSIONAL. JJK. II. B. CUKK, VUYSICIAN and SURGEON. 8t. Helena, Oregon, J-JB. . K. HALL, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Clatakiiuie, CmIiiiiiIiIii comity, Or. JK. W. C. BELT, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Kainlar, Oregon. yy j. hick, ATTORNEY-AT-L AW, 8r. Helens, ... Okkiion. Deputy District Atlorney for CuluniUa Co. T. A. McUuids. . A. 8. 1)n", JJCllHiDK 4 DKKHSER, ATTORNEYS-at-LAW. Oregon City, Oregon, Prompt Htlention given land-office business. Y H. LI'ITLK, SURVEYOR and CIVIL ENGINEER, Bt. Helens, Oregon. . Comity surveyor. Lund surveying, town platting, and engineering work promptly done. W.T.BURNM. J. W. OlAPKK. J JfJHNKY A DRAPER, ATTORNEYS-at-LAW, Oregon City, Oregon. Twelve years' exprrienra as Register of the United States Land Office liere, reoom inends us In oils specialty of nil kinds of business before the Laud OlhVe or the Courts and involving the Oonerul Land OIHce. jJROUKENBROUHH M tiOWINU, ATTORNEY-at-L AW, Oregon City, Oregon. ( Late specie! agent of General Itind office. ) llonnntesd, Pre-emption, and Timber Land applications, and other Land Office business a specialty. Office, second floor, Land Office Bulletin:. AsH. BLAKESLY, I'n'ljrietor of Oriental ST. HELKN8, OREGON The house hns been fully refurnlsbeu throughout itnd the heat of accom modations will be glren. CHARGES REASONABLE. STAGE run In connection with the hotel connecting with the North. ' em Paoliic Kallroad at Milton. - Stage f or Taoomt traina 10 p. m. For Portland train at S p. m. :x!4otel. V V PACIFIC COAST. Daring and Suc;es;fu! Train Robbery in Ori'gDn. SHAUPL'llS AT LOi ANGHLES. Three Cliin.'so Arrivals on the Steam h p Plira Nang to be Deported. The Oregon hop ylelj la bout half a crop. Hacramento police are raiding the gamblers. Carson ii being terrorized by burglars and footpads. Bt. Helena baa commenced work on a system of leverage. Humboldt's County Hospital at Eu reka ii now lighted with gag. Extensive forevt Bret are reported near Grant's Paia, Or., in the mountains. 8a t Lake la exhibiting a MV) gold DUgget from the mines at Osceola, Nev. The Pad He Coast Fire Chiefs' Associa tion will meet in Ban Francisco next More than one-third of the freshman class of the Stanford University are from toe r.asi. A trunk with 100 pounds of opium has been seised on the Citr of Kinnston at Tacotna. The wrecked whaleback Wetruore on North Sr-lt. near Marahfield. Or., shows no signs of breaking up. Charles Q. Price, convicted at Butte. Mont., of murder, took poison while in jail, two hours after the verdict of guilty, ant. died. James D. Lacy, who killed Indian Pete at Maytleld last May, has been ac quitted at Ban Jose. The Indian as saulted Lacy'j mother, and Lacy shot him. The non-union mi ters in thu Cour d'Alenes, who were injured in the tate outbreak in Idaho, are to sue the com- Jianiea by which they were employed or damages. The quail in Arizona have entirely de stroyed nine acres of beans for William Fair near Yuma. The birds anrear bv thousand", and eat the plants entirely ou me groum.. The Row burg and Con Bay railroad is to be completed to Ccfluille City this (all. The roadbed is now graded to that point, anil rails are laid to within ten miles of that place. A new 6.000.000-aallon Damn at the Sa'em (Or.) wator works blew up with a terrific craxh the other day while run ning at lull speed. Hie lionae was li wled before the water could be abut off. The north section of the Gold Hill (Nev.) public school building as de stroyed by fire Sunday night. Loss, 1 20,000 s insured for 3.500. The tire is euppjsed to have been of incendiary Origin. The Controller of the Currency has declared a second dividend of 10 per cent, in favor of the creditors of the California National Bank of San Diego, making in all 20 per cent, on claima proved, amounting to $718,338. The Reno Gaiette sava: All signs point to a hard winter. Pinenats are more plentiful than for some years past; chipmunks are storing nuts in great quantities and yellow-jackets are thicker than Hies in some parts ol the country. The lurv in the McWhlrter case at Fresno has brought in a verdict that de ceased came to his death from gunshot wounds "inflicted by some person or persons unknown to us." The testi mony did not favor the aniclde theory. A Sacramento girl. Miss Emily A. Campbell, is to wed Mohammed, the King ol rrampd" at Oguen. and mncn to do is to be made over the event. Mo hammed's marriaize belmr one of the conditions on which he is to win his wheelbarrow agreement. Cantain Worth of the Al;ce Blanch- ard, just arrived at Port Townsend from Alaska, reports wonderful strikes tngoia mining up the Yukon. Miners are earn Ing from $8 to $18 a day. Over 3)0 whites winter in that country, thing never before known in that region. Sharpers at Los Anneles manage to sell worthless potatoes to housekeepers by representing that the ladies' hus bands purchased the vegetables and or dered them sent home, where the ven ders would be paid. As the sacks -are not examined until the rascals are away, the fraud la not discovered until too late. The United 81 a tea Fish Commission er's car No. 2 has arrived at Pendleton, Ur. it contains tn the twenty transpor tation tanks aomo 2,600 black boss of lair size obtained at Uuincv. 111., from the overflow of the Mississippi. About 200 base were put off at Boise, and roost of the remainder will be placed in Lib erty, Loon and iwer images, Washington. A lew will be it Derated in ponds near Dayton, Reporta from Waahougala. Wash.. state that the fires still rage fiercely in the timber belt north of near frame. Two women, one with children, have mode their way to Wasb.ou.iala and tell of the terrible danger to settlers on tim ber claims. They had to leave their homes and take the quickest way out. Numerous cabins are scattered all through the timber for twenty milea back, and it ia not known how many settlera are on their places. Mount rieasant is ail on ore, and all the people In and around that neighborhood are fighting to save the r homes. A daring and successful train robbery occurred on the west-bound Union Pa cific train recently. Just altrr the train left Naasta. a station on the Short Line twenty-five miles west of Caldwell, Idaho, a man in one of the coaches ap proached two of the pasaengere and asked change for )5. The unsuspecting Jtaasengers orew lortn their pocketbooka or the money when two confederates of the man wanting change appeared and narcnea me pocvetooots from their owners' bauds. .The coach was im mediately in an uproar, but the robbers coolly drew aixshooters and pointed them at the excited passengers, order ing them to sit down and remain quiet The robbers dropped off before the train reached Ontario, WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. More Than 10,000 Men at Work Getting the Buildings and Grounds Ready for the Exposition. Miss Elizabeth Nev of Hempstead. Tex., a descendant of Marshal Ney of Prance, will ex-cute in marble the statues of a number of Texas heroes for exhibition at the World's Fair. The United States ship Constitution Is about to start for Italy to collect works of art tor the World's Fair. These art treasures will remain in constant cus tody of the government, and will be re turned after the fair in the same man ner as brought. New York State proposes to exhibit at the'Wor.d's Fair complete data, in cluding photographs, oi all the monu ments which have been erected to sol diers of that State who served in the war of the Revolution, the war of 1812 or the war of 1881. Arrangements have been completed whereby excursion tralna to the World's Fair, by whatever road they may arrive in Chicago, will run within the exposi tion grounds and discharge their passen gers there. No transfer of passengers at any point will be necessary. More than 10,000 men are now at work in getting the buildings and grounds ready for the great exposition of 18U3. On a number of the structures work pro ceeds day and night. Wonderful prog ress is being made, and it is assured that all will be completed in time for the opening. The pupils of the High School of Sa lem, Mass., are preparing an interesting memorial of that ancient town for the World's Fair. The amateur photogra phers of the school are engaged in the preparation of a series of views of the many points of historic interest in which the town abounds. These are to be fin ished by the pupils themselvea, and are to form the Illustrations of handsome album. The descriptive letter-press of the book, also the work of the pupila, ia to be neatly written on a typewriter, so that the whole volume will be literally the handiwork of the children of Salem. Members of the North American Turn er Bund are making elaborate pre para tions for their exhibit at the World's Fair. They will occupy 4,500 square feet in the liberal-arts budding and 112,600 square feet for outdoor drill, in which probamy o.uuv auuita anu several thou sand children will participate. In the covered space the Turners will have model clnsses taught gymnastics in ac cordance with their system now in vogue in their societies and the Chicago public schools. The exhibition represented by their commission includes 350 societies, with a membership of 50,000, of whom 5,0VU reside In Uhluago. A very interesting exhibit in Ihe transportation department of the World's tair will be made hy the steamship and railway companies of England. The col lection of models of battle ships, yachts. cruis'rs, more steamers and merchant vessels will be complete than was ever before exhibited. The London and Northwestern railway will send o er a complete train of cars, headed by agreat compound locomotive named " Great Britain." lliis will afford an opportu nity to compare the English compart ment cars and sleepers with American coaches. The Ore it Western railway wll exhibit the antiq lated locomotive "Lird of ths Isles." one of the first used on the roi l. Several of the railways will show their signaling systems. NATIONAL CAPITAL. American Investors Protest Against the Recommendation of the Adoption of a Foreign Rifle. Consul-General Sutton has cabled the State Department that the time for the free importation ol corn baa been ex tended by the Mexican Government until November IS. In the case of James Shinn, involving a Porterfield scrip location upon Belling ham Bay, Wash., the Land Coinmis Bionor's judgment is modified. The Jirinclples involved are similar to those n the case of Addison A. Uosmer, lately deceased. A hearing is ordered to de termine the status of land applied for, after which the case will be adjudicated. American inventors are protesting bitterly against the action of the small arms board in recommending the adop tion of a foreign rifle for the use of the Federal and State troops. Since the announcement was made that the board bad reported in favor of the Krag Jorgenten rifle, the invention of Her man Johannes Krag, superintendent of the rifle factory of Norway, and Erick Jorgensen, battalion armorer of Norway, the War Department at Washington has been flooded with letters from dis appointed American inventors and their friends urging that the , board's recom mendation be not approved. Many of these inventors claim they did not have sufficient time to properly perfect their work, and beg that the board be recon vened for the purpose of considering improvements which they have made since their guns were tried, and which they claim promise better results than those obtained from the Krag-Jorgensen gun. There are good reasons for believing that the aealed instructions which were delivered to Admiral Walker on board the Chicago entrusted him with a mis sion more important perhaps than any that has been confided to an American naval officer in recent years. The pro tracted conference which President Har rison held with Acting Secretary of State Adee on his recent visit to Washington ; the long consultation between Secretary o the Navy Tracy and Mr. Adee efore Admiral Walker's orders were finally agreed upon; the carefully worded official statement given out that Admiral Walker "was directed to pursue a vigor ous course in dealing with the situation, especially in connection with foreign aggression;" all take new significance on the supposition, believed to be well founded, that Admiral Walker's mission to La Guayra with his squadron will be to proffer' the. friendly intervention of the United .States to the Venezuelan authorities, whoever they may be by the time he arrives out there, for the pur pose of preventing the final "absorption of Venezuelan territory by Great Brit ain, and, further, to secure the restora tion of the Uaivt quo as to such bcnida ries as existed prior to 1877, and to ob tair consent for submission to arbitra tion of the question of title to the terri tory in dispute. EASTERN ITEMS. River Coal Operators at Pitts burg Close Down. THE KRAG-JORGENSEN RIFLE A Kansas District Court Judge's Decision Creates Much Excitement Etc. The Eastern hay crop is short. There are five State tickets in tho field in Texas. The New Jersey State prison contain! 93o convicts. The season's domestic tobacco crop is reported exceptionally large. Connecticut's peach crop amounts this year to only (56,000 baskets. The Chicago Council has approved the act of the Mayor in closing Garfield race track. Kansas has 9,000 miles of railroad, and there is a wheat blockade at every station. The fire engine manufacturers of the United States and Canada have formed a trust. It is not unlikely that the G. A. R. Encampment of 18U3 will be held at Indianapolis. The United States is the richer by $2,003,000 in money orders never pre sented for payment. All the larger cities in Pennsylvania are being especially cleansed in antici pation of the cholera. Indiana is claimed to have but one surviving soldier of the war of 18)2. There are 262 widows. Lebanon. Mo., is infested with a band of burglars, who use their pistols with reckless ind ffrence. The Kansas wheat crop will amount to 70,000,000 bushel", or 6,000,000 mora than last year's crop. Four boodllng ex-Canadian bank or civil officers are aa'd to be living in oue block in Detroit, Mich. The Metropolitan Traction Company of N w Yo k has increased its capi tal stock to 3O,0JO,00j. Somebody in Rhode Island is said to be palming off bogus oleomargarine on the New England public. In 1880 the money added to prizes by the racing associations amounted to $18,000. Now it reaches $4,000,000. The new Croton dam to be built near New York, it is said, will be the largest in the world. Work will soon be begun. A much-needed rain the latter part of last week saved the Missouri corn crop and guaranteed the wheat acreage of next year. St. Louie tckes to the antique. That city ia organizing what ia claimed to be the first Italian regiment ever formed in thia country. Koland A. Hewitt, a. well-known bi cyclist t Atlantic City, N. J., and a clerk in the postofflce, is charged with robbing the mails. A meteor about twelve inches in diumeter fell and shattered a rock twelve times as' big near Livingston Manor, Sullivan county, N. Y. Uncle Sam's income ia increasing. The government's receipts in August were about $5,000,000 in excess of those of the same month in 1891, A resolution te assess the capital stock of the Pullman Car Company at $43, 688,750 was introduced in the Board of Equalisation at Springfield, DX Owing to the cholera scare, it is re ported that the city of New York has been made cleaner than at any time since the last visitation of cholera. In Louisiana they are talking of the degradation of the prize ring by allowing the admiesion therein of black pugilists on equal terms with white bruisers. There is a great demand lust now for olectric torchlights, which will be uaed by some campaign clubs aa a substitute ior the time-honored, bad-smelling oil lights. The builders of engines, dynamos and all equipments intended for steam and electricity have a vast amount of work on hand", probably more than at any loruier pvriuu. There seems to be an impression that cholera is incurable. This is a great mistake. Trie large majority of well- conditioned persons are usually saved by good treatment. James J. West has beu set free by Judge Tuthill of Chicago, and the pros ecutions for alleged acts committed while in possession of the Timet proper ty were quashed. , The Niagara Falls tunnel will prob ably be finished October 1, and the wheel-pit excavation shortly after. Power will begin to be furnished toward the end of March. An electric road for passengers, freight and general service between Fonda, Johnstown and Gloversville, N. Y is to be constructed at a cost of $500,000. It will be seventeen miles in length. Grasshoppers are doing damage to bath corn and cotton in West Tennessee. In some places cotton has beea stripped bare of its leaves, and it is often the case that bolls are cut off from the limb. The river coal operators at Pittsburg have served notices of a reduction on the miners and closed the mines until the new achednle is agreed to. Between 7,000 and 8,000 men are thrown out of work. The Boston Globe is authority for the statement that not one member of the United States Senate was born west of the Msa u-i river, and all but two out of thirty three were born east of the Missies ppl. . In Ohicaso a man has been brought before the United States Commissioner for selling soda-water drinks railed "pilgrims." His offenae was that he put about 10 per cent, of whisky in them without having a government license. A ruling by a District Court Judge at Wichita that County Clerks had no legal right to issue marriage licenses, the law giving the Probate Judore the riohr. hu created much excitement in that portion of Kansas, for daring the past few yean uuiuuera oi people nave oeen wedded under lioensea obtained from the County Clerk of a neighboring town when the Probate J udg was absent. EDUCATIONAL. The Results of the Midsummer Examina tions of the Royal University of Ireland Miss Brownell. India is starting technical schools. The oldest English public school is Winchester, founded in 1837. . Laundry work la now being taught in aome of the schools of England. The Q'teen of Italy is at the head of an industrial college for women, founded by herself. Providence is to bave a permanent ex hibition of Rhode Island industries and in connection a school of technology. The coming year at Harvard Univer sity a new dormitory, costing $159,000, is to be built for the accommodation of students. Miss Dora Miller, a teacher in New Orleans, has been offered $5,000 for the right In a black-board eraser she has patented. Among the additions to the faculty at Amherst College this year will be the filling of the chair of romance languages, which was endowed last year. Daily papers are now published by seven universities and colleges Har vard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Michigan, Cornell and the University of Wiscon sin. James Richard Cocke, who graduated from the Boston University school of medicine last June, is the first person totally blind from infancy to receive a degree as physician. There are 68,903 pupils registered in Boston this year, of whom 36,218 are boys and 32,745 girls. The average cost per pupil is $24.53, an increase of 7 cents over the cost last year. The most idiotic college yell is prob ably that of the senior class of the Kan sas State University. .It is: "Johnny take a bite, Susie took a chew. Rock chalk, iaw hawk, class of '9i."ilinne apolit Journal, Miss Brownell has been teaching Pima Indian children at Tucson, A. T. In our years her class increased from 4 to 165. This is her verdict : " It pays to teach them, as they do just as well aa white children." An English physician, who has made a study of bronchial diseases, says that women teachers are subject to a peculiar throat affection. He recommends that they be taught in training schools how to manage the voice. The cost of an education at Harvard ia estimated from $372 (low) to $1,000 (very liberal) a year; at Princeton it is from $311 to $645; at Cornell from $350 to $500. The Lawrence University puts the yearly expenses aa low aa $175. The resulta of the midsummer exami nations of the Royal University of Ire land have iuBt been announced. The successes of the women students far ex ceed the most sanguine expectations. No fewer than lii nave passed ineir matriculations. Mrs. John A. Lozan has undertaken to raise $1,000,000 from the women of i hi. Mnn try for the American Univer sity, the national institution founded by the Methodists at Washington. The university expects to secure $10,000,000 for buildings ana endowment. The following American colleges have been represented in the office of Presi dent of the United StateB: Princeton, Bowdoin, Williams, Dixon, Hampden, Sydney, Kenyon, University of North Carolina, West Point and Miami. Will- lam and Mary College has supplied two Presidents ; Harvard two. In the death of Rev. John Wilder Eton has lost one of its firmest frienda. Mr. Wilder was Vice Provost and Fel low of the school. He was appointed assistant master at Eton about 1824, and had been connected with the school for sixt) -eight years. Mr. Wilder was a munificent benefactor to the school. PERSONAL MENTION. Johi: Musgrove Purchases the Birthplace of Longfellow Emanuel Lasker, the Chess Player. W. W. Astor's daily income has been estimated at $23,000. V Bismarck weighs 210 pounds. Not so very much for a man of iron. Arthur McKee Rankin, the well-known actor, has been denied a divorce from his wife. Blackburn, Knott and Buckner, three eminent Kentuckiana, smoke the corn cob pipe. General Greely, the head of the signal corps, ridicules the idea oi signaling the people of Mars. Ex-President R. B. Hayes has pur chased a lot for a summer residence at Raponda, near Wilmington, Vt. Mrs. Ole Bull makes her home in Boa ton with her brother Joe, who married one of the poet Longfellow's daughters. Emanuel Lasker, the chess player, who recently defeated Mr. Blackburne, the Knglish champion, is only 24 years old. Senator Dawes of Massachusetts once had a chance to take stock in the Bell Telephone Company, which would have mode him a millionaire had he accepted. Parson Kneipp of Germany, the basis of whose medical system is water and going barefooted, has been called upon for advice and treatment by the Empress of Austria. " The senior prelate of the Anglican Church is Dr. Austin, Bishop of British Guiana, who celebrated the fiftieth an niveraary of his consecration last month and is in bis 92d year. The Empress of Austria lately ordered that 50,000 rose trees should be planted round the statue of Heine, to be erected on her property at Corfu on a rock over 2,000 feet above the level of the sea. Longfellow' birthplace in Portland, Me., has been bought ty John Musgrove, who is remodeling the house. Thia gives relic hunters a glorious chance, one of them recently carrying off a whnle mantle-piece in his arms. Stonewall Jackson's widow devotes all her energies now to the education of her motherless children, Julia and Jackson Christian. The reading of her huaband'a manuscript memoirs, recently prepared for publication, nearly ruined her eye sight. General Prim, who was Spanish Min ister of War for two years, held that of fice longer than any of his predecessora during the present century. There have been 194 Ministers of War In Spain dur ing the century, the average of service being six months, FOREIGN LANDS. Seriousness of the Situation in Hamburg. PRINCE OF WALES DESERTED The German Telegraph Service Adopts the Copper-Bronze Wires Cotton. Great distress prevails among Welsh tin plate workers. Egypt's cotton crop is 15 per cent higher than last year. American vines are proving successful in resisting the phylloxera in Germany. England has removed the restriction against the importation of American sheep. The German Reichstag and the Prus sian Landtag will meet the last of No vember. Japan is soon to have two electric railroads of twelve and seventeen mile respectively. Smokeless powder has become so much in demand that the price of camphor is affected thereby. Emperor William has sent 30,000 marks to Hamburg for the relief of cholera sufferers. Peru is to send a confidential agent to Santiago to treat in regard to pending matters with Chili. Dr. Gray, the Afghan Ameer's physi cian, reports that forty feet of snow fell at Cabul last winter. " The Watkin tower, at last decided to be built at Wembley Park, will be 150 feet higher than the Eiffel tower. Catholic congregations in Prussia are increasing in much greVer proportion than the increase of the population. There are about 7'M),000 houses in London, which on cold 'days consume 40,000 tons of coal, emitting 480 tons of sulphur. In England the consumption of tea is rapidly increasing and coffee diminish ing. Cocoa has increased 84 per cent, in five years. The Berlin Pott announces that the Empress Frederick will spend the first part of the winter in England with Queen Victoria. Beginning in October, Russian will be taught in two of the Parisian colleges, and perhaps be put on the same footing as German and English. The Hamburaitcht Corretponda states that the new military bill contemplates a permanent increase in the budget of 78,000,000 marks annually. The Campania, the new Cunarder. has been launched in England. This vessel is 600 feet long, ninety-two feet less than the Great eastern. It is officially announced that the government of Belgium declines to allow the international Monetary uonierence j be held at Berlin. Belgium has not re'used to allow the Monetary Conference to be held in tirusse's, notwithstanding the published report to the contrary. The rainy season has fully .set in at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and work n the railroad has been suspended. For mny miles the track wai washed away. The Prince of Wales, a Horn burg cor respondent relates, has been deserted by t he cloud of American heiresses and pro fessional beauties that formerly sur rounded him. Three men in France competed to sea who could drink the most water. One .wallowed twelve quarts, the second nine and the third seven. All three died from the effects. The last Irish census shows a decline of population since 1881 of 470,000. The number of foreigners has Increased, chiefly owing to the large immigration of Russian Jews. Berlin is bringing: all the force of mod ern science as applied to medication and sanitary regulations to bear against the spread of cholera in that city, and with successful results. The French government has protested in Berlin against German traders fur nishing King Behansin in Dahomey with improved guns and ammunition with which to fight the French forces. The German telegraph service has adopted copper-bronze wires, and is re placing all its iron and Bteel wires bv the new metal, which is used of a small diameter, and weighs about 180 pounds to the mile. King Humbert has created the com manders of the various foreign war ships which went to Genoa for the pur pose of taking part in the Columbus celebration, Commanders of the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus. The railway over the Andes between the Argentine Republic and Chili has been so (ar completed as to justify the steamship companies in Europe selling through tickets from Southampton and Liverpool to Valparaiso by this route. . , In New South Wales the government expended over $4,000,000 from 18S3 to 1890 endeavoring to exterminate rabbits. Beside that a greater sum . haa been ex pended in private moneys. In one year 15,230,000 skins had royalty paid upon them. The seriousness of the situation in Hamburg is seen from the fact that its people have to go back eighty years for a parallel to ineir present pngnt. in 1821 there were 13,900 deaths from cholera; this year already there have been 12,500. The Bank of France will soon put into circulation a new aeries of bank notes. They will be similar to those in use, the only difference being that the paper will be thinner, hut at the same time stronger. The superior quality of the paper will render the printing clearer and make forgery even more difficult than it is at present. The Japanese, who have been numer ous in attendance in German industrial and other schools for many years, are beginning to show that they know how to profit by their learning. They are driving German manuiacturers out of Oriental markets, and are actually brew ing beer that is gradually excluding the German product from China. PORTLAND MARKET. Prodnea, Fruit. Bta, Whiat Nominal. Valley, t.22( 1.25; Walla Walla, $1.1531.17),, per cental. Floub Standard, $3.80; Walla Walla, $3.80; Graham, $3.50; Superfine, $2.76 per barrel. 0Ta New, 4547Jo per bushel ; rolled, $6.6O0.75 per barrel; $6,509 8.75 per bag; $3.75 per case. Hat $1113 per ton. MnASTOFrs Bran, $.5; shorts, $18; ground barley, $22.50(325 ; chop feed, $18 ttZ per ton; feed barley, $2425; mid d ings, $2628 per ton ; brewing barley, $1.10(31.15 per cental; chicken wheat, $1.30 per cental. Bdttcb Oregon fancy creamery, 27j 30c; fancy dairy, 22)2rc; fair to good, 17ia'c; common, l15c; California, 38040c per roll. Chkkhx Oregon, H12c; Young America, 12Jc per pound. Eoos Oregon. 25c: Eastern. 24c per . dozen. Podltbt Old Chickens, $4.50; broil ers, $2.503.50; young ducks, $2.60(4 3.50; old geese, nominal, $5.00(38.00; young, nominal, $0.0009.00 per dozen; turkeys, 16c per pound. VaaaTABLss-rCabbage, $2 per cental ; Onions, 75c$1.00 per cental ; new pota toes, $1.00(31.10 per sack; Oregon cu cumbers, 10315c per dozen; tomatoes, 2536c per box; Oregon turnips, 15c per dozen; young carrots, 15c per dozen; Deets, loc per dozen ; uregon corn, iuo 12Kc per dozen ; sweet potatoes, So per pound; Oregon cauliflower, 75c$1.00 per dozen ; celery, 90c per dozen. Fruits Oregon peaches, $1.00(31.25 per box; Sicily lemon, $9.50; Cali fornia lemons. ' $7.00(38.00 per box; cantaleups, $1.50(31.75 per dozen; water- . melonB, 1.251.60 per dozen ; California grapes, $1.00L25 per box; Oregon grpaes,. OJCigii.w per uux ; uiiratpuiea, $i.00 per dozen; crab apples, 4c per pjund; plums, 76300c per box; Oregon Italian prunes, $1.00 per box; Oregon pears, $1.00 per box ; bananas; $3.00 4.00 per bunch; quinces, $1.50 per box: oranges, $8.00 per box. Staple arosartM. Hohkt Choice comb, 1517c per pound. 8am Liverpool, $14 53(316.00; stock,. $10.50(311.60 per ton. Rick Island, $5.00; Japan, $4.85 per cental. . Scans Small white, 3c; pink, Sc; bayos.3)c; butter, 8c; linias, 8,c per pound. Corrcx Costa Rica, 21 c; Rio, 2034c; Salvador. 20c; Mocha. 27Ua30c: Java. 27)4 30e; Ar buckle's 100-pound cases, 22 7-Mc per pound. Syrup Eastern, in barrels, 4055c; half-barrels. 42)667Wc; in cases, 353 80c per gallon ; $2.25 per keg. California in barrels, 204oc per gallon; $1.75 per keg. Dbixd Fruits Petite prunes. 8c: sil ver, 10 11c; Italian, 10(3 Uo; German, 8c; plums, 56c; apples, 4)6)c; evaporated apricots, 15c; peaches, 10(3 11c; pears, 78c per pound. Sugar Net prices: D, 5c; Golden O, 54,'c; extra C, 5)c; Magnolia A, B.c; granulated, 6c; cube crushed and pow- 1 dered, 6c; confectioners' A, 5c per pound ; mapie sugar, i(S loc per pound. Cabtnid Goods Table fruits, assorted quoted $1.76(31.90; peaches, $1.85(32.10; Bart lett pears, $1.75(3 1.80 ; plums, $1.3734 (31.50; strawberries. $2.25; cherries. $2.00(32.25; blackberries, $1.86 1.90; raspberries, $2.40; pineapples, $2.25(3 2.80; apricots,n.6g31.76. Pie fruit: As sorted, $1.00(31.20: peaches; $1.25; plums, $1.00 1.10; blackberries, $1.25(3 1.40 per dozbn. Vegetables : com, $1.40 (31.85; tomatoes, 95c3$1.00; sugar peas. 95c(3$1.00; string beans, 9095c per dozen. Meats: Corned beef, Is, $1.25; 2s, $1.85; chipped beef, $2.10; lunch tongne, Is, $3.10; 2s, $5.6"; deviled ham, $1.60(32.75 per dozer. Fish: Sardines, 76c1.55; lobsters, $2.303.60; salmon, tin, 1-Ib. tolls, $1.25(31.50; flats, $1.75; 2 lbs., $2.252.50; X bbL, $5.50. . : MtMellauMoa. . -'. NAtrja Raaa onntaMnna Im. 9 nn steel, $3.00; wire, $3.50 per keg. Iron Bar, 2Jf c per pound j pig iron, $24g27 per ton. BTEKtr 1034c per pound. Tin I. C. charcoal. 14x20. nrime nnal. ity, $8.25(38.75 per box; for crosses, $2 extra tier box: rnnfinir. 14t0 nrlma analitv. S6.62W: ner hoi I. fl vk- nlatoa 14x20, prime quality, $7.758.00 per box. i.xad ?fec per pouno; Dor, 4o. Shot1 $1.80 per sock. Hobscsuoxs $5. Navaj. Stores Oakum, $4.505 per bale: main. 14.8005 naraRfl nnnn.la tar Stockholm, $13.00; Carolina, (9.00 per Darrei ; pitcn, fo.uu per Barrel ; turpen tine, 65c per gallon in carload lots. Bid, Wool and Hops. Hides Dry hides, selected prime, 7 8c; lXc less for culls; green, selected, over 55 pounds, 4c ; under 65 pounds, 3-3 ; sheep pelts, short wool, S0(350o; me dium, 6080e; long, 90c(3$l5; shear ings, 1030c; tallow, good to choice, S 3ic per pound. Wool Umpqua Valley, lfi19o; fall clip, 1315)4c: Willamette Valley, 15 18c, according to quality ; Eastern Ore gon, 10(3 16o per pound, according to condition. Hops Nominal, 14o. Tha Mal Market. Bsxr Live, U32c; dressed. 4(3 60. Marrow Live, SX3Xc; dressed, 7c; lambs, live, 3333tc; dressed, 8c Hons Live, 6)c; dressed, 8c Vxal 4(36o per pound. Smokid Mkai-s Medium ham,14(315c : large ham, 144ai4?4e; breakfast bacon, 13(316o; dry salt aides, 1034c; emoked aides, ll123c; smoked bacon, ll)4o per pound. . Lard Compound, in tina, 9Vc; pure, in tins, 1212.c; Oregon, 10312U0 per pound. Bow a Brilliant Woman Wrtta. Mrs. Mary E. Bryan, who draws the big gest salary of any woman editor in the United States, has written a comedietta In one act entitled "His Society Play." It ia the experience of a New York playwright with the scene in the top story of a lodg ing bouse. This quaint, nervous little wo man is a Georgia product, unusually gift ed, with aa many whims as a. child, and a disposition quite as sunny. She is a tre mendous worker, writes day andunght, most of the time sitting; on the floor Turk fashion, with her copy paper on a lapboarri. and the whole place Uttered with peucil chips. Exchange,