ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1892.
NO. 41.
VOL. 9.
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COI.UMDIA COUNTY DIKKCTOKY.
iwir Olfleere,
Dean Blauchard, Rainier
K. K. Hulck, H. Helena
. A. Mutl, r)t. Hvl.ii
.It. M. Wharton, Columbia city
T. J. Cleetou, Vernon la
W. II. Kvaer. Halular
jMdf
Clark
HIiarllT
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Supi. ot tfchoola
Auwior ,
Surveyor
CommUflou.ri.,.
A. B. U.lje, Ha'nler
IS. Q. Sclio uiovar, Yaruoiila
" Jo. W. Baruaa, Maya.r.
oielr N !!. .
Minoxic St. Helena Lodfa, Ho. M Regular
roiniuiiulcatloiii lint anil third Haiurday In
each month at7:W p. at. at Maao'ile hall, vlalt
lug in.iiibera In food (lauding Invited to at-
ton. I.
MtaoNlo.-Raluler I.1., No. 31-Htated
meeting-, ftatunlay on or before each lull moon
at 7:HU r. H. at Manmlo hall, over lileuchard'e
atom. Vlaltlnaj uiainbera In good ataullii In
vited to attand,
The mall.
Down river (boat) clnaei at S:0 1. M.
Up river bat) cloaei at 4 r. M.
The taall lor Vernonla and I'lt'ubunr laavai
Bt. Helen. Monday, VYediieailay and Friday at
I A. aj.
The mall for Marnliland. Claukanle and Mlat
leave Union Monday, Wedueaday and Friday
at 13 h.
Malta (railway) north cloae a' 10 A. for
Portland at I r. M.
Travel! Uaia-Hlvr Hoaiaa.
DtiiiihII. W. Hiiavbb- Uam Ml, Helen,
for Portland at 11 A. H. Toexlay, 1'hnradav and
Hatunlay. I.eava HI. Helen, for Claukanle
Momlay, Wedueaday and Friday at 1:00 a, m.
HTiAMaa Ikalha lave. Ht. Helena for Port
land 7:4. A. N, returning at :HQ f. M.
HTKAktaa Joaxril K M.ona Leave. Bt. Helena
for Portland daily except Hun. lay, .17 A. M., ar
riving at .Purtlaud at 10. SO; rvturnluK, leave
Porilauv at I r. a., arriving at Ht. Helen, at 4.
PROFESSIONAL.
jr. H. R. curt,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
Bt. Helena, Oregon.
JJR. J. K. II ALU
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
Clatikanle, Columbia comity, Or.
jyR. W. C. BKI.T,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
Rainier, Oregon.
yy t. RICK,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
St. Helen", - Orkciox.
Deputy District Attorney for Columbia Co.
T. A. McUridk. A. S.DRBsasa.
jyjcURIDB a DRESSER,
ATTORNE YS-AT-LAW.
. Oregon City , Oregon .
Prompt attention given land-office bualnei.
B. LITTLE,
SURVEYOR and
CIVIL ENGINEER,
Bt. Helena, Oregon.
Comity surveyor. Lund surveying, town
platting, and engineering work promptly
done. . . ... . ..
W.T.Buiwsy. J. W. DiAfaa.
IURNKY 4 DRAPER,
ATTORNEYS-at-LAW,
Oregon City, Oregon,
Twelve yeara' eipcrlcnce aa Register of
the United States Land Office here, recom
mend, us In oua specialty of all kinds of
business before the Land OlHoe or the
Courts and Involving the General Laud
Ofllce.
ROCKENBROUOH ft: COWINO,
ATTORNEY-at-LAW,
Oregon City, Oregon.
I.a1epecUl agent of Oeneral liind office. )
Ilotneatead, Pre-emption, and Timber
Land application., and other Land Office
business a specialty. Ofllce. aecond floor.
Land Office Building.
A. H. BLAKESLY,
Proprietor of
Oriental : Hotel.
ST. HELENS, OREGON.
The home hna been fully refurniahed
throughout and the best of accom
modations will be given.
CHARGES REASONABLE.
STAGE run In connection with
the hotelconnectingwith the North
ern Pacitlo Railroad at Milton. Blags
(or Taooaia trains 10 p. m. For Portland
truin at J p. in.
PACIFIC COAST.
Two Gold-Seekers Meet a
Terrible Fate.
PREDATORY SCALE PARASITE
An Outbreak of Apache Indians
in the Sierra Madre
Old Mexico.
in
Pasadena's sewage .(arm is ready (or
operation.
All hope of laving the wbaleback
Wetmore baa been abandoned.
Lot Angeles ia to have emeltlnsc works
witn a capacity tor zuj ton per aay.
San Diego la rapidly filling up with
I.On.a m n , (kaH fm annali... 1.1a o
,1.1 rj i , auu kucv H wud.uoinwiv yivmr
ure on hotel accommodations.
The Chinamen found Illegally Ashing
In San Diego Bay were fined $75 each
and sent to jail in default of payment.
Sacramento's State and county tax
levy baa been fixed by the Board of Hu
perviaon at $1.2 J on tree $100. San Joa
quin has fixed upon $1.05.
An organized gang of outlaws Is oper
ating in Idaho. Three postofllces have
been looted the past six months, a tran
held up and many burglaries of minor
character committed.
Two miner i named Converse and
Grliisbv have started attain from San
Diego on another search (or the famous
Pen Leg mine alleged to exist somewhere
on the Uolorauo desert.
The Puvallup Indians nearTaooma.
000 in number, will sell their reserva
tion (or $2,500,000. It pays to be a no
ble red man, when the investment can
pile up wealth in that fashion.
A marvelous lake Is reported to have
been discovered in the mountains above
Icicle creek in the Big Bend country,
Idaho, me lake is aaia to be ol consid
erable else and brimful of boiling water.
The predaceous scale parasite has not
been increasing in tne south. XM re
port to the fruit growers' meeting at Los
Angeles of an investigating committee
is disconraging. The Australian bug has
received a black eye.
Tremendous forest fires are ratting in
the heavily timbered country north of
the town of Banner in the famous Boise
Basin gold country in Idaho. Vast areas
have been swept by flames, which show
no signs of abatement.
Ex-Dputy United States Marshal
Henry Whetstone, who killed a brother
officer, J. B. McLellan, at Ogden in
March last, has been acquitted on the
charge of murder. The case hag been
somewhat celebrated, and developed
much feeling among the people.
The contract for restoring the walls of
Sutter's Fort, the baa.lons and a num
ber of buildings, including the old store
rooms, blacksmith shop, mill and pro
vision st re. which were arranged about
the walls, was let several weeks ago to
ieorue Murray A Son. Already work is
progressing rapidly upon the walls, and
ne of the bastion", that on the south-
)at corner, is about completed.
The other day a hole was cut in the
roof of the State capital at Salem, and
tail steel posts now protrude skyward.
These will soon take on a shape becom
ing to a capitol dome. The main part
of the girder is resting securely in its
place, and posts are to rest on it all the
way round. At the top they will be
bolted to the steel circular brace that is
now seen above the roof, and the brick.
wall is to be built up around them.
When the present term of office of
Lieutenant Ueneral underwood expres'
next je ir " the army headquarters '' of
the I. O. O. F., with all the military of
ficers above those of Department or State
Commanders, will be abolished, and each,
of the Patriarch Military branches of
the order will be placed under the con
trol of the mate encampment witnini
whose jurisdiction it is' located. Thlei
act on was taken by the Sovereign Grand;
Lodge at Portland.
Mrs. Mariaga, a literary character tat
Santa Barbara, has been sentenced to
prison for thirty days and to pay a fine)
( (100 (or throwing refuse on neigh
bor's bouse. Mrs. Mariaga is said to tas
a contributor to Uarptr't Monthly, the
Overland and other periodicals. She
lives alone, dreses peculiarly, is an
Atheist and refused to take the usual
oath in court. She was convicted of a
similar offense once before, but when re
leased from prison continued the annoy
ance until her neighbor could stand it
no longer.
In British Columbia two gold-seekers,
William Corlett of Galveston and Henry
Gosford. formerly of St. Paul, have met
a terrible fate. While out hunting they
were an Idenly attacked by a lion and
bud. j woundeJ, one of them seriously.
A companion sought to take the two to
camp. At night he started for camp (or
aid, leaving the two wounded surround
ed by fire as protection against wild
bnasts. which were heard all about them.
When the party from camp reached the
place thev found that tieaford, who had
none for water, had been attacked by
wild animals, killed and his body partly
devoured. Corlett had evidently tried
to rise and give aid to his companion,
but was so weakened that he bad (alien
across the dying fire and had been liter
erally roasted alive.
News has been received from Alaska
of a volcanic eruption in the Aleutian
Islands, believed to be the Black Peak,
between the Obignlk canneries and
Ounalaaka. About 6 o'clock the morn
ing of August 23 a beautiful blue cloud
was seen from Chignik Bay to ascend
(rom behind the mountains. About 11
o'clock sn earthquake was felt, aocom-
fanied by thunder and lightning, which
asted all day. In the afternoon the
cloud turned black. Next morning tbe
air was full of sulphur smoke, and the
decks of the schooner Clara, lying in
Chignik Bay, were covered with two
inches of black sand. Everything on
land and sea was black. Flocks of wild
geese flew from the northeast renaming
with terror. Burning rocks thrown in
the air were seen from Voesnessenski.
That afternoon there was a shower of
dust like burned paper at Oh'gnik Bay,
and the next day another light shower.
Dust showers were seen far at sea, and
the schooner Dennis brought a bag of
dust. The water in all the streams and
bays was muddy.
EDUCATIONAL.
The Number of Schools and Teachers at
Present Maintained In the State
of Massachusetts Etc.
The sixty-eighth year of Miami Uni
versity has just begun.
Wellesley College has opened its (all
term with 734 students.
The New York public schools opened
September 12 with 276,000 pupils.
The University of Oxford has appli
ances (or printing 150 different languages.
The Atlanta ConiUlulion announced
the other day that a new college was
soon to be " corner-stoned."
The public school is not universal in
the old world. There are 10,000 parishes
in England with only church schools.
There will be about 47,000 girls going
to college this year, and twenty-seven
years ago there were not seven of tbem.
Frte Runtia states that the amount ap
propriated last year by the Bussian gov
ernment (or common schools was only
$3,892,000.
Louisville, Ky., has raised by dona
tions the sum of $300,000 for a manual
training high school, to be maintained
by the) city.
Eev. Dr. M. Wolsey Stryker, pastor ol
the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chi
cago, has decided to accept the Pres
idency of Hamilton College.
Tbe oldest college in North America
was founded in 16S1 the College of SU
Lidefonso in the City of Mexico. Tbe
next oldest is Laval College, Quebec.
F. B. Gault, formerly City Suoerln
tendent of Schools at Tacoma, Wash.,
has accepted the Presidency of the Uni
versity of Idaho, situated at Mosciw.
It is stated that the recent bequest of
$300,000 (rom Mrs. Stewart of New York
makes Princeton Theological Seminary
the richest PreBbyterian seminary in the
country.
The Friends' School of Providence, R.
I., is now over a century old, and among
the 15,000 names enrolled ou the regis
ters may be found those of many distin
guished people.
Eton, or the collection of schools which
eouatitutes what is popularly known as
Kton, has 1,000 scholars. This great
preparatory school has just celebrated
its tour hundred and fiftieth anniver
sary. Penny savings banks are connected
with the public schools of Belgium, and
170,000 of the primary pupils have de
posited over 100,000. Great Britain
has also established penny banks in
schools.
One of the finest school buildings in
New England baa just been dedicated at
Worcester, Maes. The total cost of land
and building is $200,000. The building
is of brick and brown sandstone, with
granite underpinning.
The first dental college in the United
States was established in 1840 at Balti
more and even as late as 1861 there were
but three others in the country, two in
PhiladelDhia and one in Cincinnati.
There are now about twenty-six of these
schools in the United States.
Indiana University has had a some
what remarkanle experience in having
its professors called to other institutions.
Tn tbff last two years ten full oroieasors
have been called (rom the faculty to pro
fessorships in Johns Hopkins, Cornoll,
Stanford and the Northwestern.
The road to learning is made smooth
to many young women with little or no
money at the various coiiegei tor women.
Vasaar has twenty-five scholarships,
8mith five, Wellesiey twenty-five, each
tbe interest on $5,000. Harvara Annex
has two scholarships supported by its
Students' Aid Society. The Students'
Aid Society at Wellesley disbursed in
gifts and loans daring the last year the
sum of $11,811.
There are at present maintained in
Massachusetts 7,239 publio schools,
taught by 9,227 teachers, which allows
one teacher for every forty-eight pupils.
The schools are supported by a yearly
expenditure of more than $8,500,000.
Nearly uo per cent, ot au toe cnuaren in
the State of schojl age are in regular at
tendance noon these schools. Included
in the above are 244 schools, with an
arerage attendance of 20,204 pupils.
PERSONAL MENTION.
The Friends of Mrs. Maybrkk Find No
Consolation in the Accession of
a Radical Government
Herbert Spencer, the philosopher, is
esria' to be a man of singular modesty, '
"wtth a gentle voice ana almost temi
nae grace."
Lieutenant Peary will take rank
waaong Arctic explorers as one whom it
was not necessary to send after and who
came home by himself.
CniombuB seems to have ae many dif
ferent pictures aa Washington, and they
are own more dissimilar than those of
the hem of the hatchet and the cherry
tree. .
The friends of Mrs. Maybrlck find no
consolation in the accession of m radical
government in England, as Home Secre
tary Asquitb has Btated that he cannot
recommend the release of the prisoner.
Verdi is about to write another opera,
with a libretto by Boito. When Verdi
-wrote "Aida " it was looked upon aa his
last work. Sixteen years later h wrote
"Otello," and the yoar following "Fal
ataff." -
There is a veteran in the pension of
fice at Washington, Captain Thomas J.
Spencer, who was present in forty-five
battles, was captured three times and
escaped twice, and raw the inside of
seven Confederate prisons.
- This ia how yon may know John D.
Crimmins, the great New York contract
or. He ia described by a Newport corre
spondent as having "bis eyes wide
apart., and through their brownish gray
formulating in vacnncy." Now, U you
meet a man on the street with his eyes
formulating in vacancy, you'll know he
ia John D. Crimmins.
Rosa Bonheur'8 already celebrated
painting of " Horsefl Threshing Corn "
still remains unfinished in her Btudio
near Fontaineblean. This picture has
been bought by an American amateur
for $60,000. The gn at artist has mot,
however, been idle, lor on her easel is
small canvas just completed. It repre
sents a flock of sheep standing in bright
snnligiit and tended by a peaaao t attired
in the picturesque costume of t'ae Pyr
enees. Two otnar pictures are fne ih from
her brush-- cattle piece ail a a eeping
lioness.
EASTERN ITEMS.
The United States Marshal of
Wyoming Removed.
CORDAGE TRUST ATTACKED
Subterranean Floods and Eruptions
of Gas Frighten Indiana
People Etc.
Tbe gamblers of Chattanooga, Tenn.,
are being run out of the city by law.
Tbe corn crop is pronounced free from
frost by the Agricultural Department.
Stations at which boiled water is dis
pensed have been established in New
York.
A test case of the Chinese exclusion
ret is being prepared by Texas Federal
authorities.
An attack on the Cordage Trust has
been made before Chancellor McGill of
New Jersey.
Report of mortality in Boston (or An-
f uat shows a death rate of 25.9 per 1,000
nbabitants.
An attempt will be made to establish
a distillery in Chicago that is not in the
Whisky Truet.
The watch of the blind poet, Milton,
is said to have drifted to Chicago from a
St. Louis pawnshop.
Subterranean floods and eruptions of
gas are reported to be frightening the
people of Jerome, Ind.
The officers of the Salvation Army at
Macomb, 111., are in limbo (or failing to
pay a fine for parading.
Uncle Sam pays as high as $2,500 per
annum (or the rental of his sub-postal
stations in Philadelphia.
'On account of cholera tbe Mayor of
Clarksburg, Tenn., has forbidden the
people to eat watermelons.
The city liquor agency of Portland,
Me., last year sold $(K),00O worth of liq
uor for medicinal purposes.
In the course of a couple of months
the last vestige of the horse-car lines
will have disappeared (rom St. J mis.
The lower part of the Hudson river is
shallowing because of brick dust and
broken brick thrown from canal boats.
Maine lays claims to a Chinese citizen.
His name is Wab Ngock Lee, who mar
ried a Maine school teacher some time
ago.
Mrs. Mary McGrath of Louisville, Ky.,
has brought suit against a saloonkeeper
for selling whisky to her husband against
her wishes.
The projected oil-pipe line (rom the
Pennsylvania oil fields to the Atlantic
Coast will become an active competitor
of the Standard.
The "Judge" Short gang of cattle
thieves in North Dakota is reported
cleaned out by the settlers and the
"Judge" lynched.
Tbe fisheries on the St. Lawrence have
been failures this season, and many of
the people have sold out and are coming
to the United States.
The Olympic Club at New Orleans
cleared $103,000 by the prixe-fighting
"carnival," and when all expenses were
paid $43,000 remained.
The type founders in the East have
formed a trust. The fierce competition
of the last ten yeara is to end, the rates
of discount will be reduced and prices
go up. ,
United States Marshal Joe Rankin of
Wyoming, who has a national reputa
tion for bravery, has bsen removed for
not making arrests of desperadoes when
ordered.
The jury in the case of Burton C.
Webster, charged with murdering Book
maker Charles Goodwin at New York,
brought in a verdict of manslaughter in
the first degree.
The crop report for Missouri shows
that there was a general but 1 ght frost
on two nights and numerous grasshop
pers, the latter necessitating the late
sowing of wheat.
Governor Boyd of Nebraska bas un
conditionally pardoned ex-Treasurer
Charles H. Paul of Adams county, Neb.,
convicted of having embezzled $51,000
of county money.
W. R. Crosett, cashier and proprietor
of the People's Bank of Hope, Ark., has
decamped with the deposits and school
iunds to the amount of a number of
thousands of dollars.
Prof. Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard,
th literary executor of Emerson. Low
ell and Carlyle, is said to be constituted
literary exeeutor of John Ruskin by a
clause in the tatter's win.
The corn cutters in the vicinity of
8pringfleld, O., have formed an associa-
lion CO ngna bus paieub uuru-uuiiMng
sleds, and retuse to wore lor farmers
using the obnoxious eieas.
In St. Louis all granite, wood and as
phaltum streets have been cleaned. Tbe
work of polishing up the macadamized
streets is to begin at once, ana it is esti'
mated that it will cost $00,000.
A bottle was picked np on Scorton
Beach, Mass., the other day, inclosing a
Saper on which was written : " C. E.
;eed, L. A. Reed, L. B. Reed, W. F.
Gilling, lost August 14, 182, at sea."
Two members of the Strat'on gang of
letter-box robbers went to the Colorado
State penitentiary to effect the escape of
their leader, Stratton, but inatsad were
decoyed into tne prison ar.a capiurea.
- The Department oi Agriculture, it is
expected, will issue a proclamation rais
ing the quarantine which bad been es
tablished against cattle afflicted with
pneumonia in New York and New Jer
sey.
At Nashville, Tenn., the Southern Ex
press Company had an "old-hoss " sale,
and in a trunk for which $2.60 was paid
there waa found the body of an infant.
It is not known where the trunk came
from.
Lieutenant Peary, the Arctic explorer,
who has lust returned to Philadelohia.
made verbal report to the Philadelphia
Academy of Natural Sciences, during
which he said: "I have had excep
tional facilities for studying one of the
most unique people of the world the
Esquimau of Northern Greenland,knqwn
a the Arctic Highlanders. There are
About 260 persons in the tribe. They
rare separated by miles of ice and great
.glaciers from other human beings."
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The Secretary of the Interior Approves the
Allotment of Land to Shawnees
in the Indian Territory.
The President has anoointed Prof.
Thomas C. Mendenhall, Superintendent
of the geodetic survey, the United States
Commissioner of tbe International Com
mittee to settle differences between
Great Britain and the United States in
the matter of tbe boundary line between
Alaska and British Columbia,
The Secretary of the Interior hit ar
proved the allotment of land to the
Seneca and Eastern band of Shawnees
in the Indian Territory. There are 275
of the former and 290 of the latter who
will receive sixty acres of land apiece,
and in some cases an additional eighty
acres, where the land is used for grazing
or ia not (ertile.
The attention of tbe Postoffice De
partment has been called to the fact that
many letters from China and Japan spe
cially addressed to go via Vancouver, B.
C, are forwarded to San Francisco. In
order to remedy this instructions nave
been sent to division superintendents to
issue orders that will insure the dispatch
of mails as addressed when intended for
any country and marked to go by any
particular route.
The two vessels, proposals (or which
were issued recently, will make an im
portant addition to tbe navy. 1 lie ar
mored cruiser will cost, exclusive of
armament, about $3,000,000. She will
be 4U0 leet long on toe load tine, 04 leet
beam and 23 feet draft; will have 15,000
indicated horse power and make a speed
of twenty knots. The armament is eight
eight-men tines, twelve nve-incn rines
and a strong auxiliary battery, gatling
guns, six-pounders and torpedo tubes.
The steaming endurance is specified at
15,000 miles at a ten-knot rate. The
battle ship will be 36 feet long, 48 feet
beam and 24 feet draft, with 11.00ft horse
?ower, and will make 16) knot ' speed,
he armament will be four twelve-inch
and six four-inch rifles, twenty six
pounders and five one-pounders.
The situation of affairs in the Hawaii
an Islands continues to receive the best
and constant attention of officials of the
Department of State. To inquiries as to
the political situation in the dominion
of her Majesty Queen Liliuokalani the
reply is made that it is regarded as un
settled. Further than this they say they
do not care to express an opinion, and
this despite the (act that on September
13 the new Ministry was inducted into
office. Tbe change oi government was
accomplished without demonstration of
any kind, but the feeling prevails that
there ia no confidence in the Ministry.
and any change would create no sur
prise. The department is under irore
or less influence to bring about even
closer relations between- the United
Status and Hawaii than have ever been
obtained. Annexation iB openly urced,
the argument being made that the Isl
ands need the support of a strong gov
ernment, which would restore the
commercial credit of the country, give
assistance to the producers and conse
quent development to the Islands. Un
less tbe united states does take these
Islands under its care, it is urged that
some other strong government is likely
to do it, and that government is Eng
land. In addition to sugar rice is culti
vated, tea can be raised in abundance,
and the coffee of the Islands is of the
finest quality. A'ltbat is needed is some
money and an effort to improve the lands
and cheap labor to work them. Eng
land could easily supply these from her
surplus capital and coolie colonies.
WORLD'S FAIR NOTES.
George F. Morgan Secures the Popcorn
Privilege Spain Will Not Erect
a Building Etc.
Four powerful electric search lights to
be UBed during the ceremonies have been
received and placed in bond. They were
manufactured in Rotterdam, and are
said to be the strongest lights In Amer
ica, Plana for the buildinar to be erected by
the city of Paris have been received by
Chief Fearn of the foreign affairs de
partment. The structure will be erected
on the site formerly allotted to Costa
Kica.
Carl Heller has gone to Chicago to su
pervise the erection of the German neaa-
Quarters building:. He is a, mechanical
and mining engineer appointed by the
Imperial German UommiBBion to con
duct this work.
One of the curiosities to be exhibited
at the World's Fair will be the compass
which Jacques Cartier, the Canadian ex
plorer, owned. It was recovered from
the ship Le Petite Hermine, which was
abandoned Dy uartier in 1027.
George F. Morgan has secured the
contract for the popcorn privilege. He
aereea to sive (140.000 for the concession
and 70 per cent, of the gross receipts
above $i0O,00O. tie bled a Dona 101
$120,001) to cover the contract.
Maior Moses P. Handy has received
letter from Yquitos, Brazil, proposing
an exhibit of some of the aboriginals oi
the Amazon. The writer states that one
of these tribes, the Cashibos, are still
cannibals and very interesting.
F. Zepgto, the official Commissionei
from Spain, has applied for the space
allotted to Colombia, but relinquished
bv that government. He propose thai
his government erect a small building ol
pure Italian style on tnis space.
final n will not erect a bnildins. bni
will make its exhibit in the main build
ings of the exposition. The space allot
ted to Spain will be g.ven to Guatemala,
and will be planted with coffee trees and
flowers indigenous to that country.
Theodore Thomas has requested these
musical conductors to unite with him in
a committee to judge of American com'
positions to be offered for performance
at the World's Fair : Carl Zerrabn of
the Handel and Haydn Society in Boa-
ton, B. J. Lang of the Boston Apo'lo
Club and St. Cecilia Society, Asger Ha-
merik of tne reabody Institute in Balti
more, Dr. A. O. McKenzie of the Lon
don Phiiharmonio Society and Camilla
Saint-Saena of Paris.
A large German firm of manufacturers
of track material proposes sending to
the transportation exhibits department
a large collection of railway track mate
rial. This museum includes specimens
of rails, ties, rail fastenings, etc., as used
at all times and in all countries. Thev
have been years in making the collec
tion, which ia the most complete in ex
istence. It does not consist of copies or
mooeis, out tne actual raits, etc, gauv
erea at great expense.
FOREIGN LANDS.
Genera! Financial Situation
in London.
THE EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA.
Famine Imminent in North Fin
land The Dahomeyans
to be Attacked.
Louis Kossuth has finished his mem
oirs.
Cholera is on the wane all over Eu
rope.
Bismarck, if alivt. will probably visit
America next year.
Among the nobility of England 21 per
cent, have no children.
The French are preparing to make an
other attack on the Dahomeyans.
Great Britain has sent a vessel to in
vestigate Canadian seizures by Russian
cruisers.
Palacio. the Governor of La Guayra,
bas been opening the mail of the Amer
ican Consul.
The French Naval Minister wants to
romodel the staff by substituting old of
ficers witn younger ones.
The London Timet declares that Rus
sia should apologize to England for the
insnlt in capturing Canadian sealers.
flie corn and potato crops of North
Finland have been almost entirely de
stroyed by frosts. A famine is immi
nent. There is rent-. wed activity in the evic
tions of Irish tenants, with the object,
it is said, to discredit Morley'a govern
ment. The Povolo Romano of Rome says that
all of tbe brigands rrweiued in the re
cent outrages in Sicily have been cap
iurea.
Haddon Hall.'' Sullivan's new comic
opera, was well received in London, but
it is not likely to reach the popularity
of his other productions.
There was great rejoicing at Rome on
the twenty-second anniversary of the
realization of the national hone that the
city should be Italy's capital.
The German Reichstag will adopt a
bill putting the country under an effi
cient plan of federal or imperial, sani
tary regulations, it ia said, without de
bate.
Emperor William has given orders
through the German Consul at Bergen,
Norway, lor izu Norwegian carpets for
the imperial hunting chateau at Pots
dam.
A well-known physician, who has been
studying the cholera question, says that
the disinfection craze in Germany has
become about as harmful as the plague
itself.
The largest ostrich found for a venera
tion in Central Africa is on its way to
London, a present (rom the great Mo
hammedan chief, Alimary Samaden, to
y ieen Victoria.
G?rmnv will maintain the new law
against Sunday trading, and except in
cases where it is known to interfere with
the personal comfort of the inhabitants
will it be relaxed.
The Comte de Paris ia said to enter
ain tbe belief that something will hap
pen in Europe within the next two years
which may result in his being called to
the throne of France.
Emma Nevada, the American sineer.
was recently given a dinner at Gibraltar
by the officers of tbe King's Royal Ri
fles. Her husband, Dr. Palmer, was the
only male civilian present.
The Emm-ess of Austria has been
since the death of Prince Rudolph a
complete mental wreck, subject to most
patnetic delusions atwnt ner son ana
requiring the greatest care.
Dr. Lee. the prominent St. Petersburg
physician, who reports unfailing success
in the hospitals there with his Irrigation
treatment ot the prevailing epidemic,
was originally an Ohio man.
The Metternich family, who are plaint
iffs in the contest over the will of Count
Waldenstein at Prague, contend that
Waldenstein drank cognac by the tum
blerful until he became insane.
The Birmingham Dailv Oaiettt is said
to be tbe first daily paper printed, cut
and folded by the aid of electricity. The
current is supplied from the mains of
tne Birmingham .Electric supply Uom
pany.
During tbe cholera epidemic In Paris
which preceded the present one it waa
computed that a person living in clean
quarters and taking ordinary care had
about one chance in 1,000 of taking the
disease.
Thirteen millions sterling have al
ready been spent on the Manchester ship
canal, or S,uuo,uuu more tnan tne origi
nal estimate. Two millions more will
have to be borrowed from the corpora
tion 01 Manchester.
Paris just now offers an unusual op
portunity for feminine title-hunters. A
young Viscount has just put himself up
for a raffle. The winner gets him as a
husband with the title thrown in. The
tickets are $20 each.
The railways of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain have 16.86) locomotives.
of which only 1,841 are in Scotland and 705
in Ireland, 'the London and .North
western has the most. 2,643, followed by
tne Miuiana witn z,uzu.
The English quarantine authorities
burn all diity linen tound on an in
fected ship. A Russian who came to
London recently with a very scant ward'
robe was left without a shirt to his
back, until a missionary came to his as
sistance. The St. Petersburg Novotti says that
Genera Roberts' mission to the Ameer
is calculated to lead to tbe absorption of
Afghanistan by Great Britain, which
would cut Russia off from the route to
the Indian Ocean, and that it is creating
much greater motive for an Anglo-Russian
war than the Pamir matter.
The young Duke of Orleans, accom
panied by a party of friends, will start
in a (ew weeks for an interesting trio
round the world. The Prinoe will first
have about three months' elephant and
rhinoceros hunting in East Africa,
whence he will travel leisurely through
Asia and China to Japan. He hopes to
arrive in the United States in the au
tumn ol next year.
PORTLAND MARKET.
FroduM. Fruit. Eta.
Whsat NominaL Valley. $1.20(8
1.22X; Walla Walla, $1.151.17 per
cental.
Floue Standard. $3.75: Walla walla.
13.75; Graham, $3.25; Superfine, $2.75
per barrel.
Oats New. 40(43c per bushel:
rolled, $6.5036.75 per barrel; $6.50a
6.75 per bag; $3.75 per case.
may 111(313 per ton.
MiLLtrrurrs Bran. $.6: shorts. $19:
ground barley, $22.6025 ; chop feed, $18
22 per ton; feed barley, $2425; mid
d ings, $2628 per ton; brewing barley,
$1.10(31.15 per cental; chicken wheat,
$1.25 percental.
Bbttks Oregon fancy creamery, 30
82)c; fancy dairy, 27)30c; fair to
good, 22X25c: common. 1517ic;
California, 38(4 40c per roll.
lHusi Oregon, UOJlZc; xoung
America, 12jc per pound.
Eoos Oregon, 27)c; Eastern, 25c per
dozen.
Podltst Old Chickens. $4.004.50;
broilers,$2.503.( 0 ; young ducks,$.00
6.00; old geese, nominal, $6.00(88.00;
young, nominal, $0.009.00 per dozen;
turkeys, 1616c per pound.
Vbostablis Cabbage, $2 per cental ;
Onions, 75c$1.00 per cental; pota
toes, 809Jc per cental; Oregon cu
cumbers, 1015c per dozen; tomatoes,
85c per box; Oregon turnips, 150 per
dozen; young carrots, 15c per dozen;
beets, 10c per aozen; sweet pouitum,
$1.75Jper pound ; Oregon cauliflower, 76c
t 1.00 per aozen ; ceiery, vuc per uoieu.
Faorrs -Oregon peaches, $1.101.2&
per box; Biciiy lemons, sv.ou; uau
fornia lemons. $7.00(88.00 per box;
cantaleups, $1.60 1.75 per dozen; water-
1 - !-- 1. I Ul . JUaM . alifnmlfl
grapes, $1.001.25 per box; Oregon
grpaes, 50c$1.00 per box ; pineapples,
13.00 per dozen ; plums, 7590c per box ;
Oregon Italian prunes, S6D0c per box ;
Oregon pears, $1.251.50 per box; ba
nanas, $3.004.00 per bunch; quinces,
$1.50 per box; oranges, $3.00 per box;
cranberries, $10.00 per box.
Honxt Choice comb, 1517o
per
nound.
Balt Liverpool, tl4.5016.90; stock,
(10.50(311.60 per ton.
Rica Island, $6.00: Japan, $4.85 per
cental.
Bbaks Small white. 3c: pink. 8c:
bayos.3c; butter, 8o; limaa, 3c per
pound.
Coma Costa Rica, 21c ; Rio, 20c ;
Salvador, 20c; Mocha, 27i30c: Java.
27$30c; Arbuckle's 100-pound cases,
22 17-200 per pound.
byedp cAs tern, in barrels, 4og&5c;
1 1 l 1 aO iy -7 1-. t Q&.-A
80c per gallon ; $2.26 per keg. California
in barrels, 2040c per gallon; $1.76 per
Dbisd Faorrs Petite prunes, 8c; sil
ver, 10lle; Italian, 10(3 11c; German,
8c; plums, 66c; apples, 4,61c;
evaporated apricots, 15c; peaches, lu
11c; pears, (558c per ponna.
8oqab Net prices: D, 6c: Golden O.
5c; extra O, 6Wc; Magnolia A, 6c;
granulated, 6c; cube crushed and pow
dered. 6c; confectioners' A, 6c per
pound ; mapie sugar, io3 inc per pound.
Cannzd Goods Table fruits, assorted
quoted $1.76(S 1.90; peaches, $1.852.10
Jiartiett pears, $1.751.80;plums,$l.a7,
1.50; strawberries, $2.25; cherries,
$2.0032.25: blackberries, $1.86(311.90;
raspberries. $2.40; pineapples, $2,269
2.80; apricots,$1.651.76. Pie fruit: As
sorted, $1.00(91.20; peaches, $1.25;
plums, $1.0031.10; blackberries, $1.25(3
1.40 per dozen. Vegetables : corn, $1.40
(31.S5; tomatoes, 95c$1.00; sugar peas,
95c $1.00; string beans, 9095c per
dozen. Heats: Corned beef. Is. $1.25;
2s, $1.85; chipped beef, $2.10; lunch
tongue, Is, $3.10; 2s, $5.5"; deviled ham.
11.00(92.75 per dozen. Fish: Sardines,
75c1.65; lobsters, $2.30(g3.50; salmon,
tin. 1-lb. tails, $1.25(31.50; fiats, $1.75;
i lbs., $2.252.60; bbl., $5.50.
KlaecUanooaa.
Nails Base quotations: Iron. $3.00:
steel, $3.00; wire, $3.60 per keg.
laoH tiar, i'Ae per pound : pig iron.
$24($27 per ton.
ctibl Wie per pound.
Tin I. C. charcoal, 14x20, prime qual
ity, $8.258.75 per box; for crosses, $2
extra per box ; roofing, 14x20, prime
quality, $6.62M per box ; I. O. coke plates,
14x20, prime quality, S7.7o8.UU per box.
LiXao4c per pound; bar, 6sc.
Shot $1.80 per sack.
Hobsbshoss $5.
Naval Stores Oakum. $4.50(35 per
bale ; rosin, $4.80(35 per 480 pounds ; tar,
Stockholm, $13.00; Carolina, $9.00 per
barrel ; pitch, $6.00 per barrel ; turpen
tine, 65c per gallon in carload lota. -
Bldaa. Wool and Hops.
Hidks Dry hides, selected prime, 1
8c ; lc less for culls ; green, selected,
over 65 pounds, 4c: under 65 pounds, 80;
sheep pelts, snort wool, S0(350c; me
dium, 6080c; long, 90c(3$l.25; shear
ings, 10(i20c; tallow, good to choice, 3
3c per pound.
Wool Umpqna Valley. lfi19c; fall
elip, 1315c; Willamette Valley, 15(3
18c, according to quality; j&astern ure-
gon, iuioo per ponna, according to
condition.
Hops 1517c
Xhm Haat Marks,
Busy Live, 1(3 2 c; dressed,
oc.
Mutton Live, 8V3H'c; dressed, 7c;
Iambs, live, 88c; dressed, 80.
Hoos Live, 6c ; dressed, 8c
Vial 4(360 per pound.
Skokkd Msats Medium ham,
14c; large ham, 14)(314c; breakfast
bacon, 13(3 16c; dry salt sides, 10,o;
smoked sides, ll12)c; smoked bacon,
lle per pound.
Lad Compound, in tins, 10c; pure,
in tins,' 12(3 13c; Oregon, lOaio
per pound . ..
Even if your Fresich ia not up to
the Parisian standpoint they don't
laugh at you in Paris. All hands
seem to understand that necessity
knows no law of syntax.
Whenever a Russian peasant enters
or leaves his cottage he always bows
humbly before the image of a saint
which has always a place in his
home. -
The modern smokeless powders
contain nitrates in more or less quan
tities; that is vtay tbe nitrate mines
are so valuable Just now. 1