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T7 OREGON VOL. 0. ST. HELENS,-OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1892. NO. 51. rn MIST THE OREGON MIST. IIIIIIU BVBNW I-HDAV moUNIrlU 'it- . THE HIST PUBLISHING COMFAN J, R, BEEOLE, Manager. OFFICIAL " COUNTY- PAPI-R uk.rrlpll.n Hal... On. eniijr on. fiir In adranca On. copy ill month Hingis oupr ,11 H A4r.rti.inf Hal... Pmf.aalotial tmrda on, year On. column on. year Half tiiilumn urn year , Uuarl.r (inliimn on. y.ar. On. Inch an. niuulh ..... I 1 , lit On. Inch thru iiionlha.,,. Ou. Iiioli all month. Local nolle, lacntap.r Hue lor fir it lii-.r noiit mem. p.r un. lor wn aiioeu,nciii in rtlnn. 1..K.I .lv.ril.niint., l. M pr Inch fur tint Inavrllnn, awl 78 cuts par men lor ..oh auua. a,ii0Miiia.riioii, COLOMBIA COUNTY DIKKCTOKY. t:aiilr llleers. JnilK.,.,.. Ui .ii Blanche"!, K.lnt.r Cl.rt ,. K.UaU'k, H . II.I.IU Hh.rllT . A. Maaalr. Ht. Hvlm I Trouur r K, M. Wharton, t:ulauUla City nut. ul tfuhoula T, J, (Melon. V.ranui. Awmr , W. II. Kyacr, Kalul.r surveyor A. B. Little, K. nl.r ComrolHljnrr. in. it. ritiio mover, v.monia 10. W. H.riiM, Hirnr. act. If Metises. lli.oKir, Bt. Helena Long., No, g-Rgular eoiuranuieatuma nr.i .no mini natumay in each mouth ul Nr. m etMaaotilo hall. Vl.lt Ing m.nibara In good standing lnvll.I lo t tnml. liiaoma. Kalnlar Iuti. No. 34 fltatad tn.tlngaftalurilayonoriior..ach lull uioun at 7 BO r at. at Maaonlc hall, ov.r Hlam-haril'a tur. Vlaltlug in.innera In good lauding In viwu to aitanu, (Inn Pailowa-HI. Helena .mt No. 117 Mtiei. .very Hatiuilay night at 7 10 Tranalent hruthran In good alamlliig cordially luvlteil to eatena. Tfce nana. Down rlr.r (lioat) elowa at g:M A, M. tin rtvMP lh.,All pbMM At A 9. M. 1 h mall for V.rnonla and Mttaburg 'aav.a St. H.l.na Monday, Wwlntailay aud Friday at a . m . Th. mall for Manhland. 1'lat.kanl. and Mitt l.av.a Qiilnn Monday. wa.lna.uay ana rria.y mi 19 U M.Hi (railway) north cloa. a' It) a. .: for Portland at I r. u. Traral.it' tUalda Mlvar Haaln tlTiMI0. W, HMAVea- Uav.a St. Helena lor Tortlaud at 11 A. a. Tiiawlay, Tliunwlav and Saturday. Utici Ht. Hcl.ua for clalakaiile Monday, Waduwalay and Krlday at 00 a, a. Htaiaaa Ualiia-I. av.a HI. Il.lana for Tori I and 7 At a, a, returning ail nor. a. rlTitaaa Joast-M KSLi.Min l..ava 81. IM.ns for Portland daily eic.pt Hunnay, at 7 a. a , ar rlvlnaal Portland at lo w; returning, Lave Portlanv at I r. a., arriving at Ht. Helena at t. PROFESSIONAL, I) k. u. R. ci.irr. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON' HI. Helena, Oregon, J)at. J. K, II A I. In . PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Clatukanie. Columbia county. Or, J JR. W. C. BKI.T, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Rainier, Oregon. W I l.l.l AM URIHWOI.1), DENTIST. St. Hklkns, OltKOON All Work Guaranteed. T. A. McltaiDS. A. S. I)mt. CURIDE A URKS8SR, ATTORNEYS-at-LAW. Oregon 1,'lty , Oregon . rroinnt atUntioIi given land-office business. B. MTTLB, SURVEYOR and CIVIL ENGINEER, St. Helena, Oregon. . Onnnty surveyor. Land surveying, town platting, and engineering work promptly done. W.T.BuH. J. W. DAPH. tt! HNKY A PRAPER, ATTORNEYS-at-LAW, Oregon City, Oregon. T..lva veara' experlrnce Register oi Office. KOCKKNBROt'flH a COWINO, B ATT0 RN EY-at-L A W, Oregon City, Oregon. (Lite ape.' lal Kfnt'?,n'f"ii'V,r!ber Uiid pttli Httiltltnu- JAPANESE CURB . ...v and complete tre.lm...t, K . Hoi and J V iii.riliia- Hon ng, ( hnmle, tenia), "''llury S "nrt ""r lluiwiit or ''r",,,;.i nnaaea: It la a wayaa ,ll.eaae and lema e n,uh. The Ut r.,tt taife""i "rendering an opera dlacovcry ol ' "" ,ry h.rea ter. Thia llol n witn rn. .--- - klM)Wh to fall. i "r u.tl.v haa never lieen aiMw frn)1 , J , ItetiHi'ty n. " why aiitTur irom uu. bo.tlr!i'11 i"'.",rltlen guarantee la ..rrlble dlwaa? "'!. , h. money If no" Itetiuid the Uniteti Slate" "om 'Srti,'Z "Z mend u. In ott. ' '"'' ?' the biiKlneai before tlie Und Om pr the (v'.urtr! , and Inrolring the Oft.erul Und l-v IaI Jaa. PACIFIC COAST. An Old Woman Elopes With a Young Man. TACOMA'S WHEAT RECEIPTS Much Excitement at San Diego Oyer the Murder of Boy Etc. a The great CODDar emelter at Blab' T., ii idle. The movement at Victoria. B. O.. to eatabllih direct eteamsblp line with the Hawaiian Ulandg ig taking definite uape. , , Phuenlx, A. T., boagtg that lt popula tion ii increasing at the rate of 1,000 per uiuutu, w per twnt oi wnicn win oe per uiaueuv. Preacott, A, T., ig feeling the bene nciai enact oi a ranroaa wtncu li yet un eompletetl. Mining inveetorg are Dock' ing into that gectton. The great onyx anarrlee at Log Tuloa lower California, have been gold (or $100,000. Ell Murray, ex-Uovernor of uutn, ig one oi tuo purcnagerg. The Donahue egtate Ig gtiinir for nog. aeeeion of land in Hnuth Weatmtniater, ai. v.. raiumi aa ft.u vuu. Alio lltlG WM found'in Peter Donahue'g poeeetglon af ter nig aeain. There ig much feeling at Ban Dlero ver the murder of the bov, George E. Neale, by Captain 8am Smith and whoae Douy wag thrown into the nea. A lynch ing party ig dlgcugaed with earneetneeg, The email pox scare at MarehAeld bout at an end. The town authoritiea, aided br the medical board, have re ceived the thankg of the community for their efficient work In saving the town I rota tne ateease. The Bradgtreet mercantile agency re ports thirteen failures in the Paciflo Coast States and Territories for the past week, ag compared with thirteen for the previoue week and ten for the corre- gponaing weex oi Tscams has received nearly five thon sand carloads, or about three million bushels, of wheat during the past two months. The indications . are that the receipts this year will reach 5,600 000 bushels, as against 4,100,000 buehulg last season. Juana Trimmer, the Mexican wife of a respectable Uerinan living at Jatalul. fortv-two miles east of Ban Diego, has eloped wi n a young ranch nana named Katagulo. The woman is cu years old and the mother of marriagable sons and daughters. Montana ball cranks are figuring on a league for next year. It is p ssible that Ogden and Bait Lake will be ssked to loin in forming an Inter-mountain lesgu. If this is doae, Helena will be left out, unless Mitsoula should come to the (rout with a club. Success has at last crowned the effjrte of the railway company to obtain arte- aian water on the desert, says me xnms .SWiftnel. When the great well at Walter's Siatlon, 1 6 miles west of Yuma, had reached the depth of 6 )0 feet a bountiful stream of excellent water was struck. which instantly aroe to and four feet above the gurface and ran rff down the desert as freely as if it had a! wave done so. Such was the flow of water that the company was obliged at once to protect Its roadbed irom rjetng wasnea sway. The Ban Francisco Call has been in restitiating the subject of the present's in the flour mills ol that city and State of the Mediterranean flour moth, and it declares It has already become an alarm ing pest, resulting In the loss of thou sands ci doners to a nnanner oi largn establishments, and that it will result in atJll ereater loss before very long. The statements are based mainly upon the interviews with W. O. Johnson, profess or of entomology in Stanford University, and with a number of flour manufactur ers. They state that mere is naraiy a mill In the State wnicn is noi mieciea by moths. The moth is continually pinning stranas oi snx in great quanti fy, which not onlv set into the flour. but also clog the machinery so badly t'.at the mills are obliged to shut down tem porarily. Prof. Johns in, who has m'd a careful study of the subject, says he has discovered that the moth propagates and matures more rapidly in the Cali fornia climate than in Canada or the Eastern part of the United States and nthor enfd countries where it has ap peared. He expects that the diaastrou effects of this moth mm De very appar ent In nearly all the mills of that State before the end of another year, ana it 1" almost impossible to drive out the pest. nharina Vandorn. who la interested in the alleged diamond discovery on Snike river, Idaho, tells the following story in regard to the discovery and his connec tion with it: In the Wi he was at KFinWlv. South Africa, and became ac quainted with diamond mining. About six years ago, aner wium - Erospector showed him a- stone, which e prononnoed to be a Kimberly dia mond. When the man told him thaVhe Bicked It up on Snake river he ridiculed le idea. Subsequently he made an in vestigation, and found that there was a formation there similar to that at Kim wi. Ha had H. Bratnoben. the widely known mining man, look Into It, and that gentleman told him to have the ground prospected. He then took Mr. Waters, who was running a ferry in the vlcinitf, Into his confidence, and the latter has Kun nnlatlv nrosnectinK the country, having recently found the alleged gems. One or more of these stones was gent to Tiffany A Co., who made a "favorable report." Vandorn does not say what the report was, but states that he will goon have one of the stones that is being cut. The party wno nas gone ro me fields le composed of Engineer Welling ton and an assistant, three employes of Vandorn, who are to take np additional grodndi L. W. Weilan, an expert from New York, nd a Mr. Casscerout and Mr. Bullflnoh, experts from Baltimore. This Is the story of the diamond discov ery. What it will amount to only time can tell. It should be stated that the alleged fields are In that part -f the which ahnwa such oreat evidences of volcanio action, being on the border of the famous lava flow which slrett hes a cheerless desert lor nunureua ot miles across the country. " t 1 BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL. The Annual Exportation of India Rubber From Para Our Three Largest Railroad Centers. Maine expects a large Ice crop, Germany makes aluminium or vtts. The best isinglass is made in Russia. Paper bottles are made and utilized In uermany. Ch ina has twenty seven American mercnanis. Pennsylvania woolen mills emplo an nw 1. - I- 'i '1 w,uw uaiiua. Europe is reported to have 50,000 match tavtories. Over 17,000 styles of silk goods are auuwn to dealers. Nearly half the world's railroad mile age is within the United States. A Vienna brewer is doing a profitable uueiutre. iie is worm t w,uuo,uou. Lottie Collins' pay amounts to 112.50 or every minute sue is on the stage. The number of sheep in Ireland has increased oy over 1,000,000 gince .l89, A sewing machine weighing 672 tons is doing good work in Leeds, England. About 100 Iron mines are at Draanni in operation in tne Laxe superior digtricts. boar messages can be teleirranhnd on one wire by means of the quadruple! system. The total production of maple sugar in this country last year was 82,969,927 pouuus. ,. Glass-lined iron tubing adds immense ly to the enduring capacity of the structure. A pneumatic cushion, to be olaced on the ends of telephone receivers, is some- tning new. It is estimated thai the capital in vested in the electrical Industries in this country is t72U,0UO,0O0, The Japanese use no instrument for extracting teeth, but lift them out with the thumb and forefinger. There are reported to be 8.000.000 rommercial drummers in this country. only three of whom are women. The population of manv South Sa Islands manufacture their entire suits from the products of palm trees. - On a Montana sheeb ranch 6.000 sheen d topped 6.60 J lam be. This is a remark able record for so large a number. ' The value of the 745.112 pairs of boots and shoes exported durinc the flpcal rear ended June 31), 1892, was (914,974. The national debts of Europe amount to a total which is equivalent to $65 for each inhabitant of the continent. . A syndicate of United States capital ists has secured control of all the bitu mirous coal trade In Lower Canada. A new gaslight burner is made with out cams or springs, the gas being turned on and lighted by operating the key. No less than 6V000 incandescent lamps are manufactured every day at an aver age selling price of about 75 cents apiece. The three largest railroad centers in Ihe United States in order of their im- rortance are Chicago, Indianapolis and St. Louis. The annual exportation of India rub- br from Para is said to be upward of 2J,000,000 pounds, worth from $0,000,000 to 9,000,0t0. Cargo steamers are growing lu size. A 9,000-ton ner was launched .two weeks sgo, and another one similar in sizj is being laid down. PERSONAL MENTION. The Empress of Gsrmany Sends a Fine Present to the Lying-in Hospital for Poor Women. M. Gounod declares that his finest In spirations come while he is having a quiet game of cards. Justice Field has been a member of . the Supreme Court for almost thirty years. Only six Justices have served , longer. The vignette of General Sherman on ths new 5 K) notes is said to be one of the most expensive pictures ever taken of the old soldier. Harrison Mecham, a millionaire of Petaluuia. Cal., has given $50,000 as a lund Irom the income of which aid is to be given to the poor of the district. The Empress of Germany sent $12,000 i a present to the Ivincr-in hospital for poor wonfbn in Berlin on the occasion of the christen! ug of her infant daughter. John 0. Eno, one of the most distin guished of the American exiles in Can ada, is a prominent member of the Union Club in Montreal, and lives in fine style. Bishop Hennessey of St. Louis, it is believed, will soon be named as coad- utor, and hence successor, of Archbishop Kenrick. whoae sge interferes with his performance of the dtules of his office. The et-Chief Geronimo. who with other subjugated Apache Indians is liv ing near Mobile, has been msde a gar dener at the military station where he is a captive, and is also a Justice of the feace for his tribe. , M. Francois CoPD?e'srecent confession of general and frightful innorance has met little credence. The Fvencn Acad emy has just put him on a qprumittee In charge of tne academy's glgahtio dic tionary of the French language. Florence Nightingale, the famous nurse of the Crimea, and whose deeds of sim- file mercy and charity were embalmed a song and story until she became Eng land's favorite heroine, is now 72 years old, and lives in perfect seclusion. John Q. A. Heiring of Philadelphia has just completed his fortieth year of seiv ce with the Adams Express Com pany. He is manager of el the lines of the company east of th Ohio to Joreey ty, and bas charge ol l.uou agencies. An Inquiry is made again about the Paul Hayne monument fund, which was started six years ag . It seems that it reached $700 and public interest in it then failed. It is now proposed that The Hayne Circle " of Augnsta. Ga.. literary society, make an effort to revive interest In the matter. Among the great men of the world blue eyes have always predominate!. Socia'es, Shakespeare, Locke, Bacon, Milton, Goethe, Franklin, Napoleon and Ren an, all had blue eves. The eyes of Bismarck, Gladstone, Huxley, Virchow nd Bucnner are also oi this color, and au the Presidents of the United States except uenerai nnrrieon enjoyed the same cerulean color as to their optics. EASTERN ITEMS. Indianapolis Cemetries Being Visited by Ghouls. ORANGE CROP OF FLORIDA. Fresh War Made on Oleomargarine in rennsyivania tiarrison to Visit Europe. Dressmakers of the Central States are forming a pool at Chicago. The People's party of Kansas will op pose the division of that State. Indianapolis cemeteries have : been plundered of late in a wholesale manner by body snatchers. Oil flowed at the rate of 48,000 barrels a day for an hour irom new well in Hancock county, O. The Mississippi Legislature is going to try and reduce the charges on all sleep ing cars in that State. Secretary Elkins in his report says the Indians have shown themselves fit for service in the anssy. The ministers and mist of the under takers of Port Jervis, X. Y., have agreed to discontinue Sunday funerals. ; The orange crop of Florida aggregates 8,000,000 boxes this year, 70,000 less than last. Higher prices are expected. Millions of dollars worth of real estate in the city of Biltimore is claimed as a heritage of the Chenoweth family. ' A bill baa passed the Georgia Legisla ture to prevent the stock of corporation's from being accumulated in a few hands. The New York Central road is sued for $40 000 damages by a woman whose be trothed husband was killed in wreck. Tba craze for combination has struck the Milwaukee broommakers, who have formed an organization and advanced prices 30 per cent. W. H. Sheppard. who was instructed by Congress to Investigate the slums of the larger cities of this country, has be gan work in Chicago. South Dakota's new Legislature ap pears to have a majority of members who favor resubmission of the prohibi tory laws to the people. Planters of Tennessee who are inter ested in tobacco-growing are making ef forts to make its cultivation more gen eral throughout the South. All the houses of ill repute in Pitts burg have been closed and the women ordered to leave town. They called in a body on the Mayor to expostulate. The violin upon which the w ddiBg march was played at George Washing ton's marr.atre his come into the posses sion of the Sunbury (Pa.) Musical SjcI ety. A Kansas farmer who had had much trouble in shipping eggs at last succeed ed in getting a consignment delivered in good order Dy marxing me oox dynam ite." Augustus T. Kerr, who embezzled $12.- 000 from the Jarvis-Oonklin Trust Com pany of Kansas City, Mo., has been brourht back from Liverpool in charge of officers. M. Satolli. Papal delegate, has been empowersd by the Holy See to hear and decide without appeal all religious ques tions between bishops and priests in tne United States. Fresh war on oleomargarine is made in Pennsylvania, Dairymen come for ward to prove that it is dangerous to health, and that it carries millions of microbes. Prof. Clarke says it Is full of all sorts of things. Georgia's Legislature expects to pass a bill for more and better-paid Judges, The State's Circuit Jurists receive only $2,000 a year, and are compelled to pay their own expenses, including a consid erable outlay lor railroad lares. - North Dakota church circles have been thrown into a furor of excitement over the remarkable utterances of Rev. John Shanley, Bishop of .the Catholic diocese of that State. He asserts that prohibi tion as fact is a flat failure in North Dakota.. Mr. Harrison will make a long visit to Europe next summer or fall and spend several months in the large manufactur ing cities of England and possibly Ger many and other continental countries. His purpose, it is said, is to study the economic conditions of the countries of Europe. The Trade and Labor Assembly at Chicago has adopted resolutions urging communication of President-elect Cleveland to call an extra session of Con gress for the repeal of the McKinley law. The resolutions declare the assembly to be in favor of free trade, and ask Mr. Cleveland to aid in hastening the tims when cuttom-houees will be known only in history. Superintendent Allen of the Butte and Boston Mining Company has written a suggestive letter to the Treasury Depart ment. He offdrs to coin all the silver dollars the government wants at 90 cents apiece, putting In them 400 grains of pure silver, against 341i as in the p res dollar. At 85 cents per ounce the value of the present dollar is only 65.71 cents. He would number each coin, so that the government would not bs compelled to redeem duplicates. He sayi the degree of fineness of the present dollar is such that it can be counterfeited so as to defy detection, and that with $650,000 worth of metal a counterfeiter can make for tune of $3f 0,000 profit. He proposes a standard which would prevent the pos sibility of such a counterfeit. Last July the Interstate Commerce Commission began an investigation look ing to alleged discrimination in freight rates in favor of the Illinois Steel Com- any and other heavy shippers by near y all the roads rnnning into Chicago. The officials of the roads and tbe com pany were required to give material evi dence or produce the books, and the United States District Court was called on to compel them to do so. The deci sion of the courts is one of the utmost importance in itsearing on the practi cability of the interstate commerce law. Judge Gresham has rendered a decision in the case denying the prayer of peti tioners, on the ground that the court could not be made subsidiary to or sub ordinate or auxiliary to a non-judicial and administrative body. NATIONAL CAPITAL. Joint Resolution Introduced In the House With the Object of Changing the Revenue Laws. The Secretary of the Treasury has in formed the Speaker of the House that the deficiencies for the current fiscal year are estimated at $14,636,520,of which 1,6Jj,OjO is on account of pensions. The Committee on Military Affairs of the House has completed the annual ap propriation bill. It makes the total ap propriation $24,202,739, or $861,766 less than for this year and $1,720,216 less than estimated. ' Williams of Massachusetts has intro duced in the House a bill for the discon tinuance of silver purchases after Feb ruary 1 next, and setting aside as a trust fund the money received by the Treasury for the redemption of the national bank botes, which, by the Sherman law of 18' 0, was made a miscellaneous receipt. The Secretary of the Interior has ac cepted the reconveyance to the United States by the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company of 46,000 acres of land in the Red River Valley In North Dakota, and has issued instruc tions to make indemnity selections of non-mineral lands unoccupied in Min nesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Idaho. Captain Symonds, who was directed to examine Rogue river from Grant's Pass to its mouth, reports to the War Depart- - . ii.. . i. : t A it Fx wqui uu, auv rivvr i. uui wurtrjy oi im provement, and Congress Is advised to make no appropriation for the purpose. He says there are too many waterfalls and rapids in the river, aud the com merce does not justify improvements at the mouth of the river. Captain Symonds reported In favor of improving the upper Columbia river in Washington at two places, one from the Little Dalles to the International bonnd- Altu. MilAa I .1. - 1 1 I i J , uivwu ujiica, auu fclic uiuvr iruiu 1 the head of Rock Island rapids to Foster creex, just above the mouth ol the Okanogan, ninety miles. To make the survey aud prepare for the improvements $4 0M will be necessary. The depart ment concurs in the recommendation. Members of Congress are inclined to favorably regard the suggestion that the face of Mrs. Potter Palmer should be need for the head piece of the silver dol lar that will be coined next year. Such a selection would not only be a compli ment to the board of lady managers of the World'sColumbian Exposition, of which she is President, but to the entire female population of the country, and that it would be particularly appropriate to im mortalize a representative American woman in this way during the exposition year. Speaker Crisp,. Representatives Mc Millin and Catohings, who are members of the Rules Committee and rather looked to to shape the policy of the House, held a conference the other day for the purpose of considering the plan and scope of an inquiry into the condi tion of the treasury. The inquiry is really designed for the purpose of famish ing the information necessary for a re vision of the tariff on a revenue basis, to which the Democratic party is pledged, and to some extent, also, for the purpose of gaining information as to where re forms can be made in the interest ol economy in the administration of the government. The report will be made to the full committee later. Mr. Mills of Wisconsin has introduced joint resolution in the House directing the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House to appoint a com mittee, to consist of three Senators and five Representatives, whose duty it shall be to Investigate as to tne propriety oi i making changes in the revenue laws and J report the reBult of their inquiry to the next Congress. The committee is to have power to send for persons and pa- pers, and a sufficient amonnt of money to carry on the investigation is author IcAd. A nrAamble to the' Muvilntion .laikD know .uv.vauivv. .uu .wou u.w- tion indicates that a large portion of the people expect and desire a change in the revenue laws to the end that the bur dene of taxation may be more equally distributed among the people. The statement prepared by the Clerks of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations to show the estimates for the regular annual and permanent appropriations for the fiscal year of 1893 4 aggregates $f 05,861,335, an, increase over the estimates for the current fiscal year of $15,929,241 and over the appropri ations (exclusive of deficiencies and mis cellaneous) of $: 7,375,260 The appro priations, however, include $21,164,218 for rivers and harbors, for which no es timates were made. The appropriations, of coarse, never equal the estimates, but on the other hand no deficiency nor mis cellaneous appropriations are included in the estimates. They do not include anything for rivers and harbors, on ac count of which the chief of engineers estimates that $53,0H,960 can be profit ably expended. The proposition to choose a President by direct vote of the people promises to meet with more than nsual consideration by the Committee on the Election of President and Vice-President and Repre sentatives in Congress. The committee had a meeting the other; day. At the last session of Congress Springer intro duced a joint resolution providing for a Presidential and Vice-Presidential term of six years with ineligibility of the in cumbents of re-election, and also provid ing for a scheme of electing them by a direct vote of the people. Springer ad dressed the committee and was followed by Colonel McClure, who indorsed Springer's sentiments. Representative Beltxhoover of Pennsylvania, will intro duce a resolution in the House in a few days which has for its object the election of President and Vice-President by a di rect vote of tbe people, and this will be referred to a subcommittee. An unusual incident in the opening pro ceedings of the Senate was the offering of a prayer by a Jewish rabbi. Chaplain Butler introduced to the Vice-President Rev. Dr. Joseph Silverman, rabbi of the Temple Emanuel, New York, and one of the distinguished attendants) at the Rabbi Convention in progress at Washington City at that time; and Dr. Silverman then delivered the opening invocation. He did not follow the cue torn of the so-called orthodox Jews by covering his head, but stood bareheaded during the proceedings, On the occa sion of the death of Senator Barbour of Virginia funeral services were held in the Senate by Bishops and priests of the Catholic Church, but this is the first oc casion in which a Jewish prelate has been invited to conduct religious exer cises in that body. In the House Isaac M. Wise, a Jewish rabbi from Cincin nati, made the opening prayer. FOREIGN LANDS. The Siberian Railroad Scheme Badly Managed. A CHAIR OF EGYPTOLOGY. Mme. Gerster Makes a Appearance Mt, Observatory. Successful Blanc EngKsh farmers are preparing to make radical demands of Parliament. The L indon unemployed will not be allowed to make a torchlight parade. Count Leo Tolet M has settled his en ti'e property upon his wife and chil dren. The Argentine Minister of Finance declares that it will be impossible to re sume cash payments. The total receipts of the gambling tables at Monte Carlo last year were over 23,000,000 francs. Mme. Etelka Gerster has made a most successful appearance in the Grand Dd cal Theater at Weimar. The section of London society known as "The Souls" has abandoned its proj ect of publishing a magazine. The Amzn warriors of the King of Dthomeyat roguessawere armed with Winchesters and sharp sabers. London's six principal railway line carry annually over 100 000 000 oeop'.e and the tramways about 160,000 000 Russia is again active in her efforts to maintain the very highest degree of ef ficiency In her military organization. ' Major-General Sir George Stewart White hie been appointed Commander I in-chief of the British forces in India. ' In Sweeden an 1 in C uuiark the Par liaments have vo ei that the office of stenographer shall bs filled by wjmen. The Council of the t; ciety of Authors, of which Tennyson was President, has elt cted George Meredith as his successor. The London Timet says that the great Sib -rian railroad scheme is b idly man aged and is making very slow progress. Christine Nilseon has given $5 000 to ward founding a hospital in France for he treatment of sufferers from throat diseases. The Berlin police are kept in retdineas in the barracks, owing to expected dis turbances bv the unemployed, who now number 30,000. I Indignation meetings are being held and petitions drawn np a 1 over Uermany to protest against the proposed increase of the beer tax. The German health office reports that there have been in Germany this year 11 617 cases of cholera, of which 8,575 have been fatal. . Hercultile. the new French explosive, is so powerful that half a pound of it in a recent content displaced a stone weigh ing thirty tms. In Girmtay aluminium cravats are now on eah. They are advertised as lea'her-liu'it, silver-white work goods that will wear forever. Eiffd of tower fame will assist Prof. Janssen, the astronomer, in building bis observatory on the top of Mount Blanc at an altitude of 4,800 meters, It is claimed that there is a lighthouse to every fourteen mlies in. England, to every thirty-four miles in Ireland and to every thirty-nine miles in eoouano " The new German emigration bill, which is before the Reichstag, prohibits the emigration of men between 17 and 25 years of age who are liable to mili tary service. An outflow of population from Europe to South American porta is now in prog ress, and promises to kjsume enormous proportions as soon as some existing dif ficulties are settled. v ' The Czar of Russia has the etamp-col-lecing mania. His collection is said to be worth over $600 000 and to contain nearly every stamp of the past or pres ent issues of all nations. The Russian government has declined the offer of a French syndicate to finish the construction of the Siberian railway. No foreign capital will be employed In furthering the enterprise. ; Ths trial by court-martial of the per sons concerned in the cholera riots in Ssratoff, Russia, in July last has ended. Twenty-three prisoners have been sen tenced to be hanged and fifty-gix to be imprisoned in Siberia. Dr. Collingridge reports to the London Port Sanitary Committee that there is an almost alsolute certainty of an out break of cholera in the spring, when all the precautions now adopted will be far more severely strained than hitherto. Forty-six Spanish Anarchists ars on trial by court-martial for complicity in an attack on the prison of Xeras, in January last. At the trial they were acquitted. In Spain a man may have h i life twice placed in jeopardy for the same tff-nse. : There is a report from Jerusalem that Baron Edmond de Rothschild has com pleted negotiations with the Turkish government for the establishment of J w h colonies on the Rothschild lands in P estine, and also for permitting Russian Jews to settle there. The first chair of Egyptology in Eng land has been founded by the will of the late Mss Amelia B. Edwards, who died in the spring of this year; and the Ed wards professor at University College, London, is now Flinders Petrie, who has just been formally appointed. A dispatch to the Renter Telegram Company from Mosow says the Czar has withdrawn his consent to the mor ganatic marriage of his nephew, the Grind Duke Nicholas Nicolaievitch. with the daughter of merchant named Bourenines, because she insisted on the right to be received at court and on hay ing the title of Grand Duchess. The correspondent of the London Ch'omcU at St. Petersburg sends to that paper a dispatch containing the report of an interview between the Czar and Prince Metchersky. The correspondent thinks that the interview is preliminary to the ration of Prince Metchersky's resell mary policy of placing the peas antry, under the control and in the power of the aristocracy and landed gentry. PORTLAND MARKET. Prodaee. Frnft. VSto. Whxat Valley, 1.151.17 ; Walla Walla, $1.07)01.10 per cental. Fioua Standard, $3.65 j Waila Walla, $3.66; Graham, $3; Superfine, $2.60 per barrel. Oats 44(9 45c par bushel; rolled, in bags, $6.26(90.60; barrels $6.606.76; cases, $3.76. a Hat-4U13.50 per ton. MiLLsrorra Bran, $7; shorts, $19; ground barley, $22.60(825 ; chop feed, $21 22 per ton; whole feed barley, $13(gl9; middings, $2628 per ton; brewing barley, Sl.00ai.16 per cental; chicken wheat, $L20 per cental. Bdttxb Oregon fancy creamery, 35 87Hc; fancy dairy, 3032c; fair to good, 2527c; common, 1617)gO per pound. Chubs Oregon, ll13c ; Young America, 14(3 14jc per pound. Eoos Oregon, 35c; Eastern, 2627c per dozen. PoowaT Old Chickens, quoted at 3.OO4 0J; young, $2.003.60; ducks, $4.0o6.tM; geese, nominal, 10.00(g 11.00; turkeys, 1213c per pound. Vsgbtablss Cabbage, sl-0 1.60 per cental ; onions, 7690c per cental ; pota toes, 759Jc per cental; tomatoes, 40(9 6.c per box; Oregon turnips, 76c$l 00 per cental; young carrots, 75c$l per cental; sweet potatoes, $1.75 per cental; Oregon cauliflower, 76c$1.00 per dozen ; celery, 60c per dozen. Jfaurrs Biciiy lemons, o.oo; Cal ifornia grapes. 75c (cell per box; Ore gon pears, $1.25(81.50 per box ; bananas, $2.00($3.aU per ouncn; oranges, 4.00y per box; cranberries, $10.60 per barrel; apples, 60c$1.50. : Staple erocwriM. Honit Choice comb, 15317e per pound ; new Oregon, 1820c Salt Liverpool, $14.50(317.00; stock,, 10.5011.50 per ton. Rica Island. $5.00(85.60: Japan. $4.85 percental. Dbibd Fruits Petite prunes, 10(3110; silver,ll(14c; Italian, 12(3 14c; German, 10llc; plums, old, 5(g6c; new, 789c; appies, 4i9ic; evaporated, apricots, loloo ; peacbes, iztgioc; pears, (sac per pound. Oorras Costa Rica, 21 lie ; Rio, 20'c ; Salvador, 20c; Mocha, 27(8 30c: Java, 27)4 30c; Arbuckle's, 100-pound cases, 25 35-1000 per pound; Columbia, same, 24 85-lOOc Bbakb Small white, awe; pink, 3c; bayos. batter, ejjc, lima, 8o ptjr pound. t Sraor Eastern, In barrels, 4055c; hall-barrels, 42)57)ic; in cases, 35 80c per gallon ; $2.25 per keg. Caliiornui . in barrels, 20(8 40c par gallon $1.75 per keg. Bdoab Net prices : D,4)e ; Ootden C. 4c; extra O, 4c; Magnolia A, 4j,c ; granulated, 5)c; cube crushed and pow- ' dered. 5?c; confectioners' A, 6,c per" pound ; maple sugar, 15(8 lte per pound. Cannkp Goods Table fruits, assorted ned $1.75(32.00; peaches, $1.66(32.10; lett pears, $1.76(32.00 ; plums. $1.37 Ve (31.60; strawberries, $2.25(32.40; cher ries, $2.25(32.40; blackberries, $1.85(9 2; raspberries, $2.40; pineapples, $2.26 2.80; apricots, $1.65(32.00. Pie fruits: Assorted, $1.20; peaches, $1.25; plums,' . $1.10(31.20; blackberries, $1.2501.40 per dozen. Pie fruits, gallons Assorted, 13 25(33.50; peaches, $3.60(34.00; apri cots, $3.50(34.00; plums, 2. 76(33.00; blackberries. S4.OOCt4.oO. Vegetables : corn, $1.40(31.85; tomatoes, 95c$1.00; sngarpeas,95c(3$1.00; string beans, 90 O 95c per dozen. Meats i Corned beef, Is, $1.25; 2s, $1.852.00; chipped beef, $2.10; lunch tongue, Is. $3.10 ; 2s, $5.60 ; deviled ham, $1.60(32.76 per dnr. Fish: Sardines, 76c$2.25; Ms, $2.1504 50; lobsters, $2.303.60; salm on, Un l-lb.talls,$1.251.50; flats, $1.76; ' 2 lbs., $2.25(12.60; bbl., $5.50, MlawaUaneoas. Nails Base quotations: Iron, 2 75; steel, $2.75; wire, $3.00 per keg. Ibom Bar, 2Jc per pound; pig iron, $23326 per ton. Stsel lOUo per pound. Tw I. 0. charcoal, 14x20, prime qual ity, $8.25(38.75 per box; for crosses, $2 extra per box; roofing, 14x20, prime quality, $6.62,(36.75 per box ; I. C. coke plates, 14x20, prime quality, $7.608.00 per box. Naval Stobxs Oakum, $4.505 per bale: resin, $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 lots. ; Lkad 4c per pound; bar, 6jC ' Shot $1.80 per sack. HoEsasHoas $5. . Hide. Wool and Hop.. - Hidks Dry hides, selected prime,6f3 7)ic; c lees for culls; green, selected, over 65 pounds. 4c ; under 65 pounds, 3c ; sheep pelts, short wool, S0(36Oc; me dium, 60(3 80c; long, 90c$l.25; shear ings, 1020c; tallow, good to choice, 3 3Vic per pound. - Wool Umpqua Valley, 16319o; fall clip, 1316)ic; Willamette Valley, 15(3 18c, according to quality; Eastern Ore gon, 10 16c per pound, according to condition. Hops 1520c, according to condition, Tha Meat Market. Bxxs- Live, $1.75(3 2 75 per IOC pounds; dressed, $l.e0 S5.0). Mutton Live, $3.60(33.60 per 10C pounds; dressed, $6; lambs, live, $3.26 (33.60; dressed, $P. Hogs Live, $4.60(34.80 per 100 pounds; dressed, $6. Vbal $1(89 per 100 pounds. Smokid Mkats Large ham, 13. 14)c; eaedinm ham, 14315c; breakfast bacon, 15(3 16c; short dear sides, 11 13c; dry salt sides, llc per pound. Lat Compound, in tins, 10 (311c; pore, in tins, 14)16j; Oregon, 119 13)0 per pound. Bsc and Baffgrlnr. Burlaps, S-oa,, 40-inch, net cash, 6c; burlaps, 10-oc, 40-inch, net cash, 7c ; burlaps, 12-oz., 45-inch, 7s ; burlaps, 15-oa., 60-inch. lc ; burlaps, 20-cc, 76 inch, l4o. Wheat bags, Calcutta, 23x36, cpot, 6c; two-bushel oat bags, 6c Scandal Well Defined. Some pnpils were asked by an ex aminer at a school examination whether they knew the meaning ; of the word "scandal." One little girl held np her hand, and being told to answer the ques tion she replied, "Nobody does nothing aud everybody goes telling of it every where." Boston Commercial. The Flrat Newapap.ra. The first newspaper in the modern sense was issued monthly at Venice in "86; the first English newspaper was published in 1622; the first American in 1704. 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