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OREGON
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ST. HELENS,-OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1892.
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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.
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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
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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 .
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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.
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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.
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All Work Guaranteed.
T. A. McltaiDS.
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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.
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ATTORNEYS-at-LAW,
Oregon City, Oregon.
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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.
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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. "
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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
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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-
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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. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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