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nn ' THE MIST" GIVES ALL TIib Official aiii Oilier News . or- - Columbia : County. i Tin Official Paper -or- Columbia : County. VOL. 10. ST. HELENS,1 OREGON, Fill DAY , AUGUST 4, 1803. NO. 32. THE MIST" OREGON THE OREGON MIST. inni i:n i:vi;iiv ruiuAV moiiNiNM -hi- ' THE MIST PUBLISHING COMPANY, DAVIS BROS., Managers. OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER. iib.vriptlaii llulce. ' One copy on year In advance , II M Oil CMiy U months 7j Blugle copy A-verllaiH; Hales. Professional curds ana year I 1J One cciltiiri ti lino year,,,,.,, . I.J Hull column one year ? oimrtor column one your ...... a" On. Iiii'h ono iiiiiulh ' (ln Inch three mouths M Ou Inch tlx uiuiiUi. Loral notices, 1.1 emit, per line for that lnur llniii IU cents per line lor each ubseipioiit In sertion, ...... Legal advertisements, VI M) per Inch for Ural Inaertlnii, mut 70 tenia pur Imtli (ur each subse quent Insertion. COLUMBIA COUNTY DIUKCTOUY. Oouutr Officers. Judge !' " Hlaiidi.nl, Itaiuler CIits K. K. quick, Hr. Melon. Hlierlir... '. A. Masai.-, HI. Heidi I Tr.'.aur r ...K. M. Wharliui, Columbia l.'lly Hiii't. "I cK'huots... T. J. tMcclou, Voinonle Awnaaur ... .W. II. Kyw, Kalnler Surveyor... A. u. l.lillc, Ke'iiler Cotnmlaalonora.., !. u. Bi'iioonovnr, veruoiua U. W. liaruea, Mayger. Society Notices. Htiwic-Ht. Helena lxx!c. No. Ifl-Regular communications II rut ami third Saturday In I'll mimth at7:HUr. . at Masnnlo hall. Vlsll lug numbers lu gwd .lauding Invltetl to at- Ma'aoNic.-ttahilsr Lodge, No. Jl-Stated meetings NalHnlny on or before each (till moon at 7:W) r. a), at Masonic hall, over niauclmrd's tore. Vliilni( members In good standing in vited to atuuid, Oi.ii Kki.miws St. Helena l.odM Nj. 117 Mem a every Haluiday night at 7: ML Transient brethren In good lUili.liiig cordially Invited to attend. 'I lie Halle. Down river (boat) eloaea at n 0 a, at. I'p river (ln.atlclu.eaat i e. m. The mail lor Vermmla and Pittsburg leave, fit. Helens Monday, Wednesday aud Friday at I A. M. The mall (or Marshland. Clatakanle and Mint leave, ipiiiiu Monday, Wedueaday aud Friday Mclla (railway) north cloae a1 10 i. .; lor I'ortlaud at r. H. Travelers IJiilde Hler Kuules. StwhI. W. Hiiavkk Iavea St. Helena for Portland at II A. M. Tuesday, Thursday and ItHtnrday. leaves Ht. Helena for CleLkanle Monday, Wednesday and Friday at a.OU A, at. HTSAMaa IAi.n-l4avea Ht. Helena lor Tort land 7. tli a. M, returning ats.lio r. M. KratMKR Josa-fll KKi.i.min leaves HI. Helena tor Portland dully except Holiday, at 7 A. ., er rlvlini at Portland at WHO; reluming, leave PorileiiV at 1 r. .. arrlvlUK at t. Helen, at 4. fKOFKSrjlONAti. Ir, H. k. cuvr, rilYSlCIAN and SUKGEON. 81. Helena, Oregon. jjR. J. K. II A LI,, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. CUtiknnle, Colunilila county, Or. . LITTLE, SURVEYOR and CIVIL ENGINEER, Bt. Helena, Oregon. Comity aurveynr. Land aiirveylnir, town platting, and engineering work promptly (lone. Solentltlo Amerlotn Agenoy ror CAVEAT. TRAOB MARKS. DItlON (.ATINTS, COPYRIGHT. etoJ tot Information and free Handbook write to MUNN A CO UI BnoAUWAT, NW VollK. Ofiioat boreau for acourlna- patenta In Ani.rlos. Kvorv patent tak.n out. hr n la broiiala bernre the publte by a uouee given Iroa ol oliarga In the lArMft ctitmUtlnn of nr iwitiiitlflo papr m Mia WoriO. u..l.i.tirttv llhitifreitnil. Nn ntm phouid ! wlttiout It. Weehly. 3, 0(1 4 VuirluuKuai ai Jit-tMHim. xwk citj. yewi ""7z? '"v."r w,l I The Overland Route. Two tralna dally, leav. tiiRVKtbandlatreota, Urand Oeutral Depot, 4 Illli. t.lmltMd VuMt 'tMbII.o htavliiir at 7:l r. h.j carrlea Vo.tl bnle rullnian Palace uiAut.lt.v u.wl lltiilnir Onra and free Heellnhiic Chair Onra thrniiiih from Portland to Cbl- wll bout change. Tim train ninaua uiw ai neiilloua for lienvvr, Kanaaa t.lty, Ht. I,oula, Helena, llutte andHt. Paul; also carr eathrpiigli Pullman Weeper amlChelrCar for W alia V alia, C.iKhx, KarniHuttmi, Kocklord and Hpokiine, uinklnK direct connorlloua lor Wiiyton, t'om erny, Moscow and dur d'Alene, No. It, " Overland Flyer," Waving at 8:45 A. H., rarrlca Pullnian Palace and Totirlat Hleepera from Portland toMlsaourl rlverwltboutchainte. Through tralna arrive at 7:M A. M. and f. M. H;iVAl CilBill'llvi." . V w.SrkP UiiIil'I A1SIII l.civv Man KnANriMYV Coliimlin;.,MiiyJ,IH12N Huit May N 17,iitt OrvKoti My 4, 1(1, 28 Columbia May ft, 'M Ui..ai nlnv 1'J '2A nrA ii v ii.u..t'Va llta rltttit to chuilK ToHTLANO 'aOTwRIA ROUTK Morn lint boat leaves Porlland dally, except Hiinday, at 7 a, M.i returning, leavea Aatorln dally, ex cent Hundiiy, at (I i. m. Night bout leaves Port land dully, except Haturduy, at 8 r. m.i return ng, leave. Astoria dully, except Holiday, at OA. m The morning htiat from Portland makes landings on the Oregon aide Tuesdays, Thura' dava and Katnrdaysi on the Washington aide Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. rom As toria the morning boat makes landings on the Oregon aide Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and on the Washington aide Tuesdays, Thurs- JabOAM KOUTK-Iave Ajh atreet at 6 A. at. dallv, except Hunday; returnliig, leave Bonne ville at 12:110 r. ., arriving at Portland at 6 r. u. TO DAYTON AND WAY I.AND1NU8 Mon day, Wednesday, Friday, 7 A. M. Ocean atoauiera leave from Btoamahtp wharf "'a'iX OTHER Stoainort leave from Ash-atreet dock. office 2M Washington street, asiruer Third. W, H. HUKI.TWUT, or . iaaiatant General Passenger Agent, Portland, Or. rr THE PACIFIC COAST. Ruins of a Prehistoric City Found by Prospectors. A STAGE DRIVER INDICTED. Magnificent Rain Fall All Through Eastern and Southeastern Arizona Etc. A good rain lias fill Ion throughout the Uruttt Halt Luke and Ululi Vullcya. Mifis lAiira M. TJldun ha been admit ted to practice before the courU of Ne vuiia. It 1h reported that halibut have loft the Fluttery bank and gono farther norm. Kacramnnto in to have a new water supply. Two bids have been received lor lurniHiiuig me water. Columbia river flHhoriimn declare the trap contrivance are to blame for the UmuHtroua year liiey nave nau. The journeymen tailors in three union shops about the only ones in tiie town of Victoria are out on a strike. The cuuho ia a reduction of wugea. , Now rich placer mines have been ili covered on one of the tributary streams on the Yukon river, a few hundred miles below rorty-iiulo creek, Alaska, Samuel J. Black, who was shot bv Evans and HunUig at Camp Badger last May, ih getting along very wen. ins re covery is only a matter of time. Magnificent rains have fallen all through Eastern and BoutheaHtern Ari zona. All of the tributaries of the (iila and Salt rivers are running bank full. Grass is coming on in great abundance, and live stock ia doing well. It ts rumored at Vallcjo that Captain Clay Corcoran of the United Kates ma rine corps stationed at the marine bar racks, Mare Island, has been placed in UHpcnslon by Major Henry A. Bartlett, commandant of the marine barracks. Prospectors from Yuina claim to have discovered the ruins of a prehintorltrity on tiie Colorado uesert in srarcn ol reg lcg mine. It is stated the wind had laid bare the walls and remains of stone buildings for the distance of 420 feet in length by 200 feet in width. Two indictments have been returned at Preanott, A. T., by the United Ktiites grand jnry against George W. Miller, one for rolibery and the other forembez sling and secreting letters. Miller was stage driver on the Castle creek stage road, and a few weeks ago reported that he had been held np and robbed. Commanders of gunboats patrolling the sealing grounds have informed Cax tain Koder of the Schooner iieebe, Just arrived at Port Townsend, that unusual precautions have been adopted this year to prevent polngio sealing in Rnsnian wa ters. All vessels captured will be con fiscated by the KusHtan government. Judge Cheney of Nevada has decided very important water suit at Lovelocks, Hnmboldt county. He gives the plaint iffs lust water enough to irrigate their lanti under the best management. They claimed the right to all their ditch would carry, and asked for the removal of the Pitts dam, higher up ia the Humboldt, which was refused. The wool growers of Utah have de cided to organize the Territorial Wool Growers' Association, the principal ob ject of which will be to provide for the storage and shipment of the entire Utah wool clip this year. This means that in future Utah wool growers instead of Eastern wool buyers will handle the product of that Territory. An Indian Infant born recently to Joe Allen and wife of tiie Umatilla reserva tion, Oregon, is peculiarly afflicted. It was brought into the world with a double harelip and a double cleft palafe, the case being a curiosity in medical prac tice. With nsual Indian portinaeitv the parents refuse to consent to an operation upon their unfortunate offspring. Experienced irrigation isU in the San Joaquin Valley think it is potmible to work an improvement in the system in two directions. One is to make use of the high wators of winter and spring, which now run to waste; the other is to dispense largely with surface wetting of the ground, which produces sickness and culls for much work that can be done Away with. Mrs. Ruth Townsend was accidentally shot and killed at Salt Lake with a tar get rifle in the hands of Levinia Hark ard, the sweetheart of Mrs. Townsend's son, Arthur. MiHH Harkard was aiming at a target, and Arthur Townsend, who was endeavoring to steady her aim by resting the rifle on his arm, suddenly dropped it at her reanest, changing the aim. Mrs. Townsend, who was Btanding to one side, received the diwliarge of the rifle, and died in ten minutes. The Executive Committee of the San Francisco Midwinter Pair gives out the following information : H. Wallenstein, who has a large flonr-mllling exhibit at Chicago, communicates relative to the establishing of his exhibit at the Cali fornia Fair. Several additional offers have been received from gentlemen who believe they can be of OHtdntance to the fair ami tender their sorvices, free of anv cost except traveling expenses, to work among tho dilferont Pacific Coaat States, A great many otters have been received from paint manufacturers, offering to paint the buildings and also to cover the rocifn with various materials. Ono con cern has requested tho privilege of cov ering tho oltlce of the buildings at the fair for the cost of the material and labor. Applications from mercantile houses of all Borts aro coming in every mail. A local firm representing a largo number of Eastern manufacturing houses say tbev inteud to got up a very elaborate exhibition of different proprietary arti cles. Some of these exhibits are promi nent features at the Columbian Exhibi tion. Many of these will be brought to California intact. The Chinese Six Com panies have subscribed 16,000 to the Mid winter Fair. In addition to this they will bring tho Chinese exhibit from the Chicago Fair to San Francisco, and will have a number of new features. Among the things promised is a floating Chinese village. The Executive Company will appoint an international jury of awards. The general reception of exhibits will commence October 16, and no article will be admitted after December 20. NATIONAL CAPITAL. Secretary Carlisle has begun the reor ganization of the Treasury Department. A nnmlier of clerks have ulrcadv been dropped and others reduced as far as possible under the civil service rules. Much interest lias been arouHcd amrstg statisticians by the discovery that the figures of the balance of trade against this country for the fiscal year ending June UO last, as shown by the record of the bureau of statistics of tho Treasury Department, were atiout 40,000,000 out of tne wav. instead of an adverse bal ance of :!, 000,000 the corrected returns have shown only atiout 160,000,000. Special Supervising Agent Tingle says that the Treasury Department is doing all it can with the money on hand for the enforcement of the Gearv exclusion law. He claims that, if t'ho 50,000 available July 1 should be broken into immediately lor the purpose ol entering into the wholesale deportation of Chi nese, very soon there would be nothing left to pay the special agents and other olllcers ol the treasury engaged in keep ing the Chinese out of thin country, lie says that officers of the government aro at present enuaited in Kathering infor mation as to the Chinese who are ille gally here, and that the Treasury intends to enlorce tne law. Tho report of Chinese Inspector Scharf on his investigation of the fraudulent entry of Chinese at tiie port of New York has 'been received at the Treasury De- fartrtient. No report from Collector leudricks as to Inspector Scharf's alle gation ol collusion by New xork oniciais is yet received. It is alleged In Wash ington City that the customs officers at ficw xorK nave been extremely lax in ianuiiig Chinese certificates, and that whenever the Treasury agents or inspect ors have undertaken to inventittato mat ters they invariably have been given the cold shoulder, tins state ol facts is said to apply to no particular adininistrat ion. To some extent tho same condition of affairs, it is suid, exists in other cities, wliero tho customs officers seem to think the Treanury agents have no right to Ui' vestigato their acts. So far as the State Department is in. formed, there are no American citizens residing in Hiam except missionaries. It is not believed to be neccHxary to take any special measures for tlietr protect ion. The United States bos no representative in Siam, and the Conntil-Geueral at Bangkok, Mr. Boyd, is in this country at firesent, leaving the office in chargo of lis son, tho Vice-Consul. If the welfare of our misHionaries should be threatened, which is unlikely, they can without doubt secure protection on application to the Minintcr of some other nation, as will be the ease witli the French residents. The commercial interostsof the United States In Siam are insignificant, the exports being very few and the imjiortJi being miide up' of teak wood, used in ship building, and some trilleo of Oriental and Malaynesian decorative work. It is said at tho Navy Department that Admiral Harmony's recent retirement, for which the depart mcutliaa been crit icised, was in strict, accordance with his written request. Ho cabled tlio depart ment from Hongkong March 111, asking to be ordered home and retired nnou his arrival in the United States. lie Ftig gosted June 7 as tho most convenient date for his departure. In a letter of March 7 he after asking for detachment said: "Upon my arrival in the United States, which fact I will report by tele graph, I ask that I may be placed on th retired list, as authorized by the statute, having served over forty years continu ously In the navy of the United States." April 24 the President approved the ap- plication, to taae eueci upon me Auoie ral's arrival in the United States, which was Juno 26, as reported by the naval agent at San Francisco. An order was accordingly issued placing him on the retired list. The next day the Admiral telegraphed his arrival, and asked to be retired June 20, but it was impossible to ehango the date, as the order had already ueen issued ana was matieu to nun. WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. An nmhrella made of snun class ia shown at the World's Fair, and Cinder ella's slipper may yet be realized for the Chicago belle. A New York steamship aeent calcu lates that the Chicago Fair has been the caiine of a 45 per cent falling off in Eu ropean departures. Although up to the present time there h tve been nearly 6,000.000 paid admis- s ons to the World's Fair, tho officials are disappointed in the attendance. The most sanguine exposition experts say that under the most favorable conditions the total attendance cannot reach 20,- 000,000. Before the exposition opened the officials thought tne attendance would reach 30,000,000. Chief Justice Fuller of the Supreme Court, sitting as a momber of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, has de livered a formal opinion in thecaseof the appeal of the World's Fair from the de rision of the United States Circuit Court restraining the management from open inn the Bates Sunday. It reverses the decision of the lower court, and remands it for further proceedings. An informal decision was rendered some time ago. When completed, the Yerkea tele scope, which has been donated to the University of Chicago, will be the larg est in the world. The mounting of the telescope is now being put together in the manufactures building. The square iron pier supporting the tube was put in place in the north end of Columbia ave nue last May. It was about thirty feet in height, in four sections. The tube was in five sections, which together are sixty-four feet in length and weigh six tons. The head and axis weigh thirty tons. Chairman Thatcher of the executive committee of the bureau of awards, leaking ol the system ol awards, said: The bureau bus intended from the start to cause a most complete and ex haustive examination to bo made of tho exhibits to the end that it might obey the injunction of Congress requiring the bureau to disclose to the world the prog ress made in the arts, industries and sciences. The commercial side of the awards question sinks into ineignillcanee when compared to the instructive side. To know that John Smith received a prize for his ' exhibit tells the world nothing. What the people, want to know is the specilio merit or improvement over the paxt disclosed by his exhibit. It would have been easy enough to adopt the old-fashioned, meaningless system of making awards, and then everything would have been delightfully smooth sailing, but what educational results would there have been?" EASTERN NEWS. The Caterpillars Numerous in Pennsylvania. THE NATIONAL BANKS CLOSED Certificate of the Chinese Consul at New York Perverted From Their Purpose. Reals are now reserved for women in the Philadelphia public aqua res. Tho Fourteenth Regiment will build in 1'ittsburg an armory lor fl&O.OOO, The farm hands of Southern Kansas have organized themselves into a union. An old oilman says the number of dry wells in Western Pennsylvania is ainaa ing. . , , Some of the recently suspended Kan sas City banks are beginning business again. The engines of the big armored cruiser Maine are pronounced every way satis factory. The Argon Mine Company at Norway, M ich., has closed down, It owes 150,000 in wages. Caterpillars are numerous throughout Pennsylvania, and are doing great dam age to crops. j New York's postoffiaj received 17,300, 200 for tho year ended (in June 30, an in crease of 1480,445.67 in a year. The new Internal Rjivenue Collector for the Louisville dictrt has already re ceived 3,000 applications for positions. Thomas Burns, Superintendent of Po lice at New York, is about to retire. He has accumulated a fortune of 1700,000. New York city is mwli disturbed over its water supply. The water looks bad, and it has a very disagreeable, marshy tante. The resignation of lion.' William A. M. Maurick, Assistant attorney-General, has been tendered to Attorney-General Olney. t Kansas' corn crop premises to be the largest in the State's fiistory except for the year 1880, when it was 273,000,000 bushels. i The Oxford Iron and Nail Company at Belvidere, N. J., is in tne hands of a re ceiver. About 350 men are thrown out of employment. j Governor Carr has cohimissioned forty Rhysicians as delegates to represent orth Carolina at tiie Pan-American Medical Congress at Chicago. Powderly, it is stated, will resign as General Master Workwan at the next convention of tho KnipMsof Labor. The order is said to be in -fml way, ,,, ,, The acting Secretary of War has ap proved the allotments of the Missouri River Commission for the improvement of the river to the amount of $700,000. The Marnuis de Barboles. brother of the Dude de Veragna, wants a slice of the fund that it is proposed to raise in tho United States for the benefit of the Duke. The Manhattan Bank at New York has ordered H. A. Weil, a broker, to withdraw his account, owing to false statements be has made about the insti tution. Since January 1 nearlv 200 national banks have closed their' doors, again Bt less than fifty during the same period last year: five have been United States depositories.. New Yorkers have besrun to write to their daily papers asking thlt the city be protected from cable cars, complain ing that the lives of citizens are "in constant jeopardy." Juan Andreon. alias Juan Daodati. alias Giovanni Cavalcro. said to be one of the most noted safecrackers and all around thieves in Europe, has been ar rested in New York. . Congressmen who were most inter ested in defeating the force bill, it is re ported, may aid their Western colleagues in opposing the unconditional repeal of the Sherman silver bill. The people of Ironwood. Mich., after about 400 had been prostrated by typhoid fever and many had died, found, that the stnndpipe of their water works was part full of dead fish, crabs, lizards, snakes and other carrion. Eleven hundred commercial organiza tions throughout the country have been invited by the New York Board of Trade and Transportation to send delegates to a convention which is to meet in Wash ington on or about September I. John B. Koetina. the cashier ef the defunct South Side Savings Bank at Mil waukee, has disappeared, and simulta neously the discovery has been made that the general ledger of the institution is not among the effects of the bank. Misses Lizzie and Emma Borden have voluntarily transferred, it is said, about 14,000 worth of property, which belonged to their murdered stepmother, to Mrs. Whitehead of Fall River and Mrs. Fish of Hartford, who were half-sisters of Mrs. isorden. It lias itist come to lii?ht that there are from twenty to thirty Chinese entering El Paso, Tex., nightly from Juarez, Mex ico, and the importation is being han dled by a very rich company of Chinese and ex-otlicials ol the United states cus toms service. The eovernment has begun an investi gation into the immigration of Chinese at New York. Extensive frauds are charged in the administration of the Chinese exclusion act, and hundreds of Chinese are alleged to have been smug gled at that port. Charges have been made against two deputy collectors and chief clerk. Dr. Walter Mav Reid has been ar rested at New York for selling bogus di plomas conferring the title of M. . upon persons utterly itrnorant of medicine and turning them loose on the world to destroy human life. Dr. Reid is a gray haired, expert scholar, linguist, poet, novelist and a graduate of the Medical College of tho University of New York. The Treasury Department at Wash ington hasinstructed Collector Hendricks at New York that hereafter the certificate of the Chinese Consul at that port, Chnu (Jhang Tseng, la not to be received in proot oi idenuncation oi any unmese who have gone from this country to China and want to come in again. This is done because the certificates have been perverted from their proper purpose. INDUSTRIAL ITEMS. Japan talks of building fourteen rail roads. There are 6,455,000 owners of farms In France, On one ranch in Texas there are 1 ,600, 000 sheep. The fire losses for June last exceeded $16,300,000. Women are commencing to drive cabs In New York. Looms are successfully run by electric ity in Saxony. Gas motors are proposed for running Chicago street cars. A bank still doing business at Barce lona was founded in 1401. Italy has 47,000 miners. The marble quarries employ 20,000 more, . Mulball estimates that the civilized nations annually pay $13,000,000,000 for food. Silver dollars are shipped direct to China from Mexico by Chinese mer chants. - Philadelphia has 1,632 retail liquor sa loons ; in 1887 there were 5,773 licensed saloons. The United States acreage in grain is greater than the entire area of the Ger man Empire. Celluloid Is paper chemically treated, reduced again to pulp and then molded into its final form. For the labor temple to be established in Philadelphia a fair will be arranged to open October 2. The Railway Age believes that the to tal construction for the whole year will be about 3,000 miles. Horses are not so much used as before the age of steam, but the world still has need of 62,050,000 of them. . Since I860' the value of grain crops has steadily diminished, while that of pas toral products has increased. The fact is worth noting that not a dollar has been lost by any depositor in the bank failures of this year. The agricultural capital of Europe has doubled since 1810 ; that of the United States has increased over sixfold. According to the United States Consul at Singapore one-half of the world's tin is mined in the Straits settlement. Reductions in wages of 10 to 20 per cent will be made by the Otis Steel Com pany of Cleveland to meet competition. A new cigarette machine has been in vented that will feed, roll, paste and make 10,000 perfect cigarettes in ten hours. One of the foundry firms at Chicago that refused to concede the demands of the molders is now in the hands of a re ceiver. There are about 1,000 women employed as typesetters in Boston, working at' 20 to 50 per cent lower than the nnion scale calls for. The fall in the price of cotton during the last few months represents a loss to ttMilanteraaf the fkiuth on last year's crop of 1160,000,000. The valuation of the entire State of Colorado is a little more than a quarter of the assessed valuation of Boston for purposes of taxation. Five methods of anchoring bolts in stone were recently tried at the Worces ter Polytechnic The best test was borne ty sulphur setting in a straight hole. In 1844 the average wage of a London needle woman was 2d an hour. The wages of many poor needle women in Loudon do not now exceed ld per hour. The Provident Savings Bank of Boston, the greatest institution of the kind in this country, has 90,000 depositors and deposits of 135,000,000 in sums of $1,000 or less. The statement is made on apparently good authority that $345,000,000 of Amer ican capital has been invested in busi ness enterprises in Mexico within the last three years. PERSONAL MENTION. Only three members of thvBerlia Congress of 1878 are now alive Bis marck, Salisbury and Waddington. Samuel Edison, the father of the great inventor, will be 91 years old in August. He lives in Port Huron, Mich., and has a little daughter 9 years old, of whom he is exceedingly proud. The resemblance between Colonel Fred Grant and his father grows more marked daily, and some friends who have seen him since his return from Vienna have been startled at the first glance. Among Mrs. Cleveland's most highly prized possessions are a number of paint ings which Joseph Jefferson presented to her. They are all from his own brush, and Mrs. Cleveland takes especial de light in exhibiting a bit of woodland scenery on Rjp Van Winkle's Southern plantation. Mr. Labouchere announces in his pa per that Mr. Bayard, our Ambassador to England, obtains a great increase in precedence by being promoted from the rank of Minister of legation. Mr. La bouchere declares that Ambassadors have precedence over Dukes, and seems to think that Mr. Bayard ought to be much elated over the fact. William Lawrence Poole of New Or leans is said to be the oldest editor in the country. He is now 89 vears of age. He was born in Portland, 'Me., drifted South and in 1823 established the Che raw (S. C.) Intelligencer. He bought the Charleston City Gazette to fight the "nullification" doctrine, and then went to New Orleans, where he was connected with several papers. Ward McAllister and his fellow noo dles are preparing for a grand display of toad-eating at Newport. The. Grand Duke Alexander of Russia is to be the truest of Mrs. Edward 8. Willinor at hr cottage by the sea, and all the snobs and enobesses in New York city are buying ticxets and cnecKing trim us so as to bask in the reflected rays of the royal splen dor. At the recont ceremony in Vienna of the conferring of a Cardinal's hat on the Bishop of Grosswardein a most impos ing ceremony because of the number of the church dignitaries present and be cause the Emperor knelt there prostrate at tne aitar tne most impressive figure was that of the young papal envoy, who attracted all eyes. This youthful pre late, the son of a Spanish nobleman, was sily the center of the brilliant scene on account of his youth, his manlv ucniujr aim mo uigmt.y oeyona nis years which lent effectiveness to his address to the Emperor. He is the son of Senor del Val, was born in England and is famous in Rome for the fine sermons he preaches in the English tongue. FOREIGN CABLES. Piratical Outbreak on a Dutch Trading Steamer. MORMONISM IN NEW ZEALAND. Competition Among Chemist in the Sale of Charm as a Prevent ive Against Cholera. The population of Rio de Janeiro is 100,000. Revolution is reported in Santa Cath arina in Brazil. Mrs. Langtry meditates another Amer ican tour next winter. Great Britain received 10,057,600 let ters from America last year. Mme. Patti has made her last appear ance in London until next May. The protracted drought in Austria baa caused a failure in the oats crop. Sarah Bernhardt has become lessee of the Renaissance Theater in Paris. The hay crop' in England and Wales is not more than a third of the average. China refuses to make reparation for the killing of Swedish 'missionaries by mobs. The flesh-eating baboon is fast becom ing an intolerable nuisance in South Africa. A lively controversy has been going on in Austria concerning the necessity off dueling. There are more deaths annually from hydrophobia in Sweden than' in any other country. A ton of gold recently taken from the Soulh African mines was on exhibition at Pretoria lately. j The extreme and protracted hot weather in France promises one of the' finest vintages on n oid. I The wheat crop of France is estimated ' at 280,000,000 bushels and the imports required for next year at 66,000,000. j Fruit growers will be interested to! learn that a miit-culture exhibition is to be held at St. Petersburg next year. . The new British cruiser Endymion at a recenteight hours' trial off Portsmouth, England, attained a speed of 20.9 knots per hour. Baden-Baden intends to become a grand sporting center in hopes of reviv ing its former attractions for visitors of all nations. It is believed the House of Lords will reject the Irish home-rule bill after it passes the Commons by an overwhelm ing majority. Influenza is believed to be dying out in London iUr being more-of )' prev alent since the first outbreak over the world several years ago. Russian crop prospects have greatly improved. A fairly large yield is now expected especially of rye, the chief breadstuff of the nation. The Duke of Westminster has spent over 1,000,000 in rebuilding Eaton Hall, which is now considered to rival Chats worth aa England's finest house. Princess Eulalia has sent a fine Toledo caber to General Horace Porter in recog nition of his kindness while Chairman of the reception committee in New York. It is officially denied that the Grand Duke of Saxe-'Weimar recently sought to bring about a reconciliation between the German Emperor and Prince Bis marck. Mr. Gladstone gave'the Princess May and the Duke of York as a wedding pres ent the seven volumes of his somewhat solidly written "Gleanings of last Years." The Italian torpedo gunboat Aretuea, vessel of 846- tons displacement, re cently built at Leghorn, attained a max imum speed of.twenty-one knots in her steam triaL The Duke of Veragua is willing to re ceive American eympatl y for his de pleted exchequer, and he will accept all the funds the people in this country will raise for him. The experiment of providing canteens in factories, at which workmen can get . good food at something less than cost price, appears to have been a failure in bouth Germany. In France compulsory education is rig orously applied to all classes, and yet 7 per cent of the young men who wish to join the army are rejected because unable to read or write. Several fashionable ladies have ap peared in London driving with a femi nine handmaiden instead of a footman behind them, the handmaiden arrayed in livery and buttons. In the government of Kazan at the present time a great competition is go ing on among chemists in the sale of charms, which are supposed to act as preventive against cholera. Emperor William has ordered no army maneuvers to be held anywhere in Ger many unless it is absolutely certain that the district in which it is proposed to hold them will not be damaged. Mormonism has taken a considerable hold in New Zealand, mainly among the Maoris, the latest statistics showing the sect to have 3,176 members in New Zea land, of whom 232 are Europeans. The Royal Geographical Society of England has held a special meeting to consider the question whether women may be admitted on the same footing as men, and decided it in the negative by a vote of 172 to 158. At the Mont de Piete, the big govern ment pawnshop of Paris, almost 2,000 saucepans were pawned last year. Bed sheets were the" most numerous of the pawned goods, no less than 91,194 pairs appearing on the list. - The London Times says : The position of crops in July, last year, was consid ered anything but prosperous, but the situation is very much more serious now. In no single instance is the crop as crond as it was last year.' Even wheat has a poorer prospect. A piratical outbreak occurred among mo viimcse passengers on tne Dutch steamer Rejah Kongsee, trading on the east coast of Achcsn. The Chinese at tacked the crew of the steamer, killing the English captain, the mate and twenty-two of the Asiatic sailors and wound ing fifteen others. They took bom the passengers as captives, PORTLAND MARKET. WBAT-Xomina1. VaHey,$1.001.06j Walla Walla, 9095c per cental. VbOUK, IKSD", TC. Fioim Standard, 13.40; Walla Walla. $3.40; graham, $3.00; superfine, $2.56 per barrel. Oats White, 45c per bushel; gray, 4243cj rolled, in bags, $6.25(0.50; bar rels, $6.50(2.6.75; cases, $3.75. Mn.LBTurrs Bran, $18.00 ; shorts, $21.00; ground barley, $26ig24; chop feed, $18 per ton ; whole feed, barley, 80 85c per cental; middlings, $2:)(w28; per ton; chicken wheat, $1.221.25 percental. DAIEY PBOUUCS. Bdtteb Oregon fancy creamery, 22 25c; fancy dairy, 17(?s20c; fair to good,1516c; common, 12jjC per pound; California, 35(44c per roll. Chekss Oregon, 2c California, llrtil2c; Young America, llo per pound. Eaos Oregon and Eastern, 18c per dozen. Poultry Chickens, old, $4.505.00; broilers, large, $2.00(3.00; small, $1.60 rrf.2.00; ducks, old, 13.60i4.00; young, 12.50M3.50; geese, $7.50 per dozen ; tur keys, live, 14c; dressed, 10c per pound. VEGETABLES AND mUITS. Veoetablks Cabbage, lc per pound; new California potatoes, $1.25 rer cental ; new California onions, 4c per pound ; green Oregon onions. 10 (&17c per dozen; encumbers, Oregon, 25c per dozen; California, $1.60 per box; string beans, 5fe6c per pound; Oregon peas, 2.4c per pound; tomatoes, 90o 1.00 per box. Fbixits Sicily lemons, $5.50(26.00 per box; California new crop, $4.505.50 per box : bananas, $1.60(H'3.00 per bunch : oranges, $3.00 per box ; pineapples, $6.00 per dozen; cherries, 75c(iill.OO per box; new California apples, $1.25(1.60 per buhhel; peaches, wcfgsi.UU per box; Oregon, 60c per box; peach plums, $1.50 1.75 per box ; new pears, $1.00 per box ; apricots, $1.25 per box; currants, 45c per pound ; Bartlett pears,!1.50( 1.75 por box; raspberries, 6 7c per pound; black raspberries, 79c ; California Has, 75etf$ 11.00 per box; watermelons, $2.00(32.75 Ser dozen; cantaloupes, $1.75,2.50 per ozen; huckleberries, 15c per pound. , BTAPL GROCERIES. Dkiko FBtirrs Petite prunes, 10(gllc; silver, ll(gl2c; Italian, 13c; German, lOi'Sllcr plums, 8(s9c; evaporated ap ples, 10(allc; evaporated apricots, 12(4 15c; peaches, 10isl2c; pears, 7llo per pound. Honey Choice comb, 18c per pound; new Oregon, 16a20c; extract, 910c. Salt Liverpool, 100s, $16.00; 60s, $16.50; stock, 18.50Cu9.50. Coffee Costa Rica, 22c; Rio, 21c; Salvador, 21,c; Mocha, 26i30c; Java, 24) 30c; Arbuckle's and Lion, 100 pound cases, 24.85c per pound; Colum bia, same, 24.85e. Rice Ialand,$4.755.00 ; Japan,$4.75 ; New Orleans, $4.60 per cental. Beans Small whites, 3;c; pinks, 3e; bayos, 3,c; butter, 4c; lima, 4c per pounSr " - Syrdp Eastern, in barrels, 4055c; in half-barrels, 42(iii57c; in cases, 36(j 80c per gallon; $2.25 per keg; California, in barrels, 20.40c per gallon; $1.75 per keg. B ca A3 D, 5?bc ; Golden C, 50 ; extra C, 5c; confectioners' A, 6!ic; dry gran ulated, 6?ac; cube, crushed and pow dered, 7,c per pound; per pound discount on all grades for prompt cash ; maple sugar, 15(3 16c per pound. CANNED GOODS. Canned Goods Table fruits, assorted, $1.75(22.00; peaches, $1.852.10; Bart lett pears, 11.75(82.00; plums, $1,37 1.60; strawberries, $2.252.45; cherries, $2.252.40; blackberries, $1.85(82.00; raspberries, $2.40; pineapples, $2.25 2.80; apricots, $1.65(s2.00. Pie fruits, assorted, 11.20; peaches, $1.25; plums, $1.00gl.20; blackberries, $1.251.40 per dozen. Pie fruits, gallons, assorted, $3.15(83.50; peaches, $3.604.00; apri cots, $3.504.OO; plums, $2.753.00; blackberries, $4.254.50. Meats) Corned beef, Is, $1.60; 2s, $2.40; chipped, $2.654.00; lunch tongue, Is, $4; 2s, $6.75; deviled ham, $1.752.15 per dozen. Fish Sardines, ia, 75c$2.25; a, $2.154.50; lobsters, $2.30(3.50; sal mon, tin 1-lb tails, $1.25$1.50; flats, $1.75; 2-lbs, $2.25(32.60; -barrel, $5.60. provisions. Eastern Smoked Meat and Lard -Hams, medium, uncovered, 15(315c per pound; covered, 1415c; hams, large, uncovered, 15417c; covered, 154 16lc; breakfast bacon, uncovered, 16 (g 17c ; covered, 15(3 16c ; short clear sides, 13(o!l4c; dry salt sides, ll12c; lard, compound, in tins, 10c per pound: pure, in tins, 13igl4e; Oregon lard, 114 12jc. - LIVE AND DRESSED MEAT. Beef Prime steers, $2.502.75; fair to good steers, $2.002.50 ; good to choice cows, $2.00(92.25; common to medium cows, $1.50(2.00; dressed beef, $3.50(i 6.00. Mutton Choice mutton, $2.75; dressed, $6.00; lambs, $2.002.50; dressed, $6.00; shearlings, 2a, live weight. llous Choice heavy, 15.005.50; me dium, $4.50(i;5.00; light and feeders, $4.50(35.00; dressed, $7.00. Vsal $4.006.00. hops, wool and hides. Hops 10(gl6o per pound, according to quality. Wool Umpqna valley, 1415c; fall clip, 1314c; Willamette valley, 10(3 12c, according to quality; Eastern Ore gon, 6(i14o per pound, according to condition. Hides Dry hides, selected prime, 6(J8c; green, selected, over 65 pounds, 4c; under 65 pounds, 3c; sheep pelts, short wool, 30$50c; medium, 60($80c; long, 90c($1.25; shearlings, 1020c; tal low, good to choice, 35u per pound. BAOS AND BAOOINO. Burlaps, 8-ounce, 40-inch, net cash, 6c; burlaps, 10))-ounce, 40-inch, net cash, 7c; burlaps, 12-onnce, 45-inch, 7.c; burlaps, 15-oiince, 60-inch, 12c; burlaps, 20-onnce, 76-inch, 14c; wheat bags, Calcutta, 23x36, spot, 6e; 2-bushel oat bags, 7c. MISCELLANEOUS. Tin I. C. charcoal, 14x20, prime qual ity, $8.509.00 per box; for crosses, $2 extra per box; I. C. coke plates, 14x20, prime quality, $7.508.00 per box ; terne plate, I. C, prime quality, $6.50a)7.00. Nails Base quotations: Iron, $2.25; steel, $2.35; wire, $2.75 per keg. Iron Bar, 2Vc per pound: pig-iron. $23(325 per ton. Steel Per pounrVlOVaC, Lead Per' pound, 4j'c; bar. flVaO. Naval Storks Oakum, $4.50(3 6.00 per bale; renin, 14.80( 5.00 per 480 pounds; tar, Stockholm, $13; Carolina, ifOperhor rel ; pitch, $6 per barrel; tarpon Una, 65$ per gallon in car loU. -