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VOL. 10.
ST. HELENS,1 OREGON, Fill DAY , AUGUST 4, 1803.
NO. 32.
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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
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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.
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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.
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rilYSlCIAN and SUKGEON.
81. Helena, Oregon.
jjR. J. K. II A LI,,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
CUtiknnle, Colunilila county, Or.
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SURVEYOR and
CIVIL ENGINEER,
Bt. Helena, Oregon.
Comity aurveynr. Land aiirveylnir, town
platting, and engineering work promptly
(lone.
Solentltlo Amerlotn
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the publte by a uouee given Iroa ol oliarga In the
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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.
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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.
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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. -