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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1892)
Farm Notes. AgTfcultanl Piwlbilltte.. Prince Kropotkin wrote in his fa mous article "The coming reign of 1 plenty," to this effect: If we want to know what tgricul tnre can be we must apply for infor mation to the market gardeners in the neighborhoods of Paris, Amiens and other large cities of Prance; also in Holland. There we shall learn that each hundred acres, under proper culture, yield food not for lony Human beings as thev do ofc our (English) best farms, but for 200 and 300 persons; not for 60 milca cows as they yeild in the island of Jersey but for 200 cows. They (the noiuuers there) have created a to tally new agriculture. They smile when we boast of the rotation system having permitted us to take from the eld one crop every year because their ambition is to have six, nine and twelve crops in twelve months They do not understand our talk about good and bad soils, because they make the soils themselves. They aim at cropping not five or six tons of grass on the acre, as we do, but from fifty to one hundred tons of various vegetables. That is where agriculture is eoinir now. In anh culture the primitive condition of tne soil m of little account, but with the help of glass forcing bells, fertil izers and hot beds, they are able to grow $1000 worth per acre, and in some eases donble that. Let me add also that all this wonderful culture is of yesterday's growth. Thirty years ago this kind of culture was quite primitive. He not only defies the soil, he defies climate; through the agency of wind breaks, glass protect ors and hot beds he has made a real southern garden of the suburbs of t'aris. He has given to Pans the "two degrees of latitude" after which a J- rench scientist was longing. Beware of the fellow. Dr. E. F. Smith, the specialist of me united states department of ag riculture, made the following state ment in regard to the "yellows" in one of his reports : "It is proper to state, however, that the losses con tinuein the infected districts; that the disease has appeared in new lo calities and that regions now healthy are also threatened. The yellows arc certainly as far south as Southern Virginia and probably as far west as Arkansas and Northeastern Texas. Peach growers are earnestly advised to stamp out the disease upon its first appearance and are warned against the importation of trees from infected districts. These remarks apply with especial force to the Pacific coast, and in this connection it is well to remember that apricots and almonds are also subject to the yellows. It would be much safer for the Caiifornians to grow their own pett..h trees than to . introduce any from the Eastern United States. If trees are imported it should be known beyond question that they are from regions where this disease does not occur. The mere fact that the nur sery stock is healthy at the date of shipment is not a sufficientguarantee that it will continue so." The vigor of the fight Culifornians are making against the introduction of the orchard pests so destructive in the east has aroused the easteru sellers of trees and seeds and they threaten if the restrictions are not re moved to unite in asking congress to remove the duty from foreign fruits. This need not alarm California fruitgrowers nor cause them to open their doors and welcome all the bugs and hoppers and other varmints that are said to inhabit eastern trees. The eastern fruitgrowers are not going to invite free foreign competition with their fruit simply to spite Caiifor nians who refuse to buy their trees. And the Caiifornians could as well afford to sell fruit in an unprotected market as to have imported pests de stroy all they have. Flowing Unleo Corn Crops. Seven years ago, says Mr. O. C. Wig gin in the Country Gentlemen, I turned under a thin sod in an old field. I put on each acre 200 pounds of dissolved bone and sowed two bushels of corn broadcast. By th first of July the corn stood a perfect swamp, two feet high. It was plowed in and immediately sowed again. On the first of September it was again over two feet high, and again plowed in, two hundred pounds of dissolved bone being again worked in. The field seeded to grass, after four years' mowing, 300 pounds of bone meal was applied, and the lot turned to pas ture, which is excellent to this day. In general farming Mr. Wiggin be leives it is more economical to pro duce one's nitrogen and humus than to buy them. Another way of getting nitrogen besides that above mentioned is by stall feeding young ca'tle. By buy ing highly nigrogenous foods like cottonseed meal and bran, he has found a profit in the feeding alone, and gained the nitrogen as a gift. The Gm Treatment Commended. Professor D. "W. Coquillett, John Scott, horticulturj i officer of Los An geles county, Emmett Watson, a large orange-grower of Duarte, H. B. Muscott, horticultural officer for San Bernardino, and Local Officer Dr. N. H. Claftin have been examining the orange trees of Kiverside. After a close inspection of all the frees to which the gas treatment has been ap plied no scale of any description was found. This decision establishes the fact that scales will not withstand the gas treatment. Living ntwir Wayaesviile is a family Darned Yoazel, who lately moved there from Clinton county. Recently tbe head of the family entire, a hardware store at the ahnra.n nm.nl nlaM an.-l ....llt t seven hoes. Tbe clerk was astonished, i whereupon the farmer explained that ha had brouirht but four hoes with him from Clinton county and wanted seven more to keep hi sous and himself busy. He if possessed or eleven children, the mother and only daughter having six Angers on each hand, two of the boys six toes on each foot. The family cultivates tobacco, and is regarded with much curiosity by the neighbors on account of the extra sup ply of lingers and toes. Cincinnati En i Quirer. I Woman's World. Make the Livin j Boom Pleasant. It is woman's duty to make nome as cheery, cosy and lovely as she can and the first requisite for this is that she herself be as happy, hopeful and contentedly agreeable as possible. A plain room, plainly furnished and scrupulously clean is far more bright and beautiful than a more pretentious ne with costly furniture that is soiled, mutilated and always in disorder. A few thrifty, nicely kept plants are a great addition to a living room. Rooms have just as much expression as faces. They produce a gloomy or a pleasant impression at first sight. The instant we cross the threshold of a room we know certain things about the persons who live in it, whether they are neat and orderly, or disor derly, and more than all whether they ase of a cheerful and sunny tempera ment or gloomy and sad. I have been in rooms where you could not help having a good time even if there was nothiDg special go ing on in the way of conversation or amusement. This has been called an age of over- decoration, and judging from some rooms we are called on to admire rooms crowded with brackets, ban ners, lambrequins, cat tails, milking stools, Japanese fans, peacock fea thers, placques, cheap chromos and the vast assembly of objects which exist under the name of bric-a-brac fearfully and wonderfully arranged ; the phrase does not seem altogetner misplaced or uncalled for. But fsw of us can furnish a room at once in accordance with any set plan. We can only add a little now and then and here and there as time and purse will allow. There are pretty things which may be made useful in a room and useful things which maybe made pretty. Is there anything which can make a room more attractive to us than the feeling that it is a room to be used and enjoyed in the using? We have all seen that best parlor into which are crowded all the pretti est things in the house without regard to harmony, fitness or any other rea sons, except that they are pretty and so must be put in the parlor. And we well know that nothing would tempt any one in the family or out of it to spend one afternoon alone there. It is a show place, the door is opened. and we are allowed to look in, then we take our way to other quarters. As to outside adornment I think some women have rather more than their share of it to do. It is just as natural for some men to have everything neat and orderly about the farm, as for some women to be good housekeepers. Most men have the habit of clearing up in the spring, to remove the rub bish accumulated about the house during the winter; rake over the yard make snug the woodpile, or place it under cover, repair fences, and gener ally to improve appearances by the exercise of a little good taste and la bor. But don't forget to cut the brush and briers by the road side. There is nothing which improves the the looks of a farm so much. And there is that back yard. What a blushing of faces there would be in some houses if the house was sud denly turned around, with its filth and disorder opened to the view of the passers by. The outlook from the rear windows of a house should be as gratifying a? from the front. One who has the skill to manage a farm has skill enough to adorn the surroundings of the house. Many, however, will say they have not the time. Can this be so with farmers or mechanics? We have rarely known one that did not find time to attend an auction, when the cast-off trumpery of several generations was to be sold, or to bring home a wagon load or two of the rubbish to increase that already about the door, or to torment the women by adding it to the stock in the attic. The pleasure of making our houses attractive should be a gradual one. A little should be done and well done each year, and whatever is done carefully attended to afterwards. Suppose such had been the practice for the last fifty years in any of our New England towns, would not such a town now be more attractive than any that can be found in the country? Corr. Sew England Farmer. - A Flacky Girl's Victory. Ih Boseburg, Or., Mary Harris, a plucky school teacher, took up land and built a house and cleared away the timber with her own hands. She worked continuously on the place. but occasionally 3lept at her father's house near by, deeming it unsafe to remain at home. W. E. Hartley DroKe tnrough her Tence, built a house and did a little work, and one day threw all the ex-teacher's furni ture out of the house and nailed up the windows, at the same time telling her not to return. But she did re turn, and, more that, she secured possession of her house, defied Hart ley, who would not move off, and now will have the satisfaction of obtaining a patent to the tract she improved, for the interior department has just de- uiueu me ease in ner lavor. Currant Tartles. Line patty-pans with thin pie-paste and bake. Fill them with currants stewed with one fourth their measure of raspberries uuu wen sweetenea. Sour Orange Snlad. This salad is especially nice to serve with assorted wild duck or woodcock. Peeland cut in slices 'our sour oranges, arrange uu iLiuit3 leaves, cover witn Mayon naise dressing and serve. Uuiod FiaU or Ceylon. Every bay and inlet on the coast of fW. Ion abounds with musical tlsh. Their song-, ir it may be called a song, is not one sustained note like a bird's, but a multi- inae oi uny, sort, sweet sounds, each clear and distinct in itself, some thine like tha vibrations of a -wine glass when its rim is ruDoea witn the moistened finger. In h? rbor at Bombay. India, there Is a n T"10 sonK like the sound of an Mo- lian harp. And They Are Very Nam Many of the fools think they can bea t the lawyer in expounding the law; one half think they can beat tbe doctor in healing the sick; two-thirds of them think they can beat the minister preaching the gospel, and all of them know they can oeat the editor in making a newspaper. Phrenological Journal. Current News. Labor Onion Notes. Near Butte, Mont., 200 railroad graders struck for a raise to $3 a day from $2. Another 200 men were im ported, but 1000 union men met them at the depot and initiated them into the union. The contractors will im port more men. Trouble is feared. The Jackson brewery, San Fran cisco, refused to discharge employes for not paying an assessment of $20 a head levied by the union. The union and the federated trades ordered a boycott on the brewery. The Brew ers' association, backed by the Manu facturers association, Feb. 1, there upon posted notice that from that date union rules would be disregarded in San Francisco breweries. A hard struggle between employers and em ployes will probably be the result. Nine of the Edison Illuminating company's men in New York struck because ot the employment of a non union man. The company refused to reinstate them and 200 other employes struck Feb. 2. The Union Pacific trainmen threat en a general strike. The Kio Grande railroad is prepar ing for an expected strike for higher wages. The girls in Cahn, Nickelsberg & Co. s shoe factory in San Francisco struck Feb. 3 on account of a reduc tion of wages and the Shoe Manufac turers' association resolved to refuse to use the union white labor stamp or be governed by union rules in the five factories it controls hereafter. A car run by non-union men was blown up with dynamite at Pittsburg Feb. 4. People in adjoining houses were thrown from their beds but no body was seriously hurt. The Paris omnibus drivers sued the company for failing to fulfill its agreement, made with the driver's union, and the court gave judgment for 100 francs a day in favor of the union. The Adams express company is dis charging all members of the Express Messengers brotherhood. Congress. Some of the Farmers' Alliance con gressman wilt vote with the Demo crats in congress and some refuse. Those who do so will favor the plac ing of articles considered necessary to the farmers on the free list. The senate has passed the bill for the relief of purchasers of land within the limits of the Umatilla reservation, Oregon, in regard to taking proofs. The house committee on postoffices and post roads recommends the r peal of the mail subsidy act. The People's party in the House oi Representatives is intact as a political organization and united as to the part? measures it is to press. In the caucus which met before the organi zation of the House nine independ ent representatives decided to pre serve their political autonomy on all questions to the end of the session. The committee on foreign relations reports as a substitute for all the Chi nese restriction bill an extension for ten years of the present law. Sentence In the Baltimore Cases. Judge of Crimes Foster of Valpa raiso has passed sentence in the long- pending and much-discussed Balti more assault cases. His sentence is subject to review by the court of ap peals. Carlos Arena, alias Gomez, is sen tenced to 540 days' imprisonment for wounding William Turnbull, a coal heaver of the Baltimore, who died of his injuries; 300 days for public dis order, 60 days for carrying a knife and 20 days for giving an assumed name. This makes a total of 920 days. Jose Ahumada is sentenced to 320 days' imprisonment for injuring Turnbull; Frederick Rodriguez is sentenced to 140 days' imprisonment for wounding Boatswain's Mate Charles W. Biggin, for public disorder and for carrying a knife. It is held by Judge Foster that the evidence does not show that Rodri guez killed Riggin. On the contrary, it is claimed that Riggin's death was caused by a shot which was fired by some unknown person. Gomez and Rodriguez, under the Chilean penal code, must pay the families of Turn- bull and Riggin damages. These damages are recoverable by civil suit. The Chilean congress will meet again in April. Coast News. CALIFORNIA. The boards of supervisors of river counties are appropriating money to pay the expenses of the miners' and farmers' delegates who are to appeal to congress for aid to impound de bris so that hydraulic mining can be resumea. Governor Markham has pardoned Louis Bates, sent to San Quentin prison for a year from Stanislaus county for burglary. He is only 14 years old and the governor thinks he ought to have been sent to the reform school. Joseph Betancue of Oakland has been arrested at Sacramento for a burglary committed at Stockton. He is only 15 years old. Harry Miller, son of Joaquin, has been indicted for robbing a mail stage. The citrus fair for northern Cali fornia, held at Auburn, was a gland success. ALAMEDA COUNTY. Mrs. Hattie A. Mnnr. tn wit Am Moses Hopkins paid $50,000 to settle a uruuu-oi-promi3e suit, married John W. Morris at Piedmont the other day. COLUSA COUNTY. The supervisors are asking there turn of $1000 presented to the Anti Debris association on the ground that the association has changed its puiicy since the money was appropri ated. CONTRA COSTA COUNTY. C. Tiffe, a barkeeper at Martinez. q-arreled with Joseph Fitzgerald about $1 and shot him in the shoul der. John Donlon of Antioch, who at tempted to kill his rival in the affec tions of a lair damsel of that place a short time ago, has been fined $200. Charles W. Horan has been sen tenced to ten years in San Quentin for stealing the horses of Mrs. Aguiar of San Pablo last fall. ' FRESNO COUNTY. At Fresno. W. D. Mandich. fori causing a fictitious death notice to be published, nas been nem to answer for criminal libel in $500. Professional burglars make nightly predatory visits to farm-houses about Fresno. James Beuso narrowly escaped death from poison placed in a bottle of beer at Fresno. He blames a fam ily and they say he poisoned the Deer lor ttiem ana uianK it nimseir by mistake. LOS ANGELES COUNTY. Ontario has passed a rieid prohibi tory liquor law. Two men hired a team of Constable Pardee of NewhuH Jan. 31 to go five mues in tne country. Pardee sent a man on horseback to watch thm. They drove nine miles to San Fer nando, sold the ng lor SoO and were promptly arrested. The owners of the Los Angeles water works want to sell their plant to the city for $2,500,000. The water right reverts to the city in a few years. Conductor W. H. Gier was caught between two electric cars going in op posite directions at Los Anceles Jan. 29, one car being on a switch, and his left shoulder and two ribs were broken and he was badly bruised. HARIX COUNTY. A tramp arrested at San Rafael for robbery is beleived to be one of those who murdered a comrade near the Donahue railroad recently. PLUMAS COUNTY. Thirty-one saloon-keepers have" taken out licenses for a year under tne ordinance oi last year. This was done to get ahead of the new ordi nance, which raises the fee, but which has not yet gone into effect. MABIP08A COUNTY. A vein of gold of fabulous richness is reported in the Tyro mine, near uouiiersviiie. SACRAMENTO COUNTY. The Sacramento board of education threatens to sue the city trustes to compel them to increase the school appropriation. - Pasqual Moresi stabbed A. Gibson in the neck at Sacramento Feb. 4 be cause one of Gil son s children had thrown a toy cannon into Moresi's yara. Moresi tuougnt it was a dyna mite bomb. William "Wbhl of Sacramento took water from a bottle labeled "poison and chewed soap to see if his wife Assemblyman Ellwood Bruner es caped indictment lor bribery. William Bell got into jail at Sacra mento Jan. 30 by pretending to be a ricn rancner ana mrine men to wotk for him, requiring deposits of from 50 cenw to -2 rrom eacu as an eviaence of good faith. Wesley Sullivan had both legs cut on by a train at eacramento Jan. au, and was expected to die. A well-dressed man calling himself Leopold Stein took a room at the Eb ner hotel, Sacramento, Jan. 30, got je landlord to cash a bogus check ror $18 and disappeared. SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY. G. F. Sattler has been convicted of stealing raisins from growers at Riv erside. Three of his brothers await trial for the same offense. SAN DIEGO COUNTY. The countv voted not to bond for a roadbed for a railroad across the county. The San Diegans in mass meeting have adopted resolutions denouncing tue facinc uoast steam. snip company for makitisr a compact with the Pa cific mail that the lat ter shall do no business at San Diego and trying to carry out that compact. SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY. Levinson Beauchamp, who seduced -L.ena vaiianut, was loiiowea to otan laus county and arrested. Harrrv de G reaver, a contractor and Miss Annie Dolan, a school teacher who was engaged to marry le ureayer, were driving in uoiaen Gate park Jan. 30 when Park Police man Samuel W. Harper charged De Greayer with fast driving, and, on the latter remonstrating, shot and killed him. The body- of a four-dav-old baby with its throat cut was found in the western part of the city Jan. 28. SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY. Aimer DniHard, who killed an em ploye on his ranch near Stockton, has been discharged on the ground that he acted in seli-aelense. Aimer Dmllard, a farmer near Stockton, stabbed and killed John Banfferter. an employe. Jan. 30, in quarrel about Bangarter's abuse of horses. SAN LUIS OBISBO COUNTY. Ramon Feliz. an old rancher on Morro creek, got tired of life and blew his brains out a eb. z. - San Luis will have a union high school. SAN MATEO COUNTY. An ordinance has been passed by the supervisors for the suppression of the Dr. Whitwell private insane asylum at San Mateo, the previous one Having been inetiective. The present ordinance becomes effective hi teen days alter its passage. Deputy Constable Mike Soto and Acting Jailor William Wyman of Red wood Citv are accused of arresting a man named Gardner, robbing him of $124 and letting him go. SANTA CRUZ COUNTY. The two railroads, both owned bv the Southern Pacific, will build a fine depot at Santa Cruz. The Watsonville beet sugar factory made 2200 tons oi sugar last year. SANTA CLARA COUNTY. E. Knickerbocker put up atwentv- foot fence on his property in San Jose to shut the litrht out or the western Granite and Marble company's build ing a'ijoinmc The court was ap pealed to and Mr. Knickerbocker has been ordered t cut his fence down to the legal limit of ten feet. Alton H. Gould and Edward Bell have been indicted for robbing the postomce at wngnt's. SHASTA COUNTY. Abe Jones, accused of complicity with Mowara in stage robbery, es caped by the diagreement of a jury in tne Federal court at ban r rancisco. SONOMA COUNTY. Twenty-five thousand tons of stone for the fortifications at Fort Point are to be taken from the basalt quarry at Mays landing, near .retain ma. . The Bloomfield dairymen will build another creamery. George Peters of Vallejo township dropped dead, while milking a cow Jan. 14, STANISLAUS COUNTY. Engineer Schussler of San Fran cisco condemned as unsave section 2 or the Modesto canal wall and the ir rigation directors refuse to pay for it. Winnirgtadt, the district engineer, has resigned, and the contractor will will sue for his money. ' TULARE COUNTY. W. B. Tucker is in jail on a charge of robbing a Chinese resaurant keeper at Traver. The supervisors disregard the decis ion of the supreme court that they are not auowea Dy law to pay aeputies and have authorized the assessor to employ fourteen. Austin Cole disappeared from Pix- ley and James Search and Frank Tal- mage were arrested lor murdering him. He came home in time to save them from going to trial. YUBA COUNTY. - The Marysville Appeal won its libel case. On the night of Jan. 31 two men went to a cabin occupied by Night Watchman William Conway, on a bridge about two miles north of Marysville, and after makintr ina uiries of the time at which the night trains passea mere, leit. uonway, who is an old man, thought they acted and talked ratherqueerly, and a few min utes afterward decided to acrain cross the bridge ana see that everything was all riaht. He had not cone verv far when he discovered two giant powder carxnages to wnicn were at tached long fuses. He threw theui over into the river and started back to arm himself and prepare to patrol. He reached an uncovered portion of the trestle, when he was seized, and- after his captors had satisfied them selves that the car trices were mis sing they threw him to the ground sixteen feet below. The old man was found there next morning uncon scious. PACIFIC COAST. BRITISH COLUMBIA. The Sunday closing law atrainst sa loons in Victoria. B. C. is enforced. aiter a nara ngnt in tne courts. The Northern Pacific enters Butte and Anaconda over the Montana Un ion s tracks. The present manage ment will expire soon and the North ern Pacific has begun action to com pel the Montana Union to continue the same or a similar one. Horse thieves in Montana are so troublesome that the people have or ganized to hunt them in the neigh- oornooa oi Helena and rour were killed a few days ago. The Southern Pacific compromised Asa Hamilton s damage suit by pay ing $15,000. OREGON. The British ship Ferndale was wrecked off Gray's harbor Jan. 30 and twenty men perished, including Cap tain Blair. Eugene's electric light works were burned Jan. 30, leaving the city in darkness until new dynamos could be ordered from the east. UTAH. Ogden offers land valued at $50,000 to whoever will start a first-class seven-day paper there. Utah expects to be admitted to statehood upon the passage of an amendment to the federal constitution forbidding polygamy. Gas Is to be bored for at Osden. The borers will go 3000 feet if neces sary. WASHINGTON. James Evans of Franklin, the negro wne siayer, nas pieauea guilty oi murder in the second degree. C. P. McKenzies perished in a snow storm near uranite f alls. Mis body was found within twenty yards of his orotner s camp. GENERAL. The Congo anti-slavery act has at last neon ratinea Dj tne umua States. Italy expects Blaine to errant in demnity for those of the lynched at New Orleans who were Italian citi zens. The relatives of Biggin, the Amer ican marine who was shot and killed by two Chilean soldiers during the row in Valparaiso, have presented a ciaim xor damages to tne unitea States government. UNITED STATES. The London government board has oeen testing canned goods and round chloride of tin, a poison, in all of them except condensed milk. The iron beam pcol has collapsed. Masked men called Iber Anderson to his door in Chicago Jan. 4 and shot him but did not kill him. A mail wagon was robbed of half a dozen bags of mail in the street in New York Feb. 3. Two families, "Watkins and Mc Guffy, who started to Oklahoma from Cedar Glades, near Hot Springs, Ark., were frozen to death in the re cent blizzard. Their bodies were found on the prairie near the Arkan sas line. The 8-year-old son of Charles P. Waterbury of Lmg Ridge, Conn., who was kidnaped by unknown men who threatened to kill him if they were not paid buuu ransom, returned home without the ransom being paid. His cousin has been arrested. Five men who participated in the lvnchiDgof J. O. Shields atShelbv- ville. Tex., are in jail. There is -fear that the accused will be lynched and the jail is guarded. The Louisana lottery announces that, the federal anti-lottery law hav ing been declared unconstitutional, it will not accept a renewal of its charter. ' Five persons have recently been murdered and robbed at Johnstown, Pa. It is believed that the same man committed all the murders. Authony Brown of Pittston, Pa,, and Miss Harriet Butledge of Duryea went to Wilkesbarre to get mar ried Feb. 2. They got a license but, failing to find an alderman to many them, they took a room at a lodging-house. Here they blew out the gas and the girl was found dead and the mau nearly dead in the morn ing. The next nntional miners' congress will meet at Helena July 12. Alice Mitchell, who murdered Freda Ward at Memphis, pleads in sanity. Iiillie Johnson, who accom panied Alice in a buggy when the crime was committed, has been in dicted as accessory. The little daughter of W. D. Hin richsen of Jacksonville. III., was stolen while on her way to Sunday school, but her abductor got drunk and fell asleep while they were stop ping to rest in a Held and the girl es caped. -A child without eyes or cavities where they should be has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Jaglar at St. Joseph, Mich. The supreme court has rendered a decision upholding the clause of the law opening Ukiahomai providin&r any person who entered land before me uour ui ujjeuiug buuuiu ivpc mi rights to obtain title, to any lands whutever.v " . ' . -"The electric companies of the coun try are trying to unite in a gigantic trust. , Carlisle Harris, a young New York libertine who boasted of his conquests of young girls, and who married a schoolgirl in secret and then gave her morphine, from which she died, has been convicted of murder in the first degree. The cordasre trust made 1.406.000 last year. David Porter, denntv mil I Prim- nf the port of Savannah, Ga., was shot dead hy his son Feb. 2 while beating ii id wue. A five-storv tenement house in Waw York burned on the night of Feb. 1 and a number of people were killed wmie outers uroKe intios in jumping to the ground, some of them from the rooi. The federal Slinrpmp mnrt nfRrme the constitutionality of the law mak ing it a crime to send newspapers containing lottery advertisements through the mails. Governor Flower of New York said Rats" when asked to favor the aD- propriation of half a million dollars by the state for the world's fair. The federal sunremfi flmirf. nns nvpr. ruled the decision of the Nebraska supreme court nnd declares Bovd n citizen and therefore rroperlv "cot- ernorof that state. The state courts had seated Thaver on thp.orniind that Boyd was not a citizen, having no piuui ui me naiurauzairm or me father, who brought him ti t.lm TTmtoH States an infant. The Louisana delegates tn lhA na tional Republican convention are in structed for Harrison. The conven tion declared against the lottery. The Minnesota Farmers' Alliance demands the submission of the iro hibition question to aonular vote. The Democrats in Iowa have intro duced a bill repepealing prohibition and substituting local option. Rev. George -E. Andrews has been convicted of burning his store at Es sex, Mass., for the insurance. The sheriff of Davidson county, Tenn., has been sued by the United States for $25,000 damages for having let a federal prisoner escape. Tbe police broke up another .meet ing of socialists in Chicago Jan 31. Three women are sueing James Mc Donald "of Logansport, Ind., for breach of promise. Three of the men who lynched John Shields in Nacocdoches county, Tex., have been arrested and the sheriff is after the fourth. Dal ton, who came from Jersey City to San Francisco after Embezzler Hyer and went on several sprees while San Francisco lawyers were try ing to fret Hyer free, lost his man from a train in Western Pennsyl vania and went home empty-handed. He had Hyer's clothes but the latter stole them in the night, put them on and jumped from the window of a sleeping-car. The new quarters are being plated and passed for $10 gold pieces in Chi cago. FOREIGN. Morell McKenzie, the most famous physician of our day, died of the grip m j-ionuon jeD. 3, agea to.. The Chinese rebellion has been 3tamped out. Two thousand of the rebels were killed. The Chileans are pleased with Blaine's note accepting that country's apology and promises. American crapevines are in great demand in Italy, being considered prooi against phylloxera. -The Samoans are peaceable again. Officers in the army of Saxony tor ture privates and exposures have been made which caused a greatsensation. Salvador is massing troops on the Uuatemalan borders The czar proposes to revive serf dom. The Salvation Army was mobbed in Eastbourne, Eng., and in Paris Jan. 31. Emperor William's now education bill aims to com pel all parents to send their children to either Catholic or Lutheran schools. The Gcrmau par liament, win iJ ot pass it. Enormous damage has been done by Hoods in Spain. Spurgeon is dead. The Mexican General Hernandez has been shot for suspected sympa thy witn uarza, tne ubiquitous revo lutionist. Chile wants to borrow 5,000,000 to build a railroad from Valparaiso to Iquoque. United States Minister Smith offici ally writes from St. Petersbnrg : The pestilence is decimating the people. In an official estimate the number of those without food or means of sup port who require aid is given as 14,000, 000 persons and this is probably below the true number. The loss to Russia by famine is estimated at $500,000,000. Up to the present time there have been few contributions from abroad, but the Government and people of Russia are deeply sensible of the spontaneous offers made in various parts of the United Suites. Gen. Batter's Midnight Ride. An old "Washingtonian tells of a thrili lnp midnight lide by Gen. Ben Butler Baltimore to TVashindon to carry the news of the capture o f Fort Hatteras to Presideut Lincoln. After the fort had been occupied by Butler's troops the Gen eral started on a transport for Washing ton by way of Annapolis. At the latter point a locomotive and a passenger car were found, and the General was whirled to Annhpolis Junction, where he was stopped at 11:30 at night by an officer of the road, who said his train could not pro ceed until the regular express from Wash ington to Baltimore ha-i passed. "Has the train left Washington yet? asked Butler. It bad not. "Cannot this train run tp Washington before the express will leave?" The officer replied that it might, but it was contrary to the regulations of the road. "Then," said Butler, ' we will do it." ' But it is contrary to the regulations, insisted the railroad man. "No; it is not," quickly replied Butler. "There are new regulations in force now," and ordering the passenger coach to be cut off be sprang upon the engine and gave the engineer the word of command: "Go through !" The engineer hesitating, the General seized the throttle, remarking, "I know something about a locomotive myself. Without further remonstrance the en gineer started the locomotive, and the big iron horse was soon speeding down the track at a tremendous pace. Butler standing watch in band timing the dis tance between the mile posts. It was a terriffic pace for those days and the run was made in total darkness. Just before midnight the lights of the Capital were discerned in the distance, and two minutes later tbe engine came shrieking into the station, just five minutes before the time scheduled for tbe departure of the Baltimore express. "Well done, my man," said Butler, as he slapped the engineer on the back and jumped upon the station platform. "The new regulations are revoked and the old ones renewed." Butler sprang into a waiting carriage and was quickly whirled to tbe White House. -President Lincoln was aroused and Montgomery Blair and Capt, Fox, As 1 sistant Secretary of the Navy, were speed ily summoned. Mr. Lincoln appeared in long white night shirt, and upon bearing the news seized Fox, a short stout m&n in bis arms and the two danced around the room, the President's long naked legs cut- j ting the wildest capers. New York World. I Perpetual Lightning. The United States Consul at Mara caibo, Venezuela, has described some singular natural phenomena of an unin habited forest region, riou in asphalt and petroleum, between the rivers Santa Ana and Zalin and the mountains of the Cjlmbian frontier. One of these, near the Bio Oro, is a horizontal cave constantly ejecting thi.-k bitumen in large globules, which xpiode witn con sideraole noise and fall into a large deposit at the water's edge. At another spot, some miles from the confluence of the Tara and Sardinete, is what the few who hav seen it call the inferno." It is a sand mound 25 to 30 feet high, with an area of 8.00J square feet, from which innumerable streams of petroleum and hot watt-r are con stantly being forced, with th noise ol tbe blowing-off o. several strain boilers. One stream is said to huve yield four gallons of excellent peti oleum in one minute. The inflamma' gises from this re gion may giv rie to the app- arance of constant lightning, witnoui inunaer, which has long bp'i witnessed from the entrance to L ike M imcaibo. Telly mid Stiflli. The Jelly-fish hnsn't any teeth, but ueea himself just as if he were a piece of paper when be is hungry, ffettiux his food and then wrapping himself about it, Ihe star-fish, on the contrary, turns himsell inside out and wraps his food around him, and stays tbat. way until he has had enough. The prongs of the starfish loJb like teeth, but in reality they are not, being .nothing but ornaments to his per son. v A very good waterproof blacking is com- ; posed ot tiie following ingredients: Two ounces of beeswax, two ounces oi tallow, two ounces of spermaceti, one tnblespoon ful of lampblack. Mix all well together and stir well. Apply warm with a brush and when cold polish like ordinary black ing. Broken ends of candles will do tor tlio spermaceti. Aior iuuett reiiecuon, the Griffith News has arrived at the following rhymed con elusion : "Whatever our purpose In life may be Whatever our earthly station. We ought to try. thermometer-like. To rise to tfa Bltnatlm." BLAKE, MOFFITT & TOWNE, mPOBTEBS AND DEALEBS IN BOOK. NEWS. WRITING AND WRAPPING PAPERS CAED STOCK, STRAW AND BINDERS' BOARD, Patent Machine-made Bags. 612 and 51C Sacramento St. San Francisco. A. Zellerbach fc Sons, PAPER WAREHOUSE, 619-21 Clay Street. PlUNTEBS' SUPPLIES A SPECIALTY PRINTERS ! DO YOU KNOW What tho new Self-Spacing Type is? If not, do yourselvtis a good turn by writlne to Hawks & Shattuck, 109 Washington St., San Krauciftco. lor a Spcimen Book. It saves 25 per cent, in composition, and Is perfection in face and Justi fication. WELLINGTON'S IMPROVED EGG FOOD. Gives a fortune In nlentr Of escswlien hieli In price. It cures and prevents every disease known to poultry. Ask any Grocer or Proprie tor, 4'S Wax ltin trtou su. sua Francisco. caL CONSUMPTION. I bare a positive remedy for the above diseua; br its we thousands of cases of tbe worst kind and of Ions standinjr have been cured. Indeed no strong is my faith ic it efficacy, thit I will send two bottles free, with m VALUABLE TREATISE on this disease to any suf ferer who will send me their Express and P. O. address. T. A. Slocnm, 31. 183 Pearl Sc. ft. V. Testing Diamonds in the Dartc Stories of diamonds shining in the dark have always been familiar, but few per sons have ever seen this mysterious Ugtit of the king of gems. Lately Mr. George F. Kunz, ti e New York expert' in precious stones, has discovered not only that dia monds really do shine in the dark, but that this property may be used as a test of the genuiness of a diamond. In order to make the gems shineit must be rubbed on wood, cioth or metal. Some diamonds exhibit light after having been exposed in the sunshine, or to a strong electric illumination, and since all are not thus affected, it was formerly supposed that the property belonged only to par ticular diamonds. Mr. Kunz, however, finds that all dia monds, of every grade as to color, possess this phosphorescent power, wiiile other kinds of precious stones lack it. It is accord; ngly possible to tell whether a gem is really a diamond or not by ob serving whether it can be made to emit lignt in the dark. The cause of t!:e phos phorescence of the diamood remoids to be explained. Youth's Companion. Electricity In Tooth Extraction. The extraction of teeth by electricity has excited a good deal of interest and some curiosfty. When the patient takes hold of the handles of the battery the cur rent is giadually increase! in intensity until the patient can bear no more; then, while the foiceps are being introduced, the current is turned off Tor a second, and on again. Ti e rest is the same as with out electricity. Tbe question: "Why is it that electricity prevents pain? was re cently ingeniously answered by Br. Ar thur Harries. He said: "Electricity travels over the nerve at the rate of 420 vibrations a seeot d; pain travels from the tooth to the bruin in one-sixteeiitb of a second. My theory is that the elec tricity, being so inuci quicker and having the greatest force behind it, gets to the brain first, and then kem s the line for it self, crowding out the pain." 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If you can " , use yaras Id various colors In fancy work we J hare some at half price; our own selection. i- uur mie nnniea iisiawill interest y.-m; tor them. Family supplies ot all kinds. - Dried fruits from 2c to 10c Canned fruits from 8c perenn to20c per can. Many goods are lower. Be careful or your expenditures. Write to SMITHS' CASH STORE. U6-418 Front Street. San Frandsco, Ol 6 She Tl s a. "Stone" Leg. Thpre is a marvelous case of petrifac tion in t!:is city, says a despatch from La fayette, Ind., the victim being Mrs. Char les De V-ix, tha wife or an employe In a tile factory. Nearly two years ago she was tab -n ill, A slow fevr enfeebled her. Dav by day she jrrew weaker, aod at the end nf a month she took to her bed and has never been able to rise. But through, it all she has ivtaineJ an excellent appe- titeand eats heartily three times a day. One morning about three months ago she remarked to members of the family that her right leg seemed heavier than usual, tint, tin 1 1 0lrl sno rrlvsn tKAaf.4.i -- " m' " " iU DWIWUIQUV UU til later in the day, when she again com- - puuueu oi tne wignc oi tne limb and asked that an examination be made. Her request was granted, the limb was examined by .members of the family, and they were startled at their discovery. Thft tnM Antim fnnt ami lv t .w.ui mo icjj upas IttT as toe knee were as hard as stone, and the liwu a ujLniiy an voi a oi neat. Efforts tr mota Hani ,mb 4. l. : a - "-"' wilu iiiroir lingers proved futile. Repeated experiments were . made to test the sense of feeling, but that sense in the afflicted parts was entirely Since first discovered the petrification has not increased, but the family ara fAnrful tat ir ahs,M MtAnt . ai ii.i . . vuu.u VAbDUU ai tut) Vita! parts of the body and thus' cause her death. She suffers no pain in the limb, but its unnatural weight causes no end of Inconvenience and besides is very unpleas ant. Mrs. Be Voixand her husband are French people N. Y. Telegram. Same Old Candidate. A hard-working woman was asked: "Madam, are you a woman suffragist?" No. sir." was the answer, 'I haven't time to be." "Haven't time? Well, if you had the privilege of voting wiiom would you sup port?" "The same man I have supported for the last ten years." . "And who is tat?" "My husband." Lincoln (Neb) Journal. Li " ! - t: i :.- ft a S