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OREGON COURIER VOL. XI. OIIKGON CITV. CLACKAMAS COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 15. 1893. NO. 32. OCCIDENTAL NEWS. lSeacli-Combers in Old Tacoma liaise Their Shacks. PORTLAND OPIUM-SEIZURE CASES Much Discussion and Alarm Anions Southern California Iieemen Over a Bee Disease. AhIoi in. capital will erect a salmon cuimi'ry lit 1'uint Huberts In time lor ni'xt season's run. No dumago was done to the govern inent jetty at the mouth of the Colnm hia by the recent storm, Tho work of ruining the Ban Pedro, wrecked oil' Victoria three yearsago. liiiH been di'limtuly abandoned. Operations in the Went Consolidated Virginia and California mine were begun recently through, the Consoli dated Virginia snait. There is only one woman among the 303 convicts at the Uregon penitentiary Hhe was sunt from Morrow county for cutting a harness to pieces, At 1'ocutullo, Idaho.'an edict has gone forth that henceforth no married woman or unmarried man shall be employed in the puiilic schools as a.teacner A limn named Agilar deliberately threw blazing kerosene on his wife at Iah Angeles. Sim was frightfully uurneu, unu is nut expucieu hi live. A test Is to be made of the legality of (Sacramento's new charter. It Is be lieved a decision can be secured from the .Supremo Court by the first of the vear. Tho party in search of Mr. Winston, who is thought to be lost in the Sierra Mtulre, has returned to Pasadena. A search of the Arroyo eeco Canyon is now to be made. Tho statement of the Southern Pa cillc railroad freight ofllce shows that the total fruit shipments to the East from San Jose for the season up to iJeeeiuber 2 was 65,432,700 pounds. An active volcano on the American side of tho straits was one of the scenes witnessed by the passengers on the steamer Maud, which returned from Al berni to Victoria, B. C, recently. A break in the main water pipe in a Btreet in Tombstone, A. T., last week was found to have been caused by the routs of a tree, which had grown around the pipe and crushed it so that it burst. It iB understood the government in tends to return another indictment con taining more specific charges against the defendants in the opium Beizure cases at at Portland, and also that several other persons will be included. The Canadian Pacific railroad will . nl.n 41. a L.ai,laDD . ilia Panalian Vavi. UtAD blic uuaincoa vi mid uuunuiau ... i gation Company the first of the year, ami win place a new sme-wueeier wun Bpeed of eighteen knots an-hour on. the 'twite between Victoria- and. Vancouver. A woman at Spokane, Wash., was fined $20 a few days ago for practical joking. She perpetrated the exceed ingly humorous, though not exactly new, joke of mixing the sugar and salt on the table of a public (lining-room. Tho court called it disorderly conduct. President Dwight Braman of the San Diego Land and Town Company has announced that the company has de cided to extend the National City and Otay railroad from La Presa into the Upper Sweetwater through the Jamacha country into the eastern end of Cajon Valley. II. E. Connen has been appointed general agent for the Puget Sound and British Columbia for the Oceanic Steam ship Company of San Francisco. It is Baid that vigorous competition will be inaugurated with the Canadian Austral ian Steamship Company. The Detrick Steamship Company, which proposes running the new whale back steamer Everett between Puget Sound and San Francisco, announces that it has closed a contract with the American Steel Barge Company lor two more whalebacks to run between Port land and San Francisco. It is reported that Marcus is to be the efld of ttie division on the Spokane and Northern as soon as transportation opens over the line between Spokane and Nel son. The company is now engaged in enlarging the roundhouse at Marcus, anil it is likely that machine shops will be built in the spring. There iB much discussion and alarm among beemen of dilferent localities in Los Angeles county, Cal., over a disease, commonly called the "nameless dis ease," that has played havoc among bees in the Last and has crossed the Hock ies i n to Southern California. Some aniarists have lost as many as fifty and seventy-five stands. Its ravages have ruined one or two apiaries in Ontario, and the beemen are puzzled to know how to check it. Since the waters of the Coquille have receded it is learned that the damage to the Coos Bay and Roseburg railroad is found to have been overestimated, but as it was nearly all backwater with no current, the receding floods leave the track only slightly damaged. There was a heavy wash at Cedar Point, which twisted and shifted two small span bridges, which were only temporary structures. No rails or ties were dam aged, and there was not a particle of damage to any of the bridges built on piling. Ttie greatest damage was done to the ballasting, which had just been completed before the rainv season opened. The total damage will not ex ceed $5,000. Samuel P. Morse, formerly a wealthy merchant of Omaha, came to San Fran cisco last September with high indorse ments. While at the Palace he pre sented several checks to different people tor various sums of money, the checks being drawn on Omaha banks. These checks were sent back for collection, and have been returned as worthless, with the additional information that the signatures to them are forgeries. The Keeley Company denies that Morse holds any stock in that corporation, and the Omaha banks state that the S. P. Morse Company has been out of exist ence for two years. Meanwhile Morse has left the Palace Hotel. Parties who have lost by him are of the opinion that he is mentally unbalanced. Prof. Wickson of the California State University recently made an examina tion of reclaimed tule lands near the mouth of the San Joaquin river, with the view of selecting a site for the sugar culture experiment station. This was in accordance with an appropriation made by the last Congress. The pro fessor does not feel at liberty to make public his (election. He has reported to the proper officials at Washington. If the selection be approved by the Washington authorities, the experi mental culture of sugar cane nnder government direction will probably fil in California daring the coming u P. It is probable that the station ' established on one of the islands ead 0f gohran Bay. FKOM WASHINGTON CITY. Hermann has Introduced a bill to pay the Vaalem band of Tillamook Indians 10,600 and interest since 1861. Delegate Kawllns of Utah has Intro duced a bill to extend the time (or mak ing proof on desert lands to five years, The subcommittee of the House Bank Ing and Currency Committee has agreed to report favorably the bill to issue cir culating notes to the full amount of the bonus deposited to secure circulation In tho Senate Mr. Mitchell of Oregon introduced a bill providing for the ap propriation of $15,000 for a lighthouse at Cape Arago, Or., and 4(1,000 for range lights at the mouth of the Willamette river. The Secretary of the Treasury has sent to Congress an estimate for the im provement of rivers and harbors, amounting to (11,415,000 in addition to the estimates heretofore furnished for 18H4-6. Bland has introduced a new free-coin. age bill, repealing that portion of the bill of October, 1873, preventing the coinage of silver dollars and re-enacting the coinage act of 1837. Bland expects the Committee on Coinage will report an absolutely free-silver bill to the House. The pension bureau officials believe another nest of pension frauds has been discovered in New Orleans. The charac ter of the operations are believed to be identical with the frauds in Norfolk, vs. and the newly-discovered cases at But- f..i . r.t i i , mm. a special examiner is now at wore investigating. Captain Kdmund Zalinski. the noted inventor of the pneumatic dynamite gun, is to be placed on the retired list of the army. The report of the board of army otneers that examined Captain Za linski at Governor's Island, New York Harbor, was received at the War Depart ment recently. In it the board recom mends that the Captain be retired on account of physical disability. The House Committee on Indian Af fairs has a number of bills before it, and the Intention of Chairman Holman is to commence active work as soon as pos sible. Probably the most important measure is a bill Introduced by Delegate Kawlins of Utah for the relinanishment of a portion of the Uintah and Uncom pahgre reservations in Utah. It is claimed that asphalt deposits, which are very valuable, are found on lands pro posed to be ceded. There will be great onnosition in the House Committee on Foreign Affairs to the resolution of Hittof Illinois on the ground that it would not be right, in view of a further promised communica tion from the Executive on the subject, for the House to give expression to the sentiments contained in the Hitt resolu tion. Hitt will make every effort to se cure a favorable report from the com mittee of his resolution; but, as it will take at least three Democratic votes to bring about such a result, it is doubtful if he will be successful. A decision upon the alien contract law was rendered in the Supreme Court of the United States by Justice Brewer. In the United Mtates Court for the eastern district of Pennsylvania John 8. and Jo seph Lees were fined $1,000 for violation of the law. and annealed, attack in? the constitutionality of the act and the iu- 1 ' if - t i, " . W " nwKuoa oi we oourc. i jnsuce urewer announced - ttiat the Supreme Oonrt found the law to be constitutional and the District Court had jurisdiction. But the proceeding against Lees being crim inal in its nature, the court below erred in compelling the defendants to give tes timony in favor of the government. This error was sufficient to warrant a reversal of the judgment and to remand the case to a new trial. Since the resignation of J. J. Van Alen from the position of Ambassador to It aly, which took effect November 25, the date of his second letter to the President on the subject, Mr. Cleveland has had little opportunity to consider the ap pointment of his successor. It is said, however, that he has thought the matter over and will not long delay sending the nomination of a new Ambassador to the Senate. The presence in Washington last week of Oscar Straus of New York has been coupled with the resignation of Mr. Van Alen, and some astute New York politicians give credence to the story that Mr. Straus may be selected. It is also stated that the name of Judge Lambert Tree of Illinois, ex-Minister to Belgium, will be presented to the Presi dent by Hon. Don M. Dickinson, if he has not already taken action. The contracts for three new gunboats have been awarded to the Newport News Company, the Board of Naval Officers having finished its considera tion of the plans. The Union Iron Works through its representatives made a strong effort to obtain a contract for one of the boats. They offered to build the two larger vessels for $292,000 each, and made a similar reduction from their bid on the third vessel. The ships will be built by Huntington's Company for $280,000 each. They are known as "Nos. 7, 8 and 9. As finally settled upon by the department No. 7 will be 220 feet 'ong by 30 feet beam, of 1,261 tons dis- ' iiiHi'f niKn r. u mi ja, irnma hiuioi rv na m and will be ZoO feet long by 50 feet beam, of 1,313 tons displacement and and thirteen knots speed. All three will be twin-screw vessels with triple expansion engines, and will carry arma ment of six-pounders and nnder. It is not known definitely what the House Committee on Banking and Cur rency will do npon the bill to repeal the lu per cent tax on State banks. A bill will be reported as soon as a vote in the com mittee is reached. Of the seventeen members of the committee the six Re publicans, Springer of Illinois and 8 perry oi Connecticut will vote against report ing the bill. Johnson of Ohio, who was supposed to be doubtful, says he is against the bill, but will report it favor ably from the committee to get it before the House. He thinks with a matter of this importance, in which so many mem bera are interested, the question should be brought before the House for consid eration, but will reserve the right to vote sgaiiisi me urn on me nooroi tnenouse. Several members who were for repeal before the message have expressed them selves since as indifferent or believing it would not oe wise to pass the measure now. . : Senator Culiom has introduced a bill intended to meet one of the weak points mat experience nas round in the inter state commerce act. This proposed amendment is intended to force the ac ceptance by one railroad of the traffic of anomer, lor tne purpose oi making a continuous line and the further purpose of preventing railroads from discriminat ing between roads in the acceptance of traffic Section 3 of the original inter state commerce act was meant to do this, but the railways, as Senator Cullum puts it, are inclined to be technical, and there seems to be some difficulty in car rying out the law in that regard. An other amendment by Mr. Culiom defines with positiveness the meaning of the word line " applied to railroads, and is intended to cure the act of a defect and meet the decision of Judge Brewer, who in a case before him in the United States Circuit Court construed the word line to mean something different from the con struction which according to Mr. Culiom tbe framers of the law intended it should mean. The last amendment repeals the present daOM making violators of the act subject to a fin only. EASTERN MELANGE. Annual Report of the Comp troller of the Currency. DESTITUTE MICHIGAN MINERS The Gross Receipts of tbe World's Fair Postofllce-The Virginia Marl Deposits. McPhcrson will lead the fkht in the benate for the Wilson bill. A Chicaro comnanv has cornered In diana's output of block coal. Iowa lines are to make an effort to nave local freight rates raised. South Carolina has netted in four months $32,108.10 on her liquor. Chiefs of Police of many big cities are in league to stamp out anarchy. It cost Philadelphia $3,000.01 to brinir me liberty oeii nome iroin umcago, The cable-car managers are giving se rious attention to mo-saving devices. A new gold field, twentv miles snuare. has been discovered near llartzel, Col. Richard Mansfield declares that there are 8,000 starving actors in this country. A Southern newspaper says that nearly every house in Honolulu has a telephone. Oranges from the Salt River Valley, . T., are now arriving in Eastern cities. The iail at Concord. Mich., has Wn utilized for a hotel by a lack of prison ers. Attorney-General Little is after the Kansas lottery companies with a sham stick. The destitute condition of the neonle on the South Carolina islands demands relief. A Cincinnati man has been fined $50 and costs for abusing another man over the telephone. A syndicate of American capitalists is said to be organizing to control Nova Scotia lime kilns. Four hundred coal miners at Ishoem- ing, Mich., have struck against receiving their pay in store orders. Gross receipts of the World's Fair postotnee amounted to $04,388, and the xpenuuures were zii,on. Cincinnati capitalists will invest $1.- 000,000 in mining the marl deposits along the coast of Virginia. New York's World's Fair hnildincr which cost $150,000, was bought by a wrecking company for $1,200.. . Bills providing for inveBtiaation of election methods in several counties of New York are in course of preparation. Representative Loud believes that tho prune industry of his district will be ru ined if the Wilson tariff bill become law.. . ' ! ' Cashier Louis A. Hilliard, who ember-' aA tixnnn f. nkj if-u.. 6 zled 15,000 from the Chicago Tribune 1 'owes being malnlv WribedJo-iU rail- Com nan - will atrinM?-Thr-fnnAiXuu! bushiUgS. ' - v M " - "' V years. a i v t - ' " ii A company has been organized in the new Territory of Oklahoma to put a flouring mill in every county in Okla homa. The free list will be enlarged by Rep resentative Wilson's bill, should it be come a law, by the addition of some 450 articles. It is not any longer "swell " to wear a big chrysanthemum in the New Yorker's button-hole, because it is regarded as a " Western fad." This year surpasses anyone in history tor rauroad accidents, t rom IN over November, 1892, to November, 1893, 2,318 were kiued on tne railroads. The Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette says Honolulu has a charming climate, but its pest is the mosquito, with no frost to cut short its career. All Chinese laborers in the United States must register before a Collector of Internal Revenue before May 3 next, or else be subject to deportation. The total American supplv of oranges this year is expected to be 7,000,000 boxes, and tne greatest -previous yield, mat oi was only o,4ou,uuu boxes. The National League for the Protec tion of American Institutions at New York has issued an address to the public in defense of the American free common school system. A doctor of Alleghany, Pa., kept a prematurely-born infant, which the mother thought dead, in an incubator four months, and surprised the mother by re storing; it to her. A bill prohibiting prize-fighting in South Carolina has passed the General Assembly. The penalty is three years' imprisonment and $1,000 fine for princi pals and seconds. It is stated at Chicago that Wells, Fargo i& Co. for a cash bonus of $1,700.- 000 and 40 per cent of the gross receipts naa secured a new contract with the Southern Pacific Company. Maurice Bletz, a vote repeater, has been sentenced in the Federal Court at Kansas City to two years in the peniten tiary for fraudulent voting at the general election held November 8, 1892. The Erie road has cut the provisions rate from Chicago to Boston from 30 cents to 24 cents, and to New York and Philadelphia in proportion. The other lines will make the same rates. Nearly 500 groggeries in Chicago have been forced out of business since No vember 1 on account of the dull times. and it is probable that from 500 to 1,000 others will fail to renew their licenses. The Iowa Tontine Investment Com pany at Des Moines has failed. Presi dent Stone is missing, and so are the funds. Among the victims at Des Moines are the President of one bank and two or three cashiers of others. The result of the canvass as to the condition of the destitute miners in Iron Mountain, Mich., is that 150 families, or about oou persons, are found to be in actual want. In many instances children were found with scarcely any coverinor on mem It will cost the State of Pennsylvania about $300,000 to elect a Congress man-at-large to fill the vacancy caused by the aeatn oi uenerai wiiiiam Liny, which occurred December 1. The entire elec tion machinery of the State will be called into play. The annual report of the Comntroller of the Currency shows 3.796 national banks in operation at the close of the fiscal year, with a capital stock of VftS.- 558,120, held by 300,000 stockholders; total resources of the banks, t3.109.563.- 284; toUl circnlation, $20911.993, a net increase during the year of $36,888,962. Mrs. Matilda Simpson died in Hr- rodsbarg, Ky., last week. She was known all over that section as " the sad lady," for the reason that for thirty years she had never been known to smile. Her husband mysterionilr dis appeared a short time after their mar riage, and waa never beard of after ward. This occurrence transformed her from a merry young girl to a heart broken woman. BUSINESS BREVITIES. An English syndicate has purchased suu acres oi mining lands In South Vt kota for $500,000. The United States has 680 vessels en gaged exclusively in foreign trade. Great Britain has 5,008. ivew jceaianders boast of an orange orchard one acre of which yielded $1,000 worm oi oranges. The Waltham watch-making establish ment employs 1,800 women among its a,uw wora people. A single snonire has been found on the coast of Florida with a circumference of five feet six inches. One hundred years ago the United States imports aggregated $31,000,000 to-day, $800,301,421. The bituminous or soft-coal output In the United States now aggregates 100. 000,000 tons annually. Completion of the Tehnantenec rail road will open Mexico's richest coffee section to the United States. SevenThundrcd and twentv tons of cardboard are said to be utilized every year in me use ot postal cards. More roses are grown in the pretty new jersey village oi Madison than any, where else in the United States. During'the last fiscal vear the United States smoked np 3,000,000,000 cigarettes and borrowed about hall of them. Until 1859 no pig iron was manufact ured in Pittsburg. In 1802 a total of 1,775,257 gross tons were produced. The total currency of the United States is about $880,000,000. Of this amount about $390,000,000 is in silver dollars. It Is estimated that more than $1,200. 000,000 worth of railroad property in mis country is in tne hands oi receivers. Aluminium is beginning to be utilized for roofing, in sheets like tin, the cost of it for that purpose being about the same as copper. ihe assets ox the life-insurance com panies of the United States aggregate ihdu.uuii.uuu, while the gross income is $220,000,000. Something over 7.000 tons of silver were purchased nnder the act of 1890 by the general government at a cost of about flDO,UUU,UUU. Thirteen years ago the Argentine Re public imported 6,000,000 bushels of wheat. This year it has 40,000,000 bush els fur export. The gold production of the United States for 1803 will be over $35,000,000 an increase of $2,000,000 as compared with the previous year. The lumber export of the United States in 1892 amounted to $28,000,000. At the present rate of use our supply will be exhausted in 100 years. The carrying capacity of the cables be tween Australia and Europe is from 72, 000 to 100,000 words a day. The actual traffic is about 6,000 words a day. Excluding about 62,000 small crafts, the commerce of the world is carried on by 45,000 vessels of 2,500,000 registered tons, with a carrying capacity of 48,000,- 000. . The .American Casualty Insurance Company has got rid of $1,700,000 in its four years' existence, the company's upon a recent purcnase oi iu,uuu tons of raw sugar, not ntore than two weeks' supply, the American Sugar Refining Company will net,, it is estimated, a profit of $236,000. ' Mr. Preston, the Director of the Mint, is quoted as Baying that the world's pro duction of gold this year will be fully $145,000,000, to which South Africa will contribute about $24,000,000. A statistician finds that the average value of a mule ii $7 more than that of a horse. In Texas the price of a mule is about twice that of a horse, and in other Southern States it takes a longer purse to buy the long-eared quadruped. PURELY PERSONAL. Queen Victoria has presented to the Pitcairn Islanders a fine lifeboat, which will be taken to them from Esquimault, B. C, by the Pacific flag ship Royal Ar thur. Chief Engineer A. H. Able, U. 8. N., who has recently comnlnted his ana dntv on the cruiser Newark, will be Chief En gineer at the League Island navy yard, i'hiiadeiphia. William R.Smith, who for many years has been the Superintendent of the Bo tanical Gardens in Washington, has, it : : .i ii.. .i: . i . t' . i . , ia Baiu, jjcreuiiauy uireuieu tne planting of more than 6,000,000 trees in different parts of the United States. General Jose M. Hernandez, who has resided recently in New York, but who is a revolutionist, a patriot and a candi date for the Presidency of Venezuela, has been prominent in half a dozen rev olutions, lie has seen the inside of more prisons than any other distinguished man in South America. So fat is Lobengula, the Matabele monarch, whose lands England has sue cessfullv coveted, that, although he is nearly ix feet tall, he seems to be much shorter. When in full dress he wears broad-brimmed felt hat, with a bunch of monkey skins around bis waist. "Toby, M. P.," who is the caricaturist ot the imperial parliament with tbe pen for London Punch, as much as is Harry Furness with the pencil, is famous for his diminutive physical proportions. On the street or in the lobby of the House oi uommons he seems merely a walking tan nat wun a thin little pair oi legs, General 0. O. Howard, commander of the .bastern Division of the United States army, is a frequent attendant at tne Young Men's Christian Association meetings in New York. On a recent Sunday he delivered an address on the subject, " Loving Kindness Between Fa ther and Son." He is one of the most noted Christian workers in the United States army. Perhaps the most famous distributor of Bibles in the world was Deacon Will iam Brown of New Hampshire. lie be- f:an the work in 1849, and kept it np nntil lis death this year at the age of 76. During that ttme no fewer than 120,000 copies ot tne oenptures were given out by him, and despite his age in the two years preceding his death he canvassed 239 towns and visited over 80,000 fami lies. Joseph H. Manley, Blaine's old-time friend, remarks casually in passing: "It ia useless to speculate about Presidential possibilities at this time. Certainly no man who has any Presidential aspira tions would thank any of his friends for launching his boom at this distance from the national convention. It wonld be almost fatal to any man to have his friends begin to boom him for the Presi dency three years before the meeting of tbe national convention." There is a good deal about the present Lord Mayor of Manchester's history which resembles that of the noted Dick Whittington. He was born in the little village of Farcet in Huntingdonshire. He was apprenticed to a draper, and on the expiration of his apprenticeship left with no resources to seek his fortune. He got to Manchester, found work, pros pered and, like Whittington, made a for tune and, returning to hia native tows, married bis first master's daughter. i FOREIGN FLASHES. Ex-King Milan Preparing Overthrow His Son. to THE NEW ITALIAN MINISTRY Tbe Amount of Property In Loudon Insured In Fire Insurance Companies Etc. Swiss Anarchists are to be expelled. nussia mav build a rilmn,1 in tho Arctic ucean. One-seventh of the land iwntn in ureat uruain are women. London Anarchists claim to have ulllm in the army, navy and police. Fifteen Anarchists will lw friod l Tir. ceiona lor the tiendiBh bomb outrage, the influenza is epidemic in Hnssn. Germany, 10.0C0 cases being reported. Of this year's Russian conacrintinn nf 252,692 men only one-fourth can road or write. President Carnot is chanrod with not wanting a new Ministry cntntMi fnr awnue. The betrothal of the Czarnwiti nf Rn. sia to Princess Helene of Orleans is im minent. The niece of John Morlov has hmn converted to Catholicism, and will enter a convent. Influenza is stated toberatrln trfArrllilv in .Birmingham, and smallpox is also prevalent. The delimitation of tlm Ecuador and 1'eru wil be submitted in arbitration. Friendly npvntiatinna Vuwun Hon duras andNiraragua have been tempora rily uisLurueu. There are indications that tlm nhva. ical force party in Ireland intend resum ing operations. Emperor William Is said to be negoti ating for the purchase of the American sloop yacht Vigilant. The war office of England 1ms Hinwtwl all Sergeant instructors of volunteers to attend foot-ball matches. In some parts of England barhed-wlrn fences are still classed as a nuisance, and their ubo is forbidden by Jaw. The new French Ministry had a hare majority of thirty-one in the first en- gagement with its opponents. A certain Peruvian heiress paid Worth $24,000 for a gown trimmed with lace. Of this sum $23,600 was for the lace. Great swarms of locusts are devastat ing the country around Bloomfontein. the capital of the Orange Free State. Instead of using hair cloth an enter prising Parisian dressmaker has atiflfinm the skirt of a ball gown with aluminium. In spite of the notoriously bad condi tion Of th-ITltalinn flnna.i n lilnri I rll lint of tWcountry Is the largest in Europe. Jerusalem has been modernized by a railroad, and now a concession to estab lish a water works is being demanded. The Hungarian vintage of the present year has turned out the worst since the appearance of the phylloxera and pero- nospora. It is rumored in London that the de ficiencies in the Bank of England are .!..,.( i. i u. a- .i .r- im uo uruugut iu tne nonce oi i ar- uamem, Last year according to the statistics recently compiled 24,000 men and 18,000 women left Japan to find homes for themselves abroad. All citizens of Ecuador now in Peru have been placed under German protec tection, owing to the departure of the ncuaaorian Minister. Iron visiting cards are among the hit est novelties in Germany. Forty placed one on tue other are said to be only one. tenui oi an men in thickness. A Marseilles (France) cable from large importer of Russian wheat said " Wheat very depressed because of large mucus anu naeiy to continue so. During the last year the property In London insured by fire insurance com panies and the underwriters at Llovds amounted to more than $400,000,000. It is reported that Milan, ex-King of nervin, is preparing a coup to overthrow his son, King Alexander, again ascend the throne and fill his own exhausted purse. Sir Thomas Esmond, M. P., is conduct ing a crusade against the English Ian guage in County Cork, Ireland. The effort is to make the English language unpopular, The banking house of Du Fresno, one oi tne oldest established banks in Flor ence, Italy, has supended payment. Km' etaz, the manager of the bank, commit ted suicide. The Lord Mavor of London is manag ing a subscription for the benefit of the sufferers from the dynamite explosion at oanianuer. npain. Lord Knaetarv annt a check for $125. Lord Charles Beresford's proposal that Within the next four veara Krnr and alia. expend 18,000,000 npon the navy has been received with friendly criticism by hid uiuerai press. the United Presa cnrreannnrint in Paris has been authorized to rnntrnlirt natiy and finally the report that the di vorced wife of Edward Parker Deacon ia about to marry again. Last year the German Em nernr intro duced anowshoes into the equipment of ins nuy on me eastern frontier, and this year the troops are to be thoroughly vriiicu iu using mem. The Crown Princess of Austria has presented her bridal robes to the Chnn-h oi nozen. iney nave been made no f Tt mi . inioa ueauuiui cnasubie, which lias been worn at mass by the dean, The railroads in Italy are now nain? coal cars of American pattern and thirtv ton capacity, and they are said to be giving greater satisfaction than the old type of twelve-ton cars previously used. Major Goold-Adama at Carwtnwn. Africa, reports that King Lobengula has wrincii asimg mat tne forces under Ma- f orbea be withdrawn in order that ie may come and discuss the nnaitinn nf aimir. The inn nest on the canas nf tl, Amth of Prof, f yndall at London resulted in a verdict that the professor died from an overdose of chloral. He had been accia- tomed to take the drug to alleviata hia sufferings. It is expected that the betrothal of the idowed Crown Princess Stephanie of Austria to Archduke Franz Ferdinand will take place at Christmas. The Prin cess was born on May 21. 1864. and the Archduke on December 18, 1863. Tbe following Italian Ministry haa been formed : Zanardelli. Premier and Minister of the Interior: Baratiori. For- eign Affairs; Fort is. Public Works; San Marzano, War; Kacchia. Marine: Cor. orta. Husbandry; Kiaeis, PosU and Tel egraphs; Vaechelli, Treasury; Gallo, k4ucaton ; Koaelli, Finance. AN INCIDENT IN REAL LIFE. Showing Row ttuplaaaant FtopU Caa Hake Thamwilyaa by Thalr Talk, I stepped npon a Broadway car at the lower end or Broadway and rode In it along that fast changing highway as far as Nineteenth streot. At the corner of Chambers street and Broadway a man of perhaps 40 and a woman not more than 23, he carrying a hnge portmanteau, a colltction of wraps, two umbrellas and a cane, she leading by the band 8-year-old baby, Joined the partially crowded patronage already seated. A cloud of dissatisfaction rested upon the brow of tbe man. Tbe frown of an al ready born rumpus fast unfolding into fruitage made forbidding and ugly the comely countenance of the woman. Her nervous disposition made itself known to every one in tbe car and particularly to the little boy as she yanked the child by the arm into the seat beside her. Aft er a moment's silence the woman said, "You might have known how it wonld be," to which he responded, "Well. might have known, but I didn't, so shut up! Another passenger entered the car at that moment and stumbled over the port manteau. "Hang that bag!" said the man, "If I were you, I would keep my cuss ing for home," said the woman, and so on and on and on, The ensuing half hour was passed by these two in a strain which would have done credit to the most pronounced hag in the dirtiest quarters of a third rata fish market The little boy, thank heav en, went fast asleep. Much of the con versation between the two was inaudible save to the three or four people In imme diate contact with them, but every once in awhile tbe shrill voice of the female bird soared into upper altitudes of defi ance, making discordant the entire at mosphere and attracting the attention of nearly a score of people. They got out at the corner of Fourteenth street and Broadway and entered a cafe he sullen, ejaculatory and profane; she keyed up to Q in alt, defiant, shrewish, chock full of scold. Well, what of it? It is not such a very uncommon thing for man and wife for lovers even, for daily intercom-tors to quarrel and to vent serpentlike hisses from the nnruly members that wag with curious motion as they distill poison from bitter and Jaundiced hearts. It is not so uncommon, I admit, but isn't it always suggestive? I thought as I looked at tbe man, with a good, square, clean forehead, well marked brows, a clear skin and an air of self poise, that he was hardly doing himself justice. Save that his hands were rude and rough and that his boots were country made, that his portmanteau was considerably older than the ordinary hill and that his um brella looked aa thongh it might have been utilized by Mrs. Noah when she came from the ark, he waa a man of the world in appearance. And the. woman had a pretty face. J MagaaiT was narrart.in inn mm,ii. women's hair should be, and revealed in its old fashioned brushing a tiny ear, not so small as to indicate utter selfishness. but, on the other hand, not so large as to rival a genuine Saddle Rock oyster in it vulgarity. Her eyes were brown, soft at that; her teeth were regular and clean; her dress was neat, her hands and feet well clad, and an occasional pat npon the boy's shoulder as he lay nes tling against her, fast asleep, indicated the feminine nature, tbe affectionate ten derness of the mother. Listening under the circumstances was not rudeness. It was compulsory. I sat next the boy. Some of his banana skin ornaments my coatsleeve until this mo ment. As he lay semicoiled up I noticed the copper nails in the bottom of his shoe and the copper toe upon the same. The group was easily and perfectly within my vision. As word after word fell red hot I thought: How odd this all would have sounded in that shell-like ear five years ago. How strange it wonld have seemed to the lover bad he heard it or had it been suggested to him that ever it could be possible for him to hear such language from such lips. Howard in New York Recorder. Baclslmlng Old Robber. Crude rubber is worth from 40 to 76 cents per pound, and yet a pound of hose or packing costs very much less. This would be hardly practical if it were not for the advances that have been made in the art ot reclaiming or recovering rub ber, which can be dune at the total cost of about 8 cents per pound. There are several largo factories in the country de voted solely to this purpose, and a great many manufacturers do recovering on a small scale at tbe seat of the production of new goods. These old goods are placed in large tanks at the place of reclaiming. A so lution of muriatic or sulphuric acid and water is poured npon the waste, and the whole set to boiling by a system of steam pipes passing through the tank. After 10 or 13 hours' boiling tbe cotton fiber, which is found in all rubber manufac tures and which is the serious drawback in the reclaiming process, disintegrates and falls into a powder, and there U no difficulty then in the use of the waste. New York Telegram. Leigh B ant's Brrnkfaat Boaqoat. Leigh Hunt, that early day esthete, declared breakfast to be the meal of all others when the poetic influence of a table posy was most to be desired. He would brir; in a few clover beads or sprigs of grass culled from beneath the protecting bars of a park railing or city square if he could find nothing more beautiful, and with these to look at his fancy took him roaming out into bound less green fields and pastures new. Chicago Tribune. Bow Traaa Grow. The last annual circle of wood leaves an accumulation of living cells npon its surface, and toward midsummer these cells produce an abundance of new ones until tbe aggregate is sufficient to form a new annual layer. This process on common trees requires about six weeks. Exchange. An AdjoatabU PrapaUar. A recent English invention ia a screw propeller in which the blades can be ad- Justed for maneuvering or can be feath ered for running under saiL New York Journal. In a skating match which occurred re cently at North Plain, Conn., between young men, the prixe contested for was ths hand of a young woman in marriage. A German inventor is reported to have devised an ingenious earners, for taking photographs of the internal organs of human beings and bsta. PORTLAND MARKET. Whai-Valley, 92cs Walla Walla, oi,c per cental. BOPS, WOOL AND BIOSS. Hops '92s, nominally at 1010c per pounu, mere being none In the market; new crop, '93s, 10(tl66c for strictly choice, and nominally at 8c for medium. n ooiy rriccs nominal. H mis Dry selected prime, 6c; green, salted, 60 pounds and over, 3!tc; under w pounds, Wx; sheep pelts, shearlings, 10(il5c; medium. 20(335c: long wool. 30(3 00c; tallow, good to choice, 3(830 per pound. MVS AND DKtSSID Ml AT. Bkir Top steers, 26c per pound; fait to good steers, 2c; No. 1 cows, 2c; fair cows, lc; dressed beef, $3.60(36.00 per 100 pounds. Mutton Best sheep, $2.00; choice mutton, $.175(32.00; lambs, $2.00(32.26. Hoom Choice heavy, t4.60fiift.ua: dium, $4.00(34.50; light and feeders, $4-U04.50; dressed, $6.50. ViAi-$3.006.0O. pb0vibi0ns. Eastcrn Shocbd Meats anu Labd Hams, medium. 13(a)13c ner pound: hams, large, 1213Vc; hams, picnic, ll12c: breakfast bacon. 15(3 10c: short clear sides. ll13c; dry salt sides, incite ; dried beet nams, iz13c; lard, compound, in tins. VOlOo ner pound; pure, in tins, ll13S,c; pigs' feet, 80s, $5.60; pigs' feet, 40s, $3.00. COROAOI Manilla rope, IV in. cir. and up, 10,Vc: manilla rope, 12-thread, Kdiain., 11c; manilla rope, 6 and 9-thread. M. and 6-16 diam., llc; manilla bail rope, in coils or on reels, lOc; manilla lath yarn, tarred, 9c ; manilla hawser-laid rope well boring, etc.. 13c; manilla transmission- of-power rope, 14c; manilla paper twine, lie; manilla spring twine, 14c; sisal rope, in. cir. and upward, 7c; sisal rope. 12-thread. K diam.. 7Wc: sisal rope, 6 and 9-thread, 1 and 6-16 diam., 8c; sisal lath yarn, tarred, 7c; hop-vine vwuie, uureu, iv, bissi paper twine, oc FLOUR, FEED, ETC. Floor Portland. $2.90: Salem. $2.90: Cascadia, $2.90; Dayton, $2.90; Walla Walla, $3.15: Urahain. $2.60: superfine. $2.26 per barrel. Uats 35ffl36c per bushel: rolled, in bags, $0.25(30.60: barrels. $6.76(37.00: cases, $3.76. MiixsTcrra Bran, lis.uu: shorts. $16.00: ground barley. $18.00: chop teed, $lo per ton ; whole feed, barley, 70c percental: middlings, szistgat per ton: chicken wheat, $1.10(31.15 per cental. Hay Good, $1012 per ton. DAIBV PHODDCB. Butter -Oregon fancy creamery, 30 32,4c; fancy dairy, 26 274c; fair to good, 2022)c; common, 1617.hio per pound. liiEESE uregon, lU(Slc; t;ai nor ma. 13(3 14c: Young America. 15(3100: Swiss, imported, 8032c; domestic, 18 20c per pound. 008 uregon, auo per dozen: East ern, 25(3276c Poultry Nominal ; chickens, mixed. $3.00(34.00; ducks, $3.50(36.50; geese. $9.00 per dozen ; turkeys, live, 13c per pound. VEGETABLES AMD FRUITS. iVamraBUEEaiAjagu, ie pf potraffr potatoes. Oregon, 75c per sack: onions. $1.25 per sack ; sweet potatoes, lc per pound; Oregon celery, 35(g50c; toma toes, $1.26(31.60 per box. Fruits Sicily lemons, $5.00(35.50 per box: California new crop, $4.00(34.60 per box ; bananas, $1.503.00 per bunch ; Florida oranges, $4-50 pet box; Cali fornia navels, $4.004.50; seedlings, $3.00(33.60; Mexican, $3.50(83.75 r -Japanese. $2.00; grapes, $1.00(31.25 per box-, apples (buying price), green, 6076c per box; red, 65l)0c; cranberries, $9.00 per barrel, persimmons, fi.ou per box STAPLE OBOOBBIBS. Coffeb Costa Rica. 23c: Rio, 22c: Salvador, 23c; Mocha, 26)28c; Ar- buckle's. Columbia and Lion. 100-pound cases, 25.30c per pound. Dried fauiTS 1893 pack, 1'etlte prunes, 8(3 lUc; silver, iuizc; Italian, 910c; German. 8 10c; plums, 810c: evaporated apples, 8(3 10c; evaporated apricots, 15(3 We; peaches, 10(3120; pears, 7(3 lie per pound. Salt Liverpool. 200s, $15.50; 100s. $16.00; 60s, $16.60; stock, $8.60(9.60. Bice Island, $5.75(36.00; Japan, none in market ; New Orleans, $5.60(30.26 per cental. Syrup Eastern, In barrels, 4065n; in half-barrels, 4257c : in cases. 360 80c per gallon; $2.26 per keg; California, in barrels, 2040o per gallon; $1.76 per kes. Sdqab D.4c; Golden 0. 4c; extra C, 4c ; confectioners' A, 6Jfjc ; dry gran ulated, oc; cube, crushed and pow dered, 0jjo per pound ; )o per pound discount on all grades for prompt cash; maple sugar, 15(3 10c per pound. CANNED GOODS. Canned Goods Table fruits, assorted. $1.75(32.00; peaches, $1.862.00; Bart lett pears, $1.762.00; plums, $1.37 1.50; strawberries, $2.262.46; cherries, $2.25(32.40; blackberries, $1.85(32.00; raspberries, $2.40: pineapples. $2.25(3 2.80; apricots, $1.65. Pie fruits, assorted, $1.20; peaches, $1.25; plums, $1.00(31.20; blackberries, $1.25(31.40 per dozen. Pie fruits, gallons, assorted, $3.15(33.60; peaches, $3.60(34.00; apri cots, $3.504.00; plums, $2.76(33.00; blackberries, $4.254.50; tomatoes,$1.10. Meats Corned beef. Is. $1.40: 2s. $2.10; chipped, $2.35; lunch tongue, Is, $3.60; 2s. $6.76; deviled ham, $1.60 2.76 per dozen. Fish Sardines, s, 75c$2.25; i, $2.15(34.60; lobsters, $2.30(33.50; sal mon, tin Mb talis, $1.25(31.60; flats, $1.75;2-lbs, $2.26(32.50; -barrel, $6.60. Only Ob Tlma Mora. He I've asked you three times to marry me. How many more times no you want me to ask you? She (tenderly) Only once, and let that once be 60 years hence. Detroit Free Cslng tha Rhloa for Powar, It is said that a syndicate of Swiss and English capitalists has been formed to utilize a part of the falls of the Rhine at Lauflenburg for the generation of electric energy. The water will lie led to turbine wheels and 7,000 horse power wfli be developed. New Vork Times. When we take into consideration what a blessing well-ordered creamery is to me community, it is nam to feel charit able toward a badly-ordered one. The first is a good thing; the second a dis gusting nuisance. Awarded Highest Honors World's Fair. 0 R fnl In) " X rt flicking The only Pore Cream of Tartar Powder. No Ammonia; No Alum. Used ia Millions of Homes 40 Years the Standard FARM AND GARDEN. Way in Which a Dairy Barn Should be Built. THE EARLY-HATi HEU PULLET. Carefully Breeding: and electing to Secure Fall and Winter Lay. ers Short Pointers. I wish to give as briefly as possible what I have learned by experience in carefully breeding and selecting to secure iail anu winter layers, as our egg market here in Central New York is the best as to price during these months, says a cor respondent of Farm Journal, fused to think that pullets batched in June were ust as good for winter layers as those latched in April, but the last four or five years 1 have by careful selection and comparison found that the early-hatched pullets are more profitable, taking the year through, than late-hatched ones. I have found that the June pullets aener- erallydid not commence to lay before ineiaaioi January or tne nrst of Feb ruary, even when the conditions were favorable, while the April-hatched ones would commence to lay by the last of September or first of October and con tinue to lay until next March or April without showing any disposition to set. giving me a very profitable return for feed and care bestowed upon them. It is en to nave a lew pnueta hatched out late f"r the next summer egg-laving if one has a variety of fowls which after laying all fall and winter do not lay as well the next summer. My pullets which were hatched out a year ago last April have laid well this summer. Of oonrae. I have had to break them up from set ting two or three times, but that is easily done ; just shut them np a few days in a small coop, and they will get over it and go to laying again in a few days. As you ask about the varieties I keep, I would say in reply that I first tried the White Leghorns, and found that April-hatched pullets of that breed would commence to lay about October 1 and continue to lay nntil the next April or the very last of March before wanting to set, thus hav ing a nice profit during fall and winter. The last two years I have used a cross, combining the following varieties: Hon- iuhub, xAiuiiiiica ana nmie iegnorns. They did finely, laying a large number of eggs. I had a few pullets which were hatched out about April 10, which com-, menced to lay about the middle of Sep tember the same season. This year I have a cross between the Hoodans, White Leghorns and Plymouth Rocks, and they promise to prove equal to the others. BUILDING A DAIRY BABN. The Practical Farmer says : Within a i few days the writer has received several letters seeking light in regard to barn Kit i ll i 1 rv fjtith anonlal MluHtniht Am . keeping of a dairy and a possibility of winter milk. 'When one takes expense and convenience into accountwith t- influence that rDarn has La U, fa,? oi stock wen, wnicn means a light, dry, clean nd well-ventilated stable, we 'n dine to the idea that the barn should be the ration barrack, and the cows should be stabled in an L to that barn, ex tending to the south, so as to get sun light abundsntlvon three sides of it; that it should be of lumber, double boarded, so as to have a dead-air space in the walls, a good-sized window for each three cows. The stable should not b. less than thirtv-fuur leet wide for two rows of cows and nine feet clear on the inside, and each cow should have at least three lt four inches of spate to stand in. and a ball partition between each cow if possible, and one between every other cow in any event, and these cows tied either with halters or sus pended stanchions. Such a stable, with loft for hay or straw, ready fnr tho mi can be built for not far from $16 per cow, and is in every way better for a dairy of cows than it is possible to construct a basement stable; and when once made it can be kept dry and free from chilli ness, which is the "damper" on profit able milk-making in the winter. In our opinion the great castle-like barn has no place in the economy of the modern dairy. What is wanted is a perfect aa possible stable, and the barns that al ready exist may be cheaply mado to hold and protect the feed for the stock in the moreconcentrated form of silage, clover, hay and the grains that are now consid ered essential in making up the balanced ration. PRACTICAL POINTERS. Better grow into dairying than go into it. A rough hide is a sign that something Is wrong. A safe rule to follow is to cultivate all newly-planted fruit trees the same as a crop of corn or potatoes. Some people are not very particular about eating dirt, but they all object to paying for it at prices of butter. Inspect flocks often during warm weather to see that maggots do not get on the animals. They canse trouble. Do not breed from grade sires if it can be avoided. They always give the prog eny a greater chance to inherit " scrub " qualities. The progressive dairyman cannot af ford to use anything poorer than a first- class bull. The future of his herd de pends upon him. One of the principal points in making a success in dairying is that of produc ing a uniformly first-class product dur ing all seasons of the year. Cover the pita of blackcaps now If vott wish them to root. Better plants will be obtained this way than it they are left to do their own rooting. The money expended for pure-bred male animals is one of the best invest ments that ran be made, and gains com pound interest in a short time. It takes a Christian to properly ban die a good cow; a philosopher to teach her calf to drink, and a bandit to do jus tice to the male ancestor of the calf. An apparatus for spraying will soen be counted a necessity where fruit is grown. It is the only successful way of fighting many insect and fungous pests. Fast-walking horses shonld be classed as a breed and records made in order to encourage the breeding of them from pedigree stock. Such a breed would be in demand everywhere. II fra P9t x