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the steamer City of New York,
which arrived at San Francisco on
the 14th, brings the latest news from
Houolulu. The Gazette of July 6th,
peaking of the volcanic fires on
Manna Loa, says: The past week
baa been one of great excitement in
f filo, in consequence of the renewed
nativity in the volcanic fires on Mau-
it Loa. One arm of the fiery stream
) unshed itself into the Kuknau
gulch, and is within three miles of
the village of Hilo. All Hilo may be
raid to have visiCedTthe flow daring
I !. last lew fays. Men women and
children, some on foot and) some on
hr-eback,have made the pilgrimage.
As seen on Wednesday, Juno 29th,
It presented a view never to be for
gotten. A mile above the lower end
of tlx- stream the lava was flowing
in a liquid, living torrent, some thirty
feet wide along its course, consuming
everything in its way. From this
point half a mile of the seething,
strugtiiing torrent could be seen.
The belt covered with lava was some
500 feet wide, all hot, and liable at
any moment to break out into renew
ed activity. At night the scene was
awfully grand beyond description.
The sky has been brilliantly illumi
nated for nights past. Ii is now one
of the worlds great wonders, and
will well repay the journey of those
who appreciate the grand and awful
in the works of Nature." Under
date of June 30th the sheriff of Ha
waii writes from Hilo: "I fear that
we are on the brink of a great cal
amity. The lava stream has at last
broken out of the woods immediately
above Waiakia and the fish pond,
and that portion of Hilo, including
possibly the harbor, cannot escape
ezoept by a miracle. Last Saturday
gradually increasing action was no
ticed, and Sunday the lava broke out
of the woods, and getting into a small
water-course, came rushing down. in
the direction of Kukas and Kalipohpo
at great speed. Monday j visited
the scene of the flow, and it was truly
ft terrific sight to see two streams,
of lava almost as liquid as water
rushing down the beds of streams,
pouring over fertile land and carry
ing destruction with it everywhere.
The ro of burning grass and ferns,
Ultc explosions and concussions were
earful. While we were watching it,
about three hours, the stream pro
gressed some four hundred feet. It
cannot be more than two miles from
the sea in a direct line. A contin
uous stream of people are going and
returning. It seems almost incred
ible that a lava stream is so near us,
but it is, alas, too true. One part of
the town seems safe; but if the stream
gets into the bay, it will doubtless
destroy it, and all the people in that
vicinity will be rained and homeless.
This morning the report from the flow
if that action at the lower end is
somewhat abated, but farther np it
continues as violent as ever. It is
probably only a temporary lull"
The opening scene is also described
by another correspondent: "About
June 22d the old mountain was ob
served to be more than usually ac
tive, the whole summit crevasse pour
ing forth immense volumes of smoke.
By Friday noon the three southern
arms had all joined into one, and
rushing into a deep but narrow gulch
forced its way down the gulch in a
rapid flow. By Saturday noon it
had run a mile. The flow was on an
average seventyfive feet wide and
-from ten to thirty feet in depth, as
it filled the gulch up level with its
banks. The sight was grand The
whole frontage was one mass of liquid
lava, carrying on its surface huge
cakes of partially-cooled lava. Soon
after we reached it the flow reached
a deep hole some ten or fifteen feet
in depth with perpendicular sides.
The sight as it poured over that fall
in two cascades was magnificient.
,The flow was then moving at the rate
of about seventy-five feet an hour.
If it goes through Kuknau probably
all the lower or front part of the town
will fall a prey to Madame Pele."
The Jacksonville Sentinel saya: The oth
r day we took the trouble of counting np
the number of cripples in tins county, and
now they came to be such. We found eight
thai had only one arm, and five who had
lost one or more of their fingers. There are
quite a number that have only one eye, but
we could not ascertain how many there are
f this class. What is most remarkable in
the above .cases is, that three-fourths of
item' became cripples for life by the careless
handling of -fire-arms. The gunning season
ir just at hand, and sportsmen would do well
tetake warning from the borC showing.
IN im COUNTY.
A number of things a traveler
from here saw while on a trip over
that county last week.
We were pleased to notice the fine
prospects for a good crop of hay,
wheat, oats, barley, potatoes add
bops. Of the latter, the few fields
seen promise well, and- of the wheat
and oats crop tbey all think it better
and more of it than last year. Heard
of little rust and that mostly on the
blade instead of the stem, hence but
little injury to the growing grain, and
it is confined to spring wheat as the
winter wheat is too far advanced to
be affected by rust. In fact quite a
number of farmers were engaged in
cutting the fall wheat, many using
the twine binders.
The question with many appears to
be where will they find sufficient sto
rage room, as most of the warehouses
are part full of last year's crop. One
encouraging feature in the erain busi
ness is the prospect that prices will
advance a little in the fall, at least
the present state of the market and
freight supply indicates an advance,
but it may be small. Scarcely any
farmer expects $1 per bushel this
year.
At Peoria they need a store. They
have two good warehouses on the
river, and a live trader might find it
a lair opening lor the merchandise
and grain business. II. Kudd, rear
Peoria, just returned from a pleasure
trip to the Wood river quartz mines
ai d brought some fine specimens of
silver bearing galena, and predicts
that these mines will turn out large
quantities of silver bullion within a
few years. "
At Shedds times seem to be im
proving. Messrs .uavis mo s nave a
large stock of goods, and are putting
up a large sale and- slock barn. They
have a large and flourishing school.
and propose to have a graded school
this fall. Dr. Fisher proposes to buy
the drag store, and Moigan will put
up a hotel. The Boston mills are
turning out lots of flour, and then
there are various shops, telegraph and
postoffice, all surrounded by a fine
farming district. D. P. Porter near
Shedd, sold the balance of his last
wheat crop at Albany for 70cts per
bushel. Mr. Wheeler has a fine
warehouse on the railroad ready to
handle large amounts of grain.
We took a ride with Mr. Davis
through a constant succession of wa
ving grain fields, and by many
white cottages, apparent abodes of
thrift, a distance of nine miles to
Brownsville, which with the new
railroad presents an air of unusual
activity. Swarms of men from the
factory, the various mills, citizens,
travelers and strangers, at meal time
principally in aud around the Browns
ville hotel kept by J. B Irvine, one
of the best landlords in the country.
During the past year many improve
ments were added to north Browns
ville among which we noted a fine
town hall, new livery stable, one very
fine residence and several plain but
comfortable ones, improvements and
new machinery at the factory, new
store building and very large ware
house at depot, large addition to th
Brownsville hotel, and many minor
additions. In fact B. is putting on
town airs quite rapidiy and will sup
rort them gracefully.
The N. 6. railroad is being pushed
on to Coburg,17 miles above Browns
ville. They are laying steel rails, 31
pounds to the yard, and will have
the road completed this fal'.
Tangent is looking up too; fine ad
dition built on the old warehouse,
making room for about 30,000 bush
els of tbe new crop, besides a large
amount of old wheat now in stor'a
two small stores, shops, church and
school. 'During the year some dwel
lings were added, and now they talk
of voting a tax for a new school room
and make it a free school nine months
each year.
A correspondent of the New York
Sun, who found Mark Twain on the
roof of his house with a long pole in
his hand, watching the comet, re
ports Mark as saying: "They arc all
wrong about that tail. I've ciphered
on that tail until I understand every
inch of it. It's absurd to suppose i
that the tail isn't solid and pretty
tough, too. Do you imagine that
this comet could go bulging through
space at the rate of two hundred
miles a minute without knocking
spots out of a tril that was vapor?
Tie a fo bank on to the rear end of
a New York nd Boston 4 o,clock
express, start l.er off at even forty
miles an hour and see how long your
fog bank will travel in company
with your locomotive. Yet they ask
us to swallow this infernal nonsense
the comet's tail. My observation of
this fellow, and also of Coggia's
comet, seven yeas ago, have con
vinced me that comets' tails are fasten
ed on tight, and are of a fibrous and
durable nature, like Hartford beef'
stake." "And what do you propose
to do with your pole?" "Great Cea
sar! With a tail forty-two million
miles long, three million miles thick,
and tough as whip leather, don't you
see the necessity for keeping a cool
headed and muscular man on deck
here to fend off, in case the cussed
thing whisks this water."
SMALL FARMS PAY BEST.
A speaker at a land league meet
ing held in Chicago a few days since,
said that the curse of landlordism
might yet be felt in America. He
said there was an estate of thirty
thousand acres in Illinois owned by
an Irishman who lived in London.
"The dead line where the property
begins can easily be distinguished,"
said the speaker. "Outside can be
seen the cottages of those who own
their own houses, while inside are the
hovels erected by the tenantry. What
has been done all over Ireland for
generations is now being done in this
country." Landlordism is no new
thing even in this country where land
is so plentiful. It was a leading
question in New York fifty years ago
and has since subsided under the ten
dency to break up large holdings.
The individual grasp of the people in
this country is such that small farms
in this cour.try are more profitable
than larne eftates cultivated by ten
ants. Large farms near all the prin
cipal cities are being divided into gar
den patches, and are much more prof
itable to owners than they conld ev
er have been under the landlord sys
tem. Ex-Speaker Randall said the
other day that a farm in the vicinity
of Phildelphia was utterly beyond
his means. Farms had been divided
up aud sold in patches at prices
which no one thought of attaching to
land twenty years ago. The tenden
cy all over the country, as population
becomes dense, is to small farms. The
laud owner can ell to better advan
tage than he can rent. The enter
prising and self-reliant character of
the people lias something to do with
this tendency.
STATE NEWS.
There are about 80 men employed on the
Cascade locks at present.
It is said that a pool of 250.000 lbs of
wool will be shipped direct to the east from
southern Oregon.
Says the Astorian : The government is at
last taking steps to throw the Malheur res
ervation open to settlement by the white
man.
It is said that a will recently probated at
New Orleans contained only the following :
"Mrs. Sophia Teetor is my heiress." The
property willed was worth $100,000.
An insect of some kind has been destroy
ing wheat in Yamhill county at a fearful
rate, cutting the stock off at the surface
of the ground.
Two of Mr. N. Smith's boys were attack
ek by panthers last week, on Coos River.
They succeeded in scaring them off by
throwing rocks at them. Coos Bay News.
Mr. William Ledgerwood lost a bright
little girl lost week dying of brain and spi
nal inflaination aud they have the sympa
thies of the whole community. Plaindealer.
Mr. Z. J. Hatch- stepped on a rolling
stone, which suddenly turned causing him
to slip and sprain his ankle. He has been
confined to his room ever since the accident.
Work on the aaayinm building at Salem
is about at a stand because tbe weather has
been so unfavorable that Mr. Collins, the
contractor to furnish brick, has been unable
to supply the demand.
George Daly, who for some time past has
been superintendent of Little Chief, Colora
do Chief and other prominent mines in Lead-
ville, Colorado, recently disposed of a mine
in Mew York City upon which he cleared
5100,000.
It is reported that a man Robinson was
lately kicked in the abdomen by a vicious
horse at Heppner, and died from the effects
two days after. Another man whose name
was Reed, who had been drinking heavily,
was found dead hi the hotel at that place.
Mr. Thos. Miller formerly a resident of
Eugene City died at Drains station on the
16th inst., at the age of 75 years. He was
an old and well respected citizen and was
buried by Eugeue City Lodge, A. F. & A.
M. of which he was a member at the time
of his death.
Charles Walker, while working in the
hay field for Mr, Winniford, who lives on
the Calapooia about eight miles below Oak
lad, fell from the hay mow, striking a pitch
fork, three tines of which penetratrd the
lower extremities of bis body, Plaindealer.
The McCully has brought over 500 tons of
wheat from Portlond to the Oregon City
mills daring the last three days. Besides
this another lot came to the mills from np
the river increasing the amount to about 600
tons. The mills are running almost their
full capacity, and are grinding from forty to
forty-five tons of wheat per day. Enter
prise m
A stranger, Martin E. Dean, lately regis
tered at a hotel at Seattle, who stated that
his home was near Ainsworth, and that he
had recently been visiting Medical Lake to
derive some benefit from its waters On
Sunday be did not appear for breakfast or
dinner. The proprietor sent to his room to
learn the cause of his absence, when the
poor man was found upon his knees, the
blood issuing from Mis nose and mouth, and
he cold and rigid M death. The coroner's
jury found that he' died from hemorrhage of
4he lungs.
Mr. J. H. Foster is remodeling the old
brick store adjoininfi his handsome block on
Main street, Albany.
The examination of McMahon, whom we
mentioned in our last issue as having been
arrested at Portland, was completed in Jos
tice Davis' court, and sufficient proof of his
guilt was found to justify his being held to
answer before the grand jury in the sum of
11,000.
A dog belonging to a farmer living near
Eugene dug into a gravel and sand bank for
a skunk, throwing the dirt behind him. Af
ter he had caught and killed the skunk he
found himself imprisoned, When he emerg
ed, sixteen days afterwards, he was a very
lean dog. Journal.
One week ago last Saturday afternoon C.
M. Fouts was sitting in a saloon at The
Dalles, engaged in a game of cards, when he
missed his watch. Noticing the man who
had occupied the seat next to him in the act
ef leaving, he charged him with the theft.
The man was soon afterwards arrested and
the watch found in his possession.
On the 23d inst a fire broke out in a
business block on Main street at Colfax, W.
T., and swept everything in its way before
it conld be checked. Colfax was construct
ed mostly of wood, and the fire, aided by
the widd, completely destroyed almost the
whole town. The loss is estimated at not
less than 100,000, and it will probably
amount to more.
United States Engineer, Col. G. L Gil
lespie, has lately received a dispatch from
the war department at Washington which
orders him to remove immediately to New
York to assume the duties of the late Col
Michler, whose death occurred but a few
days ago. Capt. Chas. F. Powell, now in
charge of the Cascade locks, will take his
place for the present.
Messrs. J. H. Maine. Jr., Frank Cole and
Geo. N. Wheeler, of Albany, returned to
that place on Saturday from a trip in the
coast range of mountains. They brought
back about 50 pounds of quartz, some of
which has been tested and found to contain
gold and silver. They claim to have dis
covered it about 140 miles from Albany in
the coast range, but will not as yet tell the
exact locality.
Says a correspondent of the Oregonian
from Albany: "The name of the young
school teacher recently shot in Umatilla Co.,
for presuming to marry the girl of his choice
was not Kinney, as stated in some of the
papers, but McGee -Walter a McGee son
of Jesse A. McGee of this vicinity. Wal
ter is .24 years ole and is highly esteemed by
all who know him. His father says the
wounds are not so bad as reported and that
strong hopes are entertained of his recovery.
The man Switzer, who so cowardly at
tempted the assassination of Mr. Kinney at
Greasewood, was taken before the justice of
the peace at Centerville on Saturday, and in
default of $2000 bail was remanded to the
county jail. His victim lies in a precarious
condition, with but slight hopes of his re
covery. During the examination the young
lady connected with the shooting, on the
witness stand swore that on the night pre
vious, Switzer had come to her, and show
ing her a pistol, told her if she married
Kinney he would shoot them both. Tele
gram. The family of the late M. Meyer, of Sa
lem, have caused to be erected in the Jewish
cemetery above that city, a very handsome
monument in memory of their deceased pa
rents. It is of Italian marble, twelve feet
m height, and consists of two parts IB a
double base united by an arch at the top
crowed by monumental urns. On the arch
is sculptured a Masonic square and compass
es, and clasped hands encircles a wreath.
Inscriptions in Hebrew and English are en
graved on each of the two pillars, and at
the foot of them the words "Father,"
"Mother."
From a person who came to this city last
Saturday, we learn that a very disastrous
runaway occurred in Lost Valley, in this
county, one day last week. The particulars
as far as we could learn them, are a follows:
Mr. and Mrs. Balding were away "from
home, and the oldest boy, aged ten years,
hitched the horses to the wagon to take his
little four year old brother and his sister to
the field, some distance away. The animals
had not proceeded far when they took fright
throwing the children out of the wagon.
The smallest boy was killed outright, he
striking on some rocks with his head, and
the oldest so badly injured that he was not
expected to live. The other was not seri
ously hurt. Dalles Times.
Lost is tub Mountains. A Canyon City
correspondent under date of July 16, writes:
Major Joseph Magoon, who is well known
to old Oregonins, started out several days
since to hunt for elk. Being separated from
his party, search was made for him. His
animals, four in number, were found tied
at a point about fave miles east from Soda
Springs, and distant from this placa about
25 miles. It is evident that the animals
had been tied for about two days. Three
days search has been made, and the impress
ion is that he has got lost or met with some
accident. A number of men are endeavor
ing to find some trace of him. Major Ma
troone resided for many years in Clackamas
county, where he has several children re
siding. Statesman.
On Sunday of last week a camp-meeting
was being held eight miles west of Junction,
in Lane county, at Sulphur Springs, by Mr.
Houston. From some cause a neighbor near
by shut up the road leading through his
place to the grounds by felling trees and
constructing a blockade, had completely
ended travel to the meeting by that route.
Mr. Williams, not aware of this, drove with
his family along that way, when the party
who had obstructed the road nailed him and
forbid him passing that way. Mn Williams
declared his intention to proceed, when the
other party became enraged and struck at
Mr. W. with a board, and then drew an ax.
A tussel and ground fight ensued, some
neighbors appeared and parted the combat
ants, the road was then cleared and about
70 wagons passed. The party who made tbe
assault with the ax has been arrested for an
assault with a deadly weapon, so says the
Journal.
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