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Cormllis" Weekly Gazette.
TROCT PISHING.
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COBTA1XIS,
OREGON'
The lecieasexii the national d?bt
during last monfcfcwas $2,879,062.17.
The total -debt, -lefts available cath
items, is saw l,p2 5,408,880.21.
This is & aaonfch with an "r" in it,
and oysters are abundant on the
coast, and stxra will be, in every sec
tion of theconsatry. The season opens
bright for the oystemen and their
patrons.
West Virginia,, hasjfeen unfortunate
tin witnessing (ok several years past
the almost total failure of the crops
upon which her people depend very
largely for prosperity, while they have
sufic-aed in common with those oi
other .-States from the Iqr-g continued
depression in business.
Mr. 'pfirnell, in a speeeh at Dublin,
said he was confident tJb.fc Ireland
was on the brink of victory. He has
been criticised heretofore because he
failed to protest against outrages and
violations. -of the public peace, but on
this occasion he denounced . outrages
and said 4L continuation of these
would be a terrible blow to the Irish
cause.
Since the eyc"Loiie in Pennsylvania
and Maryland, and especially, .since
that which devastated South Caro
lina and other points on the Atlantic
coast, the account between the east
and west has been v-?ned that not sc
much is heard of the -"cyclonic west'4
as formerly. The fact is established
that these visitations are not peculiar
to any locality but are common to
many sections of the country.
It is again reported that Emperor
Alexander of Russia is about to pro
mulgate a constitution for the people
embracing parliamentary rights. This
is a concession that may or may not
amount to much. The divine right
fraud is never for a moment forgot ten.
An emperor giving people a consti
tution looks like jugglery. When the
people are allowed to assemble and
form a constitution for their own gov
ernment, as in this country, there will
be a substantial advance towards
wholesome progress.
The use of electricity as a propelling
power on railroads is now regarded
simply as experimental, but the pros
pects are favorable for gettingbeyond
that point. Electric motors are now
working well on several miles of rail
road in Baltimore and the horses
have been taken off. The Ninth Ave
nue Elevated railroad of New York is
about to have tested upon it an elec
tric motor, which is virtually a dyna
mo on wheels, weighing eight tons and
a half, and hopes are entertained of
the best results.
The assumption of a widespread feei
ng in favor of pardoning Riel, the re
oellious half-breed, is not .borne out by
the returns. The Montreal Star has
been sending circulars to the leading
journals throughout the Dominion
asking for public opinion on the sub
ject; and out of . fifty-four responses
forty-one are hostile to Riel. Of the
remaining thirteen one is non-committal;
seven favor the insanity
theory; two oppose the execution of
political offenders and three declare
that Riel did not have a fair trial.
Thus far the verdict is decidedly
against the condemned.
The San Francisco Chronicle is the
authority for the statement that since
1870 the amount of foreign wine con
sumed in the United States was Toper
sent, of the total consumption, and in
1880 only 17.8 per cent., and is now
sven less than that. The importance
of our vineyards is annually increas
ing, and fine home made wines are
taking the place of the adulterated
foreign wines. In many places in Eu
rope the manufacture of wine is openly
carried on, notably in the city of Ham
burg. There is a wine factory there
that makes wine of any kind, at any
price, and puts upon it any label. The
buyer must indicate what he wants
and the price, and the wine is made.
The commissioners appointed te
visit the Central and South American
States in the interest of more intimate
international and commercial rela
tions between these countries and the
United States, have submitted a repojt
of the work in Uruguay and the Ar
gentine Republic. The commission
find that the share of the United States
irfthe enormous commerce of the River
Platte country, which includes Para
guay, Uruguay and- the Argentine Re
public, is lamentably insignincant,ar.d
less than it was half a century ago.
This is somewhat humiliating to the
United States and the remedy seems to
be beyond the resources of statesmanship.
f!j; tlg iiio Fly 1 an 1ce-Brderqd
Stream With Gratifying -Success.
"I never waded througta snow An my
life before to tish for .tsout,"-said a
we known New York angler, "but I
did it on Friday last May day,;jand I
was within less than half a day' . ride
of Jfew York at that. I went on
Thursday night to PooaoftQ, Monroe
county, Bonn:, on the bouaKiary,of the
Pike county, wilderness, so that I could
get at. early start to a stream that rises
in thai. county, and enjoying- rthe open
ing day upon K. If there i anv one
who thiiks that the 1st of May is tnot
early enough fcr the trout season to
open in ithe mountain reg'on of this
or any other state, he should have beet
along with me; last Friday. I .awoke
to find a cold northeast rainstorm on
hand, and -when I inquired for a guide
to go with one to;the stream the land
lord of the tavern, lit oked at me as if he
thought I was crazy.
'ie haunt goiir to try to ketch
trout to-day, .he ye?" he said. "Why,
ye can't git no worms yit, and the
woods is full of snow and the creeks
has got ice on 'fern.'"
"idon't want any worms.1 I replied.
'I fish with a fly-' I didn't believe his
talk about snow and ice-
"But trout won't jump at a fly yet,'
he insisted. ' Ye' ve got toikave worms.'
I insisted on going to the creek, and
and he sent out and got nte a strap
ping big mountaineer to act as guide.
The guide himself was considerably
staggered at the idea .of going out on
such a dav, with the streams in the
condition they were alleged t be, to
fish for trout without worms for bait,
but he finally agreed to go with me for
$.5 and his Turn,' and we started. I
found out from the guide on our way
out that the local angler in the trout
ing regions of Northern Pennsylvania
is always ready for action in the
streams with his bait and tackle .as
soon as the law allows fishing, and, if
the eond.tions are favorable he is ready
a week or so before. He uses the
worm, not because he cannot east the
fly, for he has come to be at expert at
fly fishing since visiting sportsmen
taught him the art. but because from
time out of mind he ha? stubbornly
clung to the belief that the trout will
not j.ump at the artilicial fly so long as
there is snow water in the streams or
until the natural insects have put in
appearance upon them. The moun
tain region through which the creeks of
Northern Pennsylvania now is apt to
have winter linger ng with it so late
that it has been a rare thing for sports
men from the cites to risk the discom-
lorts and uncertainties of a visit to it
011 openingday, which has always been
pn the 1st of April except in Pike coun-
i... T?. il.: . i, a ,
1 (y. rui mis reason ute streams nave
been left to the inroads of the native
fisherman with hig horse-hair 1 ne and
angleworm for weeks at a time, &!;d
tae native never saw anything to alter
his belief that trout will njt iinip un
der the conditions mentioned. It was
my mission, I th'nk, to correct that
old-time idea in at least one good spec
imen of the backwoodsman on Friday.
"We arrived at the brook about 9
o'clock in the morning. It was in a
food condition as to quantity of water,
ut my heart sank within me when I
saw that the story about the snow and
the ice was only too true. The most
enthusiastic angler never yet saw
much promise of a very enjoyable day's
sport while tying on his flies standing
up to h's knees in snow, and gazing
on a stream w th deep borders of ice
fringing it as far as the eye could see.
especially if one of the coldest and
most penetrating rainstorms was pelt
ing down upon him. My guide tried
to coax me to return at once, but I had
traveled over 100 miles to enjoy open
ing day in a mountain stream for the
first titne in my 1 fe. and I was bound
to enjoy it. Well, I fished that creek
for over a mile, and I caught over 100
trout. But bah! It was just like
catching suckers to pull thei out. I
wculdn t have cared for the discom
forts of the day's fishing ;f the trout
had onl' bjen capable of acting up (o
the'r nature. I caught one trout that
was fifteen inches long, but he showed
so little fight that I had no idea he
was of more than ordinary size until I
got him out of the water." The trout
took the fly with so little an:mation
that sometimes 1 wouldn't know mv
feather had been touched by any effort
the trout would make. Out of one
hole, on the bank above which was a
snow bank in wh'ch I stood almost to
my middle, I took fifteen trout, one af
ter another, like so many sticks. Two
weeks later these trout would have
we shed almost as muchaga n. I quit
in d:sgust on taking my 100th trout,
and, being wet to the skin, I joined
my gu'de, who had driven to a bark
cabin near by and built a roaring lire
in the fire-place. It stopped raining
soon afterward, and we had a compar
atively comfortable ride to the tavern.
I had hard work to convince the old
woodmen who were congregated there
that I had taken ttie trout w.th a fly.
It was a new revelaf on to them, and
knocked their old theories sky-high.
If any one wants to go into the moun
tains and wade through snow for the
sake of catching a few early trout he
is welcome to go. As for me I wait
ifter this until the water is warm
inouh to wade in and until the trout
are gamy and fat."
Capitals of Mexico.
The Two Republics.
Aguas Calienties, the capital of the
state of the same name, has a popula
tion of 39,000. The name translated
means Hot Springs, and isderivedfrom
a spring of thermal water which rises
in its vicinitw Many Americans em
ployed on the Mexican Central ra lroad
and elsewhere live there.
Canipeehe, capital of the state of the
same name, is an old fortified Spanish
town, with a present populat.on of
some 12.0J0 people. For many years
it was the only port of the Yucatan
peninsula, and infested by smugglers
and filbusters.
Salt llo, capital of Coahuila, was
founded in lotst', and created a c ty on
Novembers. 1827. with the name of
Leona Vicario, a hero.ne of the Mex
ican revolution.
San Cr stobal was named in honor of
the good old St. Christopher, who is
said to have carried Chrisi across a
stream in the shape of a little child.
San CristobaS ttte capital of themoai
southern state cf the Mexican repub
lic, Chiapas. Ithf.s some 8,000 inhab
itants. Chihuahua, capital of the state of
the same name, m northern Mexico,
lies on the foothills of the Sierra Madre
.range. The o.'d ecJUege of the Jesuits
is there, under whose walls Miguel
Hidalgo and ('apt. . Allende, the rev
olutionary leaders, were executed. An
aqueduct" twenty thousand feet long
carries water to the center of the city.
The present population is about 20,000.
Colinia, capital of -.the state of the
same name, is situated on the river of
the. same name. It is -a place of ,'50,
000 inhabitants. I has. a large trade in
cocoa, coflee. pearls, and tilmas, or
Me.xioan cloaks. After the conquest
sixty Spaniards settled ithere, and in
termarried. Uursngo, capital of Sfurango, has
22,080 inhabitants, aside from tue scor-
pions-for which it is famous.
Guanejuato, capital of Guanajuato,
is a great mining city, it is located
.282 miles nortwest of the City of Mex
ico, in a canvon, and has a population
of 73,500.
-Chilpaneingo. capital of the state of
Guerrero bes "8.300 inhabitants. It is
celebrated kt Mexican history for being
the town where the first Mexican con
gress met, after the cry for liberty had
caused the Mexican people to rebel
against the Spanish rule.
Pachuca, capital of the state of Hi
dalgo, has 17,000 inhabitants. It is
the seat of the Real del Monte Mining
company, the largest like corporation
in Mexico, and one of the largest in
America.
Guadalajara is the capital of the
state of Jalisco. It has a population
of 64,500 people, and is the third city
in the republic in point of wealth and
population,
Toluca, capital of the state of Mex
ico is a place of 13,500 people. It is
the highest inhabited laud in the re
public of Mexico, 8,638 feet above the
sea level.
Morelia, cap'tal of Michoacan, has
25,000 inhabitants.
Cuernavaca, capital of the state of
Morelos, was founded by the Tlahuieas,
aa ancient tribe of Indians, in the four
teenth century. It was incorporated
to the Aztec crown of Mexico by Itz
coat, in 1432, was conquered by the
Spaniards in April, 1521, and declared
a city Oct. 14. 1634. The lnd an name
was Quanhnahuac, "Near Beautiful
Hills." It contains Cort iz' palace,
and is a place of 9,700 people.
Monterey is the capital of Nuevo
Leon. It is a growing city, and has
now noarlv 50,000 inhabitants. Thirty
years after the conquest of Mexico by
the Spaniards, the celebrated Spanish
general, i-ranc:sco de Lrdinola, con
quered the Chichimeca Indians, who
held the place. In 1656 Don Diege de
Montemayor founded the metropolis of
Our Lady of Monterey.
Oaxaca, capital of the state of the
same linie, was founded in a beautiful
valley by Jpan Mendez del Mercada in
162. Its population ig 2,500,
Fuebla capital of the state of
the same name has seventy
e'ght thousand inhabitants. It is
surrounded by three rivers.
It has seventy churches. The
city has large cotton and thread fac
tories and marble cutting establish
ments. The Tecali or Puebla marble
has a world-wide fame. A railroad
connects Puebla with the city of Mex
ico and Vera Cruz. The city was
founded in 1681.
Queretaro is the capital of the state
of the same name. it. was founded in
1445 by an Otomi colony, which came
from the wilderness now the United
States. The Spanish cacique, Fernan
do de Tap'ta, conquered it in July,
1531, naming it Santiago de Queretaro,
as he claimed that Santiago (St. James)
fought in the air in Irs favor against
the Indians. It has now 27, 5t0 peo
ple, and is a manufa during city.
San Luis Potosi is the capital of the
state of the same name. It was found
by a Franciscan monk, Diego de la
Magdalena, and in 1656 was declared
a city. Its population is 56,800. It
is cons'dered a city of immense wealth.
Culican is the capital of the state of
Sinoloa. ' It was founded in 1522 by
Nuno de Guzman, but was a town of
some importance when the Aztecs left
Aztlan in the thirteenth century to in
vade the valley of Mexico. It has now
4,905 inhabitants.
Ures is the capital of fonora, and
has 8,000 inhabitants. It was formerly
a m'ssionary stat.on.
San Juan Baut'sta, capital of the
state of Tabasco, was founded March
30. 1519, near the site of the present
city. The old capital was depopula
ted during the frequent invasons of the
Indians. Its populat on is 6,234.
Ciudad Victoria is the capital of Ta
maulipas. It was founded October 6,
1760, and its present population is 6,
500. The city has been desolated for
forty years by the civil wars, and even
the cemetery is surrounded by a high
wall prov ded with port-holes. It is a
des late dreary place.
Tlaxcala. capital of the state of the
same name, was founded in the four
teenth century by Culhuatepanecati,
an Indian warrior, and for two cen
turies was capital of the Tlaxcalan
republic, rival to the Mexican empire.
The Spaniards occupied it on Sept. 22,
1519, as its allies. It has now 2,350 in
habitants. Jalapa. the new capital of the state
of Vera Cruz, is the garden city of
Mexico, the parad's i of the American
cont nent. It has tome 12,0 JO inhab
itants Merida. capital of Yucatan, was pos
sibly the oldest inabited city in Ameri
ca when the Span ards made it a city
on Jan. 6, 1542. It has a population of
40.000.
Zacatecas is the oipital of the state
of the same name. It is a famous
mining center, the first mine being lo
cated by Juan de Tolosain 1546. Phill
ip IL oi Spain made if a citv on Apr,l
17, 1585. It has 29,782 inhabitants.
La Paz, capital of the territory of
Lower Californ a has 4,000 inhabitants.
It was made a city on Oct. 20, 1720.
Tepic, capital of the new territory of
Tep c, is twenty-live miles from the
port of San Bias, and has some 9,000
inhabitants.
Mexico City, cap'tal of the federal
district and capital of the republic, was
founded on June 18. 1327, by Tenoch.
Aatzin, Acacitli, Ahuexotl, Ocolapan
and their associates. In 1530 it was
granteffi borough privileges, iiead of
Castile,. and in 1549 obtained She title
of "very noble, notable, and loyal."
It has-a population, according to Ra
mon :Fernandez. ev-governor of the
i'ederal.district of 350,000 souk.
ay Attjre of the Pretty ftirls.at New
port. cw Vork Jcttrnal.
"You can see thus early in the sea
sen at Newport that white will be the
most fashionable color," said a young
lady who has returned to town for a
few days f row that most exclusi-.ve and I
ar.stocraUc oi watering places. "Even
during June .the girls have worn noth- I
ing but white from morning until
night Of . course there are some who
wear delicate pink and blue and ecgru i
dresses, and many of them are lovely,""
he continued.
"A white drest that I have seen on !
Bellevue avenue twice is .ravishing.
It is worn by Mrs. Jerome Bonaparte,
of Baltimore, -who is already there for
the season, you know. The skirt is
made ot Oie tmest India cream mull,
with deep flounces of real Valenci
ennes lace up the front, and a full
back drapery of the mull. Then down
the sides are bows of narrow white
velvet. The bodice is pointed and cut
high over the hips, with a V-shaped
front and sleeves oi the lace. With
this she wears a little princess bonnet
of white lace, with a wreath of forget-me-nots
across the front.
"A yonng lady who lives in one of
the Cliff cottages wears an afternoon
dress of white, "all over" embroidery.
It is made with a long, plain front of
the embroidery, which falls over a
narrow plisse placed about the edge of
the skirt. The back is made of three
deep flounces of lawn, each one having
four tucks, and the little l-'rench wa st
nas a yoke and sleeves of embroidery.
A broad, white satin sash and bows
of white ribbons ornament the shoul
der. "The older ladies of 40 and 50," she
continued, -seem to favor black lace
and grenadine dresses, although they
wear white lawns in the morning.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor has a very
handsome evening dress of black
Chantilly lace made over surah silk,
with exqu'site point lack set in the
neck and sleeves.
"Garden hats are qu'te fantastic and
very large this summer. They are of
Leghorn or coarse straw, and are al
most covered with lace mull and flow
ers. Little wh:te bonnets are worn
for driving by marr ed ladies and h'gii
white hats by young girls.
"Parasols? Ch, yes, you see almost
every variety. Those "of white and !
black lrce are used for the afternoon
drives, and changeable silk for the I
morning. The handles are very curi- j
ous, you know-, and those of quaint I
China figures are greatly favored.
'Russia leather fans and those of i
sandal-wood are used in preference to 1
white satin ones, and black stockings !
and bl.uk patent leather ties are worn
by men, wom-n and ch'ldren."
TSJE UI A I CO.Tl.-TI A JUllIi.
Tit ERNEST BROSS.
maha Uepubiiran.
The hero of a hundred fields,
The idol of a nation's heart,
Before one mighty Victor yields,
And falls by Death's rekntless dart
We learned to love thee in the dav
"When darkly hun the clouds of war
Our hearts werejwith thee in the fray,
And blessing followed from afar.
And when at last the victory came,
And swords were sheathed that Ahril day,
Each prayed his blessings on thy name,
With mingled tears the Blue and Gray!
Our hearts were with thee in the toil
To lead the nation's life anew;
And consecrate a ransomed soil,
Swords changed for plowshares, Gray
and Blue.
Our bosoms swelled when round the globe,
From every kingly court and crown,
In laborer's garb, in prelate's robe,
The nations laid their homage down
Our hearts were with thee when the storm
Of earthly loss so fiercely smote ;
When dread disease appioehed thy form,
And laid its lingers on thy throat.
Ob, never can thy memory fade,
Our souls a vigil eye shall keep;
Thy life all coming time pervade. -Our
hearts are with thee Hero, sleep!
MORMONS AT OUR DOORS.
The Bisr Dalrymple Farm.
MInneapo'is Trlt oic.
A Tribune reporter encountered j
Oliver Dalrymple, proprietor of the
famous Dalrymple farm, at the Mer
chants' yesterday. In regard to wheat
raising tits year Mr. Dalrymple said: j
"I shall put in 30,000 acres of wheat
this year. Seeding is already far ad
vanced and last Saturday saw the last
of 15,000 of the 30,000 I intended to
sow put in. The season never was any
more advantageous, nor the ground in
better condition for seeding than it is j
now. There has been no snow on the
prairie to speak of, and, consequently, j
no water to retard the progress of the
farmers in their spring work. The
wheat I put in this year is known as
the Scotch fife variety; I consider
it the best yielding-seed I can get.
I anticipate that the acreage of Minn
esota and Dakota this year will be
about as large as last. The farmers
seem to be in good cond't'on and good
spirits and with a br ght outlook lor a
good crop they will seed all the land
thev can. I am counting on an aver
age yield next fall or eighteen bushels
an acre. Of course this is all vision
ary, bat that was about my average
last year and 1 am figuring out this.
This year will make the tenth crop I :
have raised in Dakota, aud 1 have av
erage I 90 cents a bushel for my wheat, j
Of course some has teen more and
some has been less, but I think I can
safelv put the average at 90 cents.
I don't think it will be necessary for
me to increase my number of machines
th's year; what I have are in good con- .
d.t'on. Next fall I shall run 200 har- j
vesters and twine binders and thirty
steam threshers, if the crop turns out j
as I expect it will, and this will neces- j
sitate the employment of WO horses
and 1,000 men. Advances were made
to me some t me ago by the Canadian i
Pacific railroad company to open up a
large farm in the Saskatchewan valley, i
for t!ie purpose of demonstrating the
advantages of that country as a wheat
racing region, but I concluded Da-j
kota was good enough for me and pro- .
tr Bfar hv her. She has undoubt
edly the richest so 1 to be found in any ', New York. He is
part of the United States. Western ! 2, hen e ot polyga
M ssouri and southeastern .Nebraska,
I think, come next. We have had a
fine winter in the territories. Stock
has wintered splendidly. The farmers
have ben corufor able, and everybody
seems to be satistied."
The Feel-Kickcr.
Cht agoNew.
He is a philanthropist in a smaM
way, and he imagines he is the onlv
man in the city who has sen'e enough
to kick fru t-rinds off the sidewalks.
However, there are about twenty-five
hundred other men in the city who are
on the same -'lay," and each thinks
himself the only one engaged in phi
lanihropic work. It really is a habit,
and it develops into a form of insanity.
Why. I have seen old confirmed v c
tims to the habit demurely follow men
who were throwing peels 0:1 the s. de
walk rust to enjoy the pleasure of
kicking them into the street. Womea
do most of the throwing on and men
do all of the kicking orf. The brigade
is not conipo-ed of men who have fal
len on banana peels themselves. JVIen
who have cxper f need that acule'sen
sation do not k: k peels o If the side
walk: they dodge them and want to
see some one else kick a hole in the
air after treading on a rind.
Some of the Dlscinle of Brimiii
Who Are Our Aeigbbors.
K. V World.
While the papers east and west teem
with exc table articles on the Mormon
quest. ou and the eyes of the govern
ment and the law are looking serious-
ly at uiau s social Diemisn, mere is
something to be known of that organ
ization nearer home. Not a few Mor
mons reside in and about New York
City. In a busieess way the Mormon
ttade has Lu.lt up an acquaintance here
that is fostering a protection and influ
ence to them hardly discern. ble, but
yet insiduous and fatal. For years past
the Mormon bus ness men made the
Metropolitan Hotel their headquarters;
now they have centered at the Grand
Central. A well-known gentleman by
the name of Neal is a confidential di
rectory and ref eree for these Mormon
traders. Although not a Saint, he is
working the lield, and visits Salt Lake
often, until three years ago, there
has been a regular church organiza
t on, holding services every Sunday on
High Street, in Brooklyn, jut below
Br.dge street. Now they have removed
to Williamsburg, where they still hold
forth. Traveling ciders ou their way
to and from the.r missions, or visiting
New York, talk prophecy, polygamy
and the doctrines of the "Church of
Jesus Christ ot Latter Day Saints" in
the Williamsburg so-called church
without molestation, Sunday after
Sunday.
On Governor's Island, filling an im
portant oiiicial position, is Richard
l'oung, a grandson of the deceased
prophet ana a sou of Joseph A. Young
by a second wife, or wife iS'o. 2, and
hence the otl'spring of polygamy. He
is a graduate from W est Point and
still holds to the Mormon faith, keep
ing a sure footing in a government po
sition at the same time. He is very
bitter in h.s denunc atons of the ac
tion of the federal government he has
been educated by against the law
breakers of his creed and state.
JAving in Harlem is Mrs. Harris,
wife of an actor and daughter of tsrig-
liam Young and Emeliue Free, the
seventeenth wife. Mrs. Harris was a
pretty girl in her teens and was known
as "Puukie" all over Salt Lake City.
A sister of Mrs. Harr s, Uellie Young,
both children of the same mother, mar
ried a Dr. Harrison, of this city, not
long since, and resides here. Both
g.rls are perfect blondes, but have lost
much of their comeliness since mar
riage and look more like the.r prophet
fatner as they advance in years t.ian
their mother, who was called "the
Light of the Harem." Another sister,
Emmie Young, who married Mr. Cros
by, the comedian, was also one of Em
etine Free s ch ldren. Mrs. Crosby said
not long since:
"I don't care what the world says of
m - father, he was a public man and
subject to talk, but no one must say a
word against my mother."
Mrs. Crosby does not endorse the po
lygamous tenets of the faith she was
raised in. All of these ch ldren have
taken the rigorous endowment oaths
they were compelled to do. so at thir
teen years of age.
A third wife of John W. Young, the
youngest legit mate son of Brigiiam,
lives in Phiiadelph a. She left John
ny," as he is called in Utah, when he
took the fourth wife. She has two
sons, who are being educated at St.
John's Academy, in Haddonsneld.near
Philadelphia.
A son of Brigham Young, Jr., the
prophet's second legitimate son, is
studving at a veterinary college in
He is the son of wife No.
mic orig.n. but is
not a belieier in the nefarious system,
and is a promising young fellow.
James Hard'e, the well known actor
now res'ding in Brooklyn, who was as
sociated with Hoey in the production
of the "Child of the State," is a native
of Utah, was a member of the Mormon
church and of the Salt Lake Theater
Company for years. He was not a po
lvgamist in practice, and. theatrically
ambitious, he left Utah before his duty
to his rel gion had "counselled"
(which means compelled) him to do
so.
Everyone has heard of the Ford
children, who are noted little perform
ers on the banjo. They are the ch 1
dren of a blind father, and their moth
er was a niece of Brigham Yonng.
They live in Brooklyn, and. when per
mitted by the Society for the Preven
tion of Crueltv to Children, they ap
pear in conce.ts and are a feature of
every entertainment to which their
precocious servic es and talents areg v
en. They were born in Salt Lake
City.
Elder Staines, who for-years occupied
the position of Emigration Superin
tendent for Utah, d ed about thiee
years ago. One of his polygamous
wives married a mau named Ai.ller, a
Scotchman and Mormon, and thev re
side on the Hudson.
Willard Young, a son of Brisrharn,
by one of his earl est polvgam c wives,
is a professor at West Point, and st 11
a good Mormon. The daughters of
Emeline Free, living in New York
City, were all cut o.'t from the church
after their testimony had been given
in the w.ll case of their deceased fath
er, the prophet. One of them sa d she
prospered just as well as a s'nner.
as she imd previously when a saint."
The most intelligent, and by far
most important influence, ,f it were
used against the Mormon church, is in
M.ss Sara Alexander, the once favorite
corned, enne of the Salt Lake Theatre,
who has resided in Brooklyn for the
past few years. She had "pluck and
principle sufficient to leave Utah be
fore becoming entangled in its marital
relations. She is the best informed
woman who has ever lived among
them, but very reticent at present
about telling what she knows. She
feels a sense of humiliation at her in
voluntary residence among them, al
thouirn still counting among her best
friends some of the prophet s unfortu
nate family. It was not of her own
will that she dropped anchor in Utah
when a mere child, nor of her own will
that when made a member of the thea
tre stock company and became a
boarder at the Lion House by the di
rect wish of the prophet. But she was
as bright as a dollar, quick in percen
ton, and gathered up knowledge while
she had to stay, that if ever given to
the public, would make Utah church
men quake with agitation. After leav
ing Utah she lectured on the system
and its people with marked success all
through the west. John T. Caine, tha
present delegate to Congress, and Hi
ram Clawson, were managers of the
theatre during Miss Alexander's long
connection and popularity with it. H
this lady ever chances to tell all she
knows of Mormonism to the elements
now agitating the question,
not "Rome." but Utah would be
likely to "howl." There are resident
Mormons enough around New York
City to keej) red-tape iniiuences con
stantly revolving in favor of "letting
them alone." but public sentiment will
not be hoodwinked in the future as in
the past by these various iniiuences,
Derated more or loss by business interests.
A Model Household.
Youth's Companion.
Alexander III. of Russia not only
succeeded to the power, but also to
the dangers and horrors of his father's
throne. Thoughtless critics, them
selves a safe distance from anv danger,
reproach the czar with want of pluck;
they taunt h m with cowardly hiding
from his occult enemies instead of
openly braving them. These people
hardly realize what it is to be, day
af:er day, for weeks and months and
years, surrounded with mysterious
threats.
But there is a good deal of exagger
ation in the reports of the gloom rest
ing over the household at Gatschina.
palace and of the seclusion in which
the czar and his family are living. The
truth is that they bear up wonderfully
tigainst the depressing influences sur
rounding them, and this is to a large
extent due to the dauntless spirit and
high courage of the empress. Even
those who lind fault with everything
else will ngly declare that she is the
heroine at the palace.
The elder sou. CrandDukeNioelaus,
now- the heir-apparent to the throne,
is said to be most 1 ke his mother,
bright and lively, very fond of all
kinds of sport. George, the second, is
the image of his father, and the same
is said of Michael. The only daugh
ter, Grand Duchess Xeira, promises to
become quite a beauty, and, when on
the regular summer visit in Copenha
gen, is the rival of her cousins in Great
Britain. Greece :-.nd Denmark.
The domestic 1 fe of the emperor and
the empress is as happy a; it can be.
and stands as a model to their millions
of sub ect-. Wh le the time and the
energy of the car is taken entirely up
by the many and difficult eases of the
government, heavier, perhaps, in Rus
sia than in any other country, and
froug it with immense responsibility,
the empress devotes herself principal
ly to the numerous beneficent soe'eties
and char tes of which she has inherited
the patronage from the late empress.
She brings to bear on (his business
her quickness of conception, energ,- of
decision and great kindness of heart.
Surrounded by horrors and beset with
dangers, st 11 the imperial household
of Russia nresents a rare specia le of
high soulcd sense of duty and of sin
cere matr.monial love.
The Home of Yellow Fever.
That the fever is no longer an oc
casional visitor in Vera Cruz, but has
taken up its perpetual abode there,
is not the fault of the authorities or
the eitiens, as has been alleged of
some sections of our own South. Even
the Holland villages are not cleaner
than Vera Cruz. Twice in every
twenty-four hours its streets are swept
as tidy as a parlor Door. Through its
gutters, which are dug along both
sides and down the middle of every
street, water runs "eont anally from
Jamapa River, and every night they
are thoroughly washed and cleansed
of all impurit es. wh le those excellent
scavengers, the "zopilotis " (buz ards)
are carefully protected by law. Though
these huge b rds swarm in countless
numbers. 1 ke vultures upon a lield of
battle, blackening the towers and ut
ter ng discordant cr.es as they tumble
dams ly about on housetops, a fine of
S.j is imposed for kill ng one of them.
Here, as elsewhere on the Continent,
yellow fever s the direct result of the
slave tralhc, th:; dread scoursre having
been unknown in America 1 11 brought
here by that trade. The African dis
ease, intens liel by the filthy habits of
human cargoes, came first to th s port
w.th a slave ship in 1689. and in like
manner was transferred to all the
West Indies. In Vera ( ruz, whenever
an old wall is taken down or a street
dug into the fever is sure to break out
w th redoubled force in that locality,
thus show.ng that the germs are al
ways present, though sometimes dor
mant unt 1 d.sturbed.
The present Dakota wheat harvest,
it is est.mated. w.ll br.ng $20.0JO,000
into the territory.