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HOW BYRON BECAME A GENIUS Bidding lllmaelf of Burdensome Uress, Ilia Intellect wm Met free. rjeaffreson'i "Real Lord Byron." While lie was still at Cambridge, already successful author anH ap proaching bis twentieth year, he resolved to rid himself of his "burdensome and disfiguring (crossness." He began the regimen of starvation, hpsom salts and hot baths, which he maintained for the rest of his life, and which, while it brought him to striking and unusual physical beauty and elegance, brought him also to such spirituul and intellectual straits as outrages against nature always entail. Ho systematic ally sustained life on biscuits and goda-wator, and when hunger grew too intense to be bearable, lie indulged in feasts of potatoes, tlsh, rice and vinegar, which gave him agonies of indigestion. He was nearly always suffering from actual pangs of hunger, and drank laudanum and sometimes chewed to bacco to still these pains. The effect on his system was as ap parent at first in his sensations as in his appearance. Relieved of the burden of his superfluous flesh, he could walk with apparent ease and security. The body that had oppressed him was no longer, unwieldy and unmanageable. Obeying his will, it filled him with do light. And what is even more note worthy than all the other results of the regimen taken togothor, is that ' this discipline of star vation " and drastio depletives quickened his brain to such a degree that the man of intellect for the first time knew himself to be something far higher than a roan of more 'intellect. The goads and whips of tho regimen had affected the nervous system, so that he had become a man of genius. He had gone to drugs arid starvation at the instigation of personal vanity. Hence forth he persisted in using them for the sake of the delights of that highest life to which they had raised him, and from which he soon sunk surely and quickly without their assistance. Seville Ladle. Chas. D. Warner in Tho Century. We spoilt a good deal of the waiting time in scrutinizing the packed seats for beautiful women, and. I am sorry to say, with hardly a reward adequate to our anxiety. I am not sure how much the beauty of the women of e villo is traditional. They have good points. Graceful figures are not un common, and fine teeth; and dark. liquid, large eyes, which they use per' petually in reiilades destructive to peace and security. And tho fan, the most deadly weapon of coquetry, gives the coup de grace to those whom the eyes have wounded. Bnt the Seville women nave usuauy sanow, pasty,, dead com plexions. Perhaps the beauty of the skin is deBtroyod by cosmetics, for there was not a lady at tho bull-tight who was not Highly rouged and powdered, This gave an artificiality to their an pcarance en masse. Beauty of figure was very rare, and still raror was thut animation, that stamp of individual character, loveliness in the play of ex pression, and sprightliness, that charm in any assembly of American womon. No, the handsome women in the ring were , not- numerous enough to make any impression on the general mass, and yet the total effect, with the blonde lace, the artificial color, the rich toilet and the agitation of fans was charming. Sloxart'a Nuperntitlon. ' Cincinnati Enquirer. Mozart, the wonderful, who produced so much in so short a time, was taken with a queer presentiment, in the last months of his young life. A stranger called on him, requesting him to write a grand requiem, not wishing it for a month. He paid Mozart lUO guineas and left. Mozart began his work, and shortly afterward the horror seized him that this stranger had bribed him to write his own requiem. He did not quite finish it before the stranger called, thinking in this way to set his delusion at rest, and that the stranger would countermand the order. The stranger called according to ap pointment. Mozart told him tho requiem was unfinished, and that it would take more time. " Very well ," said the stran ger, "if it requires more work vou should have more money," and paid another 100 guineas. Mozart sent his servant to follow the stranger to find out who lie was, but the servant soon lost him in the crowd. Mozart was not sure his delu sion was correct, and went feverishly and furiously to work to finish the requiem. He finished it in a few davs before the second month was out, but when the Stranger callod poor Mozart was dead. Oyster Bed Protection. fChicaeo Times. 1 The commission which has been in vestigating the rapid depletion of the Maryland oyster beds will report to the next legislature a plan conceding all the shallow waters to the tongsmen, giving them a really greater area than they now have, but dividing the deep water into ten districts, which may be dredged alternately, with intervening districts of smaller extent, on which there shall be no dredging for an in definite time. It is thought that the prohibited strips will be permanent breeding grounds, from' which the tide will carry spat to the neighboring grounds for their recuperation. A Little Glrla Idea, Milwaukee Sentinel. "No," said mamma, "We can have no idea of what God is; He is beyond our comprehension." "Mamma," re plied little Edith, "I fink I know what Dod is like; He must be like a bis'op, only p'aps not quito so gwand." Doa't Vet In the Habit. i Arkansaw Traveler. "Excnse me," said a polite citizen to a colored man. "I didn't kick yon on pur pose." t "No, san, kicked me on do shin, sail. Scnze ver dis time, but don't git in de habit obit, sail.". Chicago Herald : It is a great mis fortune to a poor man to be born with the tastes of "ten thousand a year." Compound fr sins they are inclined to, or damning thaw tliey have no Blind la Hmoklng ! Mexico. Cor. I ndianapolU Journal Vliilo waiting for coffee, and after wards during pauses in the conversa tion, the gentlemen of the family and not infrequently tho ladies also settle gracefully back in their chairs and en joy a cigarette or two. 1 learned a les son at my very first dinner in Mexico. It was at a hotel table, and a stranger Mexican seated beside me, who hap pened to finish his dinner first, inno cently lighted his cigar for the usual table smoke, which I, in the depth of my ignorance, regarded as a personal insult, and indignantly left the table. Since that day I have become "learned in the ways of the Egyptians," and can not only tolerate the national custom with equanimity, but (be not horrified, 01 fastidious friends!) occasionally take a dinner cigaretto myself 1 When one is in lionio it is as well to do as the Ro mans do. These tiny Mexican cigarettes, rolled op in corn-husks or tissue paper, are not at all like the strong smelling things we have in the United States. These are not much larger than straws, the husk is sweet to the taste, and they have a delicate fragrance which is very pleasant. In Mexico everybody smokes at all times and in all places at the theatre, in the ball room, everywhere. In making formal calls or more ex tended visits politeness domands an im mediate and frequent exchange of cigarettes and ' light "with many courteous words, as "after you, senora" (referring to the match) precisely as our ancestors were wont to proffer and accept the civilities of tho snuff-box. Every Mexican lady's pockot is supplied with match-box and cigarette-bolder of more or less elegance, and the dainty fingers of manv a fair young senorita are discolored like polished bronze at tho tips from much cigarette rolling. Catching- Oatrlcheii In the Itenert. Cor. San Francisco Bulletin. A striking difference exists between the corraled and farmed ostriches and those running over the African deserts, inasmuch as the latter never fight. Dr. Skctchloy hunted for nine months in tho desert. The birds have to be hunted scientifically. Certain facts are known, one being that the birds will always run in a semi-circle. First they will run with the wind that they may use their wings to help them. After they get what the sailors would call "a head wind," they go around the other way. They must bo run down. One horso cannot "wind"' them. The great trouble is to keep them in sight. They will run forty milos on a stretch. If they ever get a breathing spell they will get away. The hunter starts out with a fresh horso. A bushman boy rides another and leads ono. As soon as it is seen which way the bird will run, the boy takes his cue and drives to where he thinks the hunter will need the fresh horse. In the mean time tho ostrich singlod out for the chase and the hunter, are speeding along like the wind, the latter straining every nerve to keep in sight of the bird, and the bird making its most prodigious strides for freedom. A great deal now depends on the bushman boy's judg ment, in having the fresh horse at the right place that no time may be wasted. It is seldom that the boy makes a mis take. The hunter leaps on tho fresh horse and gains on the bird, which, growing tired, goes more and more awkwardly. The hunter has only, when he catches it, to rap it ou the head with his hunting whip and the, chase is over. There are really only two kinds of ostriches, tlio North African and South Africun birds. The males are black and the females drab. All are of one color, drab, until after they are two years old. ArlKona's Wild Camels. Tombstone Epitaph. The camels now running wild in Arizona were bought by tho United States government in Asia Minor. There were seventy-six camols in tho first " colony." They were first em ploved in packing between Fort Tejon and" Albuquerque, in some instances carrying 100 gallons of water to the animal and going nine days without themselves. Tiring of the cam els, the government condemned them, and they were sold at Bene cia to two Frenchmen, who took them to Keeso river, where they were used in packing salt to Virginia City. Afterward the animals were brought back to Arizona, and for some time were engaged in packing ore from Sil ver King to Yuma; but through some cause or other the Frenchmen became disgusted, there being no market for camels just then, and turned the camels loose upon the desort near Maricopa wells, and to-day they and their descend ants are roaming through the Gila val ley, increasing and multiplying -nil getting fat upon the succulent sage brush and greasewood with which tho country abounds. Xo Work, Xo Eat, Xo Wife, Arkansaw Traveler. A Chinaman, who had married a white woman, applied to the police judge the other day for a divorce. "Don't like the white woman,'' he said, by means of an interpreter. "What objections have you to her?" the judge asked. "Beeps." "What has she done?" "Nothing, and that's why I don't want her. Want wife to work. No work, no wife. No work, no eat. You may have her." ' The judge refused the generous offer, and tho discontented Celestial carried his complaint to a higher court. Decapitated. Insect. San Francisco Chronicle. S. R. Canestrini has been experiment ing upon the effects of decapitation upon insects. Butterflies were able to use their wings eighteen days after they had lost their heads. Crickets leaped on the thirteenth day after they had been beheaded and the praying-mantis showed signs of life on the fourteenth day after the head had been, separated from the body. He gives still more singular observations, tending to show that the head in insects cannot be sub ject to the same perpetual strain as the head (n mammals in guiding the mo tions of the body. PRIMITIVE CONTENT. tnlet Uvea of the liar) land OunUem, Whs Outlive the -Three Mr ore and Ten." '"Oath" in Cincinnati Enquirer. In these old German Maryland towns whero the Dunkers, the Mennonites the Francitcs and other sects abound and have their little meeting-houses horo and there, one catches glioses ol many a pretty face under a black hood, many a shapely girl who would lie the adornment of some more bnsy commu nity. But they have that virtue of con tentment which is so rare in most Americans, and therefore it was very reposeful to me, seeking October rent, to find a class that was not disturbed by a stranger that went on sweeping tho middle of the street with their brooms, or trimming the yellow flowers in the gardens, or tying up the grape vines. They live long, do not disturb other people, and their old towns, mado of painted red brick or of limestone, or of puncheon logs well plastered, seem to wear the air of old Germany. You see the men coming along tho road in a kind of dark butternut shirts, with stiff, broad-brimmed hats and amiable countenances. You see the magnifi cent corn fields, with their high shocks standing like men at arms, and down between the girls ami men are husking, and the yollow corn seems like gold that they are hoarding in thoir old homes. I observed that the Dunker churches were kept in a more worldly trim than formerly, and that the recent tomb stones of their members were smart and largo. The barns in this country are generally built of stone, sometimes of brick, and they have not leen re built, as in Pennsylvania, so that they have a somewhat more shaggy appear ance. In nearly every house is a Dutch oven, looking like a littlo baby-house with a big white pudding under it. Said I to the driver: "How is it that from these mountains we do not see enough farm-houses to correspond with the improved land?" "Because," said he, "thoy had a tra dition in old days that the house must be built by a spring, consequently the houses are all down in the hollows. At the present day they are building their houses more upon the hills, and boring wells for water." I found this to bo true as we wont along. Theceutre of each littlo farm settlement was a spring-houso, and you could see the red earthenware milk pails stuck on the white paling to dry. Such turkeys I never saw for beauty of color. They would often be nearly milk white, and then again this milk would be splashed as if a gold piece had been dropped in it; and sometimes the bird rppcared to have walked ol with the palette of the painter, through which it had stuck its neck, so that it was just gorgeous. The pea-fowls and the , pea-hens were sitting on the fences and bemoan ing the loss of their fellows. The pigs were delightfully gathering every nut tboy could, in order to present a good figure at hog-killing time. The sheep seemed full of white fleece, and seldom stopped to baa, so desirous were they of getting that last bit of grass, which the frost had already struck. As the winter showed its teeth the cows, too, though they were in herds, never stopped to look at the passing traveler, but went chowing in the grass as if to morrow there might not be a sweet cud left. .The pijjeona wore down in- the barnyards among the little sucking pigs that had come forth on the brink of November. As we crossed the Catoctin creek and stopped to water we borrowed a man's tub, for we had no bucket. Said he to me : "My mother is in there dreadful sick," indicating a quiet little houso. "What is the Blotter with her?" "Old ago." "How old is she?" "Eighty-six." "Why, she ought to bo sick at that age." Said ho : "My grandfather died the other day, past ono hundred, and every thing sound about him. My mother wouldn't hare been sick this way but for a paralysis thut struck her some time ago." When I told this to the driver he seemed to think it a very natural mat ter to live to be ninety years old. Harriet Slartlnean'a Home. Miss Susan B. ' Anthony rocontly visited in England tho former homo of Harriet Martineau, which now is oc cupied by a Quaker family. "I chatted with these Friends." she says, "in tho drawing-room where Emerson, Garri son, Charlotte Bronte, and many of tho other great sons of earth had come to honor Harriet Martineau in the days gone by. I sat at the table in her library where she had penned so many noble thoughts, looked into the chamber where she had slept, suffered, and died, and out at the beautiful landscape she enjoyed in those last sad days. In the kitchen the same range, dresser, table, and chairs stand there as she left them, and her favorite black and yellow spotted cat, now 16 years old, still keeps faithful watch on the threshold." Matured Beforehand. Chicago Herald. "You think that many of the bright things you hear," said Mr. Emery Storrs, as he looked out from his win dow in the Lcland, "are the scintilla tions of genius which will not down. In a few cases this is so. But let me tell you that in a majority of instances I have found that these smart things are pretty well matured before they are turned loose. The average after-dinner talker or colloquist is like tho pro fessional highwayman. He never goes out unarmed." Blay.be HrMlMPi Her Host, Exchange.l "1 hev alius noticed," observes Aunt Tabitha, "that the boy who lets his mother bring in all the kmdlin' wood and build the kitchen fire is the mourner that bellers loudest at her funeral." And then she added thoughtfully: "Meb'.e as not it is because be misses her the most." At a recent reunion in Richmond the bill of fare was printed on Confederate 10 bi". F0REIGH TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. The Chi linn Congress has convened. Admiral Sir Sidney Colpays is dead, aged 70. The Queen leaves England for Germany the 7th of April. Tho Havana Savings Bank has decided to go into liquidation. Gladstone Is suffering from catarrh, and Is confined to his room. The Mexican Central Railroad, 1,124 miles In length, was completed last week. Two boys have died, and fifteen persons are ill, iu Glasgow, from eating canned meat. Another bill has passed the parliament of Queensland restricting Chinese immi gration. Peach buds throughout Ontario are som pletely destroyed by the recent severe weather. A schooner was wrecked recently at Wick, England, and six persons were drowned. It is rumored that serious news has been received regarding the French advance on Uacninh. Mary Anderson, the actress, will 'visit Rome before beginning her tour of the provinces. A land subsidy of 12,000 acres per mile will be given to the Winnipeg and Hudson Hay Railroad. George'Augustus Sala has arranged a lecturing tour for next autumn iu the United States. Orders have been given to a detachment of marines at Chatham to proceed imme diately to London. The Mexican government demands a re duction of the Uiritr on the Mexican and Vera Cms Railroad. Five sunstrokes were reported among the British troops at Suakcm Inst week. Tho heaths Increasing. The English authorities Offer a reward ol i'l.OUUnt tlio dottction of the authors of the dynamite outrages. General Gonlan advises tho apixiint mentof Zohchr l'asha to succeed himself as Governor of tho Soudan. Advices are received of a great financial panic at Fekin, in which many native inerchautH and banks have failed. The boiler of the steamer Kotsan, from Hong Kong to Macao, exploded, killing eight Europeans and nine natives. The police are watching the movements of eighty-three persons In France rus peeled of belonging to the dynamiters. The Russian government has Invited England to join in constructing a canal from the Sea of Aral to the Indian frontier. Admiral Carr Clyn, heir to the Barony of Wolverton, and made legatco of her es tate by Miss Neilson, the actress, Is dead. Four railway companies have offered 1,000 reward for tho arrest of the authors of the late dynamite outrages iu London. Sir Htfnry Brande. ex-Speaker of the House of Commons, has been elevated to the peerage, with the title of Lord Hamp den. It Is said that Montenegro is making preparations for a campaign in Allmnia. Six thousand men are concentrated on the frontier.' A telegram from Hong Kong states that that one of General Minot's columns was attacked, a few days ago, ten miles from Hacnlnh. Ghazl Pasha, Turkish Minister of War, has forbidden, under severe penalties, the enlistment of Albanians for service against El Mahdi, The Great Western line steamer Dorset, from Swansea for New York, put into Queenstown for repairs, her bow having been damaged by a collision. The yacht Atlanta has arrived at Hav ana, with Jay Gould and family on board. The yacht remains there some time and then visits other parts of Cuba. A dynamite plot has been discovered at Pesth, Hungary. The police have seized several packages of explosives forwarded by Anarchists through the parcel post. German police have been ordered by tho government to make a strict search of tho liaggagi and passengers arriving by Steamers at German ports for dynamite. West"" finished his 5,000-milo tramp last wvek. He was escorted from Croy den to the Victoria coil'ee palace by mounted constables amid great cheering. During Inst month a disorder occurred at Little l'Ope, West Africa. The Ger man covet te Sophie lauded a force, which chastised the natives and restored order. Major Lopcv Mantalbo was killed re cently near Edinburg in a duel with the editor of the Vroniota, published at Mata moras. -A political controversy was the cause. . From a statement made by tho City Auditor it appears that the defalcations of otliciuls in tho service of the corpora tion amount to $25,000. All have ab sconded., Orders have been cabled by the govern ment In New York to Inquire Into tne an tecedents of persons sailing from New York and Boston for English ports since February. The ncni.lc, of Tokar kissed General Gra ham's hand as he entered the town, and there was great rejoicing. The enemy ac knowledged that 1,500 of their number were killed. The Chinese legation at Berlin have en gaged a crew, olllcers and men from the German merchant Bervice, to take to Can ton the new Chlnuse corvette Nanthin, built at Kiel. The snow storm caused much damage in eastern Canada. Many houses along the St. Lawrence are almost buried in snow. The occupants made their exit through attic windows. Waddington, French Ambassador at Louden, has been summoned to Paris to confer with Premier Ferry, In regard to Sir Evelyn Barings scheme lor financial reform in Egypt. United Suites Minister Wallace recently wished to see the Grand Vizier at Constan tinople. The Httcr was busy, and de clined to receive him. Wallace insisted, and was received. Seventeen of the crew of the Spanish bark Triuld.wl have landed at Liverpool. They abandoned the vessel waterlogged. The captain; and remainder of he crew re fused" to leave til'- vessel. In the House of Lords, Earl Granville said report of Ihe immediate withdrawal of British troops from the Soudan were absolutely untrue. The statement was re ceived with loud cheers. El Progrrmm, published at Madrid and the organ of Senor Moortos, has lieen con fiscated and the type seized, on account of violent and persistent attacks upon Al fonso and the government. James Stephens, a well known Fenian, expresses the opinion that Irishmen iu America will render it Impossible for any cabinet to yield to England's demand in regard to dynamite agitators, A hot contested battle was fought near Trinkitat. One thousand rebels were killed. The British loss was 2M killed and 148 wounded. They captured four guns, two howitzers and one machine gun. The London Timrt says: We understand that orders have been sent to General Graham to 'tetreat forthwith from Tokar, and to arraiWB for the immediate retreat of the troop to England from Egypt. Immigrants, ill clad and In a state of starvation, have been arriving at Montreal lately. They are a pitiable sight, wander ing through the street with sea rely cloth ing enough to cover their nakedness. DOMESTIC TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. Hlllsboro, III., is overrun with tramps. The verdict on Salmi Morse was acci dental drowning. A New York firm has been detected cir culating bogus divorces, Marshall T. Knox, late State Treasurer of East Nashville, Tenn., is dead. The foundation of tho new produce ex change was laid In New York recently. The Rock Island road is going to reduce its passenger rate to three cents a mile. Nineteen miners lost their lives by suf focation iu a shaft at Leisenberg, Pa., last week. On May 1.1th, Frank Ashton, of Rock ford, 111., will start for San- Francisco ou his bicycle. , Two thousand clgarntakers employed by Straiten & Storms, of New York, are on a strike. White's shoe factory at Holbrook, Mass., burned recently, throwing 3U0 hands out of employment. B. B. Warner, ex-Mayor of Massillon, O., dropped dead in his ofiice from au apoplectic stroke. Ben Butler says he could get in Massa chusetts 10,000 men to sign a petition to have him hanged. A Philadelphia firm was fined $100 for publishing an advertisement similar to a postage stamp. While in transit from Yonngstown, O.. to Pittsburg, Pa., $1,500 was abstracted from a $2,000 package. Burglars blew oien the safe In the post oftice at Rich Hill, Mo. They secured $1, UK) in cash and stamps. A number of the levees have given away on the Hue of the Mississippi river anil plantations are flooded. Prentiss Teller, money clerk of the Pa cific Express Comtmny at St. Louis, has absconded with $7o,(HKI. It is estimated that at the present rate of progress the Panama canal cau ho oH'iied in 11 vo or six years. Large tin deposits have been discovered In 1 lamer Park, Dakota, that can lo operated at about $10 a ton. The steamship Sidonlau (mil 'sixty-six cattle washed overboard on the voyage from Boston to Queenstown. Utlca, N. Y., had a $150,000 fire last week. Twelve business houses were con sumed. Insurance one-half. Mr. and Mrs. Tlestery and Mr. and Mrs. Arnold, expert counterfeiters, were ar rested recently at Smithlleld, 111. President Cable, of the Rock Island Road, says the stock is so distributed that Vanderbilt cannot secure control. The wire bridge spanning the Klsamino fas river at Apollo, Pa., fell. Two men crossing at the time were drowned. Twenty-five thousand peoplo attended the ball given by the Boston policemen, and pickpockets reaped a rich harvest. In attempting to board a moving train at Wilmington, Del., recently, J. T. Bethune, the manager of Blind Tom, was killed. The mall between Mexico and the United States Is suspended Indefinitely, owing to a dispute over the carriers' bill of $102. Twenty-four buildings were destroyed by flro at Goodwater, Ala., recently, in volving a loss of $100,000; small insurance. Public buildings are to le erected at Carson Cltv, ev and Pueblo, tol at a cost of $1,000,000 and $200,000 respectively. Two masked men murdered John E. Wells, aged (1.1, in the presence of his wife. They demanded money and were refused. The Utlca Herald estimates that the new capitol building at Allmny, N. Y will cost $25,000,000 before it is completed. f Frank Tousey has been arrested on com plaint of Anthony Conistock, for reprint ing a book entitled "Memoirs of Georgo IV." A German syndicate of Chicago Is to colonize ;,oou acres oi mini in imsoio, purchased from the Northern Pacific Rail road. , - J ,, At Bird's Point, Mo., eighteen houses were demolished by a storm, and all of New Madrid, Mo., Is reported to no inun dated. A fire at the Calumet Iron and Steel Comuanv's works at Irnndulc, South C III cago, caused a loss of some $10,000; fully Insured. Rev. C. B. Crane, minister of a church in Boston, omitted tho regular service and in one hour raised the amount or lis debt $.v,oo. J. W. Bremer, of New Comerstown, O., killed his son, aged 21, who was defending his mother' from a drunken attack of his father. Yan I'hon Lee, a Chlneso student, who was compelled by bis government to leave Yakc last year, has returned to resume his studies. Edwin Brotheras fatally shot one Wil liam Nichols, at llazelton. Pa., for tl.eal leged seduction of Brotheras' niece, a grl of 1H years. The deaths among tho Marquis of De mone's sheen in the Little Missouri coun try is believed to be the result of poison uy enemies. Edward Dellingher. cashier for G. A Bennett & Co., New York bankers, has been speculating with their money to the amount ol $zu,uuu. Chicago is to have a new opera house at the corner of Washington and Male streets. The building is to be nine stories high. and cost $000,000. Dr. Bliss savs that the brief letter which PresidentGarllcld wrote to his mother was the only piece of continuous writing he did during nis sickiicss. In tho Criminal Court at St. Louis, Frank Brady was convicted of murder In the second degreo and sentenced to fifty years in the penitentiary. An Italian bootblack of New York city has saved in the past three years irotn his earnings over $IK5. Ho sends money monthly to Ids mother In Home. The Shakers of South Union, Louisiana one of the thirteen Shaker communities In the United States owns 20,000 acres in one of the best parts ot Louisiana. Tho House Commltte will report favora blv upon a bill giving telegraph operators who served during the war the same right of homestead entry as enlisted men. It Is estimated that the United States Senate is the wealthiest deliberative body in the world, the seventy-six members of that body representing $IH0,0I 10,000. Teller, the absconding clerk of tho V clllc Express Company, is also charged with adultery with Mrs. Fiddeke, whose husband applies for a divorce on those grounds. A resolution has passed the Senate ask ing for a foundry witlija steam hammer and procr machinery lor the manufacture by the government ot artillery of the largest caliber. A bill was Introduced In the Senate re cently by Cockrill to authorize the an point men t of a commission to visit the principal countries ot Central and bouth America, wun a view or. extenaing Amer lean trade witn those countries. Oliver Lane, wife and child recently ar rived at Perkins, D. T.. from Iowa. They drove out to their claim a few miles dis tant. When Lane reached his shanty a man Jumped out ol the door, struck Lane and wife with an ax and then brutally killed Uis child. P0ETUUID MAEKET EEP0ET. BUTTER-Fanrv. fresh roll, t? lb.. 35(31 40c; Inferior, grade, 20fe25c; pickled, 25( 30c. CHEESE-Callfornla, 17 10c; Oregon large, choice. 11X4 20c. small, none. rAnt.- v uoz., Jin.. FISH-Extra Pacific codfish, whole. In c, "4c, boneless, in bxs,, KJc f tb.; domentlo salmon, hf bids., $tl.00(a7.00, bbis.. $11.00, . onus, doz., 1.4 ; mackerel, Ho. I, f , $1.75(J2.00. No. 2. 81.MVall.75. No. 1. hf bl.ls., $10.00, No. i, $6(; herrings, salted, hf hbls., , dried, 10-Ib. bxs., 75c FLOUR Fancy extra, if bbl, $5.00; bakers' extra, ; country. $4.00M.BO: aiirii v l 1 is. uperUne, $3.75. FEED, Etc.-C Corn meal, 100 tlx.. $2.75 (53.00: buckwheat, $.1.50; oat meal. $4.00(4 4.2.1; cracked wheat, $3.2.Va 3.50; bran, if ton i.r.(ffi7,- shorts, SltkaO; middlings, tins. $22.ft(Ki 30.00: hav. baled. 18.00frt20.00: chop, $i!.MK 2.1.00. FRUITS-Prunes. Hungarian. tftV. 12l( 15c; raisins (new), f bx., $2.5tKa.2.75, hf bxs., $2.7.V 3.00, qr bxs., $3.2i1C3.:. 8tk bxs., fca.iVu 3.50; currants, .ante, if tb. In bxs., 10c; citron, lb. in drums, 22Jc; almonds, Marseilles, t R., 18(ii20c, Lane, 20c; walnuts, Chill, ll(s,121c, California, U'(U 1.IC. WHEAT-Cood to choice, lr Ihs.. 1.60(ttl.M, good valley; Walla Walla and Eastern Oregon, $1.5((il.52J. , uais-Llioice milling, nominal; good feed. Me; ordinary feed, oOfa.&ta. BARLEY Brewlm, 100 lbs., nsmlnal; feed, nominal BUCKWHEAT Nominal, $1.502.00. CORN No demand. RYE Nominal, f 100 lbs., nominal $l..Va 2.00 HlDliS AND nAUS-IIides, dry, over 1(1 III., V It'., lie: Murrain hides, two-thirds oil'; hides, wet salted, over 55 lbs., lb., 6 (a. 7c (one-third less for light weights, dam-,. ageu, cut gniDoy or dry salted); pelts, shearling, 10cc$1.00; deerskins, winter, 12(n IV, Eastern Oregon, 22c, summer, K O., IK(r 20c. vallev. 2,V(i:;i0c: burlans. 40 in.. KJc, 45 In., Ojc, 00 in., 15c; twine, flour, 35(i luc, wiieat, J.)c, Ileece, I2(g lJc; gunnies, le; w neat sacRs, 7(fl.fc; HONEY -In comb. lb.. 220 250: strained In 5 gal., 11c $ tb.; 1-gal. tins, f doz, $I4.00( 15.00, half-gal., $7.50. nurf- iu., iu(n.a)e; PROVISIONS Bacon. lHffime: hams. country, t lb., Uka 15c, butcher, scarce; snoumcrs, iinc ue. LARD Kegs, It.., 12c; Eastern, pails, 12(rf 12Jc: Oregon, tins, 12(121c; Cali fornia, 1011'. tins, pone GREEN FRUITS-Apples. ttbx.. 1.25a 1.75; lemons, California. t.UK;5.00. 'Sicily. $12.00(! 13.00; oranges, bx., $ l.004.50; limes, f 100, $1.5(Xu.2.0O VEUETAULKS-l'otatoes. V bu.. B0T4 55c, according to variety; cabbage, f tb Zc; turnips, f sck., $l.2o; carrots, $1.&; beets, $1.25; onions (new), tf tb., ljo; pars nips, Re. WOOL-Valley, 1510c; Eastern Ore- gon. l l(u 1.1c. POULTRY--Chickens, dos., spring. $4.00015.00. old. $0.00: ducks. H0.00teia.UU; geese, fH.iWa 10.00: turkeys, V It.., 12(o)14c. KICE-Saudwich Islands, No. 1, f lb., 5&c; China mixed, 4j((a,5c; China No. 1, none; itangoon, 04c. PEAS. SEEDS. ETC.-Beans. ft.. Dea. 44c, s. w., 6Jc, Ig. w., 4Jc, bayou, 4 Jo, pink, HJo, 11 mas, 0c; peas, field, (j,3Jc, sweet, l.K 20c; timothy seed, lojilic, red clover, 22(j 25c, white clover, 4(K 50c, alfalfa, 10(4 20c. hungarian grass, H(al0c, millet, 8A10c, orchard grass, lKn iOc, rye grass, 20(a;U5c, red top, 15g. 17c, blue grass, 18(n:20c, mos quito grass, UK" 12Ac, SUUAIIS-Goldcn C. In bl.ls.. V lb.. 0c. in hf bbls., Die; refined D, bl.ls., 8Jc, hf bl.ls., rWc: dry granulated, bbls., lojc, hf bbls,, loic; crushed, bbls., 10Jc; fins crushed, bbls., Hie, lit bbls;, 1 lie; cube, bbls., 11c, hf bl.ls, Ilk; islands, No. 1, kgs.. Wl, bgs., KJc. OIIEOON EXPORTS. Tho exports of certain articles of Oregon f reduce to San Francisco, from January 1, SK4, to January I), 18H4, Inclusive, have been as follows: Flour, qr ks 03, 172 Ix-ather, pkgs. . . . Wheat, ets 31,U7li Unl. r 01 "fiOl i . 1 (Jul. clH ft'tl Macon, ci Hahi.un, bl.ls 311 Meal, nk8 blbbln.. XI Hops, bis. ........ " e 6,018 Hums, i.kirs " nkin.... 1 limn, kit Apples, bxs Cheese., c lluttrr, .k(H 1 Flat MM'd, sks.... oi k, buw I Mined K"hI, OS otutocs. 8k l.,r.7l llarley. ella Wool, bla KM Shurls, kit Hides, No 3,00 Torn. etls. Tallow, t.kifs 7H4 Oulcksilvor Hoof, libbj 1A flay, bis Kruit, dried, pkgs i 1 BAN FBAKCISCO MAEKETS. RECEIPTS-Wheat. 21,000 ctls.; Ilcur. 20,000 qr. ska.; oats, 375 ctls.; potatoes, , 000 sks.; eggs, 12.500 doz. tLOUK hun rranclsco extra are loo blng at $5.50ta5.7.1; superfine $3.75(,l.50: inferior brands, $.'..(XX(i,5.50 fur extra, ana $3.5tKii 4.00 for superfine WHEAT Extra choice, V ctl., $1.77J($ 1.80. lluver season-300. 81.831: 100. $1.H2: 30O.$I.H2i; 200, $1.K2J. UAllLli I Feed. V ctl., SI.I21W1.07; brewing No. 1, $1.12ytfl.l5, No. 2, $1.05(4 1.10; bay clievalier, $1.30(j 1.33; coast do, 8i.1r.fo i. ai OATS-Black, $1.45(5 1.50; white. $1.50 1.05; for o.mmoii, $l.70(ajl,80 for fair to good, and $1.75(ijl.77i for extra choice CORN-Choice dry yeliow, 1.00; white, choice dry, $1.40(i 1.50; common, $1,371 (gd.45; Nebraska, $1.45. BitAN (Julet and unchanged at $17.80 1H.0H tfton MIDDLINGS -Steady at fl0.0021.00 V ton. HAY-Wheat, $12.00ffll4.50; wild oat, $12.00 14.50; barley, $H.0O(a)li.OO; stable, $13.00(i 14.00: cow, $10.0012.00; alfalfa, $lUiOfeill.O0 tfton. STRAW Quotable at B000c bale. HUCKWHEAT-QuoUble at $3.25(43.50 0 ctl M I LLSTUFFS G round barley. $24.09 (&25.Q0 t' ton; oil cake meal, old process, $30.00, new process, $20.50; rye flour, $0.00 p bbl.; rye meal, $5.50; buck-wheat flour, tf lb., 6c; pearl barley, 4(u,5c; graham flour, 3?c; oat meal, 5Jc; Eastern oat meal, bbl., $0.75, net cash; cracked wheat, V tb., 4c. DRIED PEAS-Green, $4.67; nilos, $3.50; blackeye, $3.50 I? ctl. BEES W A X-Quotable at 2028c. tb. POTATOES-Ncw sell, according' to quality, as follows: Small, 2c; medium, 2Jc; largo choice, 3ic tli Sweets, $2.75(4 3.00; Cull'eyCoves. aic $1.05; Jersey blues, (Wg75c: Humboldts, 75c; Petalumas, 70c; Toniales, 70c; early goodrlch, $1.2.1(5.1.374; early rose, OSfetWe; river reds 4Uc: peerless, UOe. SEEDS Brown mustard, $3,00 4 3.50, yellow. $3.00 Flax, $2,50(i)2.75, ctl.; can ary, 6To'5jc: alfalfa, Wa:tc; rape, Sffiljc. hemp, ajfelc; timothy, KgHc, V lb. for bn ported. BUTTER Good to choice roll, lb., 32J(?.35c; fair, 3032c; firkin, 2225c; west ern, W'2lic. ONIONS-Good to choice, sk., $1.1561 1.25 r'lTFPfiTCTiillfarnU 175-10.. r..lnn -"-.- . ........ ...... .i i-. (i p uoom iu creamery, KVlOc; Western, 1518c, ifi tb. POULTRY Dressed turkeys, 2ird;26c, live, 22(g,2lc, tb., for hens, and 22(?i24c for gobblers, geese $2.252.75 V pair; ducks, $11.00(0,14.00 V dos- hens, $8.00fa.8.50; roesters, young, $8.50(59.50, olJldo, $7.50('4 8.00f broilers, $5.000.00, according to size - - - ' SALMON-Oregon, 1-ft cans, $ doi., f.'o. b., $1.20, $1.22J. EGGS dos.. aUle. WOOL-Mendocino, 12c, 15c, ft.; Humboldt, 12c, 17c; San Joaquin, 8c, lOe; coast. He, 11c; Red Blutf and Colusa, etc., BEANS We quote as follows: Pea and small white, $3.12J ctL; bayos, $4.50; pinks, $4.40: red Jobbing at $4.50; llmaa, $X 15a,3.20; butter, $3,500