Boot and Shoe Store,
A. HUNT, Proprietor.
Will bdWUX keep t oumiilets stock of
Laiics', Missus' anl Aiilta's Shoes!
Bl'TTOX BOOTH,
Slippers, White and Black, Sandals,
FINE KID SHOES,
MEN'S AND BOY'S;
BOOTS AND SHOES!
And In fact everything In the Hoot anil
Shoe .line, to which 1 intend to devote
my espaclal attention.,
MY COOPS ARE FIRST-CLASS!
And guaranteed as represented, and will
he Hold for the lowest prices that a good
article can tie afforded. .
A.. Hunt.
NOTICE!
TO WHOM IT MAY 04'KRX:
I herehv give notion that I am the sole owner
of the Putent KUht for Sinking and Driving
Wells in Lane County, sViteor Oregon, and that
aid Right, in protected by Letters Patent Is
aued by the United Slate (loveniinent to Nel
son W. Green, o( Courlliind I'ounty, State of
New York. All persons who have driven welU
or had them driven, without my permission,
since the 21st day of Kebuary, 187i are liable to
prosecution for infringement of said Kight and
are hereby notified to tome forward and adjust
the Mine. . . , .
r All infringement) In the future will be prnso-
Ian'i prejiared to drive Wells or will grant
pcrmlsalou to others on application.
i - ii. r. oonms.
SPORTSMAN'S EMPORIUM
t
CHARLES M. HORN,
Practical Gunsmith
PKALES IN
CUNS, RIFLES,
Fishing Tackles and Materials
Ttonalrlnr done In the neatest style and
warranted. Sewing Machines, bufes.
Locks, etc., repuircJ.
Guns Loaned and Ammunition Furnished
Shop on Willamette St., opposite Postofllce.
Book and Stationery Store,
Fostofflce Building, Eugene City.
I have on hand and am constantly receiving
an assortment of the beat
SCHOOL & MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS
STATIONERY,
Blank Books, Portfolios, Carilit, Wallets,
BLANKS, i:TC.
A. S. PATTERSON.
D. T. PRITCHARD,
WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER,
Ropalrlnir of Watches and Clocks
executed with punctuality and at a
reasonable cost.
Willamette Ktrect, Kugene City, Or.
B. F. DORRIS,
DEALEK IN
STOVES, RANGES,
Pumps, Pipes. Metals,
TIlVW-A-llIS
AND
House FnmisliiGi Goofls Generally.
WELLS DRIVEN PROMPTLY,
And Satisfaction Guaranteed.
t
WILLAMETTE STREET,
Eugene City, - - - - Oregon.
Central Market.
PROPRIETORS.
Will keep constantly on hand a full supply of
BEEF,
MUTTON, PORK AND VEAL,
Which they will sell at the lowest
market prices.
A fair share of the public, patronago solicited.
TO THE FARMER:
We will pay the highest market price for fat
cuttle, hugs and sheep.
Shop on "Willamette Street,
EUCENE CITY, ORECON.
Meats delivered to any part of the city free
of charge. junlt
t F. M. WILKIHS.
Practical Drnsgist I Clisiiilst
DRUGS, MEDICINE3,
Brushes, Paints, Glass, Oils, Leads.
TOILET ARTICLES, Etc.
Physicians' Prescriptions Compounded.
2Kr
MADAME SAUVAGE.
'New Orleans Times-Dcmoomt from the
French of Guy de Mniii:-sint.
Whon the war broke out, the mm of Buu
vnge, who was then $1 years old, enlisted,
leaving his niother totally alone. Folic did
not, however, pity the old woman much be
cause she had money -verylxx!y knew that!
So she remained alone in her isoluted bonne,
o far fnw the village at the edge of the
forest. But she was not in the least afraid,
being of the Mime stock as the men of t ho
country a hardy old woman, tnll and gaunt,
who seldom laughed, anil whom nobody pre
sumed to trillo wth. Indeed, the country
women tliere do not laugh much. I-nughing
is well enough for the men! The minds of
those women are melancholy and nnrmw, for
their lives are dismal and fs'ltlnin lightened
by an hour of joy. The peasant husband or
son learns something of noisy gaiety in the
tavern; but their helpmates and mothers ro
nuiin serious, with visages iierpctuiilty
au.-rtere. The muscles of their faces liave
never acquired tlie movements of laughter.
Uld Mother Suuvago continued her orvli
nnry minle of life in her cabin, which wns
kkiu covered with snow. (Mire a week slie
used to come t the city to buy a little bread
and meat, after which she would return to
her dwelling. As there was a grod dial of
talk abcut wolves, she never went out with
out a gnu slum; at her back the son's gun,
a rusty weapon whose butt wns quite worn
awny by the mere- rubbing of homy hands
against it, and it was really curious to wuUh
the tall old wonuin, a little ktoo)'ed by age,
striding leisurely through t!u mow, with
the Uirrel of the gun sticking up above the
blin k covering which surrounded her head
and conrned those white tresses which no
body had ever seen.
One hiy the lYussinai came. They wire
quartered upon the inhabitant!! of the plice,
nccortling to tho fortunes nnd rceuives of
each fnmily. The old woman had to rocxjvo
four, lx-cuiiw she wns known to lie rich.
These were four bLr lads w ith fair flesh,
fuir U-nn's nnd blue eyes who had remained
stout in iq-ite of all the fatigues they bad en
dured, and who seemed to lie ri;;lit goxl fal
lows, nlthctifh conquerors in a conquered
country. Finding theimclves nlono with the
oil wot aim tbey took pains to show her ull
pn.ibli consideration, and did nil in their
power to save, her trouble and expense.
They cctikl be seen every morning, till four
together, making their toilet nt the well, In
tin ir ihirt kIisjtos; pouring the cold wnter
over that lair, rosy, northern H-wh of theirs
even on the days whon it was snowing most
heavily w hilo Mother Sauvagn wnt to and
fro. prepnrinj the soup for thrm. Then they
could I seen denning up the kitchen, wash
lug tho windows, chopping the wood, peeling
lh" jHilnt'jrs, washing tlie lmcn, in short, do
ing all the bousc-work, just like four good
ons might do for their mother.
Hut sha, the old woman, was ever thinking
of her own sou her lull giant lxy, with his
honked noso and brown eyes, mil thick mous
tache that seemed to cover his lip with a
veritable pud of black hair. And every day
i.he used to usk each of the four soldiers quar
tered in her home: "Do yon know where
that French regiment is the Twenty-Third
of the linen My son's in that"
They wonld reply, at well as they could:
"Nein! don' know doh' know findings." And
compreJiending her pain and anxieti-, these
young men, who had mothers living far away
in (iernmny, paid her a thousand delicate lit
tle attentions, She liked them well enough,
too those four enemies of hers; for peasants
do not feel patriotic hate; such feelings only
belong to the upper classes. Tlie humble folk
those who pay the mrt j-t because they
are poor, nnd who oro lieing perpetually
weighed down by new burthens; thi who
are slaughtered wholesale, w ho form tho ver
itable food for powder, tsxnuse they are the
majority; those, in t ne, who sulTer most
ntrociou.-ly from the miseru of war, because
tlrt-y are the weakest and thelenst nggres;ive
sm h folk do not at all understand whnt war
enthusiasm is, nor touchy points of military
honor, and still less thio jireten led pclitical
combinations w hich exhaust two ntttions in
fix months, the ricloras well as the van
qtiifhed.
l'eople in that part of the country used
always to say whon shaking of Mother
tviuvago's Germans:
"There's four felllows who've found a
mug berth. "
Well, one morning while Mother Sauvage
was all alone at home, sho caught sight of a
man, quite far off on tho plain, hastening
towurd her dwelling. He soon came near
enough for her to recognize hun; it was the
country postman. He handed her a sheet of
folded paper; and she took her glasses,
which she always wore when sewing, out of
an old spectacle-case; and read as follows:
Madamk Sacvaoe: This will bring you a
rad piece of news. Your boy Victor was
killed yesterday by a round-flint, which liter
ally cut him in two. 1 was ciow' to him at
the time; for my place was always next him
in tho company ; und it wivi unly that very
day that he wiis talking to me about you, so
that 1 could lot you kuow if anything should
linpicn hiin.
I took his watch out of his pocket to bring
it to you when the war is over
I uUuta you amicably,
CrsATm Rrvnr.
IVivnte second clas in tho Twenty-Third
regiment of the lino.
llio letU-r was dated Uiroa weeks rre
vioasly. She did not cry. Hie remained motion
less, so overwhelmed, so stupefied by the
blow, that she did not i t enco f.'l t e p'dnof
it. tsbo thought only: "There's Victor killed,
now!" Then, little by l t;l tlie t.n : lowly
rose to her eyes, and tho pan:; began hi make
ituelf felt at her henrt Fancies cmne to her,
one ofUT tho other frightful, torturing.
Kever could he ki s her child again her
only child, her greitt iU ton! never! The
Tiidnruits hsxi killed bit fuller, the poacher;
now the l'russiuiis luul killed her son. Ha
had been cut in two by a cannon balL Ami
it memel to her s-he could lee the tiling tho
whole horrible thing; the bead falling off,
with eyes wide opn, and l is teeth still gnaw
ing the corners of his thick moustache, as he
was wont to do in his Lairs of anger.
And after, whnt had they done with his
Ixxly. If they liad even given her bock hor
son again, as they hod brought hor husband
back to her, with a r.fle bull through tho
center of his forehead.
Cut she heard a sound of loud voioes. It
t as the rmsxians returning fmra tho village.
Quickly sho hid the letter in her pocket, and
received th(tn very calmly with bercus
tnuiary fine; for she had had the time to
w ipe her cy well.
'h;ey wt re all laughing, the four of them
quite delightA-d bwause they had btn abl
to bring home a sjilcadid rabbit with them
rtolen, no doubt; and they modo tigns to
the old worian that thy were going to have
something wonderfully good to eat.
She set to work at once to prepare lireak-f(u-t
for them ; but whon tho tinw came to kill
tlx rabbit, har boart failed her. And yet it
was net the first rabbit by any means that
die had been given to killl One of the sot
orfn killeal it by fftriiing it behind the ean
with hit han't.
Once it was dead (he took tve red body out
of the skin; but tlie light of Ae blood whict
stie was handling, which covered ber bands
tlie wsnu bknd which ths felt getting cold
and ng"itng taads hr tremhls from
head to foot: and she always saw before her
tlie llgure of her tall son, cut in two, und all
rod jiwt like tlie body of tlie still palpitating
animal
Hh sat down to table with her Pnwlum;
hut she could not eat ven n much as a
mouthful. They tinl-Jicd the rabbit with ut
noticing her. Meanwhile she watched them
sideways, without iqs'iiking maturing a
singular purjoae in her mind, and yet with
such au linpassivo face that none of them
otwrved anytliing unusuiil.
All of a sudileu sheasktsl: "Idou't so much
an know your uiuum; and yet we've Urn
month together nowf"
They were not able to understand what she
wanted without some dilllcnlty; and then
they told her their names. That was not
enough! Kho made them write the minim
down on a pieif of jmiier, together with
the addresses of their families; and, perch
ing her sjiectaclni upon her groat 1101,
she looked nt the strange tlerniim writiin.
Then sho foldi-d up the pnjier cnrcfully, and
put It into her pocket, next to the letter
which had toll her about the death of her
sou.
When the meal was over she snlil to them,
"Now, Tin going to do some work for you."
And she pm-vnlisl to ent ry hay up to the
loft in which they slept.
They thought this wns very queer; but she
explained to them that it would enable them
to keep nice nnd warm, so they all helsl
her. They piled up the hay to the straw
roof; and thus male themselves a sort of bed
room with four sloping walls of forage,
warm and frr.gnuit, w hero they could sleep
delightfully.
At diunor timo one of them lieenmo quite
anxious at seeing tliat old Mother S:iuvii:,v
ate nothing. Khe told them she hud cram;.
Then sho lit a good lire in order to warm
herself ; and the four Hermans ascended to
their loft by the ladder which livl to It,
As soon as they had closed down the trai
door, she took away the bidder; und goin
out noiselessly, she began to collect struwiind
till her kitchen with IU She walked liarfoot
through they snow so softly that in one
could hear her. From time to time she tjcord
tlie loud and irregular snoring of the four
sleeping soldiers.
When sho judged her piviini!lnH com
plete, she put a bunch of straw in . he l-iv.
then flung the burning heap upou (he rest;
and she went out and looked!
A fierce glan lighted the interim of th.
building in a few seconds; tlie 4 tin whole U
canie a frightful furnace, a gigmtie oven,
whoso violent light blazed thrown tht sin-le
narrow window, a ad Hung a loiif bright bnml
across the snow.
Then 11 gnat and terrible 'ry rang out
from the upper part of thohiuse; succeeded
by a clamor of yells, huiinn bowlings,
hideous cries of agony nt id fear. An then,
tho f oor crumbling in, a ttorm of Humes,
roared up into the loft, birst through the
roof of straw, rose to li'iiven like u vast
torch-fire; and the wholi structure tin ifd
inmiiist tho night.
Nothiu could now lie heard but the
(ruckling of the conllnation, the crumb
ling of tho walls, the tailing of the great
Ix-anis. Tlie last frngnieirs of the roof fell in,
and tho red hot carcass )t the dwelling Hung
skyward a great Jet of shirks through u cloud
of heavy smoke.
Tho snow-whitened country, illuminated by
the tiro, shone likeaihect of silver, tinted
w ith crimsom.
Afar ofT, a great bell liegnn to rins.
Old Mother Hauvag? stood erect before the
rel ruin of her home, armed with a rillc, her
dead son's rifle, fearing that one of the men
might cecnie.
When she saw it was all over, sho flung the
weapon into the lire. A single sharp
report rang out
Teople came running to tho scene oas:iiits
and I'russiun soldiers.
They found tho old woman sitting on the
trunk of a tnHj-H-uhn and satisfied.
A Gorman olllecr, who sisko Freiieli like a
Frenchman, asked her:
"Where are your soldiers?"
She stretched out her long, Iran arm to
ward tho crimson miss of ruins, where the
fire was dying down ut last, am! answered in
a strong and violent voice:
"INISIDEI"
All gathered aliout her. The Prussian
asked:
"How did tho lire startr
Bhe replied sonorously:
"I started it."
They could not believe her; they thought
tho disaster had rendered her insane. And
then, while all listened, and pressed doner
ubout her to hear, sl)o told the whole story
from tho beginning to the end from the re
ceipt of the letter even to the last cry of tho
men burned up in her house. She did not
forget one single detail of what she had fult,
nor of what she had done.
Then, when sho had told all, she took from
her pocket two pieces of piqier, nnd in order
to distinguish them by tho light of the lire,
sho coolly put on her glasses. Then she said,
fhowing one pnper: "That is the letter alsiut
Victor's death." And holding up the other
slio added, no'hling her head toward the
ruddy ruins: "There! that's their numes, so
you ran write to their folks nlxiut them."
t:he presented ths pnper to the ollleer who
held her by the shoulders, nnd she continued:
"You enn write to them bow this thing
boppencd; find you can just tell their iront.s
that it wns I who did it I, Victoiro Simon,
Hilled La Suuvuge! Pon't you forget it!"
Tho officer ronif d out some orders In ( icr
mnii. They seized her and (lung her back
iignins-t tlw still glowing walls of her dwell
ing. Quickly twelve men bsjk their places
in fn ntof her, twenty ynrdsaway. She never
winkid. She Knew what wua coining. She
wuibdin i-rfeet calm.
An order rung out, followed by a long de
tenntion. due shot was heard later thuu the
tost all by itself.
Tlie cM woman did mit fall; bhe sank down
perpenli' ularly, as though her legs had boon
cut awoy from under her.
The lYu"ian oillcer ajiiiroachiHl to lisk.
Hhe bad bnen almost iwverol in two by the
volliy, and hor stiToned fliirers still
ckwis.'d tho letter, all spattered with blood.
The Wire's Mrstegy.
New York Moniiiig Journal
"My dear," said a young w ifo to her hir
I and. who hail already fallen into the haMt
of going ti the Imlgo in tlie evening, and who
was just prejxiring to go out, "1 am going up
stroet to inferview tiie sujieriutaiideut of Hie
post ofbee this evening."
"Ah! indesl; on what business, prayr
"I wont to see if ho ran give 1110 any nd
vk'e in nx.'srd to getting a habitually bile
nuile in on time."
The husband blushed, pretendil he was
licking f.'r a newspaper instead of his hat,
and tlvre was a member absent from tlie
lodge that night.
Effects of the KsrthquaUe.
Exchange.
A curious result of the recent earthquake
iiw k in Essex, England, was that the wi'lli
in and around Colchester exhibited a rise in
their water level of about five feet Thin
gradually increased for five days after the
phenomenon until a height of eight feet was
attained. The wells at lost accounts bail
Hreutly permanently rested at the height
U sstsk feet above their old water mark.
rORHON TELEGBAPHIC NBU'l.
Soup houses have been opened at Spexla,
taly.
Hundreds of people are fleeing from Na
iles for Koine.
A sanitary cordon has lieeu established
li round Madrid.
The Emperor of Germany reviewed the
roopii last week.
Count Llmburg Stlrlum, the Dutch min
ster of stale, is dead.
Vessels from the Mediterranean are sub
ected to quarantine by Portugal ports.
A Prussian was arrested at Xlce last
week w Idle sketching the forts and werks
here.
President Grew has sllchlly arknowl-
(ded tho receipt of a letter from a dele
gatiou of the extreme left.
The Ilelnlan Chamber of Deputies re
ently passed a bill imposing a sur tax on
bugar until January 1, lStsi.
The rebels have removed another mine
placed by troops near Sunklm. It wan af
iward seen to explode in the enemy's camp.
The two towinir romnanlcH at Victoria.
li. C, hitherto amalgamated, have dis
solved and are now running in opposition.
Admiral Courbet's movements In tho
Chinese waters are kept secret. lie is
taking a circuitous route to deceive the
I hluese.
A Iiusslan corvette recently seized the
American schooner Sophia Johnson, at
Ifchring's Island, lielirlng's sea, (or illicitly
Helling rum to natives.
The Hrltlsh foreign ofllco denies all
know led L'e ot nnv intention on the part of
Germany to propose a new conference on
the r.gypllan question.
The German corvette Elizabeth has lieeu
ordered to proceed from Australia, where
she has been stationed, to lloug Kong, to
reinforce the German licet.
The United States government ban In
strueted Its minister at Lima, Peru, to
protect the protierty of the Central and
South American Uiiiio company.
It is reported in London that General
Wolselcy lias offered lleurv M. Stanley a
position on Ins stall. Stanluv husi asked
jiermission of the King of Belgium to 11c
cepU
Mnte. Puttl writes that her appearance
In Paris in opera. October Zolh. is contin
gent upon the favorable settlement of her
divorce proceedings against Marquis do
taux.
As the German steamer Ilolienstaufcr
was sailing from lierlin for Halt imore, she
collided with the German Ironclad Sophie.
llotn vessels were damaged, yo. one in
jured.
The London 7VfA asserts that Karon
Carlingford, lord of tho privy seal, will
shortly resign his cabinet position. It is
tirobablo his successor will be Lord Hose
berry.
Numbers of Anarchists' printing ma
terials have been found in tho suburbs
of Vienna. Tho police have seized a quan
tity of newly printed revolutionary aocU'
incuts.
Major Kitchener telegraphs that the
route from Dougola to Horlier Is perfectly
open as fur as the wells of Prcsem, ami
hostile tribes are dispersing and lleciug
the country.
A Montreal dispatch of last week states
Lieutenant Gruely's paper was read ls?fore
the geographical section of tho llrltish as
sociation, which was a review of the work
of ttje hraiiklin Hay expedition.
The English committee of Mexiraa
bondholders has approved of tho general
proposals for the set t lenient o( the JUexl
can debt, submitted by Noelzlln, agent In
England tor the Mexican treasury.
Word has been received In Halifax, N.S.,
that the expedition steamer Neptuno was
at Ford's Hartxir, thirty-four miles from
Naln, Labrador, July iiotli. Sho reports
all hands well, seven stations nave ueen
established.
The British Science Association, Intel
In session at Montreal. Can., have ad
journed to meet in Aberdeen, Scotland, In
1HH3. McGnl University conferred tlie tie.
gree of LL. 1). upon many members of the
association.
The inhabitants of the Cameroons coun
try, western Africa, are about to present
a protest to the English foreign olllce,
against the annexation of that district to
the German possessions, as they prefer
lirlusli protection.
The Berlin North German Gazette at
tributes to Bismarck the design to create
a political blockade against England, by
the formation of a coalition of the powers,
unless her egotistical policy of colonial
extension Is abunuoned.
A London dispatch of last week says at
the Lloyd Insurance Agency trading ves
sels for China were insured for 6 per cent.
The steamer Imbros, with a cargo of guns
and munitions of war for China, was re
quired to pav.O per cent.
Upon the occasion recently of the annl
versarv of the battle of Sedan, the Em
Deror of Germany sent to Bismarck the
order of "Pour Lemeritc," surrounded by
oak eaves and on autograph letter, ex
pressing the deepest appreciation ef his
services.
Growinir activity is apparent In the Ger
man electoral ranipulun. The Socialists
of Berlin have brought forward six rand!
Hates: Vol mar, llnzencleur, Liitzuner,
Neitz. Singer and Guellenbcrger. Among
tho ProirresMist condldtttes are irchow
Loewe, Klotz, Trager and Eugene Kichler,
Gvde intends to bring suit In London
against Furscli, made on the ground that
after agreeing on thirty performances in
European capitals and to make a tour of
England and ll'illand, singing in concerts,
she has suddenly goire to America to sing
at Ihe autumn festival without informing
him of her intentions.
The Chinese merchant fleet, sold to
Ittisscll recently, consisled of twenty-six
steamers, aggregating 2-),oh tonnage,
The. coinpain started twelve years ago,
and was under the patronage of Hi Lung
Chang, who obtained loans from tne gov
eminent, to whom the company was in
debted for ',W),IW taels ($:,UW,UUl.
A Dublin cablegram stays: The National
League adopted a resolution, last week.
denoiinciiu Irish executives for rt-fusiiiK
to hold a fresh inquiry In the Muaintrasna
murder case, In view of 1 11 former Carey 1
confession. The refusal is denounced as
a breach of public faith. The previous in
quiry, the resolution asserts, was a mere
farce.
Gladstone, the other evening at Waverly
market, Edinburgh, delivered his third
and last sneech to his constituents. In
bis address be mode the admission that
francbi-e might lie better coupled with
the redistribution of parliamentary seats;
but the passage of the franchise law ought
not to be delayed. The question now
rested with the people. ,
From St. Johns, N. B., we learn an In
spection of the abandoned brig Itesolver
demonstrates that a collision w ith an ice
berg occurred, followed by a sudden panic
among the crew and passengers, w ho Im
mediately launched boats and left the
brig, leaving everything lxhlnd: that the
boats were dashed by the b illing sea
against the Iceberg and swamped, and all
hands perithed.
DOMESTIC TUEORAPHIC NLW3.
Missoula. M. T.. had a 8:10,000 fire last
week.
The summer season at Long Branch has
ended.
There Is no pleiiro pneunioiila In Ken
tucky.
Kansas City, Mo., had a SoO.OOO fire re
cently.
The American Hotel at Fort Erie. N. Y..
burned a few days ago.
An unknown man was drowned In San
Francisco bay last week.
Jay Eye See is still trying to reduce the
trotting record of z:0Ui.
Snn Frnnclsco clerks arc consUloriua the
early closing movement.
The town of Marathan. N. Y was de
stroyed by fire lust week.
Five horse thieves were banged at Hocky
Point, M. T., the other day.
The New York Continent has been Dur-
chased by Mrs, Frank Leslie.
An anti-Chinese demonstration took
place at Philadelphia recently.
The Livingston. M. T.. Enttrvrist and
Tribune have been consolidated.
Hearing In tho Hill-Sharon rase has
been continued until October 'Jlst.
San Francisco merchants are scheming
to recover the lost ivortiiern trade.
Senator Henry H. Anthony, of Kliodo
Island, died at Providence last week.
Tho Hush-Fitzgerald prize fight on Lotm
island lust week was declared a draw.
The total rainfall In New York for the
past eight months has been 40.41 Inches.
Mrs. Nellie Holbrook. of San Francisco.
will stump Indiana for Blaine and Logan.
The National Engineers Association held
its annual session at Baltimore last week
The Pittsburg chief of police refuses to
apologize ior tils insult to the Austrian
Hug.
General Harney, t veteran of the Mexi
can and Florida w ars, is residing in Wash
ington.
Hlshoti Pierce, senior blshon of the M
K. Church South, died at Auiiusta. Ga..
nisi week.
At Heron. M. T.. rerrntlv. Charles Holotr
was shot and fatally wounded by Frank
ciR'inan.
Charles J. Folger. secretary of the
treasury, died at his homo in Geneva, N.
Y luHt week.
Tho American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science convened at Phila
delphia last week.
H. A. Charles, secretary of the Julia
Mining Company, died In San Francisco,
laHt week, aged llo.
Charles Foils was blown to atoms by (he
explosion of a giant powder cartridge uear
Sun Francisco recently.
The next re union of the Armv of the
Potomac is to be held In Baltimore on the
full and 7th of May, 15.
Emanuel Neumann, secretary of the
Alaska Commercial Company, died at San
Franciuco recently, aged to.
Oklahoma Pal no and his followers are
protesting at the manner lu which they
are being brought to justice.
Teenier defeated llostncr In the three-
mile sculling race at llaugett's pond, near
jjuwrcuce, Mass., a lew days ago.
Receiver OslKirn, of tho suspended Wall
street. New York bank, has beirun the
payment of a 00 pur cent dividend.
Albert SutlllT left Snn Francisco for
China, last week, to act as war correspond
ent of the Sun Francisco Chronicle. ,
The Indians at Polar River Agency, In
northeastern Montana, threaten to go on
the war-path if they are not better fed.
Tho Associated California Pioneers of
Now York celebrated Admission Day by a
clam buko and excursion to Glen Island.
Tho headless body of Dr. Rock, surgeon
of the sunken United States steamer Tab
lapoosa..was found in Boston harbor last
week.
I'letro Del mas, French champion wres
tler, has challenged Clarence YV histler to
another match to take place in San Fran
cisco. Attachments aggregating $25,000 were
taken out against ths Bankers and Mer
chants' Telegraph Company atChicaro re
cently. All doubt as to the payment of the Jer
sey Central dividend has been settled by
the shipment of funds to New York to
meet it.
Martin Weinberg, a Jew, was hanged at
ritlstiiirg, J 'a., last week, lie is believed
to be the second of his race ever hanged
In the United States.
At RulTalo. N. Y.. recently. Mrs. Fred
Merrill, crazed with grief over the death
of her child, shot her husband and took a
latal dose of sarbolic acid.
Says a Vinccnnes, Ind., dispatch: Mollis
J- Ai'anis, a lz-yeur-oiu girl, committed
suicide lust week w hile the family was ah
sent from home. She was discoverdd ly
ing on her face In bed, with an empty bot
tie by her side.
'A Pittsburg dispatch says: The coke
and coal syndicate of the Conncllsville re
L'lons have decided to run their ovens six
days hereafter Instead of fire, on account
or tho Improved demand, nils will in
crease Hie output between U00 und 700 cars
Paper manufacturers of New England
are indignant at the action of the United
States government prohibiting for three
months the unloading of Imported rags.
Heprescntatives were appointed to go to
Washington to obtain a modification of
the order.
Prefcssor Dodge, statistician of the de
partment of agriculture, says reports
show that the crops have been somewhat
damaged by drouth in Ohio, Indiana, Illi
nois and Kentucky. The injury, however.
Is not Kufllclcnt to cause any feeling of
panic, as there Is every indication that In
general the crops will be good.
H. W. Watcrson, of Milton, Wis., filed
a summons and complaint last week in
95,000 damages in a suit against the Chi
cago and Alton Railway Company with
the sheriff of Milwaukee county. Water
man was Injured for life, he alleges, at
Chicago by the carelessness of tlie railway
company's employees. Service was made
on the company's agent iu Milwaukee.
A Sandusky, O., dispatch says: The
Forty-second Ohio (Garfield's) lt-glment
held a re-unlon at Lakeside last week,
and voted to meet there next year. Since
the death or Gartlelu no president lias
been elected, the vhe president presiding
Abotit 2uO members survive. Captain
Ilubls-ll of Cleveland Is vlc--president.
No special action was taken this year.
Joseph W. Henma was to have been
hanged at While Sulphur Springs, Mon
tana, last week. The gallows wtre built.
coffin prepared, and the grave about to be
dug, pending an appeal to the Territorial
Supreme Court, but judgment ot the lower
was revoked. When informed lT bis coun
el of the result he cried out: "Thank God I
God is indeed g-acinus," and ha indulged
In paroxysm of Joy.
(All FA NCIBCO MARKETS.
RECEI ITS-Wheat, 2.&0 ctls.: flour.
ll,6oV qr. sks.: oats, g,75u ctls.; potatoes.
S.tMlsks.: eggs, 7.000 dox.
r l.ULK-San r ranclsco extra, nest, at
94.Suro5.00; medium, l;.50s 4.00; shipping
superfine. (:i.NK44.U.
W 1 1 hA 11 he market can be considered
as fairly steady at l.i' V ctl for the bet
ter class ol shipping qualities. All offer
ings that come up lu needed requirements
are promptly taken, while buyers will
nflen nav a simill Ailvsnc. for snmethlns .
choice sooner than miss the purchase''
Farmers are show ini more wilUugness to
meet the situation, and ItJonk1 as if busl- -ness
during the mouth will be largo in
volume. Call trading is not very general,
though a few operators Impart a good
deal of life ur.d spirit to the dally sessions.
Sales were:
Buyer season l.rjOO tons, fl.41; 100,
1 .inl 'inn ki .1,0
' Buyer seusou, clty-MO tons, 91.41J; 100,
?1.4o.
Buyer 1HS4-100 tons, fl.KI. 100, fl.33f.
Seller ltW-100 tons, f U.
Closing prices were:
No. 1 While- Bid.
Buyer season tl 404
Buyer season, city 1 41 J
Buyer 1KW I Ml
Seller 1SHI 1 1T7
Asked.
1 :uk
FISH -Extra Pacific codfish, whole, lu
C, 7Jc, boneless, in bxs., hjc V th.j domestic
salmon, hf bills., $t).0(M7.oa bb)s..f 11.00,
l-tli. cans, f dot., 81.4o; mackerel, No. 1, w
kit, ei.7.V2.tX, No. 2, 91.fiOwl.75, No. 1,
hf bbls., 910.00, No. Si, 9Uk; herrings,
salted, hf bbls.. . dried, ID-lb. bxs.. Toe.
BAGS AND RAGGING Tho condition
of the wheal bag market is substantially
tho same as so fully out iued two weeks
aim. Some of the large holders have
nominally withdrawn their goods from
the market. We ouote best quality
Calcutta wheat bags,' standard shut
nnd weight, attljfolo for spot lots;' San
quentln factory make, 7J; California Jut
Mill iiiake, Vic: potato gunuivs, 11&($1,c;
wool bags, :tnp 40c apiece.
BARLEY There Is a pretty steady
trade In progress, causing supplies to
move oil" with celerity. Prices keep fairly
uniform for feed descriptions, the range
for good to choice quality being HO'aHl'ic,
w hile lower grades are placed wtihiu the
limit of 7.'K i7Ac f ctl. Brewing remains
stationary, with no pressing demand.
Old sells from IX!c(a 9l.0, according to
quality, while new ran be had at 8i(u,00o
V ctl. In Cheva ler there is a fair move
ment. The market is well scanned for
extra choice lots, for which custom is
nulck at full figures, say 91.53 f ctl.
Slock that could be simply clussed as No.
I cannot i placed at over fi.oo, wniio
anything lx-low this grade Is Irregular In
price, as tliere are comparatively 110 buy
ers for any such oll'erings. Bidding at
the close Is represented oy tno following
table:
No. 1 Feed- Rid.
Asked.
9 mi
82
Hoi
Ki
1 07
Buyer season 9 u
Seller season HO
Buyer 18M 87
Seller 1SKI 8ll
No. I Brewing
Buyer season 1 01
DltlEII PICAS Green, J.0O;
titles,
JJ2.00; blaciseye, $ 2.i V ctl.
Wilis y (ton., ;aMa ;nc.
WOOL-V'alluv, litgilic: Eastern Ore
gon. l.KU IMC
ST ha w-uwitabie at i.xp .c r n
CHEESR-California. KKs i:ic.
APPLES-d bx.,60fui7oc.
BEESWAX Quotable at glcflti.
BEANS We quote as follows: Kayos,
B'.'.OOit 2.50; butter, t2.ft; pinks, 92.2.i(
2.611; red, t:i.(Hi; Linos, 92.75; small white, -92.2A;
pea, 2.!i.i f ctl.
POULTKl. Live turkeys, gobblers, zi
(li'JDc, do, hens. 20(iii22c. do. dressed, 4 '
r: roosters, eo.oo a.v.00 for old. ana jo.iv-
fiia.au for young; hens 97.00X? 8.50; broU-, ;
f-rs, Sll.t tCu 4.5(1. accordlnu to sue; ducks,
9J.K'liui7.0ij f doz.igeese Ji.00ii,2.60 f pair.
DRIED KK U1US Apples, machine-
cured, lb., Htd.U'c, sun-cured, 6(a8c;
peaches, machine-cured, lu boxes, l.K,l4c;
prunes, Gcrninn, In lxm-s, 10 tit., Kwic;
ilium, suu-cured. uitless, 8c, macbluo-
curcd, 8Ci,llc; pears, machine cured. HfailOo;
sun-cured, 5(n,o; tigs. Cullfornla, ?5 V.,
bx.. He: Smvrnr . Kl'i Jle
CRACKED CORN -Quotable at 93334
Ki ton.
i I A Y Al ful fa, 9H.0Offl 12.00; whoatJbl.OO .
(Ti)lll.00; oat. 912.00(flli.0O; barley, JfU.lXKS
12.00; mixed. Si.OOm, 11.00 v ton.
OATS Tho general tone of the market
Is of wenk character. Supplies are coin- '
inn forward from Humboldt county, and
are said to be up to the usual standard for
quality. As It is mainly from this direc
tion that we receive our nest muting oats,
the market will no longer be bare of this ,
description, whilo prices will necessarily
be lower.
We qnote: Surprise and milling, 91.A0
(SI. 0.5; No. 1. 91.:iX"L50; No. 2, 1. 15(a)
1.25: black. l.l(KftL20 f ctl; new Salinas'
feed, fl.KKiiI.SB.
POTATOES -We quoU wharf rates:
Early rose, 40(?50c; garnet chile, 00c;
peerless, OOo k etl.
PORTLAND MAUXKT JUP0KT
f LOUR Fancy extra, K bbl, 94,8'xH -4.60
superfine. 93.50; country brands, 94
(.1.4.25.
U'lllTlf IM. MMV .nHilniiaa .
1 lllutx i A no n'ui iiiai nvv iiiiuiiucnt
quite inactive with 91.121 named as out-
side price for valley. It is stated that ,
some warehotiHeinen, or interior operators.
i-n rtfiv'intp nil jiiivaiii-r nil inm ill liih i'.iiii- '
tldeut expectation of an improvement.
We can only say that shippers show no ,
1 lsKjsiiion to pi.y up, particularly as Ions
as not pressed. i
We quote: Good to choice, l! 100 lbs.,
fl.lUigi.ti.; good valley, 9l.l1.20; Walla '
Walls. 91.0 t
LAUD California, 10-rh. tins. lOKallci
IjisUirn, li'U'ic for ticiecs.aud lUJo r
I' It) for pulls,
BUTTER- Good to choice roll. If tt i
2.S(a.3nc: fair, 15(jlBc; Urkin, 20(k21c; east-
em, MCnl8c 1
WOOL - Mendocino. 18(221c. l lb.:
Humboldt, lH21c; San Joaquin, HXlbc;
eastern Oregon, louMUc.
CORNMEjXI. -Millers quote feed at 34
ru,U5 V ton; tine kinds, for the table, 1st
large or small packages. 3c 0 fl.
ON IONS-Quotable at 40a50c tor red.
4.Va 05c r Kl lor silverskins. .
TALLOW -Grease, 4(i5; crude, 61OJo; !
rcllned.8lrHc If lb.
BRAN-Tlie spot market la quolabU at
915.5tl(a 1(1.50 per ton.
HULK WUKAT-QuoUble at fl.7521.8a
ct l
GROUND BARLEY-Quotable at fl8
(J2' tyton.
OATS The market Is now quite well .
supplied for a short time, but mure could
doubtless find a buyer at over 30c.
POTATOES The request Is easily mot,
values being steady at 4tX4 50tt ctl.
SLGjtlto Ooltluu C. In bbls.. If lb., 8c,
In hf bbls., 81c; refined D, bbls., . ht
bbls., -: dry granulated, bbls.. (ije, hi
bbltu, l)jc: crushed, bins., CJc; II ns
crushed, bbls.. 10, hf bbls., 10c; cube,
bbls. bjje. ht bbls, 10c; islands, No. 1, kgs,
7c, b(TH. 7c. , I
SIRUPS California refinery hI If gal,
bbls., H2JC. kgn.. Km, c.. gal. tins, 05c;
Eastern, bbls.. If gal, 55c, kg, OOcca..
(sic. .
HONEY-In conili, fti.. 18c: strained
In 6 gal., 10c f tb.; I gal. tins, f tot, 914.06
fcl.MO. half-Kal., 97.50.
UUTTF.U fancy, fresh roll. If R 251
30c; Inferior, grade, 10200; pickled, Wt
25c. '
FEED, Etc.-Corn meaL If 100 Us., 92.75
t:t.OO: buckwheat, 95-50; oat meal. 4.U0(?)
ii; cracked wheat, (125(0.5.50: br.u. If
ton 914(a,10; shorts. Tll,at; middlings,
fine. 9V5-OU: hay, baled, 910.00 UU0;
Chop. 9'2.50: oil cake meal, fcio-l'-
SEEDS Hrown mustard. 150'!.75;
yellow, $1.75(2,2.00: canary, 45c; bemp,
8i(:3c; rape, 2if3c; Umothy, 5j(Sc al
faUa, 7,Wc lb-; nax, 92.0O&2.75 If ctl.