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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1893)
Lincoln County Leader. 1. W. 1TKW4KT, FablUhar. TOLEDO OBEGOS OCCIDENTAL NEWS. The Libel Suit Against Itata Dismissed. the POLITICAL SCANDAL AT YCMA. A Will Contest for the Possession of a Colored IUcIiikc'h Estate iu California. Pan Diego's tax levy has been fixed at bo evnu on me fiou, The Kan Jose Council lias passed the Sunday-closing ordinance. Santa Hosa voted to lond the city for ine purcnase 01 water works. The Heed Hobd at Oitden hnH cloned its doors, because the patronage did not make u pay. The Directors of the BelliiiLdiam Hav and British Columbia liailroad Company have madtt arrangements for the sale of the road to the Canadian I'licine. Director Ames of the Union Pacific railroad w riteH that the company in mak inn an active inquiry with the view of extending itH track to Astoria, Or. The hy-law for Vancouver, 15. (!., to guarantee tho interest on $400,000 of debenture bonds to Is) issued hy tho street railway company haH been de feated by 162 majority. Health Inspectors visiting Chinatown at Lou Angeles found fifteen buildings ' that, in their opinion, cannot Iju cleaned or mado liealtlmil, and recommended their being razed at once. Inquiries are now being made into the iracticability of shipping frozen nuitton y the AtlHtraliati system to Vancouver. A company will probably be formed to build a cold-storage warehouse at the latter place and go into tho business, Tho damming of the Mojavu river at Victor, creating an artificial lake nine milcH long, three milcH wide mid i:tO feet in depth, water siillicient to irrigate 200,000 nnrcs of desert land, in a project on foot in Han Bernardino county, ( ill. The nrreHt of ox-Prison Stipcrintend enl M. Mclnernay at Yuma, A, T.. on warrant h charging him with embezzling Territorial properly troin the peniten tiary at Yuma is the beginning of one of the moHt HciiFatioual political scandals ever developecl in Arizona. AMcrman Towlcrof Vancouver. 11, C. refiiMed to apologize for saying the mem bers of tho C ity Council went around with their banilri behind their backit Necking bribes. He said ho would go out iu the alley and take his coat oil' with any Alderman that tried to make lain eat hu word. James ltoedv, nu old miner who Ih now janitor ol the City Hall at Han J oho, claims to have discovered rich gravid in Hanta Clara county, and in Hiipport of the claim exhibits u small liotile containing llakeH of gold, which he clamiH to have washed out. No fewer than thirtv-two daggers, liutcher-kiiiveH, saws, lllea and slung- HliotH nave hcon louml, lawnm moi iihino and other thugs, iu the Arizona Prison at Yiimii. The former Suporiii teudeut, M. Mclnci nav, in iu arrest for - r. ...i !i "I I 1 I ' 1,1 11 "H " 1 1 ""'eii A public, meeting was held at Crcs well, Lane county, Or., a few days ago to agitate tho quention of removing the county-Heat Ironi r.ugeiio to that place, It wan argued that Eugene wan only a temiHirarv county-scat, and that land and iiiouev would be donated at Cres woll for county building, and that the counlv property at Eogono could then 1k mid for HUlllcient money to pay ell' tho debt of the county. It wan charged thai aiiairn were now in the nunds oi a corrupt and extravagcut net of men, who urns! tho public otllcos for private gain. Havid McDaumild, living on Mud Creek, IkOow Milton, Or., was Isilhcred with snakes; they would swallow eggs whole and they woulil swallow the young chickens. Ho great was the an noyance hu could not raise any vouug fowls. Ho Dually studied up a plan to rid his Orel nii-cn of the snakes, lie Isiught a olg lot of porcelain eggs and laid them around so the snakes could get them. They swallowed them the same as the genuine one, but they could not digest them, and death was the inevita ble result. A sensation lias just come to light at Pacific (trove by the absinnding of 11. M. Carver, the cashier of the Hank of l'acille (iiove, with (10,000 of the do Hsitorn' money. The creditors who were duped by the wily cashier were Mrs. (ioodrich of Han .lose 'for $5,000; William Ilauuon, a real estate dealer of Monterey ; Hov. Dr. Clark, a Presbyte rian minister ol Monterey, of whoso church the missing cashier was a devout ineuiU r and a number of other well know u persons of Pacific tirove. Be side these victim there is a further list of persons who were inveigled for less amounts. I'uited Hates Judges McKunnn, Mor row and I law lev, sitting as a Circuit Court id Appeals at Han Francisco, have atllrincd the judgment of the I'uited Htates district Court d Soul hern Cull ' fornia, dismisning the hlsd suit against the Chilian steamer Itata and releasing the vessel and 2,000 cases of rilles she had aboard when seiutl by the I'uited Males Marshal in Han Diego harNir two years ngO. The libel tiled in the Itata caw charged delils'rate iolahou of Stv tiou n,2s3 of the 1'nited Htates PcvistsJ Htalutes, and set (oith that the Itata hud ts'cn lilted out with tho intent to cruise and commit hostilities against tho gov ernment of Chili, with which the gov ernment of the I'uited Slates was at JH'gce. The decision of the Circuit oiii t Is Icngthv and review the details of the late Chilian revolution and over throw of l'rvi-idcut Baluiacvtla. The Court finds that the state of affairs as alleged in llio UlK'lia not borne out by tlu President, to take etl.vl the end ol Ike fvidcnc. t tux month. The resignation of l.cech Tho State of Oregon has filed its an- is purely voluntary. He resigns to ac swer to tho cross bill of Multnomah vpl the si-ition of cashier of the cxmnty in the tax suit. The answer admits ; National Union lUnk of New York, imvenil unimisirtant charges, and asserts j w hich is lo W ofviicd in that city the that tho object of the elimination w as i 1st iust. Dirvtor 1 ivh wa Ke n in to maintain uniform assessment. The Washington, and has been connected rhnrge that assessment on mortgages in w ith (he mint service since the organi tome of the counties is lower than that 1 tat ion id the bureau in In!7, hiving of Multnomah county, and other asscr-1 entered tho department w ith L'r. Henry lions to the same oilccl, are denied, ) II. I.indcrman, lit tirst 1 'irevtor of the Tho answer also denies that mortgage" .Mint. I le has served in pvcry position Mere discriminated aeainst iu favor of in the bureau from the bottom to the other rval estatt 1i Multnomah County, top. In addition to having a thorough and also that only It' per t ut w;i ddeU knowledge of the hu-incss of the mints, to tho assessment of mortgages in Coos, a, '-pored thnnicb yeai-s of eM'rienci as I.inn and Washington i-ouiilics: 25 per tvnt ill iKmghm, 30 lr 'enl in Yamhill, anil tx'f ivnt in Marion. The answer ask i lot tho dismissnl of the ertws bill, and that tho county Ih txnnin lhsl to nay 4(W,tHit.W) taxes to tho Slate, which it liaa rt'fuevo! to Jo. CHICAGO EXPOSITION. One of the hhM striking features of the Chicago Pair in the absolute and staring nudity of the statuary. The charge for a room in Chicago hotel or boarding-house ranges from $1 to $5 a day. The average price for an average room is now 42 a dav. The Countess di Brazza. sent to Chi cago by tuc-en Marghenta to watch over Italy H collection ol laces, is an Ameri can, who before her marriage was Miss Cora blocum. Washington State dav at the Chicago Fair, which was ii have U-cn May 17, has been jiostponed until some time in June, owing to the unfinished condition of the Htate building. The Chicago City Council lias unani mously passed a resolution declaring for unday ois ning ol tlie orM s J-air grounds, and as representatives of 4o, i)X),(ni) ol stock in the exxsi'ni criti cisl the financial managenfft which closes the jjt on one, day out of the even. Commissioner Korsvlh lias presented a communication from wine growers of California. There have ls;en charges that restaiirantkeeiirs at the fair placed such high prices on California w ines tha no one will call for them, as they can ol luin foreign wines at almost the same price. Californians assert that restau rants at the grounds will not place any w ines upon their lists unless a lsnus of 42,000 to 45,000 is paid them. Califor nians say Ibis would exclude their w ines, as they cannot allord to pay any such Hums, 1 liev propose thereloro to estate lish a cafe at the California building, in which all the wines of the California ex hibitors will be listed. New York, Ohio and other domestic wineiiiakers will he given a show on the same cards. The council of administration is asked to re duce the iiHiial 25 per cent, turned in to them as their share of sales to 10 per l ent, to enable wine to bo sold at re duced prices. The World's Pair gates w ill be open to the public Sunday, and the vexed iies tion is settled. At the regular monthly riieetiuir of the local Directors of the World's Pair, it was decided to open the gates of Jackson Park to the public for half the sum of the admittance to the fair during the week, viz: 25 cents. This action has nothing to do with the opening of buildings. I he latter will remain closed as required under the laws passed by Congress, and as agreed to when the 42,5'Hl,iM)0 was accepted from the Fifty-second Congress, The vote by which the resolution was adopted was twenty-seven to seven. Under the resolution Midway Plaisauce is also thrown open. F.dwin Walker, attorney for the board, siibmitteil an opinion, ami on me sircngin oi ine opinion in IsMiril acted, r.rictlv, Walker dceid I the exposition grounds altogether a distinct ami scperate thing. Unless the National Commission ads vigorously to prevent it, Jackson Park will be open Holidays, the exposition buildings re maining closed. After much hard work the committee investigating iiiisiiiidcistaudingH in the bureau of music has made a report hi the national commission. It is a most severe arraignment of Theodore Thomas and his methods tit conducting tho bu reau of music. It gives a fearful rasping to Chief Harpist Sclicncke, w ho proposed to a local lii-m of musical instrument manufacturers that he would play their tulips for a bonus of 41,000 a year. Hchencke ill his testimony, it appears, admittctl having made the proposition. Itefore the committee Thomas denied being iu any way connected with any house engaged in selling or manufactur ing instrument:!. Thomas declared that the tin I In ii i t y of Director-! ienctal Davis over him was mere merely nominal. The committee com hides by the expression of the opinion that no piano exhibited for aw aids should be used for perform ances; that the usefulness of Prof, Thomas as the head of the bureau of music of the World's Columbian Impo sition is so impaired in the judgment of the committee that his services should be further disS'iiscd with, mid recom mends (hat the Director- icncrnl be in structed to ropiest his resignation. FK0M WASHlNliTON CITY. Andrew Douglass of Wisconsin has been unpointed Fxaiiiiner of the Chip pewa Indian lands in Minnesota, vice Otis Staples, resigned. Charles II. Martin of Illinois has been nplHiiutcd Kxaiiiiner in the Mineral Di vision of the general hmd olliee, vice Charles T, Yonder, resigned. The Secretary of the Navy has ap pointed Medical Inspector liiifus Tyron Hurccon-t iciu ral of the Navv to succeed (iencral John Mills llmwu, retired. Secretary Herbert has authorized the statement that he will decline to extend leaves of absence lo any otliccrs of the navy who are engaged iu private busi ness, Olllcialsof the State IVpartincnt at Washington coiitlrin the prediction here tofore made that ex-ltepreseiitativc Hlouiit would Is' appointed Minister Kcsideiit to Hawaii, The iiiciiiImts of the Diplomatic Corps iu Washington expect that in the course ot a few months tho Spanish govern ment will elevate the legation in Wash ington to the grade of an embassy. Tim President's rule regarding per sonal applications for otlicc has caused a large increase in the number of callers at the departments, and It is believed the Cabiiicnt memls'is will have to follow the President's course. Hui'lsTvising Architect O'Kourkc of the Treasury Department s.ivn it is his h termination to remove, just as noon as it could Ih done, all c publicans hold ing jsisitioiis of Superintendents of Public llmldingi, and to till their places w no i 'cinocr.it s. Secretary Carlisle has set aside the decisions of his prvdtvess,, mid has dct i led that the Statute of 174, known as tin- aiili-nioiely act, ex.vpt in the case id smuggling, di tmrds all utl'uvrs of the I'uited States bout receiving moiety or an informer's share of tho line oil account of information given in rvfeieniv to a violation of the sUtntim Kdward O, leech. Director of the Mint loi4 sent in his t-tvsinalioil In an exaoiim r, l.cech lias ma to a studv td monetary subj.vis and built up a hue of money statistic coveting the produc tion of precious tuetil in tho various iMuntries td the world, w hich hsve Isvu gciK'rsilly ao-epltsl as authority in t)ua country and Kumpa. EASTERN MELANGE. Secretary Hoke Smith Trying to Correct Evils. A.N AUTOMATIC VOTE KEC0EDEE. Heavy Eains Disclose Some Valuable Edits on the Historical Mag gie Farm in Ohio. Drought will cut Kansas' wheat crop 'town one-halt. A p'jt-tal computation 2K;,noo ipulation. gives Detroit A "Colored Tariff-reform Club" lias btn organized in Atlanta The Michigan Legislature has indorsed an automatic vote recorder, The licenses for 6,000 dogs are annually taken out in M'W lork city Cold and frost has rendered necessary mueii replanting oi me cotton crop. Carter Harrison has forbidden smok ing in the Chicago Council chamber. A new law precludes the possibility of an aosoiuie tuvorce in .Maanacuuaoiirf. Tho population of Johnstown, Penn has increased over 0,000 since the flood uf IMJ. The coal and coke business of Colorado is now in tho hands of four great com panics. The Duko de Verauua is so much taken with America that hu proposes, to stay indefinitely. Milwaukio has been taking a little census of its ow n, and is satisfied that its population is 2lo,olt). I he Ohio le gislature, has again re jected a measure looking to the granting of the veto power to the (jovernor. Ct Ir,iiiu b'inUa btVa lilrnnil 42,000,000 in gold to the United Htates in exchange for treasury anil banknotes. -Vabaina reports an increase of li'j percent in the acreage in cotton, 2'? per cent in corn and 0 per cent in wheat. I.ast year there were 3,5'.)!) arrests for violations of tlio exciso law in New York, but tho convictions numbered only thiity-thc. The consumption of domestic beer in the United States last year was about one-half a barrcll per capita, or Home thing like a barrel, barring teetotalers. According to otlicial report the prohi bition town of Portland in Maine uses 47tl,000 worth of liipior a year for "medicinal and mechanical puriioscs." Deaths from exposed electric wires, very frequent in New Y'ork before Mayor tiranl'a crusade against the dangerous and unsightly poles ill lH'.ll, are now a thing unknown. The great tunnel which is to drain the Valley of Mexico is nearly finished, and will be completed in fifteen months. It is expected to transform .Mexico into a very healthy city. Tho New York Hoard of Elect rieal Control has condemned three-fourths of the electric-light iron poles in that city, and ordered them replaced by wooden poles with cast-iron bases. American corn shipments are moving into Mexico us heavily as last year. It is estimated 7,000 car loads will be shipped into the republic before the close of the year if the duty is not restored. There seems to be a fair chance for the restoration of the death penalty in Michigan, for the Judiciary Committee of the Legislature has reported favorably upon the bill introduced to that end. A stone 150 feet long and 10 feet square at the base has Ik'cii quarried at Pren tice, Wis., and it is proposed to use it as a monument to James li. lilaine. It is lorty-six feet longer than Cleopatra's needle. The Western tleueral Agent of one of the larger New York insurance com panies is authority for tho statement that a iiiiiiiIkt of retirements of insur ance companies may bo expected before many weeks. Wall-street brokers have adopted a new gambling device in the shape of a phouoi:i'aph w hich squeaks out from a colassal funnel quotations on mining sbs ks, as many as a dozen fluctuations being recorded iu a minute. Secretary of the Interior Smith is try ing to correct the evils that have been constantly grow ing at Y'ollowstono Park in the way of monopolies and conse quent excessive charges for everything the tourist is required to use. A question which agitates fashionable men is as to where they can v scientifi cally tattooed. It is currently roortod that a celebrated tattooor from Yoko hama will 1h at the exisisition at Chi cago during the aiming summer. The chances now are that the present Illinois Legislature w ill not pass a Con gressional apportionment bill. There is apparently a ton serious, tlillcrence of' opinion in the Democratic majority as lo how the State should be sliced up. Senator Faulkner, Chairman of the Committee on Territories, ha selected, in addition to himself, Senators Hill, I'latt, bate and Davis, us a sub-com-iniltce to investigate tho condition of the Territories now seeking admis sion to the Union. Tho committee' starts June 10. Heavy rains near Chilliootho, Ohio, have washed tho earth away and dis closed some valuable relics on the his torical Ma-sie farm, consisting of stone implements, bullets, coins and silver billions. The gold coins are dated 17'.'7 and 1750. The Yiiquis have sent word to the Mex ican authorities that no trops or stran gers will Ih !oruiitted to enter their country, ami as tho government will send a largo force of regulars against Ihein, an exciting and bhssly eompaigii Is cvptvlcd. iencral P. V.. 1'cale's w ill has Ntn tiled at Washington. Ho intentionally ( tils to make any provision for his throe children, I'uiily T. Heale, Truxton lieiilo and Mrs.' M. E. Hakmeticll', and leave all his property to his wife, Mrs. Mary K. Hcalo. Tho great dam now Iving built across the Colorado river at Austin, Texas, is built of large, roiich blocks set in con crete iu the interior faced on both sides and on top with cut granite. It has total leiiitli of I. '.'75 left, and a maxi mum h iiiht id ts icvt. The story is tvvivts.1 in Washington that the White House is to Iv dcxotol exclusively to residential purpose. President Cleveland is said to lo con sidering the moving ot his ottice to suit able HtMtrtmcuts in tho army, navy and State IVpartiiienl buildingt," Southern California is the Mvea toward which tho restless net; toe of the MVtion uNnit Chattanooga, Tcnii., are now turning their faces, tireat excite ment exists among them oteran rmi giatiou scheme to the Pacific SIoh. The impression among tho negroes is that all that is to Iv done Is to go out therewith l.w dollars, buy a much land as is utsl and live like a nabob. PCEELY PEES05AL. Hark Twain's eldest daughter, MiEB Clara Clemens, not yet 2U, haa written an allegorical play. Itmail Paha, ex-Khedive of Egypt, now Hi, li ves in regal splendor on the shores of the Uosphorus. His wealth is 25,j0,0O0. Alva Oago ha presented to the Unita rian Church of Charleston, S. C, a handsome brick parish-house, costing over 411,000. A son of the Archbishop of Canter bury, Primate of all England, is a Cap tain in tV.t, M1A, nn ..nftxiai'iK. in the art of war. Mrs. Laura de Force Gordon, a well- known woman Iawver on the Pacilic ('oast, lias tiled her application for the Consulship at Honolulu. Queen Victoria is traveling in Italy, and in England she isn't missed, so little Iocs she really have to do with the gov ernment ot that country Dr. Ilali'kine. tho bacteriologist who has been investigating cholera, writes that he iias conquered the disease by an inoculative method, which he will give to the world. Frederh k Weverhauser, one of the richest of the lumber kinzs of Minne gota, Ix-iran work in a brewery when lie came to this country from Germany. He worked lor 41 a day. Conigsby Disraeli, who has just come into his inheritance at Hughenden man or, is described as bearing a striking re semblance in personal aiqiearance to his uncle, Ixjrd IJcaconsheld. The ex-Empress Eugenie is said not to put trust in 1' rench medical men. When she fell ill of a sore throat in Paris not long ago she telegraphed to England for a physician to attend her. The Trustees of Lane Theological Sem inary have accepted the resignation of Prof. Kotierts, one of the prosecutors of Prof. Henrv P. Smith in his trial for heresy. The Trustees also re-elected Prof. Smith for the ensuing year. Dr. Huchner, tho African traveler, broke from the highest point on Mount Kiliniandjaro, one of the highest mount ains in Airica, a piece ol ns k, w inch lie presented to the German r.mperor. llie Kaiser now uses a mountain summit as a paper-weight on his writing desk. Mine. Paul Mink is a picturesque can didate for a seat in the Paris municipal ity. She is the wife of the French an archist and the mother of a child named " Lucifer Satan Vereingetorix Mink." Her political platform is Unit of " woman, mother, Socialist and Republican." Pope Leo XIII. spends most of his mornings in the Vatican gardens catch ing birds with nets, a sport which he practiced w hen Bishop of Perugia, and of which he is particularly fond. Hundreds of birds are caught every morning and distributed among tho hospitals and the poor. BUSISESS BEEVITIES. Gnat P.ritian has moro than twenty thousand trained nurses. There are nearly Bixteen thousand miles of railroads in Canada. Great Britian levies a tariff on about twenty articles of commerce. The streams of Wisconsin yield $100, OOo worth of pearls in a year. There are 20,000 American publica tions, a gain of 1,292 in a year. The money circulation of the United States is estimated at $1,1100,000,000. Of the 51,000 breweries estimated to be iu the world 2i,000 are iu Germany. Fully 25 per cent of all the champagne made is lost by tho bursting of buttles. It requires more than l,r00,000 sheep to supply the mutton consumed in Lon don. April saw three bank failures in Aus tralia, representing liabilities of $100, 000,000. The nine nun distilleries of this coun try put out about 1,000,000 gallons annually. Cleveland carpenters will bo paid 30 cents an hour for a nine-hour day, be ginning May 1. It is estimated that there were 19,573 papers published in this country and Canada last year. The domestic rice crop of the country for the current season is estimated at 2i5,lXH,00O pounds. According to the Wade's Fibre and Fabric the cotton acerago of 1894 will be as short as that of 1S)3. A total destruction by fire in the 1'nited States for eighteen years before 1892 was $1,700,941,017. Fight hundred and thirty-eight pairs of corsets for men were made by one firm iu England last year. It costs $:Ut to decorate a room properly with Mowers for almost any entertain ment. Philadelphia Record. A dollar loaned for 10X1 years and com pounded at 24 per cent, will amount in that time to 52,551,799,404. An uptown genius has invented a slot machine that will furnish a small brick ot ice cream. Philadelphia Record. The roll of PaHr as used in the Hoe press on w hich tho Bulletin is soon to 1h printed, is from four to six miles long. Alaska produced $1,000,000 in gold last year, and California $12,(HKl,oiK. Tho ipild pnsluot of tho 1'nited Slates was $;S3,0ii0,0OO. Tho hot-house peach crop has not failed, but a man who bought enough for a largo dinner party did. Phila delphia Record. A company of colored people is being formed at Charlotte, N. C, tor the pur sso of building a cotton factory to em ploy only negroes. Then is still an enormous quantity of eld in tho banks and among the people variously estimated at tctwecn $1100,. OtHi.OoO and $700,000,000. Kansas City tailors proioso to make an effort to secure a largo homo patron act1. They complain that too inauv (HMple send Eat for their clothes. The largest pits' of eopor ever taken out of the Micliican I'pper Peninsula w is brought to tho sitriacc from tho ijuincy mine. It weighed about nine tons. In ISiiJ tho total nunilvr of ersons employed in and a!ut all the mines in the I'nitod kingdom was 72I.SHS, ot hoin O.is.si were u males, working alvvc ground. Iu the five or six months of the vear during which the sardine tidierv lasts something like f i'sV.OOO.OOO of these little tish are caight off the coast u( Prittauy alone. Some idea of tho amount of gold mined every year may be had Iimih the statement tliat European goldsmiths make up I'.'t.oW.cVO into gold plate and jwelery annually. Chaihfton is considered the t"irt phosphate market in tho world.. In 1S01 .V.V.' 19 Ions of phosphate rock, alu.sl at were taken Ironi the South t arvlitia mines. It is aid to cost les to send Iho . duct of an acre of w -heat f nun th., Km. of Ihtkota to England than it d n to manure an acre of land in England to thai it can grow good wheat. FOREIGN FLASHES. Emigrants Leave England for Mozambique, Africa. THE F0BEIGX TBADE OF JAPAS. Emperor William Finds Fault With the Bishop of Jletz Herr Bozwadovski Etc. Cholera reports are again coming from Europe. Sir Charles Diike wants the British government to get out of Egypt. Emjieror William forbids all German clericals to meddle in political atlairs. Steps are taking to effect a combina tion of all trades unions in Great Brit ain. The long drought in Austria has been broken and the wheat crop placed be yond all danger. Russia has communicated to the Pope her intention to send a permanent Min ister to the Vatican. C- ...1 O- t! 4l. :.j.n t ccoiiaii'.i a isMMiiaiiou ill ine iiiiumc ui Iastvearwas4,003,4o2-l,9ol,401 males . . . ' ' and 2,102,U51 females. Heavy frosts have greatly injured the vines in the wine districts of Austria, Switzerland and France. The question of ocean penny postage has recently engaged the attention of the British House of Commons. Adelina Patti has commissioned tho Italian composer, Emile Pizzi, to write a short opera for her American tour. The late William B. Astor'8 personal estate in Great Britain has been returned with an official valuation of $1,320,000, llie ISntish Consul at Bordeaux re ports that last year's vintage, though large in quantity, is ol very poor qtiauty. Russian cotton spinners boast that they will soon be in a position to dis pense with American cotton altogether. Japan's foreign trade for 1802 exceeded that of 1S'.U by 20,000,000 yen. The principal increase was in the' values of silk and tea. It has now been decided to light the whole of the Southampton docks with electricity, while the cranes will be worked by hydraulic power. Bismarck according to an interviewer thinks that the anti-Semitic troubles will be gradually settled bv tho inter marriage of Jews" and Gentifes. Thirty miles of underground electric railway'similar to tho City and South London line has been proposed for Ber lin at an estimated expense of $10,000, 000. Something strantro lately affected the fish in Hongkong waters. For manvdavs thev were in a state of stunor. and al lowed themselves to be caught by hand, miiKiug no euori 10 escape. The Jerusalem and Jaffa Railroad Company is said to have inaugurated a real-estate movement in Jerusalem; to have laid out additions and run up lands irom i an acre to J3.UU0, The Italian Chamber of Deputies has commenced tno detmto on tho naval es timates, which the commission on the subject proposes to increase from 99,700,- ow nro to iuo,ooii,ooo lire. A Spanish enirineer proposes to build a bridge of aluminium across the Straits ot ttihraltar. Iho proiect is bonis sci entifically discussed in the current num bers of La iaturaleza of Madrid. The Russian government proposes to convene a commission ot .lewisti ramus in September next to take the whole Jewish question into consideration and assist in bringing it to a settlement. The (ivo Australian banks thus far re ported io nave closed their doors have a total of some $170,000,000 of liabilities. This is an enormous sum for the small population of that part of the world. There liavo been discovered amoiiE the treasures of the British Museum some curious votive tablets set up in ancient uroeK medical temples try grateful pa tients who had been cured of disease. The admirers of Prince Bismarck, who eonirinutiM three years ago moro than f-'.Hi.iiuu ior a monument to the great statesman, are dissatisiied with tho com mitteo having tho arrangements it charge, Tho telephone has well niuh snner. seded the telegraph between 1-oiidon and Paris. The average time for sending and delivery of a telegram is half an hour, while the telephone gives instant colu mn nicat ion. I lerr Rozwadovski, a member of the Austrian Ueichsrath, w ho owns laud in Russian Poland, where ho occasionally spends some time, has lieen exiolled from Poland w ith his family by tho Rus by tho Rus- sian authorities Another expedition of white people left England a few weeks ago for Mozam bique, Africa, as an advance partvof set tlers who are to colonize about 300 square miles ot territory liotwoen the rivers Zambesi and Sabi. After being quite largo for three mouths Australian shipments have de creased very much. The April ship ments wore only 448.000 bushels, against 1.944,000 bushels in March and 752,000 bushels in April, 1S02. Em)ioror William has sent a letter to tho Bishop of Mctz in which he finds fault with the attitude of that prelate in introducing to the Pope a body of pil grims from Lorraine. The Bishop's lan guace in doing so was an insult to Kinc Humbert. s A rather curious report is now abroad in Berlin that the Emperor is displeased with Chancellor vein Capriyi on the ground that the armv bill was misman aged in the lobby, and that false hoinst of passing the measure were cultivated persistently. The memorial to Ix1 erected in honor of Marshal avout is to take the form of a lighthouse on the coast of Britannv ins tiaucittcr having left $ri,O0O for the I... 1, .5 l . . 1 e "-rv i- lis lift lllgu. Miss Florrie Brvan. a voting Englih ("man, has forsaken Cl'iristianitv and , f , l"1 "auarajan ot fatiala in In dia, she was received as a niomlvr of the Sikh rehcou community just before the inarna -o, which was celebrated ao cording to Sikh rites. Dr. do B..i.y of Havre recently com p'.ettM his bH'th year, nd was gucn a dinner by his medical brethren. In his after-dinner speech he said that his f. ther had attaints! the ace of ltW, .-) he himstdf hoH. to htvo the pnvil,w i I i)iring for humanity for some veani tl) none. A statement recently nnhi;.l,.vt k .1 author of Munich gives nome ,tart-1 ihr: " out to her. It tared her life. 1 '" "itonnation as to the increased con-1 -Exch.ir.ga. .,,,,,.,.. ; .1,.. 1 rT11 . f"0 . imi in im ncsti. So groat an appetite seems to luv.. h. .i velootM for that f,l lmrt ,hf ,u, ttm protection of dog utniri. P0ETLA5D MARKET. PBODrCE, FBCIT, ETC. Wheat Nominal. Valley, 1.20 1.22 ; Walla Walla, tl.l0sl.l2 per cental. Flocb Standard, J3.40; W alia Walla, $3.40; graham, 3.00; superfine, $2.50 per barrel. Oats Choice, 44 ?45e per bushel; fair, 40e; rolled, in bags, 6.25aj6.50; barrels, f6.50('a.6.75; cases, $3.75. Hay Best, tlli4l3.50 per ton; com mon, fog 10. MiLLeTcrrs Bran, 19.00; shorts, 122.00 : ground barley, $23;a24; chop feed, t'lS per ton ; w hole feed, barley, 80 SSoc per cental; middlings, 23a24; per ton; brewing barley, 90g95c per cental ; chicken wheat, $1.17i percental. Lcttee Oregon fancv creamery, 22La (o25c; fancy dairy, n''sSOc; fair to good, 15 o loV ; common, 12,'..c per pound ; California, 3137'iic per roll. Eggs, Oregon. Hi a 17c per dozen. Pocxthy Chickens.mixed coops, $4.00 (5 4.50; fancv coops, ?4.50 (i 5.00 ; broilers, f5;u6 per dozen; dressed chickens, 10 (a lie per pound; ducks, 17.008.00; geese, 19.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 18c ; dressed, wc per pound. Vegetables Cabbage,$1.65 per cental for old; 2.00a2.25 for new; onions, 3 Cd3'2c per pound; cut onions, m(alJ4C per pound; potatoes, $1(41.15 for Gar- net Cluhs; fl.-HMl.tO ior rsurDanKs; new. 2;,a21-.'c per pound ; cauliflower, 90c per dozen, $2.75 per crate ; Oregon, $1.25 per dozen.$o percrate; celery ,80ii90e per i dozen; artichokes, 35c per dozen, ?2.00 ' , OE- ! ltttul-f' allfom,e. Pc'r Hr7n Orpirnn hntlmilf 4(:a4o: ftH- paragus, $2 u 2.25 per box; radishes, 103 ! 12.'ac per dozen; green Oregon onions, , 10c per dozen; rhubarb, 5c per pound; dation of farm work, and when "this is crtpn npnR. v.;5e: Rninaeh. 6lnc nerii;..i., i ...:r...,. c green peas, aoc; spinacn, d'sc per pound; cueumOers, $l;ut.o per dozen; string beans, 14 Aide per pound; Cali fornia garlic, 5i'56c. Fruits Sicily lemons, $515.50 per box; California new crop, $3.00,24.50 per box; bananas, $1.50.3.00 per bunch; oranges, seedlings, $2 a 2.75 per box; na vels, $3.00ig3.50; cranberries, $12.50 per barrel; apples, $22.25 per box; straw berries, 10c per pound ; pineapples, $4.50 5.50per dozen; cherries, $1.50ia2.00. ET.vns cr.ocnr.tns. Honey Choice comb, 18c per pound ; new Oregon, 16ax20c; extract, 9r 10c. Salt Liverpool, 100s, $15.00; &US, $15.50; Btock, $10.00,511.00. Dried fcRUiTS Fetite prunes, lira 12c; silver. llf14e; Italian, 13 al5c; Ger man, ll'al2e; plums, 812c; apples, 6 (ftllc; evaporated apricots, lo ili,'s,c; peaches, 12.a,14c; pears, 7(sllc per pound. Rice Island, $4.75 5.00; Japan, $4.75; New Orleans, $4.50 per cental. Coffee Costa- Rica, 22c; Rio, 22c; Salvador, 21 .jc ; Mocha, 20,4 (3 30c ; Java, 24Sj(30c; Arbttckle's and Lion, 100 pound cases, 23 85-100c per pound; Co lumbia, same, 23 85-100c. Beans Small whites, 3'ac; pinks, 334c; bayos, 3c; butter, 4c; lima, 4c per pound. Sybup Eastern, in barrels, 4055c; in half-barrels, 42(&67c; in cases, 35(S 80c per gallon ; $2.25 per keg; California, in barrels, 2040c per gallon; $1.75 per keg. Sugar Net prices; D, 5'c; Golden C, 5ac; extra C, 5?6c; Magnolia A, B.c; granulated, QJic; cube, crushed and powdered, 8c; confectioners' A, O'-c per pound; maple sugar, 1516c per pound. Canned Goods Table fruits, assorted, $l.75v2.00; peaches, $1.85(42.10; Bart- lett pears, $1.75;tC2.00; plums, $1.37(3 1.50; strawberries, $2.2ora2.45; cherries, $2.2532.40; blackberries, $1.85 5 2.00; raspberries, $2.40; pineapples, $2.25 $ 2.80; apricots, $1.652.00. Pie fruits, assorted, $1.20; peaches. $1.25; plums, 1.00(S1.20; blackberries, $1.251.40 per dozen. 1'ie iruits, gallons, assorted, f3.iairt3.oU; peaches, $3.&04.UO; apri cots, $3.50(,4.00; plums, $2.753.00; blackberries, $4.25;34.50. Vegetables Corn, $1.50(31.75; toma toes, $1.10 t 1.15; sugar peas, $1; string beans, 95c per dozen. Meats Cornetl beef. Is, $1.50; 2s, $2.40; chipped, $2.55S4.00; lunch tongue, Is, $4; 2s, $0.75; deviled ham, $1.75,tf$2.75 per dozen. Fimi Sardines, '4'8, 75c(t$2.25; ?'s, $2.15.34.50; lobsters, $2.30.33.50; sal mon, tin 1-lb talis, $1.25 $1.50; flats, $1.75; 2-lbs, $2.25 32.50; bj-barrel, $5.50. LIVE AND DRESSED MEAT. Beef Prime steers, $3.85:34.25; choice steers, $3.75tu4.00; fair to good steers, $3.003.50; good to choice cows, $3.15:u3.75; common to medium cows, $2.50,32.75; dressed beef, $6.00 3 7.00. Mutton Choice mutton, $4.25 34.50; fair to good, $4.00 34.50; dressed, $8.00; lambs, 2.00rit2.50; dressed, $7.003 8.00; shearlings, a'c, live weight. Hoos -Choice heaw, $7.50,37.75; me dium, $0.50(36.75; fight and feeders, $0.00 3 6.50; dressed, $8.00. Veal $4-00(36.00. Smoked Meat and Lard Hams, large, It1.jt317L3'c per pound; hams, me dium, 17i3l7'4c; breakfast bacon, lli(3 17 'sc; short clear sides, 14 a: 15c; dry salt sides, 1334''314l4c; lard, compound, in tins, 12,312lsc per pound; pure, in tins,15jJ16c; Oregon lard, 11 14'( 12'ac. miscellaneous. X ails Base quotations: Iron, $2.25; steel, $2.35; wire, $2.75 per keg. Iron liar, 234c per pound; pig-iron, $23.a 25 per ton. Steel Per pound, IO'c. Tin I. C. charcoal, 14x20, prime qual ity, $8.50,39.00 per box; for crosses, $2 extra per lox; I. C. coke plates, 14x20, prime quality, $7.50(3 8.00 per box; terne plate, I. C, "prime quality, $0.88(37.00: 14x20, $14. Lead Per pound, 4'ic; bar, C's'c. Naval Stokes Oakum, $4.5035.00 per bale; resin, $4.80:5.00 per 480 pounds: tar, Stockholm, $13.00; Caro lina, $9.00 per barrel : pitch, $6.00 per barrel; turpentine, 65c per gallon, in car lots. Shot $1.80 per sack. Horseshoes $0 per keg. hops, wool and hides. Hors tjuote PJiltV. Wool I'mpqua vallev, 16(.rl7c; fall clip, 13(31ji8c; Willamette valley, 15 3 18c, according to quality; Eastern Ore gon, 10(Sloc per pound, according to condition. Hides Dry hides, (elected prime, "3Sc; green, selected, over 55 pounds, 4e; under 65 pounds, 3c; sheep pelts, short wool, 30.i50c: medium. tkVrtSOo: long, OlV'3 $1.25 :shearlincs. 10,32tV-1 tl. BIOS AND nidlllVIl AOs and mnnivn. Burlaps, 8-oiunv, 40-inch, net cash, 6c; burlaps, 101,-ounee, 40-inch, net cash, 7c; burlaps, 12-ounce, 45-inch, c; burlaps, Id-ounce, 0-inch, ll'ac; burbtps, 20-ounce, 70-inoh, IV; wheat bags, Calcutu, 23x36, spot, 6S,c; 2-busheI oat bags, 7c. K.nl dnrrlflr. "Tliat was a sacrif.i-er "Wbatr Barton wouldn't go bathing at Scar- ! borough because he didn't want people tlon" we accustomed to the forcible c.i. to know hu h.1 i.. tare of a brh! by her lover, ami the I who snubbed him wasthonght to be 1 . : r. ... . 10 o ".rowninir Barton trwsV i . Af. .1 . .round thrhelr-Vcdfl ilbcr wou roacnet FAE3I AXD GAEDEN. Try and Keep a Good Start With the Spring Work. SAVE ALL MAXUBE FEOil STOCK. Spring the Season for All Kinds of Transplanting and Setting Out Work Notes. By all means sow some spring. Seed is high, vet clover this we cannot well do without this useful plant. We need it in our rotations. We require it both to furnish the best of hay for our stock as well as to maintain the fertility of the soils of our farms. Try and keep a good start with the spring work, and then keep ahead. The man who keeps ahead of his work does not labor as hard in the end as he who is behind. How everything drags and how discouraging it is to perform every farm operation just a few days later than it should have been done, and how much loss sucii a practice entails, fro it is a,ivjcei though often hard to follow : puh tl,n -rrir q,i u ti,a push you." Do not tail to prepare the sou properly for the reception of the seed. Fine up and puivel.ize un,ii jt becomes perfectly loose .1(i mn0w. This is the very fonn- slighted how can satisfactory results be reasonably expected? Then" do not omit incessant tillage and cultivation through out the growing season. Keep at it. Do not turn out the stock to pasture too early. Spring is trying to the con stitution. AVinds and rains are preva lent, and these are precisely the right conditions for stock to take cold and be come sick. There is no saving in this premature pasturing, for the grass has perhaps barely started. It contains ,,i,,l. ,.oo n... - I ' r ..1., r cattle small good and very likely dimin ishes the later yield. Furthermore, the ground, being soft, is poached and tho sod badly injured. Make the change from grass to hay very slowly, and thus prevent disorders, which are liable to occur. Spring is the season for all kinds of transplanting and "setting-out" work: so improve the farm by establishing or chards and Email fruit" patches that will in future years provide the family with most healthful fruit, furnish a source of income and improve the appearance and value of the farm. It seems paradoxical that so many farmers and their families scarcely taste fruit in any quantity. Ru ral people should certainly take hold of all the blessings which their lot atl'ords. Plant potatoes early. Blight and rot generally affect late plantings more seri ously than the early ones. Commercial fertilizers are preferable to stable ma nures, as the latter seem under certain conditions much more favorable to the spread and propagation of the dread " scab." The ground for potatoes should be plowed deeply and the seed put down pretty well, say four or five inches. Level , culture is easier and better than the old fashioned " hill culture." Save all the manure from all the stock, and by all is meant the entire fertilizing matter from both solid and liquid excre ments. Manures are shamefully wasted, and our impoverished soils are cheated of their just dues and needs; and year by year they become more and more ex hausted. What wonder that crops grow less and less and we hear the complaint that "farming does not pay?" Turn over a new leaf. Employ absorbents, such as straw, meadow hay, land plaster, sawdust and coal ashes, freely and cur tail this expensive waste. There are advantages in special farm ing as well as in general farming. There are also disadvantages in each. In spe cial fanning there is more concentration of effort possible; but if the specialty fails, as all will occasionally, then there is nothing to fall back u)oii. If a man's laud is particularly suitable for one crop, let him "go into' it" extensively, but yet produce to a secondary extent" some other crops as a partial dependence. ASPARAGUS CULTURE. Noel Cooley of Ottawa read at the re cent Northern Illinois Horticultural So ciety's meeting one of the best papers of its kind that we have heard iu a long while, says .0. J. Farmer. It was short and brief, but everything to the point. He said asparagus "depends first on the man, second on the soil, third on conve nient and cheap fertilizers, fourth on convenient and cheap labor and fifth on transportation and markets. The soil should be tleep, sandv, black loam, with a jwrotis subsoil and well tile-drainetl. Fertilize most liberally ; he has no use for salt. Home mnrkets are best. The variety he uses is Purple Oiant, and he finds Conover'8 Colossal of no account. Plow twelve inches deep, and set one-year-old plants eighteen inches apart in rows three feet apart. Dig holes largo enough to receive the plant roots in nat ural position and eight inches deep. Firm the earth well over the plants, 200 of which are all that is needed foragood sized family. For the best results culti vate anil fertilize well for two vears be fore cutting. AGRICULTURAL NOTES. Pet or " break up " the broody hen at once. See that the fowls have fresh water and pure air, but not damp quarters or tlrafts. If the coops for little chicks are on tho barn floor, give them some fresh earth for a carpet. Do not put off the churning until con venient, but churn the cream when it is ripe, whether you have much or little. o' 0ot9 as ,,,uch t0 ma,5e "'er that will sell sell for soaji grease as a first class article that will sell at a fancy price. If you have to confine vour fowls so that they have but a small run, bo sure you keep it well spaded that is, spade It often. 1 Whitewash the coops before using them this spring : it gives an air of neat ness and an air of healthful an air full of health. Even now the average profit in horse breeding is greater than it has been in half of tho other lines of business dur ing the past live years. Cattle are often fed too long for a profit. The bettor and more profitable plan is to feed more liberally from the start and then market the steer earlier. How many people know that the custom of throwing rice at a wedding symbolizes, not the exprwwion of good luck, but it Is metaphorical flight of arrowi hot at tl" brideuroom. Iu uncivilized aire most la rZC,JrPa? wr D"4to "'"'"I present ner huAtutml tmm ...rr nif i.,-r way Is typifled by a volley of rice luu-d of more fatal missile. Red stocking are generally colored from matter of aniline which contain Inrce quai)fitie of antitnoniac product Wneii peritrtug this matter becomes soluble, enters the pores of the akin aad produce a violent rash.