Lincoln County Leader.
J. r. ITIWART, Publisher.
TOLEDO 0REG03
OCCIDENTAL NEWS.
Trobate Judge Charged With
Embezzlement.
FAMOUS UTICA QUAKTK MINE.
Cattle Ranges In Arizona Reported
to be in plendid Condition
Other Occurrence.
Tlie total British Columbia Halmon
pack is 64,8()0. '
CbriH Evans' trial liaH been Hut for Oc
tober 30 at Fresno.
The canneries on tlie Eraser rivor are
closed for the season.
More men have been discharged from
the Chollar and Potosi on the Comstock.
Walter Barth, a notorious horsetbief,
lias escaped from llio Carson Ktate
prison.
Itains in the mountains in Arizona
have started a boom in alt river. Tlie
came ranges are in splendid condition.
I). M. Cashin. the Kun FriLtlfMMi'fl fill.
fnulter, now at Vancouver, II. C, says
he will come over and demonstrate his
innoccnco bcloro long
The top of Mount Rainier in Washing
ton is said by exploring parties to be in
accessible this year on account of un
usual formations of ice.
The British war ship Champion has
tieen directed to co-operate with the
United .States Meet in carrying out tlie
modus Vivendi in llehring 8oa.
President Jordan says tlie financial
aflairs of Htanford University are in pcr
iuil Loiiuii.ioii, and thai liiu lulureol Hie
great institution is brighter than ever.
K. W. French, Probate Judge and cx
oflicio County Superintendent of Schools,
lias been arrested at Prescott, A. T., anil
charged with forgery and embezzlement.
The gamblers, seeing they will not be
permitted to run games in Sacramento
during the Htato Fair, have rented every
available placo in Washington across the
river.
The famous Utica quartz mine at An
gels, Calaveras county, Cal., yielded hint
month the enormous Hum of (105,000,
which was $25,000 more than the owners
expected.
Chris Evans, the Visalia outlaw, is
Hatiulied that lie will bo acquitted by
the courts, and complacently remarked:
" Hut 1 am not so foolish as to siipiMiNc
that 1 am to have a walkover of it."
It in reportodat Han Dit'ijo tlutt tli
Paeillc Hunk Iiuh dixpow-d it itH control
lie
nil
ileiri
way io ine company nun lias Deen ex
perimenting with the storage-battery
electric cars in San Francisco.
The rate of wages for picking raisin
grapes in Han Diego lias lieen lixed at
1.115 per day and 2 cents per tray for
extra work, with hoard at 50 cents.
Plans have been developed for placing
the whole output in the hands of one
company.
The Molilalia Wool Growers' Associa
tion in session at (ireat Falls lias passed
resolutions to send delegates to the Na
tional Convention at Chicago and to cut
down the wages of employes in vii w of
the present depreciated value of their
properly.
Commander Henry Class, United
States navy, Captain of the yard at Mare
Island, lias received ordc rs'from Wash
ington to appear before the Hoard of
Naval Examiners for examination for
promotion to tlie grade of Lieutenant
Commander.
Ily a decision of the Utah Supreme
Court hi cases against the Mormon
Church the tiardo 1 louse property, the
church farm west of Salt Lake and the
coul Ileitis east of the city are alluded to
the government, while the tithing proper
ty on Main street ami tlie liintorn iil oftire
revert to the Mormon Church. The
property thus escheated bv the govern
ment is worth alHiut t500(HH), anil will
lie taken charge of by a receiver.
The report of Hr. Johnson on the re
sult of the chemical analysis of the vis
cera removed from the'hotlv of John
Martin at Weaverville, Cal., is to the ef
... A I I . i
fect that " arsenic was not a factor lu
causing dentil." The Coroner's Jury was
not HiiliHlled with the report, ami gave
the lol lowing peculiar venlict : " J hat
the cause was in our opinion not occa
sioned from natural causes, am) there
fore we me unable to determine and
from the evidence llnd Hie cause of his
death." 1 he Coroner deems the report
of the doctor incomplete, ami is not sat-'
lulled with it.
The Oregon (Mo.) tViiiitcrat savs:
"Visitors to the World's Fair are ills
iMwed to speak enthusiastically of the
exhibition made by the young and rising
piate oi wregon, noiMitiistatiiting the
small sum of money her managers hud
at their dispoiiiiation. 'If Missouri hud
used her appropriation as judiciously,
what a showing we could have made,
is a common remark. Hut we of this
corner are not jealous of the glorious
region from which our county-seal drew
its name on account of the old-time in
timacies Is'tween our pioneers and emi
grants and visitors to and from the Mis
souri river and Willamette country. In
311 and the early '40s our Kiint w asa great
place (or the pioneers to rest and get
their tennis shod oxen mostly, How
many, whoso descendants are prominent
lieoplcof Oregon Slate, rested here for
lirlel space till 'grass was ready,' pre
paratory to their long, weary tramp
across the plains, over the mountains
and plateaus to that then mvstic land,1
'where rolls the Oregon and hears no
sound save its own dashings!' "
KcprcNfiitutivfS of Italian exhibitors
at the Chicago Fair culled on Director
licncrnl de oung of the Midwinter Fx
iMMiitiou at Sail Francisco, and asked for
15,000 square feet of space in the me
chanical and Hue arts building, which is
mora than it will ho Nissihle to give
them in that structure. They mav agree
to take 12,000 feet of space and have
their exhibits divided between three ol
the buildings. It is the opinion of the
Italian Commissioners that the foreign
exhibitors at Chicago will all want a
large amount of space, and they don't
think the plans (or the fair buildings are
on a scale large enough. The I'irector
lieneral said that, it the llnanciul condi
tion were somewhat better, ho would en
large the buildings, but under the cir
cumstances he did not think it would I
practicable. Space at the fair will lie of
two kinds within and outside of the
buildings. The llawaiians, Chinese and
Japanese have located space outside, and
will construct (heir own buddings. Ke
porls from the Interior are encouraging.
In several quarters active preparations
lor big exhibits are going on, and many
of the counties have made appropria
tion for collecting material.
BUSINESS BREVITIES.
Jerusalem is to have a brewery.
New buildings in France have plaster
floors.
The Germans have invented a steam
bicycle.
England needs
250,000,000 bricks
monthly,
A Vermont mill is makintr flon nnn rmn
postal cards.
The use of steel for ship-building was
begun in 1879.
The miners and laborers are deserting
Leadvillo, Col.
England takes 40,000 tons of eggs from
Ireland yearly.
Three-fourths of the population of
Russia are fanners.
About 10,000 gross of pens are pro
duced from a ton of steel.
Twenty thousand men are employed
by the German navy.
An ounce of gold is worth $20.07. We
sold ours for (10 in 181!).
During the present century 8,000 tons
of gold have been mined.
In the City of Mexico the street rail
way furnishes funeral cars.
Now we have an electric cloth-cutter ;
also an electric rock-breaker.
At the present day aliout 1)0 per cent
of all vessels built are of steel.
Hog-packing to August 20 this vear
was 4,515,000 hogs, against 5,7110,000' lost
year.
It is said the silver depreciation will
cost the Mexican government (10,000,000
a year.
The United States produces more grain
in proportion to population than any
other nation.
Since 1810 the world's production of
meat has increased 57 per cent, that of
grain 420 per cent.
It is estimated that last year 1,285,.
000,000 bananas were consumed in the
United Slates alone.
There aro 3,700 national, 3,000 State
and 1,300 private hanks in the United
States, a total of 8,000.
Diamonds worth over 15,000,000 were
sold in one lot recently by the De Heers
Company of South Afriea to a syndicate.
Ily irrigation 25,000,000 acres aro made
fruitful in India a!.iin. Li I'.pt tl.uie
are about 0,000,000 and in Europe about
5,000,000.
The United States has just begun the
work of improving the waste area, and
has already atxiut 4,000,000 acres of ir
rigated lands.
In (.ireat Hritain the actual niiinlx-r of
persons engaged in agriculture is 2,501,
000; in manufacture, 5,180,000; in com
merce, 7,085,000.
Of the thousands upon thousands of
women who deposit in the Philadelphia
savings banks more than half are boarding-house
keepers.
The saloons of Chicago employ 24,000
persons. There are over 5,000 of them,
notwithstanding that 2,000 have lately
gone out of business.
To make 1.000 cubic feet of illuminat
ing gas eight pounds of coal, costing 2
cents, and lour gallons of naphtha, cost
ing 12 cents, are required.
The largest gold nuggets found in Aus
tralia were tlie "Welcome," 2,020 ounces,
and the ".Stranger," 2,280 ounces, valued
respectively at 8,380 ami 11,400.
The value of the gold produced in this
country from 1702 to 1802 was (5,0:1.1,
1)08,000, mid the value of the silver
mined during the same period was (5,-
11M,1KII,UUU.
J ne nrst appearance ol neiiiiuts in
mercantile history was a consignment of
ten nags sent from Virginia to New ork
for sale in 171)4. In 1802 the product wus
z.omi.oou niiHiieis.
Russian women and Japanese men are
sunt to excel all the other world s work
ers with the needle bv those, who have
closely studied the embroidery exhibits
In different buildings at the World's Fair
PURELY PERSONAL.
Ex-Senator Allen has resumed his law
practice at Seattle.
liev. Samuel P. Jones, grandfather of
Sum I', Jones, the Georgia evangelist, is
still living, ami has just celebrated his
881 h hirthday at Cartersville.
Leni Stevenson, who has lioon a circus
clown for twenty veins, has taken the
queerest somersault ol his career. He
has landed in the Salvation Arinv.
Huron von Schloe.er, recently German
Embassador to the Vatican, who aroused
the dislike of Kiiiioior William because
of bis friendship (or Hismarck, liasalxmt
decided to take up Ins ahodo in Herliu.
The Countess von lioque of Rouen,
trance, the mother of Mrs. Florence
Mayhrick, has instituted suit in Rich
mond lor the recovery o( 2,lKHI,0iX) acres
of laud in irgiiiui and West Virnieiu,
which she claims were obtained from her
family through deception and fraud.
The campaign for the woman snlVrage
amendment to the constitution of Kan
sas has opened out there with Susan It.
Aiithouv, Helen M. Gougar, Murv K.
i . .i . ... . ...
i .ease ami outers on ine stump, it looks
as if they would have things all their
own way so far as the oratory is con
cerned. The late Editor Illicit of the Spirit of
too i lutes was a trieinl and exHineut ol
honest sHirt, mid his charming Personal
qualities won for him troops ol friends
everywhere. Ho was a generous follow
w ithal, as was shown by his having left
alauil (50,000 in unpaid due bills for
money lent by him to friends in distress.
Admiral lliimaun, the commander-in-chief
of the French forces in Siam,
whoso name has apcarcd so often in
print since the tcgiiiuing of the trouble
between France and the Oriental country,
is the grandson of Jean George lltimaiiii,
a rich merchant o( Strontium, who was
Minister of Finance under the so-called
Julv monarchy.
Thomas A. Kdisou comes of a toinr-
livod stock. His (ather is still alive at
Port Huron, Mich., at the ago of 00.
His grandfather was 103 years old. ami
two of his aunts lived to lie IW anil 00 re
spectively. Samuel Edison, the father
ol tlie inventor, looks lor ward to many
more years of activity. Ho is very proud
of bis (unions son, who is known to the
family as "Al."
Kx-I'rcsidont Benjamin Harrison's
lectures at Stanford t'niversity have lieen
iHudpoued until February, because, as is
announced, he has other duties pivssing
UM)ii his attention in the Fast. They
will begin February 10, and the series
w ill run through till thcmiddleof March.
To most o( them only the students will
U admitted, hut a few, which will lie on
some Hipuhir subjects, will K open to
the general public.
Thomas A. Edison has boon cxnress-
lug himself vigorously to a Chicago re-
IHirter against tlie patent system of the
I' in led States, which, ho says, deprixt
the real inventor of anv chance to bene
lit by his inventions. The patent law,
ho says, is all right and the intention oi
the government to aid inventors sincere,
but the dithi-ulty lies in the United
Mates Circuit toiirts and their method
of procedure. He advocates a change so
that inventors who charge infringement
should hae a preliminary injunction
against tbo alleged pirates.'wlio should
he compelled to prove that the patent is
not valid.
EASTERN MELANGE.
A Gold Medal Found in the
Stomach of a Steer.
DELAWARE'S BIG PEACH CROP.
Grant Locomotive Works at Chicago
Abont to Resume Business
Hoke Smith's Broom.
Philadelphia has 23,000 more boys
than girls.
Chicago's stock of sugar is low, and
wholesalers cannot (ill orders.
There is a noticeable increase in de
posits of the Cincinnati banks.
Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago has
been reducing his tenants' rents.
The movement to provide a pension
for Mrs. Jefferson Davis is to be revived.
The government has ordered by mail
the dissolution of the Retiring Sea fleet.
A genuine case of leprosy has been
found in the penitentiary at Laramie,
Wyo.
About 200,000 old pension claims are
sidetracked, later claims taking the prec
edent.
Congressman O'Neil predicts that coal
will lie placed on t)ie tree list in the re
vision. The Texas lines have agreed upon uni
form rules in the handling of cotton
products.
Grasshoppers have struck the section
of Illinois about Litchfield, and are do
ing great damage.
The annual eel i one of the sun in Octo
ber will be visible over the Western half
of North America.
The fruit crop of Oklahoma this year
is reitorted to exceed the production of
ine last lour years.
Kunsas has issued an appeal for seed
wheat or money to buy it for farmers' in
Inu wcfllvin purl ol liiu dale.
The total receipts of gold in Chicago
direct from Europe are estimated to be
slightly in excess of 8,000,000.
Chicago is convinced that it " needs "
a new (4,000,000 Federal building. New
York ' needs" a new postofilce.
Angered citizens on tbo Rio Grande
border, Texas, have been rounding up
cuiue-uucvcH, rniy were cutignt.
The Kansas Hoard of Health is ar
ranging for a thorough investigation of
the sanitary condition of the State.
The big storm nearly exterminated the
grasshoppers which have been making
sucii ravages on crops anil vegetables in
Western Now York.
The Louisville and Nashville troubles
have been temporarily healed. The men
work at a reduction of 10 per cent in
wages until December.
President Palmer of the World's Fair
directory says this is no time for sub
scriptions for the Duke of Veragua, and
nothing bus been dune to help bun.
It is estimated that the total damage
to the oyster bods of New Haven liar I sir
ami Ixiiig Island Sound, caused by the
recent storm, amounts to 12,000,000.
It is reported that a newspaper is to
be established in Lcwiston, lo.. to ad
vocate Canadian independence. The
town is full of French Canadian factory
hands.
The remarkable claim is made by the
Jessup ((ia.) Sentinel that there has not
been a death in that town since last Sep
tember. The town has a population of
over 1,000.
During the six weeks ending August
27 over 30,000,000 bushels of wheat were
oxHrtotl to Europe. In the sanio time
last year less than 20,000,000 bushels
were exported.
The demand for currency has brought
out the old fractional scrip, government
and other, issued during tlie war, which
have lor years been in collections or have
lieen forgotten.
The Eastern anil Western coal sales
agents at New York have decided that
the Septemlier output shall bo 3,000,000
tons instead of 2,750,000 tons as previ
ously reM)rted.
Chicago day at the World's Fair will
lie October 0, the anniversary of the great
lire of 1871. Flags, banners, streamers
ami bunting will be displayed every
where in the city.
Tlie total valuation of Illinois property
for luxation purposes isonly (701, 230,1181,
counting in Chicago. Watches are val
ued at an average o( 2.02. win e all the
diamonds and jewelry in the State are
rated at f;, ,,H,.
The tirant Utcouiotivo Works at Chi
cago are alsuit to resume business, and
will employ 1,200 n. The works have
a contract to build tifty-live locomotives
for the Hiirlington road at a cost ex
ceeding (000,000.
Delaware has a big peach crop ; it is
estimated that there will bo 3,000,000
bushels of poaches. It these peaches
sell for 50 cents a basket, the sum of (1,
500,000 will go into the pockets of the
peach orchard owners.
The Indiana State Hoard of Tax Com
missioners has finished its assessment
anil valuation of railroad property in
that State, The total assessed value of
the mails is approximately 100.000.000.
or 1760,000 less than last year.
A tVS-foot steam yacht, called the Fei-
soon (Japanese for llvinii arrow) and
owned by W. H. Cogswell of Syracuse,
made a run in New York waters tbo other
day at the rate of 31.0 miles an hour,
nesting me record lor steam vesssels.
Hoke Smith's broom has swept 000
pensioners from the government rolls of
the Chicago district. The disbursements
by the pension agency of that city ex
tends practically through theentire'Mis-
sissinpi Valley. It pays out (12,000,000
yearly. I hero are 4,000 pensioners on
Us rolls.
At a meeting of the W. C. T. U. at
Rridgoton, N. J., Mrs. Townsend prayed
that God would paralyze the Excise
Hoard and remove it hetore it grunted
any more licenses. A week later Samuel
W. Wells, a member of the hoard, was
found in his oltiee paralysed, and death
ensued in a (ew hours.
A gold medal was found in the stom
ach of a Texas steer slaughtered at Chi-
ago last week. The modal is in the
shax o( a Maltese cross, and Wars the
inscription, "Awarded to Miss Ida Work,
I'rsuhne Academy, Dallas, Tex." Ar
mour A Co. have written to the convent
people, stating the medal is subject to
their order.
A partv of union and non-union paint
ers, w hile discussing the merits o( their
Htsitum in the labor world at I Incacvt.
tcvame angry and hen an finhtimt. The
police wore called, and the coiutwtatits
ran. One of the men, Kind Schulti, was
followed hy a crowd shouting, "Stop
thief," and the farther he ran the greater
Ixvame the crowd which followed. Ho
was cornered, and the crowd pelted him
with stones. He tired at the mob sev
eral times, and hit a woman half a block
on. A police otlloer finally reached him.
and knocked him down,
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.
One of the bills reported favorably on
bv the Senate Committee on Laws grants
five townships of land in the vicinity of
Crater Lake, Or., to that State for a
public park and forest reserve.
Senator Dolph has introduced bills to
provide for the erection of a first-class
fog signal at or near the present position
of the Cape Arago light station ; granting
a right of way to the Albany and Astoria
Railroad Company through the Grand
Ronde Indian reservation, and extend
ing the time of the Umatilla Irrigation
Company to construct its ditch across
the Umatilla Indian reservation.
The trouble between the Mexican and
United States officials at Havana, Tex.,
growing out of the seizure of 3,000 sheep
by Mexican officials, is receiving the at
tention of President Cleveland and Sec
retary Gresham. All telegrams and other
data bearing on the subject are now De
fore the State Department for action,
and the matter may soon become one of
unusual diplomatic importance.
Special Agent Ayers' much-talked-of
suppressed report on tin plate nas Deen
given out by the Treasury Department.
It shows during the period from July 1
to March 31 the aggregate production of
tin plate in this country from sheets
rolled in tlie United States was 34,632,
052 pounds. The aggregate amount of
imported black plates converted into tin
plate in the United States was 30,200,282
pounds, making a grand total ot botn
kinds ot 73,022,334 pounds.
The recent advices received by Secre
tary Morton from an aiient in Europe
fully confirm previous reports regarding
the shortage of certain crops in many
sections of Europe, which he represents
is likely to guarantee a large demand for
American forage crops, including corn.
Although he does not think it likely that
much of the latter will be used for hu
man food, he represents that the tariff
complications between Russia and Ger
many are likely to render the latter
country especially dependent upon the
United States for its supply.
f, The Canadian Collectors of Customs
lave been directed to brand all butter
and cheese in transit from the United
States of America. The Deputy Col
lector of the district of Vermont, sta
tioned at Montreal, states that the object
of this action is in the first placo to pro
vent false branding and misrepresenta
tion of foreign butter and cheese as Ca
nadian in the country of destination,
and second, to supply a safeguard against
the substitution of Canadian butter and
cheese, which increases the transit and
retention of the foreign product in Can
ada without payment of duty.
At no time since the war have customs
receipts been so low as now. The matter
is causing Secretary Carlisle a good deal
of worry. In the' Treasury last week
the cash balance was reduced to (105,
000,000, inclusive of gold reserve and
(10,000,000 abrased and uncurrent and
subsidiary coin. What is left of the de
picting gold reserve continues to be the
only cash balance in the Treasury with
which to pay current expenses. The re
ceipts are now running about (170,000
per day behind tlie expenditures. For
the first time the import duties have fal
len below the internal revenue receipts.
For the fiscal year from July 1 to the
present time the government expendi
tures have exceeded the receipts by (19,
000,000. At this rate the deficit at the
end of the year will bo very large.
The vigorous protest entered by tlie
United States government against the
outrage to Miss Milton, an American
missionary, in the Turkish province of
Mosul has borne fruit that will insure
to some extent in future the safety of
Christian missionaries in Turkey. The
United States made a demand for a rigid
investigation of the otttrnRo am) punish
ment of the guilty parties. This de
mand was met by the Turkish authorities
in a manner entirely satisfactory to this
government. Hereafter the Vizier of
Mosul will give a Vizieral letter to mis
sionaries, recommending the bearer to
the protection of the authorities, and a
military escort will be furnished all mis
sionaries who desire it. Furthermore,
the Vizier has sent an officer and troops
fo the scene of the outrage with instruc
tions to investigate and make a report;
bat, owing to the remote situation of the
placo, no report has vet been made.
The difficulty of guarding ellectually
the vast frontier of tlie United States on
the North and South has been frequently
made apparent. Chinese come in from
Mexico and Canada; alien contract la
Isircrs, too, cross our frontiers, and now
it is discovered the aboriginal American
is engaged in eluding tlie vigilance of
Uncle Sam's customs officers. A case
was brought to the attention of Assist
ant Secretary Hamlin the other day. An
Indian was roiKirteil as havine crossed
iroitu unadawith (2,000 worth of Indian
goods in Ins possession. Ily law tlie In
dians in their migrations oil the North
em tKirder co to and return from Canada
at will, and aro allowed to carry their
' lltl'lliO.! " U-ltl, llw.lt. .Int.. fv.u. Tim
Indian, it is asserted by the special agent
reporting the case, has evidently learned
"some tricks" from his pale-faced neigh
bors, and is bringing into this country as
his personal "effects" goods subject to
duty. In this case the Indian Bwore that
the goods were his, but it is learned that
lie is a runner for a Canadian inanufact
urer, ami that they are sold to Indians
in tlie United States on tlie Northern
Itorder without paying the dutv the law
requires. An investigation of the mat
ter has lieen ordered
A great many bills have lieen filed In
the House. A great majority are bilis
that havo al ready found a place on the
calendars of the previous Congress, such
as bills to repeal the Federal election
law; to repay to States the cotton tax;
to establish a uniform system of bank
ruptcy: to increase the facilities for
prosecuting war claims of various kinds.
The original bills chiefly grow out of the
existing financial conditions. Several
are to repeal the 10 per cent tax on State
bank circulation find two to establish an
income tax. One by Richardson (IK'm.)
of Tennessee is radical in its provisions,
lie proposes a tax ol 2 per cent on (3,
OiH) to (5,000, 5 ht cent on 5,tHXl to (10,
000, 10 per cent on (10,000 to (20,000, 15
per cent on (20.000 to 10,000, 20 percent
on (;0.000 to (50,01V, 30 per cent on (50,
000 to (100,000, 4l) per cent on all over
(100,000. A national bank bill has been
projiaivd by Harter (Dein.) of Ohio, un
der the provisions of which a national
bank may issue circulating bonds to se
cure it, and the bonds now on deposit
with the Treasurer to secure circulation
may be withdrawn, the United States to
take the tirst lien on the assets of any
failed national bank to secure its guar
antee of the bank's circulation, and in
rase the a sscts are not sufficient to re
imburse thogoverninont the Comptroller
ot the Currency is to make an assess
ment upon all the national banks of the
State in which the derelict bank is lo
cated, divided pro rata according to the
capital and surplus, to make up the de
ficiency. Resides the 75 percent ot the
circulation provided for as stated, tlie
Iwnks may issue an amount equal to 50
per cent ot their capital and surplus to
he known as emergency circulation, se
cured by United Mate bonds, and to
pay a tax of 6 per cent until retired.
Among the other bills introduced are:
To provide for the admission of Arirona;
to enable the people of New Mexico,
Utah, Arizona and Oklahoma to form a
constitution and State government and
be admitted into the Union.
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Grasshoppers Utilized for Mak
ing Soup in Paris.
'BREAD A5D BUTTER DANCES.'
It Is Predicted That Great Britain,
France and Germany Will
Need Onr Wheat.
Welsh mine owners have refused to
take back repentant strikers.
Russian railway trains rarely go as
fast as twenty-two miles an hour.
The debts of the late Duke of Saxe-
Coburg, Germany, are estimated at (750,
000.
By the exertions of " General " Booth
Edinburgh is to open a shelter for
women.
Count Tolstoi has just finished an In
quiry into social matters, which is to be
published soon in i-nglieh.
Cooks of all nations are to have a fair
and feast in Paris next year, with prizes
lor "authors of new dishes."
Baron Edmond de Rothschild's colony
in Palestine shows such promise ol suc
cess that he has purchased more land.
In Asiatic Turkey the roads are said
to be so bad that the freight on a ton of
wheat for 100 miles would be over (45.
Grasshopper soup, of which Stanley
wrote as a luxury in Africa, has been
experimented with in Fans with success,
An experimental shipment of oaten
nay nas been made trom ueelong, Aus
tralia, and consigned to a London firm,
Local telegrams are now being trans
mitted through pneumatic tubes in most
of the principal cities of Great Britain.
London contains one-eighth of Great
Britain's population. It has a larger
daily delivery of letters than all Scot
land. The tallcot tree cn earth ia perhaps a
gum tree (eucalyptus regnans), recently
discovered in Australia. It is 415 feet
high.
A meeting of the Latin Union is to be
called to decide the question of the na
tionalization of fractional silver cur
rency. The King of Siam Is about 42 years of
age, and received his early education
from an English lady. He is a great ad
mirer of England.
The London Pall Mall Budget tlie
other day announced that the yacht
Navahoe was " named after one of the
American States."
Herr KrupD. the ureat German irun-
maker, is preparing for an exhibition at
r-ssan, uermany, ot the progress of ar
tillery since 1804.
It is said that President Carnot of
r ranee is sutfenns from a cancerous af
fection of the liver, which will require a
uuiigerous operation soon.
Some London music-hall shares, lately
sold, show that business is good. The
Tivoli sells at nearly 200, the Pavilion at
izo and the Empire at 350.
Customs frauds in the importation of
cereais nave been discovered in France,
whereby the government has been de
frauded out of large sums in duties,
Drummers are to be attached to the
Fans police. When riots are appre
hended the beating of the police drum
will be equivalent to reading the riot act.
Dueling in Russia has become eo com
mon that the government has been com
pelled to decree a severe code of punish
ment. Killing an antagonist will cost
six years in prison.
It is estimated that about 250,000 ca
nary birds are raised every year in Ger
many. The most important market is
the United States, which imports about
100,000 birds per annum.
Owing to a disagreement with their
customers as to the price of milk, the
cow owners of Rappoltsweiler, an Alsa
tian dairy village, are pouring their en
tire product into the river.
There is one place in France in which
gravestones and funeral epitaphs are
unknown. This is the village of Boreias
in the Maritime Alps. The dead are not
buried, but are thrown into a bonehouse.
The recent riots in Paris cost the gov
ernment somethintr. Troons to thn num.
her of 20,000 were brought into the citv
to strengthen the garrison, and their
maintenance there amounted to (15,000
a uav.
As 337 persons, mostly old women,
were injured bv bicvclo collisions in
Ixmdon last year, the city government
is considering a law to have the bicvele
riders duly numbered and licensed like
nackinen.
A vase, which has taken four vears to
complete, has just been sent to London
from a Minton manufactory. It is val
ued at 1,500, and is considered the
handsomest thing of the kind that has
ever been made.
The census of foreigners resident in
France shows a total of 1,130,211. The
Belgians are most numerous, and next
to them stand the Italians. Since 1S51
the number of American residents has
increased from 5,000 to 12,000.
" Bread and butter dances " are a late
form of entertainment designed by the
ladies of Sydney, Australia. They are
given for a charity, and in order tliat it
may benefit as much as possible the sim
plest refreshments are served.
In Paris they first utilize rats to clean
the flesh from the bones of carcasses,
then kill the rats, use np the fur for
trimmings, the skin for gloves, their
thigh bones for toothpicks and their ten
dons and bones for gelatin wrappers.
In its efforts at retrenchment and re
form the government of New South
Wales has already effected a reduction
in the expenditures for this vear of (7,
500,000 as com pared with last vear. Of
ficial salaries have been cut afl around.
F. P. Ixwmis, formerly United States
Consul at St. Ktienne, savs that from an
investigation he mule "he finds that
about 06,000 Americans of the better
class visit Europe everv vear, and that
they spend about (l,00,d00',000 annually
abroad.
The Sultan of Turkey is grieving over
the sudden death of twelve of the most
beautiful women in the imperial harem
at Constantinople, tlie result of blood
poisoning following vaccination. One
hundred and sixty-seven wives survived
a similar operation.
The Prefecture of Police in Fntnraliaa
established a service of identity in order
to identify released convicts. Since 1S08
there have been 1,500 sentences recorded
against men named Louis LefevTe in that
country, by which innumerable innocent
miuis leievree nave been Drought into
trouble.
The London Times makes the predic
tion that Great Britain will nwuir .i
least 28,000,000 Quarters of wh.t fr.
abroad this year. France, it adds, will
be compelled to import more than twice
as mnch as it usually doe, and it notes
me taci mat uermanrruu already begun
to draw on America for suppliea.
PORTLAND MARKET.
Wbsat Vallev. 92&95c: Walla
Walla, 82385c per cental.
BOPS, WOOL AMD HIDES.
TTnn-'92s. 10016c oer Dound, accord
ing to quality; new crop, '93s, 15 17c.
Wool fnces nominal.
Hides Dry selected prime, 5c; green,
salted, 60 pounds and over, 3ac; under
60 pounds, 2 3c ; sheep pelU, shearlings,
10ai5c; medium, 2035c; long wool,
3060c; tallow, good to choice, 35cper
pound.
FLOCB, FEED, ETC.
Flo0B Standard, (3.25; Walla Walla,
(3.25; graham, (2.75; superfine, (2.50
per barrel.
Oats Xew white, 35g36c'per bushel ;
new grav, 3233c; rolled, in bags, (6.25
(&6.50; barrels, (6.506.75; eases, $3.75.
Millstcffs Bran, (17.00; shorts,
H20.00; trround barlev. 22a23: chop
feetl, (18 per ton ; whole feed, barley, 80
85c per cental; middlings, (23(828
per ton; chicken wheat, 1.101.25 per
cental.
Hay Good, (1012 per ton.
DAISY PRODUCE.
Ttrm-in Oreirnn fancv creamerv. 25itJ
20,'c; fancy dairy, 2022c; fair to
good, 1617sc; common, 1415c per
pound ; California, 3o(g44c per roll.
Cheese Oregon, 12'c; California,
13 14c; Young America, 15aibc per
pound.
Eogs 16c per dozen,
Poultry Chickens, old, 4.505.00;
broilers. (2.003.50; ducks, (4.00(26.00;
geese, (8.00 per dozen ; turkeys, live, 14c
per pound ; dressed, none in the market.
veoetabi.es and fruits.
Veoetables Cabbage, lc per pound ;
potatoes, Oregon, 80t5c per sack ; new
onions, lj.c per pound ; cucumbers, Ore
gon, 8(gl0c per dozen; string beans, 5
7c per pound ; tomatoes, 5075c per box ;
green corn, 10(12c per dozen; sweet
potatoes, 2'4(g2)sper pound ; egg plant,
(1.50 per box ; new California celery, 90c
Der dozen.
Fruits Sicily lemons, (6.006.50 per
box; California new crop, $5.506.00
per box ; bananas, (1.503.00 per bunch ;
oranges, (3.00 per box ; pineapples, (6.00
per dozen ; California apples, (1,251.50
per bushel; Oregon, 6075c; peaches,
California, 75(3 85c per box: freestone. 60
65c per box ; clingstone, 7580c per
L-ox ; urcgon pc3Ci p.uui3, uwu per
box; uradsnaw plums, b07oc per
box ; tiartlett pears, (l.zo l.oo per box ;
blackberries, 45c per pound; water
melons. (2.002.50 per dozen: canta
loupes, (1.26(31.60 per dozen; nutmeg
melons, fi.ou per box; Huckleberries,
15c per pound ; grapes, black and white.
8590c; Tokay, (1.001.15 per box;
nectarines, (1.25 per box; crab apples,
fi.ztXsi.DU per dox.
STAPLE GROCERIES.
Dried Fbuits Petite prunes, 10llc;
silver, 11(4 12c; Italian, 13sc; German,
10llc; plums, 89c; evaporated ap
ples, lOcgllc; evaporated apricots, 12(g
15c; peaches, 1012c; pears, 7llc
per pound.
Honey Choice comb, 18c per pound;
new uregon, toigzuc; extract, gioc,
Salt Liverpool, 100s, (16.00: 60s,
(16.50; stock, 8.60(g9.60.
Coffee Costa Rica, 22c; Rio, 21c;
Salvador, 21c ; Mocha, 25 30c ; Java,
z-t$(g3uc; ArDucKie's anu L,yon, loo
pound cases, 23.80c per pound; Colum
bia, same, 23.80c.
Rice Iisland, $4. 75(35.00; Japan,
New Orleans, (4.60 per cental.
Beans Small whites. pinks.
3c; bayos, 34Cj butter, 4c j lima, 3,c
per pound.
Syrup Eastern, in barrels, 4055c;
in half-barrels, 42 57c; in cases, 35
80c per erallon : (2.25 Der ke?: California.
in barrels, 20(g40c per gallon; (1.75 per
keg.
Simta T, fiXc: Golden C, 55o extra
'-'i o;sC ; conlectioners A, ojc ; dry gran
ulated, 65c; cube, crushed and pow
dered, 7,e per pound ; c per pound
discount on all grades for prompt cash ;
mapie sugar, lotgioc per pound.
CANNED GOODS.
Canned Goods Table fruits, assorted.
(1.752.00; peaches, (1.85(32.10; Bart
lett pears, (1.75(32.00; plums, (1.37
i.oo; sirawpernes, (Z.aoMa.46; cherries.
(2.25(32.40; blackberries, (1.85(32.00;
raspberries, (2.40; pineapples, (2.25
2.80; apricots, (1.65(3:2.00. Pie fruits,
assorted, (1.20; peaches. (1.25: Dlums.
(1.00(31.20; blackberries, (1.25 1.40 per
oozen. no iruii8, gallons, assorted.
fa.iuia'.i.uu; peacnes, fd.0U(g4.U0; apri
cots, to.ouigi.uu; piunis, (Z.75(g3.00;
utoetioerriea, f-t.zoyr-i.Du,
Meats Corned beef, Is, (1.50: 2s,
(2.40; chipped, (2.55(34.00; lunch
tongue, Is, (4; 2s, (6.75; deviled ham,
(1.76(2.15 per dozen.
Fish Sardines, Wg, 75c(f(2.25; Js,
(2.15(34.50; lobsters, (2.30(33.50; sal
mon, tin 1-lb tails, (1.25((1.50; flats,
(1.75; 2-lbs, (2.25(32.50; -barrel, (5.50.
BAQ8 and bagging,
Burlaps, 8-ounce, 40-inch, net cash,
oc; burlaps, 10$-ounce, 40-inch, net
casn, ti'ijc; Durlaps, ll-ounce, 45-inch,
7h'c: burlaps. 10-omic. (tO-im-h ii.
burlaps, 10-ounce, 76-inch, 14c ; wheat
oags, Calcutta, zzxao, spot, 8c;
2-bnshel oat bags, 7J4c; No. 1 second
hand bags, 7c; Calcutta hop cloth, 24-
ounce, iuc
MISCELLANEOUS.
Tin I. C. charcoal. 14x20. nrimA nn1
ity, (8.50(3.9.00 per box; for crosses, $2
extra per box ; I. C. coke plates, 14x20,
prime quality, (7.50(38.00 per box; terne
plate, I. C, prime quality, (6.60(87.00.
itAiui Base quotations: Iron. (2.25
ati,.il iO OR, ... ; .... A,, ca i ' '
Steel Per pound, lOjc.
Lead Per pound, 43'c; bar, BVc
i aval stores Oakum, (4.50(35.00 per
ia.cj iron, t-i.nuiao.uu per 480 pounds;
tar, Stockholm, (13 ; Carolina, (9 per bar
rel ; pitch, (6 per barrel ; turpentine, 65c
ev k'vmi in i-r lots.
LIVE AND DRESSED MEAT,
deep rnme steers. (2.50(32.75; fair
to good steers (2.00(3.2.50; good tochoice
am uresseu beef, (3.50(3
. vnv no ice mntton. 19 nno
drMMl, f4.00rt4.60; lambs, f2.00tf250:
Hoos-Choice heavy, (5.00(95.60;
(4-50(35.00; dressed, (7.00.
"VIKIIl,
60; me
feeders, sal -.W(gtj.uu.
provisions,
Easter Smoked Miat and Labd
llama mu. I , ... i . r ...
i . . - T "V""t loisioc per
.icmi hijwioc; breakfast
ucon, uncovered, I6(17c; covered, 16,
(i ttfy, short clear sides, 13,oe 14c ; drv
salt sides, lli.(il2i.i.. uAl ...,V."7
A Big Check.
The two men were at a hotel table.
That S a nrettv D-irl ruro.. V n
said the first
"Which onel"
"That one with tVm w v,i.
her dress." 6 m
"She must be rich." was th
answer, and the second man stupidly
wondered what relevancy the r
mark bore until as hour or so Later
ho began to comprehend the relation
between riches and hitr rhov. tw
I troit Free Press.
FAEM AND GARDEN.
Do Not Depend on the Stock to
Keep Down the Weeds.
TIME IS MOSEY TO THE FARMER.
Good Fowls for Laying Oregon and
Washington Sheep Some
Short Rows Etc.
A large dry-goods box made tight on
top answers as well as a house for ban
tams. Provide shade and plenty of fresh wa
ter for fowls during the extremely hot
weather.
Collect eggs every day, for they soon
spoil if left in the nest during hot weath
er. Put them in a cool place.
The best thing you can do to insure
success with your young stock is to fur
nish every head of it with a good sire.
This advice is not so much like putting
tlie cart before the horse as it may seem
at first.
In the care of our domestic animals
economy and humanity are synonymous
terms. . jsvery brutal act, every harsh
word even and every lack of proper cam
will take something away from the proh't
account.
Do not depend on the stock to kepn
down the weeds. It is true that thev
may do something toward it, especially
if you have sheep. But this is tlie time
of the year when weeds go to seed, and
so do most damage, and you should keep
your eye on them.
Cattle-growine cannot be followed in
any haphazard way and be made profit
able. There must be a definite purpose
in your plans, and breeding and feeding
must be such as will directly minister to
mat ena. Anytmng stiort of this is
pretty sure to bring disaster.
Time-ft money to the farmer if it is to
any man under the sun. Has it ever
oecnrrpd to ynn tbftt a fa0t-vca!kir!gtca:ii
would save you lots of lt7 In everv on.
eration of the farm you would find them
of benefit, and when vou go to town
with a load of grain they would save you
so much time that it would be equivalent
to a Detter price lor your wheat.
An economical method for handling
part of the corn crop at least is to crib
it with the husk on. Then run ear and
husk through a cutting machine, and
feed altogether. The corn must be thor
oughly dried before it is cribbed. The
huBk will be eaten better in this manner
than in any other, and supplies the bulk
that is always needed when much corn
ia fed, ;
When dressing broilers see that the
skin is not torn. If this happens, sew
it together neatly and press in place with
the hngers. Pick off all the little pin
feathers and drop the carcasses in ice
water in order to remove the animal
heat. Then hang in a cool place to drain,
wipe dry with a clean towel and pack in
a barrel or box with alternate layers of
ice, and be sure to ship them at once.
If you give any of the stock especial
care through the winter, it should cer
tainly be the breeding animals. We
know that a good farmer will say that
he treats all his stock alike, doing the
very best he can for all. But perhaps
certain quarters are more comfortable
than others. Then put the breeding
stock there, for on their comfort and
thrift depends much of the value of the
progeny.
Sufficient variety is a most important
item toward maintaining a good appe
tite and good health. A man or an anb
mail will tire of any one food when com
pelled to live on it exclusively for any
length of time. Never get the idea that
it is expensive to feed a varied ration,
for on the contrary it is the most eco
nomical thine that you can do. It will
bring about the most rapid gain at the
least expense.
GOOD FOWLS FOB LAVING.
A noted writer on fowls says : " For
laying hens select large, strong, healthy
birds of the Leghorn varieties, with
large, square bodies, without regard to
fine points, such as pure white, flat ear
lobes, or very yellow legs, or combs with
just hve points, or plumage that is per
fectly white in the white variety! or
without a white speck in the brown. It
is not that these points are any detri
ment to the health and vigor of the
birds, but that a constitution has been
too often sacrificed to them, which often
resit ts m a strain of enfeebled though
handsome fowls. The Leghorns are ac
climated American breeds, which origi
nated from birds brought from the Med
iterranean, and they have been im
proved in this country by circumstances
that have.given them a pre-eminent po
sition for the farmer, when birds such
as are above recommended are selected.
Other breeds or crosses from them are
much better than the Leghorns or any
of the smaller breeds. Chickens that
are the result of a Dorking cock and
and Brahma liens are large and mature
much earlier than the other. Moreover,
they are hardy, fleshy, tender and fine
flavored. Houdans in place of Dorkings
are also good to cross on Brahmas or to
breed with the first-mentioned cross, as
they keep up size and quality. Plymouth
Rocks are also a good table fowl, and are
good to cross with the above."
OBEGON AND WASHINGTON SHEEP,
An Oregon correspondent writes:
Sheep-raising on the ranges of Oregon
and ashington is an industry of ran-
Milium a mi
. . r - aixjiG a I rr. il in
'd- 2.000,000 sheep in Oregon alone,
And l oalimn l' 1 ...
heavy producer
, ibiiit uurt
in me latter portion
about 100,000, are started fromYhese twS
States for Montana and Nebraska, the
largest and finest being shipped from the
Trv Kte 0 ChiaB anl otler9 go
ing to Nebraska to be corn-fed It takes
u.c uionms to make th s ktirnBv! hut
as the grass is generally abundant, the
stock arrives at it H.in,: : . i
condition. The fact that last season
practically all the wethers were driven
oa the ranges accounts for higher prices
and scarcity of mutton in the Northwest
"us jear. ine loss last winter to herds
was very light, nearly 25 per cent less
than usual, and nhn .it
condition. Sheep on these ranges are
said to be the finest raised in the world,
yearlings averaging well with two-vear-olds
In other portion, nf
Shearing is now in progress, the crop
being shipped East almost entirelv.
His Fat Saved Him.
John Burton, a fat man, of Cambridge,
went to the Howard Athenamni, at Bos
ton, to see a rariety show. As the cur
tain went np he fell over the gallery rail
to the pit. thirty.five feet below. He
landed in the ohde and got np nnhnrt,
save by a alight cut over the eye. Ex
change, Bi Cabbace.
A wagon load of produce recently
brougut into Dallas consisted of but six
head of cabbage, the half doten filliDt?
the wason bed.-DalUi (Or.) Chronicle.