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Hit Overalls Nipped by n Anaconda. ; ur. wena linger came la town irom up -ue mcnmoDU nun Aiieguany rauroau . With . dead snake jthat was a regular monster, jii was iutee iees long ona (as-i larcrein Drouortiou.,'and was' evidently'!-- anaconda .which had probably es caped from some of the many traveling ten cent fihows which have lately fre quented this part of the world. Hi3 anakeship was left at the cafe of Mr. Gus El. Delaware, where a nainber of people gazed in silent awe npon the de ceased gigantic reptile. It was killed at Lorraine, on the Rich mond and Alleghany railroad, abont six miles from Richmond, by Mr. Lane, sec tion foreman on the' road. It is stated that it crawled out of the woods and silently approached from behind a negro boy who was working near the track. It seized the overalls which the negro bad on in its mouth and begau chewing on them. Some one culled to the negro to look behind hiin, and as he did so be saw the snake and fell over paralyzed with fear. Mr. Lane then seized an ax and killed the creature. Whether the reptile intended to get a firmer hold on the negro's clothing and then throwing him, and after crashing him to jelly eating him, or whether it was a tame snake that approached the boy only with friendly intent will never be known. An engineer of the road says that he saw the monster abont two years ago -aud reported the fact. Richmond Times. " - - Saved by a Mad stone. William Southard is a workman at Kingau's. Sunday, while walking in Indianapolis, he was bitten by a dog, which was evidently mad. He killed the dog after a long" chase. Then he exam ined his wounded hand and -found that the bife was discoloring it aud that the - member was swelling badly. Doctors advised him to seek a mudstone, and Monday he weut .to Whitestown, Boone county, near which Moses Nease, a farmer, lives. Neawe is a generous man, who has a tuadstoue of great local fame. Southard applied to hiin, aud is back in this city satisfied that he is safe from danger. The fctoue, a square, white, ' porous substance, was applied. "It stuck firmly for nearly niiie hours, falling off once, full of green poison. The ftone was cleaned in boiling milk, which turned green from the effect of the, poison ex tracted from the wound by the stone. - The stone stuck deep in the swollen flesh, drew the muscles and leaders into strong, knotty cords and "did its work" visibly" The owner of the stone is a philanthro pist, and has owned the stone for genera tions. ' It is part, he says, of a Virginia stone owned by an Uncle and broken into several parts, so as to be of service in many parts of the country. Indian- - apolis News. Kattlenitake Pete and His IV t Coon. Rattlesnake Pete has had a pet coon for the past three years that was as fnll of tricks as an egg is of meat. One of of these tricks was to throw back the three bolts on his cage, let the other slni tnalsoutand go visiting. His favorite resort was the Exchange hotel, where he would hide' in the cellar and chase the women when they entered. - On one -occasion he entered, the dining room and frightened the girls' so they climbed, on the table. He kept guard for nearly a half hour, when the girls cried for help. He performed his last trick at supper time Friday, when he chased one of the girls up the cellar stairs and caught ' her dress in his teeth. She drew his head throngh-tbe door, slammed the door shut, and held him there until one of the other girls brought a cleaver and split his head open. . The body weighed twenty-seven pounds, and the hide will be stuffed. Oil City Derrick! . ' ' Stole a Hoc Stove. "It was the cold, your honor, aud I did not mean to steal," said Thomas CNeil at the Tombs. He was charged by William' A. Tompkins with stealing a stove from the propeller Peekskill. .The prisoner, who is a longshoreman, wandered out Sunday night and went aboard the Peekskill. The only thing of value which he saw was a small stove -valued at eight dollars, with a nice, warm fire in it. He took it and was arrested,' but failed to explain when Officer McCarthy of the Leonard street station found him carrying it up Canal street. New York Advertiser. lyartliqtiakes in 1801; The record of earthquake shocks kept at the Smithsonian institution in Wash ington shows that there have been more of them this year thus far than there were in any previous year of recent -times. There have been numerous slight shocks in many parts of the country, and there have been heavier shocks in South America, Asia, Africa and the islands of the Pacific. . .When the earthquake record of. the world for the year 1891 is made up at the end of December it will be long and elaborate. Yankee Blade. A very young married couple, perhaps the youngest in the country, have their abode in Sterling, Conn. . They are Mr. and Mrs. C. Fennet, who have been mar ried five months. His age is fourteen : years and seven months, and she is ine months older than he. A new explosive called terrorite has been invented. It is a gelatinous com pound,' the ingredients being a secret. It is said to be safe to handle,, very pow erful and can be fired in shells The fruit and potato crops of Califor nia are so great that a large percentage f them will not be brought to market owing to the price being so low that it -will be unprofitable. . i ' : A French engineer has asked permis sion to blow up the famous rocks known as the "Iron Gates" of the Danube with a new explosive he has invented called fortis. :- While the West Indian' sponges bring in the wholesale market as ' low a price as twenty cents, the finest Turkey varie ties are often sold as high as eight dol- 1 RB Jiierair un tne lnllJml ri. 7 . a.u juruuauuiu iu :4ucuiau uuj u iv ; the Vorld"s jir, paying their expenses j 't-; :: - i -A membership -fee of live dollars is ! charged fo paj'. the running expenses of the sock'ly. The remaining payments are iu installments of, say. one dollar a ! wwlc for fifty-five wqpks. j To provide against loss of the people's ' savings by accident or frand, all moneys ! so deposited ara turned over to the New 1 ork security and Trust company. Un der the deed of trust the society gets uo money from the Trnst company nntil the members have been given ihcir ticket and coupons providing for their transportation and board. Each mem ber then signs a receipt, and on prcseuta- tion cf a number of these to the Trnst i company it releases a corresponding ! amount of money. The benefits, to be j furnished at any time after the opening ! of the World's Columbian exposition, on j fifteen . day's' notice, up to -twenty days ! preceding its closing, are: . j A first class railway ticket from a designated point to Chicago and return. I Transfer in Chicago for self and usual allowance of baggage from, station to hotel or lodgings and return.. " Seven days' hotel accommodations in Chicago.' Six admission tickets to the Columbian exposition. - - ... " , Dinner at a restaurant on the grounds for six days.. An accident insurauce . ticket in a re liable company for fifteen days, com wencing on date of departure from home, paying $3,000 in case of death by accident, or $15 per week in case of acci dental injury. New York Wwrld. Outer PhcnomeuwH at Sea. !:ii)teiin .1. Rnhpii. commander rtf t.h Lloyd steamer Neckar, has written to ! the German marine observatory in Bre men that . when be was off Sakota, on Sept. 1, at 9 p. .in.", the sea suddenly be came an even milk white luminous color, which at times seemed to flame up from the depths of the water, like the in creased glow of an electric lamp when the current grows too strong. No bottom was found when the lead was sunk, and at 10 p. m. the sharp edge between the bright and the dark water was reached. After twenty-five minutes quite bright water again appeared, and after lip. in. it decreased. - The next night the phenomenon was observed to be still more intense, but after that it was not again -met with. The appearance had nothing in common, with the usual phosphorescence of. the sea. During its presence the horizon was everywhere distinctly 'visible, except where at various changing points on the horizon the light seemed to shine bright ly, at which time a thin haze seemed to lie on the water. London News. : Why Coffee Is Adulterated. " - The main reason for the adulteration of coffee is that there is not enough of it to go around. Mocha now sells at the highest price ever known, which is about 25 cents a pound in large quantities for the green bean..,. Pure Java sells for S3 cents a pound and pure" Rio for 14) cents a pound. -These are very high prices and the supply of the best grades is limited. ".The temptations to adultera tion ' are ' now therefore at the highest. Some low grade Brazil coffee was recent ly sold ' at 11 cents 'a pound and, when that comes to be doctored by the grind ers, the coffee part of the ' product will be small. There is a wide difference between 35 cents, a ' pound and 10 cents, It is" a difference between the best and the poorest, and generally represents the difference letween the pure article and the adulterated. New York. Sun. - A Maori Son. :- The youngest son of the earl' and counters of Onslow received as one of his names in baptism "the Maori title of "Huia," in compliment to the Jand of his birth. The child has just been re ceived into Maori kinship. Lord and Lady Onslow, Sir Walter aid Lady But ler, and other friends visited the Ngatia hnia tribe near, Wellington, -tho New Zealand metropolis. The hereditary chief of this tribe rubbed noses, with the child, ; the women accompanying the ceremony with a plaintive lullaby. AH the chiefs then came forward and cast their offerings at the child's feet worked Rax, greenstones, carved boxes, etc. Manchester (Eng.) Times. - - The. City Won't Pay for the Trousers. There was quite, an audible smtle in the board of aldermen when a communi cation was received from Officer Milton C Morse, ;isking for five dollars damages for a pair of pants while arresting a prisoner.- Alderman Watson moved that the claim be allowed, but Alderman Ar nold jumped np and remarked that he thought that the policemen earned salary enough to pay for their own pants, and moved that the request be refused. A minute later he withdrew his motion,, but the request was hot granted. -'-Haverhill (Mass.) Gazette. .---- A Hen That Lays Golden Bscs. There is danger of a breaking out of the gold fever in West Stockbridge. A -thoroughbred hen up there laid a few days ago an egg with a shell that fairly glittered - with tiny specks cf gold. If the place where the hen found the laetal can be found there is a party already or ganized to seek paying dirt. Newbury port (Mass.) News. : - The Whipping- Deserved. Miss Susie Gardner, teacher- in tin Pales school, near Roachdale, Ind., whip ped Albert Coonkright, an unrnly pupil and his mother- prosecuted the teacher for assault. . The defendant. was tried by jury and acquitted, the jury holding the punishment well deserved. Exchange .The Reward. ir Virtue. V.-v i, J". iiic-nsi- - I'm afraid there Iu.- been tittle' in j .. present festive season for you, my good wumau Mrs. McGinnis True fur -yea. ?i,rr. Me son in the pinitenchery wuz tho only one of . the family to hev turkey fer Thanksgiving. Life. - " . STEALING A.. CROP OF -BARLEY. , .-. Exciting Battle la the Dark with Dangerously Armed Thieve. A daring attempt to steal a whole field of barley that bad been thrashed has been made at the farm of J. M. Mum ford, on the line of the Burlington ditch, nine miles northeast of Denver. The barley had been bagged, and the bags stood piled up in a field some distance from Mnmford's house. - Just at dusk a young fellow wh5 was taking a short work loading the sacks of barley into two wagons that stood outside the field.' Two of the men were carrying the sacks to the fence and throwinir them over ' and the other two were loading the wag ' ons.- He soon saw that they were not Mumford s farm hands. Mnmford's men would have driven the wagons into the fields, and besides, they would be very strange farm hands indeed that would work with the desperate haste with which these men were working, .The young fellow went at first to Mumford's house and told him of what was going on. J. S. Foster, a neighbor- ing farmer, was called in, and soon six men were got together, all armed, and they started out on horseback to catch the barley thieves. . . The night was dark and cloudy, and it was impossible to see any distance, but they rode in the direction of the place where the barley was stacked, and soon they could hear the voices of the men at work. It was impossible to see any thing, and a consultation was held to. try decide the best way to go about the capture. While the six horsemen were gathered in a group, talking in low tones together, a flash of lightning from the cloudy sky lit up the field. It dis closed a man with a barley sack upon his shoulder not fifteen feet away,, and close at hand tho two wagons, with the other three men at work. One of the horsemen, almost as quick as the flash ing lightning, pulled his weapon and took aim, and before darkness once more hid the scene a shot from his pistol rang out upon the air. This . was. the signal for a general fusillade that filled the dark night with flashing pistol shots. , The- thieves returned the horsemen's fire, aud the horsemen kept it up until their ammunition was exhausted.. The only aim for either side was the flashing pistol shots of the others, so that not much damage was done'. None of tho horsemen were hurt. While the firing was going on the wagons were heard driving off, the - drivers whipping np their horses- in a furious way. It was evident that the two men outside the fenco bad fled and left their companions to take the consequences of their acts. When the firing ceased, the six horse men made a search for the remaining men, but they could not be found. They had fled in the darkness. An examina tion of the barley bags showed' that a great many of them had been taken, and tne norsemen at once went in pursuit of. the wagons. ... - ,. : - . ;. . ' About half a mile away they,, found the wagons, but the horses and men were gone. -The wagons were half filled with sacks of barley, and a number of empty bags were found with the marks of a Denver firm upon them, so that it seems probable that the thieves came from this city. The wagons are now at Mr. Horn-. r 1 1 :u " b iibvo wsiuiig iui an owner. j .. . Iu the . morning an examination .was made of the field where the shooting took place.; A trail of; blood was found lead ing to the fence, but there it was lost. The . attempted ; robbery alarmed the neighboring farmers, and an examination was. made, which resulted in the discov ery that' seventy-two sacks ' of wheat which one of the farmers had stored in a distant field had disappeared. It is sup posed that the thieves were' the same, ones who tried to steal Mumford's bar ley. Denver Republican. " The M Utreataoent of lianas. Doubtless it was the daily spectacle of theabuse of horses which stimulated Henry Bergh to the great service which has. justly made his name renowned. But the guilt of the abuse is hot confined to draymen and teamsters. The' igno rance and indifference of wealth and. fashion to the treatment of horses are quite as conspicuous, and for obvious reasons much more unpardonable. The horse, which is one of the most sensitive " and . delicate of -animals, is greatly to be commiserated as he ap pears in the fashionable drive of Central park. He is treated as a part of the show of the parade, and he : is' at the mercy. ef the owner, who buys horses not because he likes them' or knows anything about them, but because he must have an equipage, and he "aban dons them to the care of grooms and coachmen, whose sole aim is to produce a more "swell" effect thau their rivals! For a "stylish" effect the horse is robbed of his natural ornament and defense, and is checked and trussed and tortured by a harness which encumbers his na tural action and forces him into an arti ficial "gait." - Human knowledge and skill directed to an auxiliary animal like the horse should aim to develop his natural apti tudes. He should be treated as a hu mane and skillful gardener treats a tree in pur modern landscape gardening; not as a tree was maltreated by the false and morbid taste of two centuries ago. '' Such remarks do not apply to the lov ers of horses who care for them with sympathy and intelligence, who compre hend their practical helplessness and acknowledge their faithful service. Such lovers permit in" their stables no "fash ions" invented by ignorant and inhuman grooms to produce "stylish action" to impress similar ignorance and folly. Harper's Weekly. '.;. ' .''; Tha IJttla Ghost. - "The Poplars" is the name of the old Revolutionary homestead. It is a great, square, white, stone ho q&e, built in the center of a thousand acres. The master of it was childless.' His little boy had died a week before, and he bad gone away. Every night a little figure in white with a light - was seen flitting, from window to window in the old library. When the servants, led by the gardener, assembled at the library door the light and the figure would disap pear noiselessly and simultaneously. The light and. figure were never, .seen iu any . other room of the old mansion, and now it was remembered that the dead heir had spent more time in the library than in any other room in the house. .,yr. When, the master returned, . toward the end of autumn, he was informed of it all, He hid behind the tapestry night after night, . and one night he was re warded by seeing a little white figure glide in, light a candle, climb up to one of the highest shelves, take down a rare old book and begin to pore over it. It was the gardener's son, and he is now the lord of "The Poplars," and the no blest landlord in the west of England. New York Herald. .. Set Upon by the Gang;. One of the Italian exhibitors of per forming birds lost a green parrakeet but of his cage the other afternoon on Park street. The bird flew up into an elm and chattered at the distracted Italian.. "Seenyore, seenyore, climba ze tree," ho cried. But no one in the big crowd vol unteered to climba ze . tree." , it was the English sparrow that .finally settled the business both for -the parrakeet and the Italian. A solitary English sparrow spied the green bird, and set up a loud "cheep. In three minutes' time ntty Bparrows were mobbing the parrakeet. He took wing with the noisy pack in hot pursuit. Boston News. ",''" ' A Happy Family. A happy family dwells in an engin house iu Madison, Ind., and the antics of the members afford amusement to the fire company. The family is composed of a coon, a cat, a pair of rabbits, twe white mice and a shepherd dog. ; Thej iiscupy the same apartment, sport to gether and eat from "the same vessel. -- Yankee Blade. . . .-" Just la just 2i hours J. v. 6. relieves constipation and sick headaches. After It gets tho system under control an occasional dose prevents return. We refer by permission to W. II. Marshall, Brass wick House, a F.; Geo. A. Werner, 531 California St, S.F.; Mrs. C. Melvin, 136 Kearny St., S. F., and many others who have found relief from constipation and sick headaches. G.W. Vincent, ol 6 Terrenco Court, S. F. -writes: "1 am 60 years of age and hare been troubled with constipation for 25 years. I was recently induced to try Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparills, I recognized In it at once an herb that tho Mexicans used to givo as in the early SO1! for bowel trembles. (I came to California in 1889,) and I knew it would help me and It has. For the first time in years I can sleep well and my system is regular and In .splendid condition. The old Mexican herbs in this remedy are a certain euro In constipation and bowel troubles." Ask for - "' -' : ----- q Vegetable V Sarsaparilla ForvSaJe by SNIPES A. KINERSLY ' - --'. '.-::J.F?lOEfciI- & -. Say the : S'ff:3bugIi;C, tne best thing they everX'- 'a.,;i 'We are not flattered for we known Real Merit will Wis. AH we ask is an honest tiial. For eale by all druggists. -. ''".-' ." '' , S. B. Mkdicixk Mvg. Co., -'",' ': Dnfur, Oregon. A Severe Law. - The -English peo ple look more closely 'to the genuineness of these staples than Tf e do. ' In Iscf , they have a law under 'Which they make, eixnres" and "."de stroy ' adulterated " products that are not what they are represented to be. Under this statute thousands of pounds of tea have been burned because of then wholesale adul teration. - Tea, by the way; Is one of the most notori ously adulterated articles of commerce. , Not ' alone are tho bright, shiny green teas artifi cially colored, but thourandj of pounds of substitute for tea leaves are used to swell the bulk of cheap tea-; ash, floe, aod willow - leaves'belnj thosb most' commonly" used. Again, sweepings from tea warehouses are colored and sold as tea.' Even exhausted tea leaves gathered from the tea-hooses are kept, dried, and madaoYerniwl nud.thcirw-ay into the'eheap teas. -r y The Euglluh government attempts to fctamp thht oat by confiscation; but no teais too poor for u, and the result. it, that probably the poorest teas need by any nation are those Consumed iu America. ' Eoeeli's Tea is presented with' the guar anty that it Is uaeolored and unadulterated; In fact, the sun-curca tea leaf pare and sim ple. Its purity .Insures superior strength, , about one third lets of it being required for an infusion than of tbearilficial teas, and Its fragrance and exquisite flavor Is at once ap parent. It will be a-revelation to yott. In order that It purity and quality may be guar anteed, it is sold only In pound packages ' bearing this trade-mark: BEEC 'Pure As Price eOe per pound. Tor sale at - Xieslle Butler Joy -CKildhoTod? Toe Dalies Gnronicis IS - Of the Leading City TEE During the little over a year of its existence it has earnestly tried to fallfil the objects for which it was founded, namely, to assist in developing pur industries, to advertise the resources of the city and adjacent country and to work for an open river to the sea. Its record is before the people and the phenomenal support it has received is accepted as the expression of their approval.- Independent in every thing, neutral in nothing, for what it "believes to be Commencing with the vclume. the weekly has been enlarged to eight pages while the price ($1.50 Thus both the weekly moie . reading matter for published in the county. GET YOUR Cs t .. t :! J DONE AT TOE CHILE JOB Book Done on LIGHT BINDING Address all Mailorders to Chtfoniele THE DALLES, of Eastern Oregon. it will live only to fight just and ri " ht. first number of the second a year) remains the same. and daily editions contain less money than any paper PHIOTG apd Job priptip Short Notice. NEATLY DONE Pub. Co., - OREGON.