The Dalles Daily Chronicle. OFFICIAL PAPER OF DALLES CITY. Published Dully, Sunday Excepted. BY ' '. , THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO, Corner Second and Washington Streets, JChe Kane, Oregon. . - Term of Subscription Per Year 6 Per month, by carrier Rinffla ennv - - -- o STATE OFFICIALS. Governoi . Secretary of State Treasurer Supt. of Public Instruction. eaators...... : Congressman State Printer , K. Pennoyer O. W. McBride ...Phillin Metschan E. B. McElroy (J. N. Dofoh - ij. H.-Mrtehell Hermann .. ....Frank Baker COUNTY OFFICIALS. County Judge. Sheriff -. .C. N. Thornbury .......... .-.!. L. Cates Clerk Treasurer Commissioners. . . J. B. croasen Geo. Ruch W A. Leavens ....... i Frank Kincnid a-,,. John E. Burnett Surveyor - E. F. Sharp Superintendent of Public Schools. . .Troy enciiey Coroner William MleheU It is becoming more doubtful every dav that anv free coinace bill will be J - w paesed by'the present congress. Demo cratic opinion is said to be changing very rapidly not pimply as to the wisdom of the measure but as to its merits. It is perfectly evident that this change is being effected lees from pVuiciplrt than policy. The party that so vigorously denounced republican demonetization .when in the minority now find them selves in power with an elephant on their hands. A free silver plank in the platform would break the party in two; so it is said. They would have to say good-bye to New England, to the middle states and to such states as Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and Michigan. Then, too, leading German papers have Berved notice that the German vote will leave in a body on a free coinage issue. So principle must be sacrificed to exped iency as it is more important td hold of fice than to be consistent, and- easier to bear the charge of a stultified record than to be ousted from power. A classi faction of the poor of New York City by the secretary of the So ciety for the Improvement of the Condi tion of the Poor shows that nearly one- half of the large number of cases of poverty are the direct result of exces sive dram drinking. Next to this it was found that habitual dependence on charity had sapped the independence of a number estimated at twenty per cent. while of the entire army Of the poverty stricken of the great .city only twenty per cent, are classified as "meritorious poor." One of the most powerful implements of war ever invented is the Hotchkiss rifled gun recentlv' tested at Hartford. Conn. It is capable of throwing a des tructive conical shell a distance of ten miles and of piercing the armor of the strongest ironclads afloat. .In its silent strength it will preach as persuasive a sermon on "peace on earth" if not good will to men as could possibly spring from human effort or as ever fell upon the ears of the unregenerate eons of Adam. , It is now positively asserted that not withstanding all report to the contrary there never was any question of the postponement of the wedding of Miss Mattie Mitthell, daughter of Senator John II. Mitchell and that that event will take place as announced on the 11th instant. The banns of marriage between Francois Alfred, Duke de La Rochefou cauld and Miss Mattie Elizabeth Mitch- -ell have been alreadv announced in -Paris. : r-; The East Oreyonian is crying for taffy from its Portland namesake. The Dalles Chronicle. ' Heretofore you have accused us being in need ot soothing syrup. rroDaniy you are envious and is need of a bath. ' East Oregonian. , Thanks. . Just had one. It is the cor rect thing, however, to give babies taffy after medicine. A touching story comes oyer the wires from San Diego county," California. A Mrs.' Mary Gregory, postmistress of Vil aa, falsified her -returns to procure means to buy food for her children. She was tried for the offence and. fined $50. Friends furnished the money- to pay the fine and the woman was libera ted. The tax levy of Baker county is' 32 mills. A -man over there who has to pay 3 2-10 per -cent, tax on 'the face value of a mortgage (and the borrower always pays the tax directly or Indirectly) ; will. appreciate a law that . was intended ' for the capitalist but. which alas! invaria bly cinches the wrong man. Ihe JNew; lork Frets tells now a woman reformed her husband from the smoking habit. ' A contract was entered into, the prime condition of which was that she was to " buy - the cigars. He smoked one and quit. ' : ' a ne uenver Jews, a paper, tnat is an earnest advocate ot tree trade as a na tional economic policy, with an incon sistency that is delightful to a protec tionist thus argues in favor of fostering the industries that : lie nearest to us. Tne same principles applied to the na- tion which the Neics applies to the state re all that the most ardent protection ist could aak. - . It is for the general interest to patron- kize articles of home manufacture in every line of trade in which a supply can be had. because we thus increase the labor- employing capacity of the state and keep money aT nome in uireuiauuu. n ucn we give "preference to goods that most be ordered from distant localities, we, turn the cold shoulder to . home enterprise and lielD thoso who do nothing for the state in return. We equally retard the reneral DroBDeritv when we loose an op portunity to promote the development of the state's natural resources. Jo-re lation and interdependence so permeate oar modern society that industrial activ ity of a marked character in any line is far-reaching in its influences' and bene fits. . - Portland will strongly resent the ac tion of the Astoria chamber of com merce in sending a set of resolutions to congress urging that instead of appro priating money for deepening the chan nel of the Columbia f rora Portland to the sea the money be given to the Cas cade locks and the Dalles portage And yet if the greatest good to the greatest number is a goodjeeonotuic policy, Astoria is right. "The deepening of the channel would benefit"rPortland.' the opening of the river would benefit three states. ' NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that sealed pro posals will be received at the office of the Citv Recorder until 4 o'clock of Feb ruary 6th, 1892, for grading the square gtthe intersection of Ninth and Pent- land streets. Ine council reserves the right to reject anv and all bids. Par ticulars furnished upon application to the Kecorder. - By order of the Common Council. "Frank Mekefee, Recorder of Dalles Citr. Dated February 1st, 1S92. 2-1-5 Could Comfort and Cheer Hluri. Columbus, O., Feb. 3. John Swim, a miser, aged 97, whese relatives are suing for a guardian to care for his $300,000 eetate, today, received a proposal of mar riage from a widow of this citv, who says she is only 67 ; that - her heart has' been moved to pity by reading -of his troubles, and that she thinks she could comfort, cheer and lighten the lonely hours of his remaining years. To Succeed Bradley New York, Feb. 3. A Washington special says President Harrison will ap point Judge Green, of the United States district court of New Jersey, to succeed the late Associate Justice Bradley of the United States supreme court. A Light Shock at Olympla. Olympia; Wash., Feb. 3. A light shock 'of ea tbouake was experienced here about 8 :30 o'clock this evening. Death in a Big City., . The shadows of metropolitan life could scarcely have .a more ghastly illustra tion than m the case of the corpse of the old man at a Greenwich street window staring into the windows of the elevated cars for two days, the - butt of the train men's Christmas time humor. A little while before was the killing and man gling of another man on the elevated al most immediately opposite a window where sat his wife and child looking in- nocently out and wondering who it was being carried away under the protecting nlanket. ' - We are wont to look upon the extraor dinary situations created by the novelist and playwright with satirical severity, but the pen of Sue, Dumas, 'Dickens and of a host of imitators never conjured up from imaginations vivid with research and practical observation a more pa thetically impressive picture than is pre sented in the dead man at the Greenwich street window. Yet such things are so common in New York that thev are swallowed up in the great maelstrom of metropolitan events forgotten in a' day. New York Herald. . Dividends in Philadelphia. The January payments of interest and dividends in this ' city - are the heaviest of . the year.. Upon Jan. 1 in terest matures on a large portion of the national debt, and the government pays the quarterly interest on- the 4 per cents., about $5,590,000, and also $1,838, 705 semiannual interest on the Pacific railroad bonds known as the "currency sixes." The semiannual interest on the debt of the city, due Jan. 1, is . now being paid. - The city interest due is $1,516,075, of which $589,773 . goes into the city sinking fund. : -The principal of the city debt upon which interest is dis bursed is $33,417,300. It is estimated that all the money paid in Philadelphia lor January interest and dividends ex ceeds $10.000,000. Philadelphia Ledger. . A Tmrtle's Long; Fast. . In June last a tree on . the ' farm of Mortimer, Hamilton, in Jackson county, IncL, was blown . down and . pressed into the earth a large snapping turtle. Some days ago the limb which imprisoned the turtle was -removed,' and the animal crawled off, apparently unhurt. -During all that time it had existed without food or water. Yankee Blade. - . . Agsinst Wide .Cravats. The attempt to widen a dress cravat nearly two inches is a fallacious fancy. There is nothing so untidy looking as the appearance of the band of the white lawn cravat above ' the coat collar.. At this width, unless it is crumpled consid erably, it would reach almost to the top of the. linen collar. Clothier and Fur nisher."... . , . ... Naw HaseDaJl Glove. A new form of baseball glove has in the palm an air cushion or pad which can be removed and inflated. It is made in compartments, connected by free but restricted passages, and -. surrounds a central portion. which is unpadded. The , arrangement of the glove is said to give admirable results. New York Journal. LACKS TRUTH ONLY. COLD FACT S DESTROY AN ENTER TAINING GHOST STORVV ;:" i latjKXmeva of Liord I.rtton Wblcb'A Mora - Valuable in Relation -Than In Truthfulness An v Alleged ilsunttd WVIch Did Kfis.. -!.;:,?. .. Koiimntlc Lord JLiytton waa, but' not enperatitioua. His death, however, baa revived the story of the yellow boy's room, tne gnost cnamber said to exist at KJiebwortn nouse, tne beautiful ances tral home of the Lyttons for more than 600 years. At . Jlr, ' W. P. Frith's door most the charge be laid, of having put the interesting tale in -circulation, for .we find it nrst in his engaging volume of Reminiscences.'" V After relating West- wood's experiences with the weird wom an of the Maison Blob, the painter sup plements the story by another anecdote of more tragical significance. 'At . Knebwprth. he says, "the seat of Lord Liytton there is. a bedchamber called the yellow boy's room." Be then proceeds to-relate - that during a- visit to Kneb worth. Lord Castlereagh. while the guest of the grandfather of-C" late British embassador' to Parish 'raa as signed without.a word of warning to the mysterious and haunted room. ' Feeling' very tired be soon dropped into sleep, but his uneasy slumbers were troubled and it was not long .before he awoke. What it was which startled him his lord ship never knew, bat the sight which met bis eyes as he gazed at the still burn- lug ins ku uiei naQDrattijugcuuugu. I The figure of a boy, with long, yellowish hair streaming down, sat in front of the fireplace with his back toward the Irish nobleman. As the latter looked, the lad arose, turned toward him.' and drawing back the curtain at the bottom of the bed with one hand,' with the other he drew bis ringers two or three times across his throat. Of course the impression produced on Castlereagh was decidedly disturbing. Bui wer- insisted that he must bave been dreaming, but his lord ship declared with emphasis that be saw the figure as distinctly as be saw his host at that moment, and that, far from being asleep, be was wide awake. A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. ' Mr. Frith then adds that Mr. Bulwer did not tell Lord Castlereagh Byron's "carotid cutting Castlereagh" that the yellow boy always appeared to any one wbo was destined to die a violent death and always indicated the manner of it to his victim. .. :. ... ... ; A more amusing and less unpleasant incident is told of the same chamber at Knebwortb . by our artist author, the subject being a timid, nervous brother painter who spent a night at the poet's lovely and stately retreat in Hertford shire. The father of the author of "Ln cile." Mr. Frith says, confided the de tails of the Castlereagh story to his guest on allotting the yellow boy's room to him, remarking on bidding him good night. "You will not be frightened, will your "No o o, said the painter, with an ashy face. "Well, it is getting late; what do you say to retiring? Yes, that is your candle. Too warm for a fire in your room. You don't mind? Good night." "The rest of the story shall be told,"" says Frith, "in my old friend's words as qearly as I can remember them. I bad seen, he went on, "the infernal room before dinner, and I thought it looked a ghostly sort of place, and when I reached it that night what would I not bave given to be back in my own room at home! 1 looked under the bed, up the great, wide chimney, and had a shock from the sight of myVwn face in the looking glass. No ghost could, be whiter than 1 was, ; 1 don't believe in ghosts, you know, but still it was really too bad of Lytton to tell me snob things just as I was going to bed. and then to put me in the. very placet There was an awful old cabinet. 1 managed to pull open the door and was tugging at the other,' when niy candle went out bow, 1 don't know somebody seemed to blow it out. 1 can't tell you what became of it; all 1 know is I jumped into bed with my boots on, and lay trembling there- for hours. Frith literally for hours till sleep took me at last; and never was 1 more thankful . than when 1 awoke and saw tbe sunshininginto the yellow boy's room. . NO TROTH IN THE STORY.- The circumstantiality with which Mr. Frith tells these short, tales must con vince his readers that, be is. thoroughly satisfied , in. - his own mind that the inci dents. which he carefully describes all Happened at. Rnebworth. And., yet. in that, respect, he is altogether out in his reckoning. There is no yellow boy's room in that grand old house of the Lyt tons at' Knebwortb. Uord Castlereagh never spent a night there, nor is it .known that he ever visited the place. in iiis life. In the autumn of 1884 , 1. spent , two or three very agreeable days at Knebworth, tbe gneet of Lord Lytton, who very kindly showed me everything of interest about bus home and its charming surroundings. 1 thought it . strange that .the yellow boy's room if there, really, was -such a room bad not been open to me, and that tbe . very story associated with it in tho Frith reminiscences had been, kept back. So. 1 sent off . a . hurried note to. Owen Meredith, then performing his embassa- dorial functions in the gayest capital in tfinrope, and an early mail brought me these linBer-.'; . v. jVr.v'-.'-..-.rf --:;".. ii-u. L -Paris, 8th Feb'y., 1888. a 'My. Dkar. Mr. Stewart I i answer" your letter of the 12th nlto. in desperate and . unavoidable haste..' Mr. Frith's autobiography is all wrong about the story of the 'Yellow Boy." That story was told by Sir Walter Scott of Lord Castlereagh, who is said to have seen the 'Yellow Boy' in some house in Ire land at the time when he was secretary for Ireland, just before the union... and the story . went that tbe apparition then predicted to him the mode of his death. But tbe incident certainly did not occur at .Knebworth,-. nor; -do- I .think . Lord Castlereagh was ever there. Yonrs very faithfully. . . ' Lytton." .The Castlereagh story is quite familiar to the readers of Scott and Lockhart's noble biography. Independent. SOCIETIES. A88EMBLYNO. 4827, K. OF L. Meets in K. of P. fl.ll thi. -vtnrl aimI fonrth WMiuw. I Jays of each month at 7:30 p. m. TXTA8CO LODGE, SO. 15, A. F. A. H. Meets T I first and third Monday of each month at 7 TALLE8 koyal ARCH CHAPTER NO. 6. XJ Meets in Masonic Hall the third Wednesday ot. ear & month at 7 P. M. rjOtrjMBIA LODGE, NO. 5, I. O. O. F.Meeta J everV Fridav eveninc it 7:80 n'iiav: in v of P.-hall, -corner Second and Court street. Sojouming brothers are welcome. H. Ci-ough, Seo'y. H. A. Biixs.N. (i. FRIENDSHIP LODGE, NO. ., K. of P. Meets everv Mondav evenlnr at 7:m nvinoir in Schanno'a building, corner of Court and Second streets-. Sojourning members are cordially in- i . W,Vatrss( K.oI R. and 8. y , c. C. .' - WOMEN'S-' -eHKISTI AN " TEMPERENCE UNION will meet everv Fridav aftamnnn at S o'clock at the reading room.. A 11 are invited. TEMPLE LODGE NO. S, A. O.- V. ".'- Meets at K. ef P. Hall. Corner Second and rvi,i Streets, Thursday evenings at 7 :a0. . W. S UllBii Financier, . .. , ; ..... . , ; f. y. TAB. NE8MITH POST, So. 82, G. A. R. Meets r every oaturuHy n i van r. M ., lu the K. of P. Hall. B- OF L. E. Meets every Sunday afternoon in the K. of P.- Hall. JESANG VEREIN Meets every Sunday BOF L. F. DIVISION, No. 167 Meets in the K. of P. Hall the firxt and third Wednes- oay oi eacn moncn, st 1 :i F. M. THE CHURCHES. T. PETER'S CHURCH Rev. Father B&oxs- 1 GEEBT st Pastor. Low Mass every Snnday at High Mass at 10:30 a. m. - Vespers at a. h. n.urn Aiass as iu:j a . v.- v-Mnm NT CHRISTlx CHURCH. Preaching the Y. M. C. A. rooms every Sunday at 11 in the a. m. and 7. p. m. Sunday school immediately wt-w iuuiiuuk . n v. A. vn:UHTa, paCOr. ST. PAUL'S CHURCH Union Street, opposite Fifth. Rev. EUD.Butcllfte Rector. Bervices every Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. M A. M. and 7:30 P. M. Sundav Evening Prayer on Friday at School 9: 45 A. 7:80 FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. O. I. Tat Loa, Pastor. Morning services every Sab bath at the academy at 11 a. m. Sabbath School immediately after morning services. Prayer meeting Friday evening at Pastor's resi dence. Union services in the court house at 7 P. M. CONGREGATION ALi CHURCH Rev. W. C. Cuktis, Pastor. Services every Sunday at 11 . M. and 7 P. K. Snnday School after morning service. Strangers cordially invited. Seat, free. f E. CHURCH Rev. A. C.SPENCEB, pastor. i?A Services every Sunday morning. Sunday School at 12:20 o'clock p. m. A cordial invitation is extended by both pastor and people to alL A. A. Brown, Keeps full assortment of le r and Provisions.; which he offerr at Low Figures.' SPEGIAIi :-: PRICES to Cash Buyers. Hiilest Casl Prices ftr'EfpanJ other Prodice. t70 SECOND STREET. J. S. BCHKNCK, ' President. . II. Beau Cashier. First Rational Bank. ."HE DALLES. - OREGON A General Banking Business transacted iJeposits received, subject to bight Draft or Check. Collections made and proceeds promptly rcuiibteu oil usj ui collection. Sight and Telegraphic Exchange sold on iNew lorfe, ban r rancisco and iort . ... land. .... : DIRBCTOKS. D. P. Thompson. Jno. S. Schbnck. Ed. M. Williams, Geo. A. Lixbk. . H. M. Bkall. W. E. GARRETSON. in 1 6. SOLE AGENT FOB THE . IHi'lllil, p.J "i All Watch Work Warranted. Jewelry . Made to Order, ,-. -' 1 88 Sseond St. The Dalles, Or. . FLOURING MILL TO LEASE. rpME OLD DALLES MILL' AND WATER 'a Flonr Mill will be leased to Te J Corapan ponsiDie es. For information apply to tbe - WATER COMMISSIONERS. ' 1 he Dalles, Oregon. Notice. All parties having claims against the estate of Ralph Fonger, deceased, will please present the eame to T.'.T. Nicho las, administrator. Columbia Hotel,. Dalles City,' Or., January 6, 1892..- jO-lm and Fancy Groceries Jeweler no EOBT. M-ASTS- MAYS & SALE AGENTS FOR ,,flcopn',and"ChartefOak" -'f;:? STOVES AND RANGES. Jeietrs Steel Ranps, and Marison's and Boston's Furnaces. . " We also keep h large and complete stock of - Hardware, Tinwate; Granite; Blueware; Silverware, Cutlery Barbed Wire, Blacksmiths' Coal, Pumps, Pipe, . Packing, Plumbers . Supplies, Guns, . f Ammunition and Sporting Goods. Plumbing, Tpinizxg Gun ' Machine Work COU. SECOND AND FBDCR1L STS., G-r eat Bargaiiis ! " .- EEM Removal ! Removal I On account of Removal I will sell my entire stock of Boots and. Shoes, Hats and Caps, Trunksand Valises, Shelv- ings, Counters, Desk, Safe, Vixtmres, at a Great Bargain. Gome and my offer. , GREAT REDUCTION IN RETAIL. J. 125 eeond Stfeet, 4 -if 'S ; s a V -. HEW FULL HUD WHITER DRY GOODS COMPLETE IX EVERY DEPARTMENT. Glothing, Gents' furnishing Goods, Hats, Gaps, u Boots and Shoes. " ---.-' Full Assortment of the' Leading Manufacturers. Cash Bayers mill save money by examining oup stock and prices before The Dalles Mercantile Co., Successors to BROOKS & BEERS, Dealers In General Merchandise, Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Gents' Furnishing Goods, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, etc. Groceries, '. Hardware Provisions, - . Flour, Bacon, HAY, GRAIN AND PRODUCE l . .. . Of all Kinds at Lowest! Market Rates, . - ; - Free Delivery to Boat and ' - 39Q and 394 H. G- HI Clotniei? BOOTS AND SHOES, r Hats and Caps, Trunks andrTalises, CORNER OP SECOND AND WASHINGTON PAUL KREFT & CO., Paints, Oils, Glass . And the Most Complete and the. Latest Patterns and Designs in - WATiTi 3 Practical Painters and Paper Hangers. None but tbe best-brands of the Sherwin-Williams Paint used in all our work, and none but the most skilled workmen-employed. All orders promptly attended to 10-17-d Store' ud Flint Shop corner TUIrd and .' Washlairton Str.t. Xj- cbo wjb. CROWE, 11 1 THE CELEBRATED Repairing and Light a Specialty. THE DALLES, OREGON. see V The Dalles. purchasing elsewhere. H. Herbring. Curs and all-parts of tlte City Second Street - ELS6N f THE DALLE8, OREGON . The Old Germania Saloon. JOHN DOHAVOtf, Proprietor. The best quality of Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Fabst Milwaukee Knicker bocker and' Columbia Beer,. Half and Half and all kinds of Temperance Drinks. Always on hand and Tailott