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h
2
SimelhxncoM.
Wai.i.a Wam.a. During tho Win
ter hiiuw lins ration in the mountains
tonntinstml depth-thls, when melt
ed In the Spring, will furnish mi abun
dance of water for nilnlngopcratloiis.
It Is safe to say theio will liu u largo
amount of gold taken out during the
lOmlllgscllSOll.
During tliu lust few days the giuss in
tlilH valley bus grown nipltlly anil Is
now Hiilllelcnt to Htipport thu stock
very well. AiiIiiiuIh Unit itie not al
ready poor will thrive anil ilo well on
it unless wo have nnother cold hiiiiji,
whleh fi urn picsent Indications, doi-s
not at all seem proluililu.
I.T Itccsc, propilctor of the (lour
ing mill at the lower eml of town, has
niMiitiraetnreil, limine the month of
Fchriiuiy, foityllvo bunels of Hour
per ilay, anil dining thin time has
bought I'i.IHXI bushel ol wheat, for
whleh he has pulil 7i cents per bushel.
Melius now on hand li,KX bairelsof
flour awaiting shipment below.
II'. II'. .SlatiKinau.
Wash i.NoinN' Tiiuitnonv. WIN
Until .liiriiiiin, tried forthu minder of j
James Fanner at Hclliiighnui Ray,
Iiuh horn aeiiiltted.
Watts, who killed a'niau some time ,
no on Him .limn iHlanil.hashecn tried
tit l'oit Townend anil eonvleted of
murder In the llrst degico. The case
1uikIocii long delayed, owing to ills,
ptilcsuboutjurlsillctlon of theVlvil au
thorities over nets done on SunJtiiin
Ihlutiit.
David Philips, of S-Yallk, a lesidcnl
of the Pugct Sound cnunliy since Ib.'iL',
(lied on the Dili Instant, aged 71 ycuis. j
A long article appeals In the Hull
L'xlato litmnl (Walla Wnllii) In favor
of opening u hetter and shorter loute
from that place loUraudu Itouile, in
Oregon.
WAli'h llAV Pniins.-Mr. (). Klein-,
lug, w ho lives on thooppostto side of
the river, brought to our olllee the
model of Wall's I'ateut l'oltalile Hay'
Piess. After giving It a thorough in
vestigation and having some praetl
ml expel letiiii In hay pressing we
havo innclllilcil It is the ciy best
thing ot the kind wo havo ever Keen
or lieanl of. The pi cm Is on wheels
and can ho luought to any part of tho
Held hy one hoisc, the sumo horse be
ing also used for turning the ciank hy
whleli the luiv is pressed. Wo undci
stand that Mlehcll llios., of this elly,
will probably mauufaetuio a numlier
for the niuil.ct. This is an Oregon Invention.-
-Dtilli Mwintuiin.1 r.
Mo.sriNA. Somctliuu during the
niouth of Kehriiiuy three hoys of a
Mr. Juijies Spray, aged respectively 10,
10 and 8 years, woie caught In a snow
slide In Madison valley, Montana, and
all perished. The necks of the hoys'
wore broken, and the side of tlio face
anil head toward the hill was hailly i
bruised. When found the bodies weio
coveted six feet deep III the snow.
In. Montana during the winter hay
colli for $10 iintl Stil per ton; oats fi
cents per pound ; Hour $ fill per sack ;
wood $S to;$lil per cord. Thoeheapcsl
and most abundant ailleles weiocold
and snow.
Caim'. John Woon, ii'coutly de
ceased, late of the Indian iirmy, was
illstlngiilshcil In geographical ex
plorations. Ilo was the only Ktuo
ponn traveler, since thoduysnf Mui
co I'olo, who ascended tlio Ituiii-I-Doonyu,
or roof of tlio world. For
tho splendid nchlovinout of discovor
ing the sourcoof tlio Onus in Pv'N,
('apt. Wood iccelvod tlio gold ineiliil
of tlio ltiiynl Geographical Society.
To supply the logutar edition of
Ihtrpu' ll'i i fifteen tons of
whlto p.iper in t coiisiinieil every
week, or sovun liuuilieil nuil eighty
tons per annum. Tlio average week
ly cost of engraving is $'.'00, or $30,000
vor aiiuinii, nuil tlio cost of drawing
Oil tlll IlllH'k IsulKlllt thOsaillOOXClll-
slvo of tlio salary of artists regularly
attached to thcolllco.
Tlio siniill po seems to lo spread
ing throiigli tho Western State. A
luto Eastern exchange says that this
disease Is raging terribly at Thayer,
Iowa, on the lUirUiigtoiwimi Missou
ri River Hiillroiul. In u population
of loss than 1,000, ovorSOdonths havo
occurred within less thnn four weeks.
Almost every person in the town Is
afflicted with the disease. No tmlns
uro allowed to stop there.
More than one thousand tons of ore
nru annually consumed In Stafford
shire, England, in the manufacture
of cast-iron nails, which am teutiH'r
isl In oxide of iron after they tire ta
ken froml thn moulds, ami made
malleable.
I TIIK BIG TKKE8 OF THE WORLD.
A writer in Applcton'a Joumalhiv,
with cominondnblo Industry nnd rc
Heurch, collected nhd arranged ac
counis of tho most famous trees of
tho world. We transfer u portion of
tho article, In a condensed form, to
our pages :
A recent KnglMi periodical men
tions u great chesiuit-trco fit Tort
worth, in (llouccstor.shlre, which, it
hays, rivals or surpasses nny existing
oak or yow-treo In Clrcat Britain.
Its circumference, live feet from tho
ground, Is over lirty feet. As it was
mentioned as n boundary-mark of
tho manor in the reign of .Stephen,
was famous in King John's time for
its magnitude, nnd was in existence
in the time of Kgbert, it may lie even
much older than n thousand year-'.
Tlio nii'gnltudo of tlio famous
chestnut-treo on Mount jVAmx is ptill
more remarkable. This is the " Cus
tagno do Cento C'uvnlll," which Is
probably tho largest chestnut-tree In
the world, tliu trunk of which Is tle
hcrihed hy Hrydono as resembling
live largo trees growing together,
mid having n hollow cavity more
than sixty feet In diameter.
Hut the plane trees of Oreece seem
to lie bear away the palm for magni
tude. Of tills species is the speci
men of "(I'odfroy do IJouillon," ut
Muyukdoic, on tlio Kuropean Ide of
the llosphorus, a tree Unit was nour
ishing wliun llrst
" lljriiitlnm' nnlhc fljpi
Of i nM on cri r ei lit wn unfnrlnl,''
and iscoujectuied by M. deC'nndolIe
to he more than two thousand years
old. When ineasiiied in Ittll, it was
found to ho a hundred mid forty feet
in circumference at tho b.ise, and it
has been described as resembling u
tower of clustered trunks-. its
branches are Mild to he more like a
forest than like a .single tree. Its
sides are cavernous, mid .shelter the
herdsmen, who make their llrc.x in
thcMi hollows.
Another enormous plane-tree,
growing on the hanks of the Selintis,
near Nastl.a, is mentioned in llob
houxoN "Travels in Albania," nnd
Is described as being forty-live feet
in circumference at the b.iso, and n
hundred feet high, covered with
luxuriant folliage. In the Turk
ish Kmpiro these undent trees .seem
to lie held In reverence, as they were
before the days of the 1'rophet.
Among the nourishing giant trees
of western Australia, rivalling in
magnitude our California wonders,
is one near Warieii liver, recently
discovered, anil by actual measure
ment found to be four hundred feet
high ; and, another in the niuo re
gion, in the llliick Spur Mountain,
four hundred nuil eighty feet high.
The tallest tree in California is i-ald
not to exceed four hundred and tlfty
feet. Although tlte tree at Warren
liver Is largo enough to penult tluee
lidei-s, and an additional p.iek-hoi-o
to enter its hollow tiuuk nuil turn in
it without dismounting, tho sin of
Mime of the California trees, at the
trunk, greatly surpasses it. The
stump of one of the latter measured,
on its Mirraco,a .sp.iceof sl- hundred
Miiai o feet.
A traveler gives the following ac
count of the "aiming," a tree be
longing to tho sulMirder Cuvalpliuw,
which lie niw In Vene.uehi, South
America :
"Its head is somewhat lnthohaH
of an open umbrella, and covets very
nearly mi acre of ground. In ifs'i", 1
measured its head in Its greatest di
ameter, from east-southwest to west
northwest, mast carefully, and found
it to be two hundred and six feet and
eleven Inches."
Tliu llra.llian Journals tell of n
wonderful tree on the banks of the
Hraiu'o, a tributary of the great Am
azon, under the canopy of which ten
thousand human lieiugs may tlud
shelter, and the height of which is
such that n gigantic bird, tho sonon
ydon, perches Itself o high up as to
bo quite beyond rltlo-shot. Tho tree
iH'longs to the mulvaeeous order.
In MK-Uslppl county, MKsourl,
ptiw-puw.s grow to a circumference of
three feet, and grape-vines and
truinpat-keepers to n circumference
of nearly two feet.
A sycamore tree one hundred and
"WILLAMETTE FAEMEE.
ten feet high, nnd with a hollow
fourteen feet In tliu clear, Is men
tioned ns n fenturo in Calhoun coun
ty, Illinois. In Kansas, nt the mouth
of Full river, Is a remarkable tree,
tho dimensions of which aro on rec
ord In Wnshlngton. It is nine feet
In diameter, thirty feet in circumfer
ence, nnd runs up, straight as an nr
row, forty feet without limbs.
The original "Loudon Pippin
tree," in Virginia, is still standing.
It is known to have lwrno every sea
son, for tho past eighty years, from
forty-llvo to soventy-llvo bushels of
apples, and eighty years ago it was
regarded ns a venerable specimen of
vegetation. Tlio fruit Is of excellent
quality, and above tho average size.
The tree Is forty-live feet high. J
Another aged fruit-tree tlio "illg
Apple-Tree," as it Is known recent
ly passed iiwnv after an existence of
over a century and a Juilf, It Is be
lieved, at I'eekskiil, Now York. Its
trunk, near the ground, was over
thirteen feet circumference.
A MTIOXAIi PARK. '
The hill to set apart tho region of
wonders In Montana as a National
I'urk, Juts passed both branches of
Congress, it isclnimcdlhutno region
in Die world contains unequal wealth
of natural curiosities. Tho Helena
(Montana) JTvmhl says that the Idea
of a park was first conceived by u par
ty front that place who visited the
wonder land in lMis, and gave to the
I world tho tlrt rellablo reports con
cerning it. Descriptive letters were
published by members of this party
i anil were widely circulated hy the
I press of tlio country. These excited
I not merely a passing curiosity, but
I created a living, general interest that
I has since received strength and larg
er proportions by tlio publication of
IJeutoiiuut Donne's ollldal report to
I tlio War Department of the same ex
pedition ; followed, as that was, by
, the expedition of Professor Iluydcu,
during tho last summer, under the
patronage of the Smithsonian Insti
tute, with its fully appointed corps
'of sdcut lllc gentlemen and distin
guished artist, who"o reports have
more than continued all descriptions
of former parlies. Such, in brief,
lias been the origin and progress of
tills project now about to receivo def
inite and permanent shape in tho es
tablishment of u National Park. It
will be n park worthy of the great
Republic. It will embrace about 'J,
"00 square miles, ami include the
canyon, tho falls and lake of the Yel
lowstone, with it score of other mag
tiltlcent lakes, the great geyser basin
of tlio Madison, and thousands of
mineral and boiling springs. Should
the whole surface of the eartli be
gleaned, nnother spot of equal di
mension could not ho found that
contains on such a magultlcent scale
line-half of the attractions heio
grouped together. Without a doubt
the Northern Pacillc Railroad will
have a branch track penetrating this
Plutonian region, iind few seasons
will pass before excursion trains will
daily be sweeping into thi great
park thousands of tho curious from
all parts of the world. A steamboat
will be plying upon the crystal wn
, ter of tho Yellowstono Lake, and
excited sportsmen will bo decoying
thespeckled beauties from itsdepths,
or aiming for the swans, geese, ducks
or gulls that heretofore havo floated
undisturbed uihiii Its surface. The
Helena lTmihl advises those who
would look upon this scone in Its
wild primitive beauty, loforo art has
practiced any of its tricks upon na
ture, to go soon.
Thk largest yield of corn per acre
ever recorded in Scott county, 111., I
was produced by lu W. Clemens, of
Pleasant Valley townships this year.
Ills .sworn statement to the Scott
county agricultural society Is that I
tlte yield was 154 bushels nnd three
pedis of shelled corn! His onion
crop was at tho rato of 4S0 bushels
per aero, which was a goodly yield for
tho luist year, but was 800 bushels per
ucru icsss uiiiii nu nuscii uu u previous
( season, several years ngo. Ills car-
rot crop nt 1,600 bushels per acre, nnd
potato crop at ISO bushels per acre,
are extremely hard to beat.
NEWS BY TELKORArn.
l'Aiiis, March 10-8trong efforts lire
making to reconcile the dltloronces be
tween Tillers and the Committee of
tho Assembly on the bill for the con
trol of the press.
The condition of the national treas
ury, even niter paying the fourth half
milliard of Indemnity, Is satisfactory.
Tlio Minister of Finance, Is enabled to
report a balance of llO.OOO.OOO francs
on hand.
London, March 10. Tlio Observer
states that Secretary Fish's reply to
LorilOranvUle'sconceriilngtlieelalms
for imllicct damages. 1ms been lecelycd
and It expresses the doslro of tlio
Aineilcon Government fora llnal and
amicable settlement of the whole
question. The Observer adds that nei
ther tho llrltish nor American uov
eruinent Is In favor of reopening the
pioceediitgs of the Joint High Com
mission,
LoNiioN, Maich 11. The J'iiunwler
savs the Aiiieiican Hovernnient, after
mature deliberation, hns resolved to
present their case to the (leiievn Tri
bunal on the loth of A pi 11, In accord
ance with tho terms ot the Treaty of
Washington, even if the British Arbi
trators ih) not be present, anil inlst on
proceeding to arbitration regardless of
iinv piotest or wlthdrawol on the part
of tueutllrltalii.
In the House of Commons, to-day,
Mncfee called the nttentlou of the Col
onial Department to the report which
came fiom America of the Secret
Treat v for tho separation of Canada
from Great llrltain.
Hughes, ruder Colonial Secretary,
replied that he had not thought it
wortli his while to contradict such an
absurd minor, but out of respect to tho
gentleman present lie would state that
tlieie was not the sllgliest foundation.
Ni:w Yoiik, Mniclt 12. Tho resig
nation of Jay Could, us President of
tlte Kilo Ilallroiul, is said to have been
accomplished as follows : General
Sickles was empowered by the Hoard
to oiler an ultimatum to Gould, Kid
ildge, Sherwood and Drake, that they
should lie permitted to retain their po
sitions as Directors If they would come
Into tlie session of the new Hoard.
Sickles, after considerable dllllculty.
gained access Gould's stronghold and
alter considerable discussion tlio terms
were acceded to, and these gentlemen
attended the meetings, when all the
acts of the new Hoard were continued
and Gould's resignation ollereil and
accepted : Lynch and his men vveie
iiibiuissoti, oilier resioreti anil uie x
lice discharged. General Dlx took
formal possession of tho President's
loom.
The Ixiudon Tlnun says the election
of the new Board of Kile Directors
and the election of Dlx to tho Presi
dency, will rcstoiu eonllileiiceln Amer
ican enterprise, and consequently re
sult In an increase of tlie resources of
the country.
CoNtoitn, .March 11. Reports re
ceived from 2il towns give Straw, Re
publican, titl.TOO; Weston, Democrat.
::4,210; Hlackmcr, tilt); Cooper, ami
scattering, :!"'; making tliu majority
for Straw 1,W, whleh will be i educed
tielow 1,500 hy tho remaining towns.
The Uth Senatorial District is doubt
ful. Ni:w Yoiik, March lit. Tlie utllilrs
at the Kric Railroad olllee have settled
down to the ordinary quiet. Gould
said to-day he was glad to be out of
the Kric Presidency, the salary of
which did not pay for the perpetual
harasclug which came with the of
tllce. lie will soon return to Wall
street.
Tlio steamer San KrancWcn is in
from Hermuda. She icnoits that tlie
Dcuuuuk,oi!glutilly, and better known
as the Great Republic, was abandoned
at sea In latitude :!0 ninth, longitude
00.10 west, with fifteen feet of water in
her hold. The Captain and ciuw ar
lived safely at Hermuda In tlie ship's
boats.
WvsiiiMHON, March lit. The
President entertained the Japanese
Kiiihassudors ut dinner tills evening,
together with other guests. To-morrow
night the Huibnsy holds a recep
tion at Arlington, to which nil distin
guished otllcers of the Government
havo been Invited.
Government oilleers hove discovered
an extensive scheme of smuggled
silks, laces, gloves etc., whleh have
been bought from Europe, sent to Hull
fax, thence to St. Stephens, N. H., and
sinuggl.nl across at Calais, reaching
Huston, and New York and Chicago in
large quantities. Parties have thus
smuggled seven hundred thousand dol
lars' worth the past year.
1I.vi.ikax, March 13. There was an
other severe snow storm last night, I
and railroad travel isumilnlnterrunted.
In some cuttings on the Kustum Hue
the snow is thirty feet deep.
Lisiion, March 13. Tho steamer
Duoro arrived to-ilny, from Rio do Ja
neiro on the 22d tilt.
A tremendous land slide occurred on
the lino of the Paulo linllrond. An
inland plane for miles in extent mo
ved from Its foundation and buried
the road for a long distance uuiler,
earth and rocks. It was believed that
it would take two mouths to restore '
the road to working condition, I
London. March i:t Mnn.liv. ih..1
well kuown anti-Popery lecturer, is
dead. It Is bcUeved that his death
was eaused by injuries received "by the
hands of the mob while he wo deliv
ering n lecture, some time since, nt
Whlto Haven.
Tho Queen approved of the grant of
a pension to the widow of Mark Lem
on. VkkhaiMjES, March 13. In the
i . ......1,1.. in.iluv Mlnlntor 11nlU
made a powerful speech In support
I of the bill for penalties against the
International Society, which ho de
Iclaicdwas n Htanding nicnaco to Eu
ropean Society. Jules Favre oppos
ed the bill. At tho close of the debate,
' tlie llrst clause, making it a criminal
oiluuce to belong 10 mo ooeieiy, was
adopted by a vote of f01 to 101.
AY a sitting of the Hudget Commit
tee to-day, Thiers consented to a re
duction of the Army from 400,000 t
1-10,000 men, thereby saving 10,000.000
funics to tho country. Tlio President
. .....! ii.w.ii Din r'nitmitHon fhn ntlnn.
1 tlon of a tax on law materials.
, Paiiis, March 13. A ccord I tig to ail
vices received from Spain, a crisis Is
1 at bund. King AinSdeiis is concen
trating his army around Madrid, uls-
I arming tho National Guard, and pre
paring to defend his throne.
, Rojii:, Maieh 13. Victor Emanuel
vill review the Italian troopes stn-
1 tinned In nnd around Rome somo time
during the present month. The re-
' view will take place in tlie presence oi
the King and Queen of Denmark and
I General Von Moltke.
i In the opinion of the Xationalc It
hints that one of tho objects of Prince
Krcdeiick Charles' visit hero Is to
I bring about a good understanding be
tween Italy and Germany with refer
ence to tlie common action against the
clerical parties of both countries.
Hi:itNi:, March 13. The Federal
Council has appointed the Oth of Mn
as a day for the people to votn u pon
the ratification of tho revised Const!-
I tutlon adopted by tlie National anil
1 State Councils.
Paiiih, March 13. Gainbetta will
soon start on n political tour through
France, and will deliver addresses at
'all the principal cities.
Washington, March 14. A delega
tion of chiefs of the Chippewa tribes
from Northern Michigan were at the
White House to-day and paid their re
spects to the President.
Tlio Semite Arms Committee to-day
j resumed the examination of Hennctt.
1 He tcstlllcd there were 082,800 service
able arms on hand, and that the total
number of arms of all kinds was 1,-
' lofl.ONS.
Commissioner W. H. Appertel, ot
the Centennial Commission, called on
the Japaneso Embassy and Invited
them to participate in tlie Centennial
Kx position in Philadelphia, nud to use
their personal Influence to induce full
representatives from the Imperial Gov
ernment of Japan.
Ivvakura responded : "It will alford
us great pleasure to recommend to our
Emperor such steps as may bo nect
ary to unite with you in the celebra
tion of the 100th anniversary of the
existence of the Government of the
I'nMed States."
PoinsMOi'TH, March 11. The Chron
Me has returns from all but eight
town, which last year gave Straw
less than 8,000 votes. Straw has 38,
.503; Weston and scattering, 37,33b;
Straw's nuiJiHlty, 1,230 which will
probably be increased. Tho Senate
stands S Republicans to 1 Democrats,
ihe lists of Representatives is Incom
plete, out so tarns neiirii ironi mo Jie-
iiubllcaus have 200; Democrats, 136;
Tenipeiiiuce, I; Iibor Reform, I. The
mil list will pioininiy give tlie Kepuu
lieans about o0 majority.
London March 14. Tlie reply of
Secretary FNh to Enil Granville's
note was cominunlcated to tho Secre
tary of State for Foreign Affairs yes
terday, and to Gladstone last evening.
The reply of the American Govern
ment, though friendly, Is llrm and un
yielding. It calls upon England to
submit to the Geneva Tribunal for ar
bitration the question whether claims
for consequential damages shall be ad
mitted and discussed by the Hoard.
Washinoton, Marcli 10. A New
York dispatch says Gun. Sickles has
prepared a letter resigning tlio Spanish
Mission, and having taken a partner
will noon open a law olllee in this city.
Tlie now firm will of eourso tako the
Erie railway business, an enormously
lucrative business.
The Indian War In Arizona.
Los Anoki.ks, March 15. The latest
army news from Arlrona is reported
as follovto :
Tho Indians have left nearly all the
reservations. Some thousands of
Apaches aro now on the war-path.
The country between Prescott and
Wlckenberg is alive with well armed
hostile Indians.
The "Peace Policy" of the Govern
ment is worse than a failure by fur
nishing tliu Apaches with supplies,
which are now used In making wnr on
the whites.
A party of Indians Is raiding on
Deer creek. A white man, name un
known, en route from Monteymona
Wells to Federal Camp for medicine,
was overtaken and killed.
General Crook left Fort Rock ten
days since with a company of cavalry
and a baud of friendly Indians on a
tour In tho Apache country. Ho pro
ceeded In the direction of Tonto Pass,
from thence right and left, and return-de.
U