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Absolutely Pure.
This powaer never varies. A marvel
ol puriiy,strcnctli and vholesomeness.
More economical than the ordinary
kinds, and cannot be sold iu competf.
lion with multitude of low test, short
weight alum or phosphate powders
Sold only in e ms. Koyal BakuT ow
der Co.! IOC Wall St.. N. T.
Lewis M. JonxsoxVt Co., Agents,
Portland, Oregon,
i'uysixian
TITH. DAVIS, SI. D. PHYSICIAN AND
IT suieon. Can be found at his Toffies
room ic Strahan's block, First street. Albany
Oregon-
W. MASTON. PHYSICIAN MifrlR
, geon, Albany .Oregon.
m
II . ELLIS, PHYSICIAN AND SUItr
. geon, Albai.y Oregon.
CC. KELLY, PHYSICIAN AXD oUR
. aeon Albany, Oregon. office in iPiercc's
new block. Office.hours, from 8 A. M. to 4
r. m.
J. KOSS1TER. VETERINARY SUR.
J. Kcon, graduate of Ontario veterinary
college andmcmber of the Ontario veterin
ary medical society, is prepared to treat the
diseases of all domesticated animals on
scientific principles. Office at Ans Marshall's
livery stable. Residence 4th and t'alapcofa
streets, Aioany, Oregon.
TK. I. W. STARK. PHYSICIAN AND
J Surgeon, late of Hrou nsvilie. Or. OtF.cc
in the Strahan-Fcarre block upstairs in the
rear rooms on the main hall. Cai's promptly
Mteoucd to in city or country.
DR. R KOLDEWAY, VETERINARY SUR
gcon, Albany, Oregon Graduate of (!J
man and Americim colleges.
DK.M. J. PA ' TON. PHYSICIAN AND
Surgeon, Blumbcrg's lilock, Albany, Or.
Female diseases a specialty. Ca-i be found
in the office dav or night.
ATTORNEYS.
JN. DUNCAN ATTORNEY- VT LAW
. and notary public. Ofice in tiie Strahan
block, rooms No. I and 2.
1 . X. BLACKBIT.X. O. W. WRIGHT,
BLACKBURN, & WRIGHT ATTORXK V AT
Law, Albany, Oregon. Office in Odd
bellow' Temple. Vill petu in oil courts
nf h- ,' and give special attention to all
business.
WOLVERTON CHARLES E. ATTORNEY
at Law, Albany, Or. Office in rooms 13
and 14, Foster's Block, over L. E. Wain's
stor i
TK. WEATHOKKOKD, ATTORNEY AT
. law, Albany, Oregon. Office in Odd
Fellow's Templo. Will pract in all the
courts of thestate, and give special attention
to all business.
JAV.ES P. MEAD, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
and title examiner, Albany, Or. Will
practice in all the courts of the state. Ab
"tracts of title furnished on thort notice.
Ten years experience.
Land Surveying.
PARTIES DRSIRIHO 8CRVSY1KS BOSS CA!f OB
tain accurate and prompt work by calline
upon ex-county surveyor F. T. T. Fisher. He
has complete copies of field notes and town
ship plats, and is prepare 1 to do surveying in
any part of Linn connty. Postoffice address,
Miners station, Linn cou uy, Oregon.
TRJG. A. WniTNEY, PHYSICIAN AND
U surgeon. Graduate of Bellevue Horpi
tal Medical College. New York City. D if eases
nf women a spe-ialty. Office iu Fromaa's
brick, Albany Orevou.
Delmonico Restaurant,
OMR JllT A1 ELLSWORTH STS.
The undt rsigned having purchast'd
the old Herman Restaurant stand has
opened under the above name a first'
class restanraat. We art prepared to
famish meals for-parties 6rdances oh
short notice; Oysters served, in every;
style, eastern or coast; all kinds of
fish known in the market! ; Employ
only first-class help and WBitingwiil
will be prompt and courteous. Reg.
nlar meals 25 ct. Coffee of ' first
clas quality and a cop of" coffee aid
cake at from 5 to 10 ctt'l am well
known in) this city and request the
citizens to give trie a call.
SAM GOETS, Proprietor.
': .
0IMO5 RLKCTIIIC RBL1BP IS TBB MOST BT..
gant modicine in the world lor interna
and external use. and for pain oi any nature.
Yon will never find its equal. Ask, your
druggist for it.
Contractor and Builder
fHE CNDERSIONED.UA VING LOCATED
J. in Albany solicits patronage from city
and country. Will contract to build bridges
barns, and all manner of dwelling houses,
including Queen Anne, Eastlake and Eliza
be thian st vies of buildings. Will furnish
plans and sptcificatins tree of charges. Satis
faction guaranteed W. C. CASSEL.
Piano Tailing.
PARTIES DESIRING PIANOS TUNED
should call upon Prof. D, Van Horn
nf this city, the well known and reliable
piano tuner He is we'I known to the people
of Albany and the entire State, having had
years of experience in this business, also in a
pianoforte manufactory, and has no equal in
that line of business, It always pajs to
patronize home enterprise and 'the public
should remember that they ran now get
pianos tuned in a more skillful manner in
Albany than elsewhere in the State, Leave
orders at Will & Link's
WANTED MAN OK GOOD SELLING
ability to represent us as sales agent in
this town, t200 to $20C0 per year ran be
made) Address, Wanamaker Si Brown,
Philadelphia, Pa -
The largest clothing and merchant tailor
ing house in America.
INE CIGARS IMPORTED, hEV WEST
and Domes!-, embracing the celebrated
Flor de Madrid. Kstrtllas. Onmierors anil
otherchol e lirnds in the WVII, Kar am!
Western Union Telegraph o.'i'oe l):i:M:rc.
fitfheniember the place.
STORM AT SE A .
tough Passage Experienced by
the Queen of the Pacific.
CALH'OKMA ROTEL BIKXKD.
Jjck Pecips y Is. Toj Sick to Train-A Big
San Francisco Loans Association
Goes to Pieces.
The Hkrald's Special Disoatcticg. I
San Francisco, Jan. IS.
rough passage was experienced by
the steamer Queen ot the Pacific
which Arrived yesterday seventy
hours from Victoria. A strong
northwest gale, shifting occasional
ly to the southward, blew contin
ually, causim? the hir iiin -,01
in a manner which was nauseating
tome passengers. .Large quanti
ties of water was shinnpil. Thn
were fifty-thiee cabin and fiftv-two
steerage passengers.
A BIG SWINDLE.
A San Francisco Loan Association
Goes te Pieces.
San Francisco. Jan. 18. Tho
North American ) oan Association,
'ncorporated under the laws of the
8T te oi camornia, capital stock
$10,000,000, home office rooms 48
nd 49 Flood building, San Fran
cisco. California, is no more. The
officers of the association are, or
were, h. P. ioble, president; E.
P. Schneider, treasurer: J. A.
Thomas, secretary. The object of
the at ociation, as set forth in the
circulars, was the leaning of
money in most any sum desired.
Each applicant was to send $3 as
an initiation fee and an additional
$ 1 for each hundred desired, stating
how much he was willing to pay.
Several Pacific coast people,
among them Benjamin Panics, of
Portland, record the loss of money
through the association. None of
its officers can be found.
HOTEL lilli.NKI).
A California Town Loses its Hotel
-i.oss $ro,oon.
Sax Dnriio, (Cal.), Jan. is. 1 he
hotvl t'asa del Mar. at Mchnnr, 1'0
mi! : north of here on the oast,
and owned by Colonel J. S.Taylor,
was burned to the ground yester
day morning. The lire, it is suj
I 'red, originated in the kitchen.
The ou'y furniture saved was a few
bedroom , sets on the first floor.
Tbolo-s placed at $50,000,insurtd
for $25,100. It is stated that the
hotel will be rebuilt at once.
JACK DEBIPSEY.
He
Denies Himself to All Callers
and Is too Sick to Fight.
Sax Francisco, Jan. IS. Jack
Dempsey, through his trainer, de
nied himself to callers generally,
and :s therefore partly responsible
tor what proves to be erroneous
news about his health. He says
the fact is he has been suffering
from a seveie cold which settled on
his lungs and completely stopped
his training, Dut under the care of
competent physicians is now con
valescent and expects to be all
right next week and able to re
sume work.
Drag Store Bnrned.
Mkrced. Cal., Jan. 18. Yester
day morning fire was discovered in
the drug store of Ceort:e Knox, m
the Olcese and Garibaldi building.
It is thought to have been caused
from siiontaneous combustion. The
fumes arising from the Duildinir
ana arugs overcame several per
votie', t'-ough' no lives were lost.
The- flames', spread to adjoining
frkbrcsv which wprp rnnaidornhlv
tftfmaged'. The tola) loss will prob
ably ; reach f 13,000,'. which is most
Jteljrjcovered by insurance.
A; forger Arrested.
San Francisco.: Jan.: 18. An-
.lrew "White, a former eecretarv
and : treasurer ; of : the Gold and
Stock Tlepifoh Corttfteny; was ar
tiMtrail
thai YHite rrii2irf&-it number of
Pftt y ; ior&tidt v connected
.wlW;.f-'cduan.-arjliounting to
fouv.
Notable Dead
San Francisco, Jan. 18. A dis
patch from Sonoma states that
Genera M. O-Valleji died at hia
home' there . early , this morning.
The funeral wiH be held next Tuesday,-
'
Jadge Sawyer Not Eager to Retire.
San Francisco, Jan. 17. Speaking
of his retirement from the bench,
United States Circuit Judge Sawyer
said:
My nltimate intention is to take a
much-needed rest fmm the cares of
judiciat life, but when I shall resign
I have not the slightest idea at
present. I think that the legislation
of the present congress may have a
great influence in the matter of retire
ing, but, howevt . beyond the fact
that I am not an uous, there is noth
ing definite, and as swn as there is I
will be pleased to let the public know.
Millionaire Medicine Man Dead.
Rocihster, N. Y., Jan 17. Asa
T. Soule died thi3 evening, aged 65
He was president of a patent medi
cine nncern. Soule had large interest
i;i Western K-itis-i. lb- was the
foundei of Soule college, at Dodge
City, ar.d owner and president of the
First National bank. He aleo owned
restee yeweraay on a- cnarge oi
forgerTVpTfcfBrred by'jth' president
Of . tne 'CBlftDanw. Tt
more than half of the town of Ingalls,
which became the county seat of Gray
county, after a violent struggle with
residents of Cimarron. Soule was
worth $2,000,000.
COTTES DfG HI' THE BODY.
A l'retty Wyoming Girl Murdered
by a Rancher.
L'kxvkr, Jan. 17. A Chcyenue
special to the News says: In August
last Edna Wilson, a pretty girl of IS,
living in the Big Horn basin, left her
mother's home on horseback to visit a
neighbor. Her way was across a ford
of the Big horn river. She failed to
reach her destination, and it was be
lieved that she had been swept away
by the rapid current of the river and
drowned. Although the river was
searched for miles below, the body
coum noc oc iuund.
About a week after Edna's disap
pearance, J. McCoomb, a prominent
young stockman ef the basin, left the
region. As he was the cirl's suitor
and was paying her attention against
her mother's wishes, it was current
gossip thrt Edna had ridden to tome
rendezvous, where McCoomb had
joined her and the couple had eloped.
McCoomb, however, returned and
denied the elopement story. He sold
out his ranch and left the country fer
good.
On Monday last D. L. Enos. the
purchaser of the McCoomb ranch, dis
covered the body of the eirl buried in
the earthen floor of a deserted hunter's
cabin in an unfrequented part of the
ranch. Coyotes had partially exhumed
the body and stripped the flesh from
the bonet. The identification was
complete, however, by the clothing
ana Dy two coia rings with the mi
tials tt. ihe head showed the
marks of a bullet-hole. McCoomb is
believed to have been the murderer.
and the people of the basin have raised
money to employ detectives to run
uim down,
OL'K RELATIONS WITH CANADA
Prime Minister Macdanald not In
clined to be a Good Neighbor.
Ottawa, Jan. 17. During a par
liamsntary debate this afternoon on
the address in reply to the speech
from the throne, Pope, member for
Compton, denounced those who
tavored aunexation with the Lmtea
States and referred to the Atlantic
ami Bchring sea questions at great
length.
Lauiler, leader of the opposition,
criticized the policy ot the govern
ment in regard to the settlement of
internatinnnl disputes and came out
strongly in favor of closer trade rela
tions with the United States.
Sir John A. Macdonald, in reply
sam the disputes would' soon he set
tied on a basis consistent with na
tional tlicnity. Sir John said protec
tiou was destined to be the policy of
Canada lor many years to come.
St'LLIVAN CHALLENGED
He Offers Roles that John L. Will
Reject A Stake and I'arse.
New York, Jan. 17. Frank Sla
vin cables from London to the Police
Gazette, challenging Sullivan to fight
tor I'J.oOU a side, London prize ring
rules, in America or Europe, or fight
with small gloves, Police Gazette
rales, for SoOOO a side at the Call
forria Athletic club, provided the
club adds a $15,U00 purse to the
stake.
AN IMPORTANT BILL.
Oflnterest to Owners of Govern
ment Land In the Nortwhest.
Washington, Jan. 18. Senator
Pettig.ew will introduce a bill on
Monday, providing that in all land
cases which bad been proved up
prior ta January 1, 1890, and where
innocent parties have obtained an
interest by purchase or otherwise;
patents shall be issued. The Mills'
intended to cleirttp.'aiargeumbfr
of cases all through the Northw
wnicn nave oeen uung up ror years
r.nd where it is almost an impossi
bility for the present bolder Jj$
make proof that the law has beett ,1
cempiiea.wiiD.
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WILL' SOON ISSUE.
Proclamation of Amnesty to Mea
Who Have Deserted.
Washihgton, Jan. 16. Secretarf
Prne.tor is tn-dav nrenarinir r nrnfita;'
mation fer the president to ;ssue eir
ing amnesty to over ; 30,000 men who
have deserted tlu army since the last
amnesty. ;
A BOT SHOULD LEARN .
Reidsville, (N. C.) Times.
To build a fence scientifically.
To fill the wood-box every night.
To shut the1 door in summer, to
keep the fiies out.
lo shut the doors without slam
ming.
To shut them in winter, to keen the
cold out.
To do errands nromritlv and cheer.
fully. '
To get ready to go away without
the united efforts of mothers and sis
ters. "
To be gentle to his little sisters.
To wash dishes and make his bed.
when necessary.
To sew on a button and darn a
stocking.
To be kind to all animals.
To have a dour if possible and make
a companion of him.
To ride, row, shoot and swim.
To be manly and courageous.
To let cigarettes alone.
Edis.'H, the wizard of electricitv.
now declines to see visitors at his
Meulo Park laboratorv. He is a vpih
busy mau, and he cannot understand
why bis valuable, golden time should
l 'I- IA , , .
ue sacrniceu to ueouie who s:mriiv
call to "pay their respects."
WASHINGTON NEWS
The Funeral of the Late
Walker Blaine.
Til K
DAY
IN
CONGRESS.
St. Loais Wo:kirg Bard for ths Worlds
Tiir in 1392 The Okhhoua Townd""",
Site Bill.
Special to the Herald. ,
Washington. Jan. IS. The
funeral of Waluer Claine took
place this morning, A large num
ber of friends of the family, mem
bers of lii diplomatic corps and
people i.-i official life attended the
funeral. A 'private funeral cere
mony was held at the home of
Secretary Blaine on LaFayette
Square af 19:30 'a. m. President
and Mrs. Harrison, all the mem
bers of the cabinet, K. W. Hal
ford, several members of the diplo
matic ccrps and some intimate
friends of the family attended the
services, which were conducted by
Kev. Dr. Hamlin, pastor of the
Church of Covenant. At the con
clusion of the private ceremonies
the remains were taken to the
Church of Covenant, followed by
the family and friends in carriages.
The attendance at the church was
very large, many persons beine nrir
able to get in on account of the
large crowd.
Ihe house of representatives did
not meet until 1 o'clock, in order
to allow the members to attend the
funeral, and the .department of
justice, witD whom, the deceased
was officially connected, was
closed during the time of the
funeral. While tie department of
state was not fomally closed the
officers and employes who desired
to attend the funeral weie permit
ted to do so.
THE DAY IN CONGRESS.
Washington, Jan. 18. A special
meeting of the senate committee
on railroads was held this morn
ing to listen to en argument by
Collis P. Huntington on the rail
road funding bill. The members
of the committee were anxious to
attend the fiineral of Walker
Blaine, and the hearing was post
poned to next week. (
IN THE llOl'SK.
tITI . 1 V
v nen me nouse met at one
o'clock to-day Mr. Frank, of Mis
souri, introduced a bill to -elebrato
tha world's fair at St. Louis, and
provide for the creating of a cor
poration to carry on the sam e. It
was referred to a special committee
Ex-Governor Foraker resumed
the statement before' the house
committee in the ballot box for
gery to-day.
Mr. Kinzey. of Missouri, intto'
duced a bill in relation to the nat
ural isolation of alies; referred.
The house theft went into a com
mittee of the whole, with Mr.
Burrows, of Michigan, in the chair,
on tiie Oklahoma town site bill.
IN THE AFRICAN WILDS.
A White Woman Alone on the Dark
Continent.
In this nlace. writes a correa-
Eondentef the New York Sua from
ainby, in tbe French Consro. one
of the most nncivilized narts of
West Africa, an American ladV is
living without white cemDanions.
instructing tbe natives and cheer
fully performing all the duties that
devolve upon her as. a missionary.
She is Miss Martha Kah of Chev-
eniwounty.Jlfab. and sho is tbe
V VHXtlUQIDU-
tie-wit,' w&n it
eventa
her 'of all her comrades.
- She so periri teaded : the ' house
keepinc while the others wern with
her, and now She is obliged, in ad-
uinuu, kw accp iue ecnooi going ana
direct tbe labors on the pianiatioa.
She teaches school five days every
week, if not prevented by sickness.
me plantation was opened by Mr.
Sortore,and on it is raised consider
able manioc,bananas and cocoa. It is
necessary to keep up the plantation,
for Hiss Eab, m addition to her
missionary work, must support her
self, the theory of the Taylor mis
sions beiog that tbe missionaries
shall support,, themselves. It is
marvelous how economically Miss
Kah and her recent comrades lived
in this savage part ot the world;
and yet they have always been pre
pared to entenain hospitably, any
traveler wbo corses here. ..
Many of the missionaries in West
ern Africa live in nicely furnished
houses brcught from Europe or
America, and a pood deal of their
food is specially prepared in Lon
uon or raris lar use. la tropical
countries. But the Taylor mis
biouariea have to build their own
houses, except that t tie iron used in
them is imported. This house, ex
cept its corn-gate; iron shies, waa
ui.ulu l.-om nintuthits ptoauced ia j
H bili IrfrW-rKali WWnWl .V
the country, and by unskilled native
workmen. It is difficult to con
ceive how much patience and perse
verance are required to build a
house under such conditions. This
building was erected under the
direction ef Mr Sortore, with few
extra wrrkmen besides those regu
larly employed on the plantation.
This is a faithful representative of
the home of this brave white
woman, who, under tbe most try
ing circumstances, has been ieft
wholly alone in the work she came
out to Africa to do.
TEMPEBAHCE NOTES.
Contributed by the W. C T. U.
The star in the east has appeared as
the official organ of the Mine XV. C.
T.U.
In the new state of Washington the
license ranges from $350 to $1000 a
ve.ir. and vet tVi aalnnn ia tlin mnet
j , j . - - -
insolent institution in the land.
The Cherokee maidens of Tahlequah
Indian territory, are reported as tak
ing an active and successful interest
in the temperance deinorest medal
contests.
L. P. Hubbard a reformed smoker
of Greenwich, Conn., sums up his
testimony on the subject of tobacco
as follows: "My smbking was moder
ate compared with that of many, only
six cigars a day at 61 cents each, equal
to $136.50 per annum, which at 7 per
cent interest' for fifty-seven years,
amrhounts to the small fortune of
$90,204.50. This has afforded means
for the education of my children with
an appropriate allowance for benevo
lent objects. Great as this saving has
been, it is not to bo compared with
improved health, a clear head and
steady hand, at the age of over eighty
oue years, and entire freedom from
desire for tobacco in any form."
We do not make enough of the im
portance of showing the brain
deterioration that comes with the use
of alcoholic drinks. We do not often
put tne fact of American superiority
in the line of the invention and use
of labor-saving machinery with the
large fact of the prevalence of total
abstinerce in America. We should
find rich material if we search for the
rapidly increasing number of railroads
that demand total absti icnce in their
employes for the sake of a level head,
of business firms that require it for
the sake of better work, of its abso
lute inditpcnsability in the handling
of all electric apparatus, and so ou of
many other pursuits.
In the line cf inventive power,
while we may make much of the ex
ample of such notable inventors as
Franklin, Steti:ton and Goodyear,
we might profitably enlarge upon the
fact that the bright educated young
workmen of the present day, if they
keep their heads free from the stupe
fying effects of beer, aud with all the
stimulus of invention around them
aud in their hands, will probably de
velop new inventions in geometrical
proportions. Miss J aba Colman.
The liquor men of Howard countv.
Missouri, appear to have particular
reason for disliking the W. C. T. U.
The high license law of the state re
quires that petitions for dram-shops
De signed oy a majority ot the resi
dent tax-paying citizens of the town
or block. Ihe W. U. T. U. of Glas
gow made a test of the word citizen
before the supreme oourt of the state.
the liquor men violently contending
that women, were not citizens before
the law and could not be counted even
through tax-payers. The supreme
oe art however decided that the
women are citizens, and as a result
the saloons of Howard county have
taken their departure even without
an election, there being enough tax
paying women citizens to " turn the
majority scale against them by simple
petition.
POPULATION OF HADES.
A Mathematical Computation of the
Nomber of Lost Sonls.
Ne York Sun.
In rouud numbers the earth baa
a population of 1,300,000,690 of
wham Raanoorinn nrnfiuun
Christians, tbx other ;l,00$,0,eQQ
being Mohammedans, Buddhists,
Jews, pagans, and heatheB. The
wnoie race, was condemned to eter
nal punishment for the sin of Adam.
This was the fall ot man. from
which there was and is no redemp
tion save through tbe death of
Christ. Biblical chronolorrv o-ivea
the earth a period f.nbont 6000
jearp. . .'From . Adam's ' time ta
vuiiok mmm uy years, uuTlDg WDlCn
period no human' souls were saved,
Tbe population may then have aver
aged 1,000,000,000. Three gener
ations, or 3,000,000,000 men pass
away in eacn century. Forty cen
turies, therefore, consigned 120
000,000,000 men to eternal fire, and.
fox all, we know, they. are. there
now! In the 1800 - Team . 'hirh
have elapsed since the birth of
ennst o,uuu,uuo,0000 more of
human bciogs have lived and died.
If all tbe Christians, nominal and
real, who have evtr lived on tbe
face of the earth have been saved,
they would net number more than
18,000,000,000. Now if we deduct
this latter number from the grand
total of 177,000,000,000, we find
129,000,000,000 of souls wbo are
suffering the torments of hell fire,
cs agaiDst 18,000,000,000 who have
escaped. But this is not tbe whole
truth. Nobody believes that more
than 10 per cent' of tbe ! professed
Christians are saved. Ca!vinists
themselves 6ay that the elect are
few. If this is a fact heaven con
tains but 1,800.000,000, against n
popuV.tbn in hell of 17.100(Uioo.
EAST OF THE ROCKIES
A Ball of Red Hot Iron Ex
plodes in a Foundry.
A 15,000 FIRE IN CHICAGO.
Trial of the!Port!and Mnrdefer, Sandy Oldsi
Set fjr Febiaary 12 Sews from the
Old World.
Special to the Hkralb.j
Newcastle, Pa., Jan. 18. An
explosion occurred at the Aetna
Rolling Mill last night, in which
three men were terribly burned.
One of the buggies containing a
ball of red hot iron upset in,a pud
dle of water. The moment it
touched the water an explosion oc
curred, throwing huge chunks oi
iron about the mill, and burning
Gerald Cox severely about the
waist, cheek and neck. William
Duyer and Richard Meltonbaugh
were also seriously burned about
the waist, face and hands. . Cox
will probably die, but the other
two will recover.
Fire In Chicago.'
Chicago. Jan. 18. A fire hrnko
out at 3 o'clock this morning in a
inree-story oncic structure on
Ninety-Second street, and spread
to the adjoining buildings. The
families living in the upper stories
narrovly escaped with their lives.
One building was totally destroyed
and several others damaged. The
total loss is $15,000; insurance
very little.
Sandy Olds' Trial.
Portland, Jan. 18. Sandy Olds'
trial has been set for Feb. 12.
ODD AND INTERESTING.
Boston has two negro councilmen
The general depth of the Suez canal
is twenty-six lect.
Of China's 300,000,000 people, one-
tentli are agriculturists.
At St: Louis the Mississippi is 3500
C . t- '. .2 i X7. "t - - I. .
icci. nit, aii new uneaui it is ZOVJ
feet wide.
There are 90,119 paupers, exclusive
of vagrants and lunatics, in Loudou
at the present time.
It is estimated that $300,000,000
worth of jewels are buried in the
royal vaults ot Constantinople.
A thief stole a pair of sho-s from
a Portland policeman the other night.
l ne guaraian oi tne nigut was sound
asitep.
The llartfort Post savs its tvr
j j in
setting machine does more work than
r j i . .
luur incu aim gives uener service,
The whole paper is set by these ma
chines.
Tomatoes were only raised for orna
ment bfty years ago, anu were called
love apples, and not thought fit to
eat. Last year about 72.000,000 cans
were put up.
It is said in Washington that Sec
rotary Blaine spends an hour or two
a day in literary work. He is encaged
upon some historical treatise the sub
ject of which is not known. Mr,
Blaine has been much pleased at the
success of his book, "Twenty Years
of Congress," and longs for further
literary laurels.
During the recent floods in Japan
2419 persons were killed and 155 were
wounded; 90,000 were deprived of the
necessaries of life; 50,000 houses were
swept away or readered uninhabita
ble, 150,000 acres of agricultural land
with their crops were laid waste;
6000 bridges were carried away, and
hundreds of ' miles of .roads were
destroyed.
The wife of Private Secretary Hal-
ford is lying danrerously ill with eon
sumption in WMhiagton.' She has,
made a long fight against the disease'
and has spent a great deal ef time oi
late years ia Florida. She was too
weak (his season to go South and hef
physicians giye'lUtJe hope of her ever
being atrpnger.'
TREED BX 8NOW.
A Colorado Miner's Unlove Bxper-
lenee Above Minnesota Gulch,.
Silverton(Col.)Minen. -.
Many of onr readers have doubtless
read of hunters being treed by bear
and ether wild Animals, bnt it re-
niainea ior a aaa ,i uan .miner to be
driven te a tree for refuge while the
sneV wi& sliding for hundreds of
yards all around him. ihe hero of
this incident, was Patsy Gillan, who
has recently' thrown up a hard con
tract on the Bed Lion mine. Last
week he secured a contract to work
the assessment on a claim just above
Minnesota gulcn, on .Cement creek.
Any one who is acquainted with that
section k nows '.. that the lay of the
groaad there can be viewed in winter
with anything but complacency. The
hillside is not very steep, but just
steep onough to hold , all the snow
that falls without allowing it to slide.
unless assisted by a jar; then it com
with an emphasis that means business,
and the entire hillside appears to be
moving to a lower altitude. The tim
ber is limited to only a few of the
moat substantial spruce, that have
lived long enough to get nsed to the
ctutoms of the country and strong
enough to hold their own in case of
acsidents.
The open cut that was to be "as
sessed" is situated in the midst of an
open space, and when a blast was
fired, Patsy had to run and hide be
hind a tree. One of the men who did
the work last year, who was rather
slow in his habits, was on one occasion
helped into his position by a flat piece
of s ock, w 'z: h r.tr.u:k him in the beefy
porticn of his anatomy and lifted him
about ten feet Last Mondty Patsy
pui in a luting hole about nve feet
deep and primed it with fonr sticks of
Jo. 1 giant. After spitting the fuse -he
made a bee-line for the big tree,
when he suddenly thought of tiie
scow. It was five feet all around,
and when the explosion should occur
nothing could stop it from slipping.
He had no time to run, and there was
no way left to get out of it but by
climbing, and climb he did. Patsy
climbed for dear life, And just get one
foot on the lower branch when off
went the blast. In a moment the air
was filled with flying rock and snow,
followed by a loud crack, then the
rumbling sound of moving snow, ac
companied by the muffled crack of
timbers as they were crushed into
kindlind sticks. Patsv thoucht his
time had come; the crushing force of
the thousands of tons of snow was be
hind the big tree he was in and it
seemed that nothing short of a miracle
could save it from being torn from its
roots. All the sins of his lifetime
passed before his eyes in panoramic
view and he felt that he could almost
forgive the vandal who robbed his
cabin last week. But the alarm
proved needless, the snow swept by
and as Patsy came down from the tree
he made a solemn vow that never
'gain would be take such a chance
without first insuring his life in an
old line company.
GENERAL SICKLES' HORSE.
A Fine Animal Taken as a Fee for
Legal Services.
Wherever I see General Dan
Sickles bowling, over the cobble
stones in a cab drawn by a very
handsome bay horse, in which he
always rides dowi to bis office,
says a New York Star writer, I
wonder how many people know
where the gallant General got
that cab and horse. The general
answer to the question would be,
I suppose that he bought it. He
did not do anything of the kind,
xle received it as a fee for legal ser
vices. Not very many years ago
General Sickles acted as the legal
adviser of a very pretty young wo-,
man who was engaged to be mar
ried to a youcg man of a very
wenltuy and aristocratic family.
The young man's relatives opposed
the match . The cab and horse
were a present from the young mrn
to his financee," and cost $1200.
The ycung man was worth a million
and a half in his own right, but
his uuclc, a wealthy banker, per
suaded him to make hirn trustee of
his estate, only reserving to him
self tbe icccme. An action was
brought iu the. Supreme Court ' to
set aside the trust, and for a time a
very sensati.inai story promised to
become public property. The suit
was compromised, however, and
the story never got into tbe news
papers. As seen as thecompromise
was effected the uncle shipped the
young man off to Australia in
charge of a private detective. The
young woman traveled all over
Europe in search of him. In Paris
she was seized with brain fever,
and when she recovered she gave
up the search and came home.
General Sickles acted as her legal
advi-er in certain matters growing
out of her troubles afterward, and
she gav. him the cab and horse
as a tee.
SOME ORIGINS.
Cottage Ilcarih.
Envelopes were hrst used in 1839.
The first air pump was made in
1650.
The first steel pen was made in
183a
The first lucifer match was made in
1829.
The first iron steamship was built
in 1830.
Ship were first "copper-bottomed"
in 1783.
The first horse railroad was built
in 1826-27.
The first steamboat plied the Hud
son in 1807. -
The first watches were made in
Nuremberg in 1847- . ; . ,
Xne nrst newspaper advertisement
appeared . in " 1652.
Xne nrst use of a locomotive in this
country was 1819;
Better Than Ever.
I am now better prepared than I
have ever been to suit iny custo
mers in the shoe line. 1 Lave just
received a large invoice of tha cel
ebrated Laird, Schober & Mitchell
fine shoes for ladies. There is no
manufacturer who claims anything
better than these shoes. . I intend
to keep a full assortment of them
in all prices, widths from A EE,
.-nd can suit the most fastidious in
it . and Drice. I also. rvnvrl
another invoice of. the' popular
ahno tv T P'uwt'a :n n.n.,l.ni .
snd patent leather tin: - Thaaa
shoes are well known in Albany as
& . urBt-ciaBa . nice styie shoe. , Or
ders from the country filled 'with,
care and satisfaction guaranteed.
Samuel E. Young.
Dr. Patton now has his office
fully arranged to suit every con
venience and is prepared to ' treat
all who may apply. Ladies suffer
ing from those ills peculiar to their
sex can be assured of speedy relief,
as the doctor has made female
diseases his special etudy. He
holds two diplomas and is a mem
ber of the Oregon State Medical
Society. He prepares his own
medicines and everything is confi
dential. Consultation is free and
a visit to his office costs you noth
ing. Ofiice in Elumlierg's block.
Deserving poor treated free.