THE INDEPENDENT
. nAS THE
FINEST JOB OFFICE
IJT DOUGLA8 COUNTY. ' v
CARDS, BILL HEADS, LEGAL BLANKS
And other printing, including
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Large and Heavy Posters and Showy
Handbills.
Neatly and expeditiously executed
AT PORTLAND PHICES,
IS ISSUED
Saturday Bfornlnga,
BY THE
DOUGLAS COUNTY PUBLISHING CO.
One Year.,
.$J SO
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... 1 ov
M Months.,
Three joiiilM....
I he are tea term for those paying In advance.
9heJbg!Ktii)K!XT,Qfrmflne inducements to ad
vertises, ji ... reasonable.
vol. vni.
ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURJDAY, NOVEMBER 3. 1883.
NO. 30.
THE INDEPENDENT
iTlTTTTO
Ml,
J . J A S EC U L E It
PRACTICAL
WATCHMAKER. , JEWELERr AND
OPTICIAN.
ALL WORK WARRANTED.
l)aler In Watch. Clacks, Jewelry,
K ..
And a Fall Lino of
Cigars, Tobaccos and Fancy Goods.
The only reliable Optometer in town for the
proper adjustment of Spectacle ; always on band.
Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec-
tacles and Eyeglasses.
OFFICE First, door south of post office, Row
btirg, Oregon. ; . '
Boot aiid Shoe Store,
nOBEDUHG, OGN.,
On Jackson Street, opposite the Postoffice. Keeps
on band the largest and best assortment of
Kasteris and (Han FraneUco Boots and
itiiMi, altera, Hllprera
And everything in the Boot and Shoe Line and
SELLS CHEAP for CASH.
Boots ami Shoes Made to Order Perfect
nt guaranteed.
I use the Beet of Leather and Warrant all
my work.
It EI'AIUING Neatly Done
On Short Notice. I keep always on hand
TOYS ATID NOTIONS.
'Musical Instruments and Violin Strings a Spe-
i laity. I.ODIH LAOKHBkKO.
DK. M. W. DAVIS,
DENTIST,
ROSEBURG, OREGON.
OFFICE ON JACKSON STREET,
Up Stair? , over 8. Marks & Co.'s New Store.
IVlAHOfJEY'S 6ALOOW
Nearest to the Railroad Depot, Oakland
Jus. Mahoney, Prop'r.
Tha finest of wines, liquors and cigars in Do
laa oountj, and the best
.IIIIRI
In the State kept in proper repairs
Parties traveling on the railroad will find tkJa
place yery bandy to visit daring the step
ping oi me train at we vaa
land Depot Ghra meacall.
: . Jab. HAnONEY.
a
JOHN FRASER,
Homo Made Furniture,
WILBUR,
OREGON.
Upholstery, Spiring Mattrasses, Etc.,
Constantly on hand.
FURNITURE. J
have trie beat stock, of
lurntture south of Portland
And all of my own manufacture.
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No
two Prices to Customers
Residents of Douglas county arcrequested to
pive ino a call before purcbasing elsewhere.
1ST ALL WORK WARRANTED.-S
" DEPOT HOTEL
OAKLAND. . - - OUKUOIf.
Richard. Thomas, Prop'r.
'PHIS HOTEL HAS. BEEN ESTABLISHED
for a number ol years, and has become very
popular with the traveling public. First-class
SLECPITiC ACCOMMODATIONS.
And the table supplied with the best the market
affords. 1 1 otel f the oVpot of the Kailroad.
H. C. STANTON,
Dealer in
Staple Dry Coods I
Keeps constantly ons hand
went of
a general assort-
EXTRA FINE GROCERIES,
WOOD, WILLOW AND GLASSWAttF,
ALSO
Crockery and Cordage
-i v A full stock of
h ciibo r.v o o ks
Such as required by the Public County Schools,
All kind, of STATIONERY, TOYS and
FANCY ARTICLES,
To suit both Young and Old.
UYS .AND SELLS LEGAL TENDERS,
-a liiini.sht'a Checks on Portland, and procures
Prutts on San Francisco.
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SEEDS SEEDG !
ALL mm OF BkJST ailALHY
Promptly nttenJed to and Goods Bhipoed
with care.
AlWress,- iiacheney & Jieno,
' - Portland. Oregon
, A St. Looia dispatch of October 23d
-Bays: Tbe immense medicine factory,
packing house and offices of Dr. J. H.
McLean, at the corner of Broadway and
piddle streets, canght fire a little after
11 o'clock to night, and at midnight are
pretty nearly destroyed-. Tlie loss on
McLesra'a buildings is $50,000, and may
run higher. A large agricultural imple
rnent warehouse adjoining" the. rear of
McLean's building fronting Collins
street, was also destroyed. The burned
property on Broadway, south of Mo
Lean's, is not considerable; and the loss
will be light.
LATEST NE1VS SUMMARY.
BY TEtEQBAPU TO DATE.
The Marquis of Lome and Princess
Louise sailed from Quebec for home
October 28th.
Two carriage factories of Plainville.
Conn., valued at $80,000. were swept
away by fire Oct. 27th.
The business failures during the week
ending Oct. 27th, throughout the United
States and Canada is 218, against 213 last
week. .
It is stated the pope will declare the
Pantheon a pagan temple if the monu
ment to Victor Emanuel is erected in
the center, as indicated.- by Kins Hum
bert. Clifton A. Terrill, who committed ex
tensive pension frauds at Indianapolis,
has been pardoned from the penitentiary
at Michigan City, Indiana, by President
Artunr.
Major Nicholas Nolan, of the Third
cavalry, died at Holbrook, Arizona, Oct.
25th. He was in command of Fort Apache
and had gone to meet his family, who
were coming from Texas.
Germany and Russia are increasing
their forces on the frontiers. - Russian
villages are crowded with Cossacks.while
German garrisons and fortifications are
being strengthened- :
AtDurango, Col., October 28th, Abe
Schieffer, of the firm of Schieffer &'Co.,
was accidentiy killed by throwing a sack
containing among other things a revol
ver, on the floor, which discharged the
weapon.
The Overland Telephone company has
been organized at Cincinnati with a
capital of $300,000, the greater portion
of which has been taken. Itisrjunder
stood to be a branch of a New York com
pany, it will use Uaxter instruments.
At St. Pan! recently, Dave Steinbach,
formerly of Todd & Co., was murdered
by a man named Saulley and wife. ' The
trouble rose out of an old grudge, and
while the men were fighting the "woman
drove the tine of a pitchfork into Stein
bach a brain. . .Both murderers were ar
rested.
The Union Pacific railroad has ap
pointed George J. Cowan, who has been
connected with the company in San
Francisco, assistant general - western
passenger agent for Oregon, Washington
and British Columbia, with headquarters
at Portland.
Fifty operators in the coal mines of
St. Clair county, Illinois, have been in
dicted for violating the law requiring
scales for weighing coal to be placed in
each mine. Between sixty and seventy
men lately engaged in the strike at the
railroad yards in East St. Louis were
also indicted.
Owing to. the jaalousy of foreign en -terpiise,
the liussian newspapers are
fiercely attacking the establishment, by
government, of a mixed company of
American, French and Russian capital
ists with a capital of 25,000.000 roubles,
for erection of American grain elevators
throughout the empire.
Director General S. Burke, of the
World's Industrial Cotton Centennial
Exposition, to be held in New Orleans,
has invited designs for the main build
ing, to embrace a million square feet of
floor space, and to cost $2tU,U00. Pre
miums offered are $1000 for the best plan,
$500 for second, and $250 for third.
Ihe Salt Lake Herald, Mormon church
paper, m a bitter article on liovernor
Murray, calls for his removal. As Mur
ray is the best governor Utah ever had.
the Gentiles and law abiding people will
stand by him to a man. His onlj offense
is that he wants the laws enforced in
Utah as in any others-portion of the
United States. -
The People's Railway company of
America, organized at Indianapolis a few
months ago, with an authorized capital
or $175,000,000, dividends to be paid
stockholders in transportation, began
suit against Wilbur F. Storv, proprietor
oi the Chicago Times, laving damages at
$iH)0,000, for publication of an article in
timating that the, company was a fraud
In the Utted States circuit court,
Jacob Sanger, of Grundy county, Mis
souri. obtained a verdict of $6000 against
the Western Union Telegraph company
Sanger was crossing a railroad track at
night, mounted on a mule, and became
entangled in the telegraph wires, which
had. sagged nearly to the ground. He
was thrown from the animal, and claimed
$10,000 on account of injuries.
R. G. Dun & Co., of the New York
mercantile agency, report tbat encourag
ing indications as to an improvement in
the condition of business are not want
ing. The late exchanges show a marked
increase in transactions at isauy points,
aitnougn tney may be more or less of a
speculative character. A belief is cur
rent that there is a good deal of money
making under existing conditions.
A Salt Lake dispatch of October 28th
pays: At an early hour this morning the
Salt Lake skating pavilion was discov
ered to be on fire, and was entirely con
sumed. It was a new building and had
only been occupied a month. Loss $10,
000; Insurance, $3000. It is supposed to
be the wort oi ao incendiary; At noon
to day a fire broke out in the stables of
the Railroad Exchange hotel, consuming
the barn, horsts and two bears, it then
extended to the hotel, which was de
stroyed with nearly all its furniture.
One of the boarders lost $10,000 in gov
ernment bonds. JUoss on- hotel and fur
niture $10,000; insuranco, $7000.
A Chicago dispatch of October 28th
says: A passenger train bound north on
the Pan .Handle road and an out-going
freight on the Micbgan Central collided
this morning at Joliet crossing, thirty
miles southeast of this city. .Both .en
gines were thrown from the track and
wrecked, falling upon and setting fire
to the flagman's box, into which flag
man Peter Collie retreated upon seeing"
a collision inevitable, and was burned
to death. William Morris of Logans
port, engineer of the Pan Handle train,
and John Kellogg of Michigan City,
head breakn an of the Michigan Central
traifu were killed. . Donegan, engineer
of the Michigan Central train, was in
jured severely, and, crazed by hurts and
fright, ran four miles to Dyer. Indiana,
where he arrived a lunatic. John Gor
man, the Central Michigan fireman, was
also huit.
JamesMcClatchy, editor of the Sacra
mento Bee, died Oct, 25th.
The naval advisory board recommend
ed construction of seven new naval ves
sels. At Greensborough, N. C, over 300
children have died from diphtheria
lately. -
It is reported German exports to the
United States are rapidly decreasing in
number and value.
McFarland , commissioner -of "the gen
eral land office, is gradually reducing
the number of land offices as opportu
nity arises.
William Cleeland, a switchman at the
Kansas Pacific yard," Denver, . was
crushed to death between two car wheels
recently.
The Marquis of Lansdowne, the new
governor-general, of Canada, arrived at
Quebec on 0t. 22d. The oath of office
was administered to him by the Marquis
of Lorne.
. Over 130.000 Americans have regis
tered abroad during the season just
closed, chiefly made np from the east
with a fair proportion from Chicago and
the northwest.
The New York board of aldermen ask
$20,000 for the celebration of the cen
tennial of the departure of British troops
from New York, and ask the mayor "to
proclaim a general holiday.
Thirteen of the older and smaller busi
ness houses of Miles City, M. T., burned
recently. The flames were finally checked
by blowing up a building with gun
powder. The remainder of the business
section had a narrow escape.
A recent dispatch from Eagle Pass,
Texas, says: The robbed and mutilated
remains of two unknown Americans were
found on the Mexican side, twenty-five
miles from here. The United States
consul at Peidras Nigras is investigating
the case. i
On the farm in Kansas once occupied
by the murderous Bender family, J. C.
Murphy plowed up a sealed can, con
taining $35,000 in greenbacks and . coin.
Uther parties are digging up ground
in the hope of making similar discover
ies. Three children named Ingris, the old
est erirl aged 12 years, were drowned in
a pond at Eikhorn, Manitoba. The girl
was on the pond skating when the ice
broke. Two younger brothers tried to
save her, and all perished in the pres
ence of the mother on the bank.
It is represented that the postmaster
general, on completion of the investiga
tion of the postal telegraph system, will
strongly recommend it. Since the re
duction of the postage went into eliect
the increaso in letters mailed is 17 per
oent. and 11 per cent, in circulcrs.
The following changes have been
ordered in the quartermaster's depart
ment of the army: ColoDel J. D. Bing
ham is relieved fi-om duty in the depart
ment of- the Missouri, and ordered to
San Francisco; Major John Gillis is re
lieved from duty at Fort Monroe, and
ordered to the department of the
Missouri.
The latest 'nihilist proclamation, now
being circulated extensively in St; Pe
tersburg, demands that the Czar sum
mon representatives of the Russian peo
ple, and asks for full amnesty, freedom
of the press, freedom oi speech and the
right to hold public meetings, as the
only means of preventing revolution.
Pitiless vengeance is threatended if the
demand of the. nihilists is disregarded.
The Merchants and Farmers' associa
tion, of San Francisco, for the preven
tion of railroad extension, have issued a
circular in opposition to the loinl circu'
lar issued by railroad companies recently,
regarding the renewal of special con
tracts. The merchants and farmers' cir
cular is an appeal to merchants through
out the state to give their patronage to
the Northern Pacific as a competing line.
Commissioner of Pensions Dudley has
prepared for District Attorney Corkhill
a large amount of documentary evidence
collected by agents of the pension office
in relation to tne swindling operations
of pension claim agents. General Dud
ley will detail a special examiner to
assist the district attorney in his inves
tigation. A number of dishonest pen
sion agents have already been suspended
from practice before the pension bureau.
At the request of Postmaster General
Gresham- Attorney-GeneralBrewster has
addressed a circular to all district attor
neys directing them to cordially" co
operate with officers of the postoffice de
partment in enforcing section 389 of the
revised statutes, which forbids any letter
or circular concerning lotteries being
carried in the mail. The penalty for
violating this act is a fine of not more
than $500 nor less than $100. with cost
of prosecution. .....
AHopg Kong special says: la view
of the recent disturbances in Canton it
is proposed to establish a foreign officer
near the foreign concessions so as to
transact consular business and prevent
the necessity of passing through the
city. Viceroy Chang Shu Shin says he
will make a protest against the removal
of accused parties in the Hankow affair
on the ground that if foreigners assume
the right of trial over their own subjects
committing crimes against Chinese, they
should have a fair trial and absolute jus
tice. A late dispatch says: Matters at
the Metlakatlah mission , B. . C, are
in a disturbed and dangerous state. The
bishop's adherents are few in number,
but are armed to the teeth and threaten
a bloody -xetaliation if their houses,
which they desired to erect on the lines
of the village street," are again moved.
Their opponents are understood to be
prepared for any emergency, and to be
determinedly leot on meeting force with
force. Immediate nd vigorous action
is necessary, rtie dominion government
has been troubled too long with this
too serious matter. Previous to the ad
vent of the bishop, the village of Met
lakatlah wasv.the peaceful abode of a
tribe of Christianized Indians, who lired
in harmony and enjoyed the""fruits of
well directed industry. Now it is dis
turbed by the acts of a'few Indian's, who
led by the bishop are endeavoring to use
authority which they do not possess.
The situation is becoming day by day
more strange and dangerous.
Smart Engine Horses.
"Look out there; that horse will hurt
you! He's mighty quick with his feet."
The speaker was a member of Engine
Company No. 17,whoso houBe is in Lud
low near Broome street, ?and the subject
of his warning was a large iron-gray
horse standing in his stall, with nose and
ears extended, in response to an amicable
advance of the reporter left hand
"What is the matter with him?" asked
the reporter, suddenly Withdrawing the
friendly left hand and placing his body
under cover of the side df the stall; "Is
he vicious?" , . j ;
"Oh, no, not visious, but playful, and
he is apt to jump at straigers." I
"What is his name?" ,
"Barney.". J " - 1
"Is he an jntelligenVfellow? :
JYe8, but nothing like an old bay
horse named Martin, which split bis hoof
and had to be sent to the hospitali Old
Martin could do almost anything but
talk. I never saw the like of; him.
When the gong would sound a call to
fire he would not only jump into his
place near the engine pole, as they all
soon learn to do, but he would ba the
first there, and then he would raise his
head up and take the bit between his
teeth. At the same time he would paw
the air frantically with his right fore leg.
But it is a remarkable fact that
although he was here ten or eleven
years he never hit a man whilei paw
ing. A man named Joe, who comes
here, used to bring lump sugar
in bis pocket for Martin, and he would
follow Joe about like a dog and know
the minute Joe touched the handle of
the door on the outside. Joe med to
wear a peculiar looking slouch hat, and
it seemed as if the horse would know the'
shadow of that hat as soon as it fell on
the glass of the door. If Joe passed the
stall without noticing him Martin iwould
cut up all sorts of capers and raise the
biggest kind of a racket to attract his at
tention." j
In all of the engine-houses there is an
putomatic device, by means of a spring
regulated by, a wire attached to the sig
nal gong, for releasing the halter from
the catch in the side of the stall. Old
Martin knew that fact so well, that; when
ever the gmg began to sound he Iwonld
pull so vigorously against "the halter as
frequently to prevent the catch from be
ing released by its fastening. He also
soon learned to unhitch the halter by
taking the connecting wire betwejen his
teeth, and often on dull days jwould
amuse himself by making surreptitious
forays in search of water and oats. It
finally became necessary to cover the
wire with a sheath of tin to prevent him
from roaming around the premises at
will. Old Martin had also a well de
fined sense of humor, as is proved; by the
following anecdotes related by his
driver: I. j-
"He was the most gentle and. docile
horse you ever saw, yet he took a perfect
delight in frightening strangers!. One
day a visitor was standing close in front,
of the stall talking to me,: his back
turned to the horse. All of a, sudden
old Martin reared up and came dbwn on
both fore feet with a crash that! nearly
made the stranger jumpDut of his skin.
" 'My God!' he sung out, fl thought
the roof was coming down.' j
"One rainy night we went to a fire at
Jones' brewerv, on Sixth street. Old
Martin was Rtanding close to the side
walk and there came along a young chap
with an umbrella over his hat. jMartin
seized the end of the stick between his
teeth and brought the young ijflljow to a
sudden standstill. The man looked
round as if he thought somebody was
taking a liberty with him, and when he
found it was only a horse you ought to
have seen his astonishment. I thought
I would have died. laughing. iHe got
out from under the umbrella antl began
to strike at old Martin witlvhis fist, say
in'? all the time." 'Let ero.' But not a bit
would Martin let go. There was a good
deal of the bull-dog about him. j
"Every other horse that I ever saw
was afraid of being hit on the hoad and
would throw up his head to avert a blow,
but old Martin vou could pound! in tho
face until you got tired and hei would
never so much as wince. Well, so the
young man found out.- Old Martin kept
him there until he had all the j fun he
wanted and until his hat and ; coat were
pretty well soaked with the rainj l
"Another great trick of Martin was to
catch a passing stranger by the sleeve or
tail of his coat and pull until the owner
would think he was going to pull it on.
Sometimes we would have to beat him to
make him let go. Well sir, he (was up
to more deviltry than yen would dream
of. I have often seen him take the
broom out of the hands of the man who
was sweeping his stall and go jthrough
the motions as if he were sweeping him
self. At one time there, was a jman be
longing to the company who would take
him out into the yard back of the house
and hold the broom up at him. Then
he would rear up on his hind legs and
waltz around as naturally as if he had
been trained in a circus.
"Well, as you may suppose,-we were
all very sorry to lose him. After his
foot got better it was thought best not to
bring him back here, so he was sent to
the upper part of the city where the
streets are not paved i He is now with
47 engine in Ninety-second . street, near
the Boulevard. He is eighteen years
old and still strong and hearty.f
As an illustration of the capacity of
horses for learning to do jwbat is re
nnired of them, it may be mentioned
that Old Martin once had a mate named
Dan. who likewise acquired i the habit of
taking the bit between his teeth and also
of unhitching himself at will. It is
worthy of note, too, that at engine house
No. 17, which is said to be the only one
in the city where the bridles, i like the
rest of the harness, are suspended over
the positions taken by the hors?s in
hitching up, the successors of Martin
and Dan have' shown ' a disposition to
follow their-example in taking the bit
voluntarily so far as to hold up their
heads and open their mouths to re
oeive it., !
Engine 17 has another knowing ani
mal, an old gray horse named Binga,
who drags the tender. When a signal is
received he promptly takes his place un
der the tender shafts; tint if he is not
immediately hitched up he walks over to
the trough "and, takes a drink.
Engine 33, located in Great Jones
street, had a famous team of roans sev
eral years ago, Jack and-" Jim. Jack,
poor fellow, was killed on Decoration
day, 1880. by being impaled, while run
ning to a fire, en the shaft of tender 13.
Jim, however, is still , alive and at his
post. Jle is twelve years old and a splen
did looking animal in every way. Jim
is very affeotionately disposed. He will
readily shake hands with a visitor, and
on invitation will also give him a kiss.
He never allows himself to be forgotten
at feed time. Regularly at 6 A. M.,
noon and 5:30 P. M. he gives the signal
that he wants his feed by striking the
side of the stall with "his forefoot, and
keeps up an incessant knocking until his
wants are satisfied. The ringing of the
gong for 9 fire signal is always preceded
by the silvery tinkle of a telephone bell,
and whenever it is rung Jim is all atten
tion, no matter how savory a morsel of
hay he may be chewing at the time. He
has an especial fondness for apples, and
if anybody enters the house with apples
in his pockets he lavishes all his bland
ishments on the individual until he suc
ceeds in getting an apple. Jim is the
pride of enine 33.
Engine 14, whose house is on Eigh
teenth street, between Broadway and
Fifth avenue, has a ladies' horse named
Dick. Dick is an immense gray horse.
He is fourteen years and has been pull
ing Engene 14 for ten years. If a lady
enters the house Dick at once begins
trying to attract her attention, and if his
halter is released he will follow her
about, rub his nose against her arm and
body and snuff at her pockets. ' Dick ap
parently has got a horse's idea of the
maxim current among men that to the
sweet belong the sweets, for he seems to
think that the sole motive a lady -can
have in calling to see him is to bring
him candy. One evening last spring
Mrs, Langtry visited the engine and was
almost immediately made the object of
Dick's most lavish attentions. He stuck
his nose into her pockets and muffs and
critically examined every portion of her
dress. The lady at first did not under
stand these attentions, but when it was
explained to her that Dick was searching
for candy, she hurried to the nearest
confectionery, whither, by the way.Dick
fain would have followed her. Presently
she returned with a huge bundle of fresh
taffy, which Dick fell to devouring with
unmistakable delight. The, candy.how
ever, stuck to his teeth and the root of
his mouth and poor Dick had a sorry
time before he finished his morsel. N.
Y. World. j
The Beer Export Trade.
The proportions to which the beef and
cattle export . trade of the country has
grown since the first shipment of beef to
Europe in 1875 can be studied at no place
with such advantage as at the North
River Stocks Yard, foot of Sixtieth
street, nere car loans oi cattle in con
stantly arriving trains are daily received
to the amount of 12,000 weekly, and this
represents nearly one-half of the total
amount received from the west.
In 1875 the first shipment of dressed
beef was made to England, and in the
summer of the following year the export
of live cattle began. Since then the busi
ness has enjoyed a constant and healthy
increase, until to day; the weekly ship
ments from the United States, both of
live cattle and dressed beet, amount to
fully 8.000 hoad. Of this rather more
than one-half is live cattle, as this class
of shipments has the preference during
six months of the year, including the
summer months, and would have during
the entire year were it not from the. high
rates of insurance demanded during the
rough weather of ; . the fall and
winter seasons. The four principal
points of shipment are New York,
Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore,
and the gradual : increase iu
trade and the consequent com
petition in prices ! on the other
side has compelled the English land
holders .to reduce the number of their
home cattle. At the present time, ship
pers say. the competition is so sharp that
there is little profit to anybody. The
shipping of fresh beef from this country
has had the effect of opening up an ex
tensive trade with Australia. New Zea
land. Mexico and iiussia, and now im
mense quantities of mutton are received
in England from Australia and New
Zealand. 1
A governing factor ! in the future in
crease of our expert-beef trade, and one
on which it will largely depend, is the
amount of Indian corn raised and the
prices it will command. When largo
crops of corn are harvested and the price
rules low the quantity of cattle feed will
experience a proportionate increase, and
the quantity shipped j from this country
will depend on the prices for which beef
can be laid down in Hmgiand.
The cattle-producing statea which fur
nish the supply for this growing indus
try are Texas, the Indian territory, Ari-
zona.
Colorado and- 11 the far western
states. Thence the cattle are moved for
ward into the corn growing or feeding
states of Missouri, Kansas, Illinois and
all the middle states. When fatted and
fitted for market, they come east either
in dressed Quarters in refrigerator cars or
on the hoof, for foreign shipment or for
local use. Chicago disputes with St.
Louis the honor of being the largest cat
tle market of the world. Here the cattle
are gathered from all the corn states,
and from those two points are brought
up and distributed to the four great ship
ping points. . j
Although trains of cattle are daily re
ceived at the stock yards in this city, and
are handled as rapidly as they arrive, the
regular market days .are Monday, Wed
nesday and Friday, j
- The large firms who buy for the ex
port trade find no difficulty in securing
transportation iur iuuir mwit, ny or
dressedand one of the Hrgest shippers
informed a Graphic representative that
there is plenty of room to carry across
the ocean every steer. m the country
were it necessary. When the animals
are shipped alive they are comfortably
Quartered in stalls, well fed and cared
for during the voyage and generally suf
fer little in condition. When shipped in
quarters the beef is stored in immense
coolers and receive constant attention
during the trip. The price of American
beef in England ranges from 5 to 12
pence per pound, and is regulated by its
condition on arrival.
Sheep are also exported, but in much
smaller qantities, the great bulk of the
receipts being required for home con
sumption. This city and Jersey City are
the two great sheep marts of the conn
try, the supply coming from the south,
west and from Caifada. At this time of
year New York commands the bulk of
the business, the sheep arriving from
Canada, northern Ohio and New York
state being in prime condition and find
ing a ready market. The southern stock
is in better marketable condition in the
spring, and as Jersey City's supply is
derived mainly from that section, her
trade at present is somewhat sluggish,
N. Y. Graphic.
A Crank Collecting Hairpins,
"Do you see that young man following
the young ladt?" said gentleman to. a
reporter, just as night was preparing to
drop her dusky mantle down and pin it
with a star, last evening.
"A masher?"
"No, not so bad as that."
"What then?"
"A crank."
"What b eed?"
"A very common one just at this tim?.
He's a hairpin cnk."
"What do you mean?"
"Why, simply what I said. It's a new
craze that has struck all in a heap. those
peculiarly rattle-pated individuals who
have been wont to burn the midnight
lamp composing a sonnet to my mistress'
eyebrow. As the small boy used to
gather postage stamps and thi wee girl
fill up her button string, so do these ten
der hearted youths collect hairpins.
They watch the ladies as they pass along
the streets, at parties, balls, and in stores
on shopping excursions, and when a
hairpin works loose and falls to the
groundor floor it is quickly picked up,
the lady's name discovered if possible,
and the hairpin, propeily labeled, there
with goes to swell the collection. The
bolder of these hairpin collectors will
succeed in picking a loose one from a
lady's back hair without her knowing it.
I was invited the other evening to in
spect a collection of these relics of
beauty gathered together by a seventh
ward young man. He'had nearly 300 of
them, and they all bore the names of the
charming wearers, -including all the
changes of fore and aft on the name
Smith, from Arabella to Zola, and from
plain Smith to Schmidt and Smyth. One
of the pins, my delectable companion in
formed me, waf from the head of one of
the leading society belles of the city, and
cost him $5 to secure it, a rival collector
having obtained the precious trophy and
sold out to him."
"What do they do with them?"
The same as the boy did with his post
age stamps, or the girl with her button
strings keep them to look at and ad
mire. The craze has just struck the
west. It originated among the dudes of
Boston about a year ago, and has just ar
rived. In all probapility it will die out
in a single season, as it seems too foolish
to endure lorfg."- Milwaukee Journal.
The Population of Paris.
An analysis of the population of Paris
just published gives very singular statis
tics as to the: inhabitants of the gayest
city in Europe. It seems, also, "lor its
size, to be the most industrious. The
proportion in which the working classes
exceed thos who live on their own in
comes is the more remarkable as Paris is
the recognized center of expenditure and
extravagance for all France. There are
no cities that hold to the capital the same
relative position that Liverpool, Man
chester and Birmingham occupy rela
tively to London. More than half a mil
lion of Parisians are engaged in com
merce, trade and banking operations,
while of the artisan class there are con
siderably more than a million and a quar
ter. The liberal professions seem ti oc
cupy but a small proportion of the pop
ulation. All combined do not amount to
200.000. and in the sub divisions the
prominence is quite different to what it
would be with us. The great majority
are in the public service, which employs
more than medicine, law and divinity all
combined. I But,after the public service,
it is art which gives employment and
livelihood to the greatest number of
Parisians. Forty-two thousand get their
income from -this branch of industry.
The doctors come after, but a long way
after. Medicine in its branches supports
18,000, the branches, of course, mclud
ing chemists and all compounders and
venders of medicine. Then comes the
law, with its 16,000 votaries, from judge
to bailiff. Literature figures very low on
the list, for, grouped with science and
journalism, its gives emplopment to only
11,000, while all the clergy of all the per
suasions amount to but half that number
On the whole. Paris would seem to be
more industrious, more artistic, less lit
erary and less religious than the ordi'-
Dary yisitor would suppose Pall Mall
Gazette. -
Lord Ashburlon and Carlyle.
Upward of twenty years ago 1 had a
call at my house in Belfast, Ireland, from
a young nobleman, with whom I was at
J that time intimate,
and who has since
risen to eminence as a statesman Earl
Dufferin who introduced me to his
friend Lord Ashburton, who . took me
aside and said: "You know that I have
lately lost my dear wife, who was a great
friend of Mr. Carlyle's and I applied to
him to tell me what I should do to have
peace and make me what I should be.
On my doing so he simply bade me read
Wilbelm Meister.' -1 did so, and not
finding there anything fitted to improve
me I went back to him, asking
what lesson ' he meant me to
gather from the book, and he said,
Read 'Wilhelm Meister' a second
time." . Now, I have done so earnestly,
but I confess I am unable to find any
thing there to meet mv anxiety, and I
would like you to explain what Mr. Car-
lyle can moan." I told
him 1 was not
j the man to explain Mr
(Jarlyle s mean
ing, if indeed he had any meaning that
could be defined. I said to him that
neither Goethe nor. Carlyle, though men
of great literary genius, could supply
the balm which his spirit needed. I re
marked that Goethe's' work contained
much tbat was sensual, and l did my
best to point out a better way. I do not
know the issue, but I got an eager lis
tener. The Manhattan.
NEWS NOTES.
In 1871 Winnipeg's population was
350; in 1882, 25,000.
Neal Dow says S1.300.000.0CO is spent
for drink annually.
A preventive of typhoid fever is to boil
the drinking water.
This is a beechnut year in Maine, and
the trees are loaded.
The Mormons have gained 3000 by
immigration this season.
The Freshman class at Harvard this
year numbers 185 and at Yale 170. ,
The burning of the exposition building
at Pittsburg involved a loss of $1,000,
000. In Cuba it is a common practice for
people to eat vipetslflash aearen:ly for
blood diseases. " -
Lima, has been called the Boston of
South America. Probably because of the
Lima beans.
A company has been organized in
London to insure against bicycle and tri
cycle accidents.
Maine law forbids hunting deer with
dogs, and limits the number that one
person may shoot.
Sixteen hotels in Chicago are assessed
at $6,500,000. The theaters of the city
are valued at about $800,000.
Canada's national debt is in proportion
to the population higher than tint of any
other country, and it is rapidly growing.
Water, during and immediately after a
drought, should be regarded with sus
picion, unless its source is known to be
pure.
Certain fastidious citizens of Memphis,
Tenn., wish the telegraph and telephone
poles to be painted some bright and fash
ionable color.
Four rare folio editions of Shakes
peare, published in the years 1623, 1632,
1664 and 1685 respectively, were sold in
New York yesterday for $2900.
The postoffice department expect that .
the lowering of the letter rate will cause
a deficiency of about $3,000,000 during
the remaining nine months of the fiscal
year.
The horse that bore J. Wilkes Booth,
the assassin of Lincoln, from the opera
house on the night of terrible " deed, is
alive and doing well in Westmoreland
county, Va.
Lack of confidence in the police sys
tem of Philadelphia by bankers .and
merchants is shown by the fact that
banks and large stores have private
watchmen. There are in the city nearly
1500 of them.
The Pittsburg dispatch hope3 that the
use of the natural gas for fuel, and of
smoke consumers, will in the course of
five to ten years make that city one of
the most pleasant places of residence in
the country.
The Boston Advertiser suggests that,
while heretofore the principal reason for
closing large libraries in this country
early m the evening has been the fear of
fire, the introduction of electricity has
removed the danger.
Gztting in Winter Supplies.
It is now the choice season of the year
when the man of the house proceeds to
get a barrel of apples down the cellar
alone. Always says he will neyer do it
again, but when the year rolls . around,
he forgets his promise and rashly shows '
off his muscle, just the same as he did
before. r
The man who trets a barrel of armies
down cellar is either a professional bar
rel Bhover, with sinews like a hotel ten
derloin, or else he is a natural profes
sional fool.
Having divided humanity into two
classes, we will now proceed to discuss
the professional fool.
He gets around behind tne barrel on
the cellar stairs, so tbat if anything
breaks he will get the benefit. ' Then he
asks his wife to stand at the head of the
stairs with a light, ostensibly so that he
can see, but in reality so uiai ne can
show her what a young Hercules he is.
The young Hercules and professional
fool then carefully sets the chine of the
barrel on his largest and most mellow
toe. He swears softly to himself, and
then gives the barrel a vicious jerk that
jams his nose into the head of the barrel
and skins the entire front of his legs.
This maddens him so that be undertakes
to throw the whole barrel over his head
into the potato bin. This move is only
partially successful, 'and when his wife
and two of his neighbors roll the barrel
from his remains at the foot of the stairs
an awful sight meets their gaze. The
young Hercules has his head in the plum
lam and his feet mixed up with the
pickled peaches. In his laii ne nas
knocked off the faucet of the five-gallon
coal oil can, and the oil is running into
his ear. Most of the apples have rolled
out of the barrel and are bathed in kero
sene, jverosene gives a ricn arom&uu
flavor to fruit, that cannot be successfully
imitated. Sometimes in letting a barrel
of apples down stairs the stair breaks and
lets the man down also, lint that mases
.11 . ... .1
no dinerence. xne man axwaya iaus
under the barrel, and when it strikes
him across the stomach, the low sad sigh
that he pours out on the silent air sounds
like the remarks of the baby elephant
when the trick ule kicked him just be
low the thorax, and about due south of
the liver pad. '
ALL SORTS.
Perhaps President Grevy had better
go to aiaaria ana let uio peopia ui mat,
city insult him. That would settle the
trouble without bloodshed. Graphic.
Much interest is felt by bicyclists
throughout the country in the coming
meeting at New Haven, Conn., on Octo
ber 10th. About ouu wheelmen are ex
pected to be present.
A Vienna cabman has lighted his cab
by means of anincandescent lamp. A
dynamo attached, to the axle generates
mm .-
currents when the cab is running, wnica
is stored in accumulatorr'and used as re
quired. -;
Fie officers of the army are at present
under charges of various sorts of conduct
unbecoming an officer and tt gentleman.
It is probable that in each case liquor
drinking was the cause of the offenses
charged.