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rOSEIGN TELEGRAPHIC HEWS. Lieutenant General Ad; e commands the expedition to Khartoum. The naval expedition starts immediately from Cairo to Assouan. A serious fire is raging in Kief, Russia. Many houses have been burned.' The wood yards at Aberdeen were burn ed recently. The loss is 50,000. There were thirteen deaths from yellow in Havana during the week ending Satur day. The cable steamship Faraday has arrived atRockport. She is proceeding to connect the cables. There has been a terrific cyclone in Ak yab, British Burmah. Immense damage is reported. King Leopold gave a grand banquet in Brussels lecently to the King and Queen of Holland. A Sydney dispatch says that Hanlan won the sculling match with Laycock by half a length. The British ship Syria has been wracked on the Fiji islands. Seventy passengers were drowned. In India the natives have hoarded Sl,- 000,000,000 in gold, which cannot be got into circulation. Of 11,488 natives who left Hamburg for foreien countries during jviarcn, an Dut to were bound for America. Mexican agents are persuading Cuban tobacco planters to move to Mexico, toev-enty-two have decided to go. Swiss legislators are once more discuss ing the propriety of suppressing the Sal vation Army in that country. In Sweden, it is said, there is a law tak ing away the right of suffrage from every man who has been arunlc tnree times. Three cotton warehouses in Liverpool, belon trine to Molvneaux & Taylor, were recently damaged by fire to the extent of 100,000. The steamer Castale Paterma, for New York from Denia, Spain, jettisoned a part of her cargo. Rough weather prevented assistance. The international exhibition of motors and implements for the small industries, to be opened at Vienna on July 24th, will close on October l2tn. The premier mayorality in England is enioved bv Winchester, and its seven hun dredth anniversary will be celebrated in the course of the present year. Anton Dvorak, in addition to his 'work for the Worcester and Birmingham festi vals, has undertaken to compose a new oratorio for the Leed's festival of 18(50. llubenstein s riero was recently given seven times in succession at Moscow, the house being sold out each time. This opera Rubenstein considers his best work. A Spanish nobleman, named Count Er nest de Vallegas, recently pleaded guilty in the Manchester police court to swin dling a railroad company jn the matter of fares. A severe shock of earthquake was felt recently through the peninsula of Cyzicus in Asia Minor, beveral villages were dam aged, many houses destroyed and twenty persons killed. The Pall Mall Gazette says: Wolsley will command an expedition in theautumn . which will land at Tuskar and march to Berber. A military railway will be built across the desert in J une. The festival of the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the death of John Wycliffe, the earliest English reformer and translator or the liible, took place at fct. Andrew's church in London. The law has been invoked in Manches ter, England, to prevent cruelty to rats by surrenderig them as prey to the mon goose, which seems to delight in torturing its victims before killing them outright. The Spanish Cortes have paid 36,000 for the library ot the late Duke oi osuna. , The collection consists of 2,770 volumes of manuscript and 33,567 volumes of printed books, many of which in both batches are unique. The present registered British voters are as follows: England, lf618,453; Scotland, ;nu,iu: Ireland, zzi.vis: total, a,ioz,yia. The presnt number of members is: For England, 480; Scotland, 00; Ireland, 103; total, 652. Mme. De Kalemire, the "left-handed" wife of the Grand Duke Louis of Hesse- Darmstadt, will defend herself against tte Grand Duke's suit for divorce. He charges that his wife concealed misconduct before marriage. Private advices from Vice President and Manager Van Horne, of the Canadian Pa cific, say no new branches of the road will be built, or extensions of present branches made this season. He says Stevens has failed in securing money in England for the extension of the Manitoba and South western. The duty on cattle and sheep has doubled. ie Jrana says: .trench artists will re venge the refusal of the United States Con gress to reduce the duty on works of art. Thev will, the naper savs. demand that the French salon exclude the works of Ameri- . can artists. x ne crown Prince will attend the mar riage of the Grand Duke Sergfus, brother of the Czar, at St. Petersburg, June 14. The Czarina passed through Berlin last week on the way to Rumpeneheim. The Emperor was at the depot and greeted the Uzanna cordially. The second game of American lacrosse was played in England last week. The Lancashire opponents of the Americans won four to nothing. During the play for the second goal one of the Lancashire men was compelled to retire from the field on account of injuries received. The Monterey Revisla, an influential journal, in an editorial upon the present state of affairs in Mexico, closes with this significant sentence: "It is the functional law of the nationalists that excessive tyr anny will sooner or later produce liberty. Do you understand? Our final destiny is to become i ansees. The London Telegraph and Standard de vote leading articles to bam V ard. He is spoken of as generous and sympathetic. and as most genial and cosmopolitan. His last arrival in London, it is said, was hailed with a chorus of delight. Princely houses opened their doors wide and welcomed 1.! '11. 1 nun wun nospiiaoie warnuu. It is exnected that the President, with. in a few days, will make proclamation of the ratification of the treaty entered into between the United States and Mexico. To make this treaty effectual legislation is required by Congress, and a bill will be in troduced in the House as soon as the offi cial notification of the ratification of the treaty is received by the President. In the Commons recently the bill amend ing the Irish laborers act of 1883 was re jected, 138 to 75. Parnell complained of the opposition offered by Trevelyn, chief secretary for Ireland, lie said the govern ment must not find fault if it meets with retaliation. He asked if the government meant to wait until the laborers burn the houses over the heads of dissenting land lords. A quarrel between "Plunger" Walton and the German horse doctor Loefller, cul minated in a fight, in London last week, about the professional chargas of the lat ter. Mr. Walton got angry and finally strucK tne norse doctor on the nose, Loe filer held m his hand a stout riding whip and retorted by stoutly belaboring "Plunger" on the head and shoulders with that weapon. Vanderbilt's fellow passengers who went up from Liverpool to London on the train with him, have a wild theory that he engineered the whole panic, and timed his departure from New York very skillfully, so that his hand might not be seen in the transaction. In support of this theory they say that he received a deluge of cable grams on the arrival of the Baltic at Queenstown, and that he smiled very sig nificantly as he leisurely read the dispatches. DOMESTIC TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. J. L. Browne 11 & Co,, New York, have failed. Five criminals were publicly whipped at Newcastle, Del., recently. Max Muller has been appointed post-; master at Jacksonville, Oregon. It is understood that the findings of the court are adverse to General bwaim. In nortions of Texas last week severe hailstorms seriously damaged the crops. The name of the office at Bethany, Wash ington Territory, has been changed to Pitt. Frost a few davs aco in Lancaster county, Pa., caused great damage to the growing tobacco. The President has approved the bill granting a loan of $1,000,000 to the New rleans exposition. Patrick Patterly whipped Curley Hughes in tnree rounas at iiocnesicr Jitst ccn. Both men were arrested. A - t 1 1-1 T - i- i- , t PI, n 4 m Til was found dead on his fathers doorstep recently, shot through the brain. Endicott has resigned the presidency of ttte uregon ana aransconunejiuii. nujiui . i m . . a.S 4. 1 TMJ2V Smith has been elected as his successor. 4.000 Chicaero people have signed the pledge and now wear the blue ribbon as the result of Francis Murphy's labors. The strawberrv crop in southern Illinois is likelv to prove a failure, owing to the i 1 a .3 i C A appearance WlUliu ivu uaya vjl ninctus auu rust. J. C. Tietiens. the insolvent wagon and implement maker of Lyons, Iewa, owes about 820.000. and can pay but fifty cents on the dollar. Tullv II. Smith, a prmineat business man ot MiiwauKee, vv is., wno aisap oeared several days ago. committed sui cide at New Orleans. It is now understood that the April earn ings of the Union Pacific will show a de crease of from $400,000 to 500,000, com pared with last year. The famous old horse ridden by General Custer in his Indian campaigns, died at Vincennes, Ind.. last week. He was the property of Dr. W. F. Carver, the marks man. Representative Money denied that he has expressed any intention of declin ing the Congressional nomination in his district and starting a newspaper in San k ranciseo. It is reported that Jay Gould, in view of the uncertainties of Wall street, so strik- incly demonstrated recently, has invested 81,500.000 in government bonds in his wife's name. A stock train on the Missouri Pacific Railroad struck a land slide near Leaven worth, Kansas, beven cars tipped over into the river, causing the death of eighty head of cattle, The convention of brewers of the United States was in session at Rochester last week. The attendance was large. The hall was elaborately decorated with appro priate mottoes, German and lt,nglish Postmaster-General Gresham has order cd that all matter to be sent from New York, New Orleans and Galveston to Mex ico by sea, shall hereafter be sent by El 1'aso ever the Mexican Central railroad. Ellett, Dewey & Co., Richmond, Va'., wholesale dry goods dealers, have assign ed. Liabilities, 8200,000: assets not known Dewey thinks they will pay dollar for dol lar. Preferred creditors amount to S1U3, uuu. Four lots on the west side of New York city have been disposed of by Jerome B. Chagee to Abraham Jones for 60,000. The Eroperty conveyed is that which passed r. S. Grant, Jr., to Chaffee on the 7th of this month. Articles of agreement have been sifrned between Duncan C. Ross, of Cleveland, and Matsada Sorackich, the Japanese cham pion. Ross is to get $500 if he can win three out of five falls, the match will take place June 3d in New York. Through the untiring efforts of his wife. Edward Bruce has been pardoned from the Iowa penitentiary, where he had leen sentenced for life for the murder of Mc- rsamara, a grocer oi iveoKUK. rue re united couple have gone to Dakota. ueo. 11. nuime, of Wyoming, receiver for Rufus Hatch's Yellowstone Hotel Company, who was appointed in the in terest of John Douglas and other anti Hatch stockholders, nas come out of the park and reported the entire failure of his errand. A prominent cattle man of Texas, who has just returned to St. Louis from an ex tensive tour in the cattle region and seme of the northern markets, says that the out look for beeves is very tine. He reports that some advanced herds from Texas have already arrived at Dodge City, Kansas. Simpson, of Dennell, Lawson & Simp- S0H,;JNew xork, stated to an associated press reporter the other day that they will pay i one-nan or. uieir mueoteaness in twelve months, and the remainder in two years, if the terms are accepted by nine- tenths of the creditors, both in amounts and numbers. Galveston Aews's specials from Tvler. Marl in, Navarota, Crockett, Waverlv and other points in northeastern Texas, report anoiner neavy rainiau last weeK. This makes the fourth unusually heavy rainfall in that section since the first of May. Im mense tracts of country are flooded. Great i damage to crops have already resulted. Five men were found by Sheriff Tavlor at Glendive last week, who stood him off with rifles when he attempted to arrest them for the attack on Paymaster Whip- pie, ana ior tne muraer ot sergeant Con rad.; Major Bell, with a troop of cavalrv. is on their trail. Albert McCannon, a horse aeaier, nas Deen arrested as an accom plice. T X 11 iniormauon nas ueen received ot a cv- cione, aw yaras wiae, wnicn passed be tween Fairfield and Stewardsville. Texas, w'v 1 tvv-m.. i.ui.dlMi v. 1. J lipiUVLCU III i ta pathway. A special from Hempstead re ports that a tornado passed through the country, sweeping everything before it. A child six weeks old was blown sixty yards unnurs, The arrival of the steamship Faradav at Rockport, Mass., was greeted by thous ands of people. Amid the firing of can non tne snore end or the cable was landed, and win De connected witn the section pre- l f nifn ! . o . viousiy ooujeu jou nines east oi itockport. The citizens tendered a reception to the officers, but they declined until the cable was completed. Papers publish accounts of the discovery of the lost Lord Drummond, heir to an earldom and kinsman to Queen Victoria, who has been found in a Broadway. New York, clothing house, working as a porter. lie came to America with his governess twelve years. It is stated that a reconcil iation of Lord Drummond with his family 111 . i . x win oe enectea. In the Presbvterian ceneral asspmhlv at Saratoga, the forty-sixth annual report of ine ooara oi puoucauon was suDmittea. Total issues during the year are 1,789,500; the board called for $75,000 for a mission ary fund for the ensuing year, The first of eight' refrigerator cars de signed for bringing salman from .Portland, Or., to r ew s. ork, arrived at the latter place last week. With the car was an at tendant, who kept the temperature about twenty degrees above zero. The salmon were delivered at the car at a cost of 5 cents a pound, and the freight charges across the continent was about 7 cents. News was last week received from Eliz abeth town, 111., that the Harden county court-house, with all its records, had been consumed by n incendiary fire. There has been a band of semi-lawless men in that county for several years, and it is the gen eral belief that the court-house was fired by them for the purpose of destroying the records of indictments against them. $308,3112; expenditures, $287,216. Balance S ft 4 in the treasury, $21,176. During the vear K.'' PORTLAND MARKET REPORT. FLOUR Fancy extra, -; country, siiinriw! "P,uuou bakers' extra, superfine. $3.75. FEED, Etc. Corn meal. W 100 lbs.. S2.75 3.00: buckwheat, $5.50; oat meal, $4.00 4.2; cracked wheat, $3.2o3.50; bran, ton $18.20: shorts. $2225: middlings. fine. 825.00ffi.30.00: hav. baled. 18.00fffi20.00: chop, $22.5025.00; oil cake meal, $35.00. uuttjsk rancy. fresh roll. & Id.. 25 26c; inferior, grade, 1720c; pickled, 19 20c. CHEESE California. 17 19c: Orescon large, choice, 19 20c. small, none. riuuo v uui., OATS Choice milling, nominal: good feed, 50c. ordinary feed, 4850c BAKLE X Brewing, W 100 lbs., nominal: feed, nominal; ground. $24.0026.00. WllEAT-Good to choice. W 100 lbs.. $1.47 J 1.50, good valley; Walla Walla and Eastern Oregon, $1.401.45. FISH Extra Pacific codfish, whole, in c, ijc, boneless, in bxs., s$cIb domestic salmon, hf bbls., $6.UO7.00, bbls., $11.00, 1-lb. cans, doz., $1.45; mackerel. No. 1. kit, $1.752.00, No. 2, $1.5001.75. No. 1. hf bbls., $10.00, No. 2, $8.50; herrings. salted, hf bbls., , dried, 10-lb. bxs., 75c. HIDES AND BAGS Hides, dry. over 16 lb., & lb., 19c; Murrain hides, two-thirds off; hides, wet salted, over 55 lbs., Ib., 6 vc one-third less ior light weights, dam aged, cut jgrubby or dry salted); pelts, shearling, 85c; deer skins, winter, 12loc, Eastern Oregon, 22c. summer, E 0., 1820c, valley, 2528c: burlaps, 40 in., 8c, 45 in., 8Jc, 60 in., 14c; twine, flour, 35 4Uc, wheat, doc, neece, iidc; gunnies. lec: wheat sacks, 7oc; HONEY In comb, lb., 22 25c: strained in 5 gal., 11c $ lb.; 1-gal. tins, w doz, si4.uuwuo.uu, naif-gal., $7.50. HOPS $ lb., 1520c; PROVISIONS Bacon, lli12ic; hams, country, w id., ldloc, butcher, scarce; shoulders, 10llc. LAliD Kegs, W lb., 12c: Eastern, pails, 1213jc Oregon, tins, 1212Jc; Call fornia, 10-lb. tins, none SUGARS Golden C. in bbls., W lb., 81c. in hf bbls., 3c; refined I), bbls., 7c. hf bbls., lie; dry granulated, bbls., 9, hf bbls., 93c; crushed, bbls., 10c; fine crushed, bbls., 10c, hf bbls., 10Jc; cube, bbls. 10c. hf bbls, 101c; islands, No. 1, kgs. 7fe7c, bgs., 7C, SYRUPS California refinery Tsl, gal., bbls., 40c, kgs., 50c, cs., gal. tins, 60c; Eastern, bbls., )p gal., oO(jooc, kgs, b0boc, s., 606oc. RICE Sandwich Islands. No. 1. lb, 5c; China mixed, 45c; China No. 1, none; Kangoon, 5c. GREEN FRUITS Apples, & bx., $1.50 2.00; lemons, California, $4.005.00, Sicily, $12.UU13.UU; oranges, bx., $4.004.5U limes, & 100, $1.50(at2.U) FRUITS Prunes, Hungarian, H., 124 15c; raisins (new), $ bx.. $2.502.75, hf bxs., $2.753.00, or bxs., $3.253.35, 8th bxs., $3.253.50; currants, Zante, i? lb. in bxs., 10c; citron, $ lb. in drums, 22Jc; almonds, Marseilles, & lb., lsauc, .Lane, 20c; walnuts, Chili, ll124c, California, 1213c. DRIED5- FRUITS Bleached, 14 15c; apples, machine-cured, p lb., lo16c, sun cured, 910c; peaches, machine-cured, in boxes, 1314c; German, in boxes. W lb., 10 llc; plums, sun-cured, pitless, 15l6c, machine-cured, 1618c; pears, machine- cured, 1012c, sun-cured, 10llc; figs, California. 25-b. bx., 9c: Smyrna, 2025c. WOOL Valley, 1416c; Eastern Ore gon, 14(9l0C. VEGETABLES rotatoes. bu., 50 60c, according to variety; cabbage, lb, zjc; turnips, p sck., $l.za: carrots, $l.zo; beets, $1.2; onions (new), ;P lb., li3c; parsnips, 2e. BUCKWHEAT Nominal, $3.00. CORN-No demand. RYE Nominal, 100 lbs., nominal $1.502.00 roULTlix--Chickens, W doz., spring, si.uucceo.ou. old. aso.uu: ducks, siu.uuftiuz.uu geese, $.uu,iu.uu; turkeys, lb., lolc. J.'EAS, SEEDS, Etc. Beans, & lb., pea, 4c, s. w., 33c, Ig. w., 44c, bayou, 4Jc, pink. 5ie, limas, 4c; peas, field, 2i3i,c, sweet, lo20c; timothy seed, 10.J12c, red clover, 2225c, white clover, 4050c, alfalfa, 16 20c, hungarian grass, 810c, millet, 810c, orchard grass, 1820c, rye grass, 2025c, red top, lolc, blue grass, mmzoc, nes- quite grass, 1012c. SAN FRANCISCO MARKETS. RECEIPTS Wheat, 11.000 ctls.: ilcur, ln.oOOqr. sks.:oats, 1,100 ctls.; potatoes. 1, 000 sks.: eggs, 12,500 doz. FLOUR San Francisco extra, best, at $o.2oo.4U; medium, $4.2o 4. to; shipping superfine, J.4o4.5U. V 11EA1 Business is almost at a stand still. For more than a week the shipping interest has been given scarcely any atten lion to onerings, and have made no ellort to secure either large or small quanties, So quiet is the situation, that it is doubt ful if $1.47J would be paid for the choicest class of export grades. uuyer 1X84200 tons, S1.53J. Seller 1884 100 tons. 81.411. 100. 81.415 If ctl. Closing prices were No. 1 white Bid. Asked. Buyer season $1 4i)s $1 51 Buyer 1884 I 511 1 55 Seller 1884 1 401 1 40J BAGS AND BAGGING We quote the nominal range for spot and future delivery at 7i7-fc. The San Quentin factory is now in operation, but the supply from that source will be limited. We quote wool bags at 3639c; potato gunnies 14 14jc apiece. liAiiLiHiX xne market snows no strength, and values are gradually lower ing. Call business last week has not been marked by an active symptoms, operators seemingly taking a rest, especially those representing the buying element. No. 1 feed changed hands as follows: Buyer season 500 tons, 81c. Seller season 200 tns. 80c. Buyer 1884200 tons, 88gc;400, 88ic ctl OATS Are arriving freely. The market is generally dull, and prices have a droop ing tendency, especially for the lower grades. We quote: Surprise and milling, $1.70 1.80; No.. 1, $1.50 1.60; No. 2, $1.35 i.4o; black, $1.35(21.40 t'ctl.. CORN Choice drv veliow. fel.fJOfa: 1.621 for large, and $1.65 for small; white, 81.50 (gjl.ou; .Nebraska mixed, $l.451.50 W ctl SEEDS Brown mustard. 83.00 3.50: yellow. 82.753.00 & ctl.: cAnarv. 52,5Ar- hemp, 34sSc; rape. 24(53c: timothy. 5i, 6c, alfalfa, 78c lb. ; flax, $2.602.75 Ctl. BRAN The spot market is quotable at 5io.omcr io.ou per ton. MIDDLINGS Active at $18.0020.00 HAY Wheat, $10.5013.0; wild oat, $10.5012.00; barley, $8.0011.00; stable, $13.0014.00; cow, $10.0012.80; alfalfa, $U.UU(8.UU ton. STRAW Quotable at 45(S;55c $ bale. B U CKWHE AT Quotable at $3.503.75 V ctl TALLOW Good to choice rendered, 7 7c: refined. 8i(&8?c tt. HOPS Quotable at 1618c, $ lb. for fair to medium, and 2l(a23c for good to choice, APPLES Orecron. & bx.. 81.50. ft-2.25. HIDES Dry. V lb., usual selection. 20r- dry kip,192uc;dry calf, 1922c; prime hair goatsKins, oz(oc. LARD Eastern refined, 3 to 10-lb. tins, itw.koc. vainer provisions unchanged SAEMUJN Oregon, 1-lb cans, doz, f. o. b., $1.20, $1,224. EGGS doz.. 2223Jc. MILLSTUFFS Ground barley, $24.00 tgso.iAj r ton; on cake meal, old process, $30.00, new process, $26.50; rye hour, $6.0U re meai, $o.ou; ouck-wheat flour, pearl barley, 45c; graham nour, leal, 54c; Eastern oat meal. bbh. $y.o, net casn; cracnea wneat, & id., 4c. POTATOES New sell, according to Duality, as follows: Small, 2c, medium, 4c; large choice, 3c $ lb. Sweets, $2.75 3.00: Cuffey Coves.1 75c; Jersey oiues, 75c: Humboldts, $11.10; Petalumas, 90c 1.374, ; Tomales, 90c$1.05; early goodrich, $1.25; early rose,$1.101.25; river reds 90c; peerless. $1.601.65. HONEY Extracted, 6c, 8c, lb.; extra white comb, 18c, 20c; white, 13c, 16c; dark, 9c, 12c. ONIONS Good to choice, sk., $1.50 3.50 POULTRY Dressed turkeys. 245l20c, live, 2325c, lb., for hens, and 2325c for fobblers, geese, $1.251.50 pair; ducks, 6.00 8.00 doz.: hens, $8.00 9.50; roosters, young, $7.508.50, old do. $7.50 8.00; broilers, $i.005.00, according to size TLI -A. . 1 1 1 . ' . i THE TORTURES OF NEURALGIA A m vi.vmTtl-ir i-olinro1 In.- a no-w TV?! f- ment, which acts directly on the great nprvfi centres. If vou are a sufferer from this painful disease, write to Drs. Starkey & Falen, Iiuy Uirard St., Philadelphia, and ask tnem to send you such documents and testimonials in regard to their Vitalizing Treatment as will enable you to judge for yourself whether it promises to give relief in your particular case. All orders for the compound uxygen Home Treatment directed to II. E. Math ews, uuo Montgomery street, can x ran ciseo, will be filled on the same terms as if sent directly to us in fhuadeipma. The new pluses of solid whisky will have a clove attachment with each bite. "THE THIRD HOUSE." Its Sood and Bad Members The He- inarkable Experiences of a Close Observer of Its Workings During a Long Residence at Washington. (Correspondence Rochester Democrat.) No city upon the American continent has a larger floating population than Washington. It is estimated that during the sessions of congress twenty-hve thousand people, whose homes are in va rious parts of this and other countries, make this city their place of residence. Some come here, attracted by the advant ages the city oners for making the ac quaintance of public men; others have va- j nous claims which they wish to present, while the ereat maioritv cather here, as the crows nock to the carrion, for the sole purpose of getting a morsel at the public crib, 'lhe latter class, as a general thing. originate the many schemes which termi nate m vicious bills, all of which are neither directed at the public treasury, or toward that revenue which the black mailing of corporations or private enter prises may bring. w hue walking down Pennsylvania ave nue the other day I met Mr. William M. Ashley, formerly of your city, whose long residence here has made him unusually well acquainted with the operations of the lobbv. Having made my wants in this particu lar direction known, in answer to an in terrogative, Mr. Ashley said: 1 es, during my residence here I have become well acquainted with the workings of the 'Third House,' as it is termed, and could tell you of numerous jobs, which. like the 'Heathen Chinee.are peculiar." louao not regard the lobby, as a bodv. vicious, do you?" Txot necessarily so. There are cood and bad men comprising that body; yet there have been times when it must be admit ted that the combined power of the 'Third House' has overridden the will of the peo ple. The bad influence of the lobby can be seen in the numerous blood-bills that are introduced at every session." "liut how can these be discovered? "Easily enough, to the person M ho has made the thing a study. I can detect them at a glance. "Tell me, to what bills do you refer? "Well, take the annual gas bills, for in stance. They are introduced for the pur pose of bleeding the Washington Gas-light Company. They usually result in an in vestigating committee which never amounts to anything more than a draft upon the public treasury for the expenses of the investigation. Another squeeze is the abattoir bills, as they are called These, of course, are fought by the butch ers and market-men. The first attempt to force n bin oi this description was in 1877. when a prominent Washington politician onered a labuious sum tor the franchise "Anytning eise in tnis line that vou ininK or, iur. ivsnieyf "Yes, there's the job to reclaim the Po tomac flats, which, had it become a law. would have resulted in an enormous steal The work is now being done by the Gov eminent itself, and will rid the place of that malarial atmosphere of which we hear so much outside the city." "Durins? vonr residence bpre have, vnn experienced the bad results of living in this climates "wen while i have not at all times en joyed good health, I am certain that the dithculty which laid me up so long was not malarial. . It was something that had troubled me for years. A shooting, sting ing pain that at times attacked different parts of my body. One day my right arm and leg would torture me with pain, there would be great redness, heat and swelling of the parts; and perhaps the next day the lett arm and leg would be similarly afreet ed. men again it would locate in some particular part of my body and produce a tenderness which would well nigh drive me i ran tic. mere would be weeks at time mat l wouia dc anncted with an in termiitent Kina oi pain mat would come on every aiternoon and leave me compar atively free from suffering during the bal anceot the twenty-four hours. Then 111 i ! - would nave terriDic paroxysms ot pain coming on at any time during the day or night when i would be obliged to lie uoon my back for hours and keep as motionless as possible. Every time I attempted to move a enmy sensation would pass over my bdy, or l would faint from hot Hashes I sunered from a "spasmodic contraction of the muscles and a soreness of the back and bowels, and even my eyeballs become sore and distressed me greatly whenever l wiped my race, l became ill-tempered peevish, fretful, irritable and desperately despondent. "Of course you consulted the doctors re gardmg the difficulty. "Consulted themJ well I should say did. Some told me I had neuralgia; oth ers that l had inflammatory rheumatism for which there was no cure, that I would be atflicted all my life, and that time alone would mitigate my sufferings. "But didn't thev try to relieve your mis enesf "Yes, they vomited and phvsiced me blistered and bled me, plastered and oiled me, sweat, steamed and everything but froze me, but without avail." "But how did you finally recover?" "I had a friend living in Michigan who had been afflicted in a similar way and had been cured. He wrote me regarding his recovery and advised me to try the remedy which cured him. I procured bottle and commenced its use, taking tablespoonful after each meal and at bed time. I had used it about a week when noticed a decrease of the soreness of th joints and a general feeling of relief, persevered in its use and finally got so could move around without limping, when I told my friends that it was "Warner's Safe Rheumatic Cure that had put me on my feet. "And do you regard j'our cure as perma nent? "Certainly; l haven t been so well in E ears as I am now, and although I hav een subjected to frequent and severe changes of weather this winter, I have not felt the first intimation of the return of mv rheumatic trouble." Do you object to the publication of this interview. Mr. Ashieyr "Not at all, sir. I look upon it as a duty I owe my fellow creatures to alleviate their sufferings so far as i am aoie, and any communication regarding my symptoms and cure that mav be sent to me at 500 Maine avenue will receive prompt and careful attention." "Judging from your recital, Mr. Ashley there must be wonderful curative proper ties about this medicine. "Indeed, there is. sir. for no man suffer ed more nor longer than I did before this remedy crave me relief." "To go back to the original subject, Mr, Ashley, I suppose you see the same faiml iar faces about the lobby session after session?'' "No. not bo much as vou mieht think New faces are constantly seen and old ones disappear. The strain upon lobbyists is necessarily very great, and when you add to this the demoralizing enect of late hours and intemperate habits and the fact that they are after found out in their steals, their disappearance can easily be account ed for." "What proportion of these blood-bills are successful "A very small percentage, sir. Notwith standing the power and the influence of the lobby, but few of these vicious meas ures pass. ,Were they successful it would be a sad commentary upon our system of government, and would virtually annihil ate one branch of it. The great majority of them are either reported adversely or smothered in committee by the watchful ness or loyalty of our congressmen." J. E. D. FOR MANY YEARS. During all of the numerous financial crises which.have affected thi city and coast, it is encouraging to note that one banking institution, at all events, stood firm, and proved to the world at large what good management and sound busi ness policy could do, when commerce and credit were shaken to their centers. We allude to the old Pacific Bank, at the cor ner of Pine and Sansome streets, San Francisco, Cal., which for the last twenty one years has held through storm and sun shine to'the even tenor of its way.'and bids fair to be a friend to the industrial and commercial classes of this coast for many a year to come under the careful and prudent management of its worthy Presi dent, Dr. R. H. McDonald. THE SECRET OF LIVING. Scoville's Sarsapariixa, "ok Blood ano Liver Sykui will cure Scrofulous Taint, Rheumatism. White Swelling, Gout, Goitre, Consumption, Bronchitis, Nervous Debility, Malaria, and all diseases arising from an im pure condition of the ;blood. Certiflcatea can be presented from many leading physicians, ministers, and heads of families throughout the land, endorsing it in the highest terms. Weare constantly in receipt of certiflcatea of cures from the most reliable sources, and we recom mend it as the best known remedy for the cure of the above diseases. 'Rough on Coughs." 15c, 25c, 50c, at Druggists. Complete cure Coughs, Hoarse ness, bore lhroat. A plug of Star tobacco weighs sixteen ounces. i early an other brands are a f ourteen-ounce swindle. Those complaining of Sore Throat or Hoarseness should use Brown's Bronchial Troches. The effect is extraordinary, per ticularly when used by singers and speak ers for clearing the voice. "Rough on Corns." 15c. Ask for it. Complete cure, hard or soft corns, warts, bunions. Veni, Vidi, Vici I came, I saw, I con- Sljiered Is adaptable to Allen's Bilious hysic. It quickly relieves Constipation, 'lies, Sick Headache, etc., za cents. At all Druggists. Redington, vYoodard & Co., Portland, Oregon. "BuciiiT-PAiBA." Quick, complete cure. all annoying kidney and urinary dis eases. $1. CATARRH A New Treatment whereby a permanent cure is effected in from one to three applications. Particulars and trea tise free on receipt of stamp. A. H. Dixon & Son, 305 King street west, Toronto, Can. A AltlhTo all who arc suffering from error" and indiscretions of vouth. nervous weakness, early deray, loss of manhood, tc, 1 will send a rei;6 that will cure you, FltlZE OF C11ARE. This great remedy was discovered by a nnssionery in South Aniern a. Send self-addressed envelope to Rkv. Joseph T. Is has. Station D, Krvr York. GREAT Man reM n u r e ft Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Backache. Headache, Toothache, SSoreIhroat.STlUng.Spraln,BrulM, Itiii-nw. S-itll. Front Kites, AND AM. OTHEK l:OIIII.V IUIXS AND ACHES. SoM bv Druggists mi'l Kealeni everywhere. Fifty Ceuts a bottle. Direction in 11 Languages. THE OIIAHLKS A. VOUELEU CO. (SuwoMors to A. VOtiKLKR CO.) llaltimurr, Bd., I'. S. A. IBW$ Regeneration for enfeebled By s tenia, Bulferinir from a sren- eral want of tone, and its umial concomit ants, dyspepsia and nervouKnes3, is seldom derivable from the use of a nourishing diet ana stimuli of appe tite, unaided. A medicine that will ef fect a removal of the specific obstacle to re newed ueaitti and vigor, that is a eenu- ine corrective, is the real need. It is the possession of th s grand requirement wnicn makes ilostet- ter's Stomach Bitters so effective as an in vorant. For sale by Druggists and Dealers generally. " l$fZ imi Vfo H The best evidence in the world of the purity and excellence of Blackwell's Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco is found in the fact that the fame of this tobacco increases from year to year. This could not be the case if it were merely " gotten up to sell," or had auy dubious or dangerous infrre dients in it Among millions of users of all nationalities, surely some one would find out if it were impure, injurious or unpalatable. For 18 years this tobacco has been acknowledged to be the bett in th Korld, and every year the Bull Durham brand grows more popular, the demand for it wider, and smokers more enthusiastic over its delicious natural flavor. Ask your dealer for it. Get the genuine trade mark of the BulL There la no mischief done where BlackweU'a Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco is used. T kr GOOD HEALTH 0 ITTKR mvtt h fcpt In riw, DR. SAN FORD'S. LIVE INVICORAT9 Just what its name implies; a Vegetable laver Medicine. and fordiseasea resulting from aderanged or torpid condition of the Liver; such as Biliousness, Oostiveness, Jaundice, Dyspepsia, Malaria, Sick Headaetae, Rheumatism, etc An invaluable cam ilv MnrilrinA. For full information send roar ad- dress on a tai cam ior iuu rage dock on m " Liver and its Diseases," to Vli. oAJNr UliU, -i Pnane Street, New York. ASK lmi4iIST WILL TKM. TOU ITS BKPCTATIOS. 0 fl LA fl H A N An oil fish of rich delicious n rVTaTTr flavor- Prior to the finest lm OR CANDLE FISH ported Sardines. Askforthem. DR. PIERCE'S Electro-MatrneUc Belt is the only complete Body-battery in the world. Only one generating continuous Electro-Magnetic Current, without Acids. Cures disease like macic For male or female. Hundreds cured ! 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Capital Stock 81,Wo,ooooo Nnrnlnm I'nud 450,000 00 liiwivitlert ITolltH 6,120 35 Due Depositors 2,1 67 ,52 57 Une Banks IMSOiHH Due Dividend Xo. .,.-.. -lO.ooo Q Total liabilities 3,77H,77 HQ Oar connections are complete for the trans action of all kinds of banking business. Firms, corioi'mtioith,Niidinriivi!nal. desirinsj to open an act lint, or make any change in their present banking arrangements will do nell t communicate with us. K. II. ine DONALD, X'resideiir. TORPID DOWELS. DISORDERED LIVER, and MALARIA. From these sources arise tbxee-fourtns ot do diseases of the human race. These eymptoms indicate their existence : Xosa ol Appetite, Bowels costive, Sick Head ache, fullness after eatine, aversion to exertion, ot body or mind, Eructation of food, Irritability of temper, low spirits, A feeling of having neglected some dntr Dizziness, Fluttering at the Heart, Dots before the eves, highly col ored Urine, COWSTIPATIOW. and de mand the use of a remedy that actadirectly on the Liver. 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The Best Blood Purifier and Tonic Alterative in ! use. It puiekly cures all diseases originating from a disordered state .of the blood or liver. Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Boils, Blotches, Pim- ; pies. Scrofula, Gout, Dropsy, Tumors, Salt Rheum and Mercurial Pains readily yield to its purifying properties. It leaves the 'blood pure, the liver and kidneys healthy, the com plexion bright and clear. For sale by all drug gists. JT. It. ATES & CO., - - Proprietors; SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.' ' PIANOS. CTCIIIUIAV KKAXICII & BACH. U I kLiii t i A I . Gable r. Roenish Pianos; Burdott Organs, band instruments. Largest stock t .Shoe! Music and Books. Bands supplied at Eastern trwes. 1L GRAY, 20 Post Street, San Francis co. PIANOS 5.000 Maw nd Second-hand riiino a half price. Pianos 75 and np. Anti- sell Piano Factory. 24 & 26 Ellis St. S. J P. N. U '15 1 montns' treatnVent in one package. 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