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VOli. IX.
ROSEBTJRG, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1884.
NO. 18.
.J. JASKULEK,
PRACTICAL .
Watciiate, 'Jeweler and Ojlician,
ALL WORK WARRANTED.
Dealer In Watches, Clocks, Jewelry,
Spectacles and Eyeglasses.
AND A TVLL LINK Of
Cigass, Tobacco & Fancy Goods.
-Th only reliable Optotner in town for the proper adjust
ment of Spectacles ; always on hand.
Depot of the Genuint Brarilian Pebble Spec
tacles and Eyeglasses.
Office First Door South of Postoffiee,
ItOSEBURG. OREGOX.
LAITGEHBERGTS
Boot and Shoe Store
ROSEBUD, OREGON,
a x Jacks on Street, Opposite the Post Offlci,
i -
' Keeps en hand the largest and best assortment of
Eastern and San Francisco Boots and
Shoes, Clatters, Slippers,
And everything in the Boot and Shoe line, and
SELLS CHEAP FOR GASH.
Hoots and Shoes Made to Order, and
Perfect Fit tinaranteed.
I uss the Best of Leather and Warran all
my work.
1 Repairing Neatly Done, on Short notice.
I keep always on hand
TOYS AND NOTIONS.
Musical Instruments and Violin Strings
a specialty.
LOUIS LAXGEXBERG.
DR. H. W. DAVIS,
DENTIST,
ROtiEBURG, OREGOX,
Office On Jackson Street, Up Stairs,
Over S. Marks & Co.'s New Store.
HAHONEY'S SALOON,
! Nearest the Bail road Depot, Oakland.
JAS. MA1IOXEY, . - - Proprietor
The Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars in
Douglas County, and
THE BEST BILLIARD TABLE IN THE STATE,
KEPT IN PROPER REPAIR.
Parties traveling on the railroad will find this place
very handy to visit during the stopping of the train at
the Oakland Depot. Give me a call.
JAS. MAHONEY.
JOHN FKASER,
Home Made Furniture,
WILBUR, OREGON.
UPHOLSTERY, SPRING MATTRESSES, ETC.,
Constantly on hand.
FURNITURE.
I have the Ilest
STOCK OF FURNITURE
South ef Portland.
And all of my own manufacture.
No Two Prices to Customers.
Residents of Douglas County are requested to give me a
call before purchasing elsewhere.
ALL WORK WARRANTED.
DEPOT HOTEL,
Oakland, Oregon.
RICHARD THOMAS, Proprietor.
This Hotel has been established for a num
ber of years, and has become very pop
ular with the traveling public.
FIRST-CLASS SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS
AND THI
Table supplied with the Best the Market affords
Hotel at the Depot of the Railroad.
H. C. STANTON,
DEALER I2f
Staple Dry Groods,
Keeps constantly on hand a general assortment of
Extra Fine Groceries,
WOOD, WILLOW AND GLASSWARE,
ALSO
CROCKERY AND CORDAGE,
A full stock of
SCHOOL BOOKS,
Such as required by the Public County Schools.
All kinds of Stationery, Toys and
Fancy Articles,
- TO SUIT BOTH YOVSO AKD OLD.
Buys and Sells Legal Tenders, furnishes
Cheeks on Portland, and procures
Drafts on San Francisco.
! SEEDS!
SEEDS!
ALL KINDS OF THE BEST QUALITY.
ALL ORDERS
Promptly attended to and goods shipped
with care.
Address,
1IACHEXY Jk BEXO,
Portland. Oregon.
A Shabby Excuse.
Rev. John Hall.
Men do things -which their fathers
would have deprecated, and then draw
about themselves a flimsy cordon of
sophistry and talk about the advance of
. humanit; and liberal thought, v hen it is
nothing after all but a preference for
individual license.
Philadelphia Ledger: The prevail
ing disposition is t trust too much to
legislative remedies for moral shortcoming.
MY OWN GIRL.
Frederick Langbridge.
Only ten dollars no more sir
The wages I weekly touch,
For labor, steady and sore, sir,
It isn't a deal too much;
Your money has wings in the city, ,
And vanishes left and right,
But I band it all to Kitty
As sure as Saturday night.
Bless her, my own, my wee,
She's better than gold to me!
We live in a reeking court, sir,
With roguery, drink and woe.
But Kitty has never a thought, sir,
That isn't as white as snow
She hasn't a thought or feeling
An angel would blush to meet;
I love to think of her kneeling
And praying for me so sweet.
Bless her, my own, my wee,
She's better than gold to met
I must be honest and simple,
( I must be manly and true,
Or how could I pinch her dimple,
Or gaze in hsr frank eyes blue?
I feel, not anger, bat pity,
When workmates go to the bad;
I say, "They've never a Kitty
They'd all keep square if they had."
Bless her, my own, my wee,
She's better than gold to me I
Ah, the day we stooi at the altar,
Modest, and white, and still,
And forth f 1 om her lips did falter
The beautiful, low, "I wilL"
Our home has been bright and pretty
As ever a poor man's may,
Anl my soft little dove, my Kitty,
Shall nest in my heart for aye.
Bless her, my own, my wee,
She's beltar than gold to mel
Earthquakes and Luminous Paint.
Iron.
The connection between earthquakes
and luminous .paint would hardly be
apparent to anyone without explana
tion. It nevertheless exists, and the
recent earthquakes in our own country
have served to remind U3 of its exist
ence. As a matter of fact, large con
signments of this paint are sent to those
countries where earthquakes are preva
lent. The use to which it is put invests
it with the utmost importance just for
the few critical moments of the shock.
In the Philippine islands, where earth
quakes are not uncommon, small me
tallic plates coated with luminous paint
are so placed about the premises, that
at the first warning the inmate? are
quickly guided to the door,-and thus to
the street. j
In Manila it is laid on in patches
about the bedrooms and staircases, serv
ing as guides for the dcor-handles and
the si airs, night lights being considered
as especially dangerous, as likely to set
tire to the falling house, anil thus to
roast the inmates; in their own homes.
It follows that those who live in dis
tricts likely to Le visited by earth
quakes will do well to adopt this plan,
and to burn no flame lights at night,
especially in the' case of gas, tho pipes
for which might ! be broken asunder,
and the gas escape and take tire. The
gas should be turned off at the main
nightly, and luminous labels be so
placed as to indicate the door-handles
and other guides j to the main point of
egress, which would enable the resi
dents to find their way cut of their
houses in the dark before the walls per
chance buried them. It will be remem
bered that at Ischia there was just suf
ficient tia:e between the first shock of
the earthquake and the downfall of the
Grand hotel to permit those who acted
promptly to save their lives.
Garden or Eden Rocks.
Cor. Cincinnati Times-Star.
Since the days of the "forty acres and
a mule" dodge, if a month has passed
away without some ridiculous fraud be
ing practice I upon the colored people
here, your correspondent fails to re
member it. The latest and mo t ab
surd was brought to light to-day, when
a colored man, with his eyes danc'ng
with delight, came in to show me a
tress ire that he had just bought in the
shape of "a rock from the Garden of
Eden."
It looked like a small piece of slate,
was highly perfumed with musk and
packed in a small pasteboard box. He
had bought it from a wh'te woman,
w o told him she was from the C arden
of Eden, and was the only living agent
for the sale of the rocks. She had
thousands of tbem put up in similar
paper boxes, and sold them through
the country at 25 cents each. She has sold
several hundred in Columbia. S. C. The
Times-Star correspondent tried to buy
the colored man's roek.buthe resolutely
refused ten time its price. A big re
vival is in p ogress among the tolored
Methodists of this city, and tli3 afore
said white woman is reaping a rich
harvest in the sale Of her "(J arden of
Eden ro k&" among the ignorant re
ligious enthusiasts. I
Ills Wife Invented a Crazy Awning.
New York San.
"When a Ninth avenue painter came
out into the sunshine a day or two ago,
and let down the awning before his
show windows.seores of people gathered
about and fixed their eye3 admiringly
on the awning. It j was ma "e of patch
work silk, and the oddly thaped bits of
silLeu co'or were jniingled artistically
an I pleasingly after the style of crazy
quilts. j
"Its a success," said the painter
jubilantlv. fcThe popular fancy just
now is for crazy quilts. That's a crazy
awning the only one in the city. . It's
hit the public fancy, my wife's happy,
and I'm getting lots of custom by it."
Plantation Philosophy.
ArkansawTra eler.
De bes pus-.on is inaie o' de smile
an ter tear. Sunshine an' rain is what
make de cotton.
When er ole u an i git3 mad he's aw
ful. De ole family 'boss, when he runs
erway, t .'rs de buggy all ter ie;es.
e man what tells one truth, al
dongh he may make tie curmunity mad,
is greater dea de itan whut tells a hun
dred lies ter please de neighborhood.
Truth bllere I ia de right way, is de
foundation o' dis worl's happiness. De
liar may 'muse de folks but nobody
wants ter ax his 'pinion consarnin a
'portant matter. ;
The Old Black Tie.
.ilartfo.- i 1'o.tf.J
Owing to the crazy-quilt mania,
society young men; on small in omes
have been obliged to fall bick on the
old black tie. It is too narrow for a
pat- h and too black to be attracti .
Over 40 000,000 I cent p ecs were
coined in the United State 1 -
THE TREASURE CASKET.
Chicago Tribune.
"A vaunt, villain!"
The man thus addressed a powerfully-built
j onng fellow of 25 years or
so, with strong limbs and biig'ht blue
eves, that even in this moment of shame
and degradation looked unflinchingly
into those of o! the girl who stood be
fore him in all the regal splendor of
her peerless beauty of face and figure,
started back with a convulsive, shud
dering movement, from the eTects
of which his frame seemed to writhe as
if in mortal agony; and then, recover
ing the self-pcssession which had
momentari'y deserted him, placed an
arm in such a position that it prevented
the outlines of his face from being
plainly seen, and ttood there like a lion
at bay.
Two years before our story begin a
solitary horse mackerel might have
beea seen swimming leisurely across
the Atlantic ocean to open the summer
seasoa at Newport."- And what a sum
mer it proved to be for Violet Caryll!
Coming there in all the freshness of
her youthful beauty, she had seemed, in
contrast to the habitues of the
place, like a lily growing white
and pure and stately in a bed of
roses from which the early splendor
of freshness had forever fled. With
heart unfettered, a mind of unusual
vigor, and a soul as pure and stainless
as the life record of a girl who has
never learned to play the piano, Violet
Caryll had me$ at Newport the man in
whose presence she felt for the first
time that indefinable sensation of joy
that thrill of supersensitive emotion
which marks the beginning of an epoch
in the life of every girl an epoch
which in the future shall be looked
back upon as a time when all the world
seemed filled with sunshine, when every
day that d:ed upon the horizon's purple
rim seemed crowned with the stars of
joy that festal time when love,
warm-lipped and glowing, sits en
throned upon the cloud-tipped summit
of a soul whose corridors are lighted
for the first time by the glorious sun
burst of changeless affection, and whoso
parching thirst for kisses, and caresses,
and low-spok . n words of tenderness is
forever quenched by the limpid, pur
ling stream of a passion that can never
die.
It was at a fete chainpetre that Vio
let Caryll first saw llupert J. Hether
ington. She was standing near a por
tiere through which the chicken salad
and nickel-size sandwiches were soon
to be brought, when suddenly her
escort, Bertie Cecil a young man who
hoped to be promoted to the ribbon
Counter the following winter observed
what seemed to him like a blush pass
qu ckly over her face, and, looking in
the direction indicated by her eyes, it
did not take him long to discover that
Violet was gazirg earnestly at Rupert
Hetherington.
"Would you like to know him?" he
asked.
Violet moved her head slightly in
assent, and a moment later the intro
duction had taken place.
u You are from Cincinnati, I believe,"
said Iiupert, after they had conversed a
moment upon ordinary topics. '
"Yes," answered Violet.
"Ihen we shall surely be friends. I
once knew a man who lived in Dayton."
"Ah, indeed!"
Then Rupert excused himself, but as
he walked away Violet knew, by that
subtle instinct which enables women to
tell that there is a fly in the butter even
before they have entered the din'ng
roomhatno other man would e er
posses i her heart so completely. And
so when they met again she was very
cordial. It was the old, old hump
backed and gray-headed story of friend
ship that grows into love, and before
the Newport season was ended Violet
Caryll and Kupert Hetherington had
plighted their troth.
Why they had quarreled nobody
seemed to know. It was simply given
out that the engagement had been
broken, and soon alter this came the
news that Rupert Hetherington's im
mense fortune had been engulfed in the
maelstrom of a lree-for-all pacing
iaje. Theu he drifted out of Violet's
world altogether, and for nearly two
years she had been living at Rosebud
Villa, her father's country-seat. Al
ways fearless of personal danger, she
was accustomed to take long walks
about the place in the soft June even
ings, and during one of them had dis
covering a man forcing hi3 way into
that part of the house where the silver
and jewels were kept. It was this man
to whom she had spoken the words
with which th's chnpter opens.
.
He stool there for a .moment, and
then suddenly dropped his arm so that
his face became visible.
" You know me, I suppose," he said.
The girl looked at him intently for
an instant, and her face became "white
as marble.
J "Great Cod!" she cried. "It
Rupert Hetherington!"
is
"le," he answered, "Rupert J.
Hetherington, once your promised
groom. It is all true. I am a com
mon burglar. I must steal or starve."
For an instant the girl did not speak.
Then she simply said: "You say that
you are poor ; that with wealth oi.ee
more in your possession you would be
honest. Fo vou mean this ?"
"I dj."
"Then follow me," and walking be
fore him the girl le I the way to a hot
house which ttood near by. 1 ntering
it, she soon returned and placed in the
man s hand a small package. "Take
that." she ta'd. "You can sell it for
enough to again place you beyond the
rea-h of want," and waving him away
with an imperious gesture she turned
and entered the house. Rupert hastily
opened the box, and as he saw its con
tents a great wave of joy swept over his
soul. "God b.' ess her: he murmured.
"Lhs "" has, indeed, - redeemed her
promise, and with what I shall recei.e
for the contents of this bo ; I may live
all my life in luxury."
She had given him a quart of . straw
berries. From" A Newport Aquarelle,"
by Murat Hals' ed.
Ihe latest Cincinnati song is "My
Roy, Where Is Your Father To-night V
WHAT KIND OF BOOKS?
Rev. Robert Collyer's Talk Uefore the
Young men's Christian Union.
I have felt that it would be a good j
thing to talk to you to-night abeJut the
companionship of good books. They i
will deepen and sweeten the joys of
young men and women. I suppose that
I might say it is fifty-five years, or
nearly so, since I dreamed over the first
of them, of one of them especially,
" Whittington and His Cat." It wis
when I was 5 years old, and it was the
first book I remember reading. Every
boy should have it. Good books are
good friends; they will never deseitus.
I sat in Shakespeare's chair at Strat-ford-on-Avon,
and went into his garden
and had flowers from the flower-bed
near his door. It was all as lovely as a !
midsummer night's dream ; but I could
not make him live in Stratford; be lives
with me. My companions may be your
friends, young men and women, and fill
your life with pleasure f they have
mine. y, f
The best books often reveal their
worth after many years. They did not
think much of Shakespeare in his time.
Good br.oks are like the wine we hear
of (that we never see of course), that
grows precious in the long lapse of
years. Such is the genesis of all the
great books. We old readers know we
can only get the good from a book by
some such process as that by which it
was written. I speak only ox the best,
not of such as you can read as you
would crack a nut. The greatest books
are always growing better. We can
hardly blame the simple fel!ow who
read Tobinson Crusoe through every
year; and who, when he was told it was
not true, said he would not believe it,
adding to his informant : "I don't thank
you at all for telling me, either."
I would say a word of caution. There
are books we can read as a man takes
opium, which make us feel like heaven,
but tber leave a greater desolation than
opium. There are also books we may
devour in any quantity without any
harm, except the taking up of our time
books that are cs foam to the sea. It
is not for me to say, however (human
nature is so different', what to take and
what to leave. This is a sure cr terion,
however : First, if when I reatl a book
about God, and find it has put me
further from Him ; cr about humanity
and fir.d it has put me further from
m n ; or about ii e, and it makes me
think it less worth living, then I know
that for me it is not a good Look. It
may charm me, but it is nut my book.
1 want to speak of novels. I always
enjoy a bright, good story. I used to
hide them under the bed wbeu I was a
boy, and would do it again if I had to.
This is what Walter fScott did for me
forty years ago. And I read him now
with del ght. You say you cannot read
Scott; you do not know Scotch. I
would say, then, "Go learn Scotch."
Some call novels week-day sermons and
authors week day preachers. It is
about so. '
The Sunday Schools of the World.
Mr. Fountain J. Hartley, one of the
secretaries of the Sunday School
union, has published in The Sunday
School Chronicle two statistical papers,
in which he gives an estiaiate of the
number of Sunday school teachers and
scholars in the Un ted Kingdom and
throughout the world.
In the United Kingdom the totals are
teachers, 074,704; scholars, 6,0G0,677.
In Great Britain there are 760,255
teachers and (5,h25,708 scholars. In
the United Mates, J 32,283 teachers
and 6,820,835 scholars. As to Sunday
schools on the continent, and in connec
tion with the various missionary socie
ties throughout the world, only an ap
proximate estimate is possible; but Mr.
Hartley gives the following figures as
the minimum computation : In European
countries 53,053 teachers, and 773,100
scholars; in connection with the several
missionary societies, a 21,404 teachers
and 380,808 scholars. The grand total
throughout the world is therefore
teachers, 1,766,996; scholars, 14,806,
451. Solemn Words to Kentutklans.
Louisville Courier-Journa .
Again we say, as so often we have
said in these columns, that from the sin
of blood guiltiness no citizen of this
commonwealth is free. We dc not deal
with crime as we ouht. We tolerate
murder and pardon vice and honor
criminals if they are brave. Physical
prowess is the only virtue that appeals
to us. e are passionate, unreasonable,
unrestrained, lawless. Society protect
no man either by its recognized rules
of law, or by that public sentiment
which gives strength and force and vi
tality to all written law.. Until we
chaage all this; unt I murder is pun
ished; until we educate men to look to
the law for protection and vindication ;
until the law does'what it prstends to
do, what it is in tituted for, we should
cease our boasting, and no longer con
tent oursolves with traits and achieve
ments which equally distingui h the
barbarous and half civilized communi
ties. Bottled Tears.
E stern Lstter.J
In Persia they bottle their tears as of
old. This is done in the following man
ner: As the mourners are sitting
around and weeping, the master of cere
monies presents each one with a piece
of cotton, with which he wipes off his
tears. This cotton is afterward squeezed
into a bottle, j and the tears are pre
served as a powerful and efficacious
remedy for reviving a dying man after
every other mears have failed. It is
also emplo, ed as a charm against evil
intiuenc 8. 'Ihis custom is probably
alluded to in I'salmvi., 8: "Rut thou
my tear. into a bottle." The practice
was once universa', as is found by the
tear-bottlcs which are found ia., almost
every ancient tomb, for the ancients
buried them with their dead as a proof
o: tneir a ev.tion.
Morphr, the Chess Player,
fChipAfrn .Tnnriml 1
Paul Morphy, of New Orleans, the
SB 1 m . t ...
greatest cness piayer ot tne world, is a
gently demented wreck. A very small
man, spare of f'e3h, scrupulously neat
and styl sh iu . dress, cane in hand, up
and down he goes jabbering softly t
himself. His insanity, not always ap
parent, was not caused from overstudy
but h"-- " -r loss of laws-"
Shakespearean Slang. .
"Hermit" in Troy Timel
The power of Shake pcare over the
public is shown by the extent to which
his phrases, and even his slang, has be
come incorporated into our language.
Ln this point, indeed, he u vtneqnaled.
Among the e is "ba? and baggage,"
"dead as a door nail," "proud of one s
humility," "tell the truth and shame
the devil," "hit or mi3s," love is
blind, "selling for a song," "wide
world." "cut copies," "fast and loose,"
unconsidered tritjes," "westward ho,"
familiarity breeds contempt," "patch
ing up excuses, misery makes strange
bedfellows," "to boot (in a trade),
"short and long of it," "comb your
head with a three-legged stcol," "danc
tog attendance," "getting even" (re
venge), "birds of a feather, "thats
flat," "tag-ra? ," "Greek to me" (unin
telligible), "send one packing," "as the
day is long," "packing a jury," "mother
wit," "kill with kindness," "mun" (for
silence, "ill-wind that blows no good,"
wild-goose chase, "s are-crow, lug
gage, row of pins (as a mark of
value ' viva voce," "give and take,"
sold" (in the way of 4 oke), "giv6 the
devil h's due," "your cake is dough."
Ihese expressions ha"e con.e under
my notice, and of our e there must be
many otners of equal familiarity. The
!?irl who playfully calls some youth "a
milksop" is also unconsciously quoting
Shakespeare, and even the "logger
head is of the same origin. Extem
pore" is first found in Shakespeare, and
so are "almanacs." Ihe "elm and vine"
as a figure) may also be mentioned.
Shakespeare is the first author that
speaks of "the man in the. moon," or.
mentions the potato, or uses the term
"eyesore," for annoyance. Another
often quoted utterance may here be
mentioned, simply because it is gener
ally misui.uerstood: "One touch of na
ture makes the whole world k n," which
is supposed to express the power of
sympathy, whereas it solely referred to
the widespread operation of selfishness.
(iicn. Grant's Missouri Farm.
St. Louis Spectator.
One of the possessions of the Grant
family, which wiil now probably go to
pay their debts, is their old Dent farm
near St. Louis. It is about ten miles
from the city, perhaps fifteen, on the
Carondelet branch of the Missouri Pa
cific railroad. it was 'eft to Mrs.
Grant by her father, and is now held
probably in her individual name. It
was there vhere Mrs. Grant was raised,
and it was from there that Gen. Grant
used to haul wcod to St. Lou's. The
place n w looks v. ell worn i ami some
what dilapidated, though it has
an immense barn, built some
years ago when Gen. Grant pur
chased a number of fine horses and
left them there, it was his intention at
one time to turn tho old Dent home
stead into an extensive stock farm, but
he soon got tired of the experiment and
had a sale whereat he let go all his fine
horses.
I was there last spring and the once
splendid farm was onl a reminder of
what it hael btfteii. The only family
residence where en. and Mrs. Grant
had lived for a number of yea s was
almost read to t ;inble down ;ro n age
and neglect, and ail that was left to re
mind one of Gen. Grant's abortive veu
ture in stock-raising were the magnifi
cent but empty barn, and a vagrant
broken-down mule that minced the
grass lonely enough in a slovenly-looking
pasture. Mrs. Graut has always
retained a warm affection for her family
homestead, and w hen she an I the gen
eral were in St. Lou s the last time
they hired Mr. Jes e -A root's best pair
of horses and drove out to spend the
day there.
The Hoy' Pault.
Chi a-jo Tunes.
A veteran of Wall street s?ays it is re
markable how many young men there
are in he street. Go iut sonie of the
largest banks and banking houses and
vou will find responsible positions filled
by striplings hardly showing the down
of adolescence on their cheeks. So it
is at the stock board and o her ex
changes. The old fellow, who says he
has no predjudices against young men,
adds : "The great financial business of
New York is- done by an army oi
bumptious boys. Is it strange that we
have constant failures, plunders, de
linquencies, and dishonors? It is not
strange; but it is strange that nothing
is learned by bitter experience; that
there i.no attempt at reform. If you
observe the bulk of the failures in that
quarter you will find them occasioned
by younger members of the firms, who
have tried to improve on the fathers'
methods, and who scout conservatism
and eault'on as old-fogyish."
A Very Steady Pulse.
Chicago Journal.
L. D. Cheval'ey, a native of Switzer
land, aged Go, when recently on board a
steamboat on the la've of Geneva, en
gaged to indicate to the crowd around
him the lapse of a quarter of an hour,
or as many minutes or seconds as any
one choxeto name, and, further, to indi
cate by the voice the moment the hand
passc-d over t!.e quarter-minutes or
half m'nnte3, or any other subdivision
stipulated. This he did without mis
take in the midst of a dive sified con
versation. He acquired by imitation
and patience a movement which neither
thought nor labor nor anything can
stop. It is similar lo that ot a pendu
lum, which at each motion of going and
returning gives him the space of three
seconds, 10 that twenty of them make a
minute, and these he adds to others con
tinuously. A Chinese Notion.
The Chinese hold the theory that by
preserving a fellow creature from
drowning, the rescuer is answerable in
the next world for all the sins after
ward committed by the person rescued,
which literally means that a wise dis
pensation of Providence has been frus
trated. y
Incombustible manuscript.
An incombustible paper, and inks
and colors not affected by fire, have
been invented. At a trial some speci
mens were consigned to a retoit in a
pottery furnace for four hors and
came out nnch-nged.
Coleridge: Advice is like snow ; the
softer it falls the longer it dwells upon
and tho eper it sinks into the mind.
F0SHGN TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
The total deaths ii Vrtmcp. from r-hnlpn
are about 2,300.
Ilenrv M. RtAnlev. the AfrWn
has arrived at Plymouth, England.
The renewal of rliolra (a fonrnA of Tmi.
Ion owing to the return of fugitives.
The Ha.fttin4 sawmill amnortv nn T?y
rard inlet, B. C, owned in San Francisco,
as om msc wees ior $za,uuu.
Six thnviHArirl
patch, are detained in various lazerettos
on the frontier and along the coast.
A SOn of the TtrlticVi m'dann.nl n t- Tn
dosto, Turkey, was captured last week by
uugnuua w uu o.emana ransom. t
Rebels attacked Snnl.-
last week in great force. They lost four
uivu uiea, and naa several wounded.
A Chinaman namfd On TTi
200 and costs at Victoria, B. C., recently,
avi. o,aiaiiug ner majesty s sailors to de
sert. a gwu uxauv sunsiroges are occurring
anions the troops in Suakem. The ther
mometer registers as high as 120 in the
shade.
A MA mam. J 1
It was reDorted lasff wont that.
and China had made a treaty of peace.
China is to pay France an indemity of S7,
280,000. The Supreme Court of Vienna has con
firmed the sentence of death upon Stell
macher, the Anarchist, recently convicted
of murder.
Port PuelvA. Snnin ia Aararnri infants
with cholera. Ports between Cadiz and
Ayamonte, both inclusive, are also sus
pected of being infected.
The French PAVfTl YY 0flf lioa ona tr a A
advices from Tamstay, Madagascar, stat
ing that the reported combat, June 29th,
was not a defeat of the French.
iouu. cAiaks at ueiage, near liigieres,
France. Last week the population, headed
A nnniA !nin . 4. TT.l. .a
u me mayor and members or the council,
drove off and stoned refugees from Mar
seilles.
Tnft HAW rl I 7rT-rrt law urn
Pans last week. Three thousand suits
for divorce have already been begun.
Many noble and prominent families are
ihva1i1
Advices received in London state that
the British ship Aros Bay, from Dundee,
April 4th, for San Francisco, has been to
tally wrecked off Valparaiso. The crew
were saved.
The libel suit by Belton, the prosecutor
for the crown, agaimst William O'Brien,
editor of the Dublin United-Ireland, has
been concluded by a verdict for the plaint
iff giving him 3,000.
It is reported in London that 500 passen
gers were murdered in Agig, Egypt. A
letter from General Gordon, dated on the
11th ult., emphasizes the necessity of his
remaining to protect Kassola.
The chief of police of Victoria, B. C,
returned from Skena river last week,
bringing the murder of Yeomans. The
prisoner was surrendered by his tribe
after a slight show of resistance.
Two more persons have been arrested in
Dublin in connection with the unsavory
Cornwall scandal. Many other persons
have become frightened at the prospect of
arrest, and are leaving the country.
Captaim Aitcheson, of her majesty's flag
ship Swiftshire, while out riding in Vic
toria last week, broke the girt of his sad
dle and fell to the ground, causing mental
aberration. He is pronounced incurable.
Two weeks' Quarantine will be imposed
by the Spanish government against all
vessels arriving into that country from
Newfoundland, in consequence of the
lare trade of that country with France.
A Marseilles dispatch says that the lower
masses uisnse ano oppose physicians, be
cause they have got the notion that the
physicians have been instructed to help
cholera along in order to get rid of the
surplus population.
A Victoria,. C, dispatch says: A man
named Casey, lately from California, was
murdered last week at Cache creek with
a shevel in the hands of another man
named Abiesher. The murderer fled, but
is hotly pursued by constables.
It is reported in Berlin that the Grand
Duke Louis f Hesse will abdicate in fa
vor of his son Ernest, under advice of the
Emperor of Germany. His morganatic
marriage with Mme. Kaleraine, and his
subsequent divorce, have compromised
his position
The Spanish government has made the
following reduction in Cuban export du
ties, which commenced August 1st: The
sur-tax of 5 per cent is abolished, and the
present rate of 60 per cent reduced, and
made passable one-half in bank bills, at
one-half their nominal value.
An Arab trader has arrived at Assouan
from Amarar, which place he left on the
20th ult. He says it was reported that
Osman Disma was killed on the 18th ult.
by a member of the Disharens tribe, whose
nephew Osman Digma had stabbed be
cause he refused to join the rebels.
Irish members of the English parliament
have decided to send Sexton and W. Red
mond on a special mission to America, for
the purpose of reviving the interest in the
national cause, and ; to raise funds to en
able the Nationalists to run ninety candi
dates at the next general election.
Great precautions have been taken at
Warwick, England, to preserve order dur
ing the trial of Daly,"Egan and CDon
nell, the suspected dynamiters. A strong
barrier has been erected to protect the ap
proaches of the court. Constables armed
with revolvers will be placed on guard at
all public buildings.
A number of women and girls have been
arrested at St. Petersburg for conspiracy
against the Russian government. They
are connected with the Marie institution
school for girls of .tfood families. The con
spirators met in rooms of the institute,
and had accomplices among teachers and
older pupils of the school.
A City of Mexico telegram savs that the
American prisoners have been released.
It is presumed Secretary Frelinghuysen
requested their release. The released men
say they were confined five days in sep
arate cells. When informed of the sen
tence for defaming the government they
asserted complete innocence.
The inhabitants of Dongola, through
the Mudir, have sent a dispatch to the
general commanding at Assouan, declar
ipg their loyalty, and expressing regret
for their wavering in the past. The tele
gram is regarded as additional proof that
Mahdi's influence is wavering.
Leon N. Hartmann, the notorious Ni
hilist, implicated in the assassination of
Czar Alexander II of Russia, committed
suicide in Paris last week by taking a
dose of poison. "I shall never die the
death of a revolutionary patriot," he fre
quently boasted, 'jut shall come to it for
the want f bread." His words were
prophetic.
Captain Newton, a passenger in the
steamer Laxham, which sunk after the
collision with the steamer Gijon, who es
caped With fifteen Sna.nia.rds JLTlfl land?
at Murosj reports that immediately after
mo wiuswu uic rapuim vi me vjijou snot
himself. The Snaninrtfa- Via nntA hahavail
badly. There is no news of the captain of
me .axnam.
Pearl Eytinge, the actress, was married
to J. W. Yard, of New York, last week.
The glove fight between Mike Cleary
and Jack Burke at New York last week
was another hippodrome.
A Hawthorne, Nev., dispatch says: Lun
ing was totally destroyed, with the excep
tion of the depot buildings, by fire last
week.
New York dispatches report that the
propeller J. M. Osborne sunk ia Lake Sa-
Serior last week. Eight persons were
rowned.
The steamship Oceanic, which arrived at
San Francisco recently from Hong Kong,
brought 490 Chinese. Most f them are
for ictoria.
Receiver John S. C. Harrison, of the In
diana Banking Company of Indianapolis,
Ind., has been arrested charged with em
bezzling $ 93,000.
Lucie and Tenie Jones, two young girls
of good parentage, aged 19 and 17, living
near Gadsden, Ala., committed suicide by
hanoringlast week.,
Mrs. A. T. Stewart has contracted a
habit of being weighed every Saturday
afternoon, giving the man who operates
the scales a $5 note.
Crop reports from Ohio, Indiana and
Kentucky are to the effect that wheat is
the best, both in quality and quantity,
that has been raised in years.
Forty buildings were burned at Devil's
Lake, p. T., recently, including ten real es
tate offices, eight saloons and a number of
other buildings. Loss, 200,000.
Battle & Bro., wool merchants of Phila
delphia, made an assignment last week to
Samuel Lee. Liabilities are $120,000. The
firm refuses to make a statement.
Five members of the Salvation Army,
at Bridcrerjorfc. fionn.. hv Iwpn ao-nt. tn
jail for four days, for violation of the city
oruinance in paraamg on Sunday.
A special from Paris, Illinois, says W.
H. Vansickle, a prominent farmer, was in
stantly killed by lightning, last week,
while walking from his barn to his house.
Miss Phcebe Couzins, the lecturer, was
sworn in as deputy United States marshal
at St. Louis recently, and will assist her
father, the marshal, as private secretary.
Professor II. H. Kingsley, of the Alex
andria, Aiin., schools, has accepted the
position of assistant professor of mathe
matics at the Michigan University, Ann
Arbor. (
The Commercial Bank of Brazil, Ind.,
has suspended. Liabilities are about
140,000; assets nominally 170,000. It is
said that the entire'eounty school fund is
in the bank.
Ex- Gevernor Moses, of South Carolina,
was recently arrested in Chicago upon a
requisition of Governor Robinson of Mas
sachusetts for obtaining money under
false pretenses.
Winslow, Lanier & Co., of New York,
state that the effect of the Brazil, Ind.,
bank failure will be entirely local, as the
bank is a small concern and kept light ac
counts in New York.
A Camden, N. J., dispatch says grapes
in that section are rotting; cause, wet
weather alternating with sunshine. It Is
thought that grapes in some vineyards
will be entirely destroyed. '
A passenger train on the Bedford Nar
row Guage Itoad last week went through
a bridge at Bloomfield, Ind., the entire
train going into the river, killing one and
severely injuring several others.
Thirty-one Italians, arrested for being
concerned in the Lizzie Bradley assassina
tion at Pittsburg, Pa., were released last
week, the evidence showing that they
were not implicated in the affair.
A private letter received in San Fran
cisco from Noarales. Mei
25th, states that the facts about yellow
fever there have been suppressed, and
mat me piague is aauy increasing.
Thomas IT. Willi'ama wliA .J ;
ban Francisco from Seattle about a month
ago, was round dead in his room. Death
was, oue to an overdose of chloroform,
which it
cidal intent.
1 TTtta a lutuiiu upemng oi ine oian
lord Kindergarten rooms at San Francisco
last week. This is the school founded
with 5,000 donated by Airs. Leland Stan
ford, and is under the charge of Mrs.
Sarah B. Cooper.
Recent. tAllr nhnnf tha 1
" Avidia 11.-1 kJOJL
rrancisco has stirred up the board of
supervisors to consideration of the mat
ter, and last week they took the first steps
toward a movement to send diseased Chi
nese DacK to their own country.
The wrestlitiB'mjitfli tot
11- McLaiirhhn nf TW.mit on1 XT M
Dufur, of Massachusetts, for 5,000 a side
anu me cnampionsnip belt ot the world,
was won last week at Boston by Dufur,
who gained two successive falls.
Within the. nnet fw
discovered that the smuggling of Chinese
into this country as "stowaways" has
been carried on to a great extent, and it
ceriamiv iooks as it the shipping com
panies were encouraging this practice.
The shareholders of the wrecked Ma
rine Bank of New York have appointed a
committee to confer with the receiver and
the comptroller of currency, to ascertain
the condition ef the bank, and also report
as to the expediency of proceedings
against the directors.
The surgeon general of the Marine
Hospital service at Washington, having
received information that yellow fever is
spreading rapidly in Sonora, Mexico, has
instructed Inspector Nogales, of Arizona,
to use extra vigilance to prevent its intro
duction into the United States.
John Shea, a miner from Leadville, Col.,
spent Sunday with his wife near Greeley.
In the morning, while his wife was sleep
ing. Shea cut her and stabbed her seven
times in the ehest, and then stabbed him
self eight times and fell dead. Mrs. Shea
cannot live. The cause was jealousy.
Th failure, nf TTnll'a nnValo ton1rin
- w uuunAu
house at Elmira, N. Y., was regarded len-
icnuv at ursi, imt not so now. 1J.1S refusal
to make an assignment is severely com
mented upon. He places his liabilities at
140,000. He received deposits up to
within an hour of the time he closed his
doors.
Congressman Culbertson, of Kentucky,
who represents the Ashland district of
that state, attempted to commit suicide
last week at the National Hotel, Washing
ton. He fired several shots, one of which
entered the right temple, coming out near
the apposite side of his head, lie is still
living.
The National Rifle Association, with
headquarters at New York, has sent to
the governor of each state and territory a
circular requesting that he contribute a
prize to be competed for at the annual fall
meeting at Creedmoor and be known as
the "governors match," each prize to be
named after the governor presenting it for
competition.
llutchings, the San Francisco strangler
who is awaiting sentence for murder, ad
judged in the first degree, is beseiged
with lawyers, who want to take charge of
hiscase land have a new trial. The con
victed man stands out, however, and says
that he wants to die, and says positively
that he will not permit a movement for
another trial.