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J. JASKULEK,
PRACTICAL
latclmabr. Jeweler and Optician,
ALL WORK WARRANTED.
Dealer in Watches, Clocks, Jewelry,
Hpeetacles and Eyeglasses.
AND A Fl'LL LISK Or
Cigass, Tobacco & Fancy Goods.
Tlx only reliable Optomer in town for the proper adjust
ment of SiKsctaclcs ; always on band.
Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec
tacles and Eyeglasses.
Office First Door South of Postoffiee,
noHERi;R(j. orc;ox.
LANGENBERG'S
Boot and Shoe Store
i KOSERtriHj, OREOX,
On ; Jackson Street, Opposite the Post Office,
Keeps on hand the largest and best assortment of
Eastern and Han Francisco Boots and
Shoes, lialters, Slippers,
! And everything in the Boot and Shoe Hue, and
SELLS CHEAP FOR CASH.
Hoots and Hhoes Made to Order, and
Perfect Fit Guaranteed.
I use the Best of Leather and Warran all
my work.
Repairing Neatly Done, on Short Notice.
I keep always on hand
TOYS AND NOTIONS.
Musical Instruments and Violin Strings
a specialty.
DR. M. W. DAVIS,
m DENTIST,
R O S E ill' R -, O It E ; O X,
Office On Jackson Street, Up Stairs,
Over S. Marks & Co.'s New Store.
MAHONEY'S SALOON,
Nearest the Eailroad Depot, Oakland.
JAM. MAIIOXEV, - - - Proprietor
The Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars in
Douglas Count', and
THE BEST BILLIARD TABLE IN THE STATE,-
KEPT IN PROPER REPAIR.
Parties traveling on the railroad will hnd this place
very handy to visit during the stopping of the train at
the Oakland Depot. Give uie a call.
J AS. MA HONEY.
JOHN ERASER,
Home Made Furniture,
WII.Rl'R, ORFXiOX.
UPHOLSTERY, SPRING MATTRESSES. ETC.,
Constantly on hand.
FURNITURE.
have the Best
STOCK OF FURNITURE
South f Portland.
And all of my own manufacture.
Xo Two Prices to Customers.
Residents of DouglaH 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 nil
Table supplied with the Best the Market afftrdi
Hotel at the Depot of the Railroad.
H. C. STAPJTOfJ,
DEALER IX
Staple Dry Goods.
Keeps constantly ou hand a general assortment of
Extra Fine Groceries,
' WOOD, WILLOW AND GLASSWARE,
AI.-IO
CROCKERY AND CORDAGE,
A full stock of
SCHOOL BOOKS.
Such as required by the Public County Schools.
All kinds of Stationery, Teys and
Fancy Articles,
TO St IT BOTH roUNO AND 01.1).
Buys and Sells Legal Tenders, furnishes
Cheeks on .Portland, ana procures
Drafts on San Francisco.
SEEDS! SEEDS!
SEEDS !
ALL KINDS OF THE BEST DUALITY.
ALL, ORDERS
Promptly attended to and goods shipped
wiui care.
Address,
1IACIIEXY' 4k. BRXO,
Portland, Oregon.
House Drainage.
THall's Journal of Health.
There is a common mistake regarding
house drains that they are made too large,
it- ia inmrwt tn siinnos that a verv lartre
drain is safer than one of moderate size, be
cause tee smaller the drain trie more con
centrate I the flow, and the more thorough
the flushing when larger amounts of water
than usual are rjassed turouzh it: as on wash
ing days It may be taken as a rule that no
private bouse, no matter how large, can need
for its drainage, a pipe larger than four
inches.
A VARIETY OF LOVES.
H. S. Keller.
There's a love for the girl in the sealskin
sacque,
And a love for the girl without ;
There's a love for the girl who never goes
back
On her young man with a doubt.
There's a lore for the girl who's got the tin,
And a love for the girl who's none;
There's a love for the girl of the rolling-pin,
Who knows when the pies are done.
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There's a love for the girl of the rural part,
And a love for the girl iu town;
There's a love for the girl of frolicsome
heart, f
And a love for the girl with a frown.
There's a love for the girl of "hoss-car" fare,
And a love for the girl on the street:
There's a love for the girl of dimples rare,
And a love for the girl with feet.
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There's a love for the girl with tresses light,
For the girl who don't care a fig;
There's a love for the girl who sheds at night
vThe whole of her auburn wig.
There's a love for the girl in the east or west,
And a love for the girl in the south;
But perhaps the girl that you love the best
Is the girl in the north with a mouth.-
THE RICHES OF GARBAGE.
The Wealth in the Waste and Refuse
or the City.
Chios go Tribune.
A great deal of money is thrown away
every year by the waste of the refuse of
our cit es. In Boston some system of
utilizing it has been adopted, and it is
taid that the demand for the garbage
far outruns the snpply. Milkmen even
steal it from the contractors and carry
it away in their milk-cans. European
cities have: for a long while
economized in this as in other
minute ways hat mount up to enor
mous totals. jNew York throws away
all of its refuse. Chicago has used a
large part of it for filling up the lake
front and for bringing up the streets to
the new grade rendered necessary by
raising the city. The market gardens in
the vicinity of the city take more and
more every year of what is furnished
by the stables. But neither here, nor
in New York, nor in other city except
in Boston is anything like an adequate
use made of the wealth that could be
extracted from the dust heaps.
A machine has been invented and
put into practical operation in New
York that may do something towards
solving the question of how to handle
those street bonanzas. It is a rag and
bone picker of several hundred Italian ,
power that will sift and sort out refusa
of all kinds to the extent of 150 tons a
day. Until this machine went into op- j
eration all the refuse of xsew lork,
ashes, and garbage, and street sweep
ings was dumped into scows and taken j
out to sea and there abandoned to the
ebbing tide. But the success of the
machine proves that a much more
profitable use may be made of it, to
say nothing of the advantage of put- j
ting a stop to the deposit of bars of
bones, and old iron, and dirt at the
mouth of the harbor.
There is nothing very complicated in
the mechanism by which this is done.
The rags and paper are picked out and
put to one side to dry. The dust is
sifted out to be carted, on. All the
solid matter is thrown into a "washer"
in which the straw, the leather, the
vegetable refuse and other light mat
ter rise to the surface and are swept
away into a crematory where they are
burned. The heavy objects the iron,
glass, coal, cinders, and other things
are carried along on a broad belt from
which they are picked off by Italians
and sorted into heaps. In this way out
of 150 loads of refuse, all of which
hitherto has had to be carted to the
boats and hauled out to sea. there are
but thirty loads left to be a source of
expense to the city; that which is taken
is heavy and sinks at once to the bot
tom, rising no more to haunt the fes
tive bathers at Long Branch and Coney
Island.
The figures of the value of that
which is saved are the most interesting
to the owners of the machine and to the
public as well, for they are an en
couragement to enterprising men to ex
tend the area within which these arti
ficial Italian rag and bona assorters
may be introduced in our cities, which
will be clean the moment it is discov
ered that there is money for somebody
in keeping them clean. The rags are
sold for $30 a ton. The old iron is
worth $8 a ton ; the broken glass $6 a
ton. In every load of 1,800 pounds of
refuse brought to the machine it finds
100 pounds of coal and cinders, which
have furnished the machine with all the
fuel it has needed and will supply some
tor sale iu addition.
A Praiseworthy Enterprise.
New York Cor. Chicago Journal.
A commendable movement among
the stock-brokers during the dull win
ter just past was the agreement made
by twenty-three of the younger men to
attend a medical school in the city, and
learn how to treat people in cases of
sudden in juries by .smstroke, freez
ing, drowning, railway accidents, faint
ing, etc. Six of these have earned
diplomas for "fiist aid" which is com
petency to render approved help to pa
tients suffering as above mentioned.
1 he others hope to pass at a future ex
amination. Volcanic Cko.
Chicago He' aid.
At a meeting of the Academy of
Science in St. Louis, a few days ago,
there was exhibited a specimen of
natural coke taken from a mine of lig
nitio coal in Utah. The coke had been
made, it was stated, by volcanic action,
two volumes of volcanic rock having
passed directly through the nunc.
Am the Trees Pass By.
Cincinnati Enquirer, j
A mitfl little vouncster. beincr driven
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rapidly in a close carriage through a
woollawn to a neighbor's to tea, clapped
his hands and said: "Auntie, ain't it
funny I'm going out to tea and the trees
are all going liome t
Effect of Progress.
Rockland (Me.) Courier-Gazette.
The young woman who bites her
fin per nails and kisses her duqt, doer on
O A J
the nose would fall in a stony faint at
seeing her father nip a piece oil tne
butter lump with his own knife.
Arkansaw Traveler: Le season
blushes when de peach-trees bloom.
WHITE CRAPE.
Felix Gray in Times-Democrat.
It was a very plain little cottage,
quite small, three rooms and a kitchen,
I guessed from its ontward appearance,
and painted a reddish brown.
It stood back a few feet from the
sidewalk, and the little strip of yard
between its front door and the gate was i
a waste of grass and weeds. An um
brella china grew beside the gate whose
principal function seemed to be the
holding up to view a red placard set
ting forth that the premises were "For
Bent."
They had been for rent for three
months at least, and the red placard
was well-nigh washed away by the win
ter storms, before it met the pre-1
destined e es which were to look upon
it with favorable consideration. j
It was early in April. The china !
tree was coming into leaf, and the tall j
gypsy cousins of the aristocratic daisies
were camping in the weedy waste of
the door-yard.
1 had been out for my accustomed
moi ning stroll, looking after my roses
in the up town gardens, and, passing
the cottage on my way home, I was
struck by the novel fact that the in
efficicnt little gate stood open. Glanc
ing under the branches of the china
tree, I saw a young woman standing on
the mouldy steps, looking critically
about her, and a young man on the
tiny portico in the act of locking the
front door.
I halted beside the gate, looking
away, as if interested in the hdlsting of
a kite by some urchins in the street,
and in a moment they came out, their
faces glowing with the joy of satisfied
quest.
' It needed ho superhuman penetration
to dis over that they were newly mar
ried and aboufc to set up their first
housekeeping. Her accurately matched
hat and dress, simple and unpretending
as they were, bore the unmistakable
stamp of the trousseau, and the confi
dence with which she took his arm, and
the earnestness with which they spo1?e,
turning their faces toward each other,
told of a happiness some months old,
and beginning to descend to practical
considerations.
I belie e I pass among my acquaint-
tncas for a rather cynical old bachelor,
and I suppose my best friends would
hardly think me capable of the warm
glo v that suffused my heart as I saw
this young husband a tall, strong
limbed, manly fellow, by the way pat
the little hand that lay on his arm and
laugh fondly down into the , upturned
face of his girl wife.
The furnishing of such a tiny shell
is not an affair of many days, so I was
not surprised one morning toward the
end of the same week, to see the young
man come out of the little gate, and
close it behind lum, waving his hand to
somebody within as he turned away. I
met him at the corner, and could well
fancy that his smiling lips still felt the
warm pressure of the parting ki s.
As I reached the deepening shade of
the china tree I saw her standingon the
portico, her head resting against its
square wooden pillar, her drooped
hands clasped lightly before her, and
her eyes fixed upon vacancy, trying for
the thousandth time to make real unto
herself the strange newness of tha situ
ation. At the sound of my step she
broke away from her reverie, and turned
into the house with a brisk air of hav
ing duties to perform. The next mo
ment a window was thrown up, and a
voice broke out in a gay lilting song
like that of a glad bird in a blue sum
mer sky.
To pass the cottage soon became a
favorite feature in my daily prome
nades, and I seldom failed to catch a
glimpse of one or both of its occupants.
Sometimes she was about going to mar
ket, and it was delightful to notice the
assumption of matronly dignity with
which she now tied her bonnet on, in
stead of pinning it as formerly, and
covered her shoulders with a little cape
with loner, flowing ends.
Sometimes she sat sewing near the
window and once, the door being open,
I looked into the very heart of the do
mestic arcanum and beheld her with
.upturned sleeves and wide apron, vig
orously beating something in a great
yellow bowl.
It was some time in June, I thiak.
that I bade a silent farewell to my un
known friends in the cottage.
It was a moonlight night, I remem
ber; the air was heavy with the odor of
night-blo ming jessamine, and a mock
ing-bird was singing somewhere near.
The china tree was black with its full
clustered foliage, and the moon's rays
cculd not penetrate to the little portico.
I could see two figures seated there,
however in the shadow, and their at
titude, and the low murmur of their
voices, accorded well to my mind with
the jessamine odor, and " the bird-song
I stayed abroad usually late. I found
myself well accommodated and well
amused in Florence, and these condi
tions fulfilled, one place is as good, as
another to a bachelor without ties. '
It was late in December when
landed in New York, and a series of
long promised visits to some distant re
lations occupied another two months;
so March had come round before I again
unpacked my trunks in my familiar
room, and fell again into the loitering
rout.ne of my life at home.
I had not forgotten my cottage peo
ple, and one of my first engagements
with myself was to pass their gate and
look in upon them.
It was a bright, sunshiny day when I
set out to keep this engagement, though
the east winds and the clouds of dust
amply fulfilled the traditions of the
month. As I approached the place, the
leafless trees and the closed blinds re
called its aspect a year ago, only there
was no red placard.
But what was this fluttering fnom the
door-knob in the heedless March wind ?
Crape 1 For a moment the sky seemed
to reel, and the fair young wife dream
ing upn the portico that April morn
ing swept like a phantom before my
dazed eyes.
Collecting myself, I looked again.
The crape was white; all pure white,
like the Easter lilies, white as the dear
hopes that had centered in the little
the, whose going out it signaled to all
life passers, pleading with every human
heart for sympathy in the tenderest of
human griefs.
It was some days before I gathered
courage to pass that m ay again, though
my thoughts knocked frequently at the
door. The east wind was laid that
morning, and the sun shone with a gen
uine spring temperature ; there was a
sound of birds in the trees and a scent
of roses in the air, that it seemed must
speak of hope to the newest grief .
I walked slowly bv on the opposite
side of the way at about the hour she
had been accustomed to go to market,
but no matronly little figu-e stood on
the steps.
The door opened when I had nearly
passed, and the figure of the husband
appeared. He came slowly down to
ward the gate, which he had almost
reached, when the door was again
thrown open, and a smothered voice
called:
"Harry." V
In a moment he was at her side
clasping her in his arms arid stroking
her hair soothingly, with sad, comfort
ing kisses.
Ah ! well, well, the lonely heart does
not escape sorrow, and it was not your
scalding tea, Mrs. Timmins, tnat
brought tears to my eyes, as your
daughter passed the dining-room door
with her baby m her arms.
Wellington's Watches.
St. James' Gazette.
The duke of Wellington was ex
tremely fond of watches, and needed to
have at least half a dozen within reach
and all ticking their liveliest at once,
and this is but half the story. Fearing
some ill might befall those just under
his eye, orders were given when
ever the great man traveled to
have as many more stewed away
in a portmanteau made to tit his car
riage. One time-piece was, above all
others, his acknowledged favorite; it
was of old-fashioned English construc
tion, and had once been the property
of Tippoo Sahib.
Another of the duke's treasures had a
strange history. Napoleon had ordered
it of Breguet for the fob of his brother
Joseph, and, as an extra courtesy, di
rected a miniature map of Sjrnin to be
wrought in niello on one side and the
imperial and royal arms on the other.
Just as this lovely gift was finished,
Joseph was driven out of his kingdom
by the duke, and the emperor, for
rea-sons best known to himself, refused
to take or I pay for the costly bauble.
At the peace it was purchased fiom
Breguet aqd presented by Sir E. Taget
to the duke of Wellington.
Another watch owned by the duke
was made for Marshal Junot, and a
great horological curio ity it is. There
has never been more than two others
like it. They are constructed to mark
both lunar and weekly movement The
great duke gave preference to certain
montres de touche and he had several
of them a contrivance of Breguet's,
having sundry studs or knobs by which
one could feel what hour it was, and
this merely by what seemed "just fumb
ling in his pocket."
The Census of Russia.
Nova Vrem'ya.
On Jan. 1, 1882, the inhabitants of
Russia numbered 91,118,514, living in
sixty-three provinces and eleven dis
tricts. Duiiug the year 1883 there
were 4,043,803 births and 2,826,438
deaths registered, the growth of the
population being 1,217,425 inhabitants.
At this rate the population would rise
to a hundred million in 1890, and in
sixty or seventy years it would double.
At present fie population of the em
pire is 94,000,000. The growth of
population is largest in the southern
parts and smallest in the northern,
where also the mortality is greatest.
It is difficult to say whether this
is to be attributed to the climate or the
economic conditions of the country.
The average of life in Russia is twenty
six years in Europe and thirty-one in
Asia. This fact is explained by the
enormous mortality of young children.
It has been ascertained that 60 per
cent, of the children die under the age
of five years, which means 1,500,000
deaths per annum ' among young
children. It has also been proved
that more than half . of the
male population die before attaining
the age for military service. On an
average, a person is b rn in the Rus
sian empire every eight seconds, and a
death occurs every eleven seconds. In
St. Petersburg a human being passes
away every fifteen minutes.
The Ntar and the Milliner.
Clara Belle's Letter.
A millinery secret has been divulged
to me, and well, I am a woman, and
can't keep it. Besides, I have a duty as
a journalist, even though an amateur,
to write all I know. I was in a leading
bonnet productory, and a man was in
conversation with the bosses. He was
in the show business. I couldn't help
seeing that by the plush of his coat
collar, the reckless plaid of his cravat
and the jaunty tip of his bat.
"The madam," he said, naming a
well-known actress, "thinks you are
mistaken as to which of the hats she
saw here will prove most popular, and
last best during the whole season ; but
she's willing to take your judgment and
pay the $500. The understanding is,
and we don't want any mistake made,
that you're going to put this article on
the market labeled with her name.
"That is all clear." said the milliner;
"we'll do the same with her that we did
last year with Mrs. , and I can as
sure you that she'll get the worth of
her money.
So this was the agent of a dramatic
star, closing a bargain for the ad
vertising of his employer through the
naming of a popular hat.
Electric Light at Long Range.
Chicago Herald.
As showine the intensity of the elec
trie ligb?t at long range, it may be said
that at an exhibition given at Washing
ton last week a 4,000-candle light was
placed on the top of the Washington
monument, 430 feet high. Its power
close by was not noticeable, but at a
point two miles away it threw a glare
so bright that a person could read a
a newspaper or note the time on the
face of a watch with perfect ease.
Edmund About has earned 12,000,000
with his pen.
WITHOUT RIVERS OR ROADS
Slexiee Raring the Rainy Season.
The Fantastic Burr.
Letter in New York World.
Not only is Mexico without rivers,
but it is without roads. Cortez made
a good artificial road from V era Cruz
up to Mexico 350 years ago, and this, is
still in use for the occasional wagon.
But the employment of wagons for
transporting either freight or passen
gers is scarcely known in Mexico. The
reason for this doubtless is that in the
rainy season June to September, in
clusivethe roads are well nigh im
passable. Mules have been known to be
drowned in the very streets of this city
stuck in the mud at first, and as they
struggled to get free at last swallowed
up out of sight. "You see that place
in the street yonder, where it is im-
E roved?" asked an acquaintance f me
is other day, indicating a spot on - the
next block.
I said yes.
"That's a bad place in the rainy sea
son, he continued. l once saw a
team of forty mules stalled there while
trying to draw an empty wagon '
As a result of this tenacious quality
of the soil in heavy rains, in a country
where it rains every day for four
months, the most of the transportation
in Mexico has always been done by
huacaleros and donkeys. The huacal
eros still do the n.Oit of it. These are
porters, native Mexicans, with a hun
dred to a hundred and fifty pounds of
some staple or merchandise strapped
upon each of their backs. These
make very long journeys, sometimes
alone and sometimes in large
parties, and they carry every imaginable
thing that is grown or used in the coun
try, home of these are women and
some children. Whoever rides out of
this city early any morning on the road
by which Cortez fought his way in shall
see hundreds of these copper-colored
peons with springs of live ch ckens,
geese and turkeys around their necks
and hanging head downward. They
have brought this live freight ten,
twentv, thirtv, fifty mile1, and still thev
go much of the time upon a short-stepping
trot that must carry them five or
six miles every hour. I would like to
back a healthy huacalero to go as-you-
plea e against Fowell.
Some of these porters are laden with
green gra s for the city horses (these
women and gir's, mostly), some with
charcoal, the only fuel of the country;
some with wheat or bags of corn, some
with cocoannts. A strong man here
and there will ca; ry a great load of
earthea pots and round jugs half a
cart-load tied on iu some mysterious
manner by a string that goes around
each of the out jugs - and 1 have seen
this porter sit by the wayside to rest,
leaning back against his thirty cubic
feet of crockery cargo that towered far
above his head, and sticking hi legs
straight out before him the only way
to dispoee of them. I have wished that
I could see him pet up, but I never
happened to be present when that con
vulsion took place.
The donkey, or burro, trains form an
auxiliary to the landscape that is quite
as pictorial and more fantastx. They
carry everything that the huacaleros
don't. This little burro, with his aver
age load, looks very much like a cat
tied between two bundles of wheat.
Look out the window in the morning
early and you shall see half a dozen
burros up and down the street halting
before the doors and delivering milk,
the g.eat milk-cans, two or three of
them, strapped to each of his sides.
Considering that Mexico is as densely
populated as the United States, it be
comes obvious that this transportation
by tot ng must be quite in efficient. The
re&ult has always been a paucity of the ex
change of different products that leaves
Mexico, in regard to luxur, merely
half-civilized. The Pacific slope of
the Sierras grows fruits which the peo
ple of the City of Mexico never taste,
and the manufactures of one state are
often quite unknown to those of an
other. In a trip last week over the divide,
250 miles towards the Pacific, on th
Mexican National, the train took on at
one of the stations a ton or so of hand
some copper kettles, pans, etc., evi
dently beaten out by hand. I asked
some questions, and Vice President
Purdy said: "We carry those, up to
Mexi'-o to market. They are so heavy
that peons could not carry them all
this distance at a price that would al
low the market a profit. The railroad
solves the problem and gives the cook
of the capital ccper aucepans when
be has alwavs hitherto used earthen,"
Railroads will make the various parts
of this republic acquainted with each
other for the first time.
tan Franeiseo's Way.
The Current. J
fc'an Francisco, in 1849, had a mayor
and common council but no police
force; not a street was paved or lighted,
and each individual had to protect his
own property from a gang of desperate
ronglis, calling themselves "Hounds,
who attacked different quarters of the
city at pleasure, 1 ring at men, women
and children, indiscriminately. Cne
day, tl e citizens organized and ar
rested a numoer ox noiinus, impro
vised a court, empanelled a jury, and
tried and convicted the prisoners, who.
however, escaped, as there was no jail
in which to put them. This stopped
the exploits of the Hounds, tempo; a
rily.
In 1851, lawlessness took root ajrain
in the city and incendiarism was fre
quent. Cne evening a merchant vas
knocked down in his store by some rob
bers, who were subsequently arrested
and placed in jail. Fearing that they
would not be punished the people ap
posed a committee, who secured
jury and th-i prisoneis were sentenced
to fourteen vears' imprisonment. ev-
eral more scoundrels were subsequently
arrested and hung with the celerity of
lightning. The majority of the rascal-.
fled to Austral a and other po nt
whence they had drifted, and perfect
security for he and property was ob
taiced. Then the committee left the
regular authorities to exercise theit
functions, and the city had peace for a
long time. They stopped when they
had removed thex source of disturb. nice
and did not in turn become a terror to
the communitr.
FO HEIGHT TEUaSAPHIC WBWM.
Kassola, Egypt, is blockaded.
Mrs. Gladstone has written a book.
Bad weather prevails at Marseilles.
Cholera h
erland rrv"'vu a ownz-
Madacr.israr ia
France iur war wnn
The Citv of MoTim to o- i
water famine. -iUK 'roma
Cholera.
cities of Italy. lHe P"nc,Pai
Two
Paris recently. ' CIC ieQ ,n
The Emnnrnr rt i ci
burg, Austria.
The Dresent on Honk
crop is very poor.
War between Frn
seems inevitable.
The sit.UA.tInn at TtVist m.n-r r-.,.-
becoming alarming.
El Mahdi ha.fi mvWoi i nrm man f a
inforce Osman Digma.
The SllltTl rtf Tni-ban tc : 4
dread of assassination.
Ilenrv M. StmW
at Ustend, Belgium, recently.
The Rnval Palao of ArAA r
j v cv a.bAiciJ.a9 vjri cctc.
was destroyed by fire recently.
ReceiDts from
Mexico, for J uly, were $741,000.
The American frionfj Tonxior ;
ashore off the coast of England.
It is renortpd in Pans that V.o
sent his final ultimatum to Pekin.
A erreat reform rlnmnnctmtinn innir ..i...
at Birmingham, England, recently.
Three transnnrta h
troops and stores from Brest for Tonquin.
The Bear hotel, in Vionna km-nosl m.
J .wm.u, A. j
cently. It was the work of an incendiary.
Thouanan. the vnnnii fuvttii
phuve, has been crowned King of Annam.
It Is renorren4 tbat. Vol
soon be restored to his old Dosition in the
army.
Letters frnm Ttsrlin t.mA; u..t tt:.j
States Minister Kasson will be kindly re
ceived. A credit of :ttin nnn fr.i tv.o sn...,n
pedition has passed the English House of
Commons.
The African Snciotu r.f Hni.i;
from a want of funds, to assist the Ger
man expedition.
Christine Nilsson, the nri'ma Ann t o tc
soon to spend a week as t he puest of 'the
Kino rtf Ka-oil.tt
" " " O v V." UVAt.
TllC fiftieth nnnivnrcafir nf V.n aKr.i;isn
...... ,v..j.j vm. bUV UVA.11VJU
of slavery in England was celebrated in
iwiiuuu recently.
The renorte! alt PfPatlAn Kafwnan flat..
eral Diaz, President of Mexico, and Gen
eral Banca is unfounded.
Earl Granville. h rofnccfi tn
European mediation in the troubles be
tween France and China.
There was a salf nf Sln non ,.-tv t
Vancouver fur seals at Victoria, B. C, re
cently, to private parties. '
Official recnrrla lm? f lmt e ;... i,
- - " UUf
break or cholera, in t ho mui A
nave aiea irom tne disease.
It is now Htaterl that. T .rrA nAonn,fi.M
- w UbtttVUOUCiU
leit neither memoirs nnr innmaio
that he never copied a letter he wrote.
Several nackaces of rf
covered enclosed in newspapers at the
Nottingham, Eng., postoffiee recently.
The. Emiwmp nf r.aimnn i i
courages the Grand Duke of Hesse in his
contemplated abdication in favor of his
son.
The Legislature of Ynpaton hia not;.
tioncd the President of Mexico for pay
ment of amounts due the railways of the
state.
Commander Manwarinr ha on-
pointed captain of the Swiftshire, sta
tioned at Victoria, B. C, vice Atchieson,
invalid. -
The total number of
by the sinking of the steamer Dione, in
iuamw river, r..ngiana. last week, was
twenty-one.
Oueen Victoria has A
her will on account of the birth of a son
to the Duchess of Albany, the widow of
Prince Leopold.
Snain has decided tn
tine for ten days against Italian ports in
fected with cholera and CDr.n Aatro n
other Italian ports.
The Outbreak of cholera at. Wrtlomn.
ton, England, is owing to the scarcity of
water. An entire family has been stricken.
No deaths have occui red.
Latest ad vices from P.hina sot. tv.it tv.
cninese authorities have stopped the cou
rier service between Foo Chow and the
landing place of the cable.
kjvuw iiiab
A Dublin cahlecrram un- A t.n.
was found against Cornwall, French and
rernandez for felon v. Ph
Z n mm Z mm .4.. .1 t. .
iuiiuiic iuio r rencn s sanity.
The British shin W. TI. McVil frh- on
American tug in Victoria, B. C, waters
recently. There will he a nmneMitinn ft
me imraciion oi uie Washington Jaws.
mt - frm. u. VIVU
ALondon di snatch aava Tlurrh ri;u,
chancellor, of the exchequer, is going to
KtTYDt On a SDCCial mission connected with
Egyptian finances, clothed with extensive
power.
A new lighthouse has heen PstahHahod
on Cape St. John, the eastern end of
CA..A T.1 1 HI a mrm . . ...
oiaien island, lerra. .ei Knom th nvt.t
ol wmcn is visioie at a distance of four
. i , , i ... "e"
teen miles.
AdviceR from South Africa rnnnxt a
severe engagement between the followers
of Mosenia and the Boers, in which the
laiier were defeated. Many warriors
were Irttlod ino1,,1n 1
men. '
It now transpires that there were a
number of cases of cholera in the hospital
at Marseilles in 1883. Many of these were
laiai. ine iact, however, was suppressed.
in order to prevent alarm. Attendants
were sworn to secrecy.
A preliminary treaty was signed in Mcx
ico last week by the acting minister of
foreign relations and Sir Spencer St.
John, re-establishing Mexican diplomatic
relations with England, for ratification by
tne coming session or tne senate.
The newspapers of France now speak of
cholera in tne past tense. English and
American bankers and tourists agencies
are unanimous in expression of the opin
ion that confidence is returning, and that
there will be a marked increase ol tourists.
Says a Paris dispatch: Gerville Reache,
amid violent interruptions from the ex
treme left, read the committee's report on
the bill for the revision of the constitu
tion. During the sitting Clemcnceau and
Lagurre asked whether gendarmes would
be employed to tear them from the tribune.
The Floria steamer from Galonica was
stopped by the Turkish government au
thonty in the Dardanelles recently. It is
known this action has no relation to quar
antine regulations. The Italian minister
has protested against this action and has
demanded heavy damages for detention of
tne steamer.
DOMESTIC TELEGRAPHIC 1TEWS.
Trade in Paterson, N. J., is depressed.
Smallpox is epidemic in Hoboken, N. J.
The Hudson river grape crop will be bigv
Since 1815 Arctic navigation has cost 180
ives. ;
The charter of Buffalo, N. Y., is to be re "
vised.
La Porte, Cal., was destroyed by fire re
cently. -:
The Texas cotton crop is suffering from
drouth.
SankeyMoody's" companion, is in New
Denver, Col., has sold $300,000 worth of
new bonds.
The Hazelton, Pa., striking coal miners
are still out.
The first Hawaiian cotton is selling" in
New Orleans.
PhilxdelDhia'S " Electric! 'RTnositton-
opens next month.
W. "W. Tavlor ' son of Prenident Tavlor
died in Salt Lake recently.
Twentv-five Indiana iaila have liacn vn.
demnedby the health board. v
Teemer and Ross have been matched for
five-mile race for ?1,000 a side.
It is renorted that cold and silver have
been found near West Point, N. Y.
Louis Blandinc a.; nrominent. minincr
engineer of San Francisco, is insane.
President Harris, of the Xorth prn Pa.
cific Railroad, has arrived in New York.
San Franciscans consider "Tlr " fYTVm.
nell, the leper crank, a quack and a fraud.
The ITill-Rha mn divm-XA oacin ot Qan
Francisco is now more complicated than
ever.
Italian lahnrera i
choleraic chickens, and even suffocated
Mavor Bart.le.t.t.. of Rn
ordered the police to close all gaming
A train On the. Missouri Paoifln Poilm
was derailed near Whitesboro, Texas, re
cently. " ;
Amalcramated iivn n-nrlrsm ..-r.. Tu
C . MUiAVAU ncuAb JUUll
Jarrett for chief of the bureau of labor
statistics.
Mrs. Silorv. of Pastleton I 11 rrovn
birth tO a healthv bov weierhintr seventeen
ounces receatly.
Berliner & Strauss, d ealera in neclrtioo
and scarfs. Xew York- h
ferences, $50,000.
Lieutenant Greelv returns thanks tn the
navv and the neon I e of the TTnitei fitotua
for their sympathy.
A COrnoration has been formed in 7h?.
cago for the publication of the Current,
with $100,000 capital.
J. H. TomlinsonTof San Frn ncisco has
been sentenced to two vears in the nor.;.
tentiary for embezzlement.
The Central Labor Uni on of Kew Vorlr
reports the receipt of plenty of money
tor me striking bricklayers.
But one New York official
at the laying of the corner stone for the
Bartholdi pedestal last week.
William Butler Allen WAS ffifl rtrotnr nn
W A f, I. VIA
the occasion of the laying of the corner
owue oi me uannoiai statue.
Admiral Schnfeldf TT R Y ,.-h
rived at San Francisco the other day, pro-
uuuuces me ranama canal a lailure.
The New York Cnm-mrrrinl TiiilJfir,
estimates the fire losses of July in the
u nuea ocaies and Canada at $8,000,000.
HitL the transcontinental vroll-oi. hot.
arrived in St. Louis. He wore out seven
pairs of shoes since leaving San Francisco.
The steamer A meriea which arnVml tn
New York recent! v. hronu-ht Sfimnm n
gold bars to the bank of British North
America.
The July statement of the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company
shows the gross .earnings for July to be
$1,254,000.,. ,
A telecrram from Washi n cyton cava that I
the agricultural department estimates for
the wheat cron this venr is ahnnt 4s nt :
nnni. v i r v..v .,v.w,-
000 bushels.
William Neilson. Miss Hill's late nttr.
nev in the Skaron divorce case sava the
word "wife," in the "my-dear-wife" letter,
is a lorgery. ;
Richard McCormick
Arizona, has been elected a member of the
board of education of Jamaica, Long
xsiauu, lur live years.
Twenty-eight pauper emigrants were
landed in New York recently by the
Rugia from Hamburg, and were sent back
by the same steamer.
Baird. who recently drove. Maud S in
2:092, gets $10,000 for his performance.
nan ior lowering iviaua s record and
half for beating Jay Eye See.
Fred Gruenwalder's babv at Amster
dam, N. Y., has two tongues. Neither
one can be removed, as the physician fears
tne cmid mignt meed to death.
Schedules On the. aaaiD-nment. of T.
Christian Meyer, a New York broker,
show liabilities to be $139,000, nominal
assets $100,000, actual assets $5,8G5.
Lieutenant Schwatlro. on Heine inter.
Viewed at San Francisco, says he did not
resign his position In the army for the
purpose of entering any foreign service.
U. S. Grant, Jr., of New York, against
whom judgment for $10,000 was rendered.
damages to a milkman, has appealed, on
the ground tnat the horse was not his
own.
Richard K. Fox offers a nurse ot 810.000
to match the trotters Maud S and Jay Eve
See for a trot at the Gentlemen's Driving
Park, New York, next month, best three
in five.
A San Francisco disnatch savsr The
various roads in the Transcontinental As
sociation have affirmed their oldacrree-
ment regarding rates, and adopted more
stringent: ruies governing tne sale of
tickets. ; "
By a recent explosion of benzine in
Charles Franke's dying works, on Forty
ninth street, New York, Edward Linden
berg, engineer, and Peter Bretz were
shockingly burned. The front of the
building, five stories, was blown into the
street, and the building and stable, with
two horses, burned. A beer saloon ad
joining was demolished.
The depression in the iron business at
Pittsburg, Pa., is said to be greater at
present than for ! a. num Her of vears.
Many mills that continued in operation
J : .1 . .nfM. , 1 J
uumig i ue panic oi ioio are now cioseu,
while others that had plenty of orders
then are now running slack. Fully 7,000
men less are required to perform the same
amount of work than a year ago.
In order to avert as much as possible the
continued decrease in the gold reserve,
which now amounts to alittle over$ll,
000,000, as compared with $142,000,000 the
1st of May, it has heen decided by the
treasury department to restrict further
payment of gold certificates from the
treasury, and, where possible, to make
payments to other funds than gold, or its
immediate paper representative.
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