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Oregon Scout.
VOL. II.
UNION, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY V.J, 1880.
NO. 33.
The
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THE OREGON SCOUT.
An independent weekly Journal, Issued cvo y
, Sat urdu r by
JONES & OHANCEY,
Publishers and Proprietors.
A. It. Jonhs, 1
J n. CiiAscr.r,
I l'orcinun.
Kdltor.
KATES OF SUIISCIUPTION:
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" " Six IllOlltllS 1 IW
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Millcited. .
Address nil communication to A. K.Jones,
IMItor Orcyn spoilt, I'nlon. Or.
Lodge Directory
r.ttANI) llONHK V.U.t BY I.ORGK, No. CO. A. V.
ami A. l. Micls on thu second and fourth
batbrdays of each month. ..,
0. K. llKi.l., W. M.
('. K. Davis, Secrctnry.
I'mos Lodok. No. UxT. O. 0. V. ItcK'ilar
inectinir on Friday ovenl"tr ot ciieh wcekat
their hull In Union. Alt brethren in pood
standing aro invited to attend. Ity order oi
the lodyo. S. W. Lo.NO, Is. G.
G. A. Thompson, Secy.
Clmrcli IMreetory.
M, K. Council Divine servico every Simdny
at II a. in and 7 p. in. Sunday school at .1 p.
in. l'rnyer incctliifr every Thursday evening
ut(i;yo. JIkv. Anduiisdn, Pastor.
1'ltrsiiVTrniAk Ciiriicn ltejrulnr church
Ferviee every Sahbnth niornltitr and evening.
Prayer moctiiur oacli week on Wednesday
evening. Sabbath soliool every Sabbath ut
10 a. m. Hov. 11. Vkunon Kick, l'ustor.
St. .John's Ki'iRcoiMi. Ciitntcu t'ervlco
every Sunday ut. II o'oloelt a. m.
JlKV. W. It. l'OHXU, Itccto.
County Olllecrs.
.lildpo A. C. Cr.llp;
Sheriff A. I.. Saunders
Clerk 11. l' Wilson
'liensurer A. V. Ilenson
School Superintendent .1. L. Ulndmau
Surveyor U. Slinouls
Coioner K. H. Lewis
COMMISSIONiatS.
Geo. Acldos Jno. Ftnnlcv
State Senator I.. 11. Kinuhurt
II Kl'K USENTATl VKS.
F.T.Dick , E. E.Taylor
City Ofllccr.
Mayor '. D. It. Hfxs
OOUNCII.MEN.
S. A.I'ursel V. D. ltr!dleman
.l.S. Klliott Willis fckltr
.1. II. Unton O. A. Thompson
Hecorder I. U. Thomson
Marshal J. A.lleunev
Treasurer .1. D. Carroll
Street Commissioner L. Eaton
Ilepnrtnro or Train.
Heirulnr oast bound trains leave at 0:30 a.
in. West bound trains leavo at p. m.
I'UOI'USSIONAIi.
J. R. CK1TES,
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AT'B')Iti"VUSr AT LAW.
Collecting and probato practice specialties
Oflice, two doois south of 1'ostoOice, Ur.luu,
Oregon.
R. EAKIN,
Altoncy at Law and Notary Fnic.
Office, ono door south of J. It. Eaton's storo
Union, Oregon.
I. N. CROMWELL, M. ).,
Physician and Surgeon
Oflice, one door south ot J. II. Eaton's storo,
Villon, Orujron.
a. e. scott, m. 1).,
pbiysicbatv ab ,n8;kiho:v.
Has ne.rniaucntly located at North Powder,
vliorche will Binwer all calls.
T." 11. CRAWFORD,
ATTORNEY AT EiAW,
Union, - Oregon,
D. Y. K. DEERINO,
iTiyHlvInn nml Snrseoa,
Union, Oregon.
Office, Main street, ncxtdoorto Jones Dros.'
tarloty storo.
K-s dcrco. Main street, Eecond house south
ot rourt house.
L'hron'udlscasot a specialty.
O. I itita.v,,
Mam and Counsellor at Law,
Union, Okkgox.
Heal Estate, T.nw and Probato Practice will
receive special attention.
Offlco on A street, rear of State Land Oflice.
II. F. BUHLKKJH,
Attorney nt I.uiv, CEcal INlutc
uml Collcotiiis: A&cnt.
Land Oflice Uusiness n Specialty.
OCTce at Alder. Union Co., Oregon.
JKSSK IIAttDCSTY,
J, W. SHELTOS
5HELT0N & HARDEST!,
ATTOItaaiYH AT LAW.
Will practice in Union, linker, Grant,
Umatilla nml Morrow Counties iiUn in thu
Supreme Court ol Oiron, the District,
Circuit umi Supmb Courts of the Uuited
tstntes, . , '
Mining atul, Corporation buslnet
kalty.
Offic ia Union, Oregon.
Biography of Spartacus.
Spartacus, whose given name mmmiis
to have been torn on" in its par.jr
down the eorridofs of time, was born
in Thrace and educated as a shepherd.
While smearing the noes of tin young
lambs with tar one spring, in order to
prevent the snnllles among them, lie
thought that he would become a robber.
It occurred to him that this calling
was the only one lie knew of that seemed
to be open to young men without menu-'.
He had hardly got started, however,
in the "hold up" industry, when he
was captured by the Romans sold at
cost and trained as a gladiator in a
school at Capua. Here he succeeded in
stirring up a conspiracy and uniting
two hundred or more of the grammar
department of the school in a general
ruction as it was then termed.
The scheme was discovered and only
seventy of the number escaped, headed
by Spartacus. These snatched eleaver
from the butcher shop-, pickets from
the Roman fences and various other
weapons, and with them fought their
way to the hills, where they met a wag
on train loaded with arms and supplies.
They secured the ne.cessary weapons
thereby to go into a general war Ihim
ness and established themselves in the
crater of Mount Vesuvius.
Spartacus was a man of wonderful
carriage and great physical strength.
It had always been his theory that a
man might as well die- of old age as to
feed himself to a Roman menagerie.
He maintained that ho would rather die
in a general free light, where he had a
chance, than to be hauled around over
the arena by one leg b.diinda Numidian
lion.
So he took his little hand and fought
his way to Vesuvius. There they had a
pleasant time camping out nights and
robbing the Roman's daytimes. The
excitement of sleeping in a crater added
a wonderful charm to their lives.
While others slept cold in Capua, Spar
tacus cuddled up to the crater anil kept
comfortable.
For a long time the little party had it
all their own way. They smiled the air
of freedom and lived on Roman spring
chicken on the. half-shell, and it beat the
arena business all hollow.
At last, however, an army of three
thousand men was sent against them,
and Spartacus awoke one morning to
lind himself blocked up in the crater.
For a tune the outlook was not cheer
ing. Spartacus thought of telegraphing
the war department for reinforcements,
but finally decided not to do so.
Finally, with the ladders made of wild
vines, the little garrison slippetl out
through what had seemed an impassa
ble lissure in the crater, got in the rear
of the army and demolished it comple
tely. That's tho kind of a man Spar
tacus was. Fighting was his forte.
Spartacus was also a good public
spoaker. One of his addresses lo the
gladiators has been handed down to
posterity through the medium of the
"Fifth Reader." a work that should be
in every household. In his speech ho
states that he was not always thus. Rut
since he is thus, he believes that he has
not. yet be.cn successfully outthussed by
an liotly.
lie speaks of his early life in the cit
ron groves of Syrsilla, and how quiet
anil reserved he had been, never daring
tosay "gosh" within a miloof the house:
but tinally how the Romans landed on
his eoiiM and killed otl'his family. Then
he desired to be a lighter. He had kill
ed more lions than any man in Italy.
He kept a big crew of Romans busy,'
winter and summer, catching fresh
lions for'liim to stick. He had killed a
large utnnber of pien also. At one
matfnee for ladies and children he hail'
lulled a prominent man, from the north,
and had done it so llueiitly that he was
encored three times. The stage tnana
irer then came forward and asked that
the audience would pleaso refrain from
another encore as he had run out of
men, but if the ladies and children
would kindly attend on tho following
Saturday ho hoped to bo prepared with
a good programme. In fact ho had
just heard from his agent who wrote
him that they had purchated two big
lions and also had a robust gladiator up
a tree. He hoped that ho could get into
town in a day or two with both attrac
tions. Spartacus finally stood at tho head of
an army of 103,000 men, all starting out
from tho little band of 70 that cut loose
from Capua with Ihhto wed cleavers and
axhundles. This war lasted but two
years, during wlifch time Spartacus
inado Rome howl. Spartacus had too
much sense to attack Rome. Hut ut
last his army was betrayed and disor
ganized. With nothing but death pr
capture for him, he rodo out between
tho two contending armies, shot his
war horse in order to save uxpenscsand
on foot rushed into the thickest of. the
tight. This wa' positively his last aj
pearaiiee, 11); kijjed ;i..lurgt mnuhcr.of
j people, but at hut lie yielded to lite1
great pressure that was brought to beat
upon him and died.
Probably no man not actually engag
ed in tlie practice of medicine, ever kill
ed so many people as Spartacus. He
dill not kill them because he disliked
them personally. but because he thought
it advisable to do so. Had he lived till
tin present time, he would have done
well as a lecturer. "Ten Years in the
Arena, with Illustrations," would draw
llrst-rate at this time with a certain
class of people. The large number of
people still living in this country, who
will la aside their work and go twenty
miles to attend a funeral, no matter
wliiiM- funeral il is. would no bolibt en
joy a bull light the calm and refining
joy that hoMMi'd over the arena. Thoo
who have paid . 17"i,000 to see Colonel
John I. Sullivan disfigure a friend,
would, no douh. hac made it $.'5.50,000
if the victim could have been killed ami
dragged around over the ring bv the
leg:
Two thousand years have not refined
u so much that we need be pulled up
with false pride about il. -IlitlXyc, in
Xrir Vorl: Mcrriiry.
A Ballade of Accomplishments
Selection from Sehuhrrt ami Spolsr
She can verv retjK'clahly play,
Anil Chopin anil J.lszt from the tcore
On her p.itlent plano-fortc;
Ami many a Teutonic l.iv
She can slnjj with or without the hook,
Her talent there's none can gainsay;
Hut she never will learn hotv to cook.
In German her friends she can floor,
Ami In French she Is alo an fait.
Against her linguist leal lore
I am sure that no one can Inveigh.
She dances as light as the spray;
In that art the no rival will brock.
She's ever to pretty and gay:
Hut she never will learn how to cook.
, Her gowns are from Gallia's shore'
Anil are made In the moilu of the d.'.y.
Her father the bills must deplore
l'or her very expensive array.
She palnt anil she models in clay
To make beautiful every nook,
And ait of all ports she'll, essay,
Hut she never will learn how to eook.
ENVOY.
Fair maids, reud the moral, I pray;
1 would win her by hook or by crook.
I would give her a chance to say ''yea;"
Hut she never will learn how In cook.
Clitcur JlitinbUr.
The President No Nepotist.
A Cleveland, O., correspondent, w-rit
ing to The Xcw York. World, saysi
President Cleveland has two nephews
here. Some time ago one 'of llieni,
Charles Clveland, wrote a long letter
to his uncle, saying that he was a trav
eling man and was doing well, but
would not object lo doing better if the
president felt like giving him something
in tlie ollicoholding line. No answer
wtis received. .Meanwhile another
nephew, Neil Cleveland, was appointed
by .John Farley, the new democratic
collector of internal ravenue in this
city, to a position that pays 1,800 a
year, with not too much to do. The
fact was noted and commented upon in
the public press. Soon after ward the
nephew Clmrles received a loiter from
tlie president. The writer very much
regretted that Charles had not done
.something to keep Neil out of tho ollico
to which he had Ikmui appointed. Neil
had been placed where lie was by the
Cleveland collector without the presi
dent's knowledge and very much against
his wish. The . president added that
with a brother-in-law (.Mr. Uacon, of
Toledo) in ono oflice and a nephew in
another, the family quota for Ohio was
about full, but not a word was .said di
rectly touching the letter Charles hail
sent him. The young man then fult at
liberty to free his mind and ho did .so.
In responding ho observed that, ho had
always believed this to bo a free coun
try, where ono man, if ho could get it,
hail as good a right to hold oflice as
another. It was the first time ho had
over been taught that one must remain
in private life simply because another
of the same name had held an ollico
somewhere else. If Neil had been aj
pointed by Collector Farley without
the president's knowledge or consent
ho did not see what tho latter had to do
with it. As tho president has not re
plied the correspondence may be con
sidered at an end.
Shaved His Wife.
An Ohio banker, who owns a farm
and a line herd of blooded stock, recent
ly agreed his wife that she should
have a cor) t heifer calf as her own
property. Some days afterward ho war
offered a hundred dollars for tho frisky ,
little animal, and going to his wife he
told her ho could get fifty dollars for it, ,
and asked whether she desired to sell.
She thought what a nice amount of (
letiijiilnltcs that amount or money
would buy, and authorized him to make
tho sale. He did so, and giving her
one-half of the hundred dollars put the
remaining fifty in UU Jacket, apd now
the jotferd in his neighborhood' havf
started a report that tho bunker shuveJ
bU wife, (Jhicmjo Lcdqcr.
How Newspaper "Work Is Done.
Henry W. (Jrady relates the follow
ing in the Atlanta ((5a.) Conxtittition:
"Can I venture on an incident here that
throws an inside light on journalism?
At - o'clock on the morning of (Jovernor
Stephen' death an editor of the Consti
tution, who with two stenographer had
prepared the narrative of tlie night, wn
with the watchers in the blue room of
the nr.nisioii. The Constitution IimI to go
to press al ;l:!!0 to the minute. It was
not believed that Mr. Stephens would
die before that hour. Consequently
the narrative had. been w ritten in the.
present tense. If death should occur
before the paper was put on the press,
there were perhaps a hundred place in
tlie story where the past lene would
have to-be substituted. A force of proof
readers sat with the proof before llieni,
every contingent point marked. Thirty
printers sat at their desk awaiting or
ders. The telephone between the man
sion and ollico was open, and the night
editor sat with the 'phone to his ear.
At !!.'J.'i Dr. Steiner. rising from his
knees with reverent fa'e, said 'He is
dead!' llefoi'o the whispered words
had left the room I lie word 'dead' llew
along the telephone wires and reached
tho listening night editor. Before the
watchers in the parlor knew that the
great soul had taken its tliglit. a dozen
proof readers were plowing through
.slips with swift pencils, thirty printers
were clipping the moorings that held
the present to to the past, and in just
seven minutes the press was throwing
oil" the story of the life and deatli of
(icorgia's mart vr . statesman."
Tho Convivial "How."
In the old days, before the war, there
was an impression general that an offi
cer of the regular army, no matter how
strict soever his incognito might be, in
variably betrayed himself the moment
he "moistened his clay" by pronouncing
the monosyllable '.'How!" During the
war the volunteer officers were quick to
pick it up, and its use, whenever two or
three were gathered together for the
purpose of taking a drink, was univer
sal. It was understood lo be a refine
ment of tlie Indian gutteral "Ugh!"
which the noble savage always ejacula
ted whenever he quaffed his draughts of
firewater down, and from the plains it
found its way to the haunts of civiliza
tion. Hut, alas! the popular belief must
be dispelled and the totust caused to give
up its redolence of the "boundless
prairie." Research lias brought to light
tlie fact, that tlie word is of Roman ori
gin; at least we have the authority of
William Shakspenre for the assertion.
In the first scene of tlie second act
of "Julius Ctesar" the great, dramatist
put into tilt! mouth of Hruttis this
speech:
"Cains Ugarlil, that Mctellus spake of,
Hoy, stand aside. Cains l.lgarlus! Howl"
We dislike to destroy idols, but as
that, embodiment of wisdom, the late la
mented King Solomon, hath it. "There
is no new tiling under the sun."
Boston, Herald,
Husbands and Lovers.
Many a woman sighs and weeps in .se
cret because the husband of her youth
lias ceased to pay her the attentions of a
lover. Ho coolly lets her pickup her
own handkerchief, talks stillly out of
tho door before her, and lets her risk
all sorts of disasters by clambering out
of a double wagon unassisted. Now,
wo don't propose to excuse men for any
such unpardonable lapses; but it is a
fact that tho majority of women cease
to grow in attractiveness, or to speak
botanicitlly cease to put forth now buds
of promised loveliness to ohallango their
husbands' perennial adoration; and thu
perverse creatures cease to cast admir
ing glances at the old plant which has
dropped its blossoms. Do you see tho
remedy, neglected wife? Treat yourself
as you treat your plants. You give
them fresh air and sunshine, fresh soil
and more room for the advancing roots
to grpw in; give yourself more oppor
tunities and room for mental growth
and the cultivation of personal graces.
Maybe it's too bad, but you can't blame
a man much for not continuipg to smile
perpetually at tho remembrance of
honey huded long ago. Von must yield
a present hweefness and' a promise of
plenty in the future. Ct icayo Ledger.
"Fascination of the Ermine.
There is honiethini: fascinating about
tho ermine, something in thu judicial
junction that take's hold of a mail's na
ture and'refuscs to let go. I have heard
old lawyers say that once il judge, a
man should lie always a judge, anil thoy
must be right. 1 have never known a
man who sat on the Ixinch and retired
without wishing himself back agalu.
Chicago Herald.
Although twenty thousand volume haya
Urn added In the Utt'two yeurn to the Colum
bia college library there In need of more hooka
In meet the demand of tlie profeMor aud
atudqiti In the rurloua department of the
uulvinlty, facially in tlie graduate cuurtet.
CATTLE SALES.
tSevlcw of Public Snlei of Pedigreed
Cattle In the rutted Mntei
Durlnc I MS.".
The prices realized for pedigre -d cat
tle in Kngtanil lat year were generally
lower than for several previous seasons.
Fine stock in tills country has shared in
tlie general decline of everything pro
duced on faun. The .rcers' (iatette
of this city ha been at the pains to col
lect and tabulate the results of all the
leading stiles in this country and litis
made a comparison of tlie prices obtain
ed with those realized during previous
years. Following are the leading por
tions of tho report it presents:
In the eae of shorthorns, while I lie
average of SlOH.Oil per head may appear
very low to some sis compared with the
published averages of former years,
there is really not so much difference be
tween the result of 188.) find the years
immediately preceding as- appears from
the published figures. While we have
heretofore given more complete returns
of tills nature than have been published
clew hvre, it litis been n well-known fact
that quite a numbi'i' of small local sales
of plain cattle have always escaped no
tice. We have this year made an clfort
to make our report entirely complete,
and as the average qf these local stiles
i of course much below that obtained
nt leading auctions, tlie grand average
of the year is considerably reduced from
former figures. While it is true that a
report which does not include stiles of
low-priced pedigreed stock in the hands
of farmers conies nearer all'ording a fair
average value of the stock in the hands
of prolfessionnl breeders, il is neverthe
less manifestly more accurate to take
the results of all public transfers of
pure-bred cattle wherever held, even
though circumstances of a most discour
aging nature, may have eonspiivd to
; operate against their success. '1 Ins wo
have undertaken to do in tlie preparation
of this report, and tho total of 7,0"j7
head as compared with 4,!l8!l head re
ported last year shows how much more
thorough has been our work this time
than over before.
In considering lliis report it should
also be borne in mind that it is quite
generally allowed that, there has not
been a season for many years when so
few really first-class cattle have been on
the market, a fact unquestionably due to
the preference of tho average breeder
to hold fast to his good tilings in periods
of depression and send lo the miction
block those animals which can bct be
spared from the breeding herd. Hy
'first-class cuttle" we would not be un
derstood as meaning .simply thoe be
longing to sorts that have usually com
manded high figures by reason of their
descent, for while holders of that de
scription of property have refrained
from offering them in any large num
bers, there has been much more than
the usual disposition evinced on all
hands to carry over tho better grades of
stock until the depressing inlliiences at
present alfeeling all breeds alike shall
nave been removed. While we have to
report therefore thai 7,0.r)7 head of eattlo
of this breed have sold for tin aggregate
uf 7iy,8G -an average of $10!l.0) per
head it is gratifying to note that in tho
few instances where what were regit rd
' cl as really choice tilings were included
there was little dilliculty experienced in
M'curing fair prices. The highest aver
age of the year was .'177, obtained for
tho thirty-eight head jointly offered at
Doxtor park by Mr. Hronson C. Rum
sey, of Hufl'alo, N. V., and tho estate of
tlw late Charles M. Lansing; Col. W.
A. Harris Llnwood, Kan., following
t with an average of i?:t08.f() on a draft of
twenty head. The joint sale of Messrs.
(Jibson, Murray, ami Cobb, at Dexter
park, stands third, with an average of
!J07, to tho credit of thirty head, and
Mr. T. Corwin Anderson made about
?!100 on n draft of thirty-six head from
Side View. In many respects thu great
salo'of the year, however, was the dirt
porslon of Mr. Robert Miller's I'liim
(irovo herd at West Lilx-rty, Iowa, on
which occasion ninety-six head of cattle
of all ages brought a total of S-.oGO, a
general uvorago of $270. Tills wiw it
field having quite a reputation as con
taining animals qualified to enter the
best show-rings of tho west, and to this
fact is attributed the very largo attend
unco aud spirited bidding which char
acterized tho sale. There is certainly
' much encouragement for breeders of tho
best individual cattle to be drawn from
this Iowa sale, aud its result constitutes
of course a much fulror test of tho aver
age value of thu better class of herds
than is afforded by tho grand average.
Am is always thu case, tho prevalence
of a rather low range of prices has in
duced more than the average iiuinlxsr
of tho weakor holders to throw their
I stock upon tho market, so that It is safo
' to soy that thu large number of eattlo
of this, breed sold at perhaps uu sat fac
tory prices roprcsonUi the usual unload
ing of those who from lack of inutility or
, want of faith let go at what Is In all
probability the lowest present ebb of'
the tide of values for "the red white and
roan." With the returning conlidenco
which is almost sure, to follow the disnp
nearaneo of disease, which has this .year
so grievously injured the cause in tho
great southern states of Kentucky and
Missouri, an appreciation in values
seems inevitable.
Hercfords held up wonderfully well
under heavy importations, and show tt
higher average than any other breed,
either of beef or dairy stock. Four
hundred and eighty Head of "whito
faces" have .bivu sold for tt total of
i?Mt5.02., tin average of $:'()t 40 per
head, and while the market has showed
some sign of being somewhat over
stocked with cattle of the less desirable
sorts, there is an unabated demand for
the best individual cattle of approved
breeding. While all breeders ' are of
course more or less interested in main
taining past and present prices of cat
tle of tiiis breed it is certainly no essen
tial to (he continued prosperity of tho
breed thai so high a range of values bo
maintained.
It may bo said thai all fashion in eat
tlo breeding lias its origin in a real or
assured basis of individual merit in tho
stock whoso blood is in great request,
and this is undoubtedly true; but the er
ror lies in relying upon such blood too
implicitly after it has become so far re
moved from the original fount of eeel
lenco tis to have lost, the merit which
impelled the earlier. demand. So long
as a special strain of eattlo shows desir
able characteristics not found elsewhero
in tlie breed, a demand for sueli blood at
ti gooil price is legitimate mid to bo en
couraged, and people who pin their
faith to such a strain, so long as it evin
ces these characteristics in u more mark
ed degree thtin'can be fouiill'elsowhcrc,
are not to be classed as blind followers
.of fashion. When the time comes, how
ever, (as sooner or Inter it almost invar
iably does), that men follow up such a
lino on tlie strength of what it has been,
it degenerates into n simple fashion,
which can but result, injuriously to the
best interests of the breed.
Two hundred and eighty live head of
Scotch polled cattle have Ikjcii sold dur
ing tho year, 180 of which were Aberdeen-Angus
,and 10.r Galloways. Tho
former show an average of $'279.40 and
the latter -V-'j!!. Importations of both
breeds' were very light us compared with
preceding years, and there is an absence
of tho attempt to force mutters which
characterized the business in some for
mer seasons. The feeling with refer
once to these breeds may Ikj described
as one of quiet confidence, and the ad
mirers of the Angus in particular are
showing a disposition to make a strong
pull for popular favor. Tho record
their favorities have made at the fat
stock shows both at home and abroad,
has served to nerve thu already strong
bauds in which the breed is largely held
in America, and there is every prospect
of all reasonable prosperity for tho
"doiMies " during tho coming year.
Home-bred polled bullocks will soon bo
an established featuro of our fat stock
shows, and there is every reason for as
suming that tho success which they are
morally certain to win both on fiot and
upon the blosk at these exhibitions will
stimulate tho demand for pure-bred spe
cimens for stock purposes. Among tho
Angus sales those made by Mr. Harvey
at Rlvorviow Park and Thyrlington and
that of Mr. Whltridguin this city shov4
tho highest averages. Tho leading Gal
loway sale was that of Mr. James Cun
ningham at Kansas City. Sales of
dairy eattlo have boon limited to Jer
seys and Holstuin Frie-llnn.s; no less
tli'an l.G'Ol head of thu Island butter
breed having passed under tho hammer
for n total of $:JI2,(X)G, an averagu of
$191. f0 per head. Thee reflections of
our esteemed correspondent, Mnj.
Campbell Hrowno, of Tennessee, upon
his decline in prices for Jers.iys, pub
lished in last week's Gazette, are so em
inently sound that wo can do no better
than to refer our many rentiers who aro
interested in thu breed to his communi
cation, to bo considered in connection
with the average herewith presented, w
Eight hundred and fifty-four head of
Holstein-Friesians have brought a total
of $101,210; an avcrago of $192.J10.
None of thu leading collections of cat
tle of this breed have been disjxirscd.
and no largoyiiuniber of gilt-edged nni-
mills from leading herds have been sold,
m that thera has been little to lift the
tlYurago of tho year to high figures
Thu Ilolsteiu and Frieslun Interests:
have consolidated their forces; a grand,
show was made by tho brood nt tho full,
fairs, aud material progress has unques
tionably been made in all directions,
Chicago Times,
Not So Odd as Ho MightBa.
It is thought worthy of, riuk tjat
tho.l'r.Incj) ,of Yilas u,BliigVf
when eating small birds. It would
1st still moro remarkable if he ud
his toes. Aew Orhuna Picuymt,