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V V i i 4 PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL. -Fourteen I nitcd States Senators have their son serving them in the ca pacity of committee clerks or private secretaries. Washington Post. Mrs. Hannah Euston lias left to Charleston, S. C. the sum of $100,000 for the purpose, of "making old comfortable." Wtmhi nylon Star. .Mrs. McKlroy, the sister of the late ox-President Arthur, will go to Wash ington to live, it is said, anil will take her niece. Miss Nellie Arthur, with her. Nicholas Collan, who died in Washington recently, distinguished himself by shaking hands with eighteen Presidents of the United States at' their respective inaugurations. Mr. Kdward Hoonnan. of Kind ley's Lake, N. V., has n photograph of his mother, himself, his daughter, her daughter, and her baby. The picture represents live generations, all in good health. liujj'nlo Express. A well known actor says a bushel of press notices in Kngland would not raise an actor's salary a cent, hut that in America the comments of tho press are. of the first importance, because the people rCad. Chit ago Tribune. Mr. John 15. Curtis, of Portland, Me., has a ranch of 1 1.000 acres near North Platte. Neb. Hi.- cattle, 1,100 head, were mo-tly purchased in Maine ir bred from Maine Mock. He has planted KMI.OOO tree.-, on his land. Tiffany, the founder of the great New York jewelry house, began busi uuss with a small stock of notions and stationery in 1837. The first day's sales were $1.9S, (lie second $"-'.77. The f inn now has great establishments in London and Paris. A'. V. Herald. C. E. Baker, assistant baggago niaster at the depot in Nevada. Mo., has fallen heir to 1,000.000, inherited through his great-grandfather, John Spade, who lived and died inCicrmany. Clearly this Spade was a trump for Mr. Baker, and he will smash no more trunks witii ghoulish glee. Denver Tribune. Miss Susan Hale, sister of the Kev. Edward Everett Hale, of Boston, is always employed in helping those who are unable to help themselves, and her labors of love are appreciated by all who know her. ltecently a veteran son of the f-ea, now in his eighty-third year, presented her with the model of a yacht fully rigged, and which is a marvel of beauty, made with his own hands, to be void in behalf of those in whom she is i 1 1 1 e re s t ed Has ton Journal. A family of four brothers named Ackeu, living in Middle.-ex County, N. J., are noted for their vigor and size. The Trenton Uazelte gives their ages, heights and weights as follows: Wil liam is 811 years old, 0 feet :i inches in height, and weighs 'JoO pound.--; Henry is 81, (i feet 1, and weighs 270; Samuel is 79, (! feet. .I, and weighs '220; Theo dore is 7.'!, (i feet G, and weighs i'!50 pounds. They are in excellent health and vigorous beyond their years. "A LITTLE- NONSENSE. Matilda Ann (who has given Jim my the tally money to take earn of) Here, you .Jim Sweeney! coino back dat cent. Did yer want to sneak olVter Canada wid yer boodle, sa-ay't Judge. Landlady (examining a fugitive boarder's trunk) "Why, Bridget, his trunk is full of bricks? How could they have got there?" "Sure, ma'am, he brought one home in his hat ivory night," Life. Science says a body weighing a hundred pounds on the earth would weigh two tons on the planet Jupiter. The planet Jupiter must bo the place where the average lisherman catches his lish. Till Hits. A young woman in Arkansas, who hesitated between two lovers, suggested tliat the rivals settle it by a wrestling match, and she wed the victor. Ex change. She was like Prince Walde inar, she declined the thrown. Ar. Y. Graphic. j "See here, Silas, I don't t'ink much t of dis yere Leghorn bonnet of a hen. I She sets a bad egg-sample. She had oughter had chicks free weeks ago' "Dat failure's easily splained, Dinah. ' She's not in 'erncst all lie time." liar- pcr's 11a: ir j THE G II EAT REGULATOR PURELY VEGETABLE. Are You Bilious ? The Hryillattir n.'rrr fa tin to rurr. I mist rlit-eihilly recwnmi-rtd It lo all whu suffer h"tn Uiliuu Attacks or any Diease caused by a dis armed state of the Liver Kansas City, Mo. W K BKRNARl). Do You Want Good Digestion ? IsuJJered intensely with Full Stotnurh,llrail xrlii', etc. A neighbor, who had taken Simmons liter Regulator, tokl me it tins a sure cure fer my trouble. The first dose I took relieved me very much, and in one week's time luas as strong and hearty as lever was. It I tint bent tiuiltchie I T-r took fur JtijHiiriialu. Kiciiwonii.Va I! G. CXESSHAW. Do You Suffer from Constipation ? Testimony of Hikam Waknfk, Chief-Ju.tlce ui j . " I have used Simmon lj"er Regulator tot Jonitipatioo of my Ilowcls, caused by a temporary Derangement of the Liver, fo' the last thrre or 0 vux years, and always u-llli ileeltled benefit," Have You Malaria ? have had experience wtth Simmons liter Repu. later since 1805, and regard it at the yreutrnt nintieitie of thr tlinm for rtlrtr peril I In r to vmlurlnl Wi,i,s, good a medi cinf deserves universal commendation .,-,. H. WHARTOS, Cor. Set y Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Safer and Better than Calomel ! 1 have been subject to severe spell, of Congestion of the Liver, and have been in the habit of taking from 1$ to ao grains of calomel, v. hich generally laid ae up for thrre or fuur day, l-ately 1 have been taking Simmons Uver KeguUtsr.which gave me re. IW. irdthoitt huh Interruption to burnt, ,r, .MiDDLsruitT, Ohi. J.HUGO. J. H. Zeilin & Co, Philadelphia, Pa. FSiZZZ, 3i.CO. , CARELESS DOCTORS. I Villi t n lrMiKlt lllli to S:iy Almut Mls Inl.i'H Mmle liy I'll) ill In M. "I have beaten the record." said a bright young man in one of the popular lipenarics (.f pure drujrs and medi cines in Chicago. "One Sunday, while done in the store I put up iifty-oiio pre scriptions. Now, twenty prescriptions i day is considered an average day's work for a clerk in a drug store. It is not the actual mechanical labor in volved in compounding the formula, but the close concentration of Htten tion, the accurate nteu-uretucnts, the observance of apparently unimportant details, ami the care necessary to see that the doctor has made no blunder. I know there is a popular belief that doetors are infallible, but if you could look over our prescription liles you would -peedily change your mind upon that point." " While he was speaking two proserlp tions came in, one of which simply called for "Listerine," a new and com paratively unknown medicine, without a word of direction as to its use not even the oft-reiu-ated formula: "Used as directed." The other simply read and this eame from one of the most prominent physicians of Chicago. whose fee for consultation is lifty dollars "Tr. aconite. One every two hours." One what? One dose? One leaspoon ful? Now aconite is a deadly poison, and one teaspoonful would speedily put the laker beyond human aid. Fortunately the keen-eyed drug gist delected the omission, and sup plied the hinrus with the missing word, "drop." thereby probably saving a life and cheating the coroner out of a fee. "There is another thing." said the druggist. "There are two solutions of morphia one prepared according to the United States Pliarmaeopu'ia of 1870. and known as tin' U. S. P. formu la; the other known as Magendi's solu tion. The lir-t contains one grain of morphia to the ounce and a teaspoon ful dose of it can be taken with safety by almost any patient. Magendi's so lution contains sixteen grains to the ounce, and a teaspnotiful-would knock .John L. Sullivan out on the lirsl round. You would scarcely believe it, but not one doctor out of live ever spccilies the particular solution desired, simply writing 'morphia,' and leaving it entire ly within the discretion of the druggist whether to gi e the patient one grain or sixteen grain- of the deadly drug. "I might give you instance after in stance of a similar character, but these will sutlice to show you that not all the mistakes which are made in the compo sition and administration of medicines can be laid at I lie doors of the drug gist. 1 ' Chicaio Tribune. CANINE INTELLIGENCE. A CmiiMTtii'tit Dok Niili'd for lilt Sap. iclty, Cnri'liilurss mid Wisdom. A dog owned by Colonel Newton, of Cromwell, goes twice a day to the rail road station for the morning and even ing papers. He goes of his own accord, is always on time, and waits about where the baggage car is to stop, in the morning at one place and in the after noon at another. "There he waits un til tin; bundle is thrown oil" and opened by the station-master, when he takes his paper in his mouth and immediate ly starts for home. If the weather is rainy, he lias a piece, of oil-skin which is kept in a place where he can get it himself, and of his own accord ho carries this with him, and the station master wr-ips it around the paper be fore giving it to him, in order that it may not get wet. On his return home pe puts the oil-skin away in it.s place, against the next rainy day." He knows the papers and insists on retting the right one. Once he was fooled, "In opening the bundle the station-master slipped one that was two days old out of his pocket and handed t to the dog. Demo took it in his mouth and started for home. Arriv ing there he took it to his master, and was rewarded by a pat on the head and .1 kind word. ColoncJ Newton ad justed his spectacles and began to read. Of course he at-once discovered the trick, although he thought at the time it was only an error. Calling Demo to him he told him to take the paper back, and reprimanded him for making the mistake. I don't know what it was he said to him, but the dog seemed to understand it, for he hung his head and really looked ashamed. In a short time he was at the station with the old paper in his mouth, and going to the agent he laid the paper at his feet, and, looking in his face gave a short and very decided bark, as much as to say, "(Jive me the right paper, and do it now." lie was oll'crcd one that was a day old, but after snitling at it for a moment refused to take it, and not un til he was given a paper of tho right date would lie have any thing to do with it. Since then, although an at tempt has been made several times to fool him again in the same way, he can not bo deceived, and so, as I said be fore, it seems as though the dog must bo able to road." Middlesex County Conn.) Jleeord. A Chinese gentleman, bearing the simple name of Auri.awa Hyochi Niclioino Sanjukanboz Kiobash-Ku, has discovered the secret of jphotographing in natural colors. It is hoped ho will not, in imitation of Daguurrc, christen tho new process with his own name. Think of going to a photographer and tolling him you want half u dozen Azv.ri.awaryochinichoinosan jukauboz kiobashkuotypes takon ! Sorriulown lleruld. t. i Dog fashions have changed in Eng land, and tho fox tert ioi has supplant d tho pug. And vot tho fox turriur is no mutch for tho in plain, unadul tcr.itcid uHluttaa. ITCH FOR NOTORIETY. Koiiirtlilni; llimit n llNi-mn Wlilvli rt'-rts llinidri'iUsiif Mlly lVnplr. To those who are most fivipiently brought in contact with persons who yearn for some sort of notoriety the extent of such yearning is astonishing, more ore-s amusing, and sometime decidedly disgiisti'ig. When the ambi tion to become famous is born of n worthy object it is commendable, but when it springs from a niortiid desiit lobe noticed, just for the sake of per sonal gratification, for tho airing of a vanity and for a pretense at appearing more important than circumstances should amply warrant, it is simph sickening to those who are solicited to become accessory to the fraud; it makes the public not only unsympathetic but resentful when it succeeds, and doubt less, it frequently palls on the appetite of it.s possessor when its fullness has been reached. To aim for that sort of fame which almost inevitably follows heroic action; the invention of some desirable thing which is to benefit the world; the production of good work in literature; the evolvement of a scheme, measure or movement which is fraught with benefit to the human race, or any considerable proportion thereof, or that will ameliorate even the condition of the brute world, is admirable, but to ask applause for commonplace per formances i.s the opposite. And yet tii.i latter is too frequently the basis of dis tinction, built upon ceaseless importu nities for notice from tho press, anil the grasping at every opportunity in that line of advertising. It is no more ridiculous than a man should consider himself great because he can swallow inure raw eggs than other people than that lie should hope to build a wide spread and lasting fame upon the fact that lie can contain his stomach and a quail every day for thirty days. A gentleman who is now famous as a poet simply because he writes exquis ite poetry, not because he specially sought fame through that or any other channel, retired in disgust twenty years ago from the editorship of a newspaper which his father had made famous and bequeathed to him, because, he Said, lie was tired of helping to make so many great men out of such poor, ma terial. There is not a newspaper reporter in the land of any experience who has not been frequently solicited by men of apparent rospectability to notice in the paper which he represents the fact that this person is goiuu: to make a cheap bid for notoriety, or that he is going to create a sensation by doing a commonplace tiling in an odd way. or that he contemplates notoriety through the performance of some clownish trick, or hopes for martyrdom through the doing of something in which the world is as little interested as it is in the setting of a hen. ICven people who succeed, in a harmless sort of way, in creating a sensation do not frequently succeed in becoming more than a seven days' wonder, and usually less than that. If people who seek fortius sort of ephemeral notoriety will only stick a linger in a tub of water and then draw it out and look for the hole they will have a striking illustration of about how much they amount to, and they will learn a lesson which will give them ami a great many other people a much needed rest Chicago Inter Ocean. NEW YEAR IN PERSIA. All Od'iihlun mi Which tits Sluili Appiirn ll'll' l(l'l in I'd'cIdus (il'IIIN. In the presence of the Imams and dignitaries of tiie court the Shah re ceives salutations and New Year's greetings, accompanied by eiliisive and long-winded compliments; the court poet recites an ode or panegyric upon the wisdom and above all the discern ment of the King of Kings. Later on the members of the various Corps Diplo tnuliipic, after being received by some if the Ministers of Slate, are admitted into the presence mid behold the august countenance of the shadow of God. Although he has a larger collection of jewels than any other monarch, this is one of the few occasions upon which he lisplays them, for as a rule the Shah Iresscs plainly and in quiet colors, with only a few diamond buttons on his black cloth coat. Hut on the New Year His Majesty is usually bedecked j in his most imigniliceiit jewels, many of which were brought by tho ruthless Nadir Shah from Delhi. His tunic is ablaze with diamond--, his holt, sword and scabbard aro encrusted with the same costly gems, and in his hut is the aigrette ordistiiieti ve emblem of his roy alty. The ceremony is usually not a long one. His .Majesty addresses a few words to tiie Ministers, inquires after the state of their country and tho health of their respective sovereigns or Presi dents. The distribution of bags of money which by the by, year by year decrease in value and the distracting noise of twanging musical instrument announce that tho reception is over. Tho coins presented nro contained in tiny silk bags made for tho occasion, and consist chiclly of silver as thin as a wafer; sometimes there aro a few gold pieces among them about the size of an old silver penny, of not much intrinsic value, hut much appreciated in Kurope when mounted as oar-rings, buttons and other ornaments. London Society. (lerrod Proscott, aged twelve years, of Hiddeford, Mo., got into ir sculllo with another lad, and tho latter threw fiorrod down, and toizing his head be tween his hands gavo it several severe thumps against, the hard lloor. A liny or two after that young l'rowott Mas taken ill and complained of severe pains ni the lmo of his bi'Hin. In spite of nil rt'iwilios tlmt could U given he atwdlb- grew worse until ho tiled. CAPTAIN COOK. Wonilorftil ( iirrrrof tln Man Who Vlrtunll- Mittli' Omcn-pHy 11 Nmv Srli'iirc. We do not often reali.e how far thr dlcovcr and settlement of America weiv due to the circumstance that t In continent lay directly across the path from Kurope to the K.ist Indies. 11 nl there been a passage between Xo-th and South America at the Isthmus ol Panama, even one no larger than M. di Lesseps' proposed ship-canal, much ol this northern division might have re mained unknown for generations longer. When Henry Hudson explored the river which bears his name, he wa looking for a passage into the Pacilii Ocean. Hudson's Strait and Hudson' Hay mark asiinilarscarclifip'lhernorth The rapids of Lachiue on the St. Law rence were called the China llapids by the French, because that people hoped In this river to open a direct passage to tin Hast. England was not less active than her neighbors, and in the last century he growi ng interests in the Kast led t the most thorough and extended c pforations of our northern and western ?hores. The foremost man in accomplishing tVii-s work was Captain .James Cook, lb was born at Marlon, in tho north ridinc. of Yorkshire, Kngland, October J7. lV'-'S. As his father was a poor man, the son was put on board a vessel of tin navy at an early age, and, under tin disad antages of this position, educated himself for command. He was on board this Mercury in Canada during the 1-Veiich and Knglish war of 17i.ri. In 17G.H Cook had so far distinguished him sen in mathematics that he was ap pointed to observe the transit of Venus in 171'ilt. and for this purpose made 1 1 i first visit to the South Sea, as the Pacific was commonly called. The Captain doubled Cape Horn in June, 17l5t, dis covered the Society Islands, and deter mined the form and extent of New Zea land. In 1770 he coasted along the shores of Australia for more than six I'.undred leagues, and returned home by the way of Cape Good Hope. Captain Cook made his second voyage ol discovery in 1772-1771. He again circumnavigated the world, and discov ered New Caledonia. His third voyage was begun .Inly l- 177(i. eight days after our Declaration of Independence. The leading purpose of the voyage was to introduce into the islands under the tropic of Capricorn the domestic ani mals of Kurope. After having accom plished this, Captain Cook was to turn to the north and explore the west coast of-Anierica as faras (10 north latitude. From that point he would try to find his way into the Atlantic between Asia and America. His command consisted of tlic Discovery and the Hcsolution, and he was accompanied by astrono mers and naturalists. Going by the way of Cape Good Hope, and having discharged his first duty, Cook turned toward the north, and on the 1 St h of January. 1778, he discovered the Sand wich Islands. On the 7th of March he reached our northwest coast in latitude I t deg. ;(;! niiu. This coast he followed until he reached latitude 70 deg. ! I mill. X., more than ten degrees farther than his instructions required him to go. As nothing but ice was'to be seen before him, he returned to the Sandwich Is lands, and spent the winter there. The death of Captain Cook, on the l lth of February, 177!, resulted from a misunderstanding with the natives. On the day before they had taken a boat belonging to the Discovery, havinglittle idea of the rights of property. That morning Cook went onshore to recover the boat. Hy some unauthorized per son a shot was tired, and a chief was killed. Immediately the Captain was set upon, and murdered in retaliation. We can not easily estimate the im portance of Cook's discoveries. Heforo liis day nearly half the surface of the globe was unknown, or knowledge of it was in much con fusion. The improvements which have since been made originated in his enter prise and exertions. Geography has 'iccoine a new science, and readied such completeness as to leave only some un important parts of the globe to be ex plored, if ever the ice ami the cold will permit. In connection with the last voyage of Cook, there i.s an incident told which is of interest. As ho had already conducted two expeditious, the Government felt that it could not claim, though it greatly desired, his services, lie was consulted on every detail of tlio plans, but was left free to volunteer his services, if he would. At last it came to iiamiug'the commander of the expedition. Cook met with the com missioners at the house ,,f Lord Sand wich to dine, and to talk over this ap pointment. At tho table the enthu siasm of the Captain became so much roused by what he heard said of the im portance and glory of the undertaking, hat ho started up and exclaimed: "I will conduct it myself!" This was just what the others desired, and had been working to bring about. Youth's Com munion. An Aggravating Woman. Husband Wo will, have dinner to lay at four o'clock. Wife All right, my dear. "And then wo will order out tho car riage and lake a ride in Central Park." "I was just going to propose that very thing." "And after that wo will go to the theater." "Just what I like." "Ami after the theater is out? wo will 'o to the ball." "Nothing suits me hotter." "For heaven's sake! don't drive inc jrazy with your uontradiotions." laxai Hitings. The Colorado Coal and Iron Com pany hue two thousand mmi at work at the pro$uiit time. I COAST CULLINGS. I Devoted Principally to Washington Territory and California. Pneumonia is killing oil the Indians on the Ncz IWco icseivation. Theic are 2(M patients at the Wash ington Territoiy insane asylum. Frank Mcrriweallicr was killed by a falling tree near Taconia, W. T. Tacoina will celebrate the comple tion of the Cascade branch of the N. P. Spokane Falls is to have a 10-ton smelter, to be in running order heforo ninety days. In Washington Territory there are twenty-seven Grand Arniv posts and KXH inemlcts. W. K. James, a photographer, com mitted suicide at Snnut Cruz, Cal., by taking poison. A cracker factory, with n capacity of sixty barrels a day, is to be erected at Spokane Falls. Clo-Kluni, W. T., proposes to donate f."i(.KX) to a responsible company put ting in a smelter at that point. The schooner J. K. Kppingor was wrecked and four of the ciew drowned at Nnvaro, Cal. She was a total loss. Judge Freer, at Oroville, Cal.. sen tenced the stage-robber, George Hen derson, to lifty years at San tjuentin. A church building for the Congro gationalists, to cost $1000, has been commenced in thcNachccz valley, W.T. The Governor of California ap pointed Niles Scarls Chief Justice of the State Supremo. Court, vice U. F. Morrison, deceased. Two boys, aged six and four years, sons of .Mr. and Mrs. George Smith, fell into the mill race at Colhix, W. T., and were drowned. A young man by the nnmo of James Tuininy, was drowned while attempt ing to cross the Sacramento Uiver at Copcly Station, Cal. There arc now in the Puget Sound College hospital thirty-six inmates twenty-nine men, four women, two boys and one infant. At St. John, Onl., a Chinese cook shot and killed Mr. Joseph Hillyeu, with whom he was employed. Ho also wounded another lady and man. Charles lCarsten, proprietor of a grocery store at San Francisco, shot himself in tho head and died. Depres sion over financial dillioultics caused the act. A subscription of .$11000 has been raised at Kllensburg, W. T., toward building a school house for the Sisters. It is proposed to put up u building costing $;")000. A cavalry company has been organ ized at Spraguo, W. T. An infantry cadet company composed of twenty boys, from 10 to 1-1 years of age, han also been organized. Michael ICofe, tho wife murderer, who was to have been hanged at Suisun, Cel., cut his throat with a pocket knife and died, having resisted all etlbrts to dress his wounds. Governor Squire, of Washington Territory, has commissioned J. G. Justice warden of tho new peniten tiary at Walla Walla ; li. G. Guthridgo steward, ami Y. C. Hlalock physician. San Francisco prices for beef have advanced fully 0 per cent, in tho id tail market. The cause is said to be due to cuttle owners holding back their stock for tho purpose of getting higher prices. Tho San Francisco Chamber of Com merce has inemoralizcd tlio United States Secretary of the Navy not to have the warship Hartford destroyed, but repaired, and keep hor in service owing to hor historical character. Old Indian Webb Testament, living in tho forks of the Sweetwater, I. T and the largest stock owner on the reservation, lost about three hundred head of stock last winter, but still has 1000 head loft as a basis for future op erations. Tlio fine, large residence of George W. Hrower, of Medical Lake, W. T., was burned. The houso was unoccu pied at the time. It is thought to lie i the work of an incendiary. A woman b is been arrested on suspicion as tlio guilty party. Tho past winter has boon terrible disastrous to shipping all along the Coast, Since November lnth over twenty vessels and ninety lives have been lost. The Hiss to ship owners is $700,000 to .$800,000, and it is feared all tho disasters aro not yet heard from. Kdward H. Oldwell, a wealthy Kng lishman of Porrysbtirg, Mont., was found murdered near his home. His head was terribly mangled, and this, with other indications, points to the Hritirh Indians who raided Door ami Kennedy's ranches in that vicinity, hb the perpetrators of the crime. Tho house of J. U. Holin, at Cedar ville, Cal., was burned, and with it three boys, children of Mr. Uolin.agcd respectively 7, 10 and 15 years. Iiolin was iibsont tho time. His wife was scv'.'iely injured in trying to rescue tho boys. She is in a precarious condi tion. Mr. Polin's two daughters who were in tho house whon tho lire broke out escaped uninjured. Tho hoisting works of tlio Novada Queen miiio, at Tuscarora, Nov., was completely wrecked hy the explosion of a box of giant powder followed hy boiler oxplosiou. hi addition to the hoisting woiks tho pumping ma chinery was also demolished, and as a consequence the mino was Hooded, and North Hollo Isle and several othor mines rapidly filled with water. Five men were in the vicinity of the works at the time of the explosion, ami nil of them wero severely injured, one of thorn (Foreman A. D. Kussol) perhaps fatally. Work will bo suspended till July or August. OREGON NEWS. Everything of General Interest in a Condense (1 Form. John Wilk was drowned near Mursh fleld. Sheep herders are in demand about Hopper. The Snlem saloons pay $:ie0 a year for license. A new brass band Ipis been organ ized at Weston. The fruit on Pino creek was not killed as first reported. A Portland firm has an an order for li'OO bands of (lour for China. Joseph H. Lane has been appointed agent at the Silelz reservation. The foundation of tho new Ilaptist church at Mi dford is being laid. Work of rebuilding the La Camas paper mills will soon commence. A. 11. Wcbdell has been appointed stock inspector for Crook county. A telephone line between Medford and Jacksonville is favorably talked of. The West Chehalein Grange will dedicate their hall the first Friday in May. Placer mining has started up at Connor creek with water in abund ance. A rich vein of coal has been ilia covered in the mountains near F'orcst ( i rove. A new (louring mill has been com pleted near the mouth of John Day Uivor. The acreage of wheat in Umatilla ia the largest in tho history of tho country. Mrs. J. Wimer, near Grant's Pass, has nice orange sprouts which grew from seeds planted last fall. The new wool clip is beginning to arrive at tho shipping stations in tho Kastern portion of the State. The good people of Farewell Bend all turned out lecently and erected a now school house in that district. W. J. Harry has put range lights on Sand Island, an appreciated conven ience to voyagers in that vicinity. A new postollieo has been eatab lished at Yoreville, Grant county, with Aaron Wickscn as postmaster. Gust. Mattson was drowned in Coos Bay by the upsetting of a boat. He was a native of Finland and 32 yearB of age. Georgo A. Dyson, n former quill driver of Brownsville, has nohl his in terest in a Wood Kiver mine for $.r)000. Samuel Evans, a deckhand on the steamer Kellogg, was drowned hy fall ing oil' the steamer at tho foot of Yam bill street, Portland. Hugh Harris, a well-known and hichly respected farmer, of Polk county, died from the effects, of being run over hy his wagon. Kdward Mills died at Lebanon, lie was injured by n fall from tho narrow gauge railroad bridgo recently, from which ho never recovered. Ho was aged 28 and recently married. The loss by (ire o'f L. Leonard's dwelling, store, barn, and almost all of their contents, occurred in Jackson county. Tho property destroyed wns probumy worth double tho amount of insurance on it. Mr. Tuschualki, living about a mile below the Clackamas bridgo, Clacka mas county, while digging a well dis eoveicd a vein of paint eight feet below tho surface, which ho found to be four feet thick. Alex. Condray killed throo cougare at the mouth of Beaver creek, Klam ath river, tho largest measuring nine feet from tip to tip. This makes ten that have Ivou killed in that vicinity since last fall. David Kirkpatriek, an old and highly respected resident of Albany, committed suicido by shooting himself in tho head witli a -In-calibre revolver. Long illness, which i-onietimos af fected his reason, was tho cause. George Hill reported at Baker City jl few days ago that ho had found tho skeleton of a man some two miles back from Glenn's I'erry, on tho old wagon road. There was no clue as to who ho was. His clothing and a mil of blankets lay near tho bleached hones, as though he had slept there, and died soon after getting up in the morning. Governor Ponnoyor received tho following letter from Prriuovillo.which explains itself. Authority to organize was promptly returned, and the com missions so much desired will soon follow: "The irresponsible and in vincible, cowboys of Crook county do sire to serve their country and work oil" t-ome of their suporlluous martial ardor (commonly called cusscdness), in a way that will send their names thundering down the ages ; they burn to wear a.i uniform, hear drums and sco a battle; thoy want to bo soldiers, begad I that when the demon of havoc wnoops "carnago" and unties the dogH of war they can rush, to the foro, and, side hy side with the Portland braves capture a henroost ami lift the sculp ofl a beer bottle, and to that end most re spectfully ask to bo authorized, em powered and allowed to form a malitia. company, with headquarters, barracks, free lunch counter, or whatever it is called, ut Prinovillo. Vy"o are a hun dred strong and we do not ask that we bo appointed generals. A few of the lniys aro perfectly willing to ho colo nels, mid oven soino would bo corpor als. Wo are not stuck up; we only usk to bo allowed to servo our coun try and draw our proportion of tho public funds, in fact the latter is the main object. AH tho hoys aro exports on draw, and wo can assure you we will not shirk any flmuioiul tusk you, as commander may impose on us," 1