OREGON SCOUT. JONES & CHANCEY, Pabliibers. j TELEGRAPHIC. UNION. OKKlt. i I t n une oi tne rriDopai ctcdu Attracting I'sblie Interest Now THtrt aiinrnmn nniirK nf Ttlinnia lioa Thkhk were lynched in tho United nfnrmcd tl10 decision of the lower States during the year 1887 no fewer court in tho county "boodlcr" eases than 123 persons, and defendants tvill have to tcrvo their term oi BOiuenco. U. S. Marshal Franks has been al Sir Moiikm, tho throat of tho Crown Matkhvzik examined rrinco with ,owe(l $ MI J' or expenses incurred i in riririirinir iwTiuriii. mi ui rvnv Tumi uii uiuubiiu uiiiA inu io .. from Ueninark, penaca anno onu oi wnauooKs iiko a Ewing Patterson, Bon of Henry long, slonder pen-holder, and tlio pro- Watterson, editor of tho Louisville portionately small battery which sup Courier-Journal, has boon arrested on plies tho electricity is worn about th0 a cnargo oi assault wiui intent to khi - I A 1 I fit I. I I .1 n nvnniininit ulir.nnn'a l art L I w w I I lllturi M ii 1 1 1 ti t . 1 1 1 oiiAt , AIKWllil T1M DUUV l.J Rnvnrul nlnpnu utid fnfulltr wniuifled lias vvj,iie trying to arrest two members of nan tho notorious Mollic Nolt irantr o A 8MAM trout with two heads been discovered recently in tho hatchory at Iona, Mich. Tho heads housebreakers in Chicago. are perfectly formed and tho bodies unite at tho back fin. Tho little fol low is described as looking like an an imated boot-jack, and as lively a wrig gler as any fish in tho pond. ono "mental or cabinet work. A beautiful result is reached by digesting 2.1 -ouncee of finely powdered turmonc for Bovoral days in 17.5 ounces of 80 per cent, alcohol through a cloth plied to tho articles to bo stained. A freight car loaded with powder, whilo standing in tho yards at Mont gomery, Ala., exploded from some un known cause, destroying teveral cars near it, and killing llobert Givan, a colored man. Amos II. Tyler, of B.ith N. Y ki,ww or orange stain for wood is salesman, shot and fatally wounded of tho most nought for in oma- Dr- )- .J311 ft dun,,i6t- Tjrflor , . , . . ,.fi wont to Gilroy'a house, and upon tho in i l.o ounces oi ou xno remains oi ucn. martin uc )1, and then straining ' 01?n?' w,ni l! 'nto"Sd t AH ... . 111. Tho death of Gon. Beem by . 1 ho solution is ap- ftt stimU)n Nebratikll( Wll9 latter's appearance began shooting at him. Ihreo balls entered Gilroy b body, Tho remains of Gen. Martin Beem, Alton, sui most unexpected blow to his friends and relutives, to whom tho deed was inex The apparent paradox that tho phcablo. most transnarent water is at tho same Win. Spurgcon, who has been re time perfectly opaque from a certain BU",n f.1 BpnnKiioiu( aio., sometime point of view ib shown by a Bimplo ox- WIlH lirr. Ht., fnr .,. nl,1ill!..iBllinil. of ponmont. Tartly fill a glass goblot over $150,000 while in tho employ of a with clear water, and hold it a littlo privato banking firm of Baltimore as above tho level of tho oyo and distant contmcntiai clerk. n. 'nnt. nr mnrn. Nr. nbieof. nn.n lin senn A gang Of 111011 WCrO Working 111 ' I. ... V 1. ,. at -v .. -l,m, lw.1,1 5Uf r,vnr M,n anrfnPn nt M,n ?uw.oi " . ? water, out tno waior suriaco appears j)0 uursti caU(5iK th0 Hides of tho 'like a burnished mirror. ditch to cavo in, and quickly filline the trench with earth and water. Six A bkuieb of experiments lalolymado f tho laborers arc known to havo by a French metallurgist aro naid to lmvn nrnvnl tlmt. Hdnnl lnsna woiVMit hv Tho boilor at tho sagh and blind 1 O J 1 . . , T 1r,i ... , i Tust twice as rapidly as cast-iron when "i1 "'.:V,uUrl " A" . . I'll "' UAl"n'-i'. J-iur iiiui expoauu w moisi air. ivuKiiuiuou Harvoy Emory woro killed, and En water was found fo di. solve cast-iron gineer Thompson was fatally injured, much moro ranidlv than stool. From A pieco of tho boiler struck tho house this it would seem that steel bridges "f Mrs. Jamos Mahonoy, 500 feot dis- aro loss affected by tho acids contained in tho smoko of tho locomotives than aro iron ones. Inbtuuction in tho use of tools is A vacant franio building on Four teenth street, in Chicago, collapsed whilo a ntimbor of school girls woro therein romping. Lillian Collins, 10 years old, was buried In tho ruins and about to bo introduced in all tho hud to bo chopped out of tho wreck nrimarv schools of Franco. It has al- Sbo was horribly crushed. Tho others ready boon introduced in many, aud 1"ul 11 "rrw cape. has been successfully tried at such A cyclone struck tho villago of IV schools in Manchester, in England. It ii-"o. - wrecking several houses mill i ii ti 1 1 ittnrti Kit t -iitliti1liiwTtj IamuiI 111 ii I f 1 ui 11 crt F t nnla fiifinulinu I .... J ' ucw wi iwuid luuiiniiLO i vvmn,lM lltwl fl.nx iliililrti ' MU1MIMI 14 Hl V.U VllliVllUll One worn ln- nn agreeable relaxation. Tho appron- jured, but. not fatally, by Hying tini- uccBiup scliools, wincli aro tlio next uer. a no siorm camo an tno way COAST CULLINGS. Devoted Principally to Washington Territory and California. is higher grade, aro taking tho place of tho old apprenticeship system in Gor- many, Switzerland and Franco. from I'reoport, acconip.invinj; tho evening train part of the distance and causing havoc rJong tho routo. Firo was seon on tho farm of Widow Ii nn'n iwtnt A iliiiir(ni "NTnl A uian 'Till? liftif Irnm 4 r ti-ou.i tie A haI!m I . . . ' ...Dv ...... vuoa ,..u jvivifiui qf citizons went out. ancf wuro hnrr Circle pr.Bscd tho lino on tho Luloa Hod at finding tho charred remains of Jtuilway recently. This most north- seven human bodies, only identified urlv rnilrn.irl in thn wr,rld n.ns m, frr,. l,y their btaturo as follows : Old lady un u..it.i. .w,-i ,.r t ..i . .1 Freeze, Fred. Gratoluschon, his wife tho Swedish port of Lulca, at tho L.,.,, ,,' nllillrn K'P head of tho Gulf of Bothnia, into Louis, scattered in diflerout parts of Swedish Lapland, within four miles of tho barn, among tho horaes and cows, tho Gollivara Mountains, famous for Emma Althouso, a young woman of their yiolu of iron oro. The works Attica, r. l ., who has been subject to woro boL'im twniitv-Hiivfn vinr mm trances of long duration for some and then woro given up until quite Jjmo, nwoko, aflor a sleep of thirty . . f 1 1 threo days. Whon told of her pro- tract ou sleep siio ovinceu niuoh CorroK, according to a Bciontilio sur prise. Jninng her sloop her grand futhnr. rOMidinrr in ICimtiinlrv iliml authority, is not a fiber, but a plant When Emma awoko, she informed tho huir. It holds to bo spun into a family physician of tho fact, but she thread because of ncouliar twists in C0l,u not tuU how Bho camo to know i : Boono, especially in polarized light. A number of explosions of natural 1.11111 flinillil Itl-llt tti U1XIIII Itnii.mA r . . u.v u,u u ni.u.i, "un.ou ijii ,1 0. iN. Y.. canse( hv ovor nrf al... ill 1. I . uiu noors navo certain rougnnosseB on uro, ami created widespread excite their surfaces which onablo them to ont, besides destroying St. Paul's cling togothor. llonco it is impost- Jjlo to nuu'o as lino linen as cotton cloth, but it is much stronger. As Handy Dklono and his son Jteubon, who hvo on Black Lako, about oight miles from Ogdensburg, JJ. l ., woro driving along tho highway Cathedral, tho prido and glory of tho city. An explosion occurred in tho furnaco in tho basement, blowing out windows and doors. Flames at once broke out, aud in half an hour the in 1 iff 1 lorior oi tno ueauiuui cnuren was m ruins. 1 ho climax m the caso of tho Wil liniantio Savings Institute in Connect iuih, was reacneu in ino arrest o 4lliur unit ii In unit ti.J.l ..ii.. . I r. i ... "'"J " nujju uiim uugio suung on uasiuor Koyco, on twenty-nvo countB tho fonco. Tho bird whb covored with which iudicato that lloyco's peoula- mud and too weak to got away from t'0118 lmvo lccn ,noro ,iml thorn. Ho was soon captured and nut l.0!!1:1"!..11!.'1" nl ihal M'octod. Tho . .... j iiiujuniiuiiiB iiui'i" iiusiiso oi ueposns aim tno making oi laUo entries for a an inoir buggy. In tho Hold near by Uioy found anothor bald oaglo lying tlead. Tho scratched and torn con dition of both birds Bhowed that there iiau boon u lilo and death drugglo bo 'tween thorn. 9 Dkui.in, it Booms, has gradually bo- como tho heailquarters of tho carved wood industry, Biipplanting Switzer land. Six hundred artists in wood carving, tho same number of turn ore, and 700 carpontm aro engaged in manufacturing such articles as oijur- casea, nowspupor and picture framoa, napkin rings, ota Tho valuo of tho annual export of thoso articles is given a 6,000,000 niarkB, and this is exclu bIvo of tho costly carved wood furni ture, tho manufacture and export of which ro assuming largo proportiona. I i i . largo uumnor oi notes ami bills ro- coivablo which were novor sent for col lection. Ho is also charged with aj- propriaung about ;o,uuu at dillerent times. One of tho largest, if not tho largost, ponsious on record has been granted to C. B. Gillott, of Whatoheor, Iowa, tno amount being 5-1,0 i.i. Gillott re ceived a Biiustroko whilo in tho army, ........... I ... .1... 1 !..! f. nno iivmvu hi iiiu iioBpuai ior disease of tho oyes, and finally discharged from Borvico on account of this disa bility. In 1872 ho applied for a pen sion, but his claim was rejected in 1878, on tho ground that his blindness could not be directly traced to sun stroke whilo in tho eorvico. A few years slnco his iclativos and attorney had tho caso ivopended, mid tho result is an allowance of over 12.000 nn tlm first payment, and $72 a month d ur ns tho remainder of hi. UK Clms. McStravick, of Grass Valley Cal.. was riding in a buggy and lead ing a colt by a lino. The colt stopped suddenly, tearing off three fingerd of his left hand. Win. Keyos and Jolfn Peyton, had a fow words at Boca, Cal. Keyes struck Peyton with a pistol. The men clinched and Keyes fired. The bullet entered Poytou's breast and passed through tho left lung. Ho dying. Alexander Duckworth, serving a soven years Bontenco in tho state prison at Folsom, Cal., for robbery at San I'rancisco, attempted to escape, and was shot by guard Fitzsimmonn tho ball passing through tho prisoner's thighs and inflicting a dangerous wound. Tho nitry-glycorino house of the California Powder Works at Pinolo. Cal., exploded. Tho employes had left tho building about ton minutes before tlio explosion occurred. About 3,000 pounds of glycorino exploded. The building was totally destroyed. No ono was hurt. During a runaway at Sacramento. Cal., a wagon oocumed by Isaac Lea and Mrj. James Blundin collided witli that of an old mun named Myers not Ji of tho latter were thrown out. tho lady receiving a severo cut in tho face, and Myors striking on his head it i ii . ii aim Doing prooaoiy iataiiy injured Francis G. Bornemann. cashier of the sub-treasury at S.m Francisco in 188&-8b, was arrested by tho U. S. marshal upon an indictment found against him by tho fedoral grand iurv. ilio cliarge against Bornemann isth.it of embezzling .10,000 in currency irom tno sub-treasury. lno coroner lias been called on to investigate tho death of a l-l vear-old child of parents belonging to tho Band of Holiness, and living in a hut in Arroyo Seco, Cal. Tho child had been sick two months, but tho parents re fused to call in a physician, saying the Lord would care for tho suflorer. Lucy Sing, r Chinese babe, died at tho Chineso mission in San Francisco. Tho infant was taken by a charitable society from an undertakers shop in Chinatown, whither it had been taken by its inhuman parents. Thov con- sidero 1 it too puny to live, and they wanted to save trouble by having it near tno colhn at tho tnno of death. At an executivo meoting of tho di rectors oi tho Nevada bank Ex-Sona-tor Fair was paid a balance of $2,000.- 000 which tho bank owed him. This squared the account between tho old Kinanza partners that has been un settled, and Mnckay, Flood and Fair have now arranged all their financial affairs as relating to each other com- letoly satisfactorily. Fii-hermon on a tug which wont out to Farallor.o islands near San Fr-in- isco, caught a huge devil fish. Tho animal had a number of tenucles. It clung so closely to tho side of the teamoi that two of tho arms had to bo severed in order to get it on board. It is tho largest spocinion of tho octo pus caught here, tlio arms measuring fully four feet in longth. Charles Smith, a traveling man, out his throat at tho What Cheer House in San Francisco. Ho was out of employment and without money, for tho first tfmo in his life, he said, and would rather bo dead than become a beggar at his ago. Ho is about 50 years old. His wind pipe was cut and t'ohco burgeon Martineau porformed a timely operation whioh will savo his life William Nicholson, a shoemaker at San 1' rancihco, camo homo shortly af ter midnight, in an advanced condi tion of inebriety. A lodger undoi took to help tho man up stairs to his room. and with much dilliculty had dragged him to the top of tho front llight, whon Aicbolson s almost inert body slipped from his grasp, and wont rolling and bounding to tlio floor below. Within a fow minutes ho was tlead. Ho hail broken his neck. IOius 1 uror, a 10-year-old boy liv ing just out of San Francisco, was killed by a chargo of bird shot hrcd at a cat by Joseph Miller, who works on tho ranch. Tho cat that Miller was after had crawled into a brush heap, and ho was poking around after it. lho littlo boy camo up to seo what was going on, and got hotweon Miller's shotgun aud tho cat, just as Miller pulled tho trigger. Tho full charge struck tho boy in tho abdomen tearing a horrible opening. A bold attempt was matlo in broad day light by John Govoy, a contractor, to sot fire to tho oxtonsivo lumber yanis of tho West Coast Lumber Com pany at San Diego, Cal. Ho was dis covered running out of tho yard from a spot whoro a pilo of rags, saturated with korosono, had been fired under a pilo of dry lumber. It is reported that Govoy had a dispute with t'10 company regarding some lumber he had bought, and threatened ven geauo. ino romnuiB oi a woman were found in tho brush in Sweitzer can yon, about tliree nines cast of Sun Diego, Cal., by Mr. Grubnow, a dairy- OREGON NEWS. AGRICULTURAL. Everything of General Interest in a Condensed Form. Devoted to the Interests of Fanners and Stockmen. 4 . ; . i i , jt. uuiiuuiig BuiiiHjuur 13 oeing OUllt nrnftiiiff, by Win, Squire at Tillamook. Thoee who wish to do grafting later 'J-bo Uongrfgationnhst8 of Hillsboro man is usual in tho spring may find win. mn n -1 1. I Xt . . .1.. expect toon to build a church. Mrs. Campbell Df Empire, Coos bay, uieu at tno ago oi ou, Phoenix, Jackson county, will build a .l,'JUU school house. Considerable excitement exists ovor it niterestintr to trv the following methods recommended in eastern farm journals, as they seem reasonable u noi in common use : An exchange has a correspondent who says he has practiced a stylo of gniiung not laid down in tho books tho coal discovery in tho Nehalom ftnd wi)ich can be (lone nt any M ' , v . during tno growing season. It should A two story hall is to bo built at be done in the spring as soon us tho Yaquina (Jity by the Masons and Odd bark will peel freelv from the stock, Fellows jointly. Ho uses scions of last yeur's wood Tho class tree of the graduating with two or threo buds. Thefe are clast of tho State University this year cut u on0 8'de, with a sloping cut, is a Lanx Europea, grown in tne Make an incision in the bark, exactly nursery at Woodburn, Marion county. 1,8 budding, insert the scion with Paris is the namo of the new town me tloping cut so arranged as to ox laid out for tho county seat of Mai actly fit on tho wood under tho sap heur county, and the county is with- bark, then wrap and tio well without out a newspapor. A call was issued bo prominent bus iness mon ot Alb iny for a citizens meeting, for tho nurnoio of organizing a board of trade. using wax. It would seem reasonable to cover with paper for a week or bo in case tho weather is warm to shield tho work from tho hot sun, or it might Biinnk tno wood of tho scion before it COllld takft lin nnnrialimnnt fmm Mm . r n . ... I "I" ..v.... in. m. oaie, son ot A. II. Bale, died stock. This is wnrili trvi'nc- nH ?n at Astoria, of cerebro spinal meningi- manv instances. Itppb lmvo ton inV). tis. Ho was 28 years old, and a native builds, and it. in .WJr.a.in in . - i r " - - - - uvuiiuuiu vj vin ucu ui marion county. them to have lower 1 nibs. It woult At tho preliminary examination of seem reasonable that such eruftintr W. L. C. Elliott, t Independence, ho should be possible, and if bo. now is was held to answer in tho recent mur- the time to try it. He does not state der of John B. White. the size of trees or limbs that can be Ono bf Cook's fishermen, in his Brafled in this manner, and readors boat, near Clifton, whilo about to who aro successful in making such shoot himself shattering Josenl, Kinnisnn. of Bakr.r Citv. f"10 uar can.uo UM u"6 tlio , near Clifton, whilo about to w" are &ccessiui m making such t a sea lion, accidentally shot Stts will confer a public favor by iclf in tho right thigh, tho ball lvinK the result of their experience, ering tho bono. lf (,onc llltor wcl1 ripened wood of the was thrown from the horse ho was rid ing ana received injuries that .ire thought to be quito serious. His con dition indicates internal injuiies. is man. Tho remains had been shock ingly mutilated by coyotes. In a satchel noar by woro Bovoral lottors, ono addressed to Miss Annio Cunning ham, care ot bamuol John Krwm, Fresno, California, postmarked Ireland. V photograph of a woman about -In years of ago was alsu found, believed to bo that of deceased. An empty box of Bough ou lUts wan found noar tho lody, and ono theory is that boinu uuahlo to obtain employment, she be came diocutuolutu and swallowod the poison. leaves save a short stem If one graft fails another can be put in. xno buds remain dormant the first year, usually. When done on lrP(' to indllru, linllrn nlinnnr, l,n A two-year-old child of John De- shonlfl tint. h li0!wlt ,ni- tn n'L fill II t I ' '-'' "OVJIk IV bWU VIWl "iiKor, ol .uoany, uraiiK a sniau quan- niant bud until tho next soring. Tins tityot concentrated lyo, with which iH said to ho mnrn nnW.r,.i ii,, if, l , i I 1 . I uMuvvi-ui VlMtll .i luuiiiur was cleaning nouso. it is grafting in fcomo nurts of Illinois nn.l i i,,.,.i.i ii i . i . ' ii.uuKiii uio uiiuu uiinuot recover. cnn bo done on wood tnn lnr.m fr J. J. lio?ell, of Sweet Home, arrested budding. for assaulting his son-in-law, Daniel Side grafting is described as cutting Morris, with a knife, was discharged a notch, or slit, about an inch long, in in Justice Humphrey's court for want me side of the stock aud inserting a of evidence. scion cut to fit tho same. This is Albert Gilliam, of Pilot Rock, suf- practical in caso of scions received fered a broken leg by his horse falling, lllt0,m th, 8PrlnS- The dilliculty in no was alone, and tried to attract ph. iu oo io miiKe eomo one's attention by firing his re- L. , " 111 we" una to tie it on volver. but failing, ho nlimhod nn firmly. In all such work it would horso and rodo home, a distant of see,n Proper to use wood cut m au ' ........ i r.ii. i . threo miles. tumu .uui uuiuiuuy Kopi in enrin an n,n Wilt.,,,., T,i.: n winter. Ciuoli wood ought to grow lho ulapa Packing ConiDanv ...,.n ;r u r..i ., nml T. t i),.no . i, i.m u" ou,uu " " ami a quarter up . t?Z 'J. V. ,al Btock 20r on each si.le, turn back tho bark, cut lortland Investment Comnanv. wodcrn tn nnnnnv tlu rt. nf ii... ;,.ni. i ho incorporators aro F. C. A. Peikes. and a Olliirt(r. 'PIhmi run llio L-ifn HT , ni . . I ..... w.v . ij. onerman ami ii. it. j,ewis: nionnd nm imnl tlm l.ivb- ,,,, .,.,,1 ..!. d.rrnr,n , .. ' i .... ,..vn uuu uiip mi siouk, .tou.uuu ; location, l'ort- a quarter on tho stock and cut a slit "Hilt. for t.lm u-prlii nn tlm uo!,.. I - " " d w 1 ' . bl.VJ 1 1.11111 1.1 Leonard, IG-yenr-old eon of A. H. nt into. Fit the wedgo into the slit Hooker, living at Eight Mile, in draw- and slip tho bark peeled back from the ing a l l-callibre revolver from Ins scion over tho wedge, tie it on close pocket, shot himself through tho loft and wax it. This graft is said scarce band in the middle knuckle noint. ever to fail The middle linger was amnutatcd. Gov. Pennover has annointed tl i 10 eno is tno only reliable solution following notaries public : C. C. Lewis, ot tlie ri,I1(l0W" farm problem Kockwood, Multnomah county: Willis When setting out strawhprrv nlntH Vidito, Alsea, Benton county : E. B. uee garden trowels and ho Watson, Portland ; J. W. Congdon, roots aro well spread out in tho shane inouaue: v. is. ur.u, UornucoDia. of a fan. and cut off thn fnil nf union county. tho roots that aro too long Mrs. Amanda Davidson, din,? n. should be set out when tho contly at Tillamok. She was ti,0 grounu is ttamp, s dry weather daughter of James .nd Anna OmV.k. ?umt 1 m"ua U1U C,,,1S0 01 11 wrge mini and was born November 2(1. ISita. tlm uer '"' to root in the soil after . . . . . . ' ' 1 1 first whito girl born in Tillamook K county. &no loaves a husband and An orchard twenty-fivo vears ol ..ni.;ii 1 ... - . two sniau cniiuren. imd been seeded down and n .ms tlm last ten years, and had become un thrifty and unfruitful. L-ist vear one nan 01 it was thoroughly nlowet: 1 ..!. . , , .miies woro ajipueu, and it was caremlly pruned. Tho other half was not cultivated. This treatment was continued this year. Tho reuult was that the cultivated portion resisted tho drought perfectly and had dark green ionage, and is heavily laden witl Ualdwui8, Greenings and Golden Ku sets, 111 remarkable contrast with tho other portion. In cultivating an old orchard which hits been long in grass 11 snoniii 00 remembered that should bo dono whilo tho trees dormant, when breaking tho roots will do littlo harm. When in a growing suae 11 may cause positivo injury. Boiling growing wheat in tho spring is practiced m tno middle Western states with great success. Ono old farmer in Indiana says ho has tried it for twenty years and always has soon decided benefits therefrom. Some times ho has left strips in tho wheat fields that were not rolled, and invar Hiuiy luuiui mo roueu wneat was thriftier and gave a better yield. He thought rolling added Hvo bushels to tho yield per aero. His plan was to do tho rolling us soon us tho ground is 111 condition and tho soil dry enough not to stick to tho roller. Farmers in Oregon have practiced rolling grain when it was growing well in the spring, hut it lias not becomo gener ally practiced. Thoro is quite a dif ference m countries and climates. In tho states where snow lies on all win ter and frost is loaving the giound continually, tho need of rolling to re store the ground to a solid condition is plainly to bo seen, but in tho Pacific Northwest, and especially west of tlio Cascades, tho action of continuous rains is much more felt than of frost, anil the earth is very littlo thrown up h frt'Kzinir Tlwiiin nniwlitwu.o .....1... FOREIGN GOSSIP. During tho recent eclipso of tho snn tho Itussian Nihilists scattored their pamphlets all over Russia. Tho fashlonablo Swiss hotels now havo Anioiiean bars, presided over bv handsome Swiss girls in nativo drcisT wlth- -10 15 (3 27i IM1IIT1jA.N1 I'KOIIIICK 9IAKKKT, Butter Fancy roll, & lb Oregon Inferior in-aclo Pickled California roll do pickled... Cheese Eastern, full cream. Oregon, do California Koos Fresh DlUKI) Fkuits Apples, qi-H. 8kn and bxs.. do California , Apricotx, now crop Peaches, unneoled. now Pears, machine dried.., Pitted cherries Pitted nl u inn. Ori'Lron... Figs, Cal., In ban and bxs.. 10 14 & (A 18 124 8 10 150 as 20 10 in 18 e a 28 14 10 40 124 0 10 12J Cal. Prunes, French UreRon prunes LOUIl Portland Pat. Roller, tfbbl 8 Salem do do White Lily t bbl Country brand Superfine GRAIN Wheat, Valley, 100 lbs... do Walla Va a Barley, whole, fc ctl no around. t ton OaU, choice mlllliiK f bush do leed.KOOd to choice. old Hve, fc 100 Iba DEED Bran, f ton Shorta. t ton , . Hay, V ton. baled Chop. V ton 3 00 2.5 00 Oil cake meal tfton 83 00 35 OC Fuksii Fruito Apples, Oregon, $ box 1 23 1 60 4 00 4 00 4 25 3 50 3 75 2 M) 2 75 & I 22K 1 15 & I m 1 10 CO 1 lsj 20 Ui C25 00 45 47 44 (s) 15 1 10 1 25 (315 00 17 00 10 00 (in 18 00 Cherries, Orecou, f drin K r n.iinii.i r1. I . If I LiimeH, v leu.,. Riverside orauxes, box... Los Angeles, do do ... Peackes, V box Hides Dry, over 10 Iba, V Tb Wet salted, over 65 Iba Murrain hides , Pelu Veoktaulko Cabbage, V lb Carrots, f sack Cauliflower, dot Onions , Potatoes, now, $ 1C0 lbs . . Vootr Rant Oregon, Spring clip,. Vallev Oregon, do ,, 3J25 3 50 1 0c 3 8 4 i4 7 (8 10 10 5 V 25 2 75 1 25 75 76 14 (H 10 ffl 15 18 by freezing. Theso conditions mukn it loss necessary, jirobably, to roll or harrow wheat in the spring, but it In safo to bolievo that good results will follow suoh cultivation horo in Ore gon. This is said to account for tho drawal of English patronage. Frenchwomen havo of lato begun to manifest an extraordinary tastrfor rai-o books, curious editions, and beau tiful old bindings. Hitherto the typi cal Parisionno road less than tho wom en of any other civilized nation, and the only wonder is thoy are so well in formed as they aro in most matters. A French journal prints tho num ber of works of art exhibited nt tho saloons since 1872. Of a total of 2 06!) that year, 1.500 were pictures proper. The total to dato is 7-1 103. iiieluiling 51 1-1G pictures proper. The otlior '20. 000 weio not pictures improper, a might be supposed, but sculptures and medals. Pkiladc. phiu Press. The Eiig.ish co-operatives have a bank whoso transactions amount to $80 000 000 a year. Thoy havo 1.400 'ores and do a business nf $150 000, 000 a year. T ieir !) K) 000 moinhnrs ruceive an annual profit of $15,000, 0J0. Their profits during tho past twenty-four vears have been 150,000,- 000. PuLlio Opinion. Tlio Prussian M nistcr of P.ihlio Instriiction has vetoed a bill providing for the lighting of tho It yal museums- of Berlin by electricity for the reason that, tho public has ample facilities for vi-iting the reading-rooms in daytime. O dy the Museum of Art Industry, which already posses-ins th i necessary ippliances. will b. ligh'cd by elec tricity and b ' accessible to the public- iu tlio evening hours. -Tho J.-ipauo-io Prof. Nisliigava is at present, studying the G rinan art of Iner browing at its source in Munich. where ho spout as much time as eight days in ono browery. lie was sunt thither by tho J in tii')so Govofumont. which is desirous of checking tho- growing consumption of brandy, and. contemplates the introiluc ion of Ger man and J-.nglish beer free of dut', whilo putting a high tax 'on stronger alcoholic liq-iors. A French newspaper reports that n S-.ibiaco, near Itoine, all tho inhabit- mts are under the inlluence of oni- h'psy or hypnotism. Tliu cui-iito spends his time in exorcising the evil spirits, mil Cardinal Blanehi has sent tho Pope's special bunodiction all with out avail. A troop of soldiers who. wore sent to the villago have shown, symptoms of giving way to the disease, ind thoro is sii posed to bo something n tlio air alluding the nerves. Next to gold, statistics show that Hawn gum is tliu most va nub e nm- Itietof milling industry inXowZea- md. 11m gum, which is largely used in tliu niauiifacitiro of lino varnishes. occurs in tho ground formerly occu- lied by kawri fore-ts, and is also found a deposit at the foot of tho growiii"- kawri tree. In tho North Island abuiL x thousand tons are obtained annual ly, and tlio value of tliu aggregate leld up to the pr.iseiit timu lias been 17,500.000. X. V. Ledncr. 4 Comforinably to tho laws of ad-:iiK-o and retreat of glaciers, it is said lioso in thu valley of Chamonniv. " ' - wilzcrland, aro now beginning to ad- nmce. J In lower extromitv of the aeier ties Bossons ii "no; more than threo thousand feet above tho level of Ii') sea," and is going still lower. Daring the past three years this lower .'.vtroinily "has ailvancd at the rato of fifty yards a year." It is said that "a iiotlo cut oit of tho ice in May, 18 Hi, ,i quarter of a mile from the extremity, lias moved down moro than sixty rards." Tlin gold which is now being dug Diit of the ancient eanictories (huacas) U Ililaiidia. C ntral America, and Dther places near P.iruira. has led moro than ono thousand workmen to Hook to ... i . , .nai sjjoi, aim a lown nas spi u lg up there within the last four years which now contains moro than fifty thousand inhabitants. Public attention is being turned to those regions, as tho ancient burial places and deposits of the wealthy Cacique Caracal have not yet b.ien di-covered. and it is believed that liis treasures were immensely more raluahlo than any which have yet beou unearthed. It sounis anomalous,' savs an En glish panor. that corn should bo as cheap in a part of Turkey as near to the gr at European markets as Erzo rouni is. as in tho nio.-.tromoto district of tho far West of America or Mani toba, whilo Hvo stock and d airv oro. linen soil at low prices, Th t in cans of comnniuieation aro so bad in Erze rouin, however, that wheat was solliii"- Micro hist autumn, according to Acting Uinsul Djvoy. at 11 shillings a miar- ter, barley at a littlo ovor 5 shillings, sheep at 7 shillings and C nonco to & Shillings oaeli. btittor at 51 pound and choose at 1 penny oor, tno proposed railway from Constantinople to Diarb -kir is com pleted, tho farmers of the vilayet will no doubt, get bolter prices. m Lack ot Punctuality. Lack of punctuality in keeping all one s engagements is immoral, bo causo it is selfish. Wo aro too lazy and intont on ploasing ourselves tcv euro for tho c n venionco of others. It immoral, because to ho tardy in keeping a social or business appoint ment is au insult to tlio nerson ulin. hts aro thus ignored. It is mom than immoral, it is ill-bred. It shows a ontonipt for thos.i oourtosios that make Booial Ufa possible. This U especially tho oaso whon hick of punctuality is shown in public gathor- ponce per M HUM, 1S. i. ii-iiHcr.