OREGON SCOUT.
JOHES & CHAHCEY, Pifclfcbtn.
A Chicago nownpapor makes the
statement that a railroad train arrives
or departs from that city every min
ute of the day.
Gonde conducted a memorable
campaign at seventeen, and at twenty
two ho and Turenno, also, were of the
most illustrious men of their time.
A distinguished negro belle of
Tort au Prince, Hayti, has married a
"brother of William Black, the novel
ist. Perhaps the name attracted her.
Mas. Patti Lyi.b Collins, em
ployed in the '-dead letter" offico at
"Washington, reads almost every
known language except Russian and
-Chinese. .
Tub common thistle, which now
covcn largo areas in Southern Chili,
is naid to have been introduced there
by an Englishman, who imported a
bushel of seed and sowed it undor the
delusion that the plant would provo
aluable for fodder.
Miss Mkuk Mkykii, a grandnicco of
Anton Rubinstein and a pupil of
Xiszt, is tho musical prodigy of
"Vienna, Austria. Sho is not yet oigh--tcen
years old, but has composed the
musi and written tho libretto of an
opera.
The orange tree and tho lemon are
both descended from tho citron. Tho
history of tho orango tree is Biiid to
date back to the crusades, tho return
ing pilgrimB carrying it into Europe
700 or 800 yours ago.
Tub .number of fowls kept in
.Franco has boon estimated to bo 43,
858,780. Tho average product of
ohickenB roared is 3 to each hon and
tho avcrngo product of eggs per hen
i 100 per year. Tho total money
product is $101,000,000.
A reader of tho Boston Globo re
ports that tho word "dude" is to bo
iound in tho dictionary of tho Swalihi
langu.igo Bpokon by Pzangibiis nogroes
that tho plural is "mast itudo'' and
tho word itself probably older than tho
Lille. ----.
M. Chevreul. tho French contona
Tian chemist (who will bo 102 yours
old if ho liveB till next August), is
uaid by a writor who recontly visited
him, to look scarcely moro than 80
years of ago, and to bo as gontlo, even
tempered and telf-controllcd as over.
Queen Victoria dislikes tho olec-
trio light, and refuses to have it in her
palaces. Sho hart at length permitted
onoof tho royal yachts to bo fitted
-with electrio lamps, except her sleop
inc cabin and saloon, It is said soft
oil lamps best suit tho complexions of
elderly ladios.
Prince Bismarck's declination to
oocomo Duko BiBinarek, on tho ground
that ho Imb not ttio ways and means
to cut tho propor ducal dash, will oc
casion hilarioiiB suspicions that tho
Iron Chancellor is goltmg unumally
ironical. Bismarck would bo rated A
1 in tho mercantile loxjcniiH.
The Princo of Naples, who has just
como of ago, has received tho ordor of
tho golden floeco from tho Empororof
Austria and tho black eaglo from tho
lato German Einporor. It is Higgosted
that, in view of tho closo friendship
Tetween Italy and England, ho ought
to be invested with M10 g;rtt'r.
Theiie wore lynched during tho
year 1887 in tho United Stati'B no
fewer than 123 persons. Of tho var
ious States and Territories Toxub loads
tho list with flftoon lynchings, and
JiiBshsippi is entitled to second place
with fourteen to her credit. All tho
-victims were males, eighty of them
being nogrres.
One of tho smalUst manuscripts in
tho world to bo sold. For sale, a
grain of rico with tho wholo first
chaptor of tho Koran written on it;
givon to an English ofiher in 1812 by
an American gentleman, who rtcoivod
It from an Arab sheikh, whom ho hud
cured of a dangerous fever in tho
doaort.
A very good and sensitive baromo-
ter may bo mado by gluing together
trips of red codar and soaBonod pino.
A strip of cedar about thirty inches
lotiff, ono and ono-half inches wido
And ono-oighth of an inch thick is out
-with tho grain, and to 0110 Hide of it
must bo glued strips of pino of equal
thickness, with tho grain running
Koroas thut of tho cedar. This com
bination is sot : umi, and will, no
cording to tho statu of tho weather. bo
found to Ijavo bont over on ono wo
or tho other, Mnd this may bo d-mr
.minwd by trial.
TELEGRAPHIC.
I
Ai Epitem of the Principal EtcdU Nov
Attracting Pablie Intoreit.
Wm. C. Mitchell fell from a street
car at St. Louis, and was killed.
The academy of music was burned
at Haverhill, Mass. Lose, .$100,000;
insurance, $50,000.
A construction train and engine on
the Joliet & Eastern road was wrecked
by obstructions on tho track. Three
Italian laborers wero instantly killed.
Gus Boylcs, aged 19, was hanged
for the murder of Wm. Morgan, in the
Creek nation, a year ago. Ho died
vory hard.
At Bucna Vista, 111., Charles Deck
ler, a farmor, aged 55, sent his chil
dren out of tho house and then shot
his wife, killing her instantly, and
shot himself and cut his throat.
It. B. Parrish, a wholesale shoo
dealer at Louisville, Ky., reputed to
bo worth $100,000, committed suicide
because ho could not pay a live dollar
board bill.
Tho street railway stables at Wichi
ta, Kan., wero burned. Three em
ployes wero very seriously burned and
otherwise injured. Tho loss was not
ascertained.
David Clark and his wife wero found
hanging in a corn crib near Sandwich,
111. They left a pnper signed by both,
aavinir thov died for each other. Clark
was tliirty years old.
Firo destroyed half the business
portion of Elmoro, Colo., some half a
dozen businefs houses, with contents,
being consumed. Tho loss is estimated
at $75,000; insurance $0,000.
Tho body of Alice Kelly was found
in tho outskirts of Ottumwa, Iowa,
with tho throat cut and tho head
badly beaten. Tho naturo of tho
wounds indicato murder
Hattio do Baum, aged 18 years, was
shot and killed by her aunt, Mrs.
Jennings, at Terro Hauto, Ind. Tho
two had been quarreling for some
days.
Josiah Wilder, 02 yenrs of ago, a
prominont business man of Cincinnati,
committed suiciuo. Tho only known
cause is an Direction of tho head which
gave him great pain and rondercd him
despondent.
Three men entereu tlio oluco ot an
insurance company at Milwaukee, and
engaged tho cat-hier and clerk in con
versation. Before thoy left ono 01
them stole $2,000 from tho cash
drawor.
In tho roundhouso of WiiiBlow,
Ariz., a fireman named Snyder had a
few words witli a night wn tollman
about some oil, and tho latter shot
Snyder twice. Tho lattor died in ton
minutes.
A freight train on tho Louisville,
Now Albany & Chicago railway ran
into a Bmall land slido. Tho locomo
tive and ten cars wero wrecked. David
Julian, a brakeman, Engineer Harnot
and Fireman Blachmau wero killed.
Henry Sopor, a farm hand, con
fosses to killing (5 year-old Frankic
Williams, kicking him to death bo-
causo tho child followed him to tho
field to seo tho cows milked, at Hunt
ington, Long Island.
Mrs. Eiizaboth Simon shot and in
stantly killed Wm. Dowling at Bury's
ranch, Wyo. Dowling was assaulting
her 8-yeur old daughter. Mrs. Simon
was given a hearing ami discharged
amid cheers.
A. M. Pulliam called James Miller,
a well-to-do farmer, into his olfioo, at
Hardinesburu, ky. Shortly aftor-
wards shots wero hoard and Pulliam
came out mid fciirrondoied to an olli
cor. Miller was found dead in the
ofiico.
Hubert Bryan, a
boy, slabbed Riloy
agod 19 years, and
Smith's nulls, Ky.
lb-ycar-olil negro
1 uncock-, white,
killed him, near
Throo mon started
for Henderson with Bryan, when they
wero overtaken by fifty masked men
who lvinho.l tho murderor to the
nearest tree.
A large firo in tho business-blocks
opposite tho Erio railway depot broke
out at Patterson, N. J. Escape by
tho ordinary way for tho inmates was
cut oil' in a few minutes. Numbers
jumped from windows and escaped
with slight bruises, but it is reported
that several lost their lives.
Firo originating in a sawmill at Al
ponii, Mich , spread rapidly, and was
soon beyond control. All buildings
for a space of thrco blocks wido and
half a milo long wero consumed,
causing a loss of about $300,000. Fif
teen hundred persons arc homeless
and several seriously injured.
Matthias Sohreiuer, a whitewashes
was dii-covorcd at Chicago, III., burned
horribly and dying, Ho had como
homo drunk, and his clothes had boon
saturated with kerosene and fired.
HiB wifo, mother-in-law and a boardor
aro under arrest, and indications are
that they wro tho perpetrators of.tho
horrible doed.
Whilo 300 or -100 peoplo woro seatwi
in the grand stand on tho gmuuds of
tho Yalobusha county, Mississippi,
fair association, tho supports gave way
without warning, and tho struoture
fell' to tho ground. No ono was killed
outright, but nearly fifty peoplo wero
lukon from tho ruins with broken arms
anil logs. .
Laural Fork mooting house in
Weakley county, Tonn., was a scone
of a torrblo tragedy, Just as tho
mini-tor wan announcing hU text a
volley of firearms was discharged out
side the door. When tho smoke
cli-arcd awuy it whs found that Ewell
Lawson and his sou, John, wero killtd,
ami Ih it three FtiHton boys, Tom, Jim
and K'Kis, and John Porter, wero fa
tuity wounded,
COAST CULLINGS.
Devoted Principally to Washington
Territory and California.
Ten business houses of Deming, N.
M., burned. Losses aggregate $00,
000; insurance, half.
Pnil. J. Stumpf. was shot and killed
in his saloon, at Antioch Cal., by some
unknown person.
It. Avers, a itink dealer, of Los An
geles, Cal., was dragged to death by a
runaway team near El Monte.
Ten business houses at Deming, N.
M.. wero destroyed by fire. Losses
aggregate $00,000; insurance half.
Henry Movers, ono of tho Lowell
murderers, who pleaded to grand
larceny u( Sacramento, Cal., was sen
tenced to ton years at fcolBom.
William G. Butler has been sen
tenced to three years' hard labor at
Folsom for abstracting an order for
$0 99 from a letter at tho postoflico in
Los Angeles, Cal.
W. F. Neff, a tinner, whilo working
on a roof at Lob Angeles, Cal., fell to
tho ground, breaking his ntck, the tail
killing him instantly. Ho was aged
37 years, and leaves a family.
Wm. Heazed, night watchman on
the steamer Thoroughfare, at San
Francisco, was struck while walking
1 the track by an Alameda local
train, and instantly killed.
Henry Vanovor, popularly known
as "Hanks," a well known hack driver,
of Tacoma, W. T., was found dead in
his bed at Freeman's livery stable,
from an overdoso of quinine.
Mrs. K. Paiker. of Cheney, W. T.,
attempted to commit suicide by taking
an ounce of tincture of opium, but
tho timely arrival of tho doctor saved
her life.
Firo occurred in Chinatown of
Placorvillo, Cal., in which a row of
seven Chinese buildings, and threo
white residences woro burned. The
Charred remains of a Chinaman wero
taken from the ruins. Loss $5,000.
Firo broke out in tho Mechanics'
mill at Seattle, W. T , but was soon
put out with only slight damage re
sulting. David Ferguson, watchman
on Yoslor's wharf, whilo working at
tho fire fell, breaking his collar bone.
Simon J. Lark, aged 22, was run
over and instantly killed in tho rail-
mud vnrd at Winnemucca. Cal. Ho
had been in tho employ of the railroad
company about three years as assist
ant agent and car soalor.
Tho shin Bella Vista, loaded with
cnal. mink twentv milos northwest of
Point Reyes, Cal. Tho captain and
crow woro picked up and bi ought to
Bowon's Landinir by tho schooner
Napa City.
D. Davov Harrip.a 12-ycar-old new6
boy, attempted to jump on a moving
dummy on Sutter street at Kearny, in
San Franeisco, but missed his footing
and rolled under tho wheels. Both of
his lees wero fractured above the
knees.
James King, recently convicted of
bicamy at Sacramento, Cal., and son
tenced to threo years' imprisonment,
attempted to commit suiculo in a coll
by cutting his wrist, no was oiscov
erod by tho jailor in time to prevent
him bleeding to death.
Firo broko out in tho Hamblotonian
stables in Oakland, Cal., totally de
stroying them, togother with most of
tho contonts. In the stable were ton
horses, seven of which woro burned
alivo. Soveral othor adjoining build
inns woro destroyed. Tho total loss is
about $20,000.
Amanda Cordoza and Vicente
Murines had a porsonal difficulty in a
saloon at Sacramento, Cal. Marines
knocked Gordoza down. Tho latter
arose, Btaggcrod back and fell dead.
It is supposed death resulted from
heart diseabo. caused in part by tho
blow. Marines surrendered himself.
Tho main business portion of Chor
okee, a mining town near Orovillo,
Cal.. was destroyed by tiro. Miss
Marv O'Donnoll porished in tho
flames. Two hotels, two stores, a sa
loon and sovoral residences wero
burned. Loss, $30,000; iuBiiranco,
$13,500.
llnrm- thn nbsonco of Mrs. Ene:
bind mid C. Coulthard. of Hollister.
Cal.. their houses wero broken into
and robbed of jowolry and other ar
ticles of value. A nosso was inuned-
intnlv nririinizcd and went in pursuit.
and captured tho robbers a few miles
irom 1 no cuy.
Wm. Williams, second mate on
board tho British ship Othollo, on tho
vnvncu from Nowoastle-ou-Tyno lo
Sun Francisco, whilo aloft sendinn
down a signal to tho main top-gallant,
foil, and striking on tho main-rail
bounded overboard and was drowned
Whilo tho barkcopor of tho Foun
tain saloon at Fresno, Cal., was mak
inn nn his cash, preparatory to clos
ini? nn for tho nicht. two masked men
sprang in from tho roar of tho saloon,
and at tho point of pistols compolled
him to givo up tho contonts of his
Bafo, some $300. Tho robbors oscaped.
A darincr robbery was perpotnted
on Vells, Fargo Express Company, at
Los Angolos, Cal. Ono of tho treas
ure boxes whilo on a truck at tho
Southern Pacific depot, waiting for
the tram for Han Fraucuco, was un
locked. $1,230 in sold and silvor coin
taken, and tho box rolookod. Three
men havo boon arrostod on suspicion.
Small bovB nlavinir with flrecrack
era at Lodi. Gl.. cot firo to tho olllco
of tho Ixuli Nnct. Tho firo gained
such headway that before anything
could bo done tho otlico 01 the Lodi
AVu-j. tho San Joimuin bakery, a rosi
donco owned by J. Kevins, and tho
rtMhleiu'o of Dr. Grant woro entirely
destroyed. Tho loss is $5,000; insur
ance unknown.
AGRI6ULTURAL.
Devoted to the Interests of Farmers
and Stockmen,
To II urn Caterplllnr cnta.
Tho caterpillar that was to preval
ent in Oregon orcharda a few years
ago, have returned this year, and will
probably multiply for next year. rrol.
Riley, of the department of agricul
ture, says: Take a piece of soft brick
known as salmon brick, and trim it to
an 6gg shape ; then take two flexible
wires, cross them over the brick, wrap
them around it, and twist tho endB to
gether. Then attach it by tho wires
to a long stick, and soak tho brick in
coal oil ; light it with a match and
you are armed for tho work. Asbestos
may bo used to advantage, and a little
thorough work early enough in tho
Benson will obviate tho necessity of
more expensive remedies at a later
time. The soakinc in tho oil may bo
repeated as often as required to main
tain the 11 tme.
Peach trees that havo been annu
ally and heavily banked with wood
ashes to keep out tho borers havo been
moio free from yellows than those not
so protected.
Farmers' institutes have become an
institution in Wisconsin. Eighty-two
wero held last year in forty-five
counties, and 279 practical topics were
diseussed. Moro than 100 lecturers
and specialists impaired instruction,
and the State appropriated $12,000 to
help the farmers cauee along.
Severely cutting back the dead wood
on the peach trees will start them in
to new life. It the treo be dead at the
top, and tho wood near tho trunk
green, tlio new buds will soon give a
now top. By keeping all the injured
old wood cut away the tree will do
service much longer than is usually
the case with peach trees.
Both meadows and pastures re
quiro some looking after in tho spring
If there bo bare or weedy places throw
on a littlo seed. If tho pasture had
been seeded last spring and the
"catch" was not good it would bo
good plan to again go over tho whole,
giving seed as would neem to bo
needed.
Tho Blenheim pippin, is ono of the
finest applos in the world. It is good
not for one locality alone, but its con
stitutional vigor enables it to fruit
successfully in every diverse climates
and Boils. Tho apples aro perfect in
form, coloring and Bize, and of fine
fiavor.
After a cow has dropped her calf,
her system is always more or less fev
erish and tho milk correspondingly
unhealthful. It is strongly laxative
and therefore exactly fitted to too re
quirements of tho young calf, for
which naturo designed it. But it is
not safe to feed it to older stock, ex
cept with great caution. It will cause
abortion in cows heavy with pigs,
though these aro tho ones that inex
perienced farmers might think first
of favoring with it.
"That farm scone you seem to be
sneering at, sir," said tho indignant
artist, "is valued at $500. It is gener
ally considered a fine painting. Allow
mo to ask you if you are familiar with
works of art?" "Not very familiar,"
replied tho agriculturist, who was
looking through tho studio with his
wifo, "but I know something about tho
works of nature, young man, and
when you make a cow that gets up
from the ground by putting out her
forefeet first, you aro doing something
that nature never did."
A poultry an thorny pronounces a
cross between a Dominique cock and
Wyandotto hens to bo excellent for
producing first-class chicks foi broil
ers. As tho Dominique is of medium
size, an active cock can be mated with
twolvo or fourteen hens, and the quick
growth of tho Dominique, with tho
beautiful yellow logs, and compact,
plump appearance usual to tho Wyan
dotte, will bo secured. Half-breed
Wyandotto hens will answer all pur
poses whore the pure breeds are scarco,
but tho Doininiquo male must bo pure
breed.
Old straw stacks, eaten a fourth or a
third of tho way under, aro not infre
quent sights in barnyards at this sea
son of the year. Later on when the
dock is taking rofugo from a storm
under the ledges of theso traps, a
strong wind will topple them over, and
sometimes enough stock will bo killed
or crippled to knock tho profits out of
farming for a wholo year. Aside from
tlio danger of injury to stock, there
aro good reasons why theso unsightly
objectB should be torn down. The
Btraw which composes them will not
bo fit for food next winter. Tho best
thing that can bo ilono with it is to
turn it into manure as soon as possi
ble This can best and most effect
ually bo done by tearing them down,
and scattering tho straw thickly over
tho ground.
In relation to tho valuo of salt in
tho dairy tho correspondent of an ex
change says : A Wisconsin dairyman
lately told mo ho milked soventeen
cows tho past soason, and early in tho
Bummor ran out of Bait, and having
road in ah agricultural paper that cow
do just aB well without Bait ho neg
lected to get another barrel. Tho
drouth camo, tho milk-flow dropped to
about 200 pounds of milk a day, which
gave no profit, nor did it increase af
ter the pastures wero freshened by
rains. Ho bought a carload of mill
stuff and began feeding, but still re
ceived only 220 pounds of milk a day,
and several of tho cows would hold up
their milk onco or twice a week. Then
ho began to salt regularly ovory day,
and the increase was stoady until on
tho eamo feed they wero producing
3S0 pounds of milk a day, and in
stead of beingkept at a loss, yielded
a fair profit.
MARKET REPORT.
Sellable Quotations Carefully Eevised
Every Week.
WHEAT Valley. $1 20fl 22
Walla Walla, $1 12 1 16.
BARLEY Whole, $1 101.12A;
ground, per ton, 25 0027 50.
OATS Milling, 4243c. ; feed, 44
45c.
HAY Baled, $15 001G 00.
SEED Blue Grass, 14$16c. ; Tim
othy, 910c; Red Clover, 1415c.
FLOUR Patent. Roller, $4 00 ;
Country Brand, $3 75.
EGGS Per doz, 25c.
BUTTER Fancy roll, per pound.
2Gc. ; pickled, 1520c. ; inferior
grade, 1522.
CHEESE Eastern, lG20c; Ore
gon, 14lGc; California, 14c.
VEGETABLES Beets, ptr sack,
$1 50 ; cabbage, per lb., 2fc. ; carrots,
per sk., $1 25 ; lettuce, per doz. 20e. ;
onions, $1 00 ; potatoes, per 100 lbs.,
90c.$l; radishes, per doz., 1520c. ;
rhubarb, per lb., Gc.
HONEY In comb, per lb., 18c;
strained, 5 gal. tins, per lb. 8c.
POULTRY Chickens, per doz..
$2 505 50; ducks, per doz., $3 50
G 00; geese, $G 007 00; turkeys,
per lb., lG18c.
PROVISIONS Oregon hams, 12Jc
per lb.; Eastern, ldld$c. ; Eastern
breakfast bacon, 12Ae. per lb. ; Oregon
1012c. ; Eastern lard, 10lla. per
lb. ; Oregon, lOJc.
GREEN FRUITS Apples, $2 00
2 50; Sicily lemons. $b 507 00;
California, $3 505 00 ; Naval oranges
$6 00: Riverside, $4 00: Mediterra
nean, $4 25.
Viliuu aiiUlia Sun dried ap
ples, 7e. per lb. ; machine dried, 10
11c; pitiess plums, 13c,; Italian
prunes, 1014c. ; peaches, 1214c
raisins, $2 252 50.
WOOL Valley, 1718c: Eastern
Oregon. 915c.
HIDES Dry beef hides, 810c,
culls, 67!.; kip and calf, 8$10c,
Murrain, 10 12c; tallow, 33c.
LUMBER Rough, per M, $10 00;
edged, per M, $12 00; T. and G.
sheathing, per M, $13 00; No. 2 floor
mg. per Al, ifrlo UU; JNo. ceiling, per
M,$18 00; No. 2 rustic, per M, $18 00;
clear rough, per M, $20 00 ; clear 1J
S, per M, $22 50; No. 1 flooring, per
M, $22 50; No. 1 ceiling, per M,
$22 50.; No. 1 rustic, per M, $22 50 ;
stepping, per M, $25 00; over 12
inches wide, extra, $1 00 ; lengths 40
to 50, extra, $2 00; lengths 50 to 60,
extra, $4 00; 1 lath, per M, $2 25;
l4 lath, per M, $2 50.
BEANS Quote small whites, $4 50;
pinks, $3; bayos, $3; butter, $4 50;
Linias, $4 50 por cental.
MEA P Beef, wholesale, 33c. ;
dressed, 7c. ; sheen, 3c; dre-ced, Gc;
hogs, dressed, 77e. ; veal, 78c.
COFFEE Quote Salvador, 17o;
Costa Rica, 1820c; Rio, 1820c;
Java, 27c; Arbuckle's's reostcd,22u.
SAL'P Liverpool grades of fine
quoted $18, $19 and $20 for the three
sizes ; stock salt, $10.
PICKLES Kegs quoted steady at
$1 35.
SUGAR Prices for barrels ; Golden
C.GJc; extra C,6c. ; dry granulated,
7i;. ; crushed, fine crushed, cube and
powdered, 8 c ; extra C, 5c; halves
and boxes, c. higher.
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
A Baptismal garment known to
bo ono hundred and thirty-three years"
old is in uso at Pekin, III
It is a somowhat singular fact that
of all the Christina nations tho United
Stales of America aro alono repre
sented by Protestant Christian mis
sions in Porsia.
Tho total numbor of chapels and
preaching stations in England and
Wales in connection with tho Welsh
Presbyterian ehuroli, commonly called
Calvauistic Mothodists, is 1,394.
ltov. Bartholomew Edwards, rector
of Ashill, Norfolk, is tho oldest clergy
man in England. lie has just com
pleted his ono hundredth year, and has
been rector of Ashill sovonty-fivo
years.
In thodiocosoof London (Anglican
church), with a population of 3,000,
000, thoro wero 81,891 bastisms tho
past year. Tho wholo number of
births was, it is estimated, about
98,000.
Fobruary 22 is Arbor Day in Ala
bama, when overy pupil of the public
schools is expected to plant a treo.
Tho day is niemorablo as tho birthday
of ono who cut down his fathor's cherry
treo when a boy.
Tho now Congrogational Manual
of Great Britain show? that there are
4.338 Congrogatiol rUurches in En
gland and Wales, wiu 1.C25.600 sit
tings. Thero aro also 141 chuiches in
Scotland and Ireland.
Pero Hyacinth said lately that if
tho Church of Romo would givo up in
fallibility, allow priests to marry, and
render oonfesslon voluntary, it would
rally to its side "all tho dissenters and
all tho lukewarm."
A new UiKiuiauqua lias been com
menced near Niagara Town, about
seven miles from thn falls. About one
hundred lots have 4jeon laid out for
building purposes, sovoral of which
havo boon taken and cottages erected.
A vory superior assembly room has
been built, and a hotel has also been
erected.
Tho directors aro sanguine
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that Xia
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..m...r. .u.u ... UI.IOUU
bo a Chautauqua on a small scale.
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FETISH WORSHIP.
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or tho Dark Continent.
Tho African believes that thoro aro
everywhere ovil spirits who are amen
able to charms or incantations or, as
he calls them, "fetishes," and that con
tain unknown or half-known persons
whom ho callas wizards aro acquainted
vith theso charms and uso their occult
knowlcdgo for nefarious purposes. Ho
believes further that certain other per
sons aro gifted with tho power of track
ing or "smelling out" tho offenders
So universal is this boliof that almost
every villago of pagan Afr.ca. partic
ularly toward tho west coast, has its
fetish house, a grim and ghastly build
ing, often ranged round with human
skulls in every stage of decomposition.
nd a fetish man, who is its high priest.
No human being, surely, ever had a
more terrific power committed to him.
ind few have used it moro unsp inngiy
or unscrupulously. Tho fotish man is
bound by 110 law; ho recognizes no
rules of evidence Any thing which
happens, even in the most ordinary
course of nature, ho may pronounce
to ho the work of a fetish, or a wizard.
and to need his assistance to ferret it
out. A heavy rainfall or drought, a
murra n among tho cattle, a pestilcnco
or a continuation, a child devoured by
a wild animal, an illness or a death
each and all of theso may be pronounc
ed to bo "fetish" somebody has done
it, and ho must bo detected. So pos
sessed aro tho natives by
this belief, it so forms part of
their being, that it never occurs to any
of them, though ho knows his own turn
may come next, to question tho reality
of this uncanny power; and, in tho
panic terror of this fetish man and hi
decisions tho negro los( s for a time
301110 of his most essential and amiable
characteristics, his frivolity, his light
hoai tedness; even his family affection.
A son will join in putting his father
death; a brother will help to tear in
pieces a brother. If tho accused dare
to deny the charge which he seldom
docs, however preposterous or impossi
ble it may be ho has to submit to some
terrible ordeal, such as tho running at
full speed under an avenuo of hooped
arches about half his height, when, if
he stumbles, or-rather, as soon as he
stumbles, he is hacked to death; or the
drinking of somo deadly decoction,
such as tho casea bark, when his ono
chaneo of escape is handsomely to
bribe the fetish man to givo him the ex
act quantity or qu ility which will make
him desperately sick, before the poison
has well bo.uu its deadly work. In
Ashantco and Dahomey, at Bonny anil
Calabar, in the Fan country and
throughout Angola this terrible boliof
prevails, and, as may well bo im
agined, it ramifies out into every kind
of villainy ami crime. Nineteenth Cen
tury. ALGERIAN 'CHILDREN.
Tho Most I'romlnpnt IVnturo of Internet
in North Afrlt-nii Oltlr.
I must again refer to tho children,,
for this street was teeming with littlo
Tlemcenites who had never left, and
probably never would leave, their na
tive town. Tho boys, when running
about, wear nothing but a long, whito
chemise and dark blue vest, but of all
bewitching creatures in the world tho
little girls can scarcely bo surpassed.
They aro everywhere, and must strike
stranger, certainly an artist, as a.
prominent feature of interest. Somo
aro going to tlio baker's carrying un
baked loaves piled on a plank on tho
head; others with littlo brass-bound
buckets lir mining with milk; singly, in
crowds, ahva s fascinating; not only
pretty, but arrayed in an inlinito vari
ety of costumes they dart from shadow
into sunlight, and disappear in a twink
ling round a epinor or through a door
way. 'They wear, first, a white chemise
with gauze sleeves, over it a gandoura.
or chemise without sleeves, and reach
ing nearly to tho ankles, usually of
prii-ted calico, glaring in color, and
with spots, stripes, birds, branches and
leaves; this gandoura is sometimes of
rich brocade or light silk. Over tlio first
they often wear a second gandoura of
tullo with a design in it, ordina
rily nothing moro nor less than com
mon white lace curtain stulV. All tlio
materials hang limp and Hotter when
they run; round tho waist n broad
ceinturc, and over tho shouldersa littlo
bodice. On tlio head a conical cap,
always of crimson volvot, moro or less
ornamented with gold thread; children
and unmarried girls wear them with a
strap under tho chin; married women
tin them on with a colored handker
chief besides tho strap. Their hair is
fringed square, just over tho oyobrows,
and plaited down tlio hack. Tlio opera
tion of dyo'ng it dark brownish wine
color requires several days, during
which time thoy appear certainly at a
disadvantage, ilonua is mado into a
mushy paste and plastered all over tho
head, as much as the hair, being tied
up all over, can hold in place and
even more, for it runs down tho neck,
tho cheeks, and into tho ears. Tho
process gives som what tho appear
ance of a head modeled in wax with
tho hair studied in masses. Tho palms
of tho hands, fingers, and tho feet and
toes, aro also stained. F. A. JJridg
man, in IJarjtr'a Magazine.
To know what you prefer, instead
of humbly saying anion to what tho
world tolls you you ought to prefor, id""
to havo kept your soul alive. Such a
man may bo gonerous; ho may bo hon
est In something moro than a com
mercial sense-, ho may lovo his friends
with an electlvo personal sympathy,
anil not neetptihein as an adjunct of
tho station to which ho has boon called.
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his own instincts, keeping in his own
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