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UNION, OREGON.
ELECTRICAL
PROGRESS.
Made
Scientific) nml rrnctlc.il A'lvnnciM
During t'lo I'ast Year.
juucu yot romtilns to bo nccom-
plishod in electric condition but the
groat pains of tlio closing yoar, tech
nical and commercial, uro abundantly
nppnront.
Iho rtto nt wliich olcctrlo motors
Tiavo boon installed for Btatlonary
"power is scarcely loss notlcoablo thun
tlio development of olcctrlo traction
during tlio year. About tlio first of
September it was cstimntcd that 0,000
electric motors wcro driving- mnohin
ory in tho United States. A thousand
havo probably been added since. It
scorns reasonable to estimate the num
nor put in operation for tho year at
not much less than 4,000.
Tho uso of tho storago battery as a
means of distribution may fairly bo
said to havo mado relatively slow ad
vancomont, whilo in many special cases
lis employment has been of great v til no
nnd importance. Its problems havo
hsid and continue to enlist tho closo at
tention and skill of many able in
vosiigaior3 anu inventors, ana it can
not bo doubted that tho modern sue
coss thus far attained by this obvious
ly important and necessary means of
distributing electricity will bo followed
not long honco by such improvements
ns will mnko tho accumulator a general
nnd trustworthy instrument in olec
trlcal engineering.
Iho oloctrle light, arc and inenn
doscont, has becomo so familiar to
ovory body, oven In tho far Western
Territories, that its continued rapid
Bprcad no longer attracts attention. It
is oxpoctcd ovorywhoro; its absonco in
nny considerable town is more noticed
than its presonco. Groat activity in
tho installation of central station plants
lias provnlled during the year, especial
ly In ineandoscont lighting. Tho suc
cess of tho alternating current method
of distribution in covering largo areas
of rolatlvely sparso consumption has
largely stimulated tho demand for
oloctrle lighting in tho smaller towns
of tho country, and has also con
trlbuted not a littlo toward in
citing tho companies whoso businoss
is based upon other mothods of dtetrl
oution to improving tho capacity of
their apparatus and tho sorvloonblo-
noss of their lamps. Tho life of lamps
lias boon materially prolonged, whilo
a reduction has boon effected in tho
amount of onorgy requlrod por candlo
power. Whatovor may bouthought of
tho policy of competition in prices,
thero can bo no question of tho gonor
at beuellt of competition in the olll
cioney and trustworthiness of appara
tus and lamps. Competition of tho
formor kind, whilo sovoro, has crip
plod only tho weak, while that of tho
latter sort has rosultod in advantngo
to both producers and consumers.
Tho practical success of tho employ
raont of alternating currents has ro
noted in tho laboratories of belontillo
research, and led to tho study of now
questions, or old questions in a now
light study and experiment which
liavo already dono much to clear tho
path of tho practical oloctrlolan In his
work, and which indlcato tho early ac
quisition of furthor electrical knowl
edgo of groat slgnlllcanco.
Tho year's solontillo and practical
auvanoos nro groat enough lor con
gratulation, but not groat enough to
induce complacent satisfaction and ro
luxation of effort. Electrical Engineer.
A HARMLESS TALE.
How lloimrit Oulotml t In, .JuvimiIIo l'or
tloii or tlio I'orUInx lloiixuliulil.
"Uomonihor, Houora," said Mrs.
Perkins to tho now nurao girl, "that I
do not allow tho children to hoar
stories that might frlghton thorn when
they go to bod. You may toll thoni
ubout birds and harmless Utile fairy
stories, hut nothing about boars or
lions."
"Yin, mom," replied llonora. and
this was tho harmless littlo story bIio
told that night:
"Wnnst tlioro wuz. a gr-r-r-eat big
inonsthor of mi animal wld horns an' a
tall of hot Uro an' tooth a yard
long that wlnt around in tho
dead of tho nolght ntln up
littlo byes tin' glrruls that boddored
their inirso nskin' hor to got up uu'
glvo thorn wather in tho nolght an' tell
In1 how sho lift tho baby for a wurrud
wld tho porlaco-inlno In tho parruk
and lltlo things lolko that. An' this
tor-r-rlblo big inonsthor could go
rolght through solid walls, niolnd yoo.,
im' he'd ato yooz up 'fora Ji:. could
Hcriuno out. Now cuddle up an' go to
Blupo llko good byes an' glrruls ov ho'll
bo aflhor yeoz av yoo. hay u wurrud.
Molnd that. Sthop yerHlilvortu1 now,
llirdlo; an1 phwnt do yoo. mano by
chatterin1 yor tooth lolko that, WillloP
To slapo wld yoo. or yooss'll bo ato up
tho miiilt I takes tho light ouL"
2Ywe.
Addltbnftil Appropriations in tho Naval
BUI A Constitutional Govern
raont for Samoa Sowoll to
bo Roliovod as Consul,
Tho IIouso public lands committei
huvo recommended Inciter rules of pay
to eurveyors in exceptional instances
Senator Mitchell has introduced
mil to establish u port of entry at
Blaine, W. T.
Senator Stowort, of Virginia, has
presented a petition for tho restora'
tion of silver to its place as a co-tqual
measure of vah.o with gold.
Tho Liberal members of Purlin
mcnt at Ottawa, Canada, have decided
to contiinio tho present policy, which
favors unrestricted icciprocity with
the United States'.
Tlio benato committee on woman
suffrage has repotted favorably on the
joint resolution proposing a constttu
tional nniondnicnt to prohibit Ihe de
nial of the riyht to vole by the Unilei!
Stutes, or any State, on account of sex
Tho President has mado tho fol
lowing nominations: C. D. Wright, oj
Massachusetts, commissioner of labor;
Thomas M. Vance, of North Carolina,
receiver ot public niones, at JNorlli
Yakima, W. T.
Tho survey of tlio lands in the Um
atilla Indian reservation is to be nutde
before they aro effercd for sale. The
fecrctary of tho interior holds tint
they must first bo inspected, and an
order to this ciToct has already been
issued.
A Congressional committee lias
been examining tho construction of
tho Washington aqueduct tunnel, and
have concluded to order the entire
lining of the tunnel replaced at the
oxnonso of tho contractors, nearly
$500,000.
Secretary Bayard mggests a very
good schenio of wonstitutional govern
ment for Samoa, with a native legis
lature, securing its independence and
luitonomy, including tho acknowledge
ment of Malic ton as king and Tama-
stso as vice-king.
A bill has beon favorably roported
in both llousf's of Congress to plitco
Gun. W. S. ltosccr.ms on tho retired
list of tho army, llo is at presou reg
ister of the treasury. If tlio. bill be
como a law ho will receive retired pay
at the ralo of $1000 per annum.
Tlioro is an outspoken sontiment
among tho Republican Senators and
Republicans ni tho House, that a cini
pleto ch iingo bo made in tho civil
sorvico commission, and the commis
sion lor uio JJisirict ot uoiumoin.
There is not a Itopublican on either
board.
Tho Senate coniinitteo on military
afiuird has ordored a favorable report
upon tho proposition to present lurs
Irono Kuckor Sheridan with $50,000
in token of tho country's appreciation
of tho sorvicos rendered by hor bus
baud, Gon. Phil II. Sheridan. This is
urged in lieu of n pension.
In view of tho insufiicient ovidonno
produced to support tho charges made
by Representative Steel, of Indiana
against Judge Bond, of Arizona, as a
basis for impeachment proceedings,
tho IIouso committee on judiciary
has declined to outer upon considora
tion of tho case at present.
Tlioro is a vory loud call for Con
grcssinan JJiockinridgo, ot Arkansas
to resign his scat in the next Con
grcss and ask lor a new election, on
account of Clayton's assassination
and many of his friends aro advising
lnin to do bo. They insist that this is
tho only way that ho can clear him
solf from the suspicion of sharing in
tho results of tho assassination.
Hecrotary intnoy lias issued an
important order regarding tho naval
records of tho war of the rebellion. It
has been found on examining the pa
pcis on illo in tho navy department,
that almost tho only ones thore, aro
those addrosBod dirootly to the depart
mnnt. llo desires certified copies of
all orders to ollicers and war memo
randa to bo forwarded to tlio war de
partment.
Superintendent Thorn, of tho coiiBt
WORKMAN'S DISCOVERY
RICH TREASURE TROVE.
OF
REMARKABLE BILLS INTRODUCED
INTO STATE LEGISLATURES.
Clevpr Sneak Thieves at Work In San
FrancliJbo A Flvo and a Quar
ter Million Mortgage Tho
Quakotn California.
Tho Eccentric Will of a New York Ped
agogueThe Ghastly Crime of a
Philadelphia Street-c r Em
ployee Cold Waves.
Sacramento is overrun with thieves.
In Ventura, Cal., flowers are bloom
ing prematurely
Herring are ciught in largo num
bers in Humboldt bay.
The Gnrney cab system has been
introduced into San Diego.
Smi Jones has r-ompleted his revi
val meetings at Los Angt-les.
The lumber mills of Olympia are
pushed to their utmost capacity.
It is now unlawful to sell u'oxicat-
ing liquors to a woman in Nevada.
.higlity-uvo boxes of opium were
seizwd at San Luis Obispo, recently.
Ho immediate trounlo is appre
hended with the Indians near Bridge
port, Mono county.
It is believed that tho voters of Ne
vada will defeat the lottery amend
ment to the constitution.
A scarlot geranium loaf in Tulare
county, Cal., measured forty-seven
inches in circumference.
Tho asseRsmcnt roll of Vancouver
for 18F9 shosvs an increase of 90 per
cent over that of last year.
The cold weather at Los Angeles has
injured the ostrich-farm eggs that
wero intended for hatching.
Since electric lights were introduced
at Willows, Cal., not a wild gooso bus
been seen to fly over the town.
Georgo Hopper, of Los Angeles, a
An exodus of negro laborers from
South Carolina is now in progress.
President Cleveland will practice
law in New York city after March 4.
The new union depot at Pueblo,
Col , will cost between $200,000 and
$300,000.
The Kansas legislature lias passed
a bill rep tricting tho ownership of land
in that Mate
Wisconsin lumbermen are up in
arms at an order forbidding logging
in certain districts.
The Dakota legisl turo has passed
a law taxing railroad property tho
same as other property.
The bill to provide for inflicting the
death sentence by electricity has
passed the Ohio senate.
i our Chinamen were scalded to
death by a GeVBer at Canvou Citv.
near l ellowstone Park, last week.
The post-mortem medical report in
the case of Crown Prince Itudolph,
bHb at rest the rumors of his murder.
Dr. E. A. Kelley, superintendent of
tho State Insane asylum at Norfolk,
Neb., has besn arrested on a charge of
murder.
Ohio and Kentucky tobacco grow
ers havo agtced to raise twenty-five
per jetit less tobacco next season than
the last.
It is said that Secretary Bayard has
STRAW AS A MATERIAL FOR SUB
STANTIAL STOCK SHELTERS.
A Good Idea for a Hoist for a Barn The
Treatment that Should be Given
to Fowls Receipt for De
stroying tho Woovli.
.11,8, it ..,,i ii- , i.,.. f ..
well known mining man, is the latest "onl"' lT
su MUliui lllls KJ 111 Willi
victim of the gold brick swindle.
Several earthquako shocks are re
ported to havo occurred at San Ber
nardino, Co'ton and Los Angeles.
Tl)t poslolnco autlionties are nego
tiating for the purpose of dispatching
the mail by tho Golden Gate special.
Tho deposit of slickens in tho Spo
kane river has alarmed tho people of
Spokane Falls as to their future water
supply.
A San Diego man has planted ten
acres in mulberry trees, preparatory
to going into tlio business ot raising
Bilk-worms
At, Itincon.Cal., a thief had thirteen
bullets put into his bodv while run
ning from a party ef cow-boys who
wcro after linn.
Petaluma has niemoralizcd tho leg
iBlaturo of California to pass a law
making it unlawful to kill larks, rob
ins or blackbirds
Tho bill introduced into tho Nova-
da legislature restricting tho wearing
ot high hats in theaters, has beon do
feated in the upper house
J. F. Glennon, the San Francisco
Thoy Both Camped Out.
How did you spend tho last sinn
mor?" asked ouo traveling man of an
other whom ho had not seun for some
time.
Oh, I hud a flno time. Never en
joyod myself inoro in my llfo."
What did you doP"
I was camping out among tho
northern lakes. What did you doP"
I did considerable cuuir layout my
elf." "Whereabout P"
'On the rout door atop my wlta
woulda't lot mo In."-
and geodetic survey, has submitted
an estimate for an additional appro
priation of $UGS0, which ho Bays is
necessary to maku the repairs on the
United tatates coast and geodetic sur
vey Bteanior iUoAilhur, now at ban
Francisco, to put it in condition for
tho work oil' the coast of Washington
Territory and Oregon tho coming boh-bod.
It is announced that the recall of
American Consul General Sowoll from
Samoa, has created an excellent feel
ing in Berlin. Tho Gorman papors
urge tho necessity for tho recall of tho
English consul also, alleging that he
contributed largely to tho trouble.
Tho three powers might then no rep
resented by other tiustworthy agents,
who would assist m bringing about a
friendly settlement.
Heavy additions have beon made to
the naval bill. The construction of
two steel gun-boats, or eruisors, is pro
vided for, to bo of from 8000 to 12,000
tons displacement, and to cost not
more than $700,000; also, one steel
cruiser of 2000 tons displacement, to
coat $700,000. An appropriation is
also made- for one ram for harbor de
fense, in accordance with the pinna
prepared by tho naval advisory board
of 1881. In order Hint tho vessels
may bo speedily built, tho appropria
tion for stool machinery ia increased
by $1,500,00, and that for armament
by $1,100,000. All tho now vessel
are to bo lighted by olootrity, ami $(0, j
000 It) appropriated for that purpose.
question.
A very largo meteor fell in Chicago
last week. It burst into many nieces
and tpecimens havo been picked up
for analysis.
Canada is making an effort to se
cure independence of all lines of tr.if-
lie pa-aing through any portion of the
United States.
Tho Trades assembly at Chicago at
a mass-meeting has demanded the re
moval of Police Inspector Bonfield and
Captain Schaak.
Tho cold wave and blizzard through
out Canada is intense, the thermome
ter registering in many places forty
degrees below zero,
Tho supreme court at Washington
has lately decided the law constitu
tional which prohibits ranchmen from
fencing any of the public domain.
At Marion, Indiana, an outbreak
was prevented among tobacco strip
pers and etenimers owing to tho im
portation of negroes to do the work.
Some of tho Canadians not only
want annexation for their own coun-
policeman who attempted to murder try to the United States, but want to
Wilho Burko, has been found guilty havo Mexico annexed on the south.
of assault to commit murder. ,i,i.a i:,i. i f
It is reported that the O. It. and N. fered a reward of jfefiOO for f lu, !irr,.,t.
will commence construction in the and conviction of the thieves who
spring on a lino trom La Urundo to stole the ballot-box and noil-book last
November.
Joseph, in tho Wallowa valley.
Tho young and dashing-looking
Spaniard, who has been swindling a
number of San Iraucisco hrms by
means of bogus bank checks, has been
arrosted.
Tho wolves, it is said, aro makitnr
things deadly lively in some districts
in Montana, killing colts and steers.
and in sonio instances pursuing hu
man beings.
Hartiin lager, treasurer oi ban a bill has passed the Indiana Sen
wwumj ouiviu iouu, yiib juo ueciankg unlawful all trusts,
found dead recently. Ho was known nools. airreomoiitH nnd inml.int.ii,nu
as "honest old Hardin." and was be- hn restraint of trade, production, man-
loved by all who knew him,
Tho people of Santa Fo aro indig
nant that a petition should have gono
to Washington from Albuquerque ask
ing that New Mexico should not be
admitted into tho Union
Tho parents of Alexander Goldon-
son, the slayer ol Alumio Jvelly, li.ivf
instituted suit for tho po.'-session of 101
pictures painted by him dining his
ufaoture or sale. Tho IIouso will also
puss tho bill.
Inspector Bjufield, Cantaiu Schaak
and Detective Lowenotein, prominent
in tho trial at Chicago of tho anarch
ists, have been indi finitely susj ended
from tho police forco pending charex's
of corruption.
Tlio report that General Boulanger
was to nave been arrested at tho insti
oonflnoniont in tho San Francisco jail, gation of tho government ministers on
A first niortcaco for $5,250,000 has luo 'S"t of his olection from tho dc
boon filed in San Diego by represent- Pnnmt ol tho Seine, proves to bo
ntivni nl Mm Mrniiti1ii 'IViihI. nnin. UHIOUlUHHl.
f XT "T .1 . t
1 ' J . 1 ' v' tt , I MMn I. men. ml nHnn,
lTy i yv&u, com (nr ... I'll I1, lll,l,i alint A titiii
IvlailS. II VOlllltr I? I rl Who hnhnvr.il him
At Urass Valluy, last 'lliursday, as Binirle. Hothnn rntnmoil t hi h,w.,
a cji f .i... xt ..i. . . .. . . l """""
aiipuiiiiiumiuiii, nhun-uci, ui uiu iiurui out ins wilt) s throat and ended his
uannor mine, was going to town lie own life at the approach of ofiicors.
was stopped on tho road by two
masked men and relieved nf thr,-., um ",, introduced ill
thiHinaml dollar' wnri.h nf bullion. the 1 ennsylvauia legislature prohibit
f t v u.. lnK treating, and making it a penal
in uiDk v unmiuiv, u. ji. Jim- ,., ..,'J,..I.I I n.... -Tt
1.... .... 1 l.:..l.l.. 1 !, "V" imuiiciiu'iu uj uiiu ui uui
rim nf Mmlu Dp wiim inut.i.illv t-il n.l -. . , .....
..........v onoto treat iinothor to
tr vnu iuii uiuumuk uiib ui a uuuu
spruce and striking him on the head.
Sam Poster was also struck and his
recovery is doubtful.
Two unknown nion ontorod tho of.
lico of F. ltoichling, at San Francisco,
Friday last, nnd whilo ono ongaged
the attention of tho clerk, the other
succeeding in gaining possession of a
bar of geld bullion, valued tit $ 1000.
The theft was not discovered for two
hours after they had disappeared.
It is roported that while excavating
rocontly north ol Ponawawa, a work
man unearthed n cannon and a lot of
ammunition which had beon buried
in boxes; also n lot of silver coin, in
rotten buck-skin sucks. Tradition al
leges that Stoptoe, on Iub rotroat from
tho Palousa country in 1851, buried
the material at that placo.
A clever piceo of burglary was exe
cuted in a shoo store last Thursday,
at San Francisco, by thro biuiiII boys.
Tho eldest of the trio prot&ided to
purchase a pair of slippers, whilo the
.voiuigost engaged in a romp with tho
oat until he got near tho wife, which
stood partially ajar, when slipping his J
Hand uirougii lie grasped a buck con
tuiug $210 in gold and the three cool
Jy walked away.
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liquors.
Twenty-four persons, mostly all
children, havo died, recently, in Wob-
ster county, Kentucky, of a disease
with which the doctors appear to bo
unable to cope. Tho doaths usually
occur from six to twolvo hours after
the attack.
M. W. Morriam, an eccontric Suf
folk county, N. Y school-master, has
willed his property in bulk to tho Unit
ed States government. Ono of his rea
sons was tho government was rich
and could tight his sister if she at
tempted to contest tho will. JIo was
worth $100,000.
It is proposed by the people of Mon
tana to olect two Senators, to go to
Washington in tho intoroat of tho
Territory, and to urgo its inimediato
admission into tho Union.
Mr. and Mr. James Olson, with
thoir three children, wero drowned in
the Missouri riverat Ilismark recently
when tho ico broke. Tho horse,
wagon and its occupants wero all lost.
Major Stewart, of Austin, Texas, is
in Amv i ork in the interest of a na
tional home for ex-Confederate soldiers.
The longer turnips and cabbages
can remain out without actually
freezing, the better they are for eat
ing purposes and the better thpy will
keep through the winter.
Economy is certainly wealth in the
feeding of farm horses, and yet it does
not necessarily mean stinting or cut
ting off of rations. Give this matter
a thorough investigation, and see if
there is not more in it than a SHper
licial glance would indicate.
Corn meal in small quantities, lin
seed meal in small quantities, and a
liberal quantity of good bran meal
with the roughness, will make an ad
mirable winter feed for milch cows,
and if given liherallv, with good shel
ter, it is possiblo to secure a good How
of milk during the winter; provided,
of course, that you have a good breed
of cows, that this feed can be given to
uuring the winter.
By pouring boiling water over nny
kind of grain, and allowing the grain
to remain twenty-four hours, it will
swell and prove an acceptable change
to the fowls. The soaked grain un
dergoes a partial chemical change,
contains a slightly larger portion of
sugar, and is really more digestible.
Nothing is added to the grain by soak
ing it, but it will be more readily
eaten for some time than dry grain,
though the birds will return to dry
grain as a preference if fed too long
on that which is soaked.
A correspondent of the Now Eng
land Fanner gives the following direc
tions for destroying the potato weevil :
Take an ordinary manuie hod, one
that ie broad and light is to bo pre
ferred, and grasping it by the hole
for the left hand near the mouth of
the hod, with a broad and limber
broom carried wfth tho right hand,
pioceed through the field, placing the
hod against vines infested with grubs
and gently beating or sweeping them
over the edge of tho hod and into it
with the broom. In this way a great,
majority of all the grubs in a small
poiaio paicn may no garnered in a
short time and destroyed. This may
be of service, especially in cases where
there are objections to the use of pois
ons offered in the markets. A little
practice will enable a person to do ex
ecution with the above implements
with considerable dispatch.
Stra.w as a material for stock shel
ters have favorable qualities: It is a
very poor conductor of heat, hence it
makes a warm shelter. It costs little,
being produced in abundance on a
largo majority of farms; and its em
ployment for this purpose does not
require ppecial skill beyond tho farm
er. But it is not ae economical as
many eupposo. it is as necessary
that the top of the shelter bo water
light as that the sides bo wind tight
even more important. A straw roof
can bo kept lain and snow proof only
by frequont repairings. Straw is not
a durable material and a straw shelter
is not loug-iiveu. in many cases
where straw shelters aro now used, a
proper computation would show lum
ber to be more economical ; and as it
is usually cheaper to paint lumber
than not to do bo, the cheapest shel
ter would be a neat, substantial paint
e one.
One of my neighbors had a fine pen
of fowls; had had thorn confined in a
small, dark house, with no run at
tached, and I suppose all the corn
thoy could eat, as thoy wero very fat
when J purcna?ett them. My neiul
bor said ho was sick and tired of them
i .. .i .
uu uumauu ior eggs ami no eirirs
could never make a living raising ian
cy fowls. I was not suitably fixed for
tiiKing another breed, but as I got
them for $1 each, about one-tenth
their value, 1 bought them and took
them homo, intending to do tho best
possible by them, considering tho con
veniences at baud. look two order
for eggs before driving home. I placed
them in a small home with a 16xl(J
foot run. As I said before thov were
very fat. My first move was to seo
that they had plenty of exercise, and
tuerooy redueo them in flesh. I dt
vided a portion of their run off and
put in about one foot of straw, and
inoy nan to scratch for a living. It
was not very lone; until thov worn
shelling out eggs to theirfull capacity
Poultry Keeper.
A good idoa for a hoist for a barn
is to erect two upright posts six inches
tquaro and lirnily fastoned in tho up
per part of the building, ouo on either
siilo of tho hatchway. Strong iron or
woodon boxes attached to these posts
support tlio journal of a round shaft
ono foot in diameter, upon which is a
wooden wheel four to six feet in diam
eter. 1 he larger bizo gives increased
power, but for ordinary lifting four
leet is large oiiouch. Tho wheel s
nuiilo of eight BOgniunts cut from two-
inch plank, each ouo beitnr a nuarter
of a circlo. They are put together
wun upiKes or bolts m a niainior to
"break joints." Before boing fastened
together tho segments aro notched to
receivo tho ends of tho four arms,
which are also made of two-inch
plank, halved together at tho center
oi the wheel. Tho short end of tho
shaft, as far as tho wheel goes on, is
Bhaiied to fit tho square hole in the
center of tho wheel. Long iron
sjtikea aro driven and a groove turned
in tho outer periphery of the wheel to
keep tho rope from slipping off. Tho
hoist rope is firmly attached to tlio
Bhaft upon which it is coiled by the
revolution, of tho wheel.
GROCEKIES-Sugnrs. We quotcGofden
C 6Jc, extra O 5)c. confectioners' A 0c,
fry Knmulated cfc, cube, crushed and
powdered 7c. Colle'8 Java ioc, Rio 20jc,
ArbuckleV roasted 2Hc.
PROVISIONS Oregon h-ms are qnot
vd at 12 13lc, breakfast bacon 13c,
Eastern mnt Isqnoted as fololws: Hams
l'-'J"' 13', Sinclalrs 14 )5c, Oregon break
fast b con 13c, Kantern 13fc13 c.
FRUITS .Apples $101.35. California
oranRes $34. .0 lemon i $0, bananas
$3.50... 4.50.
VPGKTARLE1? Cabbage c per IT,
celery 8H"85c per doz bunches, carrots
and turnip He per sack, onions 70 . 7cc,
potatoes3 40e jkt Back.
DR'ED FRUITS Sun-dried apples 5c,
sllc d 11' c, Oregon prune H47c, Italian
0.', Calif irnla French 8 " lPc, peoclie- 8(S
10c pears 8 Pc, Call omla flg8c, raMna
31.75 a li per box.
DAIRY PRODUCE Oregon creamery
and choice dairy 25n, medium 0c Cal
ifornia fancy S5c. choice dairy 2.
EGGS-Oregon 23c.
POULTRY Chickens $f, ducks 87.50,
cesse 10, turkeys 14c.
WOOL-Valluv 1820c Eastern Oregon
8(a Inc.
IIOI'S-Cliolcc 8314c.
GRALV-Valley 61.?.7J(ai.30, Eastern
Oregon $1.22U1.35. Oat3i iS3Jc.
F. OUR-Staudard 84.50, otiier brands
?4.
FRPSII MEATS Beef, live, 313Jc.
dressed 7c, mutton, live. 3p"3 c, dressed
7 lambs ?2.f.O each, hog-, live, oJc-Oc,
dressed 7(a,7J, veal 0 8c.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.
Good intentions are, nt least, tho
Bced of good actions; and every man
ought to sow them. Sir W. Temple.
It is estimated there aro now in
Europo, Asia, tho United States and
Canada about fifty institutions for tho
education of feeble-minded childron.
No man in daily lifo ought to bo
satisfied with what his lifo now is. Ho
ought every day to bo looking forward
to somo of thb possible improvements.
E. E. Hale.
It is easy to slip into a stato of
spiritual coldness and indifference.
Tho temptation .to it is ono that is al
ways with us. Once in it, how hard to
got out of it! United Presbyterian.
Rock ford Seminary, at Rockford,
111., has established night schools for
tho working girls of tho city. Tho fac
ulty will overseo tho work, and tlio
students of tho sominary will assist in
tho teaching.
I still boliovo that life U tho most
frivolous of things, unless it is regard
ed as ono great and constant duty. Lifo
is only of valuo by devotion to what is
truo and good. Tho aim of a lifo worth
living should be ideal and unsolfish.
Ernest Jlcnan.
An aged man, who had lived moro
than threescore years and ton, upon
boing informed by his physicians .that
ho had but a few hours to live, replied:
"Is that so? Then death has como too
soon for mo. I am not ready for it"
What a molnnoholy confession with
which to closo up this life, and enter
upon the realities of tho one to come!
N. Y. lndtpcndcnt.
"For general improvement," says
Dr. Johnson, "a man should read what
ever his inimediato inclination prompts
him to; though, to bo sure, if a man has
n seienco to learn, ho must regularly
nnd resolutely advance. What wo read
with inclination makes a strongor im
pression. If we read without inclina
tion, half tho mind is employed in fix
ing tho nttention, so thero is but half to
be employed on what wo read."
President Adams, of Cornell Uni
versity, in a recent address advised
students "not to rely on professors to
do your work. Don't lessen individual
effort. Herein is tho success of solf
inado men. Tho men whom tho world
wants nro those who do better than is
expected of them. Sometimes thoy nro
without a collego education; aro such
mon as Franklin and Lincoln, who got
a real liberal education and becomo
monarchs in tho domain of though."
Wore wo as cloquont as angols, yot
should wo please some men. somo wo
mon and some children much moro by
listoning than by talking. lolton.
It's bottah tor hub a green patch on
do basomon' o' yo ynller pants dan tor
sport seven dollah trousnhs an' hah tor
do do sneak act ob'ry time yo seo yo
tailor. Uncle J'ele.
It is by plodding steadily along,
day in and day out, that wo uehiovo our
succ3ot. Thoy who mako their gains
athorwiso ro eccentricities, and not fit,
therefore, to bo takon ns oxamples.
Against pnrsimony nnd niggardli
ness 1 proclaim war; but with tho sumo
sontonco I condemn thoso who mako a
grand splash whilo thoy live, leaving
their families in destitution when thoy
dio. Talmanc.
If ridiculo wero employed to Inutrh
mon out of vlco and folly, It mi"ht bo
of some uso; but it is mado uso of to
laugh mon out of virtuo nnd good sonso,
by attacking ovory thincr solemn and
serious. Addison.
Thero is nothlncr moro disannolnt-
ing to tho generous man than tho wav
In which his nbsoluto frankness is mot
by tho man of tho world, nlwnvs look
ing out for motives, and imntrlninrr
them whero ho does not find thorn
Donald Grant.
The door and bubIi factnrv nt Ran
Quentin has been ordered to close af
ter March 1.
The Territorial bill is still bohi ;.,
abeyance.
Georgo Heidol. a vounc farmer. di-
guised as a ghost, stepped from the
roadsido in front of Wm. Tompkins,
colored, who was returning fiom tho
woods with an nx on his shouldir,
near Evausville. Intl.. last
tho frichtenod uglto. with
low of the ax, out Heidol's head
completely iu two.