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FROM THE CAPITOL. THE SENTIMENT OP CONGRESSMEN ON IRISH HOME RULE. Centennial Celebration of Washing ton's Inaugural Another Batch of Nominations Adjournment of the Special Session. George L. Shoup has been appointed governor of Idaho. Secretary Maine will erect a fine resi dence in Washington. Rolcrt Adams, jr., of Pennsylvania, will be minister at Brazil. PatEgan.of Nebraska has lecn ap pointed minister to Chili. John Hicks, of Wisconsin, has been appointed minuter to Peru. George 15. Loring, of Massachusetts, will be minister to Portugal. William L. Scruggs, of Georgia, has been apiwinted minister to Venezuela. The commissioner of tho land office has established two offices in Oklahoma. Lansing R. Miscner, of California, will le minister to the Central American States. Thomas Rvan, of Kansas, will repre sent the United States at the City 01 Mexico. Over 1(1,000 applications have been filed at the state department for consular positions. The President has npxinted Robert T. Lincoln to be United States minister to England. William 11. Whitman has boen ap pointed nsrociiito justice of tho supremo court of New Mexico. Murat llalstead, of tho Cincinnati "Commercial-Gazette," has been ap pointed minister to Germany. Tho President has issued his procla mation opening tho Oklahoma hinds to settlement on the I'd of April. The nomination of Ifalstead to bo min ister to Germany meets with much oppo sition from Republican senators. On account of the death of Justice Matthews the adjournment of tho senate was deferred to tho present week. Colonel John D. Washburn, tho new minister to Switzerland, is said to bo tho handsomest man in Massachusetts. The President lias issued an order re ducing tho San Juan military reservation in Washington territory to (MO acres. Among the appropriations by tho lato congress wasono of $10,000 for continuing explorations in tho waters of Alaska. Most of those who call upon tho Presi dent or cabinet officers every day for ap pointments, aro members of congress. John P. Ward, of Oregon, has been ap pointed appraiser of merchandise in tho district of the Willamette and Washing ton.; The secretary of the interior has ap pointed George P. Litchfield, of Salem, Or., special Indian agent for tho Pacific Coast. Postmaster General Wanamaker says that tho charge of offensive partisanship will not be regarded as a sufficient cause for remova'. Tho position of minister to Russia has been ollered Allen Thorndyko Rice, of the " North American Reviow," and has been accented. Mrs. I leaton, sister of President Har rison, paid, it is said, $22 on inaugura tion day for u cab lo take her from tho Arlingio'u hotel to the capltol. The Rig Hend National bank, of Dav enport, V. T., has been authorized by the comptoller of the currency to be gin business, with a capital of $,50,000. Naval officers express considerable dis satisfaction over llio details of tho pro gramme for tho celebration of tho Wash ington inaugural centennial next month. Secretary Blaine says ho will not be gin to take up tho applications for the consulates under three or four weeks, and that there will be many changes made during tho summer. Tho state department has received in formation from tho American consul at PernamhiK'O, Rrazil, that 12.331 inhabi tants of the province of Ccara have emi grated on account of the drouth. It is reported that the Gorman govern ment has requested that Klein 1k ar rested bv tho United States authorities and returned to Samoa and bo tried by the representatives of this government. A sensation has been created in Can ada by President Harrison's proclama tion closing Hehrlng sea. This action on tho part of tho United States has proven a complete surprise to tho Canadian gov ernmet. The postollleo department is negotiat ing with foreign governments with which the exchange of money orders is main tained, to secure their consent in a re ciprocal Increase of tho maximum amount. Corjoral Tanner says in regard to tho pensions of soldiers of tho lato war: "1 believe in giving every Union soldier, his widow or orphan, who is In need, a pension, and giving it to him as quickly as jossil!c." Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania, It is said, is exceedingly angry because of the oiler of the Philadelphia postmaster ship to John Picld by Mr. Wanamaker, without first consulting Mr. tjuay as to his wishes in tho matter. The committee in charge of the eeri tonnial celebration of the inauguration of Washington has appeal to the Presi dent to issue a proclamation calling ujmiii all clergymen ol America to hold thanks giving Hcrvlccs at H o'clock, on the morn Fug ofApril 30th. Owing to tho recent Illness of Mrs. Harrison, public sentiment has Ir'oii aroused in favor of a new executive man sion. It in ""hi the White house is not only unhealthy liocauso of its miserable plumbing, but that it is entirely to small lor tho needs of the Presidential house hold. Tho officers attached to the navy de partment at Washington aro highly grat ified at tho information which has reached them of the participation of tho British authorities and forces in tho funeral ceremonies of Rear Admiral Chandler, who died In Hons Kong on the 10th of Fubruury. ) THE PACIFIC COAST. IMPORTANT DISCOVERY MADE BY THE LICK OBSERVATORY The Alleged Discovery of a Mistake In tho Moxlcan-Amortcan Boundary Llno-Tho Bold Crimo of Three Masked Men. Fresno talks of reorganizing ita vigil antes. Malignant scarlet fever provails at Fresno. A case of small-pox was reported in Tacoma Thursday. Squirrel fishing is getting to bo quite popular in California. 'J ho San Francisco "Evening Post" changed hands April 1st. Lucky Raid win, it is said, will quit the turf after tho present season. Jack-rabbits are becoming a nuisance in the streets Los of Angelo3. After June 30, the Seattlo jwstoffico will bo rated as a first-class office. Work on the $150,000 opera house at Spokane talis is progressing rapidly. A Piute Indian in tho California peni tentiary has developed remarkable skill as a crayon artist. Jacob Pfunder, recently of Portland, has been held in $2000 bail at Oakland for embezzlement. The headquarters of the Sharon estate is to be removed from San Francisco to Carson, Nevada. A man's leg was found hanging to the breake-beam of a frcght car at Kings burg, Cal., Thursday. Governor Waterman has vetoed the bill appropriating $10,000 for the encour agement of silk culture. Tho reported conflict between tho Mex icans and Americans at the Santa Clara mines proves to be untnro. Rawlins was acquitted Thursday at San Diego for the killing of Captain Gil bert in a jwlitical row last fall. Stringent measures have been resorted to by the San Francisco iolico to sup press lawlessness in Chinatown. Ferdinand Ciprico was acquitted at San Francisco, Wednesday, of issuing fraudulent Chinese return certificates. San Luis Obispo is overrun with va grants and tho polico say thoy are jkjw crless to rid the town of tho nuisanco. Frank P. Goodhue, whostolo horses at Sacramento and professes repentance, has been released on his own recogni zance. J. M. Hamilton, son of Scnitor Ham ilton, of Pendleton, was stabbed in tho ncek and killed by Clate Ilinton, Thurs day. Tho report published last week con cerning the stranding of two whales on tho beach at Santa Rosa, proves to bo untrue. A suit lias been instituted at San Francisco against tho heirs of Seth Cook by tho Ronton Consolidated company for $15,000,000. A little girl named Casey, of East Los Angeles, was taken with convulsions Wednesday ami vomited up a lizard threo inches long. Haitian, O'Connor, Uanim and Gau daur, tho oarsmen, havo been engaged by the Tacoma Boat club for a regatta on tho 18th of May. Tho Moxican government is erecting stone barracks for troops and a residence for the governor at the Santa Clara gold mines in Lower California. A man by the name of Richy surrend ered to the Han Jose jKUieoiast wecic, say- run ho was utility of forgery commuted in guilty of forgery commuted n Ashland, Ohio, three year s ago Andrew Patterson is being tried at Hollister, Cal., for having wantonly rid den over District Attornoy McCloskey last September, causing his death. John H. Haskins. ex-congressman from Now York, was victimized by bunko men out of four checks of $5000 each and $150 in cash at Los Angeles last week. Ixcal sealers of San Francisco say that no attention will be paid to tho Presi dent's proclamation regarding the en forcement of tho sealing laws in Hohring sea. Governor Torres, of 1nver California, in a message to tho Mexican consul at San Diego, says that tho richness of the Santa Clara mines havo been much ex aggerated. Clam Hell McDonald has sued tho sherifi'of San Francisco for $14,000 dam ages for levying an attachment upon and selling at auction household furniture be longing to plaintitr. A collection of old fashioned firearms, rush with nge, was discovered near Tole'do, on tho Cowlitz, last week. It is HiipnoMul tho guns were left there by the Indians In tho early days. Threo masked men entered a saloon at Sacramento Sunday night, covered the proprietor and two friends with pistols, shot tho. proprietor in the seufilo that en sued, ana then robbed the till. Manv ol the SiMikano Indians decline I io receive raunus ironi iiiu uuviTiimi'm, i . . . ! . i t i 1 , and complain of bad faith shown them by not assigning them to a reservation, as was promised them two years ago. William E. McEwen was arrested at Aziizu, California, last week for desertion from the army. Hie parents are wealthy peonlo in New York, and ho says he is a nephew of Mayor Grant of that city. Ho was taken away in irons. J, P. Cox, of Lowiston, while entering a variety theater at Walla Walla, Thurs day evening, wns caught under the arms by one Howard and thrown to the ground, hi the seutlle Cox drew a revol ver and shot his assailant twice, killing him Instantly. It has Iven discovered that tho boun dary line between the United States and liwer l alliornla is located too jar north by sixty miles. If sueh be thucase it will wipe out of existence the International company ana nrmg f.nsenaua ana the new gold fields within the jurisdiction of this country. Verona Raldwin, cousin of " Luekv " Haldwin, was arrested at Ixts Angeles Friday as insane. Tho wrongs that nave Kvn commuted against the ioor gin Itv those 'whose ties blood should have I wen a shield in her adversity, was enough to shatter a stronger liiteflect than that of u frail uu unprotected woman, HOME AND ABROAD. BOLD ROBBERY OP A DENVER BANK IN BROAD DAYLIGHT. A Negro's Fearful Struggle on tho Gal lowsReported Destruction of tho American and German War Vessels at Samoa. Roulangcr will Ikj prosecuted. Hrazil is preparing for a war with Bo livia. Paris proposes to legislate against spec ulators. John Bright, of England, died Wednes day morning. Tho lalwr movement is spreading in Germany. Tho fainting fits of tho Popo are Incom ing more frequent. Placer gold has been discovered in the binds on the Missouri river. The woman suffrage bill has been de feated in the New York legislature. Four inches of snow is rcjwted to havo fallen in Albuquerque last week. Mrs. U. S. Grant has given $25 to tho Confederate Soldiers' home at Austin. Chicago's monument to tho Haymarket policemen will be dedicated May 4th. Tho famous horse, Prince Wilkes, was sold for $30,000 in New York Monday. Two ajied inmates of the Ramsey county, Minn., joor house have elopetl. Trio gun-boat Yorktown has been de livered to tho naval authorities at league island. It is reported that the Northern Pacific has secured control of the Wisconsin Cen tral. Eight tramps were publicly (logged on tho baro back at Fairburg," Nebraska, Saturday. Lord Mandeville, heir to tho Duke of Manchester, has been declared a bank rupt. Ex-Prosident Cleveland and party ar rived at Tampa, Fla., Thursday, from Cuba. Sixteen United States marshals have been slain within a year in Indian terri tory. A steamer just arrived in New York reports yellow fever to be raging in Rio Janeiro. John Knowles, of Huntington, Term., is wanted for burning to death four mem bers of the Flowers family. A disease known as "black knot" is destroying tho blue plum orchards in tho vicinity of Dayton, Ohio. A flock of wild geeso flying over Gon zales, Texas, Wednesday, were struck by lightning and 72 killed. It is said that no white child born on tho Isthmus of Panama has over reached the age of twenty-ono years. Southern Kansas received tho news of tho opening of Oklahoma by tho firing of cannons, display of bunting'and bonfires. The discovery last week of an illicit bomb factor' at Zurich has furnished a clue to a gigantic plot in Russia to assas sinate the Czar. Tho Chinese minister at Washington expends more money in telegrams and cabin dispatches than tho government of the United States. William Clinehman, aged 15 years, snapped an empty revolver at littlo Hir dio Lucas at St. Paul Tuesday. Tho bul let pierced tho child's brain and she will die. Louisa Frely, 20 years old, of Davis ville, N. Y., committed suicide Tuesday by taking strychnine, becauso her par ents refused their consent to her mar riage. Tho 11-months-old daughter of Mrs. Schulz, of Rochester, N. Y., while in a paroxism of coughing vomited a livo snake which measured 12jv, inches in length. Tho Hald-Knobb cases wero finished in tho Christian county, Mo., court last week. Four of tho number have been sentenced to hang April 10th. John Rosenbargor shot A. Castalian, in a row over a trivial matter, near Creighton, Neb., Wednesday. Ho then burned his own house to the ground and shot himself in the head. Assam swarms so with leeches that lives of men aro in danger, any person falling from faintness or getting stuck in a mud hole or swamp being sure to be sucked to death by hundreds of them. At Uniontown, Pa., Friday, John Har ris, thirteen years old, while riding on a j coal car, stepped olT and into the mouth i of a blazing coke oven. He was literally roasted alive before taken out. Jud Pritchnll, 'a negro ravisher, was hanged at Danville, Va., Friday. He fought like a madman on tho gallows, t ami it required tho combined efforts of , four deputies fourteen minutes to force him through the trap. Aaron York, an Indiana farmer near J Peru, placed several sticks of giant pow-1 der under tho kitchen stove to thaw out. I During ills absence the stud' exploded, instantly killing his wife and daughter. Clara llogin, of Spartansburg county, O,, eloped with l.dwaru .Matlmis Minday and were married. On returning homo for the usual parental forgiveness t lie young man was fatally stabbed in the neck by Hogin. The exclusion of strangers from the pews of St. Thomas Episcopal church. New York, bin created a revulsion of sentiment among Episcopalians against conducting the church on a commercial Iwisis. It Is rcortcd that during a terrific storm which swept over Samoa recently, the American and German war ships, six in all, wero driven on a reef and to tally destroyed. Tho American vessels, tho'Trenton, Yaudal'a and Nlpsle, lost four officers and forty-six men, and of the German ships, the Adler, Olga anil Eber, nine officers and eighty-seven men wero drowned. A man held up tho president of the First National luink of Denver, Friday, and with a cocked revolver close to tlio official' head forced him to s ign a check for $21,000, after which tho robWr fol lowed him behind the bank counter and in the presence of a score of clerks re ceived t no money, He then cooly lifted his hat and diaapjean.Hl, HOME AND FARM. PROFIT AND L08S IN THE REARING OF BLOODED STOCK. The French Method of Packing Butter Lime as Disinfectant Useful Hints and Household Receipts A Novel Experiment. Fresh pork should not bo eaten unless thoroughly cooked. By dinning fish into boiling water the scales will come ofT easily. Tho farmers who planted alfalfa near Lodi, Cal., havo all made money. Onions are one of the most healthful and beneficial of all food products. Keep a small bag of sulphur in the drawer or closet as a remedy for red ants. Most of the sardines sold nowadays are small herrings put up with French lalK'lfl. Starch made with soapy wrfc- will produce glossiness and prevent th iron from sticking. A poultice of stale bread soaked in stron-i vinegar, applied on retiring, is said to be a sure cure for corns. Three parts of resin, one part of caus tic soda, and five parts of water, make a good cement for glass and china. It is said that buckwheat flour re peatedly applied, will remove obstmate grease spots from carpets, woolens or silks. Raw meats should be placed in an earthen dish, when putting in a refrige rator, and never put it directly on the ice or leave it there in tho brown paper it usually is wrapped in. It is said that a thousand sheep kept on a piece of ground one year will make the soil capable of vielding grain enough over and above the capacity of the soil without the sheep manure to support 1035 sheep an errtire year. See about a few choice now trees. Set a grove of maples or chestnuts or wal nuts. Tho trees will be profitable as well as beautiful. Every year fill up vacan cies as they occur in your orchards. It is the only way to keep fruit profitably. Re sure to empty your tin fruit or veg etable can when "you open it. Do not leave any of tho contents in the can, if you propose to use them. Put them in an earthen dish. They aro very likely to become unwholesome if they are left in tho can after it is opened. In experiments made in feeding, it has been found that Jerseys with grain feed will eat on an average nineteen pounds of hay or fifty of ensilage, and with en silage tho butter yield will be about 12 per cent moro than on hay feed with the same amount of grain. The object in securing a good breed of hogs should be to have them quickly convert the food into meat. The profit does not depend upon the size or the quantity consumed, but upon the cost, which depends, after all. upon the rela tive increase in weight in projiortion to food consumed. A celery sauce for chicken: Cut into small pieces six heads of celery, throw them into boiling water and boil for five minutes, drain, put into a sauce pan, add a quarter of a pound of butter, a half pint of stock, a tcaspoonfull of. salt and a littlo pepper, cook slowly until the celery is tender, t'en press it through a sieve, heat it again and add cream to make it tlio proper consistency. To make sweetbread pies wasli and parboil ono pair of sweetbreads, then pick them into small pieces. Drain and wash two dozen oysters. Put one tea spoonful of butter "in a frying pan, mix until smooth, add a half pint of cream, tlio yolks of two hard boiled eggs mashed fine," a half teaspcmful of salt and a dash of pepper. Put tho sweetbreads and tho oysters in a baking dish, pour the sauce over, cover with paste and bako for twenty minutes in a quick oven. In Franco butter is packed in bags, not more than three inches in diameter, for family use, nor moro than two inches for restaurants. Each bag holds two pounds. When filled they aro tied and packed In brino in tubs or casks which can bo headed tight. Tho cloth used is quite freo from lint, and should bo slight ly starched just enough to mako them iron smoothly then run together of uni form size. The bag is placed in a mould of uniform size and shape while being filled. Tho plan may not bo unworthy of a trial in this country. It is now so common for farmers to provide stabling for their cattle, espec ially for cows, that but few who aro well-to-do neglect it. Still there are somo who even keep cows without anv decent provision for them, and will let them stand out in rain and storm, and even go out to milk without any protection for themselves. That cows so treated will rapidly shrink in their milk goes without saving. When a man can do no better, ho should put up a straw shelter of somo kind, which will serve a good puriwso until he can build something better and moro permanent. An advocate of the "soiling" system, in the management of eattle, says. " It is claimed that digestion never proceeds rapidly, so long as tho animal continues eating. It is only when the stomaeii is sufficiently tilled that tho circulation be comes accelerated, tho temperature of the lxdv moro elevated, and digestion pro ceeds with the greatest activity. If this view Ih correct, then it is seen that cows searching over a scanty pasture all dav, for food, would less perfectly digest it than with abundance of good food in the stall. Lime is a good disinfectant. It is es pecially valuable to place in cellars where" vegetables have been stored, es lecially such as havo been put in wet or hIiow s'igns of decay. Hy ubrorbtng su lerfiupus moisture tho lime prevents tho rising of foul odors that dampness with warmth is sure to generato. Moat vege tables in cellars are better If covered with earth and tho llmo sprinkled over tho top of the heap. The Illinois Experimont station has mado home very interesting experiments in oats during the past year, with tho following results: In seven plats sown to test quaiJCity of seed jwr acre, at tho rato of from one to four bushels per acre, ono in which bushols were used carno out first, with tKJ.8 bushels, against mi average of 60.7 bushels for the six othor plats. A little more straw, however, was grown with three bushels ter aero. PORTLAND MARKET. THE WHEAT MARKET REMAINS DULL AND INACTIVE. Vasclllatlng Sugars-Local Market Con tlnues o be Anything but Satisfactory-Good Fruits Com mand Good Prices. The wheat market shows very little sign of improvement over the present unsettled and unsatisfactory Btate of af fairs. Tho fluctuating prices in sugars continues, and the market remains vir tually unchanged since last report. The local market is weak, prices, however, re maining about the same as a week ago. Fruits in good condition command good prices and find a ready sale. Dried fruits of all kinds meet with a tardy sale. But ter is firm and in good demand. There is very little activity m wool, the de mand in the East being also light. A marked fall is noted in all kinds of feed quotations. OKOCEKIES. Sugars, Golden C 5c. extra C 0e, cube," crushed and irowdered 7?c. Coffee: I Java 25c, Rio 20ac, Arbuekle's roasted I 2oc ritOVISlONB. ham 1213e, breakfast ba sides 10c. shoulders !)10c. Oregon con I3e, Eastern ham 12(fcl3Mc Sinelaire's 13 132!i breakfast bacon 12K13e. sides loo. shoulders OQOJsC Lard 10i llc. FllUlTS. Navel oranges $4.004.75, Riverside $3.25(33.50. apples $1.50, lemons $4.00 per box. VECIETAM.ES. Potatoes 30c35c, onions 7075c. DUIEI) FIIUITS. Apples 5(5c, sliced (Je, apricots 13 14c, peaches 8(l0s. pears Sc. Oregon prunes. Italian, 8c, silver 7c, German (5 (fi)7c. plums 57c. Raisins $2 per box, California figs 8c, Syrna 15c. DAIRY I'HODUCE. Butter, Oregon fancy 25c, niediuru 20c, Eastern 22c, California 'jOh. eggs. Eggs 15c. I'OUI.TRY. Chickens $0.(j.")0, ducks $12.00 per doz., geese $10Gil2, turkeys 17c per lb. WOOL. Valley 18e, Eastern Oregon 8 15c. HOI'S. Hops 814c. OKA IK. Wheat, Vallev $1.35, Eastern $1.25. Oats 3J32c. Ki.oim. Standard $4, other brands $4. FEED. Hav $1314 per torr, bran $15, shorts 1 $lu, Ixirley chop $2425, mill chop $18. J KitESH MEATS. Beef, live, 4c, dressed 8c, mutton, live, ; 4c, dressed 8c, lambs $2.50 each, hogs Ge, dressed .,(, veal oSe. ANCIENT LAND LAWS. Redemption of IlomuttemU by the First Settlor ol tho WcHt. As an inducement for tho opening up of tho country west of tho Alle ghany mountains, immediately after tho independonco of tho United States was secured, tho Government of Vir ginia appointed threo commissioners to givo certificates of sottloment rights. Building a cabin and raising a crop of grain, however small, ontitlcd tho oc cupant to four hundred acres of land, and u pro-oinption right to ono thou sand acres moro adjoining, to bo so cured by a land-office warrant. "Thoro was," says a writer upon this subject, who claims to havo seon a uumber of those "tomahawk rights1' when a boy, "ut at an early poriod of our settle ments, an inferior kind of land title, denominated n "tomakawk right," which was mado by dcadoning a fow trees near the head of a spring, nnd marking tho bark of somo ono or moro of them with the Initials of tho name of tho poreon who mado tho improve ment." These oarly pro-omptors wore furnished, I learn from the sumo sourco, with a covering for tho feet, which now if seen would arouso sym pathy for tho woarer. Tho moccasins in ordinary uso caused but a fow hour's labor to mako them. This was done by an instrument denominated a moccasin awl, which was mado of tlio back spring of an old clasp-knifo. This awl, with its buckhorn handle, was an appendage, too, of ovory shot-pouch strap, togothor with a roll of buckskin for mending tho mocca filns. This was tho labor of almost ovory evening. They wero sowed together, nnd patched with deor skin throngs, or whangs as they wero com monly called. In cold woatner the moccasins wero wollbtulTod dcors' hair, or dry loaves, so as to keep tho feet comfortably warm; but in wot weather it w is usually said that wear ing them wius 'a decent way of going baiefooted;" and such wius the fact, owliik to tho spongy texture of tho leather of which thoy are mado. Tho natives of Ha-tl nro eating ono another. If this process con tinues long enough It Is bound to result In permanent peace down there. Philadelphia Prow. The best kind of horses to raise, says Column's " Rural World," are those that can be used for most puriwses thoso that tho greatest demand exists for. The trotter must not bo bred for 8eed alone, for should they lack that and le small, it would bo difficult to sell litem a i Hive ino cost or ruining, nut should they 1m aliout sixteen hands high, of good style and iWosessing plenty of lone and muscle ami weighing from 1050 to 1200 jKuinds, then we have horses suitable for the carriage or coach, or as roadsters, or for general utility purjKses. Such horses will ahvays self well Sbil should bo moro geucnSly bred. DRY FORK'JOTTINGS. Society Point In i I'rojrreiwlvo and Pro perou Arkmiftn. Community. The following correspondence from that most progressive of communities, Dry Fork, appeared last week in tho county paper: Yo correspondent would havo writ ten last week, but there wns no news to communicate and, in fact, there is no news this week worthy of note. I only write because it is ti rainy day and I havo nothing else to do. Rain. Every thing is quiet. , Jeff Filpot is dead. A good many hogs havo besn killed during tho past year. Unclo Hob Joyner fell off his horse day before yesterday and broke one ol his hips. Yo correspondent did not learn which one. Wind. More rain. Shindig at Patterson's night bofore last. Unclo Jesse Gait stuck a thorn in his eye Wednesday. ' Job Balsh is a Har. So Is liill Prultt. Sim May field's gun went otr acci dentally the other day and killed a. line mule colt. Moro rain. Saw mills aro doing a good business. Lytt Hendricks sawed off his left arm last Friday. Revival at Round Pond church. The Rev. Jack Hoyto. who conducts it, is a pretty good fellow, but is a liar. Old Mat Morgan killed a wolf last Monday. Tobo McCrackon has run away with Ad Harkrider's horse. Harkrider's wifo also accompanied him. Still moro rain. A good many farmers aro breaking up land. Till Alexander is a thief. So is Mosc High'tower. Aunt Betsey Rliio died night boiore Inst. She will be sadly missed at the mourner's bench. She was a great hand to make apple pies and was seventy-six years old. She could alsc make a fine kettle of soft soap. Peace to her ashes. 1 shall never forget her kindness of heart, for she knit mo the best pair of socks I over had. Yo correspondent is under many ob ligations to Rob llonslcy for a mess of squirrels. Ho is a man righl and the best shot in our neighborhood. Wo regret to say that his gun went oil accidentally day before yesterday and killed him. Unclo Hilly Phelps broke ono of his legs yesterday. We look for a chango in tho weather soon. Hob Taylor professed religion last Friday, and nono too soon either, for ho was killed by a saw-log Saturday. Wo see a largo number of shouts in tho woods. Aunt Hetsy Janson poisoned Trot Mayfiold's dog day before yesterday. Trot got ahold of some of tho poison and is also dead. Cloudy weather. Squirrels aro scarce. Ruck Truitt is dead. Zeb Faneher and Miss Tallio Moore wore married last week. The happy pair were congratulated by a large number of friends. Zeb was shot and killed shortly after tho ceremony was performed. I hopo to send you some news next week. Unclo Cad Metford is dead. Aunt Lizzie Lucas will be dead by tho timo this reaches you. Hill Hunly shot his unclo yesterday. Hill has been killed. Moro rain. Clouds ovorywhoro. Look out for falling weather. Wilson Ruck killed Hob Patridge yoslerday. I will send you some hows soon. Habbltt Malono killed his uuelo yes terday. Moro rain. Arkansaw Traveler. FIGS AS FOOD. Tho Mont NutrltiotiM or All FruiU Kxcrpt tlio Olive. One of tho Persian kings cnused the colebrated Attic figs to bo set bofore him whonover ho dined, forcno reason, to remind him that tho land whore thoy grow was not yet his, and that, in stead of reeoiving tho fruit as n tribute, ho was obliged to buy it from abroad: and, for another, that it was not only tho omblom of health, but tho most wholesome fruit grown. Tho lig is now pretty well known to be, especially at certain seasons, almost tho common food of tho Italian pooplo; and for months thoy may bo said to llvo en tirely upon it. As Dr. Nichols says, it Is not only posslblo for a man to live upon figs, but sitting under his own vino and fig tree, a man has plenty ol food and no landlord. When eaton fresh tho fig is a mediclno as well as food; and thoy who oat freoly need no potions and no aperients. Full of nu trition and all those properties thnt make It valuable as an artielo ot dlot. wo aro confident that tho fig will tako a prominent position in tho estimation of all who work for and bollovo In food reform. For iifcvsolf, I would simply add that, again and again, without liquid of any kind, tho luscious green fig. oaton with whole-meal bread, has formed a dish at once simple but rich, and like tho Spaniard's salad, fit for a king. Tho fig Is not only vory popular, but It is tho most ancient fruit wo cul tivate. In many countries tho failure of this crop also moans starvation and famine. Travelers in Asia Minor and southern Europe provldo thomselvos with figs and olives as provisions for loniijouriioys. and not only live, but groft fat on tho diet. The lig has moro medicinal properties and moro nutri ment than any othor fruit with the ex ception of tho olive. Int-CHor.