THE OREGON SCOUT.
JONES & CHANCEY, Publishers
UNION OREGON.
' An Indian In tlio Everglades, Flor
ida, it is said, is still holding in slavery
negroes that wcro his when tho war
broke out.
Tho almost incredible statement is
made by a South Florida man that it
lias rained more or less in tho vicinity
of his homo on tho 20th of May for the
past nineteen years.
Abraham Shearer, of Canada, con
cluded to run away from his home and
wife. When ho reached tho train tho
first person ho encountered was Mrs.
Shearer, who had been simultaneously
belzcd with tho samo notion.
-A man who died latoly near Sparta,
Go., could ropcat tho names of all tho
Senators and Representatives in Con
gross from tho beginning of tho gov
crnmcnt. Yet all this never brought
him an engagement in u diino musuora
and was t worth a dollar to him.
A test has been mado in Franco to
bco whether tho color of a horso had
any thing to do with his characteristics.
ji Jias oecn demonstrated that any
such idea is all nonsense. Pedigreo
and early training hnvo all to do with
it, and color nothing whatevor.
A resident of Palatini, Flu., while in
Clay County saw an entire family work
ing in a flvo-acre field. In the middle of
tho field was a plow, to which was
hitched tho old man, assisted by the son
and daughter, tho mother of tho latter
doing tho plowing.
Tho women of Chicago hnvo cstab
lished tho first college of practical arts
for women in this country, it is do-
eigned to givo women a practical in
sight into tho avenues of business life,
bucJi as law, railroads and even "lifo
insurancc"
' At tho big spring near Fort Deca
tur, the Governor of Alabama said to
tho Governor of Tennessee, "I can say
to you what tho Governor of South
Carolina said to tho Governor of North
Carolina but it will be cold wator,
They smiled. Montgomery (Ala.) Ad
vertisor.
. Tho ways of auctioneers in different
parts of tho world vary greatly. In
this country nnd England tho sollor
benrs tho oxpensa of tho sale, but in
Franco tho purchaser hears tho cost,
livo per cent, being added to his pur
chaso. In Holland It is still worso, tho
buyer bolng required to pay ten por
cent, additional for tho expenses of tho
Bala
Near Summorvillo, La., a lady
Avcnt into tho woods and caught a small
frrcon snako by tho head. Covering it
up sho went into tho house whoro sho
-was boarding and asked tho man
Don't you want a pretty P" "l'cs," said
ho. Sho throw out her arm. Tho man's
wife was standing by and was so
alarmed at seeing tho snako squirming
nooiit that sho roll back dead.
"Mistah Jones, I hyuh yob's boon
Jinbln' trubblo." "In what wayP"
.11M .1 i 1 m i
-n iiy, uai yon who uouo run orwny
wuf Polo Jonkins." "O ves." "You
lias my sympathy." "Much obliged.'
"I'm glad tor noto dut you doan' tako
it h'aht." "No, I ain't hud time to
think about it much." "What yoh bin
doln'P" "Hin sympnthizln' with Poto
Jenkins." Morchant Travolor.
A party of gamblers at Montajruo.
Mich., were treated to an unwelcome
burprlso ono night recontly. A woman
who suspected that her husband was
ono of n coterie who mot in a quiet
mocic supped up to tho room and
rapped on the door. Tho inside guard
opened tho door. There was immedi
ately a gonoral scramble. Two knights
or tho green balzo jumped Into bed and
pulled tho quilts over themselves,
while others sought any available nook
or corner. The wlfo collared her erring
liogo and led him triumphantly forth.
A Huston man says that when Udl
Fon first thought of making a phono
graph ho perfected most of tho details
before oven drawing a plan. When ho
had tho idea well developed, ho told
nn old Gorman who made models for
him to make a machine after a certain
pattern. I ho inventor didn't hint what
ho wanted It for, but occasionally sent
nn ordor ror a change or alteration to
bo made, without oven looking at the
model. Finally tho Gorniau took tho
iniiehlno to Mr. Edison, who fitted a bit
of tinfoil Into It, turned tho crank, and
hpoko into tho funnel the words of that
famous poem beginning "Mary had a
little lanib." Tho Gorman looked on
as though ho thought that the Inventor
had gono crazy. Then Mr. lidlson re
versed tho crank, and, in that queer,
piping voice now so familiar, tho ma.
chine repeated tho lines. "MolnGottl"
bald tho Gorman, throwing up his
hands. "Moln Gott! it talks!"
EASTERN ITEMS.
DROPPED FROM THE SUSPENSION
BRIDGE AT CINCINNATI.
President Harrison Dines With Mr. I
Blaine Sudden Death The Idaho
Convention Rich Petroleum
Deposits In fMexlco.
Japan's Treaty With Russia The Congo
Railway On the Pay Roll Eighty
One Tears Wants the Cup.
It is thought Parnell will viBit India.
has been raised at
Mexico is to have a fair in 1802.
Ualtimorc is to have a cable road.
Fighting before Port-au-Prince con
tinues. John Leonard, the well known Fenian,
is dead.
Hop culture is to be undertaken in
Manitoba.
A Sweet Potato Trust has been formed
in Baltimore.
John L. Sullivan was tried at Purvis,
Blaine
Knipp'e statue
-besen.
There is to be an American theatre in
Paris.
Emperor William will visit Madrid in
September.
Joseph has left
from Scotland is
Miss., on the 12th inst
The President dined with Mr,
at Bar Harbor on the 8th.
Rheumatism is immensely fashionable
at Boston, says the Herald.
A carnage road to the top of Pike's
Peakc has just been completed.
The new shoe shop in the Maryland
penitentiary has begun operations.
The reports of vellow fever at Tampic,
Mexico, are pronounced unfounded.
horse stealing industry lias been or
ganized along the Upper Mississippi.
Rich petroleum deposits have been dis
covered in the State of Guerrero, Mexico.
Tho drought in Mexico has killed thou
sands of cattle, and an epidemic is learcd.
The total circulation of money in the
United State. August 1, was $1,379,980,-
137.
The New York delegation, it is snid.
will support Reed for Speaker of the next
House.
Tho National Prohibition Camp Meet
ing at Decatur, 111., proves to be a big
success.
Colonel James Corry. U. S. A., retired,
died suddenly at Fortress Monroe on the
9th inst.
President Harrison has promised to
visit Caliiomia during his vacation'noxt
summer.
Tho prediction is made that by 1893
tho Nicaragua Canal will be open for
business.
The Governor of St. Louis has respited
Anderson, tho wife murderer, until Sep
tember 111.
President Harrison is expected to out
line his message while at Deer Park in
Snntnmhnr.
i
Chicago hotel men aro a unite in favor
of having the World's Fair of 1892 located
in that city.
A Washington county, Ohio, farmer,
90 years old, assists the hands in the
harvest field.
A Georgia nronhet predicts tho end of
tho world on tho Kith of August. Come
again, old "Proph."
Jay Gould said at Saratoga the other
day that this iB going to be a prosperous
year for big railroads.
The Florida Stato Board of Health re
quires all cities of 10,000 inhabitants to
dispose of refuse by cremation.
Captain Joseph Skerrett has been ro-
conimended for promotion to Commander
by thoJNaval J-jxainining Jioani.
Tho Australian ballot system will have
its first test in this country at tho coming
State election in Massachusetts.
Forty-eight persons were declared in
sane in Brooklyn during July. Insanity
sculls to bo epidemic in that city.
Gigantic mining and manufacturing
interests in tho South aro projected by
New York and Virginia capitalists.
Commissioner Tanner and ox-Governor
Russell Alger are candidates for Coin
niander-in-Chief of the Grand Army.
Tho lCnightB Templar claim they will
havo fully 20,000 men in tho parade at
the triennial conclave at Washington.
The Johnstown Relief Committee on
tho 1st inst., rej)orted a disbursement of
$SOO,000 out of about $3,000,000 available.
Hie Idaho Convention niemoralizcH tho
Government to prevent speculators se
curing water privileges in tho territory.
Tho work of distributing the remainder
of the relief fund for tho Johnstown Howl
sutlerers is to bo pushed on as rapidly as
possible.
A backwoodsinnn, whilo visiting Rock
Springs, Wyo. T a day or two ago,
learned for tho first time of the Johns
town disaster.
Jacob Spanvard, who was sentenced to
bo banned at Fort Smith, Ark., on the
9th, has been reprieved until August 150
by the President. .
The coke strike in Pennsylvania is
ended, tho employes having carried tho
day. The operators have conceded every
thing demanded.
Tho semi-annual dividend of 3l nor
cent on tho preferred stock of tho Oregon
Improvement, company is declared, pay
able September ltd.
ThomiiB, tho runner, who is believed
to bo swifter than Canill', will compete in
the American and Canadian champion
ship contests this fall.
flmperor Francis
Vienna for Berlin.
A large emigration
now going to Chile.
Lord Dunraven is mentioned for the
Governorship of Bombay.
Bull-fighting is getting a foothold
among trench amusements.
The Anti-Slavery Conference at
Lucerne has been abandoned.
Owing to a lack of sugar the Greenock
Kelinery of .London has shut down,
THE PACIFIC COAST, i
DAVID 8. TERRT, EX-SUPREME JUS
TICE OF CALIFORNIA, KILLED.
United Staes Supreme Court Justico
Stephen J. Field Arrested Com
mits Suicide The Steamer
Umatilla Grounded.
MOSIK AM FAK3I.
H?alsburg has an axle-grease factory,
Watsonviile's building boom keeps up,
The Bank of Ilueneme is open for bus-
i mess.
I A hot spring has been opened at Tcnr
, escal.
I The revenue cutter Corwin is at San
Diego.
The Healsburg Tribune has been en-
; larged.
Santa Ana is organizing a military
company.
The Chico and Colusa Guards are in
A National Temperance Congress is to : eamP at 8isson-
sit for h vetlays at Bi i mingham, England, 1 San Diego is trying to suppress the
in eaivauon .iirmv.
i
An International Congress for photo-1 Gambling places at Nana have been
graphing the skits will meet at Paris on ! closed by the sheriff.
ine .u iiibi.
Glanders has done much damage to
horses at French Camp.
In a collision at Napa, on the 13th four
flat cars were demolished.
Tho Catholics at Santa Rosa are negoti-
i ating for a burial lot near town.
into
The funeral of Felix Pyatt, the political
agitator and writer, took place at Paris
without incident.
There have not been so many Ameri
cans in fatratlord-on-Avon lor vearB as i
there are this year.
The inouirv into the Kiel navv frauds ! .. Chinese laborers arc pouring
proves that corrupt practices have been -resno to work in the vineyards.
in operation since 1884. j Two men who robbed a stage near
The funeral of the late Italian states-1 bonanza, Or., have been arrested,
man, Benedetto Cairoli, took place at' The fires in the mountains in Idaho
Naples with great pomp. j can only be checked by heavy rains.
Sydney Buxton has undertaken to sub-1 Camp Miles and Camp Dimond,
nut a motion to Parliament next session Santa Cruz, are lighted with electricity
in iavor ox ireo euueauou.
:it
Prince Alexander of Battenberg has
been appointed to tho command of an
Austrian regiment at btyrm.
In memory of tho late Lady Kinnnird,
a proposal has been mooted to establish
a women's hospital in India.
Japan has concluded ' a treaty with
Russia, similar to those concluded witli
the United States and Germany.
A new restaurant in London is to be
run so as to furnish travelers of every
nation with tluir accustomed food.
Tho ltadical party in the Italian Parlia
ment is agitating the question of the
cession of Trieste by Austria just now.
William Scott, an employe of a London
publishing firm, who (lied recently, had
been on their pay roll eighty-one years, j
There is much growling in Ireland I
over the action of the Irish members of
Parliament in voting for the royal grants.
A verdict of death from tight lacing !
conies from a Birmingham jury, express
ed as a verdict of "Death from pressure
round the waist." ,
Suicide among German officers in-'
creases shockingly. Dining May twenty
three shot themselves, and tho number
for Juno was larger still.
It is rumored that the Queen has at
last yielded to her physicians and will
hike a long sea trip, perhaps to India, or
jOBsibly to Canada and the United States. 1
A report is current that the Russian I
Government iB pressing the Regents of I
Sorvia to expel ex-King Milan frointhat
country. I
The scarcity of water in portions of
Montana is causing mills to shut down.
Every vessel leaving San Diego now
carries from ten to fifteen tons of honey.
John Kearns was assaulted and prob
ably fatally wounded by John O'Keefe at
Stockton.
Ellensburg, W. T., believes that the
popular vote will make it the capital of
the State.
Fred II. Figel of San Francisco was
knocked down and robbed at San Jose
on the 11th.
George B. Mauders of Ogden, Utah,
was crushed to death at Pocatelle, I.T.,
by two cars.
The remains of ex-Judge David S.
Terry, was interred on the 10th inst. at
Stockton, Cal.
The attachment on tho Pomono Bank
lias been raised and the concern will re
sume business.
Tho Northwestern Firemen's Associa
tion will hold a tournament at Tacoma
September 10th.
A charge of embezzling county money
is made against Justice of the Peace
Jones at Merced.
The barn of William Curtis, with 200
tons of bay, was burned near Sacramen
to on the 12th inst.
Helena will remain the capital of Mon
tana until the popular vote of the State
j decides otherwise.
Ora E. Hunt was successful in the com
j petitive examination at Ukiah for a West
Point cadetship on the 10th.
The Oregon Veterans will tako with
1 them to Milwaukee a carload of grains,
fruits and minerals, the products of their
1 State.
llealo House, near Salisbury, famous
as having been tho hiding-place for ten
days of King Charles 11, was sold
recently.
lllmm h. Gladstone s speech on the j T,)ere 5(J ovurv pr0Hpw.t of n gur-beet
royal grants was caught by a phonograph fiietorv bei,, established near Chino,
and will go down to posterity just as he Sail Humiraino county, in the Pomona
delivered it. , Valley.
Sufficient subscriptions have been re-j
ceived to enable the projectors to begin
the construction of the Congo railroad
immediately.
'will
Progress vs. Prejudice.
"Laura," said tho old man,
you havo bomo tutors?"
"Ifyourofer to tho farlimcoous tu
bers which pertain to tho solanum
tuberosum and whlcl nro commonly
known at potatoes," replied tho sweot
girl graduate, "1 would bo pleased to
bo holped to a modicum of tho samo.
Hut tutors? Tutors? I'm qulto buio,
papa, thoy aro something of which 1
novor beforo had tho pleasure of hoar
Inp." Tho old man pounded on tho table
until tlio popper castor lay down for a
rest and then romnrked, in a voice of
icy calmuoss: "Laura, will you havo
boino of tho tntorsP"
Yon, papa."
Isour boasted high bchnol nystom n
failure or is it notP Torre Hnuto Ex
press. . ...
Another attachment for $200,000 has
been placed on the Riverside Mills prop
erty, at rroviilenco, u. I.
Trouble is apprehended in Wilson
county, lenn., over the preaching of
.Mormon elders. Tho people talk ot driv
ing them from the country.
There is suspicion that English refiner
ies are seeking to combine with tho
American trust, in order to control tlio
sugar uiarketB on two continents.
Robert Morrell. the Piko county. Ind..
octogenarian, has passed the fifty-ninth
day ot ids last, "lie is Hhrivellng up
like a dried pencil," sayB tiiopnyslcian.
Tho male and female bullaloB now at
the Union Stock Yards. Soath St. Paul.
aro nlKjut to be shipped to New York
Stato to breed with Polled Angus cattle.
Pan J. Phelps, who sustained the full
force of a 2,200-volt current of electricity
ut Louisville ten days ago. a current, ac
cording to theorists, strong enough to
kill an elephant, returned to his work on
tho 10th inst.
The Black Diamond business, which
produced a momentary excitement in the
I'.nghsh press, teems to lo already lor
gotten in London.
The Russian Government has pro
hibited tlio sale of the Century Magazine
in Russia on account of George Keiinau's
Siberian articles.
Tlio mistress of Boulanger has written
to Ixiuise Michel certain disclosures con
cerning the General which are of an im
portant character.
Tho report that Italy had withdrawn
from the international blockade of the
Fast African Coast is officially declared
to lo without foundation.
Letters of Boul.u'gcr produced before
the French Senate temi to prove that
lloulangor shared with Hourel the com
missions paid by army contractors.
The Congo State will ask tho Belgian
Government for an annual subsidy of
A'00,000 for ten years to insure tho con
tinuance of tlio whole Congo railway.
Dr. Schrelber, a chemist of Cologno,
haB discovered an explosive more power
ful than dynamite, and at the same time
cheajwr and safer. Ho calls it "petragit."
Dr. Brown Sequard'a new ehxir of lif
was considered at a recent meeting of the ,
French Biological Society, and M. Variat
told of some very Buccessful experiments
made by him.
J. W. Smith, of Los Angeles, was
arrested at London, England, and fined
5 and costs for carrying a pistol. He
arrived from America with his lather and
brother last week.
Tho Porto, in view of tho Russian ; """ft
11 411 UAl'l'llllV IHU 1111,1 111 WllllltlUll 11 11 no !
at Erzerouin. A host of men are already ,
constructing redoubts.
It is reported that the whole rnuntrv
fifteen miles west of Portland is burning
up in forest fires. The flames are licking
Ida, the 8-year-old girl of J. II. Crock
well, at Virginia City, who was burned
by a coal oil explosion on the 12th, died
I on the 14th.
Charles A. Fisiher, traveling salesman
for Kohler & Frohling, of San Francisco,
committed suicide at Butte, M. T., on
the 13th inst.
The San Francisco Bulletin records the
receipt of "the first bale of California
hops" on the 10th inst., and credits the
production to Yuba county.
Efforts to lloat the Pacific Coast Steam
ship Company's steamer Umatilla, which
went aground on the 13th at Brown's
point, near racoma.have proved futile.
David S. Terry, ex-Supreme Justice of
California, was shot and killed on the
morning of the 14th, in a railway eating
station at Uithrop, Cal., bv" Deputy
United States Marshal David Nagle.
Justice Stephen J. Field, of the United
States Supiemn Court, was arrested at
San Francisco on the 10th inst., on tho
charge of being a part) to the killing of
David S. Terrv at 1-athrop, Cal., on the
14th inst.
John White, alias John Pearson, talked
scandal alout two ladies at San Jacinto,
San Diego county and a few days ago
they waylaid him and gave him a horse
wlnpping, the husbands of tho women
standing by as witnesses.
A letter-box has been placed in the
topmost stage of the KitTel Tower at tho
Paris Exhibition, and postal cards sold
there bear a printed indication of the
height at which they are posted. Hun
dreds of persons write to their friends
from this lofty perch daily.
Ex-Superior Judge A. W. Hutton has
been appointed United States District
Attorney by Justico Field, vice Hon.
mud. Judge Hut ton
until President Har
rison makes tho apiointmcnt. Hutton
is a democrat and a lino lawyer.
A Good Egg Food Doing Up Curtains
Improved Methods of Pasturing
Treat Animals Kindly.
Salt pork eprinkled with red pepper ib
excellent for soar throat.
When peoling onions keep your mouth
closed and you won't have to cry.
Sand paper applied to the yellow keys
of the piano will restore the color.
A good furniture varnish is made of
two ounces white wax, one gill of turpen
tine. The luster of morocco is restored by
varnishing it with the white of an egg.
Apply with a sponge. ,
Marble should always be washed with
ammonia and water rather than with
soap and water.
Ham Toast. Chop very small bits of
boiled ham, with not much fat. To one
pint of chopped ham add two wall
beaten eggs, a l alf teacup sweet cream
or milk, a little pepper, and, it necessary
salt, an eighth of a teaspoon of dry mus
Uird. tieat this mixture thoroughly
when hot spr ad over slices of toasted
bread which have been dipped in hot
salted water, and wen buttered.
A Michigan cattle-breeder says ho has
settled one question quite firmly with his
herdsmen, and tnat is that dumb brutes
must be treated witn uniform kindness
In illustration of its practical value he
relates that some cattle he bought in
Kentucky last fall were wild as deer : if
any one went into the barn where they
were, thev would spring up. try to get
awav, and make themselves generally
disagreeable. He has them now so that
they are '.uiet nnd docile as lambs n
result "obtained by good feeding and
unitorm Kindness."
Bathing. Whilo we advise frequent
bathing tor the farmer and his hands, ve
would also provide bathing facilities for
tiie domestic animals. Fortunate is tho
farmer whose land liorders upon a lake
or stream oi sufficient depth to allow the
horses, cows, etc.. a freouent bath. Not
only will the animals enjoy it. but the
boys will find it more fun than work.
Often a small stream nia be so dammed
as to retain the water and lorm a suitable
bathing place. Do not allow the animals
to drink from such artificial bathing
pools, especially if the bottom is muddy
A scant teaspoonful of sugar added to
each pint oi meat gravj lmtxirts a deh
cious flavor that can not be obtained in
any other way. It is also an improve
ment to soups, it added in the same pro
portion. If meat has been allowed to
stand a little too long before it was
cooked, sprinkle a little sugar over it be
fore removing it. from the fire, and the
unpalatable taste will be removed. A
teasnoon of siiL'ar to everv nint of milk
should always be used when the milk is
to be thickened with corn meal. Oat
meal is much improved if sugar is put in
while it is cooking instead of being put
on it at the table.
A Point for Bee-Keepers. Here is the
substance of a bit of dauber literature in
"Gleanings in Bee Culture" by Professor
Cook, of the Michigan Agricultural Col
lege: A mud dauber is an economic
creature. When it gets a cell ready to
be sealed up, it finds a spider, paralyzes
it, puts it in the newly constructed cell,
inserts a dauber egg in the spider's
plump body, and seals tho house up.
The egg hatches and the thing of life
goes to work and slowly eats up the
spider. As it eats it grows, and as it
grows it eats moie spider, and finally
emerges from its cell a regular mud
dauber.
! PORTLAND MARKET.
CONTINUED ACTIVITY IN THE MER
CHANDISE MARHET.
Coffees Have Advanced Slightly Fruits
and Vegetables Remain Active
and Firm No Change In
Dried Fruits
A populnr practice of tho abandoned ,
Whitechapol, Iondon, women is to do-1
miind money, and upon refusal charge
the man who refuses to bo "stood up" as,
being Jack tho Ripor.
It is rumored at G'tibgow that the son
of North, the "Nitrate King," is negotia-,
ting for the purchase of tho yacht Thistle
and will nut in a ccntcrboard and coin
jeto for the America cup. 1
Several of tho largo land-owners of I
Scotland havo inuwted a number of rein-!
deer from Norway and turned them out
in tho Iiopo that thoy may become
iitclimatixvd and increase.
up everything in their vicinity, rendering
the land completely barren, and the ieo
ple are compelled to move to places of
safety,
C. P. Ferry, whoso name is connected
with a Paris scandal, and who Is just now
at his home in Tacoma, W. T., has made
a public statement in which he accuses
his wile of attempting to blackmail him.
Ho says he will vindicate him If at the
proper moment, but that he will make no
further statements uutil lie is heard in
the courts.
In domesticating certain animals, we
make them conform their habits to our
own purposes, and as an oHset to this,
wc relieved them of ail trouble in hunt
ing for their food. In providing for the
various comforts that they would seek in
the wild state, one is often overlooked
that is, shade. Look at animals in a
pasture in which there is abundant
shade, and where do you find them dur
ing the hot portion of thedav? Certainlv
not exposed to the sun, aud grazing, but
every one, whether horse and cattle oi
sheep and pigs, ouietlv restinir and
endeavoring to digest in tho shade the
lood they have eaten earlier in the day
(.toon rgg roou. sow here you
have what many a poultry keeper wants
whether he or sho be in town or country
a recipe for the preparation of superior
cuk iuuii, iv is luriusiieu oy .mt. James
liaiiKin, ono oi the most successful
raisers in the land. Listen and note:
Ten pounds of the best beef scraps, five
pounds of fintf ground lone, two pounds
of granulated or powde.ed charcoal, one
pound of anlphcr, two ounces of Cayenne
jippper, and four ounces of salt. Give it
in the soft food. It is said by those who
have tried it to givo excellent results, and
to be worth more than many of the
much more costly egg foods which are
placed upon the market.
Doing up Curtains. A more economi
cal method of doing up i urtains than to
send them to a laundry is described by a
uim iiuiiacni-vjiur us 1UUUWS ; iJUSt tlll'IIl
thoroughly, and if there aro any breaks
or tears in them, mend them before
washing. Do not wring them, but pass
through a clothes wringer, keeping them
straight; boil a few minutes, then rinse
in cold water. Bluo tho starch a trifle,
but do not make them too stiff; then lay
sheets on the tloor and spread the cur
tains on them, taking care to Btretch tho
worn straight and true. Pin tho edges
on I ho sheet and let them lay till per
fectly dry, rnd you will bo convinced that
homo laundryi-:g of nico curtains is far
prefcr.ib e to hiring them done up, as
thoy will last longer and look nicer than
when pressed by hot irons.
Improved Methods of Pasturing. The
largo breeds of sheep cannot be turned
out on an inferior pasturoto be compelled
to find thoir food. They must, like tho
steer, be made to produce as much as
possible in tho shortest period of time
They will not grow rapidly if they are to
forago over tho whole farm and bo forced
to work for all they get. Tho loraging
system will answer for tho merino, but
largo slieen do not thrive in largo num
berB. Only tho best of pastures, tho
llocks divided, and a mess of grain at
night, will force them. True, it requires
moro Ial)or and rare, but it
the matter of sheep raising ono lor
profit the labor will always bo paid for
iH-'foro tho estimate of profit can be made.
It more money can bo made on one good
sheep than from three inferior ones it iB
a waste of time and pasture to keep tho
natives. Tho greatest profit iB derived
from the mutton breeds, and tho best
jwstures pn tho farm can be given up to
them with profit.
In the local merchandise markets con
tinued activity and an excellent tone are
the general rule. Tho city trade is com
paratively quiet, but country orders are
liberal, and stocks no sooner arrive than
they aro shipped again. Sugars havo
dropped ic while coffees havo advanced
4j'c. Fresh fruits and vegetable remain
very "'tive and firm. There is no
change in dried fruits and the condition
of trade generally is very good. For
dairy produce aud poultry tho marketcon
tinues firm at last figures, with advanc
ing tendency. Wheat remains quiet and
unchanged. The demand for flour con
tinues good at last quotations. The w ool
market is very dull owing to tho heavy
failures in the East, and probably will
not regain any buoyancy until those
have been settled. We quote.
HHOCEHIKb.
Sugars, Golden C O''c. extra O 6?.,e,
drv granulated 8'nC, cube, crushed and
Coffee: Guatamala lO1
o27c, Costii Kica 21
powdered 8'i.c.
31, Java 1
22kc, Mocha 37c. Rio 2223c.
roasted Java 3032c, Arbuokle's roasted
24 c.
PROVISIONS.
Oregon ham 13(J13c, breakfast bacon
12.Vt.13c, Bides 910( Eastern ham 13:
14c, breakfast, bacon 12,'c, sides 9oC,
shoulders 9c. Lard 9c.
Kit HITS.
Peaches 75c$l.f0, apples $11.25,
lemons $8, Sicily $7.50, pears !fl1.2f.
OltlKI) PHU1TS.
Apples 45c, evaporated 0jo sliced
6c, pears 8c, peaches S10c, Oregon
plums 3S4, petite prunes 5(.0c, German
5s0c, prunes, Italian 7c, silver 0(37c,
California figs 7c, Smyrna figs 14($15c,
apricots 1314c, raisins $1.75f2.25 per
box.
VEGETABLES.
Potatoes, new, $ll. 10, sweets 3 per
Ui, onions $, green peas 0c.
DAIKY I'HODUCK.
Butter, Oregon iancv 30c, medium
I7hi0 -Oc, common 10)2o. Eastern
22c, California lS20c.
EGGS.
Eggs 22at.
rOULTItY.
Chickens $34, broilers $2.503, old
5.500, young geese $S6610 young tur
keys 1 J2c per lb.
WOOL.
Valley 17019, Umpque 1920c, East
ern Oregon 1014c.
HOI'S.
Hops 1012a'c.
GRAIN.
Wheat, Vallev J1.20(?1.22U. Eastern
Oregon 1.101.12J. Oats 4041.!c.
brands $3.75
$14.50
barley
FLOUR.
Standard $4.25, other
3.90.
FEED.
Hay $1314 per ton, bran
chop $1820, shorts $10.50,
'02-'.&u.
FRESH MEATS.
Beef, live. 2?;i3c. dressed, GfffiOKe:
mutton, live, 3c, dressed 07c, hogs live
6c, dressed, 707v : veal tlOSc.
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
Out of 3.r)8 teachers employed last
'ear in Chester County. Pennsylvania,
127 were females.
-More than three millions of children
lave been gathered into schools for tho
tudy of the Scriptures, throuirli tho
nissionarics of the American Sunday
ehool Union.
The averago Sundav plate collec
ions of Rov. Newman Hall's church in
Yestmiiihter Hridgo Road, London, is
U7o, and of Rev. C. H. Spurgoou's
iongregat'on, in tho great Tabernacle,
53 1.0.
The Christian Intelliiciwer dislikes
ho substitution of "signs" lor "luna
tics" in the Revised Now Testament.
'Miracles," it says, "is a moro pleasant
vord than .signs, both to tho tongue aud
ho ear.
A Mohammedan university nino
iiiiidred years older than Oxford is still
lourishing at CVro as in tlio days of
Vrabian conquests. It contains but
me room, the floor is p ived and the
oof is supported by 400 columns.
There aro 397 institutions in tho
vorld for the education of deaf-mutes.
Sermany has ninety of these, Franco
lixty-seven, Groat Britain forty-), and
ho United States thirty-eight. Recent
jareful estimates place the unmoor of
iheso unfortunates in existence at 800,
)00. Chicago Current.
According to their Year Hook there
ias been rapid growth In the Reformed
Episcopal Church during the past eight
fears, it has ten Bishops, 103 Presbv
;crs and deacons, 7,913 communicants.
prosperous Sunday-schools, and shurch
property valued at $1,021,509.
In the village of Slsito Hill, Oraugo
rouuty, N. Y.. is a Baptist Church
which was built in 1783. It is verv
primitive in style, and in the gallery
bus a pew which was mado exclusively
for slaves belonging to members of tho
:oiigiegiition, which once numbered
ivo hundred. The church is a great
Mirlosity now, and is vis ted by many
itrangers Ar. Y. Tribune.
A curious incident occurred in tho
Parado Church, ShorncliH'e, Hngland,
n a recent Sunday. It was found that
!ho church was bosieged by various
linds of birds, principally swallows.
Every effort was made to dislodgo
them, but without ollect, and at last
tome soldiers were obliged to lire a vol
ley of blank cartridges, which com
pletely routed them, and. tho chutth
Jelng soon vacated, tho service was
leld.
At Cambridge, says the London
Truth, the girl undergraduates have
icon decidedly 'coming on." In last
roar s Mathematical Tripos thoy had no
wranglers at all, and their best "inan''
was only equal to tho forty-fourth on
:ho list. This your thoy havo two
wranglers, ono mining botwoen tho
iwonty-fourtli and tlw twenty-fifth on
tho list, thu othur bolng oqunl to the
ihirtv-fourth. .