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-J THE OREGON SCOUT. JONES A CHANCEY, Publishers UNION OREGON. I A DRESS SUIT'S TALC. JDlfllculttr Which Attended ci Young tw jit's l.iitren to Society, A caso recently decided beforo Judge Fallon, of the Ninth District Court, de veloped sotno unusually plcturosquo features. Daniel Bradley, a tailor at Tio. o west 1 wcnty-slxth strcot, op- poslto Delmonico's, was tho plaintiff, and John T. O'Connor, a lawyer at 107 Broadway, was tho defondant. Philip Carpenter, of tho Potter Build ing, brought tho suit for Bradloy and carried it (tho lawsuit not the dross suit) to successful issuo. Attorney Killshchnor, of No. 107 Broadway, represented tho somewhat rocky caso of Mr. O'Connor. The evi dence brought out thoso peculiar points: Lawyer O'Connor ono day found him self tho recipient of an invitation to a swell social aifalr uptown. This seemed to bo a somewhat unusual event in his caroor, ns it found him without a dross suit. Ho hurried oir to Mr. Bradley, tho tailor, whero ho sought to ncgotiato tho loan of a splko-tall coat and tho other porsonal adornmonts necessary to a suc cessful ontreo to tho social swim. Bradloy didn't keep dross suits to hire, but having a desiro to holp a "truggllng man along in tho world ho introduced Lawyer O'Connor to Dennis Shea, a doalorwhoso specialty Is dress suits to loan for a fair consideration. In this caso tho consideration was fixed at S4.G0 for tho evening. O'Connor didn't havo tho "four-fifty," and Mr. Shoa did a cash business, and honco tho negotiations wore blocked. Bradloy's kindness of heart again came to tho rescue, and ho consented to go O'Connor's security for tho dress suit Jor tho evoning. Thus it was that soci ety was not doprivod of Mr. O'Connor's prcsonco, as ho blossomod out in much radianco in tho hired suit, and for that occasion, at loast, ns Wordsworth puts it, "socioty hocamo IiIh glittering brido." Tho dress suit Booms to havo boon a good fit and otherwlso satisfactory to Xawyor O'Connor, for ho did not roturn it next day, according to tho stipulation? in tho lease. Neither did ho roturn it tho noxt day, nor tho next week, and ho jhas not roturnod it yot. That is tho reason tho rcd-oyod law was invoked. Shoa wanted his money, and had ro- courso on Bradloy as surety. Mr. Brad ioy paid, and then began to look around 'iqz 0onnor. Vcif Investigation showed that Mr. O'Con- nor had "hooked" his business suit and jvas disporting hlmsolf by night and by day In tho hired suit, tho rent of which was all tho timo piling up. -4 Whllo Jay Gould might havo boon appalled by such a situation, Mr. O'Connor was serono. llo was treading tho flowery paths of Bacchus and didn't caro a rap for ex penses. Tho matter wont on until Xawyor Carpenter was forced to bring suit, which was done boforo Judge I'allon. When tho caso camo totrialMr. O'Connor was lawyer enough to know it would bo a point against him if ho uppoared In court wearing tho suit at Issue, and by Homo heroic olfort ho Tnanaged to appoar in a regulation suit. Ho and his lawyer made a hard light, but a judgmont for tho value of tho hired suit was rocordod against him. Tho whole tendency of tho caso went to how that getting into society In a hired dross suit Is attended with dangors and drawbacks. N. V. World. EMPRESS FREDERICK. Her Opinion of (limtnv Froytug'a Little ( Work on Her I.ntn llunlmnil. Tho Empress Frodoriok has, according to otho llerlln papers, delivered nor opini n on Gustav Froytug'B now llttlo work on her late husband. Her Majesty has, In tho llrst placo, pointed outcortain errors, especially in relation to herself. Sho said, among other things: "1 was proud to bo able to fol low tho high flight of his spirit, to un derstand his plans, and to share in his wishes. Wo were ono in thinking and fooling. Tho words, 'lie ordered ovory thing uccording to her thoughts and -wishes, aro decidedly Incorrect. In Im portant questions tho Emperor usod to ask my opinion. Wo exchanged views, und ho was gltul to call mo his 'Goholmrathln' (privy counclloress), who was versed in every thing, but ho novor was unhappy or dissatisfied be cause I was of unothor opinion than himself." The Kmpross also objected with somo indignation to tho passage which says that "Sho had como to her husband from groator circumstances, richly gifted, and that ho had inspired his pure and simple soul with the feeling that what hud taken visual shape with in him was her work." Her Majesty said: "It was he whoso high-souring jnlnd warmed mo for all the ideals that filled his heart It was ho who worked, practically sowing in my heart thoso seeds which had already grown In his to tho most glorious development. All thnt has grown out of the harmless child that ho then took Into IiIh palace Is his work." On Froytag'H certainly rather curious romurk that such domination threatened to bring dllllcultles and con tllot to tho husband, the future ruler of Prusslu, Her Majesty sank into deep ..reflection, and exclaimed: "Suoh "dominutlont I brought him dillloulties and conflicts'.' When and where? Did I ever try to sub ordinate his will tomlnuV Tho Em poror was not a man to yield to tho do minion of his wife, oven if -but must 1 road all that is written?" Sho pushed tho iniok usldo und, stepping Into u win dow rocoss, gared long and mournfully at Emperor Frederick's portrait hanging there, und then left tho room, uuablu to apeak further, Jtissuld that tho Empress bus pre fixed tho following motto from Schiller's 'Maid of Orleans" to her copy of Froy tag'ij "llemlnlbcences:" "Tho world loves to blacken whut is radiant, und to drag tho eminent down into tho dust. 1 do But mourn. Thdro are btlll noble hearts that glow for the man that Is high und rare." " ' - EASTERN ITEMS. CLEVELAND AGAIN ASPIRING FOR THE PRESIDENCY. Kyrlo lellew a Dead Beat-W. O. T. U aocedors Organize Around the World In 72 Days Forepaugh Dead. Cleveland is open for the nomination in 1892. Adam Forepatigh, of circus fume, died nt Philadelphia. Montana's governmental muddle is growing no better. The bark Pythomene was scuttled and Bunk in New York harbor. Denver's sheriff is trying to closeup the city's saloons on Sunday. Great suffering from cold and hunger is reported from South Dakota. President 0..kes, of tho Northern Pa cific, is still confined to his loom m New York. In a railroad accident near Cincinnati several curs were burned and five persons killed. Tho president has summarily removed seventeen unsatisfactory land office of ficials. Four men wcro terribly burned bv the igr king of a natural gas well at Dehiiven. Penn. Tho body of Hanker Dittman of Phila delphia, was found iloatiDgintho Schuyl kill river. Tho Virginia Legislature has invited Sonator Daniel to deliver an cuIokv of Jofl Davis. Six persons wero killed and thirty in jured by an explosion of natural gas at UOIlllnlMlH, U. Charles Francis Adams, president of tho Union Pacific, is in Cuba for u three weeks' vacation. It is said that Villunl has succeeded in raising tho Northern Pacific's new $00, 000,000 mortgage. Green Braxton, negro, was hung nt Montgomery, Alabama, for tho murder of Lewis Pugh, white. Thirty-live negro strikers wero ar rested. ut Appalachicola, Florida, und one shot by statu troops. A call lins been issued for a convention of all the roform partioB to bo held in St. Louis September 3. New York capitalists aro considering tli o advisability of investing to complete the Panama canal. Nicholas Meyer, of Chicago, murdored his wife and then committed suicide. Jealousy was tho cuuso. Tho first torpedo loat hap just boon launched at lirietol, Khodo Island. It is called the dishing. Tho Massachusetts etato insane asylum at Worcester, Mass., was burned. All tho patientB wore rescued. Natural gas exploded and wrecked a three-story building at Pittsbury, seri ously injuring many people. Tho convention of W. C. T. U. seced ers havo assembled at Cleveland, O., and perfected organization. A Portland, Maine, smelting and sliip building loncorn lias ben bought by Englishmen for $25,000,000. llerr Most, tho anarchist, iB undor ar rest at Now York City, for using lan guugo tending to incite a riot. Potor Oglcsby, nophow of ox-Governor Oglosby, of Illinois, accidentally shot und killod hiuisolf near Deuver. P. B. Hutchinson, of Chicago, has boon Bwindlod out of $100,000 by his clerks, Thomas Stonor and B. King. .lames Fortner, tho defaulting county treasurer of Manhattan. Kansas, is starving himself to death in his cell. Hon. John McSwoony, tho most prominent criminal lawyer in Ohio, died at Wooster, of neuto pnouinonia. Mies Nollio Bly arrived in Now York Sururday. She accomplished hor trip around tho world in seventy-two days. ThioveH BiniiBhod a Montreal jeweler's window in broad daylight and success fully made away with $15,000 in jewelry. Henry A. Phillips, of Now York, chief of tho middle division of tho pension bureau, has been removed for inefficiency. jf Ilanchmen estinmto Nevada and Idaho's losses by tho winter's severity at (10 per cent, for tho cattle and 40 par cent, for tho sheep. Georgo Lounsbury, a cashier in tho Now York postolllco, suicided at Hackon sack, Now Jorney. llo is short in hia uccountB $20,000. Sidnov Dillon, a nophow of Hon. Sid ney Dillon, of New York, accidentally shot and killed hiniBolf while out hunting near Omaha. A Hlriko is on at tho Apulluehioo'u saw iuIIIb. Trouble Is breaking out between tho negro strikers and tho whites with bloody results. Kyrlo Bellow, tho actor, has been dropped from tho Uunb'a club in Now York, for not paying .tho steward his lwurd bill of $S5. J. V. Davino, a clerk in tho inquiry de partment of tho Chicago mudotlieo, was urrcsttd. Ho had been pilfering the mails for eighteen mouths. Nowa wub received Irom Flathead lako, that thirteen Indians, tried to cross tho ico on onioH und broke through, and five Indians woro drownec. Sing Leo, u Chinese liuindrymnn, and Minnie Sweeney, a whlto woman, wero found dead in the Chinaman's basement nt Blnghninpton, N. Y, Out of a band of 800 Manitoba Indians near Winnipeg, few nro oxxcted to sur vive u devdly plague of tho Influenza which bus prostrutod tho tribe. It Is understood that the Prince and Princess Hutxfoldt will llvo in Now York city, In tho great house which Mr. O. P. Huntington is to build on Fifth avenue, By tho loaso of tho Wisconsin Control road to tho Northern Pucltlo, tho Wis consin road U to recolvo 115 per cent, of its gross earnings, leaving tho remainder to tho Northurn Pucillo for ojieratlug ' uxpeuscs. THE PACIFIC COAST. THE SODTHERN PACIFIC BLOCKADE A SERIOUS ONE. Murderer Blanton to Hang Disappear ance of a Portland Cashier Seattle j. overs Elope General Val lcjo Dead. The Tacoma police captured four bur glars. The seal in Portland's city park has died. The Ellensbiirg Lloyd failure foots up $160,000. Murderer Blanton is to hang at Colfax March 8. A brick yard lias been started at Boseburg. Portland's fat stock show will begin September 25. Albina is to have ligious paper. a new German re- A" orphans' home is to be established at Albany, Or. Several roofs were crushed in by weight of snow at Portland. Portland is building two new brick fire engine houses. At Portland beds aro provided in the county jury room. Choynski defeated McLarnoy in a prizo fight at Portland. John D. Boyer, a prominent Tacoma merchant, hits failed and fled. A good many Portland saloons aro bsing closed under attachments. Tho Dempooy-MacCarthy fight at San francisco, has been postponed. Tho striking Seattle bricklayers have been aeceoded their demands. Portland's public school teachers re ceivo $8,000 monthly in salaries. O. A. Freden, a mill employo, was Kiueu uy a rxortiiern i'ucitlo engine. Tho Parthia 1ms sailed from Vancouver with 2247 tons of freight for China. A British syndicate has been unsuc cessfully trying to buy Tacoma saw mills. A 200-acro tract near Pendloton is being platted for an addition to the town. William Hottstein shot and killed JameB B. Oglesby, a waiter, at Colville. A daring horseman galloped across tho Columbia above Vancouver on tho ico. California office seekers must wait until the Democrats have finished their terms. Portland is to havo an athletic stock company, modeled on tho San Francisco clubs. Portland is agitated over an alleged boodlo ordiuanco introduced in its city council. W. C. Roberts, cashier for Dunbar it Co., Portland commission merchants, is missing. Tho butter mou's conttovorsy at Port land, has got into the courts. Three cases aro filed. J. J. Barker, a steerage waiter on tho Columbia, was killed by falling on deck in a rough sea. Tho Oregon Improvement Company has doolured a dividend of 1 por cent, on it common stock. John II. Shupe, of Douglas and J. W. Strango, of Union, aro Oregon's now census supervisors. In tho now county jail at Portland the cells uro oponed and closed by means of u combination lock. Charles Kornchan is supposed to have perished in tho snow between Succotash valloy and Tacoma. William Handle, the defaulting fore man of Handsaker & Clark, Tacoma, has made rotribution. Mrs. Jarvis Emiidi, of Bickleton, Wash., mado an unsuccessful attempt at suicide by chloroform. Kato TewkBbury, daughter of Rev. Georgo A. Tewksbury, eloped with Win, E. Stevenson, at Seattle. Tho noted general W. G. Valleio, died at Sonoma Ho was said to bo the oldest living Cilifornian. Vico-Presidont Fred Crockor, of tho Southern Pacific, was recently snowed in on hia road for eiglr days. Alonzo L. Barry, u Umatilla rancher, was shot und killed in an a 11 ray with his neighbor, John Donaldson. Several heavy robberies havo been inadu lately in Portland by women of ill fame from drunken followers. A large amount of opium was imported at ban I'rancisco lust week. Iho duty alone was not short of $i0,000. Tho now Northern Pacific branch will parallel tho Seattle, luUo Shore & Eust ern to tho Canadian boundary. Tho rivers of Northern California aro rising rapidly, owing to melting snow, and grave apprehension is felt. I ITho Central Pacific blockudo between Heuo and bandy Hun is far from being raised. Snow is again fulling.! Sheriff Smith and his deputies nr- rested seventeen Chinamen ut Astoria, while they wero smoking opium. Tho snow interferes a good deal with Portland's electric Btreet cars, preventing contact of tho wheel with the rails. Ruv. Fostor, a faith curist of Walla Wullu, who refused his wife medicine, has boon examined und declared sane. Carlton O Crane, the agent of tho Vanderbilt lines in Portland, bus been promoted to the Pacific coast manage ment. During tho Southern Pacific blockade tho San Francisco steamers were so crowded that cots wero put upon tho docks. A railroad from Seattle across Salmon Bay and thenco to some point near tho head of I-uko Washington, is to bo con structed. L. L. Bromwell, president of tho Cali fornia Insuranco Company, was shot by his general agent, G. O. Pratt, at San Fiaudsco. IN FOREIGN LANDS. A TERRIFIC GALE VISITS THE IRISH COAST. Mary Anderson to Marry Mr. Navarro Prlnco William Dead Dr. PeterB. the Explorer, Believed to be Dead Other News. Stanley is still at Cairo. Cardinal Jacobini is dying with moni.1. pneu- Prince William, of Hesse-Darmstadt, is dead. Leutner, the prima soprano, is dead, at Weisbaden. Atlantic vessels storms for years. report the fiercest Sophia, Crown Princess of Greece, is being lionised as an artist. M. Muriani, French embassador to Italy, is dead of pneumonia. Tho English channel bridge project is being energetically pushed forward. The Socialist bill lias been rejected by the German reichstag by a large vote. Tho Erin, out from New York Decem ber 28, fcr London, lum been iriven up for lost. Gounod is composing a mass for the dedication of tho new Cathedral at Rome, which will bo sung by 4,000. Natham Alder, chief rabbi of tho Unitrd Hebrew congregation of the British Em pire, is dead. At a recent auction sale of old wines at Edinburg, $:50, $35, and $40 were paid per dozen. Mr. Navarro has cabled his comrratu- lntions to his son upon his engagement to Alary Anderson. Anna Teresa Bergcr, the leading woman cometist of tho world, is now performing in London. Nearly a million pounds of sugar cane on a Cuban estate np.tr Cierfuegos, have been destroyed by fire. John Gorloy and his three children were burned to death at St. Johns, N. F. He was rescuing others. Georgo Albert, prince of Schwarzbourg Rudolstadt, is dead. He was a Russian cavalry officer, aged 52 Rev. T. Withorow, professor of church history and pastoral theology in Mageo College, Londonderry, is dead. A number of Chinoee have reached Tampico, Mexico, from Cuba, their des tination being tho United States. A Vienna journalist named Ptdkowitz, shot a popular actress named Sterieher and then killed himself. Jealousy. Lisbon's streets aro filled with thou sands, crying "War with England.' Business with Great Britain is suspended. An attempt to increase the capital of tho Portuguese Mozamniquo Companv from $1, 000,000 to $2,000,000 has failed". Fastnet lighthouse, off Queenstown, is displacing Hags of distress, but no vessel has been ablo to approach it for several days. Queen Victoria has mado a baronet of Sir Albert Sasson, who recently enter tained the shah of Persia mogniGcently in London. Lieutenant Rust, who was a member of Peters' expedition, has arrived at Berlin. Ho appears convinced that Dr. Peters is dead. The Princo of Wales will probably go to Berlin, accompanied by Prince George for the fete in celebration of Emperor William's birthday. Preliminary surveys of the Guadalajara & Chamela Railroad in Mexico havo be gun. The road will pass through very rich mining regions Southwestern France has been visited and devastated by a fearful hurricane. Telegraphic communication in that di rection is interrupted. Princo Henry of Battenberg will re turn to London next month. It is said that the (pieoii couldn't resist the plead ing of Princess Beatrice. H. C. Sappings Wright, tho special artist of tho Jxmdon Illustrated News, hab como to thiB country to make a feature of the portrayal of American life. Thero is no improvement in the condi tion of Emin Pasha, who recently siifi'ored a relapse, after his partial recovery irom the effects of a full from a balcony at Bugomoyo. The Duchess d'Uzes is training an original Christy minstrel corps ot her ! own lor public appearance in Pans, i Tho duchess is a p.itron of horse races ; aud other outdoor sports. ) Commondatore Baldacliini, a promi nent lawyer of Rome, who for twenty years has been secretary of a charitable organization, Iiub absconded. His defal- ! cations amount to $25,000. It is announced that tho congratula I tory letters und telegrams that havo reueneu tiuwanien sinco Saturday last, when Mr. Gladstone uttainod hia 80th birthday, uggreguto over IWOO. Tho whaling bark of J. A. Howlund went ashore at Johnson's island, 700 miles southwest of Honolulu. Tho crew reached land safely except one man, Georgo McDonald, who was drowned. An American ludv, said to bo a daugh ter of Mr. Edison, was, whilo on u jourrvoy from Vienna to Berlin, taken ill at Dresden. It was found sho had Binallpox and she was Bent to a hospital. Tho Paris Figaro says that Portugal has complained to Pr'nco Bismarck thnt Great Britain has violated tho Berlin treaty. She therefore asks that a con ferenco bo convoked to discuss African nfiulrs. The results of tho German-Czech con ference held in Vienna havo exceeded all expectations. Tho conference has uroecded in reconciling all differences tMitween tho Czechs and Germans in Bohemia. A monument to Victor Nolr, tho young man who was killed in 1870 by Princo Pierro Bonaparte, has been com pleted by tho sculptor Dalou, for a com mittec, which intends to erect It in some lart of Paris. ! PORTLAND MARKET. Evidences are not wanting of a quicken ing of trade In several important branches as soon as the transportation routeR are open and to be depended on. Indeed, that is all that seenm to arrest the early re sumption f general buslnesi activity. But while overland freight can neither be received nor shipped, and the malls and pHSsenpers are many days late, a blue feeling prevails. A;itlCUI.Ti;itAl. 131 1'l.K.H KXTH. Breaking Plow 9 33-"' Uroadcast Seeders 0 Til 10 Binding Twine.. . .piperctdls 18c Binding Wire " "- 12 c Grain Drills llO'gKr) Gang Flow 1U0&115 Osborne's blowers . . .liuperctdls 7o lieapers . " " 10 " ComMwrx&Hprs " " l.V) " Droppers.. . " " VJO " Steel-frame self blnd'g llttrveaU-rs " " ISO Railroad Harrows, Iron whls t?doz 48'a5o Railroad Barrows, wood whls ' W0 Itoad Plow Wam Solid steel scrapers 12 r 1-1 Steel disk harrows fOfrOO Spring wagons 125 170 Su'ky Plow 7iVS!V Wulking plows OSSUii Wagons, all makes 1101G'J Bnrlaps, 10 in 7 Burlaps, 45 in 74 Burlaps, GO in Hi Gnnnles, 18x40 10 Potato bags, net cash 5(0 Wool 4 lb. " Wool Hi lb, " Wheat sacks, spot, neteish Wheat sacks, extra, second hand . . si Guatemala. t lb 2Urt?2:i lava, f lb 25 &'jTi Mocha, h"t 28 (a 31 No. 1 Costa Rica, W lb 22 (toll Rio. b lb 22 W23 Salvador, t? lb 2UC22J ItoiiNti-iI. ill HnKN. Arbucklo'H Ariosa, v lb 25j(&i20 Closset &D.' Columbia 1 lb prs ... 25(5)20 Costa Rica 20 aZi Guatemala 2528 Hoasled Java U'l (ai Roasted Mocha 35 37 weiii,. Kustern Oretron. According to shrinkage 1014 Valloy. Spring clip 10(E18 Umpqua 1020 Umpqua, lambs and fall 1014 Vece'uldeM (Krewli). Cabbage, lb IS Carrots, per sk. 1 25 Oarrots, young, W doz 15 Celery, W doz 001 00 Lettuce. $ doz 124 Onions, 100 lbs Potatoes, t? 100 lbs Potatoes, sweets, & lb. . , Radishes, ? doz Spinach Turnips, b sk 1 25 1 50 1 25&1 50 12 1 25 FOUIiTHV. Chickens, large young, & doz. . . 4 00(24 50 Chickens, broilers 3 754 (O Chickens, old 4 o'Mar TO Ducks, tfdoz 7 HO 8 50 Geehe, young, doz 10 0011 00 Turkeys, young, If lb 16 Grouse aud Pheasants 3 00 Fit KM II Jr'KllIT . Apples 1 50(22 00 Bananas. V bunch 3 50 S 4 00 Lemons, California, t? bx 5 0 16 U 00 Lemons, Sicily, bx, new 0 50(g7 00 Limes, cwt 1 50 Quinces, ? bx 1 00&1 2i Oranges, Riversides 3 2f53 60 O-angea, Seedless 4 75 5 00 ; it a i. Barley, whole, ctl SO !K) Corn, t? 100 tbs 1 50 Oats, good, old, IP bushel Oats, new, " 38 (2i 39 Rye, & 100 lbs, nominal 1 22J(21 25 Wheat, Valley, lt HO lbs 1 20 1 22i Wheat, Easterp Oregon 1 15 (gl 174 DAIUV I'ltOOUCE. II utter. Oregon fancy creamery- 3') Choice dairy 274 Common 8 (5)124 Pickled, California 18 2,20 Eastern fancy creamery 25 California choice 25 274 Cliei'Mt. Oregon full cream 15 Oregon skims and old 10 Swiss Cheese, domestic 15 10 Young America, Or. 14 Oregon, fc doz 45 (2)50 Eastern, doz 32 (a 35 KLOVK. Portland patent roller, fc? bbl 3 75 Salem patent roller 3 75 Dayton patent roller 3 05 Cascadla patent roller II (Si Country brands 3 50 McMlnnville 3 75 Superfine 2 50 White Lily 3 75 Graham 3 25 Rye Hour 0 00 NL'KIIS, ruHN NcciIn. Timothy 0 (21 (1J Orchard Grass 11412l Rod Top 74 0 Blue GrasH 12 (2)14 English Kye Grass 7(2i 0 Italian Itt Grass. 04-211 Australian ityo Grass. Mosquito Millet Hungarian Millet. . . . Mixed Lawn Grass. . . Olovr Heeiln. Red Clover White Clover Alsyko Clover Alfalfa SllMfcllnueoiiH, Canary Flax 74 7 (10 5 0 5 (a) 0 12C315 10ilt4 lUitt 18 15174 OJ'SlOJ 4)(2) 5 44 5 5 (a 51 Hemp itape, uaiuoruia 34 fk:i. Bran, V ton- 18 00 Hay, ton, baled 15 00210 00 Ground Barley, ton 'L SO 2 1 00 Mill Chop, t'ton 18 00i0 10 Oil Cake Meal, t ton 30 ttKalli 50 Short, ton 21 00 2J IX) lilTMIIKK-ltOL'UH A.l J111:HHKI. Hough Per M, 910 00 Edged. ... 12 00 T. & G. sheatklng 13 00 No. 2 tlooriiiK 18 00 No. 2 celling 18 00 No. 2 rustle 18 00 Clear rough. 20 Oil Clear P. 4S 22 50 No. 1 llooring 22 50 No. 1 celling 22 50 No 1 rustic 22 50 Stepping 2J 00 HALT. (;onrBi- Kin i. 200-lb bag, tfton 17 00 100-lb bap, ton 17 00 Ground Rock, 50-tb lags, k ton. . .. 12 50 Seventy-four paupers are iu the county poor house at Portland now. The chari ties of January exceed those of four mouths. DOUBTED THEIR FAITH. TVIiat Tlcklril an Old Hoosler Who Had lloth Kyen Wide Open. One day I was riding along a highway in Indiana when I camo upon a pilo ol bedding and articles of crockery and hardwaro In front of a farm house, and seated on the horso block was a corpu lent old man with a very red face. Naturally enough I asked him what had happened, and ho wont off Into laughter which lasted a full minute before bo could reply. "Them duds bolong to Ben and Mary." "But who aro Ben and Mary?" "Ben's my my ha! ha! ha! I'vn laffed till I'm almost dead. Ben's my son, and Mary is his ha! ha! ha! wife." "But who tumbled thoso things out there?" "I did." "And whero aro Ben and Mary?" "She's gono homo and he's broko for tho woods. Stranger, excuse me, but I'd havo to lafT if there was a corpso in tha house. It's too durned funny for any thing ha! ha! ha!" And he yelled and whooped until ha could havo been heard half a mile. When ho sobered up a llttlo I asked: "Is thero a joko in this somewhere?" "Is thero? Whoop! I should say thero was! Go into tho house and you'll find tho old woman nigh dead with lull ing." "Well, what is it?" "You see, Ben got married about threo months ago. Purty good boy, but inclined to be tricky. llo married a purty fair gal, but she's droliully ambitious. They cum homo to live, and about a month ago wanted mo 'n tho old woman to deed over tho farm to them and be taken keer of tho rest of our lives. We didn't like tho idea, but they hung to it. and so last week I mado out a deed and bunded it over. It wasn't a deed doscribin' this farm, but some other farm, though it all looked rog'lar miff." "You doubted their faith, eh?" "I kindordid, and so ha! ha! ha! Say, stranger, don't think hard of me, but 1'vo got to laff or bust. Just tickles ma way back to my shoulder blades!" Ho wont oil into another fit. and when ho got his breath again ho continued: "This morning was tho sixth day sinco they got tho deed. As soon as breakfast was over lion said they'd con cluded to git along without our valued company, and suggested that as it was nine miles to the poorhouso wo make an early start, lie intended to turn us smack out doors without a dollar, but he got left. I told him ho bettor look into the deed a bit, and ho went to town and diskivored tho trick I had played. You ortor scon them two when they como back! Why, why " And he laughed again until I had ta pat him on tho back to provent a catas trophe. "Thoy wero tho humblest, down-trod-dencst, used-upest, gono to-pieces pair you over sot eyes on. Ben got a plug of torbacker and a boss pistil and left fur tho woods, and Mary tied a wet towel around hor head and hoofed it fur her father's houso. I'vo brought out their duds and piled 'oni up here, and if they don't send fur 'em beforo noon they kin go to tho dogs." "Well, thoy deserve it." "Yes, they do, but it was a mirror escape fur mo. If that deed had bin all right me'n tho old woman would bo pau pers to-day. But it wasn't all right, and and " And 1 had drivon at loast half a mils beforo I lost tho sounds of his laughter. N. Y. Sun. AS HIS FATHER DID. Mr. lllxby Is Attnckrd by u Very Mystert- uiih l it or Stomnt'li-Aclie. "Elijah, If I wero you I wouldn't eat minco pio and cheeso and doughnuts at this timo of night," said Mrs. Bixby to her lord and master, tho other night, when thoy camo home from tho theater and Bixby had gono straight to tho pantry. "Fiddlesticks!" was his contemptuous reply. Don't try to come any of tho coddling business ovor mo. 'Mandy, I guess I know what I'm about. It's all nonsenso about its bolng unhealthy tO' eat beforo you go to bed. My father mado a regular practice of eating pio and pickles and cheeso and any thing ho wanted at midnight, and ho lived to bo eighty." "I know, Elijah, but your father was a farmer and lived out of doors most of tho timo, and worked hard at manual labor, so that ho could easily digest " "That had nothing to do with it," in terrupted Mr. Bixby, as ho helped him self to another quarter of pie. "Eat when you're hungry, I say, and I'm hungry enough to-night to eat an ox. Whero aro thoso cold pig's feet? I'm going to top off with thorn and you'll seo that I'll bo asleep In ten minutes aftorward and sloop liko a baby all night, in splto of these new-fangled idoas about dlot!" Mrs. Bixby saw. Sho both saw and heard Bixby threo hours later. Sho could have heard him howl and groan had sho been a quartor of a inilo away. "Oh, 'Mandy!" ho wailed, "got up for heaven's sake! I'm going to diol Get mo a doso of paln-killor or somothing to stop this ftarfnl pain in my stomach, or I'll bo a dead man in ton minutest Wring out some flannel cloths In hot water! Aj-o thero any porous plastors in the houso? Oh, o-o-o-h! .Ar-rusaloml Who-o-o-o-rr7 Yah-a-hl Got mo a Sold lltz powder! Got somo of tho neighbors to go for a doctor! O, 'Mandy, 'Mandy.' Lawyer Sharpo has my will, 'Mandyt I-I-O-0-0- I can't stand this muoh longer! I-I-TaA Can't you do any thing, 'Mandy?" And when she had raced across tho street with a blanket around hor and routed out a neighbor to go for tho doctor, and when tho doctor had come and relieved Bixby of his mis ery, ho lay back on his pillow and jHd: "I can't Imaglno what could havo gvvon rao such a turn, can you, 'Mandy?" And when sho said sho could and did imaglno tho origin of it all, ho again said: "Fiddlostioks!" Timo. A "sacred concert" given In a Colo rado town on a recent Sunday ovonin? was advertised as "A Grand Sacred Don Fight." r