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THE OREGON SCOUT Is independent in all things, neu tral in nothing; devoted to every cauee it believes to be right a journal for the people. THE OREGON SCOUT Has as large acirculatiionasany two papers in this section of the State combinvd, and is corre spondingly valuable as an adver tising medium. vmammmmmmmmmmmmmr Here Will the Press the People's Rights Maintain. VOL. VII. UNION, UNION COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1S90. NO. 12. t . i 1 11 1 1 i i . i . ., i .-m. I. i. . The Oregon Scout A a ndf fxnatnt we klr journal, asue ererj Thur.dar morning by JONES & CIIAXCEY, Publishers and Proprietors. K. K. Jon is, Editor. It. Chancey, Foreman. Jtateg of SubHrrtiitlon. Ona copj one year, . One copy tlx munohft. . One copy three months, . 11.50 )00 .75 Invarlnblr Caih In Advance. by chance rubtcrlptiont are not paid till end " 1W. two dollars will be charged. Rates ot adtertlitoK made known on application. aTUT Correspondence from all parts of tne country solicited. Address a'l communications to the Oreiion Scout, Union, Oregon. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. UNITED STATES. President Benjamin Harrison of Indiana. Secretary or State James U. ltln ne of Maine. Secretary or the Treahury William Windom at Minnesota. Secretary or War UedfieM I'roctorof Vermont. Secretary or the Navy Ilenjamin K. Tracy of Mew York. Secretary or the Interior-John W. Nuble of Missouri. Pohtm aster-General John Wanamaker of Penn sylTanla. AttornevQeneral-W. H. II. Miller of Indiana. Secretary or AuRicuLTURE-Jeremiah Kusk of Wisconsin. STATE OF OREGON. .Senators, Congressman, Oorernor, Secretary of State, f J. H. Mitchell. I J. N. Dolfh. Hinukr Hermann. Sylventek Pkn.nover. Glorue W. McIIriuk. mate Treasurer, . W. WEBU. Superiatendeut of Public Instruction. E. It. McElroy. otate ranter, ... framc u. iiakkr, fit. 8. STRAHAN. -! W. P. Lohii. I.W. W. THAYER. Supreme Judges, SIXTH JUDICIAL DI8TIUCT. Circuit Judges, Prosecuting Attorney ( M. I). Clikforp Jam kg A. Fee. J. h. IvAND. COUNTY OF UNION. State Senators, Representatives, Judge Sheriff, Olerk, Treasurer, Schcol Superintendent, Surreyor, - : Assessor, Coroner, Commissioners, 1.1. W. Norval. fj. II. Kaley. IClIAHLES (ioOHNOUUH. J. Ii. KOK. O. P. OOOHALI.. A. N. Hamilton. A. T. Neill. E. O. 11RAINARI). J, L. CARTER. J. W. KlMIIRKI.L. J. 1). GUILD. U. HUUEKS. J O. W. llENNEHOKF. (.John McDonald. CITY OF UNION. Mayor, Recorder, Marshal, J. W. Kennedy. J. E. Tuttle. M. Heritaue. COUNCILMEN. H. F. Wilson. J. II. Corbin. J. S. Elliott. A. K. Junks. E. Kemillard. S. A. Purmkl. LODGES. UNION LODGE, No 39, 1. O. O. F., MEETS EVERY Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock WM. KALEY, N. O. O. S. Miller, Secretary. ORANDE RONDE ENCAMPMENT, No. 11, 1. O. O. P., meet! on the tirst and third Tuesdays in each month. 0. 8. MILL Kit. C. P. J. 1). Thompson, Scrllw. ORANDE RONDE VALLEY LuDOE, No. 56, A F. & A. M meets on the second mi 1 fourth Saturdays every mouth. E. W. DAVIS, W. M. R. H. Drown, Secretary. ORANDE RONDE VALLEY CHAPTER, No. 20., R. A. M., meets first a i third Tuesdais each month. W. T. WRIGHT, M, E. II. P. Turner OLIVER, Secretary. ULUE MOUNTAIN LODGE No. 23 K. OF P meets every Wednesday evening. O. F. HALL, 0 C. Turner Oliver, K. of R. & 8. PRESTON POST, No. 18, O. A. It., MEETS EVKRY third Saturday la each month at the Odd FelloHa' hall. JOSHUA URADFORD. P. C. GeorueHeininuer, Adjutunt. CHURCHES. The Methodist Epl copal Church holds services at 11 Jl. M. and 7 r. -M. of eacn Sunday. Rev. S. M. DRIVER, Pastor. Services are held at the Presbyterian Church at 11 A, M. and 7 r. M. of each Sunday, Rev. it. II. PARKER, Pastor. SOCIETIES. The Union Literary and Musical Society meets every Friday evening at the M, E. Church. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. JOHN R. CRITES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, jOrfloe two doors south of Postorlice, Union, OrKon. Collecting und prolate practice specialties. J, W. SIIELTON. J. M. CARROLL. SHELTON & CARROLL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Office two doors south of PostorUce, Union, Oregon. Special attention given to all business entrusted to us. Jt. EAK1N. J. A. EAKIN, Notary Public. R. EAKIN & BRO., ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Union. Oregon. frompt attention ruld to collections. 01. F. WILSON, Notary Public A. J. HACK8TT. Notary Public. WILSON & HACKETT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Union, Oregon. Collections and alt other buslne entrusted to us will receive prompt attention. ........ ... A couplet abstract of the land of Union county Ir., ""kUiSeVi of the UNION REAL ESTATE ASSOC1A. TION. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. I. N. CROMWELL, M. D PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office one door south of J. li. Eaton's store. Union, Oregon, T. McNAUGHTON, H. D PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Klgln, Oregon. All cal's promptly attended to day or night. A. L. DANFORTH, H. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. North Powder, Oregon. DISEASES OF WOMEN A SPECIALTY. Calls attended to at all hours. C. H. DAY, H. D Homeopathic Physician and Surgeon. All Calls Promptly Attended to. Office adjoining Jones Bros.' s'ore. Can be found nighta at residence in Southwest Union. WILLIAM KOENIG, Architect and Builder. Cove, Oregon. Draft, plans and designs for dwellings and bridges furnished on application. DR. A. M. MUSSER, Dentist, Graduate of Pennsylvania Dental College, Is at the CENTENNIAL HOTEL Aiid 1 prepared te do all kinds of dental work pain, lel.ly. DR. E. N. NORTH, DENTIST, O trite It Street, Union, Or. Teeth extracted without pain by the successful new method. U nionTonsorial Parlors GEORGE BAIRD, Proprietor. Shaving, Hair-Gutting and Shampooing in the Lasest Style or the Art. Shoo two doors south of the Centennial hotel. Give me a call. City Meat Market Main Street, Union, Oregon. BENSON BROS., Proprietors, HKF.l' CONSTANTLY ON UAND Beef, Pork, Yeal, Mutton, Sausage, Hams, Lard, Etc. Montreal Saloon Ed Remillard, Proprietor. If you want a rtfresblng drink or a good cigar, drop in. lVlhard and iwol tables for the accommodation of customers. Cornucopia Saloon. William Wilson, Proprietor. The Firvest of Wines, Liquors and Cigars Always in Stock. Flrat-cU's billiard table. Drop in and be sociable. For Information About the South ADDRESS WITH STAMP. The Official Immigration Department -OF- FIFTEEN SOUTHERN STATES. CARL KOBINSOX. Secretary, lialelgn, V, 0. THE PACIFIC COAST. The. Capital of Idaho Infested with Tramps. Los Angeles Protests Against the Re moval of Army Headquarters to Santa Fe. New Mexico's population ia 150,159. Tacoma's'iiew hotel is to cost $1,250", 000. Ogden will put up 8,000 cases of canned tomatoes this season. New Mexico will vote on a State Con stitution on the 7th of October next. A cloudburst in tho Warm Springs re gion, Idaho, has seriously damaged the crops. The next Republican State Convention n Washington will be held in Tucoma eptember 25. The Grand Coulee (Mont.) coal miners are on a strike. They claim wages are too low to live. The body of E. II. Allis, tho engineer whose train was wrecked near Punta, A. T., has been found. San Diego is to vote October 8 on tho question of issuing bonds for a new wa ter system by the city. Tho gas well at Summerland, near Santa Barbara, is down sixty-two feet, and the pressure continues. The organization of tho Coos Bay, Roseburg and Eastern Railroad and Navigation Company has been completed at Roseburg, Or. Strong representations are being wired to Washington in opposition to the re moval to Santa Fo from Los Angeles of army headquarters. A small sloop of about five tons, owned by John Hartman of Irondale, Wash., has been seized bv tho customs authori ties at Victoria, B. C. Stockmen in the Yavapai country, A. T., complain of the high railroad tariff on beef cattle, in consequence of which they will drive their stock to California. lioise City, Idaho, is infested with trampswho fob people in tho open streets, and a lynching committee will probably be organized before tho town is rid of these lawless characters. A joint committee of the Board of Trade and Chamber of Commerce of San Jose, Cal., has decided to call a conven tion, to meet in San Jose Septemlxjr 10, to consider tho question of completing the Transcontinental railway. The coun ties of Kern, Tulare, Merced, Fresno, San Benito, Santa Clara, San Mateo ami San Frjmcisco will be asked to send nine delegates. A census bulletin for Washington says that during the calendar year of 1881) 20,404 llasks or 102 short tons of quick silver were produced in California. All the quicksilver produced by the United States was from cinnabar from mines in tho following California counties : Lake, Merced, Napa, San Benito, Santa Clara, Sonoma, Siskiyou and Trinity, and in ono county in Oregon, namely, Doug lass. Morrow has 203,000 surveyed acres in The Dalles district open to settlement. In Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam, Morrow, Crook and Grant counties, in The Dalles district, there are 11,400,040 acres of sur veyed and .T50.100 acres of unsurvoyed, all vacant. This district has also 1,457, 000 acres of Northern Pacific railroad lands, which will bo thrown open for settlement in tho near future. Morrow is about evenly divided between Tho Dalles and La Grande districts. Tho suit of J. D. Spreckels and others against the Pacific Coast Steamship Company to recover $50,000 on murine libel in the admiralty for salvage on tho steamer State of California was up for trial ono day last week before Judge Hoffman in tho United States District Court at San Francisco. Tho plaintiffs claim that on January 3, 1800, while tho State of California was uisaoieu through tho breaking of her machinery and drifting along the coast in a helpless condition, their tug Relief camo to her ri il. t rescue some jou nines iiji mu count iroiu that port, and towed her safely into tho harbor. The defendants deny tho valid ity of the claim on the ground that they had contracted with the plaintiffs toper form tho work of going to the steamers rescue : that thev chartered tho plaintiffs' steamers to do such work, and that, while they sent out another steamer lor that pur)08e, tho Relief was also engaged for the same purpose. A number of Italian fishermen of San Francisco have been accustomed to carry on a thriving business with tho canner ies in bacramento uy selling them their catches of salmon. Lately, how ever, the relations lKitwecn tho fisher men and the dinners have been some what strained. Tho fishermen demanded 5 cents per pound for palmon, ami were offered only 3 cents. This rate was re fused, and a combine has been effected among tho fishermen. Thev determined to take their fish down to ban Francisco rather than accept tho canners' prices, and tho other afternoon the novel scene presented itself at the fishermen's wharf of a dozen or more fishing smacks loaded down with thousands of fish, which were for sale at 25 cents egch. In con versation with ono of tho fishermen u reporter was informed that tho cannery men had mado a cut because heavy in voices of fruit were being received at tho canneries, and the fish-canning industry was temporarily shelved for that of fruit packing. Tho fishermen rather than ac cept tho prices aro determined to boy cott tho canneries and let tho public reap the benefit of it. EASTERN ITEMS. Texas Judge Killed by the Wife of a Defeated Candidate. The Minority Makes Its Report in the Clayton-Drockinriilge Contested Election Case. The total assessed value of Kansas as fixed bvtho State Equalizers is $340,450, 348.11. Three English engineers have gone to inspect the route ot tho Labrador Coast railway. A line from the dairy districts to sup ply New York with milk ia the latest project in pipe-laying. A disease, which some believe to be anthrax, has appeared among cattle at Cartwright, Manitoba. There is much doubt over the passage of a Federal Supremo Court relief bill at this session of Congress. Returns to tho Census Bureau from the South are discouraging the immediate reapportionment pushers. South Dakota's Supremo Court has rendered a decision sustaining tho pro hibition of tho liquor traffic. Warden Durston says the official re lort will show that the execution of Kenunler was a great success. In ono of the Chicago hospitals 25 per cent, of tho patients aro suffering from tho effects of cigarette-smoking. The total product of pig iron for 1880 00 in tho Southern States was 350,340 tons, against 1,780,009 tons in 1800. Tho Connecticut peach crop is said to be a partial failure, but it is relatively better than that of Njw Jersey and Del aware. The steamship Normandio has arrived at New York with tho statue of Lafay ette, which France has presented to the United States. A man in New Orleans confesses to a murder committed in England thirty five years ago, for which an innocent man was hanged. Assistant Secretary of tho Treasury Nettleton confirms tlio report that tho Corwin has been ordered to Alaska, but will say nothing further. II. II. Simpson is on his way to this country from Australia to engage a base ball team. He represents a syndicato with a capital of $100,000. Systematic depredations of books in tho mails from the Philadelphia postof 11 ce have been discovered and a clerk arrested, charged with tho theft. Judge Max Stein of Hidalgo county, Texas, was killed in Renos, Mexico, by Mrs. Delia McCabe. The trouble grew out of an election, in which Mrs. Mc Cabo's husband was defeated. Among tho contributions to the $1,000 fund to endow a bed in tho Monmouth (N. J.) memorial hospital is that of J. B. Haggin, who gave $100, and many prominent turfmen made donations. Two hundred farmers of Huron coun ty, Mich., have asked for public aid be cause their crops were totally destroyed by tho storm which swept over tho east ern portion of tho county at harvest time. The Committee on Commerce has re ported favorably to tho House thoSnnate bill to provide for tho inspection of live cattle and beef products intended for ox port to foreign countries. New York's Board of Health warns tho public to bowaro of tho average towel supply at the public baths, as in vestigation lias shown that many victims of ophthalmia can trace their aflliction to that source. The Denver Lottery Company, which recently opened headquarters in Kansas City, Kan., has vacated its ofllco, and its officers fled tho town after having re ceived $30,000 by tho sale of tickets, etc., leaving all prizeH unpaid. Many of tho neoplo of Newfoundland express themfelves as strongly in favor of annexation with the United States, if thero is not a satisfactory settlement of tho fisheries question, which is now causing so much anxiety on tho island. George Faribault, Chief of tho Indian Police at Standing Rock agency, N. I)., is dead. Ho was tho Daniel Boono of Minnesota and a man of great influence among tho Indians. Ho saved tho lives of many whites during tho Indian troubles. Tho minority report on tho Clayton Breckinridge election contest has been made to the House. It charges that tho majority report was "unfounded in truth, not justified by tho evidence and is defaced by tho repdtition of partisan Hlander.notsuMtaineu by any testimony." A Momphis electric-light company was sued for $490,00 damages a few days ugo for destroying a shade tree in tho yard of a citizen. Tho damages were decreed by default. Tho President of tho com pany was subsequently arraigned boforo n Justice, charged with trespass in put ting up the wires. He waived an exam ination, and was bound over to the Crim inal Court. The Kansas Railroad Commission in reducing local rates on cereals 82 per cent, and on other articles 10 per cent, asserts that local rates havo been main tained for Homo years after distance rates had been reduced becuusa tho roads of tho State were embarrassed, but that current earnings which are undoubted ly most favorable now justify a reduction, FOREIGN NEWS. Li Grippe Causes Quite a Panic in Iceland. Germany Will Compromise with the Cath ollcs by Returning One-Half of the Confiscated Property. A Swedish scientific expedition has been sent to Spitzlergon. An English syndicato is anxious to buy tho Eiffel tower in Paris. Tho next census of tho United King dom will bo taken in April, 1891. The Sultan of Zanziliar fears an at tack shortly from his elder brother. Germany is expected to uso its influ ence against Prince Ferdinand of Bul garia. Europe will need 154,000,000 bushels of wheat to supplement its own crop this year. Tho panic among the Christian inhab itants of Armenia is spreading. Hun dreds nro fleeing to Persia. England and Wales spent $21,000,000 last year in maintaining their paupers, including tho expense of earing for 75, 000 insane. ' Ex-Khedive Ismaol is in very bad health, and has been advised to proceed forthwith to Carlsbad for a course of tho waters there. Captain Sevald of tho Norwegian steamship Leif Erieksson reports having been fired ujxm at Rio Janeiro while liv ing tho American flag. A society " for the endowment of poor marriageable girls" is being started in St. Petersburg on tho sumo plan as that of tho Moscow society. The increase of mendicants in Borlin is tho subject of newspaper comment. So many beggars as now importune in the streets havo not been known fur years. It is said that Germany has agreed to a compromise, in accordance with which sho will pay back one-half of tho money value of the Bishops' property, which was confiscated during tho culturkampf, and interest on the remainder. Tho miracle-working wells of Galgocz in tho district of Pressburg, Hungary, are attracting so many thousands of pil grims from tho surrounding countries that tho authorities have been forced to call in the military to keep order. On tho occasion of her marriage with the son of King John of Abyssinia tho daughter of the King of Shoa wore tho historical crown of tho Queen of Shoba, which has been treasured by tho Ethi opian Kings for twenty-five centuries. The Bishop of Bloomfontcin has re solved on prosecuting an earnest temper ance work in South Africa. At tho out set ho will particularly dovoto himself to tho Bechuanaland police and the em ployes of the British South Africa Com pany. Tho breaking-out of tho influenza in Iceland has caused a considerable panic, as tho consequences thero havo boon se rious. Of tho 57,000 inhabitants in 1843 2,000 died of influenza, and in 1870 1,500 persons wero carried off by tho same tliscaso. Dr. Nansen's expedition to tho North Polo is to start in tho spring of 1892. His companion, Captain Sverdrup, will take tho nautical direction. Ho is at present on board a fishing boat in tho Polar sea in order to practice in maneu vering among the ice. Tho recent increase of tho salaries of government officials in Germany will swell the civil list in tho Postal Depart ment by about $2,500,000. As 85,000 per sons (85 per cent, of the German postal employes) are affected by tho increase, no ono will get a very big slice. A very rich vein of iron ore has been discovered in Kherson, Russia. It is estimated that tho yield will bo sufficient to keep fifteen iron factories at work. Tho Minister of Mountain Works has ordered engineers to sink shafts and to begin mining as soon as possible. Tho new law regulating tho work of minors in Russian factories is not so stringent as tho old law was. According to tho latter children below tho ago of 12 yours wero not allowed to work at all, nut tho now law allows children of 10 and 12 yours to bo employed in factories. Tho National Association of British and Irish Millers report a decided in crease in wheat productions in Russia, Rouiiuinia, Austria and Hungary. Thoy think that America is approaching tho time when she must considerably in crease her wheat acreage or cease to bo a wheat-exporting country, such will bo the home demand. A complete list of tho Sultan's wives shows that ho has five first-class wives valides, twenty-four second-class or mor ganatic wives and some 250 third-class partners, variously described us " favor ites" and "slaves." Tho caro and at tendance of the female establishments require tho services of 0,000 torsoiiB, who are tho only people in Turkey who recolvo their full pay with regularity, In tho agreement by which Heligo land is ceded to Germany young Kaiser William, who by tho careful and delib erate conclusion of the united States of Germany is tho German Emperor and not tho Emperor of Germany, appeurs as tho "Emperor of Germuny." The uso of this titlo in tho English counter part of tho deed was insisted upon by the German foreign office, although it is entiroly contrary to tho Intention of tho German nation. PORTLAND MARKET. Whkat Quiet but firm. Quote: Nom inally, Valley, $1.25 j Walla Wallu,$1.17 1.20. Fi.ouit Qtioto : Standard, $3.90 ; Wall Walla, $3.G0(3.80 per barrel. Oats Quote: 4852c per bushel. MiLLSTtij-KS The market is firm. Quote : Bran, $15!l7 ; Shorts. $2223 ; Ground Barley, $32.50; Chop Feed, $25; Middlings. $22.50(325 per ton. Hay The market is firm. Quote: $ltl(il7 per ton. Vkoktaiilks Tho market is firm. Quote: Cabbage, $1.752 per cental; Peas, 3c per pound ; Onions and Lettuce, 15c per dozen bunches; California Onions, 23 3c ; Oregon, 2lsC per pound ; String Beans, 3c per pound ; Cucumbers, 10c per dozen; Carrots, 1015c per hunch ; Asparagus, 10c per pound ; Beets, $1.50 per sack; Turnips, $1.25 per sack; Corn, 10c per dozen; California Tomatoes, $11.25 per box; Potatoes, 75c(ji$l per cental; Sweet Potatoes, 4 6c per pound. h kuits Quote : Tahiti Oranges, $4.25. per box; California Lemons, $6 per box; fancy Sicily, $910 per case ; Peach and Bradshaw Plums, 7580c per box ; Mad eline Pears, 90c$l ; Oregon Bartlctts, 1.251.50 per Iwx; Pineapples, $3.50(3 4 per dozen ; Bananas, $3.75 per bunch ; double, $0; Oregon Astrachan Apples, $1.50 1.75 per box; Black-berries, 8c per pound, $1.90(82 per 24-pound crate; California Watermelons, $2.503 per dozen ; Cantaloupes, $1.502 per dozen; Crabapples, $1 per box. Receipts tho past week wero 2,010 boxes and 8 car loads. Ciikksk Quoto: Oregon, 1112jc; California, 0j10c; Young America, 14 15c per pound. Butter Tho market is firm. Quoto: pound. Poultry Tho market is firm. Quoto: Old Chickens, $50; largo Spring, $3 iW; small Spring, $22.60; old Ducks, $4.505; young, $5(i; old Geese, $5; young, $89 per dozen ; Turkeys, 18 20c per pound. Eons The market is firm. Quote: 2250 per dozen for Oregon. Nuts Quoto : Walnuts, 13c: Peanuts, green, lie; Almonds, 17c; Filberts, IS 14c; Brazils, 1314c per pound; Cocoa nuts, $1 per dozen. Honey Fancy While, 1-pound car toons, 13c. Nails Baso quotations : Iron, $3.20v Steel, $3.30; Wire, $3.90 per keg. Th Merohitnillan Market. Suoaiis The market is firm. Quote: Golden 0. 4c : extra 0, 5c : dry granu latod, 04c; cube crushed and powdorod, 0c per pound. Bkans Tho market is firm. Quoto: Small Whites, $3.25; Pink, $4; Bayos, $4.50; Butter, $3; Limas, $5.50 por cental. DitiKD FauiTS Tho market is steady. Quoto: Plummer dried Pears, 10lle; undried and factory Plums, 5(0c: Peaches, sun-dried, 10ic; evaporated Peaches. 10'17c; Smyrna Figs, 14 Hie ; California Figs, 9c per pound. Cannkd Goons Markot is firm. Quoto: Table fruits, $2.25, 2s; Peaches, $2.50; Bartlett Pears, $2.25; Plums. $1.65; Strawberries, $2.25; Cherries, $2; Black berries. $1.8501.95; Raspberries, $2.25 2.50. Pie fruit: Assorted, $3.50 per dozen; Pouches, $1.251.30; Plums, $1.25; Blackberries, $1.05; Tomatoes, $1.103;50; Sugar Peus, $1.401.60; String Beans, $1. Hums The market is weak. Quota tions: Dry Hides, selected prime, 8 0c, Jc less for culls; green, selected, over 55 pounds, 4c ; under 55 pounds, 3c; Sheep Pelts, short wool, 3050c; me dium, H)80c; long, 90c$1.25: shear lings. 1020c: Tallow, good to choice, 3 3'.jO. Receipts tho past week were 48,275 pounds. Wooi, The market is dull. Quota tions: Eustorn Oregon, 10l(Jc; Valley, 1018c per pound. Receipts tho past week wero 100,745 pounds. Picklks Quote: 85c 3s; 90c 5s. Salt Quoto: Liverpool, $17.60, $18.50, $10.60; stock, $ll12 per ton in carload lots. Coal Oil Quoto : $2.20 per case. Rice Quoto: 0)c per pound. Tho Meat Market. The meat markot Is firm. Quote: Beef Livo, 33Jc; dressed, 7e. Mutton Live, 33fc: dressed, 7c Hogs Livo, 55c; dressed, 7c. Veul 5 8o per pound. Spring Lambs $2 each. HMOKKI) MEATS AND LARD. The market is firm. Quotations: East ern Hams, 1314c; Breakfust Ba con, 13l4c; Sides, lO&'llo; Lard, 10011c per pound. At a meeting of tho trunk lino passen ger ngents at Now York it was decided to givo a 2-cont per mile rate for ton oc more persons traveling on ono ticket oa any road of tho association. Seventeen soldiers acting uh a patrol for tho City Custom-houso at tho City of Mexico deserted in a body after killing their Lieutenant. Cavalry is in pursuit of tho deserters, three of whom havo. l)eon captured. In tho government of Podoi, Russia, the jKmsautH have no scruples alwut soil ing their children. Instances of a vory revolting nature nro reported in a Mos cow daily. All over Europo are tho agents ot American tbcutricul und other managont who uro ii. eurch of novelties, mid who have it spread abroad that money is no object, liondon is made their headquar ters, A movement is on foot to procuro bya writ of habeas corpus tho liberation of Mrs, Maybrlc.k, tun American woman who was sentenced to imprisonment for life on a charge of murdering her 1ihw, band. octsiti; uravonsiein, jiyii.io per box; Crawford Peaches, $1251.40; other va rieties, $1.1501.25 per box: Nectarines. Oregon fancy dairy, 30c ; fancy creamery, 27lac; good to fair, 220250 ; common, I7l.(tf20c; choico California. 28c ncr