B. Chanoey, Publisher, Union, Or. PACIFIC COAST. An Immense Fire Rages on Mount Shasta. GRAY WOLVES IN OREGON. The Uniled States Geological Survoy Looatos Storage Reservoirs in Now Mexico. Ban Diego has organized a company of naval reserves. Thirtv Moiavo Indian polo players JIUVU gOIIU IIUIII liuuuiun ninmjuuniuD li. M., to play at tno lair mere, At the navy yard at Mare Island ahout fi50 applications lorworic nave ocen mea with tiie laiwr employment uurcau Tim perennial fight of tho disposition of tho sewage of Los Angeles is about to break out again witii renewed iury. Tho eleventh annual exposition of New Mexico has opened at Albuquerque, and promises to excel all previous meetings A svnd cute of Ohinamnn, with ampi capital hacking it, has purchased a site near Victoria for a rice mill, and work on tho erection of tho mill will begin at once According to the Virginia City linter prue a disease rescmblingdiphtheriahas broken out among tho horses nnd cattlo on a ranch near Steamboat, and a num Wr of animals iiave died Irom it In the United States Court at 1-os An poles tho caecs against Senator Ricardo Trumbull, Supercargo Hurt and Captain O'Farrellof tno Robert and Minnie were continued " until hercalter callel Coal of Rood quality has been found iiv n Hiirvnvor who is mapping out a roll pious colony on Malcolm Island into sec t'.ons. Tho coal is a mile west of Rnugli Ray and opposito Port McNeil on Van' couver island, u. u Advices received at Vancouver, B. 0. pay that President Harrison lias ap pointed Frank If. Pierce of Now Hamp shire, formerly of tho Cuban consular Bervico, as Consular Agent there, vice Jay Ewlng resigned. At Sacramento gambling is In ful Want everywhere, and players can find finv kind of n gamo thev wish cIobo at hand. Evory public house has from four to five games running, many 01 mem keeping open day and niglit. An immense ilro has been raping on the southern slope of Mount Shasta, a few miles south of Sisson, a vast amount of wood, ties, logs and standing timWr Imiiiir destroyed, uvory avauumo man was needed to chock tho flro. In tho tlmlKsrod districts of Clatsop and Tillamook counties, Or., largo gray wolves m Wrmiinir more numerous, and are rnni illv destroying tho oik. as they kil tho young calves in tho spring and oven the old ones when tlioy eaten tnom nione It is intimated at Vancouver, 13. 0. by Mr. van Homo that horeaftor the Canadian Pacific Company's steamers Empress of Japan, Empress of India and impress ol Ulitnu will run from Van ttjuvcr to Snn Francisco and return each trip. Tho testimony in tho Albortson bank robbing case at Tacoma continues to show that Albortson was vory deliborato in bis work. R. R. Albortson, a cousin. jb charged with writing tho guaranty of immunity and knowing for whom he worked. Tho Los Angeles Timt prints an intcr low with Do Harth Shorb, who has just returned from Chicago, in which hq puues tnat tno managomont or tno AVorld's Fair is rotten to tho core, and that hu will take stops to havo an hives tigntlon at Washington unless Davis is re moved aH Director-General on thopround of Ills unfitness for tho place. Mr. Shorb Bayfl 6'enotor Stewart of Novada has promised to lead tho light in tho Senate An idea of the profits Hint can Iks do rived from a lemon orchard with proper euro may no gamed iy taking an estl innio irom li. K. snow's six-nero grove of eight-year-old trees in Tustin, Orango county, uai. up to tho present time ho 1ms picked aWut 1,200 box, which is about two-thirds of tho present vear's crop. At the above estimate an acre will yiold 300 Wxos of merchantable mm, which will bring thin season an average oi f-ou a ixx 7oU an acre, or IVrtX) for tho six acres of lemons. Tho Huh hatchery Is to lie built on Mo thow river in Okanogan countv, Wash., and Commissioner Crawford lias gone there to ascertain tho nuinWr of salmon hold in tho rack rocontly built bv him. Ho advises that the site bo located with rcferonco to government township linos, and tho Commissioner of the general laud ofllco will bo asked to reserve land for tho State. Ellorts will bo made to havo n saw mill erected in order that lumber may Wo at hand for tho erection of the butchery in tho spring. Settlers will also bo encouraged to open roads. At San Francisco Customs Inspector McGlnutss mado a vory Hculiar seizure on tho Pacific Mall Company's steamer China the other morning. Twoordinary looking planks woro lylngon tho Wtweon decks, und McGinnfss passed them a docott times In making his rounds. Ha accidentally kicked one of them, and it oved easily. Tho plank was 10 feet long, 12 Inches broad and 4 Inches thick. Thin aroused McGiunlss' suspicions, and he picked tho plunk up, only to find It "very light. A rigid examination followed, which showed that each plank was hol low and hnd been prepared for tho smug lelltiK of opium. Tho work had been done skillfully, and three tlvo-Uol tins of "dope" fitted tho hollow space to a Juur'H breadth. Kach plank would hold thirty imundi of the drup. The planks had evidently been In into as a Mooring tor a wlwrf, and had thev Won rushed a)ior oh the riiouldor of a 'longshore xtaH. would W above mmplcloii. They had wt Imhw prepared, and would prole ftblvjtavD dene duty Uforo the China EDUCATIONAL. Teacher In Some Kurnponn Cnantrle Uare Not 1'leRnantent Kxiierlcnce. Twenty-one been licensed schools. Sisters of Charity have to teach in Texas public Brown University has decided to ad mit women to its clashes on the same conditions as men. Tho entering Chautauqua class which is to pursue a three years' course com prises 15,000 students. Tho University of Oxford has reminded the voto admitting women to the Bache lor ol Medicine examinations. Harvard Collcpe was founded in 1030 Yale in 1701. William and Mary of Vir ginia was cnartered in lutfo. Thirty-two students of Queen's College, Belfast, have petitioned the council that women shall not be admitted to study. The chair of oratory in the University of Honolulu, Sandwich Island, has been offered to Miss Norma C. Crawford of Mlnersvillo, Pu. Tho Lcpislaturo in Maine has enacted a low which requires all public-school teachers to devote some time each week to teaching kindness to animals. The girl who carried oft" tho honors of entrance at tno university of Jondon examination was Charlottelliggins. Sli is but 20 years of ago. There were 1,000 male students pitted against Her. Teachers in some European countries do not uavo tno pleasantest experiences In Spain tho payment of salaries is ha' bitually in arrears. Altogether 2,500 teachers havo arrears due them, and it is not surprisinp that in one place teacher has taken to scllinp mutches and ids wife and children have gone into domestic service According to the late military statistics there are no illiterate persons in Bavaria. Among 2,772 recruits enlisted in tho army in tho palatinate there woro only three individuals who could not read or write. But that district forms no excep tion to tho rule. The general numlerof recruits from tho entire population was 20,584, and among thorn were only six illiterato persons. Tho Now York JCcanqelixt says : Do not the methods of teaching in our pub lie schools need to bo overhauled? Tho pupils aro crammed with a superficial knowledge of nearly a score of different studies without an aoiiity to write a sen tence in tho Enplisit language correctly wnai children need is not to learn so much, but to learn a few things well and while acquiring such knowledge to learn to think for themselves. In Sweden philanthropy has seized upon the schools now as the vehicle of teaching the children the cleanliness that is next to podlinens. Hie chief parochiul school m Stockholm has introduced win ter bathing as a feature, witii great can tion apparently, lest innovation excite prejudice, for tho report says that the children aro given a bath every three weeks. Now that tho thing is in run ning order, 100 children can bo washed in tliree hours, lho lovs took readily to the schomo : tho girls for some reason did not. Of forty girls in one class that averaged l.t years of age only sixteen had ever known tho luxur nf a bath in winter. The teachers report that the effect on the children is beneficial In every way, especially since thev havo pot on terms with the soap, winch thev at first were shy of. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. I lie Kent liirrntor of tlio Itnln-I'r" liicluj: I'riK'CHH Ik Vll'lfllllltll. Secretary Foster has issued a circular giving notice that no more Wnds of the 4k- per cent, loan would bo received for continuance at 2 per cent, after Septem ber ItO. Bonds which havo not been continued will bo redeemed on presen tation. Owing to numerous iunuiries coming from difi'ercnt parts of the country for fractional silver coin, tho United States treasurer lias prepared a circular stating in substance that the new halves end dollars will bo furnished in sums of $200 or moio hy express, free of charge, or by registered mail in sums or multiples of .Ku. registration charpes paid to any point in the United States. In view of the fact that sugars not aWvo 10 D's in color aro now exempt from luty, irrespective of tho country fron which imported, tho Treasury Depart ment has authorized the Cus'toms Col lector at San Francisco to waive require ments Imposed by tho regulations com pelling importers of BUgar from Hawaii to produce proporlv authenticated in voices, showing Biieh sugar was tho pro duce of that country, when free entry ia mimed under tho act ol October 1. 1WH). Tho opinion is painlnp pround that tho postponed libel suit against the Chilian steamer Itata, now set for trial at San Diego, on September 25, will be prose cuted by tho government, although a further postponement nuiv he had before the case proceeds. It is impossible to gain any otlieial information uK)h this point, though Attornov-tieneiu Mi or did say that ho could not tell what the result of tho postponement would bo; but. so far as hu know, it might result in a trial. Tho real Inventor of tho rain-produc ing process has boon discovered in tho ersou ol lioncral Daniel Rugples of -'redoricksburg, Vn., to whom a patent was issued uoom ten vears mro. i n served in tho Mexican war, and at the hreaklng-out of tho civil war cast his fortune with tho South, tho result being that ho eamo out of tho armv impover ished and broken in health. 'Ho is now over 80 years old, and for a uumWr of winters ho has been endeavoring to en list aid from Congress to make tho verv experiments that hare Won mado anil aro to bo continued under the supwivbion of General Dvronforth. Ho ilnullv M. cured tho assistance of Senator Fur well, who ofi'orcd an amendment to the gen eral appropriation bill, whereby HUHX) as sot apart for the proposed experi ments. It was stipulated in the amend- meut. however, that the miwimuML should bo conducted mulor th of the Department of Agriculluio. It is understood that a syndicate of Washing ton capitalists, satisfied that the inven tion hub proved a success, have ollorod Uenerul Ruggles $75,000 for his patent, their Idea being to sell It olil general government or to the Mtvoral Mates. It has been ascertained that seventeen of the forty-four Stutes of the Union, paitlcularly those In the far they would probably Iw ; Milling to'imy llbcully for ihe uh of the InveuUon, " wi i ' ujcii io Bovvro droughts, and EASTERN H'tnlS. Skeletons of Prehistoric People Found. SUICIDE MANIA OF AGNOSTICS Chicago Will Havo to Modify the Plans Made for the World's Fair Buildings, Eto. Minneapolis has no desire to consoli date with St. i'aui. Carloads of diseased Chicago cattle have leen seized at Bulf.ilo. The Gradv monument will bo unveiled at Atlanta, Ga., October 21. There is something over 35,000 natives of Switzerland in and around rsew lork O. I. Huntington is to complete tho Middlo and East Tennesseo railro..d within sixty days. A company to insure tobacco planters against loss by hail is one of tho lateat schemes in uonnecticut. Tho houso at Appomattox, a., in which General Leo surrendered to Gen eral Grant has been sold for $10,000. Canada has sent but 30,000 sheep to Great Britain during tho year just ended, as compared with 4j,000 for the year be fore. A landlords' association has been formed in Boston for the purpose of mu tual protection against objectionable ten ants. The organ in the music room of tho residence of the late Mrs. Ilopkms- Searle at Great Barnngton, Mass., cost $100,000. So great is tho homeward rush of American tourists that many of their aro unable to find passage on returning steamers. It is said that tho smug 'ling of Chi neso Into this country has been recently accelerated bv the price having risen to 4100 per head. Cleveland has passed a law reducirg tho nrico of gas to 00 cents per 1,000 feet ami giving the city an opiion on me gas works at any time Judgments aggregating 14,020 against Alexander Herrmann, ine magician, nave iut been entered in tho County Clerk's ofiico at New i ork. Tho trado and commerce of Charles ton. S. C. last year amounted to ms, 514,718, a net increase of $17,91,001 over the preceding year. Thomas Dolanv of Albany, aged 19. thought nothing of smoking tlvo or six package of cigarettes a day. itis iiinerai took place tho other day. Judgments aggregating $150,000 hnve ln-en filed against Adam Backer, the ommercial note broker of Now lork, who assigned August .t last. Counsel for Joseph A. Davidson of New York has obtained an attachment against the Mexican National Railway uompany upon a claim lor $10o,whj UKianoma is hard I v a vear old as a Territory, and yet we are told that tho question oi admitting it to btatonood will come boforo Congress tins winter. Uhiccgo udd I'ellovvs are to erect a thirty-four-storv building. The structure from ground to dome will bo 500 feet, and it is to be completed by tho full of I sua. According to statistics gathered bv charitable organizations throughout the country there aro 3,000,000 people wholly or partly dependent upon charity every year in the United States. Two thousand men. mostlv French Canadians, employed in the saw mills at Ottawa havo struck for a reduction of one and a half hours' work per day and an increase of 50 cents in wages per week. V mound containing skeletons of pre historic people has been discovered on a farm near Carthage, 111. Tho skeletons lay in all conceivable posit ions, and are supposed to bo those of warriors wiio fell in battle. lho Ioxhb railway employes have pe titioned tho Mute uuiiwav (Jommission ers against the sweeping reductions m freight rates. urinnL' that unv material reduction means a corresponding reduc tion in thoir wages. Chief Oflicor Thompson of the Orange Princo has Wen presented with a hand- some gold medal m behalf of the Presl- dent of the United States as a reward for rescuing tho crew of the American ship Amanda C. Parker in January lust. On tho Chevonne and Arrapahoe In dian reservations in tho Indian Territory lor nearly one wees the Indians have been holding dances. From the result of that and from eating melons, Wth green and ripe, fully fifty of them died, and scores more aro very sick. An order has Wen issued by Secrotarv Tracy which forlnxles tho breaking-tip of the Whito squadron. It whs directed to the chiefs of tho bureaus, and ordered them to proparo tno orktown for serv ice on the Pacitio station and tho Petrel for service on the Asiatic station. a suicico omnia mis iukoii possession of the aged members of an agnostic cir cle in Bradford, Pa., which was founded by the late Dr. Stuart, who himself led the way by taking his own life. Since then three other memWrs of tho circle have tried to kill themselves, und two have succeeded. Chicago will have to modify tho plans mado for tho World's Fair buildings and grounds oi face a serious financial dilll culty, Tho estimated cost of getting the show ready to open Is $18,000,000. This is too much, even though the govern ment should W induced to contribute fo,000,000 outright. Congress at its last session authorized the reeolnago of tho uncurrent fractional coin now in tho treasury abraded below the limit of tolerance, and mado an ap propriation of rltJO.OOO to cover tho loss to the coin hy tho abrasion. This sum, it Is estimated, will cover tho loss on alout M.OOO.OOOof coin, and this amount ia now Wing coined into quarter dollars and dimes, for which there Is a very great demand. Tho recoinapo Into stand ard nilver dollar of the $5,(XXJ,(M) trnde dollars bullion, which the lust Coheres authorised, Is alo in progreM, PE8S0NAL MENT10N- Mr. GIniUtnne Ik ShIiI to lli,e Cirea' Keitpect for KnjrnUy. Queen Victoria puts in her spare time plying the crochet needle. Jules Simon, the celebrated French economist, detests tobacco, and says that he is on inveterato enemy of alcohol. James N. Pidcock of White House, N. J former Congressman from that State and prospective candidate for Governor, expects to market over 10,000 baskets of peaches this year. The ex-Emperor of Brazil is moping away existence in a melancholy tu d at Vichy, where he is being lreati for heart disease. Ho seems to hnve lost all interest in passing events. General Maury is the third distin guished Confederate officer to have a desk in the war-records ofiice in Wash ington. Tho other two aro General Mar cus Wright and General George Field. I'rince Bismarck suffers much from his old enemy, neuralgia, and the writing of his memoirs does not progress swiftly. Ho dislikes tho work, and a revival of the past seems to embitter and disturb him. William B. McCreery, United States Consul at Valparaiso, Chili, is a Michi gan man, who serveil with credit during the civil war. He was one of the few who succeeded in escaping from Libby prison. Senator Proctor's firpt stop into official life was as a village Selectman. And the Vermont villagers were inighty particu lar about a man being an undeveloped statesman before they would trust him in such an office. Susannah Annesley, who married Sam uel Wesley and became the mother of the famous John Wesley, was twenty-third child to her father, twenty-fourth to her mother, and she herselt gave birth to nineteen children. Colonel Elliot F. Shcpard ex presses the oninion that, if Chicago permits the opening of her exhibition on Sundays, some dreadful calamity will be called down upon the city. Can this be a threat that ho will go to live there? Hon. William Walter Phelps, United States Minister to Germany, will prolong his sojourn at Hamburg, where ho has been joined by his wife. He is improv ing in health, and is very happy over the outcome of his fight on tho pork ques tion. Mr. Gladstone has a profound respect for royalty, and never wounds the feel ings o"f tho royal family if lie can help it. His recent letter denouncing gam bling as a formidable and growing evil in Great Britain seems to be capable of a royal application, however. M. Jacaues. who hns recently begun a Hftv days' fast at the London Aquarium, assumes an air of extreme comfort as he sits in his easy chair. Sometimes he reads for an hour or two, but he is not much disposed to talk. He says that that ones up too much vitality. I'ho Earl of AVarwiek, father-in-law of Lady Brooko of baccarat-scandal fame, is verv ill. lie is periodically miujuui, iv fainting tits, and is expected to die in one boloro long, ue is over o years ui age, and has been in feeble health for some time. Lady Brooke has of late knt, in the background and stiown a dip- position to avoid ine sociui ire. ... ; . i :. . ..1 Dr. James Kamsev Speer, who died the other day in Pittsburg at the age o 04, had lived" under every President o( tho United States, and was the cousin o one, IJuchanan, while Ins mother was tin grand aunt of another, Boniamin Harri son. As a sensible man, however, Ir Speer was very content to rest his claims to attention on his local reputation us a physician and surgeon. CRIME AND CRIMINALS. A Kentucky 1'oud Aukiuiius Proportions That .'May Kml In lUoocUlu-d. An express train on the Missouri, Kan bus and Texas road was held up theother night near Loliaetta, l.T.,unu robbed of George Jones, a convicted murderer in a San Francisco prison, is slowlv dying from paralysis, and is gradually growing insane. John and Henry Martin and three mi known women wero whipped by whito caps near Hinsdale, Ind., for petty thieving IIenrv T. Edson, son of the ex-Mayor of New York, lias been arrested for ob taining $5,000 on a draft on a bmik in which he had no credit. Tho Alleghany Heating Company of Pittsburg claims that Thomas L. shields, its Secretary anil Treasurer, is short over ViH.',0l0 in ins accounts. W. F. Slinglort', ex-Treasurer of the Montgomery Trust Company of Morris- town, ru., has been arrested, charged with embezzling $180,000 of the bank's funds. Mrs. Popke. aged 10. living in Sey mour, Wis., has been arrested for smoth ering her infant. Her husband, who buried the child in the woods, was also arrested. At San Francisco tho Coroner's jury in tiie case of Olhcer Alexander Grant has rendered a verdict finding the de ceased eamo to his death from a gunshot wound in tho head, intlicted by Maurice is. btroliuger. Known as uurtis, and charging him with the crime of murder. The Beasley-Jordan feud at Salvisa. LTt tu iiajniinnit - y-v - inno t It it f mn n in all probability result in moro blood shed. Constable Currans succeeded in arresting the three Beasleys, when the other brothers and relatives took his prisoners from him. Tho Jordan family, six or seven in number, have also armed themselves, and havo declared thev will be revenged or the law shall W enforced for the bloodv und cowardly assassina tion of their brother. Tho Sheriff has asked for troops, and the Governor re plied that ho has the right to summon the whole county. If the bill giving the Bishops of the Church of England greater authority over the clergy in tho interest of moral ity were now before Parliament, it would I probably puss with a nibh, as many of . the clergy and laity oi tho church art) indignant over the existing situation. Uev. Ht. John Dearsley, Vicar of Wil mington, Sussex, was recently convicted of tho responsibility for a young girl's ruin and ordered to pay a weekly sum to tho victim, lie has now secured from the girl a full discharge on Payment of 1,1X0, He still remains in his pastorate, and shows no disposition to rotlgn. As hi offense was only a misdemeanor, ho cannot W removed by the Bishop, and ho continue! in the pulpit, much to the dUgiut of the people. FOREIGN LANDS. Theosophy Fad Widely Infects London. THE JAPANESE CREMATORIES Tho Workincrmen's Union of Halle; 0 Germany, is Dissolved by the Police. The Prince of Wales is insured foi $800,000. There is a newspaper in London which is printed with scented ink. Tho total loss to life in Martinique from tho recent hurricane was 340. Berlin is to have an elevated railroad. Electricity is to W the power used. The proposed ship canal Wtween tho Firth of Forth and the Clyde is revived. An underground cable is being laid to connect important German fortifications. Tiie Prince of Wales is ambitious to race his new vacht in American waters. Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria has or dered $1,000,000 worth of cannon from Krupp. Itussian nowspapers say the Czar fears no war on account of the uardunenes incident. Active supporters of IJalmaceda are likely to lose all their property by con fiscation. The theosophv fad is infecting London society widely, and a mission to America is talked of. The police of the Uhilian Junta are still seeking for Bahnaceda among the monasteries. R'iamil Pasha, who was removed from tho Turkish Ministry, it is said, will bo appointed Governor of Syria. The Munich papers say William did not receive a very enthusiastic welcome on his visit to the Havariun capital. A co-operntive home for sing'e women is to be sturtod in Vienna, Austria. Each will havo a share in the houseKeeping. M. Ader of Paris after expending more than $100,000 on a Hying machine lias produced one in which he Hew about 100 yards. A great outcry is Wing raised in Fin land against tiie recent introduction of tiie Russian language into the schools ol that country. Russian merchants want their govern ment to abolish its free ports on the Black river in Asia and remove an ele ment of foreign competition. Favorable results are shown in the school attendance in England under the free-education act. Manchester had an increased attendance of 2,000. The principal article of export from Russia into Servia is coal oil. There are at present 3,000,000 kilograms of kero sene in the port of Odessa ready for ex port. Since the Pasteur Institute for the cure ol hydrophobia was established in. Paris in 1880 there have been 9.-K59 pa tients treated, of whom sixty-four have died. In the province of Orel, Russia, bands of peasants are roving over the I ighway, attacking tiie convoys of grain und food, even where the convoys are escorted by soldiers. Queen Victoria's health is not good, and tho physicians regulate her diot more strictly than ever. Visitors find a notable increase in the Queen's aspect in respect to age. The International Agricultural Con gress at The Hague bus pronounced in favor of a Stat" indemnity to owners of animals condemned to death for tuber culosis or plcitro-pncumouia. Tho stories of destitution among the peasants in Russia, owing to the failure of tho crops, are somewhat terrible. In some of the afilicted provinces the peo ple have not eaten bread for days. Sally, the interesting chimpanzee of the zoological gardens, London, has de parted this life. Slio could count up to seven, had a large acquaintance and had often been interviewed by Darwin. The strictest orders have been issued at Vienna that every foreign paper con taining tho slightest reference to the story of Prince Rudolph and Marie Vet sera's love romance shall be immediately seized und confiscated. Tiie earthquake panic at San Salvador has now nearly subsided, although fami lies are sleeping in tents in their yards, or houses, in public parks or in the streets. Earthquakes, by turn feeble and violent, continue at irregular in tervals. Cremation is very economically con ducted in Japan, and in consequence is very popular. In Tokio there nro six cremutories, in which one-third of the dead are burned. The highest price for burning a Wdy ie ill, and the lowest 5 shillings. The Workingmon's Union of Halle, Germany, has been dissolved by tho po lice, and its funds wero confiscated, be cause at several meetings the suffrage question and women's political rights were discussed. In Germany it is against the law for women to discuss jwlitics. The natives in East Africa havo terri bly defeated tho Germans. Three hun dred blacks under the German com mander wero killed and a large ouuutitv of guns and munitions of war lost to the enemy. The victorious natives followed un their success without mercy, killing all they pot in their power. PuriHcs tho MLIOl'SXESS, PIMPLES, all a DISORDERED STOMACH. 11L00D, Cures CONSTIPATION. IN'nidttiTinv. LIVER COMPLAINTS, SICK HEADACHE. TOMis SKIN AFFECTIONS, and DISEASES AltlfSlNn ; The Genuine IfAHOVJlO TEA itimluu in YELLOW )'1A1'1'JJIS with Facsimile Signature vf KMIL FEEHtf. . HEOINQTOH & CO, Aocnts. 8an Francisco. MALI) KV Ahl4 UUtinUItiTri AMI iUO'r.UK. PORTLAND MARKET. A Uenuiue or the Condition or IU Dif ferent Department. The fall season is backward aWut set ting in, but when it does come it must come with a rush, for the wholesale com munity have mado preparations for an unusually large amountof trading. Bart lettsare becoming scarce, and the season for plums is aWut over. Prunes are th riving freely, and aro cheap. There is a fair supply of late peaches on hand, and enough grapes to satisfy the demand. Apples are beginning to come in, and will soon be the leading article in the market. The vegetable market is well supplied, and prices aro kept firm by a good demand. The market for dairy pro duce shows no change except in butter, which has advanced '2 cents per pound. Poultry is scarce and firm, and eggs are in the same condition. WHKAT. Valley is offering freely, but prices asked are above the market and few transactions are reported. The tone of the market is slightly firmer in sympa thy with foreign advices. Cables report cagoes firmer and 3d higher. Liverpool spot wheat is q noted Id per cental higher, and options are firmer through out, later months showing a marked advance. I'roilnce, Vrult, Ktc. Whkat Valley. $1.52K : Walla Walla, $1.45 per cental. Jjlouk standard, $4.yu; waiia wana, $4.70 per barrel. Oats New, 3840c per bushel. Hay $1214 per ton. Millstuhks Bran, $2122; shorts, $24 (a 25: ground barley, $iS0(?32: chop feed, $2223 per ton; barley, $1.201.25 per cental. Buttek Oregon fancy creamery, 32?.j 35c; fancy dairy, 30c ; fair to good, 25 27c; common, 1522jL.c; Eastern, 25 31J; cper pound. Uiikksk uregon, lSftfil-'itc; Eastern, 13c per pound. iiuas Uregon, ouc per dozen. Poultiiy Old chickens. .$5.50(36.00: young chickens, $2.504.50; ducks, $5.00 8.uu; geese, nominal, $8.uumu.uu per dozen ; turkeys, 1017c per pound. Vi:aKTAi!U:B Cabbage, 7oc0s$1.00 per cental; cauliflower, $11. 25 per dozen ; Onions,80c$l per cental ; beets,$1.25 per sack; turnips, $1.00 per sack; new pota toes. 45O0c per cental : tomatoes. 40(! 50c per Wx ; lettuce, 12!j$c per dozen ; green peas, 3(?4c per ound ; string Wans, 23c per pound; rhubarb, 3c per pound; cucumbers, lUc per dozen; car rots, 75c per sack ; corn, 78c per dozen ; eweet potatoes, 2S2c per pound. I'liurrs Sicily lemons, $7.008.00: California, $4.500.00 per box ; apples. 508oc per box ; bananas, $3.504.00 a bunch ; pineappleB,$o.UO7.00 per dozen ; peaches, 0000c per Wx ; plums, 2500c per Wx; watermelons, $1.502.00 per dozen; cantaloupes, $1.001.50 per dozen, $2.00 per crate; grapes, Tokav, $1.00 per box; muscat and black. 75c$1.00 per crate, boxes 75c; pears, 5c; Bartlett, $1.00 per Wx; nectar ines, 0075c per crate; crab apples, 3c per pound; pumpkins, $1.50 per dozen; prunes, 22qc per pound. Nuts Calitornia walnuts,ll)12,;;c; hickory, 8c; Brazils, 10llc; "al monds, 1018c; filWrts, 1314c; pine nuts, 1718c; pecans, 1718c; cocoa nuts, 8c; hazel, 8c; peanuts, 8c per pound. Staple Groceries. Honky 17ij18c per pound. Rice Japan. $5.00: Island. $5.75 ner cental. Salt Liverpool, $14.00, $15.50(ilG.00 -. stock, $1112 per ton. Ijkans Small white. 3c: nink. 3c: bayos, 4c; butter, 3e; Hums, 4c per pound. Coffee Costa Rica. 2QHdi'2c: Rio, 23c; Mocha, 30c; Java, 25iic; Ar- per oucKie-s, luu-pound cases, 244c pound. sugar Golden C.45ic: extra C. 43,c: white extra C. 4Jic: granulated. WAc. cube crushed and powdered, Oc; con- leciioners- a, oc per pound. Sykui' Eastern, in barrelp, 4755c; half-barrels, 5058c; in cases, 5580c er gallon; $2.2502.50 per keg. Onli- ornia, in barrels. 30c per gallon: l.7f . l -J - . w per keg. UKIEU IMIUITS Italian nrunes. p- Petite and German. 7c per pound: raisins. $1.20fi?1.75 per Wx: nlummer dried pears, 8i)c; sun-dried and fac tory plume, 0c; evaporated peaches. flllc; Smyrna figs, 20c; California, figs, 7c per pound. Canned Goods Table fruits, $1.05 1.80, 2ss; peaches, $1.80(2.00; Bart lett peara, $1.8o(.fl.0o; plums, $1.37' 1.50; strawberries, $2.25; cherries, $225 2.40; blackberries, $1.85(1.00; rasp berries, $2.40; pineapples. $2.2d(tf2.80; apricots,$1.00ctl.70. Pie fruit: Assorted, $1.10(rl.20; peaches, $1.(55 ; plums, $1.00 1.10; blackWrries, $1.25 per dozen. Veg etables: Corn, $1.251.G5; tomatoes, $1.003.C0; sugar peas, $1.10M1.25; string Wans, iK)c$1.00 per dozen! 1'isli: Sardines, 75c(nil.G5; lobsters, $2.30 (.13.50; oysters, $1.50(?3.25 per dozen. Salmon, standard No. 1, $1.251.50 per case-; No. 2, $2.55. Condensed milk: Eagle brand, $8.10; Crown, $7; High land, $0.75; Champion, $5.50; Monroe, Son l'31",?886- Meats: Corned Wef, $2.00; chipped beef, $2.15; lunch o'lf'o1018',0'00 28 5 doviled $1.J52.(5 per dozen. The Stent Market. Beef Live, 23c; dressed, 5Gc. Mutton Live, sheared, 33?ic: dressed, 7c. ' ' Hoob Live, 52c; dressed, 8c. K.u. 57c per pound. Smokki) Meats Eastern hum, 13c. 1334c; other varieties, 1012c; breakfast bacon, 128Hc; smoked bacon, 10L (it Uc per pound. ' .."""r-CoHipound, 10c; pure, Uh l-'V; Oregon, 108dl28o per pound. VIS4