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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1891)
f IK a Ht B.CHANCEY, Publisher, Union, Or. PACIFIC COAST. Oreg on in aval Keserve Incorporated. "WASHINGTON IRON INDUSTRY Dcady Decides in Favor of a Chinese Merchant's Wife Without a Certificate Etc The pine-nut crop is abort in Nevada. The iron industry in Washington gives grunt promise. A copper-smelting furnnce at San Di ego is being dtsciised. The Oregon naval reserve has been in corporated at Portland. Riverside is talking of a co-operative kitchen on tlio liellamy plan. Nevada people want tbo Governor to call an irrigation convention at Keno, Ogdcn'a street-car system has been changed from steam motor to electricity. J. do Barth Shorb is to represent Los .Angeles county in the, California Hoard of Trade. All the railroad washouts in New Mex ico havo been repaired, and trains are moving regularly. Two hundred Tucson ladies have signed a petition asking the Constitutional Con vention not to discriminate against wom en's civil rights in the constitution. Tho work of construction on tbo Santa Po. Preseott nnd I'humix railroad, which -will connect Phmnix, A. T., and tho Salt Hiver Valley with the Banta le system, lias begun. Tho grand jury at Keno is unable to find the slightest evidence upon which to indict any one fur tho hanging of tho rufllan Ortig by vigilantes, and asks to be discharged. Los Angoles complains that tho Cliino boot-Btigar factory has not made sugar cheaper thera, owing to tho fact that only threo llrniB handle the sugar and no one else can get it in carload lots. Mrs Maillard, who disappeared from iter homo near San Rafael. Cal., several weeks ago, was found at Fortuna, Cal , where sue has )cen living with W. II. Ingram, a hired man formerly employed oy nor uuBuanti. Bradstreot's mercantile agencv reports twenty-seven failures in tlio Pacific Coast Htates and '.territories lor tlio past week, as eomparon with twonty-llvo for tho previous weoK ami ten tor tno corre sponding week of 1800. Tho ItftU's officers tostifv that tho ves sel wuen sue came to Man Diego had no sailors, soldiers or arms on board. Tho vessel changed captains three times be fore leaving Chili, nnd four breech-load- ore that sho carried wero put oil' at Arigo. Tho anus woro taken on board at San Olmncnto. A bill has lieon filed In equity in the jimm nbaicB uuiiri. in, jiUn miKUien gainst tho Southern Pacific railroad and 218 other defendants to quiet title nnd forfeit to the government 850,000 acres of land in Los Angeles. Han Ilernardino mid Ventura counties, Cal. Tho land is overlapping grants to tlio Atlantic and l'ncilio Company of 1880 and 1871. Prof. Poniard of the Lick Observatory Has discovered a very faint comet, whicli is believed to Imj the otiL'-oxnected period ical comet of Swift, but whicli is verv far from tho place predicted for the hitter's reappearance TIiIh is tlio fourth period ical comet, the first announcement of whose return hns come from Lick Ob servatory in the past thirteen months. It Is rejvorted on what seems to bo good authority that a large plant for tho man ufacture of tin plate will soon be located in Han trancisco by a wealthy manufact urcr, a resident of that cltv. It is ex pected that 1,000 hands will bo at work manufacturing tin plate lie (ore tho end oi me yenr. i no material will come from Australia, San Bernardino and the iliac I11IIB. Archbishop Gross hns called a provin cinl council of tho prelates of tho Oath olio Church to meet in Portland October 18. Tho prelates who will attend aro .Bishop Junger of Washington, Bishop Glorioux of Idaho, Bishop Brondel of .Montana nnd Bishop Lemons of Van couver Islnnd. Tho object is to take no tion looking to the unification of Catho licity in the Northwest. The now building of the Concordia Club, the leading llobtow Institution of Han Francisco, was thrown open for in spection the other night, and was visited by fully !t,i IK) people, who wero hoaplta My entertained in the luxurious quar ters. The building has been erected and furn isheil at a cost of alwut $500,000, and Is Iwyond doubt tho handsomest anil most elegantly equipped house In San Francisco. The water in Salton Lake lm fnllnn fourteen inches in tho Inst five days, ami tho amount of water supplying the lake uwo nut uquai uio evaporation. Tho greatest depth of the lake is thirty-six .inches and its area thirty miles long by ton wldo. Recent visitors do not think U hns changed tho climate of tlio Bur- rounuing country, and that the humidity in that nolghUirhood has been increased only in a modified degree, now register ing 00 degrees, while the ordinary hu midity of Sun Francisco is 75. iho J.eiand htanford (Jr.) University Palo Alto wan opened the other day with Impressive ceremonies. Senator Stanford, the founder of tho Inutltnihw. lollvcreil u brief midrib p which ho referred to his eoiildciien in tho trusteeii mid lu tho general iiiirpoMiof the unl yunilly. Judge J, MoM. HhufUir followed In rpeufli nn behalf of the Boa id of I rui i .'. I'rrnMiiiil Kellogg of the I'm. verity of California rikii m h pteiuitiit way of iIih nuw itvMl of hhj.mn tinlver. yHy. Miiil IViMddtmt JotiUii of tliu Klun. fori IliMllullon wiirlmliMi (ho viit uUng Hllli m Iouk mul HUM miWm'.Y 'ihl vwvlmt HwiM imiii'ludml wih u )Hno, lilrtloi), ')JwHviilMr)iiiHiiliiiN Hufu EDUCATIONAL. Sweden StnniU ' Ilrlilnd Ko Country In J'oliular IMucatlon. Of 351 towns and cities in Mnspachn- eetts 218 have free public libraries. The nverago salaries of tho mistresses in tlio Jondon board schools is $U50. 0(!0 a year to attend the Isormal Insti tutes. There are 230 Normal Schools, with an attendance of 50.000 students, in tho United States. Philadelphia turns out moro medical students In a year than any other city in the country. President Warfield of Lafayette Col lege, Pa., is taking vigorous measures to stamp out hazing. Pittsburg is trying industrial courses in the public schools, and their success is reported to bo marKeu. Albert G. Lane has been chosen Su nerintendent of the public schools of Chicago, vice Howland resigned. Tiio Kansas University is a good deal sot nn because a Harvard graduate is sending bis son to Lawrence this year, The number of students registered thi'B vear in Sibley College of Median ical Engineering, Cornell University, is Hoiiietbini! like -150. including a consid erablo number of graduates from other colleges. Superintendent Anderson of the Mil waukeo public schools is talking about . . ! f ..1-1.1 -f gelling up a procession ui ciiimreii ui school age who are denied an education from tiio Jack of school room in that city. They number about 2,000. It is said that Mies Mary E. Holmes of Rockford, III., proposes to invest from $75,000 to $100,000 in establishing in Missouri a colored women's literary and industrial school to acconunodiito 150 pupils as a memorial to her mother. According to an educational journal tho number of illiterate persons in Rus sia, Siberia, Roumania and Bulgaria form 80 per cent, of the population, in Spain (CI. Italy 48, Hungary 43, Austria 31), Ireland 21, Franco nnd Belgium 15, Holland 10. United States 8. Scotland 7. Switzerland 2 and in the greater part of Germany only 1 per cent. Sweden stnnds behind no country not even tlio United States in popular education. To this may perhaps m due the superiority of the Swedisli emigrant to this country over emigrants from other European countries. Tho number of school children per l.iwi) inhabitants is 140. Technical instruction, especially of woman, is a great feature. Ihedifh culties In the way of school attendance aro very great, not only localise of the severe Northern winters, but also because tho people live to a largo oxtunt on iso lated farms. Prof. Michaelson hns lust returned o Boston from Calitornia, where ho hns spent a large portion oi inn summer. Hn has been working at Lick Observa tory, experimenting there with his recent Invention the refractometer. This be attached to n- munller of tho telescopes at the observatory, and during the sum mer ho made numerous measurements of the liodies of tho solar system, partic ularly of the satellites of Jupiter. Tho results of this work woro highly satisfac tory, and the mean of tho measurements made varies from tho maximum and minimum measurements by but I or 2 per cent. a variation maiiv times less than is obtainable by other methods. The refractoniotcr will lie used by the staff at Lick Observatory during the com ing year, and in that time Prof Michael- son hopes to perfect his invention still further. Tlio refractometer hid" fn'r to lo nn instrument of great i.nnoitanco in future astronomical work. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Saeriiturjr Vrortor Hum Appro vim) tlin No it Tactic lor tlm A rmy. Secretary Proctor has finally nnnrovod the now tactics for the army', and they will lie put in praetico ns soon in the necessary arrangements can bo made. Tho President has passed upon the record of the court-martial in the ease of Colonel Compton of tho Fourth Cavalry, who was charged with failure while in command of tho military pot at Walln walla to take stopH to prevent the lynch ing of a man named Hunt tinder at ros-t for killing one of tlio soldier under him. The court found him guiltv, nnd sen tenced him to suspension from tank nnd command for three years on half pav and to be confined in tlio limits of n mil tary post. Tho President approved the proceedings of tho court, but mitigated the sentence to suspension from rank and command on half mx for two years. Tho Director of tho Mint, with the approvnlof tho Secretary of theTrensurv. mis issued instructions to the stiprln tendonts of the iiBsay otlice In New York thnt in cases of deixisits of foreign old or bars such an approximation of value ns in tho discretion of tho superintendent inny be regnrdod ns Bate, not to exceed IK) per cent, of tho vnlue, will lie paid IHmding the melt and assay. The pur pose of this regulation is to encourage, bo far as can lie legally done, the govern ment iuiH)rtation of foreign gold into tlio United States by allowing the im porters spot cash for foreign gold so soon as received instead of requiring them to wait while the deposits are being molted and the exact gold determined. By a recent decision actliiir Socrtiturv Grant bv infernneti held Unit, tin, U'nrM'i Columbian Exposition is a private and not a national ailnlr. fl Assistant Sec retary (Smut Is correct, it will raiee the qitostion witli some peoplo how Congress came to decide the location tit the exposition, by whit authority the Piesldent named the Commissioner and why Secretary Foster has Ihhmi v ing out pumic moneys to uie government rnir Commissioners, who went abroad in the interest of the exposition. As HiHiani Mvrviary urant'H decision came about in this way: There has liccit some complaint that tho build hub erected were not safe, and the Chicago people nescri nun hub cnmpitiiui came inmi New York, where there never has Wen u friendly feeling for Chicago or the fair, In order to tliHK)e of all these (dories tho CoiuiuiMiioucrti HMkiil the Secretary of 'War to detail u eorp of engineers to luvpect the hulMiugs. The CoiiiinUlou its thoiinht n report by such u ixir would have more weight than l( it were inude by priviile eiitflueer. In replying to the roqiiott Secretary (Iraut tte UtHl hei lloil IWI OI llll lieVlMmMIUtllll'M furlutdt) UrillV Ol lucr (rum hu forming or private Htrun or for lliU rt'MMin ho um llIU M llllHlll!U ttllll Murk hi any, Id iii firi)ntiii ituiiiptfllod i w lliu HJIIil. EASTERN ITEMS. The Coal Product of the United States. GEORGIA TO TAX BACHELORS Arrangements Complete for the Poly teohnio Excursion to the World's Fair. Tho Twin City (Minneapolis) Athletic Club has assigned. It is said Canada intends to nn export duty on logs. reimpose Ohio this year produces the largest to bacco crop in her history A cooking school is a part of the pub it i i . t i ; i i UC-8CI1001 system oi AiinvaiiKee. The validity ol the convict lease sys tem in Tennessee is to be decided bv the courts. Turkey's flag has been the first to be unfurled on tho Chicago World's Fair grounds. Tiio waters of Lake Erie are to be pined to Cincinnati, taking in many other cities en route. Most of tho tires in Wisconsin were confined to districts burned over last spring. The rains have checked them A factory is to be built at Minneapolis by parties who claim to be able to tem per copper so that it can bo made hard ns steel. The Millionaires' Club of Now York will erect a $750,000 house. The proposed site is on the corner of Fifth avenue and Sixtieth street. Tlio people in Emmons county, N. D., who lost their property bv prairie fires nre said to be in a deplorable condition without food or shelter. Since the passage of the American copyright law it is paid that one New York song publisher has paid $0,000 in London for manuscripts. Franco, it is believed, will next month rescind tho pork prohibition laws. Italy promises to rencind her prohibitory reg ulations after Franco acts. It is stated thnt tbo government hns realized 0,000,000 from the sale of lands in that part of Kansas which is beyond the lino of certain rainfall. In tho Red River Vnllov. N. D.. farm lalwr Ib very scarce, nnd tho rnilroads in thnt section carry men free to various points where they aro needed. The large yield and high price of wheat will, it is estimated and expected, make this season's Dakota crop equal in value to those of the five preceding years. A railroad surveying party that went up the Big Horn Canyon in Colorado nearly two months ago has not been heard from, and there aro fears that the members have been Jost. Vessel agents and mariners on the Groat Lakes are urging the establish ment of a branch hydrograpbic office on uie uiKos to iook out lor the vast mari time interests centered there. Tho Sovereign Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F.. has voted down tho proposition that degree of Patriarchs Militant without going through the encampment. Georgia is going to tax bachelors. bill for that purpose has been brought into the Georgia Legislature, and tho House Committee on Hygieno nnd Sani tation has reported it favorably. An extra session of the Pennsylvania Legislature has been called with n view to remove tho Auditor-Genernl nndStnto Treasurer, whoso connection with the financial scandals has been charged openly. The' Sovereign Grand Lodco of Odd Fellows has voted against the eighteen- venr iiiuiL io engiuiniy i.- join tno order. The voto was 107 to 58. Tlio ouestion regarding liquor sellers was postponed until next year. In a drunkon fight on a tra'n from Mount Vernon to Carml, 111., William Roliortson stabbed Slieriir WilliatiiB "lightly , and a man named Stanley, who went, to w iiiuinis' assistance, was oauiy cut and will die. The conductors, switchmon and brake- nioii on the Southern Pacific Atlantic system have demanded an increaso in wages, nnd a strike at an, cirly day is possible, as uie company roiusus to ac code to tho demands. Florida's Secretary of State, Mr.Ciaw- ioii, reiuses to a, lest tho commission ol ex-Congressinan I iavIdoii, appointed by ex-Governor Fleming to sutceed S.-nator Call. MaiidHinus proceedings wi 1 bo taken by tho Governor. A secret organization is terrorizing the people mi the neighborhood of Tellville, Ark. it is eompoxxi ol " moral regu lator?," but they aro brutal in t'loir treatment of tho-e who come under the ban of their disp. ensure. Tho arrest at Durango. Col., of Be on Nor lonsklold for removing relics from ancient clill' dwellings is ll:ih!e to ic-Mime International proportions, m tlio ncting Secretary of the United Slates, Mr'. Wharton, has tolegr.tphed the Mayor ol Durango to write him tho facts concern ing the Baron's arrest. Arrangements aro now complete fot the polytechnic excursion to the World's Fair at Chicago. Tho party, which will include about 150 men and women, Jiifi-tlv mechanics, clerks and lioard oluvil teachers, will go straight to New York from liudmi, and all noted placet in the vicinity will be visited. Tim coal product of the United States reached a total of 1-t l,'J:i;.rKt short toni in the census year, and was vulued at tho miner before any ex pontes for ship ment at MUV.'v'tlXNt. The product in eluded -J.VUX), 7 short tons of IVunsv. VHiiin mid other anthracite, worth (OS, s70.."iH, nml ?t5,(i:UUltl short tons ol bitiimiiious and lifiilto, valued ut tll,- At the Gravt'Houil rnco truck at Now tnrk an ingenious trick, by iiieumi of Mhlcli the Uwikinuker got no of the rni'tM, wan ilbntovnred. A "iimehnmn" with a bitf hat yh uriokted hi the Held fur iMrrliiKim, and It mh found h lutirv miu in (he hut and tmiull wire uiiwiul lliu inaii'i iMxiy, uhllo In the rear of the imrriyyo mi operator mIio imii( im 0tft4 ilh'UluJ by hw uijnn h PERSONAL MENTION. A Man nml III 'Wife nre Xmnlnntert fur Judicial I'onlllon In Nebraska. Mr. Partridge, the sculptor, is makinz a heroic bust of James Russell Lowel . Mrs. Mnckay is the possessor of n string of flawless diamonds two yards in length. George A. Pillsbury of Minneapolis has presented n soldiers' monument to Concord, N. II., his native town. f The report that Bismarck had recentb a slight stroke of paralypis is pronounced untrue, and his health is said to be fnir. Mark Twain is thinking of dee- niln v the Kiver Klnne in a boat with li " rier and working up his adventuus for his new book. Moorfleld Story, who was at one time Sumner's private secretary, has agreed to write his biography for the "Amer ican Statesmen Series." Secretary Poster is the bst croquet player in Washington, nnd is so far ahead of all competitors that tbev don't ti v to pit themselves against him. The mnn thought most likely o sue ceed the present Lord Mayor of London is Alderman David Evans, a manufact urer and a Welshman, nged 42 years. Francisco Cortisi, the great Italian singing teacher, lives alone in a little villa just out of Florence, whero an old hoiiekecper prepares his spaghetti and his wine for him. lames S. Sinclair, a farme' of North Dakota, a distant relative of the Karl of Caithness, has received word from Eng land that he has succeeded to the title and estate of that Englishman. The seat which Mr. Edmunds has been occupying in the Senate will not be taken by Mr. Proctor. Senator Dixon of Rhode Island gets it by the assignment of old Captain Baseett. Mr. Dixon was the first applicant Mrs. Ingalls iB quite unlike her tall. thin husband in figure. She is rather short, with a tendency to stoutness. Her complexion is fnir and rosy, nnd her face is animated by a pair of bright and ex pressive eyes. Tho new Duke of Cleveland comes into a rich income of $.100,000, derived from tho estates in Shropshire, and Durham, vast properties of which he will hnve the unincumbered rent rolls without having to sell an acre of their broad lands. On account of the physical infirmities of Bishop Galleher of Louisiana bis du ties have for the mot part 1een assumed by bis assistant, Rev. David SesJums, who is to all intents and purposes the Bishop of the diocese. As bo i but r'i years old, Mr. Sessums is prnhablv the youngest Bishop in the United States. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Mittpnbender of Lincoln. Neb., have both been nomi nated by the Prohibitionist" for judicial positions the husband for District Judge and the wife to the Supreme bench. It is suggested that it wns necessary to fix the nominations in that order because l ho woman was bound to have the last word nyhow. Of the various royal and princely he'rs n Europe who are unmarried the eltli.se. with ono exception (the son of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg), is Prince Victor Bonaparte, 30 years of age. Next comes Archduke Charles Louis of Austria, who is noark 28, and then the Duke of Clar enco and Avondalo, now 27. The Czaro- witz is 23 years old. It is declared on nuthentic British an thoritv that there is but ono British olli cer left who fought at Wnterloo. nnd n'l pretenders nre warned to ring oiT and d e as modest loiks as they were bom. I Mi otic officer is Lieutenant William Hewitt of the Rifle Brigade, born in 1705. OI late lie lias been in failing health. He lives at Southampton. Sir A. Paget is tho senior member of the British diplomatic corps, and has held appointment under the foreign Sec retaries acting for thirteen Cabinets. He recently celebrated tho fiftieth nnniver- saryof his appointment as an nttnclie His present position nt Vienna will be shortly vacated, the wily old diplomat having determined to retire from the servico. The last French survivor of the battle of Trafnlgar, Louis Cartigny, has just completed his 100th venr. ' Ho won h cabin boy on the Kedoubtablo in 18n.T nt the time tho fatal shot was fired from thnt vofoI at Lord Nelson. Cartignv is still halo and hearty, in full possession of his faculties, and spends most of his time in the open air. Nothing delights nun more than to converso about his ex poriences. Grace Greenwood writes to the Home Journal from Washington to say that she is not blind, as has been reported in the newspaper press. Sho says sue can see to thread up her sewing machine nnd even to find iter wny ncross Fifth nvenue nt nn hour when tlio millionaires nre out in force. Sliondiw: " I am not blind, neither to my neighlwr's sine nor to niv own little human frailties. I can still ' read my titlo clear ' to more good for tune than has over como my way." CRIME AND CRIMINALS. GerniHii Aiiiiri'liUtM Sxnlciirrd fur Ctrciu. lutlnir l'rolilltlttMl I.lturalure. Charles Mock (colored) was taken from ail at Swiunsboro, Gn., by a mob and In limed. Mock a few davs a no criminallv assaulted n white woman of that place. Sheritr Simons whipped seven crimi nals in tho jail vard in Newcastle. De'. There was but littlo interest shown in the atlair, and only a small ccowd leath ered. , quarrelsome negro shot and killed the. Mayor of Spartanburg, S. C , and a mob suiroiiuiled the mil at last accounts with the purK)so of hanging the mur- ervr. Six Anaiehists, who were tried in Co- blenx, Germany, have been sentenced U terms of imprisonment from six monOis to two years for circulating prohibited literature. Thoina O'Brien, a well-known all round crook nnd confidence man, lias locn arretted at New YVirk, charged with robbing a wealthy eitlien of .VI lutiiy of f 10,000 a year and a half ago, Andrew Gngo, clerk of Mud icon c.nn ty. was asiuiiminnted at liU homo in tin nuhuilM of IliinUville, Ark. Gage u Htitiiilliik' on bin I mnk porch, and the um imIii firm! from (lie nlmdow ol a hui-i t'tiloilul llrudloid I'uuhniu, ifnin-rl u iKirliittuiileiit of the Alrtbawa uimI Mid' Umi rMilnwd, uliot ami kHImi Jvuimi Oiiiuilnlitiiii, () ynuN nf ug. at &li )ouvry, Alt. Jna-ntlu liouUu mu iu rvu), ! i FOREIGN LANDS. Railroad Binding in the Heart of Africa. SUPPLY OF GUTTA PERCHA Afghanistan Opened by the Ameer to Free Commercial Intercourse With Russia. Russia is negotiating a commercial treaty with Persia. Minister Grant bns great hopes of th American hog in Austria. San Dominco will abolish its free list for all countries except the United States The wheat crop in Italy is unusually good, but barley is below Inst year crop. Taper that is absolutely water-prooi has mat been invented bv a Parisian chemist. Instruction of hn-ses in swimming is given with tho greatest care in the Ger man army. Bv a new law just published the Jew3 of l'ols'id are forbidden to buy real tate from pedants. The near future promises to witnPS'nn unprcede!!-"-' amount ol rarroad nutlet ing into the heaitot Ulrica. The telephone btween Loudon nn Paris is proving a big success scientific ally, commercially nnd tinancinlly. The supply of gutfa percha is being lapidly reduced, nnd t fie crenel! govern nient has undei taken to produce it in A'ueria. The Cologne Gazf'te avs the Emperor nnd ins principal nvhtat v iidvi'erc up prov the propoi,s jn to reduce the term of military service to two years. Much anxietv is felt regarding Bus sinn movements in Pamir iu Cent nil Asia. It is rumored that Lieutenant iDavison has been taken prisoner. The great pIku 1 1 of mackerel whip) if i i f were (iwoveren iiniv a lew vnrs nco on the south const of Ireland in theiiutuinn have again made their appearance. uie .Moscow (Kizeiif, spenKing oi tn Mitviene incident, mivh tiiat everv lilow struck bv England at lvuian dtpfomucv in huropa will le met with a blow bv Asia. Russian troop ar" practicing forced niiht mnrelies and ntbr niuht ninnMi ver'J ncrofs the Hiver Prnth on the n mnniHii frontiei with the nid ol eleclri liglits. Mrs. Mnvbriek'o solicitor hns been ad v-seu not io proceed wiin inu aviinti- n for her pardon, as tho British home of i. -1 1 i i . .i . nee win ueenne to reopen the cuse in anv for i. I 'ill.. . i il Mine crenii is given to the report in Paris that Berlin will transfonned shortly into a fortified citv. The 1-it eltort in this direction is almost nvinn years old. lliere is a large population of Jews in lenna. fhe recent census in Austria shows thnt thero nre 118.404 professed Hebrew pin Vienna out of a population OI 1,1110, IO. Tiio Eiffel tower is evidently n finan cial success. Over .17,000 hns Vn paid for admission to it bv visitors hincH year's season March 22 last, when this commenced. Rome is to be lighted by electricity by the first of the year. A motor at Tivoh, aoout twelve miles distant, will supply the power, while the Via Nazionali wifl be the street first lighted. l.e Jour of Paris says the Chinese gov ernment has granted 'the Jesuits nn im mense tract of land as compensation for I 1 .L. . I ... , . mu masts which me onier suuered by the burning of their buildings in the re cent, rmts. Kiectncity is playing an important part in the working of heavy guns, am munition hoists and winches in' the French navy. New ships are Insing fit ted with electric appliances in lieu ol uyiiiHiiiie gear. A letter from Salvador eavs President Ezeta has decided to call President Ba rillas of Guatemala to account for inch ing rebellion in Salvador, of whicli poi icy President Ezeta is said to be obtain ing ample proofs. After consulting with tho Britisl agents tho Sultan has decided to recon struct the administration of his covern ment and appoint responsible Ministers in the different branches, he himself re serving the fixed civil list. ihe government of Montenegro hnf oruereo tnreo merctinnt cruisers built h England after the type of tho Russian voiumeer ueet. j no vessels are to li employed during times of peace in tradf between the Adriatic and Odessa. In London Mr. Giffen'B recent estimntf l.n 41 A rmn rru : 11 , .. mm. i-iu,ww,vw ui noill WOUId lie tl- limit ot exports to New York is not din pitted; but oven this maximum is ex pected to entail an increase, nf th.. it of England rate of discount to 5 or 0 per cent. It is stated atConetnntinonlctbnt Salisbury has confontod to rccrBtiiinp tho Egyptian ouestion Oil the fvniriltin.i of his vacation, and the basis of all ne gotiations is that English occupation ehall not be followed by that of any other lho published stories reirardiiiL' ih conversion of Prof. Winscheid of LeipMr to Protestantism are not entirely due to his disapproval of the exhibition of tl v "holy coat." The fuels nre Unit. th.. iv.. lessor joined tho old Catholic movement in 1870, sinco which time ho hns entirely disassociated with feu Catholic Churcli. I'lirlllrn (hu lil.OOD llll. llll hMlhH, I IV riXI'LLH, nil Ski A,';. ''"NfiW'Hl DISlMHliH Ai mk()hih:ki:i htomaoii. PORTLAND MARKET. A Itenunie of tlio Condition or Its wr ferent DepurtniBiitK. Business continues fair in the whole sale district. Shipping ordeis were large, and receipts of produce and fruit were about the average. The fruit market is heavily stocked with grapes, and peaches aro in large supply. Apples and pears are also plentiful, rather more so than tho demand warrants. Tho season for plums and prunes is. about over, and the fruit is growing scarce. Tropical fruit is not plentiful, nor is there much demand for it. Quinces nre in fair Btipply. The vegetable market is well stocked, and prices aro firm and the demand good. Business in tho grocery line has been very good the past week, and prices on staples wore firm and steady. The wool market is weak, and there is but little doing in the way of real business. Hides nre dull. There is not much doing lo cally in hops, and prices are weak. WHKAT. There is little that is new to be chron icled in the local market, which hns re lapsed into a dull, easy condition under the influence of weak cables from Eu rope, stocks on hand are not large, and shippers are doing very little buying, except for delivery later on. Quotations are nominal. London advices show a further decline of 7d in ('argot's, with the market quite inactive. Other European markets are dull, bat nominally steady. rroiluce. Fruit, ICto. Whk.vt Valley, 1.50; Walla Walla, $1.40 per cental. Flouk Standard, H-8J: Walla Walla, $4.00 per barrel. Oats New. 3342Jc per bushel. Hay $12 rf 13 per ton. Millstuffs Bran, $18; shorts, $20; ground barley, ?26in 20; chop feed, .f 20; per ton ; feed l arlev, 18 per ton ; brew ing barley, $1.16 per cental. BuTiuii Oregon fancy creamery, ?,2'., U5c; fancy dairy, 3 c; fnir to good, 25 27'jji:; common, 15(22c; Eastern, 25 31Uj cper pound. Ciikkb uregon, 1212e; Eastern, 13c par pound. Eon;: Oregon, 2527)jc; Eastern, 25c per dozen. Poultry Old chickens. $4,50; young chickens, $2.(03.00; ducks, $5.00v8.0'J ; geese, qi).0010.00 per dozen; turkeys, 15(&1m: per pound. Vkhktaiu.cs Cabbage, nominal. 75co5 $1 percental ;caitlillower,$l. 25 perdozen ; Onions, $1 per cental; potatoes, 0((iG(c per Tuck; tomatoes, 4U(850c per I ox; sweet potatoes, l3iia2c per pound; Cali fornia celery, 00c per dozen bunches; fancy Oregon celery, 7uC per dozen bunches. Fkuith Sicily lemons. J 8.00 38.50: California, $6.0JG.50 per lox ; apples, 50cfl per box, banana", $3.003.o0 a bunch; pineapples,J4.00(i.OO per dozen : peaches, 507oc per box ; plums, 255l)e per box; watermelons. $i.001.50 per dozen ; cantaloupes, $1.502.50 per crate ; grapes,, l okay, $1 per box; muscat nnd black, G575c per crate; pears, 768 c per pound; nectarines, G075c per crate: prunes, 2rti3cper pound; quinces. $1 per box; cranberries. $10 11: Oreirun. cranberries, $9.50 per barrel. iNUTs California wa nuts.lloec: hickory, 8Jc; Brazils, 10"ilc; al monds, 16($18c; filberts, 1314c; pine nuts, 17lc; pecans, 1718c; cocoa nnts, 8c; hazel, 8c; peanuts, 8c per pound. Staple Groceries. Honey 17)518c per pound. Rick Japan. $5.00: Island. $5.75 per cental. Salt Liverpool, $14.20, $15.5016.00 ; stock, $11(312 per ton. BuAXti Small white. 3!c: nink. 3c: bayos, 4c: butter. b?.c: iiinas. 4c per pound. Coffee Costa Rica. 2viU(S21e: Rio. 23c; Mocha, 30c; Java, 25c; Ar- buckle's, 100-pound cases, 23c per pound. buoAii Golden C.4c: extra C. 4Vc: white extra O. 4o: irranulated. 5Tic: cube crushed and powdered. Okie : con fectioners' A, Bc per pound. Syiiup Eastern, in barrels, 4755c; half-barrel, 50,r8e; in capes, 55fi80c; per gallon; $2.Vo(iS2.50 per keg. Cali fornia, in barrels, 3)c per gallon; $1.73 per kei:. fJniED Jbaum Italian primes. 8c: Petite nnd German, 7c per pound ; raisins, $1.201.. 0 pr 1kx; plunimer led pears, b($io; sun-dried and fac tory plums, tie: evaporated iechen. 9llc; .Smyrna figs, 20c; California. tigs, iv. per pound. Canned (jood Table fruits, fl.fifira 1.80. 2J..s: peaches. tl.KOraiLMin ? Hnrt- lett pears, $1.S01 J; plums, $1 37' 1.50; strawberries. $2.2o: cherries. 2.'.i 2.40; blackberries, $1.85l.0(l; rf.ap- bernes. $2.40: pineapples. L'.'Vri9 Kii- apricots,$l.tl0Ml.70. Pio fruit: Aseurted, $l.l0o?1.20; iieaches, $1.2o; plums, $1.00 1.10; blackberries, tl.25 tie e dozen. V... etables: Corn, $1.2501.05: lomntoes. $1.00(!i;3.00; sugar peas, $1.001.16: string Injuns, IKIcCZifl.OO per dozen. Jfish: Sardines, 75c0l.l: lobsters. i2.:ai 3.50; oysters, if 1.5J6e3.2o per donn. Salmon, standard No. 1, $1.251.50 per cjite; No. 2, $2.5.). Condensed milk: Eagle brand, $8.10; Crown, $7; High land, $0.75; Champion, to. 50: Alonmi. $0.75 per case. Meats: Corned lieof, $2.00; chipped lieef. $2.15; lunch ton-tie, $3.10 Is, $f.0J 2s; deviled ham. $1.35(2.05 per doyen. The Meat -Market. Beef Live. 2e ; dr. 1. 5Cc. Mutton Live, shears. .u... . rimaoi Hoas Live, 5c; dressed, 7c. VEAty 57o per pound. Smoked Meats Eastern hn.n iq 13.e: other variotipn i i.r,. . , y, uicaMHDi, Da COI1. lJ(iilbc: Binnlrwl im tf r Illy (7 llo per pTmnd. io0-ComPum, 10c5 I'", 11K 13o; Oregon, 10Jl2Mc per pound. 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