B. CHANCEY, Publisher, Union, Or.
PACIFIC COAST.
Fine Lithograpic Stone
Found in Utah.
FRESNO RAISIN SHIPMENTS.
Claus Spreokels' Son Purchases the
Entire Street Railway Sys
tem at San Diego.
Scarlet fever is nt Elko, Nov.
Pendleton iscleniiingoutthcgnmblers.
Portland is determined to enforce the
Sunday law.
In Millard county, Utalt,, fine litho
graphic atone has been found.
s s Angeles i8 being flooded by "green
goods" circulars from Now- York.
The wreck of the bark Charles Devens
nt Coos Bay is to be removed at once.
Ranchers around Idaho Falls, Idaho,
are offering potatoes in the field at 10
cents per 100 pounds.
Raisin shipments from Fresno arc now
averaging twenty c.rloads a day. The
total shipments vdll reach 1,000 carloads.
The prospects lor tho completion of a
railroad from Salt Lake to Los AngeleH
are fair according to a report that reaches
Angeles.
A. B. Spreckels. son of Claus Sprcck
eln, has purchased the entire system of
street-car lines at Kan Diego, and will
apply electricity in operating them.
George E. Holden, a Chicago sporting
man, was robbed of nearly $8,000 be
tween Albuquerque and Pomona. Ho
carried tho money in a small handbag.
Ocorgo Clark, who is charged with tho
killing of Superintendent Gnluvotti
while the latter was taking a bar of gold
to Novada City, has surrendered to tho
authorities.
Prof. Martin W. Sampson, professor of
English in tho State Unlvorsityof Iowa,
has lcen appointed assistant profepsor
of English in the Leland Stanford (Jr.)
Univ. rsity.
Two well-known gumblers at Portland
chargo that there is a gambling trust in
that city, and that from $3,000 to $-1,000
,is collected monthlv and given to ollieials
to insure the gamblers from being inter
fered with.
It is just announced that thrco East
ern parties, whoso names are withheld,
have donated $50,000 to the endowment
fund of tho Pomona College and $25,000
for a building to bo erected during tho
corning spring.
Tho United States government has sent
a gold wntch and chain to be presented
to Captain I). I). Hoop of the British
bark Norcross at Victoria, B. O., for the
rescue ot the crow of the American ship
William MeGUvray in August, 1880.
'' "While tho penitentiary commission
ers were in session at tho Santa Fo
prison, threo prisoners, with "wooden
lovolvors, " vrapped with tin foil, hold
tip tho guard, and two escaped in a car
nage which was in front of tho building.
From roporta gathered from fruitgrow
ers in all parts of Calilomia hoihIi of
Fresno it is found that tho total prune
i r p in that region thin season has been
lo-eighth of a full crop. In Pomona
V "jy it has been even smaller than
Ihd.
'Oohn Mo ran, a section hvs on tho
A i Ian tic and Pacific at Needles, has been
arrested at Albuquerque, and property
which was stolen from a Pullman sleeper
on the '20th ult. and liolonging to Mrs.
MeClornund of Fort Wingate was found
on his person.
Specimens of ore which assays $14.05
in silver, with traces of gold, lead and
iconic, havo beori taken to San Jose by
Charles Schuoffcr, who has located tho
mine in tho Lingas, near New Almedan,
in Santa Clara county. The ledge la
twenty feet thick.
Tho uprising of tho Yaquis in Sonora
w.n caused by the settlement cf lands
outside their reservation, hut to which
t'loy luyclulm, of Mexican families. Tho
properties of theso families have been
destroyed by fire, and the Yaquis have
retreated to'tho mountains.
The Union Pacific has decided not to
fellow tho example of the Northern Pa
cific by withdrawing one of its trans
continental trains during the winter.
The officials of the company at Portland
hiv that tho lino is doing a' big business
and can nfford two trains dnily.
Tho West Coast Fire and Marino In
m ranee Company at Tacoma has been
declared insolvent, and its ollicers will
fV criminally indicted, the company
ijofu'urlng to have been run in their
interest. The concern ran behind $14,
O.K) last year, but paid dividends every
three months.
Henry Vlllard in a speech at Portland
thorn-lit tho depression in railroad inter
ests in tho Northwest Is due to ho many
new lines without immediate compen
rating returns, Hethinks the situation
is growing worse, and a crisis may lie
expected within tlio next sir months,
caused by competition and rate wars.
K, J, Llvcrnnsh, the Livormore editor
who created a sensation in San Fran
cisco by a iniiBouorading episode, went
to Cloverdalo Wednesday night and
hot four times nt an old hum seventy
vears of age, named Ktheridge, whom
he imaged to m Judge JnachiiuBcu of
Kin Francisco. Tho wounds are tlesh
wouiiiIh. Llvornush is pronounced in
sane, and will Iw taken to Napa,
It Is confidently stated that the Iron
inolders' ftrlko nt Han Francisco, which
linn been going on over twenty months,
it coon to be declared oil' by the mini.
The 'terms Umiii which this will lie
brought nlwul are not u t know n In
detail. The iiioldorn will make largo
ii!iri'Jnl(iii, the principal of which in
tlut in the future nil fuundriea will I hi
what urn culled "open" lmp, the
union allowing lU inunilwu to work in
hot wlu'fu non-union men urn em-
PERdOINAL MENTION.
Bardsley's Occupation in the Pennsyl
vania Penitentiary is Making
Pepper Boxes.
It is no longer good form to call the
Emperor of Japan the Mikado. II is
now called Kotei. and the Chinese Em
peror answers to the title Bakuduhan.
Charles tewart Pamell according to
Thomas Biggar Harrison was the !rson
who dubbed Prince A llnrt Victor, Queen
Victoria's eldest grandson, " Collins and
Cutis.''
" Honest" John Bardsley's present
occupation in the Pennsylvania peniten
tiary is making pepper boxes. He has
gained twenty pounds in weight since
his term began.
Emile Orainer, a wealthy Frenchmen,
has taken the liveliest interest in the
building-up of tho commercial prosperity
of tho State of Wvoming, nnd has al
ready spent $100,000 in tho work, upon
which ho has been engaged for the past
eight years.
Von Mumm, the German Secretary of
Legation and Chargo d'Affuirep, will con
tinue to represent his government at
Washington until a successor to the late
Count von Arco-Valley is appointed.
Mumm is a very proper name for a dis
creet diplomate.
Of the land pertaining to the lata
Chief Justice Chase's homo neir Wash
ington, D. C, called "Edgewood," about
seventeen acres liave been laid nut tor
villa site, but the remaining thirty-six
acres Kato Chase still retains with the
old mansion, which continues to bo her
home.
Even the famous people have their
vanities." Meissouier was proud of his
shapely and delicate hands Ho said
that his fingers were so sensitive that he
could with his eyes stint lay on the. ex
act amount of color that lie wanted on a
ghen spot if Boniclody placed the point
of the brush upon it.
Achille Perelli, who died a few days
ago in New Orleans, was one of tho most
distinguished sculptors in the United
States. He was Iwrn in Milan, Italy,
and was a pupil of Gnlli, n' celebrated
Italian sculptor. After itohtinc many
battles while in Garibaldi's army he
came to tins country, ami rcsumeu ins
artiBtic work in Louisiana.
Old man Adams, who founded the
Adams Express Company, was as a lad
a stable helper and bartender in lioston
An old lady, who took pity on the desti
tute six-year-old adrilt in the worm, got
him a ti'nco in a grocery. 1 ho whirligig
of time has so brought things around, as
the story goes; that tire daughter of that
very old lady is now said to owe much
of tho comforts of her life to Waldo
Adams, tho son of the friendless hoy.
Prof. James Hall of New York is a
grand example of well-preserved powers,
physical nnd mental. Ho has I wen an
incessant worker all his life, and at 81
he has vigor and strength that ninny men
at -10 would envy, lie is the Nt&lor of
American geologists, and the recent In
terniitional Gcojx-iphical Congress at
AVashington, which lie attended, hon
ored him with a special greeting in writ
ing, signed by ninny of the most emi
nent geo'og'sts in tlio world.
Tho skilled hand of Mis Abigail
Dodge, better known to the public as
liail I Inmilton. m-'h ' he New Yoi k fVf.
is to be seen in the announcement that
r petition for tho pardon of Mrs. May
brick, tho American Indy who was con
victed of poieoning her husband in Eng
land and sentenced to penal servitude
for life, has been signed by Mrs. Presi
dent Harrison and the wives of all the
Cabinet members nnd sent for presenta
tion to Queen Victoria.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Depatment Files His Report
for the Fiscal Year.
Assistant Sccrotnry Bussv, of tho In
terior Department, hits filed his report
for tho fiscal year. Tho report reviews
tho work of the board of pension ap
peals. It shows that Jnnuai v 1, 101,
there were 5,028 appeals pending before
the board, as against 5,030 July 1, 1801.
Mr. Bnssey points out several defects in
pension legislation, and makes n num
ber of recommendations looking to their
correction. Ho asks that Congress be
requested to enact n law tint shall ex
pressly authorize tho departiu"iit to
treat all improper, illegal and excessive
payments of pensions, whether caused
by fraud or mistake, as payments to be
charged against the current pension,
with a view to readjust or equal tho cur
rent pension payments within the dis
cretion of the Secretary. He suggests,
thnt in case of insane, idiotic or other
wise helpless children of deceased pen
sioners, of pensionable age, the limit be
abolished, so as to admit such children
at any date to the pension roll. He
also recommends thnt perrons who
served in the Confederate army and
afterwards enlisted in the navy of the
United States bo given the same pen
sion accorded those who served tho Con
federate cause and then enlisted in the
army of tho United States.
Under the authority of the act of
Congress, approved September 28, 18SK),
the Director of the Mint has prepared a
now design for silver coin, which has
been approved by the Secretary of tho
Treasury. Tho design is intended for
half dollars, quarteta and dimes. On
the obverse face of the rain is a female
head representative of liberty looking to
the right with nn olive leaf and Phiu
necian cap on the back of the head. On
the band, or fillet, over the front of the
head is tho word "Liberty," and over
the head nt the top of the coin, "In God
Wu Trust. M Around tho medallion are
thirteen stars, and nt tho bottom the
date of coinage. On the reverse side
appears the seal of tho United States,
us adopted in 1781', nn eagle with open
wings. On the breast n shield Urgent,
Fix pellets gules, n chief azure. In his
dexter claw the eagle holds nn olivo
brunch, representing tx'nce, and in the
sinister claw n sheaf of thirteen arrow ,
representing war. In his beak the eagle
holds n scroll containing "E Plurlbus
Uuuui," entw ined ubove nnd about tho
head with thirteen stars, environed by
clouds. Thin will K the design of halves
Hiid quartern. The dimo on the obverse
fide, in place of the tur, will havo
"United States of America." "In (lint
IVo Tnut" will in) omitted from tho
dime. The reverse of tho dime will 1
the name the preount dime in mo.
Tho luverro of the half nnd quarter U h
ittturn to thudi'ljjn of liuot the firit
oolnwyu of the oounliy,
EASTERN ITEMS.
River Making Inroads
on New Orleans.
ELECTRICAL PROCESS IN IRON
Black Diphtheria Spreads at Alarm
ing' Rato in an Iowa Nor
wegian Settlement
Iron is to bo made at Chattanooga by
an electrical process.
The Supreme Court of North Dakota
sustains the prohibition law in every
particular.
The people of Brooklyn havo sounded.
an empnatic can lor another bridge
across the East river.
Nicaragua needs water badly, and
American well drillers with manning
outfits nro in demand.
Georgia statesmen havo resolved to
return to tho old custom of annual meet
ings of tho Legislature.
A rich nmlier deposit, it is reported,
has been discovered in Ontario, the esti
mated value of which is $7,000,000.
Louisiana sugar men aro objecting
irtrongly to tho appointment of negroes
us inspectors under the bounty law.
Tho inroads of tho river on New
Orleans continue, and may prove a
rather serious matter for a part of the
city.
A canal to connect Jamaica Bay with
the Great South Bay, on tho "south
shore of Long Island, is spoken of as
probable.
Before the close of the year four new
cruiserB two at Baltimore, one at Nor
folk nnd ono in Philadelphia will have
been launched.
Tho number of postoffices in the
United States is officially stated to be
04,391, showing an increase of 2,000 over
lust year nt this time.
By an order the Secretary of War hns
reduced from thirty-five to thirty years
the maximum age at which army re
cruits will bo accepted.
Ignatius Donnelly has begun two
more libel suits against the St. Paul.
PionetfPress. lie is not satisfied with
the verdict just given to him.
The Delaware IndianB have just re
ceived $-454,000, being one-hulf of the
sum given thorn by the government for
lands in the Indian Territory.
An ingenious person in Chicago hns
invented an automatic Adelma Pntti.
It is n life-sized wax figure, which imi
tates hor smiles, gestures and poses.
During the last eight months the
nuaiber of locomotive engines exported
from tho United States was 250. against
ninety-three in the corresponding period
of 1890.
The New York naval reserve artillery
li rapidly filling up its ranks to the
maximum, and is inaugurating a fixed
piogiitnuno for the winter's drill.
All the Honor dealers in Bar Harbor.
Me., including proprietors of summer
restaurants, havo been indicted for al
leged violation of the bquor laws.
The government proposes to build
another timber doek in the navy yard
at Booklvn. tho accommodations of the
other two docks being insiillicient. It
is to bo altout (500 feet in lcngt1'.
The Commercial Club of Kansas City
has called a convention to meet Decem
ber 15 and 10, to urge upon Congress
systematic improvements o1. tho .Mis
souri and lower Mississippi rivers.
Tho Governor of Teunceee has o.Tered
a reward of $5,000 for the nrre-tand
conviction of tho lea ier of tho P.riee
villo riot, and n reward of $2 5 each for
the capture of the escaped co;iviets.
An agreement has bsjon concluded
with the Tonkawa tribe of I-idiaus of
tho Indian Territoay, by wliioh the
Indians cede to tho United States 80,000
acres of land, the consideration being
$30,000.
Kansas City officials havo been
wrought up to a high tate of excite
ment by the discovery of gold in samples
of strata pierced by a drill while drilling
for tho water-works tunnel under the
Missouri river.
President Noel of the Olympic Club at
Now Orleans bus telegraphed S-illivun's
agents in New York otleriiig 25.000 for
tho Slnvin-Sulltvau contest for March;
also a solid gol pitcher emblematic of
the world's supremacy.
Black diphtheria is spreading nt an
alarming rato in u Norwegian settle
ment in Soldior Valley, Harrison equnty,
Iown. Fourteen persons recently died
of tho dieae. Ono family of ten lost
six members. Tito place lias just been
quarantined.
Attachments aggregating $700,000 have
been issued against the Iron and Land
Company of Minnesota at Duluth. The
corporation is composed principally ol
Englishmen, and it is charged that the
F.nglish holders have a scheme to IooV
after their individual interests regnrd
lesH of the interests of tho Americar
holders.
Tho permanent committee at New
York .1 uniform bills of hiding ha
adopted a now -export bill of lading, em
bracing the conditions of the present
bill of lading and the conditions of the
ocean bil s at present in use in New
York. This bill will be iibed for uli
Inw ness originating in the West, and
will go into efi'e. t December 1.
Collia P. Huntington, tho railroad
king, la defendant in a suit brought by
Perkins, Goodwin A Co., tmper dealers,
to recover from him $15,li27.-l0 for paper
furnished in 1888 to tho Star Printing
Company. Mr. Huntington held $(50,.
000 of the $a00,000 of the capital stock
of the company. It is now sought to
hold him as a stockholder.
The recent wreck of the El Dorado on
the Bahama bunks hns led to tho dis
covery of nn ingenious method of cheat
ing the government. Nine cases wer
inurkod linen goods, while only three
contained toweling, tho rot "having
costly kid gloves. Tho good wero dam
ngod, but Isjing in ImiiiI were tthlpped
lo Now York, and the government an-
trulMM in eckliig to uncertain (he
ami dlmwvurisl the cheat, Thnro In it
tint tbut the Ran PruiiuUco Custom
lUIUO Would In) InVulVDd,
EDUCATIONAL.
Western University Students in Alle
ghany Abandon the Cane Rush,
and Substitute Boxing.
New York has sixteen night schools.
Missouri has 10,000 country school
teachers.
Only xi per cent, of the population of
India "can read ami write.
rii Imperial University of Tokio, Ja
pan, has 2,000 scholars enrolled.
An eleven-year-old Kansas loy was
granted a teacher's certificate la.-t uvk.
MemlMjrs of the same family m-ciii to
have a teii'ieuc'v for the same kind of
work. Of the 44,000 lady teachers 11,
000 are sisters.
Western University students in Alle
ghany abandoned their cane rush and
substituted a boxing match for loints
between leading freelimen and sopho
mores. It is now announced that the unknown
giver of $60.00iJ to found a scholarship
at Clark University, Worcester, in De
cember. 1880, was the late Hon. George
.S. Barton.
The directors of the Lutheran Theo
logical Seminary, now located at Uet
tysburg, have been considering for some
lime i lie- (mui ui removing wuu insuiu
tion to Washington.
At the Northwestern University (co
educational) at Evanston, III., tins
year, the young women are not permit
ted to receive callers except during the
hour from 7 to 8 p. in. On FriJays tho
young men stay until 0:30 p. m.
October 8 Colonel Amos A. Parker
of Fitzwilliam, N. II., celebrated his one
hundredth birthday. So far as is known
he is the oldest "college graduate in
America, having finished the course at
the University of Vermont in 1813.
The Faverweather bequest will go far
toward meeting the expense of many
necessary improvements in Dartmouth
College." More apparatus, baths and
lockers will soon be added to the gym
nasium, and improvements in Keed
Hail will also be made.
The Methodist University of Wash
ington is runidly taking shape, and in a
short time the tine site, which lias ben
puiehased by means of the contribu
tions of the residents of the Capital
City, will present an active scene as the
various buildings are erected.
In lli42 Harvard graduated a clus-' of
nine members. A hundred years later
the graduating class nuuioered twenty
four. A century later yet the number
hud d'Uihled ng.im, nnd in ISiiO llnr
vaid graduated her fir?t. c uj-s of 100
members. Twenty years later the
classes had more than dotih'ed again,
and now t lie entering da- of this yeai
more than quadruples that number. '
WORLD'S FAIR NOTES.
The Lady Managers Decide to Establish
a Model Sao.tary Kitchen in the
Woman's Building.
Floridn's World's Fair building
ill
reprodr.ee old Fort Marion.
NicaraufU wants half an acre for the
lite of its building at the exposition.
The government building for tho
World's Fair is making satisuictory
progress.
A bill to appropriate $-"50,000 for the
Wor.d's Fair exhibit lias heeu intro
duced in the Brazilian Congres.
Tho old curiosity shop which Dicl:
ens :imiiort;ili'u will bo one of tiie in
teresting exhibits at the World's Fair.
Tho World's Fair at Chicago will con
tain a pumping plant ol 40,000,000 gal
lonj per day, and its cost will be $15,
000. The Hamburg-American Packet Com
pany, of which Carl Schurz is the New
York director, has subscribed $5,000 to
the exposition stock.
Qunrtish, the noted London book
dealer, intends to send to the exposi
tion an autograph letter of Christopher
Columbus, for which he paid $5,000.
Commissioner Shufeldt has cabled
from Cape Town, South Africa, that an
exhibit of diamonds nnd feathers worth
$:i00,000 w ill be sent from Capo Town.
Virginia's building at the exposition
will be of the old colonial type, meas
uring 33x70 feet, two stories" high and
surrounded bv u plnza fifteen feet wide.
Its cost w ill be $20,000.
The little old building on Arch street,
Philadelphia, where Betsy Boss made
tho first flag for the United States army,
is likely to bo removed bodily and
taken to Chicago for exhibition at the
World's Fair.
The great imitation coast-lino battle
ship, which is to constitute and contain
tho government's navul exhibit, is in nn
advanced state of construction. It will
all be inclosed before winter weather
sets in, and all the interior work will be
completed by spring.
Dr. John E. Owens, the medical di
rlctor of the exposition, has promised
Mm. Potter Palmer that women shall
receive official recognition upon tho med
ical stair. The number to be appointed
lias not yet been announced, but assur
nnce lias been given that women phy
sicians will professionally rank equal
with men nnd share the duties of the
exposition hospital.
The art palace on the lake front, which
will be built by tho art institute, assist
ed to the extent of $200,000 bv the expo
sition company, will cost about $700,
000,000. The designs and plans of
Shepley, Itutnn & Coolidgo of Boston,
hnvo been ndopted. During tho exo
sition the building will be used by the
World's Congress auxiliary for some of
its nnmerous meetings.
California is tho first State to respond
to Chief Buchanan's request that each
State contribute the trunks of threo of
its most characterictic trees, to be used
in constructing a rustic rolonade for the
forestry building. California's contri
bution includes a sugar pine furnished
by the Towlo Btob. Company of Alta ; a
ml wood by J. F. Cunningham of Santa
Cruz, and a sequoia, by Smith Coiuetock
of Tulare. .
One -of the unique features of the
Mexican exhibit at the fair will be the
celebrated Pnndiua famly, consisting of
five pervom, who uro probably the moat
export workers in day nnd modelers of
figures in the world. The family will lie
ont to Chicago by the State of flundula
far. It Is tho Intention to provide a
Mimloan hotue for them to live in dur
ing the fair and a work nhoti. where their
i work nifty l inspected.
FOREIGN LANDS.
Jerusalem Become
Jewish City.
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BRAZIL TO FOSTER THE VINE.
rhe French Senate Passes the
to Admit American Pork
by 179 to M.
Bill
The French Senate h?.s pnse l a bill
to admit American pork by 170 to (it.
The epidemic of smallpox, which re
cently prevailed in Honduras, is over.
A split has been discovered in another
big British gun a sixty-seven-ton gun.
The Canadian Cabinet crisis is over.
Chapleau .will retain the Secretaryship
of State.
Russia is establishing new ports of
commerce and naval stations on the
Black Sea.
An epidemic resembling la grippe has
attacked many persons at San Jose,
Costa Rica.
There are fears of a famine in North
ern Hungary, owing to failures of the
potato crop.
Prince Czartoryski, Vice-President of
the Upper House" of the Austrian Parlia
ment, is dead.
Advices" from Africa report that Car
dinal Lavigerie is seriously ill at Algiers.
The Pope has sent his blessings to the
Cardinal.
Natives of South Africa are building n
telegraph lino across Mashonnlnnd at the
rate of three miles a day.
The Russian government has placed
an order for 500.000 small-bore repeat
ing rifles with a French linn.
Order have been issued by the Porte
for the construction of eighteen new
cruisers for the Turkish navy.
The extraordinary rainfiill of the past
month all over Fiigland has produced
the heaviest floods since 1875.
Negotiations have reached an advanced
stage with the Rothschilds in Paris for a
Spanish gold loan of $15,000,000.
.Meliionrno. Australia, has just, com
pleted a splendid system of cable roads
about eighty-live miles in extent.
Great Britain still pushes Iter claims
to the ownership of the valuable mines
in the eastern portion of Venezuela.
The Unban railroads have prepired a
zone tariff project for the carriage of
parcels not exceeding twenty-two pounds
in weight.
Jerusalem has become n Jewish city,
since :!),0J0 of the5),0 0 inhabitants are
Israelites. Jewish agricultural colonies
are on the increase.
Rumors iroin Nicaragua are to the ef
fect that a number of perona will hj
exiled in addition to those already driven
from the country before long.
The Drevfus motion relative to the
prosecution of tho Aichbishop of Aix
was withdrawn after an exciting debate
in the French Chamber of Deputies.
Grand Duke Alexander of Oldenburg,
chief military expert of Russia, is tak
ing prt in a strategic conference now
proceeding between French and Russian
officers.
As there is a popular superstition in
Ch'na thnt telegraph poles cast baleful
shadows on the graves of deceased an
cestors, the wires are being buried to
save trouble.
Fifty liMge chests were required to
transport from Greece to Berlin the su
perb collection of the relics of Troy 'eft
bv the late Dr. Schliemann to tho Berlin
Museum of Art.
The lnnian line s'.eamer City of Rich
mond, which cost 125,000 sterling to
build, was oif'red at audi ui at Liver
pool, and the highest bid was $0,000.
The vessel was withdrawn.
When Kicking Bear of Buffalo Bill's
Indians went through St. Paul's Ca
thedral the other day he examined the
muskets on Wellington's funeral car
and grunted, "Liun no good!"
The total tonnnge of the port of Liver
lool during the last fiscal voar was
772,1105 tons. The Mesey 'Dock Board
received from dutieon vessels nnd mer
chandise tho sum of $5,070,000.
In the last annual report of the Britih
postoflice it appears that of the .jw.WV),
000 received in the money-order depart
ment from foreign countries there came
from the United States $5,5S0,O00.
France ip supposed to be preparing to
sweep all Russian refugees over the
oorder, their absence from French soil
lH'ing one of the conditions the Czar ex
acts before he will visit the Republic.
A new naphtha spring of immense ca
pacity was recently opened in Bakoo on
the Taggieff grant. If it continues w ith
the same power as at present, it will io
tho richest naphtha fountain in the
world.
A Portuguese mall boat from Fast
Africa has arrived from Mnrsoilles, and
reports n recent encounter between
British nnd Portuguese poldiers nt Ix
ronzo Mnrquez, in which tw o w ere killed
and fifteen injured.
A conflict between Turkish troops nnd
nn armed band undor the command of
Chiefs Zanlus nnd Mauris, champions of
tho Cretan Christians, hns occurred
nenr Melopotnmos. Thirty of those en
gaged in the fight, including Chiefs
Zaulus nnd Mnuris, were killed.
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PORTLAND MARKET.
Prodiicf, Fruit, Hip.
Wheat Valley. $1.551 57hj ; Wall3
Wnltii, $1.-17,,1. per cental.
Fi,ot'ii Standard. 1 75. Walla Walla,
$-t.to; Graham, $3.75; superfine, $3.0.)
per parrel.
O.vrs New. -t2(a-15c per bushel.
Hay $11 tl3 per ton.
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feu. I, $ I Spill-; leed barley, $2J, mid
dlings. 2:SMSM per ton ; brewing baney,
$1 15 per cental. (
Binrmt Oregon fancy creamery, 35'ii
37'i.c; fancy dairy, 3 r.i32!.c; 'fair to
good, 2527fc; common, 15tg.22S,e;
Katern. 2ofi81hC ier pound.
Cuuiisu Oregon, 12ic; Eastern, 14j$
15c per pound.
Kiids Oregon, r,2'i.c; Eastern, 25i
27)t!C per dozen.
Poultiiy Old chickens. $4..Wi- 00;
young chickens, $2.5.)ii i.m ; ducks. 5.cK)
(ic7 5'; geese, U.OOot: 10.00 per dozen;
turkeys, l-!c per pound.
Vw'jktahi.ks Caobage, nominal. Ttci
$1 percental ;caunilowt!r,f I 25 per dozen ;
Onions, 75c(i($l percental.; potatoes, -KM
()0c per sack; sweet poti.toes, 2c pt-r
pound; California celery, 75e per dozen
bunches; fancy Oregon celery, 50u per
doen bunches.
Fun is Sicily lemons, $8.50; Califor
nia, s5. 50CiiO 5 J per lox; apples, MVbje
per box; bananas, $3..i0(U"..U0 a bunch;
pineapples, $4(rU per dozen ; grapes, lo
Kuy, ?1 per Inx; muscat and black, ft
80c per crate; pears, ii5i2$l per Kjx;
quinces, $l(.tl.25 per box; cranberries,
$100Ul per barrel; Oregon cranberries,
$0.50 per barrel; Smyrna figs, 20c per
pound; citrons, 27c per pound.
NtiTn California walnuts. 1 1 'ii 12.V;
hickory, 8Jae; Brazils, 10(i)llc; ui
lnonds", lOtfilSc; filberts, l.')Ue; pine
nuts, 17.flric; pecans, 17($lSc; cocoa
nuts, Sc; hazel, 8c; peanuts, 8c pur
pound.
Sliillo Clrocorlen.
Honey 17.lo0i 18c per pound.
SAi-r Liverpool. $1-1.50, $15.50t 10.5 J;
sto. k, $1 Kiel 2 per ton.
Rick Japan. $5.U0; Island, $5.75 per
cental. Bka.ns Small white, 2J.fc; pink, 24.tc;
bayos, 2J,,c; butter, jae; Hmas, Ue
ner pound.
Coi-KKU Costa Rica, 20 .3 21c.;
Uio,
21c; Mocha, iJOc; .lava, L'o'...c;
buckle's, 100-pound cases, 213,;c
1)01111(1.
Si d ui Golden C.c; extra C, ll,c;
while extra C, -IV: granulated, ,VV ;
cube crushed and powdered, lie; co.i-lei-tionera'
A, 5,'sc; maple sugar, 10c per
otind.
Syhcc Eastern, in barrels, 47(ii.r5c ;
half-barrels, oOt'ioSc; in cases. oomSiyi
per gallon ; $2.2.") per keg. California, in
oarrels. 3iic per gnilon; $1.75 per keg.
Dittr.D FnuiTs Italian prunes, Sc;
Petite and German, 7c per pound;
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raisins, iji.zukii.du uux; pniniiu-r
dried pears, SyiOc; sun-dried and fac
tory plums, 5c; evaporated peaches,
italic; Smyrna figs, 20c; California,
figs, 7c per pound.
Can.nkd lioon;- initio irons. i.m-(&
1.80, 2'.9; peaches, $1.80rt2.n0; Bart-
lett pears, $l.80fn)l.!M; plums, $1.37.jc
1.50; Htrawbeiries $2.2-; cherries, $2.
(2.40; blackberries, ? l.h.i((i)l.!lt) . r.isp
lierries, $2.40; pineapples. $2.256' S.S ';
npricots,$l.ti0Cl.70. Pie fruit: Assortc,
1.10Cil.20; peaches, $1.25; plums, $lr?
1.10; blackberries, $1.25 per dozen. Veg
etables: Com, $1.251.05; tomatoes,
$1 .00(0)3.00; sugar pens, $1.001.15;
string beans. 90c(t$1.00 per' dozen.
Fih: Sardines, 75c(Al.(5; lobsters, $2.30
(S3.50. Condensed milk : Eagle brand,
$8.10; Crown, $7.(; Highland, $0.50;
Champion, $5.50; Monroe, $0.75 per case.
Meats : Corned beef, $2.00 ; chipped beef,
$2.25; lunch tongue. $3.10 Is, $(i.0CP 2s ;
deviled ham, $1.35(i2.()5 per dozen.
M iRcelluueoiift.
Nails Base quotations: iron, $3.00;
steel, $3.00; wire, $3.50 per keg.
Ikon Bar, 3c per pound.
Sikkl lOJic per pound.
Tin I. C. charcoal, 14x20, prime qual
ity, $8.008.50 per box ; for crosses, $2
estru per lxix; roofing, 14x20, prfnie
quality, $0.75 per box ; I. O. coke plates,
14x20, prime quality, $7.75 per box.
Lkap l?4c per pound; bar, GJoC.
Soi.ukii 13ln10)j.c per pound, ac
cording to grade.
Suor $1.85 per sack.
HOHSESUOKS $5.
NAVAL SionEs- Oakum, $5 per bale;
rosin, $4.80(a,5.00 per 280 pounds; tar,
Stockholm, $12.50; Carolina, $7.00 per
barrel ; pitch, $0.00 per barrel ; turpen
tine, 65c per gallon in carload lota.
Ili.l.'x, AVool anil I(oii.
Hiuks Dry hides, selected prime, 8'
9e; 5-3c less for culls; green, selected,
over 55 pounds, 4c; undor 55 pounds, 3c;
sheep pelts, short wool, 3050c; me
dium, O0(S0e; long, i)0c$l.25; shear
lings, 10c20c; tallow, good to choice. 3
3oC per pound.
Wooir Willametto Valley, 1710c;
Eastern Oregon, 10((D17c per pound,
according to conditions and shrinkage,
lioi-s Nominal ; 12($15o per pound.
TIiu Mfitt Market.
-Live, 2?bc: dressed. b. 6c.
Bkkk-
Mutton
7Sc. Live, pheared, 3sCj dressed,
Hoas Live, 5c; dressed, 7c.
Vkal 57c per pound.
Smoked Meats Eastern ham, 12
13jc; other varieties, 12)e; breakfast
bacon, 1315c; smoked bacon, 1145
IIJ4C per pound.
Laud Compound, 10c; pure, ll13o
Oregon, 1012)aC per pound.
Hug unit Itiiuxluir.
Burlaps, 8-oz., 40-inch, net cash,
burlaps, 10's-oz., 40-inch, net cash, 7c;
burlaps, 12-oz., 45-inch, not cash, 7?jc;
burlaps, lO-os., 60-inch, lie; burlaps, 20-oz.,70-inch,
13c. Wheat bags Calcutta,
22x30, spot, Oc; three-bushel oat bags,
8c. Centals (second-hund wheat bags),
8c
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