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VOL. 2. CONDON, GILLIAM CO.. OREGON, FRIDAY. JANUARY 20, 1893. NO. 44.
THE OFFICIAL AND LEADING PAPER
OF GILLIAM COUNTY.
CONDON
GLOBE.
Xutertil t tlie Pmlnfflct at Condon,, Oregon, at
tccuitd-clan mull matter.
OFFICIAL imtKOTOItY.
United SUtea.
President UswJAMtN lUttaisoN
Vice I'rmildBiit I-KVI V. Mohton
Hucrelary of Htato Johk W. Kohtkk
Hooretary ol Treasury C'HA. Kohtss
Hwiretnry o Interior 1. W Nohi.
Hooretary of War Hnti-Him B. Kuuns
Hooretary of Navy B. V TkacY
PosimMtvr-cieiieral... John Wanamakkh
Attopiey-Oeiieriil , W II. II. Mii.lkb
becrutary of AgrUmlture Jihimuh Husk
BUte of Oregon.
flovomor 8. PiminYs
HwtroLrv of Htate U W. Mc.-hkiijb
Irmi.tirtir ...Hia MkthohaK
Attitrncy-lieiieral Oku. K Ciiamhkri.aIN
bui.t. of rubllo in.trnoilou ...K. H. Mi Klkoy
Beuators .. j. N 1oi.hh.
CoKreu.eu... .. & .'K.u"
Printer Fbauk !. Baksk
!K, A. MmikK
W. VU)Hl.
lit 8t jSaCAM
Seventh Judicial IH strict.
Circuit Jiili W, I.. Uraiwkaw
IT-w-oiiIIiik Altiirncy ..........W. H. Wii-ttoM
Member Htate Board ...,J. h. Lucas
Ollllam County.
Joint Henator... W. W. 8tiwb
KeiirenouUtlvs I. i. (Iooikk h
Jitdgu- VI. 3. Makikkb
,, . . tw. J. KiWAHi
Commissioners jOH. R. kalhtok
Clerk JAt P. Lucas
HIierifT. W. I, Wiwox
Tnwumr,... Hkhhkbt H amtsad
AaMr , Val Wiikklkh
Hurveyor ".. W. W. Kskhsdv
frtnti tl riuourluteailMUl..... Lucius Pakkkk
Coroner .. lis. John Nii.kwn
Block Inspector..,. ...AMEX UUTHIB
Justices of th Iaar.
Arlington W. O. Zaioi.ua
Halot'k O. PAKtiH
ltoek Crass m H. 1. KahuaM.
t'Ollil ll.t... ...t..M........M4......M... J. lt.Cl.AKK
Jerry Canyon P. P. Cakon
I.OHO Koi'k M. O. ('I.AUKR
Wayvll e ....!, 1. Quirk
KomiI Ham Donamison
kow ( rut k . ,....,.,..,.,..,......... .....,Z. I. Maktim
Crown Koi k - .......L H. Hal
Trail fork.... T. K. Bakton
i
I iilon I'acino Itallwar Time Card.
Tralimarrlve and leave Arlington as follows:
R A ft f' BOUND.
Train No. 2, fast mall, leaves Arlington dally
at i.vi a. m.
No. , Ailaiitlc exprvas, leaves Arlington daily
t8:U r. M.
wkkt-bound.
No. 1, 1'itclflo express, leaves Arlington daily
u rn r.H.
Train No. 7, fast malt, leaves Arlington daily
at 12 40 A. M.
HKfrMKR BRANCH TRAINS.
Train No. 10 arrives from Beppner dally, e'
rrut Hnud t 1 15 p. M
N 1. 1 l.'v tor lluppier dally, except Sou
day, al:l r. . . . ,
'fur tl keU sold nd bgge checked
thmiiKli to all points In the Uu lu.-d Htatea aul
Canada.
3. COLLINS, Ticket Agent,
Arlington, Or.
No. A-
i. HtuttHl commnuli atlijii on tlrt Butnrrtay
eveoliiK H'r drat Mondnvtof fai li month. H
lonrnliK lrcoliren In gtwdmaiul ngarerordlnlly
llislte-1 to attend. P. t. CASON, W. M.
Jv 1". hvcAH, ttecruUry.
y '.i,.1.1.!',".---:".' J - " ..'STr
jKUNuTON-rOKalL DAILY BTAOK USE.
j 1 JC. A. NoI.ob, Proprietor.
rAltR FROM ARI.INOIOM To
FoH.. 0 oo ltoturn, $10 00
, Mayvllo 6 00 He urn, 00
Condon , 4 00 Ketnril, 7 60
Clem ,. U 00 Ketnrn, ( 00
Olex. i 00 Rplnro. 8 00
l."vf Arllhu'oi) evi'ry momliiR (Hnmlay en
ci iteii Htfto'cl K'k. I.dneat Condon at 8 r. M.,
ami arrive, at Fnntll at 7 r. M.
Comfortable coaches and careful, experienced
drivam.
jaN0N-l.0NE HOCK DAILY BTA0E LINE.
I. M. Klnehnrt, Proprietor.
Leaves Condon every morning (Hnndaya ex
rcpied) at R:xo o'c-Iik k. and arrive, at Lone Uock
at 11 m., via Mattiey and Lout Valley.
rare, O3.0O. Round Trip, 3 BO.
Ttt. J. J. 1100 AN,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
, Condon, Or.
Offico Oregon eve., between Catholic Church
ant rt-aldcuce ol e. P. Bhutt.
JJU. JOHN N1CKUN,
Condon, Or.
Office Flrnt ooor west of Olobr oftloe.
obo. w. OOOOK,
W. R. BURN HAM.
qoode & hurnham,
Attorneys at Law,
Condon, Or.
Attracting, collecting aul lusurauce bnsincs
auonduu to. ,
D. CANTWKI.L.
Lost 7 Valley
CANTWELL BROS., Proprietors.
All Kinds ot Surfaced Lumber, Rustic,
All timbers 4x6 and larger discounted 10 per cent, in number of
feet. AH lumber discounted 10 per
m EXCHANGE 7 SALOON, m
! P. SKELLY, Proprietor,
. KEEPS ON HAND
Fresh Beer, Wines,
7 FRESH WALLA WALLA STEAMED KEG BEEB UPON ICE.
A fine billiard parlor in connection. When you feel like having
little amusement call around and ee Pat. He will treat you well.
JjAULINa 4 HENIJRICKB,
Attorneys at Law,
' Notaries Public and Conveyancer,
Condon, Or.
Collection, and lnuraiic. Terms rnatonable.
Olllve between drug store and postottice, Main
street.
AY t. LUCAS, County Clerk,
DO KB AM, LINKS Or '
LAND AND NOTARY BUSINESS
In a neat and careful manner.
JjlOB RELIABLE KIKE INSURANCE
-rif TO Tilt
"Phoenix of Hartford."
CanH Ameti, S.B,tlH.1S.
Herbert Hal. tend, As;ent, Conddn, Or.
Postofficc Variety Store,
LOME HOCK, Olt.
J. B. GOFF, Proprietor,
-KEEPS ALWAYS ON HAND
Wedicines, Cigars, Tobaccos,
Fine Candles, School Supplies,
Toilet Articles, Stationery, Harps
and Toys, .
And everything else u.ualty fonnd In a eontry
variety .tore. Kveryih'ng I handle l flrat-claM,
and my prices are the lowest. Ciive me a trial.
Condon Blacksmith Shop
G, S. CLARK, Proprietor.
General Blacksmitblng and Wood Work.
The only first data honwuoer In the county.
Come to my shop if you want first-class
work at low rates.
The only flrstaiia blacksmith In Condon, and
mo ouiy sue wno is aoie to auveruMj.
Bhop In large new building on Main street,
Condon. Or. .
The Gelelratcd Frencl Eure,
""APHRODITINE" X
In Sold oir A
POSITIVE
C'JARANTES
to euro anr form
olocrvou.diwtuii
or any dmmlurot
the generative or-
gimsoieiuicrM'x,
viici::it aruiuK
f ntm 1 hnmreniutiv,!
BEFfinF cnoof Bilinulanu. AFTTn
Tobacco or Opium, or th roui;h youUi f ul ioJlxero
tlon1overliiilulpiico,4o.,surfm LoMof Brain
Power, Vt'nkefu!ucii4,j:earinjfdown Palnstntlio
bark. Bcmliiitl Weak ieM.lIyhtcr!. Nervous Pros
tration, Nocturwil tml !oim. I n :eorrhna, I)i
sinos,Weak Jlcsnory, lxnot Powcrand Impo
teney, whli h If neclectclof len lend to premature
old ace and insanity. Prieo f 1.00 a box, fiboics
fur f i.ua Hent by wail on receipt of price
A WRITTEN iIFAUANi r.K is glYon for
every latOon'erreeeiveil, tn refund tlio money if
a I'.rnmsxiit rtire Is not clleetcd. We bava
thouan!sof tctlnmnlirfs frotno'd and young.
by the two of Aphroditlne. Clreulurfreo. Address
THE APHRO MEDICINE CO.
Wouim llrauch. Box 7. I'obti ku Ob.
FOR RALK BY
V. VT. HAKLING CO., Condon, Or.
Fabefs Golden Female Pills
Relieve Suppressed
Menstruation. Used
succesHfutly by thous
ands ot prominent la
dles monthly. Thor
oughly reliable and
sale. Worth twenty
times their weight In
gold fur male irrra.
vlarittet. Never known
to fail.
Bent by mall sealed
iors. Aaaress
The Aphro Medicine
COMPANY,
Western Itrnnch,
Box 7. Portland, Oregon.
FOB SALS BY
L. W. DARLING A CO., Condon, Or.
A. CANTWELL.
7 Saw 7 Mill.
Celling and Flooring Always on Hand,
cent, lor casn.
Liquors and Cigars
r -
The onrth-claas olfice at Kalispell,
Mont., by reason of increaaed receipts
has been raised to the Presidential
clans.
The Secretary of the Navy has ap
pointed a board to consider and report a
plan for the equitable distribution of the
Chilian indemnity fund of 175,000.
Benator Chandler hag introduced a bill
making it unlawful for any body of men
numbering ten or more to assemble, drill
or bear arms as a military body unless
called for by the properly authorized
civil or military officers. It makes it the
duty of the President to disband and
disperse any such organization. This
bill is aimed at the Pinkertons and semi
military Anarchist organizations, V-...
One of the most valuable publications
ever issued by the government is a re
port on the sheep Industry of the United
States, prepared under the direction of
the Secretary of Agriculture. It treats
of the history and conditions of the in
dustry from the early settlement of the
country down to the present day, and is
handsomely illustrated. It la lor distri
bution by the Secretary and through
members of Congress.
The President has decided noon the
scope of the proposed extension of the
civil-service law. lie has signed an or
der putting all free-delivery poatofHces
nnder the operations of the laws. Only
the largest noatofflces are now under
civil-service regulations. The extension
rill Drotect clerks and carriers in all the
small offices which have free delivery.
The eftec will be to put fifteen or twenty
poatofHces in Northwestern cities under
civil service.
All sorts of silver propositions are be
ing talked over by members of the
lion Be. island baa been approached by
dozen members with suggestions of a
compromise. A return to the Bland act
s the chief compromise proposition sue-
gested to him, but Mr. Bland at present
reiuses to listen to anything less than
the coinage of $4,000,000 worth of silver
per month, and to this the other side, ol
course, will not agree. Uuibertson, a
Democrat from Texas and Chairman of
the Judiciary Committee, has prepared
Dill in the nature ot a compromise,
hich he will introduce in the House.
It requires the coinage and nse as assets
of the accumulated silver bullion now
in the Treasury. The present law is re
pealed and the Bland law re-enacted.
Representative Owen Scott of Illinois
baa introduced a resolution calling upon
the Secretary of the Treasury for infor
mation regarding the progress of the
public buildings in various parts of the
country, for which appropriations were
made in IsiH). Upon investigation and
inquiry of the Supervising Architect ot
the Ireaeury Mr. bcott finds that of sev
enty-five buildings, improvements and
extensions, for which appropriations
were made in law, contracts for the
erection of fifteen were let, and for
ten others partial contracts only were
let. On fifty others nothing was "done.
Mr. Scott insists that contracts for pub
lic buildings are systematically held up
becauee of the depleted condition of the
Treasury, and be would have it appear
that it has been the policy of the admin
istration to avoid every step that would
require cash from the government.
ONLY
LINE
RUNNING
THROUGH
DAILY
TRAINS
Leaving Portland, 8:45 A. M.
" " 7:30 P.M. '
I DAYS TO
2 CHICAGO
7 Hours Quicker to St. Paul.
23 Hours Quicker to Chicago.
40 Hours Quicker to Omaha and Kansas
. City.
PULLMAN and TOURIST SLEEPERS
FREE RECLINING CHAIR CARS,
DINING CARS.
For rates and eeneral lnformntlon rail on or
aucireHS w. ii. in Ki.m tw.
Asalntaut General Pssnenfier Aeont. 2M V ashing'
ton street, cor. Ttilril, FOHTLAND, UK.
HAT
THE
ONLY
OWE
DAY
CURE.
TRY IT.
OW.R. Mfti CS
For Sale by L. V. DARLING & CO.
Price 1. 00 xxl 00 per Bottle.
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
Census Bulletin of the Pacific Coast
States and Territories.
THE SAN JUAN PLACER DIGGINGS.
General Clarke Declares That the Incom
ing Legislature of Nevada Will
be an Illegal Body.
It cost Idaho (21,400 to suppress the
Coenr d'Alena riots.
Important extensions in Santa Rosa's
street-railway system are projected.
It is predicted that the Darlington will
be running into Portland, Or., in two
years. .
The mineral production of Idaho for
1892 was (13,075,000, a falling off of over
(0,000,000.
Another large bitumen deposit has
been found about twenty miles from
fjanta Barbara, down the coast.
Fig trees on a ranch in Washington
county, Idaho, are said to be prolific
bearers. This is at an altitude of 2,500
feet.
Oregon's " assessment roll is badly
mixed, there apparently being no regu
lar method adopted by the Assessors in
the various counties.
There have been trave charges made
of bad treatment of patients in the hos
pital at Ban Diego by U. Phillips and
wife, who were nurses.
J. A. Music, has sold his one-fourth
interest in the Los Angeles and Defiance
mines in Bohemia to his partners, Cook,
Brady & Co., for (50,000.
General R. M. Clarks in the Reno Ga
zelle declares that the incoming Legisla
ture of Nevada will be an illegal body,
the reapportionment at the last session
not having been made in accordance with
the requirements of the State. The Ga
zelle agrees with Mr. Clarke.
The Lalande prize of the Paris Acad
emy of Sciences was awarded to Prof-
Barnard ol the Lick Observatory on De.
cember 19, 1892, for his work in astron
omy, and especially for his discovery of
the fifth satellite ol Jupiter.
A petrified man is reported to have
been dug up in the western part of Bait
Lake City by Blaine Sills. The figure is
perfect, and was found four feet below
the surface. The weight is about 700
pounds. A showman offered (5,000 for
the find, which was refused.
The weather on the Colorado Desert is
remarkable. Spring has already begun.
The coldest weather was Christmas week.
when the thermometer went to 28 de
grees. Since Christmas day the coldest
morning has been 50 degrees. Planting
is to be vigorously pushed, and a large
acreage wiU be put into oranges this
year.
. Gilliam, stock inspector of Uma
tilla county, Or., reports in that county
206.000 sheep, which are in good condi
tion, being tree from scab, ihe number
ia fast increasing over nrevious rears.
Wool and sheep are worth more than lor
years. The quality is being fast im
proved by the introduction of higher
breeds, principally Merinos. The aver
age weight of fleeces is from eight and a
halt to nine pounds, making between
1,700,000 and 1,900,000 pound of wool
for the season just closed.
Superintendent rorter nas issued a
census bulletin covering the western di
vision of the States and Territories. In
this bulletin is a condensed table giving
the general results regarding population
according to the sex, native and foreign
born, white and colored. California.
with a total population of 1,208,130, has
700 059 males and &US.U71 females; 841.'
821 were born in the United States and
366.309 were foreign born, and it con
tains 96.458 colored population, which
includes negroes, Chinese, Japanese and
civilized Indians. Aria ma Total pop
ulation, 69,620: males.' 36,571; females.
23,049: native, 40,825; foreign, 18,795;
colored, 4,041. Utah Total population.
207.VU5: males, 110,403; females. 97.44
native, 154,841; foreign, 53,064 ; colored,
2,006. Nevada Total population, 45,761 ;
males, 29,214; females, 26.547; native,
31,005; foreign, 14.706: colored, 6,677.
Idaho Total population, 84,385 ; males,
51,290; females, 33,095; native, 66,920;
foreign, 17,451; colored, 2.S67. Wash
ington Total pbpulation.349,390 ; males,
217,662; females. 131,823; native, 259,
S85 ; foreign, 90,005 ; colored, 8,877. Or
egon Total population, 313,767; males,
181,840; females, 131,927; native, 256,
450; foreign, 67,317; colored, 12,009.
TELES
THE PROOF
OF THE
Ik
IS IN THE
EATING.
TRY IT
PORTLAND, ORE
INDUSTRIAL BREVITIES.
The Cotton Mills of the South and New
England Close One of the Most
Prosperous Years.
Very few boots and shoes are imported
into Mexico. There are many tanneries
in Mexico and a superabundance of shoe
makers making to measure.
A drying house for timber has been
erected at Ottawa, in which electricity
Is the beating power. This is the first
establishment of the kind in the world.
The cod-liver oil magnate of the Loffo
den Islands, off Norway, is Peter Mul
ler, who employs 70.00J people in fish
eries, factories, bottling, packing and so
on.
Champagne owes its quality to the
soil, a mixture of chalk, silica, light clay
and oxide of iron, and to the great care
and delicate manipulation in manufact
ure.
Mrs. Increase Sumner of Starke. Fla..
raises her own tea. She gathers three
crops a year, and the bushes furnish her
tea wbicn in China would cost her a
large sum.
An unsuccessful attempt has been
made ia Paris to employ women in the
telegraph office in the Avenue de l'Op
era, but the work was fonnd much too
heavy for them.
The new brewery tax is causing gen
eral depression in the beer business in
Germany. The Altona Brewery Union
ubs Birooujr mioeu iua price iiiree pien
nigs the half liter. .
In Enzland clerks of a larce nrovinp.ls.1
bank jointly own a cottage by the sea,
fifty miles away, where all pass their
holidays, occupying it in detachments
during the summer.
Bishop Hurst savs that ninety-two
acres, bought in Washington for a site
tor the proposed Methodist University,
have increased in value until they are
worth half a million.
The fact was developed at the hearing
of a case at the Tombs, New York, that
noacarners can be lonnd in that city
willing to work for 25 cents a day and
work on Sunday at that.
Waco. Tex., is reported to have the
largest artesian well in the United States.
It is 1,850 feet deep, with a diameter of
ten inches, and throws 1,500,000 gallons
day ot perfectly pure but hot water.
It is estimated that England's wheat
crop for this year is about 55,000,000
ousneis, or lees tnan two bushels for each
inhabitant. She must buy at least 150.-
000,000 bushels more from some outside
source. .
This season's traffic thronarh the San It
bio. Marie canai exceeds by 20 per cent,
the tonnage of any previous vear. In
October alone 1,135 steamers, 395 sailing
veBsseis ana ti raits passed tnrougn tbe
Sault.
Aluminium is found combined with
195 other minerals, and therefore con
stitutes a large part of the crust of the
earth, but until recently has been very
expensive oecause ot tne difficulty of
separating it.
It Is estimated that it costs the well-
to-do people in this country (125,000,000
annually to support charitable institu
tions, wtnie at least (500.000.000 is in
vested in permanent buildings where the
needy are cared lor.
Elevator people in the Northwest esti
mate that about 40,000.000 bushels of
wheat remain in farmers' hands in the
Dakotas and Minnesota, against 60 COO.-
000 bushels a year ago.
One cause of the sudden influx from
Europe of home-coming Americans is
the current belief abroad that cholera
will break out in devastating taehion in
many European cities next spring.
It is reported that the government has
discharged Dr. Eastman, the Sioux, and
ma wue, Elaine uoodaie Eastman, tbe
poetess, for sending sensational reports
irom rine finite tuat tne Indians were
preparing for an outbreak.
The people of this country usr d dur
ing the last fiscal year more than 12.000.-
000,000 postage stamps, and paid nearly
su.uuu.uuu tor tnem. ihey are all man
ufactured by the American Bank Note
Company in New York.
The cotton mills of the South, as well
as tnose in JNew England, nave closed
one of the most prosperous years in their
nistory. w ithin three years there has
been a development in the industry
amounting to muy zo per cent.
The Vanderbilts are making strenuous
efforts to extend the Wagner sleeping-
car service oeyono tne Missouri river.
Heretofore tne ruuman Company has
virtually had a monopoly of the sleeoing-
uar uuoiucoo west Ol xiansaa lliy.
The State of Oregon has thirty-six
nurserieB, covering i,t o acres and con
taining about 9,010,000 young trees, and
orchardiets have upward of 100,000 acres
of growing trees. One-half of this acre
age is in prunes, one-fourth in apples
and the remainder in various kinds of
fruits.
PURELY PERSONAL
The Prince of Wales writes all his pri-
vate letters on light-blue paper. These
are ones he doesn't want generally read,
General Trochu's estimate of Bismarck
is that he might have been a great man,
but he has only become a great Prussian,
Mr. Carnegie is said to be a great ad
mirer of Herbert Spencer, to whom he
has made a number of gifts. The latest
is said to be a fine piano.
Only three men who were members of
tbe United States Senate in 1848 are now
living James W. Bradbury of Maine,
Ex-Governor Felch of Michigan and
General W. Jones of Iowa.
The Moscow monument to the late
Emperor Nicholas of Russia, which has
been seven years in construction, now
approaches completion, and it ia ex
pected to be ready for dedication in the
spring.
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
Great Lack of Space for Exhibits
in Machinery Hall.
AFTER GUERRILLAS ON THE BORDER
Mineral Productions of Colorado Daring
Last Year Business Suspended
on the Ohio River.
The city of New York cares for 18.030
lunatics at a cost of (625,000 a year.
Two companies in opposition to Car
negie are to be established at Pittsburg.
Mexico is preparing to receive the im
migrants which this country will refuse.
In trying to corner wheat the North
west is 60,OOJ,000 short ia the Chicago
market.
The United States produced 10.000.000
gallons more of wine last year than Ger
many aid.
The total value of the mineral pro
ductions for Colorado for 1892 ia (41,
865,114.23. The Adams Express has supplanted
the American Express Company on the
Burlington system.
More murders were committed in the
State of Michigan last year than in any
previous like period. v
The boundary line between Nebraska
and South Dakota is to be marked with
blocks of jasper stone
The Treasury Department is gradually
recovering the gold it lost by the recent
heavy shipments abroad.
The cigarette trust has blacklisted all
anti-trust dealers with the purpose to
drive them out of the busines.
The Order of Railway Conductors do
not anticipate any trouble with the roads
now or during the World's Fair.
It is expected that 16.000 carloads of
exhibits will be received at the grounds
of the World's Fair between now and
May 1.
Postmaster Harlow of St. Joseph, Mo.,
has inaugurated a system of electric
street-car mail service to suburban
points.
Thirteen companiea of United States
troops, aggregating 700 men, are now in
the field against guerrillas on the Mex
ican border.
The Alleghany, Monongahela and Ohio
rivers are frozen over, and river traffic
is entirely suspended for the first time
in many years.
A company is being organized in New
York city, with a capital Btock of (25,
uOO.000, to improve the dockage facilities
of Buffalo harbor. '
J. H. Wade has presented the city ol
Cleveland, O., his lather's estate known
as Wade Park, containing four acres,
valued at (100,000.
They are talking in Washington of
pensioning Jefferson Davis' widow; not
tor ms services to tbe Confederacy, but
in the Mexican war. .
The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
has adopted resolutions calling on Con
gress to provide for tne completion of
tne .Nicaragua canal.
Negotiations are reported to be nnder
way in Chicago for the consolidation of
all the elevated railroads of that city nn
der one management.
Tbe railroad construction of last year
in the United States is footed us as 4,062
miles, which is about 10 per cent, lees
than the total for 1891.
The packing houses of Chicago have
reached a stage of dullness unparalleled
in years. Over 5,000 employes nave been
discharged recently. The difficulty ia
that tbe bouses find it impossible to get
hogs.
L. S. Coffin of Fort Dodge. Ia.. states
that he has distributed 30,000 white bat
tons among trainmen since last May.
lhe button is symbolical of total absti
nence from intoxicants. The rules gov
erning tbe Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers are very strict. Last month
there were nearly thirty expulsions.
The oldest whaler in the United States
Baid to be the Rousseau, now lying
dismantled at a New Bediord wharf.
This vessel was built in 1801 for Stephen
Girard of Philadelphia by Nicholas Van
dusen, and was launched on the Dela
ware. Its last voyage was made in 1866,
when it returned with 1,360 barrels of
sperm and 180 barrels of whale oil.
When the final permits for exhibit
space in machinery bail at the World's
fair are issued a ttorm ol protests will
be beard from every section of the coun
try. Less than half the number of firms
that made demands of Chief Robinson
for room will secure it. More than 1,200
applications were received, and only 500
can be granted. The 700 disappointed
applicants, some of them the moat ex
tensive manufacturers of machinery in
the country, will naturally object to
Chief Robinson's distribution ot floor
area, but they will not be aole to change
nis plans, aiacninery nan, at first con
sidered big enough to accommodate all
worthy exhibitors, baa been found to
furnish little more than half tbe space
the machine builders wanted. That ia
why Chief Robinson was compelled to
decline so many requests for space. As
originally designed, tbe hall was 842x494
feet. It was soon lound that a larger
building would be needed, and an annex
551 feet long was added, making the total
length of the ball 1,392 feet and its
width 494 feet This was considered big
enough for all demands that n on Id be
made for showroom ; but as the appli
cations came in Chief Robinpon learned
that another extension would be needed,
so a machine shop 1,103 feet long and 8tf
feet wide was added. Even with these
additions the space afforded is bat halt
enough to meet the demands.