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The GoasbMail. CHURCH DIRECTORY, Hi. 1c Clinicii. lHt,2l Mini; Id Hun iIiiJ-a of each mouth. Moriiing nt Empire City, evenings nt Mnrshllold. Itli Sunday (if each inonlli tit (ho forks Coos river. Jli:v. It. Yiiomanm, Pastor. SATURDAY, - - A PHI I, 1(1, 1880. TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, Sixki.no Tin: Cuius. Last Monday (lio Irst crib of llio son wall was sunk jiiitsplneo near K.ioky Point. The day was very bUII ami pleasant, and lliu worl; wan accomplished (o Iho en. tiro satisfaction of nil concerned. Tho tlfitJi of water who.ro tliu wall coin mulici'ri In 8 feet at low tide, Iml tlio water deepens rapidly from tills point and it Ik prolmlilu Unit (lie length of tliu next erlb will roach II! feet of wa ter. There were two scow loads of roek ready for delivery and tliu whole amount, 550 tons, were thrown into the cribs before nielli- Thuio was a large force of men employed in hand ling tho rook including the force or dinarily employed in crib-building. .Several other cribs aie ready to liu towed down, ami they will lie placed ur fast as the rock rcquiied to secure llietn can begot out and taken to the plaej of delivery. Death or Ciiaim.km V iv iak. -Says (ho Stumlunl : Chas. Vivian, tho well known English protean actor mid uincr, died at I.eadville, Colorn dn, on Iho20lh ult., at the age of ill yoars, flcr a rather unsuccessful at tempt in conducting a theatre at that town. Vivian will ho well rciiiom bored by many here, his last visit to this city being about four years ago. At one time ho was u great card and in great demand anion)' .Music Hall proprietors, and ho came to tho I'nited States fiom London under an engage ment of live hundred dollars a week (o sing 'Ten Thousand .Milos Away " nil other songs, which as sung by him wrero doubly attractive. In later yrars ho has been going down hill, until his career was out short in a dis tant mining town. Kiiantio. From tho frantic, ravings of Joseph Medorus . Sigliu, in his last issue, ono would suppose ho is going crazy. Ho asserts and repents over tuiil nvnr that "Webster has promised it to litiev. l Jut t is about all there is in the paper that is intelligible; one would suppose that Statu .Senator was tho only ollicer to bo elected, and that Joseph was quite sure that his only ediauco of being elected was in pro venting Riley's nomination. The as sertion, in every one of its various forms, is utterly false and without foundation. Hut Sigliu is honest in this, and would not say so if lie did not believe it himself or think that lio could iniiku someone olo believe it. Nimtow Escait.. Tho schooner Emily Stephen, from the Columbia, arrived at tho Coquille last Friday ovening and attempted to cross the oar without the aid of tho tug. .She reached a point just inside bar, when the wind failed, and though shodiop jied anchor, a short time would have icon her driven on the "spit," had not Capt. Parker arrived on tio A'idV Cook' and brought her in. .She will iHko to Portland n cargo of whiio co llar, and it is understood will return for cellar and myrtle, for which there is considerable demand in Portland. Doroi.AH Cot'XTV Nominations. The Democrats of Douglas county last week nominated the following ticket: Ktate .Senators, (!eu. Jos. l.ane, lion. J. C. Drain; Hoprosontatives, Tim Haruard, .1. O. Ilooth, Kph. lliirchard, .lames Adams ; Clerk, Thos. Sheridan ; .Shorilf, K. P. Hogan; Treasurer, Win. T. Wright ; Assessor, C. Hoolman ; Hiiperintendont of .Schools, A. .1. War ren ; Surveyor, Win, Thoil : County Commissioners, Perry Cook, J.imos Dillard. Cfititv Cor.vrv Nominations. -Tho Democrats of Curry county have nom inated tho following ticket : William Alberson and J. H. Tiehouor were tloelcd delegates to the Stale Convon (Jon, iiuiuslriictcd ; Joint Representa tive, .Solomon Fitzhugh; County Judge, A. M. Uillcspio; Clerk, .1. H. Tiehouor; Sheriff, H. Culver; Com inissioners, J. C, Caldwell and 1), E. rititt ; Assessor, John Kcheank ; School Superintendent, Silas Morriinan ; Treasurer, A. J. Edson j. Surveyor, Coroner, Joronio Willard. Ri:siiini:1i. dipt. Thos. Floyd, who lias been running tho steamer Sold lilD for a long time past, has resigned (ho situation, and W. A. Lusu has taken tho wheel. Capt, Floyd has liuou running steamers on the Hay for many years, and in knowledge of tho business has hut fow equals. It may ho difficult for Mr. huso to find a. man who will fill tho placo as well as Tom lias done. Imi'outant Hui.ino. -Thu Hegistor nnil Hfcoivor of the Laud Oflleo at Jtosebtirg luivo received instructions from thu Coniuiissiouor of tho General Land (Mlleo to penult parties to land contests to lake testimony by stipula tion, without tho formality of procur ing a commission or attending nt the Land OJlluo. Tin: young men of Coos river have organized a baseball club with Ornco Coll ver lis Fioaidont nnd Will Smith, "juuictnry, Iteiiiiltllcini Ieleuuf'N. Tho following nro llio delegates oleel to tho Republican ('utility Con vention, no fains reported: North Coos 111 von John Hnzzill, Geo. Woodruff. Coos Hi von C. Landrolli, O. Col ver, Cnpt. Packard, and L, Landreth. Empire City! F. W. Kiiorvlos, E. W. Sprnguo, W. 11. Welsoll and W. H. Simpson. Lako: A. Olson. Siimnor: I). H. Palmnnteor, E. Hunnell and James Waters. Coos City: D. L. Watson, J. C llaynes and H. llaikor. Utter City: J. It. Lightncr. Coaledo: D. H. (I row. Coquillo City: W. P. Wright, T. II. Willaid, lr. Lalhrop, and W. P. Skelly. Jieaver Slougli: A. Urqulinit ami J. E. Stuart. Handolph : J. H. Burns and J, Morris. Marshllold : S. S. Mann, T. Ward, John Htora, Win. Huiehort, Dr. Tower, E. A. Anderson, A. Lang, II. P. Whit ney, W. A. Gilmorc, and A. Bono bruke. A CI I Ilo "Oil-." Tho iVcics ways " Webster niado two political trips to Curry county, and promised Hiley tho Senatorship," etc. In this matter tho zeal of the would-liko-to-bo-.Senalor has slightly got tho better of both his conscience and judgment, for there is not an intelli gent voter in Curry county who does not know that it is wholly untrue. There is no poison connected with the Mail who has attempted or desir ed to, in any manner control orinilii oneo tho action of Currj county with regard to tho nomination of a State Senntor. Wo have no lack of eoulldence in the ability of tho Con vention of either Coos or Curry to find a mini who can be elected to that otliee. In fact, either of the parties who have been named, if nominated, will receive the united support of tho Republican parly of tho two counties and will be triumphantly elected. .1 win I ltiir"iriiliillvi'. We notice in the proceedings of tlio Democratic Convention of Curry county, tho nomination of .Mr. Solo mon Filshiigh for Joint Representa tive for Coos and Curry counties'. Mr. Fitshugh is an old-time Democrat, who twenty-three years ago was elect ed a member of the Convention that framed tho Constitution of Oregon. Ilo was then an old man ; and it is a Miurco of surprise to his friends to fee his name again on tho list of act ive political aspirants, lie is n citi zen whom all respect for his old age hut it is an act of unloudiicss to n man of his years and feiddo condition to unntc him for a place that calls him from tho retirement and quiet of pri vate life into the political arena. Aii"i:nt Mini)i:d. One day this week a Coos river man came to Sig liu to gel him to collect a small bal ance due on a promissory note. lie stated the business to tho attorney and was of course much Mtpprisud to hear Sigliu remark "They've prom ised it to Riley." "No," said Iho log ger, "it is duo me, and I want it col lected." Siglin: "Yes, hut Iho Webster clique have promised it to Hiley ; thals a part of the Slate. Logger. "I tell you neither Hiley nor Webster have anything to do with this matter. Look at (ho note and you will understand it bettor." Sigliu. "Did you say you had n note? Oh, yes I'll collect that; I'll see about it right away. Hut I think Hiley will get nwny with it." Logger. "Whon you get it, send it up by tho Captain of tho Hrrthtt." Sigliu. "All right; Riley's tho man they take." Hi:guirti:i to Answi:ii. Sidney Dell who published curtain letters over tho signatuio of Brutus, reflecting on tin inoiubors of tho Supremo Court, will havo to answer for tlio liberty ho has taken. An order has been entered requiring defendant tonpponrou tho second day of tho July term of court to nnswor charges, etc., and that ho have twenty days notice. Piiopeutv Sam:. Noblo Brothers havo sold their livory stable properly in this place to Coo. M. )yor; and Mr. Dyer and Mr, Anderson, wo un derstand, havo consolidated the busi ness, and will carry it on together. School. Mrs. S. 11. Hotnor an nounces that bIio will open a privato school in Iho academy buildingMon day, tho Kith instant ; terms tho same as formerly under Mr. McCorntnc's miinagoiuent. llUAinii'L'i. weather has prevailed during tlio present week. W. F. Hii.t, nnd family havo moved upon James A ikon's ranch on Isthmus (lough. , Miss L. Ci.iXKi:xiii:.wti opened school in thu old school houso last Monday. Tho schooner JAwi is supposod to havo sailod for tho Coquillo last Wed nesday, slio will bring tho machinery for the Core. T. (1. Owi:n nnd J. W. Hamilton leftlast week for Albany to nttend the Doiuoorntiu Slate Convention, It is said they are for Tlldou for Pres ident, Hamilton for District Attorney, and Owou for Kleolor. Iti'piiMlciiu Hluto Coiiiiaillilcnted. Ttis true that 'A. IL.Hlovens, Hointn om of tho Ahtbtuiut, and others of their kind luivo set out beforo tho world the (loctrino of "Slalo Rights", and have told us thai, this was the rock on which they formed tho structure of socssion and tho Southern cofederacy. Let tho Democracy hnvo tho bonclit of this heresy. I beg leavo to state In my "slate" of principles, and at tho same lime to inform the Republi can voters of Coos county thai, owing to tho ill health of my family, I will not bo a candidate for any official posi tion at tho coming election. I hope for tho success of those principles for which four of my brothers besides my self,(two of whom never returned to their uothoru home) shouldered their muskets and wont to the front. It is my opinion that this was and is a Na tional (iovcrnment composed of tho several States; and as tho nation has spent millionsof dollnrs, and hundreds of thousands of lives of bravo men to establish these principles, 1 hope no dilferenco of opinion us to under whoso lint these principles shall be represented, will bo permitted to mar the harmony of our convention. Ev cry Republican voter should romoiir her that ho is voting for principles as well men. D. S. P.u.Mi:.vTi:i:it. School Fund Aitoutio.vmext. School Superintendent Mooio has made anapporlionnionlof the school fund in the treasury of the several districts as follows: Dist. No. 1 . -12 (X) Dist. No. 2-1 .5f, 2 1 " " 2 28 IS " " 25 CO.'H " " !t ilOfll " " 20 -17 70 " " -1 20 01 " " 27 15 00 " " 5 51 82 ' " 2" ill .'12 " " 0 00 02 Not reported. " " 7 .'12 75 " " .'10 !1S 1 1 " " 8 -10 81 " " .",1 1057 " " y 112 io " " :j2 :s7 02 " " 10 8 51 " " :v. 15 00 " " 11 :t7 02 " " m 27 05 " " 12 M 21 " " ;r, 10 52 Not reported " " .'Hi 1121 " " 11 10 OS Not reported " " 15 20 01 Not reported " " 10 11)22 " " 30 12 72 " " 17 21 :to " " 10 suss " " 18 512 01 " " H 10 22 " " 10 8 51 " " 12 2102 " " 20 512 01 " " -151 5t!t 10 ' ' 21 1185 " " 11 17 OS " " 22 11 21 ' " 15 22 78 " " 2Jt 20 01 Districts 'I and 21 are requested by tho Treasurer to call nnd draw the for mer apportionment. .tlnrloii .',, illy .AoiiiIiiii lloiix. The Republicans of Marion county have nominated the following ticket: For Representatives, Tilmaii Ford, T. T. (ieer, W..M. Collard, John M into, Henry Smith and D. W. Craig; Coun ty Commissioners, S. Condit and Dav id Pendleton ; Sheriff, R. C. Ramsby ; Clerk, M. L. Chamberlain ; Treasurer, Charles Calvert ; Surveyor, A. Cesner ; School Superintendent, J. (iregg ; As sessor, M. C. Robertson; Coroner, J. Henry Hrowu ; delegates to the State Convention, K. K. McKinney, J.C. Pebles, J. W. Rowland, J.W. (ireen wood, Hiram Smith, Wiirran Crans ton, Tlio. H. Hubbard, .In. Sawyer, A.M. Drown, A. Cesner, J. W. Crim, A.N. Gilbert, (Sco. Williams, Kdward Hirch, Condit, J. Vorhces. Drmocriitlc Slnlv Oui vonlloii, Tho Democratic Stale Convention, which met at Albany last Wednesday placed in nomination the following ticket: Congressman, John Whitcakcr; Judges of tho Supremo Court, Jas. IC. K'olly, John Hurnott ami P. P, Prim. Presidential electors, J. K. Weathorford of Albany, T. G. Owen of Marshlield and Mr. Fulton. Judge of the Second District, J. J. Walton of Kiigeue city. District Attorney, J. W. Hamilton of F.mpiro City. Insane. -Wo have boon pained to learn that Win. K. Weokloy, an estima ble old gentleman who resides on tho North Coquillo, has bocatuo insane. Mr. Weokloy was an early settler of Douglas county nnd some years sinco sold his property there and moved to the Coquille. Wo hope to hear that his mental derangement is but tem porary. J. L. Cukshu.v is in San Francisco. Tiik GiiKnie Telair was advortiscd to sail for Honolulu on the 8th inst. Salmon fishing is about to com mence in Hogtto river. C. L. Landrith of Coos river gavo us 11 call yesterday ; ho was enrouto to attend (lio Convention nt Coquillo City, to which'ho is a dclogate. Tin: silo for tho now tannery has been deeded by Mr. Dyer to Ivruse and Dimmick and workmen are en gaged in clearing olf the ground. Woiik on framing tho cribs will bo coinplo. ted next week1 AniMNtiKMKNTS n ro being mado for a May day p.iity on Coon river, Tiik 8.NOW, whiuli a week ago was four feot deep on tliu laiiautaias betwucn licro mid Itoxubiirg, is melting quito raniilly. Siln lU'ii.niMi- A eonquny has boon formed to build a vowl fur tins trade, nml arr.iugiacnts linvo aro already uiado far tlio commencement of tho work. Tho parties tailing Mliures ia tlio cntei nriso nro Capt. Aekeriu:ui, Nimliuru it Hirst, A. Kaslinrg, K, A, Auilersnu, . (' Deubncr & Co. ami F. I'ckotr, Unas ltced will bo tlio Minster laeehniiie, and lio )mthe model already out. Tho vessel will bo tho largest ever built in MnrahtUiUI, being 137 feet long, 31 feet beam anil 1 1 feet 8 inches depth of liolil, ami wjtlia carrying capacity for filill tons, Slio win iinvii uireuinnsiH mm ouu pquaio yarn, Divui & Co. furnish tliv shipyard and lumber. IVIgliiruI Acclilonl. .Stntcsinaii. Lastovoning Loicu Lntiglicad met with an accident Hint will probably cost him his life. Ho nnd n num ber of other liltlo boys wcro playing "I lido and go Seek" in and about tlio agricultural works nnd the foundry. Running from tho works to tho foun dry is about. '100 feet of shnfling, drove with about 20-horsc power. Tlio shaft crosses tho mill race near the foun dry just beside n small bridge, and Loron, in crossing llio bridge, had his right hand caught in tho shaft, and in an instant lio was whirled over, but by almost a miracle tlio sudden jar threw Urn heltolfand thus prevent ed him from being torn to atoms, nnd his life was saved, as it was, his righ1! arm was almost entirely torn from the lody. His cries brought assistance and ho was carried home nnd medi cal assistance immediately summoned. Drs. Hall, Reynolds and Jessup soon came, nmlaftcr throughly examining the wound, a consultation was held, at which it was decided thai, in order tosave Iho boy's life, his arm would havo to bo amputated at the shoul der. Thooporution was successfully performed last night, but llio boy is very weak from loss of blood, and his recovery is considered doubtful. .Nlurvulloi, In Itriixil. Aotnrinn. A appeal has gone forth to the peo ple of (he United States in behalf of 250,000 inhabitants of IJraz.il, who must literally perish from starvation unless relief is speedily forwarded to them. Tho Hrazilian government has exhausted all its financial resources in battling for three years with an ap palling calamity, and is powerless to do anything more. These 250,000 persons aro naked and homeless, and are confronted by certain death unless tho American people succor them, for assistance can besought nowhere else with the slightest probability of suc cess. They aro all that remain alive of the population of Ceara, a province which three years ago boasted of an intelligent and prosperous population of nearly a million. They nro not savages or vagrants, but aro farmers who Have liocn driven to tlio seaeoait by a drouth of unprecedented length, and bv the famine and pestilence that succeeded, umoiai statistics snow that 500,000 of the people of that prov ince have been buried since .March, 1S7S, of which 200,000 died of hun ger and 5,00,000 from diseases imme diately resulting from starvation. Will the American people permit the remaining 250,000 to starve? The above facts are vouched for by the American Department of State. Contributions will be received by Scribncr it Co., New York oil v. Wiikch in I his Country. The working people of this coun try often grumble at the sinallness of their wages, nnd the amount looks small compared with that received in the inflated times of war. Hut it is largo in contrast with the pay receiv ed by laborers abroad. A careful in vestigation made by the government through its consuls iu Europe proves that the average wages for labor in this country aro more than three times largerthan thoso paid in France Germany, Denmark, Italy and Spain, more than twice as large as those re ceived in Belgium, and ono and a half larger than the wages earned in England and Scotland. Hut it maybe aked,"How is it pos siblo for our manufacturers to coin poto with foreigners, if American la bor is so much more expensive than theirs?" Tho answer is a simple ono ; our workmen can do about twice as much work in a day as foreign work men. Tho late Mr. Hrassoy, of England, a famous railroad contractor, used to find it cheaper to transport English laborers to Italy and Austria, nt double tho expense por day, than to hire tho natives of those countries. Good wages train good workmen, and good food gives ability for better work. IN-cmci-vIu; Tlmlier. Kxchangfl. Lime, ns a preservative of wood, wo find again recommended in ono of our building exchanges, as a procoss successfully used in France. Tho plan is to idle up tho planks in u tank, covering oich layer with quicklime, which is then to bo slacked gradually with water. It requires from a few days s to a week, according to the tickness and quality of tho limber to secure complete impregnation. At all ovents leaving this point out of consideration, this mode of treatment is said to impart to tho wood a remark able hardness and toughness and ex traordinary resistance to rotting. Tho experiment is very simplo and inexpensive, and might bo well worth testing by those who are intorcsted in the subject of timber preservation, Anrti'i.Ks of incorporation ofn new savings bank in Portland havo been filed by 1). P. Thompson, J.N, Dolph, M. S. liurrullf Frank Dekiini, Sol. Hirscliand S.G. Skidinore. Umriuess will bo commenced soon, Capital stock, .flio.lXIO, jn 1,250 shares. J nun: Fn:i.n is being endorsed by a largo sharo of (ho Democratic press as a Dentoer.itie Candidate for Pi evident. A Nlit pernio if m ititllirny Project Now York Tribune, Mr. Hinton Hownn Helper, of St. Louis, is tho author of a railway pro ject which, for mngnitudo nnd possi ble results upon civilization, throws nil former achievements mid ideas of tho kind quite in tho shade. He pro poses tho construction of what ho calls "a longitudinal, midland, double track railway" from a point high north in North America, running tnoro or loss southwesterly through Mexico and Cei'tral Amcricn, to a point far south in South America, looking to its ultimate extension to Hehring's strait nnd Capo Horn. Mr. Helper has much confidence in this magnificent scheme nnd has gone to work in earnest to attract public al tcntion to it. His first step is lode- posit $5,000 in tho Hank of Commerce at St. Louis, to ho distributed by a committee in tho shape of rewards for essays nnd poems on tho enterprise. For the bent treutiso in proso a prize of f 1,300 will be given, for the second best $1,200 and for tho third best $1, (XX), while tho best poem will earn 11,000, nnd the second best $.300. The articles nnd pocma must bo sent be fore tho first day of October next, to the chairman of the committee, Hon. Thomas Allen, President of the Iron Mountain nnd Southern Railway, No. 1 North Fifth street, St. Louis. Mr. Helper requires that the proso essays shall comprise from 00 to 100 pages of closely-written cap paper, and that the poems not more than 500 or Icms 333 lines. Mr. Helper intends to print his prize essays and poems in a book, and hopes thereby to awaken such an in terest in tho projcot throughout all the countries from Alaska to Patagon ia, that all the requisite Government al guarantees an I charters will be granted before October, 1882, and 150, 000 men put to work by that date. Seven years, at most, he says, ought to suffice for the completion of the en tire line. Then ho proposes to cele brate the opening of his great Conti nental Ilaekbone Railroad by holding a World's Fair in St. Louis on the four-hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America. Mr. Helper ; makes no estimate of the cost of the j roal, or 0 is probable receipts and j running expenses, nor docs ho present any plan for raising tho vast capital required. No details ns to the route aro given. 'Wlicthcr the lino should run east or west of the Rocky Moun tains in traversing the United States, is a question the projector does not answer, but it may be presumed from his interest in St. Louis that an cast crn route would be prefcred. No ac count is niado of the fact that for vast distances tho road would traverse a desert country, where tho traffic would never pay for the fuel burned in the locomotives. These objections do not, however, detract from the merit of Mr. Helper's general idea, and if his enthusiasm has led him to disregard grave practi cal obstacles, it must be remembered that enthusiasm is n potent factor in the organization of all great enter prises. 3loi-c liillin:. Tlio Junction Hepuhliean gives the following version of the late homi cide nt Lebanon : Scarcely had the echo of tho pistol died out in the Into lamentable homicide in Albany, when the people aro once more hor rified by tho intelligence of another tragedy being enacted at Lebanon, similar to the one mentioned last week, and another household made desolate. "Wiley Powell has for some time past been living at tho houso of Farrier, near Lebanon, and by his browbeating demeanor has niado himself master of tho household. Farrier, being .1 man of peaceable pretentions, permitted him to do things not becoming or proiwr. Principal among these an improper intimacy with his (Farrier's) wife. About four o'clock Monday evening, Powell rodo up to where Ferrier was nt work cutting wood for Mr. Fair claw, who was at work near by, could hear them talking, but could notdis tinguished tho words. According to the testimony in the preliminary examination it appears that Powell went to tho woods where Farrier was at work and began quarroling with him (Farrier), when tho latter shot him, killing him almost instant ly. Farrier then started immediately for Albany whero ho delivered him self up to Deputy Sheriff. Humphrey. Ilo Inula preliminary examination beforo Justice Palmer and was bound over in $1,200 bonds to await the ac tion of tho grand jury. Ni:i.i.n:, tho daughter of ex-Governor Hubbard, of Connecticut, who eloped and married her father's coachman, has learned the drossniak ing business, and is liviiig hnppily with lyr husband. Her father tells her that sho will bo received into tho family again if she wilf leavo hor hus band. F. Southorlln is tho heaviest tax- payer 111 (armor. Douglas county ho is w Cai'T. Kiinst is now running the al on mux Jttrtlui. ?IO,000 Tor n. rlnl of "U'ulcr. Homo Jot1m.1l, In 0110 of tho fierce fight in Virgin, in, during tho war, a federal officer fell in front of tho confederate breast works. While lying thoro wounded, and crying for water, a confederate soldier (James Moore, of Uurko coun ty, North Carolina,) declared his in tention of supplying him with a drink. Tho bullets wcro flying thick from both sides, nnd Moore's friends tried to dissuade him from such a hazard ous enterprise. Despite remonstrance and danger, however, Moore leaped the breastworks, canteen in hand, reached his wounded enemy and give him n drink. Tho federal, under a sense of gratitude for the timely ser vice, took out his gold watch nnd of fered it to his benefactor but it was refused. Tho officer then nsked the name of the man who had braved such Hunger to succor luni. alio name was given, and Moore returned to his position behind tho embankment They saw nothing moroof cachothcr. Moore was subsequently wounded and lost a limb in one of the engage ments in Virginia, and returned to his home in Uurko county. A fow dny3 ngo ho received a communica tion from the federal soldier to whom ho had given the "cup of cold water" on the occasion alluded to, announc ing that he had settled on him the sum of $10,000, to be paid in four an nual installments of -$2,500 each. In vestigation has established the fact that there ia no mistake or deception in tho matter. TIclHsituilcH of Fortnnc. Jennie Herndon Tyler, grand ncicc of the late President Tyler, was buried latelv from a tenement in the lowest quarter of Brooklyn, where for four years she lived as the wife of Wm. Collins, an Irish laborer in a gas-house. She was a Washington hello when her cousin, John W. Stevenson of Ken tucky, was United States Senator, fresh from a convent, where she had boon highly educated. Sho entered into social life with a vivacity that niado her for a time a courted woman. She had a small fortune, many jewels and a splendid wardrobe. She married one Jennings, who, on getting her fortune, deserted her in Brooklyn, after telling her he had .1 wife living, and that their supposed marriage ceremony was really by an undertaker's clerk instead of a minis ter. She gave birth to his child in a hospital. Her friends and relatives looked upon her thenceforth as an outcast, and she was driven about by misfortune, living in polico stations and in hospitals and doing menial work in boarding houses, but it seems descending to a life of shame and dissipation. She sought a temporary home in an up-town tenement house, and there met the Irish laborer who, on learning her history, offered her a home, and she was married to him. Her relatives remained unfriendly to the last. Her sister lives inNew York, and the wife of a rich man who defrays the funeral expenses. The late Mrs. Chester A. Arthur was her first cousin. Jennie Tyler was thirty- two years old, and retained even in death traces of beauty. Her father, W. W. Tyler, keeps a hotel in Har risburg, Pa. The JMilI Hoy. Never set a boy down for stupid because he docs not make a figure at school. Many of the most cele brated men who have ever lived have been set down by some conventional pedagogue as donkeys. One of the gratest astronomers of tho age was restored to his father by the village schoolmaster, with these encourag ing words: "There's no use payim cood money for his education. All he wants to do is to lio on the grass on his back and staro at the sky. I'm afraid his mind is wrong. Sci entific men have often been flogged for falling into brown studies over their books, and many an artist of the future has come to present grief or drawing all over his copy-books and surreptuously painting the pictures of his geography. Your genius, un less musical, seldom proves himself one in his childhood, and your snug and self suflicicnt piece of precocity, who takes all tho medals and is the show scholar of his school, often ends by showing no talent for any thing bovond a yard-stick. Sir Walter Scott was called stupid as a child, and and it was not even con sidered to his credit that he was fond of "sich trash" as ballads, and could learn them by heart at nny time. Loxnox. The growth of London in all directions continues marvelous. A number of new towns havo sprung up within tho last three or four years. Not long ngo North End Fulham was a rural district of field and mar ket gardens. Tho Underground Railway opened a now lino to Ham mersmith, with a station at the north cnd,which changed its namo to Ken sington, nnd to-day tho surrounding area is covered with streets of woll built houso at high rents. Similar ly, at the other end of London, in creased facilities of locomotion by railway and tram car havo led to the erection of many hundred small houses in South Permondsoy or Ilottcrluthc. Tho samo procc js goes on steadily nt Elmontou, on the north, and at Sydenham, on the south of London. GENERAL NEWS, Hai.mox fishing has opened on tho Columbia, Itcv. Ensly of Douglas county hoa lately lost thrco children by dlpthcria. Kansas sends a Htaino dolegation to the National Hepuhliean Convention. A ooon quality of iron ore is report ed near Sandy on tho Columbia river. E. S. Kkaknf.y has entered upon the duties of the office of U. S. Mar shal for Oregon. The numbcrof men killed in the St. Cothnrd tunnel during its construc tion wns 120, and wounded, -100. TunnE was n terrible earthquake at Yokohama and Tokio, and many houses badly injured, Feb. 22d. Skchktauy Scirunz has ordered tho various swamp land matters relating to Oregon to bo taken up for immedi ate decision. Govnnxon SEYMotm positively de clines to be a candidate for the I'rcsi-' dency, notwithstanding reports to tho" contrary. Nearly $30,000, with more prom ised, has been subscribed by Oswego New York, towaril a beet sugar fac tory. Negotiations for a settlement ot difficulties letwecn China and Japait on the basis proposed by Gen. Grant, arc progressing quietly. A discharged fireman tried to kill Brown, editor and proprietor of tho" Globe newspaper, Toronto, who is al so a Senator of the dominion. The public debt statement will show' a reduction of 10,000,000 for March ; internal revenue receipts, 19,000,000 ; customs, 119,000,000. Pftetioxs are being circulated in' Eastern and Northern Oregon, asking Congress for $2.30,000 to improve tho Columbia entrance, wrTich it is claim ed is rapidly shoaling up. "An intimate personal friend of Senator Conkling" has informed a) Chicago Times correspondent at Al bany that he believes tho Chicago nominee will be Mr. Blaine. The Senate confirmed tho follow ing nominations : Joseph C. A. "Win gate, of New Hampshire, U. S. Consul at one of the Chinese ports ; James M. Armstrong, Register of the Land Of fice, Colfax, W. T , Wm. Mctzgcr, Post master, Dayton, "W. T. There is a fuss at Hong Kong bo cause the British general of tho garri would not fire a salute on Washing ton's birthday and the English gener al, Hcnnessy, commander in chief, condemns him for not doing it. The working men's party of San Francisco propose, to contest tho Into election, on the ground that the citi zen's tickets by which they were beat en were printed on slightly tinted pa per. Tlio Democrats and Kearney arc working together in this business. Chileans havo made landings with heavy forces, at different points on tho Peruvian coasts, and an attack is ex pected by land and sea on Arica. A demonstration was made on that town by the Chilean ironclads, but an old United States monitor that had been idle all through tho war, woke up and drove thorn off in a hurry. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. New Yoisk, March 30. Labor troubles in St. John's parish continu ing, Gen Wiltz has ordered a battalion of militia to the scene of disturbance. It is stated that the strikers, not con tent with stopping work themselves, have assumed tho right to interfere with others who aro willing to work, and in many cases hnvo seized and whipped laborers who refused to obey tho commands of tho strikers. Tho strike in St. Charles parish ended by most of the laborers resuming work at the old wages. New YortK, March 30. A firo in tho police boat Seneca, this morning, burned tho steward, Charles II. Berry to death, ind officers Patrick IL Kelly and Robert J. Vail probably fatally. Pakis, March 30, -The health of the city continues below tlio average. Thero were 1200 deaths last week. Typhoid fovcr and small pox aro pre valent. NEwroKT, Ky., March 30. This morning at 5 o'clock, while going homo from a ball, three well known young men of this city who had quarreled about a young lady, renew ed tho altercation, and Joseph lUttcr twieo shot Charles Thois, killing him. Both were drunk. Cakson, March 31. Engineers 6f tho V. & T. railroad wero ordorcd to day by tho Mechanics' union to quit taking trains into Storey county. Suportcndont Ycrington stated to an Appeal reporter last night that ho would quit running tho trains as fast as engineers woro ordered off. Seri ous troublo is apprehended. nil. 1 9 At Sumnor, April 1st 1SS0, to tho wifoof Hon, J. B. Dully, a daughter. April Sth 18S0, on llaynes' Slough, by J.C. Bull, J. P., Mr. Win. Waters and Mrs. Susan Jackson, all of Coos county. , April Oth 18S0, at tho residence of tho bride's parents, by Hev. C. P. Bai lev, Mr. Sampson J. Cottoll and Miss Mary A. Hiohard.nHof Coos county.