EASTERN ITEMS.
A MORMON COLONY TO BE FORMED
IN MEXICO.
The Llfo of Martin Tan Buren-Poatal
Appotntmento-Cailfornla Raialna
la London Brewery Bold
Secret Ballot Bill.
Milwaukee's treasury is empty.
Evangelist Moody Is In New York.
Money loans in Chicago at 4 to 6 per
cent.
Severe frost are Injuring crops in Da
kota.
Rev. Sum Jones ia "shaking" np Dan
ville, Va.
Rochester, N. Y., is to be lighted with
natural gas.
President Trias lias officially received
Minister Ryan.
Malarial fever is playing havoc with
horses in Chicago.
A feeling of uncertainty still pervades
the copper market.
A pension has been granted l'eter
Withers, of Idaho.
Eastern men have bought the biggest
brewry in MontanA.
A $400,000 Cuban sugar grinding fac
tory has been burned.
The Secret Ballot bill has passed the
Connecticut legislature. ; n
Adjutant-General Drum has been
placed on the retired list.
Rose Terry Cooke, the authoress, is
seriously ill at Pittsburg.
California cherries at $1 a pound are
admired afar in llttsburg.
Rails have been shipped for the road
from El loso to Chihuahua.
The Government printing office at
Washington is said to be unsafe.
The mother of Jake Kllrain, aged 58
years, died at Balimore on the 28th.
The popularity of lawn tennis is rapid
ly increasing in some Eastern cities.
The Connellsvllle, Penn., region is
pestered by a band of colored tramps.
R. 8. Simpson has been appointed
postmaster at Amity, Yamhill county, Or.
It is rumored that a Catholic Congress
will be held this summer in Washington.
The Sionx Indians are said to be will
ing to negotiate the sale of their reserva
tion. A heavy consignment of last year's Cal
ifornia raisins has just been sold at Lon
don. M. A. Robertson has been appointed
postmaster at Independence, Polk county,
Oregon.
A. J. Florey has been appointed post
master at Eagle Point, Jackson county,
Oregon.
TheNew.YoTk Legislature authorised
the appointment of six female factory in
spectors. Benjamin Tloovcr, has leen commis
sioned postmaster at Matoles, Crook
county, Or.
A committee has been formed in Lon
don to arrange for a national memorial to
John Bright.
Duncan C. Ross nearly killed Pete
Laroyer in a broadsword contest, at Mon
Vreaii last week.
Denver, Col., has been seized with an
epidemic of murders and suicides to an
alarming extent.
It is claimed that there are defects in
the contraction f parts of the postodice
building at 15'.imore.
E. 8. Brubaker has received his com
mission as iMtmaster at Mount Tabor,
Multnomah county, Or.
A peculiar disease, resembling malarial
fever, is prevalent among horses in the
vicinity of Indianapolis.
In the May parties held in Central
Park. New York, recently, there were no
less than 17,979 children.
A tremendous hail and rainstorm, re
cently, causl washouts between Kansas
City and Lawrence, Kan.
Idaho and Wyoming begin to feel lone
some as Territories. They want to come
into the sisterhood of states.
Se ventocn-year locusts have made their
ajfratanee in countless numlers in the
central portion of Tennessee.
George Bancroft has recently completed
a life of Martin Van Uuren, to lw pub
lished by the ILu-per Brothers. -
The reward of $50,000 for the arrest of
Tascot, the murderer of Banker Knell at
Chicago, will hold good for sixty days.
The wheat crop in Sonora Mexico, is
immense. For the first lime in the his- j
tory of Mexico there will be a surplus. I
The president's family will upend the
cummer at Deer Park, Md., where he
will be able to join them every Saturday.
' The-Galveston News saytf that more
cattle have been shipped from Texas to
the North this season than for many
years.
John W. Norton of St. Louis, has leen
granted a divorce from Emma 8. Norton,
who eloped with Henry Moore less than
a year ago.
A plot was unearthed List week for a
general delivery of convicts confined in
tiie Hudson County penitentiary, at
Snake Hill, N.J.
The Canadian Pacific has applied to
the Secretary of the Treasury to he bond
ed an a common currier between ports of
the United States.
It is proposed to make important
changes in the monitor Puritan. She
will h transferred into an armored ves
cl of modern type.
rOKEIUW ri.AMIIt:H.
Th Chilian Government Orders Bone
Big Quns-Tbe Baby King of Spain
Going to the Expoaltlon.
The Nlpsio has gone to Ancidand.
.Red is the fashionable color in Paris.
London proposes a search for natural
gas.
A tennis tournament is in progress in
Dublin.
Members of the Italian press in Berlin
were banqueted.
On the Paris Boulevards Roue has
given place to Roublard.
The baby king f Spain is going to the
Paris exposition in June.
Mrs. Frank Leslie is going to start a
fashion paper in London.
King Humbert has gone to visit Em
press tredericK at Frankfurt.
SirMorell Mackenzie has greatly re
gained his health at Madeira.
The number of paupers in England has
increased rapidly of kite years.
Minister Lincoln was given a speccinl
train from Liverpool to London'.
The issue of the Panama Canal Lottery
bonds in France has been abandoned.
Queen Marguerite, of Italy, is one of
the best viohncello players ot the day.
Americans are reported as receiving
scant courtesy at the Paris Exposition.
American women are becoming more
and more prominent in London society.
The Sultan sends to the Empress of
Germany a necklace valued at $150,000.
Women in Paris are becoming more
and more addicted to the morphine lis bit.
The number of persons drowned in the
recent floods in AustrU is estimated at
100.
American delegates have arrived at
Berlin to study the German river sys
tems. Eleven thousand men have been on a
strike in Silesia. The situation is threat
ening.
Buenos Ayres has now a port and ves
sels are freed from excessive 'literage
charges.
The Greek minister of war has died
suddenly at Marseilles, where, he hod
just arrived. ...
The Krupp works have been obliged to
shut down owing to lack of coal caused
by the strike.
Eight persons were killed by lighten
hie in a storm at Boskowitz, Australia,
on Friday, May 17.
The official reports of France show that
they exported last year 4,518 horses,
mostly to the United States t ,
The Parisians call him "Buffalo Beel,"
and the prettiest women t in town are
turning the heads ot his Indians. .
At the horticultural show atthe Troca-
dero during June, there will be 6000 rose
trees, ot 3000 vorities, in bloom. f .
Emperor Dom Pedro, of Brazil is very
ill, and his death, which seem to be em
nent, may be followed by a revolution.
Electric light equivalent in illuminat
ing power to 1,700,001) candles will be
used in lighting the Paris exhibition.
Tn tho Hvilnv cniirf 8 it ban hfen de
cided that no Sunday ncwi?uik-'txtta.eu
ior auverusemenis, mo contract .-Being
illegal.
There is irrcat sufferinir anionu the idle
ltiW.r..ru nt I'linumu M:mv nrn without
food and shelter and the tropical wet
season in on.
Tim Htvimer Sliivnni.i frnni Ktettin for
New York-, with 200 passengers, broke her
shaft at sea and returned to a Clyde ship
yard for repairs.
Germanv lust vear imported into that
empiro 73,511) horses, most of which were
for cavairy horses, besides what they
raised at home.
The saloon of Eucicinghani Palace,
famous for the three superb crystal chan
deliers which it contains, is now lighted
by electricity.
Several members of parliament will en
tertain John Sherman upon his return
to London from Paris. Sir Lion Play
fair will preside.
The Chilean government, itis reported,
has determined to order for immediate
delivery ten 45-ton Krupp guns for de
fense of the coast.
The evicted tenants on the Olphert es
tates in Ireland threw toiling water en
the policemen and a number were
severely scalded.
arily reduced freight rates on all lines, in
nnlcr ti nltavinte tluulistrt'HH iiriniriL'frniii
the dearth of coal.
It is stated that an international con
ference will shortly bo held in Rome to
settle the question of tbe construction of
a tunnel through the Siinplou.
All Russian ships-of-war are to be
lighted exclusively by electricity, and by
January next the whole of the Russian
licet w ill e. lighted by that means.
The English negotiations with tho
Chinese government for a treaty regulat
ing and restricting Chinese immigration
to the Australian colonies, are at a dead
lock. Th! machinery palace at the Paris ex
hibition is the largest building under a
single roof ever built, and the American',
exhibit .occupies one-third of the entire
space.
Earl Dudley, who was caught in.' the
late rade on a 'London gambling house,
reached his majority only a few months
ago, and has already gambled away
$200,000.
THE PACIFIC COAST.
PLUMBERS AND TINNERS ON A
STRIKE.
Criminally Assaultsd Two Little Glrla
A Man Oowhtded by a Young
Lady Tbe Astronomical
Soolety News Notw.
Spokane Falls claims a population of
24,000.
Spokane Fulls has opened a new sav
ings bank.
Ripe figs from Yuma are exhibited at
Sacramento.
Olive culture is attracting attention in
Yuba county.
Sacramento is infested with a gang of
sneak-thieves. .
Tho Reese River Revello 1ms began its
fifty-third volume.
Plumbers and tinners at Vancouver,
B. C, are on a strike.
Ten acres of barley were burned over
near Merced, recently.
Tacoma is troubled with a gong of fire
bugs and sneak-thieves.
A heavy rain and hail storm full at La
Grande, Or., on the 21lth.
The rainstorm at Lakoport destroyed
the brick in a large kiln.
Several cases of malignant diphtheria
have occurred at Modesto.,
Portland's streets was crowded with
visitors on Decoration Day.
A 7,Si' pound salmon trout has been
caught at the Folsam dam.
The dwelling of J. Orford, near Peta
lunia, waa burned last week.
II. W. Fuller .one of Chico's prominent
citizens and pioneers, is dead.
Charles Walters was shot by a China
man at Son Leandro, on the -'7th.
The ladies of Tacoma cave the sena
torial party a reception last week.
The grocery store of Monty & Gunn, of
Tacoma, was burned on the 2Uth but.
Santa Cruz and Monterey counties had
alight earthquake shocks on the 20th.
The managers of the Sacramento ball
team have decided to reinstate Veach.
An organized league of burglars from
Chicago are working Pugit Sound towns.
There has been no application for the
office of Register of the Stockton Land
office.
Charles Wolff, aged ten years, fell from
a tree at Ventura, last week, and was
killed.
Dr. John B. Smith, an old physician of
Petalutna, has been stricken with ap
oplexy. ,
A man named Lee was cowhided by
Miss M. Richmon, at Fresno, on the
26th inst. -
' Farmer Mills, of San Luis Obispo
county, has planted nine tons of potatoes
this year.
Tbe next meeting ot the Astronomical
Society of the Pacific Coast will lie held
July -'otii.
William Warden, alias Rows, an escape
from Folsom Prison, has been recaptured
at Seattle.
Creigton. the Sun Francisco jury-brilrer,
is still in Victoria, and refuses to talk to
reporters.
The Santa Cruz Sea Breeze bus issued
its first number. It is of the Democratic
persuasion..
The Nevada State convention of the
W. C. T. U. will meet at Reno on June
5th aud 0th.
General Miles is visiting Santa Cruz
and Monterey to select a site for the July
encampment. (
The mines on the Comstoek controlled
by J. W. Mackay will close on Sundays
alter Juno 1st. ,
Thomas Stracher, a contractor at Otay,
San Diego county, is missing, and mur
der is hinted at. .
Articles of ineoqwration for the San
Pedro Llectric Light and rower Uompany,
were tiled last week.
An American has opened a restaurant
at Lemoore, Tulare county, and forced
the Chines to leave.
Tho State Grange ojKjned at Salom on
the 2'Jth in secret session, with a full at
tendance of members.
Mrs. John Page at Butte, M. T., has
been acquitted of the charge of murder
ing her husband last February.
A number of men employed in the
steam engineering department at Mare
Island, have been discharged.
Hay wards cherry-growers are dissatis
fied at the price paid by canners and are
shipping a carload a day Last.
The new road between San Lerando
and Hay wards, Custro Valley and tho
redwoods was opened for travel.
A man named Pennington shot and
killed another man named Bolcom, near
Rye Valley, in Baker county, Oregon,
last week.
The American bark Emerald was to
tally destroyed by lire at Port Gamble on
the 20th. Part of tho cargo of lumber
will le saved.
Mrs. Kramer, of San Erancisco, was
run over and killed on tho 2'ith, in that
city, by the train running ou tho Geary
street extension.
Mrs. lluad, a music teacher at Fresno,
has been missing for several days, not
withstanding her friends have made dili
gent search for her.
Six palace cars for Ilaggin are nearly
completed at the railroad shops at Sacra
mento. They will leave Juno 0th with
his stable of races for the East.
1103IH A Nik fAKJI,
The Car of Horses-Something Good
to Eat-To Keep Young Weeds
Do wn-Bee-K eeplnK -Notes.
For potato culture, manure tho land In
the fall and plow It under in the spring.
It is a mistaken Idea that a hen's nest
ought to do duty a year without ronew
h. By planting the rod raspberry, bee
keepers would have ono of the best two
pastures known, and u crop of fruit also.
Common wheat flour made into paste
with cold water, applied dry, will, take
out grease Rjxits without injuring. tho
moBt delicate fabric. . ,
A strong solution of carbolic acid and
water, poured into holes, kills all tire
ants it touches, and the survivors imme
diately take themselves off.
To Btop tho bleeding of a horse or othor
stock from a snag or wound, make mi ai
plication of dry horse mnnuro, and it will
stop tho bleeding every time.
Ono pound of green eopwmis dissolved
In ono quart of Iroiling water will destroy
foul smells. Powdered Irorax scattered
in their huunts will disiierso cockroaches.
For good returns for feediag, taking
ono year with another, wo would rather
truHt a hunch of even, well seleetot)
wetheii than any other stock on the
lurm.
If you want to grow a good crop of nice
potatoes In your gardon, beware of aprpnte
ed seed. If your seed potatoes cannot lie
retarded otherwise, keep them In tho ko
house or refrigorator.
Any man closely ohsorvunt knows tffiit
a compactly built hoe with liitht Irono.
weighing from 175 to 250 pounds, iirtrw
selling hog for the market ; and that these
weights are the most profitable to grtfw.
Ordinary buttermilk is a valuable food
not only for pigs, but for the family. Jt
contains 6 per cent of milk augur, nearly
1 per cent of mineral salts, as wo'lfas
nitrogenous materials and a proportion of
butter fat.
Every young weed that comes np and
is cut down is one less weed to go to seed
The way to keep down wewls is to allow
the seeds to germinate and then destroy1
the young plants. In this manner ttked
work is easier and better performed
A good way to arrsge frnit. ln
for an ornamental piece, is to set
,-in a dish J,;
set aglijiw J
sh, around ,ri
of mossij
tumbler in the center of the dish
and over It rut a thick layer of
then not nearly so much fruit will bo re
quired, and tt can be arranged very hand
somely. Baked Beans : Soak one quart of beans
in water ovor night : in the morning put
them in an iron kettle with one-half
pound of nalt pork and water to cover,
When tender, but not broken, take out
of the liquor with a skimmer and put in
a iNiKiug pan with the pork ou top and
bake until brown.
White Monntain Cake : Two cups of
sugar, ono cupot butter, ono cup of sweet
milk, four egjjs. four cups of flour, two
toasHX)ntuls of talking row dor. Cream,
butter and sugar together, add tbe beaten
yolks, then the milk, Hour with the bak
ing power sifted through it, and last the
lieaten whites; llavoriiiK. Bake in one
jioai.
I Rosin in soap is a fraud. It mukes
poor soap hard and greatly lessons the
i cost. Some say that rcwin improves soap
; because of the turpentine in it. They
i might as well say a dry bone makes good
fixd because of the meat that was on it
once. Tliero is no turpentine in rosin ;
! it was all taken out in the making, and
the rosin discolors and hhh1h white goods
I and shrinks woolens. -But turpentine in
small quantities added to boiling clothes,
sweetens them and improves tho color.
The (rest lioys and girls we have cvor
i known on the farm were those whose
j parents gave them un interest in some
i thing to raise or cultivate as their own.
; To a Iwy eseciully, tho feehng of owner-
i ship is a happy, proud, hopeful one. Ho
feels that ho lias something to work for,
to look forward to. Tho pig will in duo
time become a fat, marketable hog, the
little lamb a fine wool-bearing sheep, tho
colt a handsome horse, the chickens
grow to profitable hens, and tho "alf into
a fine milk cow. Parents, give your chil
dren a chance in this direction, and your
farms will bo better cultivated and your
homes made happier by it.
Something to Eat Between talks: Hore
is another sweet dish thoroughly to sea
son. Tako three pounds of sweet al
monds, two rounds and a half of crushed
sugar, aud one jround of strawlstrrics.
Pound the almonds into a kind of paste,
and mix them with sugar. Add the juice
of tho strawlierries, which must le prev
iously crushed. "Place the pan contain
ing tiicse different ingredients on u slow
fire, nnd stir them up continuously.
When the paste seems to buva obtained
a certain consistency, take it out of tho
pun and spread it out on a baking board
jrowdored with sugar, till it is of tho thick
ness of a half-dollar. As soon as the
paste is cold, cut it out in round or square
jrieces, and put them till hot and crisp,
into tho kitchener, and then serve.
Coceoa as Food : As an article of food
woa (hirers essentially from both tea and
coffee. While only an infusion of thoso
substances is used, leaving a largo pro
jrortion of thoir total weight uneonsumed,
the entire substance of tho cocoa seeds is
prepared as an emulsion for drinking,
and the whole is thus utilized with tho
system. Whilo the contents of a cup of
tea or coffee can only( ho regarded as
stimulant in ita effect,' mid almost en
tirely destitute of essential nutritive prop
erties, a cup of prepared cocoa is really a
most nourishing article of diet, as, in ad
dition to tho valuo of tho theobromine it
contains it introduces into the system no
inconsiderable proportion of "valuublo
nitrogenous and oleaginous dome nts.
PORTLAND MARKET.
FAVORABLE REPORTS FROM ALL
SECTIONS.
Coffee Quotations Remain About Steady
-Sugars all Around Have Bad a
Slight Advanoe-The Wool
Market Very Quiet.
From all accounts tho weather is most'
propitious for crops of ull kinds, espoeiolly
tho early fruits, which huvo lrcon some
damaged by tho rains of late, and the only
obstacle to the farmers reaping tho bene
fit of another profitable harvest is, the
present prospect of a low price for wheat,
hut as this Is early in tho season to prog
nosticate, they rely upon hoo. In all
lines of business in the local merchan
dise markets the transactions are good
for the season of tho year, and no com
plaints are heard. Sugars have advanced
)u'c during the week, while provisions
continue steady at former quotations.
The vegetable market contiues good and
prices are fairly maintaind for Oregon
product, California having leon almost
driven from tho market. Buter is firm,
with no danger of tho murket gotting
overstocked, owing to tho commencement,
of tho packing season. . We quote :
OHOCKKIRS,
Riigura, Golden. C O'h'c. extra 0 7c.
dry granulated 8?n'o, 'cub, crushed and
powdered 84'e. Coffee: Java 2f(27c,
Mocha 2H3lc, Costa Rica 21Wf22c,
Rio22S23c, Arbnckle'i roasted !
FUOVIHIONK.
L'f.J,.'n.
con Lie, sides 10tf lJo, shoulders B
(t!k:. Eastern ham !3(U3lyC, breakfast
bacon i;)18,S,c, sides Di&lOc. Lard
Vc 10s,
' mcrrs.
Los Angeles oranges 12.25, Riversides
3.76(4.2.r. California lemons $3.50(4
per box. Oregon strawberries $1.26 per
crate.
. , VKUKTA-BIJtB.
Potatoes 35tW0c, oniona $1.75, rheu
batb 3c, tomatoes $1(43 per box.
DKIHD PRUITS.
.Apples 43)ric, sliced Uc, peart Kc, Oregon
plums 67, Italian He, silver 7c, German
(Kfli'o, plums 67c apricots i;i(l4c,
,-aeue nciisT, uuuorni tigs c, nuslna
7TM'f luir I sir
Ljjgttor. Oregon fancy 20c, medium 15$
JjVVL common, lUllc. Eastern 22c,
fUiUuornia lS-tk;.
nuuv ttunnrrr-a
OQS.
ropirav.
$o5.r0, broilers $2.504,
P Chicken
f ducks and geese $!r($10, turkeys 20c per
for.
H " WOOL.
Volley Id 17c, Eastern Oregon 8&1 6fl.
1101-8.
- e-IIoa 10(jf 15c.
OKA1N.
.Wheat, Valley 11.20, Eastern Oregon
$1.15. Oats 21(!!.30c.
'floor.
Standard $4, other brands $3.50.
FKsn.
dIay$13ai4tH'rton, bran $1.114, chop
$17!,as20, shorts $1415, Uirley $22.60
m.
; FHKNII MKATH.
. Beef- live. 3'sc, dressy, 7c ; mutton,
live, 2'yC, dressed 7c; lamlrs $2.50 each,
hogs live He, dresswl, 7Ct7,,n'c; veal 0(?CHc.
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
:nrnoll University has put $i!K),.
(KKf)7nw buildings tho post year.
imity-five per cent, of tho stu
dents of Frankliu College, New Athens,
O., aro professing Christians. Sixty
fivo per cent, of tho graduates of tho
college have entered tho ministry.
Siiy's a prominent clor-jrymnn: "I
don'toxpoct to seo tho millennium. I
shall be quite satis find it I live to soo
tho day when there will' ba as many
churchfcs. as grogshops in the country."
Wicft'od Boarder (on Sunday)
"You do not road Sunday papers, I bo
liove, Mrs; DoGoodo?" Mrs. DoGoodo
(sovoroly) -'No, I do not, and lam
grieved to find thut you do." "I was
only go'lfijr to say that this copy of
Sunday Scandal has a two-oolumn ac
count of that minister who was arrest
ed for Improper " "Oh, if thoro Is
any thing In tho paper about minis
ters, thut's different. Thank you."
Philadelphia Record.
a vreok, tho wisest man of hisrtajr,
onco orlod with honest fervor: "What
a heap ot things there are that I do not
want!" How luoky we should be if we
could get out of discontent and onvy
Into his habit of loving tho good ws
havo, but fearing to have all tho good
we dosii-o! Well, we think, wo really
ought to havo such and such a thing.
If that is so, we shall havo it, but wo
will not whimpur mounwhllo. Wo can
put on tho airs of Socrates, nnd con
gratulate ourselves that wo can bo jolly
without it. Wide Awake,
Greonvlllo, S. C, has two colored
ourlosttlcs. Ono is u colorod woman
who was twelve yours of ago when
Goorgo Washington was inaugurated
m first President; and tho oUior, an
aged man, makes'! tho following state
ment: "I nm tli'd father of ninotoon
childron. I have-a sister who has a
family of twenty-four children. My
mothor mid .fathor had thlrty-one
childron. I hud thirty brothors and
sisters.