cASTEKN ITEMS.
i EMORMOU WELL OF NATURAL
GAS DISCOVERED.
osta a Quarter to Hear Him Amer
ican Ladles Imprisoned Henry
Gnome Given a Dinner An
Entrance to Toronto.
Chinese are pouring into Mexico.
Yellow fever is making terrible pro
gress in Mexico.
Seven hundred men are at work on the
Nicaragua Canal.
The Bennington Buttle Monument is
now 1W feet high.
The New York Central has secured an
entrance to Toronto.
Hon. Samuel J. Randall has been again
prostrated by illness.
The Standard Oil Company is grabbing
all the gas lands loose.
August 15th is set for the trial of the
new ( miner Baltimore, t
An air-line railroad from Tampa, Fb.,
to Chicago is projected.
It lias cost New York about $200,000 to
conduct the Iwodle trialB.
A rabid dog bit four persons at
lloboken, N. J., last week.
Porpoise-shooting with the rifle is a
sport lor Cape May visitors. '
The loudest row of corn in the world is
in WaubuiiBee county, Kan.
Two of Oklahama's new counties are
named Harrison aud Cleveland.
Tlie natural g;s companies of Ohio and
Indiana are talking consolidation.
AtMalone, N. Y., 300 New York child
ren are having a two week's outing.
The court-martial to try ex-Commandant
Fletcher at Omaha is now in session.
The barbers of Philadelphia have de
cided to keep tlieir Bhops ciu&ed on Sun
day. The number of prominent Americans
now in London and Paris is unprece
dented. Thirty-four Philadelphia school build
ings have developed defective drainage
all at one.
May 1, 1890, lias been fixed for eight
hour demonstrations throughout Europe
and America. t
It lb represented that the rearrange
ment of the Ottawa Cabinet is giving
much trouble.
Chicago claims the Exposition of 1892
on the ground that she has more room
for it than New Vork.
Seven hundred operatives at the Fish
Back Rolling Mills at 1'ottBville, 1'enu.,
struck for an increase of pay.
To make the battlefield of Gettysburg a
complete memorial it is proposed that
the reliel lines also shall be marked.
Out of the 773 delegates elected to the
New Jersey Inhibition Convention last
week, but 370, or lets titan half, attended.
It is now estimated tliat 23,000,000
bushels of wheat will be seut to market
from the country along the Manitoba
railroad.
Three editors were arrested at Wil
liaiusuort. I'enn.. charged w ith sending
obscene and lewd literature through the
mails.
About the only thing that the resub
mission flurry in Kansas has accom
plished i" to revive the State Temperance
Union.
Twelve acres in Prints? (Jeorge county,
Ya., have sunk alxjut sixty fet, and a
kke two acre wide has formed Uon its
surface.
The nsebsmeiit of the, city of Nashville
for this vwr shows an increase of $1,000
000 in property
assessment.
value over last year's
The new electric road to Bay Ridge,
near Baltimore, just ojcued, is running
satisfactorily aud carrying crowds of
passengers.
Henry George was given a dinner at
Brighton Beach hint week, at which he
predicted the ultimate success of his
land-tax system.
Deaths are numerous in the Conemauidi
Valley, Penn., largely the result of the
severe mental and physical suffering the
people have endured.
There has recently leen a wild boom
at Ashland, Wis., which has just col
lapsed and left a number of bankrupts
and interesting stories as reminders.
An Elizabeth, N. J., man being pur- j
sued by the police, leajied from the tiiird
Story ci his home to the ground and ran
off. He wasn't injured in the slightest.
All Kentucky is stirred by the news
that an enormous well of natural gas has
just been di.icovered at Cloverjxjrt, in
Breckinridge county, on the Ohio river.
The latest iilonuou party to arrive
from Europe numbered 132. One thous-!
and in all are expected this summer.
The missionaries complain of their lack
of success.
The wealth of the 300 citizens Mayor
Grant called together to consider the
holding of a great Fisixwition in New
York in 102, foots up, it is said, fully
$I,&00,000.
Trials of the new Wall street nnd Main
street electrical railways in Cincinnati
demonstrated their entire satisfactory
working, ami regular trips are now
beiu: made.
The Association of Centenary Firms of
Philadelphia hue been organised. The
asBociaiiuu consists of firms that have
carried on business in that city for 100
year or more.
HOUE AX II t-AKM.
A Pointer for Wheat Growers-Fertilize
the Orchard Boss Inseote-Rlce
Fritters Remedy for Scours.
Running roses may he tied to trellises
now, or they may be injured.
The final touch which makes a dish
perfect is always an inspiration.
Eight cents per pound Is the cost of
Bending seeds by mail. The package
must not exceed four pounds.
Do not try to cultivate onions deep ; if
an inch of the )nrfa is kept mellow,
and no weeds allowed to grow, It is all
the cultivation that will be needed.
Black Cake. One pound each of flour,
butter, sugar and citron, cut fine ; two
pounls each of raisins and currants;
twelve eggs, one tablesivoonful each of
nutmeg, cinnamon and mace. Bake
nearly four hours in a moderately heated
oven.
Berry baskets stored in crates in the
same manner as when filled with frnit
are almost certain to be damaged by the
gnawing of mice if the mice have access.
If the boxes are nestled together and
packed in they crates the are soldom
attacked. ,
Rice Fritters. Four emrs beaten verv
light, one pint of milk, one cup of boiled i
rice, uiree teaspoons oi uaaing powuor in
one quart of flour ; make into batter and
drop into boilinif lard. Sauce One
pound of sugar, one and one-half cups of
water, stick of cinnamon, boil till clear.
Apple Ginger Make a syrup of four
pounds of granulated sugar and a pint of
water in which cook very slowly four
pounds of finety chopjwd tart apples,
peeled aud cored, and two ounces of
green ginger. Add the grated rind of
four lemons. Take it off the stove when
it looks clear.
Raw meat chopped fine and fed once a
day, wili produce more eggs than any
other food that can be given the hen.
One pound jf rough meat to fifteen hens
is sullicient. The meat should be lean,
and if preferred, may le cooked, but it
in vc better results when given raw. It
is not expensive when the increased
numlier of eggs is considered.
How to Make C lover Silage. This
business is now, or soon will be, in order,
and here is a point from a practical man
worth deeding. A farmer with consider
able experience, who has siloed clover
for several years, says if it should be left
to wilt on the ground for two hours after
cutting, and each dav's filling of the silo
be allowed to heat before the lresh clover
iB added, and the sides not the center,
kept thoroughly tramped, the clover will
come out moist and green, and the cattle
will relish it as thoroughly as summer
pasture.
Utilizing Dropped Manure. An Ohio
farmer says that a good way to utilize
dropiied manure in lanes leading from
barnyard to fields is to plough and sTape
theiu where the surface is such that this
can be done. Many lanes of this kind
contain an undisturbed accumulation of
years. Build one permanent fence in
the middle of a strip wide enough for two
lanes, say sixty feet, then build a port
able fence out on either side of the lane.
When it becomes desirable to plough, -remove
the not table fence over to the other
side lor a lane there.
Rose Insects. The insects mot harm
ful to roses are the green fly, red spider,
rose hopper or thrips. and the rose bug
and the black shiu. Now. though com-
bating these insects involves some little
trouhl' s, yet success will attend all per
sistent efforts. The green fly, the thrips
and the black slug can all be kept under
lv syringing the plants with a solution
of while oil soap. One pound of soap is
sufficient for eight gallons of water.
Throw the water in a fine spray on the
under as weil as the upimr sides of the
i leaves. A syringe with a bent nozzle is
the lest instrument with which to apply
the liquid to the lower sides of the leaves.
The red spider can be held in check by
syringing the leaves with clear water ; in
iry times this should be done everv day.
If the rose bug (Melolontha sulwpinosa)
makes its appearance, which is not very
j often, it can be destroyed by the insect
exiermiDator.
Fertilize the Orchard. In advocating
the maintenance of the fertility of the
orchard, Dr. Haskins, of Vermont says
he has never yet seen an orel'ard too
rich for profit, nor one ni on which the
last loads of manure did not pay the most
profit. He adds that the moHt profitable
orchard of the William's F'averite apple
in the vicinity oi Boston is kept ''as rich
i an a barnyard." me iruit is double
what might be called the normal size of
the variety ; every applets handled like
an egg, and marketed at its point of per
fection. This orchard is very profitable,
though small. An orchard that would
rival this is in the eiti of Montreal, con
taining thirty-six Fameuse tiees, the
fruit from which was sold, ungathered,
one season, tor (). ihe trees were
very large and perfeet'y healthy, and had
all to themselves, almost an acre of rich
land.
A Point for Wheai Growers. A crat
fying effect oi strewing straw thinly over
the wheat plants on a very )oor spot of
land alter the ground had lrocn lias
been reported by Mr. Terry, of Ohio.
ine wneat was benefitted, but the re
ntal kable advantage lay in the Kood
n(l Kd growth of clover sown in
iu njiniJK, w extcuuen "txact'y to
the limit ot the straw mdi-one load to
the acre. Ho says a writer in the Weekly
Tribune, w ho adds that he once ownod
two fields in which there were sjKits of
the finest and cleanest of loam, on which
clover seed always failed because of the
surface running together into a compact
glaze after the spring frosts, and he could
think of no remedy. The straw seems to
have prevented the rains from so packing
the surface iu Mr. Terry's aluable ex
perience, and clover, if it can le made to
grov with certainty, will soon amend the
textur oi the soil. Fanners who have
poor spots in their wheat field would do
well to try the straw cure, not only to
lMJtiefit the crop sown, hut at) a prepara
tion for clover.
THE PACIFIC COAST.
TO
CONNECT BRITISH COLUMBIA
WITH THE PACIFIC COAST.
Adjudged Insane-Claims to be His
Wtfti-To Defeat High License
Portland Pos. master's Re
port Earthquake.
lrytown, Amador county, is having a
1)00111.
The Puehla on her last trip north took
500 tons of fruit from Sau Francisco
A cork tree in Visalia iB now eighteen
inches in diameter and forty feet high.
A stingaree that weighed 1,000 pounds
was killed at Redonda Beach last week.
Earthquaaes are still shaking Susan
villo. Five shocks occurred on the 20th.
A fire on the old Crocker ranch, near
Merced recently, destroyed considerable
grain.
The old and well-known Cucamongo
hotel, eighteen miles east of Pomona, has
been burned.
Frank Lankrey's house at Mist, Or.,
was burned for revenge by some enemy a
few days ago.
A lamp explosion caused the loss of
the residence of VY. II. Soule, at Wood
land on the 20th.
A striae in the Gover mine ai Dry
town, Amador county, shows rock held
together with gold.
Two Harney Valley, Or., settlers are
under ari-est for resisting eviction by
United States Marshals.
The peach crop of Pomona Valley will
amount to 3H0 tons. Canneries get the
fruit at 1 cent per pound.
The work of rebuilding the smelters
for the Eureka, Consolidated mine at
Eureka, Nev., has begun.
Jack Murphy, known as "Jack the
Ripper," killed James Clooney at Sack
vilte, l olo count', on the 20th.
Jose Sauza of Pomona attempted sui
cide on the 28th because his daughter
had eloped with a married man.
Geonre Cornwall, a jockey, was killed
at Kan Diego on tlx 20th. While jump
ing a fence his horse fell upon him.
John D. Spreckels is said to have pur
chased a one-third interest iu the (joro
nado Beach Company, costing him
1511,000.
Owen Morgan is under arrest at Sacra
mento, charged with attempting to
destroy by tire the V estern Hotel in
that city. I
A whole familvof Flathead IndianB
nas ween muruereu. ana ournca oy row
. l I I l .1 i i i
uers in me ouu xuver country in
Montana.
Sutter county saloonkeepers have com
bined to d"feat high license. Three
have been arrested and warrants are out
for seven others.
II. L. Gorton for tkeClipper Gap robbery 1
last Deuember began at Auburn, Pbm-r 1
caunty, on the 27th.
The fruit cannery at Marysville is fill- j Paris, apjars to lw very much in earnest
ing a special order for peaches in half-1 ip her endeavor to found a grand exhibi
pound cans to be sold on the railroad ! tion in lhll.
trains to passengers. Bankers in London do not care lor the
A man named Hayes was given one paiHirs of the Prince of Wales. The
hour to leave Petaluma or five days in ' Prince has not much of a reputation as a
the chain gang for disturbing the oalva- j business man.
tion Army met ting. j English Government threatens to
E. L. Cartenon, traveling agent for a ! run the telephone since the business has
feanrrancibco house ha been adjudged lMH,n 1(ift ,,lie (;omi)ttny. Franoe kug
insane at Redding, fie is subject during j airett(iy d0ue so
hot weather to mental trouble. '
L.B. Allen and a comiwnion, f-om! On axunt of heavy and repeated falls
San Diego, who left for Oceanaide to sail of mou tho A,I'8- J1'0, ason for
a small yacht down the coast, are missing I nioantaineenug promises to be late this
and it is feared they arc drowned.
Tom Thompson and six other men
who tarred aud feathered Gus Brannan
at Hun Pedro a few months aro, have
been found guilty of simple aBsault.
The salmon canneries on the Fraser
liver are each securing from 8,000 to
1,000 salmon daily, and the largest puck
in the history of the industry is assured.
Ambrose Bierce has a detective work
ing on the Chico tragedy. It is believed
by some that the bullet wound through
the temple of young Bierce was not iu
flicted by himself.
J. R. Griffith, from Fresno, has been
on a protracted spree at Travor, and
rather than go to jail cut an artery in his
arm with a pocket knife. Prompt surgi
cal aid saved nim.
The mats used to form the jetty in
process of construction at Eureka Har
bor, liumboidt county, are sixty-lour
feet long, forty feet wide and four feet
thick, xmcd weighs sixty tons when
ready for launching.
In Committee of the "Whole of the
Montana Convention on the 27th, Ana
conda received 32 votes against 24 for the
location of the capital. Great excite
ment resulted in Helena. ,
Two cases of death from lighting fires
with coal oil were reported on the 27th.
One at Seattle, Mrs Julia Calder, and the
other near Clay Htatian, in Sacramento
county. Mrs. Arthur Ralphs.
Attorney II. G. Thompson has just re
turned to Portland from British Colum
bia, where he closed a deal with the new
Westminster Southern Railway Com
pany to connect British Columbia with
the Pacific Northwest.
The Portland Postmaster's report for
the fiscal year ended J une 30th shows
the receipts and payments of the money
order and postal funds to have )een
$5,427,013 12. as compared with 14,403,-
074 30 last year, an increase of $1,000,000.
C. H. Crocker has offered to hear the
expense of an expedition from the Lick
Otmervatory to Cayenne, South America,
next December, and it is expected at
that time to confirm and extend some of
the discoveries made at; the last eclipse.
fOKKIMN fXAMHKM.
Denmark's Foreign Trade Threatens
to Run the Tbiophone-Trled Her
Engines With Success.
il&m lias begun the issue of pape
money.
Railroad management In Bavaria is in
bad suaje.
Mlllais is painting his third picture of
Mr. Gladstone.
A new life of Bruno is to be prepared
by tne V atican.
The Crofters Commission is reducing
rents and arrearages.
Efforts at phonetic writing are active
notn in trance and Germany.
Buffalo Bill gave a dinner to Russell
Harrison at Paris on the 27th.
The infantry branch of the Austrian
army Ims been Increased by ll,(MH).
rem ooserveu its sixtv-eighth anni
versary of Independence on the 2ltu.
Extensive thefts of arms have been
carried on for years in Bombay arsenal
An epidemic of typhoid fever is said to
ue raging in the l ernes district of Paris
Denmark's foreign trade has mown to
tremendous size, mainly with England
Shares in the proposed American Salt
Trust are already Belling in London at a
premium.
A German peasant has been detected
in tapping a telephone wire to cure Ids
rheumatism.
The silver jubilee testimonial to Cardl
nal Manning now amounts to a total of
over 0,000.
August 4th ib tlis date uxea lor re-
burying the French Revolution heroes in
the Pantheon.
A German firm has made a contract to
nconstruit the port of Odessa at a cost of
over f,000,000.
The Portuguese who fired at I)in Pedro
declares ho was instigated by the Repub
lican Association.
Dr. Sohmekkopf, Surgeon-in-chief of
Captain v lssmann's African expedition,
nas neon urowneu.
An Erzeroum dispatch states tliat
Russian troops are rapidly massing near
the Turkish frontier.
Bruun, the Austrian center of textile
industry, is Buffering under a general
striae ot 15,000 operatives.
Ryan, a seaman on the Jabex Howes,
was drowned at sea on J une i 7th. Ryan
was a native oi ran l rancisco.
Much curiosity has been excited by
the approaching production at Brussels
OI new oi by Keyer,
isone oi tne railroads in India are
. . . -
equipped witu baggage cars and no
traveler is allowed to carry a trunk.
In a recent domestic rifle competition
at Wimbledon Sir Henry llaliord, shoot
ing for England, made 210 out of his 235.
George 8. Ladd of Ran Francisco, a
Prominent electrician, is lying
0U8y lU LoU8e in llwadillj,
danger
London. London, excited by the success of
1 year in Switzerland.
A dispatch from Rome says the Vati
can and Quirinal are doubly guarded on
receipt of information of a plot to blow up
both with dynamite.
The rejmrt that Mine. Neilson has lout
her hearing and memory is emphatically
denied. She is fluttering from her old
trouble rheumatism.
A "Guide to the Churches of London"
shows that the number of metripolilan
churches has increased between 1883 and
188!) from 028 to 1,016.
It is stated that at the rate the popula
tion is leaving Norway lor the United
States, in the next fifteen years not one
will be left in that land.
The "Heavenly Foot Society" has
been started in China by the women,
in rebellion against the venerated fashion
that compresses their feet.
It has been decided in Russia that
women may be physicians; but they
must confine their services to children
and adults of their own sex.
British reports of the inland fisheries
show that out ot 77,870 salmon captured
in seventeen districts 2,744 were taken
by the rod. The others were netted.
It is stated in London that Germany
and Aastria have instructed ex-King
Milan to restore the supreme power in
Hervia in order to check Italian intrigues.
A party of 800 Hungarians who loft
Vienna recently for the Paris Exhibition
proceeded, by way of Torino, to call on
Louis Kossuth, the great Hungarian
patriot.
Grave fears are felt at Zanzibar for the
safety of the Upwapwa missionaries.
The Bushiri have murdered an officer of
the East African Company, named
Nielsen.
The Duke of Newcastle is expending
nearly 50,000 in building a church in
the grounds at Clumber, his place at
Notts, it is a beautiful edifice in the
Gothic style.
One of Legitime's Generals had acreed
to surrender a portion of the defensive
works at Port-au-Prince to Hippolyte.
The plot was discovered and an ambush
killed thirty of Hippolyte's men.
PORTLAND MARKET.
THRESHING RAPIDLY PROCEEDING
IN THE GRAIN DISTRICTS.
Sugar Baa Again Decllned-In Provi
sions There Is Nothing Spcolal to
Repoit-Buttor Is Firm and
Advancing-Notes.
In tho local merchandise markets in
creasing activity is reported in most lines,
and a good fall business is confidently
anticipated. In tho grain districts
threshing is rapidly proceeding, and the
total yield promises to las equal to that of
last year, with a hotter profit for the
farmer, in which, of course, the jobbers
will ultimately participate. Sugar has
again declined on nil grades. In the
provision market there is no special
activity, but. generally speaking the
market is firm, and particularly so in
Eastern lard. Fresh fruits and vege
tables, activity and firmness are re
ported in this case; aliout 11 carloads
came in during the week. In the line of
dried fruits there is but little change to
report, the demand being fair at last
quotations. The butter market is firm
and advancing. The local wool market
is quiet, but prices are unchanged. The
local grain market is quiet.
OHOCKKIKH.
Sugars, Golden C ,c. extra C 77'e,
dry gran ulated 8',,'c, cube, crushed and
powdered 8c. Coffee: Guatemala 1 Si'
t.il4, Java 2W27c, Cos'ji Rica 21(
Mocha 37c, Rio 21 !i22S;.
Java 31c, Arhuckle'e roasted
roasted
23?.c.
provisions.
On-con ham l.lttf 13 -c. breakfast ba
con 13c, sides Hiit 1'lc, Eastern ham 13
('tl4c, breakfast bacon 12 'c. sides H'bC.
shoulders lh:. Lard USuiilOc.
racers.
Apricot and peaches 70c(rfl. apples
$1.25(31.50, lemons 8. Sicily 7.;)0.
blackberries c, jwars $1.50 per Imx.
DKIXP FHCITH.
Apples 4(iic, evaporated sliced
6c, rsiars 8c, peaches 8(!0c, Oreintn
plums 34, petite prunes 6o iic. German
oSrtHc, prune, Italian "c, silver K7c,
California figs 7c, Smyrna llus 14rlfx:,
apricots 13al4e, raisins $!.7"t2.2T per
box.
VKOKTAR1.KS.
Potatoes, new, 1c per . tomatoes 7.
per liox, onions 1.30. Ereen wan tic. cu
cumbers and carrots 15c per doxeu.
oaikt PHoncrk.
Butter. Oregon lancv 25c, medium
17 hi 20c, common 109l2SiC. Eastern
22c, California 180 20c.
BOOH.
Eggs Kit.
POULTRY.
Chickens $3?4, broilers $2.503. old
$5.606.
WOOL.
Valley 18022c. Umtxtue !8((:'4c. East
ern Oregon 12(1 8c.
HOPS.
Hops 1012j4'c.
GRAIN.
Wleat. Valley 11.201.22'. Eastern
Oregon $1.101.12S,'. Oats 3Mrf 40c.
ri.oi.R.
Rtandard $4.25, other brands $3.75
3.l0.
rxcn.
Hay $13314 iw ton. bran $14.50ai5,
hop $1820, shorts $15lii, barley $20
22.50.
FHKSH MX ATS.
Beef, live. 3c, dressed. Ufitli'-.cimuttnn.
live, 2,Sjf(i3c, dressed tic; lambs $2
each ; hogs live be. dressed, 7(47'' ; veal
68c.
Harrison's Surprise Cake.
Take one and a half cup of butter.
two cups of sugar, two-thirds cup ol
weot milk, live eggs, two and one-
half cups of flour, two teasnoonfuls
(heaping) of baking powder, and one
tcnupoonful of bitter almond for flavor
ing; Cream your butter and sugar to
gethor, add the beat on yelks and milk,
then the sired flour with baking pow
der, und lastly the whites of tbre
eggs beaten to a froth; flavor with the
bitter almond. Bake in buttered
square tins in three layers, cut in
squares or slices If preferred. Raisin
filling Take two cups of sugar. Hoant
cup of water; put on stove and cook
until it thickens. Do not stir much.
Remove from ntove till partially cool,
and stir iu one heaping cup of raisins,
stoned and chopped line, and the
whites of the remaining two eggj
beaten to a froth, with one teaspoon-
ful t vanilla or orange. Place thii
filling betwoen the layers and on the
top. Toled.0 Blade.
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Do not allow the birds to be des
troyed. They are of too much benefit
in destroying insects, worms and pesti
that prey upon tho fruit and trees.
The cat-bird eat nnd destroys pear
bugs; the woodpecker digs in and
destroys the borer; while ihe jaybird,
ohickadoe. wren, Mi rush, robin and
bluo-bird all do cood work in the
orchard.
i is interesting to trace the evolu
tion of words and expressions. Culti
vated people say: "How do you do?"
Those who are lean precise Bay: "Jlovv
flydoP" In the backwoods of Tennessee
they say: "Howdy!"' The noble red
man of the West says: "How?" while
the cat o.n tho fouco says: "Off."-Chi-