EASTERN ITEMS.
AN ENGLISH SYNDICATE WANTS
TUB ALTON ROAD.
The Government's Expenses Died From
Delirium Tremens Beat the Cop
per Trust-Ftshtlng the
. Jute Baffglng Trust.
joaquin Miller is in Chicago.
" Buffalo ia to have a "men only" hotel.
Gold lias been found near Arrow Rock,
Mo.
St. Louia wants the World's Fair in
18SK5.
Salina, Kan., lawyers have a gymna
sium. East St. Louis is to have an electric
railway,
Chattanooga, Tenn., is to have electric
streetcars.
Squash fried in bread crumbs is a new
summer dish.
A movement is on foot to form an
Orange TruaL
A case of yellow fever iB reined at
Brunswick, Ga.
Secretary Tracy is quite ill from an at
tack of dysentary.
Gold is said to have been found in Cler
mont county, Ohio.
Thirty protective tariffclubs Itave been
formed in Alabama.
The average taxation in New Hamp
shire is $i.W par $100.
A wolf-hunting assoeiajion is to be in
corporated at Salem, 111.
Montana's Convention will declare
strongly against tb.J Chinese.
Boston wants the big show of 1892 held
at Washington, not New York.
Alabama farmers are fighting hard to
break up the jute bagging trust.
A dispute over the payment of 22 cents
has led to a law suit in Pittsburg.
Hie stream sent by a Hartford fise en
gine beats the world, going 348 feet.
A Chicago dime museum is trying to
get hold of Geronimo and Sitting Bull.
North Dakota is expected to house
about 10,000,1)00 bushels of wneat to sell.
The Scott Elevated Railroad bill passed
the Missouri House of Delegates on
the 2d. ;
The Special Senate Committee on Arid
Lands held a session at St. Paul cn the
1st mat. j
Murat Halstead has annouced that he
is a candidate for United States Senator
from Ohio.
Editor John Arkins, who was brutally
assaulted at Denver by a blackleg, is
improving.
The Constitution of South Dakota is
longer and stronger than that of the
Unaeu f5uu.es.
It is contended that Black Bart had
something to do with the train robbery
near Kansas City.
. t f T C..11t,mn Imin Raft
Francisco, died from delirium tremens at
Denver, on the 3d.
Suits are pending against fourteen ex
County Treasurers in Arkansas why are
short in their accounts.
Kilrain is about to leave Virginia for
parts unknown. He says he has no idea
of surrendering himself.
C. P. Huntington will head a syndicate,
it is stated, to purchase the ship-building
works of Roach & Sons.
Burke, tue Cronin suspect, is safely
harbored in jail at Chicago, and it is re
ported that he made a confession.
Hie government's expenditure in July
exceeded the receipts by $1,017,311.51,
n lonro tianainn TWivmenta.
ywuig w 6VJ r i J
Hansen, the Minneapolis man bitten
hy a cat, is to be sent to Pasteur, who
lias offered to treat him free of charge.
Lightning struck an electric car at
Lynn, Mass., the other day. A big scare
and fortunate escape 'or many passen
gers. A bona fide offer of $40,000,000 has
taen made for the Alton Rood by an En
glish syndicate to General Counsel Beck
with. Chicago is incorporating a World's Fair
Association with a capital of $5,000,000.
A strong effort is being made to shut out
New York.
The order of parade of the Knights
Templar at the Triennial Conclave to be
held in October at Washington, lias been
announced.
The Standing Rock Indians will sign
the treaty and it is safe to predict that
11,000,000 acres of land will be opened
for settlement.
Mayor Grant of New York lias received
r,!uns"for a tower which shall exceed the
Kiffel Tower in height for the Columbus
Exposition in 1S9Z.
Judge Field of the Circuit Court of
Kaouaa City lias declared the statute al
lowing religious associations to be incor
porated unconstitutional.
The Nicaragua Canal Company expects
to have the lake open to the world in
two and one-balf years and the whole
rnnai in about five years.
Fx-Attorney-General Garland has been
u intl re Hideut attorney of the North
i Pacific Railroad, at a salary, it ia
, d, of $25,000 per year.
National Bureau of Engraving at
, "jihw, one of the most extensive
' phin establishment in the coun
.-. '': ( .financial distress, ,
rOKKltig PLAHHKM,
Railways in Ireland-To Have a Public
Musical Clook-Mra. Belva Look
wood in London,
Cardinal Lavigerie is now recovering.
Extensive floods are reported in Silesia.
Belgium expelled 231 foreigners in 1888.
Mary Anderson's health is much im
proved. Rev. Horatio Ronar died at Edinburgh
on tho 1st.
England's biggest ship has 14,000
horsejiower.
The Scotch liarvest promises to lie early
and abundant.
Tho Czar has approved Count Tolstoi's
reform projects.
The practice of cremation is spreading
rapidly in Italy. '
Ixmdon'B policemen number 14,247;
hackmen, 14,207.
The notorious Mme. Rsstell is said to
be living in Paris.
Schnadhorst, the leader of the English
Socialists, is dying.
A new poem by Lord Tennyson will
bloom in September.
Spain has a floating industrial exhibi
tion at South America.
Deserters from Wadel Semi say he in
tends to fight to the lust.
Bismarck hopes to bring the three Em
perors together at Potsdam.
There is a gold diningliall In the Im
perial residence at Moscow.
Froude indignantly repudiates the re
ports that he is a Home Ruler.
The Shah ot Persia bought a black dia
mond for AK)00 in Paris, last week.
TIip nmnii irwil council at Rome has de
cided to form a Pasteur institution.
Queen Natalie will be permitted to
mtu her son only outside ot Senria.
Hungary has cut railroad Tares to 12
and lb cents for fifteen and twenty miles.
T!,o whnlu nf Ahvaainia lias submitted
to King Menelek except the Province of
Tigre.
F.ntrliirwl Iihh annexed the Union and
Phoenix group of islands, in the Pacific
Ocean.
William n'Rrin lias annlied for a new
trial of his libel suit aiminst Salisbury lor
slander.
The Italian Parliament has suddenly
been prorogued. It caused a general
surprise.
Vnt nnlv U the ritv of Pisa bankrupt.
but ten oilier Julian towns have become
j insolvent.
Canada has in view the project of a
steamship line tatween Chilean ports
and Quebec.
There has not leen a single death from
mall-pox in London this year. No Chi
namen there.
The international sugar bank agencies
have announced that they have a capital
of $15,130,000.
The British House of Commons has
agreed to grant $3,000,000 to build rail
ways in Ireland.
During the past season Liverpool took
700,000 and London 350,000 barrels of
American apples.
Thirty persons were killed and eighty
injured by the recent earthquake on the
Island of Kiu-Siu, Japan.
Privy Councilor Kruger has been ar
rested on suspicion of being concerned
in the German naval frauds.
Queen Victoria desires to visit India,
but does not think her health sufficient
to stand the long sea voyage.
M. Stanley is reported in an Austra
lian interview as saying that "the good
old race of singers is dying out."
The deepest artesian well in Russia
opens with a depth of 20!H) feet. The
sinking operation took two years.
The Italian cruiser Sardegna has the
largest steam engine. It is four triple
expansion and has 25,000 horsepower.
Fears are expressed that there will be
a massacre at Port-au-Prince, Hayti, if
Hippolite succeeds in his work of cap
tire. Mrs. Belva Lockwood, now in London,
is expected "on account of her extreme
individuality," to be "much sought
after."
It is though that Crisni, the Italian
Premier, is near the end of his power,
and that with him will fall the terrible
alliance.
The Spanish Government supDorts
Austria in advising the Pojie to take up
his residence in Portugal if obliged to
leave Rome.
Lord Mayor of Dublin Sexton persists
in charging the British Government with
having opened the letter President Har
rison wrote him.
Boulanger says his mental condition
never was better, and is amused attne
reports circulated in Paris that be had
committed suicide.
The greatest house in London Wore
long will perhaps be Lord Portman's pro
posed reproduction of Woolsey's famous
palace at Hampton Court.
The Cretan Mussulmans have burned
over a hundred houses in a village near
Canca. The insurgent leaders have ap
plied to Greece for assistance.
It is reported that Mrs George Pendle
ton Bowler, of Cincinnati, has been cap
tured by bandits in Italy. She has been
traveling in Europe for years.
A small committee has been formed of
r. ninlu.ru nf the limine of Omiimnna who
are interested in the welfare of the Ar
menian subjects of the Sultan.
THE PACIFIC COAST.
CHINESE HIGHBINDER HANOED AT
PORTLAND.
The Idaho Convention-Escaped From
Folsom Prinon-Eloped With a
Married Man-The "601 " at
Truolcee In Earnest.
Portland is to have a fhe-lioat.
Eastern Nevada is purchasing Califor
nia hay.
Portland Is urging the construction of
a fire-boat.
Harvest hands in Oregon demand $3 a
day and board.
Seattle intends to have a fire-boat to
protect Its wharves,
A lieutenant and twelve men will re
main at Fort Klamath.
Every salmon cannery on tho Colum
bia river has shut down.
Santa Rosa declines to suspend tho 12
o'clock saloon ordinance. .
Washington will vote on the selection
tion of a city for its Capital.
Many Bwarms of bees are found by the
lumbermen up in the Sierras.
The Indians are flocking to the hop
fields of Washington Territory.
An immense deposit of mineral soap
has been found near San Diego.
W. A. Smith's dry goods store at Napa
has been attached by creditors.
Ten thousand dollars will be given in
purses at the Santa Kosa races.
Geroge Gray, of Susanville, Cal., has
gone insane from disappointment in love.
Mr. Finlet ,of Arroyo Grande, has wal
nut trees that bring him in $10 for eacli
tree.
San Diego and San Bernardino coun
ties are going to law about the county
line.
Salt Lake City has been carried by the
Gentiles in a popular vote by forty ma
jority. Orange county has adopted as its offi
cial seal an orange with a stem and three
leaves.
In Tetania- county tho assessor levies
upon alfalfa patches, and the farmers are
urious.
The Lima-taan crop of Ventura county
this year will amount to 8000 tons, worth
$400,000.
A sawmill costing $300,000 will ta built
at Taconia this year by some Michigan
capitalists.
The value of the Columbia river sal
mon catch for this season is estimated at
$2,100,000.
A flow of gas 1ms lieen struck at a
depth of 78 feet near Tulara Lake, south
of Hanford.
Field fires are doing considerable dam
age to small holdings in the neightarhood
of Portland.
A. J. Elliott, San Diego banker, has
disapieared and foul play is feared, as he
earned $700.
Three men have died in Tucson within
a few days from drinking ice water in
large quantities.
Two toughs have been arrested at
Baker City, Or , and charged with passing
counterfeit money.
The forest fires in Montana which have
been prevailing for some time, show no
signs of abatement
Another little diphtheria jwtient tho
fifth has been sacrificed under the faith
cure at Los Angeles.
Petaluma is worked up over the elope
ment of a foolish girl with a painter who
has a wife and child.
Fish Commissioner McDonald thinks
salmon can lie made as plentiful as ever
in the Columbia river.
John Miller, a plasterer, was shot,
probably fatally, in a bar-room quarrel at
Portland, on the 4th inst.
The Republicans of Washington will
meet at Walla Walla on September 4th
to nominate State officers.
Latarero have reached Santa Rosa to
begin grading work on the Santa Rosa
and Sebastopool Railroad.
The Nevada County Fair commences
August 20th and will last five days. Tho
racing events are well tilled.
The San Diego Cable Company is a
new incorporation, with a capital of $5,-
000,000, to work at Kan JJiego. -
A San Jose man offers to least Alum
Rock Park from the City Trustees and
to spend $28,500 in making improve
ments.
Jewett R. Howland has escaped from
Folsom. He is 20 years old and was
sent from Sacramento for two years for
burglary.
The Sutro Tunnel property has been
conveyed to the Union Trust Company
of New York, which succeeds to all the
property and franchises.
Emanuel Verdugo, who murdered
Louis Cohn. a prominent citizen and
merchant of Nogales. A. T., has taen ar
rested in Mexico and taken to uucson.
The Starting of the extensive lumber
yard at Moss Landing by the Pacific
Lumber Company of Kan Francisco, has
created a lumber war in Salinas Valley.
Mrs. Lizzie Grant, wife of J. D. Grant,
Jr., of the firm of Murphy, Grant & Co.,
died on the 8th inst. at San Mateo, of
heart disease. She was 27 years of tge.
Tlir Hnru.rinr fVmrt. .Tiuliefl niliimr in
bank have decided that all contracts
nmiln liv (lie flnronndo Keuch Oonmanv
for the sale of lands there and at South
San Diego are valid.
HOSIK ANII FAttK.
Horse Radish bs a Poultto-Suoosslve
Crops-Plowing Sod How to
Make Boap-Corn Fritters.
Tepid water acts promptly as an emetic.
Horse-radish bb a poultice, is recom
mended for rheumatism.
Trim up the shade trees and have
thom in good shape and attractive,
" Finely sifted coal ashes aro excellent
for providing dust baths for poultry.
Fresh tailed milk with cut sugar will
soothe a cough when other things fail.
Sprinkle cayenue pepper In the resort
of rats and they will leave the premises.
Better feed the Inferior fruits and veg
etables to the hogs than to send them to
market.
Many a vigorous, fruitful tree owes Its
existence to a mulch, at this season, when
it was young.
How to Make Soap. Three and a half
pounds of grease, four gallons of salt
water, if possible; one tax of concentrat
ed lye. After the lye is dissolved tail
three hours.'
Horses should have at least two hours
rest at noon. On very warm days horses
suffer severely. They should be watored
often, and at night should be swabbed
and wiped dry.
Filthy quarters cause litre on all classes
of stock, and at this season the vermin
multiply very rapidly. An animal that
is infested with vermin cannot ta kept
in good condition, even with tha best of
feeding.
The hens will now tagin to moult.
Keep the hens that moult early, ns they
will lay in winter. Late pullets will
seldom lay before spring, but pullets
hatched not later than April should lay
in Noverntar.
Corn Fritters. One coffeecup of
canned corn or grated corn, one of sweet
milk, two eggs well beaten, salt and flour
to make quite a stiff tatter. Drop with
a spoon into tailing lard. These fritters
taste like fried oysters.
Cucumbers are sometimes served as an
entree when prepared thus : Take good
sized ones and eel them and slice them
lengthwise; dip each slice intocornmeal
seasoned with pepper and salt; fry them
tn hot lard until they are a delicate
brown.
Beef Croquets. Take cold roast beef, j
mince it fine, put in an onion' chopped j
fine, sweet marjoram, a littlo jwwdered
cloves, moisten with the taef gravy ;
make it into balls, dip in tho tauten yolk
of an egg, roll in flour and froy them in
lard.
The City Council of Spokane Falls, af
tur an investigation into the inefficient
working of the water facilities at the be
ginning of the recent fire, are satisfied
Suerintendont Jones was negligent in
leaving an incompetent person in charge
of the water works, and will make him
vacate.
Chee Gong, the murderer of Lee Yick,
Noverntar 0, 1H87, was hanged at Port
land on the IHh inst. Chee Gong de
clared his innocence to the last. His
sieech on the scaffold impressed many
with tho belief in his innocence. A taut
seventy-five persons witnessed the execu
tion. Sweet potato plants Bhould now he
spreading, ami unless they are cultivated
the task will ta more difficult after tho
vines cover the ground. They Bhould ta
hilled up in order to avoid heavy rains.
It is not too late to replant the missing
places if a handful of fertilizer ta scatter
ed around the plants that may be set out.
Green tomatoes fried are preferred by
some people to the egg plant, and mav
well take its place ; cut the outer slices
off, and then cut the inner part in slices
about half an inch thick, roll them in
flour and fry in butter; sprinkle pepper
and salt on them. This may be used as
an entree or a garnish with meat of any
kind.
A pretty Chair. A friend of ours with
more taste than money is constantly sur
prising her acquaintances with little ex
hibitions of ingenuity. One of the latest
of her achievement is this : Somewhere
about the house was an old-fashioned,
rush bottomed rocker, a relic of the days
of our grandparents, a comfortable chair
enough to sit in, but wearing a corres
pondingly time-worn appearance. Out
of its hiding place my friend brought this
uncomely affair and applied a couble of
coat of vormillion to it, which quite me
tamorphosed its appearance. A square
of homespun linen, old nut good and
strong ami mellowed hy time into a soft
cream color, made a capital cover for a
cushion to the same. A spray of flowers
mingled with wheat heads, worked in
crewels, serves as ornamentation for this
cushion, and there isn't a prettier chair
in town for the amount of time and trou
ble expended upon it.
Plowing Sod. It is a question raroly
decided among farmers at what time it is
best to plow sod for a corn crop. This
question is best settled by considering
what is expected of this oporation. The
great point is that the corn crop shall
procure a large portion of its nutriment
from it ; another is that the corn may ta
planted on fresh clean ground so that it
may get ahead of the weeds by rapid and
vigorous germination. How, then, can
these important points be best secured?
Clearly by permitting the herliago to
grow as long as possible, and by defer
ring the plowing until the hist moment.
Then a large quantity of the most ac
ceptable food for the young corn is
plowed under ; the soil is mellow, moist
and fresh ; planting is done under the
best conditions. The seeds of weeds
will sprout quickly and a light harrow
ing before the corn is up will destroy the
germs and clean the ground of myriads
of them, lightening the after-labor of cul
tivating the crop. A top-dressing of ma
nure on the sod before the plowing will
be a great assistance.
PORTLAND MARKET.
ACTIVITY CONTINUES IN THE' MER
CHANDISE! MARKET.
Suaars Remain Firm at Last Quotations
Provisions are Aotlve-Wool
Weak and Lower-Butter
and Cheese Firm.
In the local merchandise markets tho
general activity continues, and bus been
considerably increased during the past
few days by the unexpected demands from
Spokano, The draw-back of unfairly dis
criminating rates is not considered when
people are homeless and hungry, Time
is the main object, and time at least is
saved by getting supplies here." City re
tailers report a seasonably quiet week's
trade. The decline of 411 on all grades
of sugar noted last week bus not varied
since. The provision market is active,
but one or two changes being noted. But
ter and cheese are firm and advancing,
tath here and In California, the result of
the dry weather. Tho wool market is still
weak and lower. The grain market has
not moved much, and shippers continue
their quotations.
GROCEKIBB.
Sugars, Golden C u7vc- extra O (IJu'Ci
dry granulated 8'4'c, enta, crushed and
pewdured Hjjc. Coffee: Guatemala 1!)
(fC31B, Java 25(27c, Costa Rica 21(g
22!c, Mocha 87c, Rio 21K22.4,'e.
roasted Java 3032e, Arbuckle's roasted
23 c.
PROVISIONS.
Oregon ham 13(tl3c, breakfast bacon
12 V 13c, sides!) 'gallic, Eastern ham 13
(a 14c, breakfast bacon 12,!8c, aides Dje,
shoulders Ik:. Lard 0c.
raorrs.
Peaches 75ertt$l.50, apples $lai.2u,
lemons rt. Sicily $7.i0, pears $1(31.25.
DKIKD rHUlTH.
Apples 4(5e, evaporated ((&tt4u sliced
Gc, pears He, peaches HUc, Oregon
plums UtotA, petite prunes 6(?lk:, German
oivMiK:, prunes, Italian 7c, silver b!(t7c,
California tigs 7c, Smyrna figs 144l5c,
apricots W 15 14c, raisins $1.75'$2.25 per
tax.
VfUtfcTAHLKK.
Potatoes, new, $1(2(1.10, sweets V,4 per
M., onions 1 1.10, green peas lie.
DAIKY rHODUl'S.
Butter, Oregon lanev 30c, medium
I7(fl 20c, common 10'12jc. Eastern
22c, California lH(oC20c.
BOOB,
Eggs 1820u
POULTRY.
Chickens $3(34. broiler $2.503, old
$5.50(0, young geese $M(i( 10.
WOOL.
Valley 1822c, Unipque 2022c, East
ern Oregon 10(gl5n.
BOPS.
Hops 10812,'tc
URA1N.
Wheat, Valley f l.20$1.22!', Eastern
Oregon $1.10(41.12),'. Oats 40c.
FLOCK.
Standard $4.25, other brands $3.75
3.U0.
FKKO.
Hay $13(JU4 per ton, bran $14.5015,
chop $1H($20, aborts $lti.5017, barley
$2022.50.
FHS8U HKATS.
Beef, live. 2?4a!3c. dressed, G6ty::
mutton, live, 3c, dressed ti(7c, hogs live
tic, dressed, 77bC ; veal 6Hc.
Warning to' Chinese Pudes.
Tho acting Governor of Klangsu,
Hwang, has insuod a proclamation call
ng attention to tho sumptuary laws of
the collected statutes of tho Ta-ts'ing
DynuHty. which ho says will be vigor
ously onforced as regards wearing ap
parel. The pooplo of this province
(which includos Soochow and Shang
hai), arc, he observes, notoriously ex
travagant In their way of living, striv
ing to surpass ouch other in the rich
ness of their nppnrcl, and tholr want
of propriety is shown In tho crowdod
stnte of flowor boats and rostaurants
whore men and women assomble to
gether. Tho bright-colored jackets
and waiHteonts of the young men, em
broidered at neck and slooves with
flowers and othor ornamonts, ure shock
ing to tho viow of sobor, rospoctable
citizens, who know that money should
not ta squundorod by mon on such
things. It is a Governor's duty to
watch ovor the bohavior of tho pooplo
committed to hlB charge, and he warns
thom, therefore, that young men
dressed in u foolish, extravagant way
will ta arrested and punished, and the
responHlblllty of their fathers, elder
brothers and tutors will not bo over-lookeil.-Pokln
Guaotte.
Seaside hotel proprietor (anxious
ly) "Hasn't tho son serpent boon re
ported to-day yet?" Office boy "No,
sir; no ono hez soon It." "Look!
There comes a sailing party in now.
Hush down to tho beach and ask them
if they saw " "No use, sir; that's
a temperance crowd.'1 Philadelphia
Record.
can't undorntnnd, Bobby." said
his father, "why you should quarrol so
much with' Tommy White. Your
mothor tolls mo you quarrel with him
most of tho time." "I can't help It,
pa," replied Bobby, thoughfully. "I
guess I must got my disposition from
you and ma,.'" , J
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