EASTERN ITEMS.
DROPPED FROM THE 8Ud PENSION
BRIDGE AT CINCINNATI.
President Harrison Dines With Mr,
Blaine Sudden Death The Idaho
Convention Rich Petroleum
Deposits in (Mexico.
Mexico is to have a fair in 181)2.
Baltimore ia to have a cable road.
Fighting before Port-au-Prince con
tinues. John Leonard, the well known Fenian,
is dead.
Hop culture
Manitoba.
is to be undertaken in
A Sweet Potato Trust has been formed
in Baltimore.
John L. Sullivan was tried at Purvis,
Mitsa., on the 12th inst.
The President dined with Mr. Blaine
at Bar Harbor on the 8th.
Rheumatism is immensely fashionable
at Boston, says the Herald.
A carrage road to the top of Pike's
Peuke has just been completed.
Tile new shoe shop in the Maryland
Penitentiary has begun operations.
The reports of yellow fever at Tampic,
Mexico, are pronounced unfounded.
A horse stealing industry has lieen or
ganized along the Upper Mississippi.
Rich petroleum deposits have been dis
covered in the State of Guerrero, Mexico.
The drought in Mexico has killed thou
sands of cattle, and an epidemic is feared.
The total circulation of money in the
United State. August 1, was $1,379,980,
937. The New York delegation, it is said,
will support Reed for Speaker of the next
House.
The National Prohibition Cnmp Meet
ing at Decatur, 111., proves to be a big
success.
Colonel James Corry, U. S. A., retired,
died suddenly at Fortress Monroe on the
9th inst.
President Harrison has promised to
visit Caliiomia during his vacation next
summer.
The prediction is made that by 1895
the Nicaragua Canal will be open for
business.
The Governor of St. Louis has respited
Anderson, the wife murderer, until Sep
tember 13.
President Harrison is expected to out
line his message while at Deer 1'ark in
September.
Chicago hotel men are a unite in favor
of having the World's Fair of 1892 located
in that city.
A Washington county, Ohio, farmer.
90 years old, assists the hands in the
harvest field.
A Georgia prophet predicts the end of
the world on the 16th of August. Come
again, old "Proph."
Jay Gould said at Saratoga the other
day that this is going to be a prosperous
year lor big railroads.
The Florida State Board ot Health re
quires all cities of 10,000 inhabitants to
dispose of refuse by cremation
Captain Joseph Skerrett has been re
commended for promotion to Commander
by the Naval Examining Board,
The A' stra'ian ballot svstem will have
its first t st in this country at the coming
State eltmoam Massachusetts
Forty-ight persons were declared in
sane in Brooklyn during July. Insanity
seems to be epidemic in that city,
Gigantic mining and manufacturing
interests in the South are projected by
New York and v lrgmia capitalists.
Commissioner Tanner and ex-Governor
Russell Alger are candidates for Commander-in-Chief
of the Grand Army.
The Knights Templar claim they will
have fully 20,000 men in the parade at
the triennial conclave at Washington.
The Johnstown Relief Committee on
the 1st inst., reported a disbursement of
$300,000 out of about $3,000,000 available.
The Idaho Convention niemoralizes the
Government to prevent speculators se
curing water privileges in the territory.
The work of distributing the remainder
of the relief fund for the Johnstown flood
sufferers is to be pushed on as rapidly as
possible.
A backwoodsman, while visiting Rock
Springs, Wyo. T., a day or two ago,
learned for the first time of the Jolins
town disaster.
Jacob Spanyard, who was sentenced to
be banged at Fort Smith, Ark., on the
9th, has been reprieved until August 30
by the President.
The coke strike in Pennsylvania is
ended, the employes having carried the
day. The ojierators have conceded every
thing demanded.
The semi-annual dividend of 7 per
cent on the preferred stock of the Oregon
Improvement Company is declared, pay
able September 3d.
Thomuf "e runner, who is believed
to be swifter CanilT, will compete in
the American and Canadian champion
ship contests this fall. .
Another attachment for $2(X),000 has
been placed on the Riverside Mills prop
erty, at Providence, R. I.
Trouble is apprehended in Wilson
county, Term., over the preaching of
Mormon elders. The people talk of driv
ing them from the country.
There is suspicion that English refiner
ies are ewking to combine with the
American trust, in order to control the
us:ir markets on two continents.
ft'OKKlUW tXAMIIKM.
Japan's Treaty With Russta-The Congo
' Railway-On the Pay Roll Eighty
One Years-Wants the Oup.
It is thought Parnell will visit India.
Krupp's statue has been raised at
Essen.
There is to be an American theatre in
Paris.
Emperor William will visit Madrid in
September.
Emperor Francis Joseph has loft
Vienna for Berlin.
A largo emigration from Scotland is
now going to Chile.
Lord Dunraven is mentioned for the
Governorship of Bombay.
Bull-fighting is getting a foothold
among French amusements.
The Anti-Slavery Conference at
Lucerne has been abandoned.
Owing to a lack of sugar tho Greenock
Refinery of London has shut down.
A National Temperance Congress is to
sit for five daysatBi.mingham, England,
in October.
An International Congress for photo
graphing the skits will meet at Paris on
the --u inst.
The funeral of Felix Pyatt, the political
agitator and writer, took place at Paris
without incident.
There have not been so many Ameri
cans in Stratford-on-Avon for years as
there are this year.
The inquiry into the Kiel navy frauds
proves that corrupt practices have !een
in operation since 1h84.
The funeral of the late Italian states
man, Benedetto Cairoli, took place at
Naples with great pomp.
Sydney Buxton has undertaken to sub
mit a motion to Parliament next session
in favor of free education.
Prince Alexander of Batten berg has
been appointed to the command of an
Austrian regiment at Btyria.
In memory of the lato Lady Kinnaird,
a proposal has been mooted to establish
a women's hospital in India.
Japan has concluded a treaty with
Russia, similar to those concluded with
the United States and Germany.
A new restaurant in London is to be
run so as to furnish travelers of every
nation with tiuir accustomed food.
The Radical party in the Italian Parlia
ment is agitating the question of the
cession of Trieste by Austria just now.
William Scott, an employe of a London
publishing firm, who died recently, had
been on their pay roll eighty-one years.
There is much growling in Ireland
over the action of the Irish members of
Parliament in voting for the royal grants.
A verdict of death from tight lacing
comes from a Birmingham jury, express
ed as a verdict of "Death from pressure
round the waist."
Suicide among German officers in
creases shockingly. Imiing May twenty
three shot themselves, and the number
for June was larger still.
It is rumored that the Queen has at
last yielded to her physicians and will
take a long sea trip, perhaps to India, or
possibly to Canada ami the United States.
A report is current that the Russian
Government is pressing the Regents of
Servia to expel ex-King Milan from that
country.
Heale House, near Salisbury, famous
as having been the hiding-place tor ten
days of King Charles 11, was sold
recently.
William E. Gladstone's speech on the
royal grants was caught by a phonograph
and will go down to posterity just as he
delivered it.
Sufficient subscriptions have been re
ceived to enable the projectors to begin
the construction ol the Congo railroad
immediately.
The Black Diamond business, which
produced a momentary excitement in the
English press, seems to be already tor-
gotten in London.
The Russian Government has pro
hibited the sale of the Century Magazine
in Russia on account of George Kennan's
Siberian articles.
Hie mistress of Boulanger lias written
to Louise Michel certain disclosures con
cerning the General which are of an im
portant character.
The report that Italy had withdrawn
from the international blockade of the
East African Coast is officially declared
to be without foundation.
Letters of Boulanger produced before
the French Sesate tend to prove tliat
Boulanger shared with Bouret the com
missions paid by army contractors.
The Congo State will ask the Belgian
Government for an annual subsidy of
00,000 for ten years to insure the con
tinuance of the whole Congo railway.
Dr. Sehreiber, a chemist of Cologne,
has discovered an explosive more power
ful than dynamite, and at the same time
cheaper and safer. He calls it "jietragit."
Dr. Brown-Sequard's new elixir of life
was considered at a recent meeting of the
French Biological Society, and M. Variat
told of some very successful experiments
made by him.
J. W. Smith, of Los Angeles, wa
araainr at f sin, inn K.ntrlurwt anil fit'
5 and costs for carrying a pistol.
arrived from America with his lath"
brother last week.
The Porte, in view of the
movements on the Armenian
will expedite .thft new fortificatf
at Lrzeroum. A host of men r
constructing redoubts.
THE PACIFIC COAST
DAVID 8. TERRY, EX-8UPREME JUS
TICE OF CALIFORNIA, KILLED.
United Btaes Supreme Court Justice
Stephen J. Field Arrested-Conv
mlts 8utcldeTne Steamer
Umatilla Grounded.
H ?alsburg has an axle-grease factory.
Watsonville's bulldirg Iwom keeps up.
The Bank of Ilnoneme is open for bus
iness. A hot spring bus been opened at Tern
escal. Tho revenue cutter Corwin Is at San
Diogo.
The Ilealsburg Tribune has been en
larged, i
Santa Ana is organizing a military
company,
Tho Chico and Colusa Guards are iii
camp at Hisson.
San Diego is trying to suppress the
Salvation Army.
Gambling places at Napa have been
closed by the sheriff.
Glanders has done much damage to
horses at French Camp. ,
In a collision at Napa, on tho 13th four
flat cars were demolished.
The Catholics at Santa Rosa are negoti
ating for a burial lot near town.
Chinese laborers are pouring into
Fresno to work in the vineyards.
Two men who robbed a stage near
Bonanza, Or., have been arrested.
Tho fires in tho mountains in Idaho
can only lie checked by heavy rains.
Camp Miles and Camp Dimond, at
Santa Cruz, are lighted with electricity.
The scarcity of water in portions of
Montana is causing mills to shut down.
Every vessel leaving San Diego now
carries from ten to fifteen tons of honev.
John Kearns was assaulted and rrol-
ably fatally wounded by John O'Keefo at
Stockton.
Ellensburg, W.
popular vote will
the State.
T., iK'lieves that the
make it the capital of
Fred H. Figel of San Francisco was
knocked down and robbed at San Jose
on the 11th.
George B. Mauders of Ogden, Utah,
was crushed to death at Focatello, I. T.,
by two cars.
The remains of ex-Judge David 6.
Terry, was interred on the loth inst. at
Stockton, Cal.
The attachment on the Pomono Bank
lias been raised and the concern will re
sume business.
The Northwestern Firemen's Associa
tion will hold a tournament atTacoma
September Kith.
A charge of embezzling county money
is made against Justice of the Peace
Jones at Merced.
The barn of William Curtis, with 200
tons of hay, was burned near Sacramen
to on the 12th inst.
Helena will remain the capital of Mon
tana until the popular v ue of the State
decides otherwise.
Ora E. Hunt was successful in the com
petitive examination at Ukiah for a West
Point cadetahip on the loth.
The Oregon Veterans will take with
them to Milwaukee a carload of grains.
fruits and minerals, the products of their i
State.
There is every prospect of a sugar-beet
factory being established near Chino,
San Bernardino county, in the Pomona
Valley.
Ida, the 8-year-old girl of J. H. Crock
well, at Virginia City, who was burned
by a coal oil explosion on the 12th, died
on the 14th.
Charles A. Fischer, traveling salesman
for Kohler & Froliling, of San Francisco,
committed suicide at Butte, M. T., on
the 13th inst.
The San Francisco Bulletin records tho
receipt of "the first bale of California
hops" on the 10th inst., and credits the
production to Yuba county.
Efforts to float the Pacific Coast Steam
ship Company's steamer Umatilla, which
went aground on the 13th at Brown's
point, near Tacoma, have proved futile. -
David S. Terry, ex-Supreme Justice of
California, was shot and killed on the
morning of the 14th, in a railway eating
station at Lathrop, Cal., by Deputy
United States Marshal David Inaglo.
J ustice 8tephen J. Field, of the United
States Supreme Court, was arrested at
San Francisco on the Kith inst., on the
charge of being a party to the killing pf
David 8. Terry at Lathrop, Cal., on
14th inst. ,
John White, alias John Pear
scandal about two ladies at J
San Diego county an
they waylaid him w'
whipping, tlje' "
standing tiv
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HOIHH AN II FA It .11,
A Good Ebb Food-Doing Up Curtains
Improved Methods of Pasturing
Treat animals Kindly,
Salt pork sprinkled with red popper Is
excellent lor soar turont. ,
When peeling onions keep your mftith
closed una you won't nave to cry.
Sand paper implied to the yellow keys
oi i ne piano wm restore tne coior.
A good furniture varnish is made of
two ounces white wax, one gill of turpon
tmo.
The luster of morocco Is restored bv
varnishing It with the white of an egg.
Apply with a siwnge.
Marble should always lie wushed with
ammonia and water rather than with
soap and water.
Ham Toast. Chop very small bits of
boiled luiin, with not much fat. To one
pint of chopped ham add two well
tauten eggs, a half teacup sweet cream
or milk, a little popor, and, if necessary,
salt, an eighth of a toimjxxm of dry mus
tard. Heat this mixture thnroughlv;
when hot spnad'over slices of toasted
bread which have been dipped in hot
salted water, and well buttered.
A Michigan cattle-breeder nays he has
settled one quostion quite firmly with his
herdsmen, and tnat is that dumb brutes
must bo treated witli uniform kindness.
In Illustration of its practical value he
relates that some cattle he Imught in
Kentucky last fall were wild as uVor;if
any ono went into the barn where they
were, thoy would spring up, try to get
away, and make themselves generally
disagreeable lie has them now so Unit
they are ,uict and docile as lambs a
result "obtained by good feeding and
uniform Kindness."
Bathing. Whilo we advio freouent
bathing for the farmer and his hands, re
would also provide bathing facilities for
the domestic animals. Fortunate is the
farmer whose land Wmlers upon a lake
or stream ot sufficient depth to allow the
horses, cows, etc.. a fnquent bath. Not
on'y will tho animals enjoy it, but tho
Ixns will find it more fun than work.
Often a small stream may lie so dammed
as to retain the water and iorm a suitable
liathing place. Do not allow the animals
to drink from such artificial bathing
pools, especially if the bottom is muddy.
A scant teaspoonful of sugar added to
each pint of meat gravy, imparts a deli
cious flavor that can not be obtained in
any other way. It is also an improve
ment to soups, if added in the same pro
portion. If meat has teen allowed to
stand a little too long lefore it was
cooked, sprinkle a little sugar over it le
forc removing it from the fire, and the
unpalatable taste will Ut removed. A
teaspoon of sugar to everv pint of milk
should always be used when the milk is
to be thickened with corn meal. Oat
meal is much improved if sugar is put in
while it is cooking instead of being put
on it at the table.
A Point for Btw-Kecpers. Here is the
substance of a bit of dauber literature in
"Gleanings in Bee Culture" by Professor
Cook, of the Michigan Agricultural Col
lege: A mud daitiicr is an economic
creature. When it gets a coll ready to
le sealed up, it finds a spider, paralyzes
it, puts it in the newly constructed cell,
insurts a duulier egg" in the spider's
plump body, and seals the house un.
The egg hatches and the thing of life
goes to work and Blowly eats up the
spider. As it eafs It grows, and as it
grflws it eats mote spider, and finally
emerges from its cell a regular mud
dauber..
In domesticating certain animals, we
make them conform their habits to our
own purposes, and as an offset to this.
we relieved them of all trouble in hunt
ing for their food. In providing for the
various comforts that they would seek in
the wild state, ono is often verlooked
that is, sliade. Look at animals in a
pasture in which there is abundant
shade, and where do you find them dur
ing the hot portion of the day ? Certainly
not exposed to the sun, and grazing, but
every one. whether horse and cattlo or
sheep and pigs, quietly resting and
endeavoring to digest in the shade the
food thoy have eaten earlier in the day.
A Good Egg Food. Now hero you
have what many a poultry keeper wants
whether he or sue be in town or country
a recipe for the preparation of superior
egg food. It is furnished by Mr. James
Rankin, ono of the most successful
raisers in tin land. Listen and note:
Ten pounds of the best beof scraps, five
pounds of fine ground bone, two pounds
of granulated or powdeed charcoal, one
pound of sulpher, two ounces of Cayenne
pepper, and four ounces of salt. Give it
in the soft food, it is said by those who
have tried it to give excellent results, and
to bo worth ,more than many of the
much more itostlv emg foods which are
placed upop ' "
In"
PORTLAND MARKET.
CONTINUED OTI VITY IN THE MER
CHAKDISB MARKET.
'
Coffees Hav Advanond Sllghtly-Fruits
and Vegabtes Remain Aotive
and Frm-No Change in
Dried Fruits
In tho local merchandise markets con
tinued activity and an excellent tone are
the general rulo. Tho city trade is com
paiatlvely uiint, but country orders are
lilntral, siystoeksuo sooner arrive than
they art shipped again. Sugars huve
dropped Jo while codecs have advanced
,'s'c. Frtsh fruits ami vegetable remain
very active and firm, There Is no
change h. dried fruits and the condition
of trade generally is very good. For
dairy produeeRiid poultry tho market con
tinues firm at last figures, with advanc
ing tendei cy. Wheat remains quiet and
unchanged. The demand for flour con
tinues good at last quotations. The wool
market is very dull owing to tho heavy
failures in tho East, and probably will
not regain Uiuy huoyuncy until those
have been settled. We quote.
UHOCICKIKH.
KtuniMi nMiil fl H'4,.'i urtra H 111 '..
.'.fSL.a, ......... .. v v w
dry granulated 8ltj', culm, crushed and
powdered Hc. Coffee: Giiatamala 10tj
(.., Java iw;o, uosta una
22c, Mocha 87'c, Rio 2223e.
roasted Java 3032c, Arhuckle'i roasted
24'4C
PROVISIONS.
Oregon ham 13 13 Sic, breakfast bacon
12W, 13c. sides 9S; 6U()c. Eastern ham 13
14c, breakfast bacon 12,SjC, sides He,
shoulders IK:. Lord 9c.
fKCITS.
Peaches 7Vfittl.r0, apples $1(3 1.25.
lemons $8, Sicily $7.50, jieara $1(1.25.
DKIKU HKCITH.
Apples 43'e, evaporated (IfailVe sliced
6c, pesrs 8c, peaches HCtflOc, Oregon
plums 3w4, petite, prunes 6(;(ic, German
6aik:, prunes, Italian 7c, Bilvor tt'.v'fa'C,
California figs 7c, Smyrna flm 14ril5c,
apricots 13-tl4c, raisins $1.7og2.25 per
box. !
f VROETABLSS.
Potatoes, rie. $ll. 10, sweets 3 per
tti, onions tl, green peas tic,
iu.ky PHonucs.
Butter, Orenn tancv 30c, medium
17!,20c, com.ion 10'312,S,'c. Eastern.
22c, California !8f20c.
1UOS.
Eggs22tf,
POULTRY.
Chickens $3itH. broilers $2.50(33, old
$5.50(!!t5, young geose $8(c. 10 young tur
keys lj'e per Hi.
WOOL.
Valley 17atl9vUnipquo ll)20c, East
era Oregon 10(14c.
nors.
Hops 10812JbC.
UBAIN.
Wheat, Va!W tl.20ftl.22K, Eastern
Oregon $1.101.12. OaU 4041 V
ri.ouR. Stondard $4.25, othor brands $3.75
f(3.1HJ.
PKKD.
Hav $13ftl4 per ton, bran $14.50
chop HHuC'O, shorts $10.50, barley
$20(flC22.50. ;
PKKSII MEATS.
Beef, livel 2?ift3c. dressed, (l0Vac;
mutton, live, 3c, dressed 0(7c, hogs live
be, dressed,' 77J' i veal HftSHc.
Robert MotoII, tho Pike county, I ml.,
octogonariun, has passed the fifty-ninth
day of his fast. "He is shri voting up
like a dried j-each'says the physician.
The male and femalo huffiwos now at
the Union Stock Yards, South St. Paul,
are about to tie Bhipped to New York
Stato to breed with Polled Angus cattle.
Dan 3 J Phelps, who sustained the full
force of a 2,200-volt current of electricity
at Louisville ten days ago, a current, ac
cording to theorists, strong enough to
kill an elephant, returned to his work on
the 10th inst.
A popular practice of the abandoned
Whitechapel, London, women is to de
mand money, and upon rofusal charge
the man who refuses to be "stood up" as
being Jack the Ripper.
It ijs ruKored at 0'asgow that tho son
of North, the "Nitrate King," is negotia
ting for the purchaso of the yacht Thistle
ami wjill put in a centerbourd and com
pete f jir the America cup.
Several of the largo land-owners of
Scotland have imported a number of rein
deer from Norway and turned them out
in the hone that tbev rnuv hpenmn
accliituatized and increase.
fi.G. Fulton. Assistant General Frniidit.
Agouit of the Northern Pacific, who has
lirned to rortiand from Spokane Falls.
. h the total value ol property destroyed
'he recent lire will not exceed $r,0iK),-
The Northern Pacific loss will bo
er $100,000.
ioing un Curtains. A more econotni
itnethoii of doing up i urlains than to
I them to a laundry is described by a
' i housekeeper as follows : Dust them
oughly, and if there are any breaks
, ears in them, mend tlium before
.' ling. Do not wring them, hut pass
igh a clothes wringer, keeping them
;ht; boil a few minutes, then rinse
; ild water. Bluo tho starch a trifle,
f o not make tlioin too stiff; then lay
i-s on the floor and spread the cur
; n them, taking care to strotch tho
straight and true. Pin tho edges
: sheet and let them lay till por
jry, and you will be convinced that
undryii:g of nice curtains in far
lo to hiring them done up, as
; 1 last longer and look nicer than
sued by hot irons. ,
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