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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (May 30, 1890)
X 1 EBANON IT1 "r 1311- JJJ r He Who thinks to please the world is dullest of his kind; for let hirri face which way he will, one-half is yet behind. .LEBANON OREGON, FRIDAY. MAY, 'H), 1890. VOL. IV. NO. 12. 82.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. r V , ' H GENERAL NEWS American Clam to be Introduced into English Waters. THE VERM AN EMPRESS' liOuYhTARU. Dr. Kelly a Pacific Annrvlrist. fieneial Sherman's (h-ru pat ions. ' Mr, Bonner's sons paid Sir. WhUtiei tl. 000 for his last , poem, "The Cap tain's Well." By the new route via British Ameri ica it will he possible to go from Lon don to Yokohama in twenty-three days. The late Empress August a left Queen Victoria a splendid gold bracelet, con taining the words ,-For ever" set in precious stories. American clams are to be planted at various points on the English coast, in the hope that they may lie propa rated for the market. An English paper says that a syndi cate is beiiijr formed in that country for the purchase from this Government of the forest lauds of Alaska. The Rer. Dwlght Moody the other day made a large congregation stand up' while the plate was being passed, so that every one could get his hand in his pocket. John H. Applegate of Asbury Park ; made $40,000 by inventing a machine : for lasting shoes. The man who in- ' vents a way to make shoes last will get ; about $400,000. j Le Carou. the spy. has the reminis- i cenees of his adventurous life almost I ready for publication. A great deal of j space will be devoted to the Fenian j raid on Canada. j Ex-Queen Natalie of Servia, has near- t It lost her beautiful form by growing j stout. She retains all her swcetuess j of countenance and marvelous com- j plexion, however. A play at one of the English thea- j ters has just had to be modified be- cause the actors had . soierstiiion against the appearance of a peacock f or its feathers on the stage. j The proposition to erect a monu ment to Abraham Lincoln at Getlvs-j burg recalls to mind the fact that there is yet on that illustrious neia no me morial of George Gordon Meade. The new Prince of Monaco is person- allv opposed to gambling. He never j indulges in games ot chance, but can not pass by the chance to make $2.50. 000 a year from other people's chanc ing. An English scientific man claims to have discovered a substance so nearly like gold that even acid will not tar nish it, and which can be manufactur ed verv cheaply. He is ni ng to put it j on the market. James Whiicomb Riley's trouble said by the Cincinnati Times-Star be caused by the vast quantities quinine he has taken in tne effort is to of to eliminate from his system the malaria accumulated in his earlier years in lu diana. Sir William Gull, the famous London physician who died recently, was a strikingly handsome man. a fine ora tor, and an entertaining conversation alist. He had little faith in drugs, a fact which goes to prove that his name was not appropriate. Mrs. Walker, late of Kingston, Ontu, has beeen appointed matron of an En glish school at Cocanda, Madras Presi dency, India, in place of Mrs. Folsom, auut ofcMrs. Grover Cleveland, who after nine years service, returns to the United States on a visit. The Empress of Germany has a j secial bodyguard of twenty-four of j the tallest men in the army with five j sergeants aud officers to match. How nice it must be for Augusta-Victoria j not to have to climb on a shaky step- ; ladder to hang the baby's picture. The Prince of Naples, heir-apparent i to the Italian throne, has reached his twentieth vear, but he still shares the j quiet family life of his parents, and i always accompanies "the Queen on her visits to different parts of Italy and to her mother, who resides at Saresa. The Sultan of Turkey has sent three hairs from the beard of the Prophet by a special messenger as a present to the Town of Aleppo. Wherever the messenger appeared during his journey he was received itf state, and the Gov ernor of Aleppo came to meet him be fore the gates of the tow n. Zorilla, the most popular Spanish Republican, is living quietly in Paris. He lives in furnished lodgings, and never goes into society. He is fairly w ell off. but not wealthy. He has been fifteen years in exile, but has never for a moment lost faith in the ultimate triumph of his crusade. Dr. Hugh Hagan of Atlanta says of our Minister of Austria: CoL Grant and his charming wife are the heart's love of every American ia Vienna North, South, East and West are alike in favors and courtesies received from them both. Col. Grant's home is open to every American and his hospita ble board is spread for all who will par take thereof. James McNeil Whistler, who is about to visit America alter absence of thirty years, wears elongated curls brushed back behind his ears. He is a lank built prominent chinned man of eccen tric manner, with a rat-tail mustache, and was born in Massachusetts some fifty-five years ago, but lives iu Lon don, where he is reckoned among the characters." Minister Fred Douglass writes to a friend: "I am quite satisfied with my position in HaytL There is a chance of being of some service here. It is the black man's country, and though there is much to regret in its condi tion there is also much to com meed. The people are called lay, but they do manage to export $7,000,000 of pro duce per annum." W. H. Mallock, author of "Is Life Worth Living?" has established a bu reau in London where men who have uo engagements for an evening may register themselves as "disengaged diners." and there may be sought by hostesses who have invited fourteen. but whom an unlucky chance has set a-trembling through fear of having thirteen at table. Queen Victoria's granddanghter,who is now known as the Duchess of Fife, has turned out to be one of the most democratic young persons in Great Britain. She wanders about the streets all day with her husband, look ing into the shop windows, buying all soils of odds and ends, and when she goes to the theater instead of occupy ing the royal box she sits down ia the - stulls aaion the commoner. , Queen Victoria Is an ardent student of African geography, and could pass a creditable examination in that sub ject with Mr. Stanley as the interroga tor. Her Majesty has carefully watch ed the Portuguese encroachments, and wheu the news of the outrage on the British flag reached London it was the Queen herself who insisted on L-ird Salisbury compelling Portugal to cne to a detiuite understanding without de lay. Miss Dr. Kelly is said to be the most brilliant, if uot the most powerful. Anarchist in New York. ishe is a young woman of remarkable beauty, culture, and intellectuality. She is a verv able physician, aud enjoys a large aud" lucrative practice. She has a per sonal following of about eight hun dred, whose faith in her Is almost fan aticism. She is what is called a "pa cific Anarchist," and does not believe iu dynamite, poison, or bloodshed, but advocates the conversion of the com munity by lectures, essays, pamphlets, and books. " , Gen. W. T. Sherman astonishes his friends of the younger generation by telling of the variety of occupations iu which he has been engaged during his lifetime. Although he was educated for the United States army at West Point he has not alw ays been a soldier. He was for years a bunker in Califor nia: he st lulled law ami was admitted to the bar in Kansas City, where he j practiced for two years; he has farmed j it" at various periods of his life, and has kept close enough w atch on various quiet investments so that his old days will not be burdened bv waut or ware. AV hence Women Came. Woman's first appearance has been a fruitful subject for the legend-mongers. The Phoenician myth of crea tion Is found in the story of Pygmalion and Galatea. There the first woman was carved by the first man out of ivory and then endowed with life by Aphrodite. The Greek theory of the creation of woman, according to Hesiod, was that Zeus, as a cruel jest, ordered Vulcan to make w omen out of clay, and then induced the various gods and goddesses to invest the clay doll with all their worst qualities, the result be ing a lovely thing, with a witchery of mien, re lined craft, eager passion, love of dress, treacherous manners, and shameful mind. The Scandinavians say that as Odin.Vill, and Ve. the three sons of Bor, were walking along the sea beach thev found two sticks of nnnil nno of ms!i nviil nnA of film Sit- tinw down, trip ,rod shaoed mn n.l i woman out of these sticks, whittling j the woman from the elm snd catling her Emia. One of the strangest of stories touch ing the origin of women is told by the Madagascarenes. In so far as the cre tion of mau goes the legend is not un like that related by Moses, only that the fall came before Eve arrived. Af ter the man had eaten the forbidden ! fruit he became afflicted with a boil on (he Wg out of whichi wtieu it b,jrst. came a boaiiutui girl. 1 lie man s first thought was to throw her to the pigs; but he was commanded by a voice from heaven to let her play among the diggings until she was of mamageble age, then to make her' his wife. He did so. called her Babonra, and she became the mother of ail the races of men. The American Indian myths relative lo Adam and .ve are nuiuer- ous ar.d entertaining. Some traditions trace back our parents to white and red maize; another is that man. search- maize; anovner is in.n man. searcn- . , . i i a w ife, was given .he daughter of if: J- l r "' '''"' .. T , . r ,. ; C has. G. 1 Votta, the amy k.ug ot muskrats w ho. being .lip- j to n,w h) , injf the pea into t tie waters ot a nuighooriu lake, Ijccame a woman. Luwlun J'a0 id. TLdingtry's Silver Bath. A curious story is told gin of . Mrs. Langtry's Batnmakers believe there a to the orl silver bath, is only one silver bath in the world. This was mafe some years ayo for an Indian prince bv a Londou bathmaker. and ho .. V supiioses that the owner having oieo, i t the silver bath came into the market ! and was bought by" Mrs. Langtrv. A silver hath is a tremendous affair. Some few wealthy people have coooer baths plated with silver,, but the co ' is but a tritle compared with the ;v;.iti- ine article. Some wealthy people, who ! go in for luxurious bathing, till their ; bathrooms with statuary, have painted j the walls and the bath is fitted into a i case of carved oak. Then there are j marble baths. They are both cold and costly. i The most novel things in bath, how- j ever, is one fitted with a shower bath overhead, a needle spray- bath at the side and a wave bath that rushes out at the foot. These are in addition to the ordinary hot and cold taps; so the possessor of one of these ingeni .us things can have five styles of lia; liin. They cost about fl 2.. j There are half a dozen or more dif- ! rerent sorts of towels for bathing. Af- I ter the ordinary Turkish and liiu-k.i-! back towels some doctors are fo id ol recommending a towel of rushes, made j appropriately enough by Russian pi-as- ; ants. It is hard aud stiff ami feels like i a coarse dishcioth. Its use is confined I to bath-room fanatics who think they are happy in abrading their skins, j Then there is an elastic towel made of i net, and another skin raiser called j loofah. This is imported from Egypt. ; the loofah is made of dried t!rass and it is not softened by immersion in . between James C. Medway, the chain water. Dion of America, and an unknown, for Cowhide Horseshoes. In England and on many partsof the continent they have been for a long time using a horseshoe made by com pressing common cowhide. It is com pressed of three thicknesses of the cow skin pressed into a steel mold and then subjected to a chemical preparation. It is claimed for it that it is much lighter, that it lasts longer, and that split hoofs are never known iu horses using iu It is perfectly smooth on the liottom, no calks being required, the shoe adhering firmly on the most polished surface. Its elasticity pre vents many sprains, the horses steps being lighter and surer. Straw, treated with chemicals unknown, has been used for centuries in Japan. Pretty Women. There are women who look pictur esque in almost any kind of dress. They have invariably well-shaped heads and a graceful outline, flat shoulders and a pretty line of arm and shoulder. They seldom have very small waists, but often possess very beautiful hair ia great quantities. Their eyes need not be very large, but they must be well set, "put in their dirty lingers," as such setting has been described; and though the complexion need uot be perfect, it must be natural, and the nose uuaccustomud to the po.vder stuff. Such women look poetic, and inspire the poet, the painter aud tne sculptor. ..SPOUTING X0TE& Pugilistic Notes. Doing of the Piominent Oarsmen. PHIL 11WYER OEMESBAt'KINU I'lllMlETT. Ttuf Moles. Doing of Famous Hoim-s tnnl Their Owners. i Ballston lias twen reinstated jtmf. iso has Bill Bryan. I Jm k McAuliffc, the champion, flensing bis bank roll on the race the is in track. ! E. V. Terrington. the champion J marksman of Connecticut, died at Nor j wit h. Conn., May I. E Pi octor Knott'w ill not Mart at Louis ville or t tic Latonia race meeting. He i will go in the Suburban. Cleon and Charley (iilison are matched to trot, liest three iu live, to harness, far $5,000, at Waverly on May 31. Another feat her-weight champion pu gilist ol Australia has started for thisj country. He is called insiig Urltlo. Ed. Smith, of IVnvcr. who is matehed to fight .lake Kilrain in Jniv, will go into training at New Orleans oil June 17. i ne nrst nigracc oown tor settlement j is the Brooklyn Handicap, and about a dozen horses are being backed heavily. It is rejiorted that C. I. McCoy has leiused flS.tU'l for ihe ureat sprinter, ("apt. Wageiicr, by Great Tom-Susie Mc Nairy. Charles J. Psolta. the amateur oarn man, is now on bis way to Knuland to take part in the Henley and Metropol itan tvaattas. Tom Sloan won the ptize oll'ered bv j the Memphis lutf loph-s lor the most ' popular Jockey at the -Memphis Jockey i Cmb meeting. J Matsada Sorakicbi, the Japanese j champion wrestler, bo is living at Se j attle. Wash., has challenged J oe Acton ' to wrestle for $"!t0. The Board of Heview of the National Trolling Association on .May G. I. oung, of Fast I'.oslon, a cha-ge of iniiul. I expelled Mass., on Congicssman Scott's, of Frie, Pa.'s Chaos should one ul the latest three Jr-lds on the turf this season. As a l Wtm 4,n..0. The Two Thousand Guineas was run at New market. Eng., on April .'Id. Sure foot, the lVrPy favorite, won, with I. Nord second and Blue Green third. Phil Dwyer, the famou turfman, wiites denying the sloiy published broadcast that be would tiack James Cor be It against any man in the world. Riley, the fav IVrbv started orite for the Kentucky twehe times lat vear and won six races, but horses enlPred in the race have eclipM-d Kilcy's eiform ance. Marty Beiyan's finish on King Idle, at Elizabeth, on May 1, when be lieat Fblis and Politico, who finished beads apart, was the most sensational ever seen on a i race track. On April 29, George Lee of Newark, N. J., sailed lor t iiiihuid. lie will train ateur oarsman. be Uo al lien- j ley Regatta. The coming season w ill doubtless lie i an inteiestiiig one on the trolling lurf, and whether the present champions will tie able to bold their exalted ositions is a matter ot reat uncertainty, j L. 11. Cvpber, of Pittsburgh, Pa., who j is iw-nty-fie years of aue, stands 6 feet 1 2 inches in height and w eighs 220 J ixjiiiids, is w llliiig to meet auv man m ic country in a glove contest. i William H. Geimaine, who figured j prominently in the ullivan-Ktlrain match, is now business manager of i"Jline" Rankin's bright litlle paper, the j Sporting t'ritic. Billy is a hustler. Young Mitchell, w ho is to fight George Le Blanche for ,5tX) next month in the California Athletic t'lub, has gone into training. Betting on the lesult has al ready commenced at San Francisco. Jake Scbaefer and Met leaiy play bil liards her M,000 at the Pacific Coast on -May 2-;0. The game will lie 1,000 points up. McCleary is to lie allowed a discount. Scbaefer will have to i oil high to w in. The well-known wrestler, Greek George, is going to send Ids w ile to Nor way, and then go to Ki gland to wrestle Antoine Pierre. Prior to bis departure he will wrestle Charlev Gieen, at Buffa lo, N. V. Col. J. H. McLaughlin, the retired eollar-and-elbow champion of the world, who was always greatly admired in le troit, Mich., Boston, Mass., and New York, is now the proprietor of the Weed House, Seattle, Wash., which is the headquarters of the sporting element. McLaughlin, in bis day , was one of the greatest wrestleis in the world. I A iii,,,in riiMteli 1:h luetl SLrrn ntrml o00 and the championship. Captain Alike Boyle is backing Medway, who is said to be a phenomenon. The unknown is also described as a wonder. He has jumped over 14 feet in a single jump; over 27 feet in two jumps, and 42 feet will net stop bim at three standing jumps. Richard K. Fox is the final stakeholder. The conditions of the match are that each man is to contend in one single, one hack waul, two single, two backward, three single, three back ward and one high jump ; also, a single jump over chairs, backward and for ward, and one jump from the end of a brick, backward and forward, making eleven events. The man winning the majo ity will le declared the winner. At the New Jersey Jockey Club at Elizabeth, N. J., on May '.i, Rosa, owned by Mike Daly, wots, fcbe was a 250 to 1 shot. "Davy" Johnson laid 250 to 1, and made one let of $2,500 to $10. "Tom" Child wrote one ticket $800 to $10 straight and $i50 to $10 place. The other "bookies" laid similar odds at the opening, but as the horses went to the jsisf 5 to 1 was Rosa's pievailing price. Each one ol" Rosa's backers got a small fortune with vciy little risk. All in all it was one of the best played long shots seen on the turf When the despised outsider galloped in an easy winner they found that they were many thousand dollais losers. Eole lost $0.000 : Johns, $4,000; Carroll, fo.lKK), and soon. Not I a tiookmaker escajicd. It is estimated that $70,(icu was taken out ot the ring. Jockey Fitzpatnck won nearly $1,0)0 with $15. Daly himself must have won a cartload of money. PEOPLE THAT CCSAR KNEW. Remain or the Inhabitant of Villas; ot the Stone and Iron Age. The recent discovery of tombs of the lake dwellers has awakened a renewed Interest In the people of prehistoric Switzerland. Tourists will hardly be content any more to pass through Switzerland without visiting one or more of the museums w here the col lections made from the excavated lake dwellings are exhibited. Perhaps the most extensive exhibition of these relics is the one at the Helm House," in Zurich. There one sees j what are in fact the greatest antiquities of the whole w orld. There nre hun dreds and thousands of specimens of stone, wood, cloth, wenotis and orna ments, of a people whose towns were old a thousand years liefore gray old excavated Pompeii was ever thought of. To Professor Ferdinand Keller before all others the world is indebted for a knowledge of w hat it probably was be fore the time of history. All the later t . . years of his lite w ere devoted to the in- M iainhard. radical, baa lecn ele-ted vestigatiou of the lake dwellers number of the French chamber of depu villages, and no man was so competent ' tics for F.vereaux. as he to rejuvenate those dead old j . skulls and relics, lifting a thousands At I e Uuyter, Madison county, N. Y.. years from the forirotten past into the . middle of the nineteenth century. Keller has translated the hieroglyph- lea of the dead ages. He has explained j how the autiquarians have divided all the prehistoric past into the ages ol stone, of bronze, ami of iron; how the lake dwellings of Sw itzerland were first discovered at Meilen. ou the lake of Zurich, in and more fully re-, vealed in lgoS-M; and how the world i i- i. i..,t ,.. t tai OUUl Ml? V Jt HHIITrr-v, V lf. ... . . . , I- ... I,!.,..-- 11 ,nt- ' friends fear has told. ton. how the natient. hard- I working iuvestigators, of whom he is chief, have uncovered and dug out enough of these buried towns to prove that our "best families" don't need to break off their ancestral line with William the Cououerer, or with anr other William. Those of us who think we might be proud of our far-off pro genitors may yet be gratified to see some shrewd Yankee following our line clear back to Oriretorix. the youngest offspring of onr Celtic grand fathers of the lake dwellers. If our American tourist will take a little more time, jump on the cars, and ! ride out to Robeuhansen. on the lake of j Pfaffikon, he will there witness with his I own eves the turf beds and the lake ! giving up the secrets of the age of stone. Robenhauseu is a town of the stone-age period. It was perhaps twelve hundred feet square, standing on a platform built ou a hundred thousand piles driven Into the bottom of the shallow lake, about three hun dred yards from the shore, the other Swiss lake towns it Like all i was con- ( nected with the land bv a long bridge, '; also built on piles ... Of course the nsitor now will see little except chopped-off piles sticking in the peat, and among them the debris of the vil lages that nave gone to ruin. Roben hausen had been partly burned down and built up again on the same site, but at intervals of ages, probably, apart; so that the peat bed shows on being I opened three sets of piles, one above the other. lhe only way of ludging of the probable age of these lake dwell ings is by estimating the centuries re quired for peat bed's to form. Reck oned iu this manuer, the age of the first town built at the bottom of Roben hauseu must be prodigious. In these lake villages once lived a people as much civilized, possibly, as are the Mexicans of to-day. They tilled the soil, they dwelt in houses, they wove fine linen, they had article? of luxury, and traded more or less with other countries. Of them there are no written annuals. History stops stock still with Switzerland only sixty years farther back than the birth of Christ. The nearest refereuce there is in history to these Swiss lake dwellers is whert Ca;sar tells how a quarter of a million armed Helvetians, under Divico. burned down their homes and marched intr Gaul. Ciesar himself, after great battling, defeated them, aud drove them back into their own country. There is now much reason to believe that these Helvetians were the last of the lake dwellers. It is known that most of the lake villages were de stroyed by fire, and it is altogether probable that when Ciesar compelled the people to return they established new homes on the shore, instead of re building their lake dwellings, which they had left in search of a sunnier clime and a more grateful soil than were found amid the Alps. H. M. Byers, in Harper' Magazine. Surprised. The Mahometan's scorn of women Is the logical outcome of his religion, which refuses to recognize their claim as human beings, deserving of respect. As they are of use to mau, they are worth food and shelter, but they are not ia the least entitled to standing ground at his side. The Countess Cowper, in "A Mouth In Palestine," gives an instance, far more telliug than any sermon, of this dreadful state of things. 1 was told bv a Christian in Cairo, . i . i " ii'. -1. ii mat no was once warning wii.ii a wen-to-do Mahometan, with whom he was intimate, and who had often discussed with him the differing position of women in their respective sects. As they passed an old, veiled figure in the street, who shrank ou one side of their way, the follower of the prophet de livered a passing, but well-directed kick at her. "There," said the Christain, "that is what I complain of; you kick a wouiau as we should not kick even a dog." "that," said his companion, with look of genuine astonishment, that is ouly my mother!" A London Custom. why. In the Pull Mull Gazette appears this account of a curious custom: "The London road car-drivers have a grievance w hich approaches the ludi crous. If they do uot wear high hats they are suspended for a week. Last Monday a driver s hat was blown off, aud a cart went over it, so that he was obliged to resort to a low felt hat for the remainder of the day. For this heinous crime he was stopped and sus pended." Cigarettes. Mr. Willis G. Tucker, in his report to the New York state board of health on the result as his examination of va rious popular brands of cigarettes, says that careful analysis of tobacco aud paper failed to reveal auy poi sonous ingredients other than the to bacco itself, and that most cigarettes contain pure tobacco and good paper. The evils of cigarette smoking are due to the fact that cigarettes are cheap, convenient, and cau be used in large and excessive quantities, that the smoke is usually inhaled, and that children and immature persons freely DM than. EASTERN NWS. Assignments of George W. Crane & Co., of Topeka, Kan. SPIT AliAINST EX-TREAS. Ill RKE P LA. iisiiiit'ni nnce of a Young Englishman at Montreal, Camilla. In Hamburg 700 dock men employed on American t-temuer have struck. Twelve buildings were burned at F.IIi cotville, S Y. Loss, $"i0,000. Nine thousand Spain, have struck, order. miners of Troo are Itilboa k e,iii Troop are reiti el to prevent strikers from destroying mui liiiiery in cities in BoheniUv. 'our stores ami eigiitecii dwellings were destroyed bv tire. -ah omciai reMrt slate that the gen eral condition of winter rye and wheat in European Bussia is good. ! The Soniliern Baptist convention at I Fort Worth, Tex., has adjouriuvl to meet ; at Birminghnm in .May next. , . Joseph Siir. in, chant of Chicago, a wealthy Jewish uter is in vsteriouslv miss ile has met foul - Jive buildings were completely stroyed by a tire at Ashley, Pa The is about Jon. 0 0: partly covered bv de llH8 in surance. A fire occurred in the oil refinery of Sir W. A ltose A Co., at Baukside, Lon don, and caused damage amounting to 120,1X10. The Norwegian bark Bergenseeren was lost olf the coast of Mississippi. The crew was saved, but the vessel ami cargo are a bHal loss. I" New York Andrew Carnegie sske at laving of the corner stone of the I,!""'.Hhi music ball, to const met which i,e v" MX'.O"". George W. Crane A Co.. printers, To Jieka. Kan., have made an assignment. Liabilities, $120,001; believed to lie fully overed by assets. The Mexicans in San Luis Potosi claim that a conspiracy exists among Ameri can lailroad men to keep .Mexicans from wonting on the railroads. Vienna newpaers announce the sus pension of llonus i Lang, Hankers their assets; amount to 5,000,000 florins ; liabilities, 7,0 Xl.lXXI florins. The steamship Werra reached New York, having ou hoard Director Strauss and bis well-known orchestra. There are forty-six in the paity. Great anxiety is felt in financial ru de, iu Mexico resjiecting the action which the I'nited Slate congress will take ou the silver question. In the strike riot at Scbuttenboven, Austria, the rioting was suppressed bv geiularines. The strike movement has spread to lilielieig and Kreuth. The democratic congress held in Koine adjourned alter adopting a protest a ainst the presence of detectives. There werv 470 delegates present. The leading business house and bank of Eskridge, Kan., owned by Mr. Mndge, have assigned. The liabilities are about $10O,0 10, while the assets are small. Owing to the council of Mr. Davitt, the strikers at Cork and throughout the south of Ireland have yielded and . the trouble, for the present at least, is at an end. The I ouisiana attorney-general has filed suit in the civil courts against ex Treasurer Ihirke ami bis bondsmen to recover $97,tvs0, the amount of the de- : falcation. j G. F. Cbu'chill, managing partner of j the tii in of Gilford A Churchill, of Chi-1 j cago, dealers in etchings, engravings, j etc., is said to lie in Canada with some ! of the firm's money. . ! A syndicate of Belgian bankers, which I undertook to issue l,li0.),(KXI of Congo j state obligations, has been dissolved, j They were able to place only one tenth i of the intended amount. The Ha nburger Correspondent says that the Kiiglish government has in formed the German government that Kngland will not yet press the execution of the l-ondon sugar convention. The prime minister of the South Amer ican republic of Columbia has arrived in Berlin for the purise of negotiating with the Cebnan government for the es tablishment of trade relations. Thomas Kimlier, a vonng Englishman who came to Montreal about three weeks ago, has disapieared, leaving behind a large amount of baggage. The detec tives have no clue to his whereabouts. The New Yoik senate has recalled from the assembly the Saxton ballot re form bill and rehashed it, changing it so as to agree with the amended Saxton bill which was agreed to by the govenor, Mr. Saxton and others. A movement has been inaugurated in New York to secure one million signa tures to a memorial to he sent to the czar of Hussia. asking that he look into and seek to ameliorate the condition of the exiles of Silieria. Disregard of orders caused a collision on the Louisville ii Nashville road south of Biuningbam, Ala. A miner stealing a ride was killcl, Harry Turner, a civil engineer of the road fatally and three trainmen slightly injured. The Home correspondent of the Lon don Daily News says that the pojie is satisfied with the German government's concessions to the clergy, and disap proves t he course of the Centerists in in sisting upon further concessions. Portions of the works connected with extensive building operations at the Alssises fort, near Namauec, France, collapsed, burying twenty persons in the debris. Five dead bodies and twelve in jured persons have been extricated from the ruins. " In Tientsin Li Hung Chang opened the municipal ball, which is named after Gen. ("Chinese' ) Gordon. At a ban quet follow ing the opening, Mr. Denby, the American minister, predicted that there would be a railway in Manchura in two years. A REMARKABLE ANIMAL. fie Wm Only a Hoc bat He Knew a Thin; or Two Aboat II a men Flirtation. A contnbntor to the prize-dog story ; department of the.New York Morning Journal tells this instance of sagacity of a Newfoundland dog: "Two or three years ago a friend of mine, a very pretty young wife, was the happy possessor of a tine Newfound latnl dog called Druid. The common tricks of fetching, carrying aud seek ing for hidden articles were as child's play to the magnificent brute, and it was not by such every day canine tricks he had won his name for great intelligence. Every now and then he would dis play such wonderful reasoning ower by the performance of some act un taught or mi suggested by any outside ititliieucethat wonder as welt as admira tion was excited. There was one performance of Druid's w hich, unfortunately from the nature of it. could uot be loa ted of by tny friend Mrs. A. accept among her most intimate lady friends, aud the cir cumstances of which are certainly w ithout parallel among canine acts of intelligence. Mrs. A., like several other young married ladies of a romantic turn of mind, was f.rrying ta a lively but harmless Cirtaliou with a young bachelor in the (.a tne city.Halifax.Jiova Scotia. Unknown to her husband.she used to send and receive letters every day to the voung gentleman in question, and, as I fie jpost could not be trusted, to pre vent discovery, Druid was pressed into service. Every morning he was sent off to the house of the joung gentleman with a letter safely tucked underneath his collar, and in the course of an hour or two he would return with the reply. The letters were in themselves barm less, though harm might have been made out of them, especially by a jeal ous husband, which Mr. A. most as suredly was. They consisted of mild billets doux, making appointments to meet at the theater or party, aud. on receiving the reply, my friend would Cersuade Mr. A., her husband, to take er to the apiHtiuted rendezvous. Druid evidently knew what he was doing was not quite above board, and always watched his opKirtuuity to let Mrs. A. take her letter from under neath his collar when her husband was uot ore sent. In the event of his rres- euce, the dog always laid quietly down at a respectful distance uutil the de sired opKrtunity arrived. One day when" Druid had returned with his letter he came sedatelv walk ing across the lawn to where Air. A., his wife ami I were sittiug underneath the trees. nnd noticing that his mistress was not alone. he sat down and awaited developments. After he had been waiting alont half an hour Mr. A., who was a sceptic as to Druid's jtowcra of reasoning, began to tickle his nose and ears with a straw, and gradually woke the Newfoundland from the dozing state into which he had fallen. The tickling at last proved too much for Druid and, as he arose he gave himself a big shake, just as if he had come out of the water. The shake was a good one, iu fact too good, and w tiat w as the horror ot Airs. A. to see the letter fall from out its hiding-place to the ground, fortunately with the ad dressed side down. She was lying in a hammock and, with a terrified look, blushed a rosy ml, which, fortunately for her. Mr. A. did uot notice as he sprang up to get the note. Quick as he was, Druid, however. was quicker, as he snapied it up off the ground and calmly chewed it up and swallowed it, with a look at his mis tress that said perfectly plaiu: "Trust to me. and it will be all right."' Druid, by his prompt action, saved his mistress all explanation, as Mr. A. could make nothing of the affair, never for a moment suevtiug that the letter was for his wife, and conleuted himself by remarking: "1 wonder whai was iu that letter ami who it was from." My friend, however, got a lessou and cut short her flirtation, but used to say that it was the first time a dog had ever saved a woman from a possible divorce action and a certain scolding from her husband. Be More Than a "College Man. When you get out of college, young man, get clear out. You can get back for half a day or so at any time at a boat-race, afoot-ball match, commence ment whenever there is a reasonable excuse; but in vour daily walk and con versation be something more than a college man be a citizen. Be even an Alderman, if yon can. lake the world to be yours, as Bacon took all learning to be his; and don't forever limit your view of it by what was once visible from some point in New Haven of in Cambridge. Go and lie a man some where. Don t be satisfied to be a mere "graduate" for all time. Of course you owe your alma mater a debt that you are always ready to pay and a loyalty that Bliould nave no breaks in it. "When j-ou have grown to be the size of Daniel Webster and your Dart mouth asks you to defend her in court, you are going to be proud when you do it. That is alt right. You can't do too well. If you accumulate any reputa tion that is worth having, feel honored indeed when she offers to share it with you, but don t lie too persistently anxious to strut in her plumes to the disparagement, it may be, of worthy men who have no claim to any similar privilege. Scribner. A Family School. A remarkable colored farmer lives near Middletown. Del. He has aianiily of fourteen children living, while two have died. He educates his children iu a peculiar way. He sent his eldest son to a college in New Jersey, where he acquired a fairly good education. The farmer then wet.t to work and erected a suitable building for a school- house on the farm, and his eldest son Is installed as teacher of his brothers and sisters. The school is opened in the fall, when the farm work is all done, and in the spring, when the planting season commences, tiie school is closed, and the children go to work on the farm. A Sharp Neighbor. Rice Boyd of Unioniown, Pa., has been pasturing his cattle on a f 90.000 coal field, never suspecting its value. He sold it to a sharp neighbor a few days ago for f 600, and the purchaser disposed of it at once for $'JO,000. A house at Gold Hill, Nev. fS.OOO a few years airo was that oost sold the other day for 300. A calf whose back is covered with fine fur iuitead of the regulation hair on of lbs curiosities of AppUton,M. COAST .: NEWS. Large Flouring Mills to be Built j In Seattle. SLAl liHTKR LOSES A V A LI' A BLR HORSE. Baker I'itr Raises a Snbsiily. County Slin k. i'raok A colony of 2) Kenttickians will locate in Jefferson county. Kobert Taylor, an old resident of Pas co, was drowned at that place May 12. The Ibq'iiam Board of Trade has raised $'.KKIior a celebration of the Fourth of J uly. The Seattle Press announces that large flouring mills will be built in that city soon. The Snohomish county c.mrt calendar reports thirteen practicing attorneys in that county. The Clydesdale stallion which Slaugh ter citizens imported at a cost of $3o0i.l, lias died, and ail Slaughter mourns. Charles R. Bell, a new arrival at Aber deen from Danville, Ky., is asut to erect an h-e factory and a wood- working establishment. The Washington state grange meets in annual session the first Tuesday in June at La Camas, 'the grange in the state is growing very rapidly. Some little excitement has taken place at GoMendale in the past lew days about some iqieciiuen of ore which have been taken from the mountains near that city. A large vein of coal has lieen located alsMit five miles north of Snohomish, on the line of the Seattle. Lake Shore 4 Eas'ern. Over a thousand feet is in sight. Harry Leverett's sawmill at Golden dale and 100,00.1 feet of lumtier burned rc-eiitly. Jxjss, $40W. The tire started from a spark from a pile of burning slabs. Engietrecht Mantuon, employed in Trulliiiger's saw mill, was mutilated by the saws, bis right wrist and baud bein'g badly torn, but amputation will not be necessary. The Inland Republican, the new paper which D. H. Hendricks will establish at Athena, will be eight pages, devoted to interests of Umatilla county and faithful to the republican party. Raker City raised $25,000 subsidy for the Sutnpier Valley railroad in one day. J. H. Parker, cashier of the FirstNation al Bank, gave $510. The whole amount, $50,t.0 l, will soon be sulm-rilied. Had it not been for the paj-t hard win ter Crook county sheepmen would have had about 75,OUO head of mutton sheep to turn off this spring, but as it is tliere was not many over 4 j,000 head sold. Captain Gray, of Astoria, has com menced driving piles for a new sawmill on the south side of Young's bay. oppo site LHse s Astoria. it is. understood that outside parties will build the mill. The price of brick has fallen to49 per thousand in Seattle, whereas forn ery it was $14. The decline is owing u an enormous increase of production, there being over fifty brickyards in that city. Ten thousand election tickets for prob ably a thousand voters is what Grant county will put in the field this year, and there is no reason why every voter should not secure a ballot of tome Kjlitk-al com plexion. Over $11,00 delinquent taxes in Grant county shows that the past winter was a hard one and that stockmen are in a tight olace. But our icports from that section are cheering, and thev will pull through all ngbt yet. An Indian living near Port Discovery hay, caught a salmon in that bay the other day, which weighed seventy pounds. This is one of the largest sal mon ever cail tired in these waters, and strange to say was hauled safely to shore. lhe first of last week Win. Templeton arrived at Prineville from Albany, hav ing crossed the Cascade mountains by the Santiam route on horseback. He re ported snow from (.'ache creek to Snow creek, varying in depth from one foot to twenty feet. Adkins A Webb completed the Med ford waterworks last week, and have ex ecuted their eou tract in a satisfactory manner. Theie is a pressure of over 200 feet, which is sufficient to throw the water a considerable distance over the highest house in tow n. The first train with double-header at tached that ever left Pendleton over the Oregon & Washington Territory railroad, went out on Monday, says the East Ore gon ian. It consisted of" fifteen carloads of sheep, shipped by Parkins Bros, and bound lor Dakota markets. Messrs Jacobs and Armstrong, of Murray, Idaho, have examined the gold and silver quartz that is found near Lake v halcom, and pronounce it very rich indeed, and say they are satisfied that quartz, tsitb gold and silver, can be found there iu large and paving quan tities. Ed Basley, who was arrested in Pen dleton, charged with desertion from the Second cavalry, is kept in custody at Fort Walla Walla, pending investigation. If it can te proven that he was in Pen dleton in February, I8s, and stayed continuously until July 5 of the same yeai , he will be released. The first Chance mining Company of Fox valley. Grant county, made a re munerative cleanup, advancing the value of their exchequer $000 worth. Several gold nuggets tieing valued from $15 to $20 were secured. For the first season lotined man which go to prove that this company bas bad sufficient water to j each human body is in itself an electrio work effectually, says the Long Creek battery, one electrode being represent Eagle, and as they report prospects still I ed by the head and the other by the very favorable, the chances are fair to J feet. The body of the subject upon secure that amount of gold to disburse j which experiments were made was all expenses of the past with a lair divi-I taken immediately after death and dend besides. ! rdaoed noon a nivofc froa tn mora in Ex-Governor Moodv, of Oregon, has taken from the Columbia bis new steamer Wasco, a propeller, built for the Upper Columbia trade, for use on the Puget sound route. It is not yet settled, but it will probably ply between Port Townsend and Seattle. The steamer cost $25,00.), ami is licensed to carry 1 A) passengers. The gentlemen comprising the party w hich went out from Ellenshurgh to lo cate the big ditch, returned for supplies and went back again. They report good progress. The intention now is to take the water from Katcheeze lake, near Fast on, from which an ample supply can tie secured with a good fall, and it is likely this route will be adopted. The ditch as contemplated will be about sixty miles long. r WHO SHOT M'PHERSOM. rhe Story of en Eye-Wttaee to the Kill-tug-of the Brave tJnloa General. The following communication ap pears in a recent edition of the Atlanta (Jonstilution Much has been said late ly in your paper and others concern ing the killing of General MePherson, and these various accounts differ as to many points connected with that event. General MePherson was highly esteem ed by the Southern army, ana It can be well said of him that wherever- be went his gentlemanly deportment and kindly treatment of the Southerners was almost demoralizing. It was ia marked contrast with much that his fellow officers did. Hence our people even at the time regretted bis death, and now honor his memory. The writer is well acquainted with Captain Richard Beard, of Murfrees boro, Tenn., who claims, and bo doubt justly, to hare been eye-witness to the killing of General MePherson. I may not give his account with perfect ac curacy, for it was told me years ago, but my recollection is that the circum stances attending that event were sub stantially as follows: Captain Beard v. was ordered, with his company, then a mere handfuL to make an attack upon a fortification which it waa supposed was held by few men. Whiie execut ing this order quite a number of Fed eral officers came riding towards him. Halting his men he waited until they got near by and then commanded them to surrender. All did except one. who. wheeling his horse and putting spurs to him, while drawing his sword and waiving it over his head, dashed off at full speed towards the Federal lines. Captain Beard ordered his men to fire, for, as he states, he felt satisfied ' that the officer, on account of the retinae accompanying him, must be high " ii' -command, and he could not help ad miring his brave dash for freedom. However, an Arkansas Sergeant, who had become detached from his own command, and was accompanying Cap tain Beard's company, drew down his gun, and in spite of the order given, tired, and the retreating officer fell to the ground. - After disarming those who had sur rendered, and putting them in eharge of one or two men. Captain Beard re sumed his advance, and passed the prostrate form of the officer just killed. Dashing with his brave -Tennesseeans up the fortification, he was astonished to see a Federal colonel jnmp upon the embankment. within speaking distance, who shouted in almost appealing tones to Capttan Beard: "For God's sake surrender, brave man, for we have ten to yonr one!" The Tennesseeans were soon surrounded and taken prisoners, finding the statement of the Colonel true. The eharge from the reinforced Federals swept everything back until tbey passed and retook the prison ers, and then Captain Beard learne4 that the otacer Kuiea was uenerat aio Phersoo. This information was eon firmed when he was carried before . General Sherman, the Colonel taking him prisoner accompany him, and ask ing for kindly treatment in. behalf of the brave Tennesseeans. Captain Richard Beard, Mnrfrees boro, Tenn.. can give a full and inter esting account of this event, authentic and vouched for by a number of living witnesses. He is an exceedingly moWst man, and benee I have taken t!ie liber ty of speaking thus fully abont. him. Probably there may be some inaccu racy about some of the details here gieen, but not as to the main fact, that he was an eye witness to the killing of General MePherson by an Ankansas Sergeant and under the circumstances stated. Jean Oe. - " "Worms That Eat Steel Ra.ll. For the last two years the German Government has been making inqniriea into the life, historyv and ravages of one of the most remarkable worms known to exist. - This wonderful creature, whose gluttonous appetite is only satisfied after a feed on common steel, was first brought into public notice by an article in the Cologne Gazette in June, 1887. For some time preceding the publi cation of the account mentioned the greatest consternation existed among the engineers employed on the railway at Hagen by accidents which always occurred at the same place, pro-ring that some terrible defect must exist either in the material or the construc tion of the rails. The Government became interested and sent a commission to the spot for the purpose of maintaining a constant watch at the place where the accidents one of them attended with loss of life had occurred. It was uot, however, until after six months bad elapsed that the surface of the rail appeared to be corroded, as if by acid, to the extent of 100 yards. The rail was taken up and broken, whereupon it was found to be literally honeycombed by a thin, thread-like, gray worm. The worm is said to be two centimetres in length and of about the bigness of a common knitting needle. It is of a light gray color, ana on the head it carries two little sacs or glands, filled with a most powerful corrosive secretion, which is ejected eyery ten minutes when the little demon is lying undisturbed. The liquid when squirted upon iron renders that metal soft and spongy and of the color of rust, when -it is easily and greedily devoured by the little insect. "There is no ex aggeration," says the official report, "in the assertion that this creature is one of the most voracious, for it bas devoured thirty-six kilograms of rails in a fortnight." "With Head to the North. The superstitious belief that human beings should sleep with their heads towards the north is now believed to be based upon a scientific principle. The French Academy of Sciences has made experiments upon the body of a eruil- ' any direction. After some vacillation the head portion turned towards the north, the pivot-board remaining sta tionary. UQ8 of tne professors turned it hall way around, but it soon re gained a position with the bead-piece " to the north, and the same results were repeatedly obtained until organu movement ceased. - An Australian legislature has passed a law taxing all married couples living with their mothers-in-law J900 if re residing with the husband's mother-ia-law and fl2U if with the wife's. A Five-Footed Dojr. Montezuma, Ga., boasts of a 'with five wall-developed feet. do t - . mm --oUS. ,4' , s i v f r