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He who thinks to please the World is dullest of his kind; for let him face which way he will, one-half is yet behind. VOL V. LEBANON, OREGON, FItlDAT, JUNE 20. .. 1891.. NO. 10. W. B. DONACA, -DEALER IN- Groceries and Provisions, Cigars, Tobacco, Furnishing Goods, Etc., Etc. First-Class Goods at Reasonable Prices. GIVE ME A TRIAL AND BE CONVINCED. Ocmntrv FroJiics Taken in Exchange for Goods. KEEP ON HAND A STOCK OF Shingles. Posts, Boards and Pickets. W. C. Petf.brox, PETERSON & GARLAND, Real Estate Brokers HAVE ON HAND . CHOICE B-AJGkAJDSTS In Large and Small Farms. Best Fruit Land in Valley. Finest Grain Ranches in the World. Improved and Unimproved Land, from S4 per Acre and up. Satisfactien Guaranteed. Have on hand some CHOICE CITY PliOPERlY, Residence and Business. Bargains in ail Additions to the Town. Houses Rented and Farms Leased. I is s UEANCJ AGENTS FOB London & Liverpool Globe Insurance Co. Guardian Assurance Co.. of London. Oakland Home Insurance Co., of Oakland. Cal. State Insurance Co., of Salem. Oregon. Farmers and Merchants' Ins. Co., of Salem Collections Receive Prompt Attention. Notary Business a Specialty. We take pleasure in giving our patrons all information desired In our line of business. DR. C. H. DUCKETT, E) K N T I ST I.Kli A X) V, OREGON. J. K. WEATHERFORD, ATTORNEY- AT - LAW. Office over First National Bank. A LB AN V. - - . - OREGON. W. R. P1LYEU, ATTORNEY- AT- LAW. ALBAWOBRGOX. J. L. COWAN. J. M. RALSTON Bank of Lebanon, LEBANON, OREGON. Transacts a General Banking Business. ACCOUNTS KEPT SUBJECT TO CHECK. Exchange sold on New York, San ranoitco. Portland and Albany, Org Collections made on favorable te rms G. T. COTTON, Uealer in Groceries and Provisions. Tobacco iind Cigars, Smokers' Articles. Foreign and Domestic Fruits, Confectionery, Qucensware and Glassware, Lamps and Lamp Fixtures. PAY CASH FOR EGGS. Main Street. Lehanon, lr.'Kn LEBANON pas Meat Market ED. KELLESBEMEIt, Prop. Frksh & Saited Beef. Pork, Mut ton, Sausage, Bologna &, Ham. BACOfl AND LARD ALWAYS ON HAND Mais Strt, lfan Org. Sam'l M. Garlaxd, Attorney-at-Law. EAST AJSfD SOUTH Southern Pacific Eoutc. THK MOCNT SHASTA ROUTE. EX Pittas TRAINS LXiTS POBTLA5D DAILY : 7 :00 P. w. 10:23 p.ar. 10 as a.h. Portland Ar j 9 ;S5 A. M. Albany Ar 6 :15 A. K. San Francisco Lv j 9 :00 P. M. Ar Above trains stop only at the following stations north of Roseburg : Bast Portland, Oregon City, w ood ourn . baiera, &i Dany , xangent, eneaaa, Halsey, Harrieburg, Junction City, Irving and Eugene RoMbnrg Mail Daily. K A. M. I Lv Portland Ar I 4 :00 P. M. 12 :20 p. if. j Lv Albany Ar 12 :00 M. 5 :0 P. at. Ar Bosetmrg Lv o ao A. M. Albany Local Dally (Except Sunday.) 5 rt)0 P. X. I Lv Portland Ar 9 rf A. M. 9 DO p. M. I Ar Albany Lv J 5.-00 A. M Local Passenger Trains Iaily Except 2 3 P. K. I Albany Lebanon Albany Lebanon I 9:23 A. X 8:43 A. H 11:26 F. H 3:40 P. M 2:2b P. M. I 7 :30 A. M. I 8 J22 A. X. J PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPERS. - Tourist Sleeping Cars For accommodation of Second-Class Passengers. attacrea so luprese trains. WEST SIDE DIVISION. BETWEEN PORTLAND AND C0RVALLIS. Mail Train Daily (Except Sunday.) At Albans- and Corvallls connect with trains o Oregon Pacific Hail road. (Express Train Dally Except Snnday.) 3Throagh tickets to all points East and South. For tleketa and lull Information regarding rates, maps, etc., call on Co's agent atljebanon. R. KOEULEK, E, P. ROGERS. Manager. Asst G. F. & P. Agt I. B. BO RUM. Tonsorial Artist A Good Shave, Shampoo, Hair Cut, Cleaned or Dressed. Hot and Cold Baths at all Hours, Children Kindly treated. Oalland see me. R. L. McCLURE (Successor to C. H. Harmon.) Barber : and : Hairdresser. Lebanon, Oregon. Shaving, Haircuttihg and Shampoo ing in the latest and best style. Spec ial attention paid to dressing readies hair. Your patronage respectfully solicited. Woman's World. Current Comment. Miss Phoebe Gouzins has protested against the payment of the bill of Rand, McNally & Co. for printing the minutes of the board of lady managers of the world's fair. She says she sup plied the printers with a correct manuscript report at a time when her status as secretary was undisputed, and that since she was deposed the copy was garbled and mutilated so that what has been printed is not a correct report. The treasury depart ment will investigate before paying the bill Miss Gouzins is a womon of pluck and perserverance, and those who are trying to drive her out of the board have a very large contract on hand. The Colorado Conference of the Methodist church decided to admit women as lay delegates to the con vention. . " The Kitchen R autre. The management of the kitchen range is one of the housewife's ac complishments. The first necessity is cleanliness. A range clogged with ashes will never bake satisfactorily, neither can a clear, bright fire be kept up in it. The grates must be clear of cinders and ashes, and the fuel must be put in with some regard for uniformity. Do not pile the coal or wood ail in one end, but place it evenly, so as to distribute the fire over the grate. Open the dampers until the fire is well under way. No time is gained by trying to save a fire at the outset. Let it come up briskly, and as soon as it is clear and bright close the dampers and take care of it. In baking cake, the proper tomper ture will brown the cake as soon as it has risen. The top should be even in color, and will not crack if the oven is right. If the oven is too hot the cake will bake too rapidly at the edges, ond as it must rise somewhere will burst tn the middle, and some times pour over the already baked edges. Bread should never bake too rapidly at first. Too much heat prevents rising, and the bread will be soggy even though it is well done. Great care must be taken that neither bread nor cake is dropped or jarred, as this is almost certain to cause a heavy streak through the loaf. To tell if the cake is done thrust a clean broom straw into the middle. If it comes out dry and clean the cake is done. It is, however, best to leave it for a moment to become thoroughly done. Nothing is more unwholesome than half-baked cake. Many cooks test cake by wetting the finger and tapping the bottom of the pan. If the metal hisses the cake or bread is supposed to be done. Some cooks take bread or cake from the pan at once ; others leave it for a moment to steam, when it will come out more easily. It may be covered with a cloth and left to cool. If cake is to be frosted it is well to have the frosting done at once. The most manageable frosting is made by breaking the whites of two eggs in a dish with a cup of powdered 'or confectioner's sugar. Beat the sugar and eggs together, and add sugar as long as it will be taken up by the egg. Put it upon the cake at once. This is the easiest and simplest way of making frosting, and one that the inexperienced will do well to adopt. New York Ledger. California Women and the World" Fair. Mesdames P. P. Rue, J. R. Deane, Theresa Fair and Fmna Waite, com posing the California committee of the board of lady managers of the world's fair, are determined to attract the in terest of Caliornia women in the exposition. A letter has been received from the lady managers at Chicago, directing the committee to prepare at once for work. The letter states that every manufactured article exhibited at the fair from this state will be labeled so as to show how much of the manufac ture was done by women and how much by men. For the exposition of those arts in which female skill and patience are shown a sub-committee of wealthy ladies will be formed. They will be asked to furnish money to be used in rewarding women who may submit exhibits. Mrs. Stanford, for one, has signified her intention of contributing several thousand dollars. To the Women's Exchange will be given supervisory authority to employ women workers at regular wages to manufacture various articles. Women skilled in making delicate point-lace handkerchief or beautiful embroid eries or odd and beautiful effects with needle and thread will thus be enabled to earn wages and honor at the same time. The intention is to purchase all this work outright from the makers. At tne conclusion 01 tne lair tne laaies propose to reclaim these exhibits and hold a grand fete and fair in San Fran cisco, where the exhibits will be sold to the highest bidders and the pro ceeds given to local charitable in stitutions. T he com mittce will can vass the entire state to secure specimens of female skilled labor. sculptures, naintincrs and writincrs will be sub jects. Thosee.uterprisingwomen who run farms and orchards and placer mines and vineyards will be called upon to contribute to California's womanhood as outlined in the Colum bian Exposition. Scolloped Potatoes. One quart potatoes par-boiled and sliced. Add one pint milk and put in a dish in layers with butter, salt and pepper. Bake three-quarters of an hour in hot oven. The French expedition to Matonga under Cram pel has been roasted and eaten by natives. Farm Notes. Pertinent Paragraph.- Last week's directions for poisoning grasshoppers were published none too soon. The pests are destroyingevery thing before them in parts of Calaveras county. Feed them well on bran and arsenic. Dr. Behr, entomologist of the academy of sciences, declaies that there are none of the ordinary insect pests on trees or plants in the neigh borhood of Paso Robles, and that this is because a variety of titmouse which is numerous there preys upon the eggs of insects. The propagation of these little birds all over the coast is recom mended. ' Farm or City? If the boy leaves the farm and gets a job in the city, in the first place he finds that his food Is greatly changed, and wo all know that food lies very near the heart of the average boy. j Instead of fresh vegetables, meat, I eggs, poultry, milk and butter, which he had seen all his life heaped on the I table In abundance, he learns the merits and demerits of common board ing house fare. He is called to his work by a whistle or bell. He has no interest in his work except to get the pay which just keeps him alive and elothes him in decent shape. He is under the eye of a boss most of the time. After a while he can wear store clothes and carry a cane as the city boarder whom he envied on the farm did, but he is not on terms of equality with his employer, and would not think of speaking to ' his pretty daughters. He is simply a maehine capable of doing so much work at such an outlay of money. After a while he has no more thought j of his work than the street car horse j that goes on such a track so many ' times ia a day. He loses interest in the affairs of the world, unless it is the last prize fight or base ball game. If he marries he and his wife live up two flights or three in some dark house, where the only view is brick walls and the air seems close and stifling. After a few years he dies, and the people in the flat below merely know that some one has been buried out of the house and that there is a flat to let on the floor above. His wife must take cheaper quarters where she can sup port herself with her needle. This is such a life as the average wage earners of the city usually live. What did the boy gain by leaving the farm? He left behind his ruddy health. Had he stayed on the tarm he could have been a man, not a machine. With more freedom from bosses and overseers as well as the noise, the diet, the hurry and worry that belongs to city life, he could save more money and still live in better shape and have more pleasures. Al most any young man can buy a farm and pay for it as real estate is now. How many city mechanics and sales men ever expect to become worth enough to set up a shop or store for themselves by their earnings? And while the country man is at work for others, he is considered the equal of the man he works for if he is an honest and upright man. Clarence N. Snow in New England Farmer. Farm Fallacies. That a woman is well dressed who wears a dead bird for an ornament. That a boy on a farm should be ex pected to do the work of two men while the father goes to the club to diseu-s the question "How to keep boys on the farm." That it is good to use the check rein, when the horse naturally carries his head more gracefully and works to greater advantage without it, to say nothing of the many diseases which its use may aggravate. That we can have happy homes when every nerve is strained, every thought given to money making, with out living at the same time for a higher purpose. ThHt blinJers on horses, passed down to us as alleged ornaments, are anything but torture and a cauee or many acci-h-uts That close, stuffy, unventilated rooms are anyhealthier in winter than in warm weather. That good health does not require a cheerful disposition and an abundance of fresh air and daily exercise. That a little more common sense in every day life would do away with many false notions. Fear Trees Without Barb. In Mr. William Campbell's orchard there is one row of trees loaded down with young pears, but all the other trees are barren of fruit. Mr. Camp bell and other growers who have wit nessed the sight attribute it to the fact that something like a year ago cows broke into his orchard and, at tracted by the tempting appearance of the trees, ate the bark off one entire row before being driven out. The bark was completely stripped all the way around off the entire trunk of each tree. They are loaded with pears, and it is thought that destroying the bark caused the sap and strength of the tree to go into the fruit. To further this theory there is another tree in a different part of the orchard from which the cows ate off all the bark all the way around on one of the limbs, and this branch is also covered with pears, while the other limbs on the" same tree are perfectly barren. The entire orchard is subject to the same conditions of heat and exposure. The general pear crop is a failure, and in a number of orchards the amount of fruit will not Justify the gathering. .Florida Times- u nion. It is by far more economical to buy or grow food rich in phosphates, ammonia and nitrates and feed it to the stock and then save and spread the manure than it is to buy mineral and commercial special fertilizers for the soil. Thus you get a double profit. Coast News. CALIFORNIA. Southern California will ship 18,000 carloads of potatoes east this year. The grand division, Sons of Temper ance, has been incorporated by John McKee, Thomas Walker, W. F. Mason, L. B. Hartt, J. O. Avery, Wr. B. Curtis and William B. Wadman. ALAMEDA COUNTY. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union asks for a new liquor license ordinance that shall contain a number of new provisions, among which are that applicants for licenses shall get a majority of householders within a specified district; that licenses shall not be given to grocers ; that no back rooms shall be maintained, and that no saloon shall be kept on a block facing a schoolhouse. William Snyder's store at Niles was robbed June 9. George Davis fell from a train on the Oakland mole June 13 and broke his neck. John West was cut in two and killed instantly by a circular saw in a ; planing mill at West Berkeley June 12. i Mrs. Mary Glancy of San Leandro ! was thrown from a butrcrv the other ! day and fatally injured. AMADOR COB NT Y. Joseph Bowden shot George War ren fatally in a quarrel following a raid on a cherrv orchard at Sutter Creek June 9. Levi Goes, livincr near the Newton copper mine, killed himself because his family shut off his whisky. FRESNO COUNTY, Charles Hogan aad John Barker have closed out the business they were conducting in Fresno and gone to huntiner covotes with rifles for the $5 bounty on scalps. In less than a montn tney got eignty-seven scalps. William Douglas stole $208 from P. C. Goiden's pocket at Fowler, two I pairs of shoes from F. S. Bagley at Malatra and several dollars in Fresno ! and was arrested at the latter place, ; an in one uay, j une iu. A bov drooped a lighted eitrarette and burned 240 acres of barley and a bun k House lor J onn Owen on Uig Dry creek. Reuben Goins accused Mrs. Yince Gage of stealing his chickens at Fresno and Mr. Gage put a bullet in Goins' neck and one in his hip. Gage went to jail. Goins, who was not severely injured, swore to kUl him when he comes out. Referring to the new county gov ernment act, which raised the pay of copyists in Fresno county from cents a folio to 8 cents, State Senator Goucher said: 'Set me down as favoring 7 cents." The Madera Mer cury said, in e ffeet, that Goucher could afford to favor 7 cents, as he didn't have to pay it, and Goucher met E. E. Vincent, owner of the paper, and knocked him down and kicked him. The West Side Irrigation district will issue $2,000,000 bonds to take water across the valley from the Sierra Nevada mountains". KERN COUNTY. ' The other day Walter Garwood, son of a citizen of Delano, let a shotgun Tall and the charge went through his left arm, just below the shoulder, cut ting away the flesh and splintering the bone. LASSEN COUNTY. Work has been begun on the arti ficial outlet to Eagle lake which is to irrigate 28,000 acres in Honey lake valley. LOS ANGELES COUNTY. Oil is being pumped at Los Angeles. C. B. Ladd, a Lancaster lawyer who ought.to know better, failing to col lect $2 went to his debtor's room and carried away a satchel. He is now serving twenty-five days in jail for his enterprise. Train loads of potatoes are going east daily. The dead body of a stranger was found by the roadside in East Los Angeles June 11. In a note-book in his pocket was the name "D. W. Lower, Wabash, Ind.," and no other clew. Tne grass and weeds Had been pulled up for several feet around the body, as if the man had died in con vulsions. Newhall sends out 900 barrels of oil daily and four new wells are being bored. ORANOE COUNTY. A postoffice has been established at Laguna Beach. PLACES COUNTY. E. Mason was killed by a chunk of nent which fell on him from the r uf of a tunnel in the Mayflower mine at Forest Hill. SAN BENTTO COUNTY. Thomas Gray has been convicted of stealing a horse from A. M. Hardin, near Hollister, while employed by Hardin. He was sent up for five years. SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY. The Temescal mines are making regular shipments of tin. The proposition to bond for $350,000 for a courthouse and jail failed to get the necessary t wo-third b majority of the votes. SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY. The institution which has been doing business on Market street under the names of " Dime Savings bank," "State Savings bank," etc., has col lapsed. BAN JOAQUIN COUNTY. . L. A. Eaton, municipal clerk of Stockton, took morphine pills by mis take for quinine and came very near dying. While a cylinder was being raised in the Farmers Union mill at Stock ton. June 10 the tackle broke audit fell. In dodging from under it J. C. McKenzie fell against a sharp stake which punctured his windpipe. t His wound is not necessarily fatal. SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY. Charles Eee's head was blown off at Truman Andrews' ranch, six miles west of San Luis, June 9. The An drews brothers say that Lee, who was a boy from San Francisco, met them with a rifle when they came home from work and after emptying it at them seized a shotgun and pursued them but stumbled and fell, discharg ing the gun as he fell and blowing his own head off. .- SAN MATEO COUNTY. A franchise has been crranted for an electric railroad from Redwood City to San Francisco through Baden. The fare is to be 20 cents and cars are to be running within three years and to run every naif-hour. Miss Lizzie Kreisswas killed by the occidental discharge of a gun with wiiieh she and others were playing at San Gregorio June 14. SANTA CLARA COUNTY. The union printers have left the office of the San Jose Better Times ( weekly ) because stereotype plate matter is used on it, SACRAMENTO COUNTY. John Enos Silva Perry shot Mamie Frates at Sacramento June 8, fatally, because she would not marry him, and then killed himself. The boiler of an engine used In pumping water tor irrigation on A. Menke's ranch, near Perkins, ex ploded June 10 with terrible force. A piece of it cut off a tree a foot, thronch as smoothly as a saw would have cut it. The men were returning from dinner and were just late enough to escape destruction. Mrs. Victoria Wolcott of Oakland went to Gold Run June 9 to order off some men who were working a mine which she claimed. She says George Betten and George Mullon seized her and dragged her half a mile to the rauroaa track, wuere they left her insensible, and when she ankeri thr district attorney for a warrant he told ner sne could not get justice. - SHASTA COUNTY. Several cloudbursts in the moun-! tains west and north of Redding June 11 destroyed the roads, washed out; onages, wrecked mimna arastras. ; etc. Houses situated near the water- j ways were demolished. j Jacob S. Black was killed hv fell ing tree at Round mountain June 3. SANTA CRUZ COUNTY. Homer Scott, the little son of a i citizen of Lomo Prieta, while playing on the edge of a mill pond on June 7. ; fell in and was drowned. Burglars drilled a hole in Npthprnn & Williams safe at East Santa Cruz but were aDnarentlv scared awav before they tried to blow it open. Jesus Gonzales attempted tn shoot Gusman Iiarois on account of a woman at Santa Cruz June 8 and Iiarois knocked the pistol aside with one hand while he drew his own and shot Gonzales through the heart with the other. SIERRA COUNTY. Robert Jones of Downieville was drowned in the river a few days ago. SISKIYOU COUNTY. Fort Jones will have a $12,000 flour mill. TEHAMA COUNTY. The safe in L. H. D. Lange's saloon at Red Bluff was attacked bv burerlars June 11, but they awoke Lange, who siepi overneao, ana ne scared tuem off with a shotgun. Red Bluffers are petitioning for dis in corporation . Grasshoppers are troublesome. TULARE COUNTY. Hanford has a free reading-room. YOLO COUNTY. Charles Croco was drowned while swimming in the canal at Woodland. YUBA COUNTY. Ella Davis took a fatal dose of mor- Ehine at Wheatland June 10 because er stepfather objected to her keeping such company as she chose. She ac cused the stepfather, Bill Beal, of causing her downfall and he was tarred and feathered June 12. PACIFIC COAST. ALASKA. Edwin T. Hatch, the new collector of customs for Alaska, proposes to stop the sale of liquor, wnich was very general under his predecessor. The sealing schooner Maybell has been wrecked on the Yukutat coast. ARIZONA. Henry Miller, who has robbed sev eral stages in California and was con victed of robbing the mail between Florence and Casa Grande, was on his way to San Quentln prison, to which a federal court had sentenced him, when Deputy Marshal Paul and a guard who had him in charge fell asleep while waiting for the train at Casa Grande. Miller robbed the sleeping guard of his watch and money, went to a blacksmith shop and cut the shackles from his legs and escaped. He was recaptured the next day. Kurpen Zollicker, a discharged Southern Pacific section boss, has been arrested for trying to wreck a train at sentinel. It is not necessary to go on the rail road or into a mine to meet with an accident. Charles Crandall got on a cnair to open a transom at .rnoemx and fell and broke his neck. The Santa Cruz Water Storage com pany is about to build a dam at Yerba Buena, near Tucson, the length of which will be 162a feet and its height sixty feet. The dam will catch the water from 1000 acres and will hold 10,000,000,000 gallons of water. It is estimated that there will be sufficient water to irrigate 300,000 acres. Dan Shankland, who . killed Dr. Willis at Tombstone, has on his second trial been convicted of manslaughter. Geronimo, one of the escaped Apache murderers, has been killed in a fight with men who pursued him and two companions to recover stolen horses. . NEVADA. At Bridgeport Poker Tom, an Indian, won $200 from Ah Tai, a Chinese. Tai afterward killed Tom, cut him up and salted the body, and it is believed cooked part of him and fed him to some Indians whom he invited to a feast. When the Indians learned this they took Tai, cut off first one arm, then the other, then his legs, and finally cut him to pieces and scattered him among the sagebrush. Mrs. Marv Booth shot and killed Samuel Both, a bachelor, at Canyon ville, June 10, in a quarrel about fire wood. The murdered man was 75 years old and was shot through a door which he had closed as he saw tne woman coming with the gun. D. McGinnis, a stranger, shot him self in the head with suicidal intent at oalem l une 10, but may recover. Portland Is to have a $100,000 dis tillery. Samuel Keegan of Yakima the other aay was tnrown in iront oi a mowing machine and gashed so terribly by the machine that ne died shortly after. Every man who voted at the last Portland election was photographed with a snap-shot camera, used for the detection of repeaters. George Caldwell was crushed to death while rolling logs at a saw mill five miles from Hilgard June 9. General News. The seal question is definitely settled for the year. The British par liament has prohibited the taking of seals in Behring sea by British vessels and the United States cruisers are ordered to see that none are taken except 7600, to which the North Amer ican Commercial company is limited. These are permitted to be taken by natives who live by sealing and would otherwise starve. While the Sea Waif, from San Fran cisco, was saving wreckage from the Uiaited States war ships Trenton and Vandalia, which were sunk at Apia, an attempt was made, presumably by parties to whom she liad refused to sell wreckage, to sink her. Holes were bored in her bottom, but they were discovered in time and by hard work she was saved. Referring to the boundary dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela Blaine said to Dr. Pulido, the Ven ezuelan commissioner, that " the future greatness and undisturbed autonomy of the western hemisphere demanded that the mouth of a great American river like the Orinoco should not be controlled by a foreign mari time and commercial rowr HIta : Great Britain." UNITED STATES. William H. Forest, bookkeeper in ! the office of the New York Church-! man. has been raisin cr the weeklv ! check for the amount of the pay roll ! hji cikuiwu mumuB sua nas ciearea from $10,000 to $30,000. He is in jail. The prosecution of the Pacific For- I trait company, formerly the Herting j j: ui li mil company oi can Jtrrancisco, for swindling its customers in New! York is being pushed with vigor. . The Farmers' Alliance in Kansas is i hiring lawyers to fight the forclosure i of f arm mortgages. i Illinois has passed a ballot reform ! act. - Illinois has passed a law that no ! child under 13 shall work for wages I unless an aged or infirm relative is dependent on it for support, and then not until the board of education has i certified that it has attended school eight weeks within the current year. Bernard Glandis and a man named McCrystal have been convicted of offering a bribe to one of the jurors who tried the Mafia members for the murder of Hennessy in New Orleans. Evan E. Shelby, accused of murder, was taken from jail at Wickliffe, Ky., and lynched June 8. The indictments against Gibson, secretary of the whisky trust, for hiring George Dewar to blow up the Shufeidt distillery at Chicago before it was gobbled by the trust, have been quashed on the ground of want of jurisdiction in the federal courts and he will be prosecuted in the state courts. By a collision between two freight trains on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad, between Savannah and Frink, Kas., three men were burned to a crisp and six others in jured. Mrs. Martha Wayland, aged 80, was killed and eaten by hogs at McComb, 111., June 9. Having sold theChicago stockvards to an English syndicate for $25,000,000, the Armour-Morris-Swift combination will build new packing-houses at Tol leston, Ind., so the Englishmen will not make much out of their buy. The Wisconsin Farmers' Alliance declares for woman suffrage. Floods on Red river, in Texas, have caused the loss of half a dozen lives and much property. At Warren's and SiviFs bends, twenty miles northwest of Gainesville, 10,000 acres of corn, cotton and other crops were destroyed. Rev. Sam Small has withdrawn from tbe Methodist church under fire. The treasury department has de cided that queen bees may be im ported free of duty. , At Greeley, Col., June 12, while Brakeman John Dillon was attempt ing to get a tramp from a freight train, the tramp shot and killed Dil lon, then jumped from the train and started across the fields, pursued by Brakeman Mattling, who finally killed him. Three white men who were peddling whisky to white men in the Sac and Fox Indian agency have been killed. Women raided a drugstore at Men do ta, Mo., where their sons had been supplied with liquor, and spilled all the intoxicants they found June 13. Sixty-nine St. Louis grocers have been indicted by a federal grand jury for selling oleomargarine that was not properly stamped. FOREIGN. Sir William Gordon Gumming was accused of cheating while gambling with the prince of Wales and a party of men and women. He sued those making the charge for slander and lost the case. The game was played with apparatus which the prince car ries about with him. The day after the trial Cumming married Miss Florence Garner, a wealthy New York girl. The prince of Wales was hissed and hooted: at by well-dressed crowds at the Ascot races after the baccarat trial. The landlord of the Albert hotel at Nottingham has been fined $50 and his license has been revoked for per mitting baccarat to be played on the premises and five persons who played the game were fined $5 each. Terrible storms have been experi enced in Gaiicia. Fifty lives were lost. Pluero-pneumonia is prevalent among cattle in York, England, and 200 animals affected with the disease have been killed. Switzerland has granted amnesty to all who participated in the Ticino rebellion. Baptist and Methodist conferences have memorialized the prince of Wales asking mm to quit gambling. Barillas has several editors working on the streets for having criticized, his government oi u-uatemaia. England and Portugal have reached an amicable understanding. The Australian colonies have joined tne postal union. Four soldiers were knocked down oy ltgntning and two oi tnem were killed while they with others were being reviewed by Emperor Wiiliam at xempienon j une . A pair of Bohemian twin sisters are joined together at the hips but are each complete in all the organs. They are years oia. The czar rejected the proposals of x ranee ior an alliance ana wnen in vited to visit Paris he replied bv ask ing if the nihilist organization which killed He live rsk off had been extir pated. THE CASPIAN SEA. Remarkable Changes In Level, Why ThF Have Occurred. Th Caspian sea lies eighty-fire feet below the level of the Black sea. and is tbe Greatest body of water in the world lying below the sea level, says Qoldtkwaite'n Geographical Maga zine. It is remarkable not only for this fact, bat for the changes that have occurred in its level. About the first century of our era there is no doubt that tbe level of the sea stood eightv five feet above its present horizon, aod of course, spread over a vastly more extensive area than at present. Tbe Russian Geographical society has printed a treatise, written by N. M. Phitipof, of these remarkable changes of level. Since tbe early part of tbe Christian era a general and gradual decline of the level of the sea has taken place. - In the eighteenth century, however, there appear to have been a few periods when the level rose. From the beginning of the present century there bas been a fall, but since 1865. judging from recent observations, the level bas been higher. Lieut. Sokolof, a naval officer, while working in the Caspian region from 1643 to 1848. col lected mocd information. m Me found that in tbe present century the level had steadily fallen, just as ia tbe last century it has risen, caasing great ap prehension among the inhabitants of an inundation and giving rise to the belief in periodical variations every thirteen years. Lercb, while in Bakn, in 1734 and 1747, found submerged boil dings which bad stood on dry land thirty years be fore, and he mentions a saying of the Persians that tbe sea rose and fell alternately every thirty years. Mr. Philipof has made a specfal stndy of the whole question. Inquiring into tbe causes of these changes of level. ne nnas a variety oi innneoees at work, such as wind driving the water towards certain coasts, temperature of tbe air causing m summer evapora tion and consequent fall in level, and in winter cold producing a rise in level. Rivers, rain and earthquakes are also among the active agencies, caasing fluctuations from month to month and from day to day. Barnam'g Early Traits. In arithmetic and every form of cal culation he was particularly apt, and one or nis earnest recollections, and one which he always mentioned with much pleasure, was' that in his 10th year he was called oat of bed by his teacher, who had wagered with an ac quaintance that in less than live min utes be (the boy) coo Id calculate the number of feet in a given load of wood. After obtaining the dimensions, hall asleep as be was, PbJneas, much to the delight of his teacher and the discom fiture, of his doubting acquaintance, cor rectly figured oat the result in less than two minutes. Nor was this knowledge of figures the only marked trait' which was early developed by the boy. He was also at a remarkably early age fully aware of the value of money. He never was ' known to squander or foolishly spend a penny. When he was 6 years old he had saved coppers enough to exchange for a silver dollar. This he "turned" as rapidly as he could with safety, and by peddling home-made molassef candy, gingerbread, and at times a species of liquor made by himself and called cherry ram, he hd accumulated when he was not quite 12 years of age a sum sufficient to buy and pay for a sheep and calf. Indeed, to use an ex pression subsequently employed by him when relating these early experi ences, be was rapidly becoming a small Croesus, when his father very kindly gave him permission to bay his own clothing with hrs own money. OI course this permission materially re duced bis little store. N. Y. Tinies. A Drummer as a Collector. The typical commercial traveler is a man of resources and nerve. Some times he possesses what is called . "gal).n As a rale be is equal to any occasion. This was shown a few days ago in Waeo, Tex. A firm at that place had failed, owing a New Orleans house a large sum. A traveling mau was sent to get a settlement. At the end of a week be bad succeeded ia getting $1,750, bat a much larger sum. remained unpaid. Despairing of col lecting any more he determined on a new plan bf campaign. Posting him self on tbe principal street he waited for his debtor, and when he appeared the drummer drew a cowhide and gave him a good thrashing. Then he walked to the telegraph office and wired to his house: 1 'Collected $1,750 and cow hided Solomons for balance." No doubt the cowhiding gave him great satisfaction, but the house could not deposit it ia bauk. Overcrowding of Professions. France is suffering almost as mnch as Germany from the overcrowding of the learned professions. Fifteen thousand schoolmistresses. 7.000 pri mary schoolmasters . and 500 high school instructors are looking in vain for employment. There are 27,000 French physicians; that is about 6.000 or 7,000 more than there are ia Ger many, with her 10.000.000 more inhab itants. Paris has 800 apothecaries. Two thousand lawyers in Paris, who have passed all preliminary exam inations for a full practice, can not make livings in their professions. Civil and mining engineers are so numerous that hundreds of them are seeking eagerly petty positions in mines and factories. Brie-a-Brac "The people who buy bric-a-brac n says a dealer, and constantly ask for new designs have very little idea of the trouble of producing them. The china factories have been at work so long that every conceivable design for the vase, cup, jar or other china article has been employed over and over again scores of times, and the best a designer can do is to select something which has probably not been used ia the last few years and adapt it to suil his employe i-3- The whole animal kingdom has been ransacked to fur nish shapes for bric-a-brac and the whole vegetable kingdom to furnish material for its decoration. In the last twenty years vases have been made in the shape of elephants, cam els, hippopotami, rhinoceroses, lions and other land animals; of whales and every other kind of fish, to say noth ing of the more familiar forms of do mestic animals and well-known birds. When the available list became ex hausted recourse was had to the imag ination, and no nightmare ever con ceived monsters of a form so frightful as some of the shapes em ployed for chiua goods. N. Y. 2Yt6une.