H. T. ICIKKI'ATUKIK. Publisher.
LEBAMOK..
OKEGON
OCCIDENTAL KEWS.
Placer Mines Being Reworked
in California.
KINDEKGARTKNS IN OREGON.
Tke Deepest Sea Soundings Ever
Made Fine Hops Raised iu
Sonoma County, Cal.
Kindergartens are being opened
many towns in Oregon.
The Grand Ronile has marketed 100
carloads of hogs the past year.
Mare Island will get all but (50,000 of
the MXI,UW to be spent on the tfarttord.
K. G. Harris and Jim Baker, two dar
ing robbers, have been killed in Arizona
by a posse under the Sheriff of Coconino
county.
Mining operations are being resumed
in Cuiur d'Alene district in Idaho under
owners' terms, o.oO for miners and (3
for oamien and shoveiers.
The old Finacate placers in Ban Diego
county. Dal., and near the ban Bernar
dino border are being reworked with ex
cellent results. Dry wasners are used.
The Oregon Agricultural College ex
hibit at the State Fair was turned over
to the World's Fair Commission of the
State, and is now displayed at Chicago's
great show.
Judge Roes at Los Angeles holds that
a Chinaman to be a merchant must be
actively engaged in buying and selling
and other duties that merchants are oc
cupied with.
Forest fires in the Sound country in
Washington have driven the cougars and
bears out of their dens and into the val
ley settlements, where they are seen in
great numbers.
The population of New Mexico has
not materially changed during the past
year. The total Territorial indebtedness
"is $911,712, and the cash balance in the
treasury is 121,UUU.
Immense coal fields in Honors, Mexico,
are to be worked by San Diego parties,
who have obtained a lease from the gov
ernment, Kailroad, harbor and other
oneessions have been granted.
There is a rumor at Victoria, B. C,
founded upon private advices, that the
governments of the United States and
Ureat Britain are negotiating to close
Behring Sea and the Pacific for two
yean.
It is reported at Chino that Clans
Rpreckels has bought 6,000 acres of the
Bixby ranch near Westminster, Orange
conntv. Cal.. and will plant it to beets.
If this be true, it means another sugar
factory for that region.
The Albatross has made the deepest
tea sounding ever made. Phosphorus
fati without eves were secured at 2.800
fathoms. Fish and weeds sufficient to
load four cars were secured in the neigh
borhood of Behring nea,
The Los Angeles Chamber of Com
mnrce has been induced by the large in-
rlnr from the East to pass a resolution
stating that " here, as in every other
M-tion of the country, several men stand
ready to fill every vacancy for work that
occurs. The new-coming day laborers
stand very little chance of securing work
at the present time, and are therefore
urgently warned not to come to this
country." .
It is reported at San Diego that an In
dian outbreak is imminent at Yuma,
rains to the trouble between Chief Fae-
nnal and ex-Chief Miguel. Telegraphic
orders have been received by Loionel
KMtn.il in command of the local garri
son of regular troops for aid. He has
assigned Major Charles L. Davis to the
command of a detachment of thirty men,
who will leave at once for service at that
nnint.
Suspicion is now aroused at San Diego
that the body of the man found recently
near La Mesa was that of A. C. Warner,
who disappeared from San Diego some
weekn ago after stealing $30 from his
roommate. He is said to have engaged
hv the Pacific Mail steamer Sep
tember 5 for Chili, and is understood to.
have had t4,000 ln Chilian scrip, having
stolen the American money to meet his
immediate requirement,
The sugar industry of California for
the past year has been very successful.
Both the grower of sugar beets and the
manufacturer of sugar therefrom have
realiied large profits. The refinery at
Watsonville is reported to be working at
its full capacity. The yield of sugar
beet this year is 70,000 tons, which at
present rates is worth $77 per ton, ex
clusive of the bounty, which is worth
$40 per ton. Last year the crop of sugar
beets was 6,000 tons. It is expected the
growing of sugar beets will become
leading agricultural industry.
' Thomas E. Sheridan, President of the
First National Bank of Koseburg and
Aa nf tl.n nmmoters of the Coos Bay,
Koseburg and Eastern railroad, says the
remaining sixty-two miles of road has
been located trom myrue ronu w now
bnrg. Work is practically suspended
i... n, minv neaan. but will be started
in earnest early in the spring, and the
road will we compieieu uy nuvcmwr i,
18IH. Completion of this road will make
ameesibie an immense timber area, and
will render tributary to Portland a large
and fertile section of jthe State, which
has heretofore been in U but name part
W California.
BUSINESS BREVITIES.
There are (10,000 telephones in London.
Germany's first railroad was built in
1K55.
Russia has more horses than any other
nation.
Liberia yearly exports 1.000,000 pounds
of collee.
The bog lund of Ireland amounts to
,8:10,000 acres.
California wines are said to be gaining
favor in Europe.
Over 12.000 persons are employed in
London theaters.
Nearly 1,000.000 pianos are made an
nually in England.
The total coat of the Sues canal ex
ceeded 20,000,000.
The capital invested in English rail
roads exceeds $500,000,000.
The little Kingdom of Greece finds
employment for 27,000 sailors.
The unicycle is expected by an in
ventor to go a mile in twenty seconds.
The hats worn out in this country an
nually cost as much as $300,000,000.
It is estimated that 5,000,000 women
are earning wages in the British Isles.
One of the largest barber shoos in New
York now employs girl barbers exclu
sively.
The price paid for cider annlee at the
big mill at Doylestown, Pa., is 16 cents
per luu pounds.
Forty-seven years ago the patent for
the first practical sewing machine was
issued to Jbliae ilowe.
The State of Illinois will nse this year
more than 4,uuu,uuu parrels ot Deer, or
enough to float a navy.
The national debt of Great Britain is
680,681,581 ($3,40H,4O7,i5) ; the na
tional debt of the United States is f 177,
777,804.37.
Greeley. Col., will ship abont 5.000
carloads of potatoes to other States the
present year. Many carloads of these
potatoes go to lexas.
The Waterbury Watch Company has
resumed operations. The courts ought
to have known that it was impossible to
wind that concern up.
A carpet loom has been devised which
runs two sets ol needles, and the in
ventor claims that it will produce i
square yard of carpet material in one
minute.
The consumption of beer in the United
States is now half a barrel per capita,
and is doubling about every eight years.
At the beginning of the next century it
promises to he a barrel a head.
The Tribune states that the 1.10:! mill
ionaires of New York city alone could
if they choose, bny up the whole real
estate of the entire Southern States and
evict the population by due process of
law.
According to the official report for the
past twelve months the American peo
ple drank only 8,383,720 barrelB of oeer
in 1875, while last year we drank 31,374,
519, and this year 33,876,466, an increase
ol Z,4oo,o40 barrels.
The nail machine was invented in 1775.
At the present dav it is estimated that
4,000,000,000 nails are annually made by
machinery in breat Britain alone, and
from a - fourth to a half of tins numlier
in the United States.
Eastern Switzerland manufactures an
nually nearly $20,000,000 worth of machine-made
embroideries. The United
States alone have imported as high an
$7,7UO,UOO worth of these articles in
single year, and the business seems to
ue increasing. -
PURELY PERSONAL.
General Black holds his pension by
grace of a special act of Congress,
Inspector Williams of the New York
police was arrested the other day by one
of hie men, who was convinced that the
Inspector was a confidence man
Mrs. Crook, the widow of the Indian-
fighting General, is a very tine-looking
woman, with snowy-wnite hair mat is
in striking contrast to her youthful and
vivacious spirits.
Tennessee has seven living ex-Govern
ors, in the list ot official succession
they come as follows : Isham ti. Harris,
D. W. C. Senter, James D. Porter, Alvin
G. Hawkins, William B. Bate, Robert
L. Taylor and John P. Buchanan.
It is stated that as soon as the Arch
dnke Francis Ferdinand d'Este returns
from his journey round the world his
betrothal will take place with Princess
Elizabeth of Bavaria, a granddaughter
of the fcmperor rrancis Joseph and of
Prince Kegent Luitpold ol Bavaria.
Don M. Dickinson ot Michigan, ex
Postmaster-General of the United States,
has been retained by the Canadian Pa
cific to defend President Van Home and
other officials of the road charged with
violation of the interstate commerce law.
The trial comes up in November at Ta-
anma.
Captain Mahan, now of the United
States steamer Chicago and the author
of the remarkable books on the influence
of sea power, is one of the most popular
Americans in England. He was a guest
at the dinner given by the Ijueen to the
German Emperor at Osborne the other
evening.
Ex-President Benjamin Harrison
writes to a friend that he will arrive in
San Francisco about the 1st oi next Feb
ruary. He will remain in California six
weeks. His lecture at man lord urn
versitywill he largely historical, and will
treat of colonial characters down throng!
the confederation to the adoption of the
united states constitution.
Dr. Thomas lleazle Park, the phvsi
cian who accompanied Stanley through
the Central African forest in his search
for Emin Pasha, is dead. The explorer
showed much affection for Park in his
book, for the physician pulled Stanley
through when he was attacked by sick
ness at Fort Bodo and also performed
excellent service for the other members
of the expedition.
EASTERN MELANGE.
Firebug Conspiracy Discov
ered in Chicago.
HE MVED A COLORED WIDOW.
Destitute Farmers of Western Kan-
sua Appealing to Oovemor
Lewelllug for Aid.
Of fifty-six Indian agoncieB twenty are
now in charge of army officers'.
Massachusetts is credited with having
100,000 cyclists, including both sexes.
The water sunnlv ia limited in New
York, and the price of milk has goneup.
Gold-mining in Colorado has lieen
much stimulated by the decline insilver.
The town of Perry in the Cherokee
Strip is rapidly assuming city propor
tions. There are said to be about five contest
ants for every claim in the Cherokee
atrip.
There are about 750 hotels in Chicago,
which have accommodations for 150,000
guests.
Three billion cigarettes were Bmoked
in this country during the fiscal year
just ended.
It 1b said good moonshine whisky can
be bought in Eastern Tennessee for 60
cents a gallon.
The clergymen of Kings county, N. Y.,
are denouncing the proposed Corhett
Mitchell fight.
A syndicate of Populist, headed by
State officials, ib buying up newspapers
in close counties in Kansas.
Floods have done immense damage to
crops in Virginia and washed away four
large nulls on the Kapiuan.
The Federal grand Jury at Birming
ham. Ala., has indicted six Federal offi
cers for corruption in office.
Deer are more plentiful in the Adiron
dack this fall than during any previous
open season for a score of years.
An organization of Spiritualists re
cently met at Lilieral, Mo., and raised
$100,000 for a Spiritualistic college.
Cautain H. D. Spore of Hudson is or
ganizing a bicycle corps for the Finrt
HCgimem Ol Hie ittxua Yuiuiiwwr uuwu,
A movement has been started among
the A. O. U. W. of Kansas to secure seed
wheat for the destitute western farmers.
The big dynamite guns fur the defense
of New York harbor are- to be trained,
elevated and depressed by electric mo
tors.
The consolidation of electric railroads
with the establishment of a truck sys
tem in New England is one of the latest
schemes.
The Columbian Celebration Compa
ny's building at me world s ran- cost
$400,000, and it was sold by the receiver
for $2,250.
A Chinaman at Ottawa will test the
constitutionality of Canada's law, which
imposes a duty of $0 each on an (jni
nese immigrants.
The Amalgamated Association of Iron
and Steel Workers in Pennsylvania has
agreed to concede a 10 percent reduction
in the finishers' department.
In Cincinnati there has recently been
organized a rent guarantee company,
the business ol which is to insure lanu
lords against loss by bad tenants.
There have been recent developments
tending to show that the Louisville ami
Nashville railroad will soon absorb the
Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern.
A Chattanooga electrician proposes to
perfect an arrangement by means oi
which train robbers will be electrocuted
an soon as they touch the express com
pany's safe.
Already 15.000.000 have been spent
upon the scheme to carry electric power
(or illuminating and manufacturing pur
poses from Niagara Falls over the State
of New York. The first wires will prob
ably be stmng along the brie canal.
The Mtjatiatiffl nf thi shinning of the
world, iust published by Lloyds, show
that there is no nation wiucn nas maue
so rapid an increase in the tonnage of
Bteamers registered during the, past
twelve months ae the United states.
Two hundred and one women availed
thmtlvua of the privilege of voting for
school officials at an election held in New
Haven, Conn., on September 18. 'ihc
ticket they supported was elected by a
majority of 1,700 out oi a vote oi t,wi.
The reports of railroad earnings con
tinue to Bhow a decrease as compared
with the earnings last year. There has
been a decrease every week for some
time, but the weekly decrease has been
growing smaller since the middle of Au
gust,
A water famine prevails in parts of
Eucinal and Duval counties, Tex. In
the town of AquilareB there is much suf
fering. Mexican women await the com
ing of the trains, and with cans and
pails catch the drippings unuer me ten
der and engine.
The House Committee on Banking has
decided to report favorably on Mr.
Springer's bill providing that before a
loan can be made by a national bank to
one of its officers consent must ue grout
ed by vea and nay vote of the directors.
A great number of banks have come to
griel because ot tne borrowing proclivi
ties of their directors.
A Uremic conspiracy has been discov
ered in Chicago, the scoundrels having
their lieadauarters in that city. At least
eight fin have been traced to these fire
bugs in Illinois and two or three other
States, and during the last three years
j the gang haa succeeded in getting a clear
uvtuw I rum tut uiniunuw mhuwuiw,
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.
Ex-Reprcscntutive George H, Dnrand
of Michigan has been selected by the
Attorney-General to assist in the prose
cution of Federal officials and others
implicated in the charges of opium and
Chinese smuggling on l'ugot Sound and
vicinity.
It is intimated that the Treasury De
partment is actuated in ordering the
revenue steamers Grant and Perry to
the Pacific Count more by the condition
of the Chinese and soal-llBhery qnestions
than to aid in the prevention of the
smuggling of opium in Puget Sound.
Hie Secretary of War has awarded a
medal of honor to Captain Ernest A.
Cardington of the Seventh Cavalry " for
distinguished gallantry at Wounded
Knee creek, S. 11. , during the Sinnx war
of the winter of 1800-1. Captain Car
dington was badly wounded in the bat-
tie.
The Committee on Ways and Means
has begun consideration of the new tar.
iff bill. There is an intimation that the
Secretary of the Tretumry favors an in
crease in the internal-revenue tax on
whisky, beer and tobacco as the best
meanB of raising the additional revenne
necessary to meet the increasing deficits
of the government.
In consequence of the new restrictions
for conducting the official trial trips of
naval vessels contractors will find it
more difficult in the future to earn pre
miums for an excess of Bieed. Begin
ning with the Montgomery, soon to be
tried, the contractors will not be permit-1
teu to maintain a pressure above n per
cont in excess of the Btandard pressure.
Heretofore the contractors carried steam
to a dangerously high pressure.
It is highly probable that the Com
mittee on Territories will report a bill
for the admission of Utah to Statehood
soon. Joseph, a member of that com
mittee, said that such a hill will be re
ported, and added that before the close
of the present session bills for t; ad
mission of Arizona, .New Mexico and
Oklahoma will be reported favorably
from his committee, He expressed great
confidence that all four will become laws.
In response to a resolution of inquiry
the Secretary of the Interior sent to the
Senateastatement concerning tuediHcon
tinuance and consolidation of land offices,
showing the following among the con
solidations: California, Independence
with Visalia ; Nevada, Eureka with Car
son City ; Wyoming, Lander with Buf
falo. This statement said the reason
for the consolidations was the inadequacy
of the appropriation and to prevent a
deficiency.
The Postoflice Department has ac-!
cepted the offer of the North American !
navigation Company to carry mails for
Mexico and Central America. The new
arrangement is not a contract, but a des
ignation of the company as the official
mail carrier under the general laws. Ac
cording to the oiler the steamers will
carry mailB once in twenty dayB to those
jwrts at which they are comelled to
stop by provisions of the company'scon-
tracis Willi tne neutral American niaies,
leaving the postmaster to fix the com
pensation.
Secretary Horliert has given to the
press the correspondence relating to the
removal of Captain Higginson from the
command of the Atlanta. The state
ments that Secretary Herbert apologized
to Captain Higginson for removing him
from duty and offered to restore him to
his command on his own application are
not borne out by the facts, and are espe
cially denied, Captain Higginson is en
titled to the credit of having disclosed to
the department the condition of the At
lanta when the vessel was ordered to
sea. The letters embrace the full his
tory of thiB well-known case, and the
conclusion of the matter is that Secre
tary Herbert accepts the apology and
explanation of Captain Higginsun, and
says his connection with the matter will
not be permitted to prevent his being
assigned to snch duty as his rank enti
tles him to perform, when the opportu
nity oilers.
AliBAflY v FfflUtHlWE 7 CO.
H. R. Hyde,
-A FULL
Furniture
-OF EVERY DEtiOKIPTION AND ALL KINDS OF
Ceirpets! CarpetsI
We make a specialty of UNDERTAKING. Culls answered night
or day.
Baltimore siock. Albany, or.
W. r. KSAU. Prwldenl. ORO. F. SIMPSON, Vlce-Prcildent. J O. WIUTMMAN, Sauratarr
J. L. OOWAN, Treiuurei. K. A. MUNICH. '"""J
Farmers' and Merchants1 Insurance Company
OF ALBANY, OREGON.
CAPITAL STOCK 9600,000
BOARD Or DIKBUTOK8.
Holl. B. 8. 8TRAHAN.
chief Jmtlce of Supreme Conn.
Hon. J. W. CTT8IOK, Banker.
Hon. i. K. WEATHBUFOKI), AttoruersitUw.
J 0. WKIT8MAN, Kq., CeplMllK.
No iwo Ililr.ln, lliree-lourlhl, tinny or nutynay duj in the Fannen' and MerohanU' FARM
polielea. The Farmer' and Merehantfl' Iniuranoe Company paya the lull amount of Ioh tip t
the ainonut luaured. The ihw3rltKjra to the eipttal nock oonniata of farmers, memhauta, bankera,
capltaitiu, aitorueji, phjraiciaiia and nujchauioi, the largeal amount held by tingle Individual
FOREIGN NEWS.
Dr. Buchwald of Uiipsic discovered
among some forgotten manuscripts in
the University of Jena Martin Luther's
political ossay against the theological
faculty of the University of Louvaiu,
Belgium, which manuscript was sup
posed to have been lost.
The tailors have met In London " to
prepare for the aliolitiou of the sweating
system and long hours and for the com
ing bnttle of the tailors of the world."
The 25,000 inomlxirs of the organization
are threatened by the master tailors
with a destruction of their union.
The present year of 18118 promises to
be a great year for the French vintage.
Chateau imik, which produced 320 hogs
heads last year, has this year yielded
1,000, and the increase iB general. There
is snch a demand for casks that certain
ordinary sizes, usually bringing 4 francs,
now cost 12 francs.
Many of the houses In Holland have a
special door, which Is never opened save
on two occasions, when there is a mar
riage or a death in the family. The bride
and groom enter by this door; it is then
nailed or barred up until a death occurs,
when it iB opened and the body is re
moved by this exit.
The Chinese government in reply to
the joint protest of foreign Ministers
against the alleged barbarous treatment
of foreigners in China, especially in Hu
nan and Hufehe, of which Chang Tung
is Viceroy, promised that Chang Tung
siiouiu ue degraded in rank in the event
of further outrages happening in hi
province.
EAST AND SOUTH
The Shasta Route
SOUTHER PACIFIC CO.
Kxprew traltii leave Portland dully:
6;lf v. Vllv...,..hir..iid.'. , AM
M:W r. M.II.t Albany Ar.i . ;
in I A.
.Him fTHtimurn l.r.J 7:00 v.
The it tut vi mUtiH Kin), ni all NtHtlnita from
Poriltuni tn Albany iiu'liwlvt': also TmigmK,
Hlii'tlii, HitlMty, HnrrlalnirK, Junction City, lrv
Iiik, Khkvhv aikI nil attitloiiri from ItoM'Imrtt lo
Athliiml iiwlimivu.
Knsftliurt tii alt -dally:
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U:if P. .UiV Allmtiy Ar. 11M t. H.
6:oO r. W Ar Kmt'tmrn I.t. 7:00 a. m.
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l:iO v. H.iLv ..Albany Ar. lO.'Jl a. h.
i:W p. M. Ar Utiaumi I,v. U:;(0 a. h.
8:10a. N.jl.v AIIihiiv Ar. v:a p.m.
9.W a. M.tAr lainamm l,v. 1ft r, m.
OlnliiK Can on Ugrden KiiutM.
PULLMAN blirrKT HLKKPEKH
ttflmit-VIaa Hlnftplnr Vara Attnohiri U
All Through Tralua.
WKHT HI1K IIIVIHION.
Hktwkh 1'oktiani and Cokvai.mii,
Mall train "-dally (Mce)it Hmiday):
7:3fl , h. i Lv...7.Vnrt land . ', Ar.TftM a.'u.
Ihih p. m. Ar Corvalii J,v. J l;Wi p. h.
At Albany and Corvallli unniieot with tralun
ol Onwim PaciHi! railroad,
KxpreaM traindaily ijit. Hinniar):
i.Vi v.
7:Hfi r.
t'tirtltliui. ...... At. .' A. H.
..MoMUHivillf... I.T. 1 fW A. M.
THROUGH TICKETS UK ':.'."'.
and Knrujw Attn he ubtnlntiil at Iowuai ratea (rum
I. A. Btmuett, agent, Uilmiifin.
K. KOKHMCR. Manager
K. P. ROOK IW. AmL Q. A Paaa. AffeiiL
Proprietor.
LINE OF-
Hon. J. L. OOWAN,
Hranljut l.inn Coanty Nstlonul Bank.
M. 8TRKNHKKU, Kq., Meroluuil
W. P. P.KAD. Kwo., Merchant,
D. B. MONTP.1TH. CanlUILt.
(J. t. SIMPSON, Hji)., Capltallit.