, 1873-11-20

of the Montana Indian recently on vis-
to Washington. He must be Buffers
long lost brother
g The Larinie Independent says
there isn't female in the Wyoming
Legislature, unless the people of W
oming kave been grossly deceived, and
have unawares, chosen female in dis
guise. U..4
W Rsv. A. Z. Garrison, of Salem,
thrown from a wagon last week and lay
for several hours by the roadside in
II helpless condition. His injuries are
of very serious nature. His breast
and thighs were found to frightfully
bruised. i-.r..t ....l
EP Failures in the tea trade at New
York are attributed rather to tho com.
petition which is growing in the West
than 10 the panic. The great Western
mars, it is said, are receiving their teas
m'.lnly by way of San Francisco, and
,nany smaller firms have been wound
up owing to this withdrawal Of trade.
e In Hot Springs those who are
not prosperous express it this wise: I'm
J. Cooked; I'm Tuckered; I'm City
Script; I'm Graphicised; I'm jimjamm-
ed, bursted, suspended, played ont, f.
nancially the worst treated and most
unfortunate cusa Of the can't pay class
in the country"
w A London photographer adver-
tises as follows: ''In consequence of
the daily increase of accidents by rail-
way, the public a1e earnestly requested
20 call at the studio of the Blank School
of Photography, to have their portraits
taken, that they may have scms me-
mento of departed friends .-tf 4
II Springfield Mass paper says
The windy beard of Eolus himself, and
all his succeedaneous bags Ct stmos-
phere, b.swept our segment of earth
from long ere dawn Of yesterday through
bitter twenty four hours of extreme
wilderness and physical and spiritual
shiverings. ...r ..f.
| F An imn ediate contrast in the En-
gIish Probate Offics: John Stuart Mill,
philosopher, died worth e14.00O; Ben.
jamin Grigsby, potato merchant of
Shoreditch, died worth e32O,OOO. The
philosopher was perhaps surprised at
having SO much to leave; the potato man
probably regretted having SO little.
W A company of imni. rants arrived
at the Dalles on Wednesday of last week
from Iowa, en- route for Walla Walla.
they numbered near forty men. women
and children. The gentlemen connect
ed with this company, report that there
are many families in the section of Iowa
hey came from, who contemplate COM
ing to this portion of the Pacific coast.
e A Detroit b. siness man found a
counterfit ifty-eent scrip among his
currency the other day, and he put it
into his pocket and that afternoon gave
it to little girl begging on the streets.
When he came back from tea he found
the same piece of scrip in the drawer
again, and questioning his clerk he
Glearned that little girl had brought it
in, bought stick of gum, and gone
away with forty-nine cents good money
That bank has suspended payment to
oeggars.
~ Mrs. Howell of Marion county,
Oregon, last week cleaned a chicken
preparatory to cooking it for dinner, and
placed it a pan which rested on the
cooking stove. After being in the pan
for few minutes, she took hold of it to
emoye it to the cooking vessel when she
received severe electrical shock. She
called in the neighbors and they too ex-
! psrienced tho same shock when touch
ng thu chicken. Let them explain this
who can.
. q The Jacksonville Sentinel Of last
Saturday says: "James G. Parker, the
man who was stabbed at Ashland ON
Thursday evening of last week, by Au
5 gust Walters, died on Monday morning
last. Walters is in jail here in default
of 50, 900 bail. He was somewhat rough
fly handled by the circus men, who
threatened to hang him. but were re-
strained from SO doing by John Wilson,
: proprietor of the circus. None of Wal
ters' injuries were very seriops, how
: ever.
= e The Fourth Biennial Session of
the Legislature adjourned sine die last
night about 8 7. o'clock. and some 60 per-
sons were thrown out of lucrative posi-
tons just as the rigors of the approach
ing winter are beginning to be manifest.
For the benefit of our readers we would
say that this was not oscasioned by the
panic in the Eastern States. They i'm
mediately made run upon tho Sscre-
!. ary's bank, but at last accounts it had
ample funds to meet the demand.-Cou-
rier.
q An immense stone, twenty-one
feet long, seventeen feet wide and three
feet thick, and weighing 119 tons, has
recently arrived at Washington, by
schooner. from the Cape Ann quarries,
and is to be followed by three others,
weighing respectively eighty -four, forty
eight and thirty-seven tons. to be used
in the construction of tie Scott monu-
ment. The price paid for the blocks is
$4,000, and special machinery will