, 1878-06-01
Here and There.

wv year uthHlSS.
FCrty-seven per cent Of all the laborer.
IN this country are farmers
During the past year our exports exceeded
our imports In value by over 500. .oOO.O .OO0.
The excitement in Canada over the ex-
pected raid is increasing, and great activity
Is manifested among the militia.
! May 18th, Iraye Bartlett, farmer living
near Lttleton, W. Va, aged eighty years,
cut his throat with razor.
bennington, another of the famous old
| racers, has died. lie was the sire Of solne
Of the leading horses now on the turf.
The Providence tR J. Tool company
| have completed contract with the Eassian
government for the manufacture OF over a
half million of rifles.
In the Indian appropriation bill this year
there Is Il provision requiring that when
practicable a portion Of the subsistence funds
MAJ he used TO encourage agricultural pur-
suits among the tribes
The Chinese In New York number about
one thousand, and the Herald says If they
Continue 10 increase 1t VIII not be very long
before they VIII have fair share of the mu-
nieipal offices.
The aggregate quantity of land under cul-
tivation has increased from 90,UoO, 600 OF
acres IN 1870, to l20, 000, 900 IN 1877 that
Is to say, We had 81. 900, 000 acres more un-
der the plough IN 1877 than IN 1870.
In Portland You can buy a splondid sal
mon for - cents, which, in New York,
would readily bring Sl0 In New York you
can buy line shad for - cents. which would
easily find purchaser in Portland at $40
A statistican, protesting to be well inforni-
ed rs to the tide Of emigration now starting
westward estimates thai Nebraska Will gain
10, coo, Kansas 75,G10,- and Texas 200, 600
population before the present year Is finished
Emperor William. of Prussia, keeps a
diary of tine thipgs he shoots. Since 1879,
he has slot : 600 head, or about l2O year.
In 1919, while shooting he let his gun 20 off
accidentally, and So on his right hand he
hasa't got much of foretinger-
The review of our mercantile marine, Is a
dreary story OF our ,lecadence in that bransh
of business. Our total tonnage to-day Is
only three-fourths of what 1t was seventeen
wears ago, while that of other nations has
DcCI. llCbiCu fSAAA-
Eastern Journals state that The vendors Of
fire arms III New York and elsewhere have
lately been receiving many letters from Cal
iornia. containing inquiries for prce lists OF
arms, and particularly repeating rifles. In
some instances the writers have not hesltat-
ed to say that the weapons were wanted te
shoot Cinnamon with.
There are some indications that Austria
has changed her intentions regarding inter-
ference in the Eastern controversy, and that
she is gradually tending towards an alliance
with England. The recent speeches of Prince
Auersperg and Count Tisza IN the Austrian
Reichsrath and the Hungarian Diet, fore
shadow an important change In the policy
of the government.
The steamship CGiyorHiG, originally m
tended fer the Oregon trade, and recently
purchased in Philadelphia by the Russian
government, Is said to be eminently adapted
to the line OK business the Atabama pursued
SO successfully, but instead of fitting ont as
a privateer, she will be q regular Russian
war vessel The waiting game which the
Enslish are said to be playing will afford the
Rnssiaiis time to gather number OF these
fast steamers 10 prey on British commerce.
Ii will be borne in mind that the laws OF
the United States against furnishing and to
bcllirerent at war with a country with whom
We are at peace do not 20 into force until
war has been formally declared, and until
official notice thereof has been received at
Washington So as matters now stand,
both Russia and England can buy Just as
many Of our ships, recruit just as many of
our soldiers or seamen, and export from US
as many munitions of war, as they please
In addition to those existing in New York
and other large eastern cities, many eominu-
nistic societies have been discovered in some
of the southern states A few days SINCE,
one was unearthed at Parkersburg, West
Virginia 1t is said to have membership
of go. regularly officered and drilled, bnt
have no arms or ammunition, so lar as is
known. The members are very retcent and
will NOT tell the object of the organization,
and ats meetings are held with great secrecy.
Other societies are slid to exist In that state,
but 10 others have been unearthed as yet.
Pioehe New Record" An Indian, nick
named Buck. who is brother to the chief OF
the Muddy Indians, lately paid visit to Pr
oche, having Just returned from ST. George,
Utah. He says that the Mormons IN that
neighborhood have been telling the Indians
Go SWIM (get baptized): that God come
by'me by and Kill all the Indians, and that
In consequence, heap Indians swim. Buck
who is a wide awake Indian. and has an eye
TO business, says he told the Mormon bishop
sYou Glib me six white squaws Inc heap
swim Won no gib me SIX white squa"s me
no swirl
A Washington letter writer says: Ihere
is an impression in official circles that the
communists have set the month OF June Tor
such rising as they can effect, and that the
San Francisco organization, having the most
desperate chiefs, is likely to lead of. There
ia no doubt that good many sensible people
IN western cities think there Is cause for
crave an,rebensions. bat the law-abidlng
cit;zcps ar, NOT unprepared, and there Is an
;Tonression here that while the government
NAV be called on to help TO suppress nous
the people viii be better prepared ior resist
ance than last year, and will perhaps Ia some
of the western cities be tonnd ready 10 tane
matters in their Own hands, anu teach lhs
IaUless classes snch lesson as they learned
in San Francisco and as Was not lorgotten
for long tune
The Montana papers contain accounts Of
the marvellous discovery Of gold bonanza
in that territory. In the recital Of the incl
dsnts eonnecteI with this discovery We see
unfolded another chapter Of the romance OF
the mines, another wonderful surprise for
stogd worker who had been dogged by Ill
fortune from the time OF his first going to
California in the o,d ''gold fever" days, and
wbe. at last, from the depths Of discourage
ment finds himself made rich beyond all his
dreams as suddenly and finely IS things hap
pen in fairy story But month or two
since, Vestal, the discoverer, could borrow
in Helena only with the greatest difhcpity
on the security of his mine lev hundrea