, 1879-03-01
Concentrations from Exchanges.

Zach Chandler was elected United States
senator by vote Of SS TO 40 Look ont for
him.
The ecclesiastic who has the honor To be
the Youngest member of the sacred college
is Cardinal Parocchi, who is now 4i years of
age.
The British consul at Pekin puts the
deaths from famine In China az T,c0o, goo.
The province OF Shansi alone lost over :, 200,
,ss,
The Portland Standard IS anxious for the
safety of its police force. 1t is afraid it VIII
get knocked down and robbed some of these
dark nights.
Colonel Merry, of the Iaiidsd Empire, has
entirely recovered from his recent sickness,
and Judging from the spicy columns of the
Empire is none the worse for it.
The Record Ugioa devotes eight columns
to accounts of the great plaques of the
world 1t is ghastly reading but we COM
mend it to our city councils all over the
country.
H. NJ S. Osprey is taking coal. ammuni-
ton, etc She is under orders for Alaska
She carries four guns, and sailed last week
Nothing additional has been received from
Alaska
The summary Prohibition OF the importa-
ton OF cattle from the United States Is
calculated to destroy an Important trade and
to deprive England of the advantages OF
cheap meat.
The Arizona Sentinel is authority for the
statement that the raising of csmeis an. os-
triches bids fair to figure soon among the IN
dustries of the Colorado desert of California,
and OF those parts Of Arizona bordering
tLeraoD.
\ Young mar named Jones, living at The
BALES has invented n machine consisting of
two brushes, made "a S.eel wire. To be placed
in front OF the truck wheels Of locomotives,
and two small steel plows, .or the purpose
OF clearing the rails from sand.
Tlncture OF iodine hSs been fully tried at
some of the Indian agencies III the West rs
a substitute for quinine III the treatment Of
malarial diseases, and with entire success
DIR. Foriyee Grimmell writes: Il have
been astonished and delighted with the re-
suits"
General G.. ". c. Lee, the eldest son of
Tile Late IA T. I-St, Il ~ IAUNS
his right to the Arlington estate, which was
ADVERTISED, and sold for TIC asseSsment and
collection q. delinquent taxes. He says he
does not expect to change the existing order
c. affairs, but simply wants a fair payment
for the estate 10y the government.
Another gang OF villains have come to
grief They were Chicago parties who, by
the practice of eounterfeitIEs the letterheads
used by newspaper publishers, have been ac-
customed to procure passes from railroads
aGd sell them to the ticket Scalpers- This
double imposition against two such worthy
institutions as newspapers and railroads,
calls for the severest punishment known to
the law.
The Spirit oJtae T-mes charges in its last
issue that the recent feat of Captain Bo-
gardus, at the hippodrome last month, was
not correctly performed; ; that the necks of
the balls had been n:rped off before they
were used, SO that whether hit or not they
would appear 20 be hit and that the rise,
instead of fifteen yards, was but eleven yards
and two feet Captain BOsardus is not in
the city
THURSDAY mcrn.ng OF i.st week the body
of an unknown man was found on the wagon
Rad to the Cascades, near the nine-mlle
post, evidently frozen to death. His re-
mains were brought to The Dalles by Ed
ward Holland and comrade on horseback.
They also found two other men wandering
about in the snow deiiriops from exposure.
The survivors were t1ken to the house OF
Mr.. Bill, near by, and kindly cared for:
One of then, had in his delirium removed
his boots and stockings, and tie chances are
that his feet will have to be amputated.
The other is suffering less.