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State and Territorial.

~Bob Whites" are plenty in Polk
cranty.
ynE Odd Fellows Of Ashland bave a
new hall
WALlA WALLA county, W. T., is to
have a new court house.
J. II. UFToS changed base. and issues
the Post from Port Oxford.
A u. SNIrns stone ware factory at
BucnS Vista is being enlarged.
The pull for the Polk county court
house ls a close race. with Dallas IN the
lead.
The surveyors are setting grade
stakes on the Albany and Lebanon rail.
road. ........
STAGES leave Baker City for Malheu,
on Monday, Wednesday and Friday
hereafter.
ANDY ToSEY, of Baker cou..ty las.
soed large black tail deer the other
day and took it home alive.
A PERRY across the Willamette, at
mouth OF the Tualatip, is talked Of, says
the Oregon City Enterprise.
A VERY rich ledge of gold.bearing
quartz has been discovered about two
miles south Of the Virtue mine, in Baker
county.
The East Oregonian complains that
the country boys turn the streets of Pen
dleton into training grounds for bucking
cyuses. .'''
The Yakima Record says that COM
plants are heard from the cattle men of
the loss Of stock killed on the ranges by
employees Of the o. r. d N. Co.
THE Mounuaineer is still of the opin.
ion that Mr.. III. A. Simmons, at Haw-
thorne, on the o. r. & N. Co.'S line, in
Umatilla county, has discovered vein
of anthracite coal. .s
LAKEvIEw, the county-seat of Lake
county, has two newspapers; but they
cannot get bushel of wheat ground
within seventeen miles. More business
needed, with little less politics.
The neighborhood of Bellevue, Yam
hill county, has been greatly disturbed
by horse thieves. Two men, named
Pearson and Brunts, have been arrested
and lodged in Jail charged with the
crime.
JUDGE THOMAS GRAY, of Indian Val.
ley, Idaho, says the Statesman, is likely
to lose his life from gun shot wound
received while out at night with ne'gh-
Dor on bear hunt. The neighbor mis-
took him for the bear aud lodged bull
let in his thigh, breaking the bones.
A FIGHT occurred recently, opposite
Pine Valley on Snake river, between
two white men and party Of Indians,
in which one Indian was killed and one
of the white men badly wounded. The
two men made their escape and alarmed
the settlers. More trouble is likely to
follow
The o. R. & N. Go, have commenced
the construction of round house at
The Dalles capacity for five engines
Times. From the same paper we learn
that the company has purchased the
right OF way for its line from The Dali 8
to the Cascades.
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TAGiEiC tNASI
settlers Arrested.

San FRAScIsoo, May 27.-Flve OF the Mus.
sci Slough settlers, viz; Wm. p. Friend,
John Hackett. j. S Hackett, L. O. Hanley
End James b. Fluelling, we're arrested IN
this city to-day, on charge OF being en-
gagged in the recent fatal affray in that To-
cal!Iy. They claim that they we're not con
cerned in the shooting, ana came to the city
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On the approaching Fourth of July
an American flag will be formally pre-
sented to the city Of Boston by the city
of New Orleans, which looks as if the
late civil war was about over.
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The Arab horse is not broken until
his fourth year. That's where they
differ from tea cups. But then Arab
horses are not washed by the average
kitchen girl.
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Sunday is getting to be day of ar
rest in this country.
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Give neither counsel OF salt until you
are asked for it.
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EsDns of Life,

GT. LOUIS. May 3l.-The steamer Golden
Eagle, Of the Keokuk Northern Packet Co.,
was, burned 10 the waters edge at Martin 8
Landiug, about 80 miles above Alton, OF 2
O'clock this morning. @. L. Penn and q
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HIS Reception

Sly FEAScisco. May 2s.-Kearney was
liberated from the house Of correction this
afternoon. This evening he was escorted
through the streets by the worhingmen's
pilitAry companies and n couple of thoa-
sand nen and women. 4 hundred guns
were fired on the sand lots in rejoicing over
The event.
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SacrAurNTo. May ss-Lsst evening the
S1p7ruie Cogt, rendered a dscis,vn m the
keaFusy case. releasing hin. The hearing
whs ca haboas corpus. appealed from thr
superior Count ot san Frausi-cn, where The
decision of the Police CaErt putung h-af-
ney In the house Of correction !or abasIre
language, Was sustained.
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10 ses the railroad Nnihoriiies Sith regard
TO eesctisg -oms eomProIiss IN connection
With their land Olsims.
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Th~ Kaiissh a~s piamis-~i

The superior e0urt this morning sustained
the general den urrsr q Eslllch against th@
impeachment proceeding, by the UoHsd u
supervisors and dismissed the cas-.
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KssrBcy's PsiieyI
The " srkinxmep.

SAN FRlscIsco. May 3n.-ward Presi-
dents OF the W. P. c., after hot discus
sion to-day, adopted by vote of Is to s q
resolution against afhliation with the Green
back labor party.
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srork a.slsy uassl Griyrlv. anl another
nar. uAne unkr5wu. are missing aud sup
p.sssA 90 bs I1si Th- bnag vAs a total l0ss.
No particular
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d, LARAMIE, May s3l.4--Companies I, ED
and b, 3d cavalry. left this city for the North
Park to-day topro'eet the miners and pro,.
pectors from the Utes. Major Carleton
commands the expedition. twenty-five
Wagons, each drawn by six mules accom-.
panied their column. and 81 pack mules
will leave to molIow and overtaks tSaesn.
DR.. Cannon and an assis' ant with two ambu.
lances also left with tn. troops. N
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/ Pgstal ChaSGes.

Postal changes on the Pacific Coast: Es
tahlished, Haw,hprns. Umaulla Go !, OHn.,
Mi.s Sarah 8. Simmons P. NJ 7; Juniper,
Lake Co, .ORn, sAlbest Jonas 2. NJ. Name
char ged-Newellsville, Marion Co., Oxn.,
to Champoeg. Postmssters appointed--E
Whiting. Milton. Umatilla Co.. Oen.; Johu
X. G6olson. Monument, Gran, Co., Ogn.
\. w. Curris, LaConner. Whatcom Co.,
W.T.
The Osceola times., 1880-09-04
Our Big Wheat Crop.
Chicago Tribune.

Our last crop of wheat was supposed
to be somewhere about 400, 100000 bush.
els ,it is ridiculous to attempt to foot 1t
up to within 1000 bushels). We had
30,000,000 of the old crop left over a
year ago, against 100000 bushels now,
the old wheat being much more closely
drained from the farm now than then.
That is, the people of the United States
have within twelve months consumed
and sold some 470,000,000 bushels, and
have practically none left to compete
with the wheat of the new crop. 1t is
exceedingly doubtful if that new crop
will foot up more than 470, 100000 bush
els, and if it should, the overplus will
not be a terrible burden to the people
Obliged to hold it, if they should be OBJ
liged to hold it over into another crop
year. We have not at present any
good reason TO expect that the demands
of Europe upon the United States for
bread will be much, if any, smaller
than year ago. There is not. there
fore. any present ground for alarm in
regard to a superabundance of wheat,
There is plenty of it ; enough to kill the
ambitions OF those who would like TO
see Europe forced to pay more than
fifty shillings per quarter for 1t; not
enough to warrant the bearing of it to a
point which will not pay for the cost of
producing it. The people who are
croaking about over-production do the
same thing every year. Twelve months
ago they said we had some S0,000,0O0
bushels more than we could get rid Of.
They miscalculated the facts in the case
to the extent of l00,000,000 bushels.
That is enough to show that they could
not then grasp the situation, and there
is no reason to think that they are any
more competent now. Fortunately,
their vaccinations do not seriously
affect the matter. The wheat goes for
ward while the siatisticians are proving
that there is no place to 90 TO, just as
serenely as the moon rolled on when
the dog was baying it.
The Osceola times., 1880-09-04
Taxing Titles.

Italy promises soon to have the largest
revenue of any country in the world.
The Italian Parliament" a despatch
titles and decorations on the following
scale (a) for title of prince, 10000 lire
Italian; (b) duke, 25,000; (c) marquis,
10000; (d) count, $4,000; (e) baron, 10,-
900; (f) for any other title, 5000; for
crests. 700; tor permission TO wear for
eign decorations, 80 lire Italian" THE
Italian lire, it may be said, is worth
about 20 cents.) The dispatch adds,
somewhat superiluously, that sit is sup
posed that more than one-half of the
owners of the above titles will be unable
or unwilling to pay this tax," but the
pecunious survivors should be sufficient
in number to clear off the Italian nation
al debt and leave the treasury full. The
American mother will at least be able
under the new regime to exact his
permit of her intending son-in-law, or
perhaps the government will issue
something neat but not gaudy in the
way of badges indicating that the wearer
IS licensed to call himself and be called
a duke or a marquis. Unhappily for the
title-loving of the world, it is not IN con-
temptation to turn out an unlimited
number of princes, dukes and the like
on compliance with mere financial
formality. Seriously, however, when
one considers how much the states OF
Europe have as rule done for their
titled classes, he can hardly think the
proposition unjust that now the titled
classes should contribute something to
the support of the state.-N y. World.
The Osceola times., 1880-09-04
Social Life In Portugal.
st. James Gazette.

II is n common remark of travellers
that Portugal is $50 years behind the
rest OF the world. The truth is that In
some respects Portugal is considerably
in advance of most even OF the progress
i've regions of the Continent. her sys-
of government is constitutional in reali-
ty as void as in name, and her people
enioy a larger measure of individual
freedom than would considered safe
either in Germany or in France. If
there are fewer great fortunes in Portu-
gal than in some other countries, there
appears to be a little downright poverty,
and a spirit OF contentment prevades all
classes. A recent writer, MIR. Crawford,
offers a peculiarly attractive picture OF
the state of the Portuguese workman or
day laborer. He is better fed than
many of our middle classes, and his
amusements present striking contrast
TO those of British workmen. When
his days work is done "he does not lean
against a post and smoke pipe, nor
does he linger in the wine shop" III
it be holiday or Sunday in rural
district, he puts on clean shirt, with
gold or silver stud as a neck fastening,
and his newest hat, varying in shape,
according to the locality, but always OF
black felt and of the kind which we see
in pictures of Spanish life" He also
"throws over his shoulders black cloth
cloak. with real gold or silver clasp"
and takes in his hand his favorite OK
goad, "and tall as himself, straight as an
arrow, wel.rounded and polished and
bound with brass" Thus attired and
with his guitar round his neck, he makes
for the peasants drawing room, the
nearest fashionable threshing floor"
He finds here large company OF old
and Young of both sexes, come together
for gossip, song and dance" III the
dancing is not always graceful, and the
singing is not particularly refined, both
are the expression of bright and
healthy temperament.
The only serious hardship in the ordi-
nary lot of the Portuguese peasant is the
conscription: but, unfortunately, this is a
hardship Of the worst kind. often ahd
often" says Mr.. Crawford, have |
watched with pity and strong indigna-
/ ton the workings of the most damnable
| system. At one time married men were
not liable to conscription, and this Is
said to have led to large increase OF
/ early marriages. Now, however, the
/ law is more strict, and the Portuguese,
| like most Of their continental neighbors,
have to submit with as good grace as pos
sible to what is regarded as an inevita-
ble evil. Whether it is really inevita-
I BILE, it is difficult for foreign observers to
decide. The only nation the Portuguese
have to fear is Spain, which has un'
douhtedly some enthusiasm for the
"Iberian idea. But this so-called idea
awaken no response IN Portugal, and
the people would fight hard for theil
national independence.
The Osceola times., 1880-09-04
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more profitable. For a lamb of this
breed, weighing l25 POUNDS, - 80 is OBJ
tanned. lie estimates that six ewes will
produce eight lambs per annum and 90
pounds ofwool.
IT is well known that butter, cream,
milk and -four are peculiarly liable to
absorb efIiuvia. and should, therefore,
never be kept in moldy rooms or placed
where there are sour liquids, aromatic
vegetables, such as onions, cabbage and
bacon, or, indeed, any kind OF food or
thing of strong odor, lest they lose their
flavor.
WEEDS on gravel walks may be de-
stroyed and prevented from growing
again by copious dressing of the cheap
est salt. This is better method than
hand-pulling. which disturbs the gravel
and renders constant raking and rolling
necessary. One application early in the
season, and others as may be needed,
while the weeds are small, will keep the
walks clean and bright.
IT is of the very utmost Importance
that stock should have good, pure water,
and plenty of it. The thirst of animals
during the hot weather can readily be
imagined from Judging it by the human
thurst; and to deprive the animal of
sufficient drink is about the worst spe-
cies of cruelty that can be inflicted upon
the brute creation. The agony of ex-
cessive thirst is simply terrible.
THE largest cotton seed oil mill in the
United States is being erected in Little
Rock. Ark. The building is 800 feet by
so. The machinery will be run by a
350-horse power Allis-Corliss engine.
| There will be l2 stands of presses, with
! four presses in each stand, having a
capacity of using 800 tons of cotton seed
per day. The works viii employ, when
completed, $50 men in the various de-
| partments.
The raising of horses in the great
Yellowstone valley has become an i'm
portant and profitable business. Some
| of these herders have from 500 to 800
each, and dispose of their three-year old
colts at from $50 to $500 per mead. The
animals feed on grass alone, and the
only shelter afforded from the weather
| is in roughly-built sheds; still the ami
mails thrive well, and are, as rule,
more valuable than those bred else
| where.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Ohio Fdrn'sr
finds the common black ant an efficient
protection against the plague of the
J currant worms. He has several colo
nies of ants close to his currant bushes,
and enjoys an abundance of fruit, while
| his neighbor's bushes are overrun with
worms. Formerly he took pains 10
destroy the ant colonies, but on witness
ing their attacks upon the worms he
has taken pains to protect and encour
age them.
The Osceola times., 1880-09-04
Returning Foreigners.
New York sun.

The following advertisement appeared
in Yesterday mornings Sun:
WANTED-25 men for free passage tie Eng
wv land. JoHR BARANDON
l2O Greenwich st.
When Mr. Barandon was asked by a
reporter what his advertisement meant,
he replied:
"Why, this is not the first time that
such an advertisement has appeared in
the Sun We have sent thousands Of
Englishmen, Germans. Frenchmen and
others IN this way. We put them
through free to any part of the old
country, and yet not exactly for nothing.
You see we need them to take care Of
the live cattle which the company |
represent are shipping TO England. OF
course, we don't need such number of
men on the return voyage, and SO about
two years ago we hit upon this plan.
We never have any trouble in getting
all the men we want. In answer to that
little advertisement IN the Sun to-day
we have had at least hundred appica-
tions. We select from the crowd such
men as appear to be honest, able-bodied
and who have had some experience in
the taking care of cattle. Most Of the
men who apply to us are natives of
England. A good many are Germans.
They are so plenty that ! could go out
on the street and pick them up, but, of
course, it is easier to advertise for
themn
The Osceola times., 1880-09-04
Recoating st. Peters.

The London Telegraph prints the fol-
lowing in regard to the job of recoating
the dome of st. Peters:
In the spring Of 1868 Pope Plus TX.
gave orders to Cardinal Ricci that the
cupola of st. Peters should be recoated
with lead, upon the distinct understand
ing that the work should be completed
within four years from the date of the
commencement, as he earne silly wished
to see the renovation finished before his
death. The plumber, however, had
been occupied with the still unfinished
task for some fifteen years when the
venerable pontiif gained the majority,
and would very likely have prolonged
the gigantic job until the end of the
present century had not Leo XIII. re-
Gently issued positive orders that all
possible expedition should be used in
carrying out the undertaking commence
ed by his immediate predecessor. II
appears that in obedience to his holi-
The Osceola times., 1880-09-04
WOman's strength.


The strength of women hes in their
heart. 1t shows itself in their strong
love and instructive perception of right
and wrong. Intellectual courage is
rarely one of their virtues. AS rule
they are inclined to be restless and ex-
citable, allowing their judgments and
actions to be swayed by quick emotions
Of all kinds: but, above all, it is in their
hopefulness and their endurance that
they find their chief power. Who is
the last person to give up hope in the
case of member of the family who has
apparently gone altogether to the bad?
What mother or sister with deep and
ardent love for such will ever cease to
cherish hope or endure suffering on
their account? The patience of women
is proverbal, and their whole lives are
bound up in their affections. Few peo-
Pile will deny that love in one form or
another makes up the beauty of life 10
woman. Ii enters into all she does.
ANY work outside her immediate circle
is unoertaken most often from pure de-
sire TO help someone else to know some
thing ofthe mysterious happines of love.
Unlike men, women chiefly look for
personal intercourse WITH those for whom
they are working. If their interest lies
among the poor, they are desirous of
sympathetic personal acquaintance with
them, and very little good work of a
lasting kind has been done by women
without their own influence of love
being brought to bear on the individual
The Osceola times., 1880-09-04
Reversing Tanners Method.


Westield is the first town in this
vicinity to report a cure, as a result of
DR.. Tanners forty days fast, but it was
accomplished by just the opposite
method from that he pursued. A woman
who has had so much trouble from her
digestive organs that she was confined to
her bed, conceived the idea that it was
caused by overeating, grew interested in
DR.. Tanners case, and eagerly watched
Developments. She found that his
starvation symptoms exactly cores
ponded with her troubles, and so rea-
soued that hers must be caused by in
sufficient sustenance. She therefore
ceased to confine herself to short rations,
partook freely Of food, grew rapidly bet
ter, and now walks about in better
health than for many months.
The Osceola times., 1880-09-04
The Water of Europe.
New York sun.

New 1Ork sun.
Sir Henry Thompson, the distinguish
ed English physician, writes thus con-
cernlng pure water: "All the great
makers OF soda and potash waters have
now their own artesian wells, or other
equally trustworthy sources, SO that En-
glish Grated waters are unrival'ed in ex-
cellence. On the other hand, the foreign
siphon, made, as IT often is, at any chem
lists shop, and from the water OF the
nearest source, Is a very uncertain pro
duction, Probably our travelling fellow
countrymen owe attacks of fever more
TO drinking water contaminated by sew
age matter than to the malanous IN
fluences which pervade certain districts
of Southern Europe. The only wafer
safe for the traveller to drink Is natural
mineral water, and such is now always
procurable through )ut Europe, except
in very remote or unfrequented places
In the latter circumstances noadmlxlure
Of wine or spirit counteracts the poison
in tainted water, and makes IT safe 70
drink, as people often believe; but the
simple process of boiling it renders II
perfectly harmless, and this result Is
readily attained in any locality by max
ing weak tea, to be taken hot or cold, OF
in making toast water, barley water anu
lemonade"
The Osceola times., 1880-09-04
A Novel Alligator Hunt.
Albany (Ga1 Advertiser.

Our readers will remember how Mr..
II. II. Nelms, living ten miles on the
other side of the river, was troubled by
alhgators eating his hogs last year, and
how he instituted war on the enemy and
succeeded in killing a number. A pond
on his place seemed to be a favorite re-
sort for the scaly monsters, and they
play sad havoc with his hogs every year.
When the water is high there is no pos
sible means of Mr.. Nelms getting at
them. But about this time every year
the pond gets very low, and Mr. n. never
fails to avail bimself of the opportunity
to 90 for his troublesome dead. beat ten
ants. When the water in the pond be-
gins to get low the alligators dig out a
kind of well in the pond eight or
ten feet deep, and from the bottom of
this well they work back into its wall a
cave, where they can secrete themselves
from all foes. The other day Mr.. Nelms,
owing to the low water, dug down into
two of their caves and found gator in
one and killed it. He tracked the other
from its den out of the pond into the
woods to an old clay root, under which
he found sir gator snuglv ensconsed.
IT'S useless to say he too was brought
forth and made to answer for his mis-
doings. They were cut open, and in one
was found the two halves of a large hog.
The Osceola times., 1880-09-04
The Raid on Mexico.
Kansas City Times.


Appropos Of the proposed Mexican
raid and projected railroads, the Calves
ton NNns says: A rumor is current in
New York that syndicate has been
formed in New York, which includes
the great railroad king, Jay Gould. to
secure this same route. The Central gets
a money subsidy of about $4,000 per
mile on the line from Mexico to Leon,
besides exemption from all taxation for
a number Of years, and exemption from
import duties on all material used in
construction. In paying his import
duties every importer is virtually com
PEELED to pay certain proportion in the
paper issued to the railroad If he
wishes to pay the whole in money he
can do 80, but the law provides that in
lieu of the paper double ITS amount in
cash must be paid in. This provision,
of course, secures the subsidy. Ameri-
cans are interested in desiring railroad
connection with the City of Mexico, to
be carried forward as rapidly as possible,
for when completed it will turn the bulk
of the trade of Mexico to the United
States. II two railroads can be had in
active comp Ietition, the public will stia
be better satisfied.