The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-05-05
sCISsaRIRcTuMs.

The people OF Kansas nave PA"o wv
800 acres in trees.
Crop prospects in Northern Texas are re-
rorted to be unusually good.
Savannah recently received her hrst ln.'
pert of pig iron since the war.
7, Hamadan. Persia about forty Jewish
families have become Christians.
The decrease in the debt of New York
city the past year WAS Sc, GOO.
Texas used to feed her pecans to. the hogs
Now she sells the crop for s2,O0o.ooo. .
A Christian church has lately been built
=, ,,,d;, from the ruins cf heather temple.
Louisiana man is establishing an aill-
GATOR farm. The hides and Gil are IN de-
mand.
Sma,,-nox has broken out in the neigh
horbood of Barbacomori and tombstone
Arizonia.
The old Catholic College in Berne has
o,,v nine students, for whom there are hve
Professors.
S,xtv steamboats on the Mississippi
p;,,or and its tributaries now employ the
electric light.
The Territorial Historical Society is gath
ering large collection Of pictures OF early
settlers in New Mexico.
Iowo has coal in thirty counties, ana last
voar had 457 mines in operation, which pre-
duced $500, 600 tons of fuel.
A small band of Apaches last week killed
and mutilated a Mexican herder near the
Hacienda de San Lorenzo, Arizona.
During the month of March the real estate
transfers of Chicago amounted to s., l6o' SOL
including ,260 pieces of property.
The Richmond WKfg announces its pur-
nose hsncoforth to support the Repubhcaa
PARTY and its national administration.
The Pittsburg workingmen who struck
against negro labor have resumed work by
order of the Amalgamated Association
Arkansas was admitted in 1886. She
had at the preceding census 3d. 3SS lnnapi''
ants; at the next census she had 9i,of4.
The emigration from all the Irish ports IN
the year 1881 was less than in 1850 by H.
l3S. the total for 1881 having been 7o,1l9.
Barley is beginning to head out in some
of the fields of the Salt River Valley, A 1.
The crop is very promising one generally
The Oneida historical society OF Utica
has collected money enough to erect Its de
aired monument Oh the battlefield OF Oris-
kany.
The business of catching mushrats, the
skins of which are sold for l5 cents apiece,
is carried on extensively in Deleware county
n. Y
A boy of five months is astonishing the
people of Madison, Ohio, by walking and
talking as well as most children of as many
years.
The Irish migration Society reports that
in forty years it has been the means OF send
ing S32, ,0OO, 900 of American money across
the ocean.
Louisiana produces year by year not less
than 500, 900 bales Of cotton, Misslssipp
$4,000, Arkansas 6o0,00o and Western
Tennessee about 200, 900.
A parrot believed to be scventy-two year:
of age recently closed its career at Naper
vile, ILL., 1t was brought from South Amer
ica in 1852 by Michael Hines.
General Butler insinuates that he ha:
gone ints the Democratic party to stay
The Republicans profess their gratitude
l,,& Tho democrats are silent.
1t has cost the government to keep peac'
with the Indians for the last ten years 1888
89l, ,264, and to fight them for the same tim
S5,05S,S,l. The moral is inevitable.
A sect called the "New Israel" has risel
xn.ong tho Jews of Russia. 1t abandon
circumcision, changes the Sabbath from TIL
seventh to the first day, and abolishe
usury.
A man in Cowley county. Kan, protect
hi. sheep against wo.., IS at night by placin
q dummy with a ighted lantern in the COZ
raj 1t costs five cents night to keep tn
light going.
Ten thousand bushels of seed onions wi
be set out this season in Wethersfield
Conn.,, and the chances are that seed wi
be cheaper next year. Early onion seed
is worth S. per pound.
The necessary expenditures of the Gov
ernu,ent last year were $3.50, 900, coo. Tn
estimated ordinory expenditures for the cul
rent fiscal year are s27o.ooO,ooo. The Fed
eral taxation this year will exceed S4O0,
900. 600.
+ Emigration from Great Britain to Canad
promises this year to be very large. Re
Gently $50 heads of families. representa-
capital of over $500, 900, sailed from Liver
pool, bound for Monitoba, and 500 NOR
were soon to follow. ..-
A sealing steamer has arrived at New
foundland with 2i.O00 seals, and the cate
of the whole fleet off Labrador is reporte
to be as great as $4,000. These, however
are not the genuine fur seal, which, a
though once found over large region, al
now almost VIII olly restricted to few is
aads in the Behring Sea.
Sixteen of the Chinese students who re
turned fdop America We're sent t" the nav
school I'D the Foo Choo Arsenal Their e!
aminations upon their arrival from th
country were satisfactory. Ten new stu
dents have been sent from China to EuroI
under an appropriation of 100000. The
will be in charge Of the Chinese minister ;