, 1883-08-16
Clippings.

OF Dayton according to the last census
IS S9S2, 900, or about S549 for every man,
woman and child in town. The tax to
be raised Will be about $1,000, which
viii necessitate a levy Of about six and
one-half mills.
An act OF the legislature of West Vir-
ginia. passed in 1877. makes the silver
coins issued by the United States legal
tender in that state for all debts public
and private. The trade dollar is one of
these coins, and is. therefore, legal
tender at their nominal value III West
Virginia.
The deepest sea sounding ever made
was in the Pacific Ocean in 1874, near
the entrance to Behring's Sea. The
was made from the United States ship
Tuscarora. The shallOwest water in the
middle of the Atlantic, 731 fathoms, shows
the existence of submarine mountains
1856 feet high.
The population of Whitman county as
enumerated by the assessor is 9,164.
Number of names entered upon assess
ment roll, $3.50. Number of acres sown
in wheat, 44,O65; in oats, 20,530; in bar
ley, 1896; in flax, 4,038; rye, 45l; tame
grass, 4,17S Number of horses and
mules in the county, 19,439; cattle, 49,
374; sheep, $500, and of hogs, 1929.
From the I-idette we learn that a
Board of Trade has been formed at
Montesano, Chehalis county, consisting
of The following gentlemen: L ID Sco-
field, J W Walsh, G. T WestfaIl, ID H
Mullen, 5 Zenor, J B DuIcey, L l. Big
mold and c n Byles. 7 d Scofeld was
elected President, J B Dabney Secretary,
and ZenoI Treasurer of the Board. j
W Walsh and j Is Dabney were appoint
cd committe of two to try and secure
the necessary funds for the proper ad
vertising Of the resources and advan-
ages of that region.
On the 2nd of August lightning, in
Umatilia county, evidently looking for
soft thing struck straw stack on Pros
pect farm, setting it on fire. Superinten-
dent Moorehouse and his force of har-
vesters did some lively rustling trying to
prevent the fire from spreading An ac-
commOdating light shower of rain fell
ut the proper time to wet the stubble and
prevented the fire from communicating
with the other stacks and standing
grain.
Those who are talking of the Brook
lyn bridge as the most wonderful work
of the kind IN the world should remem-
Der that China has little affair at
Kangang, over an arm of the China Sea,
some five miles long (the Brooklyn bridge
is hardly mile) with three hundred
arches; over the pillar of each arch re-
block of marble. The roadway is seventy
feet wide, a generosity quite in point to
cities building death traps on bridges.
From the Walla Walla Waterman
W. take the following concerning the
grain harvest in that section: "As the
harvest advances reports concerning the
same grow better and better. We hear
of many whose fields yielded as high as
50 bushels to the acre. OF course, there
are many who harvested only 10, and
perhaps less, but they keep quiet about
it, hence we get only the glowing reports;
yet we can safely say that the average
yield in Walla Walla county VIII come
up to 30 bushels per acre, and when we
pause and ponder over the prodigious
yield in the face of long and oppres-
sive drouth, we are 10th to wonder what
will the harvest be when the God of
sunshine and rain is little kinder to us
in the future than he has been this
summer"
Philadelphia Press: The foreign i'm
migration into the United States in the
last fiscal year shows a gratifying de-
crease in volume as compared with 1882.
gratifying because the addition in a
single year of over three-quarters of
million of people who are strangers to
our laws and customs is a severe task on
the digestive and assimilating power of
our body polite. In any other country
than the United States such large ad
dition to the labor population in so
short time would have produced great
confusion and distress. The United
States was able to dispose of this null
titude with little disturbance, bat no one
will regard it as u misfortune that this
hood-tide of immigration shows some
abatement for the year just closed. A
still further diminution next year would
not be cause for lamentation.
AS mark of respect to John Brown,
Queen Victoria has decided to shut up
Balnachoile, the house shs built for him
at Crathie, and also to keep closed the
rooms which he occupied at Balmoral,
Osborne and Windsor Castle. Her
Majesty has quite passion for this sort
of thing. The rooms in Claremont in
which Princess Charlotte lived were kent
shut up during the long residence of the
Orleans family, and when the place was
lent to Prince Leopold it was only OH
condition that these rooms should never
be used. At Frogmors the suite III
which the Duches of Kent lived remains
shut up to this day, and as it includes
the best rooms in this small, inconveni-
ent house, the place has ;remained unin-
habited ever since 1861, with the excep-
ton of a few weeks nearly twenty years
ago, when it was reluctantly occupied as
a temporary residence by the Prince and
Princess of Wales. The rooms appro-
priated to Prince Albert at the various
palaces have only been used by the
Queen since his death.
SKIPPING NEWS.
PoRT GAMBLE, August 7.-Sailed-
Bark Cheston and schooner Amarino,,