The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-09
TELEG2APHlC DISPATCHES,
OF the past week condensed.
GENERAL NEWS.


The Episcopal Centennial convention held
at Trinity church New York last week was
filed to overiowing, the occasion being the
centennial convention of the New 4or,-
diocese Four hundred clergymen were
present, including the bishops of all adjacent
dioceses. Commemorative services were held
in st. Thomas church in the evening.
Archdeacon Farrar of London met the dele
CATION of Episcopal clergy aud laymen, and
arranged to deliver three sermons.
The New York chamber of commerce
adopted resolutions requesting that the pro
visions of the proposed treaty with Spain
and the provisions of other treaties be made
public at the earliest minute, and befor
action is taken by the treaty making pow
,ers, that ample time may be had for theil
discussion and consideration by the public
in all their various bearings. A copy OF
these resolutions was ordered sent to the
president and secretary of state. Resolu-
tions offered deploring the gradual loss OF
our shi ppiug interests, and calling upon the
government for aid by legislation, were re
ferred to a committee.
A battery of boilers in Clark's & Co. s
Solar iron works at Pittsburg. Pa, exploded
last Friday, injuring seventeen persoEs,
three of them fatally. Two of the victims,
Thomas Cato and John Murray, died at
the West Pennsylvania hospital this morn
NJ. Three or four others are not expected
to recover. The explosion was caused by
mud eating through the coating Of tie mud
drum. Pieces Of the drum picked up Were
not more than the thirty -secoudth part ol
an inch IN thickness.
The great charge of 275, ,0G0 pounds OF
dynamite, with which it was proposed t"
deinolisi, .5'lood rock. hear He'll gate. WAS to
be discharge at $50 a. M, October 7.
Th4 government cruiser Chicago, the
heaviest vessel ever built at Roacn's ship
yard has settled Oh the ways to such all
extent thai the workmen have had to shove
her up to prevent accident.
trial trip was made last Friday on the
Ninth avenue elevated railroad at New
York with the electric motor. Gould, Sage,
Dillon and other capitalists were aboard the
car. The experiment is said to have been
successful.
At a meeting of the chamber of commerce
of New York Capt. Ambrose Snow pre-
sented series oil resolutions asking the
government to come to the aid of the ship
ping interests. He feared that all the prin-
will soon be occupied by foreigners. Ac-
,cording to the computation of the postmas-
ter general foreign steamship service by
American ships amounts to 10000 900 miles
annum. This would leave only twenty
cents per mile ont of $500, GOO appropria-
tion. But by throwing out the mails from
New York to Cuba, Vera Cruz, Newfound-
land andeBritisn Columbis, the distance
could be reduced to less than lj0.0G0 miles.
This would leave about thirty cents pei
mile for distance and necessary service.
The sustaining of the American marine on
the ocean will be one of the most impor-
tant issues Of the coming congress.
Business failures for the last seven days
were l69, as compared with lS5 LIST week.
The western and Pacific states furnish one
half of the total reported.
The sale of Mrs. NJ J. Morgan's $780, 900
collection of orchids in New York city
causes quite a commotion among rich fam
ciers of these plants. Prices cf single pots
of rare varieties range from $l00 to $3.50.
j. w. Mackey, agent for Jerome B. Hag
gin, arrived at Lexington, KY, with two
Union Pacific stock cars, for shipping thai
gentleman's yearlings purchased this sprin.
at various sales there, to his ranch in Cali
fornia There twenty four purchases
ranging from $500 to s., 600 each.
At meeting of the independent commit
tee of 100 at Brooklyn, President Cieve
lands administration was en- ntorsed, and til,
support of Ira Davenport, the republican
candidate for governor of New York wa
urged Rev. Henry Ward Beecher said h
was democrat so far as Grover Cleveiant
was concerned. but republican in regart
to the state ticket. How is Beecher so ia
as Mrs Tilton is concerned?
The New Orleans Times Democrat in re
gard to the cotton crop says: During Sept
ember the weather has been unfavorable il
Mississippi, Louisiana, and portions of Ala
bama. Arkansas and Tennessee. Frequen
and heavy rains have prevented picking anc
caused the seed to sprout in the boil bea