The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-09

spnttln5 OF unnaGireu DoIlS- III eA'iN.
however, the weather, has been generally
favorable all | picking has progressed salts
;actorily. Ia Mississippi the crop has beer
cut down materially from the causes ment-
ioned, but most of the reports indicate
an increased production compared with
the last crop. From present appear
ances the crop will be 5 per cent. larger
than that of 1884. In Texas, Louisiana and
Mississippi the corn crop will probably be
the largest ever raised All small grains hav.
been harvested and the yield is very salts
factory. The Sugar crop of Louisiana will
he about the same as last year. The rice
crop, though somewhat damaged by wet,
will be very large.
Harry Wilkes defeated Phallas in three
straight heats on the Glenvllle track at
Cleveland last Friday, winning a $500 purse
and 90 per cent. of the gate receipts. Tie
result was a genuine surprise to everyone,
and local sporting men dropped d goodly
| amount of cash on the result.
| Juhn RoLinson's show left Wahpeton,
Oak, for St. Paul last Sunday i'll two Sec
lions. When within seven miles of Fergus
Falls, near d small place named French,
the head Of baggage section broke i'll two
while going up heavy grade, and ten or
| twelve cars went flying back at terrific
rate. On the rear train were three sleeping
cars occupied by workmen over 20O III
number, all of whom We're sound asleep.
rne cars which had broken loose increased
Jheir speed as they approached the second
or cage section, and probably had run ii
nile b fore they struck it throwing the
three sleepers from the track and mashlns
them beyond recognition. The result was
soon apparent. More than 100 men were
ouried in the debris, and the scene can
hard " be described. The night was fear
Iuily dark, and the groans of the men We're
appalling. The peop.e i'll the rear section at
ono began removing The men. five Of whom
were found dead and many others wounded
AMI bleeding.
The leading clearing house of the United
States report that total clearance for the
week ending October were $S3l, l72, 1O9.
ali increase of 2. per cent, compared with
4 the corresponding week last year.
VIM. Heath & Co, OF New York, for
many years stock brokers Oh the New York
market, failed and made Ean assignment.
They we're short lOJ.U00 SHARES OF stock
besides severa! hundred Thousand dollars
of money which had been deposited with
them. Henry NJ. Smith, another stock
broker of the same place has also broks
and assigned Heath 4 Co.'S liabilities ii
is camel was 81, 800, ,O0J, white tue llablll-
ties OF Smith are 81, ,0J3, J00.
4 y arge NEE i, oil Irish Naciontl League
men was held i'll New York and brooklyn
tals week where they decided to serd htty
representative IrisLmen of the United
States to England to assist Hon. Charles
Parneil in the election of candidates favor
able to their views. Alexander Sullivan
ex pres ident of the Irish National League OF
America, and Ex con gresham john f.
F.nerty upon being asked whether they
would ba among the party to visit Ireland
to assist Parnet, both positively declined
! 1t is cis imed from authentic investigation
that the Cinnamon at the Rock Springs out
rage, put tire to their own houses IN ordel
to prevent white men from getting tht
money which was buried there.
Lee Wah. AN intelligent Chinaman from
San francisco, arrived at PIttsburg, Penn,
this week, and lett for the Connelsville coke
regions to negotiate for the employment O
c. inese labor III that district. Lee Wah il
one OF committee of six appointed at a re
cent meeting IN San Francisco to visit the
various industrial centers throughout the
country, t., establish chinese colonies. Ih'
movement grows out of the late Wyomin!
massacre. He reuorts having met with tai
success at Cincinnati and other localitie
visited.
Seats at the stock exchange New Yorl
sold this week at $4,000, advance O
S25O0 on the last sale two months ago
The transaction is regarded as a fair illus
tr.tion of the appreciation in stock value
since then.
The New York Tribune says: "Whel
the Pacific Mail carried letters to Australi
they reached there twenty -four days from
San Francisco. They are now sent by Lon
don and Brindisi, and under the best of Gil
cumstanees tifty-three days are occupied Ii
transit So much for democratic admins
> tration.
s'Private advices from London indicat
that the Australian steamship service vii
he kept up monthly until congress or tn
postotfice department have had an oppol
4 Uunity to decide whether they will devot
money already appropriated for extra com
{ pens;ltion for mails carried in ships bearin
4 the American flag. Unless Villas recede
u from his present position the service to tn
+ Sandwich islands and Australia will be con
Quoted entirely in British ships 1t is we
; known here that Canadians are figuring t
: get ships to run to British Columbia. Th