The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-11-20
GENERAL NEWS.

The tone in the Eastern iron market is
not quite 50 sti ong; prices are firm for all
kinds of good crude and refined iron, but
slightly weaker on interior qualities. A
slight lull seems to have overtaken the de-
mand, and it has been promptly reflected in
weaker prices on low grades. Nails are ex-
tremely scarce and active Sheet is i'll good
demand. The steel rail orders win foot up
well for the week, and bridge iron specifca-
tions received this week indicate "a heavier
demand during November
A Washington special says: State depart
,nent officials say they have information
relative to the expulsion of German-Ameri-
can citizens from Prussia, which is referred
to in cable dispatches. Secretary Bayard
says tn 1t our minister at Berlin is instructed
watch all such cases with great care, anu
i'll case there should be any violation of the
treaty to advise our government az once by
cable.
The jury in the case of Rev. DIR. Hicks
spiritual adviser of the assassin Guiteau
against the Evening Star Company. for S35,
900 damages for alleged libel in the pub.lca
tion Of the statenen. that Hicks lr.i neg"-
5iat.d for the transfer OF Guiteau's bones t,
i me,lical museum fot 5000, rendered a
verdict last Friday for plaintiff of one cent
damages.
Several western inerlbers OF congress
have expressed /, determination to advucat,
retaliatory le -sat ton of some sort against
countries which discriminate against or pro
hibit the i'm portatian of American pork. A
house from citizens of CALIFORNIA;; urging the
removal OF the congressional delegation
from that state tbe gruund that they
Were not legally elected TO represent tn,
Gates. In one case the protest declares Bas
clay Henley, of the First district, is not a
citizen of the United States.
The great orchards IN Illinois. are rapidly
going to decay. Two years ago the export
OF apples from Champagne county alone ex
ceeded $4,000 bushels, to say nothing of
large quantities. This year the apple crop
is less than half enough for home consump-
ton, and they are being shipped in by the
carload from Southern Illinois. The past
two winters have killed more than SIS per
cent. OF the apple trees, and from so to sol
per cent. of the pear trees. Orchardists say
that if the present winter is as severe, there
will not be healthy tree left in that part of
the State Very few of the orchards will
ever be replanted.
The n. Y. Tribune's Washington special
says: One of the first measures to be intro
duced into the House when Congress meets
i'll December will he resolution censuring
Postmaster General Villas for declining to
pap to American steamship companies the
money Congress voted is a compensation
for carrying foreign mails The resolution
will no doubt lead to thorough discussion
OF the intent of the act TO appropriate $780,
coo for carrying foreign mails in American
steamships and at the same time give Villas
an opportunity co explain what induced him
to put his own judgment against the conclu-
81 )ns of Congress. In the Senate a similar
resolution will be introduced, it is thought, |
by Senator Frye, to whose efforts the pass
age of the appropriation was due last win
ter. The prospects are, Villas viii have a
lively time with Congress.