Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-02-20
GESEEAL NEWS,

Southern towns and cities are
overrun with tramps, who are on
their annual visit to that section.
Vitriol instead of bay rum was
recently accidentally used by a
New York barber on the head Of
one of his customers.
The fres in New York city dur
ing January averaged yearly eight
and half day, while the losses
were about 81 ,528 to each fire.
Everybody talks about the hard
times, yet it is said that the pri-
vate balls given in New York this
winter have been exceptionabls in |
number and magni6cence.
Wisconsin's dairy products, tho
largest of any State in the Union,
amounted last year to $l0,500,000.
There are in the State 100 cream-
cries and cheese factories, and 20O,-
600 cows.
A unique Marie Antoinette cab
met, bought by Mrs. Kate Chase
Spra que at the famous Deacen sale
in Boston, and valued at $4,000,
brought at the recent sale of her
brio a-brac only $3.50.
The people of Berne,S .itzer-
land, are still excited over the
threats of the Anarchists to blow
up the Federal Palace, in retaliation
for the oppressive measures recent
ly adopted by the Federal Council.
AS the Liberty Bell passed
through Birmingham, Ala, says the
Columbia, Ga, Inquirer-Sas,a, an
old shoe was thrown after it for
good luck. The guards nailed the
sbo, to the car directly under the
bell.
A bill he's been introduced into
the Massachusetts Senate providing
that the homesteads of pensioners,
the pension itself and all accumula-
tions Of pension money shall be ex.
empt from execution or attachment
by any process.
/, A fire Saturday evening in the
annex to the Signal Servics Depart
}, ment, at Washington, destroyed
J, and damaged a number of valuable
!, meteorological records and almest
: ruined some Of the finest instru
ments in the Office.
F. L. Geger, a former agent O
> the international Workingmen'
; Association of Anarchists, says tha
the workingmen at Cleveland, Ohio
> are rife for riot, and great revo
= luton will be early inaugurated I'm
:, less times speedily improve.
Senator Morgan Saturday re
t. ported favorably from the Commit
l. tee on Foreign Relations the bil
g, introduced by him a few days ag
= to construct and maintain tele
graph or cable line between th
a, Pacific Coast of the United State
s, and the Asiatic Coast.
r. Mrs. Frances Gerry, whose fathe
had command of the boat in whic
Washington crossed the Delawar'
and whose husband was nephew {
Elbridge Gerry, one of the signel
of the Declaration Of independence
and Vice-President of the Unite
States, herself an interesting lin
or with the past, has just died at IL
age of ninety-fve.
it. The Russian authorities ha,
raised the duty en- tea by sixpen,
;. pound. AS the duty is confins
- to the tea imported by sea and con
ing across the European frontie
DIS the hapless peasants will have
y. payit The aristocracy never drir
". any tea but that brought overlan
re New York merchants compla
that Postmaster Pearson suppress
the news of the arrival of ferei
~ =. mail steamers until they have pa
!. ed quarantine, and that he is
49, collusion with the Western Unie
so that that company can charge
un for each message on the arrival
'ar a mail steamer.
The Executive Committee of t
United States Association at t
ool New Orleans Exposition waited
ear President Arthur Saturday a
ion presented statement of the afa
of the Exposition, together with
an memorial to Congress asking
nd additional appropriation, which
of was asked to transmit to Congre
with his approval.
London Punch is terribly out
ce, its cartoon of Gordon receiving G.,
ta- Wilson inside Khartoum, surrour
ed by huzzaing troops 1t is head
cat last" The st. Stephens j
'eu @ vieao cartoon by Matt Morgan
sn ;ssa mors prophetic. 1t gives Gladsto
AGO as Sinbad struggling under t
Mabdi on his shoulders as t
ing "grand old mountain man."
ck-
.-. The labsr crisis in France is t
cause of the utmost alarm.
present there are 800, 1000 workn
OF idle in Paris and at least 10000
ng in the provinces. The disconte
er- consequent upon this state of affa
is daily spreading, and apprehe
ng sions are expressed that unless so,
Ia. relief can be devised labor riots "
r. break out in all sections.
It is not thought that an ex.
ms session of the Forty-ninth Congre
we will be necessary to provide t
ID. necessary supplies for the main
Ter nance of the Government. The
is no reason why all tho money
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