Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-06-05
t.ESs..fs..L NEWS,

London now claims a population 5
Of ), 100000. /,
Times are improving in England, =:
Ireland and Scotland. &
The Brooklyn navy yarl has dis
charged all its employees.
Forty carloads of strawberries are
arriving daily in Chicago.
For the defenses in New York
harbor ST. 800, 900 are wanted,
The Apaches, who were on the
warpath, have scattered in small
bands.
More than seven thousand horses
are used by the street Car lines in
Boston.
Decoration Day was observed all |
over the North and many portions
Of the South.
There. are $50 disabled ex-Con-
federate soldiers living in the poor
houses Of North Carolina.
Rockford, H., has curiosity in
a young negrsss with luxuriant
growth Of auburn ringlets.
Many visitors to the New Orleans
Exposition wear watch charms said
to have been Clipped from the
"Liberty Bell"
Ten Thousand iron workers have
been thrown out Of employment at
Youngstown, Ohio, by the closing
Of the iron mills.
a wealthy gentleman of Norwich,
Conn, has in his conservatory
palm tree said to be 100 years old,
which cost 81 900.
The number Of hotels in New
York is increasing very rapidly, but
it is noticeable fact that nearly all
of the new buildings are small.
The New York Assembly has
passed the bill exempting honorably
discharged Union soldiers and sailors
from the State civil service laws.
The pendulum Of the new cleck
in the Chicago Board of Trade
building weights 750 pounds. The
dials are 10 feet 10 inches in diane
ter.
The net debt Of the United States
! has now gene below 81 800. 100000
for tbs first time since the war;
d Twenty ycarsago it was $2,700,000,.
o 900.
. The Jews burned the garbage
n from Jursalem in the Valley oi
+ Gehenna. There is a proposition
q to burn the garbage Of the city o.
Y Pittsburg by natural gas.
7, The Shaker fraternity at Noun
o Lebanon, N. Y, has received I
it severe blow in the marriage Of it
"head man" to Shakeress. Hu
r. man nature is asserting itself.
h Sealing is over for the SEASON
@ The average Of thirteen Victori
IN vessels is 400 skins. The larses
y catch by one vessel was 1000 seal:
The season is regarded as unporiits
40 sle.
n, The Egyptian obelisk, which We
ut for time the wonder of Ne
d I ork, and the impol tation Of whio
- cost VIM. Il. Vanderbilt $4,000
., 80 has dropped almost wholly out
-. notice.
,g. Benjamin Runkle, who W
all placed on the retired list of tt
he Army soms years ago by order
,re President Grant, has been restor,
fly to the pension rsl!s with the ra,
to- of Major.
MS The rope which was used to hal
Or 4 North Carolina negro is bel
sold to negroes ia the ncighborho
ems at the rate Of 2j cents stan
OK; The purchasers believe that the re
Id, will cure fits.
,,v The subsidy which the Domini
o;d Government has promised to p
aw the Allan Steamship Company
-. the carriage Of the British ma
Lo Is, amounts to S126,533 SO per annu
,n1 For this sum weakly service ca
nos way is promised.
ink Several thousand houses, rangi
in size from eight to twenty roof
lies and provided with every mode
ak convenience, are to be built
eld Philadelphia, besides a number
> of French flats, several large and CO
iae ly churches and half dozen
old more public institutions.
was Australia has some large riv
was that are not known to many peo
AZ a, in this country. The Murray
-, navigae!e L., 10 miles IN New Sol
uiu I Wales and nearly six hundred
nc South Australia. Mursrumbid:
: "A is navigable 500 miles and
50 Darling l,15S miles.
It is said that the missionar
=: have converted a small tribe of
:, tives in New Zealand who refuse
49, ~ read any part Of the Bible exc
- 'raa a.. that part Of the Old Testam
- which deals with war and slaught
~ 90 . They say that is good enough Ch
ba tianity for them.
to. At Milford, Mass, constables
Thy, fused Post 2t OF the G. A. +,
this trance to the Catholic cemetery
ds." obedience to Father CudGil