, 1886-11-18
With Our Exchanges.

ii" ,tE:If#-l;l CO lilcI Will I've q lie-b re
gub!lcau- and g democrats.
The difference between ii ylaybiII add
Il landlord l.. one is often stuch on bill
board and the other on board bill.
The Gar of Russia has probably given
up all hope of knocking the 9ersimmaH,
as he has sent 10000 Poles ont of the
country.
Delegate VOORHEES, called at the Office
OF tie Vancouver Register ''pIeasantly"
since election. We mention this matter
incidentally.
The plant for a new WOODEN mill, 10 be
erected at New Westminster, has been
sent for The mill will be built at Once
and pat il readiness for work.
After years of suspension, the labor
of constructing termina! buildings at
Alb la, Oregon, has been resumed, and
boom il real estate is imminent.
The gross earnings of the Canadian
Pacific for the week ending October 81,
amounted to $353,0O0, being an increase
of $4,000 over the corresponding period
last year.
Latest election news, says the Clark
County Independent, indicates the cleo
ton of Rev. J. Il. Thompson and Il. T.
Hawley for the council, defeating LaDu
and Alexander.
Governor Robinson OF Massachusetts.
Secretary of Interior Lamar, Senator
Huar, the poet Whittier and twenty-one
others were made Ii. DIS. by Harvard
university yesterday.
It seems that Tacoma is making prep
arations for harbor improvements. The
flats at the head of the bay are to be
dredged to make a ship channel along
the newly EXTENDED water front.
The Yancouyerites are beginning an
active opposition to the Chinese. The
knights of Labor have passed strong
resolutions against them, and general
system of boycottingw lie inaugurated.
The Portland Vest Shore for Novem.
ber is devoted almost wholly to that city,
and contains some excellent views Of the
Mechanics Fair. AS usual, that journal
maintains high standaId of literary
merit.
Should the announcement OF tI.p pur-
chase of the Inmsn line OF steamers by
American capitalists prove true, the ves-
sells could not be admitted TO register as
American craft; they would still have to
fly the British flag.
The o. Il. & n. has, during the year,
constructed a branch from Colfax to
Moscow, 81 $40 miles; from Starbuck to
Pomeroy, 291S nilss; and FROM Colfax
10 Bennington, 273< miles. lis tonnage
has increased 90 per cent.
Mrs. BrowDing's conceit, "Her hair
had fallen by its own weight on either
side OF her SMILE" has had all the flavor
taken out of it by the western poetess
who wrote: ''The sudden expansion of
her smile showed her ears cut over her
back hair"
h)isANS VIC IL 70 AOuA l. AuhClSCO vi
the Arctic cruiser Bear number OF the
officers of that vessel have been detached
and ordered elsewhere for duty. Third
Lieutenant Charles Kennedy OF the Bear
has been'ordored to duty on the Wolcott,
and is expected to arrive in Port Town
send in a few days.
In Connecticut the democratic caudi-
date for governor received plurality OF
something like 1900, but having no ma
iority the election goes to the legislature,
which is republican. OF course Louns-
bury, the minority candidate, will be
made governor and Hawley will be re-
elected senator.
1t is reported that the Northern Pacific
is negotiating fer the Oregon Railway &
Navigation Co.'S steamers on the Sound,
to be used by the former company 10 run
to British Columbia, Victoria and Sound
ports in an endeavor to close out the
Canadian Pacific, now making fearful
inroads in the business of the Northern.
Several French delegates and their
wives. who attended the unveiling of the
Bartholdi Statute of Liberty, arrived in
Montreal on Thursday evening and re-
manned few days as the city's guests.
The majority of them purpose visiting
the Northwest before returning home,
possibly extending their visit as far as
Victoria, b. @,
In the hop market new Pacifics ure
showing marked frmness. Brewers are,
in many instances. giving those goods
preference over foreign hops. For a
first-class article 4G cents cash is the in
side rate aud sales to brewers ut 32@33
cents are noted. For less than 2S cents
only an inferior article can be secured.
State hops are dull and wholly nominal.
Foreign move only in moderate way
and prices show no Improvement, al
though cabls advices are stin very firm.
The reported sale or the Post-InteHi-
'geacer was confirmed this morning by
Clarence Ba2leY, manager of that paper,
informing reporter of the Press that
Leigh Hunt, Esq, gentleman from
Iowa, had purchased bis stock, and
would assume the management OF the
paper on December 1st, Mr- Bagley re-
tiEin2. This s probably all the change
that will take place as regards ths men
at work on the paper and the policy will
remain The same. The stock owned by
Ar. Bag!oy il not controlling interest.
but it Is stated Mr.. Hunt viii purchase
the stock owned by MessTs. Furth, Squire
and d. T. Denney, and thus secure a
control. The new management is spoken