, 1886-02-18
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The wool clip of Oregon and
Washington territory for 1885 was
12,000,000 pounds, which was
100000 pounds in excess of 1884,
ana 100000 ahead of 1883.
The sub committee of the House
committee to which was referred the
bill providing for the construction of
the Tohuantepec ship railway have
agreed to report favorably to the full
committee bill similar in its main
features to the Vest bill
Congressman Morrow has talked
Fish Commissioner Baird into fav-
oring fish hatchery on the Pacific
Coast. Mr.. Morrow desires TO in
troduce into California waters French
herring, Spanish mackerel, striped
bass and Eastern Holsters.
1t is said that Mr.. Evarts '.listens
to every speech delivered on the
silver question" That settles the
talk about his being the next Repub-
lican candidate He won't. He will
be crazy inside of three months. Any
man that would listen to "every
speech on the silver question" ought
to go crazy 1t will be very much to
his discredit if he doesn't.
The President desired to attend
the funeral of General Hancock, but
finds it impossible for him to do so.
The cabiret will be represented by
Secretary Bayard, who will act as
noll haoraY.. SaaroH a.,r Enl;oofI oDJ
possibly one or two others. Secre-
tary Whitney will not bs able to at
tend, but will detail a number of
officers to represent the Navy.
A prominent merchant of San
Francisco has received aletter from
Vice President Van Horne, of the
Canadian Pacific road, stating that
practically conclusive arrangements
for steamship connection between
Vancouver and San Francisco have
been made and that the line will pro-
badly be open for through freight
traffic by the latter part of June.
Germany has just celebrated the
ffftieth birthday of the first railway
in Germany. The little road, some
three or four miles long, was COM
pleted at Christmas time, 1886. and
ran between Nuremberg and Firth.
1t continues to run and pay very
nice dividends. It is a mediaevally
managed affair and only wants Faust
as conductor and Mephistopheles
for an engineer and fireman to make
1T classicaily poetic.
The King Of Bavaria is not a man
to be fooled with by creditors. Hav-
ing run himself in debt over his ears,
he simply leans back and asks his
creditors what they intended to do
about it, and, having learned that
they are taking measures to levy OH
the goods of the royal household, he
sets the general of his army on them
and has them forbidden to lay hands
on anything. The king of Bavaria
would be a good hand to edit de-
mocratic paper in Vermont
According to the ectimate of the
commissioner of pensions the sum of
S75, ,000,0 will be required to meet
the nations obligations on the pen
sion roll during the first six months
of the current year. It is thought
that the new act increasing the
amount of widows pensions from S9
So per month Will increase this
amount by $15,000,000. At this rate
the surplus" for which republicans
were SO roundly censured during the
presidential campaign for having in
the treasury. will soon be extin
guished, and that without disburse.
ment of the long coveted treasure for
the benefit of democrats, either.
The truth is, large number Of
United States Senators have, by some
hook or crook, been persuaded to IN
vest their spare cash in Bell Tele-
phone stock, and consequently are
justly indignant at Attorney-Gene
al Garland's attempt to depreciate
their stock by invalidating the patent
on which 1t is based. There is little
doubt that good deal of the indig-
nation of some of the editors is simi-
larly based. But this is no apology
for the Attorney-GeHer The i'm
propriety of his position is apparent
to everybody, and unless he resigns,
will have most damaging influence
upon the Administration. The Credit
Mobilier scheme of Oakss Ames was
not so discreditable as the present
relation of some Senators and mem
bers OF the Cabinet to the Pan Elec-
tric Telephone Company.-Ee.
Mr. Alfred Holman, associate edi-
tor of the Oregonian, who was at
Seattle this week, has sent the
following dispatch to the Associated
Press. 1t was published yesterday
morning in nearly every paper east
of the Mississippi river: The
trouble at Seattle is over practically.
The credit of putting down the mob
and maintaining order belongs hap
PLY TO the citizens themselves. who
under the most trying circumstances
have proved their loyalty and their
ability TO manage their own affairs.
They have protected the Chinese be-
| cause they realized the duty of main
tanning the laws and the national
faith, not because they wish the chi
nese to remain. The regular troops
who arrived this morning Will have
nothing to do but TO maintain the
order already secured by the citizen