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February %, 1883.

Itu section OF tne act Tor Inc I'm noQl~
ate transportation of dutiable goods
have been extended. Truly yours,
j. n. DoLPH
Libby prison is to be removed
from Richmond, Va, to Chicogo. 1t
is intended to make museum of it.
Senator Hearst, of California, was
at enc time day laborer in a mine
He assembled steadily as foreman and
superintendent, and is to-day the
richest mine owner in the country.
lie has ono or more mines in every
mining state and territory and en-
ploys 5000 men.
The territorial encam9mdnt Of the
Grand Army of the Republic meets
in Seattle on the 18th of next month.
and big campfire and reunion will
be given at Frye's opera house on
the evening of that day, to which
Miss Florence MoIinelli has been in
yited to give reading.
In sixty days the great bore
through the Cascade mountains will
be completed, as only 1900 feet now
intervene between the east and the
west portals. Tweny feet day are
being excavated and at this rate the
1st of May will see the-completion of
the tunnel, says the Ellensburg Cap
ital.
Dakota papers say that 100 lives
were lost in the blizzard of January
18th. Perhaps this may have some
thing to do with the tide of immigra-
tion that is setting toward Washing
ton Territory, where the howl of the
blizzard is not heard in the Land and
where the flowers are in bloom near
ly every day in the year
The days of the greatest-that is,
the biggest-ship that ever fioatled
are numbered A paragraph in an
eastern paper says: The Great
Eastern Sold for $4,000, and now it
is going to cost $4,000 to tear her to
pieces" The big ship was never a
success. She was too big The YES
sci was $50 feet long, 81! feet wide
Gncluding paddle wheels, 119 feetl,
height, SIS feet, or 10 feet to the top
of her bulwarks She had 8 engines
of 11,000 horsepower, besides 20
auxiliary engines. The building of
her was begun May 1st, 1854, and
the work of launching her, which
lasted from November 3, 1857, to
January 31st, 1858, cost $4,000
hydraulic pressure being employed.
She was sold in 1864 for Si25, 900.
and used in laying cables. Again,
October 2S, 1885, she was sold at
public auction and brought $4,000.
That was a courageous exhibit
which the Portland Oregonian made
recently of tho disadvantages that
city labors under as wheat shipping
port in comparison with Puget Sound.
1t showed that 5000 ton ship can
go to Puget Sound, get its load
aboard and get to sea at an expense
of $4,000 less the cost of getting the
same cargo at Portland, the differ
ence being due to excessive charges
for pilotage, towage, lighterage and
stevedoring at the latter place and at
the mouth of the Columbia River.
The OregOuidn alleges that the COM
merce OF Portland IS being plundered
by number of organized systems of
robbery and calls aloud for q remedy.
1t hoped that the Union Pacific Com
pany, as the sole lessee of the o. r.
& n. system, would in its own inter
ests take hold of these evils, in order
to make access from the sea to Port
land as cheap as to the Sound ports.
The joint lease disappoints this ex-
pectation; hence the Oregonidn hotIy
assails it. It is a question whether
or not our big journalistic neighbor
will get anything but kicks and
curses from its town for fearlessly
pointing out the best interests of the
public there, People do not like to
have the truth spoken, aud the news
paper that sings lullaby is general
ly popular, rather than the one that
talks plainly.