The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-27


asrake all that he can get-LDe.
Mr.. Willis Hendrix of Dufur gave us
pleasant call yesterday.
Mrs Joles, we are pleased to know,
continues to improve.
1t is expected that active work on the
construction of the portage road at the
Cascades will be commenced by the be-
ginning of next week.
The regular quarterly meeting for ex-
animation for teachers certificates, COM
menced IL the court house this after
noon.
The opening open air concert of the
season will be given this evening at the
new stand in front of Snipes and Kiner-
sly's drug store by the third regiment
band.
The members of Harmon Lodge 1. o.
q. 7. No. sol will meet at their hall on
Saturday, at / p. m. for the purpose of
decorating Father Harmon's grave. BY
order of the committee.
Four gentlemen of leisure of the tramp
genus were arrested last night and fined
three days work on the streets this
morning. Street Commissioner Ostlund
has them usefully employed in blasting
out an alley.
In the Circuit court this morning John
Rogers was sentenced to one year in the
penitentiary, for stealing pistol from
the marshal's Office of this city. The
jury has been discharged till tomorrow
morning at nine O'Clock.
At the w. G. T. U. convention in Port
land today we notice that Mrs. Esther B.
French is to give greeting to the Paci-
'fic coast delegates. We are satisfied
that the delegates will be pleased with
the delightful words they will hear
from Mrs. French.
Mr.. T. Hazlett engaged in saving
wood for Max Vogt, met with an
unpleasant accident this morning.
The saw slipped and cut the back part
of his left hand necessitating the taking
:, of two or three stitches which DIR. Doane
skillfully did.
The Salem Capital Journal, in speak
ing of Colonel Baine says that he sis the
most eloquent speaker who has addressed
an audience from the M. E. pulpit. At
one time he would have his audience
laughing and the next moment he would
touch the tones of pathos and hundreds
of persons would be in tears"
A correspondent from Fifteen Mile
writes us that Mr.. Horatio Stone, of Fiji
teen Mile Creek, died on Wednesday,
May 27th., 1891, of Congestive fever
caused partially by a diseased leg which
has been serious source of suffering to
him for several years. He was 81 years
old the 22nd day of last April.
The surveying party that started out
over a week ago to survey and locate a
road between The Dalles and some point
in Sherman county met with mis-hap
that will delay the further progress of
the survey for short time. On one of
the late very windy days the surveyors
instrument was Knocked over and almost
completely ruined. The party will take
the field again as soon as the instrument
is repaired or another procured.
The name McGinty has been honored
in Irish story since Eochid II was crown
ed King of Ulster on Jacobs pillar by
the prophet jeremiah. What, therefore,
was our Acknowledgement aud indignation,
on finding that Jenny McGinty, in or
der to secure the contract for construct
ing the reservoir at Mesplies, changed
his name to McGintie. He pretended he
was French and got the contract.
Now he says he is going to wear side
whiskers. What next2
Abbie Darlington, in the spring of
1887, after six consecutive seasons in
Grand Opera, and having during this
time sung the leading soprano roles in
eighteen different Grand Operas, deter
mined to take much needed rest, which
resulted in taking her into a new sphere of
work, and has perhaps succeeded in show
ing still further the greatness of this phe-
nomenal soprano. This change of course
prevented her continuing in Italian opera
but gave to the concert platform one
who, though SO high in price, has always
proven a paying investment. and now
seems to have become permanent fix
ture of the Chautauqua Assemblies
throughout the country, including Otta-
wa, Kansas; Crete, Nebraska; Glen
Park, Colorado; Monona Lake, Wiscon-
sin; Waseca, Minnesota, and the great
Lake Chautauqua, New York.
Strawberries by the box, crate or ton
/. at Joles Bros.