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The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-02-27
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UNITED STATES.

In the Cannelsville (Pa.) coke re-
gion about Is, 600 men are on a strike
against reduction and there has
been rioting and murder.
Several persons and much stock
persisted duringa blizzard in Nebraska
and South Dakota Feb. and 8.
The railroad employees in the upper
Mississippi basin are being organized
to fight the grangerelement in politics.
The Christian church in Heyworth.
Ill, recently bought an organ, despite
the strong opposition of a large
minority The latter took the in
strumentinto the street at night and
burned Ii.
The glassware Companies of the
United States tlre forming a rust to
control the entire product.
The tapping OF an old shaft full of
water by coal miners at JonesyiIle.
Pa, caught only three men, instead
OF eighteen, as reported, and these
were saved after clinging to shelv-
ing rock five days.
1t is now conceded that Robert Raw
Hamilton Is still alive.
DIR. Biegler Of Rochester, N. Y,
published in 1879 a remedy he was
using for tuberculosis and which is
based on the same principle as Koch's
the use of the attenuated bacilli OF
the disease.
Alexander johnson, 20 years old. of
Pittsburg, deserted Rose Ann Hem
derson, aged so, TO whom he was en-
gagged, for gay lassie of SO and Rose
Ann has sued him for breach of prom
Use.
Adonis !" Dixey is bankrupt and
has been arrested for debt.
James Redpath is dead.
Henry Kraemer of Los Angeles was
buncoed out OF S240 at Jersey CITY
Feb. 10, as he was about to sail for
Europe.
Jay Gould and C. p. Huntington
have practically got control of ali the
railroads south OF a line drawn from
San Francisco to New York, including
the Union Pacific.
George j. Gibson, secretary of the
whisky trust, has been arrested on a
charge of trying to bribe Government
Gauger De War to blow up the Shu-
feldt distillery at Chicago, which is
fighting the trust. A dynamite
machine that would have destroyed a
dozen such buildings was seized.
There was a strike at Clark's thread
mills at Newark, N. j., Feb. IS, and
the strikers stoned the works and
broke every window in them.
Admiral Porter is dead.
III. NJ. Rodgers, an insurance agent,
wrote confession at Omaha that he
had murdered a girl at Mercer, Pa,
and then took poison. His life was
saved and he is in jail, where he is
trying TO starve himself, but he is be-
ing fed with force pump.
Laborers on the worlds fair site at
Chicago struck Feb. IS for raise to
81 75 day from 81 so.
Jay Gould is reported to be very
eeble.
The North Dakota legislature has
voted to submit a constitutional
amendment repeating prohibition If
the next Legislature votes the same
way the people will vote on the pro-
posed amendment in 1894.
General Sherman is dead.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-02-27
LEBANON OREGON, FRIDAY FEBRUARY 81 1891.
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There was dissension among the
Kings Daughters in San Francisco.
The money raised for the proposed
home for incurables was taken
charge OF by a board of directors who
elected themselves to that position
without help from the other members,
and the other members asked by
what authority this was done. The
self-chosen directors had incorpor-
ated. Explanations were made. All
the Kings Daughters may step into
the corporation. Peace reigns again.
Mrs. Langdon has been in Washing
ton working for the extension of star
mail routes in Butte and Plumas
counties. She had the backing OF
Senator Stanford and showed that a
the political field as man. Then why
should she not be allowed to vote?
Is there any field left where woman
has not shown that she can equal or
excel man? The leadership in the
professional mind-reading business
has now fallen into the hands of a
specimen OF femininity, and she is a
girl OF only twelve years at that. Miss
Eva Mccoy OF Detroit eclipses the
best performances OF Washington Ir-
wing Bishop. She holds a mans hands
and spells whatever word he thinks OF
and does other astonishing feats. The
young man who, few years hence,
esteems it a privilege TO hold her hand
and whisper sweet nothings to her will
need to be very careful. He cannot
fool her with tales of love and think
OF another girl at the same time.
Mrs. Mary Shone of Forthington,
Ia, believes she has rights as well as
men have. She recently thrashed a
bully in the school she teaches who
would not obey her, and the blowing
10 pieces of the stove with gunpowder
by his friends has not seemed to dis
turb her in the least. She still holds
the fort. More power to her elbowl
Following the collapse of the Evans
ton (Ind.) cooperative kitchen comes
the failure OF similar institution
where eleven families dined in one
room at different tables and divided
tho cost at South Evanston. 1t was
found to be too expensive and again
the servant girl triumphs over those
who attempt to dispense with her.
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L.mitea Ree.proelsy wl.h nrasll.

President Harrison has issued a
proclamation setting forth that the
Brazilian minister has communicated
to the secretary OF state the fact that
in due reciprocity and for the consid-
Grafton OF admission into the United
States free of all duty OF sugars,
molasses, coffee and hides, the gov
ernment OF Brazil has by legal enact
ment authorized the admission from
and after April /, 1891, into all estab-
lished ports Of entry of Brazil, free of
duty, all wheat, wheat -four, corn or
maize, and manufactures thereof pro-
duced in the United States.
The act also admits into Brazil free
of duty cornmeal and starch, rye, rye
-four, buckwheat, buekwheat -four,
barley, potatoes, beans, peas, hay,
oats, pork, salted, including picked
pork and bacon, except ham), fish,
salted, dried or picked, cotton-seed
oil, coal, anthracite and bituminous,
resin, tar, pitch and turpentine, agri-
cultural tools, implements and
AudCh1nCAyy ALlhAAS oh0 A-@SNAAchA1SeaA
tools, implements and machinery, in
Guiding stationary and portable en-
gines and all machinery for manu-
featuring and Industrial purposes,
except sewing machines, instruments
and books for the arts, sciences, rail-
way construction materials and equip
ments.
The government of Brazil has also
further authorized the admission with
reduction of 25 per cent Of the ex-
listing tariff duty in Brazil of lard and
substitutes therefor, bacon, hams,
butter and cheese, canned and pre-
served meats, fish, fruits and vege-
tables, manufactures Of cotton, in
cluding cotton clothing, manufactures
of iron and steel, single or mixed, not
included in the free schedule; leather
and manufactures thereof, except
boots and shoes, lumber, timber and
manufactures Of woods, including
cooperage, furniture OF all kinds,
wagons, carts and carriages and man
ufactures of rubber produced in the
United States.
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The Selma enterprise publishes a
paragraph to the effect that the CAL
ifornia orchardist has great advan-
tage over him OF Florida in the fact
that in this state fertilizers are
q scarcely considered, much less made
myth of an inexhaustible soil is about
exploded. Probably the land In Cal
ifornia was as rich as anywhere in the
world when settlers began cropping
it, and great area of it is yet virgin
soil, but the most successful fruit
growers in California, who are making
profits from each acre such as are
nevlsr dreamed of in Florida, are
spending more money than they do in
Florida for fertilizers, and the time is
coming when California viii pay more
money for fertilizers than any other
area twice as great and make a better
profit on each dollar so paid, for her
climate is such as to draw out the
elements needed from the soil and
make better use OF them in the build
ing up OF grains of wheat, luscious
fruit and succulent vegetables than
any other.
Fruitgrowers cannot be too much on
the alert to guard against a condition
OF affairs next summer in which a
combination of buyers can dictate the
price of fruit It is not enough TO or
ganize for the shipment of fruit east,
for the eastern crop may be abundant
and glut the market this year. II
every fruitgrower were prepared TO
dry his own product unless buyers
paid him fair price there would be
more independence and more money
on the orchard farms.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-02-27
rHE AMIRAL nupERRE.

to stern-greatest thickness % inches,
tapering to 10 inches at the extremities.
with thick deck G inchesl at the top
of the belt in the usual manner But
above this belt there is no armered main
deck battery. as in the other ships, the
chief armament, of four 48-ton guns, be-
ing carried in four elevated harbette
towers, two OF which are well forward.
and project considerably to enable their
guns to act efficiently as bow-chasers and
mt the same time to command all round
the broadside and right astern. To
facilitate this the sides of the ship have
great tumble home. The other two
towers are situated at the middle line Of
the ship. one near the stern, and the
other further forward, between the
main and mizzen masts. The main deck,
although without armor defense, is not
without armament. as il carries fourteen
6i-inch 60-pounder rified breech- leaders.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-02-27
Tn. Peach Bor.r.

In southern Oregon, Mr.. Carson re-
ports no larvae of the Sanina Pacifica
are found, but he says that the larve
of the flat-headed borer is an enemy
to the peach. Here in the valley /
find both at work on the peach trees,
but the moth larvae is more abundant
than the Larvae of the beetle. On the
college grounds about 20 three-year-
old trees were treated with carbolated
whale-oil soap, thinned with solution
OF washing soda carbonate of soda,
cost about 21 cents per tree, two,
three or four years old, for each ap-
plication) Five trees treated with
resin wash (fuil strength, as given in
report in California;. Seven trees
wrapped with newspaper, several
thicknesses wrapped around trunk
from crotch to two or three inches be-
low collar, and earth heaped about
bottom of paper. This was all done
between July "a and 29. The trees
treated with the two first mixtures
had their trunks from crotch to collar,
and little below, literally slushed.
Every tree was carefully examined
before being treated and found ex-
empt from borer.
Dec. 10 and IL the trees were ex-
amined. Those wrapped with news
paper were entirely exempt from at
tack, and those treated with carbol-
ated whale-oil soap nearly exempt.
Those treated with resin wash showed
a better record than those treated
with carbolated soap. The trunks OF
all were in fine condition.
Summarizing Newspaper wrapping
seems to be the most sure though pos
sibly the most difficult to apply
Either of the mixtures referred to
does good work in keeping away
moths. One point here is extremely
important, viz: the earth should be
removed from around the tree for
three or more inches below the collar,
and a liberal supply of the mixture
(supposing a mixture to be used }
poured or " slushed " around the base
of the tree. The necessity for this is
shown by the condition OF a large
number of Seeding peaches which
were dug up at the college a few days
since.
Many large borers were found way
down in the roots, on trees where one
would not expect their presence.
They had in many instances entered
at peach plum bud on side of scel-
ling destroying bud) and then worked
down to roots. Our dry season seems
to call for but one treatment if trees
are examined faithfully at proper in
tervals. The summer season is so
long, however, and in consequence
the moth is on the wing so much later
than its eastern cousins, it would seem
advisable to make two applications,
one after the latter part of May and
one about the middle of August. The
newspapers, once on, are good for the
entire season.-F. l.. Washburn of
Corvallis in Rural Press.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-02-27
FOREIGN.

Portuguese troops have been sent to
subdue a revolt of plantation negroes
on the island of st. Thomas.
King Leopold of Belgium announces
himself in favor of universal suffrage.
The king of Uganda, under French
influence, refuses to recognize the
British protectorate.
Many people have been devoured
by wolves in Hungary this winter.
Reports from Russia conflict. One
day we are told that in return for
financial aid the czar has relaxed the
persecution OF the Jews. The next
day it is reported that the atrocities
of the persecution are increasing.
The latter now appears to be true.
France will probably put prohib-
tive duty on American pork.
The ameer of Afghanistan is recov-
ering.
The British colonial exhibition at
Kingston, Jamaica, was formally
opened Feb. 9.
The new italian ministry is cutting
down expenses.
The trouble in the ear and throat of
Emperor William is believed to be
caneerous.
There is no revolution in Guatemala
The coffee crop of Central America
will be the largest ever produced
Dillon and O'Brien have surrendered
and will serve out their sentences.
Two Lutheran preachers have been
arrested in the Russian province of
Courland for preaching after their
churches were closed. One was
knouted.
Another woman has been murdered
in Whitechapel and the crime is pop
ularly laid to Jack the Ripper.
The boiler of the Quebec. Worsted
company's factory at Quebec burst
Feb. 12, killing thirty people and
wrecking the building.
All efforts to heal the Irish breach
have failed and the campaign will be
the Parnellites against the McCar-
thyites and the priests. Parnell would
not step aside because he could not
have assurance that the home rule
plan of the coalition that would follow
would not include an imperial veto
power in local matters.
A Russian newspaper correspondent
writes from Brazil that Russian emil
grants are starving by hundreds, yet
a heavy stream of emigrants is still
pouring in.
The West Cumberland (Eng.) steel
rail works have shut down, throwing
100 men out of work.
The London police think they have
Jack the Ripper.
The Newfoundland legislature has
passed resolutions reciting that with
the consent of the British government
Newfoundland proposed reciprocity
treaty with the United States, which
Blaine accepted, but that the British
government, through the interference
of Canada, has refrained from ratify-
ing it, and that this course jeopardizes
the loyalty of the people of Newfound-
land to the British crown.
The Chilean rebels have defeated
the government troops in an impor-
tant battle at Tarapaca.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-02-27
AsToRY or BOSTON coRBETr.
How and why He Tried to XIII ID. r..
Brown, OF Efoud County. Kms-

ID. L. Brown. of Concordia. Kas. was
at the Union Depot. says the Kansas
City Star. on his way to the southeast
ern part of Kansas
1t was in the latter part of Decem-
Der. 1885, on Union Pacific passenger
train. that an attempt was made By
Boston Corbett the slayer OF John
Wilkes Booth to take Mr. Browns
life. Corbett was superstitious sort
OF a fellow, and believing God had
commissioned him to care for tha
spiritual welfare of the people of Cloud
County, they were harrassed with his
sermons depicting the horrors of ths
sulphuric regions and commanding
everyone 10 hee from the wrath to
come. Forbearance with these good
people had ceased to be a virtue, and
the feasibility of incarnating Corbet<
in the State Insane Asylum was talked
of.
At that time Mr. Brown was the
Probate Judge of Cloud County and
Corbett would necessarily have to be
brought before him and his sanity de-
termined by jury before he could De
removed to the asylum. Corbett
imagined that his oft-consnIted friend
was at the head of the movement and
he resolved to kill him on sight Ac-
cordingly he made sure that his old
army Colts pistol. the one he used i'm
shooting Booth. was in good trim and
awaited his opportunity. About that
time Corbett received notice from
some of the Republican leaders OF the
state that # he would present himself
at the opening of the Legislature he
would be given an appointment as
doorkeeper- He boarded the train at
Concordia one Mondav morning for
Topeka on the same day Mr.. Brown
had decided to pay visit to the capital.
Corbett walked into the coach with his
mammoth horse pistol strapped around
his waist Suddenly he saw Brown
hurriedly coming down the sidewalk.
grip in hand, toward the train Cor
bett was wild in an instant and vocifer-
ously announced his intention of shoot
ing a many leaden bullets into Mr..
Browns corpulent frame as it would
hold The latter stepped onto the
platform OF the train just as il was
pulling out with not the least iutima-
tion of his danger. Corbett with his
revolver in his hand stood in the cen-
ter of the coach, his face lfvid with
rage, waiting for his victim TO turn the
knob of the door and enter. The pas
sengers in the car. notmore than half
dozen including the news agent were
greatly frightened at the impending
danger. The latter. boy OF Is years.
summoned up enough courage to
pass C0rbett and go out of the front
door and warn Brown. The latter
entered the coach ahead and with q
handsome but deadly looking double
action revolver in hand awaited an at
tack from Corbett- The latter en-
deavored TO force his way through the
door. but the conductor appearing on
the scene finally persuaded him to re-
turn to his seat Corbett kept his
hand on his revolver all the way on
the journey. The excitement of the
sessions of the legislatures and his re.
hearsings of the killing of Booth al
most completely unbalanced his mind.
How he adjourned the senate at the
point of his revolver is well known.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-02-27
what the rarmers want.

The council Of the Farmers Alliance
and Industrial Union in Washington
resolved to ask congress that all YES
sci built, owned and manned by cit
izens Of the United States that carry
full outgoing cargoes, to be reckoned
by the tonnage Of the vessel, two
thirds of which at least shall consist
of home agricultural products, shall
be allowed to enter and discharge
their returning cargoes, provided said
cargoes shall consist of manufactured
products, at any port of the United
States free Of all customs duties.
The Ocala platform was indorsed,
especially the clause demanding the
suppression of the Louisiana lottery.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-02-27
GlutUOnS.

Among the accounts of enormous
eaters there are. perhaps. none more
extraordinary than that related in
.'Fuller's Worthless. concerning Mich
olas Wood of Harrison. Kent. England.
The account says: He ate at one meal
a whole sheep. at another time thirty
dozen pigeons. At the residence of
Sir William Sidley he ate as much as
would have sufficed for thirty men.
At Lord Watten's in Kent, he devoured
eighty four rabbits at one sitting.
which at the rate of a half rabbit for
each man. would serve 163 men. At
breakfast he ate eighteen yards of
black pudding, and during the day ate
a whole hog. When Accommodated with
fruit he ate three pecks of damsons.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-02-27

Silver Cake.-One pound OF sugar,
dried and sifted, half pound of but
ter, one pound OF citron, the whites of
fourteen eggs. Beat the sugar and
butter to a cream, add the egg whites
beaten to a stiff frost, and lastly, add
the flour with half teaspoonful of
pounded mace and the grated rind of
one lemon. Just before baking, stir
in the citron, which must have been
well fioured. Bake carefully and ice
Cocoanut Cake.-Beat yolks of five
eggs, one-quarter pound butter and
one pound of sugar together until
very light. Then add one-half pint
milk, one-half pound flour, beat well.
Add juice and rind OF one lemon and
two cups grated cocoanut. Beat the
whites of the eggs to stiff froth and
stir them, with two teaspoonfuls of
baking powder, into the cake. Pour
into two square pans, dust thickly
with powdered sugar and bake in
moderate oven three-quarters of an
hour.
Nodded Rice.-Boil half a pound of
rice in water till soft; dissolve half a
pound of loaf sugar in the juice of two
good lemons and wineglass of rum;
strain the rice from the water and
mix with it the lemon juice, sugar and
rum, adding the rind of the lemon
grated very finely; stir it all well to-
gether and pour it into a previously
wetted mold, and set it aside in cool
place till wanted, when serve with a
rich custard, favored with vanilla,
over it.
Graham Biscuits.-Put one quart of
graham flour into a bowl. Rub into
it thoroughly two ounces of butter or
lard. Add teaspoonful of salt and
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder.
Mix and rub again, until thoroughly
blended, then add sufficient milk,
about pint, to make soft
dough. Turn out on the board, knead
lightly, roll into sheet about three
quarters of an inch thick. Cut into
biscuits. Place in creased pans and
bake in quick oven 30 minutes.
Excellent Mincemeat.-Three pint
bowls of meat, five of apples, one of
molasses, one of boiled cider, one-half
of butter, two of raisins, five of sugar,
two level teaspoons each of cinnamon,
nutmeg and cloves; one tablespoon
each of salt and black pepper, juice
and grated rind of three lemons.
Chop the meat and apples fine, and
boil all together about two hours. If
too thick, thin it with little of the
liquor in which the meat was boiled.
This makes about two gallons, but it
will keep long time if you don't have
anyone in the house very fond of
mincemeat.
Dried Plum Pies.-Soak dried plums
overnight, stew them gently and
sweeten tc taste. Cover deep pie
dish or shallow pudding dish with
paste, over which spread thin layer
Of the plums. .then a thin layer of
paste. Add another layer of plums.
cover with paste second time and
bake.
Potato Balls.-Take cold mashed
potatoes and make into fiat balls ;-roll
them in bread crumbs, dip them in
beaten egg and roll them in cracker
crumbs, season with salt and fry in
hot grease. Cover them first with
bread crumbs, which prevent them
from soaking up the lard.
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Disgrace in Ireland.

She is an Irishwoman, bright. witty,
entertaining. as an educated Irish
woman cannot help being. She was
telling me of a gathering in certain
hotel parlor in the Green Isle soon
after one of the periodical uprisings
among the Irish people against land
lordism. In mentioning certain facts
regarding the persons present at this
meeting she spoke of the Imprisonment
of this one or that as matter of course.
l remarked that it was a strange con-
dition of affairs-that in which the
prison had lost its taint ..Taintir she
cried. Not to have been in Jail Is a
disgracer' 1tDentieA Century.
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A GREAT FRENCH SHIP.

The AmiraI Duperre OF the First Glass
Armored from Stem to Stern.
A notable French armored ship of the
first class is the Amiral Duperre. II was
designed by M. Sabattier. and differs
materially from that country's other
ships of the same class It has a com.
plete belt of very thick armor from stem
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-02-27

The assembly has adopted con-
stitutional amendment forbidding the
Legislature to pay any deficiency in
CURED by any officer except upon the
written authority of the governor,
secretary of state and attorney-gen-
eral, in cases Of urgent necessity.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-02-27

Smokers should be smart enough to
know that the genuine Seal of North
Carolina Plug Cut costs them no more
than poor Tobacco. which some dealers try
epree ON shem.
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One soldier Murasr. Another.

At the Preside at San Francisco,
Feb. IL, Albert Blackman quarreled
with Gottlieb Nouneman, the cook,
because, at the command of the chief
cook, Nount mann had put comrade
out of the kitchen, where he had in
sisted on going in violation of orders.
Blackman went down town and
bought revolver and the next morn
ing before daylight he shot Noune-
mann through the window while he
was in the kitchen, and killed him
instantly.