The Portland daily press., 1893-11-17

Ine general depression throughout ColOf-
ado. Thousands of Denverites who used
to ride to business either have no bust
ness now or reach it by walking. The
orders of the Denver street railways to
their printers for tickets have fallen off
by hundreds of thousands since the
pinch began to be felt in Colorado, and
in this as in a hundred other matters
the sudden economies of an ordinarily
lavish community have been manifested.
Robert Louis Stevenson, with perhaps
the first reputation among living writers
of English fiction, is an encouraging ex.
ample of what genius may accomplish
in a short space of time. 1t is not many
years since he landed in this country
with weak lungs and no literary repute
and vainly essayed to market his wares
with the publishers of books and maya
zines, who now are not only glad to pay
him well for whatever he may furnish
them, but even to pay other persons for
grave critical articles upon the nature
of his literary art.
Mrs. Rosa Velaso, native of Chilli, died
at San Jose, Cal, week ago at the age
of 100 years. She had four greaJ-grand-
children, one of whom IS Is years old.
Two days before a colored woman, Mrs.
OQTcaS MOTIFS, WHOSE age Oh lUO years
was we'll authenticated, died in Portland,
Ore. Two other centenarians, Mary
Page, 104, and Harry Mordecai, 101, died
in the Raleigh, N. c., poorhouse within
a day of each other the first of the
month.
Lumpkin County, Georgia, is having
an exciting gold mining boom. The
mines are not new discoveries but since
+ho c;Ivor +ro,,bla laoapA attention, no 6
been re-directed to old diggings and gold
deposits known co exist. there Colorado
mining capitalists and capitalists from
other regions have been looking over the
Lumpkin gold fields during the past two
or three months with "a view to invest
! ment.
Thesrecent suicide at San Francisco of
an oldsssailor bearing many honors re-
| ceived at the hands of the United States
government is curious illustration of
the difficulty with which old timers in
the navy accommodate them selves to a
new order of things. The old man came
aboard ship after his leave had expired
and, on being reprimanded, went below
and blew out his brains. The old fellows
of the navy are still under the Influence
y
to overstay his leave, and to have his
future liberty cut off in consequence,
Newer methods. more human relations
between officers and men, and special
rewards for good behavior have almost
destroyed the early and evil traditions
ofsthe navy but the grizzled heroes of the
early sixties sometimes fail to grasp the
new situation.
According to latest reports collected in
San Francisco, Seattle, Victoria and other
sealing ports on the Pacific coast, the
total number of sealskins taken in the
| Pacific ocean and Behring Sea during the
| past season is 120, 241.
Ex-United States Senator Eumunds
| has lost none of his combative energy
by reason of advancing age. The first
| electric railway in Vermont went into
operation at his home in Burlington the
other day. Before the first half dozen
| cars had passed his house the senator
entered suit for trespass against the COM
pany, claiming that they had no right to
| occupy the street for their railroad with
| out his consent.
| Among the dozen public men upon who
the University of St.Andrew is about
to confer the honorary degree of LII. d.
are Mr.. Gladstone the Marquis of Sails
bury and Rev. AL bert Loewy With re-
gard to the last mentioned it is worthy
| of note that this is the first occasion in
England on which any university degree
has been bestowed on Jewish clergy
man. There have only been three Jews
upon whom honorary degrees have been
conferred. These three-all laymen-
being Professor Sylvester, who received
an honorary degree from the university
on taking up his residene at Oxford
DR.. Neu baur, the Semitic librarian of the
Bodleian, who received the honorary NJ.
| A., and Mr.Schecter, who took the chail
of readersin Rabbinical literature at the
University of Cam bridge.