The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-07-29
EASTERN MELANGE.
Kissing Debarred in the Parks
Of Baltimore, Md.
SOUTH CAROLINA BONDS SOLD.
The Assessed Valuation Of Property
in New York City-Mrs. Rod
ney Ahead Of Time.

The big Catholic Congress will as
scmble at Chicago September 4.
There are E,8l7 ,434.00 in the Penn
sylyania State Treasury.
Five women were qualified az notaries
public in Philadelphia last week.
New York city has spent $4,000 in
entertaining the Gnianta Eulalia.
The Treasury Department has decided
that the tomato is vegetable and not a
fruit.
Kentucky farmers are talking about
feeding wheat to hogs because OF the
low price.
The assessed valuation Of property in
New York city is approaching the ~, 2,OOO,-
.OO0, 600 mark.
Oklahoma has quarantined against
Texas cattle, owing to Texas fever
among the herds.
Many Eastern towns are now making
use OF the electric cars for keeping the
streets sprinkled.
The Grand Army people Of st. Louis
propose to raise fund for a monument
to General Sherman.
The silver bought by the government
under the Sherman law is worth $685.
600, 600 less than was paid for it.
IIinckley, the crop expert of the st.
Paul road, says the spring wheat crop
will be the poorest in twelve years.
1t IL said that neither Cleveland nor
Hill will take any especial interest in
the campaign in New York this year.
The now vacant position Of Chaplain
Of the House is going a-begging,
but one candidate having appeared SO
far.
A decision of Baltimore Judge that
"no kissing" be allowed in the parks OF
that city has been sustained by higher
court.
The syndicate which bought South
Cardinals bonds has completed the
So, 25O, 600 payment, and the State feels
richer.
The ravagcs of the chinch bug in Kan
sas this year have aroused the farmers
to a more general trial OF the infection
remedy.
The Mexico Land and Improvement
Company OF Kansas City will expert
ment with collee-raising on a large
scale in Mexico.
Mrs. Rodney, who is walking from
Galveston to Chicago on 81, 900 wager,
is ahead of time. She sells her photo
graphs en- route.
A physician in Brewsters, n. Y, has
invented an electric disinfectant that
promises to be of great Importance in
killing disease germs.
Jerry Simpson denies that deal has
been made by which he is to run for
Governor Of Kansas and Governor
Lewelling is to become Senator.
OF the thirty-four counties of South
Carolina only seven have complied with
the regulations of the new liquor law Of
the State, which went into effect July |.
Successful experiments have been
made in several States in stimulating
the growth of such plants as wheat,
corn and tobacco by means of electric
currents.
Panama has had water famine.
The aguadores, or water carriers, We're
compelled to pay about 20 cents each to
have their pipotes, or barrels, washed
and disinfected.
1t is estimated that there are 1000
men idle in Pittsburg and its immediate
vicinity, awaiting agreements as to q
new scale of wages for the coming year
in the iron mills.
The New York Central will furnish
transportation and sleeping-car privi-
eges to all its employees who wish to
visit the fair. Each employe can take
one member OF his family.
A Harvard law student, who acted as
his own attorney in the case against
him, was sentenced to five days in the
Boston House of Correction for causing
a disturbance in horse car.
In New York the Health Board has
appointed what is designated a "sum-
mer corps OF physicians" fifty in num-
Der, whose duty it is to visit tenement
houses during July and August and give
lllcultul dllCutloll W SlCh CIlllut tll dlll
poor people who are unable to pay for it.
A significant feature of the Treasury
statement is not a cent of the receipts
for last June were paid in gold certiti-
Gates, and the May statement was little
better in this respect. In June of 1892
s per cent of the receipts were paid in
gold certificates and 2 per cent in gold
coin.
At recent auction sale of the per-
sonal property Of the late Governor
Samuel W. Hale, OF New Hampshire
shares of mining, electric and other
stocks having par value of $1,000, 900
and promissory notes of face value of
$57 900 were sold to the highest bidder
for less than 81.
With a view to encourage immigration
into the Canadian Northwest from the
Western States the Canadian govern
ment has decided to abolish the customs
regulations which now provide that in
coming settlers must own their stock
and certain other effects one year before
leaving the United States.