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tiVKI, MteraMl PVMMMT. LLLINOI& pfodtd. killing him, Robert Hurley and t graes by tfa» Bcpablicans of the Second W /**N«4IA ANRI VANNFLTNM AFLKAM ' T«JU«MA --1 --A _ A. IB.-A M_ J .3 WORLD OVER. *ffcCtalOfiitt of the Waek's 1m- porUmt Occurrences Con­ cisely Summarised. ̂ by Electric Wire Story Quarter of the Civil* iaad World. SBADB GROWING BETTER Dealer* Gaining Confidence Over the In­ creasing Volute of Bminew and the Fine Crop Reports. B. G. Dux k Co.'8 weekly review of trade reports a better feeling in every direction. It says: Crop prospects improve, manufacturers are confidence, and dealers, no longer oper­ ating on a falling market, keenlv appreciate the difference. The present state of business is clearly enoouraging, larger in volume than a year ago, and growing more confident in tone. Bxtensive reports within the last week •trengthfen belief that the corn crop will be tage, the oat crop large, the yield of wheat not below recent estimates, and the yield of i ootton better than the trade has expected. The Iran trade does not brighten as was expected, though prices are a little stronger in Pittsburg. The eoal trade is phenomenally active, and an advance in price has been agreed upon. For the first time in eight years leather dealers are no : longer selling on a declining market. In the wool trade a better feeling is seen, and in some grades better prices. Money is firmer at many points, with an increasing demand, but scarcely anywhere is - there complaint of closeness, and collections do not seem to be more backward than is usual ; at this season. In the dry goods trade improve­ ment is especially noted in Chicago, and here a toll average business in cottons is in progress, : with a somewhat more satisfactory movement • in woolens, especially in men's wear goods of spring weights, and in carpets. Failures last 1 week numbered 214, as compared with a total of 819 the previous week, INEBRASKA REPUBLICANS. Aqr Nominate a State Ticket and Declare for a Submission of the Prohibition Amend­ ment. THE Republican State Convention of Nebraska met at Lincoln, and after a tedious straggle nominated the following ticket: For Governor, John U. Thayer; for Lieuten­ ant-Governor, 6. D. Meiklejohn, of Nance County;for Secretary of State, Gilbert Laws; for Treasurer, J. E. Hill of tiage County; for Commissioner of Public Lanls ind Buildings, John Steen, of Saunders, and for State Superin­ tendent of Public Instruction, George B. Lane, of Washington. The nominees for Presidential Electors are: At large, George H. Hastings, of "»"»« attdH. C. Russell, of Colfax; First dis­ trict, M. M. Butler, of Cass; Second district, James McNeenv, of Webster; Third district, Charles F. Iddings, of Lincoln. The platform indorses Harrison and Morton and arraigns the Democratic ad­ ministration; pronounces in favor of nine honrs a legal day's work; and concludes as follows: JUtolved, That the Republicans of Nebraska in convention assembled deem it due the elec­ tors of this State that the submission of the question, Shall the manufacture and sale o( in­ toxicating liquors as a beverage be prohibited? be made to the voters oi the State. AFTER THE PENNANT. OBcial Record of the Various Clnbs Compet­ ing for the Prise. THB following table gives the relative standing of the ball clnbs competing for the championship: * lMfoa .yaWon. Lost. Mew xork. Ctdcaao DMHH Philadelphia. .48 fg? Pittsburgh..... Washington Hgoux City... Chicacc Minneapolis.. WaaLa«.| Aiaeteea Won. Lost. --42 97 88, St. Louis 65 26; Cincinnati 57 .'!4 Bi«okivn...... .56 o7| Athletic 53 471 Baltimore. 90 Louisville. 96 51 j Cleveland 35 44,K«niaa City 31 Nominated for Congress. iff. H. MCGINNIB was nominated for •Congress by the Third West Virginia Dis­ trict Republicans. C. Cnrtis, and wounding others. WEST. THOCSANDS of dollars' worth of prop­ erty were destroyed in Marquette, Mich., in less than four minutes by a terrific cyclone which passed over that plaoe. When directly over the city the cloud burst, the funnel-shaped cloud scooped down, and whole business blocks were unroofed, and chimneys, telegraph poles, shade trees, and small outhouses were demolished. Front glass plates were broken, and the stocks of goods in the unroofed business stores were gutted. The signal-6ervice building, Masonic Hall, Adams' two blocks, and Thorey's block suffered the greatest damage. No lives were lost, but many narrowly ' es­ caped. BILLY COLE has been lynched at Guide ijtock, Neb. Ever since the shooting of William Montgomery tind Charlie Grant at Talbot's Hall, at Guide Bock, the friends of the wounded men have sworn vengeance, but the prisoner was so closely guarded to prevent any attempt at lynch­ ing that it was thought best to wait until the officers should be convinced that there was no danger, and so relax their vigi­ lance. The officers fell into the trap laid for them, and the vigilants were success­ ful in carrying out their plot and Cole wa6 strung up. As soon as he was dead the masked men quietly disappeared, leaving no clew as to their identity. , ROBERT HENRICKSON, a prominent citizen of Hhelbyville, Ind., has been ar­ rested, charged with forging a check for $ 142 on David Gruble. He gave up the money and says he don't know what made him do it. He was bound over to court. Mas. DOTTIE CARNAHAN, daughter of Ward Hill Lamon, who was Marshal of the District of Columbia during Lincoln's administration, has entered suit at Catlin, 111., for a divorce from her husband, William Carnahan, who is a son of Gen­ eral R. H. Carnahan. She charges that he is a habitual drunkard, and was often cruel to her. THE Hermann Berghoff Brewing Com­ pany's new brewery at Fort Wayne, Ind., was burned, at a loss of $100,000. CAPTAIN NAT KINNEY, chief and founder of the Bald Knobbers* band in Christian County, Mo., was killed at Ozark by Bill Miles, an anti-Bald Knob- ber, who escaped. DURING a heavy fog in the bay of San Francisco, the steamer Oceanica ran into the City of Chester, damaging her 60 bad­ ly that she went down in five minutes. Over thirty persons were drowned. THE Whitney Paper Mill, at Menasha, Wis., caught fire in the engine-room about midnight, and an hour later, when several hundred persons were watching the flames, a superheated bleach rotary boiler, suddenly cooled by streams of water thrown by the firemen, exploded, and the entire mass, weighing about ten tons, was blown through the throng a distance of about 300 feet, killing four­ teen men outright and injuring about as many more. The dead were all poor workmen, and were buried at the city's expense. The mill, which was valued at 01HK and insured for $31,000, will be rebnilt. SOUTH. A CYCLONE swept over Eastern Mary­ land demolishing houses and orchards, wrecking the canning establishment at Still Pond, owned^by Slack <fe Krebs, of Baltimore, in whicli were 100 men, women and children, mostly Bohemians and Ger­ mans from Baltimore, and killed nine: Charles Schweitzenberg, Charles Beau- camp and wife, Lauri Alpheus, August Goete, wife, and two boys, and Rosie Gould. Three were dangerously hurt-* Gustave Franzi and Frank and Maggie Siffaring--and a number were slightly in­ jured. William Willis, whose hoase was crushed, was fatally hurt. THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE. It'll-Discussed in the Senate, and 50,000 Copies Ordered Printed by the House. THE President's message on the subject of the fishery treaty Was read in the Senate on the 24th. Mr. Edmunds, of Vermont, immediately took - the floor and in a lengthy speech accused the President of making a political move. He said that, though tnere was a statute providing for self-defense against Canadian injusiica, the country was now informed that no step of any kind had been taken to carry into execution the plain provisions of that law. If, in the Presidents opinion, there had been instances of the denial of just rights to American citizens engaged ^fn the business described in the actof Ifi87. Vby was it that the President had not taken any step in the exercise of the po wers which the law im­ posed upon him and the exercise of the high duty which the Constitution imposes on him of taking care that the laws were faith- , fully executed? Seuators Hoar, Hale, and Sherman also attacked the Presi­ dent's message and the whole conrae of the administration in the matter of the fisheries i troubles. Senator Morgan defended the mes­ sage. Republican opposition to this whole , fishery affair, said he, had not been to get the people or the Government into better shape, J but to entrap the Executive and put him where he would do the bidding of the minority of the people represented by the majority oi the Btn- ate. He was gratified to know that the Presi­ dent did not feel alarmed at this at all. Mr. Morgan favored patting it in the power of the President to retali- , ate, and thereby convince Great Britain mid Canada that tiie United States had annod its local authorities with power enough to recti­ fy whatever wrong they might do, and that the United States liie&nt to execute its purpose un­ less they came to s me wise and just and hon­ orable agreement with it. If any Senator had proposed to do something else, let him avow it. If any Senator thought it was the duty of the • President immediately to proceed to retaliate on Canadian commerce for injuries and Wrongs that had !«HJU done to the United States previous t > that time, let him avow it. Fifteen thousand copies of the President's fisheries treaty message have been ordered printed by the House. Thy House Pensions Committee reported Mrs. hberidan's pension bill with an amendment siniilar to that report- ed to the Senate, reducing the amount to S3,500. The House voted to non-concur in the Senate amendments to the bill for ths allotment of lands in severalty to the united Miami Indians in the Indian Territory, The House went into committee of the whole on the deficiency bill, but nothing was done, as no quorum was ftttSMMu i . ' ' • ^ EAST. DUBIHQ a heavy blow the sloop Flora Pennsville, capsized near New­ castle, Del. She had on board Mrs. Elijah Wheaton, Mrs. Jonathan Turner, Mrs. Samuel Wheaton, and the latter's daughter, about 9 years of age, and Mrs. Thomas Finnegan, all of whom were In cabin at the time and were drowned. The bodies were recovered and sent to. their homes in Pennsville. Gou VEUNECB MoBKis.a member of the famous old family of that name, died at " Bartow-on-the-Sound, L. I., aged 75. He was a grandson and namesake of the famous Gouverneur Morris, who was the youngest member of the first Continental Congress, and founder of the American •ystom of currency. He was one of the «8srlieftproject ors and constructors of the union Pacific Railroad, and he was also one of the originators of the Illinois Cen tral and Iowa system of roads. His another was a niece of Thomas Jefferson. DAN LYONS, the murderer of Quinn, J the athlete, was hanged in the New York Tombs. The doomed man showed re­ markable coolness throughout. AT Bradford, Pa., while Edward Dnell was compounding oolo?ed fire ia a gas pipe, at a O. A. KJ* celebration, it ex- WASHINGTON JUDGE WILLIAM W. WILSHIRE died at his home in Washington recently from congestion of the brain. During the war he served in the Union army as a major of volunteers. He was appointed Chief Justice of Arkansas in 1868, which office he resigned three years later. He was given the certificate of election to the Forty-third Congress, but his Beat w|a$ contested and his competitor was de­ clared elected. In 1874 he was elected to the Forty-fourth Congress. THE following statement regarding the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 188!), made by the present ses­ sion of Congress, has been prepared by the Treasury Department: As passed by As passed by House. Senate. Bills finally passed--•£22,733,190 Sundry ci til appropria­ tion bill 23,332,40# Army appropriate bill 24,633.300 Navy appropriate bill. 20,003,074 Fortification (pending in Senate) 3,725,000 Deficiency (pending in House) 3,539,434 $222,733,190 £8,506,999 81,531,600 SO,193,293 3,725,000 3,590,434 Totals *297,972,40S *310,229,71» Permanent and indefi­ nite appropriations. 115,640,790 115,640,79* Total sppropr'd.. ,$il3,S13,204 *425.870,51# Estimated revenue (including $57,863,- 734 for postal revenue), $440,562,734. Estimated surplus, $26,950,530 based on House appropriations, and $14,693,219 on Senate appropriations. Indiana District, at West Badefi JCDGB OWENS, of Loganaport, was renominated for Congress by the Repub­ licans of the Tenth Indiana District, at Rochester. THE Hon. Benjamin Butterworth hjas been renominated for Congress by (he Re­ publicans of the First Ohio district. THB Greenback-Labor party has nom­ inated Major W. L. Carpenter for Con gross at Des Moines, la. He will be in­ dorsed by the Democrats. Coii. D. B. HENDERSON has been renominated for Congress at Waterloo, la., by the Republicans of the Third Iowa district. CONGRESSMAN BROWNE has been re­ nominated by the Republicans of the First Virginia District. JAMES G. HAWKEY has been nominat­ ed for delegate in Congress by Che Demo­ crats of Idaho. JOHN A. CALDWEI^, Judge of the Cir­ cuit Police Court, has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Sec­ ond Ohio District. THE Democrats of the Ninth Kentucky District have nominated Thomas H. Paynter for Congress. THE Republicans of the Congressional Convention, Third Indiana District, nom­ inated Col. Stephen D. Sayles of Salem. THE Republicans of the Fifth Ohio District have nominated Wilson J. Vance for Congress. REPUBLICANS of the Seventh Michi- San District have nominated Gen. William [artsuff for Congress. REPUBLICAN conventions have been held in the Fifth and Sixth Congressional Districts of Maryland. Sidney E. Mudd, of Port Tobacco, Charles County, was nominated in the Fifth, and Louis E. McComas, of Hagerstown, Washington County, was nominated in the Sixth. FOREIGN. A BERLIN dispatch says: Emperor William has conferred the decoration of the Order of the Red Eagle upon Gen. •on Hendrick, commander of the Fifteenth Army Corps, stationed in Alsace-Lor­ raine, upon the occasion of the jubilee of his entrance into the army. Accompany­ ing the decoration was an autograph let­ ter from the Emperor, conveying nis many warm congratulations. BOULANGER has been elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the department of Somme by a majority of 34,723. He also headed the polls in the Clarence and Nord Departments. The announcement of the figures caused great excitement in Paris. - __ - GENERA!* A CANADA lawyer drew up a will in his own handwriting, and when it was opened ( the other day he was unable to tell whether the amount left to one of the heirs was $2,000 or $10,000, the chir- ogruphy was so bad. VIOLENT windstorms swept over Louis­ iana, Southern Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey, leveling houses, fences, and growing crops. Along the lower Missis­ sippi a large number of coal boats were damaged or destroyed, the loss in this particular being estimated at $500,000. At Wilmington, Del., a cyclone wrecked the iron works of the Mablow Bros., and carried away 100 feet of Pusey <fc Jones' iron works, and crossing to the river, up­ set a number of boats, causing the loss of two lives. At Boston the Journal press­ room was under water. FARMER HOARD WINS. THE Wisconsin Republican Convention met at Milwaukee, and nominated their State ticket as follows: Governor--W. D. Hoard. Lieutenant Governor--G. W. Byland. Secretary of State--Ernest G. Tinune. Treasurer--H. K. Harshaw. Attorney General--C. E. Estabrook. Superintendent of Education--J. B. Thayer. R. R. Commissioner--Atley Peterson. , Ins. Commissioner--Philip Cheek, Jr. W. D. Hoard, the nominee for Gover­ nor, is a farmer of Jackson County. Against him were pitted nearly all the prominent politicians of the State, but he POLITICS. CONGRESSMAN CONGER hai bean re­ nominated by the Republicans of the Seventh Iowa District. THE Republican State Convention pf Iowa met at Des Moines and placed in nomination the following ticket: For Secretary of State--Frank D. Jackson. For Auditor--J. A. Lyons. For Treasurer--O. P. Twombley. For Supreme Judge--C. T. Granger, Allama­ kee County. For Attorney General--J. T. Stone, council Bluffs. For Ballroad Commissioners--P. T. Campbell, Fpencer Kmith, John Mahin. Electors at Large--Ex-Governor Stone, Col. Hepburn. A long platform was adopted which in­ dorses the Republican national nominees and platform; commends Gov. Larrabee's administration; declares adherence to the principles of legislative control of rail­ ways, and indorses the railway legislation *f the last Legislature; congratulates the people on the temperance legislation and the results of the prohibitory law; favdrs gold, silver, and greenbacks as currency; denounces acts of tho Democratic Co:i- Sress and administration, and laments the eath of General Sheridan. AT Charleston, West Virginia, the Re­ publican State convention nominated Gen. N. Goff for Governor. THE Fifth Ohio District Republicans nominated Col. Wilson Vance for Con­ gress, at Fostoria. THE Missouri Democratic State Con­ vention, in session at Jefferson City, nominated this ticket: Governor--Mayor David K. Francis of St. Louis. Lieutenant Governor--Stephen U. Claycoibb of Jasper County. Secretary of State--Alexander LeSuasur. , Auditor--J. M. Seibert. " Treasurer--E. T. Noland. ; v » Attorney General--John M. Wood. .. sjL The platform indorses thi St.'tfrais ticket and platform; indorses the Mills bill; condemns trusts and monopolies; and deplores the death of Governor Mar- maduke. THE Hon. TomN. Braxton, a rich and popular farmer, was nominated for COST* was selected on the first ballot. A plat­ form was adopted which indorses the Re­ publican national platform and candi­ dates, praises Republican administiation Of State affairs, and eulogizes Gov. Rusk. MARKET REPORT& CHICAGO. CATTUE--Choice to Prime Steers.* 5.75 Good Common HOGS--Shipping Grades.: WHEAT--No." *2 ReiV." CORN--No. 2... OATS--No. 2 BTE--NO. 2 BUTTBB--Choice Creamery. Fine Dairy CHKEKE--Full Cream, flat 5.00 3..W 6.00 3.50 .mm .44 <S» .25 .47 & .18 0 .19 0 .06 & .14 « .42 & & 6.50 <9 5.75 & 4.75 (gl 0.75 <$ 5.00 .88 45 .25^ .49 .20 .17 .0814 .15 .48 •83* •45!* .27 6J0 .40)4 .25 .50 .85 Eoos--Fresh ; POTATOES--New, per bu POBK--Mess 13.50 &14.Q0 MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--Cash .86H COBN--No. a .41 .45 OATS--No. 2 White 81 <0 .38 BTE--No. 1 49 0 .80 f ABLEY- No. 2 63 & ,65 one--Mess 13.50 @14.00 CINCINNATI. WHKAT--No. 2 Red 85^0 CORN--No. 2 44,l2«S OATS--No. 2 Mixed 28 & Hous 5.C0 M 8T. LOUIS. Whkat-^-N« t 88 @ CORN--No. 2 40 <9 OATi--No. 2 24%($ RYK--No. 3 48 (G BAULK t 75 & Poiut--Mess.... 14.75 @15.50 NEW YOKK. CATIXB 5.00 & 6.25 Moos 6.uo & 7.00 SHKKP 3.S0 (»> 5.00 WHEAT--No. 2 Bed .97 <$ .9# CORN -No. 2 54 & .55 QATS-White .40 ® .48 PoiiK--New Mess 15JW <3,15.75 DETUCIT. CATTLE 4.00 0 5.25 Hoos... 5.00 & 6.50 8HEBP. 3.00 ® 4.00 WHKAT--No. 2 Ked... 92 («, .93 CORN--No. 2 Yellow 47 (d .48 OATS--No, S W*ite U0H& ,81k INDIANAPOLIS. * CATTUB. 4.50 & 6.00 Hoas 6.00 <0 6.50 SHEEP 3.00 <J« 4.50 4.00 0 5.25 WHEAT. 94 ® Cons 46 <® OATS... .23 <<$ _ Cix>VKB SKicn 4.88 & 4.45 EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE--Prime 6 60 ©6.25 Fair <0 5.25 • . Common. 9.00 #4.50 Hoas 6.00 o c.7S ' •( •' ' if' t ' ,95 _ in sew eftiss are tloaatelv mors vt those In the hnmUerwalks of life who own tbelr own hemes. XiWk at the eenses that have made this growth not oahr a possibility but a necessity. Columbia Biver and tributartoe Include all of the navigable fresh waters of the PMU* Northwest, and Portland Is the point o« dlsehaneof a funnel, beta* not oaly the converging point of ell the fresh waters but of the raibreads, which, in following the only natural grade to the eoaat, eome through the passes Of the Columbia, mak­ ing it the only PaetSo seaport reached ftom the interior of the continent without the sity of climbing heavyjgwlee^jjassing through long tunnels, or _ in^with the Colnmbla Biver Mountains, the railway through the Caa- y ana 1 steamboat fan over an routes of Portland expand like inland empire rich with mines, with torests, with grain fields and pasture lands. Portland la the real terminus of the Northern Pacific. THE *14 A Msmlsai Opening; Oy *f, Industries M4 Settteaaeat Thr»tiir>i the Adveat of Kallwajra--.A fssstiy Rich ia Agricsl- tasre. Timber, Minerals. Stoeik, and Wstsfpaewr--{Posiarpa ssed Climate and Wonderftd M&nyi PORTLAND, Ortfcon, Aug. 22.1888.--In the mind of the obeerver who takes but furtive glances from the oar window In hastening through the Pacific Northwest, tho Impres- Jions created may not be altogether favor­ able, but the man who comes and looks for facts will be favored by a constant succes­ sion of surprisee. Its agricultural resources; its mineral wealth; its timber; its manu­ facturing possibilities, through the close association of water-power and raw ma­ terial; its climate; and a full share of those Buperb creations of nature which distinguish our country from all others, convey to the intelligent traveler the most gratifying thoughts, assuring him of its future prog­ ress and prosperity. WHKBB IS OREGON? It is the State of the Pacific Northwest, and has the ocean for Its western boundary. It is bounded on the north by Washington Territory, on the east by Idaho, and on the south by Nevada and California. It has an area of 96,000 square miles, or over sixty million acres, lsrger than Old England and New England combined, and is capable of supporting ten persons where it now has one. If yon have never been there, admit that you know nothing or very little about it. Oregon has not only a variety of material resources, but there is a difference in the climate east and west of the Cascade Mountains. On the coast there are four seasons, but two only are conspicuous--the wet and the dry--while in the eastern part of the State there is a greater range of temperature, the winter, however, rarely having more than a few weeks or months of snow, with summers cooler and more equa­ ble than in the States east The rainy season on the coast is in the winter, and the idea is common that tho rainfttll is excessive, but wrong, because the Signal Service shows every South Atlantic and Gulf State to have from five to twenty inches more of rain than Portland, where the annual average is fif­ teen to twenty inches in excess of the States ( ^ of the Upper Mississippi Valley. In the J exten8ive"systemJ<^ Vceanr"river,^an<f™riil Southern States the rain is heavy: out here ** ' ... the showers are lighter, come oftener, and never with driving wind, and without the shivering dampness usual to the rainy sea­ sons on the Atlantic coast. The snowfall at Portland is light, seldom enough for sleigh­ ing. In the heat of summer there is no sun­ stroke, nor the lassitude of Southern Cali­ fornia. and no night was ever so hot as to preclude the need of bed clothing. The reasons for so mild and uniform climate so far north have been so often told that a mere mention of the chief one is all that is necessary. This is the influence of the Japan current, an immense "gulf stream" in the Pacific Ocean which sweeps toward the North Pacific coast and affects it as tho Gulf Stream does the British Islands. The potency of the Japan current is seen when we state that the annual temperature o. Sitka. Alaska, is about that of Minnesota. This current is tho source of the "Chinook winds," which pass in lurid to Montana and even Dakota, meitiifg in a Tew hours the snow in Oregon and Washington Territory. and allowing the stock to crop the herbage, which ia groen and {.rowing under the snow. The lawns of Portland are bright and green the whole winter through, and flowers bloom in the open air long uft^r the frost 1IHH -withered the vegetation of Virginia. Thunder storms are practically unknown, and there has never been a blizzard or cyclone. The farmers can plow in the coldest part of Oregon AH early as February, and in nearly all parts of it he can have an or- HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING, PORTLAND, OREGON. the Union Pacific, and the Southern Pa­ cific Bailways, and tho nominal terminus of the Canadian Paciflc, of which these are traffic connections. It is also headquarters for the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company's CO •rpE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. chard and garden adjoining his home, bearing the fruits and vegetables of the warm and cold temperate zones. The cultivated grasses thrive, bv.t wheat hay, Bix to ei^ht tons an acre, can be bad, of which stock iB as fond as of the best timothy. Wheat ranges from thirty to sixty bushels to the acre, -while flax yields from twen­ ty to forty bushels and furnishes a fiber equal to that which makes the best Irish linen. Oats, barley and rye grow bountifully, but com is not a universal crop, owing to cool nights. Pork is fattened on peas, wheat and barley, making a firmer and sweeter meat than the corn fed, but not so fat. There has never been a complete failure of crops. In the Eastern States the bottoms along the streams are usually of heavy soil, the poor land being up on the high places. Here this is re­ versed ; as a rule tno river and creek bottoms east of the Cascades are sandy, rocky, and un­ sightly, with the arable sections on the table lands and hills, at;d not always, indeed rarely, to be seen from tho cars. Taking Oregon over, to give the range of productions from apples to wheat, would be to reprint the premium list of an agricultural society or a nursery catalogue. The resou ces of the State, however, are not all of an agricultural kind. There is stored away in the hills a variety of metals and minerals, ra ging over no less than thirty-six distinct natural products of value, while every condition favorB Btock husbandry in the highest decree. It is already one of the leading wool-growing States, and begins to take high rana as a producer of fine horses and dairy products. In climate, soil, t<mber, minerals,'and grazing lands, and in ocean, river, and rail transportation, Oregon has incomparable advantages. It has a popu­ lation mainly of the best sort for respon­ sible citizenship, Intelligent and self-reliant. Army reports from the Department of the Columbia, covering thirty years, show an annual death-rute of 0 to each soldiers, the lowest in the Union, and census statistics confirm the general healthfulness of this sec­ tion. No epidemic has ever prevailed. Living expenses are a trifle lower than in the East and labor is better paid. There is variety enough, but no one can tell in advance juat what will suit the different tastes, capacities and ex­ periences of the new-comer who has probably never lived in a country of such opportunities. The man who goes to a distant part of the coun­ try must adapt himself to new methods and conditions, and no one should attempt to make a home in the Pacific Northwest or anywhere else without first going over the ground, seeing for himself and assuming the responsibility for the choice. In Portland the writer learned much of the possibilities of this section, through the kindness of the Board of Immigration, at whose rooms can be seen a rich display ©f the products of the Htate, and whose officer* are al­ ways ready to welcome strangers and tourist* without fee. Reliable information is furnished free to all applicants. WHAT OF PORTLAND? It is the second richest city per capita in the United States, and has a population, including environs, of about 60,00J. Tne location of the city is most picturesque; tho views to be ob- tained from the heights west of the city, or from Fairmount Ixiokout, soon to be quickly reached by cable cars, are truly inspiring. Here nature has wrought with a bolder hand In the large- featured Hub'.imity of the scenery than in lands that boast of an older civilization. Five snow- white peaks, miles and miles apart, and inter­ vening crags and hills of blue are s en, and two great rivers, the Columbia and Willamette, twin valleys, with thrifty farms creeping down to the wttU-r, the whole scene backed by verdant woodlands. Below us is the city, with broad, shady streets and two score church spires ris­ ing above the tree-tops. Along the docks ves­ sels from distant lands are discharging their cargoes. This is the trade center end metropo­ lis of the Paciflc Northwest. Look here, you man of 45 years, you will not' admit that you are old, yet when vou were pulling down your Christmas stocking this lair city had no place on the map, and the empire of land stretching 2,000 miles to the great lakes was a wilderness. Upon these hillsides, now crowned with homes of comfort and plenty wore trees, rocks, and Indian topees. Where no solid squares of business blocks, the wolf howled and the wild deer wandered ; while tne river, now crowded by Balling crafts of every sorf, was disturbed onlv by the bark canoe or the dash of wild ducks. Within the citv that last year spent #4,000,COO in public improvements, there were but a few log huts and bark wig­ wams. Where now a hundred trains daily un­ load their thousands, a dozen swarthy trappers Sicked their way along a bridle-path. In the Istrict whero last year millions' worth of sta­ ples were wholesaled a few traders were swap­ ping beads and blankets with Indians for furs. Thwe was no newspaper on ths Pacific coast: now Portland has four daily, fifteen we. kly, and three monthly publications. Tho Morning Ore - goniati is worthy of its great field. The city has seventy milo of paved streets and 120 miles of sidewalks. It has electric lights, gas, telephone, district-tclegraph and messenger s rviee, and water-works with a capacicv of 15,100,000 gallons a flay. '1 here are public libraries anil reading- rooms. good hotels, adozen banks,and four street­ car companies. It has the flnsst high-school building west of the Mississippi River, seven ward school houses and eighty-seven teachers Its JSetorles employ 4.1*0 men. The city is thickly dotted with the elegant abodes of the rich, and everywhere are eottages which display not wealth so mnsd as test* oare sad thrift service. Fourteen separate lines of river boats center at Portland, exclusive of regular ocean service by steamers and sailing vessels to all parts of the world. Port­ land is 110 miles from the ocean, on the Willamette River, twelve miles from its confluence with the Columbia, and is reached by deep-se i vessels in fill seasons. It controls the great Balinon fisheries of the Columbia, has large trade with Alaska, and derives the major benefit from the developm nt of the mining dis­ tricts of Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. The Willamette Valley alOne has resources enough to support a million inhabitants, not to mention the other elements of ineatness within the grasp of Portland--the wonderful mines, tho vast for­ ests, the fish-canning industry, the great grain trade, the products or pastur < lands and orch­ ards, and important Bhipping interests, which have developed into commercial size that de­ mands recognition, and in some instances su­ premacy, In the bus'ness circles of the world. MOSES FOLSOH. Exploding a Crocodile. Yes," said Uncle Cap, "1 have not only seen hundreds of alligators and crocodiles in the course of my wander­ ings, but I once had tha pleasure of destroying in a novel and most effectual manner a great man-eating cayman, as the crocodile is called in South Amer­ ica. " "Was he like my alligator?" asked Bryce. "Very like him, the only difference being that wlnle your alligator is about sixteen inches long, my cayman was a little over sixteen feet, and as ugly a looking monster as ever swam. I had been detached from the Porpoise, and ordered to explore a portion of Vene­ zuela, in company with a party of Amer­ ican engineers, who were constructing a telegraph line for the government of that country. We were following down a tributary of the great river Orinoco, and rested one Sunday at a little village on the bank of the stream. During the afternoon, as we were all lying asleep in our hammocks, there came a terrible screaming and crying from the village, and we ran to see what was up. "It seemed that several boys had been bathing in the river just below the village, when all at once, without the slightest warning, one of them had been Beized and drawn under the turbid waters by the great 'devil cayman,' as the Indians called one of these crea­ tures which had long been a terror to the community. "I suggested to the chief of the engi­ neers, a fine young fellow named Rob­ erts, that we set a trap for the man- eater, and after explaining my idea, got him to agree to it. As we were to be in that vicinity for several days, we waited until we thought it was about time for the cayman to be hungry again. Then we shot a fat monkey, sewed in­ side of him a stone bottle containing five pounds of powder, inserted in it the ends of two coils of line wire, bound these to strong ropes of equal length, and connected the other ends with the little test battery that we carried. "When all was ready we floated our bait, upheld by two inflated bladders near where the poor boy was seized, and crouched in the bushes to await developments. We had waited in per­ fect silence for more than an hour, and we were about ready to give it up, when there came a ripple in the water, and the huge head, with horrid open jaws, was cautiously lifted. Then the jaws closed with a snap upon our bait, the head instantly disappeared, and the ropes began to run swiftly out, showing that the monster was making for deep water. I had charge of the battery, and quickly connected the wires. Like a flash there came a deep muffled explo­ sion, a torrent of blood-stained water was thrown high in the air, and mingled with it were fragments of the scaly hide of the monster, in whose side a hole two feet square had been blown. "The poor natives were at first terri­ fied, then mystified, and finally over­ joyed at the success of our experiment, and ever afterward they treated us like beings possessed of supernatural pow­ ers. Notwithstanding this, we noticed that the boys did not seem to care for bathing for some time afterwar<|t" Yellow. Yellow is a color that gives tone to all other colors. If you gather a bouquet in the garden and do not in­ clude a bit of yellow it often seems to lack brightness. Add a yellow rose, or a spray of calliopsis, or a nasturtium, and the change is as great as that which takes place in a landscape when a burst of sunshine breaks through the clouds which have been %hanging above it. There is an instant suggestion of warmth. D. D. T. MOOKB writes to the New York Star as follows: "The injunction to 'plant good seed' is a somewhat hack­ neyed one, but it is very important at this juncture and should be heeded by nil en­ gaged in field or garden cultivation. The planting of good pure seed is, indeed, a prime factor in the profitable production of almost every crop, for upon it often depends a proper remuneration for the season's labors. Few, we fear, realize the fact that the seed exerts, in most in­ stances, a controlling influence npon both the quality nnd quantity of the crops produced. While many farmers under­ stand this and exercise due care in the matter, it is notoriously true that a far larger number pay little or no attention to the quality of the seed they plant. Many a man takes great pains to enrich and prepare his soil for a bountiful yield, and then makes a great mistake of neg­ lecting to secure good seed, so that fre­ quently instead of pidvuig profitable, the crop grown is not worth tho labor bestow­ ed-npon its cultivation--«nd all -for fatek of •'little Wise precaution" .u r » MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. (bngxea Is Asked by the Fraident fat Authority in Bel&tion to the I'iaheriea Timty, SL. (ha Rejection of the Treaty an! Asks for Certain - Powers. , -ry»,vv- ' [Washington spietaL] The President sent a long message to Con­ gress, the 23d, in regard to the rejected fisheries treaty, and recommended that power be given • the Exocutive to suspend the laws allowing the transit In bond across United States territory of {goods going to or coining from Canada. The {President, after referring ti the Injuries and an­ noyances which led > p to the negotiation of the {treaty, and expressing his belief that the re­ jected treaty was adequate for the settlement of {the difficulty without sacrificing our national idignlty, says: ' "I am quite conscious that neithermy opinion iot the value of the rejected treaty nor the mo- [tive which prompted Its negotiation is of im­ portance in the light of the judgment of the Senate thereupon. But it is of importance to note Ithat this treaty his been rejected without any apparent dispoaitien on the par:, of t* e Senate to alter or amend its provisions, and with the evi­ dent intt ntlon, not wanting exprosEi. n. that no negotiation should at present be concluded touching the matter at issue. "The co-operation necessary for the adjust­ ment of the long standing national differences with which we have to deal, by methods of con­ ference and a reement, having thus been de­ clined, I am by no means disposed 10 abandon the interest and the rights of our people in the premises or to neglect their grievances, and I therefore turn to the contemplation of a plan of retaliation as a mode which still remains of treating the situation. I am not unmindful of the gravity of the responsibility assumed in adopting this line of conduct, nor do I fail in the least to appreciate its serious consequences. It will be impossible to injure our Canadian neigh­ bors by retaliatory measures without inflicting some aamaee upon our own citizens. , "Plainly stated, the policy of national retalia­ tion manifestly embraces tha infliction of the greatest harm upon those who have injured us with the least possible damage to ourselves. There ia also an evidjnt propri ty, as weil as an invitation to moral support, found in viKiting upon the ofl.;nding party tho same measure or kind of treatment of which we complain, and as far AS po8?ib'.o within the same lines. And above all things, the plan of retalia loa, if en­ tered upon, 8ho;.Id be thorough and vigorous. "These considerations lead me at this time to invoke the aid and counsel of the Congress and its support in such a lurther grant of power as seems to mo necessary and desirable to render effective the prillcy I hava indicated." Tho President then refers to the retaliation act pr.ssed in March, 1887, and - argues that its enforcement in such manner as would result in the least possible injury to our own people would prove Inadequate for the accompli somen t of the purpose desired. The message says : "While 1 shall not hesitate upon proper occas­ ions to enforce this act, it would seem to be un­ necessary to suggest that, if such enforcement is limited in such a manner as shall result in the least possible injury to our own people, the ef­ fect would probably be inadequate to the accom­ plishment of the purpose desired. "1 deem it my duty, therefore, to call the at­ tention of Congress to certain particulars in the action of the authorities of tne Dominion of Canada, in addition to the general allegations al­ ready made/ wi.ich appear to be in such marked contrast to the liberal and friendly position of our country as, in my opinion, to call for such legislation as will, upon the principles already stated, properly supplement tue power to inaug­ urate retaliation, a realy vested in tho Execu­ tive. " The message quotes the twenty-ninth article of tho treaty of 1871, allowing the passage in bond across tho United States territory of goods destinod for Canada, and conferring a like privi­ lege upon goods passing through Canada and destined for the United States. Since 183*3, the President says, this privilege has been dented to Amarioan fishermen, and since then they have not been allowed to ship their fish in bond through Canadian territory to this country. After stitinq that the value of British-Canadian exports and imports carried across American territory in the last six years was $270,000,00J (nearly all of which was dutiable goods), the President says: "I rekommend immediate legislative action conferring upon the Executive the power to sus­ pend by proclamation the operation of all laws and regulations permitting the transit of goods, wares and merchandise in bond across or over the territory of the Ignited States to or from Canada. * "There need be no hesitation in suspending these laws arising from the supposition that their continuation is secured by treaty obliga­ tions, for it seems quite plain that Article '29 of the treaty of 1871, which was the only article incorporating such laws, terminated the 1st of July, 1835. The article itself declares that its provisions shall be in force "for the term of years mentioned in Article 33 of this treaty.' Turning to Article 33 we find no men­ tion of the tweuty-ninth article, but only a provision that articles 18 to 35, inclusive, and ar­ ticle 30 shall take effect as soon as the laws re­ quired to carry them into operation shall be passed by the legislative bodies of the different countries concerned, and ithat they shall remain in force for ten years from the date at which they may come into operation, and further, until the expiration of two years after either of the high contracting parties shall have given notice to the other of its wish to terminate the same. "I am of the opinion that the 'term of years' mentioned in article 33 referred to in article 29 as the limit of its duration means the period during which articles 18 to 25, inclusive, and arti­ cle 30, commonly called the 'fishery articles,' shall continue in force under the ianguago of said article :-3." The President also quotes to the same effect from the law passed toy Congress to carry the treaty into effect, and continues: "In any event, and whether the law of 1873con­ strues the treaty or governs it, section 20 of such treaty, 1 have no doubt, terminated with the proceedings taken by our Government to termi­ nate articles It) to 25, inclusive, and article 30 of the treaty. These proceedings had their incep­ tion in a joint resolution of Congress, passed Hay 8, 1888, declaring that in the judgment of Con­ gress these articles ought to be terminated, and directing the President to give the notice to the Government of Great Britain provided for in Article 33 of the treaty. Such notice having been given two years prior to the 1st day of July, 1885. the articles mentioned were absolutely terminated on the last-named day, and witn them Article 20 was also terminated. "But statutes granting to the people of Canada the valuable privileges of transit for their goods from our ports and over our soil, which had been passed prior to the making of the treaty of 1871 and independently of it, remained in force and -ever since the abrogation of the treaty, and, notwithstanding the refusal of Canada to per­ mit our fishermen to send their fish to their home market through our territory in bond, the people of that Dominion have enjoyed without diminution the advantages of our liberal and generous laws. "Without basing our complaint upon a viola­ tion of treaty obligations, it is nevertheless true that such refusal of transit and the other inju­ rious acts which have been rejected constitute a provoking insistence upon rights neither miti­ gated by the amenities of national intercourse nor modified by the recognition of our liberality and generous considerations. "The history of events connected with this subject makes it manifest that the Canadian Government can, if so disposed, administer its laws and protect the interests of its people with­ out manifestation of unfriendliness and without the unneighborly treatment of our fishing vessels of which we have justly complained, and what­ ever is done on our part shall be done in the hope that the disposition of tbe Canadian Government may remove the occasion of a resort to the addi­ tional executive power now sought through leg- is lative action." The President then calls attention to the im­ mense carrying trade on the great lakes, and says: 'The canals and other public works built said maintained by the Government along the line of the lakes are made free to all. In contrast to this condition, and evincing a narrow and very nngenerous commercial spirit, every lock ana canal which is a public work of the Dominion of Canada in subject to tolls and eharges. "By article 117 of the treaty of 1871 provision •was made to secure to the citizens of the United States the use of th > Welland, St. Lawrence, and other canals in the Dominion of Canadaon terms of equality with the inhabitants of the Dominion, and to also secure to the subjects of Great Britain the use of the St, Clair Flats Canal on terms of equality with the inhabitants of the United States. The equality with the inhabi­ tants of the Dominion which we were promised in the use of the canals of Canada did not secure to us freedom from tolls in their navigation, but -we had a right to expoct that we, being Ameri­ cans and interested fn American commerce, would be no moro burdened in regard to the same than Canadians engaged in their own trade; and the whol < spirit of the concession made was, «r should have been, that merchsn- d se aud p operty transported to an American market through these canals should not be en­ hanced in its cost by toils many times higher than suiih as wera earricd to an adjoining Cana­ dian market. All our citizens, producers and consumers, as weil as vessel owners, were to en­ joy the equality premised. "And yet evidence ha-i for some time been be­ fore Congress snowing that, while the tolls charged in the first instance are the same to all, such vessels and cargoes « s are destined to cer­ tain Canadian ports are allowed a refund of nearly the ent re toll, while those bound for American ports are not allowed any such ad­ vantage. "I recommend that such legislation be had as wUl give Canad'an vessels navigating our canals Mid their cargoes precis >ly the advantages granted to our vessels and cargoes upon Cana­ dian canals, aud that the same be measured by exactly the same rule of discrimination-* The message concludes as follows: "These are subjects which partisanship should obscure or confuse, i^et us survey the ground calmly and moderately, and having put aside other mesne of settlement, ii we enter Upon a policy of retaliation let us pursue it firm­ ly,'with a determination only to subserve the Interests of our people and fhiintain the high •tahdisnt and ttts becoming pviOe «* AokartMP ettixenshlp. NATIONAL LAWMAKER! What Is Being Done by (be National Legislature. In tbe House Mr. McCreary, of Kentucky, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported! for immediate consideration, the 18th, the Sen­ ate bill to prevent the coming of Chmeso laborers into the United States, with an attend-- men i repealing the acts of May 6,1832, July 5, 1881, the repeal to take efltet on tfeo> ratification of the pending treaty. Mr. McCreur* state 1 that owirx to the fact that tb» Senate had amended the treaty it bad to be re­ turned to China for the ratifceat on of that Gov­ ernment. and that it would yrobibly be the first, of next year before the tiealy could bs agreed, upon. The object of tho bi I, he said, wee to curry out the provisions of the treaty as soon 6* it was ratified by both countries. He briefly re­ viewed the provisions of previous treaties b#~ t^eon the United States and China and of the* laws foni.drd thereon, in order to emphasize the- necessity lor the adoption of a new treat v and the passage of the pending measures. Peudiw. the <i« bate which fo.lowed, tbe House ud.onrneflL. Tlic Senate was not in session. i!" MK. EDMUNDS' resolution directing the Kinase* Committee to inquire and report as to tbe depos­ its of white depositors in the Freedmen'x Bank, was adopted by the Senate the 20th. Mr. Mor­ gan resumed his specch on ths fisheries treaty,. Riiu aft'jr speaking lor two hours gaT»* way to Meusrs. Koar. Evarts and Gray* and thon spoke for two hours more, when the- Senate adjourned. Representative Breckinridge^ (Ark. i introduced five tariff bills in the House to- correct Ct rtam abuses arising under the present, tariff on cotton bagging, sugar, coal oil, alcohol- aud cottonseed oil. The House passed the Chi­ nese bill aftor a long and animated discuEKi n. during which the administration and tbe attie tudes Of the two parties received due attention^ THE Senate refused to ratify the fisheries, treaty by a strict party vote--yeas, 27; nays, 33„ on the 21st. The same vote was also record^ against each of tbe several amendments pro- posed. Those who voted for the ratine*-- tu>u of the treaty were: Bate, Beck. Beiiy, Blackburn, Blodgett, Brown, CockT. rell, Coke, Colquitt, Daniel, t'aulknsr. George, German, Gray, Hampton, Harris, Jeaea. (Ark. i, McPnerson, Morgan, Pasco, Payne- Push, Hansom, Keagan, Vest, Walthall, Wil­ son fMd.i--27. Pairs--Call and Bowen, ButlST" and Cameron, Gibson and Cnllom, Turpie auA Davis, Kustis and Paddock, Hearst and ftan- fcrd, Kenna and Morrill, Saulsbury and Biddla- berger, Vance and Palmer. Senator VoorheSa did not vote. The Senate voted to accept toe House amendment to the Chinese prohibitioa bill and the bill now goes to the Presi­ dent. The conference report on th» naval appropriation bill was also concurred in» Among the bills passed by the Senate wera> those granting the Leavenworth Rapid-Transit. Railway Company the right to construct operate its railroad through a portion of th* military reservation at Fort Ijeavenworth. Kan­ sas, and the substitute to the House bill to> change tbe time of the sessions of the Circuit Court of the western division of the Western- District of Missouri. The Senate passed nine­ ty-three private billls, and then went into execu­ tive session. In the House Mr. Lvmam (Iowa) withdrew his objection to the considera­ tion of the deficiency bill, after making a per­ sonal explanation. The House went into coin>- lnictee of the whole and discussed the Freach, spoliation claims section of the bill, but UO- action was taken. Bills were introduced ia both houses t prevent the Introduction of con­ tagious diseases from one State t» another. Resolutions were adopted by both housee accepting the statues of Richard Stockton aiijft Philip Kearney, presented by the State of Ke# Jersey, to be placed in Statuarv Hall. MB. BECK offered as an amendment in the Sett- ate, the 22d, to the House tariff bill an additional section suspending, until further older of Con-- gress, all laws relating to the sinking fund, and* ad it referred to tho Finance Committee. He also Introduced a bill repealing all laws re­ lating to tbe sinking fund, aud asked that it; lie on the tablo until a decision was reached on> his amendment to the tariff bill. The Sen­ ate passed the substitute for ths joint resolnr tion appropriating $200,030 to suppress infi tion in interstate commerce. The resolution a* passed appropriated *200,00) in addition to the- une»p>n(lod balance of the contingent fund <•15 ,i.O)», to be expended In the discrttion of tlM> President to aid State and municipal boards of health to prevent the introduction of cholera or yellow fever into t he United States from foreign countries or into one State from another. The House,i,n committee of the whole, adopted amend­ ments to the deficiency appropriation bill ap- pr ipriating ®T>62,48i to meet the deficiency for the Inland mail transportation on railroad routes, and $3?,0iJ0 to reimburse the State Of Kentucky for expenses incurred in suppressing the rebellion. Tne House agreed to the confer­ ence report on the army appropriation bill with­ out division. As agreed upon bv the committee the bill appropriates $29,381,000." MR. CHANDLER concluded his speech in tttlfe Senate on the Louisiana election frauds, the SBp. The resolution pertaining thereto was laid asid*> " 'J. 'ee- .-;i| i a* •••m without action. A resolution was adopted by the Senate accepting and returning thanns lor a- bust of Garibaldi presented to the United. States by the Italian citizens of this country. The Senate took up the resolution reported from the Judiciary Committee July 23 regard­ ing the suppression of colored votes at- the Jackson (Miss.) municipal election, and was addressed by Wilson (Iowa). Before Mr. Wilson, had concluded tbe Senate adjourned. In the House Mr. Richardson (Tenn.) presented the- majority report of the special committee that lias been investigating the Government printing, office. It -is a comprehensive defense of Mr. Benedict's management and a comparison be­ tween that aud Mr. Rounds' management, wish conclusions tending to show that there has been more economy and honesty of service and a. much better condition of affairs generally sine* Mr. Benedict assumed charge, it ac . uits Mr_ Benedict of every charge made against him. A minority report will be presented soon. The House rejected tbe eonferonce report un the army appropriation bill by a vote of 38 to 61, add' further Insisted on its disagreement to tb«» Senate amendments. A further conference wae ordered. The House passed the Senate bill au­ thorizing the Leavenworth Rapid Transit Com­ pany to construct a road across the Fort Leav­ enworth (Kan.) military reservation; also the* Senate bill delaring that certain water-reserve lands in Wisconsin are subject to the provieiona of the act granting to railroad companies the right of way through the public lands of the United Suites. The House went into committee of the whole on the deficiency bill. No progress woe made, however, as the point of no quorum wae raised on an appeal from a decision of the Speaker sustaining tbe point of order against the French spoliation claims section. Tj^el«»use soon after adjourned. ' r • it llMf tvk'ib, GuL . . . . .J.i.r. ; '-*• , . ..f.cJtM Forms of Salutation. Men usually greet women by raising- the liat, but uo two men were ever found who observed the courtesy in th* same manner. There is no authorized manner for a lady to return a man's salute. Novelty is what the fair sex seeks, and each one has her own little way. Among the French, and especially with the Belgians, men think nothing: of embracing each other in public. X father and son, or other near relations* often kiss in public. A peasant in Spain greets a stranger: he meets by generously offering him1 one-half the bread he carries. It ia never accepted without great astonish­ ment to the donor. The Japanese snow respect on meet­ ing by bending the knee, though in th» street they only make a feint of snH doing. This is the general salute, bn|j there are many others which are Bp, quired from inferiors on encountering; those in high positions. In India the Buddhists salute lowering the palm of the right han| and bringing it up toward the" face, dl the same time saying: "Ram, ram chair.?? The Mohammedans do the same, but simply say: "Salaam." This is only done in either case by members of th*^. same faith. The saluation is alwaytp'T made, too, with the right hand, to uspf " the left being considered an insult. \ A stranger coming among the Mooip. for the first time would, perhaps, astonished and a little frighted by see­ ing one of them riding at full gallop toward him, as if he were intending; to execute a cavalry charge His feara might, perhaps, be increased when thin, horseman, when almost close to his ap^ , parent victim, suddenly reined up anjjT discharged his pistol over his hea Recovering from his astonishment however, he would find that this is Moorish way of welcoming a strange* The Chinese have a regular code Of' salutations, eight in number, which d«4 : fine the proper amount of respect to bpr paid to different individuals. The onpf which is most familiar to »San Francis cans is that when at the new year the> Chinaman clasps his hands togethe|| and, gently bowing, wishes his friezuf the compliments of the season. Two* curkras greetings which these people- have among themselves are those of* asking each other: "Have you eaten., rice?" and "Is your stomach in crood- orclef-*" • •* - %£*'b J. r f \ 1 <•