Show grand old statesman W E gladstone m an address delivered by him at leeds england in 1881 said I 1 will say this that as long as america adheres to the protective system your commercial primacy is secure nothing in the world can wrest it from you while america continues conti to fetter her own strong hands and arms and with these fettered arms is content to compete with you who are free in neutral markets and as ieng as america follows abo doctrines now known aa those of fair trade you are perfectly eafe and you need not allow any of you even your lightest slum hera to be disturbed by the fear that america will take from you your como erceal primacy A MAN arrived at three rivers quebec on saturday with tidings of a drowning accident to a party of lumbermen on the mattaway mattawan Mat tawan kiver sixty miles from piles a post of alic st maurace about three weeks ago while a ang of forty men were engaged on a log drive at one of the rapids on the mattaway mattawan Mat tawan they procured whisky and got drunk they then decided to run tho rapids fourteen men boarded a boat which was capsized in the middle of the and all were drowned A has been obtained by professor elisha gray for an instrument called the designed for transmitting messages by wire the sender forwarding the message in hia own handwriting and doing away skilled operators the invention is based on the discovery of a new principle by controlling the electric current whereby a current is produced PHILIP is gone hia was a lingering death and sorrow for the gallant soldier w ill be universally fell throughout the land the distinguished soldier died shortly after 10 on sunday night WE may expect iu a few days to denro to be the probate judges in this territory for the next two years some persons are becoming VI quit about theis appointments y S grand junction colo news H lys A report has beeb current here for a week past which comes directly from mr bancroft of the D fe K G western to the ernect viz that the oregon short liuo had accepted a eon tract to furnish the D II 11 G W with uil alie broad agauyo aies necessary ti widen its trick and as toon aa extremely YIU weather and subsided so that vork could be prosecuted on thi desert bo and river the work would bo bayun U further that the roud beti veen thiis place and glenwood mould be complete aind running before snow cami chere are other thinya that guint to ali truth of this report and other current and to nil seems to be a quiet understanding b tween the idland Al aud lie D 11 western the company of several popular amateurs daviu tuis ec for a trip several 0 the counties count iea sin cloying tib drama mitcel mit leL acco or the shipwrecked mariner mr johnsoa John sou i young actor who lias already made a good local reputation in the part will sustain the very difficult character of enoch arden among the are miss lulu boyer liss jennie isnow mibs jaue brinton little nell boyer C W houtz harry rogers and N F maraon |