Wednesdays and Saturdays/ O E O IVORRIS of^r* -coi ^ RATB8OP SU8CRUTI0N. lesEii xiSiiS^S^MnuunlKotle<».COOuiip. BMbi^uMI AOKBT « VICTORU-ICb. H. BEUKEBPau ImiD«Q»e 'Wire Bopea.-Cotmiiodor* SUofelot baa ordered tire proper latboritiM of the Boston navy yard to mak* •*v*ral five inch ateel wire hawMr*. These will probably b* tb* lii^gfest wire ropes ever matte, ^be Navy Depar.mant baa use for inameaee hawaera to tow monitora and eels in dietnm. They a ir for ve»-___ .'are put on board the

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... ar for us* when required. The uaual appliance ia twelve-inch hemp rope, l)nt it swells when wet and Rets very heavy by abeorption of water. The steel wire hawsers will be seven inches less in diameter, much lighter, non-abeorbent, mere pliable and durable, and in every respect better. Tliia is a nd, in fact, wonderful ad vance in the applicn ton of steel and iron to commercial uats. A hanip hawser twelve inches thick is a won derful thing in itself, but a stee wire hawser five inchet in thioknehs better answering the same purpose is something fruitful of thou^'bt to the student in shipbuilding and rigg iig.-N. Y. Bulletin. winsummated, by which control "of the Oregon railroad system will pass into new bands. The majoritv of the stock of the Oregon railroads, of which Ben Holbwlay is President, tins Iteen tiansferresl to the German bondboldcia, who agree to supplv the necessary funds for completing their construction. It is-now said that the construction of the roads will be immsdiitteij pushed to arapio completion. The cause of the Herzegovian Ih-sorrectioD.-Thar esn^ wbieo led to the rebelliun agidnst the Turkish overnment by the inhabitants of the Province of Merzeguvinia lay in the oppressive manner in which the govornment eulleeted taxes from the peo-)le. To save time and trouble in.colacting, tha goiatmueut-haa been -in -Thei^utbem Pacific Railroad is now finished and in running order fifteen miles out of the San Gorgonio Pass and well on ' to the Colorado Desert, while notthtle tunnel work at Tehachew Past is being pushed to coiupletion, and by the first of March will be finished. When the roail is joined from Te lacTiepa -ttr San Fernando but an hour's staging will intervene between that city and San Francisco. the habit of selling the tax lists private individuals for a atipulated price. By the laws of the "Turks sll property must _U appraised by 'OTsrnment official, no crop eould M stored until it had been examined and so appraised, and as this was dons at the officials own time, oftsn late in the year, and notunfrequently the rains bad destroyed the value of the harvest, thus depriving of the fruits of their isbor the people o______ while the burdens of taxation by weak and bankrupt government were •till to be borne, the jjeople were led to unite in a struggle to free tbem-Mlvea from the yoke of the tyranical government which was thus oppress-. .