, 1865-08-25
News Items Cleaned from our Exchanges.

pany are carrying passengers lrOm IOItLanu W
Sacramento at reduced rates-ffty dollars-ma-
king the trip in six days.-Ford's theatre,
the scene of the assassination of President Lin
coin, is to be -opened by the Proprietor.--
Two tons of quartz rock tailings have been
shipped from the Rockfellow Ledge to Portland
to be tested, the object of which is to ascertain
what amount of gold is lost by the mill used at
the --The Salt Lake "Yedette" says
Brigham Young has taken another buxom girl
to become his sixty-ninth or SEVENTEEN wife,
"A Company from the Eastern States pro-
poses to establish large barrel factory near
Portland John W. Forney owns three
newspapers-one in Philadelphia, one in Wash
ington, and one in Rchmond-all kept alive by
Government patronage Beast Butler
is largely interested in quartz interests in Idaho
Territory, and in order that he could manage
those interests, says the Idaho Statesman, was
the reason why he sought so strenuously to
obtain the appointment of Governor of the Ter
ritory. THE Irwin and Potter Theatrical
Troupes have left the Boise country and gone to
Salt Lake City The Idaho World says Mr.. r.
win left number of unsettled bills in Idaho
City-the World Office being among the victim
ized 1t is a very common occurrence for stroll
ling players to play "benefts" of this nature,
and a large majority of them will "bear close
watching. "A fine toned bell of 400 pounds
weight was lately put in the Presbyterian
Church belfry, at Albany, Oregon.--Judge
Stratton, in a case of the State of Oregon VS..
Lane county, has decided that a tender of .. S.
Currency notes in payment of Taxes is not sufi-
cient, and that they are due in gold and silver
coin. 1t is thought the case will be carried up
to the Supreme Court.--Henry Mulkey and
man named Bennett, were lately set at liberty
from confinement at Fort Vancouver, where
they had been imprisoned by the military au-
thorites for the alledged offense of rejoicing
over the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
1t was not proven that the accused so rejoiced.
-Mr. A. Noltner, publisher of the Eugene
City Review, and Mr.. Jas. O'Meara, publisher of
the States Rights Democrat, lost heavy stocks
of printing paper, ETC., by the wreck of the
steamer Brother Jonathan. n.-President John
son, in a private conversation is said to have
expressed regret that the trial of the conspira-
tors had not been held before civil court in
stead of military ommission.----The wife
of jefferson Davis has written letter to relaA
tive in Philadelphia denying positively that
! her husband was arrayed in her clothes; he had
his own dressing gown on when he was captured
| and was sick at the time.--The parks and
groves of Eastern cities are oyerrun with canker
worms, which are destroying the trees, -
decree is shortly to be published in Turkeyj
rendering the teaching of the French language
obligatory in the Government schools.-It is
stated that the largest and swiftest steam trans
port in the world is at present fitting out for
sea in The port of Rochefort, France.-The
Post Office money order system is soon to be es-
tablished in California. The Navy Depart
ment has resolved to send an n-clad-gunboat
of the "Monadnock" pattern to the Pacific
coast, but has not decided which one of the four
shall go.-A correspondent, writing from the
Mississippi Valley, says that, by reason of his
cotton operations, Kirby Smith is undoubtedly
the richest man in America.-The New York
Tribune states that the expenditures of the Uni
ted States Government during the past year
amount to ST., 200, 900 ,OoO.-Lieutenan Gen
eral Scott has published notification in the
New York Herald, begging that autograph-hunt-
ers will spare him-An Abolition Society
has been started in Spain.-Itis is estimated
that there are upwards of Il, 200, 900 volumes in
the whole of the public libraries in the United
States.-The new treaty between the United
States and Honduras provides for perfect amity
and a reciprocal freedom of commerce and uavi-
CATION. n.-The dry goods merchants of New
York are about to establish an Exchange, as a
rendezvous for all the merchants of the coun-
try.-The New Almaden Quicksilver Mine
is now being worked by 1900 men, and the
monthly yield is from 4, 900 to 5000 lasks-
! The New York Herald thinks the immigration
! into the United States this year from Europe
Constitution provides that after the year 1875,
no person will be allowed the right to vote who
cannot read and write.-There are now forty
thousand European troops in Mexico. 1t re-
quire8 this foreign army to keep Macmillan
safe. The amount of gold now in existence
is estimated at four thousand eight hundred and
sixty-two millions; of silver, five thousand sew
en- hundred millions. Ross Brown was So
iourning at Salt Lake during the latter part of
July, and engaged in gathering more interest
| ing material for Harper's Magazine.-A pro-
| iect is on foot among the business men ofSacra-
mento for the establishment at that place of a
woolen mandatory Twenty thousand fore
ed laborers are employed on the Russian rail-
way between the Black and Caspian Seas
Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, tenders this
advice to the public; "Never buy goods of those
who don't advertise. They sell so little that
tney have to sell dear ''-The Delaware Sen
ate, now in session at Dover, refused on the goth
| of June, to concur in resolutions of respect to
the memory of Lincoln, passed by the House.
Mis- Anna Dickinson, the female aboli-
ton politician has graduated in that line and is
now studying to fit herself for the stage. She
is shortly to make her debut in New York city
The first printing press in North America
was established in the City of Mexico about the
year 1900. The first press in the English Colo
nies was set up at Cambridge, Mass, in 1929