Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-06-05
NEWS ITEMS.

At the mouth of TillamOOk Bay Columbia
river, May Goth, Capt Kinchloe Of the u. S.
Coast Survey, and five of his men, named
Chas. West, S. Laugan, Henry Ballou, T. and
E. Steeleup, were drowned by the swamping
OF the row beat they were In JAS. Steel, Of"
! the party, was the only one saved
SURRATT's trial is postponed by the Gov
ernment till the third Monday of June. Over
forty witnesses are summoned against him,
among them Secretary Stanton, Detective Ba-
ker, and others who are responsible for the
murder of Surratt's mother
THE Interior Department has refused to-
grant the lands asked for by the selfconstituted
Board Of CorporatOrs of the Oregon Central
Railroad. The application for lands must be
lands will be granted.
THURLow WEED says: '+The work of i'm
parchment ifT is to be benefcially prosecuted,
should include the members Of Congress who
are leading the country through reckless ex-
lpenditure to inevitable repudiation."
CAPTs DARRAH AND MCKAY, with their In
dian scouts, have been ordered to active SER
/ ITice-the former to Crooked river, the latter
to Fort Klamath-and left the Dalles several
days ago,
THE Wisconsin Legislature have adopted
resolution to amend the Constitution so as to-
extend the franchise to women. This step
shows that the men there are not fit to vote
1t IS perhaps well enough to let the women try.
RADICALIsM has accomplished wonders in
Tennessee II an applicant for the exercise Of
the right of suffrage be black rebel he can
vote-T white, he can't. That's Brownlow
law. <Hi
THE English House Of Commons, May 20thy
rejected an amendment to the Reform bill to-
grant female suffrage, by 121 majority, and
another amendment proposing E10 franchise
for neR, was also rejected. t
THE number Of alien passengers that arrived
in New York in March was $4,000. Total
since January lst, 26, ,181. Last year for cor
responding months the arrivals numbered
81, ,199.
THE Mayor of Philadelphia on Sunday, May
10Th, ordered that the Sunday Vrohibitory
liquor law be rigidly enforced. Every public
house and saloon was closed
THE Detroit Free Press says of Brownlow's
colored competitor for the GovernOrship, that
unlike Brownlow, he is negro from neceS-
sity, and not from choices"
THE assessment in real estate has increased
in New York in twelve years $l42 900 900; in
Boston, $89 500,000 in Philadelphia, $685.
350,O00.
GEN. RosECRANs, and Capt. Winder, u S.
A., arrived at San Bernardino May 18th. by
overland stage from Fort Yuma, and were
serenaded by the citizens
CAPT. DENT, Indian Agent for Arizona, has
gone to Ia Paz to select a Reservation, for
which $l2O 900 has been appropriated.
J. A. J. BoHEN, prominent member of the
l. O. O. f. of California died in San Francis
co, May 25th l.3
OK the 11th of January there were in the
South ,496 freedmen schools, with l,737
teachers and 95,637 pupils
AT the Land Office, Olympia, Puget Sound,
during March, there were 1890 lots sold to
actual settlers
A LABORATORY for the manufacture of nitro
glycerine is being prepared In Birds Valley
Placer county, California
nj the great French ChantiIly races, May
18th, Patrician won. Odds were laid against
him. There were 13 horses in the race.
( A CoRN EXCHANGE has been organized in
San Francisco, with hall at the Merchants
Exchange. Initiation fee, $40; monthly dues, $5.
. A SCHOONER and a pleasure yacht collided
In Boston harbor, May Doth, and four persons
on board the latter were drowned
THE criminal record of town in Vermont
has been declared by its own papers " too filthy
to publish" @
TIE Poor House in Ingham county, Michi-
gan, was burned May Goth, and six of the in
mates perished in the fire.
A SHIP sailed from Charleston, S. c., May
Doth, for Liberia, with 800 negroes
NAPOLEON and the King Of Prussia have
signed the Luxembourg treaty.
THE city authorities of London have voted
$2,5OO towards statue of George Peabody.
w. P. ABRAMS has gone East to purchase
machinery for the Dalles City woolen factory.