Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-07-20
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NEWS ITEMS.

cisco to New York, by way Of the Isthmus
from Nov 10, 1866, to June 81, of this year,
was 1856. 958 barrels. From July /. 1866, to
July /, this year, there was shipped from San
francisco to New York, and other ports, by
steamers and sail vessels, 472,234 barrels Of
flour, 3,6O1 900 lO0-lbs sacks of wheat, 1885,.
COS 100-lbs sacks of barley, and 1911 100lbs
sacks of oats.
IT is said that Clafin & Co., of New York,
did the largest business ever done by any one
house in the United States, last year, having
sold goods to the amount of $73,O0O,OO0, and
returned their whole income at so cents, hay
ing lost immensely by the depreciation OF goods
and losses on debts
THE treasure shipment by the Panama
steamer of July 10th, from San Francesca, was
ST. $50, sos SIS, of which 81 ,2S2,347 II went to
New York, the remainder to England, France
and Panama. Nearly one,half Of the whole
sum was forwarded by the Bank of California.
Donahoe & Kelly were the next largest ship
pers. r,e,ss
OSE Mrs. Miller, of Wisconsin, who had pa
pered her house with copies of Horace Gree
ley's Tribune, on hearing that he was one of
JEFF Davis bailsmen, became so enraged that
she set fire to the papers, to completely wipe
out all her past recognition of Greeley's course,
and came very near burning down her house.
THE New York Independent says: "Wheth-
er or not prostitution shall submit to sanitary
regulation by law, is not new question. The
clergy are generally on one side, the police on
the other We are not sure but the police are
right The Independent is the highly moral
Puritan Radical organ.
In the Hampden county court, Massachu-
sets, one day during late term, sixteen di-
vorces were granted--eleven of them for adul-
terry, four for desertion, and one for the con-
viction of the husband for a felony. That
county needs reconstruction. $50 go asss
OLD Thad Stevens lately refused to contri-
butte to the Lancaster Home of the Friendless.
an established charitable Institution in Penn
sylvania, unless the managers would place the
negro children on exact footing with white
children in it. ssat
Rowan HELPER, author of the " Impending
Crisis" has published a new book to prove
that " all the black and brown and red races
are doomed to extinction. The Radicals, who
so highly praised his Impending Crisis" ve-
hemently assail this last book
THE Rev. Horace Fowler, of Irasburg, YER
mont, "a Methodist clergyman, has been detect
ed in criminal intimacy with his wife's niece,
little girl of thirteen years. A council of
clergymen of his church suspended him from
preaching.
A RIGHTEOUS judgment was lately gwen in
New York city, against rich ladies' dress
maker, Mrs. Sophia Myers, who had for years
practised a system of sWindling her poor and
friendess sewing women. She was sentenced
to six months in the Penitentiary.
AMAN named James, aged so years, an old
resident Of Douglas county, Oregon. was shot
dead by his own son q few DAYS ago, while both
were out hunting The boy mistook his father
for adeer. He became almost insane on learn
ing what he had done.
AN old fool Of rs years, who lives in Con-
necticut, lately cOaxed a buxom maiden of "a
years to marry him, by giving to her deed
and the possession of all of his real and person.
III property. She secured the property, mar
Tied him, sold out for cash, and sloped.
'sSoAP," the shoulder-hitter, was lately
badly whipped IN rough and tumble fight in
Sacramento, by q miner named Quinn.
Soap" wants to engage Quinn in I" fair
stand up fight for from $50 to $500 aside, to
settle the matter.
THE Paris Seicle IN referring to the Rev.
Mr.. Abbott's nauseating adulation of Napoleon,
suggests that he be placed in the American
department of the great Exposition, and la
belled !" the learned ass"
THE great reviyalist, Spurgeon, in late
sermon said that I" the English church is ma
tional CURSE that 6 it is now little better than
a den of thieves" and that - it is the haunt of
every anclean beast"
By reason of competition among railroad
and steamboat companies East, passage is now
reduced to three dollars from New York to
Cleveland, and to seven dollars from New York
to Chicago.
A NEW trial has been granted IN the case of
~the ex-rebel Gen. Buckner, by which he will
have restored to him, it is believed, the very
valuable property in Louisville, Kentucky
taken from him for war damages.
The Hon Chas l. Scott, formerly member
Of Congress from California, is part owner and
associate editor of the Wilcox Times, published
at Camden, Alabama.
THE steamer company who own the Will
lamette trade purpose to build locks at the
Oregon City Falls, so their boats can run clear
through from Portland to the upper river.
THE San Francisco Times approves the ex-
ecution of Macmillan. So does the Flag
Both are Radical organs. The BatletiR and
Union also Radical, condemn it.
THE Ajax, which left Portland, July 10th,
for San Francisco, carried away over $500, 900
treasure mostly gold dust from Idaho 1t
was the largest shipment of the season.
A DISPATCH from New York, July 9th, says
the steamer Rising Star, from Panama, IS
quarantined at that port on account OF yellow
fever.
GEN. HOWARD, Superintendent of the