Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-05-08
NEWS ITEMS.


Mrs. Grant, in Washington City, a great many
people came unlimited and behaved very rudely.
At the close of the affair large number of the
invited guests discovered that their clOaks,
shaWls, coats, hats and OVershoes were missing.
1t was, perhaps, a consequence of the introduce
ton of Gen. Butler and other Massachusetts
superior civilization into Washington society.
The Democratic candidate for Councilman
in the lower Columbia, w. T., district, is Col.
Davis, who served in the Federal army in the
late war, and the Radical candidate is 81. G.
Strive, who was a Democrat while the war
lasted. That is turning things around very
sharply. Think of the Radicals preferring
man who opposed the war, to man who fought
in it on their own side.
News from Lemhi to April 18th, reports
yield of eleven dollars pan from drain ditch
ON Sierra Gulch, and of four dollars and half
from shovel of dirt Other large yields are
reported. There were about 1900 men there,
and hundreds daily arrived Plenty of goods
were flowing in from Idaho, Montana and
Utah.
REPORTS from the East say the iron-clad
Dunderburg is a failure; that she cannot with
stand an engagement with any of the monitors;
and that this is the reason why the Govern
ment released Webb, the builder. from his con-
tract. He will probably sell the vessel to one
of the great European powers
A MISS LAURA REAM, aged about 40 years,
poetess and hOmely, has brought suit for
$50, 900 damages for breach of promise of mar
rage against Robert j. Walpole, a rich and
prominent lawyer of Chicago, aged over so
years. Eminent counsel are engaged in the
case.
A STAMPEDE was lately made by the settlers
in Gallatln Valley, Montana, for fear of an In
dian attack, caused by the report that the saw
ages had captured Bozeman City. Efforts to
raise a volunteer force to move against the In
dians utterly failed.
THE Chicago Tribune suggests to. Senators
DoOlittle, Dixon and COwan, who are not Rad
ical enough to suit that paper, that they copy
Jim Lanes example and kill themselves. Truly
no quarrel is so deadly as a family quarrel, as
this suggestion of the Tribune shows.
WE see paragraph going the rounds of the
press which processes to give the reason why
women are not admitted in Masonic lodges
The reason appears very simple to us: 1t is,
because the Masons won't admit them.
NORWEGIAN laborers are being employed in
Northern Texas. An agent in Norway agrees
to send out 1900 or 5000 of them, men, wO-
men and children. They are said to be very
good workers on plantations.
A HEN in San Francisco has laid an egg
which measures 103 inches one way, and 78
the other, in circumference. 1t is proposed to
send the shell to the Paris Exposition.
HERR DoHM, editor of the Kladderadatsh
(the Prussian Punch has been sentenced to
eight days imprisonment for ridiculing the doc
trines of the Roman Catholic Church in his
paper.
FRANK COOPER has discovered a vein of
coal near Butte creek, Marion county, Oregon.
The Portland Gas Company furnished the city
with Fight made from the coal one night, as
test of its quality, and it answered finely.
A DR.. TODD, who is lecturing on Spiritual
ism, in Portland, Oregon, asserts that there
are six millions of spiritualists in the United
States He ESSAYS to sustain spiritualism by
Bible doctrine. That is rank blasphemy.
THREE negro murderers were taken from
the jail in Leavenworth City, Kansas, by
band of armed men, few weeks ago, and
hung at the outskirts of the city.
THE Rev. j. O. Raynor, Methodist clergy
man Of Oregon and Washington Territory for
several years, has received life appointment
as Chaplain in the army.
THE Tedette of April Both says the Eastern
mails, so long delayed, were brought in by
wagon and stage loads the day before. A good
deal Of mail matter was in PUPPY condition.
THE japanese Commissioners in Washing
ton have magnificent and rare presents from
the Tycoon to President johnson, Secretary
Seward and Gen. Grant.
GEORGE WASHINGTON BoNAPARTE SMITH,
of Louisville, Kentucky, has got into trouble In
the courts by having three wives.
Well, he had name for each of them.
THE sum of $4,000 has so far been con-
tributed in the North and West for the suffer-
ing people of the South, of which $4,000 was
sent from California.
A WOMAN in Hudson, New Jersey, recently
severely cowhided schoOlteacher who had
mercilessly logged child of hers at school.
Served him right.
OUT of 3O7 Churches in New York City,
only 30 are Catholic, but the aggregate attend
ance at the latter is greater than that at all
the other churches combined.
A. MCCALL, Radical, the Treasurer of Santa
Clara county, California, has ran away, carry
ing with him about $50, 900 of the public money.
VAUGHN's steam Touring mill, in Portland,
is running out 1000 barrels of flour for ship
ment to New York.
CUMMINGS, late Governor of Colorado, has
been confirmed as Revenue Tax Collector in
Pennsylvania.
A RADICAL landlord in WinOna, Minnesota,
lately refused to let Fred Douglas stop at his
hotel dido
The tariff is difficult thing to keep track of