The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1870-03-10
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

| GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Miss DIX is visiting the jails and State pris.
ons in the Southern States.
THEIRS, though over seventy years Of age,
still ranks a. the first orator Of France.
JOHN G. HEENANs and Jem Mace had 4
"set to" 10 the Bowery Theatre, N. T., lately.
THE Sutro Tunael, To- Nevada, IL penetrated
to the depth of 795 feet and the work is pro.
crossing rapidly.
/ THE standard height Of army recruits re-
Gently raised in England ia from FIVE feet six
inches to FIVE feet eight inches.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT is worth half a
million, and John G. SAKE eighty thousand dol.
lars. Who says poetry don't pay in America
THE Mormons threaten fight If McCullom's
bill becomes law. The Gentiles are uneasy
and will leave the Territory should the bill
pass.
PETROLEUM produced in 1869 was 10 per
cent more than in any former year. The pro-
duet of coal oil in Pennsylvania for the last
year is ~ 1858, 100 gallons.
A FEW weeks ago the Bombay, an English
steamer, while fifteen miles from Yokohama,
Japan, ran into and sunk the American cor
sons were drowned.
MAJ. GENERAL VIM. s. HARVEY, u. S. A.,
has subscribed 81 900 for the endowment of
the Presidential chair Gen. r. K. Lee's) of
Washington College, Virginia. Gen. Harvey
is native Of that State.
MAJ. GENERAL MCCLELLAN proposes to
address the members of the New York city
regiments ut their respective armories, on mil
itary discipline and the acquisition of military
knowledge, the present month.
GEN JORDAN. Commander in Chief of the
Cuban army, has notified the Spanish authori-
ties that for every Cuban murdered hereafter.
he will kill ten Spanish officers among the pris-
oners now III bis hands.
MARSHALL +. MOORE, Ex-Governor of the
Territory Of Washington, and Democratic can
didate Tor Congress at the last election in that
Territory. died at his residence in Olympia, on
the 9th of last month. from the effects of a
wound in one of his lungs received during the
war.
ENGLISH tea merchants have agreed to trans
port China and Japan teas hereafter brought
by them, ria San Francisco and the trans.
continental railroad, 10 prevent loss Of flavor
through great and sudden change of tempera-
ture, as happens in long sea voyages.
TnE gunboat Leipsic has LEFT Aspinwall for
Caledonia Bay, TO commence the survey for
the Darien Ship Canal. the treaty between Co
lombia and the United States having been sue
cesstully negotiated aud awaiting only the sig.
nature Of the United States Commissioner.
As Is sometimes the case with devotees of
Bacchus, Senator Yates of Illinois 10 said 10
have peculiar aversion to cats. A Washing
ton correspondent says. YATES came into the |
Senate chamber the other day looking for all
the world as il he bad been fighting Tom-cats |
all night, and had got the worst Of it,
SENATOR WILSON has introduced bill au-
thortzing the Secretary of War IL transfer to
The Secretary OF the Interior. for disposition |
according to existing laws Of the United States,
The military reservations of Forts Lane and
Wallace. Oregon: Fort Zcarah. Kansas; Camp
McGarry. Nevada; Fort Sumner, New Mex.
%; aud portions Of Fort Bridger Reservation,
Wyoming. Why not include Fort Boise, Ida
lo' 1t is TO be hoped Hon. j. X. Shafer, our
Delegate in Congress will succeed in having
his done. and the Government buildings and
cost reservation at Fort Boise. near Boise City,
donated by The General Government to Idaho
Territory for University purposes. 1t is high
lime the University Of idaho was founded /