Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1871-08-19
State Items.

this:
The purchase prlce, for the 100000
acres Of land Of the Willamette Valley
and Cascade Wagon Road Company,
sold to Col Hogg, is stated at Sl40, 600
New wheat is coming in daily to our
warehouses es.-Nobody is in town this
week, as everybody is harvesting 1t
is rumored that the w. V. u Z. NJ.
] Wagon Road is to be thrown open to
free travel.
Ex. Senator Williams has returned
from the East.
An extensive bed of moss Agates
has been discovered near the Warm
| Springs, Indian reservation.
From the Albany Register we Gull
as follows:
County Fair commences September
2Gth aud holds till the 30th.
Wheat has beon coming in quite live
ly this week From inquiries in this
direction, we are led to believe that the
yield of apples generally throughout
the county will be good, probably in
quantity cqualing last years crop, but
the quality will not be SO fair.
The Pacific Adeocote ha, the follow
ing:
The number Of members and proba>
TONERS in the Oregon Conference, in-
cluding late transfers is seventy.
next Manual Conyocation Of the Ore
gon and Washington Mission Protest.
ant Episcopal Church, will meet IN
Portland Aug 81, at ! o'clock +. M.
in Trinity Church.
There is SAID to be iron enough at
Harrisburg t. complete the railroad to
within two miles OF Eugene.
The Albany Soap Factory have four
thousand boxes Of soap ready 10, ship
mcnt.
4 son Of Thomas Townsend, livin.
four miles south al. Salem. was severely
injured, u few days since by being
thrown from mule and dfasged some
distance.
The Matiou County Teachers Associ>
alton he'd an interesting meeting on
Tuesday The following officers were
elected Prot l. j Powell, President
Pfof. l.. H. Rogers, Wee President
SECRETARY. a, \. Bonney Treasurer,
Miss. Ellen Chamberlain
The wheat crop in Marion County IS
reported good
Major Magone arrested near SIab>
town. Lane county, last Saturday, one Of
the parties indicted at the last session
Of the L $. Grand Jury for selling liq-
uor to Indians, and who had hitherto
escaped arrest.
"TnE OLD INSTITUTE. In regard
to the old Willamette niversity build
ing, the Salem Statesman speaks as
follows: " This ancient building still
stands u monument Of the energy and
wisdom of Oregon's pioneers. Age
has already given it messy covering,
and its window pancs are becoming
sadly rent by the beating storms Of
winter. But let no man hasten its fall;
let it remain until Times hand alone
shall lay it low. Every student who has
SIT within its walls will love to review
the time>honored place aud there sum-
mon from the shadowy past the joys
of bygone days"
NUMBER OF PATIENTS. One huns
dred and fifty patients are now in the
Oregon Insane Asylum. OF this mum
Der, thirty. mine arc females.
KILLEp--A Chinese laborer was
killed on Monday evening by the cav
iug of bank at the corner of Hall and
Second streets, Portland, while enga-
gcd at work on the street Improvement.
The Sisters School at Salem will
open on the 9th of this month.
Travel on stages coming from Cali
fornia is heavier than ever before
known.
From the jacksonville Times we
learn The Jackson County Agricul-
turaf Society met August 9Th and ap.
pointed a committee to grade and classify
stock, &c, and to take lnitiatory steps
toward getting up fair-J. Ii. Bill
leubrook's barn, together with sixty
tons of hay, was burned on the 9th Of
August. BY superhuman efforts the
fire was prevented from spreading to
surrounding farms. Cause of fire,
matches placed where children were