The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-08-09
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The legislature meets next month.
The base ball fever is raging in Eu-
gene.
Marion county has eighty-one public
schools
The Eastern Oregon peach crop will
be large.
The Oregon City Postofice was robbed
Tuesday night.
Gen. Joe. Hooker left for San Fran
cisco on Monday.
Mails come more regularly now than
for some time past.
The crops in Washington county are
turning out very well.
Hay is very scarce in Umpqua Valley
and sells at SIG per ton.
G. w. Snyder is now proprietor Of the
McNiinnville West-Sidc.
Many counterfeit half dollars are in
circulation about Roseburg.
The boats do not run above Salem at
present, owing to low water
Eldorado Ditch Company, Baker
county, is now selling water.
It is stated that n new Republican pa
per is projected at Oregon City.
a grouse flew into Mr. Strang's house
AT Salem and was caught alive.
Navigation on the upper Columbia
has been abandoned for the present sea-
son.
P. d. Hull, Of Jacksonville, has taken
charge Of the Rosebugg Plande0ler Of
fee.
Mosquitoes are extremely abundant
and bid fair to rival the flies in num-
Der.
The new Police Court building re-
Gently erected in this city cost about
$4,000.
Mr. Walling, of Oswego, has our
thanks for box Of fine large peach
plums.
Jackson county is preparing for it,
Agricultural Fair, to be held early in
the fall.
NJ. H. Abbott has sold the Bedrock
Democrat to James NJ. Shepherd Of
Boise city.
Two young girls raised SIP in Jack
sonville the other day for Sunday
school library.
The construction train on the Oregon
& California railroad has reached the
North Umpqua river.
The crops in the Goose Lake country
are fair, but the crickets are trouble
some and destructive.
+. G. Schwatka of Salem has gone to
Baltimore as 4 delegate TO the Grand
Lodge of Odd Fellows.
The grain crop of Walla Walla Valley
is much larger than was supposed a few
weeks ago that it could be.
The West Side railroad track is lait
some distance past Forest Grove, anC
the work is going on rapidly.
Several persons are agitating In,
practicability Of erecting n new hOte
at Salem on Mallory's corner.
The Corvallis Gazette puts in claim
as being the oldest paper in the William
cite Valley, south of Portland.
The plans of the proposed Portlan
bridge were filed with the Common
Council last "Wednesday evening.
The Corvallis Gazette clamors loudl.
for daily mail from the terminus G
the West-side road to Junction City.
Cornelius Gilfroy was sentenced t
the Penitentiary for life by Judge Uptoi
Monday for the murder of William r
Wales.
Many ''sea-side loiterers'' are now a
Salmon river beach. a steady strear
Of people fills the road, going and re
turning.
The Portland Free Discussion Clu
have their weekly meetings every Sun
day at o'clock P. NJ. at No. 50 First st.
up stairs.
The Oregonidn says work on the ca
nal, which is to connect the Tualatil
river with Oswego Lake, is progressing
encouragingly.
Two or three new town sites have beeI
recently laid out near Wapato Lake
Yamhill county, and the fever of specu
latiOn is running high.
We understand that there is n grea
amount of fever and ague prevailing i
the city. 1t is of an intermittent forr
and is slightly epidemic.
Attention is called to the advertis,
ment of Mrs. Upham Hendee, clairvoy
ant and magnetic medium. Attentio
is also called to the ad. of Herman SnoN
Large fires are raging in the mOul
tains near jacksonville, and the smol
renders the weather sultry and II
healthy. Much timber is being d
stroyed.
The company recently organized
Salem for the purpose Of manufacture
water pipe viii soon commence 4
erection in that city Of very lar
building.
The Jacksonville Times says that
many places in jackson county oa
viii turn out fifty TO seventy-five bus
els per acre. Hay is selling at SIS
SO per ton.