The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-03-08

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FRTDAY.....................M MARCH S, 1872
Wild hogs abound in the Umpqua val
ley.
Oregon City has a total population O.
LOO.
Still wanted-Light for the town
clock.
Apple trees are in bloom at Oakland,
California.
a public library is talking of at Dali
las, Polk Co.
The Lewiston Journal has suspended
publication.
The number of voters registered at
Olympia is SS4.
Eggs are selling at dollar dozen in
Silver City, Idaho.
Judge Sprague, of the California SUI
preme Court, is dead.
Fire alarms and no fires are common
enough in Portland now.
There is talk of removing the William
ette Farmer to this city.
A number of buildings are in course OF
erection at Walla Walla.
Bees have commenced honey making
in the region of Roseburg.
The number of school children at
Dallas, Polk county, is 232.
Portlanders are now transplanting
trees, shrubbery, rose bushes, etc.
New Potatoes have made their appear
anee in the San Francisco market.
a large number of buildings are to be
erected at Eugene City this summer.
The building for the Catholic Semi
nary at Salem will be erected at once.
Preparations are being made by our
Irish citizens to celebrate st. Patrick's
day.
A son of the Rev. Thomas Condor,
eighteen years old, died at the Dalles re-
Gently.
Fossil remains of great size have been
found on Wagner creek, in Jackson
county.
The citizens of ROseburg are FORUM
ate. The right Of way is all they pay
for the railroad.
The total rainfall in this vicinity dur
ing the past month was y inches and
l3-l00 of an inch.
More rain has fallen in Rogue River
valley this winter than during any win
ter for several years.
The board bill of the japanese EN-
bassy at the Orleans Hotel, in Sacra-
mento, amounted to over $4,000.
Col B. B. Taylor, editor of the Herald,
will deliver the next lecture before the
Washington Debating Society.
Columbian Hose Co. No. 8 gave ball
at their Engine House last evening.
Everything went off pleasantly.
Oregon will have six delegates in the
National Republican Convention which
meets at Philadelphia, June 5th.
Mr.. G. w. Vaughn will erect a grain
elevator in this city, provided the foot
of Madison be vacated for the purpose.
A new Congregational church is to be
erected in East Portland this season. 1t
will be located in Holladay's Addition.
WithereI & Holman advertise their
Employment Agency this week. Ifyou
have any business in their line, give
them a call.
Salem has a citizen who can celebrate
his birthday only once in four years
he having been born on the 29th of
February. His name is Lewis Westi-
colt.
Owing to the death of a son of the
Rev. Mr.. Condor, of the Dalles, his lee
ture on ''The Fossil Horse" announced
for this evening, has been indefinitely
pOstponded.
Garfield's denomination by the Re
publicans in Washington Territory is
said to be a foregone conclusion. His
defeat at the polls, however, is as GER
tain as his nomination.
= corporation, composed of Messrs.
A. c. Gibbs, J. NJ. Fryer and Peter
SchOll, has been formed, with a view of
constructing a wagon road from Port
land to TillamOOk Bay.
Hoppy, the brute in human form
who recently outraged the person Of n
little girl in Portland, has been sent to
the Penitentiary for term of five years.
1t should have been for life.
The Republican primaries last Satur-
day went through the form of electing
delegates to the County Convention
which meets tomorrow. The thing
was all fixed up beforehand.
The District Schools of Corvallis re-
port 400 scholars between the ages of
four and twenty years. 1874 males and
215 females, 225 legal voters. Expendi-
lures for the year, -, ,6S6 29.
"Laila," or the ''Fairy Queen" is be-
ing presented by Mr.. and Mrs. McGib-
eny and pupils this week at the Con-
cregational church in this city. 1t will