The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-11-15
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NOVEMBER Is, 1872.
HOME NEWS.

The Escaped Nun had tremendous
houses at Salem.
The telegraph line is in operation to
st. Joe on the Yamhill.
The farmers OF Washington county are
all busy putting in grain.
The firemcn of Eugene City will have
a great ball on Christmas.
The Oregon PresbyteIy at Salem ad-
iourned sine die last Tuesday.
The State Library has received another
volume of Patent Office Reports.
The public school of Dallas has been
discontinued, in consequence of the lack
of funds
Frank F. Hodgkin has resigned his
position as local reporter on the Salem
Statesman
The Mckenzie Wagon Road Com
pany's outlay for the past year amounts
to S544 p; receipts, $40 SO.
Miss Nellie Meacham is the author
lied collecting ahd soliciting agent for
the NEW NORTHWEST at Salem.
G. W. Fletcher Of Eugene City has
been appointed and is now acting as
route agent on the West Side railroad.
The second term of the Ia Creole
Academy commenced on Monday, Nov
II. There were lSO pupils in attend
ance.
There are forty-seven cases on the
docket for the November term Of the
Circuit Court for Yamhill county. Six
are suits for divorce.
Thomas Crawford and Franklin Moore
have been re-appoiuted Agricultural
Students under the new law, by Senator
Patterson of Lane county.
A regular weekly paper will soon be
issued at Empire City, Coos county.
The Rustic has been published at that
place occasionally heretofore.
The Medical College of Salem is pros
pering finely. The regular course Of lee
lures, six day by the faculty, are 60
ing on regularly, with a large class in
attendance.
Roseburg is now improving rapidly,
and if the necessary amount of lumber
could be obtained many new buildings
would be erected. At the present time
there is not vacant house in town.
This friday evening Mrs. Waldron
will take a benefit at Orc Fino Theater.
This lady should have a crowded house,
and we have no doubt she will have one.
east Lynne" will be produced on this
occasion.
Grand Master, I. AIeF. Patton, has
issued the necessary dispensations for
two new Masonic Lodges in this State.
One to be located at Gardiner City,
Douglas county, and the other at Tilla-
moch. The new lodge at Gervais, for
which a charter was granted at the last
annual convOcatiOn, was instituted aud
the proper officers installed few even
ings since. The prospects are very fiat
tering for them.
At a meeting of the incorporators of
the Union University Association, held
last week at Eugene City, Messrs. J. NJ.
Thompson, J. J. Walton, Jr., VIM. J. J.
Scott and b. F. Doris were appointed
a committee TO open books and receive
subscriptions to the University Fund.
a meeting was held Friday evening and
a committee was appointed, consisting
of Messrs. f. l. Bristow, DR.. A. w.
Patterson, Wm. J. ]. Scott, J. G. Gray
and B. F. Doris, to receive propositions
for grounds for the location Of the Uni
versity.
Parties in Eugene City have COM
menced in good earnest the construction
of a good road to a mineral hot spring
which has been found about sixty miles
east of that town on a tributary of the
Mckenzie fork of the Willamette. The
Guard says: "The work of opening a
road to it from the Mckenzie bridge
was begun sometime since, and two
weeks ago a mechanic, with tools and
supplies for the winter, left here to erect
a bath house and other buildings neces-
sary at the spring. No thorough chem
ical analysis of the water has, we be-
lieye, been made, but simple tests show
it to contain at least eleven Of the most
essential elements Of the famous mineral
waters of Europe and America, promi.
nent among which may be mentioned
soda, chlorine, arsenic, magnesium, sui
phur and iron. There seems but LITTLE
doubt that the Mckenzie RECON viii
soon become, like the White Sulphur
region of the State of Virginia, the san
itariunl of A large extent of country