The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-09-20

Eugene has three Sunday schools.
Yamhill paid her Assessor $40 95this
year
Ia Creole Academy Of Dallas has 40
pupils.
The new Court House at Hillsboro is
nearly finished.
The local of the Statesman has lately
been caned by a friend.
I'M. Garrison is to have charge of the
public school in Corvallis.
Lane county paid over $1,000 the for
care of its small pox patients this sum
mer.
The freighting business to and from
the city OF Salem II unusually large this
season.
OF all the towns up the valley, Eu-
gene is said to be improving the most
rapidly.
A vein Of genuine stone coal, four feet
thick, has heen discovered north of Jack
sonville
Several families are camping out in
Roseburg for,lack of houses or lumber
10 build them.
Lafayette aspires to the Importance Of
city, and will ask the present Leeisla-
ture for n charter.
1t is too late to harvest in Washing
ton county. Flowing and sowing grain
is fashionable now.
In Lane county the assessment of the
Oregon and California Railroad was re-
duced from $4,000 Of s, 900 per mile.
The net total amount Of taxable prop
erty in Lane county, as returned by the
Assessor for the year 1872, is 2,GS7, ,51s.
The Portland Free Discussion Club
have their weekly meetings every Sun
day at 3 O'Clock p. N. at No. SO First st.
up stairs.
Large quantities of wheat are said TO
be pouring into the Corvallis ware
houses. One firn9 now has SS, ,OOO bushels
on storage.
r. r. Thompson has purchased extern
sive tracts OF land in Yamhill county
and is expending large amounts in inn
provements.
Monmouth wants some houses to rent
TO persons who wish to move there to
enjoy the educational advantages which
the place offers.
The Coos Bay Steam Navigation Com
pany have commenced the construction
Of their new steamer. It is being built
at Empire City.
The railroad is heading towards La
fayette at a satisfactory pace. The
track-layers are putting miles behind
them handsomely.
If one is to judge from the number
of new dwelling in course of eonstruc- /
ton, Portland is rapidly increasing both
in size and population.
The County Court of Lane county has
levied tax Of Is mills on the dollar Of
the taxable property in Lane county,
for the current fiscal year.
The assessed value Of property In Yam
hill county for the present year is 81,
452,757. Number of polls collected by
Assessor, $50; delinquent, $50.
On the 4th inst. one hundred and fifty
wagon loads-seventy-fve thousand
bushels of wheat-were received by the
warehouses and mills at Albany.
The Jackson county Agricultural So
ciety is making extensive arrangements
for their forthcoming fair, which gives
promise of being the best yet essayed.
Marion county has leased her paupeI
farm for $500 per year, and compels the
lessee to keep the poor at 81 per week
coffins and funeral expenses included.
NC. George will deliver the opening
address at the coming Linn County
Fair. The annual address will be de-
livered by Mr. a. c. Jones, late Clerk o.
Linn county.
The Herald says large and appre-
ciative audience greeted Waldron's dra'
matte troupe on the occasion Of theil
first appearance this season at the Opers
House in Salem.
The officer having in charge the rive
improvements on the Upper Willamette
has a force Of men at work constructing
obout one thousand feet of a wing-dan
on Humphreys slough.
The taxable property in Bentol
county this year amounts to about 81,
100000. Levy for the year, the same n
last year, 15mills on thedollar for State
school and county purposes.
The Oakland Academy, which was t
have been opened about the lst Of OctC
Der, will remain closed until toward
the end OF that month in consequence
the unavoidable absense of the Prime
pal.
An old man, aged eighty years, a re
ident Of Polk, swallowed four live froe
in the presence Of q disgusted crowd OF
day last week. He says he does In
frequently. and that they are good f
dyspepsia.
The Herald says Messrs. Butterfie
& Co. Of Linn, California, who visitC
this State last year with herd Of Al
CORA goats, passed through Rosebul
this week with another herd of the san
valuable animals.
Father Waller, the indefatigab
friend Of Willamette University, ha