Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1872-08-03
All Around.

can Democracy with Chappaqua cab
bages.
Stearus' duplex instrument,by which
the capacity of telegraph wire is
doubled, has been adopted by the West.
ern Union Telegraph Company.
A complete new passenger train
sleeping car, parlor car, coaches, and
baggage car, has just been fuished at
the Union Pacific car shops at Omaha.
Wisconsin sportsmen and epicures
are congratulating each other on the
fact that the crop Of prairie chickens
promises to be very large this year.
Twenty>one Thousand bankers, mer-
chants, aud tradesmen of England,
have signed petition against the pro-
posed abolition of Imprisonment Cor
debt.
The people Of North Maine had a
snow picnic on the the 4th ult. They
have drift there that promises to last
all summer. 1t was originally Is feet
high.
d. NJ, Hay has sued the city Of Osh,
kosh, Wisconsin, for the burning of his
store, some time since, which he claims
was ca lsed by one of the fire engines.
Lord Chief Justice Cockburn has
been elevated by the British Govern
ment to an earidom on account of his
services in respect to the Geneva Con-
ference.
George Francis Tram will lecture in
ST. Louis next week on the subject j:
The Lawyers, Doctors and the Cer>
gy or, the World, the Flesh aud the
Devil"
The Snoqualmie road leading to Kit
tifas valley is still impossible, being
literally covered with logs.
Henry Goldmyer severely cut his foot
at Portage while slashing timber ou his
claim.
The Seattle Coal Company have been
improving the condition of the road
bed to their railrord track. They bring
l20 tons of coal per day to be >hipps d.
-Four hundred acres Of wheat will
be harvested ou the Swinomish fats
this season.
The Belliugham Bay Coal Company
have not yet gone to work In thu lr
mine The water is all pumped out,
but the mine is filled with obnoxious
gases which prevent them ifrom dong
anything.
Colonel Lamb has sent to San Fran
cisco for telegraph cable enough TO cons
uect the two islands of Lopez aud San
Juan, where the present gap in com-
munication between the Sound aud
Victoria now exists.
At I.ammish, near la Conner, On
the 18th inst, Patrick Mahoy attempt
ed rape on the wife of Wm. Benson,
who caught and shot him. He died
10 few hours, and Benson is under ar
rest.
Juarez had obtained from the Mexi-
can Congress a subscription of $4,000
to assist IN the erection Of an Italian
opera house in the capital of Mexico.
The sympathizing ladies OF Augusta,
Ga, assist the early closing movement
by agreeing to make no purchase after
four clock during the summer months
The Chattanooga Herald, a Tennessee
Republican paper, is furnishing sub
scribers with that paper, payable after
the election Of Grant and Wilson
The Boston Traveller has discovered
a prediction in shakespeare on the re-
election of Grant. That great poet
says; " A tanner shall last you eight
years.
Senator Trumbull declared a few
days ago that he hoped, desired, and
believed that the election of Greeley
would be the death of the Democratic
party, and he hoped of the Republican
party also.
Gen. Allan Rutherford, third audi,
tor Of the Treasury, states that the
number of Greeley men in North Caro-
lima is so insignificant that they are not
worth reckoning as q political power.
1t appears, be says, as if the people of
that State desire anything to beat
Greeley. They have no faith in him.
A Florida correspondent of the
Savannah Republican says that the
Indians in the Everglades refuse to
free their slaves, and swear that Sheri.
dan will have to "ride the tail off ev-
cry horse in the army, before they will
give up single niger"
Game is abundant in the vicinity of
Ellsworth. Buffalo, draw poker, ante
lope, old slcdge, venison, faro, quail,
billiards, rabbits, euehre, elk and keno
are the prevailing varieties.
The Erie company will institute a
suit against Jay Gould for the recovery
of large amount of real estate.
A tooth of the Emperor Napoleon I
,vas recently sold in Rrnssells for lfS5f