The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-05-10
HOME NEWS.
Croquet is now the game.

CrOquet is now the game.
Dolly Warden is all the rage.
Salem wants more policemen.
The Weekly Mercury of Salem is to be
enlarged.
Railroad surveys are being made in
Polk county.
The Olympians still complain of mail
irregularities.
An Episcopal church is to be erected
at Walla Walla.
Numerous dwellings are being erected
at Walla Walla.
A three-story brick hotel is being
erected at Eugene City.
A colony of Germans recently located
in the vicinity of Olympia.
A picnic on a grand scale is soon to be
held in Washington county.
Another discovery of rich mines in
the Santiam district is reported.
The Grand Lodge of Good Templars
viii meet at Salem next month.
The mails are now carried thirty-five
miles beyond Eugene City by rail.
The citizens of Hillsboro propose to
raise funds to procure a town library.
LIP. Beach has been appointed Sur
veyor General of Washington Territory.
Two-thirds of the eonvicts in the Ore
gon State Penitentiary are unmarried
men.
The woolen factory at Salem will
commence running again in short
time.
Mr.. Halsey is building 4 hotel at the
town which bears his name, in Linn
county.
Three prisoners recently escaped from
the Washington Territorial Prison at
Steilacoom.
Mrs. NJ. J. Ensign, Dress-maker,
wants some irlapprentices. Who's the
first to apply?
Hon. G.. II. Williams is now in the
State, having returned to canvass for
the Republicans.
The bridge across the Cowlitz at
Pumphrey's is to be completed by the
Isl Of September.
Rev. Mr.. Condor, who was recently
severely injured by stage accident, Is
slowly recovering.
Four surveying parties Of the Nortf
Pacific Railroad are now i'm the field il
the Pacific Division.
We acknowledge the receipt, undel
the frank Of Senator Kelly, Of ''Statistiei
of the Census of 1870" Thanks.
Tie Baker City Academy, which wa
burned down some time ago, will sooT
be rebuilt. The frame is already Hp.
Attention is called to the advertise
ment of William Beck & Son. They
have the best of everything in thei
line.
Stone for the building of the Catholi,
Academy at Salem is being taken from
quarry near Marshfield, in Clackama
county.
Mrs. H. c. Brown will reopen her Sc
Iect school, corner Second and Hall SITS.
next Monday, May 18th. We hope sh
will be well patronized.
\ part Of a Mastodon tooth, six fee
in length, nine inches in diameter, an
weighing 1877 pounds, was found recent
near Ashland, jackson county.
The Herald says the Liberal Republ
cans are making arrangements to r
.ceive Jasper johnson on his return fro
The Cincinnati Convention.
A movement is being made to seeu
\ daily mail from Yamhill river, at Il
and of the Oregon Central Railroad,
Junction City, via Corvallis and Mo
roe.
Captain Gregory, formerly of the Z
cific Transportation Company, confer
plates locating at Olympia as agent
the Pacific Life Insurance Company
Sacramento.
The Olympia Tribune contradicts q
report that Congress has appropriate
100000 to build a capitol at 0lympi
It says it is a pure invention, withO
the shadow of foundation.
A dispatch from Senator ::Corbett co
tradicts the telegram from Garfield
which stated that the bill postponil
the election in Washington Terrific
until November had passed both Hous,
The bill is still pending before Congre
Travellers for the Union Pacific Ra
road at Kelton leave the river at I'm
talla, and, on and after May 1st, win
dispatched to the railroad in four da,
instead of six, as heretofore; and /
same company-th Northwestern Sta
Company-maket the schedule time fr,
Walia Walla, while the Lewiston a
Waila Walla stage will run through
one day, instead of two, making qu
and gratifying dispatch for mails 9