The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-06-28
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per bushel for wheat
The attention Of ladies is called to
Mrs. Ensign's new advertisement.
The Fourth Of July will be celebrated
all over the State to an extent never be-
fore equaled.
Fifteen hundred dollars, the amount
needed, has been raised in Salem to Sc
cure the erection of q town clock.
The Oregon State Agricultural So
eiety owns 40 acres of land near Salem,
The improvements on it are valued at
$4,000.
Col. B. B. Taylor, of Portland, deliv-
cred an address to the different societies
at the Willamette University, Tuesday
evening.
Volney Smith, son Of Delazon Smith
deceased, Of Oregon, was a delegate in
the National Convention at Philadel-
phia, from Arkansas.
Miss Eva /. Wilson took the first
prize for defamation at the Salem Uni
versity, last Tuesday, and Miss Lydia
f. Chamberlain the second.
Willamette University, Albany Col
legiate Institute, Christian College, Pa
cific University and Corvallis College
have just closed their spring terms.
The annual examination of classes in
the Portland Academy took place on
Wednesday and Thursday, June 26th and
9th, 1872, commencing at o'clock A.
NJ. each day.
Rev. ThOs. Condor of the Dalles has
been invited to deliver the Annual Ad-
'dress before the Walla Walla Agricul-
tural Society, at their annual Fair in
September next.
The steamer Idaho was not so COM
pletely disabled as first reported. She
was rescued with but slight damage
to herself The California was more
seriously injured.
Vivian, at Orc Fino theater, has at
tracted good audiences during the week.
As a comic singer he issplendid. Every
body should hear him. Grand matinee
Saturday afternoon.
Grand preparations are being made
for celebrating the coming Fourth of
July in Portland. Hon. Jesse Apple
gate has been chosen as orator, and
Stephen AIaybell as poet Everything
will go OF in grand style.
Tho fifth session Of the Yamhill Coun-
ty Teachers Association will be held in
the Academy at North Yamhill, COM
mencing Tuesday, July 9th, 1872, at one
o'clock, p. ", and continuing four days. |
The order of exercises during the ses-
sions will be the consideration of the
subject of Geography, Arithmetic,
Grammar, etc.
The Shasta Courier, of the 10Th in
slant, says the California end of the
Oregon and California Railroad is now
graded to the American ranch, and the
grading forces are making good time for
Bells, on Clear creek, to which point
the grading will probably be finished
next week. The bridge across Cotton
wood will be completed i'm a few days.
This is an assurance that the Oregon
line will soon be reached from that
direction.
The following statistics ofPuget Sound
commerce, for the year ending June,
1872, are taken from the Olympia Trans
cri3t; Number Of vessels belonging in
the district, 10; tonnage, 29,19l tons.
Value OF foreign imports, S3O,694; value
Of domestic imports, S9s4,OO Value of
foreign exports, S457, ,4O4; value of do
mestic exports, S2,5O9, ,222. Number of
vessels entered, sol; tonnage, 305,0Sl
tons. Number of vessels cleared, 40;
tonnage, 2S3, SCI tons.
The Mercury says: "The improve
ments now going on in Salem will add
very much to the appearance of our
city. The new Court House, which will
be the handsOmest structure Of the kind
in Oregon, is going up rapidly-the
foundation, jail, etc, being now COM
pleted. The NJ. +. Church, Sisters
School and Agricultural Works are all
progressing rapidly. The residence of
Mr.. Z. y. Cooke, now being erected on
the north side of Wilson's avenue. will
probably be unequaled by any in the
State.n
The Albany papers contain accounts
Of the finding Of buried treasure.
amounting to $4,000, on the farm of
VI. c. Galloway, about six miles from
Albany, in Benton county. It's said TO
have been found through the agency of
a medium. It appears that this mo-
dunn was informed by a departed half.
breed where he (the half-breed) had So.
creted the treasure, for the possession O.
which he committed murder and il
consequence was hung. We let the edi
tor Of the Democrat tell the rest Of tn,
story: "Having implicit faith in tn
information thus impaired by the &c
commOdating spirit Of the defunc
half-breed, our medium took coupl
of friends into his confidence, secure,
their cOmpanionship and assistance il
the enterprise, and on last Friday night
when all the inhabitants of Soap creel
were wrapped in slumberous repose, tn
trio Of nocturnal gold hunters Will
picks and shOvels silently wended thei
moon-lit way to the spot so accuratel,
described by the 'alf-and-alf spirit, ant
after assuring themselves, by the clos
est scrutiny OF the landmarks, that they
had not mistook the spot, they silently
and prayerfully invoked the Continue,
aid of the gallOws-freed snirit in fhei
search, and delved into the bowels q
the earth. They had given but a fav
strokes with the pick and cast nm but
few shovelfuls ofearth, when their strain
ing and watchful eyes caught a glimpse @