The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-07-19
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menoe in a few days.
Lane county has $500 in the Treasury
over and above her indebtedness.
The new Penitentiary building at Sa-
lem viii be ready forOceupancy in a few
days.
Work on the NJ. Z. Church and agri-
cultural buildings at Salem is going on
finely.
The Willamette University at Salem
has lately received quite an addition
to its library.
Lane county received 500 for licenses
last year. Linn received $500 from
similar source.
The salary Of the Superintendent Of
Schools in Lane county has been raised
10 $500 per annum.
Corvallis is TO have a new fire engine
The Chief Engineer has gone 10 san
Francisco 70 purchase H.
The fare from Olympia 10 Seattle, a
distance Of eighty miles is twenty-five
cents. Cheap riding that.
The thermometer stood 1O7 degrees on
the shady side Of the street in Walla
Walla last Tuesday. Rather hot.
Business at Eugene City is reported
dull. The railroad has gone beyond
that point, and now comes the reaction.
The Portland Free Discussion Club
have their weekly meetings every sun
day at 8 O'Clock p. NJ. at No. 50 First ST.,
up stairs.
The yield Of grain throughout the
valley, owing 10 the late rains, will be
much better than was anticipated
short time ago.
Vroom's shingle mill, ten miles east
Of Silveron, turns out from ten TO fif-
teen thousand shingles per day. The
shingles are Of the best quality.
The Academy at Wilbur, in Douglas
county, has lately closed prosperous
term. The graduates were a Mr.. and
Miss Nanderburg, Of Coos county.
Jaob Powell, a Baptist preacher
known to everybody in Oregon, more
for his eccentricities than his education,
is said 10 have become a raying maniac.
There viii be a Spiritual Grove Meet
lug on August 2d, 1872, opposite Pt.
Polalla, and one mile and a half or two
miles below Candy, at railroad bridge
No. 10, on Mr.. Parrots land.
Among the passengers who left on the
steamer Ajax was Hon. B. Selling, Pres
ident Of the Youths Literary Society of
Portland. His many friends wish him
q safe trip and speedy return.
The Farmer says it is calculated that
the total trade for imported farm ma
ehinery in Oregon for the present year
will aggregate S1,OOO,OOO, while consid-
cradle is also manufactured at home.
Mr.. c. \. Lohmueller will lecture on
Spiritualism next Monday evening,
commencing at s o'clock, at Nonpareil
Hall. Tests will be given after the lee
ture. Neither collection nor admittance
fee.
A very pleasant musical and literary
entertainment was given at the Unita'
rian Chapel last Wednesday evening
Mrs. Cardinelps reading of ''The Bells
and Beautiful Snow was especially
good.
The Through Line, a paper devoted
to the interests of the Portland, Dalle
and salt Lake Railroad, has just beer
issued in this city. As we haven't seeI
4 copy of it vet, we can say nothing o
its merits.
The Dalles salmon fisheries are esti
mated to be worth at leat 81 900, 900, an,
the Nonltaneer is in favor of reopen
ing the treaty by which the whites go
possession of them, and paying the In
dians something like fair price 70
them.
4 little girl, daughter of an emigran
just arrived in WascO county, was bit
ten by arattlesnake last week. As 500
as the fact was known the parent
sucked the virus from the wound an
filed the child with whisky, and sh
soon recovered.
The Salem Statesman, speaking {
the coming harvest, says: "a trip any
where in thecountry at the present tim
will reveal the fact that harvest is nea
at hand The grain is fast ripening
anu soon the rattle of machinery can b
heard in every feld.u
From the Salem 1Iercary. ."W
learn from gentleman who has inst re-
turned from the Santiam mines tina
prospects are fiattering, as good ore :
large quantities is being uueortboJ
Work is being kept up night and dav \
different shifts of men,
VIM. Davidson, Esq, the enterprisiu
real estate dealer, has laid copy of "A
Premiums for the Oregon State Fair f
1872 on our table. The badge rule is
be enforced again this year. The pr
miums offered, we judge, are about Il
same as those Of last year.
The Idaho Signal publishes the fc
lowing in regard TO the crops: Assess
King informs us that he thinks n
more than half the usual crop Of gra
will be raised on the Camas Prairi
east, the present season, owing to 4
dry weather. The farmers are callil
loudly for rain-ninl
The o. :. y. Co. announce a chan
in the schedule time of the leaving
their boat on the Olympia route. T
steamer Fannie Troup leaves their VIII:
for Kalama at 8 P. ", one hour EARL
than heretofore. 1t connects at Kalan
with the \. P. r. r. for Olympia '
Pumphrey's. Returning, the steam