The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-03-22
Business at Olympia is lively.

Benton County mas l,S0O school chill
dren.
Wheat is selling at Salem for 80 cts.
per bushel.
Many citizens of Portland are plant
ing shade trees.
The tax levy of Albany for the current
year is five mills.
Albany has four hundred and sixty
one school children.
$500 per year in advance is the license
price demanded of saloons in Kalama.
The amount of taxable property in
Albany, of all kinds, amounts to S735,-
500.
The population of Baker City, Oregon,
is increasing, and new buildings are GO
ing up.
According to the Oregonian Col. Shiel
made a sad failure as orator on st. Pat
rick's Gay.
st. Patriek's Day was pretty generally
observed last Monday by our Irish fell
low citizens.
There are 1926 children in Linn
county between the ages Of four and
twenty years.
The whole fall of snow at Olympia
during the past winter has been thirty
five and fourth inches.
The cold weather during the winter is
said to have killed all or nearly all the
bees in Walla Walla valley.
The jefferson Hosiery Manufacturing
Company is now turning out an inn
mense quantity Of stockings.
A pleasant musical and literary enter
tainment was given at the Unitarian
church last Wednesday evening.
tits rumored that the Waldron Troupe,
now playing at the Orc Fino Theater, in
tend visiting Salem at an early day.
Two vessels which recently sailed
from San Francisco for Coos Bay, Ore
gon, are reported lost with all on board.
According to the census the annual
death rate in Oregon is only TO every
2O9 inhabitants. The healthiest State in
the Union.
Those who wish to purchase a good
sewing machine cannot do better than
to call upon the Home Shuttle Agency,
ll2 Front st.
The wool clip of Oregon for the year
ending June, 1870, as returned by the
census, was one million eighty thous-
and two hundred and siXty-nine pounds.
Mr. c. II. Walker, the first boy born
in Oregon, will lecture in this city, at
Nonpariel Hall, Friday evening next,
on Temperance Reform and Political Ac-
tion.n
The Salem Statesman is now under
the control of Capt. C. P Crandall, for
many years local editor of the Oregon
ian. The Statesman will hereafter be
lire paper.
Col. Joe Meek did not deliver his lee
ture on early Times in Oregon" last
Wednesday evening, according to APP
pointment, on account of the Court
House being occupied by the Republi-
can State Convention.
Tomorrow evening Rev. Mr.. Condor
will deliver a lecture, the proceeds of
which are to be applied to scientific re-
searches, on "The Fossil Horse-his
place in the Records of the Past and the
Theories of the Present"
Rev. Mr.. Condor lectured last Tues
day evening at the Masonic Hall in
this city on christian Theology and
Natural Science" We understand that
the subject was ably handled, and that
a good audience was in attendance.
By order of the Multnomah Co. Dem
cratic Committee, the primary election
will take place on Saturday, March 3Oth,
for delegates to the County Convention
to be held i'm this city Saturday, April
9th, when delegates will be elected to
the State Convention.
The Republican State Convention
made the following nominations for
Prosecuting Attorneys: ID District, +.
A. Chenoweth; Sd District, n. b.
Humphrey; 4th District, Geo. H. Dur
ham 5th District, +. c. Hyde. We do
not know who is the nominee in the lst
Judicial District.
Oro Fino Theater is still the popular
place Of amusement inthis city. A bet
ter and more choice variety of plays has
been presented this winter than ever be-
fore in Portland. The patronage has
been and still is excellent, showing the
appreciation with which the present
management is regarded. Those who
want good, innocent amusement cannot
do better than attend Orc Fino Theater.
DR.. A. d. Ellis furnishes the following
report of Insane Asylum matters for
the quarter ending February 29th:
Number males in Asylum December !,
1871, rs; females, Al; total, l59. Males
admitted during the quarter, II; females
admitted, 2; total, 10. Males discharged
during the quarter, 3; females ditto, 5;
total, 10. Died during the quarter,
Henry GilkingsOn, George Whitehouse
and Polly Holmes. Remaining at the
end of the quarter-males, l25i females,
40; total, 165.
The Herald of last Wednesday has
this: "About six o'clock yesterday
morning a male child was found on the
steps Of residence on Fourth street.
The child was placed in a new basket,
was well-dressed, had a good supply Of
clothing, and had every appearance of
being the offspring of wealthy parents.
There was also a nursery bottle of milk