The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-12-27
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DECEMBER p, 1872.
HOME NEWS.

-mnoua Academy has Il students.
TIE Academy at Ashland has l4G.
The new custom house and post Office
Astoria will soon be completed.
Tho nubIie schools of Salem have be-
IN the new term with very full rolls.
Farmers Of Linn county publish
II for the organization of q Farmers
ub.
+. Cahalin & Co. have risen from the
ames and are now established under
Oro Fino Theater.
The Statesman says the Board of
.qualization is again hard at work
rawing per diem.
A Marion county Adonis OF seventeen
las been led TO the altar by widowed
Venus Of thirty-five.
Christian College, Monmouth, claims
a larger number Of scholars than any
other school in the State.
Calisthenics and exercise with dumb
bells have been introduced in the course
Of studies at the Willamette University.
G. w. Traver, who was ousted out Of
the Philadelphia Shoe Store, has opened
in Gray's Music Store, corner of First
and Alder SIS.
We are informed that buyers of wool
are searching for that article in the in
terror and find that very little is in the
hands Of the sheep raisers.
Miss Kate Denim continues to draw
crowded houses at ORC Fino Theater-
ample evidence that too much has not
been foretold Of her genius.
The Institute at Jefferson, under the
charge OF Professor Boyce, is fourishing
finely. One hundred students are ex-
pected to be I'M attendance at the next
quarter.
Farmers up the valley are rejoiced
that the winter is so far gone and the
predictions Of the weather prophets, who
foretold extremely bad weather, have
entirely failed.
Quinn, Washington St, between First
and Second sts., has a large lot of tur-
keys, geese, chickens, fish, etc, for the
Holidays. Please call before purchas-
ing elsewhere.
a special term of the Circuit Court fer
Marion county has been ordered to be
held, Monday, Dec. 3Oth, for the hear
ing of two or three equity cases from
Multnomah county.
The organ used in our Sunday even
ing meetings is furnished gratuitously
by W. X. Badger. See his al. He
knows the secret of success in business
lies in shedding printers ink.
Albany seems to have bad boys as
as Portland. The Democrat says:
.nes are thrown at houses and ped
ms, rude language is frequently
at play hours, aad much other
rous conduct is exhibited which
disgrace the notorious hoodlums
cities"
a private note from Philip Ritz, who
is now out on the survey of the proposed
Walla Walla and Grande ROnde rail-
road, reports the route much more IA
vorable than was expected. The grade
coming out of the UmatilIa does not ex-
ceed 50 feet to the mile, and altogether
the distractions are vastly less than
was expected.
The first fight with the Modoc IN
dians occurred on the Oregon side, {
few miles north of the California boun-
dairy, and almost all the settlers killed
were Oregonians, but the future fighting
will no doubt be all in California, south
of Tule Lake, unless the Indians leave
the lava bed and strike out northeast into
Oregon again, towards the Idaho boun.
Diary.
The Jacksonville Sentinel learns thai
a subscription has been started for tho
relief Of Mrs Brotherton, whose hus-
band and elder sons We're lately killed
by the Indians In mid-winter. illN
provided to meet the task, is thrust
upon her the care of the remainder o
her family, and her condition should
elicit a more substantial evidence o
sympathy than words Of mere condo
lence.
Says the Eugene Journal: General ],
I. Applegate came over from NIohawl
last week and subscribed $4,000 to tn
state University fund. This is 500 mo1
than the amount necessary to be sui
seribed to entitle the company to inco
porate, and makes several thousand do
lars more, with what has already bee
subscribed, than half the whole amoun
General Apologize certainly know
what he is about, and says his subseri
tion is made in square earnest"
Kalama contains five whisky mill
one brewery and Jail, but no scho
house. The Beacon says: 1--WE ha'
two churches operating, either of whiC
is more than capable of seating all Il
chureh-going population in town, al
two other sects intimate an intention
also erect structures for the cure
souls On the principle that prevel
tiOn is better than cure, would il not
advisable for our community TO remen
Der the school master as an adiunct
u1orqlifv and civilivotio,, -,