The Benton democrat. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1871-18??, 1873-01-11
PACIFIC sIOpERs.

hosepurg 10 70 nave a new City HAL
Passenger trains run only to Oak
land.
The Willamette is still rising at
Portland.
The Roseburg Pamtagrapb has been
enlarged.
Hay is worth $250$so per ton at
Olympia.
:, Albany has ssse Sc in her City
Treasury.
| Tho State Board Of equalization has
adjourned.
A new fire company is organizing
in Portland.
Stephen Maybell, the poet, is sti1l lee
turing in Salem.
A revival is going on in the M. E.
Church in Salem.
A grand rowing regatta is proposed
to be held at Vallejo.
Rosalind Elmo and Dan Voorhees,
are at San Francisco. @ a
The Jacksonville Times has entered
upon its third volume. SIX
Salem is to be supplied with gas
through Wooden pipes
The railroad near Salem was entirely
overfowed the other day.
Small -pox still prevails at Baker City.
A pest house has been built.
The Salem Touring mills have again
been stopped by high water.
The Methodists of Baker City are
going to build new church.
The floods in Josephine county have
been equal to those of 1862.
A fearful hurricane passed over Elk
and Ruby Valley last Saturday.
A. M. Smith, Of Buena Vista, did not
die, as reported, but is recovering.
Baker City people kept tea and cof-
fee, on New Years Day, but no wine.
J. Warren Davis, well known citi-
zen of Portland, died last Wednesday.
Brigham Young has put two Of his
Mormon SONS to the study of medicine
Flour is worth 81 SO per barrel at
Boise City, and wheat 81 20 per bushel
A House of Correction, not to cost
over $4,000, is to be built in San Fran
cisco.
The thermometer stood at rs deg. in
the shade at San Diego, California, yes
terday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fulford, of Waldron's s
Dramatic Troupe, have gone to San
Francisco.
The calendars in the various Courts
OF San Francisco are unusually full of
murder cases.
The steamer Libby was recently
broken in two, while lying in slough,
below Seattle.
Tea culture in California has proved |
a failure, and the tea plantations-h have
been abandoned.
The first whale of the season was
caught off San Diego yesterday. 1t was
a very small one.
Ben. Holladay's steamships have adj
vanced treights on -four, to San Fran
cisco. one dollar per ton.
Snow fell to the depth of three feet
at Esquimault the other day, and broke
in the roofs of buildings.
One brig, one bark and fourteen
schooners arrived at Coos Bay during
the last week in December. ~
The Gould and Curry Mining Com
pany of California have increased their
capital stock to $5,6O0,000.
George Thistleton, accused of ibeling
Mrs Fair in San Francisco, has surren-
dered himself to the officers.
M. FL. Abbott, formerly proprietor of
the Baker City Democrat, is employed
on the Boise City Statesman.
A Steilacoom, w. r., blacksmith
holds the ticket which drew the $75,-
900 prize in the Havana lottery.
Over thousand bushels of wheat
was refused by consignees, at Portland,
the other day, on account of weevil.
A fellow named Langley has been
held to bail at Salt Lake City, on a
charge of attempting to burn the city.
DIR. ). S. Giltner has been running"
school matters, in Portland. and the pa
pers are going after his arrogance.
The ruins are being cleared from the
"burnt district, "in Portland. preparatory
to the erection of new buildings next
spring.
The editor of one of the leading pa
pers of Idaho has a new pair of pants.
and ladies again venture upon the streets
in daylight.
The Gentle and Mormon papers at
Salt Lake are full of political discussion
as to who will be appointed Governor of
Utah Territory.
Matthew Morrison, highly respected
and valuable citizen, and an early set
tier of Oregon, died near Silverton on
the 9th instant.
Ben Holladay left San Francisco for
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