The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-03-07
MARCH :, 1873.
HOME NEWS.

county.
Wheat is quoted at IS cents a busheI
in Salem.
The Jacksonville Times is to have a
new dress.
Eugene City School District has 34s
persons OF school age.
4 line Of stages will soon be nut on
the road from Roseburg to Coos Bay.
The buildings of the Agricultural Col
lege will accommodate 500 pupils.
The Improvements in and near Baker
City viii be very great the coming sea-
son.
The rabbits are doing considerable
damage to the fruit trees of Union
county.
The Linn County Farmers Associa-
ton meets in Albany tomorrow, the
Sth inst.
The population OF Dallas City, exclud-
ing Chinese, is 1850. There are 426
school children.
The Good Templars at Summerville,
Union county, will build q hall the
coming summer.
Miss Matte Grooms is a manuscript
compositor on the Christian Adrocate,
setting good proofs.
1t is stated that the Presbyterians will
erect House of worship at Peoria, Linn
county, this Summer.
The new vessel now on the stocks at
North Bend, Coos Bay, will be the larg-
est ever launched in Oregon.
The appropriation for Indian service
in Oregon this year is $4,000, and ex-
ceed those Of last year $4,000.
The Oregon Steam Navigation Com
pany's new steamboat at Dalles will be
launched some time this month.
The District School at Forest Grove
has re-opened with Mrs. c. a. Coburn
and Miss Maggie Naylor as teachers.
Encouraging progress has been made
in the steps taken to secure the building
Of an Episcopal Church at La Grande
Marion Gale, formerly of Eugene,
will shortly commence the publication
Of a Democratic paper in Umatilla
county.
The lecture appointed TO be given by
Rev. Thos. Condor at Salem on the
evening of the 50 inst, has been post
poned until the 18th.
A letter from Forest Grove states that
the people are still indignant because
the County Commission ers granted a
license to retail spirits in that precinct.
The city election of Jacksonville took
place last Tuesday, resulting in the
election of VI. s. Hayden for Recorder;
Jocob ROudabush, Marshal, and the re-
election Of all the old Board of Trustees.
The following business was transacted
at the Land Office at Oregon City dur
ing the month of February: 81 Dona-
ton Certificates, 12,24442 acres; Il
Homestead Entries, 1,5l2O3 acres; I
Final Homesteads, 1888 acres; Cash
Entries, 94.45 acres; 5 Prescriptions filed
1857 acres. Total, 15,2O2.19. Patent.
received on Donation Certificates to No
1902.
From the Oregon City Enterprise
The contractors for rebuilding the fac,
tory are busily at work on the building
and the structure will soon present its
former beauty. We learn that it is the
expectation of the company to have the
factory in operation by the first of Au-
gust. In order to do this it will require
a large force of mechanics. The upper
end of town presents a lively and busi'
ness appearance.
This from the Corvallis Gazette: Po,
lice matters opened out pretty lively
last Monday. We heard of two or three
fights and several drunks. The City
Treasury was replenished by cash and
"nOtes." Innocent children and help
less women are robbed by drunken
fathers and degraded husbands TO pay
fines and support the liquor-sellers in
ease and luxury, and yet we are blandly
told 'liquor never hurts anybody that
lets it alone"
At Lafayette, the other day, Mrs.
9tAAh VI y NA7 th4tM dl Otu slltNi over
her head and shoulders, left her hus-
band holding the baby, went to a sa-
loon, got bottle Of brandy, and started
on foot for Polk county The local
paper heads its account OF the incident
as the ''Strange Conduct Of a Woman .
WhereupOn the Bulletin very peril
nently asks, "What more strange Of s
woman than if the conduct had beer
that of man ?"
The entertainment given by Bake
Post, No. !, G. a. r., at the Skating
Blink, on Tuesday evening, was one o
the most successful, musically, social.
and financially, ever given in this city
The Rink was grotesquely decorate,
with the National colors, hung in ever,
conceivable shape from the gas jets, tn
ceiling and the walls. Notwithstanding
the inclemency Of the evening, Their
was very large attendance, and afte
the concert the many who chose to re
main tripped the heavy heel to dulce
music till the wee small hours of th,
morning. The proceeds Of the enter
tainment are to be used to defray tn,
expenses of Decoration Day.
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