The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-09-04
GENERALITTBS

About 1000 bills have gone over to
the next session of Congress.
1t is now said that the track through
the Hoosac tunnel will be laid by the
18th inst.
\ Second Adventist prophet in New
Hampshire fixes the end Of the world
for May :, 1877.
1t will cost Washington county, Pa,
! $50, 900 to replace the bridges washed
away by the flood.
The foreign trade Of Boston has de-
clined Ss,9SS, ,959 thus far this year, as
compared with last year.
The newspapers of New York city are
said TO own about fifteen million dollars
worth of real estate there.
Rosa Bonheur is fifty-two years OF
age. unmarried, and lives happily with
a sister and several brothers.
France, Notwithstanding her disturbed
political condition, produced more books
last year than any other country.
The will of Miss Susan Hubbell, OF
Bridgeport, Conn, gives $4,000 and an
acre of land for hospital in that town.
President Grant is believed TO be the
only citizen in the Union who has not
expressed an opinion on the Beecher
case.
Mrs. Dr. Cushing, Of Oakland, with
four other ladies, recently made the as
cent Of Mount Shasta-l4, AS feet above
the sea-Ievel.
At the State editorial reunion of Ala
hama, only one editor was present, and
he voted himself in President for the
ensuing year.
The statement of the sugar crop of
Cuba shows that ffty-eight per cent. OF
the total exports were taken by the
United states.
Mrs. Clifford and Mrs. Skinner, OF
Worcester, Mass, argue that churches
should Danish fermented wine from the
communion table.
A Galveston paper says Texas will
produce this year between five and six
! hundred thousand bales Of cotton. This
is better than gold mines.
Froude, the historian, is going to
, spend the next year or two in visiting
= all the English colonies, beginning soon
with the Cape and ending with Canada.
The Scientific 4mericdl says that a
. strong solution Of ammonia, on a pill Of
, cotton, inserted in the defective tooth,
! will instantly cure the worst tOOthache.
f Politics, as the science Of civil govern
! ment, is pure and noble. 1t defiles no
f body. Why should it? How can it?
: In that sense, it is simply the art of se-
curing the highest good.
e The New York Nation has suspended
= its attacks on Woman Suffrage, and is
, preparing to aunihilate the Grangers.
e Meanwhile both of the subjects of its
= wrath are flourishing as never before.
n 1t is claimed that the Granger move
: ment in California has already saved
!, the farmers Of that state $500, O,OOO by
making war on the grain rings Of San
d Francisco.
l. last year the San Francisco Jail ac-
commodated :, POI prisoners, S7s of whom
"a We're females. san Francisco contrib
'e uted 134 persons to the State prison last
1t year, and hanged one.
Is The wife Of Bismarck, over sixty years
" Of age, yet fresh and beautiful, directs
! her household affairs, carries bunch of
keys in her belt, and is proud of the
is many embroidered covers and curtains,
l. the work oi her own INDUSTRIOUS hands.
le The defeat of the new Constitution OF
l. Ohio, 10y a majority of $4,000 or more, is
'e another check to the ''reformers," who
a want TO get along too fast. The old
&c Constitution is not bad, and the new
'e one makes more innovations than the
. people are prepared to accept, all at once.
=. \ "Women'- Peace Society" has re-
- Gently been formed in London which
- has published an offer Of 500 for the
10 best tract wriHcl1 Jy q 1rOHdH on the
subject Of peace. The title must be, ''In
- what way 10 wars affect women, and
. how they may best Use their influence
~ to prevent war;
+ The church ediiice of the Congrega-
A. tional Society i'm Warren, r. l., recently
"a burned, was insured I'm the Newport
5 Company, r. l., for :, 900 with permis-
II sion to use kerosene or gas for lighting.
e Gasoline gas was used, which exploded
e and destroyed the building, and the
A company declined to pay up.
= There are said to be 500 paper mills in
h operation in the United States, with
i capital of $4,000, 600, and 4 total pro-
1t duction of SO, 100000 These mills give
d employment nominaIly to 10000 people,
IS whose earnings are footed up at $4,000
Il 600 annually. Last year was not prof
liable one for the manufactures.
Al \ colored man has graduated at the
,t Yale theological school this year, and a
,f full-blooded African took like degree
10 in the academic department. About
If forty years ago, u eolored man asked
p the Faculty II they would receive him
n as a student, and they said they would
- consider his case and give him reply,
n but hc has never heard from them on
:, the subject. His son, however, gradu-
= ated from the medical department in
,r 1857.
i The long protraeted contest over the
IF property of stephen \. Douglas has