The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-10-30
NEWS ITEMS.
STATE AND TERRITORIAL.

The Salem Record is again an evening
paper.
No less than thirty sail vessels were
in Astoria on last Sunday.
The Academy at Sheridan, in Yam
hill county, is fiourishing finely.
DR.. Atkinson, of Portland. lectured on
the resources of Oregon at The Dalles
last week.
There was an addition of five convicts
TO the Penitentiary from Linn county,
on Saturday.
The barn of L. Thomas, of Waldo
Hills, was burned last Friday. Loss
about $1,000.
There are any quantity of grapes
raised in Polk county that are not in
feriOr to the best California fruit.
Mrs. Parter, of Idaho City, has fallen
heir TO property valued at a million dol
lars. The estate consists of eighty acres
in East st. Louis.
Hon. W. r. Dunbar, Grand Worthy
Chief Templar, organized a Lodge of
Good Templars at Hubbard Station on
Friday evening, the 23d.
The Grand Encampment of the
Oregon and Idaho, were in special ses-
sion at Boise City on the 2nd inst.
Quite revival among the Christian
Brethren has been going on lately at
Coquille City, quite a number having
united themselves with that church.
The tax levy in Yamhill county for
the current year is 22t mills. The in
debtedness of the county is between
twelve and thirteen thousand dollars.
Salem Mills continue to pay 62l cents
per bushel for wheat r. c. Kinney &
Co. are now grinding $50 tons of flour
to ship on the City Of Dublin for Liver
poal.
Mrs. George Cook of Salem carried off
the palm for premiums at the State Fair,
her premiums for flowers, fancy work,
etc, etc, amounting to one hundred and
ten dollars.
The largest specimen Of premium beets
exhibited at the late State Fair weighed
twenty-seven pounds. OF the man.
moth squashes exhibited, one weighed
l35 lbs and another lis lbs.
Mrs. Addie L. Miller Of this city is so
journing temporarily in Salem, giving
instructions to a large class in the art oil
penmanship. She is competent, pa
tient and obliging instructor, and as
such deserves liberal patronage.
The building for the Alden Fruit Pre-
serving Company at Salem, is erected
and the apparatus for carrying on the
work is being placed i'm position. It is
expected that every thing will be in
readiness for operation by the first oi
November.
IL 4 -. Il
friend w. J.. Adams has returned from
a prolonged sojourn in the East, the
possessor Of a Diploma, announcing him
a first-class physician. We learn that
he is shortly to open a drug store and
begin the practice of his profession in
this city.
The Capital laundering Company o
Salem have received an order from tn,
Agricultural Implement Manufacturing
House of Baker & Hamilton, San Fran
cisco, for $4,000 feet of oak and ash lum
Der. This company have now contract
for 100000 feet of lumber for the SaI
Francisco market.
The bill to repeal the Office of Stat
Geologist passed the Senate, but faile'
to pass the House. This is as il shoul'
be. The Office is one of practical AM
educational advantage to the State, ant
it is poor economy to abolish such. Rev
Thos. Condor is still retained in tn
capacity Of State Geologist.
At q recent meeting of the Oregon
Children's Aid Society, held in Salem
October 22nd, a series of resolution
were adopted expressing the high es
TEEN in which the late Mrs. J. Holman
was held by the Society, and it was or
dered that copy thereof be engrossei
and forwarded to the relatives.
The pastors of the several churches O
Salem have rendered an expression O
thanks and gratitude to the Presiden
and Directors of the o. & C. r. r., 70
their action in stopping their trains OF
Sunday. They express the belief tina
much good will result from this exampl
and hope that the same will be uni
versally followed.
Mrs. b. A. Owens of Roseburg has re
Gently returned from Boston, where sh
has been spending some time i'm the stud
and practice of medicine. Mrs. Owen
is one Of the most thOrOugh-going busi
ness women of our acquaintance, and
bound to succeed wherever she goes. w
welcome her back to the land of Wei
feet and red apples, and long to give he
q personal greeting once more