The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-06-26
NEWS ITEMS.
srArE AN TERRITORIAL


Camp-meetings are in tune all around
the bush.
The State Library, at Salem, contains
5000 volumes.
The Oregon City Seminary will close
its term next Friday.
Corvallis will join hands with Albany
in celebrating the Fourth.
Prof. Robin. Of McMinnyille, has been
elected to Professorship in the Forest
Grove University.
Hon. Rufus Mallory has accepted the
invitation TO deliver the oratiOn on the
Fourth at SilyertOn.
The Willamette Woolen Manufacture
ing Company have purchased this sea-
son up to date $50, 900 pounds Of wool.
Hon. T. +. Campbell will deliver the
Fourth Of July Grafton at HillsbOro, by
invitation Of the Patrons of Husbandry
of Washington county.
It is said there n is colony of about 500
Germans on their way from kelton,
who are destined to settle either in the
Grande ROnde or Wallowa Valleys.
Wool is selling at good figures now in
Oregon. One lot of 10000 los for Salem
sold at 3je per d., and 1900 lbs for 33sc
The bill authorizing a railroad and
wagon road bridge over the Willamette
river at Portland, to connect the East
and West Side Railroads, has passed the
Senate.
A ride through the Willamette and
Umpqua Valleys at this season OF the
year clearly demonstrates the fact that
an agricultural country is, by all odds,
the hest country TO live in.
A three days meeting Of the Spiritual
Religious Society, of Clackamas county,
will be held on their grounds on ParTott
Creek, commencing June 26. \. A.
Cleveland and other speakers will be
present.
A steamer before two steamers, i
steamer behind two steamers, a steamer
between two steamers, all from Port
land, arrived at Astoria one evening
followed by an ocean steamer for san
Francisco.
All persons wishing to attend the
Oregon State Sunday School Conven-
tion, in Portland, June 29th and 30thr
will be carried on the cars at full fare
going, and return free by having a GER
tificate Of attendance from the Secretary
of the Convention.
4 public library was formally opened
in Oregon City on the 9th inst. The
address Of Rev. Mr.. SellwOOd on the oc-
casiOn is highly spoken of. The rooms
will be open on Tuesday and Friday
evenings, and on Sunday afternoons.
Monthly dues, , cents.
Facilities for travel on the Sound
wele never better. Steamers ply daily
and tvi-weekly TO almost every port on
the Sound, and semi-weekly to Victoria,
Ter the North Pacific. Excursions and
piopics are the rule there now and dur
ing all the summer months.
The -Astorion says: There is room fol
producing more grain Ia this part al
Oregon than is now in the Willamette
Valley. We have samples Of barley
five feet high, rye seven feet ten inches
and oats waist high nicely heading out
from Hans Anderson's place-Misha
waka, Nehalem Valley.
The Tillamook mail now stops short o
Tillamook, via the Trask route, and j
no longer a Tillamook mail, except a
il goes via Astoria, to NestOcktOn, whei
it passes through TillamOok, but tn
mail carrier has instructions not to de
liver it to the Tillamook postmaster
hence, YOU see TlllamOOk has no mai
Just now. Somebody may get into tn
Penitentiary yet on account Of Tilla
nook
The Courier, of Olympia, June Sth
says; The Union Temperance Meeting
at the Presbyterian church last evening
was a decided success. Every seat o
the building was filled, and goOdly
number compelled to stand. Rev
David Slres delivered a very able anC
eloquent address from the Scriptur,
text: Help those women.u He wa,
followed 10y the Rev. Miss Chapin. o.
the Cnlversalist denomination. who
occupied about thirty minutes with !
very Interesting address.
The following from the annual roror,
oi the q. w. G. 7. shows the STRENGTH ~
the GOOD Iemplars OF Oregon: N1mbc,
OF Lodges at last session Of Gro,f
Lodge, 50; organized during the wear
70. Total, lO3. Ceased working d1rjn,
the year, IS present number, Is. Inf
tiated; l,747i admitted by card. II: 70
instated, 81 total, ,904. Cards granted
los; resigned, 354i suspended, sI5: eT
PEELED, SO; deaths, 5. Total member
ship, April 30th, 5000. The financis
condition Of the Grand Lodge Is good