, 1874-07-18

u VIII Coiilc just III tue LICK OF time. As
it will enable her to pay Of an indebt-
edness Of several hundred dollars yet to
be paid upon the homestead.
....On the Fourth Of July, at the
Skokomish Indian Agency Of this Ter
ritorS, the Rev. NJ. Eels married the
following Indians: Robert Burns and
Sallie; Billy Waterman and Susie;
David Charles and Ellen; Bob Lewis
and Julia; Andy johnson and Annie;
Patrick Henry and Jennie; Bill Char
ley and Mary.
.... The Indians of the Skeena and
Mas rivers, d. c., are becoming
troublesome.
"A man by the name of A. Ross,
ostensibly from Westport fishery, died
on board the steamer Vancouver, near
Vancouver, on the Sth. He walked
steamer and % ticthr f. fa ftA2 dS%eF dlSgeF deck of the
....The Bellingham Bay Coal Com
pany employ about eighty operatives,
They own the ships Germania and
Lookout, and the bark Amethyst. . So
far, this year, they have sent to San
Francisco only $500 tons, but expect
to double that quantity during the re-
naming six months.
-. The people of Nanaimo, B. c.,
are much enraged over the order of the
Inland Revenue Department, about
the closing ofall breweries in the Prov
ince excepting those. e 711aNIIa5 -
y ElHiS tAAt they Win. not comply
with the order, and that should any 60
there and attempt to enforce it, they
will be roughly handled.
-. This year the Territory Of ~Ari-
zona has entered upon a season ofpros-
perity and peace. The mines, herds
and fields are fruitful. The miners are
working, the shafts are sinking, the
mineral is rising, the "stamps" are
coming, the mills are grinding, the
rains are falling, the streams are flow
ing, vegetables, fruits and grains are
growing, and the best harvest in years
is now ripening or dropping before the
reaper.
.... A stove foundry is soon to be es-
tablished in East Portland and stoves
will be manufactured from Oregon iron
and with Oregon coal.
80. The soundings in the Pacific Ocean
from Honolulu to Yokohama, in order
to ascertain the feasibility of laying a
cable between those points, reveal six
distinct chains of submarine mountains,
averaging from five to twelve thou.
sand feet in height. The submits Of
these ridges are covered with coral and
lava. Between them are vast leve
plains which correspond with the gen
eral surface of the Pacific ocean bee
elsewhere. - The character of these
ridges, would indicate that a cable coult
not be maintained over their hard sur
faces.
.... Official information has been re
ceived at Ottawa that Mr.. Cartwright
the Finance Minister of the Dominion
has succeeded in placing loan o
twenty million dollars on the Englisl
market for the Canada Railway, at 90,
A per cent interest.
ION the night of July 5th, thu
stables and four hundred horses of Johr
! Driscoll, in Salem, Mass, were con
sumed by fire.
.... The ship Three Brothers is or
her retnrn from New York to Sar
Francisco, and been converted into .
sailing vessel. She is said to have OF
board 4,SOO tons of freight, including
22, 900 cases of Devoe's brilliant oil.
....A homesiclCPennsylvania schoo
boy IL years old, walked home~7'
miles in two days and half with NJ
nourishment whatever except greer
clover leaves.
.... st Petersburg dispatches say tina
: there are rumors in Central Asia tina
r the Ameer OF Kashgar has seized tn
r Russian Envoy and concentrated 10, ,O0
v troops on the frontier.
= 80. There are 10000 -commercia
5 travellers in the United States, and i
: costs over $S7, 100000 a year to keel
t them moving.
a An enterprising citizen OF Phila
5 delphia proposes to builda ship,in tim
; to use at the international celebration
: capable Of carrying ten thousand pas
c sengers. 1t is to combine a steam rail
n way, race-course, theatre, shooting
k gallery, circus, and every moderl
d attraction. He claims that his plan
e complete, and has been approved b
d some Of the ablest engineers. He pro
It poses to moor it in the Delaware, an,
e convey it at intervals to the differen
g cities, ports ard watering places of tn
r continent. 1t will make about 81:
t miles an hour, and will be three O
h four times larger than the Great East