The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-08-14
GENERALITIES.


Delaware's peach crop is estimated at
COZ, 900 baskets.
Local option was totally defeated
throughout Kentucky.
st. Louis calls its great bridge the
buckle of the nations iron belt.
Agnes Strickland, the historical au-
thoress, died on the Goth ult., aged sixty
eight.
Vermont this year turns out 100000
pounds of maple sugar, worth ten cents
pound.
San Francisco sent twenty-One insane
persons to the asylum during the month
of July.
At Wooster College, Ohio, the femi-
nine students, it is said, equal the mas
culine ones in mathematics rs well as in
languages.
Miss Richards, of Stapleton, near
Bristol, England, has performed the
feat of walking one thousand miles in
one thousand consecutive hours.
The new steamboat law imposes fine
of five hundred dollars upon a steam
boat owner who neglects to have the
regulations hung up in his boat when
running.
Willis Moon, of Eaton county, Mich,
during the present season, made 1000
pounds of maple sugar from 500 trees.
He carried the sap and performed the
lators of making all alone.
There are 10000 Oranges in the I'm
ion, with an average of fifty voters in
each, or total of one million. This
represents power capable of immeas-
urable good, if properly welded.
New Orleans has adopted the London
and Paris plan, and the street car COM
panies are obliged to refuse transporta-
ton to a greater number of passengers
than can be accommodated with seats.
A man in Washington county, Tenn,
has q cow which has given by accurate
weight 2,OIOI lbs Of milk in thirty days.
She is an Ayrshire breed, and the small
est amount given in one day was 81
pounds.
Among the graduates of the Normal
School at Salem, Mass, last week, was
one young lady, graduating at the head
of the class, who has run n sewing ma
chine and earned money to pay her e1-
penses during the two years.
There is no stone yet to mark the
spot in Mount Auburn cemetery where
Charles Sumner is buried, and a lady
who visited the cemetery, 4 few days
ago, found it, after hunting a long time,
with stake at its head bearing a visit
ing card, on which were the words,
Summers Grave"
\ New York paper says: The largest
minister's salary in this city is paid to
Henry Ward Beecher, of Brooklyn, who
receives 5000. DIR. Morgan Dix, OF
the Church of the Holy Trinity, receives
$4,000, and Dr. Porter, of Grace Church,
the same. The highest salary in the
Methodist body is 5000. The income
of Roman Catholic priest is under 81, :
900.
What a commentary upon early mar
riages is supplied by the telegraphic an
nouncement from Fonda, y. Y, the
other day: ''AIrs. Anna Jefferson, fifteen
years of age, committed suicide on July
2S, by taking arsenic. The cause of the
act was domestic trouble" Poor child !
a wife at fifteen, and a self-murderer
through domestic trouble. We pity
Annals parents, if it was with their con-
sent that she became q wife.
Notwithstanding the great flood in
the Mississippi Valley in the spring, the
New Orleans Times estimates that the
sugar and rice crops will be abundant,
the latter yielding thirty thousand bar
rels more than in 1873. In sugar, the
losses by floods will be about ten thous-
and hogsheads, and the total yield from
ninety to one hundred thousand hogs
heads. The acreage devoted to rice
culture shows an increase of six thous-
and acres over last year, and the rice
crop is expected to be IIO. 600 barrels