The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-07-10
NEWS ITEMS.
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STATE AND TERRITORIAL
Vancouver is TO have Commercial
llege.
Rev. DR.. Dawne is dangerously sick
at Corvallis.
Boise City raised sl15 for the Louisi-
ana sufferers.
Albany is going to manufacture ice
by machinery.
Immigrants are arriving in numbers
at Walla Walla.
Walla Walla farmers are inquiring
for harvest hands.
Albany Collegiate Institute opens
again August 3lst.
The public school-house at Vancouver
is TO be repaired ut cost of S6l2.
Grangers' warehouse to 6e built at
Rogers Landing, Yamhill county.
Whitman county, w. T., has no place
where intoxicating liquors are sold.
The Methodists of Boise propose to
erect So 900 brick church building.
A ten days run of the mill in Rye
Valley produced gold bar worth 1855.
The Lafayette Courier says the crop
prospects for Namhill county are excel
lent.
Oregon salmon is regarded as a great
luxury in New York and London mar
kets.
4 band of 900 sheep passed through
Roseburg last week bound for Eastern
Oregon.
Salem has an Art Gallery and claims
to be the Athens" Of Oregon, not
''SodOm."
Thomas Gerrand, who is to be hanged
at Salem on the l4th Of August, is Il
years old.
The women of La Grande have raised
by "mites" the sum Of $500 for an Eprs-
copal church.
d. l. Watson has been appointed Col
lectOr OF Customs for the Southern Dis
trict OF Oregon.
There are two daily, and twenty-six
weekly newspapers kept on file at the
State Library rooms. --..-
Estimated loss by fire in Portland,
for the year ending July 1st, over and
above insurance, 100000.
Prof. Clancy, the astrologer, who at
one time made Walla Walla his home,
is at Petaluma, California.
Rev. Van Horn has stirred up the or
thodOx ministers at Walla Walla. He
is Seven Day Adventist, and breaches
In tent.
John NJ. Murphy, editor of the Olym-
pia STANDARD, has been elected a Di-
rector of the Olympia and Tenino Rail-
road Company.
Five young ladies OF Seattle have or
ganized a boat club, and on stated even
ings every week proceed out on the bay
and practice at rowing.
AIiunie Myrtle Miller, who had beer
at Coos Bay for some time, sailed last
week for san Francisco in company
with her mother, who is in i'll health.
last week Mr.. Moses Miller, who re.
sides near Albany, sheared twelve sheer
OF the COtswOld and Merino breeds, and
the heeces aggregated the handsome
hgnre OF l254 pounds.
The most reliable vote received at Sa.
lem Tor Governor, which cannot be Off
ciauy counted till the Legislature meets
IS as follows: Grover, 1872; Tolman'
S,lSOi Campbell, $500. Growers major,
ity over Tolman, $40
Letters from Rev. ]. d. Eaton of tbe
First Congregational Church of thi.
city, state that he has almost recovered
his health. He is preaching with greai
acceptance in Rev. Mr.. Bradfori's ehurcf
at Montclair, New Jersey.
The house of r. Benedict, on Applegat,
creek, in Jackson county, was burned ol
Friday, July Sd. It was kept as a hous,
of entertainment for travellers, and wa
large frame building, new and valua
bic, and was costly furnished.
Mr. +. Crawford, of YamhilI county
has made valuable presentation to tn
Museum, being nothing less than tn
under jaw and grinders of the masto
don. One of the teeth is seventeen
inches lOng-a nice mouthful.
d. NJ. C.. Gaulps last term of tn,
HillsborO public school for the year vii
soon close, when he will have a vaca
ton Of three months. Mr.. Gault i
making a popular school. He wishes
to establish graded school or academy
there.
The Steilacoom Express of the 25tl
ult., says Mr.. J. Il. Montgomery, the
railroad contractor, now states that The
Northern Pacific Railroad Director.
nave determined to build the road from
halama up the Columbia river route
and abandon all the routes across tbt
Cascade Range, and that there is no in.
tention Of avoiding Portland.
II body should meet body coming
through such rye as the field of Hon
Solomon II. Smith, Clatsop, sh,
couldn't be seen! A sample Of this nv,
with the soil on the roots), has beer
left at the ASt0ridR Office by Capt
Lowe, which measures eight feet on
inch in hight Who will have the Re
merity 20 say that Clatsop cannot pro
duce anvfhfnU9