The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-04-28
APRIL %, 1876.
HOME NEWS.

The net receipts of the ''HOme' ben
eft amount to about Sl55.
The net receipts of the leap-year party
for the benefit of the German Aid So
ciety amount to S400.
Official notice of the election to take
place on the 5th of June has been made
by the County Clerk.
General Howard and Captain Wilkin-
son started to Fort Lapwai on tour of
inspection last Saturday.
There are now 2O9 patients confined
in the asylum at East Portland, Of
whom l56 are men and 53 women.
Rev. J. D. Eaton has resigned the pas
tOrate of the Congregational Church in
this city, and will shortly leave the
State.
Democratic County Convention, for
the nomination of candidates for the
various county offices, will meet in this
city on the Goth of May.
Work is progressing as rapidly as the
state of the weather will permit upon
the Portland Astoria Telegraph Line
It is expected that it will be completed
within a month.
Professor Hughes is busily engaged
in manufacturing fireworks for the
Centennial celebration in this city. II
is expected that the display will be
brilliant and varied.
"Adam or Apes" was the subject Of a
very interesting lecture delivered by
DR.. Lindsey at New Market Theater
on Tuesday evening, for the benefit of
st. Andrews Society.
Mrs. Laura +. Turner, whose serious
illness has for some time past ELECTED
the sympathies and solicitude of many
friends, is, we are pleased to state, now
considered out of danger.
The Railroad Committee of the Board
of Trade are busy working up moditica-
tions that will render the proposition of
the c. P. r. Company acceptable.
Their success is regarded as doubtful.
Geo. L. Curry has retired from the
editOrship of the EUening Journal. We
hope his successor will be able to fur
nish as acceptable a journal as has the
retiring editor during the brief space of
his services.
There is a calf on exhibition at the
Museum having one head, two bodies,
and seven legs. 1t is nine months old.
$4,000 has been refused for a half inter-
est in the nOndescript animal. 1t goes
TO the Centennial shortly.
Mr.. Z. D. Backenstos, long and favor
ably known in this city, died suddenly
in this city on last Sunday evening of
leura-pneumOnia. His remains were
consigned to the green bosom of Lone
Fir Cemetery with the beautiful and
impressive funeral rites of Odd Fellow
ship on Tuesday.
DIR. J. L. York, of San Jose, Cal, will
spend the coming summer in this State
and Washington Territory in the inter
ests of Free Thought and Liberalism.
Those who desire assistance in liberal
and reform work can secure the services
of DR.. York by addressing J. H. Fisk,
Portland, Oregon.
Mr.. Jacob Mayer, of the firm OF
Fleischner, Mayer & Co., returned on
the steamer Ajax" from New York,
where he has been for tue last four
months purchasing an immense stock
of the latest styles and fashions of dry
goods, millinery and fancy goods. Their
stock this season will excel anything
ever exhibited on the Pacific Coast, to
which particular attention of buyers is
called, to examine their stock, before
purchasing elsewhere.
The meeting of the Board of Trade Ia
consider the proposition of G. P. Hunt
ingtOn, president af the G. P. r. r
Co., to construct a railroad from Win
nemucca, Nevada, to some point in Ore.
gon, after careful consideration agreed
in the sentiment that the proposition
before them was not one which the
Board could recommend to the people
for their acceptance. The subject, to.
gether with all communications, was
re-cOmmitted to the committee on rail.
roads, with instructions to indicate t
Mr.. H. such alterations as they believe
will render the proposition acceptable
to the people of the State.
In making up your'lists of PERIODICAL
for 1876, don't forget the West Shore, tn,
only illustrated paper published in Ore
gon, devoted to literature. in general
and the resources of Oregon and Wash
ingtOn Territory in particular, Th
ablest writers i'm the State are contribu
tors to its columns; the engravings ar
executed by the leading artists on tn
coast. AS family journal it stands a
the head of Pacific Coast publications
as paper to send to friends abroad i
has no equal-a single copy will Civ
them better idea of the Pacific North
west than years number of any othe
paper. Sent postage paid for one year
81 so; single copies, 20 cents. Addres
the publisher, L. Samuel, No. Wash
ington street, Portland, Oregon.