The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-09-29
RECENT EVENTS.

The grand explosion at He'll Gate
took place on Sunday, and was, in all
respects, a complete success.
Yellow fever interments in Savannah
amount from % to 40 daily. Relief has
been sent from various places.
Slight shocks of earthquake were felt
at various points in Illinois, Indiana,
and Kentucky on Sunday night. In
some places the alarm was general.
Six hundred cases of yellow fever are
reported at Brunswick, Georgia. The
people are in a destitute condition,
without food, physicians, or nurses.
A scheme of manufacturing crooked
whisky in vinegar works has been dis
covered in several localities in Chicago,
and the various works have been seized.
Immense Democratic mass meetings
have recently been held i'll Cleveland
and Dayton, Ohio. Meetings were ad-
dressed by Gen. Sigel, S. S. Cox, and
others.
Fumigation of Chinese quarters by
health officers is going on in San Fran
cisco, with a view of ridding them of
smallpox. This dreadful scourge is at
length on the decline.
During the first week of October the
Centennial exhibition will be visited by
the pupils of the public schools of Pitts
burg, by whom separate excursions to
the grounds, numbering fifteen hundred
each, will be made.
The attendance at the Centennial on
the 2lst exceeded that of any other day
in the history of the exposition. By
one o'clock the cash admissions
amounted to 11O,5SS being greater than
any full days attendance heretofore.
There are 1928, 900 now available for
the prosecution of further work at Hell
Gate, and large part of this will be re-
quired this year for the removal of the
rocks blown up on Sunday, and it i:
probable several years will pass before
the beginning of operations at FLOOD
Rock.
} In the trial of John D. Lee for murder
2 committed at Mountain Meadows, tht
S Jury retired on the 21st at 11:45 A. NJ
. and at $3.50 returned with a verdict o
a murder in the first degree. A delay o
e three days was asked before sentenct
= was passed to give time for appeal. lie
D is sad and threatens by turns. There i
: a rumor that he intends to expose NOR
d than is already known.
The hostile Indians are daily assum
ing more defiant attitude. Sittin
Bulbs force now in the vicinity of Fol-
Sully is being daily augmented by In
: dians from the different agencies VIII
refused to give up their guns. They ar
threatening and impudent in all guar
- ters. Gen. Buell. thinks he will be abl
:, to give them the thrashing they al
asking for with the troops at his di
posal.
= The general verdict in New Yor
10 among candid men is that Tilden's il
re come tax explanation through his la
!. clerk has failed of effect because, whi
=. it carefully controverts so much Of I'll
or Times article, charging evasion an
or perjury as concerned the only estima
ID of his sources of large revenue in exec
h. of what Tilden returned, the facts sho
no that his oath that his income in '62 WI
an S7,11S, is inconsistent with his more :
n cent oath in the court proceedings tn
od he received in that year two fees of $1(
in 600 each. 1t is argued that as the la
a required full statement of the gro
nd income, no claim of tax paid thronl
I,o corporations in which Tildeh is vest,
ro covers the case.
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