The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-08-11
RECENT EVENTS.

Seymour declines to be a candidate
for Governor of New York.
Professor Huxley arrived at New
York from Europe on the 9Th inst.
The smallpox has reached Stockton,
Notwithstanding the vigilance of health
officers.
An official call has been issued for
proposals for five per cent. bonds of 1881,
amounting to 100000, to enable the
Secretary of the Treasury to pay the AL
ALBANIA claims.
A colored man at Oxley, Ohio, shot
and killed a son aged Is, and fatally
beat another son recently, because the
boys had protected their mother from
his brutal treatment.
George L. Woods, Ex-Governor of Or
egon and of Utah, has been invited by
the Executive Committee of Ohio to
stump that State for Hayes and Wheeler
in the approaching campaign.
Alderman c. AllertOn, convicted of
neglect of duty as Collector at Chicago,
has been pardOned. His sentence was
six months imprisonment and $1,000
fine. The latter has not been remitted.
News of terrible Turkish atrocities
continue to arrive. Horrible scenes are
reported at Batok, where seven thous-
and bodies have been lying since May
| 18th rotting in the sun. No crime in
vented by Turkish ferocity has been left
uncommitted.
The proposition pending in the Sem
ate to restore the fast mail between
New York and Chicago will certainly
be adopted by that body, and very
probably by the House also, and thus
reduce again the westward mail time
between the two oceans to six days.
The Indians at the Cheyenne agency
request the United States government
to suspend hostile operations against
Sitting Bull and the Sioux with him for
eight weeks, in order that the Cheyenne
Sioux may visit the hostile band and
arrange for peace. 1t is not probable
that the request will be granted.
The Porte has paid to the families of
the German and French consuls who
were murdered at Salonica the indem-
nifty of e4O, 200. The new governor of
Salonica, accompanied by three officers
of high rank, will proceed thither to
read, in the presence of the troops, judg-
ment against those implicated in the
Outrages.
Bishop Whipple, of Wyoming, was in
Washington a short time ago, and he
expressed the belief that fourteen bands
of the Sioux could be easily induced to
remove to the Indian Territory; but the
J, Administration was unable to transport
the Indians to Indian Territory without
an appropriation by Congress to pay ex-
penses Of removal.
The ship ''Sumatra," which has been
) chartered by Chinese companies of San
: Francisco to carry their destitute cOun-
trymen back to China, sails on the 18th.
Arrangements have been made by the
authorities to also send away by her all
Chinese lepers now in the city. There
are fourteen at the hospital, and twelve
known of in the city, four of whom are
women plying nefarious business in
Chinatown, and endangering the health
of the community. When these are
disposed of, precautions will be taken
to prevent the landing of any persons
similarly afflicted.
News by way of Bismarck is to the eff
feet that Rain-in-the-Face, accompanied
by 22O lodges of Indians from the hos
tile camp, has arrived at Standing
Rock. This Indian murdered the trader
of Stanley's expedition in 1873, and was
arrested therefor by Captain Tom
Custer, but escaped, and is said to have
cut the heart from Captain Custer's
body, and to have fired the last shot at
Custer. An intelligent man states that,
though special effort was made on the
, part of the Indians at the issues of the
r beef, on Saturday, to make showing,
still, there were not 500 bucks present,
while there should have been over 1000,
from which it would seem that large
numbers are with the hostile. There
are those we'll informed who rate the
Sioux fighting force at 2,7OO, and be-
e lieve there are 10000 well armed war;
t riors now in the field.