The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-17
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BEE the advertisement VI MIS-. Auui-
ways new poem.
The new revenue cutter will soon
make her trial trip.
The smallpox excitement has abated;
no new cases reported.
About $4,000 in coin was brought up
on the "Ajax" last week.
Studies were resumed in the Harrison
street school on Monday morning.
Dr. Littlefield, recently from Yamhill
county, sings in the Catholic choir.
Mrs. Mary Clark, of Astoria died at
st. Vincenfs Hospital last Sunday.even-
ing.
The Republican majority in Multno-
nah county is, according To official
count, 594
McCormick's Almanac for 1877 is now
ready for delivery. This is its 2lst
year of publication.
Hon. H. A. Webster, Collector of Gus
toms for the Puget Sound District, Wis
tied this city last week.
The work of improving the Columbia
River at the Cascades will he vigorously
prosecuted after the lst of next month.
w. B. Campbell and wife, of Wasco
county, have been adjudged insane and
were last week committed to the Asylum
at East Portland.
Look out for counterfeit half-dollars,
said to be in circulation in the Safe.
1t is thought a band of counteTfeiters
are at work in our midst.
Prof. Halpruner's dancing school is
progressing finely. He is an accom-
plished teacher of the graceful and eX-
hilarating art of dancing.
The fair for the benefit of st. Vincents
Hospital is being vigorously worked up
by the ladies having it in charge; is
promises to be grand success.
The ship "P J. Carleton" made the
passage from Shanghai, to the mouth Of
the Columbia, a distance of 5000 miles,
without sighting a sail of any kind.
The rain has descended in true Web
foot style during this week. Streets are
flooded, river is rising, hydrant water
muddy, and umbrellas and Overshoes in
constant use.
Persons detained as witnesses are COM
PEELED to accept quarters in the county
Jail with common felons; this is an out
rage and should at once be remedied by
the proper authorities.
The barricades protecting the artifi-
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new brick have been removed and the
pavement is now in use. II Is the
handsOmest in the city.
A human body destined for the dis
secting table of an NJ. d. at Salem was
encased in a Saratoga trunk and sent as
ordinary baggage from this city to
Salem on Friday. Certainly a repre-
hensible way of transporting such mel
ancholy freight.
Carpenters labor is in greater demand
than at any time during the past season.
A number of residences are being built
in various portions of the city and work
on the interior of the large brick build
ings in the business portion is being
rapidly pushed.
Certain. parties seem determined to
defy the new gambling law, and unless
it is vigorously enforced, it will soon be-
come dead letter, even as the Sunday
law has long been, upon the statutes. 1t
is thought that the case now in court
will be made test case.
Milton Shepardson has at last met
the reward duel his crimes. He was
found guilty at a recent term of the
Baker county Court of robbing Wells,
Fargo & Co.'S express, and sentenced to
the penitentiary for ten years. He was
taken to Salem on Wednesday morn
ing.
The second anniversary of the Chi
nese Mission school in this city was Gel
ebrated on Sunday evening at the Bap-
tist Church. Several Chinese converts
spoke during the meeting, and one was
immersed. One hundred and sixty dol
lars were raised by contribution to pay
off Indebtedness incurred for the benefit
of the school.
A young man who arrived in this city
by the "Ajax," committed suicide by
shooting himself with a pistol at the
Clarendon Hotel one night last week.
His name was F. B. Towne, and he was
native of Cambridge, Mass His re-
mains, upon order of his friends at that
place, were enclosed in a metallic coffin
and returned to them for sepulcure.
The internal revenue collections for
the district Of Oregon for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1876, amounted to S48,-
964 09. OF this amount Sl7,0lS 10 was
received upon licenses of retail liquor
dealers, and 81 ,4S3 "a for the same fol
wholesale dealers. Internal revenue
collections from the time the law went
into effect to the time above specified
amounted to 1926, ,56S s..
Senator Mitchell, after remaining il
Oregon and lending his voice to the
cause of Republicanism during the Pres
identisl contest, left for Washington
on Saturday morning. A most interest
ing social event preceded his departure
in the assembling of large number o
his friends in the parlOrs of the Claren
don Hotel, where the Senator was pre-
sented with fine chain, locket and dia
vi f,ir ,f H. :
which he is held by many friends. H
returns to the National Capital followet
by the best wishes of his constituency