The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-09-08
RECENT EVENTS.

George Smith, the African explorer,
is dead.
Yellow fever is raging at Savannah,
Georgia. Weather very hot.
Seventy-two deaths from smallpox
occurred in San Francisco during the
month of August.
1t is estimated that the Sioux in Da-
kota number 10000 and occupy 42,OOO,-
900 acres of land.
German printers at Chicago struck
on the 5th, on account Of proposed re-
duction from As to AZ cents per thousand.
At the Coroner's inquest on Walker,
the pugilist, held in Philadelphia, all
the coadjutators were held as accessories
of the crime.
Alex. S. Rice was nominated by the
Massachusetts Republican Convention
for Governor on the 5th inst, with but
one dissenting voice.
The dismissals on the lst inst. from
the Office of the Comptroller of the Cur
rency numbered 81; from Bureau of In
ternal Revenue, SO; Postoffice, 80.
Seymour persistently declined to ac-
cept the nomination for Governor of
New York. Every effort was made to
induce him to accept, but without avail.
An examination and survey of Coos
Bay, Oregon, with a view to the I'M
provement Of the commercial advant-
ages at that point, will be made out of
the $4,000 appropriation for such sur
veys.
The New York Democratic State
Convention is officially requested to re-
convene on Wednesday, September
18th, at noon, at Saratoga, to nominate
candidate for Governor in place of
Horatio Seymour, declined.
At the request of Senator Mitchell,
instructions from the War Department
will be forwarded Immediately with ref
ereuce to the commencement of the
work on the canal and locks at the Cas-
cades of the Columbia River.
Counter charges are made against
Governor Hayes for having underrated
his property as shown by assessment
rolls. 1t is claimed that he has never
paid more than the smallest part of the
tax which his ample fortune calls for.
One hundred and twenty-four clerks
out of the eight hundred employed in
the War Department and its various
bureaus have been discharged on ac-
count of the recent action of Congress
ordering reduction of the clerical force
of the Departments.
General Babcock, in his annual re-
port, recommends the appropriation by
Congress of 100000 for the establish
ment of Geological garden in the Cap
ital wherein to gather specimens of all
the animals of the country, and of such
other varieties as may be deemed best.
The following is the total coinage Of
the mints at Philadelphia, Carson and
San Francisco for August: Double ca
giles, 211, ,562; trade dollars, 557, ,2OOi half
dollars, 2,792,OOO; quarter dollars, 3,l68,-
200, twenty-cent pieces, 100000; dimes,
l5S, 200; dve-cent nickles, 10000; one
cent bronze, 100000.
A dispatch from Madrid says: ''The
government has ordered all native and
foreign Protestant chapels, Bible soci-
eties and schools, to Immediately re-
move all external signs, placards, and
inscriptions indicating their faith.
Foreign societies have protested to their
respective embassies"
A prize fight between Weeden and
Walker took place near Pennville, New
Jersey, on the 3lst, resulting in the death
of the latter. Walker was barely 2C
years of age. They had been in train
ing five weeks. The affair was terribly
brutal and was witnessed by thousand:
Of roughs. The principal parties in the
affair have been arrested.
The case brought by Moulton against
Beecher for $4,000 for malicious prose
eution, was up on the 4th in the Brook
lyn courts on motion of Shearman fol
change of venue, as it is thought il
would be easier to procure a jury in
some other county than New York, oil
Kings county. Shearman submitted 8
number of affidavits from Beeeher anG
others to that effect.