The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-01-28
HOME NEWS.

An unusual amount of sickness pre-
walls in this city at present.
The ladies of Nonpariel Lodge I. o. G.
T. will give a grand leap year enter
tainment at their hall this friday
evening.
H. w. Scott, Collector of Customs for
this port, arrived in this city overland
from California on Saturday, after an
absence of two months.
beautiful Snow' covers the ground
to the depth of several inches, and the
merry jingle of sleigh-bells makes glad
the hours of the day and evening.
The Democratic State Central Com
mittee will meet in this city on the 10Th
of February; the Republican State Cen
tral Committee on February 10Th.
McGibeny's "song service" will be re-
sumed next Sunday evening, at Oro
FinO Hall. Hugh and Allie will appear
in a new role. Admission, 25 cents.
Repairs on the steamer "Ajax' were
completed, and she departed at noon on
Tuesday for San Francisco. Her deten-
tion has caused serious Inconvenience to
the travelling public.
Half-fare on the Oregon and Cali
fornia Railroad to persons attending the
Oregon State Woman Suffrage Associa-
tiOn, which meets in Salem on Tuesday,
the 8th day of February.
Frozen water-pipes are chief among
the luXuries of the "cOld snap" These,
together with the rapidly diminishing
wOod-piles, cause the heads of families
to sigh for the return of the humid
skies and gently falling mists of we'll
regulated "WebfOot winter.
Judge Green, of Olympia, was pre-
vented by sickness from filling his ap-
pointment to lecture at the Y. NJ. c. A.
rooms in this city on Tuesday evening.
The committee have postponed his lee
ture until the last, aud will make it an
additional one without extra cost to
ticket-hOlders..
The steamer above the Cascades was
unable to make the usual connection
with the "OneOuta" on Saturday on ac-
count of ice. The prospects of a freeze
up of some duration are very flattering.
Until navigation is resumed the mails
will be conveyed between this city and
The Dalles overland.
Couch's Lake, on the east side of the
river, has been converted by the winter
king into fine skating rink, and bleak
BOreas has held numerous and pupular
receptions thereon during the past
week. A popularity of these receptions
is the sudden and unceremoniOus man
ner in which guests seat themselves
upon the polished floor of the grand pa
vilion.
F. F. Morse, manager of the Opera
Troupe that lately visited this city, and
who had been for some days incarcer-
ated in the city Jail for debt, was taken
on a writ of hGbeGS corpus before Judge
Shattuck on Saturday morning, who
decided he was unlawfully held, and or
dered him to be discharged from Gus
tOdy, which was done.
The challenge made some days since
by Mr.. T. Morris, to a contest for the
skating championship of this State, has
been accepted by Messrs. r. H. Thomp-
son and Charles Meade. The contest
will take place on Saturday evening,
the 29th inst, at Woods Museum. A
Centennial medal will be awarded by
Mr.. Wood to the victor. Fifty cents
admission will be charged to those who
desire to witness the contest on rollers.
In making up your lists of periodicals
for 1876, don't forget the West Shore, the
only illustrated paper published in Ore
gon, devoted to literature in general,
and the resources of Oregon and Wash
ingtOn Territory in particular. The
ablest writers in the State are cOntribu-
tors to its columns; the engravings are
executed by the leading artists on the
coast. AS family journal it stands al
the head of Pacific Coast publications
as paper to send to friends abroad il
has no equal-a single copy will give
them a better idea of the Pacific North
west than years number of any Othel
paper. Sent postage paid for one year
81 so; single copies, 20 cents. Addres:
the publisher, L. Samuel, No. 5 Wash
ington street, Portland, Oregon.