The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-09-29
NEWS ITEMS.
STATE AND TERRITORIAL.

Benton county tax levy is % mills.
The Roseburg academy has lOs regu-
lar attendants.
An auti-Chinese employment society
is talked of in Salem.
Services are held at Salem every sew
enth day Saturday by Elder Van Horn
in the c. P. Church.
A pack train from Yakima county
brought into Seattle on the Goth one
thousand pounds of butter.
The telegraph line from Winnemucca
to Walla Walla is to be sold at bankrupt
sale in San Francisco on the 30th inst.
Miss Josephine White, of Stayton, re-
mained in a comatose state 55 hours af-
ter being thrown from a horse a few
days ago.
The sale of booths on the State Fair
grounds was conducted by KilbOurn,
and the returns show receipts therefrom
of about $1,000.
Schwabacher Bros. & Co., of Seattle,
have been awarded the contract of sup
plying supplies for the Territorial Asy-
lum for the Insane at SteilacoOm.
Professor Worthington, lately of As
toria, but now in charge of the Oregon
City Seminary, is the happy father of a
second daughter. The young lady ar
rived on the 18th inst.
There are eighty scholars in the pri-
mary department of The Dalles public
school, under charge of one teacher.
The directors have stopped the admis-
sion of non resident scholars.
d. L. Davis, formerly editor of the
Oregon ProgreSSaOniSt, published at Cor
nelius two or three years ago, died re-
Gently at his home in Unch, Lucas
county, Missouri.
The prizes offered by the State Agri-
cultural Society for the best drilled,
equipped, and uniformed hand fire en-
gne company are: First prize, $3.50;
second prize, SlOO.
From the avalanche: Jordan Valley
produces a splendid crop of sugar beets
this year. If any gentleman with a
little capital wants to make money in
this section of the country, let him go
into the business of making sugar. 1t
will pay.
The city council of Salem estimates
the cost of a bridge across the William
cite at that point at $4,000, and recon-
mends petiLioning the Legislature to
amend the city charter allowing the
city to incur that Indebtedness for that
special purpose.
The ashland TTding8 says: A family
one day this week passed through this
place, consisting of eight dogs and four
teen children, or fourteen dogs and eight
children, we are not certain which.
inf Mt off IN
wrong end foremost.
Vancouver is no longer the Gretna
Green of signing swains and love-loru
lassies. The Independent tells of two
couples who went over on the mornings
boat on Monday of last werk on matri.
monial purpose intent, but were by
the cruel license laws of the Territory
compelled to return as they came.
The Republican Territorial Conveu-
tiOn of Washington Territory met at Ka.
lama on the Goth and placed Hon
Orange Jacobs in nomination for Dele.
gate to Congress. The Democratic Con.
vention met at Vancouver on the 2lst
and nominated Hon. John P. Judsor
for the same position. Both gentlemen
were nominated on the first ballot.
1ue IoIloWluS are Ine OInCeTS erected
by the Grand Lodge 1. o. G. T., whict
convened at Vancouvero on the Goth inst.
n. Shakespeare, Victoria, G. w. c. T.
Franklin Kennedy, G. w. Counselor
Sister A. L. Knight, G. w. V. t.; n. S
Porter, G. w. s.; w. H. Roberts, G
Treasurer. Victoria, V. l.. was tiesig
mated as the next place of meeting, anC
the third Tuesday in September, 1877
at 10 A. NJ, as the time of holding sale
meeting.