The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-10
NEWS ITEMS.
STATE AND TERRITORIAL.

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the Oregon penitentiary.
The road between Halsey and Browns
vile will be macadamiZed.
Hon. w. d. Fenton is lying quite low
with the typhoid fever at Salem.
James Chenoweth shipped 800 live
hogs from Roseburg last week TO Port !
land.
H. A. Grigsby was arrested in Jack
son county for shooting at his wife last
week.
The o & c. R. R. Company is pHtting
down new rails between Harrisburg and
Halsey.
The public school of Vancouver now
numbers l25 pupils. The term closes in
three weeks.
Fifteen marriage licenses were issued
in Polk, and twelve in Yamhill county,
during October.
There were % marriage licenses is
sued in Marion county during the
month of October.
The steamer "Isabel," from Wrangle,
arrived at Victoria Nov. lst with 25O
miners and Sl5O,OOO.
A well known attorney of Salem has
over $500 wagered OH the election of
Hayes aud Wheeler.
R.W. Knott, of Clackamas county, has
been adjudged insane and sent to the
Asylum at East Portland.
Hon. James H. Douthit died at his re-
sidence in upper Ochoco, some two
weeks since, of throat disease.
The Chemeketa Hotel at Salem has
been closed, and the late proprietor has
retired from business.
J. Henry Brown is about to issue an
other Salem directory, and will COM
mence canvassing for it at once.
It is proposed by some of the clergy
of Albany that a union Thanksgiving
service be held on the Both inst.
The indications are that the Albany
Collegiate Institute will open the Sc
cond term with more than 200 students
Farmers are busy plowing, and should
the weather be favorable, large amount
of grain will be sown during the month.
Steamboating is growing lively on
the Willamette-farmers selling and
shipping wheat in immense quantities.
5 The steamship dakota" from Tacoma
= took down 10000 pounds of hops con-
signed to Corbett & Macleay, valued at
r $4,000.
/ Twelve pupils of the deaf mute school
S at Salem are down with the diphtheria.
a large number of cases are reported in
= the city.
w. o. Bush, of ThurstOn county, w.
T., has received an order for a car load
of seed wheat. The order came from
= Buffalo, New York.
t Three hundred and forty-six acres of
= land in the Southern part of Linn
county were sold last Monday for Sc, 800
D 1t is well improved.
$ Mel, who killed Mr.. Hayes at Hal
sey last week, has been indicted fol
u murder in the first degree, and the triaI
y began on the Sth instant.
The farmers along the two branches
of Coos River have raised this veal
r, thousands of bushels of apples, as fine
> as can be found in the State.
; Mr. Scott Baily, of Lane county, who
u twill be remembered, accidentally stuck
: a dirk in his knee last September, aftel
= a long spell of sickness died on Wednes
day last from the effects.
u Oregon Presbytery of the Cumberland
y Presbyterian Church will meet in Scio
> Linn county, on Thursday, the 18th inst
4 Also, the Oregon Synod will meet at tht
= same place, on Friday, the 18th.
w. r. Dunbar, G. w. c. T., organi
zei Lodge of Good Templars on Coo
d River on the 25th ult. with % charte
u members. The Lodge was christeneC
d "Millicoma," the Indian name for Coo
> River.
% Rev. Mr.. Gldd has just returned t
=, Albany from Northen California, an,
. reports 200 miles of that country with
ont preacher, and at the same tim
G thousands of people. a good opening
ID to Gadd-about in.
y A sensational rumor to the effect tina
young girl of Vancouver had elOpe
i with a Chinaman is totally false, got
~ ten up, it is said, to injure the repu
1e tation of the lady. The originator shOul
/ be treated to a coat of tar, finished o.
with feathers.
IN The mammoth fossils, discovere
rs some months since in Stevens county
er w. T., have been leased to Pacific I'm
pc versity for the winter by their owner
lis The institution will make use of theI
st for the benefit of the class in geology
in They are to be taken East III the spring
an The Canal and Lock Commissioner
oI Mr.. B. Jennings of Clackmas, Mr.. II
us tom of Polk, and Mr.. Allen Parker
Linn, met in Oregon City last Frida
its and proceeded to organize according
sst the provisions of Senate Bill No.
he Mr.. Allen Parker was elected presider
re of the Board, and a young gentlema
OF from Polk county secretary.
10 The Farmer sums up the fnanci
iH condition of the State Agricultural s.
III ciety thus: The debt of January l, 1S7
5ss was about $1,000; improvement
les made were about $40, 900, making tot
of about Sl5,OOO. The receipts of Il
on late fair were, over expenses, abO
snt $1,000, leaving the society at prese
led under debt of about $4,000.
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