The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-03
RECENT EVENTS.

The Women's National Temperance
Convention in session at Newark, Nj,
adjourned to meet next year in Chicago.
George William Barney and his son
Arthur have been appointed attorney
and assistant attorney for the District
of Columbia.
Both Houses of the Vermont Legis-
lature passed resolutions requesting Con-
gressmen to use their influence for the
repeal of the bankrupt law.
Three hundred and eleven patents
have been acted upon during the week
ending Oct. 3Oth, and are issued bearing
that date.
The HeraLd8 st. Albans special says
that secret preparations are going on in
Northern Vermont for another Fenian
invasion of Canada this fall or early in
the spring.
The Democrats held meeting at
Milwaukee, Wis, on the 29th. 1000
were present. Hendricks and w. F.
Colbaugh, of Chicago, made brief
speeches. There were 200 torches.
Secretary Morrill, pronounces untrue
and without foundation the published
statement that he contemplates quitting
the Cabinet to enter upon the canvass
for the Maine United States senatorship.
Edward S. Stokes, convicted ofshoot-
ing James Fisk, Jr., was released on the
2sth from States prison, his term of
sentence having expired. A great
was at the railroad depot to see Stokes,
who, with his friends, started eastward.
Theo. Tilton delivered his new lecture
: on "Master Motives" on the 23d, in
Chickering Hall, New York, aud at
Brooklyn Academy of Music on the
oath, to an immense audience in both
places.
+ During registration in New York on
9 the 2Sth, many tramps and non-resi-
9 dents succeeded in getting their names
= on the lists. Three one-story buildings
: on Roosevelt street, occupied as bar
rooms, registered forty names. Repub-
/. licans are active, however, both in New
: York and in Brooklyn.
If The Black Hills Mining Company's
d mill commenced operations on the 18th
e inst. On the following day they ran
If through seven tons of ore from the Hid
n den Treasure lode, which cleaned up
five thousand dollars. Gulch mining is
still in operation aud quartz mines are
showing better results every day.
20 The actress Matilda Heron has
t, obtained verdict for Sl,5OO dam
er ages, in the common pleas court, be-
fore Judge J. F. Daley, against Aaror
IN Adams, for injuries sustained Oct. 18th
an by one of her legs slipping into a Goa
or hole opposite defendents residence, il
M East Seveuty-fourth street, New York
-s. The steamer "PandOra," which sailet
ed from Southampton for Smiths Sound
SIX in the Arctic regions, some months ago
or for the purpose of bringing to Englant
er any dispatches which might have beel
It's deposited there by the Arctic expedition
ur just returned, passed Cork Haven, o.
u her way to Portsmouth, on the 3Oth
en- All on board well.
James G. Blaine addressed an i'm
us mense audience at Chicago on the 2Stt
all Probably not less than 10000 person
er, were seated and standing as near tn
ry speaker as they conveniently could, an
MS far more than that number were unabl
ks to get within hearing distance, and aft
ne lingering brief time left the building
,ur His address was received with marke
Ike enthusiasm, and he was applauded
tai the echo.