The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-08-04
RECENT EVENTS.
nderbiIt is again seriously i'll.


strike in New York City.
During the past week 457 deaths and
4l6 births occurred in New York City.
George William Curtis declines being
candidate for Governor of New York.
The funeral of Senator Carpenter, of
West Virginia, took place on the 2sth
ult.
All but two of the nominees of the
Prohibitory party in Massachusetts have
declined.
Joseph G. Morse, U. S. Consul at
Trinidad, died of yellow fever on the
25th ult.
Grasshoppers have Overrun the west
ern part of Minnesota, destroying every
vestige of crops.
Notices have been posted in all mills
at Fall River, Mass, announcing a re-
duction Of about ten per cent.
The State Prohibitionists' Convention
met at Louisville, on the 9th, adopted
a platform, and discussed the question
of supporting Presidential candidate.
Senator Hamlin has plan for re-es-
tabishing the fast mail, which he will
attach to post route bill that is now
under consideration in the Senate postal
committee.
Lord Dufferin left Ottawa on the 31st
ult., bound on special visit to British
Columbia. The citizens of the latter
place are preparing to give him a mag
nificent reception.
Charles Vivian, the celebrated singer,
was married in Oakland a short time
since to Miss Imogene Holbrook, the
reader and elocutionist, who visited this
State last winter.
At the State Conference of colored
voters at Syracuse, n. Y, on the 26th,
a resolution was adopted recommending
the colored voters of the State to vote
for Hayes and Wheeler.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
stopped the coinage of trade dollars at
Philadelphia and Carson mints, and or
dered the San Francisco mint to coin
sufficient quantities to meet actual ex-
port.
The mother of Charlie Ross is stop
ping at Brockfield, Mass, with her five
remaining children. She believes her
boy will yet be recovered or that she
will receive positive evidence of his
death.
NJ. House, the great New York di-
vorce lawyer, was recently shot dead by
his wife. He was her third husband,
she having been divorced from former
ones. House had also been divorced
from former wife.
Smallpox is causing terror in San
Francisco, and is constantly increasing
"a new cases and 19 deaths were re-
ported last week. No part of the city is
free from the disease, the best as well
as the worst localities having furnished
cases. Hundreds are vaccinated daily.
Ann EIiza's alimony has been, by de-
eisiOn of Judge Sch@ffer, reduced from
$500 to 500 per month, and Brigham
given thirty days to pay the amount
5000, and provides, in default of such
payment, that execution shall issue
against his property. He will also be
compelled to pay the cost of the suit.
1t is reported on good authority that
Tilden has Informed Cox and other
prominent Democratic Congressman
that he will decline acceptance, and
leave the party without Presidential
bill to repeal any existing law provid-
ing for resumption of specie payment
The National Republican Committee
have printed $4,000 copies of Sargent's
speech on the evils of Chinese immigra-
tion, which will be distributed through
out the country as campaign documents.
Sargent will himself distribute 5000 Of
them. He has already sent out 5000
copies previously printed at his own ex-
pense.
Official returns made to the bureau of
SldIlSllCS SuOW IIdGi uuIliIS Iue uSCdi
year ending June 3Oth, 1876, there ar
rived in the United States p, ,572 Chi
nese immigrants, of whom only $50
were females. During the correspond
ing period of 1875, the total immigra-
tion to the United States from China
was 16, ,437, of whom 50 were females.
At the unwilling of the Lincoln Statue
in Washington on the 14th of April,
there stood on the platform besidsOGen.
Logan, near the President of the United
States, Louis Clarke, alias George
Harris" who saw the negro +Cncle
Tom" whipped to death by Tom Cana
day, of Garrett county, Kentucky. I'M
mediately afterward he crossed the Ohio
on the ice and gave the particulars to
Harriet Beecher Stowe, upon which she
wrote the story of "Unele Toms Cabin"
Belknap has been acquitted, the vote
standing 80 for conviction, and 25 not
guilty-less than the required two
thirds. Those who voted guilty were
Bayard, Booth, Cameron Of Pennsyl-
vania, Cockerill, Cooper, Davis, Dawes,
Dennis, Edmunds, Gordon, Hamilton,