The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-22
RECENT EVENTS.


Tweed is very depressed in spirits and
weaker in health.
The issue of one and two dollar green
backs is discontinued at the Treasury.
James Russell Lowell has accepted the
Spanish mission, and will shortly leave
for Spain.
The consul to London will be recalled
next month, and his successor named
from the South.
The Typographical Union has reduced |
prices to 40 cents per 1000 'ems" on
newspaper work, and 35 and 81 on book
work
The class of 1880 of Princeton Col |
lege, numbering nearly 100 young men,
has been suspended and required to
leave the town.
The Times says, editorially: The ex-
Queen of Spain, it is said, appealed to
the Pope to use his influence to prevent
her son, King Alfonso, from marrying
a non-Catholic princess.
The State and United States ento-
mologists, after careful examination,
express a confident belief that the grass
hoppers have nearly ceased to be a
cause of danger in Nebraska.
Senator Conkling sailed for Europe
on the 18Th. A company Of distin-
guished Republicans accompanied the
Senator down the bay. Passing steam
ers screamed goodbye and dipped
flags.
Twenty thousand dollars worth of
laces were found on the 14th by Inspec-
tor Chapman, of the New York Custom
house, with three persons, two women
and a man, in the steamer "Herda,"
from Hamburg.
The Worlds Washington special says
the well-known philanthTopist, w. w.
Cocoran, distributed $4,000 among poor
men and women who were recently
thrown out of employment by reason of
reduction in the departments.
President D. G.. Gilman, formerly of
the California University, was married
at Newport recently to Miss Lille
, Woolsey, niece of ex-President Wool
sey, of Yale College, and sister of Susan
, Coolidge, the well-known authOress.
Conversations with the President
show that the policy of the administra-
p Democrats to office hereafter, except
possibly in few Southern places where
i qualified Republicans are not attain
. able.
= The Tri6une's Washington specia
4 says: Gail Hamilton attacks Secretary
: Schurz, reiterating that George Schnei
der, of Chicago, loaned him money t
start newspaper, and that this secured
Schurz' influence for his (Schneider's
appointment to the Swiss mission. Sec
retary Schurz denies the story as an un
mitigated falsehood and slander.
.r The following Deputy Collectors o
/ Customs at New York have been dis
L missed and their divisions consolidated
ie H. c. Manning, J. J. Osborne, H.
IL Warren, and H. G. Williams. Eacl
e had salary of $500 year. William
graduated with ex-President Grant, ant
fought under him in Mexico, and wa
I appointed by him in 1861. Mannin
- had been in Office five years, Osborn
+ three years, and Warren six years a
II Deputy Collectors.
=, Marshal Douglass visited st. Michael's
- Talbot county, Maryland, on the 10th
n for the first time since he left fugitiv
= slave forty-one years ago. He was wei
n received by his former master, Capital
- Thomas Auld, and by William NJ. Bruf
p who taught him reading and geograph
-, fifty years ago. In an address to th
. colored people Douglass said that if i
ID twenty years from now the cOlored race
mr. as a race, had not advanced beyond tn
- point where it was when emancipateC
ii it is a doomed race. He encourage
~ them to earn money and to keep it.
H. poor people are always a despised pee
ve pie. To be respected, they must Ct
o. money and property. Without none
ra there is no leisure, without leisure Il
thought, without thought no progress