The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-12
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FRIDAY.......... JANUARY II, 1877
HOME NEWS.

f n. Cooke and wife, OF Salem, came
up on the ELDER this week.
There remained in the treasury f.
this city on the 3d-of January SS,2S5 q.
Six vessels have recently left the Co
lumbia River in ballast for Valparaiso
A large number of new books have
been received by the Portland Library.
The State printer has completed
number of copies of the new laws passed
by the Legislature.
The distance between Portland and
the mouth of the Willamette has been
by actual survey found 10 be l2s miles
Six vessels and four ships are at pres
eat at our wharves loading with wheat
for Europe. Several will clear this
week.
During the past year over million
collars worth of salmon passed out OF
the Columbia River to European and
other ports.
Since the beginning of the harvest
wear the decline in fTeights from this
port for Europe has been very great
hence the departure of so many vessels
in ballast.
Tie construction of the Tacoma and
Puyallup Railroad has given employ
ment to a number of persons about THIS
city who have been "loOking for job"
for some time.
The "week of prayer" was inaugu-
rated in the various churches OF this city
on Sunday evening, and has been faith
fully observed according to programme
published last week.
A new and elegant steamer to take
the place of the "Daisy Ainsworth" is
Heing constructed at The Dalles by the
o. S II. Company. 1t is expected that
she will be ready for duty early in the
spring.
The P. C. Advocate came TO us last
week with a new and handsome head
a sensible improvement on the sickly
looking one that has crowned it for the
past year. We take pleasure in noting
this evidence of prosperity in our neigh
Dor.
The Custom-house officials are now
snugly installed in their new quarters
in the post office building. The incon-
venience of its location is no longer
matter of speculation, but has, by its
occupancy as custom-h house, been
clearly demonstrated.
The San Francisco and Pacific Boot
and Shoe Stores have consolidated.
Champlin & Hallabaugh, the new pro-
prietoTs, are filling up with very large
and superior stock of goods of the best
California and Eastern manufacture.
Call and examine stock aud prices a
the old stand, n First street.
Mrs. Turnbull, the estimable wife of
Captain VIM. Turmhull, died at her resi-
deuce in this city on Sunday morning
of puerperal fever. Her remains were
conveyed To Vancouver for sepulture on
the steamer Vancouver on Monday
morning. Four small children are reu-
dered motherless by this sad event.
If you wish to make your grand
mother a present, nothing is so appro-
pirate as pair of those elegant specta-
cles at John A. Beck's. If you desire to
make your son present, call and exam
inc the large stock of watches, reliable,
handsome, and cheap. If the present is
for wife Or daughter, select from the
fine stock of everything beautiful that
is here. displayed. Remember the place,
109 Front street.
Willie Reynard, one of the youthful
criminals who WAS sent to the peniten-
tiary from this county for larceny some
eighteen months since, but was subse-
quently, on account of his extreme
yOuth, pardoned out, was detected in
taking money from the safe of Mr.. Pow
ers, in whose store he was employed,
one day last week He left the protec-
tiOn of Mr. Hiram Smith, of Harris
burg, some time since and returned to
this city, and will probably, sooner or
later, get to finish his term, or take
longer one in prison. Experience seems
to have taught him nothing.
Business must be lively at Prentice's
Music Emporium, if we may judge by
the great number of people who daily
visit that popular establishment. Mr..
Prentice has JUST received per steamer
Ajax" another lot of those beautiful
music fOliOs and card receivers. If you
wish to look at them, you must call
very soon, as he informs US that he has
hardly been able to supply the demand
for the goods. Also another large in
voice of brackets, making the fourth for
this season. Either Mr.. P. is becoming
very popular or his goods very cheap.
He is always to be fnund at Sherman &
Hyde's old stand, l23 First street.
The Democrats of this city held a
large and enthusiastic mass meeting at
the Courthouse on Monday evening
The meeting was addressed by Judge
Strong and w. H. Effinger, Esq, and
resolutions expressive of the sentiments
of Oregon Democrats were adopted.
The last of these declared: "That the
thanks of the people of the whole Union
are due to Lafayette Grover, Governor
of Oregon, for the strict discharge of his
sworn duty in refusing to grant certifi-
cate of election to person ineligible
under the constitution of his country,
and in granting certificates to the three
eligible electors having the highest
number of votes; that our Republican
friends of Oregon are alone responsible
for the loss of an electoral vote in this
State, by their own ignorant or willfu
disregard of specific constitutional in
hibition, and that sense of decent self
respect should prevent them from con
demning Governor Grover for a result
caused 10y their own ignorant or willfu
defiance of constitutional law, and WI
do further declare and demand tina
Congress shall recognize mly, as il
duty, the regular certified electoral vot
of Oregon, cast upon the certificates o
the Governor and in the clear pursuance
of all the forms and requirements of th'
law"