The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-08-10
HOME NEWS.

The newspaper department of the
Portland Library is opened on Sundays.
One dollar per month will pay for the
privileges of the rooms.
Senator Mitchell is on his way home
overland and is expected to arrive in
this city on Saturday evening. He
will be welcomed by many friends.
Highly has been overhauled at EN-
pire City. He is under indictment for
perjury, aud will be brought to this
city for trial by the United States Mar
shall.
Mr. J. c. MoreIand has been ap-
pointed City Attorney by the Common
Council in the place of John NJ. Gearin,
who has occupied the position for two
years.
The State Agricultural Society will
rent the booths on the Fair Grounds to
the highest bidders on the 23d inst. The
auction will take place at the Fair
Grounds.
The open temperance meetings on
Saturday evenings are largely attended,
the President, Hon. J. F. Caples, being
untiring in his efforts to make them in
teresting.
Mrs. Smallden, the confirmed inebri-
ate, has been adjudged insane and COM
mitted to the asylum. She is a wreck
in body, mind, and morals, and should
long ago have been taken out of harm's
way.
Any dairyman, farmer, or farmers
wife who desires to purchase a "Granger
Churn" will do well to call at this Office
or communicate with US by letter.
Fresh butter at ruling prices will be
taken in payment.
The "Orizaba" is a side-wheeI steamer
built in 1854, and piled between this
port and San Francisco twenty-five
years ago. She is built of oak chestnut
and hackmatack, and is still staunch
and well preserved.
New Market Theater presents numer-
Gus attractions this week, Miss Henri
eta Osborne and Miss Ella Wilton taxi
ing hearts by storm. The present has
been the most attractive week of this
most attractive season.
The steamer "Ajax" arrived on Sun
day morning bringing 800 tons of as
sorted cargo, and 120 passengers. The
"OriZaba" came in on the evening of
the same day bearing $50 cabin and l30
steerage passengers, and $50 tons of
freight.
On account of the influx of despicable
fellows whom low rates of travel and
closing of fisheries have thrown upon
this community, it is considered quite
unsafe for women or girls to go out un-
attended after nightfall. Natural pro-
tectors," you know.
Persons attending the State Teachers
Institute at Salem, beginning on the
21st, and the Institute at SnoWden Min
eral Springs, beginning on the 18th,
will be returned over the railroad lines
free, upon presenting a certificate from
the superintendent of public instruc-
tion.
We call special attention to the ad-
vertisemenJ of DR.. Warmers Health
Corset. We will send one copy of the
NEW NORTHWEST one year and one of
these Corsets postpaid to any address
on the receipt of S4 90. We cordially
recommend the article to our lady
friends, and feel confident they will
appreciate them after a very short
trial.
The following officers were publicly
installed to preside over Portland Lodge,
I. o. G. T., for the current term on
last Monday evening: w. c. T., John
Shaver; w. V. T., Lydia Humphrey;
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Coburni w. F. s., VIM. Dunbar; w.
T., Richard Martin; w. c., Belle Suth-
erland; w. NJ, J. ]. Walton; P. c. T.,
J. w. Gamble.
Professor A. J. Anderson, late of the
high school in this city, has accepted
the situation rendered him at Seattle,
and will remove to that thriving city
Immediately. He is an experienced
teacher nd O fhnrnnOh
together with his estimable wife will
be an acquisition to the society of the
"Queen City of the Sound" for which
she may well congratulate herself.
The summer home of Captain J. c.
Ainsworth, at Gravelly Lake, w. T., is
described as being particularly lovely
and inviting spot. This home COM
prises number of neat cottages of two
or three rooms each, situated in groves
OF oak and fir, a building used as a
Kitchen, another as dining-room, and
still another as a laundry. A stable
full of horses and boats upon the lake
furnishes further means ofpleasure to the
family and guests who are sojourning
there for the summer.
The open temperance meeting at the
ball of the Y. NJ. G. A. is still growing
rapidly in members and interest. On
last Saturday evening the spacious and
comfortable room was filled almost to
repletion, and the exercises were very
interesting. An excellent programme
is promised for next Saturday evening,
and the attendance will doubtless be
large. A pleasant feature of these meet
ings is the cordial reception with which
all are received. 1t is contemplated to
introduce in connection with the exer-
cises what Is known in the East as the
Murphy movement, and the cordial CO.
operation of all societies in sympathy
with the object of these meetings is ear
nestly solicited. Exercises commence
promptly at o'clock.
The new premises occupied by
Fleischner, Mayer & Co., of this city,
comprise the very best rooms of the
kind in America, outside of New York
City. Indeed, Gotham, herself, can
scarcely show such rooms for wholesale
business in any of her ten thousand
marts. The building is three hundred
by fifty in length aud breadth, is three
stories high, is well lighted and venti-
lated, with its business Office occupying
central position, commanding a fine
view of goods and customers from all
parts of the store. Mr.. Mayer, whose
success as an accomplished buyer is
well known, is now absent in the East
purchasing fall stock. The attention OF
the trade is especially directed to the