The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-20
Albany, April II, 1877.
RECENT EVENTS.


March was S14, 1906 Al.
Four hundred employees in the print
ing and engraving department will be
dismissed this month.
The President is becoming tired of the
throngs of office-seekers, and has begun
to leave Office before II each day.
The grasshopper crop in Kansas has
failed to appear, and hopes are enter
tanned that it may prove failure.
Japan now exports silk worm eggs
principally by way of San Francisco.
The route by India has been abandoned.
About 1000 northern hostiIes made
formal surrender of arms, ponies, &C.,
to General Crook at Spotted Tail Agency
on the 10th.
Tweed's friends declare Oakley Hall
was the organizing brains of the Tam
many ring, receiving at first ten, subse-
quently five per cent. as his share.
One hundred and seventy-five dele
gates were in attendance on the Baptist
Woman's Missionary Union which met
at Dayton, Ohio, during the past week.
Hampton on the 14th addressed note
to Chamberlain officials requesting
them to turn over their offices to their
successors, subject to the decision of the
Supreme Court, when court should be
| filled by the election of Chief Justice
on the 24th.
The Daily NeDs' st. Petersburg cor
respondent says the war feeling is in
tense. There never was such popular
war as this will be. There is no brag
and bluster, but quiet resolution is de-
picted on every mans face and is mani
fest in everybody's language.
The recent decision of the New York
Court of Appeals is causing serious
trouble to a large number of liquor deal
ers. The corporation attorney has COM
menced several hundred suits against
saloon-keepers to recover the penalty
fixed for violation of the statute of 1857.
The West Point graduating class this
year numbers seventy-seven, the largest
ever graduated. There are only forty
vacancies in the army, consequently
thirty-seven will be appointed brevet
second lieutenants under law, and pro-
NOTED to the grade of second lieutenant
as vacancies occur.
The President will in no case support
Packard by the use of Federal troops.
His government must depend entirely
on its own resources. The troops are
liable to be withdrawn by next Satur-
day, and yet be near enough to prevent
bloodshed. With such policy it is to
be hoped the complications will settle
themselves.
The heaviest gale aud rain storm
known since 1854 prevailed at Charles.
ton, S. c., during the 18th and 14th
Considerable damage has been done tc
wharves, but the damage to shipping i;
slight; tide very high, and much of the
lower portion of the city submerged
Railroad trains all stopped in conse.
uuence of damage to tracks.
The Inter- Oceans Washington specia
says: A gentleman in the confidence o.
Blaine says the latter will attack Mat
thews at the opening of the session anC
combat the Southern policy in the
same spirit as at the last session. He
will attack the Presidents policy, not
the President. 1t is stated also that the
Maine Republican press 80 violently op
pose this policy that the friends of the
administration are raising $4,000 Il
start an administration paper at Port
land.
1t is reported that 100 of Crazy Horse
band of Indians have taken the fielC
again. They passed near Spearfish OIL
the 14th on their way west, wei
mounted and in war paint. The cause
of this renegade movement is supposed
to be the deception practiced by Spotted
, Tail in representing that only the arm
} taken by them in the Custer figh
would be demanded of them upon thei
} surrender at the Red Cloud, when, il
, reality, the government demands o
them all their arms and ponies.