The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-15
RECENT EVENTS,

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Senator Mitchell starts for Oregon in
less than a fortnight.
Extremely hot weather is reported in
Southern California and Arizona.
Senator Morton is quite unwell,
though still journeying westward.
Freshets in the Missouri continue
destructive to property at Kansas City.
Senator Ferry, of Michigan, is ex-
tremely i'll with congestion of the brain.
Travel over the Isthmus is largely in
excess of what it was at this period last
year.
The Inauguration of Governor Pres
colt, of New Hampshire, took place on
the 7th.
Junction City, Empire and Pendleton
are the new money order Offices for
Oregon.
Twenty-nine employees of the New
Orleans Custon-house were discharged
on the 9Th.
The Grover Investigating committee
reached San Francisco on the evening
of the 11th.
Twenty persons were removed from
the Treasury Department on the Sth on
account Of relationship.
General Grant has accepted an invi-
tation to fete which is to be given at
Alexandria Palace June 18th.
The Southern Memorial Association
on the 7th decorated the graves of Con-
federate soldiers at Arlington Cemetery.
The first fast train on the Lake Shore
railroad made the trip from Chicago to
Buffalo in thirteen hours and forty
seven minutes.
Heavy rains fell in Western Missouri
and in Kansas the past few days, and
great damage has been done to railroads,
crops, and other property.
Forest fires were raging between Los
Angeles and Santa Monica on the 11th,
destroying dwelling-houses, stock and
] crops. lu6 lOSS Is ilD ui6uSes
Secretary Sherman is preparing to re-
move all who are relatives in the Treas
ury Department. Blessed is he or she
who has neither kith nor kin.
The Pope on the 7th received many
deputations of pilgrims, including one
from New York. He praised the faith
displayed by the pilgrims in this skep-
ticaI age.
Boston is ahead of the world in turn
ing out youthful murderers. The last
is a boy two and half years old who
killed a playmate aged three, by strik'
ing him with brick.
Eugene Schuyler, Consul-General a
Constantinople, writes the State Depart
ment that the public debt of Turkey
amounts to 1927, O,OOO, the annual in
terest on which is S65, 100000, more thar
half the total revenue of the Empire.
General Grant has been munificentl!
wined and dined by royalty since hi
arrival in England. He will dine will
the Prince of Wales on the 23d. Th
, honorary degree of D. G. L., has beel
conferred upon him by Oxford Univer
q sity.
e The President has appointed A. I
r Hazel, of Pennsylvania, Third Assist
ant Postmaster General, Vice E. W
e Barber, resigned, to take effect Jun
r 3Oth. Barber resigned because he doe
e not endorse the new policy in regard
r civil service, which he pronounces
: humbug.
? The calamity which befell Mt. Carme
ILL.,, has not been overstated. Fourtee
blocks of beautiful homes and busine!
houses are in ruins; a hundred familit
homeless and helpless, score of dea
and over seventy badly hurt in popI
If lation of 2, 800, loss not less than $4OO
d 900, is too heavy load for this hear
n stricken people to carry alone, and be-
@ must come from the country at large.