, 1878-04-10
OREGON NEWS.

house has been abandoned.
Circuit court for Benton county will
convene at Corvallis next Monday.
The NJ. E. Church of Salem is to be
completed during the present season.
A widow at Camp Harney has re-
celved eleven offers of marriage since
January.
w. r. Dunbar, while doctoring a
salmoned purp had his hand severely
lacerated.
Rents are said to be very low in Sa-
lem during the spring and summer.
Not so here.
Oliver G. Yocom will soon commence
the erection of an agricultural ware
house at Dayton.
The Touring mill at Scio has passed
into the hands of Robt. Pentland, for
merly of Dallas.
Twenty odd converts have been add
ed to the church at Dayton within the
past two weeks.
Three Cinnamon were recently
drowned while attempting to cross
Rogue river at Tyee bar.
w. G. Myers Shetland ponies are
attracting much attention. They will
be at the next State Fair.
There is yet remaining only few
hundred dollars of the $4,000 wanted
to start the Yaquina rail'oad
JOS. Lame has sold his farm of 3533
acres for S12,200. Mr.. Lame thinks of
going into the Palouse country.
The Courier in speaking of the local
dramatic entertainment given at La
fayette, says the actors did well.
A son of Y. B. Williams, of Polk,
shot himself in the arm a few days ago
and the limb had to be amputated.
Martin Roster, of Foot's creek, re-
Gently picked up 500 nugget; the
day before he found one worth $42.
Capt. Bas. Miller is contemplating
building light draft steamer to ply on
the waters Of the upper Willamette.
Oak Ridge Presbyterian Church of
Benton county, have filed articles of
incorporation with the secretary Of
state.
A Yamhill jury of twelve men, says
Lindsey DeLashmutt did not rob the
safe in charge of Geo. A. Sheppard at
Sheridan.
1t is reported that the lost Cordelia
was owned in San Francisco. Such is
not the fact. She was owned entirely
at Coos Bay.
At Beaverton, Washington county,
the onion raisers have recently been
sorting their onions and shipping them
to San Francisco.
E. NJ. Waite has been awarded the
contract for printing the proceedings
of the Grand Lodge |. 0. o. F., scs-
sion of May, 1878.
A four horse team belonging to Mr..
VIM. Kline of Howell Prairie, made
things lively on the streets of Salem a
few days ago by running away.
The Executive Committee of the Or
egon State Agricultural Society open
ed the bids for the pasturage on the
State Fair grounds Monday afternoon.
The bid of Mr.. ID. j. Cooper, of Silver
ton, being the highest, was accepted.
Last week, Davy Craven, little boy
who is livirg with Mr.. J. G. White, Of
Oak Grove, Polk county, fell from afence
which he was climbing, and inflicted a
severe cash in his breast, from pocket
knife which he had in his hand at the
time.
At meeting of some of the hsher-
men held at Astoria recently, vote
was taken on the price to be paid per
salmon the present season, which is 20
cents. 1t is advised to lay up least
one-third of the boats as the business is
very much over done.
From the Lafayette Courier; Mrs.
Snyder, the wife of the man who has
been confined in the Jail I'll winter,
walked all the way from Chehalem, 10
miles, and carried child and carpet
satchel, one day last week, to get to
see her husband. She is plucky mo-
man to say the least.
Lightning is very unusual in Oregon.
But the other day at Roseburg, Rus
sells restaurant was struck, the light
ming running down the stove pipe just
as the proprietor was lighting his pipe
at the stove, which operation was sud