The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-05-24
NEWS ITEMS
STATE AND TERRITORIAL.

Port Gamble is to have a money order
Office.
Potatoes are worth 3 90 per bushel in
Olympia.
Snow fell at Mount Idaho during the
first week in May.
Half-ounce strawberries are being
picked in Yamhill county.
More early grain sowed iu Lake county
this year than ever before.
Mr.. Braley declines to run for State
Senator in Yamhill county.
The Albany Daily Register has been
gathered to ts-predecessors.
Salem has contributed over $1,000
toward celebrating the Fourth of July.
The Seabeck mill is about to start up
again, and will cut $1,000 feet OF lumber
day.
The distance between Dallas and
Salem is sixteen miles and three hund-
red yards.
The grading for the main line of the
Olympia-TeninO railroad was finished
last week.
The wild strawberry crop in Lane
county is larger and better this year
than ever before.
The barkentine "Tam O'Sbanter" is
now loading with lumber at knapptOn
for San Francisco.
Rev. w. r. Bishop, of Brownsville,
has been at Eugene City conducting
protracted religious service at the Z. T.
Church.
The annual examination of classes in
the Agricultural College have been pro-
crossing the last two weeks, and will be
continued through the present week.
The denizens of Polk county are exer-
clsed over the location of their county
seat Dallas, Independence, Dixie and
I Glendale each compete for the honor.
Rev. Mr.. Dillon, pastor of the Metho-
dist church at Seattle, celebrated the
twenty-fifth anniversary of his marriage
in that city on Monday evening, the
Goth inst.
/ The new Episcopal chapel at Canemah
has been finished sufficiently to hold
service in. The chapel has secured a
neat little organ, and will be furnished
with comfortable seats and chancel
/ furniture.
Two hundred and fOrty-two China
men, employed on the Seattle and
/ Walla Walla railroad from March 18th
| TO December 18th, 1877, have COM
menced against the road suit for their
wages for that timei aggregating
/ S4,555 80.
! A correspondent, noticing a lecture Of
| Mrs. +. a. Logan delivered in Wash
/ ingtOn county, says: "And we are will
ing to accord to woman the right OF
speech in public if she feels that she is
in the line Of her duty, and will with
hold censure, lest we be found fighting
against the truth"
The Rock Creek and Howell Prairie
circuit will hold a Methodist camp
meeting at the Rock Greek camp ground,
commencing on the sixth day of June,
and including the second Sabbath of
the month. The camp ground is To-
Gated about three and half miles east
of Hubbard Station.
The Seattle Tribune says: "The Tai
bot coal bunkers, built last year at an
expense of fifteen or twenty thousand
dollars, and the tramway from the
bunkers, the cost of which must have
been several thousand dollars, were sold
on the 18th on a foreclosure of lien by
the sheriff, to Mr.. James L. Bayley, the
plaintiff in the suit, for S2l0. Talbot
will long be a warning to spectators in
coal mines"
Thomas Henry, an old gentleman re-
slulng near Lafayette recently attacked
the wife of his nephew, a. b. Henry,
and would undoubtedly have chOked
her to death had not her daughter come
to the rescue, ahd beat her assailaut off
with broom. 1t has been thought for
some time that Mr.. Henry was insane,
though of mild form, but now that his
insanity has assumed a more violent
form, he Will be arrested. He fled into
the woods after the assault, but the OIL
GERS are now after him.