, 1878-06-08
News Items.

The loss Of cattle in Wyoming the past
winter is placed by the Cheyenne Sun at
five per cent
The excitement in regard to quartz dis
coveries In Cariboo continues, and new
finds are reported.
The supreme court of Pennsylvania has
decided that the ex-priest, Blazus POrtarius,
under sentence of death, must hang.
In letter from senator Mitchell to F. c.
Sells, Of Grant county. it IS stated that
Camp Harvey will not be abandoned.
The movement of grain last week in Chi
cago aggregated 1885, 0S4 bushels-hgures
never before reached in any city on the con-
tinent.
All conflicting opinions about the time the
bankrupt repeal law should 60 into effect
have been amicably settled and September
lst is the day agreed upon.
Ex-minister Washburne having visited the
Cascades, gazed upon the waterfalls, and
cast lingering look at Castle Rock, has re-
turned to his home in Illinois.
Mr.. Rainey. the colored representative
from South Carolina, will have to march.
A new election is recommended IN his dis
triet by one Of the house committees.
A congressional excursion to the Paris
Exposition is talked of in Washington.
The idea is excellent BY all means let. the
whole congress go-and stay there five or
SIX years.
In seventeen years from now the Pacific
railroads viii be owing the government
! S22O. O00, 900. Uncle Samuel seems TO be a
bad collector, or else the railroad companies
are poor pay.
Now is the opportunity for everybody to
| obtain quarter section of land cheap.
The house has passed bill granting this
area to anyone who viii plant and cultivate
for eight years ten acres of timber.
1t seems the British traders are driving a
profitable business in selling arms and am
munition to the Sioux As our own citizens
have always sold to them it Is difficult to
see how We can reasonably complain about
1t.
The most beautiful hair on record is at
the Paris Exposition. 1t is silken and
golden and rich and seven feet long. It be-
longed to poor Norman girl who sold it
wholesale. She ought to have kept board
ing house and let it ont by retail, four hairs
to the pound.
In a celebrated case now before the New
York courts, one of the witnesses declared
that the Lord enlarged his vision to enable
him TO look through the keyhole and around
4 corner and see the prisoner mixing poison
That kind of religious faith is little
Crooked"
Sage brush lands that few years ago
were considered valueless are now sought
after in preference to all others as wheat
lands in Nerada and this territory The
crops raised Oh these lands are larger and
much more certain than on any other
The Alaska waters contain more salmon
than al the others of the known world can
produce. Within few Years salmon cane
ries will be established all along the Alaska
coast. Already the Pioneer canery of Alaska
! has been located at kiawauk, on Prince of
Wales island. The company with a capital
| of SlGW.0O0 have now erected the neces-
sary buildings for carrying on the business.
The earthquake in Venezuela was attended
| by a terrible destruction of property through
| out the country A remarkable develop
ment of heat attended the convIlsiOn, caus-
| ing the river waters to grow warm to such a
| degree as to scare the fish out Of their natu-
| raj element This sudden heat was proba-
bly, due to the tremendous friction of the
earths crust disturbed by The snbteranean
! forces.