, 1878-04-12
MlSCELLAN E0US.

Five hundred tons per day are now ta-
ken from the Seattle coal mine.
Cardinal McClo>ky presented General
Grant to Pope Leo on the Both nit.
Seattle shipped to San Francisco S,02j
tons of coal during the MONTH OF March.
A four company military post is to be
built this Summer at Cmur It Alene Lake.
The Turks have abandoned Karak at the
entrance to the BosphorllS Oh the Black
Sea.
The woman suffrage amendment in the
Massachusetts SENATE was defeated by 10
to l6.
A saw mill j. to be built on the Skagt
river thirty miles above the jam, this Sum
ner
The Steamship GusSe TellAr las been
sold for the Coos bay coal trade; price,
$4,000.
The district court ut SnohomiSh lasted
two days. Only one Indictment was
found.
The Sisters of Charity have recently
bought some properly in Seattle on which
they intend to build II school
ST.. Randall and James O'Bricn. of the
Port Ludlow mill, have invented Il very
useful arc shaped tooth for steam saws.
Indians on the Puyallup reservation are
busy clearing aud planting. and this year
will cultivate more land than ever before.
Oregon, with Il population OF but l35,-
COO, last year produced Il surplus of 5000,
900 bushels OF grain and 4,00O,0OO pounds
Oi wool
Sherman says that oG the resumption OF
specie payments hc will have authority to
REISSUE $500. 1000, 600 L. 5. notes, under
authority Of the existing law of 1913.
The rush towards the upper country
continues. The WalIa Wal,a States
man notes the arrival of 800 passengers a
week by the o. 5. n. Co.'s boats and DR..
Bakers railroad.
The House committee on the electoral
count has agreed to report in favor Of
constitutional amendment, fixing the
tenure of the Presidential office at six
years, and declaring the President mcligi-
bic to reelection.
The San Juan Lime Company has con-
tmCted with the Puget Sound ManulaC-
turing Companyat Payalup for the manu-
iacture Of its barrels for the next year,
which will amount to about seventeen
thousand, all told.
The New York "IIerald" recently said:
1'hc people of Oregon look up the W,alla
Walla valley in Washington Territory.
with the eyes Of desire, aud are opposed
to the erection of the latter into a con-
;. mOnwca!th until it shall yield some Of its
domain to extend Oregon's boundaries.
INFORMATION WANTED.-.\S to the
whereabouts of Samuel Shannon. aged
about 33 years. native of Canada; who
left British Columbia in April, 1876, tor
Puget Sound or Oregon. Any person
giving such information will confer
great favor on Joseph Shannon, New
Westminster, B, &.
WAR Not lMPRoBABLE.-RecenC Lon
don advices state that the resignation of
Lord Derby, who was opposed to war
measures, Is the most porteltiOuS war
news vet received, and it is universally
expected that the most energetic war poll
Cy will be enforced. The war party in
England has been pndeavoring to force
Derby to resign for some time past from
the ministry, and his retirement has now
been brought about by charging him with
treason TO the interests of England by at
tacks from the newspapers.
) a Walm WaIla paper says: The lands
withdrawn for the benefit ofthe n. p. X.
r. Co.. in Eastern Washington, embrace
hundreds of thousands of acre' Of the best
wheat land in the world, These lands are
mostly situated in til" PaIouSe country,
the present Mecca OF the Immigrant.
+ Their appearance has been described