, 1878-08-01
CONDENSED IIEMSs

The manufacture of base balls en-
ploys 300 morkmen at Match, Mass. |
PRESIDENTIAL candidates and spring
chickens are Matching out for the 1880
campaign.
The United States paws annually |
to other countries $lO0,U00,000 forl
sugar and molasses.
The camels imported into Texas
from Africa in 1874 are doing well
and are found to be useful.
1t is stated that 100000 bushels
of corn are in store on the line of the |
Chicago and Rock Island railroad.
About 100000 acres Of heavily
timbcred Virginia land was recently
sold by auction for an average of one
cent an acre.
Texas claims to have three millions
of inhabitants, and to be the third
now in population and the first in
size among all the States in the I'm
ion.
Our PoPULATIoN.-An estimate
of the population of the Territory
makes the number east Of the noun
tains 81 900, and of Puget Sound and
on the rivers and coast, $4,000. To-
tai, 60,0O0. This probably is fully
large enough.
Mr.. BRYANT was probably the
wealthiest poet this country has pro-
duced, and, with perhaps the excep'
tions of Samuel Rogers and Lord
Byron, the wealthest or among the
wealthiest, of the Old World. His
estate is said to be worth five hundred
thousand dollars.
The boat building by the Vancou-
yer Transportation Co., for the Port
land Vancouver trade, is almost ready
for launching, and will be completed
by September 1st. She will be some
larger than the steamboat Bonita,
and when completed will have cost
in the vicinity of $4,000.
IT really looks blue says the A5tor.
ian, to enter cannery in these hard
times and see the empty space, unoc
cupied for the want Of fish. Lots OF
fishermen are quitting with blues,
disgusted with the Indifferent sue.
cess. Every Indication points to the
fact that the season will close early.
WALLA WALLA SrArGsIcs.-Assess.
ment; Real estate, $l,2O6,6i0; pcr-
sonal, 81 ,504, 400; total, S2,7ll,Ol0,
being an increase over last year Of
$32S,590. Acres of wheat, 46, $50;
barley, 1907; oats, 1919; corn, 300;
orchard, 141; timothy, l,260. Sheep,
2G,0GG; hogs, 1864; cattle, l2,1l1;
mules, ,205; horses, G,3G2. Total pop
ulation, 5,T00.
ALASKA ITEMs.-By latest advices
from Alaska per steamship California
we learn that Cuttings salmon can
merry at Sitka is about to commence
operations. The Alaska gold and
silver mining company is running a
tramway to their mine. Nineteen
hundred miners are now working,
it is estimated, in Cassiar mines, b.
G. The California brought down
5000 in treasure.
A srUPID-LoOKING old mule, hitch
ed to u milk wagon, stood in shed at
Cambridge the other day, eating oats
out of grain box. a bad hoy stole
up and threw a handful of torpedoes
in among the grain. The next mouth.
full the hungry beast took was follow.
ed by an explosion that set him upon
his hind legs. His exit from the
she'd was so sudden that nothing
but harness buckle or two was left
+ to tell the tale Of the dire calamity
boston Globe"
The WILLAMETTE WHEAT AND
HAY PRosPECT..-Crops in the Will
annette valley have suffered more
from the dry weather prevailing for
six weeks past than in this section.
The Willamette "Farmer's" last re-
port is as follows: The continued
dry weather will prove ruinous to
much late sown grain, and thousands
of acres will not pay to cut. This
is true of all parts OF the valley and
no doubt elsewhere. 1t is singular
that grain few inches high is head
ing out-OEter fashion, and will
only be fit for pasturage. The Weld
of bay will also be greatly diminished.
Wells that have gone througe dry
seasons heretofore, with good yield of
water, dried mp this year in June, as
we know to our cost"