The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-07
NEWS ITEMS.

The Cuban revolution has cost Spain two
hundred millions of dollars.
England and Austria, it is said, will permit
Turkey to be crippled, but not crushed
A mine, assaying $4,000 to the ton has been
found on Cherry creek, near Eureka, Cal.
Considerable excitement exists in Santa
Monica, on account of recent rich gold dis
coverles in the adjacent hills.
This year California is having rain enough.
There will be crops, at all events, in the cen
tra4 and northern parts of the State.
There were, until last week. but three nickel
mines in the United States. Prof Bartell has
discovered nickel ore in Milan, New Hamp-
shire.
The Daughter of Senator Blaine, who was
severely injured by the accidental discharge
of pistol, has entirely recovered and is again
at school.
The NeZ Perces, at Leavenworth, have with
them about $4,000 in gold and silver coin
sewed up in buckskin belts and worn by the
men and squaws.
The House committee by vote of seven to
four, agrees that Wigginton and not Pacheco
is entitled to the contested seat in Congress
from California
Gen Crook thinks there will be trouble
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Yellowstone, As Sitting Bull will have to come
in that vicinity for buffalo.
Lord Derby gives il as his personal conyic-
ton that temporary occupation of Constan-
tinople by the Russians, would furnish no
ground for British Interference.
A party of Mexicans from Texas, adherents
of Lerdo, made raid on the State of Tamau-
lipas on the I'D seized the principal men,
forced them to pay $1,000 and escaped back
to Texas.
The Russian feat of crossing the Balkans
during the fearful storms which ragged in
those mountains, is equal to, if not surpass-
ing in endurance, " poleons journey over
the Alps.
They are talking of cutting down Mr.. Beech
ers salary. The amount realized by the sale
OF pews i so much smaller than that of old,
that it will be impossible to make both ends
meet unless some reduction is made
Should the weather prove any way propi-
tious, the next wheat crop Of Texas will be
enormously large. All over the wheat re-
gions of the State farmers are turning their
attention to its cultivation and will plant less
cotton than heretofore.
Hereafter there are to be three steamers per
month between New York and San Francisco
via the lsthmus Of Panama, instead of two
The steamers will leave New York on the 9th,
18th and last day of every month. This look
like revival of old times
A new horse shoe, made out of three thick
nesses of rawhide compressed together, is be-
ing manufactured in California. 1t is said to
last longer, weighs only one-fourth as much
as the shoe, never splits the hoof, and has no
bad inhuende on the foot.
In the Senate on the 2sth Mitchell present
ed various resolutions from the legislative
Assembly of Oregon, praying an amendment
TO certain acts granting lands for railroad
purposes in that State, so as TO authorize the
sale of grazing lands; praying an amendment
to the act Of February II, 1859, in regard to
the boundaries Of the State; making appro-
priations for the construction of a breakwater
AT Cape Foulweather: the improvement of
the Willamette, Columbia and Alsea rivers
and TO open the Siletz Indian reservation to
settlement; all Of which were referred to APP
propriate committees.