The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-09-11
NEWs ITEMS.
STATE ASD TERRITORIAL.

Four new buildings are in course Of
completion at PhilOmath.
/ There is a tree in ClatsOp county
nineteen feet in diameter.
The State University at Eugene City
will open on the 18th inst.
Yamhill county levies a tax of III
mills-21 less than last year.
The tax levy Of Clatsop county for all
purposes this year is % mills.
The construction Of Squire's opera
house at Seattle has been commenced.
Polk county farmers have been greatly
annoyed by the lack Of harvest hands.
The academic year at Willamette
University will commence on Monday
/ next.
All is activity at the McMinnville
warehouses. Wheat Is coming in
lively.
The fall term Of the Hillsboro public
school begins on the first Monday in
October.
The potato crop Of Clarke county,
w. T, is excellent in quality and
quantity.
A first class bridge has just been com
pleted across the Umatilla River, above
Pendleton.
Jouu T. Miller will remove his large
house at Salem to his farm three miles
from the city.
The Coos Bay Mail is publishing some
interesting sketches of the early settlers
Of Coos county.
The railroad company is carrying of
wheat from Walla Walla faster than IL
can be brought in.
Mcdonald and Bell, the bunko sharps,
are employed in the saddlery department
Of the penitentiary.
The railroad company has put up
nice depot building at Shedd's station,
the size being 26x4O.
State tax in Lane county for 1879,
mills; school tax, mills county tax
> mills-tOtal - mills.
The Great Republic Wrecking Com
= pany have declared dividend Of 20 per
cent on the capital stock.
Rev. Isaac Dillon preached his intro
u ductOry sermon as pastor OF the NJ. T..
church in Salem last Sunday.
a man named Blanton was robbed OF
D $500 by highwaymeu near Eugene CITY
-' last week. No clue to the robbers.
At a baby's fair held in WaIla Walla
. last week at the residence Of DR.. Kellogg,
+ Mrs. Martins twins were awarded q
J, medal
, a British bark, supposed to be the
: Doveuby, is in the breakers at the
mouth of the Columbia. She Will
d probably be saved.
Southern Oregon millers are offering
So cents a bushel for wheat on 80 days
time and 60 cents when six months
= time is given them.
y The ladies of the Salem NJ. E church
contemplate the early production Of
"PinafOre" in that city, having already
: sent below for the music.
9 a petition is in circulation in Salem
= asking the trustees of the Willamette
University to establish a chair Of cliui-
cal surgery in that institution.
The Hillsboro Independent says Mrs.
{ Ennis's Fall wheat, near Greenville,
went 80 bushels to the acre-the largest
: yield yet reported in the county.
D., J. T. Moss, Of Milton. this year raised
j IS potatoes that weighed 81 pounds. He
raised on the same ground, two years
i ago, a potato that weighed Z pounds.
. The First Cavalry Band has been en-
gagged to play a. the grounds of the
Walla Walla Agricultural Society
u several hours during cash day of the
g fair.
}, 4 man whose name is not reported
q fiercely assaulted boy named Grant
Mcclure in Namhill county last week
d with pitchfork, terribly lacerating his
: scalp.
= Mrs. w Mansfield, of Willow Springs,
was seriously hurt last week by the
explosion Of a fruit can, which she had
II put on the stove to melt the wax about
It the lid.
= Lebanon, Linn county, has improved
a greatly during the year. New buildings
ra. NHfnH
,, laid out, and the sidewalks have been
e extended.
, The Congregational Church at Forest
e Grove has given Rev. Mr.. Nandersal,
who recently Withdrew from the NJ. L.
r church, $500 and agree to raise him Sl50
Al more as a salary for one year.
& Nothing has been heard oi VIM. Web
lie ster, the young man who, in the delir-
ium of a raging fever, sprang from the
10 second story window Of the hotel al
\ WilhOits springs several weeks ago.
st Last Thursday night William Emer-
IS ick's slaughter-hOuse and stable i'm Al
bany were burned. The buildings were
insured for $500. There is no doubt
III that the fire was the work of an iueen-
e diary.
- The Territorial Fair Of Washington
will begin on the 18th inst. It is ex
pected that this will be the most at
t. tractive fair ever held in WaIla Walla
be The people are jubilant over their goot
ol health, good crops and general prosper
of ity, and they propose to jubilate.
he The death of Mr.. Edmund y. Buick
ty which occurred at the residence Of ht
father. Mr.. ID. s X. Buick, Of Myrtl,
no Creek. Douglas County, on Septembe
81. was the result Of remarkable an,
al distressing circumstances His fathe
10 and brother, in attempting TO quiet
mi party Of drunken men who were engaged
no. near their home in general row, wer
assaulted and violently beaten, and tn,
shock To the deceased, who was il
W. feeble health and unable to act in thei
is defense, produced hemOTrhage from
OF which he died.
ne
ed When the toast, "The Queen,n wa
ia offered in Dublin recently 10y Charlie
Stewart Parnell, he was hissed ant
no allowed the insult to pass uunOticed
a though a magistrate and a member q
80. parlfnnent The DOljce anthOritfas Ina y