The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-09-04
GENERAL NEWS.
Mobile is free from fever.


restoration TO the army.
President and Mrs. Hayes are going
to attend the Illinois fair.
A fratriciie. Charles Harris. was hung
az Montague, Texas. on the S0th.
john Weich, ex- Minister to England,
arrived al Philadelphia on the lst.
The aggregate value of prizes to he
contested for at Cfecdmoor Is 81. 277.
Robert Bonner has yielde To his lik-
ing for fine horsefiesh" aud purchased
Rarus.
The Autumnal business nutlook of
the country is even better than IN the
Spring.
Charles De- Young has been admitted
to bail toy Chief Justice Wallace Ia the
sum of So 600
The National Gold Bank aud Trust
Company Of San Francisco has decided
To go into liquidation.
The Western Associated Press wants
to sever its connection with the New
York Associated Press.
Fifty-six tons Of silver was paid out
Of the L. 5. Treasury aud L. ). MInts
during August-SI, ,s65, 600.
General J.. b Hood died at New Or
leans on the 3lst ultimO. He left a
manuscript history Of the civil war.
The Inter State Exhibition opened at
Chicago on the 81, with extraordinary
display and good prospects Of success.
The laws against gambling in Mis-
souri, are being strictly enforced. Most
Of the gambling houses have been shut
up.
The Minnesota Republican Conven-
tion nominated John 5. Pillsbury for
Governor on the first ballot on the %
inst.
\ hail storm uuroofed several build
ings at Fort KeOgh on tive 3lst, aud de-
stroyed the quarters Of an infantry COM
pany.
Grifiey d Co.'s wooden mill and hat
factory at Watsontown, Pa, was burned
Oh the 3lst. Loss, SI5OOOO; partial in-
surauce.
The Howard Association at Memphis
needs money, aud will again appeal to
the country TO take care of the fever
stricken.
An Illicit distillery was seized in
Washington on the 2I, only three
blocks distant from the Treasury De-
partment.
The salary of Police Commissioner
Wheeler, Of New York City, has been
stopped until his Indebtedness TO the
city is cancelled.
The Chisholm murder trials will COM
mence to- morrow, by the prosecution Of
II. G.. Gully for the murder Of Miss Cor
uelia Chisholm.
y timber cutter named McCloud,
stopping at hotel in Reno, New, blew
out the gas on retiring on the 3lst, and
/ was asphyxiated.
/ The New York Greeubaek Convention
| loudly praised Denis Kearney, and are
endeavOring to win him aud his follow
ers TO their cause.
"Blower" Brown, the pedestrian, has
arrived at New York, aud the country
will probably be afflicted with reports
Of another walking match.
A negro named Ward shot and killed
a colored girl, Annie Lewis, fourteen
years Of age, at 81. Louis, on the lst,
because she would nOsmaFryAimss
/ Massachusetts Democrats do not rec
/ ognize Buffers adherents as Democrats.
I Albert Palmer will preside at the Butler
| Convention on the 18th at Worcester.
Richard Stevenson, a L. ). Deputy
I Marshal, was shot aud killed in King
man county, Kansas, last Saturday by n
horse-thiet, who escaped to the Indian
Territory.
Illicit distillers in Alabama make all
persons who visit them work a while in
their establishments, so that they will
be accomplices and not witnesses Of the
Government.
Canadian Indians are going TO drive
Sitting Bull aud his savages from their
hunting grounds, as they are killing
much game aud driving the remainder
out Of the country.
4 storm in Louisiana on the 2i inst.
did immense damage, blowing down
! houses, sinking vessels on the Missis-
sippi aud other rivers, aud destroying
large quantities of fruits aud sugar cane
Towns on the Black River, in New
York, and its tributaries are suffering
greatly from want OF water. Since jan
uary the rainfall is niue aud oue-fourth
inches less than for the same time in
1878.
c. d. Williams, hack driver of San
Francisco, shot and killed his wife
few days ago because she could not live
with him. His brutality was unendur-
able IL is said she was in a house OF
ill-fame.
Lucky" Baldwin, of San Francisco,
has been Indicted for violating United
States revenue laws. He rehlled old
packages with liquor without cancelling
the revenue stamps thereon, aud sold
the same.
Geo. Schwartz, local politician Of
San Francisco, was shot aud killed by a
Young man named Dudley Haskell Oh
the 2i. The trouble originated at a pO-
litical meeting, but was Of personal
character.
a section foremsu Of the Central Pa
cific Railroad, named Foley, was killed
at Hot Springs, Nevada, on the lst, by
Henry Chapman, for grossly insulting
the latter's wife and not leaving when
so ordered.
It is said that George NJ. Pinney, the
"erookeI' paymaster's clerk, escaped
punishment in San Francisco by the in
dictments being manipulated IN his in
terest, or there was inexcusable negli-
gence in the District Attorneys office.
a. B. Cornell, Conkling's choice. hiss
been nominated for Governor bv the
New York Republican State Conven-
tion. Vice President Wheeler was
Chairman Of the Convention. Resolu-
tiOns "embOdying sound Republican
doctrine" were adopted
Miles captured about thousand half
breeds in bis recent campaign in Ne
braska, who have been furnishing the
Indians with supplies and arms. He
has cleared the country Of rowing bands
and driven Sitting Bulls followers
across the American line.
The total number of cases Of fever re.
ported to the Memphis B ard Of Health