The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-08-21
News By Mail.

Less than 10000 people are left i'll the
city Of Memphis.
Free postal delivery will begin at
Denver September lst
French orders for wheat at New Or
leans have reached $4,000 bushels.
The wages of coal miners in Schuylkill
county, Pennsylvania, have been ad-
vanced 4 per cent.
It has been decided that there is no
danger of the yellow fever being spread
BY means of letters.
The corner stone Of the German Ma
sonic Temple, New York, was laid on
the End. The parade was imposing.
Much of the bullion recently pur-
chased at the New Orleans mint has
been in the form of Mexican dollars.
Mark Twain, who has resided for some
months in Europe, will sail with his
family for America about September lst
Coinage will be recommended in the
Carson mint rs soon rs the necessary
bullion can be procured at market rates.
General Miles estimates the number
of warriors in sitting Bulls band at
1000, the whole band at 5000. They
had at last accounts fed northward
The failure OF the Bank of Montreal,
which occurred last week, will seriously
affect some 400 widows and orphans,
whose savings were therein deposited.
The daily business of the Virginia,
Nevada, post Office is from |, POO to 800
letters, four bags Of newspapers, twenty
or thirty registered letters, and thirty or
forty packages.
The wheatscrop OF Southern Indiana
and Ohio has been saved in good condi
ton. 1t averaged in many places forts
bushels TO the acre. Harvest handy
have been paid 81 80 per day.
Prof Chandler, of the New York
Board of Health states that the mortal
ity from scarlet fever annually iii New
York State alone is greater than the
yellow fever mortality of the last year.
The coinage of the San Francisco mint
for July was S3,70S, 800, consisting of
S2,7S0,000 il double eagles, sl20,0OO in
eagles, 100000 in standard dollars, and
sos, 800 in half eagles, the largest coin
eye for over a year.
The Contract Bureau Of the Post Of
tice Department recently completed the
lettings Of miscellaneous railroad routes
under advertisement of May 10th. There
We're upward OF 300 routes and about
$4,000 proposals. Contracts were made
at unusually low i.sules.
The National Educational Association
adopted resolutions advocating the dona-
ton Of portion OF the public domain
for the endowlnen. and maintenance of
institutions in the States and Territories
for the higher education Of women. and
a committee was appointed to bring the
subject more prominently before Congress
and the people.
The moth branch Of the Sutro tunnel
is now in - feet, bu, the header is still
running the curve 70 make to the north.
Nothing is being done in the south
lateral drift on account Of the heat. The
company employs l20 men, some of
whom are engaged in putting in the
boxes which We're left elevated when the
water of the Comstock was sent in.
The corner stone of the monument to
General Anthony Wayne was laid in
Erie, Pennsylvania, on the 3lst ult.,
with imposing ceremonies. General
Wavnes remains were exhumed III
1909. The flesh was boiled from the
bones and reinforced, the bones being
taken to Chester county, Pennsylvania.
The monumen, is 20 be on the site of
the original intermept. and where a por-
~, Of thn rnrnains nnN. lie