The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-09-11
GENERAL NEWS.

kallOch is steadily Improving.
The display at the Pennsylvania State
Fair is very fine.
Business throughout the East is grow
ing better constantly.
DR.. s A. Finley, ex-Surgeon- General
of the L. 5. army, is dead.
Maryl land Greeubackers have nomi-
mated Howard Meeks for Governor.
The President and family have left
Washington on trip to the Middle
West.
The Democrats Of Wisconsin have
nominated Alexander Mitchell for Gov
ernOr.
Fishers tannery, at Cambridge, Mass,
burned on Tuesday night. Loss, Si0,
600; insurance, S2S.00O.
\ monument to the late General
Bangs has been unveiled at the ExpOsi-
tiOn building at Chicago.
y negro named David was hanged by
a mob at Union, KY, on the 9Th, for an
attempted outrage on a white girl.
The hundredth anniversary OF the
surrender of CORVALLIS at Yorktown
will be celebrated on the 18th of October
The Board of Supervisors of San
Francisco are interesting themselves iu
preparing a suitable reception for Grant
A fire at Marysville, Cal, on the 7th
destroyed the store Of +. G. Ross, A. D.
POpert, and several buildings adjoining
Loss, $4,000.
Indians attacked Government guard
herding cavalry horses in New Mexico
on the 5th, running of quite a number
OF the animals.
Three thieves, Elijah Frost, Blge Glib
son and Tom McCraken, were hanged
at Willets, MendocinO county, Cal, on
the 4th, by a mob.
The boiler Of the steamer Alaska ex-
plOded on Lake Erie on the 5th, killing
both the engineers and injuring deck
hands and passengers.
The sweeping Republican victories in
Maine and California show that the at
tempted revolutionary legislation of the
last Congress is reactiug.
Large numbers Of European silk oper-
atives are arriving at Paterson, n. j.,
attracted by reports of the prosperity OF
the industry in that city.
The ship Frank F. Curling, loaded
with coal, from Cardiff to Sau Francisco,
was abandoned of Cape Horn on June
2Sth. The crew were saved.
The Tammany Hall Democrats Of
New York have resolved to leave the
State Convention if Lucius Robinson,
said TO be Tildeu's choice, is nominated
for Governor.
Six indictments have been found
against Charles DimOnd, the defaultiug
Treasurer Of the Massachusetts Mission
airy Society, and he is in Jail, being uu-
able to furnish bail.
All the rolling mills in the Eastern
States have orders so far ahead that
they recently refused to bid on a propo.
sitiOn to furnish 5000 tons Of rails for q
south western railroad.
Judge Thornton, of San Francisco
has decided that James G. Flood, tn,
bonanza king, must testify before a no
tary on behalf Of the plaintiff in th,
suit Of Burke vs.. Flood.
The Sprague case will probably fur
nish plenty Of disgusting aud sensational
reading. 1t is now said that the ex
Governor will commence a suit for tht
custody + the children.
/ The trial at De Kalb, Miss, of TIN
| Chisholm murderers brings TO light un
| heard-of brutality. The evidence agains
Henry J. Gully for the murder OF Mis-
Cornelia Chisholm is very strong.
It has been proven that the woma
arrested at Little Rock, Arkansas, re
Gently, on suspicion Of being Kat
Bender, Of the famous family Of murder
ers, is an altogether different person.
a cyclone at Hunterstown, near Get
tysburg, on the 4th, demolished th
/ Methodist Church, badly injured schoC
buildings, and unrOOled a number {
dwellings and other buildings. Th
path Of the storm was only about sixt
feet wide.
On last Saturday evening buildin
at Cheyenne, Wyoming, used as
lodgiDg-house, fell in, killing sever,
persons, Colonel G.. l. F. Vandesand
of Boston, and two boys named Bel
sons Of the proprietress, being anon
the number.
San Francisco business transaction
according to the clearinghouse stati
tics, during August, 1879, show loss
80 per cent as compared with the san
month of 1878. The decline is attribute
to the unsettled condition Of Csliforni
during the past year.
, Captain Goldsmith and wife, WI
were going to cross the Atlantic in
miniature boat, the Uncle Sam, wei
picked up by bark the other day o
The coast OF New Foundland. The