The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-08-07
GENERAL NEWS.


pended.
Miunesota's wheat crop is 100000
bushels.
The Bankers Convention is 10 sessio
at Saratoga.
The rice crop in the South is great
reduced this year.
The Custer battlefield has been mad
a national cemetery.
Charles Fechler, the actor, diel a
/ Quakerton, Penn on the 5th.
A death is reported at Memphis from
a second attack Of yellow fever.
A boiler explosion at Albany, y. Y
on the 5th, killed several persons.
a full harvest is indicated along th
line Of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
Volcano, a town in West Virginia
was almost destroyed by fire on the 4th
The value of the estate bequeathed {,
Jefferson Davis by Mrs. Dorsey is 50,
600.
Yesterday Charles Ballett, at Middle
ton, Ohio, killed his wife aud then him
| self.
\ large number Of skilled artisan,
have arrived in New York from Shelf
| field.
Five hundred more tents have been
sent to Memphis for yellow fever suf-
/ ferers.
The murderers of the Shellenback
brothers in Arizona were renegade
Apaehes.
DR.. White, Of the Sanitary Associa.
tiOnr says New Orleans is free from vel
low fever.
VIM. Fitzpatrick aud Edward Ryan,
I dock hands, were drowned at Chicago
on the Sd.
Solomon Sem shot and killed Charles
Engleman at Chicago on the 5th, and
then killed himself
The Kearsarge has been ordered tc
proceed TO the fishing grounds at Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick.
The coinage at the mints last month
aggregated S4,S6l 200, over $4,000, 900 oI
which was in twenty-dollar pieces.
Exports Of grain for the last year
have been $50, ,OO0, 900 in excess of the
exports Of cotton. "Grain is king"
The corner stone Of the monument to
General Anthony Wayne was laid at
Erie, New York, on the 3lst ultimO.
Charles 5. Davis, who pummeled
Denis kearney some time ago, was
fined $500 on the 3lst for the assault.
a thunder storm in GiIa Valley, Cal,
on the lst, washed away some miles OF
railroad and Frustrated the telegraph
line.
There is an epidemic fit of stealing
prevalent among Fall River treasurers.
another one being reported a defaulter
this week.
The remains Of Elder Standing, who
was shot in Georgia last week, were
buried With great pomp on Sunday at
Salt Lake.
\ prisoner named Alvord was taken
from L. ;. marshal in Texas on the
81, the marshal being fatally wounded
in the affray.
[ Well executed five-dOllar counterfeit
bills on the National Bank of Boston
and Bank of Dedham are in circulation
in San Francisco.
| Edward p. Paige, formerly chief clerk
in the Vermont Central Railroad freight
Office, has been arrested on charge OF
embezzling $1,000.
A Californian at Yuba Dam shot and
killed a Chinese chicken thief on the 2d
and the cOroner's jury rendered verdict
OF justifiable homicide.
/ The Howard Association at Memphi.
Is diligently at work furnishing nurish.
ment aud stimulants to the INDECENT
sick on requisitiOn Of physicians
a Texas dispatch says the Iuterna-
tiOnal and Great Northern Railroad has
been sold for 81 900, 900. il was bid in
by representative Of the bOnd-holders.
The assessors valuation of the city OF
Boston for 1879 is S6I2, ,253, ,6OO of which
S423, 7S6 500 is real estate. There is a
gain Of !, ,539 polls, mainly 10 Democratic
wards.
The Fall River spiuners, now on
strike are going To hold mass meeting
to express indignation at Mayor Lind
says action in an interview with Gov
ernOr Talbot.
The New Orleans mint is running at
full capacity, with plenty of bullion on
hand. The Carson City mint will be
re-Opened as soon as bullion can be OBJ
tanned at market rates.
Mrs. Howe, of Cincinnati, and a SER
want, Ann Brown, were suifocated at
Covington by falling into a vault 90 the
81. Mr.. Howe went TO their assistance,
and was taken out insensible, but was
resuscitated.
Doc Middleton, the notorious horse
anG cattle thief, with several Of his
gang, was captured in Nebraska last
week. The chief was found to have
been severely wounded in his fight with
detectives last week.
1t is said that Randolph, Chairman Of
the Senate Committee on Military Az
fairs, has agreed TO press through the
committee a bill restoring Fitz-JOhn
Porter to his rank in the army as Major
General, with pay and allowances since
his dismissal of $4,000.
Persons in San Francisco are going to
attempt a recovery Of the treasure,
81, 900 900, lost on the Brother Jonathan
in 1865. The ship lies in an upright DO
sition in twenty-five fathOms of wafer
about fifty fathOms from the rock on
which she is supposed to have struck.
near Crescent City, Cal.
A canal across the Isthmus Of Florida
is the latest scheme. IL will be DUG
from Cedar Keys to the mouth of the
st. Johns, and will save 900 miles in
the water route from New Orleans to
New York. Senator Jones, OF Florida
says il would benefit Southern com.
merce beyond expression.
During July, there were paid for ar
rears Of pensions IS, ,594 600, which ex-
hausts the special fund held for the re-
demption of fractional currency. The
increase Of debt for the month il 81
OS6, ,344, showing that there would have
been a decrease of 3. Sos, ,256, if no ar
rears Of pensions had been paid.
Messengers from Sitting Bull saw that
he aud his whole camp Of 900 TO S OO0
people, comprising several hostiIa