The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-01-03
TELEGRAPHIC.
COMPILED FROM THE DAILY oREaoN1AN.

Congressman Beverly B. Douglas, of Vir
ginia, died at Washington ON the 22d.
| Representative A1pheus S. Williams, O.
Michigan, died at Washington on the 2lst
| Two Russian steamers, the Columbus anc
State of California left Philadelphia fol
Sitka on the 2lst ult.
| Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledger, reiter
ates the statement that General Grant will
return home in little over a year via Indii
and California;
! DR.. Hoyt, of GAINESVILLE, Ohio, has beer
sent to the penitentiary for one year ano
fined $1,000 for robbing grave That is a
| rather expensive stiff.
New YORK, Dec. 26.-Francis Murphy,
| the temperance lecturer, is going west
Last night he said be had received an invi
tatlon from the clergy of California to come
to that State and lecture, and he looked for
ward with pleasure to the visit,
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 26.-The weather
during the past week has been the severest
known in this region for twenty years Over
two feet of snow have fallen. The Mis-
souri, river has been closed for weeks. The
Ice is foot thick, and the entire transporta-
ton overland is now transacted by sleighs.
CHICAGO, Dec. 26.-The trial of Mrs. Ma
linda Mack, indicted at GAINESVILLE. Wis,
together with Frank Dickerson, for the
the murder of her husband, last July, closed
to-day, the jury bringing in verdict of
guilty. She was sentenced to the States
prison for life, the limit of law in Wiscon-
sin. Dickerson, who turned States evil
dence, will be tried later.
MANCHESTER, Dec. A.-The papers de-
clare that the New Hampshire tramp law
has proved great success. A year ago the
country towns were at the mercy of a horde
or wandering vagrants who despoiled prop
erty, threatened lives and spread terror in
households. Now life and property are Sc
cure Women and children come and 90 in
safety, and the old curse is almost entirely
removed, without injury to any deserving
poor.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.-It is positively
announced, as coming from friends and ad-
mlrers OF Senator Bayard, that he is a can
d1date for the presidency with strong assur-
ance of financial backing from New York,
winch they expect to carry with Connecti-
cut and New Jersey, giving, with the solid
South, the required majority in the elector-
al college. His friends are very sanguine of
the success of the proposed alliance of the
south with the East on hard money plat
form.
The Assistant Treasurers of the United
States have been instructed to make no dis
oiihSoloI bCtWecu COlu ana legal tenders, at
ter the lst of January. Checks for the pay
ment of interest on the four per cent loan
due on that day, are being prepared.
The committee Of the Senate appointed
under the Blaine resolution, has adjourned
until the reassembling of Congress, when
the Senate will be asked to authorize the use
OF the investigation fund now declared una
valuable by the treasury officers
Secretary Schurz has officially denied the
application made by Senator Grover, that
certain lands around Little Klamath Lake
be certified to the State of Oregon asswamp
ands. u The Secretary directs the general land
ofhce ,. to provide under rules already estab-
lshed for the adjustment of the Oregon
swamp land grant which he says will protect
Ill parties interested, whether pre- emption
settlers or claimants under State title.