The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-11
GENERAL NEWS.


New Orleans went Democratic by
large majority.
The Workingmen have finally got
the San Francisco offices.
Congressman Lay, OF Missouri, died
in Washington on the Sh.
Medford Waters, colored, was hanged
in Maryland on Friday last for murder.
General Grant has commenced a tour
Of the South. He was well recei red at
Louisville.
L. :. inspectors examined 257 vessels
during the last fiscal year, aud llcensed
Il, ,2l2 officers.
A gang Of counierfei,ors has been
broken up in the Sierra Malre Noun
taius, California.
Mapleson's new prima donna, Mile
Marmon, has been received in New
York wigh much favor.
Andrew Tracy was hangel iu smith
port, Penn, on the 4th, for the murder
Of Catherine Reilly year ago.
The Democrats and Greenba chers Of
New Haven, Conn, have together
elected ali the municipal officers.
a Presbyterian church, corner Broad
and Oxford streets, Philadelphia, was
destroyed by fire on the p instant.
The anniversary Of the death Of John
Brown was celebrated on the ~ instant
in the Twenty lcOlored)
Church in New York City.
Six ladies Of the Convent OF the Sa-
cred Heart al Chicago will start to-mor-
row for New Zealand, to found an estab-
iishment Of their Order there.
City Tax Collector Hamilton Of Los
Angeles, Cal, has abscouded with 50 600
This is the fourth defalcation in that
place in five years by officials.
The Utes, with whom the Government
is trying to make peace, recently drove
of a baud of cattle to show their APP
. probation of Uncle Sans lenieucy.
Senator Teller's bill to remove the Ute
Indians from Colorado 10 some Terri
tory proposes 20 restore the present Ute
/ reservation TO the public domain.
The President has appointed W. X.
Smiley OF Rhode Island and General
Stoneman OF California to fill vacancies
IN the Board OF Indian Commissioners.
The Government Of Tahiti has granted
a subsidy Of Slj0 600 yearly for a line Of
steamers between papite aud San Fran
cisco. The line viii be started next
. Spring.
Alexander II. Stephens, who claims
20 be "a Democrat of the straightest
sect Of the Jetfersonian School," says
decidedly that he prefers Grant to Til
den for President
Count Dolenshof, of the German Le-
cation, vino was with Adams when The
captives were rescued from the Utes,
presented Ouray, the friendly chief,
with gold watch.
The surface Of the earth is sinking al
Mahoney Plain, Pa. Coal mine excaya-
tions are the cause. People are ready
10 leave. Houses are liable TO sink out
Of sight at any time.
General Grant will visit New York
on The 18th instant, unless he accepts a
pending invitation 20 go 10 Havana, in
which case be will not visit the Empire
Z City until next Spring.
The Secretary Of the Interior has de-
cided that the benefits of the timber
culture law may be secured by planting
cottonwood trees. This decision reverses
former rulings Of the department.
A Washington special TO the New
York World says Tilden is reported to
be preparing a paper announcing his
withdrawal from the political field for
1850 in favor Of Speaker Randall.
Fleischman * Sichel, ofSan Francisco,
attribute their failure TO the speculatious
Of their missing clerk, Ernest Lowen-
berg, who was fully trusted. The firm
think the clerk got away with S25 900
or $4,000.
On Saturday last, at Chicago, General
Grant took a hand in the tree-planting
AT South Park, by Invitation Of the Park
Commissioners. An American weep
ing elm, 20 years old, was planted, the
General handling the spade.
a strong Temperance movement has
been inaugurated in Atlanta, called the
Blue Ribbon movement. Governor
Colquill and other prominent citizens
are active participants. a general
temperance revival in Georgia is ex-
peeted.
, Portions Of California were visited by a
fearful rain-storm on the 9th. Nothing
like the same amount Of rain ever fell
at Nreka before in the same time
| nearly four inches in eighteen hours.
The Sacramento River rose Il feet in
one day az Shasta.
a drunken rufiian named Upton, Of
/, Ansonia, Conn, came home on the night
Of the 4th and threw at his wife a
lighted lamp, which fell into the cradle
wife, in eudeavoring TO save the child,
was probably fatally burned.
Senator Jones Of Nevada bitterly de-
s nOuuces both the President aud the Sec
retary Of the Treasury for the views they
P express regarding the finances Of the
country, and has announced his purpose
d 10 give them both a severe handling
! when he addresses the Senate, after the
z holidays.
a passenger train on the Chicago cud
Alton road jumped the track at Glas-
4 gov, Missouri, on the 9Th instant; and
made a terrible wreck, the engine roll
1 ing down five-foot embankment. The
engineer was slightly hurt, and the
, fireman aud the conductor perhaps IA
! tally injured, but the passengers es-
: capped. 4 broken rail was the cause.
, Preparations for shipping the obelisk