The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-03-11
GENERAL NEWS.

to-day.
Indiana Republicans are opposed to
Grant.
A storm isreported along the Atlantic
Coast.
Iowa has seven lady superintsadeats
Of schools.
. Edison is trying to obtain gold from
"tsiling-."
Tie Republicans carried the sacra-
mentO election
Charles Colby has been executed at
Santa Cruz, Cal.
W. IT, Hayes a Federal Judge in
Kentucky, IS dead.
Kentucky Republicans favor Grant
for the Presidency.
Two mea were publicly executed in
Missouri on the 5tn.
The Yaquina Bay Memorial is pre-
sentei in the Senate.
Robbers have committed bold ont
RACES 80 AuahieuI, Cal.
Louisiana wants Chinese for her rice.
sugar and cotton felds.
Willows, Cal, was almost devastated
by "a typholu on the Slh.
y. @. Cotton, san Francisco thslt-
ricgl manager, has shielded.
The Republicans carried most OF ;he
muuIcIpa. elections lu Maine.
NiTgiuia'z legislature has adjourned
without making appropriations.
The force in the Government printing
Office has been greatly reduced
Ntreiuia's Governor is sustained in
his veto Of tle TePUdiatiou bill
Theodore Thomas has resigned from
the Cincinnati College of Music.
Ohio Prunibilionists have put ticket
in the field for the State election.
An explosion iu No. . shaft at Nauti-
coke, Penn, on the 5.h, kii.=i five men.
The OLaary Weston pedestrian
match is iu progress Do San Francisco.
The Daufor.h locomotive works. Pat
erson, n. j., are burned. Loss, S410 900.
The L. s. Supreme Court has declared
the Federal election laws To be consti-
tutionai.
Four mea at Miiwaukie. Wis, out
ragged girl aud then drowned her iu
the lake.
Much wheat i'm Wisconsin has been
ki-led by the frequent freezing and p
thawing.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company
aud the overland railroads have made
compromise.
Hon. Peter Cooper, the veteran phil
authropis-, completed his niuetieth
year recently.
Troops have been concentrated at san
Francisco as precautionary measure
iu case of riot.
An attemp. will be made to force the
Chinese question into the coming Presi-
ieutial campaign.
The Washington Republic endorses
NiIer's articles in The Californian
against tle Chinese.
Fifteen freeLo,jers VIII be chosen in
San Francisco ou March 39th TO frame
o cLaTl=r for that city.
The insane asyIsm ct O-sagatamie,
Kansas is buruel The 800 inmates
are provided for Loss, 10000.
Regular annual mail lettings get -
to 80 per cent more work done aud 40 >
90 10 per cent less than last year.
Finch, Cuibertsou J5 Co, of st. Paul,
Mimi, have been burned out. Loss,
nearly 81 coo O0)i Insurance, S537 600.
TIE Fail River strike hiss ended. The
qiuuers are reported 90 have "a larger
increase ttal the Is per cent demanded.
The ra11ius.er's bin and the Ross
HGui.lou substitute are 90 he submit
Ted 10 vote Of the people of Virginia.
THE Greeublcser- have nominated
Dilaye, of Maine, for President, aud
Becbwith. of Colorado, for Vice-Presi- {
dent.
Tire fair Of Mss J-uuie Collins at
Bomu's Bower, to aid her TO provide
dinners for poor giI.s, WAS very sue
cessigi one.
The House Committee on Claims re-
poEJ iavorRlIy the bin giving A. b.
Meaeham Sc 500 for his injuries i'm tie
Modcc war.
The tariff on printing paper and on
sugar are subjects of much discussion.
Probably tie duty on the former will
ue removed.
a priest so Mason City, Ills, has been
formally charged before Bishop Spauld-
ing by q young woman with having
outraged her.
young Republicans at Boston op-
pose Grant ahd Blaine for the Presi-
deucy, and do not favor any body, though
not hostile to Hayes.
The Grand Central Hotel, the Webster
House, and other buildings were burned
in Oakland, Cal, on Tuesday. Losses,
$3.50 600 light insurance.
Bessie Turner, who brayeIy cham
pioBed Mrs. Theo. Tiltouis cause in the
Beecher scandal, is married to Mr..
Cuas. Walgrain, Of Brooklyn.
A bill to establish an Agricultural
of the Governments. aud
make It's head member of the Cabinet, q
has been reported TO the House.
General o. o. Howard cannot explain
$500 of his overdraft on the Freedman's
Bauk, owing 20 the lapse Of time aud
the condition of the banks books.
Queen Victorias three warmest per
soual friends are Dean Stanley, the
Dean OF Windsor, aud Principal Tul-
lock, editor Of the Frascr's Magazine.
Mrs. Bslva a. Lockwood, the Wash
ington lawyer, has been elected an hon
oIary member of the Central Republi-
can Committee Of the ID strict of Colum-
bia.
New N0rk's answer 90 Francis Park
mau-S7 10 g iu the Assembly for wo-
meu TO vote on school matters, unan-
NOUS vote iu the Senate, and prompt
approval by the Governor.
Mrs. Kirkland, Of Chicago, has com
pletei model for q statue Of Oliver z.
Morton, 10 be erected at indianapolis,
representing the war governor as be
ten or fifteen years ago, and
10 is greatly praised by those who have
seen it.
Jessie Raymond has made an affidavit
that Senator Ben Hill Of Georgia is not
her seducer, and that the action was
conn unaueaF vyffhOrf her Enovrfa1ua