The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-07-08
GENERAL NEWS.
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lll.
Louisville has nearly 10000 inhabI
tants.
Many eases Of suustroke are reporte,
- 10 New York.
Jas. G. Blaine will probably visit ID,
Pacific Coast.
Some damage being done ia Illinois
by heavy rains.
The national je.t aas reduced So.
, 2l4, 42i IN June.
Horace Maynard Of Tennessee is now
Postmaster General.
Republican nominee for Governor OF
West Virginia, G.. c. Sturgis.
} Scott won the san Francisco peles-
i trian match, making sos miles.
II. c. Baldwin is the Greenback can
didate for Governor Of Connecticut.
Yale beat Harvard in the fifth annual
eight-oared four-mile race last week.
Lancaster, Pa, and Pensacola, Fla,
each had a SO. 900 fire on the 5th inst.
George Ripley, LID, principal editor
Of the American Encyclopedia, is dead.
The Irish-A merican Republican Con-
4 vention will be held on the lith instans.
Five persons were killed on Tuesday
bya boiler explosion near Dunkirk, Ohio.
Harvard beat Columbia in the two
mile race between eight-oared crews.
Another oil fire az Bradford, Penn.
has caused damage 20 the amount Of
S35, 600.
Schuyler Colfax declares Ames's testi-
mony in the Credit MobiIer matter to
be false.
a Philadelphia ferry ran down a row
boat on the 5th, aud four persons were
drowned.
Z. 5. mints coined Sst, t,37O,I4f during
the year ending June 3Oth-S27, ,93f. 80
being silver.
Faber won the Pittsbnre 12.hour-a-
day match, making the best time on
record, 363 miles.
Eight persons were drowned iu White
Bear Lake. twelve miles from st. Paul,
Mimi, on the 5th.
General R. r. Dawes is the Rspubli-
can nominee for Congress from the Fif-
teenth Ohio District
\ steamboat explosion occurred on
Lake Minnetonka, Mich, last week,
killing quite number Of persons.
Hayes has signed David NJ. Keys
mmission As L. 5. District Judge OF
Eastern and Middle Districts Of Tennes-
see.
Chicago's population is SOP SIS, and
St. Louis will again get up a meeting 20 I
growl about the dishonesty OF census /
enumerators.
At thetime Of the Scawauhska d,sas- 4
ter, IL was said that not over .Iwenty 7.
lives were lost. Forty bodies have been F.
picked up already.
The headquarters Of the National I
Committee OF the Greenback Labor /
party are located at 903 PENNSYLVANIA .
avenue, Washington.
General Grant aud party were at
Kansas City on the 2l inst. The Gen F.
eral made a rather lengthy speech in
reply 10 the address Of welcome.
Mrs. Hayes has received from Limo
ges, France, a porcelain dinner and tea
service costing 50, 600, and said 10 sur
pass anything OF the kind in America.
Mrs. Mary O'Conuor, Of Jersey City,
murdered her children because She was
sick and unable 10 care for them, aud
thought by killing them they would go
to heaven.
Mrs. Dubois, "a heroine " bo once
brought q vessel into port during the
illness OF its officers, is iu New York,
sick and destitute. The Herald makes
an appeal for her.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has re-
turned So 600 900 10 the Treasury, being
the amount saved from appropriations
for refunding the national debt and for
collecting customs.
a marshal struck a man at Troy
Mills, Iowa, last Saturday, for insulting
a woman, when free fight between 500
meu occurred, lasting two hours. Four
cOmbatauts were fatally and p seriously
injured.
Company G. Of CALIFORNIA; militia
was encamped near Monterey on the
Fourth, and in preparing 20 fire salutes
> pound can Of powder was exploded,
killing w. o. Burke and damaging b
+. Hastings so he will probably die.
Dom Piatt argues that Garfield can
not be elected, because the American
people never have elevated and never
will elevate a man Of brains to the
Presidency. He names Webster, Cal F..
houn and C0rwin, as examples 10 prove
his conclusions.
A stable at the corner of Turk and .
Hyde streets, san Francisco, burned on .
Monday night, aud Is horses perished .
In trying % save them, six firemen
were caught under a falling roof aud .
more or less hurt. One, named Chester,
was buried under 80 feet Of buring hay
for half an hour, and was taken out in
sensible. He is crushed aud burned,
and can hardly recover.
A society OF Southern Regulators lKu-
kluX under new uame) with a large
membership has been discovered in Nir-
ginia. They terrorize the colored peo-
pie. Their punishment is whipping on
the bare back with a hickory rod 4
report OF the operations and the charac-
ter Of the society has been presented to .
Attorney-General Devens, who will .
doubtless try and break up the rufIianly .
and lawless gang.
Attoruey-GeneralD Dsvens has given .
il as his opinion that the President has /
the right TO make appointments for va .
cancies occurring during a recess Of F.
Congress or during sessions Of the F.
Senate If the Senate fails TO confirm a .
nomination; bat such appointments .
are 10 expire when Congress reassem- /
bles. This decision is called out by the 4
nomination Of Hartranft as Collector at /
Philadelphia. Devens finds that Hayes .
has only followed the uniform practice .
OF other Presidents
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