The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-11-25
GENERAL NEWS.

Denis Kearney has gone back to his dray.
The National Grange is in session in Wash
ingtOn.
Salvini, the italian tragedian, has arrived in
Philadelphia.
During October 61,Sl2 immigrants arrived in
the United States
General Miles will probably be appointed Chief
of the Signal Service.
The statue of Alexander Hamilton was unveiled
in New York on Monday.
Moody and Sankey are holding largely attended
meetings in San Francisco.
Preparations are being made for the Inaugural
tion of President-elect Garfield.
A "cold wave" has passed over the Eastern
States, and canals and rivers are frozen over.
D. o. Mills, of San Francisco, is fitting up a
perfect palace at No. 634 Fifth avenue New York
Mayor Doyle, of Providence, has served the city
for sixteen years, and now declines a renomina-
ton
Governor James D. Williams, Of Indiana, died
at indianapolis on Saturday. He was buried yes
terday.
Edwin Booth has cabed from Europe protest
against the production OF ''The Passion at his
New York Theater
The annual report of the Indian Bureau for
1850 is completed. 1t expresses much hope of the
ultimate civilization of the Indians.
A. B. Meacham has been arrested in Denver as
accessory to the murder of young jackson, who
was killed by the Utes in September.
Lord, Stoutenberg * Co.'S drug establishment
on Wabash avenue, Chicago, was burned last
Saturday. Loss, S225,0O0; insurance, S1600OO.
Stephen c. Bradwell, an elderly New Yorker
has been arrested for uttering fraudulent notes on
the Spanish Bank of Havana to the amount Of
S2500OO.
The New York health department has been ex-
amining the sewerage in houses where deaths
have occurred from diphtheria, and finds il de-
fective in seventy per cent OF the cases reported
Mayor Kalloch of San Francisco has been ac-
cused by the Grand Jury of procuring the appoint
ment of a man to position in the City Hall and
then asking and receiving part of his salary
Because a woman refused to live with him, a
st. Louis man shot her and then himself. He
only slightly wounded her, but was so successful
in his attempt on his own life that the world is
rid of another fool
VIM. Forman, claiming to be an apostate Nor
mon, lectured in New York last Saturday on
'MormOnism Uncovered" He was introduced
by Tamage. The leSture "abounded i'm coarse
invectives but was humorous and highly rel
ished."
a number Of New York Democratic Clubs have
issued an address, declaring they will ''neVer
again, by money, moral influence or votes sup
port the nominee of any State or National conven-
ton i'm which John Kelly il permitted to exercise
his former pernicious dictatorship
Ericson's new torpedo boat is pronounced 1.-THE
most formidable engine of death known i'm naval
warfare" 1t consists of a vessel of the Monitor
style, but much more completely protected, with
a gun that throws projectile of 30 pounds of
dynamite, which eXplOdes by conclusion with the
hostile vessel. The 'mightest iron ships are
completely at the mercy of this fearful machine.
The Lotus Club of New York gave General
Grant reception on the evening of the DIST.
Whitelaw Reid, President Of the club, in his adj
dress, spoke Of the distinguished guests service
10 the United States, said that the people could
not afford to dispense with the experience gained
at the head Of the army and the helm of the
Government and dhinted that Grant should be made
MT 9pnpral of the \ r. a of tba
highest National council, the Senate In his re-
spOnse, General Grant wisely took occasion to
say that he is not one Of those who cry out
against republics as being ungrateful, that he is
satisfied with the American peoples treatment Of
him, that he cares nothing about having any
future provision" made for him, and that he is
ready to serve his country whenever il needs
him. His remarks were evidently intended to
put a stop to the conectures to ''what shall be
done with him.