The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-11-18
GENERAL NEWS.

The latest ship canal proposed is one from Chi
cago to the Mississippi river.
Judge +. b. Taylor has been elected to represent
Garhed's district in Congress.
Libby Prison sold at auction OH the lIth for
S6725. 1t is now tobacco factory.
Newport, town i'm Arkansas, was nearly de
stroyed by fire on the 18th inst. Loss S2O0,0OO
Sitting Bull swears he will fight the United
States troops forever, and die rather than sur
render.
Two savings banks at Hackensack, \. J., have
suspended. J. J. Berry, cashier of one of them,
D 5 embeZzled Sl20,O00
The war between railroads centering at Chicago
is ended, and rates for passage and freight have
been raised to the old figures.
Horace Merrill wealthy merchant of Oakland
Cal, was found dead of apOpleXy in his room at a
Philadelphia hotel on Monday.
General sherman has made his annual report to
the Secretary of War. He says the army Is too
small to do the work required of it.
Several New York and Chicago policemen are
under heavy bonds for attempting TO drag United
States marshas from the polls on election day.
During the ten months of the present year, the
exports from New York, exclusive of specie, eX-
ceeded the first ten months of 1873 by S53, 77O,S4
a construction train fell through railroad
bridge Hickory creek, Texas, on the 10th,
wOunding thirty laborers. Half of them will die.
Mammoth City, a mining town about sixty
miles from Bode, Cal, was destroyed by fire on
Sunday, and the residents are suffering some dis
tress.
Sarah Bemhardt SAYS her reception i'm New
York was more enthusiastic than she anticipated,
and that the success she has achieved surpassed
her expectation.
The election is over and it cannot now be
claimed that the votes of negroes are needed i'm
the North, but the exodus from Alabama and
Louisiana still goes on.
The President has appointed Boutwell,, eX-Sec-
retary OF the Treasury, as counsel to represent the
United States before the newly-organized Franco
IN ed gla
Woodward, the city cashier of Boston, l. a de-
IA liter 10 the amount OF so, 24 Ii is found that
when he was promoted from clerkship 10 the
cashier poSitson his accounts were short S4s79.
There is a squabbe in New Orleans over the
m !nicipal offices. The ms refuse TO yield
their places to their newly-elected successors and
the courts will have to decide which crowd is en-
titled to possession of the city hall.
Representatives from ten states held confer
ence in Chicago on the 18th, and organized a
m )vemcnt for the complete divorce Of state and
ecclesiasticism. The meeting was notable by the
absence OF the most eminent movers in such plan
The Congregational Convention, now in session
a 1t. Louis, has ordered printed report prepared
BY DR. Edward Beecher, asking Congress to refuse
Z admit TO his seat the delegate from Utah, and
also to refuse to admit the Territory IS a State
until pOlygamy is abolished within its limits.
Secretary Ramsey is said to be much incenscd at
G neral SchOfelds report TO the association Of
white and coiored cadets at West Point and his
m liking the Whitaker case the foundation Of re-
IL uhs lOt LlpllhieHtdTS 10 MS eupeIlofs II Is
thought that General Howard will be given charge
o. the military academy.
Indiana Supreme Court has made another
bunder which is more ridiculous than its now
famous decision on the constitutional amend
ments. 1t granted a murderess new trial on the
ground that two members of the jury that con-
victed her incompetent To serve. The ridi-
culous part Of the decision is that neither Of the
men it mentions served on the jury.
On the 18th inst the south wing of the Mime
sofa insane asylum, at 1t. Peters, was burned.
Many of the inmates were unable to escape and
Others would not leave, running up and down the
halls screaming, crying and acting like bedamites
Many of those rescued from the building persisted
in the cold. They ran in their haf-nude condition
in all directions, and could not be Overtaken or
confined The number Of the dead cannot be esti-
around the burning building were heartrending
The whole catastrophe is fearful to contemplate
and impossible to describe.