The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-02-19
NEWS ITEMS.

Congress is about as dull and dismal as an
Oregon fair in a rainstorm.
The National democratic Committee meets
IN Washington on the 23d.
Women have the right to vote for school
officers in New York hereafter.
There were l6S, 600 cases of cholera, and
| l0l, 600 deaths from the diaease in Japan
last year.
Eight deaths from diphtheria in one local
ity i'll New York resulted from broken
drain pipe.
Ex-senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, is said to
be making 81 900 week from a North Car
DINA gold mine.
IL. c. Dale, the defaulting sheriff of Yam
hill county, has commenced his term in the
Oregon penitentiary.
The city hall at Albany, N. Y, was de-
stroyed by fire on the 10th. When the dome
fell seven tiremen were crushed.
On account of the late rise in the price of
paper the Chicago INES has raised theprice
OF subscription per year to SIG.
The state normal school building burned
at San Jose, Cal, on the 10th inst. The loss
is estimated at $3.50, 900, with only $50, 900
insurance.
The ship Wildwood, laden with iron for
the Pen d'Oreille division of the Northern
Pacific railroad, cleared for Portland Friday,
from New York.
The senate committee on elections has
unanimously agreed upon report exonerat-
ing Senator Ingalls, from the charges of bri-
berry preferred by Kansas memorialists.
Dividends paid by the New York Central
railroad from 1853 to 1879 amounted to the
prodigious sum of sos, 100000. The stock
is one of the best investments of the kind in
the world.
c. w. Goodrich, of Fort Atkinson, Wis,
made during the year 1879 1900 pounds of
butter from IA cows, averaging 300 pounds
to the COW, and estimates the total income
from each at Sl4
All efforts to settle the quarrel between
the Tilden party and the Tammany party in
New York have again failed. The new dec
laration of Tammany against Tilden is simply
war to the knife, as heretofore.
To give an idea of the ravages OF the diph-
liberia i'll southern Russia, it may be men
toned that in the one province of Pultave
about 1000 persons have died OF the disease
in each of the last three Years.
A cyclone, accompanied by lightning,
thunder and heavy ram, passed over Nash
vile at midnight on the 18th. The wind
blew at the rate of forty miles an hour. 1t
did considerable damage to buildings.
The glass factories at Pttsburg, Pa. which
several years, now have all they can do to
keep up with orders, and have raised prices
10 to 25 per cent on window glass and table
ware.
Two imposters, under the name of Handy
4 Wyman, contidenced New York dry goods
men out OF nearly $50 900, by pretending to
be commission firm and getting credit on
goods they bought, selling the goods and
leaving the city.
A correspondent of the Times at Dublin
reports the general condition of Ireland as
decidedly improved, although severe distress
is felt at many places. There is reason to
believe that the whole aspect of the country
is improved and the relief measures have
proved adequate to the emergency.
The Pacific Mail Co. have announced a
war of rates to San Francisco for passengers
and treights. After the 18th, rates for pas
sage will be S75 for frst-class and $50 for
steerage. In opposition the railroad COM
panies on the l. th, offer the following rates:
First class 500; second class, $7j; third
class, Is.
President Billings, of the Northern Pacific
railroad, has directed Joseph L. Dodge, civil
engineer, to make Immediately reconnos-
sance of the Yellowstone valley, preparatory
to an early survey Tor extension of the road
several hundred miles up the Yellowstone.
Mr.. Dodge left st. Paul on this mission on
the 2oth January.
For the past two years trains on the Mis-
sour, Kansas and Texas road have been fired
at just after dark, near Codda, Indian Ter
ritory. Cab windows have been smashed,
cabooses perforated and employs wounded.
The United States marshal has caught a
white man named Myers, in the act OF firing
on train, and so desperately did Myers re-
sist arrest that Ayers shot him fourteen times
before he succumbed.