The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-01-22
GENERAL NEWS.

Foster has been inaugurated Governor
of Ohio.
The death rate in Deadwood, Dakots,
is very high
General Grant will sail for Havana
ia a few days.
The war among the trunk lines III the
West has terminated.
Negroes are arriving in Kansas from
Texas iu great numbers.
Medical Director Taylor, L. >. NJ
died at Boston on Monday.
Postmaster Brayton, Of Providence
r.. l.. Is "a defauiter in Sl5,OJO.
A negro bas been lyuched in Virginia
because he aud white girl eioped-
Richard sullivan, writer and Journal
isl. died in San Francisco on the l4th.
Tammany will take steps 10 prevent
Tilden's nomination FOR the Presidency
Seuator-elect Garfield, of Ohio, was
rendered a reception at Columbus re-
Gently.
OF the business failures Of 1879, fully
one hal. came within the first quarter
of the year.
The fifth annual banquet Of California
Pioneers took place in New York City
on the 18Th.
Fernando Woods bill proposes to re-
fund the remainder Of the L. >. debt at
81 per cent
Arthur German, Democrat, has been
elected Senator from Mary land TO sue
ceed Whyte.
The surface Of the earth over Miller,
Hoyt Is Co.'s coal mine, near POttsyIlle,
Pa, is sinking.
Hanlon will not row Courtney again
unless he will sign an agreement to
"play or pay"
b. T. Kennedy has left Pittsburg, Pa,
and is said 20 be defaulter. He was
county official.
The City OF Peking, from HOngkong,
is in quarantine at san Francisco for
fear OF smallpox.
The bark c. c. Tobey is aground of
BedIne Island, having been stove in by
the City OF Savannah.
Whitelaw Reid is sending homeless
children from New York 10 the West
and getting them homes.
A discovery of gold placer diggings is
reported about fifteen miles north Of
Cloverdale, SOnOma county, Cal.
Some fellows, arrested for making
fraudulent election returns, have for
feited their bail in Philadelphia.
The gross earnings Of Massachusetts
railroads in 1879 were 100000 600. But
II miles Of road were built during the
year.
Major Morrow has routed the Apaches
under Victoria, in the San MateO
mountains. Lieutenant French was
killed
Mrs. N. J.. Crew, living on a farm
near Aver, Mass, was outraged and
then murdered by unknown parties on
the 18th.
The California Congressional delega-
tiOn opposes the confirmation of Morton
as Collector Of Internal Revenue at
San Francisco.
BY boiler explosion in Pixies mill,
at Fremont, y. H., on the 10th, Clar-
euce Perkins was killed aud Jos. Quiuby
fatally injured.
Cashier B1berer, Of a Louisville saw
ings bank. is a defaulter 10 the amount
Of 100000. IL is thought depOsitors
will lose nothing.
DR.. Machem has been arrested at
Denver, charged with procuring an alb
Ortiou on a girl Of Bainbridge, \. Y,
and causing her death.
The boiler Of the steamer Greece, ly-
ing at Hoboken, exploded on the 18th,
killing two 'lOngshoremen and wound
ing eight other persons.
+. 3. Wells, paymaster of a Chicago
gas company, was robbed of 81 600 while
riding along Deering street in buggy,
by three masked men, on the 10Th.
An engine on the Reading railroad
jumped the track on the 10th, near
Bethlehem, Pa, killing the engineer,
JAS. DAILY, and iujuriug The fireman.
Every building in the town of Prince
Arthur's Landing, on Lake Winuebeg,
was more or less damaged by an expI0-
sion Of nitro giycerine on the 18th. No
one was killed.
Lucy Walton, alias Rhett Horton,
who recently shot q son of Senator Nor
gau 40 Washington for breach of prom-
i-e, is under 1000 bonds to await the
action of the Grand Jury.
Fitz John Porter is TO be restored 10
the army with the rank Of Colonel, or
placed on the retired list as Major Cen
ersl. He is 10 he paid $50 900 iu lieu of
salary for the time he has been under
ceusuTe.
a fire on Broadway, New York, on
the l7th did Sl50O0O worth of damage.
The occupants of the building were
turs frames, aud Andrews & Co, dealers
iu furnishing goods.
General Chamberlain has recognized
Davis as Governor of Maine, basing his
action on The decision Of the Courts.
Both the Republican and the Fusiouist
Legislatures hold sessions. The mem-
hers Of the latter body have been locked
out of the State House.
Eli H. Murray, the Handsome man
oi Kentucky" has been nominated for
Governor Of Utah by President HAYES
against the wishes of the entire Cabinet.
lie Is editor Of the Louisville CONNER
ciat, 4 prominent Republican, aud was
"a cavalry general ia the Union army.
y meeting OF old soldier planters was
held 10 MI, Pleasant, South Carolina,
recently, aud resolutions expressing
desire for cordial aud fraternal union i'm
the country were adopted unanimously.
TO effect this, their Earnest desire.u
General Grant and Senator Bayard were
placed Ia nomination for President and
Nlce-President of the United States.
The Eugene Guard is worried by the
other newspapers after the foIlovvino,