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

Moody and Sankey have arrived in San Fran
CISCO
Garfelds plurality in Indiana is $40, and in
Ohio 81, l77.
Several cases of smallpox are reported in Vir-
ginia City.
The Republicans have secured one Congressman
in Kentucky.
tornado at Utica, New York, on the 9TH, did
considerable damage.
Passenger rates on railroads running out of Chi
eago have been cut very low.
1t is said that Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague has
brought suit for divorce against her husband
President Hayes says there is no truth in the
rumor that attempt was made to assassinate
him in Kansas.
E. J. Dawson and f. A. Clark, post office en-
ployes at Denver, have been arrested for stealing
Government funds
An insane man at New York shot Sister of
Charity four times, alleging that she had be-
witched him. She was finally rescued.
Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, Congressman from the
third Brooklyn district, is an Independent Repub-
hcan, as is General Malone, of Virginia.
Col. f. L. Drake who drilled the first oil well
IN pennsylvania, and thus founded the immense
petroleum business, died on Monday at Titusville
On the 7th inst, Batesvlle, Ohio, a
drunken German killed his wife and child and the
wife and child of a neighbOr who were visiting at
his residence.
The elegant steamer Rhode Island went ashore
near Beaver Tail Lighthouse, Narragansett Bay,
the fIn, during ana Is almost total loss.
The fog whistle was not blowing.
John Sherman announces that he will be a can
dldate for Senator from Ohio subject to the wish
Of the Legislature, to fill the vacancy caused by
Garield's election to the Presidency.
General Garfield has received about thousand
congratulatory kilograms, and letters almost num-
berless. He answers all that need replies being
as prompt after the election as before.
A warrant has been issued for the arrest Of
Willie, the l5-year-od son Of Ex-Governor and
Chase attemDtiup ~ a slO
Robert Thompson, his mothers trustee.
Denis Kearney's rule at the sand-lot is about
over. Last Sunday he informed by many
former adherents, in language more forcible than
polite, that they had had enough Of him"
Samuel J. Tilden and his followers blame John
Kelly and his Tammany friends for the loss Of
New York, and the latter hurl back the charge,
saying the sage of Cipher Alley is responsible for
the result.
Sheriff Desmond of San Francisco has been in
dlcted by the Grand Jury for felony in permitting
the escape of prisoners. Kaplan late Registrar, is
indicted for grand and petty larceny and misde-
meanOr while in Office.
Stockholders Of the Edison Electric Light Com
pany have been assessed sixty dollars a share 10
meet the expenses of Edsons recent experiments.
he will lgive public exhibition in New York
next month before introducing the light for use.
The Chief of Ordnance has recommended that
the Government establish new machine shop at
the Benicia arsenal. He says the Pacific coast
ought not to depend on the manufacturing facili-
ties of arsenals 1900 miles away but should be in
a manner sef-sustaining.
An American steamer from the north has
brought news to Yokohama that, according to in
formation received from the natives, Benefits
yacht Jeanette and several whalers have been
lost in the Polar seas, and that all hands perished
The vessels were crushed in the ice
The Catholics of Cleveland have presented Cen
eral Garfield with a gold-headed cane In his
speech, he said this, among other things: II ac-
cept this all the more gladly because it comes
across one Of the lines that divide us religiously
for in our country man may adopt whatever
ligiOn he chooses, religion if he prefers. The
religion of the people is left to voluntary choice
and not to the control of human law"