The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-09-02
GENERAL NEWS.

Julien.
During August. the national debt was
reduced Sl2, ,027, l67.
The Chinese ship Ho Chung has ar
rived at San Francisco.
Sapovonari is mentioned as the prob
able successor Of Chief Ouray.
Work has been resumed in. the coal
mines around Scranton, Penn.
New York City's debt was reduced
50 4S0,3Sj during the past year
Senator COnkling will make four cam
paign speeches in Indianapolis.
A reunion Of L. 5 Colored National
] Guards has been held at ST. Louis.
ST. Julien lowered the trotting record
to 2:ll4 at Hartford on last Thursday.
The hot weather in New York contin-
ues, and the deaths exceed the births.
At Sacramento, President Hayes aud
/ party will be the guests Of Leland stan
/ ford.
A negro has been lynched at Bowling
Green, Ky.i for assault on a white
woman.
Cottrelrs tobacco works, at Ovens
boro, Ky, have been burned. Loss,
$3.50. 600.
/ Hon. Robert McClelland, a member
Of Pierce's Cabinet, died at Detroit on
Tuesday.
Chief Ouray, Of the Utes, is dead, aud
there is now no hope that the treaty
will be signed.
Tie steamer Marine City was burned
on Lake Michigan last Friday. Some
lives were lost.
a very heavy raiustorm flooded
Richmond, Va, on Tuesday, and much
damage was done.
Rev. d. X. DeHughs, a Methodist
clergyman Of New Jersey, committed
suicide on Tuesday.
Milton Terrell is under arrest at At
lanta, Georgia, for outraging his four
teen-year-old daughter.
The Silesia brought 81 ,425 600 in
French francs and German marks to
New York on the 2Sth ult.
It is thought Sitting Balls warriors
cannot now number more than $50, so
many have come to Fort KeOgh.
Detroit has refused license to
company Of "bare- legged blondes" who
wished TO give an entertainment.
a storm has destroyed the quarters Of
the officers and men az Fort Morgan, 7.
Arizona. Three men were killed.
The Republicans have several Irish T.
orators In Maine, eUdeavoring to wean I
the Irish from the Democratic party.
The flow OF gold from Europe to the /
United States is great. There is now .
S25, ,O0O 900 worth in the L. ). Treasury.
President Hayes aud wife and Cen .
eral Garfield and wife attended the sol 1
diers' reunion st Canton, Ohio, yester-
day.
The National Democratic and Repub-
licau Finance Committees report large
sums OF money on hand for campaign .
purposes.
Miunesota's wheat yield this year
will be 40 1000 900 bushels. California .
will now probably rank AS the second
grain growing State.
John Kelly says TAmmany's State
Convention will be abandoned if the
regular Democracy of New York intend
TO hold d convention.
The man who was Secretary Of State
under Governor G8rcelon of Maine has
declared his purpose TO act hereafter
with the Republicans.
The Nirginigns who were arrested on
a charge Of being about to engage in a
duel have been placed under 5000
bonds 10 keep the peace.
Squire P. Dewey is suing the bonanza
for an accounting 20 the
stockholders of the California Mining
The suit is similar to that
Of Burke vs.. Flood et. al.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Railroad bridge over the Missouri River
below PlattsmoUth, Nebraska, is COM
pleted, and has satisfactorily stood q Sc
we're test. l. is made Of steel.
y State Convention Of Infidels closed
three-days session at Marshalltown,
Iowa, on the 2Sth nit. Matthew Farm
ington presided. Among those who ad-
dressed the convention was Mrs. Lake .
Of California.
a California Democrat has written to
Washington City that Governor Per /
kins removed Registrar Kaplan 90 that /
the Republicans can commit frauds in 1
registration, and says Kaplan had the 1
confidence Of every body aud all partiesl |
The best proof Of the fact that the .
filled trade dollars, recently discovered .
IN large numbers, we're made by Chi /
uese, Is found in the fact that it would |
be worth more than a dollars work at I
American wages to drill them out and |
fill them with solder.
Il is understood at Sacramento that |
President Hayes and party will arrive /
there on the Sth instant, 70 70 Oakland |
to attend the Admission Day exercises
on the llih, depart soon thereafter bv I.
sea for Oregon, and return overland to |
Sacramento, which city he viii prob- f.
ably reach on Septem Der 3Slh.
Secretary Sherman said in hi. Gin |
cinnau speech on Tuesday evening:
81 have never said one word impugn
ing General Arthur's honor or integrity
as a man or gentleman. He was re-
moved from the Office Of Collector be-
cause be was not in harmony with the
Administration in the management Of
the Custom House"
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