The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-07-29
GENERAL NEWS.

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Europe for his health.
Sales IN the New York Mining Ex
change are Increasing.
Secretary Thompson is inspecting
Mare Island Navy yard.
Boston's population IS 3G3,555; in.
crease m ten years, : ! 056.
Vermont Democrats have nominated
L. J. Phelps for Governor.
There IL 81 100000 in gold en- route
from Europe 70 New YORK.
a vessel with yellow fever on board is
quaraniined in Mobile Bay.
Rhode Islands population is 276. 40,
a gain Of $1,000 in ten years.
The Middleton Savings Bank of Hart
ford has been robbed OF SojO. 600
A fusion Of the Democrats aud the
/ GreeubackeIs Il Msiue is reported.
The Usage Indians have commenced
/ depredatiOns along the Cimmaron.
/ For the year ending June 80. 1850 L.
;. exports exceed imports Sl6S,OJO 600.
a site fur the Alexandrian obelisk
T has been selected iu Central Park, New
/ York.
The Republicans Of Chicago and Hi
nois are making an aggressive cam
/ psign.
I Many Of the negroes who went from
Texas 10 Kansas are trying 10 get back
home.
Senator Bruce predicts the usual bull
doing in Mississippi during the present
campaign.
Chas. Barlow, of r C. Dun * Co.'S
mercantile agency, died al Lpug Branch
on Tuesday.
Secretary sherman will stump Ohio
for Garfield as soon as treasury duties
will permit.
The new steamer II. T. Dexter burned
az Louisville Oh the 26.h. Loss, 500
600; insured.
Chas. Norton killed Officer O'Neil at
kukomo, Col, on the 2ith, aui was
hung by a mob.
Politicians are urging that Baine is
needed on the Pacific Coast in aid Of the
Republican cause.
. II is reported that General Grant has
assumed the Presidency of the : % Pedro
Mining Company.
The Sun says Hlucock's letter Of ac-
cepiance is flushed, aud that he is
waiting for English.
Congressman Sheiialarger f. confident
that the electoral vote Of Pennsy lvauia
will remain Republican.
Ex- Secretary NcCary, who was
member OF the Poland Committee, en-
phaticaily endorses Garfield.
The prospects for the cotton crop are
fair il the planters diligently fight the
worm and the weather Is good.
The Chinese Legation at Washington
says foreigners are not wanted, under
any circumstances, for China's army.
Work on the Hudson River tunnel
has been resumed, aud the traces Of the
late fearful accident are being Obliter-
ated.
Paul smith lcol1r-d) choked to death
John King, an iri=h laborer, at Ciucin-
natl, on Monday. King had assaulted
him.
A di-graceful political row is reported
from Nermiiliouvis Louisiana, ia
which Hon. J. II. Acklin figured con-
spicuously.
G.. W. Smith. . prominent citizen Of
Nevada, Cal, Shot aul killed I. W.
Sigourney, another prominent citizen,
on Monday.
Joseph PedIahita, q CIban-American
citizen. has commenced suit to recover
$50. 900 damages from Spain for false
Imprisonment IN Cuba.
About three hundred L. ;. officers
and their wives were entertained on
board a japanese war vessel in san
Francisco Bay on Friday last.
Hugo and Albert Bach are held by
the L. : Commissioner at New York
for eXtrsdition, they being guilty Of ex-
teusive forgeries in Germany.
The session of the san Francisco Su-
pervisors on Monday evening broke up
On a row, as Mayor kalloch paid no at
teution TO parliamentary rules.
Senator Bruce, OF Mississippi is to
. take an active part in the Maine cam
paign. He will also make several
speeches in Ohio and Indiana.
II i- said that Edison has given up
his efforts 10 devise an electric light,
aud is now working on uoiseless,
z smokeless aud dus.le-s electric locnm0-
tive.
/ Wm. Stickney, Secretary Of the Ute
T Commission, died on the 2lst. John d.
French, ex-S-rgesnt alarms Of the
Senate, was APPOINTED TO ill the va
cancy.
Chief OF the boys in Blue" has or
dered them to organize ia their respect
i've states 10 promote the election Of
Garfield and Arthur.
The Republic Of Santa Domingo has
dee red its adherence TO the rules Of
the Universal Postal Union, 10 take ef-
feet October lst- Our Government is A
member Of said Union.
Maud S trotted half mile al Chicago
on Monday ia l:05. the best ou record
aud finished IN 2:l3l She could have
done still better, but her driver did not
wish to distance her competitor.
st. Julien, Hickox's California trotter.
with the miraculous record OF 2:l2l, has
delighted ChicagOaus, easily winning
three straight heats against Darby and
Hopeful. Time, 2;l75, 2:lsi, 2:l6l.
A collision between the steamer Gar
land aud the steam yacht Mamie oe-
CURED on the Detroit River on Friday,
and a number Of acniytes Of the Trinity
Roman Catholic Chorch OF Dstroit went
down with the vessel.
! a committee o. the Q. s. Labor