The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-06-25
VANCOUVER, WAsnisaToN T'Y.,l
May 18th, 1881.

notes from this part of the world.
And let me beg their pardon If this
effusion is little on the variety
style.
The steamer State of California,
five days overdue from Portland to
San Francisco, has been found by the
Manzanita, government steamer
sent out to look for her. The State
left the Columbia river with fair
wind and smooth sea. Next day
during storm her rudder became
disabled and broken shaft render
ed the engines worthless,and the ship,
swinging around to sea, had its sails
torn to shreds in an instant. They
were now two hundred and sixty
miles from San Francisco, off the
most dangerous part of the coast,
completely disabled, near the point
| where the brother Jonathan met
| her fate Fortunately, the wind was
blowing off the shore, or not one
would have been left to tell the tale
Of as sad fate as befell the ship
that went ashore hereyears ago. The
loss OF. the Brother Jonathan" is ia
miliar to all of your readers that WIS.,
it the Oak Grove Cemetery, near
Morgantown, As the Z Mmzonita
towed the State up the bay to San
Francisco thousands of handkercniefs
were waved from the. city, from YES
sells in the.bay, and at the docks, .;,ll
giving hearty welcome to the noble
ship that had lived through such a
trying ordeal.
Col. John Mosby, now at Hong
Kong, China, will soon visit Oregon
and Washington Territory, on Il
pleasure tour, and will leave China
as soon as he can arrange his affairs
there.
noticed barge going up the riv-
err the the other day, loaded with en-
gines for a new railroad. do not
think they build any paper railroads
out here.
The fish business is now going on
in earnest. The fish in the Column
bia river would astonish your fish
ermen. The sturgeon weighs from
fifty to three hundred pounds, and
one was caught few years ago that
weighed over eight hundred pounds.
The salmon weigh from five to forty
pounds.
| was in Oregon City recently, and
was surprised to find a wooden factory
as large and doing as much business
as any / know of in the East.
Portland, Oregon, is one of the
livelicst cities l have been in. The
/ population is rapidly increasing, and
may rival San Francisco in the fu-
ture. Second street is all business
houses, and owned by the Chinese.
They have josh house, theatre, etc,
and attend strictly to their own bus
mess. We may some time find ont
we have as much to learn from the
1 Chinese as they have from us.
| Decoration day will be observed
here next Monday The companies
stationed here, belonging to the 2lst
/ Infantry, headed by the 2lst Infant
/ ry Band, will march to the cemetery.
1 Speeches will be made, and the
graves of the soldiers that have join
ed the silent majority, will be strewn
4 with flowers. Last decoration day
4 was with the Fenton Guard Band,
4 at jamestown, N Y, and l must give
the jamestown people credit for hav-
| ing the neatest, best kept, cemetery |
have yet visited.
/ / must speak few words in re-
gard to farming in this country. l
notice that corn is hardly worth
planting, as very little OF it amounts
to any thing. Wheat, oats and grass
are success. Potatoes yield Won
.derfully, and / learn some of them
weigh as much as seven pounds.
This is splendid country for stock
4 raising. The fruit grown here is the
finest ever saw. Whena man buys
4 farm here he finds it covered with
| a perfect jungle Of fir trees, from six
inches to eight feet through and from
forty to three hundred feet high. 1t
would be impossible for the farmer to
clear his land in the usual way, so he
sets fire to the entire forest. As the
wood as full of pitch it burns very
easy.
AS the late DR.. c. McLane was
resident of Morgantown, l feel
proud to state that | have never yet
been in city, town or cross roads
where his medicines are not used.
One great evil here, as elsewhere,i is
intemperancc. / haze become con
WINGED that holding Murphy meet
ings and preaching against rum sell
ing is almost. waste of time aud
breath. I believe the only way to
make the world temperate is to begin
with the children. If mother be-
gins early to teach her child the evils
Of this damning habit, and makes it
part of his education, he will grow
up with will enough Of his own to re
sist all temptations. The meanest OF
! all the mean drunkar6is is the bloat-