The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-09-16
several cases of small pox are reported at

: Several cases of small pox are reported at
the Dalles,
Abont twenty-five steam threshers have
been employed in Yamhill county, this sea-
son.
Brownsville hotels are reported running
over full, and many private families are
keeping boarders.
A post of the e. A. R., to be called Nc
Pherson Post No. 80. will be mustered in
by comrade Pierce, in Albany this week.
Another rumor is adoat that the lease
between Willard and the Scotch Co. is about
to be broken off.
The steamer Great Eastern is to b. sold, if
purchaser can be found. She has proved
a perfect failure, and though the extension
of comerce has been enormous, since she was
built, the need for SO large vessel has not
been felt.
The improvement going on in Vancouver
this season is remarkable. Main street is
assuming respectable appearance, and the
number of buildings going up are too num-
erous to mention.
The bridge at Lafayette has been COM
pleted and thrown open to the public. It
is in length l.l37 feet, reaching from hill to
hill.
Out of eighty five distilleries in the Nash
vile, Tenn, revenue district, all but twen-
ty.six have ceased operations It is believed
all the d1stilleries in the upper county, save
two i'll Moore county, will have to cease for
want of corn.
Gov: Thayer has appointed Geo. R.
Jaques. 252 Broadway, New York. and
Louis NJ. Fulton, 20 Nassau street, New
York. commissioners of deeds for Oregon,
and w. P. Ready of Corvallis, notary
public.
Monday morning of last week Capt. ]. I. .
Chatterton guided the barge ]. L. Hallet
over the Cascades successfully from the
Upper to the Lower landing. Capt. Chat
terton started with the Hallet about
o'clock, and by o'clock was safely over
| the rapids.
Sunday evening of last week at the Dalles
fire broke out in one of the large houses al
the garrison formerly occupied as officers
quarters. Before the steamer could gel
there the flames had progressed SO far as tt
be beyond control. = The building was soor
| in ruins.
The N. P. R. r. is now "a miles from
Spokan Falls, and within 80 miles of Pei
d'Oreille. Track-laying and grading ar
progressing at the rate of d miles a day
under the supervision of Mr.. Chas. Pond
A few days since loud noise was heart
in the mountains on the west side OF th
Bitter Root. the report resembling that of I
cannon and reverbrations. The noise wa
caused by the falling Of peak, and was 8
loud that it was distinctly heard Eight Mile
below Stevensville. Prob sbly thousands o
tons of rock, the foundation of which hat
been crumbling for ages, came down will
crash.
| G. G. Smith, for some time night watch
man for the o. R. & N Co. at The Dalles
died in the pest house in that city on tn
9th inst. of smallpox. The disease was con
tracted while at Astoria a few weeks ago OF
summer vacation. He was a member O
Columbia Lodge l. o. o. F.
The marriage of Lieutenant Ulio, OF tn
Second Infantry, and Miss Carrie P. Kohn
hauff, was celebrated at Walla Walla on tn
evening of the. 10Th inst. at the home OF tn
bride. The bride was the first white chill
ever born in Walla Walla, or indeed II
Eastern Washington, the event of her brit
occurring Dece mber lst 1865.