The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-08-11
NEWS ITEMS.

Unfavorable crop reports come from
France.
A tremendous building boom has struck
New York City.
Orville Grant, brother OF Gen. Grant, died
at Morris Plains, N. j., on the 9th.
The Irish meeting at Chicago has decided
upon calling grand convention in 1882.
Walla Walla, which is at present lighted
by lamps, will have gas by the 18th of Sep.
TENDER.
Two thousand hop pickcrs will be required
to gather the crop in the Puyallup valley,
this season.
North river valley near Shoalwater bay
is to be surveyed by d. P. Henry, for the
government.
The Kansas colony have decided to locate
in Whatcom county and will 60 there as
soon as practicable.
There are fields OF peas in the Nehalem re-
gions of Clatsop county which will yield 60
bushels to the acre.
French Bonapartists agree that the death
of Prince Imperial has ruined their hopes of
ascendancy in France.
Gen. Mart V. Brown, who has been i'll for
several months past. died at Sodaville, Linn
county. on Wednesday last.
w. G. Fargo, president of the American
Express Company, and Mayor Of Buffalo,
died ON the Sd, aged SO years.
The steamer Dayton which, for several
years, has been running on the Cowlitz river
route has been laid on the shelf.
Hon. John H. Mitchell has been ap-
pointed attorney for the Northern Pacific
under the Willard management.
DR.. D. S. Baker, of Walla Walla, is about
to build large and costly Touring mill in
that city, or within range of the wheat fields.
The Ashland wooden mills have lately
received orders enough to keep the mills
running day and night for several months
Prominent Irishmen held secret meet
ing at Chicago on the 5th. Priests tried to
get them to cease plotting and adjourn but
they refused.
Lord and Stevens, who escaped from the
penitentiary at Seatco on the Sth inst, were
retaken near New Tacoma and returned to
the prison on the 10th.
Fred. Barneburg of Eden precinct, Jack
son county, owns a flock of sheep, 276 in
number, from which POO pounds of wool
was sheared this spring.
The Seattle IateIHgencer is Dragging about
logger on the Skagit hauling 100000 feet
of saw logs. over road half mile in length,
to the boom, in six days.
On the farm of Maj. Moore, near North
Yamhill, a twig sixteen inches III length was
cut from cherry tree, containing 204 cher
ries. 1t was a beautiful sight.
The harvest in Schleswig- Holstein has
never been so bad as this year. Most of the
farmers are selling their cattle and horses,
owing to the scarcity of fodder.
1t is about decided that when the Pres
ident is able to be moved that he will be
taken to the soldiers home. and if he stands
that will go on a brief sea voyage.
A log 26 feet long by nearly feet in d.
ameter was brought over the railroad from
Turner's camp. The log is supposed to con-
tain not far from six thousand feet.
Internal machines have been discovered at
Liverpool in barrels shipped from America.
The machines were encased in zinc boxes,
clockwork style, prepared with dynamite.
A telegram received at the state depart
ment on the 26th from the United States
minister to China announcing the ratitica-
ton of the two treaties between the United
States and China exchanged at Pekin
July l4th.
Much uneasiness is still felt throughout
England concerning the well known fact
that internal machines have been success
fully struggled through several ports and are
probably now in the hands of men who know
how to use them. Sir VIM. Harcourt is
kept continually on the alert. He realizes
the danger