Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-12-16
GENERAL NEWS.

The Duke of Newcastle is to visit Cali
fornia.
The expenditures on the Brooklyn bridge
To date amount to S14,Oi56ei.
Anthony Trollope is improving and is able
to walk, but his speech is not yet restored.
In the recent oil boom in Pittsburg, Pa,
shares went from $50 to S23j0.
The aurora display has been remarkably
beautiful all over the country.
At Pittsburg, on the Eth. 3,000.OoO barrels
OF oil changed hands within II few hours.
kossuth defends the Jews in Hungary.
Keen's colt Toxhall il for sale in London
the price asked being S25,Oo0
Everything points TO n declaration of war
by Austria against RUSSIA.
Ben Butler emphaticallv denies that he is
"A candidate for the Pr, s.dentitl nomination
by tie Democrats.
Cleveland Governor-elect Of New York.
Is spoken of as the Democratic nominee
for President III 1881.
George G. Gorham will probably receive
the Republican caucus nomination for Sec
rotary of the United States Senate.
William McAvoy. Labor. Greenback
politician of Chicago, has been driven in
sane by the result of the election.
Eighteen of the leading printing firms of
Establishments on account of their employees
going on n strike.
George NJ. Pinney, we'll known in Califor-
MIA i'll connection with navy yard frauds
several years ago. has had a couple of men
arrested in New York for lbeling his char
acter.
The thirteen ear-old son of u Portland,
Or, minister shot al n playmate three times
because the latter had told their teacher of
/ InI aNta L.
would-be murderer.
General Grant declares straightfOrwardly
that Fitz-John Porter has rested under false
charges for twenty ears, Il fact which Gen
eral Grant has only come to believe within
q short time past.
The London jOrid considers the New
York reception of Mrs. I4anptry as credit
able to the American Republic from every
point of view. and mt once enthusiastic and
discriminating.
The value of thb estate of the son of Alex
ander Hamilton of New York, lately de-
ceased, Is about S1,OO0OO0. The heirs have
settled their differences, and there will he
no contest of the will.
An Englishman named Edward Whiting
ton WIS arrested in Dublin, having twenty
packages of dynamite caps in his possession.
de stated he was sent from Liverpool by n
| man unknown to him to New Ross with the
parcel.
An electrical storm of unusual strength
has extended from New York to Omaha.
So severe was it on the nth that telegraphic
communication was carried on with diff
| Guilty, and i'll some places the batteries were
| entirely closed.
| Henry Brooks, an aged colored man, WHO
claims TO have been the body servant of Gen
| eral George Washington, and who says he
| has voted for thiity-seven Presidents, and
never took drink or uttered AN oath in his
| life, went to the " Washington house of cor
rection for three months for vagrancy.
At Syracuse, \. Y, nearly Il thousand
armed men have been stationed 1T the point
| of crossing of the West Shore and the Che
mango Valley Railroads. and the latter ran
two engines on the Disputed point A
| large force of extra pOlicen EN- have been
sworn in, and there Is a strong probability
that blood will be shed.
| The leaders of the Prussian Center party
have resolved TO demand that the privilege
of equal rights which have been granted the
Old Catholics in common with the Roman
Catholics, be withdrawn from the former.
| Also. that Catholic priests he permitted to
say mass and administer sacraments with
| out previous sanction of the prelate.
The Garfield Board of Audit has re ,eived
| 4 characteristics note from Christopher l..
| Logeksties, the glazier i'll whose putty
| box one of the bullets that were fired by
| Guiteau at President Garfield lodge. The
writer says: - wish il to be understood
that / am far from making the alleged
claim hut hope your honorable body will
assist me i'll IN, endeavors To get an honest
living 10y intrusting II me position MS
Waterman or n similar Office in one of the
Government departments
The Sultan had levee To celebrate TIE
| l3OOth year of the Mohammedan calendar,
which according 20 the predictions of soOth-
savers will give to the world new Prophet
of Islam. A new revelation has been made
public by the astrologers, which assured the
Sultan that he himself is the Mahdi, or the
new Prophet of Islam. The celebration of
the religious solemnities is so universal that
business is at standstill and the streets of
Constantinople are given up TO professions
and religious festivities.
few days ago, in New York. the brown
mare Manetta, hooked double 10 Il road
wagon with the running horse l4ongman,
| trotted two miles in the extraordinary time
| of 4:27l4 the first mile in 2:lila and the
second in 2:12st. The mare did not wear
breechings. and outside of his taking the
major part of the weight, she received no
ass stance from Longman. The track was Il
| dull and slippery. The two miles are the
fastest ever trotted. The first quarter OF
the first mile was trotted in II seconds
the second in Gisi seconds, the third i'll 3
| seconds, and the fourth in BPS, seconds
| The last half-mle was done i'll l:02S,.