The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-03-17
GENEIhL.

The capture II jesse James is again re
ported from Kansas
Prof D. T. Stanley has started semi
monthly temperance paper. .-.
| Snclt are running heavily il the Columbia
river They are of fine quality.
A small bug. with a grasshoppery head,
is biting the Alabama wheat
The president has n nrmin tel Walter A.
| Smith U. S. marshal for California.
The erection ot new wopien mill and
Touring mill is being taiEsl Of in Albany.
| Annie Murray, who recently shot anil
| killed Henry Prang in Portland, died last
| week.
| Prof. Powell holds teachers institute
| in Monmouth Polk county, Eeginning with
! March 22nti.
The steamer Oregon arrived on the Sth
with $50 Cinnamon who were destined for
| the N p r.. r.
The Oregon Short Line. it is thought will
be completed from Granger to Baker CitG
by next year.
Portland spent $sl37l 46 for her schools
during the fiscal year ending March lst; a
good showing.
A District Teachers Institute will be
held in Albany, Linn county, from March
2Stl to March 3lst.
It is thought among Senators in Wash
inyton that Senator Hill of Georgia will die
from his malady.
An unknown Steerage passenger leaped
from the steamer Oregon on the 25th ult,
and drowned himself.
Secretary Folger has ordered collection
of duties ON sugar according to its apparent
color when imported.
We understand that the cannerv on the
Lower Sin .law will be started up during
the next fishing season.
Dan Patterson, says the Relrock Demo-
crat, shot and wounded Ed Lyon recently.
Family troubles were the canse.
The o r. & N. Co. expect to have regu-
lar trains running between the Cascades
and The Dalles l'y the lst prox.
z. T. Kennedy. who has been employed
as leading writer on the San Francisco Alto,
committed suicide on the 9th inst.
A little daughter of Mr.. Van Bibber says
the Weekly Tacoma Ledger, lost her life
last week, by a tree falling upon her.
Counterfeit half dollars bearing date of
1871, and purporting to be coined at the
Philadelphia Mint, are in circulation.
At the appro aching consistory the pope
will create seven new cardinals. including
the most Rev: Dr. McCabe, archbishop Of
Dublin.
MISS Ada Thomas has been elected School
Clerk of the East Portland School District,
beating three men in the contest for the
position.
In the year 1879 there was collected and
expended for educational purposes in the
United States and Territories the enormous
sum of s7S, ,3S5, 956.
Private advices from Ottawa state that
syndicate of California has arranged with
the Cana liam Government to build the Nan
aimo railway. STANDARD.
Mr.. II. Baily. of the Willamina lumber
ing mills, we are informed, lost about 600,-
900 feet of logs during the high water last
week, by the breaking of a boom.
The bill providing for the admission of
Washington was reported from the house
committee ON the IIth. with the clause
adding northern Idaho stricken out.
A young man named Robert Boyd com.
mitted suicide in the bar-rooD of the st.
John Hotel at Weston, on the evening
of Friday last, by taking poison mixed with
whisky.
Times Constantinople: 1t is feared in
official circles that war between Russia and
Austria is inevitable. The Question of
calling out reserves is being seriously dis
cussed.
It is learned from goad authority that
Charles Hamilton, the paramdur of Carrie
Bradley and one of her accomplices in the
murder OF James N. Brown. is lying sick at
Mazatlan, Mexico.
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