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


The Improvements on the indianapolis
water works will cost $500. 000.
Iowa has l,057 deaf and dumb people
about one to 1000 of the population.
A telegraph cfiice has been established at
Par!ler's station, on the Linkville road.
The semi annual dividends payable in
Bosten in February Will aggregate 3d.
537, ass.
The railways of Illinois have l6,55s,76
miles of main line and 7,92s,67 miles of
branches
There were seventy-seven free passes on
the train which was wrecked at the Spuy-
ten Duyvil Cut.
Out OF ninety convicts hanged in the
Uuited States in 1881 Arkansas heads the
list with fifteen.
The only drawback to cocoan,.t raising in
Florida is that it takes ten years for the
trees to bear.
OF six hundred and one convcts in the
Arkansas State Prison, more than one hun
dred are nurderers.
A hotel containing FIVE hundred rooms
and costing $4,000, is to be erected in tas
National Yellowstone Park
The botanical garden in Washington costs
about SIC, 900 per year, It furnishes flowers
to official society"
China imports 100000 chests of foreign
opium annually. Average smokers spond
twenty-five.
The janitor of the. Normal College in New
York gets $500 a year-much more than
some of the teachers.
The Immediate deficiency bill upon which
action was taken by the house recently
calls for SIS, ,S22, ,932.
Tennessee will vote in August Oh the
question of calling Constitutional Conven-
ii III.
Concord, n. H, reports recent change
in temperature OF seventy degrees III forty
eight hours.
Sixteen thousand acres OF white pine
timber land was sold in Clinton county,
Penn, for $50, ZOO.
A fire in Hague street, New York
recently destroyed stock AMI machinery
valued at $50, 900.
Revenue officers captured thirteen moon
sinners and a large quantity of liquor in
Titus county, Texas; recently.
The Ohio river at Cincinnati recently
was up to the second story of many houses
i'll the lower part of the city.
The water tank at Dayton is estimated to
contain IS, 00o gallons 1t is twenty feet in
diameter at the base and sixteen feet high,
The fashionables OF New England Griva
horses three abreast as the Russians do.
The present winter is said to be the most
| active and brilliant that has ever been
known in New York society circles.
The English steamer Etiber, plying be-
| tween st. Domingo and Havana, foundered
of Puerta Plata Oh the 18th inst No one
| lost
4 Bourbon county woman tells it On hel
husband that he courted her twelve differ
ent times, and that she rejected him OF
eleven OCCASIONS
General Hancock takes nap of a certain
length ut a certain hour every day. See
how much happier he is than if he Lad beer
elected President.
When the President is dinner guest al
| Washington he sits at the right of the host
aud the person in whose honor the dinner is
given sits at the right Of the President.
The Sheriff of Rhea county, Tenn, ha
offered to pay $40 for information against
people who fire pistols in that county.
There have been several rich veins of Goa
discovered in the South Saskatchewan Val
ley. These discoveries will be o. inestima
BILE value to that part Of British America
Boston is moving in the matter of secur
ing elevated railways. The streat cars ar
inadequate to accngnodate the traffic, ans
the tendency is more and more for busines
men to live iu the suburbs.
An amethyst has been found in Georgi
bearing drop OF water in cavity near TIN
center Of the stone. This is nolancommon oc
surrence in the case of quartz crystals, bu
a cavity in amethyst is said to be unique.
The company do not expect to finish
the State line the present year, but hope t
reach Rogue River va ley this year, an
. finish the line in 1888 Rogue River peopl
will be s.taken in out of the cold" this Fal
< well known negro at Jacksonville
: named John Giancer, died very suddenl
at that place recently from the effects OF
fall he had received.
The mail carrier on the Coos Bay WACO
road. from Roseburg to Coos Bay, repor
: about nine feet of snow on about nine mile
! Of the road, and great difficulty in gettir
/ over it.
Prof. I. L. Rogers will retire from tt
f presidency of the Ashland college at tt
+ close of the present term, being impeiled
! leave Ashland in the hope of beneiting b
t health by change Of climate. It is unde
e stood, we believe that Prof. Royal will tai
t charge of the school at the beginning Of Il
next year.