The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-03-10
SGESS0RfHCTUMS.

light at Columbus, Ga.
The Canadian Government is withdraw
ing its twenty-cent pieces from circulation,
they being unpopular.
Dynamite cartridges have been found in
the custom house at Limerick, Ireland.
The Miami oil and soap factory, ct Gin
cinnati, is burned, loss 500. 600; insured for
$50, COO
Ruyter & Sons tannery. at Greenbush,
aud adjoining buildings, burned on the lst,
Loss, $4,000.
A resolution declaring the election Of
Davitt, passed the house of commons by a
vote of 20s to 200 recently.
In the circuit court of Chicago Judge Tul-
| ley has decided that deposits in the hands
of private bankers are taxable.
The coinage executed at the United
States mints during February, was IS, ,049,-
$40, of which Sl,30O,0Go were standard
| dollars.
Tho will of Chas. Albert Reade, of New
ton, Mass. gives $50, 600 to the Treasurer of
the United States to be applied to the re-
| duction Of the war debt.
| Salem Statesman: Nora McCreary aged
| about II, accidentlp picked up, OH the End,
a bottle of strychnine and poured therefrom
| into her hand about fifteen grains of poison
| which she put into her mouth, resultiny i'll
| her death.
4 conference Of the great powers is to bo
| held on the Egyptian question.
After next January women taxpayers
will possess the same privileges in Scotland
as men axpayers.
A French Railway Company has obtained
concession from the Shah OF Persia sor line
| from Teneran to Reskt
A Philadclphia magistrate has been fined
| fifty dollars for making an excessive charge
of ULirty-fv cents in q fee.
Northern Pacific Willard, has arranged
with an immigration agent to get from o.
600. to 10000 men from Europe to work
| on his reads this season, and the agent will
soon start for Sweden.
The National Free Press, published by
the Soldiers and Sailors National League,
has begun the publication of double-column
lists designed to show the extent OF prac-
| tice of nepotism in the Civil Service.
The Marquis of Lorne has high opinion
| of Canada as matrimonial field for young
women. He said not long ago that those
| happy ma;dens emigrating to that country
would get an offer OF marriage about every
day."
| A petition has been presented to the
New York Assembly, praying that the
Hudson River Railroad may be compelled
to remove their tracks on Eleventh avenue,
in New York City, from the surface, and
enter the city through a tunnel
Commander Cheyne seems sangWne Of
obtaining $40, 900 in America toward the
expense of reaching the North Pole by
balloons. Sir Hugh Allan and other resi-
dents of Montreal have undertaken to obtain
q subsidy of 1000 from the Canadian
Government.
Ex- King Amadeus was recently robbed
! by one of his servants in his place at Turin
/ of 100, 900 francs worth # jewels and silver
The Prussian ,budgst.is made to show
surplus of 80, ,ooo, ,oea This is chiefly due
to the working of the railroads bought BY
the State.
Mile. Charlotte Rothschild, the eldes
daughter of Baron Gustave, will soon marry
a BELGIAN gentleman of old family and grea1
wealth.
The Committee OF One Hundred IN til
city of Philadelphia has secured the con
viction of seventeen persons for v1oiatlol
of th. election laws, such as the changing
returns and the stuffing of ballot boxes
4 All have been sent to prison and sevsra
have been disfranchised
The Zurich doctors took advantage 0
Lavater's remains having lately to be move'
to examine his skull. which they toun'
small but, we'll proportioned.
There is rumor in foreign diplomatic cir
cles that the Emperor Of Germany WILL OF
March 22d. when he will be eightytfly
vears old. proclaim the Prince Imperial hl
Lieutenant for the ordinary affairs OF u
Empire.
Amherst college is talking of 5000
gymnasium
No less than 1000 young Egyptiane az
I trained in the Koran by one school at Cair
: each year
? The total value Of school property
West Virginia is sl,743.92s. The schoe
population is 2ls.44l; the attendance 81
29S
More than thousand women are no
teaching in Switzerland. Girls are admit
ed to the high schools only in Zurich an
Berne.
: The University Of Tennessee. At hnoa
d vile. has just purchased fine 5000 Tel %
3 .cone. Il is six feet long and magnlf''
ever 500 diaa1etsrs.