The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-04-07
GENERAL NEWS.

sheep to the eastern markets.
Wheat is quoted weaker in the San
Francisco and Chicago markets.
The strike at Lawrence, Mass, continues
and is assuming alarming proportions,
Prof. Ladru Royal. of the Ashland Acad-
emy, will leave shortly on an extended trip
East.
A German colony of three hundred or
four hundred families is to locate at Glen
dive, M. L.
It is said that immense cave deposits of
! hat guano have been found in Uvaide
county Texas.
Five boys were buried in side hill tun
mel they were digging at St. Joe, Mo-, on
! the 18th inst
1t is now alleged that Dana. of the Sun,
knew of the Morey letter and its authors
several days before it's publication.
The loss to England by the last three
years bad harvests rs estimated at from
500, ,0G0, 600 to $50, ,000 600 a year.
bcid fSit LldlflS ul lit w. IOdu Sot
through on the 18th after which the road
was again blockaded and al, trains stopped
The Historian says: We are informed
that there is a case of smallpox at one of
the cauneries at upper Astoria--a China
man.
Dayton Weekly Ncacs: A little child of
VIM. Parker, living between MILESTONE
hollow and the Patti was scalded to death
last week
A vigilance committee has been forming
in Centerville, Umatilla county, for the
past two weeks for the protection OF life
and property.
Daley & Graves, mining on Calls creek,
the other day picked up a nugget of gold
worth about $25. They have a good piece
of property, and no mistake.
A variety belle, wishing to be very severe
on rival, said the only thing that wasn't
false about her was the hole in her stocking
---Philadsiphia Chroa;cle- Herald
According to the Railroad Gazette, the
total earnings of the Northern Pacific dur
ing the year 1851 amounted to S4,O44, ,576,
being an increase over 1880 of Sl,4I4, S6G
or 53.S per cent.
The municipality of Paris has asked the
Government to permit the cremation of re-
mains which have illustrated anatomic al
lectures In two hospitals these aggregate
in year some $500 corpses.
Of ten children born in Norway a little
over seven reach their twentieth year; in
England and the United States somewhat
less than seven reach that age in France
five, in Ireland less than FIVE.
No saloon i'll Gelolendale at the present
The lieeuse was $500 per annum. The pres
ent council raised it to $1,000 which is more
than the parties can pay. The license hav-
ing expired, the proprietor closed his saloon
last Saturday.
Nine polygamists of the eleven members
composing the city council of Ogden have
resigned and it is said that tkc~ vacancies
have been filled by the mayor by the ap-
pontment of others who are not olyga,. :
lists i'll practice.
By parties just down from Farnin 5ton,
says the Pomerny RagnbHcm we arc H.
formed that tie wife Of John Dood recently
gave birth to IL l2-round boy. This, in
itself, is not a very unusual circumstance,
bat Mr.. Dodd is SO years old and his wife
is 49, She is the mother OF 20 children.
JAS A. Yantis, ex elitor of the CorUyIis
Gazette, has l,een ill the city several days.
He is Just recovering from Sci Se of typhoid
fever, AMI vsi,s this section OF country
for the benefit of his health We are hap
py t. state that he is slowly improving.
Wm. Yantis, his brother, accompanies him
-Dayton Weekly Neacs.
An attempt WAS male at PoHleroy. w.
f., ON Wednesday, to take the life of Ben.
Hirsch, now merchant at that place, but
formerly IL r, silent of Salem, by two tles-
perate characters named Blanchard and
Benbow. The attempt was unsuccessful,
and the would-be murlerers Were elected
from Mr. Hirsch's store and placed under
arrest Considerable excitement prevailed
in Pomeroy over the affair." and had Hirsch
been killed the mur2erers would have
doubtless been ''Seattled."
The .Staudard of March 29th says
James Dorning was up in Justice Davis
court yesterday for preliminary examina-
tion on IL charge OF attempt to commit rape
on little five-ycar- old daughter of MIR. B.
Cohen, proprietor of the Keystone restau
rant. The evidence was deemed sufficient
to warrant his being held to answer before
the grand jury il the sum of $1,000. 1t s
alleged that one Sunday afternoon he en-
ticed the little girl and her brother into a
stable at the corner of Third and Madison
streets, where he placed the boy upon a
horse. He then took the little girl into an
adjacent stall and shovel her some silver.
He promised to buy her candy and began
to remove her clothing. The girl baaan' to
cry, and her little brother hearing her cry,
also cried out. This frightened the man
and he made his escape. The girl, upon
going home, told her parents about the at
tempt and the case was entrusted to Con.
stable Simmons to work up. There was a
about the mans hand that the
children remembered, and with the descrip-
tion of the man, Simmons had very little |
difficulty in finding him. Dorning was
arrested at Salem some time since OH a