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

The town OF Liberty, in Virginia, was re-
ported burned recently
A two-cent letter-postage bill has been in
troducel in Congress.
A lumber of men at Jacksonville propose
working on the o. & c. extension.
A greenback- labor convention has been
called to meet at st. Louis, March 8, 1882.
All the members OF the Utah Legislature
are mormons, and twenty soven are poly,
gamists.
ga ST Louis man traded his wife' for a
bake shop He has got something that
can cook now.
John c. New of Ind dala was recently
confirmedassistant secretary of the treasury
Business is lively at Pendleton owing TO
the presence of a large force of railroad
hands.
Colonel Fred. Grant has been made Pres
ident of the American Electric Light Com
pany of Massachusetts,
The barn of Eli Vaughn was burned re.
Gently at Jefferson. 1t is believed to bs
the work of AN incendiary.
The Noethcru Pacific has 1000 miles of
road in Operation, on which 1914 locomotives
and 3099 cars are used.
Unlatila county has now eighty two organ
lied school districts: including about five
Thousand school children.
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on the 2lst inst. and the government made
a deposit towards paying the American
delt
B.F. swag. art held in $1,000 bonds
for shooting Jas. Coyle. at Ceuterville,
Umatilla county. He furnished the neces.
sary bail
a correspondent Of the Falls City from
Nealy says that there is disease among
horses in tha.t vicinity which proves fatal
in most cases.
Jennings Smith, charged with an assault
with a dangerous weapon, was tried recently
at Salem. The jury, after bsing out thir'
teen hours, was discharged failing to agree.
There is a large body of fine land between
FaliingSprngs and Snake 1ivery yet unclaimed
and awaitig settlement by those who wish
excellent farms.
The trial OF thirty-sx Nihihsts belonging
to the Terrorist faction commenced on Feb.
90. at S. Petersburg before special court.
sitting with closed doors.
Benjimen Swaggart, the proprietor OF
ra,Eorriila Sl and killed. re-
Gently, James Coyle. The affair was caused
by gambling difficulty.
The Baker City Tribune saith: Private
information, from" what we believe to be a
reliable source, says the Oregon Short Line
railroad will have its construction cars run
ming to this city the coming SINNER.
The entire length of the road to be con-
structed from Redding to Roseburg is 30
miles, of which l7o miles will be in Oregon
and l4O miles in California, and it will be
rough work all the way.
The Census Bureau reports the coal pro-
duct of Washington Territory during 1880 as
amounting to l45,Gi5 tons, 18th $50 laborers.
the capital invested S335, 42l;' the acres OF
coal land worked, $500.
The Weston Leader remarks that the Wil'
low Cresll country is Attracting more and
more attention from intended settlers. 1t If
: fair to assume that in two years more, 1t VIII
l be as thickly settled as any agricultural por
ton Of Umatiiia county.
On the ed inst, a prisoner by the name
Of Henry Graham, sentenced to the peni.
tentiary from jackson county, jumped off
the cars at Harrisburg when the train was
running at the rate of 25 miles per hour.
The train stepped and the prisoner was
retaken unhurt.