, 1882-01-28
LOCAL NEWS.


There were over 100 two-hcrse vehicles in
town on Saturday.
The wife Of G. W. Bradbury l. quite III and
has but little chance Of recovery.
The Hawthorne Club mee.s tonight ct the
residence Of Hon B. l. shaT-tein-
The R<eord- Unie~ prophezi1es for California
ayea In 1859 such as Il has never known be-
fore
There are q few In this city who are fond Of
doing very much - the beggar did when he got
. horse.
Tom Tiernay called on Col. Nesmith to-day
and the two old-timers we're well pleased with
each other.
There are few so-called "ladies" in this
city whose indiserees conduct shocks the cir
cumspect in our midst.
The hospital Connected with the O. l. IN.
Co has been discontinued and now employees
must take extra care Of themselves.
Have You noticed that since the newspaper
war upon the canine tTite. that dogs grow
scarce on our streets. We have not yet.
Emigrants are coming. We noticed the
spring advance guard on the street to-day with
three wagons and nice lot Of stock horses.
''The coolest day Of the season was the 18th,
the thermometer showing two degrees below
zero" That's what the Spokane Falls Caroa-
icte says
The new air brakes are in operation on the
trains. and We 50 ak from experience when We
state that the train stops with almost startling
suddennesa
In San fEancis,o lady applicants for clerk
ships are requested by printed notice "to
please weep in the ante-r0m as the recorder
suffers greatly from damp feet.
Many of our business men are in delightful
wonderrnen. over the manner in which their
holiday trade keeps up. Our advertisers have
no cause to wonder over it, however.
Lower Main street looks very dull and un-
less something is done fer by giving that pOr-
tiun Of the city route In the depot, property
will decrease in vs'ue rapidly and alarminglY.
Oregon Navigation stock in New York went
up from l29 to l36 in two days after the late
bear movement Northern Pacific pref. is
quoted at 75t, and Oregon Transcontinental at
~.
II is rumored that the county officers have
already been parceIled out among new crowd
of republicans, and that the old ones are to be
left out in the cold '"rhe best laid schemes,
etc.
The Custer mill at Yankee Fork has yielded
one million dollars worth Of gold bricks in the
last ten months. OF this amount 50 per cent.
Is clear profit, owing to the easy working Of
the mine.
In case Of Aaron +. Sargents appointment
To the Interior department, 1t is rumored that
an ex- land office register Of this city. Who WAS
removed, will be an immediate applicant for
re instatement.
The ice now being put up in this city is
rather attenuated, and makes us long for the
10 inches thick blocks they are putting uP
about Spokane Falls. We will likely long
more too, next July.
Rev. Robt Boyd and his excellent wife pro-
will work while there in the interest OF the
church which he has built up in this city.
Success to tie enterprise.
The length Of rails used on crack English
= ailSAy-is thirty rsss.- Some of the roads use
rails twenty -one or twenty-four feet long. The
London and Northwestern company contem'
plate using sixty.foot rails.
Emil Sanderson came near having his new
castle blown up with an armful of giant pow
der Thursday. Fortunately he discovered it in
time 70 save his friends the trouble Of hunting
up fragments Of mighty good boy.
Major Keefer, the popular L. S. paymaster,
has returned from long and arduous trip to
the up-country forts. He was accompanied
by his son Horace, who is lately out from
Pennsylvania He can now be said to have
graduated.
Now is the time of year to trim your shade
trees. We notice 4 good many at this kind OF
work the LAST few days II all the tall poplars
in the city were cut off TO 4 uniform highth It
would add greatly to the appearance of the
city and would be help to the trees.
Emigration from Germany in 1882 promises
Ia become more colossal than in 1881. -Four
teen thousand tickets have already been taken
for transportation by vessels leaving Bremen
for Am erica in the spring. An almost equal
number Of emigranss are expected to 80 from
Hamburg.
Railroad building in this country is 'assum-
pruportions such as two years ago WIS only
dreamed of. Capitalists are fast becoming
aware of the fact that this is . country not tn
be ignored, and that We have all requisites for
the building up Of railroads such as no other
country Affords
A blacksmith who has been working for II.
Hoyaboom is reported to-day As having been
poisoned. Yesterday We refrAined from say
ing anything about this. although the man was
suffering and not expected to live, but to-day
we can safely say that the man in some way
took poison that came very near ending his
career.
Two yuung gentlemen at an evening party
were conversing when one remarked: u
think / made sensation all the time / was
speaking the whole audience received my state
men: with an open-moI.hed eagerness that was
really wonderful" Gaping is nothing very
wonderful" ;" said the other in his usual exAs-
perating manner.
Senator Ramsey, Of Minnesota, used to be
annoyed by the ringing Of church bell and 50
wrote to q newspaper on the subject saying
that city ordinance forbade cows which wore
bells from running about after dark, and ask
ing If q church bell was anything more than a
"sacrel COW bell Ever Afterwards be went
nv the nickname ''Old Sacred Cowbell"
Very little comment is heard on Mr.. Brents
IN for the admission of Washington Is . state.
tGlotside of few scheming politicians very few
fake an interest in il. In fact, it is impossible
for Washington to become state until after
she next Presidential election. There Are
osher territories with nuch larger population
and ,heir chances are already killed in Con