The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-01-05

under arrest.
Labor troubles are anticipated soon
about Chicago.
Amongst the mail destroyed Dec.
21st in the New York Central Rail
road accident there was 40 sacks for
Oregon.
1t is said that the starving condit-
ion of Irish people in the west of
Ireland is so miserable and wretched
that human language is inadequate
to picture their terrible condition.
M. Gambetta, the celebrated
French orator and statesman died On
last Monday morning. His death
was not expected but for only short
time before he died.
Inauguration ceremonies took
| place in Albany, New York, on the
morning of January lst.
At the incoming of the New Year
a heavy shock of earthquake at Hal
flax was felt, lasting about thirty
seconds. Several crowded churches
who were watching the new year in,
were almost panic stricken.
AT the conclusion of the reception
| at the White House in the city of
Washington, D. c., Aon. Elisha Al
len, minister from the Hawanan
islands, dropped dead of heart dis
ease.
The total value of imports of mer-
chandise of the United States from
China and Hong Kong for the year
1882, amounted to s22, ,e3s,4s4. The
value of exports to the same places
amounted to s9,213,sso.
Severe storms in San Fran cisco
have recently done great damage to
ships, humping them against the
wharis. Piles along the wharfs were
snapped in two like pipe stems.
The scare of the Russia-German
war has passed away without hardly
realizing, So sudden was the dlssap-
pearance of it.
The shock of an earthquake was
felt throughout the city of Rock1sland
and vicinity on New Years eve, fol-
lowed by storm of thunder and
lightning.
The Russian consul general of San
Francisco has issued orders prohibit
ing foreign vessels, under pain of con
fiscation, from trading, hunting, or
fishing on the Russian coast or island
in Okhotsk and Behring seas, with
out special permit from the governor
general of eastern Siberia. 1t is
thought the intention of the Russian
government is to prevent any traffic
with the islands, other than through
it's own subjects.
Something unprecedented in the
annals ofthe fraternity in Matoon,
ILL.,, occurred in the practice of DR..
D. M. McFall last Saturday night,
being nothing less than the birth of
two male children with two well
formed bodies, united from the
sternum, with one neck, one well
formed bead, the chin resting on the
right and left shoulders of the bodies,
and the face looking to the side. |
Physicians here say it is one of the
finest specimens that ever como un-
der their observation.
Seventyy-six deaths from small
pox the past week occurred in Balti-l
more. To-day a case occurred in !
the city JAIL. Over 500 prisoners,
confined for minor offenses, we've
discharged.
A syndicate has recently offered to
buy from 100000 to 100000 |
acres of the Northern Pacific lands
east of the Missouri river.
The Chicago Times says the pur-
pose of a certain bill in congress is
to enable the Southern Pacific and |
other railroad corporations to con-
as one corporation so as to |
make through line under one man |
, cement from the Atlantic to the
oaci.sc. 1t is thought when this is
lone it can be operated Independent
# state or territorial Interference.
This line is one which Stanford
and Crocker have been
rying for years to complete.
The Cincinnati Southern Railroad
,ui:t at a cost of over $50, 100000
md the Louisville and Nashville,
wo great lines extending through +
ome of the most valuable territory
n the south, under Jay Gould's man
lgement. The scheme is that Gould
viii assume control of the Mobile
md Ohio as soon as it passes out of
he hands of the receiver, and make +
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