, 1884-01-26

Ifou DI "iIlauson VIC !rSfu tlaN ->'i-
Blake, of the Slime House, is SO far recovered
to be able to sit up.
Wells, Fargo & Co. will move their express
Office on February 1T int the store Lately va
Gated by Wells { Hungate.
The will of john II. Stahl. be4ueathing all
his property to his wife, Mrs, Katrina Stahl,
was fled for Probate Monday.
4 bill for the forfeiture ef the Texas Pacific
land grant has been passed by the IA
tional house of representatives,.
Prrf Sullivan, of Boston. Mass is hoidiaE
forth at Butte to crowded houses, and the
preachers talk to empty churches.
The constitutional convention sitting at He
lena, NJ. T., refuses to incorporate the woman
suffrage clause in the constitution
lc sermon at Salt Lake, Apostle Teasdale
s.sked the Saints to bear testimony that Plursl
marriage is a necessity to the church.
The Catholics in England will soon com
mence the erection of a cathedral in Westmin-
ister, TO cost over 100000 sterling.
Our funny an says it is easier for camel
to go through the eye of needle than for
poor man to get into the United States senate.
Over two hundred lives are believed % have
been lost on a steamer bound from Shanghai
TO Hong Kong, which WAS wrecked On group
of islands.
Young James Mutt, the youth who shot
Dukes, was acquitted by Pittshurg jury On
the ground tha. he WAS insane at tie time Of
the shooting.
An extraor linary Increase in the number of
suicides at Paris is shown by the fact that four
thousand persons destroyed themselves last
year in that city.
Ell Mehdi's brother-in-lsx has been captured
but the old ,rriOr will not be- completely
broken up and crushed until his mother-i r-in-law
has been captured.
Complaints are made Of the robbery OF
trunks and oth-r freight in the o. Il K \.
Cos warehouses at Portland. The matter
should be investigated.
City Surveyor J. B. Wilson is engaged in
plating a new map OF the city. which en-
braces about quarter of 4 mile outside OF all
the additions to the city.
The lower house of Congress has adopted
stringent resolutions declaring forfeited all I'm
earned land grants. Returns from the Senate
are anxiously awaited
Farmers generally are getting ready for the
opening of spring by having their ploughshares
sharpened and everything else in ship-Shape
preparatory to turning up the soil.
The Duke of Argyle inteads TO wri e
reply to Henry Georges progress and Pow
erty." Henry ought to be much obliged TO
the Duke for the advertisement.
A new sidewalk is being laid on the Birch
street side OF the new Presbyterian church,
which will be great convenience to per~o
living on thas part of the street
Where now are the goose bone, the musk
rat. and the thin cOrn-husk that foretold
mid winter Inter Ocean.
All emigrated to Washington Territory.
The mayor Of Chicago has received from
Codington courty, Dakota, an appeal for ali
for destitute settlers, who accompany their
letter with word of caution 10 en1igrants
We understand that parties in this city will
start white laundry at the corner OF sixth
and Main streets, provided they can secure
from the CITY an exclusive fifty year franchise.
Why not.
The only sensation Of to day that our re-
porter has happened across. WIS two dogs
barking at a COW. S,agnatiOn is hardly
circumstance to the dullness Of the streets at
this period.
4 iail has lust been completed At Huron.
Dakota, and the Bismarck Tribune SAYS that If
is meeting with the patronage 1t deserves, but,
AZ several Dakota statesmen are still at large,
the Bismarck paper would appear to be IN
errcr.
A stringent anti Chinese law will be INTRO
dpeAd in the British Columbian house. II
will declare it unlawful for the Chinese to enter
British Columbia. and imp Sc an annual tsx
70 be fixed by the house on Chinese over four
teen years old.
r, the commercial school the students are
carefully instructed in sll the les Ing feo;ures
of the science Of accounts, thus beco-ins IA
miIisf with the processes viii h are sometimes
a source of great dirhcaitv- sV@A = -ee'unt-
ants of long standing
&C. McCoy's new stage Ike viii Mt run
beyond For. Cour d Alene al present. Later
in the season it will run from the Mission D.
III, mines. while Communication between the
! Mission and the Fort viii be maintained by
the steamers running on the river and lake.
Work on the Snake river bridge is cen
timed night and day. The iron frame
work Of two spans has been erected and the
supporting timber WORK has been removed.
The last pier is well on towards completion.
A good deal of ice is running n the river
1t is supposed the bridge will be resdy for
trains to cross by the first of April.
| Senator Harrison, It is said. has started his
presidential boom with biography which
traces his genealoSy hack to the PlAntasenets
and asserts that he ia the MY man in Indiana
With real '-coAt-of arms These matters are
of the highest importance IN Indiana a state
which has produced Blue Jeans Williams and
! Secretary Thompson, the ancient mariner Of
the Wabash, is evidently great Stickler Tor
pedigree Andtoue.