The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-12-18
TElEGRAPHIC DISPATCHES,
of the past week condensed
GENERAL NEWS.

Leading clearing houses of the United
States report that total gross bank ex-
changes for the week ending December IL
were s., ,O3l, ,649, 746, an increase OF 800 per
cent. COMPARED with the corresponding week
last year.
A Dallas, Texas, special says: Prof. ).
H. Wethers. (colored} principal OF the Dai-
las colored school, has undertaken project
looking to the colonization OF about 2ooo
colored families in Brazos county, Texas.
The plan is to purchase 100000 acres, and
divide the same into fifty acre farms he1
has many applications for land from south
-ern points.
The N. Y. Tribune Washington dispatch
says: Debate ON the question of removing
disabilities imposed by the l4th amendment
of the constitution is one of those things IN
prospect Senator Beck's bill proposes res
toration to citizenship of Jefferson Davis,
Robert Toombs, Jubal Early and Others
who have not asked for it.
The N. Y. Post says, regarding the sup
ply of capital: s'The situation is unprece-
dented. There rever has been so large an
amount of money seeking investment at
such low rates, and for so long time, as
has been experienced in this country for the
past year up to the present time"
A short time ago Judge Dawne, of Sitka.
Alaska, in consequence, it is alleged, OF
crooked business transactions In which ne
became involved, left Sitka and took the
steamer Idah from Tongas to Victoria, b.
G.. From there he took the Canadian Pa
.cific to Montreal, and was in that city last
Saturday. He is supposed to have gone to
Halifax. there to take a steamer for an
English port. Detective Feely, of wash
inpton, passed. through the city last Monday
on his track. The Judge is involved to the
amount ct $4,000.
The Philadelphia Commercial Gazette will
publish tomorrow a lengthy communication
from James Briggs, miner employed at the
Altiouippa mines of lynn & Co., in which
he makes the startling statement, that as
an outcome of last weeks riot at Pine hun
working miners have organized for the pur-
pose of defending themselves against future
attacks of strikers. He says they have
sworn to compact, demanding life tor
life if any of their number falls while gome
to work. Having always livel honest, hon
orabie lives, aud being good citizens, they
will not be shot down without revenge
The letter defends the working miners, and
& ,ot looofa1 the
Monongehala valley have any idea OF th'
terrorizing threats or intimidations usec
toward those refusing to join the strike.
The will of VIM. H. Vanderbilt has beer
filed and made public. It bequeaths to eacl
of his eight children the sum of SIC. .O0O.OoO
half of which is for their free disposition
and half to be held in trust, Che benetciar.
to receive the income yearly. To the wilt
is given an annuity of 100000, and a sun
sufficient to produce such annuity Is sc
aside. Mrs. Vanderbilt is empowered t
dispose by will $500, O0J of the principal 9
the same. She also receives the tamil
mansion and stables, with all the contents
except a portrait and marble bust of V ndel
Vanderbilt The four married daughters
in addition to their SlO,OOO.000 each, al
given the houses they now occupy. Nume
GUS distant relatives are given annultles
from $1,000 to $4,000 each. The twentiet
clause beaueaths 100000 to the Wander
bilt university at Nashville, Tennessee
The twenty-tirst clause beqneaths the TO
lowing sums to domestic and foreign mi
sionary societies, ETC.: Primitive Eplscop
church Of the United States, SlO0,OoO, II
domestic purposes; st. Luke's hospita
100000; to the Young Mems Christian a
sociation of New York, $780, 900; to I'll
general theological seminary of the Primiti'
Episcopal church, $50, 600; to the New Yol
Bible and Common Prayer Book -soclet
$4,000; to the home of the incurable
$4,000; to the Protestant Episcopal Chur
Missionary society for seamen IN the city
New York. $4,000; to the New Yo
Home for Incorporate Men, $4,000;
the New York Protestant Episcopal Mlssi
society of New York, 100000; to
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 500, 600;
the American Museum of Natural Histol
$50. 600; to the Morovian church at Ne
DROP Staten Island, SI0O,O0O All the r
of the estate is given to his sons Cornell
and VIM. K. Vanderbilt, in equal shar
and without restriction The will fina
proyi les that the widow and four sons sh
ba execut ,rs and trustees of the esta