Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-02-27
GENERAL NEWS.

'lsn WHICH I1O0oken, N. d., WO-
nan recently assaulted her servant.
The cost of the Boston postef6ce
md sub treasury building and land
lP to January lst was S5,Sl0,-
Oils.
A bill providing fer tax on all
Incomes of over $500 has been in
reduced in the Connecticut Leg
stature.
A bear charged on funeral pro-
,ession near Ashland, Penn, re-
Gently, and made the pail bearers
drop the corpse and run.
The arrival of immigrants at Cas-
tie Garden, New York, last month,
fell off over "a per cent as compar-
ed with January, 1884.
A public indignation meeting
was held in Boston a few nights
ago to protest against the exclusion
of colored people from skating rinks.
The question OF tho restoration
of the whipping post is before tho
Pennsylvania Legissre for the
restriction of wife beaters.
Legislation against the sale or
gift Of cigarettes TO boys under ten
years cf age, has already got through
one branch of the North Carolina
Legislature.
A bill prohibiting base ball play
ing on Sunday, and making it pun
ishable by heavy fine, was passed
a few days ago by the Arkansas
Senate.
Connecticut has not now quite
5000 members Of the Grand Army
of the Republic, but the relief fund
of the State Department of the
order gained 'Sll,724 last year.
There is a movement to remove
the principal of the public school at
HALEY, [. T., because, among other
things, he pronounces Indian "In-
jun," and plays billiards.
Albert A. Hils, formerly con-
nected with a California paper, is
missing from his home in Brsoklyn,
N. Y, since February Sd, when he
mysteriously disappeared. He is
fifty years.
New Orleans thieves have stolen
many of the iron bolts holding to-
gethet the piling and girders of the
trestle work constituting the Pont
cEartrain bridge of the Northeast
ern Railway.
The public debt of the Dominion
of Canada is in excess Of SSe, 900,
600, an increase of S7,OOO,0Oo il
the past six months. The Canadian
Pacific Road IS an applicant for an
other appropriation.
Many Southern railway compan
les have this year placed their ole
cross ties at the disposal of tn,
Mayors of towns along the lines o
their roads to be distributed to de
serving poor for firewood.
A married couple who separate,
twenty years age in Saratoga coun
: ty, N. Y, and had since been livin
separately, were reunited a fs,
days ago through the death Of thei
, only child, daughter.
A bill is pending in the Rhod
Island Legislature providing fc
the creation of a new holiday, to /
3 known as "Veterans' Day." tt
, idea being day for the gener'
reunion of veteran Union soldier
y The report Of the North Carolir
negro spies who were sent to A
kansas was favorable, and the ex
s dus from the southern part OF tt
:. - old North State has begun in ca
- =. nest. The colored people are lea
- ing by hundreds.
y Two Rochester men were arrei
ed for making and selling "ras
=. berry wine" without Governme
% license. Their plea was that Il
r. stuff was not wine, but a combin
o tion Of water, tartar acid, orr
q. root, alcohol and aniline colorin
% An Emporia (Kansas) man W
had been blind for seven years,
gradually recovering his sight. T
D. can already distinguish person
a and ulon doing so frequently 6
Of presses surprise, their appearan
e. being different from what he c
er poets.
- AS an evidence of the faulty &C
- Il dltion of the sidewalks of Chicas
.. " the City Attorney reports that Sc
. enty seven damage suits are ne
pending, and he cites that it weu
70 be less expensive to repair t
q. sidewalks than to pay the juds
n ments regularly returned again
10 the city.
K The trial at New Orleans
= Judge Thomas Ford of the Secel
! Recorders Court, on charge
IL the murder of man named MI
ie ply, is bringing forth what t
New Orleans papers term ga We
t. amount of perjursd testimony" al
r. steps are being taken for Ford's il
d. parchment and removal from t
u. bench.
H. Il Rapid progress is being made
= Chicago IN getting rid of aeri
~ - telegraph and telephone wir'
H. The work of placing the wires U
x der ground is going forward wit
' s out attracting attention or distul
= ing business. There are now 7
'e miles Of underground wires in t