Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-03-20
GENERAL NEWS,


monism recently lief. Tennessee for
Utah
Applications for office 60 into
the departments at Washington at
the rate Of 200 day.
Gen. James Longstreet has not
yet settled his accounts as United |
Statss Marshal Of Georgia.
In England 6,Sl9 out of every
$4,000 persons are named Mary,
and 6,59G are called William.
The wh8at in Southern Indiana
and Illinois is reported to have
been badly frozen cut during the
winter.
The largest sum ever accummu-
lated IN one body is said to be the
$500, 100000 now in the United
States Treasury.
Although the new Treasurer of
Hahersham county, Ga, has given
his bond for $4,000 there is but
$3.50 in the Treasury.
Thomas J. Nevin, Adrian's ab-
sconding Mayor, has arrived at his
former home in charge Of an officer
and is in Jail awaiting trial.
The recent death of q citizen of
Jameshurg, N. j., from blood poi
soning is attributable to wound
received during the Rebellion.
Vermont has been seized with
the Western fever, and fully 1000
Of its honest farmers will seek
homes in the West this spring.
The American Peace Society has
sent cablegram to Henry Richard,
NJ. p, London, sy,npatLizing with
his efforts to avoid en- Anglo Rus
sian war.
The eclipse of last Monday is the
last annular eclipse in this century.
| The next eclipse in the United
States will be total eclipse Janu
airy l, 1889
There is great demand for rea
estate in several of the towns u
Georgia, and in some instances, i
is reported, families are compelled
to board, being unable to secur
: houses.
The Russian Government hs
formally sanctioned the reeiproca
treaty between Germany and Rus
: sia for the extraditlon of conspira
S tors against the lives of Royal per
!. sonages.
The Bellevue House, owned b,
+ the lmperial Government, at Hall
/, fax, n. S., and occupied by tn
J, officers garrison, was burned Tue,
a day night. Loss, $4,000; no il
suranco,
y It ia claimed that there are thre
/ mountains of alum and one alul
8 and sulphur mixed in Lower Cal
$ fornia. The amount Of alum is e
C timatea at l0O,OO0,O0O tons, an
y the sulphur at 100000 tons.
: A firm of Connecticut bed-qui
e manufacturers have purchased tt
If entire village of Fitchville, Conn
It consisting Of two large stone mill
a. twenty-seven tonement houses,
e church, schoolhouse and public ha.
:, At Lovington, ILL.,, Tuesda,
NJ N Charles ]. Higgen, aged saKent
Il Il five, grew respondent over tHs 10
~ ~ of all his money in the Lovingte
;, Bank, which failed a year ago. al
:, last Tuesday shot his aged wife
- death and thrn killed himself.
y Superintendent Snowden of Il
lie United States Mint at Philadelph
to states that he has received over sc
900 trade dollars since March At
a. and that letters from holders of Il
,e coin in various parts of the count
Of are pouring in upon him.
s' A wild water car, broken loo
~ from freight train at Sierra Banc
y Texas, recently cnliided with tt
~ incoming passenger train of t
= Texas Pacific from st. Lou
le N wrecking the engine and deraiii'
- the cars. No one was killed, b
' many were injured.
of The Rome, II. Y, Sentinel r
cir ports that two men who served
ho a jury at a trial in Utica the 9th
A day, after they retired, voted on
It verdict in direct opposition to tbs
real sentiments because they d
/ net know the difference between t
ct terms "plaintiiI'' and "defendan
- in ths case.
OF simultaneously with the repo1
NV from Kansas about the snow biec
at ade in that region come notes
m- alarm about the next wheat Gre
he not of danger from frost, which nj
)r- the prospective peach every m
m winter, but from the 'Hessian fl,
M which is now reported at work
tic twenty counties Of tina t State.
IA,
ire Among the last official acts
RS, Secretary Teller was the reversal
cid the order issued to Comnissiot
On. Mcfarland to the effect that !
to tary public cannot take the PR
av- of applicants for land. The orc
M of Secretary Teller puts thi,
en- back on their old footing, and ,
proof taken in homestead, pre-en
J., tisn and other land cases before
notary public, will be accepted
e the local land Office. Secretary !
- - lor also ordered that it is not nee
sarv to clear the record before
-. - application to change sn entry {
be made.