m rMVtt tvukmr news. The Oregon tan s teaks of a strong wind that prevailed on 1 hurmlsy night of bust week, obstructing tie railroad track with limbs awl trees A Portland restaurant man at tempted suicide last week, but was pumped out and saved, says the Ortgonian. A telegraph operator at Corne lius, Washington county, named James Fanvll, died suddenly on Thursday of last week. He had been drinking heavily. Last year Washingtoncounty ex pended 3,724 days' work on the public roads, and $14,000 for lum ber and bridges. A dispatch from Coriune, dated the 9th, states that several passen ger trains have just arrived , there. The first had been twenty-two days from Omaha, tlic second twenty -one, and the third twenty-four. There was much suffering among the .pas sengers, those without provisions bo ing compelled to live' oH crackers and cheese. The Gentiles, at Salt Lake, are indignant at Minister De Long and the Japanese Embassy for callii upon Brigham Young. They thin it compromises some of the Federal officials, as Well as Mr. De Long station as Minister, l oung not oc cupying any official position, and being a prisoner charged with mur der. Considerable sickness is reported at Eugene. The Good Templars of Eugene have given op their charter, and donated their funds on hand, $50 to the M. E. and Christian Sabbath Schools, says tl Journal. A number of costly buildings are to be erected in East Portland tlie coming season. The snow buckadc was worse than ever on the 10th inst The first official act performed by the new Governor of Idaho, was the marriage of a colored couple. The Independent Order of Red men of Jacksonville have purchas ed apiece of proerty for a cemc tery. John Pelling of Jackson county has brought an action to-recover $1,000 damages from The. Sly for assault and battery, whereby the plaintiffs nose was broken. The Era. growls about the dan gerons condition of the sidewalks in East Portland. Mrs. Frost was lecturing at Vic toria, last week, on "TTie down fall of the United States Govern ment" A' counterfeit bait dollar piece has made its appearance in San Francisco, very hard to detect. Stock to the amount of $17,000 had been subscribed to the Good Templar's Hall Association, of Port land, up to last week. The bar at St. Helens is to be surveyed with the view of furnish- ing estimates of the cost of improv ing the channel Real estate is advancing in prices in East Portland. Deer Lodge has been selected as the capital of Montana Territory by the Legislature, Greeley, Colorado, on the 20th ult, nominated its man for postmas ter by ballot Ninety-eight women voted, Olympia has presented the rail way company with four thousand acres of land, in and around the city, in return for which the company engage, to build a depot within one mile and a half of the center of the town. Colorado is again knocking at the door of Uncle Sam for admis sion won't succeed. A Horticulture Society has been organized at Victoria. The people of JSritish Columbia are earnestly asking 1oV have their toll roads abolished. Four Indians ire in jail at Van couver charged with a murder com. mitted in 1868. Hie proof against them is the dying confession of an accomplic Indian. John Hickling, a farmer of Salt Spring Island, B. C, was drowned on tbe,.ljltli ult, on his ufay, home from Victoria in a canoe, VWVt Mrs. Fair, of San Francisco, is granted a uew trial, by the Supreme Court, an 'Frisco lawyers an dis. pleased thereat The Mormons are madder than March hares over Gov. Wood's veto of the Utah admission bill. The Couuty Court of Marion county awarded the contract for building the Court House at Salem to Messrs. Bootliby, Miller A Myers of that city. Ash wood was selling at the Salem wharf last week at $4 50 per cord. Walter D. C. Davidson of Mar ion county has been adjudged insane and taken to the Asylum. As Mr. linlleck't ox team with a load of lumber w4s crossing tlie bridge on the road to Ellendale, two ami a half miles from Dallas, the bridge broke through, and the wagon and team 'treat iiitotliecreek, killing one steer and badly crippling the others, says the Statesman. '&idei.t of tUs -Salemtf riter. sity had a fit of epilepsy in the chap, el last week, i Turkeys were selling at $10 each and eggs at $4 per dozen, at Cari boo, at last dates. Six car loads of oysters, in the shell, recently arrived at San Fran cisco, but ail spoilt, having been frozen and thawed, caused by the delay hi the snows on the Union Pacific. Henry Steffers, a woman whip perot San Francisco, was fined $200 with an alternative of one hundred days in-jail, on the 8th. Seventeen hundred dollars have been collected in Walla Walla, to ward the purchase of a lot and the building of a brick Protestant Epis. copal church thereupon, the whole to cost $3,000. People of California are learning to make mall change. The Ma rysville Stamford- says : We saw recently at the office of the Railroad Company a peck or less of. nieklc cents. The Company is obliged to have them, as they make exact change. For example, if your freight bill is $4 91, you receive in change a silver five cent piece and four nickel cents. "I Onrlwr. 2Mn uit. the groand at Walla Walla was frozen to a depth of eight inches. J. II. Lasater, ami the editor of the Statesman, at Walla Walla, had a fight recently. The latter got tlie worst of it, and the former was fined twenty dollars. Tlie ditch on Burnt river is fin ished and ready for water. A rush mine has been discovered within three hundred yards of the Canyon City court house. Hie ledge is eight feet thick. It is be lieved that tlits discovery Will bring about a revolution of affairs at Can yon Ctyy. Sunday the 4th inst,was the cold est day in Powder river valley. The weather was ten degrees below zero. A recent number of the Dalles Motuttainecr lias au article stating that Great Britain lias declared war against tlie United States. Eight members of the Walla Walla bar have petitioned lion. S. Garfielde to ask Congress to disap prove of the civil act of that Terri tory, passed by the recent Legisla ture. A new Bank, called the Salt Lake National Bank of Utah, has been started in Salt Lake. B. H. Du Rell, of Idaho, is President, and A, W. Wbjto,of Utah, Cashier. Capitol $100,000. The Columbia river is oped and navigation has been resumed. last Sundays largn antlered buck rushed --through the streets of oryand, plunged into the river and struck out for the other side After au exciting chase by some persons in a skiff, he was oaught, says the Oregonian. . J. C. Hildreth, assistant superin tendent of tbe O. & C. ,RaJroad, presented yrw a.vaUiabJe cold watch by friends, la$ Sunday, at the St. Charles Hotel, Portland, tap OregmUm. A petition to the next Lcgisla- w license gamottug, m in con temptation by certain ones at Port land. Mrs. Burgess, of Portland, on last Monday, was severely injured by falling. A call is issued to the Marion County Republican Committee to meet Salem on tlie 2 1st inst A Eugene paper learns that five thousand copies of Joaquin Miller's "Songs of the Sierras" have been sold in a single county in Iowa. A mistake, we guess. Hie Eugene Journalems loudly against the gambling dens at that place. A caucus of Democratic Senators in the California Legislature has agreed Ihat tlie repeal of the liti- gaut law is not a party question, and a number of Senators announced that they would vote for a repeal This will erase that odious law from the statute book. The coinage in the United States Branch Mint at San Francisco dur ing January was $840,750. There were: Double eagles, $660,000 half dollars, $170,000; half dimes, $10,750. At Eureka, Nevada, ten cases of small-pox are reported. There were twenty violent deaths in San Francisco last month. Eight inches more rain has fallen this season in San Francisco than in Sacramento. The winter seems to lave been ' rather more severe in Yakima valley than in other localities east of the mountains. Snow was deeper than in most other places lieard from. A few days ago the house of Thomas Rowland of North Yam hill was burnt. Loss, $1,500. Work on the Walla Walla rail road lias been discontinued to watt tor better weather. The Port Townsend Argm pre sents a scheme for a railroad from Gray's Harbor to Port Townsend. It says that the route was surveyed I last year. . a A letter from Helena, Montana, dated January 3d, written by a former resident of Portland, states that tlie storms in Montana this winter have exceeded in severity any that the writer had ever experienc ed. Wages were very low, and coram m board twenty dollars week. Everybody is advised stay away from that country. to Un Monday evening a blast in Telegraph Hill, Sau Francisco, ex- ploded prematurely, killing instant ly a man named Coughlin and ter ribly injuring a man named Hughes. Last Sunday, ai Oregon City, while a passenger train was on the side track to allow a freight train to pass, by some mismanagement tlie freight train was backed against the locomotive of the passenger train with such force as to break both the locomotive and tlie rear freight car, to some extent, and to injure sever, al passengers. Mrs. Duniway bad her right arm badly, bruised, and Mrs. Weatherford was consid erably hurt, and others were bruis ed. " ' . ' V Mr. Thomas MofVctt fell and sprained his ankle so badly in Port land hist Saturday, as to be unable either to walk or stand. Dr. E. W. Rust has been ap pointed resident physician of the In sane Asylum. A man mil of gin fell off tbe fer ry slip in Portland last Saturday, and saved himself from drowning by seizing upon some drift wood till be was fished out, says the Ore- gontan. A dwelling on tlie farm of Perry Smith, near Dallas, which Wat oc cupied by Wm. Kersey, was destroy ed bv fire on Tuesday night All the family effects of tlie latter were lost . James Hamlin, of Jacksonville, lias co nr. mewed an action 'against the law firm of Kjahler A Watson, B. Stephens and Sarah, his wife, to recover $2,234 damages for the al leged unlawful issue and levy, of an execution against the property of plaintiff The Salem court-honse,is to oost $90,000. Dallas arlrls have been tormenting - . . . . . . : 1 as they passed) He fiaed his door so that ope of them, who indulged in this amusement, tumbled into tbe room wlicre be was1 sitting. Clirismao's blockade of the Ore goo and California Railroad has been raited. The rock yields $100 to ibe too in the Ida Elmore mine at Owyhee, A jokist says that the Puget Sound people only hunt clams one hour in the day. All tlie rest of tbe time tlwy are hunting for the terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad something that never has been lost . During January last 150 arrests were made in Sacramento, Cal A Wheatland, California, lien has not eaten anything for three months. The public debt of the United States was reduced $6,668,43 L dur ing last month. There Were 108 suicides in New Ybrfclasfijelr'as against 115 in m&AS " ' - A'giweuty4wo years old has lately died in Boston. Cockroatebeshavesictbeen8oenin Chicago since tlie fire, . Rev. Mr. Spurgeon declined ten offers of hand and heart from pious spinsters last year, and looks tor- ward to this year with din) appre hension The proposed Viaduct Railway in New York, if ever built, mil cost $18,000,000. Valdes, a commander of Govern ment forces, in Mexico, broke the seals of ammunition belonging to a commercial agency and appropri ated goods of Americans, recently. I he London l imes declares that England has not revoked and never will revoke, die treaty of Washing ton. On the 1st Lost, there wis $103,- 371,703 in coin and $12,840,271 in currency in the United States treas ury. ; , It is reported that more than 9,- 000 head of cattle have perished in the cold and snow, on tbe Laramie Plains in Wyoming, Con Mooney, a prominent Dem- ocrtic politician of San Francisco and ap officer in the Fire Depart ment, has been convicted for bossing a cockpit f. . Over eight hundred sewing ma chines have been furnished to tlie I . i'l: - - sowing, women of Chicago by tbe Relief Society. They are valued at sixty dollars each, but are furnished by tlie manufacturers for thirty-six dollars. Of this amount the Re lief Society donates twenty dollars, and the recipient obligates herself to pay tbe other sixteen dollars with in One year. In the late municipal election at Salt Lake, the whole Mormon tick et was elected. Under female suf frage a cro wd of Mormon women and girls voted in the early part of the day. It was thought on the Pith that the Japanese Embassy, then at Salt Lake, would have to return to San Francisco and take the Panama steamer for the East, there being no prospect of the blockade being raised for months. John Caughlin was killed, and D. B. Hughes was seriously injured in San Francisco on the 11th inst, by an explosion resulting from pounding new priming for a blast, after it had. failed, to explode. V aluaWe mines in A 1 turas, Idaho, have been sold .'at great prices to English .pNists, who will im mediately pt up largo mills. It is stated that last summer and fall not less than two or three huu dred families settled in Umatilla county, Oregon, to and from Victoria have to be ferried across tlie cable break. A growing party in Canada pro poses opposition to the construction of the Pacific Railway by Govern ment grant, so long as tbe north west shall be inefficiently settled. This alarms the British Columbia people. A man named, Dan (other name not ascertained) was found murder ed mliisyard,on Whidby'-s kland, on the )i inst He bad evidently been deMsdjgsjrhea found.. Mr. Charles Newell, late of the JfnUetitt staff, uod a gentleman of considerable newspaper experience, lias taken a position as reporter on the Hraid, The Ortgonian lias quite along local item on a fool horse that re fused to be tooted off the track by a locomotive. Saoar Division. We heard a story a day or two since in which Ira A. Eaton of Nevada figured prominently. As an aid to tbe difficult solutions of knotty subjects we give the story as we heard it. At one time when Eaton was part ner with a certain person in the mountains, be was joint owner with the partner aforesaid, in a tine young dog. The partner, at times, misused the dog as Eaton thought, therefore lie determined to buy or sell, to own all or none of the ca nine. He broached the subject to his partner who bad no desire to sell or buy. Eaton offered to give his partner $25, or to take $20 for his own interest in the dog. No, he would neither sell or buy. "Well," said Eaton, "thisdogmusl be mine or yours, if he is yours you can abuse him as much as you like, but I don't want you to abuse my half, and if you won't cell or buy. we'll divide him, which half wUll you nave." ins partner treated the proposal lightly, arid Eaton went over to the butcher's shop and armed himself with a heavy, sharp cleaver. Putting it under his coat he returned and again made the offer to buy or sell with the same success, meeting a point hunk re fusal Drawing the cleaver, with one well directed blow, he cleft the object of dispute in twain, remark ing; "There, the dog is divided, which Dart will vou take ?" Thev did not buy any more dogs in part nership alter that Appeal. - Strange that tbe enterprising re- porters oi iuout.ni journals misneu a very extraordinary event which happened the other day, and for the only account of which we are In debted to a few dreamy astrono mer, who had an eye upon it It seems a tremendous explosion re cently took place in the sun, in which flying debris was hurled to the height of over two hundred thousand miles, and a body of hy drogen gas rose about fifteen thous and miles, when it exploded and burned up, We trust this sort of thing will not continue ; it is diffi cult enough to,. keep up with events upon this planet, without looking after local affairs in the sun. It has been suggested that France shall be governed alternately by the different parties claiming ability to rule it rhus, on Monday, the el der branch of the Bourbons should take charge, to be succeeded on Tuesday by tbe younger branch ; on Wednesday tlie Bunapartes would take a baud, and on Thurs day the moderate Republicans; Friday would be tbe day for the Radicals and Saturday for the Com mune. Sunday, being a da v of rest, there would be no government If tlie first Week could be successfully gone through the plan would doubt less work. A Pump Advicst-uke. This morning, a little son . of Mr. John Koch, on state street, mot with an accident which should be a warn ing to all boys in tbe future. It seems that tlie little fellow went to the pump at the market place, and very foolishly touched his tongue to tbe iron pump handle, to ascertain, we presume, It it was cold. Of course the result was not only fear. fully, but extremely painful. The tongue, being very moist and warm. and iron being a good conductor of heat, the moisture and heat were immediately withdrawn from the latter by the cold handle, and it froze tight The little fellow en deavored to withdraw his tongue, but could not Several gentlemen went to his rescue, bat it required the most careful handling to loosen tbe boy's organ of taste from the iron. They ejected saliva upon the handle, and rubbed it with their hands fully five minutes before they succeeded, and then a piece of the skin ot the tongue, about the size of a nickel, was left on the handle, leav ing the surface of the tongue where it had coine in contact with the handle as white as though it bad been seared with, a red-hot iron. During tlie time tlie boy was fast, he ga ve vent to his excruciating agony in loud and continuous screams.--Aw Albany imager. 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