4 , Minr coast sews. The grass on the tiiot-liills iu P.a- kor county is from four to ten inch Ps hhrh t.,1 , t . , .... vvtmauu iiawre appro. i:nat.HlMW,ooOiortheox,K.nM.sof the lorritory for the current year, incidmg$8,600 for the Hoard of Immigration, Did 64.000 in aid of the Agricultural College. 1,800 pounds of strawberries wore received in San Francisco on the 3d, and 800 on the 4th, 7116 Legislature of tlie proposed State of Dweret, met on the8d inst. Hums Snow was elected President ofthe Senate and T. i). Rfehsnl Speaker of the Homo. Two '. s. : Senators were to be elected the next day, Ten tons of ore Croni the 1 'utter. ; field Canyon mine, I'tah, recently netted over $10,000 in silver an 1 1 goli Gold diggings on tke Colorado piver, Utah, have been discovered paying from f 10 to 20 per day. i lov. i it-over's man (.i!!Voy is on his wnv home. General Davidson, the officer who conimatuled Fort Donelson at the time ot its capture, is in Port- land. l' .1.. n i iu... .ne tfrtymvm we learu that Mrs. voilogi,', of Portland, was oisoned last week, either by a mis- take in tlie writing of a pre' or in tho manner ot compounding i i! S! p wns rAliuvml hv nrni,l. .... I At Shevidau, M. T., oatsandbar-1 ley are felling fir 44j cents ; Hour, m retail, a-d ?s wholesale: bran 12 per bundled, and shorts j .-1 PT hundred. There is a brisk demand for me- ehanics, especially caqieiiters and bricklayer !.-.v..i.. ;., ii.,i.. -."!.. i... ii l ivtl llrt. M I J. "I II I . i- I ing season has commenced and there remises to be a gwd deal of it. Anotlier sliglit shock of earth quake was felt at Los Angeles, C'ah, on the morning of the 4th. Work on the looks at Oregon1 C:ty is progressing very rapidly, favored by the good weather. 7'he housed Mr. S. Javks, iu tho southern end of Clackamas county, was destroyed by tire on the s!8t nit. Loss about 81,100. U(ica, Alaska, is where the ice fumes from to till the ice houses at I'ucct Found. Heal estate continues to advance i in price at Walla Walla. Get), W. W. Miller has been elected Mayor of Olympia, W. T. Tiaee young ladies, Jisscs Mar tyn, Sjielnian and Jnrphy, took the black veil at St. Mary's hospi-! tal, San l-'rancisco, recently. 7'he Eiiterpriw says two cliil- drcn of Mr. Wm. Welch, living on .'ill creek, about sixteen miles from Oregon C ity, were drowned in the mill race near his residei.ee Sunday before last. The two were walking along the bank one about three years of age and the other live when the younger fell in, dragging the other in after him. 1 Another child saw them fell and ran to the house to give the alarm, ! Mathcw Anderson, ofSan Diego, but before assistance arrived they , Cah, on the 5th, was assassinated were drowned. Tho sad event has by a Mexican. The latter was ar cast a deep gloom over the entire rested, neighborhood. Tom Fitch was elected second The County Treasurer's office at V. S. Senator on the 6th by the Walla Walla was robbed on Wed-: Utah Legislature, nesday night ot last week ot 20,- j A store on the cooperative plan 000 in county and Territorial bonds i is to lie established at Coupevillo, and coin. The thief obtained the Whidby's Island. key to the Treasurer's sale by enter-: The Xortheru Pacific Railroad iug the room of the Treasurer, Mr. Company are going to build a large A. Kieger, after he had retired, and ear-shop at Kalama. taking his pants, in one of the pock-' Work on the new Court House ets of which the key was. He then Ut Salem, has been commenced, made his way to the safe ami ' it will be finished in a year from complished his purpose. next fall. Twenty-two regular w rviccs are ! The share of the indebtedness of held every week at tho Taylor Clark county which has to be paid street M. K. Church, Portland. j bv wltx is $4,382 24. There are ten whisky shops to j S, P. McDouald, late editor ot one church in Portland. : tho Vancouver fieyister, is to take An ambitious chicken in East charge of the Olympia Courier. 1'ortland has two wings and four The island of San Juan has a I population of 350, not including the Portland has her usual quantum , military, which if both camps had wjfieit of burglaries. j a full complement of men would It is rumored at Portland that swell the . whole number to 550 the ( Jregon steam is avigation Com-; pany has sold out to the Northern j Pacilio Railroad Company. : U. ft Marshal Young has arresf- ! ed M. S. Hart, the railroad contrao - tor who left Portland some time aim without mine bis men. m San 1 . ' " ' ! v t uiwu tw : ... rancisco. ww during n Sacramento. ftrmers ot Lane county are com plaining of the ilry weather. . .... , , , all ot Dallas, out several days aud ... l .i .... .. . Tn 1 ...) JV...., I,4. cai;uiv.l all ot two deer ! Dal as voted to have free schools for six months. lie .Masons at the Dalles, have . . ,. . in contemplation the building of a new hall this summer. : itching horse shoes is the popu- lar amusement at t'rvallis. TheChcmcketa Hotel at Salem ; will be opened to the public on t j ne i first of Jnne. Salem has the "calico ball" te- vtr. Washington county school dis tricts have levied a tax sufficient to keep up school from six to nine months during the year. ! -v 1Aue county denizen says that ' t'"-' wport circulated that he was killed by a tree, was gotten up tor political effect to keep him from be- '"8 nom mated tor Nicritt ot that county. He feels indignant. I !v !? jir. .I. .. ( essnerannounces hini- self as an independent candidate for j ,llt' "n'ce of Sheriff of Marion coun- tv. A little son of Louis Fleischner piavea with a large kmte, and now liaf lw" m,Sera a"d a thumb on his Ieft 'l811t1. Fwm the 0r':"" we learn ,!':,t a little SM ofMr- K.EaVn.of Portland, aged ten years, was ,Ilwned by tailing through a hole the llooring of tlie wharfat that city, last week. j Portland boasts of ten persons who have' not tasted liquor or to i baceo since New Years Day have been in jail is the reason. The Portland llidletin says: tompulwry education and com- puisory vacci-'iinuon are now the leading questions ot the day. Hut tiier. is something vicious in com-1 puis, ry education, because it strikes nt the vitals of the Democratic oar ty. We must have a Democratic party, if only for contrast. It is healthy to observe the influence of organized ignorance. The Oreyonkm snystyphoid and oil lions fl.'ve.-s prevail in the country adjacent to East Port'and. A dead infant jweked in a can dle box, has been unearthed in Port land. A broom handle factory is talked of at Oregon city. Look out, hus bands. 875 was the price ot the cigars Utolcn from a Portland Brewery the ' other day. On Thursday evening of last week the "tire fiend" consumed the dwelling house of Captain Robert. son, Corvallis. Loss 81,800. ; The paint-house in the California State Prison was burned last week causing a momentary panic. Prison- ers were so frightened they wanted ! to "skedaddle." souls. The number of farms taken in is alwut sevontv.ftvo. some of are In a kd'Wndition ofi ciiitivatioii, 'with good buildings, -;..t' - , .' ix.. i 1 orchards, and generally well stock - ! ed with cattle and slicep. i liash bouses in .Montana chniw . . . . a swet tho boarders furnis h hw ! u. ku-t ' . Z. ... ... - ......i.s; u.e jmsi wWwi The Kalama fledcon says : "A , . . wen Known am i)i(jm;iirnt , at 1.,,r.l, .... .....1 . . I. . 1 . I ..uTmUJ 8 w cnasi.se j a C hinese cook, but John waseonal ... . .... to the emenrenov. and rliimr I, is -v . - - o ! would-lie master liv the hair, at the same time brandishiner a hatchet L u i i . : s t.i i new., sam j .iei:can man no saw; mo, you bet. ,le make hashee vou vellv soon" third tartv steniwd hntwomi the nirnhnr. ants and i.ostoiiod results, or by ! this time we would have a grave marke.1 sacred to the memory .,'....:.. T. ...l i vi niiiitiu j.ni , who was I r. ...... i . i .., i luuiiv inurueieu oy a iieaineu -m- noe.' " n f v .Mrs. Carrie r. loung has gone east of the .Mountains to lecture. One hundred logs bored endwise and called water pijH's were lately shipped from Tumwatcr, V. T., to Salem. Hearts from Eastern Oregon are favorab'e to an early mining season. Tumwatcr, W. T., has no young men without any visible means of support, A man lost "a purse containing 8580 in gold coin between Marion Station and Neil's saw mill a few days ago. The J''iindmpr thinks the dis continual C3 ot the Post..fiice at Hermansville a serious mistake, and ho)os it will be re-established. The Washington correspondent of the Salem Staietman says that Lcroy S. 1 )yar, who has lieen as signed to the Klamath Agency, Oregon, will probably be appointed a full agent. The Koseburg Eimgn of last Saturday says : "The merry clang of the engine bell will soon greet the cars of Douglas county residents; I ami the note of the locomotive whis tle is the note of enterprise ; and the 1 ' I cars are coming, ijraatng between here and Oakland is rapidly pro- grossing, and according to contract is to be finished by the 1st of Jnue. The road is completed nearly through the Pass Creek Canyon. So rapid its progress that graders and bridge-builders are pushed to keep ahead of the track layers. Wake up, ye 'forty-niners,' and see what is Cuming." Clark county has paid 811,819 of her debt in the last ten months. Seattle Coal Company is turning out about 81,000 worth of coal jr day. A mail route between Port Town send and Whidby's Island has been estab'ished. The Odd Fellows of Vancouver are to celebrate on the 26th hist. Indians who -should be on their reservations, according to the 7w patrli, are prowling around Seattle. The Northwestern Stage Com pany have changed their line of travel from Wal'a Walla to Wal- lulu so as to run by SchueWy's place, at which is Whitman Post- oflice. It is jiroposed to apply all the money realized from liquor licenses in Clarke county to the erection of a Court House and jaii. 7'lie poo- pie will vote on the question. About two weeks ago a youug lad, the son of Alex Vincent, a far mer of Dungeness, W. 7!, while out duck hunting, accidentally shot himself, and died in a few intimites. Salt Lake City has now a popula tion of about 30,000, and there are scattered throughout Utah some three hundred small towns, settle ments and mining districts drawing their supplies from that city. It is prophesied by those familiar with the country that in five years the population of Salt lake will be 100, 000, and that Utah will contain 500,000 people 7'he Columbia river is reported c . . mt 8 mraent, to lie slowly rising. tteMd tl gra.ry, mi .i ii u i closely followed by the lantern of 7'he inquest on the "old horse ! 1ig J de corps cost the city otPortlaiKi )nmpUid J JJ , , . '2,- tance, but on his return the thief 7'ho Oreyonian has the follow. , had absquatulated, leaving the hor ing descrijition of au ingenious life j ws untied. pi-eserver invented and used by tne . Alaska Indians: A half grown ; Horace fireely say : "Shawme seal b token and killed, and by a drunkard that don't use tobacco, some unkbo'wn process ,th flericilid 1 aiid Pll show you a white black bones are all taken out without urd," 1 breakiwr the skin anv nlace. The 1 hide U aresaed aud a small wooden H,w "wwa m one oi tne nn- v,ha nam. tK i ;.i...n , . . " " " i tno work ot a momeut at anv time I tl,e. work of 4 momeut at y time U) ,nrtate the skin by an application ! I of the mouth U) the tube. When) ! mled with air it possesses sufficient ' ' tn .t . mo i. : '""V"'"- "" "" Iw lield in the arms in such a man- , tho hvail aml ; will not be immersed in the row. I D et sea. 7'he Oreyonian Rays Professor Marsh, of Va'e lolleire, has ac- I L'itnviMl0fvi thp mvint. i.l a uir aI ; . " . r - - - w . :. 1 u u '"""o-j ' ,l0". fitted birds peculiar to our I western waters, a nmnber of weap - ! ,l,,s' s)ccimeii8ot workmanship, and Jo001??' the Alaska In - "" -w mndMIM Which warn sent. t urn i j " 1 1 iv I'hailos V, I In l!.,ie i.fn.ril..iJ j ..r.,v. . , ! about two months ago. 7'he ac- knowledgement was accomnaiiiol by a fr a handsome sum of I money, aud expressions ofirratitica - tlOU. A carpenter named White, of Portland, was knocked senseless, and almost killed, last 7'uesday, by a timber striking him ou the fore head. 7'hey are beginning to talk of picnic excursions in Portland. Another nymph lu pave, of Port land, attempted to curtail her ex istence the other night by taking ninety drops ot laudanum. By the aid ot the stomach pump, she still! lives. The wife of I'rcsident Scott, of tho Pennsylvania C'eutral li. P., I 'hi ladel ph ia.has presented a church iu Kalama, W. 7!, with a bell which cost 8500, weighing 800 I pounds. The Beacon is grateful. Eggs are 35 cents per dozen at Kalama. lien fruit is a scarce article in Sa'ern. A Mr. Le'aiKl has appeared in the list of temperance lecturers in this State. 7'he farmers are getting 52J cts per pound for their wool iu Polk C0U" 7'lm The Oreyonian reports $22,- 933 31inthePortlaud city treasury on the 1st ot April. Miners in Maiden's gulch. Raker county, are reported doing we'l. Marion Fleming was killed on the 5th inst. in Grant county, by the fal'ing of a horse upon which he was riding. 4ii .... r-.-l.- , ii . ... j -. -"""-n along the basin at Oregon City, last Sunday, was seized with an apopletic fit and fell into the Basin. Ho was very soon rescued, but .1 IIM.1T IIBIVL I' VIII II wn t- h-r breathed only once or twice after being taken out. New postoftioes have been estab lished at Loon Creek, Lemhi coun ty, and Clear Creek, Nez Perce county, Idaho. Table-tipping and spiritnal man ifestations arc being revived iu Sa lem. A fine steer was killed by the train for Portland between Marion and Turner's station last 7'uesday. Hon. Edward Tompkins has been unanimously re-elected as Regent of the State University ot California. Thirty-two Chinese gamblers have been convicted within a week in San Francisco, and pay $40 each. $2,500 have been paid by American gamblers in the meantime. Small grains are suffering from drought iu the region of Los Ange les, C'al. A woman named Laura Clark eaicided at Coriuue, Utah, on the night of the $th. During a drunken row in a sa loon at Hamilton, Nevada, on the 9th, a man named Thompson struck another named Fisher a heavy blow with his fist,jii8t below the ear, killing him instantly. Mr. Neuters little" boy, of Jack sonville, says the Time, severely wounded a finger and thumb of the left baud, recently, bv dischanrinir a metal cartridge by striiiug it with a rock. 1 he hired man of Mr: John Orth, of Jacksonville, on entering the bihoib ounaay evening before lat, was assaulted bv a man who mil. deuly emerged from the stall Tlie EAitTt3t. skwm. TkA VAm V...1. If ..7 7 1. . . . . . , , - m t ie hono that the Cincinnati . ""..' ..- . i t onventiou mav & bane tie luture j Convention may shape the future unities of the country ; Directors. T. . ,,,,,:,:' ,! sixte. hundred Pre immi. .-..liii iWassachusotls winch ooise.l 1 resident Lincoln, is iww.tue quw .. . . ." . OIH. O.I.MSC liiO 'lection oi President (irant. The friends of Senator Sumner : think he can Commit himself to the Cincinnati movement in a tew days. The flouring mills of IF. Yager, i oi t t . .i ... ou l'"s ourue'i on the ujgut ol 1 the nth. Loss, 50.000 insured, ; C0liisio 0I, the night of tlie .is, between a 1 4t) g(. yttiUum m . r , , , , li.Mll Oil lilt 1X K.ol I, i iot : s !..!.. 1 . ..... i & M. Louis ItAiiriuiil nml n ii-n'i, i , ( 0,1 the thicago and Alton railroad, I resulted in tlie wreckius of the en. pines and the killing of a fireman, j 1 "''s accident ocourred where the roaus cross ai a very acme angle. ; A tire at Loudonville, Ohio, ou theStli hist, destroyed nearly an ei.tire block. Loss, ISpjOpQi partly insured. Isaac C. Day, of the firm of Day, " ' Allen & Co., wholesale grocei-s ol Chicago. Illinois, committed silicate on the -1th by shooting himself with a pistol, lie had been health. n .poor Texan rangers are reported to I preparing to retaliate and reso their cattle from Mexico. A Columbia, South Carolina, special says there was a riot there on Thursday evening of last week, caused by an attack oti a Republi can precession to celebrate the May or's election. Troops bad to be called into requisition to suppress it. The railroad bridge at Topsham, Maine, was burnt on the morning of the 3d. It cost 30,00(1. The dwelling house of Charles W. Felt, at Cambridgeport, Mass., was burnt on the night of the 3d. His three-year old child was suit' ,. cated. The death of the child has . . ...A 1 " t 1' 1. 11 prosiraici ;urs. i-eit, ana her Uto is despaired of. President (irant was in ew York on the 3.1 to see his wife and daughter oti' tor Euro". A procession of 4,000 colored cit izens celebrated tho anniversary of the Fifteenth Amendment in New York ou the 3d inst. Slater's bill, granting the right of . . .... j way through the public lands tbr ii raUroiut from Great lslt Tke City to Portland, Oregon, passed in the : House on the 3d. MMMUntMnrv of Iowa instructed tor (irant and James F. Wilson, for President and Vice President. Ohio instructed for (irant and Denison. The Supreme Court of Massa chusetts has decided that, when a jury onoe separates after retiring for deliberation, it cannot again deliber ate on the case. Field Marshal Sir John Bur goyne, who died lately in England, aged 90, was son of General Uui goyne, who commanded the British forces in this country during the puny s Directors nave voted to is Revolutiou. sue $15,000,000 Iwnds for the erec- Thc Black Hill, gold discovery tion of a new building in New sensation, is pronounced a swindle. The Workingmen's Central Un ion Lalior Hcfomi Society Com- j mittee, in New York on the even i inn of the 2d, repudiated the nomi nation of Judge Davis to the Presidency. The prosecution of Mayor Hall, of , " Brooklyn, N. Y ., on tl e 4th. New York, has not been abandon- ; Wm. B. Astor has given 8100, ed. 000 to the Astor Library to relieve Jack Hollissy, a member of the its present wants, swamp gang, threatened a bar-keep- j b isk's personal friends have made or in New York on the 2d for re- ; a heavy subscription for a mohit. fusing him a drink, and was shot mental coiasert on the largest scale, dead by the barkeeper. A prisoner before .fudge James' The Secretary of the Treasury Court in Williamsburg, X. Y., on has decided that the income tax on the 5th, was (bund to l ave the the salary of the President and s'al' l"1. Tlie prisoner was tho Judges of the Supremo Courts is hvtomto leave the court r. mm. be refunded and not hereafter i.u- utaoiMt tut ona . and the same w ill pott, 1 he jewelry store ot Lllmanos Generals Sheridan and Augur j Kakert, New York, was rehbed ot have been directed by an order from 825,000 worth ..fwatcl.es and jow .i nr n v-lry on the night ol the 4th. ordinary efforts to captuie and turn OTer to the civil authorities for trial persons ho have raided frem -Mex ico into Texas. The planters in tlie interior of Texas intend to put iu an immense ' mitf notion this seaon. i The funeral obsequies of tho late General Robwt Anderson took place in N'e York on tlie 3d inst,, and were very impoei&g. 1 Tn the irvltWim nt si I , , ... t ... . : uw vwnoeraw eiectd i ..no u.i... ...... e ... ... """ ' .wue..u.i.i dim o ouuji .- ! 'n iwm .usaeeaim Lorramu ar- I nveo in Aew lork during the week, destine! west. All appear to lm in ffocd circumstance. There w-'re three new ca'Sffs of spotted fever in Xouark, X. J., on the tith. It is (pared the ilfease will become epiMetnic. Mi-s. Amelia Maiming (ifRrook. lyn, . V., pi. the 7th, was held to await the action of thogmbd jury for liritig two hots at her hiTsTMnd :Vom a revolver, on the MoSdaj l.o fore. lie had abnd her. James Temp!.), a tanner in Mc Crocken C o, Ky., formerly Hector ot the Episcoittl chnreh, ibot a ne gro named John Smith, hist week, putting thirteen biHsksltot in his body. The negro ran a hundred yards and tell Temple thou went lip to him, put the ni;i-!e of the gun to his head and discharvd ; the other barrel, blowing Lis brains ..... 'i i... . i. i i "s in.- l.-iu ii.ii.i lepixeu around of having criminal ootlie lion with the will? and daughter of r ' triple. i eiiip e was b liled in the sum of$5,000. A special says liiforrmttron BsS been received which leaves ro doubt that the Spanish GrA-erfiment will panlon Dr. Howard, and relieve twnon the request of the Ametieati tioveruinetit, Conklin, the defaulting bank sec retary, is supposed to be in South America, A gentleman who .ailed for Hrfwil received instructions lo c 'UM .his arrest. Secretary Uotitwcll befbre the ' Committee on Ways and Means urged the passage of a law permit ting him to regintor I'nite I tates bond and pay interest thereon. The Ways and Means Commit, tee of Congress have voted to fix a tax at 65 cents p-r gallon on whis- 1... .1 :i .... linn .i nun-1 in o. o cents 1 .. .... ..... 1 .1 pe -ouiki on umacco, i'lio bill granting the rid t ol way to a railroad from ft'alt Lake to Portland, Oregon, passed the I'. S. Senate on the olh. A memorial service to the mem ory of Professor Morse, under the auspices of tho National Morse Monument Association, is to bo held in the House of Representatives at Washington, to he participated in by tho Soiise, on the ICtb. 1 he House i.s to assemble and the Speaker is to preside. Tbo Chicago relief bill has boon signed by the President, i 1 'ri,lw' f the ana- nese Embassy, a suite, loll for Fur- mnicd e on the iiy his jth. Chief Justice Chase is .aid to re gard the prospects of Judge Davis for the Democratic nomination with much jealousy. The Tammany Ring stole not less than 12,000,900 in building and furnishing the New York court house, The Y. U. Telegraph Corn- 1 oik. Mrs. Grant, her daughter Xettie, ex-Secrctary Boric and family, sail ed on the 4;h for Europe, About 80,000 worth of obscene1 liooks and pictures, and material for their manufacture, were siezed l,K ,w " '"" " ere u, a hurry. Mrs. li'osa Gil more has obtained a verdict of $5,000 for the loss ojf her husband by the Wc'jiht dis- aster. There were nineteen new eases of small pox in Xew Yotk ou the, 4th inst. Hon, S, Galloway, ofCwhunbus, Ohio, died at ls resjdo.uce, on tlie 5th iustv