I. ÖtttltsTIAN ItWRALÎ). NEWS OF THE WEEK. f . ' ■ II ■ « A I Monmouth and Vicinity. All . who attended the State Temper­ ance Alliance from this plaoe report a good time. r Quite a number of our people are at­ tending the County Temperance Alliance at Independence this week. The annual school meeting of this their county promises well. It is ex' pected there will be a larger yield in that section this year than ever before. Work has begun on tne buildings of the East Portland Gas company. Seed wheat is worth from 81.15 to $1.20 at Albany. Hartley Baker, son of John Baker, and brother-in-law of Hon. B. F. Bon­ ham, of Salem, received intelligence of thfl death of an anola, .for whoa haw- named, at Memphis, Mo., leaving him Monday, March 5th, at 1 o’clock. an estate valued at 850,000. The Band of Hope will meet in the There are nine occupants in the Churoh, on Friday evening at 3 o’clock. county jail at Astoria. All members are requested to attend. Grand Ronde farmers are burning We are informed that Grandma Stew­ rails in many instances. The deep art, who formerly lived at this place, is snow prevents their hauling wood. ljing dangerously ill. with., but little... Len. Eoff andwife .celebrated their % golden wedding on Howell prairie, Ma­ hope of her recovery. The weather has been delightful dur­ rion county, where they have resided ing the past week and we hear that some the last 33 years, on the 1st inst. Lewiston is less than 300 miles from of the farmers are getting ready to re­ the present headquarters cf the con­ sow where the Fall grain was frozen out. struction force of the Short Line com­ The Public School of this district will * open next Monday, and all the children pany. Arrangements have been perfected by of the district would do well to be in at­ which the powerful tug Holyoke, now tendance so as to be organized in classes operating in San Francisco bay, will re­ at the beginning. D. T. S tanley . turn to the Sound to do the towing for the Seabeck mill company. Pacific Coast. ; Farmers of Donglas have commenced resowing in places where the Fall grain was frozen out. The Marion county jail is without an occupant. Wheat is $1.03 at Albany mills, with prospect of a future rise. Brick are selling for $14 to $17 along the Sound, and scarce at that. Six new business houses are now un­ der way in Puyallup. The increase of population and busi­ ness in the City of Seattle has compelled the enlargement of the post-offioe build­ ing at that place. Cyrus Gleason, an old settler at Hub­ bard, Marion county, died on the 19th. A daily express line is to be establish­ ed between Pomeroy and Dayton and a •half hourly express between Pomeroy ' aDd Pataha City. Oregon is to be honored with a visit of Senator Edmunds, wife and daughter, this summer. News was received by George Hedges, of East Portland, recently of the death of his brother, James Hodges, near Hydesville, California, who was murder ed by a companion while out hunting. Property has about doubled in prioe at Salem within the past year. Over three thousand nine hundred feet of cribbing on the O. P. R. R. at Yaquina Bay has just been completed. There are 1,637 school children in Tierce county. A large quantity of railroad iron is lying at Kalama, which is being remov ed as fast as the O. R. AN. Co. can supply barges. The Hammett residence, Bear valley, Mariposa county, Cal., was burned on lhe 21st. Loes, $8,COO ; insurance, $1,500. The teachers of the Second Jvdicial distriot will bold their next institute session at Eagene, May 21 to 4th. The district includes Benton, Coos, Curry, Donglas and Lane counties. ._____ _ Prominent grain buyers of Umatilla oouDty report that this year’s crops in Eastern. The river floods are slowly subsiding. Susan B. Anthony has gone to Liver* pool. The jury in the Croft murder case at Grayson, Ky., have returned a verdict of guilty. The punishment is hanging. Eight persons were drowned on the 23d, while attempting to cross the Mis­ sissippi river in a small boat near Wolfs landing. , A bottle has been picked up near Cape May enclosing a slip of paper, stating that the steamer Eleanor had foundered at sea. A lot of dissatisfied laborers in Chica­ go tore up and otherwise damaged 500 feet of the Chicago & Evanston railroad on the 23d. A train cOllisiop on the Fort Main road resulted in the killing of Graham, engineer, and Quinlan’ fireman. A boiler in a brewery at St. Paul ex­ ploded on the 22d, wounding eleven persons. Two thieves stole 835,000 worth of silks at Joliet, Ill., and shipped them to Chicago, where they were caught, and the goods recovered. In Meigs county, Tenn., a man named Cagle was killed by John Harwood. Cagle’s brother then fatally shot Har­ wood and dangerously wounded Scott. A fire at Georgetown on the 23d de­ stroyed property valued at 840,0C0, par­ tially insured. The property burned consisted of a warehouse, stores, dwel­ lings, and cotton. The funeral of Samuel J. Medill, late manager and editor of the Chicago Tribune, occurred on the 23d. The Steamer Nederland, rumored lost, has arrived safely at New York. The vast ice gorge, opposite Alton, Ills., broke on the 22d. N. F. Wilson has been arrested at Alton, Ill., with $4000 counterfeit silver coin in his possession. Bev. Paul A. Chadbourne, D. D., | died Saturday in New York, The effects Of the flood on the rail­ roads at Cincinnati are now practically removed. Six new names are added to the listkilled in the Diamond mine, making eighty in all. It is feared the number may yet reach one hundred. Ex-Judge Moss Taggert, the oldest practicing lawyer in western New York, died in Batavia, Saturday, after a brief illofiM, in Aho HTi t h y t w: Ql h i a j t g iu------ A Pittsburg family named Gilleppi«, came into possession of a $300,000 fort­ une by the death .of James McKee, at Stockton, Cal. -............... <■— ~—~~ Father Steyer died at St. Lon is, on the 22d. He was the oldest Catholic priest in the United States and one of the oldest in the world, being over 80 years old. Fannin-Driscoll, a well-known poetess and writer, died at Milwaukie, on the 24th. Vanderbilt donated $25,000 to the Ohio valley sufferers. Thu steamship Ohio, of the American line, in a gale on the night of the 13th, lost her smokestack, third officer Charles Worth and eight boats; During a fire in Mirtle avenue, Brook­ lyn, John Busking and wife leaped from a window. Both were seriously injured. The firemen saved their children. The Grand jury in the Newhall house case agreed on the 26th on a true bill against Scheller's former lessee of the Newhall house bar, indicting him for arson on three counts. Schelier’B coun­ sel insisted on immediate arraignment. The prisoner was taken from jail almost unobserved. There are no signs of any disturbance, Scheller pleaded “ No’ guilty, sir/’ in a firm tone. Bail was fixed at $10,000. The residence of Peter Dennan, at Montague, Michigan, was burned on the 26th. A hired girl and three children aged 5, 3 and 1 years perished in the flames. Mrs. Dennan barely escaped from a sick bed in her bare feet. The mills, of the St. Joseph Lead company, at Bonne Terre, St. Francois county, Missouri, were totally destroyed by fire on the 26tb, together with a large amount of valuable machinery. Loss from $200,000 to $250,000 ; insurance not known. The property was owned chiefly by New York parties. Several hundred workmen are thrown out of employment. The number of vessels now engaged in the United States Revenue Marine service, first organized by Alexander Hamilton in 1790, is eighty-six—five of which are sailing vessels. Only about 1 000 are employed, including officers and sea men. Water for domestic uses is so scarce in Augusta, Maine, that many families are having ice in large blocks hauled from the river to their doors,- and melt­ ing the ice for drinking, washing and culinary purposes. ' A report comes from Michigan that .a cook, in a camp fifty miles from Sagi­ naw, used strychnine for soda in making biscuits and that seventy lumbermen were poisoned to death. According to the reports of the mine inspectors there were 296 persons acci­ dentally killed and 1,014 injured in and around the mines in the anthracite coal X-'V region of Pennsylvania during the pas year. It is estimated that the Sparrows quar­ tered in Massachusetts destroyed a fourth of the apple crop in that State. At Leadville and surrounding towns small-pox is raging, and all efforts to re­ tard its spread have failed. The schools are closed, and the situation is becoming alarming. Denver is taking averv preoautiop. ............ ’ A special from Hull, England, says that the steamship llyrnell Castle, from the Black sea, with a cargo of cotton seed and beans, bound for Boston, is thought to have foundered, and that all cn board have been lost, Kate Gerlache, aged 7, is dead, mak­ ing the seventeenth- victim of-the disas­ ter at the German Catholic school. Mrs. Emma B. Drexel, wife of Fran­ cis A* Drexel, of Philadelphia, who died last Monday night, was noted for her extensive philanthropy. She paid the. rent of more than 150 families and distributed among the poor over $20,- 000 a year. Foreign. Canton, China, complains of drouth. Twenty-two Turks were drowned on the 22d by the wreck of a steamer in the Bosphorus. Earthquakes and volcanic disturban­ ces are reported from Japan. Germany is to give 825,000 for scien­ tific exploration in Africa and other countries during thé financial year 1883-’84. Baron Nordenskjold, the Swedish ex­ plorer, has notified the Dutch Minister from Stockholm that he intends to claim the reward of 25,000 guilders ($10,000) offered in 1596 for the discov­ ery of the northeast passage.' The government of Chila remains firm in its determination to appoint itg own ecclesiastical dignitaries. Business Locals. If you want to get a picture copied or enlarged or a. lot of fine views of Oregon and Columbia river scenery, or a dozen first-class photographs any size, go to I. G. Davidson, tne busiest and must successful photographer in Portland. N ew M usic .—Send stamp to Wiley B. Allen, most popular music dealer, Port­ land, Or., for oomplete catalogue and sample copy •* Musical Pastime.” All orders by mail filled promptly. The Household Sewing Machine took the first premium at the great Man­ chester (England) Exposition for the best family Sewing Machine. John B. Garrison, general agent, J67 3rd St., Portland, Oregon. " SOUTH AND WEST,” OHLY »O OBTH A YEAR. It is a firat-clMH Agricutnral paper, published aemi-mouthly. All who »end us their subscrip­ tion with 50 cents, between now and December 1st, we will send them >be paper until January 1, 1881. Sample Coplee,