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MISS MILLIE DOUGHTY, EDITOR.
Mr. I. G. Davidson, of Portland, spent
Sunday at this place.
Mr. E. H. RfchardsOD, of Scio, made
town a visit on Saturday.
Prof. D. T. Stanley attende^- the
teachers’ institute at Albany this week.
ed what course to pursde in tho future.
The fruits and vegetables put np -last
season are largely on hand, there being
no sale on account of buyers preferring
to purchase where they can secure a full
assortment.
Rev. W. B. Lee, havin'g accepted the
call from the Presbyterian Church, re
cently tendered him, is making arrange
ments for the accommodation of his
family in thia, city, says the Olympia
An extensive programme has been ar
ranged setting forth the order of Iho
work at the coping Puget Sound Dis
trict Convention of the Methodist Epis
copal Church, to be held in Cflympia
from May 20th to the 22d inolusivo.
ing in our mountains, *at the head of pur
streams, as they have since I came to
the valley twenty years ago, we may
sometime look for suoh a flood as will
sweep this town and valley almost out
of existence. Such a thing hai occur-
■red ■11‘:kal311 Ji; ?JI Lunn??
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possibly not more ‘
when our mountains were bare of tim
FOREIGN.
ber and naked. I don’t now remember
Prince Leopold, the . fourth and
noticing any trees on the mountains
youngest
son of Victoria died suddenly
more than 100 years old. We see the
unmistahati 1 e ^e v 1 dence oFThesa terrific at Uaonea, ou March 28tb.
The Purin correspondent of the Times
floods all over the valley in the bars and
telegraphs
the pope hah notified Emper
drifts of gravel and washed sand.
or Francis Joseph, in an autograph let
ter, that there are reasons which induce
EASTERN. .
Mrs. Sherwood. E. Stratton, mother him to leave Romo at p more or less
of the late Tom Thumb, died at Jiew early date. The Pope says that he is
well aware that his decision will have
Haven, Conn., March 27.
serious
consequences to Christendom,
The steamship Lydian Monarch arriv
ed at New York, March 28th, with the but-he is bound to carry out his inten
sacred white elephant, which was re tions.
ceived by Barnum <fc Hutchinson with a
consiSeraCTe W pairl^,UMi wb T^ l F i 'S'^ 1
Sickles, for many years American Con
sul at Bangkok, Siam. The elephant is
in excellent condition. His keeper gave
'a graphic „account of the trouble he had
in getting the animal away from Siam,
part of the,journey being ten days’
tramp through a jungle. Ex Consul
. Sickles said that owing to the manner in
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meet on Saturday evening, April the
5th.
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The children of Mr. James Russell,
who have been sick for a few weekspast
are recovering.
Mr. A. Marshall and Mn and Mrs.
Marion “XTantfoT'
a visit this week.
The county clerk Mr. R. Shelley,
with his family, was visiting friends in
town on Monday.
Aunt Frankie Murphy, who has been
at Eugene City, for some time past, re
turned on last Friday to her home aj
this place.
The Sunday-school re-elected the sarnc^
officers on last Lord’s day, with the ad
dition of Bro. Wm. Dawson as assistant
- superintendent.
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Two good sermons were preached here
last Sunday. One by Bro. D. T. Stanley
at 11 a . m . , and the other by Bro. P. R.
the Nodhwest generally, is picking up.
The severe loss occasioned by Villard’s
failure is being gradually overcome-by
the development of local resources.
Yaquina Bay is enjoying quite a boom
at present^ says the Coos Bay, Oregon,
News, and those who visited that section
a year or two ago would now be surpris
beneficial
ed nt the extraor
*e in the
changes that have.taken
entrance to the harbor. Captoin Polhe-
mus, soundings, abouta year/ince, only
showed some five feet of w r on the
bar at low tide, with a rock/bottom, but
now, according to late reports, there are
22 feet of water on the bar at half tide.
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A large number from this place atten
ded the county teachers’ institute at
Dallas on last Friday and Saturday. All
report the time as pleasantly and profit
ably spent.
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Mrs. Arant, of Linkville, came to
Monmonth on Friday with the inten.
tion of making this her home for a while.
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rivpr at this point is very high, and the
meadows on the Chesterfield side of the
river are submerged. The water ia still
rising. A protracted spell of bad weath
er this month has greatly retarded all
farming operationsin this section.
The river at Vicksbuig, March 26ib,
was even with the high water of 1874.
At Davis’ Bend everything is overflowed
and for thirty miles down the river, ex
cept at Lovells plantation. Somerset,
never before inundated is now at the
"mercy. oFffie wnvcfl:’-. i'rqm t.igKpdTnts,
the city of Delta lookers if built in the
center of a lake. People aro goingfrom
house to house in skiffs.
All the wharves in the lower part of
Richmond, Va., March 26th, was sub
merged and the water is np into main
.... A posse of snfveyors in the employ
of the O. P. R. R. Co , left here Sunday
morning with equipments for tho sum
mit of the Cascades, by way of the Leb
anon mountain wagon road route.
dCoipmenting in the Journal of Walla
Walla on the flood in Ohio, Philip Ritz
makes the following local application :
All these facts have a very significant
bearing on our boautiful valley and en
terprising city. If the destruction of
the amount of Government work done
at that place than has ever been accom
plished before.
Bismarck, D. T., March 28.—.The ice
gorge extendiTrohi’SnveFf:i51*Ea;-ive
miles below here, toU point as far above
the city as can be seen with a strong
glass, probably ten miles. Tho ice is
very thick, somejitkes containing ^cres.
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moving to town.
Miss Katie Bristow began teaching on
Monday in the district about two miles
north of town. Miss Ada Waller has
secured the school at Ballston, where
she also commenced teaching on Mon
day.
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The members of Mrs. R.C. Percival’s
Sunday-school class who were present
. every Sunday during the past quarter
are as follows : Dale Stanley, Neddie
Foulkes, Ella Emmett, Mattie Haley
and Mary Haley.
levee, and the escape of any of them from the people of Siam the impression
will be miraculous, as the ice has shov has grown abroad that they were snow-
ed them solidly against the shore. The white in color and sacred. The ani
ice shoved this afternoon, increasing mals of Siam were like this one, whitish'
the hole in the steamer Black Hills, and in color, with peculiar rddish spots.
The first thfohgh party from the City
-she sank; loss $12,000. Between the
bridg and Mandan, for three miles the of Mexico, over the recently-completed
track is covered with ice and /^her. The Mexican Central Central Rrailroad, ar
flood is now within six feet of the high rived at Chicago, March 28th. The
water mark of 1881. Bismarck is fifty- party was. made up jointly o) Americans
six feet above the river, and no damage who hrd been visiting the Mexican
Capital and thirty Btudents, for the
is feared. The river is still rising.
Shoalwater Bay oysters are said to be Notre Dame University in Indiana “and
fine this spring. About 500 sacks per few Mexican merchants. The run from
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month are received at Portland from that the City of Mexico was made in five
Rumors are afloat, says the Lewiston, place and they are also shipped by the days.
The Secretary of State, acting on in
Idaho, Teller, that the Lapwai garrison schooner load to San Francisco as in
is to be abandoned, that the only posts days gone by. Not long since the price formation received from the United
to be garrisoned east of the Cascades in was advanced owing to the demand from States Consuls at all the principal points
this department are Walia Walla, Camp San Francisco. The oyster beds of of emigration in Europe report that
Olympia have beftn depleted since the trade dollars in large quantities are be
Spokane and C<»ur d’Alene.
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Rumor has it, says the Port Townsend failure of the beds at bhoalwater Bay, ing purchased in New York for export,
Argus, that an Eastern company of cap and the latter have recovered themselves with a supposed view of putting them
italists are going to put a large paper just in time, to prevent a dearth of oys off at par on emigrants about to embark
for this ^pntry. The Secretary sug
mill in Tumwater, W. T. They will ters.
employ from 100 to 200 m^D.
Writing from Lebanon, Oregon, to gests that Consuls do all in their power
On or about the 10th of next month, the Albany Herald, a correspondent to prevent emigrants to the United
says the Dayton, W. T., Journal, Mr. says: A great many immigrants are now States From being imposed upon in re
Gillis of Fayetteville, Ark., will arrive to be seen in our town and more antici gard to the real value ol the trade dollar
here with a party of thirty- five persons, patod. The unsettled an<l unimproved •and use such measures as maybe neces
’ all of whom will locate with us. On territory just a fetf mile3 back of Leb sary for their protection in this respect.
A tremendous thunder storm burst
the 5th it i^axpected the Pittsfield, Ill., anon is amply large and of proper qual-
party will arrive. This arty consists ity to furnish hundteds of homes to the over Pete rsburg, Va., shortly after mid-
.....^"Swgetic and industrious classes.night of Mtrrch
It rained - tn tor
of aVouT lo rTy '-U ve person s'"'
The Walla Walla cannery is now clos and even capitalists are not excluded rents, and the thunder was severe and
ed and the canning company is undecid- from the possibility of good investments shook tho houses. The Appomattox
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