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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 7, 1871)
GENERAL NEWS. Ilaggerty and Baulch, the al. ledged voucher robbers'are held to appear before the grand jury, - O'Conner consents to head the anti-Tammany delegation to the Rochester Convention. . The dele gation numbers twenty-one of the most reputable citizens and staunch Democrats. - Secretaries " Belknap," Robeson, Delano and Creswell, are now in Washington. v One hundred and ten cases of the small pox have been reported at Lowell, , Massachusetts, within ten days preceding September 30th. U' GoL Nilson, who killed Cen. Clinton at Knoxville, Tennessee, surrendered , himself last Monday, aud gave lxnds in the sum of $25,- 00.0 to answer the charare. Judsce Nilson, his father, and W. G. 13 ro wnlow are amo A terrible contlagration occurred in Chicago last Monday afternoon. It destroyed the immense warehouse on the track ot the Chicago, Burl Ligton & Quincy Railroad and con tents, valued at $850,000. One , i man is known to havo been burned to death. Three others are missing. A riot occured last Monday even ing at. Danville, Virginia, occasion ed by a mob of negroes attempting . to rescue a negro from arrest. A negro was bayonetted and a police man was shot. Great excitement. Prof. Morse, the telegraph invent or, has a street named after him in , Paris. The dreadful scourge, yellow fe ver, is spreading over the South. In France there are over three htmdred colleges, not one of which will admit women students. The Texas Pacific Railway will be 1,515 miles long. A Protestant league , is in course of formation throughout Germany, the object of which is the expulsion of the Jesuits from the country. ! The claims of the British subjects residing in the South during the war does not exceed $5,000,000. Deputy Controller, Green, has determined to distribute the . print ing of his department, formerly done by the New York Printing Associa tion, among a number of printing establishments. One case of vellow lever is re ported in Brooklyn. .. A terrible explosion of fire-damp occurred recently in one of the mines m Carton-Gnson, Switzerland. 1 hir j ty persons were instantly killed. The Kingdom ot liavaria is about to recall its Ambassadors to breign States, and will in future bo represented only as a portion of the German Umpire. The number of passports issued to persons going abroad this year is largely in excess of any previous one. The average has been about thirty, but is now tailing on. From England we learri that the scissor grinders, cutlers and carpen ters of Sheffield, Bolton and Dundee have struck work. . , The strikers in Newcastle held a ' mass meeting to-day aud passed res- v olutions insisting upon - their de mauds and expresssing their inten tion to persevere in the strike until its objectsare accomplished. From France we . are , ( told that the supporters of the empire, are be- ' i Vr''' J - coming Doiaer in ineir inxngueR, uu agitate openly tor restoration. Clem ent Duvrenois, editor - of the i new ;: Bonamrtist tjauer.; savs Thiers is failing. otmI the ountrvi will" natu rally, return to the'" Government which cave it twenty years of or der. Assurances are given at Ver sailles that tlie difficulties in the way of the , , ratification ' of the customs treatv - with Germany have been j - , , f- overcome. '. ; --; - . . . . Small pox is raging in Brooklyn, .New xork. In the town elections in Hartford . and New Haven,' Connecticut, last Tuesday; the .Republicans' elected nearly meir enure uck.ci Telegrams, from ' North ; i Carolina was." Anauieu ne leu ior rcran- t . v A JNcw York dispatch of sep- tdn. j One may insert a thousand excellent temper 528th gives this: "A num- '- T m.ilvik fn1vMma i lf". -,- I iif. I till Hfra 111 St I IMVB1V1 Oiwl tA-kTu. I i k"f WWt TT 1 1 lOI 10tt1fVraffi flVkfTl wu ui luora irom iiisTMHJfrs. r Uie Mouth nd West have had a meeting with leaduie members ot 9fIaellneoit Iteins. contain the following : Dispatches fixan Great Grimsbylgive harrow- ing detail of shipwrwiks in full sight of the people on shore during the late great gale. The master of the, American ship Bertha Thayer was swept overboard from ' her deck and drowned, while otV Lundy Isle. , The steamer Sunderland with seven hands, and an Italian brig with nine persons on board, both foundered off the meuth of the 1 1 um ber, daring the gale. Emile OHiver has settleil in Turin, and avows his determination of never again returning to France. A sun fish, weighing 300 pounds, was recently captured at New Bed ford, Mass. . . Nebi"aska took the field against the Union, in the pomulogical ex hibition at liiclimond, aad bore off the palm. It took the first premi um for the best collection of fruits. A Turk has appeared in New York with a wife whose strange, luxnrient beauty has created a deep sensation. She has the eyes of a houri, almond-shaped, deep and dreamy, and brilliautly white teeth that laugh when she laughs. The delicate white .lace that covers her blue.dress is held by little groups of real humming birds, J perched on branches made of the brilliant wig- sheaths of the green-beetle. . They are sojourning at an up-town hotel, en route for Canada. Thomas King, 17, of Lewiston, Me., believed that laughing at the bolts and bars might be iudulged in by something else than love. He was placed in the county , jau , for some incorrigible offence. Before the bolts were shut an hour he had with a common, pe-knif e cut' his way out, just m time, however, to fall into the arms of the ' warden. Put into auother cell, in an incredi ble short time - he had smashed through the walls and had almost escaped when discovered. Out of patience with the pertinacious break away, the jailor put him in a' third cell, securely handcuffing him to keep his busy hands still. In - ex actly 40 minutes the watchman reached the cell on his rounds, aud the prisoner was nowhere to be seen. Two bars were cleanly cut away and the handcuffs were gone. An explosion of fire-damp occur red last Wednesday morning at 6 o'clock in the mine in Glawergan county, Wales. Five meu were killed. Owing to the early hour the regular force had not commenced work, else the loss of life would have been frightful. A late dispatch from New York states that the prosecution oi the Tammany gang is seriously hindered" by the refusal of the Board of Su pervisors which is under Tweed's control, to allow the Committee, of Reform the power to send for per sons and papers. . ; Bismarck, according to a Berlin correspondent, believes he was pois oned by some unknown enemy dur ing his recent visit to Frankfort-on- the-Main. : let a line or "two. not -.feuited to their .tate creep in by aec-ident or otlievwise, and one hears from it from every riuar-' terV' -. - .. , . . the party, and have agreed, it ,is said, to put Chief Justice Chase for- The average age of women, when ! for he lsidcncy. Those Oieywu uT)', ia 25,46 ye ir ;and, of onu I claiming to know declare that Chase hundred who 'reach 'this age twentt- is very anxious to be a candidate, one will never "toArry. With men it ad he has an entire understanding SlfeSS lf1' infiuentblDemocrat, all over riedauO. of oue hundred of the latter the country that he sliall 1x3 nomina wlio reach the' nuirriage age of 20.5 ted. It is reptirted that he himself years, twenty-two will dSe bMeltelors. l)as prei)ared a platforln very liberal in character, and which he thinks will be satisfactory to man' discon- rhiw about one-fifth of mirwonle are doomed to the ivwctlded, whether they prefer it or uot. , , Peter Cooper, in speaking of hi ef forts in Jlfr, gives the following tribute to his wife : - - Providence did bless my efforts ; and this institution i3 tlie , result, lnjver lost sight of during a usiuess career of ntwirly .sixty yeaw-in ..which I was clieen-d, comforted, KU-t-iintHl and en couraged by the grandest. -of. human hlessinsf. a diUmnt. wise, industrious. faithful, and alletliouate wife.' i - A prominent; Government official at Washington, recently wrote to a frieml in New Vork, iitwniiring as to the o sition, fiiwincUiJly, or otherwise., of a resident of that eitv. ' I aui U-ippy to inform you tlieit . !Xlr. -sfcinds at tlie very top of .respectability here. He owns u fast hpiise, a, New York Judge, and iutends to steal tlic liivt railiwd he sees lying around loose." Dio Lewis declares t! tat tlxs pi-esent system of employing doctors, i wrong, and advises1 the people to make con tracts with them at $ 200 a year for each family, and a deduction of $2 for each ease of aiefcuess- .i A pLano that is plajteif 'with the feet ia the Litest musical inV6utionp' an- nonncnl in Knglaud. It issixty eigMke3rs which are cubical blooks of wood, aud each one strikes a chord of four notes. The inventor wears slip per When playingv and while lie per forms upon the piano with his feet he plays the flute j with 1is mouth and fingers. , " ; ' ' - Tlie other day, in a town in Ver mont, two women, mother and daught er, alleged to be guilty of immoral practices, were fciken from tlieir dwell ing and subjected to a coat of ttr and feathers. A male offeiKiei found on the premises was ornamented - with a crown of feathers, and a jug was tied to his back and a lantern hung to ltis neck, in which condition he was iara ded through the town to his residence, and made to acknowledge to his wife his marital derelictions. He was then notified to leave the town within twen ty-four hours, or sutler the penalties of an adhesive coat and a ride on tlie wooden horse. - tented "Republicans. Three years ago a citizen of Bos ton, Air. Z. 31. Mnith, undertook a tour to tlie Kocky Mountains in his own carnage, in company with his wife. Tlie journey was accomplished a few dajs ago, and the travelers returned to tlieir homes last week. They made with their own horse 12,000 miles, and 30,000 by steam, saddle, and in Indian caiwxH. visit- ina: every mininr camp and villacre. from Montana to Mexico, at an ex pense of over 25,000. His Iligluiess the XawabofNa- zim, of Moorshedabad, has a family of forty-two children, of whom nine teen are unmarried princesses. Kach one waiting for a rovai husband. and the heart of his highness is heavy because they come not. General IJrice, the Ilaytien Min ister to France, hunted down the ex-Emperor oulouque ; has been twice hanged by the neck ; twice the rope slipped: and in three sieges lived comfortably by eating the soles of his boots. Tlie Norwich IdetrtUcr selects the following from " What I know about farming :" " Catch your but terflies late in August. Select deep yellow ones if you would get sweet, saleable butter." The editor of the T'intes has lieen presented, with, a purse of $50,000 by .the Union League, in recogni tion of his services against the '1 am many Hall King. hearing before SOMK THINGS VOU WILL NOT BK SORRY FOR. Or judging, w ; i or thinking before speaking. For holding an angry tongue. ' . For stopping the ear to ? a tale bearer, syui nn v -i.. . i-;u Forrehtsing to kick a fallen man. t For being kind to the distressed. ''For being" patient to alL t ' ! 'For doing good to all men.-: : ' For walking upright before jGod For lending to the Lord.? ? - r: , For laying up treasure in heaven. P "For asking pardon for all wrongs. in Lombarda, Italy " For speaking evil ot no . man. ' . 5 1 iieved to have been For being courteous to &1L , We -caution. . parents particularly not to allow their cJiildren to be waked up in the mornings ; let nature wake them up ; siie will uot do i prematurely ; but have a care that tliey go to bed at an early hour ; let it be earlier and earlier, untu it lslouiid that tliey wake up.tliemselves in full time to dress for breakfast, isemg waked up early ami allowed to engage in difficult or any studies late, and t just before retiring, has given many a beautiful and prom ising child brain fever, or determined ordinary ailments to the production of water on the Drain. pt. liiH. According to a French statistician. taking the mean of many counts, a man firry years or age has slept6,O0O days, worked 6,500 days. . walked 800 days, amused himself 4,000 days, was eating l.ooo clays, was sick ooo, etc. lie ate 77,000 pounds of bread, 16,000 pounds of meat, 4,000 pounds of vegetables, eggs and fish, aud drank 7,000 gallons or ii'iuiu, namely : , water, cortee, tea. beer, wine, etc., all togetlier. This would make a respectable lake of 300 square feet -surface and three deep,, on which a small steamer could navi gate. ,'V"-1-:" ; An excliauee say9 : 'One of the greatest nuuuuieea of a hotel is a hand some man. lie is a bore to all the la dies of good sense in the house. If we might be allowed a suggestion, we wouiu auvise every iauier who is threatened with a Itaudsome son in the family, just to take a clothes iounder and batter his nose to a pumice. , For some cause or other, mne out out of ten of the handsome men you meet are conceited jackdaws. They .cnltivate their, hair and , complexion so much that they have no time'to think of their Drains. Jiy tne time they reach thirty. then lieaus and hands are equally son-; Morgan county, Illinois, boasts of tlie largest o m the united States. Weight 1,305 pounds. To Sau Francisco and back is now the fashionable bridal tour. On the 20th of last June there were 30,045 post offices in the Uni ted States. t canfwai get over the feelinsr that tho srinls of the -dead da somehow connect Jiemseives - wnn ner piaces of their former habitation, and that the hush and thrill of i spirit f which we feel in them mav be: owing to "Hie oldest tree on record in Em-one. is asserted to be the cypress of Sonnna, - This tree is be in eicistance at the time of Julius PassaV forty-two years before Christ, and' is therefore5 1911 years old. It U 106 feet ha height, and zu ieec m circumierenee at one loot fron the . ground..! Nanoleou. when laying down bis plan for the great road over the Simmon, j diverged - from a straight line to avoid Injuring this tree. A hch?chemes asserts that if tea tx 11U V- 1 . ..t... I nloQctnff fhamutlviui Avon Qa -ViTnof1 o 1 tho ovejaaowttrg presence- oj- xne t is mumd nnon it iti viel onarrff 1 so leased not shinaself ; this As-socla . ... ...... r.. -w . ..M-rtT . ' 1 r ? rir ' "T7 " - . 7- I . - . .i-s" . invisioie. -. oc. u ejf : . o i a JOB PRINTING3 IX ALL ITS VAKIETIES,: COLORED OR PLAIN, -AT THE R. E GIST S R el Ffflitii mm Tlie female pjpulation of Great lintain exceeds the ma le by 7 18,5 16. .. The constant increase of crime com mitted under tlie influence of liciuorlias led to the introduction of a new licen sing law in England, with a view ot restricting tlie sale of liquor by reduc ing tne numoer ot puoiic nouses, winch now average one to 132 persons to le stores, or these where Tumor is sold not to be drank on the premises. There is quite a total aljstinence party in Great 15 r it- la n ; nut tne most it lias ever attempt ed in the way of legislation was to try to have a law passed granting to a cer tain majority of the tax-payers power to prohibit the sale of liijuor in its lim its, m the course or the debate on this licensing bill, reference was made to the plan adopted in Wurtemburg, where tlie Government owns all tlie linuor stores, placing them in eliarge of a Gvernment officer. It is made Ue ' interest of this official to sell as little linuor, and as much tea and coffee as possible, since he is allowed a percent- all sales ot these rauder bever ages, such a plan would hardly work well eitlier in Englaud or tins country, but it is said to be a valuable auxiliary in promoting sobriety among the Wurteinburgers. r-f . . ... Was the wiiie made by Jesus from water, at the wedding of Cana of Gal i- le, intoxicating? This, question . sub stantifllly, was- discussed ; lately in etings ot the iresDy- terian Ministers' Association of Phila delphia. Tlie body was divided on the question, ac tne enu as m me oe- srinniug of tno discussion ; nut aiizuni- ted in tlie resolution tliat, in view of the deplorable results, temporal and eternal,-1 which in . so many cases are clearlv traceable to the custom of wine drinking, especially as a part of ft so cial entertainment ; ana m view aLso of the Divine - precept that the strong" bear the mflrmitles oi the weak, not TYPE ALL NEW AND LATEST STYLES. NEW POWER PRESSES. INII TTTTRPrva ON W A VTI A HBnH STflry fit '-- Enables ns to lo Better Work, at Lower. Hate. TIIAM AI1Y OTHER OFFICE IN THE vf-H;;Wniamette Valley. i:4 i. Come and See for Yourself. , ... ,. .... . " ,' '-w'i,i.it.-S 1 -v.( , . - if ; compassed about: with a great cloud ipf witnesses' but how canthey be' witnesses they cannot see and be cognizant; ? llarrtet'iB. Stotae. i ' Ohe'!6f the provisions of the Ohio csunaay law is vxcmpuuU" ui . umk. rimiMA thA amonnf of its exhilaratincr I tion regards the entire disuse Of Wine, qualities. Anotijierwritfer says : " ff j as wellas other intoxicating liquors, a1 you put a piece df lnmp Sugar the size of a wahrat into a", tea" pot' you will make the tea infuse in half tlie time.". Persons who have'i tried this last ex periment, say that1 the result is - very The Khedive of, Egypt has. tlie great- says that Bond infuses to .continue I for debt' on Sundaya. "And so care-s 1 W"?8 Wan7iS?? -.r- , xt: lo.lrwl t , , ; - Up ti Ac world. Hi personal, wealth is the Ku 1-Clux cases. guilty yesterday. ExLGovernof English of Cohf nectkiut. is cursed bv his "party for . cutting down the Democratic' vote in that State by giving $1,000 . to . wards a new-school house. jUenerai 4fcherman,f ? in passing through Bmghampton the " other - dav was, as usuaL trreetcd bv a large crowd. He stood upon a chair,. and, after receiving three cheers, eaid "he was satished if the crowd .Nine pleaded F ful has been tlie spirit of Ohio legis- latidfi to; extend equal privileges jo all that it has also 4 provided the same exemption for -Israelites ..on fcJaUirday, their Sabbath.- in the personal, wealth is said to amount to $300,000,00.-- He lives In a new palace, which cost him $1 5,000, 000, and. spent $25,000,000 eutertau a beverage, by individuals Or at social x. i .: .. -i . - j i. : . .1. . j v. n Christian law of self-denial, is. now due to suffering humanity." . ( .. . i m m ; SoxmuKS1 WrrHOCT - Rum. The Lancet says that not a ration of spirit or rum is served out- to the; German sol diers in France, who are giving such- a solendid account of themselves in tlie matter of physical energy ana endu rance - It recalls, also the tact tnat, dv ILook- lPb'r. The (II uuun CORKER .FEKUY &"FIItST-STS., The Prime Minister of Hungaiy,. : Count Andrassy, while ' in exile in Loixloh, feupported himself by giving, lessons on the guitar, and was often so poor that be went hungry I aud wandered about the . streets of . the Great City? ali- night, t not .having money enough to pay for a lodging. im a 1 11 aL , r ' . rVwv..-- , aavice ortnemeaicai ourcau. me huutii. ing sixty-thousand European guesteat ration was dfeieontinued id tiie Amert-! the buez canal 'opening, ' paying . for everything, including their wsishiug n Pranklm.said:'; A newspaper and a bible in every house; and a good scheool in every district, are the pnndU fal supporters of virtue,' morality and eivU liberty.', u- . , ;. : . The Steam 'power employed in the United States does the labor of 140,000 000 men. while that of Great Britain is eqivalentto 400,000,000. can army without any injury to tiw service. The uerman, uowever, us his bottle of Rhine wine; Nothing can be considered more demonstratetrthan that the severities of war, will be bet ter endured without than With the use of ardent 8piritaIwlepenient. ' In tlie intoxicating cup discontent seeks for comfort ; cowardice for cour age; bashfulness for confidence ? sad ness for joy ; and they all find ruin. i r -1 ,