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ALBANY, OMEfrON.
Hie valentine trade 'is getting
L lively in Portland.
Nearly 8,000 tonsof ore aim rail
lion wen; waiting trawportatiou at
Salt Lake on tlie 1st inst.
Christian Leave, of Snn Francis,
co, shot hitnselt by the grave of his
wife at Lone Mountain, Feb, 1st
This was the third suicide of the
week.
The Portland journals ray that
tlie smelt season is over for tle
present. They mean the fish bear
ing'mt name caught in the vtcini
ty of Monticello.
Tlie Corvallis Democrat says
"young Diddle has huge bile right
square on his proboscis." He should
liavc it pulled.
'Hie Eugene C ity paprs an
nounco that tlie stage coach as a
means of conveyance is with litem a
thing of the past, the railroad ha V
ii;g superseded it.
The McMiuiiville West Side
says that farmers hi that section are
all busily engaged in plowing and
sowing wJicak'W
1 he same joiiftl has the follow
ing: The night after Darker' store
was opened, the same thieves or
others of the same gang, broke open
the safe in Forrest's store at Wheat
land. They cut down through the
top of the safe, but obtained noth
ing to reward their boldness and
perseverance.
Also, the Messenger office at
Monmouth came near sharing the
fate of Chicago lately. The pro
prietor attempted to till a lighted
lamp with oil, and of course had a
fire which required the aid of citi
zens to put out.
Elk are said to be plentiful at the
foot of the Cascade mountains.
An earthquake was felt at Hay
wood, Tab, Jan. 26th.
Salt Lake City is to have a crack
er factory.
In Arizona horses subsist on dry
pea vine.
There is an order of "Fox Tad
Socials," at Carson, Nevada.
Soma highway robbers recently
went through a man at Sebastopol,
but all he had was a chew of to
bacco, and they took it.
Two sons of James Levens, who
reside iu Elkton precinct, were put
in jail for assault and battery com
mitted upon their father, Sunday
before last, says the Plaindealer.
William Thompson has given up
his interest in the llosebnrg Plain
dealer, and removed to Salem. The
paper is now in the hands of the
Publishing Company.
The scaffolding gave way, in
Roseburg, upon which two carpen
ters were at work upon a house,
precipitating both to the ground,
painfully injuring one of them.
Quite an emigration from Mis
souri to Oregon is reported to trans
pire next summer.
Iu an affray in Coles Valley re
cently between N. H. Long and J.
C. Epperson, the latter received two
cuts with a penknife, one in the left
arm and the other between the fifth
and sixth ribs. Neither danger
ous. Hie Walla Walla Union has
this; A gentleman who has just
made the trip from Yakima to this
place says that the snow in the up
per portion of that valley, and es
pecially in the Kittitas, is two and
a half feet ou the level. He says
that the weather is very cold, but
that stock is, as a general thing,
doing better in the Kittitas than'
they are lower down the Yakima.
This is because in Kittitas most per
sons have plenty of hay for thciran
iroals, and in the lower Yakima
there is but little feed prepared.
From his statements it seems cer
tain that the loss of cattle in the
Yakima and Klickitat countries will
be considerable.
The annual yield of apples in
Oregon averages 800,000 bushels,
over 200 pounds a year for every
person in the State.
Tlie Enterprise says that J. D.
Diles and Den. Holladay, Jr.,liave
purchased property iu Oregon City,
upon which they propose to erect a
large barrel and tub factory.
The late blockade on tlie Colnm.
bia has plainly demonstrated the
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nut that a wagon road should be
huilt from Portland to the Dalles.
A shed roof, weighed down with
snow, fell on Samuel Stroud, living
on Fifteen Mile Creek, beyond tlie
Italics, and severely, if not fatally,
injured him a short time since.
The course of instruction iu the
Medical Department of the Willa
mette University goes on regular
ly with a class numbering fourteen
pupils, six lectures lieing delivered
daily, Tlie commencement exer
cises will take place on the evening
of the 4th of March, at which time
a number of the present class will
graduate.
Judge Lotiderback, of San Fran
ciao, on the 31st ult., fined I Ins
tings $00, and Mike Mooney and
Hunt $40 each fbr cock fighting.
These were test cases, and tlie par
ties would have been fined more
had they not agreed to quit the
business,
The complete removal of the
blockade outlie Union Pacific Kail
road, was reported on tlie 31st ult.
r The. engineer wjip ran the first
railroad locomotive in the TJnited
States, Mr. David Matthew, is now
residing ill Portland.
Mrs. Crady, of Portland, fell
down a flight of stairs last Saturday
and broke lier arm.
Not long since Edward Maguire,
of Portland, Was run over by an
express wagon, receiving injuries
which brought on lock-jaw, from
which he died last Saturday.
Leading musicians of Portland
are talking of organizing a band as
is a band.
The Oregon and California stages
now stop at Creswcll, fouttoen miles
beyond Eugene City.
A sou of David Lindsey, of Sa
lem, seven years old, was resuscitat
ed from an appareut drowning by
accident in a mill race last Friday.
Mr. Matheny, one of the oldest
settlers in the State, died at his res
idence in Yamhill county, near
Wheatland, last Friday.
Vancouver is laying down iron
water mains.
The wife of Michael Curtin,near
Vancouver, fell down in a swoon
recently, and died almost instantly.
Oiyrapia lias 18,000, lots and
about 1,000 inhabitants. Tlie in
crease of lots to inhabitants is about
aslOOtol. s-
Montana is experiencing the se
verest winter known since the set
tlement of the Territory. Wood in
many localities is $20 a cord.
One hundred and sixty dead Chi
nese have been exhumed at Victo
ria for exportation to China.
The Hongkong papers say that
tlie Chinese Government has devot
ed 1,000,000 taels to send thirty
students to Yale College, in New
England.
A writer in the Colonist has been
examining the cairns of Victoria,
and thinks they must be 8,000 years
old.
It is stated that owing to deten
tions this winter, the Union l'acifie
Hailroad Company will cover ex
posed portions of their road with
sheds, before another winter.
Mrs. J. D. Frost is lecturing at
Victoria against woman suffrage.
Her efforts seem to be more appre
ciated than were the efforts of those
who spoke on the other side of the
question.
Leading citizens of Salt Lake
commend the coarse of Judge Mc
Kcaniuthe bail matter.
At a masquerade ball at Salt
Lake on the 1st, a tremendous row
broke out. Rioters beat off po
licemen, and they returned with
shot guns and made arrests and
stopped the performance.
Snow about Silver City, Owyhee,
was four feet deep on a level, last
week.
Tlie Montana Legislature, now
iu session, has refined .to entertain
any application for divorce, refer
ring tlie applicant to the courts as
the proper place.
The Mariposa estate, CaL, was
sold Jau. 31st, to Judge Hoyden
fold in the interest of the Mariposa
Land & Mining Compamy, of New
York, for $800,000.
Henry Meiosre recently sent an
order to San Francisco for five first
class American civil engineers,, to be
employed b the construction of his
railroad hi Peru, at $500 per month
and expenses paid, but was unable
to obtain them there, mud was com
pelled to seek them in New York.
In the United States Court at
Salt Lnfec, Jan. 31st, Deputy At
torney High, pursuant to instruc
tions from Attorney General Wil
liams, moved that all pr mers in
custody of the United States in
Utah, be dismissed ou bail. Chief
Justice McKenit delivered the de
cision, which receives universal ami
mendntion from gentiles and lilter-
nk He alluded to the fact that of
eleven prisoners' charged with mur
der six were held in custody in the
city without expense to the Gov
ernment, ami five at Camp Douglas
at thirty cents" a day each. Some
of the murders were committed
under circumstances of great mys
tery and atrelty ; some openly in
the face of mankind. Now tliese
prisoners are turned loose before
trial. Silt iW!$hout precedent. le
sides tbere ao reasons, which can
not lie made public why thoso per
sons should not be admitted to bail,
reasons which District Attorney
Dates cannot tiavc communicated to
Attorney General Williams, and to
which Mr. Dates seems quite in
different Indeed, he is known by
the Court to have made in other
particulars serious misstatements in
regard to affairs iu Utah on this
judicial question. I am placed
here to decide under the law all
judicial questions that shall arise in
the District Court. Were I to
shrink now from a plain duty, it is
not improbable that the irresponsi
ble magistrate called Judge Lynch
would assume the office which I
would thereby have proved myself
unworthy to hold. I refuse to ad-
mit these prisoners to bail. Mr,
Dates urged upon the Attorney
General the application for bail on
the ground ostensibly of tlie heavy
expense.
Dridget Maguire was severely
burned by tlie explosion of a coal-
oil lamp iu Fort land last week.
Capt. Freeman, of the brig Brew
ster, died ou the lOtli of January,
during the voyage of the vessel from
1'ortl.atul tof San Francisco.
Mr. H. E. Morris caught a runa
way horse near Dallas, which rear
ed and struck him ou tlie lower jaw
fracturing it severely, ami knocking
out a tooth, says tbo RepMkan
Forty Chinaman attend the
Methodist Sunday School in Port
land.
he Bulletin says, four curls, de
pending from the top of the head,
fastened by black velvet or bright
ribbons, is how the Portland ladies
ornament their miliums.
The colored people have a dan
cing club in Portland, numbering
some thirty.
Accounts from Willow Creek and
Antelope Valley report that stock
has suffered very little thus far.
From the Eugene Journal we
learn that Charles Montgomery, a
brakesman on the Railroad, while
the construction train was backing
up to the front from Eugene, lost
his footing and felling upon the
track, had one arm and both legs
severed from bis body by the wheels
of four can and the locomotive pas
sing over them. He died in about
twenty minutes, his last words be
ing, "Johnl wake me up?'
A locomotive aud tender was run
off the track at Eugene last week
on Thursday, damaging the latter,
and making a black place on a col
ored man's leg, says tlie Journal.
The Statesman reports that J.
II. Upton, late of the Salem Mer
cury, is swing to Lafayette, instead
of Grande Ronde valley, to start a
"litigant organ."
A Portland journal says it snow.
ed so thickly the other day in the
vicinity of Monticello, that it accu
mulated to the depth of three inches
on the surface of tho water.
Tlie Japanese Embassy after pub.
lishing a card of thanks to San Fran-
cisco for the liberality and kind.
noso shewn them, started on the
31st of January last for Sacramento,
A stay of proceedings was :se
cured on the 1st alt. from Judge
Barnard, New York, in the case
against Connolly, until March 15th,
by which time the court of appeal
is expected to decide the case of tlie
People vs. ex-Controller.
The trial of Tweed will not take
place until the March term.
The total amount of tlie United
States currency outstanding up to
the 31st ult., was $899,067,070.
The will of Jim Fisk was admit
ted to probate on the 1st inst. The
estate is sworn not to exceed a mill
ion of dollars. His widow is tlie
sole executrix.
Ex-Controller Connolly's bonds
men qualified on the 1st, and were
fully accepted. ,--
The. Grand Duke arrived at
Louisville, Ky., on the 30th nit.
At the Woman's Suffrage Asso
ciation held in Boston on Jan. 30th,
Win. Lloyd Garrison spoke and
denounced the doctrine ot five love
as advaiioedsby Mrs. Woodhull iu
connection with the .movement. ...
The President nominated Sam
uel C. Wiugnrd, U. S. Attorney for
Washington Territory, Jan. 30th.
Tho report of the Railroad Com
missioncrs of Illinois, just laid before
the Legislature, shows that that
state has more miles of railway than
any other in the Union. On the
1st of December last there wore
5,490 miles in operation and 1,708
in process of construction.
At Cleveland, Ohio, a family
named Martens has had trichina
spiralis. The father and mother
are dead. A little boy six years
old is in a critical condition. A
younger child it is hoped will re
cover. A series of damaging mistakes
have been made upon the bridge
across the Mississippi at St. Louis,
iu consequence of which work has
been suspended, and much of the
structure will have to come down.
The enterprise will remain, in stutu
quo until aoroe European engineers,
who have been sent for, arrive.
At Kingston, N.Y., on the 80th
ult., Miss Fowler was awarded $4,
000 damages against Mr. Martin
tor not marrying her.
The Court of Appeals, in the ease
of Hawson against Pennsylvania
Railroad Co., decided that limita
tion of liability to $100 for loss of
baggage, is not a contract, aud
awarded tlie plaintiff $4,000 for
baggage lost by defendants.
A bill appropriating $50,000 for
expenses of tlie Japanese Embassy
passed tlie House on the 30th nit
The queston of increasing the
mail service between the United
States and Japan from monthly to
fortnightly mails, doubling tlie sub
sidy to tlie Pacific Mail Steamship
Line, will be considered by the
House Appropriation Committe.
The temper of the committee seems
to be in favor of the proposition. It
is shown by facts in possession of
Mr. Sargent, of California, member
of the committee, that during tho
past year 7,400,000 pouuds of tea
were brought to this country from
Japau and China over this route,
being one third ot the amount im
ported from all sources during the
year. It is also shown that the
legitimate increase of revenue de
rived from the tea trade since the
establishment of this line has more
than paid tlie subsidy allowed by
the Government
J. R. Doolittle in Washington
Jan. 81st, was confident in the sue-
cess of the now movement in favor
of Trumbull for President
On the 5th inst, six indictments
were found against Tweed; and
others against Davidson, Gen. Hugh
Smith, Peter B. and James M
Sweeney. Arrests are expected soon.
Judge Barnard has dissolved the
injunctions against the Tammany
Society.
The President and Vice Presi
dent left Washington for Baltimore
on the 3d inst, for tlie purpose of
attending tlie Fair for the benefit
of soldiers and sailors.
Rev. Wm. . Hamilton, of Wash
ington, A Methodist minister who
hid fifty yeais aervieo, (ell on
Mm
Patent
soon after.
The opposition to the -Chicago
relief bill is dail growing stronger
in Congress.
The PottawotoraieR, tlie Kansas,
tlie Osages, the Kontenaes, the
Menomonees, tlie Papagos of Ari
zona, and the Pueblos tribes of In
dians, are said to be members of tlie
Catholic Church,
Alexis and pftty occupied tweti-ty-three
elegantly furnished rooms
at tl)ePlankingtoii House, Milwau
kee, Wisconsin, paying therefore a
bill of $600.
Pouglikecpsie, N. Y., lias pro
hibited Sunday streetcar travel.
Tlie small pox is still on tho
increase in New York city ami
Drooklyn. '
Iu view of possible complications
with Spain, the Navy Department is
gathering it resources for whatever
demands may be made upon it.
A Sau Francisco company! re
cently incorporated, has purchased
large tracts ot land there, and will
go into cotton, sugar and coffee
"planting, being now engaged iu
sending a colony.
Tlie Union l'acifie railroad was
blockaded with snow on the 4th.
Gen. George D. Williams has
sailed for Japau, to organize tlie
treasury system for that Empire.
A heavy earthquake occurred on
the Sandwich Islands, January 7th,
but uo lives lost
A special Mexican dispatch says
tlie J uarists, have hung all the offi
cers including the leader of the
revolutionary gang captured at St.
rcrego, about thirty miles from
Matamoraa.
A special to tlie World says,
Chief Justice Cockburn officially
counseled tlie Cabinet that England
must recede immediately from the
Treaty of Washington, leaving
America to decide between a new
treaty or war.
There seems to be some appre
hension that Stokes, tlie murderer
of Fisk, will escape punishment
through some legal technicality.
Washington advices say that the
female suffrage advocates did ir
reparable damage to their cause be
fore the House Judiciary Commit
tee, and are compelled to admit
that they have lost ground in Con
gress since the last session.
Somebody in Connecticut sold a
bottle of the best brandy, and Prof.
Sillimau of Yale College having
analyzed the same, finds in it alum,
iron, sulphuric acid, essential oil of
some kind, tannic acid, Guinea pep.
per, burnt sugar, lead aud copper,
with a basis ot whisk)'.
A letter from St. Petersburg says
the course of Catacazy met with the
approval of his associates in the
Foreign office. Fish is severely
criticised.
A powder house belonging to tho
Miami Powder Company, Ohio, be.
tweeu Y'ellow Springs and Miami
on the Little Miami railroad, ex.
ploded on the 5th inst, killing!! ve
men, and one missing supposed to
be killed. Timbers, etc., were
strewn for half a mile around.
John McLean, son of Judg3 Mc
Lean, formerly of the Supreme Court
of the United States, died in Cm,
cinnati on the 3d.
One hundred and nineteen deaths
from small pox . occurred in 'Phila
delphia during the week ending
Feb. 3d.
The New Y'ork Jferakftya that
if it is a fact that the British Rep.
resentative at Washington is in
structed to make proposals of ac
commodation and compromise of tho
Alabama claims to our Govern,
ment, it is an insult to our nation.
It says that Great Britain 'a liable,
for the loss of our commerce and
tho prolongation of our civil wars
aud adds that damages must be paid
peacefully, or they will be collect
ed at the point ot the bayonet
The Tribune, says, if the popular
clamor in England should compel
their withdrawal from the Treaty of
Washington, it is not us that would
bo the heaviest loser by such a
course.
The Times says the action of U e
British Government will i sur
prise to Americans,