Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (March 29, 1872)
jRHRHf KEW TO-DAY. f. a. CAllTWRIRlfT. ". WESTI.AKI:. A. B. XOMItK CARTWRIGHT, WESTLAKE & MORRIS, ASI -- FORWARDING MEECHAUTS ! tiii'.Vt. OHEUOX, Have, nmstanl))' I"""1 11 ,,ir-1' 1!n'1 vm'i ol 'assortment ! Agricultural Machinery, v.hlcli they otter on the most reasonable terms. Also, on hand the eclelimtivl MitcM Wagon, l.hfhl nnil heavy. Advances made on tJrnln, Wool, mi 'I other R'mrovetl men-hatt'llM conk'ii e'll'or xilc lure or for shipment to Port land or San rmiieiwo. GRAIN and WOOL 'mon In s'.ore, or iinrehase 1 at the libth ei't market price. WOOL ! WOOL ! WOOL ! "WJNTTEID ! .100,000 pound of Wool ! Knr which we will ratikr Hlwral advances, ami pay the highest market price In nub. 'AitTWiiirrr. WESTI-AKK & MOItKIS, Allianv, March 11-28 iSncetfwr of A. I owan A tV.) Lebanon, Oregon, Dealer" 14-- mmi MKIMJIIAXDISE! TIX KKKP ALWAYS ON HAM) A full stoek of M;y QOOlifi, uitoCKntfA HAltDWAItE, Jll M ITS A Sill lies, all fur Kale at the Lowatt rrtos Ibr Cash ar I'r ft rl tier. tpe" All iiermiiowi(( A. tmwau A an Mtttle hv calllnit on me At l.e' imon. t!-4 ' JAMKS U I.OWAN. G. D. WHITLOW & CO., Tmportrraanct Healers In FURNITURE ! and Upholstery Goods, 'trWt., 3 Aoora below ( 'onner's Hank, ALBAXV, ORKGOX, Keeps roimlanlly on hand lor sale ' Black Waliiut Parlor and Chamber Satti, Painted Chamber Setts, Pining room and Eitehea ruruitnro of all kiuda ; OKAS, tOCXOR, PHI.VI MATBKSSE. PfJ.tr AKIUKKA BKIW, UO'KINi;i!AJII. llliKSTKll'S. WaNIi. BIRKAVR, WHATNOTS, MRAI'KKTTS. BOOK CASKS, SeaWKTAllIKS i ill uksks, ' . KTC. ITpkolstering' , InallllKliranehea. Orders filled wlrti . luouiptjicssund dispiiteli. RcptilriiiR & KlHniifltrturln (tone to order. Wrilooda delivered toany)sutof the city if All our work wnrranted.jf Qire at a Call and Examine ear Stock OOKMNS ma le to order on short notice. E. D. WHITLOW 10. Kahruery l, 7-M paid ror WHKAT, OATS, POBK, V Hotter and V.'in, by W HKKl.KK, at Kucdd. 1 1 v4 Woimlatn Bitlm. 'PO THK AKKLHTKl) WITH fOl tiHS. I Cold, or Uvei' Complaint, the HALM Is Invahmble, as many have lieen restorwl h mmtmfvk fil1 "t-lhe arsleni -nmuy who have lawn callnd Ineuraulc. H'Wininendcrt liy many physicians of i tie country, and for sale by all dntgiilsts. I'repamt and sold by wma k. bat Mown. (lIXrrniNO and nooTS and aHOKJ a J rtneWMortUHul, very low by WUEK LfcK,atSb)dd, UK Mtnir Afr www. The number vf sclwol children sported b JacKmcounty j. 2,128. .Mauric Craves P to the ,.- tcutiarv tor two vears fioin J.a :e county, for f.r.'ery. Republicans ot Lane county will immiiiate tlieir county ticket on the 20th of Aliril. ! Five dollars per head for year- ; linns is Mm price asked for sheep by tanners in He.rton county. Wasliiuuton eortwpondewe of the Kugene Jourwtl slate, that Senator Corbott litis introduced a I hill providing that all clerks cm- ' ployed in Salem, Oregon., in the offices of the Adjutant Ceiicral, j tiuai termaster Gmai Slid Com- ! ...issnrv :;.i.ral ..f I imron. iniiei'.. ing out the report to the General i (ioverumont of services rendered and properly furnished to cany on the war ot 1855 and 1S50 against hostile Indians in Oregon and j county, W-8 shot fatally tart Mon Washingtoti Territories, le allowed day, about 9 o'clock A. 3., by Ja and paid for the fall time; that they : cob' Ingle, on the preniisi of the were engaged in said service, out otlfc "eiV l,"'",s fenT Ml any money appropriated in the Act approve"! March 2, 1NC1. Under the ruling of the Third Auditor, these clerks were only allowed pay lir abdut half the time they were actua'ly employed. There is a Digger buy emp'oyed on a liacpraiichciri Mouteray conn tv, California, who is a human cu - riosity. lie herds about eight hiin- dred sheep all by himself, and the i overseer savs he knows every one J of them by sight, and when he brings them in at night he will get on the corral fence and tell whether one of them is missing. He is about tour- teen, and has a face as round as the iniKin, and the wightest black eyes, which sparkle with mischief. lie turns more somersaults and hangs head downward from more trees ' of the I lucky mountains, than any man can count readily, The licpublicaus have carried the and seems hardly to bo aware ofthe municipal ejection at Sacramento, existence ot thesheep during the day, j electing Chris (ireon, Mayor, by 384 yet brings them all in at night. I majority. Republicans ot Wasco in their! A ranch of 800,000.'. acres in late County Convention passed this Lower California recently sold to a MttMfon.' "We are in tavor of i NW York company for $85,000. building a wagon road along the' The whole cost of tlie .State Cap Columbia river to connect us with ! 'tol at Sacramento has been S2,400,- Western Oregon, and require of our candidates for the legislature a pledge to use all honorable and available means to obtain aid from the State for its construction." A slight shock of an earthquake was felt on the afternoon of the 23d, at Unionville, Nevada. 7'he trial of Murray and Dick- son, hackmen, at San Francisco, for rajie upon the girl Catherine ( )'J Jara, is nearly cois'luded. Tlie testimony is strong against the pris-1 oners. .Mr. Spruance, of Sari Francisco, who was shot by his wife, has re fused to prosecute her. She has been dismissed frorti arrest. A. A. Williams, Chief Engineer ofthe I'orttarid Fire Dejiartment. has been presented with a beautiful badge. Saloons are being repaired and churches becoming dilapidates! iu fcugene I ity, nays the Juurui. Tlie EtigetM Journal say many Denuwntfl think it is doubtful wltetlier they will carry thatcouuty ai uiv .tune eieciion. l iiey are i losing iiwir grqi. Frank I lodgkin, late ofthe l'ost ollice in Fori land, take a position on the Salem 8tiemti. Portland has three bands of mu sic. The Vanenuver ketjitttr denies the report tTiat Gartiolde has with, drawn in tavor of Judge O. Jacolis. Some California journals are ad locating the propriety of making tlie office- qt State School Siieriii tendent eligible to women. A huge h-ar, known as "Old Club Foot,"weighing 2,200 pound., was lately killtnl in .Vonterav conn ty.Cal. Fifty mches of rain have fallen in Sonoma county, (W., this season. Eggs were recently $1 25 per down iu Arizona, The legislature of California has decided tliat gambling shall not be legalized and licensed iu the State. Creen Kas were selling 8t Los Angeles,,Cal., not long aiwte, at eight cents per pound. Some one attempted to assassin. ; tc L. P. Brick, of WWh VaHey, I Cnl., on tlie 24tb,by shooting six 1 .'1 K i T? 1,2 I. j wj recover, New potttQN tVoni (iliftiP f i ...,. A 1 - A....1 A an, in the Portland market. Street sprinklers have lietrnii to dan.jion the dust on the streets of PotthtA Ju4 ljmi t,e ,H)rth end ofthe firt twentv.tivo mile section of the v i p i ti, U'ln.n,.a.Krsa i 'tffw mK which will require as much work to make it a railroad as any tour nines in Amur. j 't-a- ! Isaac Carson, of Sleilacoom, has j paid to the territorial Treasurer $400 "rowing ollt oftllC investigation of certain accounts of his bv a commit toe of the last Legislature, it being the atniiiint over charged by him tor transporting of prisoners, etc, Jesse V. Hoone, of Clackamas IIH, 7 he dispute arose about tlie division of sinie sheep. Hoonedied a few minutes after he was shot. Ingle was arrested. The first muuiciial election at Kahuna will be held on the 1st ot April. Suggestive. The lands ofthe Dalles Military Road Co. have been bonded at San ! Francisco for $120,000. The number of scholar of legal age in Folk county is 2,234 ; the amount of coin to be distributed is 68,028 03. A bill has been introduced i. to the Cited State .Senate, provi,!1 at ' ,lis 0H" l'isto1' jingtbr tlie appointment of a com mission to run a boundary line lie- twecn the frontiers of the United Staf s and Creat Frtain. from the Lake ofthe Woods to the summit 000, and it is still tiir from comple tion.. Thcr .wan gross waste in t he work during Governor llaight's admiuist ration, awl overpayments ot hundred of thousands ot dollars. The Olympia Tnomript learns that a bond has been prepred and approved, iu the sum of $250,000, j conditioned that the N. 11. R. Coniny will build tk-ir uM to j Dudd's Iu'et iu acx-ordance with their agrc-enieiit with the citizens of Olympia. 1 lie 1" reneh ifclies of San I- ran cisco intend holding a fair for the pitrpov of rai-it g funds to assist in paying oft the Ucnuan -ar ju.j demnily. A very enthusiastic ratification meeting was held iu Portland on the night of the 21st. Speeches were made by Kclsey, Cap'es and Hare. Wilson was wnnb'c tobeout. In Sheridan, Yamhill county, last week, an incendiary made two tin- sueeeasful attempts to Iwrn tl Uiwii by settitig tire, first to a stab'e second toan unoocupied btti d. , Croquet i now tlie fashion in Port and. A snow p'ow train on the North ern Pacific -Railroad on the 2 In inst, became serrated during a Winding storm, and when the fitr-, ward1 Kt'tion tipod, the rear en gine came up and te'escojietl the two cars, killing the conductor, Fitzgerald. At the Democratic Convci.tionat Jacksonville orr trm ii8d, the mod erate wing of the rty elected a full set of delegates to the State Convention, and instructed for Ilea, llaydcn for Congress. liichard McCaun, wood chopper, was touiid drowned on the 23d at Turn Water, W. 7 rhe ndiiction woks at lle'ena' ! Montana, are now turning out two I tous of crude silver bullion per day. j The dead bodv of a man alsiut ! .. ,, , i 4o years old, name unknown, was , found floating iu the water near 1 ort Afadison, Iuget Sound, a tew days ago. Thpt winl-h Montana m , becu very seteW, aid more cases of ! li,nbs taw tla" jiu PW V' ? uwii overtaKeii oy tin? iurious w r al"' " c 1"- good many amputations have lieeu u"""us f 1 .1. i: t i i '' mis manner. j A m" ,lin,S(,lf J0"" !c" Uo"a1,1 1,i,s anested at Rattle, i,ar' 'itb haviuj? committcl a ! iu Bbottt tw0 years ago. ue will ne nroiigni over tor trial. His real name is said to bo Michael MeC'ormiek. lie is charged with having inveigled the in:ur he murdered into his house, wl.ith was frequented by Indians, half hi'eeds, etc., audthere breaking his head irith a club, and robbing him of about $li!0, which the man was known to have about him at the time. The authorities in Ore gon offered $500 for his arrest. The ease of the Slate vs. S. K. Ma?" ha. been continued to the June term'. The impression in Sa lein is that the proaecutioH will amount to nothing. A little son of" Dr. H ice, of San Francisco, while phying around a team which was moving one ofthe heavy pillars for the new mint, had his foot cut off by one of the wheels, on the 23d. In ISan Francisco, on the 23d, .Tames Spruance went home drunk, attacked his wife with a bayonet and threatened to kill his daughter, I ,,ifi wi,e wl, ,vas '" M mnicunga severe i, not ma, won.iu. f f ,akl'" to t,,c a 1. il J ! 's not wattl w pionrntc tin, saying that he was to b athe. Lane county n'porby 2,877 school cliiktten. Somebody has been poisoning the .Ve.Vinnville dogs. Snow ill Hope Valley, Ne vada, was ten feet deep on a level on the 10th. MtK II. fit. Boone, of Salem, had her wrist painfully wounded by let ting go the windlass while drawing water the other day. There has not been a prisoner in .the 'Washington county jail for six months. A Good Templar's Lodge has WiV established at Cornelius; The Walldiuet Iron Works, at Portland, are finishing an iron driving-band wheel" ten feet in diameter and weighing 3.000 pounds. It is pronouiaied a splendid piece of work manship. Benton County Democratic Con vention instructed, for Burnett, for Congress. Arkauras journalism 'is peculiar. The Fort Smith Vcrt'of nails its color to the mast in this way : For President ofthe United States, IT. fk GRANT. For Governor of Arkansas, SOT JO. HBOOKS, I1Y A SIGHT. Massaelmsett has 7,000 people constantly in the prisons of the State, or one outof every two hun. dnd of her population. The total expenses ot the State for charities and convictions for the year 1871, was $1,574,000. Over eight thousand singers have offered their service for the choruses of the Boston J ubilee, this Sum mer. It is said that tlie Illinois Demo cratic Congressmen declare tltem- iselvw unanimously in favor of Judge Davis for tlie Fresidcncy. . m m t Fairfield, Cquiv carriages are made entirely ot India rubber, ex. cepting the axles ami tires. A St.'li0iiispapersays: "Every one foretell tremendous floods i t the Jistouri valU y this spring. The snow is heavier at the source than formany years past, and when the flood coTuck it will be a grand one." It may l expected that the Colum. bia will be equally high. The honor of being the riehe-t man hi tlie United States lies lfctwo u Wih Hani B. Astor, Conicrlus anderliilt, ami A. T. Stewart, l'rolitililv neltli- er of tlie.se gontlouion can Ml within ieu iiiiiiiiiiis oi wiku no is vvorui. aiai tliwc i not stipMxcd to be it uek dit. ft - mit bxn them. , , ' ' 1 A man In 'oliertson count v. Texas, has forty-one living children! Sixteen of ihriii served In the same coinisinv in a (.'onfedcrate regiment during the war. He is now living with hUelghtli wife, and is sixty-live years old. Luteal Kw. In tlie Senate at Washington the following bills have been passed: A bill to extend customs aid navi gation taws over Alaska ami adja cent waters and islands aou'ircd by the I mted Stales; one to amend the Act to .regulate the consular and diplomatic system ofthe United Stales ; One to increase the salaries ot various consulates, meHKnng London, Paris and Havana ; a bill to amend the Act for the protr Cion ot American citizens who discover deposits of guano ; a bill authorizing a mail steamship service between New Orleans and certain Jexicau imrt. Iu the House the Senate bill to enable honorably discharged sol diers, their widows and miuorhil dren, to secure homesteads on pub lic lands, was passed Also a joint resolution was reported providing for a coliossal statue of the late Ad miral Farrogut to lie erected on Farragut .Square, Washington, to cost not exceeding 620,000. The National Executive Demo cratic Committee will hold a meet ing in Washington early in day, after the meeting of tlie Cincinnati ("oiiveiition. , News from Jexieo state that the (lOvernment troops uns triumphing over the revolutionists everywhere. A rise iu the Era stocks was the excitement in New York, on the 20th. Jay Gould is reported to have netted a profit of $8,240,000. At yiuchester, 111., a saloon keeier was shot dead by a man wjioin he refused a second drink. Wm. U. Huntington, cashier of the First National Bank of Wash ington, died ol pneumonia on the 90 Bismarck thinks the English Gov eriiiiieut will twt persist iu its pres ent views on the nlabtiuia question, as they are untenable. The doors ofthe last Protestant church have been closed in Madrid, Spain. A literary convention between the United States and France has liecn concluded by Washbnrnc and ( t De Hemiisat.and awaits rat ification. The Indian's Dkkam. Vvlien tlie Indian wont to set; the white mail, lie staid with him till night. In the morning he says to the white man : "Me have a dream last night." "Ah, what was it?" 'Me (Irenm you give me your gray mare, and then you give ine rifle; that von gave me much jsiwtler much hall, much shot." "IMd yon indited ! what a dream !" "Ves," uie dreum it all." "Well, that's bail, fiir my wife al ways ride tlie gray inair. and she thinks she can't ride tiny other hor.-o ; lint if you dmtmff It, why I suppose you must have her. And my rifle, too?"' "Yes. mo tlrenm rifle too." "Well. If von tlreauuit it whv I sur- jio-o you must take that too, hut It's very singular. ' So the while man gave them all into tlie Indian's powsmpll ; but purstind id him to ttrry with him one night more. s - In the morning tls white mail' says to the Indian: "I hid a dream lust night." -No! did yon" "Yes. but I (lid though ; I dreamed that yon pave nie'all the land' between l'oniutiket river and Catapticli nioun taln"' about three thousand acres, of the most beautiful land amagiuahle. "Ah I Bones of my father i Well. If vou dreampt It. why I suppose ' yon inttst Itave tl' laml hut me never dream with you any more !'' Wii.l.lVi TO ACRNOWt.KDOK. There wss an amusing scene on hoard tee Louisville niiiillwvat the other itny. There was the usual conglomeration f passengers In the cabin just before tlie boat landed, luid amid tlie general htihbuh of conversation, n iiiiin ivtnark !, Incidentally "Vow. In New Jer sey, wliere 1 live" Blatantly an old man, who had sat moodily and silently pondr-ring hy the stove for some lime, sprang to his feet and exclaimed Stranger, are you from NeW Jer sey f'- '"Yes." ' And wlllln' to aoknowlMlin if" '"Yes, sir. proml on't," "Hurra ! give iw yout hand ."' wled the old man, taiiiy riweing with exnl Itition. "I'm from New. Jersey, too. but never felt like lieclarin' it ate it. .Slike ! I'm an old man. 1- V tr.tvel vft loiijr aiiil rar.'' I've lti hi everj oily iu this Wast steaiiiVttMl oil tlie Ohio iai Jlississipjii. be u t'j t ;a It fori i.v. over the 'Plains ami around the Horn ; on s V'ysgeonce to IjverKol ; hut in all my travel'-, iiang me if this ain't the first time I over lieur'd a man aekuowlelje that Ik come from New Jersey.'! The Republicans' who left I lie Re publican party a few years ago because It favored tlie extension of negro suf frage and the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment, are now willing to ne eeit Sumner, who desired ('hi'npse snf frage by striking out tlie word "white" from tlie naturalUition laws. These I lemocrats and week-kneed Republic ans are uo doubt witling to favor any thing for office and power, and it was for tbts reason they feuml to boldly meet the prejudices of a tew years ago ill reference to impartial suli'r;ige. The grave of tlie mother of Abraham Lincoln is on a beautiful hill-lop in the northern part of Spencer county, Indl- n.ia A a It nxii-ii.io ,tiii,u..L-.ul rosl. dents of that vicinity have organized j an association to erect a suitable mon-' mnent. I The statement made by some of the more reckless 1Jeairi;iour. nals, that the Republican party op I loses the construction ofthe canal and locks at Oregon City, its wholly and ei trely filse, TVe Republi can party does denounce tbc act of favoritism by whieh one company is given $200,000 for erecting locks, etc., while another corporation equally responsible, proposed to do the work for $125,000-Kr 875,000 less. The enterprise is a legitimate one, is now, and always he been at mitted by all parties, to be a work of absolute necessity to our people ; but while believing this, the 1 lenub lican irty was not willing that this improvement should be prose cuted at the exiense and to the detriment ofthe school fund. The Boston Btdfetiu has the' fol lowing valuable mortuary lifts: "Methuselah died of liver complaint. Lot's wife of salt-rheum. Absalom fell a wig time to hairysipelas. Go liah died of the stone. Hautau ot' the dropsy Netnuluhaduczar of too much vegetable diet, leaving dfrs. X. a grass widow. Jblii t Bun yan, troubled with coriis, took his pill grimly and progressed. Dri--demona also took pill-ow. Samp son was killed by a pill-ar, too. JontgolfiL'r was (s) pilled ont of a balloon. Julius Cicsar was (s) killed in war Jblin Rogers died of an overdone ttenk. Romeo died of heart disease. Governor Hoffman dyed his moustache. Artemu Ward was choked to death. The assessment ot Walla Walla county, W. T., fwts up 4,000,000. It is claimed an assessment allowing actual values would fool up $6,000, 0A0. A grand rally of the "Possums" transpires at Salem April 30th, says the Ktatesinmi. C rover, Possum N'o. 1, heads the list of speakers. In the Walk Walla Land Of fice 17,000 acres of laud have been filed on since March 1st. S. C. Simpson has withdrawn from editorial connection with the Salem Meivuni, v auioi's maw. MeKenn Blielianan Is being 'treated for paralysis at Uenwr. u Charles 'Barker, is hirking in N ew York agnliist free love. Of 1,558 deatlisltr Rlehtnoitd. Vh.. last year, l were, from coiwinqilio;.. . Denver has been increasing hi popu lation a hundred per cent. Jier aiinimi' lutely. L, A. bonis of Ceutmlia, III., has a Cremona violin made In 1512, for whkli.he has refused $800. It takes lust twelve hundred dollars' worth of lace to trim a velvet cloals prilerly In New York style. ('hester W. Chaphi, br SprfngloM. Mass.. gave each of his four cbildn-1 TiO,000 tbr a Christinas present. A Missouri youth named Rcnflersorr MuandiMd a tibrtnna of M JO. Out) hv rinhling, iu less Uwn tiur years, tind now absolutely penniless". Strangp lait true 1H72 will eontai i Only torty-slx weeks, for tlie other six Will be Lent. 'llierc Is coiwlderahlf excitement fn CHrrsvllle, Ky., over tlie discovery of ficii depo-lts of lead and oilier ores at that place. In an old eemoterv at tlie western end of St. Louis is a moss-covered tombstone, on whieh a single hard points heavenward, surmounting tlie inscription, "Wane, up." Tlie late Judge Birikley f Hartford It-It tin estttte worth $500,000, bin made no will. His two sons ami I.ev eri'tr Brainard are the iHlmiuistni tors. It Is said that the eleven Territories extteed by nearly 630.000 nsre miles the aggregate area of all tlie present admitted States of tlw Futon. The mannrHetnre of Errriscan jewel ry is one of the lot., arts. Jeweler ay there it no method known tomotl r sidenee whU-h w-ill enable them to prisUwo antique speciuieuH; . It it stated by a CldcaMt paper that an unlucky denizen, of Utat city who set out ahont ChnWrMI tt' visit Han Francisco, via the' llatfsV- lisiiroad. consiiineiV iiearlv two imaithslu mak ing trie 'tMp. In WnfleiV of the bloekade. and. the Jirst iutelligetue whieli will greet iiim tat his return is that his wife lias sued foranll -obtained adivtirce,;o score of desertion, during hi-; absence. It Is roartwl that Lotls,tlie ex Frinee Imperial of France, will viit s lie raited States next smiinie r, and perhaps be tieeoiniiiniMtbv Prince Na poleon. Louis is now sixteen years if age, and If said (o 'siK'tik live Inn "iia.res rlnontlv. The'shnnrw Kuwir- l-i Ts writing up la-r tiair Ibrongli Siialn, which will It; edited hi Thoci tiile (tautier. It ha generally ls'oti (iposerl Ihni the guaiie deposits in l la; I hlni ha I--iaiKls were the excreta of Willi j lull it is i o.v thought tliat tlaiy are uiatle up ofthe bodies of deeii.nd aiiiinal- SjaJ plants, most of which are of marine origin. This supjiosltioii re on the fin that the anchors of ships mot r.sl near those Wamh frequently bung gu ano tq,the surface. SuhKrlbe for the RtemMt