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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1872)
'311HP: :: . .. I I'At'irU' OAST SEWN. Coos county coalmines employ about four hundred men An artesian we'l at Jacksonville 1 as reached a depth of 112 feet. A new coal mine has been open ed on the Siuslaw, Lane eounty. The coal a excellent. The railroad bridge at Roseburg is being pushed forward as rapidly as possible. Captain J.awson, of the U. S. coast survey, is still at work on Puget Sound. Old bachelors gobble up the pchoolmarms so fast, that go into Washington Territory, that it wants a law passed to punish them for it. Dr. A. I. Nieklin, of Salem, has been appointed physician at the Klamath Indian Reservation. The Eugene Journal says the only colored citizen of f.anc county is a member of the Grant and Wil son club. He wastormerly a Dem ocrat, and voted for Whiteakerat the last election. John Jever w as drowned while lathing in Butte Creek, Jackson I air. county, oil Saturday, the 10th inst. I A son of .Marcus King, of tTack !Ie was alone and was supposed to j ainas, was milking a cow on Mod have been seized with cramps. j day last, and annoyed at the switch- Thirteen deaths occuiTcd in San , ing oil' the flics with her tail, tied it Francisco last week. ! fast to his brother, a nine-year-old Over 800 tons of grain were child. The Cow while thus tied, riiipied from .Modesto, Cal., dur-. was frightei ed by a passing train, ing last week. j and ran, dragging the boy a quarter The China steamer from San I of a mile. His recovery is doubt Francisco on the 17lh, carried $ 1,-1 ftil. 618,85:2 ill treasure. Since January 1st, Judge Louder- One ilimisaiid tons of rtrawbor- back, of San Francisco; has com rics have liecn eaten by the San mittedJ88 boys and girls to the in Franciscansthis season. ! dustrijil sehool'in that city for Jvar- A young man, aged about seven-; i,)ns crimes, and allowed the par teen, was found by his brother on 1 cuts of many others to send ihcm to the steps near the door oi .tames Hutchinson's house, near Oakland, where ho lived, with his head near ly b'own to pieties on the Kith. It is supposed he shot himself by acci- dent, as when his brother left him l to go to Oakland he was preparing ; his gun for a hunt. An Oregon City thif stole the Recorder's coat before his eyes the other day. Salem is going ahead with the project of building a bridge across! tho Willamette river at that place. The com 'any has tiled articles of i!.corporatiou,witli a capital stock of niie hundred thousand dollars, and Rutus Ma lory, W. W. Piper and j W. F. lioothby as incorporators. Sneliinff, an Indian convict who escaped from prison at Walla Walla a few weeks since, surrender ed himself at Salem a tew days ago. I le said he was sick and needed tome one to take care of him. The road leading from Pioneer to Newport, on the Yaquina, is almost completed, and the Indians from theSiletz Reservation arc pushing the work forward. Davis Shannon, of Marion coun ty, has a large field ot white winter wheat which will yield an average of 45 bushels to the acre. Thc Willamette Woolen Mills shipped twenty-six thousand dol lars worth of goods of their manu facture on 7'htirsday of last week. The new diamond fie'ds in Ari zona are alleged to be situated in the most desolate and God forsaken country on tho face of the globe, where not even a wild Apache can subsist for any length of time. Philo Osgood, an Eastern capi talist, is expected to erect fifteen or twenty buildings in Seattle this season From the Ortijonian we learn that a fire in Portland on last Fri day morning, consumed tho resi dence, including the costly furniture, of Mrs. Bridget Gallagher, a well known courtesan of that city. The inmates had only time to escapes an I saved nothin g Some of Senator Kelley's friends in Portland were talking aboutgiv ing him a public reception. ft is reported at Salt Lake that the Chivarct Indians, in tho south, cfh part of tho Territory, are on the war-path. 7roops are moving for ward as fast as possible. Robert Ring, a boy fifteen or sixteen years old, while riding a wild colt at Ray View, San Fran eifcoonthc 14th, was thrown and dragged a mile. His skull was badly fractured, and the abdomen torn open so that tho bawds pro- traded, No hope of recovery. A bear, light was one ot the amusements of Portland last week- One bear bit the other through the small of the liaek, and it took three mc" and a dog to get him oil People are not all civilized in Port- land yet. 7'hc Oregon Conference of the Methodist Church will lie held in Salem, commencing on the 2!)th lust., at which Bishop Foster will preside 2'nirly tons of iron arrived at Ca Foul weather jier steamer Shu brick to be used in tho construction of the new light-house. Work on it l as been suspended for some time on account of not having materia'. Montana grasshoppers arc more ravenous than usual this season. They eat wagon-tires, and have liecii known to tickle a mule in the rib until he kicked, and devour his shoes whi'c his feet were in the : religious schools as an alternative- Clam-bakes at Puget Sound are no w in order. The Kalama Beacon regrets that Washington Territory isdivid- ed by mountain ranges into three distinct sections of seiarate local interests, each part requiring legis lation as distinct from the other two parts, in regard to material devel opment, as though the Territory was a triune confederacy of inde pendent' communities. The Bert' run thinks, and rightly, that politi- cal lwundaries should accord with ; natural boundaries. Preparations to give General , Robert II. Milroya becoming re- j ception on his arrival, are being made in Portland. Victoria is said to have a popn lation of over four thousand. From a Portland journal we read that that city has just received an invoice of fifteen Chinese courtesans to ply their disreputable avocation there. The Oregon ia'n has this : A correspondent at Oregon City sends the following particulars concern ing an accident which befel a young lady at that place, and also thc the latter part ot IbM, in drowning of a young man: "Satin-! which an agreement was made to day morning, Clara Albright, a j give Doolittle, at the latter's sug lovely young girl, daughter of one gestion, one-fourth of the proceeds of our most respected citizens, while j ut" 1,10 of Pi thousaiiil bales coming irom a neighbors io mt faMier's house, fell down a well 15 i feet deep. Fortunately the water , was sufficiently deep to break her ; mand of New Orleans. It is also fall, and her descent was so direct j claimed in these letters that Con that she diil not touch the sides j nelly's position was obtained by sufficiently Mvere to iniure her to ' Doolittlo for this puriiose. The any extent. Although knocked and stunned by thc fall, she retain ed her presence of mind, and quietly waited and kept her head above water, until a bucket was lowered, when securing a linn hold she gave the word to 'hoist,' ami much to thc delight of her parents and friends was landed safe on terra firnia once more. " Jany improvements are bcjgj made at the Fair Grounds at Sa-! lem John .Meyer was drowned in RuttoCioek on the 10th inst. In his cabin on Myrtle creek Roliert Fields was found dead on the 15th inst. The oat crop in Yamhill comity j damaged somewhat, by being; is t permitted to stand too long. There seems to bo a sort of sni- oide mania iu Portland. Attempts in mat uirecuon arc qui iroqucnt. , On Friday, 9th inst, .Peter Arch- ambault, of Kyc Valley, Baker . .i . .. . - i f county, wns 'instantly killed while : working in bis mine by tlto caving of a bank which fell upon and cov- cred him. , halcom county, W T ., is eel thug up rapidly. A town has been - j laid out at Semiahmoo Hay, and I iiersons who agree to build arc given Iuts. The A raliiiiehc says : From all the information we can gather from the farmers irf Idaho, grain will be a full average crop. Geo. (J. Cannon, elected on the 5th inst., Delegate to Congress from Utah, is tho editor of the Destrct Aewvt, and is also an Klder ot tho Mormon Church. Ho is a polygamist of the most radical type. The Olympia Tribune says that the United Slates coast survey, un der tKe command of Capt. I.awson, is now at Jurden's Cove, on Bain bridge Island Boise city is without a public school. Thc Puget Sound Dixpatch will shortly appear as a daily. At the meeting of the State Teacher's Institute, held at Eugene City, last week, the subject of edu cation was thoroughly discussed, and various resolutions were passed for the consideration of the mem liers of the Legislature at the next session. They recommended that there be created the office of State Superintendent of Pnb'ic Schools, and resolved in favor of various modifications in the school law. The Nirmer says: It seems that the general report from prairio tar mers is that the fruit has been cut off by the late frosts, which killed many. John McColligan, who is sup posed to lc somewhere in Oregon, is requested to rexirt himself, dead or alive, either to the Jacksonville Postmaster or to 7'homas Scoyell, Lock port, New York. Yamhill county claims to have but one representative iu the peni teutiary. KViTKRX KKWN. Ill a thunder storm which passed over Amesburg, Mass., Aug. 13th, the lightning struck in five places, one of which was the house of the poet Whittior, prostrating him to the floor. lie was not seriously in- j tired, Twenty -throe cacs of sun-stroke occurred in New York on the loth inst., five of which were fata'. James M. Ingersoll, one of the notorious Tammany Ring, was ar rested in New York on the 15th, and his bail was fixed at $500,000. The Tunes has the affidavit ot Thomas J. Connelly, formerly In ternal Revenue Inspector, with let ters, which Connelly swears were ahlresscd to him by Senator Doo- w mwiw w vk"vi having been seised from the rebels while General Ranks was iu com- Times says it has the originals of these letters in its possession. Rlanton Duncan lias published a card announcing his determination to instantly commence suit against; thc f'hicago Tribune for libel iu the sum of $100,000 ; also desiring to be informed of those joun als that shall reproduce the libel, so that lie may litigate them also. Ohio has. elected delegates to the Louiswlk) convention. A Wrge fiiSetingV colored citi- zens held at Cincinnati on the night of the Ijlh inst. passed resolutions acknowledging the valuable ser- vices rendered their race by Sura- nor, but refusing to follow his ad- vice to support the party that has always been their enemy. Tliey will uuitadly support Grant and Wilson. Henrv A. Wise is to address the ! Democracy of Now York city soon, and then will leavo Sir Louisville to attend U cMitwition. that Saunders, tlic negro cmocrat, i who addressed the colored meeting in that city recently, ami was an- - iswered bv Rev. if. If. Garrett. I - - j colored, met with scant comfort and no courtesy, but was called a liar and traitor. It is plain that Greeley will meet with strong op position from that class in New York. The first Democratic convention held in Indiana in support of the Louisville Convention was held at Fort Wayne on the night of the 17th inst. Resolutions re - pndiating the Baltimore bargain and .lec ariiMj in favor of tariff for revenue and instructing delegates to vote for Hbii. A. P. Edgarton for Vice President, passed, Colonel Duncan says that lie has received an assurance of 850,000 votes for a straisrht-out nomination. He thinks that before the election j Potatoes are retailing at seventy the Democrats will all vote for j ne cents a bushel in Salem., , O'Conor, who has consented to be 1 15ob VM wat arrested and put their candidate. m thc county jail the other day for Troy papers state that the Court breaking in tlic windows of a Chi ot Im)eachment has pronounced j ,ICMi wash house. He is one ot Sa Judge Barnard guilty of all the j kW,i "'omt "Ti 7 ? State. charges brought up thirty-one in , m'"- number. I The Clinton Woolen Mamifac- A tornado visited Massachusetts turin8 V mi". of Elmim, Y., sweeping from Eastling Meadow j was totaly destroyed by fire at to Walbraham recently, lowering ! t,,c 16th. Loss, $150,000; everything in its course. Stone j mraren for $30,000, walls and other fences were strewn ' A convention of lager beer sellers in every direction. A strip from j ,m1 '''pior dealers met in New five to fifteen rods in width, was , 0 the lGth inst to organize cut clean through a forest of trees. A brother ot Dr. Livingstone, residing at Listowell, has received a letter from the Doctor, dated last Novemlier, from Ujiji, Africa. The Third National Rank, Hal timorc, was burglarized on the night of the 18th inst., and $100, 000 be'onging to thc bank, and un known amounts belonging to pri vate parties, taken. The robbers cut through thc wall from an ad- joining store which had been occu - pied by a man named Stable and j It is thought that Charles others professing to be commission ! O'Conor will be nominated ' by the merchants. Two large safes in the Louisvide Convention by acclama vault were cut in to and robbed. , tion. The total losses will amount to Thirty-one States have organized several hundred thousand dollars. ; and sent assurances of full delega The lank offers 10,000 for theap-; tions to Louisville, prehension of the burglars. At an experimental exhibition of The Saratoga Court of impeach- a rhinoceros in the ring at Res! meut found Judge Ramard guilty, i Rod, Monroe Co., Ill , recently, the removed him, ami pronounced him j animal broke away, stampeded the disqualified from holding office. J audience, killed two f men ami Wise of Virginia, and Tombs . wounded seven others, demolished andStephens of Georgia, will take active part in tlie Louisville Con-j volition j Seventeen cases of sunstroke oc-' curred in Brookly, N. Y., oil the : 19th hist. j Dr. Ilouard, lately released iu Sjiain, arrived in New Vork on the 20th from Cadiz. Four prisoners escajicd from the county jail in Chicago, on the night of the 19th, by overpowering the jailor. 1 The New York Tribum adver- tises "The New Life of Horace Greeley." It probably means, "Life of the New Horaco Gree'ey." Tlic Roston Traveler says Gen. Ranks has had his grievances. He would support the Louisville Con says he helped Gen. Grant to his J vention. New York Stale will be reputation by declining to super- fully represented, and assurances cede him in tlie command at Vicks-: were received from other States burg. Tlie couutry owes Ranks a j that they wou'd all be fully repre debt of gratitude in this matter, ' scnted. evo9Gtant;doc not acknow'edge it. It is impossible to tell what disaster might hare happened if tlie lWyor tho Red river camimign had been placed in command at Vicksburg. Tlid PRfbenix Flouring Mills, at ' Rrowne's. Jlace, N. ,Y-, were bum-; edk A,ugjKt 7tb. Loss, WflWOj j n'KUrSl A1?'?00, ! lSaJreyVMt factory, at Ames-; burg ferry, Mass., was iMirued on the night of the )5th. J-os?, $90,-1 000partly insured. . Jauin, who was sent oat to Ari. 1 zoi trom an e rnncisco to report on the alleged diamond deposits, has returned, but is entirely reticent as to the million dollars worth of gems which lie was to bring back ! with him. ! On the night of the 15th white John Rarfcet was on his way to ( ikoseuurg irom v iKianu, ne WM f ! hands. Barker replied . bf firing three shots at them wliieh caused ! them to skedaddlo without firiiiL a r ' - ' ry -v 7 'J T u single shot. Barker does not know whether he hit any of them or not. The Ortgtmian informed that ' a mountain near Astoria, known as Saddle Mountain, has been discov ered to give indications of internal lire. A party of hunters ascended the mountain, and near the top several laige fissures were found, from which at iutervalsissucd steam ! and sulphiirus gases. Hot. stones j Wl'ro al fo"1"1 war by, and other i nulicatioiis ot internal heat. While the family of cx-Govcmor dibits, of Portland, was absent at church last Sunday, thieves entered i tl,c dwelling and stole two valua- J b, watches, twenty yard of silk, I "nfl sheets, etc. ! association, and- work :for tlic election of non-prohibition men this fall. At a meeting of Liberal Repub licans ami Democrats in Roston on the 17th, it was resolved to ask Charles Francis Adams to become a candidate for Govergor of Mas sachusetts. Rlanton Duncan telegraphed to a gentleman in Chicago that ex Senator Fitch, of Ind., would sup- , port thc Louisvil'e nominee. the museum, knocked, down the center pole, and rushed out of the tent and bolted into an unoccupied house, where he was captured. Damage about 3,000. At a cabinet meeting on the 15th, President (.'rant directed pardons to lie made out in behalf of four Ivu Klux convicts iu the Albany State Prison, who were recommended to Executive demon- cy. Tho President will consider the suggestions of Colonel Whitely relative to others now in prison. At a Democratic meeting held at St, Charles Hotel, N. Y., on thc night ot thc 16th inst , it was an nounced that diaries O'Conor A.T. Stewart has written a let ter to a friend at Washington stat ing that lie will hot give a cent to elect Greeley. , v The opposition in Alabama have agreed inwii a ticket consistiim of two Literals and two Democrats for Electors. Tlie - liberals are pledged to support the Democratic ticket which was nominated prior to tho Haltimorc Convention, Greeley made a sieech at Ports, month, N. H., on the 16th, this time devoted principally to revo- lutionary remiuiscenoes. On the 16th inst. near Stanton, Mo., the paymaster's car of the Atlantio and Pacific railro-d ran into a hand car, killing Irney Johnson, and wonnding two others severely. tmHty. wa?esort& nlncty-oiie yews im i .f , -i .1, lit ITmt- ag", where KlizaocHiKavn now u. i wh ordered him to throw up bis Tju ojrirys, niwtui wrnrucnchijj Jr4tay evcohux ito-nignf). will b held' at the m. K. uiHireii. itt-vi. a, r., w.auir. tVdeWtntairFn!ilindaitS Mtjm ed ti1ie In iittentkniee ami ahfln - tlw excreta'. This cwwmrtiilty generally MirrrtoattetirJ; . ".' - HfcMWliniieam. V. ML (Imrao. KB vxr old. rail- milted suicide at Km-klbnl, III., a tew. ikiys ago. lie had probably deKiin-l of ever trying tlte liauirai way. In tlie village of (Jartfiue, Indiana, a mob of flfiy or sixty women inaile n raid upon the liquor stiloonsthe ofht-r day, uveruowered tlie ownew, .'ul destroyed their property. A Trlb'tiig correspondent, writing trem North Carolina, says that whyu colored men were asked to vote the Oreeley ticket, they would invarlahlv rely r'liat "rtrairt harf broken nn we Km Klux. and they would stand by hiui.' The argument seeiu. mUMt enough. Alexander llmnlioldt estimnted the gold produced from the discovery of America to tlie tune Mexico revwtetl (rem Spain, fl,30i),nnu,00t. Tlie r.n don Re m'ihttiit etlmntus the gold yield for Hie lat twenty years from Aus tralia, Calitoriila and elsewhere at about the same amount. The amount of sliver now heina produced Is greatly in excels ol that of any other period of the world's history. The one tent postal cards will snorfc ly be Issued by tlie PostoWec Depart ment. H should be remembered that every postal card sent will be equiva lent to a vote in favor of tlie one-cent rite for all letters, and tho.se who jt lieve In cheap postage will act accord ingly. A Missouri wife planned an elope ment with a seductive chap, and gave him two hundred dollars and her ef fects, directing him to meet her at a town in Louisiana. Her etrecis diet her I here all right, hut the man ami mofliiy tidied to put in an appearance. . lreelej -K (Inlnnra the noewn lor .Support. First Because during the long contest waged b3twejn Democracy and Whiggcry he was the inveter ate foe of Democracy. Second Because he was a Unit ed States Bank man, whilst the Democracy was opposed to it. 'J bird Became he was always in favor of high protective tarritf, whilst the Democracy ever opposed it Fourth Because he was in ft vor of the the distribution of the proceeds of tlie public lands among the States, whilst the Democracy opposed it. Fifth Recausc he was in favor of abrogating the veto power, whilst tho Democracy opposed it. SixthBecause he denounced John Tyler, whilst the Democracy sustained him. Seventh Because lie violently opposed thc annexation of Texas, whilst the Democracy favored it. Eighth Because he favored the Wihnot proviso, whilst the Demo crats opposed it. Ninth Recausc he was against his country in the Mexican war, whilst the Democrats were for it. Tenth Because he onnosod the future slave law, whilst tho Demo crats favored it. Eleventh Because ho opposed the Drcd Scott decision of tlie United States Supreme Court, whilst the Democrats sustained it. Twelfth Recausc he was one of the most violent and abusive of all the opponents of the Democracy awing the Kansas struggle. Thirteenth Recausc, with tlie power his press gave him in the North, he did all in his power to stir up sectional feeling on the part of the North against thc South. Fourucnth Because no one in the land is more responsible for the fratricidal war between the North and tho South than he was, Fifteenth Because, when the war came, he said, "It the erring sister go iu icace," and afterward demanded the severest measures to ward tho people of the South. Sixteen Because he favored all of the most ultra measures against the South, while the Democracy opposed them. Seventeen Because he favored thc adoption of the Constitutional Amendments for the liencht ot lw black man, whilst the I VnioenrT opposed them. kighteen Recausc he demanded the Kit Klux, whilst the Democra cy opHscd it. Nineteenth Became lie has ever denounced the Democratic party as being comxscd of all tho wori classes ot society, viz: the gam blers, tliieves,slioiilder-hitters, plug. ugiies, Hie denizens oi tlie lowest slums and sloughs, the uneducated,, roughest and worst classes yf iu,. cicty. Twentieth Because, in a word", he has ever opposed evervtbiinr that the Democracy favored. Twenty-first Because a man who will consent to serve a party he has ever denounced, must be a dishonest man, who will betray his dupes, tho Democracy. iweiity-secoiid-liecause he-riuw as the Democratic candidate, never having taken back one word he'ev er said against the Democracy. i 4 ? it-- -