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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1872)
ALBANY RKGISTKB. . UM4L MATTERS. Mnu t mil Flr. (5KNKRAL REMARKS, Now that the Fair for 1S72 is of the iiat. and its attendant laistle and ex- oiten.ent gone, we can speak of its merits and demerits with a clearer un derstanding of all the facts, than amid have been done during its continuance. fMir belief is that the avenge attend ance through the entire Fair was not unite as large as that of last season, the attendance on Thursday and Fri day falling slightly behind, while that of Tuesday and Wednesday was prob ably larger than the corresponding days of the Fairot 1871. There were several reasons for this, the principal one being tlte tightness in the money market. The HWW of articles in the ! Pavilion was about equal, in most in stances, to the last annual exhibit, in wint of variety, but in point of ex cellence tliere was a marked gain. There was less agricultural machinery m exhibition, not a large showing of cattle, an excellent display of sheen, and in the line of horses, the liest dis play ever made on the grounds. Tlie swine department was hardly up to the average. In concluding this neces sarily short report of the Linn County Fair for 1872. we cannot refrain from the remark that tlie oflleers and direc tors are deserving of much greater credit than they receive from our peo ple tor their labor and earnest efforts to so conduct it as to redound to the general good and welfare, and the satisfaction of all concerned. It Is a difficult, very difficult matter, to so conduct an exhibition of this character a.s to meet the views of everybody ; but we lielieve that the conduct of our last Fair was such as to meet the gen wal approval of all reasonable citizens, and in this belief we pronounce the Pair of 1872 a grand success. For the uniform courtesy extended to m by the (fleers of the Society, throughout tlie Fair, we hereby extend our thanks. HACKS. On Thursday tlie first race was a dash of a single mile tor three year olds, purse $200, first premium $150, second $50 three to enter and two to go. For this race Geo. Ross entered Hiram Abiff, W, J. Lindall entered BIO, Ross entered Unknown. Hiram Abiff and Bill made the race time, I. 5134 and 1.52. The next was for trotter, two in three, for animals that liad never made better time than 3.30; purse $100 tir.-t premium $75. second $25. John Cowdell entered Snip. C. II. Annis entered Minnie Parton. and Tennant entered Dusty Bob. First heat won by Dusty Bob in 3.07 J4. second by Snip in 3.14 'a. thin I by Minnie in 3.1534 tlie fourth heat anil race was won by Minnie in 3.12. The big raw: of the day came olf at 3,'a P. M, for a purse of $500 first premium $350, second $150, two in three, mile heats, running. The entries were: Buckskin by Win. Gird. Trifle by Geo. Ross, and somebody entered a third horse to make tin the race. Trifle won the race and first premlNin in two straight lieats time, 1.48, 1.55. To-day Friday; the great race, ost jioned from Wednesday, came olf. first n the list. The race was for $350 first premium, and $150, second ; three in five, mile heats. Blackbird, by Welch, and EphMayuard.br LIndsley, made the race ; won by Maynard in three straight heats time, 2.40?., MfaMk, Blackbird made it in 2.433,, 2.45. 2.45 V The thrw o'clock race was made by Horace Greeley, en tered by H. L. Rudd, and Shoofly, entered by S. Montgomery both pacers two In three, for premiums of $100 and $50 resieetlvcly. Horace won the flr-t heat In 2.38 V,; Shoofly took the second and third heats anil first premium, in 2.37 and 2.49. At lialf past three trotting race, for three year olds, two in three first premium $75, for which Welch entered Robert Bonner, Caldwell entered Nipper, Bonner winning in two straight beats -time. 131. 2 27. On Saturday, tlie lat day of the Fair, at one o'clock P. M.. the big thousand dollar raw came off. Tlie rare was for $700 first premium, and mUQ second premium, best thn in five, running. The entries were Buck akin and Trifle, the latter being the favorite from the start, selling two to one higher tlr.iu Buckskin. Trifle won the race and money in three straight lieats-time, 1.50, 1.55, l.M. Buck skin's time was given at 1.51, 1.57, 1 .59. This wound up the racing. MISCELLANEOUS. At one o'clock P. M. of Thursday. M. C. George, Esq., delivered a very totoresting and appropriate opening address. On Friday A. C. Jones, Esq., delivered the agricultural address. It wag well delivered and was deserving of a much larger audience. At nine o'clock A. M. on Saturday transpired the trial for draft horses, Messrs. Westfall, hum-mi and Moores making entries. Mr. Westfall took tlte first; j and Mr. Duncan the second premium. At nan past three o clock P. 31. of same day, three ladies, viz : Mrs. M. L. Nixon. Mrs. M. Luper ami Mrs. II. S. Crowder, appeared on the track in irout ot the judge s stand, to com j Pe for the premiums offered tor tlie best eqi.estrianshlp. While each ladv managed her horse with admirable skill, tlie judges thought Mi s. Crowder deserved the nine, and Mrs. Nixon the nil ribbon. Mrs. Luper rode without a saddle, and in the execution of this feat h:i. probably, no rival in Oregon. The last thing on the programme for Saturday was the toot race, one quar ter of a mile, premium $10. There were three competitors Price, Saun ders and Sportsman. Won by Saun ders, in 1.05. This ended a most in teresting, and we hope, profitable Fair. The total receipts have not, as yet, ken footed up. but are believed to lie between four and five thousand dollars. ROBBED. On last Friday night. September 27th, the residence of Mr. Jason Wheeler, some two miles from this city, was entered during the ab sence of the family, and various arti- ! eles, including two gold specimens and ! all the cold victuals to be found, all- stracted. The party or parties who made the "call," were doubtless in search of money, as they ransacked the whole house, taking the dishes out of the cupboard, turning over beds j carpets, emptying trunks and creating general disorder everywhere, it is the prevailing belief that Brown andReld, the parties who escaped from our ten thousand dollar jail on Thursday even ing of last week, are the individuals who committed the theft. They left behind them a large heavy club, which had been trimmed off with a pocket knife, and used, probably, as a weap on of defense. Fine Stock. Among the fine horses on exhibition at tlie Linn Co, Fair last week, we especially noted two Morgan horses from Douglas county, entered hy Mr. D. W. Stearns. Both are dark bays almost black in fact, and as well muscled and fine proportioned animals as are to be found in the State. "Oregon Yank" is a thoroughbred Morgan, five years old ; "Umpqua" is a Vermont Morgan, four years old, and both give great promise In the fu ture. Mr. Stearns is a plain farmer, and knows nothing about driving or training horses, yet lie drove Oregon Yank to a sulky, one day during the Fair, in 3. 5 first rate time consider ing the age and condition of the horse, and that he has had no training. Both horses are kind and gentle, and are valuable acquisitions to the stock inter ests of the State. The Torso Folk's Riiul is a novelty among publications for Young People', entirely different from any other in style and character. Cash prizes are given for best "conqiosi tions." Write for a specimen number and particulars, which will be sent free. Terms. $1 50 per year $1 In clubs of four and more, and every sub scriber receives a pair of beautiful chromos as a gift. Splendid pre miums to those who form clubs. Ad dress II. N. F. Lewis Publisher, Chicago- Fined $112. A party named Brown was arrested on the Fair grounds on Saturday of last week, by some of the marshals, charged with gambling. Upon trial he was found guilty of the cliarge, and fined $112 fine ami costs which he forked over. Anotlter party named Jimmy Wilburn, was ar rested the same day, charged with a like offense against the laws was found guilty and fined $25 and costs. Closed. The Slierlff 'cra.nped" on the "A. B'' saloon, corner Broad albln and First streets, on Saturday, and it is now closed. Gambling In all Its "enticing loveliness," or "heinous deformity" the reader can use the term that best suits him had been carried on within its walls during Fair time. In open violation of State law and city ordinance, and this is why the Sheriff cramped on the institution. List of Premichs. The list of pre miums awarded at the Linn County Fair last week will be published as soon as the Secretary makes, fbem out In a week or two. Gate Receipts At the late Couu - ty Fair, were much larger than they were lastseasou. Indicating, of coins.. that the attendance was much larger, The Society was swindled out of a a... m ... ... ... j;htl MU.ll ll lining ll WIC UIMIOIH'MV ot some of tlie hack drivers who it is asserted, sold admission tickets to fares for fifty cents, collecting tlie tickets as soon as tlte fares were safely inside the grounds, and re-selling to the next load, and so on, ad infinitum. The So- ciety will doubtless go for these fellows 6 800n- ... . , Wood's Magazine lor October, Is auotlier splendid number. For the nrice 1 it is the flheannst nunmzinu published. Two beautitul tinted eray- " r O on portrait, entitled "Hope ' and "Joy," together with the magazine. ! are furnished for $1 50. The pictures alone are worth three times the ...on - ey. This number of the magazine a) - peart in an entire new dress, and is crammed to the brim with the most interesting and readable matter. Send to S. S. Wood & Co., Newburgh, New York. Commercial R stouter. We have received number five of this journal. It is published by Col. Jas. U. Farish, in the city of Portland, and will be heartily welcomed everywhere in com mercial circles, Col. Farish is an able commercial editor, and possesses the entire confidence ot the financial and commercial houses on this coast. We welcome the Uepnrter, and wish it may meet with tlie greatest financial suc sess. For Peters Musical Monthly October, is full of choice music, which, in sheet torn., would cost $3 30. You can obtain this or any other number by enclosing 30c to J. L. Peters 599 Broadway, N. Y., or yon can obtain, for $1. the July. August, September and October numbers, which contain about $20 worth of music. The sub scription price Is but $3 per year. On the Fifth. It Is announced that the Northern Pacific Railroad will lie finished and in running order to within fifteen miles of Olympia by to-morrow, the 5th instant, wlueh will be good news to those who have been compelled to make trips during the Winter season to that point. Mad. Somebody entered Dave Fro man's residence In this city, one night last week probably Friday night during his alnence at the County Fair, ami, after rummaging over the" house generally, decamped with Dave's over coat, and Dave is mad about it. If two or three hundred dollars bad been taken, instead of the coat, Dive would have been mad. Some people can't stand "leedleshokes" with any de gree of fortitude. Brown and Reid feel tlie need of warm clothing these cool nights as well as other people Robbed of a Shot Gin. A few nights ago, a man named Miller, who lives down in well towards the mouth of the Santtam, lost a shot gun some body got into his bouse and took it while the family slept. It is tlie cur rent belief that Brown and Reid are the guilty parties. More Villainv. A few evenings since the residence of Milt. Houston, two or three miles out, was entered by somebody, who heljicd himself or themselves unsparingly to all the eat ables they could well carrv. Brown and Reid are charged with being at the bottom of this little steal. Removal. Dr. Smith has taken rooms over Weed's grocery store, on First street, adjoining the Batik, and has fitted then, up the neatest and cn-iest manner. Parties wishing any thing in the dental line will find him am ays ready to accommodate them '. it I. the liest work, at low rates. See card in this issue. At It. Work on the Albany & Su.itlam Water Ditch or Canal com n.":iced on Monday, and will be push ed until the first three miles are com pleted. This will probablv be all that can be done this Winter. Next season will see tlie completion of the Canal to this city. Camp Chairs. Tliose camp chairs at Chas. Mealey's furniture warerooms are not only comfortable and superbly finished, but he 'a selling them very cheap-tor tnueh less than you can buy them to PortlAfliJ, 1 tliWBIf HOT j Thoshay, Oct. 3d, 1872. ! Tht,re lias 1hvi, 1)llt ft m mmmt of grain brought to this station during A ( 'i'1"-' receipts ot wheat at the warehouse tor the week ending Sept. 29th, were 2.U04 centals in store. 71 centals for Messrs. Beach & Monteith. and 880 centals forC. B. Comstock vt Co., on commission. Amount shipped by . H. Foster it Co.. 2 car load- or 400 centals. The receipts at the warehouse for August were 11P0 centals, and for lift'"1 fS'4;iV, """"K. ,,!' .t(l.()!l2 centals, Or51,133butlcK Ihcie are 50,000 bushels of lite very best quality now mi liand. Itls wellclemi- Lj, a,H mvuu flll8 appearance. j Many of the grain dealers pronounce . It superior to any other lot of its size !... I... I. I. ..II I..... iu the State. It Is all for sale on reas- on.-.hle terms. H'roiii John Dny Valley. j ,f0I1N InY vAT.i.F.r. Sep. 25, 1872. 1 Dkai! Rkgbtkr :,.The melancholy , dayg lwve wmH.-.u lm thw ,lilv,, w, sahmlav momlmr the fourth of nn inch in thickness next morning not much better. To matoes cut down in their youth, just when the bud of promise was slowly maturing into usefulness. Melon vines that I had carefully nurtured and prided in and bragged on all summer, now present a very sad and woe-be-gone appearance. But after all haven't we been feasting for more than a month off those same melon vines! Then just please look at some of those cabbage heads, will you. Of ample pro- pornoua, aim nam. ami crisp, ami white as any lover of that vegetable could desire. That patch of potatoes will yield over four pounds to the hill, and this very day I carried Into the ceuar more titan two Hundred nice, well matured squashes. Our grain crops have generally been secured. and are fully up to expectations. My own crop, which was perhaps a fair average of the country, was 35 bushels of wheat per acre; oats, 43 bushels per acre. So far we have had a very wet fall ; green feed in abundance i'or ail kinds of stock, which is doing remark ably well. The weather-wist! are pre dicting one of the bard winters tbjit we read about. Well, let it come. 1 think this valley is prepared for it. We are now having lovely weather everybody stout and hearty. W. F. S. Ed. Register : I see by the last Democrat, that a man in Polk county has raised some grass twelve feet high. ! The seed, it is said, came from Peru. Would not this be a splendid place for the Greeley Democrats to hide in after the Presidential election ? Z. For Sale. Mr. Brenner, landlord ol the St. Charles' Hotel, offers for sale all the furniture, bedding, carpets etc., etc.. now in use In said Hotel, at a bargain, as he intends to close the house in two months. Here l an op portunity to secure a large amount of furniture, on good terms at low rate. We suppose the furniture might lie secured, and the hotel rented. The furniture. kc.. can lie purchased in a lump, or parties can buy such articles as they may want, in sums of $50 nnd upwards. Look out, you that want bargains. After 'em. Deputy Sheriff Geo. Humphrey, speaking of the escape from our ten thousand dollar jail, of Brown and Reid, last week, says: "Me an' Allen 'II have them prison ers ifl takes all Winter" and they'll do it. Brown ami Reid needn t ex pect to stay within two or three miles of this city and commit nightly dep redations "on this community lor the next two years without at. attempt being made to scare 'em away. Nary onct. Our officers can't reconcile them selves to permit It, yon bet. They must leave tlte country or suffer tlie consequences. Not Received. An engraving of this city, mid other engravings ordered for this week, did not arrive, we are sorry to say, in time for this issue. We expect to be bothered in this way until the arrival of our own engravers, then our readers can rely on two to four pages of " picters " each week. Personal. Messrs. McClain and Head, of the Corvallis Demnerat, called on Wednesday, en route for the State Fair. J. W. Nixon and family, the first of the week, start tor Waitsburg. W. T., where they will make their future home. May prosperity attend them. Snow is the Cascade Mountains. Gentlemen who came through from Ochoco on Monday, say that they crossed over snow several inches deep on the divide. Snow six indies deep Is reported at Meacliam's. on the Blue Mountains. Baura is OB it again see elsewhere. FINANCIAL AND fOJIMHUIAL Gold in New York 114,. Legal tenders 8788c. Wheat market in San Francisco re ported drooping. In Portland the market is reported less firm, as ship per! ',ave obtained all the wheat they can handle to advantage, ami prices are expected to :'rop down. The pros pects tor obtaining an advance in pres ent prices are rather discouraging. Our dealers are ottering hut 55c per bushel, and are understood as not anx ious to purchase at that figure. In produce we notice no change. Tlie supply of goml table butter has increas ed, and is retailing at 37 '..c per pound. Eggs quoted at 30c per dozen, FROM OCHOCO. Messrs. Jem Luckey, Frank Rice, J. H. Douthitt and Jas. . Elklns are all over from Ochoco, making their annual visit, Some to secure supplies for the Win ter, others to get their wives and in crease to take lack to the Valley. They are all complaining of feeling and doing very well. The FIRST. Esquire Carol hers per formed his first marrriage ceremony on Wednesday. The 'Squire was up to the occasion. LEO BROKEN. A lady named, Far well, we believe, in getting out of tlie circular swing on the Fair grounds one day last week, fell and broke Iter leg. Neat Residence. Mr. A. H. Bal- ! tlmore is fitting up a neat residence in tlie eastern portion ot the city. Franco is reported to have 10.000.000 hectolitres or upwards of 20,000,000 bushels, ot wheat for export this sett son. State Fair. Tlie State Fair, now it. full blast at Salem, attracted mapv of our citizens. Rain. Slight rain fall on Wednes day. Weather cool and cloudy, threat ening a regular down pour. Latest. Wheat in San Francisco slow at $1 DO f 100 tts. Liverpool quotations give wheat at 13s. tfd. . Additions. Rev. 3Ir. Irvine is having an addition built to his resi dence In this city. Millinery. Mrs. Godley has a nice assortment in this line, and is receiviug an extensive patronage. Wheat only SSe, and N. Baiim. Pio neer Clothing Store. Is selling according to Hard Times. He has n large and weU se lected stock of Fall and Winter Clothing, and is selling cheaper than any house in the city. Give htm a call before you pur chase elsewhere. , jj4 FROM Maine to California. - Now WILSON Strait Needle I'nderlced Sewing Maehine is the BEST MACHINE for nil kinds of work on lth heavy and liWit sewing. It nniH ensvaiel is simple; acdilM can use it. it is never out ot order, and is ALWAYS HEADY FOR 1H SIMiSS .' It has lately taken the premium ut the great Northern Ohio Slate Fair lor best work done on the ground. Don't tall to set! the New Wilson Machine, and remem ber that FIFTY DOLLARS now Imvs the best Sewing Machine in the world. Call at Ulain, Young A Co.'s, wholesale and re tail dealers In general merchandise. First street, Alliany. A. WHEKLER, fiIEI, OREGON, Forwarfling & Commissiou Merchant. Agent for the sale of t he celebrated BADS WAGON, and all kinds of AGRICULTVR AL MACHINERY. Consignments solicited. TOWN LOTS, in the town of Sliedd, flu sale. Hollow ay's Ointment. -The astonfch Ing rapidity with which this preiwratiou extinguishes pain, reduces external in flammation, henls sores, removesernptions and tumors, and cures rheumatism, gives it- liouiidless popularity. Sold "tj Maiden Lime, N. Y. Price, 23 cents r txt. Ask for new style ; the old Is counterfeited. MARRIED. At the residence of the bride's pa rents, in Marlon count', Oregon, by Bev. John H. Boork. Mr. Isaac Need ham, of Linn county, and Miss Clara M. Doty, of Marlon county. DIED. Near Tangent, Sept. 27th. 1872. of lung fever, George W. Coe, in his 33d year. A large circle of relations ami friends are left to mourn his loss. New To-ltay, Bargaina In Furniture. THE UNDERSIGNED offers at prtvnft' sole all the furniture, bedding, carpets, etc., etc, used In and about the St. ciuuiejt Hotel, at low figures, on the most reason able terms. Will sell all to one person, as In lots of 30 and upwards, on short time with approved note. Apply at 8t. CharJea Hotel, Albany, Oregon, to Oott,W744w4 IL UBENNER.