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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 27, 1872)
lr. N. Official Paper tor Oni. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27. 1878. Irrrveivacr at thr Tlmra. It is announced tliattlie Khedive, of Egypt, is intending to put a first class revolving light on the summit of the great pyramid on the plain of Gizeh, tor the henefit of tlie IwatR on the Nile. Tims to turn tlie tomb of tlie Pharaohs into a lighthouse, may appear irreverent, hut the arrangemei.t will doubtless 1 regarded with complacency by those who boat on the Nile. This pyramid, the largest, is said to have leen built by Cheops, some two thousand years liefore the coming of Christ. It is said by Herodotus that one hundred thousand men were engaged steadily for twenty years in putting up this monstrous fabric. Its base is a polygon, each side of which is 763 4 feet, the whole base occupying some thirteen acres. Its height is four hundred and, eighty feet. Is there another revolving light in the whole world placed upou a structure of art so high as that? Hut alas! Hameses and the Pharaohs, while they were sacrificing human lives and freely lavishing their treasures ot gold in building these monstrous tombs in which to have their bodies deposit ed after death, and thus perpetuate their names, did not suppose that withiu four thousand years they would be made to subserve the pur poses of convenience and commerce, by being economized into night lan terns. Hut while the memory of their tame and deeds is obscure, the mon ument intended to perpetuate tliem, will give Oat a steady ami brilliant light fur Egyptians to guide their " dug-outs" by. UmmU imd Brie. Jay Gould lias settled with tlie Erie company, the terms including the transfer of 60,000 slums of the Erie stock, the Grand Opera House and a number of lots of valuable land, amounting in all to $7,000, 000 at their current values. It is stated, before tlie thing was con summated, Gould was allowed to pick up all the Erie shares he could here and in London, He now owns something like, 200,000 shares, and -expect to make more money than he has surrendered. He says since tlie Erie war, his object has been to obtain a series of roads under practically one management from New York to San Francisco, and in this way to obtain a fair share of all traffic ot intervening routes, and that which accrues at cither terminus. As an evidence of his success lie states that the Lake Shore, Michigan Southern, Chicago and Northwestern, Union Pacific, Hannibal and St Joe, Chicago and Rock Island, and Erie Railroads are now, controlled by men who have common interests. He also ays that Canada Southern and Wabash are partly in their hands, and the Pacific Mail Steamship stock is under their control. Rev. K. F. Campbell, editor of the Monmouth Memtr, and I'rof. Chaney, are going to debate tlie origin and character of the Bible, at Portland, during Christ, mas week, ' " An ii-dividusl in Baker county thinks he lias found platlna Don't Cart. Tlie information by telegraph as to who or which is to assume the editorial tripod of the New York Triftitu; whether Reed, Colfax, 1 Maine, or some one else, may go to grass tor all we care, for it is beyond our ability to tell. First its need, then (Jrton buys out a oon troling interest in the shares of that journal, ami he selects Colfax, and then he don't select him, but Speak er Blaine is fits choice, and so this lying horsethief of a telegraph goes on, becoming more and more sub lime in its intense economy of the truth. Shame on such electricai iniquitous-uess-mss. SmMI-uox Preventative. Aii exchange says the most re liable insurance against small-pox is a well-lilled bag of assafoctida in an active state of perfume, hung inside one's clothes directly under one's nose. We should think that would be powerful, but a skunk- skin pad would be still more effec tual, if smell is the quality to be secured. If the small-pox will keep away from the other, so from this, and everybody else. Get the perfume either one of them well lodged in your raiment, and it will abide there so long as there is thread left A Very Fooinih Uoveraor. If the fool killer ever goes to Virginia, he will not fail to go straight to Governor Walker, and take him off in a twinkling. Be cause Grant and Wilson carried that State, tlie childish goose re fused to issue a Thanksgiving Proc lamation, in accordance with the recommendation of tlie Chief Mag- istrate. In spite a this, peevish ness, the people of Virginia, having some respect for the decent opinions of mankind , quite generally through out the State observed the day. The number of Indians in the United States is estimated at 800, 000. Some 97,000 ot these prac- tice tlie manners and customs of tlie whites; 125,000 are partly civ- ilized, and 78,000 are as wild and savage as you please Of these last, the Apaches may be regarded as a fair example they are the real barbarians. They once exercised dominant power over all ot that immense territory included between the Colorado river of the west and the one of Texas on the east. They then waged constant war with the Spaniards of Mexico. Now, re duced in numbers to not oyer 4,000 warriors, they roam in small par ties over Arizona and New Mexico, and contiguous regions, committing their savage depredations. Tlie present Pope of Rome lias established a reputation tor wit, which his age does not seem to have dulled. When he was in formed that Father Hyacinthe had taken to himself a "rib," his "Holi ness" extended his hands towards heaven ami exclaimed, "Now let all tlie saints be praised ; the sinner has taken his punishment into his own hands!" Portland journals award much praise to Jtlieir firemen for their in defatigable exertions last Sunday. They labored fearlessly ani untir ingly until the fire was extinguished, working all day and far into the night, all doing their duty. , Port. land has a right to be proud of meu who thus unflinchingly face danger and endure fatigue to pre serve her life and property. The Portland Fire. During the past few months, fires of an unusually disastrous character have visited many parts of our country and the world. They seem to have become contagions, and scarcely does the lightning messenger cease to chronicle one harrowing disaster, ere another is ready to be announced. But a few weeks havo elapsed since the devouring element consumed the woolen mills at Oregon City, throw ing many persons out of employ ment, and bringing a loss of some $81,000 clear ot insurance to the owners. Now, the news ot a more disastrous conflagration comes from tlie city of Portland the most de structive and fearful ever experienc ed by that city. It originated,' last Sunday forenoon, some time after nine o'clock, in tlie back part of a Chinese wash house, the house be ing situated to the rear of the block lying on the river side of Front, between Morrison and Alder streets, near the River Side saloon. The Celestials were boiling pitch which they were using to fill the cracks in the floors of their apartments, to render them watertight' The pitch boiled over into the fire producing a flame which terrified the Chinese, and set the buildings which were very -inflammable to burning. The fire, favored by the wind, spread with great rapidity until some twenty-five buildings were destroy ed lying between Morrison street on the south and Washington street on the north, for the space of two full blocks on the east side of Front street, and three-fourths of the block on the west side of Front street, between Morrison ami Alder. Tlien tlie effoioF the firemen, which had been brave and untiring front the first, wsre - crowned with success. During the fiercest of the conflagration, when the destruction of the city seemed inevitable, dis patches were sent to Vancouver, Oregon City, Salem, Albany and Eugene City for assistance. The tire departments in these places re sponded with a promptness highly commendable, but before any of them reached' tlie city, the progress of the flames had been stayed, though their assistance was very valuable in extinguishing the burn ing buildings, also iu relieving the exhausted Portland firemen. Con sidering the excitement and terror which prevailed among the people who thronged the streets of Port- laud during the conflagration, the accidents reported are extremely meager. No one was killed," as yet reported, and not more than half a dozen persons were very dangerously injured. Many per sons in Portland ha vo lost heavily by this tire, and the progress of the city has been more or less interrupt ed. The State, too, will feel its effects ; but the indomitable spirit of American enterprise, never ready to faint and witlier beneath the heavy pressure of misfortune, will not fail to be seen inspiring the plans and efforts of all classes in Portland. Tlie burnt, blocks will soou be rebuilt, more creditable and substantial edifices taking the places of those consumed, and but a short time will elapse before the vacum of loss and inconvenience now so keenly felt will be measurably closed over. We are sorry Port- laud has met with this loss, but glad it is no worse. A full jury was completed in the Stokes case on the 21st EAATOWI NEWR. The President nominated Gen. McArtbur Postmaster of Chicago on tlie 20th. At an interview between the Louisiana ommittee and tlie Presi dent, on the 20th, Judge Campbell asked the President to se'id to New Orleans three impartial, learned men, to make a full inquiry and take testimony. Tlie President said, he supposed it was competel t for the Nipreme ('ou t to designate any one ot its members to proceed to Louisiana, but did not think it quite proper for him to make the request of them. Congress had power to investigate the facts of the case presented, but he did not propose to interfere with local affairs in that State by putting one set ot officers or another in power, No action was taken in the matter till tlie de cree ot the United States Court was attempted to be set aside or resisted by the Governor of the State. Then the .Marshal was simply instructed to see that the decree ot the Federal Court was sustained, and military force was to be used, if necessary, to support the r ederai authority. i nomas L. lSonu, a prisoner m the county jail at Cincinnati, under coi vtction tor assault with intent to kill Rev. J. J. Thompson, cut his throat with a penknife on the 19th, and his recovery is doubtful. The theft of a body from a grave yard by students of Toledo Charity Hospital Medical College for dis- section some weeks ago resulted seriously. The corpse was that of a victim from small-Dox. though this was not learned until the body had been conveyed to tlie dissec ting room, which is in a large block in the heart of the city, occupied iu the lower part by stores and ofn ces. and above tor lodging rooms and medical college. The contagion was not only disseminated through the building, taken by uuvaccinated occupants but was carried by stu dents to their boarding places and has been widely spread through the city. Though distributed from a corpse cases' resulting therefrom are of the worst form of black small pox. A number of deaths have occurred and other patients are iu a critical condition, reopleare highly indignant, and tlie city council has taken cognizance of the affair with tlie view to prevent any similar occurrence in future. The President, Hou. Jesse Mar. shall and Sharpe left Washington on the forenoon of the 20th tor Covington, Kentucky, u visit the President's father. Senator Corbett introduced a bill in the Senate on tlie 21st appro priating $25,000 for the improve ment of Yamhill river, Oregon. The settlement of Jay Could with the Erie Railroad was con summated on the 21st A recount on the Mayorality vote of Boston shows Henry L. Pierce elected by a plurality of twenty-nine votes over Mayor Gas. ton. Sumner's oblivion resolution was condemned iu the Massachusetts Legislature by a vote of twenty to nine iu the Senate, ami one hun dred and four to seventy-six in the House. The epizootic prevails at Levcn worth, Kansas, to a great extent In eighteen livery stables five hun dred horses are sick. Half of the private horses in the city are affect ed. Jesse Turner, Receiver of Public Lands at Grand Island, Nebraska, accideutly shot and killed himself on tlie 18th, whilecleauing his gun. At Flushing, La., on the night of the 18th, a large amount of pro. Eerty was destroyed by fire. t ive uildiugs were destroyed at one time to stay the flames. One man was killed by a falling chimney. Eulogies on the late Senator Davis of Kentucky, were delivered in Congress on the 18th fast The Postmaster General has de cided that Postmasters, under bonds are responsible tor the loss of reg istered "letter This rjonstrnetioii lias never been made before. On the 18th a dispatch a nounc ed that Colfax had accepted the editorship of the TWfamr-, a"d was denied on the 19th. It is said that a discovery has been made that the Department of Public Works has been swindled to a large extent by fraudulent pay rolls. This ismew-Vork. Commodore Vanderbilt has abandoned his New York Under ground Railroad. The Michigan Central Railroad Company are planting American chosuuts along their entire line. Alex Badlam, of Calistoga, kill ed a deer with a Henry rifle, at a distance of 4,950 yards, not long since. During the first half ot October, 8.695 barrels of apples were export ed from New York to foreign coun tries. FOBEIUft NEWRi The Mayor of Nantes, France, has been dismissed for not giving sufficient protection to pilgrims of Lonrdes. Tlie Khedive, of Egypt, has concluded to loan twelve and a half million to the Hank of Con stantinople. A large portion of the counties ot Leicester,Derby and Nottingham, Eng., have been submerged by the late floods. H A dispatch from Liverpool says 449 persons, including passengers, are said to have perished by marine disasters within the past ten days, Thirty persons were lost by the sinking of the Matchlemot North, umberland. The French Assembly have pass, ed a bill restoring to tlie Orleans Princes their confiscated property. The Connive, a Radical journal of Paris, has been suspended for advocating socialism. It is hoped in diplomatic circles that Greece will accede to the pro position to submit the mines ques- tion to France and Italy for arbi tration. ' Information has. been received that ex.Minister Cataoazy has not fallen into disrepute with the Czar. He has just been employed to ad. just certain ecclesiastical difficulties between the Pope and the Russian Government, concerning the ar pointmeut of Catholic Bishops ui Poland. Three thousand students of Paris, on tlie 20th inst, demonstrated in favor of Professor Lobin, a disting uished member of tlie Institute, struck from the jury list iu conse quence of his disbelief in the exis tence of a God. The number of emigrants that left Liverpool during November exceeded that of tlie previous month by 2,000. An abbey in Ireland exhibits two skulls of Shakespeare one of him when he was a little boy, and one when he was a man. I'rovincial correspondent con. firms the report of Bismarck's , resignation of the Premiership and his retention ot the War office io the lY.issiau Cabinet Tlie International Convention to secure uniformity of coinage has been signed by Denmark, Sweden and Norway. If the sale of a man's picture is a proper test of hit popularity, it would seem from an article in tlie New York Mail, that tmong cler gy man, Henry Ward Reeoher is the most popular. More of his pictures are sold than of all tlie rest of the clergymen in the country put together, says the Article in the Mail, Among editors, the pictures of Horace Greeley meet with the most purchasers. The Oreimnlttn ttva that Rn day, H. Thlelsen and H. B. Thiehsn have filed articles of Incorporation in the county Clerk's office of Portland, to be known as the 'Oregon Leather Manufactory Company. ,r They are &a?,t,,. ttn5,n nfcturlng hsather of all kinds, working It up tnto shoes, -boot, etc. The capttntls placed at $100,000, and the number of shares W 1,000, of $100 each. 1