ALBAXY REGISTER.
Sfoiltrt.
v. v. o r-"iT r Oregon,
PR1DAY. FEBRUARY 7. 187&
nah.
The Fanner? Club now be
ing organised i" 0,,r county and
State, will result in incalculable ben--etit.
A lethargy lias heretofore
rested upon this invaluable class of
our people, leaving tliem at the
mercy ot ancient mannerisms and
habits, and ring speculators. These
Clubs cannot fail to result in cr
manent lienefit in both of these di
rections. The interchange of opin
ions, narration of experiences, prac
tical discussions, lectures, etc., will
compass the union, enlightenment
and promotion of every good and
profitable interest of the farming
community. Oregon Clubs will
never lack for interesting and val
uable questions to consider. Drain
age, fertilizers, improvement of
swamp lands, lands best adapted for
cereals, the best variety ot cereals to
plant, rotation of crops, gardening,
the culture of fruits, improvement
in stock best food and method of
feeding them ; insects how to get
rid ot ; improvement in farm houses;
agricultural implements which
best adapted; shade trees; floral
industry; roads.etc., etc., and a thous
and and one subjects will suggest
themselves tor the consideration of
these Clubs, whose investigation
will result in more uniform, system
atic and profitable farming. Farm
ing will also become more scientific
and intelligent as these investiga
tions continue. They will result in
great goal, too, in the direction of
securing the best prices for products.
I y the building ot storage houses
and employment of suitable agents,
they will be enabled to secure the
highest market prices, and thus
break up the speculative rings that
have so long fattened on their hard
earnings. More money and pros-
perity will thus be experienced, and
a greater degree of thrift will be
infused into every enterprise.
f.
Beware, Sew York.
Tweed's sublime soul is getting
impatient He has lately said that
his trial was for political effect,
merely, and tliat he was tired of
the whole thing. The legal au
thorities of New York are becom
ing toojostlingly familiar to suit the
aristocratic soul of thisexalted thief,
lie can bear to have his serene
equanimity interrupted to some
slight extent, but further than that
Itecomes monotonous, tiresome. Let
New York take heed. He will put
up with no more nonsense. He has
already grown impatient and he
may get "riled." The majesty of
the law, it's attempted vindication,
must behave itself ; be modest and
less inquisitive, or he will frown it
dowii : squelch it ; steal its thunder
and run it through with itsown bolts,
llis Miblimethiefship highness must
not lie too severely interrupted.
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The epizootic is not restrained by
distai.ee nor place. From Manito
ba, in tlie frozen zone, to Cuba, in
the heated belt, it is no respecter of
horses or mules. It attacks them
on the earth and goes for them in
the earth, likewise. At Leaven
worth it went down into a mine
seven hundred feet deep aud set
the noses of some mules to running
that had never seen the light of
day.
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1,nur D. E'lilc
! This notorious woman lectured in
Sacramento on the night of JaV.
)-,t!
;th.
tiling to obtain a hall, she
' chartered a licer saloon on tl at day,
and wnt out notices by means of
small Hoodlums thai she would
lecture that evening, charging $1
admission. At the lime designated
for the lecture to begin, a large and
promiscuous crowd had assembled
j outside the faloon, but only about
-three persons were found willing
j to pay the entrance tee. Laura,
who had arrived promptly on time,
finding the crowd were not disjiosed
to pay their way in, ordered the
doors thrown open and invited all
to enter as a free audience. This
crowded the hall to repletion. Her
lecture is pronounced but a poor af
fair, benig tilled with Billingsgate
and abuse, the press and pulpit ot
San Francisco receiving much ofthe
latter. While the name of this
wicked woman is a synonym for li
centousncss, crime and murder, it
must be confessed that it also sug
gests much pluck. As a good old
lady said ofthe devil : "J lis activity
is wonderful." Laura D. Fair has
wonderful pluck, aud is as dialiolical
as the devil can reasonably ask.
The Kansas Senatorial election on
the 29th ult , resulted in the elec
tion of John J. Ingalls by a vote of
115 to 16 scattering, Pomeroy re
ceiving no votes. A great sensation
was created by Senator York stat
ing, by way of personal explana
tion, that in order to unmask Pome
roy, he had attended wveral meet
ings with him and had agreed to
sell him his vote for $8,000. York
then produced seven one thousand
dollar packages and handed them
to the Secretary of the Joint Con
vention. A motion for a recess to
allow Pomeroy to defend himself
was defeated by a large majority.
Pomeroy was arrested for bribery
and gave bail.
It is thought the Administration
will not recede from the civil serv
ice rules as applied to the New
York Custom House, where the
pressure has been the greatest All
the members of the Cabinet are rep
resented in accord with the Presi
dent's views, and Congress has
changed its attitude very materially
since the beginning of the session
upon this subject. The prospect
indicates an extension of their oper
ation. ' :
A steamboat ot steel, ninety feet
long and drawing only twelve inch
es of water, has been built in Eng
land to be used on one of the rivers
of Brazil. Some such craft as that
would suit some ot our streams to
a dot The boats we have run only
while our rivers are "on a herder ; "
but a boat like that would run right
along, no matter how low and Ale
graded our streams might be.
The superiority of the lands of
tlie Hawaiian Islands over lands of
the Southern States for the produc
tion of sugar, is seen in the fact,
that while a fair yield of the latter
per acre is from 1,700 to 1,800
pounds, the former will yield some
5,000 pounds per acre, and isolated
acres have produced as high as 12,-
000 pounds per acre.
An exchange says : "Farmers in
Coffey county, Ky., are urged to set
aside a portion ot their rich bottoms
for cotton-planting next spring."
Those bottoms do not appear to be
well watered.
rOVEIOS WEtvf.
It i- repprtoj tjha American
bankers iri London leaned NTapo
'eon 200.000 to 'acetate a medi
tated ,, and since" his death the
money lias hot been returned.
The Swiss Government has ap
pointed secretary Cass to the Lega
tion at Washington.
The Queen of Spain gave birth
to ahoy on the 29th ult.
( 'arlot ta was not dead assort
ed, through very low on the 30th
ult.
Loniton exprienced her first
snow storm on the 1st inst.
A llerlin sjiecia says the Library
ofthe Royal Military Academy was
burned on the 31st nil
A spinning mill at Glasgow, em
ploying 400 hands, burned on the
30th ult.
An insurrection in Hayti for the
purpose of preventing the election
ot a President, was nipped. Sixty
of the ring-leaders were arrested and
five executed.
On the night of Feb. 1st the
British Isles were visited by one of
the most violent storms ever ex
perienced there. The snow fell six
inches deep on the streets of Lon
don. 7'he crale rased with great
fury wrecking many vessels and de
stroying numerous lives.
A German paper declares that
the Russian forces in Central Asia
are strong enough to defy any at
tempt of Great Hritaiu to check
their progress.
The proprietors of several col
liers in South Wales, who announc
ed their intention of importing
Chinese from California to take the
place of the strikers, have receival
anonymous letters threatening as
sassination. During three days of the late cold
spell in England, 100 persons froze
to death.
A Calcutta dispatch says the
city of Sohuree, in the territory of
Scinde, was nearly destroyed by an
earthquake lately. 500 persons are
thought to have perished.
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EASTER NEW.
On the 30th ult. a passenger train
for Northampton on the New I 'a
ven Railroad, was thrown from the
track aud sixteen persons seriously
injured.
J. 1$. Stewart, one ot the wit
nesses before the Credit Mobilier
Committee, by resolution of the
House of Representatives, was com
mitted tor contempt, oh the 29th
ult, for refusing to auswer ques
tions. lie is to remain iu custody
of the Sergeant-at-Arms until he is
willing to answer questions.
The City Committee, of Boston,
on Claims, has decided that the city
is liable for damages caused by the
blowing up of buildings during the
great tire.
The President has vetoed the bill
for the relief of the University of
East Tennessee.
The 1 resident has approved the
act abolishing the franking privi
lege. Harlan has introduced a joint
resolution in Congress for a Consti
tutional amendment electing . Sena
tors by a popular vote.
The jury in the Tweed case fail
ed to agree and were discharged It
was generally understood on the
31st ult, that nine were for acquit
al and three for conviction.
U. S. (Senators from Pennsylva
nia have been instructed by a vote
of 25 to 7 of the State Senate, to
vote against the purchase and con
trol of telegraphs by the Govern,
nient.
The Spanish Court has informed
.Minister Sickles that no steps will
be taken for the abolition ot slave
ry in Cuba until the insurrection on
the island is suppressed.
An incendiary fire at Jackson,
Tenn., on Wednesday of last week,
destroyed property valued at $100,-000.
The burning o'' a woolen mill at
Northfieldj Vt an. 31st, occasion
ed a l.ss o $100 090)
Kx-Coven or . A. Matteson, o
Illinois, died suddenly. Jan. 31-t,
aged sixty-five years.
Here are the expenses of
mouth Hnu'eh for last year:
ly-
Mr.
tocher's salary f 20.000: Mr. Mai-
liday's salary, 3.000 : Mr. Weld
(first sexton), $3,500 ; Mr. Rayner
(second sexton), 81.200; music.
$8.000 ; insurance, $500 : current
expenses, $7.000 ; Plymouth Libra
ry, $700. 7otal, $43,900.
The number of pupils on the i oils
of the public schools of New York
City is 536,107, and the average
daily attendance is 100,820.
Henry Ward Beecher thinks
Stokes will not hang. Too many
legal quirks and quibbles.
Lucy Stone will not lecture this
winter. She is nursing a boy only
a few weeks old.
7'he public debt was increased
$403,000 during the past mouth.
Great frauds are reported in con
nection with the building ot the
Harlem, N. Y., Court house.
The completion of the (Tiesepeake
t Ohio railroad was celebrated at
Norfolk, Jan. 31st
It is stated that the iury in the
7' weed case stood 11 for acquittal
and 1 for conviction. The case will
be brought to trial again right
away.
Senator Pomeroy has given
bonds in the sum of $20,000 to ap
iiear at the June term.
Mrs. McCarty, of Memphis, was
burned to death on the 1st inst. by her
clothes taking fire from the explo
sion of a coal oil lamp.
Senator Patterson and Yice Pres
ident Colfax have expressed them
selves confident that they will clear
up the cloud that surrounds them
relating to the Credit Mobilier af
fair. They insist that Ames has
manufactured the case against them
It is said the House Judiciary
Committee will report a bill to abol
ish mileage of Congressmen, and
pay them instead the actual expen
ses trom their homes to Washington.
The highest amount paid is to Gar
field, W. T., being $1,758, and the
lowest to Merrick, of Maryland,
$16.
Colfax delivered a temperance
address in Baltimore on the night
of the 2d to the largest and most
enthusiastic audience ever gathered
in that city. Judge Davis in in
troducing him alluded to his purity
of character and the failure of the
Credit Mobilier investigation to im
plicate him. Colfax in alluding to
this said he sought to stand right in
the sight of God, whether the world
judged wrong or not; that the
world is full of false aspersions that
are sometimes hard to bear, unless
the soul is conscious of rectitude.
At Lexington, Ky., on the 2d
inst, in an altercation Thomas I,eo
man drew a pistol and shot .1. A.
Gillett in the throat, producing
probably a fatal wound. Leoman
was a'Tcsted.
At Boston on the 2d inst, A. O.
Love shot his daughter Grace, four
years ot age, and then shot himself
dead.
In New York, on the 2d, four
youths formed a plan to rob a sa
loon till, but a quarrel ensuing, one
of them named Halpin stabbed an
other named Comisky in the head,
inflicting a fatal wound.
7'he Republicans ot Connecticut
were to hold a State Convention on
the 5th inst
Gen. Joe Shelby, of Missouri, is
disgusted with the defeat of Blair,
and says he intends to "go on the
other side with the progressive, lib
eral Republican party.
It is said that full forty per cent,
of the suicides in New York City
last year were Germans, though
suicides are rare among their peo
ple at home.
"Hoax Aims" is the name Oakes
Ames goes by now.
'- Vmmis-iioncr Pavenport has do
cided to hold VYdhull. Clatlin
and Hood to await the action of
gran' jury.
District Attorney, ''helps, snys
he has on affidavit alleging tliat five
jurors in the Tweed cae allowed
'themselves to Is; approached by
friends and agents of Tweed durii tr
his trial.
7'he new Missouri Senator pro
iiouuces his name Ifajw. .ff-whil-aker!
A Washington dispatch of the
28th ult, says the House Judiciary
Committee decided to-day to report
a bill placing the salary ofthe Pre'
ident at $50,000 ; Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court, $15,000; Vice
President, Speaker ot the House anil
Associate Justices, $10,000, and
members of Congress, $8,000.
Secretary James, of Nebraska,
lately called on to act temporarily
as Governor, avails himself of the
brief opKrtiuiity to pardon twenty
sevtn convicts.
A bill has been introduced in
Congress to abolish the tax ou liq
uors distilled from fruit.
The Secretary of the Treasury
has sent a letter to the Senate stat
ing that the Union Pacific and Cen
tral Pacific Railroad Companies
have not complied with the law for
the payment of the interest.
President Grant has assured a
delegation from Georgia that be
fore the close of the session, h
should accompany members of the
Cabinet and make an extended torn
though the fouthern States.
By the explosion of four boilers
of the American Iron Works at
Pittsburg, on the 3d, three sections
of the building were destroyed.
Some 3,000 hands were employed
in the mill at the time, and six dead
bodies had been found. Thirty per
sons were injured.
In the Greeley will case, the
Misses Greeley have withdrawn
from the contest. 7'he will made
in 1872 has been proved.
Uranhle Description of the Imvn
Bed In Southern Oregon.
The following extract from a let
ter written by Jesse Applegate and
published in the Bulletin, will
give an idea of the difficulties to be
encountered in fighting the Modocs :
If yon can, imagine a smooth,
olid sheet of granite, ten miles
square, and 500 feet thick, covering
resistless mines of gunpowder, scat
tered at irregular interva's under it;
that these mines are exploded simul
taneously, rending the whole field
into rectangular masses, from the
size of a match-box to that of a
church, heaping these masses high
in some places, and leaving deep
chasms in others. Following the
explosion, the whole thing is placed
in one of Vulcan's crucibles, and
heated up to a point, when the
whole begins to fuse and run to
gether, and suffered to cool.
The roughness of the upper sur
face remains as the explosion left it,
while all below is honey-combed by
the ciacks and crevices caused by
the cooling of the melted rock.
All Indian can, from the top of
one of these stone pyramids, shoot a
man without exposing even so much
as an iuch square ot himself. He can,
without undue haste, load and shoot
a common muzzle-loading rifle teu
times before a man can scramble
over the rocks and chasms between
the slain and the slayer. If, at this
terrible expense ot lite, a force dis
lodges him him from his cover, he
has only to drop into and follow
some subterranean passage with
which he is familiar, to gain anoth
er ambush from whence it will cost
ten more lives to dislodge him ; and
so on ad infinitum.
Mr. Jones, a Nevada farmer,
owns twenty-six camels. The way
he "humps" himself this winter to
get fodder for them is a caution.
A stone as large as a walnut was
recently found in the heart of an
Indian ox. The affections of that
ox must have been hard.