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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1873)
ALBANY REGISTER. so Matrimony lias been rendered a fixed stale in Japan, divorces liav n. car, or wr,po..,. !ingbeei) abolished. She don't be- Murders in our country have be-; Heve in foolishness. While she is come painfully frequent. Scarcely a rapidly adopting our railroad, tele day elapses that does not give birth gph financial, commercial, raanu to one or more harrowing instance, factoring, educational, etc, systems, 'Hie telegrams of a recent Monday j she very sensibly puts her foot contained no less than tour cases of down emphatically upon our de the Bioat aggravating description, paved social aud free-loveisms, We seem to be passing through an ! which result annually in the scpara era of thirst for blood. Many cit-! of so many of our husbands Unit, even the boys, carry conceal- 81,(1 wive Just uk of it, reader, ed weapons, and a very slight prov- Tl Courts of Ohio alone last year ocation brings them into use, some-' granted one thousand and tic .' times. It is not at all infrequent to divorces. If the same number read of boy murderers. In a recent of divorces in proportion to popu dispatch was an instance of a boy in ltiou granted in other States New York, thirteen years of age, shooting another of the same age through the temple, resulting in instant death. It is well-known that some boys on this coast carry pistols aud knives. We have been told that some of our Albany boys do this some who attend our schools. This results, of course, I The Gni J Jury of Jacks0 from the example of older persona, j county hu il)dicted Scarfaced Char They are men in miniature and ape Hooker jj Long Jira 0ue. the example of men, especially in Ij Moz m Uoctor numphn.Vt the direction of evil, f father car- U m j-m Regton ciarlev aml nes a revolver or dirk, why may , )avp longing to Captai TackV not the son? Now father ought ,)auJ 0, Mod(JC Ddiang) forrardev not so to do. Tu the first place, it : in the first degree. Mrs. Brother, is a violation of law, and a good ton and survivors of the Broth, citizen prefers to obey the law. In erton fiunily) swore positively to the second place, its possession is those Indians as the band who mas associated with the idea of murder, ! mrf the wtt,ei8 on Lost Uiver in which but awaits opportunity to j December last. It was supposed commit. A deadly weapon carried the Sheriff would defer tha in as a protection against a deadly en- ti,e matter until after the meeting emy, in sudden anger may be used of the j..eace Commission. against an offending friend. The carrying of deadly weapons has in duced many hasty murders, which would never have occurred had not they been in possession. In the third place, its influence is bad upon children and youth. They learn to look upon the shedding of human j blood with complacency, rather than estimating it as the most terrible of crimes. A bovthat swings to his young back a loaded pistol, or i thrusts iu his small belt a gleaming dirk, will very likely fall a prey to weapons as deadly, or spend j wuurui uiamiouu hi prison, or yield his ripening youth at the end ot a rope. Then we Ixdicve it to be a correct aphorism, that none who are truly brave will feel the need of such defenses. Certainly the truly good will not. There is uoth ing in our civilization here in Oregon, especially in our city, to justify the carrying of deadly weapons. No grown )erson, much less a boy, has need of them. If parents desire the good of their lwys they will forbid them from so venal a practice. It tliey do not, the law should hold them directly accountable for the crimes that may result. . . It is well known, that many in stances of maiming and death are annually chronicled, resulting from the foolish practice of pointing fire arms at people tor fun. The legis lature of New York proposes to make the practice a penal one, mak-1 ing the penalty for discharging a ! weapon, where the intention is not j to injure, a tine of $100, or one year's imprisonment. A similar law should be enacted in every State. It is said that there are scarcely one thousand acres of Government land in Iowa uuclaimed. No chance to build railroads by means of land subsidies there. and Territories last year, the num- ber for the whole nation would j charged with refusing to al'ow col reach far in excess of fifteen thou.- ored votes tobe received at the ami. Japan has shut down on all election in that city, are to lie prose sucli nonsense. Once married, a'- cuted; Hon. .lames Harlan has been ways married, is now her motto, j designated by the Attorney Gener We might copy from her example I al to assist District Attorney VYbar. in this direction with profit. ! The Oregonian says that "a bill introduced by Senator Corbett on the 27th ult. to create a new Cus toms district in Southern Oregon, with a port of entry Custom House at Coos Pay, passed the Senate unanimously under a suspension of the rules. The Collector of Cus toms at the new port is to receive a salary of 81,000, with the fees ot his office, not exceeding $1,000 more." a7 Legislature of Maine a law punishing the offense of throwing trains from railway tracks with imprisonment for life, or when death ensues, with hang ing. A good and righteous regu lation. The proposition of electing Uni ted States tenators by a direct vote of the people, instead of the Legisla tures, is apparently gaining advo cates. The Jones and Pomeroy cases would seem to justify some sort ot a change. The materialistic German Turn ers of New York have employed a noted writer of infidel book, named Dr. Lewis Puckuer, to lecture on Materialism among his countrymen, at a salary ot $15,000 per year. Equal parts of pulverized alum and common salt put into an aching tooth on a piece of wet cotton, is said to be a sure cure. Try it, dis tracted tooth-ache sufferer. It is reported that Senator Cole ot California, wants to be sent as Minister to one of the ?outh Amer- ican Republics. Will he make a tirst-class "live" Cole in that capac ity? The recent attempt of a thief to rob a Boston editor is hard to ac count for except that he was bun-; gry for "puns. j Jen. Rosencrans is still busy in railroad matters in Mexico. I! ASTER i:WS. Charles Francis Adams has lieen chosen by the New York Leglsla- ture to pronounce the eulogy on the ! form of government on the 13th. late Wtt, II. Seward. j The cavalry were for Monarchy, In counting the 1 'residential vote ! while the infantry were tor a Re the votes of Arkansas and Louis- ! public laua were excluded. On the 12th.1 the other Votes having been counted, the Vice-President declared the election of Grant and Wilson. Sumner's physician thinks that it he can be induced to keep from excitement, and remain away from Congress for the remainder of the session, he will be able to enter npon his Senatorial duties next ses sion with the renewal of his old vigor. Parties in Lexington, Kentucky, ton in the work. At West Farm, near Harlem, N. Y., Feb. 13th, a Coroner's in quest found James Dennis guilty of kicking his wife to death. The funeral of Kx-Gov. Geary took place at Harrisbtirg on the 13th, with imposing ceremonies. The P. S. Senate engaged in counting the Presidents' electoral vote on the 12th. Objections were made to the votes of Mississippi and Georgia. On the afternoon of the 12th inst, the Senate at Washington passed sixty-six bills, many of con siderable importance. On the 12th inst., the negroes of Cincinnati celebrated the birthday of Abraham Lincoln. Antoiue Holm was refused a new trial and sentenced to be hanged at St. Louis On the 3d of April. A New York car horse had 14 pom ds of icicle on his tail in the last storm. A Wisconsin bride's trousseau consisted of 10,000 hoop poles. By the giving way of a new bridge building being erected over James river, between Richmond and Manchester, Feb. 13th, fifteen men at work4 on it were precipitated into the water. Nine were rescued. The rest were either drowned or killed. At a meeting of members of both Legislatures of New Orleans on the Pith, it was agreed to organize an Assembly from members return ed by both boards, provided they prove acceptable to the national administration. On the 12th inst., $200,000 in bonds of the Toledo, Canada and Detroit Railway were stolen from the office of the company in New York city. Stoke's application for a new trial has been denied by Judge Boardman. John Gaffney, murderer ot Pat rick Fahey, was hung in New York on the 14th. He said he was crazy drunk when he committed the crime. It is stated that while moving some rock at Newburg, N. Y., a party of workmen came upon a nest of young weasels, which they put to one side. 7'he old weasel re turning, became very angry at not finding her offspring, and, going to the drinking pail, spit something it. Taking another look she found her pets, and then went back and over turned the pail she had evidently fixed for the destruction ot her tor- mentors. Amadeus reached Lisbon on the 14th. hhi:k3 rcwr. The army of Spain was renre sented as divided in thdir choice of Die Spanish National Assembly has chosen Martas for President. Dispatches from Madrid on the 12th announced that ex-K ing Ama- j deus, with his wife and children, I had gone to Lisbon, I At London, on the I2th inst. I Miss Rothschild was married to Elliot Yorke, son of the Karl of Hardireck, in spite of the opposi tion of Ritualists. Thiers will recognize the Spanish Republic so soon as he is officially notified of its establishment. 7'he' French Government has prohibited l'ardonet, the Kansas emigrfttiOU agent, from lecturing iu Pel tort. The Pope recently gave audience to several officers of the lT. S. Navy. The Pope desired to know how he would he icceived in this country. The officers replied that the country would regard his taking up his residence here as a great honor. Catholics would, no doubt. There was much excitement and uneasiness iu Lisbon on the 13th over events in Spain. I'4'IWMMl. Oarahaldi is going to Scotland in the Summer. The tragedian Forest left real estate in six different States. A. Townsend, aged 75, has been cashier ot the New Haven Bank tor 47 years. The Emperor of China assumes the personal government of his Empire on the 24th inst. Newton Bateman, Superintend ent ot Public Instruction in Illinois, will recommend compulsory educa tion in his forthcoming report. Chief Justice Chase has five grand children three little .Spragues and two little lloyts. Mr. Kutski, of the Japanese Embassy, has joined the Metropoli tan church at Washington City. He was converted at Yokohama. Mlmellnnroira. An Indiana editor hires a band to serenade him twice a week, and he responds by a column of thanks next day. 7'he annual product of the man ufactories of New Jersey is valued at over $20,000,000. They have ice at St. Paul four teen feet thick. 7Tiis excites the local jealousy of Duluth, which boasts that a feather bed there has been frozen stiff as a poker. The Committee on Publio Lands of the House have decided to report against the bill to aid the Portland, Dalles and Salt Lake Bailroad. Four members of the Committee are for the bill, and five are against it. Mules are said to excel in kick ing exploits, but at Tipton, Indiana, the other day, a horse kicked the head off from a goose and never ruffled a feather below the neck. Professor Alboni of Naples re suscitated a dying woman fcy the blood ot a lamb, the revivifying blood being forced through a tube into the arteries by the pulsations of the animal's heart. j The heaviest brain on record was recently found in the skull ot a London bricklayer, who could neither read or write. Its weight was sixty-seven ounces. This will be gall and bitterness to the phrenol ogists. From all sides come demands, not for classical and philosophical education, but for such practical nd industrial schools as will pre pare students for particular profes sions. The latest entreaty is from Yermont. The recent report of the Newark, N. J., veliool Superintei dent w that the entrance of colored chil dren into the higher grammar Fcbool produced only a momentary seusa tion, and even that has subsided, KnglHi medical officers who serve on the west coast of Africa, suffer greatly from the climate, al though they are allowed a year's leave at home tor every year spent in Africa. They contract fevers from which they rarely recover. Out of an European population of ninety-eight at Sierra Leone, over twenty died last year. Minnesota papers give many ter rible incidents connected with the late storms. One party, engaged in clearing the railroad track, eight miles below St. Peter, discovered, nearly buried in the snow, a double team of horses and a sleigh in which were seated two men wrapped in robes and enclosed iu buffalo coats, and frozen stiff. The men sat jier i'ectly upright, and were within two hundred years of the station build ing. Somebody has been summing uj the fate of Kings and Emperors as follows: Out of two thousand live hundred and forty Emjerors or . Kings over sixty-four nations, two hundred and ninety-one were de throned, sixty-tour abdicated, twen ty committed suicide, eleven went mad, one hundred died on the bat tle field, one hundred and twenty three were made prisoners, twenty five were pronounced martyrs and saints, one hundred and fifty-one were assassinated, sixty-two poison ed, and one hundred and eight were sentenced to death. Total, nine hundred and sixty-three. Yast numbers of animals are al ready arriving for Mr. Barnutn from every direction aud from every clime. Among these is a fairy ele phant, so dainty and small that it can be carried about upon the shoulder of any man who has an inclination to try. It comes from the East Indies and weighs about 140 pounds. For the last fiscal year there passed through the Postoffice 4,641 letters without any address what ever upon them ; (52,307 were mis directed, some necessary part of the address being omitted ; and 312, 846 were detained for postage, not lieing prepaid as required by law. There are now 1 1 bridges across the Mississippi, viz : a Brainard, St. Paul. Hastings, Winona, Dubu que, Clinton, Rock Island, Burling ton, Keokuk, Quincy and Hannibal, and in a year or so there will lie a finished bridge at St. Louis, while another is projected at Carondelet. Indianapolis does not encourage tradesmen who try to recover debts. A grocer in that city who published a list ot non-payii.g customers has been sued for liliel. Jane Bell, a deaf mute of Madi son county, 111., has just married a blind man. 7'hey can be of great assistance to each other, to be sure, but how did they do their courting? An Omaha bride was married barefoot because her lover's kinsfolk dressed that way, and she did not wish to seem proud. The Emperor of Austria is said to lie making a collection of the sku ls of remarkable criminals who have been executed. It is estimated that China will be a market for Amerii an butter and cheese to the amount of 5,000 tons annually. Louis Bois, a Canadian farmer, has just baptized his thirtieth child. Twenty-six are living, and al) "Bois." The English navy is about to discard the open-neck shirts, which from time immemorial British sailors the bronchitis. Professor Pepper, the lecturer on scientific subjects, is aided in his lectures by Robert Spice, his assis tant. "Cast Iron Sinks" is written upon the sign of a 1 lartlbrd plumber. "Well, who the (hie) said it didn't?" chuckled an inebriated man after reading it over three times. Dubuque claims to have improv ed $800,000 worth this season.