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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1873)
ALBANY REGISTER. fNESS C!tI?S JOHN CONNER, B A N K I N G -ANI Exchange Office, t EP()SITS RECEIVED SUItJECT TO J ) check lit sij,'ht. Interest allowed on timedeposifsin coin. Kxchanw on Portland, San Francisco, mi 'I Sow York, for sale at lowest rates. Collections limit aiidproiiinllvremitted. Refer to II. W. Corbott, Henry Failing', AV.S. Add. Hanking hours from 8 A. SI. to 4 P. M. Albany, Fell. 1, I71-Hv3 Saiuciiilu;; Wew In Dentistry. dr. e. o. south, destikt, II AO A 1 CI' i. ' UOO.- fry. XX ny, ana litis me new m ven) Ion In plate work.which ..intsislu t.i tnsprtimr leetll in the month without covering the whole roof, as heretofore. It givesthewcarcrthe wearer the free use of the tongue to the roof of the mouth in talking and tasting. It is the Smith A Pnrvine patent. Teeth extracted without pain. Plates mended, whether broken or divided. .f-()KKicK-Flrt8treet,,a8tofConnerlV Hunk (up stairs), Albany, Oregon. 7v4 CITY MARKET, MUST STREET, ALRASY, OREMOX, J L. HARRIS, PBOPMSTOB, WILL ENDEAVOR TO KEEP Con stantly on hand a full supply of ALL MIS l? OP MEAT, .... f ,. M, . e hiut .Itl.llil,' vnicii win uw oi ,, mm...j. i The highest market price paid for beeves, hogs and sheep. ... I Third door west of Fern-, on south side i of First street. J. L. HARRIS. Alhany,Dec.l5, 1871-I5v4 JOHN SCHMEER, DEALER IS Groceries & Provisions, ALBANY, OREGON. HAS JUST OPENED HIS NEW GROCER establishment on corner of Ellsworth anil First streets, with a fresh stock of Groceries, Provisions, Candies, Cigars, To bacco, Ac., to which he invites the atten tion of our citizens. In connection with the store he will keep a llakery, and will always have on hand a full supply of fresh bread, crackers, &c. Call and see me. JOHN SCHMEER. February KM4v4 TURNING TURNING. i H a 3 if I AM PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS 1 of tnrnlng ; keep on hand and make to order rawhide-bottomed chairs, Ac. Shop near the Mills and Hosiery, Jefferson. Ore gon. Branch shop near "Magnolia Mills," Albany, where orders for chairs, turning, Ac., can be left. JOHN M. METZLEU. Jefferson, Aug. , 187i WM. PETERS, MANUFACTURER OF Carriages & Wagons. Of Every Description, LB ANT, OREGON. MANI'FACTIIRES TO ORDER ANY an I all styles of WttTOOT, Carriage, Harks, . at as reasonable rates as the use of good material and flrst-class work will Jus titv. lie "Hiring neatly and expeditiously done sit low mtes. Shim on Fern" between First and Second tl WM. PETKKS. Albany, May M, 1874 3fi u. S. M AIL : Trl-Weekl) Stage Line t 15(1 'PIIE UNDERMfiNED Is now running a L tri-wookly stage from Lelinnon to Al bany, mrrying the V. S. Mails, leaving Lelmnon every Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings, and returning, leave A llian v at 2 o'clock P. M. of said days. Passengers mlled for in any part of (he city. Allorders should lie left at the St. 'hiirles Hotel, Albany, for passengers or freight for Lebanon. Packages and light freight punctually delivered nt low rates. Alt business en trusted tome wUl be promptly attended to. W. B. DONACA. Lebanon, Fob. 16, 7-Mv4 DRUGS, ETC. Murder In AHmny 1 1 ASNKVEU YET BEES KNOWN, AND 11 no threatening of it at present. Death Is a thing which sometime must liofa'.l uvervson and duugliterof the human fam ily ; and yet, At the $td-duv, Of your life, if disease lays his vile hands upon yon, I bore is stilt lialm in (iilead," by which von may he restored to perfect health, aid prolong your days ton uiiracu httts extent TJLoxxr 1 By Hilling on Ii. . EI3LL & SOX, With a prescrinllon, where you can have I: componnde.l by one experienced in that liariicnlar line. Also, constantly on hand n good assortment of fresh drugs, patent medicines, chemicals, mints, oils, dye stutfr, trusses, etc. Agents for the Celebrated link Weed Remedy, Or. Oregon Rheumatic Cure ; nr. P. Jnyne ft Sons' medicines, etc. Spencc's ronuve and negative rowuera kept in slock. Also agents for the Home Minttle Sow ins Machine, One of the most useful pieces of household furniture extant. Call and examine. R. CHILL A SON. Albany, June 10, 71-40v8 FOUNUKY. ALBANY FOUNDRY And Machine Shop, A. F. CHERRY Proprietor, ALBANY. OREGON, M i w, MaiUfaCtuTC8 816801 LninS, Flour and Saw Mill Machin cry, WOOD WORKING And AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY, And all kinds of IHO AND BRASS CASTIXUS. Particular attention paid to repairing all kinds of machinery. 4Iv3 STOVES, ETC. , M. M. HARVEY A CO., (LATE W. H. M'FARLAN D A CO., I Opiiosite the hotels, Albany, Oregon, STOVES, RANGES, Force and Lift Pumps, LEAD AND IRON PIPE, Hollow Ware, hovhk fvrsishisu hardware, Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron Ware. I.ARUEOT STOCK IS THE VALLEY. Lowest Prices Every Time. Repairing Properly Done. WIvS KTotioo. OREGON A CALIFORNIA RAILROAD Company. Land Department. Port land Oregon. April 6, 1874. -Notice is hereby given, that a vigorous prosecution will lie Instituted against any and every person who trespasses upon any Kailroad Land, by entt Ingand removing t hither therefrom Is'fore the same Is HOUtiHT of the Coinpa ny AND PAID FOR. All vacant Land In odd monitored sec tions, whether surveyed or nnsurveyed, within a distance of thirty miles from the line of the road, belongs to the Company. I. R. MOORKS, IBvltf Ind Agont. W. ASHENIIEIM, Commission Merchant, and dealer In all kinds of GAME, POULTRY, FISH DAIRY PRO DUCK, Washington Market, Portland, Or. i..l Stall 18 Centml Market. lE-Conslgnments respectfully solicited and returns promptly mado. lamS JOB WAGON, H AV1NC, PlTtCHASED THE INTER- est of O. W. Tioung in tne Delivery Buslne, I am prepared to do any and all kinds of lobs, on short notice and with qnlek dis patch. Terms reasonable. Packages de livered to any part of the city. E3T Look ont for the BAT TEAM anil ,R)B WAGON. J0v4 A. N, ARNOLD. continued FllOM nasi pagr ot every kind, far excefnlinc; all the bonstoJ tkill of the workmen ot Europe. Mr Coltonofthe IJoston Journal, the fiwt week he landed in Asia, found that his chronometer was out of order from the steel of the works having become rusted. The London Medical and Furgi- t T . .J . . cut Journal au vices lunnxtiis not ! to venture to carry any lancets to Calcutta, to have them gilded, lie cause Engli.-h steel could not bear the atmosphere of India. Yet the Damascus blades ot the Crusiides were not gilded, and they are as perfect as they were centuries ago. There was one at the London Ex hibition, the point of which could be mado to touch the hilt, and which could lie put into a scabbard like a corkscrew, and bent every way without breaking, like an American politician. Now, the wonder of that is, that perfect steel is a marvel of science. It a Lon dofi chruiiometer-maker wants the best steel to use in his chronometer he does not send to Sheffield, the center of all science, but to the Punjaiib, the empire of the seven rivers, where there is no science at all. The first needle ever made in England was made in the time of Henry VIII, and made by a negro, and when he died the art died with him. Some of the firt-t travelers in Africa stated that thev found a tribe in the interior who .'ave them better razors than they had, the ir repressible negro coming up in science as in politics. The best steel is the greatest triumph of met allurgy, and metallurgy is the glory of chemistry. The poets have celebrated the perfection of the Oriental steel, and it is recognized as the finest by Moore, Hryon, Scott, Sonthey and many others. I have even heard a young advocate of the lost arts find an argument in I'yron's "Sen nacherib" from the fact that the mail ot the warriors in that one short night had rusted before the trembling Jews stole out in the morning to behold the terrible work ot the Lord. Scott, in his "Tales of the Crusaders'' for S ir Wa'ter was curious in his love of the lost arts describes a meeting between Richard Cseur de Leon and Sala din. Saladin asks H ichard to show him the wonderful strength for which he is famous, and trie Nor mau monarch responds by severing a bar of iron which lies on the floor of his tent. Saladin says, "I cannot do that," but he takes an eider down pillow from the sofa, and, drawing his keen blade across it, it falls in two pieces. Richard says, "This is the black art; it is magic ; it is the devil; you cannot cut that which has no resistance ;" and Sal adin, to show him that such is not the case, takes a scarf from his shoulders, which is so light that it almost floats in the air, and, tos sing it up, severs it before it can descend. George Thompson told me he saw a man in Calcutta throw a handful of floss silk into the air and sever it into pieces with his saber. We can produce nothing like this. eoypt's mechanical marvels. Taking their employment of the mechanical forces, and their move ment of large masses from the earth, we know that the Egyptw had the five, seven or three mechan ical powers, but we cannot account for the multiplication and increase necessary to perform the wonders they accomplished. In Boston, lately, we have moved the Pelham Hotel, weiehinc 50,- j 000 tous, fourteen feet, and are very ! proud of it, and since then we have moved a whole block of houses ! twenty-three feet, and I have no j doubt we will write a book about it; I but there is a book telling how l Domenico Foctana of the sixteenth century set up the Egyptian obe- lisk at Rome on end in the papacy ! of Sixtus V. Wonderful ! Yet the I Egyptians quarried that stone and carried it 150 miles, and the Ro Imans brought it 750 miles, and i never said a word about it. Mr. Illatterson, ot Hartford, walking with Brunei, the architect of the ' 7'hames tunnel, in Egyrit, asked him what he thought of the me- i was made, civilization changed her chanical power of the Egyptians, ! character. Learning no longer hid and he said, there is l'omjiey's ; in a convent or slumbered in a pal pillar, it is 100 feet high, and the ace. No ! she tame out joining capital weighs 2,000 pounds. It is hands witli the peop'e mitustering something of a teat to hang 2,000 and dealing with them, pounds at that hight in theair, and We have not an astrology in the the few men who tan do it would i stars serving only the kings and better discuss Egyptian mechanics. Take canals. The Suez canal ab sorbs half its receipt s indenting out .1 1 I 1 . . Ii me saint wnicn mis its contiunai'V, and it is not a pecuniary success. The! ancients mult a canal at right an gles to ours, because they knew it would not till up if built in that direction, and they knew such a one as onis would. There were magnificent canals in the land of the Jews, with perfectly arranged gates and sluices. We have only just begun to understand ventila- of intellect and a diffusion of knowl tion properly in our houses ; yet edge that has caused this antici late experiments at the Pyramids in j tioo. , , Egypt show that those Egyptian When 'Gibbon finished the Ilk tombs were ventilated in the most j tory of Rome he said : "The hand perfect and scientific manner. ; will never go back upon the dial ot Again, cement is modern, for the j time, when everything was hidden ancients dressed and joined their j in fear in the dark ages." He stones so closely that, in buildings j made that boast as he stood at thousands of years old, the thin night, in the ruins of theCorsani blade ot a penknife cannot be forced I palace, looking out upon the places between them. The railroad dates where the monks were chanting ; back to Egypt. 'Arago has claimed that vision disappeared, and there that they had a knowledge of arose in its stead the temple of steam. A painting has been dis covered of a ship full of machinery, and a French engineer said that the arrangement of this machinery coutd only be accounted tor by sup posing the motive power to have j before Rome was peopled, which, in been steam. Bramah acknowledges their strength, were crushed in sub that he took the idea of his cele-; duing civilization. But it is a very brated lock from an ane'ent Egyp- j different principle that governs this tian pattern. l)e Tocqueville says j land ; it is one which should gov there was no social question that '. em every land; it is one which this was not discussed to rags in Egypt. 1 nation needs to practice this day. It old hints of xuw TiiiNOs, property, it is the , , ,. . : Uiviiie will that any man has the "Well "says you, "Prank in m- t0 know anythillg wbich he vented the hghtmng-rod. I have : kll(WS wiu rerviceaDle to him no doubt he did j but years before j K,f and to feUow m gnd his invention, and before muskets ; wi make art mmarM if (JoJ were invented, the old soldiers on ; meang (hat t 8,ia ,ast guard on the towers used F ranklm's i invention to keep guard with ; and a Republican Congress, on the if a spark passed between them and j 27th of ,asfc month fulfiiled aiI0tl)er 1 lui.wl Ihni win ni jl li.tivi : ' the warning of the state and condi tion of anairs. After that you will j admit that Benjamin r rauklin was not the only one that knew of the presence of electricity, and the ad vantages derived from its use. &lomou's Temple, you will find, was situated on an exposed point of the hill; the temple was so lofty that it was often in peril, and was guarded by a system exactly like that ot Franklin's. Well, I may tell you a little of ancient manufacture. The Duchess of Burgundy took a necklace from j the neck of a mummy ad wore it at a ball given at the Tuilerics, and everybody said they thought that j it was the newest thing there. A Hindoo Princess came into court, and her father seeing her, said, "Go home, you are not decently covered ; go home ;" and she said. "Father, I have seven suits on ;" j but the suits were ot muslin, so thin that the king could see through them. A Roman poet says : "The j girl was in the poetic dress of the , country." 1 fancy the French would be rather astounded at this. Four hundred and fifty years ago the first spinning machine was in-, trodnced in Europe; I have evi dence to show that it made its ap pearance 2,000 years lietore. Well, I tell you this tact to show that perhaps we don't invent just! everything. Why did 1 think to grojie in the ashes tor this ' Be cause all Egypt knew the secret, which was not the knowledge of the professor, the king and the priest. Their knowledge won a historic privilege which separated them from and brought down the masses ; and this chain was broken when Cambyses came down from Persia, and by his genius and Intel ivci uoviiin uie auiw m niiuwioisi:, llimulwiixr KM-iiss Firvnt drnwimr iiiumiering across r,gypi, drawing out civilization irom royalty ami priesthood. MODERN KNOWLEDGE C'llMZEP. Such was the system which was established in Egypt ot old. It was 4,000 years before humanity took that subject to a proper considcra tion, and when this consideration I priests ; we have an astrology serv ing all those around us. We have not a chemistry, hidden in under- I n . n hi j grouno ceils, striving lor weaitm striving to change everything hto gold. No; we have a chemist! v laboring with the farmer, and dig ging goid out of the earth with Hie miner Ah ! this is the nineteenth century, and of the hundreds ot' things we know, I can show you ninety-nine of them which have been anticipated. Tt is the liberty J n niter . Could he look back npoi i the past ho would see nations that went up in their strength, and down to graves with fire in one hand ami iron in the other, hand of the party pledges by abolishing the franking privilege. The New York Times during 1872 cleared for its stockholders $200,000. MEDICLNKS. THY THE MOUNTAIN BALM COUGH MIXTURE. W. H. PARKER OK JACKSON VTLLK, OBEOON. IIAs riisonvereil n remedy, onmpooed of the Extmet from Mountain halm, which urows in Jackson Connty, and other Vetjetahle Inurcdlent. which has cnahled him to furnish the afflicted with a purely talile n perfectly harmless, ana yet the Hmt Powerful Lung Bcaiedy ever discovered. It Is (rood for Conhi-, ( 'ola, t 'roup and Bronchitis, and is tin Ague Preventive, Blood Purifier, In. vfitomtor and Appetiser, and in noted for all Nervous and unions alK Many letters mlsrht 1 adduced to how what the medicine has done (If mv ossarvi, lnt try a liottle, and It wUl reooin uieii'l itself wherever Introduced. For null- nt all Alhany Drux store, and hv nil dealers In patent medicines. .Prepared hy W. H. I'ARKEK. llniS Indojiendence, Oregon , .. mm WW Mr The standard remedy for ComrIi. Ii.- fluciixn, Han- Thniai, Whooping r (i. ( roup, Mwr C'lmpfrJnf, iftimefe,B rfiHfi if Hi- LtiviK. mid every affection of the Throat, Lntnij nnd Chest, Including Cov does not drv no a rouirn. ont loosen" it. dennses the' limpcs, am! allays irritation, fm f fft, . thooompiaim. None Pennine unless signed I. urn. Prepared hv Skth W . rOWLK s Hons, litis ton. siid ny Rkdijsotos. Hoothtteh Co., mii Francisco, and by dealers iron mm. i6v5y rfndbQAperday. Agents wanted! All elaases of working people, of tlier sex, voung or old, make more mon ey nt work for n in their spare moments, or all the time, than at anything else. Par ti. uiiirs free. Address G. Stlnson Co., Portland. Maine.