ALBANY REGISTER.
V. fi. omeM Vper tor nrrgon.
FRIDAY. JU1.Y 25. 1S7X
Mitchell RlKHUibit.
Tlic Salem Mercury accuses Sen
itor Mitchell of being guilty of
the crime ot bigamy. If be is we
are not aware ot it, We certainly
do not take the statement of that
journal as corroborative. There
are but two crimes which have been
clearly proven in his case, and those
were committeed before he came to
Oregon: leaving his wife and chang
ing bis name. The other allega
tions we regard as the inventions of
his personal and plitical enemies.
It will be remembered bow much
of abuse and slander was rolled
from the Democratic press against
President Grant and the Republican
party last fall. The Democracy
are adepts at that kind of business.
We do not believe that Senator
Mitchell is living in open ailu'tery
with bis present wile. If we did.
no press in Oregon would be more
emphatic in its condemnation, and
more urgent in its demands tor his
legal punishment than the REGIS"
ter. We regard the iii'e of Senator
Mitchell in Oregon ss a struggle to
atone for the errors of his Pennsyl
vania life. If we are mistaken,
stranger proot than mere assertion
from a press whose chief character
istic is to calumniate an opponent,
must establish it. Bigamy is an
indictable offense It Senator
Mitchell is known by the Salem
Mercury to be guilty of that crime,
that journal liecomes morally an
accessory to the crime, unless it de
mands his arrest and punishment.
It it is true that misery loves
company, there may Ik? some conso
lation in knowing that the United
States is not the only Government
heavily in debt. Intact, the debts
of Great Britain and France are
each greater than ours. We owe
$2,218,000,0(10 Rut Great Britain
owes $3,950,000,000, and the debt
of France is 3,740,000.000. Italy
and Russia owe nearly two billion
each, Austria over a bil ion and a
half, Spain nearly that amount, and
the debt of the German Empire
reaches over a billion.
The grand jury of the criminal
court of Baltimore have presented
some seven or eight indictments
against parties engaged in disturb
ances attending the attacks on the
procession of Asbury Methodist
(colored) Sunday School, which
occurred last week.
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The institution for the education
of the blind at Salem, has recently
been presented with a case of raised
letter books by Rev. Dr. Morris of
Portland. The gift is highly prized
both from its behg the furst dona
tion, and tiir its intrinsic value.
An inventory of the estate of the
late Oakes Ames, shows as follows:
Real estate, 8285,500; personal
estate, $5,468,754. These do not
include an interest in the works at
North Eastou, which cannot now
bo ascertained.
It is stated that the Order of the
Patrons of Husbandry lias grown
so rapidly that the Secretary's office
will hereafter be located at Wash
ington. " Up'to the 16th there were
4,UU granges in ojieratioii, with an
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aggregate, membership of 3 10,000. '
The Roard ot Underwriters of
New York have adopted a reso
luHon levying an additional pre
mium of on per cent, upon all
Mansanl roofs after January 1st,
1874.
Rev. R. W. Summers has re
signed the missionary charge of the
Episcopal Church in Seattle, to
take effect in November.
The contract for constructing the
gas works at Seattle has heei, given
to J. W. Irwin. The work has
been commenced.
Mount Vernon, Indiana, up to
the 10th, had 30 deaths from cholera.
Business wa nearly suspended.
Ice in Portland is offered at two
and one-half cents per pound.
Eight fingered gents afflict Roise
3 O O
City.
CntrblnK th l iu ly Trnln.
Max Adder write : One of the
greatest delights of boarding in the
country for the summer is the pleasure
a man derives from bis effort to
catch the earlv morning train by which
be niu-t reach the city and bis bod
iless. When be get out of bed be
looks at bis watch and And' he has
plenty of time, so he dresses h i-urely
a nd sits down to breakfast in a calm
and serene state of mind. Just ;: be
cracks bis flr-t egg he hear the up.
(rain. He starts, jerks out his watch,
compare it with the clock, and rind
that it is eleven minutes slow, mid
tb. t be has only four minutes left in
which to get to the depot. In a fear
ful hurry, he tries to scoop the. egg out
of the shell, but it burns his fingers,
the skin is tuff, and after fooling with
it tor a moment. It mashes into a
hopeless mess, and he gets bis finger
smeared : he drops the whole concern
in disgust, grabs a hot roll and scalds
his tongue with a quick mouthful of
coffee : then he stuff- the roll In his
month, while his wife hands him his
-atcliei and tell him she thinks she
hears the whistle. lie plunges mad
ly a roui id 'be room looking fur Ms um
brella : then kie bis wife a- well as
be can n itli all that uiiswallowed bread
distending his cheek-, says good-by to
the children in a lump, and m ikes a
dsil fur the door. .Iu-t a- be gets to
the gate be finds tliat be has forgotten
his dntcr. and lie charges back after
it, snatching it Up, and tears down the
gravel walk in a frenzy. lie doesn't
like to run through the vill-ige. be
cause that would Ik; undignified, hut
be walks furiously, lie goes faster
and faster. Halfway down he does
not hear the whi-tle tor certain.
He want- to run. but he knows
that he will start up that yel
low dog there by the sidewalk if he
doe. Then he actually sees the train
coining at the depot, and he leels lhat
he mu-t make a rudi. He does. The
yellow dog becomes excited, and tears
a'ter him. Six other dogs join ill the
chase, one after the other, and nark
furiously, nnd frolic around his legs.
Small boys contribute to the excite
ment, a- he goes past, by whistling "II
their linger, and the men at work on
the new ineelllig-hon-e knock off to
look at him and laugh, lie feels ridic
ulous, hut he must catch that train.
He get desperate when he has to
slacken up until two or three women,
who are on the sidewalk discussing the
phases of ihescrvaut-girlijuestionand
the !a-t price of butter, let him pa-s.
He arrive-within one hundred yards
of tlir depot with Ids duster Hying in
tin' wind, coiif-iidis hnrizoiital and the
yellow dog nipping his lu-el. ju-t as;
the train begin to move. He puts on i
extra pressure, and resolves to make
that train or peri-h. lie reaches it as
the last car is going past. He seizes
the hand-rail, i- violently jerked around
oner or twice, but Dually land- on the
step on hi- knee-, and i hauled in by
his coat-collar hv the brakesman, hot.
mud, dusty, w ith his trousers U ni
across the knee-', hisshin bruised, and
three ribs in hi nuihrellit broken.
In-t a- he gets comfortably in the car. j
the train -top-, backs up on the siding, ;
and -tups for an hour and a half while
the engineer fixes a broken valve. 1
Then he is madder than ever, and de
termines that he will move in town i
to-morrow, and swears, while he looks !
out ol the window and watches the
dogs that followed him engaged in ai
contest iivei a bone which the yellow j
dog found on the platform of the sta
tion ; and he registers a silent vow to .
devote his first holiday to hunting up
that dog and braining him with a club.
Fill h i the father of cholera. Thl I
i not intended as a joke, anil if people .
do not cleanse their netMtiS and their ,
premises thev may discover that it is 1
not one. This paragraph applies to ;
the people of all towns and cities.
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A legal dozen ot eggs must weigh
xund and a half hi Massachusetts.
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A Kubmarlae Diver' Startup Expc-
rleure.
John Qui,,,,. ihTsubmarine diver1 . So mt.cb has been said alut the
stationl?o, trit, Mkh.. for the visit of the Shah of Persia to Euro.
pat six or seven year, has been pean Courts that it is worth while
down aiming the dead men" a (treat I j0 the real object ot that visit
many times, and lias had some thrill-! as vVe, i( ctirnmm.ja c;rt.es. We
in his lit;-. The pipe lending trout the Itn&cuu linUmn:
water works into Hie river, nut down i The real cause of the Shah's visit
rKs into me river, pin uonu
fettled a few days ago. and
''i: mr'SaiS'iuid";:
last hill, settled a
one of the
.tii til. ..'.Ml r.. L.i .,,!, .iir
tiMik his apparatus and lltleiKMIits and
went down in the morning. A great
many cords of stone had lieon piled on
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tin- pipt) to hold if down, and l.i- work
was near the outer end of the pile.
The water was very clear, ami as he
landed on the bottom he noticed -nine
object leaning up again! the stones,
but supposed It to be a log and went
to his work. The crevice in tlie joint
was to lie tilled up with wedge-, and
the diver was about half an hour get
ting to wink with the hammer, lie
was working away when a schooner"?
yawl, pulling three ours and kicking
up a swell, u'iMed near hini. He fed
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the swell somewhat niter a tune, ami
wa straightening up after pounding invite sub criptions to the forthoom
away when something struck hi head ;,, IVisimi railroad enterprise tor
SSg Zhkh Htltefamons
looked up and found one right before European telegraphist and news
him. with one arm over his air-pipe, I collector, is the bond and chief!
be cried out hi alarm and moved back. ; UI .;t js 0)1v lr!ll) u, ,.ay tial tne
The corpse, that of a n.a n n.ovnl a fter , , . fa j wliemeexcee(ls
him. and (in iu fiimhled backward ...
over the pipe with the horrid tone on j other enterprises; J.'st the same as
top of him. Those above felt tliat he I the "Arabian Nights" shames a I
was moving and gave him more line i 0Hier work" of fiction. The world
and pl.e. He. poshed at tin body and m ,lt the lavis(l ell0Wltleilts
cleared hiiiiscll of it; I utasheriLtiuied , ... .. , ,
hi feet it came down upon hiun and American railroad companies by
oi f the leg nibbed across his sholil- j Congress. But it these land grants
ders. The diver did imt wish to take i and subsidies were all put together
bold of the object, hut. he was forced L()j mtmied ten times over they
to. and he pulled h about for several
minute:, before he could clear hi pipe.
He pushed it hy the leg back to the
stone pile, and would have made his
line fi.sf and sent it up, but the sWell
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above, mi-taking his signal, drew him
up. He wen' down again ami made I
a long search for the Imdy. but it bad
floated awayi Owliigto Ms fright at
first and his ..ervousne-s anerwi.nl the ,
diver saw but little which might .den
tlfytnebodyi He is sore that there I
wis a gold ring on one of the Angers, j
and that the man had mi light boots, j
as be had hi hands on them. The
Iks v was lielow all the inlet pities i
when first discovered, and was Jither '
sitting or -taiullng against the stones, j
as one would sit or stand to rest, j
While the diver aduiits the fact of
vi.lit-il ',1 fVnili lis irnisii' .iml till' mi'll .
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be had no idea of finding such a visitor ,
down there. 1 lie repairs to the pipe
were completed, and Quhui sent word
along tin' dock that the body might be
watched fur. '
KimiT at oxk BtOTH. On the 21st
of August, Mrs. Timothy Bradlee, of
Trumunll t'ifuitty, Ohio, gave birth to
eight children three boys and five
girls. They are all living, and are
healthy, but fpilte small. Mr. Brad
lee wa- married six war ago to En
nice Mowery.who weighed 273 pnnnds
on the day of her marriage. She ha
given hhfh to two sets of twins, and
now eight children more making
twelve in six vears. Mr. Brnulee wa
a triplet, her' tl.er and father each
being twins, and her grandmother the
mother of five twins.
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Several prominent citizen" of In-
dianapoli vouch for this store: "A
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. erome h hfphcrd 04 s g it too at
the ankle-joint, some months ago. by
a railroad accident. N bile amputa
tion was being performeil, a pet dog
watched the operation closely and
seemed in great distress that her mas
ter should suffer so. Afterward the
dog give birth to a litter of pnppn
every one of which was born with the prices of the country. These clauses
right fore-foot, just at the ankle, miss- i wij prevent any enterprising per-
' sous from cornering the. labor, pro-
Buvn Siiavk. A good an-1 vWul1 a'"i llole ur m,,le markets;
ecdoteis told of Peter Burrows, a"fl lhf mer ,8ct ot' conces
the celebrated lawyer. A friend """""WW, as nothing cud do,
called upon him one morning in his j t,,e despotic character ot the Gov-dressing-room,
and found him shav-1 er"ment,
iug willi his face to the wall. Ile In addition, the Persian Govern-a-ked
why he chose so strange an j ment undertakes to pay an interest
attitude. The answer was to look jot 5 per cent, and an additional
in the "lass. guarantee of 2 per cent, as a sink-
"Why," said his friend, "there
is no glass there."
"bless my soul," cried Burrows,
"I did not notice that before!"
Ringing the bell, he called bis
servant, and questioned him respect
ing his looking-glass.
"Oh, sir," said the servant, "mis
tress had it removed tin twfa
wjoP
The following notice is said to
have been recently found posted in
the vestibule otachuTch in Scotland:
"The peraou who stole 'Songs of
the ."sanctuary, from pew No. 32,
should improve the opportunity of
singing them here as be will have
no occasion to sing them hereafter."
A aiupeudana Sfehtne.
i ne real cause oi Hie lthhw p isii
to J.;Mro,0 not t K traced to the
: Aimv
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uc nppciirciNHipij r oiue.i.riu.-i.ig
card tor the greatest stock jobbing
; Mieeiil:ilionoVtliednv. Tht&hrewd
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capitalists of the old world have not
disdained to borrow a teat Irom
l!aniiim. When the great rhow
man parades his company in all
their glare of tinsel aid blast of
trumpet in public, it is only to lire
the gaping vi lagers with a more
invincible desire to dcKisit their
stamps in the care of his treasurer.
In the same way, the Shah of Persia
is used as a flaming show-bi 1 to
would still fall far short of the con
cessions recently granted by the
Shah of Persia to Baron Renter Ibr
the purpose of building a railroad
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1 iroii'b ns dominions,
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I he concession," as it m termed,
was issued at Teheran, the capital
y; Jsia, in July, 1S72. Baron
, , js altjlofiaed l0 C(M1truct a
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railnad lietweei. the Caspian ea
and the Gulf id Pe sia. lie is also
vested with exclusive authority to
constrm.l ailV gt,er railroads or
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tramwava he may think proper in
any part of the kingdom. 1 le may
form oi ie or more joint stock com-
pa.iiejf London to carry out the
-i, ,.,vts o this "concession" For
tile next 70 years he and his associ
ates or successors enjoy the exclu
sive right to construct railroads,
tramways, canals, roads, telegraphs,
mills and forges, to work mines
and factories, clear forests, and to
furnish Persian towns with water
and gas.
Fof the performance ot these
various enterprises this Baron Ren-ii-i
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ter ami ins jloiiuoii companies arc
to enjoy the most extraordinary
privileges. They may take tor
lol,ig all state "lands'that mav be
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required tor railroad, gas, or other
purposes, ami they may acquire
private lands and buildings on the
m,,st favorable terms. All ma-
terial, ail( commodities required by
n- i, v ,, .,,,;, ,
arou l,euti.i s coin panics are to
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"e miponco u.iiy ncc, aim, iK-uer
still, a supply of cheap labor is also
guaranteed. All the provisions
tin- the company's cmp oyes and a 1
the bea-te of burden required are
to lie furnished at the ordinary
ing fund on all money or capital
raised by Baron Renter and his
companies. All the emp'oyes of
the companies are to be untaxed.
Rut a still more wonderful con
cession is yet to come. Not con
tent with handing over to a foreign
company the exclusive right to
construct railroads, erect gas works,
open mines, establish teleg.aph
lines, run mills and forges, lay down
pavements, build street railroads
and establish banks and post offices,
the Government hands over to the
company the right of collecting its
own revenues for the next twenty
five years. The concessionaires en
gage to pay for this privilege $100,
000 a year in excess of what the
Government now receives The
price thus fixed will hold good for
the first five years, an additional 60
per cent, of the net prix.veds being
accorded to the Government tor the
sixth and following years.
For seventy years to come all
the material resources and progress
of Persia are to lie surrendered to
Haron de Renter ami his companies.
After that time, it there is anything
left of Persia then modern monop
olies must be regarded as having
lost their eculiar power.
No more wonderful contract than
this was ever effected by any gov
ernment. In effect, the Persian
monarchy abdicates its functions
in favor of a coniny of foreign
capitalists. The real Government
ot Persia is transferred from Teh
eran to London. The Shah is su
perseded by a London joint stock
company.
The rest may Ik in 'erred. The
Shah's visit to Europe is the begin
ning of the end. His presence was
demanded by the new owners of
Persia as a traveling advertisement
for their forthcoming Persian Joint
Stock Company, with a capital of
from fifty to two hundred millions
ot dollars. In all resects this
ranks as the grand speculation of
the age.
But what is to lie said of a mon
archy that thus signs away its very
existence to a company of specula
tors? Only this, perhaps, that the
civilization and commerce of the
West seem to become essential to
the future of Persia The nation
may lie regarded as far advanced
in the very last stages of decay.
It is either a London joint-stock
company or Russia.
An old bachelor said, "There's;
a darned sight more jewe'ry worn
now-a-days than when 1 was young.
But there's one piece that 1 always
admired which I don't often see
now. What is that?" asked a
young lady. "A thimble," wa
the reply. He was regarded with
contempt and scorn by every lady
in the room the rest of the evening.
Two urchins, five or six year
oM, returning from school, recently,
were overheard discusing great
theological questions.
"Well," says urchin number one,
"the Lord owns all this world,
don't he?"
"Yes, Is'posehedoes," responded
number two; "but dad says the
devi.'s got a bi; mortgage on it."
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A teacher was illustrating the
points of the compass to two pupils ;
'Now, what is b liue you?" "The
north," said John, who was an intel
ligent lad. "Now, Tommy," said
he to the other, who had just
donned a long coat, "what is behind
you?" "My coat-tails, sir," said
Tommy.
Wh( ii a clergyman assumes to
lie witty it is to serve a purpose,
and that is the case with the Balti
more divine, who writes to a friend
concerning the frequency of fires in
Huston, ns follows : "In the rapid
whirl of events, the molioii of the
universe becoming accelerated, the
hub is evidently overheated by fric
tion; hence the numerous conflagra
tions." One of the bluest of Bostonians,
on being requested by a rich and
vulgar young fellow for permission
to marry "one of his girls," gave
this rather crushing reply. "( crtain
ly; which would you prefer, the
waitress or the cook?"
A Terra Haute editor, who
speaks with the air of ;i man who
has discovered a new fact by ex
perience, says that the way to pre
vent bleeding at the nose is to keep
your nose out of other jieople's
business.
The Philadelphia Mtttkid Tims
says a student undergoing his ex
amination was asked what was the
mode of action ofdisinftvtants. He
replied, "They smell so badly that
the people open the windows, and
fresh air gets in."
Timothy hay L Lane county sells
for 87 per ton.