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LP FUhr Oi.,3MM. VOLUME VI ALBANY. OREGON, NOVEMBER 15, 1S73. NO. 20. in ii win ii i riiatiiifflhiivtiihriL-"giiaff:.-:iijUi iWiif I iinwiMMMWwri iimiiia hi kmik t lUkm DRUGS. ETC. CEO. T. SETTI-JEMIER, DRUGGIST, (Successor to D. W. Wakefield), Par rich's New Rnildlng, first Street, ALBANY, OREGON. Dealer in f DRUGS AND MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, PAINTS, OILS, GLASS, ETC All articles warranted pure, and of the best quality. Physician? prescriptions carefully com pounded. Allany, Oct. 17, 1808-fitf A. CAROTHERS & CO., Dealers In t IIKMK -AI.S, OILS, PAINTS, DYfM ULA.SK, LAMPS, ETC., All the popular PATEXT MEDICINES, KINK CUTLERY, CIGARS, TOBACCO, NOTIONS PEBFl'MEHI, and Toilet f.ods. Particular care and, promptness given Physicians' prescript ifms and Family Rec ipen. A BOTHERS CO. Albany, Oregon Murder in Albany HASNEVER YET BEEN KNOWN, AND no threatening of It at present. Dcalh IS a thing which sometime must befall every son and daughter of the human fam ily ; and yet, At the Mid-day, Of your life, if disease lays his vile hands uiion yon, there Is still "ft lialm in Gilead," tiv which you may lie restored to penoci lie restored io percuei your days to a miracu- tieiutli. and proton kiu.s extent. How ? By calling on R. . riSLL & SOX, With a prescription, where you can have li (vimixmiHlcd by one expcrlenceil in that nuriicular line. Also, constantly on hand a u'owl assortment of fresh drugs, fiatent medicines, chemicals, paints, oils, dye atu fTs, t russes, etc. Agen t s for the Olebrated Vnfc Weed Remedy, Or, Oregon Rheumatic Cure: Dr. D. Jayne & Sons' medicines, etc, Spence's Positive and Negative Powders kept In stock. Also agents for the Home Miuttlc Sew in Machine, One of the most useful pieces of household furniture extant. Call and examine. B. ('. HILL ft SON. Albany, June Id, 71-40v8 ALBANY FOUNDKY And Machine Shop, A. F. CIIEURY Proprietor, ALRANY, OREGON. Manufactures Steam Engines, Flour and Saw Mtll Machin ery, WOOD WORKING And AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY, And all kinds of IKON AND BBAM CASTINGS. Particular attention paid to repairing all kind! of machinery. vS i.riXAiti'. Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea. Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea! Over the rolling walers ro ; Come from the dying moon and blow, Blow him ii!?ain to me ; While uiy little one, while my pretty one sleeps. Sleep and rest, sleep and rest ; Father will come to the soon, Best, rest on mother's breast ; Father will come to thee soon, Father will come to his babe in the nest; Father will come to his babe in the nest ; Silver sails all out of the west Under the silver moon ; Sleep, my little one, sloe), my pretty one, sleep. i Hi s to hi m i num. Ribbons of any kind should be washed in cold suds and not rinsed. If the flat-irons are rough, rub them well with salt, and it wili make them smooth. It you are burins a carpet for dura bility, you must choose small figures. A bit of soap rubbed on the hinges oi uours win prevent uiem iromcreas iug. scotch snuff, if put in the holes where crickets run out. will destroy tnem. Green should be the prevailing color ior oexi naugtugs ana wiudow drapery. Enameled preserving kettles are the nicest for general use, and are kept Clean easily. In covering jams and marmalades, always use writing paper over which the beaten white of an egg lias been brushed. Scaly legs on fowls are mainly caused by damp runs and yards, and can be cured by one or more applications of an equal mixture of turpentine and swee. oil. As a cure for corns the Medical Press (ml Circular says- Castor oil should be applied to the corns after paring closely each night before going to bed. It softens the corns, which become as the other flesh. It will cure every time. Salt and wood ashes are necessary (at leat useful) for growing pigs when on fresh, green feed. Fresh water should be easy of access to them and abundant. If pigs are filthy in their habits it is usiiaily because tliey are educated by their owners. A grafter by profession says the most successful method lie has found to keep, scions in a fresh, healthy state is to layer tliem down in eood clean sawdust, slightly damp. He says they do tar better than placing the ends in the earth or layering in the sand. Yon can soften water bv addinjr car bonate of soda (washing soda) as long as a whitish precipitate is formed. Let it settle, and draw off the clear water al ove. Someti mes simple boil ing will render the water, atter set tling, fit for washing. The surest and simplest way to gather flower seeds Is to cut the stalks when the seed is mature, and put them seed end downward into paper bags, of course keeping each species separate. As the blossoms ripen the. stalks are cut every few days and added to the collection. As the seeds dry and fall from the stalks tliey are collected in the Iwtt mis of the bags. The mouths of the bags should be tied with a string, by which they should be hung lip in a dry, cool place. The following is a cheap and simple process for coating canvas for wagon tops, tents, awnings, etc.; it renders it impermeable to moisture, without making it stiff and liable to break : Soft soap is to be dissolved in hot water, and a solution of sulphate of iron added. The sulphuric acid com bines with the potash of the soap, and the oxide of iron is nrecipitated with the fatty acid as insoluble iron soap. This is washed and dried, and mixed with linseed oil. The addition of dis solved india-rubber to oil Improves the paint. A few days since J. W. Kenne, of Pembroke. N. Y. took his mare from the barn, leaving a two-months colt behind. On his return, some two. hours after, lie found the colt on the roof of tlie ham. Being unable to fol low the mare, it had gone up a flight of stairs fifteen steps then over tlie hay-mow, and out of a window In the gable end of the barn, on to a half roof. From this elevation it worked its way to the roof of tlie main bam, which is very steep, then It returned to the half roof, whence on the return of the mother. It lumped to the ground a distance of fourteen feet a feat which it accomplished without being the least injured. Mate Board of equalization. The following are leading points In the recent report of the State Board of Equalization : The assessable property of the State for the present year was returned at $57,682,001, Deducting indebtedness and exemption amounting to $16,982, 632, the total taxable property amount ed to $40,700,150. The result of the equalization increases this sum to $45, 688.924 94. The assessments of agricultural lands generally, with the exception pf five counties, were so palpably below ihe actual cab valuation as to make an equalization, by an additional per ceutage on the gross assessment, a matter of the sheerest justice. So im perfect and unfair have been some of the assessments, that lands for which $20 per acre have been offered find de clined, have been assessed at $8 per rtcre, and in no county in the Willam ette Valley, excepting Multnomah County? have the agricultural lands been assessed at any figures approxi mating a casn value. Several lengthy "exhibits'" in a tab ulated form accompany the report. Following is a summary": Exhibit "A" is a table of the acre age, average value per acre, and gross value of land, exclusive of grants to corporations, in each county of the State, and per cent, of increase after equalization. It shows an aggregate of 3,489.395 acres, and the assessed value of $19,010,508, with the value as equalized of $22,220,318 40. Exhibit "B" is a table of the num ber and gross and average value of stock in eaen county ot the state, ami per cent, of increase after equalization. It gives '65,789 horses ; assessed value. $2,589,617; equalized value, $3,0S0,- 'iil; cattle, W2.132; assessed value, $3,416,946; equalized value, $3,7S3.061; sheep, 388,241 ; assessed value, $965, 461 ; equalized value, $4,041,199; swine, 72,825; assessed value, $145,641; equal ized value, $212,364. Exhibit "C" is a table of the piop erty ot corporations, showing descrip tion of proerty owned by each com pany, the assessed value thereof, the per rentage, added or deducted, and the equalized value. This exhibit gives 4274 miles of telegraph line; assessed value, $27.'.i50; equalized value. $42,750 ; 2572 miles of railroad equalized $5,803 88.3 per mile, or ?1,494,500; 192,514 acres of land of European and Oregon Land Company; assessed value, $146,698 93 ; equalized value, $268,121 49 ; 484,262 acres of lands of wagon road companies; as sessed value, f.joo.4ii; equalized val ue. $477,925. That Postal Cakd Story. The Post-office clerks desire us to say. that tliey all Know tne story ot the man who wrote a note on a postal card, in closed it in au envelope, put on a three cent stamp, and mailed it saying, what a great convenience it was. The elerks In the stamp department have suffered untold agony from this story. Every postal card they have sold has drawn it out. One man leans on the window, and tells it every time he buys a stamp. One fellow, au old thoroughbred granger, came in from his farm in Stark county to tell it, and then told it wrong. Oue man told it to them in Dutcti, and a high-school boyscaiiupd.it for them. Sometimes ha lf a dozen men will stand at tbe window and tell it by turns, just as they get money orders. One villain wouldn't pay liis box rent till they had all quit work and come up to hear that story. Saturday a preacher came to the window, .nailed some tracts and told that story, thereby destroying the clerk's belief in future punishment. A deaf and dumb man told it on his fingers, in excited pantomime, and then, fearing tliey bad lost some of it. he wrote it out oil a slate. The vic tims of his narrative now wish to in form the people of Peoria that they have tlie anecdote by heart; they can say it backward and whistle it, and if ever they get lonesome for want of it, they can tell it to each other. i'c-iirc! lit.) Uttiett. A Bangor boy Is making a rumpus there by liis wouderful magnetic pow ers. By simply touching with the tips of his fingers the back of a chair in which a person is seated, the sitter will be thrown quite across the room. Tlie stoutest man will be ejected from his seat as quickly as if a young earth quake had got under him. A Cincinnati firm lately received a letter from a correspondent in Missis sippi, saying : "Gents, I am due , you $26 10-100 which pleas hold up on me a few days happen a misfortune this day 2 weeks ago & I had to kill a man In Self Defense which my Lawyer fee cost me 500 CO which throws me be hind a little I am all right now." Desperate Fight with a Snake. Black snakes are not pleasant en emies to grappel with. They are best let alone, unless one is compelled to attack in self-defence, or has sure weapons, or brave companions to help. A California paper gives an account of a hard battle: One of the fiercest conflicts that we have ever heard of was that between a man by tbe name of Meegnn, who recently settled on the Vidbs range, in Panoche, and a snake of tlie black species. Meegan bad gone at au early hour on Monday morning last to fell some young trees, when he felt a pe culiar motion beneath his right foot, on removing which he was thunder struck at seeing a snake raising its head 3nd body rapidly, and in a per pendicular direction, with eyes glar ing nerceiy. Without a moment's hesitation and almost without a thought of the con sequences, Meegan grasped the bciy of the snake at a distance ot about sixteen inches from the head and held it firmly. Meantime the snake was colling around the lower part of M e gan's body in circles, and pressing nim so severely as to lead him to be lieve his bones would give way to the pressure. The snake was now mov ing its head to the right and left, dart ing at Meegan's head, while he wns compelled to dodge so as to avoid the snake's attack, Meegan at this time, finding him self losing ground while the snake was gaining strength and vigor, rec ollected that lie had a jack-knife in his pocket, and, after much trouble and nerve, succeeded In getting hold of t and by a vigorous effort he cut the l)ody aeross, about an inch irom the spot where he held it. It was, perhaps, the greatest relief he ever experienced to find the snake's body relaxWand ultimately falling from him. The head and upper part of the snake, although still active, were evidently getting weaker, ai.d Meegan ultimately succeeded, by means of Tils knife, in slaying tlie reptile altogether. It measured nine feet eight indies in length. Meegan lias preserved it in spirits, with the view of forwarding ft to San Francis.'o. Five Persons Killed wr Lightn ing. The quintuple death Wow given to a family residing on Swede Creek, recently, proved incorrect only as re spects the name. It was not Augustus Lawson, as stated, but a Mr. Nole quist. At the time the storm came up ne, wini rns wile, two children and father were In his new stone house. The wind disturbed the roof, entirely removing it, we believe, when the whole party took shelter in the barn. This was struck by lightuing, and the father, husband, wife and two children wore instantl" killed. A near neigh bor, Charles Lawson. passing from his house to his barn after the crash, to see It any damage had been done, observed the fire bursting from Nole qnist's barn. On arriving there he was unable to remove the bodies, which became partially consumed by the flames. The sad catastrophe oc curred on the south fork ot the creek, near the Randolph road, and in a southeast direction from town about ten miles. Jttue Rapids (Kansas) Times. A man is so much more polite in church. He is on dress-parade, as it were. Nobody was surprised to see that young man lat Sunday dive sud denly into the bottom of the pew to pick up her parasol. While he was at the bottom he saw the embroidered edge of her pocket-handkerchief stick ing from under the edge ot her dress. He commenced tngghig at it, when there was a fierce scuffle and r little hand darted down. He came up with out it. There were two red faces in the sanctuary to which the calm of the blessed Sabbath seemed to bring no re lief. But he was a young man that meant well. "I used to think," says Aleck, when that chap was In my Sunday school class, that he didn't promise to be anything extra, he was so kind o' still and honest like ; but he's got so he cocks a cigar pretty well under his nose, and squirts round pretty handy, and I shouldn't wonder if he gets to be a a well, a brakeman, at least and who knows but a conductor." There was giants in those days, but it Is very uncertain when those days were, but In Indiana some workmen have I -en digging up human bones of great size, which must have belonged to a race of men who would rival the sons of Anak. Charles R, Henry, clerk In the post office at Pittsburg, has been arrested, charged with embezzling letters. OBEOON SRANOEBS. District No. 1 comprises rtH tie territory east of Dayton, Walla WaHa county, Washington Territory, and south of the J Snake River, bounded on the north by the Snake Rfver atid; en the south by the Blue Monnfaiii raajje. This is assigned to and shall be the flekl of George Hunter. District No. 2 shall comprise all that portion of Eastern Oregon lying east of the Cascades and west of the Blue Mountain range. This is assigned and shall be tlie field of Frank Shel ton. District To. 3 shall comprise that portion of Oregon east , of the Blue Mountains; also, the Territory of Idaho and what Is known as Eastern Washington. The district Is allored to and shall be the field of R. P. Olds. Daniel Clarke, Master of State Grange of Oregon, The bricklayers strike still continue in New York. Mrs. Partington thinks that the grocers ought to hire a music teacher to teach them the scales correctly. Bolls are respected annoyances In Philadelphia. A man who kWred another's boll was fined" thirty dollars and sent to jail thirty days. It Is stated that Miss Maggie An derson, of Salina, Kansas, aged eight years, can read any ordinary music, written In any key, at sight. Hannah Moore, of Green Bay, Wis., drove oxen at forty-five dollars per month until she secured money enough to get herself a sixty-five dollar silk dress. Pattee, the Maine wife-murderer, speaks four languages, is a champion base-ball player, a popular temperance lecturer, dabbles in literature, and is a polished fellow. Apples are rather scarce this season. and the fact has communicated itself to the schools. It takes a pretty good sized slate-pencil to secure the core of an average apple, we are told. A man over 100 years old recently died In Brooklyn. As he did not rtte toba ?o, or drink spirituous liquor, it is supposed his untimely death was caused by some disease inherited at hi birth. A well-known authoress gives it as a secret of domestic felicity that n husband should be absent from homn at least six hours every day. Then why such a row, if he chooses to select the time to suit himself sav hi the evening. The most "personal" inscrlDtlon e liave read of in tombstone literature Is tbat on a slab in Pennsylvania, which reads. "In memory of Tabltha, be loved wife of Joseph Wright, Thomas Andrews. Eben Halsted, Edward Murray, and Charles Dean, by her devoted husband, Cyrus Morgan." Some idea of tbe wealth of the late Duke of Brunswick may be gained from the fact that counting of the bonds, shares, etc., found in bis house occupied a whole day. Their value was 16.000,000 francs. There was also 100,000 francs in specie. The Lord Mayor of London is a citte functionary whom it costs considerable, as we say, to "run." His present salary, derived from nemulsltes. is about $.15,000. and It Is proposed to increase rue allowance to f&u.Uuu, per annum, to enable him to buy additional turtles and dispense $15,000 in in creased hospitalities mainly to com mercial men and provincial municipal authorities. The Commune, during their posses sion of Paris, destroyed, among other things, all the official records of births and marriages. As most ot them were family men and women without mar riage or unconscious of their own par entage, the object was to place all on a Icvefof "equality" in this respect. The work of restoring the records is now in progress, as all who are not recorded are regarded in tlie eye of the law as illegitimate, ft has made brisk work for the lawyers. A gloomy view of the English har vest of the year is indulged in by the London Echo, which journal intimates that a serious crisis in more depart ments of business than one may ensue In the course of tlie next twelve months. It then continues! "With two short crcps in succession, a large 1 sum of money, which eoutd be other wise usefully employed, will have to be expended during the coming autumn and winter to supply the deficiency In wheat. The absence of this. mora. added to that which was expended in supplying the failure of lat year' crop, must be seriously felt in trade . A bit of glue dissolved In skim-milk and Water will restore old rusty crape. A hot shovel held over varoisacd furniture will take out spot