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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (March 7, 1874)
. "M- - " -mmmmmmmmmm ALBANY RfMSTER. 3 John Cook attempted to ki!l his wife, on the 3d. in the wrlor of i lie International Hotel Sacramvitfo. by cutting: her tjiroat nimI stabbing her iii the left lde Ith n pocJief knife; It is believed she will recover. Conk de canipeil. but gave himself up a short time after to in tic.- Lincoln, at. Sut tervllle. Mr. Onk. whose maiden tihine win Mattie A. Muzcv. wa for merly wife qfoi c Flinders, of Virginia City, ami is said to have left him anil loed with Conk. Jealousy is said to be the cause of tin- trouble. in the rergumu murder ease, at Pioche on the 1-t lnt., a verdict was brought in ijfjiiurder in the seeitml lie- f;ree. JudgeCutt.T, in view of ihe ury's reconitnem ifmn for mercy, re duced the term of ininrlsonment from 21 to 14 war;. 1 he severity Of the weather f r the pa t three months has greatly retar.lt 1 1 mining opt radons in this district, but with Hie prospect of favorable weather au ituproveinent is looked for. The young orator- of O'ympla have formed them 'e'ves into a l'iii't.y--eeoiid District Cm i: t for the counties of Mud Plat arid Clam-Hater; At a reeent meeting, thegr.ind jury (of whtcll three wer indies) having been declared competent, retired, a id in due time returned to court, and presented a true bill against (oho Due fur an attempt to murder Inhume- Schmidt with malice propone. The grand jury having lieendi ein'g d. a petit .jury was culled, ami tiie priso er neiie' ar raigned, was on motion of counsel for the defence, granted one week to piv parefbi trial. hi. bonds being fixed at 10.000. The inry wa- humid over in the sum of if ".IKM) eiidi to be pres ent next Sator lav e.cuii.g at 7:.'!0 for the trial of the m. Port Di-iovi rv. W. T.. news; The saw mill was shut down last week, but was to resume unfiling on full time with the U'ginliing of the present week. The barkeiuine building there has her frame nearly ail up; twelve or fourteen men are v orkieg n her, and she'' will be ready to launch In about two mouths. Charley Wood had tho inistoiin ,.e, nut long since, to chop off He- fnd of his fore-linger. Kev. Mr. Lauhiu-h preaches at the mill one Sunday in every three weeks and freshen t d-inee assist to ;iaway agreeably the evening of an occasional week day. Edward SehrltcanietoMr. McAllis ter's house, ai the liriyk-yarii r.nih of this city, last evening, inquiring for work and a night's lo iging. He said that he came from Snohomish. He was told he could sleep in the cellar, into which lie went. McAllister then sent tor a neighbor, and in company with the City Marshal proceeded to the house and arrested the boy. Be fore the Maishal arrived the hoy con fessed he was Sobrit. and that he had killed his father. He stated that his father had threatened his life, and he killed him to save himself. He was taken to Snohomish County this morn ing. The Taxpayor's Convention of Douglas county met on last Saturday, at Roseburg, and placed in nomination the following ticket : Por Senator, W. V. Owens: Kepresentatives, D. W. Steam, George Kiddle..!. C. Drain ana 1 nomas hedgei-wood; Coutitv Judge. Thos. Smith : Clerk, E. B. Stephens; Sheriff, Pliu Cooper: Com missioners, A. T. Ambrose and Henry Adams; Treasurer, John Bon ebrcak; School Superintendent, H. P. Wadkins; Surveyor, T. Hiel; Assessor. A. II. Matthews; Coroner. Dr. S. Palmer. An arrangement has been arrived at by the Directors of School Districts Nos. land ft, of Tort rownsend, W. T., that Will aftord the advantages of a graded school, hour lots are to be purchased and held in trust tor the two districts. tion which Is to be erected a building for the high school. Toward this end Collator (Jarfielde has succeeded lnsecuringsuhsoriptions already amounting to something over $1,400, anil a special tax of one per cent, has been levied upon all prop erty in the two districts. This will ac complish the desired object, and in a very short time these departments of the public school will be m operation. On Pobrnary 23d. John Dougherty, who has an $S5 judgment hanging over him, took a quiet ride mi the train to Kahuna. He was brought back by a constable and was tried on the charge of at. emoting to leave the Territory h defraud. He was unable to give the required bonds, and was taken to Stcilacoom and lodged in the Comity Jail, where he still re mains. At Port Gamble this morning, while a party of men were eugag-d stowing Himueron the bark litiena vista, a large quantity fell, killing James :Giles and seriously injuring three others. Tlie accident was caused by neglect to properly wedge the upper tier of lumber. A soWfieY named Charles Brown at 'temptedlo rob a Walla Walla till a few days since. Not knowing the 'combination, he sounded thd inarm bell, and he now languishes In jail, awalthjg (be next term of Court Dates to March 2d from Seattle W. T.. gives tliese two items : There are 47 inmates now lu the In sane Asylum at Steilacoom. The roads' throughout Jackson County arc in a bad condition. The City Magistrate of Port Town send i bankrupt. Some vagrant lias stolen his claw-hammer coat. Very little laziness has been lone at the Port TownemI Court thus far. Many of the lawyers are already leav ing. At San Jose. Cal.. on the 3d. Sander son, recently convicted of incef, was sentenced to ten year in the peniten tiary the mil extent of the 'aw. A larsre force of white men anil Chinamen are engaged in grading Tiieoma avenue. When completed ft win m the lluest in Washington Territory. In the foot-hills hack of Walla Wulla snow has fallen to the depth of three leet and Is still lying on the ground. Back on the mountains it is six feet deep. A degraded Celestial at Olvmpia has readied that point in the "lower scale, wlere he feloniously purloined a load of bark from au editor without the fear of law. Fine, $10 and costs. The surveying party under Hon. Lewis Van Vleer has just completed the survey and sulidivision into forty aorelo's of the Swluomish Reservation Stock is reported a dvlng in large numbers on the Walla Walla River. The nlmrod of Baker City pass their time npon the trail of timid sage-lams. Montana tolerates a man who can A Hong Kong dispatch i'uiiotlnces thai the Alaska sidled tor aim FrRticMeo on the 27th of Pehmary with a full cargo and 000 emigrant. There was a very serious fire lu Tanama February 10th. by which the wie Ills nose with his upper lip and j I- "'"'w fwf ion of, n ty hliroed About thirty Indians have diet! this winter with tlie measles at Simcoe Reservation. W. T., and 40 have died at Priest Rapids, and they are still dying from it. Cant. E. S. Fowler has just closed a contract for a large two-story stone building to be built on the corner of Adams and Washington streets, Port Towpsend. A petition is in circulation at Steila coom. asking that the sentence of Gus. Lyttle who has au appointment with the Sheriff on the 20fh of March be comaiuted to life imprisonment, HeimmakerofOlympia. was brought Hp before the United States Commis sioner on Feb 2Jth. for selling liquor to the Indian. He was held to an swer lie fore the grand jury in the sum Of 1200. On tlie 2'ith nit., Louis Myers and Dr. S. Rogers, both of Pierce County. W. T., were sent to the Insane Asylum. The latter was pronounced by Dr. Hemenway to be laboring under that form ot insanity known as dipsomania." During the year 1873 money orders ro tue amount oi $ZO,ii,iO 30 were Issued trom the Jacksonville Post Ofb'ee. Orders to the amount ot $3. 310 HO were paid during the same peril. Tlie fees on the same were $121. From parties down trom Ronie River tlie Jacksonville Timet learns that little stock has died, though look ing rather thin. Should the weather not he unusually severe, nearly all of it will come safely through. Junction City is the name of the town located at the month of .Tonkin Gulch, in Baker County. Town lots are selling rapidly, and David Sisley offers to give. lots to those who will buikl substantia houses upon them. The railroad depot is located at this place. A Union correspondent. Baker County, puts it in this wise : "Kev. G. W. Adams commences the second services of his protracted meeting at this place on Saturday tlie 21st inst. May a pure piatonlc love animate hU seraphic breast until he brings all to a just understanding of the way to 'do unto others as tney would that others should do unto them." " Hie Baker Cltv Herald of the 25th ult. gives the following: On last Saturday, as the N. W. stage Com- imuiv's coach was passing the first grade below Wcatherby's Station, on Burnt Kiver, a tremendous slide came down the mountain and struck tlie stage, burying it completely and kill ing one horse, fortunately, the dri ver. Mr. JJiumtgan. escaped, but a stock tender from Miller's who was on the seat with the driver, was caught In the apron and buried alive with some six leet of snow. blow out a kerosene lamp with his left ear. The supper and sodil entertain ment designed by the Indies of Union, Baker Count", for the Rev. Dr. Nev ius. va declined by that gentleman. Colonel J. N. T. Miller, of Jack sonvile. reir ntlv sold his flue trotting lair "lirick Pomeroy"' to c. W. Kellogg, of San Fraud co., Tlie price paid was $2,000. A petition is in circulation in Baker County, asking Congress to revoke i he order setting apart tlie Wallowa V alley mt Indian Reservation. It meets with favor. A Baker City editor's .valentii; read', thus : -Do right and fear not."' to which he adds; tie aim to do that very thing, without giving any supn -fluous thanks to unv hod v. HriMwIi oliuuliia. Sergeant Tucker, of Her Majesty's Dtvk-vard. was fined five shillings:, nil co-ts for striking Capt. hare's dog with a stone, by Justice Fisher. The British Columbia Iegislfi i lire have resolved to request Ihe Doniii ion Government to establish a military po-t at Ka m loops, or some central section oi i ne Yale-I.vt'on Wl-frlct. Mr. Hicklev, a hlghlv respected set tler on Silt Spring Island, died very suddenly on Thursday, Feb. '.)th. While engaged in chopping at his home, he full forward across the log a dead man; Lieut. Col. Powell. Superintendent of Indian Affair, has received Instruc tions to repair to Ottawa for the pur pose of receiving instructions and ar niigingan Indian policy for BrjU-h Columbia. He will leave by the next direct steamer. Mr. Rntii Sylvester will go up in tlie fflitn Anmhi'in from Victoria in charge of Barnard's Express for Cas- siar. Mr Sylvester's i the pioneer Omlneca express, who-e rapid trip-, under mn-t u ifivorable circumstances have won him great renown. Private advices from Yale and Na naiuio annouiKV the ivtnrn of M --rs. Bunste.r and Dewilr.ey by thumping majorities over the Destructives. Tlioinpviii is sun oi election at Car iboo. The Destructives gain but one man. and he i the weakest and 'east reliable of the lot. Letter from Li'looet exiwess reat disatl-faclion with the proposed idle-ration in the lerms of I'nion. i'hey describe the fanners as liavi, g uge quantities of live stock, and o eals and no market. The stock and grain were raised in anticiiiatinnof iht aHy coiiiiiienceiiieut of the railway. A Lightning Creek dispatch of the i 1st. says the following vas the WARh up for the past week : Liglitnii.;- Ccim- i pa uy. 52 ounces; Spruce. 50 ounces; Point. U2; Van Winkle, 60) Victoria, j 420. and Vancouver Compai y, l'J2 ! ounce's. On Friday morning a heav snow slide came down into toWn. smashing into Madame Bendacnn's saloon, car rying away the doors and windows besides seriousl w injuring the propii.e tress. who was buried under two feet ot snow, remaining there some 15 minutes before being resurrected. The roads from B.irkerville to Cot tonwood are almost impassable, no travel except the express having gone over it for nearly a month. evening. fhe last Mountaineer has this : Sev eral years ago ar. eccentric ind vidua died in this county, who during life, adhered to the doctrine of the Trans migration of souls. He always ex pressed his determination to return to his acquaintances in the form of some animal, aim do it in such a manner that they could .not fail to recognize '... i,: , .i.,.... .(..: . .v n . . niiii. iiuciu ma iieo-i non.u ion, ue makes frequent nocturnal visits to The house of one of his partloilar trionds. In the guise and semblance of a hog. He waiks through the house, through tlie milk house, into the root house. among jars of jelly and rolls of butter. he sneaks not a word, but squeaks like a genuine .pig. It is the piggish squeak of satisfaction, he is glad to return among his old nelghlmrs. Un like a hog he leaves no tracks neither does he disturb either milk; pan or butter roll. The family Is sure it is old i come back to demon strate the truth'of Ms theology. The wicked think they detect the Odor of skunk about the premises. vmoug the buildings destroyed were ihe Grand Hotel. City Saloon, and llauk. :l he los is roughly estimated at $l.(XVi 000. covered by insurance. The Viiate, in Executive session. Febr. i:y 27th. after an hour's discus sion, con United Simmons for Collector of p. i. ton bv a vote of 27 to 17, Demo crat present voting in the allirmative. The two following hem are from St. f .oni. under date of March 2d : A fire :o-uight. which originated hi tin' lias, .iienf of No. 40 North Fourth stn r. detr(.veii f 50.000 worth of rub liei roods stored there, belonging to the (roodyear Rubber Company, and completely guiteil the Hollar Store of J. V. fJUon on Hie fir-t floor. I,a oi s loss cannot he ascertained to ni lit- The liisuraiive on the rubber st 'k was (f40.(l(K). I,ewis M. Oak. real estate agent. h' w his brains out this (.'.use. financial trouble. A Washington scciiil. speaking of l.ottivn ellort to eu ue tlie lnvetl- t.iou ot Central Pacific Railroad cou tt' ct. say Mr. Luttrell has been ever aii ce the oHning of the session httlli- ii i ring at an atteniit to have these nulroMil Investigated by Congress or C nits, hut he ha failed uniformly in b endeavois. He is new member, but he has been so jer-1-fent iliatsnme s'.cess might liy tliis time have crowned hi elforts. That he ha fail l can only he attributed to tlie intlu- ce ot the strong combination in this r, whose endeavor is to prevent in stigation of the subject. A Washington special says slow the Committee agreed to McCreory'. ill and the accomp uying report, there has been time for reflection. htdi has bad the elicit rather to " .iiken its hull I on Congressmen who were at tir-t disposed tii accept it. a a t ."sible plan for a solution of the el up transportation problem. It pro vidu, it will he remembered, for a I. ml of liliio CoiliiulssiiliHi-sj who ar to have control, in e fleet, of sixty sex.'n tliou-lllid miles of railroads in tl cou.itrv. This will have the e1 I ft to create another Bureau ir De pM'meni hereat Washington.' atld i: the duties of the Board :is devolved oi. tb ai hy the bill are taitbliillv per to . i ied. it will require a clerical force of uch nuinhers n will make a new Di artment snnnd only to the Tr asnry Diq.artmei.t. Krem St. Georges, Bermuda, Feb rn ry 2 i : The steamship Hi-ing Star, tn n New H lor Aspinwall, before re orteit, with a general cargo, arrived oil these islands hi a sinking condition in the night ot tlie 14tb ult. Commu nication was bad with the asrentof the un lerwrilers and the vessel was taken to the navy yard, under permission of the siqierintciidciit in charge, and there put agroiiiid in twenty feet of water. Sh'j was then leaking ahput two feet !; hour. The cargo has been dis ci: rgeu ami the vessel will go into the UocK tor repairs to-morrow. The holl ers got adrift during the gale in which uie snip sprung a leak, end the steam pipe broke nearly in two and was only m; le available by lashing with canvas. Bojie, etc. Had' it broken eutirelv aci hs, the vessel must have foundered in live hours. lata HlwV!-y t ronijl 11. The fiillowihg Is from a recent num ber of the London -4IAutii .- The form of another human body which Inn been impressed upon the ashe of Pomia-Ii has M-eii preserved in plaster of Paris within fhedast few day. The cast lalltobexirerm4f tieaiitiful. mil' b belter than any that have lieen tal.on. The head is a portrait ; the nos. - is long and decidedly aqiialhie; IIh-lips full ai.d half open : Ihe ears enormously large. There Is. no muscular contraction denoting a violent death ; the whole person which was in the post, of .ne who sleeps a placid sleep, shows i hat the unhappy citizen of Pompeii .'ied of asphyxia. He lies on his lefi side, resting his head on the tight hat (I. while tlie other arm. bent under the I reast, is almost concealed; leg; drav . u lip ime.pially, the left more than th right, which Is stretched out naturally. Anm. d the1 loins was a linen ( oy .mg. whidi con oi a led a s. i.allporlioi "fthe legs; tlie breast wa naked, wp nut. the hiii, unless there Ije some apjiearauce of one under the left Bnuplfj but tlie, feet were naked, ai d ftiee have been tiist magnificently, it id worthy of note that this hody wn found at a re miirk.'ible height, trlmo ! on a level of the second story, and i . r if were a few pieces of money In I ronze and sil ver. Thusaiiother'iiibr. t!ngaddition is made to tin; ca t of i.niiian fortiw now in the museum. The first expe riment of the kind - as made a long time ago by the C iiilnendatore Elo relli. now dlnctoi of the National Mn-enin. It cn'ated a great sensation it the time, as well it might, for it brought to light. If not to life, some of tlie victims of the grout eriirfion which buried a whole city beneath its ashe, and presented us with ypi s of the race who once ieopled the streets of that now silent city. Ex-President Baez. by advice of Wtiusel,. refuses to give ball hi the Thatch case, and remains in eliarce of the Deputy Sheriff at his hotel. A Washington dispatch says a letter from New Orleans states that Judge Durrell has forwarded his resignation to Washington, to be tendered in case the Judidary Committee of the House report articles of impeachment. Kennedy, who wa shot bv Mrs. i i oner in .lersey utv, March 1st. will prolmbly recover. He denied that Mrs, loner shot him, and says it was done by a man walking behind tliein. but this story is generally djsbeljeyed. Tlie following wheat ships have ar rived at Liverpool: Ships British Commodore. Ophelia and Valparlso, 0-,..,. si..,, EW,kAI....A 1. I. 1 ' " c i.oh.i-cu. uiirn junueo, irom This from Madrid, Spain, on same dap;: Serrano has been decland Pifs iile.it ofthe Republic, aialGeu. Zabola. Minister of War. is appointed Presi dent of the Council ot Ministers. Gen. Moriotioz tailed to relieve Eilioa. and it is reported that hi am y lia been defeated by the Car lists with a loss of 3.000 men, killed and wounded. Aniposta has been captured by Carllsts. Frou Japan. Feb. 27th: The in surgents have advanced to the walls of Nagasaki, and there has been some fighting, with wfiat result is not known orelgn rewWHts are safe under tlie protection of their Consuls and men-of-war in I lie liarbor. A special lisitdi to the London Ti'li'jriij)li. front Central Asia, says the Yoomed Turkoniaus recently made an attack on the Russian fortification, and were defeated ; and while crossing fhe frozen river during their retreat the ice broke, and a large unmber were drowned. A I'oiiWvlnl 3hlloNo(iler. A rarely plIpsopjdcH bummer, who W is 'iroi ght before the Bangor police eon: some time ago, involved a theory mat oni-! oe e.xceciuugiy cnmlollaole for the h 'ak and erring. James flen nessy was his name, d when his honor, severe of aspect, asked him what he had to say to the charge of be ing diuuk. he calmly aiie and said: -Your Honor. I am" a Darwinian, and I have. I thiuk.Jllseovered the origin of my Unfortunate tendency. One of my remotest grandfather wa au an thropoid of a curious turn of mind. One morning, about, 4,381.0$! B. C. he was looking over his stole of cocoa nuts, when he picked up one for his breakfast in which the milk was fer mented. He drank the liquor and got gloriously drunk, and ever after he kept his eoooanuts until fermentation took place. Judge, then, what a ten dency handed down through hummer able ancestors should not be taken in my defense." Castinga sarcastic look at James, Ids honor said : "I am sorry that tlie peculiar arrangements of the atoms of star dut resulted in giving me a disposition resentence you to pay $3 and costs." As James co'iikl'iit pay lie went to tlie winter retreat. r Affecting Romance. Affecting is a romance that comes from Indiana. Read and shudder : A young gentle man living near Terre Haute felt that life had no charms it a young lady of whom he thought a great deal didn't consent to marry him. She didn't, and he immediately went Wet, and employed asyinpathotiefriend to write to her saying that he was dead ; and Digging tier as his parting request to slop ami drop a weed or a flower or a tear upon his lonesome grave if she happened to be passing in thai direc tion. Mark the practicality of the modem young lady ! No thrill of an guish desolated her soul ! She calmly wrote back to the friend that I he had any consideration for her feelings to. send her the dear departed's Watch and chain and money. The things were sent, and the owner speedily followed io unserve trie eneot ot bis term sfiata gem. Alas I he mot W walking with Another, and wearing all Ids jewelry. Appalled by fliis sudden apparatinn ot a dead man, Another fled, but th young lady bad sharper eyes for mr unappreciated suitor. AlPs well that ends well she was so displeased with Another for running away in terror that now she is about to marry the ghost. A colored man. recently (Wceaied. In New Orleans, owed the 'c nearly $100,000 in back 'taxes, rte Jived in a miserable old giirret. worked like a slave, and alio wed 'himself none of the comforts of life. Hv owned real estate worth $700,000 at least, and a large amount of bonds and cash. T!re we're writs against him for taxes nu- , nlilg buck a -Jozen years, which he avoided paying by giving the c4ty teu per cent. On the gross amotlut, widen the towlftermitted. and Ihert he lent the money on mortgages for Irom 18 to34 per cent. Bates from London to Feb. astb gfve this: The trial of the TkAborne claimant on chargtstof tteT which lasted 10 days, resulted this morning in his conviction on all the cMtves. and was sentenced to 14 years' uerti servitude BlSMARK AND THE RKMtKW SA1S BATll. The great Gerfnan statesman proves to be as wily n theologian as i ne recent eiec Cortland. At Oiieenstown, shins Ku- he is a diolonmtist. terpe, Jas. A. Wriirht and Kniirht ! (ions in tbn E mnirn buvimr ... Coiilfliahder, from San Francisco. j den d on Saturday, the Jews felt that rebnwry 27th, about one thousand ! practically tneir franchise was cut oft', !!.. I . ,.,,1,1,1 t . ladies inaugurated a crusade against the liquor dealers in Philadelphia. They delegated twenty ot their num ber, who visited t! i roe saloons, around which they sang, and prayed, the pro prietors having 'dosM theii floors. A number of roughs gathered and rid iculed the proceedings. The propri etors called on the police, but thev re fused to interfere. A number of prominent saloon-keepers on Chestnut street have received Ivritten notices that the ladies in a boty will soon call ou them. it they could not consdenelmislv take Hin in wciiuu ousiness on their Sao bath. Accordingly a Ralibl, Bamber ger by name, telegraphed the Prince, asking what was io be done in the emergency. An immediate reply was received, as follows : ''TickeYs may be inscribed on Friday; besides, w'hi'e the Sabbath ends at four o'clock and fifty minutes tlie election does not close until six o'clock, so that there I an hour and ten minutes in which to vpte." The matter was thus effectu ally put right,