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ALBANY REGISTER. 8 The 0. S, X. Co. contemplate build ing an incline at waiiula. A quarter of an acre at Tacoma In the rear of the old town has been sold for POO. Wood is seiliuif on the streets at Walla Wfllla at from $5 to f 7 per cord, accorumg to quality A Grange ot Patrons of Husbandry roan 1 . CI 1 -! I. ttf T on the 4th Inst A Grange will be formed at Nook sactk. W.T. The Daners are in the District Deputy's hands, awaiting ac tion. There is a project on foot to have Spring races over the Bybee track, Jacksonville. John Dougherty, who has been housed in Jail at Tacoma, will be re leased on a writ ot habeas corpus from Jodie Jacobs. On Monday night February 23d, the thermometer run down to five degrees below zero at Boise City. The coldest night this Winter. The steamer Eliza Anderson arrived Victoria from Port Wrtngel oh Wednesday, March 4th. having made the quickest time on record. Thus contract for carrying the mails from Vancouver to Kalama has been let to Michael Shea tor $600 per an num. One of the oldest buildings and a landmark of Boise City, Idaho, U be ing torn down to make room for a new edifice. Daniel Coughlan, a resident of Mad ison Valley, Montana, was severely irrtmed by being kicked in the face by cay use horse The tunnel being run to tap the Hendricks lode, on Meadow Creek. Montana, Is progressing finely. The tunnel is to be 600 feet long ; it is now in 160 feet. The question of cheap and rapid transportation was satisfactorily solved by a boy at La Grande recently. He tickled the heels of a mule with a sharp stick. live hundred and twenty-five dol lars was raised in about two hours, on the 91th of February, towards buying a lot on which to build a Cumberland Pretbyterlan Church In Walla Walla. The Boise City Statesman says : This weather is awful on cattle and sheep, and unless it comes off warm very soon, the probability Is that the stock in this valley will die off by thousands. The trial ot ScarfHced Charley and eight other; Indians Is docketed for the ensuing term of the Circuit Court of Jackson County. The postponed term of the Circuit Court, Judge Prim presiding, at Jack sonville, convened Monday, March 9th. There is considerable business to transact. On last Monday morning, March 2d, about 9 o'clock, the house of W; M. Garrison, near Pocahontas. Baker County, caught fire, and it and every thing in it wag destroyed, i A hurricane passed over Upper "Wil low Creek, Montana, on Wednesday, February 28th, doing much damage. Several houses were unrooted aud ina- rrfkaystneks Blown down. A party of surveyors that have been out In all of tte pad weather of the fcvft few mdnjhV working on three townships near the headwaters of the Puyallup and White Rivers, returned to tacoma on the 9th. The Mtmtretfm says: 'The pretty fashion ot wearing feathers in tile hair has curtailed the behind And oi Vir ginia's prettiest roosters. We saw a lady put on her spiked shoes on Tues day and run old domluique down, in just three minutes exactly by a stop watch. There to nowat Wallula aboui 500 tons ot-wlKtWaltlng shipment down the Columbia River. Ther Is also a large amount of freight below. The Columbia Elver Is so low it is Impossi ble for the boats to run. and freight will have to lay in store until the snfiMiipmpuathlnshtt. The reports from the Swauk Creek minesare very conflicting. One writer, asserts emphatically that ,$ey are Eod for nothing. ifeveral perrons v recently left Walla Walla tor the new gold fields who contemplate thor oughly prospecting that country. The Jacksonville Times by: Thos. G. Devens, wlio has Just retiirneu from San Francisco, informs us that the road on each side of tlie railroad be tween Redding and Sacramento to strewn with a Targe number of dead cattle, who have died from exposure liitl starvation. Re says the number is so great that it equals the destruc tion witnessed on the plains in 1854. fhe party which went up Mill Creek from Salem some time ago to bring a raft of logs, has been heard from. A ' corps of ehglmwrs was sent out toflnrl them If alive, andlf not to learn'their fate. They tfoaiHl them afewmUes out of town In a 'deplorable condition, 'l-heraft fftfff1W) had sftttt -on a stump, and the -demijohn of provto- I altni through tied nun- i we The Marion County Woman Suf frage Convention met last Saturday. A proposition to admit persons under twenty-one years Of aire and over eighteen, was postponed. A Commit tee on Order ofBusiness wasappointed, and also a Committee on Music. Revs. P. 8. Knight and S. C. Adams were invited to address the Association at their convenience. The time of hold ing regular meetings was fixed at 2 P. M. on the first Saturday of each month. The, Virginia City Montanian of Feb. 19th says. The team belonging to Mr. Herbert, of the valley, while be ing driven home test Saturday, took fright near Junction, became unman- agable. and ran away. Shprtly after they started the wagon unset, throw ing Mr. and Mrs. II. violently to toe ground. Mr. Herbert was badly bruis ed by the concussion, and Mrs. H. geelved a compound fracture of the feg near the ankle. A 8hootinir affair came off on Tues day evening on Main street Dalles, be tween wuiiam snyaer ana Henry Brindamour, two rival restaurant keep ers, several shots were nred, Dut no blood was spilled. The result of the affair was that Mr. Brindamour was bound over In the sum of $300 to an swer for an assault with a dangerous weapon at the next Circuit Court, and Mr. Snyder was flued for disturbing the peace, by the City Recorder. The Vancouver Register makes the following suggestions: "Won't some body ship a few buckets of paint and whitewash to this city, and induce some of our citizens to try the experi ment ot laying on a lew coats as a preservative to house fronts and yard fences? And, by the way, a few six and ten penny nails would become handy around in several places. A ioint stock comnanv has been formed by the citizens on Newaukum River, in Lewis County, W. T., for the purpose of erecting a flouring mill on that stream, near its confluence with the Chchalto. The capital stock is fixed at f 24,000. $8,000 of which has already been subscribed this sum be ing taken in a few hours by the citi zens in the immediate neighborhood. Marion County Democratic Conven tion placed in nomination the follow ing named gentlemen for the Legisla ture, all Grover men : For the Sen ate L. M. Savage. E. F. Colby, E.C. Cooley; Representatives Lewis Pet tyjohn, J. C. Caplinger, F. X. Math ias, D. S. Staytou, Michael Eagan and Davis Shannon. For County Judge, F. E. Eldridge., Clerk, Dan. H. Mur phy. Sheriff; Sol Durbtn. Treasurer, James J. Dairy tuple. Mr. J. A. Rlpperton, a citizen of Salem, was arrested and brought to the Dalles by Deputy Sheriff Charles Schurz during the fore part of last week on the charge of perjury, in giv ing in his taxable property in Wasco County to the Assessor fraudulently. An examination of the case took place on Wednesday before Judge Campbell, wMch resulted In Ms being held to appear before the District Court to answer tne charge as above stated He gave the required bonds and was discharged. The following vessels have been chartered to load at various points Ship Lookout, 1.068 tons, Instead of coal from Bellingliam Bay, will take lumber from Kunard loleUo Imuauc. on private terms ; bark Martha 4Rlde- out, wa tons, win taice lumber from Port Blakely .to .Melbourne, also pn )ri vate terms ; bark Mariana, 549 tons, las been chartered to carry railroad ties from BHrrard Inlet to Port Chal mers, at 5; bark Aureola, 822 tons, will loud ooal at N&nalmo for San Francisco. News from Alkl Luke, British Co lumbia, reports snow two1 feet deep on the river but no crust ou it. and cattle are doing w ell. At LiUoet the snow is thjee j Inches deep ; on Pavilion Mountain it ts two feet deep, and at all points it ts very much drifted. All mail carriers have tn break their own road. At CHiiton the weather has been very severe, and considerable snow fell on test Tuemt night. The thermometer was. 20 degrees below zero at Laeoliner on Thursday "last. It commenced snowing on the night of the 8tli Inst., and the next morning it was nine inches deep. Since then it lias all disappeared before succession of southerly gales. The MamtobUK tit Saturday has this: Sometime during Thursday night i ot last Week some graceless Scamps eii- terea aie longing oouse Kept py Mrs. Springer and plundered several lodg- i ers. Tliey relelved Judge MeAfthur of his gold watch, a diamond nin sun dry articles of clothing, ami a leather wallet containing some private papers. deed, . tasutanca frttar, wtftii From Mr. Wood they "lifted" six dollars and two sate wys, and from Mr. Tves tgold pencil mid'severi! articles of Jewelry. Mr. Meatu Is also said to have lost a gold pen and pen-ltbMer. On the following Saturday several Iwadkerehlefe wit MteiJiKlge's name were found under Grant ftCo.'s old warehouse, tlie thiei evidently, thought It unsafe to bare thm around. Suspicion points I quite strongly toMtiR "hondhnnV.. who ,4ithey dont give up their present habits of OfeWIN OfrtaWJr fetch up In the peg ttentttry , uMt.ot winl.vnWrtij The Olympians will next indulge in a "grand pillow-case and sheet ball." : The Metropolitan Minstrels arc bill ed for an entertainment at Vancouver. Hie merchants apd hotel-keepers at Snohomish City have quit taking Jaw bone for goods and board. A farm two miles below Salem was sold at administrator's sale a few days aim for $18 50 per' acre. The farm contained about three hundred acres. A man plowed up fifty rattlesnakes in Douglas county one day last week. He killed forty of tbem, and ten got away. 'Twas'nt a good day for snakes, either. A Teachers' Institute, for Douglas county, was held in Roseburg last w(k. But few teachers were present, bud the proceedings were brief but Interesting. Three different parties have been en gaped in the neighborhood of Vancou ver during the Winter in getting out hoop poles for the San Francisco market. Extensive preparations are making for the logging business on Snohomish river, W.T., this Spring. Work has already been commenced in several camps. The little daughter of A. E. Mabie. of Olympia, has partially recovered from a severe attack ot typhoid fever, but her reason ts entirely dethroned her mind is a perfect blank. The laws of Washington Territory will be ready for distribution in about five weeks.' They will form a very large volume, and that is the reason of the delay In getting them ready. Over 500 pages are already printed. At Tuba City on the 6th, in the case of James Leach who killed Horace Rause at Nicolaus last November, the jury brought In a verdict of murder in the second degree. At the Methodist Church in Eugene on the evening of the 1st the minister requested all who felt that they needed the prayers ot the righteous, to rise to their feet. The load of sin was actu ally so great, that the floor gave way. No one nurt. The recent earthquake shock in Sierra County. California, opened a crack at Howland Flat more than a thousand feet long, and in some places four inches wide at the surface and ten feet deep in toe snow, which is almost as solid as ice and twelve feet deep. The Vancouver Register says : We are informed that the farmers of Mill Plain have about completed their spring sowing,, and that crop prospects are very favorable. Several fanners on this plain have from one to seven hundred acres under cultivation. The Polk County paper speaks as follows) "His a noticeable tact that last Wednesday, for the first time in the history of the town, that a County Convention, was held here without there being a single drunk to be seen on the streets.?' At Bakerstield, on the afternoon of the 6th; the trial of J. W. Smith, for the murder of Frauk Howard last May, was concluded. After a session of three hours, the verdict of murder in the second degree was found. Sen tence next Monday. The name of the brakeman killed near Humboldt, Wells on the 6th, was Al. BlxleyJ He was caught and held fast In the wreck by both legs, with a portion Of the wreck jammed In his abdomen. The other train hands were I unable to extricate Or remove the timbers holding him fast, and in this condition he lived three hours begging his friends to kill Mm and put him out of his misery. The following are the postal changes ordered for the Pacific Coast : Offices established Alcatraz, San Francisco County, California, Amasa Bushuell Postmaster; Junction House, Las sen County, California; William E. Jones, Postmaster: Patha, Walla Walla County. W. T., A. J. Favor, Postmaster. Name changed Big Meadows, Plumas Co.. California, to PrattvilR Postmaster appointed P. Hamilton, Marion, Marion County, Oregon: John Briscoe. Ot'stervllle. Pacific Coiinty, W. T. Some thieves have stolem 500 head pf sheep from Messrs. Jones & Nixon of Douglas county, since last Novem ber. This might be called sheep stealing extraordinary. The Plain dealer says : "The most remarkable feature is that most all the sheep are marked and branded three or four different ways, and could he easily Identified;. These gentlemen have offered $300 reward for the recovery of the sheep and arrest of the gfilkV PArtiw" , . This from Marion Comity,': The Republican Central Committee for Marlon County Saturday, at. Sa ;lemv and agreed uponn call for Coun ty Convention, hi Accordance With tlie recommendation of the Store Central Com uiittee. The members etoreseut ed the Republican party m ttair several sections aa tart little breken by Uw so called Independent btjt really sorehead movement. , It was kardlv exDeoted the Democrats wonM make straight s m tmscpitoty. The m AM will tend! to n,;augraunenr OiefctkAetby wj ,il ., The Roseburg Plaindealer hag the details of a most disgusting case from Elk Creek precinct, In Douglas county. One Hancock was arrested last week on a charge of Incest, preferred against him by his sons. He was brought to Roseburg, but waived an examination, and his ball fixed at $2,000. In delimit of which he llugereth in jail. It Is stated that he has had criminal intercourse with four of his own daughters, three of whom had children by him. A shooting affray occurred on last Friday night at Oakdale. Cal. The cause was the swindle between the Oakdale House aud Dr. I man and family. Three 5'oung follows, named John Tipton. Tommy Madden and John Kerr, took sides with the Oak dale House, and tried to make Dr. Iman take back what he had said or run him out of town, but they did'nt succeed in either. The first shooting scrape was was between Tipton and a French Doctor, who took it up on the side of Iman, and who was shot in the arm. After that Tipton, Madden and Kerr went down to Iman's house, and commenced shooting at the house, and succeeded in running the family out. Citizens interfered and stopped t'nrther shooting. There would prolmbly have been considerable bloodshed if they had not. Tipton and Madden escaped, bbt Kerr was arrested and brought to Modesto. General Hew During a riot in South Wheeling, W, V.. on the 7th, a man named Blattnor received two balls through his lungs. He cannot recover. Two others were Injured. The disturbance arose from evidence given in Court the oay netore. Senator, Windom pronounces it un true tnat tne senate iommtttee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard had agreed to report that, although Congress has Constitutional power to regulate railroad tariffs, it to not now expedient to exercise that power. Seventeen cars freighted with tea and silk-worm eggs arrived at Haiti more on the 28th ult.. direct from San Francisco, via Baltimore and Ohio Rrallroad, having beert only fifteen days en route from California. This is the first through freight from Cali fornia ever brought over the Baltimore and (.into itoad. A Philadelphia dispatch of the 28th of February states: A considerable movement is going on in the matter of converting Northern Pacific Rail road bonds into lands. Bonds amount ing to $221,000 were yesterday stir rendered to the Trustees In this city for cancellation on account of land purchases. In the House the Public Lands Committee are considering a bill authorizing the Territories to grant the right of way through the public domain to railroad companies, the right to incorporate companies being reserved to uongress. i nere is a bare possibility that It will pass. Tlie monthly circular of the Silk Association ot America gives the di rect imports of raw silk Into New York, during February at 251 pack ages. Gold value. $280,489. Direct Imports ot silk and silk mixed manu factures in February. 32,308 packages: gold value. $2..842,733 The trial of the prisoners engaged in the brutal massacre at Colfiix. Louisiana, has begun. The testimony against the parties charged is fearfully conclusive. The evidence develops such terriblv' revolting cruelty as has been scarcely pnralelicd In the annals of crime. It is believed that nearly if not all the prisoners will be wmvlctsa'. The Secretary of tho Treasury has. directed General Thomas. Hlllhoitfe, the Assistant Treasurer at NeW York, to sell, $3,000,000 In gold for the month of March, as fellows: rhnrsday. March 5th. f 1.000.000 ; March 12th, $300,000; March 9th, $500,000: March l?fh. $1,000,000; March 26H), $500,000. Thursday, Thursday. Thursday, Thursday, ' Among the "Boston notions" Is the lateft one of selling eggs, not by dozen, but by weight. According to the new law adopted in Massachusetts twelve eggs no longer constitute a Is wfol dozen, but as many as it shall take to weigh one pound and a half. Eight gooa eggs, laid by wellfwl fowls, will weigh a pound ; while it wltl take ten or twelve eggs laid by puny fowls to make that weight. The difference ceases to be a trifle wheai prices range from 40 to 60 cents per dozen. : The House Military Committee have decided to apply to the Pay Depart ment their general rule of reduction, and- to provide for the payment of troops by drafts on the Treasury, to he sent be Department Paymasters to Commanders of Posts tor Wfffoar and men under their charge. It now t $2 per man to pay fully, wawe under the proposed system It is believed that the expense mtitd be trifling. At Isolated post Where 'rresnry drafts cannot reaoWy be converted' into money, the present svsteat ef wvl will nave wnteounw. The Senate Committee on Trans portation are thus far unable to agree on any report, out a majority report Is deemed probable, favoring the moderate measures received from the House on the railroad question. The bill introduced into the House amendatory of an act to pre rent the extermination of fur-bearing animals In Alaska, authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to designate the months in which fur seals may be taken for their skins on the Islands St. Paul and St. George, and Iiv adjacent waters, and to fix the number to be taken at or about each island. Chairman McKee, of the House Committee on Territories, says then' to no doubt whatever that his stringent bill relating to Utah troubles, reported a week ago. will readily pass both Houses. Re says it Is less stringent than MeCullen's or Frellnghnysen's lull, each of which had the sanction of one or other branches of the preceding Congress. Senator Jones has received foil re -ports ot surveys made to ascertain the practicability qf 'reclaiming the Colo rado Desert by turning mto It the waters of the Colorado River, accom panied by interesting commentaries, lie thinks fhe subject worthy of Gov ernment investigation, and proposes asking Congress to authorize a thor ough survey. General Seherick says his visit to this country is solely on private af fairs ; that he has not come home to fill any Cabinet or other office, and that he will return to England in May. when .hi , leave of absence expires. He goes to Washington pn Tuesday, where he will remain three days. He will then visit Ohio, and the last three weeks of hlsjstey In the United States will be passed in New York. At Washington. March 2d, the banquet given by the Atemnl of Ynle College. In honor of Chief Justice Waito, was attended by a large party of distinguished gentlemen, including President Grant, the Associate Judges of the Supreme Court, President Por ter, of Yale Cot lege, William M. Evarts and Judge Plerrepont. The bauquet was on a grand scale and in all respects successful. On the 10th the boiler of the 'city water works at Binghampton 'iex plotled, killing the engineer and . de molishing the boiler house. The city is now without water, The Mayor has called a meeting of the Common Council to appoint a special phtrol to guard against fires. :it will take twenty-four hours to dear away the wreck and get the remaining boiler at work. The House Committee on Railways and Canals are quite confident of passing McCrary's bill, appointing a committee to regulate railroad fores and freights. Western memliers will propose an amendment, depriving the commissioners of the absolute power of fixing the rates, but making them sort of intermediate arbitrators be tween tho railroads and aggrieved parties, with summary 'power to cor rect grievances nirougb the United States Courts. This will be onnosed on the ground that the remedy is too troublesome ot enforcement .to have a salutiiry influence over railroad ex tortioners. Advices from Auckland, New Zealand, by telegraph from Mel bourne, dated Feb. 23d. state that the ship AIMaOml, from Newcastle, Xe . South Wales, for San Francisco, had put In there, lmvig encountered heirvv gales, during which slw was thrown on her beam ends and obliged to cur away her nilzzen mast maintop and sails to right her. Every tl'iug movable on deck washed overboard. Including three lioats. and the muster's and mate's personal effects. Tlie hull ts sown. She will be laid up two months for repairs. fteu. Sheridan is in receipt of dis patches from Lieut. Col. Daviitoou. coHimaudlng at Fort SJU. giving in formation from tlie Mown and v,o tuaucite Agencies In Texas, tothefOth of Felirnary. Captv Haworth's young men had just returned from Coman che camps, wlwre they had Jweu counting the people, aud reported that on the; recent raid tlie number of Indians who had heUii' killed was variously reported at jtwulve , A twenty-two. but on , W(,:two pjLthe raiding parties mwowl, 'Thto shows that the reservation Indians, In "spite of their promises before tlie ' council held last October, have not awd to raid into Texas. The steamer Poinstftmu whjeh arrived in Philadelphia fron Ltver pol on tlie 9th, exiriCTicefl'A vwlent hurricane on the 97th ultimo at mid night.' Capt. Broadbnru) the first and second officers, and two seamen, were swept overboard and jost, and the fourth officer had a teg broken. All the deck houses and boats Were swvpt awav. Brady, formerly (bird mate of theill-tateditniicypo, ft will ba remembered. ' swam' ashore and se cured line from the: Atlantic, tberet being ttm.weaw.of, saying a Wimber of lives), was among tlie steerage passengers oii the Penntylwmitt, and it Was docidwl to fait the ship -in Ills charge, aud lie brought her saftsjr in. CaptelAiBrrtidbum, wh bolftHpd hi Baltimore, had Intended to uviiflt thN his last voyage, astthad been anwig l for Mm to' act as Poyi' Warden t f Liverpool. : l