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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1874)
x . t - ' " ' ' " - 1 . ' - 1 1 I 2r PAIUURAMLETK. Markets unchanged. Weather cool and damp. Onions, raddishcs, etc.. in full supply. Mills about stopped work, having tuu out of wheat The heavy rainfalls of the week have interfered with plowing X. Raum wants sin unlimited amount of wool. ' Democrat's anything but happy over their ticket. Plenty of snow jet to b)e seen on the mountains. Our people are engaged m put ting their houses and property in good condition for the coming sum-' uier. .House cleaning is in order. The Odd Fellows procession on Monday was a very large and im posing affair! Several large cakes left over from the supper ou Monday night, will lje sold by M. W. Dodd at auction to-day. It would pay some one to erect a tew neat dwelling houses to rent. Houses are in demand. Messrs. S. T. I enny, J. Priest and William McCulloch started for a visit Kast last Monday. The meeting of the stockholders of the Albany Farmers' Company transpires on the 10th inst. A number of emigrants direct from the East, arrived in this city during the week. To-day the Independents hold their County Convention. Ten o'clock A. M. is the opening hour. Wheat in Liverpool, 13s 3d; San Francisco, $2; Portland, 81 65 $) 100 lbs. Modoc yells now agitate the still night air from the throats ot Albany hoodlums. The receipts at the Indian show Tuesday night were $250 the biggest house vet. Delegates to Independent Con vention commenced arriving yes terday. Communication from "Bedrock Democrat" will appear next week. It's a scorcher. For a ticket to Albany College entertainment last night, we make our best bow. For a splendid double cake. (two story), well frosted, lettered, etc, we are indebted to the daughters of Rebekah. The wife of Rev. Dr. E. R. Geary left for the Fast on Thurs day, having received a telegram that her mother was lying very ill.' Campbeil, Independent candi date for Governor, and Grovcr, Democratic candidate tor the same office, speaking at the Court House this evening. Judge VValton, Giltrey, Wright, Cornell, and a number of other good boys gave us a friendly visit during the week. John Millard, our enterprising nurseryman, presented up with stalks of rhubarb (pie-plant) that meas ured over 4 feet from tlie tip of the leat to the root, and the leaf was 3 feet across. Chas. Fiulaysou, 5 years odd, charged a mustard bottle with powder, the other day, and then J touched it off with a coal. His face was somewlrat blistered and hair scorched, but noting dan-' gerous. Travel is lively along the Upper Columbia. Walla Walla fireman are quar reling about Chief Engineer. j Tkrsonat. Judge Thornton has been spending the week in the city, attend' ng the ecclesiastical trial at tlie M. K. Church, as conn, sel for Rev. Mr. Shaw. Mr. A. Hannon, of Wajtsburg, W. T., one of the founders of Al lwny, is now on a visit to this city, having arrived on Wednesday's train. Mr. II. likes the Territory very wel, but we are inclined to ihinkthat he will take up his residence here again, as it seems more like home. Mrs. Tho's. G. Young, of Port land, who had been visiting in this city for several days, went home on the noon train Thursday. Kev' D. K. Nesbit, ot Corvallis, passed through the city, returning home from Portland,' on Thursday. We are sorry to learn from Hro. Nesbit . that he contemplates re moving to the East shortly. The Pacific coast needs just such earnest workers, and will sadly miss him. iIrs. R, Cheadle returned on Wednesday from a two months' visit in San Francisco, purchasing goods. She experienced a very pleasant and agreeable trip. Mrs. William Gird stalls for Victoria next Tuesday, to visit her sister, a resident of ,that city. Mrs Ike Sprenger, who has been visiting relations in this city, returoM to her home at the Dalles next week. Syl. C. Simpson delivered an ad dress last eveningi at the Opera House, for the benefit of Albany Collegiate Institute. We went to press too early to learn the result. Harry Godley and family have gone to Soda Springs. Harry and lady will run the Hotel during the Summer at that lively water ing place. W. S. Newbury, Esq., of Port land, called on Monday. Mr. N. is now engaged in the practice of law in Portland, the styte of the firm being Shoup & Newbury, in which we wish him the fullest suc cess, because he deserves it. Capt. Crandall, of the Salem Statesman, was in our city on Monday. The Captain is lull of life and good spirits,- and makes a live paper of the Statesman. Councilman Clay Kuhh is slowly recovering. Aus. Williams, of Brownsville, an old time Republican, and one of the biggest hearted men in Linn county, called on Friday. . Large Wa itEHorsE. Messrs. Parker & Morris have commenced work on their fine warehouse on the bank of the Willamette river in the eastern edge of the city, and expect to complete it early in July. It will be one of tlie largest and most convenient buildings in the State. Whitewashing. J. E. Smith is ready to be subsidized to do whitewashing, kalsomiiiing or house cleaning, and can be found at his residence on Third street, between Ferry and Washington, when not engaged at work. Storm v. It has been stormy a good portion of the week. A heavy fall of rain occurred just be fore day Friday morning, and the weather was real winterish. At thk M. K. Chprch. Prof. L. J. Powell, of Salem, will preach Sunday morning at the M. E. Church. He will lecture at the same nlace in the eveninir. Sub- ject : The Woman's Temperance Crusade. Ail are invited. llKUGtots. Rev. Joseph Ent eiy, ot tlie M. E. Church South, will preach at the Congregational Church to-raorrow at ,11 o'clock. All are invited. A Jacksonville man will burn 100,000 bricks this season. An Ashland lady has sewed to gether 3,382 pieces of calico into j two quilts. A headless lamb was born in Baket county last week. It sur vived but a few hours. Average temiwrature at Baker City for the week ending April 22d, 39 degrees above zero. A large number of cattle have died on Main Powder river this spring, from eating poisonous lierbs. A couple of pounds of butter are wanted at Baker t City, to supply the market and bring down prices. ' Charley Stover, of Bakerconnty, cut off two of liis fingers last week. Moral doiK't play with edge tools. Baker City Academy, under charge of Prof. Barrett and wife, closed a successful terra on the 17th ot April. Butter in Pendleton is now selling at 37c, with a downward tendency; eggs, 15; potatoes, lc; beef,810c. The road over "the Blue moun tains is now in such a condition that freight teams can cross over without serious difficulty. A large packtrain passed through Pendleton this week with goods destined for Eldorado, Baker county. Business is reviving. Mr. George Stanbnry, of Hep ner, Umatilla county, had his leg broken last week by the kick of a horse which he was branding. A new voting precinct has been established in Jackson county, east of Klamath Reservation. It is called Sprague River Precinct. The Pendleton Tribune insists that La Dow will yet "come to the front in the canvass and make it warm for his opponents." If so, why not. The mail from Baker City to' Umatilla Landing now rung through in something over 24 hours, instead of two days as it has been doing. Jacksonville will have some fine races toward the close of May, on the track near that place. Some of the fastest st; ck id Oregon will be there, both runners and trotters. An abstract of the report of the Superintendent of Schools .'n Baker county for 1874, shows the number of teachers examined during the year, 17. Amount apportioned, in coin, $1,702 78, and in currency, $217 35, making tho whole amount, $1,920 03.- The Independent Literary Soci ety, of Jacksonville, has received a large variety of dramas, comedies, etc., from Son Francisco, and are now actively engaged in preparing for the entertainments for the relief of the sufferers by the fire, which will take place on Thursday, Fri day and Saturday eveuings, May 14th, 15th and 16th. A sheep-raiser in Wasco county writes as follows: "On the 1st of April I' had 92 ewes with 154 lambs. I have now about 300 lambs, more than one-third of which afe twins How high is that? Should they keep on increasing in that ratio, I sliall have over 700 lambs from 521 ewes. This I think is very good. I intend to compete for the first prize ou twins." Hereafter the boats on the Columbia leave Wallula on Mon days and Thursdays for the down trips, and going up will leave Oelilo on Tuesdays and Saturdays. A Grange has been organized at Wallula. Olympis, records her regular tire alarm. No damage. Walla Walla Chinamen have a cemetery ot their own. A "variety supper' iS the latest at Walla Walla. Tho water works is what troubles Walla Walla folks. , The bridge across the Palouse at Colfax has been finished. The telegraph lines between Sound points are being changed. The Walla Walla jail is more than crowded. Fourteen birds. The islands ot the North Pacific are attracting considerable attention. A company of six men left Walla Walla a few days since, bound for Stickeen. Two downtrodden "flowers of the forest," perambulating the streets of Pendleton, caused the Tribune editor to burrow in flowery chaplets ot his vivid imagination. The Cougregationalists in Califor nia, according to the new minutes, have 63 churches, 12 of them hav ing pastors and 41 acting pastors. Seven of the churches have been or ganized during the year. The com municants numlier 2,709, of whom 420 were added during the last year. . o Perellyaciutbeand the old Cath olic Ilishop Reinkins, of Germany, are at variance. Pere Loyson repu diates the latter's jurisdiction, and the Bishop's o&cial organ replies that the prelate has never claimed a connection with him' since his mar riage threw light upon his revolt from Roman Catholicism. The average stableman is happy in Washington county, as he well may be, for the season is already at hand ar d now it is that the average young man loves to spin his girl through the country in the best of turn-outs, while sparkling eyes gaze fondly on blushing beauty, and rippling, laughter is borne across the waving fields to the woody dells bevond. The evidence hitherto submitted to the Court of Inquiry leads to the impression that General Howard will soon be decided not. responsible for the wrongful acts of certain sub ordinates itf theFreedman's Bureau administration, and that he is per sonally free from blame. Mrs. Phtebe C. Bailey, who wasa great-grand-daughter of John A Men and bis wife Priscilla, of Mayflower times, has just died at Dover, New Hampshire, at the age of ninety-one, having lived to see three generations of her descendants. W. E. Webb, a stock raiser on Main Powder River, has lost over fifty cattle by their eating poison ous herbs. Tlie surgeons of the Confederate army and navy are to hold a Con vention at Atlanta, Georgia, on May 20th, for the purpose of em bodying in permanent form the important medical and surgical facts brought out by their war experience. The Methodist proposes to abolish the itinerant system which has out lived the conditions that made it effective. Its principal' use now is to pre vent preachers from getting ac quainted with their congregations. The widow oi Captain Hall, the Aretic explorer, has petitioned con gress for aid; Sir Samuel Baker's AfricaB expedi tion cost the Khedive of Egypt over 240,000, while the results were comparatively meagre, and bis Highuess grumbles. The Jewels which the Duchess of Edinburgh brought with her to Eng land are said to be worth $2,500,- 000, and includes as many as a 100 bracelets. One of our exciting questions now is, which is the third city ot the Union? For a long time Brook lyn has had the honor; now ft is claimed by St. Louis. Gen. John. B. Hood, ot the -late C. S. A., is doing his best to repop nlate the South. 1 Ie has been mar ried five years, and is now the fa ther of seven children. The Chicago Tribune says that large quantities of maccaroni and vermicelli are made in that city and sold as imported articles. Rochefort has been interviewed, but he refuses to tell the manner ot his escape. He probably saw his chance and rushed lor't. The Government engineer in Paris used to be a printer. He is setting up the Vendome Column very rapidly. The estimated expenditures tore lieve'the suffers by famine in India up to the end of February ar$l 2,- 500,000. Pullman, of palace car fame, is building a $75,000 cottage at Long Branch. i In France tlie Pope alone can grant a divorce, but does not pre vent actions for separation. A note of $1,000 sold at auction sale in Pendleton on the 19th inst. for $30. Weston promises to become one of the liveliest towns in Umatilla county. . . The closing exercises of the Ba ker City Academy were a grand literary treat. Hie Jacksonville Red Men are going to give a grand ball on the 12th of May. ' The Khedive of Egypt has taken military possession of the Suez canal. Walla Walla wants a brassband. Thoy should have one. jM -Ag i i The Indians at Umatilla Agency are prospering finely. ' The crusaders are still , on the streets of Portland. Taooma is going to have another hard-times ball. Beecher makes this sensible reply in the Christian Union to a i query as to whether it Is wicked to dance : "It is wicked when it is wioked, and not wicked when it is-, not wicked. In itself it has no more moral character than "walking, wrestling, Or rowing. Bad 'com pany, untimely honrs, evil dances, may make the exercise evil good company, wholesome ; hours, And home ihfluenees, may make it a very great benefit." "Ol.l Kill Allen." tlie i Governor of Ohio, is brous ax q IWiiu-i-atio candidate tor next President, by a paper of that State. This is unkind, seeing that the growing unpopularity ot his-.-ad-miuistration as Governor promises to retire him for all tme to that political "bourne from whence he but recently emerged after a quarter of a century of "waiting and wateh ing." present tilt out