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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (June 20, 1874)
AfcfeANY REGISTEK. 8 The nrtersiys the temperance interest in Olympia seeras perma nent and deep. Mr. Shield will shield the slumb ers of Olympia hereafter. He has been appointed night watchman. Lumber is being hauled for the construction of the Episcopal church at Union. Work will also com. mence on the Methodist church some time this summer. LaGrande pays two or three men $3 a day cash, tor services performed as Fire Wardens. ..By ordinance they are required to inspect and re ,port where danger lies. At the late election in Union county, on the question of the county seat, the vote stood 519 for Union and 342 for LaGrande, and the dwellers in the latter town are in dignant. It is said there is a colony of about 300 Germans now on their way from Kelton, who are des tined to settle either in Grand onde or. Wallowa valleys. A soldier named Patrick Dwyer is Sn jail at Walla Walla, held to answer a charge of selling, whisky to Indians. "The necessary money tor enter ing the town site of Lewiston, Idaho, has been raised and paid into the Receiver of that Land District. The celebration of the Fourth of July in Lewis county will be con. ducted under the auspices of the Patrons of Husbandry, and conduct ed according to the Manual of the Order. The exercise will take placeet a cro ve near Claquato court house at Chehalis station. The miners have all left Swauk Creek and have crossed over to the Yakima rivife . jriwtttriey found good prospects, but twing to high water have not been able to perform anyjoonsiderahfe amount of work. There are about seventy-five men ou the river waiting anxiously toT the waters to recede. Hon. James E. Haw ley, of Boise county, says the water has run down pretty low and the heavjr mining tTound Plaoerville and Granite Creek is pretty much over. They have had a short season, but the mines paid well. His company are making arrangements to get a mill on the Iowa mine, and this is his business over to Owyhee. The Grangers are to appropriate ly celebrafi the Fourth of July, this year, on Dry Creek, about twelve miles east of Walla Walla, nearUlki 'Lamb's place". There are to be orations, a barbecue, pro cession, musio, and everything else that tends to promote enjoyment on such occasion The oiatorsare to be W. T tfcKean and M.T. Craw ford. The Courier: "On Saturday evening last a railroad meeting was held at Columbia Hall, and well attended. The President of the road stated that there was a little over nine miles of road graded ready tor the ties at that time, leav ing only a trifle over five miles , to carry the grade through to Tenino. To do thin will require One month's labor for forty men and twelve teams, supplied with the necessary commissary stores. Speeches were made by El wood Eva..s, Esq., Kev. J. Thompson, Messrs. Ira Ward and Jos. Allen. Eight months la bor was subscribed. The Walla Walla Union says : Jt is reprteit that rich diggings have been struck in what is called the Waircifa Meadows." These meadows haw lorabieriupposed to contain vast deposits of gold, but it is so deep to the bedrock that heretofore they hare not bewi able to work them anoeessmlty. Above the Meadows a stream that empties into these very rich mines has been worked for some time, and it has always been believed that this same vein ran through the meadows, but heretofore it was impossible to trace it But now a rich deposit has been struck, and men are taking out as good pay as they did in the palmy days of Warren's Camp. In the Circuit Court tor Jackson county last week, the cases of the State vs Arch Ghrisman, James Hards, Jos. Wells, W. B. Dearber ry, Uhas. Wilson, G. W. Watson Scarfaced Charley, Hooker Jim, Long Jim, One-eyed Mose, Old Doctor, Humphrey, Little Charley, Dave and Little Jim, were continu ed, except that of ?car-faced Char ley, which, on motion of the Dij- triCt Atoifnev. Was dismissed for want of eviii once to conviet. Dr. J. M. Rice has a barrel on exhibition at Olympia that is con structed on a novel plan. Instead ot staves, it is formed of a thin strap of board about eight inches wide, which is wrapt around a cylinder in a spiral. The joint is then joined by a narrow strip, and the' whole retained in position by nails. The merits-olaimed for these- barrels are cheapness ot construction, strength and durability, and economy iiv space where they form a cargo. They are peculiarly fitted tor lime and flour barrels, or tor, any similar purpose, where the contents are not liquid. The Jacksonville Time says: "Shearing has commenced, and the woolis already arriving rfsid erable has been shipped below; dur ing the past week, and the demand is good. Although the clip will be quite large, owing to the mortality amcng sheep last winter, it will not approximate the product of 1878. It is to be hoped that the Ashland Woolen Mills will be running soon, so there will be a market for this product at home." At the election in Bismarck, re cently, there were 230 votes polled, indicating in that village a popula tion of over one thousand. At the election last fall, 425 votes were polled in the county, ami many new settlers have since come in. Information" Is wanted1 6f one Michael McMann, who has been about Montana awl Idaho for the past ten years. It living, Michael will find it to his interest to imme diately . oommurkte f4Hth his brother Thomas, at Owatonna, Steel county, Minn. Alaska puts forth its claims to ri val Minnesota as a iasottfor" inval ids, its winter elimate averaging 30 degrees below zero, with remarkable equality as far as it can tell when the mercury isn't frozen. j Wool H Defejf; $$$1' 'from Olympia to San Francisco. About 6,000 pouuds luure already been sent away. The price paid ranged from 21 to 25 cents. Enough wool is now produced on the Sound to supply a good sized woolen mill, j About tout thousand the esti mate of those that will celebrate the Fourth at Hillsboro. The Portland band will do the music. The re port is that a fcraia will leave Pott- land and St. Josepi time, passing at Cornelius, The railroad track to the upper depot in Tacoma is completed, ex cept blasting, j Chen Cheon,a Chinaman, app'-ed for naturalization papers, one day last week in Seattle, and the JHt- patch is wrathy about it Wonders will never cease, The Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad Company have now about 60 men at work on their road and are pushing it forward in a very creditable manner. The work on the Olympia-Tenino railroad is steadily progressing. A force ot 35 white men are ivjw en gaged on the line a little beyond Squire Plumb's place. Hon. P. C. Sullivan has assumed editorial control! of the dallas Re publican. The Grangers at variousfciointsot the valley have gone into the butch ering buisuess, and are telling meat at six cents a pound. The Crescent City (CuA) Cpvr ier says Jos. G. Wall has sent out a force ot men to repair the road be tween that place and Jacksonville, Oregon. A team belonging to Mr. t 'Ionizer of Hillsboro, started to run away last Sunday, and Mrs. Clonizer sprang from the wagon, breaking her leg at the ankle. A Mrs. Mull sprang from a wag on on leaving the park at Hillsboro and broke her arm near the wrist. Dr. Vite set the limb, and she is now doing quite well, The Olympia Transcript say' the premises of Mr. John Chambers were entered last Saturday during his absence and robbed ot blankets, clothing, provisions, etc., to the amount of $25. If. is talked in Olympia that a company has been formed with the design of buying the Oroas Island ,Lime Company's property, and en- gaging m the manufacture ot lime on a large scale, From the Jacksonville Times we learn that the entire Domocratic tickets were elected in Jackson and Josephine comities, except one County Commissioner in the latter. The committee appointed by the Patrons of Husbandry ou the cele bration of the Fourth at Hillsboro say that Hon. T. F. Campbell, ot Monmoth, has consented to deliver an oration. W. W. Fiddler, ot Josephine county, states that rich diggings have been found on Bridge creek, in that county, and considerable ex citement prevails inconsequence. A large number ot persons are flocking there. It is said that contracts have been made by the Seattle and Walla Walla railroad, that give promise of an early completion ot the first eection of said road. 1 ! Ill I ' II. Tfce Fmm'hc- DMrlf CIMttR Bubevra was. on the occasion of my visit, a place where famine in its wont form had suddenly appeared and taken all by surprise. The yoiing eivibif, who had just appear ed, had to hurry off to another 'village; the engineer had only just arrived, and wa without a horse or a conveyance, a house or food ; and bands of hungry poor were daily coming m rrom ineir vuatfps. Every official was working with a will, but all confessed, here and elswhere, what was only too evi dent that from four to six weeks had been lost, As 1 stood in a mango grove with the young magistrate at Bar ri.ftwasl af with two or three children each, trffroeW 7etfer in London ' Timet, tected collected, I should more correctly say( OTwledroiind,tj ip the space ot five minutes. Tbey were at once entered tor charitable relief, and, as I left, hundreds ot others, new oases, weie flocking tor the tame purpose. The most cal lous could not leok at the sight without being deeply moved. Some, in family groups, sat apart from others, the higher away from the lower or outcasts, all in the same dire straits, but the more respect able mute, passive, almost stolid. The observer soon learns to distin guish what I may call the two fam ine faces that which is pinched, anxious and imploring, and that which has gone further, and is mark ed by the far-away look which characterizes the dying. The mag istrate told me he had just witness ed the death of a young man on the road, and bis superior had report ed the deaths ot others, also youths the day after they began to work Another had told me ot two Bra hmine women who stood before him and, bared their shriveled breasts, that he might see to what they bad been reduced. But this sight seem ed to me worse than those. While the names wre being registered, some of the women similarly put aside their fluttering rags and then prostrated themselves on the ground, literarly howling tor food. Halt of the children were suffering from that same affection ot the eyes which I had seen at Pondoul, and which, I believe, is a solution of the corneal caused by want. It is not unknown among the very poor who apply to our dispensaries in times of plenty, j Others had sores and skin diseases, while one child of six was so far gone that his head rested always on his breast, and he had no strength to crawl or totter, while his mother who, fortunately, had no others with her could hardly drag the poor sufferer along. In a few min utes all were provided with rips. Returning to Purbunga, twelve miles off, along the new line of road, I rested in the large vilagc ot Ma doopore, Most of the men and a tew women were at work on the road. The Brahmins complained bitterly that they were not ted and could not work, A boy came up with a bleeding arm complaining that he had been assulted by a shop keeper, whose stores he doubtless tried to steel. On this the whole village brok out into curses on the "bunnias? St traders geuerally, for selling food so dear. I visited the principal shop and found nothing but the coarsest millets and pease no wheat or barley. Government rioe was for sale at ten pounds to' the shilling, but the people preferred the bulk of the coarser toad at a penny a pound, which gave - them at least one meal a day. A planter ' pointed out to me the disappearance ot the village, dogs as a test of the intensity of the famine, The people can no longer teed them, and they die or are driven elsewhere, But a more fantastic test was a tight , I saw at the Durqunga end of the road as ) was about to enter the town. An unfortunate starveling, half ascetic, half showman, passed me, with his monkey, on their way to the relief works. It would be difficult to aay which was the more emaciated, Starvation teemed to have given the animal's face a more human expression than ever. There was a WlowsMp in soflferlng nW the tiro which wa A. 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Jayne A Sons' medicines, etc. Spence's Positive and Negative Powders kept in stock. Also agents for the Home Nhnttle Hewing- Maektae, One of the most useful pieces of household furniture extant. Call and examine. R. O. HILL A SON. Albany, June 10, 71-WtS FOUNDRY. jtv ALBANY FOUNDRY Machine Shop, A. F. CHERRY Proprietor, ' ALBANY, OREGON, Manufactures Steam Engines, Floor and law Mill Machln T, WOOD WORKING And AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY, , And all kinds of mow ami tteUsa CAarroMH. fi-hi i n-n in r attention paid 10 tndsQf machinery. STOVES, K'fi llA w. H MeFARLAND, (LATE M. M. &ABVf A CO.,) Albany, Oregon, STOVES, RAWCE6, S orre ni till blimps, UA0 AND IRON PIPE, HoUoW ' i -.!, ti.fr .wU' k. ' :